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THE 
MOVING    PICTURE 

WORLD 


VOLUME   XVI 

April  to  June,  1913 


J.  P.  CHALMERS 
Founder 


PUBLISHED    BY 

CHALMERS  PUBLISHING  CO. 

17  Madison  Avenue,  New  York 


Index  to  Vol.  XVI,  April  to  June,  1913 


A 

"Accidental  Alibi,  An"    (Edison) 861 

Activities  of  the  Kalem  Company 145 

Advertising  for  Exhibitors, 

89,  155,  271,  871,  479,  587,  895,  803,  911,  1022,  1127,  1244,  1351 

"Alk«li   Ike's  Misfortunes,"    (Essanay) 800 

"Alone  In   the  Jungle"    (Sellg) 1006 

American  In  Berlin,  An 92* 

Americans    Win   on   Quality 788 

Another  Ordinance   Proposed   for  New   York 28 

Apostles  of  Nothingness 465 

Appeal  to  Flood  Sufferers,  An 4i0 

Are  You  Ready  for  the  Exposition? 1338 

"At  the  Bisk  of  Her  Life"  (Apex) 465 

B 

"Balaoo"    (Union    Features) 6S5 

"Battle  for  Freedom.  The"    (Kalem) 360 

"Bawlerout,    The"    (Reliance) 468 

"Beanty  and  the  Beast"   (Rex) 1340 

Birmingham  Exhibitors  Organize 52 

"Boomerang,   The"    (Broncho) 1013 

British  Censorships   6S3 

British  Columbia   Censorship   Law 1365 

British  Trade   Exhibitor 259 

"Bull  Fight  in  France"    (rathe) 6S5 

"Buster  Brown  and  Tige"    (Essanay) 800 

0 

"Calamity  Anne's  Beauty"    (American) 27 

Calehuff  Supply  Company,  The 1130 

California    Censorship    Law 383 

Call  for  Minnesota  Convention 817 

Canadian  Censorship  Bill 578 

"Carmen"    iMonopol  Film  Co.) 29 

"Carmen"   (Tbanhouser)    577 

Censoring    Motion    Pictures 25 

"Change  of  Administration,  A"  (Selig) 30 

Chern-  Kearton  Animal  Pictures 1140 

"Child  of   War.  A"    (Broncho) ) 576 

Colored  Lnhin  Comedies 600 

D 

Danger  Ahead 140 

Day  at  the  Door.  A 270 

"Dead  Alive.  The"  (Gaumont) 363 

"Dead    Secret.    The"    (Monopol) 815 

"Death   Knell.    The"    (Itala) 1366 

"Deerslayer.    The"    (Vitagraph) 31 

"Dick  Wittjngton  and  His  Cat"   (Solax) 145 

Directorial   Censorship 141 

Drastic  Illinois  Bill 708 

E 

Economy    of    Attention 1004 

Educated   iBsects 795 

Educational     Picture.    The 365,   1019 

Educational  Temperance.   A  Critical  Beview 364 

"Eye  of  a  God,  The"    (Pyramid) 54 

T 

Famous   Player?   Contemplate   Educationals 55 

Fascinating    Criminal.    The 356 

"Fatal  Grotto.  The"   (ltala) 1140 

"Female  Raffles.. The"    (United  States  Film  Company) 816 

"Fighting   Chaplain.    The"    (Kalem) 154 

a 

Gaumont  Chronochrome.   The 1346 

Gene   Gaontier   Players    Return 926 

"Governor's  Double,  The"    (Edison) 905 

"Gray   Sentinel.    A"    (Broncho) 264 

Great  Modern   Photoplay  Theater,   A 1349 

H 

"Half  a   Chance"    (Reliance) 1241 

"Her  Big  Story"    (American) 909 

Historical     Photoplays 6S0 

House  of   Hallberg.    The 931 

How   Natural  History  Pictures  are  Taken 795 

How  Our  Pictures  Educate  Abroad 1005 

I 

Imagination  in   Picture   Making 260 

Importation  of  Films 65 

"In  Slavery  Days"    (Rex) 600 

"In  the  Clans  of  the  Vulture"  (Ambroslo) 924 

"In  the  Long  Ago"    (Sellg) 575 

J 

"Jealousy  of  Jane.  The"   (Imp) 1340 

Jottings  from   a   Motion   Picture  Note  Book 1337 

S 

"Kelly   from   the    Emerald    Isle    (Solax) 925 

Kentucky   Convention 578 

L 

Laemmle  Controls  Universal 1237 

"Les  Mlserables"   (Eclectic) 362 


Maine   Exhibitors   Meet 1258 

Making   Pictures  With   Bloodhounds 53 

"Man  in  the  White  Cloak,  The"   (Great  Northern) 907 

Maryland   Exhibitors  Organize 1259 

"Mary's   Romance"    (Crystal) 793 

"Mary    Stuart"     (Edison) 904 

Mayor  Vetoes   Picture  Bill 1142 

Melles  in  Australia 6S7 

Melies  Company  in  Java 1234 

"Mercy   Merrick"    (Edison) 791 

Minnesota   State  Convention 1363 

■Misers  Millions,  The"   (Clnes) 258 

Motion   Picture   Exhibitors'    League, 

52,   146,   261,   383,   578,   708,   927,   1010,   1117,    125S,    136* 

Moving  Picture  Educator,  The 85,  167,  284,  364,  891,   1018,  1123,   1367 

Music  for  the  Pictures 66,  169,  693,  908,  1020,  1240,  1362 

N 

New  York  Benefit  a  Big  Success 369 

Notes   From    Italy 1229 


Observation  by  Man  About  Town, 

51.  153,  287,  370,  476,  586,   802,  910,   1126,  1243 

Opening  of  a  Chestnut  Burr,  The 896 

Open  Letter  to  President  Neff 3S5 


Peering   Into    the   Future 257 

"Pelleas  and  Melisande"    (Universal) 477 

Pennsylvania  State  Convention 1117 

"Perils  of  the  Past"    (Gaumont) 699 

Philadelphia   Convention   Opens 1007 

Photoplay  Wrights'    Last  Dinner 1122 

Photoplaywrigbt,  The, 

41,    157,    273,    373,   481,   589,    697,   805,   913,    1024,    1129,   1246,   135S 

Picture  Shows   for  Children 1114 

Picture  Making  in  the  Far  East 1231 

Pictures  in  Cincinnati  Music   Hall 24 

Pictures  in  Learned  Society 799 

Plimpton   Back    from    Europe 144 

President   Neff   Replies 1119 

Projection  Department, 

43,  159,  275,  375,  483,  591,   699,  SOT,  816,  1026,     1119,   1248,   1355 


"Quicksands"   (American)   1342 

B 

"Rajah's  Casket,   The"    (Gaumont) 686 

Beal  Supply  House,   A 797 

Real  Thing,  The 1223 

Regarding   "Wages  of  Sin"    1230 

"Road  to  Ruin,  The"    (American) 474 

"Robinson   Crusoe"    (Rex) 29 

8 

San    Francisco  Exhibitors'    Ball 1010 

"Scarlet  Letter.   The"   (Kinemacolor) 579 

Screen  Club  Visited  by  Flames 150 

Screeners  Hold  Their  First  Ball 472 

"Shenandoah"    (Kalem)    1339 

"Snare  of  Fate,  The"    (Vitagraph) 1113 

"Snare  of  Fate,  The"   (Tbanhouser) 1233 

"Southern  Cinderella,  A"   (Broncho) 142 

"Steam"     (Kinemacolor) 1239 

' 'Struggle,  The"    (Kalem ) 1009 

Successful   Organizer,   A 357 


That    Censorship    Controversy S97 

The  Talking   Plctu re 1347 

"The  Tiger  Lily"    (Vitagraph) 469 

"The    Trap"    (Vitagraph) 1341 

"Through  the  Test  of  Fire"   (Great  Northern) 363 

"Tragedy  of  Big  Eagle  Mine,  The"   (Kalem) 707 

Triangle   of  Filmdom,   The 789 

U 
Universal    Situation    Unsettled    1343 


"Veritas  Quo  Vadis?  The" lm2 

"Villain   Unmasked,    A"    (Klelne-Ecllpse) 1236 

"Voodoo  Vengeance"    (World's  Best) 1237 

•w 

Warner  Back   From  Long  Trip 359 

Washington   Exhibitors   Organize 52 

We     Are    Discovered 1336 

"When  the  Circus  Menagerie  Broke  Loose"   (Vitagraph) 1008 

"When  Thieves  Fall  Out"    (Gaumont) 173 

Where  There's   Life '11! 

"While  John  Bolt  Slept"    (Edison) 6«K 

"Why  ?"     (Eclair) »?3 

Why  is  a  Censor? 572 

Wisconsin    Convention •°'^ 

"Wise  Old  Elephant,  A"  (Sellg) 143 

"Wishing  Seat,  The"    (American) 909 

"Wizard  of  the  Jungle"   (World'a  Best  Film  do.) 35 


Yankee  Films  Abroad. 


673 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 

Index  to  Stories  of  the  Films 

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Licensed   Releases 


Absent  Minded  Mr.  Boob— May  1  (Selig) 406 

Accidental  Alibi,  An— May  10  (Edison) 620 

Accusation    of     Broncho    Billy,     The — Apr      15 

(Essanay)    198 

Accusing  Hand,  The  (2  parts)— June '(MLubin)  942 
Across  the  Rio  Grande — June  24  (Essanav).  .  1278 
Adventure  of  an  Heiress,  The— May  12  (kalem)  613 

After  the  Honeymoon— Apr.   16  (Vitagraph) 192 

Ailanthns  Silkworm,  The— May  23  (Patbeplay) . .  728 

Alas!    Poor    Yorlick— Apr.    21    (Selig) 298 

Alien,  The— May  7  (Kalem) ,.  gos 

Alkali    Ike    and    the    Hypnotist-June   21  "(Ess- 
anay)      H64 

f,'?aH  J,kes  Homecoming— Apr.  19  (Essanav)..  196 
Alkali  Ikes  Misfortunes— May  31  (Essanay)...  834 
Alkali  Ike's  Mother-ln-Law— May  10  (Essanay)  505 
All  on  Account  of  a  Portrait-^ruly  2  (Edison) .  1392 
Almond-Eyed  Maid,  An— May  31  (Edison).   ..        S40 

Almost  a  Wild  Man— June  19  (Biograph) 1172 

Alone  in  the  Jungle  (2  parts)^June  14  (Selig).  1276 
Along   the   Banks   of   the   River  Eure— May    16 

i  Patbeplay)     g24 

Along  the  Nile — June  13  (Edison).... 1058 

Along  the  River  Eure,  France — Apr.  29   (Patbe- 
play)       41o 

Amateur  Lion-Tamer,  The— May  20  (Vitagranh)  73o 
Analysis  of   Motion— Apr.    11    (Patheplay).  80 

Ancient  Greece — Apr.   22   (Patbeplay)..  "'304 

Ancient  Town  of  Gnbblo,  The  (Umbria,  CenVrai 

Italy)— Apr.  15   (Cines) 196 

Angel  Cake  and  Axle  Grease— Apr.  10  (Lnbinj ' '  78 
Angel  of  the  Slums,  The— July  3  (Lubin)...    "1390 

Anita,  the  Orphan — Apr.  15  (Cines) '  196 

Anonymous   Love — June   17    (Essanay)  H64 

Antibes    (France),    and    Its    Environs-June"  20 

(Patheplay)    n70 

Ant-Lion,  The — May  6  (Patheplay). ...".." 508 

Apples  of  Sodom — June  14   (Edison)  1058 

Arabia  and  the  Baby— July  2  (Selig)       13SS 

Arabia  Takes  the  Health-Cnre— Apr.  25   (Selig)  300 


'Arriefs  Baby— June  21   (Vitagraph)....  1164 

Artist's  Dream,  The— Jane  12  (Patbeplay) ..."  1060 
Artist's  Great  Madonna,  The  (2  parts)— Apr    21 

1  Vitagraph)     K"         o™ 

Artist's  Sacrifice,   The— May  19  (Kalem)! !! !  "•'  739 

Athens-June  27  (Patheplay) "l->80 

Athletics  In  France— Jane  13  (Patheplay) 106O 

At  the  Telephone-June  24   (Lubin) .  J^ 

Attorney  for  the  Defense,  The-June  18(Kal'em)1172 
Annty  and  the  Girls— May  7  (Edison)..........'  620 

B 
Baby's  New  Pin— Apr.  18  (Lnbln).    .  194 
Bachelor's    Baby.    The:    or    How    It    AU  "Hap- 
pened—June   9    (Vitagraph) 1050 

Back  to  Primitive— Apr.  21  (Lnbln) ...         298 

Bandit's  Child,  The-Jnne  2   (Kalem)"" 1064 

Battle    for    Freedom,    The    (2    parts)— May    17 

(Kalem)     *  -« 

Beaded  Buckskin  Baf-j'une' 36"('s'e'ligj ."".'." !i388 
Beating-Mother  to  It-Apr.  18  (Lubin)' ....  1M 

Beau  Crammel  and  His  Bride-^Iune  11  (Edison)  .1058 
Beante  from  Butt*.  The-^Iune  27  (Lnbln)...  .1280 
Hm„,  „  if  t  CTmo'  lta"— May  10  (Cines)...  622 

Behind  a  Mask-June  11   (Eclipse) ....1048 

Belle  Boyd— Confederate  Spy,  A— May  7  (Selig)  505 

Big  Game-May  21    (Eclipse) .....      flso 

Bills   Sweetheart— May   3    (Edison) 620 

rSSH  V?  ihe.vCab^ret-Jnl3'  J  (Vitagraph)... 1386 
Bmjles  Mends  the  Clock-May  5  (Vitagraph)..  505 
B  rds  and  Animals  of  BraztWune  6  (Patheplay)  944 
Birthmark,  The— Apr.  26   (Lubin)....  298 

ri'w   n  a„B™terfly'  Tne-June  12  (Selig)  .'.'".'lOSO 

Back-  Hand,  The— May  23   (Kalem)..... 7S 

Black  Trackers.    The— May   15    (Melies) 624 

Blame  the  Wife-Apr.  28   (Biograph).. 412 

Bob  Builds  a  Boat— June  21   (Lubin) . . .  H66 

Bob  Builds  a  Chicken  House— June  5  (Lubin)"  942 
Bob  Buys  an  Auto— June  27  (Lubin) ...  ms 

Boosting  Business-May  15   (Essanay) .        620 

Borrowed  Plumage— May  27  (Cines) 838 

Bragg  s   New   Snit— May   21    (Edison) '    "  840 

Br"ef     Girt     m     California,     The-Apr.      is 
(Kalem)     194 

Breed  of  the   West— May  16    (Lubin) .....'.'.' .'.'.'  616 

Brightened    Sunsets— May   24    (Lnbln) 726 

Broken  Vow.  The-(2  parts)— May  2  (Cines)..  622 
Brother's  Loyalty,   A   (2  parts)-June  20    (Ess- 

*■"?)     127R 

Broncho  Billy   and  the   Express   Rider— May"  24 

(Essanay)     J         .„, 

Broncho  Billy  and  the  Rustler's  Child— Apr  '26 

(Bssanay)     300 

Broncho  Billy's  Captures-June  '7 "(Essanay)  "  "  948 
Broncho  Billy's  Grit-May  17  (Essaniy)  '  ]  ]  £6 
Broncho  Billy*  Reason-Apr.  12  (Essanay)...  78 
R™^0.  B.llly„5  Slrategy-June  28  (Essanay)....  1278 
Brought    to    Bay^iune    13    (Kalem) 1056 

Bnllfl^arts  BrIa<^May  "   (Selig) 616 

Bullfight  in  France— May   27    (Patheplay) 842 

Bunny  and  the  Bunny  Hug— May  17  (Vitagraph)  618 
Bunny  a.  a  Reporter-June  3  (Vitagraph)..  .'  944 
iSEM  SK?iS:  S^ri-t-Ma?  19  (Vitagraph)  730 


Burglar     Who     Robbed     Death,     The— Apr.     30 
(oellg)     _j-g 

B",riaLof,    a    Rleh    Chinaman,     The— June  "26 
(Patheplay)     '. ,,,„ 

Burled  Treasure.   A— May  1    (Melies)...'.!'. 410 

Buster  Brown,   Tige,   and  Their  Creator,    R    F 

Outcault— May  20  (Essanay) . .  '704 
Butler's  Secret,  The-June  6  (Vitagraph)!; "'. !  946 
By   Mutual  Agreement— May  19    (Edison) 838 

O 
California   Oil  Crooks,   The— Apr.   12   (Kalem).. 
Canton,    China— Apr.    21    (Selig)...  298 

rw?  w  Capid'  Tbe-^™«  12  (Vitagraph). '.'1052 
Captain  Mary  Brown— May  3  (Vitagraph).  ..  410 
Captured  by  Strategy— May  2S  (Kalem) ... .'.'.  832 
Capture  of  a  Wild  Cat.  The-Apr.  11  (Edison)  78 
Capture.    The— Apr.    16    (Essanav) ....  196 

Carrier  Pigeon,  The-June  24  (Patheplay) ..'.' ")1280 
Champion    Fixer.    The— May    27    (Cines).  S38 

fSel?  )"  Administration'  A~ <2  Parts)— Apr. '5 

Chateau  of  Blois,  The-^(France')  —  May'o'(Pa'tbe'-     S 
Play)    '  gQg 

Chateau   of  Chenoncean,    France,    The-lju'ne"  i6 
(Patheplay)     1060 

Cheyenne     Massacre.     The— (2    parts)— May  "9 

(Kalem)    ^ 

rK-M-en»ndnstir'  F"""*'  The— May  21  (Eclipse)  730 
Child  s  Precaution,   A— May  2   (Essanav)    ..  408 

Chinese  Scenes — Apr.  29  (Selig) 

Cinderella's  Gloves— June  12  (Essanay) ' .' 105B 

Cinders— May  2    (Vitagraph) 415 

Circle  of  Fate,  The— May  21   (Kalem).  " 734 

Circumstances  Make  Heroes-June  28  (Edison) .' ,'l272 
City  of  Gold,  The—June  25  (Selig)  i<r;s 

City  of  Mexico— Apr.   24   (Essanay) ..!" '. 300 

r<Z„  vl P°U/n'  JraDS?'  Tae-May  20  (Patheplay)  728 
Civic  Parade.  New  York  City^Tune  18  (Edlson)1170 
Clarence  at  the  Theater-May  3  (Lubin) ..'  406 
Clarence  the  Cowboy-June  26  (Patheplay)....  12S0 
Cloak  of  Guilt,  The-June  27  (Kalem)..'....  1274 
Cloisonne  Ware — June  28  (Vitagraph)  1272 

S'  T.eam-8f  S'rateS'  The-May  30  (kalem)  832 
r«™i  S  .  ,  re£ben'  THe-June  17  (Vitagraph)  1164 
Compromising    Complication,    A^Iune    23    (Bio- 

„Sraph)   ,,m 

Concerto  for  the  Violin.    ----- 
Coveted  Prize,  The 


%™„tl   £"smnia'    Th*-Jnne  19    (Vitigrapfi-liei' 
Bunny  s   Honeymoon — Apr,    ~    "  ■■>--■■■ 


Bun 


ny   versus   Cutey— May   1 


(Vitagraph) 76 

(Vitagraph) 410 


A— May  17   (Edison)...  838 

-   -May  8  (Biograph)   506 

Cormorant.  The— Apr.  29  (Patheplav)  410 

Consecration  of  a  Buddhist  Priest,"  The— Jul'v  '4       " 

(Patheplay)    '      ,—, 

Counsellor  Bobby— May  21   (Vitagraph)    .'.'. 730 

Count's   Will.  The— Apr.   26    (Patheplay)    .  304 

Coupon  Courtship,  A-Apr.  30  (Kalem)   .....   ..  403 

Cousin  Bill— Apr.   30    (Essanav)    ....'  408 

Cousin    Jane— Apr.    29    (Essanav)     .  "  408 

Crazy  Prospector,  The-May  3  (Essanay)'.'"":  505 
Crooked   Bankers.    The— May  7    (Patheplay)....  508 

^.^BZ"ll^manA  The-Apr.  18   (Essanay)...   isl 
Crowds  Attending  Gods  In  Temple,  Tokvo   Japan 

—Apr.  23   (Vitagraph)    '    '       P 

CnplcTs  Hired  Man— May  9  (Vitagraph)'...;.'.'.'.'  506 
Cupid's    Lariat— June   20    (Kalem)  1174 

rn£d  T»hSagbr  m  Kjy»K>le— May  24  (Vitagraph)  732 

Cured  of  Her  Love— Apr.  18  (Selig) i98 

Cnre,  The— Apr.  24  (Biograph) 3^ 

Curing  a  Would-Be  Aviator— May  24  (Cines j.  ."  730 
Curing  Her  Extra  vagance-^Tune  25  (Kalem). ..  .1274 
Cutey  and  the  Chorus  Girls— Apr.  10  (Vitagraph)  76 
Cutey  Plays  Detective— May  28  (Vitagraph)....  834 
Lntey  Tries  Reporting— Jnne  10  (Vitagranh)  1052 
Cuttlefish,  The-Apr.  18  (Patheplay)..  .'^"loo 
D 

Dad's  Little  Girl— June  10  (Selig) 1050 

Dances  of  the  Ages— May  26  (Edison) .,....."'  840 
Dangerous  Foe,  A— May  29  (Biograph) ...  838 

Daughter  of  the  Confederacy,  A— May  16  (Selig)  618 
Daylight  Burglar,  The— Apr.  28  (Biograph)...    '  412 

Deacon  s  Dilemma,  The— Apr.  25  (Essanay) 300 

Death  s  Marathon— June  14  (Biograph) . . .  106O 

Deerslayer.  The  (2  parts)— May  7  (Vitagraphj.' .  505 
Delayed  Proposals— June  20  (Vitagraph)  1164 

Delivering  the  Goods— June  4    (Eclipse) '  1048 

Detective  Dot— May  23   (Lnbln)....:  726 

Detective's  Trap,  The— June  3  (Kalem)...    .    "1274 
Diamond  Cut  Diamond— Apr.   25   (Lubin)  ' '   298 

Diamond     Miniature,     The     (2     parts)— May  "3 

(Patheplay)  

Disciplining'  Daisy— May   7'  '(Vitagraph) .'.'".""  506 
District  Attorney's  Conscience,  The   (2  Darts)— 

May  21  (Lubin) .  -n6 

Divided  House,  The — June  26   (Essanay) l->78 

Dividing  Wall,  The— May  7  (Eclipse) 51b 

Diving   for   Pearl-Oysters   at   Thursdav    Island- 
June   19    (Melies) 117o 

Dixieland — Apr.    16    (Selig) ]o,g" 

Does  Advertising  Pay?-^Inne  14  ( vitagraph) '. '.  1052 
Dollar  Down  Dollar  A  Week — Apr.  23   (Selig)       °98 

Don't  Worry— June  4  (Edison) "l058 

Drama   of  the  French   Revolution — Jnlv   5    (Edi- 
son)     _' jg^ 

Dredges   and    Farm    Implements   in  the  West- 
June  3   (Patheplay) 944 

Drop  of  Blood,  The-June  IS  (Vitagraph).  ..'.'.'.'.'1164 
E 

Easy  Payments — June  25   (Essanav) 1278 

Egyptian  Muminy^The^l3v23(K|JejT^^^^^7gj 


Eighth   Notch,   The— Apr.    30    (Kalem) 403 

Embarrassed  Bridegroom,  An— June  6  (Selig) .  940 
End    of    the    Quest,    The    (2    parts)-Apr'    25 

(Lnbln)  oqq 

Evil  One,  The— Apr.  7  (Lubin) " 7! 

Evil  Thereof,  The— June  20  (Edison) . .  1170 

Exceeding  the  Time  Limit— May  24  (Cines)    '.'."  730 

Excess  Baggage— May  10  (Cines) 622 

Exciting    Honeymoon,    An     (2    parts)— Apr     26 

(Patbeplay)  3^4 

Ex-Convict's  Plunge,  The— Mav  29  (Selig). '.  838 

Exposure   of   tbe  Land   Swindlers,    The    (3  parts)— 

Apr.  1  (Kalem) ,     *""' 

F 
Faint    Heart    Ne'er    Won    Fair    Lady— Apr.    5 

(dies)    r  19g 

Faith  of  a  Girl— May  30   (Lubin) 83° 

Fancy  Poultry — June  20  (Selig) 

Fate  of  Elizabeth,  Tlie^ — .Tune  12   (Selig) 1O1O 

Father's  Love,  A-Jnne  19  1  Lubin K..  lies 

Fatty's  Busy  Day— May  2  (Kalem) '..'.'."  403 

Faust  and   the  Lily-July  3    (Biograph) 1394 

Fear-June   20    (Essanav) uiJi 

Fighting  Chance,  A— Apr.  26  (Vitagraphj."::;:  302 
fighting  Chaplain,    Tbe — Apr.    26    (Kalem)...       304 

Fighting  Lieutenant,   The-June   20    (Selig) 1166 

Fight  to  a  Finish,  A — June  30  (Kalem) 1386 

Field  Sports,  Hong  Kong,  China— June  27  (Vita- 
graph)      

Final   Judgment,    The    (2    partsj-^June   9    (Ess- 
anay)      1056 

Fire-Fighting  Zouaves.  TbeSApr'.'i9'(kaiem).': '.  196 
Fire  of  Vengeance,  The— Apr.  51    (Patheplay) . .  198 

Fixing  Auntie  Up— May  3  (Lubin) 406 

Flag  of  Two  Wars.  A— June  3  (Selig) 940 

Florida  Romance.   A — Apr.  19   (Lubin) ...  194 

Fly,    The— June    28    (Edison) :.1274 

Food    Inspection — May   16    (Kalem) 613 

Forgotten— Apr.  26  (Cines) 4O8 

Forgotten  Latchkey.  The— June  7  (Vitagraph)"     946 

For  His  Child's  Sake — Apr  19  (Cines) 196 

For  His  Child's  Sake — Apr.  8  (Lubin) 7S 

For  Mayor — Bess  Smith— June  14   (Patbeplay).  1062 
Fortune    Smiles    (Being    the   Twelfth    and    Last 
Story  of   "What   Happened   to   Mary")— June 

27   (Edison) 127o 

Fortune,  The— Apr.  15  (Vitagraph) ""  192 

Foster  Brothers,  The — May  29  (Melies) 838 

Found  Out — Apr.  10  (Essanav) 73 

Four-footed  Detective,  A— Apr.  23  (Eclipse)  ^ '.  410 

Frappe  Love— May  8  (Biograph) 506 

Frightful  Blunder,  A— Apr.  17   (Biograph) 200 

From  Ignorance  to  Light — Jnne  21  (Lubin) . . .       1168 

Fruit  of  Suspicion,  The — Apr.  2   (Eclipse) 198 

Fugitive  at  Bay,  A  (2  parts)— Apr.  16  (Cines) . .  408 
Fugitive,   The— May  28  (Patheplav) 842 


Gala    Day   Parade,    Yokohama,    Japan— Apr.    21 

(Vitagraph)     30" 

Gamble  With  Death,  A— June  30  (Biograph) 1394 

General  Scott's  Protege — May  3  (Patheplay)...  412 
Gentleman's  Gentleman,  A— July  4  (Edison) ..  .1392 
German  Cavalry  Maneuvers — Apr.  30  (Eclipse)..  408 
Get-Rich-Quick   Billlngton — June  7    (Patheplav).  944 

Girl  and  the  Judge.  Tbe — May  27  (Selig) '. . .  836 

Girl  Back  East,  The — May  2  (Lubin) 406 

Girl  Spy     in     Mexico,     A     (2     parts) — May     10 

(Lubin)   got 

Glimpses  of  Colorado  In  Winter — May  21    (Edi- 
son)   840 

Glimpses     of    the     National     Capital— Apr.     i" 

(Patheplay)     200 

God  Is  Love — Apr.   10   (Patheplay) 80 

God's  Way— Apr.  15  (Selig) 198 

Going  to  Meet  Papa— May  23  (Vitagraph)...  .  732 
Gold  and  the  Gilded  Way — May  22  (Melies)..       :  8 

Gold  Brick,  The — June  10  (Selig) 1166 

Golden   Wedding,   The — May  9   (Edison) 620 

Good  in  the  Worst  of  Us,  Thi; — May  20  (Edison) .  840 
Good  in  tbe  Worst  of  Us,  The — May  30  (Essanay)  834 
Governor  Johnson  of  California — June  16  (Kalem)1172 
Governor's    Double,     The     (2    parts) — Jnne    13 

(Patheplay)     io«2 

Grand   Canyon.   The — May   12    (Vitagraph) 618 

Grandpa's  Rejuvenation— Apr.  30  (Eclipse) 408 

Granny — Apr.    29    (Lnbln) 406 

Great  Pearl.  The — June  7   (Lubin) 942 

Groundless  Suspicion — May  2  (Edison) 620 

Gulf  of  Togullo,  Northern  Italy — May  17  (Cines)  R22 
Gypsy's  Brand,  The — Jnne  14  (Kalem) 1056 


Hankow.  China— Apr.  15  (Selig) 198 

Happy  Home.  The — Apr.  12  (Patheplay) 82 

Hash  House  Count.  The — Mav  9  (Kalem) 510 

Hatching    Chickens — Mav    6    (Selig) 505 

Hattie's  New  Hat— May  S  (Lubin) 5<M 

Haunted   House.    The — Apr.   28   (Kalem) 403 

Heart  of  an  Actress,  The — May  5  (Kalem) 508 

Heart  of  Mrs.  Robins,  The — June  5  (Vitagraph)  946 

Heart  of  Steel,  A — Apr.  22  (Cines) 4"9 

Heart  of  Valeska,  The— May  12  (Edison) 620 

Hearts  of   the   First  Empire    (2  parts)— Apr.    28 

(Vitagraph)     410 

He  Had  a  Guess    Coming — Apr.  14  (Biograph) . .  200 

He  Would  Fix  Things-June  18   (Edison) 1172 

Her  Atonement— June  30    (Lubin) ! 


IV 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


Her  Guardian— May  8  (S«llg) BOB 

Her  Masked  B«auty   (2  parts)— May  14   (Pathe- 

play)    _„0 

Her  Mother'a  Ambition— May  8  (Patheplay) 508 

Her  Mother's  Oath — June  28    (Biograph) 1280 

Her  Royal  Highness— June  21  (Edison) 1170 

Her    Sweetest    Memory— June    26 1270 

Hero  Among  Men   (2  parts)-June  9  (Lubin). .  .1168 

Hicksville  Epicure,  The — May  22  (Biograph) 726 

Hidden  Life  in  Seaweed— Apr.  29  (Patheplay)..  412 

Hidden   Witness,  The — July  5   (Kalem) 1386 

Highbrow  Love— May  26  (Biograph) 838 

High  Tide  of  Misfortune.  The  ("What  Happened 

to  Mary,  No.  10)— Apr.  28  (Edison) 302 

Hilda    Wakes — June   IS    (Essanay) 1164 

Hiram  Buys  an  Auto— Apr.  29  (Selig) 406 

His  Father's  Deputy— May  19   (Selig) _^24 

His  First  Experience — May  23  (Lubin) |26 

His  House  in  Order;  or,  The  Widower's  Quest — 

June  11   (Vitagraph) ;:126? 

His  Life  for  His  Emperor— May  16  (vitagraph)  618 
His  Lordship's  Romance — June  11   (Patheplay) .  .1060 

His  Mother's  Son— May  31  (Biograph) 838 

His  Niece  from  Ireland — July  5    (Lubin) 139- 

His  Redemption— June   20    (Lubin) 1168 

His  Tired  Uncle— June  12    (Vitagraph) 1052 

His  Undesirable  Relatives— Apr.  23  (Edison) 300 

Historic   New   York— July   2    (Kalem) 1386 

Home   of   Terns,    The    (Australian   Sea-Blrds)— 

May  1   (Melies) •  • *"> 

Horse  on  Bill,   A— Apr.  14  (Biograph) 200 

House  of  Darkness,  The— May  10  (Biograph)...  o08 

How  Blossom  Opens— June  24    (Patheplay) 1280 

How  Chief  Te   Ponga   Won  His  Bride— Apr.   24 

(Melies)    304 

How  Did  it  Finish?— June  25  (Edison) 1272 

Hulda  of  Holland— Apr.  21  (Edison) 300 

Human  Vulture,  The  (2  parts)— May  30  (Pathe- 

play)    *" 

Hundred  Dollar  Elopement,  The— May  5  (Edison)  620 
Hun-er  of  the  Heart,  The— June  25  (Patheplay).1180 
Husband's  Trick.  A— May  30  (Vitagraph) 834 

I 

If  Dreams  Came  True:  or,   Who'd  Have  Thunk 

It?— May  31  (Vitagraph) *•»> 

If  We  Only  Knew— May  1  (Biograph) *" 

Indelible  Stain,   The— May  28   (Eclipse)    ..... ..1048 

Indestructible  Mr.  Jenks,  The— Apr.  11  (Kalem)     82 
Indian  Summer— May  22   (Selig).... ......... ..    >** 

Infamous  Don  Miguel,  The— May  24  (Kalem) .. .    (34 

Infernal  Tangle,  Anyone  13  (Vitagraph) 10o2 

Innocent  Informer,  An— Apr.  22  (Edison).. 300 

In  Diplomatic  Circles-June  26   (Biograph) 12S0 

In  God  We  Trust-July  3  (Selig) 1388 

In  Somaliland— May  27  (Cines) •  •  ■  •  •  •  *» 

Inspection  of   the   Quebec   Police— May   7    (Vita- 

graph)  

In  the  Day's  of'  War  (2  parts)— Apr.  12   (Pathe- 

niav)  ly8 

In  the  Day's  of  Witchcraft— May  9  (Selig) ......  505 

In  tie  Forest  of  Cochin-Cbina— May  27    (Pathe- 

InPt"e  Good  6id  Summer  Time— Apr.  22   (Vita- 

CT'-il'll  i  •  ■  ■  •  •  »#»■■•■»»•*•••  e  •#•»•■■•■•••  • 

In  the  Grip  of  a  Charlatan— Apr.   7    (Kalem) . .     82 

In  the  Harem  of  Haschem— Apr.  28  (Lubin) 40S 

In  the  Long  Ago  Days— May  15   (Selig) 618 

In  the  Tyrolese  Alps,  Austria— May  21  (Eclipse)  <30 
In  the  Valley  of  Vesubie.  France— May  9  (Pathe- 

D)aT)  B08 

Into  the  North  (2  parts)— May  19  (Essanay) ...  724 

Irony  of  Fate.  The-June  3   (Cines).... 1048 

Italian  Bride.  The-Apr.  16  (Patheplay) . . ... . ..  200 

Interesting     Scenes     Abroad— Laradello      (Boric 

Acid  Works)— May  31  <«"»>,•  ""••;■  V  ■••  10*f 
Itinerant  Wedding,  An— May  15  (Patheplay)....  624 

J 
Jack's  Chrysanthemnm-^June  26   (Vitagraph)  ...1270 
Japanese     Dagger,     The,      (2     parts)— May     12 

(Eclipse)  «•;;,•  ••■■;"•    i^i 

Japan.    The    Industrial— Apr.    25    (Kalem) 304 

Jealous  Husband,   A— June  3    (Lubin) 940 

Jealousy— May  23  (Essanay)  ••;■••  •■■•"•"!■ "  ™ 
Jealousy    of    Mlgnel    and    Isabella,    The— June 

13     (Selig)  lww 

Jellr    Fish,   The-May    16    (Patheplay) 624 

Jenks     Becomes     a     Desperate     Character— June 

(Biograph)      ■■■■■• -1'™ 

Jerry's   Rebellion— May    3    (Ones) ...... «JS 

Jockey  for  Love,  A-May  2°/PaS"^y)-----  ™ 
John  Burns  of  Gettysburg-May  31  (K«lU°>--  g« 
John    Manly's    Awakening— May    16    (Edison)..  838 

Jones  Goes  Shopping— Apr.    14    (Edison  1 192 

Joy  Ride,  The— July  3    (Patheplay) ........... .1394 

Judgment  of  the  Deep.  The-May  6  (Lubin) . . . .  504 

Jurv's   Verdict.    The— lune  21    (Patheplay) 1170 

Just    Gold— May    24    (Biograph) '28 

Just  Kids— June  5  (Biograph) »» 

K 
Kate,    the    Cop— June    5    (Lubin) ...........  •••  942 

Keeping    Tab    on    Sammy— Apr.    12    iClnesl . . .  .  196 

Kentish      Coast.      The,       (England)  —  Apr.      9  ^ 

KentuckT  Derby'  at  Churchill'  Downs'.  The—Tune 

23    (Selig) ■  - •  ■  •  •  ■  - •: ,Lg 

KidnaDOine   Father— Mav   20    (Lubin) <J? 

K,ng  and  the  Copper,  The-May  13  P BlogJI* ).  924 
Knight  of  Cyclone  Gulch,  The-June  25  (Kalem).12.4 

L 
Ladv  and  Her  Maid.  A.  (No.  4  of  "The  Belinda 
Series')— May    22     (Vitagraph)      . ........ •■•  73- 

I.adv  and  the  Monse.   The-Apr.   26   (Biograph).  304 

last   Shot.    The— Tnne   5    (Essanay) ■ -  «» 

Law    a^d   the    Outlaw,    The.    (2    parts)-June   4 

■  <s--"g-  w^::>VM^An^iiVvit«B»pb):::  76 


Left-Handed  Man,   The — Apr.   21    (Biograph)...  304 
Legend  of  Lovers  Leap,  The — June  9   (Lubin) .  .1048 

Leopard    Tamer,    The — May    20    (Selig) 724 

Lesson   to   Mashers,   A— Apr.    10    (Biograph) 80 

Let  No  Man  Put  Asunder — June  3    (Essanay)..  946 

Letter's  Mission,   The — May  21    (Essanay) 724 

Lieutenant   Jones— May    13    (Selig) 616 

Lions  Bride,   The-June  23   (Vitagraph) 12.0 

Liquid   Air— May    2    (Patheplay) 412 

Little  Mother,   The— Apr.  11    (Essanay) 78 

Little   Tease,   The— Apr.   12    (Biograph) 80 

Locust.  The— Apr.  11  (Patheplay) 

Lonedog,   the  Faithful— May  31   (Lubin) 834 

Longing  for  Mother— May  15   (Lubin) 616 

Love    and    War    in    Mexico,    (2    parts) — May    28 

(Lubin)     J3- 

Love  in   the  Ghetto— Apr.  24    (Selig) 300 

Love  Test,  The-June  2S  (Lubin) 1-80 

Love,    the   Winner— Apr.    23    (Selig) 298 

Love's  Old,  Sweet  Song— June  21    (Edison) 1Z7Z 

Love's    Quarantine — July    5    (Vitagraph) 1388 

Lucky  Cohen— May  12   (Lubin) ....613 

Lure  of  the  Sacred  Pearl,  The — June  19  (Melies)lli2 

M 

Magic  Shoes,  The— Apr.     10     (Lubin) 29S 

Magic  Shoes,  The— Apr.    10    (Selig) 

Maid  and  the  Yarn,  The— May  24   (Cines) i30 

Making    Birch    Brooms— Apr.    9    (Eclipse) 198 

Man   From    the   West.    A— Apr.   18    (Edison) 300 

Man's   Greed   for  Gold— May   14    (Kalem) 613 

Man  Who   Wouldn't   Marry— Apr.    12    (Edison)..     80 
Maoris  of  New  Zealand.  The— Apr.  10  (Melies) .     78 

Margaret's    Painting — May    19    (Lubin) i26 

Market  in  Kabvlla,   Algeria.    A — June  3    (Pathe- 

play)      944 

Marshal's  Capture,  The — .Tune  24  (Selig) 1276 

Marv    Stuart.    (3    parts)— June    21    lEdison) 1172 

Max's    First    Job^Tune    10    (Patheplay) 106O 

Mercv    Merrick— Tune    6    (Edison) .■•"1??2 

Mexican's  Defeat.  The— Apr.   30   (Patheplay)...  41 
Midget's    Revenge.    The— May    23    (Vitagraph)..    132 
Midnight    Bell.    A,    (2    parts)— May    5    (Selig)..  616 
Millionaire's  Playground.  The—  Apr.   18  (Kalem)  196 
Miner's  Destiny,  The   (Special,  2  parts)— July  5 

(Patheplay)     ,3?4 

Minnie.    The    Widow— Apr.    14    (Lubin) ...... .194 

Miracle  of  the  Roses.The— July  1   (Patheplay) ..  1394 
Miser's      Millions.      The.      (3      parts)— Apr.     23 

Misrer  Jefferson  Green^June  23   (Biograph) 1280 

Misunderstood    Boy,    A— Apr.    19    (Biograph) .  ..200 
Mlssionarv's  Triumph,  Tbe-July  2  (Patheplay). 1394 

Mixed   Affair.    A— May   6    (Cines) 622 

Mixed    Identities— Apr.    21    (Vitagraph) 302 

Mock    Marriage.    A— May    9     (Lubin) 504 

Modern  Garriek,   A— July  5    (Patheplay) ....1394 

Modern    Progress    in    Somaliland,    (East    Africa) 

—Apr.    5    (Cines) • 196 

Modern  Psvche.   A— Jone  4  (Vitagraph) W6 

Montreal,   Quebec   and   Halifax— May  9    (Pathe- 

nlav)       508 

Monuments'    and    Cascades    of    Rome— June    20 

(Patheplay)     i;",i.V 

Mothering  Heart,  The,   (2  parts)— June  21  (Bio- 

MfsraPHllto'n's  "Jewels^Tnn'e    10    (Selig) .. .  . .  ..  1166 

Mr.    Mintern's    Misadventures — Apr.    14    (Vita- 

Mr*  Horatio  Spakins— May  13   (Vitagraph! 618 

Mvsterious  Stranger,  The— Tune  13    (Essanay) .. 10o6 
Mvstery    of    the    Stolen    Child— Apr.    12    (Vita- 

graph)     

Mvsterv    of    the    Stolen    Jewels.    The — Apr.    22 

(Vitagraph)      S"2 

N 

Native    Industries   of    Java— June   5    (Melies) ..  942 

Nearlv   in    Mourning-June    12    (Lubin) 1000 

New    Arrival.    The— Apr.    29    (Cines) 408 

Newcomb's     Necktie— May    28     (Edison) 840 

New    Pnpil.    The— Apr.    15    (Edison) 1»- 

New    Sheriff.    The— May    27     (Essanay) J34 

Night    Birds— May    23     (Patheplay) »2S 

Noisv    Six.    The— May    23    (Selig) i24 

No  Sweets— June  24   (Vitagraph) 1270 

O 
O'Hara    and    the    Youthful    Prodigal— Apr.    28 

(Vitagraph) ■  ■■■ •  • *™ 

oiaf— An    Atom— May    19     (Biograph) "28 

Old    Actor,    An— May    5    (Selig) 504 

Old   Jim— Apr.    8    (Edison) ........  ..•■ ;;",J2 

Old  Maid's  Deception.   An— Jnly  3   (Biograph).  .1394 
Old    Women    of    the    Streets    of    New    York— 

Mav     2     (Kalem) ■• jOj 

Omens    and    Oracles-May    6    (Vitagraph)......  50r> 

One  Can't  Always  Tell— May  31   (Vitagraph) .    .  836 
One  Good  Joke  Deserves  Anothet^-Jnne  27  (Vlt"'12_0 

One  on    Romance— Apr.     14     (Lnhln) ...        194 

One  Over    on    Cntey-June   28    (Vitagraph) . . .    .127. 
Onlv  Veteran  in  Town.  The— May  29  (Vitagraph)  834 

On 'the  Rrink    of   Ruin— June   21    (Kalem) 11  r4 

On  the  Job— May  28  (Essanay) ■  ■■  ■  ■  8*4 

On  the  NeW  River   (Somaliland.   East  Africa)— 

Apr.    15    (Cines) ■  •  ■  ■  ■  •  ■  •  •  ■  ■   lv" 

Open    Secret.    The.    (2    parts)-May    23    (Pathe-  ^ 

Orhctello  '  and  '  Fuvirons— Tune    7     (Ones! 10*8 

Orphan,    The— Aw.     29     (Edison  1 .  .  . *  -J 

Othello    In    Jonesvllle-June    9    (Edison) 1|»R 

Other  Woman  The— Tune  26  (Lubin) ...1278 

Onr  Feathered   Friends— Apr.    25    (Patheplay).. 

Outlaw's   Love.    The— Tune    19    (Patheplay) 11.0 

Outlaw.    The— Apr.    23    (Patheplay) ......... ...  304 

Out  of  the  Beast    a    Man    Was    Born— June    1' 

,.       .   .      i  I  1"" 

Out  of  the  Jaws' of  'DeatlWnn'e  28   (Kalem) .  .1274 
Out  of  the  Storm— Apr.    9     (Vitagraph) >6 


P 

Padre's    Strategv,    The — May    13    (Lubin) 613 

Panama  Canal  Today,  The — Apr.  30  (Patheplay)  412 

Papa's  Dream — June  25   (Selig) 1276 

Papita's   Destiny— June   13    (Lubin) 1060 

Parting  Eternal — May  1   (Patheplay) 412 

Patchwork  Quilt— July  1   (Edison) 1392 

Pathe's  Weekly,  No.  14,   1913 — Mar  81    (Pathe- 
play)           80 

Pathe's  Weekly,  No.   15,   1913 — Apr.     7   (Patbe- 

play)      198 

Pathe's  Weekly,   No.  16,  1913— Apr.   14   (Pathe- 
play)        302 

Pathe's  Weekly,  No.  17,  1913 — Apr.  21   (Pathe- 
play)       «2 

Pathe's  Weekly,    No.  18,  1913,  Apr.   28   (Pathe- 
play)       50S 

Pathe's  Weekly,   No.  19,  1913 — May     5   (Pathe- 
play)       624 

Pathe's  Weekly,   No.  20,   1913 — May  12   (Pathe- 
play)       728 

Pathe's  Weekly,   No.  21,  1913 — May  19   (Pathe- 
play)       542 

Pathe's  Weekly,  No.  22,  1913— May  26—  (Pathe- 
play)       »44 

Pathe's    Weekly,    No.    23,    1913^une    2    (Pathe- 
play)       1060 

Pathe's  Weekly,   No.   24,   1913^Iune  9    (Pathe- 
play)       1168 

Pathe's   Weekly,    No.    28 — June  30    (Patheplay). 
Pathe's   Weekly   No.    29 — July     3    (Patheplay). 

Pat,    the  Cowboy — May  16   (Kalem) 613 

Pawnbrokers   Daughter,    The — June   11    (Kalem). 1054 

Pawned    Bracelet,    The — Apr.    15    (Lubin) 194 

Paymaster,  The — May  10   (Lubin) 613 

Pedro's    Treachery — May    5    (Lubin) 504 

Penalty    of     Crime,     The     (2     parts)— June     30 

(Lubin)     1392 

Penalty  of  Jealousy,   The — June  6    (Lubin) 942 

People   of    Somaliland,    East    Africa,    The — May 

10     (Cines)     JJ2S 

Percy's  Wooing — June  7    (Kalem) 1054 

Perilous    Ride,    A— May    22    (Lubin  i 726 

Pete  Tries   the  Stage — Apr.   12    (Lubin) 78 

Philip  March's  Engagement — June  6   i Essanay).   948 

Phoney.  Singer,   The — Apr.   25    (Kalem) 304 

Picturesque    Journey    In    Western    France,    A — 

Apr.    30    (Eclipse)     408 

Piso  (Italy)  and  Its  Curious  Monuments — July  4 

(Patheplay)     !394 

Places  of  Interest  in  Colorado— June  13   (Pathe- 
play)       10*2 

Playing   With   Fire — Apr.   IS   (Vitagraph) 192 

Plot  for  a  Million,  A — Apr.  16  (Kalem) 194 

Poet  and  the  Soldier,  The — May  17    (Kalem) . .  613 

Post-Impressionists,    The — May   12    (Selig) 616 

Power   of    the   Cross,    The,    (2   parts) — Apr.    18 

(Lubin)      194. 

Power   That   Rules,   The — Apr.    24    (Vitagraph).  302 

Price  of  Silence,  The— May  21    (Patheplay) 728 

Pride  of  Innocence,  The — Apr.  19  (Patheplay).  2"0 
Professor's  Predicament,  The — June  12  (Lubin).  1050 

Professor    William    Nutt— June   2    (Edison) 1056 

Prophecy,   The— May   13    (Edison) 622 

Prophecy,  The — May  7    (Essanay) 505 

Pursuit  of  the  Smugglers,  The — Apr.  9  (Kalem i.  f-2 
Puttin'  It  Over  on  Papa— May  10  (Patheplay).  508 
Pyramids   and   the   Sphinx — June  23    (Edison) .  .1272 

q 

Queen  of  Spades,  The,  (2  parts)— Apr.  7  (Cines).  196 

R 

Race   to    New    York,    A,    ("What   Happened   to 

Mary,"    No.   11)— May  23    (Edison) 840 

Rag-Time  Romance,  A — Apr.  24   (Biograph) 304 

Raiders    from    Double    L    Ranch,    The — July    2 

(Kalem)     1386 

Rainy    Day,    A— May    12    (Biograph) 624 

Ranchero's  Revenge,  The — June  2   (Biograph) . .  944 

Ranch    Fend,    The — June    14    (Essanay) 1056 

Ranch   Girl's   Partner,   The — May   13    (Essanay)  618 
Red    Hicks    Defies    the    World— June    9    (Bio- 
graph)      1060 

Redskin's    Mercy,    A— May    14    (Patheplay) 624 

Red    Wins — May    20    (Cines) 728 

Regiment  of  Two,  A,   (2  parts) — June  11  (Vita- 
graph)       1054 

Relics    of    Ancient    Rome — May    13    (Cines) 622 

Religion    and    Gun    Practice^ — May    26    (Selig) . .  S36 

Reluctant    Cinderella,    A — Apr.    30    (Edison) 403 

Retribution— May    17     (Lubin) 616 

Reward  of  Service.   The — May   26    (Lubin) 832 

Rhodes.   (Asiatic  Turkey)— Jnne  17  i Patheplay). 1170 

Rice  Industrv  In  Java,  The — July  3  (Melies) 1394 

Right   for    Right's    Sake — June   3    (Edison) 1058 

Right  of  Way,   The — May  22    (Patheplay) 728 

Right    Road,    The— Apr.    17    (Lubin) 194 

Ring,    The— June    7    (Cines) 1°48 

Rise    and    FaU   of   McDoo,    The-June    19    (Bio- 

graph)  •• ...Hi. 

Rival  E.igineers.The  (2  parts)— Tune  16  (Cines). 1280 

Rival  Lovers,    The— May    3     (Cines) 408 

Rival  Salesmen,   The — Apr.    23    (Essanay) 300 

River  Clyde   at  Lanark,    Scotland,   The — Apr.    8 

(Patheplay)     •  •  •  •• '  • ; -S 

River  Pirates.   The— May  10   (Kalem)     510 

Robert    Hale's    Ambition— Apr.    8    (Selig) ...     80 
Rocky  Mountains  In  Winter,  The— Apr.  14  (Edi- 

son )       *  1,". "  " " , i  ru> 

Romance  bv   the  Sea,    A— Apr.    8    (Cines) j. ... .  196 
Romance  of   the   Osarks,   A-May   29    (Lubin).  832 

Rose  of  May.   The^Tnne  11    (Se  g  10>0 

Roses  of  Yesterday— Apr.   28    geUg)..... 406 

Roughing    the   Cub-June   30    (Vitagraph) .    . . .  .1386 
Rub!  and  the  Boob,   The— Tune  9    (Kalem) . . .  .1084 

Rule   Thyself— Apr.    11    (Edison) '» 

Rustic  Hearts— Jnne  23  CLoWn) !-•» 

Rustler's   Spur.    The— June    19    (Essanay) 1164 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


s 

Sacrifice,    The — June    18    (Patheplay) 11TO 

Sallie'u  Sure  Shot-^Tuly  4  (Selig) 1390 

Same  Old  Story,  The — May  14   (Essanay) 61S 

Saragossa — May    16    iPatheplay) 624 

Saving    Lie,    The — June    4    (Patheplay) 944 

Scenes     Along     the     Pescara     River     (Central 

Italy),    Apr.    8    (Cines) 196 

Scenes  and  Ruins  Near  Rome — Apr.  29  (Cines) .  408 

Scenes   in    Manila — May   29    (Selig) 838 

Scheme   of   Shiftless    Sam    Smith,    The — June    9 

(Kalem)     ) 1054 

School   of   Gymnastics — Apr.    IS    (Patheplay) 200 

School    Principal,    The — Apr,    24 — (Lubin) 298 

Scimitar  of  the  Prophet,  The — Apr.  11   (Kalem)     82 

Sea    Maiden,    The — May    10    (Vitagraph) 5X16 

Second   Shot,   The — June   28    (Patheplay) 1280 

Secret   Marriage,  The — Apr.   23    (Kalem) 304 

Seeds  of  Silver— Apr.   22    (Selig) 298 

Seeing  Double — Apr.  19  (Vitagraph) 194 

Seven    Years    Bad    Luck — Apr.    16    (Edison) 300 

Shadowgraph  Message,  The — June  10  (Essanay). 1056 

She  Must  Be  Ugly— May  S   (Lubin) 504 

Shenandoah  (Special,  3  parts) — July  4  (Kalem) .  .1386 

Sheriff's    Wife.    The — Apr.    9    (Essanay) 78 

Shooting  the  Rapids  of  the  Pagsanjan  River  in 

Philippine    Islands — June    16    (Selig) 

Shotgun   Man  and    the  Stage-Driver,    The — Apr. 

9    (Selig)     80 

Shower  of  Slippers,   A — Apr.    7    (Edison) 78 

Signal.   The — July  5    (Edison) 

Silence   for  Silence — June   16    (Lubin) 1166 

Silv.T     Cigarette    Case,     The — June     16     (Vita- 
graph)      1164 

Sleuthing— Apr.    17    (Vitagraph) 192 

Slight   Mistake.    A— Apr.    22    (Lubin) 298 

Slippery   Slim    Repents — June   5    (Biograph) 944 

Smoked    to  a    Finish — Jone   20    (Kalem) 1174 

8nap-Sbot,  The — Apr.   8   (Biograph) 80 

Snare  of  Fate,    The    (3  parts) — June  23    (Vita- 
graph)      1270 

Sneak,    The — Apr.    21    (Kalem) 304 

Some    Chicken— May    1     (Selig) 406 

Some  Spots  in  and  Around  Los  Angeles,  Cal. — 

June  4    (Edison) 105S 

Songs  of  Truce — July   1    (Selig) 1388 

Song  Bird  of  the  North,  The — July  2  (Vitagraph)  1388 

Sorrowful   Shore,   The — July  5    (Biograph) 1394 

Soul   In  Bondage,   A— May  15    (Vitagraph) 618 

Spider    Which    Lives    In    a    Bubble,    The — May 

30    (Patheplay)    842 

Splendid  Scapegrace,  A — Apr.  26  (Edison) 302 

Split    Nugget,    The— Apr.    11    (Lubin) 78 

Sponge  Industry  in  Cuba,  The — Apr.  17   (Pathe- 
play)       200 

Spotted    Elephant    Hawk    Moth,    The — June    27 

(Patheplay)    12S0 

Sqnawman's   Awakening,    The — May  31    (Pathe- 
play)       842 

Star.   The — June  11    (Essanay) 1056 

Still    Voice,    The,     (2    parts)— May    24     (Vita- 
graph)       732 

Stolen  Bride,    The — Apr.    7    (Biograph) 80 

Stolen  Claim,    The — June   12    (Melies) 1060 

Stolen  Loaf,    The — May    15    (Biograph) 624 

Stolen  Melody,    The— May    21    (Selig) 724 

Story  the  Desert  Told,  The — May  1   (Essanay) .  408 

Story  of  the  Bell,  The — June  30  (Edison) 1392 

Streak    of    Yellow,    A — Apr.    14    (Kalem) 194 

Street    Scenes    of    Yokohama,    Japan — Apr.    29 

(Vitagraph)      410 

Stronger   Sex,   The — Apr.    25    (Vitagraph) 302 

Struggle,  The  (2  parts) — June  25   (Kalem) 1274 

Sultan's    Dagger.    The — June    26    (Melies) 1274 

Snltan  of  Sulu,  The-^Iuly  2   (Selig) 1388 

Sunshine    Sue — Apr.    22    (Lubin) 298 

Suwanee    River.   The — June   5    (Selig) 940 

Sweeney  and  the  Fairy — June  9   (Selig) 1050 

Sweet  Deception^TuIy  3  (Vitagraph) 1388 

Switch-Tower,    The — June    16    (Biograph) 1172 

T 

Tabitian   Fish    Drive,    A— Apr.    17    (Melies) 200 

Taming   a   Tenderfoot— June   17    (Selig) 1166 

Tananarive,    Madagascar — June    6    (Patheplay).  .944 
Tandjong  Priok,   The  Harbor  of  Java's  Capital, 

Batavia— May    29    (Melies) 838 

Tango  Tangle,    A — May    6    (Essanay) 505 

Tattle    Battle,    The— May    20    (Selig) 724 

Ten-Acre    Gold    Brick,    A— May    12    (Lubin) 613 

Tenderfoot's   Money,    The — May   5    (Biograph) . .  506 

Terror  of  Conscience,  The — June  6   (Kalem) 1054 

That  Mail  Order  Suit— Apr.   18    (Selig) 198 

Their  Baby— May  29    (Essanay) 834 

Their  Stepmother — May   2    (Selig) 406 

There's    Music    in    the    Hair — Apr.    23     (Vita- 
graph)       802 

Three  to  One — June  3   (Vitagraph) 

Through     Many     Trials,      (2     parts) — Apr.     30 

( I.ubin)     406 

Thwarted    Plot,    The— Apr.    24    (Patheplay) 304 

Tie  of  the  Blood.  The— Apr.   17   (Selig) 198 

Tiger  Lily,  The  (2  parts)-^July  2  (Vitagraph) .  .1386 

Timely   Interception,    A — June  7    (Biograph) 944 

Toll  of  Fear,  The,    (2  parts)— Apr.   9   (Lubin) . .     78 
Tombs    of    the    -Ming    Emperors,    The — Apr.     10 

(Selig)    

Tommy's  Atonement — Apr.    10    (Selig) 80 

Too  Much  Parcel  Post — Apr.  9   (Patheplay) 

Tootheache — May    9     i  Kalem) 510 

Tour    Throngh    Touraine.     A — June    17     (Pathe- 
play)       1168 

Tragedy    of    Big    Eagle    Mine,    The,    (2    parts) 

June    7     (Kalem) 940 

Transition.   The — Apr.  8   (Vitagraph) 76 

Translation  of  a  Savage,  The — May  24  (Edison)  840 
Transportation      Methods      in      Java — May      30 

(Patheplay)      842 

Trapper's    Mistake,     The     <2    parts) — June    28 
(Patheplay)    1280 


Tricks  of   the   Trade — May    27    (Patheplay) 834 

Trimmers  Trimmed,  The— May  26   (Biograph)..  838 

Trip  on  the  Seine,  A— Apr.  25   (Patheplay) 304 

Trip   Through    the    North   Island   of    New    Zea- 
land, A  (From  Auckland  to  Wellington) — May 

8  (Melies)    J Bog 

Trip    to   the   Waitomo   Caves   of   New   Zealand, 

A— Apr.     24     (Melies) 304 

Twelfth  Juror,  The — Apr.  19  (Edison) 300 

Twin    Brothers,    The — June    17    (Edison) 1170 

Two    Little    Kittens — June   10    (Edison) 1058 

Two   Merchants,   The — May  14    (Edison) 622 

Two's     Company    Three's     a     Crowd — Apr.     29 

(Vitagraph)    410 

Two  Social  Calls — May  16  (Essanay) 620 

Two  Souls    With    But    a    Single    Thought — May 

14    (Vitagraph)     730 

Two  Western   Paths — May   8'  (Essanay) 505 

U 

Unburied    Past,    The — Apr.    22    (Essanay) 300 

"Uncle    Tom's    Cabin"     Troupe,     An— Apr.     10 

(Biograph)      go 

Unknown,  The — Apr.  17   (Essanay) 196 

Unwilling  Separation,  An— May  27  (Edison)..  840 
Unwritten  Chapter,  An— July  4  (Vitagraph) ..  .1388 
Up  and  Down  the  Ladder — May  26   (Vitagraph)  834 

Up-to-Date    Aviator,    An — Apr.    9    (Eclipse) 198 

Uses   of  Dynamite   by   U.    S.   Engineering   Corps 

— May   1    (Vitagraph)    410 

V 
Value   of   Mothers-ln-Law,    The — June   4    (Essa- 
nay)        846 

Vampire    of    the    Desert,    The    (2    parts) — May 

16     (Vitagraph)     618 

Veil  of  Sleep,  The— May  1   (Lubin) 406 

Vengeance  is  Mine — Apr.   7    (Selig) 80 

Victim  of  Deceit.   A^Iuly  4   (Kalem) 1386 

Victim   of   Heredity,    A — May    26    (Kalem) 832 

Views  in   Liege,    Belgium — Apr.   26    (Cines) 408 

Views   of   Samarang — June    12    (Melies) 1060 

Violet   Dare,    Detective — June   10    (Lubin) 1048 

Vitagraphers    at    Kama    Kura— May    19    (Vita- 
graph)       730 

W 

Waiter's  Strategy,   The — July  4   (Lubin) 1390 

Wamba,    a    Child    of    the    Jungle,    (2    parts)— 

May     26     (Selig) 836 

Wanderer,    The — May  3    (Biograph) 412 

Wanted,  A  Strong  Hand— Apr.  11    (Vitagraph).     76 

Wardrobe  Lady,   The — Apr.   8    (Essanay) 78 

Wayward  Son,    The — May   3    (Kalem) 403 

Weaker      Mind,      The,       (2      parts)— June      18 

(Lubin)      1168 

Web,   The,    (2  parts)— Apr.   11    (Vitagraph) 76 

Welded   Friendship,    A— May   6    (Selig) 504 

Well  Sick    Man,    The — Apr.    9    (Edison) 78 

Well,  The — June     12     (Biograph) 1060 

What  God  Hath  Joined  Together— June  2  (Vita- 
graph)       944 

Western   Romance,    A — June   27    (Selig) 1276 

What  Happened    to    Mary    No.    10,    (High    Tide 

of   Misfortune,    The)— Apr.   26   (Edison) 302 

"What    Happened    to    Mary,"    No.    12   &    Last 

(Fortune   Smiles)— June  27    (Edison) 1272 

What  Happened  to  Mary  No.  11,   (Race  to  New 

York,    A)— May    23    (Edison) 840 

What    Is  Sauce  for  the  Goose — Apr.  17  (Melies).  200 
What  the   Good   Book   Taught— June   5    (Pathe- 
play)       944 

Wheel  of   Death,   The — June  16    (Kalem) 1172 

When  a     Woman     Loves,      (3     parts) — June     2 

(Cines)      1048 

When  Fate  Decrees — June  4   (Kalem)    1054 

When  Greek   Meets  Greek — May  6   (Edison) 620 

When  Lillian    Was    Little    Red    Riding    Hood — 

June    16    (Selig) 1166 

When  Men  Forget — June  26   (Selig) 1276 

When  the     Circus     Came     to     Town — June     2 

(Selig)      940 

When  the    Right    Man    Comes    Along — Apr.    28 

(Edison)     403 

When  Women    are    Police — June    7    (Kalem) . .  .1054 
Where  Shore   and    Water    Meet— Jane    24    (Edi- 
son)      1272 

While  John   Bolt  Slept— June  7    (Edison) 1058 

White    Lies — May    29    (Patheplay) 842 

White    Slave,    The,    (2    parts) — May    31    (Vita- 
graph)        836 

Widow  of  Nevada,  A — May  22  (Essanay) 724 

Widow  of  Winnipeg,  The — May  30   (Kalem) 832 

Willie's   Alarm   Clock— May   13    (Cines) 622 

Will  of  Fate.  The — May  14  (Eclipse) 622 

Window  on  Washington  Park,  A — Apr.  30  (Vita- 
graph)        410 

Wine  of  Madness,   The — June  14    (Lubin) 1050 

Winner     of     the     Sweepstakes,     The— Apr.     16 

(Cines)     198 

Winter    in    Upper    Engadine,    Switzerland — May 

2     (Patheplay)     412 

Winter  Sports  at  Bodele — Apr.  22  (Patheplay).  304 
Wise    Old    Elephant,    A,     (2    parts) — Apr.     14 

(Selig)      

With  Loves    Eyes— Apr.    11     (Selig) 80 

With    the  Assistance   of    "Shep" — May   7    (Edi- 
son)       620 

With  the    Students    of    North    Dakota    Agricul- 
tural   College — May    16    (Selig) 618 

Witness    "A    3-center" — June   27    (Essanay) ...  .1278 

Woman  of  Impulse,  A — May  14   (Patheplay) 624 

Woman — Past   and   Present — June   4    (Selig) ....  940 

Woman  Scorned.    A — May    24    (Patheplay) 728 

Woman's    Heart,     A — June    2     (Lubin) 940 

Woman's    Influence,    A — May   17    (Cines) 622 

Woman's    Way,  A— May  9   (Essanay) 505 

Woodflre  at  Martin's,  The — May  30  (Selig) 838 

Woodman's    Daughter.    The — Apr.     14    (Selig)..  198 


Wordless    Message,    The— May    28    (Selig) 836 

Wrath  of  Osaka,  The — May  8   (Vitagraph) 506 

Wrecked    Life,    A— May    17    (Patheplay) 624 

Wrong  Pair,   The— May   12   (Vitagraph) 618 

Wrong  Hand  Bag,  The-^Iuly  4    (Lubin) 1392 

Y 
Yaqni  Cur,  The,   (2  parts)— May  17   (Biograph).  624 
Yarn  of  Nancy  Belle,   The — May  27   (Lubin)...  832 
Yokohama    Fire     Department — June    20     (Vita- 
graph)      1164 


Zulu  King,  The— June  24  (Lubin) 1278 

Independent   Releases 

A 

Ace  of  Hearts,  The — June  9  (Dragon) 

Affray  of  Honor,   An — Apr.  16  (Nestor) 

After    the    Massacre — May    17    (Reliance; 850 

Against   the  Law— Apr.   22    (Gem) 

Aladdin's   Awakening-June   20    (Nestor) U7S 

Algie  on  the  Force — May  5    (Keystone) 518 

All  on  Account  of  an  Egg— June  1   (Eclair) 

All  Rivers  Meet  at  Sea^uly  2   (Broncho) 

Amateur  Highwayman,  The — May  21  (Solas) 744 

Amateur  Sleuth,    The — Mar.   27    (Gaumout) 90 

American  In    the   Making,    An — Apr.    22    il'han- 

houser) 413 

Anaradhapura— May    25     (Eclair) ....'.'.'.'" 

Angel  of  Death,  The^une  26   (Imp) 1282 

Angel    of    Mercy,    The— Apr.    8    (Gaumout) 314 

Angel  of  the  Canyons — May  12   (American) 628 

Animated  Weekly,  No.  55— Mar.  26  (Universal)  86 
Animated  Weekly,  No.  56 — Apr.  2  (Universal)  202 
Animated  Weekly,  No.  57 — Apr.  9,  (Universal)  308 
Animated  Weekly,  No.  58— Apr.  16  (Universal)  414 
Animated  Weekly,  No.  59 — Apr.  23  (Universal)  512 
Animated  Weekly,  No.  60 — Apr.  30  (Universal)  626 
Animated  Weekly,  No.  61— May  7  (Universal)  736 
Animated  Weekly,  No.  62— May  14  (Universal)  846 
Animated  Weekly,  No.  63 — May  21  (Universal)  954 
Animated  Weekly,  No.  64 — May  28  (Universal)  1066 
Animated  Weekly,  No.  66 — June  11  (Universal). 1286 
Animated  Weekly,  No.  67^June  18  (Universal), 1396 

Annie    Laurie — June    16    (Reliance) 1184 

Apache    Love — June    18    (Nestor) 1178 

As   Fate   Wills — Apr.    10    (Frontier) 84 

Ashes    of    Three,    (2    parts)— May    28    (Ameri- 
can)       852 

At  Shiloh    (2  parts)— July  5   (Bison) 1396 

Aunt   Kate's    Mistake — Apr.    10    (Imp) 

Awakening   of   Papita,    The— May   7    (Nestor)..  514 

B 

Badge  of  Policeman  O'Roon,  The  (2  parts) — June 

25    (Eclair)     

Bangville   Police,   The — Apr.   24    (Keystone) 310 

Banker's  Sons,  The — June  20   (Majestic) 12S8 

Barney    Oldfleld's    Race    for    a    Life — June    2 

(Keystone)     956 

Barred  from  the  Mails — May  11  (Thanhouser) .  740 
Battle  of  San  Juan  Hill,  The,    (3  parts) — June 

3     (Bison)     950 

Bawleront,  The,    (3  parts)— Apr.  30  (Reliance).  618 

Beautiful  Blsmark — June  17  (Majestic) 1288 

Bedford's  Hope,    (3  parts) — Apr.   8    (Bison) 

Beetles — May    17    (Imp) 

Behind    the   Times — Jnne   20    (Imp) 

Be   It  Ever  So  Humble — May  30    (Nestor) 846 

Betty's    Bandit — May    17    (Frontier) 628 

Bewitched    Matches,    The — May    4    (Eclair) 740 

Bewitched   Rubber  Shoes,   The — Apr.   12    (Great 

Northern)     

Big  Boss,   The    (2   parts)— May  14    (Reliance).  740 

Billy  Gets  Arrested — Apr.  8   (Gem) 

Billy  in    Armor — June    2    (Gem)     952 

Billy  Plays  Poker— May  20  (Gem) 

Billy's  Adventures — May    13    (Gtem) 626 

Billy's  First  Quarrel — May  6    (Gem) 

Billy's  Honeymoon — Mav    27    (Gem) 844 

Billy's  New   Watch— May   11    (Majestic) 740 

Billy's  Suicide — Apr.   29   (Gem) 

Billy  the    Suffragette — Apr.    25    (Powers) 308 

Billy  Turns   Burglar — Apr.    15    (Gem) 

Black  and   White — June   8    (Crystal) 952 

Black  Chancellor,     The,      (3     parts) — Apr.     26 

(Bison)     

Black  Conspiracy,    A,    (2   parts) — May   2    (Kay- 
Bee)     420 

Black  Jack's  Atonement — May  23  (Powers) . . .  738 
Black  Small  Fox  Scare,  The — May  7   (Powers). 

Blood    Will  Tell— Apr.   14    (Imp) 

Baby's    Baby — Apr.    6    (Rex) 

Boobs    and    Bricks — Apr.    21    (American) 308 

Boob,    The — June   1    (Rex) 844 

Book  of  Verses,   A — Apr.  20    (Rex) 202 

Boomerang,  The,   (3  parts) — June  13  (Kay -Bee). 1070 

Boy  from  the  East,  The — Jnne  22  (Eclair) 

Boy     Scouts     to     the     Rescue,     The — May     21 

(Nestor)     

Bozo  Arrives — May  9    (Powers) 

Bread  Cast   Upon   the   Waters,    (2  parts) — Apr. 

30     (Broncho)     420 

Bred  In  the  Bone.    (3  parts) — Apr.   22  (Bison). 

Brother  and  Sister— June  27  (Victor) 1282 

Brothers    All — May    5    (Excelsior) 

Brothers,    The — May    5    (Amerlcar    516 

Burglarizing    Billy — Apr.    22    (Gei     

Burning   Lariat,    The — Apr.    12    (       .ntien 86 

Burden  Bearer,  The — Jnne  26  (R<      1284 

Business  Woman,   A — May  30    C     inhouser) 848 

By  the  Aid  of  Wireless — Jnne  f    (Luxl 1070 

By  the  Sad  Sea  Waves — June  17   (Gaumont)... 


VI 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


c 

Caged    Bird,    The— June   6    (Thantaouser) 1070 

Calamity  Anne  Takes  a  Trip— Jone  26   (Ameri- 

can)     1286 

Calamity  Anne  Parcel  Post— May  22  (American)  740 
Calamity   Anne's  Trust— Apr.  26   (American)...  308 

California    Poultry— Jone    9    (American) 1066 

Call    for    Home,    A— June   17    (Crystal) 11 1 6 

Call   Him   Wiskers—  May   6    (Gem) •••.„„„ 

Call  of  the  Angelus.  The-June  12   (Frontier).. 1066 

Call  of  the  Road,  The — June  18  (Ranio) 1230 

Capture  of  Aguinaldo,  The,    (2  parts)— June  11 

(Bison)     ... 

Carmen,    (S  parts)— May  27    (Thanhouser) 958 

Case  of  the  Missing  Girl,  The — May  7   (Solas).  630 
Cast    Thy    Bread    Upon    the    Waters— June    20 

. Lnx)    .         1290 

Changeling,  The — Apr.  11    (Thanhouser) 206 

Cheating— May    28    (Powers) 

Child  of  the  Hills,  A— June  19  (Pilot).......... 

Child  of  War.  A,  (2  parts)— May  30  (Kay-Bee).  852 
Children  of  St.    Anne,    (2  parts)— May   6    (Ma- 

jestic)     634 

Children's     Conspiracy,     The— Apr.     20     (Than- 

houser)      

Child's  Dav,  A — June  5   (Mutual  Educational).  .1068 

Child  of  the  Hills,  A— June  19  (Pilot) 1288 

Clancy    the    Model— June    1    (Crystal) 844 

Clean-Up,    The— May    14    (Nestor) 626 

Clown  Hero,   The— Apr.  2S   (Champion) 

Comedians     Mask,     The,      (2     parts)— June     9 

(Imp)     1064 

Comrades — June    2    (Dragon) 

Couut   Retires,   The — June  7    (Imp) 

Country    Cousin.    The— May    5    (Nestor)........  514 

Country  Man's  Romance,  A— May  4   (Majestic). 

Coward's  Charm,  The— Apr.    18   (Victor) 

Crimson  Stain,  The  (3  parts)— July  4  (Kay-Bee) 

Crucible  of    Lore.    The— May   8    (Pilot) T42 

Cruel  Suspicion.   A— May  7    (Reliance) 634 

Cub,    The— Apr.     28     (Imp)  ...........•••■••■  ■  41* 

Cupid  in   Dental   Parlor— Apr.    21    (Keystone) . .  310 
Cupidity  of  Cupid,  The— Apr.  10   (Gaumont)...  314 

Cupid  Throws  a   Brick — Apr.   7    (American) 88 

Curate's  Outing,   The— May  21    (Powers) 

Cuttlefish,    The— May   18    (Eclair) 844 

D 

Dad's  Orders— May    14     (Solax) 630 

Dad's  Surprise— Apr.    14    (Nestor) -a» 

Dad's  Surprise— June  20   (Nestor) 

Darktown  Belle.  The — May  8  (Keystone) 518 

Darling  of  the  Regiment,  The — (2  parts)— Apr. 

12    (Bison)    ■ •■ 

Daughter  of   the  Sheep   Rancher,  The — Apr.   24 

(Frontier)      •■■•• ■•■■• 

Dead  Man's  Shoes — June  28  (American) 128b 

Dixie  Mother.   A,    (2  parts)^une  4   (Broncho).  9o8 

Dora— June   28    (Thanhouser) 1402 

Dog  and    the    Goat,    The — May    30    (Lux) 960 

Dog  in  the  Baggage  Car,  The— Apr.   13   (Than- 

houser)     ■ 3J? 

Dollar  Did  It,  A— Apr.  17  (Keystone) 206 

Dolly  and  the  Burglar — June  4    (Powers) 950 

Double  Sacrifice,  A— May  28  (Nestor) 846 

Dragon's  Breath,  The,  (2  parts)— Apr.  24  (Rex).  308 

Draga.  The  Gypsy-June  29   (Rex) 1286 

Dream  Home,  The— June  18  (Reliance) 12S8 

Drummer    of    the    Eighth,    The    (2    parts)— May 

28    (Broncho)     .852 

Dynamited  Dog,  The— June  25  (Solax) 1290 

E 
Eastern   Cyclone  at   Bluff   Ranch,    An— June   28 

(Frontier) 

Early    Oklahoma— May    21     (Reliance) .850 

Eastern    Cvelone    at    Blnff    Ranch,    An— May    3 

(Frontier)      •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  *16 

Electrical   Phenomena— Apr.   24   (Mutual   Bduca- 

Monal)     •••••• ; s12 

EUxlr    of    Youth,    the— Apr.    9    (Powers) .. 

End    of    the    Trail,    The,     (2    parts)— May    30 

(Powers)    ■ .  ■  ■  ■ *™ 

Engulfed— June    13     (Lux) 118? 

Eternal    Sacrifice.    The— May   12    (Reliance)....  740 

Eureka.     (2    parts)— May    8    (Imp).. ,••,;••   ... 

Evil  Genius.  The.    12  parts)  Apr.  16   (Eclair)..  204 

Every  Inch  a  Hero — June  23  (Gem) 

Expensive  Drink,    An— June    15    (Crystal) 1064 

Express  C.   O.   D— May  4   (Thanhouser) 630 

Eve  for  an  Ere,  An — May  6   (Gaumont) 744 

Eve  for  an  Eye,  An— May  16  (Nestor) 628 

Eve  of  Krishla.   The — June  22   (Thanhouser) 1400 

Eyes  that  Could  Not  Close,  The — May  20  (Gau- 
mont)       

F 
Failure   of    Success,    (2   parts)— June    20    (Kay- 
Bee)     1184 

Fair  Exchange.   A.    12   parts)— May  16   (Victor).   262 

Falrv  Godfather.  The — May  27   (Majestic) 

Faithful   Shep— -Tune  4    (Reliance) 1070 

Faith  Healer,  The  (2  parts)—  May  28  (Eclair) .  .1182 

False  Love   and   True— .Tune    10    (Crystal) 1064 

Father's   Choice — Apr.    10    (Keystone) 88 

F«:<r,   The — Apr.   11    (Powers) 84 

Fighting     Chaplain,     The     (2     parts)— April     19 

( Bison)      ■  • 

Filmographie     Cartoons,     Hy     Mayer — June     21 

( Imp)      

rirs— Apr.     20     (Eclair) ?>* 

Fishy    Affair.    A      \pr.    24    (Keystone) 310 

Fiving    the    Faki     —Apr.    17    (Imp) 

Flossie  Visits  B»     C  Ranch— May  31   (Frontier) 
Flying    Circus.    T        (3   parts)— June   28    (Great 

Northern     T'nlv     al) I282 

Fortune's  Pet  c2  p  i.  ts)— June  18  (Eclair) 

F..r   Another'"    Sin— Apr.    25    (Thanhouser) 418 

^        ■       ...    ^^y^ua..)^   ?,.JV^««   742 


Forgetful    Flossie — Apr.    27    (Crystal) S08 

Forgive    Us    Our    Trespasses — June    24     (Than- 
houser)      1*00 

Forgotten    Letter,    The — Apr.    11    (Nestor) 84 

For  Her  Sake— Apr.  25   (Nestor) 

For  Love  of  Columbine — Apr.  12  (Reliance) 312 

For  Love  of  the  Flag,   (2  parts)— May  16  (Kay- 
Bee)     «32 

For  Old  Time's  Sake — June  5    (Pilot) 1186 

Fortune's   Fet,    (2  parts)— June  18   (Eclair) 

For  Two    Pins — May   22    (Gaumont) 958 

Fraternity    Pin,    The — June    1    (Majestic) 1068 

Friendly  Neighbors— June  18    (Powers) 1176 

Friend  of  the   Family,   A— Apr.    17    (Rex) 202 

From   the   Shadows,    (2   parts) — June  18    (Bron- 
cho)      H84 

Fun  in  the  Film  by  Hy.  Mayer^Tune  28   (Tmp) 
Funnicus  is  Tired  of  Life — Apr.  24  (Mutual  Edu- 
cational)        310 

Funnicus  Tries  His  Luck  at  Love — June  26   (Mu- 
tual  Educational)    1290 

G 

Game   of    Poker,    A — Apr.    10    (Keystone) 88 

Gangsters,   The — May  29    (Keystone) 852 

Gathering    and    Preparation    of    Tea    in    Indo- 
china—June   12    (Mutual  Educational) 1068 

Gaumont  Weekly,  No.  56 — Apr.  2  (Gaumont) . .  206 
Gaumont  Weekly,  No.  57 — Apr.  9  (Gaumont)..  314 
Gaumont  Weekly,  No.  5S — Apr.  16  (Gaumont) . .  422 
Gaumont  Weekly,  No.  59 — Apr.  23  (Gaumont) . .  520 
Gaumont  Weekly,  No.  60 — Apr.  30  (Gaumont)..  634 
Gaumont  Weekly,  No.  61 — May  7  (Gaumont)..  744 
Gaumont  Weekly,  No.  62 — May  14  (Gaumont) . .  854 
Gaumont  Weekly,  No.  63 — May  21  (Gaumont)..  958 
Gaumont  Weekly,  No.  64 — May  28  (Gaumont).. 
Gaumont  Weekly,  No.  65 — June  4  (Gaumont) .  .1186 
Gaumont's  Weekly,  No.  66 — June  11  (Gaumont).1290 
Gaumont's  Weekly.  No.  67 — June  18  (Gaumont). 1402 
Ghost     of     Sea     View     Manor,     The — June     16 

(Dragon)    

Girl   Reporter.   The — July  6   (Crystal) 1400 

Girl    and    the    Grafter,    The— Apr.     15     (Than- 
houser)       310 

Girl    Detective's    Ruse,     The — Apr.    29     (Than- 
houser)       °18 

Glimpses    of    Hawaii— May    29    (Mutual    Educa- 
tional)      1068 

Going   for  Father— Apr.    13    (Eclair) 84 

Gold  and  Two  Men— May  18   (Rex) 

Golden    Horn.    Turkey,    The — Apr.    10    (Mutual 

Educational)      88 

Gontran,    Apostle    of    Peace — May    29    (Mutual 

Educational)     1008 

Gontran,    a    Snake    Charmer — June    12    (Mutual 

Educational)      1068 

Good  for    Evil— May    23    (Victor) '38 

Good  Within,    The — May    3    (Reliance) 634 

Governor's    Romance,   The— May   29    (Pilot)....  960 
Grand     Old     Flag,     The,     (2     parts)— June     10 

(Bison)     1°°* 

Greater    Love,    The— Apr.    30    (Nestor) 414 

Great  Unwashed,  The — June  19  (Ganmont) 1402 

Great   Harmony,    The — May    17    (American) 639 

Gregory's    Shadow— June    6    (Solax) 958 

Grey      Sentinel,      The,       (2      parts)— Apr.       9 

(Broncho)     *° 

Guerilla  Menace,  The  (2  parts)— June  24  (Bison)1282 


H 

Half    a  Chance,    (2  parts)— June  14   (Reliance).1184 

Half  Orphans,    The — Apr.    6    (Majestic) 204 

Halfwit,    The — Mar.    29    (Reliance) 88 

Hansom  Driver,   The — June  9    (Keystone) 1070 

Hawaiian    Love — May    12    (Champion) 626 

Head    of    the    Ribbon    Counter,    The — June    15 

(Thanhouser)     1288 

He   and    Himself— July   4    (Nestor) 1398 

Hearth    Lgbts— May    26    (Reliance) 956 

Heart  Humane,   The — June  3    (Reliance) 

Hearts    and    Crosses— May    25    (Eclair) 1180 

Hearts    and  Flowers — June  9   (Gem) 

Hearts    and  Horses — June   12    (American) 1068 

Heart    That    Sees,    The — May    15    (Imp) 628 

He  Could  Not  Lose  It— June  8  (Eclair) 1289 

Held     for     Ransom,     (2    parts)— Apr.     16     (Re- 
liance)        312 

He  Loves   to   Watch   the   Flight  of  Time — May 

18     (Eclair) 844 

Help!   Help!   Hydrophobia! — June  5   (Keystone).  956 

Henpecked    Burglar.    The — May    28    (Solax) 854 

Her   Big  Story — May  31    (American) 852 

Her  Fairy  Godfather— May  27   (Majestic) 958 

Her  First    Love   Affair— May   10    (Great   North- 
ern)         634 

Her  Hero's    Predicament — May    19    (Nestor) i36 

Her  Innocent    Marriage — May    19    (American) . .  740 

Her  Joke  on   Belroont^Tune  15    (Crystal) 1064 

Her     Lover's   Voice — May   3    (Imp) 

Her  Mother's    Picture — June    13     (Solax) 1072 

Her  Sister's   Secret— May  6   (Thanhouser) 630 

He  Ruins     His     Family's     Reputation — June     1 

(Eclair)      1180 

He  Slept  Well— June  15  (Eclair) 1286 

He  Was     Not     111,      Only     Unhappy— June     29 

(Eclair)     

Helping    Hand,    The — June   11    (Ramo) 1290 

Higher    Law.    The — June    12    (Imp) 1064 

His  A wf nl    Daughter— May  11    (Crystal) 512 

His  Chum,    the   Baron — Apr.    28    iKeystone) 420 

His  Daughter^Iune    20     (Vltagraph) 1176 

His  Friend    Jimmie — Apr.    21     (Nestor) 308 

His  Master's    Rival— May    15     (Mutual    Educa- 
tional)      .632 

His  Mother's  Love — June  23    (Imp) 1282 

His  Romantic    Wife— Apr.    20    (Crystal) 202 

His  Sacrifice — June    13     {Thanhouser) 1182 


His  Son-ln-Law— Apr.    11    (Solax) 90 

His  Uncle's   Heir— June   9    (Reliance) 1184 

His  Ups    and   Downs — May   5    (Keystone) 518 

His  Wife's   Affinity— Apr.    23    (Solax) 420 

Homestead  Race,  The — Apr.  10  (American) ....     86 

Homlock    Shermes— May    18    (Crystal) 626 

Honor  of  Lucrece,  The — June  10  (Ganmont) ....  1290 
Honor  of  the  Regiment,  The,  (2  parts) — May  31 

(Bison)     848 

Hoodoo    Pearls,    The — Apr.    23    (Reliance) 418 

Hooked — June    1     (Crystal) 844 

Hopes   of    Belinda.    The — June   4    (Solax) 958 

Hour  of  Terror,   An— July  1    (Crystal) 1396 

House   Divided,    A— May  2    (Solax) 420 

House   of    Pretense,    The — June   23    (Reliance) .  .1400 

How  Fattv  Got  Even — Apr.  9   ( Nestor) 84 

Hubby's    Job — May    19    (Keystone) 742 

Human    Kindness — May    8    (American) 516 

Husband's  Mistake,    A — June  23    (American) ...  .1286 
Hy  Mayer — His  Magic  Hand,   May  24   (Imp).. 
Hy  Mayer— His    Magic    Hand,    May   31    (Imp).. 

Hy  Mayer's  Cartoons — June  14   (Imp) 

Hypnotic   Collector,   The — Apr.   24   (Pilot) 520 

Hypnotizing   Hannah — Mar.   27    (Ganmont) 90 

I 

Idol  of  Bonanza  Camp,  The — June  4   (Nestor) . .  950 

I    Love   You— Apr.    15    (Majestic) 310 

I'm   No  Counterfeiter— July  2   (Ramo) 1402 

In    Another's    Nest — Apr.    17    (American) 204 

In   a   Strange   Land — Apr.    30    (Powers) 

Indian  Nemesis,  An — June  30  (Nestor) 1398 

Indian's   Gratitude,    An — June   11    (Broncho) 1070 

Indians  Secret,    The,    (2  parts) — May  6    (Bison).  514 

Ingrate,    The — May    2    Nestor) 414 

In  Love  and  War,    (2  parts) — June  17   (Bison).  1176 

In  Slavery  Days.    (2  parts)— May  22   (Rex) 

In  the  Battle's   Smoke — Apr.    3    (Pilot) 90 

In  their  Hour  ot  Need — May  23   (Thanhouser)..  848 
In  the  Secret      Service,      (2      parts) — May      17 

(Bison)     628 

In  the  Wake     of     the     Brain     Storm — May     13 

i  Gaumont)     854 

Innocent   Conspiracy,   An — June  26   (Pilot) 

Invincible   Hands,    The — May  2    (Lux) 520 

It  Happened  at  the  Beach — June  25  (Powers).  .1284 

Italian    Love — June    2    (Reliance) 1070 

Its   Great   to   Be   Great— May   8    (Gaumont) 744 

J 

Jane    Marries — July    3    (Imp) 1399 

Jealousy  of  Jane,   The — June  16   (Imp) 1178 

Joke  on  the  Sheriff,   A — Apr.  27    (Crystal) 308 

Judge's    Vindication,     The,     (2    parts)— Apr.    2 

(Reliance)      S8 

Just   a   Fire-Fighter — June  2    (Imp) 950 

Just    for    Luck — May    24    (Imp) 

K 

Kidnapped    Train,    The — June  6    (Victor)    952 

King  Can  Do   No  Wrong,  The,    (3  parts)— June 

12    (Rex)     1064 

"King's  Messenger,"   The — May  30    (Solax) 85* 

Kiss,    The — 'May    15    (American) 628 

Knight  of  Her  Dreams,  The — June  13  (Nestor)  .1069 

L 

Lady  Doctor,  The — Apr.  9  (Solax) 90 

Laplanders,    The — Apr.    15    (Gem) 

Largest   Boat   Ever   Launched   Sideways,    The — 

June    26    (Keystone) 

Last  Roll  Call,  The,   (2  parts)— Apr.  29  (BiBon) 

Law  of   the  Wild,  The— Apr.  27    (Eclair) 

Leader  of  His  Flock,    The,    (2  parts) — Apr.    17 

(Imp)      202 

Leaning  Tower  of  Pisa,  The — Apr.  15  (Majestic) 

Legally  Right— May  25  (Majestic) 958 

Lena's   Flirtation — Apr.    14    (Champion) 

Leo   Makes   Good — May   10    (Imp) 

Leo's    Great    Cure — June    28    (Imp) 

Leopard   Avenger,   The — Apr.   18    (Lux) 208 

Leo's  Waterloo — Apr.   12   (Imp) 

Leper.    The — -May   19    (Champion) 

Lessons   for   the    Bashful — Apr.   24    (Gaumont)..   520 

Lesson,   The — Apr.   16   (Powers) 

Life  in   Soudan — Apr.   28   (Champion) 

Life  in   the   Balance,    A— Apr.   14    (Keystone)..  209 
Lfe-Savers  of  Chicamocomo,  The — Apr.  7  (Cham- 
pion)       

Light  That  Kills,  The— May  27    (Ganmont) ...  .1072 

Liquid    Air — May     11     (Majestic) 

Little   Hero,    A— May  8   (Keystone) 518 

Lobsters,   All  Styles — Apr.    15    (Gaumont) 

Lock    Lomond — June    7     (Great    Northern) 

London    Assurance,    May    19    (Reliance) 850 

Loneliness  and  Love — Apr.  25  (Victor) 

Lost  Combination,  The — June  27  (Thanhouser) ..  1400 
Love,     Life    and    Liberty,     (2    parts) — May    27 

I  Bison)     849 

Love's    Monogram — May    26    (Dragon) 

Lure  of  the  Lorelei,  The — Mar.  25  (Gaumont)..     88 

M 

Mabel's  Awful  Mistake — May  12  (Keystone) . .  630 
Madcap  of  the  Hills,  The — June  7   (Reliance) .  .1070 

Magnetic   Maid.    The — May   31    (Imp) 

Maid  and  the  Milkman,  The — Apr.  7  (Nestor) . .  84 
Man  From  the  City,  The — Apr.  21  (Excelsior).  418 
Man  in  the  Sick   Room.  The — May  16    (Solas)..   630 

Man   of    Letters,    A — May    8    (Gaumont) 744 

Manufacturer  of   Steel.   The — Mav   11    (Eclair)..   844 

Man   Who  Failed.   The— May  23    (Solax) 744 

Man   Who  Tried  to  Forget,  The — June  11   (Nes- 
tor)       1066 

Marble  Heart,   The,    (2  parts) — May   13    (Than- 
houser)       740 

Marine     Law — June     21     (American) 1182 

Marriage   by    the    Wholesale— Apr.    3    (Gaumont)   208 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


VH 


Mary's   Romance — June  S   (Crystal) 953 

Master    Cracksman,    The,     (2    parts) — May    31 

(Reliance)     958 

Mathllde,    (2    parts)— Apr.    23    (Eclair) 614 

Matrimony's  Speed   Limit— June  11    (Solax) 1072 

Men  Were  Deceivers  Ever — June  12  (Gaumont).1290 

Merry   Widow,   The — June  28    (Solax) 1290 

Message   to   Heaven,    The — June  27    (Solax) 1290 

Message  of  the   Flowers — June  10    (Majestic)..  1184 

Mighty    Hunter,     A — May     16     (Lux) 742 

Miller's   Daughter,    The — May    2    (Lux) 520 

Mimosa's    Sweetheart — June    8    (Majestic) 1184 

Mine   and   a   Marathon — May   23    (Nestor) 736 

Miser,  The   (2  parts)— May  23   (Kay-Bee) 742 

Miss    Mischief — June    8    (Thanhouser) 1182 

Mixed  Pickles — June   17    (Gaumont) 1402 

Mixup  In   Bandits,   A — June  2    (Nestor) 950 

Modern   Snare,    The — May   24    (American) 740 

Mosques  and  Tombs  of  Caliphs  and  Mamelukes 

— May    8     (Mutual     Educational) 632 

Mote  and   the  Beam,   The — Apr.   20   (Majestic).  418 
Moving  Picture  Girl,  The — Apr.   14    (Excelsior) .  204 

Mrs.    Lacey's    Legacy — June    11    (Powers) 

Mrs.  Sharp  and  Miss  Plat — June  29  (Crystal) .  .1396 

Muchly   Engaged-July    6    (Crystal) ) 1396 

Murphy's    I.    O.    D. — Apr.    17    (Keystone) 206 

Mutual     Weekly,     No.     12— Mar.     19     (Mutual 

Weekly) 8S 

Mutual     Weekly.     No.    13— Mar.      26      (Mutual 

Weekly)     206 

Mutual     Weekly,    No.     14 — Apr.       2      (Mutual 

Weekly)     

Mutual     Weekly,     No.     15 — Apr.       9     (Mutual 

Weekly)     310 

Mutual     Weekly,     No.     16 — Apr.     16     (Mutual 

Weekly  418 

Mutual     Weekly,     No.     17— Apr.     23     (Mutual 

Weekly)     630 

Mutual     Weekly,     No.     IS — Apr.     30     (Mutual 

Weekly)   632 

Mutual     Weekly,      No.     19 — May       7     (Mutual 

Weekly)      742 

Mutual     Weekly,     No.     20— May     14     (Mutual 

Weekly)     956 

Mutual     Weekly,     No.     21 — May     21      (Mutual 

Weekly)      1068 

Mutual     Weekly     No.      22— May     28      (Mutual 

Weekly)   

Mutual     Weekly,      No.     23 — June     4      (Mutual 

Weekly)     1186 

Mutual  Weekly,  No.  24   (Mutual  Weekly) 1286 

My  Lady's   Boot— May  13    (Majestic) 740 

Mysterious  Card.  The — Apr.  12  (Imp) 

Mystery  of  the  Lost  Cat,  The — Apr.  16  (Solax).  208 

N 

Neighbors — May  2  (Powers) 

New  Conductor.  The — Apr.  28  (Keystone) ......  418 

New  Typist,  The — June  8  (Crystal) 952 

Night  of  the  Garter,  A— Apr.  14  (Nestor) 202 

Night  Riders,   The— Apr.   8   (Majestic) 204 

Nobody,   Miss — May  9    (Nestor) 

Northern  Spy,  The— (2  parts)— May  10  (Bison). 
Not   for  Mine— Apr.  22    (Majestic) 418 

O 

Octupus,    The — Apr.    13    (Eclair) 84 

Off  the  Mainland— Apr.  11   (Kyno) 90 

Oil    on    Troubled    Waters    (2    parts) — Apr.    28 

(American)     416 

O  Koma  San — Apr.    22   (Gaumont) 520 

Oh!  You  Unbreakable  Doll^lune  27   (Lux) 1404 

Old  Clock,  The — May  8   (Mutual  Educational)..  632 

Old  Melody,  The   (2  parts)^June  30   (Imp) 1396 

Old  Invalid,   The — May  1    (Mutual  Educational)  418 
Old  Maid's  Last  Attempt,  The — Apr.  26  (Front- 
ier)      i 

Old  Mammy's   Charge— Apr.    27    (Majestic) 516 

On  an  Alligator  Farm — Apr.   17   (Imp) 

On  Cupid's   Highway— May  26   (Nestor) 844 

On  Fortune's   Wheel    (2   parts) — Apr.    11    (Kay- 
Bee)     88 

On  the   Border — May   29    (American) 852 

On  the  Firing  Line — Apr.   10    (Gaumont) 

Opening   of    the    1913    Baseball   Season — May    3 

(Imp)      

Other  Girl,  The — May  9  (Thanhouser) 630 

Our   Parents-in-Law — Apr.   13    (Crystal) 84 

Our  Willie — May   IS    (Crystal) 626 

Out  of  the  Past— June  24  (Crystal) 1286 

Out  and  In — June  19   (Keystone) 1184 

Outcast,   The — May  12    (Dragon) 

Outcast,    The — Apr.    7    (Ryno) 90 

Owana,   the  Devi]    Woman — June  6    (Nestor) . . .  952 

O   Whiskers:— May   4    (Crystal) 414 

Oyster  Industry.   The — May  10  (Imp) 

Oysters — May  IS    < Majestic    850 

P 

Partners— June  25   (Nestor) 1282 

Passing  Cloud.   A — June  5   (Gaumont) 1186 

Passions — He  Had  Three — June  5    (Keystone) . .  966 

Past   Forgiven.   The — May  9    (Solax) 630 

Past   Redemption    i2   parts) — May  9    (Kay-Bee)  51S 
Pat  Moves  to  Diplomatic  Circles— May  16  (Lux)  742 

Patriot,   The— Apr.   S    (Thanhouser) 206 

Pat,    the   Electrician— Mav   30    (Lux) 960 

Paying  for  Silence — Apr.   18    (Nestor) 204 

Pearl  as  a  Detective — May   4    (Crystal) 414 

Pedro's  Revenge — Apr.   13    (Majestic) 310 

Peeping  Pete — June  26  (Keystone) 

Pen  Talks  by  Hy  Mayer— June  7   (Imp) 

Petronllla    Wins    the    Great    Steeplechase — May 

22     (Mutual     Educational) 1068 

Picturesque  Bergen.  Norway — Mar.  26  (Powers) 

Pillar  of  Peril.   The— June  5   (Frontier) 954 

Pisa.    Italy— Apr.    20    (Majestic) 

•Maying    With    Fire— May    23    (Lux) 854 


Plaything — May   30    (Victor) 

Poleon,  the  Trapper— June  23  (Nestor) 1282 

Poor    Little    Chap,    He    Was    Only    Dreaming — 

Apr.    20    (Eclair) 514 

Politician,  The-June  24   (Majestic) 1400 

Pottery   Industry — Apr.  26    (Imp) 

Poverty  of  Riches,  The — May  11   (Rex) 

Pretender,  The — June  15    (Rex) 1064 

Pride  of  Lonesome — July  3   (American) 1400 

Problem  in  Reduction,  A — May  29   (Gaumont).. 1072 

Professional  Jealousy — June  28  (Nestor) 1284 

Professor's     Traveling     Adventures,     The— May 

24    (Great    Northern) 742 

Promoter,  The — Apr.  17   (Pilot) 312 

Pullman  Nightmare,  A — May  25  (Thanhouser) . .  954 
Pure  Gold  and  Dross — Apr.   13    (Rex) 84 

Q. 
Queen   of   the   Sea   Nymphs,   The — June  3    (Ma- 
jestic)      1068 

Quicksands    (2    parts) — June   30    (American) 1400 

R 
Ranch    Girl   and    the    Sky    Pilot,    The — June    8 

I  Frontier)    

Ranch  Stenographer,   The— May  17    (Frontier) . .  736 

Range   Dead  Line,   The— July  2    (Nestor) 1398 

Regeneration    of    John     Storm,     The — Apr.     21 

(Imp)    308 

Retribution — Apr.  18   (Thanhouser) 310 

Retrogression   (2  parts) — Apr.  23    (Broncho) 312 

Return     of    Crime,     The     (2    parts) — Apr.     30 

(Eclair)     416 

Reward  of  Courage,  The — June  14  (American).  .1068 

Rise  of  Officer  174  (2  parts) — May  1   (Imp) 512 

Rivals   Outwitted,   The — May   18    (Majestic) 850 

River  Rhine,   Germany — Apr.   7    (Nestor) 

River  Romantic,  The — Apr.  22  (Gaumont) 

Rivers    of    Indo-China — May    22    (Mutual    Edu- 
cational)     1068 

Road  to  Ruin,  The— May  3  (American) 416 

Romance  of  the  Rails,  A — May  29   (Frontier) . .  844 

Romeo  in  Pajamas — June  18  (Solax) 

Rosary,   The — May  4   (Rex) 

Rosie's  Revenge — Apr.  27   (Tbanbouser) 518 

Runa  and  the  Black  Hand— May  24  (Reliance).  956 

Runaways,    The— Apr.    IS    (Kay-Bee) 

Runaway,    The — June  3    (Thanhouser) 1070 

8 

Sacrificed  to  the  Lions — Apr.  11  (Lux) 88 

Safeguard   for   Bachelors,   A — Apr.    25    (Lux)...  424 

Salamanders — May  4    (Eclair) 

Sammy   the   Scorcher — June   27    (Lux) 1404 

Saved  from  the  Grip  of  Alcohol — May  9  (Lux) . .  742 

Scar,  The— June  19   (Rex) 1176 

School    Days— May    22     (Pilot) 856 

Scorpions — June  15   (Eclair) 

Sea  Anemones — Mar.  25   (Gaumont) 90 

Sea  Dog,  The  (2  parts)— May  21   (Broncho) 742 

Seal   of  Silence,   The    (2   parts — June  27    (Kay- 
Bee)    12S8 

Secret  Service  Sam   (2  parts)— May  26   (Imp)..  846 

Self- Accused — June  5    (Imp) 

Sergeant's    Daughter,    The    (2    parts) — May    19 

(Dragon)    

Severe  Test,  A — Apr.  26   (Solax) 420 

Shadow,  The — June  8   (Rex) 

Sham  Suffragette,  The — Apr.  25  (Powers) 

Shanghaied — Apr.    7    (Champion) 

Shark  God,  The — May  5   (Champion) 512 

She  Never  Knew — May  22    (Imp) 738 

Shep,  the  Hero — May  20   (Majestic)    850 

Sheriff's  Rival,  The— May  8  (Frontier) 512 

Sheriff's  Warning,  The—Apr.  23  (Nestor) 

Sheriff,    The — May    10    (Reliance) 

She   Wolf,    The — Apr.  19    (Reliance) 418 

Shifting    Fortune,    A— July    4     (Victor) 1396 

Shoe  on  the  Other  Foot,  The— May  1  (Gaumont)  634 
Side   Tracked    by    Sister— June    22    (Majestic) .  .1402 

Silver  Cross,  The — Apr.  30  (Solax) 420 

Sincerity,    June    13    (Victor) 1066 

Skipper's  Story,  The — Apr.  5  (Gt.  Northern) ...     90 
Slave's  Devotion,  A  (2  parts) — May  14  (Broncho)  632 

Smuggled  Laces,  The— June  22  (Crystal) 1176 

Smuggler's    Daughter,    The    (2    parts) — May    8 

(Rex)    

Smuggler's  Dog,  The — Apr.  10   (Pilot) 

Snare  of  Fate,   The   (2  parts) — June   17    (Than- 
houser)     1288 

Some     Doings     at     Lonesome     Ranch — Apr.     17 

(Frontier)    202 

Song  of  Songs,  The — May  1  (Pilot) 620 

Sons  of  a  Soldier,  The  (3  parts) — May  7  (Eclair) 
Sorrow  of  Israel,  The  (3  parts) — June  19  (Imp). 1180 
Soul  of  a  Thief,  The  (2  parts)-— June  16  (Ameri- 
can)      1182 

Southern     Cinderella,     A     (3     parts) — Apr.     16 

(Broncho)     204 

South  of  India,  The — June  22   (Eclair) 

Spanish  Towns — Apr.   12    (Great  Northern) 

Speed  Queen.  The — June  12  (Keystone) '...1070 

Spell,  The  (2  parts)^June  27  (Powers) 1284 

Spider.  The — June  8  (Eclair) 1286 

Spirit    of    the    Flag,    The     (2    parts)— June    7 

(Bison)     950 

Spoiled  Darling's  Doll,  The — Apr.  4  (Thanhouser)     86 

Sprig   O'Shamrock,   A — Apr.   24    (Imp) 308 

Spring  in  the  Desert,  The — June  9  (Nestor) 1066 

Squaw  Man's  Reward,  The — June  26  (Frontier)  .1282 
Squashville  Ladles'  Fire  Brigade,  The — May  12 

(Nestor)     626 

Stage  Driver's  Chivalry,  The — May  22  (Frontier)  738 
Stars  and  Stripes  Forever,  The   (3  parts) — May 

20     (Bison) 736 

Strangers  in  a  Strange  Land — Apr.  30  (Powers)  414 


Stolen  Idol,  The — June  22  (Rex) 1176 

Story  of  the  Mexican  Border,  A— June  19  (Front- 
ier)     1180 

Strength  of  the  Weak,  The — June  13  (Powers) . . 

Stronger  Call,  The — Apr.  9   (Reliance) 204 

Study  In  Sociology,  A— Apr.  1   (Majestic) 88 

Suffragettes— May   31    (Great   Northern) 1290 

Suffragettes,  The — May  31    (Great  Northern)... 

Supper  for  Three — May  25  (Crystal 738 

Surveyors — Apr.    28    (Excelsior) 

Suspended  Sentence — Apr.  14  (American) 204 

Suspense — July     6     (Rex) 1398 

Sweets  to  the  Sweet — May  15  (Gaumont) 

T 

Tachkent,  Asiatic  Russia— May  1  (Mutual  Edu- 
cational)      413 

Tale  of  a  Black  Eye,  The — June  19  (Kevstone).1184 
Tale  of  Death  Valley,  A— July  5  (American).  .1400 
Tangled  Web   (3  parts)— June  28   (Reliance) .  ..1400 

Tarantula,    The— May    16    (Powers) 626 

Tattooed  Arm,  The — May  1   (American) 416 

Temperamental  Alice — Apr.  7  (Excelsior) 86 

$10,000    Bride,   The — June   25    (Powers) 1284 

Tenderfoot's  Ghost,  The — May  10  (Frontier) 

Texas   Feud,   A — May  28    (Reliance) 

That  Rag  Time  Band— May  1   (Keystone) 420 

Their  First  Execution— May  15  (Keystone) 630 

Those  Good  Old  Days— Apr.  7  (Keystone) 88 

Through  Greece — June  19  (Mutual  Educational)  .1283 
Through  Mountains  Majestic — May  13  (Gaumont) 
Through  the  Land  of  Sugar  Cane — June  26  (Mu- 
tual Educational)    1290 

Thus  Saith  the  Lord  (2  parts)— May  21  (Bclair)1180 
To  the  Brave  Belong  the  Fair— July  4  (Nestor)  .1398 

Toodleums— May  25   (Crystal) 733 

Told  in  Confidence — Apr.  26   (Gt.   Northern) 424 

Toll  of  War,  The   (3  parts)— May  13   (Bison)..  628 

Tongue  Mark,  The— June  15    (Majestic) 1288 

Tony,    the   Tenor— May    15    (Pilot) 742 

Toplltsky  &  Co.— May  26   (Keystone) 852 

Torpedo   Fish — June   29    (Eclair) 

Tourist    and    the    Flower    Girl,    The — May    29 

(Rex)    844 

Transgressor,  The  (2  parts) — June  25  (Broncho) 

Trifler,  The — May  25  (Rex) 738 

Troubadour     of     the     Rancho,     The — Apr.     18 

(Powers) 202 

Truant  Husband,  The — Apr.  25  (Lux) 424 

True  Believer,  A  (2  parts)^Tune  6  (Kay-Bee) . .  958 

True   Hearts — July   4    (Solax) 1404 

Turn  of  the  Tide.  The— May  1  (Rex) 414 

Twins    of    "Double    X"    Ranch,    The — June    14 

(Frontier)    

Twins,  The — May  19   (Imp) 738 

Twixt  Love  and  Fire — May  19  (Keystone) 742 

Two  Convicts,  The — Apr.  19  (Gt.  Northern) 312 

Two  Lives — Apr.    11    (Victor) 

Two  Lunatics — Apr.    20    (Crystal) 202 

Two  Strangers  from  Nowhere — June  20   (Solax)  .1136 

TJ 

Under  Fire  (2  parts)— May  20  (Bison) 736 

Under  Southern  Skies — Apr.  5   (Gt.  Northern).. 

Unexpected    Meeting,    An^July  2    (Solax) 1402 

Unknown,    The — May  9    (Victor) 

Unseen  Influence,  The — May  2   (Victor) 

Until    Death    Do    Us    Psrt    (2    parts) — Apr.    10 

(Rex)    

Unwelcome  Wedding  Gift,   An — June  14    (Great 

Northern)     1292 

Unwritten    Law    of    the    West,    The — June    19 

(American)     ' 1182 

V 

Valley  of  Albula,  The  (Switzerland) — May  16 
(Mutual   Educational) 632 

Veiled  Lady,  The— Apr.   13   (Crystal) 84 

Victim  of  Circumstances,  A — June  1  (Than- 
houser)      106S 

Views  of  Cape  Hatteras — Apr.  29  (Gem) 

Views  of  Pisa  (Leaning  Tower  of  Pisa,  The) 
Apr.    15    (Majestic) 310 

Village  Customs  in  Ceylon,  India — Apr.  17  (Mu- 
tual   Educational)    204 

Violet  Bride,  The— May  14  (Powers) 626 

Vengeance  of  the  Skystone  (2  parts) — May  3 
(Bison)     

Via  Cabaret — June   7    (American) 954 

W 

Waiter's  Picnic,   The — June  16   (Keystone) 1184 

Wallingford's  Wallet  (3  parts) — June  21  (Re- 
liance)      1288 

Wanderer,    The — Apr.    7    (Imp) 86 

War  on  the  Beetles,  The — June  14   (Imp) 

War  (3  parts) — Apr.   15   (Bison) 

Wax  Lady,  The — Mar.  30   (Thanhouser) 86 

Way  of  a  Mother,  The — May  7  (Broncho) 51S 

Ways  of  Fate,  The — Apr.  19  (American) 204 

Wayward  Sister,  The — Apr.  27   (Rex) 308 

Well-Meant  Deception,  A — Mar.  30  (Majestic) . .     86 

When  a    Girl   Loves — June   12    (Pilot) 11SS 

When  Dolly    Died — Apr.    23     (Powers) 

When  Father  Was  Kidnapped — Apr.  28  (Nestor)  414 
When  Ghost   Meets  Ghost — Apr.   6  (Thanhouser)  206 

When  Jim  Returned — Apr.   24    (American) 303 

When  Lena      Struck      New      Mexico— June      21 

(Frontier)      

When  Light    Came    Back     (2    parts) — June    11 

(Eclair)      lOfid 

When  Love  is  Young — May  11   (Crystal) 512 

When  Luck   Changes — June   2    (American) 954 

When  Scandal  Threatened — Apr.  17  (Gaumont) . .  422 
When  Strong  Men  Meet — Apr.  21  (Champion) . . . 


Vlll 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


Where  Charity  Begins— May  27   (CryBtal) 844 

Where  la  Doggie  ?-^Tune  T    (Gt.   Northern) 1072 

Where  Love  Dwells — Apr.    18   (Solar) 208 

Where  Wits  Win— May  24   (Frontier) 

While  Baby    Slept^une    10    (Thanhonser) 1182 

While  the    Bobber    Robbed— Apr.    29    (Gaumont)  634 

Whim  of  Destiny,  The— Apr.  29   (Majestic) 632 

Who  is  in  the  Box? — June  29   (Crystal) 1396 

Who  is  the  Most  to  Blame — May  3   (Gt.  North- 
ern)        620 

Whole   Truth,   The — May   8    (Imp) 512 

Why 5  (3  parts)^Iuue  4  (Eclair) 1398 

Whv  Babe  Left  Home— May  18   (Thanhonser)..  848 
Why  Granddaddy  Went  to  Sea^Tune  6  (Powers) 

WLv  Men   Leave   Home — Apr.  26   (Imp) 

Whv  the   Ranger   Resigned — Apr.    19    (Frontier) 
Widows   Stratagem,    The — May  2    (Tbanhouaer)  518 

Will  o'  The  Wisp — Apr.  25  (Kay-Bee) 312 

Will  Power— June  22  (Crystal 1286 

Willy  and  the  Captain's  Horse — June  5  (Mutual 

Educational)      1068 

Willv  and   the  Conjurer — Apr.  17    (Mutual  Edu- 
cational)       204 

Willy  and  the  Old  Suitor— Apr.  3  (Mutual  Edu- 
cational)     

Willy   Prefers  Liberty  to  Wealth — Apr.  10  (Mu- 
tual   Educational)     88 

Willy  Wants  to  Ride  a  Horse — June  19   (Mutual 

Educational)     1288 

Wise  Judge,   A — May   11    (Eclair) 844 

Wishing   Seat,   The — June   5    (American) 954 

Within  the  Limit  of  the  Law  (2  parta)— Apr.  9 

(Eclair)    ®* 

Without   Reward-^Iune  16   (Nestor) 1178 

Woman     Hater's    Defeat,    The — Apr.     26     (Re- 
liance)     

Woman  Loved,    A— May    12    (Imp) 628 

Woman's  Folly,  A— July  3  (Res) 1396 

Woman's  Honor — Apr.   12    (American) 86 

Woman's  Honor,  A — Apr.  26   (Reliance) 

Woman  Wbo  Did  Not  Care,  The — Apr.  1  (Than- 

houser  >     86 

Woman  Who  Knew,  The — Apr.  9  (Reliance) 204 

Word  of  Jose,  The — May  1   (Frontier) 416 

World  at  Large,  The — June  5  (Rex) 

Worth  of  Man,  The — June  25  (Ramo) 1290 

T 
Youth   and  Jealousy — May  10    (American) 516 


Miscellaneous  Releases 

A 

Auto  Suggestion,  or  Crime  of  Another  (2  parts) 

— Apr.    12    (Ambroslo) 

Awkward  Mix-Up,  An — June  (Kinemacolor) 1292 

B 

Beautiful   Butterflies — Apr.    (Kinemacolor) 90 

Bernese  Oherland,  Swlzerland,  The — Apr.  (Kine- 
macolor)       420 

Better  Success,   The — May    (Kinemacolor) 854 

Beyond   Reproach— May    (Kinemacolor) 960 

C 

Carbon   Copy — June    (Kinemacolor) 1188 

Charitable    Deception,    A — 'Kinemacolor) 1404 

Child    Labor    Trafflc,    The    (2    parts)— Apr.    19 

(Ambrosio)    

Coming  Champions   (Kinemacolor) 1404 

D 
Dread  of  Dome,  The  (3  parts)  May — (Itala) 854) 

E 
Exploits  of  the  Randln  Gang  (2  parts)^June  28 
(Ambroslo)    

F 

Featbertop — Apr.     (Kinemacolor) 312 

Fisherman's    Daughter— Apr.     (Kinemacolor) ....     92 
For  His  Sake  (2  parts) — Apr.  5  (Ambroslo) 

G 

Gaya,     Allahabad     and     Cawpore,     India — June 

iKinemacolor)    1186 

Girl  of  the  Hidden  Spring,  The  (2  parts) — June 

14    (Ambroeio) 

Golden   Rain    (2  parts) — Apr  26   (Ambrosio) 

Gollwog's    Motor   Accident — Apr.    (Kinemacolor)  200 
Golliwog's  Land,  The  (Kinemacolor) 1404 

H 

His    Brother's    Keeper — Apr.    (Kinemacolor) 200 

His  Wife's  Birthday  Present — June  (Kinema- 
color)      1186 

I 

Ice  Skating  at  Murren,  Switzerland — June  (Kine- 
macolor)      1072 

Id  Claws  of  the  Vulture  (3  parta) — Apr.  (Am- 
brosio)     

S 
Keeping  up  with  Hubby — Apr.    (Kinemacolor) . .  420 

L 

Local   Color,  June — (Kinemacolor) 1292 

Love   and  Laundry — May    (Kinemacolor) 746 

Love  in  the  Dark  (2  parts) — May  (Kinemacolor)  960 
Lovf-'s  Shadow  (2  parts)— June  21   (Ambroslo).. 

M 
Maid  of  Honor,  A  (2  parts)— May  17  (Ambrosio) 

Man's  Best  Friend — June  (Kinemacolor) 11S6 

Merry  Monarch,  A  (2  parts) — Apr.  (Kinema- 
color)      90 

Mixed  Signals — May   (Kinemacolor! 74C 

Modeling    Extraordinary — Apr.     i Kinemacolor) . .  312 
Mun  ;  - — May    (Kinemacolor) 746 


N 

Narrow  Escape,  A  (Kinemacolor) 1404 

Nathan    Hale— Apr.    (Kinemacolor) 420 

Native  Carnival  Procession,  Ceylon — Apr.   (Kine- 
macolor)         90 

0 

Out  of  the  Darkness — Apr.    (Kinemacolor) 312 

P 
Parson    Jim's    Baby    (2    parts) — May     (Kinema- 
color)      1072 

Paying    the    Penalty    (2    parts) — May    (Kinema- 
color)       960 

Pearls  of  the  Madonna  (2  parts) — May  (Kinema- 
color)       960 

Pennsy's  Pageant  (Kinemacolor) 1404 

Power  of  Prayer — May   (Kinemacolor) 746 

President    Wilson    Reviewing    the    Troops — Apr. 
(Kinemacolor)    90 

a 

Reedham  Drill— May    (Kinemacolor) 746 

Royal  Visit  to  Ireland,  The— Apr.  (Kinemacolor)     90 

S 

Sand  Man,  The — May  (Kinemacolor) 746 

Scarlet    Letter.    The — May    (Kinemacolor) 746 

Shattered  Ideal,   A — Apr.    (Kinemacolor) 200 

Sold  Title,  The   (2  parts) — June  7    (Ambrosio) . . 

Spider,  The  (2  parts) — May  3   (Ambrosio) 

Steam — Apr.    (Kinemacolor) 312 

Story  of  the  Orange,  The — Apr.  (Kinemacolor)..     92 
Substitute,  The — Apr.    (Kinemacolor) 92 

T 

Tamil    Types,    Southern    India— June    (Kinema- 
color)      1186 

Tempest  and  Sunshine  (2  parts) — May  10   (Am- 
brosio)      

Tobogganing  in  Switzerland — Apr.  (Kinemacolor)     92 

Too  Many  Maids — May    (Kinemacolor) 854 

To  Save  the  Children    (2  parts)— Apr.   19    (Am- 
brosio)     

U 
Unruly  Father,  An  (2  parts)— May  31  (Ambroslo) 

W 

Water  Babies — Apr.    (Kinemacolor) 420 

T 
Yellow    Man,    The     (2    parts) — May    24     (Am- 
brosio)      

Z 

Zoological     Gardens     at     Rome,     The,     June — 
(Kinemacolor)    1292 


Feature  Releases 

A 

Accursed  Inheritance,  An — Apr.  (Union  Feat- 
ures)      314 

Airship  Fugitives,  The  (3  parts),  June — (Great 
Northern  Special  Feature  Film  Co. ) 16 

At  the  Risk  of  Her  Life  (3  parts) — Apr.  (Apex 
Film  Co.)    

B 

Balaoo,     the    Demon    Baboon     (3    parts) — May 

(Union  Features)    744 

Bank  Run,  The  (3  parts) — May  (Great  Northern 

Special  Feature  Film  Co) 

Battle  of  Flowers,   The — May    (Advance   Motion 

Picture  Co.) 

Battle  of  Gettysburg,  The  (5  parts) — May  (New 

York  Motion  Picture  Co.) 

Bricklayer's  Joke,  The — May  (Eclectic  Film  Co.) 

C 

Oapt.  Cherry  Kearton's  Wild  Life  and  Big  Game 

in  the  Jungles  of  India  and  Africa — May  (Arab 

Amusemen  t  Co. ) 

Condemned  for  Witchcraft  (2  parts) — Apr.  (New 

York  Film  Co.) 

Crossed   Swords    (2  parts) — Apr    (Great   Northn. 

Special  Feature  Film  Co.) 

D 
Daughter's   Sacrifice,    A    (2   parts) — Apr.    (Great 

Northern  Special  Feature  Film  Co.) 

Davton  Flood  Disaster — Apr.    (American  Feature 

Film   Co.)    

Davton  Flood  Horror — Apr.   (Dayton  Flood  Film 

Co.)    

Dead  Alive,  The   (2  parts) — Apr.    (Gaumont) . . . 

Dead  Secret,  The — Apr.   (Monopol  Film  Co.) 

Death  Knell.  The  (3  parts),  June — (Itala) 

Devil's  Daughter,  The   (3  parts) — May  (Feature 

Film  Co. ) 

Dorian   Grey    (2  parts)— Apr.    (New   York  Film 

Co.)    

E 
Explosion    in    Factory — Apr.     (Great     Northern 

Special  Feature  Film  Co. ) 

F 
Female    Raffles,    The     (3    parts) — May     (State 

Rights   Film   Co.) 

Fiesta  of  San  Jacinto.  The — May  (Advance  Mo- 
tion Picture  Co. ) 

Follv    and    Remorse    (3    parts)    June    (Feature 

Film  Co.) 

From  the  Grave  to  the  Throne    (3  parts) — May 

(Feature  Film  Co.) 

G 

Gangsters.  The  (3  parts) — Apr.  (New  York  Film 
00  '      

Gypsy  Blood  (3  parts) — Apr.  (Worlds  Moving 
P<  -ture  Classics)    

Giving  mm   Fits— May    (Eclectic  Film  Co.) 


H 

Heroine   of    the    Mountains,    A    (3   parts) — Apr. 

i New    York    Film    Co.) 

His  Life  for  the  Cause  (3  parts) — May  (Warner's 

Features)     854 

Human    Devil,    The     (4    parts; — June — (Feature 

Film   Co.)    

I 

In  the  Days  of  King  Solomon  (4  parts) — June 
(Feature  Film  Co.) 

In  the  Toils  of  the  Devil  (3  parts) — May  (Mono- 
pol   Film    Co.) 

In  Touch  With  Death  (3  parta)— June  (Gau- 
mont)     

K 
Kaiser    William    II    of    Germany — Apr.     (True 

Feature  Film  Co.) 

Karambo  (5  parts) — May  (Feature  Film  Co.).. 
Kelly    from    the    Emerald    Isle    (8    parts) — May 

(Solax)     

Kentucky  Feud,  The   (3  parts) — May   (Warner's 

Features)    

L 

Les  Mjserables— Apr.  (Eclectic  Film  Co.  i 423 

Lorna    Dooue    (5    parts) — June    (Exclusive    Film 

Service    Corporation) 

Lost    Identity,    The    (2    parts) — Apr.     (Scarlett 

Motion  Picture  Studios) 

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Man   In   the  Cloak,   The — May    (Great    Northern 

Special  Feature  Film  Co.) 

Mexican   Conspiracy    Out-Generaled    (:'>    parts) — 

Apr.    (Warner's    Features) 314 

Money  Lender's  Son,  The  (3  parts) — June  (Great 

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Mysterious  Doll,  The — May  (Eclectic  Film  Co.).. 
Mystery  of  Pine  Creek  Camp.   The    (3   parts) — 

Apr.    (Warner's    Features) 

Mystery  of  the  Corner  House,   The    (3   parts) — 

May    (Great    Northern    Special    Feature    Film 

Co. )    

Mysteries     of     Paris,      The      (5      parts) — June 

(Eclectic)     1281 

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Oedipus  Rex  (4  parts) — June  (Hecla  Film  Co.).. 
One  Hundred   Years  of  Mormonism   (6  parts) — 

June  (Golden  State  M.  P.  Co.) 

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Special  Feature  Film  Co. ) 

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Film  Co. ) 

Pendleton,    Oregon    Round-Up,    The    (4    parts)  — 

Apr.   (Oregon  Motion  Picture  Co.) 

Perils  of  the  Past  (3  parts) — May  (Gaumont) . . 
Private  John  Allen — Apr.   (Shakespeare  Film  Co.) 

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Quo  Vadis?   (8  parts) — Apr.    (G.   Kleine) 

Quo  Vadls?  (3  parts)— June  (Quo  Vadis  Film 
Co.)    

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Rajah's  Casket,  The  (3  parts)— May  (Gaumont)  744 
Rescued    from    the    Burning    Stake    (3    parta) — 

Apr.    (Warner's  Features) 

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Special  Feature  Film  Co.) 

Restitution — Apr.    (Union    Features) 314 

Richard  III — Apr.  (Shakespeare  Film  Co. ) 

Romance    of    an    Actress,    The    (3    parts) — June 

(Hecla    Film    Co.) 

Ruined    Life,    A     (2,500    feet)— May     (Eclectic 

Film  Co.) 744 

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Saved    by    the   Juvenile    Court    (3    parts) — Apr. 

(Columbine   Film   Co.) 

Seeds  of  the  Father,  The,  June — (Monopol  Film 

Co.)     

Shadows  of   Night    (3   parts) — Apr.    (New   York 

Film  Co.) 

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Tempest,  The — Apr.   (Union  Features) 208 

Temple  of  King  Solomon,  The — Apr.  (Shakes- 
peare  Film  Co.) 

Those  Wbo  Live  in  Glass  Houses — June  i  Monopol 
Film   Co.)    

Through  the  Test  of  Fire  (3  parts) — Apr.  (Great 
Northern  Special  Feature  Film  Co.) 424 

Tomb  of  Flame,  The  (3  parts) — Apr.  (Gaumont) 

Traitor  to  His  Country,  A — Apr.  (Warner'a 
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Trilby — Apr.    (Famous   Playera  Film  Co.) 

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Wanted  bv  the  Police  (3  parts)— June  (Mltten- 
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Hal  Peters,  a  loyal  Southern  boy, 
loves  Grace  Carson,  daughter  of  the 
lighthouse  keeper.  His  rival,  John 
Adams,  is  an  officer  at  West  Point. 
When  the  war  breaks  out  Adams  os- 
tensibly resigns  his  commission  and 
enters  the  Southern  army,  but  is  se- 
cretly a  spy  for  the  Union  forces. 
The  Confederates  plan  to  land  a 
cargo  from  a  blockade  runner,  and 
Adams  notifies  the  Union  soldiers, 
who  plant  a  cannon  at  the  water's 
edge  and  sink  the  ship.  Peters  dis- 
covers  Adams'  treachery,  and  in  a 
terrific  hand-to-hand  struggle  Peters 
is  hurled  over  the  cliff,  and  is  found 
and  revived  by'  the  lighthouse  keeper, 
who  takes  a  shot  at  Adams  and  brings 
him  down  as  he  is  escaping  in  a 
rowboat. 


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Those  Good  Old  Days 

April  7 

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which  the  King  makes  merry  with  the 
dancing  girls.  The  court  jester  tells 
the  Queen  and  she  begins  to  keep  an 
eye  on  him.  One  day  the  King  gets 
"fresh''  with  the  sweetheart  of  a  coun- 
try bumpkin,  who  chases  him  with  a 
pistol,  and  his  subjects  relieve  him  of 
his  uncomfortable  position  upon  his 
agreeing  to  grant  them  concessions 
for  which  they  have  been  vainly  peti- 
tioning, upon  their  agreeing  not  to 
tell  the  Queen. 

"A  Game  of  Poker" 

April   10 

On  a  split  reel.  Schmidt  practices 
holding  out  a  royal  flush,  and  enters 
a  card  game.  The  card  sharpers  pick 
his  pocket  of  his  flush,  but  in  passing 
the  cards  under  the  table,  Schmidt 
gets  his  hand  back  and  cleans  out  the 
players. 

"Father's  Choice" 

April  10 

On  a  split  reel.  Father  wants  Mabel 
to  marry  a  man  of  his  choice,  but  she 
elopes  with  her  sweetheart.  Made  up 
as  negroes,  they  get  papa  to  attend 
their  wedding,  and  he  unsuspectingly 
acts  as  best  man. 

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"On  Fortune's 
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Two   Reels,   April   11 

Dramatic  and  Military 
Sensation 


The  bank  president  loots  the  crashing 
institution,  taking  for  himself  the  re- 
maining funds.  Through  a  chain  of 
circumstantial  evidence  the  cashier  is 
charged  with  the  crime  and  sentenced 
to  the  penitentiary.  His  wife  suffers 
from  poverty  and  is  compelled  to  part 
with  her  baby,  which  is  adopted  from 
the  orphan  asylum  lay  a  wealthy  fam- 
ily. Years  later  the  girl  meets  the  son 
of  the  thief,  whose  father  has  changed 
his  name,  and  the  young  people  fall 
in  love.  The  cashier  escapes  from 
prison  and  meets  his  persecutor  in  the 
West,  where  a  fierce  struggle  takes 
place.  The  guilty  man  escapes,  but  is 
captured  by  Indians  w  h  o  m  he  has 
wronged,  and  who  lash  him  to  the 
wheel  of  a  stage  coach  and  execute 
him. 

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"Cupid  Throws  a  Brick" 

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healthy  brick,  thrown  by  an  envious  suitor.  Cupid 
considered  the  brick  carefully — and  passed  judgment 
according  to  the  evidence  submitted. 


"Woman's  Honor" 

(Release  Saturday,  April  12) 

A  splendid  Kerrigan  story.  How  a  priest  brought 
about  a  union,  saved  a  woman's  honor,  and,  incidentally, 
proved  himself  a  capable  man  as  well  as  priest. 


"The  Homestead  Race"     To  Theatre  Proprietors  — 


(Release  Thursday,  April  10) 

How  a  home  was  saved  and  an  unworthy  rascal 
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and  choice  California  settings. 


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A  vessel  of  the  type  of  the  "Half  Moon"  was  totally  wrecked  and  de- 
stroyed by  fire  in  open  sea.  All  New  York  newspapers  declared  the 
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Part  1— The  Lure  o!  London 
Part  2— The  Kitchen  and  the  Cat 
Part  3— Fame  and  Fortune 

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the  old  English  legend.  The  elaborate  settings  and  spectacular  scenes  are 
authoritative  in  every  detail.  The  charm  of  Dick's  dreamy  and  mystic 
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"The  QUEEN  of  SPADES" 

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but  both  succeed  in  disentangling  themselves  from  her 
web.  In  doing  so,  however,  there  are  complications 
that  involve  a  number  of  people,  some  unscrupulous 
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North  and  the  South.  The  greatest  interest  in  all  histories  is  the 
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ferred  instantly  from  the  present  humdrum  of  life  to  the  thrilling,  pul- 
by  love  and  divided  by  war,  around  whom  this  corking  story  is  built. 


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A     CHANGE    OF    ADMINISTRATION     (In  Two  Reels) 

Selig's  Timely  Masterpiece 

Takes  you  behind  the  scenes  of  the  social  and  political   life  of  Washington,  D.   C.     Diplomatic 
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The  story  of  an  old  Padre,  a  hunchback  painter,  and  a  roue. 
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APRIL  8th  ROBERT  HALE'S    AMBITION 

The  tale  of  a  weak  but  big-hearted  boy  who  goes  to  the  bad  at  college,  while 
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APRIL  9th        THE    SHOTGUN    MAN    AND    THE    STAGE    DRIVER 

A   story   of  the  West  in   which  a  hold-up  is   avoided  through   the   ready  wit   and  careful    aim   of 
twj  real  men. 

APRIL  10th  TOMMY'S  ATONEMENT 

The  story  of  a  big  hearted  boy  who  grew  penitent  and  saved  an  old  man's  happiness.     On  the 

THE  TOMBS  OF  THE   MING  EMPERORS 

Educational  travelogue  of  unusual  interest. 

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A  SHOWER  OF  SLIPPERS 

Comedy  (1,000>-Released  Monday,  April  7th 

The  gossips  catch  the  "village  belle"  making  slip- 
pers for  the  bachelor  parson — and  how  the  tongues 
wag.  Each  gossip  steals  to  the  parsonage  armed 
with  a  pair  of  slippers  and  the  poor  man  is  deluged. 
His  sister  precipitates  a  riot  by  giving  them  to  a 
peddler. 

OLD  JIM 

Drama  (1, 000)—  Released  Tuesday,  April  8th 

Old  Jim  robs  his  son  of  a  bride  through  his  crav- 
ing for  drink.  When  it  is  apparently  too  late,  he  re- 
forms and  sticks  to  his  resolution  until  a  great  blast 
in  the  quarry  where  his  son  works  gives  him  an  op- 
portunity to  repair  the  damage  he  has  done. 

A  WELL  SICK  MAN 

Comedy  (1000)  Wednesday,  April  9th 

Discharged  for  the  crime  of  loving  his  employer's 
daughter,  a  young  man  goes  to  California.  His 
sweetheart  persuades  her  robust  papa  that  he  is  a 
sick  man  and  the  doctor  prescribes  California.  Then 
a  neatly  arranged  rescue  from  drowning  completes 
the  disgraceful  deception. 


THE  CAPTURE  of  a  WILD  CAT 

Descriptive  (350)—  Released  Friday,  April  I  lth 

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citement, for  the  pursuit  of  this  Colorado  wild  cat, 
his  battles  with  the  hound  and  his  final  capture  by 
means  of  the  lasso  form  a  hair-raising  series  of 
views  which  for  general  interest  could  hardly  be 
surpassed. 

RULE  THYSELF 

Comedy  (650)— Released  Friday,  April  11th 

Poor  Smilax  has  a  temper  with  a  hair-trigger  at- 
tachment that  is  always  getting  him  into  difficulties. 
He  reforms  until  he  arrives  home  and  finds  his  wife 
in  the  arms  of  a  stranger  whom  he  kicks  out.  But 
it  is  her  long-lost  brother  returning  home  rich. 

THE  MAN  WHO  WOULDN'T 
MARRY 

Drama  (1,000)— Released  Saturday,  April  1 2th 

A  wealthy  bachelor  tells  how,  when  comparative- 
ly poor,  he  had  proposed  to  a  millionairess  but  was 
rejected  by  her  father,  and  dismissed  marriage  from 
his  thoughts  and  then  met  the  woman.  But  he  put 
off  declaring  his  love  until  one  day  she  accepted  an- 
other and  was  lost  forever. 


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A    Remarkable    Two -Reel    Novelty 

Wednesday,  April  9th 

We  have  no  doubt  that  every  person  who  sees  this  film  will 
agree  with  us  that  it  is  a  masterpiece.  This  picture  portrays 
in  a  telling  manner  an  idea  as  old  as  civilization — that  Fear 
enervates  and  causes  despondency  and  trouble  just  as  certain- 
ly as  courage  strengthens  and  uplifts  man. 

One  of  the  most  beautiful  lessons  taught  by  Christian 
Scientists  (and  it  is  as  old  as  Christianity)  is  to  ''Cast  out 
Fear." 

This  picture  is  educational — full  of  lessons. 

Every  exhibitor  in  the  country  should  feature  this — a  re- 
markable and  novel  film. 


"THE   POWER  OF  THE   CROSS" 

Friday,  AprilJ18th 

A  STRONG  TWO  REEL  FEATURE 


•  THE    TOLL   OF    FEAR 


A  Splendid  Variety  of  Single  and  Split  Reels 

SHIPPING     A    CLOCK '  400  feet  comedy  Tuesday,  April  1st 

An  everyday  occurrence — too  much  bother  to  do  the  right  thing. 

THE    FAKE    SOLDIERS "  600  feet  comedy  Tuesday,  April  1st 

11*1  Two  men  are  brave  soldiers — until  they  meet  their  wives 

1  A    FALSE    FRIEND  "  1000  feet  Thursday,  April  3rd 

The  gratitude  of  a  squaw  overcomes  the  trickery  of  a  villain. 

'    lHE    BURDEN    BEARER"  ICOOfeet  Friday,  April  4th 

As  usual — one  real  member  of  the  family  bears  the  brunt  of  all  trouble. 

HliJ     WIDOW  400  feet  comedy  Saturday,  ApriF5th 

Comic  complications  arise  from  playing  a  phony  widow.    »'  '4^  _  . 

COLLECTING    THE    BILL"  600  feet  comedy  Saturday,  April  5th 

A   pretty  stenographer  is  always  a  good  bill  collector. 


"THE  EVIL  ONE"  icoofeet 

"Little    Wild    Cat"    accused    of    witchcraft. 


Monday,  April  7th 


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"BEDELIA  BECOMES  A  LADY"  cw„       monday,  M.«hiS 

^WSW-'SffiStt  old  bbiasuted-  She  glad,y  returns  to  the  old  farm  t+° 
"CHECKMATED"  »-  tw^,  Aprn  ,« 

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"ALIXE,  OR  THE  TEST  OF  FRIENDSHIP"  Wednesday,  Aprii  2„d 

makeaCbofhCehaJpy!OVe  ^  *'  girl  '^  ^  ^^  ma"y  h'S  ffiend'  protect  her  name  and 

"1.  THE  MIDGET'S  ROMANCE"  I  ComeJy  & 
"2.  OUR  COAST  DEFENDERS"  I Eaucational 

i.  The  tiniest  man  in  existence.  He  has  a  laughable  romance.  He  takes  it  seriously, 
everybody  else  thinks  it  funny.  2.  The  protectors  of  our  harbors  against  foreign 
invasion. 

"LET  'EM   QUARREL"     Comedy  Friday,  April  4th 

They  quarrel,  separate,  search  for  a  burglar  and  fall  into  each  other's  arms. 

"HE   ANSWERED  THE  AD"  A  Biwnyfinch  Comedy    Saturday,  April  5tb 

Bunny  joins  the  chorus  of  the  female  "beef  trust."  He  leads  the  procession  and  his 
nagging  wife,  Miss  Finch,  becomes  quite  agreeable  to  the  situation. 


Thursday,  April  3d 


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SIX-A-WEEK 

"BUNNY'S  HONEYMOON" 
Bright  Comedy 

Monday,  April  7th 

"THE  TRANSITION" 
A  Change 

Tuesday,  April  8th 

"OUT  OF  THE  STORM" 
Strong  Drama 

Wednesday,  April  9th 

"CUTEY  AND  THE  CHORUS  GIRLS"— Sparkling  Comedy 

Thursday,  April  10th 
"WANTED,  A  STRONG  HAND"  {   —Comedy  and  Educational 
"LAYING  A  MARINE  CABLE"     J  Friday,  April  nth 

"MYSTERY  OF  THE  STOLEN  CHILD"— Detective  Story 

Saturday,  April  12th 

SPECIAL    FEATURE.    "THE    GOLDEN    HOARD,     OR    BURIED 
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SPECIAL   FEATURE,   "THE   WEB,"    IN    TWO    PARTS 
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A  Streak  of  Yellow 

Miss  Alice  Joyce  in  a  novel  drama  of  exceptional  power 

The  fickle  fiance  of  a  beautiful  heiress  is  led  to  believe  that  she  has  been  disfigured  for  life,  and 
breaks  the  engagement.     The  right  man  stands  the  test  and  is  rewarded. 
Released  Monday,  April  Nth  Special  1  and  3- Sheet  Posters 


A  Plot  for  a  Million 

A  Gripping  Drama  of  Finance 

When  the  broker  leaves  for  a  yachting  trip  his 
scheming  secretary  attacks  the  market.  All  ef- 
forts to  communicate  with  the  broker  are  unfruit- 
ful, and  the  boat  is  about  to  be  wrecked  when  a 
startling  incident  thwarts  the  plot  for  a  million. 
Released  Wednesday,  April  16th 


The  Bravest  Girl  in  California 

A  Sure-Fire  Comedy 

The  "small-time"  actor  and  his  daughter  are 
obliged  to  quit  the  stage.  How  the  resourceful 
father  proceeds  to  secure  a  wealthy  husband  for  the 
girl  presents  a  series  of  hearty  laughs. 

(On  the  same  Reel) 

The     Millionaires'      Playground 

Palm  Beach,  Florida  (Topical) 
Released  Friday,  April  18th 


The  Fire-Fighting  Zouaves 

A  Thrilling  Civil  War  Production 

This  historical  military  drama,  replete  with  sensations,  portrays  the  valor  and  strategy  of  volunteer 
firemen  who  enlisted  in  the  regiment  of  "zouaves." 
Released  Saturday,  April  19th  Special  1,  3  and  6-Sheet  Posters 

A  beautiful  two-color  photograveur  portrait,  22x28  inches  in  size,  of  the  Premiere 
Leading  Lady,  ALICE  JOYCE,  will  be  sent  to  any  part  of  the  world, 
postage  prepaid  for  25  CENTS. 

Kalem    Company 

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INDEX 


EXHIBITORS' 
GUIDE 


J.  P.  Chalmers,  Founder. 
Published  Weekly  by  the 

CHALMERS    PUBLISHING  COMPANY 

17  MADISON  AVENUE,  NEW  YORK  CITY. 
(Telephone,  3510  Madison  Square.) 

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E.  J.  Chalmers.  . .  .• Secretary  and  Treasurer 

John  Wylie Vice-President  and  General  Manager 

The  office  of  the  company  is  the  address  of  the  officers. 
Western  Office — 169  West  Washington  Street  (Post  Building), 
Chifcago,  111.    Telephone,  Main  3145. 

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Islands    $300  per  year 

Canada     3.50  per  year 

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ADVERTISING  RATES. 
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Classified  Advertising  —  no  display  —  three    cents    per    word; 
minimum  charge.  50c. 

NOTE. — Address  all  correspondence,  remittances  and  sub- 
scriptions to  Moving  Picture  World,  P.  O.  Box  226,  Madison 
Square  Station,  New  York,  and  not  to  individuals. 

I  lie   Index  for   this   issue   will   be   found   on    page    ioj. 

Entered  at  the  General  Post  Office,  New  York  City,  as  Second  Class  Matter. 

Saturday,  April  5,  1913 


Facts  and  Comments 

ALDERMANIC  statesmanship  has  put  forth  another 
effort  to  "regulate"  motion  pictures  in  the  city  of 
New  York.  It  is  proposed  to  create  a  local  board 
of  censorship  consisting  of  representatives  of  various 
civic  and  religious  bodies.  This  is  a  good  exhibition  of 
that  ancient  pastime  known  as  "whipping  the  devil  around 
the  stump."  It  stands  to  reason  that  the  Board  of  Alder- 
men has  no  legal  authority  to  create  such  a  board.  If. 
as  Mayor  Gaynor  clearly  pointed  out  in  his  recent  veto, 
the  Aldermen  have  no  authority  whatever  to  establish 
censorship  of  any  kind,  this  new  ordinance  is  practically 
a  still-born  child.  We  doubt  whether  it  will  wax  strong 
enough  to  need  the  Mayor's  veto-club  to  put  it  out  of 
misery. 

* 

It  is  said  that  there  are  two  influences  behind  all  this 
hostility  to  the  motion  picture,  one  is  supposed  to  be  the 
vaudeville  and  theatrical  interests  and  the  other  influence 
is  believed  to  be  Canon  Chase  of  Brooklyn.  It  is  easy 
to  understand  the  opposition  of  the  vaudeville  and  theat- 
rical interests,  but  the  antagonism  of  the  clergyman  is 
beyond  our  powers  of  comprehension.  Of  course  Canon 
Chase  is  entirely  sincere  and  animated  by  the  best  and 
most  creditable  of  motives.     He  is  an  ardent  believer  in 


the  efficacy  of  legal  censorship.  Waiving  for  the  sake 
of  argument  the  question  of  the  constitutionality  of 
censorship  we  wish  to  point  out  to  the  Canon  the  fact, 
that  voluntary  and  self-imposed  censorship  in  response 
to  public  sentiment  is  a  much  better  and  safer  way  of 
dealing  with  bad  pictures.  Let  us  cite  just  one  example. 
Time  was  when  the  depiction  of  crime  and  all  its  revolt- 
ing  details  went  almost  unchallenged  on  the  screen.  To- 
day the  detailed  depiction  of  crime  has  almost  ceased 
entirely.  This  was  brought  about  not  by  legal  censorship 
but  through  voluntary  censorship  responding  to  an  in- 
sistent public  sentiment.  The  filming  of  contemporaneous 
crime,  not  infrequent  in  the  early  history  of  the  motion 
picture,  is  to-day  extremely  rare,  though  the  industry 
has  grown  to  more  than  ten  times  its  original  size.  This 
shows  that  the  good  things  have  grown  much  faster  than 
the  bad  ones.  When  it  was  proposed  recently  to  film  the 
life  of  a  poor  girl,  who  had  become  notorious  in  connec- 
tion with  a  murder  in  Virginia,  the  decent  elements  in 
the  community  and  every  reputable  producer  rose  up  in 
arms  and  the  scandal  was  quickly  stopped.  Whatever 
attempts  have  since  been  made  to  profit  by  the  filming 
of  current  crime  or  scandal  have  been  timid  and  furtive 
and  more  or  less  disguised.  All  of  this  plainly  shows  that 
the  motion  picture  is  thoroughly  amenable  to  public  senti- 
ment and  that  official  censorship  of  any  kind  is  not 
needed,  even  if  it  were  legally  possible. 


IX  these  days  of  competition  for  the  patronage  of  the 
exhibitor  there  are  exchanges  and  groups  of  ex- 
changes, which  forget  that  it  always  pays  to  play  fair 
and  to  stand  by  the  men  who  have  stood  by  us.  We  have 
in  mind  the  typical  case  of  an  exhibitor  who  patronized 
a  certain  group  of  exchanges  at  a  time  when  those  ex- 
changes were  putting  forth  pretty  poor  stuff.  This  ex- 
hibitor not  only  patronized  this  group  at  a  critical  time 
but  he  advertised  the  products  of  the  group  to  his  patrons 
and  kept  praising  them  in  the  newspapers  of  his  city. 
Other  exhibitors  in  the  same  city  had  declined  the  service 
of  this  same  group.  Now  when  the  group  had  become 
stronger  and  began  to  turn  out  better  work  it  calmly 
made  a  deal  with  a  competing  exhibitor,  giving  him  a 
service  one  day  in  advance  of  the  old  customer.  This 
was  done  without  any  notice  to  the  latter.  He  could  do 
nothing  under  the  circumstances  but  engage  a  newer 
service  and  is  now  living  in  fears  lest  his  competitor  go 
to  first  runs. 

There  is,  it  seems  to  us,  no  honor  or  profit  in  such 
transactions.  No  one  will  blame  the  exchange  for  getting 
all  the  business  it  can  out  of  any  given  territory,  but  the 
rights  and  feelings  of  old  friends  and  patrons  should  be 
respected,  though  it  may  result  in  the  apparent  temporary 
loss  of  a  five  or  even  a  ten  dollar  bill.  This  habit  of 
getting  exhibitors  to  bid  against  each  other  is  in  the  end 
unprofitable,  every  old  experienced  exchange  man  knows 
that  much.  Where  the  supply  of  film  from  any  particular 
group  of  exchanges  is  limited  the  group  should  be  satis- 
fied with  one  good  exhibitor  in  every  smaller  city.  It 
is  better  to  keep  him  for  good  than  to  have  a  horde  of 
solicitors  descend  upon  the  town  and  create  confusion 
and  ill-feeling. 

* 

This  leads  us  to  say  a  word  about  the  abuses  of  the 
"locked  reel  system."  Nothing  is  quite  so  fatal  to  the 
liberty  of  choice,  which  is  the  exhibitors  first  right. 
Arbitrary  selections,  made  not  for  the  benefit  of  the  in- 
dividual exhibitor,  but  simply  for  the  convenience  of  the 
exchange,  ought  not  to  be  tolerated.  In  Europe,  despite 
all  efforts  to  introduce  a  monopoly  in  the  exchange  busi- 


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ness,  the  exhibitor  still  occupies  the  controlling  position 
in  the  industry.  It  is  impossible  to  go  fully  into  the 
situation  at  this  moment,  but  all  enlightened  and  progres- 
sive exhibitors  agree  to-day  that  the  system  of  distribu- 
tion now  in  vogue  in  this  country  is  far  from  satisfactory 
and  must  be  radically  changed  sooner  or  later. 
*     *     * 

WE  are  glad  to  observe  that  the  overproduction  of 
so-called  "Westerns"  is  no  longer  a  just  cause 
for  complaint.  This  sort  of  entertainment  is 
shrinking  to  its  proper  and  natural  proportions.  Even 
the  exhibitor  who  personally  admires  this  kind  of  thing 
and  loved  to  see  the  cowboy  chase  the  Indian  is  forced 
to  the  conclusion  that  there  has  been  a  surfeit  and  that 
the  public  have  had  enough  of  it. 

Importation  of  Films. 

Treasury   Department   Issues   New   Regulations. 

The  Treasury  Department  has  issued  new  rules  governing 
the  importation  of  motion  pictures  under  the  copyright 
law  of  March  4th,  190Q.  These  rules  materially  modify  the 
instructions  laid  down  for  the  guidance  of  collectors  and  other 
officers  of  the  customs  in  a  circular  dated  July  17th,  1911.  A 
pirated  copy  of  a  film  is  defined  as  follows:  "A  film,  which 
constitutes  either  an  actual  copy  or  a  substantial  reproduc- 
tion of  a  legally  copyrighted  film  produced  and  imported  in 
violation  of  the  rights  of  the  copyright  proprietor.  Collectors 
will  admit  imported  films  concerning  which  some  party  in 
interest  alleges  an  adverse  copyright  or  where  the  adverse 
claim  amounts  to  nothing  more  than  an  allegation  of  in- 
fringement of  copyright.  In  such  cases  the  claimants  are 
relegated  to  the  courts.  Entry  to  imported  films  will  be 
refused  if  (a)  representations  are  made  that  they  are  piratical 
copies  and  such  representations  are  not  denied  by  the  im- 
porters, or  (b)  if  the  collector  is  satisfied  they  do,  in  fact, 
constitute  piratical  copies  as  above  defined." 

Collectors  will  detain  films  covered  by  the  preceding  regu- 
lation and  report  the  facts  to  the  department  for  instructions. 

If  the  collector  is  not  satisfied  that  an  imported  film  is  a 
piratical  copy,  and  the  importer  files  an  affidavit  denying 
that  it  is  in  fact  such  a  piratical  copy,  and  alleging  that  the 
detention  of  the  film  will  result  in  a  material  depreciation 
of  its  value  or  loss  or  damage  to  him.  the  film  will  be  ad- 
mitted to  entry,  unless  a  written  demand  for  its  exclusion  is 
filed  by  the  copyright  proprietor  or  other  party  in  interest, 
setting  forth  that  the  imported  film  is  a  piratical  copy  of  a 
film  legally  copyrighted  in  the  United  States,  and  unless 
there  is  also  filed  with  the  collector  a  good  and  sufficient 
bond  conditioned  to  hold  the  importer  or  owner  of  such 
film  harmless  from  any  loss  or  damage  resulting  from  its 
detention  in  the  event  that  the  same  is  held  by  the  depart- 
ment not  to  be  prohibited  from  importation  under  section  30. 

Customs. 

Upon  the  filing  of  such  demand  and  bond  the  collector 
will  cause  the  film  to  be  detained,  and  will  fix  a  time  at  which 
the  parties  in  interest  may  submit  evidence  to  substantiate 
their  respective  claims,  which  evidence  shall  be  reduced  to 
writing  at  the  expense  of  the  parties  in  interest  and  trans- 
mitted by  the  collector  to  the  department,  with  such  report 
and  recommendation  as  he  may  deem  proper. 

No  film  will  be  presumed  to  be  prohibited  from  entry 
as  a  piratical  copy  under  said  act,  and  the  burden  of  proof 
that  any  film  is  in  fact  a  piratical  copy  will  be  upon  the 
party  making  such  claim. 

If  the  film  is  held  by  the  department  to  be  a  piratical  copy, 
its  seizure  and  forfeiture  will  be  directed  in  accordance  with 
section  32  of  the  copyright  act.  and  the  bond  will  be  re- 
turned to  the  copyright  proprietor,  but  if  not  so  held,  the 
collector  will  be  directed  to  release  the  film  and  transmit 
the  bond  to  the  importer. 


R.  C.  BACH  A  GOTHAM  VISITOR. 

In  our  midst  for  several  days  past  has  been  Mr.  R.  C.  Bach, 
managing  director  of  the  Dominion  Feature  Film  Company, 
which  has  offices  in  Toronto  and  Montreal,  Canada.  The  head- 
quarters of  the  company  is  in  Montreal.  There  will  soon  be 
opened  other  branches  of  this  firm,  in  Winnipeg,  Vancouver  and 
St.  John,  N.  B.  On  this  trip  to  New  York,  Mr.  Bach  has  pur- 
chased the  exclusive  Canadian  rights  for  the  Great  Northern 
films  and  for  the  production  of  "The  Life  of  Dante,"  as  well  as 
some  others. 


Pictures  in  Cincinnati  Music  Halls 

Arthur  Smallwood  Plans  Big  Project  for  the   Queen  City's 
Mammoth  Palace  of  Amusements. 

If  the  plans  of  Arthur  Smallwood  are  successful,  Cincin- 
nati will  have  a  picture  showr  par  excellence.  This  energetic 
young  man,  whose  home  is  in  Cincinnati,  but  who  has  been 
engaged  in  the  advertising  business  in  New  York  for  the 
past  few  years,  has  secured  a  lease  of  the  big  Music  Hall  on 
Elm  Street  in  that  city  and  will  put  on  a  strong  picture  pro- 
gram beginning  March  29. 

Music  Hall  is  one  of  the  largest  auditoriums  in  the  coun- 
try, seating  several  thousand  people,  and  is  used  for  grand 
opera  and  other  big  musical  entertainments.  The  picture 
entertainment  will  be  conducted  by  the  Empire  Exhibition 
Company,  which  was  promoted  by  Mr.  Smallwood  and  is 
under  his  management.  Several  large  Cincinnati  capitalists 
are  interested,  so  there  will  be  no  lack  of  funds  to  finance 
the  enterprise. 

The  picture  program  will  consist  of  eight  reels  of  the  best 
pictures  including  features  and  single  reels.  This  will  be 
varied  by  vocal  and  instrumental  solos  by  the  best  of  talent, 
and  a  fourteen  piece  orchestra  will  play  the  pictures. 

A  feature  of  the  program  will  be  the  frequent  appearance 
of  popular  photoplayers.  For  the  opening  week  Mr.  Francis 
X.  Bushman,  a  former  Essanay  star,  has  been  secured.  For 
the  week  of  April  7  Mr.  John  Bunny,  the  popular  comedy 
man  of  the  Vitagraph  Company,  will  be  the  feature,  and  dur- 
ing the  following  week  Miss  Florence  Turner,  the  first  of 
the  motion  picture  stars  and  a  Vitagraph  player,  will  appear. 
Others  are  being  negotiated  for. 

Mr.  Smallwood  has  had  some  experience  as  a  picture 
theater  manager  and  is  planning  many  little  comforts  for  his 
patrons.  He  will  have  a  chaperone  for  young  children  and  a 
playroom  with  nurses  for  the  babies.  There  will  be  lady 
ushers  and  a  maid  in  the  ladies'  retiring  room. 

The  scale  of  prices  for  the  house  will  be  ten,  fifteen  and 
twenty-five  cents. 

To  popularize  the  venture  Mr.  Smallwood  proposes  to  bill 
it  like  a  circus.  For  the  opening  nine  thousand  sheets  of 
paper  will  be  posted  on  the  billboards  all  over  the,  city. 
Elaborate  heralds  and  other  forms  of  advertising,  including 
liberal  newspaper  space,  will  be  used.  Special  advertising 
will  be  used  for  the  feature  pictures  and  the  photoplayers. 

Mr.  Smallwood  has  been  in  New  York  for  the  past  week 
getting  ideas  and  features  for  his  show.  He  announces  the 
"Prisoner  of  Zenda"  for  the  opening. 


STREYCKMANS— MUSSELMAN. 

H.  J.  Streyckmans,  of  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation,  was 
married  on  Friday,  March  21st,  to  Miss  Delia  Musselman,  of 
Stamford,  Conn.  The  bride  is  eighteen  years  of  age  and 
has  just  completed  her  studies.  She  was  on  her  way  to  visit 
a  sister  in   Chicago  when  Streyckmans  interrupted  her  trip. 

A.  Kessel,  Jr.,  president  of  the  New  York  Motion  Picture 
Co.,  was  best  man,  and  Miss  Mae  Kenny,  assistant  secretary, 
was  bridesmaid.  Kessel  placed  his  big  automobile  at  the 
disposal  of  the  young  couple  for  the  day. 

A  wedding  supper  was  served  at  Wallick's,  at  which  four- 
teen guests  were  present.  The  orchestra  played  the  wedding 
march  throughout  the  evening,  and  bags  of  rice  and  many 
old  shoes  were  thrown  at  the  couple  when  they  left. 


PATHE  CAMERAMEN  CARRY  CREDENTIALS. 

Pathe  Freres  wish  to  call  attention  to  the  fact  that  Pathe's 
Weekly  cameramen  are  equipped  with  proper  credentials  to 
establish  their  identity.  Several  instances  have  come  to  the 
attention  of  Pathe  Freres  whereby  independent  photog- 
raphers, by  representing  themselves  as  Pathe  Weekly  cam- 
eramen, have  secured  moving  picture  rights  that  properly  be- 
longed to  Pathe's  Weekly.  Pathe  Freres  wishes  all  persons 
interested  to  insist  upon  proper  proof  from  cameramen  be- 
fore trusting  in  their  statement  that  they  represent  Pathe's 

Weekly.  

POLLACK  SEEING  EUROPE. 

S.  W.  Pollack  has  sold  his  Lyric  theater  at  Natick,  Mass., 
to  F.  H.  Wottan  of  Waltham,  Mass.,  and  is  now  enjoying  an 
extended  tour  abroad.  Mr.  Pollack  went  from  here  to  Naples 
and  was  in  Rome  for  Easter.  After  visiting  various  other 
points  of  interest  in  Europe,  he  will  return  about  May  5. 


THE  KAISER  IN  THE  FILMS. 

The  special  motion  pictures  of  the  German  Kaiser,  re- 
cently imported  by  the  True  Feature  Company,  were  shown 
for  two  days  at  the  Theater  Unique  on  East  Fourteenth 
street  and  drew  big  crowds.  For  bookings  apply  to  True 
Feature  Companv,  Box  219  Madison  Square  Sta..  New  York 
City. 


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Censoring  Motion  Pictures 

An  Interview  With  John  Collier,   General  Secretary  of  the 
National  Board  of  Censorship. 

By  H.  C.  Judson. 

THE  first  question  put  to  Mr.  John  Collier,  general  secre- 
tary of  the  National  Board  of  Censors,  was:  What 
arguments  can  you  give  me  to  show  that  the  work  of 
the  Censor  Board  is  adequate?  He  seemed  plainly  ready  for 
the  question  and  glad  to  answer.  He  is  still  a  young  man 
and,  as  he  outlined  what  the  board  is  doing  and  what  its  real 
place  is  in  the  present  and  in  the  possible  future  of  the  mo- 
tion picture  business,  we  felt  that,  at  least,  the  board  was  in 
the  hands  of  a  wide-awake  man  who  knew  when  his  feet  were 
on  the  ground  and  knew  what  is  practicable  in  a  world  of 
things  as  they  are  from  what  might  be  practicable  in  a 
world  that  was  different. 

Mr.  Collier  said  in  the  first  place  that  the  board  was  truly 
national;  for  while  its  committees  that  sit  before  the  pictures 
are  of  necessity  drawn  from  people  living  in  New  York  City, 
it  is  in  weekly  correspondence  with  over  a  hundred  other 
cities  whose  Mayors,  or  Police  Departments,  or  Boards  of 
Licenses,  or  Civic  Committees, 
receive  every  week  a  complete 
record  of  the  board's  action. 
This  record  includes  a  list  of 
all  the  pictures  seen,  an  ac- 
count of  all  scenes  or  pictures 
censored,  and  general  com- 
ments. The  number  of  mu- 
nicipalities that  are  thus  kept 
in  close  touch  with  it  is 
steadily  growing.  In  return 
for  this  record  many  of  these 
authorities  write  to  the  board 
criticising  it,  so  that  the  gen- 
eral secretary  and  his  asso- 
ciates are  continually  kept  in- 
formed as  to  what  is  thought 
of  certain  pictures  or  scenes 
all  over  the  country.  In  this 
way  its  standards  and  crite- 
rions  are  being  gradually  mod- 
ified to  fit  the  wider  field. 

It  is  also  true  that  while  the 
members  of  the  censoring 
committees  are  taken  from  one 
locality,  that  locality  happens 
to  be  cosmopolitan  New  York 
and,  in  fact,  many  parts  of  the 
country  are  represented  on 
them.  It  is,  of  course,  true 
that  certain  purely  local  pecu- 
liarities cannot  be  taken  into 
account;  could  not  be  under 
any  conditions.  For  instance, 
it  could  hardly  consider  the 
feeling  against  Asiatics  that 
obtains  on  the  Pacific  Coast, 
nor  the  sensitiveness  in  the 
South  on  the  race  ques- 
tion. Lt  has  to  concern  itself 
solely  with  the  things  that  of- 
fend universal  public  morals. 
It  does  not  visualize  the 
"average  spectator"  as  shop 
girl  or  as  young  clerk,  or  as 
child  of  any  given  age  or  as 
miner  or  farmer  or  as  any 
other  special  type;  but  as  American  citizen,  rich,  poor,  wise, 
simple,  broad  and  narrow. 

That  there  is  some  discontent  with  and  criticism  of  the 
work  of  the  board,  Mr.  Collier  admits;  but  insists  that  the 
same  criticism  would  apply  to  local  censorship;  for  no  mat- 
ter where  any  film  was  censored,  no  committee  would  be  able 
to  satisfy  every  one  in  that  community.  He  also  insists  that 
what  criticism  there  is,  is  neither  general  nor  really  signifi- 
cant. Much  of  it  is  very  flimsy.  He  was,  himself,  recently 
asked  why  the  board  let  so  many  bad  pictures  pass  and  de- 
manded names  of  any  bad  pictures.  The  critic,  he  found, 
had  not  seen  any  pictures  at  all,  and  it  is  probable  that  the 
man  behind  the  critic  had  not  either.  The  real  dissatisfac- 
tion among  both  spectators  and  exhibitors  is  with  the  artistic 
rather  than  with  the  moral  quality  of  the  programs.  The 
board  cannot  decide  questions  of  taste.  He  says  that  the 
offerings  are  not  so  good  as  they  ought  to  be  and  that  the 


MR.  JOHN  COLLIER, 
General  Secretary  of  the  National  Board  of  Censorship 


producers  are  not  keeping  up  with  the  times.  He  believes 
that  this  is  due  to  the  condition  of  the  market  that  keeps  the 
studios  at  such  a  high  pitch  that  both  producers  and  scenario 
writers  are  sadly  overworked.  He  says,  too,  that  until  we 
have  graded  theaters,  or  theaters  where  pictures  made  and 
censored  especially  for  children  are  shown,  there  is  bound 
to  be  continual  dissatisfaction. 

"Do  you  think  graded  theaters  for  children  would  pay?" 
we  asked,  interrupting  him.  He  replied  that  under  present 
conditions  they  1  robably  would  not;  but  thinks  that  they 
could  be  made  to  pay  in  certain  communities  and  referred  to 
it  as  a  compromise  measure.  For  without  it,  reaction  that  will 
result  in  loss  can  confidently  be  expected.  If  we  caught  his 
meaning  rightly,  he  looks  forward  to  a  time  when  the  manu- 
facturers will  be  more  ready  to  consult  with  exhibitors  as  to 
what  the  people  want. 

When  asked  what  he  thought  of  State  censorship,  he  ex- 
pressed firmly  his  opinion  that  it  would  be  undesirable.     It, 
he   sees,  might  give  a  chance   to  inimical  interests,   like  the 
vaudeville  business,  for  instance,  to  do  malicious  harm  to  the 
motion  picture  people.     And  it  would  put  into  politics  what 
is  now  in  the  hands  of  the  people  directly;  for  The.  People's 
institute,  behind  the  National  Board  of  Censors,  has  no  in- 
terest in  the  continuance  of  its  work  except  as  a  representa- 
tive  of  the  people.     The   board 
has  no  power  whatever,   except 
through  public  opinion.     It  was 
started,    not    by    the    manufac- 
turers   of   pictures,    but   by   the 
exhibitors    of    New    York    City 
who,  in  the  beginning,  paid  part 
of   the   money   needed   to   carry 
on  the  executive  and  mechanical 
work.      It    was    later    that    the 
manufacturing      companies       of 
both    licensed    and    independent 
groups  agreed  to  share  the  ex- 
pense   together    and    the    board 
became  national  in  its  scope. 

In  the  board,  as  a  whole, 
there  are  four  committees:  1st, 
An  advisory  committee  of  fifty- 
five  members,  among  whom  are 
such  men  as  Andrew  Carnegie, 
Lyman  Abbott,  Samuel  Gom- 
pers,  Felix  Adler,  Anson  Phelps 
Stokes,  Joseph  Silverman  and 
others.  2nd,  A  general  or  con- 
trolling committee  made  up  of 
the  representatives  of  eleven 
civic  organizations  in  New  York 
City,  such  as  the  Charity  Or- 
ganization Society,  the  City 
Vigilance  League,  the  Interna- 
tional Committee  of  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  and  the  National  Commit- 
tee of  the  Y.  W.  C.  A.  In  this 
committee  there  are  also  eight 
members  at  large.  3rd,  An  ex- 
ecutive committee  consisting  of 
Frederick  C.  Howe,  chairman; 
Ralph  Folks,  Dr.  J.  P.  War- 
basse  and  Matthew  P.  Adams. 
And  finally, -the  Committee  on 
Censoring  that  acts  under  the 
executive  direction  of  the  staff — 
John  Collier,  general  secretary; 
W.  D.  McGuire,  executive  sec- 
retary, and  Sara  Lavine,  educa- 
tional secretary.  This  censor- 
ing committee  is  made  up  of  a 
large  number  of  men  and  women,  all  of  whom  serve  without 
pay,  and  its  members  alone  have  the  right  to  vote  as  to 
whether  any  picture  seen  is  fit  to  be  shown  or  not. 

After  any  picture  has  been  seen,  a  vote  of  the  members 
present  is  taken  and,  if  there  is  any  doubt  of  its  fitness,  its 
qualities  are  discussed  freely.  Perhaps  the  majority  will 
persuade  the  few  who  do  not  like  the  offering  that  it  is  not  a 
picture  that  can  properly  be  censored  and,  in  that  case,  it  is 
passed.  Every  member  of  this  committee  has  the  right  of 
appeal  to  the  general  committee  before  whom  the  picture  is 
then  shown  again,  and  the  protest  either  sustained  or  turned 
down.  The  manufacturer  likewise  has  the  right  of  appeal. 
It  may  be  that  the  board  feels  the  need  of  pointing  out  to 
the  manufacturer  in  question  that  his  picture  ran  very  close 
to  what  might  be  objectionably  coarse;  if  so,  this  is  done. 
In  any  case,  a  record  of  the  picture  is  kept  by  name  and  the 
comment  on  it  is  embodied  in  the  weekly  report  which,  as  we 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


have  mentioned,  is  distributed  to  all  civic  organizations  that 
care  to  avail  themselves  of  it. 

The  members  of  this  committee  are  chosen  carefully. 
Names  are  accepted  provisionally  and  the  possibly  new  mem- 
bers mv.ted  to  attend,  without  the  right  to  vote,  during  three 
meetings.  They  are  then  taken  on  for  a  month  and  at  the 
end  ot  the  time  made  full-fledged  members  or  dropped,  as 
some  are  unfitted  for  this  peculiar  work. 

Finally,  Mr.  Collier  pointed  out  that  the  board's  stamp  of 
approval,  "Passed  by  the  National  Board  of  Censors,"  is  not 
fixed  and  can  easily  be  transferred,  at  any  time  in  the  pro- 
jection booth  of  any  theater,  from  a  legitimately  passed  pic- 
ture to  the  worst  offering  that  was  ever  thrown  upon  the 
screen.  The  Board's  correspondence  with  other  municipali- 
ties might  show  that  this  had  been  done;  but  could  do  so  only 
in  localities  where  the  weekly  report  was  read  and  the  pic- 
tures closely  followed.  And  he  observed  that  there  is  no 
place  in  the  world  where  any  trespass  on  the  public's  right 
of  decency  can  be  so  quickly  brought  to  book  as  in  America, 
where  there  are  many  laws,  both  State  and  local,  that  cover 
such  a  misdemeanor. 

Problems  of  Local  Censoring. 

>  At  present,  not  the  entire  public  is  against  the  exhibitor,  but 
two  groups — grafters  and  fanatics.  So,  if  obnoxious  laws  are 
passed  or  if  an  exhibitor  is  unjustly  treated  in  any  locality,  the 
fault  is  in  no  small  degree  with  the  exhibitors  themselves.  Due 
to  the  peculiar  ease  with  which  laws  can  be  initiated,  any^mem- 
ber  of  the  community  who,  for  any  reason  whatever,  honest  or 
otherwise,  wants  legislative  action,  he  has  a  chance  of  getting  it,. 
Mr.  X.,  who  may  be  either  a  grafter  or  a  fanatic,  offers  a  posi- 
tive measure  which  he  claims  will  protect  the  public  and,  even 
if  the  measure  is  not  only  unjust  to  the  exhibitor,  but  quite  value- 
less to  th'e  public,  it  may  become  a  law.  The  legislature  at  the 
capitol  doesn't  know  whether  the  measure  is  needed  or  not; 
but  it  has  been  told  positively  that  it  is  needed  and  all  that  the 
exhibitors  have  been  able  so  far  to  advance  against  it,  is  a 
negative  counter  assertion  that  it  is  not  what  its  sponsors  claim. 

The  legislators  and  the  public,  for  the  time  being,  are  with  the 
positive  side  and  assume  that  the  exhibitors'  assertions  are 
selfish.  The  public  doesn't  know  what  is  really  needed  or  what 
is  just  and  the  legislature  is  not  well  informed  either.  The  only 
ones  who  are  well  informed  are  the  exhibitors  themselves  and 
they  seem  to  be  making  the  grave  mistake  of  remaining  on  the 
negative  side,  leaving  the  people  to  assume  that  they  are  in  the 
wrong. 

Let  the  exhibitors,  then,  recognize  that  there  really  exists  a 
need  of  just  and  practical  regulation  and  supervision;  for  until 
they  do,  Mr.  Collier  points  out,  the  public  is  goijflg  to  assume  that 
they  are  in  the  wrong  and  they  are  laying  themselves  open  to 
freak  laws  and,  what  is  still  worse,  an  u"nj%st  administration  of 
laws.  On  the  other  hand,  when  they  Jiave  reached  this  point 
and  have  agreed  upon  a  minimum  program  and  offered  it  to 
the  legislatures  of  every  state,  they  will  then  find  that. the  public 
is  with  them.  They  can  get  their  problerhs>Aeated  in  a  scientific, 
wholesome  way  and  this  will  be  the  most  ecebprhical  way,  looked 
at  from  the  most  selfish  angle  possible.  What  is  truly  needed 
by  the  patrons  is  what  is  truly  needed  by  the  exhibitor. 

Such  a  program  could  plan  for  the  regulation  of  all  the  purely 
physical  elements  in  the  picture  show  business,  such  as  lighting,, 
ventilation,  exits,  aisle  space,  etc.  It  could  also  demand  that  the 
licensing  authority  should  be  clearly  marked  out  and  have  full 
power  to  see  that  all  the  regulations  are  properly  enforced.  It 
could  demand  that  no  license  should  be  granted  or  denied  or 
revoked  without  a  hearing.  Whatever  this  minimum  program 
asked,  it  would  have  to  be  a  scientific,  honest  attempt  to  cover 
the  problem  and  its  passage  demanded  of  every  legislature 
throughout  the  country.  This  would  give  the  exhibitor  the  same 
chance  of  getting  the  right  laws  passed  that  the  fanatic  and  the 
grafter  now  have  of  getting  the  freak  or  the  unjust,  unneeded 
law  through. 

That  such  a  program  need  not  take  into  consideration  the 
quality  of  the  picture  product  should  be  plain  in  these  days,  when 
it  is  becoming  more  and  more  clear  that  the  quality  is  wholly  in 
the  hands  of  the  exhibitors  themselves.  In  the  market  condi- 
tions that  are  bound  to  come,  and  shortly,  they  can  take  what 
offering  they  find  good  and  let  the  poor,  inferior  product  go  to 
the  wall  where  it  belongs.  The  one  thing  that  is  needed,  Mr. 
Collier  thinks,  is  a  positive  minimum  program  formulated  by  the 
exhibitors  as  an  organization  and  demanded  of  every  legislature 
in  the  United  States. 


ANOTHER  ORDINANCE  PROPOSED  FOR  NEW 
YORK. 

George  A.  Morrison,  alderman  from  Brooklyn,  who  has 
been  in  close  touch  with  Canon  Chase,  the  Episcopal  clergy- 
man active  in  framing  measures  for  the  governing  of  moving 
pictures  in  the  City  of  New  York,  handed  up  for  considera- 
tion a  brand  new  ordinance  for  the  control  of  films  to  be 
exhibited  within  the  five  boroughs  of  Greater  New  York 
at  the  last  meeting  of  the  City  Fathers.  The  main  structural 
features  of  the  proposed  new  ordinance  is  based  on  the  lines 
of  the  Folks  measure,  which  is  still  hanging  in  the  air,  but 
at  the  end  Morrison  advocates  the  appointing  of  a  moving 
picture  commission  which  would  practically  take  the  place, 
if  passed,  of  the  National  Board  of  Censorship  as  far  as 
Greater   New  York  is  concerned. 

Alderman  Morrison's  ordinance  proposes  that  the  motion 
picture  commission  should  be  composed  of  the  president  of 
the  Art  Commission;  city  superintendent  of  schools;  the 
presidents  of  the  Women's  Municipal  League,  New  York 
Federation  of  Churches,  Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Crime; 
supervisor  of  Roman  Catholic  charities;  Jewish  Community 
and  various  other  philanthropic  and  sociological  organizations 
and  that  six  men  and  six  women  be  appointed  from  other 
organizations  by  the  mayor  of  New  York.  This  commission 
is  to  serve  without  pay,  but  suitable  offices  are  to  be  provided 
by  the  municipal  authorities  and  the  expenses  of  the  com- 
mission within  suitable  limits  are  to  be  defrayed  by  the  city. 

Paragraph  sixth  of  the  proposed  ordinance  reads:  "The 
commission  shall  secure  an  effective  moral  inspection  of  mo- 
tion picture  films  before  they  are  granted  permits  to  be 
shown  in  licensed  places  of  amusements  in  New  York  City, 
but  nothing  in  this  ordinance  shall  be  interpreted  as  requir- 
ing a  moral  inspection  or  censorship  by  the  Motion  Picture 
Commission  of  motion  picture  films  that  are  displayed  in  any 
places  except  in  motion  picture  theaters  or  in  licensed  places 
of  amusements." 

A   paid   secretary  and   assistant   are   provided   for. 

The  balance  of  the  ordinance  is  framed  on  lines  similar  to 
the  rejected  censorship  provisions  of  other  ordinances  and 
provides  for  permits  to  be  issued  by  the  commission  after 
an  inspection  of  the  films  before  exhibited  and  for  penalties 
to  be  incurred  for  the  exhibition  of  any  films  not  authorized. 
The  mayor  is  made  the  Court  of  Appeals  from  the  com- 
mission. Permits  for  the  exhibition  of  any  film  must  be 
thrown  upon  the  screen  for  at  least  ten  seconds  previous  to 
the  exhibition  of  the  film,  showing  the  name  of  the  manu- 
facturer, and  books  must  be  kept  for  public  inspection  by 
the  exhibitor  containing  all  necessary  data  in  relation  to  the 
films  shown  on  the  screen.  The  ordinance  is  to  go  into 
effect  sixty  days  after  its  approval  by  the  mayor. 

The  ordinance  was  referred  to  the  committee  on  Laws  and 
Legislation   for   action. 


The  English  Kineto  Company  will  shortly  release  an  ex- 
ceptionally ingenious  trick  film  entitled.  "Animated  Putty," 
dealing  with  automatic  evolutions  of  a  lump  of  glazier's 
putty  which  molds  itself  into  every  grotesque  shape  known 
to  the  plastic  artist. 


MONTGOMERY  TURNS  THEM  AWAY. 

All  sorts  of  stories  of  crowded  houses  in  the  different 
towns  where  F.  T.  Montgomery  is  showing  the  Kalem  fea- 
ture, "From  the  Manger  to  the  Cross,"  have  been  coming  to 
the  Moving  Picture  World  for  the  past  several  weeks.  It  is 
a  case  of  turn  them  away  wherever  the  picture  is  shown. 
The  above  illustration  is  from  a  photograph  taken  in  front  of 
the  Montgomery  Theater,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  while  that  picture 
was  running.    Same  everywhere. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


27 


"  Calamity   Anne's  Beauty "   (American) 

Reviewed  by  James  S.  McQuade. 

MANY  a  guffaw  will  greet  the  presentation  of  that  rough- 
and-tumble  farce  comedy  known  as  "Calamity  Anne's 
Beauty,"  in  which  Miss  Louise  Lester,  of  the  American 
Western  Company  Xo.  I.  cuts  loose  in  the  title  role  and  gives 
us  some  side-splitting  glimpses  of  strenuous  femininity  in  the 
Far  West.  Miss  Lester  has  furnished  several  mirthful  charac- 
terizations in  her  "'Calamity  Anne"  series,  but  none  quite  so 
broadly  comical  as  the  one  now  under  discussion. 

Warren  Kerrigan  plays  the  part  of  a  handsome  young  drum- 
mer with  tine  zest,  and  Jack  Richardson  is  equally  at  home  in  the 
part  of  the  patent  medicine  doctor.  George  Periolat  gives  a  good 
character  sketch  of  the  village  constable,  and  W.  J.  Tedmarsh 
has  a  "Weary  Willie''  make-up  that  stamps  him  a  veritable  knight 
of  the  road.  Misses  Jessalyn  Van  Trump  and  Charlotte  Burton 
appear  as  captivating  village  belles,  while  Miss  Phyllis  Gordon 
airs  her  charms  prettily  as  the  medicine  man's  "beauty"  assistant. 


Scene  from  "Calamity  Anne's  Beauty"   (American). 

The  scenes  around  the  medicine  man's  buggy,  as  he  disposes 
of  his  beautifying  remedies,  show  lively  action.  Calamity  Anne's 
pursuit  of  the  hobo  and  her  effective  drubbing  of  that  unfortu- 
nate is  a  scream  all  the  way,  as  is  her  bombardment  of  the  fake 
doctor,  whose  remedies  have  brought  her  gnawing  stomach  pains 
instead  of  facial  beauty. 

The  opening  scene  shows  the  handsome  drummer  on  his 
rounds,  chucking  pretty  girls  and  lavishing  his  smiles.  He  has 
a  smile  and  a  hearty  handshake  even  for  plain-featured  Anne, 
who  shows  her  admiration  for  him  and  his  good  looks.  One  of 
the  pretty  girls  guesses  Anne's  feelings,  and  heartlessly  twits 
her  on  her  homeliness.  Then  Anne  brings  out  her  long  unused 
looking  glass  and  satisfies  herself  that  the  taunt  is  too  true.  In 
the  midst  of  her  mental  distress  the  "beauty"  doctor  comes  to 
the  village  and  Anne  is  lavish  in  her  purchase  of  his  remedies. 

Anne's  quarters  are  not  inviting.  She  makes  her  home  in  an 
unused  corner  of  a  stable  and  sleeps  on  a  bed  of  strewn  hay. 
There  we  see  her  by  the  aid  of  a  lanterri  light  draining  two 
bottles  of  the  remedy  at  a  time,  and  eagerly  searching  in  the 


looking  glass  for  a  trace  of  the  coveted  beauty.  Then,  resigned, 
she  falls  asleep. 

In  the  morning  she  is  awakened  by  severe  intestimal  pains,  but 
her  first  thought  is  of  the  mirror,  in  which  she  looks  vainly  for 
the  promised  beauty.  In  deep  disgust  she  throws  it  in  the 
corner  and  sets  out  to  interview  the  "doctor."  That  worthy 
and  his  accomplice  exchange  smiles  as  they  see  Anne  approach, 
and  they  soon  succeed  in  convincing  her  that  the  first  remedy 
must  be  followed  by  others,  which  are  to  be  applied  externally. 
Anne's  face  is  a  sight  when  she  retires  the  following  night. 
What  with  head  bandages,  strips  of  black  plaster  on  her  cheeks 
and  a  clip  on  the  tip  of  her  nose,  she  looks  like  an  aboriginal 
New  Zealander. 

There  is  a  surprise  for  Anne  that  night.  A  belated  hobo 
espies  the  half  open  door  of  the  stable  and  enters.  In  the  dim 
light  of  early  morning  he  fails  to  see  that  the  place  is  tenanted, 
and  sinks  down  on  the  inviting  hay.  He  awakes  Anne  and  yells 
out,  "The  Devil!"  as  he  catches  a  glimpse  of  her  face.  Then 
he  flies  for  dear  life,  with  Anne  close  in  his  wake  trying  to 
pepper  him  with  bullets  from  her  .45.  The  hobo  is  rescued  by 
a  crowd  of  villagers,  just  in  the  nick  of  time,  and  Anne  hits  the 
war  path  in  the  direction  of  the  fake  doctor's  camp.  That 
worthy  and  his  assistant  make  a  quick  get-away,  in  the  midst  of 
a  shower  of  bullets,  and  Anne  wrecks  his  outfit. 

Anne's  greatest  heartache,  however,  is  yet  to  come.  She  pays 
a  visit  to  that  constant  friend  of  hers — -her  beloved  donkey. 
The  animal  gazing  at  her  bepatched  visage  becomes  frightened, 
and  gallops  madly  away.  "Calamity  Anne's  Beauty"  will  be  re- 
leased Saturday,  March  29. 

QUICKER  THAN  THOUGHT— A  SHORT  REEL 

(PATHE). 

Reviewed  by  W.  Stephen  Bush. 

THIS  film  affords  a  welcome  glimpse  into  the  great  future 
of  the  motion  picture.  If  I  were  asked  to  name  one  film 
above  others  showing  the  educational  force  of  the  motion 
picture  I  would  give  this  production  the  preference.  It  shows 
the  power  of  the  motion  picture  to  popularize  science.  It  is 
highly  useful  to  the  teacher  explaining  physics  and  it  is  not  a 
whit  less  useful  to  the  exhibitor,  because  it  makes  plain  to  the 
humblest  intelligence  some  of  the  most  interesting  things  in  the 
laws  of  nature.  Take  the  average  motion  picture  patron-.  He 
will  be  interested  in  these  pictures  at  once  and  before  he  has 
seen  it  all  he  will  understand  things  which  were  unknown  to 
him  before.  The  best  of  it  is  that  no  strain  is  imposed  on  the 
mind;  the  knowledge  is  gained  as  if  in  play. 

The  pictures  show  a  thin  stream  of  water  rising  in  the  air 
and  supporting  a  hollow  ball,  made  of  glass  or  thin  celluloid. 
We  see  such  balls  dancing  on  a  jet  of  water  in  the  ordinary 
shooting  gallery  quite  frequently.  If  we  know  nothing  about 
physics  the  thing  seems  hard  to  understand.  All  of  us  have 
watched  this  thing.  The  eye  is  baffled.  It  cannot  follow  the 
motion  of  the  water,  as  it  holds  up  the  ball.  Now  comes  the 
moving  picture  camera  and  shows  us  how  it  all  happens.  These 
pictures  were  taken  at  the  rate  of  1200  per  second  and  on  the 
screen  we  see  the  phenomena  a  hundred  times  slower  than  reality. 
This  is  the  analysis  of  motion  and  I  might  say  in  passing  that  the 
motion  picture  is  the  only  minute  and  accurate  measurer  of  mo- 
tion. With  the  aid  of  the  motion  picture  we  now  plainly  see 
how  the  myriads  of  drops  of  water  are  attracted  to  the  ball. 
The  water  winds  itself  around  the  ball,  thus  preventing  it  from 
falling. 

The  film  shows  even  stranger  things  with  convincing  clearness. 
It  shows  us  a  bullet  leaving  the  end  of  the  barrel  of  a  rifle 
traveling  at  the  rate  of  two  hundred  feet  per  second.  We  see 
the  explosion  in  minutest  detail  even  to  the  gases  arising  from 
the  concussion  caps.  We  plainly  perceive  the  recoil  and  even 
follow  the  bullet  in  its  course  from  the  mouth  of  the  rifle  to  the 
moment  it  strikes  the  ball  upon  the  water.  Presently  another 
remarkable  thing  occurs.  The  bullet  strikes  the  thin  jet  of  water 
immediately  below  the  place  where  the  ball  dances  at  the  top. 
The  jet  is  broken,  though  but  for  the  fraction  of  a  second,  the 
ball  loses  its  support  and  drops  to  the  ground.  These  things 
must  interest  any  audience.  The  desire  to  learn  is  as  common  as 
the  impulse  to  breathe  and  when  the  trying  lessons  of  physics 
are  treated  in  this  way  they  are  made  palatable  to  every  taste. 


"OIL  ON  TROUBLED  WATERS"— AN  EDUCATIONAL. 
"Oil  on  Troubled  Waters"  is  the  title  of  a  two-reel  sub- 
ject soon  to  be  released  by  the  American  Film  Mfg.  Co.  This 
subject  is  notable  as  an  example  of  what  can  be  done  in  an 
educational  way  with  film  stories.  The  entire  picture  was 
made  at  Summerland,  a  suburb  of  Santa  Barbara,  Cal..  not- 
able for  its  hundreds  of  oil  wells  which  project  out  for  blocks 
into  the  ocean.  The  story  centers  around  the  discovery  of 
oil,  and  throughout  the  unfoldment  of  the  story  every  work- 
ing part  of  a  mammoth  oil  well  is  shown. 


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"The  Toll  of  Fear"  (Lubin) 

"rpHE  TOLL  OF  FEAR.''  a  two-reel  picture  written. 
I  produced  and  played  by  Romaine  Fielding,  the  star  of 
-*■  the  Lubin  Company,  stationed  at  Nogales,  Ariz.,  is 
probably  one  of  the  most  strange  and  thrilling  photoplays 
that  the  firm  has  ever  released.  The  episode  is  a  veritable 
reproduction  of  a  circumstance  that  occurred  on  the  Mexican 
border,  the  truth  of  which  is  vouched  for  by  local  authorities. 
One  of  the  strange  features  of  the  story  is  that  it  is  told  by 
one  man  only.  Fielding  playing  the  dual  role  of  the  two 
brothers  who  figured  in  the  tragedy. 

Dick  McKnight,  a  deputy  sheriff  of  Santa  Cruz  County, 
Ariz.,  receives  a  telephone  message  from  Sheriff  Wheeler,  ot 
the  adjoining  county,  to  the  effect  that  Pedro  Aquilla  and 
his  band  of  cattle  rustlers  and  outlaws  are  in  San  Luis 
Canyon.  His  brother,  Bill  McKnight,  the  sheriff/being  away, 
the  young  deputy  determines  to  go  out  alone  and  corral  some 
of  the  gang.  He  leaves  a  note  to  that  effect  for  his  brother 
and  starts  upon  his  mission.  After  getting  into  the  moun- 
tains lie  runs  across  a  note  fastened  to  a  tree,  which  reads: 
"Go  Back  or  You  Die  With  the  Sun.'' 

Dick  is  not  an  impressionable  young  man,  but  the  words 
make  him  think  and  he  gives  it  more  weight  than  is  usually 
given  to  anonymous  communications.  He  continues  on  his 
journey,  but  cannot  get  the  note  out' of  his  mind.  As  he 
goes  forward  the  words  burn  into  his  brain  and  every  litt'.i 
noise  in  the  mountains  startles  him  until  fear  grabs  him  in  its 
deadly  grasp  and  drives  him,  a  frightened  thing,  into  an  old 
abandoned  adobe  hut,  where  his  nerve  is  worn  to  a  raw  edge 
by  the  fear  which  the  words  signified  to  him.  He  places  his 
pistol  to  his  head,  the  revolver  explodes  and  we  leave  him  in 
darkness. 


Scene  from  "The  Toll  of  Fear,"  (Lubin). 


Scene  from  "The  Toll  of  Fear,"  (Lubin). 

His  brother  Bill,  the  sheriff  of  Santa  Cruz  County,  coming 
home  after  a  hard  ride  finds  the  note  that  the  youngster  has 
left  for  him  and  knowing  the  difficult  task  that  Dick  has  taken 
upon  himself,  he  determines  to  follow  his  brother.  He  trails 
him  to  the  cabin  and  entering  same  finds  all  that  is  left  of  a 
once  brave,  light-hearted  boy.  He  takes  the  cursed  note  from 
his  brother's  clenched  hand  and  receives  the  same  fatal  sug- 
gestion of  fear  that  his  brother  had  felt  and  when  his  inno- 
cent horse  inadvertently  rubs  his  head  against  the  door  of  the 
adobe,  he  is  more  startled  than  he  has  ever  been  before.  He 
clutches  his  revolver,  running  from  what  seems  to  him  to  be  a 
haunted  place.  He  mounts  his  horse  and  rides  from  that 
which  he  had  loved  most,  his  brother.  Continuing  madly 
along  divers  trails  not  knowing  just  what  to  do,  the  insidious 
note  causing  that  destroying  thought,  fear  ever  augmenting 
and  increasing  until  from  a  brave  man.  known  throughout  the 
territory  for  his  loyalty  and  bravery,  he  becomes  a  cringing, 
incapable  child  trying  to  hide  from  that  thing  which  is  seiz- 


in? him  in  its  grasp.  He  attempts  to  hide  in  an  old  aban- 
doned monastery,  going  back  further  into  the  depths  of  the 
broken  walls  until  he  eventually  sinks  into  a  deep  crevice, 
almost  an  imbecile,  firing  his  revolver  at  unseen  things.  The 
last  cartridge  of  his  revolver  loosens  the  old  clay  and  they 
tumble  down  upon  him.  burying  him  in  the  tomb.  The  sun 
breaks  through  as  we  see  his  hand  twitching  as  he  smothers, 
paying  the  penalty  of  the  suggestion  offered  by  the  piece  of 
paper  clenched  in  his  hand  even  unto  the  end  in  the  agony 
of  fear. 


ONE  OF  THOSE  "NEAR  TO  DEATH"  SCENES. 

During  the  taking  of  an  Essanay  feature  photoplay,  en- 
titled "Fear,"  Howard  Missimer  almost  lost  his  life.  It  was 
necessary  in  one  of  the  scenes  to  have  an  explosion  which 
was  to  completely  destroy  a  block  house.  The  explosion  oc- 
curred in  good  order  and   a  beam,  running  across   the   top, 


Critical  Scene  in  "Fear,"   (Essanay). 

was  cracked  in  two  and  fell,  hitting  Missimer  on  the  shoulder 
and  knocking  him  unconscious.  It  was  fully  twenty-five 
minutes  before  he  was  brought  to.  The  physician  who  at- 
tended Mr.  Missimer  declared  the  latter's  shoulder  blade  had 
been  broken.  Mr.  Missimer  is  at  his  home  under  the  care 
of  a  physician.  The  enclosed  photograph,  taken  at  the  time 
of  the  explosion,  gives  a  good  idea  of  what  and  how  it 
happened. 


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"Robinson  Crusoe" 

Director  Otis  Turner  of  Rex,  Makes  a  Three  Part  Picture 

That   Will  Win   Many   Hearts. 

By   H.   C.   Judson. 

IN  putting  this  grand  old  story  into  motion  pictures,  there 
is  one  thing  only  that  is  of  real  importance  and  that 
is  its  romance.  Let  the  island  seem,  at  first  glimpse, 
quite  unlike  our  own  conception  of  Crusoe's  island,  and  let 
(if  it  so  happens)  the  hut  in  which  he  lived  be  not  at  all 
like  the  pictures  of  it  in  the  old  book,  it  will  matter  very 
little  so  long  as  a  sense  is  conveyed  to  us  of  his  being  alone 
on  the  island  and  of  his  getting  solace  and  happiness  from 
the  dumb  creatures  he  has  trained.  Otis  Turner,  its  producer, 
has  astonished  us  by  his  success  in  giving  just  this  impres- 
sion. When  we  have  pointed  out  this  fact  to  the  exhibitor, 
we  need  add  no  more.  He  knows  what  the  story  is;  we've 
seen  the  picture  of  it  and  affirm  that  it  leaves  nothing  to 
be  desired,  that  is  of  any  importance.  Xow,  it  we  are  right, 
and  we  are  not  in  any  doubt  of  that,  it  is  a  thoroughly 
worthy  offering.  Indeed,  we  have  never  seen  a  picture  of 
this  kind  that  delighted  us  so  much  or  so  warmed  our  hearts. 


Scene   from  "Robinson   Crusoe,"   (Rex). 

The  small  chance  of  criticism  seems  to  us  uncalled  for  in 
a  ca.se  like  this,  where  the  picture  offers  us  such  a  fine,  round 
sum  of  entertainment.  Perhaps  one  or  two  scenes  may  not 
be  quite  as  perfect  as  the  best;  but  the  worst  will  hardly 
displease  any  and  we  feel  sure  that  most  will  count  the  whole 
of  it  a  boon.  We  did,  and  we  have  not  escaped  the  accusation 
of  being  critical  on  one  or  two  occasions.  We  shall,  however, 
find  it  a  pleasant  exercise  to  point  out  some  of  its  particulari- 
ties and  the  means  that  Mr.  Turner  has  used  in  accomplishing 
the  effect  he  aimed  at. 

In  the  first  place,  it  is  a  one-part  picture  as  much  as  Hamlet 
is  a  one-part  drama.  And  while  the  role  of  Crusoe  will  give 
no  player  a  call  to  the  heights,  it  demands  an  actor  who  can 
be  absolutely  natural  and  still  keep  in  sympathy  with  the  part. 
We  have  seen  Enoch  Ardens  and  other  shipwrecked  sailors 
played  many  times;  hut  none  have  seemed  to  us  so  truly 
what  the  lines  wanted  them  to  seem  as  this  Robinson  Crusoe. 
Robert  Leonard.  The  producer  has  chosen  his  important 
player  wisely.  Man  Friday  was,  perhaps,  a  harder  role  for 
a  white  man  to  play:  but  it  is  also  carried  very  well  indeed 
by  Edward  Alexander.  Besides  these,  there  were  a  large 
number  of  savages  who  had  to  appear,  and  in  close  view  of 
the  camera.     More  than  one  producer  has  failed  badly  in  his 


groups  of  cannibals,  but  Mr.  Turner  has  succeeded  finely.  He 
must  have  spent  time  training  them,  and  the  sailors,  too. 

But  the  most  notable  thing  in  the  whole  picture  is  the 
truth  of  its  stage  properties.  That  old-timer,  square  rigged 
ship,  to  begin  with,  is  a  wonder.  There's  a  scene  toward  the 
end,  where  we  see  it  under  weigh.  We  are  standing  on  the 
deck  and  looking  up  at  the  sails  and  spars,  from  which  the 
sailors  are  shaking  out  a  reef  and  we  feel  the  very  breeze  of 
romance  blowing  us  toward  the  islands  of  joy.  Then  the 
period  of  the  story  is  perfectly  reflected  in  the  clothing,  shoes, 
hats  and  weapons — those  broad  swords  also  have  the  stains 
of  romance.  We  are  filled  with  admiration,  too,  for  the  back- 
grounds; the  wreck  of  the  ship  and  the  helter  skelter  of  its 
rich  merchandise;  the  hut  of  Crusoe,  the  rocky  part  and  the 
sandy  part  of  the  beach,  the  glimpses  of  the  island,  the  boats 
of  the  cannibals  and  their  weapons,  all  are  fine.  It  took  thought 
to  get  these  things  so  perfect.  This  is  the  chief  cause  of  the 
picture's  success.  We  might  add  that  the  animals  in  the  pic- 
ture, goats,  dog,  cat  and  parrot,  are  natural  and  happy. 

In  preparing  the  scenario,  the  wealth  of  material  must  have 
tantalized;  yet  we  have  the  impression  the  picture  has  told 
the  whole  story.  Surely  we  would  not  have  anything  in  it 
left  out,  but  we  can't  think  of  anything  that  ought  to  have 
been  in  and  isn't.  It  is  not  only  a  commendable  but  a  sat- 
isfactory offering.  The  subtitles  are  quotations;  short  sen- 
tences full  of  meaning  that  show  what  a  fine  style  Defoe  had. 
The  picture  follows  them  and  they  follow  it  perfectly.  And 
in  closing,  we  may  state  that  the  camera  work  is  of  fine 
quality  all  the  way  through. 


Carmen,  Monopol  Film,  Three  Reels. 

Reviewed  by  W.  Stephen  Bush. 

IT  is  pleasing  to  note  that  Marion  Leonard,  but  a  short  time 
ago  the  idol  of  motion  picture  patrons  the  country  over,  has 
not  lost  one  jot  of  her  power  to  charm,  entertain  and  capti- 
vate. Moving  picture  life  as  it  runs  on  today  is  too  often  part 
humdrum  and  part  hubbub  and  the  fine  feature  of  to-day  is  for- 
gotten in  the  sensation  of  to-morrow.  It  is  well  to  have  some- 
thing to  lay  hold  of  in  this  sea  of  uncertainty  and  confusion;  a 
permanent  oasis,  that  is  always  refreshing.  I  think  Marion  Leon- 
ard answers  this  description.  Her  cunning  and  her  witchery,  her 
beauty  and  her  talent  have  given  this  woman  a  unique  place  in 
the  world  of  motion  pictures.  We  are  glad  to  have  her  come 
back  to  the  throne  after  this  interregnum.  She  is  to-day,  as  she 
was  in  the  palmy  Biograph  days,  tJie  unrivaled  mistress  of  the 
silent  stage. 


Pmz 

Scene  from  "Carmen,"  (Monopol). 

Indeed  it  needed  all  the  art  of  this  gifted  woman,  all  her 
singular  charms  and  graces  to  make  this  three-reel  production 
fairly  acceptable.  *  But  for  her  striking  individuality  this  filmed 
version  of  "Carmen"  would  have  little  to  commend  it  to  either 
the  exhibitor  or  the  public.  "Carmen"  had  been  filmed  before, 
there  had  been  a  splendid  version  by  the  Pathes,  another  by  the 
Edison  Companv  and  a  third,  by  no  means  the  least  meritorious, 
by  a  Spanish  firm.  All  these  producers  followed  the  libretto 
of  the  opera,  which  in  turn  was  but  an  adaptation  of  the  novel 
of  Prosper  Merimee.  To  undertake  the  filming  of  this  old  c! 
with  so  manv  fine  prototypes  in  motion  pictures  must  have  <eemed 
a  bold  undertaking.  In  view,  however,  of  the  extraordinary  tal- 
ents  of  Marion   Leonard,   wb  'edly   had   special   qualiu- 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


cations  for  a  clever  rendering  of  "Carmen"  the  outlook  was  by 
mean-  unpromising.  Unfortunately  the  opportunities  given  to 
Miss  Leonard  tor  displaying  her  rare  gifts  are  very  scant.  She 
is  nine  more  than  a  fleeting  apparition  on  the  screen.  1  he 
famous  scene,  in  which  she  tempts  Jose  to  sacrifice  his  honor  as 
a  soldier  is  sadly  spoiled;  it  is  badly  connected,  hurried  and 
incoherent.  1  he  spectator  feels  nothing  of  the  tragic  intensity 
of  either  opera  or  novei.  This  is  true  of  the  whole  story.  Its 
grand  simplicity  has  been  marred  by  the  introduction  of  absurb 
incidents  and  episodes  for  which  no  trace  of  a  justification  can 
und  in  any  version  of  Carmen.  Unnecessary  and  disturb- 
ction  and  characters  are  dragged  in  by  the  hair,  as  it  were. 
'1  here  is  throughout  a  shocking  misconception  of  the  dramatic 
moments  of  th«  story.  Xor  is  this  the  worst.  Incredible  as  it 
may  seem,  something  like  half  a  reel  or  more  is  devoted  to 
vie  of  riding  and  to  the  robbery  of  a  stage  coach. 
Obably  the  most  tragic  and  gripping  moment  in  I 
is  the  last  scene,  in  which  Don  Jose  and  Carmen  me< 
las!  moments  when  the  bold,  passionate,  beautiful  and  heartless 
woman  taunts  the  victim  of  her  wiles  into  a  jealous  frenzy 
by  throwing  the  ring  at  his  feet  and  the  sudden  tragic  ending 
have  stirred  countless  audiences  to  horror  and  pity.  I  do  not 
like  to  record  this,  but  it  is  an  actual  fact,  that  in  this  filmed 
i  Carmen  the  fatal  meeting  occurs  in  a  tavern  and 
is  then  adjourned  for  no  rea>-  n  ni  particular  to  a  variety  of 
outdoor  settings.  After  a  chase,  using  up  about  150  feet  of  film, 
comes  the  mortal  thrust.  1  confess  my  inability  to  characterize 
such  ghastly  perversions  of  the  first  principles  of  dramatic  art. 
There  are  said  to  be  no  less  than  four  hundred  and  twenty-six 
scenes — this  is  enough  to  make  the  most  hardened  critic  shiver. 
How  much  better  would  it  have  been  if  there  had  been  less  riding 
and  stage  coach  robbing  and  more  of  Marion  Leonard.  I  have 
no  doubt  whatever,  that  Miss  Leonard  was  in  sympathy  with 
the  character,  but  I  cannot  believe  that  she  was  in  sympathy 
with  her  instructions. 

The  photography  was  on  the  whole  good,  though  here 
there  it  seemed  as  if  the  picture  were  slightly  out  of  focus.  The 
support  of  Miss  Marion  was  just  about  fair.  To  those  who 
know  Carmen,  this  filmed  edition  of  it  must  be  an  unpleasant 
surprise  by  reason  of  the  strange  additions  and  mixtures,  while 
to  those  unfamiliar  with  the  story  it  can  be  nothing  more  than 
a   bewildering   succession ' of   queer   and    disconnected    scenes. 


"A  Change  of  Administration" 

A  Selig  Picture  Dealing  with  One  Possibility  of  the  Political 
Patronage  Evil. 

AFFAIRS  in  Washington  have  a  continuous  and  universal 
interest  for  the  people  of  this  free  and  enlightened  re- 
public, and  they  take  a  heightened  intensity  whenever  a 
president  is  inaugurated  and  the  national  household  undergoes 
drastic  changes.  An  insight  into  some  of  these  details  is  gained 
in  an  important  new  pictorial  production  from  the  Chicago 
-tudios  of  the  Selig  Polyscope  Company.  The  scenario  is  by 
(jilson  Willets,  whose  experience  in  the  capitol  is  vividly  il- 
lustrated in  the  two-reel  special  "A  Change  of  Administration." 
While  politics  and  policies  may  be  the  engrossing  occupations, 
love-making  goes  on  as  usual,  as  it  does  in  either  peace  or  war, 
so  that  heart  interest  is  a  strong  feature  in  this  picturization. 

The  story  concerns  the  difficulties  of  a  clerk  in  the  war  de- 
partment, betrothed  to  the  daughter  of  an  ambassador,  wdio  loses 
his  position  bv  the  change  of  administration.  His  fiancee  is 
not  pleased  wi.'h  the  dismissal  of  her  lover  and  conspires  to 
bring  about  the  overthrow  of  his  successor.  She  accomplishes 
this  by  purchasing  some  valuable  documents  from  the  new  clerk, 
paying  for  them  in  marked  money.  Later  the  clerk  is  accused 
and  the  money  is   found  in  his  ion;  he  is  dismissed  from 

the  service  and  the  girl's  lover  is  restored  to  his  old  position. 

The  production  was  directed  by  Hardee  Kirkland  and  the 
leading  roles  were  played  by  Adrienne  Kroell,  Charles  Clary 
and  William  Stowell.  The  inaugural  Ball  scenes  are  master- 
pieces of  elaborate  staging  and  the  dazzling  array  of  costumes 
worn  by  those  attending,  make  this  particular  scene  exceedingly 
interesting. 

The  picture'will  be  released  by  the  Selig  Polyscope  Company  as 
a  two  reel  special  on  Saturday,  April  5th.  The  Selig  publicity 
department  have  prepared  *he  usual  elaborate  assortment  of 
publicity  aids  to  accompany  this  masterpiece. 


NED   FINLEY   JOINS   VJTAGRAPH. 

Xed  Finley,  a  long-time  Broadway  favorite,  has  joined  the 
Yitagraph  stock  company  of  players  and  will  be  featured  in 
many  of  the  forthcoming  Vifagraph  "life  portrayals." 


Beautiful  Scene  from  Selig's  Feature  "A  Change  of  Administration." 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


3i 


"Deerslayer" 


Two-Reel  Vitagraph. 
Reviewed    by    Louis    Reeves    Harrison. 

THERE  are  some  beautiful  exteriors  in  this  photoplay 
and  some  entirely  new  effects,  notably  those  of 
flotation,  most  of  the  pictures  of  action  being  more 
closely  associated  with  water  than  with  land.  There  are 
conflicts  in  the  lake  as  well  as  on  houseboat,  canoes  and 
rafts,  and  a  peculiar  feature  is  a  "castle"  or  wooden  fortress 
rising  out  of  the  water  and  inaccessible  from  all  save  boat 
attack.  But  the  main  purpose  of  the  presentation  seems 
to  be  that  of  reviving  interest  in  this  first  of  Cooper's 
"Leatherstocking  Tales." 

So  far  as  these  'adaptations  from  literary  sources  are  con- 
cerned, moving  pictures  enter  the  field  of  interpretative  criticism. 
Those  people  who  rarely  interest  themselves   in   the   almost 


plays  are  those  stories  written  especially  for  screen  pre- 
sentation, but  there  is  room  for  careful  adaptations,  and  I 
do  not  hesitate  to  endorse  these  when  they  have  merit  and 
are  not  out  of  all  numerical  proportion  to  others  to  be  placed 
on  the  exhibitor's  program,  even  "Deerslayers,"  declared 
by  Mark  Twain  to  be  Cooper's  worst  novel. 

The  great  humorist  said  that  J.  Fenimore  committed 
114  offences  against  literary  art  on  one  page  out  of  a  possible 
115,  also  that  the  only  restful  portions  in  it  were  where 
some  white  man  did  not  step  on  a  dry  twig  and  rouse  red- 
skins for  miles  around,  especially  when  absolute  silence 
was  worth  four  dollars  a  minute.  None  of  these  little  im- 
perfections, however  appear  in  the  photoplay.  Pictures 
cover  all  mannerisms  and  faults  of  speech  and  often,  as 
in  this  case,  give  a  complete  and  instantaneous  comprehension 
of  the  author's  meaning,  with  no  sense  of  effort  or  con- 
sciousness of  the  intervening  medium.  They  clarify  the 
underlying  throught  and  crystallize  the  form  of  expression. 


Scenes  from  Vitagraph  Two-Reel  Feature,  "Deerslayer." 


forgotten  tales  of  other  days  may  find  much  generosity  and 
faithfulness  of  detail  in  these  interpretations  of  past  works 
of  well-known  authors,  great  pains  being  taken  to  make  the 
author's  main  ideas  easily  available  by  briefer  statement. 
A  great  difficulty  in  producing  these  abridgements  is  that 
of  selecting  the  best  that  a  story  presents — it  is  so  easy  to 
magnify  insignificant  details  while  dwarfing  important  in- 
cidents. 

In  this  Cowboy-and-Indian  period  of  motion-picture  evo- 
lution, this  era  of  revolver  and  scalping  knife,  of  fringed 
trousers,  war  paint  and  feather  bonnets,  the  supreme' delight 
of  five-year-old  boys,  a  revival  of  James  Fenimore  Cooper's 
stories  seems  highly  appropriate,  and  a  view  of  the  early 
pioneers  comes  as  a  relief- — they  accomplished  something. 
We  who  are  living  in  protected  comfort  today  may  glimpse 
the  hardships  of  those  who  struggled  that  we  might  enjoy 
a  measure  of  freedom. 

In  fidelity  of  "holding  the  mirror  up  to  nature,"  this  photo- 
play is  to  be  highly  commended.  It  is  superior  to  most 
of  its  kind  in  faithfulness  of  portraiture  and  in  interpreting 
the  tendency  of  the  times  it  depicts.  It  must  be  difficult 
for  the  director  to  keep  his  head  level  amid  the  spectacular 
piroueting  and  cavorting  of  cowboys,  indians,  sheriffs  and 
villains  of  the  deepest  dye.  How  in  the  world  is  he  to  be  in 
sympathy  with  any  movement  that  is  being  honestly  made 
towards  improvement  in  public  taste  through  pictures  that 
sense  the  finer  spirit  of  our  people?  It  is  to  be  hoped  that 
moving  pictures  will  not  go  the  way  and  share  the  fate  of 
cheap  chromos. 

The  Vitagraph  Company  is  presenting  a  bill  of  large 
variety,  hence  it  may  be  well  for  them  to  give  further  inter- 
pretation of  Cooper's  novels.  My  objection  to  adaptation 
from  such  sources  is  based  upon  the  fact  that  few  novels 
contain  a  theme  which  can  be  framed  readily  and  in  its 
entirety  by  the  limitations  of  a  picture  play.  The  latter  re- 
quires a  continuous  adventure  of  swift  development,  moving 
rapidly  before  our  eyes.  Works  of  fiction  may  probe  all  the 
depths  of  human  experience  with  deliberation,  may  even 
set  the  main  action  aside  while  an  underplot  is  being  de- 
veloped.    Not  so  with  the  photodrama. 

The  photodrama  is  better  suited  to  vivid  action  projected 
with  tremendous  energy  into  limitations  of  space  and  time. 
Among  its  greatest  difficulties  are  those  of  preparation  and 
exposition,  of  placing  characters,  of  establishing  their  iden- 
tity and  peculiarities  so  that  their  conduct  is  logical  and 
interest  in  what  they  do  swiftly  aroused.     The  best  photo- 


PATHE  PLAYERS  IN  REAL  WRECK. 

\\  hile  returning  from  Saranac  Lake,  N.  Y.,  on  the  morn- 
ing of  Sunday,  Marcli  23,  Leo  D.  Wharton  and  a  company  of 
Pathe  players  had  a  rather  unpleasant  experience  in  a  rail- 
road wreck.  The  train  which  was  bearing  them  to  New  York 
jumped  the  track  and  bumped  along  on  the  ties  for  several 
hundred  feet  before  stopping.  All  the  company  were  sleeping 
comfortably  when  the  jolt  came.  A  roll-call  revealed  that 
none  was  seriously  injured,  though  it  is  said  several  convinced 
the  railroad  claim  agent  to  the  tune  of  a  few  hundred  dollars 
for  damages,  real  or  fancied.  It  is  also  recorded  that  Gwen- 
dolyn Pates  slept  serenely  through  it  all. 


MONTGOMERY  TO   OPEN  COLUMBIA  HOUSE. 

Montgomery's  new  Odeon.  theater  at  Columbia,  S.  C,  is 
scheduled  to  open  April  1.  It  is  said  by  local  experts  to  be  a 
model  in  construction  and  furnishing.  The  seating  capacity 
is  about  1,000  and  the  cost  between  thirty-five  and  forty  thou- 
sand  dollars. 


SsSsaKSS 

Majestic  Company  of  Players  Working  in  a  Florida  Jungle. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


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CHICAGO   LETTER 

By  J  AS.  S.  McQDADE 


A 


NYONE  familiar  with  the  proceedings  of  the  meetings 
held  in  New  York.  March  20  and  21,  between  officials 
of  the  Universal  Film  Manufacturing  Company  and 
representatives  and  owners  of  about  thirty-two  exchanges 
which  purchase  the  product  of  that  company,  cannot  fail  to 
be  impressed  that  the  affairs  of  this  independent  concern  are 
in  a  critical  condition  and  that  the  outlook  for  concerted 
action  between  manufacturers  and  exchanges  is  discouraging. 
It  was  thought  that  the  meeting  held  in  the  Sherman  House, 
this  city,  October  5th  last,  at  which  the  board  of  directors  of 
the  Universal  and  fourteen  independent  exchange  men  not 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  films  were  present,  had  re- 
stored harmony  by  outlining  policies  that  were  acceptable 
to  both  sides  in  the  controversy.  Six  months  have  not 
elapsed  since  then,  yet  a  break  between  Universal  manufac- 
turers and  the  exchanges  now  seems  inevitable. 

The  charge  is  made  by  the  exchanges  in  question  that  the 
Universal  manufacturers  have  not  kept  the  pledges  made  at 
that  October  5th  meeting.  It  is  charged  that  they  have 
failed  to  furnish  films  of  the  promised  quality  and  that  they 
have  forwarded  these  exchanges  certain  films  of  such  in- 
ferior quality  that  they  and  their  customers  have  suffered 
serious  loss  thereby.  The  hardship  imposed  by  the  manu- 
facturers in  forcing  the  exchanges  to  take  such  films  without 
inspection  and  pay  10  cents  per  foot  for  them,  irrespective  of' 
their  inferiority,  and  without  redress,  injured  the  customers 
of  the  exchanges  and  diminished  the  volume  of  business  done 
by  the  latter. 

The  complaining  exchanges,  now  all  members  of  the  Inde- 
pendent Exchange  Company,  will  number  36  when  they  meet 
in  Xew  York,  March  27  and  28,  to  hold  a  nnal  conference 
with  the  Universal  board  of  directors.  This,  it  is  said,  will 
leave  about  10  exchanges  in  line  with  the  Universal.  The 
members  of  the  Independent  Exchange  Company  assert  that 
they  have  already  made  full  provision  for  securing  ample 
and  high  class  weekly  programs  for  their  customers,  in  case 
they  cannot  arrange  acceptable  terms  with  the  directors  of 
the  Universal.  They  also  assert  that  their  policy  is  not  de- 
structive, but  for  the  uplift  of  the  business,  a  something 
which  they  claim  cannot  be  promoted  under  existing  con- 
ditions. 

It  is  hoped  that  a  further  break  in  the  independent  ranks 
will  be  averted.  It  will  simply  mean  more  competing  forces 
in  the  same  restricted  field  and.  therefore,  increased  friction. 
It  will  not  contribute  to  a  better  quality  of  film,  nor  will  it 
in  the  end  lead  to  better  programs  for  exhibitors.  The  board 
of  directors  of  the  Universal  can  well  afford  to  make  conces- 
sions in  the  interests  of  harmony. 

Ten  Hens'  Eggs  Admission  to  Picture  Shows. 

The  Chicago  Tribune  gives  the  information  that  Capt. 
Bracken  of  the  U.  S.  Marine  Corps,  lieutenant  governor  and 
chief  justice  of  the  island  of  Guam,  in  the  Philippines,  is  home 
on  a  vacation.  The  captain,  with  the  other  handles  to  his 
name,  describes  the  felicities  of  the  island  as  follows: 

"Everyone  is  happy  there.  Kindness  and  love,  and  base- 
ball, and  moving  pictures  are  all  there  is  to  life.  And  what 
more  could  be  wished? 

"We  established  a  moving  picture  show  and  the  natives  are 
wild  over  it.  It  gives  them  the  only  motive  they  have  for 
doing  work,  and  now  every  woman  on  the  island  has  taken 
to  raising  chickens,  as  ten  hen's  eggs  will  secure  admission  to 
the  show.'' 

If  Chicago  patrons  of  our  picture  theaters  were  forced  to 
pay  proportionate  admissions,  at  the  present  price  of  eggs, 
they  would  appreciate  pictures  more  highly.  The  Tribune 
editor  views  the  matter  humorously  thus:  "With  true  in- 
stinct  they  i  the  Guamese)  selected  eggs  because  the  hen 
could  do  most  of  the  work.''     What  about  the  rooster? 

The  General  Film  Company  vs.   Sam  Schiller. 

The  General  Film  Company  has  brought  suit  in  the  Circuit 
Court  of  Cook  County,  111.,  by  Cooney  &  Yerhoeven,  their 
attorneys  and  solicitors  in  Chicago.'  in  replevin  against 
Samuel  Schiller,  owner  of  the  Schiller  Theater,  this  city. 

The  papers  in  the  case  show  that  a  reel  of  film  was  re- 
cently replevined.     It  was  entitled    "The  Banker's  Daughter," 


made  by  the  Kalem  Company  some  time  ago.     The  film  was 
turned  over  to  the  sheriff  when  he  served  the  writ. 

Mr.  Verhoeven  informs  me  that  on  the  following  morning 
he  made  a  demand  for  another  film.  ""The  Battle  Hymn  of 
the  Republic."'  produced  by  the  Vitagraph  Company  of 
America.  This  film  was  turned  over  to  him  after  making  the 
demand. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Maurice  Fleckles  Banqueted. 

A  banquet  was  tendered  Mr.  and  Mr-.  Maurice  Fleckles 
by  the  office  force  of  the  Laemmle  Film  Service,  Chicago,  in 
the  College  Room  of  the  La  Salle  Hotel.  Saturday.  March 
22nd.  Forty  people  attended  the  banquet,  which  was  a  very 
pleasant  and  successful  affair.  Tom  Xorman  was  toast- 
master  and  several  happy  speeches  were  made. 

The  spread  was  given  in  honor  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fleckles, 
who  will  sail  for  Europe,  April  2nd.  The  happy  pair  greatly 
appreciated  the  efforts  of  the  employees  by  responding  to  a 
neat  toast. 

Tom  Quigley,  one  of  the  best  entertainers  in  the  city,  and 
his  wife  were  present.  Between  courses  Mr.  Quigley  sang 
his  famous  cabaret  songs  in  a  pleasing  manner.  Among 
those  present  were:  Tom  Norman,  Louis  Laemmle.  I.  L. 
Lesserman,  Abe  Stern,  Claude  Erby,  John  A.  McCann,  E.  A. 
We>tcott,  Hugo  Amberg,  and  F.  A.  Van  Husan,  of  the 
Laemmle  Film  Service,  Omaha,  Xeb. 

Chicago  Picture  Houses  Must  Have  Pure  Air. 

Health  Commissioner  Young,  of  Chicago,  has  taken  as  his 
text  for  his  latest  weekly  bulletin.  "Pure  Air  for  Moving  Pic- 
ture Shows."  Voluntary  and  thorough  co-operation  on  the 
part  of  Chicago's  picture  theater  owners  is  urged.  The  bul- 
letin states  that  the  health  of  250,000  people  is  affected  daily 
from  this  source. 

Here  are  some  of  the  telling  paragraphs  of  the  bulletin: 

"Pure  air  prevents  pollution,  promotes  pleasure,  and  pro- 
duces patronage. 

"A  theater  is  not  always  as  sweet  as  it  smells.  Some  blow 
pleasing  perfumes  into  the  air  to  disguise  offensive  body 
odors;  but  that  doesn't  purify  the  air. 

"In  addition  to  a  proper  system  of  ventilation  a  theater 
should  be  thrown  wide  open  hours  before  the  public  is  ad- 
mitted and  should  be  thoroughly  aired  between  succeeding 
performances. 

"Every  precaution  should  be  taken  to  exclude  the  sick  or 
ailing,  especially  children  with  throats  tied  up,  rashes  or 
those  having  bad  colds. 

"The  more  piecautions  you  take  to  protect  your  patrons 
the  better  your  reputation  and  the  greater  your  patronage. 

"Your  best  advertisement  is  cleanliness:  Cleanliness  of 
air,  of  house,  of  program." 

Dr.  Young  says  the  health  department  has  been  correcting 
ventilating  faults  in  many  of  the  older  picture  houses,  and 
those  who  fail  to  comply  with  the  departmental  requirements 
by  July  1  will  be  closed  until  the  repairs  are  made.  The  old 
method  of  bringing  suit  against  offenders  has  been  abandoned, 
as  litigation  usually  takes  about  seven  months  Instead,  the 
licenses  will  be  revoked  when  renewal  time  comes  around. 

Big  Chicago   Daily  in  Support  of   Moving   Pictures. 

Hearst's  Chicago  American  made  a  notable  departure  in  the 
issue  of  Saturday,  March  15.  Two  full  pages  were  devoted  to 
moving  pictures  and  advertisements  from  the  trade.  Among  the 
latter  was  quite  a  "spread"  from  Jones,  Linick  &  Schaefer's 
Orpheum  Theater,  on  State  street. 

The  announcement  was  made  that  this  department  would 
appear  in  the  American  every  Saturday,  under  the  editorship 
of  Tom  Bourke,  a  young  newspaper  man  of  fine  ability  and 
ambition.  Mr.  Bourke  was  formerly  the  American's  vaudeville 
expert,  and  is  well  known  throughout  the  theatrical   world. 

The  following  paragraph  appeared  in  the  opening  announce- 
ment :  "As  there  are  recognized  factions  striving  for  leader- 
ship in  the  motion  picture  world,  this  department  begins  without 
prejudice  and  will  remain  non-partisan.  The  whole  object  will 
be  to  furnish  such  cosmopolitan  news  as  will  broaden  the  scope 
of  motion  pictures." 

The  American  is  congratulated  on  its  venture,  and  the  Chicago 
branch  of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors  League  would  do  well  to 
take  steps  in  support  of  the  movement. 

A    Glowing    Future    for    Moving    Pictures. 

A  special  cable  to  the  Chicago  Xews  from  Berlin,  March  15, 
conveys  the  information  that  Hermann  Sudermann,  the  noted 
German  author,  has  sold  his  rights  to  "Der  Katzensteeg."  one 
of  his  finest  romances,  to  a  film  manufacturer  for  $15,000  and  a 
percentage  of  the  gross  receipts.  Herr  Sudermann  ranks  among 
the  most  fsmous  literary  men  of  Europe  at  the  present  time,  and 
his  opinion  of  the  future  of  the  moving  picture  cannot  fail  to 
exert  considerable  influence. 


THE    MOVING    PICTURE    WORLD 


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"The  kinematograph,"  says  Herr  Sudermann,  "has  passed  the 
blood  and  thunder  and  neurotic  love  story  stage,  and  will  now 
deal  with  current  events.  In  the  future  it  will  be  a  great  medium 
for  presenting  the  public  with  genuinely  artistic  ideas." 

Herr  Sudermann  cites  the  recent  artistic  moving  picture  suc- 
cess of  Max  Reinhardt's  "The  Miracle,"  at  the  Covent  Garden 
opera,  in  London,  and  also  the  present  use  of  moving  pictures 
at  the  Berlin  Royal  opera,  by  means  of  which  otherwise  impos- 
sible scenic  effects  in  the  Wagner  operas  are  produced.  These 
cases  he  regards  as  convincing  evidence  of  the  high  estimate 
placed  by  German  artistic  leaders  on  the  aid  afforded  by  the 
kinematograph.  In  connection  with  the  sale  of  the  rights  of 
"Der  Katzensteeg,"  it  is  stated  that  Gerhardt  Hauptmann's  last 
novel,   "Atlantis,"   will   shortly  be   seen   in   moving  pictures. 

It  would  appear  that  the  time  is  not  far  distant  when  film  manu- 
facturers will  vie  with  each  other  to  secure  the  rights  to  great, 
current,  popular  novels,  for  use  in  the  big  features  of  the  future. 
Everything  points  to  the  elimination  of  the  cheap  scenario,  and 
to  higher  admissions  to  picture  theaters,  where  the  highest 
efforts  in  kinematography  will  be  seen. 

Chicago  Film  Brevities. 

Wm.  Lee.  who  has  worked  in  the  capacities  of  producer, 
scenario  writer  and  character  actor  with  the  American  Film 
Manufacturing  Co.,  for  the  past  year  and  a  half,  has  resigned. 
The  closing  of  the  Film's  Eastern  studio  for  the  winter 
months  necessitated  the  change.  Mr.  Lee  is  anxious  to  se- 
cure an  appointment  as  producer  with  some  good  film  manu- 
facturing firm,  as  his  advertisement  elsewhere  in  this  issue 
shows.  Mr.  Lee  had  several  years'  experience  with  other 
film  manufacturing  companies,  prior  to  his  engagement  by  the 
American. 

*  *     * 

L.  T.  Osborn,  formerly  owner  of  the  I  sis  Theater.  Trini- 
dad. Col.,  was  in  Chicago,  Saturday,  March  22,  and  paid  a 
visit  at  the  office  of  the  Moving  Picture  World.  Mr.  Osborn 
sold  the  Isis  to  Jack  Nash,  a  local  newspaper  man,  who  took 
possession  March  1.  Mr.  Osborn  is  now  touring  the  coun- 
try east,  as  far  as  New  York,  and  will  take  in  most  of  the 
principal  cities  on  his  way.  He  states  that  he  has  been  very 
successful  in  the  purchase  of  "dead"  houses,  which  he  has 
made  profitable.  He  has  turned  four  such  houses  into  good 
paying  investments  (all  situated  in  Colorado)  within  the  past 
five  years.  Mr.  Osborn  stated  that  he  may  locate  either  in 
Oklahoma  or  Arizona  in  the  near  future,  and  that  he  has 
several  houses  lined  up  in  Texas.  Mr.  Osborn  owes  much 
of  his  success  to  the  fact  that  he  is  an  expert  newspaper  man, 
having  been  connected  with  some  of  Hearst's  and  other 
dailies  in  large  cities.  He  is  editor  and  owner  of  the  Isis 
News  in  Trinidad,  which  is  devoted  exclusively  to  news  of 
the  drama,  moving  pictures  and  vaudeville. 

*  *    * 

S.  Decker,  proprietor  of  the  Northern  Feature  Film  Ex- 
change, this  city,  has  just  returned  from  an  extended  trip 
through  Illinois.  He  reports  fine  results  from  "Cleopatra," 
one  of  his  big  features.  He  expects  to  make  an  announce- 
ment shortly,  for  the  benefit  of  exhibitors,  regarding  State 
rights  productions  for  Illinois  and  all  Western  States. 

*  *     * 

Andrew  B.  Boughan,  attorney  of  this  city,  was  elected 
counsel  for  the  Chicago  branch  of  the  Motion  Picture  Ex- 
hibitors' League,  at  the  last  meeting  held  in  Schiller's  Hall. 
Mr.  Boughan's  office  is  in  the  Otis  Building,  Room  850. 

*  *     * 

Fred  Bartholomae,  of  this  city,  who  has  been  prominently 
connected  with  moving  picture  theater  interests  in  the  past, 
paid  a  visit  to  the  World  office  last  week.  He  is  now  building 
the  Kimbark,  a  handsome  house  that  will  seat  between  700 
and  800  people,  situate  at  6240-42  Kimbark  Avenue.  The 
Kimbark  will  be  finished  some  time  in  the  early  summer.  It 
will  cost  between  $42,000  and  $45,000,  not  including  the  site. 
The  Decorators'  Supply  Company,  of  Chicago,  will  install 
the  interior  decorations,  and  the  Northwestern  Terra  Cotta 
Supply  Company  has  contracted  to  build  the  front.  The  ad- 
mission to  the  new  house  will  be  10  cents. 

*  *     * 

J.  Fischer,  one  of  the  partners  engaged  in  building  the 
Monticello  Theater,  Irving  Park  Boulevard  and  Monticello 
Avenue,  this  city,  called  at  the  World  office  last  week  and 
subscribed  for  this  publication.  The  Monticello  will  open 
some  time  early  in  April.  It  will  seat  292  people  and  the 
admission  will  be  5  cents.     Mr.  Fischer  will  be  manager. 

*  *     * 

John  L.  Christy,  manager  of  the  Edmonton  Film  Exchange, 
Alberta,  paid  a  visit  to  the  Chicago  office  last  week.  He 
stated  that  the  film  business  is  very  prosperous  throughout 
Canada,  and  that  most  of  the  exhibitors  are  charging  15 
cents  admission. 


The  Missoula  Amusement  Co.,  of  Missoula,  Mont.,  is  com- 
pleting a  new  picture  theater,  which  will  be  opened  about  April 
1st.  A  description  of  the  house,  with  illustrations,  will  apear  in 
a  later  issue  of  the  World. 

*     *     * 

W.  W.  Watts,  president  of  the  Vaudette  Amusement  Com- 
pany and  manager  of  the  Vaudette  Theater,  Springfield,  111., 
writes  that  he  is  having  remarkable  success  with  "From  the 
Manger  to  the  Cross."  for  which  he  holds  the  State  rights 
for  Illinois.  On  March  16th  a  presentation  was  given  at  the 
First  Christian  Lhurch,  of  which  the  Rev.  Frederick  Burn- 
ham  is  minister.  Mr.  Burnham  gave  a  lecture  as  the  films 
were  run  off,  and  appropriate  vocal  and  instrumental  music 
assisted  in  making  the  scenes  still  more  impressive.  Some 
of  the  ministers  in  the  other  churches  in  Springfield  an- 
nounced the  presentation  in  the  First  Christian  Church  from 
their  pulpits,  and  these  congregations  attended  in  large 
crowds  for  the  second  presentation  at  Mr.  Burnham's 
church.  The  event  was  prominently  discussed  by  the  local 
press  in  advance. 


MACE'S  PROP  LIST. 

Lately  there  was  a  police  and  fireman's  benefit  in  Los  An- 
geles .and  the  motion  picture  people  were  quick  to  respond. 
Fred  Mace,  of  Keystone  and  the  Photoplayers'  Club,  was  one 
of  the  first  to  respond  with  a  "nearly"  quartet  composed  of 
himself,  Charles  Murray,  Gus  Pixley  and  David  M.  Hartford. 
Dick  Ferris,  who  had  charge  of  the  stage,  warned  him  that 
unless  he  sent  in  his  prop  list  at  least  the  day  before  he  would 
not  get  what  he  asked  for.  This  is  the  prop  list  that  Mace 
sent  in.  We  do  not  think  that  Mr.  Ferris  found  many  of 
the  items: 

"PROP    LIST." 
"THE    ALMOST    QUARTETTE." 
1   live  spotless  leopard. 
1   football  filled  with  milk. 

1  movable  sidewalk. 

2  Burbank  oysters  and  one   smelt. 

1  cherry  tree  in  full  bloom. 

2  wild  eggs  with  Madam  Sherry. 
1   baked  hind  tire. 

1  invalid  tomato. 

2  pairs  of  monkeys'  tights. 

2  bags  left-handed  chewing  tobacco. 

1  quart  bottle  of  Glover's  Mange  Cure. 

2  human  cat's  eyes. 

1  wartless  pickle  (Dill  preferred). 

2  kernels  from  the  inside  of  a  "nut." 
1  speechless  telephone. 

1  box  of  expression  from  "Egans." 

WARDROBE  REQUIRED. 

2  pair  damaged  pajamas. 

1   pair  firemen's  hose,  size  12  feet. 

1  coach  and  four,  held  up  by  President  suspenders. 

1   Southern   Pacific   "Mogul"   locomotive   with   tender  behind   and   steam   up. 

1  crate  of  Mexican  firearms,  with  bellows. 

3  slightly  used  tamales. 

1   unused  white  child,  male. 

1   pack  of  worked  chewing  gum. 

1   sewer,  three  blocks  long,  with  curves. 

1  original  Floradoro   Sextette  girl    (blond   or  nearly). 

4  seedless  prunes. 

2  Dr.  Friedmann's  tubercular  germs  (tame). 
1   Boyle  H't's  car,  not  too  swollen. 

1   persimmon  with  pucker  removed. 

1   cross-eyed  artichoke. 

1   empty  banana. 

1   silent  fire  bell. 

1   piece  of  salt  ocean,  four  feet  square. 

1   sand  dab,  with  inflammatory  rheumatism. 

1   revolver,  with  reverse  English. 

1   pack  nicotineless  cigarette  butts. 

1   lone  widow,  with  a  past,  or  half-past,  not  a  quarter,  too. 

1   loaf  bread,  without  flour. 

1   long  Swede  with  a  beard  and  a  cup  of  coffee. 


MACE  QUITS  KEYSTONE. 

Last  Monday.  Fred  Mace,  comedian  and  producer  with  the 
Keystone  company,  wired  his  resignation  to  Kessler  and 
Bauman,  to  take  effect  a  week  from  to-day.  He  has  been  in 
treaty  with  several  managers  both  on  the  independent  and 
licensed  sides  and  it  is  not  yet  known  what  offer  he  has 
accepted. 


DOUGHERTY  LEAVES  BIOGRAPH. 

Lew  E.  Dougherty,  for  years  connected  with  the  Biograph 
Company  in  various  capacities,  but  for  the  last  few  years 
editor  of  scenarios,  has  resigned  from  that  company  and 
joined  Kinemacolor,  to  take  effect  April  1.  The  reason  given 
for  the  change  is  that  Mr.  Dougherty  desires  to  remain  in 
California  permanently,  while  his  work  with  the  Biograph 
Company  would  necessitate  his  returning  to  Xew  York  tor 
half  of  the  year.  Mr.  Dougherty  will  have  charge  of  the 
scenario  department  of  Kinemacolor,  vice  Anita  Hendrie 
Miles,  resigned. 


34 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


Doings  at  Los  Angeles 

"Spec"  Woods  Joins  Universal — Other  Universal  Changes — 
Vitagraph  Comedy  Hit — News  Briefs. 

THE  addition  of  two  more  directors  to  the  list  of  those 
employed  by  the  Universal  company  at  the  Western  studios 
in  this  city  has  been  the  occasion  for  a  general  re-assign- 
ment of  the  directors  among  the  companies.  1  he  new  directors 
afe  Frank  E.  Woods,  formerly  of  the  Kinemacolor,  and  Bob 
Leonard,  heretofore  one  of  the  leading  men  with  Otis  Turner's 
Rex  company. 

The  directors  and  their  brands,  under  the  new  schedule,  are 
as  follows :  Nestor  brand,  Al  E.  Christie,  Thomas  Ricketts, 
Frank  E.  Montgomery  and  Jack  O'Brien ;  Bison  brand,  Francis 
Ford,  Milton  H.  Fahrney,  Wilfred  Lucas  and  Henry  McRae; 
Rex  brand,  Otis  Turner,  Phillips  Smalley  and  Bob  Leonard; 
Powers  brand,  J.  Farrel  MacDonald,  H.  Matthews  and  Albert 
W.  Hale.  Frank  Woods  has  not  been  assigned,  but,  according 
to  rumor,  he  will  probably  be  given  a  Powers  company  unless  it 
is  decided  to  create  a  new  brand.  Mrs.  Smalley,  who  appears 
on  the  screen  under  her  professional  name  of  Lois  Weber,  is 
assisting  her  husband,  and  Francis  Ford  has  an  assistant  in  the 
person  of  Fred  W.  Randolph,  who,  it  is  said,  is  to  have  the  next 
directorship  which  opens.  He  had  charge  of  the  company  which 
returned  from  Hawaii  recently,  and  the  pictures  he  brought  back 
were  well  liked.  Another  ■  actor  who  is  being  groomed  for  a 
directorship  is  Ray  Myers,  who  is  working  in  Ford's  company. 

Otis  Turner's  company  has  finally  returned  from  Catalina, 
bringing  back  the  last  scenes  in  the  "Robinson  Crusoe"  produc- 
tion which  has  been  in  preparation  as  a  Rex  release  for  about  a 
month.  Bob  Leonard  was  Crusoe,  Edward  Alexander  was  Fri- 
day, Charles  Travis  was  the  captain,  and  Margarita  Fischer  was 
his  daughter..  The  last  scene  was  made  on  the  island  late  in  the 
afternoon  and  about  half  an  hour  before  the  company  caught  the 
boat  for  the  return  trip.  It  was  the  big  scene,  in  which  a  party 
of  cannibals  was  shown  rushing  Robinson  Crusoe's  camp.  About 
100  extra  people  were  used  as  cannibals.  The  hour  was  grow- 
ing late,  and  only  one  spool  of  film  was  left  of  all  the  company 
had  taken  over.  Turner  was  rushing  to  catch  the  boat  and  save 
an  extra  day's  pay  of  all  the  extra  people.  The  scene  was 
rehearsed  once  or  twice  and  then  the  camera  started.  As  the 
cannibals  emerged,  whooping  and  dancing,  from  the  brush 
around  the  camp,  Turner  uttered  a  cry  of  anguish  and  stopped 
the  camera.  One  of  the  leading  cannibals  was  frisking  about  in 
the  foreground,  vigorously  puffing  a  bulldog  pipe.  Only  the 
fact  that  there  was  barely  enough  film  left  to  take  the  scene  over 
saved  him  from  the  deadly  vengeance  of  the  irate  director. 

The  only  other  accident  in  connection  with  the  picture  was 
sustained  by  Leonard,  who  lost  a  piece  of  one  ear  in  the  beak  of 
his  "pet"  parrot. 

Life  is  one  constant  round  of  excitement  at  Oak  Crest.  In  a 
single  day  last  week  there  was  a  big  battle  scene  pulled  off  by 
one  director,  another  used  blasting  powder  to  lift  a  tree  out  of 
the  ground,  roots  and  all,  in  order  to  disclose  the  buried  treas- 
ure; a  third  produced  a  scene  in  a  war  picture  where  a  series  of 
underground  bombs  were  exploded  in  front  of  a  cavalry  charge, 
and  a  fourth  director  burned  an  entire  Western  town  to  the 
ground.  General  Manager  Kennedy  is  planning  to  shoot  an 
actor  or  two  in  front  of  the  camera  for  the  sake  of  realism  and 
excitement. 

Vitagraph  Comedy  Hit. 

The  hobo  comedy  recently  released  by  the  Vitagraph  company, 
under  the  name  of  "A  Corner  in  Crooks,"  made  such  a  hit 
everywhere  it  was  shown  that  a  second,  and  perhaps  a  series,  is 
to  be  attempted.  The  picture  was  produced  by  Rollin  S.  Stur- 
geon at  the  Western  studio  at  Santa  Monica,  and  Robert  Thornby 
and  George  C.  Stanley  had  the  two  tramp  leads.  They  will 
appear  in  "Shorty  and  Sandy,"  another  of  the  same  kind,  which 
has  just  been  completed. 

The  location  of  the  new  Western  Vitagraph  studio  at  Santa 
Monica  has  been  selected,  but  not  announced.  Director  Stur- 
geon and  his  company  will  remain  in  the  present  location,  on 
Ocean  Avenue,  until  the  new  place  is  ready  for  use.  There  will 
be  provisions  for  six  sets,  and  there  will  be  three  directors- 
Sturgeon,  Thornby  and  another  director  whose  name  has  not 
been  announced.  The  output  of  the  studio  is  to  be  greatly 
increased,  and  by  way  of  preparing  for  this  Sturgeon  is  "laying 
in  a  stock  of  photoplays.  Three  readers  have  been  engaged  to 
make  selections.  W.  Hanson  Durham,  scenario  editor  for  the 
company,  fell  downstairs  at  the  Photoplayers'  Club  on  the  open- 
ing night  of  the  rooms  and  broke  one  of  his  knee  caps.  He  is 
still  in  the  hospital,  but  has  turned  his  sickroom  into  an  office 
and  is  doing  his  work  without  interruption.  Sturgeon  and  sev- 
eral of  the  members  of  the  company  were  at  Catalina  last  week, 
making  a  marine  picture,  and  next  week  they  are  going  back  to 
use  the  same  backgrounds  in  a  Japanese  romance  in  which  there 


will  be  parts  for  Edwin  August,  Robert  Thornby,  Mary  Charle- 
son,  Anne  Schaefer  and  Margaret  Gibson,  the  latter  the  most 
recent  addition  to  the  company.  Both  the  Catalina  scenarios 
were  furnished  by  William  E.  Wing. 

News  Briefs. 

In  stating,  last  week,  that  the  "Third"  Biograph  release  is 
being  made  by  Tony  O'Sullivan,  the  writer  was  in  error.  O'Sul- 
livan  is  the  third  director,  but  he  has  been  assigned  to  the  Mon- 
day release,  and  David  Griffith,  the  original  Biograph  producer, 
is  personally  directing  the  Saturday  releases,  which  are  really 
the  "Third"  Biographs.  The  mid-week  comedies  will,  as  hereto- 
fore, be  directed  by  Dell  Henderson. 

*  *    * 

William  Selig,  head  of  the  Selig  Polyscope  Company,  arrived 
here  from  Chicago  this  week,  after  having  been  expected  almost 
daily  for  a  couple  of  months.  Business  matters  in  Chicago  kept 
him  there  beyond  the  usual  time  for  his  annual  visit.  He  will 
probably  be  here  for  a  month. 

*  *    * 

Richard  Garrick,  formerly  one  of  the  Universal  producers,  has 
opened  an  office  in  the  California  Building  and  will  make  a  busi- 
ness of  furnishing  extra  people  for  the  various  motion  picture 
companies  operating  in  this  field.  Already  he  has  a  list  of  more 
than  500  persons  who  have  had  more  or  less  experience  in  the 
pictures  and  who  are  open  for  occasional  engagements.  The 
scheme  is  one  which  will  save  much  trouble  for  the  studios  and 
the  actors,  and  it  will  probably  prove  profitable  for  Garrick. 

*  *    * 

William  Paley,  formerly  a  camera  man  for  the  old  Nestor 
Film  Company,  has  brought  suit  against  David  Horseley,  former 
proprietor  of  the  Nestor  company,  asking  damages  for  an  injury 
which  he  sustained  a  year  ago,  and  which  cost  him  his  right  foot 
and  part  of  the  leg.  While  engaged  in  taking  scenic  pictures 
for  the  Nestor  company  among  the  mountains  of  Nevada  he  was 
tipped  out  of  a  buggy  on  a  mountain  trail.  His  right  foot  was 
crushed,  and  when  an  infection  set  in  later,  amputation  was 
necessary.  His  companion  in  the  buggy  had  an  arm  broken. 
Paley  was  in  the  hospital  for  several  months,  and  on  several 
occasions  it  was  thought  he  could  never  recover.  He  is  still  a 
prisoner  at  his  little  home,  1460  Belleview  Avenue,  but  he  is 
cheerful  at  the  prospects  of  being  able  to  move  about  on  crutches 
a  little  later.  The  small  fund  which  was  raised  for  him  and 
his  wife — both  of  them  are  past  the  age  of  70  years — by  friends 
and  in  the  industry  is  nearly  exhausted,  the  hospital  and  other 
bills  having  made  heavy  demands  upon  it.  Paley  is  a  skillful 
mechanic  and  an  expert  on  motion  picture  cameras.  He  hopes 
to  be  able  to  accumulate  enough  money  to  establish  a  little  shop 
where  he  will  have  the  necessary  equipment  to  repair,  and  even 
to  build,  motion  picture  cameras,  and  he  thinks  possibly  that  his 
many  friends  in  the  industry  might  then  send  him  enough  busi- 
ness   to    enable   him    to    keep   himself    and    his    wife   above   the 

poverty  line. 

*  *    * 

Director  Henderson  of  one  of  the  two  Thanhouser  comoanies 
now  working  in  Los  Angeles  is  putting  on  a  film  production  of 
"Carmen."     It   will   possibly  be   released  as  a  two-reel   feature. 

P.  M.  POWELL. 


"LIVING  STATUE"  WEEK! 

If  you'd  hit  Thanhouser  studio  the  other  week  you'd 
thought  the  players  had  gone  into  the  living  statue  business. 
There  they  were,  a'holding  rigid,  and  all  for  a  purpose  and 
a  picture,  of  course!  First  came  Lila  Chester,  Dave  Thomp- 
son and  Carl  Leviness  costumed  as  "dummies."  In  the  film 
called  "The  Wax  Lady,"  released  Sunday,  March  30.  you 
will  find  them  in  the  show  window  of  the  heartless  merchant. 
Miss  Chester  plays  the  Lady.  The  Thanhouser  Kidlet,  even, 
had  a  "hold  still"  pose,  for  the  part  of  the  doll  in  "The 
Spoiled  Darling's  Doll,"  out  Friday,  April  4.  She  makes  a 
very  natural  doll,  too,  and  doesn't  look  at  all  alive;  so  when 
you  see  her  doing  cute  doll  tricks  you  think  her  an  ingenious 
mechanical  toy. 


AMERICAN'S   WESTERN    STUDIO    NEARS    COMPLE- 
TION. 

The  grading  and  foundation  work  having  been  completed, 
the  American's  property  at  Santa  Barbara  is  beginning  to 
assume  shape  with  the  erection  of  the  first  bis*  building  of 
the  new  studio.  This  is  the  administration  building,  and  is 
surrounded  by  two  giant  Mission  towers.  Over  8,000  cubic 
yards  of  earth  were  removed  in  the  actual  leveling  of  the 
property,  a  figure  that  will  give  some  conception  of  the  size 
of  the  new  structure. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


35 


We  Moving-  Picture  Educator 


EDUCATIONAL  SUBJECTS  CLASSIFIED. 

By  the  Rev.  E.  Boudinot  Stockton,  S.  T.  B. 

THE  catalog  of  educational  pictures  and  photoplays 
suitable  for  religious  and  educational  work  for  the 
month  of  February  is  given  below.  For  the  summary 
of  the  classification  and  the  explanations  and  abbreviations 
see  the  previously  published  lists  for  December  1912  and 
January  1913.  As  several  clergymen  have  asked  for  the  sub- 
divisions of  Sociology  and  Religion  we  give  them  in  the  next 
two  paragraphs. 

2.  Religion;  21.  Natural  Theology;  22.  Holy  Scripture;  23. 
Dogmatic  Theology;  24.  Practical  Theology;  25.  Pastoral 
Theology;  26.  The  Church  as  an  Institution  or  Organization; 
27.  General  History  of  the  Church;  28.  Churches  and  Christian 
Sects  or  Denominations;  29.  Ethical  and  Non-Christian  and 
Anti-Christian  Religions. 

3.  Sociology;  31.  Statistic;  32.  Politic;  33.  Economic;  34. 
Law,  Legislation,  Jurisprudence;  35.  Administrative  law, 
Administration;  36.  Social  Associations  and  Institutions; 
37.  Education;  38.  Commerce,  Transportation;  39.  Manners 
and  Customs,  Folklore. 

GENERAL  INFORMATION. 
Newspaper. 

Animated  Weekly.     Universal  5,  12,  19,  26.     (15:712;  814;  926;   1026). 
Gaumont  Weekly.     Gaumont  5,  12,  19,  26.     (15:716;  818:  932;   1030). 
Mutual  Weekly.    Mutual   Film    Corp.,   6,   13,    20,  27.    (15:928;    1028). 
Pathe*s  Weekly.     Pathe  3,  10,  17,  23.     (n.s.p.;  15:706;  806;  920). 

Children's  Stories. 
Buttercups.     Vitagraph  12.     (15:598:887).     The  story  of  how  two  children 

tried  to  help  mother  by  putting  into  practice  an  Irish  fairy  tale. 
A  Little  Hero.     Selig  14.    (15:604;  888).    What  Buddy  did  when  he  was 

left  in  charge  of  his  sister  and  the  prairie  fire  came. 
Nobody's  Boy.     Selig  20.    (15:700;  996).     How  Bobby  learned  the  meaning 

of  the  love  that  chasteneth.      Good   for   sermons   on   Deuteronomy  8:5; 

Proverbs  3:12;  Hebrews  12:5-7;  Revelation  3:19. 
The  Children  of  Japan.    C.  G.  P.  C.  28.     (15:806";  1104.)     Children's  day 

in  Japan. 
See  also  Fairy  Tales  under  39. 

PHILOSOPHY  &  PSYCHOLOGY. 
Temperance. 

A  Father's  Lesson.     Biograph  13.    (15:606;  887). 
Drink's  Lure.     Biograph  17.    (15:706;  888). 
The  Two  Cusses.     Pilot  20.    (15:882;  n.c.p.). 

2.  RELIGION. 

22.    HOLY    SCRIPTURE. 

Nobody's  Boy.     Selig  20.     See  Children's  Stories  under  o. 

Till  the  Day  Breaks.     Solax  21.    (15:718;  n.c.p.).     bt.  John  15:13. 

The  Three  Wise  Men.  Selig  5.  (15:494:  780;  mfg.  684).  St.  Matthew 
2:1-12.  A  miracle  play  in  which  a  wealthy  modern  pleasure  seeker  fol- 
lows the  Magi  to  Bethlehem.  Contains  good  reproductions  of  several 
famous  paintings  and  engravings,  among  them  Holman  Hunt's  "Behold 
I  Stand  at  the  Door  and  Knock." 

24.  PRACTICAL  THEOLOGY. 
Conscience. 

The  Bells.  Reliance  19.  (15:816;  889;  mfg.  792).  Reproduction  of  Sir 
Henry  Irving's  adaptation  of  Erckman-Chatrian's  drama,  "Le  Juif 
polonais." 

A  Child's  Conscience.     Mutual  educational  20.    (15:930:  n.c.p.). 

Love:  Charity. 

Nobody's  Boy.     Selig  20.     See  Children's  Stories  under  o. 
Till  the  Day  Breaks.     Solax  21.     See  Holy  Scripture  under  22. 
The  Two  Sisters.    Thanhouser  21.     (15:814;  889.)     Love  to  one's  neighbor 
and  forgiveness  of  injuries. 

The  Commandments. 
5th. 

A  Wifes  Battle.     Reliance  1.     (15:506;  573.)     Deals  also  with  the  seventh 

and  tenth  commandments  and  with  the  obstacles  to  Christian  perfection. 
For  Mother's  Sake.     Cines  11.     (15:604.) 
Her  Only  Son.     Selig  12.     (15:604;  887;  mfg.  684.) 
The  Message  op  the  Palms.     Kalem  26.     (15:808;   1103.)     Deals  also  with 

the  topics  of  Palm  Sunday  and  the  duties  and  devotion  of  masters  and 

servants. 
The  Higher  Duty.     Lubin  it.     (15:602;  887;  792.)     Deals  also  with  the 

seventh  commandment. 

8th  &  10th. 
Her  Only  Son.     Selig  12.     (15:604;  887;  mfg.  684.) 
The  Two  Sisters.     Thanhouser  21.     (15:814;  889!) 
The  Minister's  Temptation.     Edison  22.     (15:706;  996.)     Deals  also  with 

the  obstacles  to  Christian  perfection  and  the  duties  and  obligations  of 

the  rich  and  of  the  clergy. 

Duties:  Moral  Obligations. 
The  Finer  Things.    American  17.     (15:714:  782.)     Deals  with  the  problem 

of  happiness  and  what  things  are  really  most  worth  while.     Good  for  a 

sermon  on  Phillipians  1:10,  Or  Romans  2:18. 
The  Peril  of  the  Dance  Hall.     Kalem  17.      (15:704;  888.) 


Growth  in  Holiness. 

The  Supreme  Sacrifice.  Lubin  27.  (15:804;  1103.)  Self-sacrifice  and 
self-renunciation. 

A  Wife's  Battle.     Reliance  1.     See  Fifth  Commandment  above. 

Hello.  Central.  Give  Me  Heaven.  Imp  17.  (n.s.p.;  15:889.)  Prayer, 
trust  in  God  and  the  childlikeness  that  enables  one  to  enter  the  King- 
dom of  God. 

The  Struggle.  Kinemacolor.  (15:718;  681.)  An  exceptionally  strong 
photoplay.  On  the  great  importance  of  not  taking  drugs  to  relieve 
minor  sufferings.  Can  be  used  very  effectively  on  Good  Friday  in  con- 
nection with  a  sermon  on  our  Lord's  rejection  of  the  stupifying  myrrh 
offered  to  Him  after  His  cry,  "I  thirst." 

St.  Joseph's  Taper.  Melies  20.  (15:604;  996.)  Good  for  a  sermon  on 
devotion  to  the   Saints. 

29.  ANTI-CHRISTIAN   RELIGIONS. 

The  Great  Prayer  of  the  Arabs.     Pathe  1.     (15:388;  678.) 

3.  SOCIOLOGY. 
343.  Penology. 

The  Lost  Note.      Lubin   3.      (15:494;   680;    mfg.    587.)      Value   of  circum- 
stantial and  presumptive  evidence. 
The  Redemption.    Kalem  21.     (15:704;  996.)     Study  in  criminal  sociology. 

355.  Army  &  Navy:  War. 
With    the    Servian    Army    before   Adrianjiple.       Kinemacolor.      (15:818: 

782.) 
French  Alpine  Manoeuvres.     Gaumont  4.     (n.s.p.;   15:466.) 
French  Army  Manoeuvres.     C.  G.  P.  C.  7.     (15:498;  780.) 
Swedish   Submarine   Manoeuvres.      C.   G.   P.   C.  4.      (15:498;   779.) 
The  Newest  Method  of  Coaling  Battleships  at  Sea.     Edison  26.      (15: 

920;   1103.) 
The  Launching  of  the  "New  York."     Kinemacolor.     (15:618;   574.) 

362.   Charitable   Institutions. 

What  New  York  is  Doing  for  its  Deaf,  Dumb  and  Blind.      Kalem  28. 

(15:808;   1103.) 

382.  Importing  &  Exporting. 
Importing  Cattle  from  Mexico  into  the  United  States.    Lubin  25.    (is: 

804;  997.) 

39.    MANNERS   &   CUSTOMS:   FOLKLORE. 

Bathers  in   Ceylon*.     Eclair  2.     (15:502;   573.) 
Odd  Occupations  in  New  York.     Kalem  21.     (15:704;  995.) 
Corsets  and  Waists.     Kinemacolor.      (15:718;   681.) 
The  Tournament  of  Roses,  Pasadena.      Nestor   17.      (n.s.p.;   15:782.) 
The  Children  of  Japan.     C.  G.  P.  C.  28.     (15:806;   1104.) 
398.  Folklore:  Fairy-tales. 

Hop  O'  My  Thumb.     Gaumont   11.      (21-.;   15:818;  n.c.p.;  sp.   rev.  351.) 
Snow   White.      Powers   19.      (3r. ;   n.s.   or  cp. ;   sp.   rev.    15:582.) 

5.  SCIENCE. 
Microscopy. 

Under  the  Microscope.     Gaumont  13.      (n.s.  or  cp.) 

Botany. 

The  Pn-cuFR  ^'-nt.     C    r.    p    C.  4.      fi;:<in8:  '7<v) 

The  Opening  Bud.    C.  G.  P.  C.  7.    (15:498;  7S0.)  ' 

Zoology. 
Animals   in   the   London   Zoo.      Eclipse   26.      (15:922;   n.c.p.) 
Sea  Anemones.      C.   G.   P.    C.  25.      (15:806:   997.) 
rtF.EP  nea  Si'^li.  Fish.    Gaumont  6.     (15:718:   ^74.^ 
The  Great  Centipede.     C.  G.  P.  C.  21."    (15:708;  995.) 
Snakes  and  Frogs.     Eclipse  19.     (15:696;  n.c.p.) 
The  I-'roc.     V'ltii?1  e^'irational  13.     (15:822:  n  cp.) 
The  Hedgehog.     C.  G.  P.  C.   14.     (15:606;  888.) 

6.  APPLIED  SCIENCE. 

Public  Hygiene. 

The  Dangers  of  the  Street.     Edison  12.     (15:600;  88-.) 

622.  Mines  &  Mining. 
Quartz  Mining  in   California.     Powers  21.     (n.s.p.;   15:889.) 

624.  Military  Engineering. 
Building  Pontoon  Bridges.     C.  G.  P.  C.  28.     (15:806;   1104.) 

626.  Canal  Engineering. 
The  Panama  Canal.  Vitagraph  12.  (15:698;  887.) 
The  Panama  Canal.     Mecca  15.     (n.s.  or  cp.) 

63.    AGRICULTURE. 

63.4  Arboriculture. 

Orange  Growing.     Lubin  13.     (15:602;  887.) 

63.6  Zootechic:  Animal-breeding. 
Cowboy  Sports  and  Pastimes.     Universal-Bison   1.      (n.s.p .•    15:573.) 
Importing  Cattle  from  Mexico  into  the  United  States.    Lubin  25.     (15: 

804;  997.) 
Man's  Best  Friend.      Kinemacolor.      (15:618;  574.)      Portrays  nine  breeds 

of  dogs. 
A  Study  of  Kittens.     C.  G.  P.  C.  25.     (15:806;  997.) 
The  Seven  Ages  of  an  Alligator.     Thanhouser  2.     (15:614;  681.) 

63.8   Useful   Insects. 
Bees.     Mutual  educational  23.     (15:822;  n.c.p.) 

66.  INDUSTRIAL  CHEMISTRY. 

The  Cocoa  Industry  in  Panama.     Imp  8.     (n.s.  or  cp.) 

The  Salt  Industry  in  Sicily.     C.  G.  P.  C.   11.     (15:606;  887.) 

Borneo  Pottery.     C.  G.  P.  C.   14.      (15:708;  888.) 

67.   MANUFACTURES. 

How  Briar  Pipes  are  Made.    C.  G.  P.  C.  21.     (15:708;  995.) 


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68.   TRADES:    HANDICRAFTS. 
Native   Industries  in   Soudon,   Egypt.      C.   G.   P.   C.   28.      (15:806;    1104.) 
The  Electrotyfinc  Process.     C.  G.   P.   C.    11.     (15:606;  887.) 

7.  FINE   ARTS. 

711.  Parks  &  Public  Gardens. 

In  a  Japanese  Garden.     Edison  24.     (15:920;  n.c.p.) 

739.    Metallic    Arts. 

Buddha.  Selig  14.  (15:604;  n.c.p.)  The  bronze  statue  of  Buddha  made 
by  the  Japanese.   1252  A.,;. 

77.88  Trick-photography. 
Mystic  Manipulations.     Kinemacolor.      (15:718;  681.) 

79-    SPORTS:    GAMES:    AMUSEMENTS. 

791.  Public  Amusements. 
Blackpool,  the  Coney  Island  of  England.     Eclipse  26.     (15:922;  n.c.p.) 

792.  Theater:  Stage. 

An  Actress's  Romance.  All  Star,  (n.s.p. ;  15:467.)  Sarah  Bernhardt  in 
her  adaptation   of  "Adrienne  Lecouvreur." 

In  a  Woman's  Power.  Imp  13.  (2r.;  15:612;  n.c.p.)  Adaptation  of 
"Article  47.'*  as  played  by  Clara  Morris. 

As  in  a  Looking  Glass.  Monopol.  (3r.;  15:1140;  n.c.p.)  Adapted  from 
the  version  acted  by  Lily   Langtry. 

Beau  Brummell.  Vitagraph  19.  (15:698;  99S-)  Adapted  from  the  play 
by  Clyde  Fitch. 

The  Bells.  Reliance  19.  (jr.;  15:816;  889;  mfg.  792.)  Adapted  from 
Sir   Henry   Irving's  version   of   Erckman-Chatrian's   "Le   Juif   polonais." 

The  Doll  and  the  Devil.  Pilot  27.  (15:932;  937;  mfg.  902.)  Adapta- 
tion of  an  old  French  opera. 

796.   Athletics. 

Bathing  in   Cevlon.      Eclair  2.      (15:502;    573.) 

8.  LITERATURE. 

82.   ENGLISH. 
Poetry. 

The  Flaming  Forge.  Selig  25.  (15:802;  997.)  Adaptation  of  Long- 
fellow's "Village  Blacksmith." 

The  Blacksmith's  Story.  Pilot  13.  (n.s.p.;  15:889.)  Based  on  a  poem 
by  Frank  Olive. 

The  Two  Glasses.  Pilot  20.  (15:822;  n.c.p.)  Adaptation  of  a  poem  by 
Ella  Wheeler   Wilcox. 

Drama. 

Box  and  Cox.  Crystal  2.  (15:392;  n.c.p.)  Adaptation  of  James  Madison 
Morton's  farce. 

Fiction. 

The  Cash  Intrigue.     Utah  M.  P.  Co.      (Note  15:353.)     Adaptation   in  four 

reels  of  George   Randolph  Chester's  story. 
Pickwick    Papers.      Vitagraph    28.      (2r.;    15:916;    1104;    sp.    rev.    15:663.) 

Part   1:  The  adventure  of  the  honorable  event;    Part   2:   The  adventure 

of  the  Westgate  seminary,  from  Dickens'  novel. 
The   Prisoner   of   Zenda.      Famous    Players.      (41*-;    sp.    rev.    15:477;    871.) 

Photodramatization  of  Anthony   Hope's   novel. 
Silver   Blaze.      Eclair    (Union    Features).      (15:618;    n.c.p.)      Adaptation    of 

a  story  in  Conan   Doyle's  "Adventures  of   Sherlock   Holmes." 
Sherlock   Holmes   Solves  the  Sign  of  the   Four.      Thanhouser   25.      (15: 

822;  998.)     Adaptation  of  Conan  Doyle's  story  "The  Sign  of  the  Four." 

84.  FRENCH. 

Hop  O'  My  Thumb.  Gaumont  11.  (15:818;  n.c.p.)  Adaptation  of  Per- 
rault's   fairy  tale. 

85.  ITALIAN. 

Marcus,  the  Venetian  Tribune.  Ambrosio  22.  (n.s.  or  c.p.)  Adapta- 
tion of  Gabriel  d'Annuncio. 

88.  GREEK. 

Oedipus  Rex.  All  Star.  (4r.;  sp.  rev.  15:346.)  Mounet  Sully  in  the 
tragedy  of  Euripides. 

9.  HISTORY. 

The  Knights  of  Rhodes.  Ambrosio  8.  (Sp.  rev.  15:977.)  The  defense 
of  the  Island  of  Rhodes  by  the  Knights  of  St.  John  of  Jerusalem,  and 
the  capture    of    the    Island   by    Sultan    Solyman,    the    magnificent,    1522 

91.  GEOGRAPHY. 

91  (2).  PHYSICAL  GEOGRAPHY. 
Mountains. 

A  Visit  to  Jungfrau.     Kinemacolor.     (15:618;  574.) 

A  Trip  to  Mount  Lowe,  California.     Powers.  26.     (n.s.p.;   15:890.) 

Rivers  &   Streams. 
Along  the  Columbia  River.     Pathe   1.     (15:388;  678.) 
The  Beautiful  Falls  of  Marmore.    Cines  1.     (15:382;  n.c.p.;  mfg.  475.) 

Lakes. 
Views   of   Narni    and   Lake   Trasimeno.       Cines    18.      (15:690;   995;    mfg. 

874.) 
Lower    Lake    Geneva.    Switzerland.       Kinemacolor.      (15:820;    782.) 
Lake  Candy,  Cevlon.     Mutual  educational  20.      (15:822;  928;   n.c.p.) 

91  (4)-    EUROPE. 

Great  Britain  and  Ireland. 

Views  of  Ireland.     Vitagraph  20.     (15:698;  996.) 
On   the  Cornish    Kiviera.      Kinemacolor. 
See  also  under  791. 

France. 
Glimpses  of  Provence,  France.     Pathe  26.     (15:806:   1103.) 
A  Dead  Town,  Beaux,  in   Provence.     Eclair  23.     (15:712;  889.)     See  also 
under   355. 

Italy. 

Views  of  Narni  and  Lake  Trasimeno.  Cines  18.  (15:696;  995.)  See 
also  under  66. 

Spain. 

Segovia,  Spain.     Mutual  educational  6.      (15:822;  n.c.p.) 
Toledo,  Spain.     Mutual  educational   30.     (15:822;  n.c.p.) 

Scandinavia. 

Kullen,   the  West  Coast  of   Sweden,     ureat   Northern   22.      (n.s.   or  c.p.) 
Danish  Landscapes  at  Jutland.     Great  Northern    15.     (Mfg.    15:684.)    See 
also  under  355. 

91  (73)  united  siatfs. 

Illinois. 
Famous    Illinois    Canvons   and   Starved    Rock.       American    27.      (15:814; 
n.c.p.) 

Wisconsin. 

Manitowoc,  Wisconsin.     Gem  11.     (n.s.p.;   15:782.) 


California. 

Los  Angeles,  the  Beautiful.     Thanhouser   7.      (15:614;   681.) 
The  City  of  San    Francisco.      Edison   11.      (15:600;   887.) 
The   Yosemite   Valley   in    Winter.      Selig   20.      (15:700;    996.)      See   also 
under  622. 

Panama. 

See  under  626  and  66. 

91  (9).  OCEANIA. 

Picturesque  Tasmania.      Pathe  22.      (n.s.   or  c.p.) 

Captain    Scott's    South    Pole    Expedition.       South    Pole    Expedition    Co. 

(Advertisement   15:811.)      Excellent  views  of  the  start  of  tl.e  expedition 

and  its  establishment  in  winter  quarters. 

92.  BIOGRAPHY. 

Madame  Sarah   Bernhardt  at  Home.      All   Star.      (2r.;  sp.   rev.    15:467.) 

Lucretia  Borgia.     Eclectic.     (2r. ;  mfg.  15:272.) 

Andrew  Jackson.     American  3.     (2r.;   15:504;  681.) 

Solyman,   Sultan  of  Turkey.      See  under  9. 

Governor  Wilson.     Vitagraph  28.     (15:802;  1104;  note  13:431.)     President 

Wilson's    acceptance    of    his    nomination    in     1912,    by    the    Democratic 

Party,    as   candidate   for   President. 
Knichts  of  St.  John  of  Jerusalem.     See  under  9. 


THE    LATEST    EDUCATIONAL— X-RAY,    MICRO- 
BIOLOGY. 

By  Rev.  W.  H.  Jackson. 

In  a  recent  issue,  mention  was  made  of  the  latest  Gaumont 
success  in  the  production  of  films,  in  which  the  photographs 
were  taken  by  the  aid  of  the  X-Ray  and  the  microscope.  The 
first  of  these  releases  shows  the  wonderful  experiments  made 
with  a  living  frog. 

Circulation — Is  first  exposed  and  explained  under  the  fol- 
lowing  divisions: 

(a)  Movement  of  the  heart  of  a  frog.  It  is  more  than  in- 
teresting to  see  the  heart  in  action,  throboing  and  pumping 
as  it  sends  the  blood  forward. 

(b)  Circulation  of  blood  in   Mesenteric  vessels  of  a   frog. 

(c)  Circulation   in   the   capillaries   of  a   frog. 

(d)  Blood  of  a  hen  under  the  most  powerful  microscope. 

(e)  Spirilles  in  the  blood  of  a  hen. 

(f)  Assembling  the  Spirilles  in  the  hen. 

While  all  these  seem  very  scientific,  it  must  not  be  sup- 
posed that  they  are  too  much  so  for  ordinary  purposes. 
Under  all  circumstances  people  of  average  intelligence  will 
find  themselves  intensely  interested;  while  for  schools  they 
will  be  of  great  service  on  account  of  the  instantaneous 
teaching   they   impart. 

Human  Blood — (a)  Child's  blood  under  the  most  powerful 
microscope. 

(b)  Human  blood  three  hours  after  digestion,  showing  the 
nourishment  entering  the  blood. 

These  pictures  carry  their  own  interest  and  will  be  as 
valuable  to  the  laity  as  to  the  professionals. 

Parasites  in  the  Intestines  of  a  Frog — (a)  Opalines, 
greatly  magnified. 

(b)  Balantidiums.  among  the  most  primitive  forms  of 
parasites. 

(c)  Hexamitus,  these  navigate  by  means  of  propellers  or 
oars. 

The  film  shows  two  kinds,  the  transparent  and  the  opaque. 

(d)  Tramatode,  worm  found   in   the   intestines   of  a   frog. 

(e)  Tramatode,  worm  found  in  the  bladder  of  a  frog. 
The  working  of  these  parasites  is  an  education  in  itself,  the 
chief  value  of  the  subject  will  lie,  however,  in  the  verbal  addi- 
tions to  the  titles,  in  the  classroom  if  this  can  be  given,  no 
more  valuable  pictures  can  be  used. 

Spirilles  and  Bacteria  of  Dentary  Tartar — Bacteria  of  water, 
showing  vast  numbers  of  primitive  creatures  maneuvering 
in  supposedly  clean  water.  While  there  is  something  about 
this  suDject  not  entirely  new.  the  new  process  whereby  these 
pictures  are  taken  show  a  detail  and  conspicuousness  not  re- 
vealed before. 

Muscular  Movements  of  the  Intestines — This  is  a  tremen- 
dously interesting  series,  the  effects  of  drugs  upon  the  in- 
testines is  shown  by  enlargements  or  contractions,  as  well  as 
by  the  muscular  spasms  which  follow  the  uses  of  sulphate  of 
soda  and  other  medicines. 

It  is  at  first  difficult  to  calculate  the  possibilities  of  the  re- 
searches now  opened  by  X-ray  micro-photography,  it  does 
seem,  however,  that  the  first  great  value  lies  in  its  power  to 
bring  difficult  and  scientific  subjects  within  the  range  of  the 
average  youth  of  both  sexes;  knowledge  of  first  importance  is 
now  theirs  and  when  other  fields  of  a  more  domestic  nature 
have  been  opened  up  the  coming  generation  will  be  the 
greatest  gainers.  , 


"FIRE." 
By  Rev.  W.  H.  Jackson. 
This  Eclair  release  is  a  very  interesting  and  complete  his- 
tory and  description  of  Fire,  its  origin,  powers  and  purposes. 
Il  is  not  often  that  a  subject  of  so  broad  a  nature  can  be 
so  effectively  reduced  to  the  limits  of  one  reel,  and  yet  be 
made  so  thorough  and  complete;  people  to  whom  the  sub- 
jct   may   not   present    any    interest,   are   at   once   pleased   and 


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edified:  while  to  the  scholar  a  very  valuahle  lesson  is  learned 
in  an  exceedingly  short  space  of  time,  in  a  way  that  makes 
:orgctling  difficult. 

The  first  picture  shows  man  in  his  primitive  state,  start- 
ing a  fire  by  striking  the  rock  and  flint  stone  until  the  spark 
is  produced,  and  fallen  dry  leaves  starts  to  burning  which  he 
blows  -litu  a  t!ame,  and  feeds  until  a  great  fire  results. 
Fire  Worshipped. 
"Fire,"  as  a  source  of  power  has  been  honored  as  a  divinity 
since  the  remotest  times.  In  India  "Fire"  was  worshipped 
under  the  form  of  the  god  Agni.  Pictures  of  this  god  are 
shown  under  various  conditions  and  explained  that  "This 
god  held  in  his  hands  fans  to  stir  the  fire.  '  In  this  way  a 
profitable  piece  of  information  is  introduced  relative  to  the 
origin  and  purpose  of  this  form  of  superstition  and  idolatry. 
"Agni"  is  also  shown  as  representing  the  Sun.  and  is  seated 
on  a  Ram:  the  ram  being  the  first  sign  of  the  zodiac. 
Fire  in  Religion. 
Fire  or  Light  is  symbolized  in  religion  by  various  devices. 
The  Christian  religion  is  represented  by  the  light-giving 
Cross,  presumably  the  makers  intended  rightly  to  depict  the 
Cross  as  "The  Light  of  the  World,"  we  will  at  any  rate  inter- 
pret their  purpose  as  such.  The  Persian  religion  has  as  its 
symbol,  the  cross-formed  device  known  as  the  "Swastika," 
which  when  the  four  arms  are  formed  in  acute  rather  than 
right  angles  is  named  the  "Suavastika."  When  these  crosses 
are  made  to  revolve  very  rapidly  they  become  the  Persian 
symbols  of  .motion.  In  the  old  Roman  Empire,  a  beautiful 
picture  shows,  priestesses  or  vestals  paying  homage  to  the 
Sun  by  incessantly  tending  to  the  "Sacred  Fire."  To  this 
point  much  that  is  important  concerning  the  place  of  fire  in 
religion  will  be  helpful  in  explaining  many  otherwise  am- 
biguous ideas  in  ancient  history. 

The  Science  of  Fire.  Valuable  Experiments. 
A  very  interesting  study  in  natural  science  is  now  given 
with  much  detail.  Solar  rays,  concentrated  on  a  piece  of 
tinder  by  a  magnifying  glass  set  it  on  fire.  To  the  average 
school-boy  this  is  not  new,  this  fact  will  help  him  forward, 
however,  to  other  and  more  interesting  pieces  of  information. 
"By  drying  certain  woods  under  the  Equatorial  Zone,  Solar 
rays  permit  dry  wood  to  be  ignited  by  friction." 

"The  native  of  these  regions  obtain  sparks  and  start  their 
fires  by  the  rotary  movements  of  a  stick." 

"A  piece  of  tinder  at  the  extremity  of  a  simply  made  piston 
is  ignited  by  the  sudden  compression  of  air." 

"Flames  render  fire  visible;  it  is  the  oxygen  in  the  air  that 
generally  causes  combustion." 

"Combustion  by  oxygen  makes  the  flame  very  ardent  in  its 
superior  parts,  and  gives  it  an  ultra  violet  color." 

All  these  experiments  are  made  on  the  screen  just  as  thor- 
oughly as  if  in  science  room  of  the  school,  and  save  much 
time,  as  without  doubt  the  whole  of  these  tests  are  shown  on 
the  screen  in  quicker  time  and  more  completely,  than  any 
one  of  them  could  be  shown  in  actual  practice. 
Experiments  with  Heat  and  Gases. 
A  piece  of  tin  is  placed  on  a  piece  of  card-board  and  held 
over  a  flame,  the  tin  immediately  melts  while  the  card  show- 
ing greater  resistance  lasts  longer.  The  difference  as  con- 
ductors of  heat  between  glass  and  metals,  is  shown  by  suitable 
tests.  The  boiling  of  water  by  conducted,  rather  than  direct 
heat  is  proved.  Natural  or  phosphorescent  gases  are  set  on 
fire  by  the  oxygen  in  the  air,  these  emanate  from  marshy 
grounds  and  cemeteries.  The  nature  and  danger  of  "Fire- 
damp" in  mines  is  explained  by  graphic  illustrations. 

A  simple  lesson  is  taught  to  children  by  means  of  the 
Fourth  of  July  "sparkler"  which  proves  that  all  flames  and 
sparks  do  not  possess  a  burning  heat.  Experiments  with 
sodium  in  water,  are  fully  revealed,  its  explosive  powers  and 
intense  heat-developing  qualities. 

The  last  picture  is  of  a  miniature  volcano,  and  is  given  to 
show  that  "central  fire  is  caused  by  the  formidable  com- 
pression of  the  terrestrial  atoms."  Many  a  school  will  gladly 
use  this  picture,  and  any  exhibitor  who  gets  it.  will  fall  short 
of  his  own  interests,  if  he  does  not  call  the  attention  of  the 
local  educators  to  the  valuable  film  he  is  showing. 


Religious  exercises  are  shown  in  the  christening  of  these 
young  children;  their  education  is  a  matter  of  great  detail, 
and  children  in  this  country  will  see  with  interest  how  the 
Chinese  child  labors  at  the  black-board  with  the  letters  far 
stranger  than   the  easy  English  characters. 

Play  is  just  as  important  and  indulged  in  with  the  same 
child-like  enthusiasm  as  anywhere.  Industrialism  is.  how- 
ever, very  much  emphasized.  The  little  people  are  taught 
gardening,  and  as  this  is  both  a  science  and  an  art  in  China, 
it  is  not  surprising  that  they  attain  such  perfection  when 
they  begin  so  young.  Girls  are  also  taught  lace  making,  and 
the  deftness  of  their  little  fingers  is  simply  wonderful.  The 
boys  are  taught  rice-straw  mat  making,  at  which  they  prove 
both  efficient  and  profitable  in  a  very  short  time. 

The  religious  exercises  are,  of  course,  made  very  important 
by  these  godly  women,  who  know  both  the  value  and  power 
of  early  training,  there  may  result  more  wide-spread  in- 
fluence from  the  work  among  this  class  of  children  free  from 
caste,  than  otherwise  could  accrue.  It  is  commendable  for 
the  Eclair  people  to  take  such  pictures  as  this  when  their 
artists  are  on  the  ground;  may  such  good  result   therefrom. 


A  NEW  RELIGIOUS  SUBJECT. 

A  pleasing  subject  is  this,  showing  light  upon  the  far  from 
home  efforts  of  the  godly  Sisters  of  Mercy  among  the  "waifs 
and  strays"  of  China.  Some  interest  is  added  by  the  coloring 
of  the  pictures  as  the  natural  beauties  of  the  country  demand. 
A  reward  is  paid  by  these  Sisters  to  whoever  brings  a  found- 
ling which  they  immediately  adopt  in  their  institution. 

Pictures  showing  "how  they  lavish  motherly  care  upon 
these  forsaken  little  ones"  are  very  fine.  If  an  interest  had 
need  to  be  aroused  to  encourage  this  noble  work,  the  ex- 
hibition of  these  pictures  would  more  than  secure  it. 


M.  P.  EXPOSITION       NOTES. 

Mr.  Frank  E.  Samuels,  enroute  to  the  London  Exposition 
wires  the  Exposition  Committee  that  he  is  having  a  fine  trip. 
He  is  making  the  journey  as  the  representative  of  the  Motion 
Picture  Exhibitors  League  Exposition   Committee. 

Fred  A.  Clark,  New  York  manager  of  the  Enterprise  Optical 
Mfg.  Co.,  who  have  taken  spaces  327  and  328  (see  plan  in  Jan. 
4  issue),  to  boost  the  Motiograph  Machine  at  the  New  York  ex- 
position, he  says  his  company  will  be  there  strong. 

The  American  Machine  Company,  manufacturers  of  the  Stand- 
ard Machine,  have  declared  themselves  in  for  a  good  size  space 
at  the  New  York  Moving  Picture  Exposition  and  will  have 
an  exhibit  second  to  none. 

Mr.  Olmsted,  of  the  American  Seating  Company,  is  anxious 
to  furnish  all  of  the  four  model  theaters  on  the  mezzanine  floor 
with  different  styles  of  opera  chairs. 

Bell  &  Howell  Company,  of  Chicago,  designers  of  motion 
picture  apparatuses,  will  be  there  with  something  new  and  inter- 
esting. 

A  letter  from  the  J.  H.  Genter  Company,  manufacturers  of 
the  "Mirroroide"  screens  and  curtains,  to  Mr.  Samuels,  says: 
"We  assure  you  we  take  great  interest  in  this  exposition  and 
will  immediately  go  ahead  and  prepare  for  same." 

The  Lang  Manufacturing  Company,  who  secured  preferred 
space  some  time  ago,  now  write  that  they  would  like  to  con- 
tribute their  latest  film  rewinders  and  film  reels  to  be  used  in 
the   four  model  theaters  at   the   exposition. 

From  Oklahoma  comes  the  glad  tidings  that  delegates  to  the 
Third  Annual  Convention  ind  Motion  Picture  Trades  Exposi- 
tion, will  be  accompanied  by  an  Indian  band  from  the  state 
reservation.  These  Indians  are  said  to  be  right  there  with  the 
real  noise  and  will  show  New  Yorkers  how  the  red  man  can 
dot'b'e  in  brass.  Another  band  will  be  here  from  Texas  com- 
posed of  cowboys. 

From  Oshkosh.  Wis.,  the  Oshkosh  Metal  Products  Co.  will  be 
represented  in  spaces  211  and  212.  From  a  letter  received  from 
Mr.  R.  R.  Hartley,  it  seems  that  they  are  preparing  a  surprise 
for  .the  trade. 

The  Precision  Machine  Company.  Inc..  think  so  well  of  the 
exposition  that  they  some  time  ago  secured  spaces  319.  320,  321 
and  322  in  the  very  heart  of  the  territory  allotted  to  projection 
machine  manufacturers. 

Mr.  S.  M.  Spedon,  of  the  Vitagraph  Company,  of  America,  is 
arranging  something  out  of  the  ordinary  for  the  Vitagraph 
Booth. 

Among  the  la^ee  electric  companies,  the  up-to-date  news  is  as 
follows:  The  United  Electric  Light  Company  and  the  Edison 
Company  havt  sent  their  contracts  in  while  the  General  Electric 
Company  are  expected  to  close  within  a  few  days.  The  Fort 
Wayne  Electric  Works  are  also  figuring  on  a  novel  exhibition. 

The  number  of  letters  received  from  foreign  manufacturers 
had  ■<  great  f'eal  *o  do  with  Mr.  Samuel's  trip  to  Europe.  It 
would  seem  that  from  the  tone  of  most  of  the  letters,  that  our 
foreign  friends  are  greatly  interested  in  our  exposition  and  it 
is  confidently  expected  by  the  committee  that  Mr.  Samuels  will 
return  with  the  signed  contracts  of  many  European  manufacturers. 

Under  a  special  act  of  Congress,  secured  this  year  by  the  In- 
ternational Exposition  Company,  of  the  New  Grand  Central  Pal- 
.-•ce.  all  goods  for  exhibition  purposes  may  be  brought  into  the 
United  States  free.  This  will  enable  foreign  manufacturers  to 
send  their  exhibits  to  the  Motion  Picture  Trades  Exposition 
without  the  annoyance  and  expense  of  custom  duties. 


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THE    MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


Foreign  Trade  Notes 


BRITISH  NOTES. 

By  Our  Own  Correspondent. 

WAR  in  the  trade  has  started  now  with  a  vengeance.  The 
Pathe  ultimatum  to  oust  the  renter  from  recognition 
by  supplying  direct  to  the  exhibitor  is  being  most 
vehemently  resented  not  only  by  the  Renters'  Association, 
but  also  by  a  large  proportion  of  the  exhibitors  themselves. 

*  *     * 

Not  only  the  British  stage  celebrity,  but  the  literary  ce- 
lebrity are  making  good  use  of  the  kinema.  I  hear  on  most 
reliable  authority  that  Anna  Pavlowa,  the  famous  Russian 
ballet  dancer,  has  at  last  consented  to  be  filmed.  She  has 
been  approached  several  times,  but  has  hitherto  most  strongly 
declined.  She  will  appear  in  Rubinstein's  terpsichorean  alle- 
gory, "Night."  Probably  the  Marchioness  Townsend,  who  is 
now  having  another  photoplay,  entitled  "A  Strong  Man's 
Love,"  produced  by  the  Clarendon  Company,  was  primarily 
responsible  for  the  inclusion  of  Mr.  Jack  London  and  Mr. 
E.  Phillips  Oppenheim  in  the  ranks  of  picture  playwrights. 
They  have  entered  into  an  arrangement  with  a  London  firm 
to  write  two  scenarios  a  week  and,  as  both  writers  have  con- 
tributed extensively  to  American  publications,  their  films 
should  prove  safe  investments  for  the  American  showman. 

*  *    "* 

Moving  picture  nomenclature  has  recently  received  many 
additions.  A  new  name  for  a  picture  theater  evolved  by  some 
original  manager  here  is  "Arena  Pictorium."  Another  new 
word  is  Kinemacation,  invented  by  Mr.  Ernest  Schofield  to 
signify  education  by  kinematograph. 

*  *     * 

Newcastle  exhibitors  are  organizing  a  "health  week,"  dur- 
ing which  it  has  been  agreed  by  the  various  picture  theater 
proprietors  that  none  but  instructive  pictures  on  health  topics 

will  be  shown. 

*  *     * 

At  the  London  County  Council  elections  this  month  the 
Sunday  closing  of  picture  theaters  will  figure  as  an  important 
issue.  The  exhibitors  association  is  to  ask  every  candidate 
for  election   to  give   a   definite   answer   to   a   question  as   to 

whether  he  is  in  favor  of  Sunday  opening. 

*  *     * 

The  seating  capacity  of  London  halls  has  just  been  re- 
estimated.  That  of  theaters  is  given  at  67,000,  and  that  of 
music  halls,   73,000.     The   picture   theater   accommodation  is 

SS.ooo. 

*  *     * 

Edison's  New  York  manager,  H.  G.  Plimpton,  has  been 
touring  both  London  and  the  provinces.  He  intends  to 
return   to   New   York   immediately,   having   already   been   on 

the  Continent. 

*  *     * 

A  patent  application  has  been  taken  out  in  this  country  for 
the  production  of  moving  picture  films  in  color  and  black- 
and-white  by  a  new  process  which  makes  the  isochromatic 
effect  optional.  Also  a  new  unbreakable  lantern  slide  is  to 
be  patented. 

*  *     * 

E.  H.  Montagu,  Selig's  London  agent,  has  hit  on  a  novel 
idea  of  advertising  his  company's  new  productions.  The 
title,  in  a  circular  he  has  sent  out  is  made  out  and  printed 
in  picture  language. 

*  *    * 

The  Kinema  Shooting  gallery  is  London's  newest  adaption 
of  the  moving  picture.  The  competitors  fire  with  rifles  at 
the  images  as  they  appear  on  the  screen  which  is  specially 
constructed  of  a  material  that  admits  light  from  the  other 
side  whenever  a  bullseye  is  scored.  In  conjunction  with 
this  arrangement  there  is  also  an  attachment  for  stopping 
the  films  in  the  "gate"  instantly  so  that  an  inspection  of  the 
target  can  be  made.  There  is  some  talk  of  submitting  the 
idea  to  the  military  authorities  and  the  films  I  have  already 
seen  suitable  for  animated  targets  include  pictures  of  motor 


cars   whizzing  around   dangerous   corners,   horses   galloping, 
men  running  and  birds  on  the  wing. 

*  *     * 

The  American  Sportsman-Kinematographer,  Paul  J.  Rainey, 
has  been  the  recipient  of  an  honor  unprecedented  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  trade  to  an  American.  Last  night  (Thursday, 
March  6th)  the  pictures  illustrating  Mr.  Rainey's  African 
hunting  experiences  were  shown  to  a  select  audience  in 
Buckingham  Palace  by  express  command  of  the  King,  whose 
attention  had  previously  been  attracted  to  the  unique  char- 
acter of  the  films  and  the  daring  patience  required  to  obtain 
them.  Some  sixty  invited  guests  were  present  in  addition 
to  their  Majesties  King  George  and  Queen  Mary  and  the 
machine  and  screen  were  temporarily  erected  in  the  sumptu- 
ous ballroom  of  Buckingham  Palace.  Mr.  Rainey  who  is  still 
in  Africa  on  fresh  enterprises  has  been  notified  of  the  event. 

*  *     * 

An  American  photoplayer  who  will  not  trust  me  with  his 
name  and  who  has  been  working  in  this  country  for  some 
time  says  that  in  London  the  picture  actor  is  the  most  casual 
employee  on  earth. 

*  *     * 

£80,000  for  a  kinema  location  was  regarded  as  fairly 
heavy  expenditure  when  a  new  show  opened  in  London 
some  months  ago  but  what  must  certainly  be  the  limit  is 
being  exploited  by  a  newly  formed  London  company  with  a 
capital  of  £125,000.  In  fact  the  building  in  Coventry.  Street, 
London  is  now  almost  completed  and  is  to  open  under  the 
name  of  the  "West  End  Kinema"  in  a  month  or  so.  The 
company  paid  £80,000  for  the  site  and  the  remainder  will 
be  spent  on  the  building  which  is  of  heavy  Portland  stone 
and  decorated  inside  with  silk  satin,  hand  painted  frescoes, 
marble  staircases  and  mosaic  floors.  There  are  to  be  two 
restaurants  and  the  theater  will  be  the  first  in  London  to 
remain  open  from  one  till  midnight.  An  electrical  device  on 
the  front  will  give   the  effect  of   sunshine  beating  down   on 

the  entrance. 

*  *     * 

Are  any  American  exhibitors  seriously  troubled  by  the 
mischievous  youth  who,  imagining  he  is  having  a  fine  joke, 
scatters  electric  snuff  from  the  upper  regions  of  the  audi- 
torium? Two  managers  here  have  this  week  seriously  com- 
plained to  me  over  the  nuisance  which  proved  simply  in- 
tolerable to  the  patrons  and  more  so  to  the  orchestra.  In 
a  case  at  Birmingham  the  fine  particles  of  the  snuff  arose 
and  found  their  way  into  the  operating  box  where  the  man 
at  the  wheel  was  nearly  blinded.  Finally  a  solution  was 
evolved  by  the  screening  of  a  slide  soliciting  the  cooperation 
of  the  audience  in  the  detection  of  the  offenders  and  one 
youth  was  caught  and  prosecuted. 

*  *     # 

The  first  public  house  or  saloon  in  England  to  run  a  kine- 
ma as  an  attraction  has  opened  at  Pelworth.  Two  shows 
are  given  each  evening  and  the  place  is  regularly  patronized 
by  the  villagers.  It  might  be  as  well  to  mention  that  the 
nearest  kinema  theater  is  17  miles  away. 

*  *    * 

Jack  London,  the  eminent  author  has  just  sent  to  London 
from  the  Pacific  10,000  ft.  of  undeveloped  film  illustrating 
savage  life  in  the  islands.  Mr.  Martin  Johnson  has  charge 
of  the  films  which  may  be  released  shortly. 

*  *    * 

Miss  Lottie  Briscoe,  the  American  photoplayer  is  described 
in  an  interview  she  has  had  with  a  London  weekly  as  the 
lady  who  needs  20  trunks  for  her  wardrobe.  Miss  Briscoe 
does  not  advise  any  woman  to  take  up  play-acting  as  a  pro- 
fession. In  fact  she  whimsically  describes  her  pet  hobby 
as  "answering  letters  from  stage  struck  girls." 

*  *    * 

The  London  Education  authorities  will  shortly  install  the 
kinema  in  six  London  schools.  Travel  and  industrial  films 
will  be  shown  to  the  children  as  part  of  the  ordinary 
curriculum. 


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cAdvertising  for  Exhibitors 

Conducted  by  EPES  WINTHROP  SARGENT 


H 


Again,  the  Specials. 

ERE'S  a  letter  from  an  Eastern  exhibitor  who  opens  a  question  that 
appeals  to  many  readers  of  this  department.     He  writes: 

Please  advise  me,  through  the  "Advertising"   department,  if  you 
consider  it  advisable  for  a  small-town  theater,  with  a  seating  capacity 
of  300,  and   drawing  from  a  total   population   of  3,500,  to  play  big 
States  rights  pictures  in  five  reels  or  more.      Do  such  pictures  de- 
crease in  price  as  they  grow  old,  or  is  a  new  print  used  when  the 
first    becomes    worn?      What    is   about    the    lowest    price    per    day? 
What   would    you    suggest   as   the    best   method    of   advertising    and 
the   maximum    price  of  admission   for  such    pictures?      For   obvious 
reasons,  you  will  please  omit  my  name  when  publishing  the  answers 
to   the   above   queries. 
We  most  assuredly   think  it   will   pay   the   small-town   manager   to  get  the 
big  things  if  he  can   get  them  at  a  price  that  will  enable  him  to  break  even 
or  even  a  little   under  that,    out   with   clever   work   we   think   that   even  with 
a  seating  capacity  of  300  and  a  town   of  3,500   it  should  be  possible   for  a 
live  wire  to  do  better  than  an   even  break,  and   we  ar*  coming  to  the  con- 
clusion that  the  small-town  manager  is  more  apt  to  be  a  live  wire  than  the 
man  in  the   city;  certainly   some  of  the   best   schemes   submitted   to  this  de- 
partment come  from  men  whose  houses  could  almost  be  carried   away  in  a 
shawl   strap  if   the   police   did   not  object.      In   a   city   there   is  a   certain  as- 
surance of  trade  if  the  house  Is  well   placed,  but  in   the  towns  the  manager 
has  to  go  out  and  get  his  trade  and  some  of  them — a  lot  of  them,  in  fact, 
do  it  in  a  manner  that  would  shame  some  of  the  bigger  men. 

By  All  Means. 

By  all  means  work  the  features  when  you  can  get  them  right,  and  work 
them  for  all  they  are  worth.  It  is  not  possible  to  definitely  reply  to  ques- 
tions of  prices  since  these  differ  with  the  different  localities,  grades  of  re- 
lease and  even  with  the  different  owners  of  the  State  rights,  but  as  a 
general  thing  the  older  the  special  subject  the  lower  the  price  until  eventually 
it  comes  within  the  reach  even  of  the  smallest  exhibitors  with  a  little  enter- 
prise and  nerve.  Just  the  other  day  a  house  out  in  the  suburbs  brought 
down  the  Milano  '"Inferno"  for  a  day  and  made  a  clean-up  in  a  locality 
not  much  more  populous  than  the  town  from  which  this  inquiry  comes. 
Brooklyn  is  a  pretty  big  place,  but  it  is  cut  up  into  sections  about  the  size 
of  small  towns,  each  with  its  main  street,  its  residential  sections  and  all 
the  rest.  The  house  rever  could  have  afforded  the  "Inferno"  at  the  time 
it  was  put  out.  but  now  the  film  is  not  in  such  demand,  the  owners  of  the 
rights  have  realized  their  profit  and  the  price  has  come  down. 

We  think  that  some  of  the  special  releases  such  as  the  "Inferno"  should 
become  as  standard  as  some  of  the  dramatic  plays  that  are  sent  over  the 
circuits,  year  after  year,  but  neither  audience  nor  exhibitor  has  been  trained 
to  the  idea  yet  and  so  age  rather  than  worth  still  determines  rental  value. 
In  a  small  town  of  3,500  where  the  special  has  not  yet  been  seen,  the  sub- 
ject is  still  as  fresh  as  to-morrow's  first  run,  but  since  tradition  runs  to 
the  contrary  the  small  manager  who  waits  can  have  the  same  attractions  as 
the  cities  at  a  price  within  his  reach. 

Some  Tips  on  Handling. 

Where  a  special  has  been  out  some  time,  we  think  it  will  be  worth  the 
time  and  carfare  of  the  exhibitor  if  he  wi'l  make  a  point  of  seeing  the  sub- 
ject before  he  books  it.  Then  if  a  suitable  interval  elapses  between  booking 
and  showing,  it  is  possible  to  do  plenty  of  intelligent  presswork.  One  reason 
that  the  special  does  not  always  make  a  proper  return  in  profit  is  that  the 
exhibitor  books  on  the  title  and  presswork  and  either  gets  something  that 
is  not  suitable  for  his  particular  clientele  or  getting  something  right,  does 
not  know  enough  about  the  reels  to  give  the  proper  booming — and  it  must 
be  remembered  that  sometimes  overbooming  is  more  damaging  than  too 
faint  praise.  Know,  through  personal  viev  ing,  precisely  what  you  will  have. 
Then  you  can  tell  your  patrons  exactly  what  you  offer  and  tell  them  in  a 
way  that  will  convince  them  that  you  know  what  you  are  talking  about. 
Glittering  generalities  are  all  right  in  their  way,  but  the  straightforward 
talk  that  is  based  on  personal  knowledge  of  the  subject  is  far  more  apt 
to  draw  the  solid  people  into  your  house.  If  a  man  asks  you  how  the 
coming  feature  really  is,  and  you  have  to  hem  and  haw  or  confess  that  you 
have  no  more  real  knowledge  than  he  possesses;  that  you  booked  it  on 
press  work  and  hearsay,  he  is  not  likely  to  have  great  confidence  in  your 
judgment.  If  you  can  speak  positively  of  your  own  knowledge  it  will  be 
worth  while.  If  you  can  talk  in  public,  get  up  each  show  and  tell  them 
about  it.  Tal»c  simply  and  convincingly.  Do  not  pile  on  the  agony  and 
the  adjectives,  but  tell  what  you  know  in  a  way  that  will  make  them  realize 
that  you  mean  what  you  are  saying. 

Once  More,  Paper. 

Get  pleaty  of  paper  and  get  it  somewhere  outside  your  house.  The  man 
who  goes  into  town  each  morning  may  not  pass  your  house,  but  if  you 
have  a  bill  in  the  window  of  the  corner  grocery  where  he  stands  while 
waiting  for  the  car  he'll  know  what  you  are  going  to  have  and  may  come 
to  know  your  house  better  through  knowing  your  attractions.  Lobby  paper 
is  valuable,  but  the  time  has  come  when  lobby  paper  and  slides  are  not  in 
themselves  sufficient.  You  want  to  reach  the  man  who  does  not  pass  your 
house,  who  does  not  see  your  screen  nightly.  You're  pretty  certain  of 
the   man    who   is  already   in   the   house,   you're   reasonably    certain    to    reach 


the  man  who  comes  past  your  house  twice  a  day  as  he  passes  to  and  from 
work.  The  man  you  most  need  to  get  after  now  is  the  man  who  lives  a 
couple  of  blocks  away  and  who  may  not  pass  your  house  once  a  month. 
Take  care  that  there  is  plenty  of  "Coming"  paper  in  the  lobby  and  that 
your  screen  talks  to  the  people  in  the  house,  but  get  the  man  around  the 
corner.  Build  up  your  business.  Work  all  good  locations  within  six  or 
eight  blocks  of  your  house  or  halfway  to  the  next  theater  if  the  stands  are 
more   widely  separated. 

This  special  paper  is  particularly  important  in  the  case  of  multiple  reel 
releases,  but  paper  should  be  used  in  any  event.  The  newspapers  should 
be  used,  as  well,  a  more  generous  space  than  usual  being  taken,  and  an 
eye-catching  cut  should  be  used  wherever  possible.  Hammer  away  in  every 
legitimate  fashion  and  you'll  not  only  make  money  but  you'll  make  lasting 
business. 

In  connection  with  what  we  have  written  we  refer  the  inquirer  to  the 
issues  of  March  2,  9,  14,  23,  1912,  for  a  series  .pf  articles  on  the  special 
release,  to  the  department  of  February  3,  I9i3t  for  a  supplemental  article 
and  to  that  dated  December  14,  1912,  for  a  scheme  for  ensuring  a  profit 
on  the  specials  before  the  reels  are  brought  into  the  house. 

A  Kalem  Achievement. 

One  of  the  prettiest  special  posters  that  we've  seen  is  the  new  Kalem 
sheet  of  Miss  Alice  Joyce.  This  is  tinted  rather  than  colored  and  makes 
a  rarely  effective  poster.  We  have  not  beep^  advised  as  to  the  prices 
asked  for  the  sheet,  but  presume  that  details  will»b,e  carried  in  their  ad- 
vertising.    They  are  cheap  at  any  price  in  reason.     " 

We  do  not  think  that  the  last  Kalendar  convej-s"  an  adequate  suggestion 
of  the  Kraus  Company's  pictures  of  its  special  releases.  They  are  an- 
nounced as  "plate  pictures,"  which  is  a  rather  vague  definition.  They  are 
actual  photographs  on  smooth  finish  bromide  paper  made  direct  from 
photographic  negatives  and  not  from  half  tone  plates.  We  have  seen  a 
couple  of  the  sets  and  they  are  good.  The  Kraus  Company  has  been  work- 
ing on  this  scheme  ever  since  we  took  the  matter  up  with  them  last  Fall  in 
response  to  the  requests  of  several  exhibitors  who  wanted  to  make  lobby 
display  of  photographs  to  supplement  the  posters.  The  Kalem  series  are 
issued  in  sets  of  twelve  for  each  special  release.  The  Lubin  specials 
carry  smaller  sets  until  the  more  recent  productions  get  along,  as  the 
Lubin  Company  has  not  been  in  the  habit  of  making  twelve  still  pictures  of 
each  subject. 

Guess  at  the  Makes. 

The  Saenger  theater,  Shreeveport,  La.,  offers  something  novel  in  a 
straight  guessing  contest.  It  offers  five  theater  tickets  to  the  person  who 
can  guess  the  brands  of  the  three  reels  to  be  exhibited  on  Friday  evening; 
the  guesses  to  be  in  not  later  than  Wednesday  night.  Of  course  most  of 
those  who  have  guessed  will  be  around  to  see  if  they  win,  and  that  makes 
for  good  business  on  a  night  usually  the  worst  of  the  week. 

Another  good  scheme  is  found  on  the  new  front  page  of  their  weekly 
program,  which  serves  the  isaenger  and  Palace  theaters.  It  is  taken  from 
the  programs  of  the  larger  cities  where  the  idea  has  been  found  very  popu- 
lar, the  scheme  being  similar  to  various  "memory"  books.  At  the  bottom 
of  the  page  is  printed: 

MEMORIES  OF  A  PLEASANT  EVENING 
A  great  many   people   like  to   keep  a  souvenir  or  reminder  of  a 
particularly  enjoyable   evening.    Here   is   space   to  jot   down   a    few 
little  aids  to  pleasant  memories  of 

Day   Date   . 

Saw  the  Pictures  With  || 


Friends  I   Saw- 


I9U 


It  would  be  better  yet  to  run  a  line  for  each  day  of  the  week  and  sug- 
gest that  the  patrons  come  more  than  once.  The  idea  is  susceptible  of  many 
variations. 

Keeping  Going. 

The  Isis  News,  Trinidad,  Colorado,  announces  the  sale  of  the  house  to 
J.  P.  Nash,  a  local  newspaper  man,  and  we  look  to  see  the  sheet  better  than 
ever.  They  get  a  couple  more  advertisements  each  week  and  yet  manage  to 
keep  going  with  plenty  about  the  pictures  as  well  as  local  news  and  bright 
paragraphs.  Thc->  are  printing  coupons  good  for  the  admission  of  one  child 
on  Saturday  afternoon,  teaching  the  young  idea  to  shoot  in  the  direction  of 
the  Isis. 

A  novelty  is  the  trank  admission  that  a  certain  feature  did  not  do  as  well 
as  was  expected  or,  indeed,  as  it  deserved,  but  the  editor  comforts  himself 
with  the  belief  that  it  made  an  impression  with  those  who  appreciate  the 
really  good  in  pictures. 

Dignified  and  Intelligent. 

Charles  W.  Kennedy,  of  the  Casino,  Coaticook,  Canada,  sends  in  a  very 
attractive  leaflet  for  Pickwick  Papers.  The  opening  and  closing  paragraphs 
should  interest  other  exhibitors.     They  run: 

You  are  cordially  invited  to  attend  a  representation  of  Dicken's 
•'Pickwick  Papers,"  on  Thursday  and  Friday  evenings  at  the  Casino. 
For  the  benefit  of  patrons  of  high  grade  pictures,  I  am  reserving 
one   hundred   seats   for   these    nights,    now    on    ?ale    at    Main    Street 


4" 


THE    MOVING    PICTURE    WORLD 


Pharmacy  at  fifteen  cents.  This  will  assure  comfortable  seating  with- 
out extra  cost. 

This  feature  was  shown  for  the  first  time  in   New  York  last  Fri- 
day and  is  in  perfect  condition.  With  it  we  are  showing  four  other 
interesting   films.      I    personally    guarantee    the    quality    of    this    pic- 
ture, and  assure  you  it  is  one  you  cannot  afford  to  miss. 
The    reference   to   the  New    York    showing   of   the   subject   is   much   better 
than    saying    that    it    is    first    run.    first    time    in    town    or    any    other    of   the 
usual   lines.      Mr.    Kennedy   uses   fine  paper,   selects   his   type  with  care   and 
displays    it    to   advantage,   an   advertisement   altogether   in   keeping    with   the 
grade  of  the  subject. 

Has  It  "Soft." 

W.  J.  Bittner,  of  the  Park  Theater,  Johnstown.  Pa.,  sends  in  a  mat  of  a 
single  column  cut  with  a  five  inch  reading  notici-  and  explains  that  the  cost 
of  the  cut  carries  the  reader.  As  the  cut  only  costs  about  65  cents  a  paper, 
it  looks  as  though  advertising  should  pay.  The  cut  is  a  single  column  re- 
duction  of  an   Essanay  advertising  cartoon. 

Many  managers  do  not  follow  up  their  advertising  with  press  matter 
and  a  few  go  to  the  other  extreme  and  ask  for  more  than  they  are 
entitled  to  in  a  way  that  gets  them  less  than  really  is  coming  to  them. 
It  pays  to  get  on  the  right  side  of  the  business  office  and  stay  there.     Carry 


being  changed  to  suit  local  matters.  This  sort  of  stuff  sounds  foolish  to 
many  people,  but  it  is  surprising  how  these  cards  are  passed  from,  hand 
to  hand,  particularly  in  small  towns.  The  verses  may  aid  others  and  so 
they   are  given   here: 

I  bet  on  a  horse  called  Elastic 
In   the  stretch   I   knew  he  was  good 
I  bet  on  a  horse  called  Lumber 
Lumber  could  win  if  he  wood 
I  bet  on  a  horse  called  Umbrella 
Umbrella  was  only  good  in  the  wet 
I  bet  on  a  horse  called  Hydrant 
And  Hydtant  is  running  yet 
I  bet  on  a  horse  called  Rabbit 
Rabbit  won  by  a  hare 
I  bet  on  a  horse  called  Kreola 
She  always  was  a  good  Mayor 
I  bet  on  a  horse  called  Dollar 
He's  good  for  four  quarters  I  know 
So  I  bet  on  a  horse  called  LYRIC 
He  always  has  a  GOOD  SHOW 
I  bet  on  a  horse  called  Shutters 
Shutters  was  out  for  a  blind 
So   I   bet  on  a  horse  called  Bustle 
And    Bustle    came    in — next    to    the    last. 
MORAL— Go  to  the  LYRIC— 
It*s  a  safe  bet. 
It   will    be    some    time   before    Mr.    Arnold    equals    his    roaring   lion    fake, 
but  we  hope  he  gets  cured  of  the   hook  worm  quickly. 


Something  New. 


WHEN  A  FELLER  NEEDS  A  FRIEND 


yourself  so  that  they  are  always  glad  to  see  you  and  leave  before  they  hope 
you'll  go  soon.  Don't  get  the  idea  you  can  buy  the  entire  plant  with  a  drink 
or  a  cigar,  but  on  the  other  hand  do  not  be  stingy.  As  a  rule  the  reading 
notice  means  more  than  the  advertisement  and  just  how  much  of  a  reading 
notice  you  get  depends  very  largely  upon  yourself. 

Mr.  Bittner  shows  enterprise  in  using  advertisements  of  the  manufacturers 
tor  cut  copy.  A  couple  of  dollars  spent  with  the  local  cut  maker  may  save 
twice  as  much,  though  the  growing  use  of  matrices  by  the  manufacturers 
is  cutting  advertising  cost  considerably. 

Has  Its  Own  Spelling. 

Most  Pastime  theaters  are  spelled  that  way,  but  down  in  Alexandria,  La., 
the  call  it  the  Pass  Time.  Charles  F.  Bode,  the  manager,  gets  out  a  four- 
page  weekly,  three  pages  of  which  are  devoted  to  film  stories  of  the  week, 
while  the  back  page  is  given  to  general  matter.  We  borrow  this  from 
a  -recent  issue: 

A  SIMPLE  REMEDY  FOR  THE  "GRUMPS." 

Have  you  got  'em?  They  afflict  you  mostly  in  the  evenings 
when  you  sit  around  the  house,  with  your  mind  on  your  affairs  of 
the  day. 

What  you  need  is  a  little  mental  recreation.  You  want  to  forget 
your  business  and  bothers,  and  the  best  way  to  do  so  is  to  pick 
yourself  up  and  come  to  the  "Pass  Time."  An  hour  spent  here 
will   just   fresh  you   up  wonderfully. 

Bother  an  old  picture  show,  maybe  you  say.  That's  all  right.  If 
moving  pictures  don't  interest  you,  it's  probably  because  you  have 
seen  only  "bim"  ones  put  on  improperly,  or  else  you  have  formed 
an  idea  that  they  are  intended  for  people  inferior.  My,  but  you've 
lots  to  learn   if  such  thoughts  as  these  are  in  your  head. 

The  kind  of  moving  pictures  and  the  way  they  are  put  on  at 
the  "Pass  Time"  are  not  like  others.  We  will  guarantee  to  make 
you  see  this  form  of  amusement  in  a  different  way  if  you  will 
come  to  our  theater. 

Consider  just  a  moment.  We  offer  you  over  an  hour  of  recrea- 
tion and  entertainment  for  10  cents.  Perhaps  you  imagine  yourself 
:i  spendthrift  when  you  "loosen  up"  to  the  extent  of  a  dime.  Do 
you  give  any  thought  to  the  many  dimes  you  spend  during  the  day 
for  little,  fleeting  indulgence?     You  don't. 

Well,   you   are   cheating  yourself   by   missing  the   good  shows    we 
are  providing,  and  it's  high  time  you  changed  up  a  little.     Try  the 
panacea  we   offer   for   mental   relief — come    out   tonight.      No   fixing 
up  necessary  to  go  to  the  "Pass  Time." 
I',    S. — Bring  your  wife  along. 

Is  He  Getting  Lazy? 

We  are  afraid  that  S.  A.  Arnold,  of  the  Lyric  Theater,  Mena.  Ark.,  is 
suffering  from  the  hook-worm.  Usually  he  comes  in  every  couple  of  weeks 
with  some  real  idea,  but  it's  been  longer  than  that  since  his  last  call.  This 
time  he  sends  a  vest-pocket  card  with  his  name,  his  house  and  town  on  one 
side    and    a    doggerel    verse    on    the    other,    a    couple    of   the    original    verses 


H.  B.  Smith,  of  the  Freemont  Theater,  Melrose,  California,  has  given 
us  a  new  one.  In  addition  to  his  usual  program,  he  has  had  prepared  a 
special  program  of  the  dances  in  Biograph's  "Oil  and  Water."  That  re- 
lease was  a  notable  production  and  of  itself  will  attract  more  than  the 
usual  amount  of  attention,  but  the  novelty  of  getting  out  a  special  program 
for  the  dances  is  something  that  will  emphasize  the  feature.  The  dances, 
by  themselves,  would  be  found  acceptable  and  would  add  much  to  the 
effect,  but  to  give  them  the  dignity  of  a  special  folder  raises  them  at  once 
to  a  higher  plane.  It  is  the  production  of  "Oil  and  Water"  in  which  oc- 
curs a  series  of  classical  posturings  of  a  merit  sufficient  to  warrant  special 
programing  and  therefore  these  dances  are  regarded  as  a  special  feature 
wholly  apart  from  the  interest  they  hold  in  the  story. 

Audiences  are  acutely  sensitive  to  suggestion.  Give  them  an  entertain- 
ment in  a  matter  of  fact  way  and  they  will  accept  tt  matter  of  factly.  Give 
certain  features  special  distinction  and,  provided  those  features  can  make 
good,  they  will  be  accepted  at  the  valuation  of  the  management.  The  pro- 
gram was  an  inexpensive  item,  though  it  was  so  well  done  typographically 
as  to  suggest  cost,  and  yet  for  a  dollar  or  so  Mr.  Smith  more  than  doubled 
the  value  of  the  subject  to  him  and  at  the  same  time  increased  the  enjoy- 
ment of  his  patrons  by  calling  their  attention  to  the  fact  that  the  dances 
were   something  more  than   an   incidental. 

We   append    the   program : 

BLANCHE    SWEET    as    MMLE.    GEXOYA 


"THE   DANCE  OF  THE  FLEETING  HOURS" 
OUTLINE:  Time  and  Place — Greece   in    its   Youth. 

ORDER     OF      NUMBERS 

First — Venus,    the    Goddess    of    Love,    ushers    youth    into    Earth's 

enticing  promises. 
Second — Jupiter    holding    aloft    the    roses    of    happiness,    descends 

among   the    mortals. 
Third — Unseen,    the    Sands   of   Time    run    on. 
Fourth — Stirred   by   the   world-old   desires,   the   mortals   dance   after 

the  impossible. 
Fifth — Time,    the    silent    reaper,    shadows    their   excesses. 
Sixth — The  endless  chase  in  quest  of  phantom  happiness. 
Seventh — Time    reaps    its    fruitful    harvest. 
Finis: 
Ashes. 

We  wish  that  Mr.  Smith  would  send  us  other  matter,  for  we  like  his 
material,  but  we  wish,  also,  that  he  would  note  that  the  staff  of  this  paper 
is  located  in  New  York  and  not  Chicago.  It  saves  delay  to  address  the 
home  office. 

New  Guessing  Contest. 

And  here  is  a  new  form  of  guessing  contest  from  the  East  End  Camera- 
phone  theater: 

Several    months    ago    we    arranged    with    about    thirty    merchants 
in   East  Liberty  to  place  cards  in  their  windows  or  inside  of  their 
stores.  We  change  these  cards  daily,  but  do  not  use  all  of  the  spaces 
contracted   for  each   day.     Some  days  you   will   find  about   ten   win- 
dows  with   our   cards   in   and    at    other   times   there  may   be   nearer 
thirty    places    of    business    where    we    are    advertised.       Have    you 
noticed   them?     Count   those   you   see  and   report   the   day  you   saw 
them.      If  you    guess   or   count   correctly   the   number    of   cards    we 
have  out  on  a  certain  day  we  will  give  you  a  three  months'  pass. 
It    would    seem    that    this    will    be    permitted    where    the    usual    form    of 
guessing  contest  is  illegal.     More   than   that,   it  calls  attention  to  the  house 
advertising  each  day,   which  is  the  real  merit  of  the  idea. 

Last  August, 

It  was  last  August  that  the  advertisement  in  the  Tenth  Street  Theater 
program  (Kansas  City)  had  reference  to.  They  have  changed  the  text  to 
a  more  up-to-date  announcement  and  celebrate  the  coming  of  St.  Patrick's 
Day  by  printing  the  entire  program  in  green  ink.  Colored  inks  are  tricky, 
but  they  get  a  very  good  effect  because  they  use  a  good  grade  ink.  In  the 
long  run  it  pays  to  get  the  right  rort  of  ink.  even  though  the  job  costs  less 
with   an    inferior   color. 


THE     MOVING     PICTURE     WORLD 


We  PHOTOPLAYWRIGHT 

<  .»inlu»'tH<l  Uy  Ekes  Winthimp  Sar«»k^( 


Be  a  Quester. 

WE  would  like  to  see  more  local  photoplay wrights  in  the  Inquest 
Club.  We  think  the  social  feature  alone  is  worth  the  trouhle  ot 
attending  a  meeting,  hut  beyond  this  there  is  a  lot  to  be  learned — 
DO  matter  how  much  you  may  know — by  mixing  with  your  fellow  workers. 
There  a-e  no  fees  or  dues,  and  the  expense  of  each  meeting  is  as  light  as 
you  wish  to  make  it.  At  the  meetings  already  held  the  checks  have  run 
from  25  cents  to  $2.  according  to  the  hunger  and  thirst  of  the  juryman, 
and  you  can  break  off  almost  anywhere  between  those  two  sums.  You  are 
not  a-1;  .1  to  give  the  details  of  the  pictures  you  have  written,  nor  to 
divulge  any  selling  secrets  you  may  have.  The  telling  of  unsold  plots  is 
discouraged,  and  the  discussion  is  held  to  produced  plots,  the  plays  seen 
that  evening,  others  ami  scripts  of  produced  plays.  It  makes  for  sociability 
ami  a  higher  grade  oi  work.  The  juries  thus  far  have  been  representative, 
ai  d  t'u  man  with  fifty  or  a  hundred  sales  to  his  credit  puts  on  no  more 
airs  than  the  novice  with  one  or  two  sold.  It  is  real  fellowship  of  kindred 
Spirits,  and  we  want  all  to  come  in.  This  particularly  means  James  Carroll, 
who  has  been  absent  thus  far. 


Don't  Bother  Gaumont. 

The  Gaumont  company  asKs  that  attention  be  called  to  the  fact  that  they 
do  not  accept  manuscript.  All  purchase  of  photoplays  is  made  abroad, 
where  the  pictures  are  made,  and  sending  plays  to  the  American  branch 
simply  puts  someone  to  the  trouble  of  firing  them  back  at  you. 

Once  more.  Gaumont  is  not  purchasing  manuscript  and  does  not  want  to 
look   at   any. 


Don't  Worry. 

J-n  excited  reader  sends  us  a  clipping  f-om  the  Magazine  Maker  in  which 
;■  wriiir  solemnly  warns  the  photoplay  writ  r  to  prepare  to  go  to  the  poor- 
aouse  unless  he  can  at  once  learn  to  write  the  talking  pictures,  which  are 
Stppianting  the  silent  drama. 

T  -ere  is  no  need  for  fear  on  this  point,  as  this  paper  haj  repeatedly 
pointed  out.  The  talking  picture  occupies  a  field  of  its  own.  It  will  sup- 
plan*  the  silent  drarra  about  the  time  His  Satanic  Majesty  develops  a  fad 
for  ice  boat  racirg  on  the  sulphur  lakes. 

Out  At  Last. 

T.  E.  Letrende  has  kept  Irs  promise  to  get  the  February-March  issue  out 
before  April  1st,  and  promise?  to  get  the  April  issue  out  in  the  month  it 
is  due  in.  Arthur  Leeds  contributes  a  readable  story  on  the  Chicago  manu- 
facturers. Pop  Hoadley  has  a  sane  story  on  writing  plays.  A.  Van  Buren 
Powell  doubles  with  a  story  of  the  photoplay  writers'  dinner  and  some 
good  advice,  and  William  Lord  Wright  and  A.  R.  Kennedy  give  tips  to  the 
novice.  It  is  a  readable  and  helpful  issue.  We  hope  that  new  typesetting 
machine  will  enable  Mr.  Letendre  to  keep  his  promise  and  make  it  36  pages 
after  this. 


We  Are  Not  Turning,  Thank  You. 

We  are  not  turning  grind=tones  for  other  people's  dull  axes  and  some 
correspondents  whose  choppers  are  out  of  order  will  please  take  due  notice. 

We  received  three  letters  in  the  mail  this  morning.  One  of  them  hints 
that  lynching  is  too  good  for  Lawrence  McCloskey  because  he  wrote  Auntie's 
Affinity.  Another  is  from  William  H.  Kitchell  that  remarks  that  the  same 
play  is  one  of  the  best  of  the  late  Lubins.  A  third  is  of  like. tenor  and 
the  film  critics  speak  very  highly  of  the  same  story.  We  haven't  seen  the 
story  yet.  but  we  are  wondering  if  the  disgruntled  one  doesn't  hanpen  to 
have  had  a  comedy  turred  down  by  the  hereinbeforementioned   McCloskey. 

We  replied  to  one  similar  letter  the  other  day  and  the  envelope  was 
returned  "not  found"  by  the  post  office.  Evidently  some  of  these  axe 
grinders  are  afraid  to  state  their  real  names  and  addresses. 

This  department  is  conducted  to  give  what  help  it  can  to  the  student  of 
photoplays  and  we  grow  a  little  tired  of  the  continual  yelping  of  those  who 
do  not  sell  and  want  to  get  square  with  the  indifferent  companies. 

This  goes  double  for  a  St.  Louis  person  who  says  he  has  it  from  a  Selig 
director  that  it  is  the  common  practice  in  that  and  other  studios  to  steal 
ideas  and  return  the  scripts.  He  is  invited  to  write  and  give  the  name  of 
the  editor  if  he  can  back  up  his  charge,  but  we  do  not  believe  that  he 
would  know  a  Selig  or  any  other  editor  if  he  saw  one. 


What  Kalem  Wants. 

Here  is  an  extract  from  a  personal  letter  From  the  Kalem  editor  to  a 
contributor  whose  script  did  not  quite  measure  up  to  his  usual  standard. 
The  recipient  passes  it  along  because  the  general  advice  is  a  pretty  good 
reflection  of  what  the  Kalem  wants  and  what  it  can  get  to  go  with  what  it 
wants. 

Then  it  begins  to  drag  *  *  *  what  we  try  to  avoid  above 
everything  else  is  "going  and  coming"  (the  husband  left  home  ard 
has  returned).  We  want  ACTION  *  *  *  Where  our  four  com- 
panies have  access  to  steamboats,  schooner?,  sawmills  turpentine 
camps,  tobacco  plantations,  seacoast  locations     *  We  wish  to 

state  that  sooner  or  later  it  will  be  necessary  to  announce  that   aver- 


age FCe-arics  wil]  not  be  considered.  We  arc  not  interested  in  any 
play  which  does  not  have  at  least  one  bg  situation  and  i>  full  of 
action  throughout.  Average  scenario  writers  are  not  writing  these 
kind.  The  mail  is  flooded  with  trite,  conventional  things  which  have' 
not  the  slightest  charce  of  acceptance.  Prom  this  situation  we  wish 
to  assure  ourselves  where  we  c-m  Fafe'y  look  fa*  authors  who  can 
understand  and  appreciate  the  Kalem  standard.  We  much  prefer  a 
brief  specification  for  a  big  situation  to  a  complete  scenario  full  of 
conventionalities.  It  is  much  easier  to  write  the  scenario  from  the 
situation  than  to  put  the  situation  into  a  mediocre  scenario. 
These  comments  are  not  offered  as  a  criticism  of  your  scenarios. 
You  have  usually  hit  the  mark  with  us  by  providing  the  class  of 
situation  to  which  we  refer.  The  most  common  fault  among  writers 
is  the  literary  scenario  which  is  by  no  means  suitable  for  the 
ACTION*  that  we  require  and  we  wish  to  emphasize  our  position 
that  you  may  fully  understand  the  class  of  scenarios  which  will 
find  favor. 


Competition  Scripts. 

Something  new  in  the  script  writing  line  is  the  competition  script.  We 
have  seen  in  the  last  week  a  letter  from  an  advertising  film  company 
(one  making  film  for  advertising  purposes)  in  which  a  would-be  writer  is 
informed  that  the  company  will  pay  one  hundred  dollars  for  a  three  reel 
story  along  certain  lines.  According  to  the  writer  twelve  different  authors 
have  been  asked  to  submit  scripts,  one  or  more  of  which  will  be  taken. 
It  looks  to  us  like  a  pretty  poor  gamble  on  the  part  of  the  author,  even 
though  the  company  in  question  will  deal  fairly  with  those  wliose  work 
it  reviews.  At  the  same  time  it  cannot  get  an  order  without  showing  a 
script  and  cannot  purchase  the  script  without  getting  an  order  and  so  it 
cuts  both  ways. 


Has  a  Department. 

Carl  M.  Chapin.  who  is  coming  ahead  as  a  photoplay  writer,  is  conducting 
a  photoplay  department  on  the  Waterbury,  Conn.,  American,  getting  a 
couple  of  columns  on  the  dramatic  page.  He  has  made  a  good  start  and 
we  know  that  he'll  make  a  better  finish.  He's  that  sort  of  a  man. 
Here's  luck. 

Inquest  Club. 

Owing  to  the  fact  that  this  department  is  printed  in  an  early  form  of  the 
paper  to  leave  the  late  days  open  for  the  handling  of  the  news  of  the 
moment,  it  will  not  always  be  possible  to  give  notice  of  the  next  meeting. 
If  prospective  members  will  send  in  half  a  dozen  self-addressed  postal  cards 
this  information  will  be  sent  them  each  week  as  long  as  the  cards  last. 
They  should  be  sent  to  this  writer  personally  and  not  to  the  paper. 

Wright  and  Thomas. 

William  Lord  Wright  and  A.  W.  Thomas  both  advise  us  that  they  will 
be  more  or  less  closely  connected  with  the  staff  of  the  clearing  house  es 
tablished  by  the  Motion   Picture  Story  Magazine. 

Just  a  Wrinkle. 

We  do  not  have  much  use  tor  a  tynewritrr  eraser,  nM  that  we  write  so 
well  but  because  we  make  so  many  mistakes  that  it  is  quicker  to  mark  a  lot 
of  xxxx  and  let  it  go  at  that,  but  when  we  do  want  one  it  is  in  a  hurry  and 
typewriter  erasers  are  by  nature  tricky  and  elusive. 

We  got  two  small  screw  eyes  and  put  one  in  the  front  of  the  right  hand 
side  of  the  end  of  the  desk  and  the  other  at  the  back.  Then  we  took  a 
piece  of  fishline,  ran  it  through  the  eyes,  tied  one  end  to  the  eraser  an  I 
the  other  to  a  weight,  leaving  the  line  just  long  enough  to  clear  the  floor 
when  the  eraser  rests  against  the  front  screw  eye.  Now  the  eraser  is  clear 
of  the  litter  on  the  desk  top,  it  is  always  where  it  is  wanted  and  goes  back 
there  the  moment  we  let  go  of  it,  the  weight  being  sufficient  to  draw  it  back 
against  the  screw  eye.  while  the  cord  is  long  enough  when  the  weight  is 
drawn  up  to  permit  us  to  use  it  on  any  part  of  the  carriage.  This  heats 
tying  the  eraser  to  the  machine  as  it  goes  completely  out  of  the  way  when 
not  actually  in  use. 

Second-Hand  Authors. 

Are  you  a  second-hand  author  or  a  regular  one11 

By   second    hand    we    mean    one    of    those   persons   who    seek    to    mask    an 
inability  to  write  by  having  recourse  to  some  person  who  does  revision.     For 
a   long  time   we've   been    wondering  how   it    was   that   some  of   the   stuff  we 
saw  bore  such  a  strong  family  resemblance.     It  was  a  unique  jumble  of  er- 
rors in  arrangement  and  it  did  not  seem  possible   that   authors  in   all    parts 
of  the  country  could  have   hit   upon   the  same   messy   wav   of  getting  0"*t  a 
script.      It   was   not   in   the  style   of  any  correspondence  school    we  ever   bad 
heard  of,  for  we'll  give  the  schools  credit   for  teaching  form   if  not  correct 
technique.     This  stuff  was   in   a  class  by  itself.     Then  came  a  tetter  from   a 
correspondent  more   frank  than   the  others.      It   carried    the  explanation 
the   script   had  been   developed   from  a  story  by  a   man   who  does  the   work 
for  $1.75.     It  is  worse   than  the  waste  of  $1.75   because  in   addition   to  the 
loss  of  the  money  there  is  the  loss  of  opportunity,   for  the  script  is   g 
out  in  such  a  slovenly  shape  that  it  must  he  a  mighty  good  story;  a 
unusual   story,  to  attract  the  editor. 

We   do  not   believe    that   any   person    can    fully   and   properly    deve! 
ideas  of  another,  and  most  assuredly  it  cannot  be  done  by  a  competeti 
son   short  of  the  price  the  script   would  bring  in   the  market.      I*.   is 
experience   that    we    can    write   two    original    photoplays   and   perhaps    more    in 
the  time   it  takes  us  to  line  out  the   ideas   of  someone  else  and   train    them 
to  travel   our   way,  and   at   h:st  it   is   a   second  hand  story.      If  vol: 
do  your  own  work,  keep  on   studying  until  you  can,  but  don't  be  a   second 
hand  author,   and   don't  expect   to  gain    fame  on   the  brainwork   of  another. 
If  that   other   really  is   a  braimvorker   he   cannot   afford   to  bother   vi- 
and you  cannot  afford  to  bother  with  the  other  sort. 


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THE     MOVING     PICTURE     WORLD 


Scrap  Books. 

We    have    received    so    many    letters    from    photopla;  asking    that 

this  department  be  printed  on  facing  pages  instead  of  back  to  back,  so  that 
a  single  copy  may  be  pasted  into  a  scrap  book,  that  the  make-up  editor  is 
particularly  careful  io  face  the  pages  unless  the  exigencies  of  the  moment 
compel  putting  the  pages  back  to  back.  Now  comes  Frank  Howard  Clark, 
of  Pittsburgh,  who  writes: 

I  conceived  the  idea  of  cutting  out  of  the  World  each  week  the 
Photoplay wright's  page  and  having  them  bound  as  a  separate 
volume  so  that  I  may  have  in  compact  form  this  information  for 
easy  reference  and  to  read  over  occasionally.  I  found,  however, 
that  to  cut  out  the  pages  would  destroy  a  goodly  part  of  the  margin 
of  the  sheet.  I  got  around  that  by  turning  up  the  staples  on  the 
back  of  the  book  and  drawing  off  the  pages  until  I  came  to  the 
I  wanted.  In  this  manner  I  was  able  to  preserve  the  margin  in- 
tact. It  was  a  very  easy  matter  to  put  on  the  rest  of  the  pages 
again  and  turn  down  the  staples  so  that  the  magazine  was  in  as 
complete  and  good  order  as  formerly  save  for  the  removal  of  these 
one  or  two  sheets.  It  took  this  writer  but  two  evenings  to  go 
back  through  the  Worlds  and  remove  these  pages  which  same  date 
back  to  Dec.  16,  1911  (then  called  The  Scenario  Writer).  I  then 
purchased  a  loose  leaf  birder  for  $2.25  and  a  punch  for  $1.00  to  go 
with  it  and  I  now  have  my  easy  reference  information  file  com- 
plete. Every  week  I  remove  the  Photoplay wright  pages  from  the 
World  and  put  'em  in  the  binder  so  that  I  am  always  up  to  date. 

There  is  a  much  simpler  way  than  this  as  most  librarians  can  explain 
to  an  inquirer.  The  sheet  to  be  pasted  up  is  cut  from  the  publication  as 
close  to  the  binding  edge  as  is  possible  without  cutting  the  other  pages. 
The  sheet  of  the  scrap  book  is  cut  to  give  an  opening  an  eighth  of  an  inch 
longer  and  wider  than  the  type  on  the  page  to  be  pasted.  This  gives  a  win- 
dow through  which  the  back  of  the  printed  sheet  may  be  read  after  the 
margin  of  the  printed  sheet  is  pasted  to  the  part  of  the  scrap  book  page 
not  cut  away,  allowing  both  sides  of  the  single  saeet  of  be  read,  one  as 
though  it  were  pasted  in  the  book  in  the  usual  manner  and  the  other 
through  the  window  formed  by  cutting  away  the  pasting  sheet.  Glue  in- 
stead of  paste  should  be  used  to  prevent  wrinkling  as  much  as  possible. 

We  use  a  loose  leaf  binder  of  the  ring  type  with  a  page  9 Va  by  12  and 
we  have  just  received  from  the  bindery  the  book  to  the  end  of  last  year, 
leaving  the  binder  free  for  the  collection  of  this  year's  pages.  The  cost  for 
bindirg  will  be  about  a  dollar  to  a  dollar  and  a  half,  with  lettering  extra. 

Where  a  full  page  .s  presented  on  one  side  and  less  on  the  other,  we  cut 
away  from  the  scrap  book  page  only  as  much  as  is  necessary  to  show  what 
is  to  be  preserved. 

It  might  be  added  that  one  writer,  following  the  loose  leaf  system,  num- 
bers his  pages  and  indexes  by  subjects,  allowing  a  full  page  for  each  topic 
and  adding  the  page  number,  all  referenced  to  plot  building,  for  instance, 
being  entered  on  the  "Plot"  page  by  the  number  of  the  scrap  book  page, 
only.    In   this  way  all  of  the  items  on   one  subject  may  be  located  quickly. 


Hardened  to  Rejections. 

Only   the  other  day  a  chap  told  us  he  was  getting  hardened   to    rejection 
and   he  "didn't   let   them   worry   him"   any   more.      There   i-   no    reason 
why  a  rejection   slip  should  be  regarded  as  something  unplc  -  than 

that  it  is  a  notification  that  a  check  may  not  be  expected  from  the  house 
making  the  rejection.  It  is  not  necessarily  the  sign  of  a  poor  story.  The 
best  writers  get  slips  or  letters  and  they  know  that  not  available  mea: 
that  and  not  necessarily  "not  meritorious."  Of  course,  a  slip  may  mean 
that  the  story  is  too  bad  to  be  filmed,  but  it  does  not  always  mean  that 
and. sometimes  the  man  or  woman  who  weeps  over  a  rejection  would  be  sur- 
prised could  the  real  reason  be  known.  It  may  mean  that  the  editor  has 
a  headache,  that  the  director  has  a  grouch,  that  they  just  took  a  story  along 
the  same  lines  or  that  they  have  decided  to  stop  making  that  sort  of  story  for 
the  present.  When  you  get  a  rejection  slip  and  the  story  looks  pretty  good 
to  you  still,  smile  and  send  it  along  to  the  next  and  the  next.  If  it  doesn't 
look  right,  fix  it  up  and  send  along  again,  but  don't  feel  broken  up  for  a 
week  just  because  a  slip  came  in. 


Even  So. 

M.  1).  Stilson,  of  the  Schuyler  Opera  House,  Cobleskill,  N.  Y.f  rises  to 
disagree  with  a  recent  article  by  Louis  Reeves  Harrison  in  which  the 
statement  is  made  that  there  are  few  good  plots  used  because  there  are 
few  good  writers  of  plots.  He  thinks  that  Mr.  Harrison  bears  down  too 
heavily  on  the  amateur  writer  and  thinks  that  the  directors  should  be 
jacked  up  a  bit.  He  cites  an  instance  wherein  a  picture,  supposed  to  be 
a  night  scene,  shows  a  rooster  and  his  hen-harem  out  for  a  midnight  stroll. 
He  plaintively  asks:  "Did  not  that  director  have  any  idea  as  to  when  a 
rooster  and  his  wives  go  to  bed?" 

The  point  is  well  taken  and  we  think  that  Mr.  Harrison  has  suffered  from 
the  producer  as  we  all  have,  but  he  overlooks  the  rather  important  point  that 
the  director  didn't  have  a  good  script  to  start  with  because  there  are  few 
writing  really  good  scripts  yet.  We  are  trying  to  educate  the  novice  whom 
Mr.  Stilson  thinks  we  are  decrying,  but  we  are  trying  to  jolt  the  novice  out 
of  his  complacent  belief  that  if  he  has  written  the  script  it  must  be  good. 
We  are  trying  to  make  all  writers  see  that  a  script  must  be  above  the 
ordinary,  that  they  must  think  harder  and  to  better  effect. 

Mr.  Harrison  was  not  hammering  the  novice,  but  in  his  own  way  he 
was  trying  to  point  out  that  there  is  a  demand  for  really  good  stuff  that 
is  not  being  filled  and  some  of  the  best  story  writers,  it  may  be  added,  are 
trying  to  fill  that  demand  and  are  failing  as  badly  as  some  of  the  novices. 
The  man  who  never  wrote  a  short  story  in  his  life  may  be  able  to  write  a 
better  photoplay  than  the  fiction  star,  but  before  he  does  he  must  have 
it  driven  home  that  anything  he  puts  down  on  a  piece  of  white  paper  in 
approved  photoplay  style  is  not,  for  that  reason,  a  photoplay.  We  are  try- 
ing to  make  him  see  that  it  must  be  something  more  than  incident,  some- 
thing more  than  action.  It  must  have  a  heart  and  soul.  It  must  be  real. 
It  takes  three  weeks  to  learn  to  run  a  trolley  car  and  yet  many  writers 
complain  because  they  do  not  sell  their  first  hurriedly  written  script  and 
talk  about  the  screened  story  being  so  immeasurably  inferior  to  their  own 
product  of  genius.  This  doesn't  mean  Mr.  Stilson,  but  he  started  off  the 
comment  and  we  are   winding  it  up  for  the  benefit  of  those  who  need  it. 


"The  Director's  Sheet." 

Seyeral  persons  have  written  lately  to  know  what  is  on  the  director's 
sheet.  We  are  afraid  we  shall  have  to  confess  ignorance.  Most  directors 
work  from  the  script  or  write  one  of  their  own  when  the  rearrangement 
of  scenes  is  extensive  or  when  the  script  runs  too  full  and  the  business  is 
buried  in  a  mass  of  petty  detail,  but  we  know  only  one  company  that  inva- 
riably has  a  special  script  made  for  the  producer. 

One  letter  seems  to  suggest  that  the  "director's  sheet"  is  the  first  page 
of  the  script,  giving  the  cast,  synopsis  and  scene  plot.  The  latter  is  val- 
uable only  when  it  is  reasonably  certain  that  the  play  will  be  put  on  as 
written,  but  the  cast  and  synopsis  are  invariably  required,  and  the  synopsis 
should  be  single  spaced  and  within  250  words.  If  some  of  these  inquirers 
will  be  more  specific  we'll  try  and  be  more  educational. 


Inquiries. 

NOTE — Replies  cannot  be  sent  by  mail.  State  name  of  character.  Do  not 
ask  for  "leads"  or  "that  man."  Addresses  cannot  be  given  here,  but  a 
list  of  studio  addresses  will  be  sent  for  a  stamped  and  self- addressed  envelope. 
Only  questions  of  general  interest  will  be  answered.  Replies  cannot  be  repeated. 
B.  T.  I. — We  do  not  know  why  Essanay  has  not  released  the  pictures  you 
mention.  Yon  do  not  stand  much  chance  of  placing  special  scripts.  Most 
of  these  are  written  by  some  person  familiar  with  the  want*.  We  believe 
that  Mr.  Anderson  himself  writes  the  Broncho  Billy  stories.  The  Pro- 
jection Department  appeals  to  a  wider  circle  of  readers,  and  so  gets  more 
space.  There  is  no  film  we  know  of  that  will  give  positive  pictures  without 
the  use  of  negative.  The  old-fashioned  tintypes  and  the  Lumiere  color 
plates  give  direct  positives,  but  through  reflection.  There  is  no  demand  for 
snch  a  film,  though  it  would  be  handy  for  the  local  exhibitor  who  has  a 
motion  camera.     We  do  not  locate  that  Bison  by  your  title. 

X.  T.  Z. — Any  company  working  in  New  York  or  Chicago  could  get  the 
use  of  a  steamer,  but  we  do  not  believe  that  any  would  care  to  go  to  the 
trouble  and  expense  your  story  would  involve. 

J,  M. — No  private  is  cast  as  lead  in  Broncho's  "In  the  Rank>  Sergeant 
Allen,  or  Simmous,  was  E.  H.  Allen.  He  is  called  Allen  in  the  synopsis  and 
Simmons  in  the  film.  James  Young  Deer  is  still  in  charge  of  the  Western 
Pathe  studio.     We  do  not  know  about  the  other  players  you  mention. 

V,  M.  X. — The  Pbotoplaywright  department  was  started  under  the  title  of 
"The  Scenario  Writer,"  in  the  issue  of  December  16,  1911.  Not  all  back 
numbers  are  available,  bnt  you  can  get  the  bound  volumes  (three  months 
each),  for  $1.50  per  volume.  Some  libraries  file  this  publication,  bat  not  all. 
If  your  library  does  not,  perhaps  a  chat  with  the  librarian  will  result  in  its 
being  added  to  the  list  of  perodicals. 

B.  T,  F. — If  you  desire  us  to  take  the  matter  np,  send  the  name  of  the 
script. 

MAB.IE — The  name  and  address  Is  requisite  in  asking  questions.  la  "The  War 
Correspondent,"  Jack,  was  Harry  Millarde,  and  Myrtle,  Miss  Marguerite 
Ooortot.  In  "The  Spanish  Parrot  Girl"  Harold  Lockwood  was  Avery,  and 
Miss  Amy  Trask  was  Lola.  You  can  obtain  the  names  of  the  characters 
when  not  given  in  the  film  from  the  Stories  of  the  Film. 

L.  L. — In  "Seeing  is  Believing,"  Charles  Hitchcock  was  the  butler.  In 
"From  the  Submerged,"  E.  H.  Calvert  was  the  doctor.  We  have  aot  heard 
that  Mr.  Bushman  was  to  Join  Yitagraph. 

W.  E.   W. — The  wife  in   "Look  Not  Tpon  the  Wine,"   was  Miss  Kate  Ton- 
cray.     The  girl  in   "A  Queer  Elopement,"    was   Miss   GYace   Lewis.     We   lack 
the  third  cast.     "Harry  Benson,"  of  the  English  postcards,  is  Charles  West. 
J.  H.  H. — No  accurate  list  of  the  managers  of  photoplay  theaters  is  avail- 
able. 

W.  E.  W. — If  you'll  read  this  paper  carefully  you'll  notice  that  Biograpb 
is  working  in  Los  Angeles,  and  Miss  Piekford  in  New  York.  That  answers 
the  question  as  to  whether  she  works  occasionally  for  the  Biograpb  now. 
They  are  releasing  pictures  in  which  she  appears  because  they  have  some 
made  while  she  was  with  them  and  not  yet  released.  How  can  we  tell  if 
Mr.  Belasco  has  any  financial  interest  in  the  Biograph?  No  such  announce- 
ment has  been  made. 

L,  A.  C. — We  lack  the  cast  you  ask  for.     See  just  above. 

E,    K.    C. "Technique    of    the    Photoplay"    will    tell    you   all    you    need    to 

know.  If  you  know  the  pictures  well  it  should  come  easy  to  you,  though 
it  is  by  no  means  as  easy  as  it  looks.  Plays  should  be  addressed  simply  to 
the  company  or  "Photoplay  Editor"  of  the  company.  Thanks  for  the  poem- 
And  it's  seldom  we  say  thanks  for  poetry. 

Eau  Claire — The  name  of  your  city  is  not  regarded  as  sufficient  signature. 
Read  the  rules. 

MABEE — William  Garwood  had  the  title  in  "Her  Fireman."  Miss  Mar- 
guerite NeMoyer  was  Ruth  in  "Will  Willie  Win?"  Darwin  Karr  is  the  Solax 
player  you  ask  about. 

G.  A. — Miss  Edna  Payne  and  Earle  Fox  are  the  people  you  think  should 
be  praised. 

JONES — The  author  is  supposed  to  write  in  bis  own  leaders.  They  are 
written  in  the  action  between  the  scenes  or  in  the  scene  as  may  be  necessary. 
You  also  write  all  letters,  newspaper  clippings  or  headings  and  anything 
else  inserted  in  the  film.  Pathe  is  the  only  company  we  know  that  asks 
for  the  author's  name  on  a  separate  sheet.  It  is  an  unusual  rule,  due  to 
some  peculiarity  of  method.  The  safest  plan  in  general  Is  to  put  your 
name  and  address  in  full  on  every  sheet. 

Photoplay  Writing. 

The  standard  book  on  the  subject  is  Mr.  Epes  W.  Sargent's 

TECHNIQUE  OF  THE  PHOTOPLAY. 
Price,  $1.00.  Postage  Prepaid.  All  Orders  and  Remittances  to 

CHALMERS    PUBLISHING    COMPANY. 
Box  226,  Madison  Square  Post  Office,  New  York  City. 


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Projection  Department 


Edited   by   F.    H.   RICHARDSON 


Operators'  Union  Directory,  I.  A.  T.  S.  E. 

NOTICE:     Each  union  is  entitled  to  have  its  roster  of  officers,  meeting 
nights,  etc.,  listed  here  once  per  year,  free  of  cost.     Preserve  this  list 
as  it   will   not   be   re-published.       The   mail   address  of  the  secretary 
should  be  included  in  each  list,  and  the  address  of  regular  meeting  place, 
if  any. 


Moving  Picture  and  Projecting  Machine   Operators'  Union. 

Local  Union  Xo.  521.  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.,  Palestine,  Texas.  President,  Guy 
Sherman;  Vice-president,  Fred  Droby;  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Oscar 
Bridges;  Business  Agent,  Virgil  Bridges. 

Local  Union.  Xo.  249,  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.,  Dallas,  Texas.  Secretary's  address 
P.  O.  Box  1584.  Meets  first  and  third  Tuesdays.  President,  T.  A.  Long; 
Vice-president.  Ed.  Addington ;  Recording  Secretary.  G.  L.  Luther;  Financial 
Secretary-Treasurer,  James  H.  Crosby;  Sergeant-at-Arms,  J.  W.  Schoolfield. 


A  Triumph  for  the  Projection  Department. 

For  a  long  time  this  department  has,  and  its  editor  has  through  his 
handbooks,  been  insisting  upon  the  introduction  of  a  little  common  sense 
into  the  laws  governing  operating  room  construction  and  equipment.  We 
have,  from  time  to  time,  told  some  good,  hard,  but  rather  unpalatable 
truths  regarding  the  asininity  and  utter  idiocy  displayed  by  our  law- 
makers in  these  matters. 

At  last,  even  right  here  in  New  York  State  where  the  lawmakers,  as  a 
rule,  are  hide-bound  and  about  as  progressive  as  an  Egyptian  obelisk,  a 
measure  has  been  introduced  into  the  Assembly  in  Albany  which  to  a  large 
extent  incorporates  every  one  of  the  provisions  we  have  demanded.  Whereas, 
the  former  law  stipulated  asbestos  board  on  an  iron  frame,  the  new  law 
says:  "Concrete,  brick,  hollow  tile,  or  other  approved  fireproof  material, 
or  other  approved  fireproof  framework  covered  or  lined  with  asbestos  board, 
or  with  some  other  approved  fire-resisting  material."  The  new  law  also 
requires  a  vent  flue,  of  not  less  than  50  sq.  inches  cross-section,  except  on 
strictly  portable  booths,  which,  by  the  way,  is  only  about  one-fourth  large 
enough,  but  is  considerably  better  than  nothing  at  all  and  a  step  in  the 
right  direction.  One  provision  of  the  law,  however,  is  very  bad.  It  reads: 
"When  the  booth  is  in  use  there  shall  be  a  constant  current  of  air  passing 
outward  through  said  opening  or  vent  flue  at  the  rate  of  not  less  than  30 
cu.  ft.  per  minute."  This,  of  course,  presumes  the  installation  of  a  fan 
in  the  flue,  and  that,  as  we  have  repeatedly  pointed  out,  is  bad  for  several 
reasons.  Moreover,  such  a  current  of  air  would  be  impractical  in  cold 
weather.  So  interested  is  the  editor  of  this  department  in  this  matter 
that  if  a  public  hearing  is  held  on  the  proposed  bill  he  will  journey  to 
Albany  to  argue  for  the  enlargement  of  the  vent  flue,  the  omission  of  the 
30-foot  proposition  and  the  inclusion  of  certain  other  essential  details. 
We  must,  however,  in  closing,  say  that  the  observation  port  is  not  restricted 
in  size  except  by  the  words:  "shall  be  no  larger  than  reasonably  necessary," 
which   is  good.     If  the  law  is  passed  we  will  print  it  in  full. 


25  Cent  Moving  Picture  Theater  in  Brooklyn. 

At  Third  Avenue  and  75th  Street,  Brooklyn,  is  the  house  recently 
erected  and  opened  by  Herman  Mayer  (Chas.  Klein,  manager),  who  also 
owns  the  Electra,  1160  Broadway;  Colonial,  1746  Broadway;  Colonial  Air- 
drome, Rockaway  Avenue  and  Chauncey  Street,  General  Manager,  Otto 
Lederer. 

The  new  house  seats  700  on  its  main  floor  and  spacious  balcony.  It  is 
indeed  a  beautiful  theater,  both  inside  and  out,  reflecting  credit  not  only 
upon  its  owner  and  its  manager,  but  on  the  business  as  a  whole.  There 
is  one  feature,  however,  which  I  particularly,  and  as  forcibly  as  may  be, 
desire  to  call  attention  to,  viz:  the  fact  that  the  entire  main  floor  carries 
a  ten-cent  admission,  while  the  balcony  is  fifteen  and  twenty-five  cents. 
This  house  is  doing  a  splendid  business,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that  abso- 
lutely nothing  is  on  the  program  but  moz-ing  pictures.  The  night  I  visited 
the  house,  at  the  invitation  of  the  management,  was  an  "off"  night 
(Friday)  and  threatening  rain  also,  yet  the  main  floor  and  balcony  were 
both  full  almost  to  capacity  at  ten,   fifteen  and  twenty-five  cents  admission. 

What  is  the  answer,  you  asK?  Exactly  what  I  have  been  telling  you  for 
three  years.  Careful  attention  to  detaitS,  a  good  orchestra  rehearsed  to 
play  the  pictures  to  the  limit  and  good  projection.  The  operating  room 
walls  and  ceiling  are  of  concrete,  about  8  x  20  feet,  by  probably  7%  feet 
high.  The  rewinding  and  motor-generator  rooms  (there  is  a  room  for  both) 
open  off  this.  There  is  an  ample  vent  flue  through  the  roof.  The  room  is, 
in  fact,  one  which  has  my  hearty  approval  in  every  detail.  The  equipment 
consists  of  two  Power's  Six  A  machines,  to  which  current  is  supplied  by 
a  Wagner  rotary  converter.  The  operating  room  is  in  charge  of  operator 
F.  Eichhorn.  The  screen  is  plain,  white  plaster  concaved.  The  pictures 
were  brilliant  and  were,  in  the  main,  run  at  correct  speed.  In  other  words, 
the  projection  was  high  class.  The  seven-piece  orchestra  handled  the  musical 
end  splendidly  and  the  combined  result  was  a  house  full  at  ten,  fifteen  and 
twenty-five  cents  admission.  I  wish  we  had  more  houses  like  this  one  and 
more  owners  and  managers  like  Messrs.  Mayer  and  Klein. 


Power's  6  Shutter  Bracket  Brace  and  Framing  Lamp. 

Mr.   Bob  Worthen,  Liberty  Theater.    Salt  Lake  City.  Utah,   writes: 

Xoticed  in  a  recent  issue  one  of  the  boys  was  having  trouble  with 
a  Power's  "Six"  shutter  being  out  of  time.  Had  the  same  diffi- 
culty with  one  of  my  machines.  It  was  impossible  to  eliminate 
travel  ghost  until  I  located  the  trouble.  Found  the  screw  (732, 
Fig.  118,  page  278  of  the  handbook)  holding  shutter  bracket  had 
become  worn  and  allowed  some  play  in  the  arm.  which  was  most 
noticeable  when  running  fast.  I  tried  putting  a  washer  in  the 
screw,  without  effect,  and,  regardless  of  anything  I  could  do.  the 
trouble  continued  until  I  fixed  it  as  shown  in  sketch;  first,  how- 
ever, installing  a  new  shutter  gear   (635,  Fig.   118,  page  27S  of  the 


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handbook).  Brace  E  is  made  from  the  blade  of  a  knife  switch, 
which  was  twisted  as  shown  at  X.  The  brace  stopped  the  trouble. 
The  upper  front  plate  screw  served  to  hold  the  upper  nut  of  the 
brace.-  This  brace  holds  the  shutter  bracket  perfectly  rigid,  and 
with  the  play  taken  out  of  gears  and  shaft,  and  the  shutter  straight- 
ened up  and  set.  the  machine  runs  like  a  2 1 -jewel  watch.  I  also 
include  sketch  of  a  small  battery  flash  lamp  which  I  installed  on 
the  inner  side  of  the  front  plate  for  threading  in  frame,  connecting 
same  to  three  Xo.  6  dry  cells,  with  small  switch  located  on  the 
machine  baseboard.  "B"  on  plate  C  shows  the  relation  of  aper- 
ture plate  to  lamp. 

Many  thanks  for  your  contribution,  brother  Worthen.  You  certainly 
are  some  draughtsman.  Yours  is  perhaps  as  good  a  drawing  as  I  have 
ever  had  submitted,  only  I  had  to  trace  it  over  in  India  ink.  since  you 
made  it  in  lead  pencil.  Did  you  have  screw  733,  Fi^.  1  io  page  280  of 
the  handbook,  set  up  tight?  That  helps  hold  the  shutter  bracket,  too,  you 
know;  but  it  is  overlooked  by  a  great  many  operators  in  setting  up  their 
machines. 


Houma  Answered  Again. 

Mr.   Harry  E.   Collins,  Topeka,   Kas..   writes: 

I  think  Houma,  La.,  February  226  issue,  should  examine  his 
star  and  cam  and  reset  them,  if  necessary,  so  that  there  \\  ill  be 
no  lost  motion.  I  have  noticed  this  fault  also  when  using  first-run 
films,  due  to  the  collecting  of  emulsion  on  the  tension  snrings. 
Also  the  tension  springs  should  be  set  perfectly  square  with  the 
aperture  plate  tracks.  Projection  is  very  good  in  this  city.  We 
use  a  cored  lower  carbon  here.  I  have  used  a  hard  carbon  below 
in  other  cities,  but  some  way  it  does  not  seem  to  work  out  right 
here.  We  have  1 10  volts  d.  c.  through  a  coil  rheostat  drawing 
about  32  amperes.  With  hard  carbons  below  the  light  is  very 
unsteady.  That  school  idea  of  the  Salt  Lake  Union  is  a  good 
stunt.  I  thoroughly  agree  that  the  union  slide  should  not  be 
shown  unless  it  be  followed  by  good  projection.  The  operating 
rooms  here  are  not  up  to  date,  though  the  houses  otherwise  are 
very  good.  We  have  nine  moving  picture  theaters,  every  one  of 
them  employing  members  of  Local  206,  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  We  receive 
$18  for  six  days,  working  seven  hours  per  day;  no  Sunday  s! 
The  local  will  give  its  annual  ball  March  17th. 

If  you  think  the  Salt  Lake  scheme  is  a  good  one,  why  not  emulate  it  in 
Topeka?  You  have  nothing  to  lose  and  everything  to  gain  by  so  doing. 
As  to  the  carbon  matter,  you  say  "hard"  carbons.  If  you  really  mean 
hard  carbons,  then  you  do  not  mean  the  same  thing  I  do.  Solid  carbons 
come  in  many  degrees  of  hardness.  You  should  have  a  soft  solid  carbon; 
in  other  words,  a  projection  carbon,  and  not  a  street  light  carbon. 


44 


THE    MOVING    PICTURE   WORLD 


Unsatisfactory  Shipment. 
Mr.    L.    J,    Wittman.    president   of    the    Star    Amusement    Company,    Ham- 
ilton,   Ohio,   writes: 

You    should    inform    the    Stern    Mfi*.     company    that    their    re?ls 
should    he    shipped    K.    D.,    as    they    arrive    badly    bent    when    sent 
through   the   parcels   post;   also   the  screws   thev   se-^t   a~e   t^o   large, 
and    the    huh    i^    very    hard    wood.      The    Moving    Picture    World    is 
my    hihle.    and    I    simply   cannot    e  t   alone    w  it'-out   it        I    s~v«?   every 
and    believe    I    have   one    of  its   very    first    issue.      I    met    the 
Hie    Mr.    J.    P.    Chalmers    at    Dayton.    Ohio.       He    tcok    a    snap    at    a 
p  of  the  bovs   with   his  ever-ready  kodak  about   fifteen   minutes 
before   the    accident    which    result  d    in    his    unt-mr'y    taking    away. 
I  fee!  that  the  moving  picture  ird'istry  di  e?  not,  and  never  can,  real- 
ize the  great  power  J.  P.  Chalmers  exerted  for  the  good  of  the  busi- 
resp,      I  am  more  than  glad  to  SL-e  that  his  depart  ire   f  ir  the  Other 
Shore  has  cau-ed  no  material  change  in  the  policy  and  managem 
of  the  paper.  I  am  not  a  subscriber,  since  I  get  the  paper  everv  »-eek 
from  a  newsdealer  who   is  one  of  my  regular   patrons,   thus  killing 
two  birds  with  one  stone. 
I   have  written    the   Stern   Mfg.   Company,   who   will   no   doubt   take  cogni- 
zance   of   the    complaint   and   remedy   whatever   is   wrong.      Needless   to  say, 
we   thoroughly    agree   with   you   in    your   remarks  concerning    Mr.    Chalmers. 
The   policy   established   by   him   in   the   conduct    of   the  naner   has   only   been 
modified  where  changing  conditions  have  made  it  necessary. 

Sample  of  Oil. 

North  Yakima,  Wash.,  writes,  ordering  a  handbook  and  torch.      His  letter 
reads  as  follows: 

I    would   not  he   without  the    M.    P.    World   under  any   considera- 
tion.     We  use  licensed  films,  .70  to  60  days  old.     I   have  a  motor- 
driven     machine    and    motor-driven     rewind.       The     operators    here 
have    only    been    organized    since    July.      Projection    is    better   than 
the    average,    but    there    is    only    one   theatre,    the    Dream,    running 
straight   pictures;   three  others  use  vaudeville  and   pictures.      I   had 
the    same    trouble    Homa,    La.,    had,    viz.,    objects    in    the    picture 
q-iivering.      After    trying    many    things    I    discovered    that    the    cam 
^haft    was   worn    on    the   flywheel   side;   also  the   boxing  in    framing 
carriage    on    the    same    side    was    worn    so    badly    that    it    caused    a 
vibration    which    was    noticeable    only    on    the    screen.      Secured    a 
new  framing  carriage  and  enm  shaft  and  all  was  lovely  again.     Am 
send'ng  a  sample  of  oil.     What  do  you  think  of  it? 
What    I    might  "think   of  it**   would   not   prove   anything,   one   way   or  the 
other.      The    orly    way    to    determine    the   quality    of    the    oil    is    to    have    it 
analyzed,   or  else  give  it   a  practical    test,   and    I   have   neither   the   time  nor 
the   opportunity   to   do   that.      The   oil   seems   to   have  very   good   lubricating 
qualities,  but  I  imagine  it  would  gum  pretty  badly.      Many  thanks   for   your 
explanation  of  Homa's  trouble.     It  is  passed   along  to  the  Louisiana  brother 
to  try  out.     I  trust  that  the   new  organization  will  succeed. 

Resistance  Question. 

Mr.   Win.  Moore,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  asks: 

Is  there  any  fixed  rule   for   finding  the   number  of  amperes   from 
a  certain   number  of  volts,   so  as  to  get  a  good  light   for  a   certain 
throw?     Example:     Suppose   we  have   220  volts  a.  c,   with   a  throw 
of  90  feet.     What  would  I  have  to  have  to  get  a  good  light?     Are 
there  any  good,   reliable  operating  schools  in  New  York  where  one 
can  learn? 
Plainly    Philadelphia's  knowledge  is  exceedingly  limited.      I   would  suggest 
that   he    serve   an    apprenticeship    under   a   competent   operator,    at   the   same 
time    studying    the    handbook    diligently,    since    therein    he    will    find    all    his 
questions  answered.      For  his  benefit   I   v  ill  say   that  the   voltage,   so   far  as 
his   light   is   concerned,   is   a   fixed   quantity,   approximately   35    for  a.  c.   and 
48  for  d.  c.  that   being  the  voltage   across  the  arc.     The   resistance   reduces 
the  line  voltage  to  that  value. 


Putting  Out  Fire. 

Biooklyn,  N.  Y.,  makes  anxious  inquiry  as  follows: 

Should    a    film   ignite  and    the    fire   get   into   the   magazine,   would 
the    New    York   Board   of    Fire    Underwriters   expect   the    operator   to 
put  the  fire  out,  or  let  it  burn?     What  would  be  the  safest  method 
of  extinguishing  such  a  fire? 
If  the   fire  gets  into  the  magazine  it   does  not   make  any  particular  differ- 
ence   what  ,  the    New    York    Board    of    Fire    Underwriters    may   expect;    you 
will   probably  be  exceedingly   busy   getting  out.     Ordinary  wheat  flour,   such 
as  bread  is  made  from,  is  the  most   effective  agent   I  know   of   for  smother- 
ing a  film  fire.      If  you  could   get   the  magazine  off   the   machine,   lay  it  on 
the  floor  and  dump  a  sack  of  flour  over  it,  the   fire  would  go   out;  hut  you 
cannot  do  that,   so   what  is  the   use    in   talking?      If   fire  gets  into  the   mag- 
azine it   will   consume   the   film   therein;   you   can. gamble  on  that.      The   thing 
.to  do.  is  have  your  port  shutters  so  arranged  that   they   will  drop  instantly. 
and  have  a  large  vent  pipe  extending  to  the  outer  air;  then  if  a  fire  occurs, 
just  grab  the  film  box  containing  the  extra   reels,   g  t   out   of  the  operating 
room,  close  the  door  and  let  her  burn.     That  is  my  advice.     But  if  you  are 
right   there   on   the  job,   and  keep  your wits  about    you.   fire    will   nev.r   get 
into    the    magazine   in    the    first   place,    even    though    the    film    ignites    at    the 
aperture. 

Editor  Slapped  on  the  Wrist. 

Mr.    S.   W.   Andrews,  of  the   Stirling   Novelty   Company,  writes: 

The  issue  (March  1st)  containing  your  answer  to  my  letter  of 
January  24th  has- just  reached  me.  Do  not  think  because  you  have 
given  your  opinion  on  this  situation  that  I  deem  it  sufficient  reason 
to  disclaim  future  friendship.  I  do,  how  .\  er.  t....ik  that,  in  full 
justice  to  myself  you  should  have  published  my  letter  as  it  was 
written,  as  the  extra  space  necessary  to  do  so  would  have  bc:n  > 
little.      In   a   couple   of   instances   you    make    it   appear    that    I    have 


Hrv-s   w'  :ch   in   r?a";ty    I    d:d   im   Fa  -.     Yo**r   statement   that 
■  ■nest  and   pernir«rus"  looks     -   though    I    was  trying 
to    rub   it    into   the   ccrc-r^s   which    may   he   making   parts   in    imita- 
t  on    of    the    o-iginal.      Being    in    business    myself,    is    is    not    for    me 
to  say   whether  this  is   di-honest   or   not.  as  we  must  all   end   avor  to 
make    a    living    in    this    great    druggie    for    existence.      In    another 
instance    you    make    me    say.    "Of    course    their    prim-    obj    cl    is    to 
shrt  off  tue  sale  of  d  ipe  part=.  a'd  with  that  vr€  have  no  «|  ''ir--el." 
which  makes  it  appear  as  though   I  had  a  quarrel  with  the   Power's 
compa-  y.       The    purj  ort    of    my    letter    was    as    to    whether    or    rot 
exhibitors  Fhould  be  allowed  to  purchase,  upen   i*s  merit,  any  article 
offered  for  ^ale,  provided  it  is  legally   right   for  them  to  do  so.    This 
does   not    necessarily   niran    articles   offered    for   sale   by    the    Sterling 
Novelty   Company.     I   feel  that,  in  full  justice  to  all  concerned,  you 
should   publish  this  letter,  together  with  my  letter  of  January  24th, 
exactly  as  they  are  written. 
I    appreciate    your    having    taken    my    remarks    in    good    part,    brother    An- 
drews,     I    think,    however,    that    no    one    misurd-?rstood    your   meaning   as    set 
forth    in  the  article   complained  of.      Your   letter   was   very   long,   and    I   am 
absolutely    comnelled    to    economize    space    by    eliminating    all    superfluities. 
As  it   is   now.   I   am  simply   swamped   with   matter.      Your   request   as  to   the 
publication    of   your    present   letter   is   complied    with,    but    I    think    no   good 
purpose   would    be    served    by    publishing    the    other    communication.      No    one 
thinks  you  have  any  quarrel  with  the  Nicholas  Power  Company.     As  to  the 
"dishonest    and    pernicious"    part.    I    simply    changed    the    wording,    but    not 
the    apparent    meaning   of   your    former   letter.      I    never    intentionally    alter 
the  meaning  of  a  letter,   or  any  part  of  it.      I  do  not  think,   friend   Andrews, 
you   object  to   rubbing  it  in  to  those   who  make  parts  in   exact   imitation   of 
machine  parts  and  sell  them  as  the  original;  that  is  the  "dishonest  and  per- 
nicious" referred  to. 


Light  OutF.t. 

Mr.  A.  J.  Wellman,  Scenic  Theater,   Ironton,  Ohio,  writes: 

Possibly  what   I  have  to  say  may  be  of  value  to  brother  exhibit- 
ors.    I  recently  installed  a  direct-connected  electric  light  outfit  built 
by   the    Heer   Engine    Company   of   Portsmouth.   Ohio.      The   engine 
is    of    the    two-cylinder    opposed    tyoe,    10    h.  p.,    with    a    Triumph 
5-k.  w.,    110-volt,    d.  c.    generator.      My   average   load  is   from   45   to 
55   amperes.      I    project  a   22-foot   picture   at   90    feet.      Use    }£-inch 
cored    carbons    on    top,   and    $i    cored    below,    which    gives   a   most 
desirable   steady  white   light,   with    the  arc   consuming   about    25    to 
30   amperes,   at   a   total   cost   of   about    ^4    cent   per  k.  w.,    or   about 
$6   per   month,   using   natural   gas   at   25    cents   per   thousand.      The 
plant   is   giving  no   trouble   and    has   been    running  about    a   month. 
It  requires  very  little  attention.      I  find  the   Projection    Department 
to  be  of  untold  value. 
We    are   very    much    obliged    to 'brother    Wellman    for   the    description    of 
his   plant.      I    think   he    holds   the   record    in    cost    of   current   production,    if 
h:s  figures  are  accurate.     Three-quarters  of  a  cent  per  k.  w.   will  make  some 
of  the  brother  exhibitors  turn  a  bright  grass  green  with  envy. 

Intermittent  Trouble. 

Cedar   Rapids,   Iowa,   writes: 

I    am   operating  Power's   Six   which   has   stood   some   pre*ty   hard 
knocks.     Power's  machine  is  noted  for  its  steady  pictures  and  silent 
operation,    but   this    one,    while    it    projects    a    fairly    steady   picture 
when  running  slow,   produces  a  very  heavy   clicking  sound  and  the 
picture  jumps  pretty  badly  when  speeded  up.     Have  set  my  tension 
springs  several   times  but   without  effect.     There   is   no  unnecessary 
lost    motion    in    the    intermittent    but    the    intermittent    sprocket    is 
badly  worn. 
I   think,   Cedar   Rapids,  that  your   Geneva  movement  is  badly  worn.   Your 
machine  should   be  sent  to  the   factory  for  repairs.      Remember  that  the  in- 
termittent   acts    approximately    960    times    per    minute,    and    cannot    be    ex- 
pected to  last   forever.      A  badly   worn   intermittent   sprocket   should   not   be 
tolerated;    it    is   exceedingly    hard    on    the    films.      Send    your    machine    to    the 
factory  for  repairs  is  my  advice. 


Fire   Proof  Walls. 

Mr.    L.   C.    Morgan.    Prineville,   Ore.,   writes: 

Have   your   new   handbook   and   have   already    found   valuable  use 
for   it.      Am    remodeling   my    theater.      It    is    impractical    for   me    t>> 
use    brick,   tile    or    cement    for    my   operating    room.      I    have    there- 
fore   planned    to    use    M    asbestos    millboard    and    cover    the    same 
with   galvanized   iron.      Would    you   consider  the   millboard   as   suffi- 
cient without  the  iron,  or  would  you  use  the  iron  as  I  have  planned? 
I   would  build  that   kind  of  a   room  as  follows  if  it  were  mv  own   house: 
First   build  a   wooden  frame  of  2  x  4  inch  or  2  x  6'  inch   studding,  or  with 
good,  heavy  floor  joist,  just  the  same  as  if  you   were  going  to   board  it   up. 
Next,   with    sheet   asbestos   3    inches    wide   by    >s    inch   thick    face   all   the    stud- 
ding so  that  the  millboard  will  not  come  directly  in  contact  with   the  wood, 
■dn<\    so   that   all    seams   will   come  over  the   sheet   asbestos.      Now   put   on   your 
inside  lining  of   millboard   and   finish   the   outside    any    urn    y  mi    want    to,    not 
forgetting  a  vent  flue  of  not  less  than  288  square   inches  in   area.     Such   a 
room    will    be.    if    carefully    constructed,    thoroughly    fireproof.      The    face   of 
the   st-idding  will  be  protected  and  there  will   he  a  dead  air  space   of  not   less 
than   four  inches  between  the  inner  and   outer  walls,  ceiling  and   floor. 


Power's  6  Toggle  Gear. 

Mr.  I- rank  Phythyon.  Clymer,  Pa.,  says  the  toggle  gear  on  his  Power's 
"Six"  is  tight  when  the  framing  carriage  is  central.  In  this,  connection 
I  would  refer  him  to  Instruction  No.  24,  page  275  of  the  handbook.  I 
think  that  will  cover  his  difficulty.  Brother  Phythyon  also  complains  of 
the  poor  patches  which  most  operators  make,  and  most  certainly  his 
complaint  is  justified  by  the  facts.  Maybe  some  day  operators  will  learn 
to   make  a  patch    right.      I   most   sincerely  hope  so,  anyhow. 


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45 


Knows  Three  Dandy  Towns. 

Mr.   C.    F.   Lubiens,   Cdanah,  Wis.,   writes: 

We  have  a  fine  theater,  seating  500.  Have  our  own  light  plant, 
consisting  of  a  15  h.  p.  Detroit  gas  engine,  and  an  old  type  Edison 
generator,  which  is  not  satisfactory-  We  therefore  purpose  to 
install  a  10  k.  w.  dynamo,  which  we  think  will  be  much  more 
economical  and  satisfactory  in  every  way.  Our  service  is  from 
the  General  Film  Company,  Minneapolis,  and  although  we  are  run- 
ning 60  to  120-day  service,  the  films  are  in  fine  condition.  I  think 
when  one  gets  good  service  a  word  of  commendation  should  be 
given,  the  same  as  censure  is  given  when  the  condition  is  the 
opposite.  "Jimmy  the  Usher"  is  very  much  in  evidence  all  over 
the  country,  ard  I  think  laws  tending  to  eliminate  him  are  good 
laws,  indeed.  I  shall  be  very  glad  to  correspond  with  any  operator 
who  feels  like  wrirng.  Am  located  on  the  Bad  River  Indian 
Reservation,  and  will  say  that  we  have  very  fine  audiences,  who 
thoroughly  appreciate  the  pictures  we  show.  I  know  of  at  least 
three  dandy  towns  in  need  of  moving  picture  shows.  Anyone 
wishirg  to  locate  in  good  live  places  can  learn  of  them  by  writing 
me.  enclosing  stamp  for  reply. 

I  do  not  know,  brother  Lubiens,  but  I  think  you  will  get  a  few  letters 
on  that  "dandy  town"  proposition — possibly  quite  a  few.  It  is  indeed  the 
duty  of  the  exhibitor  and  operator  to  commend  good  film  service,  as  well 
as  tn  r-nsure  that  which  is  not  good.  As  a  rule,  however,  this  is  forgotten. 
The  ensure  is  forthcoming  quickly  enough,  but  the  word  of  praise  is 
omitted  entirely,  ro  matter  how  much  it  is  deserved.  In  this  connection 
I  might  say  that  I  believe  the  General  Film  Company  is  doing  a  great 
and  meritorious  work  in  remedying  some  of  the  many  evils  present  in 
practically  all  film  exchanges.  Notably  is  this  true  in  the  matter  of 
ticn  and  repair  of  films.  One  of  the  exceedingly  serious  things  the 
business  has  been  confronted  with  has  been  the  wretched  condition  in 
which  some  of  the  film  exchanges  send  out  their  reels.  The  General  Film 
Comrary  =eems  to  be  making  a  real  and  effective  effort  to  overcome  this, 
and   that   company   is  certainly  to  be   highly  commended  for  so   doing. 


Roll  It  Around. 

Mr.   J.    A.    Williamson.   Kansas  City,   Mo.,   fires  the   following   wad   in   our 
direction: 

Why   does   the  spot  appear   round   on   the   outside   shutter,    while 
on   the  screen   it   is  oblong?     Kindly   roll   this   around   a   while  and 
if  it  will  accumulate  an  answer. 
In   the  first  place,  brother   Williamson.   I  have  yet  to  see   the  spot  on  an 
outside    shutter    which    appears    round.      Possibly    some    of   them    do.    but    I 
think  I  will  pass  this  up  to  the  department  fans  and  let  them  do  the  rolling. 


Rainbow. 

Washburne.  Me.,  writes: 

What   causes    rainbow    to   appear   in    my   picture?      The    predomi- 
nant color  is  green.      It  is  sometimes  in  the  center  of  the  picture, 
and  at  other  times  anywhere  it  takes  a  notion.     Have  tried  setting 
the   carbons   different    ways,   but    Mr.    Rainbow   is   still    on   the   job. 
Also  I  want  to  know  which  gives  the  better  picture,  with  the  least 
amount  of  flicker,  a  two-wing  or  a  three-wing  Power's  shutter;  110- 
volt,  60-cycle  a.  c. 
Inasmuch    as    Washburne,    Me.,    orders    a    handbook,    which    he    doubtless 
has  by  now,  I   think  a  study  of  carbon  setting  therein   will  answer  his  first 
query.      The    Power's    "Six"   shutter   question   has   been   answered   time   and 
agair.     With  a  two-wing  shutter  you  will  get  more  light — and  more  Bicker, 
but   the  three-wing   shutter   gets   into    synchronism    with    the  alternations    of 
the  current  if  you  speed  up  beyond  65   to  70,  thus  producing  a  flashing  of 
the  light. 


A  Good  Operator. 

Mr.   J.    -\eney.    LIrandon.    Manitoba.    Canada,    n  ri 

I    do   not   think  the   best   operator   is  always  to   be   found  in   the 
large  city,   or  else   I   do  not  understand  very   well   the  meaning  of 
the    term    "good    operator."       I    am    sending    some    misframes    cut 
from  films  that  have  been  run  by  some  of  the  best  houses  in  Win- 
nipeg.     There   is   no  doubt   about  that,  as   I   have  seen  these   films 
advertised  in  the  Winnipeg  local  papers  some  times  a  week  or  two 
before    I   had   same.      Now,   I   do    not    see   how    a  "good   operator" 
could  stand  to  run  fourteen  to  fifteen  shows  a  day  with  misframes 
in   his  film,  or  with  some  of  the  patches  I   have   found,  samples  of 
which  are  also  enclosed.     I  am  compelled  to  spend  fully  two  hours 
ut   my   four-reel   program   in   good   shape,   though   the   films  are 
under  thirty  days  from  release  date.     I   would  like  to  say.  not  for 
the  benefit  of  operators,  but  for  the  information  of  managers  who 
have   little   practical    knowledge,   yet   who   insist   that   their   operator 
use  two  5^   cored  carbons  with  30  to  35  amperes  d.c,   I  have  tried 
that  plan  with  several  brands  of  carbons,  but  the  best  results  were 
had  with  the  regular  set  and  kind  of  carbons  always  advertised  for 
d.c.     I   was  pleased  with  your  first  handbook,  but  the  second  beats 
them  all.     If  operators  would  keep  the  idlers  of  their  magazines   a 
little  bit  cleaner  we  would  not  have  so  many  scratched  films. 
The  term  "good  operator"  is  easy  to  define.     It  means  the  man  who  puts 
perfect   results  on   the   screen;    whose   field    is  always    (not   sometimes)    bril- 
liant  and    entirely    free    from   shadow;    whose   picture   contains   no   jump    or 
vibration,  except  that  due  to  imperfection   in   perforation   in   the  film   itself, 
and   who  watches  and   regulates  the  speed   of  his  projector   in  such   manner 
as  to  bring  out  the  very  best,  most  natural  and  most  effective  action  in  the 
figures  on  the  screen.     Certainly  the  good  operators  are  not  confined  to  the 
cities.      Right  here  in  New   York,   while   we  have  some  good  projection,   we 
also    have    a    great    deal    that    isi  utterly   vile,    and    the    same   thing   is    true, 
according  to  all   reports,   of  Chicago   and   most   other  cities.      The   fact'  that 
you    saw   film  advertised  as   being  run   in   Winnipeg  is   no   proof   that   your 


particular  reels  were  there.  You  must  remember  that  your  exchange  may 
have  bought  two  «r  three  copies  of  these  films,  and  the  particular  on< 
have  may  never  have  seen  Winnipeg,  though,  of  course,  they  may  have, 
too.  As  to  the  carbon  matter,  I  do  not  know  what  you  mean  by  "regular 
set  and  kind  of  carbons  always  advertised  for  d.c."  You  will  have  to 
explain  that  a  little  more  fully.  It  is  indeed  too  bad  that  your  exchange 
will  send  out  films  in  the  condition  shown  by  the  samples  submitted.  One 
of  the  patches  shown  is  a  new  variety  to  the  editor.  The  film  has  been  cut 
and  put  together  at  the  dividing  line,  and  then  a  piece  of  a  film  a  little 
more  than  %  inch  wide  has  been  pasted  over  the  joint.  This  does  not 
make  a  good  job.  since  the  patch  is  very  stiff.  The  misframes  complained 
of  are  the  fault  of  the  printing  machine.  I  have  sent  them  to  the  Uni- 
versal people. 


A  Good  Scheme — I  Guess. 

Brother    Blaine    Day,    Sherman.    Texas,    contributes    the    following    idea, 
which   I  think  may  be  of  decided  value.      He  writes: 

As  you  well  know,  the  Power's  Six  develops  end  motion  in  the 
fly-wheel  shaft  rather  rapidly,  and  this  has  a  tendency  to  set  up 
trouble  in  the  toggle  gear.  Had  a  machine  that  did  not  run  right 
and  it  worried  me  continually.  Had  excessive  end  motion  in  the 
fly-wheel  shaft.  To  overcome  this  I  took  the  mechanism  to  a  ma- 
chine shop,  removed  the  fly-wheel  shp't  and  had  a  collar  put  on 
just  inside  and  up  against  the  right  hand  bushing.  When  end  mo- 
tion develops  through  wear,  all  I  have  to  do  now  is  to  loosen  the 
set  screw  ot  the  collar,  slip  it  over  a  little  and,  presto,  chango! 
brother   End   Motion  is  gone.     The  location  of  the  collar  is  plainly 


shown  at  X  in  the  picture.  Before  putting  the  collar  on  it  will  be 
necessary  to  file  away  a  little  of  the  frame  as  shown  at  A  in  the 
picture,  in  order  to  make  room  for  the  collar.  This  does  not  in 
any  way  injure  the  machine. 

The  only  question  which  arises  in  my  mind  in  connection  with  this 
scheme  is  this:  a  collar  would  have  the  effect  of  shifting  the  cam  or  fly- 
wheel shaft  over  to  the  left  as  the  wear  takes  place.  Now,  the  further  the 
cam  shaft  is  shifted  over  the  less  bearing  the  geneva  pins  will  have  on  the 
cam  ring.  Whether  the  wear  would  be  sufficient,  in  the  course  of  time,  to 
lessen  the  cam  pin  bearing  enough  to  do  material  damage  or  not,  I  would 
not  like  to  say.  Otherwise  the  scheme  is  entirely  practical  and  in  every 
way  excellent. 


Light  Trouble. 

Wheeling.  W.  Ya.,  writes: 

I  am  having  trouble  with  my  light.  The  throw  is  93  feet.  Am 
using  7  condensers,  Ft.  Wayne  Comptusarc  on  the  60-ampere  notch. 
Get  yellow  streaks  all  around  the  edges  of  my  picture,  also  a  dark 
center.     Can  you  tell  me  how  to  overcome  this  trouble? 

For  the  love  of  Mike,  how  many  times  have  I  got  to  tell  you  boys 
that  I  cannot  answer  questions  concerning  lenses  and  their  proper  relation 
to  each  other,  and  to  the  throw  and  picture,  unless  I  kn»~a-  both  the  width 
of  the  picture  and  the  throzv.7  Either  send  me  the  width  of  the  picture 
and  the  throw  when  asking  such  a  question,  or  else  write  the  letter  and 
throw  it  in  the  waste  basket,  thus  saving  postage.  Now  is  that  plain  enough? 
If  the  Wheeling  brother  is  a  new  reader  I  can  forgive  him.  but  I  have  said 
this  so  very  often  that  it  has  gotten  monotonous.  You  say  you  are  "using 
7  condensers."  I  suppose  you  mean  7'j  condensers,  which  most  likely  is 
correct  in  your  case.  Try  moving  your  lamphouse  forward  and  back',  if 
you  have  not  already  done  so. 


Doesn't  Injure  His  Digestion. 

Stoneham,  Mass.,  writes: 

Enclosed  find  $r  for  the  torch  described  February  2*d  i>sue. 
I  feel  that  it  is  certainly  all  right  when  you  speak  well  of  it.  I 
received  the  new  handbook  and  have  been  eating  and  sleeping  with 
it  ever  since.  It  does  not  seem  to  injure  my  digestion,  but  it 
keeps  me  awake  nights  some.      It  certainly   is  all   right. 

As  for  that  torch,  I  thought  a  few  of  the  boys  would  send  for  it.  but  I 
did  not  look  for  such  enthusiastic  response.  Never  again,  gentlemen! 
I  have  something  to  do  besides  wrap  up  and  send  out  torches.  Those 
ordering  this  little  device  must  remember  that  1  only  recommended  it  for 
light  work,  such  as  soldering  wires,  etc. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


New   York   Operators'   Ball  a   Splendid  Success. 

It  is  a  real  pleasure  to  chronicle  a  genuine  success,  no  matter  what  the 
nature  of  that  success  may  be,  and  1  therefore  wish  I  could  spare  space  to 
adequately  set  forth  details  of  the  New  York  Operators'  Ball,  which  took 
place  in  the  Amsterdam  Opera  House,  New  York  City,  the  night  of  Easter 
Sunday.  That  the  affair  would  be  a  success  seemed  assured  weeks  ago,  but 
I  think  none  of  us  were  quite  prepared  for  the  really,  genuinely  pleasur- 
able evening  which  awaited  those  who  foregathered  in  the  Amsterdam  Opera 
House  last  Sunday  evening  to  take  part  in  the  Second  Annual  Ball  of 
Local  Union  No.  35,  I.  A.  T.  S.  E. 

Many  notables  were  present,  among  them,  Charles  Shea,  International 
President  of  the  I.  A.  T.  S.  E-,  and  such  International  Officers  of  other 
theatrically  affiliated  organizations  as  happened  to  be  in  the  city.  Among 
the  very  popular  ones  present  I  must  not  forget  to  name  Wm.  Kelley,  Billy 
Munroe  and  Tom  Burke,  of  Local  Union  No.  1,  New  York  City,  of  which 
Brother  Munroe  is  president.  The  various  machine  companies  were  repre- 
sented as  follows:  Nicholas  Power  Co.,  Mr.  L.  W.  Atwater,  Will  C.  Smith 
and  Jacob  Orustein;  Motiograph  by  Mr.  Fred  A.  Clarke  and  Mr.  J.  E.  Mc- 
Auley;  the  Simplex  by  Mr.  IT.  B.  Coles,  and  the  Standard  by  Mr.  Erich 
Morrison.  The  Moving  Picture  World  was  represented  by  Mr.  F.  H. 
Richardson,  editor  of  the  Projection  Department.  Various  film  notables  lent 
their  presence  to  the  occasion,  among  them  Miss  Mary  Pickford  (our 
Mary"),  who  is  now  playing  a  leading  role  in  the  "Good  Little  Devil."  Miss 
Pickford  led  the  grand  march  in  company  with  Ernest  Truxes,  also  of  the 
"Good  Little  Devil"  company.  Next  in  line  of  the  grand  march  was  In- 
ternational President  Charles  Shea  and  wife,  followed  by  J.  F.  Stephens, 
President  Department  No.  r,  L.  U.  35,  and  wife;  El  De  Costa,  President 
Department  No.  2,  and  wife;  Harry  Dignon,  Vice-President,  Dept.  No.  1, 
and  wife;  Sidney  Dignon,  Vice-President  Dept.  No.  2,  and  wife;  John  S. 
Clarke,  Secretary  Dept.  No.  1,  and  wife;  John  R.  Gibbs.  Sec.  Dept.  No.  2, 
and  Wife;  Gus  Durkin,  Sec.-Treas.  Depts.  No.  1  and  2,  and  wife;  F.  H. 
Richardson,  Chairman  Arrangements  Committee,  and  wife,  and  the  various 
other  officers  of  the  two  departments,  most  of  them  accompanied  by  their 
fraus.  ( 

The  [Amsterdam  Opera  House  Hall  is  an  immense  place  and  it  was  filled 
long  before  midnight,  though  there  was  not  that  overcrowding  which  made 
the  Exhibitors'  Ball  rather  uncomfortable.  The  operators  took  a  lesson 
from  what  had  gone  before  and  secured  ample  quarters.  Altogether  the 
organization  will  clear  more  than  $2,000  above  expenses,  and  the  affair  itself 
is  one  of  which  it  can  be  more  than  proud.  Everybody  was  good  natured 
and  bent  wholly,  solely  and  entirely  on  having  one  rip-roaring  good  time — 
and  they  certainly  succeeded. 


Home  Projector. 

Messrs.   Caufield  and  Shook,  photographers,  Louisville,  Ky.,  write: 
Is  there  a  motion  picture  projection  machine  made  for  home  use 
which  uses  standard  films?     If  so,  where  can  it  be  procured? 
Yes,   there   is  such   a   machine.     It  is  made  by  Mr.    C.   Francis  Jenkins, 
1804  Park  Road,  Washington,  D.  C     Also  there  are  others,  but  I  have  not 
their  addresses  at  hand. 


to  the  company  referred  to,  they  are  making  some  tremendous  claims  for 
their  machine,  but  I  would  advise  you  all  to  go 'slow  in  forming  opinions 
until  they  have  demonstrated  that  their  proposition  is  practical.  Don't 
invest  any  money  until  you  are  certain  the  scheme  is  all  right.  This  is 
merely  a  matter  of  common  sense  precaution.  This  department  and  its 
editor  are,  rightly  or  wrongly,  considered  by  a  great  many  people  as  being 
an  authority  in  matters  pertaining  to  projection.  We  have  no  axe  whatever 
to  grind.  There  is  not  a  manufacturer  in  the  United  States  who  can  buy 
one  cent's  worth  either  of  commendation  or  otherwise  in  this  department. 
They  cannot  get  the  approval  of  the  department  or  its  editor  until  they 
have  proven  to  our  satisfaction  that  their  goods  are  what  they  are  claimed 
to  be.  Personally,  I  hope  the  scheme  for  continuous  running  of  the  film 
is  practical,  but  the  Keeley  motor  was  believed  by  thousands  of  very  smart 
people  who  actually  witnessed  its  operation  to  be  practical,  and  Mr.  Keeley 
swept  up  a  whole  washtub  of  gold  before  his  balloon  exploded.  I  do  not 
mean  to  insinuate  by  this  that  the  machine  in  question  is  any  such  proposi- 
tion; I  am  not  hitting  at  anybody,  but  simply  calling  attention  to  the  fact 
that  if  you  hold  off  on  the  purchase  of  appliances  pertaining  to  projection 
until  these  appliances  have  been  presented  to  this  department,  and  by  it 
have  been  pronounced  O.  K.,  you  will  then  at  least  be  protected  by  an 
opinion  which  will  be  absolutely  and  entirely  unbiased  and  in  no  way  influ- 
enced— in  other  words,  a  thoroughly  honest  opinion  which  may  save  you 
money  and  a  lot  of  worry  and  trouble.  The  sketcn  the  brother  refers  to 
consists  in  attaching  one  end  of  a  spiral  spring  to  the  take-up  equalizer 
weight  of  an  Edison  machine,  and  the  attachment  of  a  string  to  it*  other 
end,  the  string  being  wound  up  on  a  sort  of  key  attached  to  the  front  of 
the  machine,  just  under  the  lens,  the  idea  being  to  lessen  or  increase  the 
belt  equalizer  tension  by  turning  the  key. 


Oxzone  Gas. 

New  York  City  asks  the  following  question: 

As  I  intend  to  be  my  own  boss  in  the  future,  will  you  kindly  give 
me  the  benefit  of  your  opinion  as  to  the  following:     I  want  to  buy 
a  machine  with  an   oxzone  gas  outfit.     Would  that   kind  of  illumi- 
nant  give  a  fairly  good  picture,  and  at  what  throw  would  same  give 
best  results?     Can  I  use  any  kind  of  screen,  or  is  there  one  on  the 
market  that  you  would  recommend  for  this  purpose?     Is  there,  in 
your    opinion,    a    better   substitute   for    electricity   than    oxzone?      I 
intend    to    travel    through    small    towns    where    there    is    no    picture 
show,   making  one-night  stands.     Would  you  buy  a  tent,   or  would 
it  be  practical  to  show  in  halls? 
My  advice  to  y^u   is  to  look  mighty  closely  before  you  leap  in  such   mat- 
ters  as   this.      "All    is   not    gold   that   glitters";    also   a   piece   of   good    glass, 
backed  up  by  tinfoil,  will  sparkle  just  as  brightly  as  the  best  diamond  ever 
made.     This  small-town-one-nighf-stand  stunt   is  the  rock  upon   which  many 
a    poor    fellow    has    upset    his    voyage    to    riches.      You    evidently    have    not 
had  experience  in  such  matters.     Unless  you  nave  a  vast  capability  for  hard 
work    and    considerable   capital    to   tide    you    over    the   losses    which    will    be 
inevitable  until  you  have  learned  the  business  of  exhibiting  in  small  towns, 
you   had   better   keep   out.      Oxzone   will   give   you    a   fairly  good   8- foot   pic- 
ture,   provided   your   films   are   carefully    selected   and   none   of   them    dense?. 
Tank    gas    is    better.      A    perfectly    clean,    white    muslin    screen    is   the    only 
thing  available  for  your   purpose,   for  several  reasons.     As  I  said  before,  if 
you   only  have   small   capital   you   had   better  keep  your  fingers   out   of  that 
particular   pie,  because   it   is  not   pie  at   all,   but   only  a   living  at  best,   with 
a  whole  lot  of  good  hard  work.     I  do  believe,  however,  that  with  a  properly 
designed  and  equipped  auto  truck  outfit  money  could  be  made  that  way,  but 
it  would  cost  several  thousand  dollars  to  rig  out  such  an  outfit. 


The  Vaniscope. 

Mr.  William  Crager,  Galveston,  Texas,  writes: 

Attached  hereto  find  a  sketch  which   I  hope  will  help  some  poor 
fellow  bucking  commercial.     I  notice  recently  you  say  you  do  not 
know  anything  about  the  Vaniscope.      I  enclose  herewith  a  printed 
description  of  the  same,  which  is  all  I  have  seen.     If  you  are  able 
to  get  any  more  dope  on  the  proposition,  please  publish  it,  for  you 
must  realize  that  if  you  can  believe  even  50  per  cent,  of  what  the 
enclosed  article  says  this  machine  bids  fair  to  revolutionize  projec- 
tion.    I  also  attach  another  clipping,  written  by  someone  who  calls 
himself  the  "goat  man."     Who  is  your  friend?     Probably  he  uses 
this  non  de  plume  meaning  that  he  is  always  butting  in. 
As  to  the  "friend"  to  whom  you  refer,  I  have  all  I  can  do  to  attend  to 
our  department  and  other  equally  important  matters,  without  bothering  with 
anybody's   goat.      If  the   goat   man   amuses   himself   by    such   squibs,   why,    I 
suppose   we   ought  not  to  object  to  his  doing  so — and  there  you   are.     As 


Standard   Machine  Troubles. 

Mr.  J.   S.  Perry,  New  York  City,  writes  as  follows: 

Am  operating  a  Standard  191 3  model.  The  tension  is  regulated 
by  adjusting  screws  491  and  492,  plate  1,  page  306  of  the  new 
handoook.  Inasmuch  as  the  screw  is  composed  of  an  outer  jacket 
and  an  inner  section  and  a  central  pin  the  slot  only  being  in  the 
inner  section,  how  do  you  turn  the  screw?  It  cannot  be  done  with 
an  ordinary  screwdriver.  To  protect  my  eyes  from  the  glare  of 
the  spot  I  made  a  shield  as  per  attached  sketch  in  which  a-a  are 
small  holes  drilled  in  the  right  side  of  the  shutter  box;  b  is  the  fire 
shield;   c   is  the  shield   hinge   which   is  shown  turned   over   into   the 


hinge    at    d,    so    as    to    fit    with    e-e    of    the    shield,    and    just    large 
enough   to    receive    rod    f.      When    threading   the   machine   shield   b 
closes  to  the  left  over  the  fire  shutter.     No  doubt  this  same  scheme 
can  be   used  with  modifications  on   other  machines.     The   holes   a-a 
are  for  the  purpose  of  riveting  the  small  hinge  pieces  to  the  shutter 
box. 
The   idea   of   the  brother    is  to  attach   a   metal    shield   to   the    side   of  the 
standard  fire  shutter  box.     His  idea  is  entirely  practical,  but  I   would   sug- 
gest as   an   improvement  that  the  shield  be  made  of  glass  of  a    pot   green 
color.     You   can   easily   make   a   special   screwdriver   for   turning  the    screw. 


Wants   to   Organize. 

From  North  Carolina  comes  a  somewhat  lengthy  letter,  the  main  part  of 
which  is  devoted  to  an  explanation  of  the  writer's  lack  of  knowledge  of 
electrical  terms  and  how  to  use  them.  He  asks  what  course  he  can  take 
to  perfect  himself.  The  letter  is  well  written,  and  evidently  comes  from 
a  man  of  superior  intelligence.     He  concludes: 

I  wish  also  that  you  would  inform  me  how  I  could  organise  a 
local  union  here.  There  are  several  operators  anxious  to  organize, 
and  they  have  the  money  to  back  it  up.  Would  any  of  the  oper- 
ators be  obliged  to  leave  town  in  order  to  become  members  of  the 
I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  ?  Would  we  have  to  go  to  any  city  to  pass  examina- 
tion? Would  the  auxiliary  branch  charter  allow  us  to  take  in  more 
members? 

The  brother  orders  a  handbook,  and  I  would  ask  him  to  write  me  again 
after  he  has  thoroughly  studied  that  work.  If  he  then  feels  that  I  can 
help  him  further  I  would  be  glad  to  do  so.  As  to  organizing,  write  Mr. 
Lee  Hart,  general  secretary-treasurer  of  the  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.,  Suite  63,  No. 
39  West  Adams  Street,  Chicago,  111.  He  will  send  you  full  data.  TheTe 
will  be  no  necessity  for  any  of  you  to  leave  town,  I  think.  A  provisional 
charter  will  allow  you  to  take  in  more  members.  You  will  conduct  your 
own  examinations. 

Houston  Operators  Organize. 

We  learn  that  the  Houston,  Texas,  operators  organized,  with  about 
thirty  charter  members.  Further  details  are  not  at  hand.  We  trust  the 
new  union  will  succeed. 


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"THE  WONDERFUL  STATUE"  (Vitagraph),  March  20.  —  A  picture 
featuring  Lillian  Walker  as  a  statue.  The  trouble  with  this  is  it  has  to  eat. 
John  Bunny,  Flora  Finch  and  Courtenay  Foote  also  have  roles.  It  is  funny 
and  made  laughter,  but  isn't  a  great  picture.  A.  A.  Methley  is  the  author, 
and  the  producer  is  Frederick  Thomson. 

"NEAR  TO  EARTH"  (Biograph),  March  20. — This  same  situation  was 
recently  used  in  a  Pathe  offering,  "Broken  Hearts,"  which  was  a  little  better 
than  the  present  in  photography  and  in  acting,  and  also  a  little  more  con- 
cise in  reaching  its  climax.  To  such  as  haven't  seen  the  other,  this  will  be 
a  very  acceptable  offering.  It  is  like  a  translation  of  the  other  to  fit  the 
Italian  characters. 

'HONOR  THY  MOTHER"  (Melies),  March  20.— This  picture's  situation 
off  the  beaten  track  and  meaty  as  it  is)  arrests  the  attention.  The  older 
stepbrother  is  caught  by  his  father's  wife  and  her  son  burning  a  will  that 
left  him  sole  heir  but  that  made  plain  to  the  world  a  very  unpleasant  truth 
about  his  mother.  The  picture  should  have  started  with  this  scene,  for 
nothing  that  went  before  was  significant  beside  it,  the  picture's  one  big 
theme.  The  development  from  this  scene  is  natural  and  convincing  and  it 
makes  a  very  fair  offering.  The  photography  is  full  of  quality,  and  the 
acting,  though  very  fine. at  moments,  is  not  smooth  and  falls  down  at  the 
climax,  where  clear-cut  emotional  playing  would  have  been  of  much  service. 

"DEEDEE'S  BLIND  MASTER"  (Pathe),  March  20.— A  picture  that 
features  an  extraordinarily  well-trained  dog  and  that  gets  over  as  well  as 
any  offering  of  its  kind  that  we  have  seen.  It  fails  to  convince  at  times, 
and  one  feels  that  the  picture's  effects  have  been  contrived  and  are  mechan- 
ical. Deedee  is  a  white  fox  terrier  trained  to  attend  a  blind  man,  and  in 
the  picture,  when  his  master's  eyes  are  cured,  forsakes  him  for  a  legless 
man.  There  is  a  good  deal  of  comedy  in  it  and  an  attempt  at  pathos.  The 
photography  is  good.  It  seemed  to  be  acceptable  to  the  audience  and  gave 
some  laughter. 

"THE  STRENGTH  OF  MEN"  (Vitagraph),  March  19.— A  two-reel  fea- 
ture subject  that  will  probably  stir  enthusiasm.  It's  a  picture  of  Alaska 
and  deals  with  two  men  and  a  girl.  The  tale  is  cleverly  introduced  and 
leads  up  to  a  race  between  the  men  for  a  rich  gold  claim.  This  is  a  long, 
grueling  contest  in  which  the  two,  in  their  canoes  and  each  with  an  Indian 
helper,;  follow  a  rough  line  down  a  torrent  half  blocked  by  huge  bowlders, 
and  thrpugh  a  wild  pine  forest.  To  complicate  matters  the  forest  gets  on 
fire,  and  this  is  used  to  bring  out  the  human  quality  of  the  men,  for  it 
turns  out  that  neither  can  save  himself  without  the  other's  help.  The  pic- 
ture is  full  of  elemental  vigor,  and  then  has  this  human  ending.  There  is 
marked  freshness  in  it,  and  in  the  production  of  this  the  photography  and 
the  angle  at  which  the  scenes  were  taken  play  a  very  important  part.  All 
the  camera  work  deserves  high  praise.  Those  blizzard  scenes  are  unusual, 
and  the  water  and  the  fire  views  are  as  good.  The  acting  holds  all  through, 
and  Miss  Story  (the  girl)  shows  especially  clear  insight  in  one  scene — that 
in  which  the  first  man  comes  back  and  finds  her  in  her  father's  cabin  with 
the  stranger  whom  she  doesn't  really  love.    It's  a  big  picture,  a  true  feature. 

"THE  EX-CONVICT"  (Selig),  March  20.— There  is  a  fine  situation 
just  before  this  picture's  climax,  but  one  feels  that  a  good  deal  more  might 
have  been  gotten  out  of  it  if  it  had  been  made  the  primary  theme,  and 
much  of  the  early  part  been  merely  implied.  The  picture  deals  with  the 
ex-convict  who  is  being  blackmailed  by  one  who  knew  him  in  prison.  He 
has  a  brother  who  looks  like  him  and  has  heart  disease.  The  brother  dies 
in  his  room  and  he  fixes  it  so  that  the  blackmailer  will  be  deceived,  and 
the  man  is  accused  of  murder.  Oscar  Eagle  produced  it  from  the  script 
of  A.  P.  Hankins.  It  is  very  well  played,  with  C.  Clary  as  the  hero; 
J.  Nelson,  the  fellow  convict;  W.  Stowell,  the  brother.  T.  J.  Commerford, 
Lillian   Logan  and  others  have  roles.     The  photography  is  very  good. 

"THE  TALE  OF  A  CLOCK"  (Essanay),  March  20.— The  idea  in  this 
offering  was  used  more  effectively  in  a  former  picture  in  which  the  girl 
was  hidden  in  a  new  wardrobe,  delivered  by  mistake  and  unexpectedly 
called  for.  It  is  a  comedy,  but  while  it  was  on  we  heard  no  laughter 
whatever.     Billy  Mason  and  Beverly  Bayne  play  the  leads. 

"JIM,  THE  BURGLAR"  (Lubin),  March  20.— We  have  had  the  sleuth 
who,  after  learning  how  in  a  book,  furnishes  comedy;  but  this  picture  intro- 
duces us  to  a  burglar  who  gets  his  degree.  It  is  e-tirely  fresh,  and  the 
audience  found  it  quite  laughable.  Jim  gets  plenty  of  work  at  his  new 
profession,  but  no  money,  and,  after  giving  it  a  fair  trial,  goes  to  work  as 
a  hod  carrier.  George  Reehm  is  perfect  as  Jim,  and  all  its  fun  is  reflected 
in  his  facial  expression.  E.  ,W.  Sargent  is  the  author,  and  Arthur  H'otaling 
produced  it. 

MR.  JINKS  BUYS  A  DRESS"  (Lubin),  March  20.— A  farcical  offer- 
ing that  goes  well  with  the  other  picture  on  the  reel.  In  it  Jerold  T. 
Hovoner  plays  Jenks,  a  married  man  who  gets  drunk  and  buys  a  dress  on 
its  wax  figure  and  takes  it  with  him  on  his  rounds.  It  stands  up  with  him 
in  front  of  the  bar,  but  doesn't  drink.  Some  trick  photography  helps  out. 
The  offering  made  much  laughter.     The  author  is  A.  T.   Wentworth. 

"FINNEGAN"  (Essanay),  March  19. — A  comedy  of  Irish  characters 
that  might  have  been  more  amusing  if  it  had  been  made  more  convincing. 
The  audience  was  not  very  large  this  morning,  but  there  was  no  audible 
laughter. 


"MOTHER'S  LAZY  BOY"  (Edison),  March  19.— Another  Edison  pic- 
ture full  of  convincing  rural  atmosphere  and  good  characters,  and  its  author, 
Mark  Swan,  hasn't  looked  at  life  with  his  eyes  shut,  either.  It  gives  us 
glimpses  of  kitchen,  bedroom,  front  yard  and  woodpile,  and  its  center  of 
interest  is  a  lazy  youth  "chucking  a  bluff"  while  mother  brings  in  her  owa 
coal,  etc.  A  pretty  girl  comes  to  the  village,  and  dad  oversees  a  thing  or 
two,  and  then  he  calls  the  bluff.  William  Wadsworth,  as  "Ben,"  is  quite 
convincing,  except  in  one  or  two  scenes,  where  he  seems  self-consciously- 
awkward.  Charles  Ogle's  "Dad"  is  fine,  as  is  Mrs.  Bechtel's  "Mother." 
Edna  Flugrath  is  the  pretty  girl,  and  Mrs.  C.  J.  Williams  is  her  mother. 
Harry  Beaumont  and  Bliss  Milford  also  have  roles.  The  story  is  smoothly 
told  and  natural;  the  photography  is  clear.     A  good,  amusing  offering. 

"PRISONERS  OF  WAR"  (Kalem),  March  19.— A  picture  that  seemed 
to  please  the  audience,  although  its  story  will  not  bear  analysis.  It  is  very 
cleverly  introduced  by  a  series  of  scenes  that  lead  up  to  the  old  veteran's 
story,  the  reason  why  they  refuse  him  a  pension.  Then  it  has  some  war 
scenes  that  give  action.  It  is  well  acted  for  the  most  part,  and  some  of  its 
photography  is  lovely.  Robert  Vignola,  as  the  feeble  old  veteran,  com- 
pletely distinguishes  himself  and  is  in  marked  contrast  to  himself  in  the 
younger  role,  in  the  story  he  tells.  Marian  Cooper  plays  in  the  introduc- 
tion and  also  in  the  conclusion,  wnile  Anna  Nilsson  has  the  female  role  in 
the  story  scenes.     Henry  Hallem  and  James  Vincent  also  have  roles. 

"THE  HOME  IN  SURBURBIA"  (Vitagraph),  March  19.— Florence 
Turner  can  stand  alone  in  a  scene  and  by  putting  a  state  of  mind  in  her 
facial  expression,  can  tickle  a  knowing  laugh  that  will  reveal  volumes — see 
the  opening  scene  of  this  picture  for  what  we  mean.  For  evidence  of  her 
ability  subtilly  to  develop  a  significant  situation,  see  the  whole  picture.  She 
plays  a  girl  with  whom  the  hero  (Tom  Powers)  is  in  love.  He  can't  land 
her  so  gets  an  actress  (Edith  Hayward)  to  help  in  making  her  jealous  and  it 
ends  with  his  marrying  the  actress.  The  picture  is  full  of  scenes,  rich  in 
freshly  human  significance  and  interests  deeply.  It  shows  Producer  Larry 
Trimble's  work  at  its  best.  The  script  was  written  by  M.  D.  Merrick  and  is 
clearly  developed;  but  the  ending  seems  easily  arrived  at  and  is  not  strong 
for  this  reason.  The  picture  gets  us  deeply  interested  in  Florence  and  leaves 
with  only  Edith.     The  photography  is  almost  perfect.     A  fine  offering. 

"THE  ESCAPE"  (Pathe),  March  19.— Pathe  seems  to  be  partial  to  the 
escaping  convict  and  this  picture  introduces  two  more.  Yet  in  this  case,  as 
in  most  of  its  offerings,  there  is  a  new  situation  and  a  story  that  interests 
although  it  will  hardly  get  as  deep  as  usual  into  the  emotions;  for  it  doesn't 
convince,  as  real  life.  It  was  very  fairly  acted  for  the  most  part,  and  is  set 
in  good  backgrounds. 

"THE  SHERIFF  OF  YAVAPAI  COUNTY"  (Selig),  March  19.— William 
Duncan,  author,  producer  and  leading  man,  gives  us  another  good  picture 
with  sweep  and  vigor.  It  has  a  situation,  in  general,  like  his  others  and  has 
a  climax  following  a  chase  of  two  hold-up  men  by  the  sheriff.  There  is  real 
action,  at  this  point,  and  suspense  in  marked  degree.  William  Duncan  plays 
the  sheriff  and  the  men  he  follows  are  Tom  Mix  and  Lester  Cunio  who  have 
just  held-up  Rex  de  Rosselli,  father  of  the  heroine,  Myrtle  Stedman.  At  the 
end  the  latter  fires  a  winning  shot  and  saves  her  sweetheart's  life.  The 
backgrounds  are  full  of  interest  and  the  photographs  are  clear  and  often  full 
of  quality.     A   popular  offering. 

"THE  DANCER'S  REDEMPTION"  (Selig),  March  21.— Written  by  Gil- 
son  Willets  and  produced  by  Colin  Campbell,  this  play  is  impressively  played 
by  a  most  competent  cast.  Bessie  Eyton  has  the  part  of  Magdalene  and 
Thomas  Santschi  the  role  of  Than,  her  lover.  The  priest  is  well  portrayed 
by  Al.  W.  Filson.     It  was  a  most  excellent  release  for  Good  Friday. 

"THE  ANSWERED  PRAYER"  (Kalem),  March  21.— This  is  a  very  short 
drama,  which  might  well  have  been  mucn  shorter.  There  is  no  fault  to  be 
found  with  the  acting.  Adelaide  Lawrence,  the  child  who  played  the  fisher- 
man's  daughter,   was   excellent.      So  also  was  Hazel   Neason   as  the   widow. 

"THE  CELERY  INDUSTRY  IN  FLORIDA"  (Kalem),  March  21.— On 
the  same  reel  is  this  interesting  pictorial  description  of  celery  farming  and 
shipping. 

"THE  PATHWAY  OF  YEARS"  (Essanay),  March  21.— Drama  of  the 
poetical,  retrospective  sort.  Francis  Bushman  plays  the  dual  role  of  John 
Mason  of  to-day  and  of  years  ago,  and  to  him  in  great  measure  is  due  the 
success  of  the  picture.  It  was  not  easy  to  put  over.  It  is  a  story  that  will 
please  adults,  thoughtful  ones,  especially.  Splendid  aid  is  given  in  the  mak- 
ing of  the  picture  by  Ruth  Hennessy,  who  as  the  flower  girl  and  later  the 
adopted  daughter  is  charming.     Ruth  Stonehouse  also  is  good. 

"RASTUS  LOSES  HIS  ELEPHANT"  (Pathe),  March  21.— Good  com- 
edy,  with  something  new  in  the  chase  line — an  elephant  is  the  pursuer.  He 
follows  the  crowd  upstairs  and  downstairs. 

"THE  DEATH  HEAD  MOTH"  (Pathe),  March  2:.— On' the  same  reel  is 
this  interesting  excursion  into  the  realm  of  natural  history. 

"FRIEND  JOHN"  (Lubin),  March  21. — Arthur  Johnson  in  this  picture 
plays  the  role  of  a  Quaker  blacksmith,  and  plays  it  well.  Also  he  directs 
the  picture.  He  is  in  love  with  a  girl  who  is  won  by  a  young  man  about 
town,  who  afterward  neglects  the  bride.  In  a  thrilling  scene  the  blacksmith 
seeks  out  the  erring  husband  and  forces  him  to  come  with  him  to  the  wife. 
There  he  finds  a  baby.  The  husband's  reformation  follows.  It  is  a  good 
story. 


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"A  MATTER  OF  MATRIMONY"  (Vitagraph),  March  21.— A  good  bit 
of  comedy.  Charles  Bennett  portrays  a  sea  captain  who  tries  to  manage  his 
own  household — and  fails.  He  makes  several  attempts  to  find  a  partner  and 
likewise  fails  until  Nancy  Simpson  (Mary  Charleson)  sets  her  cap  for  him 
and  doesn't  fail.  Mr.  Bennett  and  Miss  Charleson  have  most  of  the  work  to 
do.     Both  take  to  comedy,  and  we  can  stand  more  of  the  same  kind. 

"THE  DEAN'S  DAUGHTERS"  (Edison).  March  21.— The  daughters  are 
Mary  Fuller  and  Elsie  McLeod.  The  dean  is  Robert  Brower.  Marc  Mac- 
Dermott  has  the  role  of  an  artist  with  whom  the  latter  of  the  girls,  one  of 
his  pupils,  falls  in  love.  She  is  without  talent.  When  the  artist  discovers 
her  infatuation  he  rather  rudely  dismisses  her  and  sends  her  back  to  her 
father.  The  humiliation  of  the  girl  is  resented  by  the  older  sister.  She 
joins  the  school.  The  artist  falls  in  love  with  her;  when  he  declares  his 
affection  for  her  she  denounces  him  and  returns  home  triumphant — and  in 
love  with  the  man  she  repudiated.  The  untalented  girl  sees  the  situation. 
She  tells  trie  unhappy  girl  that  the  artist  was  not  at  fault;  to  him  she  sen. Is 
a  letter  suggesting  that  he  call  on  her  sister.  He  does.  All  ends  happily. 
There  are-some  splendid  situations.  Bannister  Merwin  is  the  author,  and 
the  hand  of  a  master  is  always  in  evidence.  Mr.  MacDermott  and  Miss 
Fuller  contribute  to  a  drama  that  is  well  worth  seeing  again  on  the  same 
day— one  of  the  best  of  a  month. 

'"BRONCHO  BILLY'S  SISTER"  (Essanay),  March  22.— This  same  com- 
pany  used  the  situation  in  this  picture  not  long  ago  in  a  story  called  "Where 
the  Mountains  Meet,"  if  we  remember;  but  there  is  some  difference  in  the 
development.  It  is  not  a  fresh  offering,  but  has  the  qualities  usually  found 
in  pictures  of  this  make.     The  photography  is  very  fair. 

-LIFE  IN  SO.MALILANI1,  FAST  AFRICA"  (Cines).  March  22.— An 
interesting,  hand-colored  reel  giving  some  fairly  clear  scenes  of  village  life  111 
Somaliland,  a  country  of,  -">"c  importance  and  one  that  newspaper  readers 
will  know  something  about.     A  worthy  offering,  but  short. 

"A  MOTORCAR  ROMANCE"  (Cines),  March  22.— On  the  same  reel  is 
this,  a  conventional  picture,  set  in  interesting  backgrounds  and  telling  a 
story  of  a  hotel  flirtation  at  an  Italian  watering  place  It  is  naturally  acted 
and  well  constructed;  but  lacks  any  real  freshness  of  interest.  The  photog- 
raphy is  of  high  quality. 

"TAMANDRA,  THE  GYPSY"  (Lubin),  March  21.— Che  author  and  pro- 
ducer of  this  picture,  (ieorge  Nicholls,  has  done  some  fine  work  and  this 
offering  has  more  than  one  charming  scene.  Nothing  could  be  lovelier  "f  its 
kind  than  that  picture,  just  outside  Tamandra's  door,  when  Ernestine  Mor- 
ley  has  found  the  son  (Buster  Johnson)  of  the  gypsy  and  the  man  she 
loves,  and  there  are  many  other  scenes  as  fine,  almost.  What  is  more,  the 
picture  is  very  well  acted  throughout.  Miss  Ormi  Hawley  doing  especially 
well  in  her  emotional  role  as  the  gypsy.  Tamandra.  But  beyond  this,  we 
can  not  truthfully  praise  the  offering  and  do  not  care  to  repeat  the  uncom- 
plimentary comments  on  it  that  we  heard.  The  photography  is  almost  per- 
fect.     It  is  a  two-reel   offering. 

"PETE  THE  ARTIST"  (Lubin),  March  22. — Another  in  the  Fete  series, 
written  by  Shannon  Fife  and  produced  by  Barry  O'Neil.  It  is  not  so  good 
as  "Pete  Joins  the  Force,"  of  a  few  days  ago.  But  it  has  one  or  two  amus- 
ing situations  and  made  a  little  laughter.  Peter  Lang  and  Mrs.  George  B. 
Walters  play  the  leads  with  the  good  support  of  Clarence  Elmer  and  Marie 
Wierman.     The  photography  is  fair. 

"BELINDA.  THE  SLAVEY"  (Vitagraph).  March  22.— This  is  the  first 
of  a  series  of  Belinda  farces  that  is  to  be  released.  Mrs.  Breuil  is  the 
authoress  and  the  script  was  produced  by  Burt  Angeles.  It  is  a  farcical 
character  picture  and  Florence.  Radinoff,  as  the  boarding-house  keener, 
stands  out  in  sharp  contrast  with  the  other  funny  characters  who  too  often 
hide  their  humanity  under  the  flat  mask  of  clowns.  The  value  of  clown 
work  comes  mostly  from  its  contrast  with  life,  its  unhumanity,  and  in  such 
a  picture  as  this,  real  comedy  characters  would  have  been  of  greater  value 
Mr  Dowling  who  plays  the  grocer's  boy,  is  comically  tall  and  his  physical 
peculiarity  helps  a  good  deal.  Norma  Talmadge,  as  Belinda.  IS  fine,  at 
times.  It  made  some  laughter,  but  not  so  much  as  we  expected.  The 
photography  is  clear. 

"THE  RISEN  SOUL  OF  JIM  GRANT"  (Edison),  March  22.— A  picture 
with  an  ethical  object;  it  is  somewhat  sentimental.  Perhaps  it  is  the  least 
dramatic  picture  written  by  Bannister  Merwin  in  many  weeks;  ,t  IS  slow. 
The  quality  it  has  comes  from  its  faces,  which  are  very  well  worth  while. 
That  thug,  played  by  Harry  tiripp,  a  new  player  to  us.  is  tine  We  want  to 
see  Mr  Gripp  again.  Cora  Williams'  old  blind  woman  is  also  good,  and 
Uonie  Flugrath,  in  her  role,  makes  a  strong  apneal.  Herbert  I  nor  and 
Mrs  Frskine  are  good  as  the  father  and  mother  of  Jim.  played  by 
Augustus  Phillips.  Richard  Ridgley  plays  a  rent  collector.  The  n  holography 
is  clear.     The  producer,  C.  J.   Brabin  deserves  credit   for  sets  and  scenes. 

•BVTTLF  OF  BLOODY  FORD"  (Kalem),  March  22.— This  picture,  a 
two-reel  special,  was  reviewed  at  length  oil  page  977   (issue  of  March   15th). 

"FATE"    (Biograph),   March  22.— This  picture   is  easily   the  best   offering 


of  to-day's  regular  releases  on  account  of  its  tremendously  effective  climax. 
We   see   a  half-witted,   sodden   drunkard   set   a  long   fuse    of,  shaymgs^  to   a 
large  keg  of  powder  in  the  log  cabin  of  a  man  wlo  had  once 
and  to  which  immediately  after,  two  little  girls  come  home  fr 


ce  befriended  him 
rom  school.  But 
tluf  son  of  the  drunkard  is  hungry  and  a!so  comes  to  the  cabin  for  food, 
scaring  away  the  children.  In  a  moment,  there  is  a  terrible  explosion;  the 
cabin  is  knocked  to  pieces;  but  it  is  the  son  and  not  the  children  who  dies^ 
If  such  an  explosion  can  be  made  more  effective  and  real,  it  may  be  done 
in  some  later  picture;  but  we  think  this  will  stand  for  a  while.  The  pho- 
tography is  clear.  Alfred  Paget  is  the  drunkard;  Robert  Harrow  his  son, 
and  Lionel  Barrymore,  his  friend.  On  the  other  side,  W.  J.  Butler  ,s  the 
father  of  the  children,  played  by  Mae  Marsh  and  a  little  girl. 

"A  WELCOME  INTRUDER"  (Biograph),  March  24.— The  "intruder" 
is  a  little  lost  boy  whom  a  kidnapper  has  laid,  asleep,  in  the  back  of  a 
wagon,  and  who  is  thus  carried  to  a  strange  farm.  In  the  picture  Claire 
McDowell  gives  us  another  of  those  characters  in  which  she  can  hardly 
be  recognized.  The  child,  who  wins  favor  with  her,  is  very  engaging  and 
will  excite  sympathy;  but  there  is  a  certain  flatness  about  the  story,  and  it 
might  have  been  made  more  dramatic  if  the  producer  had  delayed  showing 
us  the  fate  of  the  child  or  had  hidden  the  pictures  happy  ending  under  a 
different  title.    The  photography  of  the  exteriors  is  not  quite  up  to  standard, 


but  the  action  is  perfectly  clear.  Charles  Mailes  plays  the  boy's  father, 
Charles  West  is  the  discharged  workman  who  takes  the  boy. 

"A  MOONSHINER'S  WIFE"  (Lubin),  March  24.  —  Opening  with  a 
scene  in  a  gymnasium  in  which  the  hero-to-be  strikes  a  man  with  his  fist 
and  kills  him  and  then  runs  for  his  life,  this  picture,  by  J.  M.  Nicholls, 
starts  with  a  situation  that  fails  to  convince  or  strongly  interest  us.  It 
also  is  a  long  time  in  getting  down  to  any  business  that  is  really  dramatic. 
ll  dues  rise  for  a  moment,  when  the  moonshiner's  wife  has  left  her  bed, 
and  the  jealous  husband  shoots  the  sheriff,  who  has  been  following  the 
athletic  culprit.  Ormi  Hawley  and  Edwin  Carewe  have  the  leads.  It  is  a 
rather   poor  offering,  and   the  only  good  scenes   are  interiors. 

"THE  OLD  CLERK"  (Selig),  March  24.— It  is  well  that  motion  pic- 
tures occasionally  take  up  this  theme — the  trials  of  the  old  employe.  With 
the  public  it  seems  to  be  popular  even  when  no  new  light  is  thrown  on  the 
situation.  In  this  case  it  is  treated  in  a  way  that  is  far  from  being  super- 
ficial and  makes  a  good  offering.  Henry  McRae  is  both  author  and  pro- 
ducer. The  old  clerk  is  played  by  W.  Hutchinson,  and  Herbert  Rawlinson 
is  the  young  man  who  takes  the  place  of  the  old  manager,  Frank  Clark. 
The  interest  is  well  sustained,  although  the  ending  is  not  convincing.  The 
photography  is  clear. 

"THE  LONG  AND  THE  SHORT  OF  IT"  (Edison),  March  24.— A  little 
farce  by  C.  M.  Seay  that  brought  out  some  very  hearty  laughter.  Mr. 
Bragg  gets  fresh  in  a  grocer's  and  is  drubbed  by  a  tall  and  a  short  man. 
Later  the  two  come  into  a  saloon  and  hear  him  telling  a  tall  story  about  it. 
The  fun  comes  more  from  the  comical  acting,  especially  Robert  Milash's 
slow  fall.  William  Rechtel  plays  the  braggart.  Harry  Eytinge  plays  the 
police  sergeant,  and  A.  Houseman  plays  "Scrappy  Joe."  They  are  well 
supported. 

"TEA  AND  TOAST"  (Edison),  March  24.  —  An  amusing  comedy,  taken 
from  a  novel  by  Joseph  C.  Lincoln,  "The  Postmaster."  It  is  a  picture  to 
make  smiles  rather  than  laughter,  and  its  quality  depends  largely  on  the 
characters  portrayed  by  William  Wadsworth  and  Alice  Washburn,  the 
former  as  the  dyspeptic  sent  to  the  country  to  live  on  tea  and  toast,  and 
the  latter  as  the  neighbor  who  volunteers  to  look  after  him  for  a  day  or  so, 
and  who  might  have  cured  him  had  it  not  been  for  his  dog  that  chases  her 
off  the  place.  C.  J.  Williams  is  the  producer  and  has  made  a  very  fair 
offering.      It    is  clearly   photographed. 

"THE  HONOR  SYSTEM"  (Kalem).  March  24.— A  very  commendable 
offering  dealing  with  prison  reform.  Carlyle  Blackwell  holds  the  center  of 
the  stage  with  a  strong  portrayal  of  the  evil  effects  of  rouijh  treatment  on 
a  prisoner  and  of  the  change  when  human  treatment  takes  the  place  of 
brutality.  Mr.  Blackwell  deserves  more  than  passing  notice  for  this  work. 
The  story  is  simple  and  natural  enough  to  convince,  and  it  plainly  took  the 
audience  into  camp — it  was  applauded.  The  backgrounds  are  perfect  and 
are  photographed  as  clearly  as  could  he  desired. 

"THE  ATTACK  AT  ROCKY  PASS"  (Kalem).  March  24— A  Wild 
West  story  in  which  Indians  attack  a  paymaster's  wagon.  A  number  of 
melodramatic  incidents,  purely  stock  properties,  have  been  grouped  around 
the  main  incident  and  furnish  a  love  story.  H.  K.  Harris  is  the  author, 
and  it  was  produced  by  George  Milford.  The  attack  upon  and  the  rescue 
of  the  wagon  are  well  brought  out;  but  the  offering,  as  a  whole,  is  artificial 
and  has  a  number  of  poorly  photographed  scenes.  Marin  Sais  and  Carlyle 
Blackwell  have  the  leads. 

"BROTHER  BILL"  (Vitagraph),  March  24.— An  offering  with  a  very 
interesting  situation,  full  of  the  life  of  the  back-woods.  In  its  setting  of 
wild  scenes  it  gets  over  pretty  powerfully.  The  two  central  roles  are 
played  by  Edith  Story  and  Ned  Finley  (Bill).  Bill's  brother  has  .fallen  in 
love  with  a  girl  in  the  mountain  village  and  has  made  a  tough  character 
there  jealous.  Bill,  to  save  his  brother,  comes  to  town  and,  in  a  dramatic 
scene,  takes  the  girl  from  a  village  dance  by  force.  It  is  now  very  dra- 
matically shown  how  the  two  fall  in  love  with  each  other.  In  doing  this 
the  leading  players  acquit  themselves  most  creditably  and  are  well  sup- 
ported by  Chester  Hess,  in  the  role  of  Jim.  The  whole  story  is  clear,  and 
the  scenes  are  well  photographed  for  the  most  part.  It  makes  a  good 
offering. 

"PAULINE  CUSHMAN,  THE  FEDERAL  SPY"  (Selig).  March  24.— 
This  film  has  been  reviewed  at  length  in  this  publication.  There  are  two 
reels  of  real  feature— in  the  number  of  men  employed,  in  the  direction 
,„.  staging,  and  in  the  dramatic  qualities  as  well  as  the  spectacular  side. 
Miss  Greenwood,  in  the  title  role,  was  excellent.  Although  called  upon 
to  play  a  part  in  which  masculine  courage  was  necessary.  She  seemed 
always  a  woman— interesting  and  charming.  Plainly  the  company  has  gone 
to  great  expense  to  make  this  picture,  and  the  result  has  justified  it.  The 
theater  scene,  where  the  actress  toasted  the  Confederacy,  was  especially 
well  done.     It  was  an  unusual  setting.     The  battle  scenes  were  notable  also. 

"DICK,  THE  DEAD  SHOT"  (Vitagraph),  March  25.— There  is  in  this 
comedy  an  old-fashioned  chase— marred  by  an  abundance  of  static.  The 
picture'  is  not  strong,  although  it  may  appeal  to  some  audiences.  William 
Shea  Charles  Eldridge— who,  in  the  guise  of  a  hungry  parson,  made  some 
Inn    'and    Kate    Price   did   their  best   to   put   the   picture   over. 

"BRE\D  ON  THE  WATERS"  (Edison).  March  25, — Fair  drama.  It 
is  written  bv  Bannister  Merwin.  Richard  Tucker,  as  George  \  arick 
the  down-and-out  who  is  reclaimed,  does  good  work.  His  acting  is  restrained 
and  intelligent. 

■ill-  NEEDED  THE  MONEY"  (Cines),  March  25— Comedy  which  is 
slow  ill  arriving,  but  when  the  story  is  developed  makes  a  hearty  lauch. 
It  is  a  tale  of  a  young  man  out  of  funds  who  is  refused  a  loan  by  bis 
uncle  Later,  when  the  uncle  makes  an  appointment  with  a  charming 
voung  woman-known  to  the  nephew— to  take  dinner  with  him  the  nephew 
applies  for  a  place  as  waiter  in  the  hotel.  On  the  bill  which  he  makes  out 
for  the  uncle  the  nephew  doubles  his  demands— and  gets  the  money. 

"THE  FINER"  (Lubin),  March  25.— This  is  a  story  of  a  hen-pecked 
husband  who  thinks  he  is  also  a  gay  boy.  He  is  detected  by  Ins  wife  111 
one  of  his  flirtations,  and  she  makes  things  warm  for  him.  To  get  revenge 
h,  induces  a  friend  to  try  a  flirtation  with  his  wife.  The  friend  tries  and 
fails  miserably,  and  besides  gets  in  trouble  with  his  sweetheart.  Ihe.e  is 
mild  fun. 


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"SUCH  AN  APPETITE"  (Lubin),  March  25.— On  the  same  reel  as  the 
foregoing  is  this  good  farce-comedy. 

"THE  SCALES  OF  JUSTICE"  (Selig),  March  25.— Charles  Clary  by 
his  work  makes  of  this  play  all  there  is  in  it.  Ik-  has  much  to  do  and  does 
it  well.  The  drama  is  of  pronounced  mechanical  construction — there  are 
convenient  coincidences.  Carl  Winterhoff,  .is  the  ward  hoss,  is  convincing; 
so  also  is  the  chief  of  police.  One  of  the  liberties  taken  in  the  scenario  is 
the  ascribing  to  New  York  City  of  a  board  of  police  commissioners — and 
of  course  there  is  none.  At  another  time  the  chief  of  police— which  New 
York  docs  not  possess—  is  represented  as  dismissing  a  sergeant  of  police 
from  the  force  on  the  spot — which  he  cannot  do.  Even  in  film  plays  regard 
should   be   had   for   the   ordinary   rules  of   procedure. 

"THE  SHERIFFS  HONEYMOON"  (Essanay),  March  25.— There  is  in 
tins  near-burlesque  one  good  title—that  where  the  sheriff  starts  off  10  bring 
back  a  wife  which  he  has  obtained  by  correspondence,  and  tells  his  deputies 
that  he  is  going  after  a  life  prisoner.     The  story  is  not   strong. 

"THE  BABES  IN  THE  WOODS"  CPatheplay),  March  .-5.— This  finely 
hand-colored  juvenile  will  interest  adult  audiences.  There  are  many  double 
exposures;    plainly    great    care    was    taken    in    the   making   of   this    picture. 


Independent 

"Till-:  VENGEANCE  OF  HEAVEN"  (Reliance).  March  19.— This  two- 
reel  offering  is  well  pictured  and  has  a  good  story  in  it.  though  somewhat 
faulty  in  construction.  If  tne  blasting  of  the  tree  and  death  of  the  villain 
had  been  shown  first  it  would  have  presented  a  very  good  mystery.  As  it 
is,  the  element  of  suspense  is  lacking,  but  the  manner  in  which  the  bullet 
finally  reaches  the  man  for  which  it  was  intended  is  ingenious.  Irving 
Cummings  appears  as  the  fickle  lover  who  brings  misery  to  so  many  hearts 
and  death  to  himself.  The  photography  is  good,  and  the  film  as  a  whole 
interesting. 

"A  WIFE  WANTED"  (Keystone),  March  20.— This  half  reel  is  char- 
acterized by  plenty  of  action  and  shooting  and  very  little  plot.  It  concerns 
the  efforts  of  Wild  Steve  to  obtain  a  wife. 

"THE  RUBE  AND  THE  BARON"  (Keystone),  March  20.— In  this  Ered 
Mace  appears  as  the  baron,  and  Mack  Sennett  as  the  rube.  Mabel  Normand 
is.  of  course,  the   pretty  girl   over  whom  they  wrangle.      Fairly  amusing. 

"HER  GALLANT  KNIGHTS"  ( Thanhouser),  March  23.— This  film 
contains  some  interesting  pictures  of  an  orange  exhibit  in  Southern  Cali- 
fornia. The  oranges  are  displayed  in  many  forms.  A  slight  comedy  is 
shown  in  connection  with  the  exhibit,  in  which  Elo  LaBadie  has  some  amus- 
ing experiences  with  three  or  four  lovers,  but  finally  announces  her  engage- 
ment to  a  New   York  man.      Not  strong,  but  rather  pleasing. 

"Ai  TWELVE  O'CLOCK"  (Keystone).  March  27.— Once  again  this 
company  has  hit  upon  an  exceptionally  good  burlesque  idea,  which  is 
worked  out  in  first-class  form.  Ered  Mace,  as  the  big  Mexican  bruiser  in 
love  with  t.ie  bewitching  Miss  Normand.  contrives  a  terrible  punishment  for 
all  who  thwart  him.  The  girl  is  to  be  shot  by  means  of  clockwork,  on  the 
stroke  of  twelve,  but  the  hero  holds  hack  the  hands  of  the  clock  by  means 
of  a  large  magnet.  The  situations  are  extremely  funny,  and  the  travesty, 
which   occupies  a  full  reel,  is  above  the  ordinary  offering  of  the  kind. 

■'MARRIED  IN  HASTE"  (Eclair),  March  30.— A  cowboy  burlesque 
that  has  nothing  that  is  truly  fresh  and  only  a  few  laughs.  It  is  a  bit 
vulgar.     The  leading  man  shows  comedy  ability. 

"HER  NEW  CHAUFFEUR"  (Rex),  March  30.— A  farcically  played, 
dramatic  comedy  that  cannot  be  commended  as  entertainment.  It  shows  a 
sad  lack  of  construction.  Such  a  story  as  this  needs  to  be,  in  a  measure, 
convincing,  but  this  is  not  so  at  all. 

"SUPERSTITIOUS  MARY"  tNestor).  March  31.— A  farce  that  has  a 
certain  speedy  sweep,  and  that  is  acted  cleverly  to  get  everything  possible 
out  of  the  situation.  Therefore  it  is  entertaining.  Mary  has  warning 
enough  that  she  ought  not  to  marry  her  mother's  choice  of  a  husband — 
the  date  of  the  wedding  is  l' riday  the  13th,  her  cake  is  dropped  and  broken, 
a  big  painting  falls  on  her  presents,  and,  last  of  all,  the  groom  is  too  drunk 
to  come  to  the  wedding,  so  Mary  calls  up  her  choice  and  they  elope.  The 
photography  is  very  fair. 

"MUM'S  THE  WORD"  (Nestor),  March  31.— A  picture  that  is  full 
of  hearty  laughs.  It  shows  now  a  reporter  on  a  newspaper  "covers"  a  deaf 
and  dumb  asylum.  He  copies  the  language  without  understanding  it,  and 
gets  what  wouldn't  have  come  to  him  if  he  had  known.  This  double  offer- 
ing is  worthy. 

"THE  CRIMINALS"  (Mecca),  March  29— A  story  of  Italians  in  Amer- 
ica, with  a  band  of  "black  hand"  criminals  working  in  the  background, 
except  for  one  moment,  when  the  little  Italian  child  is  killed  by  the  band 
because  its  father  won't  "come  across."  Two  unconvincing  incidents  weaken 
the  effect  of  the  situation  when  the  chilu  s  father  is  mistaken  by  the  police 
for  the  criminal  who  had  bereaved  him  and  put  in  jail.  The  sets,  acting 
and  photography  are  commendable. 

"DO  IT  NOW"  (Powers),  April  2. — A  little  farce  that  has  good  laughs 
a-plenty  and  tnat  will  be  thoroughly  enjoyed  by  all  kinds  of  spectators. 
A  business  man  gets  some  cards  printed,  "Do  It  Now."  The  senior  clerk, 
who  has  been  losing  heavily  on  the  races,  is  tempted  to  break  the  safe, 
and  does  it  now.  The  junior  clerk  wants  to  run  away  with  his  employer's 
daughter,  and  does  it  now.  This  tuea  is  made  much  of  in  several  different 
ways,  and  when  the  salesman  of  the  "Do  It  Now"  cards  comes  with  a  fresh 
idea  for  a  card  to  advise  "boosting"  he  gets  boosted,  and  neatly.  There  is 
some  perfect  photography  in  it.  The  character  of  the  business  man  is  very 
well  played. 

"BOBBY'S  BABY"  (Rex),  April  6.— A  story  with  a  punch.  There  is  a 
boy  in  this  picture  who  steals  milk  in  order  that  a  baby  may  live.  The 
little  one  is  hidden  in  a  barn.  The  boy  is  caught  in  the  act  of  taking  milk 
from  a  full  pail.  In  the  meantime  the  cries  of  the  child  have  been  heard 
by  a  man  and  woman  who  recently  have  lost  their  only  offspring.  It  is 
tak-.n  home  by  them,  cared   for  and  put  into  the  empty  and  waiting  cradle. 


The  boy  finds  his  ward,  ami  in  turn  becomes  also  the  ward  of  the  two  bene- 
factors. Phillips  Smalley  and  Lois  Weber  have  the  leads,  and  their  work 
will  appeal  to  every  audience.  The  whole  film  is  embellished  with  excellent 
photography. 

"ANIMATED  WEEKLY,  NO.  54"  (Universal),  March  tg.-This  number 
contains  scenes  from  the  Mardi  (lias  at  Panama,  pictures  of  the  new  Wool 
worth  skyscraper,  the  Dewey  Hotel  fire  in  Omaha.  Rodman  Law  jumping 
from  Queensborough  bridge  in  a  parachute,  and  many  other  items  of  interest 

"THE  BISHOP'S  CANDLESTICKS"  (Imp),  April  3.— Tins  [Wo.reel  of- 
fering gives  us  the  scenes  trom  Les  Miserables  in  which  Jean  Valjean 
the  good  bishop  of  his  beloved  candlesticks.  The  bishop,  whose  heart  is  very 
tender,  says  he  gave  Valjean  the  candlesticks  and  by  this  show  of  kindness 
saves  his  soul.  The  motive  is  a  powerful  one  and  while  this  version  ,.f  it 
suffers  somewhat  in  contrast  with  the  familiar  stage  dramatization  by  fames 
K.  Hackett,  it  is  well  above  the  average  drama.  Frank  Smith,  as  the  bishop 
is  a  larger  man  than  Wm.  T.  Shay,  who  plays  Valjean,  and  thus  the  con- 
trast is  lost,  but  the  parts  are  well  bandied.     A  good  offering. 

"THE  LIGHT  IN  THE  WINDOW"  (Bison).  March  2,.— A  storv  of  the 
South  before  and  during  the  Civil  War,  in  .two  reels.  The  first  reel  shows 
us  a  plantation  on  which  the  cruel  master  flogs  his  slaves,  much  to  the  dis- 
gust of  his  young  son.  The  boy  runs  away  and  later  appears  as  a  Union  of- 
ficer.     The   fighting,   in   the  second   reel,  is  spirited  and   occurs   in    the   \n 

country  and  the  woods.  We  feel  that  these  scenes  give  us  a  glimpse  of 
actual  warfare.  The  story  has  a  pathetic  close;  the  father  is  killed,  and  the 
mother,  who  sits  at  the  window  with  her  candle  burning,  shoots  her  son  by 
mistake.  It  is  all  done  in  a  very  convincing  manner,  and  the  production  is  a 
strong  one  of  its  type. 

"THE  TENDERFOOT'S  TURN"  (Frontier),  March  27.— This  is  the 
familiar  story  of  the  young  man  from  the  East  who  goes  West  and  has  a 
hard  time  learning  to  be  a  cowboy.  But  he  finally  turns  the  tables  on  his 
persecutors  and  gets  the  girl.     The  film  is  somewnat  cloudy. 

"THE  IMPOSTOR"  (Gaumont),  Special. — In  this  three-reel  picture  Gau- 
mont  gives  us  a  drama  of  increasing  interest.  There  are  strong  situations 
and  dramatic  moments.  The  cast  is  an  excellent  one  and  a  large  one. 
The  story  is  of  the  attempt  of  a  band  of  swindlers  to  deceive  a  widow  and 
to  impose  on  an  old  mother  a  bogus  daughter-in-law.  How  the  crime  was 
uncovered  and  the  adventurers  brought  to  justice  makes  an  interesting  story. 

"BURSTUP  HOMES'  MURDER  CASE"  (Solax).  March  26.— Broad 
farce.  There  is  a  burlesque  Sherlock  Holmes.  Blanche  Cornwall  and  Dar- 
win Kar.r  have  the  leads.  The  former  is  more  convincing  in  her  laughter 
than  she  is  in  her  tears.     The  story  is  slight. 

■■THE  WAV  OF  THE  TRANSGRESSOR"  ( Solax).  March  21.— Exag- 
gerated melodrama,  accentuated  by  two  killings,  one  of  which,  by  a  police- 
man, would,  in  life,  have  subjected  him  to  a  charge  of  manslaughter  at  least. 
There  is  plenty  of  excitement,  it  is  true,  but  tne  story  is  at  times  illogical. 

"TILL  DEATH  DO  US  PART"  (Pilot),  March  at.— This  picture  has 
been  reviewed  at  length  in  The  World.  We  can  only  affirm  the  many  good 
things  said  then  of  this  fine  photodrama.  It  is  one  that  will  stand  up  and 
stand  out  in  any  company. 

"PAT  WISHES  TO  ECONOMIZE"  (Lux).  March  21.— Comedy  of  the 
furniture-breaking,  house-destroying  sort.  It  will  furnish  amusement  to  the 
more  frivolously  inclined. 

"MISS  SIMPfON'S  JEWELS"  (Lux).  March  21.— On  the  same  reel  as 
the  foregoing  is  this  thrilling  story  of  an  attempted  burglary  on  a  train  anil 
the  arrest  of  the  thieves. 

■THE  MAN  EATER"  (Lux),  March  28.— There  are  some  thrills  in  Ihfss 
animal  picture.  One  especially  is  where  a  surveyor  is  watching  at  a  window 
for  marauding  natives  seeking  to  do  damage  to  an  African  railroad.  A  lioni 
enters  and  attacks  the  watcher.  There  are  other  features  to  recommend  thie 
picture. 

"BILLY'S  DOUBLE"  (Gem),  April  1. — Two  characters  are  here  taken  by 
Billy  Quirk.  As  there  is  no  simultaneous  appearance  the  necessity  for  double 
exposure  is  avoided.  There  is  110  story  worthy  the  name,  and  that  is  some 
handicap  even  on  a  good  comedian. 

"BILLY'S  MISTAKEN  OVERCOAT"  (Gem).  March  25.— A  farce  the 
subject  matter  of  which  is  worn  to  a  thin  edge.  The  most  of  it  is  made, 
however,  by  Billy  Quirk  and   Billie  Baier,   who  do  good  work. 

"ROSES  OF  REMEMBRANCE"  (Nestor).  March  2.  .-Splendidly  photo- 
graphed and  set  amid  superb  backgrounds  is  t...s  str.ry  of  Mexico.  It  ,,  a 
good  picture. 

"BACHELOR  BILL'S  BIRTHDAY  PRESENT"  (Powers),  .V.ril  4.- 
This  is  an  entertaining  Western  comedy,  in  which  Edwin  August  finds  a  cuie 
baby  in  his  shack.  He  feeds  it  milk  and  whiskey  and  takes  ;i  strong  liking 
to  it.  lie  advertises  for  a  nurse  and  its  own  mother  applies  ft  r  the  po- 
sition. The  natives  begin  to  criticise,  but  Bill  marries  the  mother  and  all 
ends  happily.     A  cood  comedy  release. 

"THE   DRUMMER'S  NOTEBOOK"   (Crystal),  March  30.— Two   -buples. 
Lovey  and  Dovey,  and  Honey  and   Bunny,  get  their  affairs  tangled,  bee's 
one  girl  advises  the  other  to  flirt.     In  the  end  disaster  is  averted. 

"IT'S  A  BEAR!"  (Crystal).  March  30. — This,  on  same  reel  with  abovi 
a  good  hunting  burlesque.     The  man  who  impersonated  a  bear  get  enough  of 
his  job,  but  it  brought  the  girl's  father  to  time.     As  a  whole,  this  is  ;i 
reel. 

"A   NIGHT  OF  ANGUISH"   (Eclair),    March   26.— This  two-reel   pfferi    2 
contains   many   situations   of   decided    interest   and   one  or   two     e'deh    b  ing 
genuine  thrills.      Mrs.   Lindsay's  climb  down   the  side  of  the   rri'roa  I    b 
was  realistic  enough  to  suit  anyone,  and  the  station  agent's  d  ta  n  of  b 
ing  his  own  wife  to  death  was  well  devised.     The  opening  red  rot  tainrd  a 
number  of  artistic  and  appealing  situations.     The  firelight  effects   weri 
and  the  proposal  very  creditably  done.     The  climax  also  is  ir.ter  fling 
a  whole,  the  production  is  fresh  and  entertaining. 

"TO  RENO  AND  BACK"   (Imp),   March  27.— This  comedy     fferh  c    -  :. 
ceeds  in  being  brisk  and  smart  without  being  in  any  sense  0  King 

Baggot  and  Jane   Gail   are  the  young  couple   whose  matrimonial   iliffic 


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furnish   the   motif  for   the   film   story.      There   are   innumerable   giggles   and 
many  laughs  in  this,  which  is  a  very  desirable  release. 

['ID  IX  UNIFORM"  (Imp),  March  31.— There  is  a  pretty  little  ro- 
mance in  this,  in  which  the  messenger  boy  acts  as  a  go-between  for  quarrel- 
ing lovers.  It  is  rather  overdrawn,  as  we  do  not  believe  messenger  boys 
see  quite  as  much  emotion  in  cases  like  this  as  "Freckles"  saw,  but  it  makes 
an  amusing  picture  story.  The  boy  is  injured  and  the  lovers  make  up  at 
his  bedside. 

"INNOCENT  DAD"  (Imp),  March  29. — A  good  farcical  offering,  in 
which  August  and  "dad"  do  a  little  celebrating  and  are  found  out. 

"NERVOUS  I.EO"  (Imp),  March  29. — A  laughable  French  eccentric  in 
which  Leo's  twitching  head  has  a  contagious  effect  on  all  who  come  in 
contact  with  him.     This,  with  the  above,  make  a  lively  comedy  reel. 

"THE  WIDOWS  FOLLY"  (Nestor),  April  2.— A  Western  story  suf- 
ficiently different  and  well  acted  to  hold  the  attention  well.  The  wealthy 
widow  comes  near  being  the  prey  of  an  adventurer,  but  the  hero  recovers 
from  his  injury  in  time  to  save  her.     The  photography  is  smooth  and  clear. 

"THE  GRAFTERS"  (Reliance),  March  22. — The  action  in  this  picture 
centers  about  the  opening  of  bids  for  a  paving  contract.  Quite  a  little  ten- 
sion is  gotten  up,  as  we  see  the  heroine  running  to  the  board  meeting  and 
overcoming  difficulties  on  the  way.  The  running  effects  are  rather  novel, 
and  the   whole   is  a  pleasing  production. 

"THE  WRONG  MISS  WRIGHT"  (Majestic),  March  23— This  combines 
scenes  along  the  Atlantic  Coast,  beginning  with  lower  New  York,  with  a 
slight  comedy  plot.  The  hero  wires  his  friend  for  an  introduction  to  Flora 
Wright,  but  the  friend  gives  him  an  introduction  to  her  old  maid  sister. 
Mildly  amusing. 

"THE  JUDGE'S  VINDICATION"  (Reliance),  March  19— A  two-reel 
film  by  Marion  Brooks,  combining  higher  finance  and  higher  politics  in  a 
not  entirely  new  but  thoroughly  interesting  way.  E.  P.  Sullivan  gives  us  a 
strong  study  of  a  judge  resisting  the  behests  of  the  money  trust.  In  a 
series  of  scenes  we  see  him  visited  by  men  who  desire  to  bribe  him.  He 
defies  them  and  for  this  is  himself  charged  with  bribery.  Irving  Cummings 
appears  as  the  star  reporter,  who  clears  the  judge  and  wins  the  girl.  He 
picks  pockets,  holds  up  several  men  and  does  many  things  that  reporters 
seldom  ever  do,  but  these  exaggerated  incidents  can  perhaps  be  excused,  as 
the  picture  is  strong  enough  to  overcome  them. 

"THE  LEGEND  OF  THE  EVERGLADES"  (Excelsior),  March  24.— The 
old  darky's  rendition  of  the  legend  of  the  Everglades  makes  material  for  a 
strong  film.  The  cruel  ma-'er  beating  his  slaves  and  their  subsequent  re- 
bellion is  convincingly  sn--.v\n;  the  firing  of  the  cabin  and  tragic  fate  of  the 
master  and  his  wife  is  also  good.  Then  we  follow  the  wanderings  of  the  girl 
for  many  years  through  the  Everglades,  till  the  death  of  herself  and  her 
lover.    A  film  story  containing  new  scenic  effects  and  excellent  photography. 

"HIS  DAY  OF  FREEDOM"  (Reliance),  March  26.— showing  the  manner 
in  which  Convict  Xo.  333  escapes  from  prison  in  a  box  of  shoes  and  arrives 
in  a  village  store.  He  steals  money  and  the  girl's  lover  is  blamed,  but  the 
convict  relents  and  gives  himself  up.  The  film  makes  a  good  impression  and 
tells  a  satisfactory  story. 

"A  WELL  MEANT  DECEPTION"  (Majestic),  March  30.— An  old 
theme,  worked  up  into  a  fairly  interesting  story.  The  artist  marries  a 
cabaret  singer  and  when  his  uncle  comes  does  not  want  him  to  know.  But 
the  uncle  goes  to  the  cabaret  and  discovers  not  only  that  the  girl  is  singing 
there,  but  also  that  she  is  the  unknown  person  who  has  been  purchasing  the 
artist's  pictures. 

"HER  NEW  BEAU'  (Keystone),  March  31.— Mack  Sennett  and  Fred 
Mace  in  a  series  of  park  scenes,  in  which  there  is  more  action  than  plot. 

"ON  HIS  WEDDING  DAY"  (Keystone),  March  31—  This,  on  same 
reel  with  above,  is  a  comic  offering  in  which  Schnitzler  has  a  hard  time 
getting  married.     Only   fairly  amusing. 

"THE  SINEWS  OF  WAR"  (Broncho),  April  2.— A  two-reel  war  story, 
pictured  with  much  clearness  and  filled  with  intense,  dramatic  scenes.  Im- 
personations of  General  Lee  and  General  Grant  are  given.  The  battle 
scenes  are  very  effectively  done;  the  burning  of  the  warehouse  is  a  strong 
feature.  The  love  story  blends  nicely  with  the  various  incidents  and  as 
a  whole  the  production  is  a  very  desirable  one. 

"HIDE  AND  SEEK"  (Keystone),  April  3. — There  are  some  very  funny 
moments  in  this  offering,  as  it  is  based  upon  a  definite  plot  and  the  audience 
knows  just  what  is  going  on.  The  child  is  supposed  to  be  locked  in  the 
time  safe,  and  the  efforts  to  get  it  open  pile   up  some  laughable  situations. 

"THE  LAND  SALESMAN"  (Keystone),  April  3.— This,  on  same  reel 
with  above,  gives  a  slight  story  in  connection  with  stump  blasting  scenes. 
The  blasting  is  very   interesting. 

"WITH  LEE  IN  VIRGINIA"  (Kay-Bee),  April  4— Another  war  drama 
in  two  reels,  in  which  graphic  warfare  is  mingled  with  a  strong  story  inter- 
est. General  Lee  and  Lincoln  and  his  Cabinet  are  impersonated  in  the 
opening  scenes.  The  hero,  a  union  officer,  is  in  the  home  of  the  heroine, 
where  she  conceals  him.  There  is  a  fine  complication  of  incidents,  all  very 
carefully  worked  out  and  which  the  observer  follows  breathlessly.  The  old 
slave  saves  the  girl  by  saying  he  shot  the  slain  officer.  He  is  executed  in 
consequence.  The  fighting  is  dramatic  and  well  ordered,  and  the  final  scene 
a  pathetic  one.     A  very  good  release. 

"FOR  HER  BOY'S  SAKE"  (Thanhouser),  March  as.— A  human  interest 
story,  covering  many  years  of  time.  In  the  first  part  we  see  the  manner  in 
which  the  woman's  son  robs  a  safe  to  obtain  money  for  a  girl.  For  this 
he  is  convicted  and  passes  out  of  the  picture.  '  Ten  years  later,  as  a  scrub 
-woman  in  an  office  building,  she  sees  a  clerk  about  to  yield  to  the  same 
weakness,  because  his  wife  is  ill.  She  gives  her  savings  to  him.  The  closing 
scene  is  very  pathetic,  and  while  not  entirely  new,  the  story  is  a  successful 
one. 

"CYMBELIXE"  (Thanhouser),  March  28. — The  Shakesperian  drama  is 
here  worked  out  in  two  reels,  with  good  scenic  effects.'  Flo  LaBadie  and 
James  Cruze  play  the  parts  of  Imogene  and  Leonatus,  but  the  whole'Than- 
houser  Company  joins  forces  to  make  the  cast  a  balanced  one.  The  costum- 
ing is  sumptuous  and  the  scenes  pleasing  throughout  because  of  their  clean- 
<ut  staging.  The  visit  of  the  Roman  officer  to  Iraogene's  bed  chamber, 
■where   he  takes  the  bracelet  from  her  wrist  as  she  sleeps,  was   artistically 


presented.  The  battle  scenes  in  the  second  reel  hold  the  interest  well;  also  the 
manner  in  which  the  separateu  family  ot  Cymbeline  finally  becomes  re- 
united.    A  good  offering. 

"MATCHES"  (American),  April  3.— One  of  the  best  light  comedy  offer- 
ings we  have  seen  for  some  time.  Three  couples  and  their  love  affairs  con- 
spire to  hold  the  interest,  and  so  ingeniously  is  the  plot  put  together  that 
the  developments  hold  a  strong  interest  for  the  observer.  The  scenes  are 
artistic  and  pleasing  and  the  characterizations  good;  the  photography  is  also 
good.     An  unusually  attractive  light  comedy. 

"THE  RENEGADE'S  HEART"  (American),  March  31— Good  photog- 
raphy helps  along  this  Western  story.  The  girl  secretes  Black  Jack  when 
he  is  badly  wanted.  Her  father  later  needs  $5,000  and  Black  Jack  gives 
himself  up.  out  of  gratitude  to  the  girl,  as  there  is  a  reward  for  that  amount 
on  his  head.  The  whole  conception,  including  the  incident  of  the  handker- 
chief tied  to  the  tree,  is  improbable,  but  it  will  please  many  observers. 

"THE  MUTE  WITNESS"  (American),  April  5.— A  trap  for  catching  and 
photographing  wild  animals  is  employed  in  this  to  capture  the  villain  and 
picture  his  assault  upon  the  girl's  father.  The  scheme  works  with  good 
effect,  and  makes  material  for  a  new,  if  not  very  probable,  picture. 

"THE  CLIMAX"  (Solax),  March  28. — There  is  a  breeziness  in  the  story 
of  this  picture  that  keeps  one  interested  from  first  to  last.  The  husband 
needs  a  climax  for  the  play  he  has  just  written.  His  wife  has  foolishly 
relied  upon  the  friendliness  of  a  certain  man,  and  her  husband's  experience 
in  rescuing  her  from  her  unpleasant  predicament  furnishes  him  with  val- 
uable literary  material.  The  acting  is  evenly  natural  throughout,  the  story 
runs  smoothly,  the  sets  are  good  and  it  is  well  photographed.  There  is  a 
scene  under  the  lamp  that  is  lovely. 

"THE  NEW  RED  MAN"  (Gaumont),  March  22. — A  clearly  ohotographed 
and  extremely  interesting  picture  of  Uncle  Sam's  wards.  It  is  a  picture 
of  Carlisle  School  and  shows  some  good  drilling  by  Indian  cadets. 


WARNER'S  FEATURE  NOTES. 

The  following  three-reel  productions  are  now  ready  to 
release  one  week  apart: 

"The  Eye  of  a  God" — a  detective  story  woven  about  a 
brown  diamond  of  great  value  that  is  stolen  from  the  fore- 
head of  a  Hindoo  idol  and  sold  in  America.  Made  by  the 
Pyramid  Film  Co.,  of  New  York. 

"Rescued  from  the  Burning  Stake" — The  bad  man  of  the 
plains  is  redeemed  by  the  new  school-teacher,  marries  her 
and  later  deserts  his  wife  and  child.  After  many  years, 
the  father,  degenerated,  captures  his  own  daughter,  unknown 
to  him,  and  would  burn  her  at  the  stake,  but  is  brought  to 
his  senses  by  sight  of  his  daughters  scarred  throat  in  time 
to  save  her.     An  Imperial  feature. 

"The  Mystery  of  Pine  Creek  Camp" — featuring  Gene 
Gauntier  and  her  feature  players.  Nell,  orphaned  in  the 
lumber  camp,  is  sent  to  New  York  to  study  music.  Her 
sweetheart  is  sentenced  to  twenty  years  in  a  convict  camp 
for  a  mysterious  murder.  Nell  gives  up  a  promising  career 
to  secure  his  pardon. 

"Mexican  Conspiracy  Out-generaled" — featuring  Martha 
Russell  in  the  first  three-reel  production  of  the  Satex  Film 
Co.,  of  Austin,  Tex.  Actual  scenes  taken  in  Mexico  and 
U.  S.  Consul's  office. 


REMARKABLE   LIST   OF   NEW   ELECTRICAL 
INSTRUMENTS. 

J.  C.  Deagan,  the  well  known  manufacturer  of  musical  novelty 
instruments,  announces  in  his  advertisement,  in  this  issue  of 
the  Moving  Picture  World,  a  new  catalogue,  introducing  240 
different,  electrically  operated  instruments,  particularly  suited  for 
motion  picture  theaters,  and  which  can  be  played  either  in- 
dividually, collectively,  or  in  any  combination  in  connection  with 
a  piano  easily  manipulated  by  the  piano  player. 

A  representative  of  the  Moving  Picture  World  recently  made 
a  call  at  the  home  of  the  Deagan  Bells,  a  beautifully  appointed 
and  modern  factory,  costing  $250,000.  located  at  1770  Berteau 
Avenue,  Chicago.  Claude  Deagan,  the  genial  young  manager, 
conducted  the  World  man  through  the  factory  and  showed  him 
a  great  number  of  remarkable  instruments,  which,  no  doubt,  will 
make  a  great  hit  in  motion  picture  theaters.  The  two  most 
striking  instruments  are  the  new  improved  Musical  Electric 
Bells  and  the  new  Deagan  Electric  Cathedral  Chimes.  The  Musi- 
cal Electric  Bells  have  been  improved  considerably.  They  can 
be  played  soft  or  loud,  single  stroke  or  vibrating,  at  the  will  of 
the  operator,  by  merely  pressing  buttons  conveniently  located  on 
an  ivory  keyboard.  The  bells  are  mounted  on  a  handsomely 
nickel-plated  floor  rack,  but  can  also  be  distributed  around  vari- 
ous parts  of  the  theater,  if  so  desired. 

A  truly  beautiful  instrument  is  the  Electrical  Cathedral 
Chimes,  made  of  the  purest  bell  metal.  It  gives  the  best  imita- 
tion of  church  chimes  ever  produced.  These  chimes  are  also 
electrically  operated  from  an  ivory  key-board,  and  can  be  dis- 
tributed throughout  the  theater,  the  same  as  the  Deagan  Musi- 
cal Electrical  Bells.  Other  new  instruments  are  the  new  style 
Swiss  Electric  Bells,  the  Electric  Octaphone,  the  Electric  Or- 
chestra Bells,  the  Electric  Parsifal  Bells,  the  Electric  Steel 
Marimbaphone  and   Electric  Xylophones. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


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OBSERVATIONS 

BY  OUR  MAN  ABOUT  TOWN 


THE  nineteenth  annual  meeting  of  the  electrical  com- 
mittee of  the  National  Fire  Protection  Association 
will  be  held  at  123  William  Street,  New  York  City,  on 
the  26th  and  27th  insts.  The  rooms  in  which  the  meeting 
will  he  held  are  those  occupied  by  the  New  York  Board  of 
Fire  Underwriters.  Committee  reports  and  suggestions  for 
changes  in  the  "National  Electrical  Code"  will  be  considered. 
Among  the  reports  will  be  one  by  the  committee  on  theater 
and  moving  picture  establishment  wiring,  which  will  submit 
a  new  section  to  be  added  to  the  rules  under  the  heading, 
"Moving  Picture  Equipments  of  Approved  Miniature  Type 
for  Home  Lecture  and  Similar  Purposes."  The  section  will 
embrace  four  rules  as  follows:  (1)  Arc  lamp  used  as  a  part 
of  machine  must  be  constructed  as  far  as  practicable  similar 
to  arc  lamps  of  theaters,  and  mus:  not  require  more  than 
350  watts  to  operate  same;  (2)  the  rheostat  or  other  current 
controlling  device  must  conform  to  the  requirements  for 
similar  devices  for  theater  work,  and  must  be  attached  to 
and  form  a  part  of  the  machine;  (3)  films  must  be  of  the 
non-inflammable  type  and  must  not  be  more  than  100  feet 
in  length  and  one  inch  in  width;  (4)  where  the  use  of  an 
approved  booth  is  dispensed  with,  a  mat  made  of  asbestos 
or  other  approved  material  must  be  placed  under  the  ma- 
chine when  in  operation;  this  mat  to  be  of  such  size  and  so 
arranged  that  machine  may  be  easily  and  quickly  enveloped 
in  same  in  case  of  accident  to  film. 

*  *     * 

Miss  Florence  Turner,  late  one  of  the  most  popular  mem- 
bers of  the  Yitagraph  stock  company,  made  a  big  hit  both  at 
the  Flalsey  Street  and  Fifth  Avenue  theaters,  Brooklyn,  fol- 
lowing the  close  of  her  successful  engagement  at  the  116th 
Street  Theater.  Manhattan.  Miss  Turner  was  exceedingly 
popular  with  the  employees  of  the  Vitagraph.  She  always 
had  a  cheery  smile  and  a  kind  word  for  all  of  them,  particu- 
larly for  the  girls  and  young  women  employed  in  the  film 
departments.  When  they  learned  Miss  Turner  was  booked 
for  Brooklyn  engagements  these  employees  prepared  to  give 
her  a  cordial  reception.  One  night  the  joining  room  girls 
occupied  boxes  at  the  Halsey.  The  first  night  Miss  Turner 
appeared  at  the  Fifth  Avenue,  the  printing  room  girls  filled 
the  boxes.  The  little  actress  was  much  affected  by  the  cor- 
diality accorded  her  by  the  groups.  They  showered  flowers 
upon  her  and  wildly  waved  flags  bearing  the  Vitagraph  im- 
print as  she  made  her  appearance  upon  the  stage. 

*  *     * 

As  a  part  of  her  monologue  Miss  Turner  takes  occasion  to 
announce  that  her  new  departure  does  not  mean  that  she 
will  not  be  seen  in  the  motion  pictures  again,  as  it  is  her 
intention  to  combine  with  others  in  the  production  of  pic- 
tures in  which  she  will  be  starred,  as  already  announced  in  a 
recent  issue  of  the  Moving  Picture  World. 

*  *     * 

Among  the  latest  rumors  bearing  upon  the  incorporation 
of  new  companies  for  the  production  of  motion  pictures  is 
one  to  the  effect  that  a  company  is  about  to  be  formed  by 
twenty-five  publishers  and  a  number  of  authors.  It  is  stated 
that  the  combination  is  to  be  a  co-operative  one,  the  pub- 
lishers and  authors  sharing  in  the  profits  derived  from  the 
film  productions  of  the  latter's  work.  The  name  given  as 
that  of  the  proposed  combination  is  "The  Famous  Fiction 
Film  Company."  The  incentive  of  this  scheme  is  said  to 
have  emanated  from  the  Daniel  Frohman  undertaking.  One 
of  the  chief  aims  is  to  attract  attention  to  certain  fiction  pub- 
lications through  the  film  productions.  Now  that  motion 
pictures  have  forced  general  recognition  for  themselves, 
hardly  a  day  passes  that  some  new  scheme  to  make  use  of 
them  in  some  way  is  not  developed.  The  resources  afforded 
by  motion  pictures  are  unlimited,  but  it  is  feared  that  ere 
long  schemes  will  become  so  numerous  that  the  outlet  for 
them  will  become  choked  and  many  ventures  will  fall  by  the 
wayside.  It  may  well  be  said  "everybody's  doing  it"  and  at 
the  same  time  there  is  a  certainty  that  a  good  thing  may  be 
overdone. 

*  *     * 

Following  the  examples  set  by  many  of  the  foreign  mu- 
nicipalities, Greater  New  York  has  turned  to  motion  pictures 
as  an   agency   for   the  enlightenment   of   school   children   on 


municipal  government  and  hygienic  rules.  The  chairman  of 
the  Public  Health  and  Education  Committee  has  had  films 
made  showing  the  importance  of  care  of  the  teeth.  It  is 
claimed  that  exhibition  of  the  films  will  eliminate  absence 
from  the  schools  on  account  of  tooth  troubles.  The  under- 
taking is  a  commendable  one.  It  is  hoped  the  exhibition  of 
the  films  will  not  be  restricted  to  the  school  rooms.  Ar- 
rangements should  be  made  for  their  exhibition  in  the  motion 
picture  houses,  so  that  interest  may  be  elicited  on  the  part 
of  parents  as  well  as  the  pupils.  This  plan  has  been  adopted 
for  the  exhibition  of  motion  pictures  especially  made  for 
showing  the  work  of  the  street  cleaning  department.  Clean 
streets  and  clean  teeth  are  akin.  No  better  selection  of  films 
can  be  made  for  the  picture  houses,  as  they  treat  upon  sub- 
jects in  which  everybody  in  all  walks  of  life  should  be  greatly 
interested. 

*  *    * 

And  along  the  municipal  lines  let  another  step  be  taken. 
The  Board  of  Health  should  get  busy  and  follow  the  example 
set  by  the  municipal  authorities  of  Berlin,  Germany.  There 
the  meat  inspectors  have  called  motion  picture  cameras  to 
their  aid  in  determining  if  food  products  are  in  proper  con- 
dition. The  films  show  the  micro-organisms  in  motion 
should  the  inspected  meats  be  diseased.  While  the  munici- 
palities of  foreign  lands  are  cited  as  launching  examples  to 
be  followed,  it  should  not  be  assumed  that  they  originated 
the  ideas  involved.  Due  credit  must  be  given  an  American 
brain.  Mr.  Charles  Urban,  of  London,  England,  was  the  first 
to  demonstrate  the  great  value  and  possibilities  of  the  mo- 
tion picture  camera  along  the  lines  stated.  For  several  years 
he  has  produced  a  number  of  highly  commendable  subjects, 
but  they  failed  to  gain  the  recognition  they  deserved  owing 
to  the  tardiness  that  attended  the  willingness  of  the  public 
to  give  motion  pictures  the  attention  now  accorded  them. 
When  the  pictures  now  prepared  an,d  in  course  of  operation 
secure  public  approbation,  which  they  surely  will,  we  will 
then  turn  admiring  and  grateful  glances  to  Mr.  Urban  as  the 
grand  old  man  of  the  municipal  utility  of  motion  pictures. 
Where  does  the  American  brain  fit  in?  Oh,  yes;  that  was 
almost  forgotten.  Mr.  Urban  has  been  in  England  so  long 
that  he  is  looked  upon  as  a  native  of  that  country.  He  is 
not.  He  was  born  in  America  and  resided  here  many  years. 
When  visiting  here,  having  acquired  the  accent  of  his  adopted 
country  to  some  extent,  Mr.  Urban  derives  much  pleasure 
from  the  discomfiture  occasioned  some  of  the  people  he 
meets  who  cater  to  him  in  the  belief  that  he  is  among  the 
brilliant  products  of  His  Majesty's  domain.  He  has  always 
had  a  warm  heart  for  the  land  of  his  birth,  and  now  that 
Kinemacolor  has  been  received  here  so  well  the  warmth  of 
his  heart  is  still  greater.  Mr.  Urban  deserves  all  the  success 
he  has  attained.  He  was  and  is  among  the  hardest  working 
pioneers  in  the  field  of  animated  photography  and  has  ad- 
vanced scores  of  original  and  commendable  ideas  in  the  field. 

*  *     * 

Here  is  a  new  one.  Two  exhibitors  were  discussing  the 
advantage  to  motion  picture  houses  by  having  well-known 
photoplayers  make  personal  appearances  in  them.  One  said 
it  helped  advertise  the  pictures  and  increased  the  box  office 
receipts  very  appreciably.  The  other  concurred  in  the  state- 
ment, but  added  that  he  never  had  a  player  appear  at  his 
house  in  person  because  he  believed  that  it  dispels  an  illu- 
sion that  is  an  important  factor  in  the  business.  "I  have 
watched  closely  appearances  at  other  houses,"  he  said,  "and 
almost  invariably  I  have  found  that  the  audiences  have  been 
disappointed  and  eventually  the  player  loses  prestige  with 
them.  The  players  in  the  flesh  do  not  seem  to  meet  the  ideals 
which  their  appearances  in  the  pictures  have  created  in  the 
minds  of  the  people.  That  is  how  I  account  for  requests  for 
reappearances  being  rare." 


POWER'S  CAMERAGRAPH  INSTALLATION. 
A  Power's  Cameragraph  No.  6A  has  been  installed  in  the 
St.  Michael's  School,  Clinton  Avenue  and  High  Street,  Ho- 
boken,  N.  J.,  through  the  Universal  Film  Exchange  of  New 
York.  The  Broadway  Theater,  41st  Street  and  Broadway, 
New  York  City,  has  installed  two  Power's  Cameragraph  No. 
6A  through  the  People's  Vaudeville  Company. 


MISS  STONEHOUSE  RESUMES  WORK. 
Ruth  Stonehouse,  the  charming  leading  lady  of  the  Essanay 
Eastern  stock  company,  returned  to  work  last  Monday.  Miss 
Stonehouse  has  been  ill  for  the  last  three  weeks  with  scar- 
letina.  A  surprise  party  was  given  in  her  honor  by  the  mem- 
bers of  the  stock  company.  A  beautiful  floral  piece  was  sent 
to  Miss  Stonehouse  by  the  photoplay  "fans"  of  Denver. 
Miss  Stonehouse  will  be  featured  in  some  forthcoming  dra- 
matic productions. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League 


WASHINGTON  EXHIBITORS   ORGANIZE. 

The  Washington  State  Association  of  Moving  Picture  Ex- 
hibitors has  joined  with  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors 
League  of  America  and  become  the  Washington  State 
Branch  No.  35.  Details  of  the  first  annual  convention  held 
in  Seattle,  Feb.  18th  and  19th.  were  withheld  until  a  report 
could  be  made  on  the  outcome  of  the  fight  against  the  ad- 
verse legislation  then  pending  in  the  State  legislature  at 
Olympia. 

An  active  committee  backed  by  the  newly  organized  state 
league  succeeded  in  killing  two  bills  which  would  have  seri- 
ously injured  the  business  of  every  exhibitor  in  the  state. 
One  bill  provided  for  state  wide  Sunday  closing  of  all  thea- 
ters and  the  other  for  a  board  of  examiners  for  all  operators 
of  moving  picture  machines.  Such  board  to  be  composed 
exclusively  of  certain  operators.  The  exhibitor  had  no  repre- 
sentation whatever  on  the   board. 

Under  the  cloak  of  a  public  safety  measure  the  bill  gained 
much  support.  Now  that  these  bills  are  both  dead  we  can 
send  the  news  of  the  first  victory  for  our  young  organization 
in  the  fight  for  a  square  deal  for  the  exhibitor.  In  no  other 
way  could  we  have  won  the  battle  than  with  the  strength 
and  prestige  of  an  active  league  of  exhibitors. 

The  new  officers  of  the  Washington  Branch  are:  Presi- 
dent, A.  B.  Campbell — Sedro  Wooley;  Natl.  Vice-Pres.,  John 
Rautz — Bremerton;  First  Vice-Pres.,  James  Q.  Clemmer,  Se- 
attle; Second  Vice-Pres.,  Fred  Mercy — North  Yakima;  Secy.- 
Treas..  W.  L.  Shanks,  Seattle  and  H.  O.  Allen,  Executive 
Committee. 

The  next  meeting  of  the  Washington  State  Branch  will  be 
held  in  Seattle  June  17th. 


BIRMINGHAM  EXHIBITORS  ORGANIZE. 

At  a  meeting  held  at  Birmingham,  Ala.,  March  22,  Henry 
F.  Beaumont,  a  prominent  member  of  the  Birmingham  Ad 
Club,  was  elected  secretary  of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors' 
League  of  Birmingham,  which  was  recently  chartered  by  the 
national  league  of  motion  picture  men.  Mr.  Beaumont  was 
appointed  chairman  of  the  publicity  committee  of  the  league 
on  its  organization  and  his  election  to  the  secretaryship  of 
the  body  is  assumed  to  be  in  recognition  of  his  valued  ser- 
vices. The  officers  of  the  league  are  E.  H.  Colley.  of  the 
Vaudette,  president;  H.  M.  Newsome,  who  owns  four  thea- 
ters, vice-president;  T.  S.  Abernathy,  Odeon  One  and  Odeon 
Two,  treasurer,  and   Henry  F.   Beaumont,   secretary. 

A  State  convention  of  motion  picture  men.  held  under  the 
auspices  of  the  local  league,  met  here  Monday,  March  24,  and 
M.  A.  Xeff,  president  of  the  national  body,  was  the  guest 
of  honor. 


IOWA  CITY  THEATERS  GET  "CLEAN  BILL." 

While  digging  up  information  that  would  aid  in  the  passing 
of  a  bill  to  regulate  public  amusements  in  the  State  of  Iowa, 
the  State  Law  Librarian  of  that  State  got  the  following 
"clean  bill  of  health"  for  the  picture  theaters  of  Iowa  Citv, 
la.,  from  County  Attorney  Hart  of  that  city: 

"Iowa  City's  moving  picture  shows,  vaudeville  entertain- 
ments, and  other  attractions  of  theatrical  type  are  clean, 
moral,  and  worthy  of  commendation.  The  men  in  charge  are 
citizens  of  highest  standing  in  the  community,  and  would  re- 
mit nothing  improper  or  immoral  to  be  displayed  in  their  re- 
spective theaters,  even  if  there  were  no  law  on  the  subject." 

This  is  the  "clean  bill'  that  County  Attorney  Hart  gives  the 
following  theaters:  Thomas  A.  Brown's  American,  Fred 
Dever's  Pastime,  Archie  Hanlon's  Iowa  Theater,  Thos.  A. 
Brown's  Nickeldom,  W.  H.  Englert's  Theater. 


WEST  VIRGINIA  CONVENTION. 

The  fourth  annual  convention  of  the  motion  picture  ex- 
hibitors league  of  West  Virginia  will  be  held  at  Wheeling, 
W.  Va.,  on  April  15  and  16.  Organizer  Clem  Kerr,  of  Day- 
ton, Ohio,  and  Secretary  L.  R.  Thomas  are  working  hard  to 
make  the  meeting  a  success.    Many  Ohio  exhibitors  from  the 


Wheeling  district,  Ohio  side,  will  be  present  to  help  with  the 
shouting.  The  meetings  will  be  held  in  the  new  Wheeling 
Auditorium  and  special  advantages  for  manufacturers'  ex- 
hibits will  be  afforded. 

West  Virginia  exhibitors  are  urged  to  attend  this  meeting 
as  many  matters  of  importance  will  be  considered.  A  num- 
ber of  proposed  legislative  enactments  will  come  up  for  dis- 
cussion, namely,  legislation  governing  taxes  and  licenses,  a 
bill  for  a  State  examining  board  for  operators,  a  Sunday 
opening  law,  and  an  censorship  bill. 

A  special  program  for  the  entertainment  of  the  delegates 
and  guests  has  been  arranged  by  the  committee  in  charge  and 
members  are  urged  to  bring  their  wives  to  enjoy  the  good 
time  being  prepared. 


TO  FIGHT  PENNSYLVANIA  LEGISLATION. 

Pittsburgh  motion  picture  men  and  owners  of  small  vaude- 
ville theaters  are  preparing  to  beseige  the  Pennsylvania  state 
legislature  to  enter  their  protest  against  the  passage  of  the 
bill  introduced  into  the  house  of  Representatives  by  George 
Allen  of  Allegheny  County,  which  provides  that  all  amuse- 
ment places  must  be  licensed  under  a  state  law.  The  bill  is 
now  in  the  hands  of  the  house  committee  on  law  and  order, 
and  it  is  probable  that  action  will  be  taken  on  the  bill  during 
the  next  two  weeks.  The  opposition  is  coming  from  all  parts 
of  the  State  and  the  members  of  the  legislature  are  daily  re- 
ceiving many  letters  asking  them  to  vote  against  the  bill  if 
it  is  reported  out  of  committee.  The  local  Motion  Picture 
Exhibitor's  League  has  taken  a  strong  stand  against  thhe  pas- 
sage of  the  bill  and  the  officers  of  Local  No.  1  of  this  city 
have  prepared  a  protest  against  the  measure  that  should  re- 
ceive the  support  of  all  the  exhibitors.  A  representative  of 
the  local  organization  will  go  to  Harrisburg  when  the  bill 
is  brought  and  personally  urge  the  quashing  of  the  measure. 


PREFERS  THE  SMALL  TOWN. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  F.  Nolan  of  Opelousas  and  Thiba- 
deau,  La.,  paid  a  short  visit  to  New  York  the  other  day  and 
spent  most  of  their  time  doing  the  picture  theaters  and 
studios.  Mr.  Nolan  owns  theaters  in  both  towns  and  re- 
marked, after  looking  over  a  number  of  New  York  picture 
houses,  that  he  couldn't  see  that  any  of  them  had  anything 
on  him,  especially  when  it  came  to  projection.  Mrs.  Xolan, 
a  charming  young  woman  of  undoubted  Southern  birth,  was 
pronounced  in  her  loyalty  to  her  home  town  and  insisted 
that  New  York  did  not  tempt  her  in  the  least. 


FEATURE   FILM    RENTERS'   CREDIT   ASSOCIATION 
MEETING. 

The  next  regular  meeting  of  the  Feature  Film  Renters 
Credit  Assn.,  of  Ohio,  is  scheduled  to  be  held  at  the  secre- 
tary's office,  Columbia  Bldg.,  Cleveland,  O.,  April  1st,  at  3 
p.  m.  All  members  are  earnestly  requested  to  be  present  at 
this  meeting,  as  there  is  business  of  great  importance  to  be 
transacted.  A.  E.  SIEGEL,  Secretary. 


A  FORTY-FIVE-MINUTE  TALKING  PICTURE. 

At  the  Gaumont  Palace  Hippodrome  in  Paris,  a  few  days 
ago,  there  was  exhibited  a  speaking  film  running  forty-five 
minutes.  This  is  by  far  the  longest  talking  picture  ever 
thrown  on  the  screen.  The  photoplay  was  taken  from  a  fa- 
mous French  farce  and  was  witnessed  by  nearly  eight  thou- 
sand people,  the  extreme  capacity  of  the  house.  The  dialogue 
was  distinctly  heard  in  the  farthest  corners  of  the  audi- 
torium without  appearing  unduly  amplified  to  those  in  the 
pit.  The  Paris  Daily  papers  gave  the  Gaumont  talking  pic- 
tures from  four  inches  to  three-quarters  of  a  column  next 
morning  and  described  the  entertainment  as  a  revolution  in 
the  cinematographic  art.  Speaking  photoplays  running  from 
twenty  to  thirty  minutes  are  now  being  shown  nightly  by 
means  of  the  Gaumont  improved  Chronophone  in  the  Gau- 
mont Palace  Hippodrome. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


53 


Making  Pictures  With  Bloodhounds 

In   an    Interesting    Letter   Jack    Clark    Describes    How    the 
Gauntier  Players  Obtained  Real  Reel  Realism. 

IN  a  letter  from  Jacksonville,  Jack  J.  Clark,  leading  man  of 
the  Gene  Gauntier  Feature  Players,  tells  of  the  trials  of 
the  picture  player  when  dealing  with  sure-enough  blood- 
hounds which,  in  this  instance,  were  secured  from  Sheriff 
Dowling  of  Duval  County,  Fla.,  by  Director  Sid  Olcott.  The 
picture  was  "The  Mystery  of  Pine  Tree  Camp."  The  dogs 
were  tested  by  the  liberation  of  a  negro  convict,  with  a  start 
of  fifteen  minutes  over  the  dogs.  Success  attended  the  try- 
out,  and  the  colored  man  was  treed  in  short  order.  In  the 
picture  Mr.  Clark  and  Mr.  Olcott  were  to  be  fastened  to- 
gether with  a  ball  and  chain  and  were  to  have  but  fifteen 
seconds'  start  over  the  hounds.  The  run  was  to  be  short; 
it  had  to  be.    But  here's  the  story: 

"The  morning  came  bright  and  clear,  and.  we  left  in  our 
launch  for  Hogan,  a  small  town  on  the  creek  nine  miles  from 
Jacksonville.  Mr.  Olcott  and  Miss  Gauntier,  in  order  to  pick 
up  the  dogs  on  the  way,  went  around  by  road.  I  have  read 
of  the  feelings  of  men  in  the  death  chamber  awaiting  execu- 
tion; but,  believe  me,  they  had  nothing  on  me  as  I  steered 
that  boat  up  the  creek.  A  dozen  times  I  was  tempted  to  run 
on  the  bank  so  hard  that  it  would  take  a  month  to  get  off, 
and  thus  put  back  the  fatal  moment.  However,  while  I  was 
thus  vacillating  our  destination  hove  in  sight,  and  I  realized 
I  was  in  for  it.  So  with  sinking  heart  I  tied  up  the  boat  and 
watched  the  rest  of  the  men  file  up  the  bank  as  happy  as  if 
they  were  going  to  a  picnic." 

The  machine  came  to  grief,  and  its  occupants  had  to  finish 
the  journey  on  foot  with  "six  young,  husky,  vigorous,  savage 
bloodhounds."     It  was  like  this: 

"In  the  party  were  Mr.  Olcott,  Miss  Gauntier  and  the 
deputy  sheriff — each  with  two  dogs — and  in  one  minute  after 
hitting  the  ground  the  whole  group  was  a  hopeless  tangle, 
Miss  Gauntier  in  a  hobble  skirt  being  handicapped  more  than 
the  others.  However,  after  much  effort,  the  procession  was 
straightened  out  and  the  cavalcade  took  up  the  line  of  march, 
with  the  hounds  straining  at  their  leashes.  About  a  mile  of 
the  road  led  through  a  swamp,  where  it  became  necessary  to 
jump  from  hummock  to  hummock  to  keep  out  of  the  water. 
It  was  at  this  spot  that  things  began  to  happen.  Just  as  Mr. 
Olcott  was  jumping  some  four  feet  in  order  to  reach  a  small 
dry  spot,  one  of  the  dogs  decided  to  investigate  a  trail  he  had 
scented  about  a  hundred  yards  back,  so  without  even  a  warn- 
ing bark  he  started  to  the  rear.  Result — Mr.  Olcott  landed 
in  a  recumbent  position  in  three  feet  of  muddy  water.  Ex- 
cited by  the  noise,  the  sheriff's  dogs  came  up  on  the  run, 
causing  the  worthy  representative  of  the  law  to  misjudge 
his  leap  and  land  on  the  back  of  Mr.  Olcott's  neck.  After 
much  thrashing  about  in  the  slime  and  water,  they  managed 
to  reach  land  in  such  a  condition  it  was  hard  to  distinguish 
man  from  beast.  An  hour  of  wandering  brought  them  to  the 
road  a£ain.  They  joined  us  in  a  condition  impossible  to 
describe. 

"Then  we  prepared  to  take  the  scene.  While  Mr.  Olcott 
was  'making  up,'  the  sheriff  and  I  had  a  nice  little  heart-to- 
heart  talk.  He  informed  me  casually  that  having  traveled 
with  Mr.  Olcott,  the  dogs  would  not  bother  him  at  all,  but 
would  take  up  the  strange  scent — meaning  me.  Then  I 
quietly  sidled  around  to  where  the  dogs  were  tied  and  tried 
to  get  real  friendly  with  them  until  a  savage  growl  put  the 
director  wise  and  he  told  me  to  beat  it.  Then  I  strolled  off 
some  distance  and  practiced  hundred-yard  dashes  with  a 
ball  and  chain  fastened  to  my  leg. 

"Finally  it  was  announced  that  everything  was  ready  and 
we  proceeded  to  the  scene  of  the  tragedy.  We  were  to  jump 
down  from  a  locomotive,  with  a  pursuing  engine  about 
twenty  yards  behind,  and  run  and  take  refuge  in  a  tree  some 
distance  away.  I  had  already  examined  that  tree  and  knew 
to  a  nicety  in  one-tenth  of  a  second  flat.  The  scene  started — 
we  jumped  down  and  ran  until  we  were  outside  the  camera 
lines.  There  Olcott  stopped.  'What's  the  matter?'_  I  ex- 
claimed. T  want  to  see  how  they  get  out  of  that  engine,'  he 
said.  'Well,  I'm  not  a  bit  curious,  and,  besides,  I've  a  very 
important  engagement  over  at  that  tree  and,  believe  me,  I'm 
going  to  keep  it.'  I  grabbed  up  the  ball  and  started  as  one 
of  the  hounds  bayed  on  picking  up  the  trail.  Olcott  had  to 
come  or  be  dragged,  and  as  the  ground  was  full  of  sand- 
spurs  he  came.  I  was  up  in  my  perch  in  a  fraction  less  than 
schedule  time,  but  Sid  in  trying  to  follow  slipped  and  slid, 
hanging  head  downward,  his  ankle  being  fastened  to  mine 
and  I  having  a  strangle  hold  on  the  branch  that  I  did  not 
propose  losing.  'Come  down,'  he  cried,  'so  that  I  can  get  on 
my  feet.'  'Nothing  doing.'  I  returned;  'you  just  have  a  little 
talk   with   your   friends   the   bloodhounds,   until   your    friend 


the  sheriff  comes  along  and  ties  them  up.  You've  traveled 
with  them  and  they  won't  bother  you.'  And  there  he  hung 
until  these  six  canine  Sherlock  Holmses  were  corraled  and 
tied  together.  Since  then  Mr.  Olcott  walks  with  a  limp  and 
every  time  I  see  a  purp  1  have  a  quiet  smile  to  myself." 


MOVING   PICTURE   PERSONALITIES. 

One  of  the  best  known  moving  picture  men  in  the  southern 
part  of  New  Jersey  is  Edward  J.  O'Keefe,  who  has  built  up 
the  City  Square  Theater  into  one  of  the  model  picture  houses 
of  the  cast.  Mr.  O'Keefe  came  into  motion  pictures  from  the 
vaudeville  stage,  where  he  had  made  a  great  success  of  re- 
fined mimicry  and  character  sketches.  He  has  now  been  the 
manager  of  the  City  Square  Theater  for  one  year,  celebrating 
his  first  anniversary  in  the  new  field  on  March  31st.  He 
has  arranged  a  very  fine  and  costly  celebration  for  this  oc- 
casion. Mr.  O'Keefe  says  that  in  learning  the  exhibiting 
profession  he  has  been  greatly  aided  by  the  Moving  Picture 
World,  which  he  thinks  is  indispensable  to  every  man  in- 
terested in  motion  pictures.  Said  Mr.  O'Keefe  to  a  World 
man: 

"When  I  took  hold  I  found  things  in  pretty  bad  shape  with 
very  poor  attendance.  1  immediately  started  a  newspaper  ad- 


Edward  J.  O'Keefe. 

vertising  crusade.  Advertising  every  day  in  all  three  dailies 
and  one  Sunday  paper.  Put  in  a  first  class  orchestra  of  four 
pieces.  Went  after  the  best  pictures  I  could  find.  Billed  a 
big  feature  every  day.  Mixed  with  my  people  and  got  their 
personal  opinion.  Talked  to  them  frequently  from  stage  in  ref- 
erence to  coming  attractions  and  also  explained  how  remote 
was  the  fear  of  fire.  Called  their  attention  to  the  construction 
of  building  and  the  number  of  exits.  Never  allow  any  picture 
that  could  offend  the  most  refined.  Insist  on  the  best  of 
order  at  all  times.  Gave  the  newspapers  to  understand  that 
if  they  wanted  our  business  they  would  have  to  give  us  the 
same  treatment  as  any  other  theater.  Gave  them  to  under- 
stand we  were  a  first  class  theater  even  if  we  did  run  pictures. 
I  feel  safe  in  saying  that  two-thirds  of  our  patrons  who  com- 
prise the  very  best  people  in  this  town  did  not  patronize 
any  picture  house  this  time  a  year  ago.  Give  my  personal 
attention  to  every  detail  of  the  house.  Hard  work,  but  hard 
work  never  killed  any  man  if  he  takes  good  care  of  himself 
otherwise." 


HALLBERG  ECONOMIZERS  IN  THANHOUSER 
STUDIO. 

The  Thanhouser  Co.  has  equipped  its  studio  with  new 
motion  picture  machines,  operating  on  alternating  current 
with  Hallberg  Standard  A.  C.  Economizers.  Mr.  Hallberg 
reports  that  Quirk's  Theater,  Fulton.  N.  Y.,  have  just  pur- 
chased through  him  a  second  Simplex  M.  P.  Machine.  Mr. 
Rufus  A.  Maltby  of  Middletown,  N.  Y.,  a  Powers  6A  with 
Hallberg  A.  C.  Economizer;  Weinberg  &  Mines,  500  Atlantic 
Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  a  Powers  6A. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


"The  Eye  of  a  God"  (Pyramid) 

By   George  Blaisdell. 

ONE  more  company  is  added  to  the  many  concerns  con- 
tending for  honors — and  profits — in  the  fast  expanding 
motion  picture  held.  A  three-reel  debut  is  an  un- 
usual occurrence.  It  indicates  confidence,  at  least — con- 
fidence in  ability  to  satisfy  a  public  every  day  becoming 
more  discriminating  in  its  judgment  of  pictures  and  conse- 
quently keener  in  detecting  and  commenting  on  shortcom- 
ings of  writers,  producers  and  actors. 

Pyramid,  which  will  release  through  Warner's  Features, 
starts  off  well.  It  would  be  an  overstatement  to  say  that 
"The  Eye  of  a  God"  is  without  noticeable  blemish.  Yet  its 
faults  are  not  glaring  ones — by  no  means;  they  are  of  the 
minor  sort  and  will  not  affect  the  pleasure  or  the  interest 
of  the  average  beholder.  Chiefly,  they  are  of  omission — 
as,  for  instance,  in  the  scene  following  the  arrest  of  the 
forger,  the  daughter,  visiting  him  in  jail,  finds  him  in  stripes. 
His  trial  must  have  occurred,  followed  by  his  conviction. 
When  the  daughter  goes  to  work  as  secretary  for  Hammond 
there  is  a  typewriter  in  the  office,  but  nothing  to  indicate 
that  the  girl  knew  anything  of  its  manipulation.  The  em- 
ployer is  shown  in  love  with  her.     The  two  are  later  settled 


Scene  from  "The  Eye  of  a  God"  (Pyramid). 

down  as  man  and  wife,  but  the  daughter  never  sat  at  her 
machine  so  far  as  the  film  shows.  When  the  husband  comes 
home  and  the  wife  admits  him  to  her  room  the  blackmailer 
steps  behind  the'  portieres.  As  the  husband  steps  out  of 
the  camera,  not  out  of  the  room,  the  ex-convict  boldly  re- 
enters. The  finger-print  expert  lakes  all  his  photographs  in 
the  evening.  These  are  merely  examples,  and  in  view  of 
the  general  quality  of  the  work  done  there  is  no  reason  why 
they  should  not  be  avoided  in  future  releases. 

There  is  a  blackmailer  in  this  story.  His  grip  on  his  victim 
is  made  possible  by  the  feminine  fear' of  losing  a  husband's 
love  through  the  uncovering  of  the  crime  of  her  father.  It 
is  one  of  those  cases  where  any  husband  worthy  of  the  name 
would  without  hesitation  absolve  his  wife  from  any  blame  in 
a  matter  in  which  she  is  obviously  blameless.  Yet  writers 
continually — ami  with  justification,  as  proved  by  the  public 
prints — portray  the  wife  as  "fleeing  when  no  husband  pur- 
sueth,"  if  the  paraphrasing  may  be  permitted.  Perhaps 
every  adult  who  sees  this  picture  will  ask  the  question  at  the 
conclusion  of  the  lasl  scene:  "Did  she  tell  her  husband  that 
her   father  was  a   convict?" 

The  story  from  begining  to  end  is  crammed  with  incident — 
x'  much  so  that  there  is  space  here  to  refer  to  only  a  few  of 
the  more  striking  features.  There  is  a  thrilling  escape  from 
prison  by  the  cellmate  of  the  forger,  the  dead  body  of  the  latter 
being  lifted  from  its  rude  box  and  the  fleeing  man  being 
lightly  nailed  in,  afterward  breaking  out  when  the  wagon 
is  conveying  the  coffin  to  the  cemetery.  This  phase  is  remi- 
niscent of  a  famous  chapter  of  a  well  known  French  classic. 
There  are  good  scenes  in  the  reception  at  the  home  of  Lawyer 
Hammond,  in  the  rathskeller  where  the  convict  goes,  in  the 
frightening  of  the  wife  into  giving  up  her  great  diamond 
called  "The  Eye  of  a  God,"  in  the  investigations  of  the  detec- 
tive, in  the  discovery  of  the  thief,  in  the  chase  of  the  motor- 
cycle after  the  automobile  resulting  in  disaster  to  the  latter, 
and  the  thrilling  leap  of  the  convict  and  the  pursuing  detec- 
tive over  the  cliff. 

Mention  must  not  be  omitted  of  the  good  work  of  the  entire 
cast.     Especially  notable  is  that  of  the  woman  who  portrayed 


the  wife.  She  wins  your  sympathy  and  holds  it,  and,  if  you 
think  she  is  foolish  for  not  telling  all,  the  blame,  of  course, 
must  rest  on  the  head  of  the  ingenious  scenario  writer.  Much 
of  the  interest  in  the  melodrama  is  due  to  the  excellent 
work  of  the  detective  with  his  finger  print  demonstrations. 
It  was  not  difficult  to  recognize  here  Chester  Barnett.  He 
has  done  no  better  work.  Others  deserving  praise  are  the 
husband,  the  convict  and  the  maid. 
"The  Eye  of  a  God"  will  make  good. 


"THE  JUDGE'S  VINDICATION"   (Reliance). 

A  coming  two  reel  release  by  the  Reliance  Company,  "The 
Judge's  Vindication,"  tells  the  story  of  an  honest  judge  who, 
by  a  just  decision,  excites  the  wrath  of  a  group  of  financiers, 
called,  in  the  picture,  "the  Trust."  They  have  vainly  tried  to 
bribe  him,  so  they  now  procure  a  trumped-up  charge  of 
bribery  against  him  and,  in  this,  it  is  claimed  that  the  boodle 
was  a  lot  of  stock  in  the  "Trust."  Now,  the  judge  has  this 
stock  and  the  "Trust"  knows  that  he  has  paid  for  it.  In 
the  judge's  trial,  it  becomes  evident  that  no  one  else  can 
testify  that  the  stock  was  paid  for,  and  of  course,  the  "Trust" 
won't.  But  we  soon  find  the  pretty  daughter  of  the  judge 
appealing  for  help  to  a  newspaper  editor  who  assigns  a  re- 
porter to  the  case.  This  reporter  is  a  man  of  action  and, 
when  a  little  sleuthing  proves  not  only  that  the  "Trust"  has 
the  letters  that  would  clear  the  judge,  but  that  it  is  aiming 
to  destroy   them,   he   and   the  girl  get   the   papers   from   the 


Scene  from  "The  Judge's  Vindication"  (Reliance). 

"Trust's"  office  at  the  point  of  a  pistol.  Then  follows  a  race 
in  an  automobile  to  the  Capitol,  the  clearing  of  the  "old  man 
and  the  closing  scenes,  which  are  made  to  promise  a  love 
story. 

The  situation  and  its  development  in  this  picture  hold 
strongly,  although  it  cannot  be  said  that  it  is  all  quite  con- 
sistent or  that  as  much  as  was  possible  has  been  made  of  it. 
Its  interest  comes  from  the  fact  that  there  is  so  much  in  it 
that  is  natural  and  in  accord  with  what  we  all  have  read  in 
newspaper  accounts  of  political  life.  In  other  words,  although 
it  stumbles  once  or  twice,  it  doesn't  fall,  and  succeeds  in  tell- 
ing a  good  story.  This  story,  too,  is  pertinent.  Another 
good  asset  that  it  has  is  the  character  of  the  judge,  played  by 
E.  P.  Sullivan.  Perhaps  the  picture  gets  most  of  its  value 
from  this  fine  old  man.  All  the  later  scenes,  especially  those 
approaching  the  thrilling  climax,  are  exciting.  In  these 
scenes,  Irving  Cummings,  as  the  reporter,  and  Mae  Botti,  as 
the  girl,  play  the  leads.  The  acting  of  nearly  all  the  cast  is 
commendable.  The  sets,  backgrounds  and  photography  are 
very   good. 


"BULGARIAN"  IN   FILMS   FIRST. 

Thanhouser  beat  the  theatrical  producers  to  it!  Their 
Misses  Snow  and  Anderson  were  seen  in  the  all-fashionable 
"Bulgarian"  gowns  in  the  films,  before  the  said  "Bulgarian" 
was  noticed  on  the  stage,  whose  actresses  are  always  keen  to 
wear  whatever  bids  to  become  the  "style."  Other  smart  and 
"correct"  toilettes  for  1913  noted  in  current  Thanhousers  are 
the  imported  Esponge,  Faille,  Shepherd  Plaid  and  Parisian 
street  costumes  that  have  been  worn  by  Flo  La  Badie,  Jean 
Darnell.  Grace  Eline  and  Lila  Chester.  Dress  is  a  detail 
they  have  come  to  pay  attention  to  in  the  film  producing 
business. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


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"The  Wizard  ot  the  Jungle" 

(World's    Best   Film    Company). 

THIS  two-reel  state  right  special,  in  which  Captain  Jack 
Bonavita  is  featured,  will  easily  rank  as  one  of  the 
best  of  the  so-called  lion  pictures  which  in  these  days 
are  having  so  much  vogue.  The  scene  of  the  story  is  Africa. 
The  Florida  jungles  make  a  convincing  setting;  there  is 
plenty  of  realism  in  the  way  of  backgrounds.  With  Harold 
Shaw  taking  care  of  the  dramatic  end  of  the  story  there  was 
no  room  for  doubt  as  to  the  outcome  of  the  picture  in  this 
department.  The  result  proves  the  wisdom  of  his  selection. 
Joe  Graybill,  well  known  to  picturegoers,  has  the  part  of 
Captain  Hanscombe,  the  jealous  army  captain,  who  in  the 
end  meets  his  death  in  the  jungle.  Mr.  Graybill  is  at  his 
best  in  the  portrayal  of  the  jealous  lover;  he  is  so  here. 
Xancy  Avril  sustains  the  role  of  the  ward  of  Daniel  Bonavita, 
the  father  of  the  young  man  on  whom  falls  the  mantle  of 
the  wizard  of  the  jungle.  Daniel  is  played  by  William  Cava- 
naugh,  and  the  part  is  well  played,  especially  where  Daniel 
is  thrown  from  his  horse.  It  is  a  nasty  tumble — a  spectacular 
one — and  unusually  realistic.  Captain  Jack  faces  the  camera 
with  the  same  unconcern  he  displays  in  facing  wild  beasts. 
Particularly  does  he  not  overact.  King  Baggot  wrote  the 
scenario. 

The  story  is  coherently  told.  There  is  a  multiplicity  of 
sub-titles,  but  their  use  is  justified.  The  interest  is  estab- 
lished in  the  first  thirty  feet  and  is  maintained  steadily  until 
the  last  scene.  The  best  test  of  this  is  the  apparent  shortness  of 
each  reel.  There  are  many  exciting  chases  through  the 
jungle  which  will  serve  to  keep  a  house  in  suspense.  It  may 
be  noted  here  that  in  all  the  two  reels  there  is  not  a  single 
case  of  double  exposure.  When  a  lion  is  facing  a  human 
being  the  two  are  before  the  camera  simultaneously.  If 
there  are  many  thrills  it  must  also  be  said  that  there  is  noth- 
ing gruesome  in  the  picture,  unless  perhaps  we  may  except 
the  combat  between  Captain  Hanscombe,  lying  on  the 
ground,  and  with  a  club  trying  to  keep  a  lion  at  bay,  and 
the  companion  picture  with  the  king  of  beasts  leisurely  eat- 
ing a  meal  which  seems  to  be  particularly  gratifying. 

The  story  opens  at  the  side  of  a  new-made  grave.  Abdul- 
lah, the  wizard  of  the  jungle,  receives  the  condolences  of 
two  natives  over  the  death  of  his  young  son.  The  following 
scene  shows  the  arrival  of  a  partv  of  lion  hunters.  The  head 
of  the  party,  Daniel  Bonavita,  reprimands  the  wizard  for 
bringing  liquor  into  the  wilds.  Young  Jack  Bonavita  is 
taught  to  handle  firearms.  The  wizard  incites  the  natives  to 
rebel,  and  the  camp  of  the  white  men  is  attacked  by  a  large 
party  of  blacks.  There  is  an  exciting  running  fight  through 
the  forest.  Young  Jack,  left  behind  in  camp,  is  struck  by  a 
poisoned  spear  and  goes  in  search  of  his  father.  He  is  lost 
in  the  jungle,  and  when  about  to  be  devoured  by  a  lion  is 
saved  by  the  wizard.  Abdullah,  in  order  to  save  the  boy's 
life,  amputates  his  arm.  The  father,  unable  to  find  his  son, 
believes  him  destroyed  and  returns  to  England.  Abdullah 
adopts  Jack,  through  love  for  the  son  he  has  lost.  He  teaches 
the  younster  the  secrets  of  the  forest  and  especially  how  to 
handle  wild  animals. 

Twenty  years  later,  Daniel  Bonavita  stops  at  an  army  post 
in  Africa.  With  him  is  his  young  ward.  Pearl.  Young  Jack, 
grown  to  manhood,  rescues  the  girl  when  she  is  assailed  by 
a  lion.  Captain  Hanscombe,  an  officer  at  the  post,  makes 
love  to  Pearl,  but  his  attentions  are  unwelcome.  The  girl 
is  interested  fn  the  young  wizard,  who  on  the  death  of  Ab- 
dullah, has  taken  his  place  in  the  forest.  She  teaches  Jack 
and  helps  him  in  studying.  As  Pearl  returns  from  one  of 
these  excursions  she  is  met  by  the  captain,  who  embraces 
her.  Jack  throws  the  soldier  to  the  ground.  Later  Hans- 
combe orders  the  arrest  of  Jack,  and  goes  into  the  jungle 
to  see  that  his  order  is  carried  out.  Jack  is  arrested,  but  the 
captain  it  attacked  and  killed  by  a  lion.  As  the  young  wizard 
is  brought  into  camp  he  is  presented  to  Daniel  Bonavita  by 
Pearl.  While  he  is  thanking  the  young  man  for  his  kindness 
to  his  ward.  Daniel  recognizes  in  the  man  under  arrest  his 
own  son.  There  is  a  happy  reunion,  and  indications  point  to 
another  union   between  Jack  and   Pearl. 


Famous    Players    Contemplates    Educatic 

Adolph  Zukor,  President  of  the  Company,  Considering  Defi- 
nite Plans  on  Those  Lines. 

FOLLOWING  the  announcement  that  the  Famous 
Players'  Film  Company  had  purchased  the  sole  rights 
to  the  Cherry  Kearton  series  of  wild  life  and  big  game 
in  the  jungle,  Adolph  Zukor,  president  of  that  company,  in- 
forms the  Moving  Picture  World  that  he  is  considering  a 
definite  plan  for  the  production  of  a  series  of  educational 
pictures  suitable  for  use  in  public  schools  and  other  institu- 
tions of  learning.  The  Kearton  pictures  alone  cover  a  wide 
range  of  natural  history.  To  this  it  is  Mr.  Zukor's  purpose 
to  add  more  of  the  same  character.  He  will  also  extend  the 
work  to  other  scientific  subjects. 

In  conversation  with  Mr.  Zukor  during  a  recent  visit  which 
he  paid  the  World  staff,  he  spoke  of  a  most  ambitious  plan 
to  be  carried  out  in  connection  with  the  several  departments 
of  the  United  States  Government  at  Washington. 

"Every  American  citizen  is  interested  in  the  manner  in 
which  the  business  of  our  great  country  is  conducted,"  said 
Mr.  Zukor  in  introducing  the  subject.     "We  see  men  spend- 


Newman    Company   Equips    Empress   Theater,    Chicago. 

The  Newman  Manufacturing  Company,  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
and  101  Fourth  Ave.,  New  York  City,  reports  that  it  has  just 
furnished  the  two  Chicago  theaters  controlled  by  the  Sullivan 
&  Considine  Company — the  new  Empress  on  Halsted  St., 
and  the  Empress  on  Cottage  Grove  Ave. — with  brass  frames 
and  rail  work.  The  Newman  Company  has  just  issued  a 
new  catalog  showing  brass  frames  and  easels,  German  silver 
frames  and  oxidized  frames  and  brass  rail  work,  and  brass 
work  of  every  description,  which  can  be  had  upon  request. 


Mr.  Adolph  Zukor. 


ing  their  lifetime  of  service  in  the  employ  of  the  Government 
at  a  rate  of  remuneration  far  less  than  they  could  obtain  in 
almost  any  other  sphere  of  activity  and  with  almost  no  con- 
sideration from  the  public  which  they  serve.  It  lias  been  in_ 
my  mind  to  show  to  the  great  American  public,  by  means  of 
pictures,  just  what  the  servants  of  the  people  are  doing  in. 
Washington." 

Mr.  Zukor  is  very  likely  to  succeed  in  this  undertaking, 
because  he  seems  to  have  the  ''get  there"  qualities  in  his 
make-up.  He  was  the  first  to  secure  for  motion  pictures  a 
real  co-operation  of  the  best  talent  in  the  field  of  legitimate 
drama,  and  the  success  of  the  combination  of  a  Frohman 
and  a  Hackett  has  encouraged  other  large  theatrical  produc- 
ing interests  to  enter  the  realm  of  the  pictured  drama.  In 
this  he  was  the  pioneer  who  blazed  the  trail,  for  it  was  his 
business  accumen  and  persuasiveness  that  made  the  Famous 
Players  a  reality.  His  ability  and  persistence  should  win 
success  for  him  in  other  ventures. 


56 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


oMusic  for  the  Picture 


BY    CLARENCE    E.    SINN 


THE  following  was  crowded  out  of  my  last  letter  through 
lack  of  space:  "Dear  Sir:  I  always  find  your  articles 
and  department  in  general  a  great  help  in  settling  the 
question,  'What  shall  I  play  for  the  picture.'  Even  though  I 
know  for  a  certainty  that  three-fourths  of  the  patrons  of  our 
theater  are  utterly  oblivious  to  the  music,  for  the  other  fourth, 
I  feature  every  possible  situation  and  climax  in  each  picture 
as  much  for  my  own  satisfaction  as  anything  else. 

"I  agree  with  Miss  Ditmar,  in  the  February  ist  number,  in 
regard  to  opera  selections:  they  are  my  especial  hobby.  I 
might  suggest  that  in  addition  to  those  Miss  Ditmar  cites, 
the  most  of  which  I  have  used  to  advantage,  the  following 
are  equally  excellent:  'Little  Boy  Blue,  Rose  Maid.  Spring 
Maid.  The  Firefly,  The  Love  Cure,  Oh.  Oh,  Delphine,  Under 
Many  Flags,  Hanky  Panky.  Count  of  Luxembourg,  He  Came 
From  Milwaukee,  Mile.  Modiste,  Lady  of  the  Slipper,  and 
The  Red  Rose.  Also  the  overtures.  "Pique  Dame.  Jolly 
Robbers,  La  Boheme,  and  Madame  Butterfly.'  Fraternally, 
G.   Warner   Metcalfe,   Grand   Theater.    Holyoke,   Mass." 

Mr.  Metcalfe  says  that  though  a  majority  of  his  audience 
may  be  oblivious  to  the  music,  he  plays  for  the  minority  as 
well  as  for  his  own  satisfaction.  This  is  the  right  spirit.  But 
very  often  a  great  part  of  the  oblivious  majority  may  sense 
the  fitness  of  the  musical  accompaniment  without  being 
aware  of  it.  Anyhow  it  is  pretty  generally  understood  that 
the  music  should  never  be  so  prominent  as  to  detract  from 
the  picture,  but  should  at  all  times  be  made  subserviant  to  it. 
For  that  reason  many  patrons  may  not  always  notice  the 
music  in  particular  unless  there  is  something  wrong  with  it. 
And,  after  all,  a  musician's  greatest  satisfaction  is  found  in 
his  own  approval  of  his  work. 

#  *     * 

Organists,  of  whom  the  number  employed  in  moving  pic- 
ture theaters  is  constantly  increasing,  will  lie  delighted  with 
the  new  book  of  organ  music  published  by  Meyer  &  Bro., 
77  W.  Washington  Street,  Chicago.  111.  I  have  examined 
this  book  and  can  vouch  for  the  excellent  quality  of  its  musi- 
cal contents  and   theif  adaptability   to   moving  picture  work. 

*  *     * 

The  militant  spirit  seemed  to  predominate  among  the  fea- 
ture films  viewed  last  week.     Here  are  suggestions  for  music 
to  three  most  excellent  war  pictures — every  one  a  feature: 
"THE  WOE   OF   BATTLE"    (Kalem). 

1.  Heavy,  hurry   (for  battle),  p.  and   f.   until  title:   "General 

Greene   Makes  Headquarters,  etc." 

2.  "Flight   of  the   Birds"   (by  Rice;  pub.  by  Walter  Jacobs) 

until  title:  "You  Are  My  Brother's  Murderer." 
Short  sentimental — one  scene. 
Short  march  until  title:  "A  Broken  Heart." 
Pathetic  music  for  one  scene. 


3- 

4- 
5- 
6.   Long  heavy,  hurry  (for  battle)  until  hospital  scene. 

7- 
8. 


Plaintive  until   title:  "Love's,  Last  Farewell.' 

"The  Vacant   Chair,"  very  pathetic  until  close  of  picture. 


"THE    RETREAT    FROM   MOSCOW"    (Pathe). 
(Courtesy  of  William   E.  King.) 
Part  First. 
"Russian   National  Hymn"  until  title:   "Napoleon,  To  In- 
flame the  Courage,  etc." 
"Marsellaisc"   (short)   until   change   of  scene. 
Hurry  (for  battle)   until  man  is  brought  to  general;  then 

subdue  until  change  of  scene. 
Agitato  p.  and  f.  until  title:  "After  the  Battle." 
"Reine  de  Sabe"  (March,  by  Gounod  i  once  through,  then: 
Testmarsch  from  Tannheuser"  until  end  of  reel. 
Second  Part. 
t.   Storm    scene    from    "William    Tell"    (long)    until    officers 
come  out  of  The  Krimlin. 

2.  "l'artant  Pour  la  Syrie"   (French  song)  until  change. 

3.  Agitato  p.  and   f.   until   title:  "The   Incendiaries." 

4.  Solemn    (for    execution)    until    title:    "Napoleon.    Fearing 

the  Russian   Winter." 

5.  "Marsellaisc"  until   title:   "The   Grand   Army   Pursued   by 

the  Russians." 


6.  "Partant     Pour    la     Syrie"     until     title:     "The     Cossacks 

Harrass  the   Retreating  Army." 

7.  Second    movement    "Halka"    overture    until    peasants   at- 

tack straggling  soldiers. 

8.  Short  agitato  until  change  of  scene. 

q.  "Partant  Pour  la  Syrie"  until  title:  "At  Last  Getting  the 

Remnant  of  His  Army." 
10.  "Marsellaise"  until  end  of  picture. 


"P 

I. 

2 


9 

1 0. 
11, 
12. 


overture    pp.    until    title: 
"Pauline  is  Overheard." 


AULINE    CCSHMAN.   THE    FEDERAL   SPY"    (Selig). 
Part  First. 
Third   movement   of  "Raymond   Overture"  pp.   until   title: 

"The  Toast." 
"It    Is    Better    to    Laugh    Than    Be    Sighing"    (from    "La 

Traviata")    until    title:    "Here's    to   Jeff    Davis    and   the 

Southern  Confederacy." 
"Dixie"  until  change  of  scene. 
Introduction    to    "Pique    Dame" 

"In  the  South." 
"Bonnie   Blue   blag"  until  title: 
Short  agitato  until  back  to  camp  scene,  then: 
"Bonnie  Blue   blag"  again   pp.   until  change  of  scene. 
Semi-mysterious   (similar  to  No.  4:  long)   until:  "Holmes 

Inform  Rosecrans." 
"Military   March"   mf.   and   p.    to   action   until   she   crawls 

out  from  under  tent. 
Agitato  p.   and   t.   according   to  action   until    she   discards 

drum  and  rides  way. 
Hurry;  begin  p.  and  increase  with  action  until  she  enters 

Union  camp. 
"Yankee  Doodle"  until  end  of  Part  First. 

Part  Second. 
Short  March  until  she  is  left  alone  in  second  scene. 
Mysterious    through    next    three    scenes    until    she    takes 

officer's  arm  and  exits. 
Long   semi-mysterious   with   military   suggestion:    similar 

to    second    movement    in    "Halka"    overture    or    "Lady 

Moon"    song    from    Bohemian    Girl    played    in    march 

tempo  until   old   negro  left  alone  in   room. 
Mysterious    semi-agitato     until     title.     "The     Confederate 

Ambush." 
March.    "Gate    City"    (Weldon);    subdue    while    writing    is 

seen;  play  until  she  is  seen  in  cane  brake. 
Agitato  p.   and    f.      At   tinted   scene   change   to: 
Hurry    (for   battle)    p.   and   f.   until   title:   "General    Rose- 
crans  Honors   Pauline." 
March,   until   end   of  picture. 


BUSTER'S  SISTER. 

"Buster."  more  properly  known  a-  Roswell  Johnson,  of  the 
Lubin  company,  has  a  sister.  His  father,  also  Roswell.  has  a 
daughter  (very  naturally)  and  she  is  to  be  called  Ormi  Haw- 
ley  Johnson,  to  further  add  to  the  confusion.  Ever  since 
Buster  was  added  to  the  Lubin  staff  there  have  been  ques- 
tions innumerable  as  to  whether  "Buster"  was  Arthur  John- 
son's son.  though  Raymond  and  Alfred  Hackett,  who  really 
are  the  Johnson  offspring,  never  are  linked  up  with  their 
better-known  father.  To  head  off  any  questions  as  to  whether 
Ormi  Hawley  Johnson  is  the  son  of  Arthur  Johnson  and 
Ormi  Hawley.  be  it  said  at  once  that  she  is  the  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs"  Roswell  Johnson  and  that  Mrs.  Johnson  is  not 
Miss  Hawley.  Johnson  turns  the  camera  for  George  O. 
Nicholls.  who  directs  the  Hawley  section  of  the  Lubin  com- 
pany.    That's  why. 

HALLBERG  ESTABLISHING  AGENCIES. 

Mr.  M.  L.  Livingston,  sales  representative  for  J.  H.  Hall- 
berg  "The  Economizer  Man"  left  for  a  trip  to  Chicago  on 
Tuesday  of  this  week,  calling  at  several  of  the  towns  enroute 
going  and  coming.  The  purpose  of  the  trip  is  to  close  pend- 
ing deals  on  Economizers,  and  to  establish  dealers  agencies 
for  Powers.  Simplex  and  Motiograph  moving  picture  ma- 
chines, as  well  as   for  the   Hallberg  Specialties. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 

Among  the  Picture  Theaters 

News  and  Views  of  Houses  Here  and  There. 


57 


DOME  THEATER,  YOUNGSTOWN,  OHIO. 

THE  Dome  Theater,  of  which  we  publish  two  excel- 
lent photo-engravings,  one  giving  a  view  of  the  front 
elevation  and  the  other  a  view  of  the  interior,  gives 
the  reader  a  concrete  conception  of  the  "picture  theater  beau- 
tiful." It  is  owned  by  Messrs.  Renner  &  Deibel,  men  who 
can  see  big  returns  from  a  first-class  picture  house.  The 
place  is  managed  by  C.  W.  Deibel,  who  opened  it  on  the 
evening  of  Saturday,  December  21,  1912.  From  its  opening 
date  to  this  day,  the  business  of  this  expensive  picture  house 
has  been  more  than  the  proprietors  anticipated. 

The  auditorium,  which  provides  opera  chairs  for  800  per- 
sons, is  finished  along  lines  that  combine  simplicity  with  a 
magnitude  of  size  and  space  which  are  seldom  to  be  found 
in  the  average  picture  theater.  From  any  seat  on  the  sloping 
floors,   one  can   obtain   a  full  view  of  the  screen  and   stage. 


says  is  the 'largest  in  the  State.     The  ventilation  of  the  thea- 
ter has  been  made  the  subject  of  careful  study  by  the  pro- 


Dome  Theater. 

Patrons  are  enabled  to  enter  and  leave  any  part  of  the  audi- 
torium at  any  time  without  inconveniencing  in  the  least  de- 
gree those  seated  about  them.  The  exits  on  the  Hazel  Street 
side  are  large  double  doors  that  open  directly  to  the  street; 
the  west  side  exits,  which  are  of  the  same  commodious  char- 
acter, lead  to  a  fireproof  foyer  which  furnishes  an  unob- 
structed passage  to  Federal  Street,  parallel  with  the  main 
entrance.  There  is  a  handsome  marquee  extending  for  some 
distance  over  the  sidewalk  of  the  Federal  Street  entrance. 

Brilliant  with  electric  lights,  it  heralds  a  welcome  to  the 
palatial  foyer  and  lobby.  The  sides  of  the  lobby  are  covered 
with  polished  marble,  which  half  way  to  the  top  meets  a 
series  of  mural  panels  that  shade  in  quiet  tints  with  the 
ceiling  which  is  studded  with  inverted  lights  casting  their 
radiance  towards  the  ceiling.  The  floor  of  the  lobby  is  done 
in   mosaic   style. 

The  operating  room  is  constructed  of  fireproof  material 
and  has  three  operating  machines  in  constant  use.  The  pic- 
ture is  projected  upon  a  mirror  screen  which   the   manager 


4       m  ^  y-~~ _-,Ji'-v  '. 

Interior  View  of  Dome  Theater. 

prietors    which    resulted    in    a    system    almost    incomparable. 
Music  is  furnished  by  a  nine-piece  orchestra. 


HUBIN'S  THEATER,  PLEASANTVILLE,  N.  J. 

We  print  herewith  a  cut  of  Hubin's  Theater,  Pleasantville, 
N.  J.,  owned  and  built  by  Frank  B.  Hubin  at  a  cost  of  $25,000. 
It  has  a  frontage  of  thirty-one  feet  and  a  depth  of  one  hun- 
dred feet.     It  seats  625.     The  house  is  built  of  fireproof  ma- 


Hubin's  Theater. 

terial,  and  is  one  of  the  best  equipped  moving  picture  houses 
in  the  State  of  New  Jersey.  Although  Pleasantville  is  not  a 
large  town,  the  theater's  patronage  is  not  confined  to  that 
place,  but  it  draws  from' neighboring  towns,  even  from  At- 
lantic City.  Mr.  Hubin  says  that  he  draws  his  patronage 
from  about  25,000  people. 


58 


THE   MOVING    PICTURE   WORLD 


QUIMBY'S  $60,000  EXCLUSIVE  PICTURE  HOUSE. 

The  following  excerpt  is  from  a  letter  of  W.  C.  Quimby: 
"If  any  dubious  person  should  doubt  that  money  invested 
in  a  comfortable,  sanitary  and  fireproof  moving  picture  thea- 
ter for  the  exclusive  presentation  of  photoplays  is  not  a  good 
investment,  he  ought  to  visit  Zanesville,  Ohio,  and  look  over 
my  new  $60,000  moving  picture  theater."  Judging  from  the 
number  of  beautiful  photographs  illustrative  of  interior  and 
exterior  views  which  Mr.  Quimby  has  sent  us,  it  looks  as 
though  Mr.  Quimby  had  spent  over  twice  the  amount  that  he 
says  he  has,  and  they  further  point  out  the  fact  that  Mr. 
Quimby's  faith  in  the  stability  of  the  picture  business  is  any- 
thing but  weak.  Owing  to  lack  of  space  we  are  unable  to 
publish  but  one  photograph  of  Mr.  Quimby's  $60,000  photo- 
play palace. 

The  plot  of  ground  upon  which  the  structure  stands  has  a 
frontage  of  70  feet  and  a  depth  of  132  feet.  It  is  modern  in 
every  respect  and  is  built  of  fireproof  material  throughout. 
Nothing  has  been  left  undone  for  the  benefit  of  patrons  in  the 
way  of  convenience.  Mr.  Quimby  opened  his  new  house 
around  the  first  of  June,  1912,  and  has  been  playing  to 
crowded  houses  ever  since.  He  has  turned  crowds  away  in 
the  summer  and  is  doing  it  yet.  People  from  neighboring 
towns  come  to  his  house  in  automobiles.  It  has  a  seating 
capacity  of  750  persons. 


View  of  Entrance  to  Quimby's  $60,000  Picture  House. 

The  lobby  is  beautifully  lighted  and  standing  in  conspicu- 
ous places  are  neatly  framed  posters  of  the  pictures  consti- 
tuting the  day's  programme.  There  are  check  rooms  for 
women's  and  men's  garments,  wraps,  etc.  The  checking 
system  of  the  house  is  so  perfect  that  a  man  may  have  his 
cigar  checked  and  get  it  back  in  good  condition  when  the 
entertainment  is  over.  The  ushers  and  attendants  are  ex- 
amples of  refined  etiquette  and  neatness  of  appearance.  As 
one  sits  in  the  luxurious  leather  opera  chairs  w:atching  the 
pictures,  he  breaths  nothing  but  the  purest  of  air,  for  the 
ventilating  apparatus  of  the  theater  is  perfect.  It  is  cool  in 
the  summer  and  the  right  temperature  of  warmth  permeates 
the  place  in  the  winter. 

In  justice  to  Mr.  Quimby's  excellent  management,  a  word 
ought  to  be  said  of  the  music  which  he  gives  to  his  patrons 
When  the  theater  was  built  he  installed  a  $4,500  Wurlitzer 
Unit  orchestra.  After  using  this  instrument  for  about  six 
months,  Mr.  Quimby  was  so  well  pleased  with  it  that  as  a 
Christmas  present  to  his  patrons  he  bought  and  installed  a 
$3,5oo  pipe  organ.  These  instruments  are  played  by  a  com- 
petent musician,  and  the  audiences  express  great  satisfac- 
tion over  the  music.  Mr.  Quimby  has  recently  installed  his 
own  electric  light  plant,  which  is  saving  him  about  $150  a 
month.  He  was  compelled  to  do  this  on  account  of  the  ex- 
orbitant rates  charged  by  local  lighting  companies.  Mr. 
Quimby  is  also  the  owner  of  other  large  houses  playing  to 
vaudeville  and  moving  pictures.  The  admission  prices  to 
the  new  house  are  five  and  ten  cents. 


MORRIS  GRAND  THEATER,  HOT  SPRINGS,  S.  D. 

The  half-tone  engravings  accompanying  this  article  are 
views  of  the  Morris  Grand  Theater,  Hot  Springs,  S.  D.  The 
house  is  owned  and  managed  by  Morris  Block,  one  of  the 
most  enterprising  and  hustling  exhibitors  in  the  Western 
country.  Hot  Springs  is  a  town  with  a  population  of  about 
2,500  and  to  have  a  $15,000  theater  as  the  Morris  Grand  is 
going  some.  We  are  skeptical  as  to  whether  or  not  there  is 
another  town  of  its  size  which  has  such  an  expensive  photo- 
play house. 


Morris  Grand  Theater. 

Mr.  Block  says  his  theater  is  a  paying  investment  even 
though  it  is  built  in  such  a  small  town.  "Although  Hot 
Springs  is  a  small  town,  it  is  by  no  means  'dead,' "  says  Mr 
Block.  "It  is  one  of  the  liveliest  places  in  the  Black  Hills 
The  local  lodge  of  Odd  Fellows  recently  attended  the  Inter- 
national   Convention    at    Winnipeg,    Manitoba,    Canada,    and 


Geo.  Grossmith  and  Mr.  Ed.  Payne,  actors  well  known 
to  the  states,  have  at  last  submitted  to  the  camera  and  have 
been  filmed  in  their  very  successful  musical  comedy,  "Our 
Miss   Gibbs,"  produced   by   a   London   company. 


Interior  View  of  Morris  Grand  Theater. 

won  a  prize  for  being  one  of  the  best  drilled  Odd  Fellow 
teams  attending  the  convention.  A  thousand-foot  reel  of 
the  Odd  Fellows'  parade  at  Winnipeg  was  taken  and  I  im- 
mediately secured  a  copy  of  it. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


59 


Lois  Weber  in  "Until  Death.' 


At  the  Sign  of  the  Flaming  Arcs 

By  George   Blaisdell. 

THE  work  of  Phillips  Smalley  and  Lois  Weber  of  the 
Rex  Company,  is  attracting  attention.  In  the  first 
place,  there  is  behind  their  acting  always  a  story;  and 
it  is  of  the  peculiar  quality  that  first  gave  the  Rex  Company 
fame  among  screen  followers.  The  reason  for  this  is  sim- 
ple.    The   source   of  their   stories  now   finding  favor  is   the 

same  as  was  the  source 
of  the  earlier  ones — in 
other  words,  in  the  fer- 
tile brain  of  Lois 
Weber.  The  author 
in  this  instance  has  no 
occasion  to  complain  of 
an  unappreciative  di- 
rector, of  a  script  so 
mauled  and  mangled  as 
to  make  the  finished 
picture  unrecognizable 
to  the  eye  of  its  creat- 
or. Mr.  Smalley  and 
Miss  Weber  not  only 
portray  the  leading 
characters;  they  direct 
the  work  of  the  entire 
cast.  These  two  play- 
ers are  giving  much 
attention  to  two-reel 
subjects,  and  with 
marked   success. 

Miss  Weber  is  at  her 
best  in  the  role  of  the 
young  matron  —  the 
womanly  woman  who 
makes  the  home.  She 
radiates  domesticity.  In 
one  of  her  plays,  shortly 
to  be  released,  there  is 
a  striking  instance  of  this.  'Bobbie's  Baby"  is  the  title. 
The  mother  has  lost  her  only  child.  The  empty  cradle  stands 
in  its  old  place  of  honor.  The  husband  and  wife,  driving  in 
an  automobile  through  the  suburbs,  leave  the  machine  for  a 
stroll.  They  hear  the  cry  of  an  infant;  the  wail  comes  from 
a  barn.  The  little  one  is  taken  home;  it  is  bathed  and  cared 
for.  Sitting  in  the  lap  of  the  nurse  of  the  baby  that  is  gone 
is  the  new-comer,  sans  clothes.  The  wife  is  looking  into 
its  face,  laughing,  crooning.  The  same  cradle,  now  about 
to  have  another  occupant,  is  hard  by.  The  sunlight  floods 
a  scene  that  will  strike  home  to  every  one  who  has  ever 
loved  a  baby. 

The  filming  of  Miss  Weber's  latest  story,  a  double  tragedy, 
"Until  Death."  in  two  reels,  very  nearly  resulted  in  the  death 
of  Harry  Pollard,  playing  one  of  the  three  principal  parts. 
In  making  a  fall  over  a  cliff  Mr.  Pollard  received  a  blow 
over  the  heart.  Development  of  the  film  indicated  the  neces- 
sity of  a  retake.  Following  this  scene  Mr.  Pollard  had  to 
be  buried  in  a  supposed  landslide,  with  only  a  hand  and 
arm  above  ground.  When  he  was  lifted  out,  after  a  re- 
hearsal and  the  taking  of  four  scenes,  he  was  more  dead  than 
alive.  If  one  may  judge  from  a  synopsis  of  the  picture,  the 
climax  will  be  as  thrilling  as  it  is  dramatic. 

*  *     * 

"Billy"  Garwood  has  left  the  Thanhouser  forces  to  play 
the  leads  in  Farrell  McDonald's  Powers  company. 

*  *     * 

Did  you  see  Florence  Lawrence  in  Kinemacolor?  To  be 
sure,  it  was  only  for  a  minute,  but  it  was  worth  while.  The 
popular  screen  girl  was  cornered  by  the  cameraman  during 
the  great  suffragette  parade  in  Washington  on  March  3. 
The  fact  that  she  was  mounted  on  a  high-spirited  charger 
did  not  in  the  least  diminish  the  force  and  extent  of  the  old 
familiar,  ever  charming  smile. 

*  *     * 

In  a  letter  to  a  friend  in  this  city  Edwin  August  says  he 
is  hard  at  work  at  the  Vitagraph  studio  at  Santa  Monica. 
He  is  under  the  direction  of  Rollin  S.  Sturgeon.  It  is  no 
hazard  to  say  that  the  combination  of  these  two  men  will 
result  in  really  fine  stuff. 

*  *     * 

The  decision  of  the  Vitagraph  company  to  put  Robert 
Thornby,  of  the  Western  studio,  at  the  head  of  a  comedy 
crew  is  a  cause  for  congratulation.  Those  who  have  seen 
Mr.  Thornby  in  comedy  will  understand  why.  His  recent 
appearance  in  the  guise  of  a  tramp  was  a  fine  bit  of  char- 
acter portrayal. 


The  action  of  the  Biograph  company  in  supplying  to  li- 
censed exhibitors  the  grouped  and  identified  photographs  of 
its  principal  players  will  be  heartily  appreciated  by  thousands 
of  picture  followers.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that  in  the  center 
of  this  group  there  could  not  have  been  placed  the  likeness 
of  the  one  man  to  whom  not  only  is  due  whatever  individual 
distinction  Biograph  pictures  possess,  but  to  whom  also,, 
for  his  splendid  and  artistic  services  to  the  silent  drama, 
present  and  coming  generations  of  picturegoers  will  have 
cause  for  gratitude — Director  Griffith. 

*  *     * 

Now  that  the  newspapers  of  the  country  are  devoting  space 
to  motion  picture  "news"  we  may  expect  to  find  statements 
that  really  are  new.  The  Omaha  World-Herald  of  March  2 
in  a  sketch  of  "Jean"  Fearnley,  says  that  from  the  stage  she 
"graduated  to  the  motion  picture  platform,  beginning  with 
the  Reliance  company,  where  for  the  past  year  she  has  been 
playing  leads  with  King  baggot."  Miss  Jane  Fearnley  is 
playing  leads  with  William  Shay  in  Mr.  Brenon's  Imp  com- 
pany. Aside  from  these  minor  inaccuracies  the  item  seems 
to  be  nearly  right.  On  the  same  page  G.  M.  Anderson  is  de- 
scribed as  a  cow-puncher  and  horseman  on  the  Western 
ranges  in  mere  boyhood.  There  are  men  in  the  East  who 
are  under  the  impression  that  "Broncho  Billy"  acquired  his 
knowledge  of  horsemanship  after  he  had  attained  to  man's 
estate.     Some  of  the  syndicated  "bunk"  that  is  being  spread 

broadcast  will  stand  trimming. 

*  *     * 

The  admirers  of  "Little  Mary"  received  a  pleasant  surprise 
in  the  Biograph  release  of  March  15 — "The  Unwelcome 
Guest" — in  which  this  popular  actress  appeared.  It  is  said 
tiiat  this  picture,  which  was  made  last  summer,  has  been  with- 
held from  the  market  in  the  hope  that  it  might  be  used  as  the 
first  of  a  series.  The  success  of  Miss  Pickford  in  "The  Good 
Little  Devil"  has  been  so  marked,  however,  that  it  has  prac- 
tically precluded  the  possibility  of  her  return  to  the  screen. 

*  *     * 

Siegmund  Lubin,  of  Lubinville,  a  life  Screener  by  the  way, 
paid  a  visit  to  the  Screen  Club  on  the  2ist.  He  was  enter- 
tained by  President   Baggot. 

*  *     * 

Met  up  with  Shannon  Fife  on  Good  Friday  at  the  City 
Theater.  Mr.  Fife  has  written  many  of  the  Lubin  scenarios, 
and  is  going  strong.  When  not  otherwise  engaged  he  is  a 
student  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  where  for  more 
than  a  year  he  has  been  taking  a  special  course.  Mr.  Fife 
hails  from  Dallas,  Texas,  and  has  behind  him  five  years'  news- 
paper   experience. 

*  *     * 

President  King  Baggot  of  the  Screen  Club  has  received 
the  following  message:  "Have  seen  London,  Paris,  and  am 
now  seeing  Rome.  Always  turn  toward  Forty-fifth  and 
Broadway  when  I  take  my  nightcap.  Love  to  all  the  boys. 
James  Slevin,  American   Express   Company,  Rome." 

*  *     * 

Jay  Hunt,  the  well-known  director,  is  out  on  the  Pacific 
Coast  working  with  Thomas  Ince  in  Kay-Bee  pictures.  Mr. 
Hunt  has  had  a  long  and  varied  experience  in  stage  and 
theatrical  affairs  as  well  as  in  directing  the  making  of  pic- 
tures. His  hailing  town  is  Boston,  but  he  confesses  to  a 
liking  for  the  metropolis. 

*  *     * 

Marcus  Loew  has  added  another  theater  to  his  Xew  York 
string- — this  time  the  biggest  of  the  lot.  It  is  the  Broadway, 
at  Forty-first  Street,  for  years  the  home  of  big  dramatic  pro- 
ductions. Five  and  six  reels  of  first  run  pictures  will  be 
shown  daily.  There  will  be  three  singers — good  ones.  An 
orchestra  under  the  direction  of  Ernest  Luz  will  pay  particu- 
lar attention  to  "playing  the  pictures,"  beginning  at  1.30  p  m. 
The  prices  of  admission  will  be  10  and  15  cents  in  the  day- 
time, advancing  to  25  cents  as  the  maximum  in  the  evening. 
There  are  1.900  seats.  Joe  S.  Engel,  an  old  theatrical  man 
and  showman,  is  the  manager.  He  has  been  with  Mr.  Loew 
for  several  years.  It  was  in  1899  that  Mr.  Engel  showed  the 
first  moving  pictures  in  Cuba — and  under  a  tent.  In  those 
days  when  traveling  in  smaller  communities,  Mr.  Engel  said 
on  Monday,  it  was  necessary  to  carry  4,000  pounds  of  bag- 
gage in  order  to  project  a  twelve-foot  picture.  The  Broadway 
will  show  its  first  picture  at  io  o'clock  each  forenoon.  There 
was  a  good  attendance  on  its  opening  day.  And  still  the  old 
line  theaters  continue  to  come  into  the  kinematographic  fold! 

*  *     * 

Joe  Engel  of  the  Universal  Film  Manufacturing  Company 
is  in  Los  Angeles  on  a  business  trip. 

*  *     * 

Harold  Shaw,  formerly  of  the  Edison  Company  and  later 
of  the  World's  Best  Film  Company,  is  now  at  the  Imp  studio, 
directing  the  company  of  which  King  Baggot  is  the  head. 


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THE    MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


Flickers. 


Mr.  Tom  Evans. 


1   WOULD  like  to  introduce  to  you  this  week  one  of  the 
oldest  young  men   in   the  business,   Tom   Evans.     He   is 
standing  there  as  though  he  would  like  to  say  something 
to  you,  but  I  won't  let  him.     He  can  smile  all  he  wants  to, 

but  that's  all.  In  fact,  he 
wouldn't  look  natural  if 
he  didn't  smile.  That  is 
the  reason  we  all  like 
him.  Though  still  a 
young  man  under  the 
thirty-year  mark,  Tom 
has  accomplished  a  great 
deal.  He  was  first  iden- 
tified with  the  Panto- 
graph Corporation  (a 
company  which  has  long 
since  gone  to  rest)  as 
secretary  and  treasurer. 
Later  he  joined  A.  G. 
Whyte.  when  that  party 
was  "Sole  Agent"  for  the 
independent  m  a  n  u  f  a  c- 
turers,  and  managed  the 
Western  affairs  of  the 
J  company.  At  the  forma- 
tion of  the  Sales  Com- 
pany, P.  A.  Powers  se- 
cured his  services,  and 
soon  after  made  him 
general  manager  of  the 
Powers  Picture  Plays. 
When  the  Universal 
Film  Manufacturing  Co. 
entered  the  field  and 
bought  over  the  Powers 
Co.,  Tom  was  figured  in 
on  the  deal  and  was  later 
transferred  to  Fort  Lee  to  manage  the  Universal  produc- 
tions made  at  the  Champion  studio.  Do  you  blame  him  for 
wearing  the  happy  expression?  The  only  time  that  he  looks 
real  cross  is  when  some  one  tells  him  that  they  drive  a  faster 
car  than  he  does.  Then  you  have  to  show  him.  I  dare  you 
to  take  him  up. 

*  *     * 

While  blowing  up  a  ship  for  the  pictures,  Mr.  Herbert 
Blache  was  severely  burned  by  a  premature  explosion  of  a 
keg  of  gun-powder.  Though  painfully  burned  about  the  head 
and  arms,  and  now  confined  to  his  bed,  the  doctor's  last 
report  is  very  satisfactory,  and  we  hope  to  see  him.  well  and 
about  in  a  short  time. 

*  *     * 

Instead  of  going  to  Norfolk,  Va..  Mr.  Jack  Warner  is  go- 
ing to  Europe  to  represent  Warner's  Features.  We  have  had 
no  word  as  yet  from  Sam  Warner,  who  left  Xew  York  some 
time  ago  for  the  same  place. 

*  *     * 

They  say  that  Toe  (Babe)  Farnum  has  resigned  from  the 
Film  Supply  Co.  to  accept  the  American  representation  of 
the  British  American  Film  Co. 

*  *     * 

Owing  to  the  volume  of  business  now  being  enjoyed  by 
the  Ambrosio  Film  Co.,  they  found  their  offices  too  small, 
and  are  now  occupying  larger  and  more  sumptuous  quarters 
in  the  same  building.  The  feature  of  their  new  home  is  the 
large  and  comfortable  projecting  room. 

*  *     * 

I  was  entertained  by  T.  D.  Cochrane  at  the  Lubin  plant  in 
Philadelphia,  one  day  last  week,  and  during  the  trip  around 
the  studio  was  pleasantly  surprised  by  meeting  Miss  Isabel 
Lamon  and  Vivian  Prescott.  of  the  Eclair  and  Imp  com- 
panies respectively,  who  have  recently  joined  the  Lubin 
stock  company.  MAC. 


MAY   BUCKLEY   WITH   SELIG. 

May  Buckley,  a  clever  actress,  who  has  had  a  distinguished 
career  on  the  dramatic  stage  and  who  was  for  a  time  with 
the  Lubin  Company,  has  joined  the  Selig  players  to  appear 
in  a  series  of  elaborate  productions  at  the  big  Chicago  studio. 

FULLER  HAS  STATE  RIGHTS. 
Charles  L.  Fuller,  well  known  in  the  motion  picture  busi- 
ness all  over  the  country,  has  secured  the  State  rights  of  the 
Helen   Gardner   "Cleopatra"   pictures   for  the   State   of   Xew 
York. 


"CYMBELINE,"    (Thanhouser). 

This  two-reel  production  of  the  Shakespearean  play. 
"Cymbeline."  taken  in  California,  shows  a  praisworthy  am- 
bition on  the  part  of  the  producer.  "Cymbeline"  is  singularly 
well  adapted  to  rendition  in  motion  pictures,  and  the  director 
has  presented  some  of  the  dramatic  moments  in  the  play 
with  a  fair  degree  of  success.  Much  pains  was  evidently 
taken  in  a  laudable  endeavor  to  be  correct  in  historic  de- 
tails. The  scene  in  Rome  where  the  wager  is  made  between 
Leonatus  and  Iachimo  to  test  the  fidelity  of  Imogen  was 
rendered  not  without  skill.  Another  scene  deserving  of  some 
praise   is  the  entrance  of  Iachimo  into  the   bed  chamber  of 


Scene  from  "Cymbeline,"  (Thanhouser). 

Imogen.  The  situation  is  handled  with  great  delicacy  and 
follow  >  the  -pirit  of  the  Shakespearean  play.  The  groupings 
in  the  scenes  showing  the  court  of  Cymbeline  seem  to  lack 
artistic  arrangement.  Skilful  handling  of  large  groups  be- 
fore the  camera  is  a  great  art.  the  lack  of  which  has  an  ill 
effect  upon  the  eye.  Some  of  the  outdoor  settings  are  beauti- 
ful, but  in  one  of  them  the  obtrusion  of  a  decidedly  modern 
house  tends  to  destroy  the  illusion.  On  the  whole  I  think 
that  this  feature  ought  to  be  acceptable  to  the  average  mo- 
tion picture  audience,  and  the  producer  deserves  very  great 
credit  for  seeking  to  aim  high.  Such  pictures,  though  there 
may  be  blemishes  in  the  execution,  strengthen  our  hope  in 
the  future  of  kinematography. 


"HIAWATHA"   AT    AMERICAN   MUSEUM. 

The  American  Museum  of  Natural  History  and  The  So- 
ciety for  Scenic  and  Historic  Preservation  have  arranged 
with  Mr.  F.  E.  Moore  for  the  presentation  of  the  picture- 
masque  "Hiawatha"  the  evening  of  April  third  at  the  Museum. 
Authorities  consider  Mr.  Moore's  work  invaluable  because 
he  preserves  in  the  pictures  some  of  the  most  ancient  rites 
and  ceremonies  of  the  Indians,  and  at  the  same  time  gives 
the  American  people  a  new  viewpoint  regarding  the  Red  Men. 
Mr.  Moore  began  his  work  at  Lake  Chautauqua  in  1906, 
using  Longfellow's  poem  as  the  basis.  The  following  year 
with  the  assistance  of  Mr.  R.  S.  Pigott.  then  a  member  of 
the.  faculty  of  Toronto  University,  the  Elizabethan  Masque 
was  adopted  as  the  best  vehicle.  Mr.  Pigott  acting  as  chora- 
gus  and  reciting  the  poem  while  the  Indian  Players  gave 
the  dramatic  action.  Season  after  season  this  Indian  Passion 
Play  has  been  given  wherever  suitable  settings  could  be 
found  for  it,  and  finally  Mr.  Moore  yielding  to  the  pressure 
of  those  most  interested  in  the  Indians  consented  to  have 
photographs  made  of  the  play,  and  with  Mr.  Pigott  reciting 
the  poem,  they  will  projected  as  above  stated.  Admission 
is  bv  invitation. 


"HER   BIG  STORY"  NEWSPAPER  PLAY   TO   BE   RE- 
LEASED WITH   MAGAZINE  ISSUE 
CONTAINING  STORY. 

"Her  Big  Story"  is  the  title  of  a  two-reel  subject  which 
the  American  Film  Mfg.  Co.  has  just  completed  at  its  West- 
ern studio.  This  story  was  purchased  from  the  Street  & 
Smith  Publishing  Co.,  and  will  be  released  by  the  American 
on  or  close  to  the  date  of  its  appearance  in  the  Popular 
Magazine.  This  general  plan  will  be  followed  by  the  "Fly- 
ing A"   forces   in   similar  cases. 


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MAKING  THE  BRASS  RAILING. 

I  Almost  everyone  will  be  interested  in  the  operation  of  a 
glarge  brass  manufacturing  plant  where  the  various  processes 
fincident  to  the  manufacture  of  the  brass  work  from  which  the 
f  highly  polished  railing  seen  in  high  class  theaters  is  formed.  The 
t  raw  material  is  received  in  ingots  and  cast  into  proper  form  in 
:  the  foundry.  From  the  foundry  the  castings  go  to  the_  machine 
shop  for  the  finishing  processes,  being  turned  and  drilled  and 
machined  as  required.  Brass  and  copper  rod.  tubing  and  sheet 
I  material  is  passed  through  the  cutting  department  and  machine 
Ushop.  where  the  manufacturing  process  is  completed,  and  all  is  sent 


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McKenna  Bros.'  Plant. 

to  the  polishing  department  where  the  parts  are  smoothed  and 
polished.  Then  there  is  the  plating  room  in  which  the  dull 
brass,  antique  and  oxidized  copper,  nickel  plate  and  old  gold 
effects  are  produced.  After  all  these  processes  have  been  com- 
pleted the  goods  are  ready  for  shipment.  A  visit  to  the  factory 
of  the  McKenna  Bros.  Brass  Company,  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  would 
be  an  interesting  one,  because  there  all  the  various  processes  of 
manufacturing  railings,  grills  and  other  special  brass  work  used 
for  building  purposes  may  be  seen.  Something  of  the  excellence 
of  the  product  of  this  company  many  of  our  readers  already 
know.  More  information  may  be  obtained  by  addressing  the 
company. 


KINEMACOLOR  DOES  "FEATHERTOP." 

A  remarkable  photoplay  has  been  taken  by  Kinema- 
color.  adapted  from  Nathaniel  Hawthorne's  well-known 
story  of  "Feathertop."  An  old  witch  makes  a  scarecrow; 
with  the  help  of  the  devil  she  endows  this  creature  with  life, 
and  sends  it  forth  to  woo  the  daughter  of  her  bitter  enemy. 
Later  Feathertop  sees  in  the  mirror  not  the  reflection  of  the 
.man  she  thinks. him,  but  the  thing  he  really  is.  Love  makes 
him  a  man  for  the  moment. 

Feathertop  rushes  to  his  creator,  refuses  longer  to  smoke 
the  enchanted  pipe  which  kept  him  alive,  and  falls  at  the 
feet  of  the  witch,  a  heap  of  sticks  and  straw  with  a  pumpkin 
head.  A  beautiful  finish  to  the  picture  shows  a  cornfield 
with  the  scarecrow  silhouetted  against  a  gorgeous  sunset 
sky. 


CORBETT  BOOSTING  MOTIOGRAPH. 

WE  are  printing  herewith  photograph  of  Mr.  Bernard  M. 
Corbett,  for  a  number  of  years  demonstrating  salesman 
for  the  Thomas  A.  Edison,  Inc.,  but  who  recently  has 
signed  on  as  a  traveling  demonstrating  salesman  for  the  Mo- 
nograph, which  is  man- 
ufactured by  the  En- 
terprise Optical  Mfg. 
Company,  of  Chicago. 

Mr.  Corbett  is  going 
to  share  the  Eastern 
territory  with  Mr.  Fred 
A.  Clark,  who  has  been 
with  the  Motiograph 
people  for  the  past  two 
and  one-half  years,  and 
both  Mr.  Clark  and  Mr. 
Corbett  will  make  their 
headquarters  with  the 
New  York  office  of  this 
well-known  machine,  at 
30   East  23rd   Street. 

Mr.  Corbett  is  a 
member  of  the  I.  A.  T. 
S.  E.,  Boston  Local, 
and  in  addition  is  a 
member  of  the  Win- 
throp  Lodge  No.  1078 
of  the  Elks,  and  num- 
bers among  his  friends 
many  of  the  old  guard 
in  the  picture  business, 
he,  himself,  having  been 
in  the  game  for  a  great 
many  years,  and  hav- 
ing worked  up  to  his 
present  position  from 
that  of  operator  in  the 
New  England  theaters. 
Before  signing  on  with  the  Enterprise  Optical  Mfg.  Com- 
pany, Mr.  Corbett  had  been  offered  a  position  with  the  Ameri- 
can Talking  Picture  Machine  Company  of  New  York,  but, 
for  reasons  of  his  own.  preferred  to  take  up  the  sale  of  the 
Motiograph   machine   in   the   Eastern   territory. 


A  THRILLER  FROM  BUFFALO. 
The  Buffalo  Feature  Film  Co.  has  opened  offices  at  611  Mutual 
Life  Building.  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  and  is  prepared  to  furnish  money 
getting  features  at  all  times.  "From  Sing  Sing  to  Liberty;  or, 
The  Lawyer,  the  Valet  and  the  Millionaire,"  has  been  secured  for 
New  York  State  and  Western  Pennsylvania  exclusively  by  this 
exchange.  It  is  a  three-reel  feature  with  a  good  line  of  paper 
and  advertising  novelties. 


MOVING  PICTURE  MACHINE   FOR  HAITI. 

Mr.  H.  Arnous,  of  Port  au  Prince,  Haiti,  has  just  purchased 
from  J.  H.  Hallberg,  "The  Economizer  Man,"  a  complete  moving 
picture  machine  with  full  equipment  of  supplies.  Mr.  Hallberg 
also  reports  the  sale  of  a  Power's  No.  6A  with  Hallberg  A.  C. 
Economizer  to  S.  Manheimer,  Bath  Beach  ;  also  a  Power's  No. 
6A  to  James  Hamilton  of  Philadelphia. 


Bernard  M.  Corbett. 


"PRISONER  OF  ZENDA"  PURCHASERS. 

The  Interstate  Feature  Film,  1202  North  Gay  Street,  Baltimore, 
has  purchased  state  rights  for  "The  Prisoner  of  Zenda,"  from 
the  Famous  Players  Film  Company  for  Delaware,  Maryland, 
District  of  Columbia  and  West  Virginia.  They  report  an  en- 
couraging .number  of  requests  for  booking.  Mr.  George  M. 
Krupa,  with  offices  at  the  Hippodrome  Theater.  Lancaster,  Pa., 
has  purchased  the  state  rights  for  this  production  for  Pennsyl- 
vania. A  significant  factor  in  connection  with  the  Famous 
Players'  current  release  is  the  general  satisfaction  evidenced  by 
state  right  buyers,  no  doubt  the  cause  of  the  unprecedented  de- 
mand apparent  for  this  film  It  is  doubtful  whether  any  other 
film  of  the  magnitude  of  "The  Prisoner  of  Zenda"  has  had  such 
rapid  disposition  among  state  right  buyers,  and  the  fact  speaks 
at  once  for  the  confidence  in  the  Famous  Players  product  and 
the  enterprise  of  discerning  state  right  buyers. 


SHERRY  CO.  HAS  "ZENDA"  FOR  NEW  YORK. 

The  William  L.  Sherry  Feature  Film  Company,  Inc.,  the 
offices  of  which  are  in  Suite  301,  Times  Building,  New  York 
City,  has  secured  from  th£  Famous  Players  Film  Company 
the  New  York  State  and  City  rights  for  the  great  four-part 
production  "The  Prisoner  of  Zenda,"  featuring  James  K. 
Hackett  in  the  dual  roles  of  the  King  of  Ruritania  and  Rudolf 
Rassendyl.  The  picture  opened  at  Marcus  Loew's  theaters 
in  New  York  City  for  an  indefinite  period  beginning  March 
24th.  Those  desiring  bookings  should  make  early  application 
at  the  offices  of  the  Sherry  company.  There  is  a  full  line 
of  paper  for  this  production,  including  heralds,  photos  and 
lobby  displays  in  keeping  with  the  character  of  this  master- 
piece. 


FILMS    STOLEN. 

Stolen  from  the  Special  Event  Film  Manufacturers  Com- 
pany, of  248  West  35th  Street,  New  York  City,  one  motion 
picture  camera  No.  3,  made  by  the  Special  Event  Film  Mfrs. 
Co.;  one  Carl  Zeiss  Gena  lens,  33/5,  50  mm,  number  142294, 
number  of  lens  137760  and  two  magazines.  We  will  pay 
a  liberal  reward  for  the  return  of  same,  and  we  will  greatly 
appreciate    any   information   regarding   same. 


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"A  WOLF  AMONG  LAMBS"  (Essanay). 

The  stage  settings  in  this  feature  are  remarkable.  The 
greatest  of  care  and  artistic  taste  was  used  to  get  the  effects 
quite  naturally. 

Don  Fernando,  smitten  with  Giulia.  a  Spanish  dancer,  per- 
suades the  young  and  innocent  girl  to  run  away  with  him. 
Valeska,  the  sister,  finds  a  note  on  the  table  the  following 
morning,  telling  her  that  Giulia  has  gone,  never  to  return. 
Months  later,  however,  Giulia  returns  to  her  home,  having 
been  deserted  by  her  unfaithful  lover.  Giulia  enters  the  con- 
vent. The  sister  meets  Don  Fernando  some  time  later. 
He  tries  to  influence  the  girl  to  marry  him.  Don  Fernando's 
life    is    saved    by    Sister    Valencia,    who    interferes    just    as 


Scene  from  "A  Wolf  Among  Lambs"   (Essanay). 

Valeska  is  about  to  stab  the  villain.  Valeska  is  later  thrown 
into  a  dungeon  by  Fernando,  who  declares  he  will  "have  her." 
The  pretty  Spanish  girl  does  not  stay  in  her  prison  long. 
Sister  Valencia,  discovering  Valeska's  whereabouts,  gets  her 
out  of  her  prison  in  a  clever  way.  Valeska  then  enters  the 
convent,  where  her  sister  is  overjoyed  at  the  happy  meeting 
— and  ending.  Don  Fernando  repents  for  his  wrongdoing 
and  prays  on  his  knees  at  the  door  of  the  holy  convent  for 
forgiveness. 

Dolores  Cassinelli,  as  Giulia,  plays  the  charming  and  lov- 
able character  in  a  true  to  life  manner.  Her  acting  in  this 
shows  what  good  material  there  is  in  her.  Ruth  Stonehouse 
as  Valeska  is  excellent.     Allen  Holuber  plays  his  role  well. 

MUTUAL  EXCHANGE  MANAGERS  IN   CHICAGO. 

Messrs.  H.  E.  Aitken,  C.  J.  Hite  and  W.  J.  Toomey,  of  the 
Mutual  Film  Corporation,  left  New  York,  March  26th,  to 
attend  a  gathering  of  Mutual  exchange  managers  in  Chicago, 
which  was  held  on  the  following  Thursday.  Regarding  the 
recent  occupation  of  the  Film  Supply  Company's  offices  by 
Mr.  P.  A.  Powers,  Mr.  Aitken  said  before  leaving  that  the 
subject  would  be  taken  up  at  a  meeting  of  the  board  of  the 
Film  Supply  on  April  5th,  and  that,  in  all  probability,  Mr. 
Powers  would  be  asked  to  vacate.  It  is  reported  that  other 
changes  in  the  Film  Supply   Company  are  imminent. 

UNIVERSAL    INDEPENDENT    SITUATION 
UNCHANGED. 

The  conference  in  New  York  City  between  the  independent 
exchange  men  who  have  been  using  Universal  service  and 
the  officers  of  that  corporation  which  was  stated  to  be  held 
on  Thursday,  March  27th,  was  postponed  until  the  day  fol- 
lowing. It  was  said  that  while  there  were  many  film  men 
in  the  city,  some  had  been  delayed  in  their  arrival  by  reason 
of  the  floods  in  the  Middle  West. 

An  officer  of  the  Universal  Film  Manufacturing  Company 
said,  on  Thursday  afternoon,  that  up  to  that  time  there  had 
been   no   contracts   entered   into.     The   official    said    that   he 


believed  an  amicable  working  arrangement  would  be  made 
with  the  visiting  exchange  men.  Personally,  he  said,  he  was 
unconcerned  as  to  whether  contracts  were  signed  or  not. 
Asked  if  he  believed  that  the  result  of  contract  agreements 
might  be  an  immediate  benefit  to  the  Universal,  but  a  re- 
straint or  limitation  on  the  company's  chances  of  expansion 
in  the  future,  the  officer  quoted  said  that  in  his  opinion  was 
just  about  the  situation.  He  added,  also,  that  the  Universal 
Company  had  explained  to  the  committee  of  five  of  the  In- 
dependent Exchange  Company  that  under  no  circumstances 
would  the  Universal  have  any  dealings,  directly  or  (indirectly, 
with  P.  A.  Powers.  It  is  understood  that  the  Universal  last 
week  made  a  proposition  to  the  exchange  men  and  that  the 
latter  made  a  counter-offer,  which  the  Universal  refused  to 
consider. 


"A  SKIPPER'S  STORY,"  (Great  Northern). 

The  comedy  element  in  the  Great  Northern  company  has 
been  called  upon  to  do  some  very  funny  stunts  in  the  farce 
entitled  "A  Skipper's  Story."  Three  of  the  stoutest  and 
jolliest  comedians  in  the  stock  company  take  the  principal 
roles  and  they  are  ably  assisted  by  a  score  or  more  of  fun- 
makers.  The  clever  story  hinges  about  the  boastfulness  of 
Jack,  who  is  an  old  time  skipper  and  not  always  as  truthful 
as  he  might  be  when  his  own  prowess  is  brought  in  question. 
He  claims  to  have  killed  sharks,  bearded  lions  in  their  dens 
and  scared  whales  into  flight  when  occasion  demanded,  but 
in  truth  he  is  an  ordinary  mortal  who  would  prefer  to  be 
"a  live  coward  rather  than  a  dead  hero."  Jack's  cronies 
know  his  weakness  for  boasting  and  they  plan  a  number  of 


Scene  from  "A   Skipper's  Story"   (Great   Northern). 

clever  tricks  in  order  to  rid  him  of  the  habit.  These  are 
very  effectively  worked  out  and  are  sure  to  prove  a  source 
of  genuine  merriment  to  the  beholder.  While  swimming 
with  his  seafaring  pals,  Jack  is  chased  by  a  papier  mache 
shark  and  is  made  to  appear  a  coward  when  he  retreats  and 
faints  on  the  landing  stage.  Later  on  he  is  placed  face  to 
face  with  what  he  supposes  is  a  ferocious  tiger,  but  as  a 
matter  of  fact  it  is  only  a  skin  which  envelops  the  form 
of  o,ne  of  his  companions.  At  this  juncture,  it  is  said  that 
the  fun  is  fast  and  furious  and  Jack  makes  a  wild  dash  for 
his  ship.  After  he  has  recovered  from  his  fright,  the  three 
jokers  appear  on  the  scene  and  have  the  "time  of  their  lives" 
twitting  and  joking  with  the  boastful  old  salt.  The  comedy 
is  splendidly  staged  and  acted  and  contains  many  scenes 
that  carry  the  flavor  of  the  sea. 


NEW  SELIG  "JUNGLE"   PICTURE. 

"A  Wise  Old  Elephant"  is  the  title  of  a  new  Selig  "jungle" 
picture  to  be  released  April  14.  "Toddles"  is  the  name  of  the 
celebrated  pachyderm,  who  plays  the  leading  role.  In  the 
same  cast  will  appear  Miss  Kathlyn  Williams  and  Hobart 
Bosworth.  Miss  Williams'  has  appeared  in  most  of  the  Selig 
animal  pictures. 


COBB  GETS  BACK. 

After  several  weeks  prowling  about  in  the  west  C.  Lang 
Cobb,  representative  of  the  Kamo  Company,  returned  to 
New  York  the  other  day  with  roseate  stories  of  business 
prospects.  Mr.  Cobb  will  have  full  charge  of  the  publicity 
and  sales  deoartment  of  the  Kamo  Film  Co.  He  expresses 
confidence  in  the  ability  of  the  new  company  to  make  good. 


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ILLINOIS. 

pHE  first  of  the  legislation  in  Illinois  affecting 
*  moving  picture  bouses  developed  In  the  Senate 
when  Senator  Denvir  introduced  Senate  Bill  No 
152  providing  for  the  licensing,  examining  and 
censoring  of  motion  pictures  for  public  safety  and 
decency.  The  bill  which  was  referred  to  the 
Committee  on  Judicial  Department  and  Practice  is 
as    follows: 

'That  it  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  per- 
son to  exhibit  or  operate  any  motion  picture 
machine,  moving  picture  film  or  stere- 
opticon  view  until  he  has  received  a  license 
bo  to  do  from  the  State  Labor  Commission- 
er. The  fee  for  such  license  shall  be  .$3.00, 
to  be  collected  by  the  said  Labor  Commis- 
sioner before  issuing  the  license.  Said  li- 
cense shall  be  for  the  term  of  one  (1) 
year,  and  may  be  renewed  annually  upon 
the  payment  of   the   fee  of  one    (1)    dollar 

Sec.  2.  No  such  license  shall  be  granted 
until  the  applicant  has  passed  an  examina- 
tion conducted  by  said  State  labor  commis- 
sioner touching  his  skill  and  ability  in  the 
working  of  the  mechanical  and  electrical 
apparatus  and  devices  used  In  the  opera- 
tion of  motion  picture  machines,  and  said 
State  labor  commissioner  shall  have  author- 
ity to  prescribe  all  necessary  rules  and 
regulations     concerning     such     examination. 

Sec.  3.  No  person  shall  present,  exhibit 
or  display  any  moving  picture  films  or 
stereopticon  views  that  are  sacrilegious 
obscene,  indecent  or  immoral,  or  "would 
have  a  tendency  to  corrupt  the  morals  or 
shock  the  sensibilities  of  those  observing 
the  same.  It  shall  he  the  duty  of  the 
5>tate  labor  commissioner  at  anv  and  all 
times  to  examine  and  censor,  if  necessary 
any  films  or  views  presented  by  persons  as 
herein  provided  and  said  commissioner  of 
labor  shall  prosecute  any  person  for  any 
violation    of    this   section. 

Sec.  4.  Any  person  who  shall  exhibit 
present  or  operate  any  moving  picture 
films  or  stereopticon  views  in  violation  of 
the  provisions  of  this  Act,  shall  be 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  convic- 
tion thereof,  shall  be  punished  bv  a  fine  of 
(*2(X>00°re       tbaD       tW°      hundred      dollars 

S!c'    ,5\,   The    word     'Person'    as    herein 
used,     shall    include    any    corporation,    com- 
pany,   firm    or    association    engaged    in    the 
business  or  occupation  as  herein  prescribed." 
The  Supreme  Court  of  Illinois  has  had  something 

IL  ,i  0Vb.e  ?Unday  el08ing  ma,ter  ">"<*  ^  cans? 
»L  tneI,ph°t°Pla7  managers  to  sit  up  and  take  no- 
tice. It  holds  in  the  case  of  the  Citv  of  Clinton 
against  Joaquin  Wilson,  proprietor  of  the  Star 
Theater    that  the  line  of  $10  imposed  by  a  Justice 

The  newft?  V"  ttaDi  as  the  or<""«"oe  is  valid. 
The     Dewitt     County     Circuit     Court     reverses     the 

ii.f"'^'  .°f  the  Clrcuit  Court  and  remands  t 
with  directions  Wilson  is  said  to  have  operated 
his   shows   thirty-six  Sundays. 

Georgetown  is  one  of  the  newcomers  in  the 
Sunday-issue  field,  and  the  matter  is  likely  to 
get  to  the  balloting  stage  before  the  spring  elec- 
tion, o.  M.  Otloe,  proprietor  of  a  moving  picture 
»***„$.  Pan2l  was  arrested  for  opening  his  house 
on  Sunday.  The  issue  went  by  default  in  Canton- 
Interested  parties  delayed,  and  the  legal  time  for 
h7*e,  Pe' ltion,  *o  get  the  Sunday  question  upon 
the  ballot  slipped  by.  The  city  council  appointed 
a  committee  of  three  to  visit  the  theater  proprie- 
tors In  the  hope  of  getting  them  to  stand  the  ex- 
pense  of  printing  special  ballots.  This  brought 
V£  SOInl.„interesting  expressions  from  the  mana- 
™ „„',  i  lam,  D"fH<'W'  manager  of  the  Princess 
Theater  advised  the  committee  to  try  moving  pic- 
ture reels  at  the  churches  on  Sunday  and  see  how 
It  worked.  He  cited  an  instance  the  previous 
winter  when  he  put  on  "The  Life  of  Moses"  at  the 
Baptist     church     one    Sunday     night     and    although 

iin^'fh '  KWaS  Storm-T  and  *'e  other  churches 
closed  the  house  was  filled.  C.  J.  Shaw,  proprietor 
of  Dreamland,  said  he  had  children  and  he'd  rather 
nave  them  go  to  a  moving  picture  show  on  Sunday 
afternoon  than  to  hang  around  the  streets  with 
tough  kids.  He  made  a  good  talk  for  clean  pic- 
tures,   not  only  on  Sundays   hut  on   week   days 

Arthus  Simons  of  the  Vaudette  Amusement  Com- 
pany, of  Springfield,  who  is  manager  of  the  No  1 
show  of  the  Kalem  "From  the  Manger  to  the  Cross" 
had  police  protection  at  Danville  when  he  carried 
the  reels  down  the  street.  It  was  announced  the 
films  were  valued  at  $10,000  and  protection  was 
desired.  W.  W.  Watts  and  Fred  Whitmer  are 
busy    with    the    booking    and    advertising    for    this 


film,    having    converted    the    basement'   of    the    Vau- 
dette at  Springfield  Into  a  shipping  room  for  paper 
and  cuts.     Rev.  Frederick   W.   Burnham,    pastor  of 
First   Christian   church,    which   has   Just    been    com- 
pleted and  is  one  of  the  handsomest  edifices  in  the 
middle    west,     spoke    from    his    pulpit    for    twenty 
minutes    upon    the    wonders   of    this   picture       While 
the   picture  was  on  at  the  Vaudette  he  met  one  of 
his   parishioners.      "Are  you   coming  out    to  prayer- 
meeting    tonights"     he     asked.       The     answer     was 
yague.      "Then    you've    got    to    go    around    to    the 
Vaudette,"    he    admonished,     "and    see    that    great 
picture."      Burr    H.    Swan,    that    wonderfully    alive 
country    editor    at    Pittsfield,    has   linked    the   Kalem 
masterpiece     with     another     of     bis     public-spirited 
achievements.     His  Knights  of  Pythias  opera  house 
picture    show    has    received    a    new    dress.      For    the 
opening  Easter  Sunday  he  leased  "From  the  Manger 
to  the  Cross"  outright,    and   put  It  on   free   for  the 
people   of   his    home  city.     There   is    quite   a   demand 
for    the    Sunday    dates    for    the    picture,    a    number 
coming   from  smaller  cities  where  the  population   is 
made    of    foreigu    miners.       Week-day    dates    would 
hardly   pay    here,    hut   through   the  kindly   offices  of 
local    priests    the    biblical    feature    is    doing    a    good 
business.     Among    the    theaters    which    have    been 
hooked   by    Manager  Watts  are   the   Temple,    Alton- 
Lyric,  Champaign;  Colonial,  Joliet;  Celestial,  Pekin; 
Qumcy,   Qulncy;   Grand  Opera  House,   Kewanee;   Bi- 
jou,   Monmouth;    Lyric,    Moline;    Family,    La    Salle 
and   Spring   Valley;   Star  Photoplay,   Lincoln;    Opera 
House,    Auburn:     Opera    House,    Carlinville;     Bijou, 
Decatur:    Colonial,    Danville;    Rex,    Virden:    Hunt's 
Opera   House,    Jacksonville;    Main  Street,    Blooming- 
ton;     Crescent,     Ottawa;     Opera     House,     Gillespie; 
Princess,    Canton;    Empress,    Peoria:    Belleville,    New 
Baden,   Westville,  Carlyle  and  Pawnee. 

Frank  Cassell  has  opened  a  moving  picture 
show  at  Oakwood  and  will  give  performances  Wed- 
nesday   and    Saturday    nights. 

Mrs.  Harper  and  Miss  Keene  of  Joliet  have  sold 
their  interests   in   the   Empire  Theater  at  Morris. 

Charles  Xunn  of  Macomb  and  James  Boyer  of 
Edina.  Mo.,  have  purchased  the  Gem  at  Macomb 
from  Manager  Vaughn.  They  set  to  work  at  once 
remodeling  and  redecorating  the  house  and  in- 
stalling  new   chairs. 

A  "boiler-plate"  feature  has  been  appearing  in 
certain  Illinois  daily  papers,  taking  the  form  of  a 
half-page  of  moving  picture  gossip.  The  Vitagraph 
Company  is  prominent  throughout  as  one  column 
relates  to  its  scenario  department  and  three  of  the 
live  outline  drawings  are  of  Vitagraph   stars. 

The  Sittuer  Amusement  Company  of  Chicago  has 
heen  incorporated  with  a  capital  stock  of  $5,000. 
The  incorporators  are  Nellie  Sittner,  Howard  W 
Lewis   and  Herschel   V.   Shepard. 

The  physics  class  of  the  Grayville  high  school 
recently  paid  a  visit  to  the  Electric  Theater,  where, 
under  the  direction  of  Manager  Brechener,  they 
studied  the  principles  of  a  moving  picture  ma- 
chine. It  is  possible  in  this  way  to  diffuse  through- 
out a  community  that  machines  and  films  are  not 
the   dangerous   things   they   are   supposed   to  be. 

The  Lyric  Theater  at  St.  David  was  destroyed 
by  fire  February  19.  The  equipment  which  was 
owned  hy  Thomas  Prosser  and  Jack  Atkinson  was 
practically  all  saved. 

Moving  pictures  were  used  at  Joliet,  Morris  and 
Plainfield  to  educate  school  children  in  the  care 
of   the    teeth. 

Improvements  at  the  Majestic  theater  and  at 
the  new  theater  which  will  be  run  hy  Chris 
Taylor  in  Kewanee  were  held  up  pending  the 
revision  of  a  local  ordinance  regarding  theaters. 
West  contemplates  putting  in  a  new  front  and  gen- 
eral re-arrangement  of  the  theater. 

Manager  James  M.  Ichelstetter  of  the  Family 
Theater  at  Dixon  discontinued  his  vaudeville  acts 
during  Lent,  and  confined  his  program  to  three 
reels  of  high  class  pictures. 

The  Majestic  Theater  at  Jacksonville  was  espec- 
ially decorated  by  Manager  Luttrell  for  the  dele- 
gates to  the  annual  convention  of  the  Illinois 
Grain     Dealers'     Association. 

The  Princess  Theater  has  been  opened  at  Bush- 
nell. 

Emil  and  Otto  Seng  expect  to  close  down  their 
skating  rink  in  the  Coliseum  at  Roberts  In  a 
few  weeks,  and  resume  the  picture  shows  which 
will  he  given  about  two  nights  a  week. 

Rev.  Albert  R.  Fiske  of  Galesburg  before  the 
council  of  the  Federated  Church  Brotherhoods  of 
that  city  made  two  interesting  recommendations. 
One  was  that  steps  be  taken  to  bring  some  in- 
fluence upon  the  managers  of  the  moving  picture 
and  other  theaters  that  their  support  might  be 
enlisted  in  maintaining  a  clean  line  of  shows  and 
showing  only  such  things  as  might  be  educational 
and  afford  wholesome  amusement.  The  second  was 
that  some  steps  be  taken  to  secure  amusement  in 
the  church  for  the  boys  and  girls.  "I  would  rather 
be  in  Mr.  Olson's  shoes  as  manager  of  the  Gaiety 
Theater  than  minister  of  the  gospel"  declared 
.Mr.  Fiske,  "considering  the  amount  of  good  I 
would  be  able  to  do  by  exerting  an  effort  to  show- 
clean  acts." 

S.  E.  Hurst  offered  a  $5  gold  piece  for  the  most 
appropriate  name  for  his  new  moving  picture 
theater  in  the  Bremer  building  at  Hillsboro.  The 
same  plan  was  followed  at  the  Rice  picture  show 
at  St.  Joseph,  a  framed  picture  being  the  prize. 
Ray  Harmosen  will  be  operator  for  the  new  St. 
Joseph   show  and  Miss  Gladys  Sperry.  musician. 

Freepoert,  is  the  center  of  a  great  poultry- 
raising   country   as  well   as  the  location  of   several 


big     incubator     factories.       These       were     recently 

filmed   by   an  Albany,    N.    Y.,    man  recently 

Under  a  new  policy   the  Bijou  theater  at  Decatur 

^T''^  4'„00°  feet  of  fllm'  but  the  price  of  ad 
mission  has  been  raised  from  5  to  10  cents.  Th. 
nicMe  Bijou  will  continue  at  the  old  price.  Tho 
Colonial  at  Rockford  is  giving  four  reels  for  fivo 
cents.  Manager  Nelson  has  installed  a  new  ml 
chine  and  a  new  curtain. 

Louis  Gilchrist,  the  new  manager  of  the  Iris  at 
Itockford.  announces  that  his  house  will  play  more 
two,    three   and   four  reel   features 

The    manager    of    the    Princess    Theater    at    Dan- 

Ini  „'8„h>aJw.0vei'  a  ne,v  Powers  0-A  Cameragraph 
and  a  new   mirror  screen 

h,^-  aaT,iso,ry  TOte  will  be  taken  on  the  Sunday 
theater  closing  question  in  Canton.  The  commit- 
tee appointed  by  the  churches  met  with  city  offi- 
cials  and  announced  that  as  the  time  was  too 
snort  tor  a  campaign  to  educate  the  public  the 
matter  would  be  dropped  temporarily.     The  theater 

mTafr!,,naQ  already  flled  notice  with  the  city 
officials  that  any  election  in  which  they  must  share 
the  expense  would  include  a  vote  upou  a  propo- 
sition to  close  on  Sundays  candy,  ice  cream  and 
cigar  stores,  livery  barns,  drug  stores,  except  for 
filling  prescriptions,   and  all  other  lines  of  business. 

Thomas  Prosser  has  purchased  the  Interest  of 
his  Partner  J.  G  Atkinson  In  the  Lyric  Theater 
at  St.  David.  The  hall  occupied  by  the  picture 
show  was  recently  destroyed  by  fire  and  in  the 
search  for  new  quarters  Prosser  secured  the  build- 
ing occupied  by  the  Reynolds  furniture  store  for 
two  years. 

G.  W.  Gayler,  superintendent  of  citv  schools  at 
Canton,  was  so  impressed  with  the  Kalem  "From 
the  Manger  to  the  Cross"  that  he  issued  instruc- 
tions to  all  teachers  that  pupils  who  secured  per- 
mission from  their  parents  should  be  allowed  to 
leave  school  to  attend  a  matinee  performance  at 
the  Princess. 

The  Cooke  school  at  Galesburg  has  purchased  a 
moving    picture    machine. 

The  Majestic  Theater  at  Bushnell  has  reduced 
its  admission  to  five  cents. 

George  Hill  is  operator  at  S.  E.  Hurst's  new 
picture  show  in  Hillsboro  and  Mrs.  Otto  Cannon 
is  pianist. 

The  Oakland  Amusement  Company,  of  Chicago 
has  been  incorporated  with  a  capital  stock  of  $5  000 
to  operate  theaters.  The  incorporators  are  An- 
drew B.  Boughan,  Charles  J.  Monahan,  and  F. 
Getz. 

Tasa  Dahl  and  Ed  Epperson  are  making  arrange- 
ments to  open  a  picture  show  at  Sidney. 

The  Alhambra  Hippodrome,  of  Chicago,  has 
been  incorporated  with  a  capital  stock  of  $2  500 
to  operate  places  of  amusement.  The  incorpora- 
tors are  Henry  Horner,  Harry  L'Brin  and  George 
W.    Killelea. 

MIDWEST    SPECIAL    SERVICE, 


IOWA. 

pHIELAN  &  WEST,  composed  of  Frank  Thielan 
*  of  Aurora,  111.,  and  W.  J.  West  of  Kewanee, 
111.,  will  erect'  a  $40,000  vaudeville  house  on  Fourth 
avenue   in   Clinton. 

Brown  &  Son  will  erect  a  new  building  at  Neola 
for    their    picture    show. 

The  Washington  school  at  Burlington  has  given 
the  moving  picture  a  place  in  the  school  course  and 
films  will  be  used  about  once  each  week. 

MIDWEST    SPECIAL    SERVICE. 


IN  THE  MID-WEST. 

pHILLIP  R.  KELLER,  president  af  the  executive 
■*  committee  of  the  National  Drainage  Congress 
has  sent  a  cameraman  to  Buelah,  Miss.,  to  take 
moving  pictures  of  the  break  in  a  levee  to  be  ex- 
hibited at  the  meeting  of  the  congress  in  St. 
Louis  in  April.  It  is  believed  these  pictures  will 
prove  an  unanswerable  argument  for  the  necessity 
of  immediate  action  by  the  government  to  pre- 
vent  the  floods. 

Legislators  of  Missouri  were  unfavorable  to  the 
bill  which  exercised  a  censorship  upon  moving 
pictures  and  prevented  pictures  of  murders,  Indian 
les  and  prize  fights.  It  was  reported  out  unfavor- 
ies  and  prize  fights.  It  was  reported  out  infovor- 
ably  by  the  committee  to  which  it  had  been  re- 
ferred. 

The  uses  of  the  moving  picture  and  stereopticon 
in  church  work  were  illustrated  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Church  Department  of  the  Censervation  Congress 
recently  held  at  Lincoln,  Neb. 

MIDWEST    SPECIAL    SERVICE. 


SPRINGFIELD,  ILL. 

PROPRIETORS  H.  T.  Loper  of  the  Lyric  and  W. 
W.  Watts  of  the  Vaudette  have  taken  a  long 
contemplated  step  and  are  trying  out  the  plan  of 
the  longer  show  and  the  ten-cent  admission.  These 
two  high-class  houses  showing  licensed  pictures 
report  that  demands  for  a  lengthier  program  and 
the  elimination  of  the  constant  changing  of  audi- 
ences has  been  frequent.  The  Savoy  Is  giving 
three  reels  of  licensed  pictures  but  not  so  recent 
releases    for    five    cents. 

The  police  department  has  again  taken  action 
against  the  picture  show  ballo-hoo  after  receiving 
reports  that  competition  had  led  managers  to  re- 
sort   to    noisemaking   in    the    battle    for   patronage. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


The  latest  edicts  forbids  barkers,  orchestras  and 
mechanical  pianos  in  tbe  ends  of  tbe  theaters 
nearest    tbe   street. 

Springfield  photoplay  managers  were  kind  in  as- 
sisting in  advertising  Miss  Virginia  iFlssinger, 
daughter  of  P.  W.  Fisslnger  of  the  General  Film 
Company  when  she  gave  her  eurytbmlc  dances  at 
the  Majestic,  a  local  vaudeville  theater.  Tbe  en- 
gagement took  on  added  local  interest  as  tbe  Fis- 
stngers  formerly  resided  here  and  the  sixteen-year 
old  member  of  Andreas  Diple's  Chicago  Grand 
Opera  Company  bas  many  friends  here. 

Isadore  Bernstein,  proprietor  of  tbe  Capital  and 
Amuse-U  Theaters  recently  visited  his  brother,  L. 
A.   Bernstein  of  the  Quincy  Theater  at  Quincy. 

W.  W.  Watts  of  the  Vaudette  Amusement  Com- 
pany reports  that  everything  Is  almost  in  readiness 
for  the  opening  of  his  new  moving  picture  house  in 
Chicago. 

The  Biograph  picture  "Oil  and  Water"  proved 
It's  right  to  the  claim  of  being  a  feature  picture 
when  H.  T.  Loper  of  tbe  Lyric  played  a  successful 
return  date  by  request. 

MIDWEST    SPECIAL    SERVICE. 


LOUISVILLE. 

APPROPRIATELY  enough,  the  moving  picture 
situation  in  Louisville  has  taken  another  quick 
turn  and  the  probability  at  a  settlement  of  the  dis- 
agreement between  exhibitors  and  striking  musi- 
cians and  operators  seem*  as  remote  as  ever.  It 
was  thought  thnt  an  early  agreement  wi.uld  be 
reached,  but  the  refusal  of  both  «ides  to  roncede 
certain  points  has  reunited  ir  a  deadlock  which  may 
never  be  broken.  Lee  Masters,  of  Denver,  first 
vice-president  of  the  International  Asso*')«tior  of 
Theatrical  Stage  Employes,  is  in  Louisville  with 
the  idea  of  renewing  negotiations  with  tbe  Louis- 
ville Photo-Play  Association.  It  would  cause  sur- 
prise if  this  body  should  give  way  to  tbe  demands 
of  the  union  men  at  this  stage,  however.  The 
musicians  have  resumed  their  former  tcctics  of 
drawing  public  atteutrm  to  the  situation  by  parad- 
ing the  streets  with  a  band  and  signs  pointing  out 
the  Association  Iiouses  as  "unfair  to  union  labor." 
So  marked  have  tbe  rough  antics  of  the  union 
men  become  thnt  one  or  two  exhibitors  have  an- 
nounced that  they  will  take  the  matter  to  the 
courts  in  an  effort  to  secure  an  injunction.  Another 
meeting  between  the  two  bodies  is  to  be  held 
shortly. 

For  the  purpose  of  establishing  a  chain  of  moving 
picture  theaters  through  the  countrv,  the  National 
Moving  Picture  Company  'las  been  incorporated 
under  the  laws  of  Arizona,  with  headquarters  111 
Louisville.  The  company  has  taken  quarters  in 
the  United  States  Trust  building  at  Fifth  and  Main 
streets.  The  first  house  will  go  np  at  SbelbyvJIIe, 
Ky..  according  to  the  company's  plans,  The  direc- 
torate is  composed  of  Granville  T.  Rider,  B.  C. 
Neat,  Dr.  M.  K.  Allen  and  other  well-known  busi- 
ness men. 

Tbe  Falls  Cities  Amusement  Company  bas  filed 
,i  petition  in  the  Jefferson  Circuit  Court  at  Louis- 
vilir.  asking  for  the  appointment  of  a  receiver 
for  the  Commercial  Bank  &  Trust  Company,  which 
recently  closed  its  doors.  The  Falls  Cities,  which 
controls  the  Crystal  and  other  motion  picture 
theaters,  is  a  depositor  to  the  extent  of  $500.  The 
petition  alleges  that  Dr.  Ben  L.  Bmner,  former  presi- 
dent "of  the  bank,  Is  not  qualified  to  handle  its 
business.  The  Commercial  has  announced  the  pay- 
ment of   a   dividend  of  one-third  of  its  deposits. 

The  Central  Film  Service  Company,  of  India- 
napolis and  Louisville,  has  announced  the  Instal- 
lation of  the  "lock-reel"  System,  whereby  exhibitors 
will  be  able  to  secure  their  programs  two  or  three 
weeks  in  advance  instead  of  the  same  number  of 
days.  The  innovation  Is  expected  to  prove  exceed- 
ingly   popular    with    exhibitors. 

'  feorge  L.  Rapp,  a  well-known  theatrical  arcbi- 
tect  of  Chicago,  has  arrived  in  Louisville,  and  will 
confer  with  James  J.  Gaffney,  the  local  architect', 
in  regard  to  plans  for  the  new  Jefferson  theater. 
Mr.  Rapp  has  designed  a  number  of  the  most  ira- 
og  theaters  in  the  Windy  City,  including  the 
Empress  and  four  theaters  for  the  Kohl  estate. 
Work  on  the  Jefferson  will  begin  as  soon  as  the 
plans  are  completed,  stated  Irvin  C.  Simon,  mana- 
ger of  tbe  theater,  who  is  president  of  the  Prin- 
cess  Amusement  Company. 

A.  r.  Mayer,  manager  of  the  Louisville  branch 
of  the  Central  Film  Service  Company,  had  a  narrow 
escape  from  arrest  on  a  recent  visit  to  Indianapolis. 
Mr.  Mayer  committed  the  crime  of  walking  diago- 
nally across  the  street  in  the  Indiana  metropolis. 
A  burly  policeman  informed  him  of  his  mistake 
1 1 1  in  exchange  man  followed  the  law  by 
retracing  bis  steps  and  taking  the  long  way  around. 
The  practice  is  a  new  one  in  Indianapolis,  and  has 
been  tbe  cause  of  many  complaints.  Its  legality  is 
to  be  tested,   it  is  reported. 

"Leah,  the  Forsaken,"  a  three-reel  Imp  played  a 
return  engagement  at  the  Novelty  theater  recently. 
The  first  apearnnee  of  the  film  attracted  much  at- 
tention, and  Manager  Dave  Levinson  re-played 
it  by  request.  Mr.  Levinson  announces  for  the 
near  future  a  portrayal  of  "Sapho."  The  Atlas 
Manufacturing  Company,  of  St.  Louis,  is  respons- 
ible for  this  production.  Mr.  Levinson  has  arranged 
a  private  performance  for  his  own  benefit  before 
showing   the   picture  to  the  public. 

The  Universal  service  has  found  several  new  ar- 
herents  recently.  The  Clifton  theater,  Louisville, 
and    the    Palace,    in    the  same    city,    are   now   using 


Universal     service,     as     is     tbe     Marcum   \  theater, 
Cbarlestown,    Ind.,    conducted    by   Logan   Combs. 

The  use  of  moving  pictures  for  commercial  pur- 
poses again  came  to  light  during  the  annual  conven- 
tion of  the  Kentucky  Retail  Hardware  Dealers' 
Association  in  Louisville  recently.  Following  the 
business  sessions  at  the  Gait  House,  the  Globe 
Stove  &  Range  Company,  of  Kokomo,  Ind.,  gave  a 
motion  picture  performance,  showing  the  hardware 
dealers  just  how  their  product  is  manufactured. 
The  company  did  a  brisk  business  at  the  convention, 
as   a   direct   result  of  the  films. 

Work  on  the  new  National  theater,  Fifth  and 
Walnuts  strets,  Louisville,  has  been  resumed,  the 
difficulty  between  the  union  and  the  contractors 
having  been  adjusted.  Only  a  short  time  was  lost, 
though  workmen  on  other  buildings  being  con- 
structed  quit    temporarily    in   sympathy. 

J.  A.  Lindell,  owner  of  the  Bijou  theater,  of 
Paducah,  Ky.,  came  out  second  best  in  a  contest 
with  the  Police  Court  of  that  city  as  his  opponent. 
Lindell  was  arrested  charged  with  failure  to  pay 
his  annual  license  of  $100.  Tbe  exhibitor  was  found 
guilty  and  fined  $25  for  operating  a  theater  without 
a  license.  In  addition,  he  was  required  to  pay 
10  per  cent  above  the  cost  of  the  license,  the  total 
expenditure  agregating  $135. 

The  Northside  Amusement  Company  has  filed  ar- 
ticles of  incorporation  in  Cincinnati,  O.,  with  a 
capitalization  of  $40,000.  A  motion  picture  house 
is  to  be  conducted.  The  incorporators  are  Harry 
G.  Kruse,  John  J.  Vogelpohl,  John  H.  Brown,  C. 
J.    Keller  and   William   A.    Schmid. 

Manager  J.  B.  Elliott,  of  the  Colonial  theater, 
of  Lexington,  Ky.,  has  Installed  a  new  mirror 
screen  in  his  house.  The  screen  came  from  Fords- 
ville,    Pa.,    weighing   1,500   pounds. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Kentucky  Motion 
Picture  Exhibitors'  League  will  be  held  in  Louis- 
ville April  23  and  24,  acording  to  an  announce- 
ment' by  Louis  J.  Dittmar,  one  of  the  officers  of  the 
organization.  The  exact  place  of  meeting  has  not 
yet  been  determined.  The  Seelbach  Hotel  will  prob- 
ably be  the  scene  of  the  gathering,  however. 
The  Kentucky  organization  is  growing  rapidly  in 
size  and  strength  and  officers  are  elated  over  the 
fine  showing  made.  Tbe  meeting  will  be  impor- 
tant, many  topics  of  vital  Interest  being  scheduled. 
Among  the  most  important  is  that  of  means  and 
ways  of  combating  or  quelling  the  agitation  against 
Sunday  performances.  This  has  been  marked  in 
Lexington  and  other  Central  Kentucky  cities  re- 
cently. Sundays  are  big  days  with  the  exhibitors, 
and  they  would  suffer  a  severe  blow  were  they 
forced   to  suspend  on   that  day. 

Louis  Steurle,  of  the  Broadway  Amusement  Com- 
pany, has  returned  from  a  long  trip  through  the 
South.  Mr.  Steurle  Is  in  splendid  health,  spending 
a  part  of  his  time  at  Hot  Springs.  The  exhibitor 
inspected  various  theaters  in  tbe  South,  and  se- 
cured many  new  Ideas  which  will  be  incorporated 
in  the  East  Broadway  theater,  which  will  be  re- 
modeled during  the  next  few  months.  The  Broad- 
way Amusement  Company  has  secured  the  Ameri- 
can Players  for  a  short  engagement',  and  i  f  the 
troupe  of  five  people  proves  satisfactory,  it  will  be 
retained  for  a  longer  period.  Animated  pictures, 
as  In  the  past,  will  remain  the  chief  attractions  at 
the   Broadway   houses,   however. 

A  growing  tendency  of  exhibitors,  or  at  least  a 
part'  of  them,  to  abuse  films  when  they  are  through 
with  them,  has  been  demonstrated  recently  In 
Louisville,  causing  much  adverse  comment.  This 
subject  is  one  which  has  been  discussed  thoroughly 
at  various  conventions  and  other  meetings,  but 
which  will  bear  further  comment.  The  most  re- 
cent instance  of  the  need  of  care  in  handling  sub- 
jects was  at"  the  Novelty  theater,  Louisville,  where 
Sapho  was  to  be  shown.  David  Levinson,  manager 
of  the  house,  gave  the  film  a  screen  showing  in 
advance,  and  found  that  the  film  was  not  physically 
fit  to  be  shown.  It  had  evidently  had  rough  usage, 
though  comparatively  new.  The  picture  had  been 
liberally  advertised  and  packed  bouses  turned  out 
for  the  subject.  Mr.  Levinson  had  the  choice  of 
showing  the  mutilated,  unsatisfactory  film,  or 
disappointing  his  audience.  He  chose  the  latter 
course,  and  thereby  caused  much  disappointment 
on  the  part  of  people  who  had  paid  to  see  Sapho. 
The  film  Is  a  product  of  tbe  Atlas  Film  Manufac- 
turing Company,  of  St.  Louis.  That  company, 
probably,  was  not  responsible  for  the  condition  of 
tbe  picture.  Exhibitors  are  prone  to  forget  that 
others  are  waiting  for  the  pictures.  Several  cases 
of  this  have  come  up  recently,  and  exchange  men 
are  finding  much  difficulty  in  persuading  managers 
of  houses  that  the  film  Is  not  to  be  relegated  to 
the    discard    after   they    have    finished    with    it. 

The  Clifton  theater,  of  Louisville,  has  given  away 
souvenirs  in  the  form  of  boxes  of  candy  recently. 
About  twenty  boxes  of  sweets  were  distributed 
each  day,  owners  of  lucky  tickets  being  the  win- 
ners. The  plan  has  been  Instrumental  in  increas- 
ing patronage  and  making  the  Clifton  one  of  the 
most   popular  of  the   East-end  theaters. 

Work  on  the  Standard  theater,  of  Cincinnati,  has 
been  stopped,  union  men  objecting  to  the  employ- 
ment of  non-union  labor  in  setting  reinforcing  rods 
for  the  concrete.  The  question  is  an  unnsual  one. 
In  which  exhibitors  are  taking  deep  interest.  It 
is  asserted  that  the  setting  of  reinforcing  rods  does 
not  call  for  any  particular  skill,  a  common  laborer 
being  able  to  do  the  work  as  well  as  a  skilled 
workman.  The  difference  in  pay  is  about  40  cents 
an  hour,  however.  Should  It  be  decided  that  it 
does  require  skilled,  or,  in  this  case,  union  labor  to 


set  the  rods,  the  owners  of  the  Standard  will  be 
forced  to  pay  the  difference  in  price.  The  contract 
betwen  the  owners  and  the  builders  called  for  the 
payment   of   the   minimum. 

The  Northside  Amusement  Company  has  been 
formed  at  Cincinnati  to  take  over  the  Park  Amuse- 
ment Company.  A  new  theater  will  be  erected  by 
the  company  in  the  near  future,  going  up  at  Hamil- 
ton avenue,  near  Pullan.  The  house  will  contain 
C  seats  and  two  stores.  A  billiard  hall  will  be 
ve  the  foyer.      It  will  be  46  by  155   feet. 

The  Norwood  Theater  Company,  of  Cincinnati,  bas 
awarded  the  contract  for  Its  1,000-seat  theater  to 
the  Ohio  Building  and  Construction  Company,  and 
work  will  begin  at  once.  The  motion  picture  house 
will  be  on  tbe  east  side  of  Montgomery  road.  In 
Norwood. 

Paul  J.  Rainey's  moving  pictures  of  African 
beasts  in  their  lair  are  the  latest  In  Lexington, 
Ky.,  where  they  are  being  shown.  The  pictures 
are  said  to  be  unusual  in  many  respects  and  have 
attracted  widespread  interest.  Dr.  H.  H.  Roberts, 
medical  director  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  home 
at  Lexington,  took  a  block  of  eighty  seats  for  the 
performance,  other  orphan's  institutions  also  taking 
the  kiddies  to  the  show. 

The  Colonial  theater,  of  Lexington,  Ky.,  has 
resumed  business  after  being  closed  down  for 
several  weeks  for  repairs.  The  house  is  larger 
and  handsomer  than  ever  and  will  take  care  of  a 
heavy  volume  of  business.  The  theater  has  been 
redecorated,  a  number  of  seats  added,  and  a  new 
mirror  screen  installed.  John  Elliott  is  manager 
of  the  Colonial,  which  is  one  of  the  leading  houses 
of  Lexington. 

*  A  new  machine  has  been  installed  by  the  Audi- 
torium at  Danville,  Ky.  The  management  of  the 
theater  are  advertising  the  addition  widely,  calling 
attention    to   its   fireproof   qualities. 

W.  E.  Scales  has  opened  a  new  motion  picture 
house  at  Lebanon,  Tenn.  Vaudeville  is  to  be  used 
in    conjunction    with    the    animated    pictures. 

G.  D.  GRAIN,   JE. 


A1 


PHILADELPHIA. 

T  a  meeting  of  the  Feature  Film  Exchange 
^  men  held  recently  at  1202  Race  street,  twelve 
exchanges  were  represented  and  the  Feature  Film 
Credit  Association  of  Philadelphia  was  organized. 
An  election  of  temporary  officers  resulted  in  the 
election  of  W.  R.  Mack,  president;  H.  B.  Rey- 
nolds, secretary;  B.  O.  Prince,  treasurer.  Another 
meeting  will  be  called  in  the  near  futnre  when 
plans  for  a  general  credit  system  will  be  worked 
out.  At  the  present  time  the  feature  and  other 
exchanges  are  having  a  large  amount  of  trouble 
making  collections,  and  the  feature  men  decided 
that  the  only  way  to  protect  themselves  was  to 
form  a  credit  association,  where  every  exhibitor 
will  be  rated  so  that  tbe  exchange  men  will  know 
with  whom  to  deal  and  with  whom  not  to  deal. 

The  theater  which  was  formerly  owned  by  F.  F. 
Trainer,  located  at  Fifty-second  street  and  Girard 
avenue,  bas  been  purchased  by  the  Commonwealth 
Title  Insurance  and  Trust  Company  of  this  city 
for  nominal  consideration  subject  to  a  mortgage 
of  $18,000  of  the  first  class  and  a  second  mortgage 
of  $8000. 

Announcement  was  made  a  few  days  ago  by  a 
local  real  estate  Arm  that  Thomas  W.  Dougherty 
of  the  Nixon-Nlrdlinger  staff  had  leased  for  a 
period  of  ten  years,  the  moving  picture  theater 
which  will  be  erected  on  the  site  of  tbe  late  Meta 
Connor  Wood  mansion,  at  the  southwest  corner  of 
Broad  and  Thompson  streets.  The  house  bas  been 
named  the  "Strand."  The  leasee  promises  a  style 
of  theater  and  entertainment  In  vogue  at  the 
Carnegie  Lyceum,  In  New  York,  and  at  the  Al- 
hambra  in  Cleveland,  but  which  Is  said  to  be  new 
in  this  city.  The  theater  will  be  of  Spanish  design 
and  the  outside  walls  will  be  of  white  terra- 
cotta. According  to  the  management  tbe  theater 
will  be  opened  to  the  public  on  June  1st.  Besides 
having  the  most  modern  motion  picture  equipment, 
the  theater  will  be  equipped  with  a  Wurlltzer- 
Hope-Jones   orchestra   and  pipe   organ. 

The  A.  B.  C.  Theater.  Thirty-second  and  Chest- 
nut streets,  had  its  opening  recently  under  the 
management  of  M.  A.  Benn.  Since  Its  opening  Mr. 
Benn  has  been  complimented  upon  the  success  of 
opening  a  nicely  appointed  theater.  All  of  M.  A. 
Renn's  theaters  have  the  reputation  of  catering 
to  exclusive   patrons. 

Ben  Ahrams.  who  has  been  In  eharse  of  War- 
ner's Feature  Films  in  this  city,  is  about  to  open 
up  branch  offices  In  Washington  and  Pittsburg, 
where  one  feature  a  week  will  be  released.  The 
new  picture  "Tbe  Inauguration  of  President  Wil- 
son"  has  been  meeting  with  big  success. 

George  Kline,  of  the  Fairmount  Feature  Film 
Company,  Is  making  rapid  strides  In  the  moving 
picture  exchange  business,  and  is  booking  some 
great  features  In  the  houses  of  Philadelphia  and 
vicinity.  One  of  the  latest  is  the  "Beasts  of  the 
Jungle."  which  Is  causing  much  comment  among 
the  exhibitors,  owing  to  the  high  class  of  the 
photography. 

Motion  picture  exhibitors  are  on  the  run  after 
the  new  feature  "Pilgrims  Progress"  which  Is  one 
of  the  finest  examples  of  photography  which  has 
been  seen  in  Philadelphia  for  some  time.  This 
picture  Is  making  a  big  hit  In  the  Catholic  sec- 
tions of  Philadelphia,  and  a  great  many  exhibitors 
have  to  re-book  tbe  feature  by  request  from 
their   patrons. 


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John  G.  Sacks  Is  remodeling  his  theater  in 
Allentown  and  expects  to  re-open  It  to  the  public 
by  the  middle  of  the  month.  Mr.  Sacks  was  In 
partnership  with  Mr.  Roxberry,  and  then  sold  his 
share  in  the  establishment  to  Mr.  William  Manley. 
Mr.  Sacks  Is  an  experienced  motion  picture  man 
and  was  one  of  the  first  to  open  a  theater  in 
Allentown. 

Workmen  are  busy  remodeling  the  building  at 
454-3  to  4549  Lancaster  avenne  into  a  modern  pic- 
ture house;  which  will  be  a  credit  to  that  sec- 
tion of  the  city  when  completed.  The  cost  of  the 
new    house    will   be   about   $12,000. 

The  National  Motion  Picture  Company  of  Phila- 
delphia has  just  been  incorporated  under  the  laws 
of  Pennsylvania  with  a  capitalization  of  $200,000. 
A.  T.  Feigenbauni,  of  the  National  Features,  is 
one  busy  man  these  days.  The  large  number  of 
the  films  owned  by  this  concern  have  been  working 
overtime.  Mr.  Feigenbaura  has  several  new  pro- 
ductions on  the  way  which  he  expects  to  release  to 
local  exhibitors  within  the  next  few  weeks. 

George  W.  Bradenburgh  is  receiving  large  im- 
portations of  films  from  Europe,  and  during  the 
past  week  he  has  paid  out  to  customs  officials  as 
duty    on    the    films    over    $1,000. 

Zorn  &  Supplee,  of  the  Broadway  Theater,  have 
now  under  way  a  new  motion  picture  theater 
which  will  meet  all  requirements  of  the  modern 
photoplay  critic.  The  furnishing  and  interior 
decorations  will  be  of  high  character  throughout 
and  the  capacity  will  be  over  one  thousand  seats. 
The  "Auto  Bandits",  a  feature  which  has  had 
a  most  popular  run  in  the  local  theaters,  still 
continues  to  draw  large  crowds  for  the  exhibitors, 
and  the  Quaker  City  Feature  Exchange  has  not 
missed  a  single  day's  booking  for  this  great  pic- 
ture. 

The  Fairmount  Feature  Film  Exchange  which 
recently  opened  in  Philadelphia  is  enjoying  a  big 
business.  Those  in  charge  of  the  exchange  are 
trying  to  give  the  exhibitors  the  very  best  fea- 
tures possible  and  are  sparing  no  expense  in  get- 
tin?    Ihe   goods. 

Another  feature  house  to  open  In  Philadelphia  Is 
the  American-European  Feature  Ecbange.  This 
concern  handles  a  large  amount  of  imported  fea- 
tures of  the  very  highest  standing  and  is  claiming 
a  large   portion   of   the   local   trade. 

I.  Singer  and  Mr.  Siegel  of  the  Liberty  Feature 
Exchange  are  having  a  very  busy  time,  taking  care 
of  their  many  customers.  Since  opening  in  Phila- 
delphia these  two  men  have  taken  a  prominent 
part  in  the  motion  picture  business,  and  they  are 
placing  shows  with  some  of  the  largest  houses  in 
the  city. 

George  Graff,  who  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Quaker  City  Feature  Exchange  and  later  with 
the  Star  Feature  Film  Company,  is  making  arrange- 
ments to  open  a  new  exchange.  Mr.  Graff  was  the 
first  man  to  rent  feature  films  in  Philadelphia 
and  has  a  large  acquaintance  with  the  local  ex- 
hibitors who  will  be  pleased  to  see  him  back  In 
the    feature    game. 

F.  William  Eamp,  may  be  seen  daily  in  bis  pri- 
vate office  at  the  Calehuff  Supply  Company  where 
he  will  meet  all  prospective  buyers  of  Edison, 
Power's  and  Motiograpb  machines,  and  point  out 
the  different  qualities.  Kamp  recently  returned 
from  a  trip  to  Atlantic  City,  where  he  was  drum- 
ming up  business  for  the  concern  he  represents. 

Edward  Kruapa  has  been  appointed  Assistant 
Director  of  Public  Safety  at  Atlantic  City  and  be 
Is  making  frequent  trips  to  the  resort  city  in- 
specting   the    moving    picture    theaters. 

CONGDON. 


NEW   ENGLAND   NOTES. 

T  ARUE  VIEDENBURGH.  of  the  Edison  Illu- 
minating Company,  of  Boston,  delivered  an 
address  before  the  members  of  the  Boston  Scientific 
Society,  in  the  Chauncy  Hall  Building,  Boston, 
last  week,  in  which  he  landed  the  educational 
value  of  motion  pictures.  Mr.  Vredenburgh  re- 
marked that  "the  greatest  thing  of  all  in  the  mind 
of  that  wizard,  Thomas  A.  Edison,  the  greatest 
man.  dead  or  alive,  in  the  history  of  efectrical 
science,  is  the  idea  of  the  use  of  motion  pictures 
for   educational    purposes."  - 

Dr.  Frederick  V.  Fisher,  manager  of  the  lecture 
bureau  of  the  Panama-Pacific  International  Expo- 
sition, delivered  a  lecture  at  an  assembly  luncheon 
of  the  Boston  Chamber  of  Commerce,  at  the  Ameri- 
can House,  February  25.  Motion  pictures  of  the 
Panama  Canal,  showing  the  actual  construction 
work,  were  shown  and  created  a  marked  impression 
upon  those  present.  The  exposition  and  California 
scenes  were  also  thrown  on  the  screen. 

The  bill  before  the  Massachusetts  Legislature 
relative  to  the  censoring  of  all  pictures  used  in 
that  state,  was  given  "leave  to  withdraw,"  which 
will  greatly  please  Massachusetts  exhibitors.  These 
same  should    be    duly    grateful    to    the 

Massachusetts  Exhibitors'  League,  as  It  was  due 
to  the  energy  of  this  body  that  the  committee  in 
charge  of  the  bill  was  shown  the  injustice  and 
utter  uselessuess  of  it.  President  Joseph  Mack,  of 
the  League,  made  a  strikingly  able  speech,  that 
won    the   day    for    the   exhibitors. 

It  is  with  great  pleasure  that  we  are  able  to 
report  that  the  petition  of  Mr.  Mack,  in  behalf  of 
the  League,  that  exhibitions  of  moving  pictures  may 
be  run  continuously  for  one  hour  instead  of  for  twenty 
minutes,  as  at  present,  before  five  minutes  of  some 
other    form    of   amusement   is    interspersed    was    re- 


ported   favorably    to    the    Senate,    and    had    its    first 
reading  on   Friday,    Febuary  28. 

Frank  Booth  Is  now  in  charge  of  Boyden's  Theater, 
Tauuton,  Mass.,  having  taken  over  the  managership 
of  this  new  theater.  For  the  last  few  years  Mr. 
Booth  had  been  associated  with  the  Park  Theater 
of  Taunton.  Every  report  indicates  that  Bovden's 
Theater  has  jumped  into  popularltv,  as,  indeed  it 
should.  The  house  is  a,  first  class  one  In  every  wav 
and  offers  a  good  program  of  vaudeville  and  pic- 
tures. Manager  Booth  states  it  is  his  firm  intention 
to  "deliver  the  goods"  to  bis  patrons  all  of  the 
time. 

Manager  M.  W.  O'Brien  of  the  Scenic  Temple 
Boston,  is  doing  a  splendid  business  these  days, 
notwithstanding  keen  competition.  Of  course 
the  reason  for  this  pleasing  state  of  affairs  can 
be  found  in  the  fact  that  Manager  O'Brien  knows 
what  his  trade  wants,  and  does  not  hesitate  to 
supply  the  demand.  The  Scenic  has  alwavs  held 
a  most  enviable  name  for  itself,  being  called  "a 
model  of  its  kind"  by  several  of  the  local  clergv. 
Several  Massachusetts  exhibitors  are  leaving 
that  territory,  to  try  their  fortune  in  New  York 
State.  W.  C.  Youngson,  formerlv  manager  of  the 
Bijou  Theater.  North  Adams,  Mass..  has  formed  a 
partnership  with  Lewis  J.  Cody,  and  William  C. 
O'Brien  who  sometime  ago  was  in  charge  of  the 
Bijou.  The  Darling  Theater  of  Gloversville,  N.  Y., 
has  been  leased  by  the  new  concern.  Mr.  O'Brien 
has  lately  been  in  charge  of  the  Emilv  Theater, 
of  Gloversville,  but  has  now  resigned  in  order  to 
guide   the  Darling  Theater. 

Gus.  Schlesinger,  who  managed  the  St.  James 
Theater,  Boston,  while  M.  H.  Gulesian,  was  giving 
stock  company  attractions,  has  left  that  theater, 
since  Marcus  Loew  took  possession  with  his  pro- 
grams of  vaudeville  and  pictures.  Manager  Schles- 
inger is  now  at  the  head  of  the  Lee  Avenue  Academy 
Theater,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  which  is  owned  bv  his 
brother,    Morris  Schlesinger. 

Messrs.  "MoeM  and  "Mitch"  Mark  announce  that 
everything  possible  will  be  done  to  push  along  the 
new  theater  they  are  to  build  at  Lynn,  Mass.  The 
new  house  will  have  a  seating  capacity  of  around 
2600  and  is  to  be  the  best  that  money  can  buy. 
Active  work  will  probably  not  be  started  until 
Spring,  owing  to  certain  obslacles  in  the  way. 
Al.  Newhall.  now  in  charge  of  Moe  Mark's  Comique 
Theater,  Lynn,  will  be  a  very  busy  man  before  the 
year  is  out,  as  he  will  have  charge  of  the  new 
house,  as  well  as  the  old  one.  Manager  Newhall  will 
be  able  to  swing  both  houses,  as  he  has  unques- 
tioned ability,  plus  a  great  amount  of  energy  and 
push. 

Howe's  moving  pictures  had  another  extremely 
profitable  engagement  at  Manager  D.  O.  G'ilmore's 
Court  Square  Theater  Springfield,  Mass..  from 
February  27  to  March  1.  The  Court  Square  is  a 
'legitimate"  house  as  a  general  thing,  but  offers 
Howe's  pictures  now  and  then  to  packed  houses. 

Manager  Knight  of  the  Bijou  Theater.  Springfield, 
Mass.,  had  some  very  nice  free  publicity  when  the 
Colonial  Minstrel  Four  appeared  at  a  free  conceit 
at  the  city's  new  auditorium,  February  19.  The 
Bijou  is  a  vaudeville  and  picture  house,  and  has  the 
reputation  of  being  a  splendid  money  making  prop- 
osition, due  to  the  well  directed  efforts  of  Manager 
Knight,  who  is  considered  an  unusually  capable 
executive. 

The  Princess  Theater,  Hartford.  Conn.,  recently 
contracted  with  Frank  Manning,  Eastern  represen- 
tative of  the  Mirror  Screen  Company  of  Shelby  - 
vllle,  Ind.,  for  one  of  the  company's  mirror 
screens.  The  Princess  is  very  well  pleased  with 
its  bargain,  and  is  proving  a  good  booster  for  the 
Mirror  Screen  Company. 

The  Great  Eastern  Film  Manufacturing  Co.  has 
acquired  a  four  story  building  in  Stoughton,  Mass.. 
where  it  will  locate  a  manufacturing  plant  and 
studio.  The  Great  Eastern  has  offices  at  21S  Tre- 
mont  Street,  Boston,  and  is  a  $200,000  corpora- 
tion, with  -Tames  A.  Reid  as  treasurer.  Mr.  Reid 
is  at  present  at  Jacksonville.  Fla..  locating  suitable 
winter  quarters  for  his  company  of  photoplayers. 
Miss  Virginia  Keatingue,  formerly  of  the  Cottage 
Theater,  Chicago,  has  been  secured  as  lead 
lady. 

Randall  F.  Smith,  who  has  tried  for  some  time 
to  secure  a  license  to  operate  a  photoplay  theater 
in  the  Forest  Park  district  of  Springfield.  M 
was  finally  turned  down.  i  Residents  of  the  Forest 
Park  district  were  dead  "  again-t  the  issuance  of 
the  license,  and  brought  considerable  pressure  to 
bear    on    the    matter. 

The  Colonial  Theater,  Lawrence.  Mass.,  plays 
to  "legitimate'  road  attractions,  during  the  week, 
but  Julius  Calm  finds  that  vaudeville  and  picture 
programs  are  needed  to  secure  the  big  Saturday 
and    Sunday     business, 

F.  A.  Moxon,  manager  of  the  Nickel  theater, 
La  wrench.  Mass..  finds  business  mo^r  satisfactory, 
with  programs  of  pictures  and  Illustrated  songs. 
No  vaudeville  is  used  nor  does  ft  seem  to  be 
required  by  the  Nickel.  Manager  F.  I .  Boyd,  of 
the  Columbia  theater,  runs  on  a  similar  policy, 
and    hnsiness   seems  to  be  good. 

Manager  .T.  M.  Mosher,  manager  of  Keith's  Hip- 
podrome theater.  Portland.  Me.,  announces  that  he 
will  exhihit  the  Edison  Talking  Pictures  in  the 
very    near    future. 

Joseph  A.  McConville  Is  now  in  charge  of  the 
New  Portland  theater,  Portland,  Me.,  and  is  offer- 
ing the  regulation  bills  of  vaudeville  and  pictures. 

Manager  H.  C.  Parsons  of  Parsons'  theater. 
Hartford.  Conn.,  a  "legitimate"  theater,  offered 
Paul   J.    Raioey's   African    Hunt    pictures   on    Febru- 


ary   24-26,    and    was    exceedingly    pleased    with    tb< 
patronage    these    reels   drew. 

It  is  rumored  that  the  Scenic  Temple.  Boston 
one  of  the  William  Bradstreet  circuit  of  theater* 
devoted  to  vaudeville  and  pictures,  will  be  ton 
down  this  summer  to  allow  a  more  modern  theatei 
to  be  built.  The  Scenic  was  formerly  a  church, 
and   was  slightly   altered    some   time   ago. 

The  week  of  February  24  saw  a  world  of  activ 
try  In  the  moving  picture  business  of  Boston,  with 
Edison's  Talking  Pictures  at  Keith's  and  the 
tjonal  Theaters,  and  "The  Miracle"  playing  at  the 
Colonial  theater,  with  an  augmented  orchestra  ant 
a  chorus  of  100  voices  at  prices  up  to  $1.60.  The 
press  had  many  good  things  to  say  about  "The 
-Miracle."  Here  is  a  sample  of  what  the  paper; 
gave  out:  "Unusual,  almost  unbelievable,  the 
wordless  mystery  play  held  a  large  audience  spell- 
bound, astonished,  and  enthusiastically  surprised 
at  its  first  production  at  the  Colonial  last  night." 
Great  interest  was  shown  at  the  exhibitions  of  the 
new  talking  pictures.  When  the  writer  saw  them 
at  Keith's  they  were  very  well  received.  The 
picture  of  Mr.  Edison  thrown  on  the  screen  started 
a  demonstration  so  prolonged  and  enthusli 
that  one  might  have  thought  one  was  witnessing 
presidential  nomination.  The  Talking  Pictures  are 
to  be  exhibited  at  Keith's  and  the  National  indefi- 
nitely. 

Herman  Rifkin.  manager  of  the  Eastern  Fea- 
ture Film  Company,  announces  that  he  has  opened 
a  New  York  office  at  12  Union  Square,  in  addition 
to  his  Boston  headquarters  at  224  Tremont  Street. 
An  exclusive  line  of  features  are  pulling  iu  the 
business    for    this   wide-awake   concern. 

S.  B.  Leland  is  busy  these  days  booking  the  mul- 
tiple reel  feature  film  "From  the  Manger  to  the 
Cross"  in  New  Hampshire,  Vermont  and  Maine. 
The  Majestic  theater  of  Burlington,  Yt..  was  filled 
to  Its  capacity  of  TOO  at  every  performance,  while 
this  feature  was  being  exhibited. 

Theater  ticket  speculators  are  now  working  the 
large  vaudeville  and  picture  houses.  The  National 
theater,  Boston,  is  being  annoyed  in  this  way,  aud 
refuses  to  honor  tickets  bought  of  speculators 
whenever    possible. 

August  Hamilton,  the  war  correspondent,  gave 
some  illustrated  lectures  on  the  Balkan  War  at  Tre- 
mont Temple,  Boston,  last  week.  The  reels  were 
particularly  good,  and  Mr.  Hamilton  delivered 
most  Interesting  and  instructive  lecture,  declaring 
that  the  atrocities  attributed  to  the  Turkish  Army 
are  false,  and  that  the  Ottoman  government  was 
wholly  unprepared  for  the  strife,  while  the  allies 
particularly  the  Bulgarians,  Servians  and  M- 
negrins,    had   been   preparing  for  years. 

A  co-operative  scheme  of  public  education,  rela- 
tive to  health  and  sanitation,  is  being  seriously 
considered  by  all  the  principal  cities  of  Western 
Canada.  Moving  pictures  are  to  turn  the  trick: 
the  idea  being  that  each  city  shall  purchase  one 
picture,  of  an  educational  nature.  These  reels  will 
be  interchanged  between  the  various  cities,  and 
will  be  lectured  upon  by  a  physician.  It  is 
that  photoplay  theaters  will  be  willing  to  lend 
their  auditoriums  for  this  purpose.  In  this  way 
municipal  hygiene  campaign  will  be  waged,  and 
the  public  informed  as  to  health  and  sanitation, 
in  an  entertaining  way.  The  idea  is  a  good  one 
and  should  be  pusbed  through. 

A    new    incorporation    is    the    Globe    Film    Co. 
Fall    River,    Mass.,    a    $5,000   concern,    with    Samuel 
G'enansky  and  M.   M.   Travers.   as  the  promoters. 

The    Universallst    Church    of    Stoughton,     Mass., 
has   decided    to    install    a   moving    picture      ma 
and   will   give   regular  exhibitions   to  awaken    inter- 
est   in    the    younger   element. 

"Satan,"     showing    the    birth    of    evil    as    told    in 
Milton's     "Paradise    Lost,"     was    exhibit 
Palace    t hearer.    Boston,    last    week.      This    feature 
was  heavily  advertised  in  the  local  daili. 
a  good   business  for  the   theater. 

The     Pastime     theater,     Bridgeport,     Conn.,     finds 
that    Mutual    service    is    just    to    the    lit,  I 
patrons,    and    is    loud    in    its    praise    of    its    picture 
programs    secured    from    the    Mutual    Film    Cor 

tion. 

Poli's   new    theater,    Worcester,    Mass..    will 
a    big   mass  band   concert   on    April   6.    with    B.    A.' 
Rolfe  as  director. 

Thomas     J.      Lynch,      president     of     the     National 
(ball  League,   is  operating  the  Rosawin    Lj . 
Theater    at    New   Britain.    Conn.,    to   good    business. 

W.  W.  Sargent,  president  of  the  Fit 
Leominster  Street  Railway  Co.,  with  headquarters 
St  Fitchburg.  Mass..  intends  to  run  Whalom  Park. 
Fitchburg,  this  summer,  but  he  has  not  quite  de- 
cided whether  to  run  vaudeville  and  pictures  or  a 
stock    company. 

The    new    Princess    theater    that    opened 
ford.    Conn.,    on   February    15,    seems    to   I 
splendid    business    with    a    program    of    independent 
pictures.      The    Princess    is    strictly    up-to-date,    and 
has  a  good  location.     Quality  shows  should   result  in 
good   business. 

Guy   P.    Woodman,    manager  of  the    - 
Portland.    Me.,    was    forced    to    close    his    house 
week,   not  because  of  poor  business,   but  due   to  the 
fact   that   the  building   has   been   leased    l 
Mayberry   and    Elliott   who   intend   to  use   the   place 
for    other    pu-; 

Claude  R.  Buffington.  an  actor,  died  at  tbe  Union 
hospital,    Lynn,    Mass..    as  a    result  of   a    fall    fmm 
the  stage  of  the  Olympla  theater.   Lynn,    on  Chi 
mas  night.     Mr.    Buffington,    who  leaves  a   wife  and 
child,    had    institut  against    the    Olympia 

Amusement   Company    for   $15,000. 


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The  Bates  Theater,  Attleboro,  Mass.,  Is  in  a 
similar  predicament,  as  H.  L.  Cooper,  an  actor, 
fell  and  injured  himself,  while  playing  this  house. 
It  is  announced  that  on  April  1,  the  Fidelity 
Booking  Offices'  Boston  branch  will  be  in  the 
charge  of  Bert  Perkins,  who  will  go  after  the 
i.ns:laml  business.  Mr.  Perkins  hopes  to  line 
up  a  large  number  of  theaters,  playing  vaude- 
ville   and    pictures   in    this    section. 

Nat.   Clark,    well  known  to   the   local   trade   as   a 

membera  of    the    Boston    offices   of    Leo.    Feist,    the 

song    publisher,    was    married   on    March    11.    to    Miss 

Rebecca    Helman    at   Locke    Hall,    Wallham,    Mass. 

John    J.    Qulgley,    a    theatrical    agent,    booking    a 

large  number  of  New  England  vaudeville  and  photo- 

theaters,    was    petitioned    into    bankruptcy    on 

March    1.    at    the    instance   of    three    creditors    with 

s    agregating    $564.       Mr.    Quigley    has    offices 

mi    Boylston  street,   Boston. 

famous  quarrel  scene  from  Julius  Caesar  will 
i  at  the  National  theater,  Boston,  by 
in. .nis  of  Edison's  Kinetoplione,  this  week,  and 
will  show  the  great  possibilities  of  this  invention 
nior.-  .learly  than  did  the  minstrel  show  of  last 
week 

Carl  Martin,  a  well  known  exhibitor  of  Boston, 
has  leased  Deacon  Hall,  1665  Washington  street, 
for  a  term  of  10  years,  and  will  make  extensive 
alterations  and  improvements.  A  moving  picture 
show  is  scheduled  for  Deacon  Hall.  It  will  have 
about  800  seats. 

"The  Female  Detective,"  an  Ambroslo  release, 
made  a  good  impression  In  this  section,  and  should 
t.e  in  demand  by  exhibitors  on  the  lookout  for 
■  tional  pictures. 
The  Massachusetts  branch  of  the  Exhibitors' 
League  will  hold  its  monthly  meeting  on  Tues- 
day, march  4.  It  is  hoped  that  the  league  will  be 
able  to  open  headquarters  of  its  own  very  soon 
for  the  use  of  members.  A  "runoff"  room, 
telephone  and  lounging  quarters  are  among  the 
conveniences  proposed.  With  a  membership  of 
nearly  100.  this  undertaking  should  be  pushed 
through  easily.  Headquarters  of  this  sort  would 
tie  a  great  convenience  to  the  league  members. 

The  Gem  Theater,  East  Boston,  has  decided  to 
run  the  ever  favorite  "Passion  Play"  for  Holy 
Week,  and  will  cut  out  the  vaudeville  acts  during 
this  special   program. 

Ualph  Pinkham.  formerly  with  the  Boston  offices 
of  the  General  Film  Company,  is  now  with  the 
R.  D.  Marson  Moving  Picture  Company  of  Boston. 
where  he  holds  down  the  Job  of  booking  manager 
with   all   his  old   time  skill. 

Manager  F^lix  Alland  of  the  Pastime  Theater, 
is  now  putting  It  over  OB  his  competitors  by  ad- 
vertising that  talking  pictures  are  exhibited  in 
his  house.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  Messrs.  Murphy 
and  Lawes  are  doing  the  heavy  talking  at  the 
Pastime,  which  has  no  real  talking  pictures  at  all. 
Somebody  may  get  after  the  Pastime  for  advertis- 
ing what  it  has  not! 

The    Variety    Booking    Office,    of    Boston.    Is    now 
a  $1,000  corporation,   with  John  J.   Donovan,  George 
A      Appleby     and     William    H.     Wolffe    as    the    pro- 
moters.    This     eoncern     books     vaudeville     acts     for 
a    large    number    of    New    England    vaudeville    and 
ire  houses. 
New  a-days    even    moving    picture    operators    are 
ban]    up    for    ready    cash    and    T.    Roy    Leaman,     an 
(tor    of    Cambridge.    Mass.,    Is    a    petitioner    in 
bankruptcy.     Operator     Leaman    owed    $2,224,     and 
has  no  assets. 

ry  Kolb,   who  is  lecturing  at  Tremont  Temple. 

Boston.'  on  the  pictures  of  "Shooting  the  Colorado 
Canyons."  has  a  most  wonderful  and  thrilling  set 
of  motion  pictures.  During  his  description.  Mr. 
Kolb  stated  that  he  had  to  burn  many  reels  of 
moving  pictures  for  fuel  to  keep  from  freezing. 
Mr.  Kolb  and  his  brother.  Emery,  described  graph- 
ically the  running  of  over  300  rapids  in  1.400  miles. 
through  six  states,  and  descending  6.000  feet  in 
open    boats. 

"The  Miracle"  ended  a  two-weeks'  stay  in  Bos- 
ton on  March  8.  As  far  as  the  writer  could 
Judge,  these  motion  pictures  drew  to  fair  busi- 
ness, which  should  be  considered  a  creditable  per- 
formance, as  the  prices  ranged  downwards  from 
$1.50.  Rev.  E.  A.  Horton,  chaplain  of  the  Senate, 
is  one  of  the  well-known  clergymen  who  saw  the 
pictures  of  "The  Miracle"  at  the  Colonial  Theater, 
and  he  was  so  greatly  interested  that  he  wrote 
this  letter  to  the  manager  of  the  presentation: 
■For  the  past  year  I  have  seen  many  displays  of 
this  kind  on  the  Continent  and  in  England.  They 
alwavs  seem  wonderful  to  me  in  mechanism  and 
dramatic  effect.  'The  Miracle'  held  my  constant 
attention  and  gave  me  great  reward  in  suggestion 
and  pleasure."  Such  a  statement,  coming  from 
so  well-known  a  man  as  Rev.  Horton,  should  prove 
of  good  use  to  the  publicity  department  of  "The 
Miracle." 

I<tew's  South  End  Theater,  Boston,  Is  picking 
up,  and  business  is  somewhat  better  than  it  for- 
merly was.  "The  Unlucky  Horseshoe,"  a  three- 
reel  feature,  was  exhibited  Monday  and  Tuesday, 
March  10  and  11.  On  Wednesday  nights  the 
Song  Writers  Contest  Is  proving  a  box-office 
stimulant.  „ 

Moving  pictures  will  Invade  Symphony  Hall, 
Boston's  great  auditorium,  where  the  world-famons 
Boston      Symphony      Orchestra      holds      forth!      On 


March  17,  St.  Patrick's  Day,  four  special  per- 
formances of  the  stupendous  $10,000  historical 
motion  picture,  "The  Life  of  Saint  Patrick,"  were 
shewn.      Prices   were    t\\  ehty  -  five   and    titty    cents,    and 

the  reels  were  lectured  on  by  Peter  8.   UcNally. 

Keith's  Theater,  Boston,  booked  John  Bunny  for 
the  week  of  Marcb  10.  Mr.  Bunny  was  billed  in 
the  most  approved  fashion  by  the  management  of 
that   house. 

Kinemacolor  pictures  of  "The  Making  of  the 
Panama  Canal."  and  actual  scenes  of  "The  War 
in  the  Balkans,"  have  been  booked  for  five  weeks, 
starting  March  17,  at  Tremont  Temple,  Boston. 
Kinemacolor  is  a  great  favorite  in  this  city,  and 
draws  big  audiences  at  big  admission  prices, 
without  the  slightest  difficulty. 

The  Judiciary  Committee  of  the  General  As- 
sembly, at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  will  spend  a  good 
portion  of  Its  time  this  week  on  moving  pictures, 
as  several  measures  relative  to  the  electric  theater 
are  scheduled  for  hearings,  which  have  been  in- 
troduced by  senators  and  representatives.  On  Tues- 
day, the  Judiciary  Committee  will  look  into  the 
bill  introduced  by  Senator  Frolich  of  New  Haven, 
to  permit  moving  picture  theaters  to  be  open 
Sunday  afternoon  and  evening.  A  committee  of 
moving  picture  men  will  be  present  at  this  hear- 
ing, armed  with  many  facts  going  to  show  that 
it  is  distinctly  beneficial  to  the  public  to  allow 
the  bill  to  pass.  There  surely  is  no  reason  why 
it  should  not  be  made  a  law.  as  it  Is  far  better 
to  have  folks  in  a  well-conducted  photoplay  theater 
on  a  Sunday  than  to  have  them  walking  the  streets. 
David  W.  Noyes  is  now  suing  W.  H.  Meharry  te 
recover  $4,000  paid  for  a  Boston  picture  house. 
Th.  Supreme  Court  holds  that  it  is  not  the  spirit 
of  the  law  to  extend  for  the  benefit  of  sellers,  the 
limits  of  immunity  for  false  statements  under  the 
guise  of  trade  talk.  Mr.  Noyes  claims  that  Mr. 
Meharry  told  him  that  the  theater  in  question 
was  making  a  profit  of  $1,000  a  month.  Mr.  Noyes 
went  to  the  theater  daily  for  a  month  or  so.  and 
always  found  well-filled  auditoriums.  Business  cer- 
tainly did  look  brisk,  so  Mr.  Noyes  bought  the 
theater.  And  then  business  dropped  in  most  dis- 
couraging fashion.  The  theater  did  not  run  at 
a  profit  except  on  Saturdays.  Mr.  Noyes  entered 
suit,  claiming  that  a  fictitious  attendance  had 
been  arranged  for,  and  has  now  secured  Judgment, 
recovering  $4,323. 

The  coolness  of  Edward  I.  Boyle,  a  blind  singer, 
in  keeping  on  with  his  song  while  fire  spread 
rapldiv  in  the  balcony  of  E.  W.  Lynch's  Pleasant 
street'  theater,  Worcester,  Mass.,  prevented  a  panic- 
on  March  8,  among  the  500  persons  in  the  audience, 
all  of  whom  filed  out  to  safety.  The  fire  was 
discovered  by  Harry  W.  Lynch,  son  of  the  pro- 
prietor, and  spread  with  such  swiftness  that  the 
loss   is  estimated   at  $35,000. 

Just  at  present,  Assistant  Manager  Zimmon.  of 
the  old  South  Theater,  Boston,  is  on  his  wedding 
tour,  and  Chief  Usher  Edward  Goodman  is  holding 
down  the  Job  in  bis  absence.  Mr.  Goodman  is  a 
very-  capable  all-around  man,  and  fills  Mr.  Zim- 
mon's  position  very  nicely.  He  recently  was  in 
charge  of  the  Washington  Theater,  Boston,  con- 
trolled by  the  owners  of  the  Old  South  Theater, 
while   Manager   Morris   was   ill. 

Herbert  Gleason,  a  Boston  man.  is  delivering  a 
course  of  lectures,  with  some  unusually  fine  motion 
pictures,  "Showing  Our  Great  National  Parks." 
These  lectures  are  reported  to  be  drawing  capacity 
audiences,  which  fact  will  please  Mr.  Gleason's 
many  friends.  When  last  heard  of,  Mr.  Gleason 
was  at  the  Academy  of  Music,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
where  he  lectured  on  pictures  of  "The  Yellow- 
stone," "Windy  Cave  National  Park,"  "Glacier 
National  Park,"  and  some  others. 

Grace  M.  Damon  is  now  in  charge  of  the  Gilmore 
Theater,  Springfield,  Mass.,  as  T.  Ash,  Jr..  for- 
merly in  charge  of  tbis  house,  has  been  sent  to 
manage  Sheas   Theater,    at   Bridgeport,    Conn. 

Joseph  Carr  is  back  again  at  his  old  position  as 
manager  of  the  Nelson  Theater,  Springfield,  Mass.. 
the  William  Fox  theater.  William  Shields  is  now 
managing  the  Fox  house  at  Bridgeport,  Conn.  Man- 
ager Carr  states  that  he  Is  very  glad  to  be  back 
at  the  Nelson  Theater  again. 

Manager  Jeff  Callan,  of  the  Lynn  Theater,  Lynn, 
Mass.,  announces  that  his  house  is  in  line  to  re- 
ceive the  new  Edison  talking  pictures  in  the  very 
near  future.  The  Lynn  Theater  is  doing  very 
nlcelv   with   vaudeville  and   pictures. 

The  Academy  of  Music,  Lowell,  Mass.,  has  a 
new  manager  in  the  person  of  William  Harley. 
The  latter  is  well  known,  as  he  formerly  had  the 
Princess  Theater,  South  Framington,  Mass.,  under 
bis  guidance.  .„  .      , 

Mrs.  T.  Z.  Pell,  wife  of  the  vaudeville  and  pic- 
ture magnate,  is  seriously  ill  at  ber  home  In 
New  Haven. 

"The  Miracle  Company,"  incorporated,  asked 
the  Equity  session  of  the  Superior  Court,  Boston, 
recently  for  an  injunction  against  the  A.  A. 
Kellman'B  Feature  Film  Company,  to  prevent  the 
showing  of  what  the  plaintiff  claims  is  a  repro- 
duction of  "The  Miracle"  pictures.  A  bill  in 
equity  has  been  filed  In  court,  and  an  order  of 
notice,  which  acts  as  a  temporary  injunction  until 
a   hearing   Is   given,    was  Issued   by   the  court. 

Manager  Charles  Hovenberg,  of  Keith's  Theater. 
Providence    R.    I.,    reports   that   the   Edison   talking 


pictures    were    very    successful    at    his    tbeater    this 
week. 

The  Casino  Tbeater,  New  Bedford,  Mass.,  Is 
now  playing  stock  company  attractions,  but  it  is 
rumored  that  vaudeville  and  picture  programs  will 
be  seen   there   before  long. 

The  Empire  Theater,  Lewiston,  Me.,  finds  busi- 
ness especially  good  on  those  nights  when  photo- 
play programs  are  given.  Several  nights  each  week 
are  given   over   to   road   shows. 

The  Puritan  Special  Feature  Film  <!ompany  an- 
nounces that  It  has  sold  to  R.  L.  Castor,  of  the 
Mission  and  Wonderland  Theaters,  Shelby,  Ohio, 
the  exclusive  rights  to  "Quincy  Adams  Sawyer," 
the    feature   film. 

Keith's  Tbeater,  Lowell,  Mass.,  held  a  "Mason's 
Night,"  on  February  26,  when  the  entire  audito- 
rium was  given  over  to  the  masonic  fraternity.  A 
big  bill  of  vaudeville  and  pictures  was  given  to 
a   packed   house. 

The  Puritan  Theater,  Fall  River,  Mass.,  a  straight 
picture  house,  is  closed,  and  it  is  not  known 
whether  or  not  it  will  reopen.  The  Premier  The- 
ater, of  that  city,  is  also  closed,  but  will  reepen 
after  Lent,   with   a  straight  program  of  photoplays. 

William  Fitzgerald,  of  the  Eastern  Talking  Ma- 
chine Co.,  Boston,  has  Just  returned  from  a  trip  to 
Orange,  N.  J.,  where  he  went  to  confer  with  Thomas 
A.  Edison,  regarding  bis  latest  invention,  the  talk- 
ing pictures. 

There  is  some  talk  that  the  Mutual  Film  Cor- 
poration's Boston  Office  will  secure  the  upper  portion 
of  the  new  building  on  Boylston  street,  erected 
for  the  Walker-Gordon  Company,  and  U6e  it  for 
its  exhibition  room.  Plans  were  practically  com- 
pleted when  unforseen  obstacles  came  up  to  block 
the  idea.  It  is  hoped  that  tbis  building  will  be 
judged  suitable  for  running  off  advance  releases 
by  the  authorities,  in  which  case  the  Boylston 
street  building  will  be  leased  by  the  Mutual  folks. 
It  is  located  in  the  residential  district,  just  above 
Massachusetts  avenue. 

When  the  Massachusetts  branch  of  the  M.  P. 
E.  L.  of  A.  opens  Its  headquarters,  it  is  hoped 
that  the  several  film  exchanges  of  Boston  will  be 
willing  to  use  the  place  to  run  off  their  advance 
releases  for  the  managers.  If  this  plan  is  put 
through,  it  will  help  a  great  deal,  as  the  rental 
secured  from  the  various  exchanges  would  go 
towards  defraying  the  League's  expenses.  All  of 
which  goes  to  show  that  President  M-aek  is  a 
level-headed  business  man,  as  well  as  a  right 
good    fellow.  HENRY. 


INDIANAPOLIS. 

T  NDIANAPOLIS  local  No.  1  of  the  Indiana  Ex- 
■1  hibitors'  League  has  recently  prepared  some 
very  interesting  figures  relative  to  the  local  mo- 
tion picture  theater  industry.  These  figures  show 
an  investment  of  about  $815,000  in  the  fifty-six 
motion  picture  theaters  with  annual  expenditures 
aggregating  $518,000  as  follows:  Payroll  $2t>t>,lS"; 
rent,  $72,000;  film  service,  $120,000;  electric  light- 
ing, $30,000:  printing,  $12,000;  fuel,  $12,000,  and 
charity,    $6,500. 

In  order  to  make  motion  picture  theaters  more 
attractive  and  more  Instructive  to  patrons,  a  regu- 
lar historical  and  travel  course  is  being  arranged. 
There  are  about  30,000  daily  patrons  of  motion 
picture  theaters  in  the  city  and  it  is  believed  that 
an  educational  course  in  connection  with  the  usual 
film  features,  will  largely  increase  the  attendance 
and  at  the  same  time  be  of  material  benefit  to 
the   city. 

Mrs.  L.  Waltman.  who  conducted  a  motion  pic- 
ture theater  at  922  Massachusetts  avenue,  which 
place  has  been  closed  as  the  building  did  not  com- 
ply with  the  building  code  requirements,  is  open- 
ing a  new  house  at  Twenty-ninth  and  Clifton 
streets,    with   a   seating  capacity  of   three   hundred. 

E.  H.  Bingham,  Ben  D.  Crose  and  H.  E.  Cohen, 
who  have  been  associated  together  in  the  Dixie 
Amusement  Company,  have  organized  the  Empress 
Amusement  Company  to  conduct  motion  picture 
theaters.  The  company  has  been  incorporated  with 
an    authorized    capitalization   of    $10,000. 

Harry  E.  IJowney,  who  has  operated  a  motion 
picture  theater  at  Anderson,  has  filed  a  voluntary 
petition  In  bankruptcy  In  the  United  States  court 
in  this  city.  His  schedule  shows  liabilities  amount- 
ing to  $3,856.39  and  assets  of  $86. 

A  bill  is  pending  in  the  Indiana  legislature  which, 
If  passed,  will  permit  motion  picture  theaters  to 
give  Sunday  performances.  At  present  Sunday 
performances  may  be  given  only  by  donating  • 
part   of   the   proceeds   to  charity. 

With  an  authorized  capitalization  of  $10,000, 
the  Dailey  Amusement  Company  has  been  organ- 
ized and  incorporated  at  South  Bend,  to  conduct 
motion  picture  theaters  and  other  places  of  amuse- 
ment. Those  interested  in  the  company  are  B.  P. 
Dailey,    Charles   McDougal  and   Isaac   Dailey. 

W.  H.  Williams,  Frank  Williams  and  A.  Valdei 
are  the  principal  stockholders  in  the  W.  H.  Will- 
lams  Amusement  Company  Just  organized  at  An- 
derson to  conduct  motion  picture  theaters.  The 
company  has  been  Incorporated  with  an  authorized 
capitalization    of    $10,000.  crJMMINS. 


THE    MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


PICTURE  THEATERS  PROJECTED. 

New  York,  K.  Y. — Plans  have  been  completed 
by  architects  Cantor  &  Levingson.  39  West  3Sth 
Street,  for  alterations  to  the  two-story  moving  pic- 
ture theater  at  313  and  315  West  59th  Street  for 
the  owner,  Benjamin  Nibur,  36  West  135ih  Street. 
The  contractor  is  Morris  Margowitz,  34  West  112th 
Street.     The   alterations   will  cost  $4,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Plans  are  being  prepared  by 
architects  Stuckert  &  Sloan,  Crozer  Building,  for  a 
one-story  brick  moving  picture  theater  at  Broad  and 
Louden  Streets  for  the  Logan  Amusement  Co.  The 
building  will  measure  34  x  109,  be  finished  in  terra 
eotta.  have  tile  and  slag  roofing  and  equipped  with 
electric  lighting  and   steam  heat. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Plans  have  been  completed  by 
architects  Anderson  &  Haupt.  Drexel  Building,  for 
a  one-story  brick  and  plaster  moving  picture  thea- 
ter at  Franklin  and  Clearfield  Streets  for  the 
Philadelphia  Film  Exchange.  121  N.  9th  Street. 
The  building  will  measure  54  i  66.  have  slag  root 
and  be  equipped  with  electric  lighting  and  steam 
heat.  The  contract  was  awarded  to  Samuel  Schultz, 
920  Moyamenslng  Ave. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. — Plans  for  the  improvement  of 
the  old  Brewster  carriage  factory  on  tbe  west  side 
of  Broadway,  between  47th  and  49th  St.,  Man- 
hattan  were  filed   by    Mitchell   H.    Mark. 

T>es  Moines,  Iowa. — The  Amuzu  Amusement  Com- 
pany, will  establish  a  new  theater  at  515  East 
Locust  street.  The  lease  on  the  new  quarters 
has  been  closed  and  the  theater  will  open  as 
soon  as  the  necessary  remodeling  can  be  completed. 
It  Is  planned  to  expend  $10,000  in  fitting  up  the 
building  for  moving  picture  and  vaudeville  attrac- 
tions. 

Beaver  Dam,  Wis. — G.  J.  Doerry  and  wife  are 
making  arrangements  with  Ferdinand  Sehleiwert. 
the  owner  of  the  Lyric  theater  for  the  re-opening 
of  the  place  as  a   motion  picture  bouse. 

La  Fayette,  Ind. — Wm.  F.  Jennings  and  Frank 
Price  of  this  city,  will  embark  in  the  vaudeville 
bnslnes  in  Marion.  Tbey  have  leased  the  Indiana 
Theater  In    that   city. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.— The  property  at  2243  No.  30th 
St.,  have  been  sold  to  a  syndicate  which  will  build 
a  moving  picture  theater  on  the  site. 

Biloxi,  Kiss.— C.  B.  King  &  Bro.  owners  of  tie 
Crown  Theater  In  Mobile,  have  purchased  the  Air- 
Dome  and  Bijou  theaters  here  from  S.  T.  Stephens. 
C.  B.  King  announced  that  they  would  shortly 
begin  the  remodeling  of  the  Bijou. 

Lexington,  Ky. — The  Colonial  theater,  the  lead- 
ing picture  house  of  this  city,  owned  and  operated 
by  the  Colonial  Amusement  Company,  which  also 
owns  and  operates  the  Star  here,  the  Alamo  In 
Paris  and  tbe  Alhambra  In  Richmond,  Is  to  enter 
the  vaudeville  field. 

Pittsburg,  Pa. — Contracts  for  the  proposed  new 
theater  to  be  erected  on  the  Moreland  property, 
Philadelphia,  Pa. — Plans  are  being  prepared  by 
architects  Anderson  &  Haupt,  Drexel  Building  for 
a  one-story  moving  picture  theater  at  25th  and 
Cambria  Streets  for  the  Interstate  Film  Co.,  150 
Arch  Street.  The  building  will  have  slag  "roof  and 
equipped   with   electric   lighting  and  steam   heat. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Plans  are  being  prepared  by 
architects  Anderson  &  Haupt.  Drexel  Building,  for 
a  one-story  brick  moving  picture  theater  at  Colom- 
bia Avenue  and  Patton  Street.  The  building  will 
measure  55  x  157,  have  slag  roof  and  equipped  with 
electric  lighting  and  steam  heat. 

Atlantic  City,  N.  J. — Contract  has  been  awarded 
to  Samuel  H.  Headly,  Bartlett  Building,  for  a  one- 
story  brick  moving  picture  theater  designed  by  S. 
Hudson  Vaughn  for  Maple  &  Willets.  The  build- 
ing will  measure  29  x  150  and  will  cost  110.000. 

Atlantic  City,  N.  J. — Contract  has  been  awarded 
to  Irwin  &  Leighton.  126  N.  12th  Street,  Philadel- 
phia, for  the  one-story  brick,  steel  and  concrete 
moving  picture  theater  designed  by  Magaziner  & 
Potter,  137  South  5th  Street,  Philadelphia,  for 
Seltzer  Brothers,  247  South  3rd  Street.  The  build- 
ing will  measure  60  x  140,  have  slate  roof  and  be 
equipped  with  electric  lighting  and  steam  heat. 

Newark,  N.  J. — Contract  has  been  awarded  to 
Oswald  Brothers,  S45  Broad  Street  for  a  one-story 
moving  picture  theater  designed  by  W.  E.  Lehman 
738  Broad  Street,  for  the  Interurban  Co.  of  Newark 
The  building  will  measure  51  x  100  x  93  x  29. 

South  River,  N.  J — Bids  have  been  received  for 
a  one-story  moving  picture  theater  designed  by 
Alexander  Merchant,  363  George  Street,  New  Bruns- 
wick, N.  J.,  for  George  Allgair,  South  River.  The 
building  will  measure  45  x  120  and  cost  $8,000. 

Perth  Amboy,  N.  J.— Ground  will  be  broken  early 
in  February  for  a  one-  and  two-storv  moving  pic- 
ture theater  designed  by  Jensen  &  Brooks,  196 
8mlth  Street,  for  Mrs.  E.  M.  Switzer,  447  Korregan 
Avenue.  West  Hoboken.  N.  J.  The  building  will 
measure  50  x  133  and  cost  $10,000. 

Brooklyn.  N.  Y. — Bids  are  being  received  for 
alterations  to  the  two-story  moving  picture  theater 
designed  by  Brook  &  Rosenberg,  44  Court  Street 
for  Max  Welsberg,  209  Dean  Street.  The  improve- 
ments will   cost  $3,000. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y.— Bids  are  being  received  for  a 
brick  moving  picture  theater  designed  by  Albert 
E.  Parfltt,  26  Conrt  Street,  for  James  V.  Carma- 
della.  215  Montague  Street.  The  building  will  meas- 
ure 23  x  38  x  39  and  cost  $10,000.  It  will  be 
constructed  of  structural  and  ornamental  Iron,  gal- 
vanized Iron  skylights,  Interior  marble  and  tiling 
and  be  equipped  with,  gas  and  electric  light  fix- 
tures. 


Brooklyn,  N.  Y.— Contract  has  been  awarded  to 
Alexander  Barlle,  238  Sheridan  Avenue,  for  a  two- 
J  »!L  m°2.ng„  P,ctnre  theater,  designed  by  Edward 
Schllds,    29    Broadway,    New    York    City,    for   John 

$L^?f.f,rl0Ck,.„1258  *"*  14tn  Street.  Brooklyn. 
The  building  will  measure  36  x  84  and  cost  $6,000 

n^J0  ^yS'  NV  T'— plans  b*™  been  prepared  by 
Brook  &  Rosenberg  for  alterations  to  the  rear  walls 
and  Interior  of  the  two-story  moving  picture  the- 
ter  on  the  south  side  of  Atlantic,  near  3rd  Avenue 
WOOO  Welsberg.     The  alterations  will  cost 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y — Bids  are  being  received  for  the 
one  and  a  half  story  moving  picture  theater  de- 
signed by  Alexander  Hedman,  371  Fulton  Street 
for  the  Burns  Theater  Co.  The  building  will 
measure  60  x  95. 

Lawrence,  Mass — J.  F.  Morin  will  build  a  three- 
story  moving  picture   theater,   40x93   to  cost   $20,- 

Syracuse,  N.  Y — Morris  Rubin  will  build  a  two- 
etory    moving    picture    theater,    3S  x  95. 

Syracuse,  N.  Y.— Charles  P.  Smith  will  build  a 
one-story    moving    picture    theater    with    a    seating 

S^lOffaS?  "V'S?  bmdlB«  wm  ™^ 
3^  x  100   and    cost   $6,000. 

*?£**'"*,•  K\T— AlTln  Cottet  will  build  a  one- 
it  Z*,?0?"*  P'CtDre  theater  at  2<»  Oxford  Street 
32  x^  "cos?  koST8  CaPaCUy  "  40°'  ~»«" 
Philadelphia,  Pa.— Nixon  &  Nierdllnger  will  erect 
a  one-story  moving  picture  theater  in  this  cltv  with 

?75C0O0a,y   "   1'°00   Seat8-     Tbe  balIdinS  3"   ««« 

Philadelphia,  Pa.— Kahem  &  Greenburg  have  plans 

?n,  ^Wa7  for  an  addi,«>°al  one-story  moving  pic- 
ture theater  to  cost  $20,000. 

hnMHU^elphia:  Pa  — MIchae»  SHefel  proposes  to 
build  a  one-story  moving  picture  theater  to  seat 
1,500  persons  and  cost  $15  000 

Franklin,  Pa.— B.  H.  Prince  will  soon  break 
SLnd  '"  a  ■5orinff  P'cture  theater,  store  and 
office  building.     The  structure  will  consist  of  three 

$30000  *    theatcr    t0    seat    90°-      «    wlU    cost 

t«^^0Iu\  V-  TrrThe  uPtomn  Holding  Company. 
Jacob  Fischel,  president,  1980  Seventh  avenue  will 
erect  a  two-story  moving  picture  theater  to  ac- 
commodate 700  persons  and  cost  $25,000.  The  lesee 
is  the  Hose  Theater  Company,  489  Fifth  Avenue 

New  York,  N.  Y — Tbe  Improvement  Amusement 
company  have  leased  a  new  moving  picture  theater 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y — Susie  Scott  Hall,  29  Broadway 
I  ePsaLj?P  a  one-storT   moving  picture  theater  to 

COSE    ^5*,UUU. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. — Rosen  Brothers  have  leased  a 
one-story  moving  picture  theater.  Tbe  building  is 
being  altered  at  the  cost  of  $'6,000.  and  will  be 
opened  for  business  as  soon  as  completed. 

Rochester,  N.  Y.— George  D.  Curtis,  proprietor  of 
the  Happy  Hour  Moving  Picture  Theater,  will  erect 
a  new  one-story  theater  with  a  gallery.  It  will 
have  a  seating  capacity  for  1,800  and  cost  $50,000. 

Lackawanna,  N.  Y. — Anthony  Czosnyfea  will  short- 
ly build  a  one-story  moving  picture  theater  to  cost 
$3,500. 

Albany,  N.  Y. — William  Freschknecht,  118  Clinton 
street,  has  awarded  the  contract  to  the  Peter  Keeler 
Building  Company  for  the  remodeling  of  a  two- 
story  church  property  into  a  moving  picture  theater. 
It  will  seat  4S5  persons  and  the  alterations  cost 
$2,000. 

Cincinnati,  O. — Lawrence  Bueche,  1 107  Bates 
avenue,  is  to  erect  a  one-story  moving  picture  the- 
ater in  this  city,  to  cost  $30,000. 

Dayton,  0. — Architect  G.  A.  Niehus  has  prepared 
plans  for  the  remodeling  of  a  new  four-story  build- 
ing into  a  moving  picture  theater  to  cost  $8,000. 
It  will  have  a  seating  capacity  for  500. 

Murray,  La. — Frank  Andrews  will  probably  re- 
build bis  one-story  moving  picture  theater  in  the 
spring.     The  building  was  destroyed  by  fire. 

Springfield,  Mass. — Louis  B.  Timmerman,  41  Main 
street,  has  let  the  contract  for  an  addition  to  his 
one-story  moving  picture  theater  to  Frank  Shol. 
The  addition  will  cost  $2,500. 

Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. — The  Liberty  Theater  Com- 
pany will  soon  break  ground  for  a  one-story  moving 
picture  theater  with  balcony,  and  to  cost  $150,000. 

Buffalo,  N,  Y. — L.  Michaels  has  plans  In  progress 
for  a  moving  picture  theater  to  seat  1,500  persons. 

Rockdale,  111, — A.  Berkowitx  in  the  spring  will 
build  a  one-story  moving  picture  theater  to  seat 
250. 

Joliet,  HI. — L.  M.  Ruben,  manager  for  the  Prin- 
cess Theater  Co.,  contemplates  to  erect  an  addi- 
tional theater  to  seat  1,000  persons. 

Washington,  D.  C. — George  P.  Hales  has  pre- 
pared plans  for  a  two-story  moving  picture  thea- 
ter and  office  building  to  cost  $15,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Frank  Hess  will  erect  a  one- 
story  moving  picture  theater  to  cost  $15,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — James  Managle  of  tbe  20th  and 
Mifflin  Sts.,  will  soon  erect  a  one-story  moving 
picture    theater   to  cost    $15,000. 

Syracuse,     N.     Y. — J.     W.     Pennock    contemplates 
building   by   days   work   a   one-story   moving   picture  0 
theater   to   cost  $6,500. 

New  York,  K.  Y.— The  New  York  Railways  Co., 
165  Broadway  are  to  build  a  two-story  moving 
picture  theater  to  cost  $15,000.  It  will  have  a 
capacity  for  299.  When  completed  same  will  be 
leased  to  the  Arch.  Amusement  Co.,  165  Third 
Ave. 


69 

Jeannette,  Pa.— Mrs.  M.  C.  Guy  Is  taking  blda 
for  a  two-story  moving  picture  theater  which  she 
proposes    to   erect   in   the   spring. 

Nanticoke,  Pa — Prank  Devlin,  South  Main  street, 
Wllkes-Barre,  Pa.,  will  soon  receive  bids  for  a 
one-story  moving  picture  theater  with  gallery. 
The  theater  will  have  a  Beating  capacity  of  800. 

Beaver  Falls,  Pa.^Iohn  J.  Paff  has  plans  in  pro- 
gress for  a  three  story  moving  picture  theater 
««<Jj.USlness    buJldln8-      T°e    structure    will    coat 

v»>5,000, 

Berwyn,  Pa. — George  R.  Zimmerman  contemplates 
putting  up  a  two-story  moving  picture  theater 
to   cost  $20,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.— The  hotel  property  and  stores 
on  Main  street,  Manayunk,  between  Green  lane  and 
Carson  street,  running  through  to  Cresson  street 
opposite  the  Reading  Railway  station,  have  been 
sold  by  Peter  D.  Liebert  and  John  B.  Obers  to  a 
syndicate,  which  will  erect  there  a  $50,000  moving 
picture  and  vaudeville  theater  with  a  seating  ca- 
pacity of  1700.  The  lot  is  78  by  183  feet.  L. 
Lemlsh,  broker,  made  the  sale.  When  this  building 
Is  erected  it  will  be  the  handsomest  and  moat  com- 
modious of  its  kind  in  this  part  of  the  city. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.— The  four-story  factory  at  1646 
to  1650  North  Sixth  street,  below  Columbia  ave- 
nue, which  was  formerly  occupied  by  the  Girard 
Finishing  Works,  has  been  purchased  by  Well  dfc 
Sattler  as  a  site  for  a  moving  picture  theater. 
The  factory  has  a  frontage  of  52  feet,  with  a  depth 
of   171    feet,    and   is  assessed   at  $22,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Samuel  Morrison  is  planning  a 
one-story  moving  picture  theater,  30  x  120  feet 
to  be  built  at  2011  and  2013  Frankford  avenue. 
Philadelphia,  Pa— Edward  Fay  &  Son  are  esti- 
mating on  plans  for  moving  picture  theaters  at 
Nineteenth  and  Norris  streets  and  at  2924  Rich- 
mond street,    tbe   latter  for  William  Butler. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Henry  P.  Schneider  is  estimat- 
ing on  plans  for  a  moving  picture  theater  on  Dia- 
mond street,  near  Nineteenth  street,  for  Green  4 
Almont. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — A  syndicate  headed  by  Will- 
lam  West  and  Dr.  G.  H.  Kolber  has  purchased 
the  premises  1142-44-46  Passyunk  avenue,  lot  55 
feet  by  160  feet,  on  which  a  moving  picture  thea- 
ter, to  cost  $40,000,  will  be  built.  The  price  paid 
for  the  lot  was  $15,000. 

New  York,  N.  Y. — James  F.  Meeban,  president 
of  the  Kellwood  Realty  Company  Is  receiving  bids 
for    a    one-story    moving    picture    theater. 

New  York,  N.  Y.— A.  Kreuder,  1421  Madison 
avenue  is  to  build  a  two-story  moving  picture 
theater    to   cost   $6,000. 

New  Rochelle,  N.  Y.— The  Thanhouser  Company 
will  build  an  addition  to  their  studio  to  cost  $10,000. 
Tbe  contract  for  the  structural  iron  work  has  been 
let   to   Charles  Margerum. 

Syracuse,  N.  Y.— S.  F.  Hallock,  511  Dewltt 
street,  will  build  a  one-story  moving  picture  theater 
with  a  seating  capacity  of  300  and  to  cost  $4,000. 
Excavating  for  the  foundation  has  been  started. 

Troy,  N.  Y.— Frank  Smith.  79  Mlddleburg  street, 
has  started  work  on  the  alterations  to  his  moving 
picture    theater. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Kahn  Ic  Greenberg  have  made 
a  contract  with  G'eorge  Hogg  to  build  a  moving 
picture  theater  on  the  lot  at  the  southeast  corner 
of  Broad  and  Thompson  streets,  recently  purchased 
by  them  from  the  estate  of  Meta  Connor  Wood. 
The  new-  building  has  been  leased  to  Thomas  M. 
Dougherty,  of  the  Nixon-Nirdllnger  staff,  who  con- 
templates using  it  for  the  display  of  motion  pic- 
tures of  a  high  grade,  a  form  of  entertainment 
which  is  said  to  be  entirely  new  to  this  city.  The 
new  structure  will  be  in  tbe  Spanish  mission  style, 
and  will  occupy  a  lot  25  feet  by  160  feet.  There 
will  be  entrances  both  on  Broad  street  and  on 
Thompson  street.  The  theater  will  be  known  as 
"The  Strand." 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Levick  &  Waldow  have  pur- 
chased from  Michael  Lawrence  the  L-shaped  lot, 
2217-19-21-23  North  Twenty-ninth  street,  with  2828- 
30  Fletcher  street  In  the  rear,  all  occupying  a  lot 
74  feet  9  Inches  on  Twenty-ninth  street  with  a 
depth  of  184  feet.  The  purchasers  will  build  a 
moving  picture  and  vaudeville  theater  on  the  site, 
to  seat  2400  and  to  cost  abont  $150,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — The  moving  picture  theater 
known  as  the  Franklin,  at  1205  to  1209  North 
Fifty-second  street,  has  been  conveyed  by  Frank- 
lin F.  Trainer  through  J.  Hesser  Malvern,  to  the 
Commonwealth  Title  Insurance  and  Trust  Com- 
pany, for  a  nominal  consideration,  subject  to  a 
mortgage  of  $26,000.  It  la  a  two-story  brick 
building  on  a  lot  48  x  94  feet  and  Is  assessed  at 
$20,000. 

Elizabeth,  N.  J. — George  Ziglar,  Fifth  and  Court 
streets,  has  received  bids  for  a  one-story  moving 
picture   theater   to   cost   $15,000. 

Baltimore,  Md. — Samuel  E.  Relnhard  Is  having1 
plans  prepared  for  a  one-story  moving  picture  and' 
vaudeville   theater. 

Washington,  D.  O. — Columbia  Amusement  Com- 
pany are  receiving  estimates  for  a  two-storr 
moving    picture    theater    and    offlee    building. 

Cincinnati,  0. — Lawrence  Buscbe,  1107  Bates  ave- 
nue, will  take  bids  In  a  few  days  for  a  one-story 
moving    picture    theater    to    coat   $30,000. 


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THE    -MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


Calendar  of  Independent  Releases 


Universal  Film  Mfg.  Co.— Current  Releases 

SUNDAY,  MARCH  30th,  1913. 

REX — Her  New   Chauffeur   (Comedy-Drama) 

CRYSTAL— The  Drummer's  Note  Book  (Comedy) 

CRYSTAL— It's  a  Bear  (Comedy) 

ECLAIR— Married  In  Haste   (Comedy) 

MONDAY,  MARCH  31st,  1913- 

IMP — Cupid   In  Uniform   (Drama) 

NESTOR — Superstitious   Mary   (Comedy)    

NESTOR— Mum's    the    Word    (Comedy) 

CHAMPION— A  Knotty  Knot  (Comedy) 

TUESDAY,  APRIL  1st,  1913. 

GEM— Billy's    Double    (Comedy) 

GEM — Lyndhoven    Farm,   Virginia    

"'101"   BISON— A    House    Divided    (3   parts— Drama). . . 
WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  2nd,  1913. 

NESTOR— The  Widow's  Folly  (Drama) 

POWERS— Do  It  Now   (Comedy) 

ECLAIR — The  Superior  Law   (3  parts — Drama) 

UNIVERSAL— The  Animated  Weekly  No.  56  (News).. 
THURSDAY,  APRIL  3rd,  1913. 

IMP — The   Bishop's   Candlesticks   (2  parts — Drama) 

REX— Fiddler  Pete   (Comedy-Drama) 

FRONTIER— The  Bandit's   Redemption   (Drama) 

FRIDAY,  APRIL  4th,  1913. 

NESTOR— A   Providential   Tragedy    (Drama) 

POWERS— Bachelor  Bill's  Birthday  Present  (Comedy). 

VICTOR— A  Letter  to  Mother   (Drama) 

SATURDAY,  APRIL  5th,  1913. 

IMP— Binks,  the   Terrible  Turk   (Comedy) 

"101"    BISON— Taps    (2   parts— Drama) 

MECCA— By  the   Curate's   Aid    (Drama) 

SUNDAY,  APRIL  6th,  1913. 

REX— Bobby's  Baby   (Drama)    

CRYSTAL— Pearl  as  a  Clairvoyant  (Comedy)  • 

CRYSTAL— Almost   a   Winner    (Comedy) 

ECLAIR— He  Wants  What  He  Wants  When  He  Wants 

It  (Comedy)    

ECLAIR — Crystallization  (Scientific)    

MONDAY,  APRIL  7th,  1913. 

IMP— The  Wanderer  (Drama)    

NESTOR— The  Maid  and  the  Milkman  (Comedy) 

NESTOR— River  Rhine,  Germany  (Physical  Geography) 

CHAMPION— Shanghaied   (Drama)    

CHAMPION — The  Life-savers  of  Chicamacomico  (Voca- 
tional)     

TUESDAY,  APRIL  8th,  1913. 

GEM — Billy  Gets  Arrested   (Comedv)    ■ 

101   BISON — War  (2-reels  Drama)    

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  9th,  1913. 

NESTOR— How  Fatty  Got  Even  (Comedy) 

POWERS— The   Elixir  of  Youth   (Comedy) 

ECLAIR — Within    the    Limit    of    the    Law    (Two-parts 

Drama)    

UNIVERSAL— The  Animated  Weekly  No.   57  (News).. 
THURSDAY,  APRIL  10th,  1913. 

IMP — Aunt  Kate's  Mistake  (Comedy) 

REX— Until  Death  (Two-parts  Drama)   

FRONTIER— As   Fate   Wills   (Drama)    

FRIDAY,  APRIL  nth,  1913. 

NESTOR— The   Forgotten    Letter    (.Drama) 

POWERS— The   Fear    (Drama)    

VICTOR— Two  Lives    ( Drama)    

SATURDAY,  APRIL  12th,  1913. 

IMP — The  Mvsterious  Card  (Comedy) 

101     BISON — The    Darling    of    the    Regiment    (2-reels 

Drama)    

FRONTIER— The  Burning  Lariat  (Drama)   

Mutual  Film  Corporation — Current  Releases, 

SUNDAY,    MARCH    30th,    1913. 

MAJESTIC— A  Well  Meant  Deception  (Drama) 

THANHOUSER— The  Wax  Lady  (Drama)    

MONDAY,  MARCH  31st,  1913- 
EXCELSIOR— The  Romance  of  a  Fisher  Boy  (Drama) 

AMERICAN — The    Renegade's    Heart    (Drama) 1000 

KEYSTONE— Her  New  Beau  (Comedy) 

KEYSTONE— On  His  Wedding  Day  (Comedy) 

TUESDAY,  APRIL  1st,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— A  Study  In   Sociology   (Drama) 

THANHOUSER— The    Woman    Who    Did    Not    Care 

Drama)    , .. 

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  2nd,  1913. 

MUTUAL— Mutual  Weekly   Xo.   14   (News) 

RELIANCE— The  Judge's  Vindication  (2  parts — Drama) 
BRONCHO— The  Sinews  of  War  (2  parts— Drama) 


THURSDAY,  APRIL  3rd,  1913. 

AMERICAN— Matches    (Comedy)     1000 

KEYSTONE— The  Land  Salesman   (Comedy) 

KEYSTONE— Hide   and   Seek    (Comedy) 

MUTUAL— Willy  and  the  Faithful  Servant  (Comedy) . . 

MUTUAL — Winter  Sports  in  Norway   (Sporting) 

FRIDAY,  APRIL  4th,   1913. 

KAY  BEE — With  Lee  in  Virginia  (2  parts— Drama) 

THANHOUSER— The  Spoiled  Darling's  Doll  (Drama)  . 
SATURDAY,  APRIL  5th,  1913. 

AMERICAN— The  Mute  Witness  (Drama) 1000 

RELIANCE— The  Penalty  (Drama) 

SUNDAY,  APRIL  6th,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— The  Half  Orphans   (Drama) 

THANHOUSER— (Title   Not   Reported)    

MONDAY,  APRIL  7th,  1913. 
EXCELSIOR — Tempermental  Alice  (Comedy-Drama).. 

AMERICAN — Cupid  Throws  a  Brick  (Drama) 1000 

KEYSTONE— Those  Good  Old  Days  (Comedy) 

TUESDAY,  APRIL  8th,  1913. 

MATESTIC— The  Night  Riders  (Drama) ' 

THANHOUSER— (Title   Not   Reported)    

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  9th,  1913. 

MUTUAL— Mutual  Weekly  No.   15  (News) 

RELIANCE— The  Woman  Who  Knew  (Drama) 

BRONCHO— The  Grey  Sentinel   (2-parts   Drama) 

THURSDAY,  APRIL  10th,  1913. 

AMERICAN — The  Homestead  Race  (Drama) 1000 

KEYSTONE— A  Game  of  Poker  (Comedy) 

KEYSTONE— Father's   Choice   (Comedy) 

MUTUAL— Willy  Prefers  Liberty  to  Wealth  (Comedv) 
MUTUAL— The  Golden  Horn,  Turkey   (Physical  Geo.) 
FRIDAY,  APRIL  nth,  1913. 

KAY  BEE— On  Fortune's  Wheel   (2  parts— Drama) 

THANHOUSER— (Title    Not   Reported)    

SATURDAY,  APRIL  12th,  1913. 

AMERICAN — Woman's  Honor  (Drama) 1000 

RELIANCE— The  She-Wolf  (Drama)    


Film  Supply  Co. — Current  Releases. 

MONDAY,  MARCH  31st,  1913. 
RYNO — Memories  of  Long  Ago  (Drama) 

TUESDAY,  APRIL  1st,  1913. 

GAUMONT— The  Quality  of  Kindness  (Drama) 

GAUMONT— By    Waters    Beautiful 

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  2nd,  1913. 

GAUMONT— Gaumont's  Weekly  No.  56  (News) 

RAMO— The  Last  Old  Lady  (Comedy) 

RAMO — Rapid  Transit  In  New  York 

SOLAX — The    Bachelor's    Housekeeper     (Comedy) 

THURSDAY,  APRIL  3rd,  1913. 
GAUMONT— Marriage   By   the   Wholesale    (Comedy).. 

GAUMONT— Exotic    Fish    (Scientific) 

PILOT— In  the  Battle's  Smoke  (Drama) 

FRIDAY,  APRIL  4th,  1913. 

LUX— Too    Polite    (Comedy) 475 

LUX— More  Than   She   Bargained  For   (Comedy) 508 

RYXO — Classmates    (Drama) 

SOLAX— The  Ogres   (Drama)    

SATURDAY,  APRIL  5th,  1913. 
GAUMONT — (An  Educational  and  Topical  Subject).... 
GREAT  NORTHERN— A  Skipper's  Story  (Comedy)... 
GREAT  NORTHERN— Under  Southern  Skies  (Scenic). 
MONDAY,  APRIL  7th,  1913. 

RYXO— The  Outcast  (Drama)    

TUESDAY,  APRIL  8th,  1913. 

GAUMONT— The  Angel  of  Mercy   (.Drama)    

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  9th,  1913- 

GAUMONT- Gaumont's  Weekly  No.  57   (News) 

RAMO— (Title   Xot  Reported)    

SOLAX— The  Ladv  Doctor  (Comedv )   

THURSDAY,  APRIL  10th,  1913. 

GAUMONT— (Title  Not  Reported)  

PILOT— The  Smuggler's  Dog  (Drama)   

FRIDAY,  APRIL  nth,  1913. 

LUX — Sacrificed  to  the  Lions  (Drama) 

RYNO— Off  the  Mainland  (Drama)    

SOLAX — His  Son-In-Law  (Drama)    

SATURDAY,  APRIL  12th,  1913. 

GAUMONT— (An  Educational  and  Topical  Subject) 

GREAT    NORTHERN— The    Bewitched    Rubber   Shoes 

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GREAT  XORTHERX— Spanish  Towns  (Scenic) 


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Current    Releases. 

MONDAY,  MARCH  31st,  1913- 

BIOGRAPH — Edwin    Masquerades    (Comedy) 

BIOGRAPH— Their  One  Good  Suit  (Comedy) 

EDISON— The  Elder  Brother   (Drama) 1000 

KALEM — The    American    Princess    (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — Women   of  the   Desert    (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's  Weekly  No.   14  (News) 

SELIG — A  Prisoner  of  Cabanas   (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH — Bedelia    Becomes   a    Lady    (Comedy) ..  .1000 

ESSANAY— The   Spy's   Defeat    (Special— 2  parts— Dr.)  .2000 

TUESDAY,  APRIL  1st,  1913. 

CINES — He  Wouldn't   Give   Up   (Comedy) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— How  Plaster  Is  Obtained  (Industrial).. 

PATHEPLAY— The  Moros  (Acrobatic)   

EDISON— With   the   Eyes   of  the   Blind    (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY— The  Sheriff's  Son   (Drama) 1000 

KALEM — The  Exposure  of  the  Land  Swindlers  (3  parts 

— Special — Drama)    3000 

LUBIN — Shipping  a   Clock   (Comedy) 

LUBIN— The  Fake  Soldiers  (Comedy) 

SELIG— Margarita  and  the   Mission   Funds   (Drama)  ...  1000 

VITAGRAPH— Checkmated   (Drama)    1000 

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  and,  1913. 

ECLIPSE — The  Fruit  of  Suspicion  (Drama) 1000 

EDISON — The  Duke's  Dilemma  (Comedy) 1000 

ESSANAY— The  Price  of  Gold  (Drama) 1000 

SELIG — A  Lucky  Mistake  (Comedy-Drama) 

SELIG — Chinese   Temple    (Architecture)    

PATHEPLAY— The  Engineer's  Daughter  (Drama).... 
PATHEPLAY — Cairo,  Egypt,  and  Its  Environs  (Scenic) 
PATHEPLAY— Nobility  (2  parts— Drama— Special). ..  . 

KALEM — The  Sacrifice  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— Alixe,  or  the  Test  of  Friendship  (Dr.)..  1000 
THURSDAY,  APRIL  3rd,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Hero  of  Little  Italy  (Drama) 

ESSANAY— The  Will-Be  Weds  (Comedy) 1000 

LUBIN — A  False   Friend   (Drama) 1000 

MELIES — The  Stolen  Tribute  to  the  King  (Drama).... 
MELIES — The  River  Wanganui   (Physical  Geography). 

PATHEPLAY— There  She   Goes   (Comedy) 

SELIG — Arabia,  the   Equine  Detective   (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— The  Midget's  Romance  (Comedy) 

VITAGRAPH— Our  Coast  Defenders  (Military) 

FRIDAY,  APRIL  4th,  1913. 

EDISON— The    Inventor's   Sketch    (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY— A  Wolf  Among  Lambs  (Drama) 1000 

KALEM — Fatty's  Deception  (Comedy) 

KALEM — New    York's    Public    Markets    (Manners    and 

Customs)     

LUBIN— The  Burden  Bearer  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— Whiffles   Tries    Moving   Picture    Acting 

(Comedy)    

PATHEPLAY — An  Excursion  to  the  Grande  Chartreuse, 

France  (Travel)   

SELIG — The    Hoyden's    Awakening    (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— Let    'Em    Quarrel    (Comedy) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— The    Golden    Hoard;    or    Buried    Alive 

(Special — 2  parts — Drama)   2000 

SATURDAY,  APRIL  5th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Perfidy  of  Mary  (Drama) 

CINES — Modern    Progress    in    Somaliland,    East    Africa 

(Typical)    SCO 

CINES— Faint  Heart  Ne'er  Won  Fair  Lady  (Comedy)..   500 

EDISON — Master  and   Man   (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY— Broncho  Billy's  Way  (Drama) 1000 

KALEM — A  Mississippi  Tragedy   (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN— His  Widow  (Comedy) 

LUBIN— Collecting  the  Bill  (Comedy) 

SELIG — A  Change  of  Administration  (Special — 2  parts — 

Drama)     2000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Broken  Idyll   (Drama) 

VITAGRAPH— He  Answered  the  Ad  (Comedy) 1000 


Advance  Releases. 

MONDAY,  APRIL  7th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Stolen   Bride   (Drama)    

EDISON — A  Shower  of  Slippers   (Comedy) 1000 

KALEM — In  the  Grip  of  a  Charlatan  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN— The  Evil  One  (Drama)    1000 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's  Weekly  No.   15  (News) 

SELIG — Vengeance    Is   Mine    (Drama)    1000 

VITAGRAPH — Bunny's  Honeymoon  (Comedy)  1000 

CINES — The  Queen  of  Spades  (Special— 2  parts — Dr.).. 2000 

TUESDAY,  APRIL  8th,  1913. 
CINES — Scenes  Along  the  Pescara  River,  Central  Italy 

(Physical    Geography)     350 

CINES — A  Romance  by  the  Sea  (Drama)   650 

PATHEPLAY— The  Snap  Shot   (Comedy)    

PATHEPLAY— The    River    Clyde    at    Lanark,    Scotland 

(Physical  Geography)    

EDISON— Old  Jim  (Drama)    t 1000 

ESSANAY— The  Wardrobe   Lady   (Comedy-Drama) 1000 

LUBIN— For  His  Child's  Sake   (Drama)    1000 

SELIG— Robert  Hale's  Ambition  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— The  Transition   (Drama)    1000 

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  9th,  1913. 
ECLIPSE— The  Kentish  Coast,  England  (Physical  Geog- 
raphy)       250 

ECLIPSE— Making  Birch  Brooms  (Trades) 300. 

ECLIPSE— An  Up-To-Date  Aviator  (Comedy)    450 

EDISON— The   Well  Sick   Man    (Comedy)    1000 

ESSANAY— The  Sheriff's  Wife  (Drama)    1000 

SELIG — The     Shotgun     Man     and     the     Stage     Driver 

(Drama)    1000 

LUBIN— The  Toll  of  Fear  (2  parts— Drama— Special) .  .2000 

PATHEPLAY— Too  Much  Parcel  Post  (Comedy) 

KALEM — The  Pursuit  of  the  Smugglers  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— Out  of  the  Storm   (Drama) 1000 

THURSDAY,  APRIL  10th,  1913. 
BIOGRAPH— An  "Unch  Tom's  Cabin"  Troupe  (Com.) 

BIOGRAPH— A  Lesson  to  Mashers  (Comedy)    

ESSANAY— Found  Out  (Comedy)    1000 

LUBIN— The  Magic  Shoes  (Comedy)    

LUBIN — Angel  Cake  and  Axle  Grease  (Comedy)   

MELIES— The  Maoris  of  New  Zealand  (Manners  &  Cus- 
toms)     1000 

PATHEPLAY— God  Is  Love  (Drama)    

SELIG — Tommy's  Atonement  (Drama)   

SELIG — The    Tombs    of    the    Ming    Emperors    (Monu- 
ments)     

VITAGRAPH— Cutey  and  the  Chorus  Girls  (Comedy) ..  1000 
FRIDAY,  APRIL  nth,  1913. 

EDISON— The  Capture  of  a  Wild  Cat  (Sports) 350 

EDISON— Rule   Thyself    (Comedy)    650 

ESSANAY— The  Little  Mother  (Drama)    1000 

KALEM— The  Scimitar  of  the  Prophet  (Drama) 

KALEM — The  Indestructible  Mr.  Jenks  (Comedy) 

LUBIN— The  Split  Nugget   (Drama)    1000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Analysis  of  Motion  (Scientific) 

PATHEPLAY— The  Locust  (Zoology)   

SELIG— With  Love's  Eyes   (Drama)    1000 

VITAGRAPH— Wanted,  A  Strong  Hand  (Comedy).... 
VITAGRAPH— Laying  a  Marine  Cable  (Telegraph).... 
VITAGRAPH— The  Web  (Special— 2  parts— Drama) ..  .2000 
SATURDAY,  APRIL  12th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Little  Tease  (Drama)   

CINES — On  the  Nebi  River,  East  Africa  (Physical  Geo.)  200 

CINES— Keeping  Tab  On  Sammy  (Comedy)    800 

EDISON— The  Man  Who  Wouldn't  Marry  (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY — Broncho  Billy's  Reason  (Drama)   1000 

KALEM— The  California  Oil  Crooks  (Drama) 

LUBIN — Pete  Tries  the  Stage  (Comedy) iooo 

PATHEPLAY— The  Happy  Home  (Drama)    

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Conspiracy  and  the  more  seri- 
ous charge  of  trafficking  in  human 
beings  is  the  accusation  against 
Isadore  Breschard  and  his  wife, 
who  are  held  here  without  bail. 
The  star  witness  against  the  pris- 
oners is  Airs.  Raymond  Durieux. 
She  furnishes  proof  to  support 
her  charge  that  the  Breschards 
tricked  her  into  believing  that  her 
mother-in-law,  the  wealthy  Mrs. 
Pierre  Durieux,  would  not  receive 
her  and  her  child,  after  having 
been  invited  to  come  from  Amer- 
ica to  enjoy  her  hospitality.  Mad- 
ame Durieux,  Jr..  swears  that  the 
Breschard  woman  stole  her  pa- 
pers of  identification,  sold  her 
child  to  a  flower  vender  and  im- 
personated her  in  the  home  of 
Madame  Durieux,  St.,  whose  for- 
tune she  attempted  to  steal. 

The  arrest  was  made  at  Havre 
by  government  agents,  who  had 
been  gathering  evidence  against 
the  Breschards  for  exporting 
young  women  to  South  America 
1  for  motives  sinister. 

Madame  Durieux,  Jr.,  met  the 
Breschards  on  board  ship,  coming 
from  America.  She  confided  to 
them  the  story  of  the  death  of  her 
husband,  a  wayward  son,  and  of 


her  coming  to  France  to  accept 
the  home  offered  herself  and  child. 

It  appears  that  the  Breschards 
sent  wireless  messages  to  France 
on  nearing  the  coast.  On  the  ar- 
rival of  the  steamship,  a  telegram 
was  handed  to  Madame  Durieux, 
supposed  to  have  been  signed  by 
her  mother-in-law.  It  read  that 
circumstances  made  it  impossible 
for  the  elder  woman  to  receive 
her. 

The  Breschards,  wolves  in 
sheep's  clothing,  promised  to  find 
work  for  her.  After  arriving  at  a 
small  hotel  in  Havre,  Madame 
Durieux  found  that  her  papers  of 
identification  had  been  stolen.  She 
was  later  told  that  a  position  as 
governess  in  a  South  American 
family  had  been  obtained,  but  that 
she  would  be  unable  to  take  her 
child  with  her.  The  little  girl  was 
shipped  to  a  flower  vender  in 
Paris,  where  with  other  unfortu- 
nates she  was  forced  to  work  on 
the  streets. 

The  schemers  were  foiled  indi- 
vidually at  the  same  time.  The 
Breschard  woman  had  gone  to 
the  elder  Mrs.  Durieux'  home  and 
falsely  established  her  identity 
with  the  aid  of  the  stolen  papers. 
She  said  the  child  had  died  pre- 
vious to  their  leaving  for  France. 
The     conspirator     contrived     to 


wheedle  the  elder  Mrs.  Durieux 
into  giving  her  control  of  her 
property. 

Little  Jennie  Durieux,  rebelling 
because  of  cruel  treatment  given 
her,  decided  to  ask  aid  from  her 
grandmother,  whose  address  had 
been  given  her  by  her  mother. 
Jennie  asked  a  passerby  to  direct 
her.  The  stranger  was  Peter  R. 
Gillen,  local  magistrate.  He  be- 
came interested  in  the  tot  and 
took  her  to  her  grandmother's 
home.  The  latter  quickly  under- 
stood that  something  was  amiss. 
She  recognized  the  little  one  by 
the  resemblance  to  her  father. 

The  Breschard  woman  came 
into  the  room  and  little  Jennie 
denounced  her  as  being  a  usurp- 
er and  a  "bad,  bad  woman,"  as 
the  little  one  expressed  it.  The 
impostor  was  arrested  and  taken 
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VITAGRAPH. 

BUNNY'S  HONEYMOON  (April.  7). — Bunny's 
nle.  e  has  a  beau  who  Is  so  addicted  to  drink  tliat 
■er  father  will  not  permit  her  to  marry  him.  He 
■  as  given  the  lad  a  chance,  but  when  he  comes  upon 
him  drunk  again,  he  orders  his  daughter  to  break 
It  all  off.  She  goes  to  1'ncle  Bunny,  who  thinks 
up  a  scheme  to  cure  the  drunkard.  In  persuance 
of  this,  he  brings  the  lad,  so  drunk  that  he  can't 
aee  straight,  to  his  home  and  by  dressing  up  in 
woman  gear,  and  by  borrowed  kids,  makes  Mm 
think  he  has  married  a  fat  widow  with  many  chil- 
dren. The  poor  lad  is  so  greatly  worried  that. 
when  he  wakes  up  next  morning,  he  really  swears 
off.     So,   in   the  end,   the  lovers  are   bappy. 

THE  TRANSITION  (April  i). — Pete  conducts  an 
Illicit  still.  Sheriff  McCall  is  on  his  track.  Magnus 
sees  the  officer  approaching  and  wounds  McCall. 
Nora,  the  moonshiner's  daughter,  hears  tbe  shot  and 
comes  upon  the  prostrate  body  and  assists  him  to  her 
borne.  She  sees  his  badge  and  extracts  the  warrant 
for  her  father's  arrest  from  his  pocket.  Her  father 
returns  and  is  enraged  at  the  sight  of  the  sheriff. 
Nora  interferes,  but  he  cannot  control  bis  rage, 
throws  his  daughter  aside  and  would  have  killed 
the  sheriff  had  not  the  deputies  appeared  upon  the 
scene,  subdued  Magnus  and  placed  the  handcuffs 
upon  him.  Nora,  while  nursing  McCall,  become? 
very  fond  of  him  and  he  falls  in  love  with  her. 
Pete    Mangus   escapes  and   begins   life   anew. 

OUT  OF  THE  STORM  (April  9).— Mrs.  Harrison, 
•  widow,  la  living  alone  with  her  slek  baby  girl. 
The  telephone  wires  are  down,  and  it  ia  imperative 
that  she  have  the  services  of  a  doctor.  Wendell 
Wilson,  a  once  rich  man.  but  now  a  penniless 
wanderer,  singles  out  Mrs.  Harrison's  house  to  rob. 
He  is  caught  by  the  widow.  She  sends  him  for 
the  doctor.  After  the  departure  of  the  physician. 
Mrs.  Harrison  thanks  Wilson  and  he  tells  her  of 
his  misfortune.  He  asks  the  widow  to  give  him  a 
photo   of   her   little   daughter,    which    she   does. 

Five  years  later  he  returns,  wealthy,  and  tells 
tbe  widow  of  his  love  and  she  confesses  hers. 

CUTEY  AND  THE  CHORUS  GIRLS  (April  10).— 
Cntey  tries  to  make  an  impression  on  a  couple  of 
chorus  girls.  He  attends  the  burlesque  show  with 
bis  friends.  Billy  and  Johnny.  When  the  chorus 
appears,  his  eyes  light  upon  Dolly  and  Kitty,  with 
whom  he  tries  to  flirt.  Flora  Scrawny  mistakes 
Cutev's  efforts  as  being  directed  to  her.  He 
hastens  around  to  the  stage  door  with  a  bouquet  of 
Bowers,  tries  to  present  them  to  Kitty,  and  when 
she  will  not  accept  them,  he  offers  them  to  Dolly. 
Flora  appears  and  takes  it  for  granted  that  he 
is  waiting  for  her.  Cutey  tries  to  make  her  under- 
stand that  she  is  not  in  it. 

He  sends  a  diamond  ring  with  a  bouquet  of 
Bowers  to  Dolly.  Flora  Is  disappointed  that  he  had 
not  sent  them  to  her.  Dolly  consoles  Flora  by 
telling  her  she  does  not  care  for  Cutey.  and  she 
will  replv  to  the  letter,  saying  that  she  and  Kitty 
will  be  there  to  dinner,  but  Flora  can  go  and  meet 
him  herself.  Cutey  goes  to  the  restaurant  ;  and 
waits  patiently  for  their  coming.  Billy  and  Johnny 
hire  a  sandwich  man  of  gigantic  size  to  impersonate 
Flora's  brother.  While  Cutey  is  waiting  for  the 
party  Flora  slips  into  the  restaurant  and  takes  a 
seat"  at  his  table.  He  becomes  impatient  ™d  de- 
termines to  have  something  to  eat  himself.  When 
he    reaches   his    table   he    finds   Flora   sitting    there. 


He  is  completely  upset  and  loses  his  appetite  at 
on,  e.  Flora.  Kitty.  Johnny,  Billy  and  the  sandwich 
man  reach  the  restaurant  just  as  Cutey  is  about  to 
take  a  quiet  little  sneak.  The  sandwich  man  takes 
a  seat  at  the  table  and  threatens  to  chastise  Cutey 
if  be  docs  not  make  himself  agreeable  anil  make 
good  his  attentions  to  his  injured  "sister."  Flora 
and  Kitty.  Johnny  and  Billy,  who  have  been  dining 
at  another  table,  come  over  and  congratulate 
Cntej  upon  his  engagement  to  Miss  Flora,  and 
under  the  scowling  and  threatening  eyes  of  the 
big  "brother,"  Cutey  is  obliged  to  escort  Flora 
to   her  home. 

WANTED,  A  STRONG  HAND  (April  11).— 
Annie  is  the  only  and  motherless  child  of  Mr. 
Babr.  He  has  petted  and  spoiled  her.  To  solve 
the  question,  he  determines  to  get  married.  He 
advertises  for  a  better  half.  Mrs.  Binks  answers 
tbe  ad  in  person.  He  proposes  to  her  and  she  ac- 
cepts. She  is  a  widow  and  has  a  son.  Anna  and 
her  father  were  looking  forward  to  meeting  a 
little  boy,  but  evidently,  he  has  out-grown  his 
age  and  over-reached  it.  Anna  is  too  much  for  her 
step-mother  to  handle  and  has  a  fixed  purpose  in 
ber  mind  to  have  a  whole  lot  of  fun  with  her  boob 
step-brother,  but  she  has  not  reckoned  with  her 
host.  The  boy  is  more  than  a  match  for  her.  He 
exercises  a  strong  hand  over  Anna  and  proves 
a  great  Influence  for  good  in  her  behalf.  She  grows 
to  be  a  very  congenial  companion  for  her  step- 
mother and  a  great  comfort  to  her  father. 

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LAYING  A  MARINE  CABLE  (April  11).— The 
recent  laying  of  the  telegraphic  cable  under  the  sea 
calls  to  mind  the  wonderful  achievements  of  tele- 
graphy and  the  first  laying  of  the  Morse  Atlantic 
Cable  from  America  to  Europe,  connecting  the 
Western  with  the  Eastern  hemisphere.  The  un- 
winding and  laying  of  3,000  miles  of  cable  under 
and  across  the  Atlantic  Ocean,  is  a  gigantic  and 
marvelous  achievement,  almost  incomprehensible, 
but  all  made  quite  clear  in  this  remarkable  edu- 
cational film. 

MYSTERY  OF  THE  STOLEN   CHILD    (April  12). 

An   enemy    of    Mr.    Frost,    desiring    revenge,    reads 

of  tbe  death  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Marrell,  bis  daughter 
and  son-in-law.  Mr.  Frost  adopts  the  little  girl 
and  requires  a  nurse.  His  enemy  sends  a  woman 
accomplice  who  secures  the  position.  The  nurse 
is  so  well  treated  by  the  grandparents  that  she 
refuses  to  be  a  party  to  the  plot.  Frost  decides 
to  send  his  family  to  Europe.  His  automobile  Is 
tampered  with,  and  the  party  hire  a  taxicab.  which 
is  run  by  one  of  the  gang.  The  chauffeur's  actions 
arouse  Frost's  suspicions.  He  quickly  repairs  his 
own  auto  and  follows.  Instead  of  being  taken  to 
the  steamer  bis  family  is  being  taken  as  prisoners 
to  a  lonely  houBe.  Frost  arrives  and  rescues  them 
and  the  chauffeur  flees.  On  board  the  ship  the 
family  meet  Lambert  Chase,  a  detective.  One  day 
on  tie  boat  the  little  girl  disappears.  Her  folks 
consult  the  detective  and  he  laughingly  takes  them 
to  where  he  has  wrapped  her  up  warmly  In  a  large 
steamer  rug. 

THE  WEB  (Special  twe-parts  April  11).— Lester 
Phillip*  finds  that  the  allurements  of  j*;at"« 
Esmond,  an  adventuress,  have  ""acted  "m.  and 
he  endeavors  to  disentangle  h  mself.  But  she 
lovea  Lester  and  Is  trying  to  keep  bis  love  in- 
veigles ber  admirer,  Zolan,  into  going  to  the  home 
of  Lester's  sweetheart  to  poison  her  mind  against 
him,  which  he  does.  Beatrice  "then  fascinate. 
Lester's  young  brother,  Francis.  To  save  bis 
br?tb«  trim  becoming  a  victim  of  the  adventuress. 
Lester  writes  a  note  to  Beatrice  saying  that  bis 
love  for  his  affianced  wife,  Agatha,  was  all  a 
mistake.  Lester  Is  caught  In  the  arms  of  Beatrice 
bv  Zolan  who  rushes  immediately  to  the  home  of 
Agatha.  Zolan  takes  Agatha  and  her  father  to 
a  restaurant  where  they  see  Lester  nonchalantly 
Srinking  with  Beatrice.  She  writes  a  note  to 
Lester,    breaking   ber   engagement   with    °'m 

To    a    banquet   given    at    the    home   "Beatrice 
Lester   invites   his   brother     where    the :   latter .tea™, 
the  true  state  of  affairs.     Having  saved  his  brother- 
Lester    sends    a    note    to    Beatrice,    «**?«•        *| 
you    used    my    brother    to    injure    me,     I    have    used 
you   to  save  him.     Henceforth     we   are  strangers 
She    calls    on    Lester    and    attacks    him.      In    the 
eSnseuingallstru°ggle.   Zolan.    who   has   followed  Beat  rice 
,o    Lester's    apartments,    hres   a    shot    and    kills    the 
adventuress.     Lester  is  arrested.     But   through   uie 
clever    work    of     Agatha,     who    having     learned    of 
the    reason  of   her   sweethearts   feigned   affection   for 
Beatrice     Z^lan    is   captured,    and    Lester   liberated. 


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ordered  her  to  leave  the  village  on  penalty  of  death. 
Fleet  Foot  decided  to  Join  in  her  flight  and  sent 
her  forth  In  the  great  desert,  promising  to  meet 
her  with  food  and  water.  In  the  darkness  she  lost 
her  way  and  they  both  wandered  across  the  sandy 
stretch,  each  in  search  of  the  other.  The  tribe  de- 
termined to  kill  the  evil  one  and  gave  chase.  When 
Fleet  Foot  discovered  "Little  Wild  Cat,"  she  was 
almost  overcome.  Three  of  the  pursuers  overtook 
them  and  in  a  fierce  encounter  Fleet  Foot  killed 
two  braves:  the  other  took  flight.  They  struggled 
on  and  at  last  reached  the  Indian  agency,  where 
kindly  bands  administered  to  them.  When  "Little 
Wibl  Oat"  was  sufficiently  recovered,  she  and  Fleet 
Foot  were  married  by  the   minister. 

FOE  HIS  CHILD'S  SAKE  (April  8).— Jacques  Le- 
Barge  lives  with  his  wife  and  three -year-old  daugh- 
ter in  a  cabin.  Their  existence  is  happy,  but  Mary 
longs  at  times  for  the  life  of  civilization.  Wayne 
Milan,  a  former  love,  persuades  her  to  leave  her 
husband.  Milan,  however,  refuses  to  take  the  child. 
Jacques  returns  to  the  cabin  to  find  a  note  from 
Mary  telling  of  her  desertion.  The  child  has  seen 
the  father  approaching  the  cabin  and  playfully 
hides  in  the  clothes  closet.  The  father  thinks  Mary 
has  taken  the  child  with  her.  Jacques  starts  in 
pursuit.  In  the  terrible  anger  over  the  discovery, 
he  accidentally  knocks  over  a  chair  in  front  of  the 
fireplace  of  the  cabin.  A  large  coat  is  on  the  back 
of  the  chair,  and  soon  after  Jacques  leaves  the 
cabin  this  begins  to  burn,  setting  fire  to  the  rest 
of  the  room.  Jacques  plunges  into  the  forest  on 
his  mlsion  of  murder.  He  rinds  his  wife  before  he 
goes  far.  She  is  caught  in  one  of  his  own  Bteel 
traps,  and  has  been  deserted  by  the  coward  Milan. 
She  tells  him  the  little  girl  has  been  left  in  the 
cabin.  He  looks,  the  cabin  is  in  flames.  Wife  or 
child — which?  He  dashes  away  from  the  mother, 
back  to  the  cabin  and  rescues  the  child  as  she  lies 
on  the  closet  floor,  almost  suffocated.  Woodchop- 
pers  nearby  rush  to  the  cabin  and  receive  Jacques 
and  the  child.  Weakly,  hysterically,  Jacques  runs 
to  the  spot  where  his  wife  is  entrapped.  With  the 
aid  of  the  men  he  releases  her  from  the  powerful 
steel  jaws  of  the  trap.  The  love  she  has  displayed 
for  the  child  has  swept  away  Jacques*  anger  for  her.  • 
As  the  semi-conscious  mother  lies  on  the  ground. 
calling  feebly  for  her  little  one,  Jacques  forgives 
her. 

ANGEL  CAKE  AND  AXLE  GREASE  (April  10).— 
Col.    Hopkins,    Betty,    his    daughter.    Bob    and    Pete. 
play  a  game  of  quoits.     The  colonel  and  Bob  have  a 
quarrel    and    Pete,    who    is    Bob's    rival    lor    Betty's 
love,    urges    the    colonel    on    till    Bob    is    discharged 
and  Pete  himself  is  made  foreman.     Bob  gets  work 
In  the  store,    and   writes   to  Betty  of  the  fact,   and 
sends  the  letter  by   Buck.     When  Buck  gets  to  the 
ranch,    Betty    has    just    finished    baking    some    angel 
cakes.     She  packs  a  large  cake  in  a  box  and  writes 
a  note  to  Bob.   telling  him  that  if  he  does  not  eat 
it   all,    she    will    not   love   him    any    more.     She   gives 
Buck    a    piece    of    cake    to    carry    the    box    to    Bob. 
While    Buck    is   sitting   by    a    tree    eating   his   cake, 
Pete    gets    the    box    and    butters    the    cake    with    a 
generous  layer  of  axle  grease.     When  Buck  is  near- 
ioe   the  store,    he  is  stopped   by   five  or  six    Indians 
and   they  take  the  cake  away  from  him  and  have  a 
feast.     Buck,    seeing    it    disappear    so    fast,    grasps 
i    eats    it    himself.     Bob    and    the    store- 
keeper are  soon  busy  doping  a   lot  of  sick    Indians 
with    pain    killer.     Betty,    on   her   road   to   the   store 
supplies,   comes  upon  the  crowd,  and  Bob  points 
to    the    terrible    work    of    her    cake.     Betty    cannot 
believe   that    her   nice-looking  cake   was   capable    of 
laving    out    a    half-dozen    Redskins.     She    begins    an 
>  ligation     and     scents     axle     grease.     Suspicion 
Pete,   and  a  plot  is  hatched   to  make  him 
Betty   Bends  a   note  to  the  Colonel.    "I  am 
in  trouble,   come  quick   and  bring  Pete."     When  they 
arrive     the     sheriff     pretends     to     arrest     Betty     for 
»i  big     the     Indians,     pete     confesses     and     the 
I    fires   him   and    Bob  is  restored  to   favor. 
THE  SPLIT  NUGGET   (April  11).— John  Stanton, 
a  miner,  his  wife  and  children,  a  son  and  a  dangh-' 
tor.    live    in    a    cabin   about   a    mile    from    Stanton's 
claim.     One    day    the    boy    discovers    several    stones 
which  he  carries  back  to  show  to  the  fal 
prove    to   be    nuggets,    one   more   valuable    than    the 
rest.     The   father   takes   the  nugget   and  cuts   it   In 
half,    giving    one    part    to    the    boy    and    the    other 
to    the    girl.     The    father    starts    out    to    work    one 
morning    and    takes    the    hoy    with    him.     While    at 
the  cabin  is  attacked  by  Indians,  who  kill  the 
her  and  set  Are  to  the  house.     The  father  hears 
the   fight  and  starts  for  the  cabin.     He  arrives  and 
Indians   battle.     He    is  mortally  wounded 
and    :  depart,   taking  the  girl  with  them. 

In  the  meantime  the  boy  gets  worried  at  his  father's 
.-  and  starts  for  home.  He  arrives 
just  before  the  father  dies  and  the  father  teUs  him 
to  be  on  the  watch  for  his  sister  and  find  her  if 
possible.  Later  the  boy  is  found  by  a  party  of 
ared  for.  Fifteen  years  elapse  and 
the  boy  has  crown  to  manhood.  The  prospectors 
who  adopted  him  have  struck  it  rich,  and  owners 
of  a  valuable  mine.  The  boy  holds  the  position 
of  cashier.  In  the  meantime  the  girl  has  been 
broutrht  up  by  the  Indians.  One  day  she  meets  a 
young  man  who  is  immediately  smitten  by  her 
beautv.  They  are  married.  Vnknown  to  the  girl, 
her  husband  is  a  bandit.  Poverty  overtakes  them 
and  the  young  husband  resolves  to  look  for  work. 
He  sees  a  pack  train  carrying  gold  dust  from  the 
mine  to  the  bank  and  decides  to  rob  It.  He  carries 
out  his  plan  and  in  the  holdup  Harold  Is   wounded. 


The  bandit  gets  the  gold  and  escapes.  The  wounded 
boy  chances  upon  the  cabin  and  his  wounds  are 
the  girl.  The  bandit  returns  home  and 
is  overpowered  by  Harold.  One  of  the  miners,  who 
went  for  aid,  has  formed  a  posse  and  is  returning 
to  the  scene  of  the  holdup.  They  follow  the  tracks 
to  the  cabin.  In  the  meantime  the  boy,  having 
learned  that  the  bandit's  wife  is  his  sister,  decide* 
re  her  husband.  He  sends  the  posse  on  a  false 
trail  and  saves  them  both. 

PETE  TRIES  THE  STAGE  (April  12).— Pete 
Meadows  longs  to  become  an  actor.  LeGrade,  pro- 
prietor of  a  hotel  where  Pete  stops,  gives  Pete  one 
more  day  in  which  to  pay  much  past  due  rent. 
I'ete  escapes,  with  bis  baggage  through  the  window, 
the  shock  causing  the  violent  LeGrade  to  go  Into 
wild  hysteria.  Pete  goes  to  new  lodgings  and. 
finally,  through  Bosa  Redmond,  a  booking  agent,  se- 
cures a  contract  in  vaudeville.  Incidentally,  be 
gains  her  personal  admiration  to  an  amazing  degree. 
She  sees  that  his  embonpoint  is  admirably  fitted 
for  the  portrayal  of  the  part  of  Falstaff,  and  books 
him  t.i ►  play  u  sketch  of  "The  Merry  Wives  of 
Windsor.''  A  packed  house,  including  Bosa,  is  on 
hand.  Pete  is  awkward  and  nervous  in  delivering 
his  first  love  scene  with  Mistress  Ford  and  the  au- 
dience is  correspondingly  amused,  much  to  the  dis- 
gust of  Bosa.  During  the  action  of  the  sketch, 
I'cte.  as  Falstaff,  is  disguised  as  a  witch  and 
hidden  behind  a  screen  on  sudden  news  of  the  ap- 
proach of  Mr.  Ford.  Just  as  Pete  has  donned  bis 
woman's  clothes,  there  is  ushered  into  a  front  box. 
LeGrade!  The  excitable  Frenchman  immediately 
recognizes  the  bated  Pete,  and  creates  a  sensation. 
Pete  forgets  his  lines.  Fighting  his  way  through  a 
delighted  crowd  on  the  sidewalk  he  leaps  into  a 
taxi  and  is  driven  ten  miles  into  the  country.  Then 
he  makes  the  discovery  that  he  hasn't  a  cent  of 
money.  Dismayed)  he  makes  his  escape.  He  walks 
the  railway  ties  back  to  his  boarding  house.  Here 
he  finds  his  landlady  awaiting  him  with  a  letter 
from  Rosa  to  the  effect  that  although  he  is  a  failure 
as  a  thespian,  he  can  have  a  job  in  her  office 
opening  the  mail. 

THE  TOLL  OF  FEAR  (Special,  2  reels,  April  9).— 
Dick  McKnight,  a  deputy  sheriff,  receives  a  message 
from  Sheriff  Wheeler  of  an  adjoining  county,  that 
a  band  of  cattle  rustlers  is  in  San  Luis  Canyon. 
The  young  deputy  determines  to  go  out  after  the 
gang.  He  leaves  a  note  for  his  brother  and  starts. 
He  runs  across  a  note  fastened  to  a  tree,  which 
reads,  "Go  back  or  you  die  with  the  sun."  Fright- 
ened, Dick  hides.  His  brother.  Bill,  coming  home 
after  a  hard  ride,  finds  the  note  of  his  brother  and 
determines  to  follow  him.  The  threatening  note 
fills  him  with  fear  and  he  perishes  through  an 
accident. 


MELIES. 

THE  MAORIS  OF  NEW  ZEALAND  (April  10).— 
Their  customs  and  manners.  Baptizing  an  infant 
chief.  The  Te  Hongi — rubbing  of  noses,  the  native 
Maori  greeting.  A  native  betrothal.  Washing 
clothes    in    natural    hot    springs.      Maori    canoes. 

Their  food.  Cooking  by  natural  hot  water  and 
steam.  A  Maori  oven.  Peeling  potatoes  with 
shells.      The    store    houses    for    food. 

Their  Arts  and  Crafts.  Wood  carving.  Speci- 
mens of  Maori  Sculpture.  Tattooing,  Weaving 
cloaks,    baskets*    and    sleeping    mats.      Making    fire. 

Their  Amusements.  Boys  diving  for  pennies  in 
a  hot  water  pool.  Making  grimaces — a  favorite 
diversion.  The  "poi"  game.  Playing  the  game 
of  "Ti-to-tora."  The  "Komik-Komik."  The  canoe 
dance. 


ESSA.NAY. 

THE  WARDROBE  LADY  (April  8).— If  it  hadn't 
been   for  Harriet   Wayne  suspecting   that  she  would 

'ier     sister.     Priscilla,     this     story     would     not 
be  told.     The  fact  of  the  matter  was,  however. 
PriscUIVs    sweetheart,     afraid    to    propose     to    her. 

to    face,    wrote    her   a   note   and    asked   her   to 
marry    him.       Priseilla's    old    maid    sister.     Harriet. 

ed  the  letter  which  she  failed  to  deliver. 
-  pass  by  and  we  see  the  old  lover,  Joe 
Stoddard,  a  prosperous  business  roan.  Fate,  how- 
ever, brings  the  two  together.  An  explanation 
is  brought  about  and  a  reconciliation.  The  curtain 
falls  on  the  two  lovers  awaiting  the  arrival  of 
the    minister. 

THE  SHERIFF'S  WIFE  (April  9).— Kii 
saved  the  sheriff  and  his  wife,  also  a  sack  of 
gold  which  has  been  left  in  their  care.  Sewani. 
an  Indian  girl,  tries  to  sell  her  wares,  but  is 
unsuccessful  until  she  meets  the  sheriff,  who 
purchases    a    pipe    from    her.      This,    he    presents    to 

.ife  as  a  keepsake.  That  afternoon.  Black 
Jake,  a  notorious  outlaw  is  captured  and  lodged 
in  Jail.  A  bag  of  gold  Is  taken  from  him.  which 
the  sheriff  gives  to  his  wife  to  keep  until  the  fol- 
lowing day.  That  night,  two  worthless  felloes 
trv  to  steal  the  money.  They  first  capture  the 
sheriff,  take  him  to  a  shed  where  they  bind  him. 
Sewani  not  forgetting  the  sheriff's  kindness,  hear- 
ing bis  cries  for  help,  frees  him.  The  bandits 
are  outwitted  by  the  sheriff's  wife,  who  hides 
In  a  trunk  until  the  bandits  lift  the  cover,  search- 
ing for  the  hidden  gold.  The  sheriff's  wife  < 
them  with  a.  revolver,  until  the  sheriff  returns 
with   a   posse   and  the   men  are  taken   into  custody. 


FOUND  OUT  (April  10).— What  good  is  a  name 
without    the    address':      It    proved    almost    to    be    a 

■  proposition  with  Mr.  Carney.  The  I 
papers  had  it  that  the  maid  in  the  Carney  house- 
hold was  suing  for  breach  of  promise.  Of  CO 
the  ladies  had  to  tell  Mrs.  Carney  about  it.  The 
indignant  Mrs.  Carney  locked  her  husband  up  in 
his  room  and  commanded  him  to  stay  there.  In 
the  meantime  officer  McCarthy,  smitten  with  Car- 
maid.  Hilda,  is  enjoying  himself  in  the 
kitchen,  filling  the  inner  man  with  fried  chicken 
and  beer.  The  cat  came  out  of  the  bag,  however. 
when  Mrs.  MeChrthy  arrives  on  the  scene  and 
asks  for  her  Bweetheart.  Mrs.  Carney  thinking 
she  means  her  husband,  unlocks  the  door  and  pre- 
sents him  to  his  supposed  sweetheart.  Things 
Tighten  themselves  when  they  discover  the  officer 
in  the  kitchen  making  love  to  Hilda.  This  comedy 
turns  into  a  tragedy  when  Mrs.  McCarthy 
her  husband.  It  develops  that  the  Mr.  Carney 
mentioned    in    the    paper    is    another   man. 

THE  LITTLE  MOTHER  (April  11).—  Through 
the  death  of  her  mother.  Ethel  MeMiire  is  let* 
to  take  care  of  her  brother  and  two  little  sisters. 
Practically  in  destitute  circumstances,  a  repre- 
sentative of  the  Cruelty  to  Children  Prevention 
Society  calls  to  take  the  children  away  from 
Ktbel.  She,  however,  does  not  allow  the  gentle- 
man to  take  the  children,  having  provided  herself 
with  a  revolver  borrowed  from  her  neighbor  up- 
stairs. Two  policemen  are  notified,  who  try  in  vain 
to  accomplish  what  the  representative  had  failed 
to  do.  They  also  are  rebuked.  Seeing  the  police- 
men on  the  street  excited,  a  young  fellow  passing, 
takes  it  for  granted  that  there  is  a  fire  in  the 
building,  and  calls  out  the  engines.  The  fire  de- 
partment arrives,  they  also  are  unsuccessful  in 
their  attempt.  The  Bev.  McDonald,  seeing  the 
large  crowd  gathered  about  the  tenement  hoarse, 
goes  upstairs,  where  he  sees  Ethel  protecting  the 
young  children  with  a  revolver,  from  the  now 
maddened  throng,  straightens  things  out  to  every- 
body's satisfaction. 

BRONCHO  BILLY'S  REASON  (April  12).— The 
infant  love  of  a  son  for  his  mother,  prompu-d 
Broncho  Billy  to  secure  money  by  fair  means  or 
foul  to  save  her  home.  In  the  first  place  he  sold 
his  gun  for  almost  nothing  and  gambled  the  re- 
ceipts which  he  lost.  That  night,  when  all  was 
still,  Broncho  Billy  stole  twelve  horses,  which 
he  managed  to  take  out  of  the  pens  and  take 
to  a  neighboring  town,  where  he  sold  them.  The 
following  morning  the  ranch  owner  discovering  his 
loss,  notifies  a  score  of  cowpunchers.  They  go 
in  pursuit.  Broncho  Billy  escapes.  The  horses  are 
taken  from  the  buyer  and  returned  to  their  owner 
by  the  sheriff.  Several  months  later  the  stock 
buyer  receives  a  check  from  Broncho  Billy,  stating 
that   "this   will   square    things.  ' 


EDISON. 

A  SHOWER  OF  SLIPPERS  (April  7).— The 
Rev.  John  Ash  ton.  unmarried,  has  accepted  a  call 
in  a  village  and,  with  his  sister,  gives  a 
warming.  Mary,  a  young  member  of  his  rto-k, 
notices  during  the  party,  a  pair  of  worn  slippers 
and  decides  to  make  him  a  new  pair.  Consequently 
all  the  village  spinsters  also  make  slippers:  but 
these  the  parson's  sister  trades  off  for  a  hread 
mixer  to  an  itinerant  peddler,  who,  innocently  takes 
them  around  to  the  back  doors  through  the  com- 
munity. Mary's  slippers  are  the  only  ones  the 
minister  wears. 

OLD  JIM  (April  8). — Old  Jim  nearly  causes  the 
downfall  of  himself  and  his  son.  who  is  boss  in 
a  quarry  and  who  falls  in  love  with  Amy.  daughter 
of  Pearson,  his  employer.  Pearson  refuses  to 
t  old  Jim's  son.  This  makes  Old  Jim  do 
better  and  he  is  able,  when  the  chance  con 
save  Pearson's  youngest  daughter  from  the  danger 
of  a  the   risk   of   his   life.     This  eh:, 

the    face    of    the    matter   and    gives   a    happy    ending. 

THE    WELL    SICK    MAN    (April    9).— John 
wood,   a   business   man.    finds  his  clerk   making   love 
to    his    daughter    and    fires    the    clerk.      The    clerk 

bo   the    West    and    Marion,    to  be   near  him. 
suades    her    father,    by    suggestion    that    makes    him 
think     himself     sick,     that     he     needs    a     vacation. 
They.     too.     go    to    California    and     there    a 
young    roan    rescues    the    daughter    from    drov 
The  young  man  proves  to  be  the  clerk. 

THE    CAPTURE   OF   A   WILD   CAT    (April    11).— 
Taken   in  the  wilds  of  Colorado,   this   picture   si 
the    chase,    and    capture,    alive,    of    a    very    \i 
and    full    grown   wild   cat.      The   picture  opens   with 
the    discovery    of    an    old    settler    that    his    chicken 
coop  has  again  been   the  prey  of  a   wild  cat. 
old   man   and   bis  son   put  the  dog  on   the   trail   and 
the     chase    begins.       The     hound    corners     the     cat 
and   a   running   fight  ensues.     The   men   now   arrive 
with    their   lassos   and   get    a    rone    around    on 
of   the  cat.     The  cat   leaps   from   the   tree   an. 
comes   a    fighting,    struggling  ball   of   fur.      Fi 
however,    it    is    caught. 

RULE    THYSELF    (April    11).— Poor   Smilax 
Into    a    rage    upon    the    slightest    provocation,    and 
although    he     tries    self-control    one     mishap    after 
another    falls    upon    him.      Some    unprincipled    man 
steals    his    umbrella    and     when     he    attempts    to 
board    a    trolley    car   the    cruel   motormen    glid^ 
with    that   stony    stare.     Through    all   of    this. 
ever,     he    manages     by     the    greatest     fortitude     to 
keep    his    temper    under  control,    but    when    be    un- 


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«xpectedly  arrives  home  to  find  bis  wife  being 
kissed  and  petted  by  a  stranger  his  fortitude 
breaks  down  entirely  and  in  spite  of  his  wife's 
pleading  the  stranger  is  violently  and  unceremoni- 
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planation from  his  wife  he  is  shocked  to  find  that 
he  has  thrown  out  his  wife's  long  lost  brother  who 
had  come  to  bring  them  a  fortune. 

THE  MAN  WHO  WOULDN'T  MABRY  (April  12). 
— Buckley,  a  wealthy  bachelor,  tells  why  he  never 
married.  In  the  story,  he  is  selfish.  At  thirty, 
be  la  accepted  by  the  daughter  of  a  millionaire; 
but  her  father  forbids  the  marriage.  At  forty- 
three,  he  meets,  on  the  golf  links,  the  right  girl 
who  is  very  friendly  and  even  encourages  him.  He 
puts  off  asking  her  for  one  year,  first  for  one 
year  while  he  is  saving  money,  and  then  a  little 
longer,  because  he  found  just  courting  her,  so 
pleasant.  The  jolt  comes  one  evening  when  he 
finds  that  an  old  admirer  of  hers  has  come  home 
from  Australia  and  had  been  accepted.  This 
shock  leaves  him  a  heart  broken  and  prematurely 
aged    man. 


SELIG. 

VENGEANCE  IS  MINE  (April  7).— The  fllm  opens 
in  a  picturesque  back  street  of  a  Spanish  town, 
where  an  artist  is  busy  at  his  easel.  Chapo,  the 
little  hunchback,  sees  him  and  lingers  by  the  artist. 
Pedestrians  come  and  go  and  push  him  aside,  but 
the  boy  la  oblivious  to  everything  but  the  painter 
and  bis  magic.  The  art  of  the  painter  arouses  a 
sreat  latent  gift  in  the  hunchback.  He  so  strongly 
covets  artists  materials  in  the  store  of  a  curio 
•dealer  that  he  tries  to  steal  them  and  is  caught. 
A  kind  padre,  himself  an  artist,  rescues  him  from 
the  irate  dealer  and  teaches  him  to  draw  and  paint'. 
•One  day  in  the  mission  garden  he  sees  lovely 
"Eleanor,  who  becomes  the  Idol  of  his  dreams,  the 
inspiration  of  his  brush.  She  has,  unfortunately, 
.given  herself  to  the  profligate,  Arguello,  who  aban- 
dons her.  Chapo  takes  her  to  his  own  poor  quarters 
«nd  cares  for  her.  Two  years  later  she  dies,  and 
the  hunchback,  still  rising  in  the  world  of  art, 
adopts  the  two-year-old  daughter. 

The  scene  advances  twenty  years.  Chapo,  the 
once  neglected  and  despised,  is  a  giant  in  the  world 
«f  Parisian  art  and  the  adopted  daughter  has  grown 
to  be  a  beautiful  young  woman.  They  return  to 
tthe  old  home,  and  there  is  Arguello,  living  a  cum- 
berer  of  the  ground  in  his  old  age  of  vice,  cards 
and  liquor.  He  still  has  eyes  and  he  leers  upon 
the  fair  young  flower  leaning  on  the  arm  of  Ohapo. 
The  Indignant  old  padre  calls  on  Arguello  exclaim 
ing.  "she  is  your  child."  The  shock  and  shame 
finally  overcame  him  and  he  dies  on  the  spot. 

ROBERT  HALE'S  AMBITION  (April  8).— The  boy 
friends  of  Robert  Hale  inspire  his  curious  ambitions 
with  glowing  tales  of  college  life.  He  starts  such 
moody  moping  his  loving  old  mother  is  alarmed,  and 
in  response  to  her  importunate  inquiries  he  tells 
her  he  wants  to  go  to  college.  He  goes  away  In 
great  glee  and  she  gets  a  position  in  the  mill  to 
help  out  expenses.  Wearily  at  work  she  pictures 
him  the  valedictorian  of  his  class,  loaded  with 
honors:  but  he  is  a  "bummer."  not  a  "dig,"  and 
when  his  means  are  exhausted,  he  begins  to  squeeze 
money  out  of  her.  Finally,  as  it  does  not  come  fast 
enough,  he  wires  her  he  has  broken  his  leg  and  must 
have  $50.00  at  once.  She  mortgages  the  place,  goes 
to  his  assistance,  and  finds  him  holding  high  revel. 
He  gets  the  money  and  lectures  her,  she  returning 
home  in  dreadful  distress.  When  he  gets  expelled 
from  college  he  comes  to  his  senses,  rushes  home 
to  his  mother's  assistance.  She  forgives  him  all 
the  trouble  he  has  causer!  her  and  they  begin  the 
life  of  struggle  anew. 

THE  SHOTGUN  MAN  AND  THE  STAGE-DRIVER 

(April    9). The    Brave    old    days    of    stage-coachine 

through  the  mountains  were  full  of  bounce,  not  to 
remark  the  Jolts  of  variety,  and  rlenty  of  danger 
to  spice  what  now  is  monotony  in  travel.  The  drift 
Of  tliis  story  with  danger  ever  eminent,  has  plentiful 
sj.i.e  of  comedy,  diversified  by  daring  and  wild, 
exciting  drives.  It'  was  a  time  when  men  thought 
Quick  and  shot  quick,  self-preservation  being  Nature's 
first  law.  The  stage-coach,  having  the  precious 
freight  of  two  fair  girls  and  much  of  Uncle  Sam's 
mail,  goes  through  on  schedule  time,  despite  the 
fact  that  a  band  of  outlaws  leagued  to  capture  tne 
•mail  coach.  The  shotgun  man  and  the  driver  man- 
age to  thwart  the  plana  of  the  badmen  without 
tilood-shed.  The  company  give  them  ample  reward 
for  bringing  the  mail  on  time,  but  more  surprising 
and  acceptable  Is  the  reward  of  the  fair  ones  whose 
lives  were  saved  by  their  brave  guardlsj 

TOMMY'S  ATONEMENT  (April  10).— Tommy 
Hale,  In  the  exuberance  of  unrestrained  youth 
makes  "rough  house"  in  his  own  home  with  such 
vigor  that  he  smashes  a  valuable  vase.  In  thus 
entertaining  himself  he  is  frequently  admonished 
by  Mrs.  Graves  to  be  careful.  When  she  returns 
to  the  room  after  a  moment's  absence,  she  finds 
that  the  frightened  Tommy  has  vanished  and  the 
■beautiful  vase  a  mass  of  wreckage  on  the  hearth- 
stone. Mrs.  Hale  happens  in  at  this  moment,  and 
without  giving  credence  to  the  old  lady,  discharges 
her  on  the  spot.  She  goes  to  her  poor  tenement 
and  finds  her  feeble  husband,  who  earns  a  precarious 
llvine  as  a  wandering  musician.  Threatened  with 
eviction,  he  starts  out  to  try  and  pay  the  rent  over- 
due He  is  run  down  by  the  sled  of  the  reckless 
Tommv  and  his  violin  is  shattered.  The  aged  and 
Injured  musician  Is  carried  into  the  Graves  home. 
Tommv.    thoroughly   repentant,    empties   his   savin-s- 


bank,  buys  a  new  violin  and  tells  his  mother  how 
he  broke  the  vase.  His  father  and  mother  are  now 
so  awakened  to  the  forlorn  situation  of  the  aged 
couple  that  tbey  give  them  a  home  for  life. 

WITH   LOVE'S   EYES    (April   11) Virginia,    who 

was  born  the  sweetheart  of  Charles,  since  the  early 
days  of  their  youth,  becomes  obsessed  with  the  idea 
that  he  loves  her  for  her  beauty  alone  and  fears 
that  it  will  fade.  The  stalwart  Charles,  who  is  a 
fireman,  unconsciously  impresses  this  upon  her  as 
he  is  always  taking  snap-shots  of  her  and  has  an 
artist  paint'  her  portrait.  A  theatrical  manager 
makes  her  a  star,  and  her  humble  lover  sees  her 
rising  above  his  station.  The  artist  falls  in  love 
with  her  and  idolizes  her  as  his  masterpiece.  Vir- 
ginia's home  burns  and  she  is  rescued  by  the  gallant 
Charles,  who  almost  loses  his  life  and  is  blinded. 
Virginia,  recovering,  sends  him  a  note  releasing  him 
from  his  engagement,  and  the  artist,  whose  ardor 
has  cooled,  tells  her  that'  her  beauty  has  been  de- 
stroyed forever.  Fate  brings  Charles  and  Virginia 
together  for  a  happy  life  until  death  overtakes  tbem. 

THE  MAGIC  SHOES  (April  10).— Pete  Smiley,  a 
shoemaker,  is  in  the  habit  of  coming  home  from  his 
night  haunts  and  cronies  pretty  late,  and  with  a 
twenty-two  carat  jag.  He  also  indulges  in  booze 
fighting  in  the  day-time.  One  day  he  comes  home 
in  a  befuddled  condition  and  his  wife  tries  to  im- 
press her  views  on  his  brain.  He  smiles  and  peace- 
fully falls  asleep.  He  dreams  that  he  is  in  one  of 
his  favorite  saloons  and  while  imbibing  ale,  a 
fairy  appears  and  gives  him  a  pair  of  shoes.  She 
tells  him  that  the  left  one  will  cause  the  wearer  to 
disappear,  the  right  one  to  caure  her  to  reappear. 
He  hurries  home  and  giveB  his  wife  the  shoes.  Try- 
ing on  the  left,  she  disappears,  much  to  Pete's 
satisfaction.  He  throws  the  right  shoe  in  the 
river,  wondering  what  will  happen.  He  is  rudely 
awakened   by  his  wife   and  berated  for  bis   idleness. 

A  CHANGE  OF  ADMINISTRATION  (Special— 3 
parts — April  6). — As  politics  decree,  Warren,  the 
chief  clerk  in  the  war  office,  Is  supplanted  by 
Lester.  Before  Warren  leaves,  the  retiring  Sec- 
retary of  War  gives  him  a  sealed  document — a  val- 
uable formula  of  a  high  explosive  which  the  gov- 
ernment has  Just  acquired:  for  safe  keeping.  War- 
ren places  it  in  the  safe  just  as  his  sweetheart. 
Inez,  who  is  the  daughter  of  the  Mexican  ambassa- 
dor, appears.  Her  curiosity  leads  Warren  to  tell 
her  all  concerning  the  document.  Inez  intuitively 
doubts  the  honesty  of  Lester  whom  she  meets  at 
a  broker's  office,  and  where  she  admits  that  she 
is  a  foreign  spy.  Lester  is  so  impressed  with  her 
charms  that,  as  planned,  he  meets  her  at  the  In- 
augural Ballroom  where  she  intentionally  drops 
her  silken  handbag.  Still  following  out  their 
plans,  this  is  picked  up  by  Lester  who,  in  a  round 
about  way,  manages  to  get  the  precious  document 
he  has  stolen  into  the  bag  which  he  returns  to 
Inez.  Part  of  this  procedure  was  observed  by 
Warren  who,  after  the  ball,  escorts  her  home 
where  he  discovers  the  stolen  documents.  Before 
explanations  can  take  place,  Inez's  father  appears 
and  Warren  leaves.  Just  as  Warren  is  about  to 
retire  he  receives  a  note  from  Inez,  reading:  "If, 
before  I  should  see  you  In  the  morning,  you  should 
he  caught  with  that  document,  say  you  got  it 
from  me  and  I  will  do  the  rest."  He  tears  the 
note  to  pieces. 

The  next  morning  In  the  war  office,  Lester  being 
unable  to  find  Uie  document,  accuses  Warren  who 
is  ;irrested  at  the  hotel.  The  detectives  find  the 
document  under  his  pillow.  Warren  is  then  brought 
to  the  anteroom  of  the  War  Secretary,  where  he 
confronts  Lester  and  accuses  him  of  having  stolen 
the  document.  This  leads  the  Judicial  Secreta.v 
to  remark,  "If  he  stole  It.  how  came  it  in  your 
possession."  Not  wishing  to  incriminate  his  sweet- 
heart. Warren  refuses  to  talk  further.  But  Inez, 
who  heard  part  of  the  conversation,  throws  this 
note  from  behind  the  portieres:  "The  guilty  one 
is  the  new  chief  clerk,  a  woman  trapped  him  with 
marked  money."  The  detectives  get  busy  and 
tiring  in  Inez.  Tbey  are  abont  to  place  her  under 
arrest  when  the  secretary  orders  that  Lester  be 
searched.  He  confesses  and  is  told  to  go.  Inez  s 
story  of  bow  she  trapped  him  is  so  powerful  that 
Warren    is    reinstated. 


THE  LITTLE  TEASE  (April  12).— The  supposi- 
tion was  that  she  was  born  a  tease,  for  from  her 
first  teeth  to  the  time  she  was  almost  grown,  she 
vented  her  witcheries  on  her  unsuspecting  parents 
and  the  wild  things  of  her  mountain  home.  But 
that  was  before  the  man  from  the  valley  lost  his 
way  and  later  found  It  back  again,  bearing  away 
the  little  tease  to  the  valley.  While  she  suDtered 
the  qualms  of  broken  faith,  ber  father  passed 
through  a  like  struggle,  for  be  felt  the  precepts 
of  the  "beloved  book"  had  failed  him.  He  closed 
the  door  of  his  cabin  upon  the  world  and  the  light 
from  bis  window,  lighting  the  wayfarer  over  the 
mountain  path,  disappeared.  The  struggle  over, 
It  came  back  in  its  place  in  time  to  beckon  the 
little   tease   as   she   left   the   valley   behind. 


BIOGRAPH. 

THE  STOLEN  BRIDE  (April  7).— The  oversee^ 
is  in  love  with  the  orange  grower's  daughter,  but 
one  of  the  employees  is  also  infatuated  with  bar. 
The  employee  forces  his  unwelcome  attentions  upon 
the  girl,  which  results  in  his  being  discharged. 
He  vows  vengeance  against  the  overseer  and  on 
the  day  of  their  wedding,  seizes  the  bride  and  car- 
ries her  oil  to  a  cave  in  the  mountains,  from 
which  she  Is  rescued  by  the  husband  and  a  pur- 
suing party.  The  disgruntled  employee  almost  paid 
for   his  intended   act  of  vengeance  with  his  life. 

AN    "UNCLE    TOM'S    CABIN"     TROUPE     (April 

10), The    "Uncle    Tom's    Cabin"    troupe    arrives    in 

town  and  gives  a  show.  The  hotel  proprietor  is 
so  Impressed  with  it  that  he  swaps  his  hotel  for 
the  troupe,  but  the  outcome  Is  disastrous,  forcing 
him  to  admit  "Evil  the  day  that  I  became  au 
actor." 

A  LESSON  TO  MASHERS  (April  10).— Fastidious 
Ferdinand  haunts  the  steam  laundry  where  a  host 
of  pretty  girls  Is  employed.  He  tries  to  force  his 
attentions  upon  one  of  them,  for  which  he  is  tautrht 
a   lesson   that   he   will   never   forget. 


PATHEPLAY. 

BATHE'S    WEEKLY    No.    14,    1918    (Mar.    31) 

New  York.  N.  Y. — Thirty-five  thousand  parade  in 
the    St.    Patrick's    day    celebration. 

Melbourne,  Australia, — The  Regatta  on  the  Yarra 
River    is    largely    attended. 

Erie,  Pa. — The  Niagara,  the  famous  flagship  of 
Commodore  Perry  in  the  war  with  England  in 
1812,  Is  being  raised,  after  resting  100  years  at 
the  bottom   of   Lake   Erie. 

Mexico  City,  Mexico. — The  ruined  buildings  and 
the  many  gruesome  sights  and  incidents  in  this 
city  are  constant  reminders  of  the  overthrow  of 
•  the    Madero   government. 

Berlin,  Germany. — The  Kaiser  and  the  Kaiserin 
assist  at  the  fete  given  by  the  students  of  the 
University    of   Berlin. 

Toppesish,  Wash, — Rev.  George  Waters,  a 
Methodist  minister  and  Grand  Chief  of  the  Brother- 
hood of  North  American  Indians,  and  Miss  Berlha 
Spencer,  daughter  of  Chief  Lancaster  Spencer,  of 
the  Yakima  tribe,  are  among  the  prominent  Indians 
attending  the  Redmen's  Convention  here. 

Moscow,  Russia. — Four  thousand  actors  gather 
at  the  Kremlin  to. take  part  in  the  making  of  a 
Pathe  play  of  the  300th  anniversary  of  the  Royal 
House    of    Romanoff. 

London,  England. — The  Suffragette  window  break- 
ing proclivities  result  in  some  specimens  of  humor 
which    relieve    the    situation    a    little. 

Comic  Section. — Jeff  tries  to  butt  in  on  a  good 
old    Turkish    graft,    with    unpleasant    results. 

And   Many  Others. 

THE  SNAP-SHOT  (April  8).— His  wife  attracting 
so  much  attention  at  a  ball,  Dr.  Ballincourt  became 
so  jealous  that  he  decided  to  test  bis  wife's  love. 
Accordingly,  be  addressed  a  note  in  endearing  terms 
to  her,  begging  a  smile,  and  signing  himself  A.  D. 
T.,  care  of  General  Delivery.  He  asked  Mb  friend, 
Paul  McWilliams.  a  married  man,  to  collect  any 
replies  to  tiie  note.  Mrs.  Ballincourt,  anxious  to 
learn  the  author  of  tbe  note,  employs  a  detective  to 
take  a  snap-shot  of  tbe  gentleman  Inquiring  for 
letters  addressed  to  A.  D.  T.  McWilliams  and  his 
wife  are  calling  on  Dr.  Ballincourt  and  bis  wife 
when  the  snap-shot  arrives.  It  looks  pretty  bad  for 
McWilliams  and  the  situation  is  sure  to  provoke 
uproarious  laughter.  The  difficulty  is  straightened 
out,  however,  and  the  men  are  forgiven  by  their 
better  halves. 

THE  RIVER  CLYDE  AT  LANAB.K,  SCOTLAND 
(April  8). — A  beautiful  river  in  beautiful  Scotland, 
beautifully  colored. 

TOO  MUCH  PARCEL  POST  (April  9).— William 
Jones,  postman  No.  1144,  because  of  fifteen  years' 
faithful  service,  is  promoted  to  the  new  parcel 
post'  branch.  He  is  highly  delighted  until  be  learns 
what  he  has  to  carry  and  deliver,  the  most  pe- 
culiar combination  of  commodities  conceivable. 
Eggs,  dynamite,  a  stove,  a  goat,  a  baby  carriage, 
a  pig,  a  baby,  and  others  too  numerous  to  mention. 
On  his  route  the  eggs  hatch  out  and  the  baby  begins 
to  scream.  You  can  imagine  the  predicament  of  the 
poor  parcel  postman!  A  woman  passer-by  objects 
to  the  manner  in  which  he  handles  the  baby  and  he 
runs  before  her  torrent  of  abuse.  When  she  corners 
him  and  strikes  him  the  almost  forgotten  dynamite 
explodes.     No  wonder  Jones  resigned. 

GOD  IS  LOVE  (April  10).— This  fllm  Is  the 
enactment  of  Count  Tolstoi's  famous  story  of  tbe 
Russian  shoemaker  who  despaired  of  God's  as- 
sistance in  the  time  of  his  need.  Grief  stricken 
by  the  death  of  his  wife  nod  child.  Ivan  rages 
against  Fate's  unkindness  until  a  Visitation  opens 
his  eyes  and  his  heart  to  the  truth.  The  Lord 
promises  Ivan  to  visit  him  again  and  tbe  shoe- 
maker humbly  awaits  his  coming.  Several  ob- 
jects of  charity  cross  Ivan's  path.  He  treats 
them  gently  and  generously  and  upon  the  return 
of  the  Visitation,  learns  that  they  were  God  Him- 
self. The  fact  that  the  story  is  one  of  the  most 
popular  products  of  the  pen  of  the  famous  Russian 
philosopher  is  a  guarantee  to  the  quality  of  the 
fllm  and  added  to  this  the  acting  of  a  capable 
company  leaves  nothing  to  be  desired  to  make  an 
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THE  ANALYSI8  OF  MOTION  (April  11).— This  is 
the  most  remarkable  fllm  that  we  have  ever  offered, 
as  It  Is  an  entirely  new  development  in  cine- 
matography. The  camera,  taking  pictures  at  the 
almost  incredible  speed  of  twelve  hundred  per 
second,  shows  the  trajectory  of  a  bullet  at  a  rate 
of  speed  reduced  so  as  to  enable  spectators  to 
witness  just  what  takes  place  when  the  bullet 
leaves  the  gun,  the  course  it  describes  through  the 
air    how  it  strikes  (a  clay  pipe  in  one  experiment). 


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exactly  what  happens  when  It  strikes  this 
r.  This  fllm  has  set  the  scientists  of  Europe 
f-ring  at  its  possibilities,  and  even  though  it 
'entitle,  it  keeps  within  the  limit's  of  everyone's 
understanding  by  means  of  clear  explauatory  titles. 

THE  HAPPY  HOME  (April  12).— The  wreck  of 
the  schooner  "Crusoe,"  when  it  is  reported  in  the' 
papers,  deals  a  death  blow  to  the  dreams  of  Marion 
Clayton,  for  the  man  whom  she  was  to  marry  was 
on  board.  Some  time  later  William  Hummel,  a  less- 
favored  suitor,  renews  his  plea  for  Marion's  hand 
and  wins.  Barton,  meanwhile,  has  managed  to  live 
through  the  wreck  of  the  "Crusoe,"  and  after 
-everal  months  he  returns  to  the  port  from  which 
the  "Crusoe"  sailed.  There  he  learns  of  Marion's 
engagement  to  his  rival.  To  And  out  if  she  has  for- 
gotten him  and  really  loves  his  successor,  he  mas- 
querades as  a  stranger.  His  adventure  has  a  dra- 
.matic  climax  when  he  is  forced  to  disclose  his 
identity.  However,  it  is  by  this  incident  that  he 
learns  that  he  Is  necessary  to  the  happiness  of 
Marion  and  the  making  of  a  happy  borne. 


KALEM. 

IN  THE  GRIP  OF  A  CHARLATAN  (April  7).— 
Anne  Sinclair,  a  young  heiress,  becomes  interested 
in  a  new  cult,  sponsored  by  the  Swami  Baroudl,  a 
clever  fakir,  who  claims  to  be  versed  in  the  occult 
The  attendance  of  Baroudi's  demonstrations  become 
quite  a  fad  and  the  knave,  with  the  assistance  of 
confederates,  apparently  effects  some  wonderful 
cures.  Baroudi  is  not  without  a  certain  hypnotic 
power,  and  when  Anne  visits  his  parlors  with  friends 
she  Is  placed  under  his  spell.  The  Swami  quietly 
commands  the  girl  to  bring  him  her  necklace  that 
night.  She  goes  home  In  a  daze,  which  her  com- 
panions attribute  to  the  impressive  ceremonies. 

Promptly  at  ten  Anne  appears  at  Baroudi's  with 
her  necklace.  He  takes  the  jewels,  and  conceiving 
a  daring  scheme  for  further  extortion,  plans  to  have 
her  remain.  Louise,  a  servant  devoted  to  Baroudi, 
raises  a  disturbance,  which  brings  Anne  to  her 
senses.  The  terrified  girl  attempts  to  escape  and 
Baroudi,  knowing  he  will  be  prosecuted,  forcibly  de- 
tains Anne  and  locks  her  in  a  room. 

Anne's  fiance,  Robert,  and  her  father  become 
alarmed  when  she  does  not  return.  They  engage 
detectives,  who  are  nnable  to  determine  her  where- 
abouts. Meanwhile,  Anne,  in  desperation,  has  se- 
cured a  dagger  from  Louise,  fully  determined  to  take 
her  life  if  Baroudi  does  not  liberate  her. 

Fortunately  Robert  finds  In  his  pocket  the  Swami's 
card,  which  Anne  has  given  him,  and  full  of  appre- 
hension he  leads  the  oflicers  to  the  address.  '!  be 
charlatan  resorts  to  all  manner  of  subterfuges,  hut 
Is  taken  into  custody,  and  Anne  is  liberated  from 
the  scoundrel's  prison  just  as  she  is  about  to  abandon 
hope. 

THE  PURSUIT  OF  THE  SMUGGLERS  (April  9). 
—James  Peyton,  a  young  Internal  Revenue  Officer  of 
unusual  resource,  Is  sent  to  investigate  the  opera- 
tions of  a  band  of  daring  liquor  smugglers  and 
bring  about  their  apprehension.  In  order  that  be 
may  not  arouse  suspicion,  Peyton  secures  employ- 
ment at  a  village  store,  and  while  engaged  in  his 
duties  as  rlerk  he  gains  the  friendship  of  Marcella 
torekeeper's  daughter.  But  in  forming  the  ac- 
quaintance. Peyton  makes  an  enemy  in  Poole  a 
rough  character,  who  has  been  endeavoring  to  wis 
Marcella's  hand.  Poole  is  the  leader  of  the  smug- 
glers and  his  association  soon  becomes  known  to 
the  vigilant  officer. 

One  day,  while  delivering  a  basket  of  groceries, 
Peyton  encounters  the  smugglers  and  is  made 
prisoner.  He  is  bound  and  led  to  an  attic  roon 
Struggling  desperately  with  his  bonds,  Peyton  man- 
ages to  sei-ure  a  small  pocket  mirror  from  his  pocket 
and  flashes  a  heliograph  message  to  the  revenue 
cutter  down  the  bay. 

Meanwhile,  Marcella,  who  has  been  expecting 
on  to  call,  becomes  alarmed  at  his  absence, 
knowing  that  he  has  recently  had  an  altercation 
with  Poole.  She  warns  her  cousin,  Ben,  and  by 
making  Inquiry,  they  learn  where  the  officer  was 
seen  last.  Peyton  is  discovered  in  the  attic  window 
by  Ben,  who  climbs  the  porch  and  assists  the  officer 
to  escape. 

Hearing    the    disturbance    the    smugglers    take    to 
flight   and   when   the   cutter  comes  steaming  up   the 
river    in    response   to    Peyton's   message,    the   offlcer, 
together    with    Marcella    and   Ben,    is    taken   aboard. 
There   is   an   exciting   pursuit,    in   which    the   smug- 
in    a    tugboat   east   out    a    net    and    entangle 
propeller  of  the  cutter,  but  the  lawbreakers  are 
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REX. 

PURE  GOLD  AND  DROSS  (April  13).— A  young- 
man  possessed  of  moderate  means,  meets  a  young 
actress.  The  infatuation  is  mutual  and  a  hasty 
marriage  is  the  result.  The  couple  go  to  the  West, 
where  the  man  gets  into  the  clutches  of  a  mining1 
shark,  who  takes  his  money  in  exchange  for  mining 
land    which    he    firmly    believes    to    be   of   no   value. 

Following  a  year  of  hopeless  endeavor  and  useless, 
unremitting  toil,  they  are  left'  penniless — and  to 
add  to  their  cares,  a  baby  has  arrived  and  must  be 
provided  for.  A  big-hearted  man  takes  a  fancy  to 
the  young  husband  and  assists  him.  The  husband 
shows  his  gratitude  both  to  the  man  and  to  bis 
daughter,  and  his  attitude  toward  this  girl  is  mis- 
understood by  the  suffering  wife. 

The  unwarranted  and  cruel  gossip  of  the  thought- 
less villagers  strengthens  her  suspicions,  and  her 
state  of  health,  the  death  of  her  babe  and  poverty 
leave  her  despondent,  and  it  only  takes  a  letter 
of  invitation  from  her  former  friends  to  decide  her 
to  go  quietly  away.  She  sells  her  engagement  ring 
to  pay  for  her  passage  and  goes. 

The  husband,  on  his  way  home,  wanders  by  the 
river  bank  and  discovers  the  gold  he  has  been  seek- 
ing for  so  long.  He  hurries  on  to  tell  his  wife 
the  glad  news  and  finds  her  gone.  He  1b  heart- 
broken, and  although  the  source  of  the  sold  is 
traced  and  he  achieves  wealth,  it  is  all  as  nothing 
to  him  in  the  loss  of  his  wife.  He  stands  it  as  long 
as  he  can  and  decides  to  end  it  all.  The  wife, 
unable  to  bear  the  thought  of  him  there  in  his 
loneliness,  and  longing  for  the  freedom  of  the  hills, 
returns  in  time  to  prevent  a  tragedy — and  all  is  well. 


CRYSTAL. 

OUR  PARENTS-IN-LAW  (April  13).— Harry  and 
Oarrie  are  married.  Carrie's  mother  pays  them  a 
visit.  She  and  Harry  do  not  get  along  together. 
Harry  is  smoking  a  cigar  when  Ma  enters  the  room, 
She  immediately  takes  the  cigar  from  him  and 
makes  him  throw  same  out  of  the  window,  at  the 
same  time  forbidding  him  to  smoke  in  the  house 
again.  Harry's  father,  who  has  never  met  his  wife, 
decides  to  pay  the  happy  couple  a  visit.  He  arrives, 
and.  as  luck  would  have,  they  are  not  home, 
mother  being  in  sole  possession  of  the  bouse.  Father 
mistakes  Carrie's  mother  for  his  wife  and  upon 
entering  hugs  and  kisses  her.  She  repulses  him  and 
slaps  his  face.  Carrie  and  Harry  come  home  and 
timl  Ma  indignant  in  her  room.  Carrie  explains 
that  the  man  is  Harry's  father.  Moiner  comes  into 
the  parlor,  and  finding  father  smoking,  tries  the 
same  game  on  him  that  worked  so  well  on  Harry. 
However,  she  finds  a  tartar  In  the  old  man.  and 
admits  inwardly  that  she  has  met  her  match.  How- 
ever, the  young  couple  decide  to  put  up  a  game  on 
them.  They  write  letters,  one  signing  Pa's  name, 
in  which  he  writes  that  he  loves  Carrie's  Ma,  and 
vice  versa.  They  leave  these  letters  where  the 
couple  can  find  the  ones  intended  for  them,  which 
they  do.  The  old  fellow  immediately  becomes  frisky 
and  the  escapade  winds  up  with  them  marrying. 
and  Harry  and  Carrie  giving  them  a  great  send-off. 

THE  VEILED  LADY  (April  13). — Chester  is  pay- 
ing attention  to  Pearl.  Despite  this,  he  persists 
in  flirting  with  every  pretty  girl  he  sees.  Pearl's 
friend,  Mabel,  after  visiting  Pearl,  meets  Chester, 
who  is  on  his  way  to  see  Pearl.  He  immediately 
follows  her.  but  she  will  not  flirt  with  him.  The 
next  day  Chester  again  visits  Pearl  and  Mable 
calls.  She  sees  Chester  and  immediately  tells  Pearl 
about  him.  Pearl  decides  to  work  a  game  on  him. 
After  he  has  gone  she  writes  him  a  note,  asking 
him  to  meet  her  the  next  afternoon,  and  signs  her 
name  to  the  missive.  She  dresses  her  colored  maid 
In  some  finery  and  putting  a  veil  on  her,  induces 
her  to  go  to  the  meeting  place.  Chester,  tired  of 
waiting,  sees  the  maid  come  along,  and  follows  her. 
She  speaks  to  him  and  he  walks  her  home.  Mean- 
while, Pearl  and  Mabel  have  followed  them,  as  does 
Mr.  Johnson,  the  maid's  fellow,  who  has  penetrated 
her  disguise.  The  maid  takes  Chester  home,  and 
he,  never  recognizing  the  house,  enters  with  her. 
Pearl  and  Mabel  go  in.  while  the  angry  Mr.  John- 
son remains  outside.  Pearl  confronts  him  and  de- 
mands to  know  who  the  woman  is.  He  claims  it 
is  his  sister  until  Pearl  takes  the  maid's  veil  off 
and  he  sees  that  he  has  been  flirting  with  a  coon. 
He  rushes  pell  mell  out  of  the  house  entirely  cured 
of  bis  flirting  habits.  Mr.  Johnson,  waiting  out- 
side,, assails  him  with  cane,  and  Chester  runs  for 
his  life,  while  the  girls  inside  are  enjoying  a  huge 
laugh  at  bis  expense. 


ECLAIR. 

GOING  FOR  FATHER  (April  13).— Father  didn't 
get  home  from  work  and  mother  had  supper  ready. 
Dad  was  a  working  man,  and  when  he  stopped 
at  the  sitting  room  of  the  little  corner  saloon  some 
of  the  boys  invited  him  to  Join  them  in  a  little 
card   game. 

Mother  sent  little  Olara  and  Willie  to  bring 
father  home  when  the  clock  pointed  to  7:30,  but 
there  was  a  piano  in  this  sitting  room  and  some 
music,  and  so  the  youngsters  began  to  enjoy  things. 
Eight  o'clock  and  no  father  and  no  children.  So 
mother  sent  Muriel,  8:30  and  no  Muriel,  no  father 
and  no  children,  so  grandpa  was  sent.  As  each 
one  arrived,  the  gay  little  gathering  in  the  sitting 
room  invited  them  to  become  members  of  the  party, 
and  they  began  to  have  such  a  pleasant  time  that 
they  forgot  about  supper  being  ready.  The  soup 
began  to  boil  over,  and  so  Grandma  was  sent.  But 
when  Grandma  arrived  there  were  some  traveling 
musicians  playing  in  the  sitting  room  and  she  too 
joined    in    the   gaiety. 

Finally  mother  herself  decided  to  go.  A  timid 
policeman  heard  the  uproar,  when  mother  found 
the  whole  family  having  such  a  good  time,  she  be- 
gan to  give  them  a  piece  of  her  mind.  Mr.  Cop 
thought  it  was  a  riot  and  calling  some  assistance, 
the   entire    family    was    arrested. 

On  the  way  to  the  police  station,  they  saw  great 
clouds  of  smoke  coming  out  of  their  home,  and 
every  one  went  to  the  rescue  to  put  out  the  fire. 
After  fighting  their  way  through  the  dense  smoke 
iuto  the  kitchen,  they  discovered  that  it  was  only 
the   soup    that    had    boiled   over. 

THE  OCTOPUS  (April  13). — The  octopus  is  found 
on  the  coasts  of  the  tropical  zones,  frequenting  the 
rocky  shores,  and  it  is  exceptionally  active.  They 
are  regularly  placed  on  sale  in  the  markets  of 
Smyrna    and    Naples   and   the   bazaars  of   India. 

WITHIN  THE  LIMIT  OF  THE  LAW  (2  parts- 
April  9)  .—Doctor  Marien  had  a  happy  home.  One 
day  be  accompanied  Mrs.  Marien  to  the  dressmaker's 
and  was  attracted  by  a  model,  who  was  willing 
that  the  doctor  should  notice  her  glances.  The 
next  day  the  same  model,  Stella,  delivered  at  the 
doctor's  borne  uia  wile's  new  gown,  and  in  doing 
so   found   time   to  ensnare   the   surgeon. 

The  model  soon  found  herself  the  mistress  of  a 
beautiful  jfpartment,  and  her  extravagance  began 
to  cause  Marien  considerable  worry.  Stella  wanted 
to  become  an  actress  and  with  the  backing  of  Hoc- 
tor  Marien  she  w  as  given  an  opportunity.  The 
day  following1,  Stella  accompanied  the  doctor  to 
the  Hippodrome,  where,  during  the  performance, 
there  was  a  terrible  catastrophe.  One  of  the  gal- 
leries collapsed  and  a  number  of  persons  were  in- 
jured, among  them  the  Countess  de  Vilmir.  Doc- 
tor Marien  was  called  to  give  his  aid  to  the  un- 
fortunate victim.  In  spite  of  the  efforts  of  Doc- 
tor Legios,  the  family  physician,  the  Countess 
ile  Vilmir  did  not  improve  as  rapidly  as  bad  been 
expected.  Dr.  Legios  decided  Inat  it  would  be 
advisable  to  call  in  again  the  celebrated  surgeon, 
Dr.    Marien. 

At  the  first  consultation,  Dr.  Marien  decided  that 
an  operation  was  not  necessary  and  he  wrote  a 
letter  to  the  Countess,  explaining  his  decision.  Be- 
fore this  letter  was  mailed,  however,  he  received 
a  note  from  Stella  demanding  that  he  send  her 
$6000  immediately.  After  a  terrible  half  hour  in 
his  study  the  specialist  decided  that  he  would  per- 
form an  operation  upon  the  Countess  immediately, 
and  so  he  wrote  to  her  physician  to  bring  her  to 
his  hospital  the  following  day.  The  operation  was 
performed  and  the  results  were  fatal.  The 
Countess'  son  was  almost  frantic  with  grief  to 
learn  of  his  sudden  bereavement,  and  when  Dr. 
Marien,  on  leaving  the  operating  room,  saw  the 
boy  he  realized  the  terrible  crime  he  had  committed. 
The  next  day,  when  Stella  called  for  her  money, 
the  doctor  upbraided  her,  and  in  the  midst  of  a 
terrible  scene  old  Dr.  Legios  happened  to  come  to 
the  door  on  a  call  to  visit  the  specialist.  He  over- 
heard the  conversation,  and  rushing  into  the  room 
denounced    the    specialist    as    a    murderer. 

Dr.  Legios  informed  the  Count  de  Vilmir  of  the 
fact  that  his  mother  had  been  the  victim  of  an  un- 
necessary operation,  but  when  the  Count  called  upon 
bis  attorney  he  was  told  that  there  was  no  way 
to  reach  such  a  criminal.  The  Count  decided  that 
he  could  at  least  publicly  disgrace  Dr.  Marien,  and 
so  lie  went  to  a  hall  where  the  specialist  was  de- 
livering a  lecture  and  here  confronted  him  before 
this  gathering,  and  publicly  declared  that  he  bad 
committed  the  crime  of  operating  unnecessarily  on 
his    mother. 

The  result  was  absolute  disgrace  for  Dr.  Marien. 
When  he  turned  to  Stella,  she  also  scorned  bis 
attentions  now  that  his  money  and  prestige  were 
gone. 

The  story  closed  at'  the  Doctor's  home  with  bis 
BQlcide    in    his    study. 


ing  mamma  sees  a  last  chance  of  marrying  off  her 
elder  daughter.  She,  therefore,  insists  upon  dress- 
ing her  rebellious  younger  girl  as  a  maid.  Ed- 
ward is  bored  to  distraction  and  is  properly  mad 
when  the  simpering  elder  daughter  appropriates 
the  five  dollar  bouquet  he  brought  Louise.  But  he 
overhears  a  fragment  of  conversation  between 
Louise  and  mamma  and  he  "tumbles."  As  he 
goes,  be  bestows  a  meaning  wink  upon  Louise  and 
she   too   knows. 

Edward  holds  up  a  milk  wagon  for  a  considera- 
tion, borrows  the  milkman's  hat  and  apron  and 
bis  cart.  He  gains  an  entrance  into  the  kitchen 
and  Is  caught  by  mamma  flirting  with  the  "maid." 
He  assures  her  he  is  the  milkman  and  mamma 
flounces  out  in  a  rage  at  being  so  deceived.  Louise 
agrees  to  a  ride,  and  off  they  go.  Mamma  sees 
them  and  pursues  in  an  auto.  The  audacious  and 
presuming  "milk  man"  pulls  up  before  a  fine  p 
denee,  and  mamma  finds  Edward  and  Ixmise  in  the 
embrace  of  another  mamma — Edward's,  and  she 
recognizes  an  old  and  wealthy  friend.  All  are 
now   satisfied   except   the   elder  daughter. 

HOW  FATTY  GOT  EVEN  (April  9).— Amos,  the 
old  storekeeper  receives  a  letter  from  his  friend 
James,  telling  him  that  as  Bill  has  passed  away, 
they  are  sending  his  daughter,  Birdie,  to  Amos, 
as  per  agreement.  Great  excitement  reigns,  as 
Birdie  will  be  the  first  woman  in  the  new  town. 
They  prepare  a  little  shack  for  her,  and  each  in 
turn  try  to  win  her  good  graces  as  soon  as  she 
arrives,  even  the  old  storekeeper  taking  a  band, 
but  he  eventually  withdraws,  considering  himself 
too  old.  He  now  suggests  to  Tim  and  Andy  that 
they  pretend  to  shoot  each  other  in  a  duel,  since 
the  one  she  loves  will  be  the  one  she  goes  to  first. 
Accordingly  the  boys  get  paint  and  fix  up  wounds, 
while  Amos  sends  Fatty,  to  notify  Birdie.  The 
girl  comes  and  is  shocked  at  what  she  believes  is 
a  tragedy,  but  instead  of  going  to  either  Tim  or 
Andy,  she  turns  to  Fatty  for  comfort,  and  after 
discovering  that  the  boys  were  only  shamming, 
goes  off   with   her  a   very   much  elated  young   man. 

THE  FORGOTTEN  LETTER  (April  11).— Robert 
Lee  is  deeply  in  love  with  Margaret  Ellison.  Both 
are  undemonstrative,  and  Robert,  not  feeling  quite 
sure  that  he  possesses  Margaret's  heart,  delays  bis 
proposal.  He  is  called  imperatively  to  New  York 
and  writes  a  letters  to  Margaret  asking  her  to  be 
his  wife  and  this  lie  places  in  his  pocket  to  mall, 
But  his  valet  points  out'  that  be  has  his  wrung 
coat  on.  He  changes  it  hastily  and  starts  for  the 
railroad  station.  Arriving  in  New  York,  he  awaits 
patiently  for  the  answer  which  never  comes.  Rob- 
ert is  terribly  grieved  and  decides  that  Margaret' 
did  not  love  Uim  sufficiently  to  marry  him.  He 
instructs  his  valet,  Parker  to  close  the  house,  to 
remove  everything  to  New  York  and  to  offer  the 
place   for  sale. 

MArgaret  wonders  why  she  has  neither  seen  nor 
heard  from  the  man  to  whom  she  Is  so  deeply  at- 
tached and  is  shocked  when  she  sees  the  empty 
house  and  the  "For  Sale"  sign,  as  she  drives  up 
to  inquire  the  cause  of  his  absence.  The  years 
pass  and  Margaret  accepts  a  rich  suitor,  who  later 
dies.  She  still  cherishes  the  memory  of  Robert, 
who  also  is  constantly  thinking  of  days  gone  by 
and  of  her.  One  day  he  decides  to  rummage 
through  old  trunks,  and  finds  the  letter  be  wrote 
to  Margaret  thirty  years  ago.  He  decides  to  call 
upon  her  and  in  her  own  liome  to  at  least  explain. 
The  years  have  not  stolen  any  of  Margaret's  charm. 
She  is  surprised  and  pleased  to  see  him.  He  ex- 
plains the  missing  letter.  They  decide  to  remain 
inseparate  forevermore. 


PCWERS. 

THE  FEAR  (April  11) — Hugh  Webster  is  a 
strong  man  in  all  but  the  control  of  a  violent  tem- 
per. He  does  not  possess  the  saving  grace  of 
humor,  and  his  companions  subject  him  to  many 
jokes  which  he  does  not  accept  with  good  grace. 
While  upon  a  hunting  trip,  he  one  day  lets  his 
temper  assert  itself,  and  in  a  frenzy,  strikes  down 
his  best  friend.  Then  seeing  what  be  has  done, 
flees   in   terror  into  the  depths  of  the   forest. 

HIb  friend  is  not  badly  injured,  and  as  all  feel 
sorry  for  their  conduct  and  know  that  their  chaff 
was  ill-advised,  they  endeavor  to  find  him,  well 
knowing  that  if  he  is  lost  his  chances  for  remain- 
ing alive  are  very  slim.  They  get  near  him  at 
times,  but  haunted  with  awful  fear  and  believing 
that  he  is  hunted,  he  eludes  them  and  eventually 
throws  them  off  the  scent  and  gets  lost'. 

He  is  found  in  an  exhausted  condition  by  the 
dog  of  a  lumberman  and  is  rescued  by  the  man, 
who  takes  him  to  the  lumber  camp.  He  gets  word 
that  bis  friend  is  all  right,  and  returns  home  a 
cured   man   and   with  his  temper  forever  In  check. 


NESTOR. 

THE  MAID  AND  THE  MILKMAN  (April  7).— 
Mamma  and  her  two  girls  are  in  the  park,  all  very 
stylish,  especially  the  eldest  daughter,  who  la 
conscious  of  her  station  In  life  and  adds  dignity  to 
her  years.  Louise,  the  younger,  Is  just  roguish 
and  pretty.  Edward  Girard  notes  this  as  he  passes 
and  Louise  notices  him.  She  drops  a  package  in  a 
shameless  manner,  and  so  gets  into  conversation. 
Edward   obtains   an    invitation    to   call.     But   scliem- 


FRONTIER. 

AS  FATE  WILLS,  a  drama  (April  10).— Ill  and 
homeless.  Jack  Sheldon,  is  walking  the  streets, 
begging,  accompanied  by  his  little  child  Edythe. 
Their  appeals  for  assistance  meet  with  no  response 
until  Mrs.  Preston,  picks  them  up  In  her  automobile. 
In  the  machine,  Sheldon  becomes  delirious  and  is 
taken  to  a  hospital,  where  laboring  under  a  strange 
hallucination,  he  escapes  and  wanders  In  a  de- 
mented condition,  to  a  sheepherder's  camp,  where 
he  obtains  protection.  Recovering  from  the  de- 
lirium and  regaining  his  strength,  Sheldon  is  about 
to  depart  from  the  camp,  when  the  returning  goat- 


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herder  falls  from  a  high  rock,  receiving  injuries 
which  prove  fatal.  Nursed  by  Sheldon,  the  goat 
herder  before  dying,  leaves  Sheldon  all  his  earthly 
possessions.  Little  Edythe,  has  been  adopted  by- 
Mrs.    Preston   and   has   forgotten   her  parentage. 

Fifteen  years  after,  she  and  her  girl  friends  go 
picu icing  In  the  mountains,  near  Sheldon's  camp. 
Sheldon  enters  into  a  conversation  with  her.  As 
the  girl  leaves  the  camp,  Sheldon  utters  a  prayer 
that  his  girl,  wherever  she  may  be,  is  safe  from 
harm. 

Sheldon  now  discovers  a  placer  goldfleld;  is 
possessed  of  much  wealth  and  is  determined  to  And 
his  daughter.  He  sees  Mrs.  Treston  and  Edythe 
enter  their  motor  ear.  EMythe  Loses  her  purse. 
Sheldon  finds  it  in  the  street  and  traces  them  by 
means  of  a  visiting  card. 

He  feels  sure  the  Edythe  is  his  daughter,  and 
tells  to  Mrs.  Preston  and  her  the  story  of  bis 
life  and  adventures  from  the  time  he  escaped  from 
the  hospital,  gradually  leading  up  to  the  climax, 
which  he  springs  when  he  declares  that  if  Edythe 
will  look  on  her  arm  in  a  certain  place,  she  will 
find  a  sear  of  a  certain  description.  The  girl  slow- 
ly puts  her  arms  around  her  father's  neck.  Shel- 
don assures  Mrs.  Preston  of  his  gratitude  to  her 
and  of  his  wealth  and  ability  to  care  for  the  girl. 
Edythe   and   her  father   are  reunited. 

THE  BURNING  LARIAT  (April  12).  —  Burt 
Hawkins,  an  eastern  cattle  buyer  in  New  Mexico, 
Closes  a  deal  with  Sam  French,  a  western  stock 
grazer  and  is  introduced  by  French  to  his  daugh- 
ter, Edith,  who  is  talking  with  Buck,  French's 
foreman,  it  is  a  case  of  love-at-first-sight  between 
Edith  and  Burt.  Buck  becomes  Jealous;  indicates 
his  dielike  for  Burt  and  quarrels  with  Edith  leaving 
in    an    angry    mood. 

Developments  are  rapid  In  the  case.  Burt  tells 
the  girl  he  loves  her.  Felipe,  a  sheep  herder  and 
Buck's  pal,  overhears  au  agreement  between  the 
lovers  to  meet.  Felipe  informs  Buck  and  they  de- 
cide to  get  square  with  Burt.  While  waiting  at 
the  meeting  place,  Burt  is  overpowered  and  bound; 
Edith  arrives  soon  after,  picking  up  a  glove  which 
she  identifies  as  Burt's  and  which  he  has  dropped 
iu  the  struggle,  also  a  spur  belonging  to  Buck. 
She  follows  the  foot  prints  and  reaches  the  aban- 
doned adobe  shack  where  Felipe  and  Buck  have 
imprisoned  Burt.  Securing  a  lariat,  Edith  ropes 
Felipe,  who  giveB  a  frightened  yell  which  at- 
tracts Buck's  attention;  Buck  comes  from  the 
shack  and  as  be  opens  the  door  Edith  attempts  to 
shoot  him,  but  is  overpowered  and  made  prisoner 
with  Burt.  With  Edith  at  his  mercy,  Buck  tells 
her  if  she  does  not  consent  to  marry  bim  he  will 
fix  Burt.  Buck  Instructs  Felipe  to  take  Burt  to 
the  old  barn  near  by:  place  him  inside  and  fire 
the  barn.  With  Burt  a  sure  prisoner,  Edith  per- 
sists in  her  refusal  to  wed  Buck  until  she  sees 
the  barn  burning  and  then  consents  to  marry  Buck. 
But  she  snatches  Buck's  revolver,  forces  him  into 
the  shack  and  goes  to  assist  Burt.  Buck  is  re- 
leased by  Felipe;  they  swear  vengeance  and  with 
the  assistance  of  sheep  herders  start  in  pursuit  cf 
Edith  and  Burt  who  have  by  this  time  traveled  a 
considerable  distance  over  a  rough  road,  being 
given    a    passage   in   a   rough   stage   coach. 

A  running  fight  follows.  Arriving  at  a  precipice, 
with  no  outlet'  for  escape,  Edith  takes  a  desperate 
nance;  ties  a  lariat  to  a  rock  and  throws  tin'  end 
the  cliff.  She  descends,  followed  by  Burt. 
Buck  mii]  liis  men  reach  the  precipice  and  Buck 
attempts  the  same  route  of  descent.  The  end  of 
the  lariat  is  lighted,  flames  quickly  consume  the 
rope.  Buck  discovers  too  late  that  the  rope 
quick! j  burning  and  despite  of  frantic  efforts  to 
gain  the  top  of  the  precipice  tic  is.  da  sited  to  tl  <<■ 
depth  of  the  canyon.  The  sheriff  arrives  and  ar- 
rests   the    herders. 

IMP. 

THE  WANDERER  (April  7).— In  the  valley  the 
world's  best  "eternal  triangle"  is  being  worked 
between  a  husband,  a  much  younger  wife  and  '"one 
who  covets."  On  the  heights,  the  shepherd  hears  the 
call  and  for  the  nonce  becomes  a  wanderer,  and 
descends  into  the  valley  of  Passions  and  Pain.  It 
is  the  gentle,  unfelt,  almost  unseen  influence  of  the 
wanderer  that  stops  a  maddened  husband  from  first 
murder  and  then  suicide;  exposes  the  frailty  of  a 
wife  to  her  own  consideration,  and  points  out  to  her 
grim  consequences  of  a  moment's  folly,  and 
finally  takes  tin-  •'one  who  covets"  away  from  the 
born  passions  of  the  valley  a  far  journey  up  the 
heights,  and  disaster  to  three  souls.  Averted,  the 
wanderer,  again  the  good  shepherd,  returns  to  his 
peaceful  grazingshlp. 

UNIVERSAL. 

ANIMATED     WEEKLY     No.     55     (March     26).— 

6t,  Patrick's  Day  Parade. — The  Friendly  Sons 
and  other  Societies  of  New  York  City  pay  their 
annual  tribute  to  their  patron  saint. 

To  Ex-President  Cleveland. — His  birthplace  de- 
dicated as  a   National    Memorial  at  Caldwell,   N.  J. 

Powder  Explosion. — Powder  mill  blown  to  atoms 
at   Sydney,    Australia. 

Automobile  Accident. — A  nearly  fatal  spill  near 
Phoenix,    Arizona . 

The  Noblest  Roman  of  Them  All.— "Brentwood," 
the  oldest  horse  in  the  service  of  the  New  York 
Fire    D  tn     Qt,    who   has    run    to    5504    tire    alarms 

and   is    still    "on    the    bit." 


Paris,  France. — Some  of  the  ways  the  citizens 
of   the   French   capital   enjoy   Sunday. 

Flower  Show. — Chicago  exhibits  the  magnificence 
of  floral   culture. 

Gaby  Deslys. — Meets  her  mother  upon  her  arrival 
from    France. 

The  Boy  Scouts  of  America. — Visit  the  Home 
and    Tomb    of    George    Washington    at    Mt.    Vernon. 

Turkey  Trot. — The  National  Bird  flourishes  at  a 
Rhode   Island   farm. 

Irish  Bog  Slide. — The  ancient  sport  of  "Bog  Trot- 
tiny"  in  Ireland. 

A  Two  Hundred  and  Fifty  Thousand  Dollar  Fire. 
— A  quarter  of  a  million  dollars  worth  of  wheat 
destroyed   in    an    elevator  fire   at   Chicago,    Illinois. 

Aero  Trophy  Race. — First  speed  contest  of  the 
season    at    Hendon,     England. 

What's  What  in  New  York.— The  Statue  of 
Liberty. 

Who's  Who  in  Stageland,  Alice  Fisher. — The 
famous  comedienne  poses  for  the  Animated  Weekly. 


MUTUAL  FILM  CORPORA- 
TION. 

EXCELSIOR. 

TEMPERAMENTAL  ALICE  (April  7).— Alice's 
father,  a  rather  lonely  invalid,  advertises  for  a 
companion  and  secretary.  Young  Ralph  Finn  an- 
sw  its    the    ad    in    person    and    gets    the    position. 

Alice  tries  to  break  the  new  secretary's  heart. 
But  it  is  no  use.  She  is  angered  at'  this  unusual 
treatment  and  one  day  while  caught  outdoors 
in  a  shower,  she  stays  there  to  make  Ralph  call 
for  her  with  umbrella  and  raincoat.  But  Ralph 
merely  sends  the  gardner  for  her.  This  time  she 
makes  up  her  mind  that  she  will  get  even.  Seeing 
her  father  give  some  money  to  Ralph,  she  manages 
to '  get  it  and  hide  it.  Ralph  is  horrified  at  the 
disappearance  of  the  money,  but  he  is  not  be- 
lieved   and    Alice's    father   discbarges    him    at    once. 

A  few  days  later  as  he  is  wheeling  his  mother 
along  the  street  in  her  invalid  chair,  Alice's 
motor  car  crashes  into  them.  The  mother  Is  hurt 
but  recovers.  Alice  tells  her  father  the  truth  and 
Ralph  is  reinstalled  in  bis  old  position.  The 
girl's  devotion  to  his  mother  wins  Ralph's  heart 
and  before  long  the  past  is  entirely  forgotten 
and  a  bright  future  looms  before  them. 


AMERICAN. 

CUPID  THROWS  A  BRICK  (April  7).->Tim  Rey- 
nolds worked  in  the  village  brickyard.  Jim  loved 
Mabel  Whltaker  very  much,  but  Mabel  gave  her 
affection  to  Bob  Warren.  One  day  Jim  saw  Bob 
go  into  a  saloon.  He  remonstrated  and  Bob  ad- 
vised him  to  mind  his  own  business.  The  following 
day,  in  the  brickyard  Bob  hauled  a  flask  from  his 
pocket.  Jim  took  it  from  him.  Bob  picked  up  a 
brick  and  heaved  it.  Jim  got  hit  on  the  side  oi  his 
head  and  for  days  was  missed  at  his  work. 

Jim  saw  much  of  Mabel  and  Mabel's  faith  in 
Bob  waned  'in  proportion  as  she  grew  to  love  Jim. 
A  day  came  when  the  boys  caught  Bob.  They  were 
treating  him  roughly  when  Jim  interfered  and  bid 
them  leave  Bob  alone.  They  left  and  Mabel  came. 
Bob,  who  had  thought  Jim  dead,  was  so  overcome 
as  to  offer  his  hand.  For  reply  Jim  stooped,  picked 
up  another  brick  and  handed  it  to  him  with  a  look 
at  Mabel,  saying,  "Hit  me  again,  Bob,  and  maybe 
she'll  marry  me." 

THE  HOMESTEAD  RACE  (April  10).— Ben  Halli- 
day  came  to  the  Big  N  ranch  for  rest.  He  soon 
fell  in  love  witli  charming  Carrie  Wilkins,  daughter 
of  the  ranchowner.  She  showed  him  a  letter  from 
Jim  Wells,  the  distant  land  agent,  telling  her  that 
sin-  could  obtain  an  excellent  homestead  if  she  hur- 
ried on  at  once. 

Ralph  Cunuingham  overheard  the  conversation,  and 
later,  a  gust  of  wind  swept  the  letter  out  of  the 
open  window  to  him.  He  picked  it  up,  sa\v  that 
he  had  sufficient  money  to  file  himself,  and  rushed 
I'M  ihe  barn  to  get  a  horse.  Meanwhile,  the  letter 
was  missed  and  the  empty  stable  gave  a  reason. 

Then  Ben  Halliday  took  a  hand.  He  found  an- 
other horse  and  a  mighty  chase  ensued.  Over  hill 
and  dale  the  pair  galloped,  until,  overtaken,  Ralph 
got  off  )ii-  borse,  held  Ben  at  the  point  of  his  gun, 
took  Ben's  horse  and  made  away.  But  all  luck 
had  not  deserted  the  apparent  loser.  Stopping  a 
passing  automobile,  he  climbed  in  and  again  over- 
took his  enemy.  Both  arrived  at  practically  the 
came  time  at  Wells'  office.  Ben,  a  fraction  of  an 
Instant  ahead,  leaped  In  and  bolted  the  door.  After 
the  necessary  papers  had  been  made  out,  Wells  gave 
him  his  gnn,  Ben  crept  around  to  the  front  of  the 
and  got  the  drop  on  Ralph,  who  stood,  re- 
volver in   hand,   confronting  the  door. 

WOMAN'S  HONOR  (April  12).— Madge  Williams, 
a  shawl  about  her  figure,  crept  Into  the  little  town, 
n  cast  off  \\Mni:iii.  Billy  Wayne  made  love  to  Jessa- 
lyn  on  the  front  porch  of  the  rector's  house  and 
Father  Bob,  the  handsome  young  priest,  stopped  to 
smile  at  the  evident  love  of  Billy  and  the  coquetry 
of  Jessa  lyn, 

A    week    later   young    Benton    was   making   violent 

love  t"  Jessalyn  and  Father  Bob  frowned,  for  Benton 

!   backslider  and  bore  a  bad  reputation  in  town. 

Meanwhile,   Madge  Williams  sought  out  Benton,  her 

destroyer,    and    begged    him    to   marry   her.     But  he 

.  ast    In t    «'ff    and    refused.     The    climax    came 


when  Jessalyn.  with  a  small  package  under  her  arm, 
fled  with  Benton.  The  priest  saw  and  followed  to 
the  little  village  park.  The  four  met,  a  priest,  a 
backslider  and  an  innocent  girl  and  a  woman  who 
had  heeu  wronged.  Words,  hot  and  hasty,  followed. 
Benton  struck  at  the  priest,  and  priest  became  man, 
delivering  a  blow  which  laid  Benton  flat  upon  the 
grass.  When  he  rose  the  priest  joined  his  hand  with 
that  of  Madge  and  made  them  man  and  wife. 
Just  then  the  village  sexton,  father  of  Jessalyn, 
hurried  to  the  scene,  gun  in  hand.  But  the  affair 
was  over  for  Jessalyn,  and  she  went  quietly  back 
home  with  her  father.  Father  Bob  took  his  way  ( 
and  the  man  and  woman,  newly  made  man  and  wife, 
faced  each  other.  And  the  woman  smiled,  kissed  her 
ring  and  bade  him  farewell  forever. 


THANHOUSER. 

THE  WAX  LADY  (March  30).— There  was  once 
a  cross  grumpy  man  who  owned  a  cheap  little 
clothing  store.  He  acted  as  his  own  "puller  id," 
because  he  enjoyed  annoying  people  and  Inducing 
them  to  pay  high  prices  *  for  second  class  goods. 
He  was  overbearing  to  the  poor,  brutal  to  children 
and  never  happy  except  when  he  saw  somebody 
suffering.  His  neighbors  all  hated  him,  but  had 
given  him  up  as  a  bad  job.  Consequently  they  were 
very  much  surprised  to  notice  a  sudden  radical 
change  in  him.  He  became  kindly  Instead  of 
cruel,  benevolent  instead  of  penurious  and  tried 
in  every  way  to  qe  a  benefactor  to  all  mankind. 
They  couldn't  understand  it  and  the  mystery  was 
not  lightened  when  he  unbosomed  himself  to  a 
friend.  "You  see  it  was  this  way,"  he  said. 
"1  got  in  bad  with  the  queen  of  the  fairies  and 
she  put  me  over  the  Jumps.  See  that  wax  lady 
in  there?  Well,  she  came  to  life  and  so  did  those 
other  dummies  and  1  found  out  after  they  had 
tortured  me  a  while  that  I  was  a  pretty  bad  lot. 
So  now  I  am  a  good  scout  and  I  am  going  to  keep 
on  being  one,  for  if  I  don't  that  fairy  queen  will 
come    back." 

The  merchant  never  relaxes  in  bis  efforts  to 
please  the  fairies,  for  the  experiences  he  had  were 
so  fearful  that  he  will  never  forget  them. 

THE  WOMAN  WHO  DID  NOT  CARE  (April  1). 
— A  girl  beautiful  hut  hearties  and  ambitious, 
was  the  daughter  of  a  poor  miner  and  was  de- 
votedly loved  by  a  man  in  her  own  station  of  life. 
She  accepted  his  attentions  willingly  until  a.  young 
engineer  came  along  and  paid  court  to  her.  She 
then  dismissed  her  first  suitor.  Her  father  made 
a  lucky  strike,  and  they  moved  to  the  city  to  enjoy 
their  wealth.  This  sealed  the  fate  of  the  second 
suitor,  for  a  rich  man  became  smitten  with  the  girl 
and  she  accepted  his  advances.  Perhaps  she  would 
have  married  him  in  time  had  it  not  been  that  she 
aroused  the  enmity  of  an  old  witch,  deeply 
skilled  in  magic.  The  witch,  to  have  revenge, 
brought  a  scarecrow  to  life,  supplied  him  with  a 
title  and  seeming  great  wealth,  and  ordered  him 
to  win  the  girl  for  his  bride.  He  did  this  easily, 
for  the  idea  of  being  a  noblewoman  appealed  to 
the  hearties  girl.  Her  triumph  was  complete 
until  the  weddiug  day,  when  the  witch  appeared 
just  as  the  ceremony  was  completed.  She  jeered 
at  her  victim,  then  transformed  the  "nobleman" 
back  into  a  scarecrow  again,  so  the  girl  was 
stricken  down  in  whal  Bhe  had  believed  to  be  her 
hour    of    Success,        Tin-    story    is    allegorical. 

THE    SPOILED    DARLING'S    DOLL    (April    4).— 

Her  parents  said  she  was  n  darling.  The  long 
suffering  servants  thought  otherwise.  From  the 
time  that  she  could  first  crawl  and  talk  she 
had    had    her   own    way. 

Her  nurse  did  not  like  her.  The  little  girl 
never  obeyed,  but  always  argued  and  protested. 
She  smashed  her  toys,  and  tore  her  clothes,  and 
screamed  so  her  sick  mo i her  took  a  turn  for  the 
worse.  Her  parents,  however,  were  satisfied  she 
would  outgrow  her  unpleasant  habits,  and  sure 
enough  she  did.  One  evening  the  nurse  rushed 
into  her  mom.  attracted  by  the  cries  of  the  child. 
She  had  tumbled  out  of  bed.  but  strange  to  say 
was  not  peevish.  She  apologized  to  the  nurse  for 
causing  any  trouble  and  altogether  was  so  sweet 
that  the  nurse  wafl  convinced  the  child  was  seri- 
ously ill.  I  lor  father  questioned  her  and  the 
little  one  told  bim  of  the  remarkable  conduct  of 
her  newest  and  biggest  doll.  It  seems  that  the 
doll  came  to  life,  Treated  thf  little  irirl  as  she 
had  treated  her  nurse,  made  life  a  misery  to  her 
and  taught  her  tliat  selfish  people  cause  much 
unnecessary  suffering.  So  the  litle  girl  firmly 
decided     to     be    good     in     the     future. 

What  did  the  family  do?  Well,  the  mother 
wept,  and  said  she  fefl  red  her  darling  was  too 
good  to  live.  The  doll  really  knew  what  had 
happened,  but  she  never  said  a  word.  Tt  is  hard 
to  get  dolls  to  talk,  although  they  have  been 
known    to    wink    when    jdensed. 


MAJESTIC. 
A  WELL-MEANT  DECEPTION  (Mar.  SO).— Bell, 
an  amateur  artist,  marries  a  singer.  His  uncle  finds 
out  about  the  marriage  and  quarrels  with  his  nephew 
and  cuts  uff  his  allowance.  Bell  at  first  Imagines 
that  he  can  soil  his  pictures  and  get  along  without 
Ins    uncle's     assistam-e.      He    finds    that    his    stuff    Is 

unsalable.  The  wolf  is  at  the  d<x>r  when  his  wife 
offers  to  go  back  to  the  cafe.  Bell  won't  hear  of  It. 
The  wife  deceives  him  by  tflllng  him  that  she  got  a 
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reality  she  goes  back  to  the  cafe.  She  earns  good 
money  and  Instructs  an  art  dealer  to  buy  come  of 
her  husband's  pictures.  Bell  Immediately  gets  a 
swelled  head  and  tells  bis  wife  there  is  no  need 
of  ber  to  work  any  more,  but  she,  of  course,  knows 
better,  and  insists  on  returning  to  work.  Meantime, 
the  uncle  accidentally  meets  the  art  dealer  and 
finds  out  who  lie  purchaser  was  of  the  nephew's 
pictures.  He  goes  to  interview  the  girl  and  is 
pleased  with  her  goodness  and  sacrifice.  A  small 
fire  starts  In  the  music  school  where  Bell  thinks  bis 
wife  Is  working.  He  enters  the  scbool  to  find  that 
bis  wife  never  worked  there.  Full  of  Jealous  rage, 
be  finds  her  in  the  cafe  and  Is  about  to  attack  her, 
but  is  prevented  by  his  uncle  and  the  dealer,  who 
explain   things. 

A   STUDY    IN   SOCIOLOGY    (April    1) A   clause 

In  the  will  of  an  old  millionaire  forbids  bis  daughter 
from  marrying  any  man  but  one  who  has  become 
prominent  through  hard  work.  A  relative  of  the 
girl  introduces  her  to  a  supposed  author  of  a  book 
on  sociology,  but  who,  in  reality,  is  a  professional 
gambler.  Fascinated  by  the  suave  manners  of  the 
gambler,  she  accepts  him  as  a  possible  suitor.  The 
gambler  gives  ber  a  diamond  ring  which  he  had 
received  from  Travis  In  payment  of  a  debt.  In 
order  to  become  the  wife  of  a  sociologist,  the  girl 
decides  to  do  as  he  has  done — study  the  workers 
by  being  one  of  them.  She  secures  a  position  as 
maid  In  the  Travis  borne  and  falls  in  love  with  the 
chauffeur.  Young  Travis,  refused  money  by  bis 
mother,  steals  a  gold  chain.  Although  the  maid's 
suitcase  is  searched  and  nothing  found  therein,  the 
theft  Is  laid  on  her  on  account  of  the  discovery  of 
the  diamond,  and  she  is  placed  under  arrest.  Before 
the  officer  can  get  into  the  auto  carrying  Mrs. 
Travis,  her  son  and  the  maid,  the  chauffeur  drives 
off  t'o  a  lonely  spot  In  the  country  where  he  pro- 
ceeds to  thrash  the  son.  In  the  scuffle  the  chain 
falls  from  young  Travis'  pocket  While  the  mother 
is  reprimanding  her  son,  the  chauffeur  and  the 
maid  run  off  to  a  railway  station,  where  he  gives 
ber  money  so  that  ahe  may  return  to  her  home. 
Finding  that  Bhe  is  haunted  by  the  memory  of  the 
young  chauffeur,  the  heiress  locates  his  whereabouts 
through  an  ad  In  a  local  newspaper.  He  reveals 
his  identity  as  being  the  real  author  of  the  book 
on  sociology,  and,  according  to  the  terms  of  the 
will,  the  girl  wins  the  old  millionaire's  millions  by 
marrying  a  man  who  has  made  a  name  for  himself 
by  hard  work. 


RELIANCE. 

THE  HALFWIT  (Mar.  29) Bud  Johnson,  a  half- 
witted youth,  is  in  love  with  Ruth  Bradley,  the 
belle  of  the  village.  Ed  Moore,  a  young  farmer, 
proposes  and  is  accepted.  Bnd  hears  of  this  and 
plans  some  way  in  which  he  can  revenge  himself. 
Ruth  and  Ed  elope  and  are  married.  She  writes 
home  to  her  father,  begging  forgiveness.  He  soft- 
ens and  answers  her  letter,  bidding  ber  come  home 
at  once.  When  he  malls  it.  however,  it  falls  out 
of  the  chute  and  is  found  by  the  halfwitted  Iwy. 
who,  seeing  It  is  addressed  to  Ruth,  opens  and  reads 
it.     He  tears  it  into  bits. 

The  young  people,  receiving  no  answer,  conclude 
that  the  old  man  will  not  relent.  Ed  goes  to  work 
In  the  city  and  they  soon  have  their  own  home. 
Repenting,  Bud  sets  out  to  find  tbem.  After  a 
search  lasting  two  years,  he  finally  locates  them 
in  time  to  save  their  baby's  life  and  bring  all  three 
borne  to  the  waiting  father.  This  much  done,  the 
poor  halfwitted  boy,   asking  forgiveness,  dies. 

THE  JUDGE'S  VINDICATION  (2  reels,  April  2). 
— Judge  Harris  refuses  to  decide  a  case  in  favor 
of  a  certain  powerful  trust.  The  head  of  this  trust 
vows  he  will  "break"  the  Judge  and  immediately 
sets  about  for  some  way  to  do  it. 

Not  long  afterward,  at  the  instigation  of  the 
trust  magnate,  the  Judge  is  Impeached.  His  wife 
and  daughter  are  heartbroken,  but  believe  firmly 
in  him.  He  goes  to  the  magnate  and  pleads  with 
him  to  no  avail.  His  daughter,  Rose,  decides  to 
see  the  tyrant  herself.  She  does  so  but  is  only 
laughed  at. 

She  goes  to  the  courtroom  and  there  meets  a 
young  reporter,  who  listens  to  her  trouble.  He 
has  seen  a  package  of  letters  pass  from  the  secre- 
tary of  the  trust  to  the  president,  and  knows  they 
are  relative  to  her  father's  case.  The  thing  is  to 
get  these  letters. 

He  wants  a  story  for  his  paper,  and  also  wants 
to  help  the  pretty  girl,  so  he  starts  off  with  her. 
They  drive  to  the  president's  house.  The  reporter 
enters,  revolver  in  hand.  Seeing  the  letters  on  the 
table,  he  grabs  them,  keeping  the  president  at  bay 
with  his  revolver.  The  president's  lawyer  entering, 
tries  to  overpower  the  reporter,  but  in  the  struggle 
he  gets  away  and  dashes  out  of  the  house  and  into 
the  waiting  car.  The  president  orders  bis  car  and 
follows  tbem,  but  is  unable  to  catch  the  smaller 
car.  The  reporter  and  the  girl  get  to  the  Senate 
Chamber  In  time  to  produce  the  letters  and  change 
the  verdict  to  a  vote  of  unanimous  acquittal.  She 
hurries  home  to  tell  her  father  and  great  Joy  Is  the 
result.  The  reporter  in  his  office,  finishes  a  stirring 
article  on  the  methods  of  a  certain  well-known 
trust. 


gets  In  trouble  with  the  irate  queen.  The  subjects 
bare  been  vainly  petitioning  the  king  for  Im- 
provements in  his  reign,  without  avail.'  The  kin* 
[•ays  too  much  attention  to  the  sweetheart  of  a 
country  bumpkin  who  shows  his  resentment  by 
chasing  bis  royal  highness  with  a  pistol  and  per- 
forating the  royal  legs.  The  king  takes  refuge  !n 
the  top  of  a  tree,  from  which  ignominions  position 
he  is  finally  rescued  by  his  courtiers.  In  consid- 
eration of  the  bumpkin  promising  not  to  tell  the 
queen  of  this  latest  escapade,  the  king  grants  the 
petition   of    his   subjects. 

A  GAME  OF  POKER  (April  10). — Schmidt  prac- 
tices by  himself  holding  out  a  hand,  a  royal  flush, 
and  then  visits  his  gambler  friends.  They  proceed 
to  'trim"  him,  and  manage  to  pick  his  pocket  of 
the  concealed  hand,  but  in  passing  the  cards  und?r 
the  table  Schmidt  gets  the  hand  back  again,  winning 
all    the   money. 

FATHER'S  CHOICE  (April  10).— Father  wants 
Mabel  to  marry  a  little,  wealthy  shrimp.  She  is 
in  love  with  Charlie,  a  big,  strapping  fellow. 
Mabel  is  locked  up  in  the  house,  but  her  lover 
sets  the  house  on  fire,  and  in  the  confusion  ,-uns 
to  the  minister's  house  with  her.  Father-  and  his 
choice  pursue,  but  Mabel  and  her  lover  bide  in  the 
chimney.  Father  sticks  around  with  a  big  gun. 
and  Mabel  and  her  lover  make  up  as  negroes  and 
are  married,  father  being  persuaded  to  act  as 
best  man. 


MUTUAL  EDUCATIONAL. 

WILLY  PREFERS  LIBERTY  TO  WEALTH 
(April  10) — Willy,  a  little  street  singer  and  his 
faithful  dog  Medor,  are  lunching  before  going  to 
work.  The  child  lakes  his  guitar,  his  old  bat  and 
with  his  dog,  starts  out  for  a  day's  work.  He 
sings  and  plays  before  a  cafe,  while  Medor  dances. 
The  sight  pleases  the  spectators  and  the  pennies 
fall  heavily  into  the  old  hat.  The  pretty  sc=ne 
has  attracted  the  attention  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Deval, 
who  are  very  rich  and  childless,  and  they  decide  to 
adopt  him.  Willy  accepts,  but  not  without  certain 
reluctance.  At  his  new  home  he  is  presented  to 
all  the  servants,  who  smile  at  him  scornfully. 
Willie  marvels  at  all  the  luxuries  around  him,  for 
all  his  old  clothes  are  replaced  by  new  ones  and 
he  cannot  recognize  himself.  He  even  feels  some- 
what embarrassed.  At  the  table  Willy  Is  scolded 
because  he  has  no  manners  and  they  also  prohibit 
the  dog  coming  into  the  dining  room.  Willy  can- 
not stand  this  any  longer  and  gets  into  a  frigh-ful 
temper,  but  they  calm  him  the  best  they  can. 
During  the  night,  he  cannot  sleep  and  longs  for 
freedom  and  liberty.  He  gets  up,  goes  to  the 
window,  opens  It,  and  in  the  moonlight  sees  his 
dog  waiting  for  him.  He  finds  his  old  clothes,  puts 
them  on  and  leaves  the  place,  leaving  a  note. 
"You  are  very  good  to  me,  but  I  cannot  live  with- 
out my  liberty,  Goodbye."  He  reaches  the  old 
garret  and  plays  on  his  guitar,  till  he  and  his  be- 
loved  dog  fall  into   a   sweet  sleep. 

THE  GOLDEN  HORN,  TURKEY  (April  10).— 
The  Golden  Horn,  a  gulf  of  the  Bosphorus.  sep- 
arates Constantinople  from  Stamboul.  Two  bridges 
have  been  built  over  it,  at  a  point  where  it  is 
1350  feet  wide,  and  about  135  feet  deep.  The 
Golden  Horn  Is  about  8  miles  long  and  terminates 
at  the  Valley  of  "Sweet  Waters"  from  which  It 
flows  Into  the  Rivers  Ali  Bey-Son,  formally  known 
as    c.vdans   and    Kiahat   and   Hane-Son. 


KAY-BEE. 

ON  FORTUNE'S  WHEEL  (2  parts— April  11).— 
James  Mulford,  a  banker,  facing  ruin,  robs  the 
bank.  Boyd,  the  cashier,  is  sent  to  prison  for  15 
years  for  the  robbery.  Mulford  places  his  young 
son  in  a  boarding  school  and  goes  to  a  small 
Arizona  town  and  starts  another  bank.  Boyd's 
wife  places  her  infant  daughter  in  a  foundling 
home  and  goes  to  work  by  the  day.  Fifteen  years 
later  Mulford's  son  and  Boyd's  daughter  have 
grown  up,  have  met,  and  are  engaged  to  be  mar- 
ried. The  girl  had  been  adopted  by  a  wealthy 
family,  named  Clayton,  and  had  been  raised  in 
luxury.  Her  real  mother  has  lost  track  of  her. 
The  mother  Is  employed  as  housekeeper  in  the 
Clayton  home  and  finally  learns  that  the  Clavton 
girl   is   her  daughter. 

Mulford  In  the  west  writes  to  forbid  his  son 
marrying  a  person  of  doubtful  parentage.  Mrs. 
Boyd,  the  girl's  real  mother,  goes  to  Arizona  to 
interview  Mulford.  Meanwhile  Boyd  is  released 
from  prison  and  is  on  the  trail  of  Mulford  to  get 
revenge.  He  meets  his  wife  in  Mulford's  bank. 
Mulford  flees  before  Boyd's  wrath,  but  Is  captured 
and  killed  by  Indians  whom  he  had  defrauded  out 
of  valuable  lands.  Mulford's  objections  removed 
by  deatb,   the  young  people  are  free  to  marry. 


KEYSTONE. 

THOSE  GOOD  OLD  DAYS  (April  7) A  gorge- 
ously costumed  play,  in  which  a  merry  king  gets 
too   gay   with   the   dancing   girls   of   the   court   and 


MUTUAL   WEEKLY 

MUTUAL  WEEKLY  NO.  12  (Mar.  19)  .—Seattle, 
Wash. — A    huge,    new    dry    dock    is    opened. 

Oberhof,  Germany. — Prince  Charles  of  Gotha, 
opening   in  person,    the   Bobsleigh  Club. 

Baltimore,  Md. — Big  car  float  launched  by  the 
Pennsylvania    Railroad. 

St.  Petersburg*,  Russia, — The  annual  ceremony  of 
blessing  the   River  Neva. 

Seattle,  Wash. — Transporting  45  elks  from  Yel- 
lowstone   National    Park    to   re-stock    the    coast. 


Oxford.  England. — The  Oxford  crews  training  for 
the  coming   match    with   Cambridge. 

Riviera,  France.— The  Carnival  of  Flowers  at- 
tracts  thousands  of  people. 

Germany.— Celebration   of   the    Kaiser's   birthday. 

The  Fashion  in  New  York  and  Paris. 

England. — The  12th  Regiment  of  Lancers  return- 
ing   from  South   Africa. 

Venice,  Cal. — "Daredevil"  Lloyd  drives  his  2500 
pound  car  on  a  circular  track  built  at  an  angle  of 
"0  degrees. 

Melbourne,    Australia. — Horse    training. 

Nijny  Novgorod,  Russia. — Unveiling  the  statue 
of  Czar  Alexander  II. 

Paris,   France. — Foot   Race.     Challenge   vs.   Doyen. 

New  York  City.— "Lower  Rents  Exhibit"  at- 
tracts large  crowds. 

Munich,    Bavaria. — Parade   of    the    auto-busses. 

Erzgebirge,    Bohemia. — Winter   sports. 

Hot  Springs,  Ark. — Half  million  dollar  Are,  in 
which  two  persons  lost  their  lives  and  several 
were   injured. 

The   Stronge   Arm   Squad   of  the   Future. 


BRONCHO 

THE  GREY  SENTTNEL   (April  9—2  reels) Tom 

Carson,  a  southerner,  with  his  daughter,  Grace, 
is  the  keeper  of  the  Grey  Sentinel  Lighthouse. 
John  Adams,  the  sweetheart  of  Grace,  returns  from 
West  Point  and  joins  the  southern  cause:  he,  how- 
ever, spying  for  the  Union  Army.  A  fierce  battle 
takes  place  between  the  Confederate  and  Union 
forces  in  which  the  former  are  victorious.  Hal 
Peters,  a  southern  officer  and  an  admirer  of  Grace, 
Is  surprised  to  And  among  bis  captives.  John  Adams. 
Believing  hiB  excuse  of  spying  on  the  Unionists, 
Hal  releases  Adams,  who  learns  that  a  boat  with 
supplies  for  the  southern  army  is  soon  to  land  at 
the  Grey  Sentinel  Lighthouse  at  midnight.  The 
Union  Army  being  advised  of  the  move,  sink  the 
ship.  Adams  is  killed  by  Carson  and  Hal  claims 
Grace  at   the   end   of    the   war. 


FILM  SUPPLY  COMPANY 

LUX. 

SACRIFICED  TO  THE  LIONS  (April  11)  .— 
When  they  are  turned  out  of  their  territory  me 
Indians  approach  the  Governor,  and  endeavor  to 
persuade  him  to  return  it  to  them.  They  fail 
eo  make  him  alter  his  decision  by  conciliatory 
methods,  and  so  resolve  to  resort  to  more  forcible 
means  of  attaining  their  ends.  They  steal  the 
Governor's  only  daughter,  and  send  a  messenger 
to  him  telling  him  that,  unless  he  accedes  to  their 
demands,  within  three  days  bis  daughter  will  be 
sacrificed   to   the   lions. 

The  Governor  sends  a  messenger  to  the  Indians 
agreeing  to  their  wishes,  but  he  encounters  many 
perils   in    the   desert,    and    finally   loses   his   way. 

Meanwhile,  the  three  days  expire,  and  the  maid 
is  cast  into  the  lion's  den.  Just  as  the  animal 
is  about  to  devour  her,  the  messenger,  worn  with 
the  weary  fight  across  the  desert,  arrives  just 
in  time  to  save  the  maid  from  falling  beneath  the 
lion's  paws. 


GAUMONT 

FALSE  ALARM  AEROPLANE  (No.  55)  (Mar.  26.) 
— Viscount  Decazes  shows  his  new  machine  at  Ver- 
sailles, France,  but  it  fails  to  rise. 

Here  Comes  the  Bridegroom. — Princess  Louise  Vic- 
toria of  Prussia,  meets  her  tiauoO.  Prince  Ernest 
August  of  Cumberland,  at  Berlin. 

Red  Cross  Practice  Buy. — German  members  of 
Relief  Association  give  public  demonstration. 

Hockey  in  Sweden. — Lively  game  on  the  ice  at 
Stockholm. 

An  Italian  Disaster. — S.  S.  "Regina  Margherita" 
sinks  at  her  dock  in  Genoa. 

Arlette  Dorgere  in  New  Gowns. — Famous  actress 
Inspects  latest  fashions  at  Preooll's,    Paris. 

Easter. — Society's  great  day  brings  throng  to  Fifth 
Avenue,    New    York    I  I 

Atlantic  City. 

A  Wreck  on  the  Salt  Lake  Line. — Locomotive  al- 
most demolished  in  collision  near  Los  Angeles. 

Open  Air  Training  in  the  South. — Texas  children 
give  inspiring  exhibition  for  Gnuniout  Weekly. 

California's  Permanent  Exhibit. — Fruit  show  al- 
ways open  in  San  Francisco  ferry-house. 

THE  LURE  OF  THE  LORELEI  (Mar.  25).— 
Delilah,  Is  a  much  sought  woman.  To  one  of 
her  receptions  comes  Raoul  Champlain,  a  cavalry 
officer.  He  has  no  objection  to  making  a  little 
love  to  her.  She  reciprocates.  He  shows  her 
a  letter  from  bis  mother  which  Inhibits  his  re- 
maining with  her,  and  further  saying  that  his 
bethrothed    is    Impatient    to    see    him. 

Her  charm  is  so  potent  that  when  he  does  go 
to  his  home  to  be  married,  he  is  gloomy  and  dis- 
traught, and  at  the  moment  of  the  tying  of  the 
connubial  knot,  he  flouts  the  bride-elect  and  re- 
fuses   to    go    on    with    the    ceremony. 

The  bewitched  officer  returns  to  Paris  and  en- 
ters his  charmer's  house.  Then  comes  the  harsh 
note  in  the  Lorelei's  song.  He  finds  her  returning 
the  caresses  of  another  man.  There  is  a  duel  In 
which  Qhamplain   is  wounded. 

Champlain  writes  to  his  mother  asking  forgive- 
ness. He  follows  the  letter  before  he  could  have 
had   time  to  receive   an   answer.     All  is  silent  and 


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still  on  tne  maternal  threshhold.  As  he  stands  by 
the  window  looking  out  he  bears  solemn  funeral 
bells  tolling  in  the  tower.  A  few  moments  later 
passes  a  black  shrouded  bier.  By  its  side  his 
mother  walks  weeping.  The  dead  face  on  the  bier 
was  that  of  his  fiance  whose  heart  he  had  crushed. 

Months  pass  and  the  mother  is  living  with  ber 
son  in  Paris.  The  hours  grow  late  and  he  has 
not'  come  home.  She  finds  a  letter  from  Deli  1  oh, 
with  whom  Champlaln  had  become  reconciled.  It 
reads:  "Well  do  I  see  that  you  love  me  not. 
To  refuse  to  buy  me  the  jewel  for  which  I  so 
much  long,  is  heartless,  particularly  as  you  con- 
trol the  regiment's  finances.     Bring  it  to-morrow." 

The  mother  goes  to  tbe  apartments  of  Delilah. 
There  tne  mother  begs  and  implores  that  Delilah 
give  up  her  son.  The  adventuress  laughs  and  tells 
tbe  mother  to  be  gone.  A  dagger  flashes  In  tbe 
outraged    parent's    band    and   she    kills   Delilah. 

SEA  ANEMONES  (Mar.  25). — Anemones  are 
found  on  the  rocks  when  the  tide  has  ebbed.  To 
these  rocks,  they  are  warmly,  also  tightly,  at- 
tached. At  flood  tide,  when  the  water  again 
covers    them,    they   open. 

THE  AMATETTR  SLEUTH  (Mar.  27).^Tobn  Plum 
Doff  receives  a  threatening  note  asking  for  $4.98 
to  be  paid  within  a  limited  time.  Duff  is  fright- 
ened, and,  in  reply  to  his  advertisement  for  a  de- 
tective, Herlock  Sholmes  gives  his  services.  How 
Sbolmes  finally  rounds  up  the  would-be  blackhands 
and  places  them  in  the  custody  of  the  police,  makes 
who  turn  out  to  be  the  servants  of  a  millionaire, 
a  fitting  climax  to  a  scintillating  comedy. 

HYPNOTIZING  HANNAH  (Mar.  87).— Tiny  Tim 
Buctoo  is  so  impressed  with  the  mesmeric  magic  of 
the  hypnotist  whom  he  saw  at  the  circus  that  when 
be  gets  home  he  tries  to  hypnotize  tbe  cat,  gold 
fish  and  other  pets  of  tbe  household.  Failing  in 
this  he  next  tackles  the  cook  who — well  see  tbe 
picture   for  the   sequence. 


GREAT  NORTHERN. 

A     SKIPPER'S    STORY     (April     5) Jack     is     a 

skipper,  and  with  three  of  his  seafaring  friends, 
he  is  boasting  of  his  wonderful  accomplishments 
while  seated  in  a  tavern.  Lions,  tigers,  sharks  and 
whales  hold  no  fear  for  him,  and  countless  have 
been  his  adventures  and  triumphs.  Whatever  Jack's 
qualities  as  a  brave  man  may  have  been,  he  proves 
to  be  a  poor  story-teller,  and  bis  pals  quickly  tire 
of  his  recital.  They  decide  to  test  his  bravery  and 
buy  from  a  costumer  a  huge  shark's  head,  tiger's 
skin  and  a  woodeu  leg,  and  with  this  outfit  tbey 
hurry  to  the  swimming  bath,  where  an  appointment 
has  been  made.  It  is  with  difficulty  that  Jack  is 
coaxed  to  enter  the  water,  but  when  he  finally 
consents,  he  is  startled  by  the  cry  of  "Shark,"  and 
looking  over  his  shoulder,  sees  the  dummy  head  in 
the  water,  the  supposed  fish  being  propelled  by  one 
of  Jack's  friendly  jokers.  He  shouts  in  terror  and 
faints  when  he  arrives  at  tbe  landing  stage.  So 
much  for  the  first  installment  of  his  punishment  for 
being  a  boaster.  Tbe  trio  of  jokers  nest  bribe  a 
lion  tamer  to  allow  them  the  use  of  one  of  his 
cages,  and  when  Jack  is  "half  seas  over."  he  is 
placed  in  a  comfortable  position  in  tbe  empty  cage. 
One  of  his  pals  dons  the  tiger  skin  and  waits  pa- 
tiently until  the  roaring  of  the  wild  beasts  in  the 
adjoining  cages  awakens  the  boastful  hero.  When 
he  finds  that  he  is  in  the  same  cage  with  what  ap- 
pears to  be  a  ferocious  tiger,  he  bounds  for  the  open 
gate  and  dashes  madly  for  his  good  ship.  The 
"tiger"  follows,  but  Jack  reaches  his  cabin  before 
the  animal  overtakes  him.  He  sinks  exhausted  upon 
a  bunk  and  a  few  minutes  later  the  jocular  trio  of 
old  tars  file  in  and  have  a  good,  hearty  laugh  at 
bis  expense. 

"Never  again  with   any  of   that  boasting   stuff, 
sighs   Jack    as    his    three    friends    sit    at    the    side    of 
his  bunk  and  chide  him  for  his  cowardice. 


father.  Niles  begs  for  mercy.  The  shell  has  set 
fire  to  the  undergrowth  and  in  a  few  moments  the 
flames  surround  them.  ltert  Warren  tells  Zeke 
that  he  will  not  kill  him,  but  will  leave  bim  to  be 
burned  alive.  As  he  leaves  the  scene  of  the  fire 
a  vision  of  his  sister  appears  telling  him  that  two 
wrongs  never  make  a  right,  and  to  let  the  feud 
end  there.  He  quickly  makes  up  his  mind  and 
rustling  back  to  the  place  where  he  left  his  old 
enemy  to  perish  in  the  flames,  he  takes  him  upon 
his  back  and  carries  him   to  safety. 


RYNO. 

THE  OUTCAST  (April  7).— Myrtle  Henderson  is 
in  love  with  Harry  Marsden,  but  her  father,  know- 
ing that  the  boy  is  something  of  a  ne'er-do-well, 
forbids  the  match  and  orders  Harry  from  the  house. 
The  young  people  meet  clandestinely  and  go  for  a 
walk  over  the  hills.  Myrtle  accidentally  stumbles 
on  the  root  of  a  tree,  and  falls  over  a  cliff.  Harry 
runs  to  her  aid,  but  finds  her  unconscious,  and  think- 
ing her  dead,  runs  away.  The  father,  who  has  fol- 
lowed them,  discovers  Myrtle  and  carries  her  borne, 
where  she  revives. 

In  the  meantime  Harry  has  gone  to  the  city  to 
find  employment,  and  sometime  later  Myrtle  also 
secures  work  in  the  city.  One  evening  she  misses 
her  train  home,  not  arriving  until  late.  Her  father, 
in  a  rage,  accuses  her  of  meeting  Harry  against  his 
wishes,  and  turns  her  from  home.  Harry  has  lost 
his  position  and  contemplates  suicide.  Myrtle,  in 
despair,  Intends  to  do  the  same  thing.  By  chance  of 
fate  tbey  both  come  to  tbe  same  dock  to  jump  into 
the  water.  She  sees  him  preparing  to  jump,  and 
rushes  to  his  aid,  but  is  too  late.  Just'  as  she 
places  ber  band  on  his  shoulder  be  jumps.  Two 
police  officers  see  her,  and  think  she  has  pushed 
him  overboard.  She  Is  arrested  and  accused  of 
his  murder.  Harry  has  not  drowned  and  discovers 
later  that  she  is  accused  of  his  murder.  He  comes 
forward  with  tbe  information  that  he  is  the  mau  who 
jumped  into  the  water,  and  she  is  released.  Her 
father,  seeing  their  devotion,  accepts  Harry  as  his 
son-in-law. 

OFF  THE  MAINLAND  (April  11).— An  old  tramp, 
begging  from  door  to  door,  is  refused  by  one  woman 
and  given  an  old  loaf  of  bread  by  another.  He  re- 
tires to  bis  hut  on  an  island  to  eat  and  rest.  In 
the  meantime  the  children  of  the  two  women  go  for 
a  walk  along  the  seashore  with  their  pets,  a  cat 
and  a  dog.  They  are  cut  off  by  the  rising  tide  and 
wander  around  disconsolate.  The  tramp,  hearing 
their  cries,  goes  out  to  see  what  is  the  matter.  He 
brings  them  back  to  his  hut,  feeds  them  on  the 
loaf  given  him  by  one  of  the  mothers.  They  sleep 
on  his  cot  while  he  goes  out  to  get  wood.  Mean- 
while,  the  children  are  missed  by  their  parents,  and 
calling  the  sheriff,  they  organize  a  search  party. 
The  first  clue  is  the  dog,  that  swims  across  the  tide- 
way. The  cat  is  next  found  on  the  island  near 
the  hut.  The  fathers  of  the  children  take  them 
home,  while  the  sheriff  and  his  assistant  search  the 
woods  for  the  tramp.  He  is  captured,  recognized  by 
the  women  and  incarcerated.  The  children  later 
tell  of  his  kindness,  which  brings  about  his  release. 
The  happy  men,  who  have  recovered  their  babies, 
give  bim  work  with  themselves  at  the  forge. 


PILOT. 

IN  THE  BATTLE'S  SMOKE  (April  3).— The 
Warren  and  Niles  families  have  a  feud.  Bert 
Warren  has  killed  Zeke  Niles'  father.  Niles  re- 
turns to  get  revenge.  He  follows  him  to  fbe  field 
where  he  is  plowing  and  secretes  himself  in  the 
bushes  and  shoots  the  old  man.  Warren's  daugh- 
ter and  son  Bert  arrive  on  the  spot  as  the  old 
man  is  dying  and  Bert  promises  his  father  to  carry 
on  the  feud  until  the  Niles  family  is  wiped  out. 
Niles  and  his  sister  Beth  receive  a  letter  from 
their  uncle  up  north  asking  them  to  go  and  make 
their  home  with  him.  Bert  Warren  visits  the 
deserted  hut  of  the  Niles  and  discovers  to  his 
anger  that  bis  proposed  victim  has  flown  the  coun- 
try. The  war  breaks  out.  Zeke  Niles  enlists  In 
the  Federal  army  and  Bert  Warren  joins  the 
Confederates.  A  battle  between  the  opposing 
armies  takes  place  and  the  Confederates  are 
beaten  and  are  forced  to  make  their  retreat,  leav- 
ing many  of  the  wounded  of  tbe  north  and*. south 
on  the  battlefield,  among  them  being  the  two 
feudists.  Zeke  Niles  is  severely  wounded  and  his 
cries  for  help  reach  Bert  Warren's  ears.  In  the 
moonlight'  they  do  not  recognize  each  other  and 
Warren  makes  his  way  to  a  small  stream  in  order 
to  get  water  for  the  wounded  soldier.  He  returns 
with  a  canteen  and  is  about  to  give  his  enemy  a 
drink  when  a  shell  bursts  near  them.  The  light 
from  tbe  exploding  Bhell  illuminated  the  faces  of 
the  two  men.  They  recognize  each  other  and  Bert 
Warren    is    about    to    kill    the    man    who    shot    his 


SOLAX. 

THE  LADY  DOCTOR  (April  9).— Claire,  studying 
for  a  lady  doctor,  does  not  care  for  men,  particu- 
larly four  students,  chums,  who  are  greatly  attracted 
by  her.  Three  of  these  chums,  tired  of  being  con- 
tinually snubbed  by  her,  resolve  upon  a  scheme  which 
will  not  only  bring  themselves  under  her  notice, 
hut  cause  her,  through  doctor's  instincts,  to  care 
for  them.  At  various  times  when  Claire  is  near, 
one  pretends  to  sprain  his  wrist,  another  cuts  him- 
self badly,  and  a  third  has  fainting  fits.  Claire 
doctors  the  three  chums,  much  to  their  enjoyment. 
Meanwhile,  Dan,  the  fourth  chum,  will  not  impose 
upoQ  Claire's  kindness  in  this  faudulent  manner. 
A  girl  friend  discovers  that  the  chums  arc  merely 
tuning,  and  tells  Claire  of  it;  the  two  plan  re- 
venge. The  chums,  coming  along  a  country  road, 
find  Claire  in  a  ditch,  with  her  bicycle  on  top  of  her. 
She  says  she  lias  broken  ber  ankle;  so  tbe  four 
reverently  carry  her  home  on  a  hurdle.  As  soon  as 
sie  reaches  her  door,  she  leaps  from  the  hurdle  and 
runs  away  laughing.  To  their  disgust  they  see 
other  people,  too,  are  capable  of  a  little  maligning. 
So  when  tbe  cbums  again  come  across  Miss  Claire 
lying  dusty  and  limp  in  tbe  middle  of  the  road,  tbey 
laugh  and  walk  on,  excepting  Dan,  who  discovers 
She  has  met  with  a  real  accident  and  is  badly  hurt. 
He  lifts  her  up  and  carries  her  to  her  home.  When 
the  other  fellows  see  Dan  walking  arm-in-arm 
with  the  bandaged  young  lady  doctor,  both  palpably 
in  love  with  each  other,  they  growl. 

HIS  SON-IN-LAW  (April  11).— John  Cameron,  a 
wealthy  widower,  sends  his  daughter,  Edna,  away 
to  college.  The  young  lady  meets  Hugh  Macy,  and 
falls  in  love  with  him.  He  begs  her  to  be  married 
immediately  and  she  finally  consents.  Edna  starts 
to  write  the  news  to  her  father  when  Hugh  gets  a 
call  to  the  city.  They  decide  that  Hugh  shall  call 
on  his  father.  Edna  sends  a  letter  to  her  father, 
telling  him  that'  she  is  married  and  that  her  husband 
will  call  upon  him  the  next  day.  When  Cameron 
received  this  he  was  furiously  angry,  and  writes  a 
red  hot  letter  in  reply,  saying  that  he  had  no  desire 
to  see  her  husband  and  will  not  even  allow  her  to 
return    home    until    she    has    disposed    of    him.    He 


places  the  letter  in  hia  pocket  and  starts  out  to 
mail  it,  when  a  clerk  enters  with  a  special  letter 
from  a  salesman  representing  the  firm  of  which 
Cameron  is  the  head,  saying  that  one  of  tbe  firm's 
best  customers  is  coming  to  town.  The  letter  states 
that  the  customer,  being  afraid  to  carry  a  large 
amount  of  money,  would  like  to  secure  a  thousan 
dollars  from  the  firm  and  have  it  charged  to  his  ac- 
count. Cameron  resumes  his  seat  at  his  desk  for- 
getting the  letter  that  he  started   to  mail. 

The  next  day  Edna  and  Hugh,  receiving  no  reply 
from  her  father,  take  it  for  granted  that  silence 
means  consent  and  Hugh  leaves  for  the  city.  He 
calls  at  Cameron's  office  and  the  latter  mistakes 
him  for  the  out-of-town  customer.  Nothing  is  too 
good  for  him  and  Cameron  personally  takes  charge 
,  of  him,  wines  him,  dines  him,  and  finally  gives  him 
the  thousand  dollars.  Hugh  mistakes  this  for  a 
wedding  present,  and  wires  Edna  to  hurry  home  that 
everything  is  O.K.  She  arrives  at  the  home  just  as 
her  father  is  drinking  a  toast  to  the  supposed  cus- 
tomer. He  is  surprised  to  see  her,  but  is  thunder- 
struck when  she  throws  herself  in  the  stranger's 
arms.  The  maid  enters  with  a  telegram  saying 
that  the  customer  was  delayed  and  will  not  arrive 
until  later. 

Cameron  realizes  that  the  joke  is  on  him,  when 
he  finds  the  letter  to  Edna  still  in  his  pocket.  But 
Hugh  has  proven  that  he  is  a  good  fellow  ami  Cam- 
eron tears  up  the  letter  and  welcomes  them  home. 


MISCELLANEOUS 

KINEMACOLOR. 

PRESIDENT  WILSON  REVIEWING  THE 
TROOPS. — At  the  opening  the  President  and  party 
are  seen  ^taking  their  places  in  the  Presidential 
box.  Then  comes  the  celebrated  "Black  Horse 
Troop"  of  the  Culver  Military  Academy, — escort 
of   honor  to    Vice-President   Marshall. 

The  West  Point  Cadets, — the  pets  of  every  In- 
augural, march  past.  Tbe  U.  S.  Marine  Band, 
with  red-lined  capes  thrown  back  and  brass  instru- 
ments glistening  in  tbe  sun;  the  Annapolis  Mid- 
shipmen, in  marching  regalia/  and  the  U.  S. 
Regulars. 

BEAUTIFUL  BUTTERFLIES. — Kinemacolor  again 
demonstrates  it's  ability  to  "hold  tbe  minor  up  to 
Nature,"  reproducing  in  every  shade  and  changing 
phase  the  gorgeous  yet  delicate  coloring  of  the 
butterfly's  wings.  Rare  specimens  from  tropic 
climes  are  revolved  before  the  camera,  and  after- 
wards small  sections  of  their  wings  are  highly 
magnified,  showing  the  arrangement  of  the  irides- 
cent flakes  of  color — so  delicate  that  a  rude  breath 
will  blow  them  away.  Some  of  these  insects  have 
the  imitative  faculty,  for  instance,  the  Kalloma 
Imachus,  whose  wings  look  exactly  like  dead  leaves 
when  viewed  from  above,  although  tbey  are  beau- 
tifully colored  on  the  under  side. 

NATIVE  CARNIVAL  PROCESSION,  CEYLON.— 
This  curious  and  interesting  scene  was  witnessed 
on  the  occasion  of  tbe  election  of  a  Cingalese 
leader  to  an  important  position  in  local  affairs. 
Apparently  the  whole  village  has  turned  out  in 
honor  of  the  occasion,  for  the  street  is  crowded 
with  people  bearing  garlands  and  flags,  and  the 
procession  takes  some  time  to  pass.  In  the  rear 
are    several    fine    elephants. 

THE  ROYAL  VISIT  TO  IRELAND.— A  visit  to 
Ireland  early  in  July  was  included  in  Their  Majes- 
ties' Coronation  Tour  of  the  British  Isles.  The 
Royal  Party  included  Her  Majesty  the  Queen,  the 
Prince  of  Wales  and  Princess  Mary.  The  principal 
events  during  the  tour  were  the  reception  at  Kings- 
town and  tbe  Royal  visits  to  Maynooth  College  and 
Leopardstown  Races.      We  see  in   the  order  named: 

1.  Their    Majesties'    Arrival    at    Kingston    Harbor. 

2.  The  Royal  Pinnace.  An  excellent  view  of  the 
Royal  Party  is  obtained  as  the  boat  passes.  3. 
Street  Scenes  of  Kingstown  in  holiday  mood.  4. 
The  Royal  Carriage,  preceded  by  a  company  of 
Dragoons.  5.  The  Journey  to  Dublin;  reception  at 
Blackrock.  6.  Bouquets  are  presented  to  the  Queen 
and  Princess  Mary.  7.  Visit  to  Maynooth  College. 
S.  Leopardstown  races.  9.  Arrival  of  the  King  and 
Quten.     10.  A  view  of  the  races. 

A  MERRY  MONARCH  (2  reels).— The  King  finds 
Simple,  a  drunken  peasant  by  the  wayside,  takes 
him  to  the  castle,  and  dresses  him  In  royal  robes. 
The  fool  is  disguised  as  a  woman  and  passed  off 
a>  the  Queen.  The  King  is  treated  as  a  lackey. 
Mm  until  weary  of  tbe  jest  the  court  have  a  merry 
time. 

At  home  Mrs.  Simple,  a  shrew,  waits  for  her 
husband,  then  goes  to  the  village  Inn  and  learns 
that  thi  Kmg  has  taken  Simple  to  the  castle. 
Sue  rnsaes  there,  overthrows  the  guards  and  enters 
the  throne  loom  in  time  to  see  the  fool  seated  on 
her  husband's  knee.  She  causes  much  trouble  and 
i?  finally  pushed  outside  the  crftlo  gates. 

The  King  wearies  of  his  jest  and  Simple  In  his 
oil  clothes,  his  pockets  full  of 'Mid,  Is  taken  to  the 
roadside  where  the  King  "ound  1-ini.  When  he 
awakens  from  his  druukeu  slumbers  and  sees  his 
did  clothes,  be  tlinks  it  .- .i  a  ci*t-am,  but  tbe  gold 
in  his  pockets  reassures  him  and  he  goes  to  the  Inn. 
There  lie  assumes:  kingly  airs  much  to  the  amuse- 
ment of  the  1  terers  who  burner  him  but  his  uieim 
cf  glorv  is  soi in  over.  M.s.  Simple  comes  to  tne 
Mm    anl    loads    i.er    royal    niwblttJ.    off    by    the    .it. 

At  home  {•■•'■  Simple  Is  to'-ed  tc  build  the  f  e, 
and  in  the  rising  smoke  be  see  a  vision  of  his  few 
boors  of  kingly  greatness. 


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SITUATIONS  WANTED. 

WANTED  POSITION— Capable  operator,  Massachu- 
setts license.  Address  J.  T.  MURPHY,  217  Webster, 
Maiden.  Mass. 

LICENSED — Picture  Operator,  desires  position. 
Have  pood  machines  tor  aale  or  rent.  Address 
OPERATOR.   692   Flushing  Ave.,   Brooklyn.    V    Y 

AT  LIBERTY — Thoroughly  experienced  Sludio  and 
Laboratory  technical  man.  Expert  on  lightiny,  ex- 
posure and  development.  Formerly  manager  P;Hh«- 
Freres  laboratory.  Exceptional  camera  work.  Open 
for  any  engagement.  Special  feature  or  entire 
charge  of  plant,  where  perseverence.  hard  work  and 
knowledge  of  the  business  will  bring  big  results. 
References.  Address  DEMONSTRATION,  care  of 
Moving    r*irtme   World,    New   York   City. 

POSITION — As  manager  of  moving  pictures  and 
vaudeville  bouse,  large  or  small.  Address  E.  H. 
LITTLE.    Room  16.   1363  Broadway   New  York  City. 

AT  LIBERTY— After  June  1st,  Al  Pianist  and 
Trap  Dmmmer.  Full  line  of  Traps,  Xylophone, 
Bell.  Chimes.  Years  of  experience  with  pictures. 
Western  states  preferred.  Joint  only.  Address 
F.    M.    PACKARD,    Belmond,   Iowa. 

AT  LIBERTY — Owner  and  manager  of  picture  the- 
ater, having  sold  out  interest  in  same,  desires  other 
connections  as  manager.  Address  A.  SOt/TZMAN. 
73  Suydam   St.,    Brooklyn,    N.    Y. 

HELP  WANTED. 

WANTED — Experienced  operator  for  new  theater 
In  Flatbusb.  State  salary,  experience,  and  on  what 
machine.  Address  R.  E.  FORD.  246  E.  25th  Street. 
Brooklyn.   N,   Y. 

WANTED — An  experienced  pianist  for  new  moving 
picture  house  in  Flathush.  State  salary.  Address 
R.  E.  FORD,  246  E.   25th  St.,   Brooklyn,  N.  Y, 

WANTED — First-class  director  for  Moving  Picture 
Company:  also  leading  woman.  State  experience. 
salary  and  age.  Send  photo.  Address  D.  W.,  care 
of   Moving   Picture  World,    New   York   City. 

EQUIPMENT  FOR  SALE. 
CHEAP    THEATRE    CHAIRS — New    and    second- 
hand, always  on  hand  at  cut'  prices.    $8  a  dozen  up. 
Address     J.     P.      REDINGTON,      Redlngton     Bldg., 
Scranton.    Pa. 

FOR  SALE—  2i;  k.  Dynamo,  25  Am.,  cheap.  Also 
V.  meter  and  field  rheostat.  Will  exchange  for  reels. 
Address  BARNARD,   Millbrook,   N.  Y. 

TWO — 60  Cycle  110  volt  Compensarcs  in  original 
boxes,  never  unpacked  or  used,  each,  $44.00.  Address 
IRA  E.  ALDEN,  538  W.  Lehigh  Ave.,  Philadelphia, 
Pa. 

FOR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE— Dynamo,  field  rheo- 
stat, volt  meter.  Wanted,  Ammeter,  Powers  6. 
White  Slave  Trafllc  film.  Address  BARNARD'S 
THEATRE,    Millbrook,   N.   Y. 

MIRROR0ID  CURTAIN— 10  by  12,  $25.00.  Buy- 
ing larger  size  same  kind.  Address  M.  M.  OSBORN, 
Eingsville,  Texas. 

MUST  SACRIFICE — Immediately,  new  Simplex 
Machine,  latest  model,  large  quantity  of  films,  slides, 
lenses,  machine  parts,  etc.  Also  large  glass  show 
case.  Sell  together  or  separately.  Address  CITY 
MOTION  PICTURE  SCHOOL,  2  W.  16th  St.,  New 
York  City. 

FOR  SALE — Some  moving  picture  tanks  and  racks 
in  perfect  condition.  Bargain  if  purchased  at  once. 
Apply  ECLAIR  FILM  COMPANY,  225  W.  42nd  St., 
New  York  City. 


EQUIPMENT   WANTED. 

WANTED — Complete  lamphouse,  upper  and  lower 
magazines  with  take-up.  Powers  or  Edison.  Fold- 
ing chairs,  films,  lecture  sets.  Address  THE  PEER- 
i  icss,  Scbaghticoke,  N.  1". 

WANTED — 300  second-hand  opera  chairs,  cheap 
for  cash.  Address  W.  A.  PERRY,  530  Carltou  Ave.. 
Brooklyn,   N.   Y. 

WANTED — Mercury  arc  rectifier.  Motor  Generator, 
or  Rotary  Converter,  to  use  on  110  or  220  volts.  60 
cycles.  A.  C.  What  have  you?  Give  full  informa- 
tion iu  first  letter,  and  lowest  cash  price.  Address 
THE  REX  THEATRE.  Newata,  Okla. 

CAMERAS  FOR  SALE. 

FOR  SALE — Moving  picture  Camera  complete. 
$80.00,  slightly  used.  Sample  negative.  Photo  ami 
full  information  on  request.  Address  I,eROY 
MILLER,   16  W.  14th  St.,  Oklahoma  City.  Okla. 

FOR  SALE — Precision  cameras,  magazines,  tri- 
pods, tilts,  lenses.  We  ship  fqr  inspection — ask 
others.  Write  for  particulars.  PHOTO  RECORDS 
00.,  u   W.  112th  St.,  New  York  City. 

Strictly  professional  cameras,  new,  Europeau 
make,  finest  mechanism  in  world,  every  equipment. 
Sell  $200  to  introduce.  Demonstrated.  Address 
GUARANTEED  PERFECT,  care  of  Moving  Picture 
World,  New  York  City. 

GAUMONT  CAMERA  FOR  SALE— Bauscb  &  Louib 
lens,  covered  with  black  leather.  Beater  movement 
retorts  hold  250  ft.  Handsome  appearance.  No 
tripod.  Will  sell  for  $150.00,  no  cheaper.  No  time 
for  correspondence.  Guarantee  express  charges.  Will 
ship  privilege  of  examination.  Address  COZY  THE- 
ATRE, Tulsa,  Okla. 

FILMS   FOR   SAXE. 

FOR  SALE — Lincoln  J.  Carter's  "Chattanooga" 
State  rights  for  Texas.,  Oklahoma  or  Louisiana.  Big 
lobby  display,  paper  heralds.  Big  monev  getter. 
Bargain.  Write  or  wire,  L.  MEKATINSKY.  Elk 
Hotel,  Gary,  Ind. 

FOR  SALE — Exclusive  rights  for  Indiana:  Dante's 
Inferno,  Milano,  five  reels.  Address  T.  B.  JAY, 
Kokomo,  Ind. 

FOR  SALE — Film  exchange  for  sale.  Large  stock 
of  good  features,  also  short  film.  Low  price  for 
cash.  Address  SHAUGHNESSY,  care  of  Moving 
Picture  World,  New  York  City. 

THEATRES  FOR  SALE. 

THE  HIPPODROME— Bingbamton.  N.  Y.  Only 
bouse  on  Main  Street.  Population  50,000.  Capacity 
over  300.  Weekly  profits  $700.  Investigation 
courted.  Price  $28,000  cash.  HENRY  L.  FOX, 
Manager. 

THEATRES  FOR  RENT — Moving  picture  or  vaude- 
ville. Seating  capacity  500  to  2,500.  Now  being 
built  (ready  May  1st).  Reasonable  rents,  which  in- 
clude a  magnificent  Schuelke  Pipe  Organ,  with  Vox 
Humana  and  Cathedral  Chimes.  HUME,  exclusive 
representative,  Room  711,  608  S.  Dearborn  St., 
Chicago,  111. 

FOR  SALE — Moving  picture  theatre,  280  chairs, 
double  equipment.  Rent  $25.00.  Net  profits  $50.00 
weekly.  Nights  only.  Reason  for  selling,  other 
business.  Address  N.  W.,  care  of  Moving  Picture 
World,  New  York  City. 


THEATRES  WANTED. 

TO  BUY — Moving  picture  show  in  central  New 
York  town  of  1.800  to  2.500,  or  will  pay  for  loca- 
tion. Must  stand  showing  up.  Address  M.  P..  care 
of    Moving    Picture   World,    New    York   City. 

THEATRES   WANTED. 

WANTED — To  buy  moviug  picture  theatres  in 
towns  of  5,000  and  up,  in  Iowa.  Illinois,  Missouri 
and  Kansas.  Give  all  particulars  in  first  letter. 
Address  THREE  I  CO.,  319  Columbia  St.,  Burlington, 
Iowa. 

Am  willing  to  invest  fr»m  $1,500  to  $2,000  in  a 
moving  picture  theatre,  either  one  already  started 
or  to  open  one  up.  Want  a  man  with  experience 
and  some  money  to  join  me.  Would  prefer  a  propo- 
sition located  in  Norfolk  or  Baltimore  or  vicinity. 
Must  he  bouafide.  with  best  of  references.  Address 
BOX  145.   Savannah,  Ga. 

MUSICAL  INSTRUMENTS  FOR  SALE. 

FOR  SALE — 58  Electric  pianos  for  sale,  an  op- 
era  tor's  outfit,  all  In  first  class  working  order. 
Pianos,  44  note,  $40.  Pianos,  65  note,  with  key- 
board, $50,  $65  and  $85  for  the  best.  Orchestrion 
pianos  with  pipes,  $300,  they  are  practicallv  new. 
Address  J.  F.  HERMAN,  1420  Pa.  Ave.,  N.  W., 
Washington,  D.   C. 

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and    services    as    Manager,    or   capable   Operator:    on 
salary.  ,  Electric   "Comique"  sign   for  sale.     Address 
MANAGER,  74  Linden  Ave.,  Maiden,  Mass. 

NOTICE — If  you  want  to  buy  or  sell  theatre  in 
Southwest,  communicate  with  AL.  ALLEN,  203 
Andrews  Bldg.,  Dallas,  Texas. 

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for  this  device  for  sale.  Address  BOX  264,  Syracuse, 
N.  Y. 

Excellent  opening  for  moving  picture  theatre  in 
San  Benito,  Texas.  Live  town  with  big  pay  rolls. 
Population  over  4,000.  If  you  have  $5,000  to  Invest 
in  building  to  cost  about  $10,000,  communicate  im- 
mediately with  A.  HEYWOOD,  care  of  San  Benito 
Bank  and  Trust  Co.,  San  Benito,  Texas. 


FDSHERMAN'S  DAUGHTER.— The  beautiful 
daughter  of  an  old  fisherman  is  deeply  in  love  with 
a  stunning  revenue  officer  on  parole  near  the  old 
fishing  but.  The  honest  old  seaman  doubts  the 
sincerity  of  the  handsome  suitor  and  plans  a  test 
of  truth  and  lo/fllt"  from  tae  man  in  uniform. 
Cupid  successfully  pilots  the  happy  lovers  ov«r  the 
stormy  waves  of  the  old  fisherman's  anger  and 
safely  lands  them  on  the  Island  of  happiness. 

TOBOGGANING  IN  SWITZERLAND.— In  the 
opening  scenes  those  taking  part  In  the  sport  are 
journeyed  by  funicular  railway  as  far  as  that 
curious  means  will  take  them;  the  rest  of  the  ,'cur- 
ney  is  made  on  foot.  One  of  the  first  pa."*i°*8  to 
make  the  descent  lias  lebelled  itself  "Rig-Time," 
a  concession  to  the  mountain  erase.  The  toboexuns 
dash  past  tbe  camera  at  high  speed,  being  Kept  to 
the  track  by  the  banks  of  snow  which  line  the 
course. 

THE  SUBSTITUTE. — The  younger  son  of  a  great 
English  house  is  down  and  ont  In  America,  and 
tosses  a  coin  to  see  if  he  shall  steal  or  commit 
suicide.  The  coin  falls  at  the  feet  of  a  yojng  girl, 
who  proves  to  he  his  salvation.  They  are  engaged 
to  he  married  when  an  illness  leaves  the  girl  blind. 
The  !...;>  n  Uiics  that  he  has  unexpectedly  It  cone 
head  r.f  o-ie  of  the  greatest  houses  in  Eo«r -md. 
The  family  lawyer  shows  him  the  Impossibility  of 
tihuu*  tjis  giM  lo  England  as  his  wife,  snd  leludes 


he-  into  u  mnrr'&ge  with  a  tnjip,  as  substitu'e  foi 
the  now   great   Lord. 

When  the  tramp  sees  his  happy,  helples  wife 
seated  by  their  fire,  the  man  In  him  awakens,  and 
he  is  ashamed — but  it  is  too  late.  The  Lord  pines 
for  his  humble  sweetheart,  and  goes  to  Africa  to 
bunt  big  game.  There  in  the  wilderness  he  dies, 
leaving   all   bis   unentailed   wealth   to   his   lost   love. 

The  wife  suddenly  finds  that  she  can  detect  light. 
An  operation  is  performed,  and  the  wife  insists  that 
the  face  of  her  husband  is  the  first  she  will  look 
upon.  The  doctor  removes  the  bandages:  surprise 
is  followed  by  horror  as  the  woman  shrinks,  terri- 
fied. Explanations  are  of  no  avail,  and  the  heart- 
brrken  husband  wanders  forth  again. 

When  the  wife  has  come  to  a  realization  of  bis 
love  and  tenderness,  a  personal  Is  inserted  in  the 
papers.  A  poor,  shivering  newsboy  gives  the  tramp 
a  paper,  which  is  used  to  kindle  a  fire.  As  tbe 
tramp  sits  looking  into  the  fire,  a  piece  of  the  paper 
catches  his  eye.  He  starts,  snatches  It  from  the 
flames  and  reads  there  the  wife's  desire  for  his 
return.  Love  and  shame  fight  a  battle;  love  wins — 
and  a  bappy  ending  rounds  ont  a  great  story. 

THE  STORY  OF  THE  ORANGE. — Beginning 
with  a  panorama  of  an  orange  grove,  we  pass  on 
to  the  setting  out  of  the  nursery  stock  through  the 
various  stages  of  tbe  development  of  this  luscious 
fruit.     Scenes  showing  tbe  budding  of  Navel  orange 


slips  on  to  seedling  stock,  the  wrapping  of  seed- 
ling plants  to  protect  them  from  rabbits,  etc.,  are 
very  interesting.  Then  in  succession  are  shown  a 
cultivator  in  a  grape  fruit  grove,  fertilizing  the 
soil  of  a  grove,  and  views  of  a  twenty -year-old 
Naval  Grove. 

Close  views  of  fruit  and  blossoms  on  the  same 
branch,  the  picking  of  fruit  from  four-year-old 
Valencias  and  Interesting  scenes  showing  bow  the 
fruit   is  sorted,   graded,    wrapped   and  packed. 

The  concluding  scenes  show  some  fine  specimens 
of  the  fruit,  with  views  of  tbe  packing  house  and 
the  dispatching  in  refrigerator  cars  of  the  ship- 
ments for  the  East. 


Among  the  Exhibitors 

Hinsdale,  Hi. — The  American  Theater  Co.,  ex- 
pects to  open  a   theater  here  shortly. 

Mason  City,  His. — A  new  photoplay  theater  will 
be  opened  in  this  city  in  the  near  future.  Messrs. 
Truman  Hardin  and  Harry  Aldtich  of  Mason  City 
have  leased  the  main  floor  of  the  J.  J.  Prlchett 
building  on  south  Main  St,  and  same  will  be  con- 
verted Into  a  theater. 

Lynbrook,  L.  I. — Tnos.  F.  O'Connor,  a  prominent 
builder  of  this  village,  is  about  to  erect  a  theater 
on  Atlantic  Are.,  not  far  from  Merrick  Road,  which 
will  be  known  as  O'Connor's  Arcade  Theater. 


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AMONG  THE  EXHIBITORS. 

Bridffewater,  Mass. — Tbe  Brldgewater  Amuse- 
ment Co.,  have  let  the  contract  for  a  two-story 
moving  picture  theater  to  be  erected  on  Broad 
Street  and  to  cost  $10,000,  to  D.  F.  Sullivan, 
Taunton.    Mass. 

Des  Moines,  la. — I.  Ruben  expects  to  erect  a 
three-story  moving  picture  theater  in  the  near 
future. 

Mechanic sville,  N.  Y. — Joseph  Vet  will  erect  an 
entertainment  hall  (with  stage)  and  moving  pic- 
ture  theater  as   soon   as  plans  are   completed. 

Watervliet,  N.  Y. — Edward  A.  Dugan  contem- 
plates building  a   one-story  moving   picture   theater. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y.— Robert  Ford  will  soon  hulld  a 
one-story    moving    picture    theater. 

Madison,  Wis. — This  city  is  to  have  another 
amusement  house,  City  Clerk  Norsma  issued  a  per- 
mit to  E.  Johnson  to  erect  a  moving  picture  theater 
at  617  University  avenue,  at  a  cost  of  $G,000.  The 
building,  which  is  to  be  constructed  of  brick  and 
tile,   will   be  completed   May  1st. 

Wichita,  Kansas. — Donald  Powell,  has  leased  tn« 
Colonial   theater   here. 

Los  Angeles,  Calif. — Archts.  Morgan,  Walls  & 
Morgan  are  completing  plans  for  a  theater  to  be 
erected  on  Figueroa  St.,  near  Pico  for  the  Egan 
Institute  of  Dramatic    Arts. 

Wapakoneta,  0. — This  city  is  to  have  a  new  thea- 
ter on  the  site  of  tbe  John  Shawber  building. 

Oregon,  Ills. — A  new  theater  building  has  been 
one  of  the  necessities  in  Oregon  for  many  years  and 
same   will    be  erected   during   the  coming  year. 

Bloomington,  Ills. — A  vaudeville  theater  to  cost 
$75,000  will  be  erected  on  the  site  of  the  old  Or- 
phenm  theater  in  Champaign. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.  —  Berman  Brothers  have  pur- 
chased ground  on  the  east  side  of  60tb  St..  south 
of  Walnut  and  will  erect  a  theater  building.  Cost 
$70,000.  The  Garden  Realty  Co.,  is  about  to  build 
another  large   theater  at  60th   and   Locust   St. 

Louisville,  Ky. — Geo.  Epstein,  J.  H.  Hirschman 
and  Day  Kay,  of  Detroit.  Mich.,  came  to  Louis- 
ville to  make  arrangements  for  beginning  work 
on  the  New  National  Theater  Building,  at  5th 
and    Walnut    Sts. 

St.  Joseph,  His. — Talbert  Williams,  of  Cham- 
paign,  Ills.,   will  open  a  moving  picture  show  here. 

Tipton,  La. — L.  H.  Dammann  will  open  and  con- 
duct   a    moving    picture    theater    at    Bennett. 

Newark,  N.  J. — A  new  theater  building  will  be 
erected  at  229  Springfield  Ave.,  by  Jno.  C.  Elsele. 
of  the  brokerage  firm  of  Eisele  &  King.  Plans  by 
Nathan    Myers.      Cost    $60,000. 

Evansville,  Wis. — A.  r.  Taggart  will  open  a  mo- 
tion   picture    theater    here. 

Juneau,  Wis. — Polsin  Bros,  sold  their  motion  pic- 
ture theater  to  F.  J.  Pluckhahn  &  Elmer  Nicker- 
eon. 

Grand  Rapids,  Wis. — The  new  Ideal  theater, 
owned  by  J.  T.  Stark,  has  been  opened  to  the  pub- 
lic. 

Neg-aunee,  Minn.— C.  B.  Skiff,  who  managed  the 
Bijou  theater  in  the  Sundberg  block,  prior  to  tbe 
opening  of  the  Star  theater.  In  tbe  Rytkonen 
building,  and  who  for  the  past  year  or  more  has 
been  managing  the  Royal  theater  in  Ishpemlng. 
has  leased  the  Bijou  from  Messrs.  Allen  &  Rytkonen 
and    assumed    management. 

Chicago,  111. — Allardt  Feature  Films,  Chicago; 
capital,  $5,000;  manufacturing  moving  picture  sup- 
plies and  films;  Incorporators,  Sidney  Stein,  Samuel 
Spitter.    Charles    Rudolph. 

Mondovi,  Wise. — B.  J.  Cosford  bought  J.  H. 
Voll's  interest  In  the  Star  tneater  and  in  com- 
pany with  Miles  Brotzman,  will  conduct  tbe  busi- 
ness. 

Flushing,  L.  I,,  N.  Y. — Joseph  Logan  has  com- 
pleted plans  for  a  new  moving  picture  theater  to 
cost  $10,030. 

Camden,  N.  J.— Chew  &  Co.  contemplate  building 
In    the    spring,    a    one-story   moving    picture    theater 

Plymouth,  111. — Wilhelm  Bros,  of  Muscatine,  la., 
will  open  a  moving  picture  theater  here  soon. 

Thuxman,  la. — Husbard  Bros,  will  open  a  motion 
picture   theater  here. 

Cincinnati,  Ohio.— The  Magnetic  Film  Service  Co. 
decreased  capital   from   $40,000  to  $10,000. 

Axkadelphia,  Ark. — Frank  Saunders,  who  has  con- 
ducted the  Arcade  moving  picture  theater  here  for 
the  past  two  years,  has  sold  it  to  Gabe  Pratt  of 
Little  Rock. 

Smithville,  Tex.— A.  D.  Baker  of  Lockhart,  has 
bought  out  the  Star  tneater  and  the  Airdome,  both 
moving  picture  theaters. 

Springfield,  Ills. — F.  F.  Proctor  has  commissioned 
A.  W.  Johnson  to  draw  plans  for  his  new  Troy,- 
N.  Y.,  theater  which  Is  to  be  built  at  4th  Street, 
No.    88,    in   that   city. 


Eagle  Grove,  la. — A.  P.  Pottgar  of  Des  Molnea 
has  closed  a  lease  for  tbe  west  room  of  the 
Kuehn  building  and  will  at  once  remodel  and 
epuip  it   for  an   up-to-date   theater. 

Detroit,  Mich, — A  permit  for  the  erection  of  a 
theater  building  to  cost  $4,000  has  been  issued  to 
the   Kercheval   Avenue  Theater  Co. 

Hastings,  Neb. — A  movement  for  the  erection  of 
an    opera    bouse    here    has    been    started. 

Elizabeth,  N.  J. — The  plans  for  the  new  theater 
under  construction  by  Jacob  Gordon  in  Elizabeth 
Avenue  have  been  revised  and  the  building  will 
cost   $75,000. 

Elgin,  Ills. — The  Elgin  Opera  House  will  be 
remodeled. 

Shelbyville,  Ills. — C.  E.  Mertens  and  Wm.  D. 
Lumpp  are  selling  stock  for  the  promised  new 
opera    house   to  cost  $20,000. 

Terre  Haute,  Ind. — Plans  are  being  prepared  for 
the  erection  of  the  new  Hippodrome  theater  build- 
ing at  7th  and  Ohio  Streets. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. — The  moving  picture  theater  be- 
ing erected  at  St.  John's  Place  and  Bedford  Avenue 
has  been  leased  by   Benj.  H..  Roth. 

Springfield,  Ills.— I.  Burns  tine  and  Jos.  Shepard, 
Props,  of  Capital  theater  in  E.  Washington  Street, 
will  establish  a  new  picture  theater  at  111  No.  6th 
Street. 

Syracuse,  N.  Y. — Wm.  J.  Hamilton  has  engaged 
architects  Taber  &  Baxter  to  prepare  plans  for  a 
motion  picture  theater  to  be  erected  in  No.  Salina 
Street  at  a  cost   of  $20,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — G.  J.  Reich  has  been  granted 
a  permit  to  erect  a  moving  picture  theater  on  the 
east   side  of   Broad  Street,    north  of  Louden   Street. 

Baltimore,  Md. — Samuel  E.  Reinbard,  of  2424 
Eutaw  Place,  plans  to  convert  the  Shaw  stables  In 
Madison  Avenue  above  North  Avenue  into  a  mov- 
ing  picture   theater. 

Orange,  Tex, — Mrs.  Henry  J.  Lutcher  purchased 
the  site  at  5th  and  Front  Streets  and  will  erect 
a    theater    building. 

Champaign,  His. — Plans  have  been  prepared  for 
tbe  erection  of  a  new  theater  on  Orpheum  site  to 
cost  about  $75,000.  P.  H.  Rich  of  St.  Louis,  pro- 
moter for  the  New  Era  Amusement  Co.  of  In- 
dianapolis, Ind.,  concluded  the  deal  with  Wm.  Dal- 
lenbach,   owner  of  property, 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Spaulding  and  Zorn  will  soon 
begin  work  on  the  $20,000  moving  picture  theater 
at  the  intersection  of  %rk,  Howard  and  Hope 
Streets. 

Danville,  Ky. — The  property  of  the  Loyal  Order 
of  Moose  will  be  converted  into  a  first-class  opera 
house.  Danville  Auditorium  Co.  filed  articles  of 
inrorporation. 

Muscatine,  la. — E.  M.  Henle  secured  a  site  and 
will  erect  a  new  theater  bulldlsf, 

Onalaska,  Wis.— The  Crystal  Co.,  which  has  been 
operating  a  moving  picture  theater  in  the  Wood- 
man Hall,  has  bought  a  site,  formerly  occupied 
by  Thompson's  general  store  and  will  erect  a  picture 
play  house. 

Camden,  Ark. — The  Camden  Concert  Band,  under 
the  leadership  of  T.  J.  Ashford,  the  blind  musician 
of  Camden,  will  open  a  vaudeville  and  motion 
picture  house  here. 

Carlisle,  Pa.— This  evening  the  Home  Theater, 
located  in  No.  Hanover  Street  will  open  to  the 
public. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Mark  Haller  has  been  granted 
a  permit  to  reconstruct  the  Reisten  Hall  property 
at  corner  of  7th  and  Dickinson  Streets  into  a  mov- 
ing picture  theater  for  Becker  Brothers.  Cost 
$8,000. 

Owatonna,  Minn. — The  Gem  Theater  changed 
hands,  Allen  Hartviz,  selling  the  same  to  C.  L. 
Carlyle  and  A.  T.  Wiggins,  both  of  Sioux  Falls. 
S.    D. 

Hutchinson,  Kans. — The  Empire  theater,  a  new 
motion  picture  house,    was  recently  opened. 

Gothenburg,  Nebr. — The  Palm  Theater  has  changed 
hands.  The  new  proprietor,  M.  M.  Harvey  &  Son, 
have  taken   charge. 

Waukesha,  Wis.— E.  D.  Perkins,  of  this  city,  has 
purchased  the  Crystal  theater,  a  motion  picture 
house  at   Burlington,   and   has  reopened. 

Camden,  Ark. — The  Olympic  theater  of  this  city 
has  been  sold  by  J.  J.  Starks  to  Messrs.  King  and 
Hawkins  of   Morrllton. 

Ft.  Wayne,  Ind. — F.  W.  Stein,  who  took  over  the 
Pearl  theater,  announces  that  he  will  make  a  num- 
ber of  Improvements,  such  as  redecorating  the 
Interior  and   exterior. 

Temple,  Tex. — Plans  are  being  contemplated  for 
tbe   erection   of   an   $80,000  Opera    House. 

Cincinnati,  0. — A  permit  was  issued  to  the  Broad- 
way Realty  Co.  to  erect  a  brick  theater  at  404  E. 
Pearl  Street.     Cost  $10,000. 

San  Francisco,  Calif. — Nat  Goodwin  will  build  a 
theater   In  San  Francisco  to  cost  $400,000. 


Philadelphia,  Pa. — Ground  was  broken  for  the 
new  Colonial  theater,  Maplewood  and  Germantown 
Avenues,  Germantown.  Fred  G.  Nixon-Nirdlinger 
is  to  be  the  manager. 

Wheeling,  W.  Va. — C.  D.  Thompson  of  the  Bruns- 
wick Hotel,  Wheeling,  has  purchased  a  Bite  oo 
Main   Street    and    will   erect   a   theater. 

Los  Angeles,  Cal. — A  theater  for  children,  cost- 
ing $160,000,  is  to  be  built  immediately  on  the 
edge  of  the  business  district.  It  is  backed  by  the 
city's  leading  financiers. 

Viola,  Ills. — Plans  have  been  prepared  for  the 
erection   of  an  opera   house   here   next  Summer. 

Franklin,  Els.— J.  C.  May,  who  has  been  operating 
the  moving  picture  theater  here,  has  sold  his  busi- 
ness to  A.  G.  Rawlings  and  Albert  Younker,  who 
will    continue    to   operate    it   in    the    same    building. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.— W.  E.  Butler  is  having  plans 
prepared  for  a  moving  picture  theater  at  No.  2928 
Richmond   Street. 

Detroit,  Mich. — J.  H.  Sharon,  296  Lincoln  Avenue 
is  preparing  to  erect  a  moving  picture  theater  at 
the   corner  of   Greenwood    and    Calumet   Avenues. 

Oakland,  Cal. — Oakland  will  have  a  grand  opera — 
announcement  made  by  Mayor  Frank  K.  Mott  that 
Oscar  Hammerstein  was  interested  in  a  municipal 
auditorium  aDd  will  aid  the  city  in  constructing  it. 

Cumberland,  Md.— The  Ohio  Theatrical  Circuit,  of 
which  Moses  Reis  of  New  York  Is  president,  an- 
nounced that  it  would  erect  at  Cumberland  a  theater 
to  cost  $160,000. 

Thompson  Falls,  Ohio. — E.  Smith  and  his  partner, 
Mr.  Hurd  have  taken  a  lease  on  Odd  Fellow's  Hall 
and  will  make  some  changes  and  start  a  moving 
picture   theater  there. 

New  Orleans,  La. — H.  Fitchenberg  and  others  will 
secure  a  permit  for  the  alteration  of  the  building 
at  the  corner  of  Canal  and  Daupine  Streets  so  that 
it  can  be  used  for  a  picture  show. 

Sheridan,  Wyo. — T.  T.  Tynan  and  G.  W.  Lombard, 
doing  business  under  the  name  of  Tynan,  Lumbard 
&  Co.,  has  leased  the  Cozy  theater  on  So.  Main 
Street  and  will  open  for  business  shortly. 

Malone,  N.  Y.— Albert  S.  Hardy  and  J.  A.  Hogie, 
the  proprietors  of  the  Star  and  Imperial  motion  pic- 
ture theaters  in  Malone,  have  purchased  a  lot  on 
Pearl  Street,  Malone,  and  will  erect  a  modern 
theater  building. 

Lapeer,  Mich.— Plans  are  being  considered  for  the 
remodeling  of  the  opera  house  here. 

Wharton,  Tex, — The  Rex  Moving  Picture  Theater 
has  been  purchased  by  P.  A.  Preddie. 

Gooding,  Idaho. — A  company  has  been  formed  in 
Gooding  to  build  an  opera  house.     Capital  $15,000. 

Davenport,  la. — Thos.  J.  Walsh,  president  of  the 
Walsh  Co.,  says  a  new  theater  will  be  erected 
at  the  afcrner  of  Third  and  Ripley  Streets. 

Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. — A  new  theater  on  Main 
street  is  contemplated  in  the  near  future.  Cost 
$100,000.  E.  J.  Kelly,  Manager  of  Colonial  Star, 
interested. 

Jacksonville,  Fla. — The  Pablo  Pier  and  Improve- 
ment Co.  is  planning  a  big  amusement  house  to  be 
erected  at  Pablo  Beach.  Capital  of  company,  $100,- 
000.     Marcus  Conant  is  president. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. — B.  F.  Keith  has  let  the  contract 
for  the  construction  of  his  new  Prospect  theater  on 
Eighth    and    Ninth    Streets,    near   Fifth    Avenue. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Henry  P.  Schneider  has  plans 
for  a  moving  picture  theater  at  2914  Kensington 
Avenue  for  M.  Stiefel. 

Amarillo,  Tex. — The  contract'  has  been  awarded 
for  the  erection  of  a  new  theater  here.  C.  D.  Anding 
is   to  have  the  new  building  in  charge. 

Greenview,  111. — A  movement  Is  on  foot  here  to 
build  an  open  air  theater  this  spring. 

Little  Rock,  Ark. — Plans  are  in  the  hands  of  con- 
tractors for  the  Stiewel  theater  building  at  Spring 
Street  and  Capitol  Ave.     Cost,  $75,000. 

New  York,  N.  Y. — Marcus  Loew  will  enlarge  the 
theater  at  the  corner  of  Eighty-seventh  Street  and 
Third  Avenue. 

Denison,  la. — The  German  residents  of  Denison 
and  vicinity  have  determined  to  father  the  enter- 
prise of  building  fi  ¥30, 000  opera  house  on  one  of 
the  principal  corners  of  the  city. 

Philadelphia,  Pa, — Stearns  and  Castor,  architects, 
have  completed  plans  for  a  moving  picture  theater 
to  be  built  in  Berwyn. 

Detroit,  Mich.— The  Grand  Circus  theater,  301 
Woodward  Avenue,  opened  a  vaudeville  and  motion 
picture  show.  Louis  Schneider,  president  of  the 
Michigan  Amusement  Co..  by  which  the  theater  Is 
owned  and  operated  is  the  Manager. 

Webster  City,  la. — A  representative  of  the  Earl- 
Miller  Co.  was  in  the  city  for  tbe  purpose  of  looking 
over  locations  for  a  new  vaudeville  and  motion  pic- 
ture   theater. 


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MR.  EXHIBITOR! 

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over  4,ooo  exhibitors  to  be  the  world's  best — "bar  none." 
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Mirroroide    Screen    11x14.      The    Mirroroide    Screen    installed 
in   our    Bridgeport   theater   is    all    you   claim    for    it. 
Yours   very   truly, 

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51st  Street   Theater. 
St.   Louis,   March  20,   1913. 
The  J.  H.  Genter  Co.: 

Gentlemen — I  purchased  a  Mirroroide  Curtain  from  you 
over  a  year  ago  and  it  is  giving  such  good  satisfaction 
that  I  am  enclosing  another  order,  size  12x15,  for  our 
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Motion  Picture  Annual 
and  Yearbook  for  1 9 1 2 


Contains  complete  alphabetical  list 
of  all  Licensed  and  Independent 
Films  released  daring  last  year, 
a  fairly  complete  trade  directory 
of  leading  houses  in  all  branches 
of  the  industry,  tabulated  list 
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Paper  Covers  $1.25,  Post  Free 

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No,  Dear  Inquirer;  just  because    I    pronounce   it  HI,    instead   of  HE, 

does  not  signify  that  I  put  the  HI  in 

HIAWATHA 

What  I  have  done  is  to  put  it  into  the 

HI-Toned  Photography,  Printing  and  Developing 
HI- Art  Lithographs, Heralds. Cuts. Slides  and  Photos 
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Couldn't  do  it  any  other  way.     ::    I  come  from  O-HI-O 

EVERYTHING  HI  BUT  THE  PRICE  OF  STATE  RIGHTS 

Read  what  the  M.  P.  Educator  had  to  say  last  week  in  the 
Moving  Picture  World.     Here  is  an  extract: 

••The  filming  of  HIAWATHA  is  one  of  the  most  acceptable  pieces  of  Kinematography 

ever  offered  to  the  schools.      The  cast    of  over    159  full-blooded    Indians 

imparts  a  living  reality  to  the  picture  which  is  beyond  estimate." 

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Boys  of  the  Golden  West,  3  reels $125.00 

Tom  Butler,  3  reels 90.00 

Courier's  Dispatch   (Hand  Colored)  3  reels 75-00 

Hamlet,  2  reels 70.00 

Lady  Mary's  Love,  2  reels 60.00 

Penalty  is  Death,  3  reels 90.00 

The  Red  Rose  of  the  Apache,  3  reels 75-oo 

Siege  of  Calais  (Hand  Colored),  2  reels 7S-0O 

Sins  of  the  Father  (Eclair),  2  reels 90.00 

Tragedy  of  the  Underworld,  3  reels 75-00 

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Feet,  Hand  Colored,  $40.00.  ROMEO  &  JULIET. 
two  reels,  $30.00,  FALL  OF  TROT,  two  reels, 
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Nemesis  or  the  19  Down  Express3..  125 

The    Phantom    Motor    Car 3..  100 

When    Woman    Loves 3..  100. 

Theodore  Kohner 3..  175 

The    Boy    Scout    Hero 3--  100 

Revolution    Marriage    3..  175 

The   Gypsy   Girl    2 . .  90, 

The   Forger's   Doom    3..  175 

The  Secret  Treaty   3. .  175 

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Turkish-Italian  Wax,   reproduction,  2  reels 75.00 

Battle    of    Margheb,     Turkish-Italian    War,    2 

reels,    including    front 120.00 

Battle    of    Zanzur,     and    one    other    reel,     lot 

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ADVERTISING    FOR    EXHIBITORS 30 

AMONG   THE   PICTURE   THEATERS  :.7 

AMONG    THE    EXHIBITORS 04 

.ANOTHER  ORDINANCE  PROPOSED  TOR   NEW 

YORK     26 

AT  THE  SIGN   OF  THE  FLAMING   ARCS 59 

BIRMINGHAM    EXHIBITORS    ORGANIZE 52 

CALAMITY  ANNE'S  BEAUTY   (American).  27 

CALENDAR  OF  LICENSED  RELEASES  72 

CALENDAR    OF    INDEPENDENT    RELEASES  70 

"CARMEN "    iMonopol   Film  00  I.  ->9 

CENSORING  MOTION  PICTURES  '    "  25 

"CHANGE   OF  ADMINISTRATION,    A"    iSeilg')"  30 

CHICAGO   LETTER 3  > 

COMMENTS  on  TnE  films  (Licensed)" '47 

COMMENTS  on  the  films   (Independent)...  40 

CORRESPONDENCE ,;- 

"DEERSLAYER.    THE"    iVitagraph) 31 

DOINGS  AT  LOS  ANGELES 34 

CARBON  IMPORTERS. 

FRORUP.    I,.    E M 

KIEWERT.    CHARLES    L  v. 

RE1SINGER      HUGO gj 

ELECTRICAL  &  MECHANICAL  EQUIPMENT 
AMUSEMENT  SUPPLY  CO.  1,10 

BBLL  &  HOWELI JJX 

BENDER.    GEORGE  ...  "'fa 

CALEHUFF  SUPPLY  CO  '   <,i 

0U8HMAN    MOTOR    WORKS.    .      .  '        '"100 

DETROIT  MOTOR  CAK   CO  .     100 

FORT  WATNE  ELECTRIC  WORKS.  ...    '. 100 

HALLBERG.   J.    H £ 

HOKE.    GEO.    M "114 

LAVEZZI   MACHINE   WORKS..    .  "    "  109 

MYERS   MANUFACTURING  CO. . .    <," 

PICTURE  THEATRE  EQUIPMENT  CO       vT 

SCHNEIDER.     E.  ...  J, 

SMITH.    L.    C.    &    CO...  82 

STERN   MANT/FAOTUBING  CO '.' go 

WHITE  SPECIALTY   CO .!....!!'! 108 

FEATURE   FILMS. 

ADAMS     &    CO .,. 

ALLARDT  FEATURE   FILM   CO  '.,-. 

AMERICA'S    FEATURE   FILM  Co ',,'■■ 

ARCO  FEATT'RE   FILM  CO      .    .  v. 

ECLECTIC    FILMS    ...  "    ',T 

FAMOUS   PLAYERS   FILM    CO...    ,„ 

II  I  LEE  S  Ff  iTURF.S  i'- 

GENERAL   FILM  CO 1314'   15 

M.   &  F.   FEATURE  FILM   CO 05  'j™ 

MONOPOL  FILM  CO.    .  .  "  107 

MOORE.  F.   E n- 

NATIONAL    SKI     FILM    CO  88 

NEW    Y'ORK    FILM   CO...  M 

NORTHERN    VENTURES    ". ,.,- 

ROMAN    FILM   CO £ 

SPECIAL  EVENT  FILM  CO " m 

TRUE    FEATURE    FILM    CO...  73 

TURNER    *   DAHNKEN    CIRCUIT....!. 

VITA    FILM    SALES    CO .  .  .  'm 

WARNER'S    FEATURES    ...  j,,-, 

WORLD'S    BEST    FILM    CO '.'.'.'.'.'.  .12 

IMPORTERS  AND  DEALERS. 

INTERNATIONAL   FILM    TRADERS 01 

WESTERN    FILM    BROKERS S2 

FIREPROOF    APPARATUS. 

TRAINER.  C.  W 01 

FILM  EXCHANGES. 

BRADENBURG.    G     W  03 

CENTRAL   F.    F.    SUPPLY    CO '.'.'.'.'.'.'. 114 

CLAPHAM.    A.    J.....  90 

ECONOMY  FILM  CO 100 


TO  CONTENTS. 

"EYE   OF   A   GOD"    (Pvramid) 54 

FACTS  AND  COMMENTS 23 

FAMOUS    PLAYERS   CONTEMPLATES    EDUCA- 
TIONAL.*    53 

FLICKERS   60 

FOREIGN   TRADE   NOTES 38 

ILLINOIS     05 

IMPORTATION    OF    FILMS 1 

INDEPENDENT  FILM  STORIES 84 

INDEPENDENT  RELEASE  DATES 104 

IN    THE    MID-WEST 61 

INDIANAPOLIS    69 

INQUIRIES   '  42 

IOWA    65 

LICENSED   FILM  STORIES 76 

LICENSED  RELEASE  DATES 106 

LOUISVILLE    66 

MANUFACTURERS'   ADVANCE  NOTES 61 

MAKING   PICTURES    WITH   BLOODHOUNDS..     53 

TO  ADVERTISERS. 

GREATER    N.    Y.    FILM    RENTING    CO 70 

HETZ.    L S" 

INDEPENDENT   EXCHANGE  CO 108-109 

INTERSTATE    FILM    CO Ill 

LAEMMLE  FILM  SERVICE 91 

MUTUAL   FILM   CORPORATION 71 

NORTHERN    FEATURE    FILM    EXCHANGE 85 

THE    FILM    EX 95 

WICHITA   F.    &   SUPPLY   CO 100 

XL    FEATURE    FILM    CO g2 

INDEPENDENT  FILM  MANUFACTURERS. 

AMUROSIO  AMERICAN  FILM  CO 7.", 

AMERICAN     7 

BRONCHO   FILM  CO. (! 

ECLAIR    101 

FILM    SUPPLY   CO.    OF    AMERICA 01 

GAUMONT    •. 74 

KAY-BEE fi 

KEYSTONE     1; 

KINEMACOLOR    CO.    OF    AMERICA 77     1 00 

MAJESTIC     101 

PILOT  FILMS    108 

RELIANCE    00 

SOLAX      s-o 

TIIANHOUSER    2 

UNIVERSAL    FILM   MANUFACTURERS 4-5 

LICENSED  FILM  MANUFACTURERS. 

EDISON      ]9 

ESSANAY      

KALEM    

LUBIN    "20 

MELIES     US 

PATIIE-FRERES     16-17 

SELIG    is 

VITAGRAPH     21 

LECTURERS. 

ADAMS.     GEO.     M 114 

Bl'Sn.    W.    S 98 

MARION,    L.    M.     (MlBS) OS 

SMITH,    NAT.    B 76 

LENS    MANUFACTURERS. 

GUNDLACH    MANHATTAN   OPTICAL  CO BE 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

A.    B.   C.   CO Index  Pntrc 

AMERICAN    SLIDE   &   POSTER   CO ll« 

BRADY,    A 7., 

BURNS,    R.    K ino 

CHALMERS    PUBLISHING'  CO 96 

CLASSIFIED    ADVERTISEMENTS    

CORCORAN,    A.    J 82 

EASTMAN    KODAK    CO 88 

EXHIBITORS  ADV.  &  SPECIALTY  CO 76 

EXHIBITORS  FILM  INSURANCE  CO 83 


MOTION   PICTURE   EXHIBITORS'    LEAGUE.  53 

MOVING    PICTURE    EDUCATOR,    THE 35 

MUSIC   FOR   THE   PICTURES 58 

NEW  ENGLAND  NOTES 67 

OBSERVATIONS  BY  MAN   ABOUT  TOWN 51 

PHILADELPHIA    66 

PHOTOPLAY  WRIGHT.     THE 4! 

PICTURES  IN  CINCINNATI    MUSIC  HALL 24 

PICTURE  THEATERS  PROJECTED 88 

PROJECTION  DEPARTMENT 43 

"ROBINSON   CRUSOE"    (Bex)..' 20 

SONG   SLIDE  RELEASES 103 

stories  OF  THE  films  (Licensed) 78 

STORIES   OF   THE    FILMS    (Independent) 84 

SPRINGFIELD,    ILL , O.- 
WASHINGTON   EXHIBITORS    ORGANIZE 52 

"WIZARD    OF    THE    JINGLE"     I  World's    Best 

Film   Co.) 55 

KRAUSE  MFG.  Co 76 

LEE.   WM W0 

LE    GOFF.    M 94 

McINTYRE  &  RICHTER 95 

McKENNA  BROS.   BRASS  CO 95 

MOTION  PICTURE  CAMERA  CO 78 

NATIONAL  TICKET   CO 104 

NATIONAL  WATERPROOFING   FILM  CO 100 

NATIONAL   X-RAY    REFLECTOR   CO 93 

NEWMAN  CO 83 

OZONE  PURE  AIRIF1ER   CO H7 

PHOTO  ART  CO 100 

RAW   FILM  SUPPLY  CO 98 

SARGENT.   E.   W 114 

SCREEN  CLUB    . .  r 77 

SPENCER,    A.    G 95 

STANGE.   A.   K 82 

STEBBINS,   C.    M 82 

THOMAS,  G.  H 100 

TRADE   CIRCULAR   ADDRESSING    CO 83 

VAN    HORN   &    SON S'.' 

WI1 YTE  WHITMAN  CO. 91 

MOVING  PICTURE  MACHINE  MANUFACTURERS. 

AMERICAN  OS 

EDISON    10 

ENTERPRISE    OPTICAL   id    S3 

POWER'S   CAMERAGRAPII    116 

SIMPLEX    87 

MUSICAL  INSTRUMENTS. 

AMERICAN   PHOTOPLAYER    SALES  CO li»i 

DEAGAN.  J.  C 112113 

SCHUELKE  AUTOMATIC   MUSIC  CO R2 

SINN.   C.   E Ill 

WESTERN   AUTOMATIC    MUSIC   CO Or, 

WURLITZER.   RUDOLPH    85     y, 

OPERA  CHAIR  MANUFACTURERS. 

AMERICAN  SEATING  Co 114     , 

ANDREWS.   AH 114 

BENETT.   GEO.   W 114 

HARDESTY    CHAIR    CO Ill 

STAFFORD.    E.    H 114      1 

STEEL   FURNITURE  CO 114 

WISCONSIN  SEATING   Co 114 

PROJECTION  SCREENS. 

AMERICAN  THEATRE  CURTAIN  CO 110 

MIRROROIDE  CO 96 

MIRROR    SCREEN   CO 103 

SONG  &  ADVERTISING  SLIDES. 

SCOTT   ft    VAN   ALTENA 103 

SIMPSON.    A.    L 

THOMAS.   A.  G 103 

UTILITY   TRANSPARENCY   CO 103      1 

WINDSOR    CUT-OUT   SLIDE    CO 82 

THEATRICAL  ARCHITECTS. 

DECORATORS  SUPPLY  CO 95 

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"I  Love  You  Just  Because  I  Do." 

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"Honey  You  Can  Turn  the  World  Around  for  Me" — Pub. 
'by  Musicians'  Music  Pub.  Co.,  New  York  City. 

"Oh,  You  Little  Rascal"— Pub.  by  George  W.  Meyers 
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"When  We  Gather  the  Sheaves,  Mary  Dear" — Pub.  by  T. 
Fred  Helf.  New  York. 

"Somewhere  in  Dixie  Lives  the  Girl 'I  Love" — Pub.  by 
Church,  Paxson  &  Co.,  N.  Y. 

"My  Mamie  Rose" — Pub.  by  Shapiro,  N.  Y. 

"Too  Many  Eyes"— Pub.  by  F.  B.  Haviland  Pub.  Co.,  N.  Y. 

"I  Am  Longing  lor  the  Old  Days,  Marguerite"— Pub.  by 
J.  Fred  Helf,  N.  Y. 

"Baby  Face" — Pub.  by  Chas.  I.  Davis,  Cleveland,  O. 

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"Yoo   Hoo!   That's   Me"— Tell  Taylor. 

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"He  is  a  Jolly  Good  Fellow" — Forster. 

"Please,  Miss  Central,  Find  My  Mamma" — Harris. 

"When  God  Gave  Me  You" — Forster  Music  Co. 

"I  Want  A  Man  Like  Dad" — Forster. 

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Mar.  24— Cnpld    Never    Ages    (Com.  Dr.). 1000 

Mar.  27 — Lonesome  Joe    (Drama) 1000 

Mar.  29— Calamity  Anne's  Beauty   (Comedy) 1000 

Mar.  31 — The   Renegade's  Heart    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     8— Matches    (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.     5 — The  Mute  Witness  (Drama) .'.  .1000 

Apr.     7 — Cupid    Throws    a     Brick     (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  10 — The    Homestead    Race    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  12 — Woman's    Honor    (Drama) ltXK> 

AMBROSIO. 

Mir.     «— Marital    (2  reels)    (Dram*) 

Mar.  18— The   Critic    (2  reels)    (Drama) 

Mar.  22—  Love   Levels  All    (2   reels)    (Drama).. 
Mar.  29 — The  Human  Target    (2  reels — Drama) 

Apr.     5 — For    His    Sake    (2    reels — Drama) 

Apr.  12 — Auto  Suggestion;  or  the  Crime  of  An- 
other   (2    reels — Drama) 

AMMEX. 
■>».  IS— The  Cowgirl  and  th.  Night    ( Drama ).  1000 

Feb.  20 — The  Coward   (Drama) 1000 

Feb.  27— The    Quality    of    Mercy     (Drama) 1000 

Mar.    6 — Kiln    and    Kin    (Drama) 

Mar.  18 — Wine,   Women  and  Reformation    (Dr.) 

BISON. 

Mar.  22 — The  Return  of  Thunder  Cloud's 
Spirit  (2  reels — Drama) 

Mar.  25 — The  Light  in  the  Window  (2  reels- 
Drama)    

Mar.  29— The  Half -Breed  Parson    (2  reels — Dr.) 

Apr.     1 — A  House  Divided   (3  parts.  'Drama).. 

Apr.     5 — Tap  (2  parts.    Drama) 

Apr.     8 — War     (2     reels — Drama) 

Apr.  12 — The  Darling  of  the  Regiment  (2  reels 
— Drama)     

BRONCHO. 

Mar.     ft— The  Barrier  (2  reels)    (Drama) 

Mar.  12— The  Sergeant's  Secret  (2  reels)  (Dr.) 
Mar.  19— The    Pride    of    the    South     (8    reels) 

(Drama) 

Mar.  26 — The  Iconoclast    (3  reels — Drama) 

Apr.  2 — The  Sinews  of  War  (2  parts.  Drama) 
Apr.     9 — The    Grey    Sentinel    (2   parts — Drama) 

CHAMPION. 
Mar.  17 — The    Honeymoon    Lodging    (Comedy) . . 

Mar.  24 — An  Interrupted  Suicide   (Comedy) 

Mar.  24 — A  Trim  and  a  Shave    (Comedy) 

Mar.  31— A  Knotty  Knot  (Comedy) 

Apr.     7 — Shanghaied  (Drama)    

Apr.     7 — The      Life.Savers      of      Chicamocomo 

(Vocational)     

CRYSTAL. 

Mar.  23 — Lovers    Three     (Comedy) 

Mar.  23 — His    Twin    Brother    (Comedy)... 

Mar.  SO — The   Drummer's    Note   Book    (Com.).. 

Mar.  80 — It's   a    Bear    (Comedy) 

Apr.     6 — Pearl  as  a  Clairvoyant  (Comedy) 

Apr.     6 — Almost  a  Winner  (Comedy) 

Apr.  13— The   Veiled   Lady    (Comedy) 

Apr.  13 — Our     Parents-ln-Law      (Comedy) 

ECLAIR. 

Mar.  30 — Married  in  Haste   (Comedy) 

Apr.  2 — The  Superior  Law  (3  parts.  Drama).. 
Apr.     6 — He  Wants  What  He  Wants,  When  He 

Wants  It   (Comedy) 

Apr.     6 — Crystallization  (Scientific) 

Apr.    9— Within    the    Limit'    of    the    Law     (2 

reels — Drama)    

Apr.  12 — Going  for  Father  (Comedy) 

Apr.  13— The   Octopus    (Zoology) 

EXCELSIOR. 

Mar.  10 — A    Cadet's    Honor    (Drama) 

Mar.  10 — Her  Dreams  of  Yesterday  (Drama).. 
Mar.  24 — The  Legends  of  the  Everglade  (Dr.).. 
Mar.  81 — The  Romance  of  a  Fisher  Boy  (Drama) 
Apr.     7 — Temperamental  Alice    (Comedy-Drama) 

FRONTIER. 
Mar.  20 — Branded  by  His  Brother's  Crime   (Dr.) 
Mar.  27 — The  Tenderfoot's  Return   (Drama).... 
Apr.     8 — The  Bandit's  Redemption   (Drama) .... 

Apr.  10 — As  Fate  Wills    (Drama) 

Apr.  12 — The    Burning    Lariat    (Drama) 


GAUMONT. 

Mar.  18 — The  Sovereign  Soul  (Drama) 

Mar.  18— The  Butterfly   (Scientific) 

Mar.   19 — Gaumost's  Weekly,  No.  54  (Topical).. 
Mar.  20 — Simple  Simon  Suffers  Sorely  (Comedy) 

Mar.  20 — Vichy  and  Its  Waters   (Scientific) 

Mar.  22 — (An  Educational  and  Topical  Subject) 
.Mar.  25 — The    Lure    of    the    Lorelei     (Drama). 

Mar.   26 — Sea     Aueuiones      (Zoology) 

Mar.   26 — Gaumont's    Weekly,     No.    55     (News). 

Mar.  27 — The  Amateur  Sleuth  (Comedy) 

Mar.  27 — Hypnotizing     Hannah     (Comedy) 

Mar.  20 — (An    Education    and    Topical    Subject  i 

GEM. 
Mar.  11 — The  Twin  and  Shoshone  Falls   (Com.) 

Mar.  18— Billy    Wins    (Comedy) 

Mar.  25 — Billy's  Mistaken  Overcoat   (Comedy) . . 

Apr.     1— Billy's  Double   (Comedy) 

Apr.     1 — Lyndhoven  Farm,    Virginia 

Apr.     S — Billy  Gets  Arrested    (Comedy) 

GREAT    NORTHERN.) 

Mar.  22 — The  New  Film  Actor   (Comedy) 

Mar.  22 — The  Port  of  Copenhagen    (Scenic).... 

Mar.  29— Fred  as  a  Soldier  (Comedy) 

Mar.  29 — Summer  in  the   North    (Scenic) 

Apr.     5 — A  Skipper's  Story    (Comedy) 

Apr.     5 — Under   Southern  Skies    (Physical   Geog- 
raphy)   

Apr.  12 — The         Bewitched         Rubber        Shoes 

(Comedy) 

Apr.  12 — Spanish     Tonus     (Scenic) 

IMP. 

Mar.  31 — Cupid  in  Uniform   (Drama) 

Apr.     3 — The    Bishop's    CandleBticks     (2    parts. 

Drama) 

Apr.     5 — Binks,  the  Terrible  Turk  (Comedy) 

Apr.     7— The     Wanderer     (Drama) 

Apr.  10— Aunt    Kate's   Mistake    (Comedy) 

Apr.  12 — The    Mysterious   Card    (Comedy) 

KAY-BEE. 
Mar.     7— The  Lost  Despatch  (2  reels)    (Drama) 
Mar.  14 — The  Sins  of  the  Father  (2  reels)   (Dr.) 

Mar.  21— A  Frontier  Wife  (Drama) 

Mar.  28 — Texas  Kelly  at  Bay   (Drama) 

Apr.     4 — With  Lee  in  Virginia  (2  parts.    Drama) 
Apr.  11 — On  Fortune's  Wheel   (2  parts— Drama) 

KEYSTONE, 

Mar.  24 — Jenny's  Pearls    (Comedy) 

Mar.  24 — The    Chief's    Predicament    (Comedy).. 

Mar.  27 — At  Twelve  o'clock  (Comedy) 

Mar.  31 — Her   New    Beau    (Comedy) 

Mar.  31— On  His  Wedding  Day   (Comedy) 

Apr.     3 — The   Land  Salesman    (Comedy) 

Apr.    8 — Hide  and  Seek   (Comedy) 

Apr.     7— Those    Good    Old   Days    (Comedy) 

Apr.  10— A   Game  of   Poker    (Comedy) 

Apr.  10 — Father's     Choice     (Comedy ) 

LUX. 
Mar.  21— Miss    Simpson's    Jewels     (Comedy)...  656 
Mar.  21— Pat  Wishes  to  Economize   (Comedy) . .  400 

Mar.  28— The  Man  Eater   (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     4 — Too   Polite    (Comedy) 475 

Apr.    4 — More  than  She  Bargained  for  (Comedy)  508 
Apr.  11— Sacrificed    to    the    Lions    (Drama) 1000 

MAJESTIC. 
March  26 — The  Prima  Donna's  Cat   (Comedy).. 
March  30 — A  Well-Meant  Deception   (Drama)... 

Apr.     1— A  Study   in   Sociology    (Drama) 

Apr.     6— The    Half    Orphans    (Drama) 

AJ>r.     8— The     Night     Riders     (Drama) 

Apr.  13— Billie's    New    Watch     (Comedy) 

MECCA. 
Mar.     1— A  Stranger  In  th*  Rockies   (Drama) . . 
Mar.    8— The    Inauguration    of    President    Wil- 
son   (Topical)    

Mar.  IS — The   Fisher   Lady    (Drama) 

Mar.  22 — The  Lineman   and   the  Reformer    (Dr.) 

Mar.  29 — The   Criminals    (Drama) 

Apr.     5 — By  the  Curate's  Aid  (Drama)..: 

M  LLANO. 
Feb.  16 — Oof  of  the  Depths   (2  reels — Drama).. 

April      1— A  Study  in  Sociology   (Drama) 

Feb.  22— Parted    at    the    Altar    (2   reel*)    (Dr.) 
Mar.     1— The  Defeat'  of  the  Conqueror  (2  reels) 

(Historical) 

Mar.     8— The  Victory  of  Virtue  (2  reels)    (Dr.) 
Mar.  15 — The    Sins    of    the    Father     (2    reels) 

(Drama) 

MTJTT/AL  WEEKLY. 

Mar.     6— Mutual  Weekly,   No.  10   (News) 

Mar.  12— Mutual   Weekly,    No.    11    (News) 

'      Mutual    Weekly,    No.    12    (News) 

Mar.  26 — Mutual  Weekly,   No.   13   (News) 

Apr.     2— Mutual   Weekly,    No.    14    (News) 


MUTUAL   EDUCATIONAL. 
Mar.  27— Willy  and  the  Old  Snltor  (Comedy).. 

Mar.  27 — On   the  Roads  of  Ceylon    (Scenic) 

Apr.  3— Willy  and  the  Faithful  Servant  (Com.) 
Apr.  8 — Winter  Sports  in  Norway  (Sporting).. 
Apr.   lu — Willy     Prefers       Liberty       to       Wealth 

(Comedy)     

Apr.  10 — The    Golden    Horn,    Turkey    (Physical 

Geography)      

NESTOR. 
Mar.  28 — The    Mining    Expert's   Ordeal    (Drama) 

Mar.  31 — Superstitious    Mary     (Comedy) 

Mar.  31 — Mum's    the    Word    (Comedy) 

Apr.     2 — The    Widow's    Folly    (Drama) 

Apr.     4 — A    Providential   Tragedy    (Drama) 

Apr.     7 — The  Maid  and   the  Milkman   (Comedy) 
Apr.     7 — River  Rhine,  Germany  (Physical  Geog- 
raphy)      

Apr.     9 — How    Fatty    Got    Even    (Comedy) 

Apr.  11— The    Forgotten    Letter    (Drama) 

POWERS. 
Mar.  26 — Having  their  Pictures  Taken   (bom.).. 
Mar.  26 — Picturesque    Bergen,    Norway    (Scenic) 
Mar.  28— The  Calling  of  Louis  Mona   (2  reels- 
Drama)    

Apr.     2 — Do  It  Now  (Comedy) 

Apr.    4 — Bachelor  Bill's  Birthday  Present  (Com.) 

Apr.     9 — The    Elixir    of    Youth    (Comedy) 

Apr.  11— The    Fear     (Drama) 

PUNCH. 

Feb.  27 — Tracked    to   Florida    (Comedy) 

Mar.     6 — Impetuous    Jim     (Comedy) 

Mar.     6 — No    Wedding   Bells    for   Jones    (Com.) 

Mar.  13 — Father    Tamed     (Comedy) 

Mar.  13 — His    First    Kodak     (Comedy) 

PILOT. 

Mar.  13 — Lincoln   for  the   Defense   (Drama) 

Mar.  26— Till  Death  Do  Cs  Part  (2  reels)   (Dr.) 
Mar.  27 — When    Lincoln    was     President     (His- 
torical-Drama)     

Apr.     3— In  the  Battle's  Smoke   (Drama) 

Apr.  10 — The    Smuggler's   Dog    (Drama)     1000 

RAMO. 

Mar.  12— The   Better    Way    (Drama) 

Mar.  19 — The    Dividing    Line     (Comedy) 

Mar.  26— The  Grip  of  Jealousy   (Drama) 

April  2— The  Last   Old  Lady    (Comedy) 

April  2 — Rapid  Transit  in  New  York 

RELIANCE. 

Mar.  26 — His  Day  of  Freedom   (Drama) 

Mar.  29— The  Half -Wit  (Drama)    

Apr.     2 — The  Judge's  Vindication  (2  parts.    Dr.) 

Apr.     5 — The    Penalty    (Drama) 

Apr.  9 — The  Woman  Who  Knew  (Drama) . . 
Apr.     12— The    She- Wolf     (Drama) 

REX. 
Mar.  27— The   Great   Ganton    Mystery    (2   Parts 

— Drama)    

Mar.  30 — Her    New    Chauffeur    (Comedy-Drama) 

Apr.     3 — Fiddler    Pete    (Comedy-Drama) 

Apr.     6 — Bobby's  Baby    (Drama) 

Apr.  10 — Until    Death    (2    reels — Drama) 

Apr.  13 — Pure    Gold    and    Dross    (Scientific) 

P.YN0. 

Mar.  17 — Memories  of  Long  Ago    (Drama) 

Mar.  24 — The  Sea  Waif    (Drama) 

Mar.  31— Memories    of    Long    Ago    (Drama) 

Apr.    4 — Classmates     (Drama)      

Apr.     7 — The     Outcast     (Drama) 

Apr.  11 — Off    the    Mainland     (Drama) 

BOLAX. 
Mar.  21 — The    Way   of    the   Transgressor    (Dr.) 
Mar.  26 — Burstup  Holmes  Murder  Case  (Com.).. 

Mar.  28 — The  Climax    (Drama)    

Apr.     2 — The  Bachelor's  Housekeeper   (Comedy) 

Apr.     4 — The    Ogres    (Drama) 

Apr.     9 — The     Lady     Doctor     (Comedy) 

Apr.  11 — His   Son-in-Law    (Drama) 

THANHOUSER. 

Mar.  21 — Won   at   the   Rodeo    (Drama) 

Mar.  23 — Her   Gallant   Knights    (Comedy) 

Mar.  25 — For  Her  Boy's  Sake    (Drama) 

Mar.  2S — Cymbellne  (2  parts.    Drama) 

Mar.  30— The    Wax    Lady    (Drama) 

Apr.     1 — The     Woman     Who     Did     Not     Care 

(Drama)     

Apr.     4 — The    Spoiled    Darling's    Doll     (Drama) 

VICTOR. 

Mar.  21— The    Younger   Sister    (Drama) 

Mar.  28 — That   Boy    from    Missouri    (Comedy) . . 

Apr.     4 — A  Letter  to  Mother   (Drama) 

Apr.  11— Two   Lives    (Drama) 


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Tuesday— Edison.    Essanay,    Patheplay,   Cines,   Lu- 
bln,  Selig,    Vltagrapta. 

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BIOGRAPH. 

Mar.  24 — A  Welcome  Intruder   (Drama) 

Mar.  27— The  Old  Gry  Mare  (Comedy) 

Mar.  27— All  Hall   to   the   King    (Comedy) 

Mar.  20— The  Sheriff's   Baby    (Drama) 

Mar.  31 — Edwin   Masquerades    (Comedy) 

Mar.  31 — Their  One  Good  Suit  (Comedy) . . . 

Apr.     3— The  Hero  of  Little  Italy   (Drama) 

Apr.     5— The  Perfidy  of  Mary  (Drama) 

CINES. 
(O.  Kleins.; 
Mar.  22— Life      in      Somallland.       East      Africa 

(Topical)     200 

Mar.  2S! — A  Motorcar   Romance    (Drama) 800 

Mar.  25 — He  Needed  the  Money    (Comedy) 1000 

Mar.  29 — Glimpses     of      Naples     and      Vicinity 

(Scenic)    460 

Mar.  29 — Spirits  of  Youth   (Comedy) 550 

Apr.      1— He  W  uldn't  Give  Up  (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.     1— He  Wouldn't  Give  Up   (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.     5 — Modern    Progress    in   Somaliland,    East 

Africa     (Typical) 500 

Apr.     5 — Faint    Heart     Ne'er    Won    Fair    Lady 

(Comedy) 500 

Apr.     7 — The  Queen  of  Spades  (Special — 2  parts 

(Drama) 2000 

Apr.     S—  Scenes  Along  the  Peseara  River,   Cen- 
tral   Italy     (Physical    Geography) S.'.O 

Apr.     S — A    Romance    by    the    Sea    (Drama)....    650 
Apr.  12— On     the     Nebi     River,     East     Africa 

i  Physical     Geography) 200 

Apr.  12— Keeping   Tab   on    Sammy    (Comedy)...   800 


EDISON. 

Mar.  IS— The  Gauntlets  of  Washington    (Dr.)..  1000 

Mar.  17 — Kathleen    Mavonrneen    (Drama) 1060 

Mar.  18— The  Portrait   (Drama) 1000 

Mar.  10— Mother's    Laay    Boy    (Comedy) 1000 

Mar.  21— The   Dean's   Daughters    (Drama) 1000 

Mar.  22— The  Risen  Soul  of  Jim  Grant   (Dr.). .1000 
Mar.  24 — The  Long  and  Short  of  It  (Comedy)..  400 

Mar.  24 — Tea   and   Toast    (Comedy) (00 

Mar.  25 — Bread    on    the    Waters    (Drama) 1000 

Mar.  26— The    Unprofitable    Boarder    (Comedy)..  1000 
Mar.  28— A  Way  to  the  Underworld   (Being  the 
Ninth    Story    of    "What    Happened 

to  Mary")    (Drama)    1000 

Mar.  29 — Between    Orton    Junction    and    Fallon- 

vllle    (Drama)    1000 

Mar.  31 — The  Elder  Brother  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     1— With  the  Eyes  of  the  Blind   (Drama). 1000 

Apr.    2 — The  Duke's  Dilemma  (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.     4 — The  Inventor's  Sketch   (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     5 — Master  end   Man    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     7 — A   Shower   of  Slippers    (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.     8 — Old    Jim    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     0— The  Well  Sick  Man   (Comedy) IOixi 

Apr.  11— The  Capture  of  a  Wild  Cat   (Sport) 

Apr.   n — Rule     Thyself      (Comedy) 650 

Apr.   12— The       Man       Who       Wouldn't       Marry 

(Drama)      1000 

BI0GRAPH. 

Apr.     7 — The    Stolen    Bride     (Drama) 

Apr.  Hi — An      "Uncle     Tom's     Cabin"     Troupe 

(Comedy)    

Apr.  10 — A     Lesson     to     Mashers     (Comedy).... 
Apr.  12— The  Little  Tease   (Drama) 


ESSANAY. 

Mar.  19 — Flnnegan     (Comedy)     1000 

Mar.  20— The  Tale  of  a   Clock    (Comedy) 1000 

Mar.  21— The  Pathway  of   Years    (Drama) 1000 

Mar.  22 — Broncho    Billy's    Sister    (Drama) 1000 

Mar.  25 — The   Sheriff's   Honeymoon    (Comedy) ..  1000 

Mar.  28 — The  Scratch  (Comedy) 1000 

Mar.  27— The      Trail      of      the      Itching      Palm 

(Comedy)    1000 

Mar.  28 — The    Hero    Coward     (Drama) 1000 

Mar.  29 — Broncho  Billy's  Gratefulness  (Drama) . . 
Mar.  31— The  Spy's  Defeat  (Special,  2  parts,  Dr.)2000 

Apr.     1— The   Sheriff's  Son    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     2 — The  Price  of  Gold    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     3— The  Will-Be  Weds  (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.     4 — A  Wolf  Among  Lambs  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     5 — Broncho  Billy's  Way    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     8 — The  Wardrobe  Lady    (Comedy-Drama)  .1000 

Apr.     9— The    Sheriff's     Wife     (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  10 — Found     Out     (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.  11— The    Little    Mother    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  12 — Broncho    Billy's    Reason     (Drama) 1000 


KALEM. 

Mar.  28— The   "Fired"   Cook   (Comedy) 

Mar.  28 — The  Cat  and  the  Bonnet   (Comedy)... 

Mar.  29— The    Wartime    Siren    (Drama) 1000 

Mar.  31 — The  American  Princess  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     1 — The    Exposure   of  the   Land   Swindlers 

(3  parts,  special.     Drama) 3000 

Apr.     2— The  Sacrifice   (Drama) 1000 

Apr.    4 — Fatty's   Deception    (Comedy) 

Apr.     4 — New  York's  Public  Markets   (Typical) 

Apr.     5 — A  Mississippi  Tragedy   (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     7 — In  the  Grip  of  a  Charlatan   (Drama). 1000 
Apr.    9 — The      Pursuit      of      the      Smugglers 

(Drama)      1000 

Apr.  11 — The  Scimitar  of  the  Prophet  (Drama) 
Apr.  11 — The  Indestructible  Mr.  Jenks  (Comedy) 
Apr.  12— The   California    Oil   Crooks    (Drama).. 


LT/BIN. 

Mar.  27— Memories  of   His   Youth    (Drama) 1000 

Mar.  28— The  Gift  of  the  Storm   (Drama) 1000 

Mar.  29 — In  the  Land  of  the  Cactus   (Drama).  1000 
Mar.  29 — Heroes,  One  and  All   (Special — 2  reels 

—Drama)    2000 

Mar.  31 — Women  of  the  Desert  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     1 — Shipping   a   Clock    (Comedy) 

Apr.     1 — The  Fake  Soldiers  (Comedy) 

Apr.     3 — A   False  Friend    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     4 — The  Burden  Bearer   (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     5 — His  Widow  (Comedy) 

Apr.     6 — Collecting  the  Bill  (Comedy) 

Apr.     7 — The    Evil    One     (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     S — For   His   Child's   Sake    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     9 — The   Toll    of    Fear    (2    reels— Drama — 

Special)      2000 

Apr.  10 — The     Magic    Shoes     (Comedy) 

Apr.  10 — Angel  Cake  and  Axle  Grease  (Comedy) 

Apr.  11— The    Split    Nugget    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  12— Pete  Tries  the   Stage    (Comedy) 1000 


MELEES. 

Mar.     6 — The     Misfortunes    of     Mr.     and     Mrs. 
Mott      on      Their      Trip      to      Tabttl 

(Comedy)     

Mar.     6 — The    Upa    Upa     Dance     (Typical) 

Mar.  IS — A    Gambler's    Heart    (Drama) 1000 

Mar.  14 — Loved   by   a   Moarl  Chief  teas    (Special, 

2    parts)     (Drama) 3000 

Mar.  20 — Honor    Thy    Mother     (Drama) 1000 

Mar.  27 — Hlnemoa    (Drama)    1600 

Apr.     3— The  Stolen  Tribute  to  the  King   (Dr.) 

Apr.     3 — The  River  Wangannl    (Scenic) 

Apr.  10 — The  Maoris  of  New  Zealand   (Manners 

and    Customs)    1000 


ECLIPSE. 
(G.  Kleins,) 

Mar.    S— Shylock   (2  reels,  special)    (Drama) ..  .2000 
Mar.     6— The   Wages  of  Transgression    (Drama) 
Mar.    6 — Pottery    Making    In    Dorset,    England 

( Industrial) 

Mar.  12— The    Lost    Wager    (Comedy) 

Mar.  12— Picturesque  Spalato,  Dalmatla  (Scenic) 

Mar.  19 — An    Innocent    Offender    (Drama) 1000 

Mar.  26 — Fjords     and     Waterfalls     of     Norway 

(Scenic)    300 

Mar.  26 — The   Crab   and     Lobster     Industry 

(Industrial)   850 

Mar.  28 — He   Saw   the   Point    (Comedy) 850 

Apr.     2— The  Fruit  of  Suspicion  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     9 — The  Kentish  Coast,  England    (Physical 

Geography)      250 

Apr.    9 — Making    Birch    Brooms    (Trades) 300 

Apr.     9 — An    Up-to-Date    Aviator    (Comedy)....  450 


PATHEPLAY. 

Mar.  19 — The    Escape    (Drama) 

Mar.  20 — Deedee's    Blind    Master    (Drama) 

Mar.  21 — Rastus  Loses  His  Elephant  (Comedy) 
Mar.  21— The  Death  Head  kloth  (Nat.  Hist.).. 
Mar.  22— When  They  Were  Kids  (Drama).... 
Mar.  24 — Pathe's  Weekly,  Ne.  18  (Topical)... 
Mar.  25 — The  Babes  In  the  Woods   (Juvenile)... 

Mar.  26— The  Gate  She  Left  Open   (Drama) 

Mar.  28 — The  Moonshiner's  Last  Stand   (Special 

— 2  reels — Drama)    

Mar.  27 — The   Sheriff's   Reward    (Drama) 

Mar.  27— The  Chateau  of  Chambord   (Scenic)... 

Mar.  28 — Crabs  and   Lobsters   (Industrial) 

Mar.  28— The  Tobacco  Culture  in  Cuba  (Agrl.) 
Mar.  29 — The   Hardup   Family's   Bluff    (Cotnedy) 

Mar.  31— Pathe's  Weekly,   No.  14   (Topical) 

Apr.     1 — How   Plaster   is   Obtained    (Industrial) 

Apr.     1 — The   Moros    (Novelty) 

Apr.  2 — The  Engineer's  Daughter  (Drama)..!! 
Apr.  2 — Cairo,  Egypt,  and  Its  Environs  (Scenic) 
Apr.     2— Nobility    (2   parts,   Drama.     Special) . . 

Apr.     3— There  She  Goes   (Comedy) 

Apr.     4 — Whiffles   Tries   Moving    Picture  Acting 

(Comedy) 

Apr.     4 — An  Excursion  to  the  Grande  Chartreuse, 

France    (Scenic) 

Apr.     5 — The  Broken  Idyll   (Drama) 

Apr.     7— Pathe's  Weekly,    No.  16   (News) 

Apr.     8 — The    Snap    Shot     (Comedy) 

Apr.     8 — The  River  Clyde  at   Lanark,   Scotland 

(Physical    Geography)     

Apr.    9 — Too    Much    Parcel    Post    (Comedy).... 

Apr.  10 — God  Is  Love  (Drama) 

Apr.  11 — The  Anaylsis  of   Motion    (Scientific) . . 

Apr.  11 — The  Locust   (Zoology) 

Apr.  12 — The    Happy    Home    (Drama) 

Apr.  12 — In  the  Days  of  War   (Special — 2  reels 

— -Dr-ama)      


SELIG. 

Mar.  26 — The  Life  Timer  (Drama) 

Mar.  26 — Shanghai,  China  (Scenic) 

Mar.  27 — The  Food  Chopper  War  (Com.-Dr.)...1000 

Mar.  28— Sally   In   our  Alley    (Drama) ...1000 

Mar.  31 — A  Prisoner  of  Cabanas  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     1 — Margarita  and  tbe  Mission  Funds  (Dr.)1000 
Apr.     2 — A   Lucky    Mistake    (Comedy-Drama) . . . 

Apr.     2 — Chinese  Temple  (Scenic) 

Apr.     3 — Arabia,  the  Eqnlne  Detective   (Drama)lOOO 

Apr.    4 — The  Hoyden's  Awakening  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     5 — A  Change  of  Administration  (Special,  2 

parts.    Drama) 2000 

Apr.     7 — Vengeance   is    Mine    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     S— Robert    Hale's    Ambition    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     9 — The     Shotgun     Man     and     the     Stage 

Driver    (Drama)    1000 

Apr.   10 — Tommy's   Atonement     (Drama) 

Apr.  10 — The    Tombs    of     the     Ming    Emperors 

(Monument's)      

Apr.  11— With   Love's   Eyes    (Drama) 1000 


VITAGRAPH. 

Mar.  19— The     Strength     of     Men     (Special,     2 

reels)    (Drama)    200« 

Mar.  19— The    House    In  Suburbia    (Drama) 100* 

Mar.  20— The  Wonderful  Statue  (Oona.-Dr.)..  .1000 
Mar.  21— A  Matter  of  Matrimony  (Comedy) ..  .1000 
Mar.  21 — Mine   Rescue  Work   of   Amerteaa   Bed 

Cross    Society     (Educational) 

Mar.  22— Belinda,   the  Slavey   (Comedy-Drama) .  1000 

Mar.  24 — Brother  Bill  (Drama) 1000 

Mar.  28 — Dick,  the  Dead  Shot   (Comedy) 1000 

Mar.  26— Love    Laughs    at    Locksmiths    (Com.) 

Mar.  28 — In  Old  Quebec  (Scenic) 

Mar.  27 — Getting  Up  a  Practice   (Comedy) 1000 

Mar.  28— Bunny    Blarneyed;     or,    The    Blarney 

Stone    (Comedy)    

Mar.  28 — Scenes   In   Japan    (Scenic) 

Mar.  28 — The  Modern  Prodigal  (Special— 2  reels 

— Dra— )    ..  2000 

Mar.  29 — The    Two    Brothers    (Drama) 

Mar.  29 — Tenyo    Mara    (Educational) 

Mar.  31— Bedelia  Becomes  a  Lady  (Comedy) . . .  1000 

Apr.     1 — Checkmated    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     2— Alixe,  or  the  Test  of  Friendship   (Dr.)lOOO 

Apr.     3 — The  Midget's  Romance  (Comedy) 

Apr.     3 — Our  Coast  Defenders   (Military) 

Apr.     4 — Let  'Em  Quarrel   (Comedy) ...1000 

Apr.    4 — The    Golden    Hoard,    or    Burled    Alive 

(Special,  2  parts.     Drama) 2000 

Apr.     5 — He  Answered  the  Ad   (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.    7 — Bunny's    Honeymoon    (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.     8 — The     Transition     (Drama) 1000 

Apr.    9— Out   of   the   Storm    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  10— Cutey  and  the  Chorus  Girls   (Comedy).  1000 
Apr.  11— Wanted,    a    Strong    Hand    (Comedy).. 
Apr.  11— Laying    a    Marine   Cable    (Telegraph). 
Apr.  11— The    Web    (Special— 2    parts— Drama). 2000 
Apr.  12— Mystery  of  the  Stolen  Child   (Drama). 1000 


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NECESSITY,  THE 

INDEPENDENT 

NECESSITY  to  obtain  productions  of  quality.  NECES 
NECESSITY  to  obtain  productions  that  are  not  offensive 
NECESSITY  to  obtain  productions  that  will  work   no 


Not  a  Battle  of  Politics — But  a  Struggle 

FREEDOM — To  be  free  to  buy  with  our  own  money 
PRINCIPLE — Not  to  be  forced  to  take  productions 
QUALITY — That  which  we  strive  to  obtain  in  all  our 

We  therefore  extend  a  cordial  invitation  to  EVERY  Mana 

Your  Price  Is  Our  Price— If  the  Production  Is  Worth  It. 

Distributing  Agents  for  the  Only  Selected 
ANTI  TRUST  FILM  EXCH.,  CANADIAN  FILM  EXCH., 

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CALIFORNIA  FILM  EXCH.,  CANADIAN  FILM  EXCH., 

54  Seventh  St.,  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL.  Over  Monarch  Theatre,  WINNIPEG,  MAN. 

CALIFORNIA  FILM  EXCH.,  CENTRAL  FILM  EXCH., 

no  E.  4th  St.,  LOS  ANGELES,  CAL.  113  W.  Georgia  St.,  INDIANAPOLIS,  IND. 

CANADIAN  FILM  EXCH.,  CINCIN'TI   BUCKEYE  FILM  EX., 

CALGARY,   ALBERTA  236  W.  4th  Ave.,  CINCINNATI,  OHIO 

CANADIAN  FILM  EXCH.,  CONSOL.  FILM  &  SUPPLY  CO., 

369   University   St.,   MONTREAL,   QUE.  Rhodes  Bldg.,  ATLANTA,  GA. 

CANADIAN  FILM  EXCH.,  CONSOL.  FILM  &   SUPPLY  CO., 

32  Queen  St.,  TORONTO,  ONT.  Maison  Blanche  Bldg.,  NEW  ORLEANS,  LA. 

CANADIAN  FILM  EXCH.,  CONSOL.   FILM  &  SUPPLY  CO., 

ST.  JOHNS,  N.  B.  1315  Elm  St.,  DALLAS,  TEX. 

CANADIAN  FILM  EXCH.,  CONSOL.  FILM  EXCH., 

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P.    A.    POWERS,    General   Manager 

INDEPENDENT  EXCHANGE  CO. 


THE    MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


MOTHER  OF  THE 

EXCHANGE   CO 

SITY  to  obtain  productions  that  are  certain  of  approval. 

to  eye  or  mind. 

hardships  upon  exchange  or  exhibitor. 


for  Freedom,  Principle  and  Quality 

productions  that  we  deem  fit  for  our  program, 
that  we  know  are  a  menace  to  the  industry, 
productions. 

facturer  to  submit  his  goods  for  our  inspection  and  approval. 

We  Must  Have  Productions  That  Will  Benefit  the  Exhibitor 

(Not  Forced)   Program  on    the  Market: 
DETROIT  UNIV.  FILM  EXCH.,         REX  FILM  EXCH., 

87  Woodward  Ave.,  DETROIT,  MICH.  84  N.  Pearl  St.,  ALBANY,  N.  Y. 

W.  E.  GREENE  FILM  EXCH.,  STANDARD  FILM  EXCH., 

665  Washington  St.,  BOSTON,  MASS.  173  W.  Washington  St.,  CHICAGO,  ILL. 

INDEPENDENT  FILM  EXCH.,  STANDARD  FILM  EXCH., 

415  Ferry  St.,  PITTSBURGH,  PA.  Tyler  Bldg.,  LOUISVILLE,  KY. 

IND.  WESTERN  FILM  EXCH.,        TOLEDO  FILM  EXCH., 

64  Seventh  St.,  PORTLAND,  ORE.  120  Erie  St.,  TOLEDO,  OHIO 

MILES  BROS.,  UNITED  MOTION  PICTURE  CO., 

1145  Mission  St.,  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL.  112  Main  St.,  OKLAHOMA  CITY,  OKLA. 

MILES  BROS.,  UNIVERSAL  FILM  EXCH., 

411  West  8th  St.,  LOS  ANGELES,  CAL.  8th  &  Pine  Sts.,  ST.  LOUIS,  MO. 

MILWAUKEE  FILM  EXCH.,  UNIVERSAL  FILM  EXCH., 

133  Second  St.,  MILWAUKEE,  WIS.  1310  Walnut  St.,  KANSAS  CITY,  MO. 

PACIFIC  FILM  EXCH.,  VICTOR  FILM  EXCH., 

BUTTE,    MONT.  39   Church   St.,   BUFFALO,  N.   Y. 

PACIFIC  FILM  EXCH.,  VICTOR  FILM  EXCH., 

216  Seneca  St.,  SEATTLE,  WASH.  Prospect  &  Huron  Rd.,  CLEVELAND,  OHIO 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


Mr.  Exhibitor! 

Do  you  realize  that  there  are  many 
hundred  satisfied  users  of  the 
Radium  Gold  Fibre  Screen? 

They  were  all  skeptical  at  first; 
let  us  show  you  as  we  have 
others. 

Write  today  sending  size  and 
we  will  ship  Screen  for  your 
approval. 

Try  it  out  at  our  expense. 

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Sole  Manufacturers, 
105  N.  Main'Street  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

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A  Denial: 


In  a  recent  advertisement  signed  "Independent  Exchange  Co.,  P.  A. 
Powers,  General  Manager,"  the  statement  was  made  that  the  Interstate 
Films  Co.  is  a  member  of  the  so-called  "Independent  Exchange  Co." 
The  undersigned  company,  owner  of  large  exchanges  handling  the 
Universal  program,  announces  that  such  statement  was  made  without 
any  authority  whatsoever  and  is  entirely  untrue. 


The  Truth: 


The  truth  of  the  matter  is  that  the  undersigned  company,  far  from 
being  a  member  of  any  group  of  exchanges  hostile  to  the  Universal 
Film  Manufacturing  Co.,  is  working  in  perfect  harmony  with  the 
Universal,  believing  that  the  Universal  is  not  only  the  best  and  fairest 
film  manufacturing  company  in  the  business,  but  that  it  is  producing 
the  strongest  program  in  the  world.  By  a  unanimous  vote  of  the 
fourteen  members  of  its  Board  of  Directors,  the  undersigned  com- 
pany resolved  that  the  claim  of  the  so-called  "Independent  Exchange 
Co."  be  publicly  branded  as  untrue. 


Exhibitors : 


Those  of  you  who  want  the  Universal  program  and  who  realize  that 
reel  for  reel  it  is  the  strongest  and  best  in  the  land  will  find  the  fol- 
lowing exchanges  (owned  by  The  Interstate  Films  Co.)  ready  to 
give  you  prompt,  satisfactory  and  clean-cut  service  at  any  and  all 
times : 

PHILADELPHIA— (Philadelphia    Film  Exchange,  121  N.  9th  St). 
PHILADELPHIA— (Swaab   Film  Service,  129  N.  8th.  St). 
PHILADELPHIA— (Eagle    Projection  Co.,  1304  Vine  St). 
WASHINGTON— (Washington  Film  Exchange,  428  Ninth  St.  N.  W.). 
WILKESBARRE— (Exhibitors    Film  Exchange,  61  S.  Penna.  Ave.). 
BALTIMORE — (Baltimore   Film   Exchange,  412  E.  Baltimore  St.). 
SCRANTON— (Rockwell-Knapp  Film  Exchange). 


THE  INTERSTATE  FILMS  CO. 

General  Offices,  1304  Vine  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


V.  R.  Carrick 

President 


Michael  Lessy 

Vice-President 


Lewis  M.  Swaab 

Treasurer 


Geo.  W.  Bennethum 

Secretary 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE  WORLD 


Mr.  Exhibitor 


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YOU  have  no  doubt  noted  the  fact  that  we  have  not  advertised 
our  Musical  Electric  Bells  since  last  fall,  the  reason  for  which 
is  the  fact  that  our  factory  has  been  oversold  on  Musical  Elec- 
tric Bells;  and  what  is  the  use  of  advertising  when  you  cannot 
fill  the  orders  on  hand  ? 

We  are  glad  to  state  that  owing  to  our  having  appropriated 
more  space  for  our  electrically  operated  instrument  department,  we 
have  been  able  to  catch  up  with  the  demand  for  our  goods,  and  as  our 
experimenting  department  has  recently  produced  a  number  of  new 
electrically  operated  instruments,  in  which  every  exhibitor  will  be 
interested. 

We  take  great  pleasure  in  announcing  the  issue  of  our  catalogue 
"F"  in  which  we  will  list  in  addition  to  Musical  Electric  Bells,  the 
following  absolutely  new  electrically  operated  Musical  Instruments, 
our  "Class  A"  Musical  Electric  Bells,  our  new  style  Swiss  Electric 
Bells,  our  Electric  Octaphone,  Electric  Uniphone,  Electric  Cathedral 
Chimes,  Electric  Orchestra  Bells,  Electric  Parsifal  Bells,  Electric  Steel 
Marimbaphones,  Electric  Xylophones. 

Do  not  fail  to  send  for  a  copy  of  our  catalogue  "F"  which  is 
now  on  the  press,  and  will  contain  a  world  of  information  regarding 
electrically  operated  musical  instruments. 

Mr.  Exhibitor:  we  do  not  tie  you  down  to  a  mere  half  dozen  in- 
struments to  be  operated  from  a  single  keyboard  in  connection  with 
your  piano,  but  any  or  all  of  the  240  different  electrically  operated 
instruments  as  listed  in  our  catalogue  "  F"  can  be  played  either  in- 
dividually, collectively,  or  in  any  combination,  in  connection  with  your 
piano,  by  your  piano  player. 

Write  for  a  catalogue  now,  free  .for  the  asking. 

J.  C.  Deagan 


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Deagan  "Class  A"  Musical  Electric  Bells  mounted 
on  floor  rack,  completely  wired  ready  to  play. 

The  above  set  of  Bells  range*  twenty-five  notes, 
two  octaves  chromatic  from  C  to  C,  are  mounted  on 
floor  rack  ready  to  play,  and  are  connected  to  the 
keyboard  from  which  they  are  operated,  by  a  twenty- 
five  foot  flexible  cable. 

These  Bells  can  be  played  as  single  stroke  or 
vibrating,  or  soft  or  loud,  at  the  will  of  the  operator, 
by  merely  pressing  buttons  conveniently  located  on 
the  keyboard. 

We  can  also  supply  Bells  of  the  same  type  as 
above  unmounted,  to  be  mounted  about  in  various 
parts  of  the  theatre,  if  you  prefer  them  that  way. 

The  above  Bells  are  fully  described  in  our  cata- 
logue "F."    Send  for  copy  today. 


DEAGAN 
ELECTRIC 
CATHEDRAL 
CHIMES. 

Deagan  Electric 
Cathedral    Chimes    are 
the    finest    Cathedral 
Chimes   made   of  pure  bell 
metal,    and    universally    con- 
ceded to   be  the   best  imitation 
I  of  church  chimes  ever  produced. 

I  The   electric   action   acts  as  a   sup- 

*-        port  for  the  tubes  and  the  unit  action 
and   Chimes   can  be  mounted  about  in 
any    part    of    the    theatre    same    as    the 
Deagan  Musical  Electric  Bells. 

The  Chimes  can  be  had  in  three  different  sizes 
of  tubes,  tubes  for  ordinary  use,  tubes  for 
heavy  use.  and  tubes  for  out-of-door  use,  and 
same  can  be  had  in  any  desired  range  and  scale 
up  to  sets  of  thirty-two  notes. 

Deagan  Electric  Cathedral  Chimes  are  com- 
pletely described  in  our  new  catalogue  "F," 
which  is  free  for  the  asking.  Send  for  a  copy 
today. 


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CHAMPION— "Lena's  Flirtation" (Comedy) 

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REX— "A  Friend  of  the  Family"   (Drama) 

FRONTIER— "Some    Doings    at   Lonesome 

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NESTOR— "Paving  for  Silence"  (Drama) 
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IMP— "Fixing  the  Fakirs"  and 
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FRONTIER— "Why  the  Ranger  Resigned" 

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REX— "A  Book  of  Verses"   (Drama) 
CRYSTAL— "Two  Lunatics"  and 
"His  Romantic  Wife" 

(Split  Comedy) 
ECLAIR— "Poor  Little  Chap,  He  Was  Only 
Dreaming"  and  "Fire" 

(Split     Newlywed     Baby 
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Released  Monday 
April  14.  1913H 

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"IN  ANOTHER'S  NEST" 


Released  Thursday, 
April  17,  1913 

The  old  millionaire  attempts  to  introduce  some  fresh  blood  into  his  decaying  family.    An  excellent  Cali- 
fornia-staged social  story  illustrating  the  old  wag  that  red  blood  never  flows  in  blue  veins. 


"THE  WAYS  OF  FATE" 


Released  Saturday, 
April  19,  1913 

The  child  grows  into  manhood  determining  to  revenge  the  marder  of  his  father.    A  life's  devotion  to 
the  cause  of  vengeance  is  thwarted  by  Cupid.    How — makes  a  delightful  story,  half-social — half- Western. 

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In  His  Famous,  Thrilling,  Popular  Dual  Role,  in 

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THIS  adaptation  emphasizes  all  that  is  poetic,  dainty  and  picturesque  in  the 
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authoritative  in  every  detail.  The  charm  of  Dick's  dreamy  and  mystic 
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and  sensational  climax  of  the  burning  boat  and  struggling  crew  adds  an  element 
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of  the  year.  "Children"  plays  are  holding  the  attention  of  playgoers  in  New 
York,  and  crowding  the  Broadway  theaters.  Plays  after  this  nature  seem  to 
be  the  tendency  today.  So  Dick  Whittington,  besides  being  effective  and  attract- 
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And  as  we  looked  at  the  massive  English  masonry  used  in  many  of  the  "sets,"  the 
old  English  kitchen  complete  in  every  detail,  the  costumes  of  the  actors  and  actresses, 
the  wonderful  light  effects  that  had  much  to  do  with  the  "life"  of  the  picture  and  the 
entire  excellence  of  the  photography  we  realized  that  here  was  the  work  of  an  artist. 


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material. 


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VICTOR  HUGO 

Victor  Hugo,  the  great  Colossus  of 
French  fiction,  was  born  in  a  little 
town  near  Spain  in  1802.  At  14  he  re- 
ceived honorable  mention  in  a  literary 
contest  at  Paris.  At  17  he  was  editor 
of  a  literary  publication.  This  failed 
and  he  was  reduced  to  poverty.  In  his 
days  of  poverty  he  lived  among  the 
poor  and  oppressed  of  Paris.  The" 
knowledge  he  gained  of  down-trodden 
humanity  was  the  foundation  of  his 
greatest  work,  "Les  Miserables,"  writ- 
ten many  years  afterward.  Hugo  took 
to  writing  plays,  two  of  which  are  still 
played:  "Ruy  Bias,"  and  "Hernani." 
His  plays  had  a  keen  satiric  power 
combined  with  a  melodramatic  force. 
An  element  of  the  grotesque  pervaded 
bis  work,  in  which  there  was  usually  to 
be  found  one  or  more  hideous  or  dia- 
bolical characters.  On  account  of  his 
Royalistic  sympathies  his  plays  were  not 
popular  and  a  number  of  them  failed. 
After  16  years  of  this  he  gave  up  writ- 
ing and  entered  politics.  As  a  politician 
he  was  a  failure  and  was  driven  into 
exile  and  lived  in  England  and  Bel- 
gium for  19  years.  In  exile  "Les  Mia- 
erables"  was  written,  a  dramatic  novel 
of  protest  against  the  pernicious  activi- 
ties of  the  police  in  persecuting  petty 
offenders.  In  1862  it  appeared  on.  the 
same  day  in  ten  languages.  In  1871 
Hugo  returned  to  Paris.    Died  1885. 


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human  drama  of  the  lowly  and  downtrod- 
den, from  the  pen  of  the  immortal  genius, 
VICTOR  HUGO.  He  who  by  his  in- 
spired perception  of  man's  inhumanity  to 
man,  and  by  the  vigor  of  his  written  word, 
accomplished  the  emancipation  of  the  weak 
and  oppressed.  The  humanizing  effect  of 
the  great  French  author  will  be  felt  as  long 
as  books  are  read.  His  works  have  been 
translated  into  every  living  tongue,  and  are 
now  considered  the  common  heritage  of  the 
world  at  large.     The  greatest  of   these  is 


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is  such  that  the  largest  and  best  theatres  may  feature  it  on  a  par 
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Four  Surpassingly  Good  Features 


LIVERY  week  four  multiple-reel  features  are  released  in 
General  Film  Service,  at  no  extra  charge  to  exhibitors. 
For  the  week  of  April  12th  to  18th  inclusive,  the  offerings  are 
particularly  choice,  in  keeping  with  the  policy  of  the  General 
Film  Company  to  make  each  new  quartet  show  an  improve- 
ment over  the  last  four.     You  ought  to  have  these. 


For  Saturday,  April  12th 


For  Monday,  April  14th 


I      "In  the  Days  of  the  War"     "A  Wise  Old  Elephant" 


PATHEPLAY.    TWO  REELS 

Great  war  picture.  Stirring  action  throughout.  The 
blowing  up  of  a  bridge  on  which  two  regiments  are 
fighting  is  a  scene  you'll  never  forget. 

For  Wednesday,  April   16th 


SELIG.    TWO  REELS 

Another  of  those  fine  "animal  films."  The  elephant 
in  this  one  displays  almost  human  intelligence  and 
succeeds  in  re-uniting  a  father  and  his  married 
daughter. 

For  Friday,  April  18th 


"A  Fugitive  at  Bay"      "Tne  Power  of  the  Cross" 


CINES-KLEINE.    TWO  REELS 

An  unusual  love  story.  A  young  peasant  woos  the 
Baron's  daughter  but  must  give  his  life  in  the  end 
to  save  her.     Beautiful  scenery. 


LUBIN.    TWO  REELS 

Dramatically,  one  of  the  best  films  of  the  year.  The 
cross,  a  gift  from  his  mother,  sustains  a  young 
clergyman  in  an  hour  of  great  distress  and  points 
the  way  to  happiness. 


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TORNADO  AND  FLOOD  SPECIALS 

WITH  characteristic  enterprise,  General  Film  Service  offers  the  first  authentic  motion  pictures  of  the 
recent  disasters  in  Ohio,  Indiana  and  Nebraska.  The  expense  of  making  these  films,  and  the  dangers 
to  which  the  camera  operators  were  exposed  in  their  almost  frantic  efforts  to  be  "the  first  in  and  the 
first  out"  are  not  material — the  important  thing  is  that  the  films  were  secured,  and  such  films  the  world  has 
never  before  seen. 

One  reel  gives  an  adequate  idea  of  the  destruction  which  followed  in  the  wake  of  the  200  mile-an-hour 
tornado  that  swept  through  the  business  center  of  Omaha.  Hundreds  of  homeless  people  and  property  losses 
amounting  to  $7,000,000  are  shown. 

Three  reels  are  devoted  to  the  Ohio  and  Indiana  floods — one  reel  by  Essanay,  one  by  Lubin  and  the  third 
by  Selig.  Thrilling  scenes  of  rescues  in  the  swirling  waters  of  the  floods,  panorama  and  bird's-eye  views — 
yes,  bird's-eye  views  made  from  an  aeroplane  piloted  by  Aviator  Early  with  Essanay's  "sky  photographer"  as  a 
passenger — destruction  here  and  devastation  there,  all  as  vividly  described  in  the  newspapers,  are  incidents  in 
the  three  most  remarkable  films  ever  made  of  actual  disasters  that  assume  the  proportions  of  national  calamities. 

Omaha,  Nebraska,  Tornado — Essanay — About  1000  Ft. 
Ohio  Floods — Essanay — About  1000  Ft. 
Dayton,  Ohio,  Flood   Disaster — Lubin — About  700  Ft. 
Ohio  and  Indiana  Floods — Selig — About  1000  Ft. 

All  Released  April  1,    1913™1Slow    Booking 

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A  Two  Reel  Patheplay 

of  the  Great  Struggle  be- 
tween the  States  for  the 
Preservation  of  the  Union 
A  Thrilling  Love  Story 
A  Gripping  War  Story 
A  Realistic,  Never-to-be- 
Forgotten  Picture  of  the 
Hardships,  Privations, 
Loves,  Hatreds  and  Mar- 
vellous Escapes  of  the 

Soldiers  of 

THE  BLUE  and 
THE  GRAY 

Pronounced  a  Masterpiece  by  all  the  Critics 

Released  April  12th 


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The  Year's 
Film  Sensation 

An  extraordinary  drama  of  plantation 
life  in  picturesque  British  East  India, 
in  which  "Toddles,"  the  world-famous 
and  all-but-human  Selig  elephant, 
plays  the  leading  role. 

Selig's  Latest  and  Greatest  Animal  Masterpiece 

Two  thousand  feet  of  all-absorbing  plot,  vivid  realism,  dramatic  romance,  and  thrilling  adventure.    The 
most  remarkable  animal  motion  picture  yet  produced. 

RELEASED   AS  A   SPECIAL   ON   APRIL  14th 

Complete  assortment  of  elaborate  publicity  aids. 

BOOK  THIS  ANIMAL   MASTERPIECE   TODAY 


SELIG'S  MONEY-BRINGING  BOOKINGS 


APRIL  14th 


THE    WOODMAN'S    DAUGHTER 


A  drama  of  the  city  and  its  life,  and  the  backwoods  and   its   Hfe.     Appealing    story    and    strong  moral. 
About  1,000  feet. 


APRIL  15th 


COD'S   WAY 


The  story  of  the  appreciation  of  an  ex-convict  upon  regaining  his  liberty.  Founded  upon  a  recent  inci- 
dent from  real  life.  On  same  reel  with  HANKOW,  CHINA.  Another  interesting  educational  subject  in 
the  Selig  series  of  oriental  travelogues. 

april  16th  DIXIELAND 

Picturing,  in  a  series  of  dissolves,  how  a  song  of  the  South  inspired  mellow  memories.   About  1,000  feet. 

april  17th  THE   TIE   OF   THE   BLOOD 

A  dramatic  social  study  of  the  modern  Carlisle  Indian.  Picturesque  and  exceedingly  dramatic.  Unique 
plot  and  excellent  characterization. 

april  ,8th  CURED   OF   HER   LOVE 

The  comic  attempts  of  a  chauffeur  to  shine  in  society.    On  the  same  reel  with 

THAT   MAIL   ORDER   SUIT 

A  Western  comedy -drama  of  laugh-provoking  proportions. 

Ohio-Indiana  Flood  Disaster,  One  Thousand 
Foot  Special    Release,  Tuesday,  April  1st. 

THE    SELIG    POLYSCOPE    COMPANY 

Executive  Offices:  No.  20  EAST  RANDOLPH  STREET,  CHICAGO,  ILL. 


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COMING  EDISON  FILMS 


JONES  GOES  SHOPPING 

Comedy   (650) — Released   Monday,   April   14th 

A  horrible  warning  to  young  bachelors.  Jones  makes 
a  frenzied  effort  to  match  a  dress  goods  sample  for  his 
wife,  but  he  strikes  bargain  day  at  the  department 
store.  Matters  come  to  a  head  in  the  china  depart- 
ment where  he  gets  into  a  fight  and  is  ejected. 

THE  ROCKY  MOUNTAINS  IN  WINTER 

Descriptive   (350) — Released  Monday,  April  14th 

THE  NEW  PUPIL 

Comedy-Drama  (1000) — Released  Tuesday,  April  15th 
A  young  violinist,  smitten  by  a  fair  music  teacher, 
decides  to  take  lessons  from  her  in  order  to  become 
better  acquainted.  But  she  learns  his  identity  and  then 
begins  a  duel  of  wits.  Of  course  the  lady  conquers 
and,  of  course,  she  surrenders  in  the  end. 

SEVEN  YEARS  BAD  LUCK 

Comedy  (1000) — Released  Wednesday,  April  16th 
Instead  of  hiding  in  a  bomb-proof  cellar  for  seven 
years  after  breaking  a  hand  mirror,  a  skeptical  citizen 
tempts  fate.  Calamities  happen  to  him  with  such 
startling  regularity  that  when  his  wife  presents  him 
with  twins  he  tries  to  hang  himself — but  his  dog  steals 
the  rope. 

THE  MAN  FROM  THE  WEST 

Drama  (1000) — Released  Friday,  April  18th 
Coming  East  to  avenge  his  father's  financial  ruin,  a 
young  man  drives  his  old  enemy  to  the  wall,  but  prom- 
ises to  save  him  if  he  can  wed  the  old  man's  daughter. 
The  bargain  made,  the  young  pair  soon  hate  each  other 
and  things  develop  into  a  strong  climax. 

THE  TWELFTH  JUROR 

Drama  (1000) — Released  Saturday,  April  19th 
Harry  Baker's  love  for  a  charming  California  girl 
leads  to  a  hand-to-hand  encounter  with  his  rival.  When 
the  latter  is  found  dead  with  Harry's  pruning  knife  be- 
side him,  Harry  is  convicted  of  murder  until  one  of  the 
jurors  breaks  down  and  confesses  his  guilt. 


HULDA  OF  HOLLAND 

Comedy-Drama  (1000) — Released  Monday,  April  21st 
Hulda,  arrayed  in  her  wedding  gown,  goes  to  show 
her  finery  to  her  grandmother.  She  is  caught  in  a  ter- 
rific storm  and  does  not  return  for  the  wedding,  but  the 
searchers  find  a  soaked  and  mud-stained  figure  whose 
hands  have  stopped  a  leak  in  the  dyke. 

AN  INNOCENT  INFORMER 

Drama  (iooe) — Released  Tuesday,  April  22nd 
A  young  girl  unwittingly  exposes  her  father's  moon- 
shine outfit,  to  win  the  reward  for  her  lover.  When  she 
discovers  what  she  has  done,  she  forces  her  lover  to 
rescue  the  old  man  from  the  attacking  revenue  officers. 
He  does  so,  but  is  badly  wounded  in  the  fight. 

HIS  UNDESIRABLE  RELATIVES 

Comedy  (1000) — Released  Wednesday,  April  23rd 
The   newly-weds   are   pestered   to   death   by   hubby's 
relatives — an    awful    collection    of   freaks.     Finally   the 
cook  breaks  out  with  a  terrible  rash — cranberry  sauce 
— and  the  relatives  flee  from  thence  to  whence. 

THE  HIGH  TIDE  OF  MISFORTUNE 

Being  the  tenth  story  of  "What  Happened  to  Mary" 
Drama   (1000) — Released  Friday,  April  25th 

Mary's  uncle  and  his  son  are  released  from  jail  and 
they  discover,  through  Billy  Peart,  that  she  is  in  the 
Salvation  Army  mission.  She  is  tricked  into  boarding 
a  schooner  and  carried  off  to  Martha's  Vineyard,  but 
escapes  in  a  small  boat  and  rows  to  the  lighthouse. 

A  SPLENDID  SCAPEGRACE 

Drama  (1000) — Released  Saturday,  April  26th 
Having  dissipated  away  his  entire  fortune  and  sold 
his  home,  Yancey  Goree  finally  sells  the  family  feud  to 
an  old  mountaineer.  But  Yancey's  old  enemy  befriends 
him  and,  in  return,  he  shields  him  from  the  new  enemy, 
receiving  the  bullet  which  was  intended  for  him. 


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The  Edison  wins  the  crowd  because  it  projects  clear, 
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pleasure  to  look  at.  There  are  no  discouraging  "intermis- 
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"THE  POWER  OF  THE  CROSS" 


A  WONDERFUL  TWO-REEL 
MELODRAMA 


Friday,  April  18th 


This  photo-drama  is  of  a  similar  school  of  literature  as 
Hall  Caine's  "THE  CHRISTIAN,"  and  though  a  dif- 
ferent tale,  will  suggest  that  great  play.  A  young 
clergyman  through  an  unfortunate  marriage  is  tempted 
to  renounce  God  and  the  Church  and  fight  his  battle 
as  a  layman,  but  the  good  offices  of  a  pure  woman 
overrules  his  passion  and  hand  in  hand  they  go  forth 
to  bear  the  burden  and  teach  "THE  POWER  OF 
THE  CROSS." 

"THE  DAYTON  FLOOD" 

Released  Wednesday,  April  2nd 

A  wonderful  full-reel  picture  of  the  disaster. 


"THE  POWER  OF  THE  CROSS" 


"FOR  HIS  CHILD'S  SAKE" 


1000  feet 


Tuesday,  April  8th 


A  melodrama  of  the  backwoods. 


"THE  TOLL  OF  FEAR" 


2000  feet 


One  of  the  most  wonderful  examples  of  auto  suggestion  ever  narrated. 


Wednesday,  April  9th 


Thursday,  April  10th 


"THE  MAGIC  SHOE"  4oofeet 

A  dream  that  nearly  came  true. 

"ANGEL    CAKE    and    AXLE    GREASE"         600  feet  Thursday,  April  10th 

A  laugh  on  the  poor  Indians. 

"THE    SPLIT    NUGGET"  lOOOfeet  Friday,  April  11th 

A  sincere  and  strong  drama  that  will  keep  you  spellbound. 

PETE    TRIES    THE    STAGE"  1000  feet  Saturday,  April  12th 

A  farce  showing  the  terrors  of  a  stage  fright. 

"MINNIE    THE    WIDOW"  ZZt  Monday,  April  14th 

A  case  of  rivalry  between  a  mother  and  daughter. 

"ONE    ON    ROMANCE"  600  feet  Monday,  April  14th 

The  consequences   of  too  much  novel  reading,  which   is  unfortunate. 


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"BUNNY'S     HONEYMOON"        **+  Monday,  April  7th 

John  trumps  up  one  to  cure  a  young  man  of  drink.     It  turns  out  very  happily  for  his 
niece  and  her  fiance.     It  pleases  everybody. 

"THE    TRANSITION"       ta«  Tuesday,  April  8th 

The  unexpected  arrest  of  the  old  moonshiner  is  the  turning  point  in  his  daughter's  life 
It  brings  happiness  and  love  to  her  and  the  sheriff. 

"OUT    OF    THE     STORM"        Drama  Wednesday,  April  9th 

In  seeking  shelter,  a  desperate  man  is  led  to  his  better  self  through  a  sick  child.     He 
fetches  the  doctors.     Years  afterwards,  he  becomes  the  child's  father. 

"  CUTEY  AND  THE  CHORUS  GIRLS"  Comedy  Thursday,  April  10th 

He  thinks  he  is  making  a  hit.     He  gets  in  wrong  with  an  ancient  maiden.     His  friends 
and  the  chorus  girls  keep  up  the  fun. 

1.  "WANTED,  A  STRONG  HAND"  I  Comedy& 

2.  "LAYING  A  MARINE  CABLE"  l**"™*    Friday' Apri!  llth 

1.  He  doesn't  look  it,  but  he  keeps  his  unmanageable  stepsister  within  bounds.    2.  Laying 
a  telegraph  cable  across  the  Atlantic  Ocean. 

"  MYSTERY  of  the  STOLEN  CHILD  "  D£T  Saturday,  ap»i  12th 

A  desperate  attempt  is  made  to  steal  the  child.     She  is  found  on  shipboard,  in  mid- 
ocean,  with  Lambert  Chase,  the  detective. 


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NEXT    WEEK 
SIX-A-WEEK 

"MR.  MINTERN'S  MISADVEN- 
TURES"—Lots  doing 

Monday,  April  14th 

"THE  FORTUNE"— Rich  in  fun 
Tuesday,  April  15th 

"AFTER  THE  HONEYMOON" 
Spirited  fun 
Wednesday,  April  16th 


"SLEUTHING"— Funny  doings 
"PLAYING  WITH  FIRE"— Dramatic  snap 


Thursday,  April  17th 
Friday,  April  18th 


"SEEING  DOUBLE"  ) 

"JEAN  AND  HER  FAMILY"  J 


— Comedy  and  Animal  life 

Saturday,  April  igth 


SPECIAL  FEATURE,  "THE  WEB,"  IN  TWO  PARTS,  RELEASED 
FRIDAY,  APRIL  nth,  1913. 

SPECIAL    FEATURE,    "THE    ARTIST'S    GREAT    MA- 
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Ruth  Roland,  John   Brennan  and   Marshal   Neilan 
in  a  comedy  scream. 

(On  the  same  Reel) 

Japan,  the  Industrious 

Remarkable    scenes,    superbly    photographed, 
Japan's  industries  and  waterways. 

Released  Friday,  April  25th 


of 


Miss  Alice'Joyce  and  Tom  Moore  in  a  Gripping  Drama 

The  young  and  irresponsible  brother  of  a  beautiful  society  girl  is  about  to  become  the  unwitting 
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The  Secret  Marriage  The  Phoney  Singer 

The  farmer's  daughter  secretly  marries  the 
brother  of  one  whom  she  has  refused.  Her 
choice  proves  unwise,  and  fate  exacts  a  severe 
penalty. 

Released  Wednesday,  April  23rd 

The   Fighting   Chaplain 

A  Spectacular  Civil  War  Drama 

A  New  England  minister  is  accused  of  timidity  because  he  declines  to  become  aggressive.     As 
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in  a  time  of  panic. 
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Facts  and  Comments 

OX  behalf  of  our  readers,  most  of  whom  are  ex- 
hibitors of  motion  pictures  and  quite  busy  men, 
and  on  behalf  of  The  Moving  Picture  World, 
which  can  give  of  its  space  but  sparingly,  an  earnest 
appeal  is  made  to  our  distinguished  friends  the  press 
agents  to  be  brief  in  all  things,  and  to  deliver  "a  round, 
unvarnished  tale."  Put  the  accent  on  the  word  "un- 
varnished." Let  the  readers  have  the  facts,  and  leave  the 
varnish  in  your  literary  pails  and  buckets.  The  teeth  in 
our  word-cutting  machine  have  been  sharpened,  and  are 
ready  for  work.  It  is  a  natural  thing  for  a  press  agent 
to  be  enthusiastic,  but  he  is  apt  to  be  one-sided,  and 
wholly  oblivious  of  the  fact  that  he  must  divide  the  ad- 
vantages of  publicity  with  many  others.  Old,  threadbare 
plots  and  "comic"  business  that  has  outlived  its  usefulness 
ten  times  oyer  are  described  in  a  strain  of  enthusiasm 
and  with  a  mass  of  stilted  words  which  moves  the  cutting- 
teeth  of  the  machine  to  their  highest  speed. 

* 

So  much  of  this  matter  which  is  intended  for  the 
benefit  of  the  exhibitor  is  written  in  constant  defiance  of 
good  style  and  good  sense.  Every  dog  is  a  "canine" ; 
every  cat  is  a  "feline":  every  rat  is  a  "rodent."  and  every 
hprse  is  an  "equine."    Words  with  three  or  more  syllables 


are  preferred  and  the  plain  short,  Saxon  words,  the  very 
sinew  and  muscle  of  our  tongue,  are  avoided  as  if  the 
use  of  them  would  disgrace  a  well  regulated  press  agent. 
What  purpose  does  all  this  serve?  This  is  a  very  busy 
age  and  people  have  little  time  to  waste  upon  words.  In 
a  mass  of  long  and  dreary  stories  the  eye  quickly  turns 
to  the  shorter  item.  The  shorter  the  story,  the  greater 
the  chance  of  its  being  read.  The  process  of  boiling 
down  should  begin  at  home. 

*  *     * 

THE  legislature  of  Pennsylvania  is  considering  a 
piece  of  legislation  which  in  part  rivals  the  freak 
measures  of  Kansas  and  Iowa.  A  drastic  measure 
of  censorship  is  proposed  which  should  receive  the  im- 
mediate attention  of  the  organized  exhibitors  of  that 
State.  The  censors  are  to  be  appointed  by  the  Board  of 
Education  of  the  several  municipalities.  Pennsylvania 
is  one  of  the  largest  states  in  the  Union,  and  there  must 
be  at  least  thirty  or  forty  Boards  of  Education.  The 
enactment  and  enforcement  of  such  a  provision  would' 
practically  put  an  end  to  the  business  of  exhibiting  motion 
pictures  in  the  Keystone  State.  There  is  but  one  clause 
in  the  proposed  bill  which  seems  rational.  The  utmost 
freedom  is  given  to  "representations  of  biblical  or  histor- 
ical scenes  and  incidents  of  dramatic  art."  This  is  in 
pleasant  contrast  to  the  English  idea  of  censorship  which 
would  absolutely  prohibit  such  representation.  Whoever 
inserted  this  sensible  paragraph  into  the  Pennsylvania 
bill  has  a  fairly  clear  notion  of  the  rights  of  classic 
literature  and  of  art. 

*  *     * 

THE  Moving  Picture  World  has  been  commended 
by  exhibitors  in  various  parts  of  the  country  for 
its  decided  stand  against  films  which  contain  ad- 
vertisements. There  cannot  be  any  two  opinions  on  this 
subject.  If  the  exhibitor  desires  to  make  use  of  his 
screen  for  advertising  purposes,  that  is  his  affair;  but 
he  cannot  be  asked  to  advertise  an  article  of  commerce 
and  pay  for  the  privilege  of  doing  so.  From  the  tone  and 
tenor  of  our  correspondence  on  this  subject  it  would  ap- 
pear, however,  that  the  great  majority  of  exhibitors  are 
against  advertising  of  any  kind  on  the  screen.  Just  as 
a  farmer  takes  pride  in  his  barn  and  likes  to  keep  its  out- 
side looking  clean,  and  free  from  the  brush  of  the  sign 
painter,  so  the  exhibitor  does  not  want  to  give  his  screen 
up  to  advertising.  Unfavorable  inferences  as  to  the 
financial  condition  and  management  are  often  drawn  from 
too  much  advertising  on  the  screen.  The  public  have 
no  means  of  showing  their  resentment  at  being  compelled 
to  look  an  advertisement  in  the  face,  but  the  resentment 
is  there,  just  the  same,  and  where  there  is  competition 
between  two  or  three  exhibitors  the  wise  and  progressive 
exhibitor  will  scrupulously  avoid  anything  that  can  pos- 
sibly give  any  offense  to  his  patrons. 

*  *     * 

WE  observe  with  pleasure  that  exhibitors  know  how 
to  invoke  the  law  against  persistent  misrepre- 
sentation. In  a  western  state  a  minister  of  the 
Gospel  persisted  for  many  months  in  denouncing  a  mov- 
ing picture  entertainment  conducted  by  an  exhibitor  and 
his  wife.  As  it  was  the  only  moving  picture  in  the  city 
the  slanderous  references  of  the  minister  could  only  mean 
the  owners  of  that  particular  house.  The  minister  at- 
tacked the  exhibitor  and  his  wife  from  the  pulpit  and 
also  personally  in  his  conversations  with  members  of  his 
church  and  other  residents  of  the  city.  The  clergyman, 
who  has  now  been  made  a  defendant  in  an  action  for 
slander,  in  which  large  damages  are  claimed,  was  in  the 
habit  of  stating  publicly,  that  "picture  shows  were  im- 
moral" and  "that  people  operating  them  were  also  im- 


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moral."  It  appears  that  before  seeking  redress  in  the 
Courts  this  exhibitor  repeatedly  called  upon  the  minister 
and  urged  him  to  attend  his  entertainment.  The  minister 
refused  to  listen  and  scouted  the  idea  of  his  looking  at 
a  moving  picture.  He  nevertheless  continued  his  tirades 
of  indiscriminate  abuse,  and  after  half  a  year  or  so 
patience  ceased  to  be  a  virtue.  Papers  were  served  upon 
the  reckless  rector,  and  he  has  been  quiet  ever  since.  This 
looks  to  us  like  a  good  case  for  punitive  damages.  Where 
a  man  speaks  from  lack  of  information  there  may  be  some 
excuse  for  him,  but  when  he  continues  uttering  false 
statements  after  every  opportunity  has  been  afforded  to 
him  to  learn  the  actual  facts  he  is  no  longer  entitled  to 
any  consideration.  We  earnestly  hope  the  jury  will  take 
this  view  of  the  case.  We  recommend  the  action  of  this 
exhibitor  to  others  who  may  suffer  through  the  unwar- 
ranted assaults  of  men  who  abuse  the  sacred  character 
of  their  calling  and  have  no  sense  of  their  responsibility. 

Danger  Ahead. 

By  W.  Stephen  Bush 

THE  Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to 
Children  has  just  issued  a  statement  to  the  news- 
papers of  the  State  of  New  York,  soliciting  the 
co-operation  of  the  press  in  a  campaign  against  the 
motion  picture  theaters  in  the  city  and  state.  The  Society 
has  drafted  a  bill,  which  would,  if  enacted  into  law,  drive 
every  moving  picture  theater  out  of  business  over  night. 
The  bill  was  introduced  in  the  Assembly  but  a  short  time 
ago  and  despite  the  protests  of  counsel  of  the  organized 
exhibitors  it  was  reported  favorably  out  of  the  Cities 
Committee  and  advanced  to  third  reading.  This  means 
that  it  may  be  called  up  for  final  passage  without  notice 
and  pass  the  Assembly.  There  is  plenty  of  time  in  the 
legislative  year  to  have  the  bill  go  to  the  Senate  and  once 
it  passes  the  upper  house  nothing  less  than  a  veto  of  the 
governor  will  prevent  its  becoming  a  law.  We  do  not 
say  that  this  probable,  but  it  is  quite  possible. 

The  Society  is  no  longer  the  unpopular  tyrannical 
organization  fathered  by  the  eccentric  and  fanatical 
Gerry.  The  head  of  it  is  former  Assistant  District  At- 
torney John  D.  Lindsay,  a  cool-headed  conservative 
lawyer,  who  has  long  enjoyed  the  esteem  and  confidence 
of  the  community.  His  rational  and  enlightened  methods 
have  characterized  the  policy  of  the  Society  ever  since 
he  has  been  at  the  head  of  it.  He  has  enlisted  in  this 
campaign  the  aid  of  powerful  influences  and  the  ex- 
hibitors will  do  well  to  treat  his  efforts  seriously  and  meet 
them  with  all  the  force  at  their  command. 

The  statement  sent  out  by  the  Society  gives  facts  and 
figures  well  sustained  by  documentary  evidence.  The 
claim  is  made,  in  all  sincerity  we  doubt  not,  "that  de- 
generates have  found  moving  picture  resorts  the  easiest 
means  of  making  the  acquaintance  of  children  and  numer- 
ous unspeakable  vile  crimes  against  both  boys  and  girls 
have  resulted."  The  Moving  Picture  World  has  been 
at  pains  to  examine  and  verify  the  facts,  upon  which  this 
shocking  assertion  has  been  predicated.  We  are  com- 
pelled to  dissent  from  the  statistician  of  the  Society  when 
he  claims  that  a  large  number  of  certain  abhorrent  crimes 
against  children  originated  from  evil  associations  formed 
in  motion  picture  theaters.  In  a  considerable  number  of 
cases  looked  into  it  would  appear  to  a  fair-minded  person 
that  the  alleged  connection  between  the  motion  picture 
theater  and  the  commission  of  the  crime  in  question  is 
somewhat  fanciful  and  unsupported  by  the  facts  in  the 
case.  Several  cases  are  cited  where  a  man  took  a  girl 
under  the  age  of  consent  to  a  motion  picture  theater  and 
afterward  wronged  her.  It  is  absurd  to  impute  such  a 
crime  to  the  motion  picture  theater.    Nor  will  the  indict- 


ment against  the  motion  picture  theater  as  a  resort  for 
evil  associations  hold  water,  where  the  offender  bought 
tickets  for  his  victims  or  waited  for  them  outside  the 
theater.  Making  the  proper  allowances  and  reductions 
from  the  somewhat  colored  reports  of  the  Society  there 
remains  enough  of  terrible  truth  to  shock  and  alarm  the 
friends  of  the  picture  and  the  friends  of  the  children  alike. 
Enough  is  shown  to  put  the  exhibitor  on  his  guard  and 
to  make  him  scrupulous  in  observing  the  law  regulating 
the  admission  of  unaccompanied  minors. 

The  very  men  who  are  back  of  this  report  and  the  high 
officials  of  the  Society  freely  admit  that  the  exhibitors 
as  a  body  are  "a  mighty  fine  lot  of  men."  Not  long  ago 
the  Mayor  provided  the  Society  with  an  extra  squad  of 
men  to  investigate  motion  picture  theaters  and  the  report 
of  these  men  was  on  the  whole  entirely  favorable  to  the 
personnel  of  the  exhibitor.  I  have  carefully  read  the 
records  of  a  number  of  convictions,  in  which  the  most 
shocking  testimony  was  given.  Beasts  in  the  shape  and 
semblance  of  men  had  debauched  children  of  tender  age. 
If  these  little  children  had  been  refused  admission,  as 
the  law  demands,  a  good  many  of  these  sickening  crimes 
would  never  have  been  committed.  Of  course,  we  know 
that  the  vast  majority  of  moving  picture  exhibitors  realize 
their  responsibilities  and  are  as  honorable  and  as  con- 
scientious as  any  set  of  men  in  any  walk  of  life.  This 
is  not  guesswork  but  knowledge  based  on  facts  within 
my  own  personal  observations.  It  is  their  duty  and  the 
duty  of  the  organized  exhibitors  to  drive  these  black 
sheep  out  of  business.  As  a  rule  they  are  foreigners  who 
have  but  recently  come  to  this  country  and  who  are 
utterly  insensible  to  any  moral  reproach  or  appeal.  They 
understand  neither  the'law  nor  the  language  of  the  coun- 
try and  have  not  the-  slightest  conception  of  their  re- 
sponsibilities. It  is  greatly  to  be  deplored  that  these 
men  have  it  in  their  power  to  discredit  the  reputable 
majority,  but  there  can  be  no  doubt  about  the  fact.  The 
influence  of  the  organized  exhibitors  ought  to  be  exerted 
against  such  men. 

Right  here  we  are  compelled  to  add  that  all  exhibitors 
ought  to  exercise  the  utmost  care  in  the  selection  of  their 
employees  from  the  manager  to  the  youngest  usher.  A 
careful  perusal  of  the  court  records  shows  that  nearly 
twenty  per  cent,  of  the  crimes,  debited  against  the  motion 
picture,  originated  with  men  who  were  employed  in  small 
jobs  about  the  theaters.  Some  of  the  most  disgusting 
recitals  deal  with  such  temporary  employees  in  the  role 
of  the  chief  offenders.  It  is  not  enough  to  be  careful  in 
the  selection  of  the  employees,  it  is  just  as  necessary  to 
watch  their  conduct.  Here  is  a  responsibility  which  no 
exhibitor  can  afford  to  delegate  or  to  evade.  He  must 
be  on  the  alert  constantly.  Ordinary  vigilance  will  enable 
him  to  prevent  a  good  deal  of  scandal  and  crime.  The 
best  way  is  after  all  a  rigid  observance  of  the  law 
regulating  the  admission  of  minors.  Here  lies  the  root 
of  the  evil. 

We  consider  the  proposed  bill  advocated  by  the  Society 
for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Children  altogether  too 
drastic  and  radical.  To  put  the  motion  picture  house 
under  the  law  regulating  the  theaters  in  first-class  cities 
would  defeat  some  of  the  greatest  benefits  of  the  motion 
picture.  The  kinematograph  is  the  people's  .theater  and 
the  poor  man's  amusement.  We  must  never  lose  sight  of 
the  educational  value  of  the  pictures.  They  spread 
knowledge  and  instructions  just  as  the  channels  and 
viaducts  distribute  water.  In  many  cases  they  supple- 
ment and  supplant  the  school,  the  church  and  the  library. 
A  few  larger  theaters  would,  of  course,  be  supervised  and 
controlled  much  more  easily  than  a  good  many  small 
ones,  but  the  small  theater  has  an  equal  right  of  existence, 
for  it  brings  the  wonders  of  the  kinematograph  to  the 
door  of  even  the  humblest  home,  where  it  is  needed  most. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 

Directorial  Censorship 


hi 


By  Louis  Reeves  Harrison 


THE  Dear  Public  is  willing  to  pay  often  and  well  for 
what  is  good  in  motion-picture  .production,  and 
every  exhibitor  in  the  land  is  on  the  lookout  for 
releases  entertaining  and  instructive  to  suit  a  variety  of 
tastes.  The  proposition  before  those  who  create  and  ex- 
ercise selective  taste  in  advance  is  not  frightfully  com- 
plicated, but  there  are  many  difficulties  in  the  way  not 
apparent  to  those  who  enjoy  superior  moving  pictures, 
and  not  the  least  of  these  is  a  chronic  disability  on  the 
part  of  directors  to  exercise  the  delicate  art  of  discover- 
ing excellence. 

I  have  tried  to  say  this  gently.  I  have  no  desire  to 
break  the  pleasant  personal  relations  I  enjoy  with  dozens 
of  earnest  and  capable  directors.  Most  of  them  realize 
that  I  am  just  as  earnest  as  they  are,  but  I  am  continually 
pointing  out  where  their  pictures  may  be  bettered  for 
the  interest  of  all  concerned,  and  this  duty  is  not  one  a 
man  fond  of  popularity  would  enter  upon  as  a  steady 
thing. 

I  listened  carefully  one  evening  while  an  intelligent 
director  spoke  at  the  photoplaywrights'  dinner,  while  he 
advised  scenarios  writers  to  keep  in  mind  that  they  must 
suit  the  ideas  of  directors  if  they  wished  to  see  their 
creations  produced.  He  supported  his  view  ably,  and  I 
have  no  reason  to  doubt  that  other  directors  would  have 
given  cordial  approval  to  all  that  he  said.  He  argued 
convincingly  that  the  director  was  the  one  who  material- 
ized the  author's  ideals  and  so  published  his  message  that 
it  might  be  clearly  and  comprehensively  read  by  millions. 

That  sounds  good  at  first,  but  a  weakness  in  his  state- 
ment is  at  once  revealed  if  he  was  addressing  himself 
figuratively  to  the  great  mass  of  amateurs  and  semi- 
professional  writers  who  occasionally  make  enough  from 
a  year's  output,  after  paying  all  expenses,  to  cover  one 
month's  laundry  bill.  I  should  like  to  be  informed  how 
gentlemen  and  ladies  of  artistic  longings  and  histrionic- 
scenic-screenic  aspirations  are  to  know  exactly  what  a 
hundred  or  more  directors  of  diverse  tastes  want  ?  I  have 
yet  to  meet  a  director  who  attempted  to  say  what  the 
others  required— how,  then,  can  one  million  wandering 
scribes  know? 

It  sounded  good  at  first,  but  no  sincere  professional 
author  ever  wrote  a  novel  with  a  view  to  suiting  the 
publisher.  If  the  speaker  was  not  addressing  amateurs, 
if  he  was  talking  straight  to  those  who  make  a  living  by 
the  stories  they  write  for  the  press,  the  stage  and  the 
screen,  he  will  change  his  mind  in  the  course  of  time — 
if  a  course  of  study  accompanies  it.  Professional  writers 
are  usually  observant  of  what  other  men  are  domg  in 
their  departments.  They  can  not  hope  for  even  mediocre 
success  without  a  vast  amount  of  study,  worldly  ex- 
perience and  careful  observation,  to  say  nothing  of  clear 
judgment  and  selective  taste. 

This  fact  has  become  so  well  recognized  in  the  publish- 
ing business  that  works  are  accepted,  published  and  sold 
on  the  author's  name  alone,  and  his  established  reputation 
counts  heavily  in  his  favor  when  his  script  is  submitted. 
In  no  case  yet  reported  has  the  author  accomplished  any- 
thing by  writing  to  suit  the  publisher.  Those  who  have 
made  authorship  pay  have  given  earnestly  and  capably  to 
the  world  what  was  best  from  within  themselves  ir- 
respective of  those  who  transferred  their  thoughts  to 
readers.  The  director  who  advised  scenario  writers  to 
suit  directorial  tastes  made  a  mistake. 

Our  sore  need  is  some  selective  system  better  than  that 
of  pleasing  directors.    Evidence  is  hung  before  our  eyes 


every  day  that  they  are  unable  to  distinguish  good  from 
bad,  "the  noble  from  the  ignoble,  the  ephemeral  from  the 
enduring."  Any  writer  who  has  sold  over  a  hundred 
scenarios  knows  that  his  best  scripts  get  the  worst  treat- 
ment. This  forces  the  professional  author  to  submit  the 
commonplace  instead  of  his  finest  efforts.  A  possible 
solution  is  that  of  a  large  producing  firm,  a  house  that 
employes  fifteen  directors.  One  of  the  partners  acts  as 
art  director  and  passes  final  judgment  upon  all  scen- 
arios submitted.  Grand  result  is  some  of  the  finest 
photodramas  thrown  on  the  screen. 

The  average  director  has  enough  hard  work  to  do  with- 
out attempting  to  examine  hundreds  of  scripts  submitted. 
The  preponderance  of  poor  ones  will  stir  a  latent  antagon- 
ism until  it  becomes  a  habit,  and  he  can  only  exercise 
mediaeval  justice,  consider  every  play  bad  until  it  is  clear- 
ly proven  to  be  good,  whereas  he  looks  to  the  critics  of 
his  own  product  for  that  sympathetic  agreement  which 
may  be  entirely  consistent  with  fair  judgment.  He  is 
not  apt  to  imitate  the  charitable  optimism  which  illumines 
my  critical  work  because  of  his  intense  desire  for 
participation  in  photodramatic  fame,  if  he  does  not  want 
it  all. 

"John  Smith,  Author-Director"  may  tickle  the  tip  ends 
of  his  credulous  vanity  in  the  studio-exhibition-room 
presentations  and  incidentally  serve  in  place  of  a  salary 
advance,  but  the  most  valuable  director  in  any  producing 
concern  is  the  one  of  sufficient  imagination  to  grasp  an 
author's  full  purpose,  who  is  not  occupied  with  sordid 
hunt  for  scenario  money  and  thereby  blinded  to  the  merits 
of  photoplays  not  written  by  himself  or  his  personal 
friends.  The  director  who  senses  the  beauty  and  variety 
of  what  regular  writers  create  is  on  his  way  to  top-notch 
performance. 

That  beauty,  variety  and  charm  is  what  the  public 
wants ;  it  is  what  the  exhibitor  is  crying  for ;  it  is  what 
will  increase  the  dividends  of  the  producer;  it  calls  for 
discernment  and  artistic  appreciation  rather  than  creative 
ability  in  the  director,  though  much  that  he  does  rises  to 
the  dignity  of  invention.  The  author  may  surpass  the 
director,  or  the  director  may  be  above  the  author  in  his 
treatment  of  a  subject,  but  that  does  not  matter  particu- 
larly so  long  as  the  desired  result  is  obtained. 

A  censorious  spirit  on  the  part  of  a  director  is  not  only 
an  injury  to  the  firm  employing  him,  but  the  purpose  of 
his  fault-finding  grudge  may  be  readily  discovered  by  his 
laudation  of  a  friendly  author.  It  would  appear  in  such 
cases  that  a  standard  is  needed.  In  illustration  rather 
than  in  suggestion  let  it  be  asked  what  there  is  in  a  photo- 
drama  worth  production  ?  "What  of  it  ?"  is  a  blunt  ques- 
tion to  ask  at  the  end  of  a  scenario,  but  it  may  call  atten- 
tion to  the  fact  that  there  has  been  much  ado  about  noth- 
ing. Is  the  story  enthralling?  Does  it  hold  attention 
to  the  end?  Is  tension  created  and  suspense  well  main- 
tained ? 

Is  there  a  message,  obvious  or  subtle,  conveyed  by  the 
story  in  action.  Does  it  leave  a  feeling  of  satisfaction? 
If  of  dissatisfaction,  is  this  of  the  nobler  and  tonic  sort 
which  stimulates  higher  ideas?  The  subtle  message  is 
finest,  but  can  it  be  so  conveyed  as  to  be  impressed  with 
power?  Quite  as  much  as  the  author,  the  director  must 
consider  the  sensibilities  of  the  public  conscience,  and  it 
is  to  be  hoped  that  he  will  eventually  come  to  consider 
the  sensibility  of  his  own  and  give  us  finer  examples  of 
the  photoplay. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


"A  Southern  Cinderella" 

Multiple  Broncho  Release. 
Reviewed  by  Louis  Reeves   Harrison. 

A  DELIGHTFUL  modern  version  of  the  noted  fairy 
tale,  as  sweet  and  fascinating  as  its  little  heroine  ap- 
pears to  be  on  the  screen.  The  producers  are  to  be 
congratulated  upon  their  admirable  selection  of  types — every 
role  in  the  play  is  adequately  filled,  even  to  the  two  old  coon 
servants  who  supply  the  comedy  element.  Their  antics  are 
characteristic  without  eccentricity.  They  are  so  diverting  at 
times  as  to  distract  attention  from  the  main  action,  and  this 
without  situations  arbitrarily  devised  to  show  what  they  can 
do.  A  cast  so  admirably  balanced  endows  the  inner  life  of 
the  characters  with  gleams  of  deep  sympathetic  charm. 

Photodrama  from  these  producers  is  creeping  closer  and 
closer  to  contemporaneous  life  and  is  increasing  the  dignity 
of  the  art.  I  hope  they  will  keep  on  progressing,  using 
American  material  truthfully  observed,  visualizing  and  exalt- 
ing types  familiar,  telling  us  stories  associated  with  our  his- 
tory as  a  nation  until  they  can  relate  with  Clyde  Fitch  deli- 
cacy what  is  now  going  on,  what  will  be  interesting  history 
for  our  children's  children.  They  may  do  more.  Fitch 
merely  commented  on  the  pageant  of  social  lift.  I  am  hop- 
ing for  photoplays  of  to-day  which  deal  with  large  personages 
and  profound  passions.  They  are  bound  to  come  in  the 
course  of  time. 


Scene  from  "A  Southern  Cinderella"  (Broncho). 

I  do  not  mean  that  the  men  who  are  making  these  photo- 
plays should  emulate  Clyde  Fitch,  because  he  dealt  with 
trivial  people  and  was  too  much  a  man  of  the  theater,  but  to 
imitate  him  in  dealing  with  what  concerns  us  to-day,  then 
surpass  him  in  finer  exposition  of  what  is  noble,  interesting 
or  entertaining  in  national  character.  They  seem  to  be 
drifting  the  right  way,  and  I  offer  this  suggestive  criticism 
to  encourage  those  who  seem  to  stick  persistently  to  the 
right  .track,  the  high  road  to  success. 

Returning  to  petite  Cinderella — she  has  no  glass  slipper 
in  this  case,  and  her  fairy  godmother  is  an  enormous  nigger 
mammy — she  is  the  daughter  of  a  Southern  colonel  befo  de 
wah,  who  has  just  wed  a  Yankee  widow  with  a  daughter  very 
much  in  the  matrimonial  market.  The  two  Northern  ladies 
turn  up  their  noses  at  the  Southern  Cinderella,  especially 
after  war  is  declared  and  the  colonel  leaves  at  the  head  of 
a  cavalry  regiment.  Battle  scenes  indicate  the  advance  of 
the  bluecoats  and  Prince  Charming,  a  Northern  lieutenant, 
is  one  of  a  group  of  officers  who  are  made  comfortable  in 
the  old  home  by  the  Confederate  colonel's  Yankee  wife. 

Cinderella  has  to  give  up  her  room  to  them  and  is  quartered 
with  "Mammy"  in  one  of  the  plantation  shanties.  The 
Yankee  ladies  make  the  most  of  their  social  opportunities, 
and  Cinderella,  in  an  extremely  ingenious  window  scene, 
sees  the  handsome  lieutenant  courting  her  stepsister.  Natural 
selection  finds  a  way.  Prince  Charming  encounters  Cinde- 
rella at  the  well,  and  some  pretty  love  scenes  amid  beautiful 
natural  settings  follow.  Soldiers  have  no  time  to  waste;  a 
clash  with  the  enemy  is  ever  imminent;  the  lieutenant  urges 
his  suit  so  manfully  that  Cinderella  consents  to  wed  him  on 
the  eve.  of  battle. 

Love  scenes  of  Peter  Pan  simplicity  and  poetic  charm  are 
brought  into  swift  contrast  with  the  harsh  struggles  between 
two  battling  armies  for  the   subtle   effect  that   the  audience 


feels  rather  than  sees,  the  sweetness  and  beauty  of  human 
nature  in  creative  mood  and  its  coarse  and  brutal  side  in  the 
destructive  conflicts  of  great  hordes  of  armed  men.  No 
stage  play  could  enforce  such  powerful  and  correctional  ef- 
fects. One  learns  to  hate  war  from  looking  at  such  picture 
plays  and  to  perceive  the  inanity  of  man's  intolerance  and 
reckless  dissipation  of  energy  when  he  is  in  fighting  mood. 
The  doughty  old  Confederate  colonel  has  a  flash  of  en- 
lightenment when  he  prevents  the  capture  by  his  own  men 
of  the  opposing  officer  who  has  become  his  son-in-law,  when 
he  considers  his  daughter's  happiness  has  a  claim  superior  to 
that  of  his  cause,  and  a  happy  ending  results  when  Peace 
wins  the  final  victory.  In  complimenting  director  Burton 
King  for  his  excellent  work  I  wish  to  apologize  for  crediting 
Mr.  Ince — I  have  fallen  into  a  habit  of  crediting  the  Ince 
brothers — for  a  play  previously  reviewed,  "The  Pride  of  the 
South,"  this  being  another  of  Mr.  King's  productions.  Both 
plays  were  well  devised,  well  constructed,  well  acted,  and 
among  the  best  of  their  kind. 


TORNADO  AND  FLOOD  PICTURES. 

The  history  of  the  recent  disasters  which  have  devastated 
wide  and  populous  regions  of  this  country  will  be  profusely 
enriched  by  numerous  motion  picture  versions  of  the  awful 
catastrophes.  The  Essanay  company  made  an  especially 
graphic  picture  of  the  effects  of  the  tornado  that  devastated 
Omaha,  Neb.  Seven  hundred  feet  of  excellent  pictures  were 
secured.  Three  cameramen  were  sent  to  Dayton,  Ohio,  by 
Essanay,  and  some  good  views  of  the  situation  there  were 
obtained. 

The  American  Feature  Film  Company,  of  Toledo,  Ohio, 
obtained  1,100  feet  of  views  in  and  about  Dayton,  taken 
Thursday,  March  27th. 

The  Selig  Polyscope  Company  hurried  several  cameramen 
to  the  flooded  districts  of  Ohio  and  Indiana  and  has  secured 
a  1,000-foot  reel  of  thrilling  pictures  from  scenes  at  Dayton 
and  other  flood-stricken  cities. 

Messrs.  McMahon  and  Jackson,  of  the  Buckeye  Film  Com- 
pany, Cincinnati,  Ohio,  reached  Dayton  about  three  hours 
after  the  first  reports  of  the  disaster  at  Dayton.  They  trav- 
eled by  automobile,  and  while  in  Dayton  were  able  to  secure 
many  close  views  of  the  frightful  devastation  at  that  point. 
Approximately  800  .feet  of  pictures  will  be  offered  by  them, 
under  the  firm  title'of  the  Dayton  Flood  Film  Company.  In 
speaking  of  his  experiences  at  Dayton,  Mr.  McMahon  said 
that  the  scenes  at  Dayton  beggar  description.  The  force 
of  the  water  was  irresistible,  wrecking  house;,  overturning 
street  cars  and  sweeping  everything  before  it. 


YEATON  BROS.  TO  BUY  ANOTHER  HOUSE. 
Yeaton  Bros.,  who  run  a  picture  house  in  Wolfeboro, 
N.  H.,  known  as  the  "Masonic  Temple."  and  another  in  New- 
market, N.  H.,  known  as  the  "Star,"  contemplate  the  pur- 
chase of  another  picture  house  in  either  one  of  the  cities 
here  mentioned.  The  latter  house  has  a  seating  capacity 
of  500  and  the  former  700.  Both  houses  are  modernly 
equipped  and  Power's  No.  6  machines  are  used.  Yeaton 
Bros,  claim  that  receipts  of  both  houses  have  been  very 
satisfactory. 


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HIT  BY  THE  BIG  WIND. 

The  recent  series  of  high  winds  and   tornad  have 

been  devastating  various  parts  of  the  country,  took  a  slap 
at  Columbia,  Georgia,  on  March  14,  causing  damage  estimated 
at  $200,000.  Among  those  who  suffered  loss  was  ?.  E.  Posey, 
manager  of  the  American  theater  of  that  city.  Mr.  Posey 
sent  a  picture  of  his  theater  and  vicinity,  reproduced  here- 
with, showing  the  effect  of  the  storm. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


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"A  Wise  Old  Elephant"  (Selig) 

Reviewed  by  James  S.  McQuade. 

A  BIG  novelty  two-reel  special— the  latest  addition  to 
the  Selig  photoplays  in  which  wild  animals  figure 
prominently — is  announced  for  release  on  April  14th. 
Otto  Breitkreutz,  better  known  by  his  circus  name  of  "Big" 
Otto,  had  personal  charge  of  the  production,  which  was 
made  on  the  Selig  wild  animal  farm,  in  Los  Angeles. 

J.  Edward  Hungerford  is  responsible  for  the  scenario, 
which  affords  opportunities  for  the  performance  of  some  re- 
markable and  sagacious  feats  by  "Toddles,"  who  has  the 
distinction  of  appearing  in  the  titular  role.  "Toddles"  is  best 
recalled  by  the  human-like  intelligence  he  displayed  in  "Lost 
in  the  Jungle,"  about  two  years  ago,  a  photoplay  which  was 
in  vogue  in  both  the  Old  and  the  New  World.  In  the  pres- 
ent instance  this  wise  old  elephant  has  surpassed  all  his 
former  doings,  and  fairly  astonishes  us  by  his  encroach- 
ments on  the  field  of  human  thought  and  action.  It  must  be 
remembered,  however,  that  "Toddles"  is  under  the  absolute 
sway  of  his  trainer,  "Big"  Otto,  and  that  the  latter,  although 
never  seen  in  the  field  of  the  camera,  is  always  somewhere 
beside  his  big  pet,  instructing  him  what  to  do  and  when  to 
do  it.  One  cannot  view  these  extraordinary  films  without 
being  stirred  by  a  stronger  feeling  of  affection  for  docile 
animals. 


Kathlyn  Williams   and   Hobart   Bosworth   in  "A   Wise    Old 
Elephant." 

"A  Wise  Old  Elephant"  is  distinguished  by  the  inclusion 
of  two  of  Selig's  best  known  players  in  the  cast — Miss 
Kathlyn  Williams  and  Hobart  Bosworth.  The  fondness  of 
"Toddles"  for  Miss  Williams  is  repeatedly  shown.  He  guards 
her  with  jealous  care  and  uses  his  trunk  to  protect  her  from 
her  enemies.  Indeed  all  that  transpired,  in  this  respect,  dur- 
ing the  production  has  not  been  included  in  the  pictures;  for, 
in  one  instance,  "Toddles"  seized  the  villain  in  the  play  and 
flung  him  fully  30  yards  away,  where  he  lay  stunned  for  a 
time.  Miss  Williams  sustains  the  part  of  Zara  Haskins  with 
her  well  known  vim  and  charming  grace.  As  Lieut.  Driscoll, 
an  English  officer,  Mr.  Bosworth  is  seen  to  fine  advantage 
in  heavy  character  acting.  Herbert  Rawlinson,  as  Robert 
Harding,  and  Al.  W.  Wilson,  as  Colonel  Haskins,  complete 
the  excellent  cast. 

The  scenes  are  laid  in  India,  England's  great  eastern  pos- 
session. Colonel  Haskins  and  his  only  daughter,  Zara,  live 
on  a  plantation  to  which  the  old  soldier  has  retired.  The 
adjoining  plantation  is  owned  by  Robert  Harding,  a  young 
English  gentleman,  who  seeks  his  fortune  in  the  cultivation 
of  tea.  He  has  just  arrived  in  the  country,  and  is  not  ac- 
quainted with  his  neighbors. 

Zara  is  a  beautiful  girl.  She  delights  in  outdoor  life  and  is 
fond  of  taking  morning  rides  on  her  big  pet  elephant, 
"Toddles."  One  morning  she  meets  young  Harding.  He 
salutes  her  with  a  smile  and  she  stops  for  a  chat.  It  ends 
by  her  inviting  him  to  join  her  in  the  howdah,  "Toddles" 
assisting  him  to  mount.  As  the  result  of  this  meeting  Zara 
and  Harding  fall  in  love. 

About  this  time  Lieut.  Driscoll,  an  aristocratic  officer, 
chances  to  call  at  the  Haskins -plantation,  where  he  is  royally 
entertained  by  the  colonel.  He  is  attracted  by  Zara's  beauty 
and  shows  her  marked  attentions,  much  to  her  dislike.  Her 
father  is  pleased,  on  the  other  hand,  and  shows  the  lieutenant 
that  he  favors  his  suit.  Driscoll  begs  Zara  to  accompany 
him  on  a  ride  the  following  morning.  She  refuses;  but  he 
insists  so  strongly  that  Zara  grows  angry.     Then   he  insult- 


ingly asks  for  a  reason  and  she  strikes  him  with  her  crop. 
Afterwards  she  mounts  "Toddles"  and  soon  joins  young 
Harding.  Driscoll,  who  has  followed  her  stealthily  on  horse- 
back, discovers  the  lovers  and  immediately  carries  the  news 
to  Colonel  Haskins.  The  colonel  is  furious  and  rides  at 
once  to  the  rendezvous  of  the  lovers.  There  he  berates 
Harding  and  is  about  to  strike  him,  when  "Toddles"  seizes 
him  with  his  trunk. 

The  next  day  the  Colonel  assures  Driscoll  that  Zara  will 
be  his  wife.  Zara  is  called  before  the  two  men  and  indig- 
nantly refuses  to  obey  her  father.  The  latter  threatens  to 
force  her.  She  notifies  Harding  and  they  elope.  Lieut. 
Driscoll  spies  on  their  movements  and  conveys  word  to  the 
colonel,  who  is  seized  with  temporary  apoplexy  at  the  news. 
He  recovers  sufficiently  to  despatch  Driscoll  to  prevent  the 
clergyman  from  performing  the  ceremony.  Driscoll  arrives 
too  late,  as  Zara  and  Harding  are  man  and  wife.  Colonel 
Haskins  refuses  to  receive  Zara  and  renounces  her. 

Three  years  elapse  and  the  Harding  household  is  blessed 
with  a  baby.  Zara  learns  that  her  father,  under  the  evil  in- 
fluence of  Driscoll,  is  a  victim  of  intemperance.  She  calls 
at  the  old  home  with  her  child,  hoping  for  reconciliation; 
but  her  father  refuses  to  receive  her  at  the  prompting  of 
Driscoll.    She  calls  again,  with  the  same  result. 

Now  "Toddles"  takes  a  hand.  He  carries  the  baby  and 
the  cradle  in  which  it  lies  to  the  colonel.  He  places  the 
cradle  on  the  steps,  but  the  colonel  waves  him  away.  "Tod- 
dles" shakes  his  trunk  in  token  of  refusal,  and  in  brute  lan- 
guage urges  his  master  to  take  the  child  to  his  heart.  The 
colonel  gives  in  and  takes  up  the  cradle  with  its  cooing  bur- 
den. Then  "Toddles"  grasps  his  master's  hand  in  his  trunk 
and  leads  him  to  the  Harding  home. 


NEW  JERSEY'S  LARGEST  THEATER  IN  COURSE  OF 
CONSTRUCTION. 

The  United  Realty  &  Amusement  Company,  a  New  Jersey 
corporation,  with  offices  at  19  Bergenline  Avenue,  Union 
Hill,  N.  J.,  has  given  out  contracts  and  broken  ground  for 
New  Jersey's  largest  motion  picture  and  vaudeville  theater. 
The  house  will  be  located  at  Union  Hill  and  will  have  a 
seating  capacity  of  2,300.  It  will  be  a  thoroughly  fireproof 
building.  The  most  modern  improvements  will  be  installed, 
such  as  a  direct  and  indirect  lighting,  an  absolutely  perfect 
ventilating  system,  smoking  and  retiring  rooms  on  each  floor, 
drinking  fountains  with  a  filtering  plant,  chorus  room,  twelve 
dressing  rooms,  animal  stables,  etc.  The  stage  dimensions 
will  be  35  feet  by  85  feet.  It  will  involve  an  expenditure  of 
$275,000  and  its  opening  date  is  set  for  October  1st,  this 
year.  The  place  will  be  named  the  Union  Theater.  The 
same  company  is  also  building  another  immense  picture  and 
vaudeville  theater  at  Montclair,  with  a  seating  capacity  of 
1,350.  This  house  is  expected  to  be  open  on  or  about  May 
15th,  and  it  will  cost  around  $150,000.  The  United  Realty  & 
Amusement  Company  also  control  and  operate  theaters  in 
Massachusetts  and  Connecticut.  Carl  F.  Michelfelder  is  the 
managing  director. 


COULD  FIND  NO  TRACES  OF  INSOMNIA. 

Neal  Anderson,  manager  of  the  Elite  Theater,  Carthage, 
Mo.,  has  a  funny  story  to  tell  us.  Here  it  is:  A  couple  of 
nights  ago  two  boys,  one  twelve  and  the  other  six.  ap- 
proached my  cashier  and  wanted  to  know  the  price  for  chil- 
dren. She  told  them  five  cents  apiece  and  they  went  away. 
Shortly  afterward  I  came  out  of  the  theater  and  stood  in  the 
lobby.  Again  the  boys  came  back  and  this  time  to  me,  ask- 
ing the  price.  I  told  them.  They  thanked  me,  walked  to  the 
other  end  of  the  lobby  and  pondered.  Then  the  older  boy 
came  to  me  and  said,  'Mr.  Anderson,  can  we  both  get  in  f«r  a 
nickle   'cause   this   here   other   fellow   goes  p?'      1    let 

them  in,  but  I   failed  to  find  any  traces   of  insomnia  in   the 
little  fellow,"  concluded  Mr.  Anderson. 


R.    D.    ARMSTRONG   TO    PUBLISH    BOOK    ON    FILM 
INDUSTRY. 

R.  D.  Armstrong,  connected  in  various  capacities  with  the 
American  Film  Manufacturing  Company  since  its  inception, 
is  the  author  of  a  book,  "Making  the  Negative  of  a  Ph 
play,"  soon  to  be  produced.  Mr.  Armstrong  is  peculiarly 
eligible  for  the  authorship  of  such  a  volume,  having  spent 
more  or  less  time  in  every  department  of  the  moving  picture 
business.  Mr.  Armstrong  was  scenario  editor  and  is  at  pres- 
ent in  Hawaii  with  S.  S.  Hutchinson,  president  of  the  com- 
pany, operating  a  camera.  He  is  thoroughly  familiar  with 
every  phase  of  the  technical  work  from  the  time  the  nega- 
tive is  placed  in  the  camera  until  the  positive  prints  are  run 
through  the  projecting  machine.  Also,  he  is  one  of  the  best 
known  scenario  editors  in  the  business. 


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Plimpton  Back   From  Europe 

Manager  of  the  Edison  Studios  Reports  an  Interesting  Trip 
Abroad — European  Theater  Conditions  Superior. 

LAST  Monday  found  Mr.  Horace  G.  Plimpton,  manager 
of  negative  production  of  the  Thomas  A.  Edison,  Inc., 
back  at  his  desk  at  the  Bronx  studio  apparently  much 
benefited  from  his  month  vacation  abroad.  Deducting  the 
time  required  in  going  and  coming  Mr.  Plimpton  had  about 
sixteen  days  in  Europe  during  which  time  he  visited  London, 
Paris,  Brussels  and  Berlin.  He  called  upon  many  of  the  pic- 
ture dealers  ahd  makers  in  London,  inspected  the  Gaumont 
plant  in  Paris  and  saw  about  all  there  was  to  see  in  Berlin, 
including  the  Kaiser's  private  theater  at  the  royal  palace. 

Regarding  trade  conditions  Mr.  Plimpton  told  the  World 
representative  that  conditions  in  the  European  market  were 
very  favorable  for  American  pictures  and  concluded  from 
his  observations  that  the  demand  would,  in  all  probability, 
increase,  at  least  in  the  English  and  German  market. 


Mr.  Horace  G.  Plimpton. 

"We  have  a  good  chance  in  England  and  Germany,"  said 
Mr.  Plimpton,  "but  there  is  almost  no  market  for  American 
pictures  in  the  Latin  countries.  The  reason  is  that  the  char- 
acter of  the  pictures  we  make  will  not  meet  the  demand  in 
France,  Italy  and  Spain,  where  the  standard  of  morality  is 
quite  different  from  ours.  Pictures  are  permitted  in  those 
countries  that  we  would  not  dare  offer  for  exhibition  or  even 
make  here.  English  taste  is  more  nearly  like  our  own  with 
the  exception  that  the  English  exhibitor  is  attracting  a  better 
class  of  people  than  we  are  and  are  offering  pictures  of  a 
higher  class,  generally  speaking. 

"I  visited  a  great  many  theaters  in  London  and  found  that 
they  were  far  superior  to  anything  on  this  side.  The  English 
exhibitor  provides  for  the  comfort  of  his  patrons  to  a  re- 
markable degree.  He  is  able  to  select  his  program  in  the 
first  place  and  is  not  compelled  to  take  everything  that  is 
offered  him.  Then  his  theater  is  more  comfortable  than  any- 
thing we  have.  The  seats  are  large  and  comfortable;  there 
is  ample  space  between  the  rows  so  that  one  can  pass  those 
seated  on  either  side  without  stepping  on  their  toes.  Most 
houses  have  a  bar  where  refreshments  can  be  obtained  without 
leaving  the  house  and,  in  many,  tea  is  served  at  the  usual  hour. 
Smoking  is  also  permitted.     The  prices  obtained  are   much 


better  than  here.  In  all  the  houses  I  visited  I  found  nothing 
that  would  correspond  with  the  usual  New  York  house. 

"Probably  the  finest  picture  theater  in  the  world  is  the 
Gaumont  theater  in  Paris.  It  is  large,  comfortable,  beauti- 
fully decorated  and  the  pictures  are  brilliant.  The  projection 
is  from  behind  the  screen.  We  spent  a  very  pleasant  evening 
there  as  the  guests  of  Mr.  Leon  Gaumont  after  a  day  at  his 
factory,"  said  Mr.  Plimpton. 

"I  found  the  theaters  in  Berlin  of  a  very  high  class  and 
the  pictures  shown  were  interesting,  though  many  of  them 
would  not  be  tolerated  here.  It  is  singular  to  note  the  dis- 
tinction made  by  the  German  censorship,  for  the  Germans 
have  a  very  rigid  police  control  of  everything,  including  mo- 
tion pictures.  In  Germany  everything  that  is  against  the  law 
is  'verboten'  (forbidden),  and  the  rule  is  enforced  rigidly. 
Pictures  that  would  not  be  permitted  here  for  a  moment,  as 
gross  violations  of  our  ideas  of  morality,  go  there  without 
question,  but  one  of  our  pictures  which  showed  how  a  couple 
of  hungry  tramps  lured  a  husband  and  wife  away  from  their 
home  so  that  they  could  break  in  and  get  something  to  eat, 
was  barred  because  it  suggested  an  unlawful  act.  It  was  'ver- 
boten.' 

"While  in  London,  I  met  Mr.  E.  H.  Montagu  of  the  Selig 
Company,  who  wished  to  be  remembered  to  all  the  folks  in 
New  York.  I  saw  Mr.  H.  A.  Spoor  at  the  Essanay  Company's 
office,  but  did  not  succeed  in  meeting  Mr.  Smith  of  the  Vita- 
graph  Company. 

"I  was  greatly  interested  in  the  methods  of  the  trade  in 
London,"  said  Mr.  Plimpton.  "All  the  agents  have  fine  of- 
fices and  show  rooms  where  the  pictures  are  run  off  for  the 
buyers.  Cigars  are  passed  around  and  the  inevitable  tea. 
Altogether,  I  must  say  that  I  had  a  most  enjoyable  time, 
notwithstanding  that  I  was  on  the  go  every  minute  all  day 
long  and  far  into  the  night.  The  change  of  scene  was  very 
beneficial  and  I  feel  more  like  tackling  a  day's  work  than  I 
did  before.  The  best  part  of  the  trip,  though,  was  getting 
back  for,  after  all,  I  like  this  best,"  concluded  Mr.  Plimpton. 

Affairs  at  the  Edison  studio  are  as  lively  as  ever.  All  the 
directors  are  busy  and  the  only  difficulty  seems  to  be  lack  of 
room  to  work  all  the  companies  at  once. 


INTEREST  IN  "HIAWATHA." 

Educationalists  all  over  the  country  are  taking  the  keenest 
interest  in  the  all-Indian  production  of  "Hiawatha"  made  by 
F.  E.  Moore.  Dr.  Joseph  H.  Wade,  president  of  the  New 
York  Academy  of  Education,  has  written  to  know  when  the 
pictures  will  be  shown  publicly  in  New  York.  He  was  at 
the  private  view  and  was  deeply  impressed.  And  several 
gentlemen  from  the  New  York  Museum  of  Natural  History 
have  congratulated  Mr.  Moore  upon  the  faithful  portrayal 
of  Indian  life.  They  marveled  at  his  getting  the  Indians  to 
do  the  false  face  Indian  medicine  dance.  The  museum  has 
spent  a  great  deal  of  money,  time  and  ingenuity  getting 
pictures  of  the  Hopi  snake  dance,  and  they  would  like  to  add 
the  "false  face"  film  to  their  collection.  Moving  picture 
theaters  catering  to  public  school  patronage  should  take 
advantage  of  this  remarkable  offering.  All  over  the  country 
Longfellow's  poem  is  prominent  in  the  English  work  done 
in  the  schools,  and  there  are  few  children  not  familiar  with  it. 
Wherever  the  play  has  been  given  out  of  doors  they  have 
been  the  most  enthusiastic  spectators,  recognizing  each  char- 
acter at  once.  Mr.  Moore  says,  "If  I  could  always  play  to 
the  school  children  I  would  not  need  a  reader  or  a  program. 
Even  the  little  six-year-olds  know  all  about  Hiawatha,  Min- 
nehaha, NokomiSj  Pau-Puk-Keewis,  Iagoo  and  the  rest.  They 
become  wildly  excited  when  the  five-year-old  Hiawatha  is 
being  taught  to  shoot  and  dance  by  Iagoo.  Fortunately  there 
is  nothing  in  the  play  that  leads  into  mischief;  quite  the  con- 
trary. 'Hiawatha'  has  all  the  qualities  of  a  real  morality 
play.  Warfare  is  forbidden  by  Gitche  Manito,  and  in  the 
end  Hiawatha's  cordial  greeting  to  the  first  missionary  has 
always  been  admired  by  Catholics  and  Protestants.  Wher- 
ever we  have  played  the  Sisters  bring  their  little  ones  to  see 
us."  It  is  this  quality  in  the  play  that  will  make  it  equally 
successful  when  shown  in  pictures. 


VITA  FILM  CO.,  MAKING  A  FEATURE. 

The  Vita  Film  Company,  who  are  making  and  importing  a 
number  of  multiple  reel  subjects,  have  opened  a  number  of 
out-of-town  branch  offices,  and  report  quite  a  fair  business. 
Mr.  Child,  who  is  directing  the  Vita's  American  product,  claims 
to  have  a  winne'r  in  the  line  of  a  sensation  three-reel  drama. 
He  has  been  waiting  for  good  weather  to  finish  the  outside 
scenes. 


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"Dick  Whittington  and  His  Cat" 

A  Solax  Three-Reel  Feature. 

Reviewed  by  W.  Stephen  Bush. 

THIS  ancient,  simple,  homely  but  charming  and  pathetic 
story,  a  bright,  particular  gem  of  old  English  folklore, 
has  been  rendered  into  moving  pictures  by  the  Solax 
company  in  what  appears  to  me  a  most  acceptable  manner. 
These  old  lays  that  have  endured  for  centuries,  carrying  a 
good  and  valuable  lesson  for  every-day  use,  are  scattered  all 
through  our  literature,  but  in  their  wild  hunt  for  lurid  and 
rancid  melodrama,  directors  have  pretty  consistently  over- 
looked them. 

The  story  of  "Dick  Whittington  and  His  Cat"  is  too  well 
known    to   need   repetition    here.     The    Solax    company    has 


the  best  people  and  appeals  to  the  cleanest  and  healthiest 
taste.  The  kaleidoscopic  procession  of  cheap  melodrama 
and  tiresome  "Westerns"  cannot  be  interrupted  too  often 
by  such  pictures  as  these.  "Dick  Whittington  and  His  Cat" 
is  a  distinct  gain  to  the  reputation  of  the  industry  and  a 
matter  of  just  pride  to  the  Solax  studio. 


Scene  from  "Dick  Whittington's  Cat"  (Solax). 

devoted  considerable  time  and  most  conscientious  pains  to 
a  proper  filming  of  the  story.  The  settings  and  groupings 
are  deserving  of  high  praise,  and  one  or  two  new  wrinkles 
in  photography  give  the  spectator  a  delightful  surprise.  An 
artistic  hand  shows  its  touch  in  almost  every  scene,  and  the 
high  quality  is  well  sustained  throughout.  It  is  but  just  to 
say  a  word  in  praise  of  Vinnie  Burns,  who  took  the  part  of 
Dick  Whittington.  This  young  girl  has  had  the  benefit  of 
an  earnest  and  sympathetic  director,  who  has  succeeded  in 
bringing  her   talents   to   the   surface.      Her   impersonation   of 


Scene  from  "Dick  Whittington's  Cat"  (Solax). 

Dick  Whittington  is  charming,  and  even  a  captious  critic  can 
find  little  fault  with  the  conception  and  execution  of  the  part. 
The  atmosphere  is  on  the  screen;  indeed,  the  very  first  scene 
convinces  the  spectator  that  he  is  going  to  see  something  of 
pre-eminent  merit. 

There  is  not  lacking  that  rapid  and  sensational  action  which 
exhibitors  seem  to  insist  on  nowadays.  The  burning  of  the 
ship  at  sea,  the  adventures  of  the  shipwrecked  crew,  the 
jumping  of  Dick's  cat  into  the  limelight  and  the  havoc  he 
wrought  among  a  lot  of  saucy  Arabian  rats  supply  an  assort- 
ment of  pleasing  thrills. 

The  pictures  of  mediaeval  London  are  probably  as  good  a 
piece  of  work  of  stage  carpentry  and  scene  painting  as  has 
ever  been  seen  in  moving  pictures. 

It  would  be  difficult  to  exaggerate  the  value  of  such  a  pro- 
duction to  the  exhibitor.     The  filming  of  such  stories  draws 


Activities  of  the  Kalem  Company 

Will  Enlarge  Its  Producing  Forces  and  Make  More  Multiple 
Reel  Features— To  Build  Jersey  Studio. 

WITH  the  approach  of  the  summer  season  the  Kalem 
Company  announces  a  progressive  program  for  the 
extension  of  its  producing  facilities  calculated  to  add 
materially  to  the  quantity  and  quality  of  its  output.  The 
recent  success  of  the  Kalem  feature  subjects  has  convinced 
the  managers  of  that  company  that  the  public  is  eager  for  that 
class  of  picture  and  it  is  proposed  to  meet  the  demand  while 
it  exists.  With  the  plan  to  increase  the  number  of  multiple 
reel  features  the  Kalem  Company  will  increase  its  producing 
force  and  its  production  facilities  in  general. 

A  long  lease  of  a  private  estate  in  New  jersey  has  been 
taken  and  outdoor  studio  facilities  will  be  provided  for  sev- 
eral companies  of  players.  The  companies  now  operating  in 
Jacksonville,  Fla.,  will  be  brought  to  New  York.  Kenean 
Buel's  company  will  work  on  large  multiple  reel  productions 
while  the  company  under  the  direction  of  Hal  Clements  will 
continue  making  single  reels.  Robert  Vignola  has  been  pro- 
moted to  a  directorship  and  will  make  single  reels. 

Many  changes  have  been  made  in  the  Western  companies 
under  the  direction  of  George  Melford  and  J.  J.  Hartigan,  by 
which  they  have  been  greatly  strengthened.  Mr.  Melford's 
company,  located  at  Glenwood  Park,  just  out  of  Los  Angeles, 
will  hereafter  devote  its  time  to  big  feature  productions.  This 
company  is  now  at  work  on  a  big  picture  to  be  entitled  "The 
Battle  of  Paardeburg,"  announced  some  time  ago.  In  this 
work  Mr.  Melford  will  have  the  assistance  of  Captain  Price,  a 
veteran  of  the  Boer  War. 

The  Glendale  forces  of  the  Kalem  Company  will  be  re- 
inforced by  Director  J.  P.  McGowan,  until  recently  directing 
one  of  the  Kalem  companies  at  Jacksonville.  Mr.  McGowan 
has  done  some  excellent  work  since  he  took  up  directing.  He 
will  devote  his  time  to  single  reel  subjects  and  some  excellent 
pictures  may  be  expected  from  him. 

Director  Melford's  subjects  will  include  war  and  Indian  fea- 
tures of  the  thrilling  kind. 

Home  Offices  Enlarged. 

While  busy  disposing  its  various  field  forces  the  Kalem 
Company  has  not  been  unmindful  of  the  necessities  of  the 
home  plant  at  235  West  Twenty-third  Street,  New  York. 
Great  changes  have  taken  place  in  the  offices  during  the  past 
few  months.  Recently  the  manufacturing  plant,  which  oc- 
cupied the  greater  part  of  two  floors  in  the  Eastman  building, 
crowded  the  business  offices  out  and  a  third  floor  was  leased 
for  them.  Now  one  is  ushered  into  a  very  handsomely  fur- 
nished office  on  the  fifth  floor  of  the  Eastman  building  when 
visiting  the  Kalem  Company.  Everything  is  spic  and  span; 
the  desks  of  the  members  of  the  firm  and  the  heads  of  de- 
partments are  ranged  along  the  front  of  the  building  where 
the  best  light  is  afforded;  all  desks  are  provided  with  tele- 
phone and  electric  light  connections;  the  bookkeeping  de- 
partment is  enclosed  by  wire  lattice  and  the  mailing  depart- 
ment occupies  a  large  enclosure  in  the  rear  of  the  building. 

In  the  center  of  the  floor  has  been  constructed  a  light  proof 
projecting  room  for  the  exhibition  of  pictures  that  is  a  model 
of  its  kind.  The  projecting  machine  has  been  set  upon  a 
rigid  standard  which  will  insure  rock-steady  projection.  This 
is  surrounded  by  a  platform  and  the  whole  covered  with  metal 
to  insure  against  any  possibility  of  fire. 

Kalem  Features  that  are  Winners. 

In  the  matter  of  features  the  Kalem  Company  has  been  un- 
usually successful.  Beginning  with  the  Irish  pictures  of  two 
years  ago,  many  of  which  are  still  prime  favorites  with  the 
public,  the  climax  was  reached  in  the  classic  Biblical  produc- 
tion "From  the  Manger  to  the  Cross,"  which  is  at  once  an 
artistic  and  financial  success.  In  this  connection  must  be 
mentioned  "The  Exposure  of  the  Land  Swindlers,"  better 
known  as  the  Burns  pictures,  for  the  reason  that  W.  J. 
Burns,  the  famous  detective,  is  featured  in  it  very  strongly. 
A  large  number  of  extra  orders  have  been  received  for  this 
subject  and  the  demand  for  posters  is  unprecedented. 

Noted  for  its  novelties  in  advertising  the  Kalem  Company 
has  fairly  eclipsed  itself  in  a  recent  photo-lithograph  of  Alice 
Joyce — by  far  the  most  artistic  bit  of  advertising  that  has 
come  from  any  film  manufacturer. 

From  the  activities  of  the  Kalem  Company  it  may  be  taken 
that  the  product  of  that  company  is  to  be  materially  increased 
in  the  near  future. 


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Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League 


NEW  YORK  EXHIBITORS  PLAN  BENEFIT. 

AX  immense  benefit  exhibition  is  being  arranged  by  the 
Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  Greater  New 
York  for  the  assistance  of  the  flood  sufferers  of  Day- 
ton and  other  cities  in  Ohio.  It  will  be  a  joint  affair,  under 
the  direct  auspices  of  the  league,  with  all  exhibitors  working 
together.  The  committee  of  arrangements  has  provided  for 
the  benefit  to  take  place  at  the  69th  Regiment  Armory,  25th 
Street  and  Lexington  Avenue,  just  off  Madison  Square,  on 
Saturday  night,  April  12th. 

Mr.  M.  Needle  and  Mr.  Eugene  Ellmore  are  in  charge  of 
the  general  arrangements.  A  fine  bill  has  been  prepared, 
with  vaudeville,  photoplays  and  photoplayers.  Besides  the 
best  of  the  current  releases,  a  number  of  the  best  known  pho- 
toplay stars  will  appear  in  person.  The  benefit  will  be  widely 
advertised,  and  for  this  purpose  Mr.  Arthur  Jacobs  has 
donated  1,000  one-sheets,  and  some  of  the  various  litho- 
graph companies  have  done  likewise.  The  Kalem  company 
has  already  chipped  in  $100  and  placed  itself  and  its  talent 
at  the  command  of  the  benefit  committee.  Miss  Alice  Joyce 
and  Mr.  Tom  Moore,  of  that  company,  will  appear  on  the  bill. 

At  the  suggestion  of  the  chief  of  the  License  Bureau,  Mr. 
Wallace,  Mayor  Gaynor  will  be  asked  to  open  the  ceremony 
and  also  act  as  custodian  of  the  fund.  Every  exhibitor  in 
Greater  New  York  should  advertise  this  benefit  persistently 
on  his  screen  and  do  all  in  his  power  to  make  it  a  tremen- 
dous success,  which  will  reflect  to  the  credit  of  the  exhibit- 
ors of  Greater  New  York.  They  should  bear  in  mind  that 
many  exhibitors  of  the  Ohio  League  are  in  trouble  and  that 
they  deserve  whatever  assistance  can  be  given  on  account 
of  the  far-reaching  work  they  did  in  being  the  first  to  estab- 
lish the  Motion  Picture  League  of  America. 


WASHINGTON,   D.   C,   EXHIBITORS'   RELIEF   FUND. 

The  first  recognition  of  the  flood  sufferers  from  the  amuse- 
ment world  was  when  President  W.  P.  Herbst.  of  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  hurriedly  called  a  meeting  of  Motion  Picture  Ex- 
hibitors' League,  No.  10.  There  was  a  full  meeting  in 
response  to  his  telephone  call,  and  a  prompt  contribution  of 
$1,000  from  those  present.  A  benefit  has  also  been  arranged 
to  take  place  later.  Preliminary  to  this  relief  fund,  con- 
tribution boxes  are  in  evidence  at  the  box  office  wind 
for  the  receipt  ot  such  sum-  as  the  patrons  may  desire  to 
give. 


On  a  lot  containing  a  frontage  of  68  feet  to  175  feet  depth, 
on  the  north  side  of  U  Street,  near  14th,  will  be  erected  a 
building,  the  lower  portion  of  which  will  be  devoted  to  a 
moving  picture  theater.  The  upper  stories  will  be  occupied 
by  the  owner,  Mr.  H.  K.  Dugdale,  with  his  musical  publish- 
ing company. 


ALABAMA  EXHIBITORS  ORGANIZE. 

At  a  meeting  of  exhibitois  of  the  State  of  Alabama  held  in 
Birmingham,  Ala.,  Monday,  March  24th,  the  Motion  Picture 
Exhibitors'  League  of  Alabama  was  organized.  Forty-seven 
exhibitors  signed  the  roll,  and  the  following  officers  were 
elected:  Mr.  A.  A.  Wall,  Birmingham,  National  Vice-Presi- 
dent; Mr.  E.  H.  Colley,  Birmingham,  President;  Mr.  T.  S. 
Abernathy,  Birmingham,  First  Vice-President;  Mr.  R.  T. 
Wilby.  Selma,  Second  Vice-President;  Mr.  John  H.  Snyder, 
Bessemer.  Treasurer;   Mr.  J.  G.  Wells,  Anniston,  Secretary. 

Following  the  business  meeting  a  banquet  was  held  in  the 
Hillman  Hotel,  at  which  President  Neff,  of  the  National 
League,  addressed  the  assemblage. 


CONVENTIONS  CALLED. 

Secretary  B.  K.  Fischer,  of  the  Wisconsin  League,  an- 
nounces that  the  annual  convention  of  the  Motion  Picture 
Exhibitors'  League  of  Wisconsin  will  be  held  at  Milwaukee. 
Wis.,  on  Tuesday  and  Wednesday,  April  8th  and  oth.  The 
annual  election  of  officers  will  occur  at  this  meeting,  and 
matters  relating  to  legislation  now  pending  at  the  State 
Capital  will  be  discussed.  Wisconsin  exhibitors  are  urged  to 
attend  this  meeting. 

President  L.  D.  Milne,  of  the  South  Dakota  League,  has 
called  a  meeting  of  that  organization  to  be  held  in  Huron, 
S.  D..  on  Tuesday.  April  8th.  Every  exhibitor  in  the  State 
has  been  notified  and  urged  to  attend,  as  there  are  matters 
of  great  importance  to  be  considered. 

Motion  picture  exhibitors  of  Iowa  are  notified  that  a  meet- 
ing ot  the  Iowa  Exhibitors'  League  will  be  held  in  Des 
Moines,  Iowa,  on  Tuesday  and  Wednesday,  May  6th  and  7th 
Headquarters  will  be  at  the  Savery  Hotel.  Manufacturers 
and  exhibitors  are  requested  to  communicate  with  Secretary 
Fred  W.  Young,  4.20  Clapp  Building,  Des  Moines,  relative 
to  arrangements  and  exhibits. 

\V.  E.  Higgins,  secretary  of  the  Sandusky  Local.  Sandusky, 
Ohio,  lias  issued  a  call  for  a  meeting  of  that  organization  to 


GROUP  OF  PROMINENT  PHILADELPHIA  EXHIBITORS.  Top  row,  left  to  right— Charles  Segall,  John  S.  Green- 
baum,  Walter  Jacobs,  H.  Berman,  M.  A.  Brown,  M.  J.  Walsh.  Lower  row— E.  A.  Jefferies,  Geo.  H.  Roth,  Charles  M. 
Rappoport,  Walter  Stuempfig,  D.  Baylinson. 


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take  place  at  Sandusky  on  Tuesday,  April  8th.  The  order 
of  business  has  been  changed  and  the  regular  routine  will 
open  with  a  discussion  of  topics  and  conditions.  The  San- 
dusky Local  now  has  23  members  out  of  the  31  in  the  dis- 
trict, which  includes  Erie,  Seneca,  Huron,  Ottawa  and  San- 
dusky counties.  Applications  have  been  received  from 
Gibsonburg  and    New   London. 


ANOTHER  CENSORSHIP  BILL  KILLED. 

Secretary  Young,  of  the  Iowa  Exhibitors'  League,  advises 
the  Moving  Picture  World  that  the  Burt  bill,  known  in  the 
Iowa  House  of  Representatives  as  No.  210,  an  act  to  provide 
for  the  regulation  of  motion  picture  films  and  to  establish 
a  state  censorship,  has  been  defeated  in  the  House. 

The  forces  against  the  bill  were  the  members  of  the  Iowa 
League  and  the  exchanges,  marshaled  by  Secretary  Young, 
who  watched  the  bill  on  its  progress  through  the  various 
committees  and  fought  it  every  step  of  the  way.  The  bill 
was  unfair  in  the  extreme  and  provided  that  one  man  should 
be  the  censor,  at  a  salary  of  $2,500,  with  $5,000  for  assistants 
and  office  expenses.  To  obtain  this  money  a  charge  of  $2 
per  reel  was  to  be  made.  The  bill  and  those  like  it  were 
better  dead. 


MISSOURI  EXHIBITORS  KILL  TWO  BILLS. 

Through  the  vigilance  and  energy  of  the  Motion  Picture  Ex- 
hibitors League  of  Missouri,  two  bills  introduced  in  the  legisla- 
ture of  that  State  calculated  to  "regulate"  the  motion  picture 
business,  have  been  killed.  One  was  Senate  Bill  No.  269  making 
it  unlawful  for  any  person  or  corporation  to  exhibit  in  a  public 
place  within  this  state  any  picture  or  other  presentation  of  wild 
west  scenes,  public  executions  of  criminals,  of  robberies,  mur- 
der or  other  crimes,  of  divorce  scandals,  prize  fights,  of  persons 
indecently  clad  or  of  improper  attitude  of  the  two  sexes. 

The  second  is  house  bill  No.  537,  which  provided  a  license  fol 
motion  picture  shows  of  $50  to  be  paid  to  the  State  treasurer. 
Both  these  proposed  laws  failed  of  passage  after  a  vigorous 
campaign  against  them  by  the  members  of  the  Missouri  league, 
writes  President  W.  J.  Flynn,  of  that  organization. 


MASSACHUSETTS  LEAGUE  OPENS  HEADQUARTERS 

Massachusetts  exhibitors  affiliated  with  the  Massachusetts 
branch  of  the  Exhibitors  League,  have  established  a  "headquar- 
ters'' at  25  La  Grange  Street,  Boston.  It  is  proposed  to  make 
this  a  real  "headquarters"  for  all  New  England  exhibitors  and 
already  the  General  Film  Company  and  the  Universal  have 
availed  themselves  of  its  facilities  to  show  pictures  to  the  as- 
sembled exhibitors. 

A  house  warming  was  held  Tuesday,  April  1,  refreshments 
were  served  and  a  general  good  time  enjoyed  by  all  present.  At 
a  meeting  held  on  March  28  President  Joseph  Mack  tendered  his 
resignation  as  president  of  the  Massachusetts  League.  The 
members  present  refused  to  accept  it  and  emphasized  its  action 
by  electing  him  general  manager  of  the  league  at  a  substantial 
salary.  Under  this  arrangement,  President  Mack  will  devote 
more  time  to  the   business  of  the  organization. 


PITTSBURGH  EXHIBITORS'  BALL. 

The  large  English  Room  of  the  Fort  Pitt  Hotel,  Pitts- 
burgh, Pa.,  was  the  scene  Monday  night,  March  24th,  of  as 
brilliant  and  successful  an  affair  as  has  been  held  in  that  city 
this  winter.  The  occasion  was  the  first  annual  dance  of  the 
Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  Pennsylvania,  Pitts- 
burgh Local,  No.  1,  and  from  start  to  finish  the  ball  and 
reception  showed  the  careful  work  of  the  committee  in 
charge. 

Over  one  thousand  persons  attended,  including  the  motion 
picture  exhibitors,  with  their  wives  and  daughters,  and  a 
number  of  guests,  among  whom  were  James  Morrison  and 
Tom  Powers,  of  the  Vitagraph  company. 

The  ball  started  at  8  o'clock  and  continued  in  the  wee  sma' 
hours,  with  an  intermission  for  a  delightful  luncheon  at  11 
o'clock.  The  motion  picture  men  were  there  in  force,  brav- 
ing the  inclement  weather,  and  the  ballroom  was  a  brilliant 
picture  with  the  bright-colored  gowns  of  the  ladies  and  the 
decorations  of  the  room.  Nirella's  Orchestra  played  the 
dance  numbers,  of  which  there  were  twenty,  with  four  extras. 
The  proceeds  of  the  ball  will  be  devoted  toward  sending  a 
delegate  of  the  local  organization  to  the  big  meeting  of  the 
leagues  in  New  York. 

The  officers  and,  indeed,  all  the  members  of  the  Pittsburgh 
Local  are  to  be  congratulated  on  the  success  of  the  ball, 
and  the  many  happy  expressions  of  those  who  attended 
augur  well  for  future  entertainments  of  this  local. 


PHILADELPHIA  EXHIBITORS'  BALL. 

Actors  and  actresses  who  act  for  the  movies,  with  their 
make-ups  as  bandits,  cowboys,  safe-crackers,  heroes,  villains 
and  other  characters,  appeared  in  evening  clothes  Wednes- 
day, night,  March  26th,  as  the  guests  at  the  first  annual  ball 
and  reception  of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of 
Pennsylvania,  which  was  held  at  the  Turngemeinde  Hall,  at 
Broad  Street  and  Columbia  Avenue.  It  was  the  biggest  social 
feature  of  its  kind  this  year.  More  than  300  persons  were 
present.  Local  picture  men  were  the  hosts.  During  inter- 
missions the  celebrities  present  were  introduced.  Thus  scores 
of  men  and  women  whose  faces  have  become  familiar  to  the 
public  were  presented,  and  after  this  formality  the  dancing 
began.  Some  of  the  actors  and  actresses  are  excellent  danc- 
ers! and  they  gave  little. exhibitions  of  their  skill  as  the  night 
went  on. 

It  was  throughout  a  happy  affair.  Some  of  the  performers 
had  not  met  before,  but  they  knew  all  about  each  other  from 
moving  pictures  they  had  seen.  It  was  quite  like  a  gather- 
ing of  old  friends.  Some  of  the  actors  and  actresses  present 
were  John  Bunny,  Miss  Flora  Finch,  Miss  Lillian  Walker, 
Miss  Kate  Price,  A.  K.  Lincoln,  Miss  Florence  Lawrence, 
Owen  Moore  and  Rose  Tapley. 

The  committee  in  charge  included  Charles  Rappaport, 
chairman;  Charles  Segall,  John  S.  Greenbaum,  Walter  Jacobs, 
H.  Berman.  M.  A.  Benn,  M.  J.  Walsh.  Edward  Jefferies, 
George  H.  Roth,  Walter  Steumpfig,  J.  H.  Walraven  and  D. 
Baylinson. 


WEST  VIRGINIA  CONVENTION  COMMITTEE.  Lower  row  from  left  to  right— U.  P.  Kemper  A.  P.  Bnnkmeier, 
Clem  Kerr,  Chairman,  Phillip  Kochert,  W.  H.  Shull,  Financial  Secretary.  Top  row— L.  R.  Thomas,  State  Secretary,  H. 
Friedman,  M.  A.  Sybert,  C.  D.  Thompson,  James  Velas,  A.  G.  Frohme. 


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NEW  YORK  EXHIBITORS  NOW  FAVOR  450  SEATS. 

The  twice  defeated  tolks  ordinance  is  once  more  before 
the  Board  of  Aldermen  of  New  York  City  for  settlement. 
The  ordinance  as  drafted  provides  for  structural  conditions 
that  will  minimize  the  chances  for  panic  in  case  of  fire.  The 
principal  contention  so  far  has  been  the  number  of  seats 
allowable  in  an  auditorium  that  is  not  strictly  fireproof 
according  to  the  building  code  as  applied  to  theaters.  In 
the  face  of  opposition  against  allowing  600  seats  as  the  maxi- 
mum for  a  non-fireproof  auditorium,  the  New  York  exhibit- 
ors have  decided  to  compromise  on  450  chairs.  Alderman 
Folks,  however,  is  not  in  with  them  in  this  compromise  and 
is  quite  determined  that  600  chairs  shall  remain  as  the  maxi- 
mum in  the  bill  as  introduced  by  him  originally.  On  all  other 
points  of  the  bill  the  Exhibitors'  League  agrees  with  him, 
but  on  the  600  chair  proposition  they  think  the  bill  will  be 
more  sure  to  pass  by  conceding  150  seats,  and  they  will  be 
content  if  they  get  450.  As  evidence  of  this  feeling,  a  peti- 
tion was  drawn  up  at  the  last  meeting  of  the  league  and 
signed  by  every  one  of  the  65  members  present.  This  peti- 
tion was  sent  to  the  members  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen, 
and  reads  to  the  effect  that  the  league  would  be  pleased  if 
the  board  would  reject  the  Folks  ordinance  as  it  now  stands 
and  accept  an  ordinance  drafted  by  the  exhibitors  themselves. 
The  exhibitors'  ordinance  will  be  substantially  the  same  as 
the  Folks  ordinance,  with  the  exception  of  the  specified  seat- 
ing capacity,  which  will  be  placed  at  450  chairs.  This  peti- 
tion was  delivered  to  the  Board  of  Aldermen  at  its  session 
on  April  Tst. 

The  exhibitors,  considering  their  own  separate  enterprises, 
came  to  the  conclusion  that  not  more  than  15  per  cent,  of 
them  would  in  any  event  be  able  to  avail  themselves  of  the 
600  seat  privilege,  and  not  a  great  percentage  of  them  could 
enlarge  their  places  to  accommodate  even  450.  Therefore  it 
seemed  inadvisable  to  establish  a  large  maximum  seating 
capacity  which  would  in  all  probability  attract  outside  cap- 
ital and  be  the  cause  of  the  erection  of"  many  more  theaters, 
owing  to  more  favorable  conditions.  In  short,  by  gaining 
the  600  seat  privilege  they  considered  that  they  would  be 
doing  themselves  more  harm  than  good. 

At  the  meeting  of  April  1st  the  New  York  Exhibitors' 
League  was  addressed  by  Mr.  William  Fox,  who  spoke  inter- 
estingly for  nearly  an  hour,  outlining  the  various  stages 
through  which  the  motion  picture  business  has  passed.  He 
told  of  his  opposition  to  the  General  Film  Company  and  out- 
lined conditions  as  he  saw  them.  He  also  expressed  sincere 
friendship  for  the  Exhibitors'  League  of  New  York  and 
regretted  that  he  was  ineligible  to  membership,  owing  to  his 
being  a  film  renter.  At  the  conclusion  of  his  address  he 
received  hearty  applause  and  was  tendered  a  vote  of  thanks. 


THE  KID  AS  A  "REPEATER." 

It  has  long  been  the  privilege  of  the  moving  picture  actor 
to  see  himself  as  others  see  him.  But  he  rarely  enjoys  the 
chance  to  see  himself  twice  as  others  see  him.  Every  now 
and  then  "dual  personality"  effects  have  been  gained  in  pic- 
tures, by  trick  photography,  with  some  well-known  grownup 
as  the  star.  But  now  for  likely  the  first  time  a  child  artist 
is  so  featured.  The  child  is  the  Thanhouser  Kid,  and  in  the 
release  of  Friday,  April  nth,  "The  Changeling,"  you  see  her 
as  both  a  millionaire's  genuine  son  and  his  bogus  one. 

The  Kid,  by  the  way,  appears  this  week  at  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
in  a_  national  tour  of  Mutual  theaters.  It  is  said  that  she  is 
receiving  the  largest  salary  ever  paid  a  child  of  her  years 
in  any  branch  of  theatrical  work.  Her  sister  assists  her  in 
the  act,  which  is  an  enlargement  of  the  turn  she  has  been 
doing  at  benefits  around  New  York  City  during  the  past  year. 


FIREPROOF  PICTURE  THEATER. 

Ground  has  been  broken  for  a  strictly  fireproof  motion 
picture  theater,  which  will  be  erected  near  the  southwest 
corner  of  Rural  and  Washington  Streets,  Indianapolis,  Ind., 
at  a  cost  of  $8,000.  The  theater  when  completed  will  seat 
420  persons,  and  there  will  be  ample  standing  room  at  the 
rear  to  accommodate  about  sixty  more.  The  appointments 
will  be  up-to-date  and  luxurious  in  every  respect.  Frank  J. 
Geiger  is  financing  the  project. 


GREEVER  BUYS  AIRDOME. 

H.  K.  Greever,  proprietor  of  the  Dreamland  Theater,  Ver- 
non, Texas,  has  purchased  the  airdome  on  North  Main 
Street.  Mr.  Greever  intends  to  run  the  airdome  in  the  fine 
summer  weather  and  the  Dreamland  during  the  rainy  days. 
Mr.  Greever  has  had  great  success  with  the  Dreamland. 


JUDGE  BEN  LINDSEY  IN  PICTURES. 

Judge  Ben  Lindsey,  the  well-known  juvenile  court  expert, 
is  the  latest  national  character  to  appear  personally  in  a 
dramatic  production  for  the  movies.  A  three-reel  feature, 
the  story  of  which  is  based  on  real  incidents  in  the  history 
of  this  most  modern  tribunal,  shows  the  great  contrast  be- 
tween the  old  way  of  handling  child  criminals  and  the  mod- 
ern method  since  the  coming  of  Judge  Lindsey's  Juvenile 
Court.  It  features  the  Judge  personally,  carrying  out  his  im- 
portant work  of  placing  delinquent  children  who  have  started 
on  the  wrong  track  permanently  back  on  the  safe  road  to 
good  citizenship. 


Judge  Ben  Lindsey. 

This  production,  "Saved  by  the  Juvenile  Court,"  is  said  to 
be  a  thrilling  and  realistic  narration  of  two  great  stories  of 
deep  heart  interest.  The  first  reel  depicts  the  experiences 
and  unhappy  ending  of  a  boy  started  in  a  life  of  crime 
through  association  with  hardened  criminals  which  was 
forced  upon  him  when  he  was  sentenced  in  his  youth  to  a 
prison  term  for  committing  a  minor  offense.  The  remain- 
ing two  reels  deal  with  the  experiences  of  a  boy  and  girl 
who  drift  into  bad  company  through  the  inability  of  their 
widowed  mother  to  give  them  the  necessary  attention,  owing 
to  the  fact  that  she  is  compelled  to  work  every  day  for  their 
support,  and  who  are  saved  through  the  honor  system  of  the 
Juvenile  Court.  It  is  produced  by  the  Columbine  Films 
Company. 


NEW  FEATURE  FILM  COMPANY. 

The  Scarlett  Motion  Picture  Company,  a  Philadelphia 
corporation,  has  been  recently  organized  and  is  now  produc- 
ing feature  films  at  its  new  studio,  Twenty-third  and  Vine 
Streets,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  W.  T.  Jones,  formerly  a  producer 
and  director,  is  the  general  manager  of  the  new  company. 
The  concern  has  been  fortunate  in  securing  as  its  leading 
lady  the  dainty  and  versatile  motion  picture  actress,  Miss 
Eleanor  Caines,  formerly  of  the  Lubin  Company.  Jerold  T. 
Hevener,  also  of  that  company,  has  been  engaged  to  direct 
the  productions,  with  a  company  of  twenty-two  persons. 
The  first  release  will  be  "Lost  Identity,"  a  thrilling  Western 
drama  in  two  parts.  The  company  proposes  to  release  its 
features  through  the  leading  independent  feature  exchanges. 
The  initial  feature  will  be  released  in  a  few  days. 


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CHICAGO   LETTER 

By  J  AS.  S.  McQUADE 


AN  executive  session  of  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation  officials 
and  exchange  men  was  held  in  the  La  Salle  Hotel, 
Thursday  and  Friday,  March  27th  and  28th.  Most  of 
the  exchange  men  (connected  with  the  company)  west  of 
the  Alleghanies  and  east  of  the  Rocky  Mountains  were 
present. 

Since  the  meeting  was  behind  closed  doors,  nothing  can 
be  said  of  the  proceedings,  except  that  they  were  important 
and  that  they  concerned  the  betterment  and  the  future  wel- 
fare of  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation  company's  interests. 

Among  those  present,  as  near  as  can  be  gathered — for  the 
meeting  was  kept  very  quiet,  few  if  any  of  the  trade  papers 
being  notified — were:  H.  E.  Aitken,  who  acted  as  chairman 
of  the  meeting;  W.  C.  Toomey,  J.  R.  Freuler,  Mr.  Farnham, 
Mr.  Spiro,  Mr.  Burman,  Omaha;  Mr.  Mandelbauman,  Cleve- 
land; Phil  Gleichman,  Detroit;  Mr.  Ashbrook,  Toledo;  Pat 
Hall,  Kansas  City;  Ben  Yudell,  Minneapolis;  E.  H.  Brient, 
Indianapolis;  Mr.  Mergener,  Milwaukee;  the  Buffalo  ex- 
change owner;  G.  Hutchinson,  F.  J.  Flaherty  and  R.  C.  Seery, 
of  Chicago.  Mr.  Trask,  of  Cincinnati,  was  detained  by  the 
floods.     A  banquet  was  given  Thursday  night. 

In  the  Bioscope  of  March  13th  Harry  Furniss  has  written 
an  interesting  article  which  touches  on  British  pictures  in 
British  programs,  or,  rather,  the  lack  of  them.  Mr.  Furniss 
will  be  remembered  by  many  for  his  clever  cartoon  work  in 
Edison  pictures,  in  which  he  appeared  several  months  ago, 
and  for  the  well-constructed  scenarios  written  by  him  to 
surround  his  own  special  work.  He  was  not  given  an  oppor- 
tunity to  test  his  ability  as  a  producer  while  in  this  country, 
which  is  to  be  regretted,  for  Mr.  Furniss  believes  he  is  nat- 
urally better  adapted  for  the  production  of  his  own  plays, 
or  those  written  by  others,  than  he  is  for  scenario  writing  or 
acting  a  part.  Mr.  Furniss  is  now  being  given  the  opportu- 
nity in  England  to  direct  the  production  of  photoplays,  and 
we  shall  await  their  appearance  with  much  interest. 

Many  lovers  of  photoplays  in  America  have  often  won- 
dered at  the  absence  of  English  photoplays  from  American 
screens.  Italian  and  French  makes  are  with  us  in  abundance. 
Why  not  the  English?  As  Mr.  Furniss  in  his  article  truly 
says:  "When  I  was  in  New  York,  comparatively  recently, 
the  only  successful  plays  were  'English,  quite  English,  you 
know,'  written  by  English  authors,  while  English  actors  and 
actresses  held  the  boards.  They  (the  Americans)  only  want 
the  best,  and  the  best,  naturally  enough,  commands  success. 
Irving,  the  Kendals,  Forbes  -  Robertson,  Sothern,  Willard, 
Hare  and  numerous  others  of  our  front  rank  actors  of  recent 
years  have  made  fortunes  in  America,  while  in  England  they 
only  found  it  possible  to  make,  comparatively  speaking,  a 
respectable  living."  Then  Mr.  Furniss  bewails  the  fact  that 
American  photoplays  are  the  vogue  in  the  United  Kingdom, 
and  exclaims  against  the  dumping  of  "so-called  English  pic- 
tures" on  English  shores,  in  addition  to  "Wild  West  scenes 
and  other  essential  American  subjects."  "English  scenes, 
particularly  those  of  an  historical  nature  (save  the  mark!), 
are  released  almost  weekly,"  writes  Mr.  Furniss.  "They 
fairly  bristle  with  absurdities  and  incongruities,  and  not  by 
any  means  infrequently  with  anti-British  feeling;  but  if  the 
latter  is  overlooked  they  are  no  worse  than  the  home-made 
historical  film — perhaps  even  better." 

There  is  much  truth  in  this,  and  American  film  manufac- 
turers should  give  the  matter  careful  attention.  But  Mr. 
Furniss  is  disposed  to  show  considerable  animus  to  Ameri- 
can films,  instead  of  the  fairness  of  a  critic,  in  the  following 
paragraph: 

"It  is  eminently  characteristic  of  the  country  that  money 
in  some  shape  or  other  should  play  the  important  part  in 
American  picture  plays.  Band  of  Hope  bathos,  hospital 
scenes  and  deathbed  incidents  supply  a  considerable  pro- 
portion of  the  others,  and  however  excellent  from  a  pictorial 
point  of  view  all  these  may  be,  they  are  devoid  of  any  real 
interest  as  far  as  the  British  public  is  concerned.  And  that 
this  public  should  be  condemned  to  sit  for  hours  watching  an 
unbroken  procession  of  this  class  of  film,  when  so  many  good 
English  plays  are  kept  out  of  sight,  is  not  right;  nor  is  it 
fair  to  the  British  producer.  In  due  course  of  time  this  fact 
will  no  doubt  sink  into  the  minds  of  those  who  pay  at  the 
doors.  Then,  and  not  until  then,  will  the  British  producer 
attain  his  proper  position  in  the  moving  picture  world." 


The  fact  has  long  since  sunk  into  the  minds  of  British 
pat.ons  of  moving  picture  theaters  that  American  films  are 
the  best  in  the  market.  American  manufacturers,  as  a  rule, 
do  not  figure  up  parsimoniously  the  pounds,  shillings  and 
pence  that  a  film  will  cost  before  entering  on  its  production. 
It  is  quality,  not  the  cost,  with  all  the  best  of  our  American 
manufacturers.  When  English  manufacturers  are  ready  to 
loosen  their  purse  strings,  and  pay  less  attention  to  arith- 
metic, when  considering  the  production  of  a  film;  when  they 
are  willing  to  pay  the  price  to  first-class  actors  and  actresses 
to  appear  in  their  productions,  they  will  have  a  market  in 
America  and  we  shall  be  delighted  to  see  their  product.  Then, 
and  not  until  then,  will  the  British  producer  attain  his  proper 
position  in  the  moving  picture  world. 

A  Suggestion  for  Flood  Benefits  in  M.  P.  Theaters. 

According  to  a  circular  letter  sent  out  to  Independeent 
exhibitors  in  his  territory  by  J.  V.  Bryson,  manager  of  the 
Laemmle  Film  Service  in  Minneapolis,  his  exchange,  like 
many  others,  has  been  put  to  great  stress  by  the  recent  floods 
in  Ohio  and  Indiana.  The  letter,  in  part,  which  bears  the 
date  of  March  29th,  reads  as  follows: 

"This  certainly  has  been  a  week  of  excitement,  trials  and 
troubles  for  this  office.  I  am  taking  this  means  of  request- 
ing you  to  lend  us  every  possible  aid  and  assistance  you  can 
in  the  booking  of  new  releases.  The  terrible  flood  through 
Ohio  has  absolutely  demoralized  express  service  between 
New  York  and  Minneapolis.  For  instance,  we  haven't  had 
a  new  film  in  the  house  all  week.  The  Wells-Fargo  Company 
tell  us  there  are  over  fifty  express  coaches  on  sidings  and 
in  the  water  where  the  flood  is.  For  this  reason,  if  you  don't 
get  your  new  films  promptly,  I  beg  of  you  to  be  considerate. 
It  is  certainly  no  fault  of  mine." 

The  letter  continues,  under  a  sub-head,  which  reads,  "Do 
you  want  to  run  a  flood  benefit  in  your  theater?  A  lot  of 
my  customers  are  going  to  do  this.  I  think  it  will  be 
one  of  the  greatest  stunts  you  have  ever  locally  pulled  off. 
If  the  moving  picture  theaters  in  the  state  of  Minnesota 
couuld  raise  a  few  thousand  dollars  it  would  be  a  big  boost 
for  us  all  ii.  general.  And  right  here  is  where  I  come  in: 
I  will  give  every  moving  picture  show  within  1,000  miles  of 
Minneapolis  one  free  change,  with  the  distinct  understanding 
that  these  films  are  to  be  used  for  a  flood  benefit  only." 

Manager  Bryson's  suggestion  and  offer  are  timely;  but,  in 
case  any  such  fund  is  raised,  would  it  not  be  well  to  ascertain 
ii  any  brother  exhibitors  in  the  flooded  districts,  in  Ohio  and 
Indiana,  are  in  pressing  need  of  help  before  the  fund  is  em- 
ployed for  general  relief  purposes?  Charity  begins  at  home, 
and  in  this  case  help  should  be  first  extended  exhibitors  who 
are  in  need,  if  there  be  any. 

Chicago  Film  Brevities. 

Max  L.  Livingston,  assistant  manager  of  J.  H.  Hallberg's 
enterprises,  New  York  City,  called  at  the  World  office  Tues- 
day, April  1st.  He  is  making  a  tour  of  the  Middle  West  in 
the   interests   of   his   firm,   which   deals   in   complete   moving 

picture  theater  equipments. 

*  *     * 

Essanay's  700-foot  film  of  the  Omaha  tornado  was  pro- 
duced and  released  in  quick  time.  It  was  presented  in  sev- 
eral theaters  in  Chicago  on  Friday,  March  28.  It  was  viewed 
with  great  interest.     The  photography  was  fine. 

*  *     * 

C.  J.  Hite  and  Dr.  Shallenberger,  of  the  Thanhouser  com- 
pany, arrived  in  the  city  Saturday,  March  29th,  and  returned 
to  New  York  the  following  Tuesday. 

*  *     * 

Fred  Hartman,  of  the  Hartman  Bros.,  film  manufacturers, 
Omaha,  was  in  the  city  early  last  week.  Hartman  Bros, 
made  a  1,000-foot  film  of  the  Omaha  disaster.  This  film  will 
be  handled  as  a  special  feature  by  America's  Feature  Film 
Company,  this  city.     It  is  now  being  shown  on  the  road  and 

is  making  a  big  hit. 

*  *     * 

Henry  J.  Hallway,  manager  of  the  Grand  Opera  House, 
St.  Charles,  Mo.,  was  in  the  city  last  week.  He  called  at  the 
World  office  and  paid  a  visit  to  the  Selig  Polyscope  Com- 
pany's plant. 

*  *     * 

My  old  friend,  Joe  Bommerscheim,  owner  and  manager  of 
the  Gaiety  Theater,  Ft.  Wayne,  Ind.,  was  a  visitor  at  the 
World  office  last  week.  He  stated  that  Ft.  Wayne  was  pretty 
well  flooded  at  the  time  he  left,  but  that  he  was  still  doing 

business. 

*  *     * 

A.  K.  Brown  and  P.  H.  Kilner,  respectively,  president  and 
manager  of  the  American  Theater  Company,  24  South  Clin- 
ton Street,  this  city,  paid  the  World  office  a  visit  last  week. 
The  company  owns  and  controls  the  Hinsdale  Theater,  Hins- 


ISO 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


dale,  111.,  and  the  La  Grange  Theater,  La  Grange,  111.  The 
La  Grange  is  a  brand  new  fireproof  structure  and  will  be 
opened  April  loth.  It  was  erected  at  a  cost  of  $24,000.  Mr. 
Kilner  stated  that  the  Hinsdale  is  playing  to  capacity  at  the 
present  time,  Licensed  service  being  used  and  10  cents  ad- 
mission charged.  Admission  at  the  La  Grange  will  also  be 
10  cents.     It  has  a  seating  capacity  of  465. 

*  *     * 

X.  F.  Evan;,  manager  of  the  American  Feature  Film  Com- 
pany, of  Toledo.  Ohio,  was  in  the  city  all  last  week.  He 
>tated  in  the  World  office  that  he  had  produced  1,100  feet  of 
film  showing  the  flood  in  Dayton.  Mr.  Evans  stated  that  he 
had  cut  out  all  superfluous  matter  in  the  film,  and  that  every 
foot  will  be  interesting  and  full  of  action.  The  film  covers 
the  devastation  very  completely.  There  was  no  chance  of 
showing  any  thrilling  rescues,  Mr.  Evans  reported,  as  his 
party,  as  well  as  all  the  other  camera  parties  on  the  scene, 
got  into  the  city  on  the  first  relief  train  from  Toledo,  on 
Thursday  evening.  March  27th,  and  the  waters  had  receded 
fully  by  Thursday  night.  Any  films,  therefore,  showing  res- 
cues will  be  accused  of  faking.  This  film  will  be  offered  in 
the  open  market,  with  no  restriction  as  to  territory.  It 
will  be  first  'Iiokii  in  Chicago. 

*  *     * 

Carl  Ray.  the  well-known  moving  picture  theater  owner 
hi  Muskegon,  Mich.,  writes  that  he  will  return  home  on  April 
1st  from  Los  Angeles,  where  he  has  been  wintering  for  the 
last  three  months.  He  will  return  to  Los  Angeles  some  time 
in  Tune  to  begin  building  his  new  residence  in  Los  Angeles, 
in  the  fashionable  residential  district  of  Hollywood,  on  Haw- 
thorne Avenue  and  Fuller  Street.  Mr.  Ray  reports  that  all 
moving  picture  theaters  in  Los  Angeles  are  kept  very  busy. 


Screen  Club  Visited  by  Flames. 

Lively    Work    on   the    Part   of    Members   Prevents    Loss    of 
Mementoes  and  Records — Ball  Committee  Appointed. 

THE  Screen  Club  was  visited  by  fire  in  its  rooms  at  163 
West  Forty-fifth  Street  at  8  o'clock  on  the  evening  of 
March  31.  The  blaze  originated  in  the  establishment  on 
the  ground  floor,  and  by  some  was  ascribed  to  defective  in- 
sulation. Louis  Gellung  was  one  of  the  first  to  notice  the 
smoke.  He  called  the  attention  of  the  steward  and  of  Herbert 
Brenon  to  the  fact.  Mr.  Brenon  went  down  stairs  and 
looked  through  the  window  of  the  store  under  the  club.  Then 
he  called  a  policeman,  who  turned  in  an  alarm.  Mr.  Brenon 
then  returned  to  the  rooms  and  informed  the  members  gath- 
ered in  the  dining  room.  There  was  no  excitement,  but  there 
was  much  haste.  Joe  Farnham,  going  after  his  overcoat,  no- 
ticed a  package  of  towels.  These  he  soaked  in  water  and  dis- 
tributed to  the  volunteer  salvage  corps,  which  was  working 
in  the  different  rooms.  Pictures  were  pulled  from  the  walls. 
records  were  taken  out.  the  great  mirror  in  the  smoking  room 
was  carried  into  the  front  of  the  house,  the  piano  was 
moved  and — most  important  of  all  just  at  this  time — the 
badges,  tickets  and  all  printing  matter  on  hand  for  the  Screen 
Club  ball  on  April  19,  at  Lexington  Opera  House,  Terrace 
Garden,  were  taken  to  a  place  of  safety.  Among  others  who 
were  groping  in  the  smoke  were  William  Robert  Daly,  "Jake" 
Gerhardt,  and  Harold  Shaw.  All  stuck  to  the  ship  until  after 
the  arrival  of  the  firemen  and  until  they  were  told  in  none 
too  gentle  manner  to  "beat  it."  Flames  were  then  appearing 
in  the  library. 

The  firemen  pulled  up  the  carpets,  chopped  out  the  walls 
along  the  floor  for  a  distance  of  fifty  feet,  and  made  quick 
work  in  extinguishing  the  blaze.  The  departmental  estimate 
of  the  damage  was  $5,000.  most  of  which,  however,  was  sus- 
tained by  the  store  on  the  ground  floor.  The  Screen  Club, 
thanks  to  the  business  foresight  of  President  Baggot.  is  fully 
insured,  and  has  been  from  the  day  the  club  was  fitted  up. 
Mr.  Baggot  was  on  his  way  to  the  club  while  the  fire  was  in 
progress,  and  was  among  the  first  to  enter  when  the  firemen 
gave  permission.  It  is  expected  that  the  rooms  will  be  re- 
habilitated by  the  end  of  the  week.  As  soon  as  the  members 
were  permitted  to  return  to  their  quarters  all  gathered  about 
the  piano,  and  under  the  direction  of  "Bob"  Daly  heartily 
sang  the  Screen  Club  Anthem.  Later  a  long  telegram  was 
dispatched  to  Vice-President  Arthur  V.  Johnson.  It  was 
couched  in  language  that  will  be  understood  by  none  better 
than  its  recipient  and  at  the  same  time  testified  to  the  regard 
in  which  the  Lubin  leading  man  is  held  by  the  Screeners 

The  fire  is  bound  to  arouse  still  greater  interest  in  the  forth- 
coming ball.    The  following  committees  have  been  named: 

Reception  Committee:  Siegmund  Lubin,  chairman;  Carl 
Laemmle.  Adolf  Zukor.  P.  A.  Powers.  Harvey  P.  Salter,  C. 
J.  Hite.  Charles  Jourjon,  Herbert  Blache,  Robert  H.  Coch- 
rane, A.  J.  Kessel,  Jr.,  Darwin  Karr,  C.  O.  Baumann,  James 


Kirkwood,  Mark  Dintenfass,  Billy  Quirk,  William  H.  Swan- 
son,  Owen  Moore,  J.  V.  Ritchie,  Herbert  Prior,  George 
Magie,  Francis  X.  Bushman,  Louis  Gasnier,  Harry  Meyers, 
William  Steiner,  Edwin  August,  Herbert  Miles,  Maurice  Cos- 
tello,  Earle  Williams,  Warren  Kerrigan,  J.  E.  Balshofer, 
James  Cruze,  William  A.  Bechtel,  Irving  Cummings,  J.  Searle 
Dawley,  William  E.  Shay,  Hector  Dion,  William  Oldknow 
and  Edward  O'Connor.       , 

Floor  Committee:  Herbert  Brenon  and  William  Robert 
Daly,  chairmen;  L.  R.  Johnstone,  Charles  Abrams,  J.  W. 
Johnston,  Al  McGovern,  Yale  Benner,  Worthy  Butts,  Paul 
Scardon,  Charles  Arling,  B.  F.  Messen,  Harry  Benham, 
Harold  Shaw,  Joseph  Hopp,  J.  B.  Totten,  S.  M.  Spedon,  Ed 
Barry,  Julius  Stern,  Ingvald  C.  Oes,  Frank  Tichenor,  Paul 
Panzer,  Augustus  Phillips,  Charles  Kessel,  Frank  Powell  and 
William  Garwood.  ,  , 

Ushers:  Frank  Smith,  chairman;  Bert  Adler,  Joe  Miles, 
H.  Z.  Levine,  Dr.  Ivory,  Moe  Streimer,  William  McCoy,  Wen- 
del  Milligan,  J.  Parker  Read,  Frank  Carroll,  Lee  Beggs,  W. 
J.  Welsh,  Will  Lewis,  Matt  Snyder,  Frank  Griffin,  Howard 
Crampton,  Billy  Haddock,  Ed  Lincoln,  George  Blaisdell, 
George  Edward  Hall,  Hopp  Hadley,  George  Proctor  and 
Eustace  Hale  Ball. 

Joe  Farnham  is  now  the  corresponding  secretary  of  the 
Screen  Club,  Calder  Johnstone  having  resigned  his  member- 
ship in  the  club. 

The  Screen  Club  has  opened  a  subscription  for  the  flood 
sufferers,  the  club  itself  heading  the  list  with  $50.  The  amount 
is  piling  up. 


SEE  'EM  AS  GHOSTS! 

Marguerite  Snow  and  James  Cruze  have  played  every 
known  kind  of  part  in  the  Thanhouser  films  except  that  of — 
ghost!  So  it  should  be  with  some  degree  of  curiosity  that 
you  look  for  them  in  the  release  of  Sunday,  April  6th,  "When 
Ghost  Meets  Ghost,"  wherein  the  two  Thanhouser  favorites 
are  the  very  specters  in  mention.  But  it  is  a  specter  story 
that  won't  scare  the  youngsters  in  your  audience,  for  it  is 
a  purely  comedy  plot  that  is  worked  up  without  any  "hor- 
rors" or  "terrors."  You  see,  there's  an  old  comedy  bachelor 
who  lives  in  the  funniest  old  haunted  house.  The  wraiths 
are  a  lady  ghost  and  a  ghost  in  armor,  and  they  are  around 
too  much  to  suit  the  funny  old  bach.  He  plans  to  rid  him- 
self of  the  ghosts  by  having  them  meet,  for  he  suspects  that 
they  might  fall  in  love  and  elope.  Sure  enough,  he  does 
"pull  off"  a  meeting,  and  sure  enough  they  do  fall  in  love 
and  run  off.  The  bachelor,  clear  of  ghosts,  settles  back  in 
his  broad  armchair  and  smiles,  but  he  had  figured  without  his 
specters.  They  just  loved  the  old  home  so  they  couldn't  stay 
away.  Arm  in  arm,  and  each  gazing  lovingly  into  the  other's 
eyes,  they  returned. 


FRED  MACE'S  PLANS. 

Owing  to  the  floods  and  the  congested  condition  of  the 
wires,  only  the  bare  announcement  of  Fred  Mace's  retire- 
ment from  the  Keystone  Company  could  be  printed  last 
week.  It  now  appears  that  he  is  putting  into  execution  a 
long-cherished  scheme  of  his  of  putting  out  his  own  product. 
He  will  make  three  reels  a  week,  one  split  reel  of  farce  in 
which  he  will  appear,  one  Western  and  one  Indian  or  straight 
dramatic  story.  These  will  all  be  specially  written  for  the 
stock  companies  under  his  management  and  will  be  released 
through  the  companies  making  the  highest  bid  for  the 
product.  It  is  possible — even  probable — that  the  comedies 
will  bear  the  trade  mark  of  one  of  the  licensed  manufacturers. 

Since  he  went  to  Keystone,  Mr.  Mace  has  been  writing 
and  directing  the  split  reels,  as  well  as  acting  in  them,  and 
for  some  time  past  he  has  been  working  on  a  scheme  for 
production  on  a  footage  basis.  He  wired  Kessler  and  Bau- 
man  last  week  his  resignation,  taking  effect  to-day.  He  has 
been  asked  by  wire  to  reconsider  this  determination,  but  the 
encouragement  he  has  received  has  induced  him  to  adhere 
to  his  plan. 

During  his  long  career  with  the  Biograph.  Mace  became  a 
tremendous  favorite  and  carried  his  partisans  over  to  the  in- 
dependent camp  when  he  went  over  to  Keystone.  He  feels 
that  with  no  restrictions  on  his  product  he  can  do  even  bet- 
ter work  and  for  some  time  past  has  been  engaged  in  per 
fecting  his  scheme,  which  consists  of  making  production 
which  will  suit  the  personalities  of  the  players  instead  of  re- 
quiring them  to  alter  their  personalities  to  fit  their  parts. 


GRAHAM  BACK  AT  WORK. 
Cecil  Graham,  manager  of  the  Northern  Ventures  Com- 
pany, which  is  handling  the  Harry  Whitney  and  "Lucky" 
Scott  Arctic  Pictures,  has  just  returned  to  his  desk  after  a 
slight  attack  of  typhoid,  contracted  on  a  tour  through  the 
New  England  States. 


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15* 


Doings  at  Los  Angeles 

Universal    Plant    Destroyed    by    Fire — A    Bit    of    Biograph 
Gossip — Kalem  Making  Boer  War  Picture. 

FIRE  practically  wiped  out  the  big  plant  of  the  Universal 
Film  Company  at  Gower  Street  and  Sunset  Boulevard, 
in  this  city,  early  in  the  morning  of  March  26th,  causing 
a  loss  which  it  is  impossible  at  the  present  time  to  estimate. 
The  offices,  developing  rooms  and  dressing  rooms,  valued 
at  about  $7,000,  were  completely  destroyed.  The  unknown 
factor  in  an  estimation  of  the  total  damage  is  the  large  quan- 
tity of  film,  both  raw  and  exposed,  which  was  consumed.  At 
the  time  this  is  written  it  is  not  known  how  much  film  was 
destroyed,  but  it  is  certain  that  among  that  burned  was  a 
large  quantity  which  had  already  been  exposed.  Necessarily 
all  of  this  will  have  to  be  reproduced  and  undoubtedly  it 
represents  a  large  expenditure  for  production. 

Even  the  cause  of  the  origin  of  the  fire  is  a  mystery.  The 
night  force  was  at  work  when  the  flames  were  discovered  in 
the  film  department,  but  they  gained  headway  so  rapidly  that 
by  the  time  the  nearest  fire  companies  had  arrived  the  build- 
ings were  practically  gone.  There  is  a  supposition  that  the 
fire  started  from  an  explosion  of  gas.  Fortunately  those 
who  were  in  the  plant  at  the  time  escaped  without  injury. 
The  big  studio  stage  located  adjoining  the  group  of  build- 
ings was  protected  by  the  firemen  and  suffered  no  damage. 

Before  the  fire  had  been  out  an  hour  preparations  were  be- 
ing made  for  rebuilding  and  probabb'  in  the  end  the  fire  will 
prove  to  be  an  advantage,  for  the  buildings  had  been  erected 
piecemeal  as  the  rapid  growth  of  the  company  demanded  ex- 
tensions, and,  consequently,  the  arrangements  were  far  from 
ideal. 

Biograph  Matters. 

The  change  of  policy  in  the  Biograph  Company,  long  ago 
forecast  in  this  coiumn,  came  to  pass  this  week  when  posters 
were  issued  bearing  photographs  and  names  of  about  a  score 
of  the  members  of  the  acting  department  of  the  organiza- 
tion. Hereafter  the  long  standing  rule,  which  has  enjoined 
the  utmost  secrecy  about  the  names  of  actors  and  actresses 
connected  with  the  company,  will  be  disregarded.  This  long 
standing  rule,  which  made  it  a  grave  offense  for  any  person 
connected  with  the  Biograph  organization  to  give  out  any 
information  concerning  the  identity  of  the  players,  has  been 
one  of  the  curiosities  of  the  motion  picture  industry.  Within 
the  last  year  or  two  the  company  has  had  great  difficulty  in 
maintaining  the  rule  because,  despite  all  that  could  be  done 
to  prevent  it,  the  public  seemed  to  have  a  way  of  obtaining 
the  information  it  wanted  about  its  favorites  and  before  the 
rule  was  abrogated  a  number  of  the  Biograph  players  were 
as  well  known  to  the  public  as  were  the  members  of  other 
companies  which  take  the  public  freely  into  their  confidence. 

Not  half  of  the  Biograph  players  are  included  in  the  poster 
which  has  been  issued,  but  in  all  probability  the  other  names 
and  portraits  will  follow  shortly. 

Apropos  of  the  new  Biograph  policy,  it  may  be  said  that  a 
new  character  woman  made  her  debut  with  Director  David 
N.  Griffith's  company  this  week.  She  is  Jenny  Lee,  an  ex- 
ceptionally talented  actress  who  has  worked  along  "legiti- 
mate" theatrical  lines  for  many  years,  but  who  never  posed 
for  the  motion  picture  camera  until  this  week.  Griffith  has 
long  been  noted  for  his  ability  to  make  marvelous  finds  of 
obscure  actors  and  actresses  who,  under  his  coaching,  soon 
develop  into  stars  of  the  motion  picture  profession.  Such 
were  Mary  Pickford,  Blanch  Sweet  and  May  Marsh.  Jenny 
Lee  is  a  different  type,  but  she  will  probably  be  developed 
into  another  favorite.  Her  first  appearance  will  be  as  the 
strong  woman  who  rules  her  own  home  in  a  forthcoming  pic- 
ture which  will  probably  be  released  under  the  title  of  "His 
Mother's  Son."  Having  been  produced  by  Griffith  it  will  be 
a  Saturday  release. 

Changes  in  Universal. 

Thomas  Ricketts,  the  oldest  director  in  the  Universal 
organization,  who  went  into  it  with  the  Nestor  company 
for  which  he  had  directed  several  years,  is  at  liberty  as  a 
result  of  another  change  of  this  week.  Harry  Pollard,  form- 
erly a  screen  favorite  with  the  Imp  company,  before  the 
organization  of  the  Universal  group,  has  been  promoted  to 
a  directorship.  Announcement  was  made  last  week  that 
Frank  E.  Woods  had  joined  the  Universal  company  as  a 
director.  At  that  time  it  had  not  been  decided  what  brand  he 
would  work  under.  Now  it  is  announced  that  a  company 
will  be  organized  for  him  at  once  and  that  he  will  make 
releases  under  the  Imp  brand.  Since  the  old  Imp  company 
left  Los  Angeles  immediately  after  the  Universal  was  formed 
the  brand  has  not  been  represented  in  this  field.  Woods, 
who  was  formerly  "Spectator"  of  the  Dramatic  Mirror,  came 


to    Los    Angeles   as    a    Kinemacolor    director    seven    months 
ago,  leaving  that  company  two  weeks  ago. 

The  Universal  company  is  starting  this  week  upon  a 
picture  which  will  mark  a  new  departure  for  it— a  venture 
away  from  the  thrilling,  the  spectacular  and  the  elemental 
and  into  the  field  of  what  most  directors  call  "artistic  high- 
brow stuff."  Constance  Crawley  and  Arthur  Maude,  two 
English  Shakespearian  interpreters  of  international  fame, 
who  have  also  identified  themselves  with  everything  that 
is  intellectual  in  drama,  have  been  engaged  to  appear  in 
film  productions  of  Maurice  Maeterlinck's  story  of  "Pelleas 
and  Melisande"  and  Oscar  Wilde's  "A  Florentine  Tragedy." 
Fortunately  they  have  been  assured  that  no  money  will  be 
spared  in  producing  these  two  pictures  as  they  should  be 
produced.  As  an  evidence  that  in  this  case  everything  is 
really  going  to  be  sacrificed  to  art  it  may  be  stated  that  it 
is  not  known  how  many  reels  either  will  make.  In  other 
words  the  story  is  to  be  put  on  correctly  without  regard 
to  the  arbitrary  requirements  of  reels.  Either  may  make 
one  and  a  half  reels  or  six,  but  whatever  it  comes  to  that  is 
what  it  will  be.  If  these  two  experiments  are  successful  other 
"highbrow"  offerings  will  follow. 

Kalem  Making  Boer  War  Picture. 

Nearly  a  year  ago  it  was  announced  in  this  column  that 
George  H.  Melford,  director  of  the  Glendale  Kalem  company, 
was  preparing  to  produce  a  Boer  War  Picture  called  "The 
Battle  of  Paardeburg."  The  arrangements  were  practically 
completed  when  Melford  was  disappointed  in  obtaining  a 
number  of  pieces  of  artillery  of  a  certain  type  and  had  to 
postpone  the  picture.  Since  then  it  has  been  ready  and 
postponed  no  less  than  four  times,  but  this  week,  after  two 
weeks'  work,  he  finishad  it,  and  the  two  reels  of  negative 
are  now.  on  the  way  to  New  York.  Originally  planned  to 
be  a  single  reel  release  the  idea  grew  as  time  went  on  until, 
when  it  was  finally  filmed,  it  became  a  tremendous  spectacle, 
the  biggest  and  by  far  the  most  expensive  picture,  Melford 
says,  he  has  ever  made  since  he  became  a  director.  Not  only 
did  he  take  the  greatest  pains  with  it,  sparing  no  expense, 
but  luck  was  with  him.  In  one  of  the  battle  scenes  a  big 
cannon  exploded  within  twelve  feet  of  the  lens,  and  the 
camera  went  on  working  and  got  it  and  the  aftermath.  The 
unfortunate  feature  of  the  explosion  was  that  three  men 
were  injured,  Jack  Hoxey  seriously.  Hoxey  sustained  a  con- 
cussion of  the  brain  which  rendered  him  unconscious  for 
twelve  hours  and  sent  him  to  the  hospital,  where  he  is  now 
convalescing.  All  the  militiamen  available  in  Southern  Cali- 
fornia were  turned  out  for  the  picture  at  a  cost  of  $1,200 
a  day.  The  cannons  used  were  so  large  that  it  cost  $4  a 
shot  for  powder.  Melford  literally  burned  up  money  in  the 
battle  scenes.  t 

Melford,  by  the  way,  is  soon  to  cease  being  a  "director" 
in  order  that  he  may  become  a  "producer."  A  second  Kalem 
company  to  operate  at  Glendale  is  now  being  organized 
at  headquarters  in  the  East  and  will  be  on  the  ground  in 
a  month  or  six  weeks.  This  will  mean  a  new  director  and 
Melford  will  have  an  assistant  who  will  practically  have 
charge  of  the  present  company,  leaving  Melford  free  to 
supervise  both  companies.  Whether  he  will  also  have  super- 
vision over  the  Santa  Monica  comedy  company  is  not  known. 
His  promotion  is  a  well  merited  recognition  of  the  remark- 
ably fine  work  he  has  been  doing  for  the  company. 

News   Briefs. 

The  announcement  that  Fred  Mace,  next  to  John  Bunny 
probably  the  most  widely  known  motion"  picture  comedian  in 
the  world,  has  quit  the  Keystone  company  is  in  itself  im- 
portant news,  but  not  nearly  so  important  as  what  will  follow. 
The  details  of  the  other  story  are  not  ripe  at  the  present 
time,  but  it  can  be  stated  that  there  is  every  possibility  that 
another  two  months  will  see  Mace  back  in  the  ranks  of 
the  licensed  companies  with  an  organization  of  his  own  under 
his  direction.  Mace  for  several  years  was  the  life  of  the 
Biograph  comedies.  Eight  months  ago  he  left  that  com- 
pany with  Mack  Sennett  when  the  Keystone  company  was 
formed  and  since  then  he  has  been  appearing  in  the  Keystone 
releases.  It  was  not  dissatisfaction  with  the  Keystone  people, 
but  rather  more  tempting  offers  from  another  direction,  it 
is  said,  which  caused  him  to  resign. 

*     *     * 

I  have  received  a  good-natured  reminder  from  the  pro- 
prietors of  the  Union  theater  at  255  South  Main  street  that 
the  oldest  motion  picture  theater  in  Los  Angeles  is  still  in 
the  licensed  ranks.  In  naming  the  downtown  theaters  which 
have  remained  with  the  General  company,  resisting  the 
blandishments  and  other  more  potent  temptations  of  the 
Independents,  I  overlooked  the  Union  theater,  which  cer- 
tainly was  entitled  to  be  well  to  the  front  of  the  list.     The 


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proprietors  say  they  have  no  intention  of  "bowing  the  knee 
to  Baal."  Since  the  list  was  published  the  California,  on 
Spring  street,  has  opened  with  licensed  programs. 

*  *     * 

Members  of  the  Biograph  company  joined  with  a  number 
of  his  personal  friends,  in  and  out  of  the  various  other  motion 
picture  companies  in  this  vicinity  in  presenting  Lew  Dough- 
erty with  a  huge  solid  silver  loving  cup  this  week.  The  cup 
is  a  massive  vessel  holding  more  than  a  gallon  of  "suds" 
and  it  bore  an  inscription  stating  the  circumstances  of  its 
presentation.  With  it  went  a  solid  silver  pocket  flask  and 
a  tiny  loving  cup  for  Dougherty  Junior.  The  presentation 
was  made  at  Dougherty's  home.  Tony  CTSullivan,  who 
lives  across  the  street,  lured  him  over  early  in  the  evening 
long  enough  for  the  mob  to  slip  through  the  alley  and  take 
possession  of  the  absent  man's  home.  When  he  returned 
he  took  one  look  at  the  crowd  and  gave  up  his  goat. 
Dougherty's  withdrawal  from  the  Biograph  company  to  go 
with  the  Kinemacolor  company  was  a  real  blow  to  his  as- 
sociates, for  he  is  the  sort  of  man  who  makes  fast  friendships. 
His  departure  leaves  Billy  Bitzer,  camera  man  and  inventor 
of  "Biograph  photography,"  the  dean  of  the  organization. 
Like  Dougherty,  Bitzer  has  been  with  the  company  ever 
since  the   Biograph  was  a  "bye,"  as   Charley  Murray  would 

say. 

*  *     * 

Apparently  money  is  no  object  to  the  Lubin  Company 
judging  by  the  way  Wilbert  Melville,  producer  for  the  No. 
i  Los  Angeles  Lubin  company,  has  been  spending  it.  For 
the  last  two  weeks  he  has  been  monopolizing  nearly  all  the 
"extra  people"  who  are  available  in  this  vicinity.  His  daily 
salary  lists  must  look  like  a  factory  payroll.  Since  he 
brought  his  company  here  about  Christmas  time  he  has  pulled 
off  a  long  series  of  expensive  pictures,  and  the  fact  that  he 
continues  to  keep  up  the  pace  indicates  that  S.  Lubin  is  will- 
ing  to    spend   his   dollars    "regardless"   so   long   as    he    gets 

results. 

*  *    * 

W.  Christie  Miller,  the  veteran  character  man  of  the  Bio- 
graph company,  has  been  elected  an  honorary  life  member 
of  "The  Photoplayers"  Club.  Next  to  "Pop"  Manley,  of 
the  Powers  company,  who  was  also  given  the  same  honor, 
he  is  the  oldest  actor  in  the  business.  Russell  Bassett,  of 
the  Nestor  company,  who  is  third  on  the  list,  has  been 
promised  an  election  as  soon  as  he  adopts  more  sedate  man- 
ners. P.  M.  POWELL. 


BRADENBURGH  BRINGS  SUIT. 

George  W.  Bradenburgh  of  Philadelphia,  has  brought  suit 
against  the  Motion  Picture  Patents  Company,  of  New  York, 
■for  damages  amounting  to  $50,000  caused  by  the  defendant's 
breach  of  the  Sherman  anti-trust  law.  The  licensees  of  the 
Patents  Company  are  made  defendants  in  the  suit.  Mr. 
Bradenburgh  claims  that  Lubin  et  al  have  formed  a  com- 
bination in  restraint  of  trade  and  have  deprived  him  of  a 
■source  of  supply,  damaging  his  business  to  the  extent  of 
$50,000.     Triple  damages  are  claimed  by  the  plaintiff. 


UNIVERSAL  WESTERN  NOTES. 

F.  W.  Randolph,  who  directed  for  the  Universal  in  the 
Hawaiian  Islands  and  who  has  since  been  directing  under 
the  Nestor  brand,  is  going  to  act  from  now  on  as  assistant 
director  to  Francis  Ford  in  the  new  series  of  Cuban  and 
Philippine  pictures.  Ray  Meyers,  who  has  been  assisting 
and  acting  with  Francis  Ford,  is  transferred  to  Director 
Jack  O'Brien,  with  whom  he  takes  leads.  Alexander  Gaden 
joins    Mr.    Ford's   forces,    and    will    take    leads    and    heavies 

with  him. 

*  *     * 

The  studios  of  the  Western  organization  at  Hollywood 
are  putting  the  finishing  touches  upon  the  wondrously  beau- 
tiful scenes  and  props  for  the  forthcoming  production  of  the 
fairy-spectacle,  "Beauty  and  the  Beast."  It  will  be  presented 
under  the  direction  of  H.  Matthews,  and  promises  to  out- 
rival "Snow  White."  There  will  be  three  great  scenes — an 
old-fashioned   street,   a   brilliant   court-room,   and    the   grand 

staircase  within  the  castle. 

*  *     * 

The  Universal  has  decided  to  put  on  a  series  of  pictures 
dealing  with  Philippine  subjects,  as  well  as  with  the  War 
in  Cuba.  These  will  be  produced  under  the  101  Bison  brand 
at  the  Providencia  Ranch,  now  known  as  Universal  City. 
They  will  be  under  the  direction  of  Francis  Ford,  and  will 
start  with  a  picture  entitled  "Stars  and  Stripes,"  descriptive 


of  the  Cuban  occupation  by  the  United  States,  as  well  as  a 
general  and  correct  idea  of  matters  of  public  interest  in  the 
Cuban  campaign.  The  habits  and  the  manners  of  the  na- 
tives will  be  shown  and  every  phase  of  the  conquest  of  the 
islands  will  be  pictured.  In  order  that  everything  may  be 
correct,  a  large  number  of  special  costumes  have  been  pur- 
chased of  the  1899-19.00  period,  as  well  as  the  arms  that  were 
used  in  the  campaign. 

*  *     * 

Universal  City  is  to  have  its  own  furniture  factory.  The 
idea  had  its  birth  in  the  brain  of  R.  E.  Wortham,  boss  car- 
penter of  the  Hollywood  studios,  and  is  due  to  the  many 
troublesome  delays  that  the  furniture  houses  have  subjected 
them  to.  On  several  occasions  important  pictures  have  been 
held  up  on  account  of  the  non-delivery  of  necessary  furni- 
ture. Last  week,  a  big  freight  load  of  machinery  arrived, 
and  is  being  installed.  From  now  on  the  Universal  will  make 
all  of  its  own  furniture — not  property  stuff,  but  real  furni- 
ture of  all  periods.  With  its  new  storehouses  complete 
there  will  always  be  a  store  from  which  to  draw.  Each  pic- 
ture will  have  its  own  special  furniture. 

*  *     * 

Yet  another  director  has  been  added  to  the  101  Bison 
forces.  He  is  Milton  H.  Fahrney,  who  has  been  connected 
with  the  Nestor  company  since  its  inception.  He  starts  his 
new  job  with  a  two-reel  feature  Civil  War  story,  employing 
the  actors  and  actresses  who  have  been  with  him  so  long. 
Mr.  Fahrney  has  been  at  work  on  the  new  story  for  some 
time,  but  deferred  its  presentation  until  he  had  secured  all 
of  the  correct  costumes  and  details  for  its  production. 


STEWART  WHITE  AND  S.  S.  HUTCHINSON. 

The  above  engraving  is  from  a  photograph  of  Mr.  S.  S. 
Hutchinson  of  the  American  Film  Manufacturing  Company 
and  Stewart  Edward  White,  the  author,  taken  at  Mr.  White's 
winter  home,  Santa  Barbara,  Cal.  Mr.  Hutchinson  has  just 
concluded  arrangements  with  Mr.  White  for  a  series  of  stories 
for  "Flying  A"  pictures. 


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OBSERVATIONS 

^            BY  OUR  MAN  ABOUT  TOWN            ^Jm 

m                                             Mm 

WHILE  not  being  unduly  sentimental  or'  pathetical, 
our  feelings  were  agitated  somewhat  by  comment 
^  made  upon  the  motives  of  a  Brooklyn  moving  pic- 
ture exhibitor  who  offered  one  day's  proceeds  of  his  house 
to  the  fund  for  the  relief  of  the  Western  floods  sufferers. 
"A  clever  advertising  scheme"  was  the  remark  I  overheard 
when  the  offer  was  made.  Nevertheless  the  exhibitor  is 
standing  by  his  offer  and  will  turn  the  proceeds  over  to  the 
relief  committee  operating  at  Columbus,  Ohio.  The  exhibitor 
is  Jacob  Krause,  whose  place  is  at  895  Fulton  Street,  Brook- 
lyn. Apparently  he  was  the  first  of  the  exhibitors  in  Greater 
New  York  to  make  an  offer  of  that  kind.  It  is  hoped  the 
contribution  will  be  a  substantial  one  and,  for  the  sake  of 
rapping  the  cynical  head  that  has  bobbed  up,  we  trust  he 
will  give  equal  publicity  to  the  acknowledgment  of  the  do- 
nation; and  it  is  hoped  he  will  do  this  even  if  the  proceeds 
are  small.     The  spirit  will  be  vindicated. 

*  *     * 

Theaters  throughout  the  country  outside  the  affected  zone 
are  advertising  benefits  for  the  flood  sufferers,  New  York 
managers  being  among  the  most  active,  and  the  only  snarling 
comment  heard  was  the  one  directed  against  the  little  picture 
house  in  Brooklyn.  The  only  answer  that  can  be  made  to  the 
question  as  to  why  commercialism  should  be  charged  against 
the  offer  of  the  moving  picture  manager  is  that  it  comes 
from  that  class  of  people  who  are  so  unqualifiedly  and  un- 
alterably opposed  to  moving  picture  shows  that  they  can  see 
no  virtue  in  them  regardless  of  circumstances.  The  preju- 
dice is  so  deep-rooted  nothing  can  even  suspend  it.  For- 
tunately such  people  have  so  rapidly  lost  the  position  they 
once  held  by  hoodwinking  a  part  of  the  public  that  did  not 
investigate  for  itself  that  the  antagonistic  spirit  is  now  prac- 
tically without  effect.  Lack  of  faith  in  the  fairness  and 
honesty  of  purpose  has  actually  brought  defeat  to  some  very 

creditable  measures. 

*  *     * 

It  has  been  stated  that  the  antagonism  of  clergymen  to  the 
motion  picture  is  beyond  comprehension.  The  truth  is,  but 
a  very  small  percentage  of  them  are  opoosed  to  the  pictures 
themselves.  It  is  the  picture  theater  they  oppose.  Those  in 
the  majority  have  exhibitions  in  their  own  churches  and 
halls.  Those  in  the  minority,  or  most  of  them,  during  the 
campaigns  of  the  past  put  themselves  so  strongly  upon  rec- 
ord  they  cannot   reconcile   themselves   to   a  graceful  retreat 

to  the  ranks  of  the  liberals. 

*  *     * 

Many  of  the  people  who  are  now  staunch  supporters  of 
moving  pictures  are  not  familiar  with  conditions  as  they 
existed  in  the  past  with  regard  to  the  antagonism  shown 
against  them  and  the  burden  exhibitors  carried  in  dealing 
with  it.  Opposition  to  the  pictures  was  not  made  a  straight 
issue  by  the  opposing  forces  until  recent  years,  when  it  de- 
veloped incidentally  in  the  censorship  campaign.  The  forces 
that  had  been  fighting  for  years  what  they  could  not  attain 
in  or  out  of  the  courts  saw  an  opportunity  to  get  it  by  taking 
up  the  censorship  agitation,  which  necessarily  placed  them 
on  record  as  being  opposed  to  the  pictures  themselves  to  an 
extent. 

*  *     * 

Now  look  the  whole  situation  squarely  in  the  face  as  it 
existed  in  New  York  City  and  vicinity  and  it  will  be  seen  that 
the  moving  picture  people  have  not  been  antagonistic  to  the 
views  of  the  clergy  because  they  felt  the  latter  were  opposed 
to  the  pictures  themselves.  The  differences  were  based  upon 
the  belief  that  those  of  the  clergy  responsible  for  the  many 
agitations  were  so  persistently  inconsistent  in  their  declara- 
tions, charges  and  actions  that  they  became  unreasonable 
and  many  times  oppressive.  Canon  Chase  is  one  of  the  most 
prominent  and  respected  men  in  the  field  of  religious  work 
in  this  country.  No  one  doubts  that  he  is  sincere  and  ani- 
mated by  the  best  of  motives.  But  local  moving  picture  his- 
tory shows  that  at  times  he  has  been  overzealous  and  at  other 
times  has  given  reason  to  believe  he  was  not  consistent. 

*  *     * 

The  original  campaign,  started  several  years  ago,  was 
against  the  exhibition  of  moving  pictures  on  Sundays.  Canon 
Chase  was  one  of  the  veterans.  The  claim  was  that  it  inter- 
fered seriously  with  the  attendance  of  children  at  the  after- 


noon Sunday-schools.  The  motion  picture  people  for  the 
first  time  entered  the  plea  of  inconsistency  and  discrimina- 
tion. They  pointed  out. that  neighboring  theaters  were  Tun- 
ing Sunday  concerts  and  the  pictures  would  be  withdrawn  if 
the  enforcement  of  the  law  became  universal.  The  concerts 
continued,  and  so  did  the  pictures.  Then  a  campaign  started 
against  the  Novelty  Theater  in  Brooklyn,  the  charges  being 
directed  against  the  pictures.  It  was  shown  that  the  identi- 
cal pictures  exhibited  there  were  identical  with  the  pictures 
shown  each  preceding  Sunday  at  the  Majestic  Theater  in  the 
same  city,  but  the  latter  house  was  never  interfered  with. 
Why  the  discrimination  was  made  was  never  explained.  The 
same  parties  conducting  the  campaign  against  the  Novelty 
had  equal  jurisdiction  against  the  Majestic,  but  did  not  act. 


*     *     * 


Then  followed  a  calm.  But  it  was  of  short  duration.  Sud- 
denly a  campaign  was  launched  that  almost  put  most  of  the 
picture  exhibitors  out  of  business.  Without  a  word  of  warn- 
ing the  building,  electrical,  fire,  health  and  fire  insurance  de- 
partments fell  upon  the  necks  of  the  exhibitors  with  demand* 
for  alterations  and  improvements  in  the  houses  that  brought 
to  most  of  the  proprietors  visions  of  bankruptcy.  In  many 
cases  the  orders  were  quite  proper;  in  many  others  the  justi- 
fication for  the  sweeping  demands  were  questionable  at 
least.  There  was  a  strong  belief  on  the  part  of  the  exhibitors 
that  the  campaign  was  not  entirely  due  to  voluntary  action 
on  the  part  of  the  departments,  especially  when  those  who 
were  not  inclined  to  act  promptly  because  the  same  action 
was  not  taken  against  regular  theaters  who  were  guilty  of 
many  of  the  same  violations  were  told,  "Live  up  to  the  re- 
quirements, or  get  out  of  business.  Never  mind  other  places." 

*  *     * 

Then  came  the  morality  campaign,  then  the  agitation 
against  admission  of  children  under  a  certain  age,  and  finally 
the  agitation  on  the  censorship  question,  which  was  injected 
into  discussions  and  ordinances  in  spite  of  the  emphatic 
declaration  of  probably  as  qualified  a  jurist  as  ever  sat  upon 
the  Supreme  Court  bench  in  New  York  that  the  proposed 
measure  was  unconstitutional. 

*  *     * 

So  when  you  look  the  field  over  and  weigh  all  the  condi- 
tions and  developments  carefully,  it  is  not  difficult  to  com- 
prehend that  Canon  Chase  and  others  of  the  clergy  have  been 
one  of  the  two  influences  against  the  motion  picture  busi- 
ness and  their  efforts  have  not  been  restricted  to  the  censor- 
ship agitation.  Their  opposition  is  not  of  the  same  character 
as  in  the  past  because  the  obeyance  of  the  laws  by  the  pic- 
ture people  has  robbed  it  of  its  effect,  but  there  is  not  one 
of  the  latter  who  does  not  feel  himself  justified  in  the  belief, 
in  view  of  all  the  past,  that  nothing  would  be  more  gratifying 
to  a  certain  portion  of  the  opposition  than  to  see  all  the  pic- 
ture houses  wiped  out  of  existence.  Why  beat  about  the 
bush  and  have  nicture  theater  people  try  and  console  them- 
selv  s  with  the  thought  that  the  years  of  agitations  and  an- 
noyances they  have  been  dragged  through  was  not  due  to 
hostility?  The  other  influence  is  hardly  worth  referring  to 
for  the  reason  that  the  vaudeville  and  theatrical  interests 
have  gracefully  taken  their  medicine.  Their  fight  was  a 
bitter  one  while  it  lasted.  With  them  it  was  a  question  of 
survival  that  made  even  persecution  pardonable.  They  tried 
to  stay  the  progress  of  the  progress  and  not  to  annihilate 
them,  and  some  of  them  are  glad  to-day  that  the  motion 
pictures  won  out.  One  of  the  Shuberts  recently  said:  "All 
of  my  houses  that  are  not  tied  up  by  contracts  are  onen  to 
any  responsible  people  who  want  to  put  pictures  into  them. 
Why,  look  at  us  fellows  investing  thousands  upon  thousands 
in  putting  up  big  houses,  putting  on  big  attractions  in  plays 
and  people,  and  turn  over  and  see  these  moving  picture  peo- 
ple walk  in  and  show  us  how  to  make  money.  I  used  to 
think  the  pictures  were  a  joke,  Dut  I  don't  now."  And  his 
recent  investments  show  it. 

*  *    * 

There  is  one  solution  for  the  wiping  out  of  the  feeling  that 
has  existed  between  the  other  hostile  influence  and  the  mov- 
ing picture  people.  Let  the  former  become  reconciled  to  the 
fact  that  the  moving  picture  business  is  a  legitimate  one, 
backed  by  plenty  of  legitimate  capital  invested  by  people  who 
desire  to  be  recognized  as,  and  demand  the  right  to  be  classed 
with,  other  legitimate  and  law-abiding  people.  When  causes 
for  complaint  ari»<!  let  conferences  be  arranged  in  a  business- 
like way.  There  will  be  found  on  the  picture  side  enough 
brains,  honesty  of  purpose  and  sense  of  morality  to  speedily 
bring  about  an  adjustment  of  any  question  that  arises  on  a 
basis  of  reason,  equity  and  welfare  for  all  concerned,  directly 
or  indirectly.  Rushing  to  legislatures,  boards  of  aldermen 
and  into  couits  without  an  effort  at  arbitration  is  expensive, 
and  particularly  distasteful  to  the  under  dog,  even  if  he  suc- 
ceeds in  getting  on  top.     Hear  the  other  side  before  leaping. 


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"The  Fighting  Chaplain" 

Latest  of  Kalem  Series  Dealing  with  Picturesque  Types  of 
Civil  War  Volunteers. 

In  presenting  their  spectacular  Civil  War  dramas  based 
upon  historical  occurrences,  it  is  apparently  the  purpose  of 
the  Kalem  Company  to  portray  the  various  walks  of  life 
represented  by  the  Civil  War  volunteers.  The  producers  an- 
nounce that  the  latest  of  the  season's  series,  "The  Fighting 
Chaplain,"  like  its  predecessors,  is  based  upon  an  actual 
happening  and  the  incident  of  a  Vermont  minister  who,  as 
Chaplain,  rallied  his  comrades  in  a  time  of  panic,  has  formed 
the  nucleus  of  a  thrilling  production  which  the  scenario 
writer   and    director   have    developed   with    exceptional   skill. 

The  story  concerns  Reverend  John  Barlow,  minister  in  a 
small  New  England  village,  who  acquires  the  reputation  for 
timidity  because  he  believes  that  a  man  of  peace  should  not 
become  aggressive  at  any  time.  This  attitude  is  particularly 
distressing  to  Marian  Wells,  a  girl  of  the  congregation,  with 
whom  the  minister  is  in  love  and  who,  in  response  to  his 
proposal,  replies  that  she  can  only  marry  a  brave  man.  Bar- 
low joins  a  regiment  of  volunteers  in  which  Marian's  father 
is  a  Captain  and  as  Chaplain  he  inspires  the  soldiers  to  deeds 
of  daring  by  his  stirring  sermons.  In  a  terrific  combat  with 
the  enemy  the  Captain  is  wounded  and  the  hospital  corps  is 
put  to  flight  by  a  shower  of  bullets.  Unmindful  of  the  shot 
and  shell  the  Chaplain  carries  Wells  to  a  place  of  refuge. 
Later  Marian  arrives  on  the  scene  to  nurse  her  father  and  a 
large  band  of  guerrillas  attacks  the  camp  when  most  of  the 
troops  have  left  to  reconnoiter.  The  Chaplain  directs  the 
construction  of  a  crude  barricade  and  when  he  sees  that  the 
defenders  cannot  cope  with  the  marauders,  he  plunges  into 
the  midst  of  the  guerrillas  and  makes  his  way  to  the  stable- 
tent,  where  he  secures  a  horse  and  dashes  after  the  troops. 
After  a  desperate  ride  he  overtakes  the  soldiers,  who  return 
to  camp  in  time  to  prevent  the  annihilation  of  the  small 
party  which  has  valiantly  resisted  the  assault  of  the  besiegers. 


Mr.  Guy  Coombs  enacts  the  role  of  Barlow  with  his  usual 
force  and  finesse  and  Miss  Marguerite  Courtot,  the  six- 
teen year  old  "Kalem  beauty,"  brings  a  great  deal  of  charm 
to  the  part  of  Marian  Wells.  The  stirring  battle  scenes  and 
the  terrific  assault  of  the  guerrillas  are  splendidly  conceived 
and  executed. 

"The  Fighting  Chaplain"  will  be  released  Saturday,  April 
26th,  and  special  one,  three  and  six-sheet  posters,  depicting 
sensational  scenes  in  the  play,  may  be  had  from  the  usual 
sources. 


NEW  GENERAL  MANAGER  FOR  NICHOLAS  POWER 
COMPANY. 

It  is  announced  by  the  Nicholas  Power  Company  that  they 
have  engaged  the  services  of  Mr.  J.  F.  Skerrett  as  General 
Manager.  Mr.  Skerrett  is  splendidly  equipped  for  the  duties 
of  his  office,  having  been  for  sixteen  years  associated  with 
the  Bureau  of  Electrical  Inspection  in  the  Department  of 
Water  Supply,  Gas  and   Electricity  of  New  York   City. 

The  new  General  Manager  entered  upon  his  duty  on  April 
1st,  and  has  already  taken  a  firm  grip  on  affairs.  It  is  pre- 
dicted that  he  will  prove  a  distinct  aquisition  to  this  concern. 


ENTERPRISING  CANADIAN  EXHIBITOR. 

The  Moving  Picture  World  wishes  to  acknowledge  a 
friendly  call  by  Mr.  Paul  LeMarguand,  president  of  the  Star- 
land,  Ltd.,  of  Winnipeg,  Man.  Mr.  LeMarquand  is  one  of 
the  progressive  exhibitors  of  Canada.  His  houses  are  of  the 
highest  class  and  are  quite  numerous,  extending  into  the 
States.  The  number  now  totals  fifteen — thirteen  in  Canada 
and  two  in  the  United  States.  The  latest  is  the  Empress  of 
Omaha,  which  was  built  at  a  cost  of  $165,000  and  is  considered 
one  of  the  finest  in  the  country. 

Regarding  business  conditions  in  Canada,  Mr.  LeMarquand 
expressed  himself  as  well  pleased.  He  .was  accompanied  on 
his  trip  to  New  York  by  his  father,  Mr.  A.  LeMarquand. 


Scene  from  "The  Fighting  Chaplain,"  a  Kalem  War  Picture. 


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155 


Advertising'  for  Exhibitors 

Conducted  by  EPES  WINTHROP  SARGENT 


Send  Out  Checks. 

SENDING  out  a  small  check  ostensibly  to  pay  for  time  consumed  in 
reading  an  advertisement,  but  in  reality  to  attract  attention,  is  no  new 
scheme,  but  Taylor  and  Ford,  of  the  Star  Theater,  Cripple  Creek, 
Colorado,  appear  *o  have  been  the  first  to  apply  this  to  photoplay.  They 
sent  out  actual  checks  that  were  good  for  two  cents  each  at  the  State  Bank, 
the  only  difference  being  that  these  checks  are  void  after  thirty  days;  a  de- 
tail that  few  of  the  recipients  will  notice.     They  write: 

The  enclosed  circular  letter  with  bank  check,  is  self-explanatory. 
We  mailed  out  one  thousand  of  these  and  results  were  highly  satis- 
factory. Cripple  Creek  has  a  population  of  about  5,400,  and  we 
played  to  a  total  of  2,532  paid  admissions  for  the  three  nights.  To 
date,  only  11  checks  have  been  presented  for  payment,  the  actual 
cost  being  printing  and  stamped  envelopes  same  as  herewith.  The 
scheme  seems  to  be  a  good  one  in  a  small  town,  for  it  had  every- 
body talking  about  the  Star. 

We  have  a  regular  mailing  list  of  700  which  we  use  once  every 
six  or  seven  weeks,  always  sealed  with  2c  stamp,  and  about  600  of 
same  being  addressed  to  women;  find  this  a  better  business  getter 
than  three  times  same  amount  of  money  expended  in  hand-hills 
or  dodgers. 

The  letter  read  as  follows: 

Enclosed  please  find  our  check  in  the  sum  of  $.02  to  your  order 
to  pay  for  two  minutes  of  your  time. 

We  wish  you  to  know  that  we  are  showing  a  better  class  of 
moving  pictures— MORE  REAL  rEATURE  PHOTOPLAYS— than 
ever  before,  while  our  vaudeville  attractions  are  equal  to,  if  not  su- 
perior, to  those  of  the  past. 

Next   Sunday,   March    9,   for   three   nights  only,   we  are   bringing 
here  the  celebrated  two-reel  FEATURE   SUBJECT,  "THE  COW- 
BOY MILLIONAIRE,'*  and  we  particularly  desire  you  to  see  it, 
and  pass  criticism  on  it.    Thanking  you  for  past  patronage,  we  are, 
Very  truly  yours, 

TAYLOR  &  FORD,  Star  Theater. 

The  letter  is  in  typewriter  type  but  printed  with  straight  inking  instead 
of  through  silk.  The  check  will  attract  attention  without  too  close  an  imi- 
tation of  typing  in  the  letter.  The  checks  that  were  put  through  went 
through  from  curiosity  and  simply  add  to  the  value  of  the  scheme  since  the 
recipient  is  generally  careful  to  assure  all  her  friends  that  the  check  was 
really  good. 

We  think  that  a  more  ornamental  check  would  have  been  even  better. 
We  have  two  checks  of  The  Great  Lafayette,  who  was  killed  a  couple  of 
years  ago  in  a  theater  fire,  that  brought  him  more  advertising  than  his  posted 
paper.  Both  are  rather  large  and  carry  scenes  from  his  magical  act,  his 
own  portrait,  the  picture  of  his  dog  Beauty,  and  much  extraneous  adver- 
tising. Embossed  checks  would  not  have  paid  for  this  run  of  1,000,  but  a 
half-tone  of  "The  Cowboy  Millionaire"  on  the  back  of  the  check  would  have 
attracted  even  more  attention. 

A  Cameraphone  Idea. 

The  most  recent  Cameraphone  Bulletin  to  hand  carries  an  interesting  back 
page  in  which  the  result  of  a  recent  contest  is  given.  It  will  interest  other 
thinking  managers: 

Two  weeks  ago  we  spoke  of  being  curious  to  learn  the  impression 
made  on  the  minds  of  many  school  boys  and  girls  by  their  frequent 
visits  to  our  theater.  We  offered  three-months'  passes  to  those  who 
sent  in  the  best  letters.  A  number  of  them  have  been  received, 
but  we  can  only  quote  from  most  of  them,  on  account  of  lack  of 
space. 

However,  we  have  decided  to  print  in  full  one  letter  we  consider 
especially  good.  It  is  from  Mr.  Russell  Willison  and  reads  as 
follows: 

"Moving  pictures  are  a  benefit,  not  only  in  the  amusement  which 
they  afford,  but  also  on  account  of  their  educational  features.  The 
habits  of  wild  animals,  the  growing  and  development  of  plants,  inci- 
dents in  history,  scenes  from  foreign  countries,  scenes  of  construc- 
tion, such  as  the  Panama  Canal,  and  experiments  of  mechanics  and 
science  may  all  be  seen  by  means  of  moving  pictures,  and  often  in 
no  other  way.  Again,  old  masterpieces  can  be  reproduced  with 
more  realistic  settings  than  the  original,  and  the  current  events  are 
kept  continually  before  one's  eyes. 

"The  most  important  element  in  regard  to  the  educational  side 
of  the  moving  picture  is  the  fact  that  these  things  when  once  seen 
are  remembered  much  more  easily  than  something  that  has  merely 
been  read  or  heard  of. 

"Although  there  are  some  theaters  which  show  only  scenes  of  crime 
and  excitement,  and  it  is  doubtful  where  there  is  any  benefit  to  be 
derived  from  such,  yet  it  is  undoubtedly  true  that  the  higher  grade 
theaters  are  of  benefit  to  its  patrons.     Truly  yours, 

"Russell  Willison." 


Silas  Adelsheim  in  his  letter  says:  "They  give  you  high  ambi- 
tions and  teach  you  to  always  do  what  is  right.  In  different  pic- 
tures you  see  the  works  of  nature,  the  making  of  the  products  of 
the  world  and  the  different  types  of  man  and  animal." 

So  it  looks  to  us  that  our  policy  of  showing  something  of  ar 
educational  nature  in  each  day's  program  was  having  the  effect  we 
are  trying  for. 

John  F.  Burke  writes:  "They  have  increased  my  Imagination, 
and  a  good  imagination  is  very  important  in  school  work.  They 
have  given  me  valuable  points  in  history,  chemistry,  geography  and 
other  studies  which  I  would  not  have  been  able  to  get  from  books. 
They  have  shown  means  for  preserving  health  which  we  would 
never  hear  of  at  school.  They  help  in  giving  us  an  idea  of  the 
people  and  places  outside  our  own  city  and  country.  Many  places 
we  would  never  be  able  to  visit  are  made  familiar  to  us  by  the 
moving  pictures." 

Paul  McNamara  tells  us:  "They  help  me  in  my  studies,  espe- 
cially the  'Current  Events/  which  help  me  in  history;  they  instruct 
in  matters  concerning  manufactures,  and  enlighten  in  the  manners 
and  customs  of  foreign  countries." 

Mr.  John  Kleman  says:     "The  industries  of  the  United   States 
and  of  foreign   countries  are  educational  and  interesting.      I   like 
pictures  like  the  tobacco  industry,  cotton  industry  and  the  rubber 
industry  in  India.     The  scenic  and  historic  pictures  are  also  inter- 
esting.    The  historic  pictures  help  me  a  good  deal  in  my  studies, 
because  it  is  easier  to  remember  a  picture  when  shown  on  a  screen 
than  to  remember  it  from  a  book." 
There  is  more  to   the  same  effect,   but   enough   is   shown  to   prove?  that 
such  a  contest  can  be  used  to  offset  any  agitation  against  the  picture,  or, 
as  in  the  case  of  the  Cameraphone,  to  create  an  effect  where  there  is  no> 
such  opposition. 

Another  Scheme. 

Another  Cameraphone  scheme  is  the  presentation  of  a  lucky  coin  on  » 
certain  night,  this  being  of  composition  metal.  It  will  be  accepted  at  * 
valuation  of  ten  cents  in  payment  for  a  dollar  book  of  tickets,  or  may  be 
carried  as  a  pocket  piece.  Having  several  houses,  the  cost  may  be  distributed 
among  the  group,  but  the  coins  themselves  are  inexpensive,  once  the  dies 
are  procured. 

More  Verse. 

A  correspondent  from  Union  City,  Pa.,  sends  in  an  advertising  card 
gotten  out  by  the  Cooper  Opera  House.  The  idea  can  be  adapted  to  other 
places. 

There  were  two  guys 

Who  put  two 

But  it  was  me 

Who  put  the 

For  Photoplays,  best  and  new, 

I  am  nightly  showing  you 

They  are  a  hit 

And  certainly 

If  it  hurts  you  to  grin, 

Bring  your  doctor 

Our  new  chairs,  too,  are  it 

For  a  good  comfortable 

If  there's  anything  wreng 

Please  "put  me 

For  I  am  the  guy 

Who  wants  to  know 

When  looking  for  me 

Just  ask  lor 

Got  Up  Behind  Them. 

Clean  Wade  Mount,  of  the  Martz  Theater  Company,  Tipton,  Ind.,  sends 
the  details  of  a  scheme  that  can  be  worked  to  advantage  in  any  town  of 
ten  or  twelve  thousand  or  under.  We  hope  that  he  will  send  in  the  details 
of  the  coming  contest  he  speaks  of.  This  assuredly  should  be  a  business- 
getter  almost  anywhere  it  is  practicable  to  work  it. 

We  have  just  terminated  a  business-stimulating  contest  that, 
because  of  its  success,  we  recommend  to  exhibitors  in  cities  of 
15,000  population  and  under. 

By  the  aid  of  a  local  photographer  we  had  rear  view  snap  shot 
pictures  taken  of  thirty  of  our  most  prominent  and  well-known 
citizens,  men  and  women,  the  subjects  themselves  not  being  aware 
of  the  fact  that  their  pictures  were  taken.  For  two  weeks  prior 
to  showing  these  pictures  we  kept  throwing  upon  our  screen  the 
words  "Who  Are  You?"  also  ran  blackface  12-point  locals  in  each 
of  the  papers.  Curiosity  was  naturally  aroused.  We  then  an- 
nounced that  we  had  these  pictures;  that  we  would  throw  five  of 
them  on  the  screen  each  night  until  the  full  thirty  had  been 
shown,  the  one  guessing  nearest  correctly  who  all  of  them  were 
to  receive  $10  in  gold;  in  case  ^f  tie,  to  be  decided  by  lot.  On 
next  to  the  last  night  we  announced  the  reproduction  of  the  entire 
set  for  the  following  night,  giving  all  an  opportunity  to  make  a 
guess.  j 


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THE    MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


With  most  unfavorable  weather  conditions,  our  house  was  taxed 
to  capacity  on  the  last  evening  for  both  shows  (we  seat  1,000), 
and  the  business  throughout  the  contest  was  more  than  a  hundred 
per  cent,  increase. 

Many,  of  course,  did  not  register  their  guesses,  but  of  over  a 
thousand  registered,  but  two  guessed  all  correctly,  and  the  largest 
percentage  of  error  was  upon  perhaps  the  two  best  known  subjects 
•hown.  A  large  number  guessed  all  but  one  or  two,  many  being  as 
easy  to  identify  as  if  front  views  had  been  taken. 

We  were  more  than  pleased  with  the  result  of  this  contest,  and 
have  in  mind  the  production  of  another  similar,  and  yet  much  dif- 
ferent, one  in  the  near  future.  In  cities  where  everybody  knows 
everybody  else  and  everybody's  business  we  believe  this  character 
of  a  contest  will  always  win. 


More  Argument. 

Here  are  some  figures  that  may  be  changed  to  suit  local  conditions  and 
drive  home  the  argument  that  nothing  is  cheap  but  the  price.  It  comes 
from  A.  R.  Lawrence,  of  the  Bijou  tneater,  Edmonton,  Canada,  and  each 
leaflet,  distributed  through  the  mails,  carried  with  it  a  strip  of  several 
frames  of  the  Coronation  of  King  George  V. 

THOUGHTS   FOR   1913 
$5,000,000  Expenditure  on  your  part  would  not  produce  and  manu- 
facture the  kinematograph  films  to  be  shown  at  the  Ed- 
monton theaters  during  1913. 
$1,000,000  Would  not  purchase  the  real  estate  and  property  occu- 
pied by  the  kinematograph  theaters  of  Edmonton. 
$100,000  Will    not    pay    the    salaries    of    those    employed    at    the 
kinematograph  theaters  of  Edmonton  during  1913. 
$40,000  Represents  in  part  the  amount  to  be  paid  by  the  kine- 
matograph theater  managers  for  the  use  of  films  to  be 
shown  in  Edmonton  during  1913. 
$7,000   Will  hardly  be  sufficient  to  pay  the  electric  light  bills  of 
the    kinematograph    theaters    for    1913,    besides    licenses, 
water,  telephone  rates,  taxes,  etc.,  to  the  city. 
$1,000  Is  a  drop  in  the  bucket  for  the  advertising  expenses  of 
the    kinematograph    theaters   to   get   you    and    others    to 
attend. 
K.  $250  Will  not  pay  the  printers   for  the  tickets  used  for  ad- 

mission to  the  Edmonton  kinematograph  theaters. 

These    are    but    a    few    of    the    financial    items    to    be 
considered. 

BUT 

xo  Cents  Will    purchase    your  admission   to   the  original,    pioneer 

"Moving    Picture"    theater    of    this    city,    "The    Bijou" 

XT  on    McDougall    Avenue,    opposite    Post    Office.      There 

might    be    some    "just    as    good"    but    there    are    none 

better  to  give  you  the  worth  of  your  money. 

'Nuf  ced. 
Matinee  every  afternoon,  2:30  to  5. 

THE  PIECE  OF  FILM 
enclosed   is    a    portion    of    the    "Coronation    of    King    George    V" 
pictures  which  were  shown  at  the  Bijou  at  the  time. 


More  Money  Dodges. 
The  Rex  Amusement   Company,  of  Marysville,   Kans.,   has  also  been   dis- 
tributing money,  taking  advantage   of  the  new  five-cent  pieces  which  have 
the  relief  of  a  buffalo  on  one  side  to  give  a  Bison  souvenir.     C.  R.  Blazier, 
the  manager,  writes: 

I  secured  an   all-Bison   program   for  one  night  and   advertised  it 
big  for  a  week  as  a  Bison  Souvenir  Night.     I  put  Bison  all  over 
the  place  and  then  raised  the  price  from  five  and  ten  cents  to  ten 
and   fifteen    cents.      With   each    admission    I    gave   the    souvenir,    a 
1913  nickel  with  the  Bison.     The  response  was  so  great  that  I   ran 
out  of  my  supply   of  nickels  before   the   second   show  was  hardly 
begun,  though  I  had  laid  in  a  supply   I  thought  sufficient  to  meet 
all  needs.      I   secured   the   nickels    from   the   bank.      The   idea   was 
effective,  without  expense,  and  made  more  talk  than  I  anticipated. 
There  are  a  lot  of  good  angles  to  this  idea.     In  the  first  place  everyone 
is   anxious   to   be  one   of   the   first   to   obtain   one   of  the  new   coins.      Not 
knowing  that  this  wa3  to  be  the  souvenir,  the  surprise  added  to  the  attrac- 
tion and  at  the  same  time  a  mild  but  pleasant  sense  of  "sting"  increased 
the  laugh.     For  the  increased  admission  a  full  return  was  given  in  money. 
No  one  was  out  and  everyone   went   out  talking  of  the  cleverness  of  the 
manager.     The  whole  town  probably  knew  the  next  day  what  those  Bison 
souvenirs  were,  and  commented  on  the  effectiveness  of  the  idea.     It  is  odd 
that  none  of  the  large  town  managers  thought  of  this  idea,  though  several 
have  reported  that  they  gave  out  new  coins  in  change,  following  the  lead 
ol  the  United  Cigar  Stores  in  the  towns  covered  by  that  organization. 

Speaking  of  Souvenirs. 
And  speaking  of  souvenirs,  we  have  had  good  reports  of  the  Good  Luck 
banks  advertised   several   times  in    the   pages  of  this  paper.     It   is  a   small 
nickled   affair  in   the  shape  of  a   horseshoe  that  opens  automatically  when 
the  tenth  dime  is  dropped  in.     They  can  be  had  with  the  name  and  address 
of  the  theater  stamped  on  the  back  for  five  cents  each  or  less,  according  to 
the  quantity  ordered  and  they  make  novel  and  effective  souvenirs,  particu- 
larly in  the  houses  where  coupon   books  are  sold.     One  house  used  them 
without  special  stamping  and  tied  to  the  ring  of  each  a  card  that  read: 
When  this  opens  with  the  tenth   dime,  use  the  dollar  for  a 
COUPON    BOOK   OF   24  TICKETS 
to    the 
UNIQUE  THEATER. 
It  Is  something  that  appeals  to  child  and  adult  alike  and  to  all  classes  of 
ons.     Better  still,  it  completely  fills  the  demand  for  something  that  will 
retained  as  a  permanent  advertisement. 


Up  To  Its  Standard. 

The  U-Kum  Theater,  Toronto,  sends  in  some  paper  that  proves  up  to 
the  high  standard  of  this  house.  We  are  particularly  interested  in  a  six- 
page  folder  advertising  "Shylock"  and  "It's  Never  Too  Late  to  Mend"  and 
giving  a  sound  argument  on  the  fire  scare.  The  best  line  reads,  "It  now 
remains  to  have  a  Board  of  Censors  appointed  to  examine  the  heads  of  the 
men  who  supply  the  nonsense  to  the  dailies  relative  to  the  picture  shows." 
It's  not  the  film  or  the  fire  that  makes  the  panic,  but  the  fools  in  the 
audience  and  the  argument  soundly  states  that  "the  safest  place  in  a  panic 
is  the  seat  you're  sitting  in." 

George  D.  Perry,  who  runs  the  house,  has  the  trick  of  wording  his  adver- 
tising attractively  and  then  getting  a  good  typographical  display.  The  best 
appeal  can  be  killed  by  poor  display.  The  copy  and  the  printing  must 
be  equally  good  or  the  full  effect  is  lost.  He  seems  to  favor  a  single  sheet 
of  heavy  cream  paper,  almost  a  yellow,  with  the  title  in  very  bold-faced 
type,  the  name  of  the  house  and  date  in  a  lighter  line.  Whatever  the  dis- 
play the  title,  the  U-Kum  and  Tonight  are  the  three  lines  that  stand  out 
above  all  the  rest  and  catch  the  eye  in  that  order.  Ninety-nine  times  out 
of  a  hundred  this  is  the  only  proper  relation.  The  hundredth  time  there 
is  something  in  the  copy  that  is  really  more  important  than  the  title.  Fjr 
one  of  the  Selig  animal  plays,  for  example,  "Another  Great  Lion  Play," 
would  be  a  better  display  line  than  the  title  of  the  story,  which  would  not 
convey  as  much  of  the  idea. 

Above  all,  the  stuff  is  not  only  well  displayed  in  the  arrangement  of 
type,  but  it  is  well  and  cleanly  printed.  It  looks  at  first  glance  like  the 
printing  of  a  regular  theater  and  not  like  the  slop  job  of  some  "dump."  It 
represents  the  house  properly. 

More  Cameraphone  Ideas. 

The  Cameraphone  (Pittsburgh)  Bulletins  offer  prizes  of  books  of  tickets 
for  the  children  doing  the  best  composition  on  "Shylock,"  recently  shown  in 
their  houses  and  have  James  Morrison  and  Tom  Powers  to  follow  Francis 
X.  Bushman  around  their  circuit. 

A  new  wrinkle  of  the  Bellevue  house  is  a  write-up  column  for  the  local 
advertisers  that  probably  is  as  eagerly  read  as  some  of  the  film  stuff.  Those 
bulletins  will  yet  merge  into  a  weekly  magazine,  with  all  that  implies. 
They  have  the  newspaper  sense  (though  now  and  then  they  slip  up  on  cuts) 
and  they  get  out  a  readable  publication  that  could  be  made  to  show  a  profit 
other  than  in  the  business  brought  the  house. 

Keeps  to  Himself. 

J.  A.  Dundas,  of  the  Julian  Theater,  Chamberlain,  S.  D.,  sends  one  of  his 
weekly  programs  and  adds: 

Have  had  several  chances  to  put  the  local  merchants'  advertising 
in  it,  but  concluded  that  I  wanted  to  keep  it  entirely  for  myself.  To 
my  notion  this  gives  the  patrons  the  feeling  that  the  program  is  got- 
ten up  for  them  and  not  for  profit. 

We  do  not  agree  with  Mr.  Dundas,  as  we  have  repeatedly  said.  It  seems 
to  us  that  if  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House,  New  York,  can  get  a  five 
figure  price  for  its  program  privilege,  that  the  photoplay  houses  can  break 
even  on  their  programs  without  loss  of  dignity  or  effect. 

We  believe  that  the  advertising  of  local  or  national  advertisers  gives  the 
bouse  a  certain  standing,  a  certain  guarantee.  There  is  prestige  behind  the 
use  of  advertising  that  counts.  Amusement  seekers  are  so  used  to  adver- 
tising in  programs  that  they  are  more  apt  to  be  impressed  by  its  absence 
than  its  use.  The  Julian  program  is  on  cheap  news  paper,  the  sort  used 
in  printing  a  daily.  Good  presswork  cannot  be  had  on  such  a  stock  and 
the  result  is  a  skimpy  four-page  folder  4^  x  9  inches  that  certainly  does 
not  impress  one  as  much  as  N.  E.  Chaney's  handsome  program  that  pays  him 
a  slight  profit,  gives  him  five  or  six  times  the  space  at  Mr.  Dundas*  com- 
mand and  carries  a  lithographed  cover,  yet  Mr.  Chaney  is  in  a  small  town, 
probably  no  larger  than  Chamberlain. 

We  do  not  believe  that  Mr.  Chaney's  patrons  remark  the  use  of  the  for- 
eign advertising  and  they  most  assuredly  do  remark  the  handsome  cover  and 
the  good  printing  on  book  paper. 

Spread  It  Out. 

But  even  with  the  program  he  is  using  we  believe  that  Mr.  Dundas 
could  do  vastly  more  than  he  is  doing.     On  the  front  is  merely 


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The  Julian. 
ERFECT 
R0JECTI0N 
LEASES 
EOPLE 


Always    the    Best    in    Motion    Pictures. 
On  the  back  page  are  seven  lines  one-third  the  width  of  the  page  is  ran 
tail  statement: 

WE  always  aim  to  arrange  our  program  with  our  exchanges 
from  our  library  of  film  stories.  We  will  be  glad  to  get  any 
that  you  may  wish  to  see. 
That  is  all  the  use  that  is  made  of  the  program  other  than  the  three 
change  program  on  the  two  inside  pages  running  from  two  to  fifteen  lines 
each  subject.  Even  where  there  is  no  competition  the  management  should 
prepare  for  the  inevitable  advent  of  an  opposing  house  by  implanting  the 
Julian  idea  in  the  minds  of  its  patrons.  Much  that  is  printed  in  this  de- 
partment may  be  copied  with  profit.  Much  in  the  other  pages  of  this  paper 
can  be  adapted  with  profit.  It  is  apparent  that  Mr.  Dundas  not  only  does 
not  believe  in  advertising  other  concerns,  but  draws  the  line  at  advertis- 
ing even  his  own  business,  though  that  is  what  a  program  is  for.  The 
program  descriptions  are  well  worded  and  apparently  are  original  with  the 
house,  but  that's  all  the  more  reason  why  other  matter  should  be  written; 
not  about  the  particular  subjects  to  be  shown  but  the  goodness  of  pictures 
in  general,  the  comforts  of  the  theater,  the  excellence  of  its  offerings  and 
anything  else  that  will  help  to  make  new  fans  and  keep  the  old. 


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Add  These. 

HERMAN  E.  L.  BEYER  adds  to  the  collection  of  plots  for  the  pro- 
hibited list  started  lately,  and  a  couple  of  photoplay  editors  write 
that  they  will  make  additions  presently.  Come  in  yourself  with  your 
most  detested  bromide.  Remember  that  these  plots  are  not  strictly  barred, 
but  unless  you  can  give  them  a  brand  new  twist  it  is  better  not  to  write 
them.  Mr.  Beyer  cites  an  exception  to  his  own  No.  8  in  "The  Trail  of 
Cards"  an  American  release,  in  which  the  twist  is  new. 

7.  Baby's  shoes.  Edison,  Majestic,  Reliance  and  other  companies 
have  worked  out  all  the  sentiment  attached  to  them.  Bannister 
Merwin,  Robert  E.  Coffey  and  other  authors  have  reunited  sepa- 
rated couples  by  means  of  baby's  tootsie-wootsies.  Give  them  a 
rest. 

8.  Two  suitors  for  the  hand  of  a  girl.  They  go  to  one  of  the 
parents  to  decide,  or  she  decides  to  give  them  a  common  task  to 
perform.  One  wins  by  foul  means.  He  is  found  out,  and  she 
marries  the  other. 

(To  be  continued.) 


Paste  This  Up. 

We've  done  a  lot  toward  making  blondes  and  bnmette.s  out  of  red-heads, 
and  mostly  they've  thanked  us.  Here  is  a  letter  from  a  recent  correspond- 
ent that  tells  its  own  story.  Read  it  and  then  paste  it  over  your  desk  to 
read  again  when  you  feel  like  writing  murder  into  a  letter. 

I  must  write  and  thank  you  for  your  kind  advice  through  the 
columns  of  the  Photoplaywright.  Some  time  ago  I  wrote  you  very 
indignantly,  of  the  marring  of  a  script  suumitted  the  Majestic  com- 
pany and  called  on  you  for  a  means  of  redress.  You  very  calmly 
told  me  to  take  the  matter  up  with  them  in  a  nice  way  and  they 
would  probably  pay  for  toe  recopying.  I  rewrote  the  script,  and  in 
doing  so  saw  where  I  could  vastly  improve  it.  I  then  wrote  Mr. 
Hopp  Hadley  a  letter,  saying  that  I  knew  from  the  appearance  of 
the  script  on  its  return  that  he  had  intended  producing  it  and  had 
changed  his  mind,  and  begged  him  to  give  it  another  look  over  in 
its  improved  form.  Answer  today,  offering-  me  forty  dollars  for  it, 
which  I  immediately  accepted.  I  see  now  if  I  had  "painted  for 
war"  and  gone  ghost  dancing  at  the  company  I  would,  in  all  proba- 
bility, have  had  the  script  returned  without  a  reading.  Verily,  a 
mild  letter  getteth  the  goods. 


What  Happened  to  Jones. 

Marc  Edmund  Jones,  until  recently  head  of  the  Chicago  Circle,  came  on 
to  New  York  for  the  photoplay  writers'  dinner,  and  is  not  going  to  use 
the  return  half  of  his  ticket  for  a  while.  He  finds  that  he  can  learn  more 
in  New  York  in  a  week  than  in  a  year  in  Chicago,  for  this  is  the  fountain 
head  of  production  for  a  majority  of  the  companies.  He  has  been  visiting 
the  offices  and  the  studios  and  he  has  come  upon  a  point  that  throws  a 
light  on  the  complaint  of  the  novice  who  thinks  the  story  he  has  had  turned 
down  so  much  better  than  the  one  he  sees  on  the  screen.  This  is  what  h« 
found  out: 

In  visiting  the  studio  of  probably  the  largest  concern  producing 
pictures  I  was  surprised  to  find  the  same  condition  of  affairs  as 
exists  in  the  other  studios,  I  have  visited.  The  editor  told  me  of 
picture  after  picture  that  had  been  spoiled  by  poor  direction — in 
fact,  poor  direction  seemed  to  be  almost  the  rule  rather  than  the 
exception.  And  this  in  spite  of  the  fact  that  a  director  in  this 
studio  is  not  allowed  to  change  a  script  in  any  particular  without 
an  O.  K.  from  one  of  the  heads.  This,  then,  was  the  first  point. 
A  picture  in  a  studio,  whether  of  the  leading  concern  or  another, 
is  very  apt  to  be  poorly  directed.  The  second  thing  that  I  discov- 
ered was  that  here,  as  well  as  elsewhere,  a  picture  is  very  apt  to  be 
overtaken,  and  that  1,400  feet  is  not  unusual.  This  means  that 
400  out  of  1,400 — or  really  500,  as  the  leaders  have  to  be  put  in — 
that  over  a  third  of  the  business  of  the  picture  has  to  be  cut  out 
after  it  is  taken,  not  rarely,  but  very  often.  And  so  a  picture  not 
only  is  apt  to  be  poorly  directed,  but  is  apt  to  have  about  a  third 
of  its  action  cut  out.  That  covers  what  the  director  can  do  to  it. 
Then  there  is  the  Censor  Board,  who,  in,  the  case  of  another  con- 
cern, cut  out  a  little  over  half  of  the  total  footage  submitted  to 
them.  The  picture  which  has  been  b  dly  cut  has  cost  too  much 
money  to  throw  away,  and  so,  while  there  are  sometimes  retakes 
on  some  of  the  scenes,  the  break  is  usually  patched  up  with  lead- 
ers. And  then  there  are  the  leaders.  In  this  particular  studio 
the  script  calls  for  the  least  possible  number.  One  of  the  heads 
will  view  the  picture  and  order  leaders  in  at  various  points.  The 
Censor  Board  often  will  order  in  a  leader  here  and  there  to  make 
a  point  clear  which  they  figure  will  be  obscure.  And  then,  when-  ' 
ever  there  is  a  break,  due  to  a  cut-out,  the  editor  is  ordered  to 
write  a  sub  to  cover  it.  The  net  result  of  all  this,  and  the  point 
at  which  I  drive,  is  merely  this:  The  screen  is  no  criterion  of  the 
standard  demanded  of  the  author  before  his  script  will  be  pur- 
chased. After  visiting  a  good  many  studios,  and  talking  with  a 
good  many  of  the  editors,  I  believe  that  the  average  script  turned 
over  to  a  director  is  of  a  pretty  high  standard.  But  the  standard 
of  direction  is  very  low,  and   the  manufacturer  is  not  so  much   in 


need  of  director-proof  stories  as  he  is  of  directors  who  can  put  a 
story  on  the  screen  as  well  as  it  is  written;  who  can  compute  foot- 
age, and  who  is  familiar  with  the  type  of  presentation  that  will  "get 
over"  with  the  censors,  the  critics  and  the  public.    The  screen  should 
be  the  criterion  for  the  author's  work,  but  it  certainly  is  not  at  this 
writing. 
There  are  a  few  studios,  notably  that  of  the  Edison  company,  where  the 
length    of  each   scene   is  pre-determined,    where   the   scene   that    is   given    50 
seconds  must  be  turned  in  50  feet  and  is  rehearsed  and  cut  down  or  built 
up  until  it  does,  but  in   a  majority  of  cases   the   picture  is   made   first   and 
measured  after,  and  the  gaps  must  be  bridged   with  leader,  and  this  does 
not  always   make    for   interest,   but  just  the   same   we   have  small   sympathy 
for    those    who    know    their    stories    are    better    without    having    seen    them 
screened.      Mr.    Jones  supplies   a   solution    we   have   offered   before,   but    be 
states  his  case  plainly,  and  so  we're  passing  it  along. 


Naughty  Mr.  Beyer. 
We  are  a  little  bit  ashamed  of  Herman  E.  L.  Beyer,  who  runs  a  coupl* 

of  weekly   papers   in    Newark  and   runs  a  couple  of   photoplay   department* 
in  that  couple  of  papers. 

In  a  late  issue  he  writes  in  answer  to  an  inquirer: 

We  never  heard  of  any  comedy  being  improbable.     If  the  scenario 
editor  tells  you  that,  he  ought  to  go  to  night  school. 

We're  going  to  run   a  small   night  school   for  Mr.   Beyer's  benefit. 

There  was  a  time  when  nothing  was  too  absurd  or  improbable  for  filming. 
We  were  overrun  with  inane  stories  of  love  potions  and  powders,  laughing 
powders,  crying  powders,  miraculous  transformations  and  all  the  stale  de- 
vices of  ten  years  ago.  Then  the  real  photoplay  came  and  with  it  an 
audience  _ of  a  higher  intelligence  and  a  more  discriminating  taste.  -It 
quickly  tired  of  pills  and  potions,  it  grew  weary  of  water  throwing  and 
senseless  chases.  It  wanted  something  with  some  idea  to  it,  and  it  led  to 
the  establishment  of  a  higher  standard  of  comedy  ideas. 

Broadly  speaking  Mr.  Beyer  is  right.  Nothing  is  too  improbable  if  in- 
telligently handled.  Improbability  would  bar  from  literature  Anstey*s 
Vice  Versa  and  kindred  stories,  the  whole  range  of  Fairy  tales  and  the 
imaginative  work  of  Verne,  Wells  and  others  of  that  school.  But  is  must  be 
remembered  that  these  men  write  creative  matter.  As  a  general  thing  the 
pictured  action  differs  from  the  printed  book  in  that  greater  reality  is  now 
demanded.  When  we  read  of  men  and  women  we  use  solely  the  imagina- 
tion, falling  in  with  the  mood  of  the  author,  but  when  we  see  the  photo- 
graphic images  of  actual  men  and  women  on  the  screen  there  is  a  jarring 
note  struck  when  they  do  things  that  persons  of  flesh  and  blood  would  not 
naturally  do,  and  so,  unless  in  a  palpably  evident  fairy  story,  a  certain 
degree  of  probability  is  demanded  even  in  farce,  where  there  is  greater  lati- 
tude than  in  comedy.  Unless  you  have  the  genius  of  a  Wells  and  can  create 
a  realistic  atmosphere  of  unreality  and  maintain  it  throughout  the  run  of 
the  film,  you  must  make  your  people  do  the  things  that  people  could  do. 
You  must  adhere  with  reasonable  closeness  to  probability. 

If  you  write  a  story  of  a  henpecked  inventor  who  invents  a  flying  machine 
to  take  him  to  the  moon  to  escape  his  shrewish  wife,  and  play  most  of  your 
scene  on  the  surface  of  the  satellite,  then  you  are  not  too  improbable,  since 
you  advertise  the  fact  that  you  are  dealing  in  improbabilities  and  impos- 
sibilities, but  where  you  hold  to  the  atmosphere  of  daily  life  yet  turn  out 
a  story  that  is  so  wild  and  improbable  that  no  one  can  grasp  your  view- 
point, then  you  have  turned  out  a  comedy  that  is  too  improbable  for  a 
story  of  daily  life  and  yet  not  sufficiently  fantastic  to  claim  a  place  among 
the  unrealities,  and  it  does  not  take  an  extended  course  in  night  school  for 
the  photoplay  editor  to  realize  that  the  story  would  be  an  absolute  failure 
on  the  screen. 

We  hope  that  these  few  lines  will  find  Mr.  Beyer  well  and  that  be'U 
get  the  point.  It's  one  of  the  causes  of  failure  with  so  many  writers  that 
they  think  that  any  old  idea,  no  matter  how  silly,  will  do  for  comedy. 

For  Mr.  Brewster. 

Eugene  V.  Brewster  jumped  on  William  Lord  Wright  instead  of  us  in 
the  last  issue  of  the  Motion  Picture  Story  Magazine,  but  we  still  remember 
that  he  said  he  knew  little  or  nothing  of  the  schools  he  defends.  Here  ia 
an  extract  from  a  professional  man  in  Birmingham,  Ala.,  who  knows  what 
he  is  talking  about,  because  he  sells  plays  himself.     He  writes: 

I    also   wish   to   congratulate   you   upon    your   fight   on    the    fake 
schools.     While   I   have  not  been   one   of  their  victims,   I  know  a 
woman   here  who  has  separated  herself  from   $50  to  one  of  these 
charlatans.     Your  stand  on  this  question  is  a  parallel  with  the  fight 
made  by  Collier's  and  the  Ladies'  Home  Journal   on  patent  medi- 
cine frauds. 
Mr.    Brewster   makes   the    suggestion    that   we    direct   our  efforts   toward 
making  the  schools  good  instead  of  discouraging  them.     You  can't  make  a 
fakir   a   teacher   by   encouragement.     Listen   to   this,    regarding   one   of  the 
so-called  colleges: 

I  have  finally  got  the  goods  on  .     Ke  suddenly  abandoned 

his  college  (located  in  Ohio)  and  skipped  to  St.  Louis.     Those  tak- 
ing a  three  months'  subscription  offer  have  nothing  in  return.     One 
woman  in  California  sent  in  $30  for  a  course  of  lessons,  got  five 
in  six  months,  and  can  get  no   further  information.      I  have  taken 
up  the  matter  with  the  Postoffice  Department  and  I  think   I'll   put 
him  out  of  the  business. 
Another  school   is  already  suffering  from   the  attentions   of  the   postoffice 
inspectors  and  narrowly  escaped  a  fraud  order.     We  fail  to  see  that  encour- 
agement is  what  they  need. 


Further  Up  the  Street. 

Russell  E.  Smith,  photoplaywright  and  former  editor  of  the  photoplay 
end  of  the  Magazine  Maker,  has  gone  further  up  Main  Street  and  is  now 
assistant  editor  of  the  Cavalier,  of  the  Munsey  string.  He  writes  that  they 
are  in  need  of  humorous  short  stories — which  will  be  good  news  to  the 
photoplay  writers  who  also  dabble  in  fiction. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE  WORLD 


Quantity  and   Quality. 

Harry    E.    Cittel,   a   Philadelphia   aspirant,    writes   that   he   has   become    a 
regular,  having  hit  the  market  at  last.     He  adds: 

When   I   first  began   to  write   I   could  write  five  scripts  a  week 
with    ease,    and    they   came    back   as    fast    as   I    could    write   them. 
I  began  to  write  last  May,  but  did  not  get  a  copy  of  Technique  of 
the    Photoplay    until    two    months    later.      After    reading    it    I    was 
ashamed  of  what  I  had  sent  out.     I  dished  them  and  began  anew. 
Now  it  takes  me  a  week  to  write  one,  and  it  takes  them  longer  to 
get  back.     Some  don't  get  back;  they  stick.     I  thank  you  and  your 
little  brown  book  for  my  success. 
That's  the  answer  to  a  lot  of  other  writers  who  wonder  why  they  cannot 
sell.      They  write   too  many   and   send   them  out  still    raw.     Technique   of 
the  Photoplay  is  not  essential  to  success,  but  some  means  of  arriving  at  a 
realization  of  the  fact  that  a  photoplay  is  not  merely  a  string  of  more  or 
less  related  incidents  is  necessary  before  the  real  stuff  is  written  and  elabo- 
rated.    If  you're  in  a  hurry  to  sell,  do  not  be  in  such  a  hurry  to  write. 


Press  CUps. 

It's  going  to  be  a  mighty  good  thing  to  keep  away  from  most  press  clips. 
A  few  months  ago  we  used  a  World  headline  and  ran  into  a  story  Lloyd 
Lonergan  had  written  for  Thanhouser,  and  this  week  M.  G.  Blackford  sends 
in  an  Associated  Press  dispatch,  with  the  suggestion  that  it  seems  to  him 
that  it  should  make  a  corking  good  play,  though  as  he  has  not  seen  it  done 
he  may  be  mistaken.  The  story  is  that  some  men  tie  a  dynamite  cartridge 
to  a  dog's  tail,  light  it  and  run.  The  dog  runs  after  them  and  they  are 
all  badly  stunned  in  the  explosion  that  followed. 

We  don't  like  to  say  how  many  years  ago  we  laughed  at  this  joke,  but 
it  has  been  a  stock  story  for  a  longer  time  than  some  photoplay  writers 
have  been  on  earth.     Only  the  other  day  it  was  made  into  a  photoplay. 

The  point  we  want  to  make  is  this:  Most  newspaper  men  who  contribute 
to  papers  in  other  towns  are  paid  for  what  they  have  printed,  instead  of 
getting  a  regular  salary.  When  things  do  not  happen  fast  enough  they 
work  over  old  material  and  send  it  out  in  as  attractive  a  form  as  possible, 
in  the  hope  of  adding  to  their  space.  We  have  noted  of  late  a  very  decided 
tendency  to  take  photoplays  and  "put  them  on  the  wire."  Some  writer  sees 
it,  copies  it  and,  unless  his  previous  reputation  is  good,  stands  a  chance  of 
being  accused  of  theft. 

Keep  away  from  the  press  clipping  these  days.  It  is  likely  to  be  loaded 
at  both  ends. 

And  in  this  connection  it  is  interesting  to  note  how  trained  writers  will 
follow  the  same  general  lines.  At  the  Inquest  Club  the  other  evening 
George  Hennessy,  who  is  a  prolific  writer,  was  speaking  of  writing  to  order, 
and  we  offered  to  make  a  comedy  of  any  suggestion  that  did  not  include 
death.  He  nominated  a  topic.  We  mailed  him  our  copy  at  n  the  next 
morning,  and  he  came  in  with  his  shortly  after  noon,  and  before  he  had 
received  ours.  The  basis  of  the  two  scripts  were  the  same,  though  the 
handling  of  the  plot  differed  very  materially.  Anyone  not  familiar  with 
the  circumstances  would  have  supposed  that  a  story  had  been  given  to  re- 
write, yet  the  "tip'*  contained  two  words  only.  That's  another  reason  for 
avoiding  press  clips,  particularly  those  that  are  themselves  suggested  by  a 
play. 


Waited  and — 

A  few  weeks  ago  an  author  wrote  and  wanted  to  know  what  to  do  about 
a  couple  of  scripts  that  Frontier  and  American  had.  We  suggested  that 
she  wait.  She  did,  and  sure  enough  she  got  the  checks.  If  she  had  written, 
the  probabilities  are  that,  while  she  would  have  been  paid,  as  a  matter  of 
course,  she  would  have  gotten  herself  written  down  as  one  of  those  over- 
eager  persons  who  bother  the  editor.  Sometimes  it  seems  hard  to  wait,  but 
it  pays  in  the  long  run. 


One  Side  of  Plagiarism. 

A  writer  whose  name   would   be   familiar   to    the    readers   of   this   depart- 
ment writes: 

Just   a   line    to    ask    you    if   you    will    give    us    a    word    sometime 
regarding   apparent    plagiarism.      A   few    days    ago    I    received   back 
two  scenarios  from  Universal,  one  of  which  was  marked  "Identical 
to   magazine   story,"    the   other    "Similar  theme    used    before."      In 
neither  case  was  I  aware  of  it,  and  these  scripts  had  been  out  sev- 
eral times,  and  I  could  not  understand  why  they  did  not  sell,   for 
I   thought  them    particularly   good.      From    my   experience    I    know 
enough  about  copyright  not  to  be   fool  enough  to  monkey  with  it, 
and  yet  here  was  I  infringing,  and  thereby  perhaps  getting  myself 
"in   bad"   with    the  companies.      Now,    I   am    wondering   how   many 
of  my  rejections  were  from  that  cause.     The  only  thing  I   want  is 
for  you  to  appeal  to  the  editors  to   have  charity  and   for  them   to 
believe  that  in  most  cases  one  does  not  willfully  infringe. 
About  the   same   time   a  friend   of   his,   in   a   chatty   letter,   spoke   of  this 
correspondent's  activities  in  writing  a  story  a  day,  and  unconsciously  sup- 
plied the   answer  to   the  query.      The   first  correspondent   is   writing   six   or 
eight  plays  a  week.     He  is  writing  beyond  his  creative  ability,   and   uncon- 
sciously he  taps  the  stores  of  memory  and  picks  from   thence   the  plots  he 
cannot  originate.     We  believe  that  he  is  completely  honest  in  his  statement 
that  he  does  not  knowingly  plagiarize,  but  he  does  not  stop  to  consider  his 
source  of  inspiration.     He  wants  to  write — write  all  the  time.     He  is  unwill- 
ing to  stop  and  think,  and  so  he  takes  the  first  thought  that  comes  to  him, 
and  does  not  realize  that  it  is  something  he  has  read  somewhere.     He  needs 
ideas,  and  so  he  takes  the   first  thing  to  hand  and  wonders  how  he  comes 
to  get  such  good  ideas.     It  is  not  until  he  has  been  told  a  number  of  times 
that  he  realizes  that  he  is  merely  writing  what  he  may  have  read  long  ago. 
It  comes  to  almost  every  busy  author  to  realize  now  and  then   that  he  has 
done   a   story   that   really   is    not   his,   but   the   practiced   writer   is   generally 
more  careful  of  his  inspiration  and  examines  it  to  see  whether  or  not  it  is 
his  own.     We  think  that  if  this  correspondent  will   write  a  couple  of  plays 
a  week  he  can  sell  more,  because  he  will  be  doing  his  own  creating. 
It  isn't  what  you  write  that  counts.     It  s  what  you  sell. 


Titles. 

Here's  a  little  wrinkle  in  writing  titles.  Take  a  sheet  of  paper  about 
two-thirds  as  wide  as  it  is  long.  It  doesn't  matter  what  size  the  paper  is. 
Letter  in  the  title  of  your  story  about  the  way  it  will  look  on  the  postei 
of  the  play.  If  it  looks  too  long,  cut  it  down.  If  it  doesn't  look  right, 
smarten  it  up  a  bit.  The  title  must  look  well  on  the  poster,  and  it  must  be 
catchy  to  rouse  the  curiosity.  Try  the  miniature  poster  sometime  and  see 
if  it  helps  you.     It  has  helped  some. 


Looks,  Not  Sound. 

One  of  the  reasons  why  so  very  many  photoplays  enrich  only  the  postal 
service  is  that  a  majority  of  authors  fail  to  visualize  what  they  write.  They 
write  for  sound,  not  looks.  If  the  stuff  reads  well  it  is  deemed  a  story 
and  sent  out,  but  the  stuff  that  reads  all  right  may  not  look  well  on  the 
screen.  If  we  say  that  Mary  comes  into  her  room  and  takes  a  bath  it 
reads  all  right,  but  the  film  manufacturer  who  sought  to  make  such  a  picture 
would  presently  be  conducting  his  business  from  a  cell  in  some  Federal 
prison. 

This  is  an  extreme  example,  of  course,  but  there  are  thousands  of  little 
things  that  read  better  than  they  look  and  if  you  bend  your  energies  to 
making  the  thing  read  well  you'll  never  turn  out  stuff  that  can  be  depended 
on   to  look  well. 

You  can't  interest  the  editor  in  your  literary  style.  He  is  looking  for 
plot  and  business  and  your  high  flown  phrases  will  be  mentally  reduced  to 
business  by  the  competent  editor.  The  editor  doesn't  read  your  story  at 
all.  He  sees  your  story  and  if  it  doesn't  look  right  it  makes  no  difference 
how  finished  and  fluent  it  may  sound.  The  real  photoplay  scripts  seldom 
interests  the  person  who  cannot  see  pictures.  It  will  appeal  only  to  the  man 
who  can  see  in  the  bald  run  of  action  the  pictures  that  will  become  real 
when  the  written  action  is  translated  into  physical  action.  If  you  cannot 
see  the  action  as  you  write  it  wait  until  you  get  through  and  then  try  to 
work  it  out  into  action.  In  time  you'll  find  that  you  can  raise  up  an  image 
of  the  play  at  will  and  still  later  you'll  be  able  to  see  the  stuff  play  as  you 
write  it.  Then  you'll  write  for  looks  instead  of  sound  and  know  what 
you  are  doing. 


Inquiries. 

NOTE — No  questions  can  be  replied  to  by  mail.  Look  for  your  answer* 
here.  A  list  of  addresses  to  which  photoplays  may  be  sent  will  be  supplied 
on  receipt  of  a  STAMPED  AND  ADDRESSED  ENVELOPE. 

R.  "W.  R. — The  picture  is  not  Miss  Joyce.  The  next  man.  woman  or  child 
who  cuts  out  and  sends  in  an  advertisement  asking  if  it  Is  Miss  Joyce,  i» 
either  going  to  be  hurled  or  be  responsible  for  the  suicide  of  the  Answers 
Man.  Your  second  question  is  badly  put.  A  photoplay  is  not  rehearsed  and 
then  made.  One  BCene  is  rehearsed,  then  taken,  and  a  second  put  in  re- 
hearsal. It  takes  from  three  days  to  ten  to  make  the  average  thousand-foot 
reel. 

PARKSIDE  AVENUE — Sign  a  name  as  a  courtesy.  It's  no  business  of  this 
department  just  what  financial  interest  Mr.  Edison  has  in  any  device. 

R.  J.  6. — If  you  don't  know  who  played  the  "Lady  Leone,"  you  don't  de- 
serve to  class  as  a  "fan."  It  was  Miss  Florence  Lawrence.  Thomas  Dawson 
had  the  title  role  in  "The  Dandy."  The  young  reporter  in  "All  for  a  Girl," 
is  cast  as  Mr.  Fox.  This  may  or  may  not  be  Earle  Foxe.  We  lack  the  other 
casts.     It  is  not  easy  to  get  the  Universal  casts  now. 

LOIS — We  do  not  get  Pathe  casts,  and  Essanay  no  longer  casts  the  West- 
erns. Mies  Marie  Weirman  was  Marie  in  "The  Guiding  Light."  Peter  Lang 
was  her  father.  Bart  ley  McCullum  was  the  Village  Blacksmith,  Miss  Weir- 
man was  Annie,  and  Charles  Arthur,  Herbert.  In  "The  Vintage  of  Fate." 
Miss  Betty  Harte  was  Maria,  Miss  Phyllis  Gordon  was  Helen,  and  Wheeler 
Oakraan.    Pietro.     We  noticed,   and  are  correspondingly   grateful. 

W.  m. — We  do  not  get  the  Milano  casts. 

A.  L. — We  do  not  know  Paul  Kelly's  age  and  we  cannot  discuss  film 
merits  with  you. 

M.  K. — We  do  not  know  the  nationality  of  Miss  Lillian  Christy.  The 
American  Western  studio  is  in  Santa  Barbara. 

F.   L. — We  do  not  get  Western  Essanay  casts. 

L.  L. — John  E.'  Brennan  and  Miss  Ruth  Roland  had  the  parts  you  mention. 
If  you've  never  seen  Miss  Roland  before  you  are  new  to  pictures.  William 
Christie  Miller  and  Miss  Mary  Pickford  had  the  parts  in  "The  Unwelcome 
Guest." 

M.  L. — The  western  establishment  of  the  Selig  Company  Is  in  Los  Angeles. 

J,  J.  McC. — There  is  as  yet  no  well-defined  rule  in  marking  the  scenes 
In  a  multiple  reel  script.  Some  companies  number  straight  through,  others 
number  each  part  from  one  to  the  highest  number.  One  company  numbers 
the  first  in  Arabic,  letters  the  second,  and  writes  the  third  in  Roman  numerals. 

H.  h.  F. — Usually  the  synopses  in  this  paper  are  prepared  by  the  press 
department,  though  the  author's  synopsis  may  be  copied  if  it  is  the  proper 
length  and  style.  Use  the  double  space  between  scenes  and  between 
leaders  and  scenes.     It  makes  for  a  better  looking  copy,  that's  all. 

TRUCE You  are  not  "likely"  to  get  a  position  with  a  photoplay  company 

east,  west,  north  or  south  unless  you  can  show  stage  or  picture  experience. 
You  are  not  even  likely  to  get  an  answer  unless  you  sign  your  name. 

J.  C. — A  bust  is  any  close-up  view  of  a  portion  of  a  general  scene,  made 
large  to  emphasize  some  detail  of  the  action.  See  "Technique  of  the 
Photoplay." 

BESS — You   are  correct.     The  critic  made  the  wrong  Identification. 

WINNIE — We  have  not  that  Powers'  cast.  Miss  Jean  Darnell  was  the 
teacher  in  "The  Truant's  Doom." 


Photoplay  Writing. 

The  standard  book  on  the  subject  is  Mr.  Epes  W.  Sargent's 

TECHNIQUE  OF  THE  PHOTOPLAY. 
Price,  $1.00.   Postage  Prepaid.   All  Orders  and  Remittances  to 

CHALMERS    PUBLISHING    COMPANY, 
Box  226,  Madison  Square  Post  Office,  New  York  City. 


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Projection  Department 


Edited   by  F.   H.   RICHARDSON 


Operators'  Union  Directory,  I.  A.  T.  S.  E. 

NOTICE:     Each  union  is  entitled  to  have  its  roster  of  officers,  meeting 
nights,  etc.,  listed  here  once  per  year,  free  of  cost.     Preserve  this 
list,  as  it  will  not  be  republished.    The  mail  address  of  the  secretary 
should  be  included  on  each  list,  and  the  address  of  regular  meeting  place, 
if  any. 


Moving  Picture  Machine  Operators'  Local  Union  No.  204, 
.    I.  A.  T.  S.  E.,  Little  Rock,  Ark. 

President,  W.  J.  Meckel;  vice-president,  Charles  McCullough;  financial 
secretary-treasurer,  T.  F.  McBride;  recording  secretary,  H.  E.  Ellenbogen; 
business  agent,  W.  M.  Burns. 


Mr. 


Harbor  Springs  Replied  To. 

A.   VV.   Ballenger,   Dean   Theater   Company,   York,   Neb.,   contribute* 


the  following  interesting  letter: 

I  have  noticed  the  article  of  Manager  Freeland,  Harbor  Springs, 
Mich.,  in  the  March  ist  issue,  and  am  rather  surprised  at  the  way 
he  jumps  on  the  manufacturers.  It  appears  to  me  that  the  cause 
of  the  "hash"  he  speaks  of  with  regard  to  films  now  being  released 
is  not  entirely  the  manufacturer's  fault.  It  strikes  me  that  the. 
cause  of  the  releasing  of  so  many  aims  lies  with  the  exhibitors 
themselves;  not  with  the  individual,  but  with  them  all.  It  is  com- 
petition that  necessitates  the  increased  output — competition  of  ex- 
hibitors, I  mean.  Where  there  are  houses  in  competition  it  is  neces- 
sary that  they  do  not  show  pictures  which  are  shown  in  other 
houses  in  their  city.  Therein  lies  the  demand,  and  if  a  manufac- 
turer is  unable  to  supply  exhibitors  he  must  get  out  of  business.  It 
is  the  same  in  any  line.  Competition  compels  the  manufacturer  to 
get  his  goods  on  the  market  at  as  early  a  date  as  possible,  and  he 
cannot  give  the  attention  to  each  individual  piece  that  he  would 
were  there  less  demand.  In  regards  to  the  multiple  reel  releases, 
it  strikes  me  as  a  good  idea  to  lengthen  out  a  play — give  it  more 
action  and  more  detail.  If  a  subject  is  crowded  into  1,000  feet 
it  leaves  much  to  be  thought  out  by  the  audience.  There  must,  of 
necessity,  be  a  less  number  of  and  shorter  titles.  They  must  make 
action  to  suit  the  length,  where  if  they  had  twice  the  time  to  pro- 
duce the  action  they  could  put  in  a  finer  quality  and  make  the  story 
more  plain  to  the  audience.  Again,  if  all  manufacturers  devoted 
more  time  to  two  and  three-reel  subjects  there  would  be  less  de- 
mand for  so  many  one-reel  pictures.  It  is  a  well-known  fact  that 
"Monte  Cristo"  cannot  receive  justice  in  i.ooo  feet,  nor  can  the 
audience  grasp  the  story  and  get  the  interest  that  should  hold  them 
through  such  a  picture.  Comedy,  as  shown  in  pictures  today, 
would  be  better  if  it  were  filled  out.  It  would  get  the  audience 
twice  as  quick.  There  are  innumerable  comedies  completely  ruined 
simply  because  they  are  made  too  short,  and  that  brings  the  audi- 
■  ence  back  to  the  same  old  place.  They  must  take  time  to  reason 
out  certain  actions,  and  while  they  are  doing  this  probably  miss 
some  of  the  best  scenes;  anyway  they  fail  to  get  the  idea  the  actor 
is  trying  to  submit.  I  say,  give  them  more  space  and  longer  stories 
and  the  moving  picture  business  will  advance  much  faster  than  it 
has.  Encourage  the  manufacturer  to  make  a  better  picture  and 
see  how  quickly  he  will  begin  doing  so.  They  want  your  money, 
and  will  give  you  value  for  it  if  you  give  them  cause  to  think  that 
you  want  a  better  quality  and  not  so  much  quantity.  Personally, 
I  wrll  be  glad  of  the  time  when  we  show  two,  three  and  four-reel 
subjects  almost  exclusively.  This  I  know:  with  proper  projection, 
a  multiple  reel  subject  will  make  more  friends  for  a  house  than  any 

other  picture  that  can  be  shown. 
Brother  Ballenger's  letter  is  of  much  interest,  but  I  think  he  is  speaking 
of  one  thing,  while  Harbor  Springs  in  his  letter,  and  I  in  my  comments, 
speak  of  another.  In  the  first  place,  let  us  get  right  down  to  the  root 
of  this  proposition  and  scratch  around  the  foundation  stone  a  little.  The 
hieroglyphics  on  one  side  of  that  stone  read:  There  are  too  many  theaters. 
Now  a  word  of  explanation  as  to  what  I  mean  by  this.  We  have  a  multi- 
plicity of  small  theaters.  A  city  of  10,000  population  will  have  from  three  to 
four  little  theaters  seating  200  or  300,  instead  of  one  seating  from  500  to 
1,000.  In  the  very  nature  of  things,  the  little  fellow,  playing  to  an  audi- 
ence of  from  200  to  300,  cannot  afford  to  put  up  as  good  a  show,  in  as 
good  a  way,  as  can  the  house  seating  500  to  2,000.  That  is  a  plain  matter 
of  common  sense  which  nobody,  I  think,  will  dispute.  This  multiplicity 
of  theaters  has  also  brought  about  the  very  evil  of  which  brother  Ballenger 
speaks.  Each  one  of  these  theaters  in  that  town  of  10,000  wants  from 
three  to  five  reels  a  day,  each  one  different  from  the  other  fellow's  program, 
so  that  it  may,  in  extreme  cases,  take  as  many  as  25  reels  a  day  to  supply 
one  town  of  10,000  population,  while  if  there  be  fifteen  or  twenty  theaters 
in  a  city  the  demand  for  reels  becomes  even  greater.  Now,  what  I  was 
talking  about,  and  what  Harbor  Springs  wrote  about,  was  not.  as  I  under- 
stand it,  so  much  the  two,  three  and  four-reel  releases.  What  Harbor 
Springs  was  hitting  at  was  the  padding  out  of  a  little,  slow,  one-horse 
story,  that  could  be  entirely  told  in  500  feet,  to  1,000  feet.  I  fully  realize 
that  there  is  truth  in  what  you  say  concerning  the  length  of  really  meritous 


stories.  You  can  cut  down  too  much  as  well  as  pad  out  too  much.  But 
the  evil  of  it  all  lies  in  the  fact,  as  I  said  in  my  reply  to  Harbor  Springs, 
the  turning  out  of  100  (it  is  about  112  now)  reels  a  week  simply  means 
that  everything  worth  while  will  have  been  done,  done,  done  and  done  over 
again  before  the  business  is  25  years  old.  It  is  a  big  question  and  I  would 
like  to  hear  from  exhibitors  ana  operators  on  this  subject.  It  is  a  question 
which  vitally  concerns  the  future  of  the  business.  As  to  the  multiple  reel 
release,  I  long  ago  prophesied  that  it  is  only  a  question  of  time  when  we 
would  have  the  regular  plays  put  on  in  moving  pictures,  to  last  from  8:30 
to  11,  or  2y2  hours,  which  would  mean  from  ten  to  fifteen  reels  to  the 
subject.  These  plays  will  be  put  on  by  the  best  actors  the  world  can 
produce,  and  the  small  town  theater  patron,  instead  of  paying  35  to  50 
cents  to  see  a  splendid  play  butchered  by  a  troupe  of  barnstormers,  will 
pay  the  same  sum  to  see  it  put  on  in  photoplay  by  the  world's  greatest 
artists. 


A  Fine  Plant. 

Mr.  W.  O.  Stevens,  Eagle  Theater,  Princeton,  111.,  sends  in  a  photograph 
and  description  of  h.s  operating  room.     He  writes  as  follows: 

Our  operating  room  is  12  x  8  feet,  6  feet  in  the  clear.  We  pro- 
ject a  13-foot  picture  at  98  feet,  using  two  Motiograph  machines 
of  late  model.  We  have  two  meters  and  two  sets  of  No.  4  wires 
feeding  the  operating  room  circuits.  One  machine  is  a  combination 
M.  P.  and  dissolver.  We  use  a  compensarc  for  each  machine  and 
a  rheostat  for  the  top  dissolver  lamp.  The  room  has  a  vent  flue 
12  x  14  inches,  which  is  the  largest  possible  under  the  circum- 
stances, there  being  living  apartments  over  the  theater.  The  oper- 
ating room  has  running  water,  'phone  service  and  steam  heat,  the 
latter  being  used  only  when  we  are  working  in  the  operating  room 


during  off  hours.  We  use  two  Gundlach  half-size  lenses,  and  in  this 
connection  I  desire  to  say  something.  For  months  I  have  at 
times  noticed  an  effect  on  the  screen  similar  to  the  travel  ghost 
caused  by  the  shutter  being  out  of  time,  but  testing  the  shutter  I 
found  it  to  be  O.  K.  I  discovered  the  trouble  was  that  oil  had 
spattered  on  the  lens  a  little  and  produced  the  above  effect.  We 
clean  our  lenses  daily,  but  have  to  watch  them  during  the  show, 
and  if  travel  ghost  starts  we  get  busy  and  clean  the  lens;  also,  if 
the  picture  starts  to  flicker  we  either  change  lugs  and  cut  off  some 
of  the  feed  wire  or  tighten  connections,  and  the  flicker  disappears. 

You  are  indeed  fortunate  to  have  such  an  excellent  operating  room, 
brother  Stevens.  I  notice  that  everything  is  neat,  clean  and  in  order 
therein,  which  speaks  well  for  the  operator.  Cannot  you  get  two  of  those 
vent  flues?  One  of  that  size  is  not  large  enough  should  you  have  a  fire. 
I  would  also  suggest  that  you  hang  your  wall  shutters  as  directed  in  the 
new  handbook.  As  to  the  oil  spattering,  this  is  due  to  the  use  of  (a)  too 
thin  an  oil;  (b)  too  much  of  it.  Lay  two  pieces  of  blotting  paper  in  the 
inside  of  your  mechanism  and  it  will  absorb  the  oil,  so  that  you  can  keep 
the  inside  of  the  head  clean  by  merely  changing  the  paper. 


A  Camera  Man's  Qualifications. 

Hartford,  Wis.,  wants  to  know  if  a  cameraman  has  to  be  a  qualified  pho- 
tographer, and  if  a  motion  picture  operator  would  stand  any  chance  of 
securing  such  a  position. 

No;  there!  would  be  no  chance  for  an  operator — in  fact,  an  experience  as 
operator  would  be  of  very  little  value  to  him  as  cameraman.  The  camera- 
man has  to  be  an  exrert  judge  of  light  and  other  things. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


Announcement  Slide  Coaling. 
Mr.  J.  Corcoran,  Charleston,  III.,  writes: 

I  feel  due  to  say  something  in  the  department.  Our  little  city 
has  7,000  people  and  two  moving  picture  theaters  doing  a  good 
business.  I  am  both  manager  and  operator  in  my  own  house,  and 
have  a  Pathe  Professional  projector,  which  has  heen  in  service  three 
years  without  developing  any  trouble  of  any  kind.  A  good  slide 
coating  is  made  by  mixing  a  little  ordinary  al  abas  tine  with  water. 
It  dries  in  a  minute,  may  be  written  on  with  an  ordinary  pen,  and 
will  neither  rub  nor  burn  off,  but  washes  off  readily. 
The  alabastine  slide  coating  idea  is  passed  along  for  consideration.  Many 
thanks  for  its  contribution. 


On  the  Board  Walk. 

Mr.  W.  Long,  Atlantic  City,  N.  J.,  writes: 

Things  are  jogging  along  in  the  same  old  way  in  Atlantic  City, 
except  that  the  men  have  organized  in  the  I.  B.  E.  W.,  Local 
Union  No.  271.     I  hand  you  herewith  a  picture  of  all  the  Atlantic 


City  operators..     President,  C.  R.  Lester;  vice-president,  Wm.  Long; 
financial    secretary,   T.    L.    Truitt;    recording   secretary,    Wm.    Hall- 
worth;  treasurer,  H.  Branbusy;  business  agent,  B.   French.     I  have 
an  answer  to  that  picture-quivering  puzzle  in   February  22nd  issue, 
but  first  I   want  to  see  what   tne  other  fellows   have   to  say.     You 
will  hear  from  me  again  shortly. 
Glad  to  form  the  pictorial  acquaintance  of  tne  Atlantic  City  boys.     Maybe 
I  will  take  a  run  down  there  next  summer,  now  that  I  know  you  all.     Will 
be  glad  to  have  your  solution  of  the  quivering  effect,  at  your  convenience. 


Removing  Emulsion. 
New  York  City  inquires  as  to  what  is  the  best  method  of  removing  emul- 
sion. Also  encloses  a  sketch  of  a  rewinder,  asking  my  opinion.  As  to 
removing  emulsion,  you  will  find  direction  for  that  in  the  handbook.  As 
to  the  rewinder,  I  do  not  understand  why  you  should  make  a  rewind  with 
everything  except  the  gears  and  one  brass  collar  of  wood.  What  is  the 
idea,  brother? 


From  Colorado  Springs. 
Mr.  O.  C  Hurt,  Colorado  Springs,  Colo.,  makes  his  debut  in  the  depart- 
ment as  follows: 

I  would  not  be  without  the  World  under  any  consideration.  Have 
been  operating  between  five  and  six  years,  and  am  still  learning 
something  every  day.  Our  theater,  the  Princess,  is  the  show  place 
of  the  city.  Seating  capacity  is  1,006,  including  a  small  balcony. 
Operating  room  equipment  consists  of  Power's  6-A  projector  and 
Enterprise  dissolving  stereo.  Our  picture  is  14  feet  at  .108-foot 
throw.  We  have  a  gold  fibre  screen,  and  a  motor  generator  set  for 
the  arc  circuit.  Use  30  to  60-day  service,  four  reels  a  day  except 
Monday,  which  is  feature  day.  Our  operating  room  is  12  x  12 
feet,  with  a  24-inch  vent  pipe.  It  is  made  of  steel  beams  and  con-  * 
crete.  The  machines  are  bolted  through  the  floor,  which  is  7^ 
inches  thick.  We  have  two  big  slate  switchboards  carrying  the  volt- 
meter, ammeter  and  field  rheostat,  as  well  as  the  various  switches. 
In  closing  I  want  to  say  that  my  wife  is  some  operator  herself. 
She  can  make  some  of  the  fellows  sit  up  and  take  notice  when  it 
comes  to  putting  on  a  really  good  picture.  Will  send  you  a  picture 
of  our  operating  room  before  long. 
That  is  just  like  a  letter  from  home,  brother  Hurt.  I  have  paraded  up 
•  book.     Hope  I  may  have  the  pleasure  of  visiting  it  again  some  day. 


Well  I  Don't  Know. 

Mr.  F.  E.  Howard,  Elma.  Iowa,  is  running  a  theater  in  that  little  city, 
using  three  reels  of  Universal  program  per  night.  Says  he  is  of  a  scientific 
turn  of  mind  and  has  been  greatly  interested  in  Kinematography  since  its 
early  development.  Has  been  studying  the  practical  as  well  as  the  theo- 
retical features  of  the  science  of  projection,  and  has  conceived  an  idea 
concerning  it.     He  writes: 

I  have  conceived  an  idea  for  the  elimination  of  flicker,  that,  so 
far  as  I  have  been  able  to  learn,  has  not  been  tried  out.  Now  you 
may  smile  and  double  your  bet  of  37  cents,  out  just  the  same  I 
might  have  the  last  laugh  after  all.  As  you  know,  the  efforts  to 
eliminate  flicker  mechanically  speaking,  have  been  along  the  line 
of    heightening    the    "illusion."      That    is    to    say,    inventors    have 


striven  to  improve  the  light,  lenses,  intermittent  movement  and  the 
shutter,  the  latter  having  been  developed  from  a  one  to  a  three- 
wing  affair.  All  this  for  the  purpose  of  better  deception  to  the 
eye,  all  the  while  relying  on  "persistance  of  vision"  to  tide  over 
the  intervals  of  darkness  on  the  screen.  My  idea  concerns  none  of 
these.  It  involves  no  mechanical  principle,  but  has  to  do  with 
chemistry  of  light  as  well  as  optics.  But  the  practical  working 
out  of  the  idea  so  as  to  attain  the  greatest  perfection  in  the  short- 
est possible  time  would  require  the  resources  of  an  experimental 
laboratory,  like  Edison's  for  instance.  Would  you  advise  me  to 
submit  the  idea  to  Mr.  Edison  and  trust  to  his  treating  me  fairly 
in  a  financial  way  if  the  idea  proves  as  successful  as  I  anticipate? 
Would  you  care  to  have  the  idea  explained  to  you  in  confidence, 
that  you  might  pass  upon  its  feasibility? 

While  I  have  no  doubt  but  that  Mr.  Edison  would  treat  you  with  perfect 
fairness,  so  far  as  he  himself  is  personally  concerned,  yet,  for  your  own 
peace  of  mind,  I  would  advise  you  to  have  your  idea  patented  before  sub- 
mitting it  to  any  manufacturer.  I  can  examine  the  thing  in  confidence  if 
you  so  desire,  but  not  being  up  on  the  chemical  end  my  opinion  would 
probably  have  small  value.  Frankly,  I  think  I  would  be  willing  to  risk 
fully  74  cents  against  you.  If  you  have  sufficient  confidence  in  the  idea  to 
go  to  the  expense  of  a  patent,  you  may,  after  securing  the  same,  forward 
the  thing  to  me.  and  if  it  looks  feasible,  I  will  see  what  I  can  do  to  secure 
consideration  for  it  from  manufacturers. 


Atlantic  City. 

Mr.  W.  A.  Reed,  who  can  perhaps  be  named  as  the  oldest  moving  picture 
theater  operator  in  this  country,  writes  from  Atlantic  City  as  follows: 
February  1st  issue,  under  caption,  "Bausch  &  Lomb  to  Blame?" 
the  writer  sets  forth  his  idea  of  the  deplorable  conditions  in  this 
city.     Well,  yes,  the  conditions  are  bad  in  some  ways;  that  is  true. 
However,   all  the  old-time  operators  of  this  city  have  been   asked 
concerning  this  article,  and  denied  its  authorship.     We  do  not  call 
a  man   who  has  only  been  in  the  business  three  or  four  years  an 
old-timer.     Do  you?     Now,  if  you  want  to  know  more  about  the 
conditions  here,  let  us  know.     We  are  positive  that  the  managers 
of  this  city  desire  the  best  projection  and  the  best  machines  they 
can  get.    You  remember  my  letter,  "Ancient  History,"  in  the  depart- 
ment,  March   4th,    191 1,   issue.     Ask  the  writer  of  that  article   to 
look  it  up  and  read  it     I  have  followed  your  work  closer  than  you 
think,  since  your  first  articles  in  the  World,  "Plain  Talks  to  Man- 
agers and   Operators."      I  find  you   to   be  just  the  kind   of  a   man 
who   was   wanted    to   whip   some   of   the   ones   into  line   who   have 
busted  into  the  business  and  learned  it  in  a  few  months,  and  give 
them  some  idea  of  how  little  they  really  do  know.     I  have  been  in 
the   business,  since  '96  and   have  not  learned  it  yet.     I  only   hope 
you  will  continue  the  good  work,  and  I  can  assure  you  that  you 
have  the  confidence  of  all  good  operators — those  who  want  to  make 
good.     I  wish  to  divide  the  credit  for  this  letter  with   Mr.   Harry 
S.    Bransby,   another   really  old-timer. 
Mr.  Reed  is  the  man  who  went  out  with  "Pop"  Rock  or,  more  properly 
speaking,  with  the  firm  of  Wainwright  &  Rock,  and  opened  what  was  the 
first   10-cent  moving  picture  theater  in   this  country,  at   326   Canal   Street, 
New  Orleans,  La.,  July  28th,   1896.     The  first  public  exhibition  of  motion 
picture  projection  on  a  screen  having  taken  place  on  April  23rd,    1896,   in 
New  York  City.     Brother  Reed  can  therefore  be  rightly  termed  the  dean  of 
all    motion    picture    operators,    in    America    at    least.      He    has   been ,    as    I 
understand  it,  in  the  game  ever  since.     As  to  Atlantic  City,  I  do  not  myself 
remember  who  wrote  the  letter  in  question,  and  it  would  be  a  great  deal 
of  trouble  to  hunt  it  up.     I  have  just  established  an  office  downtown,  pur- 
chased letter  files,   and  propose  to  keep  the  department  correspondence  on 
file   in    such   shape   that   1   can   refer  to   letters   hereafter   without  so   much 
trouble.     I  shall  indeed  be  glad  to  hear  from  brother  Reed  as  to  the  condi- 
tions in  Atlantic  City. 


An  Argument. 

Lake  Geneva,  Wis.,  writes: 

Would  you  be  kind  enough  to  settle  an  argument?     A  says  that 
in  the  taking  of  a  moving  picture  the  camera  lens  is  open   for  the 
same  length   of  time  it  is  closed — that  is  to   say,   if  the  camera  is 
working  at  the  rate  of  16  pictures   per  second  the  lens  would  be 
open  at  the  total  of  1/32  of  a  second  and  closed  the  same  length 
of  time   for  the  taking  of   each   separate  picture.      B   contends   the 
lens  is  open  an  infinitesimal  part  of  a  second — that  it  is  only  open 
about  1/250  of  a  second  for  each  picture.     Who  is  right?     As  this 
is  of  no  general  interest  to  operators,  I  enclose  a  stamped  envelope 
for  reply,  and  thank  you  very,  very  much. 
As    often   as    I    have   told   our  correspondents   that   inquiries   will   not    be 
replied  to   by  mail  except  a   minimum  fee  of  $1    be  enclosed,   there  is   still 
an  average  of  one-half  dozen  requests   a  day   for   mail    replies.      If   I   made 
a  practice  of  replying  by  mail  without  a  fee  this  would  quickly  amount  to 
from  30  to  50  letters  a  day.     I  would  like  to  write  to  all  of  you  person- 
ally,  but  I   simply  cannot  do  it.     As  to   the   argument,   B   is  correct.      By 
looking  on  page  570,  February  8th  issue,  you  will  find  the  camera  shutter 
speed  given  by  some  correspondent. 


Picture  Out-of-Focus. 

Toledo,  Ohio,  writes: 

Have    an    Edison    Exhibition    Model    Projector    which    has    been 
run  about  five  years  and  has  given  good  service.     The  picture  is 
out-of-focus   on   one  side.     There  is  a  quarter   of   an   inch   play   in 
the  shutter,  and  I  say  this  is  the  cause.     Am  I  right? 
The  shutter  having  play  would  cause  a  travel  ghost,  which  might  produce 
an  out-of-focus  effect,  especially  if  constant  and  slight.     I  cannot  say  with 
certainty  what  your  trouble  is,  but  I  would  suggest  that  if  you  have  beer, 
using  that   machine   five   years   you   had   better   get  a   new,   up-to-date   pro- 
jection mechanism. 


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161 


A  New  Rcwinder. 

Mr.  Bazil  Gilmer,  operator  at  Royal  Theater,  Gatesville,  Texas,  has  in- 
vented what  he  says  is  a  perfect  rewinder  for  all  projectors.  I  have  had 
so  many  tell  me  this  same  thing  that  brother  Gilmer  will  have  to  show 
me.  Send  in  a  model  of  your  invention,  brother,  and  if  it  is  what  you 
claim,  I  will  be  only  too  pleased  to  set  the  matter  forth  at  length  in  the 
department. 


Good  Projection  Wins. 

Mr.    R.   W.    Rhea,  Palacios,   Texas,  writes: 

Am  operating  in  a  small  town  and  it  is  only  through  good 
projection  we  are  able  to  exist.  Ten  shows  in  succession  failed 
before  we  entered  the  field.  Most  likely  the  operators  who  pre- 
ceded me  did  not  read  the  department  or  keep  the  handbook  on 
tap.  In  adjusting  carbons  I  always  use  the  reflection  on  the  out- 
side shutter  and  I  find  it  a  success.  It  works  the  same  as  a  pin 
hole  punched  in  the  lamphouse,  the  lens  taking  the  place  of  the  pin- 
hole. Of  course,  you  can  only  use  this  while  the  machine  is  in 
motion.  By  the  way,  Mr.  Bug  behaved  scandalously  in  one  of 
the  titles  I  ran  last  night 
Good  projection  will  win  anywhere,  as  against  the  other  kind.  I  think 
I  would  prefer  the  pin-hole  myself,  though  your  scheme  can  be  used  all  right. 


What  Would  Happen. 

Mr.  George  S.   Steidel  of  Steidel  &  Pugh  Ideal  Theater,   Pottsville,  Pa., 
tsks: 

Will    you  kindly   give  me  your  opinion  as  to  the   following:     If 
2,000  feet  of  film  caught  fire  and  burned  to  ashes  in  a  lower  maga- 
zine in  a  Power's  6A   Cameragraph,  what  would  the  damage  have 
been  to  the  head  of  the  machine? 
If    2,000    feet    of    film    burned    to    ashes    in    the    lower    magazine   of   the 
Power's    6A,    or    any    other    mechanism,    the    machine    itself    would    not    be 
worth  to  exceed  sixteen  and  two-thirds  cents.    In  other  words  it  would  be 
ruined?     There    is    a    possibility    that   with    a   very   tightly    wound    film    the 
thing    might    smolder;    that    is    to    say;    burn    slowly    and    gradually    char, 
without  any  large  amount  of  blaze  escaping  from  the  magazine,  assuming, 
of  course,  that  the  magazine  door  is  closed  and  that  it  is  not  forced  open 
by  the  gases  or  entirely  destroyed  by  the  heat    In  this  event  the  mechan- 
ism  itself  might  not  be  very  badly  damaged,   but   I    hardly   think  such   a 
thing  is  possible.     My  opinion  in  the  matter  is  that  the  machine  would  be 
ruined   absolutely   and    totally.      The    gears   and    possibly    the    frame    itself 
might  be  melted,  or  at  least  warped  clear  out  of  shape. 


Dark,  Deep,  Dense  Mystery. 

Mr.  Henry  Lacy,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  comes  across  with  the  following: 
In  Feb.  15th  issue  we  read  that  Cincinnati  is  the  proud  possessor 
of  a  lady  operator,  but  up  to  date  cannot  locate  the  four  bunches 
of  grapes  containing  the  exit  lights,  as  per  description.      She  must 
perform  outside  the  city,  because  we  have  no  lady  license  holder. 
Our  sympathies   go  out  to   poor   Muriel.     Why   doesn't   the  other 
partner   take   the   main   work,    or   maybe   he    is   born    t-i-r-e-d   and 
supports  the  suffragist  movement  as  an  easy  way  out? 
They  tell  me  that  since  the  publication  of  that  article,   Cincinnati   opera- 
tors have  been  haunting  the  highways  and  by-ways  with  a  dark  lantern  in 
one   hand  and   a  spy  glass   in   the   other,   looking,    longing  and  seeking   for 
Muriel  and  the  four  bunches  of  grapes.     Never  mind,  old  man,  I  will  not 
give   the   snap   away    (I    am   talking  to    the   husband   now,   gentlemen).     I 
would,  however,  suggest  that  you  send   four  bunches   of  grapes  up  to  the 
next  meeting   of  the  Cincinnati   Operators'   Union  by   messenger,   with   the 
compliments  of  Muriel. 


It's  a  Fine  Scheme. 
Mr.  W.   F.  Van  Allen,  New  York  State,  requests  that  the  name  of  the 
town  be  not  given  and  writes: 

February  19  I  opened  as  fine  a  little  theater  as  you  will  find  any 
time  in  a  town  of  two  thousand.  Some  scheme  that,  on  page  86, 
March  first  issue  (Brother  Van  Allen  refers  to  the  farmer-ticket 
advertising  scheme.  Ed.).  I  had  no  sooner  read  it  than  I  got  busy. 
Fifty  cents  each  was  about  the  limit  with  the  merchants,  but  I 
tied  them  up  to  try  it  for  four  weeks,  and  then  had  600  tickets  like 
the   attached   printed.      I   supply  the  merchants   with  these   tickets 


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BUSINESS     MEN'S 
FREE  TICKET 

For  Farmers  Only  to  Midget  Theatre^ 

Good  Only  Saturday  Afternoons 


VT.  T.  VanALLEN 


MANAGES 


and  collect  Monday.  Last  Saturday  was  the  first  day  and  I  had  as 
fine  a  class  of  people  as  one  would  wish.  The  theater  was  com- 
fortably filled;  besides  I  had  more  paid  admissions  than  on  the 
previous  Saturday,  because  they  brought  their  town  friends  with 
them  and  they,  of  course,  paid.  Our  local  editor  gave  me  a  splen- 
did write-up  on  the  scheme,  without  cost,  after  which  I  paid  ten 
cents  per  inch  each  week;  It  did  not  hurt  my  Saturday  night 
business  at  all,  and  many  farmers  live  on  the  trolley  line,  too. 
Comment    is    unnecessary.      Undoubtedly    the   scheme    is  .a    good    one   in 

•mall  towns  located  in  rural  communities.     I  recommended  the  plan  at  the 

time,  and  still  recommend  it. 


Measuring  Condensers. 

South  Dakota  orders  a  handbook  and  says: 

The  book  must  be  a  "scream"  if  it  is  anything  like  the  Moving 
Picture  World.  I  am  just  starting  up  here  and  am  installing  a 
Fairbanks-Morse  6  H.  P.  engine  and  a  314  k.  w.  generator,  no 
volts.  Have  a  Power's  5  machine  with  a  40  foot  throw.  Am  un- 
able to  get  a  good  stereo  picture,  though  the  M.  P.  is  all  right. 
Use  about  30  amperes;  $i  cored  carbons  and  No.  6  wires.  The 
condenser  nearest  the  light  is  6'/,.  Do  not  know  what  the  other 
one  is.  How  can  I  measure  it?  I  know  I  am  not  displaying  much 
knowledge,  but  am  trying  to  be  honest  and  learn. 

Only  the  fool  fears  to  display  lack  of  knowledge.  The  wise  man  ask» 
questions  and  acquires  knowledge.  You  will  find  method  of  measuring  con- 
densing lenses  described  on  page  356  of  the  handbook.  While  you  have 
not  said  what  width  your  picture  is,  it  pretty  near  a  cinch  you  need  two 
6J4   lenses  on  that  short  throw. 


Slide  Coating. 
Mr.  Amas  F.  Towne,  Soldiers'  Home,  Washington,  D.  G,  writes: 
The  best  opaque  slide  coating  I  have  found  is  Indian  Red  mixed 
with  vinegar  to  the  thickness  of  cream.     Apply  this  to  the  glass 
with  a  soft  brush.     It  works  fine. 

Many  thanks  for  the  formula,  Brother  Towne.     It  is  passed  along  to  the 
department  fans  for  experiment. 


International  Union  Policy. 

Mr.  Oscar  B.  Bridges,  corresponding  secretary  Local  Union  No.  531, 
I.  A.  T.  S.  E.,  Palestine,  Texas,  writes: 

The  members  of  this  union  are  constant  readers  of  the  World, 
particularly  the  department.  We  were  surprised  to  read  your  reply 
to  the  Gem  Theater  manager's  letter  in  a  recent  issue.  We  had 
already  taken  the  matter  up  with  our  International  President  Shay, 
and  his  ruling  is  that  no  house  is  considered  fair  unless  a  member 
of  the  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  is  employed  therein,  and  at  no  time  is  a  man- 
ager  to  be  permitted  to  run  his  own  machine;  also  that  the  union 
operator  is  to  have  full  control  of  his  operating  room.  Please  give 
this  matter  consideration  and  take  it  up  with  President  Shay,  as 
you  know  the  biggest  part  of  your  circulation  is  among  union  oper- 
ators.    I  send  you  a  list  of  our  officers  for  the  directory. 

I  have  already  had  this  matter  up  with  the  International  President, 
brother  Bridges,  and  while,  as  a  member  of  the  organization,  I  must  bow 
to  his  decisions,  as  editor  of  this  department  it  is  my  duty  to  take  issue 
even  with  him,  or  with  the  organization  itself,  when  I  think  it  is  in  the 
wrong.  This  is  not  said  in  a  spirit  of  egotism.  The  man  who  has  not 
the  courage  of  his  convictions  and  will  allow  his  own  material  interest  to 
stand  in  the  way  of  telling  the  truth,  and  standing  for  what  he  believes 
to  be  the  right,  is  not  a  man  fitted  to  hold  the  position  of  editor,  or  to 
speak  with  authority  on  any  subject.  It  now  becomes  my  duty  to  set 
forth  the  proposition  fully  and  clearly  as  I  see  it.  As  applied  to  Palestine, 
where  there  are  competing  houses,  and  where  there  is  a  local  union  of 
operators,  the  decision  of  brother  Shay  is  perfectly  right,  because  if  one 
theater  in  such  a  city  can  afford  to  employ  a  union  operator,  the  rest  can 
also  afford  to  do  it,  or  else  they  ought  to  all  go  out  of  business.  This  is 
not  said  with  the  idea  of  stamping  on  anyone's  toes,  nor  is  it  aimed  at  any 
individual,  but  simply  stated  as  a  broad  proposition.  I  will  back  up  brother 
Shay  in  his  ruling  as  applied  to  cities  large  enough  to  have  a  local  union, 
or  in  cities  having  competing  houses  and  lying  within  the  jurisdiction  of 
another  local.  I  think  in  these  cases  it  is  only  fair,  just  and  right  that  the 
manager  should  attend  to  his  job  of  managing  and  employ  a  competent 
operator  to  attend  to  the  operating.  Also  such  a  course  is  for  the  best 
interest  of  the  business  in  general  and  it  insures  fair  competition  among  the 
managers  themselves,  so  far  as  the  projection  end  of  things  be  concerned. 

But  there  is  another  proposition  also  included  in  brother  Shay's  ruling 
wherein  I  cannot  altogether  agree  with  him,  and  that  is  this:  There  are 
many  hundreds  of  villages  barely  able  to  support  a  small  theater,  perhaps 
only  running  two  or  three  nights  a  week,  but  where  the  support  absolutely 
is  not  sufficient  to  permit  of  the  employment  of  an  operator  at  anything 
like  a  union  scale,  or  perhaps  even  at  any  scale  at  all.  Such  houses  often 
can  only  exist  as  a  family  affair.  Most  likely  the  manager  is  also  the 
operator,  janitor  and  billposter,  his  daughter  or  wife  the  pianist;  another 
daughter  the  ticket  seller,  and  perhaps  a  son  the  door  tender.  On  this 
basis  these  village  "theaters"  manage  to  exist,  and  there  are  more  of 
them  that  you  think  there  are,  too.  They  furnish  the  little  hamlets  with 
a  clean,  healthy  form  of  amusement,  and  it  would  be  entirely  wrong  and 
absolutely  unfair,  from  any  and  every  point  of  view,  to  force  them  to  employ 
a  union  or  any  other  kind  of  an  operator.  The  writer  is,  as  you  all  well 
know,  heartily  in  favor  of  organization,  but  he  believes  that  union  labor 
must  proceed  along  sane  and  common  sense  lines.  Just  exactly  how  this 
particular  proposition  can  be  handled  I  do  not  know,  but  I  most  certainly 
want  to  see  the  matter  brought  before  the  next  convention  and  some  line 
of  procedure  adopted  which  will  be  fair  and  just  to  every  one  concerned, 
provided  such  a  plan  can  be  evolved.  I  well  know  the  thing  is  not  as 
simple  as  it  looks,  and  its  satisfactory  solution  will  be  very  difficult. 

After  the  reply  to  Palestine  referred  to  in  brother  Bridges'  letter  was 
in  print  I  saw  that  I  had  not  put  things  exactly  the  way  I  intended  to.  We 
all  make  mistakes  sometimes,  and  I  placed  myself  a  little  bit  wrong  that 
time.  I  trust  that  I  have  now  made  my  position  in  this  matter  clear,  and 
I  believe  that  all  fair-minded  men  will  agree  with  me  that  my  position  is 
not  far  from  being  right.  I  believe  that  even  brother  Shay  will,  upon 
mature  deliberation,  not  say  that  I  am  wrong,  though  from  motives  of 
general  policy  he  might  be  inclined  to  oppose  me.  I  should  be  glad  to 
hear  from  some  of  our  union  contributors  on  this  point.  I  must  correct 
you  in  one  thing,  however,  brother.  While  we  have  a  very  large  number 
of  union  readers,  still  the  paper  reaches  practically  all  ,  the  operators  in 
the  country,  and  as  yet  but  a  comparatively  small  percentage  of  them  are 
organized.     The  list   of   officers   appeared   last  week. 


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Fireproof  Operating  Room. 

Mr.  Charles  F.  Bode,  manager  Pass-Time  Theater,  Alexandria,  La.,  writes: 
Enclosed  find  the  last  number  of  my  weekly  program,  which  may 
interest  your  friend  Mr.   E.   W.   Sargent.     Also  enclose  a  clipping 
from  a  former  number,  which  explains  itself.     While  the  construc- 
tion of  my  operating  room  does  not  come  up  to  your  specification, 
I  was  so  confident  of  its  safety  that  I  was  willing  to  risk  a  public 
demonstration.      My   dependence    on   safety   was   an    18   x    18   inch 
ventilating  flue  and  asbestos  lining.     Half  of  the  film  was  unwound 
on  top  of  the  balance  in  middle  of  floor.     After  lighting,  the  chief 
and    I    remained   in    the    room    some   little    time,    and    could    have 
stayed  to  the  end,  as  draft  from  door  behind   us  took  heat  gases 
and  smoke  right  up  flue.     But  we  wanted  to   see  the  shutters  in 
operation,  so  stepped  out  and  shut  the  door,  which  action  also  closed 
shutters. 
Your  vent  flue   is  very  nearly  up  to  my  specifications,   brother   Bode.     I 
suggest  288  square  inches   (two  square  feet)   as  a  minimum,  whereas  yours 
is   256   square   inches.      If  it  carries    away  the   smoke  from  a   burning   film 
that  is   all   that  is   necessary.      It  is  ample.      But  my   whole   scheme   hinges 
on  not  letting  the  audience  know  there  is  a  fire.     Experience  has  taught  us 
time  and  again  that  once  let  an  audience  catch  sight  of  the  smoke  and  some 
crazy  individual   will  yell   "Fire!     Get  out  for  your  lives I**   and   then  you 
cannot  stop  that  audience  from  killing  each  other  any  more  than  you  could 
stop  a  stampede  of  long-horned  Texas  steers.     It  will   cost  you   practically 
nothing  to   arrange   your   shutters   as    I   have   instructed    in   the   handbook. 

1  would  advise  you  by  all  means  to  do  it.  But,  in  this  connection,  I  am 
going  to  suggest  that  the  master  cord  be  made  of  No.  22  copper  wire,  which 
will   have  no   stretch  to   it,   and  that,   instead  of  the  harness   rings,   pulley* 

2  inches  in  diameter  be  used,  and  that  where  the  cord  goes  across  the 
spreaders  over  the  aperture  and  film  box  a  piece  of  film  6  or  8  inches  long 
be  used,  the  master  cord  (wire)  being  attached  to  the*  film  by  means  of  a 
clamp  at  either  end.  This,  if  properly  done,  will  absolutely  insure  the 
almost  instantaneous  closing  of  the  shutters  when  a  fire  starts,  as  the  film 
will  burn  in  two  instantly.  The  only  trouble  is  that  it  would  take  two  men 
to  open  the  shutters.  But  that  is  only  done  once  a  day.  If  necessary  I 
will  make  a  drawing  of  the  idea,  but  I  think  you  will  all  understand  what 
I  mean.  The  trouble  with  your  present  scheme  is,  as  I  understand  it,  by 
the  time  you  get  these  wall  shutters  closed  the  audience  would  have  caught 
sight  of  the  smoke,  and  if  that  happens,  good  night  1  Your  program  has 
been  forwarded  to  brother  Sargent. 


Engine  Trouble. 

Mr.  Harry  Waldron,  proprietor  Langdon  and  Electric  Theaters,  Langdon, 
N.  Dak.,  writes: 

I  am  now  able  to  give  some  facts  about  low-voltage  generators. 
I  purchased  a  1.8-k.w.,  60-volt,  d.  c.  Fairbanks-Morse  generator 
delivering  30  amperes,  about  six  weeks  ago,  and  belted  it  to  a  3-h.p. 
kerosene  engine,  intending  to  play  a  circuit  of  towns  once  each 
week,  using  a  twin  cable  to  carry  the  current  into  the  hall  in  which 
I  showed.  I  knew  that  a  3-h.p.  engine  was  too  light,  but  they 
claimed  4  for  it.  In  service  I  found  that  it  produced  voltage  suf- 
ficient to  light  the  incandescents  to  c.p.,  but  when  the  arc  was 
struck  the  speed  was  reduced  so  much  that  the  incandescents  only 
burned  red.  Moral:  It  pays  to  have  plenty  of  reserve  power.  The 
engine  was  very  hard  to  start  in  cold  weather,  and  for  this  reason 
the  show  was  often  delayed.  Another  objection  was  that  it  took 
at  least  four  men  to  handle  the  engine  in  shipping.  I  am  now  hav- 
ing the  dynamo  driven  by  a  local  engine  in  each  town,  and  this  is 
proving  satisfactory,  except  on  account  of  the  distance  I  sometimes 
have  to  carry  the  current.  I  have  conveyed  it  as  much  as  500  feet 
on  a  No.  10  wire,  with  some  drop  in  voltage,  making  it  necessary 
to  raise  the  dynamo  pressure  above  normal.  Recently  I  blew  a 
3o-ampere  fuse  with  a  30-ampere  generator,  owing  to  having  cut 
out  all  resistance  that  night.  The  wiring  I  use  I  have  put  up  per- 
manently on  poles,  and  it  is  now  only  necessary  to  set  up  a  dynamo 
•  and  connect.  My  experience  has  proven  to  me  that  60  volts  is 
O.  K.  for  house  installation,  but  rather  low  for  any  distance  from 
the  theater.  If  buying  again  I  would  select  a  2^-k.w.,  70-volt 
generator.  The  one  I  have  is  a  compound  wound  and  very  steady 
and  efficient,  provided  the  speed  be  maintained  steadily.  The  volt- 
age is  uniform  at  full  and  no  load.  The  engine  was  a  3-h.p.  Falk, 
which  throttled  and  ran  quite  steadily  when  not  overloaded.  Bar- 
ring the  trouble  in  starting,  it  was  not  a  bad  engine,  but  a  kerosene 
engine  needs  to  get  real  hot  before  giving  results.  I  believe  that 
a  kerosene  engine  which  drew  its  mixture  through  a  chamber  heated 
by  the  exhaust  pipe  would  run  very  smoothly.  I  am  still  digesting 
the  new  handbook,  reading  every  word  and  studying  out  the  dia- 
grams until  I  understand  them  thoroughly.  I  believe  that  you  can 
improve  upon  the  definition  of  electricity  by  simply  saying  that 
"electricity  is  energy."  I  have  devised  a  file  for  the  varied  informa- 
tion in  the  department.  I  use  a  good-sized  flexible  memorandum 
book,  heading  the  different  pages  "Lens,"  "Motor  Drive,"  "Screen/' 
"Resistance,"  etc.,  and  then  skimming  through  the  entire  bound 
volume  for  the  sense  of  each  letter,  and  then  indexing  it  in  the 
book  accordingly.  When  I  desire  information  on  a  given  subject 
I  just  turn  to  a  page  which  will  indicate  dozens  of  articles  on  that 
subject  and  your  comments  on  same.  I  shall  make  such  a  file  of 
the  advertising  department.  I  wish  to  say  a  good  word  for  the 
Gundlach  Manhattan  lens.  A  made-to-order  lens  increased  the 
sharpness  of  my  picture  wonderfully. 
Brother  Waldron,  if  you  could  spare  that  index  book  of  yours  for  a 
week  or  two  I  certainly  would  appreciate  it  if  you  would  send  same  to 
me  by  express,  so  that  I  can  make  a  copy.  It  would  save  me  a  world  of 
work,  as  I  have  been  intending  to  do  that  same  thing  myself,  but  never 
can  get  the  time.  I  will  return  the  book  promptly.  As  to  the  engine  mat- 
ter, I  would  recommend  the  makers  of  kerosene  engines  to  take  particular 
note  of  what  you  have  said.  I  thoroughly  agree  with  you  that  ample  reserve 
power  is  absolutely  essential  to  good  results.  I  think  you  are  wrong  in 
using  Xo.  10  wire.  It  would  pay  you  better,  anyhow,  to  use  No.  8.  Your 
letter  is  interesting.     Many  thanks  for  its  contribution. 


Got  Pinched. 

Mr.  Leo  King,  Hot  Springs,  Ark.,  orders  a  new  handbook  and  says: 
I  have  one  of  the  old  vest  pocket  handbooks  you  put  out  years 
ago;  also  one  of  the  first  edition.    They  are  chock  full  of  good  dope, 
but  not  nearly  as  full  as  the  new  book,  if  all  I  hear  is  true.     The 
Hot  Springs  theaters  have  been  closed  Sundays  for  two  years  past, 
but  for  the  last  two  weeks  have  been  fighting  the  city  and  county- 
officials.     We  only  got  pinched  eight  times  last  Sunday.    They  allow 
the  gambling  houses,  cigarette  stores  and  fruit  stands  to  open,  but 
the   picture  show?      Horrors!      Shut  them  up!     The  managers   are 
getting  tired    of   this   and   decided   to  either   compel   everything  to 
close  or  open  their  own  doors. 
With  all  that  pinching  I  should  think  brother  King  would  be  pretty  sore. 
What  a  ridiculous,  idiotic  and  utterly  asinine  proposition  it  is  after  all — 
those  highly  moral  and  uplifting  institutions,  the  gambling  house  and  dealer 
in  cigarettes,   allowed   to  run  wide  open  Sundays,   and  the  moving  picture 
theaters   kept  tightly   closed.      I   should  think  the  Hot   Springs  officials,   to 
say  nothing  of  the   church   people,   must  have  lost  all   their  sense   of   the 
ridiculous.     They  must  indeed  have  queer  ideas  as  to  what  constitutes  the 
eternal  fitness  of  things  and  be  the  proud  possessors  of  the  highly  perverted 
sense  of  right  and  wrong.     A  moving  picture  theater  classed  below  a  gam- 
bling house.     Fine!     The  next  thing  we  know  Hot  Springs  will  be  moving 
its  underworld  out  on  Main  Street  and  closing  up  its  Sunday  schools. 


Out-of-Focus  Trouble. 

Lloyd   G.   Balkam,  Washington,   D.   C,  writes  as  follows: 

Have  been  operating  since  1910.  I  have  a  peculiar  trouble 
which  I  am  unable  to  account  for  or  remedy,  viz:  double  edge  on 
the  right  side  of  my  picture.  When  I  focus  up  without  a  film  in, 
the  aperture  edges  are  sharp  all  around,  but  when  the  film  is  in 
there  is  a  double  edge  on  the  right  side  of  the  screen.  I  use  a 
Power's  Six  projector  on  105  foot  throw.  Tried  a  new  aperture 
plate,  but  the  trouble  showed  up  just  the  same.  I  attach  hereto 
sketch  of  rewinder,  approved  for  use  in  this  city.  It  is  made  by 
Mr.  N.   C.  Darby,  is  patented  by  him  and  is  approved  for  use  by 


HTCH 


Rewinder  made  by  N.  C.  Darby,  of  Washington,  O.  C,  also 

patented  by  him.    Approved  for  use  by  fire 

department  of  this  city. 

the  Washington  Fire  Department.     I  would  suggest  that  the  inde- 
pendent film  producers  be  interviewed  with  regard  to  their  patches, 
which  certainly  are  the  limit.     Their  first  run  releases  are  full  of 
mis-prints,    mis-frames  and   patches   badly  made.     The   Gem,    Imp, 
Mecca,    Powers,    Punch   and   Victor   are  the   worst  offenders    and, 
as 'you  know,  the  poor  operator  gets  the  blame  when  compelled  to 
stop  the  machine  by  reason  of  these  faults.     I  would  also  like  to  in- 
quire why  so  many  of  the  Bison  101  films  are  blurred  in  the  cen- 
ter.    Will  send  you  photo  of  operating  room  soon. 
As  regard  the  double  edge  proposition,  are  you  sure  there  is  not  a  faint 
finger  mark   or   a  small   spot   of   oil    on  your  lens?     See   that   your   tension 
shoe  bears  evenly  on  the  aperture  plate  track  and  that  it  sets  square  with 
the  tracks.     Try  loosening  the  aperture  and  blocking  one  side  out  just  a 
little  with   a  piece  of  tin.      Be  sure  your  lenses  and   aperture  are  in   line 
throughout   (See  handbook,  page  227).    As  to  the  Independent  Film  faults, 
I  have  taken  the  matter  up  with  the  Universal  people,  requesting  them  to 
look  into  it.     Possibly  some  good  may  be  accomplished  in  this  way.    Don't 
know  about  the  Bison  101  fault.    First  I  had  heard  of  it. 


Nothing  Doing. 

Coden,  Ala.,  writes: 

I  have  purchased  new  equipment,  consisting  of  Power's  6-A  and 
a   Perfecto   gas-making   outfit  with   a   70   mm,  e.f.    projection   lens, 
but  I  am  unable  to  produce  a  picture  in  distance  over  5   feet.     I 
am  inexperienced  with  this  light. 
Well,   Coden,  I  don't  know  what  to  say.     A  70  mm,  e.f.  lens  would  be 
a  2^-inch  e.f.,  which  is  a  very,  very  wide  angle  lens  indeed,  and  I  should 
think  not  at  all  suitable  to  your  purpose.     Seems  to  me  that  a  3$4-inch  e.f. 
lens  would  be  plenty  short.     As  to  the  Perfecto  gas-making  outfit,   I  cannot 
help  you,  as  I  know  nothing  about  that  particular  brand  of  gas  producer. 
I  would  suggest  that  you  take  the  matter  up  with  its  manufacturer. 


Injuring  Definition. 
Springfield,    Mo.,   says: 

An  operator  acquaintance  of  mine  claims  that  the  outside  shutter 
injures  the  definition  of  the  picture.     Is  there  anything  in  this? 
There  is  not. 


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"THE  GIFT  OF  THE  STORM"  (Lubin),  March  28.— There  seems  to  be 
an  old-time,  and  we  don't  mean  old-fashioned,  quality  about  this  picture  by 
Emmett  C.  Hall,  and  it  seemed  to  take  with  the  audience  strongly.  It  is  a 
romance  with  some  poetry,  a  convincing  simplicity  and  also  that  indescrib- 
able touch  of  personality  that  has  made  Arthur  Johnson  probably  the  most 
popular  player  on  the  screen.  The  story  is  fresh  enough,  but  not  new.  In 
it  an  actress  who  is  lost  in  the  woods  is  forced  by  a  blizzard  to  spend  a  day 
or  so  in  the  cabin  of  a  queer,  lonely  farmer.  The  players  are  Arthur  John- 
son, Lottie  Briscoe  and  Howard  Mitchell.  The  plot  is  clear,  sensible  and 
well-knit.     The  photography  is  of  good  quality. 

"SALLY  IN  OUR  ALLEY"  (Selig),  March  2S.— This  picture  was  sug- 
gested by  the  old  and  still  popular  ballad  which  it  illustrates  and  will  be 
helped  much  by  the  music.  The  authoress,  H.  G.  Baker,  has  kept  her 
scenario  simple  and  concrete,  which  makes  it  effective  and  the  producer, 
Colin  Campbell,  in  his  scenes  and  acting  (if  we  leave  out  the  two  street 
scenes  that  are  like  afternoon  teas)  has  given  it  just  about  the  right  touch. 
It  makes  an  offering  that  we  can  commend  heartily,  a  little  lyric  photoplay 
with  the  proper  music.  The  photography  is  very  good.  Wheeler  Oakman 
is  the  apprentice  of  the  draper,  Thomas  Santschi,  who  loves  "Sally," 
Bessie  Eyton. 

"THE  HERO-COWARD"  (Essanay),  March  28.— A  story  of  a  man  who 
is  afraid  of  horses  only,  and,  unfortunately,  has  a  job  on  the  police  force. 
The  character  is  not  new  in  pictures  and  not  very  common  in  life  and  it 
not  a  hard  character  to  make  up  a  story  for,  since  the- plot  must  always  be 
the  same  in  outline,  if  not  in  incident.  In  every  case  the  half-coward  has 
been  disgraced  and  then  has  rehabilitated  himself  by  showing  that  he  is  no 
coward  after  all.  It  is  clearly  pictured  in  this  film  and  seemed  to  give 
entertainment  to  the  audience.  The  lead  is  taken  by  E.  H.  Calvert.  W. 
Bailey,  W.  Walters  and  Helen  Dunbar  also  have  roles. 

"A  WAY  TO  THE  UNDERWORLD"  (Edison),  March  28.— Another  of 
the  "What  Happened  to  Mary"  series.  It  will  not  stand,  very  well  by  itself 
and  is  most  melodramatic,  indeed,  we  are  a  bit  astonished  at  its  quality, 
seeing  it  among  Edison  releases.  There  was  not  much  inattention  while  it 
was  on  and  so  far  as  we  could  see  the  greater  part  of  the  audience  found 
entertainment  in  it. 

"CRABS  AND  LOBSTERS"  (Pathe),  March  28.— Well  photographed 
studies  in  an  aquarium.  It  shows  us  the  "goat"  and  the  "spider"  crabs 
and  others,  and  we  see  a  few  lobsters  crawling  about. 

"THE  TOBACCO  CULTURE  IN  CUBA"  (Pathe),  March  28.— This  of- 
fering is  full  of  information  arid  is  very  interesting.  The  photography  is 
clear  and  the  process  of  growing  our  "smoking"  and  our  "chewing"  is 
fully  illustrated.     A  more  acceptable  topical  offering  than  most. 

"SCENES  IN  JAPAN"  (\itagraph),  March  28.— A  short  filling-out 
piece  that  is  of  very  little  value. 

"BUNNY  BLARNEYED"  (Vitagraph),  March  28.— A  pleasing  offering, 
it  gives  us  a  love  comedy  that  is  lighthearted  and  laughable  enough.  Bunny 
has  the  lead  as  a  stern  parent  who,  after  kissing  the  Blarneystone  at  the 
castle,  needs  help  but  can't  get  it  until  he  gives  consent  to  a  marriage.  The 
picture's  views  of  the  ruined  castle  and  the  Irish  country  around  it  are 
fine  in  every  way.  Larry  Trimble  plainly  worked  it  up  to  be  played  in 
Blarney  Castle  and  has  made  a  very  fair  offering  of  it. 

"THE  CHATEAU  OF  CHAMBORD"  (Pathe),  March  27.— A  number  of 
views  of  this  famous  chateau,  built  by  Francis  I,  in  whose  reign  the  Re- 
naissance flowered  in  France.  The  building  is  worth  seeing,  but  so  much 
of  it  merely  as  a  specimen,  and  so  little  of  it  as  a  historic  home  is  a  bit 
wearisome.     It  wasn't  long,  but  several  in  the  audience  got  tired  of  it. 

"THE  FIRED  COOK"  (Kalem),  March  28.— A  farce  in  which  Marshall 
Neilan  and  Ruth  Roland  play  a  young  couple  who  employ  a  new  cook,  John 
Brennan,  a  man  dressed  as  a  woman.     It  made  the  audience  laugh. 

"THE  CAT  AND  THE  BONNET"  (Kalem),  March  28.— By  the  same 
players  as  the  above,  this  farce  has  not  quite  so  much  action,  yet  it,  too, 
made  laughter. 

"THE  MOONSHINER'S  LAST  STAND"  (Patheplay),  March  26.— This 
two-reel  special  is  a  true  feature  and  supplies  the  demand  for  red-blood 
action.  From  toe  first,  the  story  is  wide-awake,  although  when  we  see  the 
sheriff  and  the  revenue  man  coming  to  blows  on  account  of  the  girl,  the 
hold  weakens  for  a  moment;  for  it  doesn't  convince.  But  we  are  now 
given  a  shiver  of  horror.  A  snake  coils  around  the  feet  of  the  heroine 
(the  house  was  filled  with  shudders).  And  following  this,  comes  the  sharpest 
kind  of  action  up  to  the  climax  in  which  the  illicit  whiskey  distillers,  with 
the  sheriff  who  has  brought  the  snake-bitten  girl  back  to  the  cabin,  are  be- 
sieged by  the  drunken  Indians.  The  sheriff  has  to  creep  out  and  get  the 
cavalry.  In  the  end.  after  the  moonshiners  are  rescued  from  the  now 
burning  cabin  by  the  troops,  it  is  found  that  the  evidence  against  them  has 
been  destroyed.  Tne  brave  moonshiner  h*s  won  the  sympathy  of  the  spec- 
tators and  it  may  be  assumed,  in  a  picture,  the  right  to  go  free.  Octavia 
Handworth  plays  the  girl  and  it  was  plain  that  she  pleased  the  audience. 
Crane  Wilbur  plays  the  revenue  man.     The  photography  is  very  good. 

"GETTING  UP  A  PRACTICE"  (Vitagraph),  March  27.— A  little  comedy 
in   which  a  young  medical  man's  chums  make  the  community  think  him   a 


desirable  physician.  Now,  a  doctor  can't  advertise  directly,  and  in  this  case 
there  is  a  love  story  at  stake,  so  his  three  friends  take  indirect  ways  of 
making  him  known.  We  can  say  with  assurance  that  it  amused  the  audience. 
Marguerite  Bertasch  deserves  credit  for  writing  up  a  fresh  corner  of  expe- 
rience. Its  producers,  M.  Costello  and  W.  Ranous,  have  made  a  sensible, 
laugh-making  picture  of  it.  The  doctor  is  played  by  Mr.  Costello;  the  girl, 
by  Clara  Young;  her  objecting  father,  by  Mr.  Ranous,  and  the  doctor's 
three  friends  by  Hughie  Mack,  George  Cooper  and  James  Morrison,  all  of 
whom  helped  a  good  deal. 

"THE  FOOD  CHOPPER  WAR"  (Selig),  March  27.— A  farcical  love 
story  in  which  the  son  and  daughter  of  rival  grocers  elope  and  then  conspire 
against  their  respective  fathers,  and  so  corner  the  town's  supply  of  food 
choppers.  There  was  more  laughter  in  the  early  scenes  than  later,  tor  it  is 
too  long  and  has  a  good  deal  of  repetition.  There  is  much  that  is  artificial 
in  it. 

"THE  TRAIL  OF  THE  ITCHING  PALM"  (Essanay),  March  27.— The 
audience  seemed  to  find  this  farce,  or  most  of  it,  very  entertaining,  and 
there  was  considerable  laughter.  It  gives  us  a  picture  of  the  tipping  evil 
and  entertains  us  with  the  experiences  of  Pop  Brown  (Joseph  Allen),  who 
has  joined  T.  Wad's  Anti-Tipping  Association.  In  the  first  place,  John 
Steppling  was  in  love  with  his  daughter,  Beverly  Bayne,  but  he  refused  to 
let  him  have  her  because  he  tips  servants  and  shows  that  he  doesn't  know 
how  to  take  care  of  his  money.  Pop  manages  to  "bunco  himself"  until 
John  has  to  come  to  the  rescue.     The  way  he  does  it  is  good  fun. 

"MEMORIES  OF  HIS  YOUTH"  (Lubin),  March  27.— We  have  a  good, 
wholesome  situation  in  this  picture,  produced  by  Barry  O'Neil  from  a  script 
of  Clara  Broabger  which  may  be  original,  but  is  not  new,  being  very  close, 
indeed,  to  a  story  of  F.  Hopkinson  Smith's.  It  is  a  well-acted  and  clearly 
presented  offering  and  evidently  pleased  the  audience,  who  watched  it 
closely.  The  story  deals  with  an  artist  who  had  loved,  but  lost,  a  woman 
in  his  youth,  and  who  meets  her  son,  a  broker.  Later  the  young  man  is 
tempted  to  do  a  dishonest  act,  but  the  influence  of  the  artist  keeps  him 
straight,  and  then  there  is  a  happy  ending,  in  which  the  young  man  wins 
his  sweetheart.  Charles  Arthur  is  the  broker,  and  Marie  Weirman  is  the 
girl.     Harry  Meyers  is  the  artist. 

"THE  SHERIFF'S  REWARD"  (Patheplay),  March  27.— An  offering 
with  enough  action  to  keep  the  interest  awake,  but  in  which,  aside  from 
its  scenes  and  general  arrangement,  there  is  nothing  new.  In  all  these 
pictures  the  reward  of  the  sheriff  is  the  girl,  married  in  the  early  scenes 
to  a  bad  man  who  is  killed  in  the  end.  There  are  some  interesting  railroad 
scenes  in  which  the  outlaw  is  trying  to  get  away  on  a  flat  car  and  is  chased 
by  the  sheriff  on  the  cowcatcher  of  another  engine.  The  slowness  of  the 
camera  (to  make  speedy  action)   results  in  some  noticeable  awkwardness. 

"THE  OLD  GRAY  MARE"  (Biograph),  March  27— Some  friends  of  a 
drunken  man's  wife  ring  many  changes  on  the  old  nag  waiting  outside  of 
a  saloon,  and  make  the  man  think  it  time  to  swear  off.  It  is  an  offering 
meant  to  make  laughter,  and  did  so. 

"ALL  HAIL  TO  THE  KING"  (Biograph),  March  27.— A  dream  bur- 
lesque, given  as  the  experience  of  a  tramp  asleep  on  a  bench.  It  certainly 
made  the  audience  laugh. 

"HINEMOA"  (Melies),  March  27. — A  very  pretty,  poetic  picture,  giving 
a  primitive  love  story  in  a  natural  and  quite  convincing  way.  There  is 
nothing  theatrical  about  it  at  all.  It  was  taken  in  New  Zealand,  and  partly 
on  the  island  of  Mokoia,  and  for  the  most  part  the  players  are  genuine 
Maori  people.  One  will  find  in  these  folklore  stories  a  quality  something 
like  stories  in  Homer.  A  Maori  girl  loves  a  warrior  and  finds  a  way  to 
make  him  win  her,  in  spite  of  her  father.  It  is  beautiful  and  delightful 
and  we  can  find  nothing  but  good  to  say  of  it. 

"LOVE  LAUGHS  AT  LOCKSMITHS"  (Vitagraph),  March  26.— There 
is  not  a  great  deal  that  is  new  or  truly  fresh  in  this  picture  of  a  boarding 
school  love  story,  and  the  agreeableness  of  the  players  alone  keeps  it  from 
falling  flat.  Anna  Stewart,  who  plays  the  heroine,  is  very  pretty  and  seems 
to  be  new  in  pictures,  but  she  is  not  yet  a  great  actress.  Frank  Bennett 
plays  her  lover,  and  Frank  Currier,  her  objecting  father  who  sends  the  girl 
away  to  the  school,  kept  by  Flora  Finch,  the  inimitable.  Charles  Eldridge 
has  a  small  role  as  one  of  the  school's  professors,  and  there  are  a  number 
of  girls.     The  audience  found  it  amusing. 

"THE  UNPROFITABLE  BOARDER"  (Edison),  March  26.— A  farce 
with  burlesque  characters  for  the  most  part  The  audience  found  its  good 
parts  very  amusing,  but  it  is  too  long,  the  first  half  being  rather  inane. 
It  has  a  real  comedy  situation  as  soon  as  it  becomes  known  that  the  impecu- 
nious boarder,  with  an  imaginary  rich  uncle  (a  first-class  item),  has  taken 
op  his  abode  in  a  farmhouse  where  his  former  city  landlady  is  aunt.  This 
part  of  the  farce  is  worthy  of  the  film  it  uses  and  is  most  entertaining.  It 
was  written  by  Herbert  Prior,  who  plays  the  leading  role,  and  was  produced 
by  C.  J.  Williams.  Alice  Washburn,  William  Wadsworth,  Mabel  Trunnelle 
and  Mrs.  Williams  also  have  good  roles  and  acquit  themselves  well.  The 
photography  is  only  so-so. 

"THE  GATE  SHE  LEFT  OPEN"  (Patheplay),  March  26.— Perhaps  of 
all  pictures  among  regular  releases  today  this  shows  the  most  careful 
handling  on  the  producer's  part.  It  has  the  best  photography  and  is  the 
most  smoothly  conducted,  but  the  scenario  is  too  conventional   to  make  a 


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deeply  interesting  offering.  It  tells  a  duplicate  love  story,  wholesome  and 
pleasing  and  with  an  optimistic  outlook  on  life.  Nephew  and  niece  love 
each  other;  then  a  lost  letter  is  found,  and  uncle  and  aunt  are  reconciled. 
The  players  are  agreeable  personally,  but  there  is  nothing  great  in  their 
work.  The  sets  and  backgrounds  are  just  what  was  needed.  The  audience 
watched  it  closely  and  seemed  entertained. 

"THE  SCRATCH"  (Essanay),  March  26. — An  interesting  comedy  with 
a  pleasing  freshness,  and  in  which  there  seems  to  be  more  good  picture 
matter  than  in  any  other  of  today's  releases.  The  story  develops  at  a 
house  party,  where  an  incident  that  many  a  nervous  guest  has  feared  (a 
man  getting  into  a  girl's  room  by  mistake)  causes  commotion  for  a  while,, 
but  in  the  morning  is  explained  in  a  way  that  adds  a  pleasing  touch  to  the 
picture  and  one  that  will  go  far  toward  making  it  popular.  The  offering  is 
a  little  slow  at  first,  but  wakes  up  after  the  first  few  scenes.  The  incident 
is  brought  out  naturally  and  is  very  acceptably  acted.  The  awkward  guest 
is  Augustus  Carney.  Joseph  Allen,  Lillian  Drew,  Ruth  Hennessy  and  Frances 
Mason  also  have  roles.     The  audience  seemed  to  take  pleasure  in  it. 

"THE  FACE  AT  THE  WINDOW"  (Kalem),  March  26.— The  first  few 
scenes  are  a  bit  wearisome,  because  it  cannot  be  seen  that  they  are  aiming 
at  any  particular  story,  but  toward  the  end  it  does  present  a  definite  situa- 
tion that  holds.  The  interest  in  this  comes  from  the  way  it  is  carried  out, 
not  from  the  incident  itself,  for  that  is  stock  property,  not  at  all  fresh. 
We  didn't  expect  to  see  the  girl  take  that  dive  into  the  river  after  the 
villainous  thief,  and  it  gave  us  a  thrill,  and  there  are  one  or  two  other  good 
things  in  the  picture.  There  are  some  pretty  backgrounds,  but  for  the  most 
part  they  are  out  of  focus..  The  heroine  is  played  by  Irene  Boyle.  Earle 
Foxe  is  the  hero,  J.  R.  Ross  is  the  mill  owner,  and  S.  Holmes  the  thief. 

"THE  LIFE-TIMER"  (Selig),  March  26.— A  picture  in  which  the  heroine 
has  a  dream  and  walks  in  her  sleep  out  to  the  mountains  where  her  lover, 
now  a  life-timer,  had  killed  his  man  in  self-defense,  and  there  finds  the 
missing  gun  that  would  have  shown  him  to  be  innocent.  This  doesn't  seem 
very  likely.  There  is  much  good  in  the  picture,  some  lovely  snow  scenes 
being  not  the  least  of  its  assets.  It  was  written  and  produced  by  W.  Dun- 
can, who  also  has  the  leading  male  role.  The  opposite  role  is  taken  by 
Myrtle  Stedman.  Florence  Dye,  Tom  Mix  and  Lester  Cunio  are  also  in 
the  cast. 

"SHANGHAI,  CHINA"  (Selig),  March  26.— A  short  but  interesting  pic- 
ture taken,  for  the  most  part,  along  the  wharves  of  this  Chinese  city.  The 
photography  is  clear  enough,  but  lacks  quality. 

"THE  MODERN  PRODIGAL"  (Vitagraph).  March  28.— "The  modern 
prodigal"  is  apt  to  come  back  rich  and  pay  off  the  mortgage  on  the  old 
home.  In  this  case,  the  home  has  been  auctioned  away,  and  the  youth 
buys  it  back  and  saves  his  white-haired  mother  from  scrubbing  the  floors 
at  the  "home."  Yetx  though  this  is  sentimental  enough,  the  way  its  story 
is  built  up  and  acted  makes  it  a  very  fair  two-reel  feature  offering.  Mrs. 
Maurice  plays  the  old  lady  and  gives  a  fine  picture  of  a  mother's  solicitude 
for  her  wayward  and  wandering  son.  The  stern  father  is  as  well  played 
by  Van  Dyke  Brooke,  while  James  Morrison,  in  the  role  of  the  son,  is 
also  pleasing.     The  photography  is  clear  and  has  good  quality. 

"HEROES  ONE  AND  ALL"  (Lubin),  March  29.—  This  two-reel  special 
spots  strongly  melodramatic,  and  interesting  throughout.  Harry  Meyers 
and  Ethel  Clayton  have  the  leads.  The  feature  of  the  picture  is  a  big  fire, 
in  which  is  shown  the  action  of  the  fire  department  from  the  sounding  of 
the  alarm  to  the  rescue  on  ladders  of  the  imprisoned  busin  --->  man  and 
burglar.  It  was  the  latter  who  started  the  fire  when  he  dropped  a  match 
after  lighting  his  dark  lantern.  There  is  a  good  scene  in  a  telephone 
exchange  when  the  telephone  operator,  in  love  with  the  man  struggling 
with  a  burglar,  hears  the  sounds  of  the  battle  when  the  receiver  in  the 
office  is  knocked  from  its  hook.  The  rescue  of  the  two  men  imprisoned 
in  the  burning  building  is  thrilling.  In  the  first  reel  there  i^  a  vein  of 
comedy  when  three  suitors  for  the  hand  of  a  girl  meet  in  her  parlor. 

"BRONCHO  BILLY'S  GRATEFULNESS"  (Essanay),  March  29.— The 
usual  qualities  will  be  found  in  this  latest  Broncho  Billy  picture.  Perhaps 
it  is  somewhat  below  the'  average  of  such,  but  there  is  enough  action  in  it 
to  keep  the  audience  attentive.  It  has  some  extremely  pretty  scenes,  and 
the  photography  is  very  good. 

"A  WAR-TIME  SIREN"  (Kalem),  March  29.— This  picture  gives  some 
good  battle  scenes,  and  where  there  is  an  orchestra  that  can  follow  it  up 
it  will  be  effective.  At  its  climax  the  hero,  a  Northern  officer,  escapes  and 
reaches  the  Union  camp  just  as  the  Confederates  are  driving  his  forces 
back.  He  grasps  the  starry  flag  and,  waving  it  in  air.  turns  the  tide  of 
battle.  Alice  Hollister  is  the  "war-time  siren,"  and  Guy  Coombs  is  the 
Northern  officer.  Henry  Hallam  and  Mrs.  Courtot  also  have  roles.  The 
photography  is  very  fair. 

"IN  THE  LAND  OF  THE  CACTUS"  (Lubin),  March  29.— Of  all  the 
pictures  today  we  enjoyed  this  the  most,  and  liked  it  chiefly  for  its  fresh- 
ness and  its  difference.  Romaine  Fielding  is  individual,  but  at  the  same 
time  natural  and  human  in  his  pictures.  He  is  so  seldom  theatrical  that 
some  think  him  "queer."  It  would  be  good  if  there  were  more  queer  pro- 
ducers and  more  scenario  writers  as  original.  It  is  so  apparently  earnest 
that  one  doesn't  suspect  the  essential  comedy  in  it  until  he  sees  the  ending. 
The  action  and  the  acting,  the  characters  and  what  they  do,  the  way  the 
scenes  are  chosen  and  everything  about  the  picture  seem  quite  fresh.  The 
audience  watched  it  with  the  closest  interest  and  seemed  to  like  it  much. 
Romaine  Fielding  plays  the  chief  role,  a  Mexican  who  has  fallen  in  love 
with  an  American  girl  who  thinks  she  is  sick  and  takes  an  original  way  to 
cure  her,  which  succeeds.  Mary  Ryan  plays  the  girl,  and  Robyn  Adair  and 
Richard  Wangeman  have  roles. 

"THE  HARDUP  FAMILY'S  BLUFF'  (Pathe),  March  29.— This  picture 
made  more  laughter  than  any  other  picture  today.  The  Hardup  family 
decide  to  close  the  house  and  pretend  to  go  away  for  the  season,  but  a 
burglar  comes,  and  before  many  minutes  the  whole  neighborhood  is  in  the 
house.  That  burglar  is  a  first-rate  comedian,  and  the  offering  stands 
securely  on  his  work.  He  is,  in  this  situation,  very  funny  and  will  make 
the  picture  popular. 


"THE  TWO  BROTHERS"  (Vitagraph),  March  29.— A  very  tragic  pic- 
ture, made  effective  by  good  acting.  It  starts  with  a  conventional  melo- 
dramatic situation  and  then  refuses  to  be  sentimential,  so,  with  these  players, 
the  audience  found  it  deeply  interesting.  George  C.  Stanley  plays  both 
brothers  and  makes  them  so  distinct  that  it  doesn't  help  the  picture,  for 
it  isn't  known.  Mary  Charleson  plays  a  Mexican,  the  younger  brother's 
sweetheart,  who  sees  the  old  father  (C.  Bennett)  killed  by  the  older  arother. 
It  is  moonlight,  and  she  has  to  testify  against  her  lover,  who  is  hanged. 
Later  she  finds  that  it  was  the  other  brother,  so  she  stabs  him.  The  pho- 
tography is  very  clear.     Execution  scene  not  shown  in  the  offering. 

"THE  SHERIFF'S  BABY"  (Biograph),  March  29.— All  kinds  of  Wild 
West  melodrama  will  be  found  in  this  picture — Indians,  wild  animals,  out- 
laws and  the  thirst  of  the  desert  all  conspire,  so  to  speak,  to  rob  the  baby 
of  his  short  life;  but  fate  wills  otherwise.  It  gives  a  good  picture  of  the 
desert  and  has  speedy  action.  In  places  it  is  a  bit  awkward  from  slow 
turning  on  the  part  of  the  camera  man.  Those  half-instant  scenes,  in 
which  we  catch  a  glimpse  of  quivering  fingers  and  waving  arms,  but  see 
nothing  else,  are  not  very  effective. 

"GLIMPSES  OF  NAPLES  AND  VICINITY"  (Cines),  March  29— A 
clear  picture  that  gives  us  an  idea  of  Naples  and  includes  a  view  of  Virgil's 
tomb,  which  many  will  be  glad  to  see.  The  usual  "travel"  picture  is  not 
nearly  so  interesting  as  it  might  be,  because  they  seldom  have  any  single 
idea  behind  them.  If,  for  instance,  views  of  Umbria  were  given,  such  as 
"Scenes  that  St.  Francis  Knew,"  and  included  not  merely  buildings  of  the 
modern  Franciscans,  but  panorama  views  from  Assisi,  from  St.  Damian's 
and  the  Portiuncula.  etc.,  how  much  more  interesting  they  would  be. 

"SPIRITS  -OF  YOUTH"  (Cines),  March  29.— Brisk  farce;  a  comical 
picture  of  a  very  wonderful  tonic.  Trick  photography  makes  it  seem  real 
in  the  way  this  works.     The  audience  liked  it. 

"BETWEEN  ORTON  JUNCTION  AND  FALLONVILLE"  (Edison), 
March  29. — A  railroad  melodrama,  written  and  produced  by  Charles  M. 
Seay.  It  held  the  audience  more  strongly  than  any  offering  today,  with 
perhaps  one  exception.  The  heroic  role  is  played  by  Bigelow  Cooper,  who, 
at  the  climax,  did  extremely  well — better  than  his  work  as  the  bashful  and 
unfortunate  lover  in  the  picture's  first  scenes  promised.  The  mistake  of 
the  man  at  Fallonville  lets  a  train  get  past  which  will  meet  the  train  from 
Orton  unless  it  can  be  stopped.  Bigelow  is  warned,  but  as  the  engineer 
(Agustus  Phillips)  of  the  passenger  is  his  rival  he  is  tempted  to  do  nothing 
— it  wasn't  his  mistake.  He  calls  up  Edna  Flugarth,  the  girl,  and  sends 
her  galloping  to  the  big  curve  to  head  the  trains  off.  Agustus  has  the  girl, 
but  Bigelow  has  the  satisfaction  of  being  a  man  with  a  fine  character.  It 
is  a  clearly  pictured  and  effective  story. 

"WOMEN  OF  THE  DESERT"  (Lubin),  March  31.— This  love  story  of 
the  Sahara  was  taken  in  Florida  and  makes  a  very  fair  offering,  chiefly 
because  the  Lubin  company  was  able  to  find  backgrounds  that  give  a  sug- 
gestion of  reality  to  its  desert  scenes,  where  the  Arab  tents  are  pitched, 
and  also  to  the  Moorish  town,  the  palace  of  the  Calif,  where  the  Bedouin 
hero  finds  and  rescues  the  lovely  heroine  sold  into  slavery  by  her  jealous 
sister.  There  is  an  incantation  scene  in  it  that  furnishes  its  one  real  touch 
of  imagination — the  one  place  where  the  picture  rises  above  others  of  its 
kind.  This  is  fresh  and  very  effective.  The  photography  is  clear,  but  the 
acting  isn't  so  truly  sympathetic  as  are  the  backgrounds  and  scenes.  It 
was  produced  by  G.  O.  Nicholls  from  a  script  of  E.  W.  Sargent.  Ormi 
Hawley  and  Edwin  Carewe  play  the  leads.  Mrs.  Nicholls  does  very  well 
as  the  "weird  woman"  in  the  incantation  scene. 

"THE  AMERICAN  PRINCESS"  (Kalem),  March  31.— The  best  story, 
from  the  viewpoint  of  the  audience,  but  not  the  most  skillfully  built  story. 
We  are  sneaking  only  of  today's  regular  releases.  It  is  an  interesting 
offering,  with  a  good  deal  of  freshness,  without  anything  that  can  be  called 
at  all  new.  The  hero  is  a  diplomatic  officer  in  Washington  who  has  got 
into  debt  buying  lovely  dresses  for  his  wife.  The  foreign  spy  tempts  him 
and  he  nearly  falls.  The  chief  difference  is  that  in  most  pictures  of  this 
situation  the  girl  is  a  princess  only  by  right,  while  here  she  is  a  princess 
by  both  right  and  title.  It  is  both  well  acted  and  beautifully  photographed. 
AHce  Joyce  is  the  princess.  Tom  Moore  is  the  hero;  his  way  of  showing 
determination  is,  in  this  picture,  almost  amusing  for  just  one-half  second. 
E.  L.  Davenport  is  her  father,  the  king;  Naomi  Childers,  her  maid,  and 
E.  P.  Gibbs.  the  spy. 

"THE  ELDER  BROTHER"  (Edison),  March  31.— Anne  and  Banister 
Merwin  in  this  picture  have  treated  an  old  situation  a  bit  more  sincerely 
than  the  usual  offering,  and  have  made  a  very  fair  release.  William  West 
plays  a  very  convincing  minister  who  won't  let  his  daughter  (Mary  Fuller) 
marry  the  scapegrace  younger  brother  (Harry  Beaumont),  whose  elder 
brother  (Richard  Tucker)  also  loves  the  girl,  but  doesn't  win  her.  Is  very 
intelligently  acted  and  makes  a  substantial  offering. 

"THE  SPY'S  DEFEAT"  (Essanay),  March  31-  — A  two-part  special 
release  which  we  have  reviewed  at  length.  See  page  1 3 1 6,  issue  of 
March  29th. 

"PATHE'S  WEEKLY,"  March  31.— A  better  number  than  last  week. 
Perhaps  the  most  generally  interesting  item  is  the  view  of  the  dedication 
of  the  Cleveland  home  at  Caldwell,  N.  J.  It  gives  a  good  view  of  the  two 
Clevelands  of  this  generation  and  will  interest  a  great  many.  A  long  item 
gives  glimpses  of  Mexico  City  and  makes  plain  the  havoc  of  a  pitched 
battle  among  city  houses — a  rather  illuminating  series  of  views.  Besides 
there  are  some  glimpses  of  notable  people.  The  photography  is  not  as 
clear  as  desirable  in  the  Mexican  pictures. 

"EDWIN  MASQUERADES"  (Biograph),  March  31.— A  burlesque  that 
was  intended  to  make  laughter,  and  succeeded  with  the  audience  with  whom 
we  saw  it     It  nas  some  very  good  points. 

"THEIR  ONE  GOOD  SUIT"  (Biograph),  March  31.— Not  so  effective 
in  making  the  laughs  as  the  other  on  this  reel,  and  it  is  also  a  burlesque. 
Audiences  who  like  frivolous  pictures  seem  to  like  these  time-killers  a 
good  deal. 

*  "A    PRISONER    OF    CABANAS"    (Selig),    March    31. —  A    Cuba    libre 
melodrama  with  an  American  hero,  played  by  Thomas  Santschi.     The  pretty 


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heroine  is  taken  by  Bessie  Eyton.  It  has  a  conventional  plot,  with  a  villain- 
ous Spanish  officer  who  has  his  face  slapped  by  Santschi  for  getting  fresh 
with  the  girl.  Later  he  is  captured  by  the  villain  and  taken  to  Cabanas, 
and  the  girl  brings  the  Cubans  to  the  rescue.  They  take  the  town.  There 
are  some  fine  fighting  pictures  and  some  good  scenes;  one  or  two  of  them 
are  lovely.  Well  acted  and  clearly  photographed,  it  seemed  to  please  the 
audience. 

"BEDELIA  BECOMES  A  LADY"  (Vitagraph),  March  31.— A  burlesque 
by  the  Western  company,  with  Mary  Charleson  as  Bedelia,  a  gawky  girl 
who  gets  $500  to  spend  on  dress,  and  becomes  a  character  like  the  Bedelia 
of  the  Reliance  pictures  of  a  year  ago.  George  Stanley  plays  her  rural 
lover.  It  cuts  pretty  close  to  what  is  coarse,  and  made  loud  laughter  from 
some,  and   once  in  a   while  general   laughter  from  all. 

"MARGARITA  AND  THE  MISSION  FUNDS"  (Selig),  April  1.— 
There  is  a  good  deal  in  this  picture  that  isn't  wholly  clear;  but  the  story 
shows  that  an  American,  a  captain  in  the  Mexican  service,  saves  certain 
funds  stolen  from  the  church  by  a  bandit  and  wins  a  girl.  There  is  a 
beautifully  danced  fandango  in  it  and  this  helps  it  out  as  an  offering.  We 
like  the  acting  and  the  scenes.  It  is  not  a  great,  but  a  serviceable  pic- 
ture. W.  A.  Corey  is  the  author  and  the  script  was  produced  by  Lem 
Parker.  Harry  Otto  plays  the  priest;  H.  A.  Lockwood,  the  American;  E. 
Loveridge.  the  heroine,  and  Al.  Garcia,  the  bandit.  Gordie  Colwell 
dances.     The  photography  as  a  whole  is  clear. 

"CHECKMATED"  (Vitagraph),  April  1. — A  melodramatic  picture  of 
business  life  in  New  York,  by  W.  L.  Tremayne.  The  story  is  distinctly 
good  and  the  audience  liked  it;  but  it  might  easily  have  been  more  effect- 
ively written.  Larry  Trimble  has  put  it  on  most  commendably.  Florence 
Turner  plays  the  leading  role  and  makes  the  most  of  it.  Tom  Powers  is 
likable  in  the  hero's  role  opposite  to  her.  The  villains  (Why  were  there 
two?)  are  Herbert  Barry  and  Rogers  Lytton.  One  feels  that  it  should 
have  been  done  in  two  reels  and  done  more  convincingly;  but  it  is  a 
very    good    offering. 

"SHIPPING  A  CLOCK"  (Lubin),  April  1.— A  character  burlesque  that 
is  very  well  acted,  but  that  is  not  very  funny.  The  players,  Clarence 
Elmer  and  Jennie  Nelson,  are  pleasing  in  themselves  and  show  competence. 

"THE  FAKE  SOLDIERS"  (Lubin),  April  1.— This  is  a  real  farce  and 
we  can  report  that  it  pleased,  for  there  was  a  good  deal  of  laughter. 
It  is  made  by  adding  to  an  old  farcical  plot  a  new  situation  and  the  re- 
sult gives  fresh  entertainment  and  amusement.  The  author  is  Arthur 
Hotaling  and  his  leading  characters  are  played  by  Walter  Stull  and  Robert 
Burns,  the  fake  soldiers,  and  by  Mae  Hotely  and  Julia  Calhoun,  their 
wives.     It  is  a  better  farce  than  usually  found  found  on  the  screen. 

"THE  EXPOSURE  OF  THE  LAND  SWINDLERS"  (Kalem),  April  1. 
— This  three  reel  special  offering  has  been  reviewed  at  length;  see  page 
795,   issue  of  February  22,   1913. 

"THE  SHERIFF'S  SON"  (Essanay),  April  1.— Makes  a  fair  com- 
mercial offering  with  action  that  is  clear,  except  at  one  place,  a  very  no- 
ticeable gap  in  the  story  which  leaves  the  ending  unconvincing.  Arthur 
Mackley's  company  produced  it  and  the  acting  is,  of  course,  intelligent,  al- 
though the  heroine  shows  lack  of  experience.  She  is  young  and  the 
personality  of  her  picture  is  good  company.  The  photography  is  clear 
and   there   are  some  lovely  night   landscapes. 

"HE  WOULDN'T  GIVE  UP"  (Cines),  April  1.— A  farce  of  courtship 
with  the  often-seen  persistent  suitor  whom  the  girl  likes,  but  whom  the 
father  won't  have.  There  was  a  little  laughter  toward  the  end,  not 
much;  but  the  series  of  incidents  seemed  to  interest.  The  players  are 
acceptable   and    there   are    some    pretty    scenes. 

"HOW  PLASTER  IS  OBTAINED"  (Patheplay),  April  1.— A  clearly 
photographed  view  of  a  big  gypsum  mine,  the  kilns,  the  crusher,  etc. 
This  subject  interests  a  good  many  people  and  is  a  valuable  offering. 

"THE  MOROS"  (Patheplay),  April  1. — A  troop  of  acrobats,  two  men 
and  a  woman,  in  an  exhibition  on   a  trapeze.     It  is  hand-colored. 

"WITH  THE  EYES  OF  THE  BLIND"  (Edison),  April  1.— There  is 
much  beauty  in  this  picture  and  it  tells  a  dramatic  story  of  a  blind  girl 
(Mary  Fuller)  who,  before  her  eyes  were  cured,  had  a  chance  to  pass 
her  hand  over  the  face  of  a  man — Was  he  her  father's  murderer?  Later, 
her  eyes  have  been  cured  and  she  and  the  man  fall  in  love.  She  passes 
her  hand  over  his  face  and  the  memory  comes  back  of  that  night  when 
her  father  was  lying  dead  and  an  unconscious  man  beside  him.  There  it 
ends,  even  the  acting  which  falls  through  at  the  climax,  suggests  no  out- 
let. Yet  the  situation  had  elements  of  weakness  and  perhaps  it  was  wise 
to  treat  it  as  here;  for  to  go  on  would  have  laid  bare  the  dilemma  in 
an  incongruity.  It  is  a  beautifully  made  picture  with  lovely  scenes  and 
strongly  marked  characters.  The  old  men,  played  by  William  West  and 
Charles  Ogle,  are  the  highest  points  in  the  offering.  The  blind  girl  plays 
some  dramatic  moments  finely.  Marc  MacDermott  has  a  disjointed  and 
almost  impossible  role  to  play;  but  shows  his  intelligence.  Robert  Brower 
and  Mrs.  Erskine  also  appear.  The  producer,  Walter  Edwin,  deserves  a 
great  deal  of  credit  for  making  what  he  has  out  o.f  this  script.  It  will 
be    admired    in   spite    of  its    ending. 


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"THE  HALF-WIT"  (Reliance),  March  29. — There  is  a  certain  pathos 
attaching  to  a  picture  of  this  type,  wherein  a  mentally  deficient  person  is 
featured.  In  this  case  the  half-wit,  Bud,  saves  the  girl  in  a  runaway,  and 
falls  hopelessly  in  love  with  her.  Later  she  is  married  and  goes  to  the 
city.  Bud  carries  a  message  to  them  from  her  relenting  parents.  He  saves 
the  young  husband  from  a  beating,  at  the  cost  of-  his  own  life.  The  close 
is  touching. 

"THE  HALF-BREED  PARSON"  (Bison),  March  29.— A  two-reel  offer- 
ing, centering  about  Asa,  a  half-breed  theological  student.  We  see  him 
arriving  home  among  the  Indians  and  preaching  among  them.  Then  he 
meets  the  colonel's  daughter  in  the   woods  and  assists  her  with   her  lame 


horse.  She  takes  him  to  the  fort,  where  he  relieves  the  chaplain,  who  is  ill. 
Other  characters  are  introduced,  including  Mona,  Asa's  sister,  and  the 
young  officer  who  insuhs  her.  The  itory  is  not  very  new,  but  it  is  logically 
worked  out  and  holds  the  attention.  The  photography  gives  some  splendid 
sunlight  effects,  though  at  times  the  focus  is  not  quite  accurate.  The  second 
reel  works  up  to  a  strong,  though  rather  obvious,  climax. 

"THE  WAX  LADY"  (Thanhouser).  March  30. — A  whimsical  conception, 
in  which  a  fairy  brings  to  life  the  dummies  in  the  old  Jew's  window. 
Numerous  amusing  situations  develop  and  the  Jew  is  punished  for  his 
general  avarice  and  dishonesty.  The  film  makes  a  good  novelty  with  which 
to  vary  a  program. 

"THE  ROMANCE  OF  A  FISHERBOY"  (Excelsior),  March  3t.— This 
film  contains  some  pleasing  effects,  notably  the  last  one,  where  the  boat 
drifts  back  at  high  tide,  bringing  the  fisherboy's  willful  young  wife  back  to 
him.  The  young  wife's  checkered  career  has  much  of  interest  in  it;  her 
escape  from  the  yacht  was  nicely  shown.     A  good  release. 

"A  KNOTTY  KNOT"  (Champion),  March  31.— A  German  milkmaid  and 
her  lover  are  leading  characters  in  this  story  of  the  open  road.  They  saw 
wood  and  do  washings  to  get  money  for  a  wedding  license.  There  is  nothing 
objectionable  in  the  picture,  and  as  low  comedy  it  has  several  points  of 
merit. 

"THE  WOMAN  WHO  DIDN'T  CARE"  (Thanhouser),  Apfil  i.-An 
allegorical  film  story,  in  which  a  witch  converts  a  scarecrow  into  a  noble- 
man in  order  to  punish  the  hearties?  woman  who  has  broken  so  many  hearts. 
As  the  wedding  ceremony  is  in  progress  the  nobleman  again  becomes  a 
scarecrow.     A  successful   offering  of  its  type. 

"A  STUDY  IN  SOCIOLOGY"  (Maiestic),  April  1.— In  this  there  is  a 
realistic  raid  on  a  gambling  den,  in  which  the  erring  young  son  is  unex- 
pectedly relieved  of  suspicion  of  being  a  jewel  thief.  The  gems  are  found 
on  the  person  of  the  scheming  Randolph.  The  story  is  chopped  off  rather 
short,  but  is  connected  and  interesting  throughout. 

"A  HOUSE  DIVIDED"  (Bison),  April  1.— The  acting  and  photography 
in  this  three-reel  production  are  better  than  the  plot,  though  it  varies  the 
ordinary  war  story  somewhat.  The  Union  spies — a  man  and  a  woman — ■ 
come  to  the  home  of  General  Culver  and  obtain  information  about  the 
Confederate  plans  from  his  daughters.  The  plot  lacks  conviction  when 
Virginia  consents  to  give  up  her  father's  plans  to  pay  off  a  gambling  debt. 
The  gagging  of  the  other  sister  and  carrying  her  upstairs  smacked  more  of 
the  melodrama  than  of  warfare.  Outside  of  these  numerous  theatrical 
touches  the  picture  is  very  attractive. 

"ANIMATED  WEEKLY  No.  55"  (Universal).  April  2.— St.  Patrick's 
Day  parade  in  New  York;  powder  explosion  in  Sydney,  Australia;  a  real- 
istic auto  accident;  pictures  of  "Brentwood,"  the  oldest  fire  horse  in  New 
York;  Boy  Scouts  at  Mt.  Vernon;  views  on  a  Rhode  Island  turkey  farm; 
aero  races  in  Hendon,  England — these  are  but  part  of  an  interesting  number 
of  the  weekly. 

"THE  SUPERIOR  LAW"  (Eclair),  April  2.— This  is  a  splendid  three- 
reel  dramatization  of  Sir  Gilbert  Parker's  "The  Right  of  Way."  In  it  we 
have  visualized,  though  imder  different  names  in  some  cases,  the  characters 
of  Charley  Steele,  Kathleen.  Rosalie  and  the  half-breed,  Joe.  J.  W.  John- 
ston, as  the  scoffing,  monacle-wearing,  drink-loving  lawyer,  is  very  satisfy- 
ing; likewise  is  Barbara  Tennant  as  Rosalie.  The  story  is  of  the  rugged 
Northwest,  and  the  snow  scenes  and  others  are  in  keeping.  The  crime  in 
the  beginning  of  the  first  reel  is  a  little  vague,  and  we  do  not  think  the 
religious  flavor  of  the  production  will  be  entirely  clear  to  those  not  familiar 
with  the  story.  But  it  is  big  in  theme  and  far  ahead  of  the  ordinary  pro- 
duction of  the  kind.    A  fine  offering. 

"FIDDLE  PETE"  (Rex),  April  3.— There  are  a  choice  lot  of  characters 
in  this,  and  the  setting  makes  one  sit  up  in  expectation  of  a  treat.  But  the 
scenes  are  jerky  and  the  relationship  of  the  characters  not  well  shown.  The 
minister  marries  "Piano"  Maggie  at  the  close,  and  Pete  dies  from  drink, 
with  his  fiddle  in  his  hand.  A  promising  beginning,  but  rather  disappointing 
as  a  whole. 

"THE  BANDIT'S  REDEMPTION"  (Frontier),  April  3.— In  this  picture 
a  band  of  outlaws  make  a  night  attack  on  a  wagon  train.  They  bring  away 
two  children,  one  a  girl  wearing  a  necklace  with  her  dead  mother's  picture 
in  it.  The  bandit,  moved  by  love  of  the  children,  gives  up  his  life  and 
moves  elsewhere  with  them.  Fifteen  years  later  he  tells  them  they  are  not 
brother  and  sister,  as  they  had  supposed.  The  story  is  full  of  improbabilities 
and  hardly  strong  enough  in  its  presentation  to  make  us  forget  this.  The 
photography  is  good. 

"A  PROVIDENTIAL  TRAGEDY"  (Nestor),  April  4. —Jack,  falsely 
accused  of  shooting  the  boss  of  the  ranch,  escapes  to  the  wilderness.  He 
finds  a  baby  in  the  arms  of  its  dying  mother.  He  takes  the  child  back 
home,  to  find  that  his  own  wife  has  had  and  lost  a  son  in  his  absence.  So 
the  little  stranger  is  welcome,  indeed.  This  touching  story  would  be  a 
little  stronger  if  it  were  shown  more  definitely,  by  sub-title  or  otherwise, 
that  Jack's  own  baby  is  dead;  this  would  give  more  pull  to  the  plot.  It  it 
very  well  photographed. 

"THE  SPOILED  DARLING'S  DOLL"  (Thanhouser),  April  4.— This  is 
another  triumph  for  those  delightful  Thanhouser  Kids,  who  bring  this  simple 
children's  story  out  in  clever  style.  The  one  who  plays  the  doll  must 
indeed  be  a  born  little  actress,  as  she  is  certainly  not  more  than  two  or 
three  years  old.  A  remarkably  attractive  film  for  women  and  children  in 
particular. 

"THE  WOMAN  WHO  KNEW"  (Reliance),  April  5.— This  film  is  power- 
ful in  its  psychological  effect.  Mae  Bottie  and  Irving  Cummings  are  the 
young  couple  in  love.  He  drinks,  and  the  girl  says  she  will  marry  him  if 
the  mother  advises  it  Then  comes  a  remarkably  strong  and  artistic  effect, 
in  which  Sue  Balfour,  as  the  mother,  sees-  in  the  frame  of  her  dead  hus- 
band's picture  the  causes  which  brought  about  his  death.  The  scenes  are 
graphic,  indeed,  and  when  the  mother  finally  tears  up  her  half-written 
letxer,  advising  the  girl  to  marry  her  son,  the  observer  feels  that  her  heart 
has  been  laid  bare.     A  strong  film. 

"THE  HALF  ORPHANS"  (Majestic),  April  6.  —  A  rather  amusing 
drawing-room  comedy,  which  becomes  burlesque  at  the  close,  in  which  two 


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people,  desiring  to   toolt  ress  iheir  grown-up  children  as  a  boy  and 

girl.     In  the  end  both  couples  are  married. 

"BOBBY'S  BABY"  (Rex).  April  6.— A  very  touching  little  film  story, 
in  which  a  young  couple,  mourning  for  their  lost  child,  discover  in  a  barn 
the  baby  Bobby  is  out  getting  milk  for.  They  take  it  home  eagerly,  and 
Bobby  has  a  hard  time  locating  it,  but  in  the  end  both  he  and  the  child  find 
happiness.  A  pleasing  conception  and  worked  out  in  a  way  that  will  give  it 
wide  appeal. 

"PEARL  AS  A  CLAIRVOYANT"  (Crystal),  April  6.— Pearl  bribes 
Madame  Scero  to  let  her  read  Chester's  fortune.    A  typical  Crystal  half  reel. 

"ALMOST  A  WINNER"  (Crystal),  April  6.— This,  on  same  reel  with 
above,  is  more  amusing  than  the  other.  Mr.  Trimmins,  coming  home  late 
from  the  club,  lets  out  the  burglar  his  wife  has  locked  in  the  closet.  The 
burglar  locks  him  in.     A  pleasing  idea. 

"CUPID  THROWS  A  BRICK"  (American),  April  7.— In  this  film  War- 
ren Kerrigan  and  Jack  Richardson  give  us  the  contrast  between  strong  and 
weak  men  combating  for  the  hand  of  the  heroine,  played  by  Jessalyn  Van 
Trump.  Jack  throws  a  brickbat  at  his  rival,  and  by  so  doing  knocks  him 
into  the  girl's  good  graces.  The  hero  later  does  good  for  evil  by  saving 
Jack's  life.     An  entertaining  number. 

"TEMPERAMENTAL  ALICE"  (Excelsior).  April  7.— Alice  Inward  and 
Arthur  Finn  are  the  young  couple  in  this  attractive  comedy.  It  is  well 
pictured  and  holds  the  interest,  though  in  spots  the  scenario  is  weak.  It  is 
hard  to  believe  the  girl,  however  temperamental,  would  stand  out  in  a 
soaking  rain  to  make  the  secretary  come  to  her  rescue.  The  closing  scenes 
are  better  than  this. 

"BILLY  GETS  ARRESTED"  (Gem),  April  8.— In  which  Billy  Quirk  is 
a  young  married  man  who  will  not  get  home  early.  His  wife  locks  him 
out,  and  he  and  his  friend  are  mistaken  for  burglars  and  arrested.  There 
are  no  very  new  situations  in  this,  but  it  is  well  acted  and  diverting. 

"THE  NIGHT  RIDERS"  (Majestic),  April  8. — This  production  gets  up 
quite  a  lot  of  legitimate  excitement,  with  its  Southern  setting  and  hot  blood 
in  action.  The  plot  begins  immediately  after  Harvey  decides  to  bolt  the 
cotton  agreement  and  is  visited  by  night  riders.  The  chase  of  the  colored 
man  through  the  jungle  was  very  well  pictured,  as  well  as  the  girl's  rescue 
of  both  this  man  and  her  lover.  An  offering  full  of  thrills  which  adhere 
closely  to  the  truth  and  are  accordingly  convincing. 

"THE  GRAY  SENTINEL"  (Broncho),  April  9.— This  two-reel  war 
story  is  stronger  in  its  scenic  effects  than  in  its  story,  the  latter  being  just 
a  little  obscure  in  places.  The  combination  of  mountain  and  seacoast  scenery 
is  very  attractive,  however,  and  keeps  the  offering  in  front  rank.  The 
"Gray  Sentinel"  is  a  lighthouse,  around  which  much  of  the  action  centers. 
One  of  the  young  men  in  love  with  the  girl  is  a  traitor.  The  battle  scenes 
are  strong,  and  the  struggle  on   the  tower  exciting.     A  good  release. 

"THE  STRONGER  CALL"  (Reliance),  April  9— A  very  good  film  story, 
in  which  the  sheriff  gives  Jack  a  gun  filled  with  blank  cartridges,  intending 
to  rob  him  while  acting  as  messenger.  Jack  shoots  at  a  moose  (the  scene 
being  nicely  shown  in  Bronx  Park)  and  discovers  the  cartridges  are  blanks. 
As  a  result  of  this  discovery  he  later  kills  the  sheriff,  thinking  him  an 
outlaw.  The  daughter  is  horrified  when  she  learns  the  truth,  but  later  goes 
to  her  lover.     A  good  release. 

"AUNT  KATE'S  MISTAKE"  (Imp),  April  10.— A  fairly  amusing  film, 
in  which  Estelle  Kibby,  as  the  wealthy  aunt,  advertises  for  a  husband. 
Her  niece,  an  attractive  girl,  comes  to  visit  her,  and  their  love  affairs  get 
sadly  tangled. 

"PEDRO'S  REVENGE"  (Majestic),  April  10.— The  suspense  in  this  pic- 
ture is  wrought  up  where  the  girl  holds  back  two  ruffians  with  a  pitchfork 
in  a  haymow.  The  hero  finally  arrives  and  there  are  exciting  hand-to-hand 
encounters  on  the  barn  floor.  Laura  Lyman  and  Harry  Kimball  have  the 
leading  parts.  In  the  fore  part  of  the  picture,  which  is  above  the  average 
in  merit,  there  are  some  Florida  orange  grove  scenes. 

"ON  FORTUNE'S  WHEEL"  (Kay-Bee),  April  11.— In  this  strong  two- 
reel  story  a  rascally  bank  president  escapes  from  the  crime  of  robbery,  for 
which  an  innocent  clerk  is  sentenced  for  fifteen  years  on  circumstantial 
evidence.  Later  years  bring  interesting  developments,  all  admirably  acted 
and  photographed.  The  clerk  escapes  from  prison  and  discovers  the  former 
bank  president  in  the  West,  where  he  is  turning  numerous  sharp  deals. 
Retribution  follows,  and  there  is  a  love  story  of  interest  in  the  last  reel. 
A  good  release. 

"TWO  LIVES"  (Victor),  April  n. — An  entertaining  story,  based  on  the 
poem  in  which  two  lives  are  destined  to  meet  and  find  happiness.  James 
Kirkwood  and  Edna  Lockman  portray  two  people  who  drift  out  from  the 
life  of  the  underworld,  after  years  of  sin,  and  meet  in  a  cemetery,  at  the 
grave  of  the  girl's  mother.  Julia  Curley  plays  the  part  of  the  grandmother. 
The  scenes  in  this  are  quietly  presented  and  are  not*  overdrawn. 

"THE- HOMESTEAD  RACE"  (American),  April  12.— This  story  features 
the  race  made  by  the  girl's  lover  to  file  on  a  homestead.  He  finally  gets 
an  auto  at  the  last  moment  and  beats  the  villains  to  the  land  office.  There 
is  good  suspense  in  the  film,  and  while  the  situation  is  not  a  new  one,  it 
holds  the  observer  well. 

"A  WOMAN'S  HONOR"  (American),  April  12. — This  is  an  attractive 
film  story,  in  which  Warren  Kerrigan  appears  as  the  parish  priest.  He 
desires  the  girl  to  marry  a  good  young  man,  but  she  is  fascinated  by  Jack 
Richardson,  the  backslider.  Charlotte  Burton  plays  the  cast-off  woman, 
and  there  is  just  an  interesting  glimpse  of  Louise  Lester  as  the  village 
gossip.  In  the  end  virtue  triumphs  and  the  right  man  gets  the  girl.  A 
good  offering. 

"IN  THE  BATTLE'S  SMOKE"  (Pilot),  April  3.— This  is  a  melodrama 
of  a  pronounced  type.  The  story  is  of  a  feudist  who  kills  a  man  and  leaves 
the  section.  Later,  in  the  Civil  War,  the  slayer  and  the  son  of  the  man 
killed  meet  on  the  field  of  battle.  There  is  a  combat  when  the  recognition 
takes  place,  which  is  later  followed  by  a  reconciliation.  It  is  not  a  strong 
story. 

"WHEN  THIEVES  FALL  OUT"  (Gaumont  Special).— Three  reels  of 
finely  photographed  drama.  There  are  many  fine  interiors  and  settings,  as 
befits  the  station  of  the  characters.    The  story  is  interesting  and  well  acted. 


WARNER'S  FEATURES  NOTES. 

The  Dallas  office  of  Warner's  Features  Film  Company, 
has  removed  to  iSiaK  Main  Street,  and  is  now  under  the 
management  of  Clyde  Slater.  Mr.-  Slater  was  connected 
with  the  Mutual  for  some  time  as  road  man  and  has  had  a 
wide  experience  as  a  practical  film  renter. 

M.  J.  Goldbaum,  manager  of  the  St.  Louis  office,  has  secured 
larger  <jiiarters  in  the  Benoist  Building,  Suite  303-304. 

The  devastating  floods  in  Ohio  and  Indiana  have  seriously 
crippled  the  Cleveland  and  Indianapolis  offices.  Express 
companies  refused  to  accept  film  for  delivery  in  the  stricken 
states  and  theaters  were  in  darkness  and  knee  deep  in  water 
in'  dozens  of  cities.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  recovery  will 
be  rapid.  , 

Exhibitors  wishing  to  be  placed  on  the  mailing  list  to 
receive  gratis,  Warner's  Feature  News — a  monthly  magazine 
of  information — should  send  their  names  to  the  home  office. 


MILDRED  ZUKOR'S  BIRTHDAY  FILM. 
Mildred  Zukor,  daughter  of  Adolph  Zukor,  owns  a  mov- 
ing picture  of  her  own,  of  which  she  is  prouder  than  is  her 
father  of  all  his  film  holdings.  The  daughter  of  the  President 
of  the  Famous  Players  Film  Company  celebrated  her  thir- 
teenth birthday  on  Sunday,  March  30th,  and  imbued  with 
her  father's  ambition  to  film  the  famous  players,  she  decided 
to  perpetuate  her  own  famous  playmates,  so  a  moving  picture 
was  taken  of  the  birthday  party,  which  was  held  at  the  studio 
of  the  Famous  Players  Film  Company.  Mildred  Zukor  wrote 
the  scenario,  assisted  in  the  production,  and  did  not  neglect 
the  part  of  the  star,  particularly  while  the  food  was  in  evi- 
dence. Several  hundred  feet  were  taken,  including  title  and 
subtitles,  a  la  a  regular  production.  In  succession  were 
shown  the  entrance  hall  of  the  Zukor  home,  and  the  arrival 
of  the  guests;  the  drawing-room,  the  family  at  home,  and 
the  entrance  of  the  children;  a  dance;  the  dining-room,  and 
the  birthday  party. 


$30,000  THEATER  FOR  PATCHOGUE,  N.  Y. 
Earle  L.  Holmes,  of  Patchogue,  N.  Y..  is  building  a  $30,000 
moving  picture  theater  in  that  city.  It  is  expected  to  be 
ready  for  business  by  May  30th.  Its  appointments  will  com- 
pare favorably  with  a  first-class  Broadway  house  and  its 
seating  capacity  will  be  1,400.  Its  dimensions  are  60  feet  by 
175  feet. 


MARGARET  LOVERIDGE. 

Miss  Margaret  Loveridge  has  gone  to  the  Selig  Company 
after  having  tried  out  in  several  Selig  productions.  She  was 
originally  a  Biographer,  but  was  loaned  to  the  Essanay 
Company  during  one  of  the  illnesses  of  Miss  Vedah  Bertram. 
She  returned  to  the  Biograph  and  recently  played  with  Key- 
stone, but  is  on  the  licensed  side  again.  Miss  Mae  Marsh, 
of  the  Biograph,  is  her  sister. 


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"THE  CUTTLE-FISH"  (Eclair). 

ANOTHER  denizen  of  the  ocean  has  been  brought  from 
the  "deep  places  of  the  earth"  and  its  secrets  revealed 
by  the  all-searching  and  penetrating  eye  of  the  micro- 
camera.  Again  the  subject  is  one  of  those  complete  ones,  in 
which  an  important  lesson  is  introduced,  continued,  and  fin- 
ished in  one  reel. 

The  cuttle-lish  is  a  kind  of  mollusc  with  feet,  and  is  caught 
by  fishermen  in  nets  with  fish  as  bait;  they  are  chiefly  found 
swimming  in  the  sandy  bottoms.  The  eggs  of  the  cuttle-fish 
are  sometimes  called  sea  grapes,  because  of  their  similarity 
to  bunches  of  grapes.  They  are  attached  to  the  stalks  of  tall 
growing  sea-weed,  and  are  often  thrown  up  by  the  tide. 

Each  egg  is  surrounded  by  an  elastic  membrane  which  is 
transparent,  and  in  the  interior  of  which  the  embryo  is  de- 
veloped. Contrary  to  the  usual  care  required  in  the  handling 
of  eggs,  those  of  the  cuttle-fish  seem  to  be  able  to  with- 
stand rather  rough  treatment  without  danger.  The  shelling 
of  the  egg  by  stripping  off  the  elastic  membrane  at  the  time 
of  maturity,  releases  the  young  cuttle-fish,  which  hatches  out 
in  perfect  form. 

The  newly  hatched  fish  is  only  two  centimetres  long,  when 
full  grown,  its  head  is  surmounted  by  a  crown  of  tentacles, 
these  tentacles  are  fitted  with  strong  valves  which  are  very 
adhesive,  giving  them  great  holding  power.  To  breathe,  the 
cuttle-fish  absorbs  and  rejects  the  water  through  special 
orifices;  this  process  of  breathing  is  very  interesting  to  watch, 
it  is  shown  in  enlarged  detail  upon  the  screen  and  looks  like 
a  powerful  piece  of  machinery  at  work.  , 

In  the  full  grown  fish  there  is  in  the  middle  of  the  crown 
of  tentacles  a  mouth  with  a  strong  beak,  the  bite  of  which 
is  much  feared  by  fishermen.  The  dorsal  part  has  the  same 
kind  of  bone  as  are  found  in  birds,  this  bone  is  also  of  well 
known  use  by  bird  fanciers. 

The  cuttle-fish  secretes  a  black  liquid  called  sepia,  which  is 
intended  to  protect  it  when  attacked,  in  that  it  makes  the 
water  muddy.  The  Chinese  make  India  ink  of  this  "sepia 
liquid."  There  is  also  a  smaller  and  seemingly  special  kind 
of  cuttle-fish  which  is  called  the  Sepia-Fish. 

The  power  of  exuding  the  sepia  or  black  liquid  is  splen- 
didly shown  when  in  combat.  The  picture  shows  an  au- 
dacious young  crab  attacking  a  sepia  fish,  but  he  is  soon 
blinded  by  the  black  sticky  fluid  squirted  at  him  by  his 
enemy:  the  water  is  immediately  like  a  black  cloud  and  has 
the  appearance  of  being  an  exceedingly  unpleasant  place  for 
the  enemy  of  the  cuttle-fish. 

The  whole  picture  is  a  continuation  of  the  same  high  stand- 
ard which  marks  this  class  of  subjects  now  being  prepared  in 
such  numbers  for  the  schools  and  of  which  it  is  hoped  due 
appreciation  will  be  shown  by  good  use  of  them  at  every 
opportunity.  W.  H.  J. 


NIGHT  SCHOOLS  WITHOUT  TEACHERS. 

The  winter  night  school  is  an  institution  almost  as  old  as 
the  day  school,  its  need  has  always  been  felt.  The  growth 
of  educational  facilities  have  only  enlarged  the  scope  of  the 
night  session  by  making  them  the  means  introducing  sub- 
jects impossible  in  the  daily  curriculum.  With  the  use  of 
the  moving  picture  in  the  schools  the  opportunities  of  the 
night  school  have  been  still  further  enlarged  in  a  two-fold 
manner.  In  the  first  place  a  greater  variety  of  subjects  can 
be  taught  more  thoroughly  and  in  less  time,  while,  in  the 
second  place,  the  self-explanatory  powers  of  many  of  the 
pictures  makes  the  presence  of  a  teacher  unnecessary.  This 
plan  has  already  been  tried  in  Italy  under  the  supervision  of 
the  Minister  of  Public  Instruction.  Such  a  school  has  been, 
opened  in  Milan,  where  300  people  assemble  nightly  for  es- 
pecially arranged  profitable  instruction,  these  schools  are 
to  be  opened  all  over  Italy  under  the  management  of  a  spe- 
cially appointed  board.  It  should  be  stated,  however,  that  the 
subjects  used  are  not  elementary,  but  rather  those  of  a 
higher  order  and  which  are  to  be  of  greater  use  to  an  adult 
audience.  In  opening  the  first  school  the  Minister  of  Public 
Instruction  emphasized  the  advantage  of  pictures  over  books 


by  noticing  that  while  it  took  one  hundred  years  to  bring 
printing  to  a  useful  state,  the  cinematograph  had  reached 
that  stage  in  about  fifteen  years.  W.  H.  J. 


PICTURES  FROM  UNCIVILIZED  LANDS. 

The  islands  of  the  Pacific  are  soon  to  be  brought  to  our 
doors — on  the  screen — by  means  of  a  series  of  pictures  taken 
by  a  photographer  who  accompanied  the  famous  novelist 
Jack  London  on  a  voyage,  which  is  said  to  have  thoroughly 
covered  some  hundreds  of  islands  of  the  Pacific  Ocean.  Some 
ten  thousand  feet  of  films  have  been  secured,  illustrations  of 
"the  curious  corners  of  Polynesia,"  where  cannibalism  is  still 
practiced,  and  where  the  tribes  are  engaged  in  perpetual  in- 
ternicine  warfare.  Some  excellent  pictures  of  the  fauna  and 
flora  of  these  islands  are  promised,  many  of  which  have 
never  before  been  brought  to  the  light  of  civilization.  The 
inhabitants  of  Malita,  one  of  the  Solomons,  are  especially 
shown,  famous  for  their  treachery,  they  fight  with  poisoned 
arrows,  the  poison  being  obtained  from  decayed  human  bodies 
which  remain  after  their  cannabalistic  appetites  have  been 
satisfied. 

When  it  is  suggested  that  there  are  400,000  of  these  islands 
and  that  representative  pictures  have  been  taken,  great  in- 
terest and  diversity  of  matter  will  be  at  the  service  of  the 
schools  which  have  hitherto  been  very  limited  in  their  knowl- 
edge of  the  islands  of  the  Pacific,  the  films  will,  we  are  prom- 
ised, possess  more  than  geographical  and  natural-history  in- 
terest. W.  H.  J. 


NOTES   RECORDING  THE  GROWTH   OF  THE  EDU- 
CATIONAL PICTURE. 

A  western  clergyman  recently  expressed  himself  as  envious 
of  the  opportunity  of  the  moving  picture  exhibitor  in  his 
powers  of  usefulness  and  constant  occasions  for  doing  good; 
Without  doubt  hundreds  of  exhibitors  are  unconscious  of 
both  their  powers  as  well  as  the  attendant  opportunities. 
This  page  has  many  times  pointed  out  to  the  exhibitor  how 
he  has  the  first  chance  in  his  own  hands  to  influence  those 
about  him  for  mutual  profit;  many  have  responded  even  to 
the  extent  of  writing  for  advice  and  help  how  best  to  further 
their  interests  in  these  ways.  Another  clergyman  finds  that 
while  the  picture  house  does  not  hurt  his  church  it  does 
possess  the  greater  "drawing  power"  and  he  is  compelled  to 
study  the  question  on  its  merits;  another  _  occasion  for  an 
alliance  between  the  exhibitor  and  the  minister. 

The  Christian  Herald  has  in  its  recent  issue  an  account  of 
the  making  of  moving  pictures  in  Jerusalem,  this  is  worthy  of 
notice  from  the  fact  that  this  paper  is  the  greatest  religious 
paper  in  the  world.  It  has  a  circulation  in  every  part  of  the 
civilized  world,  and  is  read  by  more  rural  subscribers  than 
any  paper.  That  this  paper  should  now  devote  a  special 
article  to  the  moving  picture  interest  is  a  great  compliment 
which  will  be  of  more  than  ordinary  value,  nullifying  much 
harm  and  doing  much  good.  W.  H.  J. 

THE  EDUCATIONAL  PICTURE. 
By  the  Rev.  E.  Boudinot  Stockton,  S.  T.  B. 

THE  following  catalog  of  educational  pictures  and  photo- 
plays suitable  for  religious  and  educational  work  covers 
the  releases  from  March  1st  to  10th,  inclusive,  and 
brings  the  catalog  as  nearly  down  to  date  as  it  is  at  present 
possible  to  do.  The  next  installment  will  contain  the  releases 
from  March  nth  to  20th,  inclusive,  and  succeeding  install- 
ments will  give  the  releases  for  a  week  at  a  time.  It  is  be- 
lieved that  this  method  will  enable  exhibitors  and  others  to 
make  a  more  practical  use  of  the  catalog  and  that  it  will  thus 
be  of  more  value  and  service  to  them  than  a  longer  list  pub- 
lished at  greater  intervals  and  consequently  not  so  frequently 
brought  up  to  date.  From  time  to  time  as  it  is  deemed  ad- 
visable these  regular  lists  will  be  supplemented  by  special 
ones  giving  the  available  pictures  for  special  occasions  such 
as  Decoration  Day,  The  Fouth  of  July,  etc.  We  shall  be 
very  glad  also  to  furnish  special  lists  on  other  topics  that  may 
be  needed  in  particular  localities  or  by  particular  exhibitors 


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if  request  is  made  and  a  self-addressed  and  stamped  envelope 
is  inclosed  with  the  request  for  the  reply.  We  shall  also  be 
glad  to  hear  from  any  one  who  has  suggestions  or  criticisms 
to  offer  tending  towards  making  these  lists  more  serviceable 
and  valuable  to  those  interested  in  using  the  educational 
picture. 

RELEASES  MARCH  i  to  10,  1913. 
GENERAL  TOPICS. 
Newspapers. 
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Children's  Stories. 
Kinemacolor.     (15:1140;   1106.) 

RELIGION. 


The  Story  of  Lavinia.  Selig  5.  (15:916;  1219;  sp.  rev.  867.)  Emphasizes 
the  virtue  of  charity;  the  duty  of  returning  good  for  evil;  illustrates 
St.  Matthew  5:44. 

The  Greatest  of  These  was  Charity.  Nestor  7.  (15:924;  997.)  Em- 
phasizes the  virtue  of  charity;  illustrates  I  Corinthians  13:1-13. 

Ann.  Edison  4.  (15:1011;  1105.)  Good  for  sermons  on  Sunday  observance 
and  illustrates  Prove: bs  11:17  and  II  Corinthians   11:29. 

His  Children.  Lubin  7.  (15:916;  1219;  mfg.  1007.)  Illustrates  lying 
and  falsehood  and  the  Ninth  Commandment.  ( 

In  a  Roman  Garden.  Powers  7.  (15:926;  998;  mfg.  900.)  On  the  power 
of  Christian  example  and  illustrates  the  early  history  of  the  church. 

The  Crimson  Cross.  Eclair  5.  (3r.;  15:924;  1105;  sp.  rev.  1002.)  An 
illustration  of  the  mysteries  of  the  rosary. 


Fire   Drill   by  the 
1014;   1220.) 


SOCIOLOGY. 
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and  1220.) 
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Army  Target  Practice.     Lubin  6.     (15:914;  1220.) 

Manners  and  Customs. 

Curious  Scenes  in  India.     Edison  3.     (15:1011;  1104.) 

Life  in  Egypt.     Eclair  2.     (n.s.p.;  15:997.) 

The  Mardi  Gras,  New  Orleans.     Imp  1.     (n.s.p.;   15:997.) 


Hydrogen.     Pathe  7. 
The  Hairy  Ainus. 

in  Japan. 
In  the  Blood.     Rex 
The  Butterfly  of 


(15:922; 

Pathe   5. 


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1219.) 
(15:920;  1220.) 


The  oldest  race  of  people 


(15:812;  890.)     A  study  in  heredity. 
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1105.) 


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Kittens. 

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1105.) 
(15:1014;  n.c. p.) 


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Pathe  4.     (15:922; 

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the  King  of  Spain. 

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tory of  a  famous  painting. 

A  Scrap  of  Paper.  Kinemacolor.  (15:1138;  1106.)  Photodramatization  of 
Robertson's  comedy  of  the  same  name. 

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Winter  Sports  in  the  Swiss  Alps.    Kinemacolor.     (15:1032;  n.c.p.) 

LITERATURE. 

Shylock.  Eclipse  3.  (2r.;  15:1012;  n.c.p.;  sp.  rev.  761;  mfg.  874.)  From 
Shakespere's  "Merchant  of  Venice." 

The  Priest  and  the  Man.  Edison  8.  (15:1011;  1220.)  From  Sir  Gilbert 
Parker's  "Going  ef  the  White  Swan." 

Dr.  Jekyll  and  Mr.  Hyde.  Imp  6.  (2r. ;  n.s.p.;  15:997.)  Photodramatiza- 
tion of  Robert  Louis  Stevenson's  story  of  the  same  name. 


French  History. 


HISTORY. 

See  under  War. 


GEOGRAPHY. 
Mountains  and  Rivers. 
Zermatt  and  the  Gorner  Grat.    Kinemacolor.     (15:1032;  997.) 


The  Waterfalls  of  Idaho. 
See  also  under  Fine  Arts. 


Pathe     5.  (15:920;   1219.) 


European  Countries. 

Tiflis    Russia.    Mutual  educational  6.     (15:928;  n.c.p.) 
The  Valley  of  the  Lauterbrunnen.     Pathe  7.     (n.s.p.; 
See  also  under  Industries  and  Fine  Arts. 


5:1219.) 


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African  Countries. 

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North  and  South   American   Countries. 
Niagara  Falls.     Kinemacolor.      (15:1138;   11 06.) 
In  Old  Panama.     Imp  8.     (n.s.p.;   15:1105.) 

See   also   under   Fire   Departments,    Army  and   Navy,    Manners  and   Cus- 
toms and  Mountains  and  Rivers. 

Hawaiian  Islands. 
See  under  Fine  Arts. 

BIOGRAPHY. 

Lillian   Russell.     Kinemacolor.     (sp.  rev.   15:1107.)     Used  by  the  actress 
her  lecture  "How  to  Live  One  Hundred  Years." 


to  accompany 


TO  BUILD  NEW  THEATER. 

There  was  recently  formed  and  organized  in  Missoula, 
Mont.,  the  Missoula  Amusement  Company,  with  a  capitaliza- 
tion of  $10,000.  It  is  the  intention  of  the  company  to  build 
and  operate  a  moving  picture  theater  in  the  Forbis  Building, 
situated  on  Higgins  Avenue,  Missoula,  Mont.  The  architect's 
plans  call  for  the  addition  of  twenty-six  feet  to  the  rear  of 
the  building,  thereby  making  the  dimensions  120  feet  deep  by 
25  feet  frontage.  The  house  will  have  a  seating  capacity  of 
over  500  persons.  No  name  has  yet  been  given  the  proposed 
theater,  and  it  is  the  purpose  of  the  management  to  hold 
this  in  reserve,  leaving  it  to  the  decision  of  the  patrons,  for 
which  a  prize  will  be  given.  The  incorporators  of  the  Mis- 
soula Amusement  Company  are  Otis  O.  Hoyt,  Fred  C. 
Quimby,  Phil  Kenny  and  Dan  Heyfron. 


WANTS  CATALOGUES. 

W.  I.  Hippie,  134  Oley  Street,  Reading,  Pa.,  is  soon  to  open 
a  moving  picture  theater  with  a  seating  capacity  of  six  hun- 
dred, and  would  like  to  hear  from  manufacturers  of  chairs, 
machines,  curtains,  fixtures,  etc.,  of  their  prices  and  catalogues. 


CHANGES  PROGRAM. 

A.  J.  Xydias,  of  the  Xydias  Amusement  Company,  Hous- 
ton, Texas,  owner  of  the  Star  and  Rex  picture  theater,  that 
city,  has  recently  turned  independent.  He  was  followed  in 
the  same  move  by  the  management  of  the  Gem,  Dixie  and 
Crescent  theaters,  also  of  that  city. 


MISS  MAY  BUCKLEY, 
New  Leading  Lady  for  the  Selig  Company. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


169 


oMusic  for  the  Picture 


BY     CLARENCE     E     SINN 


M 


ISS  VEOLA  THOMPSON  who  is  lecturing  on  fea- 
tures in  the  Pacific  States,  contributes  the  following: 

"Some  weeks  ago  Mr.  ,  from  Albany,  Oregon, 

contributed  an  interesting  article  on  effects  as  produced  in 
the  Peoples  Theater,  Portland,  Oregon.  Yes,  this  particular 
theater  has  unquestionably  a  most  capable  sound  effect  drum- 
mer. His  general  knowledge  of  various  musical  instruments 
contribute  along  with  an  elegant  compressed  air  outfit.  Be- 
sides these  requirements  he  has  a  faculty  of  knowing  when 
and  how  to  produce  an  effect. 

"With  an  unprejudiced  mind  I  desire  to  give  due  credit  to 
conscientious  musical  artists,  forgetting,  if  possible,  that  I 
am  a  professional,  and  in  so  doing  I  have  closely  listaned  to 
the  offering  of  Los  Angeles,  San  Francisco  and  Oakland 
leaders  this  winter.  In  many  instances,  I  am  sorry  to  say, 
the  picture  music  seems  to  show  indifference  and  a  lack  of 
intelligence;  a  strong  desire  to  use  present-day  compositions 
on  plots  one  hundred  years  old.  Perhaps  they  wanted  to 
please  the  masses  with  popular  music.  However,  I  do  not 
believe  this  method  wins  in  the  end.  Many  houses  are  con- 
fining themselves  to  the  mechanical  organ  operated  by  a 
musician.  This  style  of  music  is  popular  in  San  Francisco 
and  Oakland;  one  man  accomplishes  the  work  of  ten  and 
this  is  "great" — financially.  Mr.  Grauman's  Imperial  is  truly 
a  palace  from  an  architectural  point  of  view.  His  par  excel- 
lent orchestra  consisting  of  piano,  organ,  violin,  'cello,  flute 
and  drums,  reaches  the  climaxes  beautifully  and  makes  the 
musical  "changes  seemingly  without  effort  or  discord.  They 
forget  to  accompany  those  "hairy  pants"  and  "broncho"  sub- 
jects with  an  asphalt  paving  effect  during  the  wooly  cayuse 
ride,  and  what  a  treat  this  is. 

"A  great  number  of  theaters  in  California  cities  seem  to 
feel  justified  in  offering  few  sound  effects.  We  know  the 
audience  loves  to  talk  over  the  plot;  to  surmise  in  words  the 
outcome  of  the  scenario  on  the  screen;  to  read  the  "leaders" 
aloud.  Therefore  why  not  permit  this  harmless  habit  and 
play  soft  music  more  or  less  throughout.  Do  let  the  people 
talk  and  make  this  possible  by  softening  the  drum  whenever 
the  situation  will  permit."  [Why  not  say,  "eliminating"  the 
drums  in  such  situations?  That  would  be  better.  Ed.] 
"Whatever  progress  we  make  in  this  field  of  art,  let  us  en- 
deavor to  heed  the  suggestions  of  those  who  think  and  apply 
the  compositions  of  the  masters  on  all  films  of  a  dramatic  and 
educational  nature,  for  this  alone,  I  believe,  will  elevate  the 
musical  atmosphere   surrounding  the  picture." 

The  writer  of  the  above  has  contributed  to  this  department 
before.  She  is  a  clever  musician  and  character  actress,  and 
has  been  a  successful  manager.  At  present  she  is  being  fea- 
tured in  her  portrayals  of  "Dante's  Inferno,"  "A  Day  in  the 
Alps,"  and  educational  subjects,  and  her  long  experience  in 
different  phases  of  picture  work  makes  her  opinions  worthy 
of  consideration.  Whatever  progress  made  by  picture-music 
is  due  largely  to  those  who  not  only  "think  and  apply,"  but 
are  willing  to  share  the  results  of  their  experience.  C.  K. 
Aiken,  H.  R.  Seeman,  Maurice  Komroff,  C.  B.  Lagerquist, 
Chas.  S.  Offenberg,  Maude  Waters  Dittmar  and  a  host  of 
other  contributors  are  among  those  who  "think  and  apply." 

*     *     * 

C.  V.  E.  writes:  "Why  is  it,  I  would  like  to  ask,  that 
most  moving  picture  pianists  will  sacrifice  the  sentiment  con- 
tained in  a  picture  to  a  popular  air,  whether  it  fits  the  scene 
or  not?  I  have  played  for  the  pictures  for  over  14  years" 
[that  is  a  long  time.  Ed.]  "and  have  only  been  out  of  work 
for  one  month  during  that  time.  I  say  if  a  picture  calls  for 
Old  Hundred,  or  Yankee  Doodle  don't  be  afraid  to  play  it. 
Use  your  brains  as  well  as  your  fingers  and  learn  to  use  them 
both  at  the  same  time,  the  brains  a  little  in  advance,  in  order 
to  get  the  right  affect,  you  must  feel  the  sentiment  and  make 
the  audience  feel  it,  dramas  should  be  played  to  three-four 
time.  Westerns  to  two-four  time,  comedies  to  ragtime,  if  you 
like,  but  the  time  must  fit  the  action  of  the  picture.  In  short, 
build  your  music  as  carefully  as  you  would  for  an  opera." 

The  writer  of  the  above  is  evidently  sincere,  though  his 
letter  may  appear  a  little  out  of  focus.  I  don't  quite  get  that 
last,  however.  Why  should  dramas  "be  played  to  three-four 
time?"     An  opera  is  usually  supposed  to  be  dramatic;  how 


can  you  build  your  picture  music  "as  carefully  as  you  would 
for  an  opera"  if  you  confine  yourself  to  three-four  time? 
When  our  best  pictures  have  special  music  written  for  them 
(as  they  soon  will),  this  music  will,  or  should  be  adapted  to 
the  action  of  the  picture  as  it  is  to  the  dramatic  action  in 
opera,  and  the  composer  will  use  whatever  movements,  fig- 
ures or  tempi  that  seem  best  adapted  to  the  various  scenes 
according  to  his  judgment. 

*  *     * 

A  Kansas  City  correspondent,  who  signs  no  name  submits 
the  following  suggestions  for  music  to  the  Kalem  release: 
"THE  WARTIME   SIREN." 

1.  March.     Begin  very  soft  until   soldiers  are  seen,   then 

loud;  continue  until  shooting  begins,  then: 

2.  Hurry  ff.    When  shooting  stops,  diminish  till  change  of 

scene. 

3.  Bugle  call  and  short  hurry. 

5.  Yankee  Doodle  until  Union  forces  behind  breastworks. 

6.  Dixie  until   title:   "Colonel   Ashley   and   His   Daughter, 

etc." 

7.  "Miama."     (Moret.)    until   she   brings   Doctor   W.  into 

house. 

8.  Introduction  to  "Era  Diavolo"  overture.     I  begun  this 

after  the  drum  solo  and  kept  repeating  softly  giving 
a  mysterioso  character  to  the  music  until  title:  "Col- 
onel Ashley  Attacks   the  Union   Forces." 

9.  Short  agitato  until  sick  room.     Then: 

10.  Pathetic  to  swell  and  diminish  according  to  alternating 

scenes  until  battle  scene. 

11.  Hurry  until  change. 

12.  Short  pathetic  until  Dr.  W.  rides  away. 

13.  Hurry  until  he  runs  with  American  flag. 

14.  Yankee  Doodle  very  spirited  until  title:    "Two  Months 

After  Appomattox." 

15.  Waltz   or   novellette   until   end   of  picture. 
Send  in  your  name  next  time,  Kansas  City. 

*  *     * 

Suggestions   for   accompanying   music   to: 

"A  WISE  OLD  ELEPHANT"  (Selig). 
Part  First. 

1.  "Poppies."     (Moret.)  once  through,  then: 

2.  "In  a  Lotus  Field"  (Bratton),  until  two  horsemen  ride 

away  from  steps. 

3.  Light  agitato  until  title:     "Lieutenant  Driscoll  is  Per- 

sistent." 

4.  About  16  bars  of  neutral  waltz,  then: 

5.  "Reign  of  the  Roses"  (Ellis  Brooks),  or  some  number 

with  triplets  in  accompaniment,  which  can  be  given 
an  agitato  character  when  scene  demands.  Play  un- 
til end  of  reel. 

Part  Second. 

1.  Light  mysterious  until  man  falls  on  porch. 

2.  Agitato  p.  and  f.  until  title:     "Three  Years  Later." 

3.  "Twilight — A    Reverie."    (by     N.     D.     Ayer;     pub.     by 

Remick.)   until  "A  Wise  'Old  Elephant." 
4.  Light    agitato    (long)    until    title:    "Toddles    Forces    a 
Reconciliation." 

5.  Tschaikowsky's   "Chant    Sans    Paroles,"     (play    rather 

quickly),   until  elephant  gives  cradle  to  parents. 

6.  "Teddy  Bears  Picnic,"  until  end  of  reel. 


CONEY  ISLAND  FACTORY  ABANDONED. 

Beginning  at  an  early  date,  the  new  Thanhouser  factory  at 
New  Rochelle  will,  in  addition  to  its  own  work,  also  handle  the 
thousands  of  feet  of  film  made  from  the  negatives  produced  by 
the  Reliance  and  Majestic  studios.  As  the  Thanhouser  Company 
has  long  been  noted  for  its  splendid  photography,  this  move  will 
insure  the  Reliance  and  Majestic  the  same  high  grade  of  pic- 
tures, photographically,  that  they  have  been  recently  releasing. 
As  a  result,  the  large  manufacturing  plant  at  Coney  Island,  which 
also  has  a  very  good  daylight  studio  in  connection  with  it,  will 
be  on  the  market. 


170 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


THE  Prussian  government  has  announced  its  intention  of 
using  the  motion  picture  for  the  education  of  young 
people  who  have  not  the  means  to  go  any  higher  than 
the  common  schools.  Experts  are  to  be  selected  for  the 
selection  of  proper  places  of  exhibition  and  suitable  films. 
Five  thousand  negatives  are  to  be  purchased  at  once. 

*  *     * 

Ijj  the  three  cities  of  Berlin,  Hamburg  and  Dresden  the 
authorities  are  extremely  strict  in  the  enforcement  of  ordi- 
nances against  the  admission  of  children  into  the  electric 
theaters.  In  the  first  two  cities  children  under  the  age  of 
six  are  absolutely  barred  from  the  motion  picture  theaters, 
and  minors  between  the  ages  of  six  and  sixteen  years  can 
only  be  admitted  in  the  afternoon.  In  Dresden  no  minors 
under  sixteen  are  admitted  at  any  time.  Children  in  the 
latter  city  may  be  admitted  on  special  occasions  to  see  spe- 
cial programs  previously  approved  by  their  teachers. 

*  *     * 

Exhibitors  in  Vienna,  Austria,  are  up  in  arms  against  the 
decision  of  the  imperial  chancellor  permitting  the  use  of 
the  Comedy  Theater,  one  of  the  famous  showhouses  of  the 
city,  to  use  motion  pictures  for  matinees  three  times  per 
week.  They  say  the  competition  is  very  harmful  to  their 
interests  and  they  point  to  excessive  licenses  and  taxes  they 
have  to  pay  to  keep  their  own  theaters  going.  Every  license 
in  Vienna  is  revocable  at  the  pleasure  of  the  police,  without 
any  remedy  whatever. 

*  *     * 

The  "bicycling"  of  films  is  a  common  practice  in  Hungary. 
Two  and  sometimes  three  exhibitors  use  the  same  film  serv- 
ice on  the  same  night,  boys  on  bicycles  rushing  from  one 
theater  to  another.  An  exchange  in  Budapest  has  now  made 
a  rule  depriving  the  "bicycling"  offenders  of  all  service, 
whenever  they  are  caught. 

*  *     * 

A  number  of  French  and  Swiss  reformers  have  recently 
held  a  meeting  in  Geneva  and  solemnly  resolved  to  extend 
their  crusade  against  the  motion  picture  all  over  the  world. 
The  first  step  is  to  be  an  international  congress  against  the 
motion  picture,  to  which  all  enemies  of  the  motion  picture 
are  to  be  invited  from  everywhere. 

*  *     * 

Our  esteemed  French  contemporary,  Cine  Journal,  elo- 
quently bestows  the  freedom  of  the  city  of  Paris  upon  Mr. 
Smith,  of  the  Vitagraph  company,  who  is  now  a  visitor  in 
the  French  capital. 

*  *     * ' 

The  efforts  of  the  organized  exhibitors  in  Southern  France 
to  resist  and  defy  the  encroachments  of  the  police  have  been 
successful.  The  courts  have  decided  in  favor  of  the  rights 
of  cinematography.  A  number  of  manufacturers  well  known 
here  and  abroad  have  backed  up  the  efforts  of  the  exhibitors 
by  substantial  contributions  to  their  war  chest.  Among 
these  producers  are  the  Gaiimonts,  Eclipse,  Vitagraph,  Itala, 
Ambrosio  and  the  Sales  Agency  of  Paris. 

*  *     * 

A  new  film-producing  company,  known  as  the  Societe 
d'Edition  Artistique  Cinematographique.  has  just  started  on 
its  career  in  Asnieres,  near  Paris.  Their  product  will  be 
released  as  Le  Film  Parisien. 


British  films,  as  a  preface  to  their  photoplays,  attach  a  short 
length  of  film  bearing  a  reproduction  of  the  censors'  certifi- 
cate. One  or  two  American  makers,  however,  adhere  to  the 
conventional  title  in  ordinary  type.  What  I  should  term  the 
neatest  reproductions  of  the  censorship  certificate  are  those 
now  preceding  photoplays  by  Edison.  Vitagraph  and  Essanay. 

*  *     * 

A  case  of  unusual  interest  to  the  trade  has  just  been  de- 
cided in  the  King's  Bench  division.  A  British  concern  known 
as  the  Tyler  Film  Company  sued  Captain  Webster  for  mis- 
representation. The  evidence  showed  that  Webster  took  one 
of  th6  company's  operators  on  an  expedition  to  the  Arctic  to 
take  moving  pictures  in  conjunction  with  the  voyage  of  the 
Nimrod,  but  the  defendants  argued  that  their  photographer 
had  no  suitable  opportunities.  Some  of  the  evidence  proved 
somewhat  amusing,  particularly  when  it  was  stated  that  the 
operator  seemed  more  enthusiastic  over  hunting  than  photo- 
graphing.   Judgment  was  given  in  favor  of  Captain  Webster. 

*  *     * 

Lord  Roberts,  the  army  "giant,"  had  to  call  in  the  assist- 
ance of  the  moving  picture  the  other  day.  He  had  to  address 
a  huge  audience  at  Wolverhampton,  and  no  hall  in  the  place 
was  large  enough.  Pictures  were  taken  of  his  visit  and  his 
speech  and  shown  to  those  who  were  crowded  out  of  the 

building. 

*  *     * 

Commander  Evans,  of  the  Captain  Scott  Antarctic  expedi- 
tion, is  on  the  way  home  with  more  polar  pictures.  These 
should  be  worth  something,  in  view  of  the  recent  calamity, 
and  no  doubt  Gaumont's  will  control  both  British  and  Ameri- 
can rights. 

*  *     * 

Mr.  L.  G.  Chiozza  Money,  the  parliamentary  statistician, 
is  loud  in  his  praises  of  the  moving  picture.  This  distin- 
guished politician,  who  has  on  several  occasions  loomed  large 
in  American  affairs,  gave  a  list  recently  of  one  or  two  films 
which  he  thought  magnificent.  The  American  representa- 
tives were  "Monte  Cristo"  (Selig),  "As  You  Like  It"  (Vita- 
graph), and  "Vanity  Fair"  (Vitagraph).  Of  the  home  pro- 
duced films,  Mr.  Money  is  quite  enthusiastic  over  "Lorna 
Doone."  This  latter  subject  should  prove  a  little  gold  mine 
to  the  American  exhibitor,  as  it  is  certainly  in  the  front  line 

of  all  British  films. 

*  *     * 

I  give  the  following  statement  (for  what  it  is  worth)  from 
a  London  gentleman  well  known  in  the  trade  here:  "It  is 
to  be  regretted  that  America  has  now  joined  the  Continent 
in  sending  us  pictures  which  are  open  to  criticism  from  a 
moral  standpoint.  The  trade  has  hitherto  looked  upon  Ameri- 
can pictures  as  they  have  always  looked  upon  British  produc- 
tions, as  being  clean  and  wholesome." 

*  *     * 

The  average  attendance  at  British  picture  shows  is  28,000,- 
000  people  weekly.  The  number  of  picture  houses  involved 
is  6,000,  with  an  invested  capital  of  ii3, 000.000. 

SUTCLIFFE. 


BRITISH  NOTES. 

The  first  real  objection  to  the  Kalem  religious  master- 
piece, "From  the  Manger  to  the  Cross,"  has  been  raised  by 
some  religious  body  in  the  Scottish  capital.  Many  newspaper 
controversies  respecting  this  subject  have  been  published 
from  time  to  time,  but  hitherto  they  have  not  materialized. 
However,  despite  the  efforts  of  the  Puritans,  the  film  was 
not  withdrawn. 

*     *     * 

In    anticipation    of   public    taste    favoring    a    distinction   in 
censored   and  uncensored   films,  most   of  the   American   and 


NEW  RAW  FILM  STOCK  MAKERS. 

The  announcement  of  the  appearance  of  a  new  raw  motion 
picture  film  is  an  event  in  the  motion  picture  world.  The 
Fireproof  Film  Company,  of  Rochester.  X.  Y..  makes  its 
initial  bow  to  the  public  in  this  week's  number  of  the  World. 
The  company  is  located  at  Rochester.  X.  Y.,  within  a  stone's 
throw  of  the  Eastman  plant,  the  only  other  concern  in  this 
country  manufacturing  film  on  a  larso  fcale.  The  Fireproof 
Film  Company  was  organized  mainly  through  the  efforts  of 
H.  Kuhn,  formerly  of  the  Defender  Photo  Supply  Company, 
of  Rochester.  N.  Y.,  and  G.  Cramer,  president  of  the  Cramer 
Dry  Plate  Work?,  of  St.  Louis.  Mo.,  both  of  whom  have  had 
thirty  years  or  more  experience  in  photographic  and  allied 
industries. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 

Among  the  Picture  Theaters 

News  and  Views  of  Houses  Here  and  There. 


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THE   SUPERBA   THEATER,    GRAND   RAPIDS,   MICH. 

ONE  of  the  most  attractive  theaters  in  the  country  is  the 
remodeled  Superba.  The  theater  is  two  and  one- 
half  stories  high,  and  has  a  most  elaborate  front. 
The  entrance  is  of  marble,  with  mosaic  floor.  The  entrance 
and  exit  doors  are  fitted  with  art  mirrors  and  the  woodwork 
is  of  mahogany.  The  box  office  is  very  spacious.  The  illu- 
minating system  is  the  "Eye  Comfort"  and  magnificent  can- 
delabras  grace  the  entrance,  while  the  interior  has  a  larger 
number  of  lights  than  are  usually  found,  even  in  the  newer 
houses.  The  house  seat,s  550,  and  the  seats  were  installed  by 
the  American  Seating  Company,  all  being  in  upholstered 
leather. 

The  house  is  steam  heated  and  has  a  perfect  ventilating 
system.  The  balcony  is  roomy  with  a  center  entrance,  the 
stairway  being  of  steel  construction — in  fact,  every  building 
restriction  has  been  rigidly  lived  up  to.  The  Superba  was  in 
reality  designed  by  the  managers  of  Nichols  Brothers,  in  ac- 
cordance with  ideas  they  have  long  had  in  mind.  A  Power's 
No.  6  is  the  machine  used.  Three  films  are  run  each  day  and 
all  changed  daily.     Four  fine  vaudeville  acts  are  given  and  a 


As  will  be  seen  by  the  cut,  the  structure  is  built  entirely  of 
concrete.  It  was  originally  the  village  hall  before  it  was 
bought  over  and  converted  into  a  picture  theater  by  its  pres- 
ent owners.     Five  hundred  of  the  six  hundred  seats  are  on 


Superba  Theater. 

four  piece  orchestra  is  engaged.  Recently  a  Steck  Grand 
piano  was  installed.  The  new  theater  cost  $16,000  to  rebuild, 
and  as  Nichols  Brothers  own  the  building  it  now  represents 
an  investment  of  some  $50,000.  Nichols  Brothers  have  incor- 
porated as  the  Superba  Amusement  Company.  They  started 
in  Grand  Rapids  about  six  years  ago  and  have  made  good 
from  the  start.  In  addition  to  the  Superba  they  own  and 
operate  the  Appolo  in  Grand  Rapids,  and  also  a  theater  in 
Flint,  and  another  in  Freeport,  111.  The  Appolo  is  managed 
by  F.  D.  Nichols,  and  the  Superba  by  Geo.  C.  Nichols. 

In  the  iljustration,  Messrs.  Nichols  are  seen;  also  the  hand- 
some cashier.  Business  at  the  new  house  has  been  up  to  ca- 
pacity right  along  and  visitors  from  other  cities  all  compare 
the  new  house  most  favorably  with  any  other  for  the  size  in 
the  country. 


STAR  THEATER,  CHERRY  VALLEY,  NEW  YORK. 

The  accompanying  photo-engraving  of  the  Star  Theater, 
Cherry  Valley,  New  York,  which  is  owned  and  managed  by 
Messrs.  Pearson  &  Nelson,  is  located  in  a  town  where  there 
are  only  seven  hundred  inhabitants.  The  Star  has  a  seating 
capacity  of  six  hundred,  and  has  continued  to  play  to  good 
business  ever  since  it  opened  on  the  fourteenth  of  September, 
1912.  Its  patronage  was  especially  good  around  the  holiday 
season,  and  at  a  performance  on  Christmas  night  the  man- 
agers sold  seven  hundred  and  fifty  tickets  and  turned  away 
about  one  hundred.  This  only  goes  to  prove  that  a  moving 
picture  theater,  even  though  it  is  situated  in  a  small  town,  if 
properly  managed,  will  make  as  much  money  for  its  owners 
as  a  picture  house  in  a  larger  town. 


Star  Theater. 

the  parquet  floor,  and  the  managers  do  not  allow  any  of 
the  remaining  one  hundred  balcony  seats  to  be  sold  until  the 
entire  orchestra  has  been  sold  out. 

A  Power's  machine  is  installed  in  a  fireproof  booth.  A 
five-horse  power  engine  dynamo  supplies  the  power  and  light, 
and  the  picture  is  projected  on  a  screen  fifteen  feet  square. 
Four  large  exits  have  been  provided  for. 


BIJOU  THEATER,  PIERRE,  S.  D. 

The  Bijou  Theater,  of  Pierre,  S.  D.,  a  cut  of  which  is  here- 
with published,  before  it  was  converted  into  a  moving  picture 
theater  by  J.  E.  Hippie,  was  formerly  the  opera  house  of  that 


Bijou  Theater. 

city.  In  February  of  1908,  Mr.  Hippie  started  the  place  as  a 
moving  picture  and  vaudeville  house  and  has  been  well  satis- 
fied with  the  business  since  that  time.  Mr.  Hippie  had  a  new 
front  built  onto  it  this  year.  The  dimensions  of  the  interior 
are  forty  feet  by  ninety-seven  feet,  not  including  the  stage, 
which  is  sixteen  feet  by  forty  feet.  There  are  606  seats  in  the 
auditorium.  The  theater  is  wired  both  for  alternating  and 
direct  current,  being  equipped  for  city  light  and  the  theater's 
own  generated  electricity.  Mr.  Hippie  says  that  the  real 
estate  upon  which  the  structure  stands  is  alone  worth  $25,000, 
and  the  equipment  cost  him  $3,000.  Some  of  the  excellent 
appointments  of  the  house  are  a  sanitary  drinking  fountain, 


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THE   MOVING    PICTURE   WORLD 


checking   rooms    and   retiring  rooms.      The    Bijou    is    steam 
heated  and  well  supplied  with  electric  exhaust  fans. 

Mr.  Hippie  is  not  only  owner  and  manager  of  the  Bijou, 
but  is  also  editor  and  publisher  of  a  daily  paper,  and  is  inter- 
ested in  a  printing  company.  Mr.  Hipp.le  was  also  at  one 
time  postmaster  of  Pierre,  and  let  it  be  made  known  that  he 
is  the  man  who  made  the  successful  fight  for  the  Sunday  open- 
ing of  picture  shows  in  that  city.  Mr.  Hippie  in  a  letter  to 
the  Moving  Picture  World  says  that  he  is  going  to  look 
after  the  interests  of  the  exhioition  business  at  the  next  legis- 
lature, as  some  local  ministers  and  other  persons  are  con- 
templating the  introduction  of  bills  looking  toward  a  state 
censorship  and  other  interferences  with  the  picture  industry. 


THE  NEW  DIXIE  THEATER,  GULFPORT,  MISS. 

It  is  said  that  the  picture  lovers  of  Gulfport,  Miss.,  know 
where  to  go  when  they  want  to  see  a  good  moving  picture 
show,  for  invariably  they  all  wend  their  way  to  the  new  Dixie 
Theater,  situated  on  Twenty-sixth  Street,  an  engraving  of 
which  is  herewith  published.  It  is  known  as  the  most  beauti- 
ful house  on  the  Gulf  Coast  between  Mobile,  Ala.,  and  New 
Orleans,  La.     Fred  Abbley,  the  manager  and  owner  who  is 


Bleich.     Suffice  it  to  say  that  the  interior  is  just  as  pretty  as 
the  exterior. 

The  dimensions  of  the  "Empress"  are  no  feet  by  40  feet. 
The  foyer  and  lobby  are  made  of  marble,  tile  and  terrazzo. 
The  indirect  lighting  system  is  employed.  The  seating  ca- 
pacity is  700,  and  the  structure  represents  an  expenditure  of 
$26,000.  Moving  pictures  form  the  programme,  and  a  six- 
piece  orchestra  furnishes  a  suitable  accompaniment  to  each 
entertainment.  The  admission  price  is  ten  cents.  Mr. 
Bleich  has  had  wide  picture  exhibition  experience,  having 
managed  many  other  picture  houses. 


ELITE  THEATER,  CARTHAGE,   MISSOURI. 

The  accompanying  engraving  is  a  picture  of  the  Elite 
theater,  Carthage,  Missouri,  which  opened  for  business  on 
March  18th,  1912,  and  has  been  enjoying  the  fruits  of  pros- 
perity since  that  date.  The  dimensions  of  the  building  are 
twenty-five  feet  by  one  hundred  feet..  The  lobby  is  illumi- 
nated with  many  hundreds  of  electric  lights,  giving  it  a 
very  pleasing  appearance.  The  box-office  is  painted  in  white. 
Among  the  employees  is  a  neat  appearing  boy  who  not  only 
helps  in  taking  tickets,  but  runs  errands  for  the  patrons. 


Elite  Theater. 


still  a  young  man,  was  born  on  the  Gulf  Coast  and  has  been 
six  years  in  the  picture  business,  three  of  which  he  has  spent 
in  Gulfport.  Mr.  Abbley,  besides  being  the  manager  and 
owner  of  the  new  Dixie,  is  also  national  vice-president  of  the 
Ohio  Moving  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  America. 


EMPRESS  THEATER,  OWENSBORO,  KY. 

The  accompanying  engraving  is  a  picture  of  the  Empress 
Theater,  Owensboro,  Ky.,  owned  and  controlled  by  George 
A.  Bleich.  A  glance  at  the  cut  reveals  its  beauty,  and  if  some 
existing  picture  houses  were  even  half  as  neatly  constructed 

■ 


Empress  Theater. 

as  the  "Empress,"  we  feel  sure  that  the  patronage  of  those 
places  would  be  materially  increased.  For  indeed  a  theater 
with  a  poorly  built  and  ugly  front  drives  patronage  away 
rather  than  invites  it.  Space  forbids  us  to  give  representation 
to   the  interior  views,  which   have   been   sent  to   us   by   Mr. 


The  operating  booth  is  in  charge  of  J.  J.  Bryne.  whom 
Mr.  Anderson,  the  manager,  says  is  the  best  operator  he 
has  ever  had  or  will  ever  have,  for  he  will  never  let  him 
leave  his  employ.  He  comes  early  in  the  morning  and  pre- 
pares for  the  evening  show,  which  starts  at  seven  o'clock. 

The  seating  capacity  of  the  theater  is  334.  Four  reels 
of  pictures  are  shown,  for  which  an  admission  price  of  ten 
cents  is  charged.  Pictures  are  changed  four  times  a  week. 
The  Elite  Theater  Company,  owners  and  managers  of  the 
Elite,  is  composed  of  A.  L.  Caulkins  and  M.  W.  Caffee,  and 
Neal  Anderson. 


COZY  THEATER,  EL  CAMPO,  TEXAS. 

The  Cozy  Theater,  El  Campo,  Texas,  cut  of  which  is  pub- 
lished herewith,  was  built  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  R.  Myer. 
It  is  also  owned  and  managed  by  them.  The  dimensions  of 
the  building  are  60  feet  long  by  43  feet  wide.     It  is  built  of 


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The  Cozy  Theater. 

concrete  and  brick  and  is  thoroughly  fireproof  in  every  way. 
It  has  a  seating  capacity  of  354  persons.  Music  is  provided 
by  a  Wurlitzer  combination  flute,  piano  and  drums.  The  place 
is  well  ventilated  and  it  is  exclusively  a  picture  house. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


173 


"When  Thieves  Fall  Out"  (Gaumont). 

HERE  is  a  story  of  intrigue  in  high  life — and  not  only 
intrigue,  but  crime.  It  is  a  story  of  collusion  between 
a  banker  and  a  lawyer  to  despoil  a  woman  of  her 
estate.  In  keeping  with  the  station  of  the  characters  are 
the  settings — nearly  all  interiors,  some  of  them  unusually 
elaborate.  They  are  done  in  a  manner  characteristic  of  the 
Gaumont  way,  showing  real  stagecraft.  The  acting  is 
excellent. 

In  the  opening  scenes  we  are  introduced  to  Lawyer  Ray- 
bard  and  his  "companion,"  Dolores.  The  relationship  as 
indicated  is  not  without  puzzling  features  at  the  time,  but 
as  the  story  unfolds  we  see  that  Dolores  is  a  confederate, 
an  accomplice,  and  when  murder  is  committed  it  is  not  diffi- 
cult to  believe  that  she  is  an  accessory  before  the  fact.  So 
it  is  safe  to  conclude  that  the  term  "companion"  is  a  conces- 
sion to  American  conservatism  and  that  the  title  in  the 
original  French  is  not  only  more  accurate,  but  definite. 


IJI 

fof/JI 

■              '1 

COPY  OF  STATEMENT  OF  THE  OWNERSHIP,  MAN- 
AGEMENT, ETC., 
filed  pursuant  to  Section  267^2,  Act  of  August  24,   1912,  of 
MOVING   PICTURE  WORLD,   published   weekly   at   New 
York  Citv,  required  by  Act  of  August  24,  1912. 

NAME  OF  POST   OFFICE   ADDRESS, 

Managing  Editor,  John  Wylie,  17  Madison  Ave.,  New  York. 
b...:-...  •«.,.,,„„,<.   (John   Wylie  (  17  Madison  Avenue, 

Busmess  ManaSe^  Eliza  J.   Chalmers  J  New  York 

Publisher,     Chalmers     Publishing     Company,     17     Madison 
Avenue,   New  York, 
(a  New  York  corporation.) 

Owner:  Chalmers  Publishing  Company,  17  Madison 
Avenue,  New  York,  the  stockholders  of  which  are  Estate  of 
James  P.  Chalmers,  Eliza  J.  Chalmers  and  John  Wylie,  all 
at  17  Madison  Avenue,  New  York. 

Known  bondholders,  mortgagees,  and  other  security 
holders,  holding  1  per  cent,  or  more  of  total  amount  of 
bonds,   mortagages,  or  other  securities:     None. 

JOHN  WYLIE, 
(Business  manager). 
Sworn  to  and  subscribed  before  me  this  twenty-first  day 
of  March,  1913.  MAY  C.  GUERIN, 

[Seal]  Notary  Public, 

Kings  County, 
Certificate  filed  in  N.  Y.  County. 
N.  Y.  Key  No.  3222. 
(My  commission  expires  March  30,  1913.) 


Scene  from  "When  Thieves  Fall  Out"  (Gaumont). 

The  Countess  of  Croize  has  mortgaged  her  estate  in  order 
to  raise  funds  to  prosecute  a  search  for  the  treasure  which 
a  former  Croize  had,  according  to  rumor,  123  years  before 
hidden  from  the  revolutionaries.  The  interest  has  not  been 
paid  for  more  than  a  year.  Banker  Barrett,  who  holds  the 
mortgage",  engages  Lawyer  Raybard  to  go  with  him  to  the 
home  of  the  countess,  where  she  is  informed  of  the  impend- 
ing foreclosure.  Raybard,  searching  in  the  library,  finds  in 
a  book  the  key  of  the  hidden  wealth.  He  and  Barrett  agree 
to  buy  the  estate  and  divide  profits.  Barrett  had  previously 
told  the  countess  that  he  could  solve  the  situation  by  marry- 
ing her  daughter,  Madeleine,  in  love  with  Lieutenant  Cross, 
then  spending  a  furlough  at  the  estate.  When  the  discovery 
is  made  of  the  instructions,  Barrett  changes  his  mind  about 
marrying  Madeleine. 

The  lieutenant's  leave  expires  and  he  takes  train  for  Paris. 
Sharing  the  compartment  with  him  is  Dolores,  who,  on  her 
arrival  at  her  destination,  asks  the  officer  to  help  her  to  her 
home,  but  a  short  distance  away,  feigning  illness.  The  lieu- 
tenant finds,  after  helping  his  traveling  companion  into  the 
house,  that  he  is  locked  in  a  room  with  a  man  lying  dead  on 
a  bed.  The  officer  escapes  from  the  house,  but  is  arrested 
when  he  tells  of  the  crime  that  has  been  committed.  The 
countess  and  Madeleine,  on  reading  of  the  happening,  hurry 
to  Paris  and  engage  a  detective.  The  latter,  in  thrilling 
scenes,  uncovers  Raybard. 

At  the  sale  of  the  estate,  Dolores  is  the  highest  bidder. 
The  sale  is  interrupted  by  an  order  of  the  court  and  is  post- 
poned for  24  hours.  The  lieutenant,  released  from  prison, 
appears  and  confronts  Dolores.  She  is  arrested.  The  key 
to  the  treasure,  recovered  by  the  detective,  is  found  to  be 
accurate.  Madeleine  and  the  lieutenant  are  married.  The 
last  scenes  are  of  wedded  happiness — showing  the  two  riding 
Tiorseback  through  the  beautiful  grounds  of  the  estate. 


STONE 
J.  W.  Stone, 


OPENS  NEW  PICTURE   HOUSE. 

manager  of  the  Falls  Creek  Amusement  Com- 
pany, Falls  Creek,  Pa.,  recently  opened  the  Star  Palace 
Theater  at  Falls  Creek.  The  new  house  has  a  seating  ca- 
pacity of  275  persons,  and  Mr.  Stone  is  well  pleased  with  the 
Teceipts  since  he  opened  the  house. 


Kinemacolor  is  coming  to  the  front  as  a  pictorial  news 
reporter.  After  taking  some  snapshots  at  the  St.  Patrick's 
Day  parade,  the  Kinemacolor  Company  was  given  the  ex- 
clusive privilege  of  photographing  the  eighth  anniversary 
celebration  of  the  New  York  Hippodrome.  The  army  of 
people  employed  in  "Under  Many  Flags"  paraded  Broadway 
and  Fifth  Avenue  in  automobiles,  with  the  "Kilties,"  the 
Clown  Band  and  the  Plunging  Horses  as  special  features. 
Kinemacolor  caught  them  all  in  natural  colors,  and  showed 
this  topical  film  the  following  evening  in  all  the  New  York 
theaters    having   Kinemacolor    service. 


MISS  MAE  BOTTI, 
New  Reliance  Leading  Lady. 


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Flickers. 


Al.  Lichtman. 


THE  accompanying  cut  is  a  true  likeness  of  another  one 
of  the  young  fellows  who  has  made  good  in  the  film 
business  within  the  past  few  years.  He  answers  to  the 
name  of  Al.  Lichtman,  and  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  best  au- 
thorities on  feature 
films.  Before  entering 
the  film  business,  our 
friend  Al.  served  his 
time  with  Uncle  Sam, 
being  stationed  at  Fort 
Leavenworth,  Kan. 
After  leaving  the  army 
the  Exhibitors'  Adver- 
tising Co.,  a  Chicago 
firm,  offered  Lichtman 
a  position  as  salesman, 
which  was  accepted  for 
a  short  time,  but  it  be- 
ing a  small  company, 
with  small  prospects 
for  him  to  look  forward 
to,  he  decided  to  try  his 
luck  in  the  feature  film 
game,  which  at  that 
time  had  just  begun. 
The  Buffalo  Bill  and 
Pawnee  Bill  Film  Co. 
secured  Lichtman's 
services  as  publicity 
manager,  and  later  ad- 
vanced him  to  sales 
manager.  His  next  berth 
was  in  the  employ  of 
the  Monopol  Film  Co., 
where  he  acted  in  the 
capacity  of  general  manager,  until  the  formation  of  the 
Famous  Players'  Film  Company,  when  Mr.  Zukor  put  him 
in  charge  of  the  sales  department  of  that  company.  Mr. 
Lichtman  leaves  this  week  for  a  trip  through  the  South  and 
West.  We  could  say  more  of  this  young  man,  but  the  above 
will  serve  as  an  introduction  in  the  many  cities  he  visits, 
and  he  takes  our  best  wishes  with  him. 

*  *    * 

Mr.  L.  A.  Boening,  secretary  of  the  American  Cinemato- 
graph Co.,  Chicago,  paid  a  visit  to  the  offices  of  the  Moving 
Picture  World  during  his  recent  stay  in  New  York.  Mr. 
Boening  departed  to  his  home  town  with  several  contracts 
for  new  studio  equipment.  In  fact,  he  met  with  such  success 
that  he  has  decided  to  establish  a  New  York  branch. 

*  *     * 

After  spending  the  past  eight  years  in  the  exchange  end  of 
the  moving  picture  business,  "Hub"  Taylor  has  decided  to 
go  into  the  business  for  himself,  and  with  the  assistance  of 
two  other  partners  has  incorporated  a  company  known  as 
Forma,  Terry  &  Taylor,  for  the  purpose  of  handling  feature 
films.  As  a  starter,  the  new  company  has  bought  the  New 
York  State  rights  for  "Tigris,"  a  very  strong  detective  story 
in  four  parts,  released  by  the  Itala  Film  Company. 

With  Taylor  at  its  head,  the  new  company  is  assured  of 
almost  positive  success,  for  he  is  one  "of  the  most  popular 
young  men  in  the  trade  to-day,  and  possesses  a  variety  of 
experience  and  ability  second  to  none.  "Hub"  asked  me  to 
extend  a  cordial  invitation  to  the  trade  to  visit  his  new  offices 
in  315  Fourth  Avenue,  New  York. 

*  *     * 

Geo.  L.  Barrows,  of  the  Berlin  Aniline  Works,  New  York, 
is  leaving  this  week  for  an  extended  trip  through  the  West. 

*  *     * 

Mr.  Feist,  the  hustling  special  representative  of  the  Kine- 
macolor  Company,  left  his  New  York  office  for  a  two 
months'  trip  through  the  Western  States. 

*  *     * 

Agnes  Egan  Cobb  has  resigned  her  position  as  manager  of 
the  Itala  Film  Company. 

*  *     * 

C.  Lang  Cobb  wasn't  pleased  with  the  location  the  Ramo 
Film  Company  picked  out  for  their  offices  on  31st  Street,  so 
he  picked  up  his  letter  file  and  a  few  pencils  and  moved  his 
offices  to  101st  Street  and  Columbus  Avenue.     Just  like  that 

fellow,  he's  never  satisfied. 

*  *     * 

Ad.  Kessel,  of  the  New  York  Motion  Picture  Company,  and 
J.  H.  Hallberg  will  compete  for  yachting  honors  this  season. 
They  have  both  bought  new  and  high-powered  motor  boats. 


Lorimer  Johnstone  has  resigned  his  position  as  producer 
for  the  Selig  Polyscope  Company  and  is  now  connected  with 
the  Kinemacolor  Company  in  Los  Angeles. 

*     *     * 

If  there  are  any  of  you  around  town  who  thinks  that  he  can 
put  up  a  good  game  of  pool,  tell  it  to  Harry  Lande,  proprie- 
tor of  the  Feature  Photoplay  Company.     He'll  listen  to  you. 

MAC. 


ISIS  THEATER,  TRINIDAD,  COL. 

The  Isis  Theater,  of  Trinidad,  Col.,  was  the  first  moving 
picture  theater  in  Trinidad  to  introduce  the  five-cent  admis- 
sion price.  The  manager,  Jack  Nash,  says  that  it  was 
also  the  first  theater  in  that  State  to  give  to  its  patrons  three 
reels  with  a  daily  change;  the  first  to  present  a  spot-light 
soloist,  and  the  only  theater  in  Trinidad  presenting  licensed 
films. 

The  Isis,  which  is  herewith  given  representation,  has  a 
seating  capacity  of  360,  and  charges  an  admission  price  of 
ten  cents  for  adults  and  five  cents  for  children.  The  place 
opens  promptly  every  day  at  one  o'clock  and  is  open  con- 


Isis  Theater,  Trinidad,  Col. 

tinually  until  11  p.  m.  Mr.  Nash  says  that  he  is  the  only 
manager  in  the  city  who  keeps  his  theater  open  during  sup- 
per hour.  The  music  at  the  Isis  is  furnished  by  an  orches- 
trion costing  $1,950.  A  Simplex  machine  projects  the  pic- 
tures. The  electric  current,  befoie  it  reaches  the  projection 
arc,  passes  through  a  mercury  arc  rectifier,  which  device 
changes  the  current  from  alternating  to  direct,  thus  insuring 
a  steadier  and  brighter  light. 

Mr.  Nash  pays  particular  attention  to  the  cleanliness  of 
his  house.  Every  day  it  is  thoroughly  scrubbed  and  cleaned 
and  fumigated.  The  air  in  the  auditorium  is  changed  every 
thirty  seconds,  making  it  possible  for  the  patrons  of  the  Isis 
to  breathe  pure  air  every  minute  during  performances  at  the 
Isis.    Special"  attention  is  given  to  children  and  ladies. 


Maurice  Costello,  at  Grand  Hotel,  Yokohama. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


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At  the  Sign  of  the  Flaming  Arcs. 

By  George  Blaisdell. 

HEARD  a  little  story  the  other  day  which  is  most  illu- 
minating as  to  the  methods  of  one  of  the  screen's 
great  directors — one  who  outside  of  film  circles  is 
rarely  heard  of;  and  inside  is  awarded  the  palm — by  prac- 
tically unanimous  consent.  This  is  pretty  definite  identifica- 
tion; but  here  goes:  In  the  course  of  a  rehearsal  one  of  the 
young  women — not  now  connected  with  this  same  company 
— was  directed  to  take  a  knife  and  follow  another  player. 
The  director  was  dissatisfied.  The  young  woman  did  not 
manifest  sufficient  determination;  there  was  an  absence  of  the 
tragic,  the  murderous,  in  her  expression.  It  was  too  much 
like  a  pink  tea,  not  a  contemplated  assassination.  There 
were  repeated  trials,  and  unbroken  failures.  The  director's 
patience  was  exhausted  in  a  flash.  Like  a  bolt  came  the  ex- 
plosion. It  began  with  an  oath.  "You  are  the  rottenest 
actress  I  ever  saw,"  he  continued,  his  wrath  steadily  rising. 
"You  are  a  disgrace  to  the  company!  When  the  scene  is 
finished  you  are  going  to  be  'canned'!     Take   the   picture!" 

The  young  woman  never  looked  at  the  director.  Appar- 
ently she  couldn't  wait  for  the  cameraman  to  start  cranking. 
The  knife  was  poised  at  the  proper  angle;  tears  flowed  from 
eyes  that  never  before  had  shone  with  such  a  cold  glitter  and 
over  a  face  that  revealed  real  murder  in  the  brain  behind  it — 
there  was  no  room  for  doubt  of  that.  The  eye  of  the  director 
never  left  the  face  of  the  raging  actress;  his  anger  had  turned 
to  fierce  joy.  As  the  scene  ended  he  was  at  the  side  of  the 
young  woman. 

"That's  the  way,  girlie!"  he  shouted  in  his  delight,  as  he 
gave  her  a  resounding  and  fatherly  smack  on  the  cheek; 
"that's  the  way!  that's  just  what  I  wanted!" 

»    *    * 

Ever  hear  of  a  photoplaywright  diligently  writing  a 
scenario  while  at  the  same  time  unknown  to  him  the  identi- 
cal story  was  being  filmed?  Epes  Sargent  may  .think  this 
yarn  belongs  to  him,  but  here's  taking  a  chance  on.  beating 
him  out.  At'  the  recent  photoplaywriters'  dinner,  one  of  the 
speakers  advised  writers  to  get  in  touch  with  the  directors. 
One  of  his  hearers  thought  the  suggestion  sounded  so  good 
that  on  the  following  Monday  morning  (the  dinner  was  on 
a  Saturday  evening)  he  looked  up  a  director.  In  the  course 
of  a  conversation  the  visitor  outlined  a  story  he  was  think- 
ing of  submitting  to  a  certain  company. 

"Don't  take  the  trouble  to  do  that,"  said  the  director.  "I'll 
take  your  story  now.    Write  it  out  and  send  it  in  to  me." 

Just  after  the  departure  of  the  caller  the  director  received 
a  telegram  from  his  leading  woman,  away  on  vacation,  in 
which  she  delayed  her  return  for  another  week.  Here  was  a 
pickle.  No  leading  woman,  no  story  in  hand  in  which  one 
would  be  unnecessary.  The  director  thought  of  the  plot  as 
just  outlined  by  his  visitor,  which  bridged  the  emergency. 
He  called  in  the  scenario  editor.  In  short  order  the  script 
was  handed  in  and  work  begun.  The  address  of  the  scenario 
writer  was  not  known  to  the  director.  He  appealed  to  this 
writer  to  ask  Sargent  to  notify  the  author  and  tell  him  his. 
money  was  ready.  In  a  day  or  two  Epes  found  the  missing 
author,  who,  however,  refused  to  believe  him.  He  knows 
now,  nevertheless,  that  the  chief  coroner  of  the  Inquest  Club 

was  right. 

*  *     * 

Picturegoers  are  losing  another  idol.  One  of  the  dearest, 
sweetest  children  that  has  graced  the  screen  is  "getting  to 
be  a  big  girl  now."  Adele  De  Garde  was  one  of  the  many 
in  Vitagraph's  release  of  March  25th — -"Dick,  the  Dead  Shot." 
It  should  not  be  many  years  now  before  she  comes  back  to 
us  as  a  full-fledged  actress.  May  she  then  be  as  unaffected 
and  unspoiled  as  she  was  when  doing  her  best  child  work! 

*  *     * 

George  Terwilliger,  well  known  in  New  York  film  circles, 
is  leaving  us  for  Lubinville,  where  he  is  engaged  in  scenario 
writing.  Mrs.  Terwilliger  goes  with  him.  Both  will  be 
missed.     However,  Philadelphia  is  not  so  far  away. 

*  *     * 

Robert  Leonard,  who  has  been  playing  leads  in  one  of  the 
Rex  companies,  is  to  have  a  company  of  his  own,  as  was 
pointed  out  last  week  by  our  Los  Angeles  correspondent. 
While  he  has  been  with  the  Universal  but  a  very  short  time, 
his  work  has  been  such  that  it  has  been  under  observation 
at  the  exhibition  room  in  1600  Broadway  right  from  the  start. 
It  is  understood  that  Mr.  Leonard  will  not  leave  the  screen, 

but  will  play  as  well  as  direct. 

*  *     * 

J.  Stuart  Blackton,  secretary  of  the  Vitagraph  Company, 
sailed  on  Saturday.  March  29th,  for  an  extended  trip 
abroad,   visiting    England    and    the    Continent.      Mr.    Black- 


ton  is  seeking  much-needed  rest  from  business  cares.  Albert 
E.  Smith,  who  for  the  past  month  has  been  sojourning  in 
London  and  Paris,  will  return  to  the  Brooklyn  studio  on 
April  9th.  In  the  interim  President  "Pop"  Rock  will  be  at 
the  wheel  of  the  good  ship  Vitagraph. 

*  *     * 

Vivian  Prescott,  who  has  been  a  member  of  the  Biograph 
Company  and  leading  woman  of  the  Imp,  is  soon  to  appear 
on  the  screen  as  a  Lubin  star.  Miss  Prescott  has  done  some 
excellent  comedy  work;  and  she  has  also  given  us  fine  por- 
trayals in  serious  drama.  She  will  strengthen  the  Lubin 
forces. 

*  *     * 

How  simple  a  story  may  pull  at  the  heartstrings?  Take, 
for  instance,  Biograph's  release  of  March  24th — "A  Welcome 
Intruder."  This  is  a  tale  of  a  workingman  and  a  lost 
motherless  child — a  little  one  taken  into  a  strange  home  and 
one  as  humble  as  its  own;  more  than  that,  it  was  taken  into 
the  heart  of  a  woman.  So  thoroughly  was  it  there  intrenched 
that  when  the  woman  learned  the  identity  of  the  child's 
father  the  lost  one  was  restored  only  after  a  struggle  be- 
tween the  child  love  in  a  lonely  woman's  bosom  and  the 
knowledge  of  what  the  little  one'  meant  to  the  sorrowing 
father.  It  would  be  difficult  to  say  which  of  the  two  situa- 
tions is  the  "big  scene" — the  restoration  or  the .  Christmas 
call  of  the  father  and  child  at  the  home  of  the  woman  friend 
and  the  significant  action  of  the  child  in  taking  hands  and 
forming  the  link  between  the  two  it  so  dearly  loved.  Claire 
McDowell  as  the  woman  gives  a  portrayal  that  will  strike 
deep;  it  is  real  art.  Charles  Mailes  as  the  father  will  add  to 
his  reputation.  "A  Welcome  Inttuder"  is  a  picture  not  to  be 
missed. 

*  *    * 

Let  aril  of  us  who  go  to  see  pictures  for  pleasure  or  for 
business — and  sometimes  as  the  result  proves  for  both — 
congratulate  ourselves  on  the  return  of  May  Buckley  to  the 
screen.  She  has  been  missed.  It  is  not  often  that  we  re- 
member a  player  by  the  title  of  a  picture.  There  are  many 
players  and  many  more  pictures.  In  Lubin's  "The  Derelict's 
Return"  Miss  Buckley  showed  what  she  can  do  in  straight 
drama;  in  the  same  company's  "The  Honeymooners"  she 
gave  us  most  delightful  comedy.  There  were  others  aplenty, 
of  course,  but  these  alone  were  sufficient  to  demonstrate  her 
quality  and  power. 

*  *     * 

George  Larkin,  formerly  of  the  Eclair  Company,  is  plaj'- 
ing  the  lead  in  Farrell  McDonald's  Powers  company,  not 
"Billy"  Garwood,  as  was  erroneously  stated  in  this  column 
last  week.  The  misstatement  was  made  on  the  strength  of 
what  was  deemed  the  best  of  information.  Mr.  Garwood  is 
still  with  Thanhouser,  and  to  the  player  and  the  company 
apologies  are  extended. 

*  *     * 

Ralph  Earle,  a  Pathe  representative,  after  two  mishaps,  is 
to  make  a   third   attempt  to   film   Feather  River  Canyon,   of 

Butte  County,  Cal. 

*  *     * 

The  Sunday  closing  agitation  seems  if  not  on  the  increase 
at  least  to  be  holding  its  own  in  various  parts  of  the  country.. 
A  member  of  the  Eau  Claire  (Wis.)  Ministerial  Association 
confidently  predicts  that  every  theater  in  that  town  is  to  be 
closed  on  the  Sabbath.  There  are  six  shows  in  the  place. 
In  Georgia  the  Rome  city  council  has  refused  to  permit 
even  religious  pictures  to  be  shown  on  Sunday.  In  Atlanta, 
after  a  long  discussion,  the  managers  have  refused  to  close 
on  Sunday,  and  are  giving  the  proceeds  of  the  box  office — 
which  are  contributed  voluntarily,  by  the  way — to  charity. 
The  ministers  say  they  will  ask  for  the  indictment  of  the 
exhibitors.  The  clergymen  are  not  unanimous  in  opposing 
Sunday  openings.  Dr.  C.  B.  Wilmer,  of  St.  Luke's  Episcopal 
Church,  and  a  prominent  divine,  quotes  the  Bible  in  support- 
ing Sunday  opening.  Also  he  says  that  "if  you  put  on  the 
wheels  of  a  wagon  too  tightly  the  wagon  will  not  run."  Dr. 
Wilmer  believes  that  the  "Sabbath  was  made  for  the  man  and 
not  man  for  the  Sabbath."  The  Rev.  John  D.  Winn,  of  the 
Church  of  the  Incarnation,  declared  that  he  was  made  a 
member  of  the  protest  committee  without  his  knowledge  or 
consent.  "I  am  not  opposed  to  opening  the  motion  picture 
theaters  on  Sunday,"  he  says;  "I  favor  legitimate  amuse- 
ments on  Sunday.  I  do  not  believe  the  church  should  pos« 
as  a  policeman."  On  March  13th  the  people  of  Atlanta 
showed  by  the  most  practical  method  what  they  think  of 
Sunday  opening.  Here  is  a  record  of  the  count  of  the  attend- 
ance at  the  theaters  between  2  and  10  p.  m. :  Savoy.  6, 
Montgomery,  5,650;  Alcazar,  5,570;  Alamo.  5.14;:  Eonita. 
4,833;  Elite,  4,217;  Superba,  4,146;  Dutch  Mill,  4.1 15;  Ameri- 
can, 4,110.    Total,  44.106. 

FigTires  speak  for  themselves — at  least  they  do  in  this  case. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


Manufacturers  Advance  Notes 


"THE    WRONG    ROAD    TO    HAPPINESS"    (Patheplay). 

Everyone  at  some  time  or  another  comes  to  the  fork  in 
the  road  of  life  where  two  paths  stretch  away  down  the 
years  to  come,  each  path  making  a  plea  to  different  emo- 
tions. Needless  to  say,  the  rough  and  rocky  road,  the  right 
road,  does  not  make  as  strong  an  appeal  as  the  path  that 
requires  so  much  care  to  travel  safely.  In  this  two-reel 
Patheplay,  released  April  19th,  a  young  and  beautiful  girl  is 
forced  to  choose  between  these  two  paths  and  errs.  The 
story  is  romantic,  dramatic  and  pathetic,  but  does  not  involve 
any  question  of  either  ethics  or  morals.  The  girl,  Jane  Wil- 
son, is  loved  by  Jim  Matthews,  a  young  fisherman.  The  in- 
fluence  of  Bob   Miller,   a   salesman   whose   territory   includes 


Scene  from  "The  Wrong  Road  to  Happiness"  (Patheplay). 

the  fishing  town  wherein  the  story  is  laid,  has  imbued  her 
with  a  desire  to  marry  a  man  who  would  take  her  away 
from  the  quiet  life  of  the  simple  quiet  village  to  the  brighter 
life  of  a  metropolis  which  he  represents.  Jane's  father  forces 
her  to  consent  to  marrying  Jim,  but  on  the  wedding  day, 
when  the  townspeople  are  assembled  for  the  ceremony,  it  is 
found  that  Jane  has  disappeared.  She  makes  her  way  to  the 
big  city,  where  she  marries  the  man  of  her  dreams.  For 
five  long  years  Jane  suffers  silently  from  neglect  that 
amounts  almost  to  desertion.  At  last  she  seeks  proof  of  her 
husband's  deceit,  and  finds  it.  That  night  she  leaves  his 
house  forever.  Her  father  and  Jim,  who  have  never  des- 
paired of  finding  her,  are  at  work  on  the  seashore  one  day 
when  they  find  the  body  of  the  girl  who  chose  "The  Wrong 
Road  to  Happiness."     Don't  forget  the  release  date,  April  19. 


NICHOLAS  POWER  COMPANY  NOTES. 

Owing  to  the  unprecedented  increase  of  business,  the 
Nicholas  Power  Company  has  taken  another  floor  in  the 
Healy  Building,  at  90  Gold  Street,  New  York,  thus  making 
an  area  of  28,000  square  feet  for  the  manufacture  of  the  fa- 
mous Cameragraph.  The  company  reports  a  steadily  in- 
creasing interest  in  the  educational  and  religious  field  for 
motion  pictures  and  this  week  installed  their  latest  No.  6A 
Cameragraph  in  St.  Branden's  Church  at  1525  East  12th 
Street,  Brooklyn.  Father  Hickey  is  an  ardent  advocate  of 
the  moving  picture. 

Lyric  Theater,  Ellendale,  N.  D.,  one  Power's  Xo.  6A,  com- 
plete with  motor  and  new  mechanical  speed  control,  sold 
through  General  Film  Company,  Minneapolis. 

The  Rieverview  Theater.  100th  Street  and  Broadway,  has 
installed  two  Power's  No.  6A,  with  motor  drive.  This  house 
holds  one  thousand  people. 

The  Abbey,  Prospect  Avenue  near  Westchester  Avenue, 
New  York,  has  installed  two  Power's  No.  6A,  with  mbtor 
drive,  through  the  Picture  Theater  Equipment  Company. 


"THE  SHERIFF'S  WIFE." 

An  Indian  never  forgets,  which  was  proven  in  "The 
Sheriff's  Wife,"  a  splendid  Western  dramatic  photoplay 
teaching  righteousness. 

Kindness  ^aved  the  sheriff  and  his  wife,  also  a  sack  of  gold 
which  had  been  left  in  their  care.  Sewani,  an  Indian  girl, 
tries  to  sell  her  wares,  but  is  unsuccessful  until  she  meets 
the  sheriff,  who  purchases  a  pipe  from  her.  This  he  presents 
to  his  wife  as  a  keepsake.  That  afternoon,  "Black  Jake,"  a 
notorious  outlaw,  is  captured  and  lodged  in  jail.  A  bag  of 
gold  is  taken  from  him,  which  the  sheriff  gives  to  his  wife  to 


Scene  from  "The  Sheriff's  Wife"  (Essanay). 

keep  until  the  following  day.  That  night,  two  worthless 
fellows  try  to  steal  the  money.  They  first  capture  the  sheriff, 
take  him  to  a  shed  where  they  bind  him.  Sewani,  not  for- 
getting the  sheriff's  kindness,  hearing  his  cries  for  help, 
frees  him.  The  bandits  are  outwitted  by  the  sheriff's  wife, 
who  hides  in  a  trunk  until  the  bandits  lift  the  cover,  search- 
ing for  the  hidden  gold.  The  sheriff's  wife  covers  them  with 
a  revolver,  until  the  sheriff  returns  with  a  posse  and  the  men 
are  taken  into  custody. 

Julia  Mackley,  as  the  sheriff's  wife,  gives  a  splendid  per- 
formance, while  Arthur  Mackley,  as  the  sheriff,  holds  his 
audience. 

This  production  is  booked  for  release  April  9th. 


NEW  PICTURE  HOUSE  BEING  BUILT. 

H.  H.  Legg,  J.  F.  McCulloch  and  Charles  Miller  recently 
formed  and  organized  the  North  Side  Amusement  Company, 
of  New  Albany,  Ind.  It  is  the  purpose  of  the  new  company 
to  build  and  operate  a  $15,000  moving  picture  and  vaudeville 
house  at  that  city.  The  building  the  new  theater  is  to  be 
located  in  will  have  a  frontage  of  sixty  feet  and  a  depth  of 
120  feet.  The  parquet  floor  will  seat  700  and  the  balcony 
will  accommodate  300.  The  lobby  will  extend  twenty  feet 
into  the  building  from  the  sidewalk.  It  is  Mr.  Legg's  inten- 
tion, who  is  president  of  the  new  organization,  to  give  noth- 
ing but  first-run  pictures  and  clean  vaudeville  acts.  It  is  ex- 
pected that  the  house  will  be  ready  for  business  around 
May  1st. 


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MOTIOGRAPH  SERVICE  DEPARTMENT. 
We  print  herewith  a  cut  of  the  latest  product  of  the  Enter- 
prise Optical  Manufacturing  Company,  the  1013  Model, 
Motor  Driven  Chicago  Approved  Motiograph  machine  which, 
while  in  general  appearance  is  similar  to  the  Motiograph  of 
previous  years,  takes  a  great  step  forward  in  improvements. 


1913  Model,  Motor  Driven  Chicago  Approved  Motiograph. 

The  Motiograph  Company  has  also  had  approved  for  use, 
a  fully  enclosed  type  of  rewind  (as  illustrated),  mounted  on 
metal  covered  board,  with  self-closing  magazine  doors  and 
high  speed  release  gear  crank  handle. 


Motiograph  Rewinder. 

We  are  advised  that  the  Enterprise  Optical  Manufacturing 
Company  is  instituting  a  service  department,  which  has  been 
tried  and  proven  in  the  automobile  industry,  with  the  type- 
writer makers,  sewing  machine  companies,  and  others  who 
cater  to  a  widely  scattered  and  miscellaneous  class  of  users. 

It  will  be  the  purpose  of  the  service  department  to  put  out 
a  force  of  competent  inspectors  and  demonstrators  who  will 
•combine  the  work  of  demonstrating  Motiograph  machines 
with  inspection  of  machines  and  booths  of  all  users  of  the 
Motiograph.  For  this  purpose  the  Enterprise  Optical  Manu- 
facturing Company  is  now  training  a  force  of  men  and  as 
soon  as  they  become  proficient  exhibitors  may  expect  a 
visit.  This  service  will  be  free  and  all  Motiograph  inspectors 
will  carry  proper  credentials. 


MOTIOGRAPH  IN  NEW  SALEM  HOUSE. 
Bernard  M.  Corbett,  of  the  Enterprise  Optical  Manufac- 
turing Company  of  Chicago,  reports  the  sale  and  installation 
of  two  of  the  latest  improved,  1913  model  Motiographs  in  the 
New  Federal  Theater,  at  Salem,  Mass.,  which  opened  its 
doors  to  the  public  for  the  first  time  on  Monday,  March  24th. 
This  new  house  has  a  seating  capacity  of  sixteen  hundred  on 
the  main  floor.  The  building  is  of  brick  and  cement  and  is 
fireproof  throughout.  Mr.  John  Keon  is  manager  and  pro- 
prietor and  is  well  known  as  a  pioneer  of  the  moving  picture 


business  throughout  New  England,  and  on  the  opening  night 
was  the  recipient  of  many  beautiful  floral  pieces,  among 
which  was  an  eight-foot  horse  shoe  from  Salem  Lodge  No  8, 
B.  P.  O.  Elks,  of  which  Mr.  Keon  is  a  charter  member. 
Standing  room  only  has  been  the  order  since   the  opening. 


THE  HISTORICAL  FILM  COMPANY. 

A  newcomer  into  the  film  world  is  the  Historical  Film 
Company,  with  offices  at  1  Madison  Avenue,  New  York,  and 
4  Gerrard  Street,  Shaftesbury  Avenue,  London,  W.  The  pol- 
icy of  the  organization  is  releasing  features  of  three  and  four 
reels  based  on  American  and  English  historical  themes,  for 
sale  on  the  open  markets  and  by  state  rights. 

In  addition,  however,  some  unusual  educational  cinematog- 
raphy is  under  way,  in  conjunction  with  the  great  Eastern 
universities,  to  be  used  in  college  courses  and  for  university 
extension  work.  The  company  is  already  at  work  on  some 
anthropological  work  in  recording  the  dances  and  customs 
of  the  old  and  the  new  generations  of  the  Indians  for  the 
government  records. 


Eustace  Hale  Ball,  General  Manager  Historical  Film  Co. 

The  company  is  under  the  general  management  of  Eustace 
Hale  Ball,  weli  known  in  the  film  world  as  a  prolific  play- 
wright and  director  for  many  companies,  among  which  were 
Reliance,  Solax,  Majestic  and  Eclair.  Mr.  Ball  is  a  Harvard 
graduate  and  is  the  author  of  a  number  of  published  novels 
and  satires.  He  is  the  librarian  of  the  Screen  Club  and  a 
member  of  the  Harvard,  Friars,  Southern  and  other  well- 
known  clubs. 

The  first  of  the  feature  releases  will  be  announced  in  the 
near  future  in  this  magazine.  The  first  educational  record 
feature  was  made  this  week  at  the  Carlisle  Indian  School, 
covering  all  branches  of  the  Federal  Government's  system, 
under  the  personal  direction  of  the  superintendent.  Professor 
M.  Friedman.  Trades  study,  military  evolutions,  native  cu?: 
toms  and  dances,  Indian  plays  and  other  unique  features  of 
the  student  life  were  recorded  for  the  department. 


LUBIN  HAS  "FLOOD"  PICTURE. 
The  Lubin  Manufacturing  Company  will   issue  a  full  reel 
of  the  Dayton  and  Hamilton,  Ohio,  flood  scenes.    These  pic- 
tures are  said  to  be  exceedingly  interesting. 


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THE    MOVING    PICTURE    WORLD 


NEW  ENGLAND. 

TT  was  recently  announced  by  Mayor  Fitzgerald, 
•*■  of  Boston,  after  a  conference  with  ex-Senator 
Powers,  that  he  is  seriously  considering  the  with- 
drawal of  his  objection  to  the  bill  which  proposes 
to  allow  Massachusetts  photoplay  theaters  to  show 
motion  pictures  for  one  hour  before  it  is  necessary 
to  intersperse  five  minutes  of  some  other  form  of 
entertainment.  Under  the  present  law  moving  pic- 
tures cannot  be  displayed  for  more  than  twenty 
consecutive  minutes,  and  not  again  until  five  min- 
utes of  -something  else  have  intervened.  The  Mayor 
finds  that  officials  of  the  Massachusetts  Eye  and 
Ear  Infirmary  believe  that  motion  pictures  are  apt 
to  impair  the  eyesight,  but  when  the  bill  came  up 
for  hearing,  however,  the  doctors  in  question  failed 
to  appear.  The  Mayor  states  that  the  senate  com- 
mittee in  charge  of  this  bill  has  agreed  to  hold  It 
up  until  he  is  able  to  get  some  expert  testimony 
on  the  matter.  Massachusetts  exhibitors  have  every 
reason  to  believe  that  the  "hour  bill"  will  pass, 
thanks  to  the  activity  of  the  Massachusetts  Branch 
of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  Amer- 
ica, in  showing  that  kinematography  is  not  In  the 
least  harmful  to  the  optics  in  its  present  state  of 
mechanical  perfection. 

A  new  incorporation  is  the  United  Theaters,  Inc., 
of  Boston,  a  $50,000  corporation,  with  Lyndon  H. 
Sullivan,  Augustus  L.  Sanborn  and  Warren  N. 
Withington  as  the  promoters.  Moving  picture  the- 
aters are  to  be  operated  by  the  new  concern. 

The  Massachusetts  Chapter  of  the  American  So- 
ciety of  Heating  and  Ventilating  Engineers  went 
on  record,  at  a  dinner  held  at  the  Cafe  Louis,  Bos- 
ton, as  unanimously  in  favor  of  legislation  provid- 
ing for  a  minimum  requirement  of  fifteen  cubic 
feet  per  minute  per  occupant  in  the  ventilation  of 
theaters  and  moving  picture  houses.  The  chapter 
had  as  its  guest  Frank  T.  Chapman,  chairman  of 
the  national  society,  of  New  York  City,  who 
strongly  urged  that  Massachusetts -adopt  some  law 
requiring  a  minimum  ventilating  space  of  fifteen 
cubic  feet,  and  a  minimum  of  four  and  one-third 
square  feet  of  floor  space  per  occupant,  exclusive 
of  passageway.  The  writer  understands  that  the 
discussion  was  with  special  reference  to  the  photo- 
play theaters,  and  that  it  was  partly  as  a  result 
of  a  wish  expressed  by  General  Whitney,  of  the 
Massachusetts  State  Police,  that  some  comprehen- 
sive legislation  be  passed  during  the  present  session 
regulating  the  ventilation  of  photoplay  theaters,  by 
which  the  inspectors  and  district  police  could  be 
definitely  guided  and  controlled.  Mr.  Chapman 
stated  that  when  it  was  taken  into  consideration 
that  in  New  York  City  alone  more  than  300,000 
people  attend  moving  picture  shows  daily,  and  that 
in  Boston  at  least  100,000  people  attend  daily,  the 
vital  necessity  of  proper  .  ventilation  of  photoplay 
theaters  could  not  be  over-emphasized.  Mr.  Chap- 
man stated  that,  in  his  opinion,  very  few  Massa- 
chusetts photoplay  theaters  were  properly  venti- 
lated. The  writer's  informant  stated  that  those  at 
the  dinner  agreed  that  the  laws  of  Massachusetts 
are  very  stringent  with  regard  to  structural  require- 
ments of  the  building  of  operators'  booths,  but  that 
the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  provided  no  definite 
provisions  or  directions  by  which  inspectors  and 
district  police  could  be  guided  with  relation  to  the 
ventilation  of  photoplay  theaters.  It  was  also  re- 
marked at  the  dinner  that  as  a  rule  Boston  picture 
houses  have  a  larger  seating  capacity  than  have 
the  New  York  theaters.  The  World  has  used  much 
space  in  advising  exhibitors  that  ventilation  was 
an  all-important  point  for  the  exhibitors  to  care 
for,  and  it  now  appears  that  those  who  did  not 
heed  the  oft-repeated  warnings  will  now  be  forced 
to  attend  to  the  ventilating  of  their  theaters  by 
law. 

On  Thursday,  March  13th,  the  annual  Auto  Show 
banquet  was  held  at  the  Copley  Square  Hotel,  Bos- 
ton. Among  those  present  were  Mayor  Fitzgerald, 
of  Boston,  and  John  Bunny — you  all  know  who  the 
latter  is! 

E.  F.  Albee's  Keith's  Theater,  Providence,  R.  I., 
will  piny  stock  company  attractions  this  summer 
and  spring,  In  place  of  the  regular  bills  of  vaude- 
ville and  pictures.  April  7th  is  the  date  for  the 
Closing  of  the  latter  program. 

Mayor  White,  of  Ilolyoke,  Mass.,  has  appointed 
a  theatrical  censor  for  his  city,  in  the  person  of 
Marshall  Nickerson,  who  is  very  much  on  the  Job. 

S.  Z.  Poll  is  building  a  theater  in  Springfield, 
Mass.,  thai'  promises  to  be  one  of  the  finest  in  all 
New  England,  devoted  to  vaudeville  and  motion 
picture  programs.  Active  work  on  the  theater  be- 
gins May  1st.  The  theater  will  be  of  steel  con- 
struction, and  the  land  on  which  it  is  to  be  erected 
is  200  by  100  feet'.  The  auditorium  will  be  150  by 
100  feet,  and  the  stage  50  feet  deep  and  60  feet 
wide.  A  seating  capacity  of  2,000  is  called  for 
by  the  plans,  including  one  balcony  and  a  raised 
gallery.      The    house   is   to   be   very    luxuriously    ap- 


pointed and  will  offer  every  modern  convenience  to 
its  patrons. 

H.  I.  Dillenbach,  formerly  manager  of  the  Nel- 
son Theater,  Springfield,  Mass.,  when  this  house 
was  one  of  the  S.  Z.  Poll  chain,  is  now  general 
manager  of  the  Goldstein  Bros.  Amusement  Com* 
pany.  Mr.  Dillenbach  has  a  very  important  posi- 
tion, as  the  Goldstein  enterprises  Include  a  half 
dozen  New  England  theaters  devoted  to  vaudeville 
and  pictures. 

Jeff  Callan,  manager  of  Keith's  Theater,  Lynn, 
Mass.,  reports  that  the  Edison  talking  pictures, 
which  he  showed  in  Lynn  for  the  first  time  March 
10th,  were  the  hit  of  the  year  with  him.  The 
Kinetophone  will  be  continued  Indefinitely. 

Manager  Al  Newhall,  of  the  Comlque  Theater, 
Lynn,  Mass.,  was  forced  to  close  down  his  theater 
for  a  few  days  last  week  on  account  of  a  fire  which 
burned  out  the  wiring  apparatus.  The  house  is 
now  open  again  and  doing  its  usual  capacity  busi- 
ness,  with  good  programs  of  pictures  and  songs. 

William  Hurley,  manager  of  the  Academy  The- 
ater, Lowell,  Mass.,  is  giving  his  patrons  their  fill 
of  feature  pictures. 

Manager  James  Sheehan,  of  the  Lyric  Theater, 
Natick,  Mass.,  has  a  bard  story  to  tell  these  days. 
It  seems  that  Vassar  College  has  forbidden  its  girl 
students  to  patronize  the  moving  picture  theaters 
out  In  Poughkeepsle.  As  the  Lyric  Is  the  nearest 
theater  to  Vassar  College,  this  edict  means  the  loss 
of  much  trade  to  Manager  Sheehan.  The  following 
order  was  issued:  "Vassar  College  students  will 
aid  the  faculty  in  upholding  the  dignity  of  the 
institution  by  refraining  from  attending  vaudeville 
and  picture  exhibitions  in  Poughkeepsle  for  the 
remainder  of  the  term.  Infractions  of  this  rule 
will  not  be  tolerated."  Manager  Sheehan  is  par- 
ticularly put  out,  as  he  had  arranged  to  exhibit 
the  James  K.  Hackett  films,  showing  "The  Pris- 
oner of  Zenda"  for  the  special  enjoyment  of  Vassar 
students.  The  selectmen  of  Wellesley  have  never 
granted  a  license  for  a  photoplay  theater  in  that 
town.     The  Vassar  faculty  is  behind  the  times. 

I.  W.  Smith,  of  Lyncb'B  Theater,  Woonsocket, 
Ft.  I.,  thinks  that  the  Power's  Cameragraph  No.  6-A 
is  Just  about  the  best  ever,  and  has  purchased  two 
of  these  models,  through  the  R.  D.  Marson  Moving 
Picture  Company,  of  Boston.  Mr.  Smith  has  no 
fault  to  find  with  the  business  of  Lynch's  Theater. 

The  action  of  the  finance  committee  of  Stoughton, 
Mass.,  in  authorizing  the  purchase  of  a  motion  pic- 
ture machine  for  installation  in  the  auditorium  of 
a  local  church  was  most  creditable.  The  Stoughton 
News  was  well  pleased,  too,  and  remarked  that 
the  church  people  are  to  be  congratulated  upon  this 
move,  for  the  possibilities  of  the  moving  picture 
are  limitless  as  an  educational   force. 

What  need  is  there  of  traveling  when  one  can 
sit  in  an  opera  chair  and  see  everything,  from  the 
building  of  the  greatest  canal  in  the  world  to  ac- 
tual scenes  from  real  war?  This  opportunity  is 
afforded  in  the  Kinemaeolor  representation  of  "The 
Making  of  the  Panama  Canal"  and  "Actual  Scenes 
of  the  Balkan  War,"  which  came  to  Tremont  Tem- 
ple, Boston,  on  March  17th,  for  a  run  of  five  weeks. 

Earle  B.  Tinker,  who  operates  the  Dreamland 
Theater,  Caribou,  Me.,  has  many  good  words  to  say 
of  Manager  Below  of  the  Boston  offices  of  the  Mu- 
tual Film  Corporation.  During  the  recent  strike 
on  the  Bangor  &  Aristook  Railroad  it  was  impos- 
sible to  ship  the  Dreamland's  Mutual  program  by 
rail.  Manager  Eslow  shipped  the  reels  by  parcels 
post,  and  the  Caribou  house  was  not  at  all  incon- 
venienced by  the  strike.  The  Dreamland  is  doing 
a  very  nice  business,  as  are  the  various  theaters 
operated  by   the  Tinker  motion   picture  enterprises. 

Captain  Foran  has  organized  in  Boston  and  other 
cities  a  club,  to  be  known  as  the  Adventurers'  Club. 
In  order  to  qualify  as  a  member  each  applicant 
must  give  his  experience  as  a  war  correspondent. 
E.  H.  Calvert,  leading  man  for  Essanay  films,  is 
one  of  the  very  few  moving  picture  men  to  qualify. 
Mr.  Calvert  served  during  the  Spanish- American 
War  as  correspondent  for  a  Boston  paper. 

On  account  of  the  Massachusetts  laws  regulating 
film  exchanges,  which  forbid  any  housing  of  films 
in  any  quantity  in  the  business  district,  and  then 
only  in  certain  specified  locations,  the  Kinemaeolor 
Company  of  America  has  finally  decided  to  estab- 
lish its  New  England  distributing  plant  in  Provi- 
dence, R.  I.,  and  not  in  Boston,  as  originally 
planned.  Up  to  this  time  the  New  York  offices  of 
the  Kinemaeolor  Company  have  handled  its  New 
England  customers.  Business  has  increased  greatly 
in  this  territory,  but  the  Kinemaeolor  folks  could 
not  find  suitable  headquarters  in  Boston  that  would 
pass  the  authorities.  Providence,  which  is  only  one 
hour's  train  ride  from  Boston,  was  chosen,  and 
offices  are  now  being  fitted  up  at  509  Westminster 
Street,   in  the  very  heart  of  that  city. 

William  Fox's  new  theater  at  Bridgeport.  Conn., 
devoted  to  vaudeville  and  photoplays,  opened  to 
excellent  business.  This  house  prom-jCS  to  be  a 
winner  under  Fox  management.  A  new  Power's 
<  .iineragraph   No.   6-A   is  projecting   the  pictures. 

The  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  of  Worces- 
ter, Mass.,  has  installed  a  moving  picture  maehlne 
and  will  give  regular  photoplay  programs  to  stimu- 
late interest  among  its  members.  No  better  means 
could  be  employed.  The  machine  is  a  Power's,  and 
was  purchased  through  the  Charles  E.  Schneider 
Company,   of  Springfield,   Mass, 

Five    women,    representing    the    National    Congress 


of  the  Mothers'  and  Fathers'  Club  and  the  child 
welfare  committee,  recently  made  a  thorough  in- 
vestigation of  motion  picture  theaters  in  Boston, 
Mass.  A  lengthy  report  was  issued,  which  is  a 
complete  victory  for  the  theaters,  ami  which  shows 
that  fairness  is  a  characteristic  of  these  organiza- 
tions. The  report  stated  that  much  of  an  educa- 
tional value  was  found  in  the  pictures  that  were 
seen   in   Boston   theaters. 

The  Star  Theater,  Boston,  has  cut  out  the  vaude- 
ville from  Its  programs,  and  is  now  showing  a  first- 
run  service  from  the  R.  D.  Marson  Moving  Picture 
Company  of  Boston,   and  illustrated  songs. 

On  many  occasions  these  columns  have  told  of 
the  really  outrageous  paintings  and  banners  used 
by  some  of  the  Boston  moving  picture  houses,  in 
the  belief  that  sensational  paintings  would  bring 
In  increased  patronage.  The  writer  was  on  the 
right  track,  as  this  week  has  surely  demonstrated, 
when  he  hazarded  the  guess  that  the  city  authori- 
ties would  take  a  hand  in  the  game  before  very 
long.  Scenes  of  suicide,  murder  and  robbery  will 
no  longer  be  allowed  to  decorate  the  exterior  of 
Boston  photoplay  theaters,  according  to  the  order 
issued  by  Mayor  John  F.  Fitzgerald  this  week.  In  a 
letter  to  the  management  of  these  houses  the 
Mayor  declared  the  effect  to  be  disastrous  to  the 
morals  of  young  children,  and  ordered  that  no 
banner  be  displayed  until  his  approval  had  been 
obtained.    The  letter  reads  as  follows: 

Your  attention  is  called  to  the  continued 
and  growing  practice  of  displaying  painted 
pictorial  banners  outside  the  entrances  of 
many  moving  picture  halls  in  this  city  that 
are  licensed  by  me.  These  banners,  etc., 
depict  scenes  of  robbery,  safe -breaking, 
stage  robberies,  murder,  suicide  and  other 
crimes,  with  the  result  that  the  minds  of 
the  passers-by,  particularly  children,  are 
excited. 

In  view  of  the  effect  exercised  upon  the 
morals  of  the  community  by  advertising  of 
this  character,  I  have  this  day  ordered 
that  notice  be  sent  to  the  management  of 
every  moving  picture  hall,  prohibiting  the 
display  of  any  painted  banner  at  the  en- 
trance of  these  places  of  amusement  unless 
the  sketch  or  drawing  of  such  banner  has 
been  submitted  to  me  and  approved. 

A  violation  of  this  order  will  be  deemed 
a  sufficient  cause  for  the  suspension  or 
revocation  of  your  license. 
There  can  be  no  doubt  His  Honor  has  the  right 
of  the  matter,  and  that  conditions  are  as  he  rep- 
resents. It  will  do  the  industry  a  great  deal  of 
good  to  have  some  of  the  Boston  photoplay  the- 
aters clean  bouse  in  this  respect.  It  is  a  real  pity 
that  this  method  of  advertising  found  its  way  into 
this  city,  as  it  Is  about  the  only  point  wherein  the 
theaters  are  not  up  to  the  mark.  The  day  follow- 
ing the  Mayor's  edict  the  Boston  Journal  came  out 
with  an  editorial  called  "The  Mayor  and  the 
'Movies.'  "  The  Journal  says  it  is  inclined  to 
view  the  Mayor's  attitude  with  much  suspicion, 
because  they  feel  that  his  action,  which  at  first 
would  appear  to  be  a  bona  fide  endeavor  to  protect 
the  young  from  the  criminal  suggestiveness  of  the 
lurid  banner  or  poster,  is  really  "a  hastily  thought- 
out  reform  play."  The  Journal  then  goes  on  to 
Bay  Just  exactly  what  these  columns  have  often 
remarked  on  this  matter,  viz. :  if  the  banners  are 
bad,  the  show  Inside  is  worse.  This  Is,  In  a  nut- 
shell, what  the  Journal  takes  half  a  column  to  say. 
The  truth  of  the  matter  lies  in  the  fact  that  the 
banners  do  not,  by  any  stretch  of  imagination,  truly 
represent  the  photoplays  they  purport  to  portray. 
Here's  a  sentence  from  the  Journal's  editorial, 
showing  the  attitude  of  that  paper  on  this  matter: 
"If  the  flat,  lifeless  advertisement  is  suggestive, 
how  much  more  subversive  of  morals  is  the  extra- 
ordinary mechanical  Ingenuity  of  the  mobile  drama 
thrown  on  the  screen?"  However,  the  editorial 
Btates,  It  does  not  believe  that  motion  pictures  do 
more  harm  than  good,  and  believes  that  there  is 
evident  an  ever-increasing  tendency  on  the  part  of 
the  manufacturers  to  raise  the  moral  tone  of  the 
productions.  The  article  closes  by  saying,  "For  the 
time  being  the  matter  can  be  left  in  their  (the 
exhibitors')    hands." 

All  Boston  theaters,  including  moving  picture 
houses,  were  closed  on  Friday,  March  21st.  in  ob- 
servation of  Good  Friday,  from  12  to  3  p.  m.  This 
was  in  response  to  a  request  by  Mayor  Fitegerald. 

Moving  pictures  of  flies  and  mosquitoes,  showing 
them  carrying  typhoid  and  malarial  germs,  will  be 
a  feature  of  a  health  talk  by  W.  H.  Watters, 
M.  D,,  professor  of  pathology  in  Boston  University 
school  of  medicine,  at  Evans  Memorial  Building, 
Boston,   on  Tuesday.   March  25th. 

Massachusetts  exhibitors  bestirred  themselves 
when  John  Bunny  appeared  at  Keith's  Theater, 
Boston,  last  week,  and  started  a  subscription  for 
the  great  Vitagraph  star.  Mr.  Bunny  was  pre- 
sented with  a  loving  cup,  with  the  inscrlpl  I  n 
"Presented  to  John  Bunny  with  the  best'  wishes  of 
New  England  photoplay  exhibitors,  March  15th, 
1913,  The  presentation  took  place  at  a  Boston  hotel 
following    a    general    good    time.      The    presentation 

speech    was    made    by    Mr.    Joseph    Mack,    president    of 

the  Massachusetts  Branch  ox  the  Exhibitors'  League. 
Mr.  Mack,  with  his  usual  silver-tongued  oratory, 
did  credit  to  the  exhibitors.  Mr.  Bunny  was  en- 
tirely carried  away  by  the  gift,  but  later  rendered 
bis  thanks  in  his  Inimitable  manner.  All  those 
present  voted  that  they  had  ha.]  "a  great  time,  and 
one  long  to  be   remembered." 


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Raymond  W.  Everhard  is  now  treasurer  of 
Keith's  Hippodrome  Theater.  Portland.  Me.,  Mr. 
Eberhard  was  formerly  treasurer  of  the  Lynn  The- 
ater,   Lynn.    Mass. 

H.  F.  Gatchell  reports  that  the  new  theater  at 
South  Portland,  Me.,  has  been  doing  capacity  busi- 
ness since  its  opening  performance,  March  10th. 
Mr.  G'atehell  is  managing  the  theater,  which  plays 
a  straight  program  of  photoplays. 

I.  M.  Mosher,  manager  of  Keith's  Hippodrome 
Theater.  Portland,  Me.,  announces  tbat  he  is  now 
in  line  for  the  Edison  talking  pictures,  as  J.  H. 
Blair,  of  the  Edison  company,  has  installed  the 
apparatus.  The  coming  of  this  novelty  has  been 
heavily  advertised  by  Manager  Mosher,  who  ex- 
pects to  cash  in  on  the  proposition.  The  Hippo- 
drome is  doing  a  very  nice  line  of  business,  with 
vaudeville  and  pictures. 

The  Hudson  Theater,  South  Main  Street,  Spring- 
field, Mass.,  should  be  ready  for  its  opening  about 
April  1st,  as  the  house  is  being  rapidly  pushed  to 
completion.  This  theater  is  to  be  one  of  the  best 
la  Springfield  and  will  have  a  Beating  capacity  of 
nearly  1.000.  It  is  of  fireproof  construction  and  is 
first'  class  and  thoroughly  modern  in  every  way. 
John  Hudson,  formerly  of  the  Globe  Theater,  of 
that  city,  will  be  general  manager  of  the  theater 
bearing  his  name.  When  it  is  taken  into  consid- 
eration tbat  Mr.  Hudson  Is  thoroughly  familiar 
with  what  Springfield  theatergoers  demand  in  the 
way  of  vaudeville  and  pictures,  and  also  that  it 
has  a  fine  location,  it  is  easy  to  predict  tbat  the 
Hudson  Theater  should  be  a  prosperous  house. 

The  Ardell  Theater  of  Springfield,  Mass.,  is  now 
being  torn  down.  Tbis  house  was  one  of  the  old 
store  show  type  of  photoplay  theater,  and  could  not 
withstand  the  competition  of  the  larger  and  better 
photoplay  houses,  which  give  much  more  value  for 
the  money. 

The  Premier  Theater,  Fall  River,  Mass.,  reopened 
to  the  public  on  March  24,  so  changed  for  the 
better  that  no  one  would  recognize  tbe  new  house 
as  the  old  Premie.  Very  extensive  alterations  have 
been  made.  The  policy  is  vaudeville  and  pictures, 
as  usual. 

The  Columbia  Theater,  Taunton,  Mass.,  is  now  in 
the  hands  of  painters  and  carpenters,  who  are  mak- 
ing some  needed  improvements.  It  will  reopen  very 
shortly,  playing  to  vaudeville  and  pictures,  as 
formerly. 

Hartford,  Conn.,  will  soon  have  another  theater, 
built  for  vaudeville  and  pictures,  as  a  house  is  now 
under  construction  in  this  city. 

A  recent  incorporation  is  the  Inter-City  Amuse- 
ment Company  of  Brockton,  Mass.  Andrew  Gazneau, 
Amos  M.  McLean  and  John  F.  Casey  are  the  pro- 
moters, who  incorporated  for  $25,000. 

Symphony  Hall,  Boston,  was  crowded  to  the  limit 
on  March  17,  when  tbe  first  presentation  in  America 
of  the  historic  motion  picture  "Life  of  St.  Patrick," 
was  given.  In  addition  to  the  descriptive  lecture, 
which  was  delivered  by  Peter  S.  McNally,  appropri- 
ate music  was  rendered. 

Charles  E.  Schneider,  known  to  all  the  New  Eng- 
land trade  as  a  moving  picture  man,  bas  moved 
from  one  side  of  Main  Street,  Springfield.  Mass.. 
to  the  other,  and  is  now  located  at  Number  257. 
vroong  other  things,  Mr.  Schneider  is  now  agent  for 
'oiver's  Machines,  and  reports  excellent  business, 
including  his  Lyric  Theater,  that  gives  programs  of 
quality  photoplays. 

Mayor  Dennison,  of  Springfield,  Mass.,  has  made 
a  reduction  in  the  price  of  licenses  for  photoplay 
theaters.  Fifty  dollars  is  now  the  price  for  moving 
picture  bouses,  Instead  of  $75,  the  former  price. 

Marion  Leonard  is  still  a  great  favorite  with  tbe 
photoplay  fans  This  was  shown  when  the  Monopol 
feature  "As  in  a  Looking  Glass,"  was  featured  in 
ti.p  star  Tbeafei\  Boston,  this  week. 

Messrs.  Cunney  ft  Hodgkins,  of  Boston,  have  se- 
cured n  five-years'  lease  of  Sheedy's  Theater.  Brock- 
ton, Mass..  and  have  closed  tbe  house  down  to  make 
some  needed  renovations  and  improvements.  The 
theater  will  have  new  seats  before  it  is  reopened.  It 
is  understood  tbat  the  lease  gives  Cunney  &  Hodgkins 
the  privilege  of  purchasing  the  theater  after  one 
year  if  they  desire.  Pictures  and  illustrated  songs 
is  to  be  the  policy.  There  is  no  reason  why  this 
theater  should  not  prosper  under  the  proper  man- 
agement. Mr.  Charles  Petford,  the  former  manager 
of  Sheedy's        tf  ted  a  position  at  Woonsochet, 

R.  I.,  where  he  will  take  charge  of  the  Woonsoekct 
Opera  House,  which  plays  pictures  and  songs. 
Manager  Petford  hears  the  reputation  of  being  a 
eanable  worker. 

John  Mori  U  >    officer  at  the  Unique  Theater. 

Washington  Street.  Boston,  was  arrested  by  do- 
tectives    fron  iters    last    Saturday,    charged 

with  the  theft  of  $23  worth  of  admission  tickets. 
Manager  Alden  Washburn,  of  the  Unique,  is  most 
enthusiastic  over  the  film  service  he  secures  from 
the  n.  D.  Mason  Moving  Picture  Company  of  Boston. 
and  Is  doing  tbe  business  with  this  program  and 
illustrated  songs.  Mr.  Washburn  is  also  tbe  secre- 
tary of  the  Massachusetts  branch  of  the  Exhibitors' 
League. 

Matt.  Saunders,  formerly  in  charge  of  a  Wilkes- 
Barrc  theater,  bas  been  transferred  to  the  Plaza 
Theater,  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  where  be  is  making 
good  with  large  hills  of  vaudeville  and  pictures. 

On  Sunday  Digbt,  March  30.  the  Majestic  Theater. 
Eoston,  a  "legitimate"  theater,  will  present  tbe 
moving  picture,  "Life  of  St.  Patrick."  which  will 
be  lectured  upon  by  Peter  S.  McNally.  Prices  will 
tie  twenty-five  and  fifty  cents. 

Manager   Jacob    I.owrie,    of    the    Beacon    Theater, 


Boston,  is  often  out  of  town  these  days.  No  one 
knows  Just  where  he  is,  but  it  is  safe  to  say  that 
the  astute  Jake  is  looking  for  "propositions,"  which 
is  only  another  way  of  saying  tbat  before  long  the 
folks  that  operate  the  Beason  will  add  another  house 
or  two,  to  their  growing  chain  of  theaters,  all  of 
which  are  under  Mr.  Lowrie's  able  guidance. 

The  Massachusetts  Branch  of  tbe  Exhibitors' 
League  of  America  has  opened  its  new  Boston  bead- 
quarters,  at  25  La  Grange  street.  The  first  showing 
of  advance  releases  at  headquarters  was  made  by 
the  General  Film  Company,  on  Monday,  March 
24.  The  following  day  Universal  films  were 
shown.  The  headquarters  Is  a  great  step  forward 
for  the  Massachusetts  Branch,  and,  witb  its  manj 
undoubted  conveniences,  should  be  an  added  in- 
centive for  every  live  exhibitor  in  this  territory 
to  become  a  member. 

On  Monday,  March  31,  the  Boston  offices  of  the 
Mutual  Film  Corporation,  took  on  another  first-run 
house,  the  Star  Tbeater,  of  Boston.  The  house  was 
landed  by  G'eorge  I.  Appleby,  the  Mutual's  well- 
known  salesman.  The  Star  contracted  for  first- 
run  service  with  three  changes  each  week.  The 
R.  D.  Marson  Moving  Picture  Company  had  been 
serving  the  Star. 

The  trade  learned,  with  sincere  regret,  of  the 
death  of  John  Kopp,  formerly  an  operator  at  the 
Eagle  Theater,  Boston.  Mr.  Kopp  died  suddenly 
on  March  24. 

A  campaign  to  exterminate  the  fly  has  been 
started  by  the  joint  boards  of  trade"  of  Maiden, 
Everett  and  Medford,  Mass.  The  boards  of  health 
of  tbe  three  cities  have  been  notified,  and  are  plan- 
ning the  best  methods  of  reaching  this  end.  Mov- 
ing pictures  exhibitions  are  to  be  tbe  main  agency. 
Arthur  K.  Peck,  the  lecturer,  gave  bis  final  travel 
talks  at  Tremont  Temple,  Boston,  this  week.  Mov- 
ing pictures  of  Italy  were  the  attraction,  with  prices 
up  to  one  dollar. 

Tbe  New  England  Theatrical  Booking  Agency, 
Inc.,  Boston,  has  incorporated  for  $5,000,  with 
Herbert  A.  Kenny,  Andrew  F.  Fitzpatrick  and  Peter 
Daly  as   the  promoters. 

Mayor  John  F.  Fitzgerald  of  Boston,  has  a  plan 
for  an  island  in  the  Charles  River  Basin,  with 
pavilions,  bandstands  and  last,  but  not  least, 
moving   picture   theaters. 

Superintendent  George  I.  Clapp,  of  the  Woburn, 
Mass.,  public  schools,  has  recommended  to  the 
local  school  board,  that  a  moving  picture  ma- 
chine be  purchased,  at  a  cost  of  $300,  to  en- 
hance the  work  of  teaching  history  and  geography 
to  the  children.  The  writer  understands  tbat  there 
is  every  possibility  that  this  plan  will  go  through. 
Theatrical  Stage  Employes'  Union  11,  Boston, 
voted  ti-is  week  to  send  delegates  to  the  Interna- 
tional Convention  in  Seattle,  in  July  next.  Seven 
new   members   were  initiated. 

Tbe  Ministers1  Association  and  Sunday  School 
Workers,  of  Lawrence.  Mass.,  are  determined,  if 
possible,  to  make  tbat  city  strictly  observe  the 
Sabbath.  These  people  have  appealed  to  Mayor 
Scanlon  to  stop  the  exhibitions  of  moving  pictures 
and  vaudeville  shows.  Tbe  mayor  has  announced 
that  he  will  meet  the  protesting  citizens  and  will 
hear  what  they  have  to  say  on  the  subject.  For 
some  time  past  Sunday  shows  have  been  the  regular 
thing  at  Lawrence,  tbe  great  majority  of  which 
were   moving   picture   exhibitions. 

Business  is  brisk  at  Marcus  Loew's  new  Boston 
theater,  the  St.  James.  Tbe  regulation  Loew  show 
of  vaudeville  and  pictures  is  given.  A  feature  of 
the  program  is  tbe  Song  Demonstrators'  Contest, 
when  the  music  publishers  present  tbeir  now  songs. 
Pbe  audience  is  the  judge,  and  the  song  receiving 
1  oosl  applause  wins  the  prize— a  loving  cup. 
The  Boston  "Globe"  editorially  comments  on  Dr. 
Hall  Edwards'  remarks  at  the  Internationa)  Con- 
gress of  Physiotherapy,  now  in  session  :ti  I '.til  in, 
Germany.  Dr.  Hall  explains  the  value  of  tbe  kine- 
matographic  views  of  the  digestive  organs  of  the 
human  system  at  work.  There  is  no  doubt  hut  th.it 
moving  pictures  of  tbis  nature  would  do  more  to 
promote  health  in  tbis  country  than  all  the  scholarly 
lectures  on   hygiene. 

On  Saturday  night,  March  20,  the  Huh  Theater, 
Boston,  Mass.,  came  to  the  end  of  a  prosperous 
career  as  a  vaudeville  and  picture  house,  as  the 
theater  bas  been  purchased,  and  will  be  used  as  a 
Yiddish  drama  house.  A  purse  of  gold  was  pre- 
sented lo  Mr.  Mack,  the  former  manager,  by  his 
friends  in  the  trade,  at  tbe  Hub  Theater  this  week, 
as  well  as  a  large  cut  glass  loving  cup  by  the 
Fusileers.    a   well-known   Boston   organization. 

The  Mutual  Film  Corporation,  of  Boston,  has 
il  a  large  portion  of  the  new  Walker-Gordon 
Building,  1 106  Boy  Is  ton  street.  ISoston.  where  it 
will  have  its  offices,  and  show  all  advance 
This  is  a  brand  new  building  in  tbe  residential 
trict.  Sin-h  a  location  as  this  was  made  imperative 
by  the  city  authorities,  who  refuse  to  allow  films 
to  be  stored  in  the  crowded  business  section. 

George    1.    Appleby,    of   the    Boston    offices   of   the 

Mutual    Film    Corporation,    announces    that    tie    has 

is    Tbeater,    Taunton. 

and  the  s<enic  Theater,  of  Haverhill,  both  of  which 

will  exhibit  Mutual  service. 

John  F.  Royal,  press  a^'-nr  for  the  various  Keith 
theaters  of  Boston,  has  anager 

of   Keith's   Columbia    Thea  1         snati,    Ohio. 

The  new  Empress  Theater,   Di 

■    public  on  Monday,  March  24,  .with  a  big  pro- 
of     vaudeville     and     pictures.     This     theater. 

i_-     fully     1,400     people,     is     built     on     the     most 
1         11      plan     of    eonsti  11  [Is     one    of    tbe 


most  beautiful  theaters  in  Connecticut.  It  is  under 
the  direction  of  Chris.  O.  Brown.  Admission  prices 
are  10,  20,  30c.  On  opening  day,  Mr.  Brown  enter- 
tained a  party  of  friends  at  the  theater,  most  of 
them  coming  from  New  York. 

S.  Z.  Poli  has  decided  to  switch  his  vaudeville 
and  picture  theater  at  Springfield,  Mass.,  over  to 
stock  company  attractions  on  April  7.  This  is 
earlier  than  usual,  but  the  theater  will  revert  to 
tbe  photoplays  before  ve/*y  long. 

It  is  understood  that  the  stock  company  attrac- 
tions tbat  were  holding  forth  at  the  North  Adams, 
Mass.,  Theater,  did  not  prove  at  all  profitable,  and 
that  vaudeville  and  photoplays  will  soon  be  the 
attractions. 

Mrs.  Martha  BufBngton,  wife  of  the  late  Claude 
Buffington,  an  actor,  who  died  in  Lynn.  Ma 
lately,  as  a  result  of  a  fall  on  the  sta^e  of  the 
Olympia  Theater,  Lynn.,  has  filed  suit  for  $15,000 
against  the  owners  of  this  vaudeville  and  picture 
house. 

Tbe  Premier  Theater,  Fall  River.  Mass..  re- 
opened to  the  public  on  Sunday,  March  23.  for  the 
first  time  since  being  burned  out.  A  regulation  bill 
of  vaudeville  and  pictures  was  given,  and  business 
was  of  tbe  capacity  order.  The  house  has  been  put 
into  good  shape  again,  ami  bears  no  sitrus  of  its 
recent  fire. 

Manager  Dean,  of  the  Hartford  Theater,  Hart- 
ford, Conn.,  gave  a  free  entertainment  one  after- 
noon last  week.  The  special  guests  were  the  100 
odd  members  of  the  General  Assembly,  who  were 
initiated  into  just  what  a  Sunday  evening  picture 
show  consisted  of.  Fred  P.  Dean  was  anxious  that 
the  legislators  should  realize  just  how  Innocent  and 
instructive  is  the  ordinary  Sunday  photoplay  show, 
and  from  every  report,  he  succeeded  admirably. 
Manager  Dean  deserves  the  appreciation  of  Con- 
necticut exhibitors  for  this  special  matinee,  as  there 
Is  nothing  like  showing  the  legislators  what  is 
what! 

Frank  A.  Keeney,  whose  father  died  recently, 
leaving  behind  him  a  very  valuable  estate,  has  de- 
cided to  Increase  his  theatrical  holdings.  Mr. 
Keeney  announces  that  he  will  open,  from  time  to 
time,  more  theaters,  to  be  devoted  to  vaudeville 
and  pictures.  In  addition  to  several  New  York 
theaters,  Mr.  Keeney  owns  houses  in  Bridgeport 
and   New  Britain,   Conn. 

Sarah  Bernhardt,  in  the  "Queen  Elizabeth" 
motion  pictures,  is  still  very  popular  with  the  public 
of  this  section.  Poll's  Theater,  Springfield,  Mass., 
exhibited  them  during  tbe  week  of  March  23,  and 
had  but  little  difficulty  in  playing  to  capacity 
houses. 

Joseph  Spero,  special  representative  of  tbe  Mutual 
Film  Corporation,  has  finished  his  work  connected 
with  the  opening  of  the  Springfield,  Mass.,  office  of 
this  concern.     Mr.   Spero   is  a   system  expert. 

The  City  officials  of  Lowell,  Mass.,  believe  that 
the  judicious  use  of  moving  pictures  will  increase 
the  efficiency  of  the  police  department  of  their  city. 
Accordingly,  motion  pictures,  showing  the  various 
phases  of  the  duties  of  policemen  are  projected. 
Law.  medicine,  protection  and  civic  duty  are  to  be 
taught  the  Lowell  officers,   via  the  pbotoplav. 

HENRY. 


ILLINOIS. 

i-pHE  ten-cent  admission  in  Decatur  was  short-lived. 
1  Manager  Sigfried  of  tbe  Bijou,  raised  the  price 
from  five  cents,  but  evidently  found  it  unsatisfactory 
and  reduced  it  with  tbe  announcement  that  despite 
the  lower  rate,  there  would  be  no  change  in  the 
policy  inaugurated  with  the  ten-cent  show. 

What's  in  a  name?  Some  Illinois  managers  evi- 
dently think  there  is  everything,  for  Manager 
Thomas  Prosser,  of  St.  David,  is  willing  to  discard 
ibe  Lyric's  title  in  favor  of  Dreamland.  Boyle 
Brothers,  at  Mattoon,  also  pondered  over  tbe  matter 
and  conducted  a  week's  contest  with  a  $5  goldpiece 
as  a  prize  for  tbe  person  who  could  offer  the  best 
substitute  for  the  name  Lyric.  S.  E.  Hurst's  new 
house  at  Hillsboro  bas  been  christened  the  Gem  in 
a  contest. 

Lnmann  C.  Mann.  lecturer,  bas  been  booking  the 
Ambrosio  feature,   "Satan/'  through  Illinois. 

J.  N.  Petera.  of  the  Star  Tbeater  at  Watseka, 
and  Harry  Dawson,  of  Milford,  have  opened  a  mov- 
ing picture  show  in  the  Thompson  Building  at  Mil- 
ford.     Mrs.   Grace  Gothard   is  singer. 

W.  H.  Becker,  63  years  old,  of  Chicago,  who  was 
connected  witb  the  Progress  Motion  Picture  Com- 
pany, was  found  dead  March  2  at  his  room  in  the 
Plaza  Hotel  at  Champaign.  His  death  was  at- 
tributed to  heart  disease.  He  bad  been  taking  and 
exhibiting   some   pictures   in   Champaign   and   Frbana. 

Manager  S.  E.  Hurst,  of  the  new  Gem  at  Hillsboro, 
has  found  the  inauguration  of  Saturday  matinees 
profitable. 

Ms>    Henri    G.    AJvord,    pianist,    of   Kansas    City, 
bas  been  engaged   to  play  tbe  pictures  at  the  1 
Theater  in   Champaign. 

Moving  pictures  of  the  meeting  of  the  department 
council  of  the  Patriarch   Militants,    a  division   of   the 
Independent   Order   of   Odd    Fellows,    tnken    last    fall 
at    Galeshurg,    are    being    shown    in    Illino 
.1  ■•  e   an    espei     ■  to   lodire   meml 

A   new  use  for  the  industrial   movl  has 

bees    witnessed   in   Illinois — f";  rable 

..n    for    a    fa     ■  cural 

implement,    known    as    the    Baird    corn-husking    ma- 

■  ■  ly    been     Invented    and    is    hi  truly 

spoken    of    by    agricultural    exp 


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THE    MOVING    PICTURE    WORLD 


are  seeking  the  best  offer  from  cities  desiring 
factories.  Obviously  this  machine  con  he  demon- 
strated but  a  few  mouths  each  rear,  Thej  had 
films  made  and  can  demonstrate  to  any  Chamber  of 
Commerce  that  there  is  a  future  for  its  manufacture. 
David  Mitchell  has  moved  his  picture  Bbow  at 
Farmer  City  into  the  building  which  be  recently 
purchased  and  remodeled. 

The  unpany   Is  said   to  be   assured    the 

contract  for  taking  pictures  of  the  famous  watch 
factories  at  Elgin.  A  few  hundred  feet  of  film  were 
recently  made  to  be  demonstrated  to  the  officials 
of  the  company. 

<;.  M.  Lnttrell.  of  the  Majestic,  at  Jacksonville.  Is 
getting  some  good  publicity  by  furnishing  Interesting 
items  about  moving  pictures  to  the  Courier  of  that 
city. 

The  Monogram  Theater  at  West  Chicago,  fs  now 
operating  Tuesday,  Thursday  and  Saturday  nights 
and  .Sunday  afternoon. 

A  machine  and  sis  reels  of  films  were  destroyed 
by  fire  recently  at  the  New  Palace  Theater  at 
Nokomis.  causing  a  loss  of  about  $1,000.  In  addition 
about  $300  damage  was  done  to  the  building. 
Manager  C.  J.  Law  purchased  a  new  machine  and 
reopened  the  show. 

orge  Gaakill,  moving  picture  theater  manager  of 
Lewistown,  is  a  candidate  for  city  clerk. 

With  new  lighting  system,  new  chairs,  new  cur- 
tain and  new  decorations,  the  remodeled  Gem  at 
Macomb  reopened  March  7.  A  band  and  orchestra 
concert  was  given. 

The  Tazewell  County  grand  jury  reported  that  it 
fonnd  inadequate  exits  at  the  Celestial,  Dreamland 
and  Idylhour  theaters  in  Pekin. 

The  Remington  Theater  Company,  of  Kankakee, 
has  been  Incorporated,  with  a.  capital  stock  of 
$42,000.  to  do  a  general  theatrical  business.  This 
is  the  company  which  will  erect  a  new  vaudeville 
house.  The  incorporators  are:  Sidney  Stein,  Samuel 
Spitzer  and  Charles  Rudolph. 

The  new  Princess  Theater  has  been  opened  at  113 
East  Main  Street,  Galesburg,  by  W.  H.  Sullivan, 
Jr.,  and  James  A.  Johnson.  It  Is  a  modern  house, 
being  built  with  a  view  to  roominess,  sanitation 
and  beauty.  A  three-reel  show  will  be  given,  with 
an  admission  of  five  cents  for  matinees  and  ten 
cents  for  evening  shows. 

The  new  Aurora  Theater  on  Stolp's  Island,  in 
Aurora,  will  be  the  largest  motion  picture  theater 
in  the  city,  seating  600.  It  will  be  constructed  so 
that  it  may  be  changed  into  a  vaudeville  house  if 
desired.  William  Mullen,  who  is  now  running  tbe 
Aurora  Theater  in  River  Street,  baa  taken  a  five- 
year  lease  on  the  new  place,  and  expects  to  open 
it  about  May  1. 

Jndge  Morgan,  of  Pana.  fined  O.  M.  Otloe  $20 
and  costs,  for  operating  his  theater  on  Sunday.  The 
case  was  appealed  to  the  Christian  County  Circuit 
Court'.  The  City  Council  has  amended  a  local  ordi- 
nance so  that  it  prohibits  Sunday  shows. 

By  a  vote  of  8  to  5,  members  of  the  city  council 
at  Champaign,  decided  that  the  question  of  Sunday 
shows  was  not  one  of  public  policy,  and  that  it 
should  not  go  on  tbe  ballot  at  the  spring  election. 
Nearly  one  hundred  persons  were  present  at  the 
session  of  the  city  council  when  tbe  matter  came  up. 
Attorney  H.  L.  Jones,  for  the  petitioners,  announced 
that  the  matter  would  be  taken  before  the  Supreme 
Court. 

Manager  Sboaff,  of  the  Shoaff  Opera  House,  at 
Paris,  recently  announced  an  educational  program 
In  tbe  interest  of  the  churches,  missionary  societies, 
clubs  and  schools,  but  was  disappointed  in  the  worn 
films  he  received  and  cancelled  the  last  two  shows. 
He  invited  every  person  present  to-be  his  guest  at 
a  meritorious  performance  later.  Tbe  Lyric,  at  Mor- 
rison, and  Superintendent  Weaver,  of  the  schools  of 
that  city  have  co-operated,  and  the  theater  will  give 
educational  films  free  every  Saturday  afternoon  to 
the  school  children.  As  nearly  as  possible  the  films 
will  supplement  the  regular  school  course  in  botany, 
natural  history  and  geography.  The  Oak  Park  high 
school  is  trying  out  the  stereopticon  in  teaching 
Latin. 

The  Time  Amusement  Company,  of  Chicago,  has 
been  incorporated,  with  a  capital  stock  of  $2,500,  to 
operate  and  conduct  theaters  and  amusements.  The 
incorporators  are:  Meta  M.  Henning,  Frank  0.  Natt 
and  William  Falley. 

The  moving  picture  theater  owners  of  Rock  ford 
started  one  of  the  most  sensible  campaigns  for 
Sundav  shows  that  has  ever  been  conducted.  As 
soon  as  a  majority  of  the  registered  voters  of  the 
city  has  signed  petitions  asking  for  a  legal  ex- 
pression at  the  polls  the  photoplay  houses  united 
in  a  two-column  advertisement  in  one  of  the  local 
papers.  This  was  in  the  form  of  a  pledge  to  the 
people  of  Rockford  and  was  signed  with  fac- 
similes of  the  managers'  autographs.  In  addition 
to  promising  to  obey  all  laws — and  to  go  farther 
— in  the  matter  of  hours,  order,  sanitation  and 
safetv,  they  promised:  "We  will  conduct  our 
places  not  in  competition  to  the  valuable  work 
done  by  the  churches  or  in  opposition  to  any  re- 
ligious endeavor,  but  rather  as  an  auxiliary  force 
for  good.  It  shall  be  our  aim  to  display  only  such 
motion  pictures  as  have  passed  a  vigorous  censor- 
ship and  nothing  low,  vulgar  or  degrading  will 
ever  be  shown.  We  have  no  desire  to  extend  this 
privilege  if  granted  by  tbe  people,  to  Sunday 
vaudeville,  as  we  have  no  interest  in  any  other 
form  of  entertainment  offered  in  this  city.  We 
will  welcome  suggestions  from  religious  bodies,  if 
this  privilege  is  granted,  and  try  so  far  as  lies 
within   our   power    to   co-operate    with    them   in    im- 


proving and  elevating  our  enterprise.  We  invite 
those  who  oppose  motion  pictures  on  Sunday,  many 
of  whom  are  doubtlessly  unfamiliar  with  tbe  great 
progress  made  in  film  production,  to  visit  our 
places,  confident  that  they  will  be  surprised  at 
the  clean  and  instructive  enjoyment  they  will  find 
there." 

Harry  Durand,  of  Jacksonville,  was  arestcd 
March  14,  on  a  warrant  sworn  out  by  Deputy  Statu 
lire  Marshal,  A.  H.  Boganlus,  of  Springfield, 
•l.a  riied  with  burning  the  Oem  moving  picture 
theater,  March  lo.  Durand  was  a  former  employe 
of  the  place. 

Under  the  new  building  code  of  Decatur,  NVw 
moving  picture  theaters  will  have  to  occupy  <<>r- 
ner  buildings.  Those  now  occupying  other  than 
corner  locations  will  be  forced  to  have  one 
exit,  if  seating  500  persons  and-  two  if  sou  ting 
more  than  500.  These  exits  are  to  be  of 
fireproof  material,  not  less  than  four  feet  in 
width,  walls  four  inches  thick,  without  steps  and 
continually    lighted. 

The  Evanston  Motion  Picture  Company,  of  Evan- 
ston,  has  been  incorporated  with  a  capital  stock 
of  $15,<>00  to  do  a  general  theatrical  and  moving 
picture  business.  The  incorporators  are  John  Bod- 
kin,   Abraham   Simansky    and   John    Keane. 

George  C.  Martin,  owner  of  the  Mirror  theater 
in  Moline,  has  opened  a  new  house  at  422  Six- 
teenth Street  in  that  city  to  be  known  as  tbe 
Majestic.      It   has   a   capacity   of  300. 

D.  C.  McClelland,  the  motion  picture  trust  of 
Pekin,  has  made  arrangements  to  have  moving 
pictures  made  upon  tbe  opening  day  of  the  Illi- 
nois-Missouri baseball  league  season  in  that  city. 
Harry  Daley,  of  Carlinville  is  thinking  of  pur- 
chasing a  camera  and  having  films  made  of  his 
home  city.  F.  B.  Lockwood  of  the  Advance  Mo- 
tion Picture  Company,  of  Chicago,  has  made  ar- 
rangements for  a  series  of  pictures  in  Peoria,  in- 
cluding Track  Day  at  Bradley  Polytechnic  Insti- 
tute, field  day  in  the  parks  and  the  opening  of  the 
baseball  season.  Manager  Felix  Greenberg  of  the 
Orpheum  will  have  charge  of  the  exhibition.  The 
Advance  Company  has  also  been  secured  to  make 
a   set   of   films   in   Jacksonville. 

'Tabard,"  conveying  the  idea  of  circulation  of 
education  and  entertainment  (for  instance  tbe 
famous  Tabard  circulating  libraries ) ,  was  tbe 
name  selected  in  a  contest  for  Taylor  &  Beard's 
new  moving  picture  theater  in  Kewanee.  It  is 
apparent  the  apt  name  was  coined  from  the  letters 
in   tbe  firm  name. 

Manager  Stevens  of  tbe  Joy  theater  at  Paris, 
was  host  to  the  school  teachers  and  high  school 
students  when  he  showed  "Twelfth  Night." 

Edward  McCormick  has  resigued  as  pianist  at 
the  Star  theater  at  St.  Charles.  He  is  succeeded 
by   Joseph   Dunstock   of   Elgin. 

Manager  E.  E.  Alger  of  the  Crystal,  at  Paxton, 
was  host  recently  at  a  special  performance  for  the 
members  of  the  Paxton  Business  Men's  Associa- 
tion. 

The  working  of  tbe  motion  picture  in  the  schools 
of  Decatur  promises  to  be  interesting  and  a  guide 
to  other  cities  in  Illinois.  A  committee  of  ten 
has  been  appointed  to  arrange  a  system  of  pro- 
grams, both  for  class  work  and  for  tbe  general 
public  and  to  pass  upon  films.  The  city  superin- 
tendent is  chairman  and  tbe  members  are  from 
the  ministerial  association,  the  general  community 
and  the  school  body.  The  Parents'  Guild  of  Lincoln 
School  in  Mattoon  la  considering  the  picture  ma- 
chine seriously  and  has  begun  to  raise  a  fund  for 
that  purpose. 

The  Reliance  Manufacturing  Company,  of  Mat- 
toon,  is  using  moving  pictures  in  programs  which 
it  gives  to  its  employes.  The  meetings  are  designed 
to  bring  about  400  persons  into  closer  co-operation. 

The  International  Harvester  Company  made  its 
picture  "Tbe  Dawn  of  Plenty."  the  feature  in 
opening  its  new  building  at  Aurora  to  the  public. 
Manager  Stevens  of  the  Eagle  at  Princeton  is  en- 
deavoring to  book  films  especially  suited  to  bis 
new    pipe    organ. 

MIDWEST    SPECIAL    SERVICE. 


SPRINGFIELD,  ILL. 

SPRINGFIELD  photoplay  houses  figured  in  the 
Blue  Sunday  War.  planned  by  Meat  Cutters 
Union  No.  74  to  open  Sunday  March  23.  The  Illi- 
nois Supreme  Court  recently  held  that  an  ordi- 
nance closing  the  meat  markets  on  Sunday  was 
legal,  the  question  originating  in  Springfield.  The 
union  is  said  to  have  announced  its  intention  of 
closing  on  the  date  mentioned,  every  business 
house  in  tbe  city  except  those  which  are  absolute 
necessities.  This  they  proposed  to  accomplish  by 
swearing  out  warrants  for  owners  of  places  kept 
open  on  Sunday,  and  then  if  the  county  and  city 
prosecutors  fail  to  act  to  ask  for  an  injunction  re- 
straining tbe  business  houses  from  opening  on  Sun- 
day. 

Springfield  men  are  tbe  incorporators  of  the 
Central  Motion  Picture  Company,  which  has  been 
Incorporated  with  a  capital  stock  of  $1,008  for  the 
purpose  of  buying  up  houses  all  over  the  State 
of  Illinois  and  operating  them  under  the  syndicate 
plan.  Herbert  Woods,  county  recorder,  anil  W. 
H.    Ogle  and    I.    C.    Davidson   are   the   incorporators. 

The  two  local  houses,  the  Lyric  and  tbe  Vaudettc 
which  added  a  reel  to  their  show  and  raised  their 
price  to  ten  "cents,  have  not  suffered  any  di-u- 
trous   effects    to   date.      It    Is   granted    that    the    in- 


crease may  send  some  customers  to  the  cheaper 
bouses,  but  on  the  other  hand  it  has  been  accepted 
as  invitation  to  the  better  class  of  patronage  and 
nJed  by  the  public  as  a  declara- 
tion by  the  managers  that  they  are  anxious  to- 
maintain    dignified    bouses. 

Rev.  Frederick  W.  Bnrnham,  pastor  of  '  First 
Christian  Church,  went  even  further  than  endorsing 
the  Kalem  picture  "From  the  Manger  to  the 
<'n>ss/'  When  he  found  that  W.  W.  Watts  of 
this  city,  who  has  tbe  Illinois  right,  had  an  open 
date  for  Sunday  March  10,  he  leased  the  film  for 
the  evening  service,  and  make  arrangements  to  give 
tbe  lecture  himself.  As  tbe  church  bas  a  splendid 
organ  an  unusually  fine  evening,  free,  for  the 
congregation  was  possible.  Harry  Thornton  who 
has  been  booking  this  picture  in  Illinois  for  the 
Vaudette  Company  bas  taken  charge  of  tbe  No. 
1  Bet  of  reels.  Arthur  Simons  who  was  managing' 
the  No.  1  show  has  gone  out  with  the  second  set. 
The  Sheldon  fire  department,  which  operates  a 
moving  picture  house,  has  booked  tbe  picture.  A 
date  at  Sullivan  was  cancelled  because  of  small- 
pox. Among  the  houses  which  have  recently  booked 
tbe  picture  are:  Majestic,  Mattoon;  Cosy,  Shelby- 
ville:  Variety,  Staunton:  Fellis  Opera  House,  Hills- 
boro;  Pittinger,  Centralia:  Star.  Mt.  Carmel,  Lyric, 
Robinson:  Opera  house,  Mt.  Sterling:  Lyric,  Moline; 
Grand,  Sterling;  Princess,  Freeport;  Rockford  Pic- 
ture Parlor.  Rockford:  Haisb  Auditorium,  Dekalb; 
Star,    Aurora:    Dawn,    Streator  and   Colonial,    Joliet. 

Little  opposition  bas  been  shown  to  the  Denver 
bill  in  the  Illinois  legislature  which  provides  for  a 
board  of  examiners  for  moving  picture  shows, 
and  it  nearly  came  out  of  the  senate  committee 
on  snap  judgment  March  13.  It  was  claimed, 
however,  that  there  was  not  a  quorum  present 
and  that  not  all  tbe  members  of  the  committee 
had  been  notified  of  the  meeting  and  Lieutenant- 
Governor  Barratt  O'Hara  ordered  it  sent  back  into- 
committee. 

The  Central  Motion  Picture  Corporation,  of 
Springfield,  which  was  incorporated  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $1,000,  has  opened  an  office  at  504  I.  O. 
O.  F.  building  with  a  sign  of  $lu0.000  capital  on 
the  door  and  Is  advertising  for  investors.  W.  H. 
Ogle  bas  been  elected  president.  Herbert  S.  Wood: 
vice-president  and  I.  C.  Davidson,  secretary-treas- 
urer. It  is  announced  the  purpose  is  to  install 
houses  where  the  conditions  and  opportunity  war- 
rants. The  capital  stock  is  to  be  divided  into 
10.0(i0  shares  of  $10  par  value  each. 

T.  C.  German  of  this  city  has  re-opened  tbe  Gem 
at  Athens  which  bas  been  closed  for  several  weeks. 
F.  W.  Bruseke,  owner  of  tbe  building,  of  that 
city,  bas  gone  into  partnership  with  him,  but  Ger- 
man   will    act    as    manager. 

If,  D.  Schaff  of  this  city,  formerly  superintend- 
ent of  tbe  Chicago.  Peoria  &  St.  Louis  Railway, 
has  purchased  the  White  picture  show  at  Peters- 
burg. 

The  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  of  Springfield,  showed  the 
Vitagraph  feature  "Tbe  Battle  Hymn  of  the  Re- 
public," March  16  to  the  members  of  the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic. 

MIDWEST    SPECIAL    SERVICE. 


IOWA. 

LSTAUBER    has    leased    the    Family    theater    at 
•    Clinton   and    will   operate   it  as   a   moving    pic- 
ture   bouse. 

Marvin  &  Eddy  have  opened  a  picture  show  In 
tbe    opera    house    at    Oxford. 

The  Grand  Opera  House  at  Dubuque  will  give 
licensed  pictures  every  afternoon  and  evening  that 
there  is  no  theatrical  attraction.  Three  reels  will 
be    shown. 

A  moving  picture  show  is  to  be  opened  at 
Twenty-fourth  and  Jackson  Streets  in  Dubuque. 
This   makes   the   tenth   show   for    that  city. 

The  Des  Moines  Woman's  Club  has  arranged 
with  the  Capital  City  Film  Company,  of  Des  Moines, 
to  make  pictures  of  the  various  attractions  such 
as  tbe  baby  health  contest,  the  domestic  science 
demonstrations  and  others  at  tbe  household  show 
to  be  held  in  the  Coliseum  the  first  week  In 
April. 

A  $30,000  opera  house  will  be  erected  at  Denl- 
son   bv    a    company   of   citizens. 

R.  Tblelman  of  Davenport  has  opened  a  moving 
picture  show  in  the  Odd  Fellows'  building  at 
Shelby. 

Brown  &  Beckwith  of  tbe  Lyric  at  Maquoketa 
have  Issued  a  four  page  program  which  gives  the 
films  for  three  days  ahead.  Local  advertising  Is 
accepted.  „ 

The  Kalem  "From  the  Manger  to  the  Cross 
plaved  a  return  date  March  1-5  for  the  Des  Moines 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  It  is  proposed  to  exhibit  the  picture 
throughout  Iowa  under  the  auspices  of  tbe  Y. 
St.  C.  A.  and  use  the  profits  for  tbe  benefits  of 
the   training   school    In   Chicago. 

MIDWEST     SPECIAL     FEATURE. 


WISCONSIN. 


DEAN  L.  E.  REBER,  of  the  extension  division 
of  the  University  of  Wisconsin  advocates  a 
state  film  exchange.  "  In  an  address  before  the 
Milwaukee  Association  of  the  University  of  Wis- 
consin Alumni,  he  nrged  that  the  legislature  make 
an    appropriation    of    $10,000    for    the    purpose    cf 


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buying  films  and  a  few  machines  to  be  loaned  to 
schools.  He  believes  the  pictures  would  be  es- 
pecially instructive  in  tbe  field  of  hygiene  and 
municipal  affairs. 

Pelitious  have  been  filed  at  Belolt  asking  for  a 
vote  by   the  people  on  the  Sunday  theater  question. 

Hall  &  Lynch,  real  estate  dealers  of  Chicago, 
have  purchased  the  Wisconsin  state  rights  for  the 
Kalem  biblical  masterpiece  "From  the  Manger  to 
the  Cross.'*  Mr.  Lynch  recently  conferred  in 
Chicago  with  W.  W.  Watts,  of  Springfield,  111., 
who   has   the    Illinois   state    rights. 

The  committee  on  judiciary  introduced  a  bill 
into  the  state  legislature  giving  the  state  in- 
dustrial commission,  regulation  and  supervision 
over  the  moving  pictures  used  in  the  state,  all 
films  to  first  receive  the  O.K.  of  this  body. 

MIDWEST    SPECIAL   SERVICE. 


SPRINGFIELD,  OHIO. 

ALPH  B.  KRETZER,  manager  of  the  Lyric 
and  Hippodrome,  has  donated  the  use  of  the 
latter  house,  between  the  hours  of  12  and  5 
o'clock  on  Saturday  afternoons,  for  the  use  of 
educational  films  and  films  which  have  an  es- 
pecial  appeal   to  children. 

Oakland  chapel  has  purchased  the  machine 
formerly  used  by  the  Princess  Theater,  and  will 
use  pictures  in  connection  with  church  work.  The 
Princess  has  installed   a   new  outfit. 

The  Lagonda  Amusement  Company,  recently 
organized  by  John  Teach  of  Dreamland,  will  erect 
a  new  brick  theater,  with  stucco  effect,  in 
Lagonda.     It   will   run  pictures. 

MIDWEST   SPECIAL    SERVICE. 


LOUISVILLE. 

THE  Edison  kinetophone  has  made  its  appear- 
1  ance  in  Louisville,  B.  P.  Kieth's  vaudeville 
boose  presenting  the  latest  device  of  tbe  In- 
ventor to  the  public.  Largely  speaking,  it  may 
be  said  that  the  Louisville  patrons  of  the  theater 
enjoyed  the  talking  pictures,  even  though  some 
expressions  of  disappointment  were  heard.  De- 
votees of  the  animated  pictures,  perhaps,  had 
been  led  to  expect  too  much,  and  the  performance 
therefore  fell  a  bit  beneath  anticipations.  One  of 
Louisville's  amusement  companies  is  now  negotiat- 
ing for  tbe  local  rights  of  tbe  kinetophone,  and 
one  of  Its  houses  will  shortly  be  devoted  to  the 
talking   pictures. 

David  Levinson,  manager  of  the  Novelty  The- 
ater, has  installed  motors  in  his  operating  room, 
being  the  first  exhibitor  of  the  Gateway  City  to 
take  that  step.  Mr.  Levinson  is  more  than  pleased 
with  the  results  of  the  motors,  asserting  that  an 
all-round  improvement  has  been  effected.  Other 
Louisville  exhibitors  have  spent  much  time  at  the 
Novelty  in  looking  over  the  motors,  and  many  will 
follow  suit  in  the  near  future. 

Beverly  B.  Dobbs  has  been  in  Louisville,  holding 
forth  at  the  Masonic  Theater  with  motion  pictures 
entitled,  "Atop  o'  the  World  in  Motion."  Mr. 
Dobbs  himself  disdains  the  title  of  motion  pictures, 
calling  his  possessions  a  "tourographolog."  He 
gave  two  performances  daily,  showing  at  the  Ma- 
sonic during  an  entire  week.  Good  crowds  wit- 
nessed the  performances,  apparently  taking  much 
pleasure  in  the  views  of  Alaska. 

William  L.  Hibbitt  has  resigned  the  management 
of  the  Olympic  Theater,  of  Louisville.  Mr.  Hibbitt 
has  been  succeeded  by  Joseph  Goldberg,  formerly 
press  agent  for  Hopkins  Theater.  Mr.  Goldberg  has 
been  prominent  in  tbe  theatrical  field  for  several 
years.  It  is  believed  he  will  be  able  to  fill  Mr. 
Hlbbltt's  place  to  the  satisfaction  of  all  concerned. 

Joseph  &  Joseph,  a  well-known  firm  of  architects, 
have  been  employed  by  the  Broadway  Amusement 
Company  to  draw  plans  for  the  new  East  Broadway 
Theater,  which  is  to  go  up  on  tbe  site  of  tbe  present 
house  at  Shelby  Street  and  Broadway.  A  theater 
to  seat  between  1,500  and  1,800  people  is  being 
planned,  to  rival  the  most  modern  and  beautiful 
in  the  South.  The  exact  date  of  beginning  the 
work  is  problematical,  but  will  probably  be  some 
time  during  the  coming  summer.  The  Broadway 
operates  five  bouses,  including  the  Ideal,  considered 
the  most  modern  in  Louisville.  The  company  has 
continued  to  run  vaudeville,  one  stock  company  now 
concluding  an  engagement  of  fifteen  weeks. 

Stockholders  of  the  Hippodrome  Theater  Company 
will  meet  early  in  April  for  the  purpose  of  voting 
on  expenditures  for  needed  improvements.  Manager 
Max  Simon  Is  anxious  to  enlarge  bis  seating  ca- 
pacity, and  the  shareholders  are  expected  to  approve 
his  judgment. 

The  Manring  Theater,  of  Mlddlesboro,  Ky.,  has 
been  improved  by  the  addition  of  a  mirror  screen. 
The  acquisition  has  operated  favorably  on  the  pic- 
tures. 

The  new  Ben  AH  Theater,  of  Lexington,  Ky.,  is 
rapidly  nearing  completion,  having  reached  the  stage 
where  decorators  have  been  put  in  charge.  The 
playhouse,  which  will  probably  be  devoted  to  "le- 
gitimate," Is  to  be  opened  in  April,  according  to 
present  plans. 

If.  A.  Neff,  president  of  tbe  Motion  Picture  Ex- 
hibitors' League  of  America,  was  the  chief  speaker 
at  a  luncheon  held  by  Cincinnati,  O.,  exhibitors  re- 
cently. Mr.  Neff  explained  his  proposal  of  graded 
licenses  for  motion  picture  theaters,  and  the  ex- 
hibitors indicated  approval.  Tbe  dinner  was  given 
at  the  Sinton  Hotel,  with  several  visiting  exhibitors 
present. 

The   Suffolk   Theater   Company    has   been    incorpo- 


rated at  Suffolk,  Va.,  to  build  and  operate  motion 
picture  houses.  Milton  o.  Spence  is  president  of 
the  company. 

The  M.  Switow  Amusement  Company,  capitalized 
at  $100,000,  has  filed  articles  of  incorporation.  The 
company's  headquarters  will  be  located  in  New 
Albany,  Ind.  Michael  Switow,  now  president  of  the 
Falls  Cities  Amusement  Company,  also  will  head 
new  concern.  The  corporation  will  establish,  b 
over  and  improve  motion  picture  theaters  in  Indiana, 
Kentucky  and  Ohio,  according  to  present  plans. 
Mr.  Switow  will  place  motion  picture  houses  in 
towns  of  not  less  than  3,000  inhabitants. 

Simon  Switow,  the  new  owner  of  the  Palace  The* 
ater,  of  Louisville,  is  -planning  an  extension  of 
seating  capacity  and  other  alterations.  The  work 
will  cost  several  hundred  dollars. 

Alf  Oldham  is  %  open  an  airdome  at  Lion  Garden, 
Preston  and  Kentucky  streets,  Louisville,  in  the 
near  future.  The  airdome  will  seat  1.4U0  people 
and  use  vaudeville  and  motion  pictures.  Mr.  Oldham 
has  been  prominent  in  motion  picture  circles  for 
some  time,  as  the  owner  of  tbe  rights  of  "Mammoth 
Cave." 

William  Bakrow,  of  Cincinnati,  was  a  recent 
visitor  in  Louisville,  where  be  purchased  equipment 
for  the  Opera  House  at  Harrodsburg,  Ky.  The  the- 
ater is  to  be  opened  to  motion  pictures  in  the  near 
future,  Mr.  Bakrow  having  leased  the  house.  It  will 
seat  about  900  people.  Standard  projection  machines 
have  been  purchased.  Alterations  in  tbe  theater 
have  been  completed  and  other  arrangements  com- 
pleted for  the  opening  of  Harrodsburg's  new  photo- 
theater. 

The  Capital  Theater,  of  Frankfort,  Ky..  has  de- 
cide'd  to  take  on  Universal  service  for  a  trial.  Ex- 
hibitors of  Kentucky  are  showing  a  good  deal  of 
unrest,  finding  their  service  not  always  what  they 
wish. 

The  North  Side  Amusement  Company,  of  New 
Albany,  Ind.,  will  file  articles  of  incorporation  In 
a  few  days.  Tbe  company  will  erect  and  conduct  a 
moving  picture  and  vaudeville  house.  H,  H.  Legg 
is  president,  while  J.  F.  McCullough  is  secretary- 
treasurer.     The  company  will  be  capitalized  at  $15,- 

000.  A  four-story  brick  structure  on  Main  street, 
between  Pearl  and  State  streets,  has  been  purchased 
and  will  be  altered  to  form  a  theater  with  1,000 
seats.  The  new  house  will  be  ready  for  business 
by  mid-summer,   according  to  present  plans. 

Tbe  National  Moving  Picture  Company,  recently 
formed  in  Louisville  for  the  purpose  of  erecting 
motion  picture  theaters  in  Kentucky  and  other 
states,  is  to  begin  work  on  a  house  at  Central  City, 
Ky.,  shortly,  It  is  announced.  That  town  now  has 
but  one  animated  picture  theater,  the  Empress,  con- 
ducted by  the  Consolidated  Theaters  Company. 

The  Star  Theater,  of  Lexington,  Ky.,  has  been 
closed  permanently  by  the  Colonial  Amusement  Com- 
pany, which  has  operated  it  for  the  past  two  years. 
The  erection  of  a  new  skyscraper  on  adjoining  pro- 
perty has  so  cut  off  the  house  from  patronage  that 
it  was  deemed  advisable  to  close  it  altogether.  The 
Colonial  is  now  erecting  a  $10,000  motion  picture 
theater  in  Richmond,  Ky.,  and  will  put  Slaughter 
Sparks,  who  has  managed  tbe  Star  in  that  town,  as 
bead  of  tbe  Albambra. 

T.  S.  Henderson,  of  the  Industrial  Film  Company, 
of  Chicago,  is  in  Paducah,  Ky.,  and  will  take  mov- 
ing pictures  of  the  manufactories  of  that  city,  to 
be  used  in  exploitation  of  the  town's  resources. 

Plans  have  been  completed  for  the  Auditorium 
Theater,  to  be  erected  at  Dawson  Springs,  Ky..  at 
once.  The  seating  capacity  of  the  bouse  will  be 
1.000,  while  the  cost  is  estimated  at  $10,000.  The 
structure  will  be  ready  by  June  1.  The  Kentucky 
Pharmaceutical  Association,  which  will  hold  its 
annual  convention  in  Dawson  Springs,  beginning  June 

1,  will  use  it  for  a  week.  The  theater  will  be  de- 
voted to  vaudeville  and  moving  pictures.  Dawson 
Springs  is  a  popular  summer  resort,  thousands  of 
folk  from  Kentucky  and  adjoining  states  spending 
the  summer  there  to  obtain  the  benefit  of  tbe  waters. 
W.  I.  Hamby  is  president  of  the  company,  which  is 
arecting  the  theater. 

Malcom  and  John  Weisiger,  heavy  property  owners 
of  Danville,  Ky.,  are  contemplating  the  erection  of 
a  big  play  house  In  that  city.  The  two  men  recently 
inspected  Louisville's  theaters,  and  were  favorably 
impressed.  If  erected,  the  house  will  be  one  of  the 
handsomest  in  Kentucky. 

The  Park  Amusement  Company  has  been  formed 
at  Ludlow,  Ky.,  to  operate  a  moving  picture  theater. 
The  company  is  capitalized  at  $5,000,  J.  V.  Hunt, 
Louis  H.  Mentel  and  J.  H.  Ward  being  the  in- 
corporators. 

The  Alamo  Theater  has  been  opened  for  business 
at  Georgetown,  Ky.,  W.  L.  Barkley  being  the  owner 
of  the  house.  Only  evening  performances  will  be 
daily,  matinees  being  given  twice  a  week.  An  ad- 
mission price  of  five  cents  has  been  decided  on. 

Alterations  have  begun  on  a  building  id  Russell- 
ville,  Ky.,  which  will  be  devoted  to  animated  pic- 
tures. The  new  theater  will  seat  several  hundred 
people  and  will  be  ready  by  May  1.  S.  W.  Line- 
baugh  and  other  Russellville  business  men  are  in- 
terested. 

Paul  J.  Rainey's  African  hunting  pictures  were 
again  shown  in  Louisville  recently,  the  Walnut 
Theater  providing  the  place.  The  films  were  pre- 
sented in  the  Kentucky  metropolis  last  fall,  but 
were  returned  by  request,  it  is  said. 

F.  C.  Robinson  is  the  owner  of  a  new  motion 
picture  theater  new  going  up  on  Benson  street, 
Cincinnati.  The  house  will  have  400  seats,  and  will 
be  40  by  127  feet'.  It  will  be  ready  in  another 
month. 


The    Mutual    Film    Corporation    has    Leased   a    bulld- 
'f    3186    Woodburn    avenue,    Cincinnati,    for   an 
annual    rental    of    $480.     Guy    T.    Trask    represented 
tbe  Mutual  in  the  deal. 

ie  Jewel  Photoplay  Company  has  been  formed 
at  Hamilton,  O.,  with  a  capitalization  of  $20,000, 
J.  H.  Broomhall  heads  the  corporation,  which  will 
erect  one  or  more  theaters. 

The  strike  of  motion  picture  Operators  and 
musicians  in  Louisville  has  come  to  an  end,  an 
agreement  having  been  reached  between  the  strikers 
and  the  Louisville  Photo-Play  Association,  com- 
i  of  eighteen  houses  in  the  Kentucky  metropolis. 
The  union  men  will  return  to  work  at  once,  the  ex- 
hibitors agreeing  to  find  places  for  as  many  as 
possible.  This  does  not  mean,  however,  that  the 
operators  who  worked  during  the  strike  will  be 
dismissed  without  consideration.  Those  who  care 
to  join  the  union  will  be  accepted  by  that  body, 
provided  they  can  pass  the  examinations.  The  two 
we-ks'  clause,  which  was  the  original  cause  of 
the  dispute,  is  to  be  retained.  Exhibitors,  therefore, 
will  have  the  privilege  of  terminating  the  contracts 
between  themselves  and  the  operators  and  musicians 
with  two  weeks'  notice.  Members  of  the  union  who 
went  back  to  work  before  the  settlement  of  the 
strike,  and  who  were  fined  $100,  have  been  taken 
back  by  the  union,  with  the  fine  pending.  The 
agreement  by  which  the  union  men  will  return  to 
work  was  reached  at  a  meeting  at  which  the  three 
factions  were  represented.  Louis  J.  Dittmar,  David 
Levinson  and  Fred  Dolle  represented  the  Louisville 
Photo- Play  Association;  E.  J.  Elliott  and  B.  Miller 
spoke  for  the  musicians,  and  Jack  Johnson  was  on 
hand  for  the  operators.  The  settlement  of  the 
strike  is  gratifying  to  all  concerned.  While  the 
theaters  in  the  business  district  have  not  suffered, 
a  few  of  tbe  houses  in  union  residential  sections 
have  been  hurt  by  the  disagreement.  A  general 
improvement  in  business  is  expected. 

Tbe  old  Avenue  theater,  on  Fourth  street,  which 
is  at  present  the  home  of  moving  pictures,  will  be 
converted  into  a  five-and- ten-cent  store  next  sum- 
mer. The  lease  now  held  by  Morton  Shaw  expires 
on  July  1,  and  the  old  building  will  be  remodeled 
for  an  up-to-date  mercantile  house.  Judge  W. 
Allen  Kinney,  of  the  Princess  Amusement  Company, 
who  had  secured  a  lease  on  the  theater,  has  sold 
his  option.  E.  D.  Stair,  a  well-known  theatrical 
magnate  of  Detroit',  has  held  a  lease  on  the  Avenue 
for  ten  years.  Tbe  old  theater  was  for  years  the 
home  of  melodrama,  all  of  the  thrillers  showing 
there.  Since  its  conversion  into  a  moving  picture 
theater  it  has  been  extremely  successful.  Its 
passing  is  regretted  by  many  motion  picture  men, 
the  history  of  the  old  structure  being  a  part  of 
the  story  of  photo-play  development  in  Louis- 
ville. 

Louis  J.  Dittmar,  manager  of  the  Majestic  theater, 
leased  the  Arcadia  at  Fourth  and  Broadway  with 
the  intention  of  using  it  for  a  dance  hall.  Tbe 
Arcadia  contains  18,000  square  feet  of  floor  space 
and  will  be  the  finest  establishment  of  the  kind  in 
Kentucky.  Mr.  Dittmar  will  manage  both  the 
skating  rink,  the  Majestic  theater  and  the  Royal 
theater.    Eighteenth    and    Broadway. 

A  projection  department  is  to  be  installed  shortly 
by  the  Central  Film  Service  Company,  of  Louis- 
ville. The  new  department  will  have  quarters  In 
tbe  Tyler  building.  An  hour  each  morning  will  be 
devoted  to  tbe  exhibition  of  features  and  other 
pictures.  Films  which  are  considered  to  be  doubtful 
in  morals  or  some  other  feature  will  be  thrown 
on  the  screen  before  the  exhibitors.  A  Standard 
No.  4  machine  will  be  used,  together  with  a  radium 
gold  fibre  screen.  The  Standard  will  be  motor- 
driven.  A  5  by  7  picture  will  be  shown.  A.  F. 
Mayer  will   be  in  charge  of   tbe   department. 

S.  W.  Linebaugh,  a  well-known  real  estate  man 
of  Russellville,  Ky.,  has  opened  a  motion  picture 
theater  at  that  place,  tbe  house  having  a  seating 
capacity  of  600.  Four  reels  of  Universal  pictures 
will  be  shown  daily.  The  house  is  a  new  one,  and 
is    located    on    Main    street. 

The  Woodland  Amusement  Company,  whlcs  will 
conduct  an  airdome  in  Louisville,  has  filed  articles 
of  incorporation,  the  capitalization  being  $2,000. 
Alf.  V.  Oldham  is  to  head  the  company,  other 
interested  being  William  Smith  and  Henry  J. 
Tilford. 

L.  H.  Ramsey,  of  the  Hippodrome  and  AnDex 
theaters,  of  Lexington,  Ky.,  has  concluded  an 
agreement  whereby  he  will  show  Kinemacolor  in 
the  Fayette  city.  Kinemacolor  has  heretofore  had 
no  representative  in  Lexington,  and  the  public  of 
that  city  will  get  its  first  glimpse  of  the  "natural 
color"  pictures  at  Mr.  Ramsey's  houses.  Mr. 
Ramsey  has  changed  his  mind  about  retiring  from 
the  field.  A  couple  of  months  ago  he  announced 
that  his  holdings  were  on  tbe  market.  The  ex- 
hibitor was  at  that  time  disgusted  with  the  cry 
being  raised  against  Sunday  shows.  This  has  died 
away,  and  Mr.  Ramsey,  one  of  the  veteran  ex- 
hibitors of  the  city,  has  regained  his  equanimity 
and    is    planning    improvements    for    his    houses. 

Francis  X.  Bushman  was  a  visitor  at  the  Colonial 
theater,  Lexington.  Ky..  recently,  giving  lectures 
in  connection  with  the  presentation  of  a  film  In 
which  he  was  tbe  star. 

Rodney  C.  Davis,  of  the  Kozy  theater,  of  Padncah, 
Ky  ,  is  leading  a  "home  products  campaign"  in 
that  city,  throwing  the  slogan,  "Paducah  for  Padn- 
cah in  Paducah,"  on  his  screen  at  each  performance. 
Business    men    have    adopted    the    slogan,    which    1» 

appearing    on    letter-heads    of    local    concerns. 

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"A  Southern 
Cinderella" 

Three  Reels,  April  16 


A    thrilling,    sensational    and 
dramatic  subject  staged  dur- 
ing the  Civil  War,  in  which 
a  pretty  Southern  girl 
has  an  experience  sim- 
ilar to   the  fabled 
Cinderella,    win- 
ningahandsome 
Northern 
officer. 


THE  LOVE  OF  A  SOUTHERN 
COLONEL  FOR  HIS  HOME 
CHANGES  THE  PLANS  OF  AN 
ARMY  AND  RESULTS  IN  AN 
UNEXPECTED  CHARGE  UPON 
THE  CITY  CAPTURED  BY  THE 
UNION  FORCES,  WHICH  ARE 
UTTERLY   ROUTED. 

A   Massive  War 
Production 

One,  Three  and  Six- Sheet  Posters 
in  Four  Colors 

Broncho    Motion   Picture  Co. 

Long  Acre  Bldg.,  42d  St.  and  Bdwy. 
NEW  YORK  CITY 

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"A  Life  in  the  Balance" 

One  Reel,  April  14 

The  landlord  throws  his  bomb-making 
tenants  out,  and  they  seek  revenge  by 
hanging  the  baby  out  of  the  window  in 
such  a  way  that  the  opening  of  the  win- 
dow will  cause  it  to  drop  four  stories. 
The  rescue  of  the  child  is  accomplished 
in  a  comical  manner,  being  a  broad 
burlesque  on  melodrama. 

"Murphy's  1. 0.  U." 

Split  Reel,  April  17 

Murphy,  the  cop,  gives  his  I.  O.  U.  to 
the  money-lender.  Pressed  for  payment, 
he  gives  up  his  wife's  jewelry.  She 
thinks  she  has  been  robbed  and  reports 
the  matter  to  the  police  lieutenant. 
Amusing  complications  result  in  which 
Murphy's  duplicity  is  exposed,  and  his 
wife  administers  punishment  for  his 
offense. 

"A  Dollar  Did  It" 

Split  Reel,  April   17 

Riley  and  Schmidt  play  cards  for  a  dol- 
lar. Murphy  cheats  and  a  fight  starts  in 
which  the  wives  take  a  hand.  Furniture. 
kitchen  utensils,  etc.,  are  thrown  at  each 
other  by  the  families,  and  finally  dyna- 
mite is  used.  Schmidt  is  blown  in  the 
air  and  nearly  killed,  and  his  sad  plight 
softens  Riley's  heart,  and  there  is  a  rec- 
onciliation all  around. 


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Long  Acre  Bldg.,  42d  St.  and  Bdwy. 
NEW  YORK  CITY 

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Features 


"On  Fortune's 
Wheel" 

Two  Reels,  April   11 

Dramatic  and  Military 
Sensation 


The  bank  president  loots  the  crashing 
institution,  taking  for  himself  the  re- 
maining funds.  Through  a  chain  of 
circumstantial  evidence  the  cashier  is 
charged  with  the  crime  and  sentenced 
to  the  penitentiary.  His  wife  suffers 
from  poverty  and  is  compelled  to  part 
with  her  baby,  which  is  adopted  from 
the  orphan  asylum  by  a  wealthy  fam- 
ily. Years  later  the  girl  meets  the  son 
of  the  thief,  whose  father  has  changed 
his  name,  and  the  young  people  fall 
in  love.  The  cashier  escapes  from 
prison  and  meets  his  persecutor  in  the 
West,  where  a  fierce  struggle  takes 
place.  The  guilty  man  escapes,  but  is 
captured  by  Indians  w  h  o  m  he  has 
wronged,  and  who  lash  him  to  the 
wheel  of  a  stage  coach  and  execute 
him. 

Stirring  Battle  Scenes 

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NEW  YORK  CITY 

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Calendar  of  Licensed  Releases. 


Current    Releases. 

MONDAY,  APRIL  7th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Stolen  Bride  (Drama)    

EDISON— A  Shower  of  Slippers  (Comedy) 1000 

KALEM— In  the  Grip  of  a  Charlatan  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN— The  Evil  One  (Drama)   1000 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's  Weekly  No.  15  (News) 

SELIG — Vengeance  Is  Mine   (Drama)    1000 

VITAGRAPH— Bunny's  Honeymoon  (Comedy) 1000 

CINES— The  Queen  of  Spades  (Special— 2  parts— Dr.)  .. 2000 

TUESDAY,  APRIL  8th,  1913. 
CINES — Scenes  Along  the  Pescara  River,  Central  Italy 

(Physical    Geography)    35° 

CINES— A  Romance  by  the  Sea  (Drama)  : .  650 

PATHEPLAY— The  Snap  Shot  (Comedy)    

PATHEPLAY— The   River   Clyde   at   Lanark,   Scotland 

(Physical  Geography)    

EDISON— Old  Jim  (Drami.)   1000 

ESSANAY— The  Wardrobe  Lady  (Comedy-Drama) 1000 

LUBIN— For  His  Child's  Sake  (Drama)    1000 

SELIG — Robert  Hale's  Ambition  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— The  Transition   (Drama)    1000 

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  9th,  1913. 
ECLIPSE— The  Kentish  Coast,  England  (Physical  Geog- 
raphy)     .•  •  •  ■  250 

ECLIPSE— Making  Birch  Brooms  (Trades) 300. 

ECLIPSE— An  Up-To-Date  Aviator  (Comedy)   450 

EDISON— The  Well  Sick  Man   (Comedy)    1000 

ESSANAY— The  Sheriff's  Wife  (Drama)   1000 

SELIG — The     Shotgun     Man     and     the     Stage     Driver 

(Drama)    1000 

LUBIN— The  Toll  of  Fear  (2  parts— Drama— Special)  .  .2000 

PATHEPLAY— Too  Much  Parcel  Post  (Comedy) 

KALEM— The  Pursuit  of  the  Smugglers  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— Out  of  the  Storm  (Drama) 1000 

THURSDAY,  APRIL  10th,  1913. 
BIOGRAPH— An  "Uncle  Tom's  Cabin"  Troupe  (Com.) 

BIOGRAPH — A  Lesson  to' Mashers  (Comedy)   

ESSANAY— Found  Out  (Comedy)   1000 

LUBIN— The  Magic  Shoes  (Comedy)    

LUBIN — Angel  Cake  and  Axle  Grease  (Comedy)   

MELIES — The  Maoris  of  New  Zealand  (Manners  &  Cus- 
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PATHEPLAY— God  Is  Love  (Drama)   

SELIG — Tommy's  Atonement  (Drama)   

SELIG — The   Tombs    of   the    Ming    Emperors    (Monu- 
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VITAGRAPH— Cutey  and  the  Chorus  Girls  (Comedy) .  .1000 
FRIDAY,  APRIL  nth,  1913. 

EDISON— The  Capture  of  a  Wild  Cat  (Sports) 3S<» 

EDISON— Rule  Thyself   (Comedy)    650 

ESSANAY— The  Little  Mother  (Drama)   1000 

KALEM— The  Scimitar  of  the  Prophet  (Drama) 

KALEM— The  Indestructible  Mr.  Jenks  (Comedy) 

LUBIN— The  Split  Nugget  (Drama)    1000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Analysis  of  Motion  (Scientific) .... 

PATHEPLAY— The  Locust  (Zoology)  

SELIG— With  Love's  Eyes  (Drama)    1000 

VITAGRAPH— Wanted,  A  Strong  Hand  (Comedy) .... 
VITAGRAPH— Laying  a  Marine  Cable  (Telegraph) .... 
VITAGRAPH— The  Web  (Special— 2  parts— Drama)  ..  .2000 
SATURDAY,  APRIL  12th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Little  Tease  (Drama)  

CINES — On  the  Nebi  River,  East  Africa  (Physical  Geo.)  200 

CINES— Keeping  Tab  On  Sammy  (Comedy)    800 

EDISON— The  Man  Who  Wouldn't  Marry  (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY — Broncho  Billy's  Reason  (Drama)  1000 

KALEM— The  California  Oil  Crooks  (Drama) 

LUBIN— Pete  Tries  the  Stage  (Comedy) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Happy  Home   (Drama)    

PATHEPLAY— In  the  Days  of  War  (Special— 2  reels- 
Drama)    

VITAGRAPH— Mystery  of  the  Stolen  Child  (Drama)  ..  1000 


Advance  Releases 

MONDAY,  APRIL  14th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— He  Had  a  Guess  Coming  (Comedy) 

BIOGRAPH— A  Horse  on  Bill  (Comedy) 

EDISON — Jones  Goes  Shopping  (Comedy) 

EDISON — The  Rocky  Mountains  in  Winter  (Geog.)... 

KALEM— A  Streak  of  Yellow  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — Mimmie,  the  Widow  (Comedy) 400 

LUBIN — One   On  Romance   (Comedy) 600 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's  Weekly  No.  16  (News) 

SELIG— A  Wise  Old  Elephant  (Special— 2  parts— Dr.)  .. 2000 

SELIG — The  Woodman's  Daughter  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— Mr.  Mintern's  Misadventures  (Drama).. IOOO 

TUESDAY,  APRIL  15th,  1913- 
CINES— The  Ancient  Towns  of  Gubbie,  Umbria,  Central 

Italy  (Scenic)    400 

CINES— Anita,  the  Orphan  (Drama) ^600 

PATHEPLAY— The  Fire  of  Vengeance  (Drama) 

EDISON— The  New  Pupil   (Comedy-Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY— The  Accusation  of  Broncho  Billy  (Drama).  1000 

LUBIN— The  Pawned  Bracelet  (Comedy) 1000 

SELIG— God's  Way  (Drama) 

SELIG — Hankow,  China  (Scenic)    

VITAGRAPH— The  Fortune   (Comedy) 1000 

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  16th,  1913. 
CINES — A  Fugitive  at  Bay  (Special — 2  parts — Drama)..  1800 
ECLIPSE — The  Winner  at  the  Sweepstakes  (Drama).  .1000 

EDISON— Seven  Years'  Bad  Luck  (Comedy) 1000 

ESSANAY— The   Capture    (Comedy) 1000 

SELIG — Dixieland   (Drama)   1000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Italian  Bride   (Drama) 

KALEM— A  Plot  for  a  Million  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— After  the  Honeymoon  (Drama) 1000 

THURSDAY,  APRIL  17th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— A  Frightful  Blunder  (Drama) 

ESSANAY— The  Unknown  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN— The  Right  Road   (Drama) 1000 

MELIES— What  Is  Sauce  for  the  Goose  (Comedy) 684 

MELIES— A   Tahitian    Fish   Drive    (Manners   and    Cus- 
toms)      316 

PATHEPLAY— Glimpses  of  the  National  Capital  (Top.) 
PATHEPLAY— The  Sponge  Industry  in  Cuba  (Ind.).. 

SELIG — The  Tie  of  the  Blood  (Drama) ., 1000 

VITAGRAPH— Sleuthing  (Drama)   1000 

FRIDAY,  APRIL  18th,  1913. 

EDISON— The  Man  from  the  West  (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY — The  Crossing  Policeman   (Drama) 1000 

KALEM — The  Bravest  Girl  in  California  (Comedy) 

KALEM— The  Millionaires'  Playground  (Topical) 

LUBIN— Baby's  New  Pin   (Comedy) 400 

LUBIN — Beating  Mother  to  It  (Comedy) 600 

LUBIN — The   Power  of  the   Cross    (Special — 2  parts — 

Drama)    2000 

PATHEPLAY— School  of  Gymnastics  (Military) 

PATHEPLAY— The  Cuttlefish  (Zoology) 

SELIG — Cured  of  Her  Love  (Comedy) 

SELIG— That  Mail  Order  Suit   (Comedy) 

VITAGRAPH— Playing  With  Fire  (Drama) 1000 

SATURDAY,  APRIL  19th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH — A  Misunderstood  Boy  (Drama) 

CINES— For  His  Child's  Sake  (Drama) 1000 

EDISON— The  Twelfth  Juror  (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY — Alkali   Ike's   Homecoming    (Comedy) 1000 

KALEM — The  Fire-fighting  Zouaves  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — A  Florida  Romance  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Pride  of  Innocence  (Drama) 

PATHEPLAY— The  Wrong  Road  to  Happiness   (Spe- 
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VITAGRAPH— Seeing  Double    (Comedy) 

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Universal  Film  Mfg.  Co. 
Current  Releases 

SUNDAY,  APRIL  6th,  1913. 

REX— Bobby's  Baby  (Drama)    

CRYSTAL — Pearl  as  a  Clairvoyant  (Comedy)  

CRYSTAL— Almost  a  Winner  (Comedy) 

ECLAIR— He  Wants  What  He  Wants  When  He  Wants 
It  (Comedy)   

ECLAIR — Crystallization  (Scientific)    

MONDAY,  APRIL  7th,  1913. 

IMP— The  Wanderer  (Drama) 

NESTOR— The  Maid  and  the  Milkman  (Comedy) 

NESTOR— River  Rhine,  Germany  (Physical  Geography) 

CHAMPION— Shanghaied  (Drama)   

CHAMPION — The  Life-savers  of  Chicamacomico  (Voca- 
tional)     

TUESDAY,  APRIL  8th,  1913. 

GEM— Billy  Gets  Arrested  (Comedy)    

101  BISON— War  (2-reels  Drama)    

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  9th,  1913. 

NESTOR— How  Fatty  Got  Even  (Comedy) 

POWERS— The  Elixir  of  Youth   (Comedy) 

ECLAIR— Within  the  Limit  of  the  Law  (Two-parts 
Drama) 

UNIVERSAL— The  Animated  Weekly  No.  57  (News).. 
THURSDAY,  APRIL  10th,  1913. 

IMP— Aunt  Kate's  Mistake  (Comedy) 

REX— Until  Death  (Two-parts  Drama)  

FRONTIER— As  Fate  Wills   (Drama)    

FRIDAY,  APRIL  nth,  1913. 

NESTOR— The  Forgotten   Letter   (Drama) 

POWERS— The  Fear  (Drama)    

VICTOR— Two  Lives  (Drama)    

SATURDAY,  APRIL  12th,  1913. 

IMP — The  Mysterious  Card  (Comedy) 

isi  BISON — The  Darling  of  the  Regiment  (2-reels 
lrama)    

FRONTIER— The  Burning  Lariat  (Drama)  


Advance  Releases 

MONDAY,  APRIL  14th,  1913. 

IMP— Blood  Will  Tell  (Drama) 

NESTOR— A  Night  of  the  Garter  (Comedy) 

NESTOR— Dad's  Surprise  (Comedy) 

CHAMPION— Lena's  Flirtation   (Comedy) 

TUESDAY,  APRIL  15th,  1913. 

GEM — Billy  Turns  Burglar  (Comedy) 

GEM — The  Laplanders  (Typical) 

101-BISON — Bred  in  the  Bone   (2  parts — Drama) 

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  16th,  1913. 

NESTOR— An  Affray  of  Honor   (Drama) 

POWERS— The   Lesson    (Drama) 

ECLAIR — The  Evil  Genius  (2  parts — Com. -Drama) 

■UNIVERSAL— Animated  Weekly   No.  58   (News) 

THURSDAY,  APRIL  17th,  1913. 

IMP — The  Leader  of  His  Flock  (2  parts — Drama) 

REX — A  Friend  of  the  Family  (Drama) 

'FRONTIER — Some  Doings  at  Lonesome  Ranch  (Com.) 
FRIDAY,  APRIL  i8th,  1913. 

NESTOR— Paying  for  Silence  (Drama) 

POWERS— The  Troubadour  of  the  Rancho   (Drama).. 

VICTOR— The  Coward's  Charm  (Drama) 

SATURDAY,  APRIL  19th,  1913. 

IMP — Fixing  the  Fakirs  (Comedy) 

IMP — On  an  Alligator  Farm   (Zoology) 

BISON— The  Last  Roll  Call  (2  parts— Drama} 

FRONTIER— Why  the  Ranger  Resigned   (Drama) 


TUESDAY,  APRIL  8th,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— The  Night  Riders  (Drama) 

THANHOUSER— The    Patriot    (Drama) 

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  9th,  1913. 

MUTUAL— Mutual  Weekly  No.   15  (News) 

RELIANCE— The  Stronger  Call  (Drama) 

BRONCHO— The  Grey  Sentinel   (2-parts  Drama) 

THURSDAY,  APRIL  10th,  1913. 

AMERICAN— The  Homestead  Race  (Drama) 1000 

KEYSTONE— A  Game  of  Poker  (Comedy) 

KEYSTONE— Father's  Choice  (Comedy) 

MUTUAL— Willy  Prefers  Liberty  to  Wealth  (Comedy) 
MUTUAL— The  Golden  Horn,  Turkey  (Physical  Geo.) 

FRIDAY,  APRIL  nth,  1913. 
KAY  BEE — On  Fortune's  Wheel  (2  parts — Drama).... 

THANHOUSER— The  Changeling  (Drama) 

SATURDAY,  APRIL  12th,  1913. 

AMERICAN — Woman's  Honor  (Drama) icoo 

RELIANCE — For  Love  of  Columbine   (Drama) 


Advance  Releases 

SUNDAY,  APRIL  13th,  1913. 

MATESTIC—  Billy's  New  Watch   (Comedy) 

THANHOUSER— (Title   Not   Reported) 

MONDAY,  APRIL  14th,  1913. 

EXCELSIOR— The  Moving  Picture  Girl  (Drama) 

AMERICAN — Suspended   Sentence   (Drama) 1000 

KEYSTONE— A  Life  in  the  Balance  (Comedy) 

TUESDAY,  APRIL  15th,  1913. 

MAJESTIC — Pedro's   Revenge    (Drama) 

THANHOUSER— (Title  Not  Reported) 

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  16th,  1913. 

MUTUAL— Mutual  Weekly  No.  16  (News) 

RELIANCE — Held  for  Ransom  (2  parts — Drama) 

BRONCHO — A  Southern  Cinderella  (3  parts — Drama).. 

THURSDAY,  APRIL  17th,  1913. 

AMERICAN — In  Another's  Nest  (Drama) 1000 

KEYSTONE— Murphy's  I.  O.  U.  (Comedy) 

KEYSTONE— A  Dollar  Did  It  (Comedy) 

MUTUAL— Willie  and  the  Conjuror   (Comedy) 

MUTUAL — Village  Customs  in  Ceylon,  India  (Manners 

and  Customs)    

FRIDAY,  APRIL  18th,  1913. 

KAY-BEE— (Title   Not   Reported) 

THANHOUSER— (Title   Not  Reported) 

SATURDAY,  APRIL  19th,  1913. 

AMERICAN— The  Ways  of  Fate  (Drama) 1000 

RELIANCE— The  Good   Within   (Drama) 


Mutual  Film  Corporation 
Current  Releases 

SUNDAY,  APRIL  6th,  19 13. 

MAJESTIC— The  Half  Orphans   (Comedy) 

THANHOUSER— When  Ghost  Meets  Ghost  (Drama). 

MONDAY,  APRIL  7th,  1913. 

EXCELSIOR — Temperamental  Alice  (Comedy-Drama) 

AMERICAN— Cupid  Throws  a  Brick  (Drama) 1000 

KEYSTONE— Those  Good  Old  Days  (Comedy) 


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Current  Releases 

MONDAY,  APRIL  7th,  1913. 

RYNO— The  Outcast  (Drama)   

TUESDAY,  APRIL  8th,  1913. 

GAUMONT— The  Angel  of  Mercy  (Drama)    

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  9th,  1913. 

GAUMONT— Gaumont's  Weekly  No.  57  (News) 

RAMO— (Title  Not  Reported)    

SOLAX— The  Lady  Doctor  (Comedy)  

THURSDAY,  APRIL  10th,  1913. 

GAUMONT— (Title  Not  Reported)  

PILOT— Across  the  Boards   (Drama) 

FRIDAY,  APRIL  nth,  1913. 

LUX — Sacrificed  to  the  Lions  (Drama) 

1?  YNO— Off  the  Mainland  (Drama)    

SOLAX— His  Son-In-Law  (Drama)    

SATURDAY,  APRIL  12th,  1913. 

GAUMONT— (An  Educational  and  Topical  Subject) 

GREAT    NORTHERN— The    Bewitched    Rubber    Shoes 

(Comedy) 

GREAT  NORTHERN— Spanish  Towns  (Scenic) 


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New  Haven — Yale  Motion  Picture  Co.,  94  Church  Street. 
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Atlanta — Mutual  Film  Corporation,  SI  Marietta  Street. 
Chicago — H.    &   H.    Film  Service   Co.,    383   Monadnock   Bldg. 
Majestic  Film  Service  Co.,  216  N.  Fifth  Avenue. 
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IOWA,      Des   Moines — Mutual    Film    Corporation,    Fourth    &    Locust   Street. 
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Springfield — Mutual   Film   Exchange,    318   Fuller   Building. 
MICH.      Detroit — Mutual    Film    Corporation,    97    Woodward    Avenue. 
Grand    Rapids — Mutual    Film   Corporation,    7-8    Hawkins    Building. 
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EDISON. 

JONES  GOES  SHOPPING  (April  14).— Late  in  the 
afternoon  Jones,  a  business  man,  remembers  hia 
wife's  commission  to  buy  her  some  cloth.  He  rushes 
madly  to  the  nearest  department  store,  where  he  is 
directed  by  the  floor-walker  to  a  counter,  where 
his  troubles  begin.  It  Is  bargain  day  and  a  big 
■ale  Is  on.  At  first  no  one  pays  any  attention,  but 
he  Is  finally  waited  on  by  tne  clerk,  who  after 
taking  down  almost  everything  in  sight,  fails  to 
match  tbe  sample  and  sends  him  to  another  counter. 
In  his  anxiety  to  secure  the  goods  before  closing 
time,  be  rushes  all  orer  the  store,  gets  into  the 
ladies'  underwear  and  millinery  department,  has  a 
rumpus  with  the  elevator  boy,  and  continues  to  grow 
wilder,  creating  a  disturbance  wherever  he  goes. 
At  last  in  the  china  department,  where  bis  excited 
and  expostulating  manner  makes  the  shoppers  smile 
and  cash  girls  giggle,  he  literally  loses  his  head  en- 
tirely, and  in  a  fist  fight  with  the  floor-walker, 
smashes  everything  in  sight.  The  flying  china  ware 
makes  everyone  hike  for  shelter.  For  a  few  minutes 
he  is  master  of  the  situation,  but  the  police  arrive 
and  drag  him  bodily  from  the  store,  fighting,  di- 
sheveled, still     demanding  a  match  for  his  sample. 

THE  ROCKY  MOUNTAINS  IN  WINTER  (April 
14). — Among  the  Rocky  Mountains  in  winter,  the 
snow  and  pine-clad  hills  and  valleys  form  one  of 
the  most  beautiful  and  awe-inspiring  sights  of  the 
world.  The  clear,  cold  air  and  high  altitude  bring 
out  in  minute  detail  and  spectroscopic  beauty  the 
wonderful  scenery.  Among  subjects  included  are 
the  beautiful  scenery  of  the  Pikes  Peak  region,  with 
the  trip  to  Cripple  Creek.  From  here  one  can  Bee 
the  unfolding  scenery  of  the  Rocky  Mountains.  Also 
the  wonderful  and  picturesque  Cheyenne  Canyon  and 
Colorado  Springs  and  Ha  niton,  and  the  activities 
of  the  people  there  in  winter.  Here  we  see  people 
enjoying  all  the  sports  of  summer  with  the  cold, 
white  hills  rising  about  them  and  serving  as  a  most 
picturesque  background. 

THE  NEW  PUPIL  (April  15), — Henri,  a  young 
composer  and  violinist,  attends  a  gathering  at  the 
studio  of  Jack,  an  artist,  in  an  apartment  house. 
He  Is  sent  out  to  get  some  eatables  and  on  the  way 
back  blunders  into  the  room  of  a  young  lady,  who 
becomes  the  ideal  of  his  romantic  heart.  She  is  a 
music  teacher,  and  failing  an  introduction,  he  be- 
comes her  pupil.  But  she  has  seen  bis  picture  and 
an  interview  in  a  newspaper  in  which  he  criticizes 
American  women  for  the  way  in  which  they  run 
after  stage  celebrities.  She  pretends  Ignorance  of 
bis  identity  and  sternly  refuses  to  allow  any  senti- 
ment. One  day  she  surprises  blm  while  playing 
one  of  his  own  compositions,  and  with  pretended 
indignation  taxes  him  with  his  identity.  He  tells 
her  be  has  done  it  because  be  loves  her,  but  she 
shows  him  the  interview  in  which  he  has  voiced 
bis  opinion  of  American  women.  Finally,  however, 
she  relents  and  all  ends  well. 


VITAGRAPH. 

KB.  HXNTEBN'B  MISADVENTURES  (April  14).— 
Madison  Mia  tern,  is  crossed  in  love.  He  goes  to 
Europe.  Muriel  Leach,  also  crossed  In  love,  and 
bating  men,  takes  passage  on  the  same  boat.  Trap- 
per, a  detective,  also  a  passenger,  is  in  search  of  a 
thief  and  absconder,  Harry  Green,  who  is  supposed 
to  be  on  the  same  steamer.  MIntern's  description 
agrees  with  that  of  the  absconder,  and  the  fact 
that   he   keeps   in    his    cabin   and   has   most  of   his 


meals  sent  there,  serves  to  confirm  Trapper's  sus- 
picion tha  he  is  Green,  He  gets  the  cabin  next  to 
him  and  watches.  One  night  Muriel  and  Mintern 
both  seek  the  upper  deck  for  solitude  and  are  dis- 
gusted at  each  other.  Muriel  sprains  her  ankle 
and  Mintern  assists  her.  They  become  rather  inter- 
ested in  each  other.  That  night,  when  he  is  going 
to  his  stateroom,  a  storm  switches  off  the  electric 
current.  Searching  for  his  room,  Mintern  enters 
Muriel's  cabin  by  mistake.  The  lights  are  suddenly 
turned  on,  she  sees  him  and  before  he  can  explain, 
screams  for  help.  Trapper,  on  the  watch,  arrests 
him  as  Harry  Green.  Luckily  Mintern  meets  his 
friend,  Mallory,  on  board,  who  vouches  for  his 
Identity.  He  and  Muriel  become  friends  and  resolve 
to  help   heal  each  other's  broken  hearts. 

THE  FORTUNE  (April  15).^Jake  and  his  wife 
are  at  the  county  fair.  The  one  thing  that  at- 
tracts Jake's  attention  above  all  others  Is  a  fortune- 
teller's sign.  He  is  told  by  the  seeress  that  he  will 
be  immensely  rich  some  day.  To  celebrate  his 
expected  fortune,  Jake  gets  drunk.  An  automobile 
party  of  four  young  bloods  happens  into  the  cafe 
and  Jake  tells  them,  when  he  falls  heir  to  bis 
riches,  he  will  enjoy  himself  to  the  limit  and  do 
things  in  style.  On  bis  way  home  he  falls  asleep 
by  the  roadside. 

The  four  young  sports  whom  he  met  in  the 
saloon,  happen  that  way,  and  upon  seeing  his  condi- 
tion, they  decide  to  play  a  joke  on  Jake  and  test 
his  ability  to  make  good  in  his  boasted  promise  to 
do  things  In  style.  They  carry  him  to  the  automo- 
bile and  take  him  to  their  swell  apartments,  put 
him  to  bed  and  then  dress  themselves  as  valets 
and  maids.  Later  in  the  day,  Jake  wakes  up  and 
discovers  himself  in  the  midst  of  luxury. 

The  next  morning,  Jake  wakes  up,  finds  himself 
back  where  he  started  before  going  to  the  fair.  He 
is  convinced  he  has  been  dreaming,  and  be  Is  sure 
of  it  when  his  wife  comes  into  the  room,  ad- 
ministering to  him  a  wholesome  beating  with  her 
trusty  old  broom. 

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to  his  business  completely  upset.  She  decides  to 
take  a   position,   make  her  own  living.     Jack  looks 


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in  the  newspaper  and  picks  out  a  boarding  place, 
where  he  secures  board.  He  is  given  the  only 
vacant  room  in  the  house.  Ethel  secures  a  position 
aa  a  cashier  In  a  quick  lunch  restaurant,  then  she 
answers  the  same  ad  as  her  husband  and  the  land- 
lady sees  a  chance  to  rent  the  same  room  to  Jack 
and  Ethel.  Ethel's  position  as  cashier  keeps  her 
busy  at  night,  therefore,  she  cannot  occupy  the  room 
except  in  the  daytime,  and  Jack  can  only  occupy 
it  at  night.  Jack  comes  home  at  night  and  dis- 
covers a  woman's  belongings  in  the  room,  and  tosses 
them  upon  the  floor.  He  leaves  for  his  office  in 
the  morning,  and  after  he  has  gone  Ethel  returns 
from  the  restaurant  and  finds  her  bureau  and  ward- 
robe filled  with  men's  attire.  She  calls  the  land- 
lady, who  removes  Jack's  things. 

The  young  wife  begins  to  tire  of  her  position  as 
cashier,  and  Jack  is  disgusted  with  the  condition 
of  things.  Ethel,  who  has  already  started  for  the 
restaurant,  resigns  her  position  and  goes  back  to 
her  lodgings.  She  enters  the  room  and  is  horrified 
to  see  a  man  occupying  it.  She  walks  boldly  to  him 
and  both  look  Imploringly  at  each  other,  and  finally 
both  confess  that  they  are  sorry  for  their  disagree- 
ments, and  are  anxious  to  make  up  and  live  happy 
ever  afterward.  Eagerly  they  kiss  and  are  recon- 
ciled. 

SLEUTHING  (April  17).— Ophelia  cannot  reconcile 
herself  to  a  separation  from  Wallie,  and  she  in- 
duces him  to  continue  as  a  boarder  in  her  home. 
The  faithful  Belinda  accidentally  learns  that  Wallie 
is  receiving  scented  notes,  and  other  feminine  re- 
minders, which  arouses  her  suspicion.  Belinda  is 
filled  with  a  determination  to  save  her  mistress  from 
the  gay  deceiver.  She  disguises  herself  in  male 
attire. 

Miss  Ophelia  goes  to  the  bank  to  make  a  deposit 
and  Wallie  falls  in  line  directly  behind  her.  His 
financial  condition  is  at  low  ebb  and  he  desides 
to  lay  siege  to  Ophelia  and  her  hoarded  wealth.  He 
loses  no  time  in  proposing  to  her  and  she  accepts 
him.  He  confesses  that  he  cannot  purchase  an 
engagement  ring,  and  she  gives  him  her  diamond 
ring,  which  he  says  be  will  present  to  her  in  the 
presence  of  witnesses  in  the  evening.  He  pawns 
the  ring,  buys  a  fake  diamond  in  ita  stead,  pocket- 
ing the  difference.  He  meets  a  chorus  girl  and 
takes  her  to  a  swell  restaurant.  Belinda  is  on  bis 
tracks.  She  has  seen  him  pawn  the  ring  and  meet 
the  chorus  girl.  She  follows  him  to  the  restaurant, 
where  she  creates  a  scene.  Hughie,  the  policeman, 
arrests  her.  She  pleads  with  him.  He  sympathises 
with  her  and  becomes  quite  smitten.  He  takes  her 
to  the  station  house  and  intercedes  for  her.  The 
sergeant  discharges  her  and  Hughie  induces  the 
matron  to  furnish  Belinda  with  a  hat  and  dress  to 
make  a  presentable  appearance  noon  th%  street. 

Wallie  comes  back  to  Ophelia,  who  makes  prepara- 
tions to  get  married.  With  a  cnte  little  titter,  she 
leaves  the  house,  leaning  on  Wallie's  arm.  After 
they  have  gone,  Belinda  comes  into  tbe  kitchen  with 
Hughie.  Tbe  cook  tells  her  Ophelia  has  just  gone 
to  the  Register's  Office  to  get  married.  Belinda 
looks  at  Hughie  in  surprise,  grabs  him  by  the  hand 
and  is  just  making  her  way  out  of  the  kitchen, 
when  Dowling,  the  grocer's  boy,  comes  in.  She 
gives  him  a  withering  glance,  pushes  bim  aside, 
and  dashes  out,  pulling  Hughie  after  her.  Dowling 
follows  them.  Belinda  and  Hughie  hasten  to  tht 
Register's  Office.  Dramatically  Belinda  holds  up 
her  hands  and  cries,  "Stop!"  She  pulls  out  the 
evidence  of  Wallie's  deception  and  forbids  the 
marriage.  As  Ophelia  hears  her  tell  about  the 
pawning  of  the  ring,  she  recovers  herself  and  com- 
mands him  to  return  tbe  diamond.  Wallie  hands  it 
over  and  she  discovers  that  it  is  a  fake.  This  is 
too  much  for  Ophelia,  she  falls  in  a  faint.  Wallie 
makes  his  escape.  Belinda  rushes  to  her  assistance 
and  Dowling  tries  to  help  her,  but  Belinda  com- 
mands him  to  go,  then  turns  with  a  sweet  smile  to 
Hughie,   in  loving  preference.     Ophelia  is  supported 

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She  meets  Went  worth  Dryden.  He  is  charmed  by 
Marlon's  manner  and  personality.  She  finds  him 
rery  entertaining.  Dryden  pays  her  so  much  court 
her  husband  notices  it.  Dryden  conducts  himself 
with  propriety  and  shows  Mrs.  Harrington  every 
respectful  courtesy,  but  he  finds  it  difficult  to  re- 
strain his  admiration  for  her.  He  invites  her  to 
visit  his  brother's  studio,  to  which  he  has  a  pass- 
key. After  viewing  the  works  of  art,  Dryden  ex- 
presses his  love  for  her  and  she  becomes  suspicious 
of  his  Intentions.  Making  some  plausible  excuse, 
she  opens  the  window.  She  spies  her  husband, 
attracts  his  attention  and  calls  him.  He  is  sur- 
prised, but  hastens  to  her.  She  calmly  awaits  his 
coming.  Before  be  arrives,  however,  Dryden  has 
controlled  bis  inclination  and  does  not  forget  that 
he  is  a  gentleman.  He  respectfully  escorts  Marion 
to  the  door  and  announces  that  bis  brother  seems 
to  have  forgotten  bis  appointment  and,  if  she  is 
ready,  be  wilt  see  her  home. 

Just  aa  they  are  leaving  the  studio  Mr.  Harring- 
ton enters.  He  accuses  Dryden  of  being  discourte- 
ous to  his  wife.  Dryden  denies  it,  and  Mr.  Har- 
rington strikes  Dryden  a  heavy  blow.  Mrs.  Har- 
rington convinces  him  that  Dryden  has  done  nothing 
wrong. 

SEEING  DOUBLE  (April  19  .— Binks  Is  addicted 
to  drink.  His  wife  seeks  to  cure  him.  One  day 
she  meets  the  Misses  Simms,  twins.  A  happy  idea 
comes  to  her  and  she  invites  the  girls  to  spend  a 
few  days  at  her  home,  acquainting  them  with  her 
scheme  to  cure  her  husband  of  bis  insatiable  habit. 
They  arrive  at  Mrs.  Binks'  home,  dressed  exactly 
alike.  That  evening,  when  Mr.  Binks  returns  from 
business,  somewhat  drunk,  bis  wife  introduces  bim 
to  one  of  the  girls,  while  tbe  other  hides  directly 
behind  her.  John  is  delighted  to  meet  the  young 
lady.  He  turns  his  back,  and  upon  looking  at  ber 
again  he  sees  her  double.  This  causes  him  to  hold 
his  eyes  and  question  his  senses.  When  he  takes 
his  hands  from  his  eyes  and  looks  again  he  only 
sees  one.  He  is  convinced  that  he  Is  seeing  double. 
Wherever  he  turns  be  sees  the  girl  in  pairs.  He 
goes  to  bed,  and  has  no  sooner  gotten  located  than 
be  sees  the  double  girl  looking  through  bts  window, 
with  candles  in  their  bands.  The  ruse  proves  suc- 
cessful and  BinLs  Is  cured. 

JEAN  AND  HER  FAMILY  (April  19).— A  de- 
scription of  this  subject  was  printed  on  page  1242 
of  the  issue  dated  March  22. 


LUBIN. 

MINNIE,  THE  WIDOW  (April  14).— Minnie  Win- 
dom,  a  fascinating  widow,  and  ber  daughter,  Clara, 
being  moderately  well  to  do,  are  spending  the  win- 
ter on  the  southeast  coast.  They  are  having  a 
good  time,  for  the  widow  is  charming.  Tbe  daugh- 
ter feels  that  her  mother  is  beating  her.  She  must 
tell  somebody,  so  she  writes  of  her  vexation  to  a 
girl  chum  and  cries  herself  to  sleep.  The  mother 
comes  in,  sees  her  daughter  and  tells  her  that  she 
shMl  have  ber  chance  when  she  (the  mother)  has 
perfected  her  own  affair.  Major  Dowling  is  press- 
ing the  widow  pretty  hard,  and  to  give  Clara  her 
chance  they  remove  from  St.  Augustine  to  another 
resort.  Mrs.  Wlndom  does  ber  best  to  distract  at- 
tention; she  dresses  plainly  and  makes  her  eyes 
behave,  but  the  major  still  pursues  her,  and  in  the 
end  persuades  her  to  say  "Yes."  After  the  mar- 
riage the  widow  resumes  her  attractive  personality, 
and  the  major  chases  the  young  swells  after  Clara, 
so   all   Is   love   and   kisses. 

ONE  ON  ROMANCE  (April  14).— Helen  Ross 
spends  her  time  reading  novels.  She  has  made  up 
her  mind  to  marry  oniy  a  young  man  whom  she 
can  save  from  something  or  other,  or  one  who  can 
rescne  ber  in  some  romantic  way.  Her  father  comes 
to  her  room  and  asks  her  to  come  down  to  meet 
Jack  Wilson,  a  young  millionaire.  She  refuses  to 
meet  a  man  In  such  a  commonplace  way.  When 
her  father  Insists  she  packs  a  bag  and  announces 
that  she  is  going  to  their  country  home.  Ross 
comes  down,  carrying  an  armful  of  Helen's  novels, 
and  explains  that  the  girl  is  romance-struck.  The 
young  man  shows  Ross  an  invitation  be  has,  to 
spend  the  week-end  at  bis  cousin's  home.  They 
shake  hands,  and  he  leaves  for  his  cousin's  place, 
which,  as  It  happens,  adjoins  the  country  home  of 
the  Rosses.  About  a  week  after  Jack's  arrival  the 
young  people  decide  to  give  private  theatricals,  and 
assemble  for  a  rehearsal.  In  the  playlet  they  are 
giving  the  leading  character  is  supposed  to  be  a 
criminal,  and  the  others  guards,  officers,  Salvation 
Army,  etc.  At  tbe  last  moment  the  man  who  is 
taking  the  leading  part  is  called  away,  and  Jack 
Is  urged  to  take  the  role.  But  he  refuses.  The 
boys  then  lay  hold  of  him  and  force  him  into  the 
striped  suit.  As  they  turn  away  for  a  minute  he 
leaps  to  an  open  window,  Jumps  through  and  dashes 
away,  tbe  boys  dressed  as  guards  and  officers  in 
pursuit.  Helen  Ross  is  Just  then  sitting  on  tbe 
grass  In  the  garden  and  reading,  as  usual.  She 
hears  shouts  and,  looking  up,  sees  Jack's  bead  over 
the  fence.  He  jumps  over  and  races  in  her  direc- 
tion. She  decides  to  save  bim.  As  be  Is  about 
to  run  past  her  she  stops  him  and,  pulling  him 
down  on  the  ground  beside  her,  takes  bis  bead  in 
■her  lap  and  hastily  places  her  parasol  over  him. 
Just  then  the  mock  officers  leap  over  the  fence. 
As  soon  as  they  are  gone  Helen  sits  up,  but  Jack 
seems  to  have  forgotten  that  he  should  get  up,  and 
continues  to  lie  there.  Helen  angrily  gets  up,  and 
tils  head  bangs  on  the  ground.  He  then  stands  up 
and,  looking  at  ber  more  closely,  recognizes  her  as 
Helen  Ross.     She,  however,  does  not  know  him,  but 


believes  him  to  be  an  escaped  convict.  She  looks 
bim  over,  and  he  being  handsome,  and  also  having 
saved  him,  she  of  course  immediately  falls  in  love 
with  him.     The  end  comes  in  the  conventional  way. 

THE    PAWNED    BRACELET     (April    IB) Jason 

Conrad,  after  a  quarrel  with  his  wife,  buys  her  a 
bracelet.  Some  women  friends  drop  in  and  sug- 
gest a  luncheon  and  the  theatre,  "Dutch  treat." 
Mrs.  Conrad  remembers  that  she  has  so  "pin 
money"  and  decides  to  pawn  the  bracelet.  Through 
a  series  of  errors  the  husband's  suspiciens  are 
aroused  at  the  continued  absence  of  the  bracelet, 
but   everything  is   finally   explained. 

THE  RIGHT  ROAD  (April  17).— John  Craig, 
leaving  prison,  determines  to  live  straight.  He 
becomes  a  real  estate  and  mine  dealer  and  earns 
tbe  respect  of  Luther  Patten,  a  mine  investor,  and 
the  love  of  his  daughter,  Laura.  Tom  Watson,  a 
mine  shark,  offers  his  outworked  mine  for  sale 
through  Craig's  office.  Craig  advises  Patten  to  take 
a  ten-day  option  on  it.  Patten  takes  the  option 
and  then  cancels  it.  Craig  goes  to  Watson's  miue 
to  tell  him  of  Patten's  decision  and  discovers  that 
a  landslide  has  uncovered  a  rich  vein  of  gold. 
Craig  goes  to  Patten's  home  to  tell  him  of  this. 
Watson,  realizing  that  he  is  about  to  lose,  tries, 
through  his  foreman,  to  injure  Patten,  and  does  so 
before  Craig  sees  him.  Craig,  to  save  the  day. 
forges  Patten's  name  for  $2,000  and  cashes  it  to 
pay  Watson.  When  Craig  sees  Patten  he  confesses 
his  past  as  a  forger,  and  Patten   forgives  him. 

THE  POWER  OF  THE  CROSS  (Special— 2  reels 
— April  18). — "Never  part  with  this  cross;  it  was 
your  father's."  These  were  the  last  words  of 
Paul  Darner's  mother  as  she  placed  the  cross  about 
his  neck,  A  few  months  later  the  young  clergy- 
man accepts  an  offer  to  take  a  parish  at  Glenwood, 
with  an  invitation  to  make  his  home  with  John 
Temple,  a  wealthy  churchman.  There  he  meets 
Iris,  daughter  of  Temple,  and-  Mary  Gray,  her 
cousin,  Mary  immediately  falls  in  love  with  Paul, 
but  the  latter  soon  becomes  infatuated  with  Iris, 
though  she  is  very  indifferent  toward  the  young 
clergyman  until  she  learns  from  the  dashing  widow, 
Mrs.  Brunton,  of  Mary's  love  for  him.  Iris  then 
determines,  as  a  matter  of  conquest,  to  win  tbe 
minister.  When  Paul  declares  his  love  for  Iris, 
Temple  readily  gives  bis  consent.  Through  the 
persistent  pleas  of  the  lively  widow,  Iris  is  led  to 
accept  her  invitations  as  of  old,  and  It  was  due  to 
ber  failure  to  return  home  at  the  proper  hour  on 
one  occasion  which  prompted  her  father  to  go  in 
search  of  her.  Instead  of  Iris  being  at  Mrs.  Brun- 
ton's  home,  he  found  her  at  a  fashionable  cafe,  ine- 
briated. Taking  her  borne,  they  are  met  by  tbe 
clergyman-husband,  who  now  learns  for  the  first 
time  of  his  wife's  weakness,  but  promptly  forgives 
her  upon  her  promise  to  break  from  Mrs.  Brunton 
and  her  set.  Later,  when  Paul  decides  to  visit 
Dr.  Banks  at  his  old  home,  Iris  takes  advantage 
of  his  absence  by  giving  a  card  party  to  Mrs.  Brun- 
ton and  her  friends.  Wine  flows  freely.  Paul  re- 
turns unexpectedly  and  discovers  them.  A  violent 
quarrel  ensues,  resulting  in  Iris  leaving  and  going 
to  Mrs.  Brunton's.  All  efforts  to  bring  her  back 
are  futile.  Iris  goes  from  bad  to  worse.  A  re- 
jected suitor,  Clifford  Moore,  is  a  steady  visitor  at 
the  Brunton  home.  Paul  grows  desperate  at  his 
wife's  absence  and,  in  a  fit  of  despondency,  tears 
away  his  holy  vestments,  but  when  he  attempts  to 
destroy  the  cross,  Mary  prevents.  Completely 
erased,  Paul  grabs  a  bottle  from  the  sideboard 
and  drains  it.  Unnerved  by  what  he  has  witnessed, 
the  father,  John  Temple,  falls  dead.  Later  Paul 
meets  Clifford  In  a  gambling  house  and,  accusing 
him  for  his  wife's  desertion,  attacks  him,  declar- 
ing that  he  "will  kill  him."  The  men  are  sepa- 
rated and  Paul  put  out.  Clifford  leaves  the  resort, 
a  heavy  winner  that  night,  and  is  followed  by 
Cardwell,  a  gambler  and  crook,  who  waylays,  robs 
and  murders  him.  When  the  crime  is  discovered 
Paul  1b  readily  suspected,  arrested  and  tried.  Many 
witnesses  testify  to  hearing  Paul's  threat  at  the 
gambling  house.  All  hope  vanishes  until  Mary 
Gray,  regardless  of  public  opinion,  swears  to  Paul's 
presence  in  her  own  home  the  night  of  tbe  crime. 
Her  story  Is  proved  and  Paul  Is  finally  freed,  Just 
as  word  comes  that  Iris  is  dying  in  an  old  tene- 
ment basement,  where  she  has  taken  refuge.  Mary 
and  Paul  arrive  at  the  bedside  Just  as  Iris  is 
breathing  her  last. 

A  few  months  pass.  Mary  ia  now  a  nurse  In  a 
hospital.  Paul,  repenting  for  the  life  he  has  been 
leading,  calls  upon  Mary,  who  returns  to  him  the 
cross  upon  hearing  him  declare  that  he  Is  going  to 
preach  In  foreign  lands  and  wants  her  to  accom- 
pany him  as  his  wife.  Convinced  of  his  sincerity. 
Mary  capitulates,  and  with  Paul  In  full  vestment 
once  more  they  Journey  onward,  placing  their  trust 
in   "The  Power  of  the  Cross." 

BABY'S  NEW  PIN  (April  18).— Jim  Perkins  and 
wife  are  very  proud  of  their  baby.  They  receive 
a  visit  from  auntie,  who  presents  baby  with  a  fancy 
dress  pin.  The  pin  drops  to  the  floor.  Mother 
misses  it  and  thinks  baby  has  swallowed  it,  and 
sets  up  an  awful  cry  and  sends  Jim  for  all  the 
neighbors  and  doctors  In  the  village.  Each  in  turn 
have  their  particular  remedy  which  they  give  to 
baby.  After  the  whole  village  has  tried  to  save 
baby,  Dr.  Slow,  the  fastest  doctor  In  the  village, 
enters  and  finds  the  pin  on  the  floor  where  it  had 
dropped,  and  saves  the  baby's  life. 

BEATING  MOTHER  TO  IT  (April  18).  —  Mrs. 
Ray's  daughter,  Bess,  loves  Tom  Travers,  but 
mother  objects.     Mrs.    Ray   has  a  love  affair  with 


John  Jackson,  who  seeks  her  hand.  The  two  love 
affairs  clash  frequently.  Jackson  hires  an  auto- 
mobile to  elope  with  mother.  Tom  and  Bess  get 
his  note.  Tom  hires  a  car  and  plays  chauffeur, 
while  Bess  delivers  the  note  to  her  mother,  after 
turning  tbe  clock  back  one  hour.  Bess,  In  the  car 
with  Tom,  disguised  as  chauffer,  call  for  Jackson. 
Bess  being  veiled,  Jackson  thinks  her  to  be  the 
widow.  They  drive  to  a  minister,  where  Tom  and 
Bess  are  married,  with  Jackson  as  an  unwilling 
witness.      Mother   forgives   them   later. 

A  FLORIDA  ROMANCE  (April  19). -—John  Bruce 
and  his  daughter,  Bess,  were  plain  Southern  coun- 
try folks,  growing  oranges,  Old  Bruce  likes  Jim 
Lang,  an  employe,  who  loves  Bess.  One  day  the 
young  folks  ask  his  consent  to  their  marriage.  He 
tells  Jim  to  wait  a  year.  Bess  goes  to  visit  city 
relatives,  and  when  the  year  is  up  she  forgets  Jim. 
She  becomes  cultured  and  falls  in  love  with  Count 
De  Tourney.  One  day  Jim  sends  ber  a  branch  of 
oranges,  and  tbe  count  sends  ber  bis  usual  box  of 
roses.  She  meditates  over  these,  and  two  visions 
arise.  On  the  right  she  sees  herself  dancing  with 
the  count  at  a  grand  ball;  on  the  left  she  sees  Jim 
and  herself  among  the  orange  trees  at  home.  She 
decides  that  she  is  tired  of  the  count  and  city  life, 
and  hurries  home.  She  finds  she  is  happier  there 
and  that  she  loves  Jim  the  best,   after  all. 


KALEM. 

A  STREAK  OF  YELLOW  (April  14).— Evelyn 
Gregory,  a  society  girl,  is  courted  by  Sidney  Wor- 
thy, a  serious  young  man  with  a  high  sense  of 
honor,  and  Charles  Cad  well,  whose  jolly  disposi- 
tion makes  him  a  great  favorite.  Cadwell  wins 
Evelyn's  promise,  and  when  he  breaks  tbe  news  to 
his    rival,    Worthy    warmly   congratulates   him. 

Evelyn  gives  a  supper  party  to  announce  her  en- 
gagement, and  while  preparing  tbe  chafing  dish 
there  is  an  explosion  which  severely  burns  the 
hostess.  A  doctor  is  quickly  summoned,  and  when 
an  examination  is  made  he  announces  that  Evelyn 
will  be  disfigured  for  life,  to  the  horror  of  ths 
guests. 

Cadwell's  cowardly  nature  asserts  Itself  when, 
after  two  weeks  of  deliberation,  be  sends  Evelyn 
a  heartless  note,  stating  that  he  cannot  marry  her, 
now  that  she  has  lost  her  beauty;  that  be  Is  leav- 
ing for  Europe,  and  that  she  must  make  no  effort 
to  change  his  determination. 

Worthy  calls  on  Evelyn  shortly  after  she  has 
received  the  note.  Her  features  are  concealed  by 
a  veil,  and  Worthy  is  full  of  sympathy.  When  he 
Is  told  of  the  note  he  makes  a  sudden  resolve  and 
visits  Cadwell's  apartments.  Tom  roundly  de- 
nounces Cadwell  and  demands  that  be  apologize 
to  Evelyn.  There  Is  an  altercation,  followed  by 
a  struggle,  and  Cadwell  flees.  Worthy  pursues  and 
brings  Cadwell  to  Evelyn's  home.  Evelyn,  still 
veiled,  receives  the  two  men,  and  Cadwell  utters 
his  forced  apology.  Tbe  girl  will  not  accept  it, 
and  removes  ber  veil.  To  the  amazement  of  Wor- 
thy and  Cadwell,  Evelyn's  face  is  unblemished. 
Evelyn  realizes  that  her  first  choice  was  ill-advised, 
and  Worthy  claims  his  own. 

A  PLOT  FOR  A  MILLION  (April  16).— Dick  Lo- 
gan, the  son  of  a  wealthy  broker,  is  spending  the 
winter  in  the  South.  One  afternoon  the  engine  of 
his  motor  boat  gets  out  of  commission  and  be  is 
given  timely  assistance  by  Elsie,  the  daughter  of  a 
tugboat  captain.     A  warm  friendship  Is  established. 

Dick's  father  decides  to  take  a  yachting  trip 
south,  and  when  he  makes  the  announcement  his 
scheming  secretary  plana  to  profit  by  his  employer's 
absence.  The  secretary  calls  on  a  rival  broker, 
and  a  plan  Is  made  to  attack  Logan's  holdings 
while  he  is  out  of  communication  with  his  office. 

Mr.  Logan  arrives  in  the  South  and  is  welcomed 
by  Dick,  who  presents  Elsie  and  quietly  informs  his 
father  that  she  Is  the  girl  of  bis  choice.  The 
broker,  who  has  made  other  plans,  does  not  approve 
of  the  match,   but  keeps  his  own  counsel. 

Meanwhile  the  attack  on  the  market  Is  com- 
menced, and  Logan's  office  sends  him  a  message, 
ordering  instructions.  The  secretary,  who  has  ac- 
companied Logan  on  the  trip,  receives  a  wire  from 
his  confederate,  stating  that  the  broker  must  b« 
kept  from  communicating  with  his  office  at  all 
costs.  The  pilot  of  the  yacht  is  bribed  to  run  the 
boat  ashore,  and  when  his  purpose  Is  detected  the 
secretary  takes  drastic  measures  and  Imprisons 
Logan  in  his  cabin. 

Dick,  who  has  been  visiting  Elsie  on  the  tugboat, 
witnesses  his  father's  struggles  from  a  distance 
and  immediately  pursues  the  yacht.  When  the  sec- 
retary tries  to  shoot  down  the  fair  pilot  he  Is 
swept  across  the  deck  by  the  tug's  Are  hose. 
Jumping  to  the  yacht,  Dick  is  soon  master  of  the 
situation  and,  apprehending  the  secretary,  he  lib- 
erates his  father.  The  latter  comes  to  the  conclu- 
sion that  his  son  has  made  a  wise  choice,  after  all. 

THE  BRAVEST  GIRL  IN  CALIFORNIA  (April 
18). — The  comedian  and  his  daughter,  "small  time" 
performers,  present  their  act  and  are  given  the 
"hook."  "There's  nothing  to  this  business,  any- 
way!" exclaims  the  masculine  member  of  the  team 
of  entertainers,  and  they  proceed  forthwith  to  se- 
cure a  more  profitable  occupation.  At  a  riding 
academy  the  girl  demonstrates  that  she  Is  a  clever 
horsewoman  and  Is  given  a  position  as  instructor, 
while  father  finds  work  in  the  stable.  One  day  a 
wealthy  young  man  patronizes  tbe  academy,  and 
father  Is  on  the  alert  to  Introduce  his  daughter. 
The  young  people  become  much  attached,  bat  father 


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wishes  to  clinch  the  wealthy  nun's  admiration  for 
his  daughter.  How  be  accomplishes  his  purpose  is 
best  told  in  the  picture. 

THE  MILLIONAIRES'  PLAYGROUND  (April  18. 
— While  residents  of  the  Northern  states  are  still 
waiting  for  evidence  of  the  fact  that  "the  back- 
bone of  winter"  has  been  broken,  the  person  who 
witnesses  this  novel  motion  picture  production  will 
be  enabled  to  make  a  15-minnte  visit  to  the  cele- 
brated resort,  Palm  Beach,  Florida,  where  people  of 
wealth  enjoy  the  winter  season.  From  his  wheel- 
chair air.  Cbauncey  Depew  witnesses  a  spirited 
ball  game.  Mrs.  William  E.  Vanderbllt,  strolling 
along  the  beach,  stops  to  visit  with  the  bathers. 
Mayor  Demick  picks  up  cocoannts  in  bis  front  yard, 
and  Mayor  Anderson  of  West  Palm  Beach  feeds 
a  flock  of  wild  ducks.  Mr.  Hugh  Ionian,  Mrs.  Percy 
Williams  and  Mrs.  Payne  Whitney  are  among  the 
notables.  We  see  the  Beach  Glub — the  Monte  Carlo 
of  America — and  after  watching  a  golf  game  we 
witness  a  fashionable  version  of  the  "turkey  trot." 

THE  FIRE -FIGHTING  ZOUAVES  (April  19).— 
Egbert  Hayes,  a  lieutenant  in  the  United  States 
army,  is  courting  Roxana  Minton,  the  young  and 
pretty  daughter  of  Herbert  Minton,  a  wealthy  New 
York  business  man.  The  girl  does  not  object  to 
the  lieutenant,  but  is  inclined  to  favor  Ben  Rod- 
erick, the  leader  of  Engine  Company  No.  1  of  the 
N.  Y.  Volunteer  Fire  Company.  Responding  with 
patriotic  seal  to  the  North's  call  for  volunteers, 
Ben  and  a  dozen  of  his  comrades  enlist  and  Join 
the  regiment  of  "Zouaves."  They  are  subjected 
to  great  ridicule  at  first  because  of  their  odd  uni- 
forms, and  Hayes  misses  no  opportunity  to  dis- 
credit Ben.  Nevertheless  the  Zouaves  faithfully 
practice  their  athletic  drills. 

Time  passes  and  Ben  and  his  men  distinguish 
themselves  on  the  field  of  battle.  The  fireman  Is 
promoted  to  a  commission.  At  this  time  Lieutenant 
Hayes,  who  is  camping  with  a  detachment  of  his 
regiment  in  Northern  Virginia,  invites  Mr.  Minton 
and  Roxana  to  visit  the  camp.  Minton  and  his 
daughter  arrive,  but  only  to  fall  into  a  terrible 
catastrophe.  They  have  only  been  encamped  a 
short  time  when  the  Confederates  attack,  and  Rox- 
ana. takes  refuge  in  a  nearby  house.  A  fierce  battle 
Is  waged   and   the   house   is  set  on  fire. 

The  skill  of  the  Zouaves  now  asserts  Itself,  and 
in  one  of  their  spectacular  formations  Ben  is  lifted 
to  the  window,  dashes  through  the  flames  and  res- 
cues the  girl.  He  immediately  joins  his  men  and 
makes  a  strategic  attack  on  the  enemy. 

This  double  feat  of  heroism  not  only  brings  to 
the  young  man  the  esteem  of  all,  but  also  a  badge 
of  honor  and  the  hand  of  the  beautiful  Roxana. 


ESSANAY. 

THE  ACCUSATION  OF  BRONCHO  BILLY  (April 
16). — Broncho  Billy,  owner  of  a  saloon  in  Big  Horn 
City,  is  trusted  Implicitly  by  the  miners  in  the 
surrounding  territory.  Several  of  them  have 
gathered  at  the  bar,  when  Broncho  Billy  receives 
a  note,  stating  that  the  stage-coach  will  not  stop 
at  Big  Horn  until  the  following  day.  The  men 
request  Broncho  Billy  to  keep  their  gold  until  the 
coach  arrives.  Broncho  Billy  locks  the  gold  in  an 
Iron  chest,  and  asks  the  men  if  they  will  keep  the 
key.  They  tell  him  no,  that  it  would  probably 
be  safer  with  bim.  Broncho  Billy  retires  with  his 
clothes  on,  to  be  able  to  protect  the  gold  If  neces- 
sary. During  the  night  Broncho  Billy  walks  in  his 
sleep.  He  takes  the  gold  from  the  chest,  carries  it 
under  a  nearby  house,  where  he  places  it  In  a 
barrel.  He  then  returns  to  his  bunk,  where  he 
sleeps  the  remainder  of  the  night.  The  next  morn- 
ing be  is  dumbfounded  when  he  discovers  the  loss. 
He  Informs  the  sheriff,  who  suggests  locking  him 
in  a  cell  to  prevent  the  men  from  lynching  him. 
That  night,  the  men  break  into  the  jail,  overpower 
the  sheriff,  and  are  about  to  make  quick  work  of 
Broncho  Billy,  when  they  discover  him  walking 
arouad  in  the  cell  asleep.  They  open  the  door  and 
allow  him  to  go  out.  Broncho  Billy  retraces  his 
steps  of  the  night  previous,  gets  the  gold  and  re- 
turns it  to  the  chest,  goes  quietly  to  bis  bunk, 
where  he  continues  to  sleep.  The  men.  overjoyed 
at  the  return  of  the  gold,  and  discovering  their  ter- 
rible mistake  in  believing  that  Broncho  Billy  had 
stolen  it.  help  themselves  to  a  good  drink  at  the  bar, 

THE  CAPTURE  (April  16).— It  is  the  unexpected 
things  in  life  that  happen,  which  was  proven  when 
Bob  Burns  applied  to  John  Hennessy  for  a  position. 
Burns  is  told  that  single  men  are  not  engaged,  that 
If  be  gets  married  by  twelve  o'clock  the  following 
day,  the  position  is  his.  Burns  writes  two  of  his 
young  lady  friends,  asking  them  to  marry  him,  and 
to  meet  him  at  eleven  o'clock.  Undecided  which 
one  to  mail,  be  allows  a  young  boy  to  pick  one  of 
the  letters  out  of  his  pocket  and  mail  it.  By  acci- 
dent, the  other  letter  drops  to  the  sidewalk.  A 
good  Samaritan,  seeing  the  letter,  picks  it  up  and 
mails  it.  The  next  morning,  at  the  appointed  time, 
the  two  ladies  arrive  on  the  scene,  and  claim  Burns 
for  theirs.  Not  knowing  what  to  do,  Burns  simply 
throws  up  the  sponge  and  takes  to  his  heels. 
Burns  runs  into  an  apartment  building,  where  he 
comes  face  to  face  with  an  old  sweetheart  of  his. 
He  proposes  to  her  and  is  accepted.  They  get 
married.  Bob  and  his  young  bride  arrive  at  his 
employer's  office,  where  the  two  young  ladles  rush 
In  with  a  policeman.  Mr.  Hennessy  is  over- 
whelmed when  he  discovers  that  Burns'  young  bride 
Is  his  daughter   Ruth. 


THE  UNKNOWN  (April  18).— Mr.  Hoyt,  ft 
wealthy  broker,  loses  his  wife.  Marie,  a  maid  In 
the  Hoyt  household,  has  her  mother  call  on  her. 
Marie's  mother  recognizes  Mr.  Hoyt.  Several  weeks 
later,  Hoyt  has  a  long  talk  with  Marie,  which 
finally  ends  by  his  asking  consent  to  call  on  her 
mother.  Hoyt  calls  on  Marie's  mother,  where  he 
takes  her  in  his  arms  and  kisses  her  fondly. 
Marie  is  informed  by  her  mother  that  Mr.  Hoyt  is 
her  father. 

THE  CROSSING  POLICEMAN  (April  18).— Pat- 
rick's love  for  Lillisn  Sinclair,  a  young  cripple  girl, 
costs  him  his  position.  The  physician  attending 
Lillian  informs  the  policeman  that  an  operation  is 
necessary  to  bring  about  the  young  child's  normal 
condition.  Murphy  gives  the  doctor  his  pay  check 
and  tells  him  to  make  the  girl  well  again.  The 
operation  is  a  successful  one.  Lillian's  first  thought 
is  of  her  policeman  friend,  Murphy.  He  having  been 
discharged  from  the  police  force  for  neglect  of 
duty,  is  not  found  on  his  beat  by  the  little  girl. 
Two  years  later  Murphy  returns  to  the  city  In 
want.  Lillian  and  her  mother,  in  the  meantime, 
had  prospered  by  the  death  of  a  relative.  Murphy 
is  found  in  front  of  Lillian's  home  dying  of  starva- 
tion. He  is  carried  into  the  luxurious  home,  where 
he  iB  given  the  best  that  money  can  buy.  He  recog- 
nizes his  little  sweetheart.  A  few  weeks  later,  we 
recognise  Murphy  as  the  gardener,  and  beside  him 
the  sweetest  flower  of  all,  Lillian. 

AT.KAT.T  LKE'S  HOMECOMING  (April  19).— Dur- 
ing Alkali  Ike's  visit  to  the  East,  Slippery  Slim 
made  rapid  progress  for  the  hand  of  Soffle  Clutts. 
On  this  particular  day  In  February,  Slippery  Slim 
is  very  much  dejected  when  be  calls  on  Soffle  and 
discovers  that  she  is  admiring  several  photographs 
of  her  old  friend  Alkali.  To  give  him  a  better 
sailing,  Slim  shows  Sofl3e  a  fictitious  note,  stating 
that  Alkali  Ike  died  that  day.  Soffle's  old  love 
returns,  she  dashes  madly  from  the  house,  leaving 
her  suitor  bewildered,  rushes  to  the  general  store, 
where  she  purchases  several  yards  of  crepe,  some 
black  dress  material  and  a  box  of  mourning  hand- 
kerchiefs, also  &  floral  piece.  That  afternoon,  the 
boys  on  the  ranch  receive  a  telegram  stating  that 
Alkali  Ike  will  arrive  that  day.  He  is  met  at  the 
train  by  the  Lizardvllle  band  and  a  group  of  cow- 
boys, who  give  him  a  welcoming  never  to  be  for- 
gotten. Alkali  Ike's  first  thought  was  of  Soffle. 
He  goes  to  his  bunk  house  where  he  sheds  his 
citizens'  clothes  and  dons  his  chaps,  flannel  shirt 
and  Stetson  hat.  He  is  overwhelmed  when  he  sees 
the  floral  piece  with  the  following  inscription:  "To 
my  beloved  Alkali.  Died  February  2nd,  1913."  He 
rushes  madly  to  Soffle's  home,  where,  upon  looking 
through  the  window,  he  discovers  Slippery  Slim 
trying  to  console  the  weeping  miss.  Slim  discovers 
Alkali  at  the  window,  takes  another  good  look  and 
leaves  rather  hurriedly.  Alkali  enters.  Soffle,  over- 
Joyed,  throws  her  arms  about  him  and  claims  the 
smiling  westerner  for  her  own. 


CINES. 

THE  ftUEEN  OF  SPADES  (2  reels— Special) 
April  7). — In  spite  of  his  wife's  earnest  appeals, 
Jack  Norrls  refuses  to  give  up  gambling,  and  after 
squandering  all  they  possess  in  the  world,  suddenly 
disappears,  leaving  the  unfortunate  woman  to  sup- 
port herself  and  her  little  daughter. 

Thrown  opon  her  own  resources,  she  is  finally 
compelled  by  necessity  to  accept  a  proposition  from 
unscrupulous  money  sharks  to  take  charge  of  a 
fashionable  gambling  house.  Her  education  and 
refinement  have  fitted  her  to  become  a  most  ef- 
ficient manager,  and  in  five  years'  time  she  fully 
realizes  her  employer's  ambitions.  The  most  fash- 
ionable people  in  the  town  And  in  her  their  natural 
leader,    and   are    easily  held   under   her  sway. 

One  day,  however,  her  heart  stands  still,  when 
she  receives  a  letter  from  her  daughter,  Dorothy, 
who  is  attending  boarding  school,  stating  that  she 
has  passed  her  final  examinations  and  is  waiting 
to  be  taken  home.  Mrs.  Norris  pleads  with  the 
employers  to  relinquish  her  from  the  infamous  con- 
tract, but  without'  avail.  Dorothy  is  brought  to 
live  at  her  mother's  apartment,  but  is  scrupulously 
kept   in   ignorance   of   her   mother's   position. 

One  evening  a  brilliant  entertainment  is  given, 
and  the  unsuspecting  girl  Is  radiantly  happy  amidst 
it  all,  when  suddenly  she  overbears  a  loud  dispute 
among  several  of  the  guests  engaged  in  a  game  of 
cards  in  an  adjoining  room,  and  the  true  character 
of  the  establishment  is  revealed.  In  a  flood  of 
tears,  she  rushes  to  her  room,  and  later,  when  her 
mother  comes  to  comfort  her,  Dorothy  explains  that 
she  now  understands  why  her  fiance,  the  son  of  a 
high  official,  has  determined  to  break  off  their 
engagement  because  of  her  mother's  ambiguous  posi- 
tion. 

Mrs.  Norris  is  in  deep  despair.  Her  daughter's 
happiness  is  paramount;  it  must  be  preserved  at 
any  cost,  and  without  delay.  Accompanied  by 
Dorothy,  she  psys  a  visit  to  the  young  man  and 
asks  him  if  he  will  withdraw  his  objections  if 
she  agrees  to  go  away  forever.  He  finally  consents, 
and,  with  a  last  sad  farewell,  the  heartbroken 
mother  leaves   them   clasped  In  each   other's   arms. 

FAINT  HEART  NE'ER  WON  FAIR  LADY  (April 
5). — Percy  is  the  bashful  pet  of  his  fond  mamma, 
who  wishing  to  see  her  son  marry  to  good  advantage, 
arranges  his  engagement  to  the  daughter  of  a 
wealthy  friend.  However,  the  young  lady  in  ques- 
tion is  not  at  all  pleased  with  the  match,  and  In 
order  to  get  rid  of  the  "delicate  creature,"   insists 


upon  his  proving  ability  in  athletics.  Percy  makes 
a  l'udicrous  spectacle  of  himself  on  the  field  of 
sports,  for  he  proves  to  be  ss  awkward  as  he  is 
timid,  and  his  antics  provide  plenty  of  amusement 
for  the  young  woman  and  her  friends.  At  last 
poor  Percy  begins  to  understand  the  situation,  and 
returns  home  to  tell  his  mother  of  the  ill-treatment. 
This  results  in  the  sudden  termination  of  the  engage- 
ment,   much   to    the   young   lady's    sorrow    (?). 

MODERN  PROGRESS  IN  SOMALILAND  (East 
Africa)  (April  5). — Depleting  how  civilisation  has 
recently  progressed  in  this  part  of  Africa.  We  are 
shown  the  barracks  of  the  soldiers,  a  remarkable 
dyke  constructed  under  the  supervision  of  Italian 
engineers,  the  hydraulic  pumps,  the  military  motor- 
car  service,    and   several   splendid   roads. 

A  ROMANCE  BY  THE  SEA  (April  8).— Like  a 
true  fisherman's  daughter,  Anne  likes  to  assist  her 
father  and  Jim,  her  sweetheart,  at  their  labors. 
Jim  loves  Anne  passionately  and  she  returns  his 
affection,  until  one  day  a  young  dandy  from  the 
city,  who  is  spending  his  vacation  in  the  neighbor- 
hood, pays  her  marked  attentions  and  causes  her  to 
despise  her  humble  lover. 

Jim  is  heart-broken  but  resolves  to  keep  the 
pair  under  close  surveillance.  One  day  he  follows 
them  along  the  seashore  and  when  the  visitor  at- 
tempts to  become  too  forward  In  his  attentions, 
Jim  rushes  to  the  assistance  of  the  straggling  girl, 
and  after  easily  disposing  of  her  assailant,  escorts 
her  home. 

Anne  now  realizes  Jim's  true  worth,  and  the 
next  day  tells  him  thst  she  has  decided  that  she 
can  return  his  love.  Jim.  however,  hesitates,  hav- 
ing serious  doubts  as  to  her  sincerity,  but  the 
earnest  look  In  her  eyes  and  her  solemn  plea  to  bs 
forgiven  soon  dispel  these  misgivings  and  it  is 
not  long  before  the  happy  lovers  are  hurrying  home 
to  ask  her  father's  consent. 

SCENES  ALONG  THE  PESCARA  RIVER  (Central 
Italy)  (April  8). — Spreading  before  us  a  series  of 
marvelous  views  along  the  river  as  It  flows  through 
its  rocky  valley.  The  Purlo  Pass,  where  the  cut  is 
590  feet  deep,  and  a  historic  tunnel  constructed 
300  B.  0.  are  among  the  principal  sights  of  in- 
terest. 

KEEPING  TAB  ON  SAMMY  (April  12).— Sammy 
Tucker  Is  madly  In  love  with  pretty  Mary  Briggs, 
but  Mary's  mother,  a  widow  experienced  in  matri- 
mony, will  not  consent  to  their  engagement  until 
Sammy  agrees  to  give  up  all  other  girl  friends. 
Horrors!  One  evening  she  discovers  a  perfumed 
note  in  Sammy's  pocket,  from  a  certain  Fanny 
requesting  him  to  see  her  the  following  day  at 
3  o'clock.  The  next  afternoon,  Mrs.  Briggs  pays 
a  visit  to  the  rival  and  by  bribery  gains  permis- 
sion to  receive  her  callers.  She  seats  herself  on 
the  sofa  in  eager  anticipation  of  the  surplse  that 
that  she  will  give  to  Sammy.  Meanwhile  Sammy 
has  indneed  his  friend  Jones  to  call  on  Fanny  and 
take  her  out  to  dinner.  Obediently  Jones  appears 
at  the  appointed  hour  and  believing  the  widow  to 
be  Fanny,  starts  a  violent  flirtation.  Although 
she  rather  enjoys  the  fun,  the  widow  Anally  con- 
fesses the  deception,  but  Jones  gallantly  claims  It 
makes  no  difference  and  Insists  upon  taking  her  to 
dinner.  Needless  te  say  that  In  the  meantime 
Sammy  makes   good   use  of  his   opportunity. 

ON  THE  NEBI  RIVER  (Somaliland,  East  Africa) 
(April  12). — A  series  of  interesting  sights  along 
this  picturesque  river,  exhibiting  many  types  of 
the  Darode  Tribe,  their  native  huts  and  qneer 
customs,  and  several  remarkable  views  of  huge 
flocks   of   sheep   grazing   and   fording   the  river. 

ANITA,  THE  ORPHAN  (April  IB).— Little  Anita 
comes  to  live  with  her  uncle,  a  well-to-do  villager, 
who  is  very  fond  of  her  and  treats  her  very  kindly, 
much  to  the  disgust  of  his  son  snd  the  latter's 
wife,  who,  suspecting  their  faeher's  intention  of 
adopting  her,  become  madly  Jealous. 

But  their  unfriendly  attitude  does  not  disturb 
Anita,  who  is  always  cheerful,  and  whose  presence 
is  like  a  ray  of  sunshine  in  the  home.  Her  cousins, 
however,  cannot  tolerate  her,  and  after  vainly  beg- 
ging their  father  to  send  Anita  away,  form  a 
desperate  plan  to  get  rid  of  her.  One  day,  they 
entice  the  unsuspecting  girl  to  the  edge  of  a  steep 
cliff,  and  when  she  Is  not  looking,  push  her  over 
to  fall,  as  they  think,  to  certain  death.  The 
guilty  pair  then  hurry  away,  and  pretend  not  to 
have  been  near  the  place. 

Anita,  however.  Is  fortunately  rescued  by  the 
villagers,  and  the  next  day  when  she  appears  on 
the  hillside,  her  cousins  believe  it  1b  her  ghost 
returning  to  avenge  their  crime.  They  fall  on  their 
knees  before  her  in  terror,  but  she  calmly  ap- 
proaches and  proves  to  their  unbelieving  eyes  that 
she  is  still  alive.  After  forgiving  them,  she  brings 
about  a  reconciliation  with  their   father. 

THE  ANCIENT  TOWN  OF  GUBBIO  (TTmbrla, 
Central  Italy)  (April  15). — Showing  the  most  im- 
portant relics  of  the  city's  former  greatness,  such 
as:  the  Palace  of  the  Duke  of  Urbino,  the  mediaeval 
cathedral  built  in  the  Thirteenth  Century,  the 
famous  "Gobblan  Tables"  or  Laws,  engraved  in 
bronze  (300  B.  C),  and  the  huge  amphitheater  con- 
structed by  the  Romans. 

FOR      HIS      CHILD'S    SAKE     (April     19) Opon 

reaching  home,  Pete  Burley,  a  notorlons  highway- 
man Just  released  front  prison,  finds  his  wife  in 
great  distress  over  the  severe  illness  of  their  little 
son.  In  the  direst  poverty  Bnrley  Is  unable  to 
provide  the  medicines  which  the  doctor  has  prescribed 
and  Immediately  sets  out  in  search  of  employment. 


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While  on  his  way,  the  police  learn  of  his  presence 
in  the  village  and  despite  his  protests  that  be  is 
in    search    of    honest   labor,    arrest   him. 

Pete,  however,  overpowers  one  of  the  officers 
left  on  guard  and  binding  him  band  and  foot,  ties 
him  to  the  railroad  track.  Bending  over  him 
Pete  then  discovers  a  well-filled  purse  in  the  of- 
ficer's pocket  and  remembering  his  dying  son  at 
home,  decides  to  use  the  money  for  the  medicine. 
He  hurries  borne  just  in  time  to  save  the  little 
fellow  from  death.  After  instructing  bis  wife  to 
return  the  rest  of  the  money,  he  bids  her  a  tender 
farewell  and  escapes  into  the  bills.  Soon  after 
his  departure  the  police  officer,  having  miraculously 
escaped  being  crushed  by  a  train,  comes  to  the 
lonely  hut  to  make  the  arrest,  but  witnessing  the 
distress  in  the  home,  is  overcome  with  pity,  and 
forgives. 

THE  WINNER  OF  THE  SWEEPSTAKES  (April 
16 j. — "Pretty  Dolly,"  the  prize  filly  belonging  to 
Mr.  Howard  Walker,  is  expected  to  win  the  Mont- 
gomery Stakes  which  are  to  be  run  in  the  near 
future.  So  confident  1b  her  owner  that  Just  before 
departing  for  the  city  on  urgent  business,  he  leaves 
$5,000  with  Jim  Barker,  his  secretary,  to  be  placed 
at  the  race.  However,  the  night  before  the  great 
event,  Jim  learns  that  "Pretty  Dolly"  has  devel- 
oped a  bad  cough  which  seriously  cripples  her 
chances.  Temptation  appears  to  Jim,  "If  'Pretty 
Dollv*  can't  win,  why  not  keep  the  money  for  my- 
self?" 

The  day  of  the  race  arrives,  but  instead  of  being 
the  favorite,  "Pretty  Dolly"  goes  to  the  post 
at  the  odds  of  6  to  1.  Jim  carefully  considers  the 
matter  and  then  decides  to  keep  the  money  in  his 
pocket".  "They're  off!"  exclaims  the  excited 
multitude,  and  round  and  round  the  course  rush 
the  horses  with  many  a  serious  fall  at  the  hurdles. 

Asainst  all  expectations,  "Pretty  Dolly"  comes 
in  under  the  wire  a  winner  by  four  lengths.  The 
result  is  a  terrible  blow  to  Jim  as  he  realizes  that 
be  has  now  Btolen  $30,000  from  his  employer.  When 
Mr.  Walker  returns  and  asks  for  his  winnings,  Jim 
is  forced  to  confess  his  crime.  Boused  to  a  terrible 
fury,  Walker  discharges  him  in  disgrace.  His 
reputation  ruined,  Jim  decides  to  take  passage  for 
South  America  to  try  and  forget  his  troubles  in 
a   new    life. 


ECLIPSE. 

THE  FRUIT  OF  SUSPICION  (April  2).— William 
GraTes  happens  to  observe  his  wife  receive  a  note 
from  his  friend  George  Moore,  and  later,  without 
listening  to  explanations,  angrily  banishes  her  from 
the  home.  Fifteen  years  pass  and  Graves  is  living 
alone  with  his  daughter  Marjorie.  One  day  he 
receives  a  letter  from  his  wife  who  at  the  point 
of  death  again  protests  her  innocence.  Graves, 
however,  Is  not  convinced  and  the  terrible  doubt 
still    tortures   him. 

His  resentment  is  intensified  when  he  learns  that 
hi«  daughter  is  engaged  to  Fred  Moore,  the  son 
of  the  man  who  caused  all  of  the  trouble.  When 
the  young  fellow  asks  for  his  consent.  Graves 
sternly  refuses  and  even  forbids  him  the  house. 
Fred  then  explains  the  situation  to  his  father,  who 
immediately  pays  a  visit  to  the  Graves'  home  and 
explains  the  whole  matter,  stating  that  fifteen 
years  ago  he  merely  called  to  give  Mrs.  Graves 
some  old  love-letters  to  be  secretly  returned  to 
Graves*  sister.  Convinced  now  of  his  wife's  in- 
nocence, he  gives  his  consent  to  the  marriage,  but 
cannot  he  consoled  in  his  grief  over  the  great  in- 
justice   to    his    wife. 

Later,  while  the  broken-hearted  man  is  sitting 
In  his  half-darkened  library,  Marjorie,  dressed  in 
her  mother's  wedding  gown,  enters  the  room.  The 
father  believes  be  sees  a  vision  of  his  departed 
wife  and  with  a  cry  of  horror,  falls  upon  the  floor 
lifeless. 

AN  UP-TO-DATE  AVIATOH  (April  9).— The  in- 
ventive Sammy  constructs  a  bicycle  with  wings, 
which  carries  him  through  the  air  at  a  tremendous 
rate.  One  day  he  "flies"  to  his  home-town  for  a 
short  visit  and  the  awestruck  villagers  hail  him 
as  a  great  hero.  After  astounding  them  with 
exhibitions  of  his  skill  at  shooting  and  other  sports, 
he  decides  to  return  to  the  city.  Amid  the  shouts 
of  the  crowd,  he  mounts  his  machine  and  makes 
a  good  start,  but  has  not  proceeded  far  when, 
bang!  something  goes  wrong  with  the  mechanism: 
the  machine  turns  turtle  and  comes  down  to  earth 
with  a  thud.  Sammy  is  extracted  from  the  ruins 
more   dead  than  alive. 

MAKING  BIRCH  BROOMS  (April  9).— An  inter- 
esting and  instructive  subject  showing  every  detail 
in  the  process.  Including  the  cutting,  gathering 
and  binding  of  the  birch,  and  finally  the  fashion- 
ing and  attaching  of  the  handles. 

THE  KENTISH  COAST  (England)  (April  91.— 
After  leaving  the  town  of  Margate,  we  are  taken 
upon  a  trip  along  the  coast,  visiting  Ramsgate 
Harbor  and  its  splendid  beach  crowded  with  pleasure 
seekers,  and  then  re-embarking,  past  the  famous 
Dover  Cliffs  which  are  still  such  a  terror  to 
mariners. 


SKLIG. 

THE  WOODSMAN'S  DAUGHTER  (April  14).— 
Blase  Jim  Abridge,  weary  of  city  life,  coming  to 
hie    apartment,     finds    an    invitation    from     an    old 


chum,  Dick  Freeman,  to  come  and  visit  him  at 
his  lodge  in  the  wilds.  A  week  later  the  two  are 
reviewing  the  days  of  long  ago  before  the  firelog. 
While  bunting  a  short  time  after,  Jim  mi 
Marion,  a  girl  of  the  forest,  and  is  fascinated  by 
her  strange  type  of  femininity.  He  teaches  her 
to  read  and  write,  and  without  considering  the 
difference  in  their  tastes  and  social  standing  asks 
ber  to  marry  him.  They  return  to  the  city.  Taken 
from  her  romantic  environment,  the  charm  of 
Marion  and  ber  crudities  pall  upon  him,  as  she 
seemingly  does  not  take  to  the  ways  of  the  city. 
She  realizes  only  too  keenly  his  change  of  at- 
titude. One  day  in  desperation  leaves  him  a  note 
and  flies  back  to  the  forest.  Jim  seeks  again  old 
companions.  He  finds  Helen,  an  old  flame  who 
tolerates  him  for  his  money.  He  is  about  to  free 
himself  from  Marlon  by  divorce,  when  he  accidently 
picks  up  a  note  in  Helen's  apartment  addressed 
to  her  mother  in  which  she  tells  of  urging  the 
divorce  to  capture  Jim  for  bis  worldly  goods. 
This  opens  his  eyes.  He  finds  the  faithful  Marion 
and  they  live  happily  in  the  shadows  of  the  wilder- 
ness. 

GOD'S  WAY  (April  15).— Tom  Healy,  silver 
haired  and  stoop  shouldered,  has  served  fifteen 
years,  the  victim  of  circumstantial  evidence.  He 
reads  a  letter  from  bis  wife;  she  has  again  peti- 
tioned the  governor  for  his  pardon.  The  warden 
summons  him,  the  pardon  has  come:  he  is  released. 
His  first  good  deed  is  to  separate  two  street  urchins 
fighting  and  make  them  friends.  Then  comes  a 
pathetic  meeting  at  the  unpretentious  cottage  where 
his  faithful  old  wife  has  worked  and  waited  for 
him  so  long.  Joy  mingles  with  tears  as  they  gaze 
at  the  empty  cradle  be  left  tenanted  fifteen  years 
before.  The  litle  tenant  has  passed  away.  His 
old  employer  bids  bim  be  of  good  cheer  and  takes 
him  back  to  work.  Of  course,  the  omnipresent 
detective  comes  In  to  remind  the  employer  of  bis 
risk  and  responsibility,  finding  Tom  Healy  with  his 
firBt  week's  pay.  The  employer  tells  the  policeman 
to  get  out.  Tom  finds  a  drunken  loafer  Crimmens 
abusing  his  sickly  crippled  daughter,  and  the 
Juvenile  Court  eventually  gives  her  into  the  care  of 
Tom  Healy  and  his  wife  to  cheer  their  childless 
home. 

HANKOW,  CHINA  (April  15).— Another  inter- 
esting educational  subject  in  the  Selig  series  of 
Oriental    travelogues. 

DIXIELAND  (April  16). — A  minstrel  troupe  Is 
embarking  for  a  tour  of  the  South.  Henry  Clay,  a 
negro  appears  on  the  scene  wearing  the  frayed 
coat  of  a  Confederate  General.  He  borrows  a 
guitar  from  one  of  the  minstrel  men  and  begins 
singing  "Way  down  South  in  Dixie,"  and  the  story 
unfolds.  It  opens  coincident  with  the  Civil  war. 
The  mistress  at  the  old  plantation  sends  Clay  with 
a  note  to  give  to  Belle  at  the  next  plantation. 
In  response  Belle  returns  and  meets  ber  lover 
Fairley,  the  brother  of  the  mistress,  while  William, 
an  older  man.  is  revealed  as  the  suitor  of  the 
hostess.  It  turns  out  in  the  course  of  a  foxhunt 
that  "William  was  a  gay  deceiver."  Then  comes 
the  South  in  the  saddle  and  the  war.  The  mistress 
dies  of  a  broken  heart  and  Belle  is  left  lonely. 
Fairley  goes  on  secret  service  as  a  spy  and  writes 
Belle  a  farewell  note.  William,  who  Is  shown  as 
conscience-stricken,  rushes  back  to  war  duty.  A 
battle  results  in  William's  capture,  and  he  is 
taken  North  to  prison  accompanied  by  the  faith- 
ful Clay.  They  attempt  to  escape  prison  and 
William  is  mortally  wounded  by  a  guard.  Fairley 
has  been  captured  as  a  spy  and  is  about  to  be  shot 
when  the  proclamation  of  peace  arrests  the  order 
and  releases  him.  Clay  brings  him  a  note  from 
the  dead  William  urging  him  to  hasten  south  to 
Belle.  The  scene  shifts  to  the  ruined  homes  of 
the  South,  but  Belle  and  Fairley  are  reunited,  and 
the  song  rounds  out  the  picturesque  story  on  the 
old  plantation  with  the  negroes  dancing  the  "walk 
around." 

THE  TIE  OF  THE  BLOOD  (April  17).— The 
prologue  opens  In  the  village  of  the  Cberokees  at 
the  time  of  a  visit  from  the  friendly  Osage. 
Setting  Sun  and  Big  Eagle,  the  dominant  chiefs, 
as  an  evidence  of  good  will  and  with  the  hope  of 
perpetuating  peace,  arrange  that  their  children. 
Deer  Foot  and  Red  Wing,   shall  marry  when  grown. 

Years  elapse  and  find  Deer  Foot  and  Red  Wing 
prominent  pupils  at  Carlisle.  They  accept  their 
betroebal  as  agreeable.  An  ambitious  and  un- 
scrupulous half-breed,  Mathews,  has  a  fancy  for 
Red  Wing.  Deer  Foot  has  a  rival  in  Mathews, 
who  succeeds  In  drugging  the  former,  thereby 
carrying  off  the  honors  in  an  athletic  contest.  Red 
Wine,  who  has  been  led  to  believe  Deer  Foot  lost  by 
drunkenness,  snubs  him  at  the  party  following  the 
athletic  meet.  Mathews  puts  fuel  to  the  flame  of 
her  indignation,  showing  her  a  forged  note  in  which 
his  rival's  name  Is  linked  with  another  woman. 
The  same  night  Deer  Foot  receives  a  letter  an- 
nouncing the  death  of  his  father,  calling  him  to 
the  reservation  to  assume  chieftainship.  He  re- 
leases   his    love    from    the    pledge    of    their    fathers. 

In  her  misery  Red  Wine  turns  to  Mathews  and 
they  become  engaged.  Subsequently  she  learns 
the  half-breed  already  has  a  wife.  She  upbraids 
bim  and  be  strikes  her.  This  breaks  the  engage- 
ment. She  meets  Deer  Foot  and  tells  him  of 
Mathews'  perfidy.  They  follow  Mathews  when  he 
dlsbarks    from    a    train.      They    trail    bim    to    the 


desert,  empty  his  canteen  and  leave  kirn  in  misery, 
as  they  ride  away  to  the  happiness  they  have 
sought  in  tbelr  own  village. 

CURED  OF  HER  LOVE  (April  18).— Ruth  Red- 
ding ton,  an  odd  girl,  is  discovered  reading  "True 
Love  Defies  the  World."  Papa  takes  the  book  and 
tells  ber  to  drop  such  trash.  Ruth  goes  to  the 
window  as  father  and  mother  have  a  family  jar. 
She  looks  out  and  sees  Peter,  the  chauffeur,  and 
blows  him  a  kiss.  This  is  like  a  joy  ride  to  Peter 
and  he  blows  back.  Mother  observes  this  and  tells 
papa.  He  goes  down  and  orders  Peter  to  take  bim 
down  to  his  office.  Ruth,  inflated  with  the  French 
novel,  writes  Peter  a  note  that  she  will  elope 
with  him  as  arranged.  Her  mother  reads  the 
impress  of  this  note  on  the  blotter  and  plans  to 
cure  her  daughter  of  her  romantic  attachment  by 
showing  Peter  at  close  range  at  their  reception  that 
evening.  The  chauffeur  is  delighted,  and  dons  noisy 
clothes.  He  combs  his  hair  after  be  gets  in  the 
parlor — shakes  hands  all  around,  shows  the  guests 
bis  adornment  from  tie  to  socks  and  finally  «o 
behaves  at  the  dinner-table  that  the  dis-illusioned 
Ruth    requests   that  he   be   taken   away. 

THAT  MATT,  ORDER  SUIT  (April  18).— Steve, 
ambitious  to  outstrip  his  rivals,  Slim  and  Tex,  in 
a  race  for  Betty's  hand,  orders  a  dress-suit  by 
mail.  The  spike-tail  is  an  awful  fit  and  Steve  re- 
tires from  Betty's  inspection  anything  but  pleased. 
He  gives  the  "fixins"  to  a  Mexican,  who  in  turn 
Buffers  from  the  bands  of  the  populace  when  he 
makes  his  appearance  in  public,  and  is  finally 
suspiciously  pursued  by  a  posse.  As  they  all  fly 
past  Betty's  window,  she  thinks  Steve  is  the  man 
in  the  dress  suit  and  sends  Slim  and  Tex  to  guard 
him.  In  the  interim  Steve  comes  in  properly 
dressed    and    wins   the   girl. 


PATHEPLAY. 

IN  THE  DAYS  OF  WAR  (Special,  2  parts,  April 
12). — James  Adams  and  his  brother-in-law,  Paul 
Chase,  united  in  friendship  by  their  mutual  lore 
for  Mrs.  Adams,  part  at  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil 
War  because  their  sympathies  call  them  to  differ- 
ent sides  in  the  great  struggle  of  fifty  years  ago. 
In  what  proves  to  be  the  decisive  struggle  of  the 
great  conflict,  four  years  later,  Adams,  now  with 
the  rank  of  Major,  first  meets  his  brother-in-law. 
Major  Chase,  on  the  field  of  battle  before  Rich- 
mond. Major  Adams  is  leading  a  force  of  Union 
soldiers  in  an  effort  to  capture  and  control  a  bridge 
ably  defended  by  the  Confederate  troops  under 
Major  Chase.  Chase,  losing  ground  rapidly,  decides 
to  ruin  the  vantage  point  which  he  cannot  hold, 
and  accordingly,  when  the  Union  soldiers  are  half 
way  across  it,   the  bridge  is  blown  to  atoms. 

The  two  men,  who  have  served  their  respective 
causes  so  nobly,  find  themselves  side  by  side  and 
seriously  injured  in  a  field  hospital,  where  Mrs. 
Adams,  acting  as  a  Red  Cross  nurse,  tells  them  the 
glad  news  that  the  war  is  ended.  Another  thrilling 
episode  in  this  spectacular  film  is  the  desperate 
struggle  of  Major  Adams,  disguised  as  a  Confederate 
trooper,  to  visit  his  baby  daughter,  and  then  out- 
wit the  sentries,  who  have  discovered  his  dis- 
guise and  who  force  him  to  take  a  wild  leap 
from  a  cliff  to  get  back  to  the   Union  camp  again. 

PATHE'S    WEEKLY.    NO.    15,    1913    (April    7).— 

Los  Angeles,  Cal. — This  city  has  the  first  police 
woman  in  America  in  the  person  of  Miss  Alice 
Stebbins,  whose  particular  work  is  the  prevention 
of  crime. 

Buffalo,  N.  Y. — Thousands  of  school  children 
sign  the  petition  requesting  the  International  Con- 
vention on  Hygiene  to  he  held  in  this  city. 

San  Francisco,  Cal. — Denmark  accepts  its  site  at 
the  Exposition  Grounds,  an  interesting  touch  being 
given  by  the  aviator  Cbristoffersen,  who  drops  a 
Danish   flag  from   his  aeroplane. 

Reading,  Pa. — The  Polish  Catholic  Church  here 
holds  an  impressive  Easter  ceremony. 

New  York,  N.  Y.— The  band  of  Blackfeet  In- 
dians brought  to  the  Land  Show  by  the  Great 
Northern  Railway,  are  encamped  on  the  roof  of 
the  Hotel  McAlpin,  where  they  hold  a  reception 
for    the   children   guests   of    the    hostelry. 

San  Francisco,  Cal. — The  whaler  "Karlnk,"  in 
which  the  Explorer  Steffansson  expects  to  return 
to  the  Arctic  is  here,  ready  to  leave  for  a  three- 
year  cruise. 

Seattle,  Wash. — The  rowing  crewB  of  the  Wash- 
ington State  University  are  training  every  day  on 
the  river  In  preparation  for  the  coming  racing 
season. 

Woodland,  Cal. — The  California  Legislature  visits 
the  irrigation  dam  and  canal  at  this  place. 

Comic  Section. — Mutt  evolves  a  money-making 
scheme,  but  Jeff  cans  it  In  the  last  act. 

And   Many    Others. 

THE  FIRE  OF  VENGEANCE  'April  15).— The 
Marquise  of  Mendoza,  a  very  wealthy  woman,  and 
a  leader  of  society,  assembles  her  friends  to  meet 
a  hitherto  unknown  artist,  Lucien  Henry,  who  has 
painted  her  portrait.  The  Countess  of  Grandchamp, 
who  is  present  on  this  occasion,  is  particularly 
attracted  to  the  artist,  and  he  too  finds  her  society 
very  agreeable.  The  Marquise,  secretly  In  love 
with  the  artist,  plans  a  cruel  revenge  when  she 
later   learns  that  Henry   has  married   the   Countess. 


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She  instructs  ber  art  agent  to  purchase  all  of 
Lucien  Henry's  paintings,  but  to  keep  her  name 
secret.  When  this  has  been  accomplished,  the 
artist  is  invited  to  view  all  of  his  paintings.  The 
Marquise  In  forms  him  of  her  intention  and  before 
he  can  prevent  it,  she  succeeds  in  setting  fire  to 
the  little  house  containing  the  art  gems,  thus 
compelling  him  to  witness  the  destruction  of  his 
life's  work. 

THE  IT  ALT  AN  BRIDE  (April  18)  .—A  story 
typical  of  the  lives  of  the  natives  of  Sunny  Italy. 
Two  brothers  of  widely  different  characteristics 
come  to  America,  where  they  continue  their  strug- 
gle for  the  same  girl.  One  brother  wins  honorably 
and  the  other  loses  dishonorably.  The  Italian  char- 
acter 1b  portrayed  in  this  film  with  a  sympathetic 
understanding  that  makes  It  a  delight  to  even 
those  who  are  not  natives  of  the  Gem  of  the 
Mediterranean. 

GLIMPSES  OF  THE  NATIONAL  CAPITAL  (April 
17), — First  tbe  camera  gives  us  a  view  of  the  very 
beautiful  Potomac  Falls.  Then,  In  sequence,  the 
Union  Station,  tbe  Marine  Hospital,  the  House  of 
Representatives  Office  Building,  the  principal 
streets  and  avenues,  the  War  College,  the  White 
House  and  tbe  Capitol  itself,  and  other  incidental 
views  too  numerous  to  mention,  but  which  combine 
to  enable  spectators  to  know  Washington  as  well 
as  If  they  had  paid  the  city  a  visit  in  person. 

THE  SPONGE  INDUSTRY  IN  CUBA  (April  17). 
— An  Interesting  study  of  all  tbe  phases  of  an 
unfamiliar,    although    thriving    industry. 

SCHOOL  OF  GYMNASTICS  (April  18)  .—The 
French  soldiers  herein  show  their  prowess  in  the 
difficult  and  thrilling  art  of  military  gymnastics. 
They  scale  high  walls  with  an  ease  and  grace  that 
is  admirable,  cross  from  roof  to  roof  by  means  of 
slack  ropes  and  perform  many  other  maneuvers 
that  are  remarkably  interesting  to  behold  and  that 
will  break  the  monotony  of  the  usual  drama  and 
comedy  offerings. 

THE  CUTTLEFISH  (April  18)  .—Although  the 
cuttlefish  may  not  be  very  well  known,  It  fur- 
nishes material  for  some  very  interesting  study. 
This  fish  supplies  the  cuttlefish  bone  which  is  given 
to  birds  and  oa  which  they  enjoy  sharpening  their 
bills. 

THE  PRIDE  OF  INNOCENCE  (April  19).— The 
wealthy  MIbs  Mills,  a  charity  worker,  finds  her  kind- 
ness misunderstood  by  her  lover.  Too  proud  to 
deny  the  accusation,  that'  is  prompted  by  a  too 
great  love,  she  refuses  to  prove  her  Innocence. 
But  things  taking  their  natural  course,  Boon  show 
the  young  man  the  error  of  his  hasty  supposition 
and  bring  him  humbly  to  beg  the  girl's  forgiveness, 
which  is  granted  him. 


MELIES. 

WHAT  IS  SAUCE  FOR  THE  GOOSE  (April  17). 
—After  a  lightning  courtship  of  but  a  few  days, 
a  young  couple  unite  In  a  hasty  marriage,  Just  .in 
time  to  catch  ship  at  Frisco  for  a  cruise  to  the 
South  Sea  Islands.  All  goes  lovely  the  first  few 
days,  but  when  three  days  out  the  charm  of  the 
honeymoon  loses  it's  edge  and  the  young  bride  be-- 
comes  rather  more  attentive  to  other  young  men  on 
board  than  to  ber  spouse, 

In  desperation,  tbe  husband  Is  mad  enough  to 
murder  every  man  on  board,  but  with  the  connivance 
of  the  steward,  decides  on  a  better  method  to 
kill  them  In  his  wife's  affection— by  the  use  of 
Ipecac.  It  is  served  in  their  tea  as  they  are 
about  the  pretty  girl  and  as  it  takes  its  effect, 
each  beats  a  hasty  retreat  to  tbe  railing  to  lose  his 
— well,  dignity,   to  say  the  least'. 

A  few  hours  stop  at  Papeete,  on  the  Island  of 
Tahiti,  and  tbe  wife  is  given  another  shock — the 
native  girls  fall  in  love  with  her  husband,  and  are 
not  bashful.  This  proves  the  best  cure  of  all  and 
on  the  return  trip  all  but  tbe  husband  find  tbe 
atmosphere  extremely  chilly  within  a  radius  of 
ten  feet  of  the  bride's  steamer  chair. 

A  TAHITIAN  FISH  DRIVE  (April  17)  .—An 
event  that  happens  in  Tahiti  but  once  in  every 
ten  years  and  only  by  special  permission  of  the 
French  Governor  of  Tahiti.  A  holiday  Is  declared. 
Three  hundred  natives  parade  to  the  sea  shore, 
where,  after  praying  to  the  God  Shark  for  success, 
they  proceed  far  out  into  the  sea  In  canoes.  A 
large  semi-circle  Is  formed  and  the  natives,  Jump- 
ing from  their  canoes,  beat  the  water  with  brush, 
coming  closer  and  closer  to  the  shore,  driving  the 
fish  in  into  a  coral  basin,  where  they  are  speared 
to  the   number  of  thousands. 

BIOGRAPH. 

HE  HAD  A  GUESS  COMING  (April  14).— Dick 
was  a  sport,  but  on  the  reception  of  a  telegram 
from  his  uncle  that  he  would  visit'  him,  plays  the 
mollycoddle,  believing  his  uncle  to  be  one  of  tbe 
strait-laced  type.  The  yonng  man,  however,  was 
mistaken,  for  the  uncle  Is  a  sport  and  when  he 
leaves  Dick  he  is  disgusted  and  In  such  a  bad 
humor  that  it  looks  as  If  Dick  would  he  neglected 
in  his  will. 

A  HORSE  ON  BILL  (April  14). — An  actor  arrives 
In  town  and  plans  a  benefit  for  the  town  band. 
The  leading  lady  of  the  performance  Is  loved  by 
the  leader  of  the  band  and  the  trombone  player. 
Tbe  leader,  of  course,  Is  the  favored  one  and  as 
these  two  men  are  to  enact  the  part  of  the  wild 
horse    in     the    performance,     the     trombone     player, 


in  trying  to  get  even,  works  disaster  for  both  of 
them. 

A  FRIGHTFUL  BLUNDER  (April  17).— An  eye 
strain  was  really  the  cause  of  making  the  young 
business  man  realize  that  be  loved  tbe  young 
typist  and  a  wrongly  compounded  remedy  for  the 
same  eye  strain  placed  the  girl  in  grave  danger, 
tbe  danger  being  averted  merely  through  tbe  in- 
genuity of  the  young  business  man  with  the  help 
of  bis  friend,  the  power  superintendent  of  the 
city's  street-car  lines.  Tbe  eye  strain — well,  a 
solitaire  proved  an  excellent  remedy. 

A  MISUNDERSTOOD  BOY  (April  19).— Every- 
thing he  did  seemed  to  be  misconstrued,  except  by 
the  little  lady  he  loved.  The  town  roisters  made 
fun  of  her  and  bis  love.  That  made  trouble  and 
tbe  chief  vigilante  believed  blm  the  cause  of  it  all. 
So  he  was  "In  wrong"  all  around.  The  girl's 
father  also  sided  with  the  opinion  of  the  world, 
and  sent  both  tbe  boy  and  girl  away.  Mother  was 
on  a  visit  at  the  time,  and  therein  the  need  of 
such  a  one  at  home  was  proved,  for  once  back  she 
sent  the  father  out  to  bring  them  home  again. 
The  boy  in  the  gold  hills  had  been  misunderstood 
again.  Marauding  merchants  had  left  their  victim 
on  the  mountain  pass  and  the  boy,  coming  on  tbe 
scene,  was  again  accused,  but  the  lie  in  the  end 
destroyed   Itself. 


MISCELLANEOUS 

KINEMACOLOR. 

A  SHATTERED  IDEAL. — Jean  Fabre,  an  artist', 
desiring  to  paint  a  big  picture,  uses  three  models — 
one  for  the  figure,  one  for  the  face,  and  one  for 
the  hair.  He  wins  the  great  prise.  Bradley,  rich, 
in  love  wlib  Ethel,  is  fascinated  by  the  painting, 
and  through  the  artist,  seeks  an  introduction  to 
the  model.  Fabre  is  in  love  with  Ethel,  too.  He 
shows  her  Bradley's  letter.  She  Is  furious.  Brad- 
ley is  invited  to  the  studio.  The  three  models 
have  been  transformed,  tbe  girl  of  the  figure  into  a 
Degress.  The  fascinated  one,  on  looking  over  the 
three  Is  horror-stricken.  Bradley  gets  back  his 
ring  from  Ethel;  the  artist  wins  the  girl  be  loves. 

GOLLIWOG'S  MOTOR  ACCIDENT.— Golliwog  ap- 
pears seated  In  his  brown  boot,  which  he  drives  as 
he  would  an  automobile,  steering  with  great  agility. 
Boot  brushes  polish  tbe  "car,"  first  with  a  coat  ot 
black,  then  brown  and  then  yellow.  Golliwog,  In 
examining  bis  "car,"  Is  hit  by  another  "machine." 
Out  of  bis  leg  pour  sawdust  and  shavings  in  a 
stream.  With  a  handsaw  the  cause  of  the  accident 
performs  an  amputation.  With  a  boot  lace  the 
injured  "machine"  is  taken  In  tow  to  Golliwog's 
home,  where  the  family  Is  much  upset  by  the 
mishap. 

HIS  BROTHER'S  KEEPER,— This  Is  a  story  of 
two  brothers  in  love  with  the  same  girl.  She  loves 
Jim,  the  younger,  but  to  the  two,  as  they  start 
for  the  West',  she  gives  each  a  photograph,  in- 
scribed: "May  each  be  his  brother's  keeper — Mary." 
Tbe  brothers  prosper.  Ben  works  hard.  His  brother 
hangs  about  dance  balls  with  Denver  Dolly.  When 
seeking  his  brother  Ben  Is  shot  in  mistake  by  Jim, 
who  goes  away,  thinking  he  has  killed  him.  Ben 
Is  nursed  by  Dolly,  who  reforms.  Jim,  conscience- 
stricken,  gives  himself  up.  The  "boys"  decide  to 
hang  him.  Dolly  arrives  on  the  scene  as  the  rope 
is  about  to  be  drawn  and  saves  Jim. 


AMONG  THE  EXHIBITORS 

Saginaw,  Mich. — Harry  Goseline,  who  has  been 
singing  at  the  Bijou  Theater,  will  open  a  new 
moving  picture  theater  In  the  Harden  Grocery 
Building. 

Nemaha,  la.— This  city  Is  to  have  a  new  theater 
building.     Geo.   Ferguson  will  erect  same. 

Waterloo,  N.  Y.— Jno.  B.  Flanagan,  one  of  the 
proprietors  of  the  Star  Theater,  has  purchased  the 
Farnsworth   Building   and   same   will   be   remodeled. 

Louisville,  Ky, — The  Jefferson  Amusement  Co. 
will  build  a  vaudeville  house  on  tbe  north  side  of 
Jefferson  street,  between  3rd  and  4th. 

Manchester,  la.— Knaak  &  Son  will  open  a  S-cent 
theater  here. 


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Ft.  Atkinson,  Wis. — Frank  Linton  bought  tbe 
Empire  motion  picture  theater. 

Iron  River,  Wis. — A.  Aronson  sold  bis  moving 
picture  business  to  E.  F.  Daniels. 

New  London,  Wis. — A.  Anderson  sold  bis  motion 
picture  theater  to  Thomas  E.  Johnston. 

Princeton,  Wis. — Victor  Yahr  sold  his  moving 
picture  theater  to  Jensen  oV  Klawitter. 

Norwood,  0. — Architect  S.  S.  Godley  has  com- 
pleted tbe  plans  for  the  monster  motion  picture 
house  to  be  built  at  Main  and  Mills  avenues,  this 
city. 

Hudson,  Wis. — The  Webster  Building,  formerly 
occupied  by  C.  E.  Haugen,  is  being  fitted  up  for  a 
moving  picture  show,  by  the  Flynn  Co.,  of  St.  Paul, 
which  Is  starting  a  chain  of  moving  picture  shows 
In  Wisconsin  towns,  Hudson  being  the  first  In  the 
chain. 

Tower,  Minn. — Emil  Erkklla,  the  general  manager 
of  the  Tower  Mercantile  Company,  has  purchased 
the  motion  picture  show  business  and  lease  of  the 
Vermilion  Opera  House  from  the  N.  S.  Entertain- 
ment Company,  and  is  now  in  charge. 

Watertown,  Wis. — The  Orpheum  Theater  has  been 
soldby  Emil  Bramer  of  Hustisford,  to  Joseph  Les- 
chlnger  of  this  city.  The  moving  picture  business 
will  continue  under  Mr.  Buchbalter,  the  present 
msnager. 

Alpine,  Texas.— Will  Garnett  has  let  tbe  contract 
for  the  erection  of  a  large  frame  auditorium  on  the 
vacant  lot  near  the  court  house,  to  be  used  for  a 
moving  picture  show. 

Grand  Bapids,  Wis. — The  Peoples'  Amusement 
Co.,  which  operates  theaters  in  Ironwood,  Hurley, 
Bessemer  and  Duluth,  has  taken  possession  of  the 
Grand  Theater,  In  this  city.  Messrs.  J.  G.  Thomp- 
son of  Ironwood,  Mich.,  and  H.  D.  Kuter  of  this 
city,   will  be  the  resident  managers. 

New  York,  N.  Y.— Theo.  W.  Myers  has  plans 
In  progress  for  a  one-story  and  two-story  moving 
picture    theater,    office    and    store    building. 

Kansas  City,  Kan. — Marsh  Brothers  have  had 
plans  prepared  for  a  one-  and  two-story  moving 
picture    theater. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y.— Bero  Co.,  has  let  the  contract 
for  tbelr  one-story  moving  picture  theater  to  cost 
$15,000    to    Peter    Cuthy. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. — R.  B.  Ford  has  awarded  the 
contract  for  the  building  of  his  one-story  moving 
picture  theater  to  Thomas  Drysdale.  Tbe  building 
will    cost   $5,000. 

Logansport,  Ind. — A.  P.  Jenks  has  let  the  con- 
tract for  the  remodeling  of  his  moving  picture 
theater    so    as    to    seat   296   additional    persons. 

Chicago,  HI.— Orvlll  Held  will  build  a  one-story 
moving  picture  theater. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y.— Emma  Siefried  will  build  a 
one-story   moving  picture  theater,   to  cost  $5,000. 

Far  Rockaway,  L.  I.,  N.  Y.— The  Imperial 
Amusement'  Compsny  have  completed  plans  for  a 
one-story  moving  picture  theater.  The  building 
will  cost  $20,000. 

New  Roohelle,  N.  Y. — Caroline  Brunell  will  build 
a  one-story  moving  picture  theater  with  a  seating 
capacity  for  300  and  cost  $8,000.  The  lessees 
are  Stranger  &  Urbacb. 

Albany,  N.  Y.— William  Fuscbkuecht,  will  re- 
model a  church  into  a  two-story  moving  picture 
theater  with  a  seating  capacity  for  485  and  coat 
$2  000 

bcranton,  Pa. — Mr.  Goodman  will  erect  a  ona- 
story    moving   picture    theater. 

Baltimore,  Md. — Tbe  Edmondson  Amusement  Com- 
pany will  erect  a  one-story  moving  picture  and 
vaudeville   theater. 

Haielton,  Pa,— William  Danes  will  build  a  one- 
story  moving  picture  theater  with  a  seating  capacity 
for    528. 


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discomforted    Don,    and   Maria   and   Pedro   start   for 
home. 

Meanwhile  Miguel  has  learned  of  Maria's  de- 
parture, and  has  started  in  pursuit.  He  meets 
them  on  the  road,  and  Maria  confesses,  pleading 
for  forgiveness.  This  Miguel  at  first  declines  to 
give  but  the  sound  of  the  lore  song  from  Pedro's 
guitar  causes  him  to  relent. 


UNIVERSAL 

CRYSTAL. 

HIS  ROMANTIC  WIFE  (April  20).— Mr.  Cool  acts 
that  way  towards  his  wife.  She  is  angry  because 
he  is  not  more  demonstrative  in  bis  affections.  She 
writes  a  letter  so  that  he  can  see  it,  telling  a 
friend  of  hers  that  she  has  decided  to  flirt  des- 
perately with  some  young  man.  Hubby  reads  the 
letter.  Ferdie  Fly,  a  masher,  follows  Mrs.  Cool 
the  next  day  and  enters  her  house.  He  pretends 
that  he  is  a  ladies  tailor  and  presents  a  card  to 
her.  Hubby  is  in  the  next  room.  Ferdie  makes 
love  to  Mrs.  Cool.  Mr.  Cool  lakes  two  revolvers 
and  loads  them  with  blank  cartridges.  He  enters 
the  room  and  demands  that  Ferdie  fight  him  a 
duel,  and  orders  Mrs.  Cool  into  the  next  room. 
She  goes.  The  men  raise  their  pistols  and  on  a 
shot  from  Ferdie's  revolver  Mr.  Cool  drops  to  the 
floor.  Ferdie  runs  out  of  the  house  frightened. 
Mrs.  Cool  enters  the  rom  and  Is  horror  stricken 
to  find  her  husband  supposedly  dead.  She  decides 
to  join  bim  and  tries  to  shoot  herself,  while 
Hubby,  on  the  floor  is  enjoying  the  huge  joke. 
Three  times  she  shoots  herself,  and  falls  to  the 
floor  but  on  earh  occasion  she  is  surprised  that 
she  is  still  uninjured.  Meanwhile  Ferdie  has 
rushed  into  a  policeman's  arms  and  informed  him 
that  he  has  killed  a  man.  They  return  to  the 
bouse  whereupon  Mr.  Cool  sits  up  and  Ferdie 
rashes  pell  mell  away  from  the  supposed  ghost, 
while  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cool  make  up,  sHie  promising 
never    to    flirt    again. 

TWO  LUNATICS  (April  20).— Pearl  White  and 
Chester  Barnett  start  out  simultaneously  on  a 
visit  to  their  mutual  friends,  the  Mortons.  Pearl 
and  Chester  have  never  met.  Pearl's  auto  breaks 
down  and  she  is  forced  to  walk  through  the  woods. 
Meanwhile,  two  lunatics,  a  man  and  a  woman 
escape  from  the  asylum  and  are  roaming  around 
the  woods.  Their  keepers  are  on  a  lookout  for 
them.  The  lunatics  quarrel  and  separate.  The 
man  meets  Pearl  and  frightens  her.  She  runs 
and  he  runs  after  her.  The  woman  lunatic  is 
sitting  on  a  rock  when  Chester  approaches.  He 
tries  to  control  the  wretched  woman,  when  she 
hits  at  him  with  a  club  and  chases  him  away.  The 
keepers  come  upon  the  man  and  bring  bim  back 
to  the  asylum  while  the  other  one  goes  hunting 
for  the  woman.  Pearl  and  Chester  run  into  each 
other,  after  having  met  the  keeper  who  had  in- 
formed each  of  them  to  be  on  the  lookout  for  a 
lunatic.  They  mistake  each  other  as  insane  and 
run.  Pearl  reaches  the  home  of  the  Mortons  and 
upon  entering  the  parlor  finds  Chester  waiting  in 
a  chair  for  his  guests,  who  impatient  at  their  not 
appearing  had  gone  to  the  station  to  find  out  what 
kept  them.  Pearl  gets  a  knife  and  chases  Chester 
oat  of  the  house.  There  he  is  met  by  the  wild 
woman  who  also  chases  him.  They  run  into  the 
arms  of  the  keeper  and  Chester  tells  him  there 
is  another  lunatic  in  the  house,  meaning  Pearl. 
They  enter  and  the  Mortons  who  have  returned 
introduce  Pearl  and  Chester  and  all  is  well,  Mvhile 
the  keeper  drags  the  unhappy  loon  back  to  her 
padded   cell. 


PCWERS. 

THE  TROUBADOUR  OF  THE  RANCHO  (April 
18). — Pedro  is  an  irresponsible  rascal,  albeit  a  lov- 
able one,  who  is  better  at  playing  quoits  than  he 
Is  at  work.  He  is  fond  of  both  Don  Miguel  and 
his  pretty  bride,  Maria,  and  he  serenades  them 
with  one  of  his  seductive  tunes  when  they  return 
from    their    honeymoon. 

Time  passes,  and  the  care  of  the  ranch  takes 
up  the  greater  part  of  Miguel's  attention,  so  that 
while  he  still  loves  his  bride,  she  sees  but  little 
of  him  and  becomes  despondent.  This  state  of 
mind  causes  her  to  become  temporarily  infatuated 
with  Don  Diego,  a  visitor  who  finally  persuades  her 
to  go  away  with  bim. 

Meanwhile  Pedro  nnable  to  appreciate  the  dignity 
of  toil  is  discharged  by  Miguel.  Mounting  his 
burro  he  leaves  the  ranch,  and  later,  while  Idly 
reclining  beside  the  road,  sees  Diego  and  Maria 
ride  by.  Puzzled  he  follows  and  sees  them  enter 
a  small  inn  for  lunch,  leaving  the  horses  tied 
outside.  He  senses  something  wrong  and  releases 
one  of  the  animals,  sending  it  galloping  off.  The 
alarm  is  given,  and  Diego  mounting  the  other, 
starts  in  pursuit.  Pedro  then  plays  the  familiar 
love  song  and  Maria,  who  has  already  begun  to 
repent  ber  move,  comes  out  and  begs  him  to  take 
her  home.  Maria  refuses  to  return  with  Diego, 
who  overtakes  them  after  capturing  the  escaped 
horse.      Pedro    interferes    and    beats    the    angry    and 


IMP. 

THE  LEADER  OF  HIS  FLOCK  (April  17—2 
reels), — King  Baggot  plays  a  young  minister  with 
socialistic  tendencies  which  are  not  liked  by  the 
elders  of  the  church.  He  is  very  popular  with  the 
younger  set.  A  poor  young  woman  of  the  town 
is  deserted  by  her  unprincipled  husband  who 
destroys  all  record  of  their  marriage.  Their  child 
soon  dies  and  the  minister  calls  to  console  the 
mother.  Her  reputation  is  considered  shady  by 
the  townspeople.  She  starts  to  leave  town,  but 
falls  exhausted  outside  the  minister's  home.  He 
takes  her  in  and  gives  her  a  home  with  himself 
and  his  mother.  The  elders  object  to  this  and  the 
minister  resigns.  He  takes  np  mission  work  in 
the   slums   and   the   woman  goes  with   him. 

One  night  her  husband  returns  drunk  and  shabby. 
He  tries  to  rob  a  saloon  and  is  pursued  by  saloon- 
keeper and  police.  He  lakes  refuge  in  the  mis- 
sion. The  minister  persuades  the  pursuers  to  leave 
the  man  with  him.  The  husband  and  wife  meet, 
but  she  will  have  nothing  to  do  with  him.  He 
makes  a  scene  and  accuses  the  minister  of  being 
in  love  with  his  wife.  He  then  goes  out  into  the 
storm  and  is  killed  by  lightning.  The  new  minister 
at  the  church  proves  unsatisfactory.  The  elders 
send  for  their  old  minister.  He  returns  to  his 
church  on  condition  that  they  sanction  his  marriage 
to   the  woman   he  has  helped. 


REX. 

A  FRIEND  OF  THE  FAMILY  (April  17).— 
George  Markham  is  deeply  in  love  with  Phyllis 
Webster,  the  daughter  of  his  banking  partner; 
but  has  failed  to  make  Phyllis  respond.  At  the 
beach,  she  falls  in  love  with  a  handsome  young 
lifeguardsman.  Markham  unaware  of  this,  asks 
Phyllis  to  marry  him  and  she  refuses.  She  marries 
the  lifeguard  and  this  angers  her  father,  but  his 
love  for  his  daughter  overcomes  his  desire  to  punisli 
them,  and  he  writes  telling  her  to  come  home  with 
her   husband. 

Things  go  well  for  a  time,  but  Bob,  too  prosper- 
ous, starts  upon  the  downward  track.  He  leaves 
his  wife  much  alone,  to  the  indignation  of  her 
father  and  of  Markham.  Soon,  be  becomes 
enamoured  of  the  notorious  Madame  Zigoletti,  a 
contortionist.  She  leads  him  on  and  soon  has  him 
almost  completely  in  her  power.  Markham  sees 
him  with  her  and  expostulates,  but  is  told  to  mind 
his  own  business.  In  the  solitude  of  his  room. 
Markham  thinks  the  matter  out  and  acts  upon  his 
decision.  Knowing  that  Webster  has  put  detectives 
on  Bob's  track,  he  goes  to  the  Madame  and  forces 
himself  upon  her.  In  a  talk  with  her  he  soon 
finds  out  that  it  is  the  money  she  wants  and  not 
the  man.  He  offers  her  a  check  to  give  up  Bob, 
so  that  he  may  return  to  bis  sorrowing  wife.  She 
consents,  but  they  are  interrupted  by  Bob,  who  ar- 
rives in  an  auto  coat'  and  cap  and  who  tries  to 
undo  the  arrangement  made.  He  soon  sees  that 
this  woman  has  made  a  cat's  paw  of  him,  and  it 
brings  him   to  his  senses. 

Markham  hears  the  detectives  coming,  and  he 
forces  Bob  into  an  inner  room,  and  when  they 
enter  they  are  surprised  to  find  the  man  of  ir- 
reproachable character  in  the  room  instead  of  their 
quarry.  He  tells  them  they  have  made  a  mistake 
and   quietly   taking   Bob's   coat   and   hat,    goes. 

Bob  returns  to  his  wife,  quite  cured.  He  ac- 
cepts the  other  man's  sacrifice;  and  Mr.  Webster, 
surprised  and  shocked  at  what  he  thinks  is  the 
moral  depravity  of  his  partner,  forces  him  to 
resign  and  with  a  wry  smile  and  the  feeling  of 
satisfaction  that  he  has  done  signal  service  to 
the  woman  he  loves,  poor  Markham  drops  out  of 
sight  and   fights   his   battle  out'  alone. 

A  BOOK  OF  VERSES  (April  20).— The  old  poet  is 
discouraged,  for  he  knows  his  work  is  good.  His 
opinion  Is  shared  by  his  daughter,  Flo,  but  not 
by  his  wife.  Flo  takes  the  poems  to  a  publisher's, 
but  they  will  not  even  look  at  them,  stating  that' 
they  are  a  drug  on  the  market.  Flo  is  a  public 
stenographer  and  Phil,  a  business  man,  dictates 
his  letters  to  her  and  finds  her  attractive.  He 
later  sends  his  office  boy  for  the  finished  letters, 
who,  In  taking  them  up  also  takes  her  manuscripts 
by  mistake.  Phil  finds  them  and  Is  struck  by  the 
beauty  of  the  poems.  He  returns  them  in  person 
and  meets  her  father  at  the  same  time.  He 
compliments   the   old   poet  on   his   work    and   leaves. 

At  Grace  Rlcnly's  borne,  Grace  is  reading  some 
poems  of  her  own  to  her  friends.  They  applaud — 
all  except  Phil,  ber  intended.  She  asks  him  where 
she  can  have  them  typewritten  and  he  takes  her  t'o 
Flo's  office  and  leaves  her  there.  While  waiting, 
Grace  reads  the  poet's  work  and  offers  to  buy  them 
for  a  good  price  and  Flo,  desiring  to  encourage 
her  father,  sells  them  to  the  girl.  Grace  takes 
them  to  the  publisher,  who,  noting  the  signs  of 
wealth  of  his  caller,  reads  the  poems  and  agrees 
to  publish  them.  They  make  a  great  artistic  and 
monetary    success    and    Grace    is    lionized.       In    the 


meantime  Phillips,  being  without  a  stenographer, 
persuades  Flo  to  take  a  permanent  position  will* 
him    and    she    Is    glad   of    the    opportunity. 

A  month  later,  Grace  sends  a  copy  of  her  book 
to  Phil,  who  telephones  his  congratulation.  Poor 
Flo  looks  on,  wishing  ber  dear  old  dad  could  have 
had  the  credit  which  rightly  belonged  to  him,  but 
she  Is  unable  to  say  anything  In  honor  bound. 
That  evening  Phil  calls  upon  Grace  and  she  reads 
the  poem  she  favors  most,  he  recognizes  it  and 
turns  upon  her  and  Anally  leaves  her.  He  goes 
to  the  home  of  the  poet  and  tells  him  of  the  publica- 
tion of  his  verse,  and  when  the  old  man  shows 
anger  towards  Flo,  Phil  shows  him  that  he  is 
interested  In  her  future  and  persuades  him  to  be 
encouraged  and  te  write  others,  not  hampered  by 
the  stress  of  poverty. 


FRONTIER. 

SOME  DOINGS  AT  LONESOME  RANCH  (April 
17). — The  boys  of  the  ranch  have  for  a  long  time 
been  requesting  the  ranch  woman  to  hire  a  house- 
maid with  a  pretty  face.  At  length  she  relents, 
inserts  an  advertisemeut  which  brings  a  young 
lady  with  a  beautiful  form,  but  heavily  veiled. 
Her  stature  impresses  the  boys  so  much  that  they 
all  "primp  up"  before  they  are  introduced  to  her. 
Alas !  they  shrink  away  when  they  see  her  face, 
for  her  eyes  are  developing  into  a  serious  case  of 
convergent  strabismus.  The  boys  decide  to  get 
rid  of  ber  and  she  Is  dragged  away  to  a  tree  to 
be  hung.  Just  as  the  noose  is  being  placed  around 
her  neck,  she  is  rescued  by  a  cowboy  who  is 
equally  as  ugly.  The  girl  goes  to  the  house,  packs 
her  belongings  and  starts  for  the  railway  station. 
A  letter  arrives  shortly  after  she  has  left  and 
none  of  the  boys  except  the  ugly  one  will  venture 
to  give  it  to  ber.  He  mouuts  a  horse  and  soon 
catches  up  with  her.  Upon  reading  the  letter 
she  finds  that  she  has  become  heir  to  a  large 
fortune.  She  goes  back  to  the  city  and  in  passing 
a  beauty  parlor  she  sees  a  sign  which  reads: 
"Faces  Made  Over  to  Order."  She  enters  and  upon 
emerging  she  has  a  beautiful  face.  A  few  days 
later  she  goes  back  to  Lonesome  Ranch  and  all 
the  boys  try  to  make  love  to  her.  She  shuns 
them  all  'with  the  exception  of  the  good-natured 
but  ugly  one.  In  reward  for  his  kindness,  she 
takes  him  to  the  city  and  has  a  "beauty  face" 
put  on  him. 


UNIVERSAL. 

ANIMATED  WEEKLY,  NO.  56  (April  2).— The 
Fearful  Flood. — Scenes  in  and  about  Cleveland  and 
Dayton,  Ohio. 

Cyclone  at  Omaha.  —  Terrible  devastation  and 
death-dealing  horror  in  Nebraska. 

The  Wreck  of  the  "Antioch" — At  Manasquan, 
New  Jersey.  The  rescued  crew.  The  life  saving 
crew. 

The  Silent  Sentinels  of  the  Desert. — Giant  cacti 
from   which   candy  is   made,    near   Phoenix,    Arizona. 

Washington's  Mill. — Flour  mill  built  and  ope- 
rated by  the  first  president  of  the  United  States, 
still   in  commission. 

Site  Selecting. — Representatives  of  the  Danish 
Government  select  their  site  for  the  Pan-American 
Exposition,  1915,  at  San  Francisco,  California. 

Moving  Picture  Exhibitors'  Convention. — Tulsa, 
Oklahoma.  They  "Carry  the  Banner,"  and  get 
their   picture   in   the  Animated   Weekly. 

Fearful  Fire. — Hot  Springs  visited  by  a  destructive 
conflagration. 

Egg  Rolling. — The  annual  fete  held  upon  the 
White  House  grounds,  Washington,  D.  C. 

What's  What  in  New  York.— Herald  Square  and 
a  panoramic  view  in  its  vicinity. 

Irish  Bog  Slide. — The  ancient  sport  of  "Bog  Trot- 
ting" in  Ireland. 

Wheels  of  Commerce. — Wireless  telegraph  station 
at  Arlington,  West  Virginia.  The  men  who  made  it 
possible  to  talk  from  this  point  to  France.  Looking 
up  from   the  bottom  of  one  of   the   towers. 

The  Giants  at  aMrlin  Springs. — Flashes  of  spring 
practice — the  budding  of  the  baseball  season. 

Who' s  Who  in  Stageland — Edmund  Breese,  the 
famous  star,    poses  for  the  Animated   Weekly. 


NESTOR. 

DAD'S  SURPRISE  (April  14).— Old  Gotrox  has 
two  pretty  daughters  who  want  to  give  a  party 
but  he  objects  to  such  foolish  expense.  The 
daughters  give  their  girl  friends  orders  on  the 
grocer  for  supplies.  The  grocer  phones  the  old 
man  who  says  whatever  his  daughters  order  is 
O.  K.  The  girls  have  their  party  and  invite  the 
old  man.  He  is  pleased  and  Jolly  and  goes  on 
record  publicly  as  being  in  favor  of  parties.  When 
the  bills  come  in  he  rages.  The  tears  of  his 
daughters  are  too  much  for  him  and  he  forgives 
them  and  resolves  to  be  a  better  daddy. 

A  NIGHT  OF  THE  GARTER  (April  14).— Mr. 
and  Mrs.  H.  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  are  newlyweds, 
living  in  the  same  hotel — all  good  friends.  EL  buys 
his  wife  a  pair  of  fancy  garters.  At  a  dance  H. 
gets  a  little  jealous  of  the  attentions  of  M.  to  his 
wife.  Mrs.  H.  loses  one  of  the  garters  in  the 
hallway.  M.  finds  It  and  wears  it  on  his  sleeve. 
He  boasts  of  a  conquest  and  H.  challenges  him 
to  a  duel.  H.  then  has  a  row  with  Mb  wife. 
Mrs.  M.  has  a  row  with  Mr.  M.  on  seeing  the 
garter  on  bis  sleeve.     The  two  men,   both   cowards, 


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•tart  for  the  duelling  place.  Tbelr  wires  compare 
notes  and  discover  the  trouble.  They  hurry  after 
the  men  In  time  to  prevent  the  duel.  Each  woman 
thinks  her   husband   is   a  hero. 

FAYING  FOB  SILENCE  (April  18).— Patten,  an 
influential  newspaper  owner,  is  smitten  with  Tira, 
a  frivolous  girl.  Her  brother  Ted  la  a  tease  and 
tells  her  she  will  die  an  old  maid.  Sbe  bets  him 
sue  can  make  Patten  propose.  Patten  proposes,  bat 
overbears  Tira  claim  the  bet.  He  scorns  Ted  and 
throws  the  ring  ont  of  the  window.  The  incident 
afTects  Tira,  as  she  sees  a  good  chance  go  by. 
Later  Ted  Is  Involved  In  a  card  scandal  and  Patten 
is  about  to  publish  the  story  when  Tira  calls  and 
pleads  to  have  it  suppressed.  This  meeting  is  more 
favorable  for  Patten,  who  again  proposes  and  is 
accepted.     Tira  has  the  ring  with  her. 


The  body  is  brought  back  to  town  and  Bob  re- 
ceives the  reward,  but  Grace  filled  with  grief  at 
her  father's  disgrace  and  death,  refuses  to  speak 
to  him. 

A  year  later,  however,  they  meet  at  her  father's 
grave  and  ber  enmity  is  forgotten  as  sbe  stops  and 
listens  to  love. 


ECLAIR. 

THE  EVIL  GENIUS  (2  parts,  April  16).— Jean 
Norbel,  a  toy  manufacturer,  and  Louis  Delval,  an 
explorer,  both  love  Helene  Derys.  Sbe  eventually 
marries  the  manufacturer.  Several  years  later  at  a 
theater,  Norbel  meets  Delval,  and  a  reunion  takes 
place.  Delval  takes  advantage  of  this  reunion  and 
makes  several  successive  calls  at  the  Norbel  home, 
each  time  trying  to  force  his  attentions  upon  Mrs. 
Norbel.  Failing  in  this  he  bribes  the  watchman 
of  Norbel's  factory  to  set  fire  to  the  building. 
The  place  is  soon  in  flames  and  the  employees  are 
helped  to  safety  through  the  heroic  work  of  Norbel. 
The  next  day,  as  Norbel  is  about  to  receive  a  medal 
from  the  mayor,  an  anonymous  letter  from  an  in- 
surance company  advises  the  city  officials  that  the 
owner  had  set  his  factory  on  fire  in  order  to  get 
the  insurance  money.  Norbel  is  arrested,  and  at 
the  trial  the  watchman  testifies  that  the  manu- 
facturer Is  the  Incendiary.  The  nervous  breakdown 
of  Mrs.  Norbel  stirs  the  watchman's  conscience  and 
he  makes  a  confession  just  as  the  Jury  Is  about  to 
give  a  verdict  of  guilty.  This,  of  course,  liberates 
Norbel,  who  returns  home  to  his  happy  fireside  with 
his  wife  and  child. 

MUTUAL  FILM  CORPORA- 
TION. 

EXCELSIOR 

THE  MOVING  PICTURE  GffiL  (April  14).— 
Virginia,  an  actress,  marries  the  son  of  a  very 
wealthy  Southerner.  A  year  later  after  a  child  is 
born,  the  girl  deserts  her  husband  taking  her  child 
with  her.  The  young  man  goes  South  and  think- 
ing his  wife  Is  dead,  after  some  years  marries 
again. 

The  daughter  grows  up  and  becomes  the  star  of 
a  moving  picture  company.  Soon  after,  the  mother 
dies  and  the  girl  goes  South  with  another  moving 
picture  company.  The  leading  man,  also  the  heavy 
of  the  company,  falls  in  love  with  her.  The  heavy 
plots  to  do  away  with  the  leading  man  In  a  railway 
scene  which  they  are  taking  but  which  is  pre- 
vented by  the  girl.  While  out  taking  some  scenes 
in  front  of  a  beautiful  mansion,  the  girl  is  hurt  by 
an  explosion.  The  owner  of  the  bouse  turns  out 
to  be  her  father.  He  recognles  her  by  a  birth 
mark  and  they  all  live  happily  ever  afterwards. 

RELIANCE. 

THE  WOMAN  WHO  KNEW  (April  6).— Harry 
Beecber  calls  on  his  fiancee,  Eva  Martin,  in  an 
intoxicated  state  and  she  breaks  the  engagement. 
His  mother,  going  to  his  room  next  morning,  finds 
he  has  not  been  home  all  night  and  taking  a  photo 
of  him  from  the  desk  compares  It  with  one  of 
his  father.  He  returns  to  see  this  and  she  warns 
him  he  Is  following  In  his  father's  footsteps.  Im- 
pressed, he  promises  to  reform  and  telling  her  of 
the  broken  engagement,  asks  her  to  Intercede  with 
Eva  for  him.  She  agrees.  Eva,  however,  refuses 
to  renew  the  engagement,  though  plainly  very  un- 
happy. Harry's  mother  returns  home.  After  she  is 
gone,  the  girl  thinks  the  matter  over  and  writes 
a  note  to  the  mother  saying  she  will  marry  Harry 
if  his  mother  can  truly  believe  she  may  trust  her 
life's  happiness  to  bim.  On  her  return,  Mrs.  Beecber 
tells  Harry  and  In  disappointment  he  rushes  off 
to  drink.  Then  the  note  comes.  The  mother 
clutches  at'  the  chance  held  out  by  the  girl  and 
starts  to  write  a  note.  But  as  she  writes,  memories 
of  the  past  arise  and  she  remembers  the  wretched- 
ness of  her  own  life  with  a  drunken  husband,  and 
slowly  she  tears  the  note  and  flings  it  into  the 
waste  basket. 

THE  STRONGER  CALL  (April  9).— The  Western 
town  of  Alden  has  been  disturbed  by  tales  of  a 
famous  bandit,  "Red  Pete"  who  has  been  operating 
in  the  neighborhood.  The  sheriff  receives  $10,000 
from  the  bank  of  the  next  town  which  must  be 
taken  to  the  Junction  that  night.  Bob  Ferris,  who 
Is  in  love  with  the  sheriff's  daughter,  Is  detailed 
to  take  the  money  to  the  Junction. 

On  his  way.  Bob  finds  that  bis  gun  has  mysterious- 
ly been  filled  with  blank  cartridges,  bo  be  stops 
at  a  shop  In  the  village  and  puts  in  real  bullets. 
He  sees  a  man  following  bim,  and  from  bis  general 
aspect  be  knows  him  to  be  "Red  Pete."  As  the 
bandit  comes  up,   Bob  kills  bim. 

As  he  stoops  over  him  and  removes  the  mask,  be 
discovers  to  his  horror  that  "Red  Pete"  is  no  other 
than   Grace's  father,    the  sheriff. 


AMERICAN. 

SUSPENDED  SENTENCE  (April  14).— Old  Judge 
Gains  worthy  smiled  doubtfully  as  he  pinned  a 
sheriff's  star  on  the  coat  of  young  Frank  Walling, 
for  Frank  was  very  young  for  the  Job.  He  did 
not,  however,  turn  an  unsmiling  face  toward  Frank's 
assiduous  suit  of  his  daughter's  hand. 

Taking  a  drink  a  few  days  later  with  a  stranger, 
the  Judge  noticed  counterfeit  money  In  his  hands. 
A  day  later  the  stranger  was  found  murdered  and 
robbed  and  the  youthful  sheriff,  with  boyish 
enthusiasm,  rounded  up  a  wayfaring  cowpnncber. 
The  jury  pronounced  him  guilty,  but  Judge  Gains- 
worthy  refused  to  pronounce  sentence  then.  A 
sleepless  night  sent  bim  to  Oak  Flats.  He  stopped 
for  a  drink,  noticed  the  bartender  refuse  a  counter- 
feit bill  from  a  black  looking  gun  man,  called  up 
the  youthful  sheriff  and  in  two  hours  Black  Con- 
way was  in  safe  keeping.  There  was  no  trouble 
about  conviction  thiB  time  and  the  innocent  cow- 
puncher  went  his  way.  The  youthful  sheriff  re- 
ceived a  conciliatory  pat  upon  the  back  from  old 
Judge  Galnsworthy,  who  winked  and  looked  the 
other  way  when  Frank's  arm  stole  about  his 
daughter. 

IN  ANOTHER'S  NEST  (April  17).— Old  Ben  Rad- 
way,  millionaire  by  right  of  strength,  sickened  of 
his  vain  wife  and  two  selfish  children,  went  for  a 
long  stroll  in  the  mountains  and  there  met  Ralph 
Cunningham,  a  hearty,  clear-eyed  youth  who  bade 
him  welcome.  Across  the  range  lived  pretty  Jessie, 
much  beloved  by  Ralph,  but  coquettlshly  refusing 
his  advances.  The  old  man  was  so  much  affected 
by  the  heartiness,  wholesomeness  and  clean  living 
of  the  mountain  folk  that  he  wrote  back  home 
telling  bis  wife  that  he  proposed  to  disinherit  them 
and  spend  the  remainder  of  his  days  in  the  moun- 
tains. 

Mrs.  Radway  called  a  conference.  Her  son, 
Charles,  and  daughter,  Louise,  sulked  at  one  end 
of  the  table  while  Mrs.  Radway  laid  down  the 
law.  There  was  but  one  thing  to  do,  she  said,  and 
that  was  for  the  two  children  to  marry  Ralph 
and  Jessie.  So  they  went  into  the  mountains,  in- 
duced tbe  nnspohistlcated  couple  to  accompany  them 
home  and  promptly  dressed  them  in  the  latest 
clothes  and  taught  them  the  polished  manners  of 
society.  Alas,  the  mountains  called  strongly  and 
one  day  Ralph,  strolling  throughout  the  gardens 
in  an  agonizing  coat  and  collar,  saw  Charley  at- 
tempt to  kiss  Jessie.  A  second  later  and  tbe 
mountain  conple  were  on  their  way  back  to  the 
hills.  And  then  Jessie  found  her  heart  and  courage 
to  whisper  her  secret  into  the  delighted  ear  of  her 
mountain  lover. 

THE  WAYS  OF  FATE  (April  19).— Two  men 
playing  cards,  tbe  argument,  flash  of  a  revolver,  and 
one  lay  dead.  The  murderer  homeward  fled,  hurried 
bis  little  girl  baby  into  a  west-bound  train  and  was 
beard  of  no  more. 

Tbe  years  passed  and  boyish  Jim  Conway  grew 
to  manhood  with  the  sole  purpose  of  seeking  out 
his  father's  murderer  to  deal  Justice  to  him.  He 
went  West  and  was  one  day  lost  In  the  mountains. 
He  called  for  help  and  help  came  in  the  form  of 
a  sweet-faced  woman  who  led  him  to  her  home.  He 
spent  the  flying  weeks  with  her  and  the  aged  father, 
learned  to  love  the  mountain  nymph  for  her  beauty 
of  soul  and  fair  face.  One  day  she  asked  him  his 
reasons  for  being  in  the  hill  country,  and  he,  lover- 
like,  confided  his  secret.  Behind  tbe  door,  sat  the 
white-haired  father.  He  rose,  shook  himself  like  a 
leaf  as  be  invited  tbe  young  man  into  tbe  bouse. 
And  there  he  confessed  tbe  deed,  baring  his  chest 
for  tbe  expected  blow.  But  none  fell  for  love  had 
sweetened   the   poison  of  his  thought. 

MAJESTIC. 

THE  HALF  ORPHANS  (April  6).— Mr.  Beaumont, 
widower,  is  much  in  love  with  Mrs.  Lovejoy,  widow. 
Both  are  very  anxious  to  appear  young  in  the 
other's  eyes,  but  are  burdened  with  full-gTown 
children,  Mr.  Beaumont,  a  son,  Mrs.  Lovejoy  a 
daughter.  So  they  dress  them  like  small  children, 
much  to  the  disgust  of  tbe  boy  and  girl.  Mrs.  Love- 
Joy  gives  a  dinner  to  announce  ber  engagement  to 
Mr.  Beaumont.  Tbe  children  wish  to  attend  but 
are  told  they  are  too  little.  Indignant,  they  plan 
to  get  even.  Taking  the  butler  into  their  confi- 
dence, they  go  to  the  dinner  as  colored  waiters. 
When  the  announcement  is  made,  they  exclaim, 
"Bless  you,  my  children."  Tbe  boy  slaps  his  father 
on  tbe  back  and  the  girl  kisses  ber  mother.  Con- 
fusion follows  in  which  they  make  their  escape. 
The  next'  morning,  when  tbe  widower  calls  on  the 
widow,  the  children  enter,  the  girl  dressed  in  her 
mother's  clothes,  and  tbe  boy  in  his  father's.  They 
hand  a  bundle  to  tbe  widow  and  another  to  tbe 
widower,  which  contain  the  waiter's  clothes,  ac- 
knowledging they  played  the  prank.  Then  they 
Issue  their  intimation  that  they  are  grown  up  and 
going  to  stay  grown  up  or  they  will  elope. 

THE  NIGHT  RIDERS  (April  8).— Mr,  Harvey,  a 
planter,    for  some   trifling  neglect  of   duty,   is   about 


to  beat  one  of  his  negro  employees,  but  Kate 
Harvey,  bis  daughter,  Interfere*  and  saves  Tom 
from  a  beating. 

Later,  the  Night  Riders  decide  to  punish  Harvey 
for  selling  his  cotton  and  tobacco  at  bis  own  price. 
Tom  overhears  tbe  threats  against  Harvey  and 
starts  off  to  warn  him  and  his  daughter.  He 
meets  Kate  on  tbe  way  from  home  visiting  friends, 
and  knowing  the  danger  to  her  at  her  father's 
house,  he,  without  her  consent,  forcibly  takes  ber 
to  tbe  cabin  of  a  negro  mammy.  Two  black  boys 
see  this  forced  abduction,  as  they  think,  and  run 
off  to  tell  Harvey.  In  tbe  meantime,  the  Night 
Riders  have  decoyed  Harvey  from  his  borne  and 
are  about  to  beat  him  up  when  the  black  boys  come 
on,  and  Harvey  and  tbe  rest  of  the  white  men 
forgetting  their  differences,  start  out  in  search  of 
the  black  fiend,   as  they  think. 

Tom,  having  left  Kate  in  the  cabin,  starts  out  to 
warn  her  father,  but  Is  met  by  the  black  boy,  who 
tells  him  the  white  men  will  lynch  him  first,  and 
then  find  out  whether  be  is  guilty  or  not  after- 
wards. Tom  realizes  tbe  danger  and  hides  In  the 
swamps  and  woods.  The  black  boy  goes  on  to  Kate 
and  tells  her  Tom's  danger.  She  starts  out  to 
save  Tom  and  arrives  just  as  her  father  and  the 
lynching  party  are  about  to  hang  or  burn  Tom. 
She  explains  the  situation  and  of  course,  all  ends 
well. 


MUTUAL  EDUCATIONAL. 

WTLLY  AND  THE  CONJUROR  (April  17).— 
Willy  wasn't  very  proud  when  he  arrived  home, 
for  once  again  be  was  at  tbe  bottom  of  his  class. 
As  punishment  his  parents  informed  him  that  he 
would  not  be  allowed  to  see  tbe  Conjuror,  who 
was  to  entertain  them  that  evening,  nor  would  be 
be  given  any  cakes  from  tbe  little  tea  party. 
But  while  his  parents  were  receiving  the  guests, 
Willy,  who  had  been  put  to  bed,  made  up  his 
mind  that  he  would  attend  the  party.  He  climbed 
through  the  window  and  managed  to  hide  himself 
under  the  table  in  the  drawing-room,  Just  before 
the  Conjuror  arrived  and  the  guests  came  Into  the 
room.  The  Conjuror  took  a  watch  and  Informed 
the  party  that  be  would  make  it  disappear.  Willy 
managed  to  get  his  hands  on  the  timepiece  with- 
out being  noticed  and  it  did  disappear.  The 
guests  applauded,  but  the  Conjuror  was  quite 
perplexed. 

Willy  manager  to  perform  several  other  tricks 
for  the  magician,  much  to  the  entertainment  of 
the  guests  and  to  the  discomfiture  of  the  mystified 
maker  of  magic.  When  tbe  Conjurer  took  a  chair 
and  placed  it,  ready  to  sit  down,  the  chair  sud- 
denly moved  out  from  under  bim,  and  then  tbe  table 
began  to  move  across  the  room.  There  was  a 
scramble  on  the  part  of  the  entire  party  to  get 
out  of  the  room  as  soon  as  possible.  In  a  short 
time,  however,  they  returned,  bot  they  could  find 
no  trace  of  anything  supernatural  about  the  table. 
The  Conjuror  then  announced  that  he  would  have 
"Old  Nick"  himself  appear.  It  happened  that 
Willy  fonnd  a  Chinese  mask  banging  near  and  put- 
ting it  on  he  made  bis  appearance  before  the 
startled  party  as  a  vision  brought  by  the  magician. 
All  the  guests  made  a  hurried  exit  and  the  "vision," 
holding  the  magician  by  tbe  coat  pulled  him  into 
the  dining-room,  where  the  two  enjoyed  the  dinner 
which  had  been  prepared  by  Willy's  parents.  Re- 
covering their  courage,  the  guests  returned,  arnued 
with  guns  and  sticks.  When  they  found  the  two 
culprits  eating  up  all  the  good  things,  an  explana- 
tion was  demanded.  The  Conjuror  was  dismissed 
and  Willy  was  given  a   good   thrashing. 

VILLAGE  CUSTOMS  IN  CEYLON,  INDIA  (April 
17). — The  Cingalese  peasants  are  known  to  be 
the  most  civilized  people  of  India.  The  tillers 
of  the  soil,  tradesmen  and  artisans  are  very  in- 
dustrious people.  While  some  of  them  are  waiting 
for  tbe  next  crop,  others  make  palm  mats  to  cover 
tbe  houses.  In  this  most  entertaining  and  instruc- 
tive subject  we  see  typical  blacksmiths  shoeing 
buffalos  and  other  peasants  preparing  the  crops 
for  tbe  market.  Tbe  Cingalese  peasants  send 
their  children  to  school  as  soon  as  they  can  walk 
and  the  attention  they  pay  to  the  teachers  is 
wonderful.  The  older  children  are  taught  gymnas- 
tics and  dancing  occupies  a  great  part  of  their  time. 


BRONCHO 

A  SOUTHERN  CINDERELLA  (3  parts— April  16). 
— Prior  to  the  breaking  out  of  tbe  Civil  War,  Col. 
Dayton,  a  widower  with  an  eighteen-year-old  daugh- 
ter, Eleanor,  resides  in  the  old  homestead  at  Ridge- 
ville,  Va.  He  goes  to  Boston  on  a  business  trip, 
where  he  meets  a  widow  with  a  daughter  of  the 
same  age  as  Eleanor.  Tbe  Colonel  falls  in  love 
with  the  widow,  and  after  a  brief  courtship  they 
are  married.  His  business  requiring  close  attention, 
he   sends  his  new  wife   to   tbe  old   borne. 

Eleanor  greets  her  stepmother  and  her  step- 
sister, Maud,  affectionately,  but  they  treat  her 
with  disdain.  Their  haughty  manners  and  over- 
bearing manner  gain  for  them  the  enmity  of  the 
negroes,  and  Eleanor's  feelings  are  hurt  when  the 
new  mistress  of  the  bouse  removes  the  picture  of 
Eleanor's   mother   from   tbe   wall. 

Col.  Dayton  returns  home,  and  Mrs.  Dayton  pre- 
tends affection  for  Eleanor,  while  in  his  presence, 
and  completely  deceives  the  Colonel.  Eleanor  re- 
frains from  telling  ber  father  what  she  has  suffered 
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declaration  of  war  he  goes  to  the  front  at  the  head 
of  bis  regiment.  Sensational  scenes  of  battle  are 
shown.  In  which  the  Colonel  is  engaged. 

A  month  later  the  Northern  troops  capture  Rldge- 
Tille  and  the  boys  in  bine  come  triumphantly 
marching  down  the  street.  A  loyal  Southern  woman 
defiantly  unfurls  the  Confederate  flag  in  her  front 
yard  and  stands  before  It.  The  soldiers  are  pre- 
vented from  doing  her  barm  by  Capt.  Hammond, 
who  gently  takes  the  offending  flag  from  her. 

The  Daytoo  homestead  is  utilized  by  the  soldiers 
as  headquarters  and  Mrs.  Dayton  quickly  tells 
them  that  she  is  a  Northern  woman  and  Introduces 
her  daughter.  She  Is  charmed  by  the  courtly  man- 
ner of  the  handsome  Capt.  Hammond,  and  gives 
him  Eleanor's  bedroom,  forcing  her  to  reside  with 
the  old   Negro  mammy. 

Mrs.  Dayton  hopes  to  marry  Maud  to  Capt.  Ham- 
mond. Capt.  Hammond,  however,  accidentally 
meets  Eleanor  at  the  well  and  falls  In  love  with 
her,  and  the  two  meet  clandestinely. 

Col.  Dayton  persuades  the  Confederates  to  make 
an  attack  on  Kidgevllle  and  recapture  it.  Ham- 
mond, knowing  how  serious  the  battle  will  be,  asks 
Eleanor  to  marry  htm  and  she  consents.  They  are 
Joined  in  wedlock  by  the  minister.  While  the  cere- 
mony is  taking  place  Col.  Dayton's  regiment  make 
a  brilliant  attack  upon  the  city.  Capt.  Hammond 
is  trapped  as  he  emerges  from  the  minister's  house 
with  Eleanor,  and  the  raging  Colonel  tries  to  get 
at  him.  but  is  restrained  by  Eleanor,  who  finally 
persuades  ber  father  to  assist  her  husband  to 
escape.  , 

Eleanor  tells  her  father  of  the  inhuman  treat- 
ment she  has  received  at  the  hands  of  her  step- 
mother and  Maud,  and  the  angry  Colonel  vows  to 
avenge  the  wrongs   done  his  child. 

Capt. -Hammond  rejoins  his  command  and  tries 
to  rally  his  demoralized  men.  The  fighting  is  des- 
perate, but  nothing  can  stay  the  exultant  Southern 
boys,  and  the  Union  retreat  becomes  a  rout.  Once 
more  the  stars  and  bars  float  over  Eldgeville,  and 
the  Colonel  is  the  Idol  of  the  hour. 

Mrs.  Dayton  and  Maud  try  to  greet  bim  affection- 
ately. Bitterly  he  upbraids  tbem  for  their  con- 
duct and  declares:  "The  woman  who  cannot  be  a 
mother  to  my  daughter  cannot  be  a  wife  to  me." 
Mrs.  Dayton  tries  to  plead  with  him,  but  he  orders 
her  from  the   house. 

The  years  roll  by,  bringing  with  them  peace. 
Once  more  the  Colonel  is  at  his  home  with  Eleanor. 
Eleanor,  looking  out  of  the  window,  sees  Capt. 
Hammond  coming,  and  with  a  cry  of  joy  rushes  to 
the  door  to  greet  her  husband.  The  Colonel,  per- 
plexed for  a  moment,  decides  to  accept  his  son-in- 
law. 

KEYSTONE. 

A  LIFE  IN  THE  BALANCE  (April  14).— The 
landlord  of  poor  tenements  rents  rooms  to  three 
Italians.  Not  being  Impressed  with  their  looks  he 
spies  upon  them  and  discovers  that  they  are  making 
bombs.  Securing  a  pistol  he  rushes  into  the  room 
and  chases  them  out.  He  then  runs  to  the  police 
station,  but  is  kicked  out  by  the  cops  who  resent 
having  their  game  of  pinocle  interfered  with.  The 
revengeful  Italians  enter  the  landlord's  home  while 
bis  wife  has  gone  to  the  store  and  place  their  baby 
in  a  basket,  which  they  attach  to  the  end  of  a  long 
spring,  taken  from  an  exerciser,  and  fasten  the 
other  end  of  the  spring  under  the  window  so  that 
when  the  window  is  raised  it  will  permit  the  basket 
to  fall  "four  stories. 

The  landlord  is  waylaid  and  tied  to  a  fence,  his 
gloating  captors  telling  him  of  what  they  have 
done.  He  is  in  agony  and  tugs  at  his  bonds,  and 
manages  to  get  the  rope  In  his  mouth,  which  he 
vainly  tries  to  chew  In  two.  His  wife  returns 
home  and  missing  the  baby,  tblnks  he  has  taken 
It  out'.  Alternate  flashes  are  shown  of  the  woman 
in  the  bouse  and  the  baby  dangling  at  the  end  of 
the  spring,  and  the  audience  is  kept  in  an  ex- 
pectant frame  by  the  wife  going  to  the  window 
to  open  it  and  having  her  attention  distracted  by 
various  incidents  in  time  to  prevent  her  from  rais- 
ing the  window. 

A  boy  finally  releases  the  frantic  landlord,  who 
rushes  home  just  in  time  to  save  his  child. 

MTJRPHY'.S  I.  0.  TJ.  (April  17).— Cohen  holds  the 
I.  0.  U.  of  Murphy,  who  is  a  policeman.  Cohen 
presses  for  payment,  and  calls  at  the  policeman's 
house.  In  desperation  the  cop  gives  Cohen  his  wife's 
Jewelry  and  takes  up  the  I.  O.  U.  Mrs.  Murphy 
misses  the  trinkets  and  raises  a  hullaballoo,  re- 
porting the  supposed  theft  at  the  station.  The 
sergeant  assigns  Murphy  to  the  case,  and  he  hunts 
up  Cohen  and  vainly  endeavors  to  persuade  the  loan 
man  to  return  the  Jewelry.  Murphy  then  gives  his 
pistol  to  a  tramp  and  tells  him  to  hold  np  Cohen 
and  take  the  Jewelry  away  from  him,  which  is 
done.  Cohen  rushes  to  the  station  and  reports  the 
robbery.  Murphy  gives  the  trinkets  back  to  his 
wife  and  Cohen  sees  them  In  her  hands  and  snatches 
them  away.  She  pursues  him  and  Murphy  helps 
her  catch  Cohen.  The  sergeant  also  takes  a  hand, 
and  Cohen  tells  the  whole  story,  his  statement  being 
corroborated  by  the  tramp,  whom  Murphy  has  kicked 
away,  Instead  of  rewarding  him.  Mrs.  Murphy 
permits  Cohen  to  keep  the  Jewelry,  but  with  a 
determined  look  in  her  eye  she  leads  Murphy  home 
by  the  ear,   brandishing  a  heavy  club. 

A  DOLLAR  DID  IT  (April  17).— Schmidt  and 
Riley  are  neighbors,  and  engage  in  a  game  of  cards 
for   $1,     Schmidt    catches    Murphy    cheating    and    a 


fierce  battle  ensues,  in  wblcfa  the  wives  take  part. 
They  throw  furniture,  kitchen  utensils,  etc.,  at 
each  other,  and  finally  Murphy  snatches  a  package 
of  dynamite  from  a  workman  who  has  been  blasting 
rock  and  throws  it  at  Schmidt.  Schmidt  catches  It 
in  his  hands,  preventing  an  explosion,  and  throws 
it  back  at  Murphy,  who  immediately  hurls  it  again 
at  Schmidt,  it  explodes,  tearing  a  big  hole  in  the 
earth,  and  Schmidt  is  seen  burled  in  the  ground, 
with  his  feet  sticking  up.  Conscience-stricken, 
Murphy  rushes  out  and  pulls  Schmidt  out  of  the 
hole  and  revives  him,  and  there  is  a  happy  recon- 
ciliation all  around. 


MUTUAL    WEEKLY 

MUTUAL  WEEKLY,  NO.  18  (Mar.  26).— New 
York  City. — Gov.  Sulzer,  Mayor  Gaynor  and  Cardinal 
Farley  review  the  St.   Patrick's  Day  parade. 

Berlin,  Germany. — The  people  of  the  capital  greet 
the  Royal  Princess  Louise,  and  her  fiance,  the 
Prince  of  Cumberland. 

Vienna,  Austria, — A  newly  invented  ship,  using 
the  same  means  of  propulsion  as  an  aeroplane. 

Washington,  D.  C. — Sunday  morning  on  the  old 
Oyster  Wharf. 

Cincinnati,  Ohio. — Derrick  boom  on  new  theater 
falls,    killing   two. 

Toledo,  Ohio. — New  reservoir  under  construction, 
which  will  have  a  capacity  of  over  20,000,000  gal- 
lons of  water. 

The  Depopulation  of  Franoe. — Every  twelve  hours 
sixty  more  people  die  than  are  born. 

Georgia. — Cyclone  in  which  scores  of  people  lost 
their    lives. 

Bryan,  Texas. — At  the  A.  &  M.  College  of  Texas. 

The  Fashions  in  Paris  and  New  York. 

Basel,  Switzerland. — Comical  Masque  parade  ca- 
rousing through  the  city. 

Louisville,  Ky. — Getting  rid  of  the  old  bridge 
and  panoramic  view  of  the  new  bridge,  the  largest 
on  the  Ohio  River. 

Honolulu.— Drill  at  the  Royal  School,  at  which 
there   are   fourteen  nationalities  represented. 

Paris,  France. — The  Inauguration  of  President- 
elect Poincarre. 

New  York  City. — Fire  on  Pearl  Street. 

Genoa,  Italy. — A  mail  steamer  sinks  in  the 
harbor.  - 

New  York  City. — Mayor  Gaynor  awarding  medals 
to  firemen  for  heroic  rescues. 

Caldwell,  N.  J. — Grover  Cleveland's  old  home 
made   a    memorial. 

The  Only  Hat  for  Him. 

THANHOUSER. 

WHEN  GHOST  MEETS  GHOST  (April  6).— If 
you  were  a  studious  man,  accustomed  to  burning 
the  midnight  oil,  wouldn't  It  annoy  you  if  each 
night  at  12  precisely,  the  ghost  of  a  melancholy 
maiden   appeared,    weeping   and  lamenting? 

A  certain  professor  was  bothered  this  way.  He 
was  not  afraid  of  ghosts  and  could  have  endured 
one  whose  specialty  was  silent  haunting.  He  found, 
however,  that  the  weeping  maiden  was  a  nuisance, 
and  prevented  him  from  concentrating.  So  he  de- 
cided, ungallant  though  his  conduct  might  be 
deemed,  to  get  rid  of  her. 

Being  a  learned  man,  the  professor  knew  that 
King  Solomon  used  to  cork  wicked  spirits  in 
bottles  and  throw  them  into  the  sea.  The  pro- 
fessor's ghost,  however,  was  an  uneasy  shade.  He 
threw  it  into  the  sea,  he  burled  it  in  the  ground, 
but  each  midnight  it  would  reappear  and  make  the 
welkin  ring  with  weeping  and  lamentation. 

Harsh  measures  having  failed,  the  professor  de- 
cided to  see  if  love  could  subdue  a  tearful  ghost. 
In  a  house  near  the  professor's  was  the  spirit  of 
"the  youthful  knight."  Nobody  knew  why  he  re- 
turned to  earth,  and  he  was  not  popular.  Clad  in 
full  armour  he  clanked  about  the  house,  scowling 
fiercely.  He  was  a  regular  kill  Joy,  and  tenants 
moved  promptly  after  seeing  him.  Just  the  same 
the  valiant  professor  decided  to  call  upon  the 
youthful  knight.  He  carried  the  white  lady  with 
him — in  a  whiskey  bottle — which,  by  the  way,  is 
an  appropriate  place  for  spirits.  When  the  youth- 
ful knight  appeared,  the  professor  set  the  other 
ghost  free,  and  was  charmed  to  see  that  they 
were  mutually  attracted. 

Were  his  troubles  over?  Far  from  it.  Unfortu- 
nately the  ghosts  were  grateful,  and  decided,  as  a 
mark  of  their  appreciation,  to  make  their  home 
with  the  professor.  Then  he  moved  in  light  march- 
ing order  and  hastily,  for  being  a  learned  pro- 
fessor he  feared  that  his  residence  might  become 
the   headquarters   for  union   ghosts. 

THE  PATBIOT  (April  8). — The  storekeeper  was 
the  biggest  man  In  Cranberry  Centre,  and  his  neigh- 
bors were  convinced  that  be  would  be  a  political 
hero  some  day.  He  dutifully  attended  all  con- 
ventions of  his  party,  was  on  terms  of  personal 
friendship  with  the  legislative  candidates  (during 
campaigns)  and  each  day  became  more  and  more 
convinced  that  the  fate  of  the  republic  rested 
heavily   upon  his  shoulderB. 

When  his  party  assumed  power  at  Washington. 
after  many  long  years,  the  idol  of  Cranberry  Centre 
decided  that  his  services  were  needed  at  the 
Nation's  capitol.  His  wife  protested  that  it  would 
he  far  better  for  him  to  remain  at  home  and  at- 
tend to  business,  but  he  overruled  her.  He  was 
absolutely  convinced  that  the  new  president  needed 


him,  so  be  determined  to  sacrifice  himself  upon  the 
attar  of  his  country. 

A  delegation  of  his  admiring  neighbors  cheered 
him  as  he  departed,  but  the  cheers  were  not  echoed 
when  he  arrived  in  Wasslngton.  He  found  that 
city  plumb  full  of  patriots  who  were  trying  to  save 
the  country,  and  no  one  seemed  to  want  the  big 
man  from  Cranberry  Centre.  At  first  he  had  fondly 
hoped  to  be  urged  to  accept  a  cabinet  position, 
but  as  the  weeks  went  on  he  would  have  taken  a 
place  as  janitor  had  it  been  offered.  His  money 
ran  out,  and  appeals  to  his  wife  for  more  brought 
no  response.  She  was  convinced  that  he  was 
squandering  their  savings  upon  "pesky  politicians," 
so  contented  herself  with  advising  him  t»  come 
home.     He  did,  but  was  compelled  to  walk. 

There  was  no  crowd  out  to  greet  bim  when  be 
limped  into  Cranberry  Centre  over  the  ties. 
Everybody  was  in  at  the  storekeeper's  home,  as  he 
discovered  later.  He  arrived  Just  In  time  to  wit- 
ness the  conclusion  of  the  marriage  ceremoor  which 
united  his  daughter  to  a  young  farmer.  la  days 
gone  by  the  storekeeper  had  scouted  the  idea  of  such 
an  alliance,  being  determined  that  bis  girl  should 
be  the  bride  of  a  statesman.  Now,  wiser  by  sad 
experience,  he  uttered  no  protest,  and  at  the  same 
time  solemnly  swore  that  he  would  cease  being  a 
patriot  and  devote  all  his  attention  te  the  mer- 
cantile business. 

THE  CHANGELING  (April  11).— A  millionaire's 
little  son,  while  out  walking  with  his  nurse,  slipped 
away  and  mysteriously  disappeared.  Detectives 
scoured  the  country  far  and  wide,  bat  without 
result.  Finally  the  conclusion  was  regretfully 
reached  that  the  little  chap  must  be  dead,  for  the 
handsome  rewards  offered  for  his  recovery  would 
have  tempted  any  one  who  knew  of  bis  where- 
abouts. 

An  unscrupulous  woman,  who  lived  by  her  wits, 
read  an  account  of  the  affair,  and  was  amazed  by 
the  startling  resemblance  the  missing  boy  bore  to 
her  own  son.  She  decided  to  take  advantage  of  the 
likeness,  and  presented  herself  at  the  wealthy 
widower's  home  with  her  son.  The  child  waa  at 
once  accepted  as  the  missing  heir.  The  millionaire 
offered  her  employment  as  nurse  to  his  "son,"  and 
the  woman  and  her  child  seemed  assured  of  com- 
fort and  luxury  as  long  as  they  lived. 

The  millionaire's  child  had  not  died.  When  he 
ran  away  from  his  nurse  he  hid  in  a  freight  car, 
intending  to  frighten  her,  but  the  Joke  became 
serious  when  the  train  started  and  he  was  suable 
to  get  off.  A  surly  brakeman  put  him  off  the  train 
many  miles  from  his  home.  Later  the  little 
fellow  was  Injured  in  an  accident  and  was  cared 
for  by  a  kindly  farmer's  family.  He  was  un- 
conscious for  weeks,  and  when  he  recovered  he 
found  that  no  one  would  credit  his  assertion  that 
he  was  a  millionaire's  son.  His  clothes  were  ragged 
and  shabby  now,  and  he  looked  like  a  beggar  boy. 
But  the  boy  had  a  good  deal  of  pluck,  and  he 
finally  got  home,  although  he  had  to  walk  a  good 
part  of  the  way.  The  scheming  woman  realized 
that  he  was  the  rightful  heir  and  tried  to  bar  him 
from  his  home,  but  he  forced  his  way  in  and  the 
puzzled  father  had  to  choose  between  two  boys  who 
were  alike  as  two  peas.  But  the  yoangBter'e  pet 
dog  recognized  his  little  master  at  once,  and  hurled 
himself  upon  him  with  yelps  of  joy,  and  the  boy 
soon  convinced  his  father  that  be  had  been  the 
victim  of  a  deception.  "The  Changeling"  was  a 
very  surly  boy,  quite  different  from  the  cheery 
temperament  of  his  real  sou,  and  the  father  had 
often  grieved  over  his  boy's  changed  disposition. 
The  adventuress  and  ber  son  left  the  home  which 
they  had  grown  to  look  upon  as  their  own  and  were 
never  heard  from  again. 

FILM  SUPPLY  COMPANY 

GAUMOMT. 

GATJMONT  WEEKLY,  NO.  68  (Apt*  I).— 
Indiana  Visit  New  York.— Hedmen  camp  for  a  week 
on  roof  of  Hotel  McAlpin. 

A  Boat  That  Flies. — French  inventor  bring,  new 
gliding  craft  at  Nogent,  Sur  Marne, 

Danes  Select  Exposition  Site. — Great  gathering 
of  Norsemen  in  San  Francisco. 

Disasters  Sweep  Central  West. — Host  appalling 
catastrophes     in  American  history. 

The  Mi-carem  Festival.— Mirth  and  frivoUtr  reign 
in   Paris   during   Mardi   Gras. 

"September  Morn." — Chicago  art  censors  attempt 
to  ban  debatable  picture. 

Marquard  Makes  Record  Catch. — Rnbe  tans,  base- 
ball  thrown   from   San   Francisco  building. 

Next  Winter's  Coats. — Paris  tailors  send  ceming 
stvles   for  1914. 

The  New  Oregon  Bridge. — Miss  Helen  West  dedi- 
cates  new   entrance    to  Salem. 

THE  QUALITY  OF  KINDNESS  (April  1».— Tiny 
Tim's  parents  are  hard  pressed  for  money,  and  their 
creditors  are  very  persistent  in  being  "paid  off." 
The  father  receives  a  letter  from  his  brother,  re- 
siding in  America,  and  whom  he  has  not  seen  in 
ten  years.  Laboring  under  the  hallucination  that 
the  uncle  is  rich,  they  receive  a  severe  blow  to  the 
contrary  when  the  relative  arrives,  for  be  to  dead 
broke.  The  father  and  mother  get  so  disgusted 
with  uncle's  table  manners  that  they  leave  the 
house.  Being  left  alone  with  his  uncle.  Tiny  Tim 
give9  him  a  fistful  of  cigars  and  some  sf  his 
pennies.    Shortly   afterward  uncle   bids  Ms  aephew 


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I  WANT  A  JOB  AS  MANAGER  of  a  theatre  in 
the  East  or  South,  r  am  a  clean-cut,  energetic 
man,  capable  of  directing  one  or  more  theatres.  I 
can  "create"  an  advertising  campaign  and  conduct 
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■tudio  lighting,  exposure  and  development.  For- 
merly developed  all  negatives  and  afterwards  man- 
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work,  camera  furnished.  Engagement  desired  any- 
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perseverance,  knowledge  and  bard  work  will  bring 
wanted  results.  Best  references.  Will  demon- 
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MANAGER — Former  proprietor  and  manager  of 
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Open  for  position  as  manager,  or  would  invest  in 
good  proposition.  Address  P.  II.,  care  of  Moving 
Picture  World,   New  York  City. 

POSITION  WANTED  BY  OPERATOR  with  five 
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State  salary.  Address  HERBERT  P.  VOSS,  Wig- 
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SINGER — First-class  Tenor,  open  for  engagement. 
Capable  act  as  manager,  Three  years  last  place. 
Address  George  Martin,  359  Lexington  Ave.,  New 
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OPERATOR,  LICENSED— At  liberty.  References. 
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Calgary,  Alberta,  Canada. 

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equipment  of  all  kinds.  Will  allow  you  liberally 
for  your  old  machine  (any  make).  Catalogue.  Write 
Now.  Calcium  lights.  Lecturers'  outfits.  Address 
FRANK  E.  RUSSELL,  Batavla,  N.   Y. 

FOR  SALE — Powers  6A  Cameragrapb,  complete 
with  loop-setter,  motor,  motor  attachment,  14-inch 
magazines  and  four  14-inch  reels.  Can't  be  told 
from  new,  run  15  hours,  for  $214.00;  cost  $314.50. 
Fort  Wsyne  compensarc,  $35.00.  Johns-Mansville 
No.  1  semi-portable  asbestos  booth,  $80.00.  Address 
HAMILTON  BALUSS,  Kennett  Square,  Pa. 

NO.  6A  EQUIPMENT  lamp-house,  arc  burner, 
stand,  legs  and  special  14-inch  lower  magazine  with 
take-np  attachment,  complete,  $75.00.  Send  for 
descriptive  circular.  Address  MARTIN  FREDER- 
ICKS, 2017  N.  12th  St.,  Philadelpsla,  Pa. 


EQUIPMENT  WANTED. 

WANTED — 125  second-hand  steel  framed  opera 
chairs;  18-inch  chairs.  Must  be  cheap  and  in  good 
condition.  Address  G.  H.  FREIMUTH,  Crandon, 
Wisconsin. 

THEATRES  FOR  SALE. 

TWO  (S)  MODERN  PICTURE  HOUSES  in  the 
best  town  of  South  Carolina,  each  seating  three 
hundred.  Town  of  eighteen  thousand.  Good  long 
lease.  Location  best  in  city.  Very  best  service 
used.  Ten  cents  admission,  matinees  dally.  Making 
big  money.  Will  prove  it  to  the  buyer  with  cash. 
Seven  thousand  dollars  takes  them  both.  Will  bear 
strictest  Investigation.  Address  X.  Y.  Z.,  care  of 
Moving  Picture  World,  New  York  City. 


THEATRES  WANTED. 

THE  HIPPODROME — Blnghamton,  N.  Y.  Only 
house  on  Main  Street.  Population  50,000.  Capacity 
over  300.  Weekly  profits  $70.  Investigation 
courted.  Price  $2,800  cash.  HENRY  L.  FOX, 
Manager. 


THEATRES  FOR  RENT — Moving  picture  or  vaude- 
ville. Seating  capacity  500  to  2,500.  Now  being 
built  (ready  May  1st).  Reasonable  rents,  which  In- 
clude a  magnificent  Schuelke  Pipe  Organ,  with  Vox 
Humana  and  Cathedral  Chimes.  HUME,  exclusive 
representative,  Room  711,  608  S.  Dearborn  St., 
Chicago,  ni. 

WANTED — To  lease  or  buy,  a  moving  picture 
theatre  in  New  York,  Pennsylvania,  or  New  Jersey 
preferred.  Address  WM.  WOODIN,  317  Poplar  St., 
Towanda,    Pennsylvania. 

WANTED — To  buy  motion  picture  theatres  In 
towns  of  6,000  and  up  in  Maryland,  Virginia,  West 
Virginia,  North  Carolina  and  South  Carolina.  Give 
all  particulars  in  first  letter.  Address  607  WOOD- 
WARD BLDG.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

MUSICAL  INSTRUMENTS  FOR   SALE. 

FOR  SALE — 58  Electric  pianos  for  sale,  an  op- 
erator's outfit,  all  in  first  class  working  order. 
Pianos,  44  note,  $40.  Pianos,  65  note,  with  key- 
board, $50,  $65  and  $85  for  the  beet.  Orebeetrten 
pianos  with  pipes,  $300,  tbey  are  practically  sew. 
Address  J.  F.  HERMAN,  1420  Pa.  Ave.,  N.  W., 
Washington,  D.  C. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

EXCELLENT  OPPORTUNITY  for  moving  picture 
theatre  in  San  Benito,  Texas.  Live  town  with  big 
pay  rolls.  Population  over  4,000.  If  you  have  $5,000 
to  Invest  in  building  to  cost  about  $10,000,  communi- 
cate immediately  with  A.  HEYWOOD,  care  of  San 
Benito  Bank  and  Trust  Co.,  San  Benito,  Texas. 

NOTICE — If  you  want  to  buy  or  sell  theatre  In 
Southwest,  communicate  with  AL.  ALLBN,  206 
Andrews  Bldg..  Dallas,  Texas. 

OPERATORS'  EMERGENCY  TERMINAL— Pre- 
paid to  any  address,  30c  each.  Canada  Patent  No. 
136031  for  this  device  for  sale.  Address  BOX  264, 
Syracuse,   N.  Y. 

WANT — To  trade  good  western  films  for  Passion 
Play.  Must  be  in  good  condition.  Address  W.  A. 
CRANDALL,   High  Point,  N.  O. 

HAVE  FINE  MOVING  PICTURE  SITE  75  x  105, 
in  most  rapidly  growing  section  of  Newark.  Will 
sell  or  take  partner  with  capital  to  build.  Address 
N.  W.,  30  Avon  Ave.,  Newark,  N.  J. 

INFORMATION  FOR  EXHIBITORS— We  see 
every  Independent  film  before  it  is  released,  and 
give  expert  advice  on  what  to  buy.  Advance  re- 
ports on  best  available  material,  regular  and  feature 
releases.  Criticising  pictures  is  our  business.  Write 
for  particulars.  Address  CRITICISMS,  care  of 
Moving  Picture  World,  New  York  City. 


farewell.  Then  the  sheriff's  men  enter  and  as  they 
are  In  the  act  of  seizing  the  furniture,  one  of  them 
discovers  Tiny  Tim's  bank,  in  which  uncle  had 
placed   a   check    for  $25,000,    with   a  note   reading: 

"My  Dear  Tiny  Tim: — If  your  parents  are  selfish, 
you,  anyway,  have  a  heart  of  gold.  I  am  rich,  and 
that  is  why  I  give  you  a  check  for  $25,000. 
UNCLE  RICHARD,   The  Tobacco  King." 

The  creditors  are  paid  and  father  and  mother 
congratulate  themselves  on  having  such  a  smart 
and  wealthy  son. 

MARRIAGE  BY  THE  WHOLESALE   (April  S). 

Two  couples  meet  at  the  marriage  factory.  This  is 
the  city  hall,   Bureau  of  Licenses. 

By  coincidence  the  conples  meet  again  in  the 
theater.  There  Is  more  trouble.  Both  couples  go  to 
a  hotel.  There  Is  only  one  billiard  table.  Both 
bridegrooms  want  to  play  at  the  same  time.  There 
is  only  one  bedroom  in  the  house.  There  are  many 
flying  fists  and  black  eyes,  scratched  faces  and 
pulled  hair  is  distributed  with  the  greatest  prodi- 
gality. The  police  are  called  in  and  all  four  are 
hauled  off  to  Jail. 


LUX. 

THE  LEOPARD  AVENGER  (April  18).— The 
story  of  an  old  chemist,  who  takes  his  daughter 
and  a  devoted  band  of  assistants  into  the  heart  of 
Africa  in  order  that  he  may  pursue  his  scientific 
studies  unmolested;  of  how  he  learns  the  secret  of 
making  diamonds  and  of  a  dastardly  attempt  to 
rob  him  of  his  secret  by  the  head  of  a  big  diamond 
trust  Is,  in  Itself  alone,  a  thrilling  one.  But  to 
this  is  allied  an  exciting  story  of  a  leopard  hunt. 
of  the  chase  end  the  capture  of  the  beast  after  it 
has  been  badly  wounded.  Through  the  careful 
nursing  of  the  chemist's  daughter,  the  leopard  Is 
restored  to  its  former  good  health,  and  becomes  as 
docile  as  a  great  domestic  cat.  When  the  agent 
of  the  diamond  trust  comes  to  steal  the  secret,  he 
is  confronted  by  the  great  leopard,  who  attacks 
blm,  and,  after  a  deadly  struggle,  the  thief  and 
the  avenger  lie  lifeless  upon  the  ground. 


SOLAX. 

THE  MYSTERY  OF  THE  LOST  CAT  (April  16).— 
While  Mrs.  Ray  is  getting  supper  for  her  pet  cat 
it  disappears.  She  calls  up  Burstup  Homes,  the 
detective,  who  comes  to  Mrs.  Ray's  apartment  and 
examines  the  rooms.  He  examines  the  cat's  paw 
prints,  finds  cat's  hair  and  a  piece  of  music  en- 
titled "And  the  Cat  Came  Back."  These  he  con- 
siders invaluable  clues.  On  the  floor  below  he  finds 
a  man  playing  "And  the  Cat  Came  Back."  This 
suspect  offers  a  connecting  link  in  his  chain  of 
evidence  and  so  he  lassoes  him  and  after  tying  up 
the  musician,  he  proceeds  to  secure  further  evidence. 
He  continues  on  his  way  through  the  building  and 
arrests  many  persons  on  trivial  clues.  Finally 
Burstup  reaches  the  basement',  where  he  finds  four 
crooks,  three  men  and  a  woman,  quarreling  about 
a  fur  piece.  Burstup  sees"  the  fur  and  thinks  It  is 
the  cat's  skin,  appropriates  It  and  arrests  the 
crooks  and  drags  them  along  with  his  other  suspects 
to  the  police  station.  In  the  meantime,  Mrs.  Ray's 
cat  comes  back  and  she  goes  to  the  police  station 
and  advises  Burstup,  and  all  the  prisoners  are  con- 
sequently discharged  by  the  Judge  and  Burstup 
leaves  amidst  Jeers. 

WHERE  LOVE  DWELLS  (April  18).— Mrs.  Bar- 
ton, rich  and  snobbish,  writes  her  poor  sister  that 
she  will  give  the  letter's  daughter,  Jennie,  a  home 
with  her.  Jennie,  a  beautiful,  happy  creature,  does 
not  care  to  go,  but  her  parents,*  realizing  the  oppor- 
tunity, insist  and  Jennie,  with  heavy  heart,  leaves 
for  her  new  home.  Arrived,  the  Barton's  coldness, 
formality  and  artificiality,  chill  and  stun  her  and 
she  longs  for  her  humble  home. 

One  night,  at  a  reception  given  in  bonor  of  the 
noble  Barry  Lee,  Mrs.  Barton  Insists  that  Jennie 
wear  one  of  Flora's  cast  off  gowns,  and  Jennie, 
obeying,  makes  a  ridiculous  appearance.  The  guests 
secretively  laugh  and  twit  her  and  file  into  the 
ballroom,  leaving  her  alone.  After  the  first  sting 
of  the  humiliation  has  passed,  Jennie  rebels,  dresses 
herself  In  one  of  her  simple,  home-made  dresses,  de- 
scends again  to  the  drawing  room  and  makes  a 
complete    conquest    of    all    the    men    and    especially 


Barry  Lee,  whom  Flora  hopes  to  win.  Lee  makes 
love  to  Jennie,  but  she,  believing  him  engaged  to 
Flora,  repulses  him  Just  as  Mrs.  Barton  and  Flora 
surprise  them.  The  latter  are  furious,  denounce 
Jennie  and  pack  her  off  to  her  room. 

Jennie,  hurt'  and  indignant,  packs  her  valise  to 
go.  Barry,  learning  of  her  decision,  and  in  spite 
of  Mrs.  Barton's  and  Flora's  efforts  to  detain  him, 
offers  to  take  Jennie  to  her  home.  She  reluctantly 
consents,  and  there  at  last  she  Is  happy  again  in 
the  little  home  where  love  dwells. 

FEATURE  RELEASES. 

UNION   FEATURES. 

THE  TEMPEST. — Owing  to  the  deep  interest 
Prospero,  Duke  of  Milan,  took  In  his  studies,  he 
neglected  to  attend  to  the  affairs  of  state.  His 
brother,  Antonio,  seeing  this  soon  bad  him  deposed, 
and  later  managed  to  set  blm-  and  bis  little  daugb- 
er,  Miranda,  adrift.  After  drifting  for  several  days, 
the  castaways  were  washed  upon  an  island  in- 
habited by  an  evil  spirit  named  Sycorax.  Prospero, 
by  his  knowledge  of  magic,  released  the  good  spirit', 
Ariel,  who  promised  to  do  anything  for  Prospero. 
Prospero  lived  for  many  years  in  this  strange, 
little  dominion,  and  one  day  with  the  aid  of  Ariel 
he  conjured  up  the  Court  of  Naples  and  learned 
that  the  King  was  making  preparations  for  a  voy- 
age to  negotiate  for  the  marriage  of  his  daughter 
to  the  Prince  of  Tunis.  With  the  aid  of  the  spirlta, 
Prospero  ordered  a  tempest  raised  which  cast  the 
passengers  on  the  lBland,  each  Ignorant  a*  to  the 
safety  of  the  other.  Prince  Ferdinand,  on  bis  way 
to  Prospero,  met  Miranda.  They  fell  In  love  im- 
mediately. At  the  words  of  Prospero,  Ariel  brought 
all  the  survivors  to  the  grotto  of  Prospero.  They 
did  not  recognize  him,  not  even  bis  own  brother. 
He  retired  for  a  moment  and  reappeared  in  his 
former  robes  of  state.  Recognition  was  instantane- 
ous and  they  begged  forgiveness.  Great  was  th* 
Joy  of  the  King  when  he  saw  his  son,  the  Prince, 
with  Miranda,  and  he  agreed  on  the  betrothal  •€ 
the  pair. 


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Over    4,000    in    use.      Over    4,000    Satisfied    Exhibitors. 

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Patents  Pending. 
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You  should  worry. 

March   29,    1913. 
The   T.   H.   Genter   Co., 

Newburgh,  N.  Y. 
Gentlemen: 

We  beg  to  advise  that  the  Curtain  I  installed  in  the  Rex 
Theater,   Syracuse,  is  giving  great  satisfaction. 

The  Curtain  installed  in  the  Standard  Theater.  Syracuse,  on 
approval,  is  simply  great;  the  management,  Mr.  Bastable,  states 
it  cut  the  juice  bill  50  per  cent.  Still  gives  a  brighter  picture 
than  previously  obtained   on  direct   current. 

Yours  very  truly, 
r.  W.   SPRETTER, 
Auburn  Film  Ex. 
March  29,  1913. 
From  Mr.  Petters,  of  580  E.  138th  St.,  New  York  City. 
Gentlemen: 
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Enclosed  is  another  order  for  one  141 17  Grade  B  Screen  for 
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Yours  very  truly, 

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colors  on  your  singer  or  slide. 
When  ordering  state  whether  your 
lens  is  quarter  or  half  size. 
Price  $2.25. 

CHICAGO     STAGE 

112  N.  La  Salle  Street 


Exit   Box 

This  perfectly  ventilated,  bronze 
finish  Exit  Box  is  made  so  that  no 
rays  of  light  escape  to  reflect  on 
the  picture  curtain.  It  is  made 
so  that  it  can  be  fitted  on  a  gas 
burner  or  a  hole  can  be  punched 
in  same  to  fit  over  an  electric 
socket.  Price  $2.25.  Oil  lamp  to 
lit  same,  25  cents  extra. 

LIGHTING    CO. 

Chicago,  III. 


PICK     YOUR     BEST    GIRL'S    NAME 

AND  WIN  A  BOOK  OF  ADMISSION  TICKETS 

TO  THE 


BIJOU  THEATRE 

May  Cost  lc. 
Not  Over  16c. 


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Gladys 


Mildred 


Lulu 


Lacy 


Cora 


Myrtle 


Elinore 


Florence  , 


1^59P     "TE^*r"   ^ICTT" 


NiLonil  Ticket  Co..  SfcimokiB,  Pi. 


.  T^3  card  contains  16  numbers,  running  from  lc  to  16c.  and  pays 
$1.36  to  the  Theatre  using  same.  We  furnish  two  books,  containing  12 
tickets  each,  with  each  card,  one  book  goes  to  the  person  holding  the 
lucky  number  under  seal,  and  the  other  12  tickets  go  to  the  person 
who  hustles  the  card,  and  if  card  la  sold  at  the  Theatre  24  tickets 
may  be  given  the  winner. 

We  print  name  of  Theatre  on  card  and  tickets  with  each  other. 

50  cards  and  ioo  books  containing  12  tickets  each,  $5.50 

100  cards  and  200  books  containing  12  tickets  each,  $8.00 

Cash  must  accompany  all  orders. 

We    make    special    cards    to    suit    your    requirements    and    all    styles 
of  tickets. 

NATIONAL  TICKET  CO.,  SMti°Km- 


Scarlett  Films 


COMING 

Early 
Release 


"The  Lost  Identity 

A  gripping  heart  interest  western  story 


IN  TWO  PARTS  WITH 

Miss  Eleanor  Caines  and  Mr.  Jerold  T.  Hevener 

(Late  Leading  Lady  Lubin  Co.)  (Late  Leading  Man  Lubin  Co.) 

In  the  principal  parts,  supported  by  a  capable  company  of  performers. 
Exchanges  and  Exhibitors  should  see  this  great  story .  You  will  wan  tit. 
Our  advertising  is  now  ready,  fine  colored  posters. 

THE    SCARLETT   MOTION    PICTURE   STUDIOS 

2233-37  VINE  STREET  :-:  :-:  :.:  PHILADELPHIA.  PA. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


VITA 

FILM  SALES  GO. 

Exchange  Bldg, 

145  West  45th  Street 
NEW  YORK 


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WEj  HAVE    WHAT    OTHERS   HAVE     NOT! 

J  "Bloomsbury  Burglars,"   "Supreme  Sacrifice,"  "Dancing''Cirl,"- 
"~1«^        i"Halred,"  Woman's  Cross,"  "Terror  of  Sin."  ■  **  '     .^1 

If  you  canjuit  a^Feature  6 
days  or  more  on  al  circuit 
we  will  make  you  our  agent 


EXHIBITORS' 


We  have  Branch  Olfices  in    BOSTON,  SYRACUSE, 
PHILADELPHIA  and  BALTIMORE. 


Let  us  send  you  a  sample  of  j 

DISINFECTINE 

(Geranium  odor) 

A  highly  perfumed  disinfectant.    Should  be  used  in  every 
theatre.    Kills  disease  germs  and  bad  odors. 

/Vice  only  $2.50  per  gallon  with  Mprayer 

Moving  Picture  Machines  and  Repairs 

Of  all  Standard  Makes 

We  allow  on  your  old  machine  toward  purchase  of  price 
of  new  one.    LET'S  GET  ACQUAINTED. 

Amusement  Supply  Company 

107-A  No.  Dearborn  Street  Chicago 


OHIO  FLOOD 

Slides 


World's  Worst  Disaster 

50    Different  Views    FIFTY 

EVERY    SLIDE    A    THRILL 

Special    Offer.    I   to   10  Slides,  75c 

20   or   More,  50c,    each 

if  cash  is  sent  with  order 


THE     FIRST    PICTURES     OF 
THE  DEVASTATED  DISTRICT 


Superior  Slide  Co.  SIX  Cleveland,  0. 


STEADIEST  POWER                  .JbAflL^ 
LIGHTEST  WEIGHT              J  ]  EM. 
CUSHMAN     ENGINES      ^        {MW 

F  OR  PICTURE  SHOWS        fl/jKR    J 

High  grade  engines  with  automatic       '        Bf  JrmH            wf*t     1 
throttle     governors     and     Schebler                HWai  ja^^jSl    Pfffir-I 
carburetors   giving    a   reliable   and              k       Ati    ■  ^^mV*^l_I 
steady     power     for     electric     light               Bn^^^ . "     *^^BtiW 
service.       Get   our   40-page    catalog              *V^k9                            E 
and    special    picture    show    engine              Bf  JtBB            afcC  * 
folder.        Complete      dynamo      and       ^^BSaaHj  «f^ «      ^z**t    ' 
plant   ready   to   connect   to   picture        V|             '■  — '  '-"V'^t 
machines.     Ask  for  proof  of  their         >  ^H                       Hi  ?*■ 
unequalled  success.                                         ^mRra*~mmm^m^mmm^ 

CUSHMAN   MOTOR  WORKS                         2   cylinder,   6-8   H.    / 
2115   N  Street            Lincoln,  Neb.            4    cycle,    weight   360    lbs. 

1 

Speed's 
the  Thing 

When  you  hear  of  it 
in  connection  with  a 
typewriter,  it   means 

UNDERWOOD 

It's  the  world's  champion  for 

Speed  I  Accuracy 

Holds  every  world's  record 
since  tests  began 

"  The  Machine  You  Will  Eventually  Buy" 


Underwood  Typewriter  Co.,  Inc. 

Underwood    Building,   New  York 

BRANCHES  IN  ALL  PRINCIPAL  CITIES 


EYE  COMFORT 
LIGHTING 

System 

So  necessary  to  the  success  of  every 
Motion     Picture     Theatre     that     we 
engineer  60  Theatres  a  month. 
This    is    a    free    service    to     Motion 
Picture  Theatre  Managers. 

Distance  Screen  to  Bear  of  Auditorium 

Celling  Height 

Width  of  Honse 

Name   

NATIONAL  X-RAY  REFLECTOR  CO. 
Chicago  New  York 

229  W.  Jackson  Blvd.  505  Fifth  Ave. 


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NOW  BOOKING   NEW  YORK  STATE.  The  Most  Stupendous  and  Beautiful  Picture  Ever  Produced 

Helen  Gardner  in  Cleopatra 

BIGGEST  BOX  WINNER  SINCE  "DANTE'S  INFERNO" 

Managers  of  First  Class  Theatres  and  High  Class  Picture  Houses  Send  In  Tour  Open  Time 

Magnificent  Line  of   Pictorial  Printing,  Beautiful  Photos  for  Lobby  Display,  Assorted 
Cuts  of    All  Sizes,  Press  Matter,  Etc. 

EXHIBITORS:  EXHIBITORS:  EXHIBITORS: 

Book  the  picture  that    the  public  will  pay  good  money  to  see     WRITE    or   wire 

Fuller's  Feature   Film  Exchange,  Inc.,  472  Fulton  Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

TELEPHONE,    758    MAIN 

Owner  Exclusive  Rights  New  York  State,  Outside  Greater  New  York 


UOII  DUprilt  Self-Releasing  Fire  Exit  Latches 


"Had*  On  Honor." 

Absolutely  Sellable. 
Safeguard  Against 
Paalc  Disasters. 
Approved  by  New 
lock  Board  of  Under- 
writers, City  of  New 
York  Bureau  of 
Buildings. 

Applied  on  thou- 
sand! of  Buildings  In 
man  thin  600  Cities 
in  the  U.  8.  A.  and 
Canada. 

Bend  for  Catalogue 
No.  10  D. 

YOJTHEGUT    HARD-L 

WABE  CO., 
•aaeral  Distributors,  J 
laAlaoaaolia,       Ind.,  I 

V.  8.  A. 

Oka  too  afford  to  be| 

without  themt 


Safe  Exit  Ts  a  Universal  Demand 


The  German   Emperor  the 
Latest  Moving  Picture  "Fan" 

That  the  fascination  of  the  "movie"  has  made 
an  enthusiast  of  Kaiser  Wilhelm  is  a  handwriting 
on  the  wall — he  who  runs  picture  shows  should 
read  with  pride. 

That  the  motion  picture  holds  the  center  of  the  stage 
as  the  favored  amusement  of  the  American  public  there  is 
no  doubt.  Make  your  show  the  Mecca  for  American 
aristocrats  by  equipping  your  machine  with 

Jauscli  [omb 

Projection  [enses 

The  choice  of  wise  picture  men  everywhere.  They 
know  that  Bausch  &  Lomb  objectives  and  condensers 
insure  pictures  that  are  bright,  clear  and  steady — the  true 
to  life  kind  that  attract  the  crowds  and  keep  them  coming. 

The  Edison  and  Nicholas  Power  Machines  are  regularly  equipped 
with  our  lenses.    They  can  be  procured  also  through  any  film  exchange. 

It  will  pay  you  to  read  our  interesting  free  booklet  62D. 
It  contains  much  of  value  to  owners  and   operators. 

Bausch  ZS  Ipmb  Optical  (5. 

mVm    TO»U\  WASHINGTON  CHICAGO  SAN    rttANCISC* 

u>n»om  ROCHESTER,.  N.Y.   "*A"Kr°*T 


FOR  SALE  —  FEATURES  ! 

NOTE   REDUCED   PRICES   FOB    QUICK    SALE. 


Blazing  the  Trail. 


2  reels   $50.00 


Post  TelegTapher 2 

The    Crisis 2 

Dead   Man's    Child 3 

Wreck   of  the  Aurora 3 

Last  of  the  Frontignaes 3 

Florodora    3 

Lured  from   Home 3 

St.    George   and  the  Dragon 3 

Paul   Bevere 3 

Dalton  Boys 3 

Dalton  Boys 3 

Wage   Earners 3 

Secret  Service  Steve 3 

Midnight  Express 3 

Renovated  and  in  Al  condition. 
Plenty  of  paper  at  7c  per  sheet,  heralds,  $1.00  per  thousand.  Herald 
plates  for  last  four  subjects,  $10.00  each.  Discount  of  10%  on  three 
or  more   subjects  taken   at  one  time.     Terms,    10%   with   order    (draft) 

balance   C.  0.  D.,    subject   to  inspection.  Above   features  also   for  rent. 

Royal  Feature  Film  Co.,  Schultz  Building,  Columbus,  Ohio 


50.00 
60.00 

(Ohio)    75.00 

••       75.00 

75.00 

75.00 

75.00 

(Ohio)    150.00 

South    %    Ohio..  126.00 

(Ohio)    200.00 

W.  Va 126.00 

(Ohio)    200.00 

200.00 

200.00 


Now  Booking 

The  Miracle 


OR 


Sister  Beatrice 


FOR 


New  York  State 


Wire,  Phone  or  Call  for  Terms 


Theatre   Film    Co. 

12  Union  Square,  New  York 


2l6 


THE  MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


'Negatives  Developed  and  a  Print  Made  and  Delivered 
Same  Day  as  Received     -    !•     5c  per  foot 

FILMITITLES  and  ANNOUNCEMENTS 
infany[length     -  -     3  FEET  FOR  25c 


GUNBY|BROS.,  Inc.| 


199  Third  Ave..  New  York  City 


$1000.00 


WEi    WILL    PAY  FOR    ONE 

SCENARIO 


TO    BE    PRODUCED    BY    US    AS   AN    OUT    OF 

THE    ORDINARY    3    OH    4    REEL    FEATURE 

NO     WESTERN    OR    MILITARY    STORIES    CONSIDERED 

ADVANCE  MOTION  PICTURE  CO. 

Alvin   B.    Giles,    Advertising   Director. 
Suite  547-549  Peoples  Gas  Building,  Chicago,  111. 


We  buy  and  sell  Second  Hand  Films 
and  Moving  Picture  Machine* 

WESTERN  FILM  BROKERS 

638  S.  Dearborn  Street  CMoago,  HI. 


FOR    CHICAGO    AND    ILLINOIS 
THE     SUPERB     PRODUCTION 

Helen  Gardner  in  Cleooatra 

8,000  feat. 

Send    for   list   of  other    features   we  hare   for 
rent  and  for  sale. 

NORTHERN      FEATURE     FILM     EXCHANGE, 
406  Schiller  Bide.,  Chioago. 


K/-.     Headquarters  for       J 

ASBESTOS 

CURTAINS  and  PICTURE  BOOTHS 
5w  c.  W.  Trainer  Mfg.  Co. 
Booklet    39  Pearl  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 


Gives  Satisfaction 

Our  Developing  System 
A.  J.  CORCORAN,  Inc. 

11  John  Street  New  York 


WILL   BUY 

Your  old  machine  if  you  buy  a  new 
machine  from  us.  Write  today  for 
prices. 

X-L   FEATURE  FILM   SERVICE  CO. 


For  Sale— Three  Reel  Features 

Features  in  first-class  physical  condi- 
tion,   full    reels,    fine    lobby    display, 
hand  dodgers. 
ARCO  FILM  COMPANY, 
167  W.  Washington  St.,  Chicago. 


J-M  THEATRE   NECESSITIES 

J-M  Transits  Asbestos  Wood  Booths  for  Moving 

Picture  Machines. 

J-M  Asbestos   and    Vitribestos   Theatre    Curtains. 

J-M  Linolite    and    Frink   Lighting    Systems. 

J-M  Success    Chemical    Fire    Extinguishers,    etc. 

Write  for  Booklet, 

H.   W.  JOHNS-MANVILLE  CO.. 

New  York  and  every  large  city. 


THE   MIDDLE  .WEST   FLOODS    AND    TORNADO 

10  Slides,  Plain,  $2.50;  Colored,  $4.00  40  Slides,  Plain,  $10.00;  Colored,  $16.00 
20  Slides,  Plain,  5.00;  Colored,  8.00  50  Slides,  Plain,  12.50;  Colored,  20.00 
30  Slides,  Plain,    7.50;  Colored,  12.00        60  Slides,  Plain,    15.00;  Colored,    24.00 

One-Sheet  lithos  with  each  set. 
A.  J.  CLAPHAM  ---  130  West  37th  Street,  New  York 


TUt  D.  and  tt.  STAIDAfiD  HL11 PECL 

11  in.  diameter,  6  in.  core,  metal  bushed  thimble, 
accurately  made  of  high  grade  material.  .Re- 
lieves extraordinary  strain  on  film,  and  saves  50 
per  cent,   in  rewinding. 

Manufactured    by 

BELL  &    HOWELL    COMPANY 

217  WEST  ILLINOIS  STREET    CHICAGO,  ILL. 


MOVING  PICTURE  MACHINES 
&  LANTERNS 


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Hutbei!6.Cc 

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Bound  Volumes    for   1912 
of   Moving    Picture   World 

JANUARY   to    MARCH;    APRIL    to    JUNE; 
JULY  to  SEPTEMBER;  OCTOBER  to  DECEMBER 

Four  Volumes  in  Substantial  Cloth  Board  Binding  with 

Index,  $1,50  per  Volume,  Express  Charges  Collect  or 

70c    Extra    for   Each    Volume   to    Cover   Postage 


ADDRESS    ALL    ORDERS    AND    REMITTANCES 


Moving  Picture  World 


Box  226,  Madison  Square 
P.  O.,  New  York  City 


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217 


STOP  WORRYING!  U1  Bs Develop M< Print ™T Negfl 

-  Give  us  a  trial  and  be  convinced  that  our  Work 

SEND  FOR  SIMPLES  AND  PRICES.  TITLES  S  .08  PER  FOOT.  is  the  best 

ROMAN    FILM   CO.,   Inc.,   Phone  Bath  Beach  1575,  1668  Bath  Ave.,  BROOKLYN,    N.  Y. 


Moving  Picture  Supplies 

Repair  parts  for  all  makes  of  machines,  Carbons, 
Tickets,  Condensers  (imported  stock  only). 

Lenses,  Booths,  all  makes  of  Machines — equipments 
without  mechanisms,  Rheostats,  Compensarcs,  12" 
Reels  for  two  subjects,  Poster  Frames  (different 
from  any  others),  Magazine  Reminders,  Arc 
Lamps  for  all  makes  of  machines. 

Get  our  prices  on  your  supplies  before  ordering.  We  ship  goods  Parcel 
Post,  free. 

One_  Edison  type  B,  complete  machine  with  lenses,  rheostat  and  re- 
winder,  $120.00.  Used  only  three  weeks,  guaranteed  to  be  abso- 
lutely good  as  new. 

The  oldest  and  most  reliable  house  of  its  kind  in  the  Country. 

THE  STERN  MANUFACTURING  COMPANY 

109  N.  10th  STREET,  PHILADELPHIA,  PA. 


DAYTON  FLOOD  DISASTER 


Fifty  Slides,  Twenty  Dollars 

Twenty   Slides,   Ten   Dollars 

Eight  Slides         Five  Dollars 

Cash  with  Order 

IMMEDIATE  SHIPMENT 

Albert  Earl's  description,  $2  Extra 


DAYTON  VIEW  CO. 


130  DUDLY  ST. 
Dayton        Ohio 


THE  HISTORICAL  FILM  COMPANY 

AN  NOU  NCES 

the  preparation  of  American  literary  and  his- 
torical feature  masterpieces  of  vital  and  unique 
interest  to  American  exhibitors  and  theatre- 
goers. 

AMERICAN    THEMES   FORI   AMERICANS 

Offices: 

1  Madison  Avenue,  New  York 

4  Gerrard  Street,  Shaftesbury  Ave.,  London,  W. 

EUSTACE    HALE    BALL 

General  Manager 


Horrible  Ohio  Flood  Disaster! 

We  are  right  on  the  ground  and  have  20  Slides  of  the 

best  views  of  the  Columbus,  Ohio,  and 

Dayton,  Ohio,  Disaster. 

Your  Patrons  are  anxiously  awaiting  to  see  them.  If 
you  wire  your  order — wire  money  at  same  time.  Mail 
orders  must  be  accompanied  by  Post  Office  or  Ex- 
press Money  Orders.    Price,  per  set  of  20  slides,  $8. 

American  Slide  Company 

165^  N.  High  St.,  Columbus,  Ohio] 


FEATURES  FOR  SALE 

No  Junk,  cut-outs  or  bashed  up  subjects.     We  buy  new  prints  and  sell  theui 
after  30  days'  run.    We  guarantee  these  Features  to  be  In  excellent  condition. 

The  Glass  Coffin 3  reels ^.■■^    ^l?!' 

The  Yellow   Peril 3  reels Con.  Kunstnlm 

lloruians  Vengeance  3  reels „,    ?TV 

Tonviet  10  and  13 "  reels S°!Si  I 

Through  Trials  to  Victory 3  reels i,i.  5™. 

The  Penalty  2  reels Vltascope 

Mvsterles  of  Paris 2  reels Vltascope 

Gypsy  Blood  3  reels D  Biograph 

The  Wedding  Torch 2  reels Con.  Kunstnlm 

The  Black  Cat 3  reels V  tascope 

The  Unwritten  Law 3  reels Vltascope 

The  Cabaret  Dancer 3  reels Patbe  D  Art 

Mexican  Revolution  2  reels War  Staff 

White  Glove  Band 3  reels G5?S??J 

Sbanghled    §  reds Nord  sk 

Under  the  Wheel  of  the  City .....3  reelB X^Si'S 

All  the  World's  Stage 2  «*!• a  "A.  N<X?18.J 

Judgment  of  Solomon 2  reels P«the  BAxt 

The  Drunkard   2  reels.. . .. . ... Patbe 

A  large  assortment  of  original  mounted  posters  with  every  feature. 

Films  shipped  O.  O.  D.     Examination  privileges  deposit,  $10.00. 
Write  for  prices  and  synopses. 

THE  AMERICAN  FEATURE  FILM  CO.  MSofSSg 


"INCREASE,  YOUR   ATTENDANCE 


PREMIUMS  ! ! ! 


"Tbls  Will  Please 
the  Children  and 
Their  Parents 

Smallest  Bank  in  the  world.  Just 
holds  ten  dimes,  and  the  tenth  dime 
opens  it.  Heavy  nickeled  brass,  highly 
polished.  Your  theatre  name  and  city 
stamped  in  the  metal. 
Lots  of  500,  $25.00.  Special  quota- 
tions on  larger  quantities. 

GOOD   LUCK   BANK 

873  Flatiron  Bldfl.,  N.  Y.  City 


NOW  BOOKING  THE  STATE  OF  VIRGINIA 

"James  K.  Hackett  in  The  Prisoner  of  Zenda" 


M.  L.  HOFHEIMER,  RICHMOND,  VIRGINIA 


INDEX 


ACTIVITIES   OF   THE   KALEM   COMPANY 145 

ADVERTISING    FOR   EXHIBITORS 155 

AMONG    THE    PICTURE   THEATRES 171 

AT  THE  SIGN  OF  THE  FLAMING   ARCS 175 

CALENDAR    OF    LICENSED    RELEASES 184 

CALENDAR  OF  INDEPENDENT  RELEASES 186 

CHICAGO    LETTER 148 

COMMENTS    ON    THE    FILMS    (Licensed) 163 

COMMENTS    ON    THE    FILMS    (Independent) 165 

CORRESPONDENCE    178 

DANGER    AHEAD 140 

"DICK  WHITTINOTON  AND  HIS  CAT"   (Solax).145 

DIRECTORIAL     CENSORSHIP 141 

DOINGS  AT  LOS  ANGELES 151 

FACTS  AND  COMMENTS 139 

"FIGHTING'   CHAPLAIN,    THE"    (Kalem) 154 


CARBON   IMPORTERS. 

FRORUP,    L.    E 226 

KIEWERT,    CHARLES    L 229 

REISINGER,    HUGO 227 

ELECTRICAL   4:    MECHANICAL    EQUIPMENT. 

AMUSEMENT   SUPPLY"   CO 214 

BELL   &    HOWELL 216 

BENDER,    GEORGE 200 

OALEHUFF    SUPPLY   CO 226 

CHICAGO  STAGE  LIGHTING  CO 213 

CUSHMAN  MOTOR   WORKS 214 

DEARBORN    NOVELTY  CO 225 

DETROIT  ENGINE   WORKS 225 

FORT   WAYNE   ELECTRIC  WORKS 228 

HALLBERG,    J.    H 229 

HOKE.    GEORGE    M 230 

M YEP.S   MANUFACTURING  CO 230 

PICTURE  THEATRE    EQUIPMENT   CO 224 

SCHNEIDER,  E 230 

SMITH,    L.    C.    &    CO 190 

STERN    MANUFACTURING   CO 217 

WHITE  SPECIALTY  CO 190 

FEATURE  FILMS. 

ALLARDT  FEATURE   FILM  CO 225 

AMERICAN   FEATURE  FILM   CO 209-217 

AMERICAS    FEATURE   FILM   CO 228 

AROO   FEATURE    FILM   CO 216 

CANADIAN    BIOSCOPE   CO 225 

COLUMBINE   FEATURE  FILM  CO 205 

DAYTON   FLOOD   FEATURE  CO 189 

ECLECTIC   FILMS    126-127 

FAMOUS   PLAYERS  FILM   CO 124 

FORMA,   TERRY  &  TAYLOR 223 

FULLER'S    FEATURES 215 

GENERAL   FILM  CO 129-130-131 

GREAT  NORTHERN  SPECIAL  FEATURE  FILM 

CO 191 

HISTORICAL    FILM    CO 217 

ITALA   FILM   CO 225 

LEA-BEL   FEATURE   FILM   CO 224 

M.    &  F.    FEATURE  FILM  CO 190 

MONOPOL    FILM   CO 12S 

MOORE,    F.    B 211 

NEW  YORK  FILM  CO 213 

NORTHERN    VENTURES    210 

PROTECTIVE    AMUSEMENT   CO 193 

ROMAN   FILM  CO 217 

ROYAL   FEATURE  FILM   CO 215 

SHAKESPEARE  FILM  CO 188 

SPECIAL   EVENT    FILM   CO 200-225 

TUUE    FEATURES    203 

TURNER  &  DAHNKEN  CIRCUIT 201 

U.    S.    FILM   CO ! 183 

VITA  FILM  SALES  CO 214 

WARNERS  FEATURES   221 

IMPORTERS  AND  DEALERS. 

UNITED  AMERICAN  FILM  BROKERS 232 

WESTERN  FILM  BROKERS 216 

FESEPR00F  APPARATUS. 

JOHNS-MAN  VILLE    CO 216 


TO  CONTENTS. 

FLICKERS     174 

FOREIGN    TRADE   NOTES 170 

ILLINOIS     179 

IOWA    180 

INDEPENDENT  FILM  STORIES 202 

INDEPENDENT    RELEASE    DATES 220 

INQUIRIES     158 

LICENSED    FILM    STORIES 192 

LICENSED    RELEASE    DATES 222 

LOUISVILLE   181 

MANUFACTURERS'   ADVANCE   NOTES 176 

MOTION   PICTURE  EXHIBITORS'   LEAGUE 146 

MOVING     PICTURE     EDUCATOR,     THE 167 

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Hot.  31— The    Renegade's  Heart   (Drama) 1000 

Apr.    8 — Matches    (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.     6— The  Ifute  Witness  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     7— Oopid    Throwe    a    Brick     (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  10 — The    Homestead    Eace    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  12 — Woman's    Honor    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  14 — Suspended   Sentence    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  17— In   Another's   Nest    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  19— The  Ways  of  Fate   (Drama) 1000 

AMBROSIO. 
Mar.  22—  Lot*   Levela  All    (2   reels)    (Drama) . . 
liar.  29 — The  Human  Target    (2  reels — Drama) 

Apr.    6 — For    His    Sake    (2   reels — Drama) 

Apr.  12 — Auto  Suggestion;  or  the  Crime  of  An- 
other   (2    reels — Drama) 

Apr.  1»— To  Save  the  Children  (2  reels,  Dr.).. 
Apr.  26 — Golden  Bain   (2  reels,  Drama) 

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r*k.  1»— The  Cowgirl   and  the  Night    (Drama). 1000 

r»».  90— Th*  Coward    (Drama) 1090 

I-**.  27— The    Quality    of    Merer     (Drama) ....  1009 

afar.     «— Kith    and    Kin    (Drama) 

Mar.  It— Viae,   Women  and   Reformation    (Dr.) 

BOOK 
Mar.  26— The  Light  In  the  Window    (2  reel* 
Drama)   

Mar.  89— The  Ha  If -Breed  Parson  (2  reels— Dr.) 
Apr.     1— A  House  Divided   (8  parts.     Drama) . . 

Apr.     B — Tap  (2  parts.    Drama) 

Apr.    8— War     (2    reels — Drama) 

Apr.  12— The  Darling  ot  the  Regiment  (2  reels 

— Drama)     

Apr.  IE — Bred  In  the  Bone  (2-parts  Drama) 

Apr.  19— The  Last  Boll  Call  (2-parts  Drama).. 

BRONCHO. 
Mar.  12— The  Sergeant's  Secret   (2  reals)    (Dr.) 
Mar.  19— The    Pride    of    the    South     «    reels) 

(Drama) 

Mar.  26— The   Iconoclast    (S  reels — Drama) 

Apr.  2— The  Sinews  of  War  (2  parts.  Drama) 
Apr.  9 — The  Grey  Sentinel  (2  parts — Drama) 
Apr.  16— A   Southern   Cinderella    (3   parts,    Dr.) 

CHAMPION. 

Mar.  24 — An  Interrupted  Suicide   (Comedy) 

Mar.  24 — A  Trim  and  a  Shave   (Comedy) 

Mar.  *tt— A  Knotty  Knot  (Comedy) 

Apr.    7 — Shanghaied  (Drama)    

Apr.    7— The       Life-Savers       of      Chicamocomo 

(Vocational)     

Apr.  14 — Lena's  Flirtation   (Comedy) 

CRYSTAL. 
Mar.  80 — The   Drummer's    Note   Book    (Com.).. 

Mar.  SO — It's   a    Bear    (Comedy) 

Apr.    6 — Pearl  a*  a  Clairvoyant  (Comedy) 

Apr.     * — Almost  a  Winner  (Comedy) 

Apr.  18 — The  Veiled  Lady   (Comedy) 

Apr.  13 — Our     Parents-Ia-Law     (Comedy) 

Apr.  20 — His  Romantic  Wife   (Comedy) 

Apr.  20 — Two  Lunatics    (Comedy) 

ECLAIR. 

'Apr.     •— Crystallisation   (Scientific) 

Apr.    9 — Within    the    Limit    of    the    Law     (2 

reels — Drama)    

Apr.  13 — Going  for  Father  (Comedy) 

Apr.  13 — The   Octopus    (Zoology) 

Apr.  16— The   Evil   Genius    (2   parts,    Drama).. 

Apr.  20— Poor  Little   Chap    (Comedy) 

Apr.  20 — He  Was  Only  Dreaming  a  Fire  (Com.) 

EXCELSIOR. 
Mar.  24— Toe  Legends  of  the  Everglade  (Dr.).. 
Mar.  81— The  Romance  of  a  Fisher  Boy  (Drama) 
Apr.     7— Temperamental  Alice    (Comedy-Drama) 

Apr.  14 — The  Moving  Picture  Girl   (Drama) 

Apr.  21 — The  Man  from  the  City  (Drama) 

FRONTIER. 

Apr.    8— The  Bandit's  Redemption   (Drama) 

Apr.  10— As  Fste  Wills    (Drama) 

Apr.  12— The    Burning    Lariat    (Drama) 

Apr.  17— Some     Doings     at     Lonesome     Ranch 

(Comedy) 

Apr.  19— Why   the  Ranger  Resigned   (Drama).. 


GAUMONT. 
Mar.  25 — The    Lure    of    the    Lorelei     (Drama). 

Mar.  25 — Sea     Anemones     (Zoology) 

Mar.  26 — Gaumont's    Weekly,    No.    65    (News). 

Mar.  27 — The  Amateur  Sleuth  (Comedy) 

Mar.  27 — Hypnotizing     Hannah     (Comedy) 

Mar.  29 — (An    Education    and    Topical    Subject) 
Apr.     1 — The  Quality  of  Kindness   (Drama) .... 

Apr.     1 — By    Waters    Beautiful    (Scenic) 

Apr.     2 — Gaumont's    Weekly,    No.   57    (News) . . 
Apr.    3 — Marriage  by  the  Wholesale  (Comedy) . . 

Apr.     3 — Exotic   Fish    (Zoology) ; 

Apr.     5 — (An   Educational  and  Topical  Subject) 

OEM. 
Mar.  26 — Billy's  Mistaken  Overcoat   (Comedy) . . 

Apr.     1 — Billy's  Double   (Comedy) 

Apr.    1 — Lyndhoven  Farm,    Virginia 

Apr.     8 — Billy   Gets  Arrested    (Comedy) 

Apr.  16 — Billy    Turns    Burglar     (Comedy) 

Apr.  16 — The  Laplanders  (Typical)   

GREAT  NORTHERN.) 

Mar.  22— The  New   Film  Actor   (Comedy) 

Mar.  22 — The  Port  of  Copenhagen    (Scenic) 

Mar.  29 — Fred  as  a  Soldier  (Comedy) 

Mar.  29 — Summer  in  the  North   (Scenic) 

Apr.    6— A  Skipper's  Story    (Comedy) 

Apr.    6 — Under  Southern  Skies   (Physical  Geog- 
raphy)   

Apr.  12 — The        Bewitched         Rubber        Shoes 

(Comedy)     

Apr.  12 — Spanish     Towns     (Scenic) 

IMF. 
Apr.     3 — The    Bishop's    Candlesticks     (2    parts. 

Drama) 

Apr.     6 — Binks,  the  Terrible  Turk  (Comedy) .... 

Apr.     7 — The    Wanderer     (Drama) 

Apr.  10 — Aunt    Kate's   Mistake    (Comedy) 

Apr.  12— The    Mysterious   Card    (Comedy) 

Apr.  14 — Blood   Will   Tell    (Drama) 

Apr.  17 — The  Leader  of  His  Flock  (2  parts,  Dr.) 

Apr.  17— Fixing   the  Fakirs    (Comedy) 

Apr.  17— On  an  Alligator  Farm  (Zoology) 

KAY-BEE. 
Mar.     7— The  Last  Despatch   (1  reals)    (Drama) 
Mar.  14— The  Sins  of  the  Father  (2  reels)   (Dr.) 

Mar.  21— A  Frontier  Wife  (Drama) 

Mar.  28 — Texas  Kelly  at  Bay   (Drama) 

Apr.     4 — With  Lee  in  Virginia  (2  parts.    Drama) 
Apr.  11 — On  Fortune's  Wheel   (2  parts — Drama) 

KEYSTONE. 

Mar.  81 — Her   New  Been    (Comedy) 

Mar.  81 — On  His  Wedding  Day   (Comedy) 

Apr.     3 — The   Land  Salesman    (Comedy) 

Apr.     8 — Hide  and  Seek   (Comedy) 

Apr.     7— Those   Good    Old   Days    (Comedy) 

Apr.  10— A   Game  of  Poker    (Comedy) 

Apr.  10 — Father's     Choice     (Comedy) 

Apr.  14 — A  Life  In  the  Balance  (Comedy) 

Apr.  17— Murphy's  I.  0.  U   (Comedy) 

Apr.  17— A  Dollar  Did  It    (Comedy) 

LUX. 

Mar.  28— The  Man  Eater   (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     4 — Too   Polite    (Comedy) 476 

Apr.    4 — More  than  She  Bargained  for  (Comedy)  606 

Apr.  11 — Sacrificed    to    the    Lions    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  18— The  Leopard  Avenger   (Drama) 1000 

MAJESTIC. 

Apr.     1— A  Study  In  Sociology    (Drama) 

Apr.     6— The  Half  Orphans  (Comedy) 

Apr.     8— The     Night     Riders     (Drama) 

Apr.  13— BllUe's    New    Watch     (Comedy) 

Apr.  15 — Pedro's   Revenge    (Drama) 

Apr.  20 — I  Love  You    (Comedy) 

Apr.  20— Pisa,    Italy    (Political    Geography) 

MECCA. 
Mar.     1 — A  Stranger  la  the  Rockies  (Drama) . . 
Mar.     8— The    Inauguration    of    President    Wil- 
son   (Topical)    

Mar.  16— The   Fisher   Lady    (Drama) 

Mar.  22— The  Lineman  and  the  Reformer  (Dr.) 

Mar.  29 — The   Criminals    (Drama) 

Apr.     6 — By  the  Curate's  Aid  (Drama) 

MTLANO. 
Feb.  16— Out  of  the  Depths   (2  reels— Drama) . . 

April      1— A  Study  in  Sociology  (Drama) 

Feb.  22— Parted    at    the    Altar    (2   reels)    (Ba.) 
Mar.     1— The  Defeat  of  the  Conqueror  (2  reels) 

(Historical) 

Mar.     8— The  Victory  of  Virtue  (2  reels)    (Dr.) 
Mar.  15— The    81ns    of    the    Father     (2    reels) 

(Drama) 

MUTUAL  WEEKLY. 

Mar.     5 — Mutual  Weekly,   No.  10   (News) 

Mar.  12 — Mutual  Weekly,   No.  11    (News) 

Mar.  19 — Mutual  Weekly,   No.   12   (News) 

Mar.  26— Mutual  Weekly,   No.  18   (News) 

Apr.     2— Mutual   Weekly,   No.  14    (News) 


MUTUAL  EDUCATIONAL. 
Apr.     3 — Willy  and  the  Faithful  8ervant  (Com.) 
Apr.     3 — Winter  Sports  In  Norway   (Sporting).. 
Apr.  10 — Willy     PreferB      Liberty      to      Wealth 

(Comedy)     

Apr.  10 — The    Golden    Horn,    Turkey    (Physical 

Gr'eograpby )     

Apr.  17 — Willy  and  the  Conjuror   (Comedy).... 

Apr.  17 — Village     Customs     in     Ceylon,      India 

(Manners    and   Customs) 

NESTOR. 

Apr.     2 — The   Widow's   Folly    (Drama) 

Apr.     4 — A  Providential  Tragedy    (Drama) 

Apr.     7 — The  Maid  and  the  Milkman   (Comedy) 
Apr.     7 — River  Rhine,  Germany  (Physical  Geog- 
raphy)      

Apr.     9 — How    Fatty    Got    Even    (Comedy) 

Apr.  11 — The    Forgotten    Letter    (Drama) 

Apr.  14 — A  Night  of  the  Garter   (Comedy) 

Apr.  14 — Dad's  Surprise    (Comedy) 

Apr.  16 — An  Affray  of  Honor  (Drama) 

Apr.  18 — Paying  for  Silence    (Drama) 

POWERS. 
Mar.  28— The  Calling  of  Louis  Mona   (2  rests 

Drama)    

Apr.     2 — Do  It  Now  (Comedy) 

Apr.     4— Bachelor  Bill's  Birthday  Present  10*™.) 

Apr.     9 — The    Elixir   of    Youth    (Comedy) 

Apr.  11 — The    Fear     (Drama) 

Mar.  16 — The    Lesson     (Drama) 

Mar.  18— The  Troubadour  of  the   Rancho    (Dr.) 

PUNCH. 

r.S    27— Trust**    to   ft*rUa    (Osmesy) . .,., 

Mar.     6 —  Impetnoua     Jim      (Comedy) 

Mar.     6— No    Wedding   Bells    for   Jena*    (Ootn.) 

Mar.  13 — Father    Tamed     (Comedy) 

Mar.  13— His    First    Kodak     (Ceraedy) 

PILOT. 
Mar.  13— Lincoln   for  the   Defense    fDrama).... 
Mar.  20— Till  Death  Do  Us  Part  (2  reels)   (Dr.) 
Mar.  27 — When    Lincoln    was    President     (His- 
torical-Drama)     

Apr.     3 — In  the  Battle's  Smoke  (Drama) 

Apr.  10 — The   Smuggler'*   Dog    (Drama)    1000 

RAM0. 

Mar.  12— The   Better   Way    (Drama) 

Mar.  19— The    Dividing    Line     (Comedy) 

Mar.  26 — The  Grip  of  Jealousy   (Drama) 

April  2— The  Last  Old  Lady    (Comedy) 

April  2—  Rapid  Transit  In  New  York 

RELIANCE. 

Mar.  26 — His  Day  of  Freedom   (Drama) 

Mar.  29— The  Half- Wit  (Drama)   

Apr.     2— The  Judge's  Vindication  (2  parts.    Dr.) 

Apr.     5 — The  Womsn  Who  Knew  (Drama) 

Apr.     9 — The  Stronger  Call   (Drama) 

Apr.  12 — For  Love  of  Columbine    (Drama) 

Apr.  16 — Held  for  Ransom    (2  parts,   Drama) . . 
Apr.  19— The  Good  Within  (Drama) 

REX. 

Apr.     3 — Fiddler    Pete    (Comedy-Drama) 

Apr.     6 — Bobby's  Baby    (Drama) 

Apr.  10— Until    Death    (2    reels — Drama) 

Apr.  13 — Pure    Gold    and    Dross    (Scientific).... 

Apr.  17 — A  Friend  of  the  Family  (Drama) 

Apr.  20 — A  Book   of  Verses    (Drama) 

RYN0. 

Mar.  17— Memories  of  Long  Ago   (Drama) 

Mar.  24— The  Sea  Waif   (Drama) 

Mar.  31— Memories   of    Long   Ago    (Drama) 

Apr.    4— Classmates     (Drama)      

Apr.     7— The    Outcast     (Drama) 

Apr.  11— Off    the    Mainland    (Drama) 

SOLAX. 

Mar.  28 — The  Climax    (Drama)    

Apr.     2 — The  Bachelor's  Housekeeper    (Oomeay) 

Apr.    4 — The   Ogres    (Drama) 

Apr.     9 — The     Lady    Doctor     (Comedy) 

Apr.  11 — His   Son-in-Law    (Drama) 

Apr.  16— The  Mystery  of  the  Lost  Cat  (Comedy) 
Apr.  18 — Where  Love  Dwells    (Drama) 

THANH0USER. 

Mar.  30— The    Wax    Lady    (Drama) 

Apr.     1 — The     Woman     Who     Did     Not     Car* 

(Drama)     

Apr.     4— The    Spoiled    Darling's    Doll     (Drama) 
Apr.     6 — When   Ghost    Meets   Ghost    (Drama).. 

Apr.     8— The  Patriot   (Drama) 

Apr.  11— The  Changeling    (Drama) 

VICTOR. 

Mar.  21 — The    Younger   Sister    (Drama) 

Mar.  28 — That    Boy    from    Missouri    (Comedy).. 

Apr.     4 — A  Letter  to  Mother   (Drams) 

Apr.  11 — Two   Lives    (Drama) 

Apr.  18— The   Coward's  Charm    (Drama)    


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Tuesday — Edison,    Essanay,   Patheplay,   Cines,   Lu- 
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BIOGRAPH. 

Mar.  31 — Edwin    Masquerades    (Comedy) 

Mar.  31— Their  One  Good  Solt  (Comedy) 

Apr.     3— The  Hero  of  Little  Italy   (Drama) 

Apr.     5 — The  Perfidy  of  Mary  (Drama) 

Apr.     7— The    Stolen    Bride     (Drama) 

Apr.  10 — An      "Uncle     Tom's     Cabin"      Troupe 

(Comedy)   

Apr.  10 — A     Lesson     to     Mashers     (Comedy) .... 

Apr.  12— The   Little   Tease    (Drama) 

Apr.   14 — He  Had  a  Guess  Coming  (Comedy).... 

Apr.  14 — A    Horse   on    Bill    (Comedy)    

Apr.  17 — A  Frightful   Blunder    (Drama) 

Apr.  19 — A   Misunderstood   Boy    (Drama)    


CINES. 
(0.   Kleins.) 

Apr.      1— He  W  oldn't  Give  Up  (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.     1— He  Wouldn't  Give  Up   (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.     8 — Modern    Progress    In  Somallland,    East 

Africa    (Typical) 500 

Apr.     i! — Faint    Heart    Ne'er    Won    Fair    Lady 

(Comedy) BOO 

Apr.     7 — The  Queen  of  Spades  (Special — 2  parts 

(Drama) 2OO0 

Apr.     8 — Scenes  Along   the  Pescara  River,   Cen- 
tral   Italy    (Physical    Geography) 350 

Apr.     8 — A    Romance    by    the    Sea    (Drama) 650 

Apr.  12 — On     the     Nebi     River,      East     Africa 

(Physical     Geography) 200 

Apr.  12 — Keeping   Tab   on    Sammy    (Comedy)...   800 
Apr.  15 — The  Ancient  Town  of  Gubbio,  Umbria, 

Central  Italy    (Scenic)    400 

Apr.  15 — Anita  the  Orphan   (Drama)    600 

Apr.  16— A    Fugitive    at    Bay     (2-parts    Drama 

Special)    1800 

Apr.  19 — For  His  Child's  Sake   (Drama) 1000 


EDISON. 

Mar.  25 — Bread   on    the   Waters    (Drama) 1000 

Mar.  26— The    Unprofitable    Boarder    (Comedy).. 1000 
Mar.  28— A   Way  to  the  Underworld    (Being  the 
Ninth    Story    of    "What    Happened 

to  Mary")    (Drama)    1000 

Mar.  29 — Between    Orton    Junction    and    Fallon- 

ville    (Drama)    1000 

Mar.  31— The  Elder  Brother  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     1— With  the  Eyes  of  the  Blind   (Drama)  .1000 

Apr.    2 — The  Duke's  Dilemma  (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.     4 — The  Inventor's  Sketch   (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     5 — Master  and  Man    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     7— A  Shower  of  Slippers   (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.     8 — Old   Jim    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     9— The  Well  Sick  Man   (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.  11— The  Capture  of  a  Wild  Cat  (Sport) . .  350 

Apr.  11— Rule    Thyself     (Comedy) 650 

Apr.  12— The      Man      Who      Wouldn't      Marry 

(Drama)      1000 

Apr.  14 — Jones  Gees  Shopping    (Comedy) 

Apr.  14 — The     Rocky     Mountains      In     Winter 

(Geography)    

Apr.  IB — The    New    Pupil    (Comedy-Drama) 1000 

Apr.  16 — Seven  Years  Bad  Luck   (Comedy)    1000 

Apr.  18 — The  Man  from  the  West   (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  19— The  Twelfth  Juror   (Drama) 1000 


ESSANAY. 

Apr.     1 — The    Sheriff's    Son    (Drsms) 1000 

Apr.     2— The    Price   of   Gold    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     3 — The  Will-Be  Weds  (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.     4 — A  Wolf  Among  Lambs   (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     5 — Broncho  Billy's  Way    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     8— The  Wardrobe  Lady    (Comedy-Drama)  .1000 

Apr.     9 — The    Sheriff's     Wife     (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  10— Found     Out     (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.  11— The    Little    Mother    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  12 — Broncho     Billy's    Reason     (Drama) ...  .1000 
Apr.  15 — The      Accusation     of      Broncho     Billy 

(Drama)     1000 

Apr.  16— The   Capture    (Comedy)    1000 

Apr.  17 — The  Unknown    (Drama)    1000 

Apr.  18 — The   Crossing   Policeman    (Drama)    ....1000 
Apr.  19 — Alkali    Ike's   Homecoming    (Comedy) .  .1000 


KALEM. 

Apr.     2— The   Sacrifice    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     4 — Fatty's   Deception    (Comedy) 

Apr.     4 — New   York's   Public    Markets    (Typical) 

Apr.     5 — A   Mississippi  Tragedy    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     7— In  tbe  GYip  of  a   Charlatan   (Drama)  .1000 
Apr.     9 — The      Pursuit      of      the      Smugglers 

(Drama)      1000 

Apr.  11— The  Scimitar  of  the  Prophet  (Drama) 
Apr.  11— The  Indestructible  Mr.  Jenks  (Comedy) 
Apr.  12 — The   California    Oil   Crooks    (Drama).. 

Apr.  14 — A   Streak   of    Yellow    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  16— A  Plot  for  a   Million    (Drama)    1000 

Apr.  18 — The       Bravest       Girl       In       California 

(Comedy )      

Apr.  IS — The  Millionaires'  Playground  (Topical) 
Apr.   19 — The    Fire-Fighting    Zouaves    (Drama).. 


LUBIN. 

Apr.     1 — Shipping   a    Clock    (Comedy) 

Apr.     1 — The  Fake  Soldiers  (Comedy) 

Apr.     3 — A   False   Friend    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.    4 — The  Burden  Bearer  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.    5 — His  Widow  (Comedy) 

Apr.     5 — Collecting  the  Bill  (Comedy) 

Apr.     7— The    Evil    One    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     8— For   His   Child's  Sake    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     9 — The    Toll   of    Fear    (2    reels — Drama — 

Special)      2000 

Apr.  10 — The    Magic    Shoes     (Comedy) 

Apr.  10 — Angel  Cake  and  Axle  Grease  (Comedy) 

Apr.  11— The    Split    Nugget    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  12— Pete  Tries  the   Stage    (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.  14 — Minnie    the    Widow    (Comedy) 400 

Apr.  14 — One   On   Romance    (Comedy) 600 

Apr.  IS — The  Pawned  Bracelet    (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.  17 — The    Right    Road    (Drama)     1000 

Apr.  18 — The     Power     of     the    Cross     (2-parts- 

Speclal    Drama)     2000 

Apr.  18 — Baby's  New   Pin    (Comedy) 400 

Apr.  18— Beating  Mother  To  It  (Comedy)   600 

Apr.  19 — A  Florida  Romance    (Drama)    1000 


MELIES. 

Mar.  IS— A    Gambler's    Heart    (Drama) 1000 

Mar.  14 — Loved   by  a   Moarl  Ohleftess    (Special, 

2    parts)     (Drama) 2000 

Mar.  20— Honor    Thy    Mother    (Drama) 1000 

Mar.  27 — Hlnemoa   (Drama)    1000 

Apr.     3 — The  Stolen  Tribute  to  the  King   (Dr.) 

Apr.     3 — The  River  Wanganul    (Scenic) 

Apr.  10 — The  Maoris  of  New  Zealand   (Manners 

and   Customs)     1000 

Apr.  17 — What  Is  Sauce  for  the  Goose  (Comedy)  684 
Apr.  17 — A    Tahitian    Fish    Drive    (Manners    & 
Customs)      316 


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Mar.     5 — The  Wages  of  Transgression    (Drama) 
Mar.     6— Pottery    Making    in    Dorset,     England 

( Industrial) 

Mar.  12— The    Lost    Wager    (Comedy) 

Mar.  12— Picturesque  Spalato,  Dalmatla  (Scenic) 

Mar.  19 — An    Innocent    Offender    (Drama) 1000 

Mar.  26 — Fjords     and     Waterfalls     of     Norway 

(Scenic)     800 

Mar.  26 — The   Crab    and     Lobster     Industry 

(Industrial)   860 

Mar.  26 — He  Saw  the  Point   (Comedy) 360 

Apr.     2 — The  Fruit  of  Suspicion  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.    9 — The  Kentish  Coast,   England   (Physical 

Geography)      , 250 

Apr.    9 — Making    Birch    Brooms    (Trades) 300 

Apr.     9— An    Up-to-Date    Aviator    (Comedy) 450 

Apr.  16 — The      Winner     at      the     Sweepstakes 
(Drama)     1000 


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Apr.     1— How   Plaster   is   Obtained    (Industrial) 

Apr.     1— The   Moros    (Novelty) 

Apr.     2 — The  Engineer's  Daughter   (Drama).... 

Apr.     2 — Cairo,  Egypt,  and  Its  Environs  (Scenic) 

Apr.     2 — Nobility    (2   parts,    Drama.     Special).. 

Apr.     3— There  She  Goes   (Comedy) 

Apr.  4 — Whiffles  Tries  Moving  Picture  Acting 
(Comedy) 

Apr.  4 — An  Excursion  to  the  Grande  Chartreuse, 
France    (Scenic) 

Apr.     5 — The  Broken  Idyll  (Drama) 

Apr.     7 — Pathe's  Weekly,   No.   16   (News) 

Apr.     8 — The     Snap     Shot     (Comedy) 

Apr.  8 — The  River  Clyde  at  Lanark,  Scotland 
(Physical    Geography)     

Apr.     9 — Too    Much    Parcel    Post    (Comedy).... 

Apr.  10 — God  Is  Love  (Drama) 

Apr.  11 — The   Anaylsis  of   Motion    (Scientific).. 

Apr.  11 — The  Locust   (Zoology) 

Apr.  12 — The    Happy    Home     (Drama) 

Apr.  12 — In  the  Days  of  War  (Special — 2  reeU 
— Drama)      

Apr.  14— Pathe's  Weekly  No.  16  (News)    

Apr.   15 — The  Fire  of   Vengeance   (Drama) 

Apr.   16 — The    Italian    Bride    (Drama) 

Apr.  17 — Glimpses  of  the  National  Capital 
(Topical)       

Apr.  17 — The  Sponge  Industry  In  Cuba  (In- 
dustry)       M 

Apr.    18 — School    of    Gymnastics    (Military)    ...., 

Apr.  IS— The   Cuttlefish    (Zoology)    , 

Apr.  19 — The    Pride    of    Innocence    (Drama).... i 


SELIG. 

Apr.  1 — Margarita  and  the  Mission  Funds  (Dr.)lOOO 
Apr.     2 — A   Lucky    Mistake    (Comedy-Drama)... 

Apr.     2 — Chinese  Temple   (Seenic) 

Apr.  3 — Arabia,  the  Equine  Detective  (Drama)lOOt 
Apr.  4 — The  Hoyden's  Awakening  (Drama). ..  .1008 
Apr.     15 — A  Change  of  Administration  (Special,  2 

parts.     Drama) 2000 

Apr.     7 — Vengeance    is    Mine    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     8 — Robert    Hale's    Ambition    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     9 — The     Shotgun     Man     and     the     Stage 

Driver    (Drama)    1000 

Apr.  10 — Tommy's   Atonement    (Drama) 

Apr.  10 — The    Tombs    of    the    Ming     Emperore 

(Monument's) 

Apr.  11 — With   Love's   Eyes    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  14 — A   Wise   Old   Elephant    (Special-2-parte 

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Apr.  14 — The    Woodman's    Daughter    (Drama).. 1000 

Apr.  15 — God's  Way   (Drama) 

Apr.  15 — Hankow,    China    (Scenic)    ■ 

Apr.  16 — Dixieland    (Drama)    1000 

Apr.  17 — The  Tie  of  the  Blood  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  18 — Cured  of  Her  Love  (Comedy)    

Apr.  IS— That  mail  Order  Suit   (Comedy) 


VITAGRAPH. 

Mar.  22 — Belinda,    the  Slavey    (Comedy-Drama)  ■>■■ 

Mar.  24— Brother  Bill   (Drama) 1WM 

Mar.  25— Dick,   the  Dead  Shot   (Comedy) 1000 

Mar.  26 — Love    Laughs    at    Locksmiths     (Com.) 

Mar.  26 — In  Old  Quebec  (Scenic) 

Mar.  27 — Getting  Up  a  Practice   (Comedy) ION 

Mar.  28 — Bunny    Blarneyed;     or,    The    Blarney 

Stone    (Comedy)    

Mar.  28 — Scenes   In   Japan    (Scenic) 

Mar.  28— The  Modern  Prodigal  (Special— 2  reeli 

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Mar.  29 — The    Two    Brothers    (Drama) 

Mar.  29 — Tenyo    Maru    (Educational) 

Mar.  31 — Bedella  Becomes  a  Lady  (Comedy)...  10W 

Apr.     1 — Checkmated    (Drama) 100* 

Apr.     2 — Alixe,  or  the  Test  of  Friendship  (Dr.)  1000 

Apr.     3 — The  Midget's  Romance  (Comedy) 

Apr.     3 — Our  Coast  Defenders   (Military) 

Apr.     4 — Let   'Em  Quarrel   (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.     4 — The    Golden    Hoard,    or    Burled    Alive 

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Apr.     S — He  Answered  the  Ad  (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.     7 — Bunny's    Honeymoon    (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.     8 — The     Transition     (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     9 — Out   of   the   Storm    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  10 — Cutey  and  the  Chorus  Girls   (Comedy). 1000 
Apr.  11 — Wanted,    a    Strong    Hand    (Comedy).. 
Apr.  11 — Laying    a    Marine    Cable    (Telegraph). 
Apr.  11 — The    Web    (Special— 2    parts—  Drama). 2000 
Apr.  12— Mystery  of  the  Stolen  Child   (Drama). 100* 
Apr.  141 — Mr.    Mintern's  Misadventures    (Drama)lOOO 

Apr.  IB — The  Fortune  (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.  16 — After    the    Honeymoon    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  17— Sleuthing    (Drama)    1000 

Apr.  18 — Playing   with  Fire    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  19 — Seeing   Double    (Comedy)    

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MR.  EXCHANGE  MAN,  get  in  touch  with  us  at  once  and  get  our  liberal 
discount.  Our  pads  are  patented  with  the  machine,  and  anyone  attempting  to 
substitute  any  other  pads  will  be  prosecuted  by  our  attorney,  E.  P.  Bunyea, 
Washington,  D.  C.    All  orders  for  machines  and  pads  must  be  addressed  to 

THE  MORTIMER  AMUSEMENT  CO. 

FREEPORT    All  goods  sent  C.O.O.  or  cash  with  order        MAINE 


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Small  Moving  Picture  Camera  complete,  witb 
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for  $90.  Will  ship  for  10%  with  order  and  balance 
C.  O.  D.,  with  privilege  of  examination  to  your  own 
satisfaction 

SPECIAL  EVENT  FILM  COMPANY,    INC.. 
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ANTED 

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None  but  thoroughly  qualified  people 
will  be  considered.  Write,  giving  full 
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required,  to 

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Halifax,  N.  S. 


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219  So.  Dearborn  St.     Chicago,  111. 


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Inc. 

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( I  ncorporatvd  ) 

30  North  Eighth  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

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MAILING  LIST 

Moving  Picture  Theaters,  Film  Exchanges  and  Stu- 
dios; this  is  the  largest  and  most  complete  list  to  be 
had  in  United  States.    List  by  States  as  follows: 


ALABAMA     ISO 

ALASKA   8 

ABIZONA    88 

ARKANSAS   178 

CALIFORNIA   683 

COLORADO   318 

CONNECTICUT    188 

DELAWARE    87 

DIST.   OF  COLUMBIA 90 

FLOHIDA  129 

GEORGIA 198 

IDAHO 116 

ILLINOIS,  Chicago 686 

State 848     1,479 

INDIANA 806 

IOWA    669 

KANSAS  464 

KENTUCKY 266 

LOUISIANA 203 

MAINE    124 

MARYLAND     188 

MASSACHUSETTS    482 

MICHIGAN    677 

MINNESOTA 439 

MISSISSIPPI 123 

MISSOURI 628 

MONTANA 138 

NEBRASKA    282 

NEVADA    42 


NEW  HAMPSHIRE   79 

NEW  JERSEY 499 

NEW  MEXICO 79 

NEW  YORK, 

Greater  N.  Y 663 

State  868     1,828 

NORTH   CAROLINA    169 

NORTH  DAKOTA  128 

OHIO  1,202 

OKLAHOMA 348 

OREGON 290 

PENNSYLVANIA, 

Philadelphia   260 

State    1,860     1,620 

RHODE  ISLAND  69 

SOUTH  CAROLINA 84 

SOUTH  DAKOTA 138 

TENNESSEE   146 

TEXAS   671 

UTAH   121 

VERMONT 78 

VIRGINIA  190 

WASHINGTON    863 

WEST  VIRGINIA 199 

WISCONSIN    627 

WYOMING 66 

HAWAII  ISLANDS 8 

CANADA 80S 


17,822 


Sf,arI-T..3A<¥)0  Pew  ones  added  since  our  last  advertisement. 

Price  $40.00  for   the  list,   or  83.50   per   thousand   for  inch  State*   ai 

you  want. 

525  Film     Exchanges $3.60 

57  Manufacturers    &    Studios 1.00 

Send  us  remittance  with  all  orders  and  you  will  receive  your  list 
by  return  mall,  neatly  typewritten,  alphabetically  by  States  and  towns 
In  each  State. 

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166  West  Adams  Street,  Chicago 

Established  1880 
Telephone   |  P»-«J»  «g 


FIRE!!  FIRE!! 


[C.  per  day  will  protect  you 
on  a  Three-Reel  Program. 

You  Need  Insurance! 

What  assurance  have  you  that  you  will 
not  have  a  fire  tonight? 

STATISTICS    SHOW 

Your  chance  for  fire  once  every  three 
years,  comes  as  sure  as  taxes  and  death. 


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Send  your  money  and  get  a  policy 
AT  ONCE! 

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EXHIBITORS  FILM   INSURANCE  CO. 

421  Saks  Building,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

F.  J.  REMBUSCH.  Preeldent  M.  M.  MILLER.  Secretary 


NEVER    AN    ANXIOUS    MOMENT 

WHEN  YOU   HAVE  A  MOTIOGRAPH 
INSTALLED  IN  YOUR  BOOTH. 

Insist  gently,  but  firmly  that  your  dealer  show  you  the  merit  of  the  latest 
model  of  this  THE  MACHINE  OF  QUALITY. 


Do  you  know  about  our  service  department? 

Do  you  know  the  Motiograph  guarantee? 

Do  you  know  this  is  a  "built"  machine  and  distinctly  different  from  an 

"assembled"  one? 
If  your  dealer  knocks — write  us. 

Manufactured    by 

THE    ENTERPRISE   OPTICAL   MANUFACTURING    COMPANY. 

Main  Office  and  Factory,  564-572  West  Randolph  St.  CHICAGO,  ILL. 

Eastern  Office  Western  Office 

30  E.  23rd  Street,  New  York  City  833  Market  Street,  San  Francisco 


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FOTOPLAYER 


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the  instrument  that  supplies 
MUSIC      FOR     THE      PICTURES 

The  American   Photo  Player  Sales  Co. 

130   Kearny   St.,    San    Francisco,    Cal. 


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Mention  the  Paper 


MR.  STATE  RIGHT  MAN,  DON'T 

buy  any  feature  until  you  see  it.  We  pay 
transportation  to  and  from  Chicago  to 
state  right  buyers. 

BARBAROUS  MEXICO 

A  masterpiece  in  action,  can  be  shown  in 
either  five  or  three  reels.  The  five  reel 
production  for  large  picture  shows  and 
opera  houses,  and  ,the  three  reels  for 
small  theatres. 

We  positively  guarantee  the  best  line  of 
paper  ever  gotten  out  for  moving  pictures. 
Better  wire  about  your  state  now. 

AMERICA'S  FEATURE  FILM  COMPANY 


406-7-8  SCHILLER  BUILDING, 


CHICAGO,  ILL. 


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^theMama^er 
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It 


This  Manager  looks 
prosperous  and  happy.     You 
will  leel  the  same  way  when  you  dis- 
card thai  old  juice  consuming  rheostat  and 
put  in  a 


Fort  Wayne  Compensarc 


It  will  increase  your  box  office  receipts 
because  your  patrons  will  notice    at  once    how.  1 
much  brighter  and  clearer  your  pictures  are.     And  what's  more,  it  will 

Cut  2-3  from  Your  Monthly  Lighting  Bill 

That  sounds  as  if  we  were  stretching  it,  doesn't  it?     But  we  are  not  and  just  to! 
show  you,  we  will  ship  you  one  on  30  days  free  trial  and  let  you  prove  it. 

If  it  does  not  do  all  we  claim  for  it,  ship  it  back  at  our  expense  and  it  won't  cost 
you  one  cent. 

If  this  sounds    "good"    to    you,  send   for    our: 
little  booklet  "Compensarc  vs.  Rheostat'^  and   find 
out  the  particulars. 

You  are  paying  the  Lighting    Company    half  S 
your  profits  every  day  you  wait. 

Fort  Wayne  Electric 
Works 

•f  General  Electric  fleranaaj 
1*0,   Broadway 


Fort  Wayne, 
Indiana 


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Powers,  Simplex,  Motiograph 

FACTORY.  SELLING  HEADQUARTERS 

Hallberg  Standard  A.  C.  Economizeis  Hallberg  D.  C.  Economizers 

Mercury  Arc  Rectifiers        Hallberg  Ticket  Dispensers       Electra  Fink  Label  Carbons 

This  is  HALLBERG'S  A.  C. 
to  D.  C.  ECONOMIZER. 

Many  of  the  most  prominent  theatres  in  the  country  have  installed  the 
Hallberg,  and  I  have  received  hundreds  of  inquiries  regarding  this 
much  talked  of  device  during  the  past  few  weeks.  The  splendid  light 
and  beautiful  pictures  it  helps  project  either  forces  competitors  out  of 
business  or  compels  them  to  also  install  this  Hallberg  A.  C.  to  D.  C. 
Economizer.  After  all,  the  pictures  are  what  you  are  selling;  if  you 
are  operating  on  alternating  current  and  wish  to  get  the  best  results, 
I  offer  you  the  logical  solution  of  your  problem.  Write  stating  your 
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Hallberg  A.  C.  to  D.  C.  and  D.  C.  Economizer 


Protect  Your  Box  Office 
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LIGHT 

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DON'T   MISS  THIS   OPPORTUNITY! 

Write  us  what  current  you  use — A.  C.  or  D.  C.  and  we 
will  quote  you  startling  prices. 

CHARLES   L.   KIEWERT  CO. 


ATTRACTS 
THE 


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NEW  YORK 
165  Greenwich  Street 


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114  Huron  Street 


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Correct'Movlng  Picture 
Theatre   Addresses 

In    State    form,    20c    per    100. 
Book  of  500  addresses,  2Sc    Con- 
densers, 45c.     Heavy  Arc  Lamp, 
$2.25.   Moving  Picture  Lenses 
or  Jackets,  $2.26.     Stereopticon 
Lenses,     It  25.     Announcement 
-.„""-     Wta»  Oonnectors,   5c.     Film   Reminders, 
"•  •8u»i.  Carriers,  26a    Eccentric  or  Plane  Bush- 
l,  Sb.    Film  Tension  Springs,  »c.    Sprocket  Wheels, 
—m.    Calcium  Jets,  12.76.    Stereopticons,  »12.00.  Films, 
U  per  toot,   any  lsngth.     Catalogue. 

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Theatre    Pipe    Organs 

«■    «•»■   *   Pay*   Crgaa*    for    Theatre    purposea 


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OUain    Bsprssentatlva, 
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DID    YOU    GET    ONE 

of  our  catalogues   of   cut-rate  Moving  Pic- 
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Send  for  it  today. 

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5146-7  Jenkins  Arcade,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 


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and  Film  Making  Outfit,  simplest  method,  none 
■attar.  World's  greatest  productions  made  with 
this  caJKera.  Expert  advice  and  guarantee. 
Trisods,  Tilts,  Printers,  Perforators,  Raw  Film, 
Leases,  Developing  done,  whole  building  to  the 
business.  Write  for  catalogue. 
Xbarhard    Schneider,    219    Second    Ave.,    N.    T. 


OH  !    MR.   EXHIBITOR  !! 

taiak  *f  ths  aaotherless,  the  fatherless,  and  the 
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money-saver.  Gives  28%  more  seat- 
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Write  today  for  Circular  A. 

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U.  a  A. 


SCENARIO 

WRITERS  ! 

If  your  scenarios  do  not  sell 
find  out  whys  Perhaps  your 
manuscript  can  be  rewritten  and 
made  salable,  and  your  mistakes 
may  be  corrected  in  future  manu- 
scripts. The  author  of  "Tech- 
nique of  the  Photoplay,"  etc, 
will  give  your  manuscript  per- 
sonal criticism  for  a  fee  of  $2. 

Exhibitors ! 

Sfatmk  yoar  difficulties  to  the 
author  of  'The  Photoplay  Thea- 
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agement, for  advice  and  sugges- 
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experience  in  amusement  enter- 
prises. Simple  questions  $1  each. 

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Bos  TO,  Madison  Square  Station 

Now  York  City 


It  pay*  to  discriminate  when  you  buy 

THEATRE  SEATING 

WD  ITC  Tfln  A  V   for  Cat.  V2  (Moving  Picture  Chairs) 

WinilC    IUUHI    and   Cat.    T3    (Upholstered   Chairs) 

Send  Floor  Sketch  for  Free  Seating  Plan. 

Widest  range  of  styles  and  prices.     Large  stocks. 

American   Seating   Company 

218  S.  Wabash  Ave.,  CHICAGO.    15  E.  32nd  St.,  NEW  YORK 


Steel    standards 
will  not   break 


Get  Our 
Price  s  Before 
You  Buy 

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SEATING 

COMPANY 

New    London 
Wisconsin,  U.  S.  A, 


Sand  for  our  prices  before  buying 


BENNETT  SEATING  CO. 

3«  EAST  3rd  ST.  CINCINNATI.'O. 


CHEAP 

STEEL  FRAME 
THEATRE  CHAIRS 

ABSOLUTELY 
NON-BREAKABLE 

Suitable  tor  small 
Theaters  and  Mov- 
ing Picture  Snows. 
We  carry  these  chairs 
in    stock    and    can 

Ship    lrwme'Htttly 

Second    Hand 
Chairt 

Also  seating  for 

Out-of-door  use. 

Address    Dept. 

W. 

STEEL  FtTRNITURE  CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 
New  York:  150  6th  Ave.  Pittsburgh:  81S  Bissel 
Blk.  Philadelphia:  1943  Market  St.  Nashville, 
Tenn.:    SIS   No.    4th   Ave. 


GEORGE     M.     ADAMS 

FEATURE  LECTURER 

Address,  c/o  Song  Slide  Service, 
12  Union  Square,  New  York  City. 


Orchestra  Music 

FOR 

MOVING  PICTURES 

Violin,  Cornet  and  Drum  parts  hart 
been  added  to  the  popular  "Orphetun 
Collection"  of  piano  music  (dramatic 
and  descriptive)  for  Moving  Picture*. 
Practical  for  piano  alone  or  any  num- 
ber of  above  instruments.  Issued  in 
two  parts:  No.  i  and  No.  2. 

Piano,  58  cents  each;  both  No. 's  $1.15 
Violin,  40  cents  each;  both  "  75c 
Cornet,  35  cents  each;  both  "  *sc 
Brums,  30  cents  each;  both  "  55c 
Send  for  free  sample  pages. 

CLARENCE  E.  SINN 

1501  Sedgwick  St.,  Chicago,  IU.  ft 


When  Your  Picture  Machine  Needs  Repairing 

Why  don't  yon  send  It  to  as? 

We  have  the  best  equipped  machine  shop  in  the  country  and  can 
repair  any  make  of  machine.     Write  us  and  get  acquainted. 
We  Buy  Second-hand  Machine*. 

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0PM 


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1,000  STYLES 


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ESTABLISHED  186S 
WRITE  FOR  CAT.  NO.  31 


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THE    OPERATORS'    FRIEND 

POWER'S 

Cameragraph  No.  6 A 

A  poor  operator  can  ruin  a  good  film  in  a 
good  machine,  and  a  skilful  operator  can  be  of 
great  assistance  to  a  poor  film;  BUT  the  best 
operator  in  the  world  cannot  get  perfect 
results  without  a  perfect  machine. 

POWER'S  No.  6A  is  perfect  in  every 
particular.  It  is  the  product  of  15  years 
experience  in  moving  picture  machine  manu- 
facture. It  possesses  every  known  improvement, 
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THREE  HANDY  REELS! 


SUNDAY,  APRIL  13 

THE  DOG  IN  THE  BAGGAGE  CAR 

He  smoked  the  baggage  man's  cigar,  ate  his  lunch  and 
cut  other  capers  that  go  to  make  this  the  month's  star 
comedy  picture. 

TUESDAY,  APRIL  15 

THE  GIRL  AND  THE  GRAFTER 

She  flash-lighted  him  at  the  important  moment  and  her 
editor-and-lover  didn't  have  to  resign  his  job  of  cru- 
sading on  crookedness. 


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FRIDAY,  APRIL  18 
ETRIBUTION 


It  came  large  to  the  countryman  who,  on  his  city  suc- 
cess, cast  over  the  village  belle  who  was  not  up  to  his 
new,  false  city  standards. 

THANHOUSER  FILM  CORPORATION 

NEW  ROCHELLE,  N.  Y. 

WINTER  STUDIOS:  651  FAIRVIEW  PL.,  LOS  ANGELES,  CAL. 

Coming!    Sunday,   April   20 — A  comedy   of   the   school 
room:  "The  Children's  Conspiracy." 


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It    Is    Not   What   Exhibitors   Read   About 
Films—It's  What  They  Remember. 

ESSANAY    PHOTOPLAYS 


Released  Tuesday,  April  15th 

"THE  ACCUSATION  OF  BRONCHO  BILLY" 

A  thrilling  and  sensational  Western  drama  with  the  world's  most  popular  photoplayer,  G.  M.  Anderson. 


Released  Wednesday,  April  16th 

" THE    CAPTURE  " 

An  eccentric  comedy  full  of  hilarious  situations,  with  smiling  "Billy"  Mason,  Dolores  Cassinelli,  Ruth  Hennessy  and 

others. 


Released  Thursday,  April  17th 

"  THE    UNKNOWN  " 

One  of  the  most  magnificently  beautiful  dramatic  photoplays  of  the  month. 


Released  Friday,  April  18th 

"THE  CROSSING  POLICEMAN" 

A  pathetic,  heart-rending,  dramatic  story,  teaching  "sacrifice,"  with  Frank  Dayton,  Helen  Dunbar  and  Eleanor  Kahn. 


THIS  WEEK! 


Released  Saturday,  April  19th 


THIS  WEEK! 


"ALKALI"  IKE'S    HOMECOMING 

An  unexcelled  Western  comedy  sensation  with  Augustus  Carney,  the  "Gibraltar  of  Fun." 

FOR  A   LAUGH-PROVOKING,   SIDE-SPLITTING   COME  DY,  THIS  ONE  IS  SUPERB. 

EXHIBITORS:    BOOK   THIS   TODAY   FOR    HEADLINE  HONORS.      THREE-SHEET   POSTERS— ORDER 
FROM  YOUR  EXCHANGE,  OR  DIRECT  FROM  THE  ARMSTRONG  LITHOGRAPH  CO.,  CLEVELAND,  O. 


COMING  SOON! 


"INTO    THE    NORTH" 


COMING  SOON! 


IN  TWO   PARTS 

A  THRILLING  AND  GRIPPING  MELODRAMA  of  the  EARLY  DAYS  IN  THE  GREAT  NORTHWEST  TERRITORY. 
YOUR  LAST  CHANCE  TO  SECURE  ELECTROTYPES  OF  "BRONCHO  BILLY"  AND  "ALKALI"  IKE,  GRATIS, 
PROVIDED  YOU  USE  THEM  IN  YOUR  LOCAL  NEWSPAPER  IN  CONNECTION  WITH  STORIES  THAT  WILL 
BE  MAILED  YOU.    HOP  TO  IT. 

SUCCESS  GUARANTEED  PROVIDING  YOU  USE  THREE  SHEET  POSTERS  OF  ALL  ESSANAY  SATURDAY 
RELEASES.  LITHOGRAPHED  IN  FULL  FOUR  COLORS,  PRICE  35c  EACH.  YOU  CAN  ORDER  THESE  FROM 
YOUR  EXCHANGE  OR  DIRECT  FROM  ARMSTRONG  LITHOGRAPH  CO.,  CLEVELAND,  OHIO.  YOUR  LOBBY 
DISPLAY  IS  INCOMPLETE  WITHOUT  PHOTOS  OF  ESSANAY  PLAYERS,  SIZE  8  x  10,  PRICE  $300  PER 
DOZEN.    CAN  BE  SECURED  FROM  THE  PLAYERS'  PHOTO  CO.,  177  N.  STATE  ST.,  CHICAGO,  ILL. 


ESSANAY   FILM    MANUFACTURING   CO. 

521  First  National  Bank  Bldg.,  Chicago,  111. 

Factory  and  Studio,  1333  Argyle  Street,  Chicago,  111. 
Branch  Offices  in  London,  Paris,  Berlin,  Barcelona 


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Watch    for    release    date    on    "Robinson    Crusoe,"   the 
most   masterly   j-reel   feature   ever  made   in   America! 


The  Universal 


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^  Filipino  War,  Spanish=American  War,  Etc.  ^ 

We  are  going  to  give  you  an  entire  change  of  program  in  war 
stories.  We  are  going  to  send  every  Universal  exhibitor  into 
ecstasies  of  delight  over  a  brand  new  series  about  to  be  released. 
Other  manufacturers  will  follow  the  Universal's  lead  as  usual, 
but  you  can  absolutely  depend  upon  the  Universal  to  produce 
vastly    superior    quality    in    every    detail.     Watch  !     Wait  ! 


Two44  Crystals" 
Every  Week ! 


Lovers  of  the  popular  "Crystal"  films  will 
be  delighted  to  learn  that  we  have  com- 
pleted arrangements  for  TWO  "  Crystals  " 
per  week  instead  of  one.  The  new  plan 
will  take  effect  May  27th.  After  that  you 
will  get  a  "Crystal"  every  SUNDAY  and 
every  TUESDAY.  Further  particulars  will 
be  announced  later. 


"Mathilde" 

2=reel  Eclair 

On  April  23rd  we  release  the 
Eclair's  great  dramatization  of  Eugene 
Sue's  masterpiece,  "Mathilde."  This 
takes  the  place  of  an  American-made 
Eclair  which  the  Eclair  people  refused 
to  release  because  it  was  not  up  to 
their  high  standard.  See  that  you  get 
'"Mathilde"  by  all  means! 


"InSlaveryDays" 

'2-reel  Rex 

Of  all  the  powerful  Rex  releases  of 
the  past  few  weeks  this  is  one  of  the 
very  best.  It  is  a  Mississippi  River 
story  in  two  reels.  A  strong  story, 
strongly  enacted  and  produced  with 
that  extreme  care  for  detail  which  has 
given  the  Rex  a  world-wide  reputa- 
tion.    Demand  it! 


Universal  Film  Mfg.  Co. 

1600  Broadway,  New  York 


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"Robinson    Crusoe "  will   carry  you   and  your  patrons 
back    to    childhood    days.       Watch    for    release    date! 


Announces  a 


^  Filipino  War,  Spanish=American  War,  Etc.  *I 

Temporarily,  at  least,  we  are  going  to  break  away  from  Civil 
War  pictures  and  give  you  such  a  variety  of  war  stories  as  you 
have  never  dreamed  of  before.  Six  of  our  strongest  producers 
are  hard  at  work  on  the  new  series,  sparing  no  expense  to 
give  you  "a  thrill  and  a  punch  in  every  foot  of  film."  Even 
the  posters  will  smash  all  previous  records.    Watch!    Wait! 


"Robespierre" 

3=reel  Imp 

This  is  one  of  the  most  lavish  pro- 
ductions the  Imp  Company  ever  at- 
tempted— a  story  of  the  French  revo- 
lution which  required  extravagant  cos- 
tuming and  great  crowds  of  people. 
Make  a  memorandum  this  minute,  so 
you  won't  forget  to  demand  an  early 
booking  of  "Robespierre"! 


Two  "Frontiers" 

Every  Week 

Don't  forget  that  hereafter  there  are 
TWO  "Frontier"  releases  instead  of 
one  every  week.  Thursday  and  Satur- 
day are  "Frontier"  days.  See  that  you 
get  "The  Burning  Lariat,"  the  first  of 
the  Saturday  "Frontiers."  The  new 
"Frontier"  takes  the  place  of  the 
"Mecca"  brand,  discontinued. 


Look  Out  For 
Fake  Films! 


Several  cheap  and  trashy  brands  of  film 
are  being  dumped  onto  the  market  and 
offered  to  exhibitors  as  part  of  the  Uni- 
versal program.  They  are  made  from  neg- 
atives which  we  wouldn't  accept  as  a  gift. 
Make  sure  that  you  get  genuine  Universals. 
Insist  on  having  "Universal  films  and 
nothing  else ! " 


Universal  Film  Mfg.  Co. 

1600  Broadway,  New  York 


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Coming! 


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->o  Universal  Features  so 


(2  and  3  Reels) 


"MATHILDE,"  Lutf 

"THE  BLACK   CHANCELLOR,"  GrRrt' Northe,„ 

"HIS  EVIL  GENIUS,"  i£L-  EcIair 

"TWO  LITTLE  WAIFS,"  L2SL  j.  c..«., 

"FAIR  PLAY,"  JoftL, 

"THE  NORTHERN  SPY,"  ?0RelL„ 

"THE  VENGEANCE  OF  SKYSTONE,"  L.i. 

"THEJDRAGON'SJBREATH,"  LResJ 

"INiSLAVERY  DAYS,"  ReRr 

"THEPNDIAN'S  SECRET,"  2Re^ 

"jROBESPIERRE,"  LR"L. . 

"  WHENfMOBJWAS  KING,"  fj^ 

"THE  FIGHTING  CHAPLAIN,"  z0?^i8On 

"THE  LAST  ROLL  CALL,"  £,R£ry 

"BRED  IN  THE  BONE,"  3Re^? 

"THE  TOLL  OF  WAR,"  30R^8Ony 

"UNCLE  TOM'S  CABIN,"  3ReeU3 

"PELLEAS  AND  MELISANDE,"  3Reel. 

"FEDORA,"  | £-, 

"A  HALF  BREED  PARSON,"  f£g 

3  Reel 


Reel: 

"BEDFORD'S  HOPE,"  3LIRr„i„ , .Cart., 

"BEAUTY  AND  THE  BEAST,"{3PRr.!„ 

"ROBINSON  CRUSOE,"^*' 

"THE  LEADER  OF  HIS  FLOCK,"  ?J^' 

"RETURN     OF  (THUNDER    CLOUD'S 

►       SPIRIT,"  2Reel. 

"THE  RISE  OF40FFICERI174,l'flfJ^1 

"THE  DARLING  OF  THE  REGIMENTAL,.. 

«  UNTIL  DEATH,"  RR^ 

"  WITHIN  THE  LIMIT.OF  THE  LAW,"  Z:iZr 


Program,  Week  of  April  21st 

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IMP— "The  Regeneration  of  John  Storm" 

(Drama) 
NESTOR— "His  Friend  Jimmy"   (Comedy) 
CHAMPION— "When  Strong  Men  Meet" 

(Drama) 

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3 

GEM— "Burglarizing    Billy"    and    "Against 

the  Law"  (Split  Comedy) 
ioi  BISON— "Bred  in  the  Bone" 

(3-Reel  Drama) 

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NESTOR— "The   Sheriff's  Warning" 

(Drama) 
POWERS— "When  Dolly  Died"   (Comedy) 
ECLAIR— "Mathilde"    (2-Reel    Drama) 

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IMP— "A  Sprig  of  Shamrock"    (Comedy) 
REX— "The  Dragon's  Breath" 

(2-Reel  Drama) 
FRONTIER— "The  Daughter  of  the  Sheep 

Ranch"  (Drama) 

NESTOR— "For  Her  Sake"   (Drama) 
POWERS— "The  Sham  Suffragette" 

(Comedy) 
VICTOR— "Loneliness  and  Love"  (Drama) 

IMP— "Why  Men  Leave  Home"  and  "Pot- 
tery Industry"   (Split  Comedy) 

ioi  BISON— "The  Black  Chancellor" 

(3-Reel  Drama) 

FRONTIER— "The    Old    Maid's    Last    At- 
tempt" (Comedy) 

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REX— "The  Wayward  Sister"   (Drama) 

CRYSTAL— "Forgetful     Flossie"    and    "A 
Joke  on  the  Sheriff"  (Split  Comedy) 

ECLAIR— "The  Law  of  the  Wild"  (Drama) 

<«U/AD    "  3  Reel 
"**■»•       101   Biion 

"THE  SMUGGLER'S  DAUGHTER,"  &*£ 

No  such  list  of  features  has  ever  been  offered  by  any  manufacturer  or  group  of  manufacturers 

Universal  Film  Manufacturing  Co. 

1600  Broadway,  New  York 


Broncho 
Headliners 


"  Retrogression" 

Two  Reels,  April  23 


An  absorbing  story  of  a  convict 
who  tries  to  live  honestly  af- 
ter his  release  from  prison, 
but  who  is  dragged  back 
by  a  former  pal  and 
meets    a    tragic 
death. 


The  Hand,  of  Fate  Reaches  Out  After 
the  Fleeing  Burglar  Pal  and  Hurls 
Him  into  the  Clutches  of  Hostile  In- 
dians, and  He  Dies  Fighting  for  His 
Life. 


The  Detective  on  the  Trail  of  the  Es- 
caped Prisoner  Appears  on  the  Scene 
in  Time  to  Prevent  the  Bank  Bur- 
glary, and  a  Furious  Struggle  En- 
sues. 


The  Innocent  Daughter  of  the  Con- 
vict Believes  Her  Happiness  Is 
Blasted,  but  Her  Soldier  Sweetheart 
Ignores  the  Sins  of  Her  Father  and 
Takes  Her  to  His  Heart. 


Broncho   Motion   Picture   Co. 

Long  Acre  Bldg.,  42d  St.  and  Bdwy. 
NEW  YORK  CITY 

MUTUAL  PROGRAM  EXCLUSIVELY 


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Keystone 
Comedies 


2Z9 


"  Cupid  in  a  Dental 
Parlor" 

One  reel,  April  21 

Harold  makes  ineffectual  attempts  to 
win  the  favor  of  Ethel  Parks'  father.  The 
old  man  does  not  like  him  and  shows 
it  in  a  very  forcible  manner.  Harold 
meets  them  in  a  dental  parlor,  and  throws 
Parks  into  a  chair  and  administers  gas. 
The  dentist  pretends  to  assist  Harold, 
but  persuades  the  girl  to  marry  him. 


"A  Fishy  Affair" 

On  Split  Reel,  April  24 

A  whirlwind  comedy,  in  which  the  wife 
of  the  lazy  fisherman  loses  her  money, 
hidden  in  an  old  stocking.  He  gets 
tangled  up  with  alligators  and  has  many 
exciting  experiences,  but  accidentally 
hooks  the  stocking  from  the  water,  where 
the  thief,  pursued  by  a  policeman,  has 
thrown  it. 

The  Bangville  Police" 

On  same  reel  as  above 

The  pretty  girl  believes  burglars  are 
about,  and  phones  for  the  police.  They 
reach  the  scene  after  narrow  escapes 
from  death  in  their  automobile,  which 
finally  blows  up.  When  they  arrive  and 
try  to  break  the  door  down  the  girl 
thinks  it  is  the  burglars,  and  many  amus- 
ing complications  result. 

KEYSTONE  FILM  CO. 

Long  Acre  Bldg.,  42d  St.  and  Bdwy. 
NEW  YORK  CITY 

MUTUAL  PROGRAM  EXCLUSIVELY 


Kay-Bee 
Features 


"Will-o'-the-Wisp" 

In  Two  Reels,  April  25 


Thrilling  dramatic  story  of  a 
woman  who  leaves  her  hus- 
band and  child  to  pursue 
the  will-o'-the-wisp 
of   fortune. 


SCENES  OF  SENSATIONALISM 

The  desperate  fight  of  the  circus  peo- 
ple  against  the   hordes  of  attacking 
Indians 


The    thrilling    rescue    by    the    U.  S. 

Cavalry,  which  gallops  to  the  scene  at 

breakneck  speed  and  hurls  itself  upon 

the  savages. 


Spectacular  conflagration  as  the  roar- 
ing prairie  fire  pursues  the  doomed 
man,  fleeing  on  the  mad  wings  of  ter- 
ror, and  wraps  him  in  its  lurid  em- 
brace. 


Wonderful 
Fe  attire 


N.  Y.  MOTION  PICTURE  CO. 

Long  Acre  Bldg.,  42d  St.  and  Bdwy. 
NEW  YORK  CITY 

MUTUAL  PROGRAM  EXCLUSIVELY 


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A  Real  Feature 


"TORI  NO 


A  Real  Money  Maker 


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"The  LIFE  of   DANTE 

Copyright  1913  READY  NOW  In  Three  Reels 


April  19th 


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The  Child  Labor  Traffic 

In  Two  Reels 

The  finale  is  one  of  the  most  realistic, 
thrilling  and  startling  sensations  ever 
filmed. 


Actual  Scene  from  Film 


April  26th 


"Golden  Rain"     m  two  Reels 


A  subject  with  a  novel  and  original 
plot.  Will  hold  any  audience  from 
start  to  finish  and  create  a  Golden  Rain 
of  dollars  wherever  shown.     It's  great. 


Don't  Miss  These  Two 
Winners 


AmbrOSiO   American    CO.,  15  East  26th  Street,  New  York 


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OPPORTUNITY  KNOCKS  BUT  ONCE 


FANTINE 


The  Masterpiece  of  thi 


THE  GREATEST  PICTURE 


NO  work  of  fiction  has  been  more  widely  read 
than  the  renowned  dramatic  novel  "Les  Mis- 
erables,"  from  the  pen  of  Victor  Hugo.  Its 
characters  are  so  true  to  nature  that  they  have  made 
the  whole  world  kin.  The  rich  and  the  poor  alike 
have  followed  the  fortunes  of  the  god-like  Valjean, 
and  when  he  lay  down  his  weary  frame  for  his  last 
long  rest,  they  have  sighed  in  sorrow  for  the  loss  of 
a  dear  friend.  They  have  pitied  poor  Fantine ;  they 
have  deplored  the  cruel  Javert ;  shuddered  at  Ther- 
nadier,  and  rejoiced  with  Cosette.  All  these  char- 
acters are  wonderfully  enacted  true  to  all  conceptions 
by  a  splendid  cast  of  the  best  known  European  artists. 

STATE    RIGHTS    NOW    SELLING 
BID  QUICKLY  FOR  CHOICE  STATES 


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ARE  YOU  READY  FOR  THE  CHANCE? 


Immortal  Victor  Hugo 


THE  WORLD  HAS  EVER  SEEN 


THIS  production  is  a  big  theatre  attraction  in 
every  sense  of  the  word,  yet  it  is  divided  into 
four  sections  as  in  the  book  itself,  each  part 
being  a  complete  story.  This  fortunate  arrangement 
makes  the  production  available  for  one  full  evening's 
entertainment,  or  for  four  short  entertainments  on 
consecutive  days.  The  aggregate  length  is  1  1 ,000 
feet.  Allowing  1  5  minutes  for  each  1 000  feet,  the 
full  running  time  is  2  hours,  45  minutes.  The  most 
elaborate  set  of  lithographs  and  small  printed  matter 
that  can  be  had  will  accompany  this  production. 


ECLECTIC  A  FILM    CO. 


K.  W.  LINN 

145  W.  45th  Street 


General  Manager 

New  York  City 


JAVERT 


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WARNINC 

TO   INFRINGERS! 

MESSRS.  HARPER  BROS,  and  WILLIAM  A. 
BRADY,  who  control  respectively  the  publication 
copyright  and  the  dramatic  rights  of  the  famous  novel, 

"  TRILBY  " 

have  assigned  the  film  rights  of  that  subject  ex- 
clusively to  the 

FAMOUS  PLAYERS  FILM  COMPANY 

This  work  is  completely  protected  by  international  copy- 
right, and  any  infringement  or  violation  will  be  prosecuted  to  the 
full  extent  of  the  law,  in  confirmation  whereof  the  following : 


April  7,  1913. 

Famous  Players  Film  Co.,  Times  Bldg.,  N.  Y.  C. 

Gentlemen  : — 

We  note  the  advertisement  of  an  unauthorized  production  of 

Du  Maurier's  "Trilby"  and  in  view  of  the  fact  that  we  and  others  have 

conveyed  to  the  Famous  Players  Film  Co.  the  exclusive  right  to  produce 

'Trilby"  in  motion  picture  form,  we  are  now  taking  legal  steps  to  prevent 

other  and  unauthorized  performances  of   this  "Trilby"  and   to   collect 

damages.  Tr  , 

Verv  trulv  vours, 

'(Signed)    HARPER  BROS. 


FAMOUS  PLAYERS  FILM  COMPANY 

Adolph  Zukor,  Pres.  Daniel  Frohman,  Managing  Director 

Executive  Offices:  Times  Building,  New  York  City 


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MERE   BABBLE 

is  usually  the  result  of  too  much  idleJtime.^Talk  must  be  a  deriva- 
tive of  work  or  it  degenerates  into  inane  chatter— ragtime  conversa- 
tion.    Busy  men  haven't  time  to  decorate  their  statements.     We  are 
••■    so  busy  disposing  of  our  current  production  that  we  have  time  only    ■?* 
to  tell  the  truth  —  and  tell  it  quickly.      ft< 


JAMES  K.  HACKETT 

In  His  Thrilling  Dual  Role,  in 

"The  Prisoner  of  Zenda" 

By  ANTHONY   HOPE 
In  Motion  Pictures 

LICENSED   BY  THE   MOTION   PICTURE  PATENTS    CO. 

has  created  an  amazing  furore!  It  is  eating  up  the  country!  It  is 
winning  thousands  of  new  converts  to  the  motion  picture.  And  it 
is  making  all  kinds  of  money  for  those  alert  men  who  already  have 
secured  state  rights.^They  will  tell  you  that  you  ought  to 

WIRE  FOR  STATE  RIGHTS! 

Original  variety  of  effective  lithographs,  special  music  by  Joseph 
Carl  Breil,  the  noted  composer ;  artistic  and  attractive  heralds, 
photos,  lobby  displays,  and  everything   to  make  success  more  so. 

One  early  wire  is  worth  two  late! 

FAMOUS  PLAYERS  FILM  COMPANY 

216  Empire  BIdg.,  Pittsburg  ^ggggggsggggSgSgg^  809  Morton  Bldg.,  Chicago 

E.  M.  Porter,  Manager  (T^^^^vS^^S^^M^  Frank  Meyer,  Manager 

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This  is  a  Vital  Thought  Worth  Absorbing — The  reputable  manufacturer,  releasing  a  stated  num- 
ber of  weekly  releases,  is  surrounded  by  an  organization  where  each  department  head  is  dependent  on 
the  other — hence,  isn't  it  logical  to  suppose  that  such  singleness  of  purpose  can  produce  more  for  you 
than  the  hastily  organized  "feature  company"  who  must  go  to  the  ESTABLISHED  manufacturer  to 
develop  and  print  his  negative? 

Week-in-and-out  efficiency  is  possible  only  to  regular  releasing  companies. 


II 


BOOBS  AND  BRICKS" 

(Release  Monday,  April  21,  1913.) 


A  Kerrigan,  Van  Trump  and  Richardson  comedy.  The  female  salesperson  comes  to  Podunk — and 
leaves  with  a  trail  in  her  wake  of  broken  Podunk  hearts  and  pocketbooks.    A  clever,  laughable  story. 

"WHEN  JIM  RETURNED" 

•    (Release  Thursday,  April  24,  1913.) 

Jim  comes  back  from  college.  The  ranch  boys  try  some  funny  stunts,  but  Jim  wins  the  girl  and 
all  the  bouquets  after  all. 

"CALAMITY  ANNE'S  TRUST" 

(Release  Saturday,  April  26,  1913.) 

Sad-Eyed  O'Brien  dies  and  leaves  a  will  and  a  ward  to  Calamity.  Calamity  proves  herself  some 
protectress  of  the  helpless  female  young  and  some  match-maker,  believe  us.  The  funniest  kind  of  story 
featuring  that  funniest  of  characters,  Louise  Lester,  as  Calamity  Anne. 


TO  THEATRE  PROPRIETORS— Ask  your  exchange  for  the  new  lithos.  of  those  "Flying  A" 
favorites,  Jack  Kerrigan,  Jack  Richardson  and  Pauline  Bush. 


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IF  YOU  WERE  A  CROOK 

and  had  changed  papers  with  a  dead  man  to  evade 
the  police  who  "wanted"  you? 

IF  YOU  HAD  DESERTED  YOUR  WIFE 

years  before  and  by  them'are  supposed  to  be  dead? 

WOULD    YOU    BLACKMAIL    HER 

after  returning  to  find  her  happily  remarried  and 
your  daughter  about  to  form  an  aristocratic  alliance? 

WOULDN'T    YOU    DESERVE    DEATH 
BY   STRANGLING 

because  of  your  perfidy  following  your  refusal  to 
divide  the  spoils  with  fellow  thugs? 

IF  YOU  COULD  COME  BACK  FROM 

THE  GRAVE 

wouldn't  your  conscience  smite  you  when  you 
learned  that  your  innocent  wife  had  been  accused 
of  your  murder  and  that  disgrace  o'erhung  she  and 
your  daughter    on   the   latter's    betrothal   night? 

"THE  DEAD  ALIVE" 

Gaumont  State  Right  Feature  in  two  reels,  tells 
this  story.  Let  every  exhibitor  in  your  territory 
answer  the  above  questions]for  himself  —  when 
you  have  rented  him  the  film. 

GAUMONT  COMPANY 

FLUSHING,   NEW  YORK 


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Scene  from  "The  Artist's  Great  Madonna" 


Scene  from  "The  Wrong  Road  to  Happiness" 


The  General  Film  Company,  ThroudhLlts 

Numerous   Branches,   Can   Reach   Every 

Exhibitor  in  the  Country 

Just  by  way  lof  shewing  the  wide  territory  covered   by  General  Film  Service, 
we  publish  below  a  partial   list  of  General  Film  Company  distributing  offices!] 
in  the  United  States  and  Canada.     We  say  "partial"  because  by  the  time  thisj 
paper  goes  to  press  there  will  be  others.     "Co-operative  service"   is   the   big 
thought  behind  the  organization,  and  when  it  becomes  necessary  to  open  new 
offices  tofproperly  serve  exhibitors,  then  new  offices  are  opened. 

Each  of  these  offices  is  in  charge  of  a  manager  whose  chief  'duty  it  is  to  see  that 
General  Film  Service  is  satisfactory  in  every  way  to  those  who  use  it.     Any  I 
exhibitor  who  questions  the  sincerity  of  this  statement,  is  finvited  to  try  out  the 
Service  for  his  own  good,  and  ours[ 

Address  any  of 'these  offices: 


Albany,  N.  Y.,  737  Broadway. 
Atlanta,  Ga.,  3:4  Rhodes  Bldg. 
Boston,  Mass.,  218  Commercial  St. 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  122  Pearl  St. 
Butte,  Mont.,  B'way  &  Main  St. 
Chicago,  111.,  19  S.  Wabash  Ave. 
Chicago,  111.,  117  N.  Dearborn  St. 
Chicago,  111.,  429  S.  Wabash  Ave. 
Cincinnati,  0.,  7th  &  Walnut  Sts. 
Cleveland,  O.,  1022  Superior  Ave.,  N.  E. 
Columbus,  0.,  26  W.  Naghten  St 
Dallas,  Tex.,  191 7  Main  St. 
Denver,  Colo.,  1448-1450  Champa  St. 
Detroit,  Mich;,  71  Griswold  St. 
Indianapolis,  Ind.,  24  W.  Washington  St. 
Kansas  City,  Mo.,  921  Walnut  St. 
Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  727  S.  Main  St. 
Memphis,  Tenn.,  Lotus  Bldg. 
Milwaukee,  Wis.,  220  W.  Water  St. 
Minneapolis,   Minn.,  709  Hennepin  Ave. 
Montreal,  Can.,  194  St.  Catherine  St.,  W. 
New  Orleans,  La.,  840  Union  St. 


New  York,  N.  Y.,  .,40  Fourth  Ave. 
New  York,  N.  Y.,  71  West  23rd  St. 
New  York,  N.  Y.,  260  West  42nd  St. 
Oklahoma  City,  Okla.,  211  W.  2nd  St. 
Omaha,  Neb.,  208  S.  13th  St. 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  1308  Vine  St. 
Phoenix,  Ariz.,  456  W.  Washington  St. 
Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  119  4th  Ave. 
Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  436  4th  Ave. 
Portland,  Ore.,  68  Seventh  St. 
Regina,  bask.,  Can.,  Rose  &  S.  Railwav  Sts. 
St.  John,  N.  B.,  126  Germain  St. 
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  604  Chestnut  St. 
Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  260  Floral  Ave. 
San  Francisco,  Cal.,  138  Eddy  St. 
Seattle,  Wash..  819  Third  Ave. 
Spokane,  Wash.,  120  Wall  St. 
Toronto,  Ont.,  Can     7  Front  St.,  E. 
Vancouver,  B.  C,  Can.,  440  Pender  St.,  W. 
Wilkesbarre,  Pa.,  47  S.  Pennsylvania  Ave. 
Washington,  D.  G,  7th  &  E  Sts.,  N.  W. 
Winnipeg,  Man.,  Can.,  220  Phoenix  Block. 


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Scene  from  "The  Miser's  Millions" 


Scene  from   "The  End  of  the  Quest'.' 


Four    Multiple-Reels    Per    Week    at    No 
Extra    Charge    is    a    Bi^    Feature    of 

General  Film  Service 

General  Film  Service  multiple-reels  are  features  in  every  sense.    They  are  of  uniformly  high  quality   too— not 
all  good  one  week  and  all  bad  the  next.     Here  are  four  samples :  *     l        -  • 

For  Saturday,  April  19th 

"THE  WRONG  ROAD  TO  HAPPINESS" 

Patheplay  in  Two  Parts 

has  chosen  the  wrong  road.  She  goes  back  to  the  little  village  for  a  last 
glimpse  of  her  home.  The  next  morning  her  father  and  the  country  lad 
who  first  loved  her  find  her  dead  body  down  by  the  sea. 


A  village  girl  comes  to  the  fork  in  the  road  of  life  and  chooses  the  path 
that  leads  to  the  attractions  of  the  city.  The  love  of  her  salesman-hus- 
band is  a  passing  fancy,  however,  and  too  late  she  discovers  that  sue 


For  Monday,  April  21st 

"THE  ARTIST'S  GREAT  MADONNA" 

Vitagraph  Drama  in  Two  Parts 


An  artist,  ambitious  to  paint  the  greatest  of  all  Madonr 

world  over  for  a  suitable  model.     One  escapade  follows  another      The 

ooject  ot  his  search  is  almost  within  grasp  a  dozen  times.     Finally  he 


returns  home,  heavy  of  heart  and  broken  in  spirit,  and  there  to  his  great 
astonishment  and  joy,  he  finds  his  Madonna  in  the  person  of  his  own  wife! 


For  Wednesday,  April  23d 

"THE  MISER'S  MILLIONS 

Cines-Kleine  Drama  in  Two  Parts 


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The  miser  hoards  his  wealth,  and  guards  it  in  cunning  fashion.  His 
outler  discovers  its  hiding  place,  and  in  the  quarrel  which  ensues,  the 
miser  is  accidentally  killed.  After  serving  a  long  term  in  prison,  the 
butler  rescues  the   miser's   heirs   from   poverty   by  leading  them   to   the 


hidden  wealth.  There  is  a  pretty  wedding,  and  although  he  is  not  one  of 
the  principals,  the  old  butler  finds  joy  in  the  thought  that  he  has  made 
two  others  happy. 


For  Friday,  April  25th 

"THE  END  OF  THE  QUEST 

Lubin  Drama  in  Two  Parts 


99 


A  story  that  begins  in  Italy  with  Rosa  and  Pietro  happy 
of  their  coming  marriage.  Then  it  shifts  to  New  York,  whence  Rosa  and 
Giuseppe,  an  Americanized  countryman,  have  flown.  Pietro  is  in  pursuit 
but  finds  the  problem  of  locating  Rosa  in  New  York  not  an  easy  one! 
Ihey  meet  later,  after  Giuseppe  has  deserted  Rosa.  From  the  effects  of 
Ul-treatment  she  dies  and  her  child  is  adopted  bv  Pietro.     Years  after- 


ward Pietro  ami  Giuseppe  meet  face  to  face,  and  when  the  former  would 
have  revenge,  the  little  girl  intercedes.  But  the  fright  of  meeting  the 
man  whom  he  knows  has  been  pursuing  him  for  years  is  too  much  for 
Giuseppe  and  he  falls  dead,  in  the  tableau,  a  vision  of  Rosa  appear* 
as  a  fitting  climax. 


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HONEYMOON 

/T*HE  funniest,  happiest,  wholesomest  Comedy  in  years!        As  full  of  screamingly  funny 
■*■     situations  as  a  hive  is  of  honey.    Lord  Rowley,  the  unfortunate  and  near-sighted  bride- 
groom, loses  his  eyeglass  just  after  the  ceremony  and  starts  on  his  bridal  tour  with  the  colored 
cook  instead  of  the  sweet  little  girl  he  has  just  married.     Book  this 


if  you  want  a  rollicking  film  with  a  laugh  in  every  sprocket  hole!  An  exciting  auto  chase; 
a  cace  down  the  bay  on  a  tug  after  the  rapidly  disappearing  steamar  and  Lord  Rowley;t  a 
thrilling  exchange  of  doubtful  courtesies  between  Lord  Rowley  and  the  cook,  whose  identity 
he  has  now  discovered  and  in  which  the  cook  comes  out  on  top  with  the  poor  Englishman 
shooting  down  the  ventilator  into  the  coal  bunkers — these  are  but  some  of  the  things  which 
go  to  making  this  film  undoubtedly 


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COMING  EDISON  FILMS 


HULDA  OF  HOLLAND 

Dramatic    (1000) — Released   Monday,   April   21st. 

Hulda,  arrayed  in  her  wedding  gown,  goes  to  show 
her  finery  to  her  grandmother.  She  is  caught  in  a  ter- 
rific storm  and  does  not  return  for  the  wedding,  but  the 
searchers  find  a  soaked  and  mud-stained  figure  whose 
hands  have  stopped  a  leak  in  the  dyke. 

AN  INNOCENT  INFORMER 

Dramatic  (1000) — Released  Tuesday,  April  22nd. 

A  young  girl  unwittingly  exposes  her  father's  moon- 
shine outfit,  to  win  the  reward  for  her  lover.  When  she 
discovers  what  she  has  done,  she  forces  her  lover  to  res- 
cue the  old  man  from  the  attacking  revenue  officers. 
He  does  so,  but  is  badly  wounded  in  the  fight. 

HIS  UNDESIRABLE  RELATIVES 

Comedy  (1000) — Released  Wednesday,  April  23rd. 

The  newly-weds  are  pestered  to  death  by  hubby's 
prying  relatives — a  marvelous  collection  of  freaks.  They 
are  driven  all  over  the  house  in  search  of  a  quiet  nook 
until  the  cook  breaks  out  with  a  terrible  rash — cran- 
berry sauce — and  the  relatives  stampede  for  parts  un- 
known. 

THE  HIGH  TIDE  OF  MISFORTUNE 

Dramatic  (1000) — Released  Friday,  April  25th. 

Being  the  Tenth  story  of  "What  Happened  to  Mary." 
Produced  in  collaboration  with  "The  Ladies'  World." 

Mary's  uncle  and  his  son  are  released  from  jail  and 
they  discover,  through  Billy  Peart,  that  she  is  in  the 
Salvation  Army  mission.  She  is  tricked  into  boarding 
a  schooner  and  carried  off  to  Martha's  Vineyard,  but 
escapes  in  a  small  boat  and  rows  to  the  lighthouse. 


A  SPLENDID  SCAPEGRACE 

From  "A  Blackjack  Bargainer" 
Dramatic   (1000) — Released  Saturday,  April  26th. 

Having  dissipated  away  his  entire  fortune  and  sold 
his  home,  Yancey  Goree  finally  sells  the  family  feud 
to  an  old  mountaineer.  But  Yancey's  old  enemy  be- 
friends him  and,  in  return,  he  shields  him  from  the  new 
enemy,  receiving  the  bullet  which  was  intended  for  him. 

WHEN  The  RIGHT  MAN  COMES  ALONG 

Comedy-Drama    (1000)— Released   Monday,   April   28th 

Scorning  all  things  feminine,  an  extremely  progres- 
sive young  woman  plunges  into  business,  develops  a 
near-male  style  of  clothes  and  becomes  as  mannish  as 
possible.  She  laughs  at  matrimony  until  he  arrives  and 
then  her  mannish  ways  are  thrust  aside  in  her  efforts 
to  charm  him. 

THE  ORPHAN 

Drama  (1000) — Released  Tuesday,  April  29th. 

The  black  sheep  of  the  family  dies,  leaving  his  little 
daughter  in  the  care  of  a  younger  brother  who  is  en- 
gaged to  be  married.  The  little  stranger  is  the  cause 
of  a  breach  between  the  lovers,  but  her  illness  brings 
them  more  closely  together  than  they  have  ever  been 
before. 

A  RELUCTANT  CINDERELLA 

Comedy   (1000) — Released  Wednesday,  April  30th. 

A  pinching  slipper,  removed  under  the  table  during 
a  dinner-dance,  gets  a  debutante  into  all  sorts  of  em- 
barrassing predicaments  before  she  finally  recovers  it 
from  one  of  the  men.  She  conceals  her  slipperless  foot 
until  he  lets  a  mouse  loose  in  the  room.  That  is  too 
much. 


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great  big  money  you  read  about  ?     How  is  it  that 

the  man  in  the  next  block  can  show  the  same  pictures  you 

do — and  take  the  crowds  away  from  you  ?     We'll  tell  you. 

It's  all  in  the  machine— you  need  an  Edison  Kinetoscope. 

The  Edison  wins  the  crowd  because  it  projects  clear, 
flickerless  pictures  that  don't  tire  the  eyes,  and  are  a  real 
pleasure  to  look  at.  There  are  no  discouraging  "intermis- 
sions for  repairs."  And  the  Edison  Kinetoscope  saves  the 
extra  money  it  makes,  because  it  runs  the  longest  time 
with  the  least  upkeep  expense.  Get  posted.  Send  for 
Catalog  500  and  a  copy  of  the  Edison  Kinetogram. 

Price,  with  Rheostat,  110  volts,  24-40  amperes,  $225.00 
Price,  with  1 10  volt,  60  Cycle  Transformer,      .    245.00 

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LUBIN  FILMS 

"THE  POWER  OF  THE  CROSS" 

SPECIAL  Friday,  April  18th 

A  Two  Reel  Special,  Very  Dramatic  andJReligious 

"THE  END  OF  THE  QUEST" 


SPECIAL 

A  Powerful  Two  Reel  Melodrama 

Friday,  April  25th 

Rosa  and  Pietro  were  very  happy  in  Italy,  until  Giuseppe 
Rocco  came,  with  many  promises,  and  induced  Rosa  to  go  with 
him  to  America.  Pietro  followed  them,  vowing  vengeance,  but 
failed  in  his  quest.  He  became  owner  of  a  barber  shop  and 
one  night  found  Rosa  with  a  baby  in  her  arms  fainting  upon  the 
street.  Pietro  did  his  best  to  restore  her,  but  Rosa  died,  leaving 
her  baby  to  Pietro's  care.  Five  years  passed  and  one  day  Rocco 
entered  the  barber  shop;  Pietro  was  about  to  kill  him  when  the 
little  girl  stayed  his  hand,  but  Rocco  had  died  of  fear  and 
heart  failure. 


"THROUGH  MANY  TRIALS" 

SPECIAL  Wednesday,  April  30th 

A  beautiful  two-reel  pastoral  drama. 


"THE  PAWNED  BRACELET" 


A  rich  husband  refuses  his  wife  pin  money  and  finds  that  he  is  wrong 


1000  feet 


Tuesday,  April  15th 


"THE  RIGHT  ROAD" 


1000  feet 


Thursday,  April  17th 


Another  great  Western  melodrama. 


"BABY'S  NEW  PIN" 


400  feet 


Friday,  April  18th 


The  pin  was  found  on  the  floor;  Baby  did  not  eat  it. 


"BEATING  MOTHER  TO  IT"         eoofeet 

A  game  of  hearts  between  mother  and  daughter. 


Friday,  April  18th 


"A  FLORIDA  ROMANCE"  1000  feet 

A  beautiful  tale  of  the  Land  of  the  Everglades. 


Saturday,  April  19th 


"BACK  TO  PRIMITIVE"  icoofeet 

A  powerful  and  picturesque  Indian  romance. 


Monday,  April  21st 


LUBIN  5  COLOR  POSTERS  -  One,  Three  and  Six  Sheets 
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"MR.  MINTLRN'S  MISADVENTURES" 


Monday,  April  14th 

He  has  many.     By  mistake  he  enters  the  wrong  stateroom.     This  misadventure  leads 
to  happv  consequences  with  Costello  in  the  lead. 


Tuesday,  April  15th 


"THE  FORTUNE"  o^ 

A  palmist  tells  John  Bunny  he  will  inherit  a  fortune.     Some  young  bloods  make  him 
believe  it,  but  his  wife,  Flora  Finch,  convinces  him  he  has  been  dreaming. 

"AFTER  THE  HONEYMOON  "  Comedy         Wednesday,  April  16th 

Everything    is    "lovey-dovey"    until    they   go    housekeeping.     They   separate,    but    are 
reconciled  by  a  succession  of  funny  circumstances. 


"SLEUTHING" 


Comedy 


Thursday,  April  17th 


Belinda  gets  on  the  track  of  Ophelia's  false  lover.     She  is  arrested  for  masquerading, 
charms  the  policeman,  and  does  a  lot  of  queer  things  as  a  female  Hawkshaw. 


"PLAYING  WITH  FIRE" 


Drama 


Friday,  April  18th 


Dorothy  Kelly  as  a  vain  and  pretty  young  wife  tires  of  restraint.    She  places  herself 
open  to  criticism  and  hovers  dangerously  on  the  verge  of  compromise. 


1.  "SEEING  DOUBLE" 

2.  "JEAN  AND  HER  FAMILY" 


Comedy  and 
Dog  Life 


Saturday,  April  19th 


1.  He  sees  them  in  pairs.    He  doubts  his  own  sanity  and  takes  the  pledge.    He  is  now  a 
teetotaler.    2.  Jean,  the  Vitagraph  Dog,  her  four  sons  and  two  daughters. 


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NEW  YORK, 
LONDON  AND  PARIS. 


NEXT    WEEK 
SIX-A-WEEK 

"MIXED  IDENTITIES" 
"GALA  DAY  PARADE,  YOKO- 
HAMA, JAPAN" 

Two  On  One 

Monday,  April  21st 
"THE    MYSTERY    OF    THE 

STOLEN  JEWELS" 
"IN  THE  GOOD  OLD  SUMMER 
TIME" 

Split  Reel 

"THERE'S  MUSIC  IN  THE  HAIR"-Laugh  Kinks™^7'  ^  **** 

Wednesday,  April  23rd 
"THE  POWER  THAT  RULES"— Everybody  Wants  It 

Thursday,  April  24th 
"THE  STRONGER  SEX"— Strong  Picture  Friday,  April  25th 

"A  FIGHTING  CHANCE"-Here  It  Is  Saturday,  April  26th 

SPECIAL  FEATURE,  "THE  ARTIST'S  GREAT  MADONNA,"  BY 
KATHERINE  VAN  DYKE,  IN  TWO  PARTS;  RELEASED  MON- 
DAY, APRIL  21st. 

SPECIAL  FEATURE,  "HEARTS  OF  THE  FIRST  EM- 
PIRE," IN  TWO  PARTS;  RELEASED  MONDAY, 
APRIL  28th. 

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The  Haunted  House 


Thrills  and  Laughs   in  this  Novel  Comedy  Drama 

While  unknowingly  impersonating  a  ghost,  a  little  girl  brings  about  the  capture  of  a  burglar. 
Released  Monday,  April  28th  Special  1  and  3- Sheet  Posters 


The  Eighth  Notch 

A  feudist  has  placed  seven  notches  on  his  gun. 
When  the  eighth  notch  is  accidentally  added,  ex- 
citing incidents  follow. 

(On  the  Same  Reel) 

A  Coupon  Courtship 

Tom,  Dick  and  Harry  have  a  smoky  battle  when 
the  Smokem  Tobacco  Co.  offers  a  grand  piano  for 
one  million  coupons. 

Released  Wednesday,  April  30th 


Fatty's  Busy  Day 

After  one  day's  experiences  in  the  city,  the  farmer 
boy  concludes  "there's  no  place  like  home." 
(On  the  Same  Reel) 

Old  Women  of  the  Streets  of  New  York 

An  interesting  topical  picture  showing  the  peculiar 
occupations  of  old  women,  touched  by  the  hand  of 


time. 


Released  Friday,  May  2nd 


The  Wayward  Son 

The  manufacturer's  son,  unaccustomed  to  work,  has  a  hard  struggle  when  thrown  upon  his  own  re- 
sources.    Pluck  brings  a  well-deserved   reward. 
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A  Feature  Indian  Classic  in  Two  Parts 

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Facts  and  Comments 

WE  have  never  joined  in  the  prejudice  with  which 
theatrical  journals  seem  to  regard  all  new-comers 
in  their  field.  Such  prejudice  is  probably  born 
of  conceit  and  egotism.  Experience  has  shown  time  and 
again  that  men  on  the  borderland  of  middle  age  have 
done  great  things  in  the  theatrical .  field  without  much 
previous  theatrical  experience.  The  same  holds  good  of 
the  motion  picture.  Both  the  art  of  producing  and  the 
profession  of  exhibiting  may  be  learned  by  anybody  with 
the  proper  talents  in  him.  Some  practical  experience, 
however,  is  indispensable.  We  have  seen  grocers,  plumb- 
ers, tailors  and  business  men  generally  go  into  the  motion 
picture  industry  and  be  fairly  successful.  They  were 
always  willing  to  learn,  and  thus  there  was  no  trouble 
about  laying  a  foundation.  We  would  advise  such  en- 
trants into  the  moving  picture  field  to  leave  the  details 
of  practical  management  to  trained  men,  and  not  inter- 
fere in  the  beginning  of  their  new  enterprise.  It  is  unfor- 
tunately riot  rare  that  these  inexperienced  men  hamper 
capable  managers  with  their  crude  notions.  But  recently 
a  case  was  pointed  out  to  the  writer,  in  which  the  owner 
of  a  place  who  had  amassed  a  fortune  in  the  hotel  busi- 


ness paid  a  manager  a  salary,  but  gave  him  no  power 
whatever,  substituting  his  own  new-born  ideas  for  the 
ripened  judgment  of  the  experienced  man.  The  science 
of  conducting  a  motion  picture  theater  is  not  revealed 
to  mortals  in  a  dream,  but  has  to  be  learned  like  every- 
thing else  in  this  plug-away  world. 


A  MOST  interesting  conversation  took  place  the  other 
day  in  the  editorial  sanctum  of  a  great  New  York 
daily  newspaper.  It  related  to  an  experiment 
made  by  that  same  paper.  The  experiment  was  the  in- 
troduction of  a  weekly  moving  picture  supplement.  The 
editor  had  been  in  fear  lest  his  "high  class  readers"  resent 
such  an  innovation.  "To  my  surprise,"  he. said  to  his 
friend,  "all  our  readers  commended  our  step  and  urged 
us  to  keep  it  up.  Our  circulation  jumped  noticeably.  I 
see  motion  pictures  in  a  new  light  now,  and  realize  as 
I  never  did  before  their  widespread  popularity." 


No  one  is  gladder  of  this  publicity  for  the  motion  pic- 
ture than  we  are.  Though  their  influence  is  confined  to 
narrow  limits  compared  to  the  national  scope  of  The 
Moving  Picture  World,  much  good  may  reasonably 
be  expected  from  the  attention  the  motion  picture  is 
receiving  from  the  daily  press.  They  create  and  stimu- 
late interest  in  kinematography,  and  thus  help  both  pro- 
ducer and  exhibitor.  As  a  rule  these  local  publications 
do  not  even  pretend  to  reach  the  exhibitor ;  they  utterly 
lack  the  equipment,  the  experience  and  the  connection  to 
be  of  practical  value  to  the  exhibitor  and  the  advertiser, 
to  whom  nothing  can  replace  the  real  organ  of  the  indus- 
try covering  a  field  perhaps  twenty  times  larger  than  the 
zone  of  the  newspaper  which  is  printed  exclusively  for 
the  benefit  of  the  general  public. 


THE  telephone  girls  of  Boston  have  protested 
through  the  press  against  being  shown  in  motion 
pictures  in  the  act  of  constantly  chewing  gum. 
This  may  seem  funny  to  persons  who  find  it  easier  to 
laugh  than  to  think,  but  we  believe  that  these  girls  have 
a  just  cause  of  complaint.  It  is  a  very  cheap  sort  of  wit 
to  which  they  are  subjected.  Naturally  they  like  to  be 
well  thought  of,  and  they  like  to  keep  their  self-respect. 
Civilization  could  not  live  through  one  day  without  their 
help.  Acts  of  heroism  in  times  of  distress  and  emergency 
are  often  credited  to  telephone  girls,  as  witness  the  recent 
disasters  in  the  Middle  West.  These  clownish  jokes  do 
not  look  well  on  the  screen. 


KIXEMAPHOBIA— an  unreasoning  hostility  to  the 
motion  picture — seems  to  have  reached  its  high- 
est mark  in  the  city  of  Pittsburg.  The  exhibitors 
in  the  smoky  town,  animated  by  a  proper  spirit  of  help- 
fulness, had  proposed  to  give  special  performances  on  a 
Sunday,  intending  to  devote  the  entire  proceeds  to  the 
relief  fund  for  the  victims  of  the  recent  floods.  Both  the 
human  and  the  divine  law  recognize  that  it  is  lawful  to 
do  good  on  the  "Sabbath,"  but  the  Pittsburg  ministers 
did  not  read  the  gospel  that  way.  The  supposed  desecra- 
tion of  the  "Sabbath"  outweighed  in  their  minds  any 
possible  good  that  might  come  out  of  these  performances. 
Unanimously  they  protested  against  the  Sunday  exhibi- 
tion, .charity  or  no  charity.  The  exhibitors,  however, 
refused  to  be  intimidated.  Sunday  exhibitions  were  held 
and  the  police  did  not  dare  to  molest  them.  The  world 
is  still  running  on  at  much  the  same  gait,  in  spite  of  the 
ravings  of  these  antediluvian  fanatics. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 

The  Future  of  the  Single  Reel 


By  W.  Stephen  Bush. 


LESS  than  three  years  ago  the  single  reel  held  abso- 
lute sway.  Old  moving  picture  men  will  easily 
recall  the  wonder  expressed  in  film  exchanges, 
when  the  Pathe  "Dreyfus  Case"  was  released.  This 
splendid  feature  ran  but  a  couple  of  hundred  feet  over 
one  reel  and  the  short  end  had  an  old-fashioned  "comedy" 
for  a  running  mate.  Exhibitors  were  puzzled  as  to  how 
it  should  be  put  on,  but  most  of  them  guessed  right  and 
waited  awhile  before  they  let  the  tear-stained  climax  of 
the  tragedy  be  followed  by  the  farce.  Nobody  then 
thought  much  about  features  and  the  possibilities  of  the 
multiple  i  eel.  "The  Fall  of  Troy"  was  among  the  early 
features  consisting  of  more  than  one  reel. 

Then  along  toward  191 1  multiple  releases  became  more 
frequent,  but  they  were  still  looked  upon  as  exceptions, 
and  there  were  few  indeed  who  then  anticipated  the 
coming  rise  and  development  of  the  multiple  feature  reel. 
Multiple  leleases  were  given  to  the  exhibitor  in  install- 
ments, the  continuity  of  the  subject  to  the  contrary  not- 
withstanding. In  that  shape  they  were  anything  but  wel- 
come to  the  exhibitor,  who  had  to  hear  frequent  com- 
plaints from  his  audience  because  subjects  of  multiple 
reels  were  split  up  and  often  released  at  intervals  of  a 
week  and  more.  When  producers  at  last  began  to  heed 
the  demands  of  the  public  and  the  repeated  urgings  of 
this  paper  and  decided  to  release  multiple  reels  on  one  and 
the  same  day  there  were  many  vaudeville  houses  which 
sandwiched  acts  of  vaudeville  into  reels  treating  the  same 
subject.  We  mention  all  this  just  to  show  what  a  nov- 
elty the  feature  reel  was  in  those  days  and  how  long  ;t 
took  for  producer  and  exhibitor  to  properly  adjust  them- 
selves to  the  new  conditions. 

On  June  17,  1911,  The  Moving  Picture  World  said 
in  its  editorial  columns:  "The  present  upward  trend  of 
the  moving  picture  could  not  be  shown  more  strikingly 
than  by  grouping  together  the  titles  of  the  following 
films  released  recently  or  about  to  be  released :  'The  Fail 
of  Troy,'  'A  Tale  of  Two  Cities,'  'Enoch  Arden,'  'The 
Battle  Hymn  of  the  Republic,'  The  Maccabees'  and 
'Faust.' "  We  prophesied  the  further  rapid  development 
of  the  feature  films  in  the  same  article  in  these  words : 
"It  is  *  *  *  characteristic  of  the  present  higher  ideals 
that  of  the  subjects  above  mentioned  one  consists  of  three 
reels  and  two  consist  of  two  reels  each.  The  two  an  1 
three  reel  subject  is  indeed  a  necessary  product  of  the 
higher  ideal.  It  is  bound  to  come,  and  in  two  or  three 
years  it  will  be  the  rule  rather  than  the  exception  in  all 
dramas." 

Events  have  literally  verified  this  prediction.  I  believe 
that  on  the  whole  the  quality  of  the  feature  reels  has 
been  above  that  of  the  single  reel,  though  the  feature 
reel  has  lately  gone  to  inferior  sources  for  its  material 
and  inspiration.  The  fond  hope  that  the  feature  and  the 
higher  ideals  would  become  synonymous  has  not  been  en- 
tirely fulfilled.  European  productions  especially  have 
too  often  departed  from  the  higher  ideals  in  the  selection 
of  subjects  for  multiple  reels. 

With  ihe  feature  still  holding  the  center  of  the  stage 
and  w'th  every  prospect  of  continuing  to  hold  it  for  many 
years  to  come  the  question  will  occur  to  every  exhibitor: 
What  is  to  be  the  future  of  the  single  reel?  The  studios 
and  equipments  of  every  producer  who  issues  regular 
releases  every  week  is  especially  adapted  for  the  making 
of  single  reels.    The  great  fortunes  in  the  manufacturing 


branch  have  in  the  last  five  years  been  made  through  the 
production  of  single  reels.  To  the  men  who  supply  the 
staple  of  the  exhibitor's  program  the  feature  is,  as  a  rule, 
a  thing  most  difficult  of  achievement.  They  look  at  the 
film  situation  from  an  angle  wholly  different  from  that 
of  the  feature  men.  It  is  well  nigh  impossible  to  put  out 
a  weekly  supply  and  at  the  same  time  astonish  the  film 
world  with  wonderful  features.  There  are  some  pro- 
ducers, not  too  many  of  them,  who  have  foreseen  the 
coming  triumph  of  the  feature  and  who  have  prepared 
special  facilities  for  the  production  of  features,  entirely 
separate  and  distinct  from  their  equipment  for  single 
reels.  Such  producers  are  the  exceptions  rather  than 
the  rule.  The  great  majority  of  manufacturers  will  for 
a  long  time  to  come  be  dependent  for  their  financial  suc- 
cess and  their  artistic  reputation  on  single  reels. 

It  seems  plain  that  the  diminished  demand  for  single 
reels  will  suffer  still  greater  diminution  unless  the  av- 
erage of  quality  in  the  single  reel  takes  a  quick  and  de- 
cided turn  for  the  better.  In  the  regular  single  reel  issues 
of  certain  producers  there  is  about  as  much  variety  and 
interest  as  in  the  links  of  a  chain  of  sausages.  When  one 
remembers  to  what  heights  of  artistic  achievements  the 
industry  rose  in  the  days  of  the  exclusive  reign  of  the 
single  reel,  it  is  strange  that  there  has  been  so  much 
retrogression. 

It  would  be  easy  to  recall  instances  of  splendid  single 
reels.  Take  for  example  the  old  Shakespearean  series 
of  the  Vitagraph  Company,  which  no  multiple  Shake- 
spearean reel  since  made  has  ever  been  able  to  approach 
in  dramatic  power  and  condensation ;  take  the  famous  old 
Biographs  such  as  "Pippa  Passes,"  "The  Greaser's 
Gauntlet"  and  scores  of  others,  which  were  the  delight 
of  the  public  and  the  exhibitor.  The  old  companies  still 
release  an  occasional  fine  single  reel,  but  on  the  whole 
even  their  single  reel  issues  have  shown  meager  quality, 
while  of  the  newer  companies  scarcely  one  can  lay  claim 
to  even  a  fair  average  of  quality  in  the  single  reels.  Origi- 
nality of  invention  and  dramatic  power  are  sadly  lacking. 

We  hope  the  day  will  never  come  when  the  single  reel 
can  be  considered  as  little  more  than  a  "filler."  There 
is  to  say  the  least  as  much  chance  for  a  display  of  direc- 
torial skill  in  the  making  of  the  single  reel  as  there  ever 
•was.  No  matter  how  many  features  may  be'  produced 
hereafter  and  how  good  such  features  may  prove  to  be, 
the  single  reel  will  continue  to  be  the  backbone  of  the 
motion  picture  show.  That  show  will  in  the  end  be 
judged  by  its  single  reels.  If  these  are  given  over  en- 
tirely to  the  exploitation  of  cheap  comedy  and  cheap 
melodrama  it  will  be  a  sorry  day  for  the  exhibitor  and 
the  public. 

The  coming  of  features  consisting  of  eight  reels  and 
even  twelve  reels  will  undoubtedly  have  a  tendency  to 
decrease  the  demand  for  the  single  reel.  Such  features 
will  establish  new  standards  in  kinematography.  If  the 
difference  in  quality  between  these  very  big  productions 
and  the  everv  clay  single  reel  release  is  too  pronounced 
it  is  not  at  all  improbable  that  the  single  reel  will  lose  in 
popular  favor  and  will  be  relegated  to  the  very  cheapest 
of  motion  picture  theaters.  There  is  but  one  way  to  pre- 
vent this.  The  single  reel  must  conform  to  higher  stand- 
ards. Its  place  in  the  kinematographic  procession  must 
not  be  too  far  in  the  rear  of  the  modern  feature  of  many 
reels. 


THE  MOVING  PICTURE  WORLD      • 

Peering  Into  the  Future 

By  Louis  Reeves  Harrison. 


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WHETHER  high  or  low,  nearly  every  jack  in  the 
game  of  life  who  is  not  a  moral  idiot  is  trying 
to  improve.  Even  the  money  drudge  realizes 
that  those  who  are  not  after  his  gelt,  the  best  people  he 
can  cultivate,  care  less  for  what  he  has  than  for  what 
he  is  when  they  come  to  meet  him  socially,  and  he  strives 
accordingly  to  purchase  a  character.  I  may  therefore  be 
excused  for  insisting  upon  progression  and  improvement 
in  our  picture  plays,  for  applying  the  tonic  of  criticism 
so  that  they  may  meet  the  dominant  sentiment  of  what 
is  best  in  our  times. 

The  plays  themselves  are  critical.  The  finest  of  them 
are  commentaries  on  the  passing  show,  and  they  must 
reflect  ideals  based  on  principles  of  justice  and  equity  to 
attain  success  with  our  people.  When  photodramas  are 
not  governed  by  high  principles  they  should  be  called  to 
account  for  common  financial  interest  to  the  ultimate 
benefit  of  the  public.  Criticism  based  on  high  standards 
is  as  inevitable  as  it  is  essential.  Even  to  think  of  these 
photoplays  is  to  judge  them. 

It  is  essential  that  they  keep  pace  with  the  times,  and 
possible  that  some  of  them  may  strike  out  boldly  as  lead- 
ers of  opinion,  though  the  bare  idea  of  adventuring  into 
the  future  may  get  on  the  nerves  of  old  showmen.  Old 
showmen  are  timid  for  a  reason.  The  natural  drift  of 
pictures  is  toward  the  drama,  and  theatrical  men  of  other 
days  are  so  constituted  mentally  as  to  go  back  into  the 
past  for  their  material,  this  being  the  line  of  least  resist- 
ance. To  the  non-progressive  spirit  of  those  earliest  in 
the  game  may  be  ascribed  the  present  imitative  mediocrity. 

Imitative  mediocrity  characterizes  a  large  number  of 
the  unsatisfactory  pictures  thrown  on  the  screen — pic- 
tures that  would  cause  the  whole  business  to  collapse  like 
a  house  of  cards  but  for  a  few  notable  exceptions,  and 
persistence  in  this  wearisome  quality  is  now  keeping 
many  away  from  screen  exhibitions  who  would  other- 
wise attend.  Producers  are  willing  to  spend  money,  but 
they  are  almost  unanimous  in  believing  that  they  are 
addressing  audiences  of  inferior  quality,  and  this  idea  is 
fostered  by  exchange  men  and  exhibitors  themselves. 

The  impression  is  a  false  one  that  people  attending 
picture  shows  are  lacking  in  sufficient  intelligence  to  ap- 
preciate the  best  offerings ;  that  the  condition  of  working 
people  is  that  of  eternal  damnation  in  poverty  and  igno- 
rance; that  they  cannot  rise,  or  stay  "risen"  when  lifted 
up.  The  difference  between  the  highly  educated  and  the 
indifferently  educated  is  not  one  of  intellect  at  all ;  it  is 
simply  one  of  familiarity  with  the  products  of  human 
achievement,  a  condition  to  be  improved  rather  than  fos- 
tered by  moving  pictures. 

If  the  past  is  of  any  particular  use  it  should  teach  us 
what  the  future  is  to  be.  Every  American  of  Colonial 
descent  knows  that  his  ancestors  were  mostly  men  and 
women  who  resented  old  world  distinctions  of  classes  and 
masses.  Our  plain  ancestors  rose  to  a  control  of  social 
and  national  affairs  that  excited  the  admiration  of  think- 
ing men  all  over  the  world,  though  they  were  considered 
abroad  to  be  inferior  to  lords  temporal  and  spiritual,  just 
as  motion  picture  audiences  are  lightly  regarded  today. 

Those  who  attend  the  picture  shows  because  they  can- 
not afford  costly  forms  of  entertainment  may  suffer  from 
a  form  of  social  inequality  not  unlike  the  civil  and  polit- 
ical inequality  of  rebellious  spirits  who  conquered  and 
defended  this  country,  but  history  has  taught  us  that  this 
form  of  disability  is  not  inherent,  nor  is  it  beyond  rem- 
edy. Modest  workers  who  spend  their  dimes  at  the  little 
shows  are  as  far  from  being  stupid  as  those  who  sit  in 


the  golden  horseshoe  at  the  Metropolitan  are  from  being 
truly  intellectual,  and  that  is  putting  it  strong. 

The  educational  value  of  moving  pictures  was 
pointed  out  and  discussed  in  these  columns  years  ago, 
and  now  every  play  that  presents  a  figment  of  historical 
information,  whether  or  not  it  is  correct  or  worth  dis- 
seminating as  a  matter  of  knowledge,  is  tabbed  "educa- 
tional." Meanwhile  not  a  grain  of  information  is  offered 
on  subjects  engaging  the  attention  of  rich  and  poor  in 
all  parts  of  the  world.  Scarcely  a  suggestion  is  made  as 
to  the  outcome  of  fascinating  questions  of  the  hour. 
Though  thought  rules  the  world,  few  of  the  highest  and 
brightest  ideas  of  this  hour  are  ever  set  forth  on  the 
screen. 

The  plain  truth  is  that  no  people  are  more  bitterly 
aware  that  our  present  social  and  political  systems  are 
faulty  than  those  who  suffer  pain  and  humiliation  from 
an  unjust  distribution  of  the  fruits  of  achievement.  They 
are  more  alive  to  the  necessity  of  changed  conditions  and 
more  ardent  in  the  pursuit  of  new  freedom  than  those 
who  do  not  feel  the  need  of  it  themselves  and  only  once 
in  a  while  regard  it  as  essential  to  common  welfare. 
There  are  hundreds  of  interesting  problems  presented  by 
the  struggle  for  greater  opportunity,  superior  education 
and  whatever  is  calculated  to  add  to  human  wealth,  power 
and  happiness  in  equitable  degree — problems  which  may 
be  set  forth  in  a  thousand  interesting  ways — and  any  just 
presentation  of  these  would  go  straight  to  the  hearts  of 
the  average  audience  at  motion  picture  shows. 

Moving  pictures  should  be  agents  of  civilization,  no 
matter  where  they  are  shown.  Men  have  found  old  ideas 
of  morality  and  justice  to  be  false.  Men  are  beginning 
to  think  that  our  present  ideas  need  improvement;  they 
are  beginning  to  regard  whatever  is  degenerate  in  na- 
tional and  social  affairs  with  more  disgust  than  open 
crimes  excite;  they  are  beginning  to  distrust  those  who 
make  and  enforce  laws,  and  we  all  realize  that  a  nation 
which  cannot  retain  its  progressive  spirit  is  on  the  road 
to  decay.  Moving  pictures  may  be  destined  to  provide 
the  real  literature  of  opportunity. 

The  people  are  ready.  They  are  quite  capable  of  under- 
standing and  studying  any  problem  presented  clearly  on 
the  screen,  and  the  first  man  to  go  before  them  with  a 
vigorous  plea  for  what  is  right  and  nearest  the  universal 
heart  will  fill  the  little  places  of  entertainment  to  over- 
flowing, and  with  thunders  of  applause.  The  question 
of  whether  the  cowboy  catches  the  Indian,  or  the  tin- 
starred  sheriff  catches  the  villain,  or  the  cop  catches  the 
burglar  is  not  going  to  hold  us  much  longer.  "Tomor- 
row is  the  eventful  thing  for  us.  There  lies  all  that 
remains  to  be  felt  by  us  and  our  children  and  those  that 
are  dear  to  us." 

One  of  the  most  brilliant  writers  of  today,  H.  G.  Wells, 
says:  "We  look  back  through  the  countless  millions  of 
years  and  see  the  will  to  live  struggling  from  shape  to 
shape,  from  power  to  power,  crawling,  then  walking, 
now  struggling  to  master  the  air;  now  creeping  down 
into  the  deep;  we  see  it  reshape  itself  anew;  we  watch 
it  draw  nearer  and  more  akin  to  us,  expanding,  elaborat- 
ing itself,  pursuing  its  relentless  purpose,  until  at  last 
it  reaches  us  and  its  being  beats  in  our  brains  and  arteries, 
roars  through  our  cities,  sings  in  our  music,  and  flowers 
in  our  art."  Is  this  the  end  ?  He  answers,  "It  is  possible 
to  believe  that  all  the  past  is  but  the  beginning  of  a  be- 
ginning, that  all  that  is  and  has  been  is  but  the  dream 
before  the  awakening,  the  twilight  before  the  dawn." 


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"The  Miser's  Millions" 

Three-Reel   Cines-Kleine  Feature. 

Reviewed    by   James   S.    McQuade. 

1r  is  said  that  the  principal  actor  in  the  Cines-Kleine,  three- 
reel  feature  "The  .Miser's  Millions,"  designed  the  ingenious 
mechanical  contrivances  used  in  the  production.  Indeed, 
without  these  electrically  operated  properties  the  story  might 
never  have  been  written,  or,  at  least,  it  would  never  have  been 
used  in  a  photoplay.  It  has  been  an  easy  matter  to  write  a  story 
around  the  mysterious  cellar,  which  contains  the  miser's  millions, 
when  provided  with  the  magically  worked  pieces  of  furniture 
and  the  awesome  steel  vault,  provided  with  inflexible  steel  arms 
that  spring  out  of  the  darkness  and  seize  with  a  death  grip  the 
body  of  the  burglar  who  is  forcing  an  entrance  to  the  treasure. 


Scene  from  "The  Miser's  Millions"  (Cines-Kleine). 

Throughout  the  three  reels  of  this  feature  film  one's  interest 
is  well  sustained,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that  the  secret  work- 
ing of  the  means  of  access  to  the  treasure  has  been  revealed  in 
the  first  reel.  Naturally  the  climax  has  been  reached  before 
the  close  of  the  third ;  but  even  this  has  its  thrill,  as  it  reveals 
the  fearful  ordeal  to  which  a  greedy  money-maker  is  subjected 
and  his  utter  collapse  in  the  dread  chamber  of  death.  The  second 
reel  also  has  its  stirring  scene,  in  which  the  burglar  is  trapped 
by  the  ghostly  steel  arms  while  plying  his  jimmy  on  the  vault. 

The  character  of  the  miser  is  strongly  portrayed.  The  senility, 
cupidity  and   heartlessness   of   the   money-mad   man   are   drawn 


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Scene  from  "The  Miser's  Millions"  (Cines-Kleine). 

with  artistic  touches.  His  suspicious  nature,  too,  is  impressively 
revealed,  and  his  tigerish  fight  for  the  preservation  of  the  secret 
that  protects  his  treasure  is  most  realistic.  Another  well  drawn 
character  is  that  of  the  avaricious  money  lender.  So  despicable 
and  cunning  is  he  made  to  appear,  one  actually  feels  inclined 
to  explode  with  malicious  laughter,  as  he  shrinks  in  horror  from 
the  skeleton  that  grins  at  him  in  the  vault  chamber.  His  utter 
despair,  when  he  finds  himself  walled  in  with  the  gruesome  dead 


and  the  millions  he  has  attempted  to  steal,  still  further  augments 
one's  fiendish  glee. 

The  interior  scenes  are  well  staged  and  show  fine  photography. 
The  rescue  of  the  child  of  the  warden  of  the  penitentiary  is 
shown  in  an  elaborate  exterior  setting.  The  partial  collapse 
of  the  structure  and  the  serious  injury  of  the  rescuer  form  an 
impressive  scene. 

The  miser  of  the  story  lives  in  seculsion  in  his  city  home. 
No  one  save  Peter,  a  butler,  is  allowed  on  the  premises.  His 
only  relative  is  a  niece,  Mrs.  Rice,  whom  he  never  sees.  With 
her  sick  husband  and  their  little  daughter,  Dorothy,  Mrs.  Rice 
finds  it  hard  to  keep  the  wolf  from  the  door.  Without  medicine 
or  food  in  the  house,  she  sends  a  messenger  to  her  uncle,  plead- 
ing for  assistance.  It  is  the  day  for  the  miser's  collection  of 
his  rents,  and  he  is  about  to  leave  when  the  messenger  arrives. 
He  reads  the  note,  and  at  first  fumbles  a  few  small  coins  in  his 
fingers,  then  hesitates,  and  returns  them  to  his  pocket  with  the 
remark,  "My  rents  are  of  more  importance  to  me  than  my 
relatives." 

The  miser's  hoard  is  stored  in  a  large  steel  vault  in  his  cellar. 
Access  to  this  cellar  is  only  possible  through  a  secret  passage, 
leading  from  his  library.  By  touching  a  hidden  button,  one  of 
the  book  cases'  sinks  beneath  the  floor,  revealing  an  opening  in 
the  wall  back  of  it.  Passing  through  this  opening  the  book 
case  resumes  its  former  position.  Other  intricately  constructed 
contrivances  are  eencountered  before  the  cellar  is  reached,  all 
of  them  yielding  to  the  magic  touch  of  the  miser.  The  vault  also 


Scene  from  "The  Miser's  Millions"  (Cines-Kleine). 

opens  to  the  touch  of  secret  springs  and  is  closed  by  the  same 
means.  If  otherwise  tampered  with,  strong  steel  arms  encircle 
the  intruder  and  crush  his  life  out.  The  return  to  fresh  air 
also  requires  a  knowledge  of  secret  springs,  as  all  entrances 
have  been  closed,  as  the  explorer,  on  his  way  to  the  cellar,  passes 
through  them.  Thus  a  stranger  may  possess  the  secrets  to  gain 
entrance,  and  yet  never  get  out. 

One  day  Peter,  the  butler,  spies  on  his  master  and  learns 
of  the  secret  entrance.  The  old  miser  discovers  him  and  attempts 
to  shoot  him.  In  the  scuffle,  the  pistol  is  accidentally  discharged 
and  the  miser  is  killed.  Peter  is  sent  to  the  penitentiary  for 
IS  years. 

Mrs.  Rice  and  her  child  were  living  alone  when  informed  of 
her  uncle's  death.  Her  husband  had  died  some  time  before. 
On  coming  into  possession  of  the  estate,  she  could  find  no  trace 
of  the  miser's  hidden  money.  It  was  necessary  to  get  loans  on 
the  real  estate  and,  after  the  lapse  of  is  years,  she  is  again  penni- 
less. A  money  lender  is  about  to  foreclose  on  the  property. 
The  money  lender's  son  is  in  love  with  Dorothy  and  tries  in 
vain  to  turn  his  father  from  his  course. 

About  this  time  Peter,  the  butler,  is  released.  He  calls  on 
Mrs.  Rice  and  draws  her  plans  of  the  secret  entrance.  The 
money  lender  is  told  of  these  plans  by  his  son  and  resolves  to 
secure  the  treasure  for  himself.  He  gains  entrance  to  the  cellar 
but  cannot  return.  Through  Peter's  efforts  he  is  released,  and 
the  miser's  millions  are  turned  over  to  Mrs.  Rice. 

The  release  date  is  April  23. 


FILM  SUPPLY  TO  BE  DISBANDED. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  directors  of  the  Film  Supply  Com- 
pany held  on  April  3,  it  was  decided  to  dissolve  that  organi- 
zation. The  resignation  of  the  general  manager  of  the  Com- 
pany, Harry  Raver,  was  accepted  and  a  committee  consist- 
ing of  C.  J.  Hite  and  Herbert  Blache  was  appointed  to  wind 
up  the  affairs  of  the  concern. 


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British  Trade  Exhibition 

Moving    Picture    Symposium   in    London — Fourteen    Picture 
Theaters  in  One. 
(Specially  Reported   By   Our   Own   Representative.) 

SATURDAY,  March  22  will  be  an  important  date  in  the 
history  of  the  moving  picture  industry  in  Great  Britain, 
for  on  that  day  was  opened  in  London,  under  most 
distinguished  auspices,  the  first  industrial  exhibition  ever 
held  in  this  country  in  connection  with  development  of  the 
kinema  as  an  educational,  scientific  and  entertaining  factor. 

A  good  deal  of  misapprehension,  however,  has  existed  both 
in  England  and  America  respecting  trade  representation  at 
the  British  International  Kinematograph  Exhibition  and  it 
is  the  unanimous  opinion  of  many  important  men  in  the 
trade  that  the  only  deplorable  circumstance  of  the  enterprise 
is  the  aloofness  of  the  British  Film  Manufacturers  Associa- 
tion, which  refuses  to  recognize  officially  the  exhibition.  Be- 
yond this  the  organizer,  Mr.  Ernest  Schofield,  a  gentleman 
with  extensive  experience  here  in  the  promotion  of  industrial 
exhibitions,  has  had  every  facility  in  his  task  from  both  the 
picture  theater  people  and  film  producers  and  manufacturers. 
The  admirable  manner  in  which  the  larger  producing  syn- 
dicates have  fallen  in  with  the  idea  was  most  encouraging, 
and  this  fact  was  favorably  commented  upon  at  the  opening 
ceremony,  which  was  creditably  performed  by  the  well  known 
educationalist  Sir  Albert  K.  Rollit.  An  exhaustive  list  of 
church,  social  and  educational  dignitaries  appeared  as  patrons 
of  the  exhibition,  and  some  of  them  actually  participated  along 
with  prominent  American  and  English  trade  representatives 
in  its  business  management. 

For  this  purpose  the  exhibition  was  divided  into  seven 
or  eight  sections,  each  with  its  own  controlling  committee. 
These  lists  are  much  too  long  to  print  here,  but  as  an  in- 
stance of  the  thoroughness  and  efficiency  of  this  system  it 
might  be  mentioned  that  no  less  than  five  University  pro- 
fessors were  identified  with  the  educational  section,  two 
notable  explorers  and  three  geographers  with  the  travel 
and  scenic  section,  while  several  eminent  politicians,  clergy- 
men and  actors  rendered  valuable  assistance  in  the  social, 
religious  arid  entertainment  sections  respectively.  To  follow 
the  exhibition  proper  a  general  conference  was  held  and 
this  apparently  constituted  a  valiant  attempt  to  determine 
the  status  of  the  moving-  picture.  The  application  of  the 
kinema  to  every  phase  of  science  and  learning,  religion  and 
politics,  medicine  and  travel  was  discussed  at  length  by  ex- 
perts, a  few  of  the  most  notable  participants  being  the 
Bishop  of  Birmingham,  the  Headmaster  of  Eton,  Prof.  R.  A. 
Gregory,  Prof.  Lyde,  Sir  A.  R.  Rollitt,  Sir  F.  F.  Belsey  and 
Sir  John  Kirk. 

The  Exhibits. 

Undoubtedly  the  first  and  foremost  exhibit  in  historic  impor- 
tance was  that  lent  for  the  occasion  by  the  moving  picture 
pioneer,  Mr.  Friese  Greene.  As  is  well  known  in  America 
it  was  Mr.  Greene  who  made  the  first  moving  picture  pro- 
jector and  showed  it  at  the  Chester  Photographic  Conven- 
tion in  1890.  Mr.  Greene  personally  explained  his  apparatus 
at  a  private  view  and  his  "first  machine  in  the  world"  looks 
very  much  like  a  combination  of  a  magic  wheel  such  as 
one  finds  in  penny  bazaars  and  an  old  lantern. 

A  notable  feature  of  the  exhibition  was  the  manner  in 
which  the  exhibits  and  stands  were  displayed  in  such  a 
fashion  as  to  make  the  whole  show  attractive  to  the  man  in 
the  street  and  not  necessarily  confined  in  interest  to  those  in 
the  trade.  The  fourteen  theaters  were  arranged  in  one  long 
avenue  and  the  stands  were  in  the  annexes.  Many  novelties 
in  the  form  of  kinema  adaptations  delighted  the  huge  London 
crowd  which  visited  Olympia  on  Easter  Monday  and  prob- 
ably the  most  popular  was  the  moving  picture  target.  It  is 
really  a  combination  between  the  moving  picture  show  and 
the  shooting  gallery.  Pictures  are  projected  on  to  the  screen 
in  the  ordinary  course  and  the  patrons  shoot  at  the  moving 
objects  with  rifles.  As  each  shot  goes  through  the  screen 
a  small  hole  of  light  is  reflected  from  the  back  and  by  some 
ordinary  synchronizing  device  the  film  in  the  gate  stops 
dead  at  the  precise  second  that  the  bullet  pierces  the  screen. 
This  shows  exactly  how  and  where  the  kinema-sportsman 
has  hit  his  mark.  I  had  several  shots  myself  and  successfully 
bagged  seven  cavalrymen,  two  aviators,  four  lions,  a  tiger, 
a  motor  omnibus,  and  a  flamingo  in  ten  minutes.  The 
attendant  promised  to  send  along  the  skins.  I  have  already 
heard  from  representatives  of  large  amusement  syndicates 
that  the  living  target  is  to  be  the  premier  attraction  on  the 
South  Shore  at  Blackpool  (England's  Coney  Island),  this 
summer. 


Another  attraction  equally  diverting  to  the  multitude  was 
the  photo-acting  competition,  suggested  no  doubt  by  the 
recent  offer  of  the  Cines  Co.  of  £1,000  for  the  best  scenario. 
At  one  end  of  the  hall  was  erected  a  stage  fitted  up  like  the 
average  picture  producing  studio.  Aspirants  to  photoplaying 
were  invited  to  give  the  crowd  below  an  exhibition  of  their 
powers  in  the  fixed  role  of  someone  who  receives  a  letter 
containing  a  legacy  but  which  afterward  turns  out  fictitious. 
The  preliminary  tests  occupied  the  first  four  days  and  several 
thousands  of  amateur  actors  faced  the  dummy  camera,  in- 
cluding all  persons  from  maid  servants  to  society  ladies,  and 
even  the  manager  of  a  provincial  theater  competed.  The 
final  will  not  be  "played  off"  until  next  week  and  I  hear 
that  some  arrangement  is  being  made  by  British  film  manu- 
facturers to  give  the  successful  players  a  practical  opportunity 
to  show  what  they  can  do. 

Other  competitions  included  a  test  for  operators  both  at 
spool  changing  and  in  case  of  the  film  firing,  and  one  for 
pianists  who  were  required  to  sit  down  and  improvise  music 
to  a  film  they  had  not  seen  before.  Medals  were  awarded  to 
the  successful  competitors  in  both  cases. 
Safety  Films. 

The  recently  formed  "Boroid"  company  had  a  most  inter- 
esting stand  on  which  their  new  fireproof  film  base  was 
demonstrated.  I  asked  the  manager  in  charge  to  "frizzle"  a 
piece  of  the  film,  which  he  did,  by  holding  six  or  seven  inches 
in  the  flame  of  a  large  spirit  lamp.  Rightly  enough  the  film 
frizzled  but  there  was  no  trace  of  flame,  and  this  was  proved 
beyond  doubt  when  he  placed  a  piece  upon  some  red-hot  tin 
and  still  it  only  frizzled.  A  few  other  devices  were  on  show, 
but  were  mostly  of  the  nature  of  fire  preventing  attachments. 
One  consisted  of  a  steel  jar  to  be  attached  to  the  side  of  the 
projector  containing  a  chemical  fire-extinguishing  solution 
and  which  by  pressing  a  lever  was  squirted  into  the  "gate"  of 
the  machine  and  surrounding  parts.  I  am  afraid,  however,  that 
this  device  will  never  prove  popular  to  operators  averse  to 
water  as  the  demonstration  resembled  something  like  a  minia- 
ture shower-bath.  There  was  some  talk  at  one  time  of  sub- 
mitting these  and  other  appliances  to  the  Royal  Commission 
appointed  to  investigate  celluloid  dangers,  but  so  far  nothing 
has  been  heard  of  the  matter;  but  the  Berlin  police,  after 
subjecting  Boroid  film  to  most  rigorous  tests,  have  decided  to 
grant  extra  privileges  to  theaters  using  it. 
Sound  Instruments. 

It  would  seem  from  the  many  mechanical  musical  instru- 
ments shown  at  Olympia  that,  so  far  as  the  smaller  shows 
are  concerned,  the  orchestra  will  soon  be  swept  out  of  ex- 
istence. A  most  ingenious  contrivance  which  attracted  end- 
less attention  was  a  violin-playing  instrument.  The  sceptic 
showman  will  ask  "How  can  a  machine  draw  a  bow  across 
a  fiddle  with  accurate  musical  expression."  That  is  not  the 
point.  The  violin  plays  the  bow,  the  latter  remaining  sta- 
tionary throughout.  The  invention  consists  of  a  three- 
legged  frame  to  which  is  attached  three  violins,  close  to- 
gether and  all  in  line.  Across  the  three  is  stretched  a  huge 
bow  and  when  the  motor  is  set  going  and  the  sound  regulator 
fed  with  paper  music  rools  the  three  play  together.  Pneu- 
matic stops  regulate  the  strings  instead  of  fingers. 

The  stentorian  was  another  device  which  attracted  end- 
less notice.  It  was  really  an  elaboration  of  the  gramaphone 
except  in  stentorian  notes  which  could  be  heard  from  one  end 
of  the  building  to  the  other.  Combinations  of  pianos,  organs, 
orchestrions  and  violins  were  exhibited  by  the  dozen  and  all 
were  under  electric  control,  compact,  and  regulated  on  the 
press-the-button  principle. 

Machines  for  sound  effects  were  as  common  as  flies  on  a 
July  morning  and  the  cacophanic  catastrophes  produced  by 
some  were  bewildering  in  the  extreme.  One  small  instru- 
ment, for  instance,  no  larger  than  a  sewing  machine  and 
known  as  the  "Kinesounder,"  almost  produced  a  panic.  The 
operator  pressed  seven  of  its  levers  down  simultaneously; 
then  immediately  fire  alarms  rang,  police  whistles  blew,  the 
fire  engine  hooter  huzzed,  horses  galloped  and  vehicles  rat- 
tled, timber  cracked  as  though  burning  and  passable  imita- 
tions of  falling  floors  and  roofs  were  interspersed  with  many 
other  noises  of  a  fire  scene.  This  machine  produces  about 
fifty  other  different  stage  noises  with  one  of  the  most  realistic 
resemblances  of  smashing  crockery  I  have  ever  heard. 
Trade  Secrets. 

Both  in  respect  to  projectors,  cameras,  and  film  produc- 
ing apparatus  columns  could  be  written  of  new  and  improved 
adaptions  on  view  at  Olympia,  but  a  few  of  the  most  notable 
must  suffice.  The  newest  thing  in  studio  cameras  resembled 
a  big  naval  gun  more  than  anything.  It  was  constructed 
of  heavy,  thick  steel  and  laid  in  a  foundation  of  steel  bed- 
plates, while  on  all  sides  were  myriads  of  handles  and  levers. 
The  new  gyroscope  hand  camera  and  one  worked  by  com- 


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pressed  air  were  also  exhibited.  The  camera  used  by  Mr. 
H.  Ponting  near  the  South  Pole  attracted  more  than  passing 
attention. 

The  process  of  artificially  coloring  films  with  stencil  plates 
has  hitherto  been  regarded  as  secret,  but  the  "Pathecolor" 
system  was  openly  demonstrated  at  the  firm's  stand.  Several 
complicated  machines  were  used  for  the  stencil  plates  which 
were  cut  by  means  of 'the  positive  image  of  the  film  being 
projected  on  to  ground  glass,  traced  over  with  a  pantograph, 
and  the  deflections  of  the  needle  transmitted  to  a  second 
positive  film,  which  is  actually  the  stencil  plate.  To  follow 
this  through  for  the  thousands  of  exposures  on  a  short  film 
would  seem  tedious,  but  the  rapidity  of  the  operator  was 
amazing.  When  the  stencils  are  cut  they  are  fed  in  exact 
juxtaposition  with  an  uncolored  positive  through  a  tinting 
machine  which  colors  the  films  by  running  them  in  contact 
with  bands  soaked  in  aniline  dyes.  Only  one  color  is  applied 
at  a  time  so  that  elaborately  colored  films  must  be  run 
through  the  machine  perhaps  eight  or  ten  times. 

No  advertising  novelties  of  a  sensational  character  were 
shown.  The  Essanay  Co.  had  a  huge  balloon  suspended  from 
the  roof,  but  most  other  firms  depended  upon  throwaways  or 
posters.  The  "Moving  Picture  World"  along  with  a  dozen 
other  trade  journals  was  represented  and  referred  to  eu- 
logistically  by  the  "Kinematograph  Daily,"  a  bright  little 
daily  record  of  the  exhibition  published  by  Mr.  E.  T.  Heron 


Imagination  in  Picture  Making 

By  Hanford  C.  Judson. 

OBJECTIVITY  and  subjectivity  are  words  that  often 
change  their  meaning.  At  present,  the  former  some- 
times means  an  approach  to  the  scientific  method 
of  producing  an  effect.  There  is  not  and  never  can  be  any 
science  of  art,  because  no  two  people  are  just  alike  and, 
roughly  speaking,  no  two  who  are  affected  in  the  same  way 
by  anything.  Yet  in  dramatic  composition,  within  narrow 
limits,  an  approach  to  the  scientific  method  seems  possible. 
Every  producer  of  melodrama  knows  that  certain  often- 
used  formulas  are  sure  to  make  human  hearts  tingle  and 
that  certain  other  formulas  are  sure  to  make  human  eyes 
weep. 

We  have  our  emotions,  love  and  hate,  exaltation  and  fear, 
joy  and  sorrow,  and  all  the  different  shades  of  these,  faith, 
hope,  expectancy  and  that  strange  comer,  pain,  that  has  no 
opposite  except  forgetfulness.  Besides  these  what  else 
have  we?  It  is  with  these  and  these  alone  that  drama  con- 
cerns itself.  They  are  emotions;  they  come  to  us  out  of 
our  motions,  actions.  Even  where  we  stay  motionless,  life 
which  is  action  moves  against  us  and  we  are  made  to  feel 
willy-nilly.  If  we  move  against  the  tide  the  action  is  fiercer 
and  only  when  we  move  with  it  are  we  at  relative  rest.  If 
life  were  simple  and  all  its  currents  set  in  the  same  direc- 
tion, we  would  all  be  alike  and  all  would  float  down  the 
same  sleepy  existence  together,  but  the  streams  flow  in  all 
directions  and  there's  clash  and  consequent  feeling.  It  is 
this  clash  that  drama  strives  to  make  effective  to  us  on  the 
screen. 

The  dramatist  pictures  his  clash  first  subjectively  to 
himself,  then  objectively  works  it  up  so  that  an  audience, 
which  isn't  one  man,  but  a  collection  of  entirely  different 
experiences,  may  be  able  to  grasp  the  heart  of  it  and 
place  it  each  in  his  own  life.  The  dramatist  must  pull  it 
up  out  of  all  that  pertains  just  to  himself,  and  must  keep 
only  that  which  will  seem  approximately  alike  to  all.  He 
must  make  the  clash  clear  and  therefore  make  it  simple — 
simpler  than  life.  It  must  be  more  effective  than  life,  for 
we  are  not  all  dramatists.  The  first  difficulty  with  inex- 
perienced producers  is  that  they  assume  that  the  audience 
will  imagine  the  conditions  that  make  the  situation  possible 
and  they  begin  their  story  with  the  things  most  interesting 
to  themselves.  We  can't  do  this  and  are  left  cold.  If  he 
begins  at  the  right  place  and  makes  his  situation  clear, 
he  is  apt,  if  the  story  is  complicated,  to  try  to  tell  it  all,  and 
so  bring  in  a  lot  of  things  that,  just  at  that  time,  are  not 
at  all  significant.  A  young  novelist  is  sure  to  write  many 
scenes  that  add  not  a  jot  to  the  effect  that  he  wants  to 
create. 

"To  hold,"  as  it  were,  "a  mirror  up.  to  nature"  was  good 
advice  from  a  critic  of  acting  to  players;  but  Shakespeare 
in  his  dramas  did  much  more  than  hold  a  mirror.  His 
plays  are  not  even  life  as  he  saw  it;  for  he  worked  with 
an  object  in  view.  Besides,  they  are  dramatic  and  made 
more  effective  than  life.  Yet  he  holds  the  mirror  up  in 
his  character  drawing  and  this  gives  the  dramatic  artist  his 
greatest   chance    of   being    original.      In    making   plots    it    is 


far  wiser  to  follow  the  rubs  that  life-long  experience  has 
proved  effective  than  to  break  through  the  formulas  and 
attempt  to  do  something  that  may,  in  the  making,  excite 
the  dramatist's  imagination,  but  that  when  made,  is  apt 
not  to  excite  the  spectator's.  The  formulas  of  dramatic 
construction  are  not  conventional;  they  stand  for  facts. 
They  are  "schemes"  that  show  how  the  human  mind  works. 
Characters  change,  but  our  primary  human  character  never. 
Because  characters  change,  the  drama  of  every  age  changes 
in  nearly  every  superficial  aspect,  and  because  characters 
change  good  drama,  when  it  is  written,  must  be  up  to  date. 
Someone  has  said  that  if  a  dramatist  fails  to  get  a  hearing 
from  his  own  age,  his  works  never  will  be  thought  worth- 
while. This  is  because  he  can  deal  only  with  materials 
furnished  to  him  by  his  own  age;  he  can  lay  his  hands  on 
nothing  else.  He  has  to  go  out  among  men  and  feel  with 
them  the  forces  that  make  them  what  they  are.  They  know 
nothing  else  but  themselves  and  are  also  his  audience.  If 
the  dramatist  sets  his  play  in  the  time  of  Timon  of  Athens, 
for  instance,  he  must,  none  the  less,  picture  his  own  time 
and  the  characters  around  him  or  he  has  mechanically  to 
copy  the  people  he  finds  in  dramas  of  Timon's  time.  This 
bars  out  the  use  of  his  own  originality  and  he  cannot 
convince  the  imaginations  of  his  audience. 

Originality  comes  wholly  from  the  imagination  of  the 
maker,  and  appeals  to  the  Imagination  of  the  spectator. 
Everybody  with  a  human  mind  has  imagination.  Genius  is 
merely  the  faculty  of  using  it  so  that  others  will  see  it 
and  be  stirred,  and  originality  in  a  man's  work  is  merely 
evidence  that  he  has  used  it.  The  value  of  it  is  that  it 
gives  to  us  the  pleasant  feeling  of  our  common  humanity. 
We  are  all  like  branches  on  the  same  vine,  the  same  sap, 
the  same  humanity  runs  through  us  all.  Originality  in  a 
drama  means  that  its  maker  has  filled  his  characters  with 
our  common  sap  of  life.  They  convince  us  that  they  are 
like  ourselves.  We  look  upon  them  as  neighbors,  we  know 
them,  they  live  in  our  community. 

Motion  picture  making  is  the  most  difficult  of  the  arts. 
It  has  the  most  complicated  technique,  it  demands  the  most 
rigorous  condensation  and  calls  into  play  the  widest  knowl- 
edge of  life  and  of  human  character.  With  so  little  space 
at  his  disposal  in  which  to  create  an  effect,  the  finest 
artistic  sensibility  is  needed,  for  there  is  no  room  for  things 
not  useful  in  the  final  impression.  All  out-doors  is  a 
mighty  good  place  to  make  a  picture  in,  but  to  bring  that 
all  out-doors  inside  and  put  it.  on  a  screen  needs  an  ar- 
tist, and  to  bring  a  slice  of  true  life  on  a  screen  needs  a 
mind  wise  in  many  ways. 


THE  MANUFACTURER  WORM  TURNS! 

It  has  been  noteworthy  how  many  metropolitan  newspapers 
have  suddenly  changed  their  attitude  on  the  motion  pic- 
ture of  late.  Financial  reasons,  due  to  the  film  industry's 
great  growth,  have  been  hinted  at  in  many  quarters.  News- 
paper editorial  writers,  it  is  said,  have  written  favorable 
"leaders"  on  owners'  orders.  The  owners,  by  the  bye,  would 
send  an  advertising  representative  around  to  the  film  manu- 
facturers later.     Oh!  the  things  they  say! 

Well,  Thanhouser  seems  to  think  that  there  is  something 
to  the  talk  of  newspaper  corruption,  for  it  releases  a  news- 
paper exposure  story  Tuesday,  April  15th.  The  picture  is 
said  to  show  the  subservience  of  newspaper  owners  to  poli- 
ticians.   "The  Girl  and  the  Grafter"  is  the  title. 


"BIG  CHIEF"  RANOUS  IN  JAPAN. 

Vitagraph  Director,  unable  to  read  a  Japanese  sign,  decides 

to  play  it  on  a  flute. 


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PICTURE  MEN  IN  FLOODED  DISTRICT. 

ALMOST  nothing  in  the  way  of  detail  has  been  reported 
regarding  the  losses 'of  the  owners  of  picture  theaters 
in  the  regions  devastated  by  tornado  and  flood.  From 
the  general  reports  on  the  extent  of  the  damage  caused  by 
wind  and  water  it  is  certain  that  many  picture  theaters 
throughout  Indiana  and  Ohio  have  been  totally  destroyed. 
President  Neff  of  the  National  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors' 
League,  who  has  been  keeping  in  touch  with  the  situation, 
advises  The  Moving  Picture  World  that  he  has  been  unable 
to  get  any  detailed  information  up  to  this  writing.  Com- 
munication with  the  stricken  cities  has  not  been  re-established 
and  he  has  been  unable  to  reach  many  members  of  the  league 
by  either  mail,  telephone  or  telegraph. 

At  Dayton,  Mr.  Neff  says  that  all  the  picture  houses  were 
flooded  to  a  depth  of  from  eight  to  twenty  feet;  at  Ports- 
mouth, Ohio,  eight  picture  theaters  are  under  water;  at 
Hamilton,  Ohio,  he  is  advised  that  the  loss  to  the  picture 
men  is  complete.  Several  houses  in  Cincinnati  have  been 
badly  damaged  and  word  from  Indiana  comes  to  the  effect 
that  there  has  been  considerable  loss  sustained  by  the  picture 
theater  managers  in  that  state. 

Regarding  the  matter  of  rendering  assistance  to  the  mem- 
bers of  the  trade  who  have  suffered  loss,  President  Neff 
said  that  efforts  were  being  made  by  the  officers  of  the 
Indiana  and  Ohio  leagues  to  help  all  members  in  good  stand- 
ing. It  has  been  reported  to  him  that  there  were  more  sup- 
plies on  hand  at  Columbus  and  Dayton  and  other  points 
than  were  needed  to  relieve  the  immediate  needs  of  the 
several  communities  and  that,  as  soon  as  the  general  situation 
was  provided  for  the  problem  of  individual  necessities  could 
be  taken  up.  It  will  be  some  time  before  the  extent  of  in- 
dividual losses  and  individual  needs  can  be  ascertained,  but 
when  that  time  arrives  the  problem  of  restoring  the  pic- 
ture theaters  will  be  taken  up  by  the  league  and  will  be 
handled  in  Indiana  and  Ohio  by  the  organizations  of  those 
states. 

"Such  offers  of  assistance  that  have  been  referred  to  me," 
said  President  Neff,. "I  have  advised  that  the  funds  raised  be 
equally  divided  between  Indiana  and  Ohio;  part  to  be  sent 
to  Mr.  F.  J.  Rembush  at  Shelbyville,  Ind.,  and  part  to  Mr. 
J.  A.  Madd'ox  at  Columbus,  Ohio.  I  believe  that  this  will  be 
the  best  way  to  handle  the  matter  at  present 

"When  it  comes  to  the  matter  of  benefits  for  the  flood 
sufferers  I  believe  that  the  money  raised  from  now  on  by 
the  picture  men  should  be  set  aside  for  the  benefit  of  those 
in  the  trade  who  have  suffered  loss.  As  I  said  before,  the  vari- 
ous relief  committees  already  have  more  supplies  and  money 
than  they  know  what  to  do  with,  so  it  would  be  a  waste  of 
effort  to  turn  any  more  money  over  to  the  general  relief 
fund." 


WILL  TEST  KANSAS  CENSOR  LAW. 

The  proposed  censorship  law  for  the  state  of  Kansas,  the 
text  of  which  was  published  in  the  Moving  Picture  World 
several  weeks  ago,  has  been  approved  by  the  Governor  and 
is  supposed  to  be  operative  only,  through  some  oversight  the 
legislature  adjourned  without  making  any  appropriation  for 
carrying  out  its  provisions.  The  Superintendent  of  Public 
Instruction,  appointed  by  law  to  inspect  films,  gave  the  job 
a  good  try  and  then  advertised  for  "competent  public-spirited 
men  and  women"  to  take  it  off  his  hands.  Applicants  must  be 
willing  to  wait  a  year  for  their  pay  as  nothing  can  be  done 
in  the  way  of  obtaining  it  until  the  legislature  convenes 
again  next  year.     The  pay  offered  is  $3  per  day. 

While  the  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  is  trying 
to  find  someone  to  do  the  work  an  attempt  will  be  made  to 
have  the  courts  pass  on  the  legality  of  the  act.  New  Nathan- 
son,  a  Topeka,  Kas.,  Exhibitor,  backed  by  a  number  of  ex- 
change men,  will  undertake  to  make  the  test.  He  proposes 
to  run  pictures  that  have  not  been  censored  and,  if  arrested, 
the  matter  will  be  taken  into  the  courts  upon  the  constitution- 
ality of  the  law. 

The  outcome  of  the  matter  will  be  awaited  with  interest. 


BIG  BENEFIT  BY  NEW  YORK  EXHIBITORS. 

SATURDAY  evening,  April  12,  is  the  date  set  for  the 
monster  benefit  to  be  given  by  the  Motion  Picture 
Exhibitors'  League  of  Greater  New  York,  for  the  relief 
of  the  Ohio  flood  sufferers.  The  affair  will  take  place  at 
the  69th  Regiment  Armony,  26th  Street  and  Lexington  Ave- 
nue (just  behind  Madison  Square  Garden),  New  York  City. 
The  Committee  of  Arrangements  has  done  some  wonder- 
fully rapid  work  in  perfecting  all  the  details  of  this  big 
entertainment  in  the  short  space  of  one  week.  The  armory 
itself  could  be  procured  only  through  permission  of  the 
Governor  of  New  York.  This  was  donated  without  charge 
by  Governor  Sulzer.  William  J.  Gaynor,  Mayor  of  New 
York,  has  consented  to  act  as  treasurer  of  the  fund,  and 
will  probably  be  at  the  entertainment  in  person.  A  very 
strong  program  has  been  provided;  it  will  consist  of  the  very 
latest  photoplays,  which  are  to  be  donated  by  several  of 
the  New  York  exchanges.  Then  there  will  be  photoplay 
stars  loaned  by  the  various  manufacturing  companies.  Miss 
Alice  Joyce  of  the  Kalem  Company  will  sell  autographed 
photographs  of  herself  among  the  audience.  Among  the 
picture  players  who  will  appear  on  the  bill  will  be  Mr.  Tom 
Moore,  Hugh  Mack,  Rogers  Lytton,  Alice  Joyce,  Crane 
Wilbur,  Darwin  Karr,  Octavia  Handworth,  Marc  MacDermott, 
Mary  Fuller;  also  King  Baggot  and  other  important  mem- 
bers of  the  Universal  acting  forces;  Flora  Finch,  John 
Bunny,  Florence  Lawrence,  Arthur  Johnson,  Florence 
Turner,  Ormi  Hawley,  Mary  Pickford,  Owen  Moore,  Pearl 
White,  Kenneth  Casey,  Adele  DeGarde  and  others.  If  time 
will  permit  there  will  be  several  vaudeville  acts  in  addition 
to  the  foregoing.  The  music  will  be  rendered  by  the  New 
York  Letter   Carriers  Band  without  charge. 

Donations  are  coming  in  remarkably  fast  and  by  the  night 
of  the  entertainment  these  alone  should  amount  to  a  very 
considerable  sum.  At  the  time  of  writing  these  donations 
are  as  follows:  Kalem  Co.,  $100;  Vitagraph  Co.,  $150;  Pathe 
Freres,  $150;  Nicholas  Power,  $150;  General  Film  Company, 
$150;  Kinetograph  Co.,  $100;  Standard  Machine  Co.,  $75; 
Ad  Kessel,  $100;  Hugo  Reisinger,  $50;  Mutual  Film  Corp., 
$200;  Universal  Film  Co.,  $150;  Moving  Picture  World,  $100; 
Thanhouser  Co.,  $100;  Wm.  Fox,  $100;  Majestic  Film  Co., 
$100;  Helen  Gardner,  $10;  Moving  Picture  News,  $50;  Man- 
hattan Slide  Co.,  $25;  Warner's  Features,  $50;  Reliance  Co., 
$50.  In  addition  to  the  cash  donations  various  services  and 
supplies  have  been  tendered  as  follows:  advertising  slides  by 
Manhattan  Slide  &  Film  Co.;  one  thousand  posters  by  Ex- 
hibitors Advertising  &  Specialty  Co.;  one  thousand  three- 
sheets  by  William  E.  Lee;  Empire  City  Job  Print;  banners 
by  Arthur  Brady;  armory  by  the  State  of  New  York;  bill- 
board space  by  the  A.  Van  Beuren  Co.,  indemnity  bond  by 
Maryland   Casualty   Company. 

Within  the  next  few  days  there  will  be  many  more  dona- 
tions to  swell  the  general  list.  Tickets  are  now  on  sale  at 
all  theaters  having  membership  in  the  Exhibitors  League. 
The  entertainment  is  being  widely  advertised  on  all  of  the 
screens  in  the  city  with  special  slides  made  for  the  purpose. 
The  tickets  are  selling  at  fifty  cents  for  general  admission 
and  one  dollar  for  box  seats. 


BENEFITS  REPORTED. 

At  a  special  meeting  of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors' 
League  of  the  District  of  Columbia,  held  on  Thursday,  March 
27th,  the  following  resolution  was  adopted: 

Whereas,  The  members  of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors' 
League  of  the  District  of  Columbia  have  heard  with  profound 
regret  of  the  terrible  disaster  visited  upon  certain  cities  and 
towns  in  the  States  of  Ohio  and  Indiana; 

Resolved,  That  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of 
the  District  of  Columbia  expresses  its  deepest  sympathy  with 
the  members  of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  Leagues  of 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


Ohio  and  Indiana,  and  tenders  its  aid  and  assistance  in  their 
time  of  distress. 

Resolved,  further,  that  the  secretary  be  directed  to  convey 
these  expressions  to  the  President  of  the  Motion  Picture 
Exhibitors'  League  of  America. 

Although  the  membership  of  our  League  is  limited  to  the 
city  of  Washington,  within  a  very  few  minutes  a  thousand 
dollars  was  subscribed  and  our  treasurer  has  recently  turned 
over  to  the  Red  Cross  Society  over  eleven  hundred  dollars. 
Boxes  soliciting  contributions  for  the  flood  sufferers  were 
placed  in  the  lobbies  of  the  theaters  with  excellent  results 
and  their  contents  will  be  forwarded  next  week. 

Vice-President  Marshall  and  several  members  of  Mr.  Wil- 
son's cabinet  attended  a  performance  at  the  theater  of  one 
of  our  members  to  witness  the  flood  pictures.  The  President 
was  expected,  but  telephoned  his  inability  to  be  present. 

On  April  2nd  a  benefit  was  held  at  the  Garfield  Theater, 
181st  Street  and  Broadway,  New  York,  the  receipts  of  which 
were  sent  to  the  Mayor's  committee.  On  this  occasion  Miss 
Marian  Nesbitt,  Mr.  Marc  MacDermott,  Mr.  Charles  Seay 
and  Yale  Boss,  all  of  the  Edison  players,  appeared.  The 
photoplayers  were  enthusiastically  received  and  their  pres- 
ence aided  materially  in  swelling  the  receipts  of  the  day. 


ESSEX    COUNTY    EXHIBITORS    LEAGUE    BENEFIT. 

Something  more  than  $1,000  has  been  contributed  by  the 
members  of  the  Essex  County  Exhibitors'  League,  Essex 
County,  N.  J.,  to  the  fund  for  the  relief  of  the  flood  sufferers. 
This  sum  was  realized  by  the  donation  of  the  receipts  of  the 
theaters  operated  by  the  Essex  exhibitors  received  at  last 
Sunday's  entertainments. 


PRESIDENT    TRIGGER'S    UP-STATE   TRIP. 

On  Wednesday,  April  2,  President  Samuel  H.  Trigger  of 
the  New  York  State  and  Local  Exhibitors'  Leagues  started 
on  another  missionary  tour  of  the  state,  in  company  with 
Secretary  Harold  W.  Rosenthal.  He  went  first  to  Syracuse 
to  be  present  at  the  banquet  and  ball  of  the  Syracuse  local. 
On  the  same  train  with  them  were  Darwin  Karr  of  the  Solax 
Company,  Miss  Pearl  White  of  the  Crystal  M.  P.  Company 
and  Hugh  Mack  of  the  Vitagraph  Company,  all  three  photo- 
players,  bound  for  the  same  place  as  guests  of  the  Syracuse 
exhibitors  at  their  ball.  The  visiting  party  was  met  at  the 
depot  by  President  A.  N.  Wolf;  J.  E.  Thompson;  W.  C. 
Hubbard,  vice-president;  C.  L.  Tyler  and  W  J.  Malarkey. 
The  ball  was  a  grand  success,  socially  and  financially.  A 
number  of  prominent  city  officials  were  among  the  guests. 
The  photoplayers  proved  to  be  a  great  drawing  card  and 
they  enjoyed  themselves  immensely. 

President  Trigger  is  very  enthusiastic  about  the  Syracuse 
local.  He  says  that  it  is  the  best  local  in  the  state.  There 
are  forty  exhibitors  in  the  town  and  there  are  forty  members 
in  the  local.  That  is  what  we  might  call  a  100  per  cent,  exhi- 
bitors league,  and  it  is  surely  a  wide-awake  up-to-date  or- 
ganization. The  great  pity  is  that  there  are  not  more  like  it. 
Oswego  Organized. 

At  the  special  request  of  J.  R.  Schilling,  owner  of  the 
Eureka  Theater,  Oswego,  N.  Y.,  who  was  present  at  the 
Syracuse  exhibitors'  ball,  Messrs.  Trigger  and  Rosenthal  went 
from  Syracuse  to  Oswego  and  there  organized  the  Oswego 
local  on  the  following  day.  The  following  were  elected  as 
temporary  officers;  President,  J.  E.  Cordingly,  Bridge  The- 
ater; Vice-President,  Chas.  A.  Donnelly,  Star  Theater;  Treas- 
urer, P.  C.  Gilmore,  Hippodrome;  Secretary,  P.  G.  Campbell, 
Crescent  Theater.  After  the  meeting  the  visitors  were 
tendered  a  banquet  by  the  Oswego  exhibitors. 

State    Committee    Meeting   at   Buffalo. 

On  April  4,  Messrs.  Trigger  and  Rosenthal  arrived  in 
Binghamton  to  complete  the  organization  of  the  local  there. 
The  meeting  had  been  arranged  by  President  H.  L.  Fox 
and  R.  M.  Davidson,  2nd  state  vice-president.  When  the 
visitors  left,  all  of  the  Binghamton  exhibitors  (15)  had  joined 
the  local.  From  Binghamton  they  went  to  Buffalo  to  attend 
the  State  Committee  quarterly  meeting.  The  delegates  met 
at  the  Statler  Hotel  where  a  well  laid  out  banquet  was  the 
first  thing  to  be  disposed  of.  This  had  been  arranged  by 
members  of  the  Buffalo  local.  At  the  session  the  question 
of  censorship  took  prominence  over  other  matters  was 
thoroughly  thrashed  out.  The  conclusion  of  the  delibera- 
tions was  to  the  effect  that  all  pictures  should  be  censored 
by  an  authorized  national  board  and  that  pictures  not  cen- 
sored by  that  board  should  not  be  exhibited. 

Mr.  Trigger  reports  that  the  up-state  members  generally, 
and  the  committeemen  he  met  at  Buffalo  are  all  agog  over 
the  big  exposition  of  the  motion  picture  industry  to  be  held 
in  New  York  City,  July  7  to  12.     Most  of  the  exhibitors  he 


spoke  with  on  the  subject  stated  their  intentions  of  attend- 
ing the  exposition  and  in  the  meantime  to  advertise  it  as 
extensively  as  possible  on  their  theater  screens  and  other- 
wise. Now  that  President  Trigger  has  become  quite  well 
acquainted  with  the  New  York  State  league  members,  his 
hard  preliminary  work  will  begin  to  show  results.  Having 
met  him  a  number  of  times,  the  up-state  exhibitors  are  begin- 
ning to  recognize  the  fact  that  they  have  for  a  State  presi- 
dent a  man  who  will  go  to  any  length  and  any  pains  legiti- 
mately to  further  the  cause  of  the  motion  picture  exhibitors. 
They  are  commencing  to  realize  that  his  heart  is  in  the  work, 
and  that  he  is  the  right  man  in  the  right  place. 


NEW  YORK  EXHIBITORS  FAVOR  LIMITED 
SERVICE. 

At  the  last  meeting  of  the  •  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors' 
League  of  Greater  New  York  held  April  9,  at  the  Union 
Square  Hotel  the  principal  topics  of  discussion  were  the 
coming  joint  benefit  of  the  League  members  for  the  relief 
of  the  Ohio  flood  sufferers,  and  the  question  of  regulating 
the  number  of  reels  to  be  exhibited  at  different  prices  of  ad- 
mission. The  benefit  matters  are  treated  of  elsewhere.  The 
question  came  up  for  the  first  time  seriously  for  the  establish- 
ment of  a  limit  to  the  number  of  reels  that  should  be  shown 
for  a  five  cent  admission,  a  ten  cent  admission,  and  other 
admissions  upward.  The  number  of  reels  to  be  shown  for 
a  certain  admission  price  has  been  satisfactorily  adjusted 
among  the  exhibitors  themselves  in  other  cities,  notably 
Chicago  and  San  Francisco.  The  majority  of  members 
present  were  in  favor  of  some  such  procedure  and  as  a  result 
of  the  discussion  a  committee  was  appointed  to  canvass  the 
Borough  of  the  Bronx  to  get  the  sentiments  of  all  exhibitors 
in  that  locality  on  the  question.  Separate  committees  will 
be  appointed  for  the  other  boroughs  in  turn,  until  all  counties 
are  heard  from,  after  which  a  main  committee  composed  of 
the  chairmen  of  the  several  borough  committees  will  confer 
with  the  General  Film  Company  and  the  various  independent 
exchanges  for  co-operation  in  enforcing  the  limited  service 
plan.  Frank  L.  Dyer;  president  of  the  General  Film  Com- 
pany, was  present  at  the  meeting  and  he  promised  the  sup- 
port of  his  organization  in  the  matter  as  far  as  it  is  legally 
possible  for  them  to  do  so.  Mr.  Dyer  also  made  an  address 
to  the  members,  outlining  the  general  policy  of  the  General 
Film  Company  toward  exhibitors.  He  denied  emphatically 
any  statement  to  the  effect  that  the  General  Film  Company 
is  contemplating  entering  the  exhibition  branch  of  the  busi- 
ness, and  he  assured  the  members  that  during  his  tensure  of 
office  all  exhibitors  will  be  treated  by  that  organization 
with  the  utmost  courtesy.  I.  Van  Runkel,  manager  of  the 
Fourth  Avenue  branch  of  the  General  Film  Company,  also 
addressed  the  members  of  the  League  and  endorsed  the 
sentiments  expressed  by  Mr.  Dyer. 

The  Bronx  Committee  on  limited  film  service  is  composed 
of  the  following  members:  Chairman,  A.  Cohen;  Alfred 
Coleman,  Wm.  Allen,  A.  Bauernfreund,  Samuel  Golfarb. 
These  gentlemen  will  visit  all  the  Bronx  theaters  in  the 
very  near  future. 


MISSISSIPPI    EXHIBITORS'    CONVENTION. 

On  March  28,  1913,  the  exhibitors  of  Mississippi  assembled 
in  the  Convention  Hall  of  the  Great  Southern  Hotel,  at  Gulf- 
port,  and  formally  organized  the  Mississippi  State  Branch  of 
the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  America.  Presi- 
dent M.  A.  Neff  was  in  attendance  at  this  meeting  and  fully 
explained  to  those  present  the  various  benefits  and  advan- 
tages to  be  derived  from  being  affiliated  with  the  league. 
Several  matters  of  importance  pertaining  to  the  future  wel- 
fare of  the  league  were  thoroughly  discussed.  A  telegram 
was  sent  to  Governor  Brewer  asking  permission  for  all  mov- 
ing picture  shows  in  the  State  to  remain  open  Sunday,  April 
9th  and  give  the  receipts  for  the  day  to  the  Ohio  storm  suf- 
ferers. In  reply  Governor  Brewer  telegraphed  to  State  Vice- 
President  Fred  Abbley  as  follows: 

"I  have  no  authority  to  grant  you  privilege  to  show  on 
Sunday  for  benefit  storm  sufferers.  Will  have  to  see  local 
authorities,  who  will  doubtless  aid  you  in  your  charitable 
work."     (Signed)  Earl  Brewer. 

Various  members  of  the  league,  therefore,  as  advised  in 
the  telegram  are  asking  permission  from  local  authorities, 
with  what  success  has  not  yet  been  learned. 

The  officers  elected  at  the  Gulfport  meeting  are  as  follows: 
Mr.  Fred  Abbley,  Gulfport,  re-elected  vice-president  National 
League;  H.  A.  Carleton,  Jackson,  president;  B.  A.  Mulligan, 
Vicksburg,  first  vice-president;  C.  H.  Howell,  Okolona,  sec- 
ond vice-president;  R.  H.  Redus,  West  Point,  secretary; 
G.  W.  Wilkes,  Biloxi,  treasurer;  S.  L.  Taylor,  Pass  Christian, 
scrgeant-at-arms. 


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The  meeting  adjourned  to  meet  on  May  8,  1913,  at  Jackson, 
Miss.,  at  which  time  delegates  to  the  National  meeting  in 
New  York  will  be  elected.  It  is  urged  that  every  member  of 
the  league  in  the  State  and  all  other  moving  picture  ex- 
hibitors in  the  State  attend  this  very  important  meeting. 

LOUISIANA  EXHIBITORS  ORGANIZE. 

A  permanent  organization  of  motion  picture  exhibitors  of 
Louisiana  was  effected  on  Thursday,  March  27,  when  a  rep- 
resentative number  of  the  exhibitors  of  that  State  gathered 
at  the  Gruenwald  Hotel,  New  Orleans.  Officers  of  the  new 
branch  were  elected  as  follows:  John  Depinet,  national  vice- 
president,  New  Orleans;  A.  G.  Gugel,  president,  Gretna; 
A.  G.  Shear,  first  vice-president,  New  Orleans;  H.  C.  Van 
Cott,  second  vice-president,  Alexandria;  F.  H.  Maybury,  sec- 
retary, New  Orleans;  Sidney  Levy,  treasurer,  New  Orleans; 
J.  W.  Russ,  New  Orleans,  sergeant-at-arms.  Delegates  were 
elected  to  the  third  national  convention  of  the  M.  P.  E.  L. 
of  A.,  which  is  to  be  held  in  New  York  City,  as  follows: 
Abraham  Seligman,  W.  H.  Gueringer,  Theo.  Recknagel, 
Albert  Durning,  Solomon  Loeb,  W.  L.  Jennings.  Alternates: 
F.  R.  Feiderich,  Jr.,  A.  W.  Waisdorf,  H.  Freidenberg,  V.  C 
Howard,  S.  L.  Bourke,  M.  B.  Gill.  One  of  the  first  acts  of 
the  New  Orleans  exhibitors  after  joining  the  league  was  to 
raise  ninety-seven  dollars  to  be  sent  to  the  flood  sufferers  of 
Ohio  and  Indiana. 


TO  TENNESSEE  EXHIBITORS. 

A  meeting  of  the  Tennessee  Branch  of  the  M.  P.  E.  L. 
of  A.  has  been  called  for  Nashville,  Tenn.,  in  the  parlors  of  the 
Tulane  Hotel,  Wednesday,  April  16th.  This  is  in  place  of  the 
meeting  some  days  since  which  was  postponed  on  account 
of  the  indisposition  of  the  Secretary,  and  other  reasons.  State 
President  Wassermann  and  State  Secretary  Morris  will  be  in 
charge  of  the  meeting  and  an  invitation  is  extended  to  every 
exhibitor  in  the  State  to  be  present  and  assist  in  making 
this  meeting  an  important  factor  in  our  association. 

We  feel  that  with  the  opening  of  spring  that  business  con- 
ditions will  improve,  and  now  is  the  time  for  us  to  wake 
up  and  get  in  line  with  our  sister  states,  of  which  some  of 
them  are  making  great  advancement,  and  strides  in  the  matter 
of  organization. 

Tennessee  has  many  live  exhibitors  who  should  take  ad- 
vantage of  this  opportunity  to  join  the  League,  and  we 
are  going  to  make  a  special  effort  to  interest  them  and  show 
them  the  advantages  to  be  derived  from  thorough  organiza- 
tion. 

We  had  the  pleasure  of  meeting  with  the  National  Con- 
vention in  Chicago  last  summer,  and  believe  that  if  all  the 
exhibitors  in  the  state  had  been  there,  and  been  able  to  see 
what  was  to  be  learned,  what  was  to  be  gained  through  or- 
ganization, what  storms  were  to  be  encountered  without 
organization,  listened  to  the  great  truths  expounded  by  able 
speakers,  partaken  of  the  many  pleasures  provided  by  the 
entertainment  committee,  there  would  not  be  a  man  who 
would  not  today  be  a  member. 

The  Convention  (National),  called  for  July  in  New  York, 
is  only  a  few  short  months  away,  this  will  be,  the  greatest 
of  them  all,  we  will  all  want  to  go,  special  arrangements  will 
be  made  for  transportation,  and  it  will  be  a  week  of  one  con- 
tinuous round  of  pleasure. 

.  Brothers,  now  is  the  time  to  meet  with  us  and  get  in 
line  The  expense  is  nothing  compared  to  the  advantages 
to  be  derived,  and  we  want  you  one  and  all.  There  will 
be  things  come  before  this  State  Convention  that  will  be  of 
interest  to  every  exhibitor  in  the  state,  try  and  meet  with  us, 
and  become  one  of  us. 

We  extend  a  special  invitation  to  Memphis  Exhibitors, 
Memphis  the  city  of  Conventions,  we  want  representation  in 
that  great  city,  and  possibly  to  hold  the  next  state  conven- 
tion with  them.  We  also  want  to  see  the  smiling  faces  of 
Brothers  Rogers  of  Knoxville  and  Graham  of  Chattanooga 
at  Nashville  on  the  16th  of  April.  Trusting  that  we  may  have 
a  large  number  of  exhibitors  with  us,  and  assuring  that 
there  will  be  ample  entertainment  for  all,  we  are, 

Most  respectfully, 
_  W.  C.  Morris 

Secretary  State  Branch,  M.  P.  E.  L.  of  America. 

MASSACHUSETTS  HEADQUARTERS  OPENING. 

.  0"  Tuesday  April  1,  the  Massachusetts  League  opened 
its  Boston  headquarters  at  25-29  LaSalle  Street,  Boston. 
a  Tf  i7as  an  extensive  program  of  vaudeville  and  pictures 
and  fully  250  persons  visited  the  rooms  during  the  evening 
many  staying  to  the  finish.  An  elaborate  luncheon  was 
served. 


CONVENTION  DATES  CHANGED. 

Notice  is  given  by  Secretary  Fred  Young,  of  the  Iowa  Ex- 
hibitors' League,  that  the  convention  formerly  announced  to 
be  held  at  the  Savery  Hotel,  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  on  May  6 
and  7,  will  be  held  at  the  Auditorium,  Des  Moines,  on  May 
13  and  14.  Extensive  preparations  are  being  made  for  this 
convention  and  a  large  attendance  is  assured.  Exhibitors 
and  manufacturers  should  address  Secretary  Young  for 
particulars. 

President  L.  R.  Thomas,  of  the  West  Virginia  Exhibitors' 
League,  announces  that  the  dates  for  the  West  Virginia  con- 
vention have  been  changed  from  April  15  and  16  to  April 
29  and  30.  The  change  was  made  necessary  by  the  recent 
high  water  which  has  interrupted  railway  communication  to 
such  an  extent  that  it  will  be  impossible  for  exhibitors  to 
reach  Wheeling  on  the  earlier  dates.  A  big  attendance  of 
exhibitors  is  expected  at  this  meeting.  President  Neff  will 
be  there. 


ARGUMENTS  ON  THE  "TIME"  QUESTION. 

Another  stage  in  the  fight  being  made  by  the  Massachu- 
setts League  to  have  the  law  regulating  the  time  that  motion 
pictures  may  be  shown  continuously  extended  from  twenty 
minutes  to  one  hour,  was  reached  on  Wednesday,  April  2, 
when  a  hearing  was  held  by  the  Committee  on  Legal  Affairs 
in  the  hands  of  which  the  matter  now  is.  The  bill  to  extend 
the  time  to  one  hour  was  introduced  in  the  Massachusetts 
legislature  at  the  instance  of  the  League.  It  was  opposed 
at  the  recent  hearing  by  Corporation  Counsel  J.  J.  Corbett 
of  Boston  who  produced  letters  from  a  number  of  occulists 
to  the  effect  that  the  extension  of  time  was  detrimental  to  the 
eyes  and  health  of  children,  especially. 

Senator  Bagley  submitted  in  favor  of  the  bill  letters  from 
a  number  of  equally  famous  occulists  giving  it  as  their  opin- 
ions that  the  extension  would  not  affect  the  eyes  detri- 
mentally. 

It  is  believed  that  the  "Hour  Bill"  will  be  passed  despite 
opposition. 


EXHIBITORS  EXPOSITION  NOTES. 

F.  E.  Samuels  returns  from  the  London  Exposition  on 
Sunday.  Letters  from  him  announce  that  the  London  show 
was  a  big  success.  Many  film  men  from  the  English  metro- 
polis will  exhibit  at  the  New  York  show. 

M.  A.  Neff,  who  has  just  returned  from  a  trip  through  the 
South,  reports  a  great  deal  of  enthusiasm  among  exhibitors. 
A  number  have  already  arranged  to  come  north  for  the  Fourth 
of  July  as  well  as  to  attend  the  exposition  in  New  York. 

Samuel  H.  Trigger  returned  on  Tuesday  morning  from 
a  trip  through  New  York.  He  tells  of  enthusiasm  there  also. 
It  would  seem  that  every  exhibitor  Mr.  Trigger  saw  has 
already  made  arrangements  to  be  in  New  York  on  July  7. 

Nicholas  Power  Company,  while  planning  for  its  exhibit, 
found  that  four  spaces  were  not  enough,  so  through  its 
general  sales  manager,  L.  W.  Atwater,  four  more  spaces 
were  contracted  for,  giving  the  Nicholas  Power  Company 
from  Nos.  341  to  348  inclusive. 

Theater  No.  1  on  the  mezzanine  floor  has  been  taken  by 
the  Mutual  Film  Corporation.  The  Mutual  is  planning  for 
a  big  time,  and  will  show  nothing  but  pre-released  films 
during  the  week. 

Bausch  &  Lomb  of  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  has  taken  a  prominent 
location  on  the  main  floor  to  exhibit  its  goods. 

A.  G.  Whyte  of  the  Whyte-Whitman  Company  sent  word 
to  his  firm  from  the  London  Exposition  to  arrange  for 
space  in  the  Exhibitors  Exposition  at  the  New  Grand  Central 
Palace.  This  has  been  done  by  the  New  York  manager  of 
the  Whyte-Whitman  Company.  The  firm's  cameras  will 
surely  be  there. 

M.  A.  Singer,  a  well-known  decorator,  has  taken  Spaces 
13  and  14,  directly  over  the  main  entrance.  While  in  the 
office  of  the  Exposition  Committee  on  Tuesday,  Mr.  Singer 
displayed  plans  of  the  handsome  bungalow  he  will  erect. 
It  looks  good  on  paper. 

L.  W.  Woodward,  general  manager  of  the  Enterprise 
Optical  Company,  while  in  New  York  expressed  himself 
as  being  greatly  pleased  at  the  rapid  strides  being  made 
by  the  committee.  "It  seems  hardly  possible  that  so  much 
space  has  been  rented  so  long  before  the  show,"  said  Mr. 
Woodward  when  shown  that  only  one-third  of  the  space 
remains  unrented. 

Menger   &  Ring  will   exhibit  new  ideas   in  lobby   display. 

The  Wagner  Electric  Manufacturing  Company,  will  dis- 
play some  unique  electrical  effects. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


"The  Grey  Sentinel" 

Two-Reel  Broncho  Release. 

Reviewed  by  Louis  Reeves  Harrison. 

THIS  is  a  coast  story — a  decided  relief — and  the  Grey 
Sentinel  is  a  Virginia  lighthouse,  but  the  scenes  are 
those  of  the  Civil  War,  and  the  movement  is  of  tre- 
mendous, almost  bewildering,  energy.  I  think  it  was  Aristotle 
who  stated  that  action  is  the  essential  element  in  drama,  and 
it  is  certainly  of  high  value  on  the  screen,  but  "The  Grey 
Sentinel"  is  almost  overcrowded  with  it.  Boats  launched  in 
the  breakers;  marine  pictures  of  a  surf-beaten  shore;  fierce  en- 
gagements in  the  foreground;  more  than  one  far  stretch  of 
battle,  with  hundreds  of  troops  in  deadly  conflict;  cavalry 
dashes;  artillery  duels;  infantry  manoeuvres;  desperate  falls; 
it  is  fighting,  fighting,  fighting,  in  trenches,  behind  barricades, 
within  houses,  and  even  on  the  sea. 

Fully  fifty  scenes  to  the  reel  are  necessary  to  depict  all 
this  movement,  and  no  character  in  them  is  at  rest  for  the 
fraction  of  a  second,  but  for  all  that  may  be  said  in  favor 
of  action  and  this  marvelous  exponent  of  action,  I  prefer  the 
two  other  plays  of  Burton  King's  direction  that  I  have  re- 
viewed.   A  play  may  go  over  without  character  enforcement 


Scene  from  "The  Grey  Sentinel"  (Broncho). 

— doing  things  is  drama,  and  the  plot  is  the  fundamental  ele- 
ment by  tradition  and  logic — but  the  career  of  a  hero  or 
heroine  becomes  far  more  interesting  when  our  admiration 
or  sympathy  is   engaged. 

People  enjoy  Such  splendid  ensembles  as  are  shown  in 
"The  Grey  Sentinel,"  but  they  can  only  be  incidental  to  the 
story,  and,  so  far  as  screen  pictures  are  concerned,  we  have 
a  habit  of  watching  the  adventures  and  progress  of  a  single 
person — some  one  to  whom  our  interest  has  been  attached. 
It  is  almost  impossible  to  catch  and  hold  attention  to  one 
individual  where  so  many  are  engaged  in  swift  determination 
of  events,  and  where  there  is  not  time  to  develop  this  or 
that  dominant  character.  The  play  largely  involves  the 
adventures  of  a  young  officer,  and  the  scenes  of  strife  afford 
opportunity  for  vehement  self-expression,  but  the  mind  of 
the  spectator  is  continually  distracted  by  vivid  pictures  of 
action  so  general  that  it  is  difficult  at  times  to  single  out  the 
central  figure. 

A  vast  amount  of  work  is  involved  in  producing  a  play  of 
this  kind;  the  director  is  largely  a  conqueror  of  hampering 
conditions,  and  on  this  very  account  I  would  like  to  see  the 
massed  action  utilized  as  a  powerful  accessory  to  the  develop- 
ment of  a  character  whose  fate  would  quicken  suspense  by 
deeply  stirring  our  sympathies,  or  used  to  make  a  lasting  and 
valuable  impression.  If,  in  illustration,  a  play  should  be 
undertaken — let  us  call  it  "Non-combatants,"  for  the  lack  of 
a  better  title — which  would  admit  of  the  spirited  scenes  ex- 
hibited in  this  one  and  show  the  effect  of  war  on  those  who 
play  no  part  in  it,  ruining  their  homes  and  means  of  sub- 
sistence, there  would  be  a  purpose  to  be  felt,  a  lasting  impres- 
sion to  take  away. 

I  instinctively  favor  a  screen  story  involving  one  central 
figure  and  a  single  line  of  action  because  of  time  limitations, 
so  much  being  compressed  into  a  comparatively  small  space, 
but  a  sweeping  glance  at  the  most  successful  stage  plays  and 
printed  stories  favors  the  same  view.  "The  Grey  Sentinel" 
presents  adequate  types,  admirably  selected  scenes,  and  its 
artistic  and  dramatic  end  is  beyond  criticism.  It  also  de- 
serves praise  for  going  to  life  instead  of  the  theater  for  its 
theme. 


MR.  COLIN  GOODMAN  FROM  LONDON. 

Another  of  our  English  cousins  in  the  film  trade  is  in 
our  midst  on  his  first  visit.  Mr.  Goodman  has  traveled  in 
the  states  before,   but  inasmuch   as  he  was  not  in   the   film 

business  then,  that  trip 
doesn't  count.  Mr. 
Goodman,  whose  like- 
ness appears  forninst, 
is  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Ruffells  Imperial 
Bioscope  Syndicate 
Limited;  limited  as  to 
shares  but  not  in  the 
monaker.  The  Ruffells 
Syndicate  lays  claim  to 
being  the  oldest  estab- 
lished film  rental 
agency  in  London,  and 
at  the  present  time  en- 
joys a  clientele  of  ISO 
theaters  using  its  ser- 
vice. Lately  the  com- 
pany has  been  doing 
some  branching  out  by. 
buying  the  exclusive 
rights  for  Great  Britain 
for  various  makes  of 
foreign  films,  and  ex- 
ploiting them.  That  is 
why  Mr.  Goodman  is 
in  America  at  this  time. 
Since  his  arrival  he  has 
been  busy  securing  the 
British  agencies  of  a 
number  of  well  known 
American  makes  o  f 
films.  In  his  first  three 
days  in  New  York  he 
accomplished  more  in  a  business  way  than  he  expected  to 
do  in  a  couple  of  weeks.  He  gravitated  instinctively  to 
the  fountain-head  of  the  film  trade,  where  we  found  him 
mingling  with  men  of  large  affairs.  Within  a  couple  of 
days  Mr.  Goodman  had  closed  with  the  Ramo  and  the  Ryno 
companies  for  their  entire  output.  He  was  also  dickering 
for  some  other  good  stuff.  For  one  certain  feature  he 
offered  $18,000.  He  has  a  big  transaction  under  cover  which 
he  says  will  be  a  big  surprise  both  to  the  English  and 
American  branches  of  the  trade,  when  the  time  is  ripe  to 
spring  it. 


Mr.  Colin  Goodman. 


A  MODEL  THEATER. 
How  It  Was  Opened  at  Hasbrouck  Heights,  N.  J. 

Most  elaborate  and  interesting  ceremonies  attended  the 
opening  of  a  new  motion  picture  theater  in  the  little  Jersey 
town  of  Hasbrouck  Heights.  The  speech  of  dedication  was 
made  by  the  Mayor,  who  spoke  of  the  value  of  the  motion 
picture  as  an  educational  influence.  He  confessed  he  had 
been  prejudiced  against  motion  pictures  by  what  he  saw 
in  the  way  of  posters  before  certain  houses  in  the  city,  but 
Mr.  Denton,  the  owner  of  the  new  theater,  had  convinced 
him  that  the  pictures  were  far  better  than  the  posters.  Some 
of  the  councilmen,' members  of  the  Board  of  Education  and 
likewise  the  principal  clergymen  of  the  Borough  were  in 
attendance.  There  was  nothing  but  praise  for  the  exhibitor 
and  for  the  pictures.  W.  Stephen  Bush  of  The  Moving  Pic- 
ture World  had  been  invited  to  attend  and  speak,  and  gave 
a  brief  talk  on  the  progress  of  the  motion  picture  and  on  its 
great  future.  He  was  listened  to  with  great  interest  and 
heartily  applauded. 

The  new  theater  is  built  on  the  most  progressive  lines 
and  holds  about  300  people.  Everything  has  been  done  for 
the  safety  of  the  patrons  and  particularly  for  the  comfort 
of  ladies  and  children.  The  booth  answers  the  most  minute 
regulations  of  the  Jersey  law  and  is  in  charge  of  a  capable 
operator.  Mr.  Denton  has  placed  his  theater  at  the  disposal 
of  any  church  or  social  organization  at  any  time,  when  he 
is  not  actually  using  it  for  the  showing  of  his  pictures. 


PRESIDENT  NEFF  IN  NEW  YORK. 
Summoned  to  attend  a  hearing  in  the  government  suit 
against  the  Motion  Picture  Patents  Co.  and  others,  President 
M.  A.  Neff  of  the  National  Exhibitors  League  spent  several 
days  in  New  York  last  week.  Among  other  things  he  made  a 
call  at  the  office  of  the  Moving  Picture  World.  Mr.  Neff 
started  on  his  return  trip  Wednesday,  calling  at  Philadelphia, 
Washington,  Pittsburgh  and  other  points  on  the  way  to 
Cincinnati. 


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CHICAGO   LETTER 

By  J  AS.  S.  McQDADE 


THE  meetings  held  in  New  York,  beginning  March  27, 
by  the  Universal  Film  Manufacturing  Co.,  and  mem- 
bers of  the  Independent  Exchange  Co.,  occupied 
nearly  two  weeks.  The  meetings  were  not  continuous,  as 
the  exchange  men  left  for  their  homes  near  the  close  of  the 
first  week  and  returned  to  New  York  to  renew  discussions. 
During  the  first  week  a  contract  drawn  up  by  the  board 
of  directors  of  the  Universal  was  submitted  to  a  committee 
representing  the  Independent  Exchange  Co.  Frank  T. 
Bailey,  vice-president  of  the  latter  company,  was  chairman 
of  the  committee.  During  the  discussion  over  the  form  of 
contract  that  would  be  acceptable  to  the  exchange  men, 
Messrs.  Carrick  and  Bennethum,  of  the  Interstate  Films 
Co.,  were  present.  The  terms  of  the  Universal  contract, 
which  provided  for  the  leasing  of  films  and  the  purchase  of 
exchanges,  were  rejected  unanimously. 

The  committee  then  drew  up  a  counter  proposition  which 
was  submitted  to  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Universal. 
This  was  on  Monday,  March  31.  The  principal  clauses  of 
this  proposition  embodied  that  the  members  of  the  Inde- 
pendent Exchange  Co.,  were  willing  to  buy  a  maximum  of 
12  reels  weekly  from  the  Universal,  said  reels  to  measure 
up  to  the  requisite  quality;  also  that  all  additional  films  re- 
quired to  fill  out  their  programs  should  be  selected  from 
the  best  Independent  makes  in  the  market.  All  films,  in- 
cluding those  of  the  Universal,  were  to  be  subjected  to  screen 
examination.  The  proposition  also  conveyed  the  assurance 
that  the  exchange  men  were  willing  to  pay  up  to  two  cents 
per  foot,  additional,  for  quality. 

_  Furthermore,  instead  of  leasing  films  from  the  Universal, 
it  was  proposed  by  the  committee  to  pay  the  price  agreed 
upon  for  any  reel  of  film  purchased,  and  to  return  to  the 
Universal  one  old  reel  of  film  for  every  new  reel  purchased, 
thus  gradually  retiring  the  old  stock  on  hand  and  protecting 
the  market  from  being  flooded  with  junk.  It  is  expected  that 
the  board  of  directors  of  the  Universal  will  make  reply  to 
the  proposition  sometime  within  the  week  ending  April  12. 
There  was  no  inclination  on  the  part  of  any  exchange  men 
present  to  sell  their  exchanges,  except  at  their  own  option 
and  price.  The  members  of  the  Independent  Exchange 
Co.,  stand  absolutely  for  the  purchase  of  films  on  a  quality 
basis,  the  standard  of  quality  to  be  fixed  by  an  unbiased 
committee,  comprised,  if  necessary,  of  manufacturers,  ex- 
change men  and  exhibitors. 

As  the  alignment  of  exchanges,  using  the  Universal  pro- 
gram, is  at  present  drawn,  there  are  eight  exchanges  with 
the  Universal — the  four  Laemmle  exchanges,  Swanson's 
two  and  the  two  Universal  exchanges  in  New  York  City. 
The  six  exchanges  of  the  Interstate  Films  Co.— three  in 
Philadelphia,  one  in  Wilkesbarre,  one  in  Baltimore  and  one 
in  Washington — are  neutral.  As  has  been  already  stated, 
Messrs.  Carrick  and  Bennethum  of  the  Interstate  company 
were  present  during  the  deliberations  of  the  committee  ap- 
pointed to  pass  on  the  contract  submitted  by  the  Universal. 
All  other  exchanges  in  the  United  States  and  Canada,  using 
the  Universal  program,  are  with  the  Independent  Exchange 
Co. 

In  St.  Louis,  the  office  is  in  dispute,  as  the  Morgan  ex- 
change, formerly  known  as  the  Universal  Film  Exchange, 
with  Mr.  Cotter  as  manager,  was  forcibly  seized  by  the 
Universal  about  two  or  three  weeks  ago.  Mr.  Morgan  has 
his  exchange  at  present  across  the  hall  in  the  same  building, 
and  he  is  with  the  Independent  Exchange  Co.  In  the  mean- 
time, the  ownership  of  the  Universal  Film  Exchange  is 
being  determined  by  legal  proceedings. 

The  outlook  for  an  amicable  settlement  of  the  points  at 
issue  between  the  Universal  Film  Manufacturing  Co.,  and 
the  Independent  Exchange  Co.,  is  far  from  favorable.  A 
break  is  imminent. 

The  Coming  of  Arthur  Leslie. 
Who  is  Arthur  Leslie?  He  is  going  to  reform  the  entire 
film  business!  He  has  evolved  the  bright(?)  idea  of  furnish- 
ing 60  newspapers,  weekly,  with  "roasts"  on  films,  which  have 
appeared  in  trade  papers.  Mr.  Leslie  sincerelv  thinks 
that  these  "roasts,"  printed  from  coast  to  coast  will  exert  a 
influence.  He  wants  to  impress  film  manufacturers  that 
"a  new  spirit  is  abroad  in  filmland." 


No,  this  is  not  a  new  spirit.  It  is  the  spirit  of  destructive- 
ness  that  existed  during  the  stone  age,  and  which  has  been 
perpetuated  through  certain  unfortunate  members  of  the 
race  ever  since.  ^  The  scandalmonger  never  sees  the  good 
points  in  a  man's  or  woman's  character;  always  the  weak 
ones. 

What  about  publishing  some  of  the  many  good  things 
printed  about  films  in  the  trade  papers,  Mr.  Leslie'  These 
reviews  will  crowd  the  "roasts"  off  your  intermeddling 
sheet.  And  why  are  you  so  biased  in  the  selection  of  vour 
roasts? 

New  Grand  Central,  St.  Louis,  Opened. 

The  New  Grand  Central,  St.  Louis,  owned  by  the  Grand 
Central  Amusement  Co.,  of  which  Wm.  Sievers  is  manager, 
was  opened  March  31  under  most  favorable  auspices.  This 
magnificent  theater,  with  its  beautiful  architecture  and  fine 
appointments,    is   a   credit   to    the    moving   picture    industry. 

•  if1--,*?11'  ln  the  Pr°Per  columns,  a  description  of  the  house, 
with   illustration,  will  appear  in   this  paper.     The   St.   Louis 

,m,e^'  °    Apnl  '•  descr'bes  the  opening  as  follows: 

With  a  deafening  rattle  and  bang,  deftly  produced  back 

stage,    the    new    Grand    Central    Theater,    Grand   and    Lucas 

avenues,   staged  its  feature  reel,   'Pauline   Cushman,   Federal 

Spy,    in   a   manner   last   night  that   fulfilled   the   promise   of 

,Vew  house  t0  present  moving  pictures  realistically. 
Troops  of  cavalry  charged  across  the  screen,  field  guns 
boomed,  and  volleys  rattled  with  astonishing  faithfulness, 
while  the  beautiful  Pauline  fiustrated  the  attempt  to  am- 
bush Gen.  Rosecrans  and  effectively  routed  Gen.  Bragg. 
The  film  is  in  two  reels  and  emphasized  the  beauty  and  ac- 
curacy which  photography  in  its  most  advanced  form  can 
retell  history  or  fiction.  'Babes  in  the  Woods'  was  also 
shown,  and  made  a  deep  impression  with  its  compelling 
pathos. 

"Patrons  found  in  the  New  Grand  Central  a  playhouse  of 
uncommon  attractiveness  and  artistic  decorations.  The 
auditorium  is  roomy,  the  seats  spacious  and  comfortable, 
and  the  policy  of  showing  moving  pictures  only,  accompanied 
by  incidental  music,  that  comes  from  the  great  organ  at  the 
right  of  the  stage,  one  that  appeals  to  a  large  class  of  amuse- 
ment seekers  who  do  not  care  for  vaudeville. 

"Beginning  this  afternoon,  the  New  Grand  Central  will 
have  a  matinee  daily,  with  two  shows  nightly,  all  at  popular 
prices  (10c).  Next  Saturday  matinee,  the  St.  Louis  Times 
will  send  500  winners  in  the  'Mike  and  Ike'  contest  to  the 
New  Grand  Central,  where  the  youngsters  will  see  'Babes 
in  the  Woods'  and  other  pictures." 

Get-Rich-Quick  Exhibitors. 

"Up  in  Santa  Rosa,  California,  moving  picture  theater 
owners  some  time  ago  conceived  the  idea  of  boosting  their 
business  by  advertising  they  would  give  away  lots  to  patrons 
of  their  nickelodeons  who  happened  to  hold  a  winning  num- 
ber," says  the  Sacramento  Union.  "This  was  an  alluring  bit 
of  advertising,  and  business  trebled  within  a  short  time.  It 
was  apparent  from  the  start  that  the  theaters  were  doing 
it  up  proper,  for  many  there  were  who  drew  a  winning  num- 
ber. The  lucky  person  had  only  to  deposit  a  filing  fee  to 
get  a  deed. 

"Many  deeds  were  filed.  In  fact,  so  many  that  the  Sonoma 
county  recorder's  office  was  swamped.  Assemblyman  Slater 
was  appealed  to.  He  was  told  the  lots  were  absolutely 
worthless,  and  that  the  moving  picture  men  were  getting 
a  corner  on  all  the  money  in  the  county.  Accordingly  he 
introduced  a  bill  in  the  lower  house  the  first  part  of  the 
session  making  it  a  misdemeanor  for  any  person  to  give  away 
worthless  lots  and  collect  a  fee  for  transferring  or  convey- 
ing them  to  the  owners  of  persons  drawing  lucky  numbers. 

"The  assembly  heard  Salter's  explanation  to  conditions, 
and  railroaded  the  bill   through  without  delay." 

Educational   Films   From  the   Philippines. 

Dr.  Edward  Burton  McDowell,  the  Chicago  camera  ex- 
pert, traveler  and  lecturer  has  again  been  heard  from,  in 
the  Philippines,  just  before  leaving  for  India.  His  letter, 
in  part,  is  here  given. 

"When  I  tell  the  story  in  the  United  States  of  how  I 
slept  in  tropical  Manila  under  a  single  sheet,  and  the  next 
night  in  Baguio  under  heavy  blankets,  it  will  surely  surprise 
the  people  at  home.  The  air  reminded  me  of  ideal  October 
weather  in  northern  United  States,  and  with  a  temperature 
at  night  of  58  degrees,  the  grate  fire  at  the  Pines  Hotel 
feels  comfortable. 

"I  spent  a  most  enjoyable  week  in  Baguio  and  vicinity. 
I  had  two  objects  in  view,  first  to  see  the  famous  summer 
capital,  and  secondly,  to  see  the  Igorots.  I  shall  never 
forget  the  kindness  of  Governor  Elmer  A.  Eckman.  He  is 
a  very  busy  man;   for,  in  addition   to  being  governor  of  the 


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Province  of  Benguet  and  mayor  of  Baguio,  he  also  is  in 
charge  of  the  new  railroad  which  is  being  constructed.  \Ye 
spent  three  hot  days  planning  and  framing  up  Igorot  trips. 
The  first  film  made  was  of  the  Igorots  building  the  railroad, 
one  of  the  most  interesting  1  have  ever  done.  It  will  show 
hundreds  of  men,  innocent  of  clothing  except  the  conven- 
tional G  string  making  the  dirt  fly  on  the  side  of  a  cut, 
and  hauling  it  away  in  wheelbarrows. 

"The  following  day  the  governor  sent  some  of  his  men 
to  a  place  named  Pico,  an  Igorot  village.  These  men  took 
with  them  a  good  sized  live  pig,  a  quantity  of  rice,  and 
several  gallons  of  rice  wine.  The  next  day  we  arrived 
in  the  cool  of  the  morning,  but  everything  was  boiling  in 
the  barrio  and  the  festivities  were  on.  While  the  dance 
_  was  going  on  in  front  of  my  moving  picture  camera,  the 
'  live  pig  was  brought  in,  his  heart  pierced,  the  animal  placed 
on  the  fire  to  burn  off  the  hair,  dressed,  cut  up  in  chunks, 
boiled  in  a  large  kettle,  and  in  the  short  space  of  twenty 
minutes   chow   was  announced. 

"I  then  turned  the  cinematograph  camera  on  the  feast,  a 
jolly  bunch  seated  on  the  ground  eating  boiled  rice  and 
pig  with  their  fingers,  and  drinking  rice  wine.  Also  some 
of  the  customs  of  the  people  were  motion  pictured,  showing 
preparations  of  rice  for  hulling,  and  some  studies  of  the 
women  and  men,  one  showing  the  operation  of  a  mother 
strapping  her  child  on  her  back  also  taking  her  baby  to 
a  mountain   stream   for   a  bath,   the   child   screaming  lustily. 

"Next  day,  Sunday,  Governor  Eckman  took  me  to  the  dog 
market  at  Baguio.  If  a  man  is  looking  for  novelty,  that 
dog  market  is  worth  a  trip  from  the  United  States  to  see. 
Hundreds  of  lean,  lanky  tikes  and  curs  were  lined  up  and 
passed  in  review  in  front  of  the  moving  film.  From  there 
the  governor  took  me  to  the  labor  camp,  where  he  had 
a  bunch  of  Bontocs,  another  tribe,  and  we  took  pictures  of 
their  dance,  a  very  picturesque  one  with  their  long  hair,  more 
wild  and  animated.  I  picked  out  one  fine  looking,  athletic 
fellow,  gave  him  a  handful  of  spears  and  a  shield,  placed 
him  with  a  background  of  rocks.  Here  he  did  a  wild,  war 
dance  as  he  threw  the  spears,  with  most  serious  ferocious 
mien,  while  the  film  recorded  his  antics. 

"I  made  about  2000  feet  of  those  Igorots.  To  me,  they  are 
more  interesting  than  the  Moros,  being  better  developed 
physically  and  more  picturesque." 

Dr.  Edward  McDowell's  pictures  have  all  been  contracted 
for  by  Win.  X.  Selig,  and  are  of  high  educational  value  and 
interest  for  Americans. 

Chicago  Film  Brevities. 

J.  W.  Dillon,  owner  of  the  Exhibit  Theater,  Danville, 
111.,  called  at  the  World  office  last  week.  His  visit  to  the 
city  was  for  the  purpose  of  getting  plans  from  the  Decora- 
tors Supply  Co.,  for  the  remodeling  of  his  theater  front. 
Mr.  Dillon  is  also  enlarging  the  exhibit,  which,  when  com- 
pleted, will  seat  about  350  people.  Mr.  Dillon  gives  straight 
picture  programs  and  charges  5  cents  admission. 

*  *    * 

The  Amusement  Supply  Co.,  now  located  at  107  N.  Dear- 
born St..  will  move  into  new  offices  and  display  rooms  at 
160  N.  Fifth  Ave.,  on  or  about  April  11.  Mr.  Traub,  general 
manager  of  the  company,  desires  to  inform  all  purchasers 
of  moving  picture  machines  and  supplies,  that  they  can  see 
on  display  at  his  quarters  all  the  principal  makes  of  machines 
on  the  market.  The  new  quarters  afford  more  room  and  a 
finer  display  than  the  old  quarters  permitted. 

*  *     * 

A.  L.  Alberti  has  completed  his  fine  new  theater,  the 
Alvin,  at  1612-14  W.  Chicago  Ave.,  and  will  open  up  shortly. 
The  house  has  a  seating  capacity  of  500  and  cost  $40,000. 
The  operating  room  is  equipped  with  the  latest  machines 
and  appliances.  Those  include  two  Power's  6-A  machines, 
with  Gundlach-Manhattan  lenses,  spotlight,  Motiograph  dis- 
solves Wagner  converter,  etc.,  all  furnished  by  the  Kleine 
Optical  Co.,  this  city.  License  service  will  be  used,  and 
admission  will  be  10  cents. 

*  *     * 

Phil  H.  Solomon,  Chicago  manager  of  the  Warner's  Fea- 
ture Film  Co.,  states  that  he  will  move  into  larger  quarters 
on  May  I,  owing  to  the  largely  increased  volume  of  business 
handled  here.  He  has  added  suite  304,  at  167  W.  Washington 
St.,  to  his  old  quarters,  and  predicts  that,  owing  to  the  popu- 
larity of  his  productions,  it  won't  be  long  before  the  new 
quarters  will  be  insufficient  to  meet  the  requirements.  Mr. 
Solomon  made  a  trip  to  Minneapolis  recently  and  reported 
flourishing  conditions  there.  He  left  for  Milwaukee,  April  8, 
to  attend  the  convention  of  Wisconsin  State  Branch  No.  8, 
Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  America,  on  Tuesday 
and  Wednesday.  April  8  and  9. 


WHAT    THE    DIRECTOR    IS    UP    AGAINST. 

Charles  M.  Seay,  the  Edison  directer,  tells  of  a  few  inci- 
dents which  emphasize  the  difficulties  under  which  pictures 
are  occasionally  made.  He  was  recently  preparing  a  scene 
in  which  William  Bechtel  was  to  fall  into  a  ditch  full  of 
water.  In  order  to  get  the  most  effective  view,  he  placed 
a  few  boards  across  the  ditch  and  had  the  camera  located  on 
them.  But  when  Bechtel  made  his  fall  the  director  got  ex- 
cited and  Bechtel,  Seay,  cameraman  and  camera  all  arrived  in 
the  ditch  together. 

*  *     * 

This  one  sounds  almost  too  good  to  be  true  but  we 
have  the  director's  word  for  it — he  was  making  a  picture 
which  was  built  around  the  jealousy  between  two  old  country 
store-keepers  whose  establishments  were  next  door  to  each 
other.  The  problem  was  to  find  two  adjoining  stores  which 
would  give  the  proper  atmosphere.  After  a  long  hunt  extend- 
ing over  miles  of  country  around  the  studio,  he  finally  dis- 
covered just  the  sort  of  place  he  was  looking  for.  After 
making  arrangements  with  the  proprietor  of  one  store  he 
asked  him  whether  he  would  complete  the  arrangements 
with  his  next  door  neighbor  or  whether  he  wanted  Seay  to 
interview  him.  The  old  fellow  bristled  perceptibly  and  said, 
"If  you  want  to  have  dealings  with  him  you  can't  do  business 
with  me.     I  haven't  spoken  to  him  for  twelve  years!" 

It  was  only  after  a  long  hard  struggle  that  the  director 
succeded  in  getting  the  proprietors  to  consent  to  having  their 
two  stores  appear  in  the  same  picture — both  wanted  to  be 
the  whole  show  and  each  was  afraid  that  he  would  have 
to  talk  to  the  other.  But  patience  and  diplomacy  won  out 
though  the  old  fellows  did  not  speak. 

*  *     * 

A  lew  days  ago  Mr.  Seay  conceived  the  idea  of  taking  a 
picture  in  the  subway  and,  taking  his  cameraman  with  him, 
he  went  over  to  one  of  the  uptown  stations  to  see  if  the  idea 
could  be  worked  out.  Their  machine  stopped  directly  at  the 
head  of  the  stairs  and  the  two  men  went  down  into  the  station 
and  stood  over  at  one  side  surveying  the  place  carefully 
and  discussing  in  low  tones  the  possibilities  of  various  spots. 
It  was  late  in  the  morning  and  travel  was  light.  There  were 
only  two  or  three  women  on  the  platform  and  the  ticket 
seller  was  out  of  his  booth  talking  to  the  ticket  chopper. 

The  engine  of  Mr.  Seay's  car  could  be  heard  buzzing  at  the 
top  of  the  stairs.  The  ticket  seller  glanced  casually  at  the  two 
men,  then  he  looked  a  little  harder.  The  noise  of  the  motor 
reached  him  and  his  face  gradually  stiffened  into  a  do-or-die 
expression.  Then,  with  an  air  of  the  greatest  possible  un- 
concern, he  sauntered  over  to  his  booth  securely  locked  the 
door  and  began  to  put  all  his  change  away  into  a  drawer 
Thej-  were  taxi  bandits! 

*  *     * 

It  is  a  common  occurrence  to  have  people  "butt  in"  while 
a  picture  is  being  made  and  probably  every  director  has 
lost  all  chance  of  ever  getting  to  heaven  by  reason  of  his 
remarks  upon  these  occasions.  Julian  Reed,  made  up  as  a 
grouch,  was  badly  abusing  Edna  Hamel,  who  was  weeping 
copiously.  A  square  jawed  woman — probably  just  back  from 
the  suffragette  parade  at  Washington — took  one  look  at  the 
performance  and  sailing  majestically  across  the  street  she 
proceeded  to  give  that  "brutal  ruffian"  the  tongue  lashing  of 
his  life.  When  the  horrible  truth  finally  was  explained  to 
her,  she  left  boiling  with  indignation  apparently  believing 
that  the  whole  affair  was  a  deliberate  attempt  to  deceive  her. 

*  *     * 

William  Wadsworth  on  another  occasion  was  to  attempt 
to  board  a  train  with  a  dog  and  a  suit  case.  He  was  to  get 
the  suit  case  on  the  platform  of  the  car  and  then  the  conduc- 
tor was  to  stop  him  and  the  train  was  to  pull  out  during  the 
ensuing  argument,  taking  Wadsworth's  suit  case  with  it.  But 
a  kind  and  thoughtful  fellow  passenger  "spilled  the  beans" 
by  hastily  throwing  the  suit  case  to  the  horrified  Wadsworth. 

*  *     * 

A  diminutive  kitten  held  up  one  of  Walter  Edwin's  pic- 
tures not  long  ago  and  caused  one  of  the  best  imprompt 
comedies  that  has  ever  been  seen.  The  reel  could  not  be  fin- 
ished without  the  kitten  which  was  very  carefully  guarded 
during  the  preparation  of  a  new  scenic  setting.  But  she 
finally  escaped  and  then  began  the  ridiculous  spectacle  of 
three  perfectly  serious  six-footers — Herbert  Prior,  Charles 
Ogle  and  Walter  Edwin — chasing  a  speck  of  a  kitten,  dodging 
in  and  out  of  scenes,  crawling  over  stage  properties  and  mak- 
ing wild  rushes  in  the  open  until  finally  the  fugitive  was 
surrounded  and  captured  by  a  carefully  planned  flank  move- 
ment. 


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Doings  at  Los  Angeles 

Mace  a  Candidate  for  Mayor — Trying  to  End  Exchange  War 
— Mexican   Picture   Protested — News   Notes. 

FRED  MACE,  formerly  leading  man  in  the  Biograph 
comedies  and  more  recently  with  the  Keystone  com- 
pany, is  one  of  the  three  candidates  for  mayor  of  Los 
Angeles  in  the  municipal  campaign  which  is  now  in  progress. 
Politicians  dope  it  out  that  he  hasn't  a  ghost  of  a  show  to 
win.  but  Mace  doesn't  care  so  much  about  that  as  he  does 
about  making  an  exciting  campaign.  The  motion  picture 
:«ices  of  the  city  seem  to  be  backing  him  to  a  man  and  a 
number  of  the  exhibitors  have  volunteered  to  assist  him  by 
showing  stereopticon  slides  on  the  screen  or  by  donating 
the  use  of  their  houses  for  campaign  meetings.  Members 
o.  The  Photoplayers  organization,  of  which  Mace  is  president, 
ti  ok  charge  of  the  work  of  circulating  the  petitions  upon 
wl  ich  he  was  nominated.  The  primary  election  is  to  be  held 
May  6  and  at  that  time  the  two  candidates  who  receive  the 
highest  ind  the  next  highest  vote  respectively  will  be  de- 
clared the  regular  candidates  for  the  office.  Subsequently 
they  will  fife't  it  out  between  themselves  in  the  final  cam- 
paign which  ciu.^'s  the  first  week  of  June.  The  chief  issue 
this  Spring  is  Socialism  and  the  socialist  candidate  for  mayor 
finds  himself  opposed  by  a  fusion  candidate  who  has  been 
endorsed  by  al.  the  political  parties  and  factions  outside 
the  Socialist  or^inization.  When  a  reporter  asked  Mace 
his  politics  he  renlied  that  he  is  a  motion  picture  actor.  The 
political  writers  ::iy  that  the  addition  of  Mace  to  the  field 
will  add  spice  to  the  campaign.  It  is  also  too  late  to  copy- 
right the  observation  that  he  bears  a  name  which  stands 
for  high  authority.  B>  way  of  adding  zest  to  the  campaign 
he  is  having  a  one  reel  picture  made  which  will  show  in  a 
humorous  way  what  he  proposes  to  do  when  he  takes  office 
Dissolving  scenes  will  picture  the  transformations  he  wili 
bring  about. 

While  engaged  in  running  for  mayor  he  has  not  been  too 
busy  to  look  after  his  private  affairs.  A  week  ago  he  resigned 
from  the  Keystone  company  and  this  week  it  was  announced 
that  he  has  obtained  an  interest  in  the  Balboa  Motion  Picture 
Co.,  which  will  begin  at  once  to  issue  a  special  series  of 
comedy  films.  They  will  be  directed  by  Mace  and  he  will 
appear  in  all  of  them.  The  expectation  is  that  they  will  be 
marketed  through  the  same  channels  as  the  Famous  Players 
pictures.    The  company  has  obtained  a  tract  of  land  adjoining 


the  Revier  Laboratories  at  Vine  and  Selma  streets  in  Holly- 
wood and  will  erect  a  stage  and  necessary  buildings  within 
two  weeks. 

The  Revier  Laboratories,  by  the  way,  are  becoming  a  great 
institution  Under  the  management  of  Harry  Revier,  presi- 
dent of  the  company,  the  plant  has  been  enlarged  until  at 
the  present  time  the  buildings  occupy  nearly  three  acres 
ol  ground  space  and  the  plant  is  equipped  with  dark  rooms, 
printing  machines  and  drying  rooms  having  a  capacity  to 
turn  out  nearly  10,000  feet  of  film  a  day.  Within  the  last 
month  there  have  been  several  occasions  when  the  rush  of 
business  made  it  necessary  to  work  all  night. 

Fred  Mace  is  not  the  only  representative  of  the  motion 
picture  industry  who  is  trying  to  elbow  into  politics.  A.  P 
lugwell,  manager  of  the  Rose  theater  on  Spring  street' 
is  one  ot  a  long  list  of  candidates  for  city  council.  There 
are  nine  places  to  be  filled  and  the  indications  are  that  be- 

1 11£  l  eu  h£ts  clo,?e  there  wiI1  be  fifty  or  sixty  candidates. 
Although  Tugwell  has  in  the  past  declared  himself  to  be 
a  Socialist  he  did  not  receive  the  endorsement  of  the  Socialist 
convention  and  consequently  will  be  independent  of  anv 
political  party.  J 

Los    Angeles   Liberal   with    Flood    Victims. 

Motion  pictures  of  the  floods  and  cyclones  in  various  parts 
of  the  East  reached  this  city  before  the  news  stories  had 
disappeared  from  the  front  pages  of  the  newspaper  and  for 
once  the  motion  picture  theaters  were  able  to  compete  with 
the  dailies  in  real  live  news  of  timely  interest.  So  many 
companies  had  photographers  on  the  scenes  of  the  disasters 
at  an  early  hour  that  there  were  more  flood  and  cyclone 
pictures  available  than  the  theaters  could  conveniently  use. 
Nearly  every  theater  in  town  found  opportunity  to  use  film 
dealing  with  this  subject. 

In  Los  Angeles  as  in  every  other  community  in  the  United 
States  the  misfortunes  of  the  people  of  the  stricken  com- 
munities aroused  quick  sympathy  which  took  practical  form. 
From  every  direction  funds  poured  in  for  relief.  The  motion 
picture  people  more  than  did  their  share.  Many  of  the 
theaters  donated  their  receipts  to  the  relief  fund.  The  Mozart 
theater  gave  a  special  benefit  performance  at  which  Fred 
Mace,  Mabel  Normand  of  the  Keystone  company,  and  Gus 
Pixley  of  the  Biography  appeared.  All  of  the  officers  of 
the  local  branch  of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League 
served  on  a  committee  to  raise  funds.  The  Universal  com- 
pany offered  its  entire  plant  resources  to  the  committee  to 


Scene  at  Los  Angeles  Studio  of  Universal  Film  Manufacturing  Company  after  recent  fire.    In  brick  vault,  which  shows 
lett-nand  corner  of  picture,  was  stored  $100,000  worth  of  cameras  and  films,  all  of  which  were  saved. 


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be  used  in  giving  a  huge  out  of  door  entertainment  the  pro- 
ceeds from  which  are  to  be  devoted  to  relief  work.  In- 
cluded in  its  tender  was  an  offer  to  film  the  show  and  the 
crowds  and  devote  the  proceeds  of  the  pictures  to  the  fund. 

Seeking   to   End   Exchange   War. 

There  has  been  a  rumor  in  circulation  here  this  week, 
which  several  of  the  exhibitors  declare  they  believe  to  be 
true,  that  all  or  a  majority  of  the  independent  film  exchanges 
have  practically  consolidated  their  interests,  and  that  the 
ruthless  competition  which  has  prevailed  for  the  last  two 
months  is  at  an  end.  Representatives  of  the  exchanges, 
while  denying  that  any  combination  has  taken  place,  con- 
fidently predict  that  cut-throat  competition  has  ceased.  Abe 
Warner,  of  Warner's  Features,  was  in  town  several  days 
■and  before  he  left  he  stated  that  he  had  discovered  evidences 
of  a  combination.  Certain  exhibitors  told  him  that  while 
they  were  anxious  to  use  the  Warner  Features  they  had 
been  told  that  if  they  made  a  practice  of  renting  features 
not  handled  by  the  regular  exchanges  they  would  not  be 
able  to  get  fillers.  Before  he  left  Los  Angeles  for  San 
Francisco  whence,  after  a  week's  stay  he  will  depart  for  New 
York,  Mr.  Warner  announced  that  within  the  next  three 
months  his  concern  will  be  able  to  furnish  exhibitors  with 
full  programs.  In  other  words  he 'has  decided  to  handle 
single  reel  subjects  of  the  Warner  quality  along  with  the 
multiple  reel  features.  While  he  was  here  he  arranged  for 
the  location  of  a  permanent  branch  office  in  this  city  and 
also  made  a  tentative  agreement  under  the  terms  of  which 
a  producing  company  will  probably  begin  operating  in  this 
field  within  the  next  three  months  making  Warner  features 
exclusively. 

Mexican  Picture  Causes  Protest. 

International  complications  threaten  to  arise  out  of  the 
«xhibition  of  a  three-reel  review  of  the  recent  revolutions  in 
the  City  of  Mexico.  The  picture  was  released  as  a  special 
feature  by  the  Universal  company.  When  it  was  shown  at 
the  Plaza  theater  in  this  city  so  many  complaints  were  lodged 
with  the  Mexican  consul  that  he  visited  the  theater  to  see 
it.  He  was  incensed  at  some  of  the  statements  made  in  the 
sub  titles  and  at  once  filed  a  formal  protest  with  the  United 
States  District  Attorney.  In  an  effort  to  quiet  the  situation 
in  the  most  expeditious  way  the  question  was  referred  to  the 
local  board  of  censors.  The  board  viewed  the  film  and  de- 
cided that  it  had  no  authority  to  suppress  it.  While  there 
was  undoubtedly  much  in  it  to  offend  the  Mexican  govern- 
ment, the  source  of  the  objection  was  purely  political  and  not 
moral.  Most  of  the  Mexican  consul's  objections  were  well 
founded.  For  example,  one  scene  purported  to  show  the 
court  martial  of  Felix  Diaz.  The  prisoner  was  dragged  in 
loaded  down  with  chains,  was  roughly  handled  and  apparently 
was  summarily  disposed  of.  The  Mexican  consul  protested 
that  the  man  alleged  to  be  Diaz  did  not  bear  the  slightest 
resemblance  to  him  and  that  the  scene  misrepresented  the 
Mexican  practice  of  holding  courts  martial.  That  the  prisoner 
was  not  Diaz  is  undoubtedly  true.  Twenty  persons  now 
living  in  Los  Angeles  who  are  acquainted  with  him  declared 
that  it  was  not  he  who  was  shown  in  the  picture.  Further- 
more the  identical  scene,  included  in  another  Mexican  war 
picture,  was  exhibited  in  several  theaters  of  this  city,  and 
passed  by  the  board  of  censors,  before  Diaz  was  arrested 
oy  Madero's  soldiers.  Several  other  scenes  included  in  this 
most  recent  picture  and  represented  to  be  freshly  taken  in 
the  City  of  Mexico  were  exhibited  in  this  city  several  months 
ago  and  viewed  by  the  board.  A  picture  of  an  alleged  battle 
is  more  than  two  years  old  and  has  been  run  until  it  is  techni- 
cally "junk."  Moreover  the  original  battle  is  said  to  have 
been  staged  solely  for  motion  picture  purposes  and  it  bears 
all  the  earmarks.  For  instance  most  of  the  victims  wait 
until  they  are  directly  in  front  of  the  camera  before  falling. 
A  portion  of  the  picture  is  undoubtedly  genuine.  A  great 
deal  of  it  is,  equally  without  doubt,  not  what  it  purports  to 
be.  The  question  which  has  arisen  out  of  the  exhibition  of 
the  film  is  whether  the  authorities  ought  to  take  steps  to 
protect  the  public  from  frauds  of  this  kind.  To  show  a  film 
alleging  it  to  be  a  certain  thing  when  it  is  actually  something 
•different  and  inferior  is  undoubtedly  obtaining  money  under 
false  pretenses.  The  board  of  censors  thinks  the  question 
is  important  and  has  asked  the  city  attorney  whether  the 
ordinance  may  be  amended  to  include  cases  of  this  kind. 

Since  the  censor  board  declined  to  suppress  the  film  on 
the  ground  that  it  had  no  power  to  do  so  under  the  existing 
•ordinance  the  question  has  again  been  taken  up  with  the 
.government  officials  by  the  consul  and  in  all  probability  the 
matter  will  come  before  the  department  of  state.  Through- 
out the  three  reels  the  sub-titles  were  editorial  in  tone  and 
.some  of  the  reflections  upon  the  existing  administration  in 
Mexico  would  possibly  be  libellous  in  this  country. 


Doings  at  Selig  Studio. 

Members  of  the  Selig  company  have  been  dropping  mysteri- 
ous hints  about  a  wonderful  trained  ostrich  which  is  now 
in  quarters  in  the  Selig  Animal  Farm.  The  big  bird  has  been 
going  to  school  to  a  trainer  for  several  weeks  and  is  now 
ready  to  graduate  next  week  into  another  extraordinary 
animal  picture  which  Colin  Campbell  will  produce.  The 
nature  of  the  bird's  accomplishments  is  being  kept  a  secret, 
probably  so  that  the  picture  will  not  be  discounted  in  interest 
before  its  release. 

William  Selig,  head  of  the  company,  who  has  been  here 
for  several  weeks,  returned  to  Chicago  last  week  but  will 
probably  be  back  within  a  month.  James  L.  Magee,  manager 
of  the  Los  Angeles  branch,  meanwhile  has  started  for  Hono- 
lulu. He  sailed  from  San  Francisco  April  5  to  be  gone  six 
or  eight  weeks.  Nominally  it  is  purely  a  pleasure  trip  and 
a  vacation.  Actually — and  confidentially — he  will  scout 
around  the  islands  and  don't  be  surprised  if  a  Selig  company 
heads  for  the  South  Seas  next  Fall.  All  of  the  directors 
of  the  four  Selig  companies  here  are  keeping  busy  but  except 
for  Campbell's  forthcoming  ostrich  picture  nothing  sensa- 
tional is  in  sight.  E.  A.  Martin  has  been  working  in  the 
vicinity  of  Altadena  this  week  on  a  Mexican  border  melo- 
drama with  many  soldiers  and  some  battle  scenes.  F.  W.  . 
Huntley  finished  an  animal  picture  last  week  in  which  a 
lion  killed  a  camel.  Adele  Lane,  formerly  leading  woman 
for  the  Lubin  company  in  Philadelphia  has  come  on  to  do 
emotional  leads  for  Selig.  Camille  Aster  is  a  new  juvenile 
and  ingenue.  Mrs.  Al  Filson,  wife  of  the  millionaire  actor 
of  the  Selig  company,  is  to  do  characters  regularly.  She 
and  her  husband  are  old  vaudeville  favorites  under  the  stage 
name  of  Filson  &  Errol.  They  were  out  for  several  seasons 
with  a  sketch  "A  Tip  on  the  Derby"  the  first  successful  sketch 
ever  written  by  George  M.  Cohan.  Since  those  days  they 
saved  their  money  and  invested  it  in  California  orange  groves 
which  have  yielded  them  a  fortune. 

News  Briefs. 

Wilbert  Melville,  Lubin  producer,  has  just  put  on  another 
company  and  will  double  the  output  from  the  Lubin  studio 
at  4550  Passadena  avenue  in  this  city.  Bert  Bracken,  formerly 
Melies'  director,  who  recently  returned  from  Tahiti,  is  direct- 
ing one  of  the  companies  and  Frank  Shaw,  a  former  Selig 
director,  has  charge  of  the  other.  Melville  is  generally 
supervising  the  plant  which  is  growing  in  extent  every  week. 
It  is  one  of  the  busiest  studios  in  this  vicinity. 

*  *     * 

Arthur  Mackley,  Essanay  director,  disbanded  his  company 
this  week.  Part  of  the  people  went  north  to  the  Niles  studio, 
others  journeyed  east  and  a  few  who  preferred  to  remain  in 
Los  Angeles  joined  other  companies.  In  a  few  days  Mackley 
will  leave  from  New  York  on  his  way  to  Scotland  where 
he  will  visit  his  birthplace  which  he  has  not  seen  for  more 
than  a  quarter  of  a  century.  He  will  take  a  vacation  of  a 
couple  of  months  and  on  his  return  may  assemble  another 
company  and  reopen  the  Los  Angeles  studio. 

*  *     * 

The  Los  Angeles  field  lost  another  important  motion  pic- 
ture company  last  week  when  S.  V.  Taylor  and  Marion  Leon- 
ard and  the  other  members  of  the  Monopol  company  closed 
the  Hollywood  studio  and  departed  for  New  York  to  occupy 
the  new  studio  there  which  is  said  to  be  completed. 

*  *     * 

After  a  vacation  of  two  or  three  weeks  the  members  of 
the  Pathe  West  Coast  company  have  been  reassembled  by 
Director  James  Young  Deer  who  is  putting  on  another  of 
his   famous   Indian  pictures. 

*  *     * 

From  the  windows  of  the  interurban  cars  running  between 
Los  Angeles  and  Pasadena  passengers  may  observe  a  group 
of  new  buildings  arising  on  the  highest  bluff  of  Brooklyn 
Heights  overlooking  the  car  line.  They  only  serve  to  in- 
dicate how  little  truth  there  is  in  the  reports  that  the  Than- 
houser  company  is  preparing  to  return  to  New  Rochelle.  On 
the  contrary  the  studio  is  being  improved  every  week  and 
it  is  already  one   of  the  most   completely   equipped   in    Los 

Angeles. 

*  *     * 

The  film  production  of  Hawthorn's  great  classic  "The 
Scarlet  Letter,"  was  given  its  studio  run  at  the  Kinemacolor 
studio  this  week.  It  is  probably  the  last  multiple  production 
which  David  Miles  will  attempt  for  several  weeks.  When  it 
reaches  the  screen  it  is  probable  that  the  intense  dramatic 
values  Miles  found  in  it  will  make  the  deepest  impression, 
although  photographically  it  is  fully  up  to  the  recent  Kine- 
macolor standards. 


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What's  one  man's  loss  is  another's  gain.  In  the  recent  fire 
at  the  Universal  company's  Hollywood  offices  about  $10,000 
worth  of  photoplay  scripts  which  had  been  accepted  and 
paid  for  were  destroyed.  This  means  that  the  company  is  in 
urgent  need  of  scripts.  Business  is  now  being  transacted 
in  a  temporary  rough-board  building.  Meanwhile  a  square 
block  of  property  has  been  obtained  directly  across  Sunset 
Boulevard  and  new  offices  and  studios  are  to  be  erected  there. 

*     *     * 

H.  M.  Lauson,  proprietor  of  LaMara  theater,  the  newest, 
finest  and  largest  motion  picture  house  in  Phoenix,  Arizona, 
according  to  his  view,  visited  Los  Angeles  this  week  and  made 
the  rounds  of  the  local  picture  theaters.  He  was  hunting 
for  ideas  for  the  improvement  of  his  own  house. 

P.    M.    POWELL. 


Conn.,  last  Monday  evening.  Manager  Meehan  of  the  Majes- 
tic shows  Crystal  Films  and  his  patrons  are  well  acquainted 
with  Miss  White's*  work  though  Miss  White  has  never  ap- 
peared personally  before  them.  Mr.  Meehan  thought  that 
this  would  be  a  good  opportunity  for  his  patrons  to  become 
better  acquainted  with  their  favorite  and  he  engaged  her. 
A  great  crowd  was  on  hand  and  she  was  made  to  feel  at 
home  immediately  by  the  enthusiastic  way  in  which  she  was 
received.  Miss  White  gave  a  very  interesting  talk  on  the  pic- 
tures and  her  work  in  Crystal  Films  and  the  audience  was 
so  well  pleased  that  the  manager  has  asked  her  to  play  a 
return  date. 


CLYMER  LEAVES  GAUMONT. 

JohnB.  Clymer,  Manager  of  Advertising  and  Sales  of  the 
Gaumont  Company,  has  resigned,  having  been  retained  by  a 
leading  magazine  to  conduct  investigations  for  a  series  of 
articles  on  municipal  conditions.  At  the  conclusion  of  the 
time  needed  for  this  work  he  will  return  to  the  film  business. 

Mr.  Clymer  entered  the  motion  picture  industry  from  the 
newspaper  business.  He  has  been  connected  with  the  New 
York  Herald,  Globe,  Morning  Telegraph,  Sun  and  Phila- 
delphia Record.  He  also  performed  publicity  work  for  large 
corporations,  having  been  New  York  manager  of  the  bureau 
conducting  publicity  for  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Railway,  the 
Norfolk  and  Western  Railway,  the  Old  Dominion  Steam- 
ship Line  and  Frank  Jay  Gould. 


PEARL  WHITE  VISITS  MERIDEN. 

A  great  reception  was  accorded  Miss  Pearl  White,  the 
ever  popular  and  famous  star  of  Crystal  Films,  upon 
her  personal  appearance  at  the  Majestic  Theater.   Danbury, 


"THE  BURDEN   BEARER"   (Lubin). 

This  is  an  intense  story  which  upon  the  stage  would  be 
called  a  problem  play.  Arthur  Johnson  plays  the  star  role, 
which  is  a  strong  type.  The  picture  is  made  in  one  reel,  but 
has  all  of  the  intensity  of  a  three-act  drama  and  will  add  to 
the  Lubin  record  of  making  powerful  photo  stories. 

Robert  Neville,  a  naval  officer,  returns  from  a  cruise  to 
find  that  Agnes,  his  mother's  ward,  has  transferred  her  af- 
fections to  his  younger  brother,  Dudley.  Dudley,  however, 
has  fallen  under  the  influence  of  Cecelia  Dean,  a  beautiful 
vampire.  Robert  resolves  at  any  cost  to  break  up  the  at- 
tachment which,  if  consummated,  would  decimate  the  family 
happiness.  He  makes  violent  love  to  the  vampire  and  in  her 
inordinate  vanity  she  falls  in  love  with  Robert  and  discards 
the  younger  brother.  This  causes  a  bitter  feeling  on  Dud- 
ley's part  and  the  brothers  fluarrel,  the  mother  and  Agnes 
favoring  Dudley.  Robert,  however,  plays  his  role  until  the 
younger  brother  and  Agnes  are  married.  He  then  turns  on 
Cecelia  and  tells  her  that  he  never  cared  for  her  and  leaves 
her  to  the  agony  of  a  non-requited  love,  while  he  goes  forth 
to  take  up  his  duties,  none  thanking  him  for  having  taken 
up  their  burden. 

There  are  some  beautiful  scenes  in  this  picture,  one  of 
which  is  shown  in  the  accompanying  engraving. 


Beautiful  Scene  from  the  Lubin  Subject,  "The  Burden  Bearer." 


2"0 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


A  Day   "At  the  Door." 

By  Hugh  King  Harris. 

LET  us  stand,  if  you  will,  for  a  moment  in  the  place  of 
the  manager  of  the  motion-picture  theater,  in  the 
average  town,  and  watch,  for  a  day  the  different 
phases  of  the  business.  It  is  a  most  interesting  proposition 
as  viewed  from  various  angles.  If  I  burlesque  some  points 
a  trifle,  keep  in  mind  that  what  I  say  is  founded  on  actual 
occurences  related  by  managers  of  various  houses,  on  facts, 
not  fancy. 

The  house  is  to  open  at  ten  o'clock  A.  M.,  the  film  is 
to  come  in  by  express,  and  there  has  been  a  wreck  on  the 
road,  the  feature  has  been  billed  heavily.  The  posters  have 
been  up  and  folks  are  looking  toward  seeing  something 
worth  while.  Jacks,  the  manager,  phones  the  express  office. 
"Hello,  that  film  in  yet?  What,  a  wreck  on  the  P.  &  O.? 
The  deuce!  How  soon  do  you  expect  it?  By  noon  sure!  Say, 
man,  we  open  at  10,  the  thing's  billed  and  we  stand  to 
lose  a  nice  bunch  of  money." 

He  turns  from  the  phone  perplexed,  the  films  of  the  day 
before  are  boxed  ready  for  shipment  out,  on  the  train  that 
the  feature  was  to  come  in  on.  Morning  business  is  always 
good  here;  to  wait  two  mortal  hours  without  films  is  to 
face  a  loss  of  the  real  profits  of  the  day.  But  such  is  life. 
Just  then  the  phone  rings.  "Hello,  yes,  this  is  Jacks;  what, 
Mary  sick,  won't  be  down  today?  All  right,  I'll  see  what  I 
can  do."  , 

More  bad  news,  the  cashier  sick,  some  one  must  be 
pressed  into  service  at  once  to  handle  the  box  office.  It  is 
close  to  ten  and  folks  have  already  paused,  lounging  about 
the  lobby,  real  money  is  waiting  to  be  taken.  Jacks  scowls, 
a  hurry  call  and  he  locates  a  girl  he  knows  will  be  O.  K. 
He  is  about  to  call  the  express  office  again  but  feels  that 
will  be  useless,  they  know  his  plight  and  will  send  the  film 
as  soon  as  it  comes. 

Now  a  shrill  whistle  from  the  speaking  tube  to  the  operat- 
ing booth  gives  promise  of  more  trouble,  and  sur  eenough, 
the  operator  finds  the  projecting  machine  has  a  broken 
sprocket  and  it  will  take  some  time  to  fix  it. 

"Everything  in  bunches,"  mutters  Jacks  and  tells  the 
musicians  who  are  waiting  that  nothing  will  be  doing  until 
noon.  But  as  gloom  is  settling  thick  and  fast  the  express 
wagon  dashes  up,  and  lo  and  behold,  the  unexpected  has 
occurred,  the  film  has  arrived,  twenty-five  minutes  late,  yes, 
but  that's  a  small  matter  under  the  circumstances.  A  sharp 
blow  on  the  speaking  tube  whistle  and  the  operator  "thinks" 
ten  minutes  more  will  fix  her.  So  finally  all  is  ready  and 
Jacks  takes  up  his  station  at  the  ticket  box.  A  well  ad- 
vertised feature  has  brought  out  a  good  crowd  and  soon 
the  tickets  are  dropping  merrily  into  the  box. 

The  speaking  tube  whistle  blows,  it  is  another  bit  of 
trouble,  possibly  ten  minutes  or  so.  Instructions  are  sent 
down  to  the  orchestra  and  the  singer  is  forced  into  quick 
action  and  by  strenuous  musical  stunts  the  original  ten 
minutes,  stretched  to  half  an  hour,  is  passed. 

"Gee,  mister,  I  can't  hang  around  here  all  morning;  I 
came  to  see  a  show,  not  to  hear  a  cheap  concert.'  It  is 
a  red-faced,  portly  man  speaking.  His  nickel  is  returned 
without  question.  But  the  next  party  who  departs  snorts 
something  about  blanked  fakes  anyway,  these  snide  cheap 
theaters.  Jacks  takes  it  all  coolly.  It  is  part  of  the  daily 
grind. 

Now  all  is  going  smoothly,  it  is  some  feature  all  right, 
folks  commence  to  applaud  and  Jacks  knows  he  has  the 
crowd  with  him  at  last.  As  the  audience  departs  comments 
of  Bully,"  "Some  class"  or  "It  was  awfully  interesting, 
don't  you  think,"  take  the  sting  out  of  the  episode  of  the 
disgruntled  folks  who  left  earlier  in  the  morning. 

Noon  comes;  with  the  regular  cashier  off  duty,  Jacks  eats 
a  hasty  bite  and  is  soon  back  on  duty.  Here  comes  a  big 
lady,  loaded  with  bundles,  a  weazened  little  fellow,  with 
sparse  gray  whiskers  trails  along  meekly,  in  the  rear. 

He  carries  a  tin  pail  with  a  card  board  cover  tied  on  it, 
it  seems  very  precious.  The  fat  lady  gurgles.  "Oh  say, 
mister  ticket  man,  would  you  oblige  a  lady  by  taking  care 
of  the  pail  while  we  see  the  pictures?  It  is  a  present  for 
Susan  Ann,  that's  my  husband's  cousin.  Gold  fish,  yes,  she 
dotes  on  gold  fish.  But  do  be  careful  and  don't  set  them  so 
near  the  register,  you  will  kill  them;  and  do  keep  them  out  of 
the  draft;  don't  spill  the  water.  There's  a  good  man,  ever  so 
much  obliged,  we  won't  be  in  long,  come  along  Jasper" — 
and  she  stalks  down  the  aisle,  Jasper  following  in  the  rear 
with  never  a  word.  Jacks  heaves  a  sigh  of  relief  and  rapidly 
gathers  in  the  pasteboards  of  the  crowd  who  has  had  to 
wait  for  the  fat  lady  to  get  rid  of  her  burden  and  her  tale 
of  woe. 


"Three  men  sat  on  a  dead  man's  chest,  yo  heave  ho 
" — bang,  and  the  doors  fly  open,  a  whiff  of  onions  and 
whiskey  strikes  Jacks'  nostrils.  A  burly  sailor,  three  sheets 
to  the  wind  comes  stalking  in,  bumps  against  the  ticket  box 
and  leers  cunningly  at  Jacks,  who  sees  trouble  in  sight,  right 
there. 

"Say,  old  sport,  shiver  my  timbers,  let  a  man  cast  anchor, 
will  you?" 

Jacks  none  too  gently  shoves  the  sailor  out  the  door,  but 
just  outside  the  entrance  (Jacks  is  very  glad  it  is  outside), 
the  sailor  turns  with  an  oath  and  raises  a  wicked  slug 
shot;  Jacks  ducks,  and  luckily  the  officer  passing  is  on  time, 
the   sailor  is   hauled   away   and   Jacks  resumes   his   duties. 

"Mister,  does  the  show  run  all  day  for  a  nickel?"  it  is  a 
little  old  woman  who  asks  the  question,  Jacks  sizes  up  the 
rusty  bonnet,  the  thin  face  and  eager  eyes.  The  gloves 
have  no  tips.  "Someone  from'  God  knows  where,  no  money 
and  wants  to  fill  in  time."  Jacks  sizes  up  things  in  a  hurry. 
Kindly  he  explains  that  one  may  stay  as  long  as  one  likes 
and  she  goes  on  in,  and  Jacks  pretends  not  to  notice  the 
lack  of  a  ticket. 

Out  in  front,  the  big  frame  with  the  actors  and  actresses 
of  the  feature  company  is  standing.  A  rural  couple  stroll 
up,  gaze  at  the  photos  of  the  players  and  Hiram  remarks  in 
a  loud  nasal  twang,  "Guess,  Marthy,  that  curly  headed  lad 
must  be  some  good  tenor  singer.  Let's  go  in  and  hear 
the  concert."  And  in  they  enter,  believing  the  place  a 
regular  theater  and  the  players  musical  artists. 

A  smart  young  fellow  comes  in  and  leans  against  the 
back  seat  rail.  He  is  one  of  the  floaters  and  pretends  to  be 
so  very  much  of  the  world.  Suddenly  on  the  street  is  the 
clang  of  the  fire  bells,  the  department  is  rushing  by. 

"Gee,  there's  a  fire,"  the  wise  boy  calls  loudly  to  Jacks 
and  dashes  hastily  out  the  door.  Jacks  scowls  as  he  sees 
several  patrons  in  the  rear  seats  shift  nervously. 

"The  fool,"  mutters  the  manager,  "it  takes  less  than  that 
to  start  a  panic,  at  times,"  he  saunters  carelessly  down  into 
the  aisle  and  the  folks  keep  their  eyes  on  him,  but  his  manner 
reassures  them  and  no  trouble  comes  of  the  incident. 

Now  the  fat  lady  of  the  gold  fish  comes  out  and  suspi- 
ciously inspects  the  gold  fish  with  a  sniff  and  no  thanks  to 
Jacks  goes  out.  , 

"No  dogs  allowed  in  here,  madam,"  this  to  a  flashily 
dressed  young  woman  who  has  a  big  bull  terrier  on  the  end 
of  a  chain. 

"Well,  you  have  a  nerve.  I  have  him  chained  and  can 
sit  in  the  rear."  Her  voice  rises  shrill  and  Jacks  calms  her 
as  best  he  can,  but  she  makes  a  nasty  scene  before  she 
leaves  and  Jacks  wishes  she  and  her  dog  in  most  any  place 
at  all,  so  long  as  it  is  away  from  him. 

The  day  goes  on  and  many  fool  questions  are  asked  and 
answered,  a  fight  in  the  lobby  is  stopped,  a  "rough  neck"  in 
the  audience  subdued  and  ejected. 

A  short  time  for  supper,  and  the  night  doorman  comes 
on.  Jacks  has  a  bit  of  time  to  himself,  but  the  singer,  a 
young  tenor,  gets  mixed  up  with  some  friends  and  doesn't 
show  up  for  evening  service  on  time.  The  extra  singer  is 
hastily  secured,  after  a  deal  of  grumbling,  and  goes  on. 

The  advertising  for  the  next  day  and  the  day  after  is  gone 
over,  the  janitor  makes  a  "touch,"  on  the  plea  of  illness, 
a  new  part  is  ordered  for  the  machine,  and  many  other  duties 
are  disposed  of. 

It  is  pretty  late  when  Jacks  gets  to  bed,  tired,  with  some 
important  matters  to  call  him  out  early  the  next  morning. 
He  has  had  a  "full  day"  surely,  yet  some  folks  sigh  with 
envy  at  the  manager's  "job,"  a  bed  of  roses,  maybe,  but 
ever  rose  has  its  thorns,  and  every  manager  can  point  out 
a  whole  lot  of  these   same  thorns  if  you  will  but  ask  him. 


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Conducted  by  EPES  WINTHROP  SARGENT 


Where's  the  Picture? 

RJi,TINi?ELI'  writes  that  he  sends  a  P'cture  of  his  theater.  It  must 
m  nave  been  taken  with  one  of  those  pinhole  cameras  on  a  pinhead 
„nH  Fv  '  ■  "  was  to°  sma"  t0  be  discovered  in  the  envelope.  If  he'll 
send  another  picture  that  is  visible  to  the  naked  eve.  we'll  be  glad  to  use  it 
since  it  concerns  a  special  advertising  stunt. 

,Ja  y°aA  ?.et  ,a  SpeC',al  ,obby  dispIay  get  someone  to  make  a  photograph  of  it 
?£;„f  £    V  ?'      Ye  re  a,ways  B'adt0  ^t  photographs  that  concern  adver- 

rising  displays  though  th.s  department  does  not  use  house  front  pictures  un- 
less  specially  dressed  for  some  scheme. 

Please  Kill  a  Printer. 

^eJ^lSb  thf  Mr-  Tinde"  would  take  a  day  off  s°°"  and  kill  the  printer 
That  £  li,Mre,  T  t0  "Bunyon"  and  «is  Pilgrim's  Progress.  A  man  like 
mlr ?J ■     I  ref6-r  "i-G-  Washu"?ton.     Mr.  Tindell  has  been  having  the 

writes  thai  ?teleSS  E  b'S  v°US!'  the  Grand  Theater-  Valdosta.  Ga.  and 
m>f,?r,  ,1.  .  b^ght  m  the  church  people  who  seldom  if  ever  attend  a 
picture  theater.     He  says: 

There  were  several  parties;  the  Sunday  School  teachers  and  their 
classes,  the  High  School  baseball  team  and  the  visitors  (there  was 
a  game  in  the  afternoon),  twenty-eight  school  teachers  and  most  of 
the  ministers.  Ministers  and  teachers  were  admitted  free.  In  my 
opinion  by  inviting  ministers  and  teachers,  we  got  in  others  who  do 
not,  as  a  rule,  attend  photoplay  theaters. 

M^hT-'SHWlhalthiiS  de,P"Vnent  has  been  telling  right  along  and  the  fact  that 

A  n,i„ \Z.     ■  ^  h'S   r,ecords   proves  the   P°int-   if  il  needed  proving. 

A  minister  in  your  theater  doesn't  just  mean  a  minister.     It  means  his  en- 

cMHrTn"^  'X  T3nS   ^  P^sence   of   his   parishioners,    it   means   that   the 

«  L  ea'"  6?d  th,e  ba°  lifted"  !t  means'  in  a  word-  a  better  ap- 
preciation of  what  a  photoplay  performance  is  on  the  part  of  those  who 
through  ignorance,  have  supposed  it  to  be  what  some  sensational  papers' 
have  painted  it  as  being.  i»«i«;»a 

lines  be'inP*Se  advertisement  in  the  local  PaPer  was  well  worded,  the  catch 

Announcement  Extraordinary. 

Religious   Vision    Drama* 

Pilgrim's    Progress. 

The   Grand  Theater's 

Easter   Program,    Saturday,    March   22nd. 

fu\h^°n]y  comment  to  be  made  is  that  there  is  no.  reference  to  the  fact 
.?=.  tZlt  lS!  vlsu.aIization  of  John  Bunyan's  storv.  Most  persons  will  get 
that  fact  without  further  elaboration,  but  it  is  better  to  be  definite 
ah™ 7„  'J"6  he37  ^J5  ,he  statement  that  it  is  in  four  reels,  lasting 
about  an  hour  and  a  half,  some  personal  commendation  from  ministers  and 
others  in  cities  where  the  subject  had  been  shown,  the  statement  that 
ministers  and  school  teachers  were  invited  to  be  the  guests  of  the  manage-  ' 
ment  at  the  matinee  showings,  the  prices  and  times  of  showing  It  is  a 
well  written  and  well  balanced  advertisement;  not  too  loud  in  tone  but 
emphatic. 

One  Good  Point. 

These  religious  subjects,  if  well  made  and  of  due  reverence,  can  do  a . 
world  of  good  to  a  house.  But  the  management  must  back  up  the  subject, 
not  alone  through  judicious  booming  but  by  making  the  surroundings  aid  in 
the  effect  created  by  the  picture.  If  you  can  gain  a  better  effect  by  putting 
in  an  organ  and  hiring  a  church  organist  in  place  of  your  regular  pianist. 
do  so,  even  though  the  added  expense  threatens  to  wipe  out  your  profit 
Do  all  you  can  to  further  the  impression  and  the  money  spent  will  come 
back,  not  after  many  days,  but  many  days  thereafter,  for  vou  will  have 
broken  down  the  reserve  of  some  of  the  prejudiced  and  will  have  made  fans 
of  some  of  those  who  have  regarded  photoplay  theaters  as  little  better  than 
dance  halls. 

Had  Many  Inquiries. 

Mr.  Tindell  adds  that  he  has  had  many  inquiries  as  to  some  of  the 
schemes  recently  mentioned  in  this  department  and  that  he  has  been  glad 
to  reply  as  fully  as  possible  in  the  interests  of  the  business  in  general, 
the  willingness  of  many  managers  to  help  others  is  one  of  the  most  pleas- 
ant features  of  the  business.  In  many  respects  it  is  unusual.  But  now  and 
then  this  courtesy  is  abused.  We  had  a  letter  this  morning  from  a  man 
who  wanted  some  small  town  exhibitor  to  tell  bim  how  to  run  a  small 
town  theater.     That  is  taxing  courtesy  too  far. 

And  if  you  write  a  brother  exhibitor,  send  a  self-addressed  and  stamped 
envelope.    It  s  the  least  you  can  do  to  save  him  trouble. 


sw  t^jutvttt  Sara-*  '-ms 

PROGRAM 

SATURDAY,  MARCH  29th 

Pathe  Drama— Romeo  and  Juliet  (Two-reel  Feature) 

Essanay   Comedy— The   Girl    in   the   West 

Vitagraph  Drama-Topical— Buttercups   and  The  Panama   Canal 

Selig    Comedy— The    Early    Bird 

One  Good  Farce  Comedy 

unLhporh.antIitlooekrngn0typP:!,in8  P°Wer'  «""  *<  f"tUr"  a"  *-  *•  — « 

lines  stin7na?enb0XeS,0S  ei'ber  '/£,.'*  this  program  there  are  a  few  catch, 
o "  Zenda"    J,  V  ^       The  kittle  Minister"  and   "The   Prisoner 

tM.   «  8      f.  S1"  **•*  and   the  same   white   face  as   "Mention 

this   program    when    patronizing   our   advertisers."      The    third   and    fourth 

w°Ih  Jam"  Tu^T'"  What-er-and  a  fi-  -el  "Prisoner  of  Zenda  " 
of  g.risTn  the  townt     '  *  the  C°mmg  attracti°ns   with  a  college   full 

The  house  carries  an  excellent  announcement  in  its  program  front  with 
an  intelligent  discussion  of  fire  risks,  but  it  makes  no  usf  of  advertising 
space  that  other  people  pay  money  to  use.  It  would  pay  to  put  a  press 
man  in  charge  of  the  program  who  can  evolve  better  lines  than  "Every 
attraction  is  the  best  obtainable."     Ifs  a  waste  of  opportunity  at  present 

The  Difference. 

Look  at  this  program  If  the  printer  does  his  work,  it  is  more  our  idea 
of  what  things  should  be: 


Tuesday,  March  18th 

ROMEO  AND  JULIET 

__  A   splendid   Pathe   two-part    feature 

THE  GIRL  IN  THE  WEST 

A  classy  Essanay  comedy 

BUTTER  CUPS 

A   Vitagraph 

THE  EARLY  BIRD 

A  Selig  Comedy 

THE  PANAMA  CANAL 

Late  Vitagraph  pictures  of  the  big  ditch 
And  another  farcical  photoplay 


Then,  in  the  spare  spaces  talk  specific  points.     There  is  page  after  page 

that   could   be   printed   of   the    "Prisoner  of  Zenda,"   other    pages   of   "The 

Little  Minister."     Don't  print  the  pages.  Boil  them  down  into  paragraphs 

Make  your  program   talk  for  you.     Take  your  own   medicine   and   use  your 
own  advertising  space  to  advantage. 


And  Now  It's  Smithers. 


The  Other  Extreme. 

The  Bryn  Mawr  (Pa.)  Theater  goes  to  the  other  extreme  in  a  twelve- 
page  and  cover  program  One-third  of  six  of  the  twelve  inside  pages  is 
given  to  he  house  and  the  rest  is  sold  to  the  foreign  advertisers.  Worse 
still,  effective  use  has  not  been  made  of  the  space  at  command.  The  outside 
advertising  is  more  or  less  effectively  displayed,  but  the  program  is  crowded 


C.  T.  Smithers  is  the  latest  to  fall  in  line  with  a  weekly.  The  first 
issue  of  the  Idle  Hour  Educator,  Aberdeen,  S.  D.,  is  dated  March  15th. 
It  is  an  eight-page  paper,  six  by  nine  inches,  the  three  inside  right  hand 
pages  carrying  advertisements  of  coming  specials.  It  is  in  no  sense  a  weekly 
program,  but  a  weekly  paper  consisting  of  part  press  work  and  part  genera'! 
matter  from  various  uncredited  sources.  The  common  mistake  of  using 
too  large  a  type  has  not  been  made,  a  condensed  ten-point  being  used  that 
is  at  once  clear  and  compact.  The  five  pages  of  reading  matter  are  about 
equally  divided  between  booming  and  miscellany,  but  it  is  all  readable 
and  when  Mr.  Smithers  remembers  to  change  a  lifted  paragraph  to  conform 
to  its  new  surrounding,  it  will  be  well  edited.  As  an  example  of  what  is 
meant  he  lifts  a  Universal  item  that  speaks  of  "one  of  our  cowboys," 
though  it  is  plain  that  even  in  South  Dakota  cowboys  are  not  regularly 
attached    to    photoplay   theaters. 

In  one  paragraph  he  bewails  the  fact  that  some  lost  articles  have  been 
in^  storage  for  nearly  a  year.  If  he  will  take  a  tip  from  the  Isis  News, 
he'll    run    a    Lost   and   Found   department    and    get    rid    of   them. 

Just  the  same  it's  a  fine  start  and  a  much  more  presentable  sheet  in  its 


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first  issue  than  many  that  have  run  a  much  longer  time.  It's  the  Smithers' 
way  to  do  things  well.  The  answer  is  found  in  this  paragraph  from  the 
Aberdeen  American: 

Mr.    Smithers   was    formerly    one   of   the   best   known   editors   of 

South    Dakota   and    for   years    published   his   weekly,   which    was    a 

political   and    social    power.      He   has   since   gone    into   the    moving 

picture  business  and  his  latest  venture  is  a  return  in  a  way  to  his 

early  day  activities. 

The  Idle    Hour   Educator  is   a  two-column,   eight-page   pamphlet, 

issued  every  Saturday  and   its  circulation  is   2,000   from  the  start. 

enough  to  leave  a  copy  at  the  door  of  every  borne   in  Aberdeen. 

Ten    carrier    boys   constitute    its    delivery    force.      It    has    no    mail 

service   and   the   subscription    price   is   nil. 

Fill-Ups. 

The  Topline  Indicator,  the  house  organ  of  the  M.  P.  Sales  Agency,  Lon- 
don, has  started  a  column  of  what  it  calls  "Program  Fill-Ups,"  brief,  snappy 
items  about  the  players  of  the  companies  whose  subjects  they  handle.  The 
idea  is  a  good  one  and  we  think  it  would  pay  the  manufacturers  here  to 
follow  this  example  and  send  out  a  press  sheet  with  their  bulletin  slips.  The 
Kalem  Kalendar  is  the  only  printing  of  the  Licensed  side  to  give  good 
program  matter  and  on  the  Independent  end  the  Eclair  publication  gives 
about  all  that  comes  from  that  side.  With  the  growing  use  of  programs, 
the  manufacturers  are  overlooking  cheap  but  most  valuable  publicity.  It 
would  not  cost  much  to  get  out  such  a  sheet,  but  even  the  Vitagraph  Bulle- 
tin does  not  give  the  gossip  that  would  come  in  so  handy  to  many  managers, 
excellent  as  that  publication  is  in  other  helps. 

Answers  Questions. 

Ralph  Talbot,  of  the  Palace  Theater,  Tulsa,  Okla.,  has  a  new  idea  that 
he  passes  on  to  the  rest.     He  writes: 

Having  been  a  reader  of  your  publication  for  a  number  of  years, 
and  more  recently  a  close  observer  of  your  "Advertising  for  the 
Exhibitor"  Department,  I  wish  to  contribute  a  method  of  adver- 
tising which  I  believe  is  original,  although  it  was  suggested  by  your 
inquiry   department. 

I  show  a  slide,  and  carry  an  ad  in  the  daily  papers  to  this  effect: 
PALACE  THEATER 
Motion    Picture    Inquiry    Day 
EVERY    THURSDAY 
Any  question  you  wish  to  ask  about  the  pictures,  or  the  players, 
send  by  mail  to  the  PALACE 
Answers  will  be  given  here  each  performance  on  Thursday  each  week 
I  answer  the  questions  received  the  previous  week  each  Thursday 
and  write  a  few  questions  myself,  concerning  the  safety  of  the  pro- 
jection   apparatus,    the    fire   exits,    coming    feature    pictures,    etc. 

I  was  surprised  at  the  number  of  questions  that  I  have  received. 
And  it  not  only  increases  the  patronage  on  Thursday,  but  it  con- 
veys to  them  the  knowledge  that  you  are  striving  to  entertain  them 
in  every  way. 

I  believe  if  you  publish  this  scheme  in  your  magazine,  it  will 
interest    many    exhibitors. 

This  is  in  refreshing  contrast  to  many  managers  who  throw  a  veil  of 
mystery  about  the  pictures,  either  because  they  do  not  or  will  not  know, 
and  who  return  grouchy  replies  to  the  simplest  questions.  The  courteous 
reply  to  questions,  no  matter  how  silly  they  may  seem  to  you,  will  do 
much  to  make  friends  for  the  house.  This  goes  a  step  further  and  results 
in  a  little  lecture  that  cannot  but  interest  those  who  are  interested  in  the 
pictures.  We  are  always  ready  to  give  what  help  we  may  to  the  manager 
who  needs  assistance  in  this  direction. 

Noisy,  But  Good. 

Taking  a  quick  look  at  a  poster  of  the  Wonderland,  Ponca  City,  Okla., 
we   get   these    four    lines: 

Scoop 

We've    got    'em. 

The  Man  They  Scorned  ! 

The   Elephant  Sleuth  I 

Wonderland. 

There's  a  lot  of  small  type  in  between,  but  any  man  who  got  that  cir- 
cular would  get  those  lines  and  they  form  the  whole  story.  The  rest  is 
supplemental.  That  much  would  sink  in  in  the  single  glance  that  is  given 
instinctively  before  the  sheet  is  thrown  away.  Not  a  sheet  of  that  paper 
will  be  wasted.  Most  of  the  announcements  will  be  real.  It's  good  and 
black  even  -though  printed  on  cheap,  pink  stock  and  it  gets  over. 

We  hope  that  Bert  I.  Williams,  who  sends  the  copy  in,  gives  the  printer 
a  cigar  occasionally  for  getting  his  ideas  out  in  good  shape.  And  he  should 
hand  himself  a  smoke  more  frequently  because  he  has  ideas  to  give  the 
printer.  Pick  out  the  big  lines  and  have  them  set  so  that  the  reader  will 
get  them  at  the  first  glance.  Then  build  up  on  that  with  the  smaller  type. 
Here's  some   of  the  smaller  type: 

This  comedy  is  assuredly  one  of  the  best  things  ever  attempted. 
It  is  a  delicious  mirth  provoker,  and  we  guarantee  the  hardiest  stoic 
on  the  face  of  the  globe   will  not  be  able  to  prevent  his  features 
from  relaxing  into   a  broad   grin  after  gazing  at   this  picture. 
Something  of  a  word  painter  is  Mr.  Williams. 

No  Vaudeville,  But— 
Arthur   G.    Pearson,    of   Pearson's   Perfect   Pictures,   Melrose,    Somerville 
and    Winter   Hill,    Mass.,    writes: 

We  have  never  put  in  vaudeville  and  what  is  the  consequence? 
Instead  of  nasty  criticism,  we  have  the  best  people  in  the  city,  and 
they  go  away  with  nothing  but  praise  and  commendation. 
Evidently  the  local  editors  are  pleased  and  praising  patrons  of  Pearson's 
Perfect    Pictures,    for    he   sends   a    Dunch    of   clippings,   most   of  which    are 
editorial  comment  in  appreciation  of  the  Pearson  enterprise. 

Mr.  Pearson  is  inclined  to  use  too  much  type  in  his  advertisements. 
Ten  lines  with  a  punch  and  "pep"  is  a  better  advertisement  than  twenty 
or  thirty  lines  of  synopsis,  but   he's  dead   r-ght  on   the   vaudeville   proposi- 


tion.    The  sort  of  vaudeville  a  photoplay  theater  can   afford  has  no  place 
with   the   sort   of  pictures  the   cheapest   place   gets. 

Isis  Improvements. 

The  Isis  News.  Trinidad,  Colo.,  under  the  editorship  of  Jack  Nash,  who 
also  owns  the  house,  has  added  a  Lost  and  Found  column  to  its  other 
features.  It  is  a  good  idea  for  a  weekly  paper  or  program.  Try  it.  Then, 
to  convince  the  advertisers,  he  explains  that  on  the  first  issue  of  the 
column  five  of  the  lost  articles  were  claimed  the  first  thing  Monday  morn- 
ing, showing  that  the  paper  is  closely  read.  The  paper  is  read,  anyhow, 
for  even  the  film  boosts  are  well  done.  Here  is  something  that  others  can 
use  by  changing  the  name  of  the   house: 

See  good  pictures  and  you'll  feel  better.  See  them  at  the  Isis 
and  we'll  feel  better,  too. 

Souvenirs  were  given  out  St.  Patrick's  Day  and  pretty  soon  three  vacuum 
cleaners  are  going  to  be  awarded  the   same   day.     Going  some? 

Gone,  Hats  and  All. 

Carey  Wilson,  his  green  caterpillar  chapeau  and  the  glossy  silk  tile 
that  he  sometimes  wears  when  he  comes  to  New  York,  have  all  left 
Rutherford,  N.  J.,  and  the  •  Criterion  theater,  to  come  to  New  York  to 
handle  the  bookings  of  "The  Prisoner  of  Zenda"  for  the  Sherry  Company, 
owners  of  the  New  York  State  rights.  Apart  from  his  peculiar  hats,  Wilson 
is  truly  notable  as  being  the  one  man  w.10  turned  down  a  government  job 
under  the  present  administration.  He  did  run  over  to  Washington  and 
handle  the  distribution  of  tickets  for  the  uovernment  grand  stands  at  the 
inauguration,  but  he  scorns  a  regular  job  under  his  Uncle  Sam  and  Wood- 
row,  preferring  to  make  his  stand  with  photoplay.  He  has  done  good  work 
for  the  Criterion.  We  think  he  will  do  better  with  his  broader  field,  for 
he  has  brains  under  his  amusing  headgear. 

Says  He  Isn't. 

Melvin  G.  Winstock,  of  the  People's  Amusement  Company,  Portland. 
Oregon,  denies  that  he  is  dead  without  knowing  it.  He  explains  that  per- 
sonal affairs  have  occupied  what  little  spare  time  he  had  and  goes  on  to- 
prove  his  existence  by  making  a  few  remarks,  to  wit: 

I  arise  at  this  time  to  make  the  suggestion  to  the  manufacturers 
that  in  pictorial  paper  which  they  send  out  to  the  exhibitors,  they 
put  on  the  paper,  whether  it  is  one,  two,  three,  four  or  five  reels, 
so  as  to  let  the  public  know  when  a  manager  is  sufficiently  enter- 
prising to  put  on  stuff  over  1000  feet  in  length.  Have  something  on 
the  paper  to  tell  the  public  of  that  fact,  and  they  cannot  make  it 
too  prominent.  A  great  many  of  the  producers  fail  in  this  respect 
and  put  it  up  to  the  exhibitor.  By  giving  direct  attention  to  this, 
the  factory  will  be  doing  its  duty  ana  helping  the  exhibitor. 

The  importance  of  this  lies  in  the  fact,  say  take  a  house  running 
four  reels  and  one  of  those  attractions  is  a  three  reel  feature. 
There  is  only  one  kind  of  paper  in  the  lobby,  and  the  public  come 
up,  glance  at  the  pictorial  showing,  and  walk  away,  not  stopping 
to  consider  that  one  of  the  pictures  is  a  two,  three  or  four  reel  pro- 
duction. 

On  last  Sunday,  March  23d,  we  started  a  week's  engagement  of 
Frederick  Warde  in  Richard  III.  We  secured  a  splendid  set  of 
Shakespeare  in  20  volumes,  and  advertised  rather  broadly  that  we 
would  give  this  set  of  Shakespeare  to  the  boy  or  girl  attending 
high  school  who  wrote  the  best  essay  on  the  production,  there  being 
but  one  requirement,  that  they  see  the  picture  at  the  Peoples 
Theater,  and  so  affirm.  In  response  to  this  tbere  have  been  at  least 
1000  students  who  have  come  to  the  theater  to  see  Richard  III,  and 
essays  are  coming  in  rapidly. 

I  enclose  herein  a  newspaper  clipping  telling  of  a  little  experience 
which  occurred  at  one  of  our  theaters  at  the  initial  performance  of 
the  picture.  Of  course,  we  kept  the  man  for  the  rest  of  the  ex- 
hioitions,   and   he  made  good. 

Strips  Will  Do. 

The  suggestion  is  a  good  one,  but  we  think  that  the  use  of  the  strips 
supplied  by  Hennegan,  Jacobs  and  others  that  read  "Complete  in  two 
parts."  or  whatever  the  number  of  reels.  This  is  not  as  elegant  as  the  an- 
nouncement on  the  poster  itself,  but  unless  the  poster  statement  is  ob- 
trusive to  the  point  of  obliterati»g  the  pictorial  space  the  strip  with  its  inch 
and  a  half  or  two  inch  letter  is  far  more  prominent  and  to  the  point.  By 
all  means  have  the  announcement  of  the  number  of  parts  on  the  poster, 
but  where  it  is  desired  to  emphasize  the  number  of  parts,  have  recourse  to 
the   strips. 

The  clipping  enclosed  relates  how,  when  The  Honor  System  was  shown 
in  one  of  the  theaters  owned  by  the  People's  Amusement  Company,  an 
honor  man  in  the  audience  got  up  and  was  moved  to  lecture  the  film.  Very 
naturally,  Winstock  retained  him  for  the  day,  but  we'd  like  to  bet  a  day's 
smokes  that  Winstock  planted  the  man  in  the  audience  in  the  first  place. 
Perhaps  he's  not  dead,  after  all,  but  we  reserve  judgment  until  he  strikes  his 
old-time  gait. 

Effective. 

The  most  recent  program  of  the  Tenth  Street  Theater,  Kansas  City, 
comes  out  in  a  cover  in  bronze  red  on  a  lilac  tint.  This  is  a  rather  heavy- 
lilac  and  a  decidedly  heavy  rea.  Try  the  combination  sometime  when  you 
want  something  striking  ai.J  yet  not  gaudy.  Take  plenty  of  time  for  the 
job  as  the  red  does  not  dry  quickly  and  is  liable  to  offset. 

Made  the  President  Help. 

The  Aberdeen  theater,  Chicago,  used  the  inauguration  pictures,  and  in  the 
lobby  displayed  a  personal  letter  to  the  management  from  the  President. 
It  was  merely  a  form  letter,  one  of  the  sort  that  went  out  from  Princeton 
by  the  thousands  during  toe  campaign,  but  it  was  a  letter  from  the  Presi- 
dent to  the  management,  and  somehow,  it  seemed  to  give  an  intimate  touch 
to  the  announcement  that  crowded  the  house.  They  sent  a  photograph  of 
the  poster  and  letter,  but  what  happened  to  it  in  the  mail  was  a  shame. 


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13fe  PHOTOPLAYWRIGHT 

Conducted  by  Epes  Wihthrop  Sargek5T 


The  Next  Dinner. 

AT  a  recent  meeting  of  the  Inquest  Club  it  was  decided  to  wind  up 
the  season  with  a  photoplay  writers'  dinner,  probably  at  the  Taverne 
Louis,  Saturday  evening.  May  31st,  when  the  club  will  probably  dis- 
band for  the  summer.  At  this  dinner,  as  at  the  last,  any  person  interested 
in  photoplay  writing,  either  as  author,  editor,  producer,  player  or  manu- 
facturer, is  eligible  to  attend. 

It  is  the  hope  of  the  club  to  eclipse  the  two  dinners  previously  held  and 
bring  together  a  truly  representative  gathering  of  those  interested  in  the 
production  of  photoplays.  We  are  making  an  early  start  that  all  may  be 
advised  in  time. 

Particulars  as  to  time  and  place  will  be  announced  later,  but  in  the  mean- 
time mark  down  the  date  and  refuse  all  engagements  for  that  evening.  The 
previous  dinners,  the  last  of  which  led  to  the  formation  of  the  Inquest 
Club,  have  done  splendid  service  in  bringing  together  those  who  write  and 
those  who  produce,  and  much  good  has  resulted  from  these  gatherings.  It  is 
hoped  that  at  the  coming  dinner  everyone  within  reaching  distance  of  New 
York  will  be  in  attendance.  Begin  to  get  ready  to  attend,  and  watch  for 
later  announcements. 


Send  Your  Carbons. 

If  you  have  sent  to  Universal,  read  this  from  Richard  Willis: 

As  you  doubtless  know,  our  Western  offices  were  burnt  down 
recently,  and  a  number  of  scenarios  and  all  of  our  records  were 
burnt.  We  would  very  much  appreciate  the  courtesy  of  a  notice  in 
your  paper  to  the  effect  that  we  will  be  glad  to  receive  carbon 
copies  of  any  scripts  in  our  hands  before  March  26th  and  will  give 
them  immediate  consideration. 


Change  American's  Address. 

The  American  Filim  Manufacturing  Co.  asks  that  all  manuscripts  be  sent 
to  the  studios  at  Santa  Barbara,  Calif.,  and  not  to  Chicago.  This  change 
will  affect  a  considerable  saving  in  time  and  lessen  the  chances  of  loss, 
while  assuring  direct  action. 


The  Reason  Why. 

Mrs.  Emily  B.  Heininger,  the  latest  addition  to  the  Essanay  script  room, 
delivered  herself  of  this  poem: 

The  saddest  word  that's  been  said  yet 
Is  the  editor's  favorite  word,   regret. 
Then  they  had  to  take  her  to  the  hospital  and  remove  her  appendix.    She 
does  not  state  that  the  poem  was  the  reason  why  but  we're  entitled  to  our 
own   opinion. 


Cut  Ammex  Off. 

This  is  a  communication  from  H.  K.  Eakle: 

In  order  to  protect  scenario  writers  from  loss  I  will  be  very 
pleased  if  you  will  kindly  make  known  through  your  Photoplay- 
wright  Department,  that  the  Ammex  Motion  Picture  Mfg.  Co.  is  not 
at  present  in  the  market  for  scripts,  as  they  have  suspended  opera- 
tions. 

I  am  aware  that  a  number  of  scripts  have  been  received  recently, 
and  I  fear  that  any  others  may  not  receive  the  proper  attention,  as 
the  company  has  no  editor. 

This  is  written  to  avoid  any  unpleasantness  for  the  authors,  and 
to  relieve  me,  personally,  from  any  responsibility,  inasmuch  as  I 
have  been  attending  to  the  photoplays  submitted  to  the  company 
of  late. 


Get  Outdoors. 

Companies  are  coming  back  from  the  south,  and  those  stay-at-homes  who 
have  been  sticking  close  to  the  studio  all  winter  are  now  looking  for  outdoor 
scripts.  If  the  "mostly  interior"  stuff  comes  back,  set  it  aside  until  October, 
and  frame  the  new  scripts  to  be  played  for  the  greater  part  out  of  doors. 

Of  course  the  California  companies  work  out  of  doors  the  year  round, 
but  with  some  of  the  eastern  companies  the  style  is  changing,  and  the  "all 
interior"  stuff  that  was  snatched  up  so  eagerly  in  December  is  now  de- 
spised, because  tne  glass  studio  is  first  cousin  to  an  oven  when  the  sun  beats 
down,  and  it  is  far  more  pleasant  to  get  into  autos  and  go  out  into  the 
country  with  a  rural  play. 


If  You  Live  In  New  Orleans. 

There  are  a  lot  of  photoplay  writers  in  New  Orleans.  We  have  the  name 
of  one  of  these  who  is  willing  to  undertake  to  start  a  New  Orleans  circle  of 
the  Inquest  Club.     If  you  want  to  belong  send  in  your  name. 


Our  Little  List. 

Add  these  to  the  list  of  old  time   plots: 

By  Ashton    Crawford. 
The    convict    who    escapes    and    robs    an    innocent    man    of    his    clothes, 
thereby   causing  another   to    appear    (temporarily)    as   the   jail-bird. 

The   story   of  the   writing   on    the   egg  which    is   relegated   to    cold   storage 


for  20  years;  then  to  be  discovered  by  a  love-lorn  man  who  seeks  out 
the  writer  who  by  this  time  has  at  least  one  unromantic  husband  and  a 
brood   of  children. 

The  war-play  in  which  the  heroine's  brother  acts  as  spy  and  is  dis- 
covered and  shielded  by  the  hero. 

The  pathetic  Mother-Play  in  which  Thanksgiving  and  pumpkin  pica  tug 
hard   at   the   heart-strings. 

The  play  in  which  the  rich  crippled-child  is  contrasted  with  the  poor 
strong  child,  and  in  which  the  two  are  brought  together  and  exchange 
notes — and  money. 

By  Frank  A.   Kramer. 

The   child    lost   early   in   life.      Later   identified   by  a   locket. 

The    husband   jealous   of  his    wife's   brother,   whom    he    has    never    teen. 

The  burglar  who  breaks  into  a  house  to  be  confronted  by  his  own 
child  who  has  been   adopted  by   the    family. 

The  policeman  who  calls  on  the  cook,  removes  his  hat  and  coat,  which 
are   used  by   another. 


That  Inquest  Club. 

We  have  figured  out  that  something  like  twenty  sales  have  already 
resulted  from  the  meetings  of  the  .Inquest  Club  including  the  chance  of 
one   member   to   get   in   touch   with    a  company   needing  fiction. 

Now,  the  Inquest  Club  does  not  offer  any  such  inducement  It  merely 
says  that  you  can  learn  things  about  technique  if  you  gather  with  your 
fellow  writers  and  talk  shop.  There  are  no  selling  hints  given  out  and 
no  plots  are  supposed  to  be  commented  upon  before  they  are  written, 
but  the  getting  together  assuredly  has  had  an  effect  entirely  unexpected. 
If  there  was  only  the  social  side  it  would  be  worth  your  time  and  the 
small  investment  for  refreshment  that  you  make,  but  you  learn  things. 
toe.  If  you  want  to  come  in  send  us  a  self-addressed  postal  card  and 
we'll  tell  you  when  the  next  meeting  will  be,  or  send  several  and  you'll 
be  advised  whenever  you  are  not  there.  There  are  no  fees,  no  dues, 
no    responsibility   of  any   sort.      Sing    out. 


Not  With  Essanay. 

Arthur  Leeds  writes  that  he  is  not  "with  Essanay,"  as  we  stated, 
though  he  has  done  much  work  for  that  company.  The  mistake  is  due  to 
a  statement  from  T.  E.  Letendre,  the  hesitant  editor  of  the  Photoplay 
Author.  Mr.  Leeds  is  a  free  lancer  and  the  associate  of  J.  Berg  Eisen- 
wein  in  the  latter's  photoplay  course  that  will  be  a  real  correspondence 
course  if  it  lives  up  to  the  other  Eisewein  propositions  along  short  story 
lines.  If  the  course  is  what  we  think  it  is,  we  shall  be  glad  to  welcome 
a  real  mail  course  that  will  be  conducted  by  persons  whose  credit  and 
establishment  is  too  high  to  permit  them  to  engage  in  a  swindling  scheme. 


Postal  Scales. 

We  note  that  there  are  all  sorts  of  parcels  post  postal  scales  offered  now 
that  will  weigh  up  to  eleven  pounds  by  half  ounces.  They  are  nice  tilings 
if  you  don't  care  what  sort  of  a  reputation  you  get,  but  if  you  want 
to  get  in  right,  throw  away  the  spring  scale  of  any  sort  and  get  a  regular 
post  office  scale  with  a  beam  weight.  It  will  cost  you  three  of  four 
dollars;  two  or  three  times  what  the  spring  balances  cost,  but  you  are  cer- 
tain   that   the    stuff   is  properly   weighed. 


"Stuff." 

We  had  a  very  indignant  letter  from  a  very  indignant  lady  the  other 
day  because  we  referred  to  her  "stuff."  She  wrote  that  it  might  be  stuff 
but  it  was  the  best  she  could  do  and  she  was  only  a  beginner. 

We  write  stuff.  We  sell  stuff.  Whatever  we  write  or  sell  is  stuff. 
Stuff  is  anything  that  is  written,  good,  bad  or  in  between.  It  is  plain 
slang,  but  like  "bully,"  "rotten,"  and  one  or  two  other  words  it  has 
been  accepted  into  the  newspaper  and  studio  language  as  being  brief  and 
descriptive.     Stuff,  in  a  word,  is  not  a  term  of  contempt 


Thinking  Them  Up. 

It  just  happened  not  long  ago  that  when  a  chap  told  us  of  the  great 
idea  he  had  for  a  story  we  were  able  to  locate  the  title  way  back  in  1911. 
He  had  not  the  slightest  idea  that  he  was  stealing  from  the  Biograph 
company,  but  the  comedy  had  made  an  impression  on  him  at  the  time  and 
now  that  he  is  searching  his  brain  for  ideas,  he  hit  upon  this  and  thought 
it  good.  It  was  good,  but  it  is  the  property  of  the  Biograph,  for  like  so 
many  of  their  ideas  it  was  so  well  marked  as  to  be   distinctive. 

When  you  get  an  inspiration,  try  and  remember  where  you  got  it  and 
train  yourself  to  remember  sources.  It  helps  a  lot  in  avoiding  charges  of 
plagiarism.  At  best  we  all  trespass  now  and  then.  Do  not  do  it  more 
than  you  can  help. 

Stamped  Envelopes. 

In  three  days  it  has  cost  us  thirty  eight  cents  for  stamps  and  about 
ten  cents  for  envelopes  to  reply  to  questions  that  do  not  in  the  least 
contribute  to  our  income.  One  was  from  a  man  who  wanted  us  to  tell  him 
all  about  how  to  write  photoplays  and  it  ran  from  there  to  a  man  who 
wanted  to  join  the  Inquest  Club  and  who  had  twice  gone  to  a  place  that 
is  not  our  office  to  ask  about  it. 

We  do  not  begrudge  the  cost  of  the  stamps  and  stationery,  but  we 
do  hate  like  the  very  deuce  to  address  envelopes  to  people  who  are 
too  lazy  or  too  ignorant  to  enclose  the  reply  envelop  that  the  commonest 
courtesy  demands  should  be  sent  when  a  favor  is  asked. 

It's  a  funny  thing  that  ninety-nine  per  cent  of  the  people  who  want 
to  know  where  they  can  buy  the  Technique  of  the  Photoplay  J=nd  a 
reply  envelope  with  the  inquiry,  but  the  man  who  wants  to  get  eight 
or  ten  dollars'  worth  of  information  free  doesn't  do  it. 

It's  the  same  way  when  vou  write  editors.  If  you  are  asking  a  ques- 
tion send  a  stamp  for  reply  and  don't  stick  the  stamp  to  your  letter 
head,  but  put  it  on  a  self  addressed  envelope. 


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Just  About  Right. 

Herman  A.  Blackmail  has  been  studying  the  market  and  this  is  the  result 
of  his  studies: 

I    believe    that    editors    buy    their    stuff    much    like    I    buy    my 

groceries,  mainly  from  a  few  tried  and  dependable   sources.     If  I 

see  a  bargain  at  a  strange   grocery   I   snap  it   up,   but   it   must  be 

unusual.     My  ordinary  stuff  I  buy  of  one  grocer  for  I  have  tried 

him  and  found  him  dependable.     In  like  manner  I  believe  that  the 

editor    buys    his    ordinary   stuff    from    some    tried    and    dependable 

men.     I  want  to  become  one  of  these  men  and  I  am  willing  to  work 

hard  and  long  to  do   it. 

That's  the  whole  selling  scheme  in  a  nutshell.     Jim  Jones  writes  a  story 

and  so  does  Joe  Smith.     They  are  both  fair  stories  though  neither  is  out  of 

the   ordinary.      But   Jim    sends    in    six    or    eight    scripts    a   month.      Many 

of    these    have  been   put   on   and    they   get   on    the  screen    in    pretty   good 

shape.     Joe  has  sent  in  only  a  couple  that  have  not  been  good.     Naturally 

the    editor    will    give    the   preference    to  Jim,    because    he    knows    that  Joe 

may   not  turn  in   another   good   one   in    six   months,    but  Jim    will   have   a 

couple   up   to   standard   in   next   week   and    next    month.      If  Joe    comes    in 

with  a  story   twice   as   good   as  Jim's   the   editor   will    give   Joe   the   check, 

but  other  things  being  equal,  it  is  a  better   plan   to  encourage   the  evenly 

good   writer   who   knows   precisely    what   the   studio   wants  and    can  supply 

*  story  up  to  mark  and  sometimes  beyond. 

If  you  are  not  yet  up  to  the  point  where  you  can  always  deliver  the 
goods,  send  out  only  the  occassional  unusual.  Save  the  others  until, 
with   the  practise   you   gain,  you   can   make   these,   too,   original. 


Inquiries. 


Say  Not  So. 

This  from  a  St.   Louis  correspondent: 

If  I  should  ever  become  a  successful   writer   of  scenarios   I  will 
certainly  take  you   to  task  for   your  undisguised   contempt   for   the 
amateur  "scenarian."     We  probably  deserve  it,  yet  I  think  it  spoils 
the  tone   of  your  column. 
The    writer    can    take    us    to    task    right    now    and    we    enter    a    plea    of 
general    denial.      When    he   gets    to    a    point    where    he    learns    to    drop    the 
obsolete  "scenario"   (to  say  nothing  of  the  still  more  horrible  "scenarian"), 
he  will  realize  that  our  scorn  is  not  directed  at  those  who  are  commencing 
to   learn   to   write  photoplays,   but  at   a   class   of   persons   who   cannot   even 
write  a  ten   line  letter,  and  yet  who  call   themselves   photoplay  writers   and 
_  spend   half  the   time  they  should  spend   in   learning  how  to   write  plays 
telling  how  stupid  the  editors  are  in   taking  the   rot  that  is  produced   upon 
the    screen    instead    of    their    own    well-nigh    perfect    product,    or    declaring 
that   this   company    or   that    has   stolen    a   valuable    idea    from    them.      They 
cumber  the  business,  they  interfere  with  the  success  of  others  by  irritating 
the  editors   and   they  never   will   gain   success  because   they   lack  the   brains 
to    write. 

This  department  is  largely  for  the  beginner  and  it  aims  to  help  and 
develop  the  earnest,  honest  aspirant.  Both  in  print  and  in  our  personal 
correspondence  we  are  always  ready  to  help  those  who  deserve  help,  but 
we  have  no  use  for  the  man  or  woman  who  writes  that  their  scripts  are 
better  than  the  purchased  product  and  that  editors  are  fools  and  thieves. 
Wc  are  for  all  photoplay  writers,  no  matter  what  their  stage  of  develop- 
ment, but  we  have  no  time  to  waste  on  the  hopeless.  There's  a  difference 
between  the  man  who  cannot,  but  will,  and  the  man  who  never  can,  and 
•imply  growls. 


The  American's  Viewpoint. 

The  American  company  recently  purchased  the  rights  to  Stewart  Edward 
White'*  Ashes  ef  Roses  for  film  purposes.  Mr.  White  makes  his  residence 
in  Santa  Barbara,  where  the  American  studios  are  located  and  this  an- 
nouncement by  the  company  gains  interest  from  that   fact. 

Most  film  makers  are  keen  to  secure  copyrighted  stories  by  well 
known  authors  for  reproduction,  and  while  the  American  does  not 
in  any  way  minimize,  in  its  own  opinion,  the  value  of  such  stories, 
it  nevertheless  thinks  that  in  laying  your  requirements  before  the 
author  and  having  your  story  written  to  suit  local  needs,  you  obtain 
a  distinct  advantage  over  the  already  writen  tale.  At  the  same  time 
the  value  of  well  known  names  can  be  retained  in  advertising 
the   him. 

The  trouble  is  that  the  author  of  the  successful  novel  possesses  little 
technical  equipment  and  will  require  as  much  coaching  as  the  veriest 
novice.  Few  of  the  filmed  novels  have  made  better  stories  than  the  best 
work  of  men  like  Emmett  Campbell  Hall,  William  H.  Kitchell,  George 
Terwilliger  and  writers  of  that  class,  since  most  of  the  charm  of  the  novel 
lies  in  the  style  more  than  in  the  plot.  The  successful  fiction  author  who 
makes  good  with  photoplay  does  so  in  spite  of  his  fiction  training  rather 
because  of  it. 


He  Wonders  Why. 

"I  thank  you  very  much  for  the  interest  you  have  taken  in  my  photo- 
play. However,  I  do  not  well  understand  why  you  say  the  same  is  con- 
ventional, because  large  film  manufacturers  turn  out  almost  daily  much 
poorer  stuff  than  this." 

That's  part  of  a  letter,  and  the  writer  wonders  why  he  is  not  a  hit  with 
the  film  makers. 

Listen,  all  you  fatuous  who  see  so  much  that  is  "not  as  good"  as  your 
heaven- bom  scripts. 

Ytu'v*  tot  to  beat  tkt  best,  not  the  worst  you  see. 

If  you  do,  the  manufacturers  will  take  yours  in  place  of  the  stuff  they 
mm  because  they  can  get  no  better. 


Forty  Miles  to  See  His  Play. 

E.  R.  Coffin,  of  El  Capitan  Ranch,  Dexter,  N.  M„  has  to  go  forty 
miles  to  Roswell  when  they  put  one  of  his  plays  on.  That  is  the  nearest 
picture  house  and  he  has  arranged  with  the  manager  to  call  him  on  the 
telephone  when  one  of  his  subjects  is  shown.  It's  an  eighty  mile  round 
trip,  but  they  are  used  to  little  things  like  that  down  near  the  border, 
but  at  that  it's  going  some. 


NOTE— Replies  cannot  be  seat  by  mail.  State  name  of  character.  Do  not 
ask  for  "leads"  or  "that  man."  Addresses  cannot  be  given  here,  but  a  list 
of  studio  addresses  will  be  sent  for  a  stamped  and  self-addressed  envelope. 
Only  questions  of  general  interest  will  be  answered.    Replies  cannot  be  repeated. 

M.  N.  W. — Sorry,  but  the  American  casts  have  not  been  coming  In  lately. 

EUBENA — You're  getting  to  be  worse  than  Flossie  C.  P.,  and  Flossie  was 
funny.  No  Jack  is  listed  in  the  cast  of  "Tamandra."  Edwin  Carewe  married 
her,  and  Earl  Metcalfe  was  her  friend.     We  cannot  reply  to  Pathe  questions. 

ADMIRER — We  charge  advertising  rates  for  five-word  signatures,  so  we  cut 
you  down.  We  have  no  means  of  knowing  the  Lubin  production  plans.  If 
you  are  interested  in  Bret  Harte's  poems,  watch  Kalem  for  "John  Burns  at 
Gettysburg." 

H.Z.—  Most  too  many  questions  for  one  postcard.  William  Clifford  was 
Haley,  Miss  Grace  Cnnard  his  wife,  Marion  Emmons  their  son  as  a  child,  and 
Ray  Myers  the  son  grown.  Take  a  walk  along  Fourteenth  Street  and  answer 
the  second  question  for  yourself.  Remember  that  all  the  licensed  first  runs 
are  shown  at  the  City  Theater  between  9  o'clock  and  noon,  but  not  all  after 
that. 

MRS.  S. — We  don't  know  whether  Miss  Florence  Lawrence  is  a  suffragette 
or  not.  She  did  ride  in  the  parade,  but  Bunny  was  in  the  parade,  for  that 
matter.  We  do  not  think  that  Miss  Lawrence  herself  knows  when  she  Is 
going  to  play  again. 

W.  E.  0. — It  was  Kalem's  Prosecuting  Attorney  you  are  asking  about.  Guy 
Coombs  had  the  title  role.  The  Vitagraph  cast  does  not  name  the  character 
you  ask  for.  Get  material  for  your  oration  from  The  Moving  Picture  Educator 
department.  This  should  give  you  the  facts  you  want.  We  have  nothing 
other  than  this. 

G.  M.  T. — We'll  use  the  colored  picture  of  that  "handsome  god  from  another 
world"  the  first  time  he  is  willing  to  pay  for  it.  We  do  not  "chat"  players. 
You  are  thinking  of  the  M.  P.  Story  Magazine,  aren't  you? 

B.  S. — It  is  with  very  great  regret  that  we  are  compelled  to  suspend  the 
Kay-Bee  identifications  until  the  identifier  gets  on  the  job  again.  At  present 
he  is  busy  with  the  surgeons  in  the  hospital. 

E,  A.  S. — Mrs.  Ed  Kimball  played  Susie's  mother  in  "Susie  to  Suzanne." 
Mrs.  Turner  did  play  a  couple  of  parts  when  she  was  in  California  with  her 
daughter  some  time  ago.  but  does  not  play  regularly. 

H.  L. — Probably  the  script  went  to  Universal.  Address  the  photoplay  depart- 
ment, Mecca  Building,  New  York  City.  After  this  keep  a  carbon  copy  of 
your  script  and  save  worry.    And  don't  query  in  four  weeks.    Be  more  patient. 

AITCH — Not  necessary  to  use  two  signatures  in  asking  two  questions.  You 
cannot  copyright  an  unproduced  photoplay  without  getting  Congress  to  change 
the  present  laws.  No  necessity  for  it.  A  night  scene  is  merely  an  under- 
exposed picture.  A  picture  such  as  you  suggest  would  become  tiresome, 
because  it  would  be  muddy  photography  throughout.  One  or  two  scenes  will 
pass,  but  not  a  full  thousand  feet  of  moonlight  stuff.  Better  try  something 
else. 

T.  D.— Edwin  S.  Porter  is  announced  as  the  producer  of  "The  Prisoner  of 
Zenda." 

D.  D. — See  answer  to  B.  S.  above.  Harold  Lock  wood  was  the  grown-up 
Jack  in  "The  Llpton  Cup." 

E.  H. — This  department  does  not  concern  itself  as  to  where  the  pictures 
were  made. 

E.  E. — Arthur  Johnson  has  not  left  the  Lubin  company.  Don't  believe  all 
the  gossip  you  hear.     Wait  nntil  we  print  it  and  you  can  bank  on  it. 

I.  M.  G.— See  answer  to  B.  S. 

RUBENA — Gus  Pixley  was  the  sheriff  in  "The  Power  of  the  Camera."  Miss 
Sylvia  Ashton  was  the  bride  in  "A  Delivery  Package."  "Notre  Dame"  was 
made  in  Paris. 

B.  R.  G. — If  you  are  told  that  your  script  is  similar  in  theme  to  one  already 
used,  you'll  do  well  to  drop  it,  no  matter  what  you  think  about  it  yourself. 
You'll  save  time  and  postage  stamps  if  you  improve  your  spelling  before  you 
write  more  photoplays. 

M.  J,  P, — Sign  a  name  next  time.  Wilfred  Lucas  is  directing  for  the  Bison 
brand  of  the  Universal. 

CARLOTTA — You  are  not  supposed  to  see  licensed  pictures  on  an  Inde- 
pendent program,  but  it  frequently  happens  that  you  do.  Many  of  these  are 
purchased  in  the  open  market  abroad  and  sent  back  here  after  they  have  been 
run  in  English  or  Continental  houses.  We  know  that  Fielding  thing.  We 
won't  do  it  again.     The  company  cast  was  obscure. 

H.  Y. — These  are  the  last  Kay-Bee  identifications  before  the  identifier  went 
to  the  hospital.  Miss  Anna  Little  was  Betty  Brown  in  "Smiling  Dan."  She 
was  the  same  who  played  in  "The  Mosaic  Law."  Nick  Cogley  was  Mabel's 
father  in  "Mabel's  Heroes." 

L.  M.  B. — Tom  Moore  is  Owen  Moore's  brother.  The  Biograph  identifier  is 
still  at  sea  as  to  the  identity  of  the  lady  you  ask  about. 

F.  C.  P. — See  Just  above.  Miss  Isabelle  Lamon  was  the  nurse  In  "The 
Higher  Duty."  Hughie  Mack  is  Captain  Bunce  of  the  Captain  Barnacle  series. 
Miss  Mabel  Normand  was  the  girl  In  "Oh,  Those  Eyes!"  She  did  not  play 
the  other  part. 

J.  C. — If  you  have  more  than  one  good  title  for  a  play,  pick  out  the  best 
for  the  lead  and  use  the  others  as  alternatives;  but  why  waste  a  lot  of  good 
titles  on  one  story?  Save  them  to  write  plays  around.  You  are  supposed  to 
give  a  short  synopsis,  a  cast  of  characters  and  the  action  by  scenes.  This  Is 
what  constitutes  a  script.  You  may  add  property  and  scene  plots  if  you  wish. 
If  your  question  refers  to  an  additional  skeletonized  action,  we  do  not  think 
it  would  help  a  sale.     You  state  the  question  rather  vaguely. 

HICKS — Next  time  send  the  rest  of  your  name  as  an  act  of  courtesy.  Then 
we'll  reply  to  your  question. 


Photoplay  Writing. 

The  standard  book  on  the  subject  is  Mr.  Epes  W.  Sargent's 

TECHNIQUE  OF  THE  PHOTOPLAY. 
Price,  $i.oo.  Postage  Prepaid.  All  Orders  and  Remittances  to 

CHALMERS    PUBLISHING    COMPANY, 
Box  226,  Madison  Square  Post  Office,  New  York  City. 


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Projection  Department 


Edited  by  F.   H.   RICHARDSON 


Operators'  Union  Directory,  I.  A.  T.  S.  E. 

NOTICE:     Each  union  is  entitled  to  have  its  roster  of  officers,  meeting 
nights,  etc.,  listed  h  re   once  per   year,   free  of  cost.     Preserve  this 
list  as  it  will  not  be  republished.     The  mail  address  of  the  secretary 
tkould  be  included  in  each  list,  as  well  as  the  time  and  place  of  meeting. 

Moving  Picture  Machine  Operators'   Local  Union  No.   225, 
I.  A.  T.  S.  E.,  Atlanta,  Ga. 

President,  W.  P.  Raoul;  Vice-President,  V.  O.  Gittus;  Financial  and  Cor- 
responding Secretary,  T.  H.  Eason,  r\  O.  Box  36;;  Recording  Secretary, 
Treasurer,  J.  H.  Oliver;  Business  Agent,  Wm.  Harvelle. 

Moving  Picture  Machine  Operators'  Local  Union  No.  7, 
I.  A.  T.  S.  E.,  Oil  City,  Pa. 

President,  John  J.  Walsh;  Vice-President,  Clarence  J.  Fletcher;  Record- 
ing and  Corresponding  Secretary,  Urban  L.  Eiseman,  412  Seneca  Street; 
Financial  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  W.  A.  McClaren;  Business  Agent, 
Edward  A.  Cornell.  Meets  second  and  fourth  Sundays,  10  A.  M.,  in  B.  I.  L. 
Hall. 


An  Excellent  Operating  Room  Film  Box. 

It  is  always  a  pleasure  to  this  department  to  recommend  a  really  good 
article,  and  the  film  box  manufactured  by  Mr.  Gilmore,  of  Chicago,  comes 
under  that  heading.     As  will  be  seen  by  the  picture,  the  box,  which  costs 


r 


$15,  is  divided  into  three  compartments.  It  is  of  metal  throughout  and 
the  walls  are  double,  even  those  between  the  compartments  being  double, 
thus  thoroughly  insulating  the  reels  from  the  heat  of  any  fire  which  might 
occur.  The  cover  is  divided  into  three  sections,  two  of  which  are  shown 
open,  and  one — the  center  one— closed.  I  presume  Mr.  Gilmore  makes 
these  boxes  in  different  sizes.  At  any  rate,  I  can  recommend  this  device 
as  a  thoroughly  practical  and  efficient  means  of  protecting  the  films  while 
im  the  operating  room.  It  is  thoroughly  well  made,  substantial  and  solid, 
and  will  undoubtedly  come  as  near  protecting  films  in  cases  of  fire  as  any- 
thing I  have  seen  up  to  date. 


An  Argument. 

Mr.  Max  Ketchel,  San  Diego,  Cal.,  wants  to  know  who  invented  moving 
pictures.  Says  he  has  had  an  argument  and  would  like  to  have  it  settled. 
That  is  too  big  a  question  to  answer  in  this  department,  friend  Ketchel. 
To  answer  it  fully  would  require  pages,  and  there  are  many  claimants. 
Mr.  Thomas  A.  Edison  was  the  first,  so  far  as  I  know,  to  use  a  continuous 
celluloid  film  so  that  the  pictures  could  be  projected  on  a  screen  in  prac- 
tical commercial  form.  The  Motion  Picture  Annual,  published  by  this 
company,  contains  a  brief  history  of  the  moving  picture.  See  advertisement 
♦lsewhere  in  this  issue. 


A  Rewinder. 

Mr.  L.  J.  Morton,  Pawnee  City,  Neb.,  writes: 

Find  enclosed  drawing  of  a  scheme  I  am  using  on  my  rewinder. 
In  March  ist  issue  I  find  an  article  from  Emporia,  Kan.,  entitled 
"Poor  Film  Service."  Emporia  is  sure  up  against  it.  The  only 
help  he  can  get  would  be  to  quit  his  job  and  wake  that  manager 
of  his  up.  Doesn't  he  (the  aforesaid  manager)  know  by  this  time 
that  junk  service  means  punk  show,  and  punk  show  means  poor 
business?  Wake  up,  Mr.  Employer-Manager,  and  hear  the  little 
noises  all  around  you  I  People  want  a  good  show,  and  they  will 
pay  to  see  that  kind.  Moral:  Give  it  to  them,  but  do  not  expect 
your  operator  to  make  brick  without  straw. 

As  to  the  rewinder,  I  did  not  publish  the  sketch  because  the  friction  is 
not  applied  in  very  good  form.  It  would  work  *11  right,  but  it  would  be 
much  better  to  purchase  one  of  the  rewinders  illustrated  on  page  372  of 
the  handbook,  in  which  tension  is  applied  in  the  h~r'  possible  form.  As 
to  Emporia,  your  remarks  concerning  the  manager  are  eminently  correct. 
It  is  strange  that  managers  will  be  so  foolish  as  to  expect  an  operator  to 
put  on  a  decent  show  with  junk  films. 


Unsteady  Voltage. 

Mr.  J.  P.  Cox,  Cape  May    N.  J.,  writes: 

We    use    an    Edison    MwJeI    B    Projector,    of   the    inside    shutter 
type,   with  a  new   Edison   lamp,  projecting  ;:    1 2-foot  picture  at  55 
feet.     Have  been  using  50  amperes  a.  c,  through  a  Hallberg  econo- 
mizer, with  very  fair  results.    Would  very  much  like  to  put  in  d.  c. 
on  account  of  the  superior  light  it  would  supply.     We  can  get  the 
d.  c.  all  right,  but  the  line  voltage,  which  is   180  at  7  p.   m.,  drops 
slowly  and  steadily  until  it  reaches  150  volts  at  11   p.  m.     Is  there 
any  possible  way  in  which  we  can  make  use  of  this  current?    What 
kind  of  rheostat  could  we  use?     Would  the  Edison  lamp  be  satis- 
factory for  direct  current?     Would  a  three-wing  shutter  give  better 
results?      How    many    amperes    would    the    whole    thing, — rheostat 
and   lamp — consume?      Would   our   light   bill   be  considerably   more 
when  using  50  amperes  a.  c.  ? 
Yes,  you   could  use   the  current  by  having  a   special   adjustable   rheostat 
constructed,    but    your    current   bills    would    be   very   high,    as    compared   to 
what  you  are  now  using.     Rather  than  do  that  I  would  suggest   that  you 
install  either  a  motor  generator  set  or  a  mercury  arc  rectifier  of  45-ampere 
capacity.    There  is  no  difference  in  the  lamp  required  for  a.  c.  and  d.  c.    The 
Edison    three-wing   shutter    will   probably   give   you    somewhat   better    results 
than  the  inside  shutter.     As  to  the  amount   of  current  consumed,   the  new 
handbook  tells  you   all  about  how   to   figure  that.      If  you   have   not  a  copy 
I  would  advise  you  to  procure  one  from  the  Moving  Picture  World  at  once. 
Price,  $2.50. 

Local  Union  532. 

Mr.   W.   A.    Labarthe,   Port   Arthur,   Texas,   sends   the   following: 

I  am  a  member  of  Local  532  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  We  are  progressing 
very  nicely.  The  boys  send  you  their  best  regards.  Projection 
here  is  good  and  we  are  striving  tooth  and  nail  to  keep  it  that 
way.      Am   sending   a   picture    of    my   operating    room.      I    have    a 


mercury  arc  rectifier  and  two  Edison  type  B  projectors;  also 
have  a  choke  coil  wired  in  to  be  used  in  case  of  emergency.  The 
projectors  are  both  motor  driven.  I  have  one  of  your  old  hand 
books  which  is  worth  its  price  to  me  ten  times  over.  Will  tend 
for  one  of  the  new  ones  soon. 
Thi»  is  the  kind  of  talk  I  like  to  hear  brother.     Projection   is  your  pro- 


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fession  and  the  profession  of  your  brothers  in  the  local,  therefore  you 
•hould  not  only  strive  to  produce  the  best  possible  results,  but  also  use 
every  effort  to  maintain  these  results  and  to  improve  upon  them.  The 
local  which  goes  about  things  that  way  will  succeed.  The  union  which 
demands  improved  conditions,  without  any  attempt  to  improve  the  work 
and  the  reliability  of  its  own  members,  may  be  able  to  accomplish  it* 
purpose,  but  it  will  not  accomplish  it  nearly  so  easily  as  will  the  local 
that  demands  better  conditions  of  its  employers,  and  also  demands  better 
work  and  greater  reliability  from  its  own  members.  The  high  class 
operator — the  one  who  produces  high  class  results  on  the  screen  it  worth 
$40  of  anybody's  money  far  more  than  the  other  article,  who  produces 
mediocre  results,  is  worth  $15.  The  first  named  earns  his  $40  and  earns 
it  well,  and  the  manager  is  the  gainer  because  the  excellence  of  his  op- 
erator's work  brings  money  to  the  box  office;  but  the  latter  might  better 
be  paid  to  stay  away  from  the  house  altogether,  since  the  inferiority  of  his 
work   operates  to   decrease  box   office   receipts. 


An  Invention. 

Mr.  David  Carlson,  Hazelhurst,  Pa.,  writes: 

Am  enclosing  photo  and  sketch  of  an  operating  room  ventilation 
and  fire  protection  system  invented  by  W.  J.  Kerr,  of  Smithport, 
Pa.  I  have  my  operating  room  equipped  with  this  system  and  must 
say  it  is  great.     The  newspaper  clippings  tell  of  the  practical  test 


I  gave  it.     I  stayed  in  the  room  and  ran  a  song  slide,  and  not  a  bit 
of  vapor  from  the  fire  came  into  the   room.     Thought  this  would 


•me  vtj,Ktnn  s/iffTY  vcvice  and  ofemtriite-  room 


or  painted,  as  this  also  is  a  road  show  house;  consequently  he  is 

afraid  of  its  being  destroyed.     Will  you  please  give  me  your  opinion 

as  to  the  light,  the  screen  and  what  size  condensers  I  should  use? 

As   to   the  light,    I   am   unable   to   say   what  is   wrong;    %       red   carbon 

above    and    half-inch    cored    below     ought     handle     40     amperes     without 

needling.      I    really    do   not   know    what    to    make    of   your    trouble,    unless 

your  carbons  are  not  good.     I  think   I   will   turn   that  part  of  it  over  to 

the  department  fans  and  see  what  they  can  make  of  it.     You  should  have 

two  6J/S-lnch  condensers.     The  thing  to  do,  however,  is  get  a  longer  throw 

if  you  can.     It  is  exceedingly  difficult  to  project  a  good  14-foot  picture  at 

35    feet.     Your   manager    will    do   well    to   outline   the   screen    in   black,   as 

»  described  on  page  338  of  the  handbook.     Inasmuch  as  the   traveling  show 

end  is  and  must  be  a  secondary   consideration,  your  manager  should  give 

the    excellence    of    his    motion    pictures    precedence.      If    cloth   is    used    the 

screen  should  be  of  a  good  grade  of  bleached  muslin,  such  as  is  used  for 

bed  sheeting.     As  to  the  lower  loop,  ao  'not  have  your  take-up  tension  any 

tighter  than    is  absolutely   necessary   to   rewind   all   the  film.      Be   sure  the 

lower  magazine  is  exactly  in  line,  so  taat  the  film  goes  down  into  it  straight 

and  true;    though,   unless   I   am   in   error,   the    Simplex   lower   magazine   is 

so  made  that  you  cannot  get  it  out  of  line. 


Short  Throw. 

Mr.  D.  A.  McDonald,  Fernie,  B.  C,  contributes  the  following: 

I  have  a  Simplex  projector  and  am  having  trouble  with  it.  Had 
a  very  decided  travel  ghost,  both  top  and  bottom.  It  could  not  be 
removed  by  shutter  adjustment.  Made  a  new  three-wing  shutter, 
with  the  main  wing  a  quarter  inch  wider,  and  this  fixed  the  ghost 
business.  I  project  a  14-foot  6-inch  picture  on  a  36-foot  throw, 
using  a  2!4-'nch  M.  P.  lens.  I  find  it  very  difficult  to  get  a  good 
light.  When  I  pull  35  to  40  amperes  the  carbons  must  be  sepa- 
rated about  one-quarter  of  an  inch,  or  else  they  sputter  and  it 
is  impossible  to  hold  the  arc.  The  holders  are  for  %  carbons. 
I  use  %  cored  carbons,  rasped  down  to  fit  holder,  and  find  a  little 
improvement.  When  I  reduce  to  28  and  30  amperes  the  light  is 
very  yellow,  but  I  must  be  content  with  it  or  else  use  the  cored 
carbons  top  and  bottom.  With  the  latter  method  I  get  plenty  of 
flaming  and  the  upper  carbon  needles  way  back.  Current  is  no 
volts  d.  c.,  through  a  Power's  adjustable  rheostat.  I  also  have 
much  trouble  with  losing  the  lower  loop.  This  happens  on  practi- 
cally every  film.  The  lower  idler  is  not  too  tight  and  the  take-up 
is  only  moderately  so.  Had  trouble  with  the  fire  shutter  sticking 
on  account  of  the  metal  swelling  with  the  heat,  but  filing  fixed  that. 
The  curtain  is  of  plain  cloth,  and  manager  will  not  have  it  framed 


09s  £  *  v/trtotr  fl»«» 

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interest  the  boys,  as  I  have  always  been  interested  in  the  new  ideas 

shown  in  the  department. 
1  would  have  to  be  convinced  of  the  practicability  of  this  proposition  by 
a  very  strenuous  test,  neighbor  Carlson.  To  my  way  of  thinking,  the 
trouble  would  be  that  long  before  a  reel  of  film  was  burned  the  heat  would 
be  so  intense  that  the  magazine  or  the  film  box  would  be  destroyed.  You 
see,  you  simply  have  a  miniature  stove,  and  the  draught  that  those  pipes 
would  create  would  make  a  very  fierce  fire — sufficiently  so,  I  should  suppose, 
to  destroy  both  pipe  and  magazine. 


A  Gas  Outfit. 

Mr.  Charles  Breuning,  Nowata,  Okla.,  writes: 

I  have  long  been  a  lover  and  reader  of  the  Moving  Picture  World 
and  have  many  times  benefited  through  its  Projection  Department. 
I  have  read  with  much  interest  the  troubles  and  ups  and  downs 
of  some  of  the  operators  and  managers,  but  never  imagined  I 
could  assist  anyone  until  now.  I  feel,  however,  that  I  can  be,  of 
benefit  to  Mr.  McClelland,  Kellaher,  Sask.,  Canada.  I  had  the 
same  trouble  he  is  up  against,  together  with  a  lot  of  squealing, 
sputtering  and  spitting.  In  taking  the  valves  apart  I  found  the 
rubber  gaskets  had  been  eaten  by  the  oxzone  and  ether.  The 
oxzone  is  much  worse  than  lye,  and  ether  will  dissolve  rubber. 
I  got  some  ordinary  gasket  rubber,  took  the  valves  apart,  one  at 
a  time,  so  as  not  to  get  the  parts  of  two  valves  mixed,  as  they 
are  very  much  alike.  I  laid  the  ring  or  washer  on  the  rubber  and 
marked  the  screw  holes  and  around  the  outside  and  inside  of  the 
ring.  I  then  cut  out  the  pattern  thus  made  and  had  a  rubber 
washer  or  gasket.  I  then  repeated  the  operation,  except  as  to  cut- 
ting out  the  center.  This  gave  me  a  round  piece  of  rubber  instead 
of  a  washer.  I  then  laid  the  old  round  piece  of  rubber  in  on  the 
new  and  marked  the  center  hole  and  punched  the  holes  with  a 
small  harness  punch.  I  put  them  together  and  they  work  fine. 
Now  one  can  of  oxzone  and  one  half  can  of  ether  runs  1  hour  and 
20  minutes,  giving  good  results.  I  have  been  in  some  pretty  tight 
places  in  the  operating  room  when  handling  the  juice,  but  held 
myself  together  pretty  well  until  I  mastered  it,  but  when  I  tackled 
a  gas-making  outfit  I  had  an  awful  time  for  a  while. 
On  behalf  of  brother  McClelland  and  other  gas  users,  I  wish  to  thank 
you  for  your  excellent  description  of  your  method  of  making  the  gaskets 
for    gas    outfit.      It    will    no    doubt    assist    your    brother    gas    users    wrj 

Two  Machines  From  One  Rectifier. 

Hall  Brothers,  Victor,  Colo.,  write: 

We.  have  been  constant  readers  of  the  department  almost  since  its 
inception.     Have  both  your  old  and  new  handbooks  and  could  not 
get  along  without  them.     We  want  a  little  information,  as  follows: 
Our  current  is  30  cycle  and  we  have  a  mercury  arc  rectifier.     The 
question   is.   can    we   operate   both   machines   with   one  rectifier,    or 
will  it  be  absolutely  necessary  to  have  a  separate  rectifier  for  each 
machine?        Lead    No.    6    from    the    main    reactance    heats.      We 
asked   the   General    Electric   Company   why,   and  they  say   they   do 
not  know.     Do  the   Edison  people  make  carbon  jaws  for  a  larger 
carbon  than   $■£,  so  that  where  different  sizes  are  used  above  and 
below  the  same  will  line  up?     Have  written  them,  but  received  no 
reply. 
You  can  use  two  machines  with  one  rectifier,  but  it  will  be  very  awkward, 
since  only  one  lamp  must  be  burned  at  a  time,  thus  prohibiting  the  burning 
of  craters  on  a  new   carbon  set.     All  you   have  to  do   is   install   a  double 
throw   switch,   connecting   the   d.   c.    lines   from   the   rectifier   to   the   center 
poles,  and  one  of  the  lamps  to  either  end.     As  to  the  Edison  carbon  clamps, 
I  do  not  know.     You  can,  however,  provided  the  clamps  are  large  enough 
to  take  the  carbons  you  want  to  use,  and  %  is  large  enough  for  any  cur- 
rent delivered  by  rectifier,  insert  a  metal  bushing  in  the  lower  arm  to  make 
up  the  difference  in   diameter  between   the    H   and   half-inch   carbons.     As 
to  lead  No.   6  heating,  I  cannot  offer  you  definite  information,  but  it  m»y 
be  a  defective  wire.     I  would  suggest  that  you  remove  that  particular  wire 
and  substitute  a  new  one  of  the  same  size,  or  a  little  larger.     It  may  be 
that   a   mistake  has   been    made   and   a   small   wire  put   in.      Substituting  a 
larger  wire  will  do  no  harm  in  any  event. 

Projection  by  Sunlight. 

Mr.  C.  R.  Stewart,  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  orders  a  Handbook,  and  says: 
I  am  ex-operator  and  manager,  though  I  have  not  been  in  the 
business  for  a  long  time.  I  am  still  a  picture  fan,  however,  and 
like  to  keep  up  with  the  game.  Here  is  a  little  stunt,  which  might 
be  of  interest  to  some  of  the  boys:  I  have  an  old  No.  4  Opti- 
graph  which  I  fixed  up  for  home  use.  I  removed  the  lamphouse 
and  in  its  place  have  a  square  piece  of  iron,  holding  a  4#  inch 
reading  glass  which  takes  the  place  of  condensers.  Further  back, 
I  arranged  a  looking-glass  to  reflect  the  sunlight.  With  this  outfit, 
I  can  project  a  nine  foot  picture  and  get  as  good  results,  on  a 
bright  day,  as  with  calcium.  I  use  a  canvas  screen  filled  with 
whiting  and  to  which  a  little  blue  has  been  added. 
Yes,  brother,  but,  keeping  in  view  the  fact  that  the  position  of  the  sun 

is  constantly  changing,  how  do  you  manage  to  have  the  rays  reflected  nght 

all  the  time?     That  is,  to  me,  the  interesting  point. 


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"Advantage"  of  Short  Throw. 

Des  Moines,  Iowa,  orders  a  Handbook,  and  says: 

I  am  operating  at  the  Royal,  this  city,  using  a  Simplex,  35  am- 
peres of  1 10  volts,  d.  c,  projecting  a  12  foot  picture  at  60  feet  on 
a  Mirroroide  screen.  I  get  an  excellent  picture,  which  is  probably 
not  so  much  due  to  exceptional  operating  ability  as  to  the  ad- 
vantage I  have  in  a  short  throw,  a  small  picture  and  a  good  screen, 
to  say  nothing  of  d.  c.  Would  like  to  know  why  some  films  go 
through  machines  without  any  noise,  while  others  make  an  awful 
clatter.  The  Edison  films,  particularly,  make  an  awful  racket,  es- 
pecially the  sub-titles,  while  other  films  go  through  without  any 
noise  at  all. 

You  are  in  error,  Des  Moines,  in  supposing  that  a  short  throw  is  an 
advantage.  It  is  a  very  decided  disadvantage,  unless  the  picture  is  very 
small  indeed.  ,1  consider  any  throw  requiring  less  than  a  four  inch  e.  f. 
•as  undesirable.  As  to  the  other  matter,  I  have  received  a  good  many  com- 
plaints as  to  the  perforations  of  the  Edison  films,  and  have  written  the 
Edison  Company,  but,  up  to  date,  have  not  received  a  reply.  If  other 
operators  have  met  with  this  experience,  I  would  be  glad  to  hear  from 
them  in  this  connection.  Let  me  say  that  I  am  receiving  a  great  many 
kicks  about  carelessness  in  the  printing  of  several  makes  of  Independent 
films.  I  have  written  the  Universal  people  and  Mr.  Laemmle  has  promised 
reforms.  It  is  not  the  desire  of  this  department  to  publish  things  of  this 
kind,  where  the  fault  can  be  remedied  without  publication.  But  matters  of 
this  kind  are  of  very  great  importance  to  the  exhibitor  and  operator,  and 
unless  a  remedy  is  promptly  applied,  I  shall  be  compelled  to  name  the 
offending  companies.  A  word  to  the  wise  is,  or  ought  to  be,  sufficient. 
The  fault  complained  of  consists  of  mis-frames,  bad  patches  and  occasional 
light  or  dark  pictures,  due  to  over  or  under  exposure  in  printing.  All  these 
faults  are  chargeable  directly  to  rank  carelessness  or  crass  stupidity  on  the 
part  of  employees.  There  is  absolutely  no  possible  excuse  for  such  work 
and  it  should  not  be  tolerated. 


on  a  high  plane.  I  would  recommend  to  your  consideration  the  school  plan 
adopted  by  the  Salt  Lake  Union,  described  in  the  department  recently.  It 
is  a  good  thing.  Push  it  along!  The  list  of  officers  "  published  at  the  head 
of  the  department. 


Normal  College  Installs  Projector. 

Mr.  Geoffrey  Jefferson,  Ypsilanti,  Mich.,  writes,  ordering  a  Handbook, 
and  says: 

It  might  be  of  interest  to  you  to  know  that  the  Michigan  Normal 
State  College  has  installed  two  Power's  Six  A  motor  driven  pro- 
jectors, for  the  purpose  of  projecting  educational  films  and  the 
better  class  of  dramas.  I  made  a  two-blade  shutter  which  I  am  using 
instead  of  the  three-blade  that  was  on  the  machine.  I  believe,  with- 
out any  doubt,  that  we  are  giving  a  better  picture  than  either  one 
of  the  theaters  down-town. 

In  the  language  of  the  Redoubtable  Teddy:  "Bully  for  you,"  friend  Jef- 
ferson. The  Ypsilanti  (some  name,  that)  theater  operators  had  better  wake 
up  and  get  very  busily  busy.  Shame  upon  you.  I'm  s'prised  at  you  allow- 
ing a  mere  school  to  swipe  the  Ypsilanti  (what  does  that  bunch  of  letters 
stand  for  anyhow?)  projection  bun.  Seriously,  however,  the  college  has 
made  a  very  wise  move.  Up-to-date  institutions  of  learning  all  over  the 
world  are  recognizing  the  value  of  moving  pictures  as  an  adjunct  to  edu- 
cational work  and  are  installing  modern  projection   apparatus. 


Flicker  Trouble. 

North  Yakima,  Wash.,  writes  as  follows: 

1 
Received  the  Handbook  and  will  say  that  I  would  not  be  without 
it,  though  I  have  not  as  yet  seen  anything  of  the  torch.  I  am  using 
60  cycle  a.  c,  projecting  a  12  ft.  picture  at  60  feet  with  a  5  inch 
e.  f.  projection  lens,  using  one  6#  and  one  754  condenser.  I  have 
a  two-wing  shutter,  but  cannot  run  slower  than  15  minutes  to  1,000 
feet  of  film.  Tried  a  three-wing  shutter,  but  the  picture  or  light 
seemed  to  roll.  I  worked  in  another  house  a  block  away,  using 
the  same  current  and  everything,  but  used  a  three-wing  shutter  and 
ran  anywhere  between  14  and  20  minutes  without  any  trouble  what- 
ever. Why  cannot  I  do  so  now?  I  like  to  make  the  movements 
of  the  actors  and  other  things  as  natural  as  possible,  but  in  order 
to  do  this  I  must  have  a  greater  range  of  speed. 

1 
Provided  your  statements  are  all  correct,  the  trouble  must  lie  in  the 
screen.  Very  likely  you  used  a  cloth  or  plaster  screen  at  the  other  house, 
and  have  some  type  of  semi-reflecting  screen  where  you  now  are.  Do  not 
know  what  you  mean  by  light  "rolling."  With  a  three-wing  shutter  and  60 
cycle  current,  the  light  flashes  when  you  speed  up  between  70  and  80.  By 
"flashing,"  I  mean  it  dies  down  and  flashes  up,  the  same  being  due  to 
synchronism  of  the  shutter  blades  with  one  side  of  the  alternations.  You 
are  right  in  wishing  to  "make  the  actors  move  naturally."  That  is  the 
artistic  part  of  operating. 


One  Hundred  Per  Cent.  Organized. 

Mr.   W.    P.   Raoul,   President   L.    U.   225,    I.   A.   T.   S.    E., 


Atlanta,   Ga., 


Iu  accepting  your  offer  for  space  in  the  department  for  list  of 
officers  of  the  various  locals,  please  accept  the  heartfelt  thanks  of 
the  members  of  No.  225  for  the  benefits  they  have  derived  through 
your  department.  This  union,  though  just  a  little  more  than  a 
year  old,  is  in  excellent  condition.  We  are  practically  100  per 
cent,  organized  here  in  Atlanta.  As  to  the  projection,  I  do  not 
think  there  is  a  city  in  the  country  that  can  boast  of  better  pictures 
than  can  Atlanta. 

My  congratulations  to  L.  U  225,  Brother  Raoul,  on  the  fact  that  you  are 
thoroughly  organized  and  on  the  further  fact  that  projection  in   Atlanta  is 


Flicker  Trouble. 

Mr.  W.  A.  Norman,  Rockwell  City,  Iowa,  is  troubled  with  the  following: 

Will  you  please  suggest  some  remedy  by  means  of  which  I  can 
eliminate  the  excessive  flicker  in  my  picture?  Am  using  40  am- 
peres of  60  cycle  a.  c,  through  a  compensarc,  70-foot  throw  and  a 
Power's  Six  machine,  gold  fibre  screen.  I  formerly  used  the  three- 
wing  shutter,  but  it  was  not  satisfactory  with  a.  c.  With  the  two- 
winger,  I  get  a  good  picture,  but  there  is  a  great  deal  of  flicker. 

There  is  nothing  to  be  suggested  in  this  connection,  neighbor  Norman-. 
On  pages  219  and  223,  inclusive,  of  the  Handbook,  you  will  find  a  com- 
plete explanation  of  the  shutter  principle  and  the  why  and  wherefore  of 
flicker.  You  could  reduce  the. flicker  by  using  a  plain  cloth  or  plaster 
screen,  but  so  long  as  you  use  a  semi-reflecting  screen,  there  will  be  con- 
siderable flicker  when  using  a  two-wing  shutter.  Neighbor  Norman  en- 
closed a  stamp  for  reply  by  mail.  Replies  by  mail  are  only  made  where  a 
minimum  fee  of  $1.00  is  enclosed. 


School  Installation. 

Mr.  Ellison   Aker,   Lima,  Ohio,   writes: 

Thought  I  would  write  a  few  lines  to  tell  you  about  a  moving 
picture  outfit  which  has  been  installed  in  the  St.  Rose  Catholic 
School,  this  city,  by  the  Rev.  W.  A.  Tobin.  The  equipment  con- 
sists of  a  Motiograph  special  Massachusetts  Model  machine  and  a 
Fort  Wayne  Compensarc,  which  we  use  on  the  60  ampere  notch. 
Our  operating  room  is  8  x  6  x  8  feet,  and  has  automatic  fire 
doors  and  everything  else  which  the  fire  rules  require.  Our  throw 
from  lens  to  curtain  is  56  feet  and  I  use  two  yY2  condensers.  At 
present  we  show  four  reels  every  Sunday  aiternoon  and  evening, 
using  Independent  service.  I  think  it  would  be  a  good  idea  if  the 
manufacturers  of  the  Motiograph  would  so  place  the  screws  with 
which  you  tighten  the  framer  that  it  could  be  tightened  by  reaching 
through  the  side  of  the  machine  instead  of  having  to  take  off  the 
front  plate  to  do  so.  Also  in  converting  the  machine  into  a 
Massachusetts  Model  they  covered  up  the  small  oil  hole  through 
which  you  oil  the  shutters  and  the  machine  had  been  running  for 
some  time  before  I  noticed  it  was  there  and  then  only  because 
I  had  to  taice  off  the  front  of  the  machine  to  tighten  the  framer. 
I  use  vaseline  on  the  gears  and  in  the  star  and  cam  case  as  it  is  a 
good  lubricant  and  doesn't  fly  around  much.  I  use  the  kind  that 
comes  in  tubes  and  not  the  carbolated  stuff  as  that  contains  too 
much  kerosene  to  make  it  a  good  lubricant.  Regarding  our  curtain, 
we  use  a  canvas  one  covered  with  Calcimo,  to  which  a  small  quan- 
tity of  bluing  was  added  so  that  it  would  take  away  the  dead  white 
glare.  Although  I  know  that  you  have  np  patience  with  young 
fellows  in  the  operating  room  I  must  tell  you  that  I  am  sixteen 
years  of  age  and  a  member  of  the  graduating  class  of  the  St.  Rose 
High  School. 

My  only  reason  for  objecting  to  youth  in  the  operating  rooms  is  the  fact 
that  very  young  men  are  usually  unreliable  and,  moreover,  they  have  not 
the  matured  judgment  and  steadiness  which  comes  only  with  the  years.  In 
a  school  installation  where  the  work  is  confined  to  running  at  the  most  a 
few  reels  a  day,  a  bright  lad  of  sixteen  might,  provided  he  had  some  ex- 
perience, produce  very  good  results  indeed;  particularly  a  high-school  boy 
who  has  the  advantage  of  considerable  mental  training.  Evidently,  from  the 
letter  friend  Aker  writes,  he  comes  in  this  class,  since  it  is  one  of  the 
few  "letters  printed  practically  as  it  is  written.  As  to  your  criticisms  of  cer- 
tain features  of  the  Motiograph  projector,  they  are  referred  to  the  manu- 
facturer for  consideration. 


The  Right  Spirit. 

Mr.  L.  A.  Woodward,  Manager,  Enterprise  Optical  Co.,  Chicago,  writes: 

In  the  March  15th  issue  we  note  with  considerable  interest  your 
criticism  of  the  Motiograph  arc  lamp  in  1913  model  machines,  and 
can  assure  you  of  our  appreciation  of  your  fair  and  just  remarks 
concerning  the  lamp;  also  that  they  will  have  our  attention.  We  are 
frank  to  admit  thai  the  criticisms  are  excellent  and  the  suggestions 
good  ones.  The  upper  carbon  arm  bearing  is  now  being  changed  so 
that  the  weight  of  the  upper  carbon  arm  will  be  materially  light- 
ened, and  the  present  gearing  simplified,  and  at  the  same  time,  we 
are  taking  care  of  the  purpose  for  which  the  change  is  intended, 
viz.:  to  hold  the  arm  more  rigidly.  Your  suggestion  for  the  in- 
crease in  size  of  rack  bars,  we  do  n-^t  consider  necessary  for  the 
reason  that  there  is  already  sufficient  rigidity  in  the  rack  bar  itself, 
whereas  increasing  the  length  of  the  rack  body  casting,  as  you  sug- 
gest, would  undoubtedly  make  the  lamp  more  rigid,  but  it  would 
mean  we  would  have  to  enlarge  our  present  lamphouse  and  raise 
the  sliding  ways  for  the  lamp.  However,  we  do  not  say  that  we  will 
not  do  this,  as  your  suggestions  have  been  kindly  received  and  we 
will  probably  adopt  them  in  the  near  future. 

At  the  risk  of  offending  Brother  Woodward,  I  have  published  this  letter, 
though  I  presume  he  meant  it  to  be  a  personal  one.  I  have  done  this  to 
show  that  some  manufacturers,  at  least,  are  broad-minded  enough  to  accept 
criticism  in  the  right  spirit.  It  is  distinctly  to  the  credit  of  the  Enterprise 
Optical  Company  that  its  general  manager  can  recognize  faults  in  his  own 
product  when  they  are  pointed  out  to  him,  and,  moreover,  is  willing  to  elimi- 
nate them.  As  to  the  rack  bars,  they  are  plenty  rigid  enough;  true,  but  the 
point  is  that   it  is   never  possible   to   have   a   rack  bar  perfectly  tight   in  its 


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bearing.  Now  you  can  move  the  outer  end  of  a  carbon  arm  which  is  at- 
tached to  a  rack  bar  one-half  inch  square  sidewise  a  great  deal  more  than 
you  could  were  it  attached  to  a  rack  bar  a  quarter  or  a  half-inch  thick  by 
one  inch  wide.  Do  you  see  the  point,  Brother  Woodward?  I  wish  to  say 
again,  lest  those  who  might  not  have  read  i..y  former  criticism  may  misunder- 
stand, that  the  same  only  applies  to  minor  defects  in  the  lamp,  which  is,  as  a 
whole,  an  excellent  and  well  designed  piece  of  mechanism. 


A  Letter  From  Russia. 

Mr.    Nicholas  J.   Bluman,    Moscow,   Russia,   contributes   the   following  in- 
teresting letter: 

I  wonder  whether  you  have  ever  yet  received  a  letter  from  this 
little  known  and  generally  grossly  maligned  country?  Perhaps  not, 
as  I  believe  that  this  is  the  only  office  receiving  your  paper  regu- 
larly; few  others  would  understand  a  word  of  it  anyhow,  not  being 
able  to  read  or  speak  English.  My  work  here  has  been  that  of 
opening  a  new  branch  office  for  the  well  known  London  firm  of 
M.  P.  Sales  Agency,  Limited,  about  whom  I  often  notice  men- 
tion in  your  columns.  Particularly  interesting  are  those  that  come 
all  the  way  from  China,  as  I  was  personally  responsible  for  that 
branch  of  the  business  when  last  in  London.  Just  to  give  you  a 
rough  idea  of  the  interest  I  find  for  your  real  "live"  paper,  let  me 
call  your  attention  to  the  misprint  in  the  "Simplex"  advertise- 
ment, page  690,  Feb.  15th  issue,  also  to  the  word  "Cam,"  which 
your  proofreader  has  allowed  to  go  through  as  "Can,"  in  the 
Lavezzi  advertisement,  page  711,  I  tnink  this  will  be  enough 
to  show  you  how  little  1  miss  when  I  get  The  Wor  1,  and  I  want 
to  say  further  that  the  projection  department  news  always  inter- 
ests me  most,  barring  the  stuff  about  the  various  unions,  etc.,  which 
I  have  no  doubt  is  most  valuable  to  your  own  operators,  but  which 
we,  the  far-away  "foreign  devils,"  generally  skip  as  being  alto- 
gether too  local.  You  will,  no  doubt,  be  pretty  well  posted  on 
the  conditions  of  things  in  this  country  but,  in  case  it  still  interests 
you,  let  me  give  you  the  following  facts:  There  are  about  800  to 
1,000  theaters  here,  the  very  largest  only  seating  about  200  to  300 
and  are  nearly  always  on  the  second  floor,  as  you  call  it  over 
there,  but  the  first  floor  as  we  call  it  in  England.  As  yet,  there 
are  no  theaters  here  that  can  boast  of  having  two  machines,  the 
nearest  approach  to  this  being  two  separate  halls  on  the  same 
floor  with  a  separate  machine  for  each.  Half  the  program  is  shown 
in  one  hall  and  the  audience  then  saunters  into  the  other  for  the 
remainder !!!!  1  The  projection  is  invariably  bad  and  there  is  only 
one  show  in  the  whole  of  this  city  of  over  a  million  inhabitants 
that  transforms  its  current  from  the  city  three-phase  to  direct  cur- 
rent for  the  projection  arc  lamp.  Can  you  expect  good  pictures 
under  these  conditions?  All  the  same  we  see  the  newest  and  best 
American  and  European  films  here,  and  it  is  noteworthy  that  the 
audiences  are  of  a  class  far  above  any  in  the  greater  part  of  the 
rest  of  Europe.  I  have  often  seen  high  officials  in  uniform  sitting 
in  the  local  theaters  and  I  certainly  cannot  say  that  of  Germany 
or  France.  The  prices  charged  for  admission  are  high  and  there 
are  always  little  open  "boxes"  at  the  back  of  the  stalls,  each  of 
which  holds  from  four  to  six  chairs  and  costs  five  roubles  ($2.50) 
the  lot.  Please  excuse  bad  typewriting  as  I  am  no  expert  at  this 
part  of  the  work,  and  you  people  over  there  are  spoiled  anyhow  as 
regards  printing  and  office  cleanliness.  What  would  you  say  if 
your  office-boy,  who,  like  most  of  his  class  here  is  but  a  poor 
ablutionist  in  summer  and  misses  those  duties  entirely  in  winter, 
were  to  utilize  the  passage  just  outside  your  private  office  door 
as  a  sleeping  room.  And,  mind  you,  this  is  no  exceptional  case. 
Is  is  almost  always  so.  By  the  time  you  get  this  I  shall  be  in 
dear  old  London  again  and  right  gladly  will  I  look  forward  to  a 
wee  line  of  acknowledgment  from  you  if  you  have  found  me  in- 
teresting. 

I  am  very  sure  that  Brother  Bluman's  letter  will  be  of  much  interest 
to  our  readers.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that  projection  has  not  attained  a 
higher  plane  in  the  land  of  the  Czar.  Let  us  hope  for  better  things  in 
the  future.  Seems  to  me  there  would  be  a  splendid  opening  for  some  en- 
terprising Americans  in  the  larger  cities  of  Russia,  if  they  would  open 
first  class  houses,  take  a  few  real  operators  with  them,  and  put  on  high 
class  projection.  Brother  Bluman  gave  no  London  address,  therefore  I 
cannot  acknowledge  his  letter  by  mail. 


The  First  Time. 

Mr.  C.  Everett  Wagner,  Thomasville,  N.   C,  writes: 

I  believe  I  am  lucky,  for  in  all  my  six  years'  experience  this  is 
the  first  time  I  have  had  to  call  on  you  or  anyone  else  for  help. 
This  is  not  because  I  '  know  it  all,"  but  I  have  been  talcing  The 
Moving  Picture  World  nearly  six  years,  and  the  last  three  of  them 
I  have  studied  the  projection  department  closely.  I  do  not  really 
see  how  any  operator  can  get  along  without  your  advice  as  given 
through  the  projection  department.  If  they  would  study  what  you 
write  closely,  and  refer  to  back  numbers,  they  would  not  have 
occasion  to  ask  so  many  questions.  My  own  trouble  may  have 
been  treated  in  some  of  the  back  numbers,  but  if  so,  I  cannot  find 
it,  and  my  goat  is  "got"  bad.  I  have  an  Edison  Type  B  projector 
and  my  picture  jumps  up  and  down  on  the  screen  just  like  it  does 
when  you  speed  up  to  about  95.  I  seldom  run  over  60  and  film 
jumps,  the  Vitagraph  much  worse  than  others.  I  have  put  on  new 
tension  springs  and  aperture  plate  and  have  properly  adjusted  them, 
but  it  did  no  good.  The  machine  is  nearly  new;  nothing  worn  to 
give  any  play  at  all.  My  manager  is  different  from  the  ordinary  run 
of  employers.  When  we  have  an  extra  good  night,  he  comes  up  in 
the  operating  room  and  slips  me  half  a  dollar,  or  sometimes  a 
dollar.     That   is  extra,  and   I  get  a  good  salary,   too.     If  there  is 


any  extra  good  service  in  an  operator,  this  method  will  certainly 
bring  it  out  If  managers  would  try  that  scheme,  they  might  dis- 
cover that  it  would  return  wonderfully  good  interest  on  the  invest- 
ment.    Our  film  service  is  thirty  days'  old. 

In  describing  troubles  of  this  kind  you  should  be  very  careful  and  cir- 
cumstantial in  describing  the  effect  produced.  If  the  jump  is  rhythmical, 
occurring  four  times  to  each  turn  of  the  crank,  then  it  is  due  to  one  of 
two  things,  viz.:  (a)  The  intermittent  sprocket  not  round,  (b)  The  in- 
termittent sprocket  shaft  sprung.  If  the  jump  does  not  occur  that  way, 
then  you  will  have  to  describe  it  more  closely  than  you  have.  As  to  the 
extra  pay,  that  is  a  mighty  good  plan  and  certainly  would  have  the  effect 
of  putting  the  operator  on  his  mettle.  It  would  do  more  than  anything, 
else  to  secure  the  hearty  co-operation  of  the  operator,  I  think.     It  is  well 

worth  trying.     Is  the  face  of  your  intermittent  sprocket  clean?     Dirt  on  the 
face  of  intermittent  sprocket  will  cause  the  picture  to  jump. 

Change  in  Mercury  Arc  Rectifier  Sales  Arrangements. 

This  department  is  in  receipt  of  a  letter  from  Mr.  H.  C.  Nelson,  Sales 
Department,  General  Electric  Co.,  calling  our  attention  to  the  fact  that 
the  price  of  their  mercury  arc  rectifier  has  been  reduced.  The  retail  price 
of  the  rectifier  is  now  $247.50  and  $198.50,  according  to  the  kind  pur- 
chased. In  view  of  the  reduction,  the  guaranteed  life  of  the  tubes  has  been 
reduced  to  300  hours.  This  is  what  Mr.  Nelson  says  in  this  connection: 
"A  life  of  three  hundred  (300)  hours  may  be  guaranteed  on  each  multiple 
rectifier  tube.  Should  the  life  of  any  tube  fall  below  three  hundred  hours, 
adjustment  may  be  made  with  the  original  purchaser,  or,  at  his  option,  direct 
with  the  producer,  on  a  pro  rata  basis,  according  to  the  ultimate  purchase 
price  of  the  tube." 

Mr.  Nelson  has  taken  the  proper  course  in  notifying  the  department  of 
this  change.  Formerly,  the  tubes  were  guaranteed  for  five  hundred  (500) 
hours.  As  it  now  stands,  the  purchaser  may  demand  and  receive  a  guaran- 
tee for  three  hundred  (300)  hours,  and  should  the  tube  fail  in  less  time, 
a  proportionate  reduction  will  be  made  on  the  price  of  the  new  one. 


Nothing  Doing. 


Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  writes: 


I  was  one  time  a  licensed  operator  in  New  York  City,  but  allowed 
the  license  to  expire.  For  the  past  few  years,  I  have  been  located  in 
Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  and  when  I  came  back  to  New  York  City  had  to  un- 
dergo a  new  examination.  I  fell  down  on  the  following:  (a)  The 
operation  of  an  economizer  and  the  meaning  of  induction  or  in- 
duced current,  (b)  How  I  would  hook  up  for  a  one  night  show 
where  no  provision  is  made  for  moving  picture  connection,  and  all 
that  can  be  found  is  a  pair  of  250,000  circular  mill  cables  running 
through  a  small,  say  6  by  6-inch  iron  box.  (c)  How  to  look  and 
where  to  look  for  trouble  in  case  the  fuses  in  operating  room 
blow  as  fast  as  they  are  put  in  place.  Will  you  kindly  answer  the 
above  in  the  next  issue  of  the  World? 

I  will  not.  It  is  not  the  purpose  of  this  department  to  coach  operators 
so  that  they  can  pass  an  examination,  but  it  is  its  purpose  to  offer  general 
instruction.  A  diligent  study  of  the  Handbook  will  enable  you  to  thoroughly 
understand  everything  involved  in  question  (a),  as  well  as,  I  think,  equip 
you  with  knowledge  sufficient  to  answer  questions  (b)  and  (c).  You  can 
secure  that  book  at  the  office  of  the  Moving  Picture  World,  or  it  will  be 
sent  you,  postpaid,  by  mail  on  receipt  of  the  price,  $2.50.  It  will  not 
"tell  you  the  answers,"  but  will  supply  knowledge  which  ought  to  enable 
you  to  form  correct  answers  of  your  own. 


Worn  Out  Machine. 

Middle  West  writes: 

The  new  handbook  contains  more  genuine  knowledge  in  a  small 
space  than   I  supposed  any  person  could  get  there.     The  electrical 
part   of  that  book  is  the  finest  ever.     I  have  a   1909   Motiograph, 
projecting  a   15-foot  picture.     The  mechanism  is  sadly  in  need  of 
repairs.     There  is  about   $s   inch   play  in  the  shutters,  and  maybe 
you  think  I  don't  have  a  gay  time  setting  them.     We  get  the  inde- 
pendent 10  to  20-day  service,   in  fine  condition.     The  only  way   I 
could  get  my  machine  in  running  condition  was  to  buy  the  repairs 
myself,  and  I  had  been  contributing  about  $1  a  week  to  that  end. 
As  for  buying  repairs  for  your  machine,  I  would  not  do  anything  of  the 
kind.     The   manager  who   will    get  high   class   film   service   and   expect  the 
operator    to    produce    results    with    an    old,    worn-out,    out-of-date,    decrepit 
projector  has  mistaken   his  calling.     He  might  make  an  excellent  boot  and 
shoe  merchant,  or  possibly  would  excel  as  a  raiser  of  superior  alfalfa,  but 
as  a  theater  manager  he  is  a  joke. 


"Let  Well  Enough  Alone"  Advice. 

Jewel  City,  Kas.,  says  he  is  using  cored  carbons  on  a.c,  through  a  30-40- 
50  ampere  transformer,  and  has  an  old  Edison  model.  He  says  that  the 
old  operator  told  him  that  that  was  good  enough,  and  to  let  well  enough 
alone,  but  he  says  he  is  after  the  best. 

There  are  places  where  the  "let  well  enough  alone"  idea  is  all  right,  but 
not  when  it  comes  to  the  matter  of  theater  equipment.  Jewel  City  should 
use  H  cored  carbons  top  and  bottom,  as  illustrated  and  directed  under 
the  heading,  "Setting  the  Carbons,"  page  204  of  the  handbook,  which  I 
would  by  all  means  advise  Jewel  City  to  procure  at  once.  If  you  have  an 
old  style  Edison  projector  you  should  procure  a  new  machine.  Presumably 
you  mean  an  Exhibition  model,  and  that  particular  machine  is  far  behind 
the  times.  Keep  up  to  date  with  your  projection  machine  equipment.  Jewel 
City,  is  my  advice. 


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"THE  SACRIFICE"  (Kalem),  April  2.— A  picture  that  doesn't  get  over 
strongly;  chiefly  because  the  scenario  was  not  planned  with  the  effect  de- 
sired closely  enough  in  mind.  There  is  a  long  and  not  significant  state- 
ment before  we  really  get  down  to  the  situation,  when  the  old  farmer  and 
his  wife  give  their  home  to  save  their  daughter's  husband's  business.  She 
had  married  a  rich  broker.  Carlyle  Blackwell  and  Elsie  Greeson  have  the 
leads.  The  photography  is  onJy  fair,  but  there  are  one  or  two  pretty 
scenes. 

"CHINESE  TEMPLES"  (Selig),  April  2.— A  short  offering  on  the 
same  reel  with  the  above.  There  is  much  of  interest  in  it  and  it  is  prettily 
photographed. 

"THE  FLOODED  DISTRICTS"  (Lubin),  April  2.— This  terrible  pic- 
ture of  the  recent  disastrous  floods  at  Dayton  and  Hamilton,  Ohio,  gives 
as  a  clear  idea  of  what  has  happened  there.     It  is  well  photographed. 

"ALIXE"  (Vitagraph),  April  2.- — Eugene  Mullin,  the  author  of  this  pic- 
ture, has  given,  as  a  secondary  title,  "Or  the  Test  of  Friendship,"  but  the 
eye  of  the  spectator  never  leaves  the  story's  center  of  interest,  the  woman. 
The  plot  is  skillfully  planned  to  keep  it  there,  and  there  it  would  have  been, 
even  though  Helen  Gardner  had  not  been  cast  in  the  leading  role.  The 
friend  is  played  for  the  sake  of  the  impression  as  a  whole  by  Earle  Will- 
iams and  so  on  account  of  his  artistic  virtue  will  not  be  noticed.  In  her 
role.  Miss  Gardner  makes  one  of  her  big  characterizations.  What  art  she 
has!  She  holds  back,  like  a  skillful  runner,  till  the  end,  where  an  emo- 
tional breakdown  was  needed,  and  walks  from  the  scene,  the  very  picture 
of  rebellion  comforted  by  love  and  breaking  into  tears.  But  this  would 
be  little  if  it  were  all.  Her  intellect  plainly  sees  much  between  the  lines 
of  the  scenario  and  she  coldly  goes  about  expressing  it,  as  one  who  aims 
at  a  target.  When  the  picture  was  made,  she  didn't  always  succeed  in 
hiding  her  method  and,  instead  of  seeming  cool,  seemed  cold  at  times, 
once  in  a  while,  even  mechanical.  Harry  Morey  and  Harry  Northrup 
have  roles.  The  picture  was  produced  by  W.  V.  Ranous.  The  photography 
is  flat,  but  clear  enough.     It  makes  a  very  desirable  offering. 

"THE  DUKE'S  DILEMMA"  (Edison),  April  2.— A  light  farce  comedy 
that  will  find  human  echoes  in  many  hearts.  We  found  much  of  it  most 
amusing;  but  heard  little  or  no  laughter  from  the  audience.  The  poor  duke 
(Marc  MacDermott),  needed  to  make  a  showing,  so  gets  some  strolling 
players  to  be  his  court  of  ceremony.  The  tragedian  (Charles  Ogle),  makes 
a  comical  Malvolio-like  majordomo.  Mable  Trunnelle  has  '  an  important 
role.  The  whole  cast  is  strong.  The  script  is  by  P.  Herbert  and  it  was 
produced  by  Walter  Edwin.  We  feel  sure  that  is  a  safe  offering  and 
in  many  places  will  be  a  star  number. 

"THE  ENGINEER'S  DAUGHTER"  (Patheplay),  April  2.  —  A  picture 
melodrama  that  is  entirely  for  the  sake  of  action.  It  makes  a  very  good 
offering,  although  it  might  have  been  even  more  thrilling,  if  more  time  had 
been  taken  with  the  scenario.  As  it  is  it  holds  well  and  pleased  the  audi- 
ence.    Photography  is  fair. 

"CAIRO.  EGYPT,  AND  ITS  ENVIRONS'*  (Pathe),  April  2.— A  short 
offering  on  the  same  reel.     It  is  interesting,  but  is  poorly  photographed. 

"THE  PRICE  OF  GOLD"  (Essanay),  .-\pril  2.— A  simple,  wholesome 
situation  which,  in  its  development,  contrasts  the  happy  lot  of  a  village  girl 
dreaming  of  riches  with  the  cold  and  empty  life  that  becomes  hers  after 
she  marries  wealth.  It  is  an  effective  picture  and  it  makes  a  good  offering, 
one  that  will  be  widely  popular.  It  won  the  audience  with  whom  we  saw 
it.  Dorothy  Phillips  plays  well  both  the  simple  girl  and  the  rich  society 
matron  and  her  ease  and  naturalness  make  the  picture  convincing.  She 
is  supported  by  a  good  cast;  Frank  Dayton  as  her  husband;  Dolores 
Cassinelli,  her  married  sister,  and  E.  H.  Calvert,  her  humble  sweetheart. 
Bryant  Washburn  plays  her  sister's  husband.  The  sets,  especially  the 
dining-room  and  the  library  in  the  city  house,  are  admirable.  The  photog- 
raphy is  of  good  quality  in  most  of  the  scenes,  though  a  bit  shadowy  in 
some. 

"A  LUCKY  MISTAKE"  (Selig),  April  2.— The  story  is  merely  a  simple 
anecdote,  but  the  picture  makes  a  good  offering.  This  is  mostly  because  it 
is  clearly  told,  is  pleasing  in  itself,  is  acted  naturally  and  is  photographed 
perfectly.  One  of  the  best  things  about  it,  to  our  mind,  is  the1  fact  that 
there  is  no  straining  after  something  big  and  dramatic;  it  is  content  to  be 
human  and  the  pleasure  of  the  spectators  justifies  its  freedom  from  am- 
bition, of  which,  unjustified,  we  see  too  much.  George  F.  Worts  is  the 
author  and  it  was  produced  by  Lorimer  Johnstone.  Pretty  Adrienne 
Kroell  is  the  daughter  of  the  Cranston  chief  of  police  (T.  J.  Commerford), 
and  loses  her  purse  in  Alden.  A  telegram  from  her  father  to  the  Alden 
chief,  Charles  Clary,  changes  a  word  and  results  in  hrr  being  arrested, 
which  ends  in  her  finding  her  purse.     It  is  a  pretty  amusing  offering. 

"ARABIA,  THE  EQUINE  DETECTIVE"  (Selig),  April  3.— Arabia,  the 
intelligent  horse  that  does  the  detective  work  and  saves  the  hero  from 
paying  for  the  vilHan's  crime,  is  a  beautiful  animal  and  it  is  very  inter- 
esting to  see  him  in  the  picture.  In  the  picture  are  many  pretty  girls, 
whom  also,  it  is  pleasant  to  look  upon.  Apart  from  the  tricks  of  the 
horse,  there  is  no  story  in  any  real  sense  of  the  term ;  but  a  series  of 
scenes  clearly  photographed  that  give  disjointed  entertainment  and  keep 
the  offering  from   being  a  failure.     The  photography  is  clear. 


"A  FALSE  FRIEND"  (Lubin),  April  3. — A  melodrama  somewhat 
better  than  the  usual  run.  It  deals  with  the  rough  doings  of  rough 
people  in  the  West  and  gets  its  measure  of  strength  from  the  natural 
way  it  is  acted,  more  than  from  its  story.  For,  by  melodramatic  license, 
this  is  not  subservient  to  the  truth  of  life — at  least  not  at  its  climaxes. 
The  heroine  is  personable  and  the  piteous  Indian  mother  excites  our  sym- 
pathy and  this  also  helps  a  good  deal.  The  photography  is  clear.  As  an 
offering  to  the  public,  it  will  be  popular;  there  were  some  near  us  whose 
attention  was  held  very  strongly  by  it.  The  author  and  producer  is  Wil- 
bert  Melville.  Carl  von  Schiller  is  the  hero;  Henry  King,  the  villain; 
Dorothy   Davenport,   the  heroine;   and   Irene   Hunt,  the  Indian  woman. 

"THERE  SHE  GOES'*  (Patheplay),  April  3.— Here  is  a  queer  charac- 
ter-farce for  laughter.  It  ought  to  cheer  up  any  audience  even  on  a 
rainy  evening.  The  house  we  saw  it  in  was  full  of  sound,  like  a  brook  on 
a  sunny  day,  and,  as  for  ourselves,  we  thoroughly  enjoyed  it.  Gwendolyn 
Pates  plays  the  daughter  of  Hans  (Charles  Arling),  the  village  grocer  who 
doesn't  want  her  to'marry  Jim  (W.  A.  Williams).  There  is  no  use  in  tell- 
ing the  story  of  a  farce;  suffice  that  every  inch  of  it  is  funny.  The 
players  deserve  great  credit. 

['THE  MIDGET'S  ROMANCE"  (Vitagraph),  April  3.— The  value  of 
this  offering  comes  wholly  from  the  presence  in  it  of  Lord  Robert,  a 
true  midget.  To  see  the  little  man  living  his  daily  life  is  more  amusing 
than  to  see  his  love-making.  It  is  clearly  photographed  and  makes  a 
commendable   offering.      It   took  pretty  well   with  the  audience  here. 

"OUR  COAST  DEFENDERS"  (Vitagraph),  April  3.— A  picture  of  tar- 
get practice  at  Fort  Michie,  New  York.     It  is  a  worth  while  offering. 

"THE  WILL-BE  WEDS"  (Essanay),  April  3.— There  is  a  fresh  and 
piquant  situation  in  this  farce  and,  though  to  the  critic  it  seems  "nursed" 
a  bit,  the  audience  found  it  very  amusing.  The  fine  acting,  especially  of 
John  Steppling,  does  much  to  keep  it  from  dragging  and,  perhaps,  to  the 
majority,  will  make  it  real  and  convincing.  Dad  (Joseph  Allen),  reaches 
the  run-away  lovers  at  the  parsonage.  The  minister  is  not  at  home;  his 
butler  puts  on  his  master's  coat,  and  Dad,  thinking  the  couple  married, 
gives  his  blessing.  The  young  couple  said  they  were  married  and  now 
they  are  in  a  fix,  for  they  can't  shake  Dad  who  orders  the  spare  room 
made  ready.  Beverly  Bayne  is  the  girl.  A  good  deal  has  been  made 
of  it  and  it  is  commendable  as  an  offering.      The  photography  is  clear. 

"THE  HERO  OF  LITTLE  ITALY"  (Biograph),  April  3.— There  is 
a  good  story  in  this  picture  and  the  producer  has  made  it  exciting.  As 
it  approaches  its  climax,  the  scenes,  flashed  back  and  forth,  keep  the 
action  concrete  and  almost  breathless.  But  this  playing  for  the  thrill  is 
not  the  best  use  of  the  motion  picture  camera;  for  in  such  there  is  almost 
no  individual  acting — every  thing  goes  to  situation,  nothing  to  character. 
It  justifies  itself  at  the  box  office;  but  so  does  the  higher  kind;  the  first 
has  a  more  immediate,  the  second  a  more  lasting  effect.  Blanche  Sweet, 
Kate  Toncray,  Charles  West.  Harry  Carey,  Charles  Mailes,  W.  J.  Butler 
and  many  others  have  roles  with  plenty  to  do.  The  photography  is  not 
quite    up    to    Biograph    standard.      It    is    an   excellent    offering. 

"THE  STOLEN  TRIBUTE  TO  THE  KING"  (Melies),  April  3.— A 
story  of  Tahiti,  that  is  as  straightforward  and  as  simple  as  the  people 
from  whose  annals  it  was  taken.  It  is  child-like  without  being  childish  and 
makes  a  strong  appeal  to  the  naturalness  that  civilization  has  still  left 
in  us;  such  pictures  strongly  appeal  to  the  majority.  The  audience  plainly 
liked  it.  We  wish  the  photography  were  clearer,  but  it  is  good  enough 
to  get  the   story   over.      It  opens  with  a   fine   glimpse  of  the  surf. 

"THE  RIVER  WANGANUI"  (Melies),  April  3.— On  the  same  reel  is 
this  scenic,  taken  from  a  motor  boat  steaming  up  a  narrow  torrent-like 
stream,  among  the  hills  of  New  Zealand.  At  its  end,  there  is  a  view  of 
tumbling  waters  that  is  fine.  The  photography  is  good,  much  better  than 
in  the  first  half  of  the  reel. 

"NOBILITY"  (Patheplay),  April  2.— This  is  truly  a  feature  picture;  it 
is  in  three  parts,  is  hand-colored  and,  in  all  that  might  be  grouped  under 
staging,  seems  as  nearly  perfect  as  possible.  The  leading  woman  is 
strikingly  lovely,  more  beautiful  than  usual,  even  in  Patheplays,  while  all 
the  players  are  intelligent  and  natural.  There  are  times  when  the  acting 
rises  pretty  high  and  it  puts  substance  into  the  story,  which  is  not  quite 
worthy  of  the  fine  presentation  that  was  given  it,  although  it  is  interesting. 
The  first  two  reels  hold  strongly;  but  at  the  opening  of  the  third  reel,  we 
find  a  duke's  sister,  who  has  married  a  count,  making  a  surreptitious 
visit  on  a  banker  at  his  house,  merely  because  he  had  written  to  her  that 
her  husband  was  ruining  himself  and  suggesting  that  she  call.  Then 
the  duke's  newly-wed  wife,  disliked  by  the  mother-in-law,  a  finely  drawn 
marchioness,  does  an  over-noble  action  in  saving  her  sister-in-law.  It  holds 
strongly,  but  doesn't  move  us  deeply.  The  photography  is  perfect  and  the 
coloring  very  fine. 

"THE  GOLDEN  HOARD"  (Vitagraph),  April  4.— "Or  Buried  Alive." 
is  the  second  title  attached  to  this  picture  of  mystery  and  horror.  A 
two  reel,  special  subject,  it  makes  a  commendable  feature  offering  and  can 
be  depended  upon  to  thrill  the  spine  of  any  normal  audience.  The  story 
is  off  the  beaten  track  and  therefore  cuts  with  a  sharp  edge.  The  hero, 
who  is  buried  alive,  once  belonged  to  a  gang  of  cutthroats  from  whom  he 
fled.      Later,   in   delirium,  he   reveals  the  whereabouts  of  a  box  of  treasure 


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he  had  helped  bury.  When  well,  he  knows  nothing  of  having  given  the 
secret  away,  nor  that  his  new  friend  has  secured  it,  nor  does  he  know  why, 
after  they  go  into  partnership,  they  get  rich  so  quickly.  The  partner 
on  his  death  bed  tells  him  all.  He  tries,  in  fear,  to  put  the  gold  back, 
but  finds  that  it  is  too  late.  The  gang  has  come  and  found  the  treasure 
gone  and  has  vowed  vengeance  against  him.  From  this  point  on  the  pic- 
ture can  truthfully  be  called  "gripping."  We  heard  a  spectator  near  us 
say.  "isn't  it  terrible."  The  ending  will  be  popular  and  it  makes  a  good 
impression  as  a  whole,  for  it  is  well  acted  and  clearly  developed.  There 
is  one  scene  that,  in  pictures  like  this,  never  gets  over  strongly — it  is  that 
in  which  the  hero  sees  a  face  at  the  window  (Indian-in-a-Western,  out- 
law-in-a-mountain  picture,  and  in  this  picture  the  pirate),  and  willfully 
frightens  his  wife  by  his  account  of  it.  The  photography  is  clear  enough, 
but    has    not    much   quality. 

"THE  BURDEN  BEARER"  (Lubin).  April  4-— Emmet  Campbell  Hall 
has  written  a  strong  story.  Produced  by  Arthur  Johnson,  its  strength  has 
been  added  to.  Mr.  Johnson  also  plays  the  lead,  and  his  work  has  never 
been  better  than  it  is  today.  The  picture  has  been  splendidly  staged. 
There  are  five  characters  in  the  play,  and  all  are  worthy  of  praise.  Vivian 
Pates  has  the  role  of  Agnes,  with  whom  two  brothers  are  in  love;  Howard 
Mitchell  is  not  only  the  favored  son,  but  also  the  one  loved  by  Agnes; 
Clara  Lambert  is  the  mother  of  the  two  sons;  Florence  Hackett  has  the 
difficult  part  of  an  adventuress,  who  at  first  lures  the  favored  son,  Dudley, 
and  later  falls  in  love  with  Robert  (Mr.  Johnson),  a  naval  officer  on 
leave.  Miss  Hackett's  work  will  make  strong  appeal  to  men  of  the 
world — and  also  to  worldly-wise  women.  Especially  is  this  true  of  the 
last  scenes,  where  Robert  casts  her  off  and  tells  her  that  he  won  her 
regard  only  to  lure  her  from  his  brother,  who  had  already  supplanted  him 
in  the  affections  of  Agnes.  There  will  be  many  who  see  this  picture  who 
will  regret  that  the  adventuress  did  not  win  out.  and  that  there  should 
have  been  no  occasion  for  the  set  expression  on  the  face  of  the  naval 
ifficer  as  he  paced  the  ship's  deck  after  he  returned  to  duty. 

"A  WOLF  AMONG  LAMBS"  (Essanay),  April  4.— Bryant  Washburn 
fias  the  role  of  a  libertine  in  a  play  that  is  not  pleasant,  although  im- 
pressively put  on.  Helen  Dunbar  as  Sister  Valencia,  a  nun  who  protects 
two  sisters,  the  first  of  whom  fell  and  the  second  is  pursued  by  Don  Fer- 
nando,  gives   a   fine   portrayal. 

"THE  INVENTOR'S  SKETCH"  (Edison),  April  4.— Here's  a  story 
without  a  woman  in  it.  G.  T.  Evans,  the  author,  is  to  be  commended  for 
his  courage  in  writing  it  and  the  Edison  Company  for  accepting  it.  It 
is  altogether  too  common  a  superstition  or  belief  that  a  scenario  must  carry 
a  love  story  or  it  won't  get  through.  Little  Yale  Boss,  as  Billy,  the 
office  boy,  does  a  fine  bit  of  acting.  Standing  out  is  his  work  when,  just 
after  being  taken  from  the  safe  where  he  had  been  locked  up,  he  simulates 
slowly  returning  consciousness.  Bigelow  Cooper,  Richard  Neill  and  Will- 
iam West  are  the  others  in  the  cast.  George  Lessey  has  produced  a 
good  picture. 

"WHIFFLES"  (Patheplay),  April  4. — Farce  comedy,  essentially  French 
in  execution.     There  are  some  good  laughs  in  it. 

"AN  EXCURSION  TO  THE  GRANDE  CHARTREUSE,  FRANCE" 
(Patheplay),  April  4. — On  the  same  reel  as  the  foregoing  is  this  fine 
scenic.      The   man    who   selected    the   backgrounds  was   an   artist. 

"THE  HOYDEN'S  AWAKENING"  (Selig),  April  4.— Comedy  drama, 
interesting  at  times,  also  at  times — to  this  writer,  at  least — not  quite  clear. 
The   director   selected   good  backgrounds. 

"FATTY'S  DECEPTION"  (Kalem),  April  4.— Ruth  Roland  offers  to 
marry  the  winner  of  fi  ten-mile  foot  race  between  John  Brennan  and 
Marshal    Neilan.     They'll  pull  laughter   out  of  any  kind   of  a  house. 

"NEW  YORK  PUBLIC  MARKETS"  (Kalem),  April  4.— On  the  same 
reel  is  a  series  of  pictures  showing  how  New  Yorkers  are  supplied  with 
food. 

"LET  'EM  QUARREL"  (Vitagraph),  April  4.— Larry  Trimble  puts  on 
a  delightful  comedy,  the  script  of  which  is  written  by  M.  T.  Jacobs.  Miss 
Turner  and  Tom  Powers  have  the  roles  of  married  persons  who  will 
quarrel.  There  are  good  situations;  for  getting  out  of  these  the  limit  of 
possibilities,  leave  it  to  Miss  Turner.  Her  facial  control  is  shown  here 
at  its  best — lightning-like  changes  from  laughter  to  sterness,  from  affection, 
when  the  husband  isn't  looking,  to  coldness  when  he  turns  his  head.  In 
theatrical  parlance,  the  orchestra  may  enjoy  the  picture  more  than  the  gal- 
lery; but  the  latter  will  like  it. 

"THE  PERFIDY  OF  MARY"  (Biograph),  April  5.— There  is  a  good 
deal  of  prettiness  about  this  picture  and  the  story  is  cleverly  set  forth. 
The  offering  will  be  liked;  yet,  from  an  artistic  standpoint,  it  is  not 
wholly  a  success.  What  Mary  (Mae  Marsh)  does  seems  to  be  perfidy,  but 
its  purpose  is  to  protect  her  cousin  from  a  Lothario  who  is  treated  in  a 
way  that  will  please  the  audience.  Dorothy  Gish  plays  the  cousin.  Wal- 
ter Miller  plays  the  bashful  lover.  Lionel  Barrymore  plays  the  objecting 
father  of  Mae.  The  photography  is  fair.  The  story  is  artistically  told; 
but  the  picture  seems   crowded   by   its  unimportant   incidents. 

"MODERN  PROGRESS  IN  SOMALILAND,  EAST  AFRICA"  (Cines), 
April  5, — There  is  much  to  interest  in  this  picture  of  Italy's  African  do- 
main. It  gives  us  some  views  along  the  Nebi  river,  including  some  hand- 
colored    sunset   pictures    that    are    worthy. 

"FAINT  HEART  NE'ER  WON  FAIR  LADY"  (Cines),  April  5.— On 
the  same  reel  is  this  clearly  played  farce  comedy.  If  there  is  not  much 
"punch"  in  it,  it  is  better  entertainment  than  much  of  what  passes  for 
punch.  It  seemed  to  amuse  the  audience,  too.  The  photography,  which 
is  fair,  might  have  been  better,  especially  as  its  scenes  are  very  pretty. 

"THE  BROKEN  IDYLL"  (Patheplay),  April  5._While  there  is  not 
much  that  is  deeply  interesting  in  the  situation  of  this  picture,  it  is  pleas- 
ingly developed  and  makes  a  very  fair  offering.  Set  on  a  ranch,  it  has 
some  good  pictures  of  animals,  also  some  sensational  riding  and  some 
charming  scenes.     The  photography  is  clear. 

"A  MISSISSIPPI  TRAGEDY"  (Kalem),  April  5.— There  is  a  good  deal 
of  freshness  in  this  story  of  gambling  for  high  stakes  on  Mississippi  steam- 
boats in  days  before  the  war.     The   really  good  point  about  it  is   that  it 


seems  realistically  true  to  the  times  it  pictures,  and  so  it  .convinces.  It 
h*s,  for  instance,  a  real  back-kicking  steamer  of  the  old  type.  The  scenes 
with  this  in  are  fine.  The  plot,  with  new  incidents,  is  conventional  and 
ends,  as  many  pictures  do,  with  the  heroine  riding  to  save  the  hero,  a 
noble-hearted  young  man  who  had  been  forbidden  the  house  by  her  father, 
because  he  was  a  gambler.  Anna  Nilson  is  the  girl;  James  Vincent,  the 
hero;  Hal  Clements,  the  villain;  Guy  Coombs,  the  girl's  brother  and  Henry 
Hallem,  a  fine  old  man,  her  father.  The  photography  is  clear.  An  offer- 
ing  that   will   be   welcomed.  • 

"MASTER  AND  MAN"  (Edison),  April  5.— We  cannot  place  where  we 
saw  this  picture  before,  though  we  remember  it,  as  far  as  the  outline  goes, 
distinctly.  There  have  been  a  number  of  pictures  like  it,  but  none  that 
we  have  seen  within  a  year.  It  was  produced  by  L.  S.  Dawley.  Sidney 
Ayres  plays  a  young  man  who  is  rich  and  drinking  too  much.  Charles 
Sutton  plays  an  ex-convict  whom  he  finds  stealing  his  silver  and  per- 
suades to  reform  and  take  service  with  him.  Jessie  McAllister  plays  the 
girl  he  marries.  She  gambles,  gets  into  debt  and  steals  from  one  of  her 
guests.  To  save  the  "master,"  the  old  "man"  takes  the  blame.  It  is  not 
a  very  effective  offering,  although  it  is  well  set.  The  photography  is  not 
clear-cut   and   is   often   flat. 

"HE   ANSWERED   THE   AD"    (Vitagraph),    April    5— A    Bunny-Finch 

picture  that  is  slow  at  first,  but  becomes  a  scream  in  the  ending  scenes, 
in  which  we  find  Bunny  as  a  dancing  girl  in  the  chorus  of  a  burlesque 
show.     It  is  well  photographed  and  the  ending  surely  tickled  the  audience. 

"BRONCHO   BILLY'S   WAY"    (Essanay),   April    5.— A   new   story   that 

is  dramatic  and  has  a  punch;  but,  although  it  is  wholesome  in  its  signifi- 
cance, being  quite  free  from  sentimentality,  we  don't  dare  call  it  a  pleas- 
ant story.  It  is  very  effectively  built  and  the  acting  carries  it  forward 
smoothly  and  clearly.  The  photography  is  fair  in  most  of  the  scenes. 
It  has  a   "punch." 

"COLLECTING  THE  BILL"  (Lubin),  April  5.— This  little  farce  kept 
the  audience  in  a  roar  of  laughter.  It  has  a  good  amusing  situation  and 
good  comic  acting.  It  is  the  kind  of  picture  to  make  the  audience  forget 
its  troubles.  Jack  Ridgway  has  in  his  office  Marguerite  DeMoyer  and  two 
clerks,  Walter  Stull  and  George  Reehm.  He  has  a  bill  against  Robert 
Burns,  who  goes  into  a  rage  whenever  asked  to  pay.  Each  of  the  men 
tries  to  collect.  We  are  shown  what  happens  and  see  the  hapless  ones 
come  back  to  the  office  needing  bandages.  The  girl  volunteers  and  tries 
gentler  methods  with  success.  That  is  all,  but  it  is  done  in  a  very  clever 
way  and  both  author,  E.  W.  Sargent,  and  producer,  Arthur  Hotaling. 
deserve    praise. 

"HIS  WIDOW"  (Lubin),  April  5.— On  the  same  reel  is  this  farce  by 
the  same  author  and  producer;  but  of  not  quite  the  same  quality,  being 
less  spontaneous.  It  made  a  good  deal  of  laughter.  The  acting  is  very 
commendable.  Walter  Stull  hears  that  his  godfather  (Robert  Burns)  is 
coming  to  visit  him.  To  escape  he  gets  his  landlady  (Mae  Hotely)  to  say 
she  is  his  widow.  Frances  DeMoyer  plays  Walter's  sweetheart,  and 
George  Reehm  and  Jack  Ridgway  play  policemen. 

"A  CHANGE  OF  ADMINISTRATION"  (Selig),  April  5.— These  two 
reels  will  interest  throughout.  They  will  do  so  in  spite  of  the  fact  that 
there  is  no  spectacular  feature  to  raise  this  above  the  ordinary,  although 
exception  perhaps  should  be  made  to  the  short  scene  of  the  inaugural  ball, 
which  evidenced  .much  care  and  expense  in  staging.  The  story  is  of  a 
chief  clerk  of  the  War  Department  at  Washington,  in  love  with  the  daugh- 
ter of  the  Mexican  Ambassador.  In  spite  of  the  fact  that  the  clerk  is 
morally  certain  to  be  without  a  position  in  less  than  a  week  by  reason 
of  the  incoming  administration  naturally  instituting  changes,  he  proposes 
to  the  girl  and  is  accepted.  When  he  is  notified  that  his  job  will  go  to 
another  the  fiancee  proceeds  to  bribe  his  successor,  and  the  first  day  in 
office  of  the  latter  is  his  last.  The  old  chief  clerk  is  reinstated  for  the 
four  years.  The  story  is  not  always  logical;  doubtless,  also,  it  will  be 
unpopular  among  the  widely  scattered  servants  of  Uncle  Sam.  Charles 
Clary  has  the  role  of  the  old  clerk  and  William  Stowell  that  of  the  in- 
coming official.  Both  do  good  work.  Adrienne  Kroell  by  her  impersonation 
of  the  Ambassador's  daughter  will  please  her  audiences.  Hardee  Kirkland 
produced  the  picture. 

"THE  QUEEN  OF  SPADES"  (Cines),  April  7-— This  is  a  two  reel, 
special  picture  and  its  first  noticeable  quality  is  the  beauty  of  its  scenes 
in  which  the  prettiness  of  its  leading  lady,  Lucille  Hesperus,  also  an  accom- 
plished actress,  plays  an  important  part.  Artistic  in  its  staging,  its  story 
has  been  adroitly  handled  to  make  a  popular  appeal.  So  it  makes  a  pretty 
effective  offering,  one  that  we  can  safely  commend.  The  story  is  not 
great;  but  there  is  nothing  in  it  that  markedly  detracts  from  its  availability. 
"THE  WARDROBE  LADY"  (Essanay),  April  8.— Good  drama.  The 
story  is  well  told  and  well  played.  John  Steppling  and  Beverly  Bayne 
have  the  leads. 

"THE  EVIL  ONE"  (Lubin),  April  7.— An  unusual  Indian  story,  with 
a  fresh  and  dramatic  situation  rising  from  Indian  superstition.  The  girl. 
played  by  Clara  Williams,  unhappily  drinks  from  a  jar  of  milk  just  before 
its  owner  finds  that  it  is  sour.  It  is  assumed  that  she  has  "the  evil  eye," 
and  the  chief '(Harry  Loomes)  calls  upon  the  tribe  to  do  away  with  her. 
Her  lover  (Edgar  Jones)  helps  her  to  escape  across  the  desert.  One  feels 
that  more  might  have  been  made  of  this  situation,  but  what  we  have  makes 
an  entertaining  offering.  The  photography  is  only  so-so;  in  some  of  the 
scenes  it  is  poor.  F.  J.  Grandon  produced  it  from  Wallace  Clifton's  script. 
"VENGEANCE  IS  MINE"  (Selig),  April  7.— A  Mexican,  or  perhaps 
Spanish,  story  of  a  hunchback  painter.  In  the  opening  we  find  him  a 
ragged  waif,  whom  a  friar  is  teaching  to  paint.  He  does  the  portrait  of 
a  beautiful  girl,  the  sweetheart  of  a  roue  who  sees  him  with  the  painting 
and  throws  tne  girl  over.  The  painter  adopts  the  daughter,  when  the  girl 
dies,  and  twenty  years  pass.  The  grown  daughter  looks  like  the  mother, 
and  the  roue,  now  an  old  man,  comes  upon  her  in  a  park  and  follows  her 
to  the  painter's  home,  where  he  falls  dead.  The  story  is  a  good  deal  better 
than  this  outline,  but  there  is  all  through  the  film  a  flatness  that  keeps  it 
from  interesting;  it  seems  somewhat  cheap.  The  acting,  with  the  exception 
of  the  padre  (Thomas  Santschi)  and  the  girl   (Bessie  Eyton),  is  not  natural. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


The  photography  lacks  quality.     Colin  Campbell  produced  it  from  the  script 
of  Lanier  Bartlet. 

''BUNNY'S  HONEYMOON"  (Vitagraph).  April  7.— A  Bunnygraph  that 
made  a  good  deal  of  individual  laughter,  but  only  once  or  twice  caught  the 
whole  audience.  The  plot  seems  forced,  and  this  keeps  most  of  it  from  that 
spontaneity  needed  for  the  best  fun.  There  are  one  or  two  very  funny 
incidents,  and  these  a  large  audience  appreciated.  Bunny  plays  the  god- 
father of  Dorothy  Kelly,  who  is  engaged  to  Wallie  Van,  a  good  boy  who, 
unfortunately,  gets  drunk.  Bunny  has  him  taken  home,  and  then,  with  the 
help  of  some  children,  makes  him  think,  on  waking  next  day,  that  he  has 
married  a  widow  with  a  houseful  of  kids.  It's  a  bad  dream  and  cures  him 
of  his  weakness.  Charles  Eldridge  plays  the  girl's  father.  Frank  Thomas 
is  the  author,  and  Wilfred  North  the  producer.  The  photography  is  clear 
and  effective. 

"THE  STOLEN  BRIDE"  (Biograph),  April  7.— A  melodramatic  picture 
not  quite  up  to  the  high  standard  of  Biograph  releases.  It  gives  no  chance 
for  human  emotion,  or  real  humor,  or  convincing  suspense.  Yet  it  makes 
a  fair  commercial  offering,  in  that  it  keeps  something  alive  on  the  screen, 
even  though  all  that  it  uses  is  screen-worn.  The  photography  is  rather  flat. 
The  acting  certainly  wasn't  bad,  but  acting  has  little  chance  in  such  a 
picture. 

"PATHE'S  WEEKLY,"  April  7.— The  topical  is  rather  thin  in  news 
value,  but  has  a  number  of  interesting  items. 

"A  SHOWER  OF  SLIPPERS"  (Edison),  April  7.— A  little  farce  of 
country  village  life,  developing  out  of  the  minister's  love  story.  There  was 
some  laughter,  but  the  picture  never  seemed  to  catch  the  large  audience  as 
a  whole,  perhaps  because  there  have  been  too  many  others  that  resemble  it. 
The  minister  is  played  naturally  and  pleasingly  by  Bigelow  Cooper,  and 
Elsie  McLeod  is  very  sweet  and  engaging  as  the  girl.  Among  the  spinsters 
who  also  send  slippers  are  Alice  Washburn.  Clara  Adams,  May  Abbey  and 
Florence  Coventry.  Mrs.  Erskine  plays  the  minister's  sister.  Arthur  Hous- 
man  plays  the  peddler,  who  gets  the  slippers  from  the  minister's  sister  and 
tries  to  sell  them  in  the  village.  Charles  Seay  produced  it  from  E.  A.  Bull's 
script 

"IN  THE  GRIP  OF  A  CHARLATAN"  Oalem),  April  7.— A  picture  of 
modern  life  in  a  great  city,  in  which  hypnotism  is  used  to  bring  out  a 
melodramatic  situation.  It  is  not  a  great  picture,  but  it  is  perhaps  the  most 
commendable  offering,  considering  all  things,  among  today's  releases,  and  a 
large  audience  seemed  to  watch  it  closely.  Alice  Joyce  is  very  pretty  in 
the  heroine's  role  as  the  one  the  charlatan  (R.  P.  Gibbs)  hypnotizes  and 
makes  a  captive  in  his  house.  Tom  Moore  (the  lover),  with  Richard  Pur- 
don  (the  father)  and  police,  rescue  her.  The  sets  are  commendable,  as 
usual  in  pictures  made  by  this  company.     The  photography  is  very  good. 

"OLD  JIM"  (Edison),  April  8. — There  is  a  dynamite  blast  in  this  picture 
which  is  intended  to  create  suspense;  it  succeeds  fairly  well.     The  drama 

I  is  of  a  drinking  father  of  a  young  man  in  love  with  his  employer's  daughter. 
The  quarry  boss,  seeing  the  father  drunk,  declines  to  accept  the  son  as 
a  suitor  for  his  daughter.  Later  the  old  man  reforms;  in  a  blast  he  saves 
the  little  child  of  the  boss,  who  has  wandered  into  the  danger  zone. 

"FOR  HIS  CHILD'S  SAKE"  (Lubin),  April  8.— The  same  old  triangle. 
The  story  is  not  pleasant,  except  it  be  the  very  finish.  The  burning  of  the 
cabin  makes  an   effective  bit  of  background. 

"SCENES  ALONG  THE  PESCARA  RIVER"  (Cines),  April  8.— A 
scenic  at  times  over-tinted.  One  interesting  picture  is  of  a  tunnel  drive- 
way  13a  feet  long  built  2,300  years   ago. 

"A  ROMANCE  BY  THE  SEA"  (Cines),  April  8.— On  the  same  reel 
is  this  drama.  The  most  that  may  be  said  for  it  is  that  it  is  a  series 
of  good  backgrounds  with  a  dialogue  accompaniment;  and  very  flat. 

"THE  TRANSITION"  (Vitagraph),  April  8.— Here  is  a  good  picture, 
embellished  by  good  acting,  the  honors  being  divided  between  Charles 
Bennett,  as  a  moonshiner;  Mary  Charleson,  his  daughter;  and  George  C 
Stanley,  as  the  sheriff.     Mr.  Sturgeon  is  the  producer. 

"ROBERT  HALE'S  AMBITION"  (Selig),  April  8.— A  story  that  will 
not  stand  analysis.  A  boy  seeing  the  good  times  enjoyed  during  vaca- 
tions by  college  chaps  wants  to  go  to  college,  too.  His  mother  gives  him 
$200 — she  works  in  a  mill.  On  this  money  the  boy  has  a  big  time;  even 
wears  a  dress  suit;  also  he  attends  cabaret  shows — up  in  Vermont,  at  that. 
The  production  and  the  acting  are  creditable,  but  even  these  cannot  put 
over  this  kind  of  a  story. 


Independent 

"STEAM"  (Kinemacolor). — Here  is  one  of  the  best  pictures  the  natural 
color  company  has  made.  It  may  be  described  as  filmed  standard  fiction. 
The  expenditure  of  much  pains  and  money  is  apparent.  The  film  por- 
trays the  lives  first  of  James  Watt  as  boy  and  man,  and  then  of  George 
Stephenson  likewise.  Watt  is  shown  making  his  first  discovery  of  the 
power  of  steam  and  constructing  the  model  of  the  stationary  engine.  So 
also  is  shown  George  Stephenson  as  a  boy,  pushing  a  coal  car  over  rails, 
and  wondering  why  steam  could  not  be  employed  to  do  the  same  thing. 
We  see  the  making  in  clay  of  the  first  locomotive  model  and  then  the 
demonstration  on  rails  of  the  first  engine.  Running  through  the  pictures 
are  portrayed  the  love  stories  of  the  two  men,  which  raises  the  interest. 
Much  attention  is  given  to  costumes  of  the  period. 

"MODELING  EXTRAORDINARY"  (Kinemacolor).— Trick  photography, 
containing  many  new  stunts.  It  will  make  much  laughter,  and  will  interest 
as  well. 

"FEATHERTOP"  (Kinemacolor). — A  good  picture,  adapted  from  the 
story  of  Nathaniel  Hawthorne.  Close  attention  is  paid  to  the  Colonial 
settings  and  costumes,  which  are  convincing.  It  is  well  acted  and  pro- 
duced. 

"OUT  OF  THE  DARKNESS"  (Kinemacolor),— In  this  drama,  filmed 
on  the  Pacific  Coast  and  containing  many  fine  backgrounds  of  old  ocean, 
there  is  a  real   thrill — a   punch.     A   husband,   believing  his  wife   to  be  in 


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AS    FATE   WILLS"    (Frontier),    April    ,o.-This   story    begins    v 

hoPsDi,alSinna  °"    \?7   ""ft  WherCin    3    man    fa,,s   *nd   i taken    „ 
hosp.tal    ,n    an    ambulance.      The    scenes    which    follow,    covering    episodes 

"em  imLTJe  I5,'"  T- ""  S°  U"real  aS  ,0  make  the  wh°*  *^ 
rlpTy  "'clear  "   "ny  "*»  a  Str0ng  film'   thou*h  *«  Phot°* 

fea'.urlngS,heAwTenRkn000"F(ImPJ.'  ^  "~A  fi'm  st0r*  taken  in  Fra"«. 

half  reel  is  no^'n,"  T  Je"Ch  C°med/  ma"  kn0wn  as  Fool'shead.  This 
nan   reel  is  nonsensical   and   not  very  funny. 

re'elT  wfthMJoTERI°U^  tCA?D"  (Imp)'  April  »-A  half  «»•  °"  same 
wLj     ,  '   '"   Wh'Ch   ?he    P°ss«sor    of    *    card    bearing   a    mysterious 

?k tha?  fJomVort-  «e's  '"<o  numerous  difficulties.  The  plot  is  much 
like  that  of  a  famous  short  story  published  some  fifteen  years  ago  but 
in   picture   form   it  only  gets  up   a   fair   degree   of  interest. 

;n"fheR£  ™L°  AND.  DROSS"  (Rex),  April  ,3.-One  cannot  say  that, 
fin,,  i    °a'f.  of   this    picture,    there    is    any    clearly   marked    story;    but 

tit  h,3  1  dJamatlc  situation  is  presented.  A  miner  finds  gold  after  his 
wife  has  left  him  and  it  seems  to  him  but  dross.  There  is  a  happy  ending. 
It  is  only  a  passibly  fair  offering.  w 

"THE  ELIXIR  OF  YOUTH"  (Powers),  April  o.-A  farce  of  queer 
characters  in  a  summer  hotel  village.  We  have  the  two  rival  hotel  men 
and  the  story  turning  on  a  certain  well,  whether  it  be  the  elixir  of  youth 
or  something  else.  Spring  water  also  was  turned  to  the  elixir  of  youth  by 
the  addition  of  rotten  eggs  in  a  recent  Biograph  picture;  here  the  same 
idea  is  worked  up  m  a  different  way  and  makes  a  fair  offering  The  pho- 
tography is  clear  and  there  is  comic  acting. 

"GOING  FOR  FATHER"  (Eclair),  April  t3._A  light  farce  picture  by 
the  American  company  in  an  irresponsible,  frolicsome  mood  that  will  make 
pastime  for  tired  people.  The  tune  at  the  village  saloon  is  so  lively  that 
all  who  go  for  father  have  to  stay  and  dance— the  children  first,  then 
grandpa,  then  grandma.  When  mother  comes,  the  entertainment  is  broken 
up  and  the  farce  ends  at  the  home  where  the  supper  is  burning  on  the 
stove.     A  very  fair  offering. 

"THE  OCTOPUS"  (Eclair),  April  13.— On  the  same  reel  is  this  remark- 
able picture  of  the  dreadful  octopus.  It  is  well  photographed  and  will 
make  the  timid  shudder.  None  of  us  will  want  to  go  in  bathing  where 
it  is  likely  to  be. 

"AN  AFFRAY  OF  HONOR"  (Nestor),  April  16.— A  comical  village 
love  story  that  has  been  cleverly  handled  and  parts  of  it  will  surely  make 
laughter.  There  is  freshness  even  in  the  farcical  duel  of  the  two  village 
characters.  It  is  clearly  photographed,  but  the  old  Nestor  quality  is  not 
found.     It  is  a  commendable  offering. 

"A  BOOK  OF  VERSES"  (Rex),  April  20.— This  love  story,  with  a  semi- 
literary  background,  doesn't  get  what  could  be  called  a  "punch,"  but  it 
deals  with  interesting  things.  The  public  stenographer's  old  father  is  an 
unsuccessful  poet  and  she  sells  his  manuscripts  to  a  society  woman,  who 
brings  them  out  as  her  own.  The  young  hero  sees  through  the  decep- 
tion, for  he  has  read  the  poems  of  the  old  man  while  still  in  writing. 
So   we   have    the    happy   ending. 

"THE  FEAR"  (Powers),  April  11. — A  psychological  study  of  fear 
played  successfully  by  F.  MacDonald  as  a  man  who  thinks  that  he  has 
killed  his  friend  in  a  foolish  fight  over  a  rabbit.  He  runs  off  and  gets 
lost  in  the  forest,  would  have  died  had  not  his  wife  gone  to  seek  him. 
The  picture  stands  on  Mr.  MacDonald's  acting,  which  makes  it  both  dra- 
matic and   interesting.      The  photography  is  very   fair. 

"BLOOD  WILL  TELL"  (Imp),  April  14. — This  interesting  picture  was 
plainly  written  by  someone  who  knew  a  thing  or  two  about  underworld 
life  and  knew  how  to  write  a  picture.  The  acting  and  direction  do  much 
to  make  it  seem  realistic,  though  the  situation  is  not  hard  to  believe.  The 
detective,  who  knows  that  his  younger  brother  is  not  just  what  he  should 
be,  catches  him  in  a  serious  theft  and  is  about  to  deliver  him  up;  but 
their  mother  pleads  for  the  boy.  William  Shay  plays  the  detective,  Herbert 
Brennon,  the  boy,  and  Lillian  Langdon,  their  mother.  That  last  scene 
was  hardly  worth  while;  the  older  brother  didn't  need  to  break  the  furni- 
ture to  bolster  his  lie.  If  he  had  said,  "My  prisoner  has  escaped,"  that 
would    have    been    enough.      The    photograph    is    good. 

"THE  LESSON"  (Powers),  April  16. — Here  is  one  more  of  those  hu- 
man and  truthful  stories  of  child  life  by  the  Powers  Company.  It  is  set 
on  a  farm  and  makes  a  thoroughly  delightful  offering,  one  of  the  kind 
that  ought  not  to  be  missed  by  any  exhibitor.  It  is  played  by  the  same 
people  that  have  appeared  in  former  pictures  by  this  company  and  pro- 
ducer, and  is  full  of  that  kind  of  humor  that  is  as  deep  as  human  experi- 
ence. It  is  a  perfect  offering  for  any  kind  of  entertainment  and  will 
entertain  any  kind  of  audience. 


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"A  FRIEND  OF  THE  FAMILY"  (Rex),  April  17.— The  heroine  of  this 
picture  is  not  the  first  shadow-character  that  has  married  a  life-guardsman 
with  whom  she  fell  in  love  at  the  beach;  but  this  is  not  a  romance  with 
the  usual  objecting  parent.  It  is  a  problem  picture  and  is  meant  to  be 
realistic.  In  part,  it  succeeds  in  being  so;  but  is  not  a  great  picture  nor 
an  absolutely  truthful  one.  It  has  an  interesting  story;  is  very  well  acted, 
has  some  very  pretty  scenes  in  high  life  and  is  commendable  as  a  popular 
offering. 

"THE  TROUBADOUR  OF  THE  RANCHO"  (Powers),  April  18.— A  pic- 
ture that  develops  with  a  measure  of  freshness  an  often  used  situation 
and  furnishes  an  interesting  offering.  Its  backgrounds  are  especially  good 
and  this  is  a  point  in  its  favor  that  will  make  it  stand  out  above  most 
recent  releases.  The  Mexican  ranchero  is  so  busy  that  his  young  wife  is 
or  thinks  she  is  neglected.  Her  husband's  false  friend  comes  on  a  visit 
with  the  usual  result.  The  pivotal  character  is  the  poor  singer  and  he  has 
a  prominent  part  in  saving  her  from  ruining  herself.  The  photography 
seems  very  good. 

"HOW  FATTY  GOT  EVEN"  (Nestor),  April  9.— Birdie's  arrival  at 
the  ranch  creates  consternation  among  the  boys.  They  will  not  let  Fatty 
share  in  welcoming  her,  but  he  comes  out  winner  in  the  end.  The  story 
is  very  conventional,  and  the  duel  scene  at  the  last  comes  nearest  to  giving 
us  a  fresh  situation.     Even  this  was  not  handled  very  well. 

"ANIMATED  WEEKLY  NO.  56"  (Universal),  April  2.— Cyclone  and 
flood  pictures  lead  the  interest  in  this  weekly  summary  of  events,  but 
there  is  a  budget  of  attractive  scenes  in  this  number.  The  Omaha  and 
Dayton  views   are  of  course  most  timely. 

"SHANGHAIED"  (Champion),  April  7. — Starting  with  a  scene  in  which 
a  father  attempts  to  drug  his  own  son  to  keep  him  from  marrying  a  cer- 
tain girl,  this  film  gives  us  a  ridiculous  series  of  events,  none  of  which 
serve   to   make   an   interesting   or   convincing  picture. 

"LIFE  SAVERS  OF  CHICAMACOMICO"  (Champion),  April  7.— A 
few  views  of  a  life  saving  crew  manning  a  boat  in  high  surf,  on  same 
reel  with  above. 

"THE  FORGOTTEN  LETTER"  (Nestor),  April  11.— A  film  story  cov- 
ering thirty-five  years  of  time.  A  young  lover  forgets  to  mail  his  letter 
proposing  marriage  to  his  sweetheart.  Years  later  he  discovers  the  letter 
in  an  old  coat.  He  goes  to  her  at  once — she  is  now  a  widow — and  is  ac- 
cepted. A  pretty  idea,  though  not  very  new,  and  not  exceptionally  well 
presented.  The  opening  scenes  were  marred  by  the  presence  of  a  tele- 
phone and  other  modern  facilities  impossible  to  the  time   depicted. 

"THE  WANDERER"  (Imp),  April  7. — An  allegorical  offering,  suggest- 
ing "The  Servant  in  the  House"  and  like  productions.  King  Baggott,  as 
the  shepherd,  descends  into  the  city,  where  he  prevents  a  married  woman 
from  throwing  herself  away  on  a  stranger.  The  scenes  are  well  pictured 
and  when  the  shepherd  returns  to  his  flocks  we  feel  that  he  has  accom- 
plished some  good  for  mankind  by  his  journey  into  the  world.  Not  power- 
ful,   but    strong    in    motive   and   thought-compelling. 

"THE  VEILED  LADY"  (Crystal),  April  13.— To  cure  Chester  of 
flirting,  Pearl  arranges  an  appointment  for  him  with  a  negress.  When  he 
discovers  the  deception  Chester  beats  a  hasty  retreat.     Moderately  amusing. 

"OUR  PARENTS  IN  LAW"  (Crystal),  April  13.— This,  on  same  reel 
with  above,  brings  about  a  marriage  between  Carrie's  ma  and  Chester's 
pa,   instead   of  the  usual  quarreling.     A   fairly   interesting   half  reel. 

"THE  BURNING  LARIAT"  (Frontier),  April  12. — The  splendid  scenic 
effects  in  this  picture  of  mountains  and  plain  are  its  strongest  point.  The 
story  itself  is  too  frankly  sensational  to  be  very  convincing,  yet  it  will 
appeal  to  many  observers  in  spite  of  its  impossible  character.  The  herds 
of  sheep  and  goats  seen  in  the  first  portion  of  the  film  were  picturesque. 
The  photography  is  clear-cut  throughout. 

"THE  MAID  AND  THE  MILKMAN"  (Nestor),  April  7.— A  comedy 
absurdity,  in  which  Edward  meets  two  pretty  girls  in  the  park.  They 
take  him  home  and  one  pretends  to  be  the  maid  in  order  to  give  the  older 
sister  what  is  perhaps  her  "last  chance."  But  Edward  loves  the  other 
and  pretends  to  be  the  milkman  in  order  to  get  to  see  her.  The  scenes 
are  laid   in   Hollywood,   Cal.,  and  are   accordingly   attractive. 

"THE  RIVER  RHINE,  GERMANY"  (Nestor),  April  7.— On  same  reel 
with  above,  some  interesting  glimpses  of  the  beautiful  Rhine,  lined  with 
feudal  castles  and  cities. 

"UNTIL  DEATH"  (Rex),  April  10.— It  would  be  difficult  to  recall 
during  the  releases  of  a  year  past  a  film  story,  extending  over  two  reels, 
with  a  more  tragically  intense  note  than  this.  It  grips  the  observer  from 
the  very  start  with  the  novelty  of  its  theme  and  setting,  and  throughout 
it  is  a  triumph  of  moving  picture  art.  Phillips  Smalley  and  Harry  Pollard 
appear  as  the  orchid  hunting  brothers,  and  Lois  Weber  enacts  very  credit- 
ably the  girl  whom  they  both  love.  The  wilderness  scenes  are  decidedly 
good,  and  Phil's  desertion  of  his  brother  brings  the  first  reel  to  a  dramatic 
close.  In  the  second  reel  Harry  reappears.  He  falls  over  the  cliff  and 
she  finds  him  buried  in  the  loose  earth,  with  but  one  hand  visible.  She 
dies  holding  his  hand,  and  so  the  husband  finds  them  at  dawn.  The  psycho- 
logical horror  of  this  situation  almost  makes  the  observer  wish  it  were  not 
prolonged  to  so  great  an  extent.  Yet  it  is  legitimate  tragedy  and  gained 
by  superior  means.     A  powerful   two-reel  offering. 

"PAYING  FOR  SILENCE"  (Nestor),  April  18.— This  is  a  rather  un- 
convincing newspaper  yarn,  in  which  the  girl  flirts  with  a  newspaper  re- 
porter on  a  bet.  Later  her  brother  is  caught  cheating  at  cards  and  she 
makes  an  appeal  to  the  newspaper  man  to  save  his  name  from  unwelcome 
publicity.  The  scenes  in  the  editorial  room  were  dramatic,  but  scarcely 
true  to  conditions  in  the  average  newspaper  office.  The  film  suffers  from 
static   light   rays. 

"WITHIN  THE  LIMIT  OF  THE  LAW"  (Eclair),  April  9.— This  is  a 
two-reel  story,  with  the  scenes  located  in  France.  The  plot  is  peculiar 
and  sets  one  to  thinking.  It  shows  how  a  doctor,  in  love  with  an  adven- 
turess, so  far  forgets  the  dignity  of  his  calling  as  to  perform  an  unneces- 
sary operation  on  a  wealthy  patient.  The  proceeds,  $6,000,  he  spends  on 
the  girl.  The  son  of  the  countess  afterward  exposes  the  doctor  in  a  dra- 
matic way  and  in  the  final  scene  the  physician  commits  suicide  as  his  wife 


pounds  upon  the  door.  There  were  some  lapses  in  this,  as  when  the  count- 
ess enters  the  operating  room  in  street  costume  and  picture  hat,  but  on  the 
whole  it  is  well   constructed  and  capably  acted.     A  strong  production. 

"FOR  LOVE  OF  COLUMBINE"  (Reliance),  April  12.— This  film  is  not 
remarkable  for  its  newness,  as  it  pictures  the  familiar  story  of  the  clown 
who  sacrifices  the  girl  he  loves  to  another  man.  Yet  the  story  is  enter- 
taining and  well   presented   and  will   please   the   average  audience. 

"HELD  FOR  RANSOM"  (Reliance),  April  16.— This  is  an  out-of-door 
film  story  in  two  reels,  of  the  ultra-romantic  type.  The  hero  abducts 
the  rich  man's  daughter  and  holds  her  for  ransom,  or  in  other  words  until 
her  father  restores  the  property  he  obtained  by  fraud.  The  appearance  of 
the  apparition  on  the  "haunted  peak"  leads  the  hero  to  release  the  girl, 
but  by  this  time  they  are  in  love  and  she  forces  her  father  to  return  her 
lover's  property.      An   entertaining   feature. 

"MURPHY'S  I.  O.  U."  (Keystone),  April  17.— A  fair  half-reel  com- 
edy, in  which  Murphy,  a  policeman,  gives  his  wife's  jewels  to  a  creditor, 
and  learns  to  regret  it.  His  wife  pursues  him  and  finally  procures  her 
jewels  again. 

"A  DOLLAR  DID  IT"  (Keystone),  April  17.— This,  on  the  same  reel, 
is  better  than  the  above.  It  has  many  uproarious  moments  of  the  slap- 
stick  variety. 

"A  LIFE  IN  THE  BALANCE"  (Keystone),  April  14— One  of  the  im- 
mensely funny  creations  the  Keystone  people  occasionally  turn  out.  A 
fine  little  baby  is  hung  out  of  the  window,  apparently,  in  a  basket  attached 
to  a  spring  muscle  exerciser.  The  baby  is  given  a  bomb  to  play  with. 
Three  bomb  throwers  are  the  villains  in  the  piece.  It  is  a  fine  bit  of  ex- 
travagant   burlesque   and    brings   much    laughter. 

"RETROGRESSION"  (Broncho),  April  23.— A  well-acted  two-reel  film, 
in  which  a  convict  goes  West  and  tries  to  live  an  upright  life,  with  his 
young  daughter.  But  one  of  his  pals  escapes  and  follows  him,  and  in- 
duces the  man  to  blow  up  a  safe.  The  plot  has  been  done  before  in 
numerous  ways,  but  the  situations  are  dramatic  and  the  characterizations 
good.  Rusty  and  the  girl  handle  their  parts  nicely,  as  well  as  the  convict 
father.     The  Indian  fighting  in  the  second  reel  was  spirited  and  exciting. 

"THE  CHANGELING"  (Thanhouser),  April  11.— In  this  picture  the 
Thanhouser  Kid  plays  the  double  role  of  the  boy  who  was  lost  and  the 
boy  who  was  substituted  by  designing  people.  It  makes  an  interesting, 
well-acted  story  of  its  kind. 

"A  BLACK  CONSPIRACY"  (Kaybee),  May  2.— A  two-reel  war  story, 
with  a  comedy  ending  instead  of  the  usual  series  of  dramatic  episodes. 
The  slave  market  scenes  in  the  beginning  are  good  and  also  the  various 
scenes  showing  the  love  of  the  two  faithful  slaves  for  their  home  place. 
After  the  war,  Capt.  Rivers  purchases  the  old  Southern  homestead  at 
auction  and  the  manner  in  which  he  and  the  girl  are  brought  together  by 
the  former  slaves,   constitutes  the  "black  conspiracy."     A  good  offering. 

"WILL  O'  THE  WISP"  (Kaybee),  April  25.— A  very  attractive  two-reel 
story,  picturing  in  characteristic  fashion  the  arrival  of  a  circus  in  tke 
early  West.  The  wagons  are  drawn  by  oxen,  and  though  the  circus  is 
not  a  large  one,  there  is  a  carefulness  of  detail  that  is  pleasing.  The 
story  shows  how  Jim's  wife,  who  wins  a  prize  riding,  is  lured  away  by 
the  circus.  Later  comes  the  quarrel  with  the  ring-master  and  she  and  the 
strong  man  and  his  wife  quit  the  circus.  The  desert  scenes  are  strong. 
A  picturesque  offering. 

"A  GAME  OF  POKER"  (Keystone),  April  10. — A  really  funny  game  at 
cards,  in  which  Schnitzler  reaches  under  the  table  and  intercepts  the 
straight  flush  the  others  are  trying  to  use  against  him.     He  gets  the  money. 

"FATHER'S  CHOICE"  (Keystone),  April  10.— This,  on  same  reel  with 
above,  shows  us  how  Fred  Mace  and  Mabel  Normand  black  up  to  deceive 
the   irate   parent   who   opposes   their   marriage.      Fairly   interesting. 

"THOSE  GOOD  OLD  DAYS"  (Keystone),  April  7.— An  elaborately 
costumed  burlesque,  showing  the  court  of  King  Fizzle  the  Great.  The 
opening  scenes  were  very  attractive  and  we  had  hopes  of  a  stronger  plot 
on  which  to  base  the  subsequent  action.  The  court  fool  was  in  evidence, 
the  queen  and  her  ladies  in  waiting,  and  altogether  there  was  a  chance 
for   a  little  stronger  story. 

"THE  PATRIOT"  (Thanhouser),  April  8. — A  rather  interesting  story, 
built  up  principally  to  show  the  inauguration  of  President  Woodrow  Wilson 
in  Washington.  The  country  storekeeper,  after  forbidding  his  daughter's 
marriage,  goes  to  the  inauguration.  He  loses  his  pocketbook  and  rides 
home  in  a  box  car,  just  in  time  to  be  present  at  the  wedding.  A  fairly 
good  offering. 


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most  questions  which  interest  the  exhibitor.  The  Annual  gives  you  a 
complete  list  of  all  releases  issued  in  1912  (Licensed  and  Independ- 
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at  one  dollar  and  twenty-five  cents  per  copy  in  paper  covers  or  $1.50 
in  cloth  boards.  To  compile  this  list  has  been  the  work  of  many 
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"THE  CHEYENNE  MASSACRE"— Striking  Scene  From  An  Historic  Indian  Picture  by  the  Kalem  Company. 


"THE  CHEYENNE  MASSACRE." 

This  two  reel  feature  protraying  a  historic  incident  of  West- 
ern pioneer  days  has  much  to  commend  it  to  the  friends  of 
Indian  pictures  There  are  many  clever  touches  of  realism  and 
the  outdoor  settings  are  up  to  the  regular  Kalem  standard.  There 
is  a  good  deal  of  fighting  in  and  about  forts  on  the  frontier 
l'.ne  of  white  civilization,  all  of  which  is  done  with  skill.  The 
story  abounds  in  incidents  of  the  regulation  variety  which  gen- 
erally characterize  Indian  film  dramas.  Special  praise  may  well 
be  given  to  the  splendid  acting  of  Mr.  West  who  plays  the  part 
of  an  Indian  chief  named  Swift  Bear.  The  military  movements 
are  all  executed  with  that  expertness  and  precision  for  which 
the  Kalem  Company  have  long  been  known. 


LAEMMLE  FILM  SERVICE  IN  OMAHA  BURNED  OUT. 

Carl  Laemmle,  president  of  the  Universal  Film  Manufactur- 
ing Company,  received  word  on  Wednesday,  April  9,  that- 
the  quarters  of  the  Laemmle  Film  Service  at  1312  Farnum 
Street,  Omaha,  Neb.,  had  been  completely  destroyed  by 
fire  at  1  o'clock  that  morning.  The  blaze  originated  in  the 
store  under  the  exchange.  The  minimum  estimates  of  the 
loss  exceed  $30,000;  there  is  no  insurance.  The  customers 
of  the  exchange  suffered  no  inconvenience  by  reason  of 
the  fire,  however,  as  through  the  courtesy  of  "the  William 
H.  Swanson  Film  Exchange  of  Denver  a  large  quantity  of 
film,  including  a  sufficient  supply  of  new  pictures,  was  im-' 
mediately  shipped  to  the  improvised  Laemmle  offices  in 
Omaha,  and  business  proceeded  as  usual. 


KILL  HIM  NOW,  OR  LATER? 

Bert  Adler  says  there's  a  Thanhouser  film  released  Sunday, 
April  13  in  which  a  sagacious  and  indignant  dog,  placed  in  a 
baggage  car,  eats  the  baggage  man's  lunch  when  the  latter 
is  called  from  the  car  for  a  moment,  and  then  smokes  his 
cigar.  Or  at  least,  the  dog  seems  to  do  these  things.  Bert 
admits  there's  a  catch  somewhere.  Better  see  the  reel  called 
"The  Dog  in  the  Baggage  Car"  and  sharpen  up  your  razor. 


MACE  FOR  MAYOR. 

Fred  Mace,  formerly  of  Biograph  and  Keystone,  but  now 
preparing  to  make  three  reels  a  week  on  his  own  account, 
is  preparing  to  run  for  mayor,  and,  as  he  naively  remarks  in 
a  personal  letter,  "Funny  part  is  that  a  big  bunch  here  think 
I  have  a  good  chance  of  being  elected." 

He  has  made  himself  a  tremendous  favorite  with  the  Los 
Angelicans  since  he  took  up  his  permanent  residence  there; 
he  has  played  his  part  as  a  citizen  in  keeping  things  going, 
and  some  of  the  local  politicians  are  so  certain  of  his  chances 
of  success  that  they  have  entered  nomination  papers  for 
Mace's  candidacy  for  the  nomination,  which  is  the  preliminary 
to  the  primaries  under  the  California  election  laws.  From 
the  local  press  it  would  appear  that  he  stands  a  fair  chance 
of  getting  the  nomination. 

In  keeping  with  his  profession,  the  comedian  announces 
that  he  will  make  his  campaign  through  the  picture  houses 
and  will  release  to.  the  local  theaters  six  or  seven  hundred 
feet  showing  "What  I'll  do  if  elected."  He  adds  that  he  is 
preparing  another  two  hundred  strip  picture  of  himself,  with 
his  dinner  pail  in  one  hand  and  a  clean  pair  of  overalls  in 
the  other,  entering  the  new  Mace  plant.  The  title  for  this 
is  "If  defeated." 

If  Omaha  can  have  a  Cowboy  Mayor,  why  not  a  Photo- 
player  Mayor  for  Los  Angeles?  It  is  one  of  the  chief  indus- 
tries of  the  town  now,  and  several  million  dollars  of  capital 
has  been  invested  in  the  various  plants. 

Here's  to  Mayor  Mace. 


PATRICK  COMES  TO  TOWN. 

Mr.  Warren  A.  Patrick,  Chicago  representative  of  the  Xew 
York  Clipper,  made  a  flying  visit  to  Xew  York  last  week 
for  a  conference  at  the'publication  office  of  that  paper.  While 
in  the  city  Mr.  Patrick  called  at  the  office  of  the  Moving  Pic- 
ture World  to  renew  the  acquaintance  of  his  friends  of  the 
World. 


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We  Moving-  Picture  Educator^ 


THE  EDUCATIONAL  PICTURE. 
By  The  Rev.  E.  Boudinot  Stockton,  S.  T.  B. 

BELOW  is  the  catalog  of  educational  pictures  and  photoplays 
suitable  for  religious  and  educational  work  that  have  been 
released  from  March  nth  to  20th,  1913,  inclusive.  Fol- 
lowing each  title  are  given  the  volume  and  page  of  the  Moving 
Picture  World  where  the  synopsis  and  comment  on  that  par- 
ticular picture  is  to  be  found,  the  volume  number  before,  the  page 
number  after  the  colon.  The  abbreviations  "n.  s.  p."  or  "n. 
c  p."  mean  that  no  synopsis  or  comment  has  been  published 
to  date.  In  one  or  two  cases  we  have  been  able  to  supply  this 
defect  by  means  of  information  furnished  us  direct  from  the 
manufacturers  and  we  shall  be  very  glad  to  do  so  in  all  cases 
where  they  will  answer  our  requests  for  information.  We  shall 
also  be  glad  to  answer  any  requests  for  information  from  ex- 
hibitors and  others  interested  in  the  catalog  if  they  will  enclose 
in  their  letter  a  self-addressed  and  stamped  envelope  for  the  reply. 

GENERAL  TOPICS. 
Newspapers. 

Animated   Weekly.      Universal    12,    19.      (15:1252;    1362.) 
Gaumont   Weekly.      Gaumont    12,    19.      (15:1262;    1366.) 
Mutual   Weekly.      Mutual    13,    20.      (15:1364;    16:88.) 
Pathe's    Weekly.      Pathe    17-      (15:1248.) 

Children's  Stories. 


Love   Before  Ten.      Selig    17. 
A  Youthful  Knight.     Edison 


(15:1126;    1336.) 

14.     (15:1012;   1336-) 


RELIGION. 

Honor  Thy  Mother.  Melies  20.  (15:1128;  16:47-)  Emphasizes  the 
duty  of  children  to  parents  and  is  a  good  commentary  on  Genesis 
0:20-27. 

The  Empty  Box.  Rex.  16.  (15:1024;  iios-)  Illustrates  sincerity,  false- 
hood  and   lying,   curiosity,    and  temptation. 

The  Sovereign  Soul.  Gaumont  18.  (15:1366;  998.)  Illustrates  the 
duty   of  the   individual    to   the   state. 

A  Youthful  Knight-  Edison  14-  (15:1012;  1236.)  Illustrates  courtesy, 
politeness    and   falsehood   and   lying   among   children. 

The  Portrait.  Edison  18.  (15:1240;  I3.37-)  Emphasizes  moral  respon- 
sibility  as   to   amusements   and    recreations. 

Till  Death  Do  Us  Part.  Pilot  20.  (15:1262;  16:49.)  Illustrates  the 
sanctity  and  meaning  of  the  marriage  bond. 

SOCIOLOGY. 
Capital  &  Labor. 

Sitters  All.  Vitagraph  14.  (15:1016;  I335-)  A  socialistic  plea  for  the 
"living   wage." 

Army  &  Navy. 

Cossacks  in  the  Ural  Country.    Mutual  educational  20.    (15:1134;  n.c.p.) 
Punch   Artillery   Maneuvers.      Pathe    11.      (15:1020;    1220.) 
Quebec    Zouaves.      Vitagraph    15.      (n.s.p.;    15:1336.) 

Manners  &  Customs. 

Lite  in  India.     Mutual  educational   13.     (15:1028;   n.c.p.) 

Advance  Styles  in   Ostrich   Plumes.     Kinemacolor.      (n.s.p.;    15:1106.) 

SCIENCE. 

The   Butterfly.      Gaumont    18.      (n.s.p.;    15:998.)      Views   of   the   white 

cabbage    butterfly. 
The   Stickleback.     Pathe   11.      (15:1020;    1220.)     A   small   fish   so   called 

from  the  sharp  spines  on  its  back. 
Lizards.      Eclair    16.      (15:1026;    1221.) 

APPLIED  SCIENCE. 

A  Modern  Horse.  Edison  12.  (15:1012;  1335)  A  traction  engine  for 
removing  stumps,   used  in  clearing  ground  for  the  Ashokan   reservoir. 

The  Great  Wall  of  China.     Selig  13.     Os':ioi6;   I335-)  .         .. 

Vichy  and  Its  Waters.  Gaumont  20.  (n.s.p.;  15:998.)  Shows  how  the 
well-known  water  is  bottled. 

FINE  ARTS. 
Parks  &  Gardens. 
The   Luxembourg   Gardens.      Pathe    14.      (15:1020;    n.c.p.) 

Theater:  Stage. 
Kathleen     Mavourneen.       Edison     17.       (n.s.p.;     15:1336-)       Based    on 

Boucicault's    play. 
Kathleen  Mavourneen.     Imp  17.     (3  r.;  15:1132;  n.s.p.;  sp.  rev.   15:978.) 

Based   on    Boucicault's   play.  

The  Fugitive.  Selig  13.  (15:1016;  1335)  Based  on  Thomas  Robertsons 
"Young   Collegian." 

LITERATURE. 

The  Strength  of  Men.  Vitagraph  19.  (2  r.;  15:1122;  16:47;  *P-  "▼• 
I5:343-)      Adaptation    of    the    story    by   James    Oliver    Curwood. 


Notre  Dame.  Pathe  17.  (n.s.  or  c.p. ;  advertised  as  3  reel  special  by 
the  General  Film  Company;  15:1037;  1073.)  Based  on  Victor  Hugos 
novel   of  same  name. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

Mountains   &   Streams. 

A  Tour   in   the   Alps.     Pathe   12.     (15:1020;   1335.)     The  ascent  up  to 

Mer  de   Glace. 
The  Twin  and  Shoshone   Falls,   Idaho.     Gem   11.     (n.s.p.;    15:1221.) 

European   Countries. 

Picturesque  Spalato,  Dalmatia.     Eclipse   12.     (15:1014;  n.cp.) 
Vichy  and  Its  Waters.     Gaumont  20.      (n.s.p.;   15:998.) 
A  Trip  Over  Pau,  France,  in  a  Dirigible.     Pathe   11.     (n.s.p.;   15:1220.) 
The    Environs    of    Silkeborg,*  Jutland,    Denmark.      Great    Northern    15. 

(n.s.p.:   15:1222.) 
See   also    Army    &    Navy   and    Parks    &    Gardens. 

Asiatic  Countries. 

Pekin,    China.      Selig    18.      (15:1126;    1336.) 

See  also  Manners  &  Customs  and  Applied  Science. 

American  Countries. 

Venice,    California.      Kinemacolor.       (15:1138;    1106.) 
Sec  also  Army  &  Navy  and  Mountains  &  Streams. 

New  Zealand. 

Loved  by  a  Maori  Chieftess.  Melies  14.  (2  r.;  15:1018;  n.c.p.;  sp.  rev. 
15:1001.)     Made  in  New  Zealand  and  acted  by  Maoris. 

BIOGRAPHY. 

Lincoln   for  the  Defense.     Pilot   13.      (15:1138;    1221.) 


PICTURES  FOR  THIS  SEASON  OF  THE  YEAR. 

About  this  time  of  the  year  exhibitors  who  are  interested  in 
the  general  welfare  of  the  community  as  good  citizens,  and  who 
also  desire  to  secure  the  co-operation  of  the  various  authorities 
in  the  educative  and  beneficial  uses  of  the  moving  picture,  the 
question  of  suitable  pictures  will  readily  present  itself. 

The  subjects  most  suitable  will  be  found  under  the  catalogued 
titles  as  Sociological,  Hygienic,  Civic  Improvement,  Useful  Arts 
and  the  Natural  Sciences. 

Every  summer  reports  come  in  as  to  the  value  of  such  films 
as  The  Fly  and  Mosquito  pests ;  common  dangers  as  revealed 
under  the  microscope  and  known  by  various  titles  are  valuable. 
From  time  to  time  these  have  been  noticed  on  this  page,  the 
immediate  object  now  is  only  in  the  nature  of  a  reminder  to 
the  old  readers,  and  to  pass  on  the  information  to  new  readers 
and  those  who  have  never  given  this  particular  class  of  profitable 
exhibition  work  their  attention. 

Almost  every  week  a  new  picture  under  one  of  the  above  titles 
is  reviewed  here,  usually  with  such  detail,  that  the  newest  user 
of  them  may  be  thoroughly  posted  as  to  their  nature  and  pur- 
pose. The  latest  addition  to  the  series,  and  very  acceptable,  is  an 
Eclair  natural  science  release  entitled: 

Animalculae  Found  in  Stagnant  Water  Microscopically 
Revealed. 

Beginning  with  the  well  known  danger  arising  from  decayed 
vegetable  matter  fermenting  in  water,  there  is  shown  how  "life 
is  given  to  a  prodigious  world  of  infinitely  small  species  of  in- 
forsorias  distinguishable  by  their  great  variety." 

As  it  is  not  an  uncommon  custom  to  catch  rain  water  in 
cisterns  as  it  flows  from  the  roof  of  the  house,  a  picture  shows 
the  taking  of  the  contents  of  a  gutter  on  the  house-top  and  sub- 
jecting  it  to   micro-cinematographic   analysis. 

The  result  is  perhaps  as  startling  as  it  is  interesting.  The 
species  named  "paramecies"  are  found  in  great  abundance,  al- 
though only  i/ioth  of  a  millimeter  in  length,  they  are  shown 
upon  the  screen  enlarged  9,500  times.  The  great  value  of  this 
powerful  enlargement  is  profitable  in  the  way  it  forces  upon  the 
beholder  the  fact  that  so  great  a  disease  breeder,  which  on  ac- 
count of  its  infinitesimal  size  has  always  been  considered  as  of 
equally  small  danger ;  when,  however,  the  real  great  dangers  are 
known,  and  the  enlargement  of  the  cause  of  the  danger  is  able 
to  reveal  its  true  disease  producing  possibilities,  as  shown  in 
these  pictures,  all  classes  of  people,  both  young  and  old,  are 
going  to  take  particular  notice  and  allow  themselves  to  be  edu- 
cated in  ways  so  much  to  their  own  advantage. 

Other  pictures  show  details  of  these  animalculae  enlarged  20,- 


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000  times,  by  which  means  their  method  of  rapid  reproduction 
and  growth  are  graphically  illustrated,  and  the  further  danger 
of  their  toleration  exposed.  Such  films  as  these  cannot  fail  to 
do  much  toward  encouraging  cleanliness  and  care  in  the  uses 
of  water  and  bringing  out  the  evils  of  allowing  any  body  of 
water,- no  matter  how  small,  to  remain  anywhere  where  stag- 
nation is  possible.  W.  H.  J. 


HABITS  OF  FIELD  SPIDERS. 

"The  Spider  and  the  Fly''  is  known  to  every  school  child,  as 
a  suspension  bridge-builder,  the  spider  is  a  wonder  to  the 
scientist,  while  a  king  has  been  known  to  learn  a  lesson  of 
perseverance  from  this  very  unwelcome  insect.  All  these  lessons 
are  taught  again  with  the  added  thoroughness  only  possible  to 
the  powers  of  the  moving  picture,  and,  to  ''succeed  by  trying 
again"  will  be  but  one  of  many  new  lessons  this  Eclair  film 
teaches.  "The  life  of  spiders  furnishes  an  admirable  example 
of  development  and  phenomenal  instinct  in  the  struggle  for 
life."  The  wonderful  spreading  of  the  web  when  seen  so  en- 
larged is  marvelous;  the  powerful  claws,  or  rather  claw-like 
mouth,  show  how  easily  it  can  hold  and  conquer  its  prey,  while 
many  of  its  habits  and  conquests  are  shown  in  great  detail 
and  with  valuable  descriptive  sub-titles  which  also  explain 
the   different   species.  VV.   H.  J. 

THE  SCHOOL  PROBLEM   AND  A  SUGGESTION. 

On  every  hand  the  question  of  putting  the  moving  picture  in 
the  schools  is  causing  much  thought.  It  is  no  longer  a  question 
of  its  adaptability;  argument  and  predictions  have  been  over- 
come by  the  abundant  merits  of  the  Kinematograph  itself. 

Everywhere  now  it  is  conceded  that  the  moving  picture  is  the 
greatest  need  of  the  schools ;  how  best  to  acquire  its  earliest 
uses  is  the  problem  confronting  all  authorities  and  teachers. 
A  suggestion  is  made  by  Mr.  John  Collier,  secretary  of  the 
National  Board  of  Censorship,  which  we  quote  in  part,  not  nec- 
essarily because  the  suggestion  may  or  may  not  be  a  good  one. 
but  because  Mr.  Collier  is  in  a  position  of  some  authority,  and 
what  he  says  will  command  some  attention,  and  further  be- 
cause out  of  such  suggestions  as  these  the  final  solution  of 
the  problem  will  come. 

Mr.  Collier  says :  "What  the  motion  picture  movement  needs 
is  that  the  whole  matter  should  be  taken  hold  of  by  some 
progressive  wealthy  or  wide-awake  State  Government  which  wilt 
take  pictures  out  of  the  rut,  and  give  them  a  chance  to  develop 
along  natural,  educational,  ethical,  and  artistic  lines.  We  need 
municipal  circulating  libraries  of  moving  pictures.  The  city 
should  own  the  films  and  rent  them  out  to  public  schools,  li- 
braries, settlements  and  recreation  centers.  The  public  school 
needs  the  pictures."  They  are  the  most  vital  and  most  impress- 
ive way  of  presenting  ideas.  Children  learn  by  seeing  who  can- 
not think  in  abstraction,  and  herein  lies  one  of  the  newest 
powers  and  greatest  successful  possibilities  of  the  moving  pic- 
ture. "Yet  what  happens  when  any  school  tries  to  get  certain 
pictures?  They  find  the  required  films  are  'on  the  road'  prob- 
ably in  some  distant  part  of  the  country,  in  such  a  circulation 
that  it  is  almost  impossible  ever  again  to  get  any  particular  pic- 


ture, after  it  has  once  started  on  its  circuit."  The  crude  system 
of  booking  which  is  responsible  for  this  would  be  overcome 
if  some  governmental  system — local  or  otherwise — could  be 
adopted  in  line  with  the  above  suggestion  of  a  form  of  municipal 
ownership.  Mr.  Collier's  proposals  have  in  them  much  that  can 
be  used  as  a  basis  upon  which  a  step  forward  can  be  taken. 
Those  who,  like  Mr.  Collier  and  the  writer,  are  in  the  center 
of  that  movement  which  is  growing  everywhere  for  the  develop- 
ment of  the  uses  of  the  educational  picture,  cannot  but  feel 
pained  at  the  present  helplessness,  which  is  holding  back  from 
the  schools  of  the  world  that  very  power  which  it  most  needs. 
There  is,  however,  no  occasion  for  worry  or  despair;  the  ques- 
tion is  one  of  those  great  ones  which  always  works  out  its  own 
end,  by  force  of  its  irresistible  merit  and  power;  the  agency  of 
man  is  chiefly  secondary  in  doing  his  utmost  to  help  in  making 
easier,  smoother,  and  quicker,  the  certain  destination  to  which 
the  power  will  ultimately  arrive.  W.  H.  J. 


THE  CIRCULATING  LIBRARY. 

The  circulating  library  idea  as  applied  to  educational  films  is 
without  doubt  one  of  great  importance.  If  the  idea  has  been 
found  sufficiently  profitable  when  applied  to  books,  how  much 
more  so  may  it  be  of  value  when  applied  to  moving  pictures. 

In  England,  the  government,  having  control  of  the  schools  of 
art,  does  not  hesitate  to  keep  in  circulation  a  large  number  of  the 
best  pictures,  many  of  them  known  as  "the  best  masters,"  so 
that  in  course  of  time  the  students  throughout  the  country  be- 
come both  familiar  with  and  educated  by  that  which  is  of  the 
greatest  importance  to  them. 

The  writer  does  not  hesitate  to  predict  that  from  the  expe- 
rience gained  by  associating  with  those  to  whom  the  question  is 
of  immediate  and  vital  importance  that  this  plan  is  the  first  one 
which  will  be  put  in  operation,  and  there  is  much  doubt  as  to 
whether  it  will  ever  be  superceded  by  a  better  one,  as  while 
there  are  some  films  which  every  school  will  be  compelled  to  own, 
there  are  many  which  for  a  number  of  years  at  least  will  be 
only  subject  to  such  occasional  use  as  to  make  their  circulation 
a  matter  of  necessity.  In  England,  Germany  and  France,  this 
very  problem  is  receiving  the  present  and  immediate  attention 
of  the  authorities;  the  United  States  is  more  tardy  than  any  of 
the  progressive  educationalists ;  that  this  condition  will  continue 
long  is  impossible,  the  pressure  and  demand  are  both  too  great, 
and  in  nothing  is  America  behind  when  once  the  situation  proves 
itself.  W.  H.  J. 


POPULAR  PAUL  SCARDON  TO  JOIN  THE  RELIANCE 
COMPANY. 

At  the  culmination  of  his  long  contract  with  the  Majestic 
Company,  on  April  12th,  Paul  Scardon  transferred  his  affec- 
tions to  the  Reliance  Company.  Mr.  Scardon,  who  comes 
originally  from  Australia,  has  made  himself  immensely 
popular  with  the  picture  fans  all  over  the  civilized  world. . 
He  has  proven  himself  to  be  as  much  at  home  in  low  comedy 
as  he  is  in  the  highest  class  drama,  and  will  be  a  valuable 
addition  to  the  ranks  of  Reliance's  famous  players. 


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Foreign  Trade  Notes 


BRITISH  NOTES. 

By  Our  Own   Correspondent. 

An  English  firm  of  manufacturers  are  just  about  to  place 
on  the  market  a  new  electric  moving  picture  camera.  The 
machine  derives  its  power  from  an  electric  charge  fitted  in 
before  use  and  can  be  carried  about  like  a  hand  camera.  No 
tripod  is  required  and  when  in  use  the  camera  is  held  in  the 
hand  like  an  amateur's  hand  camera,  being  steadied  with  a 
gyroscope   fitted  in  the  body.     It  is  promised   an   enormous 

future  here. 

*  *     * 

The  chief  constable  of  Oldham,  a  large  industrial  center, 
puts  forward  a  plea  for  the  suppression  of  pictures  calculated 
to  impair  the  morals  of  young  persons.  A  manager  of  a  the- 
ater has  replied  to  this  and  says  that  children  positively 
groan  when  a  travel  picture  is  shown  to  them. 

*  *     * 

An  important  agreement  has  been  come  to  between  British 
renters  and  manufacturers  during  the  past  week.  In  future 
all  films  sold  to  the  renters  by  the  manufacturers  will  be 
accompanied  by  a  license  under  the  191 1  Copyright  Act. 
This  will  stipulate  and  define  precisely  under  what  conditions 
the  film  can  be  exhibited,  the  primary  object  of  this  con- 
certed action  being,  of  course,  to  stop  the  supply  of  films 
to  theaters  which  show  films  that  are  not  on  the  open  market. 
By  using  this  license  under  the  Copyright  Act,  the  manufac- 
turers will  be  able  to  take  legal  action  against  renters  in- 
fringing their  copyright  by  supplying  films  to  showmen  ex- 
hibiting monopolized  subjects. 

*  *     * 

Another  agreement  has  also  been  made  between  the  two 
bodies  to  provide  for  the  destruction  of  all  positive  films 
after  they  have  been  in  circulation  twelve  months.  It  is 
hoped  by  this  means  to  keep  screens  clear  of  "dope"  or  "junk" 
or  "hailstorms,''  which  are  often  included  in  programmes 
of  good  films  to  the  detriment  of  the  latter. 

*  *  '  * 

Here  is  something  really  unique!  A  moving  picture  theater 
opened  by  royalty.  Such  was  the  happy  distinction  of  the 
"West  End"  kinema  described  in  my  last  letter  which  was 
opened  on  March  18th  by  Princess  Alexander  of  Teck.  The 
new  show  is  in  the  heart  of  London  "theaterland."  Prince 
and  Princess  Alexander  arrived  at  three  in  the  afternoon 
and  were  received  by  the  chairman  of  the  company,  Mr. 
W.  L.  Thoelford,  who  read  an  address  of  welcome.  A  bouquet 
was  presented  to  the  Princess  and  the  royal  couple  then 
proceeded  to  the  special  box  without  delay  and  witnessed 
the  first  program  through. 

*  *     * 

"If  the  public  enjoy  watching  our  pictures  any  better  than 
Sophie  and  I  enjoy  making  'em,  they'll  have  to  whistle  some," 
— thus  Mr.  Augustus  Carney's  message  to  his  native  county, 
"Ould  Oireland"  in  a  London  journal. 

*  *     * 

I  have  it  on  good  first-hand  authority  that  at  the  great 
Anglo-American  Exhibition  to  be  held  in  London  next  year 
one  of  the  principal  attractions  will  be  a  gorgeous  moving 
picture  theater  on  a  plan  that  seems  almost  insane  in  its 
extravagance  and  sumptuousness.  As  yet  the  whole  scheme 
is  in  embryo,  but  the  promoters  have  already  allocated 
$5,000,000.  to  the  building  up  alone  of  the  exhibition. 

*  *     * 

Miss  Phyllis  Victoria,  a  picture  theater  musician,  has  been 
nominated  for  election  as  a  member  of  the  Stroud  Lilian 
Council.  Her  struggle  for  existence  has  been  most  romantii 
for  a  few  years  ago  she  and  her  brother  were  stranded  as 
"road  actors"  in  Stroud.  They  lived  in  an  empty  house  and 
worked  as  farm  laborers  for  a  few  weeks  until,  on  the 
of  starvation,  they  took  over  a  disused  chapel  and  opened 
it  as  a  picture  show.  They  had  to  borrow  coppers  to  put 
in  the  gas  meter  for  the  light  on  the  opening  night,  but  now 
the  show  is  one  of  the  best  in  the  district. 


Mr.  Charles  Urban,  the  Kinemacolor  pioneer,  is  projecting 
an  extraordinary  film  at  his  Scala  theater.  The  exposures 
rush  through  the  "gate"  at  a  speed  of  over  2,000  a  minute 
instead  of  the  normal  rate  of  960  a  minute.  The  film  is  a 
native  subject  and  will  probably  be  shown,  if  it  has  not 
already  appeared,  at  the  Kinemacolor  home  in  New  York  City. 

*  *     * 

"Bobby,"  the  juvenile  artist  of  the  Pathe  Co.,  who  is  uni- 
versally familiar  to  English,  American  and  French  audiences, 
has  been  engaged  to  appear  (a  concert  agent  here  tells  me) 
at  the  Orpheum  Theater,  Budapest,  at  a  salary  of  £1,200  a 
month. 

Dr.  H.  V.  G.  Macleod  of  Queen  Victoria's  Jubilee  Institute 
for  Nurses,  London,  has  recently,  in  conjunction  with  Dr. 
T.  H.  Weisenburg  of  the  Philadelphia  General  Hospital, 
been  giving  demonstrations  proving  the  value  of  the  moving 
picture  as  an  aid  to  the  study  of  bacteriology.  The  American 
doctor  has  two  miles  of  films  which  he  has  taken  himself. 

*  *     * 

Mr.  Hubert  F.  Baldwin,  a  press  photographer  who  followed 
the  Balkan  War,  says  that  the  moving  picture  operator  is 
a  failure.  He  applies  the  qualification  (or  disqualification) 
to  both  the  European  and  American  cameramen.  Some  of 
them,  he  says,  could  not  see  the  picture  and  actually  waited 
for  "fighting"  though  how  they  thought  to  obtain  fighting 
pictures  is  best  known  to  themselves.  He  concludes  that  the 
cameraman    in    future    for    such   work   will    have    to   have    a 

journalistic  training. 

*  *     * 

British  films  are  increasing  in  popularity  in  Germany. 
Official  returns  show  that  more  than  half  the  films  imported 
by  the  Fatherland  come  from  England  and  America  together. 
The  annual  value  of  these  is  £1,250,000. 

*  *     * 

A  not  uncommon  practice  of  some  film  agencies  here  is  the 
retailing  out  to  children  of  short  strips  of  worn-out  firms, 
say  at  a  penny  or  two  pence  a  time.  In  view  of  this  the  Tot- 
tenham Council  has  informed  the  Home  Secretary,  with  a  re- 
quest that  the  matter  be  brought  before  the  Royal  Commis- 
sion now  sitting  on  the  subject  of  celluloid.  The  report  states 
that  small  children  can  procure  sufficient  of  this  dangerous 
material  to  produce  the  gravest  results.  As  the  probable  out- 
come, kinema  theater  proprietors  and  renters  will  be  warned. 

*  *     * 

Considerable  agitation  is  being  manifested,  principally  by 
the  pseudo-puritans  in  London  and  Glasgow,  respecting  the 
cheap  and  gaudy  posters  used  to  advertise  some  brands  of 
films.  This  unpleasant  stigma  has  at  some  time  or  other  been 
cast  over  every  make  of  film  exhibited  here,  through  the 
activities  of  cheap  and  unscrupulous  printing  firms  in  flood- 
ing the  market  with  old  stock  discarded  by  theatrical  com- 
panies. The  custom  now,  however,  is  for  the  makers  to 
send  out  their  own  posters  direct  to  the  renter.  The 
pioneers  of  this  movement  here  were  the  Selig  and  Vitagraph 
companies  and  both  Mr.  Montagu  and  Mr.  Smith,  their  re- 
spective agents,  have  now  a  separate  department  for  deal- 
ing with  posters.  But  a  new  series  which  are  winning  the 
admiration  of  every  manager  are  those  of  the  Rex  Company 
of  America.  On  the  other  hand,  a  prominent  French  com- 
pany which  is  very  much  in  the  limelight  just  now  will  per- 
sist   in   sending   posters   printed   in   French   to    England. 

*  *     * 

H.  Winik  has  secured  the  British  rights  of  the  United 
States  Film  Company's  "Cleopatra,"  featuring  Helen  Gardner. 

*  *     * 

A  Shakespearean  revival  by  kinema  is  being  projected  in 
the  north  of  England  by  a  Shakespearean  society.  The  films 
are  to  include  "As  You  Like  It."  by  the  Vitagraph  Com- 
pany, as  the  premier  item.  In  fact,  from  the  list  of  films 
1  h.ive  received,  eighty  per  cent,  of  those  to  be  shown  are 
Vitagraphs. 


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OBSERVATIONS 

--,            BY  OUR  MAN  ABOUT  TOWN             _ 

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IN  AN  interview  accorded  Mr.  Charles  Darnton,  dramatic 
editor  of  the  Evening  World,  a  few  days  ago,  Mr.  Daniel 
Frohman,  one  of  the  leading  theatrical  producers  and  mana- 
gers of  this  country,  and  managing  director  of  the  Famous 
Players  Film  Company,  which  has  produced  "The  Prisoner  of 
Zenda,"  in  motion  pictures,  interestingly  outlines  what  he  has 
in  mind  for  the  photoplay  field  of  the  future.  Although  Mr. 
Frohman's  idea  is  termed  "a  new  move  in  the  'movies'  that  will 
work  revolution,"  it  is  not  an  original  one,  with  possibly  one 
exception.  The  work  he  intends  carrying  out  will  be  the  fulfill- 
ment of  prophecies  made  by  the  watchful  people  a  long  time  ago. 
It  will  be  the  adoption  of  a  policy  of  leading  photoplay  producers 
— the  Old  Guard  of  the  business,  they  may  be  more  appropriately 
called.  Mr.  Frohman's  main  undertaking  will  be  successful,  be- 
cause it  is  founded  upon  lines  which  is  bound  to  be  important 
factors  in  the  elevation  of  the  photoplays  to  a  plane  that  will 
make  them  enduring  and  attract  to  the  picture  houses  even  a 
still  greater  patronage  from  the  higher  class  of  patrons  than  is 
now  accorded  them.  In  this  respect  it  will  place  these  picture 
houses  on  a  par  with  the  best  in  the  theatrical  business,  and 
benefit  the  motion  picture  business  generally.  It  is  for  this  rea- 
son that  Mr.  Frohman's  advent  into  the  field  has  not  been  op- 
posed by,  or  created  uneasiness  on  the  part  of,  the  producers 
who  have  elevated  the  photoplays  to  their  present  standard. 
The  attitude  of  the  latter  may  be  summarized  thus :  The  term 
"film  manufacturers"  will  soon  become  obsolete,  replaced  by  the 
more  dignified  one  of  "producers,"  all  being  bent  in  achieving 
the  same  end  sought  by  the  new  comer  to  the  field.  This  classi- 
fication may  possibly  be  resented  in  some  quarters  as  undesirable, 
but  it  will  soon  be  adjusted  to  conditions.  It  may  be  claimed 
that  some  pictures  do  not  give  the  producers  the  right  to  claim 
positions  on  a  par  with  others.  There  is  where  the  turning 
point  will  come  and  the  "survival  of  the  fittest"  will  be  effectively 
demonstrated.  It  will  be  decided  by  the  public.  Those  upon 
whom  it  places  its  stamp  of  approbation  will  become  the  photo- 
play producers  and  those  who  operate  on  the  theory  that  people 
go  to  see  motion  pictures  simply  because  they  are  such,  and 
sacrifice  those  things  which  are  essential  to  the  kind  of  pro- 
ductions the  people  want  in  order  to  make  as  much  money  as 
possible  in  the  shortest  possible  time,  will  become  the  pikers 
of  the  business. 

*  *    * 

As  far  back  as  eight  years  ago,  the  "Old  Guard"  predicted  in 
the  columns  of  the  magazines  devoted  to  the  interests  of  the 
motion  picture  business  that  the  people  who  were  deriding  the 
pictures  as  a  short-lived  elaboration  of  the  stereopticon  and  slot 
machine  devices  would  see  them  dedicated  to  posterity,  and  the 
time  has  come.  In  the  interview  referred  to,  Mr.  Frohman  uses 
the  expressions,  "I  believe  the  industry  is  in  its  infancy,"  "How 
far  it  will  go  remains  to  be  seen.  It  is  like  throwing  a  pebble 
in  a  pond — the  ripples  spread  in  every  direction." 

*  *    * 

The  interview,  although  reflecting  views  that  are  not  entirely 
original,  has  attracted  wide-spread  attention.  The  one  idea  to 
which  originality  attaches,  is  the  outlining  of  a  plan  by  which 
successful  plays  converted  to  picture  form  shall  take  on  a  fourth 
life.  The  first  will  be  in  the  two  dollar  houses  of  the  New 
York  theatrical  field,  the  one-dollar  life  will  be  in  the  combination 
houses,  and  then  they  will  take  on  the  fifty-cent  life  in  the  stock 
company  theaters,  after  which  the  plays,  in  picture  form,  will 
go  into  the  picture  houses.  Whether  or  not  it  will  become  prac- 
ticable remains  to  be  seen.  It  sounds  good,  but  many  who  have 
discussed  it  are  inclined  to  the  belief  that  the  plays  in  picture 
form  will  force  themselves  to  a  better  than  fourth  position. 
Some  time  ago  the  Moving  Picture  World  pointed  to  the  great 
advantage  to  which  photoplays  based  upon  leading  productions 
could  be  adapted  in  drawing  people  to  the  theaters  making 
the  original  productions  and  in  one  of  his  statements,  Mr.  Froh- 
man indorses  the  views.  He  said.  "I  think  we  shall  be  a  hopeful 
ally  to  the  stage  by  drawing  those  who  see  the  pictured  play  to 
the  theater."  This  seems  to  be  nearer  the  mark.  If  the  photo- 
play is  to  await  the  passage  of  the  originals  through  the  three 
grades  of  theaters  that  have  been  mentioned  there  is  danger  of 
the  photoplay  life  losing  its  vigor  for  the  time  being,  and  the 
necessity  presenting  itself  that  the  photoplay  production  be 
placed  on  the  shelf  until  a  revival  becomes  opportune.  It  is  true 
that  nothing  can  replace  the  magnetism  of  the  living  actor.    From 


this  point  of  view  it  is  equally  true  that  it  would  not  be  good 
policy  to  have  original  and  photo-form  productions  simulta- 
neously in  the  same  city,  but  the  magnetism  of  the  photoplay 
will  also  suffer  if  it  is  held  back  until  almost  all  theatergoers 
have  had  an  opportunity  to  see  the  play  itself.  They  patronize 
the  photoplay  houses  as  well  as  the  theaters  and  expect  as  much 
from  the  former  as  the  latter,  so  far  as  new  attractions  are  con- 
cerned. What  they  see  in  the  picture  houses  will  undoubtedly 
entree  them  to  go  and  see  original  productions,  but  it  is  doubtful 
that  the  reverse  would  be  effective. 


*     *     * 


But  whatever  may  be  the  outcome,  so  long  as  the  regular  photo- 
play producers  maintain  the  required  standard  they  will  continue 
in  the  running.  There  is  a  big  field  for  feature  productions  and 
it  is  constantly  growing,  and  there  is  also  similar  inducements  for 
the  short-story  film.  Features  consist  of  two  or  more  reels.  The 
length  is  required  to  properly  bring  out  all  the  striking  points 
of  the  play  or  story.  They  are  in  a  class  by  themselves.  Short 
photoplays  also  control  a  domain.  They  are  made  from  stories 
of  merit  that  cannot  be  extended  beyond  one  reel.  In  many 
instances  they  hold  the  same  interest  as  many  of  the  feature  sub- 
jects and  they  will  continue  to  hold  their  places  on  the  programs. 
They  also  retain  their  popularity  on  account  of  the  variety  of 
tastes  of  audiences.  In  some  places  feature  reels  are  the  more 
popular.  The  appetite  for  them  is  strong  and  growing  in  this 
country.  In  Europe  and  many  other  foreign  countries  there  is  a 
great  demand  for  them,  but  in  nearly  all  quarters  the  audiences 
yearn  for  variety — short  stories  of  an  effective,  sentimental  char- 
acter, and  comedy.  Educational  subjects  are  also  desired  and 
in  this  case  it  has  been  found  that  one  reel  is  the  most  desired, 
because  there  is  danger  of  monotony. 

*  *     * 

So  it  can  be  seen  that  the  field  continues  open  for  all  styles 
of  merit — long  and  short.  The  advent  of  the  big  producers  is 
not  of  a  threatening  nature  to  those  already  on  the  ground.  In 
fact,  there  is  only  one  thing  that  warrants  uneasiness ;  that  is  the 
multiplicity  of  producers.  There  is  danger  of  the  market  becom- 
ing stagnated  and,  the  most  to  be  feared,  the  effect  of  inferior 
productions. 

*  *    * 

And  now  the  vaudeville  profession  is  asking  why  it  should  not 
figure  in  the  motion  picture  possibilities.  The  answer  is  plain. 
With  the  talking  feature  eliminated  from  the  pictures,  vaudeville 
acts  without  voices  are  devoid  of  interest.  They  have  been  tried 
time  and  time  again.  Occasionally  some  novelty  act  has  made 
good,  but  none  of  them  has  stood  repetition.  Years  ago,  when 
the  pictures  were  known  as  "chasers"  in  the  vaudeville  theaters, 
short  films  were  introduced,  showing  strong  men,  acrobatic  and 
dancing  acts,  and  the  work  of  magicians  were  demonstrated. 
The  pictures  themselves  were  a  novelty  at  that  time,  and,  conse- 
quently, helped  the  acts  along,  but  soon  the  people  learned  that 
trick  photography  was  an  important  factor  in  the  making  of  the 
pictures,  and  from  that  time  on,  no  matter  how  good  the  acts 
were,  they  could  not  become  interested.  They  declared  the  per- 
former was  not  the  original  and  what  was  shown  them  was  sim- 
ply the  creation  of  trick  photography  on  the  part  of  the  film 
maker.  This  impression  resulted  in  the  gradual  and  absolute  dis- 
appearance of  such  films.  At  one  time  a  famous  manufacturer 
in  France  did  an  enormous  business  in  this  country  with  films, 
based  upon  magical  acts.  People  wondered  how  this  and  that 
was  done.  They  were  astonished  by  some  of  the  productions  and 
amused  to  the  extreme  by  others,  but  as  the  explanation  gradually 
gained  circulation  their  admiration  and  amusement  turned  to — 
well,  I  guess  it  was  offended  dignity.  They  seemed  to  feel  that 
part  of  the  price  of  admission  had  been  repaid  by  trickery  and 
nothing  but  travel  and  story  pictures  could  hold  them.  There  are 
some  very  clever  vaudeville  acts  on  the  bills  to-day,  but  none 
that  any  well-equipped  studio  cannot  reproduce  with  equal  effect, 
although  doing  so  with  practically  the  camera  alone,  the  figures 
being  mere  tools.  A  few  years  ago  Harry  Lauder  posed  for  a 
film,  showing  his  act,  but  it  fell  flat.  His  entrance,  walks  and 
exits  created  a  laugh,  but  to  get  a  film  of  fair  size  repetitions 
were  required  and  the  subject  became  monotonous. 

*  *    * 

It  is  announced  that  a  Baltimore  inventor  has  perfected  a  new 
motion  picture-taking  device  that  will  combine  with  the  pictures 
an  apparent  perfect  reproduction  of  voices  of  the  performers. 
It  is  said  to  be  especially  adaptable  to  singing  acts.  If  he  has 
the  right  thing  vaudeville  performers  may  take  courage.  If  a 
correct,  synchronizing  reproduction  of  the  voice  is  there,  a  big 
field  will  he  found  for  the  films.  Then  another  discontented  ele- 
ment will  arise  in  protest.  It  will  mark  the  gradual  fading  away 
of  the  illustrated  song  singer.  In  many  respects  it  will  be  a 
blessing.  A  great  many  picture  houses  have  suffered  in  reputa- 
tion and  other  respects  through  placing  the  song  part  of  their 
programs  in  the  hands  of  those  having  more  talent  in  the  mash- 
ing line  than  for  singing. 


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THE  MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


At  the  Sign  of  the  Flaming  Arcs 

By  George  Blaisdell. 

A  LETTER  to  the  editor  of  the  New  York  Times  refers  to 
the  complaints  of  literary  friends  of  the  writer,  "L.  J.  W., 
as  to  their  poor  luck  in  selling  a  photoplay.  These  friends, 
he  says,  include  writers  of  books  and  plays,  successful  in  their 
own  field.  After  looking  at  some  of  the  filmed  melodramas  on 
Broadway  he  understands  why  they  are  unable  to  land  scenarios. 
He  adds :  "I  also  know,  and  am  willing  to  make  affidavit  to  it, 
that  any  one  who  is  capable  of  writing  a  photoplay  is  not  capable 
of  writing  anything  else,  unless  it  is  a  check,  which  I  understand 
some  of  them  can  do  quite  successfully.  Nobody  knows  until 
he  has  had  a  night  of  moving  picture  melodrama  what  a  pho- 
toplay manager  and  a  photoplay  writer  can  do  with  a  5-and-io- 
cent  public.  Then  he  doesn't  know  which  of  the  three  to  be  sor- 
riest for."  —t_ 

It  is  to  be  regretted  that  the  whining  person  had  not  the 
faculty  of  observing  the  sort  of  people  he  was  sitting  in  with. 
Had  he  looked  about  him,  in  any  house  on  Broadway,  he  would 
have  found  the  same  kind  of  people  he  would  find  in  the  houses 
where  $2  is  charged  to  look  at  the  actors  in  the  flesh.  "L  J. 
W."  is  worthy  of  attention  only  insofar  as  he  represents  a  type, 
now  happily  diminishing  in  number,  and  diminishing  rapidly. 
Moving  pictures  have  made  deep  appeal  to  what  Dr.  Howells 
has  described  as  the  "inspired  knowledge  of  the  multitude. '  Un- 
cover a  man  who  proclaims  that  he  sees  nothing  in  pictures  to 
interest  him  and  you  will  find  ninety-nine  times  out  of  a  hundred 
a  man  who  has  never  seen  good  pictures  or  else  one  who  is 
too  tired  to  think.  Manufacturers  do  impose  on  picture-goers 
at  times.  We'll  all  concede  that.  Pictures  are  shown  which 
bear  every  evidence  of  studio  origin,  of  haste  in  preparation. 
Sometimes  it  seems  like  a  case  of  the  director  saying  to  the 
scenario  editor:  "Give  me  a  script  in  an  hour  and  a  half- 
make  it  about  a  hotel."  _  Of  course,  the  story  may  be  a  good 
one,  but  the  odds  are  against  it.  _ 

Pictures  are  improving  in  quality— especially  in  the  stones. 
This  is  due  to  a  realization  by  producers  that  the  story  is  the 
base  of  the  picture.  If  book  and  play  writers  are  unable  to  sell 
scripts,  it  is  because  they  can  not  and  will  not  comprehend 
that  script  writing  is  a  trade— a  trade  requiring  study  and  ob- 
servation, and  still  better  a  little  coaching  from  one  who  knows 
the  ropes.  This  writer  knows  a  young  man  who  in  ten  minutes 
conversation  with  a  screen  player  learned  more  about  photoplay 
construction  than  he  had  been  able  to  pick  up  in  two  years  at- 
tendance at  photoplays  and  unaided  and   unsuccessful   writing. 

The  remuneration  of  script  writers  will  steadily  increase.  1  hat 
today  the  money  paid  by  manufacturers  is,  as  a  rule,  totally  in- 
adequate, is  beyond  question.  Allowing  $1,000  as  the  cost  of  a 
single  reel— and  this  is  a  fair  allowance— does  it  not  stand  to 
reason  that  $25,  or  2/2  per  cent.,  invested  in  script  is  dispropor- 
tionate? Coming  back  to  where  we  started,  the  successful  book 
and  play  writer"  will  command  attention  and  be  welcomed  when 
he  realizes  that  writing  photoplays  is  serious  business,  demands 
technical  knowledge  and  is  not  to  be  approached  solely  as  a 
means  of  relaxation  or  recreation. 

*    *    * 

George  Larkin's  stay  with  the  Powers  Company  was  short. 
He  is  cast  as  the  lead  in  Powers'  release  of  April  25,  '  Billy,  the 
Suffragette."  In  a  letter  from  Los  Angeles,  under  date  of 
March  27,  Mr.  Larkin  states  that  he  has  joined  the  company  of 
James  Young  Deer  (Pathe),  and  that  he  will  take  the  place  of 
Mr.  Gebhardt  as  leading  man.  Mr.  Larkin  has  played  leads 
for  Mr.  Young  Deer  before. 

Matt  Snyder  dropped  in  at  the  Screen  Club  on  a  Saturday 
night.  The  Thursday  and  Friday  preceding  he  had  been  working 
in  big  scenes  portraying  the  French  Revolution— of  raging  mobs 

in  "Robespierre,"  which  Imp  is  making  for  the  screen.    As  the 

veteran  explained  to  the  writer,  he  had  never  in  all  his  long 
professional  career  worked  so  hard  as  on  these  two  days.  His 
articulation  was  a  whisper.  .,.„,,.  c 

"What's  the  matter  with  your  voice,  Matt?  asked  one  of 
the  members  of  the  club.  . 

"I  lost  it  in  moving  pictures,  was  the  seemingly  paradoxical 
response.  

And  vet  we  talk  about  the     silent     drama. 
J  *    *    * 

The  World  staff  received  a  most  pleasant  call  last  week  from 
Miss  Margaret  I.  MacDonald,  the  well  known  film  writer.  Be- 
sides being  interested  in  motion  pictures  it  is  hinted  that  Miss 
MacDonald  is  a  suffragette — that,  in  fact,  her  enthusiasm  for  the 
cause  was  strong  enough  to  take  her  to  Washington  to  march 
in  the  great  parade  on  March  3. 

Robert  A.  Olsson  arrived  in  New  York  on  April  I,  and  on  the 
3d  left  for  the  Kinemacolor  studios  in  Los  Angeles,  Cal.  Mr. 
Olsson  is  a  cameraman,  and  has  recently  returned   from   Mos- 


cow, where  he  made  pictures  of  the  Czar  of  all  the  Russias  at  the 
celebration  of  the  three  hundredth  anniversary  of  the  founding 
of  the  house  of  Romanoff.  When  Mr.  Olsson  was  asked  how 
the  Czar  took  to  the  camera  he  smiled.  He  replied  that  the 
Russian  ruler  was  not  -particularly  concerned,  but  that  the 
detectives  assigned  as  his  bodyguard  were  more  than  careful 
of  his  safety.  Not  only  was  Mr.  Olsson  surrounded  while  the 
filming  was  in  progress,  but  he  was  compelled  to  take  his  camera 
apart  and  convince  the  officers  of  the  law  that  there  was  nothing 
of  a  contraband  nature  about  his  apparatus.  Mr.  Olsson  is  a 
native  of  Sweden,  and  has  done  much  work  in  cold  climates, 
such  as  obtains  in  Spitzbergen  and  Northern  Siberia,  for  instance. 
He  has  had  ten  years'  experience  in  motion  photography.  For 
the  Kinemacolor  Company  he  has  made  picturesque  Swiss  and 
Norwegian  scenes  and  the  "Life  in  Lapland,"  which  have  been 
popular  with  Kinemacolor  patrons.  On  his  trip  West  he  was 
accompanied  by  Alfred  Gosden,  who  will  work  with  him  in 
photographing  the  Kinemacolor  stock  companies  in  a  new  series 
of  photoplays  prepared  by  Leo  Dougherty,  the  head  of  the  sce- 
nario department. 

»    *    * 

Talk  about  the  fashions  being  influenced  by  moving  pictures  I 
Just  saw,  out  on  Broadway,  a  belt  on  a  female  figure  that  for 
breadth  and  "hang"  would  make  the  real  thing  on  a  two-gun 
man  dwindle  to  toy-shop  proportions  —  still  talking  about  the 
belt,  of  course;  the  figure  was  all  right.  There  was  no  gun 
attached  to  this  outfit,  however;  there  didn't  have  to  be. 

*  *    * 

On  Thursday,  April  2,  Essanay  released  "The  Will-Be  Weds," 
a  comedy.  An  automobile  ride  formed  one  of  the  scenes.  On 
the  Friday  following  the  same  company  issued  a  costume  drama, 
"A  Wolf  Among  Lambs."  In  a  certain  New  York  house  each 
picture  was  shown  as  a  first  run.  On  Friday  when  "A  Wolf 
Among  Lambs"  was  on  the  screen  the  manager  heard  a  shout 
from  the  audience.  Glancing  up  he  recognized  the  automobile 
ride  of  the  comedy  of  the  day  before.  Before  the  drama  was 
again  exhibited  the  comedy  was  eliminated.  Now  the  manager 
has  a  thirty-foot  strip  of  film  for  a  souvenir: 

*  *    * 

Herbert  Brenon  is  making  for  the  Imp  Company  "Robespierre," 
a  historical  drama  in  three  parts,  with  William  E.  Shay  in  the 
title  role.  It  is  the  most  elaborate  as  well  as  the  most  expensive 
production  Mr.  Brenon  has  undertaken.  A  small  army  of  super- 
numeraries has  been  employed.  The  principals  have  been  select- 
ed with  great  care,  especially  those  portraying  the  king  and  queen 

and  the  dauphin  and  duchess. 

»    *    * 

Frank  L  Dyer  is  just  back  home  from  a  business  tour  through 
the  South.  The  president  of  the  General  Film  Company  is  en- 
thusiastic over  the   steady  advance  his  company  is   making  in 

the  territory  he  visited. 

*  *    * 

The  exhibition  room  of  the  Universal  Film  Manufacturing 
Company  at  1600  Broadway,  is  nearly  finished.  As  the  little 
theater  is  in  use  for  business  purposes  during  the  daytime  the 
decorators  have  been  compelled  to  do  their  work  at  nights.  It 
is  believed  another  week  will  suffice  for  the  artists. 

*  *    * 

"Bob"  Daly  and  Billy  Quirk  had  their  troubles  in  Jersey  last 
week  trying  to  locate  a  motorboat.  They  searched  all  available 
known  locations,  from  Singac  to  the  Shrewsbury  River.  It  was 
the  same  story  strung  over  three  or  four  days:  "Come  back 
in  another  week  or  so  and  you  may  have  as  many  as  you  want, 
but  just  now  we  are  fixing  up  our  craft  for  the  season." 

*  *    * 

The  insurance  men  have  adjusted  the  loss  sustained  by  the 
Screen  Club  in  the  recent  fire  in  its  rooms.  The  work  of  re- 
habilitation will  be  rapidly  pushed. 

*  *    * 

"When  I  go  around  to  the  different  studios  and  see  the  good 
actors — men  and  women — looking  for  a  day's  work  at  $5  per,  I 
can't  help  believing  that  the  cream  has  gone  out  of  the  moving 
picture  end  of  the  business,"  remarked  an  unemployed  director- 
leading  man  the  other  day.  Which  brings  to  mind  a  reminiscence 
of  "Bill"  Shea,  the  popular  Vitagraph  comedian,  conveyed  to 
the  writer  last  fall.  Mr.  Shea  was  talking  of  his  early  days 
with  the  Vitagraph,  nine  or  ten  years  ago,  when  "life 
portrayals"  were  taken  on  the  roof  of  an  office  building  in 
crowded  Nassau  Street,  downtown.  Mr.  Blackton  would  ask  Mr. 
Shea  if  he  could  get  one  or  two  actors  for  the  following  day. 
Up  on  the  Rialto  the  comedian  would  buttonhole  an  old  pal  and 
suggest  to  him  that  by  coming  downtown  the  next  day  a  bit 
of  easy  money  could  be  picked  up. 

"What!  Me — in  moving  pictures!"  would  be  the  frequent 
and   indignant  response.     "I   guess  not!" 

"You  see,"  said  "Bill,"  with  his  broad  and  famous  smile, 
"times  have  changed." 

They  have. 


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Flickers. 


Charles  L.  Gaskill. 


IT  has  been  said  that  the  American  producers  of  motion 
pictures  could  not  equal  the  magnificent  work  accom- 
plished by  some  of  the  foreign  companies,  but  this  theory 
has  been  exploded  by  the  achievements  by  Charles  L.  Gas- 
kill,  and  the  Helen  Gard- 
ner Picture  Players,  of 
which  he  is  director  and 
general  manager.  "Cleo- 
patra," as  almost  every- 
body in  the  business  now 
knows,  stands  out  as  one 
of  the  crowning  efforts 
of  the  American  pro- 
ducer. It  was,  in  fact, 
the  first  big  production 
to  be  made  in  this  coun- 
try, and  its  success  has 
encouraged  others  to  at- 
tempt similar  produc- 
tion's. No  one  withholds 
from  Mr.  Gaskill  the 
credit  due  him,  as  the 
author  of  the  script  and 
the  director  of  the  pro- 
duction. 

In  their  new  studio 
which  has  been  lately 
erected  at  Tappan,  N.  Y., 
at  a  cost  of  twenty-five 
thousand  dollars,  the 
Helen  Gardner  Players 
have  started  work  on  a 
new  production,  an  origi- 
nal story,  "The  Wife  of  Cain,"  written  by  Mr.  Gaskill,  and 
featuring  Helen  Gardner  in  the  title  role. 

*  *    * 

The  friends  of  Oscar  Eagle,  producing  manager  of  the 
Selig  Polyscope  Company,  Chicago,  will  be  sorry  to  learn 
that  he  has  been  put  to  bed  under  the  care  of  the  doctor. 
Mr.  Eagle's  illness  is  due  to  a  nervous  breakdown,  as  the  re- 
sult of  the  many  months  of  hard  work  he  has  had  directing 
the  multiple  reel  features  for  the  Selig  Company.  We  trust 
that  this  is  nothing  serious,  and  that  a  short  time  will  find 
our  friend  out  and  about. 

*  »    * 

Our  happy  friend,  H.  L.  Nolan,  manager  of  the  Universal 
Exchange,  in  Denver,  Col.,  is  in  town. 

*  *     * 

If  you  should  meet  Ed  Barry  going  around  town  with  the 
assistance  of  a  cane,  don't  think  that  he  is  becoming  sportily 
inclined.  He  is  not  that'  sort  of  a  fellow.  The  fact  of  the 
matter  is  that  somebody'^  automobile,  in  which  he  was  a 
passenger,  missed  the  road.  Ed  is  tickled  to  death  to  think 
that  he  was  not  thrown  as  far  as  the  rest  of  the  party  were. 

*  *     * 

We  had  the  pleasure  of  meeting  Mr.  A.  Wollenberg,  of 
Montreal,  Quebec,  who  has  been  in  the  city  for  a  few  days 
looking  over  the  "American  Method"  of  handling  feature 
films. 

*  *     * 

Occasionally  J.  H.  Hallberg  will  talk  of  other  things  be- 
sides motor  boats,  for  which  he  has  taken  a  strong  liking 
this  season.  It  was  during  one  of  his  rational  moments  that 
he  told  me  of  a  new  1,000-seat  theater  being  erected  in  Hack- 
ensack,  N.  J.,  for  which  he  has  secured  the  contract  for 
equipment,  and  is  installing  an  Edison  machine,  Hallberg 
Economizer,  asbestos  booth  and  all  up-to-date  apparatus. 
The  new  house  is  being  erectel  by  Chas.  G.  Tefft. 

*  *     * 

By  way  of  proving  the  fact  that  the  public  like  to  see. the 
picture  players  in  person,  Mr.  Neilson,  owner  and  manager 
of  "The  Parkway,"  one  of  the  finest  theaters  in  Chicago,  ar- 
ranged to  have  Miss  Winnifred  Greenwood,  the  popular  lead- 
ing woman  of  the  Selig  Company,  in  Chicago,  appear  on  the 
stage  after  the  two-reel  picture  of  "Pauline  Cushman,"  in 
which  she  was  featured  in  the  leading  role.  After  being  in- 
troduced to  the  audience  by  Mr.  Neilson,  it  was  fully  ten 
minutes  before  Miss  Greenwood  could  talk,  on  account  of 
the  great  ovation  received  as  a  reward  of  her  splendid  work 
in  this  picture. 

*  *     * 

I  presume  that  I  will  meet  you  at  all  the  Screen  Club  ball 
next  Saturday  night  at  Terrace  Garden.     So  long  until  then. 

MAC. 


GENERAL  FILM  SUES  KALEM. 

Before  Judge  Ward,  in  the  United  States  District  Court,  on 
Friday,  April  4,  there  was  a  hearing  on  the  application  of  the  . 
General  Film  Company  to  restrain  the  Kalem  and  Kineto- 
graph  companies  from  distributing  the  Kalem  three-reel  pic- 
ture, "Detective  William  J.  Burns  in  the  Exposure  of  the 
Land  Swindlers."  The  General  Film  Company  claims,  under 
a  contract  with  the  Kalem  Company,  the  exclusive  rights 
to  the  detective  picture. 

Justice  McLeod,  of  St.  John,  N.  B.,  on  April  1st,  on  the 
application  of  the  General  Film  Company,  granted  an  in- 
junction restraining  the  Gem  Theater,  the  Kinetograph  Com- 
pany and  the  Kalem  Company  from  showing  the  William  J. 
Burns  picture  in  the  Province  of  St.  John. 

"AGFA"  FILM  DYE  FOLDER. 
The  Berlin  Aniline  Works,' 213  Water  Street,  New  York, 
are  sending  free,  upon  request,  a  neat  folder  enclosing  sam- 
ples of  the  results  to  be  obtained  by  using  their  dyes,  and 
which  they  claim  to  be  invaluable  to  the  laboratory  man. 
From  the  six  basic  colors  a  hundred  different  colors  can  be 
obtained.  On  the  folder  are  twenty-six  sections  of  films, 
each  dyed  a  distinct  and  brilliant  tone.  You  can  see  the  won- 
derful transparency  and  color  at  a  glance.  Geo.  L.  Barrows, 
manager  of  the  photographic  department,  says  that  if  you 
write  at  once  he  will  send  you  these  sample  films,  which 
cannot  help  but  increase  your  interest  in  the  possibilities  of 
dyed  film. 


"HIAWATHA"  AT  THE  AMERICAN  MUSEUM. 

The  picture  mask,  "Hiawatha,"  in  which  the  characters  are 
Indians,  was  given  at  the  American.  Museum  of  Natural  His- 
tory, on  the  evening  of  April  3rd,  under  the  joined  auspices 
of  the  Museum  and  the  American  Scenic  Society.  The  big 
auditorium  was  crowded  with  a  great  audience  of  prominent 
New  Yorkers.  Several  hundred  seeking  admission  were 
turned  away,  as  every  seat  was  taken  before  the  time  set  for 
the  projection. 

Robert  S.  Pigott,  formerly  of  the  University  of  Toronto, 
recited  the  poem  as  the  various  scenes  were  projected  on  the 
screen. 


NICHOLAS  POWER  COMPANY  NOTES. 

F.  W.  Swett,  traveling  representative,  has  been  making 
an  extensive  business  trip  throughout  the  country  and  he 
writes  in  from  Houston,  Texas,  reporting  excellent  trade 
prospects  in  that  territory.  Mr.  Swett  was  in  the  Middle 
West  during  the  flood  disaster,  and  reports  extensive  damage 
to  the  moving  picture  interests. 

Power's  Cameragraph  follows  the  flag;  installation  of  one 
6-A  was  made  at  Fort  Crockett,  Galveston,  Texas,  through 
the  Picture  Theater  Equipment  Co.,  and  one  No.  6  aboard 
the  U.  S.  S.  "Prairie,"  Guantanamo  Bay,  Cuba,  through  the 
N.  E.  Universal  Film  Exchange,  Boston.  Also  one  6-A  for 
the  new  Thanhouser  plant  at  New  Rochelle  through  the 
Mutual  Film  Corporation,  and  for  the  Kerr  Turbine  Com- 
pany, Wellsville,  N.  Y.,  one  No.  6  complete  with  Dissolving 
View  Stereopticon. 


"SATAN"  PLAYING  TO  BIG  BUSINESS. 

The  Supreme  Feature  Film  Company  of  64  East  14th 
Street,  New  York,  which  controls  the  rights  for  the  Ambrosio 
feature  "Satan"  for  New  York  State  and  City,  reports  re- 
markable results  in  every  city  in  which  the  picture  has 
been  shown.  Return  dates  have  been  asked  by  every  theater 
manager  who  has  run  the  picture  and  many  of  these  have 
been  filled  to  increasing  business.  Last  week  the  picture  was 
shown  in  three  Buffalo  houses  at  the  same  time  and  return 
dates  have  been  booked.  The  Supreme  Feature  Film  Com- 
pany are  showing  the  complete  6,800-foot  picture — the 
only  concern  running  the  full  picture,  'tis  said. 


WOODWARD  IN  TOWN. 

Mr.  L.  A.  Woodward,  vice-president  and  General  Manager 
of  the  Enterprise  Optical  Manufacturing  Company,  makers 
of  the  Motiograph  projecting  machine  is  spending  several 
days  at  the  Eastern  offices  of  his  company,  30  East  23rd 
Street,  and  will  be  very  glad  to  see  any  of  the  many  friends 
of  Motiograph  who  might  call. 


ANSBACH  ENTERTAINS  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
On  Sunday  afternoons  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  of  Belleville,  N. 
J.,  holds  its  meeting  in  S.  J.  Ansbach's  Alpha  theater  of  that 
town.  One  of  the  features  of  the  program  is  a  carefully 
selected  religious  picture  subject.  The  meetings  are  well 
attended  and  the  pictures  are  a  most  interesting  and  welcome 
feature.     Here   is   an  idea   that  other   exhibitors   might  well 


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Manufacturers  Advance  Notes 


"THE  CAPTURE,"  (Essanay). 

A  clever  and  eccentric  story,  well  portrayed  with  screamingly 
funny  incidents,  is  "The  Capture."    Following  is  a  short  synopsis: 

It  is  the  unexpected  things  in  life  that  happen,  which  was 
proven  when  Bob  Burns  applied  to  John  Hennessy  for  a  position. 
Burns  is  told  that  single  men  are  not  engaged,  that  if  he  gets 
married  by  twelve  o'clock  the  following  day,  the  position  is 
his.  Burns  writes  two  of  his  young  lady  friends,  asking  them  to 
marry  him  and  to  meet  him  at  eleven  o'clock.  Undecided  which 
one  to  mail,  he  allows  a  young  boy  to  pick  one  of  the  letters  out 
of  his  pocket  and  mail  it.  By  accident,  the  other  letter  drops 
to  the  sidewalk.     A  good  Samaritan,  seeing  the  letter,  'picks   it 


Scene  from  "The  Capture"  (Essanay). 

up,  and  drops  it  into  the  mail  box.  The  next  morning  at  the 
appointed  hour  the  two  ladies  arrive  on  the  scene,  and  claim 
Burns  for  their's.  Not  knowing  what  to  do,  Burns  simply  throws 
up  the  sponge  and  takes  to  his  heels.  Burns  runs  into  an  apart- 
ment building,  where  he  comes  face  to  face  with  an  old  sweet- 
heart of  his.  Bob  proposes  to  her  and  is  accepted.  They  get 
married.  Bob  and  his  young  bride  arrive  at  his  employer's 
Office,  where  the  young  ladies  rush  in  with  a  policeman.  Mr. 
Hennessy  is  overwhelmed  when  he  discovers  that  Burns'  young 
bride  is  his  daughter.  Ruth. 

Smiling  "Billy"  Mason  as  Bob  Burns,  creates  a  furor,  his 
pleasing  personality  in  this  picture  captured  the  audience  upon 
his  entrance.  Ruth  Hennessy  as  herself,  does  creditable  work 
in  this  picture. 

This  production  is  booked  for  release  April  16th. 


"THE  END  OF  THE  QUEST"  (Lubin). 

This  Lubin  picture  is  very  melodramatic,  but  will  be  ap- 
preciated for  its  intense  Italian  quality.  The  characters  are 
all  children  of  Sunny  Italy  and  typical  of  the  hot  blood  of 
the  Latin  race.  The  scenes  are  laid  in  Italy  and  the  United 
States  and  true  to  both  countries  and  conditions.  Love 
dominates  the  story  and  the  end  is  the  just  consequence  of 
the  evil  doer. 

Rosa  and  Pietro  were  very  happy  in  the  little  Italian  village 
until  Guiseppo  Rocco,  a  well-dressed  Italian  came  along  and, 
with  pictures  of  America  and  many  promises,  decoyed  her 
away.     Pietro  vowed  vengeance  and  followed  them.     Walk- 


Scene  from  "The  End  of  the  Quest"  (Lubin). 

ing  New  York  for  many  days  and  failing  in  his  quest,  he  took 
work  in  a  barber  shop  and  prospered.  One  night  he  saw  a 
woman  carrying  a  baby  and  fainting.  He  took  her  to  his 
lodging  and  recognized  Rosa.  Pietro  did  all  he  could,  but 
she  died  leaving  the  little  baby  girl  to  his  care.  Five  years 
later  he  was  the  owner  of  the  barber  shop,  when  a  stranger 
entered  and  wanted  his  beard  shaved  off.  Pietro  recognized 
the  man  who  had  wrecked  his  life  and  was  about  to  kill  him 
when  the  little  girl  came  in  and  stayed  his  hand.  But  the 
shock  of  the  uiscovery  and  the  fear  of  vengeance  had  fright- 
ened Rocco  and  he  died  of  heart  failure.  The  child  and 
foster  father  fell  upon  their  knees  in  prayer  as  the  vision  of 
Rosa  appeared  and  smiled  in  appreciation. 


BENNIE  PROMOTES   PUBLICITY. 

The  Lubin  Manufacturing  Company  will  have  another 
champion  ball  team  this  year  and  Bennie  from  Lubinville, 
who  has  been  promoted  into  long  trousers  with  cuffs  on  the 
lower  ends  of  the  legs,  is  to  be  the  publicity  promoter.  He 
announces  that  the  team  would  like  to  hear  from  all  "first 
class  teams,  motion  picture  manufacturers  preferred."  We 
know  of  no  team  composed  of  motion  picture  manufacturers, 
but  if  their  employees  have  formed  teams  for  the  coming 
season  and  want  to  be  licked,  they  can  apply  at  Lubinville 
and  be  assured  of  prompt  and  effective  service.  With  Cy 
Morgan  on  the  pay  roll  they  will  have  an  excellent  coach 
and  Ira  Lowery,  Mr.  Lubin's  son-in-law  and  general  manager, 
has  forgotten  a  lot  about  ball  playing  that  most  people  have 
yet  to  learn — and  there  is  a  lot  he  has  not  forgotten. 

In  addition  to  Bennie  the  official  staff  consists  of  James 
J.  Humphreys,  President;  "Doc"  Travers,  Secretary  and 
William  H.  Kerry,  Treasurer.  Bennie  from  Lubinville  is 
publicity  promoter.  We  said  that  before,  but  he  told  us  three 
times.  Perhaps  the  publicity  promoter,  (who  is  Bennie  from 
Lubinville)  will  loosen  up  on  the  players'  names  presently. 


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291 


"O  KOMA  SAN"  (Gaumont). 

Atmospheric  of  John  Luther  Long's  "Madame  Butterfly" 
and  the  vivid  potency  of  Puccini's  orchestrations  is  the  Gau- 
mont hand-colored  subject,  "O  Koma  San." 

Although  difficult  to  make  up  French  actors  to  look  like 
Japanese,  there  has  been  facility  displayed  in  "dressing"  the 
characters  for  this  Nipponese  play.  The  scenic  effects  are 
rich.  The  feminine  actors  were  well  trained  in  the  short- 
stepping  movements  of  the  Japanese  women  and  their  docile 
manner.  The  story  substantiates  the  woes  of  the  Geisha 
girls  so  ably  delineated  in  "Madame  Butterfly."     A  trusting 


Scene  from  "O  Koma  San"  (Gaumont). 

lot  are  these  maidens  in  the  Far  East  and  their  faith  in  men 
sometimes  hard  to  justify. 

It  is  the  tale  of  a  Geisha  girl  who  surrenders  herself  and 
her  all  to  a  Japanese  prince,  who  basks  in  the  sunshine  of 
their  near-connubial  bliss  until  an  order  recalls  him  to 
Tokio.  He,  of  course,  swears  upon  the  memories  of  his  most 
honorable  ancestors  that  he  will  return  ere  the  robins  nest 
again  to  claim  his  bride-to-be.  Similar  to  a  celebrated  pugi- 
list, he  never  "comes  back." 

O  Koma  stays  at  home  caring  for  the  little  one  who  so 
vividly  and  significantly  reminds  her  that  she  had  once  been 
loved  by  a  prince  and,  who  had  adopted  the  adage,  "He,  who 
loves  and  runs  away,  will  live  to  love  another  day."  The 
result  is  tragedy.  When  O  Koma  San,  carrying  her  father- 
less child,  seeks  her  errant  lover  in  his  Tokio  palace  she 
learns  that  he  is  now  the  husband  of  another  woman. 
O  Koma,  desperate,"  is  about  to  plunge  her  dagger  into  the 
heart  that  had  won  him  whom  she  had  lost.  Dissauded  she 
commits  hara  kiri. 


AMERICAN    "SHOOTS"    CAPT.    ROALD    AMUNDSEN. 

Captain  Roald  Amundsen,  the  antarctic  explorer,  scheduled 
to  speak  in  Santa  Barbara,  Cal.,  last  week,  encountered  a 
rather  troublesome  floe  on  a  temptuous  sea  of  embarrass- 
ment when  the  American's  cameraman,  under  direction  of 
Wallace  Kerrigan,  insisted  on  shooting  him.  The  captain 
was  being  driven  about  the  town.  At  the  southern  end  of 
the  town  a  miniature  South  Pole  had  been  erected  where  the 
captain  was  expected  to  speak.  After  getting  fairly  under 
way,  the  captain  noticed  that  he  was  being  photographed 
and  stopped  to  remark  that  he  was  breaking  his  contract 
quite  against  his  will.  Nevertheless,  the  American  obtained 
some  good  pictures  of  the  famous  explorer. 

STOLEN  FILMS. 

From  the  Windsor  Theater,  412  Grand  Street,  New  York, 
on  the  night  of  April  2,  1913,  the  following  reels  were  stolen: 
"The  Great  Ganton  Mystery"  (2  reels)  Rex:  "The  Man 
Higher  Up,"  Powers;  "Thy  Will  Be  Done,"  Champion;  "The 
White  Indian,"  Bison,  being  the  property  of  the  Universal 
Film  Exchange  of  New  York.  Reward  given  for  information 
leading  to  the  arrest  and  conviction  of  the  guilty  party  or 
for  return  of  films. 


AMBROSIO   CHANGES  TITLE. 
The  title  of  the  Ambrosio  release  for  April  19th  has  been 
changed    from    "To    Save    the    Children"    to    "Child    Labor 
Traffic."     Exhibitors  will  please  take  note  of  the  change. 


"FOR  LOVE  OF  COLUMBINE,"  (Reliance). 

This  interesting  photodrama  by  M.  B.  Havey  is  woven 
about  the  lines  of  the  two  principal  players  in  the  big  pan- 
tonine show — Pierrot  and  Columbine.  Pierrot  loved  Colum- 
bine, but  she  gave  her  heart  to  a  rich  admirer  who  married 
her  and  took  her  away  from  the  make  believe  world,  leaving 
Pierrot  with  a  breaking  heart.  Later,  trouble  comes  to 
Columbine,  for  she  is  still  the  butterfly  and  her  rich  husband 
will  not  overlook  her  folly,  so  she  is  cast  upon   the  world. 


Miss  Irene  Howley  as  Columbine. 

Pierrot  finds,  her -and  takes  care  of  her  until  husband  relents 
and  takes  her  back.  Knowing  that  she  is  happy  at  last, 
Pierrot  creeps  away  to  his  dressing  room  and.  with  break- 
ing heart,  dons  his  clown's  costume  and  goes  forth  to  make 
the  thousands  laugh. 

Oscar  C.  Apfel  directed  this  picture  and  he  has  made  an 
exceptionally  fine  thing  of  it.  Irene  Howley  makes  an  ideal 
Columbine,  pretty,  graceful  and  ably  portrays  the  varying 
moods  of  the  capricious  heroine.  Irving  Cummings  plays 
the  husband  with  his  usual  ease  and  polish.  Exceptionally 
good  work  is  done  by  George  Siegman  in  the  role  of  Pierrot. 


NEW  INSTALLATIONS  BY  HALLBERG. 
J.  H.  Hallberg  "The  Economizer  Man"  reports  the  sale 
of  Edison  Model  B  and  complete  Economizer  equipment  to 
W.  H.  Voight,  Long  Eddy,  N.  Y.  He  has  also  sold  complete 
Power's  6-A  machine  to  Andrew  P.  Mikkelson.  Mt.  Pleasant 
Theater,  Pleasantville,  N.  Y.  Max  L.  Livingston.  Mr.  Hall- 
berg's  representative,  who  is  traveling  in  the  West,  has  been 
very  successful  in  the  sale  of  the  "Hallberg"  Ticket  Dis- 
penser, having  placed  a  large  number  in  various  theaters.  He 
has  also  established  new  and  important  agencies  for  Mr. 
Hallberg  in  the  sale  of  the  Simplex,  Power's  and  Motiograph 
machines  and  the  Hallberg  line  of  Economizers,  the  A.  C. 
to  D.  C.  outfit  being  especially  prominent. 


AMERICAN  ISSUES  HANDSOME   LITHOS   OF 
PLAYERS. 

The  American  Film  Manufacturing  Company  has  just 
issued  some  very  handsome  lithographs  of  Jack  Kerrigan, 
Pauline  Bush  and  Jack  Richardson.  Theaters  can  now  be 
supplied  through  their  various  exchanges. 


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NEW  ENGLAND. 

(")N  Tuesday,  April  1,  there  was  a  good  sized 
^  gathering  of  exhibitors  at  the  exhibition  room 
of  the  Massachusetts  branch  of  the  Exhibitors' 
League,  while  the  General  Film  Company  was 
showing  its  advance  releases.  It  was  reported  that 
two  exhibitors,  Messrs.  McManus,  of  Riverpoint, 
R.  I,,  and  Cahill,  of  Brockton,  Mass.,  were  on  the 
eick  list,  which  fact  immediately  stirred  the  ex- 
hibitors to  actloo.  A  contribution  was  raised  on 
the  spot,  and  elegant  bouquets  of  flowers  were  sent 
to  the  indisposed  managers. 

Superintendent  of  Boston  Schools,  Franklin  B. 
Dyer,  speaking  at  the  City  Club,  Boston,  on  April  2, 
stated  that  In  his  opinion,  the  harm  in  motion  pic-* 
ture  shows  for  young  boys  Is  not  in  the  pictures, 
which,  he  believes,  are  carefully  watched  over,  but 
in  the  fact  that  the  show  is  only  a  passive  amuse- 
ment. Mr.  Dyer  delivered  himself  of  this  erudite 
opinion  at  the  monthly  meeting  of  the  delegates 
from  Boston  to  the  United  Improvement  Associa- 
tion. Mr.  Dyer  also  thinks  that  baseball  Is  bad  for 
boys,  because  they  become  so  much  taken  up  with 
the  sport.  Of  course  it  is  universally  understood 
that  baseball  is  a  great  thing  for  youngsters,  as  it 
develops  mind  and  body.  Mr.  Dyer  can  hardly  un- 
derstand Motography,  if  he  calls  it  a  passive  amuse- 
ment, for  there  is  nothing  that  so  easily  stimulates 
the  mind  to  activity.  Mr.  Dyer  should  realize  that 
moving  pictures  are  a  great  agency  for  education, 
and  as  an  educator,  should  give  the  cinematograph 
the  serious  study  and  careful  attention  it  so  richly 
deserves. 

Kalem's  masterpiece,  "From  the  Manger  to  the 
Cross,"  Is  making  a  decided  bit  in  Boston,  not  only 
in  moving,  but  also  in  still  pictures.  By  permission 
of  the  Kalem  Company,  the  Boston  Herald  Is  print- 
ing, each  night,  large  photographs  of  the  various 
scenes  going  to  make  up  the  great  religious  Kalem 
feature. 

The  fair  Lillian  Russell  appeared  at  Symphony 
Hall,  Boston,  this  week,  at  prices  up  to  $1.50,  in 
her  entertainment  entitled,  "How  to  Live  100 
Years."  Lillian  was  assisted  by  Klnemacolor  pic- 
tures,   to   help   explain   her   "beauty   secrets." 

H.  Apperson  Jones,  the  young  speaker,  who  created 
so  much  favorable  comment  last  year,  when  lecturing 
at  Tremont  Temple,  Boston,  with  the  Klnemacolor 
pictures  of  the  "Indian  Durbar,"  returned  to  Boston 
this  week,  in  presentation  of  "The  Making  of  the 
Panama  Canal,"  and  "Actual  Scenes  of  the  Balkan 
War."  Mr.  Jones  delivers  an  unusually  effective  and 
instructive   lecture  on   these  pictures. 

A  fire  that  started  in  Gane's  Witch  Theater,  213 
Essex  street,  Salera,  Mass.,  on  April  2,  threatened 
to  injure  the  business  section  of  the  city.  It  is 
thought  that  the  fire  started  in  the  manager's  office, 
Just  off  the  second  balcony.  The  Empire  and  Salem 
theaters  were  both  endangered  by  this  fire.  The 
Witch  Theater  was  empty  when  the  fire  broke  out", 
but  the  smoke  poured  into  the  nearby  Empire  The- 
ater, and  a  panic  was  narrowly  averted.  Gane's 
Witch  Theater  was  built  last  summer,  and  opened 
this  fall.  It  was  an  expensive  theater  and  one  of 
the  most  modern  in  the  state.  Moving  plctnres 
and  vaudeville  programs  were  the  policy.  Mr.  Wil- 
liam Gane,  of  New  York,  the  lessee,  will  probably 
have  the  theater  rebuilt.  The  total  loss  was  about 
$100,000,  a  good  part  of  which  figure  Is  the  damage 
sustained  by  the  Witch  Theater. 

Last  week,  a  testimonial  was  held  at  the  Gem 
Theater,  East  Boston,  In  aid  of  the  widow  of  the 
late  Mr.  Morrison.  Mr.  Greenberg,  owner  of  the 
G'em,  gave,  free  of  charge,  the  use  of  his  theater 
and  Us  employees,  and  the  Variety  Booking  offices 
of  Boston,  furnished  the  vaudeville  talent  gratis. 
A  very  neat  sum  was  turned  over  to  Mrs.   Morrison. 

Frank  LeBrowne,  who.  at"  various  times,  managed 
the  Pastime.  Beacon.  Old  South,  Washington,  Shaw- 
mut,  Star  and  several  other  theaters  in  and  around 
Boston,  has  deserted  that  end  of  the  theatrical 
business  and  is  now  a  vaudeville  artist. 

The  Broadway  Theater,  Springfield,  Mass.,  one 
of  the  string  of  theaters  owned  by  the  Goldstein 
Brothers*  Amusement  Company,  is  to  play  stock 
company  attractions  for  the  summer  season,  after 
which  it  will  return  to  the  regulation  programs  of 
vaudeville  and  pictures. 

John  J.  Moewer,  manager  of  the  Nemo  Theater, 
New  York,  has  been  transferred  to  the  Nelson 
Theater.  Springfield,  Mass.  Mr.  Joseph  Carr,  for- 
merly of  the  Nelson,  has  been  switched  to  the 
Gotham  Theater,    New  York. 

Senator  Froltch  has  introduced  a  bill  in  the  legis- 
lature of  Connecticut,  which  calls  for  the  operation 
of  moving  picture  theaters  on  Sundays.  The  Senator 
is  a  true  friend  of  this  industry,  and  every  Connec- 
ticut exhibitor  should  do  his  share  towards  getting 
this  bill  passed.  It  will  mean  a  great  deal  to  the 
moving  picture   men  of  tills  state. 

Manager  Eslow,  of  the  Boston  offices  of  the 
Mutual   Film    Corporation,    finds    business   very    good 


in  this  territory,  and  believes  that'  his  new  offices 
at  HOG  Boy  Is  ton  street,  are  Just  about  the  finest 
ever.  Mr.  Eslow  states  that  business  is  so  good 
through  Maine  that  be  will  open  a  branch  at  Water- 
vine,  in  charge  of  Mr.  Fred  Murphy. 

"The  Amusement  Problem,"  was  the  subject  of 
Rev.  Rockwell  Potter's  address  before  the  Center 
Church,  Hartford,  Conn.,  last  week.  Rev.  Potter 
spoke  extremely  well  of  the  pictures,  saying  that 
they  accomplished  much  more  good  for  the  people 
than  the  high  class  theaters. 

E.  S.  Delaney  is  taking  bids  on  his  new  theater, 
which  is  to  be  built  at  Norwich,  Conn.,  this  spring. 
Plans  have  been  drawn  up  by  W.  H.  McElfatrick  ft 
Company,  of  New  York,  which  call  for  a  theater 
seating  very  nearly  1,200  people.  The  house  will 
be  thoroughly  modern  in  every  particular,  and  will 
be  erected  at  considerable  cost.  Mr.  Delaney  states 
that  he  will  leave  no  stone  unturned  to  produce 
the  finest  theater  in  Norwich,  devoted  to  photoplays 
and  vaudeville. 

The  Empire  Theater,  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  which  has 
been  playing  stock  company  attractions  for  the  last 
thirty  weeks,  has  closed  temporarily,  and  Harold 
B.  Franklin,  who  managed  the  house,  is  sought  by 
the  deputy  sheriffs.  It  seems  that  business  at  the 
Empire  was  very  bad,  and  that  the  various  em- 
ployees did  not  receive  their  salaries.  The  house 
will  probably  open  before  long,  with  programs  of 
vaudeville  and   pictures. 

Another  theater  in  this  territory,  at  Lowell.  Mass., 
found  that  the  public  did  not  care  for  stock  com- 
pany shows  and  was  forced  to  close.  This  house 
also  will  reopen  with  attractions  of  vaudeville  and 
photoplays,   before  long. 

S.  Z.  Poli's  theater,  Springfield,  Mass.,  which  has 
been  playing  vaudeville  and  picture  programs,  chang- 
ed its  policy  on  April  7,  when  it  opened  with  stock 
company  attractions.  The  new  Broadway  Theater, 
also  of  Springfield,  Mass.,  will  play  stock  company 
shows,  starting  April  21.  Next  fall,  both  the  Poli 
and  Broadway  theaters  will  revert  to  vaudeville 
and  pictures. 

A  benefit  performance  was  given  last  Sunday 
night  at  Poli's  Theater,  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  for  the 
flood  sufferers.  Manager  Reichenbach  gave  a  par- 
ticularly good  program,  and  turned  in  over  $1,200. 
It  was  a  worthy  cause,  and  Bridgeport  people 
crowded  Poli's  to  the  limit. 

Manager  Walter  T.  Murphy,  of  the  Lyceum  The- 
ater, New  London,  Conn.,  gave  a  benefit  perform- 
ance at  his  vaudeville  and  picture  house  this  week, 
and  sent  about  $310  to  Dayton.   Ohio. 

Manager  Al.  V.  Rosenberg,  of  the  Rockland  The- 
ater. Rockland,  Me.,  has  given  over  his  theater  for 
April  14,  15  and  16.  to  the  Universalist  Society, 
which  is  to  give  a  performance  of  its  own. 

S.  W..  Pollack,  who  formerly  owned  the  Lyric 
Theater,  Natick,  Mass.,  writes  from  Europe  that 
he  will  return  to  Boston  the  first  week  in  May.  Mr. 
Pollack  is  making  a  thorough  European  trip,  and  is 
seeing  all  the  sights.  F.  H.  Wotton,  the  present 
owner  of  tMe  Lyric,  is  doing  a  very  nice  business 
with   photoplay  programs. 

On  Sunday,  April  6,  for  the  first  time  in  the 
history  of  Salem,  Mass.,  the  moving  picture  theaters 
were  open.  Mayor  Hurley  gave  special  permission, 
and  established  a  precedent  by  permitting  three  of 
the  photoplay  theaters  to  open  for  a  benefit  per- 
formance for  the  Ohio  flood  sufferers'  fund.  Every 
cent  taken  in  at  the  box  offices  of  the  Salem, 
Federal  and  Cozy  theaters  was  given  to  the  fund. 
Now  thai  the  precedent  has  been  established,  the 
Salem  exhibitors  should  try  to  get  Mayor  Hurley  to 
grant    them    licenses    for   every   Sunday   night. 

nKNRY. 


LOUISVILLE. 

MOVING  picture  patrons  have  seen  nothing  new 
in  Louisville  recently.  With  transportation 
facilities  northward  and  eastward  crippled,  as  a 
result  of  the  floods,  few  new  films  have  arrived  In 
Louisville  of  late,  and  exhibitors  have  been  thrown 
on  their  own  resources.  Emergency  films  of  all  de- 
scriptions have  been  dug  up  and  handed  out  to 
patrons.  By  exchanging  these  subjects,  the  man- 
agers of  houses  got  through  the  worst  of  their 
troubles  fairly  well,  none  being  forced  to  close  down 
because  of  a  scarcity  of  pictures.  One  or  two  new 
features  found  their  way  into  Louisville  in  some 
way,  and  these  helped  out  wonderfully.  One  or 
two  exhibitors  resurrected  films  dealing  with  Ohio 
in  some  shape  or  other,  and  these  proved  immensely 
popular,  with  Dayton  the  center  of  national  at- 
tention. Railroads  are  now  getting  trains  through 
and  tlie  worst  is  over.  The  picture  famine  is  fast 
being  relieved,  and  exhibitors  are  able  to  give  their 
patrons  some  brand  new  reels. 

While  motion  picture  men  of  Louisville  suffered 
Indirectly  from  the  flood,  those  of  New  Albany, 
Ind.,  just  across  the  Ohio' River,  were  less  fortunate. 
The  Ohio  rose  to  the  highest  point  It  has  attained 
In  years,  resulting  in  the  shutting  off  of  power  in 
the  Indiana  city.  This  meant  that  every  motion 
picture  house  in  New  Albany  was  forced  to  shut 
down.  This  suspension  came  on  Sunday,  March  30, 
one  of  the  best  days  of  the  week,  and  cut  in  heavily 
on  receipts.  The  cessation  of  activities  was  short- 
lived, however.  Repairs  were  made  and  with  the 
water  receding,  exhibitors  again  got  into  action, 
the  loss  being  confined  to  a   single  evening. 

Union  operators  and  musicians  are  returning  to 
work  In  Louisville,  replacing  the  non-union  men  who 
manipulated  the  machines  after  the  beginning  of 
the  strike.     The  non-union  men  seemed  to  be  satis- 


fied with  this  arrangement,  receiving  a  couple  of 
weeks'  pay  as  a  bonus.  The  old  operators  are 
taking  hold  where  they  left  off  several  months  ago, 
and  the  situation  Is  in  good  shape  In  every  essential. 

Shubert's  Masonic  Theater  in  Louisville  has  been 
given  over  to  motion  pictures  during  the  past  week, 
"Cleopatra"  holding  the  stage  there  for  six  days. 
Helen  Gardner  appeared  to  splendid  advantage  in 
the  Bix-reel  subject,  and  the  combination  drew  big 
crowds.     Twenty-five  cents  was  the  admission  price. 

The  Colonial  Amusement  Company,  of  Lexington, 
Ky.,  has  adopted  a  unique  method  of  stimulating 
attendance  at  its  two  houses  In  that  city.  The  com- 
pany has  Issued  coupon  books,  containing  thirty 
flve-cent  tickets.  The  hooks  are  sold  for  $1.  This 
means  that  children's  tickets  to  the  theaters  cost 
3Vs  cents,  those  of  adults  costing  6%  cents.  While 
officers  of  the  Colonial  believe  the  plan  a  good  one, 
many  of  the  most  astute  exhibitors  in  the  State 
frown  on  such  methods.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  such 
a  plan  will  never  gain  wide  favor  in  tbe  Bluegrass 
State,  especially  in  Louisville,  where  the  business 
is  on  a  higher  plane  than  ever  before. 

"Tbe  Princess"  has  been  the  name  selected  for 
the  new  motion  picture  house  at  Russellvllle,  Ky. 
Out  of  1131  names  submitted  in  the  prise  contest, 
151  contained  the  title  adopted.  One  hundred  and 
six  persons  suggested  the  "Palace,"  while  "Wonder- 
land" ran  a  close  third,  with  68  exponents.  Waiter 
Starks  was  the  first  person  to  suggest  "Princess," 
and  will  receive  a  season  pass  to  the  new  bouse. 
The  contest  aroused  much  Interest,  and  assisted 
in  introducing  the  new  theater  to  the  Russellville 
public. 

The  Princess  Theater,  of  Hopklnsville,  Ky.,  re- 
cently celebrated  its  first  anniversary,  carnations 
being  presented  to  every  patron.  A  special  program 
was  presented,  including  several  added  features. 
The  Nashville  Trio,  a  musical  act,  was  included, 
and  scored  heavily.  The  house  was  suitably  deco- 
rated, and  unusually  big  crowds  more  than  made 
up  for  the  extra  expense  of  the  occasion.  It  is 
planned  to  celebrate  future  anniversaries  in  even 
more  elaborate  style. 

Manager  Otto  Brown,  of  the  Manring  Theater,  of 
Mlddlesboro,  Ky.,  has  completed  plans  for  extensive 
Improvements  in  his  house,  to  take  place  during  the 
coming  summer.  Box  seats  are  to  be  added,  while 
the  stage  will  be  extended  backward  and  will  be 
made  broader.  The  house  will  be  closed  down 
temporarily.  . 

Work  has  begun  on  the  big  new  motion  picture 
house  to  go  up  at  Plkeville,  Ky.  Tbe  Sam  Saad 
Mercantile  Company  is  the  projector  of  the  new 
house,  which  will  have  a  seating  capacity  of  800. 
The  theater  wifT  be  40  x  100  feet,  cement  blocks 
being  used  largely.  Vaudeville  will  be  mixed  with 
motion  pictures,   according  to  present  plans. 

The  Empress  Theater,  at  Central  City.  Ky.,  has 
changed  hands,  the  Consolidated  Theaters  Company 
selling  to  the  Empress  Theater  Company,  formed  to 
take  over  the  house.  The  Empress  is  a  new  theater, 
being  erected  only  recently  by  the  Consolidated 
G  L  Small  is  at  the  bead  of  the  new  company 
which  now  owns  the  house.  The  transfer  has 
caused  the  National  Moving  Picture  Company,  of 
Louisville,  to  decide  not  to  build  at  Central  City 
as  originally  intended.  The  National  has  announced 
that  the  first  of  the  theaters  it  intends  to  build 
will  go  up  at  Crescent  Hill,  in  the  eastern  section 
of  Louisville.  Plans  have  been  completed,  provid- 
ing for  the  erection  of  a  building  50  by  200  feet, 
with  a  seating  capacity  of  600.  The  structure  will 
contain  two  stores,  as  well  as  the  theater.  Work 
will  begin  at  once  and  the  theater  will  be  ready 
for  the  public  about  June  10.  Moving  picture* 
will  be  shown,  according  to  plans  of  officers  of  the 
National,   which  is  a  new  corporation. 

A  C  Dinglestedt,  owner  of  the  Norwood  Theater, 
in  Cincinnati.  0.,  will  erect  another  big  theater 
at  Main  and  Mills  avenue  in  that  city  shortly.  The 
new  house  will  contain  1,000  seats.  Mr.  Dinglestedt 
is  now  In  Columbus,  O.,  protecting  the  Interests  of 
animated  picture  men  during  the  session  of  the 
Ohio  Legislature  at  the  capital.  Important  bills 
are  to  be  introduced  shortly,  It  is  expected 

G.     D.    CKA1.N,     J  lv. 

IN   THE   MIDDLE   WEST. 

SUNDAY  theaters  won  in  Beloit,   W1b.,   by  a  ma- 
joritv  of  75  votes. 

C  E.  Zink,  formerly  of  Gllman.  111.,  has  engaged 
in  the  moving  picture  business  at  Remington,    Ind. 

The  Benlor  class  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin, 
Madison,  Wis.,  Is  contemplating  films  of  the  com- 
mencement  exercises.  _..„ 

The  North  Dakota  Amusement  Company,  of  «  Hus- 
ton N.  D.,  has  been  incorporated  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $50,000.  The  incorporators  are:  William 
C.,  James  W.   and  Mary  R.   McGuiness. 

I  vman  H.  Howe  was  due  In  the  Ohio  flood  dis- 
trict with  his  pictures  when  the  disaster  came,  and 
his  schedule  was  badly  npset. 

The  White  House  Theater  and  Amusement  com- 
pany of  Racine,  Wis.,  has  been  incorporated  with  a 
capital  stock  of  $20,000.  The  incorporators  are: 
A    P    Bnetow,  F.  Whaley  and  William  Jones. 

The  Diamond  Theater,  a  moving  picture  house  at 
Twenty-fourth  and  Lake  streets,  Omaha,  Neb.,  was 
completely  demolished  by  the  tornado  Jhe  place 
was  closed  for  the  supper  hour,  but  eighteen  per- 
sons were  Inside,  who  bad  gone  In  to  escape  the 
wind  which  preceded  the  tornado.  Mrs.  O.  G.  uncn. 
wife  of  the  proprietor,  was  bruised. 
The  Star  Land  Amusement  Company,  of  Michigan 


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City,  Iut].,  baa  been  Incorporated  witb  a  capital 
etock  of  $15,000.  The  incorporators  are:  Claud  R. 
Plough,  Cblcago,  and  Harriet  S.  Oliming  and  Herbert 
Levin  of  Michigan  City. 

Sunday  closing  of  moving  picture  theaters  was  an 

Issue    iu    the    municipal    election    at    Plattsmoutb, 

Neb.,    and    It    is    reported    the    mayor   and    council 

elected  are  favorable  to  keeping  the  houses  closed. 

MIDWEST  SPECIAL  SERVICE. 


SPRINGFIELD,  ILL. 

PHOTOPLAY  circles  in  Springfield  have  not  buzzed 
with  gossip  of  new  houses  for  a  long  time,  but 
rumors  of  Invasion  of  the  association  field  are  now 
plentiful.  The  first  of  the  stories  to  go  the  rounds 
was  that  a  good  South  Fifth  Street  site  bad  been 
secured  by  a  group  of  would-be  photoplay  magnates, 
but  that  their  plans  were  frustrated  by  a  coup 
upon  the  part  of  proprietors  W.  W.  Watts  of  the 
Vaudette,  and  H.  T.  Loper  of  the  Lyric.  These 
two  men,  who  were  using  late-run  Licensed  films, 
lengthened  their  shows  and  divided  the  entire  out- 
pot  of  association  films  between  them  each  week, 
leaving  nothing  for  a  new  bouse,  because  any  addi- 
tional theaters  In  Springfield  cannot  be  trailers  In 
the  matter  of  film  service.  Later  came  the  visits 
of  Dee  Robinson,  of  Peoria,  whose  photoplay  doings 
have  been  linked  with  the  exploits  of  Vernon  C. 
Seaver,  and  it  was  reported  they  had  an  inclination 
toward  Springfield  as  the  location  for  a  Hippodrome 
to  split  the  vaudeville  time  with  the  big  house  Mr. 
Seaver  is  now  preparing  In  Peoria.  They  too  are 
cslng  Licensed  service. 

The  Gaiety  Theater  in  Springfield,  is  very  near 
the  end  of  its  vaudeville  season,  and  plans  have 
been  made  for  a  summer  advent  into  pictures,  but 
00  definite  program  has  been  announced.  Many  see 
In  the  latest  vaudeville  move,  developments  which 
may  make  tbe  Gaiety  a  permanent  picture  house, 
but  this  is  not  probable. 

Since  the  Allardts  formed  their  feature  film  com- 
pany at  Cblcago,  they  are  reported  to  have  sold 
their  lease  on  the  Majestic  in  Springfield,  to  Martin 
Beck,  and  with  the  coming  of  Orpheum  attractions 
a  fight  with  the  Gaiety,  which  might  have  all  sorts 
of  consequences,  is  predicted.  It  is  not  likely, 
fcowever,  that  the  footing  of  the  Western  Vaudeville 
Booking  Association  here  can  be  loosened. 

The  warm  weather  has  brought  plans  for  two 
new  airdomes.  Frank  McGowan  and  Herbert  Woods 
will  open  one  oh  South  Fourth  Street,  between 
Adams  and  Monroe,  it  is  reported.  Woods  is  a 
member  of  the  Central  Motion  Picture  Corporation 
recently  formed.  A  Mr.  Bostick  is  said  to  have 
plans  for  an  open  air  picture  show  in  the  north 
«nd  of  the  city. 

H'uts  have  been  dropped  that  the  Musicians' 
TJnion  is  preparing  for  its  periodical  onslaught  upon 
Springfield  photoplay  houses.  Just  what  demand  will 
be  made  has  not  been  made  known,  but  inasmuch 
as  nearly  all  the  houses  are  using  two  or  more 
musicians,  any  wage  Increase  is  likely  to  be  fought. 
Lou  Harley,  who  has  been  organist  at  the  Vau- 
dette in  Springfield  for  some  time,  goes  with 
Charles  Kizer  to  W.  W.  Watts'  new  house  in  Chi- 
cago. 

The  Y.  M.  0.  A.  has  been  so  successful  in  getting 
men  to  attend  its  Sunday  meetings  by  the  use  of 
moving  pictures,  that  Executive  Secretary  Edwin 
St.  Hill,  contemplates  purchasing  an  outfit.  Special 
«ubscriptions  are  being  received  for  the  purpose. 

Moving  pictures  may  be  made  at  the  annual  meet' 
of   the   Corn   Belt   Oratorical   and  Athletic   Associa- 
tion in   this  city  May  6.    These  will   be  shown  In 
*he  eleven  cities  which  comprise  the  association. 
MIDWEST  SPECIAL  SERVICE. 

IOWA. 

TJART  BROTHERS,  of  Clinton,  have  purchased 
■iJ-  a  Bite  in  Second  Street,  and  will  erect  a  new 
moving  picture  house  which  will  be  known  as  the 
-"Beet."  The  building  will  be  of  brick  with  a 
marble  and  tile  front.  It  is  expected  to  be  open 
•ome  time  this  summer.  Hart  Brothers  will  con- 
tinue to  operate  the  Colonial  In  Second  Street. 

Physical  Director  Will  Jacobsen,  of  the  Clinton 
Y.  M.  C.  A.,  is  planning  to  have  moving  pictures 
made  of  tbe  athletic  meet  of  the  grade  schools  in 
■that  city  early  in  June. 

Charles  Miller,  of  Waverly.  has  introduced  into 
the  Iowa  legislature,  a  bill  providing  for  a  municipal 
theater  in  each  city  or  town  when  the  citizens  so 
ordain. 

The  Symphonlca  Society,  of  tbe  Williamsburg 
High  School,  recently  gave  over  one  of  its  Friday 
afternoon  literary  programs  to  moving  pictures. 
One  pupil  read  a  paper,  "Films,"  another  gave  a 
Tecitation,  "Wbat  Hiram  Saw  at  the  Picture  Show," 
and  a  debate  was  had  upon  the  question,  "Re- 
reolved.  That  a  Moving  Picture  Machine  Would  be 
Beneficial  to  the  Williamsburg  High  School."  This 
•was  followed  by  exhibiting  two  reels  of  films. 

The  Majestic,  at  Cedar  Rapids,  has  added  a  reel 
tto  its  show,  and  is  now  giving  a  three-reel  per- 
formance. 

Ida  Grove  is  to  have  three  picture  houses.  W.  L. 
fiester  has  leased  the  Grand  Opera  House  and 
■started  a  photoplay  show,  and  Wilson  Bender  has 
taken  a  five-year  lease  on  another  site. 

Proprietor  Ludy  Bosten,  of  the  Princess  moving 
picture  theater,  at'  Muscatine,  was  the  victim  of 
one  of  the  meanest  tricks  ever  played  upon  a  photo- 


play manager.  Someone  sent  to  a  number  of  bis 
best  patrons  cards  reading,  "The  management  of 
the  Princess  Theater  is  very  desirous  that  you  dis- 
continue your  visits  to  their  playhouse  for  a  time. 
Your  patronage  is  not  solicited.  THE  PRINCESS." 
In  addition  to  offering  a  reward  of  $50  for  the  ap- 
prehension of  the  culprit,  the  management  took 
up  the  matter  with  the  postal  authorities. 

The  Burt  motion  picture  bill  was  killed  in  tbe 
Iowa  legislature.  After  a  debate,  in  which  members 
of  the  house  cross-examined  each  other  as  to  what 
would  shock  their  modesty,  Representative  Whitney, 
of  Sioux  City,  offered  an  amendment  to  strike  out 
all  reference  to  censorship  and  leaving  merely  the 
clause  that  prohibited  the  showing  of  pictures  that 
would  shock  the  modesty  and  senses  of  the  public. 
This  was  passed.  Representative  Burt,  the  author 
of  the  bill,  then  arose  and  pleaded  that  if  tbe 
members  were  going  this  far  that  they  would  kill 
the  whole  bill,  which  was  cheerfully  done. 

The  American  Amusement  Company,  which  owns 
the  Palm  and  Crystal  theaters  in  Davenport,  has 
taken  over  the  Lyric  and  converted  it  into  a  moving 
picture  house.  A  new  $5,000  Rudolph  Wurlltzer 
'  pipe  organ  has  been  installed.  The  house  was 
opened  with  a  concert  by  Petersen's  Band.  Among 
the  attractions  played  under  the  new  management 
was  the  featuring  of  some  films  taken  in  Daven- 
port. The  company  has  installed  a  Wurlltxer  flute 
comblnola  in  the  Palm. 

Moving  pictures  were  recently  taken  of  the  few 
remaining  wild  deer  near  Avoca. 

Harry  Downer,  superintendent  of  Friendly  House, 
Davenport,  was  hoBt  to  the  Tri-City  Press  Club,  tbe 
Ben  Franklin  Club  and  newspaper  men  of  Daven- 
port, Rock  Island  and  Mollne,  111.,  at  an  exhibition 
of  the  reel,  "The  Making  of  a  Great  Newspaper," 
and  the  pictures  of  the  National  printers*  home. 

Knaack  &  Son  have  opened  the  Princess  moving 
picture  theater  at  Manchester. 

The  Capital  City  Film  Company,  of  Des  Moines, 
rushed  lis  first  pictures  of  the  Omaha  disaster  to 
the  famous  Household  Show  held  in  the  Coliseum 
at  Des  Moines.  The  women  of  Iowa  are  playing 
a  big  part  In  the  proper  use  of  pictures.  Mrs.  Frank 
Dodson,  who  operates  a  picture  show  at  Nineteenth 
and  Crocker  Streets,  Des  Moines,  recently  gave  a 
benefit  performance  for  the  Girls'  Committee  of 
the  City  Federation  of  Clubs,  and  street  cars  were 
chartered  to  carry  the  visitors  from  all  over  the 
city  who  attended. 

MIDWEST  SPECIAL  SERVICE. 


ILLINOIS. 

IE  voluntary  action  of  so  many  photoplay  house 
managers  In  Illinois  In  giving  benefit  performances 
for  a  fund  for  flood  sufferers  is  a  very  cheering  in- 
dex to  the  class  of  men  who  are  running  the  thea- 
ters. At  Pittsfield,  Burr  Swan  realized  $177  In 
one  night  for  the  afflicted.  The  people  of  Paris 
went  in  great  numbers  to  the  "Joy"  and  helped 
their  neighbors  in  Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  who  were 
visited  by  the  winds  and  rains.  Others  who  did 
noble  work  were  Managers  Sam  Harris,  of  the 
Walker,  at  Urbana;  Chris  Taylor,  of  Dreamland 
and  Tabard  at  Eewanee;  W.  O.  Stevens,  of  the 
Eagle  at  Princeton,  and  the  Majestic,  Lyric,  Or- 
pheum,  Princess  and  Superba  at  Freeport. 

K.  W.  Grade,  of  Crystal  Lake  Is  having  plans 
drawn  for  a  five-cent  theater  at  Barrington.  It 
will  cost  $10,000. 

R.  A.  Sbobe  has  sold  his  moving  picture  theater 
at  Saybrook  to  Woolley  Brothers  who  own  the  Say- 
brook  Gazette.  A.  B.  Woolley  will  be  In  charge  of 
tbe  photoplay  house. 

The  Celestial  at  Fekin  has  announced  four  reels 
for  five  cents,  the  picture  program  to  give  way  to 
regular  theatrical  attractions. 

John  C.  Kendall,  of  Pittsfield  has  purchased  a 
site  at  Hillboro  for  a  two-story  brick  building. 
The  lower  story  will  be  used  as  a  garage  and  the 
upper  story  for  an  electric  theater. 

Bert  Hall  has  opened  a  moving  picture  show  in 
the  town  hall  at  Chatham  and  Is  giving  shows  Tues- 
day and  Saturday  nights.  This  gives  the  village 
two  picture  houses. 

Willis  W.  Snyder,  proprietor  of  Snyders  moving 
picture  theater  at  Mt.  Pulaski,  has  taken  on  a  piano 
business  as  an  adjunct  to  the  photoplay  business. 

Miss  Flossie  Mitchell  is  pianist  for  tbe  new 
photoplay  show  which  has  been  opened  at  Sidney  by 
Edward  Epperson  and  Tasa  Dahl.  It  will  give  two 
shows  a  week. 

C.  M.  Larson  and  Louis  Bornhoeft,  Jr.,  of  Bast 
Moline  have  opened  a  moving  picture  show  at  Port 
Byron,  giving  performances  once  a  week  in  the 
opera  house. 

A  moving  picture  show  has  been  opened  In  the 
Bantz  &  Jenkins  building  at  Fitbian. 

Elmer  Hawkins  contemplates  opening  an  airdome 
at'   Mahomet. 

The  union  musician  problem  has  struck  Staunton 
and  the  theaters  were  asked  to  install  three-piece 
orchestras.  This  Is  an  expensive  thing  for  a  small 
city  like  Staunton  and  tbe  manager  of  the  Variety 
abolished  the  orchestra  and  installed  a  player-piano. 

H.  H.  Johnson,  manager  of  the  Lyric  Theater  at 
Champaign,  was  flood-bound  In  Troy,  Ohio,  and  as 
his  relatives  could  get  no  word  from  him  there 
was  an  anxious  time  in  Champaign. 

The  Quincy  Chamber  of  Commerce  is  actively  en- 
gaged In  tbe  work  of  attracting  new  factories  and 
residents,   so  tbe  Advance  Motion  Picture  Company 


met  a  ready  response  in  lta  proposal  to  take  a 
scriei!  of  films  In  that  city.  The  Quincy  exhibition 
will  be  made  at  the  Bijou. 

A.  W.  Smith,  of  the  Edison  Company,  was  re- 
cently at  Edwardsville,  where  he  demonstrated  the 
Edison  Kinetoscope  at  the  Electrical  Show,  and 
conferrr.1  with  the  Board  of  Education  regarding  its 
introduction  into  the  schools. 

The  Rogers-Everett  Feature  Film  Exchange  Com- 
pany, of  Chicago,  has  been  incorporated  with  a 
capital  stock  of  $10,000  to  do  a  general  theatrical 
and  moving  picture  business.  The  Incorporators 
are  Byron  W.  Everett,  Russel  N.  Rogers  and  Beryl 
B.    Collins. 

S.  E.  Hurst,  of  the  Gem  at  HiUsboro  Is  now 
giving  two  shows  of  four  reels  each  nightly  with  a 
five  and   ten-cent  admission. 

The  Steel  Works  Club  of  Joliet,  has  adopted  a 
regular  schedule  for  Its  moving  picture  shows  for 
members.  Clean  comedies  are  Interspersed  with 
the  educational  pictures,  no  sentimental  or  sensa- 
tional films  being  shown.  The  Patbe  Weekly  will, 
of  course,  be  shown  every  Friday  or  Saturday  night. 
The  Wiley  Amusement  Company,  of  Chicago,  has 
been  incorporated  with  a  capital  stock  of  $2,500  to 
operate  moving  picture  theaters  and  vaudeville 
shows.  The  Incorporators  are  George  I.  Wiley, 
Frank  W.  Lambden  and  Alec  W.  Glaskay. 

Merchants  of  two  Illinois  towns  have  adopted  the 
plan  of  giving  away  tickets  to  local  moving  picture 
houses  with  all  purchases.  At  Hlllsboro  the  Business 
Men's  Association  is  co-operating  with  Ed  Fellls 
of  the  Hlllsboro  Opera  House,  and  the  customer 
who  buys  fifty  cents  worth,  is  given  a  ticket  good 
for  any  Saturday  afternoon.  It  Is  not  tbe  value  of 
the  ticket  which  Is  designed  to  attract  the  shopper, 
but  the  merchants  wish  to  give  him  a  place  where 
he  can  be  entertained  while  he  is  resting.  The 
same  plan  is  being  followed  at  Areola,  where  the 
stores  are  offering  coupons  which  will  be  honored 
on  Saturday  afternoons  by  the  Olympic  Theater. 
The  Columbia  Transparency  Company,  of  Chicago, 
has  been  Incorporated  with  a  capital  stock  of  $5,000 
to  manufacture  and  deal  In  moving  picture  ma- 
chines and  apparatus.  The  incorporators  are  Harold 
L.  De  Lisle,  Mattlas  F.  Adams  and  Wllhelmlna  K. 
Borgmeler. 

Ezra  Beers  has  sold  the  PrinceBS  Theater  la 
South  Main  Street,  at  Lewistown  to  Don  Elliott. 
Elliott  has  had  picture  show  experience.  Beers 
may  return  to  the  road  as  a  traveling  salesman. 

It  is  unusual  for  litigation  affecting  photoplay 
houses  to  develop,  but  three  Illinois  managers  have 
had  recourse  to  the  courts  of  Justice.  At  Piano, 
Edward  Thomas,  owner  of  a  moving  picture  show, 
declared  he  shoveled  a  steady  stream  of  coal  into 
the  furnace  In  his  building,  but  all  In  vain— no  heat. 
After  three  days  of  firing  he  destroyed  the  lease, 
and  Gus  Hutb,  the  lessor,  sued  to  recover  rent. 
The  Jury  could  not  agree.  The  roof  of  the  Bijou 
at  Kewanee  leaked,  and  August  and  Edward  Feltou 
and  Frank  GVeenway  ould  not  agree  with  the  owner 
of  the  building,  Frank  F.  Whlffen,  on  the  rental 
settlement.  He  sued  for  $200,  but  a  jury  gave 
judgment  for  only  $50.  Manager  Charles  Nelson, 
of  the  star  moving  picture  house  at  Rock-ford,  ob- 
jected to  two  uniformed  city  firemen  coming  in  at 
the  stage  entrance  as  It  might  create  a  panic.  He 
was  fined  $5  for  not  permitting  firemen  to  make  a 
regular  Inspection. 

The  Waverly  Theater  Company,  of  Chicago,  has 
been  incorporated  with  a  capital  stock  of  $15,000  to 
operate  places  of  amusement.  The  Incorporators 
are  John  G.  Campbell,  John  D.  Peterson,  and  Jacob 
L.  Fox. 

The  Aurora  Amusement  Company,  of  Aurora, 
has  been  incorporated  with  a  capital  slock  of  $10,- 
000  to  operate  theaters,  moving  pictures,  etc.  The 
incorporators  are:  William  C.  Flannigan,  William  J. 
and  Mae  Mullen. 

The  committee  appointed  by  the  Decatur  high 
school  to  make  up  suitable  programs  has  not  lacked 
an  assortment.  Here  Is  the  selection  for  six  pro- 
grams which  will  show  with  what  ease  the  moving 
picture  machine  may  be  applied  to  school  work: 
1.  Legend  of  King  Midas.  Cotton  Industry  In  the 
Sonth.  The  Wright  Brothers'  Aeroplane.  2.  Alice 
In  Wonderland.  A  Man  In  the  Making.  Modem 
Naples.  3.  Cinderella.  Aross  the  Isthmus  in  1912. 
The  Fly  Pest.  4.  The  Prince  and  the  Pauper.  Lost 
in  tbe  Alps.  Christopher  Columbus.  6.  Return  of 
Ulysses.  The  Street  Beautiful.  Evolution  and  Life 
of  a  Silkworm.  6.  Robin  Hood.  The  Discoverers 
(Indians).     Spring  Log  Driving. 

The  Havana  Theater  at  Havana,  gave  a  benefit 
performance  for  the  P.  E.  O.  Club,  when  Mrs. 
Fannie  Spalts  Merwin,  a  prominent  Illinois  edu- 
cator, lectured  at  the  exhibition  of  "The  Little 
Minister."  Other  benefit  performances  linked  with 
'public  movements  were  those  by  the  Star  at  Peca- 
tonica  and  the  Princess  at  Alton.  The  former  aided 
two  classes  from  the  Congregational  Sunday  School 
In  fattening  a  new  church  building  fund  and  the 
Alton  house  turned  over  its  proceeds  to  the  Foster 
Township  Hard   Roads  Association. 

Bloomlngton  does  not  want  Sunday  theaters.  The 
voters  said  so  by  a  vote  of  3,073  to  2,092. 

Rockford  ministers  denied  the  story  that  In  case 
the  election  decided  that  picture  houses  could  be 
opened  on  Sundays,  they  would  circulate  pledges, 
the  signers  of  which,  agreed  to  boycott  the  photo- 
play houses  on  week-days  as  well  as  Sundays. 

The  United  Evangelical  Church  at  a  conference 
at  Chadwlck  declared  la  favor  of  having  moving  pic- 
ture  shows  closed  on   Sundays. 

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Calendar  of  Independent  Releases 


Universal  Film  Mfg.  Co.  Current  Releases 

SUNDAY,  APRIL  13th,  1913. 

CRYSTAL— The   Veiled   Lady   (Comedy) 

CRYSTAL— Our    Parents-in-Law    (Comedy) 

ECLAIR — Going  for   Father    (Comedy) 

ECLAIR— The   Octopus   (Zoology)    

REX— Pure  Gold  and  Dross   (Scientific) 

MONDAY,  APRIL  14th,  1913. 

IMP— Blood  Will  Tell  (Drama) . 

NESTOR— A  Night  of  the  Garter  (Comedy) 

NESTOR— Dad's  Surprise  (Comedy) 

CHAMPION— Lena's  Flirtation   (Comedy) 

TUESDAY,  APRIL  15th,  1913. 

GEM— Billy  Turns  Burglar  (Comedy) 

GEM — The  Laplanders  (Typical) 

101-BISON— War   (3  parts— Drama)    

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  16th,  1913. 

NESTOR— An  Affray  of  Honor  (Drama) 

POWERS— The  Lesson   (Drama) 

ECLAIR— The  Evil  Genius  (2  parts — Com.-Drama) 

UNIVERSAL— Animated  Weekly  No.  58  (News) 

THURSDAY,  APRIL  17th,  1913. 

IMP— The  Leader  of  His  Flock  (2  parts— Drama) 

REX— A  Friend  of  the  Family  (Drama) 

FRONTIER— Some  Doings  at  Lonesome  Ranch  (Com.) 
FRIDAY,  APRIL  18th,.  1913. 

NESTOR— Paving  for  Silence  (Drama) 

POWERS — The  Troubadour  of  the  Rancho   (Drama).. 
VICTOR— The  Coward's  Charm  (Drama) 

SATURDAY,  APRIL  19th,  1913. 

IMP — Fixing  the  Fakirs  (Comedy) 

IMP — On  an  Alligator  Farm  (Zoology) 

BISON— The  Last  Roll  Call  (2  parts— Drama) 

FRONTIER— Why  the  Ranger  Resigned  (Drama) 

ADVANCE  RELEASES. 
SUNDAY,  APRIL  20th,  1913. 

CRYSTAL— His   Romantic  Wife   (Comedy) 

CRYSTAL— Two    Lunatics    (Comedy)    

ECLAIR— Poor  Little  Chap  (Comedy) 

ECLAIR— He    Was   Only    Dreaming    (Comedy) 

ECLAIR— Fire    (Scientific)     

MONDAY,  APRIL  21st,  1913- 

IMP — The  Regeneration  of  John  Storm   (Drama) 

NESTOR— His    Friend    Jimmie    (Comedy) 

CHAMPION— When  Strong  Men  Meet  (Drama) 

TUESDAY,  APRIL  22nd,  1913. 

GEM — Burglarizing   Billy    (Comedy)    

GEM — Against   the   Law    (Comedy) 

BISON — Bred  in  the  Bone  (Three  parts— Drama) 

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  23rd,  1913. 

NESTOR— The    Sheriff's    Warning    (Drama) 

POWERS— When   Dolly   Died    (Comedy) 

ECLAIR — Mathilda  (2  parts— Drama)   

UNIVERSAL— The  Animated  Weekly  No.  59  (News) . . 

THURSDAY,  APRIL  24th,  1913. 

IMP — A  Sprig  of  Shamrock   (Comedy) 

REX — The  Dragon's  Breath   (2  parts — Drama) 

FRONTIER— The  Daughter  of  the  Sheep  Rancher  (Dr.) 
FRIDAY,  APRIL  25th,  1913. 

NESTOR— For   Her   Sake   (Drama) 

POWERS— The  Sham-Suffragette   (Comedy)    

VICTOR — Loneliness  and  Love  (Drama) 

SATURDAY,  APRIL  26th,  1913. 

IMP — Why  Men   Leave   Home    (Comedy).. 

IMP — Pottery  Industry   (Industry)    

BISON— The  Black  Chancellor   (3  parts— Drama) 

FRONTIER— The  Old  Maid's  Last  Attempt  (Comedy) 


Mutual  Film  Corporation  Current  Releases 

SUNDAY,  APRIL  13th,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— Pedro's   Revenge    (Drama)    

THANHOUSER— The  Dog  in  the  Baggage  Car  (Com.).... 

MONDAY,  APRIL  14th,  1913. 

EXCELSIOR— The  Moving  Picture  Girl  (Drama) 

AMERICAN — Suspended   Sentence   (Drama) ieoo 

KEYSTONE— A  Life  in  the  Balance  (Comedy) 

TUESDAY,  APRIL  15th,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— I  Love  You   (Drama) 

THANHOUSER— The  Girl  and  the  Grafter   (Drama).. 


WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  16th,  1913. 

MUTUAL— Mutual  Weekly  No.   16  (News) 

RELIANCE — Held  for  Ransom  (2  parts — Drama) 

BRONCHO— A  Southern  Cinderella  (3  parts— Drama). . 

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FRIDAY,  APRIL  18th,  1913. 

KAY-BEE— The   Runaways    (Comedy)    

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SATURDAY,  APRIL  19th,  1913. 

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SUNDAY,  APRIL  20th,  1913- 
MAJESTIC— Title  not  reported. 
THANHOUSER— Title  not  reported. 

MONDAY,  APRIL  21st,  1913. 

EXCELSIOR— The  Man  From  the  City  (Drama) 

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TUESDAY,  APRIL  22nd,  1913. 

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THURSDAY,  APRIL  24th,  1913. 
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FRIDAY,  APRIL  25th,  1913. 
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Calendar  of  Licensed  Releases. 


Current    Releases. 

MONDAY,  APRIL  14th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— He  Had  a  Guess  Coming  (Comedy) 

BIOGRAPH— A  Horse  on  Bill  (Comedy) 

EDISON — Jones  Goes  Shopping  (Comedy) 

EDISON — The  Rocky  Mountains  in  Winter  (Geog.)... 

KALEM— A  Streak  of  Yellow  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — Mimmie,  the  Widow  (Comedy) 400 

LUBIN — One  On  Romance   (Comedy) 600 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's  Weekly  No.  16  (News) ;.. 

SELIG — A  Wise  Old  Elephant  (Special — 2  parts — Dr.).. 2000 

SELIG — The  Woodman's  Daughter  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH — Mr.  Mintern's  Misadventures  (Drama)..  1000 

TUESDAY,  APRIL  15th,  1913. 
CINES — The  Ancient  Towns  of  Gubbie,  Umbria,  Central 

Italy  (Scenic)    400 

CINES— Anita,  the  Orphan  (Drama) 600 

PATHEPLAY— The  Fire  of  Vengeance  (Drama) 

EDISON — The  New  Pupil  (Comedy-Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY — The  Accusation  of  Broncho  Billy  (Drama).  1000 

LUBIN — The  Pawned  Bracelet  (Comedy) 1000 

SELIG— God's  Way  (Drama) 

SELIG — Hankow,  China  (Scenic)    .' 

VITAGRAPH— The  Fortune   (Comedy) 1000 

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  16th,  1913. 
CINES — A  Fugitive  at  Bay  (Special — 2  parts — Drama)..  1800 
ECLIPSE — The  Winner  at  the  Sweepstakes  (Drama) ..  1000 

EDISON — Seven  Years'  Bad  Luck  (Comedy) 1000 

ESSANAY — The    Capture    (Comedy) 1000 

SELIG- — Dixieland   (Drama)   1000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Italian  Bride  (Drama) 

KALEM— A  Plot  for  a  Million  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH — After  the  Honeymoon  (Drama) 1000 

THURSDAY,  APRIL  17th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— A  Frightful  Blunder   (Drama) 

ESSANAY— The  Unknown  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN— The  Right  Road  (Drama) 1000 

MELIES — What  Is  Sauce  for  the  Goose  (Comedy) 684 

MELIES — A  Tahitian   Fish   Drive    (Manners  and   Cus- 
toms)      316 

PATHEPLAY— Glimpses  of  the  National  Capital  (Top.) 
PATHEPLAY— The  Sponge  Industry  in  Cuba  (Ind.).. 

SELIG — The  Tie  of  the  Blood  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— Sleuthing  (Drama)  1000 

FRIDAY,  APRIL  18th,  1913. 

EDISON— The  Man  from  the  West  (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY — The  Crossing  Policeman  (Drama) 1000 

KALEM — The  Bravest  Girl  in  California  (Comedy) 

KALEM— The  Millionaires'  Playground  (Topical) 

LUBIN— Baby's  New  Pin  (Comedy) 400 

LUBIN— Beating  Mother  to  It  (Comedy) 600 

LUBIN — The   Power  of  the   Cross   (Special — 2  parts — 

Drama)    2000 

PATHEPLAY— School  of  Gymnastics  (Military) 

PATHEPLAY— The  Cuttlefish  (Zoology) 

SELIG — Cured  of  Her  Love  (Comedy) 

SELIG— That  Mail  Order  Suit  (Comedy) 

VITAGRAPH— Playing  With  Fire  (Drama) 1000 

SATURDAY,  APRIL  19th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— A  Misunderstood  Boy  (Drama) 

CINES— For  His  Child's  Sake  (Drama) 1000 

EDISON— The  Twelfth  Juror  (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY — Alkali  Ike's  Homecoming   (Comedy) 1000 

KALEM — The  Fire-fighting  Zouaves  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — A  Florida  Romance  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Pride  of  Innocence  (Drama) 

PATHEPLAY— The  Wrong  Road  to  Happiness   (Spe- 
cial— 2  parts — Drama)   

VITAGRAPH— Seeing  Double   (Comedy) 

VITAGRAPH— Jean  and  Her  Family  (Canine) 


Advance  Releases 

MONDAY,  APRIL  21st,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The    Left-Handed    Man    (Drama) 

EDISON— Hulda  of  Holland   (Comedy-Drama) 1000 

KALEM— The   Sneak    (Drama)    : 1000 

LUBIN — Back   to   Primitive    (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's  Weekly  No.   17  (News) 

SELIG — Canton,   China   (Scenic)    

SELIG — Alas!  Poor  Yorick!  (Comedy) 

VITAGRAPH— Mixed   Identities   (Comedy)    

VITAGRAPH— Gala    Day    Parade,     Yokohoma,    Japan 

(Topical)     

VITAGRAPH— The  Artist's   Great   Madonna   (Special— 

2    parts — Drama)     2000 

TUESDAY,  APRIL  22nd,  1913. 

CINES— A   Heart   of  Steel    (Drama) iooo 

PATHEPLAY— Winter   Sports   at    Bodele    (Sports).... 

PATHEPLAY— Ancient   Greece    (Scenic)    

EDISON — An   Innocent   Informer    (Drama) iooo- 

ESSANAY— The    Unburied    Past    (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN— A  Slight  Mistake   (Comedy) 

LUBIN — Sunshine  Sue   (Comedy)    

SELIG — Seeds   of   Silver    (Drama) 1000  " 

VITAGRAPH— The  Mystery  of  the  Stolen  Jewels  (Dr.) 
VITAGRAPH— In  the  Good  Old  Summer  Time  (Com.) 

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  23rd,  1913. 
CINES — The  Miser's  Millions   (Special — 3  parts — Dr.).. 2700 

ECLIPSE — A   Four-Footed   Detective    (Drama) iooo 

EDISON — His    Undesirable   Relatives    (Comedy) 1000 

ESSANAY— The   Rival    Salesman    (Comedy) iooo 

SELIG — Love,  the  Winner   (Drama) 

SELIG — Dollar  Down,  Dollar  a  Week  (Comedy) 

PATHEPLAY— The  Outlaw   (Drama)    

KALEM — The    Secret   Marriage    (Drama) iooo 

VITAGRAPH— There's  Music  in  the  Hair  (Comedy)... 
VITAGRAPH— Crowd  Attending  Gods  In  Temple,  To- 

kio,   Japan    (Typical) 

THURSDAY,  APRIL  24th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— A  Rag-Time  Romance  (Comedy) 

BIOGRAPH— The  Cure  (Comedy)  

ESSANAY — City  of  Mexico   (Scenic) 1000 

LUBIN— The  School  Principal   (Comedy) 1000 

MELIES— How  Chief  Te  Bonga  Won  His  Bride   (Dr.) 
MELIES — A  Trip  to  the  Waitoma  Caves  of  New  Zea- 
land  (Geology)    

PATHEPLAY— The  Thwatted  Plot  (Drama) 

SELIG — Love  in  the  Ghetto  (Drama) ioco 

VITAGRAPH— The  Power  That  Rules   (Drama) 1000 

FRIDAY,  APRIL  25th,  1913. 
EDISON— The    High   Tide    of   Misfortune— (Being   the 

tenth  story  of  "What  Happened  to  Mary") — (Dr.)..  ioco 

ESSANAY— The   Deacon's   Dilemma   (Comedy) iooo 

KALEM — The   Phoney  Singer    (Comedy) 

KALEM — Japan,   the   Industrious    (Mechanical   Engrg.) 

LUBIN — Diamond  Cut  Diamond   (Drama) iooo 

LUBIN— The  End  of  the  Quest  (Special— 2  parts— Dr.)  .2000 
PATHEPLAY— Our   Feathered   Friends    (Zootechnic)  . . 
PATHEPLAY — A  Trip  on  the  Seine,  France  (Scenic). 

SELIG— Arabia  Takes  the  Health  Cure  (Comedy) iooo- 

VITAGRAPH— The  Stronger  Sex  (Drama) ioco 

SATURDAY,  APRIL  26th,   1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Lady  and  the   Mouse   (Drama) 

CINES — Views  in  Liege,  Belgium   (Scenic) 200 

CINES— Forgotten   (Drama)    800 

EDISON — A  Splendid  Scapegrace   (Drama) iooo 

ESSANAY— Broncho  Billy  and  the  Rustler's  Child  (Dr.)  iooo 

KALEM — The    Fighting    Chaplain    (Drama) iooo 

LUBIN— The   Birthmark   (Drama)    iooo 

PATHEPLAY— The  Count's  Will  (Drama) 

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two  years'  effort  and  personal  attention  of  J.  H.  Genter. 
This  machine  will  be  manufactured  by  the  J.  H.  Genter 
Company,  controlling  the  pending  patents  on  MIRROR- 
OIDE. The  merits  of  this  invention  must  be  seen  to  be 
appreciated,  as  it  is  the  one  best  bet  any  exhibitor  ever 
had  and  it's  a  sure  winner. 

THE  J.  H.  GENTER  CO. 

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LUBTN. 

BACK  TO  PRIMITIVE  (April  21).— A  water  com- 
pany desires  tbe  Mojave  Indians'  right  to  a  strip  of 
land  in  Arizona.  The  big  chief  refuses  to  sign  with 
the  company's  agent  without  the  approval  of  his 
son,  .Brave  Eagle,  who  is  attending  an  Eastern  col- 
lege. Tbe  Indians  trust  Brave  Eagle.  He  refuses 
to  sign,  and  agents  are  sent  to  him  to  change  his 
mind.  Failing  in  this,  they  introduce  a  yonng  woman 
to  win  his  love  and  influence  him  to  sign  the  paper. 
Her  purpose  accomplished,  she  spurns  the  Indian, 
and  he  sees  he  has  been  duped.  In  frenzy.  Brave 
Eagle  adopts  tbe  red  man's  way.  He  captures  tbe 
adventuress  and  takes  her  to  his  tribe,  where  she 
is  made  to  do  hard  work  like  a  squaw.  After  a 
time  Brave  Eagle  bids  her  return  to  her  people,  but 
In  the  meantime  she  has  fallen  in  love  with  him 
and  asks  to  be  bis  wife,  whereupon  the  Indian  spurns 
her  as  she  once  spurned  him. 

A  SLIGHT  MISTAKE  (April  22).— Hubby  decides 
that  for  once  he  will  quit  the  club  and  dine  with  his 
little  wife.  The  boys  ridicule  him,  but  he  goes 
nevertheless.  He  has  been  a  bad  boy,  and  repents 
of  it  on  the  way.  Arriving  home,  he  hears  another 
man  urging  his  wife  to  elope.  Hubby  bursts  in  and 
attacks  the  man,  whom  he  throws  out  the  third-story 
window.  .  The  man  is  not  killed,  but  catches  on  a 
shutter.  '  Hubby  begs  his  pardon,  because  he  got  in 
the  wrong  flat.  His  wife,  on  the  floor  above,  is  de- 
lighted to  see  him. 

SUNSHINE  SUE  (April  22),  —  Everybody  has  a 
grouch  on  Friday  at  the  Bronson  office.  Bobby  hates 
to  get  up,  and  his  mother  pours  a  pitcher  of  water 
over  him.  When  he  gets  to  the  office  be  salutes  the 
bookkeeper,  who  does  not  answer.  Presently  tbe 
clerk  arrives.  He  again  says  good  morning,  but  the 
others  are  dumb.  The  bookkeeper  points  to  the 
clock  and  the  clerk  growls.  Bobby  has  a  run-in 
with  the  scrubwoman  and  throws  things  about. 
Bronson  Is  late  leaving  home,  and  a  man  with  a 
ladder  bumps  into  him.  Bronson  knocks  the  man 
down,  and  a  policeman  comes  to  arrest  him.  Bron- 
son gives  the  cop  a  five  and  rushes  to  the  office. 
The  typist  arrives  late,  and  she  gives  a  letter  to 
the  boss  which  reads:  "Please  get  another  typist. 
I  was  married  last  night."  Bronson  is  crazed:  be 
'phones  to  the  employment  agency  and  they  send  a 
Miss  Prim,  who  proves  to  be  absolutely  incompetent. 
The  boss  fires  her.  Finally  another  typist  arrives; 
she  la  a  pretty  little  doll.  She  immediately  proves 
her  ability.  Everybody  waits  upon  her.  The  boss 
la  restored  to  good  bumor,  and  as  tbe  day  ends  all 
bid  her  a  cheery  good  night.  Bobby,  left  alone,  goes 
to  Sue's  vacant  chair  and  pats  it,  smiling. 

THE  SCHOOL  PRINCIPAL  (April  24),  —  Mabel 
Montressor  is  the  usual  spoiled  and  pampered  daugh- 
ter of  wealthy  parents.  After  turning  down  her 
parents'  choice  of  a  busband  she  shocks  them  by  an- 
nouncing she  wants  to  be  a  school  teacher.  In  John 
Strong,  the  principal  of  the  school,  Mabel  meets  ber 
Waterloo.  Upon  her  refusal  to  work  along  lines  laid 
down  by  him,  he  discharges  her.  When  she  thinks 
it  over  she  knows  in  her  heart  that  John  Strong  did 
right.  She  becomes  lonesome  for  her  "bad  boys"  of 
the  school,  and  one  flfl  imiexa  in  the  neigh- 

borhood. Tommy  Mori  arty,  her  worst  boy,  has  been 
suspended  by  the  principal.  Mabel  meets  him  and 
goes  home  with  him.  At  the  Moriarty  home  she 
gets  in  a  mix-up  with  Mrs.  Moriarty,  a  doctor,  the 
principal,  "the  stork"  and  Mr.  Moriarty.  John 
Strong  escorts  her  home  late  that  night  and  she 
learns  that  he  has  missed  her  ever  since  she  left 
the  school. 

DIAMOND  CUT  DIAMOND  (April  25).— John  Sar- 
gent, a  young  engineer,  and  Paul  Atwood,  an  un- 
scrupulous newspaper  owner,  both  love  Bella  Winton. 
She  has  a  young  sister,  Jo,  who  is  in  love  with  Sar- 
gent. Atwood  is  unsuccessful  with  both  girls.  At- 
wood schemes  to  get  Sargent  in  a  gambling  den, 
have  the  place  raided,  and  print  it  all  in  his  paper, 
scheme  works,  and  Sargent  is  disgraced.  Bella 
Bcorns  him,  but  Jo  does  not.  Sargent  finds  Atwood 
and  thrashes  him.  Atwood  accuses  John  of  at- 
tempted murder  and  has  him  put  into  prison.  Jo 
resorts  to  to  get  Sargent  out.     S-ni 

tends  she  likes  tbe  reporter  who  duped  Sargent,  and 
gets  him   to  dress  as  a  burglar  and  show   her  how 


thieves  work  and  how  to  defend  herself.  She  slips 
some  jewels  in  his  pocket  and  then  rails  the  police. 
When  the  police  come  she  makes  him  sign  a  confes- 
sion of  his  deeds  against  Sargent.  He  squeals  on 
Atwood,  and  Atwood  is  arrested.  Sargent  is  lib- 
erated and  Bella  forgives  him,  but  Jo  is  now  his 
choice. 

THE  BIRTHMARK  (April  26).— Charles  King,  a 
sheriff,  starts  out  to  capture  Black  Jack,  a  bandit. 
In  the  fight  the  bandit's  little  son  is  wounded  and 
Black  Jack  escapes.  Tbe  boy  is  adopted  by  the  sher- 
iff, wlu  finds  *hat  th..'  lad  has  a  birthmark  on  the 
left    shoulder.      Black    Jack    is   arrested    in    another 

< ty  and  sentenced  to  fifteen  years.    His  son  grows 

up  and  knows  only  the  sheriff  as  his  father.  After 
many  years  Black  Jack  returns  to  get  even  with  tbe 
sheriff.  Thinking  his  own  boy  is  the  sheriff's  son, 
he  captures  the  lad,  but  is  seen  by  "the  sheriff's 
daughter,  who  tells  her  father.  In  a  lonely  cabin 
Black  Jack  is  about  to  kill  tbe  boy,  when  the  birth- 
mark reveals  that  it  is  his  own  son.  Black  Jack's 
halfbred  pal  pulls  a  gun  to  kill  the  lad,  but  the 
bandit  steps  between  them  and  receives  the  bullet 
in  his  own  body.  The  sheriff  and  daughter  arrive 
as  the  bandit  expires,  and  the  sheriff  promises  him 
not  to  tell  his  son  who  his  father  was. 

THE  END  OF  THE  OUEST  (Special— 2  -reels- 
April  25). — Rosa  and  Pietro  live  in  a  village  in 
Italy.  They  are  of  poor  circumstances,  but  their 
love  for  each  other  compensates  them.  One  day  the 
village  is  visited  by  a  bright,  well-dressed  young 
Italian  from  New  York.  This  newcomer,  Guiseppe 
Rocco,  sees  Rosa,  is  struck  by  her  beauty  and  re- 
solves to  steal  ber.  One  day  he  gets  an  opportu- 
nity .  and  he  makes  love  to  her,  drawing  glowing 
pictures  of  life  in  New  York  and  promising  to 
marry  her  before  he  goes  back.  One  night  she  steals 
away  with  Guiseppe,  leaving  a  note  for  Pietro, 
telling  him  that  she  has  gone  and  to  forgive  ber. 
When  Pietro  returns  he  swears  revenge.  He  gets 
his  few  belongings  together  and  follows  them  to 
America.  There  he  begins  to  bunt  down  Rosa  and 
Guiseppe,  but  he  discovers  that*  New  York  is  a 
much  bigger  place  than  he  dreamed  of,  and  after 
hunting  for  many  days  gives  up  the  quest.  He 
gets  a  position  as  a  barber. 

Two  years  pass.  One  evening  on  the  street, 
going  home,  he  notices  a  woman  staggering  along 
with  a  baby  in  her  arms.  He  goes  to  her  assist- 
ance and  Is  astonished  to  recognize  Rosa,  now 
changed  by  sickness  and  misfortune.  Guiseppe  had 
cast  her  off.  Pietro  takes  her  back  to  bis  lodg- 
ings and  does  all  he  can  to  nurse  her  back  to  health, 
but  she  dies,  giving  her  baby  girl  into  his  charge 
to  bring  up. 

Four  more  years  pass  -without  getting  any  trace 
of  the  other  man.  He  prospers  in  his  business  and 
is  now  the  owner  of  the  barber  shop.  One  night 
as  Pietro  Is  preparing  to  close  up  shop,  a  knock  is 
heard  upon  the  door  and  he  opens  it,  to  see  a  fel- 
low- countryman.  Pietro  admits  bim  and  he  de- 
scribes how  he  Is  a  rich  merchant  and  is  being 
hunted  down  because  he  will  not  pay  tribute  to  tbe 


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Black  Hand  Society.  He  is  planning  to  run  away, 
and  he  wants  Pietro  to  shave  off  his  beard.  This 
Pietro  agrees  to  do,  and  then,  looking  into  his  face, 
recognizes  Guiseppe.  The  quest  is  ended.  He  dis- 
closes himself  to  tbe  man  and  tells  him  how  he 
has  waited  years  for  this.  Then,  just  as  be  >s 
about  to  stab  bim,  the  door  opens  and  the  little  girl 
comes  in,  calling  "Papa."  It  stops  his  hand  and 
prevents  the  foster  father  taking  the  life  of  the 
real  father.  He  fights  the  mental  battle  and  de- 
cides to  let  the  other  go.  But  Guiseppe  does  not 
move.  Pietro  goes  to  bim  and  finds  the  shock  to 
his  heart  has  been  too  much — he  is  dead.  Pietro 
and  the  little  girl  fall  upon  their  knees  in  prayer, 
and  the  vision  of  Rosa  appears  to  him  and  smiles 
in  appreciation. 

THE  MAGIC  SHOES  (April  10).—  Through  a  mis- 
take  in  "dummying"  up  the  issue  dated  April  5, 
the  synopsis  of  the  Lubin  comedy  was  placed  un- 
der the  heading  of  Selig  instead  of  its  proper  head- 
ing. This  error  was  not  noticed  until  that  issue 
was  off  the  press-.  Although  the  subject  is  listed 
properly  in  the  "Licensed  Release  Date  Page,"  and 
iu  the  "Licensed  Calendar,"  we  deem  it  advisable 
to  call  tbe  error  to  tbe  reader's  attention  in  this 
department. 


SELIG. 

ALAS!  POOR  YORICK!  (April  21).  —  In  the 
grounds  of  a  sanitarium  are  gathered  a  number  of 
mentally  (but  harmless)  deranged  patients.  The 
most  conspicuous  is  a  tall  tragedian.  When  he  es- 
capes from  bis  keepers  the  superintendent  concludes 
that  hfcwiU.  naturally  make  his  way  to  the  theater 
in  search  of  an  engagement.  The  various  managers 
are  notified,  and  the  first  man  that  excites  suspi- 
cion is  Montgomery  Irving,  a  poor  actor  of  the  an- 
tique type,  who  honestly  and  vociferously  applies 
for  a  position.  He  does  not  understand  why  he  Is 
detained  without  a  contract,  and  is  about  to  pull 
tbe  house  down  when  tbe  manager  receives  word 
that  tbe  real  "dip"  has  been  recaptured  elsewhere. 

CANTON,  CHINA  (April  21).— Another  impressive 
and  attractive  educational  subject  of  the  Selig 
travel  series. 

SEEDS  OF  SILVER  (April  22).— Ralph  Arnold,  a 
wealthy  young  clubman,  is  driving  his  guests  across 
country  when  tbe  harness  of  his  tally-ho  team  breaks 
and  they  are  forced  to  go  to  the  nearest  farmhouse 
while  repairs  are  made.  His  companions  are  Count 
de  Bragio,  an  adventurer;  Mira  Brown  and  Lucille 
Wood  (two  society  birds  hunting  a  fortune),  and  sev- 
eral social  chaperons.  Ralph  meets  Dorothy  Ogden, 
a  simple  unspoiled  beauty.  Of  course  the  artful 
Mira  does  all  she  can  to  drive  off  this  fresh  young 
beauty,  but  Ralph  listens  to  the  call  of  tbe  heart 
and  finally  marries  Dorothy  Ogden.  The  blood- 
sucking men  who  have  lived  on  his  bounty  are  loath 
to  lose  him,  and  the  Count  de  Bragio,  his  false 
friend,  lures  him  on  with  cards,  with  wine  snd  with 
women  to  shake  the  charm  of  poor,  lonely,  modest 
little  Dorothy,  his  wife,  and  finally,  by  stock  tricks, 
manipulated  tbe  market  against  him  and  captured 
the  greater  part  of  his  fortune.  Then  the  young 
man  comes  to  himself.  They  desert  the  lures  of 
the  great  city  and  begin  life  anew. 

DOLLAR  DOWN,  DOLLAR  A  WEEK  (April  23). 
— Bill  Harcourt  and  Jim  Harcourt,  who  have  always 
shopped  in  the  country  by  mail  order,  come  to  live 
in  town  and  conclude  to  furnish  a  little  flat  on  the 
easy  payment  system.  They  get  out  of  work  and 
out  of  money,  and  the  furniture  dealer  snatches  out 
his  goods,  leaving  them  in  a  bare  establishment, 
barring  the  fact  that  each  has  a  pair  of  pajamas. 
Their  aunt  and  uncle,  from  whom  they  have  great 
expectations,  send  word  that  they  are  coming  to 
rislt.  Put  to  their  wits'  end  to  make  an  appear- 
ance, they  borrow  clothes  and  furniture  from  the 
neighboring  flat  and  entertain  their  relations.  The 
good  impression  is  rudely  shattered  when  the  neigh- 
bors return  suddenly.  Tbe  neighbor  strips  the  flat 
bare  again  and  leaves  the  boys  In  their  "dream 
robes." 

LOVE,  THE  WINNER  (April  23).— The  Earl  of 
Ratcliff,  in  America  to  retrieve  his  fallen  fortunes, 
has  an  invitation  to  visit  bis  college  friend,  John 
Cosgrove.  The  latter's  sister,  Mabel,  heiress  to  the 
large  fortune  of  her  godmother,  is  curious  to  see 
a  live  Earl  at  close  range.  The  cook  and  butler 
go  on  a  hilarious  tear  the  day  of  the  Earl's  com- 
ing, so  Miss  Mabel  takes  advantage  of  tbe  situation 
to  cook  and  serve  the  meal  for  his  highness.  He 
is  much  impressed  with  tbe  mien  and  intelligence 
of  the  young  lady,  nnd  She  in  turn  has  her  pre- 
conceived notions  of  royal  roues  quite  overthrown. 
He  gives  up  the  thought  of  marrying  for  money 
instantly,  but  the  idea  of  wedding  under  his  sta- 
tion sticks,  so  he  concludes  to  leave  before  he  gets 
helplessly  in  love.     However,   be  Is  unable  to  leave 


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The  first  of  a  series  of  laugh-provoking  comedy  successes. 
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"ALAS!  POOR  YORICK" 

April  21st. 

Refreshing  comedy.  A  mentally  deranged  sanatorium 
patient  imagines  that  he  is  the  world's  greatest  actor — 
'nuf  sed.  On  the  same  reel  with  HANKOW,  CHINA,  a 
remarkable  travel  subject  ir-  the  current  Selig  series. 


SEEDS  OF  SILVER 

April  22nd. 

A  human  interest  drama  which 
proves  the  worth  of  true  love,  and 
incidentally  shows  up  the  ingrati- 
tude or  buman  "leeches." 


DOLLAR  DOWN,  DOLLAR  A  WEEK 
April  23rd. 

Unusual  comedy  in  which  two  hall-room  boys  from  the 
country  attempt  to  keep  a  city  flat  on  the  installment 
plan.  On  the  same  reel  with  LOVE  THE  WINNER,  a 
comedy-drama  which  reverses  the  common  conception  of 
royal  roue*. 

LOVE  IN  THE  GHETTO 
April  24th. 

A  story  of  life  among  the  lowly  of  a  great  city.  Comedy 
and  drama  are  interwoven  in  fasciuating  manner,  with 
correct  detail  as  to  characterization. 

ARABIA    TAKES    THE    HEALTH    CURE 
April  25th. 
In    which    Arabia,    the    "human"    horse,    performs    some 
more   surprising   feats  of  equine   intelligence.     See   the  big 
circus  scenes  and  the  delightful  comedy. 

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her  presence,    ind   he  declares   that   he   will   marry 
her. 

LOVE  IN  THE  GHETTO  (April  24).— Abe  Marx, 
an  old  second-band  clothes  dealer,  is  so  used  to 
making  misfits  fit  that  he  resents  being  beaten  at 
checkers  by  his  prospectiTe  son-in-law.  He  takes 
bis  daughter's  engagement  ring  from  her,  but  sub- 
sequently shows  the  tenderer  side  of  his  nature  by 
giving  her  a  pearl  necklace.  When  Morris  Levy 
learns  of  the  treatment  accorded  bis  favorite  son, 
Joe,  he  is  very  angry,  but  Joe*s  recital  is  inter- 
rupted by  a  telephone  call  from  the  idolizing  but 
perplexed  Zetta.  He  rushes  quickly  to  her,  and  as 
the  lovers  are  talking  over  the  exciting  events  of 
the  day,  old  Marx  returns  and  adds  more  trouble 
by  again  ordering  Joe  out  of  bis  house  and  snatch- 
ing the  pearls  from  his  daughter's  neck.  When  Joe 
Levy  gets  back  home  with  this  recital  of  fresh  in* 
dignity  his  father  rushes  out  to  remonstrate  with 
bis  bumble  neighbor.  He  goes  to  Marx's  shop 
and  the  quarrel  is  renewed  by  the  elders  with  as 
much  gusto  as  their  youngsters  make  love.  While 
this  wordy  war  rages  Zetta  steals  in  and,  unob- 
served by  either,  picks  up  the  necklace  her  father 
dropped  In  his  excitement.  After  Marx  serves  a 
customer  he  looks  for  the  necklace  and,  as  be  can- 
not find  It,  Immediately  charges  old  Levy  with  the 
theft.  This  starts  things.  Young  Joe,  In  distress, 
calls  Zetta  and  she  promptly  comes  to  the  front  with 
the  necklace  and  such  a  clever  explanation  that  the 
family  amenities  are  restored  and  all  is  well. 

ARABIA  TAKES  THE  HEALTH-CUBE  (April 
16).— Arabia,  the  feature  of  a  society  circus,  causes 
bis  owner,  Essie  Fay,  disquietude  in  unmistakable 
signs  of  sickness.  In  conformity  with  expert  ad- 
vice she  concludes  to  send  her  pet'  to  a  sanitarium, 
and  she  relieves  old  Joe,  the  negro  hostler,  of  his 
duty  as  a  rubber-in  of  liniment.  The  scene  shifts 
from  the  circus  stable  to  Dr.  Blevin's  health  resort. 

Joe  comes,  leading  Arabia,  followed  by  Miss  Fay. 
When  she  goes  into  the  house  to  consult  with  the 
doctor  she  Is  promptly  followed  by  her  horse.  As 
the  door  closes  before  the  horse  gets  to  the  thresh- 
old of  the  office,  the  animal  wanders  down  the  cor- 
ridor of  the  resort.  Seeing  a  door  ajar,  the  horse 
noses  it  open  and  enters  the  room  of  an  old  maid. 
Miss  Betsy  Briggs  vacates  the  premises,  and  Ara- 
bia, curious,  opens  her  trunk  and,  after  emptying 
Jt  of  female  apparel,  closes  the  lid  and  stalks  out. 
Tens  Yensen,  the  window  washer,  observing  Ara- 
bia entering  a  room,  falls  to  the  ground  in  fright, 
and  the  horse  comes  to  the  window  and  looks  down 
at  him  in  a  mournful  way.  Sambo  Johnson  comes 
slouching  down  the  ball  with  a  tray  of  food  bal- 
anced on  his  hand,  which  Is  upset  when  Arabia 
rushes  at  him.  On  a  further  tour  of  inspection  the 
horse  picks  up  the  handbag  of  a  nurse  and  will 
only  give  it  to  her  mistress.  As  a  finale  the  horse 
takes  to  her  bed  and,  adjusting  a  nightcap,  signals 
"Good  night." 

ESS  ANA  Y. 

THE  TJNBTJRTED  PAST  (April  22). — The  old 
saying,  "that  a  man  never  loves  but  once,"  proved 
to  be  the  case  with  Walter  Morris,  who  was  smit- 
ten with  Margaret  Phillips,  during  his  boyhood 
days.  Margaret  married  a  man  of  wealth.  Jack 
Wright,  the  husband,  soon  tired  of  his  treasure 
and  passed  many  hours  with  his  so-called  affinity. 
Years  pass  and  Walter  Morris  prospers.  In  his 
day  dreams  he  sees  his  old  love.  The  fast  life 
that  Jack  led  brought  about  an  untimely  ending. 
Margaret  wrote  to  Walter,  asking  him  to  come 
to  her  assistance  and  straighten  out  the  estate  of 
ber  husband.  The  old  love  that  he  had  locked  in 
the  cell  of  his  .heart  awakens  and  he  proposes 
to  her.  She  informs  him  that  the  memory  of  her 
dear  husband  could  not  be  cast  aside.  In  ex- 
amining the  papers  left  on  Wright's  desk,  Morris 
discovers  a  diary,  which  tells  In  full  the  double 
life  the  former  had  been  leading.  Margaret  en- 
ters, sees  Morris  with  the  book  and  requests  him 
to  tell  her  what  It  contains.  He  casts  the  diary 
into  the  grate,  where  the  fatal  words  that  were 
meant  for  nobody's  eyes  but  Wright's,  were 
burned  to  atoms.  Morris  leaves  Margaret  under 
the  impression  that  ber  husband  was  all  she 
thought  him   to  be. 

THE  RIVAL  SALESMEN  (April  23).— William 
Jones,  salesman,  wbo  has  been  traveling  the  same 
territory  for  twenty  years  or  more,  tries  to  play 
a  Joke  on  a  new  drummer,  which  ends  by  the  new- 
comer turning  the  tables  on  him.  A  fictitious 
note  is  banded  Jones,  stating  that  John  Redmond 
of  Reedville.  was  In  the  market  for  his  Fall 
order,  and  to  see  him  at  once.  Jones  displays 
the  note  promiscuously,  which  makes  the  new 
salesman  Jealous.  Jones  informs  Brown,  the  new 
recruit',  that  he  may  call  on  Redmond  for  the 
order,  that  he  is  not  anxious  to  get  it.  Frank 
Dayton,  another  drummer,  was  told  the  same 
thing.  Both  men  have  a  lively  time  in  reaching 
their  destination.  Brown  wins  out,  however,  when 
be  rescues  John  Redmond's  wife  and  daughter 
from  a  runaway  horse.  In  gratitude  Redmond 
gives  Brown  his  order.  What  might  have  been 
a  clever  joke,  developed  into  Brown  earning  a 
small    sura    in    commission. 

CITY  OF  MEXICO  (April  24).— Beautiful  Mex- 
ico, now  topic  of  every  newspaper,  is  indeed  an 
appropriate  subject  at  this  time  for  an  ednr-n- 
tional  and  scenic  feature.  In  the  few  moments 
that  this  magnificent  picture  Is  exhibited  on  the 
^.reer,.  tin-  :in<1ipnee  will  see  the  Peons,  natives 
of  Mexico,   scrambling  for  a  few  centavos  (pennies) 


their  adobe  dwellings,  market-places,  the  flower 
market  (Plaza  Mayor),  tbe  beautiful  La  Viga 
ranal,  the  historical  LaNoche  Triste  (the  mourn- 
ful night  tree,  under  which  Uortez  wept  over  his 
defeat  at  the  hands  of  the  Aztecs,)  Further,  we 
are  taken  by  automobile  through  the  different 
streets,  we  are  then  shown  the  bell  tower  cathe- 
dral, where  we  get  a  beautiful  bird's-eye  view 
of  the  city.  Next  we  are  shown  the  national 
palace  and  Plaza  Mayor.  Last,  but  not  least,  we 
are  driven  up  Paseo  Avenue  to  the  monument  of 
G'uatemozin,    the    last   Aztec    emperor. 

THE  DEACON'S  DILEMMA  (April  25).— Deacon 
Jeremiah  Green's  two  sons,  Jeremiah,  Jr.,  and 
Daniel,  are  the  village  cutups,  and  are  always  get- 
ting into  trouble  and  causing  friction  among  the 
different  members  of  the  family.  When  the  new 
parson  arrives  in  town  with  his  wife  and  daugh- 
ter, Jeremiah,  Jr.,  and  Daniel,  meet  them  at  the 
railroad  station  and  misinforms  them  as  to  the 
way  to  Deacon  Green's  home.  Footsore  and  weary. 
on  the  outskirts  of  the  town,  they  come  in  contact 
with  a  man  who  is  just  about  to  enter  a  blind  pig. 
Simon  Fife,  a  vlllageite,  sees  Parson  Brown  and 
comes  to  the  conclusion  that  he  is  about  to  pur- 
chase some  of  the  fiery  liquid.  Brown  is  given 
information  at  the  blind  pig  concerning  Deacon 
Green's  whereabouts.  That  evening  at  Deacon 
Green's  home,  where  a  surprise  party  is  reigning 
supreme  for  the  new  parson,  Simon  Fife  informs 
the  Deacon  of  what  he  saw  that  afternoon.  Parson 
Brown  has  a  difficult  time  in  explaining  bis  most 
undesirable  situation.  Jeremiah,  Jr.,  and  Daniel, 
to  make  things  more  interesting,  cover  the  chim- 
ney with  a  large  iron  plate.  The  smoke  that  filled 
the  house  a  few  moments  later  nearly  suffocated 
the  participants  In  the  jovial  entertainment.  The 
town  constable  caught  the  boys  and  what  he  didn't 
do    to    them    was   a   caution. 

BRONCHO  BILLY  AND  THE  RUSTLER' S 
CHILD  (April  26).— David  Morgan,  a  cowpuncber, 
is  informed  by  Doctor  Harding  that  the  former's 
w  Ife  is  in  v  serious  condition  and  must  be  taken 
from  the  high  altitude.  An  Indian  horse  thief 
shews  David  a  way  to  make  some  money  easy. 
That  night,  the  Indian  and  the  cowpuncher  steal 
two  horses.  The  Indian  is  captured  by  Broncho 
Billy,  the  sheriff,  and  squeals  on  Morgan.  Dor- 
othy, the  cowpnncher's  child,  informs  her  father 
1that  a  posse  is  coming  up  the  road.  Morgan  in- 
structs his  child  to  say  nothing  to  the  men  con- 
cerning his  vhereabouts.  The  cowpuncber  crawls 
Into  the  loft  and  pulls  the  ladder  up  after  lira. 
Bronclo  Billy  enters,  sees  Morgan's  wife  is  in  a 
critical  conditior  and  asks  the  child  where  her 
father  is.  She  tells  him  she  does  not  know.  The 
sheriff,  hearing  a  sound  above  him,  is  about  to 
fire  his  revolver  into  the  loft,  when  the  girl  con- 
fesses that  her  father  is  above.  Morgan  comes 
down  from  his  hiding-pace,  explains  to  Broncho 
Billy  that  he  stele  the  horses,  so  that  he  ralgit 
tike  Lis  vife  to  a  better  climate.  Dorothy  pl-jatfs 
with  the  sheriff  to  save  her  father.  Broncho  Billy 
mck?s  Morgan  gee  up  into  the  loft,  as  the  posse 
re* urn  to  the  bouse.  One  of  the  men  suggests 
locking  into  the  loft  above.  They  lift  Broncho 
BP.iy  up.  He  informs  bis  men  that  there  is  no- 
body np  there.  Later  Broncho  Billy  mails  the 
cattle  owner  a  check  for  the  two  horses.  Morgan, 
his    wife    and    child,    leave    for    a    better    country. 


EDISON. 

SEVEN  YEARS  BAD  LUCK  (April  16).— 
Arnold  Smith  breaks  a  smalt  looking  glass  and 
the  superstitious  colored  maid  prophesies  seven 
years  of  bad  luck.  On  his  way  to  business  be 
narrowly  escapes  having  his  skull  crushed  by  a 
falling  flower  pot.  Arriving  at  the  office  he  is 
thunder-struck    to    find    that    the    firm    has    decided 


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to  dispense  with  his  services.  He  then  looses  a 
wallet  containing  all  his  money.  This  misfortune 
so  upsets  him  that  he  doesn't  notice  an  open  coal 
hole,  into  which  he  tumbles,  sliding  headlong  into 
the  cellar.  The  last  straw  is  when  he  "arrives 
home  and  learns  that  the  stork  has  presented 
him   with   twins. 

In  the  darkest  hour  of  despair  bis  luck  sud- 
denly changes.  The  man  who  owns  the  flower 
pot  brings  a  new  hat  to  replace  the  ruined  one, 
the  coal  company  sends  him  five  tons  of  coal  as 
a  balm  to  his  wounded  pride,  his  firm  reinstates 
him  in  a  higher  position,  a  friend  sends  him  a 
large  bottle  of  the  stuff  that  makes  cheer,  and 
bis  wealthy  uncle  presents  him  with  a  generous 
check    for   each    baby. 

A  MAN  FROM  THE  WEST  (April  18).— Wayne, 
a  Wall  Street  operator,  had  been  ruined  by  the 
manipulations  of  Gilmore,  a  banker.  He  saved  some- 
thing and  went  West.  He  prospered,  but  never 
trusted  banks.  He  hid  his  savings  In  a  fireplace. 
When  be  died  he  gave  his  son,  Brandon,  the  money 
and  told  him  to  bring  Gilmore  to  account  for  bis 
wrongs.  The  son  came  East  and  at  once  thrashed 
the  banker.  Later  Brandon  stops  a  runaway  in 
which  there  are  two  girls.  An  attachment  springs 
up  between  one  of  them  and  Brandon,  and  she  hap- 
pens to  be  Gllmore's  daughter.  Brandon  works 
hard,  and,  with  assistance  from  some  of  bis 
father's  friends,  gets  Gilmore  into  a  corner  and 
ruins  him  financially.  Brandon's  love  for  the  girl 
prompts  him  to  offer  Gilmore  assistance  if  he  will 
consent  to  his  marriage  to  his  daughter.  The  girl 
accepts  for  her  father's  sake,  but  secretly  hates 
Brandon  for  what  he  has  done.  Their  married  life 
is  unhappy.  An  uncle  of  Brandon's  overhears  the 
proposal  of  a  former  lover  to  elope  with  him.  She 
has  decided  to  return  to  her  father,  when  the  uncle, 
by  a  diplomatic  course,  shows  husband  and  wife 
the  error  of  their  ways  and  their  future  happiness 
is  assured. 

THE  TWELFTH  JUROR  (April  19).— A  play 
based  on  a  famous  English  case  of  a  man  being 
executed  wrongfully  on  circumstantial  evidence. 
Harry  Baker  and  Alice  Charlton  meet  at  the  prepa- 
rations for  a  barn  dance.  He  takes  her  home  In 
his  auto  and  this  is  the  beginning  of  their  love 
affair.  At  the  dance  each  girl  brings  a  necktie  to 
match  her  apron.  The  boys  choose  their  partners 
by  drawing  ties,  which  are  wrapped.  Clarence 
Morton,  a  rival  to  Harry,  marks  the  wrapper  of 
Alice's  tie  and  gets  her  for  a  partner.  Harry  learns 
of  this  later  and  he  and  Clarence  fight  it  out  out- 
side. A  biting  frost  comes  on  and  the  dancers  leave 
to  protect  the  orange  trees  with  smudge  pots.  Clar- 
ence comes  across  some  smudge  pots  belonging  to 
Jeff  Rohey,  a  neighbor  of  Harry,  and  starts  to  take 
them  to  his  own  grove.  Robey  comes  along  and 
accuses  Clarence  of  theft.  They  quarrel  and  Clar- 
ence is  accidentally  killed  by  a  pruning  knife. 
Robey  flees.  Harry  finds  Clarence  there;  drops  bis 
own  pruning  knife  and  runs  for  help.  He  is  ar- 
rested and  tried  for  murder.  Robey  is  drafted  as 
the  twelfth  juror.  Harry  is  convicted.  At  the 
crying  of  Alice,  Robey  breaks  down  and  confesses. 

HITLDA  OF  HOLLAND  (April  21).— A  Dutch  ro- 
mance. Huida  and  Heintz  are  bashful,  gigglings 
lovers,  but  their  spooning  opportunities  are  few,  as 
well  as  being  forbidden.  One  day  they  get  a  chance 
to  spoon,  but  the  village  gossip  sees  them  and 
hastens  to  Hulda's  mother,  exaggerating  what  she- 
saw.  Hulda  gets  a  curtain  lecture,  but  pleads  for 
Heintz.  Heintz  Is  then  allowed  to  call.  The  lovers 
become  engaged.  As  the  wedding  day  approaches 
Hulda  dons  her  wedding  dress  and  goes  to  show  it 
to  her  lame  grandmother,  wbo  cannot  he  present 
at  the  ceremony.  The  village  gossip's  husband  is  a 
dyke-tender.  A  great  storm  is  raging  while  he  lies 
drunk.  The  land  is  in  danger  of  flood.  Hulda  dis- 
appears and  the  village  gossip  starts  another  scandal 
about'  her  eloping  with  a  minister  When  the  wed- 
ding hour  arrives  Hulda  is  missing.  After  a  search 
she  is  found,  bedraggled  and  covered  with  mud. 
While  the  dyke-tender  lay  drunk  she  had  been  stop- 
ping a  hole  in  the  dyke  with  her  bare  hands  and 
thereby  saves  the  country. 

AN  INNOCENT  INFORMER  (April  22).— Lige 
Ridgley,  a  moonshiner,  worships  his  daughter  and 
resents  the  attentions  paid  ber  by  Bob  Manly,  a 
young  grocer,  whom  he  tells  to  stay  away.  Bob  is 
struggling  under  a  heavy  mortgage  on  bis  place. 
He  gets  a  letter  from  the  secret  service  offering 
him  a  sum  equal  to  his  mortgage  if  he  will  tell 
where  the  still  is.  He  pays  no  attention,  but  puts 
the  letter  in  his  pocket.  Conditions  growing  worse. 
Bob  decides  to  go  West.  He  writes  the  girl  a 
note  on  one-half  of  the  revenue  letter.  The  girl, 
wandering  disconsolate,  comes  upon  a  still.  On  the 
letter  is  the  revenue  offer.  She  gives  the  location 
to  the  secret  service,  gets  the  money  and  gives  it 
Bob.  Later  she  discovers  her  mistake  and  turns 
upon  Bob.  She  spurns  him  and  tells  him  to  save 
her  father  to  show  his  love.  He  fights  with  the 
father  against  the  officers.  Bob  changes  clothes 
with  the  father  and  the  old  man  gets  away  to 
safety.  Bob  is  wounded  and  the  girl  nurses  him 
until  well.  They  get  a  letter  from  the  father  urg- 
ing theui  to  marry  and  join  him. 

HIS  UNDESIRABLE  RELATIVES  (April  23).— 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Witherspoon.  newlyweds,  return  from 
their  wedding  tour  to  settle  down  in  their  home 
town.  Instead  of  enjoying  peace,  their  relative** 
descend  on  them  In  a  cloud.  Cousin  Clarence,  a 
lean,    lanky,    inquisitive    individual,     annoys    them. 


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Another  relative  suddenly  breaks  in  and  the  young 
couple  are  constantly  interrupted  in  their  spooning. 
The  relatives  pour  in  thick  and  fast,  ail  cranks  of 
the  first  water — one  a  health  crank,  another  a 
spiritual  medium,  etc.  The  young  husband  is  timid 
and  hates  to  evict  them,  but  Molly  O'Hara,  the 
servant,  is  equal  to  the  emergency.  She  decorates 
her  face  with  cranberry  sauce  and  feigns  illness. 
The  relatives  mistake  her  painted  face  for  a  con- 
tagious disease  and  make  a  wild  scramble  for  the 
front  hall  where  there  is  a  laughable  mixup,  after 
which  the  Wltherspoons  are  left  to  themselves. 

THE  HIGH  TIDE  OF  MD3F0RTTJNE—  "What 
Happened  to  Mary,  No.  10"  (April  25). — Although 
Peart  had  been  outwitted  by  Mary  he  had 
not  so  informed  John  Craig,  so  that  when  he  gets  a 
letter  telling  him  to  keep  Mary  out  of  the  way 
If  he  wished  to  earn  the  reward,  he  made  renewed 
efforts  to  find  her.  John  Craig  and  his  son  are 
released  on  a  writ  of  habeas  corpus  in  their  law- 
yer's charge.  They  hunt  up  Peart,  who  shows  them 
that  Mary  is  masquerading  as  a  Salvation  Army 
lass.  They  locate  her  on  the  docks  selling  "War 
Cries."  They  get  her  aboard  a  schooner  on  the 
pretext  that  a  seaman  is  ill.  After  several  days  at 
sea  the  schooner  anchors  off  Martha's  Vineyard. 
When  the  opportunity  arrives  Mary  springs  on  the 
old  servant  woman  who  brings  her  meals.  The 
woman  Is  bound  and  gagged  and  Mary  creeps  out  of 
the  cabin. 

In  the  distance  she  sees  a  lighthouse.  There  Is  a 
boat  trailing  at  the  stern.  She  climbs  over  the  side, 
drops  into  the  little  boat  and  rows  to  the  light- 
house. After  hours  of  exposure  she  is  seen  by  the 
light-keeper  and  rescued. 

A  SPLENDID  SCAPEGRACE  (April  26).— Yancey 
Goree's  love  of  gambling  had  cost  him  all  of  his 
inheritance  and  he  sold  the  home  of  his  forefathers 
to  Pike  Garvey  to  get  more  cash.  Goree  then  lost 
the  proceeds  at  poker.  Pike  Garvey's  ambitious 
wife  said,  "we  must  now  get  a  feude  if  we  want  to 
"be  real  society  folks."  Pike  Garvey  then  offered  to 
buy  the  feud  between  Abner  Coltrane  and  Goree. 
■Goree  consented  and  the  most  extraordinary  sale 
•ever  heard  of,  the  selling  of  a  quarrel,  was  con- 
summated. Garvey's  delight  was  great  when  be 
discovered  the  mau  whom  he  bad  bought  the  right 
to  kill  was  Judge  Coltrane,  the  man  who  had  once 
sent  him  to  the  pen  for  moonsbining.  Goree  quickly 
lost  his  money  at  gambling.  Coltrane  found  him 
the  next  morning,  mentally  befuddled  and  entirely 
unaware  of  the  events  of  the  day  before.  The  col- 
onel had  come  to  call  a  truce  to  their  feud  and  to 
offer  him  a  home.  Goree  consented.  Later  in  the 
•day  they  were  riding  up  the  mountain  to  Coltrane'a 
home.  Pike  was  looking  through  the  trees.  Goree 
persuaded  the  colonel  to  change  clothes  with  Mm 
•on  the  pretext  that  he  wanted  to  look  well  when 
he  passed  his  old  home.  He  received  the  bullet 
meant  for  the  colonel. 


VITAGRAPH. 

MIXED  IDENTITIES  (April  21). — Edna  and 
Alice,  the  twins,  get  positions  as  stenographers 
la  the  offices  of  Mr.  Redman  and  Mr.  Carter. 
Redman  Is  short  and  fussy.  Garter,  stoat  and  ner- 
vous. They  happen  to  be  friends,  and  exchange 
phone  confidences  about  their  new  stenographer,. 
Both  flirt  with  the  girls.  Redman  Invites  Alice  to 
-dinner  and  gives  this  as  a  reason  In  refusing 
Carter's  Invitation  to  the  Club.  Carter,  not  to 
be  outdone,  despatches  a  note  to  Edna  who  has 
gone  borne,  asking  her  to  meet  him  at  Stanley's 
restaurant.  While  be  waits,  Redman  enters  the 
restaurant  with  Alice.  Carter,  believing  her  to 
be  Edna,  follows,  bat'  they  have  disappeared  into 
*  private  dining  room.  Edna  arrives  and  is  per- 
plexed at  not  finding  Carter.  She  enters  and  meets 
him  In  the  hallway,  to  be  accused  of  having  Just 
entered  with  another  man.  She  denies  it.  They 
get  a  dining  room  where  they  enjoy  an  excellent 
meal.  Alice  leaves  Redman  to  phone  her  mother. 
Carter  leaves  Edna  to  get  a  cigar.  Carter  meets 
Alice  they  have  a  scene  and  separate,  angry. 
Meanwhile,  Redman  and  Edna,  tired  of  waiting, 
start  to  look  for  tbeir  partners;  they  meet,  and 
she  ignores  him.  He  leaves  her  in  a  hnff.  The 
men  coming  from  opposite  directions,  find  the 
sjlrls  together  and  get  the  surprise  of  their  livps. 
Redman  picks  out  Alice  by  a  flower  she  wears. 
I).  Explanations  ensue,  and  the  four  finish  dinner 
■With  much  laughter  in  Redman's  dining  room. 
^^GALA  DAY  PARADE,  YOKOHAMA,  JAPAN 
(April  21). — This  is  a  full  and  comprehensive  view 
of  the  Business  Men's  New  Year's  Day  Parade 
In  Japan;  when  they  take  account  of  stock  and 
start  anew  the  efforts  of  the  year.  Nothing  like 
It  Af^  seen    In    any   other    country. 

MYSTERY  OF  THE  STOLEN  JEWELS 
_  22). — Lambert  Chase,  the  detective,  is  on 
'way  to  Europe;  he  is  surprised  to  see  a  box 
yiWwered  from  a  ventilator,  leading  out  to  the 
Skipper  deck.  He  takes  the  box,  and  discovers  it 
^contains  a  set  of  jewels.  He  puts  them  la  his 
Cpocket.  saya,»othlng  about  them.  Later,  reports 
*  are  circulaifn  about  the  steamer  that  mauy  ar- 
'  tides  of  ♦lue  are  missing  from  the  staterooms 
of  the  4flssengers.  Chase  goes  to  the  Captain, 
«-onfldes4<ns  suspicions  and  tells  him  the  incident 
^lf    thjv  box.      TJBf    investigate,     and    locate    the 

%    ,e^Jg   6et    a  ^Brd    there,    who    watches    for    the 
res$Jearance  ^V>e   thief.     Among   the   passengers 


are  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Carrell,  wealthy  people,  who 
have  with  them,  tbeir  maid,  Jane.  Chase  sus- 
pects her  of  being  an  accomplice  of  the  thief, 
whom  circumstances  point  out  as  Lin  tan,  a  very 
suave,  refined  and  cultured  rascal ;  who  makes 
himself  verp  popular  among  his  fellow-travelers. 
The  maid  is  quietly  arrested  and  locked  in  one 
of  the  cabins.  When  the  rumor  about  tbe  thefts 
being  committed.  Is  circulated,  he  is  sympathetic 
with  those  who  have  been  robbed,  and  shows  great 
Interest. 

In  his  arrangements  for  capturing  the  thief, 
Lambert  Chase  ties  one  end  of  the  string,  which 
was  lowered  from  the  ventilator,  to  a  small  bell, 
safely  hidden  on  the  lower  deck,  where  he  and  the 
Captain  await  developments.  ThiB  is  done  on  the 
last  day  out,  when  Chase  Is  certain  the  thief  will 
get  In  his  best  work.  His  plans  are  rewarded 
by  hearing  the  bell  ring,  then,  after  a  pause, 
ring  again.  This  convinces  them  that  the  thief 
thinks  the  string  has  caught.  The  Captain  and 
the  detective  hasten  to  the  upper  deck,  and  there 
they  find  Linton  striving  to  pull  up  the  cord. 
They  grab  him,  and  after  a  search,  find  his  pockets 
filled  with  many  stolen  articles.     He  Is  handcuffed. 

THERE'S  afTTSIO  IN  THE  HAIR  (April  23).— 
Ludwig  LlebschniU  has  it  at  his  finger  ends  and 
when  he  calls  upon  Iolanthe  McSwatt,  she  listens 
in  rapture  to  his  renditions  upon  the  piano  from 
Wagner.  Eagerly  she  pours  out  her  heart  in 
acknowledgment  of  his  great  playing.  He  pro- 
poses to  her  and  she  Immediately  accepts  him.  He 
has  a  rival  in  Slgnore  Staccato.  Music  seems  to 
exude  from  every  spear  of  his  massive  ' 'bush. ' * 
Llebschnitx  is  discarded  and  he  swears  vengeance 
on  his  rivaL  He  discerns  that  Slgnor  Staccato's 
hair  is  false.  He  decides  to  expose  him.  He 
writes  a  letter  to  Iolanthe,  but  she  says,  'tis  false. 
He  pays  her  a  visit,  forearmed  with  a  beautiful 
houquet  of  roses,  but  to  his  amazement,  discovers 
that  Staccato  Is  there  before  him.  He  gains  ad- 
mission to  the  house,  sneaks  up  behind  a  settee 
upon  which  Staccato  and  his  adored  one,  are  sitting. 
Removing  his  tie  from  his  collar,  he  attaches  one 
«nd  to  the  settee,  and  the  other  to  a  lock  of 
Staccato's  hair.  When  Staccoto  throws  himself 
on  his  knees  to  declare  his  love,  his  wig  comes  off 
and  reveals  his  bald  head.  Iolanthe  shrieks  in 
horror  and  falls  into  Liebschnltz's  arms,  vowing 
that  she  loves  him  with  all  the  ardor  and  fervor 
■of  her  soul. 

THE  POWER  THAT  RULES  (April  24).— With 
an  overpowering  passion  for  money  to  satisfy 
her  love  of  display  and  pretension,  Rhoda  Can- 
fleld  married  Tom  Winters  with  a  hope  that  he 
might  satisfy  her  ambition  and  meet  her  require- 
ments. He  is  a  man  of  some  means,  but  not 
Wealthy.  The  first  outburst  comes  when  she 
reads,  immediately  after  her  marriage.  In  the  So- 
ciety columns,  that  Tom  Winters  has  married 
"Rhoda  Canfleld,  a  poor  girl,  when  it  was  expected 
that  he  would  marry  her  wealthy  step-sister, 
■Cecilia.  She  urges  her  husband  to  make  himself 
a  greater  power  in  the  world  of  weal th .  Mr. 
Mellville,  a  broker,  who  is  anxious  to  get  Winters 
to  invest  his  money  in  a  certain  stock,  notices 
this  ambition  and  with  the  assistance  of  his  wife, 
-prompts  her  to  Insist  upon  her  husband's  invest- 
ing In  Mr.  Mellville's  offer.  They  succeed  in  ac- 
complishing their  purpose  and  Winters  puts  his  all 
in  tbe  stocks. 

Mrs.  Winters  Immediately  purchases  all  sorts 
of  finery  and  prepares  to  live  In  accordance  with 
Tier  expected  means.  Cecilia,  sympathises  with 
Mr.  Winters,  and  tries  to  reason  with  her  half- 
sister,  and  tells  her  that  her  husband  is  doing 
the  best  he  can  and  she  Is  foolish  to  try  to  make 
him  sacrifice  his  Judgement  to  her  ambitions. 
Rhoda  is  in  the  seventh  heaven  of  delight,  when 
her  husband  receives  the  news  that  his  stock  has 
slumped,  and  he  Is  a  ruined  man.  Upon  her  re- 
turn home,  she  finds  her  husband  in  despair.  She 
herates  him  for  being  Buch  a  miserable  failnre 
in  business.  In  the  parlor,  she  meets  Cecilia, 
gives  vent  to  her  feelings  and  repeats  what  she 
has  told  her  husband.  Cecilia  remonstrates  with 
her  and  tells  her  she  ought  to  be  ashamed  of 
herself  to  denounce  her  husband.  She  points  out 
her  error  in  such  powerful  words  that  Rhoda's 
conscience  is  awakened,  and  she  falls  at  Cecilia's 
feet. 

THE  STRONGER  SEX  (April  25).— After  heavy 
loss  at  the  naming  table,  Edna  Marshall  exercises 
her  wiles  on  Mr.  Harold  Alnsley,  an  aged  and 
wealthy  American  gentleman,  whom  she  meets  at 
an  afternon  tea.  She  does  not  love  him,  but  she 
must  have  money.  He  proposes  to  her  and  they 
are  married.  After  the  honeymoon,  her  husband's 
nephew  comes  to  visit  them  at  their  home,  for  a 
few  week's  vacation.  The  young  wife  longs  for 
younger  society.  She  endeavors  to  arouse  the 
nephew's  love  for  her  and  add  him  to  her  list  of 
conquests.  He  resistB  her  charms,  and  in  revenge, 
she  tells  her  husband  that  she  has  been  insulted 
by  his  nephew.  Mr.  Alnsley,  in  anger,  calls  the 
younger  man  to  account,  and  accuses  him  of  violat- 
ing his  confidence.  The  young  man  declares  his 
innocence  and  Insists  that  Mrs.  Alnsley  be  called 
before  them.  She  appears  and  when  she  is  con- 
fronted by  the  young  man,  she  confesses  her  dupli- 
city. Her  husband  repudiates  her  and  his  nephew 
denounces  her.  She  realizes  her  great  mistake 
when  she  finds  herself  cast  off  by  both  men,  she 
Is    overwhelmed    with    remorse    and    shame. 


A  FIGHTTRFG  CHANCE  (April  26).— Robert  Wynn 
has  a  generous  income.  His  wife  is  a  domestic 
woman,  who  does  her  own  housework  and  loves  her 
home  above  all  else.  She  is  very  plain  and  unpre- 
tentious, although  a  handsome  woman.  Bob  is  at- 
tracted by  his  typewriter,  a  very  stylish  and  well- 
mannered  girl.  She  has  never  met  Mrs.  Wynn, 
and  does  nut  know  that  Bob  is  married.  He  makes 
love  to  her,  takes  ber  out  to  luncheons,  and  sbe  is 
very  favorably  impressed.  Sbe  learns  that  he  is 
married  and  makes  up  her  mind  that  she  will  call 
upon  his  wife.  She  knows  his  weakness  for  stylish 
and  well-dressed  women,  and  she  tells  Mrs.  Wynn 
all  about  It.  She  advises  Mrs.  Wynn  that  she  is 
unjust  and  unfair  to  herself  by  not  making  the  most 
of  her  beauty,  and  tells  her  that  she  has  a  fight- 
ing chance  to  completely  win  her  husband's  love 
and  to  teach  him  a  lesson.  His  wife  appreciates 
Nell's  honorable  attitude,  and  together  they  ar- 
range to  prepare  for  the  transformation  in  Mrs. 
Wynn's  appearance  and  graces. 

Nell  makes  an  appointment  with  Bob  to  go  to  the 
theater.  Mrs.  Wynn,  dressed  in  the  height  of  fash- 
Ion,  comes  in  and  takes  a  seat  in  the  next  box, 
with  ber  back  turned  toward  them.  When  sbe  en- 
ters Bob  is  busily  engaged  in  talking  to  Nell  and 
does  not  see  her.  After  a  few  moments  he  is  at- 
tracted by  the  woman's  stunning  appearance  and 
calls  Nell's  attention  to  her.  She  tells  him  that  she 
is  acquainted  with  tbe  lady,  and  if  he  would  like 
to  have  an- introduction  sbe  will  be  pleased  to  give 
it.  Bob  is  all  eagerness.  They  step  outside  the 
box  into  the  hallway,  and  Nell  calls  Mrs.  Wynn. 
She  comes  out,  looks  Into  her  husband's  face  and 
smiles.  He  clasps  her  in  his  arms  and  asks  her 
forgiveness. 

THE  ARTIST'S  GREAT  MADONNA  (Special— 2 
parts — April  21). — Angelo,  an  artist,  determined  to 
paint  a  Madonna,  goes  in  search  of  a  model.  He 
meets  at  the  studio  of  one  of  his  friendB  a  whimsi- 
cal young  lady  named  Suzette,  who  offers  to  pose 
for  him.  But  at  his  studio  she  does  not  take  his 
actions  seriously,  jumps  down  from  the  model's 
throne  and  after  throwing  a  kiss  to  him  runs  away. 
He  next  meets  an  old  acquaintance,  named  Toto, 
at  a  cabaret  show  who  agrees  to  pose  for  him.  But 
as  he  begins  to  paint,  be  discovers  that  she  lacks 
that'  Madonna-like  expression.  He  tells  ber  so,  and 
sbe  flies  into  a  rage.  She  is  about  to  stab  him 
with  bis  palette  knife  when  she  is  interrupted  by 
the  appearane  of  Marie,  sent  to  Angelo  by  bis  friend. 
Angelo  is  struck  by  her  beauty  and  Innocent  ways 
and  tells  her  that  as  soon  as  she  has  seen  a  little 
of  life  she  wil  he  his  great  Madonna.  He  takes 
ber  to  a  restaurant  where  they  again  meet  the  In- 
furiated Toto.  In  a  jealous  rage  Toto  is  about  to 
run  a  stilleto  into  the  body  of  Marie,  but  Angelo  re- 
ceives the  wound. 

Angelo  is  carried  to  his  studio  where  he  is  nursed 
back  to  health  by  Marie.  Later  he  marries  her. 
Knowing  that  his  wife's  looks  lack  one  thing — the 
humanity  of  the  mother  of  sorrows — he  goes  In 
search  of  his  ideal  tor  his  great  painting.  After 
five  months  of  unsuccessful  searching  he  retnrns  to 
his  home  town  where  he  meets,  outside  a  cafe, 
his  friend,  Jim  Townsend,  who  is  made  acquainted 
with  his  fruitless  search.  After  giving  vent  to 
his  sorrows  he  again  starts  on  his  journey  for  his 
Ideal. 

Through  the  death  of  a  relative  Jim  Townsend 
comes  in  for  a  fortune.  Determined  to  help  Angelo 
and  Marie,  he  alls  upon  ber  and  notes  that  she  is 
sewing  in  expectancy  of  an  heir.  He  buys  a  little 
cottage  in  tbe  suburbs  into  which  he  moves  her. 
He  then  tells  her  that  he  will  search  for  Angelo 
and  bring  him  back.  Several  months  later  Angelo 
comes  to  Jim's  studio  still  without  a  model.  Jim 
tells  him  that  he  has  found  his  great  Madonna 
and  taking  him  to  tbe  new  cottage  bids  him  enter 
wherein  he  will  find  what  he  is  seeking.  As  he 
opens  the  door  he  beholds  Marie  sitting  in  the  sun- 
light with  a  tiny  baby  In  her  arms,  radiant  in  the 
sanctity  of  motherhood.  He  is  fascinated  and  rev- 
erently kisses  her.  He  brings  his  easel  and  begins 
work  on  his  masterpiece.  A  short  while  after  they 
receive  a  letter  from  Jim  Townsend  saying  that  he 
is  sending  the  deed  for  the  cottage  as  a  present  to 
Angelo,  the  younger.  Angelo  places  the  deed  In 
the  baby's  hands  and  with  his  arms  around  Marie 
looks  proudly  from  his  model  wife  and  hild  to  his 
finished  masterpiece,    "The  Great   Madonna." 


PATHEPLAY. 

PATHE'S  WEEKLY,  NO  16,  1913.  (April  14).— 
Flood  and  Cyclone  Number,  Columbus,  Ohio. — At 
least  fifty-nine  people  are  killed  and  2.000  left  with- 
out shelter  by  the  flood,  which  destroys  $5,000,000 
worth  of  property.  With  no  means  of  fighting  the 
fire  which  broke  out  in  various  places,  people  were 
compelled  to  see  their  homes  burned  to  the  level 
of  the  water.  Food  stations  are  established  to  feed 
the  starving. 

Dayton,  Ohio. — The  most  terrible  catastrophe  ever 
experienced  in  Ohio  occurs  In  this  city,  overwhelmed 
by  flood  and  fire.  Fully  five  hundred  persons  are 
dead  as  a  result,  thousands  are  homeless,  financially 
ruined  and  out  of  work.  Starvation  and  pestilence 
face  the  survivors. 

Omaha,  Neb. — A  terrific  tornado  devastates  this 
city,  killing  tpany,  crushing  houses  into  splinters 
and  rendering  thousands  homeless,  without  heat, 
light  or  food.     A  blizzard  adds  to  the  suffering. 

Comic  Section. — Mutt  gets  a  view  of  the  Sultan'i 
Harem,   but  is  bitterly  disappointed. 


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WINTER  SPORTS  AT  BODELE  (April  22).— 
This  film  deals  with  sports  amid  tbe  snows  in  Aus- 
tria where,  every  year,  there  are  assembled  a  num- 
ber of  expert  ski  Jumpers.  Down  a  steep  incline 
these  men  fly  like  the  wind.  They  reach  the  edge 
of  the  precipice,  sail  through  the  air  and,  like 
eagles,  drop  down  at  such  a  speed  that  a  great 
many  of  them  are  unable  to  maintain  their  equili- 
brium and  finish  the  slide  with,  their  faces  in  the 
snow. 

ANCIENT  GREECE  (April  22).— This  series  of 
views  includes  a  picture  of  all  the  famous  ruins 
and  temples  which  have  made  some  of  the  most  in- 
teresting history  that  the  world  has  yet  known. 
It  is  particularly  interesting  to  auyone  who  baa 
read,  or  ever  intends  reading,  the  history  of  tin- 
Roman  Empire  or  any  of  tbe  famous  Greek  literary 
masterpieces. 

THE  OUTLAW  (April  23).— After  being  warned 
to  leave  tbe  town  before  midnight,  Don  Gomez,  a 
known  outlaw,  is  fonnd  and  thrown  into  a  little 
western  Jail.  His  sweetheart,  Delores,  interests 
Bob  Preston,  an  adventurous  young  miner,  in  the 
project  of  releasing  the  outlaw.  They  succeed  and 
Gomez  reaches  another  town.  He  decides  to  live 
an  upright'  life  in  the  future,  but  his  first  attempt 
to  secure  work  meets  with  refusal.  He  stoops  again 
to  robbery,  but  is  discovered  and  in  the  struggle 
sets  the  house  on  fire,  by  accidentally  overturning 
a  lamp,  Bob  Preston,  having  decided  to  return  home 
for  a  visit  arrives  at  his  father's  ranch  in  time 
to  meet  Gomez  rushing  out  of  the  burning  building. 
The  outlaw  realizes  for  the  first  time  that  it  is 
Bob's  father  be  has  tried  to  rob.  He  dashes  back 
into  the  roaring  flames  and  emerges  with  the  un- 
conscious form  of  the  elder  Preston.  In  performing 
the  brave  feat,  the  outlaw  is  so  badly  burned  that 
he  dies  soon   after. 

THE  THWARTED  PLOT  (April  24). — Equipped 
with  a  slight  knowledge  of  medicine,  George  Jami- 
son is  acting  as  physician  in  a  little  mining  town. 
When  the  opportunity  presents  itself,  he  writes 
to  two  pals,  Joe  Brooks  and  his  wife,  to  come  out. 
They  do.  A  few  days  later  Brooks  is  taken  ill,  and 
the  next  day  be  dies;  at  least  so  the  miners  sup- 
posed. The  funeral  is  held,  but  instead  of  a  corpse 
the  casket  contains  nearly  all  the  gold  the  town 
bank  held.  On  the  Journey  to  the  cemetery  the 
"hearse'*  is  overturned  on  a  steep  hill  and  the 
"casket,"  opening,  reveals  the  gold.  The  driver 
of  the  wagon,  the  only  one  of  the  party  not  in  on 
the  plot,  hurries  back  for  tbe  miners.  "Dr."  Jami- 
son and  his  two  pals  get  away  with  their  lives, 
but  are   compelled   to   abandon   tbe   gold. 

OUR  FEATHERED  FRIENDS  (April  25).— The 
mother  instinct  in  animals  is  always  an  Interesting 
study.  Tbe  same  is  true,  but  more  particularly, 
of  birds  because  they  seem  so  frail  and  Incapable  of 
defending  themselves.  In  this  film  an  insight  into 
the  life  and  habits  of  several  different  families  of 
birds    provides    both    entertainment    and    knowledge. 

A  TRIP  ON  THE  SEINE  (April  25).— A  Journey 
on  the  famous^  beautiful  rivei  that  winds  Its  way 
through  Paris  and  out  to  tbe  sea. 

THE  COUNT'S  WILL  (April  26).— Count  Hein- 
rich  Von  Baum  searches  through  years  of  dissipa- 
tion for  happiness,  but  does  not  find  it  until  he 
abandons  the  old  life  after  meeting  Lillian  Calvin. 
The  Count's  wealth  and  position  soon  overshadow 
the  advantages  and  accomplishments  of  Lillian's 
old  sweetheart,  Tom  Hayden.  The  Count  is  taken 
ill  and  a  physician  warns  him  that  he  can  live 
bat  a  short  while.  Accordingly,  he  reunites  Lillian 
and  Tom,  makes  them  beneficiaries  of  his  will  and, 
feeling  satisfied  that  he  has  done  one  good  deed  in 
his  useless  life  contentedly  awaits  his  fate. 

AN  EXCITING  HONEYMOON  (Special,  2  parts, 
April  26) . — The  wedding  of  Miss  Gwendoline  De 
Vinne  and  Lord  Rowley  was  an  elaborate  affair 
and  at  the  reception  following  the  ceremony  the 
guests  are  showering  the  couple  with  congratulations. 
Lord  Rowley  had  one  drawback.  He  was  very 
□ear-sighted.  When  the  more  frivolous  among  the 
guest's  realized  this  condition  presented  an  oppor- 
tunity for  some  fun  they  seized  upon  it.  As  the  time 
for  catching  the  honeymoon  steamer  drew  near,  Lord 
Rowley's  eye-glasses  were  lost.  One  of  the  guests 
persuaded  the  groom  to  search  every  place  where 
the  glasses  were  not.  Another  of  the  guests  busied 
herself  with  bribing  Lady  Rowley's  African  maid 
to  don  the  bride's  traveling  suit  and  mask  the  color 
of  her  face  with  a  profusion  of  powder.  The  plan 
worked  like  a  charm  and  Lord  Rowley  and  the 
counterfeit  bride  were  at  the  steamer  before  Lady 
Rowley  discovered  that  her  husband  was  missing. 
In  an  automobile  and  accompanied  by  her  parents 
the  bride  hurries  to  the  steamer.  She  is  just  In 
time — to    miss    it. 

Meanwhile,  as  the  steamer  slips  out  of  the  slip, 
the  negro  maid  gets  scared.  Her  voice  and  lan- 
guage scare  the  bridegroom  and  he  beats  a  speedy 
retreat.  But  it  seems  that  every  time  he  turns  a 
corner  he  sees  her.  Finally,  be  takes  refuge  In  a 
ventHator  funnel.  Peering  out  be  sees  her  and 
in  his  hurry  to  get  back,  loses  his  grip  and  drops — 
down  into  tbe  coal  bunkers.  When  he  gets  up  out 
of  the  coal  he  is  a  sorry  sight. 

The  real  Lady  Rowley  hires  a  tug  and  pursues  the 
fast-disappearing  steamer.  The  little  tug  makes 
fine  speed  and   soon   the  bride  reaches   the  side  of 


the  steamer  and  starts  to  climb  the  ladder  which  is 
dropped  over  tbe  side.  One  of  the  guests  hands  her 
Lord  Rowley's  glasses.  Once  In  possession  of 
these,  Lord  Rowley  sees  the  joke,  but  with  bis  real 
bride  in   bis  arms   at  last,    he   should   worry. 

By  this  time  the  lady  of  color  is  getting  seasick, 
or,  at  least,  she  gives  that  impression  and  begs  to 
be  allowed  to  get  off.  She  is  afraid  to  descend 
the  forty-foot  ladder  from  the  steamer  to  tbe  tug; 
so  they  use  the  tug's  derrick  to  lift  her  off.  When 
the  maid  is  In  mid-air  the  steamer  resumes  its  jour- 
ney and  the  counterfeit  bride  kicks  and  screams 
when  she  sees  tbe  ocean  yawning  beneath  her.  It 
is  some  time  before  the  tug's  crew,  satisfied  with 
their  joke,  finally  lower  the  pale-faced  African  to 
the  deck  of  the  tug  where  she  receives  a  well-earned 
monetary  reward  for  her  part  in  "An  Exciting 
Honeymoon." 


BIOGRAPH. 

THE  LEFT-HANDED  MAN  (April  21).— Tbe 
thief  was  clever  and  he  forged  around  the  girl's 
sweetheart  a  chain  of  circumstantial  evidence  that 
seemingly  had  no  flaw.  The  girl's  faith  was  great 
and  in  unraveling  the  mystery  the  detective  she 
engaged  used  the  scientific  methods  of  today,  mak- 
ing a  brilliant  detective  story. 

A  RAG-TIME  ROMANCE  (April  24).— This  is  a 
very  novel  conceit  of  a  wedding  that  took  place 
in  dark-town  when  the  rag-time  fever  was  at  its 
height.      Everybody    ragged,    even    the   furniture. 

THE  CURE  (April  24). — The  young  lady  is  an 
artist,  consequently  she  has  a  highly  artistic  tem- 
perament and  she  cannot  see  her  fiance  because 
he  is  not  her  ideal.  She  finds  her  ideal,  however, 
but  in  the  finish,  idealism  receives  an  awful  shock. 

THE  LADY  AND  THE  MOUSE  (April  26).— The 
question  is,  would  the  young  tramp  really  have 
fallen  in  love  with  the  groceryman's  daughter  if  he 
had  not  caught  her  in  the  heart  struggle.  Be  that 
as  it  may,  she  could  not  find  it  in  her  to  drown  the 
unwelcome  visitor  to  the  pantry,  so  she  let  it  go 
and  the  silent  little  drama  witnessed  by  the  tramp 
greatly  impressed  him.  Not  so  the  strict  aunt. 
She  declared  the  whole  thing  to  be  in  exact  ac- 
cordance with  everything  else  in  the  family.  Their 
hearts  ran  away  with  their  heads.  That  was  why 
they  lost  money  on  credit,  could  not  pay  off  the 
mortgage  and  send  the  sick  sister  to  a  better  cli- 
mate. As  for  the  tramp,  they  had  no  business  to 
take  him  in.  He  could  not  pay  for  his  keep.  But 
the    tramp  surprised   them   all. 


MELIES. 

HOW  CHIEF  TE  PONGA  WON  HIS  BRIDE 
(April  24). — The  Maori  tribes  of  Awhitu  and  Wal- 
katu  are  at  war.  Te  Ponga,  young  chief  of  the 
Awhltus  hears  of  the  great  beauty  of  Puhuhu, 
daughter  of  the  old  chief  of  the  Waikatus,  and 
in  order  to  see  her,  flies  the  white  flag  of  truce 
and  pretends  to  make  overtures  for  peace.  The 
old  chief,  anxious  for  peace,  receives  Te  Ponga 
with  great  pomp  and  ceremony  and  holds  a  great 
celebration  in  his  honor  at'  which  Puhuhu  dances. 
Te  Ponga  falls  instantly  in  love  with  her,  and  she 
with    him. 

That  night,  through  the  stratagem  of  one  of 
Te  Ponga's  warriors,  the  young  lovers  meet  clan- 
destinely, and  plan  to  elope  on  the  morrow.  Puhuhu 
returns  to  her  sleeping  hut  for  the  night,  but  Te 
Ponga  and  his  braves  steal  to  the  water's  edge, 
strip  all  the  Waikatu  canoes  of  their  paddles  and 
place  them  in  their  own. 

Next  morning  Te  Ponga  takes  ceremonious  leave 
of  his  host,  and  is  honored  with  the  company  of 
all  the  Waikatu  maidens  for  a  short  ways  from 
the  village.  The  Waikatu  men  watch  the  procession 
from  afar,  and  are  aghast  when  they  discover  that 
Puhuhu,  Instead  of  returning  with  her  companions, 
flees  with  Te  Ponga.  The  old  chief's  camp  Is 
Instantly  up  in  arms  at  the  outrage  and  pursue 
the  fleeing  lovers,  only  to  be  baffled  by  Te  Ponga's 
cunning  in  removing  the  paddles.  The  young  chief 
and  his  bride  make  a  safe  get-away  in  their  swift 
canoe  while  the  furious  Waikatus  spend  their 
wrath   In  unavailing  Imprecations  on   the  shore. 

A  TRIP  TO  THE  WATTOMO  CAVES  OF  NEW 
ZEALAND  (April  24). — Historic  underground  cavi- 
ties renowned  because  of  their  wonderful  stalac- 
tites and  stalamites,  formed  through  many  cen- 
turies by  the  dripping  of  water  charged  with  cal- 
cium carbonate  and  other  calcareous  matter,  from 
the  peculiar  earth  formation  above. 


KALEM. 

THE  SNEAK  (April  21).— Harry  WUlis,  finding 
that  Elise  Dupont  does  not  favor  bis  suit,  deter- 
mines to  gain  her  consent  through  her  young  and 
irresponsible  brother,  John.  John  Is  flattered  by  the 
older  man's  consideration  and  when  Willis  invites 
tbe  boy  to  accompany  bim  to  a  gambling  resort, 
he  readily  accepts. 

John  loses  his  money  and  accepts  an  I.  O.  U. 
proffered  by  the  proprietor.  The  Incident  Is  dis- 
covered by  Arthur  Ballard,  a  straightforward  young 
man,    who   stands   high   in   the   estimation   of   Elise, 


and  who  hopes  to  win  her  hand.  Ballard  secretly 
purchases  the  obligation  from  the  proprietor,  but  is 
arrested  when  the  place  is  raided.  Next  day  he 
is  publicly  disgraced  and  Ellse's  father  forbids  him 
from  entering  the  house. 

Willis  now  believes  that  his  plan  is  on  a  fair 
way  to  succeed.  Again  be  induces  John  to  visit 
the  resort  and  this  time  Willis  gives  the  boy  bis 
personal  I.  O.  U.  A  few  days  later  he  Insists  upon 
payment  and  suggests  that  John  take  the  money 
from  his  father's  safe.  When  burglars  enter  the 
Dupont  home  and  rob  the  safe,  things  look  black 
for  John,  who  has  really  secured  tbe  money  from 
Ballard,  but  Dolly,  the  little  sister  of  Elise  and 
John,  through  an  unusual  circumstance,  exposes 
Willis'  plot  and  brings  about  the  capture  of  the 
burglars.  Mr  Dupont  is  brought  to  a  realization 
of  Ballard's  sterling  qualities  and  withdraws  his 
objection  to  the  young  man's  suit  for  the  hand  of 
Elise. 

THE  SECRET  MARRIAGE  (April  28) Jim  Way- 

hurne,  a  civil  engineer,  goes  south  to  take  charge 
of  some  railroad  construction  work.  He  boards  at 
the  home  of  the  Marsons  and  falls  in  love  with 
Nelly,  Marson's  daughter.  While  the  girl  Is  im- 
pressed with  Jim's  manly  character,  she  informs 
iiim  that  she  does  not  love  him  enough  to  become 
his  wife. 

One  day  Jim's  brother,  Ned,  arrives  for  a  visit. 
He  is  attracted  by  Nelly's  beauty  and  she  falls  in 
love  with  him  at  first  sight.  Ned  suggests  a  secret 
marriage  and  induces  tbe  girl  to  visit  the  office  of 
a  justice,  where  the  ceremony  is  performed.  As 
the  days  pass  Nelly  asks  Ned's  permission  to  pub- 
licly announce  the  marriage,  and  he  becomes  so 
exasperated  that  he  flies  into  a  passion  and  starts 
for  the  railroad  station  on  horseback,  leaving  a  curt 
note  to  Jim,  asking  that  his  belongings  be  for- 
warded. 

Jim  has  never  ceased  to  love  Nelly,  and,  knowing 
nothing  of  the  marriage,  he  harbors  the  hope  that 
she  may  change  her  mind.  When  he  discovers  the 
cowardly  note  he  rides  after  his  brother  and  dis- 
covers to  his  horror  that  Ned  has  been  thrown  from 
his  horse  and  killed. 

Meanwhile  Nelly  tells  her  secret  to  her  parents 
and  they  are  about  to  close  the  door  against  her 
when  Jim  returns  with  the  sad  news. 

Time  heals  many  wounds  and  when  Jim  rescues 
Nelly  in  a  time  of  peril,  she  realizes  that  he  has 
been   destined   to   protect  her  through  life. 

THE  PHONEY  SINGER  (April  25).  —  When 
Sammy  calls  on  Helen,  he  is  greatly  humiliated  to 
find  that  Jim,  his  rival,  is  presiding  at  the  piano 
and  fascinating  the  fair  one.  "If  I  could  only  sing 
and  show  this  fellow  up,"  philosophizes  Sammy. 
A  great  scheme  occurs  to  him.  He  secures  a 
phonograph,  which  an  accomplice  places  through  a 
window  and  through  a  well-plan  code  of  signals 
the  "phoney  Binger"  makes  a  big  hit.  Helen  for- 
gets Jim  completely. 

But  fate  plays  a  cruel  trick  on  Sammy.  Jim 
discovers  the  scheme  and  arranges  with  a  police- 
man to  arrest  the  accomplice  as  a  suspicious  char- 
acter. Then  Jim  makes  the  phonograph  perform 
a  variety  of  stunts,  which  disconcert  the  pretender 
and  bring  about  the  grand  expose. 

JAPAN,  THE  INDUSTRIAL  ( April  25)  .—The 
tourist  is  conducted  to  many  interesting  places  in 
picturesque  Japan.  At  Kobe  we  see  the  Upper 
Falls  of  Nunobiki,  from  which  a  celebrated  mineral 
water  Is  piped.  Proceeding  along  the  waterfront 
we  visit  the  customs  house,  the  hotels,  banks  and 
consulates  and  arrive  at  the  harbor.  In  Motomachi, 
the  principal  street  of  Hobe,  we  notice  a  novel 
method  of  advertising  a  flower  show — and  the 
flowers  of  Japan  are  world-famous. 

In  Kyoto  the  odd  canals  intersect  the  city  In  all 
directions  and  a  trip  along  the  Biwa  Canal  enables 
the  tourist  to  form  some  conception  of  this  pictur- 
esque country. 

THE  FIGHTING  CHAPLAIN  (April  26).— The 
Reverend  John  Barlow,  a  young  man  of  twenty- 
eight,  is  minister  in  a  small  New  England  village. 
Because  be  believes  that  a  man  of  peace  should  not 
be  aggressive,  be  acquires  a  reputation  for  timidity. 
This  is  particularly  distressing  to  Marian  Wells, 
a  girl  in  the  clergyman's  congregation,  with  whom 
he  is  in  love.  When  the  minister  proposes  he  Is 
told  by  Marian  that  she  can  only  marry  a  brave 
man. 

President  Lincoln  Issues  his  call  for  volunteers 
and  Marian's  father  recruits  a  company  which 
leaves  for  the  front  with  Barlow  as  chaplain.  In 
a  terrific  battle  Captain  Wells  Is  dangerously 
wounded  and  Barlow  drags  bim  to  safety,  unmind- 
ful of  the  rain  of  bullets.  Marian  arrives  on  the 
scene  to  nurse  her  father  and  one  day  when  most 
of  tbe  troops  have  left  to  reconnoiter,  a  large  band 
of  guerillas  sweeps  down  upon  the  almost  defense- 
less camp  to  pillage  and  slaughter.  The  Chaplain 
directs  the  construction  of  a  crude  barricade  and 
when  he  sees  that  the  defenders  are  about  to  be 
annihilated,  he  plunges  fearlessly  .through  the 
guerillas  and  makes  his  way  to  a  stable  tent,  where 
he  secures  a  horse  and  dashes  after  the  soldiers. 
Under  the  leadership  of  the  Chaplain  the  troops 
return  to  camp  and  after  a  desperate  battle  the 
marauders  are  pnt  to  flight.  Sweeter  to  the  ears 
of  tbe  Chaplain  than  the  cheers  of  his  comrades 
is  tbe  soft  voice  which  assures  him  of  his  future 
happiness. 


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EQUIPMENT    WANTED. 

WANTED — Two  18  to  24-inch  110  v.  direct  current 
exhaust  fans.  Give  make,  condition  and  lowest 
spot  cash  price.  Address  G.  BERT  PEW,  Blaine, 
W.  Va. 

WANTED — Four  16-inch  oscillating  fans,  second- 
band,  for  60  cycles  110  volts  A.  C.  Must  be  cheap 
and  in  good  condition.  Address  G.  L.  PALMER, 
Arcade  Theatre,  Deposit,  N.  Y. 

FILMS    FOR    SALE. 

FOR  SALE — 500  reels  of  film  with  posters  to 
match,  all  in  good  condition,  many  subjects  prac- 
tically new.  Address  McINTIRE  &  RICHTER,  23 
E.  14th  St.,  New  York  City. 

FOR  SALE — First  class  commercial  service,  that 
pulls  you  the  crowd,  at  moderate  prices.  Used  films 
for  sale  at  3,  4  and  5  dollars  per  reel.  Address 
CONDOR  FILM  EXCHANGE,  154  Third  Avenue, 
New  York  City. 

(225.00  will  secure  the  World  renowned  Pathe 
Freres  Passion  Play,  approximately  3,114  feet,  hand 
colored  and  toned  film.  Fine  condition.  Sent  sub- 
ject to  examination.  Write  or  wire.  WYNDHAM 
ROBERTSON,   Settegasf  Bldg.,   Houston,   Texas. 

FOR  SALE—  1,000-feet  reels  film,  (2.50  to  (5.00. 
The  following  three-reel  features,  (75:  Uncle  Tom's 
Cabin,  Passion  Play,  Price  of  Beauty,  Saved  from 
the  Sea,  Fools  of  Society,  Custer's  Last  Stand. 
The  following  two-reel  features,  (60:  Cell  13,  When 
Hearts  Break,  Before  Yorktown,  Blue  Diamond, 
War  on  the  Plains.  300  other  two  and  three-reel 
features.  Send  for  list.  H.  DAVIS,  Watertown, 
Wis. 

FOR  SALE — Two-reel  feature,  East  Lynne  (Than- 
houser),  In  perfect  condition,  with  a  supply  of  new 
mounted  three  and  one-sheet  banners,  seventy-five 
dollars  cash.  Address  A.  N.  WOLFF,  Colonial  The- 
ater, Rochester,  N.  Y. 

FOR  SALE — Fifty  reels  for  sale  at  one  cent  per 
foot.  All  guaranteed  to  be  in  first  class  condition. 
Send  for  list  of  subjects  and  lengths.  CHARLES 
GUNBY,  199  Third  Ave.,  New  York  City. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

PRINTING— 1,000  baud-bills,  4  by  8  Inches,  blue 
or  yellow  paper,  (1.00.  Postpaid  same  day  order 
is  received.     Address  COLLINS,   Callicoon,   N.    Y. 


SITUATION  WANTED, 

MANAGER — Wishes  position  In  motion  picture 
theatre.  Best  references.  Seven  years'  experience. 
In  or  around  New  York  preferred.  Address  J.  L., 
care  of  Moving  Picture  World,  New  York  City. 

PIPE  ORGANIST— Wishes  to  change  location. 
Repertoire  of  1,500  numbers  from  grand  opera  to 
musical  comedy.  Seven  years'  experience  aud  nigh- 
est  references.  Address  "ORGANIST,"  care  of 
Moving  Picture  World,  New  York  City. 

AT  LIBERTY — A-l  manager,  8  years'  experience, 
can  give  best  reference.  Willing  to  go  anywhere  in 
Pennsylvania,  Ohio  or.  neighboring  States.  Am  also 
a  first-class  operator.  Salary,  or  salary  and  per- 
centage. Address  F.  T.  R.,  care  of  Moving  Picture 
World,   New    York   City. 

I  WANT  A  JOB  AS  MANAGER  of  a  theatre  in 
tbe  East  or  South.  I  am  a  clean-cut,  energetic 
man,  capable  of  directing  one  or  more  theatres.  I 
can  "create"  an  advertising  campaign  and  conduct 
it  so  that  it  will  increase  the  earning  capacity  of 
your  bouse.  I  am  young,  intelligent,  and  an  ex- 
cellent executive,  gleaned  through  several  years' 
experience  in  tbe  amusement  field.  Will  consider 
small  town  proposition  if  gilt  edged.  Address 
INTELLIGENT,  care  of  Moving  Picture  World, 
New  York  City. 

OPERATOR,  LICENSED— At  liberty.  References. 
Wire  or  address,  F.  W.  CLARKE,  Rex  Theatre, 
Calgary,  Alberta,  Canada. 

THEATRES    FOR    BALE. 

FOR  SALE — Picture  theatre  in  thriving  railroad 
town.  Everything  new.  In  heart  of  town.  Excep- 
tional opportunity  for  live  mai.  Address  S.  L.  E., 
Little  Rock,  Ark. 

FOR  SALE— The  Orpheum,  capacity  850,  or  lease 
to  responsible  party,  or  would  consider  partner. 
Theatre  now  doing  good  business.  Address  W.  V. 
FUTRBLLE,   Albuquerque,   N.  Mexico. 

WILL  SELL  FOR  01,200  CASH — As  I  have  sum- 
mer resort  interests  that  must  be  attended  to  soon. 
Live  Motion  Picture  show  in  small  town  eight  miles 
from  Utica.  No  opposition,  low  expenses.  Profit 
(25  to  (50  weekly.  Address  UNION  THEATRE, 
Chadwlcks,  N.  Y. 

AN  OLD  ESTABLISHED  MOVING  PICTURE 
THEATRE — Seating  capacity  over  550.  A  popular 
theatre  on  Washington  St.,  Boston,  in  the  heart  of 
the  business  and  theatre  districts.  One  of  tbe  best 
locations  in  Boston.  A  remarkably  good  opportunity 
for  the  right  man  to  get  a  fine  paying  proposition. 
Address  P.  O.  BOX  101,  Essex  St.,  Station,  Boston, 
Mass. 

HIPPODROME  OR  THEATRE — For  sale  or  rent, 
in  Chicago.  Moving  picture  or  vaudeville.  Seating 
capacity  500  to  2,500.  Now  being  built  (ready 
May  1st).  Reasonable  rents,  which  Include  a  mag- 
nificent Scbuelke  Pipe  Organ,  with  Vox  Humana  and 
Cathedral  Chimes.  HUME,  exclusive  representative, 
Room  311,    (i08  S.   Dearborn  St.,  Chicago,   111. 

THE  HIPPODROME — Binghamton,  N.  Y.  Only 
house  on  Main  Street.  Population  50,000.  Capacity 
over  300.  Weekly  profits  (70.  Investigation 
courted.  Price  (2,800  cash.  HENRY  L.  FOX, 
Manager. 


AMONG  THE  EXHIBITORS. 

Olneyville,  R.  I. — Local  business  men  are  Inter- 
ested in  a  movement  to  establish  a  theater  of  large 
alxe  In  Olneyville,   and  are  considering  same. 

Carthage,  Ho. — Neal  Anderson  has  secured  a 
lease  on  tbe  Grand  Opera  House  from  Joe  Logan, 
former  manager. 

Philadelphia,  Fa. — Plans  are  In  preparation  by 
Carl  P.  Berger,  for  a  moving  picture  theater,  to  be 
built  at  Kensington  avenue  and  East  street,  (or 
Michael  Stiefel. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — A  moving  picture  theater  to 
cost  $25,000,  Is  to  be  built  at  2011  Prankford  ave- 
nue. 

fit.  Louis,  Mo. — Plans  for  a  theater  to  cost  $65,- 
000,  to  be  erected  on  Franklin  avenue,  was  outlined 
by  the  Franklin  Avenue  Improvement  Association, 
O.   A.  Smith,   president. 

Vinton,  la. — This  city  is  considering  the  erection 
of  a  new  theater. 

Delphos,  0. — A.  J.  Lane  of  London,  his  purchased 
the  Princess  Theater,  a  moving  picture  show,  from 
O.  G.   Hackedorn. 

El  Centro,  Cal, — C.  M.  Applestlll  is  having  plans 
prepared  for  the  erection  of  a  moving  picture  the- 
ater. 

Ft.  Wayne,  Ind. — Henry  Hilgemann  has  been 
awarded  the  contract  to  erect  the  one-story  moving 
picture  theater  for  H.  A.  Wlebke.  Same  will  be 
leased  to  the  Amusement  Association  of  this  city. 

Chanute,  Kan. — D.  D.  Johnson  will  build  In  the 
early    spring   a   one-story   moving   picture   theater. 

Indianapolis,  Ind. — W.  C.  Teasdale  will  erect  a 
ene-story  store  building  and  moving  picture  thea- 
ter in  the  near  future. 


Orange,  Tex.— H.  Thomas,  the  owner  of  the 
Airdome  theater,  will  erect  another  new  theater 
across    the    street   from    tbe    Airdome. 

Hancock,  Mich. — Jno.  Vogel,  who  operates  the 
Crown  theater,  has  announced  a  change  in  tbe  run- 
ning of  It.  Harry  Crawford  has  been  secured  to 
manage  the  theater,  and  has  with  him  the  Craw- 
ford Amusement  Co. 

New  York,  N.  Y. — The  Field-Goldstone  Company 
will  erect  a  new  theater  on  Broadway,  from  147th 
to  148th  Sts. 

Duluth,  Minn.— The  Brunswick  Amusement  Co. 
a  new  moving  picture  theater  company,  filed  articles 
of    Incorporation. 

Fargo,  N.  D. — This  city  will  have  a  new  opera 
house,    Haxby    &   Gillespie   are    preparing    plans. 

Duluth,  Minn. — This  city  will  have  a  new  mov- 
ing picture  theater — the  Colonial — to  be  erected  at 
321  Central  Avenue.  Jacobson  Brothers  are  tbe 
contractors. 

Binghampton,  N.  Y. — T.  I.  Lacey  &  Son  are  finish- 
ing  the  plans   for  the  new  Star  theater. 

Bolton  Landing,  N,  Y. — Paul  Fosmer  and  Robert 
Duell  of  Bolton  Landing  have  opened  a  moving 
picture  theater  in  their  home  village.  The  theater 
has  been  named  the  Navajo. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Rebecca  Greenstein  will  erect 
a  moving  picture  theater  at  the  corner  of  Fair- 
mont Avenue  and  Franklin  Street. 

Corvallis,  Ore. — This  city  Is  to  have  a  new  opera 
house.      Small    and    Whiteside   will   erect   same. 

Hyde  Park,  0. — A  $40,000  theater  Is  to  be  erected 
here.  Moore  and  John  applied  for  a  permit  to 
erect  same  on  Madison  Road,  between  Isabella  and 
Gllmore. 

Mineral  WellB,  Tex.— W.  E.  Mayes,  who  recently 


purchased  a  lot  near  the  Bimini  Bath  House,  let 
the  contract  to  Shirley  &  Galley  to  erect  a  building 
which  will  be  used  for  a  picture  show. 

Onalaska,  Wis, — Plans  have  been  completed  for 
the  new  moving  picture  house  to  be  erected  this 
spring  by  the  Crystal  Co. 

Wilmington,  Del. — Bids  have  been  received  for 
tbe  erection  of  the  proposed  new  picture  theater 
at  836   Market  St. 

Buffalo,  N.  Y. — Plans  for  the  erection  of  motion 
picture  houses  on  the  east  side  have  been  com- 
pleted by   Manager  Vowlnkel  of  the  Oriole  theater. 

Mt.  Carmel,  HI. — The  Colonial  Amusement  Co.  has 
closed  a  deal  for  the  Casino  theater  of  Eldorado, 
Ills.,  and  will  erect  a  new  theater  at  a  cost  of 
$25,000.  0.  L.  Turner,  of  Mt.  Carmel,  Is  president 
of    the    company. 

Newcastle,  Pa. — It  is  said  that  plans  are  being 
prepared  for  the  remodeling  of  the  Genkinger  Opera 
House  in  So.  Mercer  St. 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich. — The  $30,000  theater  build- 
ing which  is  being  built  in  Muskegon  has  been 
leased  to  J.   W.  Spooner  of  this  city. 

Little  Rock,  Ark. — Tbe  contract  for  the  new 
Stlewell  theater  at  Capitol  Avenue  and  Spring 
Street,  was  awarded  to  Tnalman  &  Reed.  Cost 
$42,000. 

Denver,  Colo. — Mrs.  R.  E.  Smitb  Is  altering  the 
store  at  3029  E.  Colfax  Avenue  for  a  moving  picture 
theater. 

Pueblo.  Colo.— Arlington  W.  Howell,  proprietor 
of  the  Dreamland  picture  theater  in  this  city,  has 
purchased  the  Savoy  moving  picture  theater  In 
Colorado   Springs.  ■ 

Marinette,  Wis. — L.  R.  Pinkowskl  purchased  the 
Cosey    theater   and   opened   It   for   business. 


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A  SPRIG  0'  SHAMROCK  (April  24).— Dan  and 
Mary  hare  an  only  daughter,  Norab,  who  is  work- 
ing as  a  stenographer  for  the  firm  of  Weinersteiner 
&  Co.  She  Is  engaged  to  be  married  to  Terry 
O'Rourke,  a  motorman  on  the  street  cars,  when 
Weinerstelner  meets  her  and  falls  in  love  with  her. 
He  wants  to  see  Norab  home,  but  she  declines.  He 
follows  her  out  and  sees  that'  she  is  met  by  Terry. 
The  Dutchman  gets  angry  and  goes  to  bis  register 
to  And  out  where  Norab  lives.  He  arrives  at 
Norab's  bouse  wbile  Dan  has  gone  out  for  a 
"growler"  of  beer.  Norah's  mother  thinks  that 
something  has  gone  wrong  at  the  office  when  Weiner- 
steiner makes  himself  known  to  her.  He  soon  re- 
assures her  and  makes  himself  at  home.  Dan  re- 
turns with  the  beer  and  trys  to  bide  the  can  when 
he  sees  the  fat  Dutchman.  His  wife  tells  him  who 
be  is.  Then  the  Dutchman  makes  himself  solid 
with  Dan  by  giving  him  cigars,  etc.  Very  soon 
Dan  and  the  Dutchman  are  on  good  terms  and  he 
sides  with  the  Dutchman  for  Norah's  hand,  while 
the  mother  is  very  indignant,  and  takes  the  side  of 
Terry,  who  is  forbidden  by  Dan  to  come  any  more 
to  the  house.  Thus  matters  stand  until  St.  Patrick's 
Day.  The  family  are  all  dressed  up  in  their  best 
when  Terry  comes  in,  and  as  it  is  St.  Patrick's 
Day,  Dan  has  to  shake  hands  with  blm.  The  mail 
arrives  with  a  box  of  Shamrocks  from  Ireland.  Dan 
opens  the  box  and  they  are  all  deeply  affected  when 
they  see  it  and  each  take  a  spray  and  kiss  it 
reverently.  The  Dutchman  enters  and  greets  each 
effusively.  Then  be  spots  the  Shamrock,  and  to 
the  horror  of  the  others,  be  puts  pepper  and  salt 
on  it  and  eats  it.  Dan,  Terry,  the  mother  and  Norah 
throw  him  out  of  the  window. 

THE  REGENERATION"  OF  JOHN  STORM 
(April  21), — John  Storm  wins  a  football  game. 
The  father  of  Doris  Mills  gives  his  consent  to  her 
marriage  to  John.  When  John  gets  home  be  finds 
the  body  of  his  father,  who  has  committed  suicide. 
The  son  discovers  that  his  father  had  been 
a  defaulter.  Knowing  that  Mr.  Mills  bad  been 
a  heavy  loser,  John  determines  to  go  out  into 
the  world.  He  is  unsuccessful.  He  falls  into  the 
clutches  of  crooks.  By  them  be  is  led  to  believe 
that'  he  is  to  do  some  detective  work,  but  dis- 
covers the  truth  when  he  is  led  to  the  rear  of 
Doris's  home.  John  determines  to  see  the  affair 
through.  He  is  admitted  to  the  house  by  the 
butler,  a  confederate,  and  is  tbe  means  of  pre- 
venting the  burglary  and  also  of  turning  tbe  crooks 
over   to    the   police.      He    wins   Doris. 


REX. 

THE  DRAGON'S  BREATH  (April  24,  2  reels.)— 
Phillip,  the  newly  elected  president  of  a  college, 
is  a  man  of  great  strength  of  character  and  pur- 
pose, and  discovers  in  Lois  his  ideal  of  womanhood. 
Returning  from  his  honeymoon  be  commences  to 
keep  a  diary,  making  entries  day  by  day. 

One  entry  reads:  "I  have  married  the  most 
wonderful  woman  In  the  world,"  and  he  says  through 
bis  school  be  will  send  out  Into  the  world  the  most 
wonderful  set  of  men  that  a  college  has  ever  pro- 
duced. His  love  for  his  wife  increases  every  day, 
and  he  writes  how,  when  a  Chinese  servant  is  sick, 
bis  devoted  wife  visits  the  Chinese  quarter  and 
nurses  the  sick  man.  He  does  not  know  that  owing 
to  that  visit'  bis  wife  has  smelled  opium,  and,  out 
of  curiosity,  smokes  some.  She  finally  becomes 
hopelessly  addicted  to  tbe  drug.  Knowing  that  she 
cannot  give  It  up  and  truly  loving  her  husband,  she 
decides  to  leave  him.  Placing  her  hat  and  coat 
on  the  banks  of  the  river  be  is  led  to  believe  that 
she  has  committed  suicide. 

He  Is  broken-hearted  at  the  supposed  death  of 
bis  wife,  and  works  harder  than  ever,  and  is  one 
day  made  governor  of  the  state.  His  wife's  sister, 
Grace  Carlisle,  Is  In  love  with  him,  but  he  only 
loves  his  dead  wife.  On  tbe  day  he  is  elected 
governor,  a  poor,  dirty,  ragged  woman  knocks 
against  Grace  Carlisle  in  the  crowded  square  in 
front  of  tbe  City  Hall,  and  to  her  horror  she  recog- 
nizes her  sister.  Grace  follows  her  to  a  den  in  tbe 
lowest  part  of  tbe  city  and  begs  her  not  to  let 
Phillip  know  she  is  alive  as  it  would  ruin  him. 
Grace,  however,  decides  to  shatter  Phillip's  ideal  in 
tbe  hope  that  he  will  marry  her,  and  going  to 
Phillip,  tells  him  his  wife  Is  alive  and  offers  to  take 
him  to  her.  They  go,  and  to  his  horror  he  finds 
his  wife  in  a  filthy  opium  den,  dying.  In  spite  of 
all  be  loves  ber  still  and  she  dies  in  his  arms. 

THE  WAYWARD  8ISTER  (April  27),— Jim  Hollls, 
the  son  of  a  wealthy  stock  broker,  goes  on  a  visit 
to  bis  chum,  Henry  Ward.  At  Henry's  Home,  he 
meets    Nan    Ward,    Henry's    sister.    They    become 


engaged.  Nan  receives  a  letter  from  ber  wayward 
twin  sister,  Katberlne.  She  decides  not  to  tell 
bim  of  her  sister's  existence.  Jim  is  called  home 
on  business.  He  greets  bis  father  and  shows  him 
the  picture  of  his  fiancee.  Unfortunately,  Jim 
sees  Katberlne  In  tbe  company  of  several  notorious 
people.  Thinking  It  is  Nan,  be  Is  heartbroken  and 
stubbornly  refuses  to  speak  to  ber.  Several  months 
elapse  in  which  Jim  is  on  the  downward  path. 
Nan  in  the  meantime  has  received  a  letter  from 
her  wayward  sister,  asking  ber  to  come  and  see  her. 
She  and  ber  brother  leave  for  the  city.  Jim  sees 
Katherine  in  an  automobile,  jumps  on  behind  and 
follows  Katherine  to  her  borne.  He  comes  to  her 
thinking  it  is  Nan,  is  about  to  kill  her  when  Nan 
and  her  brother  come  In.  Jim  is  thunder-struck. 
Explanations  are  made  and  all  ends  happily. 


CRYSTAL. 

FORGETFTTL  FLOSSIE  (April  17).— Flossie  was  of 
a  forgetful  turn  of  mind.  She  has  two  gentlemen 
friends,  Chester  and  Joe.  They  both  call  on  her, 
Joe  being  there  first.  Chester  arrives  and  Joe 
determines  to  go.  Flossie  walks  with  him  to  the 
hallway  and  absent-mindedly  gives  him  Chester's 
coat.  She  forgets  all  about  Chester,  who  is  sit- 
ing in  the  parlor,  and  walks  out  with  Joe.  They 
walk  about  a  block  and  then  Joe  discovering 
Chester's  overcoat,  they  return.  Chester  mean- 
while has  been  impatiently  waiting  Flossie's  re- 
turn. She  enters  wltb  Joe  and  be  gets  the  right 
overcoat.  He  leaves,  this  time  alone.  Chester 
proposes  to  Flossie,  is  accepted,  and  he  gives  her 
a  ring.  The  next  day  she  is  out  walking  with 
bim.  Chester  goes  across  tbe  street  to  mail  a 
letter  and  Joe  passes  in  bis  auto.  She  calls  him 
and  they  ride  away  together,  forgetting  completely 
that  Chester  ever  existed.  Joe,  after  taking  her 
home,  proposes  to  her  and  she  accepts.  He  goes 
to  put  a  ring  on  ber  finger  when  he  notices  the 
other.  Chester  enters  at  that  moment  and  explains 
to  Joe's  chagrin,  that  the  forgetful  girl  is  bis 
promised  bride.  They  go  to  the  minister  and  are 
married.  She  forgets  who  she  is  married  to  and 
kisses  tbe  minister,  much  to  that  reverend  gen- 
tleman's consternation.  However,  Chester  deter- 
mines that  he  can  cure  her  of  her  forgetfulness 
and    all    ends    well. 

A  JOKE  ON  THE  SHERIFF  (April  17).— The 
widow,  Floss,  Is  friendly  with  the  sheriff.  Claude, 
a  bedraggled  tramp,  calls  at  her  bouse  and  asks 
for  something  to  eat.  She  offers  him  some  freshly 
cooked  pie,  if  he  will  chop  some  wood.  As  soon 
as  she  has  gone,  he  takes  the  pies  and  runs  away. 
The  widow  sees  bim  and  follows  him  with  a  shot- 
gun. She  catches  him  and  marches  him  to  the 
sheriff's  office,  where  he  is  formally  arrested. 
He  is  sentenced  to  thirty  days  in  jail,  and  is  tbe 
jail's  only  inmate.  The  sheriff  takes  pity  on  him, 
after  a  few  days  and  gets  friendly  with  him, 
giving  him  tobacco,  and  other  luxuries.  He  dis- 
covers that  Claude  can  play  poker  and  arranges 
a  game.  Claude  induces  the  sheriff  to  loan  bim 
a  dollar  to  make  the  game  interesting.  Claude 
wins  all  the  money  that  the  sheriff  bad.  He 
makes  the  sheriff  buy  him  a  new  outfit  and  bor- 
rows his  shaving  outfit.  The  sheriff  waxes  angry 
and  throws  him  into  his  cell.  However,  he  leaves 
his  keys  hanging  conveniently  in  the  lock.  Mean- 
while, the  widow  calls  and  brings  the  sheriff 
delicacies.  Claude  lets  himself  out  of  the  cell 
and  goes  to  the  sheriff's  office.  Tbe  widow  Is  at- 
tentive to  him  and  the  sheriff  gets  angry.  After 
she  leaves  he  orders  him  out  of  his  jail.  '  Claude 
goes,  and  passes  the  widow's  bouse.  She  Invites 
him  in.  He  becomes  friendly  with  her  and  pro- 
poses marrlasre.  The  sheriff,  then  deciding  to 
visit  her,  starts  on  his  way.  He  arrives  just 
in  time  to  see  the  minister  binding  the  knot 
and   leaves   in   chagrin. 


UNIVERSAL. 

ANIMATED  WEEKLY,  NO.  57  (April  ft).— On 
Board  a  Man-0'- War.— With  tbe  Middles  at  ths 
annual  gun  practice,  Hampton  Roads,  Virginia. 
Placing  the  targets.     The  sunset  colors. 

Tbe  Passing  of  the  World's  Greatest  Financier, 
John  Pierpont  Morgan. — Tbe  Morgan  residence.  Pri- 
vate art  gallery.  Wall  Street  and  the  famous  old 
Trinity  Church  In  tbe  distance. 

Royalty  and  Rugby. — The  great  army  and  navy 
football  game  Is  witnessed  by  King  George  of  Eng- 
land. 

Wrecking:  of  a  Brick  Stack. — Lowering  of  one  of 
tbe  largest  brick  stacks  in  the  world  at  Platts- 
moutb,  Nebraska. 

Wheels  of  Commerce, — Showing  the  process  of 
paper  making. 

"Queen's  Day," — The  "Queen  of  tbe  Carnival" 
joins  in  the  merry-making  at  the  gay  city  of  Paris. 

Smallest  Man  In  the  World  performs  for  the  Ani- 
mated Weekly. 

Gold  Cup  Race. — Gentlemen  riders  compete  for 
honors  at  the  Annual  Military  Steeplechase  at  Sand- 
down.  England. 

King  of  Beasts.— The  largest  lion  in  captivity  at 
the  Cincinnati  zoo. 

Athletio  Sports. — American  athletes  compete  at 
tbe  Annual  Outdoor  Games  in  the  Philippines. 

Who's  Who  in  Stageland — Ada  Reeves,  the  fa- 
mous English  comedienne,  poses  for  the  Animated 
Weekly. 


NESTOR. 

HIS  FRIEND  JLMMIE  (April  21).— Jack,  at  col- 
lege, marries  Louise.  Vacation  approaches;  be 
writes  his  father,  asking  if  there  would  be  any 
objection  to  bis  marriage.  He  receives  in  reply 
a  decided  negative.  Louise  suggests  a  way  out 
of  the  dilemma.  She  dresses  as  a  boy.  Jack  in- 
troduces Louise  as  "my  friend  Jlmmle."  Dad, 
in  tbe  absence  of  Jack,  takes  Jimmle  out  to 
Bbow  bim  around.  Jlmmie  is  a  poor  sport,  but 
manages  to  get  something  on  Dad.  Jack's  mother 
is  the  first  to  learn  the  truth.  When  father 
learns  tbe  relation  of  "Jimmie"  and  Jack  he  is 
induced  to  yield  bis  blessing. 


POWERS. 

BILLY  THE  SUFFRAGETTE  (April  25).— Billy 
Is  a  bright  young  man — at  least  Ada  thinks  so, 
and  she  ought  to  know,  for  they  have  been  secretly 
engaged  for  some  time.  Aunt  Cockle  does  not 
altogether  approve,  for  she  has  suffragette  lean- 
ings and  does  not  believe  in  spooning. 

The  deacon  calls  and  he  and  Mrs.  Cockle  talk 
about  the  suffragettes  and  Billy  is  sent  about  bis 
business  for  objecting  to  Ada  wearing  a  pretty 
sash    with    "Suffragette"    on    it. 

Mrs.  Cockle,  noting  the  presence  of  the  famous 
Mrs.  Spankburst  In  an  adjoining  town,  writes 
inviting  ber  to  call  and  meet  the  Suffragettes 
in  town.  She  gives  the  letter  to  Ada  to  post. 
Ada  meets  Billy  and  tells  bim  the  Import  of  the 
letter  and  Billy  gets  an  idea  and  purloins  tbe 
letter.  Billy  accepts  the  invitation  in  the  name 
of  Mrs.  Spankburst,  and  in  due  time  Billy,  dressed 
in  the  most'  approved  Suffragette  style,  arrives  by 
train  and  is  met  by  tbe  deacon,  Mrs.  Cockle  end 
Ada.  Things  happen  quickly  and  alarmingly. 
The  Suffragette  person  has  a  good  stiff  drink  and 
smokes  a  cigarette  and  flirts  with  tbe  deacon,  and 
finally  stating  she  is  tired,  locks  herself  in  Mrs. 
Cockle's    room    for    forty    winks. 

Mrs.  Cockle  is  at  her  wits'  end  and  begs  Billy, 
by  letter,  to  come  and  put  her  out.  Billy,  who 
has  escaped  by  tbe  window,  issues  terms.  He 
will  do  it  if  Aunt  Cockle  agrees  to  bis  immediate 
marriage  with  Ada.  Mrs.  Cockle  capitulates  and 
Billy  arrives.  He  goes  into  the  room  where  the 
supposed  Suffragette  Is  resting.  After  much  noise 
Billy  announces  to  the  family  that  tbe  Spank- 
burst   person    has    departed.     He    gets    Ada. 


MUTUAL  FILM  CORPORA- 
TION. 

AMERICAN. 

BOOBS  AUD  BRICKS  (April  211.— John  Bodkin 
and  Jasper  Raggout  were  suitors  for  tbe  hand  of 
the  belle  of  Podunk.  Very  well,  that  made  them 
natural  enemies.  The  belle  in  question,  however, 
favored  neither,  but  chose  to  bestow  the  glory  of 
her  smile  on  little  Fred  Putnam, 

One  day  there  came  to  town  a  charmingly  dressed 
and  very  handsome  "saleslady."  John  and  Jasper, 
along  with  the  rest  of  Podunk's  male  population, 
followed  her  around,  while  the  female  contingent 
elevated  tbelr  noses  steadily  upward.  The  beautiful 
Miss  was  hard  up,  evidently,  for  she  showed  a  tele- 
gram copy  of  her  wire  East  for  tbe  trifling  sum  of 
$1,000  for  expenses.  Enough!  John  Bodkin  and 
Jasper  Raggout  dug  into  tbeir  respective  boards, 
borowed  from  every  gentleman  of  Podunk  and  placed 
the  net  proceeds  in  the  fair  hands.  She  gave  them 
her  suit-case,  and  with  instructions  as  to  directions, 
Jobn  and  Jasper  made  way  down  tbe  road,  Mean- 
while the  heartless  fair  one  paid  her  board  bill  and 
left.  Later,  with  an  empty  suit-case  and  three 
paving  stones  in  their  lap,  John  and  Jasper  no  longer 
wonder  why  ladies'   apparel  weighs  so  much. 

WHEN  JIM  RETURNED  (April  24) — Jim  had 
been  away  a  long  time.  Pretty  Marjte  dressed  her- 
self in  her  very  best  when  she  heard  that  the  boys 
had  gone  to  the  station  to  bring  home  the  college 
chap.  Jim  arrived,  climbed  into  a  ranch  outfit  and 
felt  at  home  once  more.  The  boys  decided  to  give 
him  a  party.  This  was  the  Inspiration  of  Chick, 
who  confided  it  to  his  sweetheart,  Polly.  And  Polly 
hurried  off  to  Marjie,  who  in  torn  designed  a  little 
affair  of  her  own.  All  would  have  gone  well  If 
Jim,  in  his  exuberant  spirits,  had  not  kissed  Polly 
when  Chick  chanced  to  be  around.  Chick  objected 
and  started  to  queer  the  party.  The  result  was 
that  Chick  was  lassoed,  thrown  in  a  corral  with  a 
vicious  ram,  with  dire  results  to  himself  and  amuse- 
ment to  the  others. 

CALAMITY  ANNE'S  TRUST  (April  28).— Ca- 
lamity hauled  her  burro  through  a  stream  Just  in 
time  to  see  Sad  Eyed  O'Brien  put  a  pistol  to  bis 
head,  but  too  late  to  save  him.  Result— a  will  was 
found  In  which  Calamity  was  asked  to  take  charge 
of  O'Brien's  pretty  daughter.  Calamity  did,  leaving 
all  the  love  of  her  big  heart  on  the  orphan  child. 

Calamity'a  particular  forte  in  life  thereafter  was 
to  protect  ber  ward  against  cowpnnchers.  She 
wanted  that  ward  to  marry  a  "Dook"  or  prince,  or 
somebody  that  Calamity  had  vaguely  heard  about. 
Hence,  when  handsome  John  Wengle  made  ad- 
vances, Calamity  started  for  him  with  her  six- 
shooter.  In  fact',  every  time  that  Calamity  went 
abroad  she  had  occasion  to  nse  that  six-shooter,  for 
all  the  boys  were  bard  after  that  ward. 


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Oue  day  came  a  daintily  dressed,  snappy-looking 
little  chap,  arrayed  in  the  city's  latest.  What  the 
cowboys  did  to  him  was  a  scream,  nntil  Calamity 
Interfered  and  dispersed  them.  And  Calamity  had 
an  idea — why  not  marry  her  ward  to  this  evidently 
prosperous  youth.  She  tried — love  blossomed  with- 
out effort,  but  the  young  couple,  unaware  of  Ca- 
lamity's desires,  were  too  much  afraid  of  her.  So 
they  rushed  off  to  a  neighboring  town  and  had  the 
Job  done. 

Meanwhile,  the  stage  stopped  and  an  elderly,  well- 
dressed  gentleman  from  the  city  alighted.  The  half- 
doien  cowboys  eyed  him  curiously,  and  when  he 
carelessly  threw  his  suit-case  toward  them  to  carry. 
they  let  it  drop  and  stared  at  him.  Calamity  and 
he  met— met,  when  he  found  Calamity  fast  asleep 
in  a  doorway,  with  a  note  announcing  the  elope- 
ment in  her  hands.  Thus  papa  quickly  learned 
what  had  happened  to  his  Angel  Boy  and  aroused 
Calamity  roughly.  This  almost  cost  him  his  life, 
but  after  explanations,  Calamity  took  a  strong 
liking  toward  the  city  man.  After  a  bit  the  way- 
ward couple  returned  and  all  was  rejoicing  in  Ca- 
lamity's lint  and  all  was  sorrow  in  the  corral. 


MAJESTIC. 

PEDRO'S  REVENGE  (April  13).— Mr.  Bernard,  a 
fruit  grower,  is  short  of  help,  so  two  tramps  are 
put  to  work  with  other  fruit  pickers.  The  tramps 
work  part  of  the  day  and  then  start  a  flirtation 
with  one  of  the  girl  fruit  pickers.  Pedro,  the  girl's 
lover,  gets  jealous  and  attacks  the  tramps.  Ber- 
nard sees  the  fight  and  orders  the  tramps  and  Pedro 
to  come  to  the  house  and  he  will  pay  tbem  off.  At 
his  bouse,  Bernard  discovers  that'  he  has  very  little 
cash,  so  writes  a  check  and  asks  his  daughter. 
Dot,  to  drive  to  town  and  cash  it.  The  trmps  see 
her  start  off  with  the  check  and  plan  to  rob  her 
when  she  returns  from  the  bank.  The  tramps, 
while  waiting  her  return,  spend  their  money  for 
drink  while  Pedro  hunts  for  work  at  another  fruit 
ranch.  Dot  is  on  her  way  home  when  the  tramps 
attack  her  and  are  about  to  take  the  money  when 
Pedro  comes  to  her  rescue.  The  tramps  beat  him 
senseless,  but  Dot  escapes  and  runs  to  an  empty 
barn.  They  pursue  her;  Pedro  recovers  and  runs 
for  help.  Dot  hears  the  tramps  coming.  She  runs 
up  the  steps,  opens  a  trap  door  and  enters  the  loft. 
The  tramps  try  to  force  the  trap  door  open  and 
find  it  useless,  so  one  of  them  tries  to  enter  by 
way  of  the  hole  above  the  manger.  Pedro  has 
nil  the  fruit  ranch  and  tells  of  Dot's  danger. 
Bernard,  with  posse,  starts  out  to  rescue.  Dot  finds 
she  can't  guard  both  entrances  to  the  loft  so  backs 
to  corner  and  holds  the  tramps  at  bay  with  pitch- 
fork. The  rescue  party  arrives  in  time.  Pedro  is 
rewarded. 

I  LOVE  YOU  (April  16).— David  Wilde  is  saved 
from  drowning  by  little  Betty  Grey,  daughter  of 
a  Florida  fisherman.  She  has  her  father  bring  him 
to  their  cabin  where  he  is  cared  for  until  fully  re- 
covered. 

David  and  Betty  become  great  friends.  They  go 
for  long  walks  on  the  shore  and  often,  when  they 
stop  to  rest,  David  writes  the  words,  "I  love  you," 
in  the  sands. 

Then  the  time  comes  when  the  boy  feels  the  call 
of  his  own  kind  and  knows  he  must  return  to  the 
cyy.  He  bids  the  girl  boodbye  and  promises  to 
i -me  back- — some  time. 

Days  pass.  Betty  waits  for  a  letter  from  David — 
but  it  never  comes.  She  does  not  know  he  has  for- 
gotten her  and  is  engaged  to  his  old  sweetheart, 
until  one  day,  she  reads  that  he  is  at  a  local  hotel, 
visiting   his  intended  bride  and  her  parents. 

Heartbroken,  Betty  tells  herself  that  it  is  not 
true.  She  rushes  to  the  hotel  and  there  witnesses 
a  love  scene  between  David  and  the  rich  girl  he 
is  to  marry.  She  needs  no  further  proof.  With 
dragging  feet  and  aching  heart,  she  starts  to  re- 
turn to  her  cabin. 

And  in  the  sands  she  comes  across  the  words,  "I 
love  you,*'  written  by  her  lover  who  forgot.  Fall- 
ing on  her  knees,  she  flings  herself  across  them  and 
sobs  out  her  grief — alone! 

VIEWS  OF  PISA — The  Leaning  Tower  of  Pisa 
(April  16). — These  include  views  of  the  world- 
famous  leaning  tower,  built  in  1174  and  shows  the 
great  tower  bells,  the  largest  of  which  weighs  sis 
tons;  the  Baptistry,  Cathedral,  built  in  1063,  S. 
Maria  Delia  Spina  and  other  Interesting  features 
of  Italy's  most  interesting  city. 

THANHOUSER. 

THE  i>0G  IN  THE  BAGGAGE  CAR  (April  13).— 
The  actor  and  his  wife  suddenly  found  themselves 
"at  liberty"  because  the  manager  of  their  attrac- 
tion had  flittel  unexpectedly.  They  wanted  to  get 
back  to  New  York,  but  even  though  they  sold  all 
their  wardrobe  they  could  only  arrange  sufficient 
funds  to  pay  for  one  ticket.  The  woman,  however, 
had  an  inspiration:  the  railroad  company  carried 
baggare  free.  The  thespians  had  no  baggage,  there- 
fore she  decided  to  ship  her  husband  in  a  Saratoga 
trunk  in  the  baggage  car  ahead.  He  consented  to 
the  plan.  The  plan  was  marvelously  successful,  and 
the  husband  was  trundled  aboard  the  train  without 
arousing  any  suspicion.  His  wife  found  new  troub- 
les, however,  for  the  heartless  conductor  refused 
to  let  her  take  her  little  pet  dog  into  the  passen- 
ger car. 

The  baggage  master  was  a  soar  person,  who 
hated  everybody,  even  dogs.     Called  out  of  the  car 


for  a  moment,  he  returned  to  find  that  most  of  his 
lunch  had  vanished.  He  blamed  it  on  the  dog. 
Later  his  cigar  was  smoked  by  some  scoundrel,  and 
asa'.n  he  blamed  the  dog,  becoming  so  enraged  that 
he  finally  hurled  the  helpless  animal  Into  the  outer 
darkness  between  stations. 

The  woman  was  very  angry  when  she  learned  the 
fate  of  her  dog.  Being  bright  she  suspected  the 
cruse  of  the  trouble  and  extracting  her  baggage 
from  the  waiting  heap  she  removed  her  husband 
from  the  trunk  and  ordered  him  to  devote  his  time 
to  searching  for  "Tcotsie."  The  last  heard  of  them 
the  wife  \*as  at  a  railway  station  waiting  on  a 
truuk,  the  busband  was  down  the  road  whistling  for 
a  dog  while  the  laggage  master  was  declaiming 
bitterly  against  all  human  and  dog  kind. 

THE  GE&L  AND  THE  GRAFTER  (April  15).— 
The  city  editor  was  really  a  human  being,  not  one 
of  those  cold  heartless  machines  which  some  writers 
like  to  talk  about.  His  staff  was  enthusiastically 
loyal  to  him  and  every  member  of  it  sympathized 
when  It  seemed  that  his  star  was  in  danger  of  an 
eclipse.  The  editor  had  printed  a  story  which  met 
with  the  disapproval  of  the  city's  political  boss, 
who  revenged  himself  by  giving  news  "beats"  to 
the  rival  sheets.  The  managing  editor  realized  what 
the  trouble  was,  and  determined  to  sacrifice  his 
hard  working  assistant.  However,  he  gave  him  one 
week's  grace,  but  made  It  clear  that  at  the  end 
of  the  time  if  he  was  still  on  the  outs  with  the 
boss  he  must  seek  another  job.  The  paper  had  one 
girl  reporter,  and  contrary  to  precedent,  the  city 
editor  admired  her.  Womanlike  she  understood  the 
situation,  but  knew  that  there  would  be  no  romance 
in  her  life,  not  even  a  proposal,  if  the  city  editor 
was  discharged.  Therefore,  she  bated  the  boss,  oh, 
how  she  hated  him. 

Out  on  an  assignment  one  day  the  girl  happened 
to  pass  a  cheap  lodging  house  and  was  surprised 
when  the  boss  came  out,  and  went  down  the  street. 
She  saw  the  tenant  who  had  been  talking  with  him. 
and  recognized  him  as  one  of  the  traction  company's 
lobbyists.  Being  a  bright  newspaper  woman  she 
was  convinced  that  something  was  wrong,  and  that 
perhaps  she  might  have  a  chance  to  checkmate  her 
enemy.  On  the  impulse  of  the  moment  she  applied 
for  accommodations  and  succeeded  in  securing  the 
room   immediately   adjoining   that  of   the   lobbyist. 

A  day  or  two  later  the  lobbyist  and  the  boss  were 
closing  up  "a  business  transaction,"  which  necessi- 
tated the  passing  of  real  money.  The  door  of  the 
next  room  opened,  the  men  were  blinded  by  a 
flashlight  and  the  girl  rushed  away  with  a  photo- 
graph which  meant  ruin  for  the  grafters. 

The  city's  editor  did  not  lose  his  job.  Neither 
did  he  "make  up  with  the  boss,"  as  he  had  been 
ordered  to  do.  There  was  no  necessity,  for  the  boss 
went  to  the  penitentiary  and  was  unable  to  attend 
the  wedding  of  the  city  editor  and  the  girl  re- 
porter,  even  had  he  cared  to  do  so. 

RETRIBUTION  (April  18).— Although  the  young 
man  was  a  prosperous  storekeeper  in  a  little  coun- 
try town,  he  was  not  contented  with  his  lot  in  life, 
for  his  ambition  was  to  be  rich  and  to  have  a  hand- 
some home  in  the  city.  And  when  an  uncle  died, 
his  desire  was  gratified,  for  he  was  left  a  large  for- 
tune and  a  city  home. 

The  young  man  left  the  little  town,  but  told  his 
prettv  fiancee  that  he  would  soon  return  to  wed  her 
and  bring  her  to  bis  handsome  home.  But  when  he 
arrived  in  the  city  and  was  launched  in  the  gay 
social  life,  he  soon  began  to  feel  that  the  little 
country  belle  would  not  make  a  fit  wife  for  him, 
so  he  wrote  to  her,  breaking  the  engagement  and 
brutally  telling  her  to  seek  "a  husband  in  her  own 
station  In  life."  The  girl  was  heartbroken  for  a 
while,  but  soon  a  manly  farmer  won  her  heart  and 
made  her  forget  that  she  had  ever  cared  for  ber 
unworthy  suitor. 

The  rich  man  became  engaged  to  a  beautiful  girl, 
very  prominent  socially,  who  professed  to  care  very 
much  for  him.  He  made  her  many  handsome  pres- 
ents and  looked  forward  to  the  time  when  she  would 
be  bis  wife.  But  his  dream  was  rudely  dissipated 
when  news  was  received  that  his  trustee  had  lost 
his  fortune  in  speculation,  for  his  fiancee  promptly 
cast  him  aside.  None  of  his  city  friends  cared  for 
him,  now  that  he  was  penniless  and  he  steadily 
sank  in  the  social  scale. 

Several  vears  later,  a  tattered,  weary  tramp, 
stopped  at  a  little  farm  house  to  ask  for  food. 
The  farmer's  wife,  a  pretty  young  woman,  came 
to  the  door,  and  the  tramp,  in  surprise  and  shame, 
recognized  the  girl  whom  he  had  once  spurned.  She 
did  not  recognize  the  natty  storekeeper  in  the  dirty 
vagrant,  but  gladly  gave  him  food.  As  the  tramp 
shuffled  slowlv  down  the  road,  he  saw  the  young 
wife  ran  joyously  from  the  house  to  greet  her  hus- 
band. Happily  they  entered  their  home,  and  the 
tramp  sadly  continued  his  journey,  realizing  that 
If  he  had  been  loyal  he  would  not  now  be  a  home- 
less wanderer. 

KEYSTONE. 

CUPID  IN  A  DENTAL  PARLOR  (April  21)  — 
Harold  is  in  love  with  Ethel  Parks,  but  finds  scant 
favor  with  her  father.  Parks  always  manages  to 
get  his  daughter  away  from  her  admirer,  but  one 
day  Harold  makes  bold  to  call  at  the  house.  The 
reception  he  receives  shows  him  plainly  that  he 
will  never  win  the  old  man's  favor. 

Harold  goes  to  see  his  friend,  the  dentist.  While 
there,  Parks  comes  in,  suffering  with  an  aching 
tooth,    accompanied    by    Ethel.      Harold    Jams    him 


down  into  the  chair  and  applies  the  gas,  and  soon 
Parks  is  in  slumberland.  Harold  persuades  the 
dentist  to  take  Ethel  to  the  minister's  bouse  and 
await  him  there.  On  the  way  the  dentist,  himself 
a  suitor,  convinces  Ethel  that  she  should  marry 
blm,  and  the  knot  is  tied.  When  Harold  rushes 
up  he  is  coldly  met  by  the  couple  who  Inform  him 
that  they  are  married,  and  Harold  vents  his  spleen 
on  the  little  dentist. 

A  FISHY  AFFAIR  (April  24).— Perkins  likes  to 
fish,  and  his  wife  scolds  about  his  lazy  habits.  She 
hides  her  savings  in  an  old  stocking,  which  she 
conceals  under  the'  mattress  of  the  bed.  A  tramp 
enters  the  open  window  and  steals  the  hoard.  She 
Imagines  ber  bnsband  has  taken  the  money  and  is 
very  angry.  A  policeman  has  seen  the  tramp  and 
gives  chase.  Hard  pressed,  he  throws  the  stocking 
into  the  river.  While  the  policeman  continues  his 
pursuit,  Perkins  sits  down  on  the  bank  to  fish.  The 
fish  are  seen  nibbling  around  the  hook  by  clever 
photography.  Perkins  thinks  he  has  a  bite  and 
pulls  up  his  line,  finding  the  stocking  attached  to 
the  book.  He  throws  it  into  his  basket,  and  goes 
on  fishing.  Finally  he  gets  another  bite  and  hauls 
up  an  alligator.  Thoroughly  frightened,  he  rushes 
away  and  plunges  into  the  midst  of  a  score  of  alli- 
gators, and  he  has  a  narrow  escape  from  the 
snapping   Jaws. 

The  cop  and  the  tramp  have  an  exciting  chase 
and  tight,  and  the  strong  arm  of  the  law  drags  the 
hapless  wretch  back  to  the  Perkins  home.  Mrs. 
Perkins  sees  the  stocking  in  the  fish  basket  and 
brings  it  out.  The  tramp  convinces  them  of  his  in- 
nocence, and  Perkins  is  indignant  to  think  his  wife 
should  suspect  him  of  taking  her  money,  but  she 
finaly  cajoles  him  into  forgiveness. 

THE  BANGVIXLE  POLICE  (April  24).—  Delia 
expresses  ber  wish  for  a  calf  to  play  with  and  her 
father  to  surprise  her  buys  one  and  has  it  sent  borne. 
Delia  sees  the  men  in  the  barn  and  thinking  they 
are  thieves,  telephones  for  the  police.  They  have 
many  amusing  adventures  in  reaching  the  scene 
in  an  old  automobile,  which  finally  blows  up.  Delia 
has  locked  the  doors  and  piled  the  furniture  against 
them,  and  all  efforts  of  the  rescuing  party  meet 
with  added  screams  on  her  part.  The  door  is  finally 
broken  down  and  she  is  dragged  from  a  closet 
where  she  has  taken  refuge,  and  the  situation  is 
cleared. 


MUTUAL   WEEKLY 

MUTUAL  WEEKLY,  NO.  15  (April  9). New  York 
City. — Terrible  gas  explosion  on  the  East  Side. 
Two    killed    and    many    injured. 

Washington,  D.  C. — Egg-rolling  contest  at  the 
White    House. 

Berlin,  Germany. — The  royal  family  of  Denmark 
received   by    the   Kaiser. 

New  York  City. — Crowd  besieging  loan  office, 
which  was  robbed  of  $250,000  worth  of  pawned 
jewelry. 

San  Francisco,  Cal. — U.  S.  Army  Transport  de- 
parting  for   Manila. 

Tornado   scenes  in  Chicago. 

Albany  suffered  most  from  the  floods  in  New 
York  State. 

Cincinnati,  Ohio. — Interior  of  the  Pennsylvania 
R.   R.  Depot. 

Dayton,  Ohio. — Mr.  Patterson,  President  of  the 
National  Cash  Register  Company,  who  has  been 
working  day  and  night  for  the  relief  of  the  suf- 
ferers. The  bread  line  at  the  National  Cash  Reg- 
ister factory.  What  is  left  of  the  beautiful  and 
thriving  city  of  Dayton. 

Oyster  Bay,  L.  I. — Wedding  of  Miss  Btbel  Roose- 
velt and  Dr.  H.  Derby. 


MUTUAL  EDUCATIONAL. 

FUNNICU8  IS  TIRED  OF  LIFE  (April  24).— 
Funnicus  was  too  proud  to  bear  the  humiliations 
attached  to  an  empty  pocketbook,  and  therefore 
decided  to  put  an  end  to  his  troubles,  by  killing  him- 
self. He  then  reviewed  in  his  mind,  one  after  the 
other,  the  different  ways  by  which  he  might  kill 
himself.  He  thought  that  stabbing  himself  would 
succeed,  as  the  only  knife  in  reach  was  a  badly 
ened,  and  vulgar  kitchen  knife,  which  would 
only  tear  his  poor  skin.  WJiat  about  drowning?  It 
was  nice  Spring  weather.  As  we  Bee  our  unhappy 
Funnicus  melancholy,  and  reviewing  the  different 
wnvs  by  which  he  might  end  this  awful  life,  a 
group  of  students,  also  without  a  cent  in  their 
pockets,  and  on  the  lookout  for  pleasure  and  laugh- 
ter, and  realizing  that  the  bigger  the  crowd  the 
merier  the  time,  take  with  them  one  of  the  "dum- 
mies" stationed  at  the  door  of  a  tailor. 

Funnicus,  not  heeding  all  this  excitement,  still 
paced  up  and  down,  nursing  his  troubles,  and  con- 
templating suicide.  After  the  students  bad  dragged 
their  "cardboard"  comrade  from  door  to  door,  they 
became  tired  of  it,  and  resolved  to  get  rid  of  it 
liv  throwing  the  dummy  in  the  river.  Funnicus  de- 
Clded  at  the  Bame  time  to  leap  overboard,  dashed 
to  the  river.  Much  to  the  alarm  of  this  crowd  of 
foolish  boys,  he  jumped  in  also.  The  boys  screamed 
"Help!  Help!"  and  ran  in  the  direction  of  the 
drowning. 

A  crowd  quickly  gathered  to  help  the  drowning 
man,  but  as  fate  would  have  it,  the  current  pulled 
blm   to  the  other  side  of  the  river.     But  the   sul- 


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There  were  no  high  grade  Lenses  on  the  market  until  GTTNTJ- 
ILAOH  LENSES  were  made  and  none  now  that  equal  them  In  optical 
quality    and    Illuminating    power. 

The  GUNDLACH  NO.  2  PROJECTION  LENSES  made  the  long 
throw  possible  and  already  hundreds  of  theater  owners  hare  taken 
advantage  of  this  opportunity  to  Increase  their  theaters  In  lengtk 
and  aeatlng  capacity  adding  to  their  profits  at  the  same  time. 

The  superior  quality  of  GTJNDLACH  PROJECTION  LENSES 
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cide  was  delayed  by  the  fact,  that  when  poor 
Funnlcus  was  contemplating  drowning  himself,  he 
saw  the  leap  into  the  river  of  the  "dummy"  and 
thinking  it  was  a  man,  decided  to  do  one  redeeming 
act  of  charity  before  dying,  and  save  this  unfortu- 
nate. That  is  why  he  also  leaped  into  the  river, 
pursuing  this  drowning  object,  and  succeeded  in 
bringing  it  to  the  other  side  of  the  river.  But, 
when  he  proceeded  to  give  It  In  charge  of  the 
villagers,   he  was  laughed  at  and  then  arrested. 

ELECTRICAL  PHENOMENA  (April  24) .  —  The 
electric  machine,  called  a  "statis  machine,"  which 
will  produce  the  electricity  necessary  for  our  ex- 
periments, is  composed  of  two  discs  of  glass  turn- 
ing in  opposite  directions,  and  fitted  with  small 
copper  plates.  Metallic  brushes  touch  the  copper 
plates  and  electrify  them;  conductors  or  "combs" 
fitted  with  points  collect  the  electricity  developed 
by  the  passage  of  the  brushes  on  the  copper  plates 
and  vivid  sparks  appear  between  the  balls  of  the 
machine. 

In  the  experiment  of  the  "Tourniquet,"  needles 
with  points,  which  are  curved,  torn  in  opposite  di- 
rections to  the  points;  this  is  a  phenomenon  due  to 
the  repulsion  caused  by  the  electricity  passing 
through    these   points. 

An  experiment  made  by  Benjamin  Franklin  is  also 
depicted  in  this  film:  A  kite,  fitted  with  a  metal 
point,  ascends  to  gather  atmospheric  electricity 
from  the  clouds.  If,  at  the  base  of  the  metal  cord 
attached  to  the  kite,  we  hang  a  key,  the  approach 
of  another  key  causes  large  sparks  to  appear.  In 
America,  after  Franklin's  discovery,  exaggeration 
was  so  great,  that  umbrellas  were  fitted  with  light- 
ning conductors  connected  with  the  ground  by  a 
metal  chain. 

Another  experiment  from  Faraday  is  also  de- 
picted here:  A  little  bird  is  protected  from  the 
electric  discharge,  it's  cage  being  entirely  of  metal, 
by  attaching  it  to  the  ground  with  a  connecting  wire 
as  a  conductor.  The  lightning  conductor  which 
leads  the  electric  spark  into  the  earth  was  discov- 
ered by  Benjamin  Franklin  In  1763. 

RELIANCE. 

FOR  LOVE  OF  COLUMBINE  (April  12).— Back 
of  the  scenes  at  a  theater,  a  boy,  Pierrot,  and  a 
girl,  Columbine,  played  at  love.  With  the  girl  It 
was  jost  fun,  bat'  with  the  boy  it  was  real,  serious, 
earnest  love.  She  loved  to  tease  him  by  flirting 
with  the  other  boys.  Soon  she  married  a  wealthy 
admirer  and  went  to  live  in  a  big  mansion.  She 
thought  she  could  tease  her  husband,  like  she  teased 
Pierrot,  by  flirting  with  other  men.  He  left  her. 
In  her  grief,  Columbklne  went  to  Pierrot  at  the 
theater.  He  still  loved  her  and  often  visited  her 
at  her  boarding  house.  Her  grief  Is  such  that 
Pierrot  formed  a  plan  for  a  reconciliation.  He 
put  on  evening  clothes  and  went  to  the  husband's 
club  and  got  in  conversation  with  him.  Pretending 
drunkenness,  be  boasted  how  a  pretty  Columbine 
had  left  her  husband  and  come  to  him.  This  aroused 
the  husband's  jealousy  and  Pierrot  took  him  to 
Columbine.  Their  qnarrel  was  patched  up  and 
Pierrot  returned  to  the  theater  with  a  heavy  heart 
to  make  others  laugh. 

HELD  FOR  RANSOM  (2  parts— April  16)  .— 
Young  Gordon  Grant,  swindled  out  of  his  fortune  by 
Cyras  Brooks,  a  wealthy  financier,  vows  to  get 
even.  Gordon  goes  home  to  Virginia,  takes  his  few 
belongings  to  a  high  mountain  hut,  and  becomes  a 
hermit.  One  day  an  auto  Is  stalled  on  the  moun- 
tain. In  it  are  Brooks  and  his  daughter,  while 
Brooks  and  the  chauffeur  go  for  assistance  Gordon 
carries  the  girl  to  his  hat.  There  he  tells  her  of 
her  father's  deeds,  and  notifies  Brooks  that  his 
daughter  Is  held  for  ransom.  The  girl  rather  en- 
Joys  the  situation.  One  day  on  the  mountain  she 
and  Gordon  see  a  legendary  apparition  form 
mist.  Gordon  takes  this  as  an  omen  that  he  has 
done  wrong  and  seta  the  girl  free.  She  goes  and 
pleads  with  her  father  to  make  restitution  and 
threatens  to  return  to  Gordon  If  he  does  not.  The 
old  man  relents  and  gives  her  the  amount,  which 
she  takes  to  Gordon.  She  and  Bordon  have  learned 
to  love  each  other  and  they  return  to  the  world 
together. 

KAY-BEE. 

WILL  O'  THE  WISP  (2  parts,  April  25  — Jim 
Dome's  circus,  enroute  to  California,  stops  at  the 
settlement  town.  Bnd  Watkins  is  living  happily 
with  his  young  wife  and  little  baby.  Mrs.  Dorne 
meets  the  owner  of  the  show,  who  persuades  her 
to  enter  a  riding  contest,  and  she  wins  the  first  prize, 
a  complete  riding  habit.  Dome  and  Watkins  be- 
come good  friends,  and  Watkina  invites  the  circus 
owner  to  stop  at  his  house.  Dome  takes  advantage 
of  the  opportunities  afforded  him  while  the  hus- 
band Is  out  prospecting,  to  fill  Mrs.  Watkins*  head 
full  of  wild  notions  of  fame  and  fortune,  and  she 
goes  away  with  the  circus,  leaving  a  note  to  Bud 
reading:  "I  cannot  stand  this  lonesome  life  any 
longer.  I  have  Joined  the  circus  merely  as  a  per- 
former, Bud,  for  I  love  yon.  Take  care  of  baby 
and  don't  try  to  follow.     Will  write  soon." 

Bud  is  broken-hearted,  and  beomes  greatly  an- 
gered at  the  circus  man,  vowing,  In  his  first 
moments  of  wild  grief  to  kill  Dome,  but  he  calms 
down  and  begins  to  think  of  getting  his  wife  back 
again. 

Mrs.  Watkins  finds  that  circus  life  is  not  the 
rosy  path  pictured  to  her,   and  writes   to  her  bus- 


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band,  but  Dome  intercepts  the  letters  and  tears 
them  up.  She  has  become  friendly  with  the 
strong  man  and  his  wife,  the  couple  having  a  tiny 
baby  which  reminds  Nell  Watkins  of  her  own  child 
at  home.  One  day,  perplexed  because  she  does  not 
hear  from  Bud,  Nell  discovers  that  Dome  has 
been  stopping  her  letters,  and  in  a  furious  scene 
she  upbraids  him.  Her  biting  words  sting  the 
circus  man  to  terrible  fury,  and  he  attacks  her, 
but  the  strong  man  comes  to  her  aid  and  thrashes 
Dorne.  The  three  performers  quit  the  show  and 
try  to  make  their  way  back,  but  become  lost  in  the 
desert,    and   the   baby   dies. 

The  trio,  after  enduring  much  hardship  finally 
reach  Nell's  home,  and  a  tender  reconciliation  takes 
place  between   Bud   and   his   wife. 

The  circus  goes  on  its  way,  and  is  attacked  by 
a  band  of  hostile  Indians.  A  terrible  battle  takes 
place,  in  which  the  circus  people  madly  fight  for 
their  lives.  A  troop  of  cavalry  in  search  of  the 
hostiles  hear  the  firing  and  gallop  to  the  scene, 
where,  after  a  sharp  battle,  the  Indians  are 
driven   off. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  battle  Dome  deserted 
his  followers  and  took  refuge  in  a  cave,  in  the 
back  of  which  he  found  a  hole  and  endeavored  to 
escape.  The  rifle  shots  have  set  fire  to  the  dry 
grass,  however,  and  the  wind  whips  the  flames 
into  rushing  mountains  of  fire,  which  are  shown 
pursuing  the  tenor-stricken  man  until  they  over- 
take  him   and   engulf    him  in   their  lurid  embrace. 


the  magistrate  through  a  note  that  the  convicts 
who  escaped  are  disguised  as  tourists.  Beck  and 
Und  present  themselves  at  the  Brenta  home,  and 
on  account  of  their  gentlemanly  demeanor,  are  per- 
mitted to  be  guests  overnight.  After  the  family  and 
guests  have  retired  Black  Bill  pays  a  midnight  visit 
to  the  house  and  enters  the  room  occupied  by  the 
tourists.  He  steals  Lind' a  note  book  and  his  money 
when  he  is  discovered  In  the  act  of  escaping.  land 
grabs  him,  but  in  a  spirit  of  charity  and  forgive- 
ness, decides  not  to  tarn  him  over  to  the  police.  In- 
stead, he  allows  him  to  keep  the  money  and  pocket- 
book  and  advises  him  to  mend  his  ways.  On  the 
following  morning  Judge  Smith  arrives  at  the 
Brenta  home  and  Informs  the  family  that  two 
convicts  have  been  harbored  overnight.  There  is 
suppressed  excitement  while  the  police  are  being 
summoned,  and  when  Beck  and  Lind  appear  they 
are  openly  accused.  Just  as  they  are  about  to  be 
arrested,  Black  Bill  enters  and  returns  the  money 
and  pocketbook  to  Lind.  Then  all  Is  made  clear 
and  Black  Bill  makes  a  clean  breast  of  his  escape 
and  the  deception  he  had  practiced.  Before  the 
close  of  the  story  It  is  apparent  that  Lind  and  Emma 
love  each  other  and  the  same  sentiment  is  mani- 
fest between  Beck  and  Mabel. 


bRONCHO 

RETROGRESSION  (2  parta  —  April  28).— Jim 
Hardy,  serving  time  for  safe  cracking,  receives 
notice  that  his  term  has  expired,  and  tells  his 
cellmate,  Rusty,  that  he  is  going  to  start  life 
anew  and  keep  straight.  Rusty  laughs  at  him 
and  tells  him  he  will  not  get  a  chance  to  reform, 
as  the  police  will  hound  him  to  death.  Hardy 
receives  a  new  suit  of  clothes  and  five  dollars, 
aud  is  met  at  the  prison  door  by  his  daughter, 
Helen.  He  gets  work  in  a  grocery  store,  but  a 
detective  recognizes  him  and  tells  the  proprietor 
that  he  is  harboring  an  ex-convict,  and  Hardy  is 
discharged.  Helen  has  been  working  and  saving 
her  money,  and  she  suggests  to  her  father  that 
they  go  west  and  start  lite  anew  in  the  west. 
Hardy  is  given  a  chance  to  make  good,  being  em- 
ployed as  a  watchman  in  the  little  western  bank. 
Lieut.  Baker,  of  the  U.  S.  Cavalry,  meets 
Helen,  and  the  two  young  people  fall  in  love. 
Hardy   writes   to   Rusty   as   follows: 

"Dear  Pal  Rusty:  Got  a  good  job  as  a  night 
watchman  in  a  bank.  Don't  laugh.  It's  on  the 
square.  Can  you  imagine  me  watching  a  safe 
with  twenty  thousand  in  it  and  dead  easy  to 
crack.  But  I'm  temptation  proof  as  long  as  1 
can  let  the  Amber  Devil,  whiskey,  alone.  Look 
for  a  letter  from  you  shortly.  Your  old  pal,  Jim 
Hardy." 

A  week  later  Rusty  takes  advantage  of  visiting 
day  to  secure  access  to  the  lockers,  and  escapes 
dressed  in  a  guard's  uniform.  He  makes  his  way 
to  Hardy's  town,  and  is  taken  in  by  the  latter 
and  fed  and  clothed. 

Detective  Burton,  on  the  trail  of  the  escaped 
convict,  follows  his  man.  Rusty  sees  him  in  a 
saloon  and  rushes  back  in  fear  to  Hardy.  He  plies 
Hardy  with  whiskey,  and  tells  him  that  the  detec- 
tive will  make  him  lose  bis  job,  and  that  he  had 
better  crack  the  safe  and  get  away  with  the  money. 
Helen  tries  to  interfere,  but  Rusty  roughly  tells 
her  to  keep  still  or  he  will  tell  her  "sweetheart 
her  father  is   an  ex-convict. 

That  night  they  attempt  to  rob  the  bank.  Rusty 
keeps  watch  while  Hardy  enters  and  blows  open 
the  vault  doors.  The  detective  is  on  the  job, 
however,  and  Hardy  Suds  himself  looking  into  the 
barrel  of  a  pistol  held  by  Burton  at  the  window. 
Rusty  sneaks  up  behind  the  detective  and  deals 
him  a  crashing  blow,  rendering  him  unconscious. 
Helen,  who  has  mustered  up  courage  at  the  last 
moment  to  attempt  to  stop  the  robbery  and  save 
her  father  from  crime,  rushes  up  and  is  attacked 
by  Rusty.  Hardy  runs  to  the  defense  of  his  daugh- 
ter and  in  the  scuffle  is  shot  and  killed.  Rusty 
making  his  escape.  The  banker  believes  that  his 
watchman  has  been  killed  by  the  burglar.  Helen 
confesses  everything  to  Lieut.  Baker,  who  goes 
to  the  detective,  when  he  has  regained  conscious- 
ness and  persuades  him  to  remain  silent  regarding 
Hardy's  past.  He  tells  Helen  that  she  is  not  to 
blame   for   her   father's    sins,    and  marries   her. 

Rusty  flees  into  lands  occupied  by  hostile  In- 
dians,  and  is  attacked,   meeting  a  tragic  death. 


MISCELLANEOUS. 

GREAT  NORTHERN. 

THE  TWO  CONVICTS  (April  19).— Beck  and  Lind 
are  two  young  tourists  who  happen  to  be  near  the 
country  place  of  Mr.  Brenta,  when  Black  Bill  and 
his  pal  escape  from  a  prison  some  little  distance 
away.  As  the  tourists  are  sauntering  along  the 
road,  Brenta  and  his  daughters,  Emma  and  Mabel 
pass  them  in  their  carriage.  It  appeared  like  a 
double  case  of  love  at  first  sight.  In  the  mean- 
time, Black  Bill  and  his  pal  have  changed  their 
prison  garb  in  the  house  of  a  friend  and  sally  forth. 
They  encounter  the  young  tourists  and  then  notify 


KINEMACOLOR. 

OUT  OF  THE  DAEK2TESS. — Two  brothers  lor, 
the  same  girl,  she  marries  the  elder,  the  younger 
takes  to  dissipation.  Financially  wrecked  by  gambl- 
ing, be  comes  to  his  sister-in-law,  and  she  helps  htm. 
In  gratitude,  be  kisses  her.  Her  husband  returns  in 
time  to  see  this,  and  rushes  away  without  walling 
for  an  explanation.  The  husband  writes  a  message 
to  his  wife  stating  that  he  knows  her  love  for  bis 
brother  and  that  he  has  committed  suicide.  This 
note,  together  with  his  hat,  overcoat  and  pocket- 
book,  he  leaves  upon  the  rocks,  where  it  Is  found 
by  some  fishermen,   who  take  it  to  the  wife. 

The  shock  of  her  husband's  supposed  death  un- 
seats his  wife's  reason.  The  demented  woman  see- 
ing visions  of  her  husband  seated  in  his  accus- 
tomed chair.  As  she  tries  to  embrace  him  her 
arms  pass  through  his  phantom,  she  sinks  back 
desperate.  The  husband  reads  of  his  wife's  sad 
condition  and  hurries  home.  The  family  physician 
determines  to  try  a  desperate  remedy.  The  husband 
is  placed  in  the  chair  the  vision  has  so  long 
occupied.  Once  more  the  woman  tries  to  embrace 
the  vision  and  finds  it  flesh  and  blood.  With  a 
joyous  cry  of  "He  lives,  he  lives"  she  sinks  limp 
into  the  arms  of  her  husband. 

STEAM. — This  picture  shows  the  development  of 
steam  power  from  the  period  when  James  Watt  dis- 
covered it's  ability  to  lift  the  lid  of  a  tea  kettle — 
and  deduced  therefrom  the  hoisting  engine  for  use 
In  the  English  mine  pits — to  Its  culmination  in  the 
modern  high-speed  locomotive. 

The  chief  incidents  In  the  lives  of  the  inventor 
of  the  first  steam  engine,  and  George  Stephenson, 
who  built  the  first  locomotive,  are  woven  Into  the 
story — which  includes  the  homely  romances  and 
happy  marriages  of  both  these  homespun  geniuses. 
Furthermore,  the  film  shows  a  faithful  model  of  the 
original  Watt  engine  in  operation,  and  also  a  work- 
ing reproduction  of  Stephenson's  queer  looking  loco- 
motive. The  first  trip  of  this  historic  engine  is 
shown  in  the  story — even  to  the  humorous  detail 
of  the  man  on  horseback  riding  ahead  of  the  train 
and  waving  a  red  flag  to  warn  the  unsuspecting 
public  off  tbe  track. 

MODELING  EXTBAOBDrNABY. — An  absolutely 
novel  trick  subject,  full  of  amusing  and  unexpected 
developments. 

FEATHEBTOP. — A  picture  adapted  from  one  of 
Hawthorne's  stories.  The  tale  Is  of  early  Colonial 
New  England,  with  appropriate  costumes  and  set- 
tings. A  witch  creates  a  scarecrow.  Godkin,  one 
nf  the  villagers,  has  a  pretty  daughter,  and  for  her 
lie  Is  very  ambitions.  Tbe  witch  has  a  grudge 
nirainst  Godkin.  She  transforms  the  scarecrow, 
Feathertop.  Into  a  handsome  man.  The  daughter 
falls  in  love  with  him.  It  is  love  at  first  sight. 
Poor  Feathertop  passes  in  front  of  tbe  mirror,  where, 
to  his  horror,  and  that'  of  the  girl,  he  sees  his  true 
reflection — not  the  exquisite  dandy,  but  the  scare- 
crow, clothed  in  rags.  He  rushes  home  to  his 
creator  and  denounces  her.  saying:  "Ton  could 
give  me  life,  but  not  a  soul."  We  see  him  gradually 
fade  into  a  scarecrow,  which  sways  and  topples  to 
the  floor,  a  heap  of  wood  and  straw. 

PILOT. 

THE  PBOMOTEB  (April  17) Jack  rose  considers 

himself  a  failure  in  making  a  lucreative  livelihood 
bv  honst  means.  On  the  advice  of  Paul  Bryce,  a 
promoter,  he  becomes  a  schemer  and  successfully 
exploits  fake  mining  stock  and  kindred  schemes. 
As  be  completes  the  promoting  of  his  biggest  enter- 
prise an  independent  sugar  refinery,  be  becomes 
acquainted  with  Jessie  Cleveland,  the  daughter  of 
his  heaviest  Investor.  Their  friendship  ripens  into 
love,  and,  as  Bose  knowB  that  the  refinery  stands 
no  chance  of  success  as  a  profit  maker  because  of 
the  trust's  strangle  hold  on  the  industry,  he  is  In 
a  quandary.  Now,  no  longer  a  money  making 
failure,  the  promoter  considers  himself  a  failure  in 
love.  He  determines  to  confess  all  to  Jessie  and 
give  her  up.  Tbe  girl,  her  illusions  shattered,  goes 
awav.  presumably  for  her  health,  saying  nothing 
to  her  father  as  to  her  Interview  with  Bose.     At  a 


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meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors — a  strong  scene — 
Rose  is  denounced  by  Jessie's  father — who  has  been 
Investigating  matters  privately — for  Inveigling  him 
and  his  friends  to  invest  in  an  enterprise  that  Rose 
knew  to  be  questionable.  Kose  is  on  the  point  of 
admitting  his  duplicity  when  a  wire  arrives  from 
the  sugar  truBt,  which  is  in  need  of  equipment, 
making  a  splendid  offer  for  the  Independent  plant. 
(This  situation  is  taken  from  life.  Note  the  con- 
ditions of  the  sale  of  the  Adolph  Segal  Sugar  Re- 
finery plant  to  the  trust  in  Philadelphia).  Rose's 
status  instantly  changes  from  that  of  a  scheming 
fakir  to  that  of  a  financial  genius.  The  directors 
vote  to  accept  the  offer,  apologize  to  Rose  and  con- 
gratulate him.  Jessie  and  Rose  are  reconciled  and 
the  latter,  warned  by  bis  narrow  escape  and  his 
moral  sense  awakened  by  love,  abandons  his  schem- 
ing and  goes  into  legitimate  business  with  bis 
flancfie's  father. 

OAUMONT. 

GAUMONT  -WEEKLY,  NO.  67  (April  2).— Flower 
Day  in  Cairo. — Many  beautiful  floral  boats  in 
Egyptian    carnival. 

A  Volcano  in  Eruption. — Watching  the  laval 
bubble  on  the  Isle  of  Tamagna. 

Automobile  Bank, — Baltimore  concern  calls  at 
your  door  for  deposits. 

A  Wolf  Hunt  in  Russia.— Gun  Club  of  Moscow 
spends  exciting  day. 

A  Strenuous  Egg  Roll  in  Denver. — Colorado  chil- 
dren contest  for  the  Denver  Republican  prize. 

Thirty  Homes  Destroyed. — Swansea,  England,  is 
visited  by  conflagration   wiping  out  many  cottages. 

Spring  Plowing  in  Order. — One  thousand-acre 
ranch  gets  ready  for  annual  planting. 

Aviator  Takes  a  Bad  Fail. — Ralph  Newcomb  drops 
into  bay  at  San  Pedro,  Cal.,  but  escapes  uninjured. 

Hydroplane  for  Wilmelm  n. — German  Emperor 
watches  experiments  at  Wllhelmshaven. 

A  Russian  Avalanche. — Snowslide  strikes  Moon- 
tain  City    and  causes  enormous   damage. 

Gathering  up  the  Wreckage. — Scenes  incident  to 
the  floods  and  cyclones  in  the  Central  West. 

THE  ANGEL  OF  MERCY  (April  8).— A  Red  Cross 
nurse,  Florence  Valfontalne,  obtains  a  permit  to  go 
to  the  front.  At  headquarters,  at  the  same  time 
with  the  nurse  is  a  courier  from  the  French  Lieu- 
tenant-General.  He  puts  In  his  bag  important 
papers.  A  man,  acting  as  a  servant',  takes  unusual 
interest. 

After  the  courier  has  departed,  the  servant  spy 
■ends  a  telegram.  "Courier  leaves  tonight.  Will 
be  interesting  to  know  what  bag  contains.'* 

Two  accomplices  of  the  spy  board  the  train  with 
the  courier  and  enter  the  same  compartment.  The 
nurse  takes  this  train  also  and  enters  the  next  com- 
partment. As  the  train  is  passing  through  a  tunnel 
■he  hears  a  noise.  Looking  through  a  window,  she 
•ees  the  courier  being  overpowered  by  the  secret 
emissaries.  At  the  first  station  the  nurse  informs 
an  officer  of  the  crime.  Men  rush  back  to  where 
the  courier  had  been  thrown  from  the  train.  They 
find  him,  seriously  wounded.  The  courier  tells  the 
nurse  that  his  despatches  were  stolen.  One  con- 
tained the  information  that  a  convoy  of  war  sup- 
plies was  scheduled  to  cross  the  frontier  on  that 
day  for  headquarters.  It'  la  understood  then  that  the 
enemies'  purpose  is  to  wreck  the  train.  The  nurse, 
with  special  officers,  rush  in  an  automobile  to  the 
place  where  they  know  the  secret  emissaries  would 
try  to  derail  the  train.  They  arrive  Just  in  time 
to  overpower  the  spies  as  they  are  about  to  pull 
the  switch,  which  would  have  sent  the  train  to 
destruction. 

THE  CUPIDITY  OF  CUPID  (April  10).— By  the 
terms  of  her  dead  husband's  will,  the  wife  Is  re- 
strained from  remarrying.  In  the  event  that  she 
does,  the  inheritance  of  $200,000  would  revert  to 
her  sister.  The  Bister,  hearing  of  this,  plans  with 
her  Bister's  lawyer  to  entice  the  widow  into  mar- 
riage, the  lawyer  to  receive  10  per  cent,  of  the 
money.  He  thinks  that  he  himself  Is  a  favorable 
suitor  and  calls  upon  the  widow.  But  great  Is  his 
surprise  when  he  finds  the  widow  in  the  arms  of 
her  sister's  son.  They  are  eventually  married  and 
the  sister,  who  had  planned  to  get  the  fortune, 
turns  it  over  to  her  son,  thereby  keeping  the  for- 
tune in  the  ex-widow's  bands. 

ON  THE  FIRING  LINE  (April  10).— A  Laffin 
Hlena  has  become  heir  to  hia  uncle's  Immense  for- 
tune. The  boss  Is  adverse  to  accepting  his  resig- 
nation. Hiena  plays  all  sorts  of  tricks  on  the  boss, 
but  every  prank  brings  the  boss  more  business,  fer 
which  the  boss  thanks  him.  One  day  Hiena  is  ad- 
vised by  bis  lawyers  that  they  made  a  mistake  in 
reading  the  will  and  that  the  money  goes  to  the 
Home  for  Friendless  Fleas.  Whereupon  Hiena  goes 
back  to  his  employer  and  becomes  a  model  em- 
ployee. 

FEATURE  RELEASES. 

"WARNER'S    FEATURES." 

MEXICAN  CONSPIRACY  OUT-GENERALED.— 
Mexico  is  in  the  midst  of  a  revolution.  G'eneral 
Galvez,  commanding  the  loyal  Federal  troops,  sr-eks 
to  obtain  a  loan  from  Harriman  &  Tipps,  Wall 
Street  bankers.  Herminia,  a  maid  in  the  general's 
household,  overhears  the  conference  and  informs 
Tonio,  colonel  of  the  Rebels,  who  sends  his  spy, 
Karr,   to  New  York   to  get  the  loan  for  the  Rebel 


army.  Unsuccessful,  Karr  robs  the  New  York  firm 
of  the  money  and  makes  his  escape  to  Mexico. 

Martha  Langley,  of  the  Tinkerton  Detective 
Agency,  is  sent  to  Mexico  immediately.  Tipps  also 
goes  to  Mexico  to  discuss  the  loan  with  General 
Galvez.  Tipps  leaves  the  general's  home  and  Karr 
enters  secretly  through  a  window  to  steal  the 
Federal  plans  of  attack.  In  the  ensuing  struggle 
he  stabs  General  Galvez  and  makes  his  get-away 
unobserved. 

Tipps  is  arrested  at  the  railway  station  and  ac- 
cused of  the  murder  as  the  last  one  to  leave  the 
presence  of  the  general.  Martha  picks  up  a  hat- 
band in  the  room  where  the  struggle  took  place 
and  sets  out  to  find  the  real  murderer.  She  falls 
into  a  trap  laid  for  her  by  Karr's  desperadoes,  and 
recovers  consciousness  with  her  luxuriant  hair 
fastened  in  the  drawer  of  a  washstand.  With  a 
pair  of  manicure  scissors,  she  cuts  herself  loose, 
digs  a  hole  through  the  stone  wall  of  ber  prison 
and  escapes  by  swimming  the  river. 

Going  to  the  borne  of  the  murdered  general, 
Martha  disguises  herself  as  the  maid  and  secures  a 
note  sent  by  Karr,  the  murderer.  She  brings  about 
Karr's  capture  and  gets  the  U.  S.  Consul  to  inter- 
cede Just  in  time  to  save  Tipps  from  being  lynched. 
After  her  heroic  work  in  hia  behalf,  Tipps  quite 
naturally  falls  in  love  with  Martha  and  persuades 
her  to  marry  him.  A  year  later  they  are  shown 
in  their  Northern  home  with  a  little  baby  to  bring 
them  joy. 


UNION   FEATURES. 

RESTITUTION. — Having  lost  his  fortune,  Emile 
Marval  went  to  America  to  regain  it  and  left  his 
son,  Robert,  then  a  young  boy,  in  the  care  of  his 
old  friend,  Duschesne,  a  notary.  Several  months 
after  Marval  returned  with  an  immense  fortune, 
and  the  sight'  of  the  money  animated  Dusohesne's 
insatiable  greed  for  gold.  By  a  stratagem  the 
avaricious  Duschesne  extinguished  the  life  of  the 
millionaire,  acquired  the  fortune  and  adopted  the 
boy.  Twenty  years  later  Robert,  grown  to  man- 
hood, is  enamoured  with  Banker  Lazare's  daughter. 
Sometime  later  Mr.  Darbois,  a  friend  of  Marvel, 
called  upon  the  son.  In  the  interview  Robert  learn- 
ed that  his  father  was  a  very  wealthy  man,  and  the 
fact  that  he  died  poor  aroused  the  suspicions  of 
Darbois;  he  decided  to  investigate.  In  the  guise 
of  an  old  clerk,  Darbois  secured  a  position  as  pri- 
vate secretary  to  the  notary,  and  it  was  in  this 
capacity  that  he  learned  of  the  hiding  place  of 
Duschesne's  ill-gotten  gains.  He  told  the  son,  who, 
noting  the  strong  resemblance  between  his  father 
and  Darbois,  disguised  him  so  that  be  looked  like 
the  murdered  man.  That  night,  when  the  old  notary 
went  to  the  hiding  place  to  count  his  gold,  Darbois 
appeared.  He  thought  it  was  the  ghost  of  Marvel 
and  In  terror,  fled  from  the  place.  Robert  and 
Darbois  went  to  the  home  of  the  banker,  Lazare, 
and  told  him  of  their  discovery.  All  went  to  the 
notary's  home,  but  all  they  found  when  they  reached 
the  place  was  a  mass  of  wreckage,  Duschesne's 
conscience  having  troubled  him  so  much  that  he 
dynamited  the  house.  They  extricated  the  dead  body 
of  the  notary,  secured  the  fortune,  and  a  short 
while  after  Robert  and  the  banker's  daughter  were 
happily  married. 

AN  ACCURSED  INHERITANCE.— Against  the 
protests  of  his  many  friends,  Gallois,  a  Norman 
horse  dealer,  at  the  baptism  of  his  second  son, 
Lucien,  gave  his  first  son,  Charles,  still  a  very 
young  boy,  his  first  glass  of  wine.  This  started 
a  long  train  of  trouble  which  came  to  this  family. 
Fifteen  years  later,  Lucien  was  graduated  with 
honors  from  a  medical  college,  while  his  brother 
was  a  ne'er-do-well  caused  by  drink.  At  the 
wedding  festival  of  Lucien  and  Jeanne,  Charles* 
disgraceful  actions  brought  on  the  death  of  bis 
father.  For  a  long  time  after  Lucien  and  his  wife 
bad  beard  nothing  of  Charles,  until  one  day  they 
received  a  letter  from  the  derelict  saying  that  as 
he  has  conquered  drink  he  would  like  to  be  taken 
into  their  borne.  He  was.  But  at  the  christening 
of  the  daughter  of  Jeanne,  Charles  lost  control  of 
himself  and  again  his  disgraceful  actions  caused 
the  sacrifice  of  life  of  the  newly  made  mother. 
Twenty  years  later,  Cecille,  the  daughter,  has  be- 
come engaged  to  Roger  Devieu.  A  few  days  before 
her  wedding  day,  Cecille  was  attacked,  when  driv- 
ing, by  a  tramp.  On  account  of  her  nervous  state 
she  was  unable  to  give  a  description  of  the  tramp 
to  the  police.  However,  the  derelict  was  later  ap- 
prehended and  when  he  was  brought  face  to  face 
with  Cecille,  Lucien  recognized  his  brother.  The 
terrible  shock  was  too  much  for  Cecille  and  she, 
too,    passed   away  on  her   wedding   day. 


Among  the  Exhibitors 

Deer  Park,  "Wash. — G.  Anderson  will  open  a 
motion    picture    theater    here. 

Seattle,  Wash. — The  Clemmer  Co..  moving  pic- 
ture shows,  incorporated;  capital  $40,000.  Incorpo- 
rators:   J.    Q.    Clemmer,    Erven    H.    Palmer. 

Burlington,  Wis. — Martin  Prailes  sold  the  Crystal 
theater  to    E.    D.   Perkins. 

Eldorado,  Kansas. — Andrew  Savage,  of  Wichita, 
has  purchased  a  half  Interest  in  a  new  theater 
at  Eldorado  and  will  manage  it  with  H.  E.  Lewer 
of   Eldorado. 

Hallettsville,      Texas. — The-    Airdome      has     been 


opened  and  now  there  are  two  moving  pietura 
shows    in    full    operation    here. 

Lancaster,  Pa. — C.  H.  Brehm  will  alter  a  build- 
ing into  a  moving  picture  theater.  The  audi- 
torium will  measure  40  x  110  and  the  lobby  and 
arcade  16  x  47. 

Cincinnati,  0. — Ben  Staub  Wheeler  will  build  a 
one-story,  moving  picture  theater  with  a  seating 
capacity  for  300.  The  building  will  measure  35  x  85 
and   will  cost  $7,500. 

Cleveland,  O. — Eugene  Propper  will  build  a  one- 
story  moving  picture  theater  with  a  seating  capacity 
for  475.  The  building  will  measure  35  x  132  and 
will  cost  $10,000. 

Kansas  City,  Ho. — George  H.  Seldboff,  has  been 
awarded  the  contract  to  erect  a  two-story  moving 
picture  theater  for  Charles  O.  Lamphear.  The 
building  will  measure  35  x  121  and  will  cost  $6,- 
009. 

Chicago,  111. — O.  E.  Wilke  will  build  a  two-Btory 
moving    picture    theater. 

Chicago,  111. — Dr.  A.  N.  Perlman  will  erect  a 
one-story  moving  picture  theater  and  store  build- 
ing. 

Cincinnati,  Ohio. — The  Center  Amusement  Com- 
pany, of  Cincinnati,  has  been  Incorporated,  with  a 
capital  of  $20,000,  by  Joseph  G.  Guetle,  Anthony 
E.  Motsch  and  T.  Motscb.  The  company  will  op- 
erate a  moving  picture  theater  at  York  Street  and 
Freeman  Avenue.  It  is  now  in  the  course  of  con- 
struction. 

Negaunee,  Mich. — Allen  &  Rytkonen,  proprietors 
of  the  Star  Theater,  have  reopened  the  Bijou 
Theater  In  the  Sundberg  block. 

Ozark,  Arkansas. — Odus  Ricbberg  has  leased  tht 
theater  here. 

Logansport,  Ind. — A.  P.  Jenks  has  completed  plans 
for  the  remodelling  bis  moving  picture  theater  to 
include   296   seats. 

Fairport,  0, — E.  E.  Lawrence  will  erect  a  one- 
etory  moving  picture  theater  to  seat  200  people 
and    cost    $5,000. 

Lorain,  0. — B.  W.  Balrd  will  erect'  a  one-story 
moving  picture  theater  with  a  seating  capacity 
for  450  and  cost  $7,500. 

Akron,  0. — Frank  Selzer  has  had  plans  prepared 
for  a  commercial  building  which  will  Include  six 
stores  and  a  moving  picture  theater  on  the  first 
floor.  The  total  cost'  of  construction  will  be  $100,- 
000. 

Columbus,  0. — Ross  &  McCafferty  will  shortly 
remodel  a  four-story  business  property  into  a  mov- 
ing picture  theater.  The  alterations  will  cost 
$1,000.  The  lessee  Is  Max  Steam,  proprietor  of 
"The    Exhibit." 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — The  Logan  Amusement  Com- 
pany has  awarded  the  contract  for  their  two-story 
moving  picture  theater  to  G.  J.  Reich,  1112  Louden 
Street. 


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Have  Your  Theatre 

Smell  Like  a 
Garden   of  I  Flowers 

Problem  of  Destroying  Foul  Odors  and  Purifying 
Air  of  Picture  Houses  Solved  by  New 

Scientific  Chemical  Discovery. 

Dr.  H.  V.  Flamhaft,  a  well  known  Cbemist  of 
Syracuse,  N.  X.,  bas  solved  a  problem  that  haa 
long  puzzled  many  a  Moving  Picture  House  Man- 
ager. He  bas  succeeded,  after  many  experiments, 
in  producing  a  highly  concentrated  and  very 
powerful  disinfectant,  that  not  only  purifies  the 
air,  almost  instantly  destroying  Foul  Odors  and 
making  Wholesome  the  close,  tainted  atmosphere 
of  the  theatre,  but  that  leaves  a  delicious,  deli- 
cate and  lasting  fragrance  equal  to  tbat  of  the 
highest  grade  floral  perfumes.  Moving  picture 
managers  who  have  tested  this  new  floral  disin- 
fectant, unite  In  declaring  It  the  very  best  and 
most  economical  antiseptic  they  have  ever  used. 
A  gallon  of  this  product,  which  is  called 

PUROZONE 

Is  equal  In  strength  to  10  gallons  of  the  ordinary 
weak  disinfectant  solution,  and  In  a  large  house 
will  give  splendid  results  for  weeks.  Its  cost 
per  gallon  is  $2.00,  and  it  will  be  sent  In  such 
quantity  upon  receipt  of  price  on  an  absolute 
guarantee  of  satisfaction  or  money  back.  It  Is 
suggested  tbat  Managers  who  have  experienced 
diiHculty  In  purifying  the  air  of  their  houses 
take    advantage    of    this   opportunity.      Address 

DR.  H.  V.  FLAMHAFT 

16  Grand  Open  House  Block  Syracuse,  N.  T. 


INDEX 


ADVERTISING    FOR    EXHIBITORS 271 

AT    THE    SIGTJ    OF    THE    FLAMING    ARCS 288 

BRITISH    TRADE    EXHIBITION 259 

CALENDAR    OF    LICENSED    RELEASES 286 

CALENDAR    OF    INDEPENDENT     RELE ASES .  . 294 

CHICAGO     LETTER 265 

COMMENTS    ON    THE    FILMS     (Licensed) 279 

COMMENTS  ON  THE  FILMS   (Independent) 281 

CORRESPONDENCE      292 

DAT    AT    THE    DOOR,     A 270 

DOINGS     AT    LOS     ANGELES 267 

FACTS    AND    COMMENTS 255 


CARBON  IMPORTERS. 

FRORUP,   L.  E 313 

KIEWERT,    CHARLES    L 329 

REISINGER,    HUGO 297 

ELECTRICAL  &  MECHANICAL  EQUIPMENT. 

AMUSEMENT  SUPPLY   CO 328 

BELL    ft    HOWELL 294 

BENDER,    GEORGE 328 

OALEHTJFF  SUPPLY  CO 316 

CHICAGO  M.  P.  SUPPLY  CO 328 

CUSHMAN  MOTOR  WORKS 325 

DETROIT  MOTOR  CAR 32S 

FORT  WAYNE   ELECTRIC    WORKS 328 

GENERAL   BLECTRIO  CO 319 

HALLBERG,    J.    H 329 

HOKE,    GEORGE    M 330 

MYERS  MANUFACTURrNG  CO 330 

PICTURE  THEATRE  EQUIPMENT  CO 315 

SCHNEIDER.    E 330 

SMITH,   L.  C.   &  CO 294 

STERN    MANUFACTURING    CO 325 

FEATURE   FILMS. 

ALLARDT   FEATURE   FILM   CO 334 

AMERICA'S  FEATURE  FILM  CO 328 

ARCO  FEATURE  FILM  CO 328 

CANADIAN  BIOSCOPE  CO 328 

ECLECTIC      FILMS 242-3 

FAMOUS   PLAYERS   FILM   CO 244-5 

FULLER'S    FEATURES 316 

GENERAL  FILM  CO 248-9 

GREAT  NORTHERN  SPECIAL  FEATURE  FILM 

CO 327 

M.  ft  F.   FEATURE  FILM  CO 326 

MONOPOL    FILM   CO 241 

MOORE.     F.     E 301 

MORRIS  FEATURE   FILM 326 

NEW    YORK    FILM    CO 297 

NORTHERN   VENTURES 324-6 

SPECIAL   EVENT  FILM  CO 315 

SUPREME   FEATURES   FILM  CO 307 

TURNER   ft    DAHNKEN    CIRCUIT 324 

VITA  FILM  SALES  CO 325 

WARNER'S   FEATURES 321 

IMPORTERS  AND  DEALERS. 

INTERNATIONAL    FILM   TRADERS 327 

WESTERN  FILM  BROKERS 328 

FIREPROOF  APPARATUS. 

TRAINER,    C.    W 328 

FILM  EXCHANGES. 

BRADENBURG.   G.   W 325 

CLAPHAM.    A.    J 327 


TO  CONTENTS. 

FLICKERS    289 

FOREIGN    TRADE    NOTES 286 

"GREY    SENTINEL,     A"     (Broncho) 264 

ILLINOIS    293 

IN    THE    MIDDLE    WEST 282 

IMAGINATION      IN      PICTURE     MAKING 260 

INDEPENDENT    FILM    STORIES 308 

INDEPENDENT   RELEASE   DATES 320 

INQUIRIES     274 

IOWA      293 

LICENSED    FILM    STORIES 298 

LICENSED    RELEASE    DATES 322 

TO  ADVERTISERS. 

EAGLE   FEATURE    FILM    CO 313-26 

GREATER  N.   Y.   FILM  RENTING  CO 305 

GUNBY    BROTHERS 326 

HETZ,    L 330 

LAEMMLE    FILM    SERVICE 315-317 

MUTUAL  FILM  CORPORATION 295 

NORTHERN   FEATURE  FILM    EXCHANGE 334 

X-L   FEATURE    FILM   CO 328 

INDEPENDENT   FILM  MANUFACTURERS. 

AMBROSIO  AMERICAN  FILM   00 240 

AMERICAN    246 

BRONCHO  FILM  CO 239 

G  AUMONT 247 

KAY-BEB    239 

KEYSTONE     239 

KINEMACOLOR    CO.    OF  AMERICA 309-2S 

MAJESTIC    299 

RELIANCE   303 

SOLAX      326 

THANHOCSER    234 

UNIVERSAL   FILM    MANUFACTURERS 236-7-8 

LICENSED  FILM  MANUFACTURERS. 

EDISON    251 

ESSAN  AY    235 

KALEM     254 

LUBIN    252 

MELIES 331 

PATHE   FRERES 250 

SELIG     299 

VITAGRAPH    253 

LECTURERS. 

ADAMS,     GEO.    M 330 

BUSH,    W.    S 313 

MARION,  L.  M.    (Miss) 325 

SMITH,    NAT.    B 298 

LENS  MANUFACTURERS. 

GUNDLACH  MANHATTAN  CO 311 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

A.    B.    C.    CO 327 

AMERICAN    CINEMATOGRAPH    CO 317 

AMERICAN  SCHOOL  OF  CORRESPONDENCE. .  .307 

AMERICAN   SLIDE  &   POSTER  CO 323 

BRADY,    A 298 

CHALMERS   PUBLISHING  CO 316 

CLASSIFIED     ADVERTISEMENTS 306 

COMMERCIAL  M.    P.    COMPANY 327 

CORCORAN,  A.  J 334 

DACEY  *  GIBNEY 326 

EASTMAN   KODAK    CO 311 

EXHIBITORS'    ADV.   ft  SPECIALTY  CO 296 

EXHIBITORS'   FILM   INSURANCE  CO 316 

FIREPROOF  FILM  CO 297 

FLAMHAFT,    H.    V.,    Dr 317 

HUNTLEYS,    THE 317 

KRAUSE   MFG.    CO 288 


LOUISVILLE      292 

MANUFACTURERS     ADVANCE     NOTES 280 

•MISER'S    MILLIONS.    THE"     (Cines) 258 

MOTION    PICTURE    EXHIBITORS'    LEAGUE... 261 

MOVING    PICTURE   EDUCATOR 284 

NEW     ENGLAND 292 

OBSERVATIONS    BY    MAN    ABOUT    TOWN 287 

PEERING    INTO    THE    FUTURE 257 

PHOTOPLAYWRIGHT,     THE 273 

PROJECTION     DEPARTMENT 275 

SPRINGFIELD,    ILL 293 

STORIES  OF  THE  FILMS    (Licensed) 298 

STORIES    OF   THE   FILMS    (Independent) 308 

LUMIERE-JOUGLA    CO 319 

McINTYRE     &     RICHTER 326 

McKENNA   BROS.    BRASS   CO 328 

MOTION   PICTURE  CAMERA   CO 298 

MOVING    PICTURE    WORLD 318 

NATIONAL  TICKET  CO 320 

NATIONAL   WATERPROOFING    FILM   CO., 828 

NATIONAL   X-RAY   REFLECTOR  CO 313 

NEWMAN    CO 328 

OZONE    PURE    AIRIFIER    CO 309 

PHOTO    ART    CO 828 

RAW   FILM  SUPPLY   CO 313 

REYNOLDS   ft    CO.,    B.    F .325 

SARGENT.   E.   W 330 

SCREEN   CLUB 301 

STEBBINS,    C.     M 328 

STRANGE,    A.    K 328 

TAKITO   OGAWA   &   CO 32« 

THOMAS,    G.    H 834 

VAN    HORN    &    SON     32S 

WATERPROOF    FILM    CO 334 

WHITE,    WHITMAN    CO 325 

MOVING  PICTURE  MACHINE  MANUFACTURERS. 

AMERICAN     318 

EDISON    261 

ENTERPRISE   OPTICAL  CO 30T 

POWER'S  CAMERAGRAPH  332 

SIMPLEX    303- 

KUSICAX    INSTRUMENTS. 

AMERICAN     PHOTOPLAYER    SALES     CO 328 

DEAGAN,    J.    C 323 

SCHUELKE  AUTOMATIC  MUSIC  CO 830- 

SINN,    a    E 330 

WURLITZER,   RUDOLPH 813- 

OPERA   CHAIR   MANUFACTURERS. 

AMERICAN   SEATING    CO 330- 

ANDREWS,  A.  H 330 

BENNETT,  GEO.  W 330' 

HARDESTY    CHAIR   CO 330- 

STAFFORD,    E.    H 330- 

STEEL  FURNITURE  CO 330 

WISCONSIN    SEATING    CO.... 330' 

PROJECTION  SCREENS. 

AMERICAN     THEATRE     CURTAIN     CO 311 

MIRROROIDE     CO 3U-297 

MIRROR  SCREEN  CO 326'- 

SONG   ft  ADVERTISING  SLIDES. 

NIAGARA  SLIDE 28* 

SIMPSON,     A.     L 32»- 

UTILITY    TRANSPARENCY    CO 313 

THEATRICAL  ARCHITECTS. 

DECORATORS'    SUPPLY    CO 315- 


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The  Use  of  a  Rectifier 
Makes  Pictures  More  Brilliant 

It  is  well  recognized  that  for  the  projection  of 
pictures,  the  direct  current  arc  lamp  is  far  superior 
to  the  lamp  using-  alternating  current.  The  light  is 
more  steady  and  intense,  and  a  far  greater  propor- 
tion of  the  light  is  directed  toward  the  lens. 

The  ordinary  lighting  circuit  furnishes  alternat- 
ing current  only,  but  by  using  a  G-E 
Mercury  Arc  Rectifier,  this  alternating 
current  is  changed  into  direct  current. 

The  use  of  the  rectifier  makes  possi- 
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can  be  obtained  when  alternating  cur- 
rent is  used  in  the  lamp. 

The  operation  of  the  rectifier  is  easy  and  its  use 
decreases  the  cost  of  the  electricity  consumed  at  the 
same  time  that  it  improves  the  quality  of  the  pictures. 

Write  our  nearest  office  for  Booklet  B-3107  giving 
the  results  of  comparative  tests  on  projection  lamps 
using  alternating  and  direct  current,  and  explaining 
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Atlanta,  Ga. 
Baltimore,   Md. 
Birmingham,    Ala. 
Boise,   Idabo 
Boston,   Mass. 
Buffalo,    N.    Y. 
Butte,    Mont. 
Charleston,   W.   Va. 
Charlotte,  N.  C. 
Chattanooga,  Tenn. 
Chicago,  111. 

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Cincinnati,   Ohio 
Cleveland,    Ohio 
Columbus,  Ohio 
Davenport,  Iowa 
Dayton,   Ohio 
Denver,  Colo. 
Detroit,    Mich., 

(Office  of  Agent) 
Elmira.    N.    V. 
Erie.    Pa. 
Indianapolis,    Ind. 

Oklahoma  business 
and  Oklahoma  City, 


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Louisville,   Ky. 
Mattoon.    111. 
Memphis,    Tenn. 
Milwaukee,   Wis. 
Minneapolis,    Minn. 
Nashville,   Tenn. 


Jacksonville,  Fla. 
Joplin.  Mo. 
Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Keokuk,  Iowa 
Knosville,   Tenn. 
Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

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New  Haven,  Conn. 
New  Orleans.  La. 
New  York,  N.  Y. 
Omaha,   Neb. 
Philadelphia,    Pa. 
Pittsburgh,   Pa. 
Portland,   Ore. 
Providence,    R.   I. 
Richmond,    Va. 
Rochester,   N.   Y. 
Salt  Lake  City,  Utah 


San  Francisco,  Cal. 
St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Schenectady,  N.  Y. 
Seattle,  Wash. 
Spokane,   Wash. 
Springfield,  Mass. 
Syracuse,  N-  Y. 
Toledo,  Ohio 
Washington,  D.  C. 
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AMERICAN. 

Apr.     7 — Cnpid    Throws    a    Brick     (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  10 — The    Homestead    Race    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  12 — Woman's    Honor    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  14 — Suspended   Sentence    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  17 — In    Another's    Nest    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  19— The  Ways  of  Fate    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  21 — Boohs  and  Bricks    (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.  24 — When  Jim   Returned   (Com.-Dr.) 1000 

Apr.  26 — Calamity   Anne's   Trust    (Comedy) 1000 

AMBROSIO. 
Mar.  22 — Lore   Levels  All    (2   reels)    (Drama) . . 
Max.  29 — The  Human  Target    (2   reels — Drama) 

Apr.    5— For    His   Sake    (2   reels — Drama) 

Apr.  12 — Auto  Suggestion;  or  the  Crime  of  An- 
other   (2    reels — Drama) 

Apr.  19 — Child  Labor  Traffic  (2  parts,  Drama) . . 
Apr.  26 — Golden  Rain   (2  reels,   Drama) 

AMMEX. 

fee.  1»— Ths  Cowgirl   and  tba  Night    (Draw).  1000 

Fa*.  20— The  Coward   (Drama) 1000 

Fee.  9T— The    Quality    of    Mercy     (Drama) 100* 

Mar.     •— Kith    and    Kin     (Drama) 

Mar.  It — Wine,    Women  and   Reformation    (Dr.) 

BISON. 
Mar.  29 — The  Half-Breed  Parson    (2  reels — Dr.) 
Apr.     1 — A  House  Divided   (t  parts.     Drama).. 

Apr.     5 — Tap  (2  parts.    Drama) 

Apr.  S — Bedford's  Hope  (3  parts — Drama) . . . 
Apr.  12 — The  Darling  of  the  Regiment   (2  reels 

— Drama)     

Apr.  15 — War   (3  parts,  Drama) 

Apr.  19 — The  Last  Roll  Call  (2-parts  Drama).. 
Apr.  22 — Bred  in  the  Bone  (3  parts,  Drama).. 
Apr.  26 — The   Black    Chancellor    (3   parts,    Dr.) 

BRONCHO. 
Mar.  19— The    Pride    of    the    South     (8    reels) 

(Drama) 

Mar.  26 — The  Iconoclast    (3  reels — Drama) 

Apr.  2 — The  Sinews  of  War  (2  parts.  Drama) 
Apr.  9 — The  Grey  Sentinel  (2  parts — Drama) 
Apr.  16 — A  Southern  Cinderella  (3  parts,  Dr.) 
Apr.  23 — Retrogression    (2   parts,    Drama) 

CHAMPION. 

Mar.  24 — A  Trim  and  a  Shave   (Comedy) 

Mar.  81 — A  Knotty  Knot  (Comedy) 

Apr.     7 — Shanghaied  (Drama)   

Apr.     7 — The       Life-Savers      of      Chicamocomo 

(Vocational)     

Apr.  14 — Lena's  Flirtation    (Comedy) 

Apr.  21 — When   Strong   Men   Meet    (Drama) 

CRYSTAL. 

Apr.    8 — Pearl  as  a  Clairvoyant  (Comedy) 

Apr.    6 — Almost  a  Winner  (Comedy) 

Apr.  13 — The  Veiled  Lady   (Comedy) 

Apr.  13 — Our     Parents-In-Law     (Comedy) 

Apr.  20— His  Romantic  Wife   (Comedy) 

Apr.  20 — Two  Lunatics    (Comedy) 

Apr.  27 — Forgetful    Flossie    (Comedy) 

Apr.  27 — A  Joke  on  the  Sheriff  (Comedy) 

ECLATS. 

Apr.  13 — Going  for  Father  (Comedy) 

Apr.  13 — The    Octopus    (Zoology) 

Apr.  16 — The   Evil    Genins    (2   parts,    Drama).. 

Apr.  20 — Poor   Little   Chap    (Comedy) 

Apr.  20 — He    Was    Only    Dreaming    (Comedy) . . 

Apr.  20— Fire      (Scientific) 

Apr.  23 — Mathilde    (2  parts,   Drama) 

EXCELSIOR. 
Mar.  24 — The  Legends  of  the  Everglade  (Dr.).. 
Mar.  81 — The  Romance  of  a  Fisher  Boy  (Drama) 
Apr.     7 — Temperamental  Alice    (Comedy-Drama) 
Apr.  14 — The  Moving  Picture  Girl   (Drama).... 

Apr.  21 — The  Man  from  the  City  (Drama) 

FRONTIER. 

Apr.  12 — The    Burning    Lariat    (Drama) 

Apr.  17 — Some     Doings     at     Lonesome     Ranch 

(Comedy)     

Apr.  19 — Why  the  Ranger  Resigned  (Drama).. 
Apr.  24 — The    Daughter   of   the    Sheep   Rancher 

(Drama) 

Apr.  26— The  Old   Maid's  Last  Attempt   (Com.) 


GAUMONT. 

Mar.  27 — Hypnotizing     Hannah      (Comedy) 

Mar.  29 — (An  Education  and  Topical  Subject) 
Apr.    1 — The  Quality  of  Kindness   (Drama) .... 

Apr.     1 — By    Waters    Beautiful    (Scenic) 

Apr.  2 — Gaumont's  Weekly,  No.  66  (News).. 
Apr.     3 — Marriage  by  the  Wholesale  (Comedy) . . 

Apr.     3 — Exotic  Fish    (Zoology) 

Apr.     5 — (An  Educational  and  Topical  Subject) 

Apr.     8 — The  Angel  of  Mercy    (Drama) 

Apr.  9 — Gaumont's  Weekly,  No.  57  (News).. 
Apr.  10 — The  Cupidity  of  Cupid  (Com.-Dr.).. 
Apr.  10 — On    the    Firing    Line     (Comedy) 

GEM. 

Apr.     1 — Lyndhoven  Farm,    Virginia 

Apr.     8 — Billy   Gets  Arrested    (Comedy) 

Apr.  15 — Billy    Turns    Burglar    (Comedy) 

Apr.  15 — The  Laplanders  (Typical)    

Apr.  22 — Burglarising    Billy    (Comedy) 

Apr.  22 — Against    the    Law    (Comedy) 

GREAT  NORTHERN. 

Mar.  22 — The  Port  of  Copenhagen    (Scenic) 

Mar.  29— Fred  as  a  Soldier  (Comedy) 

Mar.  29 — Summer  in  the  North    (Scenic) 

Apr.    6 — A  Skipper's  Story   (Comedy) 

Apr.     5 — Under  Southern  Skiea   (Physical  Geog- 
raphy)   

Apr.  12 — The        Bewitched        Rubber        Shoes 

(Comedy)     

Apr.  12 — Spanish     Towns     (Scenic) 

Apr.  19 — The  Two  Convicts    (Drama) 

IMP. 

Apr.  10 — A  out    Kate's   Mistake    (Comedy) 

Apr.  12 — The    Mysterious   Card    (Comedy) 

Apr.  14— Blood    Will   Tell    (Drama) 

Apr.  17 — The  Leader  of  His  Flock  (2  parts,  Dr.) 

Apr.  17— Fixing    the   Fakirs    (Comedy) 

Apr.  17 — On  an  Alligator  Farm  (Zoology) 

Apr.  21 — The  Regeneration  of  John  Storm  (Dr.) 

Apr.  24 — A   Sprig  of  Shamrock    (Comedy) 

Apr.  26 — Why  Men  Leave  Home  (Comedy).... 
Apr.  26 — Pottery    Industry     (Comedy) 

KAY-BEE. 

Mar.  21— A  Frontier  Wife  (Drama) 

Mar.  28 — Texas  Kelly  at  Bay   (Drama) 

Apr.  4 — With  Lee  in  Virginia  (2  parts.  Drama) 
Apr.  11 — On  Fortune's  Wheel   (2  parts — Drama) 

Apr.  IS — The  Runaways    (Comedy) 

Apr.  25 — Will  O'  the  Wisp  (2  parts,  Drama).. 

KEYSTONE. 

Apr.    8 — Hide  and  Seek   (Comedy) 

Apr.     7 — Those    Good    Old  Days    (Comedy) 

Apr.  10 — A   Game  of  Poker    (Comedy) 

Apr.  10 — Father's     Choice     (Comedy) 

Apr.  14 — A  Life  in  the  Balance  (Comedy) 

Apr.  17 — Murphy's  I.  0.  TJ   (Comedy) 

Apr.  17 — A  Dollar  Did  It    (Comedy) 

Apr.  21 — Cupid  in  a  Dental  Parlor   (Comedy).. 

Apr.  24 — A  Fishy  Affair   (Comedy) 

Apr.  24 — The   Bangville    Police    (Comedy) 

LUX. 

Mar.  28— The  Man  Eater    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.    4— Too   Polite    (Comedy) 475 

Apr.  4 — More  than  She  Bargained  for  (Comedy)  608 
Apr.  11 — Sacrificed  to  the  Lions  (Drama) . . .  .1000 
Apr.  18— The  Leopard  Avenger   (Drama) 1000 

MAJESTIC. 

Apr.     1— A  Study  In  Sociology    (Drama) 

Apr.     6 — The  Half  Orphans  (Comedy) 

Apr.     8 — The     Night     Riders     (Drama) 

Apr.  13 — Pedro's   Revenge    (Drama) 

Apr.  15 — I    Love    Ton    (Drama) 

Apr.  15 — The    Leaning    Tower    of    Pisa    (Monu- 
mental)  

MECCA. 
Mai.    1— A  Straaier  la  the  Heckles  (Breasa) . . 
Mar.     8 — The    Inauguration    of    President    Wil- 
son   (Topical)    

Mar.  IS— The   Fisher   Lady    (Drama) 

Mar.  22 — The  Lineman  and  the  Reformer  (Dr.) 

Mar.  29— The   Criminals    (Drama) 

Apr.    6— By  the  Curate'*  Aid  (Drama) 

HTLANO. 
Feb.  16— Out  of  the  Depute   (1  reel*— Drasaa) . . 

April      1— A  Stndy  In  Sociology   (Drama) 

Feb.  22— Parted  at  the  Altar  (2  reels)  (Bev) 
Mar.     1— The  Defeat  of  the  Conqueror  (2  reata) 

(Historical) 

Mar.  8— The  Victory  of  Virtue  (3  reels)  ft*.) 
Mar.  16— The    Sins    of    the    Father     <a    nail) 

(Drama) 

MUTUAL  WEEKLY. 

Mar.  26— Mutual   Weekly,   No.  13   (News) 

Apr.     2— Mutual   Weekly,    No.  14    (News) 

Apr.     9 — Mutual  Weekly,   No.  15    (News) 

Apr.  16— Mutual   Weekly,   No.   16   (News) 

Apr.  23 — Mutual  Weekly,   No.   17   (News) - 


MUTUAL  EDUCATIONAL. 
Apr.  10— Willy    Prefers      Liberty      to      Wealth 

(Comedy)     

Apr.  10 — The  Golden  Horn,  Turkey  (Scenic) 
Apr.  17 — Willy  and  the  Conjuror  (Comedy) .... 
Apr.  17 — Village     Customs     in     Ceylon,      India 

(Manners   and    Customs) 

Apr.  24— Funnicus  is  Tired  of  Life  (Comedy).. 
Apr.  24 — Electrical  Phenomenon  (Physics  ) 

NESTOR. 
Apr.     7 — River  Rhine,  Germany  (Physical  Geog- 
raphy)      

Apr.    9 — How    Fatty   Got    Even    (Comedy) 

Apr.  11— The    Forgotten    Letter    (Drama) 

Apr.  14 — A  Night  of  the  Garter   (Comedy) 

Apr.  14 — Dad's   Surprise    (Comedy) 

Apr.  16 — An  Affray  of  Honor  (Drama) 

Apr.  IS — Paying  for  Silence    (Drama) 

Apr.  21— His    Friend    Jimmie    (Comedy) 

Apr.  23 — The    Sheriff's    Warning    i  Drama) 

Apr.  25 — For   Her   Sake    (Drama) 

POWERS. 

Apt.    2— Do  It  Now  (Comedy) 

Apr.    4 — Bachelor  Bill's  Birthday  Present  WJem.) 

Apr.    9— The    Elixir   of    Youth    (Comedy) 

Apr.  11 — The    Fear     (Drama) 

Apr.  16 — The    Lesson    (Drama) 

Apr.  18 — The  Troubadour  of  tbe  Rancho  (Dr.).. 

Apr.  23 — When    Dolly    Died    (Drama) 

Apr.  25 — The  Sham  Suffragette   (Comedy) 

PUNCH. 

r»h.  tl— Treats*   •>   ITerlAe    (Oemeey).. . 

Mar.     6 — Impetuous     Jim     (Comedy) 

Mar.     a— No    Wedding   Bella    for   Jones    (Com.) 

Max.  18 — Father    Tamed     (Comedy) 

Mar.  13— Hie    First    Kodak     (Comedy) 

PILOT. 
Mar.  20— Till  Death  Do  Us  Part  (2  reels)   (Dr.) 
Mar.  27 — When    Lincoln    was     President     (Bfls- 

torlcal-Drama)    

Apr.    3 — In  the  Battle's  Smoke  (Drama) 

Apr.  10 — Across   tbe   Border    (Drama) 

Apr.  17 — The    Promoter    (Drama) 

RAMO. 

Mar.  12— The   Better   Way    (Drama) 

Mar.  19— The    Dividing    Line     (Comedy) 

Mar.  26— The  Grip  of  Jealousy   (Drama) 

April  2— The  Last  Ola  Lady    (Comedy) 

April  2— Rapid  Transit  in  New  York 

RELIANCE. 
Apr.     2 — Tbe  Judge's  vindication  (2  parts.    Br.) 

Apr.     5 — The  Woman  Who  Knew  (Drama) 

Apr.     9 — The  Stronger  Call  (Drama) 

Apr.  12 — For  Love  of  Columbine    (Drama) 

Apr.  16 — Held  for  Ransom    (2  parts,   Drama) . . 

Apr.  19— The  Good  Within  (Drama) 

Apr.  23 — The  Hoodoo  Pearls   (Drama) 

Apr.  26 — A  Woman's  Honor   (Drama) 

REX. 

Apr.  10— Until    Death    (2    reels — Drama) 

Apr.  13 — Pure    Gold    and    Dross    (Scientific) 

Apr.  17 — A  Friend  of  the  Family  (Drama) 

Apr.  20 — A    Book   of    Verses    (Drama) 

Apr.  24 — The  Dragon's  Breath  (2  parts  Dr.).. 
Apr.  27— The  Wayward  Sister   (Drama) 

RYNO. 

Mar.  17 — Memories  of  Long  Ago    (Drama) 

Mar.  24— The  Sea  Waif   (Drama) 

Mar.  81 — Memories   of    Long   Ago    (Drama) 

Apr.    4 — Classmates     (Drama) 

Apr.     7 — The     Outcast     (Drama) 

Apr.  11 — Off    the    Mainland    (Drama) 

BOLAX. 

Mar.  28 — The   Climax    (Drama)    

Apr.    2 — The  Bachelor's  Housekeeper    (Comedy) 

Apr.     4 — The   Ogres    (Drama) 

Apr.    9 — The     Lady     Doctor     (Comedy) 

Apr.  11 — His   Son-in-Lew    (Drama) 

Apr.  16— Tbe  Mystery  of  the  Lost  Cat  (Comedy) 
Apr.  18 — Where  Love  Dwells    (Drama) 

THANHOUSEB. 
Apr.     4 — The    Spoiled    Darling's    Doll    (Drama) 
Apr.     6 — When    Ghost   Meets   Ghost    (Drama).. 

Apr.     8 — The  Patriot   (Drama) 

Apr.  11 — The  Changeling    (Drama) 

Apr.  13— The  Dog  in  the  Baggage  Car  (Com.) 
Apr.  15 — The  Girl  and  the  Grafter  (Drama) . . . 
Apr.  18 — Retribution     (Drama) 

VICTOR. 
Mar.  28 — That   Boy    from    Missouri    (Comedy).. 

Apr.     4 — A  Letter  to  Mother   (Drama) 

Apr.  11 — Two   Uvea    (Drama) 

Apr.  18 — The   Coward'a  Charm    (Drama)    

Apr.  25 — Loneliness  and  Love    (Drama) 


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BIO  GRAPH. 

Apr.     7— The    Stolen    Bride    (Drama) 

Apr.  10 — An     "Uncle     Tom'a     Cabin"     Troope 

(Comedy) 

Apr.  10 — A     Lesson     to     Mashers     (Comedy) 

Apr.  12 — The  Little  Tease  (Drama) 

Apr.  14 — He  Had  a  Guess  Coming  (Comedy) 

Apr.  14 — A  Horse  on  Bill   (Comedy)    

Apr.  17— A  Frightful  Blunder    (Drama) 

Apr.  19 — A   Misunderstood    Boy    (Drama)    

Apr.  21— The  Left 'Handed  Man    (Drama) 

Apr.  24 — A    Ragtime    Romance    (Comedy) 

Apr.  24 — The    Cure    (Comedy) 

Apr.  26 — The   Lady   and    the   Mouse    (Drama) . . 


CINES. 

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Apr.     7 — The  Queen  of  Spades  (Special — 2  parts 

(Drama) 2000 

Apr.    8 — Scenes  Along  the  Pescara  River,   Cen- 
tral   Italy     (Physical    Geography) 350 

Apr.     8 — A    Romance   by   the   Sea    (Drama) 650 

Apr.  12 — On     the     Nebl     River,      East     Africa 

(Physical     Geography) 200 

Apr.  12 — Keeping  Tab  on   Sammy    (Comedy) . . .  800 
Apr.  15 — The  Ancient  Town  of  Gubbio,  Umbria, 

Central  Italy   (Scenic)    400 

Apr.  15 — Anita  the  Orphan   (Drama)    600 

Apr.  16 — A    Fugitive    at    Bay    (2-parts    Drama 

Special)    1800 

Apr.  19 — For  His  Child's  Sake  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  22— A  Heart  of  Steel   (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  23 — The  Miser's  Millions  (3  parts,  special, 

Drama) 2700 

Apr.  26— Views  in  Liege,    Belgium    (Scenic) 200 

Apr.  26 — Forgotten    (Drama) 800 


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EDISON. 

Si— The  Elder  Brother  (Drama) 1000 

1— With  the  Eyes  of  the  Blind   (Drama)  .1000 

2 — The  Duke's  Dilemma  (Comedy) 1000 

4 — The   Inventor's  Sketch    (Drama) 1000 

S — Master  and  Man    (Drama) 1000 

7 — A   Shower   of   Slippers    (Comedy) 1000 

8— Old   Jim    (Drama) 1000 

9— The  Well  Sick  Man    (Comedy) 1000 

11— The  Capture  of  a  Wild  Cat   (Sport) . .  350 

11— Rule    Thyself     (Comedy) 650 

12 — The      Man      Who      Wouldn't      Marry 

(Drama)      1000 

14 — Jones  Gees  Shopping    (Comedy) 

14 — The     Rocky     Mountains      In     Winter 

Geography)    

15 — The    New    Pupil    (Comedy-Drama) 1000 

16 — Seven  Years  Bad  Luck   (Comedy)    1000 

18— The  Man  from  the  West   (Drama) 1000 

19 — The  Twelfth  Juror   (Drama) 1000 

21—  Hulda    of    Holland    (Comedy-Drama) .  .1000 

22 — An    Innocent    Informer    (Drama) 1000 

23— His   Undesirable  Relatives   (Comedy).  .1000 
25 — The  High   Tide  of   Misfortune    (Being 
the    tenth    story    of    "What    Hap- 
pened to  Mary,"   Drama) 1000 

26 — A  Splendid  Scapegrace    (Drama) 1000 


ESSANAY. 

Apr.     8 — The  Wardrobe  Lady   (Comedy-Drama)  .1000 

Apr.     9— The    Sheriff's    Wife     (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  10— Found     Out     (Comedy  i 1000 

Apr.  11— The    Little    Mother    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  12 — Broncho    Billy's    Reason     (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  15 — The     Accusation     of     Broncho     Billy 

(Drama)     1000 

Apr.  16 — The  Capture    (Comedy)    1000 

Apr.  17 — The   Unknown    (Drama)    10O0 

Apr.  18 — The  Crossing  Policeman   (Drama)    ....1000 
Apr.  19 — Alkali    Ike's   Homecoming    (Comedy) .  .1000 

Apr.  22 — The  Unburied  Past    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  23— The  Rival  Salesmen   (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.  24— City    of   Mexico    (Scenic) 1000 

Apr.  25 — The    Deacon's    Dilemma    (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.  26 — Broncho  Billy  and  the  Rustler's  Child 

(Drama) 1000 

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Apr.     9 — The      Pursuit      of      the      Smugglers 

(Drams.)      1000 

Apr.  11 — The  Scimitar  of  the  Prophet  (Drama) 
Apr.  11 — The  Indestructible  Mr.  Jenks  (Comedy) 
Apr.  12 — The   California    Oil    Crooks    (Drama).. 

Apr.  14 — A   Streak  of    Yellow    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  16— A  Plot  for  a  Million    (Drama)    1000 

Apr.  18 — The      Bravest      Girl      In      California 

(Comedy )      

Apr.  IS — The  Millionaires'  Playground  (Topical? 
Apr.  19 — The   Fire-Fighting   Zouaves    (Drama).. 

Apr.  21— The  Sneak    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  23— The  Secret  Marriage    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  25 — The    Phoney   Singer    (Comedy) 

Apr.  25 — Japan,     the     Industrious     (Mechanical 

Engineering) 

Apr.  26— The  Fighting  Chaplain    (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN. 

Apr.     8— For   His  Child's  Sake    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.     9 — The   Toll    of    Fear    (2    reels — Drama — 

Special)      2000 

Apr.  10 — The    Magic    Shoes     (Comedy) 

Apr.  10 — Angel  Cake  and  Axle  Grease  (Comedy) 

Apr.  11— The    Split    Nugget    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  12 — Pete   Tries   the   Stage    (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.  14 — Minnie    the    Widow    (Comedy) 400 

Apr.  14 — One   On   Romance    (Comedy) 600 

Apr.  15 — The   Pawned  Bracelet    (Comedy ) 1000 

Apr.  17— The    Right   Road    (Drama)    1000 

Apr.  18 — The     Power     of     the    Cross     (2-parts- 

Speclal    Drama)     2000 

Apr.  18— Baby's   New  Pin    (Comedy) 400 

Apr.  18 — Beating  Mother  To  It  (Comedy)   600 

Apr.  19— A  Florida   Romance   (Drama)    1000 

Apr.  21 — Back    to    Primitive    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  22 — A    Slight    Mistake    (Comedy) 

Apr.  22 — Sunshine    Sue    (Comedy) 

Apr.  24 — The  School  Principal   (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.  25 — Diamond    Cut    Diamond     (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  25 — The    End    of    the    Quest     (Special,    2 

parts,    Drama) 2000 

Apr.  26 — The    Birthmark    (Drama) 1000 

MELEES. 

Mar.  IS— A    Gambler's    Heart    (Drama) 1000 

Mar.  14 — Loved   by   a   Moari  Chlefteaa    (Special, 

2    parts)     (Drama) MOO 

Mar.  20— Honor    Thy    Mother     (Drama) 1000 

Mar.  27— Hlnemoa   (Drama)    1000 

Apr.     3 — The  Stolen  Tribute  to  the  King   (Dr.) 

Apr.     3 — The  River  Wanganul    (Scenic) 

Apr.  10— The  Maoris  of  New  Zealand   (Manners 

and   Customs)    1000 

Apr.  17— What  Is  Sauce  for  the  Goose  (Comedy)  684 
Apr.  17— A    Tahltlan    Fish    Drive     (Manners    * 

Customs)      818 

Apr.  24 — How  Chief  Te   Ponga   Won   His  Bride 

(Drama) 

Apr.  24 — A  Trip  to  the  Waitoma  Caves  of  New 
Zealand    (Geology) 

ECLIPSE. 

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liar.     5 — The  Wages  of  Transgression    (Drama) 
Mar.     5 — Pottery    Making    In    Dorset,    England 

( Industrial) 

Mar.  12— The    Lost    Wager    (Comedy) 

Mar.  12 — Picturesque  Spalato,  Dalmatla  (Scenic) 

Mar.  19 — An    Innocent    Offender    (Drama) 1000 

Mar.  26 — Fjords     and     Waterfalls     of     Norway 

(Scenic)     800 

Mar.  26 — The   Crab   and     Lobster     Industry 

(Industrial)   850 

Mar.  28 — He  Saw  the  Point   (Comedy) 350 

Apr.     2 — The  Fruit  of  Suspicion  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.    9 — The  Kentish  Coast,  England   (Physical 

Geography)      250 

Apr.     9 — Making    Birch    Brooms     (Trades) 300 

Apr.    9 — An    Up-to-Date    Aviator    (Comedy) 450 

Apr.  16— The      Winner     at      the     Sweepstakes 

(Drama)     10°0 

Apr.  23 — A   Four-footed  Detective    (Drama) 1000 


PATHEPLAY. 

Apr.     5 — The  Broken  Idyll  (Drama) 

Apr.     7 — Pathe'a  Weekly,   No.  16  (News) 

Apr.     8 — The    Snap    Shot     (Comedy) 

Apr.     8 — The   River  Clyde  at  Lanark,   Scotlaad 

(Physical    Geography)     

Apr.     9 — Too    Much    Parcel    Post    (Comedy).... 

Apr.  10 — God  la  Love  (Drama) 

Apr.  11 — The  Analysis  of  Motion   (Physics) .... 

Apr.  11 — The  Locust   (Zoology) 

Apr.  12— The    Happy    Home    (Drama) 

Apr.  12 — In  the  Days  of  War   (Special— 2  reels 
— Drama)      

Apr.  14 — Pathe's  Weekly  No.  16  (News)    

Apr.  15 — The  Fire  of  Vengeance  (Drama) 

Apr.  16 — The    Italian   Bride    (Drama) 

Apr.  17 — Glimpses     of     the     National     Capital 
(Topical)      

Apr.  17— The    Sponge    Industry    In    Cuba     (1m- 
dustry)      

Apr.  IS — School   of   Gymnastics    (Military)    .... 

Apr.  IS— The   Cuttlefish    (Zoology)    

Apr.  19 — The    Pride   of    Innocence    (Drama).... 

Apr.  21 — Pathe's  Weekly,  No.   17  (News) 

Apr.  22 — Winter  Sports  at  Bodele    (Sports) 

Apr.  22 — Ancient  Greece   (Scenic) 

Apr.  23 — The   Outlaw    (Drama) 

Apr.  24 — The   Thwarted    Plot    (Drama) 

Apr.  25 — Our    Feathered    Friends    (Zootechnic) . . 

Apr.  25 — A  Trip  on  the  Seine  (Scenic) 

Apr.  26 — The  Count's   Will   (Drama) 

Apr.  26 — An    Exciting    Honeymoon    (Special,    2 
parts,    Comedy) 


SELIG. 

Apr.     7 — Vengeance    is    Mine    (Drama) 1088 

Apr.     8 — Robert    Hale's    Ambition    (Drama) 1080 

Apr.     9 — The     Sbotgun     Man     and     the     Stage 

Driver    (Drama)    1008 

Apr.  10 — Tommy's  Atonement    (Drsma) 

Apr.  10 — The    Tombs    of    the     Ming     Emperor* 

(Monuments)      

Apr.  11— With    Love's   Eyes    (Drama) 1088 

Apr.  14 — A  Wise   Old  Elephant    (Special-2-parta 

Drama)      8088 

Apr.  14 — The   Woodman's    Daughter    (Drama) .  .1008 

Apr.  15 — God's  Way  (Drama) 

Apr.  15 — Hankow,    China    (Scenic)    

Apr.  16 — Dixieland    (Drama)    1808 

Apr.  17— The  Tie  of  the  Blood  (Drama) 1088 

Apr.  18 — Cured  of  Her  Love  (Comedy)    

Apr.  18— That  mail   Order  Suit   (Comedy) 

Apr.  21 — Canton.    China    (Scenic) 

Apr.  21 — Alas!    Poor   Yorlck!    (Comedy) 

Apr.  22— Seeds    of    Silver    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  23— Love,    the   Winner    (Drama) 

Apr.  23 — Dollar   Down,    Dollar   a    Week    (Com.) 

Apr.  24 — Love    in    the    Ghetto    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  25— Arabia  Takes  the  Health  Cure   (Com.)  1000 


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29 — Tenyo    Maru    (Educational 

31 — Bedella  Becomes  s  Lady  (Comedy)...  1988 

1 — Checkmated     (Drama) 1808 

2— Alixe,  or  the  Test  of  Friendship  (Dr.)1808 

3 — The  Mldgefs  Romance  (Comedy) 

3 — Our  Coast  Defenders   (Military) 

4 — Let  'Em  Quarrel   (Comedy) 1808 

4 — The    Golden    Hoard,    or    Buried    Alive 

(Special,  2  parts.     Drama) 1880 

5— He  Answered  the  Ad  (Comedy) 1888 

7 — Bunny's    Honeymoon    (Comedy) 1080 

8— The     Transition     (Drama) 1888 

9 — Out   of   the   Storm    (Drama) 1888 

10 — Cutey  and  the  Chorus  Girls  (Comedy).  1088 
11 — Wanted,    a    Strong    Hand    (Comedy).. 
11— Laying    a    Marine   Cable    (Telegraph). 
11— The    Web    (Special — 2    parts — Drama)  .8080 
12 — Mystery  of  the  Stolen  Child   (Drama). 1808 
14 — Mr.    Mlntem's  Misadventures    (Drama)1880 

15 — The  Fortune  (Comedy) 1088 

16 — After    the    Honeymoon    (Drama) 1888 

17 — Sleuthing    (Drama)    1808 

18 — Playing   with   Fire    (Drama) 1080 

19 — Seeing   Double    (Comedy)    

19 — Jean  and  Her  Family  (Canine) 

21— Mixed     Identities     (Comedy) 

21 — Gala    Day    Parade,    Yokohama,    Japan 

(Topical) 

21— The  Artist's  Great   Madonna    (Special, 

2   parts,    Drama) 2000 

22 The  Mystery  of  the  Stolen  Jewels  (Dr.)lOOO 

22 — In  the  Good  Old  Summer  Time  (Com.) 
23 — There's  Music  in  the  Hair  (Comedy) . . 
23 — Crowds    Attending    Gods    In    Temple, 

Tokyo,  Japan  (Typical) 

24 — The   Power  that   Rules    (Drama) 1000 

25— The  Stronger  Sex  (Drama) 1000 

26 — A  Fighting  Chance   (Drama) 1000 


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Deagan  "Class  A"  Musical  Electric  Bells 
mounted  on  floor  rack,  completely  wired 
ready  to  play. 

The  set  of  Bells  here  shown  range  twen- 
ty-five notes,  two  octaves  chromatic  from 
C  to  C,  are  mounted  on  floor  rack  ready  to 
play,  and  are  connected  to  the  keyboard 
from  which  they  are  operated,  by  a  twenty- 
five   foot  flexible  cable. 

We  can  also  supply  Bells  of  the  same  type 
as  above  unmounted,  to  be  mounted  about 
in  various  parts  of  the  theatre,  if  you  prefer 
them  that  way. 

The  above  Bells  are  fully  described  in 
our  Catalogue  "F."    Send  for  copy  today. 


J.  C.  DEAGAN 

1770  Berteau  Avenue  Chicago,  U.  S.  A. 


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STATE  RIGHTS 
BUYERS 

ATTENTION! 


A  number  of  states 
are  still  open. 

Are  you  going  to  miss 
this  great  opportunity? 


HARRY   WHITNEY 
and  "LUCKY  SCOTT" 

HUNTING  BIG  GAME 
IN  THE  ARCTIC 


(COPYRIGHT,  1913) 


The  most  remarkable  series  of  motion  pic- 
tures  ever  taken   in   the  Land 
of  the  Midnight  Sun 

Full  protection  is  guaranteed  to  buyers  of 

this  great  Thrilling  and  Educational 

feature.  Five  reels  selected  from 

over  20,000  feet  of  negative. 

A    Record- Breaking   Attraction! 

now  playing  in  the  United  States  and  Can- 
ada, prices  from  25c  to  #1.00. 

A  COMPLETE  LINE  OF  PAPER 

Ranging  from  i-sheets  to  24-sheets,  and  the 

grandest  array  of  advertising  material 

ever  arranged  for  state  rights  buyers. 

Lobby  Displays,  Heralds,  Press 

Stories,  Cuts,    Postals,  Slides, 

Lecture  and 

EVERYTHING  FOR  PUBLICITY! 

Waste  No  Time,  But  Wire  Now 

Sole  Distributors: 


Northern 
Ventures, 


TELEPHONE 
BRYANT  8138 


Limited 


145  W.  45th  St. 
New  York 


EXHIBITORS 

CALIFORNIA 
STATE    Rl 


WE  BEG  TO  ANNOUNCE  THAT  WE 
HAVE  PROCURED  FROM  THE 

FAMOUS  PLAYERS  FILM  COMPANY 

THEIR  PRODUCTION  OF7 

JAMES  K.  HACKETT 


IN 


■  ■ 


THE  PRISONER 
OF  ZENDA 


Licensed  by  the  Motion  Picture  Patents  Co. 

This  picture  was  produced 
under  the  personal  direction 
of  Mr.  Daniel  Frohman. 

The  best  trade  critics  say  it 
is  the  strongest  and  most 
elaborate  feature  ever  pro- 
duced. 

FOR  BOOKINGS 
WIRE,  WRITE  OR  CALL 

TURNER  &  DAHNKEN 
CIRCUIT 

Pantages  Building 

935  Market  Street 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

PAPER,  HERALDS,  PHOTOS  W  LOBBY 

DISPLAYS    IN    KEEPING   WITH 

THE  CHARACTER  OF  THIS 

MASTERPIECE 


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How  about  VENTILATING  your  theatre  ? 

Our  system  of  single  heat  transmission,  the  most  economical  in  first  cost  and  operation.    We  manufacture  and 

install  complete  heating  and  ventilating  equipments  in  accordance  to  the  most  rigid  ventilating  laws. 

B.  F.  REYNOLDS  &  CO.  412-414   Dearborn  Ave.,  CHICAGO,  ILL. 


MOVING  PICTURE  MACHINES- 

We  have  thirty  second-hand  Power's  No.  5  mechanisms. 
All  guaranteed  in  perfect  working  order.  Prices  as  below. 

Mechanism  only  $40.00  each 

Mechanism  with  complete  No.  5  Equipment, 

new,  without  lenses   80.00  each 

Mechanisms  with  Equipments  and  Bausch  & 

Lomb  lenses  to  suit 95-00  each 

Mechanism  complete  with   No.  6  Equipment 

instead   of  Xo.   5 15.00  extra 

No.  220  Adjustable  Rheostats    22.50  each 

No.    no  Adjustable   Rheostats 17.00  each 

No.  no  Set  Barrel  Rheostat 8.00  each 

No.   no  Power's  Grit  Rheostat 10.00  each 

One  second-hand  Edison  Grit  Rheostat 8.50  each 

12"  Reels  for  two-subject  features 75  each 

All  of  the  above  are  guaranteed  to  be  absolutely  bona- 

fide  bargains  as  represented. 

THE  STERN  MFG.  CO.,  109  N.  10th  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

(No  connection  with  any  other  Supply  House  in  this  country.) 


G.  W.  BRADENBURGH 

Pioneer  of  Features  Renting  Service 

Gay  St,  Balto.,  Md.,  A.  Ganz,  Mgr.;  333  N.  8th  St,  Phila.; 
Real  Estate  Bldg.,  Scranton,  Pa,,  G.  B.  Rockwell,  Mgr. 

SPECIALIST 

DEALER   and 

IMPORTER 

Buyer    on    Moderate    Commission    for    the    American 
Market  Office  Show  Copies  of  Long  Modern 

FEATURE  FILMS  ?^o/S 

Large  stock  of  new  and  Second  Hand  films  ready  for  immediate 
shipment.  Write  for  lists  from  $5.00  per  reel  ana  upwards,  with 
potters. 


FILM 


STEADIEST   POWER 

LIGHTEST  WEIGHT 

CUSHMAN    ENGINES 

FOR  PICTURE  SHOWS 

High  grade  engines  with  automatic 
throttle  governors  and  Schebler 
carburetors  giving  a  reliable  and 
steady  power  for  electric  light 
service.  Get  our  40-page  catalog 
and  special  picture  show  engine 
folder.  Complete  dynamo  and 
plant  ready  to  connect  to  picture 
machine*.  Ask  for  pmof  of  their 
unequalled  success.  4  H.  P.,  weight 
only  245  pounds. 

CUSHMAN    MOTOR  WORKS, 
21  15  N  Street  Lincoln,  Neb. 


2   cylinder,   6-8   H.   P. 
cycle,    weight   325    lbs. 


Aj  Guaranteed  Motion 
Picture  Outfit  for  $1502 

1  MOTION  PICTURE  CAMERA 

4  FILM  MAGAZINES 

1  PANORAMIC  TRIPOD 

1  LEATHER     PLUSH     LINED 

CAMERA  CASE 
B.  &  L.   ZE1SS-TESSAR    F.  3-S 

LENS 
1  TRIPOD  CARRYING  CASE 
1  TILT  TABLE  ATTACHMENT 

All  for  $150.00 

You  can  pafy  more,  but  you  cannot  buy  more.     Your 
local  events  bring  tremendous  returns.    Over  80  in  use. 

Send  for  Illustrated  Catalogue. 

WHYTE  WHITMAN   CO. 


36  East  23d  Street 


New  York  City 


About  to  Change  Service? 

Then  you  must  have  The  Moving  Picture  World's  Annual.  It  con- 
tains a  complete  list  of  all  releases  in  1912.  Whether  you  change 
from  Licensed  to  Independent  or  from  Independent  to  Licensed  serv- 
ice you  need  The  Motion  Picture  Annual  to  get  your  bearings  under 
new  conditions  and  keep  tabs  on  your  nearest  competitor.  The  M. 
P  Annual  is  full  of  solid,  useful  M.  P.  information.  Price  one 
dollar  and  twenty-five  cents  in  paper  covers  or  $1.50  in  cloth  boards. 

Moving  Picture  World 

Box  226,  Madison  Square  Station 

New  York  City 


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PATRIOTIC      NOVELTIES 

FOR 

MOVING  [PICTURE  THEATRES 

NOW  BOOKING  IN  NEW  ENGLAND  STATES 


LOUISE  IY1.  MARION 


IN    HER 

NEW  ILLUSTRATED  POEMS 
and  FILM  LECTURES 

LOUISE  M.  MARION 

Studio  469  W.  23rd  St.        New  York 

Present  address  for  short  time 
Crocker  House,  New  London,  Conn. 


High-Class 

VaudevilleSketch 

entitled 

"MOTHER  and  SON" 

with 
Strong  Specialties 


VITA 

FILM  SALES  GO. 

Exchange  Bldg. 

145  West  45th  Street 
NEW  YORK 


New  York  Rental  Exchange 

opens  Monday,  April  ]14th. 

Features  now  booking. 


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Commercial  Service  at  Wholesale  Weekly 
Rates.  Largest  and  Best  Selection  of  Com- 
mercial Films  of  $1.00  Subjects  in  America. 


MOTION 
PICTURES 


EXCHANGES 

Posters   with    all   Subjects,   write   for   our 
OtrWSt    List. 
Fkyy^rk  ^e  ^u^'  ^e"  an<^  Pent. 


Exhibitors,  Stop   Kicking 


about  the  price  of  Features,  as  we  furnish 
you  a  feature  every  day  for  $30.00  per  week. 

SEND  FOR  LIST  OR  CALL  TO 
EAGLE   FEATURE    FILM   COMPANY.,   Inc.  (House  of  Features  Only) 


CHARLES  H.  STREIMER.  Mgr. 


Telephone  2771  Stuyvesant 


5  East  Fourteenth  Street,  New  York  City 


NEW  YORK    EXHIBITORS 

(OUTSIDE  CITY  RADIUS)  NOW  BOOKING 


HARRY  WHITNEY  and  "LUCKY"  SCOTT 


HUNTING  BIG  GAME  IN  THE  ARCTIC 

NORTHERN  VENTURES,  Limited.  Telephone,  Bryant  8138  145  WEST  45th  ST.,  NEW  YORK 


Five  reels  and  lecturer  for  large  theatres  and  a  special 
set  of  three  reels  for  picture  houses.  Everything  for 
advertising.  :       :      W  I  R  E     N  O  W 


SCENARIOS     FOR    SALE 

Stories  from  the  pen  of  America's  greatest 
fiction  writers    at  regular   scenario  rates. 

DACEY  &  GIBNEY,  Publishers'  Representatives,  52  Wall  St,  New  York  Gty 


Negatives  Developed  and  a  Print  Made  and  Delivered 
Same  Day  as  Received     -     -     5c  per  foot 

FILM  TITLES  and  ANNOUNCEMENTS 
in  any  length     -  -     3  FEET  FOR  25c 


GUNBY  BROS.,  Inc. 


199  Third  Ave..  New  York  City 


Do  You  Want  One  ?     It's  Free 

Our  special  Picture  Show  Souvenir  and  Premium  catalog 
has  just  come  from  the  press.  It  lists  chil- 
dren's souvenirs  from  45c.  per  gross  up, 
and  special  souvenirs  suitable  for  ladies  at 
all  prices. 

With  each  request  for  one  of  the  catalogs 
we  will  send  you  our  leaflets,  How  to  In- 
crease the  Attendance  at  Picture  Shows, 
and  A  New  Scheme  Which  Will  Increase 
Your  Attendance  at  Absolutely  No  Cost  To 

You  Whatever.    It's  All  Free — A  Postal  Will 

Do — But  Hurry. 

TAKITO.  OGAWA  &  CO. 

156  W.  Lake  St.  CHICAGO,  ILL. 


The  "Mirror  Screen"  is  the  best 

"Mirror  Screen"  Co. 


Shelby ville,  Ind. 


F.  J.  REMBUSCH 
Prssid.nt 

Branch  { Chicago,   Room  403.  109  West  Washington 

Offices  J  New  York,  B22  Sixth  Avenue. 
Phone  401  Plaza. 

Write  for  Catalogue  of  our  New  "SNOW  WHITE"  Rush  Screens 


Exclusive    Feature    Service 

Back  your  houses  by  booking  from 

M.  and  F.  Feature  Film  Service 

167  W.  WASHINGTON  ST.,  CHICAGO,  ILL. 

We  control  the  following  for  Illinois: 
Italia,  Vitascope,  New  York  Film,  Gaumont 

Coming:     TIGRIS 

Several  good  features  for  sale.     Write  for  list. 


Exhibitors  First  Call  V% 


.00  SERVICE    FOR 
.00    PER    WEEK 


One  mechanical  front  and  six  oil  paintings,  size  18  by  8,  and  side  drops  7  by  5,  including  that  big  money-getter,  The 
White  Slaves  of  the  Underworld,  in  four  parts.  The  anniversary  of  The  Sinking  of  the  Titanic  in  moving  pictures.  We 
also  guarantee  to  increase  your  box  receipts  30%  that  week. 

MORRISS  FEATURE  FILMS  220  E.  14th  ST.,  NEW  YORK  CITY 

Business  Manager,  Samuel  Beeber;  Assistant,  Phil  Bluestein. 

WRITE  FOR  BOOKINGS  FOR 

Dick  Whittington  S  Cat 

IN  THREE  REELS 

SOLAX  CO.  Fort  Lee,  N.  J. 


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327 


THEATRES   II  you  want  the  best,  get  A.  B.  C.  Posters 

ONE,  THREE  AND  SIX  SHEETS  now  ready  for  the  following : 

LUBIN    SPECIAL     "THE  POWER   OF   THE   CROSS"— |n  Two  Reels Released  April  18th 

"  "  "THE  END   OF  THE   QUEST"— In  Two  Reels Released  April  25th 

KALEM'S     "THE   FIRE-FIGHTING   ZOUAVES" Released  April  19th 

"  "THE    FIGHTING    CHAPLAIN" Released  April  26th 

ALSO  ONE  and  THREE  SHEETS  FOR  ALL  BIOGRAPH  AND  LUBIN  regular  releases,  and  Kalem's 

Monday 
SPECIAL  NOTICE:     We   still   have   a   few    ONE   SHEETS   left  on  the  "LUBIN  DAYTON  FLOOD." 

Order  at  Once. 

A.  B.  C.  COMPANY  CLEVELAND,  OHIO 


300  Reels  For  $6.00 

EACH 

JUST  THINK  OF   IT! 
"SOME    BARGAIN" 

ORDER  AT  ONCE  FROM 

International  Film  Traders,  Inc. 

5  West  14  th  Street,  New  York  City 


DON'T    FAIL    TO    BOOK 

THROUGH  TEST  OF  FIRE 

Great  Northern  Special  Feature  Film 
42  East  14th  St.  New  York 


THE  MIDDLE  WEST  FLOODS  AND  TORNADO 

io  Slides,  Plain,  $2.50;  Colored,  $4.00  40  Slides,  Plain,  $10.00;  Colored,  $16.00 
20  Slides,  Plain,  5.00;  Colored,  8.00  50  Slides,  Plain,  12.50;  Colored,  20.00 
30  Slides,  Plain,    7.50;  Colored,  12.00        60  Slides,  Plain,    15.00;  Colored,    24.00 

One-Sheet  lithos  with  each  set. 
A.  J.  CLAPHAM  130  West  37th  Street,  New  York 


DONT  FORGET  TO  MENTION  THE  PAPER  WHEN  ANSWERING  ADS. 


Subscription 

Price 

Domestic  S3. 00 

Canada  3.50 

Foreign  4.00 


MOVING 
PICTURE 
WORLD 


Advertising 

Rates 

Given  on  Request 


When    Answering  Ads 
Mention  the  Paper 


Feature   Film  Manufacturers, 
Camera  Men  and  the  Trade 

If  You  Are  Looking  for  Quality 
Come  and  See  Us 

PRINTS    MADE    ON 

EASTMAN   POSITIVE   STOCK 
4Kc.  PER  FOOT 

(In  quantities  over  5000  ft.) 

INCLUDING  TINTING  AND  TONING 

NEGATIVES  DEVELOPED,  lc.  per  ft. 
HAND-PAINTED   TITLES.   8c.  per  ft. 


All  Work  Guaranteed 


Prompt  Deliveries 


COMMERCIAL  MOTION  PICTURES  CO.,  Inc. 

102  West  101st  Street       riverside  8-m       New  York  City 


328 


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WILL   BUY 

Your  old  machine  if  you  buy  a  new  machine 
from  us.     Write  today  for  prices. 

XL  FEATURE  FILM   SERVICE  GO. 


103  South  Main  Street 


Mason  City,  Iowa 


WHY   SHOW   A 
Juropy-FIickery-BUSINESS  KILLING  Picture? 

WHEN   YOTJ    CAN 
HAVE    TOUR    MACHINE   FIXED    AS   GOOD   AS 

NEW.      WORK   GUARANTEED 
We  sell  all  makes  of  machines,  new  and  second- 
band.     Also     machine     parts,     supplies,     tickets, 

carbons,   etc. 
CHICAGO     MOVING    PICTURE     SUPPLY     CO., 
538   S.    Dearborn   St.,  Chicago,    Illinois. 


MOVING  PIGTUREMAGHINES 

Btanntlnu,  Slides.  ▲•••amrtea 

CHAS.  M.STEBBINS 

1038  Mala  St. 
KANSAS  CITT.  MO 

Lsrt e  Lin  •  of  EateM  Oo*a> 
Establish**  UBS 


Costumes  for  Photo  Plays 

VAN  HORN  ®  SON 

■uofaetnrera   of   theatrical    and   historical   eo»- 

tnmea. 

p-gTT.anirr.TnTTA     PENMA, 

Established  ISM. 


For  Sale— Three  Reel  Features 

Features  in  first-class  physical  condi- 
tion,   full    reels,    fine    lobby    display, 
hand  dodgers. 
ARCO  FILM  COMPANY, 
167  W.  Washington  St.,  Chicago. 


Headquarters  for 

ASBESTOS 

CURTAINS  and  PICTURE  BOOTHS 

f£*     C.  W.  Trainer  Mfg.  Co. 
Booklet    39  Pearl  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 


We  buy  and  tell  Second  Hand  Fihni 
and  Moving  Picture  Machine. 

WESTERN  FILM  BROKERS 


SS8  S.  Dearborn   St  root 


CMoano,  III. 


THE  SIMPSON  SOLAS  tGRKKN 

The  only  MetalHe  Screen  wfohoot 

•cams,    patented.      Boy    the   seal 

thing.     Beware  of  imitation* 

ALFRED  L.  SIMPSON,  la*. 

No.  113  W.  i3«nd  St,  N.  Y.  City 


ELECTRIC   EXHAUST   FANS 

T-wenty-four-lnch,       $80.         Thlrty-inoh,       1110. 
Alio    una    oscillating    twelve-inoh    faaa,    $18.71 
each.     All   General   Eleotrio  make  and  for  alter- 
nating   current.     1    pbaae,     60    oyolo,     110    volt. 
GEORGE  BENDER 

82  C.ntr.  Street  Now  York  City 


it 


FOTOPLAYER 


»> 


the  instrument  that  supplies 
MUSIC     FOR     THE     PICTURES 

The  American  Photo  Player  Sales  Co. 
130   Kearny   St.,    San_Francisco,_Cal. 


Film  Cement,  the  only  Cement  that  will  bold 
all  makes  of  Film. 

AT  ALL  EXCHANGES,  or 

ALFRED  C   STANGE, 

2214  W.  Monroe  St., 

Chicago,  111. 


Moving  Picture  Electric 
Light  Plants  j  ~ 


Produce  Fl.ckerleaa 
Current  Cheaper 
than  the  Trust. 

A  porta  M*  or  a  stationary  direct-connected  plant 

wbiea  aiTM  xoa    money  on  your  current 

billa.      The  vary  outfit  for  a  tent  or  road 

•hew,  for   fataa,   ihoatra     projection  and 

Humiliation,     Plants,  with  oapaoitiea  of  76 

to  660  10-eaadl*  power  lamps  at  prices 

from  S1I7    mp-ward  for   oomplste   outfit. 

■  karsasae  and  rupplies  current 

at  a  cost  of  2  •ante 

per  kilowatt- 

Addreaa  ElestrioaJ 

Dept.    for   eataloc 

Ne.  301.  117 

DITB.OI  T 
MOTOR     GAB 

■TJPPLT     CO. 

S-PtMit, 


SCENARIOS 
WANTED 

Special  Attention  to 

COMEDIES 


KINEMACOLOR 

1600  Broadway  New  York 


aottens  old,  brittle 
films  in  one  night. 
Keeps  new  films 
pliable. 

Price  $1.00 


National  Waterproof  Film  Co. 

42OO-4202    W.   Adams   St.,   Chicago,    III 


ANTED 

PRODUCER 

CAMERA  MAN 

LEADING  MAN  and 

LEADING  WOMAN 

None  but  thoroughly  qualified  people 
will  be  considered.  Write,  giving  full 
details,  past  experience,  and  salary 
required,  to 
CANADIAN  BIOSCOPE  CO.,  Ltd. 
Halifax.  N.  S. 


We  Sell  On  Time 

POWERS  -  SIMPLEX 
M0TI0GRAPH  and 
EDISON   MACHINES 

Let  us  know  equipment  you  are 
interested  in  and  we  will  send 
you  full  particulars. 

AMUSEMENT  SUPPLY  COMPANY 


160  A.  No.  Fifth  Ave. 


Chicago,  III 


America's  Feature  Film  Co. 

406-7-8  Schiller  Building,  Chicago,  111. 


Make  Your  Lobby 
Display  Attractive 

There  Is  nothing  more 
fascinating  to  the  publio 
than  a  bright  brass 
frame  to  display  your 
photos  or  posters. 
Wo  make  Lobby  and 
Theatre  Fixtures  and 
Brass  Rails  of  every  de- 
scription. 

Don't  fail  to  visit  our 
complete  Show  Rooms  at 

101  •  103     FOURTH 
IVE.,    NEW  YORK, 

N.  T. 
Write  for  Catalog 

Established  1882. 

The  Newman   Mfg.   Co. 

71S-721  Sycamore  St. 
Cincinnati,  Ohio 


GOMPENSARC 

That's  the  device  that  saves  Moving  Pic- 
ture men  two-thirds  on  their  electric  light 
bills,  and  yet  gives  better  light.  Did  you 
see  our  ad  last  week?  Well,  don't  look  it 
up.    Just  write  for  our 

Booklet  15018 


FORT  WAYNE   ELECTRIC  (WORKS 

OF    GENERAL    ELECTRIC    COMPANY 

1402  Broadway 
FORT  WAYNE  INDIANA  m 


McKENNA 


m& 


BRASS 

RAILINGS 

EASELS 

GRILLES 

CUSPIDORS 

KICK 

PLATES 

POSTER 

FRAMES 


Write 
for 

CataUf. 


■cKenna  Bros.  Brass  60. 

PITTSBURGH 


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Powers,  Simplex,  Motiograph 

FACTORY  SELLING  HEADQUARTERS 

Hallberg  Standard  A.'C.  Economizers  Hallberg  D.  C.  Economizers 

Mercury  Arc  Rectifiers        Hallberg  Ticket  Dispensers       Electra  Pink  Label  Carbons 

This  is  HALLBERG'S  A.  C. 
to  D.  C.  ECONOMIZER. 

Many  of  the  most  prominent  theatres  in  the  country  have  installed  the 
Hallberg,  and  I  have  received  hundreds  of  inquiries  regarding  this 
much  talked  of  device  during  the  past  few  weeks.  The  splendid  light 
and  beautiful  pictures  it  helps  project  either  forces  competitors  out  of 
business  or  compels  them  to  also  install  this  Hallberg  A.  C  to  D.  C 
Economizer.  After  all,  the  pictures  are  what  you  are  selling;  if  you 
are  operating  on  alternating  current  and  wish  to  get  the  best  results, 
I  offer  you  the  logical  solution  of  your  problem.  Write  stating  your 
voltage,  cycles,  phase  of  your  current  and  length  of  throw.  Will  quote 
price  then  on  outfit  to  meet  your  requirements. 


Hallberg  A.  C.  to  D.  C.  and  D.  C.  Economizer 


Exhibitors  should 

Write  for  price  list  of 'USED  MACHINE  BARGAINS"  and  alto  second-hand  current  rating 

device*  of  all  maket 

\l    EQUIP    THEATRES    COMPLETELY 

Free  Circulars  on  all  makes  of  M.  P.  Machines,  but  Hallberg'*  Big  Catalogue,  100  Pages, 

costs  you  25c  by  mall. 

J.  H.  HALLBERG,  36  E.23rd  St.,  New  York 


Protect  Your  Box  Office 
with  Hallberg  Ticket  Sia- 
penser. 


'Alba" 


"Aurola" 


BARGAINS 

ON  WORLD  FAMOUS 

ELECTRIC    FLAMING 

ARC  LAMPS 

Account  of  Reduction  of  Factory  JPrices 

LIGHT 

PLEASURE  BENT  PEOPLE 

These   lamps   are   made    by   Germany's    oldest    and 
largest  lamp  manufacturers 

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the  Globe 

POWER'S 


Cameragraph  No.  6  A 

Like  the  British  Empire,  "The  sun  never 
sets"  on  POWER'S  CAMERAGRAPH.  It  is 
known  the  world  over  and  wherever  it  goes  it 
makes  new  friends  AND  HOLDS  THEM, 
for  POWER'S  wears  well. 

POWER'S  has  put  a  girdle  around  the 
earth.  It  is  a  girdle  wrought  by  EXPERI- 
ENCE and  riveted  by  MERIT. 

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where. 

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details. 

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90  Gold  St.,  New  York 

The  Leading  Makers  of  Motion  Picture  Machine* 


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April  26.  1913 


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WITH  A  NOTABLE  THANHOUSER  CAST.  EASILY  WORTH  WAITING  A  COUPLE 
OF  WEEKS  FOR!    IN  THREE  HANDY  REELS!     A  REGULAR  RELEASE  AT  THAT! 

Sunday,  April  20.  THE  CHILDREN'S  CONSPIRACY 

It  was  all  in  the  interests  of  their  pretty  little  teacher  whom  a  heartless  school  board  deposed — to  make  a  Job  for  a 
crusty  old  schoolmam  who  was  "related,"  and  the  youthful  schemers  overcame  this  great  opposition  by  simply 
— scheming. 

Tuesday,  April  22.  AN  AMERICAN  IN  THE  MAKING 

From  the  "greenhorn,"  fresh  from  the  "old  country,"  you  stay  with  him  while  he  seeks  and  lands  an  American  job, 
an  American  wife  and  American  happiness;  also  is  shown  the  ingenious  American  safety  devices  that  protected  him 
while  he  was  in  the  making. 


FOR  ANOTHER'S  SIN 


Friday,  April  25. 

The  man  who  has  erred  and  paid  the  prison  penalty  finds  with  horror  that  a  friend  is  treading  the  selfsame  down- 
ward path;  the  friend  has  a  family  and  a  future,  the  ex-convict  has  neither,  and  he  oersuades  the  friend  to  allow 
him  to  take  the  blame  and  the  punishment. 


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WINTER  STUDIOS:  651  FAIRVIEW  PL.,  LOS  ANGELES,  CAL. 

Coming!      Sunday,  April  27 — A   comedy  of  a  cantankerous  cook: 
"Rosie's  Revenge." 

Coming!       Tuesday,    May    13 — A    two    reel    Thanhouser    Classic: 
"Marble  Heart." 


(In  two  reels,   with  Priscilla's  Pets.) 


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IF    YOU    WANT    GOOD    FISHING 
GO  WHERE   THE   FISH   ARE!  !  ! 

NAY 


Released  Tuesday,  April  22nd 

"THE  UNBURIED  PAST" 

A  heart-rending  pathetic  drama,  teaching  "sacrifice."     A  revelation  in  photographic  portrayal. 


Released  Wednesday,  April  23rd 

"THE  RIVAL  SALESMEN" 

A  bully  good  comedy  in  which  one  salesman  tries  to  outwit  the  other.    You  will  appreciate  this  one. 


Released  Thursday,  April  24th 

"CITY   OF  MEXICO" 

A  beautiful  scenic  and  educational  feature  well  worth  the  patronage  of  anyone.     Do  not  miss  this. 


Released  Friday,  April  25th 

"THE  DEACON'S   DILEMMA" 

Another  one  of  those  screamingly  funny  comedies  that  keep  your  audience  in  a  continual  uproar. 


Released  Saturday,  April  26th  _ii 

"BRONCHO   BILLY  AND  THE  RUSTLER'S   CHILD" 

A  unique  and  thrilling  Western  drama.     Out  of  the  ordinary.     Jot  this  one  down  in  your  note-book  and  don't  forget 

the  date.     Mr.  G.  M.  Anderson  featured. 


BOOK    THIS  !  !   ! 


'INTO    THE    NORTH  " 


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CAN  SECURE  THESE  FROM  THE  PLAYERS'  PHOTO  CO.,  177  N.  STATE  ST.,  CHICAGO,  ILL. 

ESSANAY  FILM  MANUFACTURING  CO. 

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Factory  and  Studio,  1333  Argyle  Street,  Chicago,  111. 
Branch  Offices  in  London,  Paris,  Berlin,  Barcelona 


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UNIVERSAL 

Have  Left  all  Competition  Weeks  and 
Universal  Program!  Don't  be  Satisfied 


5 

Imp 
Features 


"THE  RISE  OF  OFFICER  174"— 2  Reels 
"  ROBESPIERRE  "— Afrvonderf ul  3-reeler 
",WHEN  MOB  WASHING"— A  2-reeler 
"THE  COMEDIAN'SJMASK"— 2  reels 
"SECRET  SERVICE  SAM"— 3  reels 


4 

Rex 

Features 


"ROBINSON  CRUSOE"— 3  reels 
"THE  DRAGON'S  BREATH"— 2  reels 
^HN' SLAVERY  DAYS"— 2  reels 
"THE  ROSARY"— A  1-reel  feature 


•     4 
American- 
Eclair 
Features 


"THE  RETURN  OF  CRIME"— 2  reels 
'"TTSE  SONS  OF  A  SOLDIER"— 3  reels 
"WHY?"— 2  reels 
"MATHILDE"— 2  reels 


2 

Lincoln  J. 

Carter 
Features 


"TWO  LITTLE  WAIFS"— 2  reels 
"BEDFORD'S  HOPE"— 3  reels 


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FEATURES 

Weeks  Behind.    Demand  the  ENTIRE 
with  Only  Part  of  It.    Get  it  ALL! 


"STARS  AND   STRIPES  FOREVER "— !,.?„«?'' 


Filipino  War 


"THE  NORTHERN  SPY"— 2  reels 


"THE  VENGEANCE  OF  SKYSTONE"— 2  reels 
'THE  INDIAN'S  SECRET"— 2  reels 


"THE  FIGHTING: CHAPLAIN "—2  reels 
"BRED  IN  THE  BONE"— 3  reels 
"THE  TOLL  OF  WAR"— 3  reels 
"THE  HALF  BREED  PARSON"— 2  reels 
"THE  LAST  ROLL  CALL"— 2  reels 

"UNCLE  TOM'S  CABIN"— 3  reels 
"BEAUTY  AND  THE  BEAST"— 3  reels 
"PELLEAS  AND  MELISANDE"— 3  reels 
"FEDORA"— 2  reels 


"THE  SMUGGLER'S  DAUGHTER"— 2  reels 


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THE  BLACK  CHANCELLOR"    3  reels 


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Great  Northern 
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EXTRA   NEWS    FROM    THE 

UNIVERSAL: 


King   Baggot 

will  shortly  give  you  the  best  demonstration  of  his  versatility 
you  have  ever  seen.  Watch  for  him  in  "The  Rise  of  Officer 
174"  (2  reels)  and  then  in  "The  Comedian's  Mask"  (2  reels), 
two  of  the  best  bits  of  work  he  has  ever  done. 

SEE  THAT  YOU   GET   BOTH  THESE   IMPS! 


Two  "Crystals"  a  Week! 

Commencing  May  27th,  there  will  be  a  "Crystal" 
release  on  the  Universal  program  every  SUNDAY 
and  every  TUESDAY. 

Program,  Week  of  April  28th 

& 

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IMP— "The  Cub"  (Dr.) 

NESTOR— "When   Father  Was   Kidnapped" 

Two  "Frontiers"  a  Week! 

(W.  Com.) 
CHAMPION— "The  Clown  Hero"  and  "Life 
in  the  Soudan"  (Com.  &  Edu.) 

See  that  you  get  a  "Frontier     every  THURS- 
DAY and  every  SATURDAY.     They're  on  the 
Universal  program  NOW! 

>> 

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GEM— "Billy's  Suicide"  and  "Views  of  Cape 

Hatteras"  (Com.  &  Edu.) 
ioi  BISON— "The  Last  Roll  Call"  (2-reel  Dr.) 

Some  More  "Newly weds" 

If  you  are  not  getting  every  "Newlywed"  reel 
produced,  put  up  a  fight  for  them.     They're  the 

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NESTOR— "The  Greater  Love"  (Dr.) 
POWERS— "In  a  Strange  Land"  (Dr.) 
ECLAIR— "The  Return  of  Crime"  (2-reel  Dr.) 
ANIMATED    WEEKLY 

novelty  hit  of  years ! 

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IMP— "The  Rise  of  Officer  174"  (King  Baggot 

"Pelleas  (&  Melisande" 

Coming — with   the   famous   Constance  Crawley 

2-reel    Dr.) 
REX— "The  Turn  of  the  Tide"  (Dr.) 
FRONTIER— "The  Word  of  Jose"  (Dr.) 

and  Arthur  Maude  in  the  title  roles.     A  Univer- 
sal triumph.     Demand  it. 

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NESTOR— "The  Ingrate"  (Dr.) 
POWERS— "Neighbors"  (Com.) 
VICTOR— "The  Unseen  Influence"  (Dr.) 

OUR  NEW  WAR  FEATURES 

will  give  you   an  entire  change  from   the  Civil 
war  features  of  the  past.     The  first  Filipino  war 
picture, "Stars  and  Stripes  Forever," will  contain 
the  biggest  battle  sensations  we  have  ever  pro- 

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IMP — "Her  Lover's  Voice"  and  "Opening  of 
the  1913  Baseball  Season"  (Com.  and 
Topical) 

101  BISON— "The  Vengeance  of  Skystone" 
■  (2-reel  Dr.) 

FRONTIER— "An  Eastern  Cyclone  at  Bluff 
Ranch"  (Com.) 

duced.     Watch  for  release  date! 

Universal  Film  Mfg.  Co. 

1600  Broadway,   New  York.  N.  Y. 

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REX— "The  Rosary"  (Dr.) 

CRYSTAL— "Pearl  as  a  Detective"  and  "Oh ! 
Whiskers"  (Split  Com.) 

ECLAIR— "Bewitched   Matches"    and   "Sala- 
manders"  (Com.  &  Scien.) 

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Broncho 

Headliners 


Bread  Cast  Upon 
the  Waters 


2  reels,  April  30 


A  thrilling  military  and  dra- 
matic subject,  in  which  a  Union 
captain  during  the  Civil  War 
has  his  heart  touched  by  the 
pathetic  pleading  of  a  boy  for 
the  return  of  his  pet  pony. 
Later,  wounded  and  in  danger 
of  being  captured,  the  boy  re- 
pays the  debt  of  gratitude  and 
by  a  daring  ride  delivers  the 
despatches  of  the  captain  and 
saves  the  Union  army  from 
annihilation.  The  boy's  sister, 
a  loyal  southern  girl,  is  won  by 
the  kindness  of  the  captain  and 
joyfully  welcomes  him  when  he 
returns  after  the  war. 


Broncho   Motion   Picture  Co. 

Long  Acre  Bldg.,  42d  St.  and  Bdwy. 
NEW  YORK  CITY 

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That  Rag  Time  Band 

One  reel,  May  1 

This  comedy  will  prove  as  popular  as 
"Heinze's  Resurrection,"  presenting  sit- 
uations of  screaming  humor.  The  Rag 
Time  Band  quarrels  over  pretty  Mabel, 
but  finally  appears  on  the  stage  at  an 
Amateur  Night.  Vegetables  and  eggs 
come  their  way,  and  the  leader,  Krause, 
gets  the  fire  hose  behind  the  scenes  and 
turns  it  on  the  audience.  The  result 
cannot  be  described  and  must  be  seen  to 
be  enjoyed. 

The  New  Conductor 

Split  reel,  April  28 

The  new  conductor  has  a  unique 
method  of  giaft,  but  gets  caught.  The 
action  is  staged  on  a  real  electric  car, 
and  amusing  situations  are  brought  out 
as  the  pretty  girls  become  passengers. 


His  Chum  the  Baron 

Split  reel,  April  28 

Smith's  chum,  the  Baron,  steals  his 
clothes  to  go  to  a  ball.  Smith  follows 
and  takes  the  dress  suit  away  from  the 
Baron,  who  is  in  an  awkward  predica- 
ment and  tries  to  hide.  He  is  chased 
from  room  to  room  by  the  guests  who 
think  him  a  lunatic.  The  police  are 
finally  called  and  aid  in  capturing  the 
"wild  man,"  and  he  is  taken  away  with 
no  gentle  hands. 


KEYSTONE  FILM  CO. 

E  Long  Acre  Bldg.,  42d  St.  and  Bdwy. 
I  NEWiYORKSCITY 

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the  war  breaks  out.  The 
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at  the  close  of  the  war  by 
the  clever  plotting  of  the 
old  negroes.  Among  the 
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where  men,  maddened  with  the  fury  of  the  combat,  asked  no 
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"AN  EXCITING  HONEYMOON" 
Lord  Rowley  in  the  Coal  Bunkers 


'HEARTS  OF  THE  FIRST  EMPIRE" 
Beatrice  is  Presented  to  Napoleon 


"THROUGH  MANY  TRIALS" 
Guy  and  Emily  are  Secretly  Married 


"THE  BROKEN  VOW" 
The  Ranch  of  the  Wealthy  Cattle  King 


"AN  EXCITING  HONEYMOON" 

PATHEPLAY  IN  TWO  REELS.    RELEASED  SATURDAY,  APRIL  26th,  1913. 

THE  funniest,  happiest,  wholesomest  comedy  in  years!     Two  reels  of  screaming  hilarity.     Lord  Rowley,  the  unfortunate  and  near-sighted 
groom,  loses  his  eyeglasses  just  after  the  ceremony  and  starts  on   his  bridal  tour  with  the  colored  cook  instead  of  the  sweet  little  girl  he 
has  just  married.     An  exciting  auto  chase;  a  race  down  the  bav  on  a  tug  after  the  departing  steamer;  the  flight  of  Lord  Rowley  down 
the  ventilator  into  the   coal   bunkers — these  are   but   few   of   the  situations  that  make  this  greatest  laugh-getting  film  ever  released.  Featuring 
Gwendolyne  Pates  and  Charles  Arling. 

"HEARTS  OF  THE  FIRST  EMPIRE" 

VITAGRAPH  IN  TWO  REELS.     RELEASED  MONDAY,  APRIL  28th,  1913. 

A  STORY  of  the  days  of  Emperor  Napoleon,     A  young  country    girl   is  found  by  Marie   Louise,  in  the  poorest  section  of  Paris.     To 
save  her  from  further  cruelty,  the  Empress  takes  her  to  the  palace  and  trains  her  as  a  Maid. of  Honor.     After  furnishing  the  court 
attendants  with  no  end  of  amusement  by  her  awkward  manners,  she  makes  great  improvements,  and  eventually  becomes  a  great  favor- 
ite.   In  time,  she  wins  a  noble  husband,  but  first  she  "kills  a  rogue  and  outwits  an  Emperor."    A  superb  production  with  William  Humphrey 
as  Napoleon,  Edith   Storey  as  Marie  Louise  and  Leah  Baird  as  Beatrice,  the  country  girl. 

"THROUGH  MANY  TRIALS" 

LUBIN  IN  TWO  REELS.     RELEASED  WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  30th,  1913. 

ABEAUTIfUL  pastoral  drama,  in  which  we  follow  the  wooing  of  the  farmer's  daughter  by  the  rich  young  artist,  their  elopement  and 
subsequent  marriage.  Then  the  proof  of  the  old  proverb  "Marry  in  haste,  repent  at  leisure."  The  artist-husband  returns  to  his 
life  in  Bohemia,  and  neglects  his  wife.  A  child  is  born  and  the  father  realizes  his  neglect.  Back  at  his  painting,  he  strives  hard  for 
success  and  wins.  Later,  the  little  family  goes  to  see  "the  old  folks"  and  there  is  a  general  reconciliation,  with  everybody  happy.  A  simple 
story  of  plain  people,  with  the  necessary  element  of  human  interest. 

"THE  BROKEN  VOW" 

CINES-KLEINE  IN  TWO  REELS.    RELEASED  FRIDAY,  MAY  2nd,  1913. 

JULIET,  the  simple  shepherdess,  a..d  Tony,  the  herder  on  the  ranch  of  a  wealthy  Cattle  King,  are  enamored  with  each  other.  Often  they 
meet  at  the  trysting  place,  under  a  giant  tree  on  the  edge  of  a  cliff.  Juliet  is  accidentally  shot  and  is  removed  to  the  home  of  the 
Cattle  King,  where  she  recovers.  Tempted  by  promises  of  presents  and  other  wealth,  she  finally  marries  him.  Two  years  pass,  and 
Tony  observes  the  ranchman  riding  through  the  woods.  A  fight  ensues  and  results  in  a  victory  for  Tony  who,  after  tieing  the  ranchman 
to  the  tree  at  the  trysting  place,  sends  for  Juliet,  and,  before  the  eyes  of  the  husband,  throws  her  and  himself  over  the  cliff  into 
eternity. 

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"swear  by"  General  Film  Service.  Superior  single-reel  pictures 
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tributing offices  so  located  that  they  cover  the  entire  country,  and 
each  in  charge  of  a  manager  whose  chief  duty  it  is  to  see  that  exhib- 
itors are  served  promptly,  properly  and  impartially — these  are  a  few  of 
the  things  that  have  made  permanent  friends  for  General  Film  Service. 
After  all,  there  isn't  a  good  reason  in  theworld  why  you  shouldn't 
talk  with  us  about  General  Film  Service,  even  though  you  decide  later 
not  to  use  it.     Shall  we  put  you  in  touch  with  one  of  our  offices? 

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editorial  columns  of  its  April  5th  issue,  the  Wenatchee, 
Wash.,  World  has  this  to  say: 

"Last  night  we  saw  at  one  of  the  local  theatres  what 
appealed  to  us  as  the  ideal  moving  picture.  It  was  a 
two-reel  drama  entitled  'The  Redemption.'  No 
sermon  ever  preached  a  greater  lesson  morally;  no 
climaxes  were  ever  built  up  more  effectively ;  nothing 
of  more  gripping  heart  interest  is  imaginable.  The 
audience  was  worked  up  to  fever  heat  of  interest. 
The  acting  was  masterful  and  the  technique  superb. 
The  photography  was  faultless.     It  was  a  triumph." 

"The  Redemption"  is  a  Kalem  production  and  was  released 
in  General  Film  Service  on  February  21st.  Every  program  brings 
others  just  as  good. 

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FEATURING     GWEN.     PATES     AND     CHARLES     ARLING 

The  Laughs  Follow  Each  Other 
Like    Rice    Follows    a   Bride 

RELEASED    APRIL   26th 

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A  SPLENDID  SCAPEGRACE 

From  "A  Blackjack  Bargainer" 
Dramatic  (1000) — Released  Saturday,  April  26th. 

Having  dissipated  away  his  entire  fortune  and  sold 
his  home,  Yancey  Goree  finally  sells  the  family  feud 
to  an  old  mountaineer.  But  Yancey's  old  enemy  be- 
friends him  and,  in  return,  he  shields  him  from  the  new 
enemy,  receiving  the  bullet  which  was  intended  for  him. 

WHEN  The  RIGHT  MAN  COMES  ALONG 

Comedy-Drama   (1000) — Released   Monday,   April  28th 

Scorning  all  things  feminine,  an  extremely  progres- 
sive young  woman  plunges  into  business,  develops  a 
near-male  style  of  clothes  and  becomes  as  mannish  as 
possible.  She  laughs  .at  matrimony  until  he  arrives  and 
then  her  mannish  ways  are  thrust  aside  in  her  efforts 
to  charm  him. 

THE  ORPHAN 

Drama  (1000) — Released  Tuesday,  April  29th. 

The  black  sheep  of  the  family  dies,  leaving  his  little 
daughter  in  the  care  of  a  younger  brother  who  is  en- 
gaged to  be  married.  The  little  stranger  is  the  cause 
of  a  breach  between  the  lovers,  but  her  illness  brings 
them  more  closely  together  than  they  have  ever  been 
before. 

A  RELUCTANT  CINDERELLA 

Comedy  (1000) — Released  Wednesday,  April  30th. 

A  pinching  slipper,  removed  under  the  table  during 
a  dinnerrdance,  gets  a  debutante  into  all  sorts  of  em- 
barrassing predicaments  before  she  finally  recovers  it 
from  one  of  the  men.  She  conceals  her  slipperless  foot 
until  he  lets  a  mouse  loose  in  the  room.  That  is  too 
much. 


GROUNDLESS  SUSPICION 

Dramatic    (1000)    Released    Friday,    May    2,    1913. 

A  devoted  young  wife  in  trying  to  conceal  from  her 
husband  the  fact  that  their  baby  is  blind,  arouses  his 
suspicion.  Mysterious  letters,  telephone  calls  and  secret 
visits  by  a  strange  man  drive  him  frantic  until  he  learns 
the  truth. 


BILLY'S   SWEETHEART 

Western-Drama    (1000)    Released    Saturday,    May    3,    1913. 

A  young  cowboy  finds  a  baby  girl  only  to  lose  her 
after  becoming  very  fond  of  her.  She  is  picked  up  by 
an  old  freighter  who,  twelve  years  later,  stakes  her 
against  a  Mexican's  winnings  in  a  poker  game  and  loses 
her.  Billy,  not  knowing  who  she  is,  wins  her  from  the 
Mexican  and  later  captures  her  heart. 


THE  ONE  HUNDRED  DOLLAR 
ELOPEMENT 

Comedy-Drama    (1000)    Released   Monday,    May   5,    1913. 

A  young  boarding  school  girl  becomes  fascinated  by 
a  village  youth  and  arranges  to  elope  with  him.  The 
principal  notifies  her  father  who,  on  learning  the  char- 
acter of  the  fellow,  buys  off  the  ardent  lover  for  $100.00 
and  appears  at  the  meeting  place  in  his  stead. 


WHEN  GREEK   MEETS  GREEK 

Drama    (1000)    Released    Tuesday,    May    6,    1913. 

An  obstinate,  over-bearing,  hot-tempered  financier 
meets  his  match  in  a  young  stenographer  who  has  all 
his  qualities — and  a  few  more.  His  first  angry  surprise 
slowly  gives  way  to  admiration  for  her  character  and 
goood  sense.     Then  the  inevitable  happens. 


The  EDISON  KINETOSCOPE 

UNDERWRITERS'  TYPE  "B" 

VX7HY  isn't  your  moving  picture  show  making  you  the 
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LUBIN  FILMS 

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The  husband  gets  in  the  wrong  home  and  causes  trouble. 

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John,  the  principal,  demands  obedience  from  Lottie,  the  teacher. 


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Friday,  April  25th 


A  young  girl  outwits  two  men  in  clever  fashion. 


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A  birthmark  plays  an  important  role  in  saving  a  life. 


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A  very  beautiful  story  told  in  a  most  convincing  manner. 


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"THROUGH  MANY  TRIALS" 

A  Two  Reel  Feature 
Released  Wednesday,  April  30th 

Guy  Maurice,  an  artist,  goes  to  the  country  and 
meets  Emily  Brown,  a  farmer's  daughter.  They  fall 
in  love,  much  against  the  farmer's  wish,  and  elope. 
Maurice  takes  his  wife  to  a  beautiful  home  in  the  city. 
A  child  is  born  and  it  inspires  the  artist  to  supreme 
effort  and  he  makes  a  picture  which  receives  a  high 
award.  Things  at  the  farm  go  wrong.  Emily's  mother 
dies,  the  farm  is  sold  out  by  the  sheriff.  The  old  man 
and  his  son  come  to  the  city  and,  finding  the  run- 
aways, take  them  home  to  peace  and  comfort. 


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ITAGRAPH 

1.  " MIXED  IDENTITIES "  1  cww 

2.  "GALA  DAY  PARADE,  YOKOHAMA,  JAPAN" J  ^°"w 

Monday,  April  21st 
i.  The  twins  are  responsible  for  this  palatable  mixture  of  funny  complications,  which 
end  in  a  hearty  laugh.    2.  Interesting  snap-shots  of  the  Land  of  Flowers. 

1.  "MYSTERY  OF  THE  STOLEN  JEWELS" 


Drama  and    Tuesday, 

2.  "IN  THE  GOOD  OLD  SUMMER  TIME"J  Boatin*    Apri,22d 

1.  Lambert  Chase's  solution  of  a  succession  of  robberies  on  shipboard.     He  gets  the 
thief  on  a  string  and  holds  him  for  the  police.    2.  The  joys  of  motor  boating. 

1.  "THERE'S  MUSIC  IN  THE  HAIR"  2. "  CROWD  jew,** 
ATTENDING  GODS  IN  TEMPLE,  TOKYO,  JAPANJ£</UM<'W 

Wednesday,  April  23rd 

i.  Music  hath  charms,  so  hath  Professors  Liebschnitz  and  Staccato.     Bunny,  as  Lieb- 
schnitz,  captures  Iolanthe  McSwatt,  impersonated  by  Flora  Finch.    2.  A  bit  of  Japan. 

"THE    POWER  THAT  RULES"  Drama  Thursday,  April  24th 

Anxious  to  compete  with  her  wealthy  neighbors,  an  ambitious  woman  leads  herself  and 
her  husband  to  the  verge  of  ruin  and  despair. 

"  THE  STRONGER  SEX  "  Drama  Friday,  April  25th 

A  young  man  withstands  the  fascinations  of  a  charming  woman  and  thereby  proves 
himself  a  man  of  honor  and  trust. 


"A  FIGHTING  CHANCE" 


Drama 


Saturday,  April  26th 


Through  his  own  weakness,  he  is  brought  to  a  realization  of  it  by  a  clever  and  honor- 
able woman,  who  tells  his  wife  of  his  foolishness  and  her  opportunity. 


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"O'HARA    AND    THE    YOUTH- 
FUL  PRODIGAL"— A  Return 
Monday,  April  28th 

"TWO'S    COMPANY,    THREE'S 

A  CROWD" 
"STREET    SCENES,    YOKO- 
HAMA, JAPAN" 
Comedy  and  Educational 

Tuesday,  April  29th 

"A  WINDOW  ON  WASHINGTON  PARK"— A  Find 

Wednesday,  April  30th 
"BUNNY  VERSUS  CUTEY"  1   Two  on  Q 

"USES  OF  DYNAMITE  BY  U.  S.  ENG.  CORPS"  j    iwo  on  une 

Thursday,  May  1st 

"CINDERS"— Bright  Drama  Friday,  May  2nd 

"CAPTAIN  MARY  BROWN"— A  Leader  Saturday,  May  3rd 

SPECIAL  FEATURE,  "THE  ARTIST'S  GREAT  MADONNA,"  BY 
KATHERINE  VAN  DYKE,  IN  TWO  PARTS;  RELEASED  MON- 
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The  Heart  of  an  Actress 


Miss  Alice  Joyce  in  a  Powerful,  Emotional  Role 

The  young  actress  becomes  a  popular  favorite  after  a  hard  struggle,  and  is  well  repaid  for  a 
noble  sacrifice. 
Released  Monday,  May  5th  Special  1  and  3-Sheet  Potters 


The  Alien 

A  miscarriage  of  justice  in  his  country  causes 
an  Italian  to  seek  a  new  home  in  the  United 
States.    Federal  officers  protect  him  in  a  time  of 
peril  and  he  takes  the  oath  of  allegiance. 
Released  Wednesday,  May  7th 


The  Hash  House  Count 

Jim  induces  a  waiter  to  impersonate  a  count,  but 
complications  arise  when  the  pretender  falls  in  love 
with  Jim's  girl.     (On  the  Same  Reel) 

Toothache! 

Doesn't  sound  funny,  but  it  is.  With  one  touch  of 
nature  a  broker  and  a  tramp  become  akin. 

Released  Friday,  May  9th 


The  River  Pirates 

A  Southern  planter  finds  that  his  shipments  are  being  stolen    and  sends  his  son  to  investigate. 
The  young  man  brings  about  the  capture  of  some  desperate  river  pirates  and  incidentally  wins  a 
bride. 
Released  Saturday,  May  10th  Special  1,  3  and  6-Sheet  Posters 

The  Cheyenne  Massacre 

Feature  Indian  Classic  in  Two  Parts.  Special  Release,  Friday  May  9th. 
Special  Music  15  cents,  postage  prepaid.     Special  1,  3,  6-sheet  posters. 


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Facts  and  Comments 

WHEX  the  opening  of  a  motion  picture  theater  is 
made  the  occasion  of  a  holiday  and  the  mayor 
and  the  clergy  of  the  town  assemble  and  take 
part  in  the  opening  ceremonies,  the  friends  of  the  motion 
picture  have  just  cause  for  rejoicing.  Such  an  event  took 
place  in  a  typical  American  community,  when  a  fine,  new- 
motion  picture  theater  was  opened  in  Hasbrouck  Heights, 
N.  J.  The  place  is  a  large  colony  of  homes,  one  of  the 
units  which  make  up  our  strength  and  character  as  a 
nation.  Every  person  in  the  town  takes  a  civic  pride  in 
the  motion  picture  theater,  which  becomes  the  centre  of 
social  life  in  the  community.  The  ministers,  instead  of 
denouncing  the  motion  picture,  cone  out  with  unqualified 
indorsements,  and  the  principal  and  the  teachers  are  in 
constant  touch  with  the  exhibitor  to  be  sure  of  receiving 
the  full  benefit  of  all  good  educational  pictures.  The  rela- 
tions between  the  members  of  the  community  and  the  ex- 
hibitor are  the  pleasantest  and  happiest  possible. 

* 

How  has  all  this  been  brought  about?  The  character 
and  the  good  judgment  of  the  exhibitor  are  responsible. 
The  exhibitor  went  into  the  town  about  a  year  ago,  un- 
known and  confronted  by  prejudice.     He  hired  a  small 


hall  and  gave  the  people  a  clean,  satisfactory  entertain- 
ment. Prejudice  began  to  die,  the  best  people  in  the  com- 
munity offered  their  encouragement  and  assistance  in 
widening  the  sphere  of  usefulness.  They  realized  what 
such  a  clean  and  healthy  amusement  meant  to  their  chil- 
dren and  to  the  morals  of  the  town  at  large.  They  looked 
upon  their  help  to  the  exhibitor  as  a  civic  duty,  and  thus 
from  a  small  seed  there  grew  a  good  harvest.  It  all  goes 
to  show  once  more  what  a  powerful  hold  the  motion  pic- 
ture has  on  the  affections  of  the  people. 

*  *     * 

T  may  be  well  for  exhibitors  who  are  doing  so  much 
for  the  relief  of  flood  sufferers  to  remember  that 
among  the  victims  of  the  recent  disasters  were  not  a 
few  of  their  own  calling.  These,  it  seems  to  us,  are  en- 
titled to  a  first  call  on  the  funds  collected  through  the  sole 
efforts  of  exhibitors.  Some  way  no  doubt  will  be  found 
by  the  organized  exhibitors  in  each  State  to  make  sure  of 
this.  There  may  not  have  been  any  very  heavy  individual 
losses,  but  there  must  have  been  a  goodly  number  of  suf- 
ferers among  moving  picture  men,  and  every  one  of  them 
should  be  taken  care  of  by  his  fellows  in  the  profession. 

*  *     * 

MOVING  pictures  were  never  used  for  a  nobler 
purpose  than  to  show  to  a  large  number  of  poor 
young  mothers  on  the  East  Side  the  dangers  of 
impure  milk.  Many  hundreds  of  these  struggling  and 
devoted  women  crowded  into  the  Mariners  Temple  on 
Oliver  Street  in  this  city,  representing  many  nationalities. 
Many  of  these  women  were  recent  immigrants,  and  hardly 
any  of  them  understood  much  English.  A  lecture  in  Eng- 
lish, though  couched  in  the  simplest  words,  would  have 
been  lost  upon  them.  By  means  of  proper  motion  pic- 
tures, however,  the  right  appeal  was  easily  made.  The 
motion  pictures  shown  portrayed  family  tragedies  result- 
ing from  the  use  of  impure  milk.  The  difference  between 
sanitary  and  unsanitary  dairies  was  likewise  eloquently 
illustrated  in  motion  pictures. 

*  *    * 
HY  should  the  motion  picture  man  be  the  goat? 

This  interesting  and  pertinent  question  is  raised 
by  the  members  of  the  Cleveland  Exhibitors' 
League  in  a  letter  to  the  president  of  the  National  organ- 
ization, published  elsewhere  in  this  issue  of  The  Moving 
Picture  World.  Undoubtedly  there  is  just  cause  for 
the  complaint  of  the  Cleveland  exhibitors.  What  with 
being  harassed  by  petty  city  officials,  pestered  by  the  un- 
reasoning complaints  of  self-constituted  reformers  and 
meddlers  and  the  strictures  of  press  and  clergy,  the  lot  of 
the  picture  exhibitor  is  not  an  easy  one.  If  there  is  an 
occupation  that  is  subject  to  the  criticism  that  seems  to 
be  poured  out  gratuitously  upon  the  head  of  the  picture 
man,  we  must  confess  that  we  do  not  know  its  name.  It 
is  time  that  his  status  in  the  community  was  definitely 
defined  by  some  court  of  competent  jurisdiction,  so  that 
he  may  engage  in  his  peculiar  pursuit  of  happiness  with- 
out molestation.  We  hope  that  the  appeal  of  the  Cleve- 
land exhibitors  to  the  head  of  their  craft  may  be  produc- 
tive of  results. 

*  *     * 

FROM  President  Samuel  Trigger  of  the  New  York 
Exhibitors'  Association  we  learn  that  the  prospect 
of  success  of  the  first  American  Motion  Picture  Ex- 
position is  most  gratifying.  Applications  for  space  in 
New  York's  Grand  Central  Palace,  where  the  big  picture 
show  will  be  held,  are  coming  in  rapidly,  and  the  exhibits 
to  be  made  will  be  of  a  highly  interesting  character. 
Many  novel  features  will  hold  the  attention  of  the  visiting 
public,  and  the  members  of  the  trade  will  find  much  to 
instruct  them  regarding  the  things  in  which  they  are 
most  deeply  interested. 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 

The  Fascinating  Criminal 


By  Louis  Reeves  Harrison 


WITHOUT  going  deeply  into  the  question  why  fruit 
acquires  a  more  delicate  flavor  when  surrepti- 
tiously snipped  from  a  neighbor's  orchard,  or 
why  married  women  with  unpunished  husbands  heap 
floral  tributes  upon  the  law's  occasional  victim,  or  why 
we  buy  a  yellow-covered  book  with  an  outside  design 
in  black  of  a  man  with  piercing  eyes  leveling  a  pistol  at 
another  instead  of  a  work  on  dynamic  sociology,  the  de- 
spairing fact  confronts  us  that  a  morbid  taste  for  adven- 
tures in  crime  does  exist.  Even  sated  motion-picture 
audiences  have  been  known  to  manifest  lively  interest  in 
the  outcast,  a  sneaking  fellow-feeling,  especially  when  he 
is  being  chased  by  a  sheriff's  posse  firing  blank  cartridges 
as  fast  as  they  can  shoot. 

This  can  only  be  explained  by  a  survival  within  us  of 
what  was  going  on  in  the  Dark  Ages,  when  almost  any- 
thing the  average  man  did  to  displease  the  privileged  one 
constituted  a  crime.  When  you  really  come  to  know 
something  about  the  professional  criminal,  he  turns  out  to 
be  a  pathetic  disappointment.  Even  the  average  little 
hopeful  who  aspires  to  be  a  pirate  and  scuttle  ships  on 
the  Spanish  Main,  if  he  could  but  know  the  unvarnished 
truth  about  the  careers  of  those  who  live  vicious  and  law- 
less lives,  would  enter  a  boy  choir  and  limit  his  aspirations 
to  that  of  being  a  minister  of  the  gospel  on  a  scenario 
writer's  income. 

Real  criminals  have  been  examined  by  thousands  in  the 
interest  of  social  improvement,  and  most  of  the  incorrigi- 
ble delinquents  are  found  to  be  morally  insane  and  physi- 
cally decrepit.  They  are  nearly  always  distorted  growths 
from  poor  stocks.  Scientists  have  not  yet  told  us  how  far 
removed  they  are  from  the  lawyers  who  defend  them  as  a 
means  of  livelihood,  not  having  examined  the  lawyers  in 
the  interest  of  society  to  determine  whether  they  are 
wholly  incapable  of  assimilating  the  fruits  of  moral  cul- 
ture, but  it  is  almost  time  that  the  playwright  and  the 
teller  of  screen  stories  should  quit  trying  to  boost  an  im- 
possible creature  upon  unsuspecting  audiences. 

Among  the  first  efforts  of  a  newly-wed  director  and 
scenario  writer  is  the  tale  of  the  Gentlemanly  Burglar 
and  the  Lady  with  the  String  of  Pearls.  This  sort  of 
realism  is  as  far  removed  from  the  true  state  of  things  as 
the  wildest  idealism  of  perverted  genius.  The  only  bur- 
glar of  these  times  to  affect  a  dress  suit  was  Gentleman 
George,  recently  apprehended,  and  a  truthful  writer,  who 
saw  him  at  police  headquarters  while  he  was  being 
mugged  and  measured  for  identification,  thus  describes 
him.  "He  was  anaemic,  unclean  and  sunken-cheeked. 
His  teeth  were  bad,  and  his  vapid  blue  eyes  were  foolish- 
looking."  This  very  man  was  described  in  glowing  terms 
by  space  writers,  and  his  misdeeds  may  have  inspired  epics 
for  the  screen. 

I  do  not  mean  that  we  should  have  no  stage  villains.  Far 
be  it.  How  would  drama,  especially  that  of  the  "melo" 
variety,  present  a  struggle  between  virtuous  and  wicked 
characters  without  some  one  to  do  the  dirty  work?  Do 
not  imagine  either  that  I  mean  to  exclude  the  unfortunate 
wretch  in  striped  clothing  who  is  making  a  desperate 
struggle  to  regain  his  liberty,  who  kindles  our  warmest 
sympathies  for  various  reasons,  among  them  realization 
that  only  force  of  circumstances  may  have  intervened  to 
keep  our  own  clothes  from  matching  his  in  pattern  and 
design,  for  he  may  be  shown  as  sinned  against — there  are 
crimes  against  the  criminal  once  he  is  a  helpless  creature 
within  prison  walls. 

I  do  not  know  of  any  class  of  men  out  of  jail  who 


monopolize  all  that  is  good  and  true,  and  neither  do  you. 
Most  of  them  are  partially  good  and  error-stained  in 
spots,  and  as  we  broaden  mentally  we  incline  to  medical 
treatment  for  the  moral  pervert,  with  no  greater  cruelty 
of  punishment  than  is  now  given  to  the  insane,  to  the 
confinement  of  habitual  criminals  arranged  with  refer- 
ence to  the  treatment  of  their  disordered  minds,  but  to 
glorify  such  a  creature  in  the  eyes  of  immature  mem- 
bers of  a  motion-picture  audience  is  little  short  of  a 
crime  itself. 

At  this  point  rises  a  delicate  question  for  the  intelligent 
censor,  and,  for  that  matter,  for  the  intelligent  producer. 
Crimes  of  impulse  may  be  exhibited  on  the  screen,  espe- 
cially those  of  ignorance  or  error,  to  show  that  the 
relation  society  and  the  world  at  large  sustains  to  the  crim- 
inal, or  false  ideas  respecting  those  relations,  may  be  re- 
sponsible for  his  acts,  that  if  we  direct  moral  reformation 
to  our  faulty  institutions — as  set  forth  in  "Les  Miser- 
ables" — we  shall  have  few  if  any  individuals  to  imprison. 
It  may  be  necessary  to  present  some  revolting  details  at 
times  to  enforce  a  noble  and  beneficent  purpose. 

Take  for  instance  the  sinister  illumination  being  thrown 
upon  the  grafting  relations  established  between  New 
York  police  and  the  underworld.  This  hideous  police 
organization  was  created  for  the  protection  of  society  and 
by  society  only  to  prove  a  filthy  and  revolting  gang, 
worse  than  the  criminals  themselves,  protecting  the  en- 
emies of  society,  providing  them  with  information,  en- 
couraging and  aiding  them,  under  pretense  of  enforcing 
our  crazy-quilt  code  of  laws.  There  is  a  farcical  side  to 
this  extraordinary  condition,  but  the  tragic  one  is  of 
theater  importance,  and  it  might  be  necessary  to  lay  bare 
some  hideous  truths  for  the  betterment,  if  not  the  safety, 
of  the  community. 

Then,  too,  without  making  heroes  of  criminals,  without 
conferring  insolent  grandeur  on  guilt  or  making  vice 
seductive,  the  darker  side  of  human  nature,  the  shadows 
of  the  soul,  may  be  used  for  the  purpose  of  strong  con- 
trast— a  true  presentation  of  a  criminal  act  may  be  per- 
mitted if  the  end  justifies  the  means.  The  whole  question 
lies  in  conformity  to  veritable  rules  of  art.  There  can  be 
no  harm  in  exciting  an  audience  by  laying  bare  some  of 
the  worst  phases  of  humanity  if  the  ultimate  purpose  is 
elevating,  but  it  is  just  as  well  to  eliminate  the  billboard 
thriller  altogether  if  the  impression  it  makes  is  degrading 
in  the  end. 

The  fascinating  criminal  is  almost  a  thing  of  the  past 
so  far  as  the  leading  producers  are  concerned,  and  intelli- 
gent censorship  bids  fair  to  eliminate  him  altogether  on 
the  screen,  but  his  pernicious  influence  has  been  trans- 
ferred in  the  enormous  number  of  theaters  now  varying 
their  program  with  vaudeville,  consisting  too  often  of 
acts  so  frankly  gross  or  s©  stupidly  vulgar  that  they  are 
more  brutalizing  than  the  worst  moving  pictures  ever 
shown.  Censorship  exercises  no  control  over  them,  nor 
does  it  seem  to  be  possible  to  reach  them  in  any  way 
unless  exhibitors  unite  in  cleaning  house  of  what  is 
offensive  on  the  boards  quite  as  well  as  on  the  screen  and 
present  a  clean  bill  straight  through. 


CREDIT  MISPLACED. 

In  a  recent  issue  of  the  Moving  Picture  World,  credit  for 
the  production  of  the  Edison  picture,  "From  Orton  Junction 
to  Fallonville,"  was  given  to  Charles  M.  Seay.  A  letter  has 
been  received  from  Mr.  Seay,  in  which  he  says  that  the  credit 
for  the  production  belongs  to  Charles  J.  Brabin  instead. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


357 


A  Successful  Organizer. 

Resume  of  the  Activities  of  H.  E.  Aitken,  Recently  Elected 

President  and  General  Manager  of  the  Mutual 

Film  Corporation. 

HE  AITKEN  has  been  elected  president  and  general 
manager  of  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation.  To  one 
•  unfamiliar  with  the  circumstances  leading  up  to  this 
action  this  announcement  would  not  excite  much  comment, 
as  Mr  Aitken's  activities  are  well  known  in  him  circles  and 
he  is  eminently  fitted  for  the  responsible  position  which  he 
now  occupies.  Underlying  it,  however,  is  a  story  of  incessant 
labor  which  overcame  obstacles  of  great  magnitude  and  tore 
down  barriers  of  precedent  and  prejudice. 

The  marvelous  progress  of  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation 
is  not  due  to  the  smiles  of  the  Goddess  of  Fortune,  but  is 
the  result  of  carefully  laid  plans  of  Mr.  Aitken,  who  mas- 
tered one  situation  at  a  time,  bringing  various  individuals 
and  combinations  together  at  psychological  times,  and  elimi- 
nating undesirables. 


Mr.  H.  E.  Aitken. 

Mr.  Aitken  is  a  representative  type  of  progress.  The  pos- 
sibilities of  the  film  industry  attracted  his  attention  and  he 
became  interested  in  it,  giving  it  careful  study.  He  began 
his  activities  by  securing  control  of  the  exchange  business 
in  Milwaukee,  and,  spreading  out,  he  added  St.  Louis  to  his 
banner,  following  it  with  Joplin,  Mo.— a  large  office,  which 
was  afterward  moved  to  Kansas  City. 

Firmly  intrenched  in  the  West,  Mr.  Aitken  came  to  New 
York,  where  he  met  with  furious  opposition,  but  he  slowly 
and  steadily  removed  the  barriers,  and  his  foothold  increased 
until  he  was. in  control  of  five  exchanges  in  this  city. 

In  the  manufacturing  field  he  took  over  the  Reliance  com- 
pany, and  then  the  Majestic  company.  Determined  opposi- 
tion to  Mr.  Aitken  in  the  Motion  Picture  Distributing  &  Sales 
Company  finally  caused  the  dissolution  of  that  company. 

During  this  time  Mr.  Aitken's  activities  had  attracted  the 
attention  of  Eastern  and  Western  capitalists  who  had  in- 
vested their  money  in  his  various  enterprises,  and  who  were 
pleased  with  the  returns  made.  (It  is  a  fact  that  every  project 
Mr.  Aitkin  has  launched  has  proved  financially  successful.) 
These  capitalists  joined  with  Mr.  Aitken  in  the  formation  of 
the  Mutual  Film  Corporation,  and  accepted  the  stock  sub- 
scriptions of  wealthy  men,  including  prominent  Wall  Street 
men   and  bankers  of  international   reputation,   the   roster   of 


the  stockholders  in  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation— which  has 
fifty  agencies  in  the  United  States  and  Canada—presenting 
names  of  power  and  prominence  and  forming  formidable 
bulwarks  of  strength  and  conservatism.  The  tremendous 
success  of  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation  has  won  the  con- 
fidence of  these  gentlemen,  who  are  ready  to  support  any 
further  projects  which  Mr.  Aitken  may  launch. 

Mr  Aitken's  ideas  and  policies  have  been  so  clearly  proven 
sound  and  correct  that  some  of  his  most  bitter  opponents 
when  he  first  came  to  New  York  are  now  his  staunch  sup- 
porters and  associates.  He  is  not  only  one  of  the  largest 
stockholders  in  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation,  but  is  largely 
interested  in  the  Majestic,  Reliance  and  New  York  Motion 
Picture  Companies. 

For  the  benefit  of  the  trade  it  can  be  stated  that  the  vari- 
ous rumors  circulated  about  the  Kay-Bee,  Broncho  and  Key- 
stone brands  of  film  by  antagonistic  parties  are  without 
foundation,  as  these  brands  will  be  marketed  exclusively 
through  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation  for  a  long  term  of 
years. 

THE  ENGLISH  SITUATION. 

In  view  of  the  many  conflicting  rumors  coming  from  across  the 
water  as  to  the  boycott  of  American  films,  this  analysis  of  the 
situation  by  one  of  the  foremost  figures  in  the  London  market 
will  interest  and  perhaps  make  clear  just  what  foundation 
there  is  for  the  reports.  ,    . 

"The  whole  trouble  started,"  writes  this  correspondent,  when 
a  few  weeks  ago  Pathe  Freres  decided  to  only  let  their  films  out 
on  hire  and  discontinue  supplying  any  of  the  film  exchanges. 
This  might  have  been  all  right  had  they  not  fixed  the  price 
so  low.  This  works  out  at  about  $375  a  thousand  feet  for  first 
run  stuff,  two  changes  a  week.  On  the  face  of  it,  it  seemed  to  be 
a  move  on  the  part  of  Pathe  Freres  to  squeeze  not  only  the 
other   manufacturers  but  also  the  renters   (Exchanges). 

"In  offering  their  films  on  the  above  conditions,  they  do  not 
stipulate  that" the  exhibitor  must  take  all  Pathe  stuff.  He  can 
take  as  much  or  as  little  as  he  pleases.  But  on  this  basis  of 
price  they  will  sign  for  oo  days,  only,  and  will  give  no  hint  as  to 
what  will  happen  after  that  three  months  period. 

"The  exhibitors,  renters,  and  other  film  manufacturers  ana 
manufacturers'  agents  got  together  in  the  matter  with  a  view 
of  really  boycotting  Pathe  to  the  extent  of  insisting  that  an 
exhibitor  must  take  all  Pathe  or  none. 

"Negotiations  continued  along  these  lines  for  some  days 
when  it  occurred  to  some  of  the  exhibitors  that  perhaps  Pathe  s 
move  might  help  them  in  the  long  run  by  keeping  prices  down 
or  perhaps  lowering  them.  Under  any  circumstances  they  with- 
drew from  the  council  of  the  other  two  groups  and  refused  to 
have   anything   to   do   with   the   proposed   agreement. 

"They  managed  to  get  a  lot  of  articles  published  m  the  daily 
press  as  well  as  the  trade  papers,  and  gave  as  their  views  that 
the  other  two  trade  groups  were  trying  to  form  some  sort  ot 
monopoly  and  that  probably  this  monopoly  really  originated  in 
the  States,  and  the  intention  was  to  cut  off  prices  and  make 
life  miserable  for  the  exhibitor  generally. 

"By  no  means- are  the  exhibitors,  as  a  body,  m  accord  with 
the  attitude  of  the  Exhibitors'  Association,  which,  after  all 
is  a  weak  body,  which  has  been  in  existence  for  a  short  time  and 
which  anyone  can  join  by  paying  one  shilling  a  quarter.  _ 

"This  is  the  way  matters  stand  to-day  and  we  are  going  on 
in  the  future  the  same  as  we  have  in  the  past.  My  personal 
opinion  is  that  no  firm  stand  is  likely  to  be  taken  to  counter- 
act the  Pathe  movement,  for  the  simple  reason  that  there  are 
so  many  small  and  weak  people  both  exhibitors  and  in  the 
manufacturers'  end  who  cannot  be  brought  to  the  pointy  when 
there  is  fighting  to  be  done  or  a  strong  stand  to  be  taken. 

HERE'S  A  PRESERVATIVE  FOR  BRIDAL 
BOUQUETS. 

That  brides  will  be  enabled  to  keep  their  bridal  bouquets 
as  long  as  they  desire,  as  the  result  from  a  recent  discovery, 
was  the  announcement  which  was  made  yesterday.  Here- 
tofore the  bride  was  unable  to  keep  the  nosegay  which  she 
cherished  so  highly,  more  than  three  or  four  days.  Now 
she  may  keep  the  violets,  lilies  of  the  valley,  sweet  peas  and 
other  beautiful  flowers  in  their  natural  color  and  shape.  In 
the  past,  wax  has  been  used,  but  the  flower  lost  its  color  and 
was  encased.  It  is  a  known  fact  that  brides  traveling  in 
Europe  often  sent  their  bouquets  to  be  dipped  in  the  waters 
at  Carlsbad,  but  they  became  hard  and  turned  gray.  Miss 
Frances  Mason,  Miss  Dolores  Cassinelh  and  Bryant  Wash- 
burn of  the  Essanay  Film  Manufacturing  Company,  have 
been  experimenting  the  past  few  weeks,  trying  to  discover 
a  preservative  for  flowers  that  will  not  change  the  color  or 
beautv.  Their  pains  were  not  for  naught,  as  their  sleepless 
nights  and  "brain-storms"  have  produced  for  them  a  remark- 
able process  by  which  all  flowers  can  be  preserved. 


358 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


"Into  the  North"  (Essanay) 

Reviewed  by  James  S.  McQuade. 

THERE  is  a  breeze  from  the  far  Northland — one  that 
smacks  of  the  flavor  of  the  Sinclair  stories — in  Essanay's 
latest  two-reel  feature,  "Into  the  North,"  that  will  be 
released  in  about  three  or  four  weeks.  Theodore  W.  Wharton, 
who  is  responsible  for  the  production,  has  been  successful  in 
preserving  the  proper  atmosphere  throughout,  and  the  story 
never  lags  in  interest.  It  occurs  to  me  that  if  the  far  North- 
west were  more  exploited,  and  the  far  West  less,  by  pro- 
ducers generally,  in  the  future,  much  of  the  monotony  now 
so  observable  in  the  film  product  of  this  country  would  be 
pleasingly  relieved.  The  splendid  types  of  men  who  preserve 
order,  or  force  a  livelihood,  among  the  Northland's  stunted 
forests  and  snowy  wastes  afford  fine  opportunities  for  strong 
characterizations  and  gripping  stories. 

The  ingenuity  of  the  liquor  smugglers  who  ply  their  law- 
less trade  across  the  border  is  well  illustrated  in  this  film 
subject.  The  eyes  of  the  sharpest  officer  of  the  Northwest 
Mounted  Police  would  be  likely  to  overlook  the  concealment 
of  contraband  goods  in  the  odds  and  ends  of  ordinary  fire- 
wood, although  the  carting  of  such  material  might  excite 
suspicion.  The  fearful  struggle  for  life  in  the  snowy  wilder- 
ness, when  the  odds  are  all  against  a  man,  is  also  realistically 
shown  in  these  films.  That  struggle  between  the  officer  and 
the  smuggler,  in  the  lone  cabin,  with  the  frightened  Indian 
girl  as  the  only  witness,  is  a  thrilling  scene.  It  is  a  pitting 
of  the  skill  and  brawn  of  strong  men  for  the  mastery,  with- 
out recourse  to  weapons,  although  the  criminal  attempted  the 
latter.  In  the  end,  the  death  of  the  escaped  murderer  at  the 
hands  of  the  officers  of  the  law  is  a  fitting  and  dramatic 
climax. 

The  two  principal  characters — Fred  Wentworth,  of  the 
N.  W.  M.  P.,  and  Frank  Davis,  whiskey  runner  and  mur- 
derer— are  ably  taken  by  E.  H.  Calvert  and  William  Bailey, 
respectively.  The  old  Indian  and  his  squaw  are  admirably 
drawn  by  Frank  Dayton  and  Mrs.  Clara  Smith,  and  Miss 
Dorothy  Phillips  acts  the  part  of  the  Indian  girl  very  well, 
indeed.  There  is  a  strong  characterization  of  the  chief  of  the 
mounted  police,  and  Mr.  Holuber's  impersonation  of  the 
bank  president  is  satisfying. 

The   story  opens  in  a  bank  in   Minneapolis.     Fred   Went- 


worth, one  of  the  clerks,  is  sent  out  on  a  message,  and  while 
he  is  gone  the  cashier  is  shot  dead  by  Frank  Davis,  a  robber 
and  bad  man  generally.  Davis  secures  a  package  of  bank 
notes  and  hurriedly  departs.  On  his  way  to  the  street  he 
runs  into  Fred  Wentworth  (who  is  returning  to  the  bank) 
with  such  force  that  he  drops  the  package.  He  recognizes 
Wentworth  and,  fearful  of  arrest,  rushes  away  and  catches  a 
northbound  train  that  is  just  pulling  out. 

Wentworth  stops  amazed  and  lifts  the  package.  Entering 
the  bank,  he  discovers  the  dead  cashier  and  a  revolver  on  the 
floor.  Horrified,  he  lifts  the  revolver,  and  while  holding  it 
and  the  package  of  bills  in  his  hands  the  president  of  the 
bank  enters.  The  proofs  of  murder  are  so  clear  that  Went- 
w-orth  is  sentenced  to  life  imprisonment  in  the  penitentiary. 

Frank  Davis,  in  the  meantime,  has  gone  to  one  of  his  old 
haunts  in  the  North,  near  the  boundary  line.  He  induces 
one  of  his  former  associates  to  join  him  in  whiskey-running 
across  the  border.  While  the  men  are  engaged  in  this  out- 
lawry, Fred  Wentworth  escapes  from  prison  and  heads  for 
the  Northwest.  He  is  saved  from  death  in  the  snowdrifts 
by  an  officer  of  the  mounted  police,  who  carries  him  to  head- 
quarters. After  his  recovery  he  applies  to  the  chief  for 
admission  to  the  force,  and  is  accepted  as  a  member. 

The  president  of  the  Minneapolis  bank,  a  brother  of  the 
chief  of  the  N.  W.  M.  P.,  chances  to  arrive  at  the  post  on 
a  visit  about  the  time  that  Wentworth  is  about  to  leave  on 
a  search  for  the  whiskey  smugglers.  The  president  catches 
a  side  glimpse  of  Wentworth's  face  as  he  rides  off,  and  tries 
to  recall  it.  He  fails,  but  it  still  haunts  him,  and  the  truth 
flashes  on  him  some  time  after  Wentworth's  departure.  He 
immediately  denounces  Wentworth  as  an  escaped  murderer, 
and  the  chief  despatches  two  of  his  men  to  arrest  that 
officer. 

Wentworth,  in  the  interim,  has  discovered  the  smugglers, 
and  is  badly  worsted  in  an  encounter  with  Davis,  whom  he 
recognizes  as. the  murderer  of  the  cashier.  The  two  officers 
arrive  at  the  spot  shortly  after  the  struggle,  and  Davis  opens 
fire  on  them.  They  mortally  wound  him  and  he  is  carried 
into  the  cabin,  where  they  arrest  Wentworth.  Davis,  after 
confessing  that  he  killed  the  cashier,  and  that  Wentworth  is 
innocent,  dies.  Wentworth  is  taken  back  to  the  post  and  is 
cleared  of  the  crime  in  presence  of  the  chief  and  his  brother. 
He  is  then  restored  to  his  former  position  in  the  Minneapolis 
bank. 


Scene  from  Essanay's  Two-Part  Dramatic  Feature,  "Into  the  North." 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


359 


Warner  Back  From  Long  Trip 

President  of  Warner's  Feature  Film  Company  Takes  Opti- 
mistic View  of  Feature  Film  Market — Believes 
in  American  Feature. 

MR.  A.  WARNER,  president  of  the  Warner  Feature 
Film  Company,  has  just  returned  to  New  York  City, 
after  an  extended  trip  to  the  Coast.  On  the  way  he 
visited  some  twenty  of  the  largest  cities  of  this  country  and 
made,  in  passing,  a  careful  study  of  the  market  conditions 
in  so  far  as  the  feature  film  is  concerned.  Mr.  Warner's 
long  experience  in  the  motion  picture  business  enables  him 
to  understand  the  signs  and  portents  and  to  form  a  safe 
opinion  of  conditions  as  they  are  presented.  Knowing  Mr. 
Warner  to  be  in  close  touch  with  his  market,  the  Moving 
Picture  World  is  pleased  to  give  space  to  his  very  intelligent, 
though  optimistic,  views  upon  the  "feature"  situation: 

"At  the  outset  I  wish  to  state  that,  while  I  believe  in  fea- 
tures, and  while  I  believe  that  they  have  done  more  than 
any  other  agency  to  raise  the  price  of  admission  from  5  to 
10  cents,  I  nevertheless  contend  that  the  market  is  yet  un- 


Mr.  A.  Warner. 

developed.  It  has  taken  the  American  manufacturer  a  long 
time  to  convince  exhibitors  that  American-made  features  are 
what  they  want,  and  that  they  are  the  equal,  if  not  the  supe- 
rior, of  foreign  productions  in  two  and  three  reels. 

"Perhaps  there  is  no  other  word  one  might  cull  from  the 
inspired  advertising  of  film  producers  that  is  more  abused 
than  this  same  term,  'feature.'  A  motion  picture  in  two  or 
three  reels  may  or  may  not  be  a  feature  production.  Indeed, 
in  the  majority  of  cases  that  term  is  a  misnomer.  There  are 
so-called  features  that  do  not  deserve  more  than  a  single 
reel,  and  there  are  also  some,  I  regret  to  state,  that  should 
never  have  been  produced  at  all.  Why?  you  ask.  Simply 
because  an  ordinary  story  has  been  padded  and  made  to 
extend  over  3,000  feet  of  film.  But  the  true  feature  has 
'punch.'  It  expresses  originality.  It  teems  with  exciting 
situations.  It  over-awes  spectators  with  its  massiveness.  It 
embodies  the  unusual,  the  spectacular  and  the  thrilling  inci- 
dents that  lift  it  above  the  ordinary  single-reel  production 
and  entitle  it  to  the  name  of  'feature.' 

"During  my  visits  in  twenty  American  cities  I  found  the 
demand  for  features  of  the  best  quality  on  a  par  with  the 
supply.  That  would  seem  to  indicate  that  in  a  very  short 
time  the  market  will  be  overcrowded.  But  such  is  not  the 
case.  The  explanation  of  that  statement  is  this:  The  ex- 
hibitor of  today  has  developed  a  keen  sense  of  criticism, 
and  after  catering  to  his  audiences  he  is  in  the  best  position 
to  know  just  what  pictures  they  want,  and  also  what  pro- 
ductions are  going  to  bring  him  the  money.  He  will  not 
accept  for  showing  any  production   that   does  not   come   up 


to  his  requirements.  By  the  simple  process  of  elimination, 
about  two-thirds  of  the  so-called  features  on  the  market  are 
turned  down  by  him  as  unworthy.  And  then  for  every  new 
feature  that  is  produced  there  must  be  at  least  a  score  or 
so  of  exhibitors  who  have  just  discovered  that  they  must 
run  features  in  connection  with  their  regular  shows  or  sit 
back  and  see   the   crowds   go  into  their  competitor's  house. 

"My  trip  convinces  me  of  two  very  important  things, 
namely:  that  American  features,  made  in  America  by  Ameri- 
can actors  and  actresses,  now  have  the  call  over  those  made 
abroad;  and,  secondly,  that  the  future  demand  for  features 
(applying  the  term  to  those  productions  that  deserve  it)  is 
going  to  surprise  and  force  the  manufacturers  into  a  field 
of  endeavor  that  they  have  hitherto  regarded  with  very 
little  consideration.  I  confidently  expect  to  see  every  first- 
class  motion  picture  theater  in  the  country  using  at  least 
one  feature  in  its  daily  program  within  the  next  two  or 
three  years,  and  I  think  that  my  statement  will  not  be  dis- 
puted when  I  make  the  assertion  that  it  is  due  to  the  feature 
production  that  the  exhibitor  with  the  small  house  is  winning 
out  against  the  opposition  of  exhibitors  with  larger  houses." 

While  in  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  Mr.  Warner  opened  a  branch 
office  in  that  city,  with  Sam  Barnett  as  manager.  In  Denver 
arrangements  for  another  branch  were  completed,  with  J.  C. 
Butts  in  charge.  The  branch  at  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  has  been 
moved  to  Suite  413  and  414  of  the  Gloyd  Building,  the  change 
being  made  necessary  by  the  growth  of  the  business,  which 
required  larger  quarters. 

George  W.  Smiley  has  gone  to  Washington,  D.  C,  to  take 
charge  of  a  branch  office  just  opened  in  the  Plaza  Theater 
Building,  that  city. 

Mr.  Warner  was  accompanied  on  his  "grand  tour''  by  his 
delightful  wife,  and  both  enjoyed  the  trip  immensely,  Mrs. 
Warner  returning  greatly  improved  in  health. 


BRAVES  FLOODS  TO  GET  FILMS. 

During  the  recent  Ohio  floods,  Warner's  Features  shipped 
one  of.  its  feature  pictures  to  Cleveland,  but  it  failed  to  arrive 
on  time.  Inquiries  revealed  that  the  pictures  were  tied  up 
in  a  wreck  somewhere  along  the  line  near  Akron.  As  the 
picture  had  been  released  for  a  three  days'  run  at  the  Alham- 
bra  Theater,  Fostoria,  it  was  almost  imperative  that  a  deliv- 
ery should  be  made  if  possible.  Accordingly,  Manager 
Charnas,  of  the  Warner's  Cleveland  office,  dispatched  Sam 
Wheeler,  one  of  the  trusted  employes  of  the  office,  to  re- 
cover the  picture.  Nine  houis  were  consumed  in  getting 
from  Cleveland  to  Akron.  Then  came  the  task  of  locating 
the  wrecked  train  which  was  carrying  the  films.  The  trip 
had  to  De  made  on  foot  over  roads  otherwise  impassable. 
Along  the  way  Wheeler  passed  the  wrecks  of  houses  and 
barns,  uprooted  trees,  fallen  telegraph  poles  and  tangles  of 
wires,  finally  locating  the  train  three  miles  and  a  half  from 
Akron.  It  took  him  another  hour  to  extricate  the  express 
package  containing  the  films,  and  then  he  managed  to  struggle 
back  to  Akron.  It  was  6  o'clock  of  the  following  day  that 
Wheeler  staggered  into  the  Cleveland  office,  in  a  state  of 
exhaustion,  but  the  films  were  in  good  condition  and  were 
soon  on  their  way  to  the  Alhambra  Theater. 

Wheeler's  comment  is  "that  he  does  not  want  to  go  through 
such  an  experience  again." 


SELIG  TO  FILM  HOYT'S  COMEDIES. 
The  Selig  Polyscope  Company  has  secured  the  exclusive 
picture  rights  for  the  comedies  of  the  late  Charles  H.  Hoyt. 
Among  these  are  "A  Bunch  of  Keys,"  "A  Rag  Baby,"  "A 
Texas  Steer,"  "A  Milk-White  Flag,"  "A  Runaway  Colt," 
"A  Temperance  Town,"  "A  Trip  to  Chinatown,"  "A  Tin 
Soldier,"  "A  Contented  Woman,"  "A  Black  Sheep,"  "A  Day 
and  a  Night,"  "A  Dog  in  the  Manger,"  "A  Brass  Monkey" 
and  "A  Midnight  Bell."  The  first  of  the  series  tote  released 
will  be  "A  Midnight  Bell,"  in  two  reels.  This  was  perhaps 
Hoyt's  favorite  farce.  No  expense  has  been  spared  in  mak- 
ing the  initial  production  elaborate  and  true  to  life.  It  will 
be  released  early  in  May. 

KINETOGRAPH  COMPANY  QUITS   BUSINESS. 

Rumors  to  the  effect  that  the  Kinetograph  Company  had 
decided  to  quit  the  exchange  business  have  been  confirmed. 
It  is  understood  that  the  General  Film  Company  will  acquire 
such  portion  of  the  retiring  company's  stock  of  film  and  fix- 
tures as  it  needs  and  that  the  company  will  retire  from  busi- 
ness permanently. 

The  Kinetograph  Company  began  business  about  January 
1,  1913,  being  organized  by  J.  J.  Kennedy,  of  the  Biograph 
Company,  and  P.  L.  Waters,  formerly  general  manager  of 
the  General  Film  Company.  It  had  established  distributing 
offices  in  New  York,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  and  New  Orleans,  La. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


"The  Battle  For  Freedom"  (Kaiem) 

Interesting   War   Picture   Based   on   Incidents   of   the   Strife 

Between  Boer  and  Briton. 

By  George  Blaisdell. 

IN  this  two-part  picture,  produced  under  the  direction  of 
George  Melford,  the  Kalem  company  gives  us  what  it 
says  is  a  "historically  correct  portrayal"  of  events  in  the 
Boer  War.  Well  it  may  be.  Mr.  Melford  was  himself  in 
the  South  African  campaign,  being  enrolled  in  the  Canadian 
contingent.  Assisting  and  advising  him  in  the  production 
was  Colonel  C.  Rhys  Pryce,  another  participant  in  the  same 
war.  Aiding  these  two  were  the  officers  of  the  California 
troops  who  took  part  in  the  near  battle.  It  is  said  for  Mr. 
Melford  that  no  attempt  was  made  so  to  stage  the  battle  as 
to  create  purely  a  spectacle,  but  that  the  underlying  motive 
was  to  reproduce  the  tactics  and  the  methods  of  the  con- 
tending Boers  and  Britons.  The  result  should  be  of  much 
interest  to  the  military  man.  The  layman  will  unquestion- 
ably say  the  spectacle  is  here  anyway.    If  any  observer  should 


Scene  from  "A  Battle  for  Freedom"  (Kalem). 

be  concerned  as  to  the  amount  of  powder  used  in  making 
the  battle  scenes,  it  may  be  stated  that  7,000  rounds  of  am- 
munition were  consumed.  Besides  the  small  arms  and  the 
Gatling  gun  there  were  field  pieces.  It  was  in  discharging 
one  of  the  latter  that  an  explosion  occurred  in  which  three 
men  were  hurt.     The  gun  carriage  was  damaged.     The  film 


Scene  from  "A  Battle  for  Freedom"  (Kalem). 

shows  the  explosion,  but  the  only  genuine  carnage  of  the 
battle  is  considerately  concealed  from  the  eye  of  the  watcher. 
One  of  the  noticeable  features  of  the  picture  is  the  manner 
in  which  the  British  officers  expose  themselves  to  the  enemy's 
fire.  If  it  was  a  belief  at  that  time  that  it  was  cowardly  for 
an  officer  to  accept  the  cover  he  insisted  his  men  should  take, 
the  belief  was  before  the  conclusion  of  the  war  rudely  shat- 
tered.    The  Boer  War,  by  the  way,  served  to  shatter  many 


British  military  traditions.  It  may  also  be  said  in  passing 
that  other  nations  lost  no  time  in  profiting  from  the  things 
then  learned  and  unlearned  by  Tommy  Atkins. 

The  story  is  of  the  family.  There  is  no  love-making.  A 
father  and  little  daughter  leave  England  for  Kimberley  to 
recoup  the  family  fortune.  Remaining  behind  are  a  son  and 
his  grandfather.  Going  across  country,  all  of  the  emigrants, 
with  the  exception  of  Ellen,  the  daughter,  meet  death  through 
a  scarcity  of  water.  The  little  girl  is  found  by  a  party  of 
Boers  and  given  over  to  the  care  of  Piet  and  Katrina  Joubert. 
Twenty  years  later  the  British  troops  enter  the  Transvaal. 
The  war  is  on.  Ellen,  along  with  the  Boer  women,  shoulders 
a  rifle.  Charles,  her  brother,  is  an  officer  in  the  British  army. 
It  is  he  who  receives  the  surrender  of  the  Boers  when  their 
ammunition  has  given  out.  Ellen  lays  down  her  rifle.  When 
told  to  throw  in  also  her  cartridge  belt  she  angrily  unbuckles 
it.     With  it  comes  the  locket  that  leads  to  the  identification. 

Just  a  word  as  to  the  acting  of  the  principals,  for  it  is  of 
the  best.  There  is  not  a  trace  of  melodrama,  although  there 
are  situations  which  might  be  described  as  snares.  William 
H.  West  and  Jane  Wolfe  portray  Piet  and  Katrina  Joubert. 
They  will  win  all  hearts.  So,  too,  will  Marin  Sais,  as  Ellen. 
She  makes  special  appeal  in  the  surrender  scene  and  in  that 
following  the  identification.  It  is  in  the  latter  where  real 
heart  interest  is  created.  Ellen  is  torn  by  conflicting  emo- 
tions. On  one  side  is  a  blood  relative,  a  brother,  and  back 
in  England  a  grandfather.  On  the  other  is  the  man  and 
woman  who  for  twenty  years  have  shielded  her.  Katrina's 
sorrow  is  deep.  She  is  losing  a  daughter.  It  is  a  situation 
that  will  thrill. 

Carlyle  Blackwell  plays  Charles,  the  brother;  what  work 
falls  to  him  is  handled  intelligently  and  in  restrained  man- 
ner. Colonel  Pryce,  Knute  Rahmn  and  Ed  Clisbee  are  also 
in  the  cast.  There  are  many  soldiers  in  the  battle  scenes, 
which  cover  large  fields.  Especial  attention  is  paid  to  loca- 
tions. The  fighting  is  done  in  a  hilly  country.  Adding  to 
the   realism   of   the   conflict  are   many   exploding   shells   and 

mines.  ■ 

HERRICK    BOOSTING    COL.    JONES. 

Howard  Herrick,  who  has  been  the  press  representative 
^f  the  London  and  New  York  company  of  "The  Pink  Lady," 

is  been  transferred  by  Messrs.  Klaw  and  Erlanger  to  the 
.  .anagement  of  Buffalo  Jones,  who  is  now  at  the  Garrick 
Theater,  Philadelphia,  -with  his  marvelous  motion  pictures  of 
"Lassoing  Wild  Animals  in  Africa  and  America." 

Two  years  ago  Mr.  .Herrick  successfully  handled  the  pub- 
licity for  the  Kinemacolor  pictures  of  the  corporation  in  Chi- 
cago, when  he  was  one  of  the  first  to  get  real  publicity  for 
pictures.  He  has  started  a  big  publicity  campaign  for  Buffalo 
Jones  with  a  page  layout  in  the  Philadelphia  Public  Ledger 
and  with  more  space  in  the  dramatic  departments  of  the 
newspapers  there  than  was  obtained  for  the  big  dramatic 
and  musical  attractions  in  opposition. 

Mr.  Herrick  was  engaged  in  newspaper  work  until  about 
twelve  years  ago.  Since  that  time  he  has  been  manager  and 
press  representative  for  such  stars  and  attractions  as  "The 
Clansman,"  Bertha  Kalich,  Virginia  Harned,  "The  Shepherd 
King,"  Marie  Dressier  and  Ernst  von  Possart. 


TONY  O'SULLIVAN  IN  CALIFORNIA. 

When  Tony  O'Sullivan  left  New  York  last  fall  to  go  to 
Los  Angeles,  to  direct  pictures  for  the  Biograph  company, 
he  did  so  with  the  express  understanding  that  he  would  send 
us  at  regular  intervals  probationary  reports  of  his  conduct. 
These  reports  have  been  coming  in  from  time  to  time,  and 
as  they  are  all  indorsed  by  Mrs.  Tony,  we  have  reason  to 
believe  that  he  is  leading  the  "sample  life."  When  he  returns 
this  summer  we  expect  to  gaze  upon  the  beneficial  results  of 
sunshine  and  soft  stuff. 


AMERICAN  INAUGURATES  NEW  ADVERTISING 
POLICY. 

Feeling  that  some  answer  must  be  made  to  the  incessant 
:all  for  new  and  novel  methods  of  advertising  by  exhibitor 
and  exchange,  the  American  Film  Manufacturing  Company 
is  inaugurating  several  ideas  which  should  help  considerably. 
In  addition  to  a  splendid  line  of  lithos  of  Jack  Kerrigan, 
Pauline  Bush  and  Jack  Richardson,  several  hundred  daily 
newspapers  are  now  carrying  "Flying  A"  notes  and  cuts  of 
players.  Exchanges  and  exhibitors  can  aid  themselves  by 
getting  after  their  local  papers  and  inducing  them  to  start 
picture  sections.  A  complete  publicity  service  is  now  at  their 
disposal.  The  American  invites  both  exchange  and  theater 
to  take  advantage  of  the  opportunity  for  their  own  sake, 
inasmuch  as  a  daily,  thus  advocating  pictures,  is  quite  likely 
to  prove  a  friend  in  need  when  glory-hunting  politicians  turn 
toward  the  picture  theater. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


361 


'An  Accidental  Alibi"  (Edison) 

Reviewed  by  Louis  Reeves  Harrison. 

A  WELL  constructed  photodrama,  clearly  set  forth  and 
offering  a  number  of  delightful  novelties  in  the  pre- 
sentation. There  are  no  rules  for  writing  plays  of 
any  kind,  and  I  doubt  if  the  successful  author  can  deeply 
analyze  his  own  methods,  but  an  experienced  critic  quickly 
recognizes  the  presence  or  absence  of  certain  requisites  to 
success  in  a  play,  and  one  of  the  first  of  these,  insight  into 
principles  and  methods  of  dramatic  construction,  is  mani- 
fested throughout  "An  Accidental  Alibi."  Craftsmanship  is 
visible  from  beginning  to  end. 

The  introduction  is  startling  and  so  pleasing  that  it  comes 
in  the  combined  nature  of  a  surprise  and  a  relief.     As  old  as 


Scene  from  "An  Accidental  Alibi"  (Edison) 


natural  selection,  it  is  decidedly  unconventional  from  a  the- 
atrical point  of  view — the  producers  have  gone  to  nature  in- 
stead of  the  stage  for  a  mode  of  presenting  a  young  man  and 
a  young  woman  whose  course  of  love  is  not  to  be  a  smooth 
one.  There  would  be  no  play  if  father  gave  his  consent.  He 
not  only  refuses  it  but  drives  the  lusty  suitor  from  the  house 
on   the   pretext   that   drinking   habits    make    the   alliance   im- 


Scene  from  "An  Accidental  Alibi"  (Edison). 

possible.  First  result  more  drink.  In  a  moment  of  bitter 
resistance,  the  rejected  lover  imbibes  and  threatens  to  get 
even  with  the  man  who  stands  between  him  and  the  realiza- 
tion of  his  fondest  hopes. 

The  story  proceeds  along  familiar  lines.  The  father  is 
thrown  from  his  horse  and  killed  in  a  lonely  spot  and  an 
accumulation  of  circumstances  point  to  the  discarded  lover  as 
his  murderer.  The  young  man  has  in  truth  been  away  for  a 
day  in  search  of  some  occupation  which  would  enable  him  to 
get  relief  from  disappointment  and  mental  distress.  He 
comes  upon  the  dead  body  of  the  girl's  father  when  return- 
ing home  and  runs  away  in  a  panic,  realizing  that  suspicion 


may  be  fastened  on  him,  but  this  act  completes  the  chain  of 
circumstantial  evidence  against  him,  and  his  case  is  a  hope- 
less one  under  examination  before  a  magistrate. 

The  alibi  is  indicated,  somewhat  relieving  the  complexity 
of  the  situation  for  the  audience,  but  there  is  a  stretching 
forward  of  expectation  to  determine  how  such  evidence  can 
be  utilized  in  court.  The  lover  has  been  accidentally  taken 
by  the  motion-picture  camera  without  knowing  it  on  the  day 
that  his  supposed  victim  was  killed.  His  sweetheart,  induced 
to  seek  mental  relief  in  a  picture  show,  sees  her  lover — this 
is  the  best  view  of  an  interior  exhibition  of  the  kind  I  have 
yet  seen — and  immediately  communicates  with  his  attorney. 

On  the  day  of  trial,  when  the  court  is  convened  with  im- 
posing solemnity,  a  projector  is  introduced,  the  room  dark- 
ened, and  a  picture  thrown  on  the  wall  that  was  taken  the 
day  the  girl's  father  met  with  accidental  death.  These  are  all 
peculiar  and  admirable  effects  for  photoplay  purposes,  and 
the  conclusion  is  in  perfect  harmony  with  the  staccato  open- 
ing. Though  the  drama  deals  with  chance  and  coincidence, 
it  runs  along  plausibly  to  a  delightful  and  original  version  of 
the  happy  ending,  a  variation  much  needed  in  these  days  of 
endless  repetition.  Aside  from  these  bright  features,  the 
play  is  to  be  commended  as  a  convincing  example  of  well- 
directed  ingenuity. 


TALKING  PICTURES  POPULAR. 

"The  Edison  Kinetophone  was  installed  in  six  theaters  in 
Xew  York  and  Chicago  on  February  17th,  and  since  that  date 
installation  has  been  made  in  practically  every  city  of  size 
in  the  United  States.  It  must  be  admitted  that  greater  head- 
way has  already  been  made  for  the  Kinetophone  during  this 
brief  time  than  was  ever  accomplished  by  the  numerous  pre- 
vious attempts  at  talking  pictures,"  said  General  Manager 
Waddell  of  the  American  Talking  Picture  Company,  the 
other  day.  "Of  course  the  name  of  Edison  has  much  to  do 
with  this  ready  acceptance  by  the  various  theaters,  as  they 
were  confident  Edison  would  not  market  an  article  that  was 
not  practical.  That  this  judgment  was  good  is  evidenced  by 
the  record-breaking  attendance  and  the  enthusiastic  com- 
ments of  the  press.  Marked  improvement  is  noted  week  by 
week  in  subject  and  production.  A  practical  knowledge  of 
the  requirements  of  the  theaters  could  be  gained  only  by 
experience,  and  the  studio  staff  have  learned  more  in  the 
past  few  weeks  than  could  have  been  learned  in  another 
year's  work  in  the  laboratory. 

"The  talking  pictures  may  never  take  the  place  of  the  pan- 
tomime pictures,  but  will  undoubtedly  prove  an  admirable 
adjunct.  It  belongs  to  the  motion  picture  theater,  where  it 
will  serve  to  enliven  that  otherwise  quiet  entertainment.  It 
is  only  a  matter  of  time — and  a  very  short  time  at  that — 
before  we  will  have  colored  talking,  and  perhaps  stereo- 
scopic motion  pictures." 


FORD  STERLING  USING  VAUDEVILLE  STUNTS. 

The  experience  gained  by  Ford  Sterling,  one  of  the  lead- 
ing comedians  of  the  Keystone  Film  Company,  while  work- 
ing in  vaudeville  hasstood  him  in  good  stead  since  his  advent 
in  silent  drama.  Many  funny  situations  which  used  to  set 
his  audiences  in  roars  have  been  utilized  in  the  pictures,  with 
great  effect.  Mr.  Sterling  is  a  past  master  in  the  art  of  facial 
expression  and  make-up,  and  his  impersonations  of  German, 
Hebrew  and  Irish  characters  on  the  screen  leaves  little  to 
be  desired  and  marks  the  true  artist.  Although  comic  in 
their  nature,  they  are  true  to  life  in  the  last  detail  in  expres- 
sion, make-up  and  costume.  Mr.  Sterling  has  set  a  new 
mark  for  this  sort  of  work  and  got  entirely  away  from  the 
old  style  and  conventional  character  types  formerly  presented 
on  the  screen  and  accepted  as  the  real  thing  by  picture 
audiences. 


EXPERTS  VIEW  OIL  PICTURE. 

J.  C.  Baxter  and  R.  J.  Connors,  two  Chicago  mining 
engineers,  hearing  that  the  American  Film  Manufacturing 
Company  was  soon  to  release  a  two-reel  entitled  "'Oil  On 
Troubled  Waters,"  asked  and  were  given  permission  to  see 
the  operation  of  oil  wells  in  the  ocean.  Throughout  the 
subject  runs  an  industrial  vein,  and  the  American's  producer 
took  advantage  of  his  opportunities  by  producing  not  only 
a  delightful  story,  but  a  highly  interesting  industrial  as  well. 
Messrs.  Baxter  and  Connors  were  particularly  interested  in 
a  25-horsepower  engine  which,  operating  through  an  eccen- 
tric cam,  operates  the  entire  forest  of  oil  wells,  the  cam 
transmitting  power  to  the  wells  by  means  of  cables  and  tri- 
angles. This  operation  is  clearly  shown  in  the  picture.  The 
story  was  made  at  Summerland,  Cal.,  the  only  region  in  the 
world  where  oil  is  taken  from  the  ocean's  bottom. 


362 


THE    MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


"Les  Miserables" 

Twelve-Reel  Adaptation  from  Victor  Hugo's  Novel. 

Reviewed  by  Louis  Reeves  Harrison. 

I  ONCE  attempted  to  read  "Les  Miserables"  in  English 
and  stuck  to  it  until  I  was  nearly  two-thirds  through. 
I  subsequently  attempted  the  same  feat  in  French,  but 
had  to  give  up  after  the  first  few  rounds.  I  went  the  full 
limit  when  I  saw  the  "visualization,"  twelve,  rounds  of 
twenty  minutes  each,  a  stretch  of  over  three  hours,  and  I 
am  here  to  tell  the  tale.  I  suppose  the  big  photodrama  will 
be  exhibited  in  sections,  but  that  is  a  matter  which  I  am 
loath  to  deal  until  it  has  been  given  a  trial. 

I  have  been  puzzling  myself  for  many  years  about  Victor 
Hugo,  bored  at  times,  as  I  was  by  "Les  Miserables,"  yet 
conscious  of  his  genius.  He  tried  to  press  too  much  into 
the  novel — it  was  by  turns  historical,  dramatic,  philosophical 


hard  labor  in  prison  for  stealing  a  loaf  of  bread — a  judge  in 
this  city  sent  a  poor  man  up  for  thirty  years  because  he 
stole  two  stick  pins  but  a  short  time  ago — and  every  mother's 
son  of  us  finds  such  injustice  revolting.  When  Jean  escaped 
from  prison,  he  was  treated  just  as  ex-convicts  are  treated 
now.  refused  an  opportunity  to  earn  a  living  and  driven  back 
to  crime  by  that  desire  to  live  which  is  responsible  for  our 
boasted  evolution.  This  is  brought  out  strongly  on  the 
screen. 

The  old*  priest  who  transforms  Jean  by  Christ-like  mag- 
nanimity at  the  turning  point  represents  a  thin  rivulet  of  en- 
lightened equity  that  lias  kept  pace  with  our  muddy  stream 
of  progress.  The  acting  in  the  picture  play  at  this  point  rises 
to  its  highest  point.  All  that  passes  in  the  mind  of  Jean  is  set 
forth  in  masterly  fashion.  His  inner  struggle  before  starting 
out  as  an  agent  of  civilization  is  one  of  the  finest  things  in 
the  photodrama. 

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Scenes  from  "Les  Miserables"  (Eclectic). 


and  even  realistic  at  odd  moments,  but  a  veritable  night- 
mare, ranging  from  the  sublime  to  the  ridiculous.  Where 
he  was  at  his  best  my  hopes  flew  high,  only  to  come  down 
with  a  bump  when  his  exaggerations  became  tedious.  I  do 
not  know  of  a  nobler  outcast  than  Jean  Valjean.  His  early 
defects  of  character  were  only  those  of  primitive  man  and 
weighed  as  mere  dust  against  the  splendid  qualities  kindled 
in  his  heart  by  a  redeeming  act  of  kindness.     The  grave  de- 


old  priest  Myriel  and  the  hunted  Valjean,  transformed  into  a 
wild  animal  at  bay,  is  superb  and  will  grip  every  audience  that 
sees  it  in  a  way  that  no  printed  page  can  ever  accomplish. 

There  are  other  fine  things  in  this  big  photoplay;  some  ar- 
tistic double  exposures,  picturesque  interiors  of  striking 
fidelity,  admirably  chosen  exteriors  of  decided  educational 
merit,  and  other  well-chosen  types,  notably  that  of  irrecon- 
cilable Thenardier,   the  villain  who  keeps  growing  more  vil- 


Scenes  from  "Les  Miserables"  (Eclectic). 


feet  in  Hugo's  prose  epic  was  that,  having  aroused  tremen- 
dous interest  in  the  central  figure,  he  wandered  away  to  tell 
the  story  of  less  vital  and  less  fascinating  characters.  It  is 
for  the  sake  of  following  the  fortunes  of  Jean  Valjean  that 
readers  stand  for  much  that  would  kill  another  story,  and 
this  same  fault  is  visible,  though  less  so,  in  the  pictured  pre- 
sentation. 

Admirable  selection  of  type  in  the  pictured  story  is  partly 
responsible  for  high  interest,  but  it  is  what  Jean  typifies  that 
holds  us  in  this  photodrama.  He  is  the  victim  of  conditions 
that  still  exist,  a  sacrificial  victim  of  the  law,  condemned  to 


lainous  until  he  is  the  comical  quintessence  of  all  that  is  low 
in  human  nature.  Greedy  Thernardicr.  inexorable  Javert,  the 
police  hound  who  serves  the  Law  faithfully  until  death,  and 
grand  Jean  stand  out  from  the  others,  cameos  of  rare  value, 
holding  attention  wdienever  shown  on  the  screen. 

The  fine  conception  and  unwavering  grasp  of  detail  of  Hugo's 
masterpiece  displayed  by  every  member  of  the  cast  is  delightful 
throughout  the  whole  twelve  reels.  One's  interest  never  fails 
for  a  moment.  In  fact  this  is  one  of  the  things  that  stamp 
this  great  picture  play  a  masterpiece  throughout.  The  Valjean 
of    M.    Krauss    dominates    by    its    majestic    strength,    while    the 


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Javert  of  M.  Etievant,  and  the  work  of  all  the  supporting  cast 
will,  unless  we  are  much  mistaken,  reveal  the  greatness  of 
this  immortal  story  to  hundreds  of  thousands.  The  contrasts  of 
human  kindness  and  cruelty,  of  brute  force  and  gentleness,  of  de- 
pravity and  innocence,  of  hope  and  despair  as  conceived  by  Hugo 
are  portrayed  by  the  artists  in  a  way  that  fulfills  the  highest  ex- 
pectations. 

There  is  not  room  in  the  limitations  of  a  critical  review  to 
give  more  than  a  suggestion  of  the  story,  but  the  pictures 
clarified  much  that  had  been  obscure  in  both  English  and 
French  versions  of  the  novel,  and  I  think  they  helped  to 
make  me  understand  that  great  lyric  poet,  clever  playwright, 
keen  satirist,  gifted  orator,  rampant  politician  and  novelist 
who  was  better  than  his  work.  In  the  lofty  and  resolute  fig- 
ure of  Jean  Valjean  was  something  of  the  personality  of  the 
gifted  author.  Far  above  his  performance  was  the  man. 
Friend  of  the  weak,  miserable,  downcast  and  suffering,  Jean 
incorporated  the  unconquerable  spirit  and  generous  heart  of 
Victor  Hugo,  whose  laurel  laden  brow, 

"Made  for  the  morning,  droops  not  in   the  night; 
Praised  and  beloved,  that  none 
Of  all  thy  great  things  done 
Flies  higher  than  thy  most  equal  spirit's  flight." 

This  picture  has  been  passed  by  the  National  Board  of 
Censorship,  being  highly  complimented  by  the  examining 
members  of  the  board.  A  complete  synopsis  will  be  found 
on  page  422  of  this  issue  of  the  Moving  Picture  World. 


"Through  the  Test  of  Fire." 

A  Three-Reel  Thriller,  Well  Acted  and  Photographed  by  the 

Great  Northern  Company. 

Reviewed  by  Hugh   Hoffman. 

FOR  those  exhibitors  who  are  looking  for  dramas  full  of 
the  red  blood  of  life  this  picture  surely  should  make  a 
red-letter  day  at  their  houses.  It  is  some  time  since 
we  have  looked  at  a  picture  in  which  so  many  things  have 
happened,  even  in  a  three-reel  subject.  A  strenuous  life  is 
a  mild  term  in  describing  the  life  led  by  the  principal  char- 
acters of  the  story  during  the  few  weeks  or  months  of  their 
early  married  life.  An  itemized  list  of  the  punches  and  thrills 
that  abound  in  the  story  would  read  somewhat  as  follows: 
One  runaway,  one  factory  strike,  one  factory  explosion,  one 
sudden  death,  one  knock-out,  one  fire,  one  turn-out  of  fire 
apparatus,  two  rescues,  one  accidental  death. 

It  may  seem  from  the  foregoing  items  that  all  these  inci- 
dents are  dragged  in  by  the  hair  for  the  mere  sake  of  pro- 


Scene  from  "Through  the  Test  of  Fire"   (Great  Northern). 

ducing  thrills,  but  that  is  not  the  case.  They  are  introduced 
logically,  in  accordance  with  a  progression  of  events  brought 
about  by  conflicting  circumstances  established  at  the  begin- 
ning of  the  story.  The  two  principal  characters  are  a  young 
countess  and  the  son  of  a  money  lender.  These  two  young 
persons  are  married  against  their  own  wishes  for  reasons 
of  convenience  to  their  own  fathers,  and  this  naturally  brings 
about  a  condition  of  unrest  on  both  sides  of  the  house.  The 
scenes  are  enacted  with  the  usual  skill  of  these  well-known 
Danish  players.  The  photography  is  that  for  which  Great 
Xorthern  pictures  are  noted — which,  of  course,  is  as  good  as 
there  is  anywhere. 

The  part  of  the  countess  is  enacted  by  Miss  Ebba  Thomp- 
sen.     She   is   a   stunningly   beautiful   creature   who   acts   and 


rides  superbly.  She  is  queen-like  in  every  gesture,  and  it  is 
indeed  a  treat  to  watch  her  work,  even  though  she  were 
appearing  in  the  weakest  kind  of  a  play.  We  confess  to 
falling  completely  under  her  spell  while  this  picture  was  on, 
and  are  now  one  of  the  probable  countless  throng  who  are 
on  their  figurative  knees,  ready  to  do  her  slightest  bidding 
and  hoping  she  will  make  some  kind  of  a  bid.  The  part  of 
the  money  lender's  son  is  played  by  Mr.  V.  Psilander,  the 
Great  Northern's  regular  leading  man,  who  is  one  of  those 
finished  European  actors  that  always  excite  our  admiration 
over  here.  He  is  much  on  the  Arthur  Johnson  type — in  fact, 
if  he  would  allow  his  hair  to  grow  down  from  his  temples 
to  the  lobes  of  his  ears  he  might  be  mistaken  for  "liT  Artha." 
This  is  supposed  to  be  a  compliment  to  the  Danish  actor  in 
a  comparative  way.  Mr.  Psilander  is  said  to  be  one  of  the 
highest  paid  motion  picture  actors  in  Europe. 

The  character  parts  are  well  acted,  though  obviously  made 
up.  It  does  not  seem  that  the  directors  of  any  particular 
company  pay  enough  attention  to  the  jarring  effect  of  bald 
wigs  that  leave  a  shadow  across  the  forehead,  or  of  mustaches 
that  seem  to  come  from  the  property  room,  instead  of  being 
the  handiwork  of  an  actor  who  is  skilled  in  the  art  of  make-up. 
In  this  case  these  faults  are  not  bad,  but  are  noticeable. 

The  character  of  Jack,  the  strike  leader,  seemed  rather 
too  surly  to  agree  consistently  with  some  of  his  heroic  acts. 
This  part  might  have  been  more  true  to  nature  had  Jack  been 
portrayed  as  a  man  of  cool  and  determined  character  where 
his  labor  troubles  were  involved,  which  would  have  blended 
more  nicely  with  his  acts  of  sacrifice.  It  is  rather  difficult 
to  believe  that  a  man  can  be  a  socialistic  firebrand  and  a 
volunteer  sufferer  at  the  same  time.  These  criticisms  are 
not  meant  to  imply  that  the  picture  is  below  standard,  but 
simply  to  call  the  attention  of  the  director  to  certain  points 
that  might   have  made  a  good  play  better. 

"The  Dead  Alive"  (Gaumont.) 

HERE  is  a  strong  picture,  filled  with  good  situations  and 
finely  acted.  There  are  many  fine  settings;  especially 
is  this  true  of  the  ballroom  scene,  the  occasion  being 
the  celebration  of  the  betrothal  of  the  daughter  of  the  woman 
who  suffered  so  much  at  the  hands  of  a  scoundrelly  first  hus- 
band. The  story  is  clearly  told.  There  are  no  dull  moments. 
Perhaps  the  most  highly  dramatic  situation  is  that  of  the 
inquisition  in  the  office  of  the  police  superintendent. 

The  story  opens  in  a  low  lodging  house  in  the  City  of 
Mexico.  Jean  Danglade,  a  Frenchman,  who  twenty  years 
before  had  deserted  his  wife  and  daughter  in  France,  and 
who  now  is  wanted  by  the  United  States  authorities,  sub- 
stitutes on  the  body  of  a  man  who  has  just  died  papers 
bearing  the  name  of  Danglade.  Word  reaches  his  wife, 
who  marries  her  partner,  M.  Renaud.  Not  long  after 
Mme.  Renaud  is  discovered  by  Danglade,  who  asks  for  an 
interview.  She  goes  to  the  address  named.  There  Danglade 
demands  and  receives  money  and  all  the  jewelry  she  carries. 
After  the  departure  of  Mme.  Renaud,  Danglade  is  killed  by 
his  companions  when  he  refuses  to  share  with  them  the 
spoils.  In  the  meantime  M.  Renaud  had  found  Danglade's 
note.  He  demanded  of  his  wife  an  explanation,  got  it,  and 
absolved  her  from  blame.  It  is  an  interesting  situation  and 
will  closely  hold  attention. 

A  ball  given  in  celebration  of  the  betrothal  of  Jane  Dang- 
lade is  held  at  the  Renaud  home.  Word  comes  of  the  find- 
ing of  the  body  of  the  blackmailer  and  also  of  the  discovery 
of  papers  bearing  the  name  of  Mme.  Renaud.  As  the  dancing 
goes  on  the  woman  is  questioned  by  the  police  and  then 
arrested.  At  the  same  time  another  and  a  different  sort  of 
dance  is  in  progress.  It  is  in  a  dive;  the  participants  number 
among  them  the  men  who  killed  Danglade.  There  is  a 
quarrel  and  the  police  enter.  All  are  taken  to  the  station. 
On  searching  the  prisoners  the  property  of  Mme.  Renaud 
is  found.  The  other  prisoner  is  brought  from  her  cell.  All 
this  time  the  dance  at  the  Renauds  is  in  progress,  and  it 
goes  merrily  on,  in  ignorance  of  the  trouble  of  the  mistress 
of  the  house.  A  woman  arrested  with  the  thieves  clears  up 
the  situation,  and  Mme.  Renaud  is  released  and  hurries  home 
to  her  waiting  husband.  It  is  a  happy  meeting  for  the  two. 
The  daughter,  her  fiance  and  the  guests  continue  the  dance, 
in  ignorance  of  the  tragedy  so  narrowly  averted. 


MRS.  HAL  WILSON  INJURED. 

Mrs.  Hal  Wilson,  playing  in  Vitagraph's  "The  Circus  Come 
to  Town,"  fell  through  a  skylight  and  sustained  a  broken  rib. 
One  of  the  animals  in  the  scene — a  rather  savage  golden 
babboon — jumped  at  Mrs.  Wilson,  causing  her  to  fall  from 
a  window  in  which  she  was  standing.  In  spite  of  the  pain 
from  which  she  was  suffering,  Mrs.  Wilson  pluckily  finished 
the  scene. 


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We  Moving  Picture  Educator 


EDUCATIONAL  TEMPERANCE— A  CRITICAL 
REVIEW. 

By  Rev.  W.  H.  Jackson. 

THE  temperance  cause  is  greatly  benefited,  and  the  sale 
and  use  of  alcohol  receives  a  moral  and  scientific  blow 
which  will  certainly  cause  a  decline  in  the  use  of  alco- 
holic liquors  as  a  beverage,  when  the  value  of  the  lessons 
taught  by  the  Union  feature  film,  "An  Accursed  Inheritance," 
from  the  studio  of  the  Paris  Eclair,  is  shown,  as  it  is  sure 
to  be  in  all  parts  of  the  educational  world.  This  review  is 
not  in  the  general  sense  of  dealing  with  the  merits  or  de- 
merits of  the  picture  from  any  technical  or  literary  stand- 
point, but  solely  as  to  its  educational  aspect,  and  the  effects 
it  will  have  on  the  world  at  large. 

In  previous  pictures  of  this  class  the  evil  effects  of  alcohol 
have  been  shown  upon  the  immediate  users,  or  their  children 
of  the  next  degree;  in  the  present  picture  the  same  evil 
effects  are  traced  to  the  third  generation  as  resulting  from 
the  over-indulgence  by  the  first  generation,  and  with  the 
second  generation  observers  of  strict  temperance.  It  will 
not  be  surprising  if  another  picture  is  at  length  produced, 
showing  the  "visiting  of  the  sins  of  the  father  upon  the 
children  to  the  third  and  fourth  generations."  Such  is  evi- 
dently the  intention  of  the  builders  of  this  subject,  in  giving 
to  the  world  these  varied  versions  of  what  they  so  wisely 
call  "The  Poison  of  Humanity. "  They  certainly  succeed  in 
showing  that  the  poisonous  taint  insidiously  works  its  weak- 
ening influences  in  the  system  of  the  descendents  of  exces- 
sive users  of  alcoholic  beverages. 

"An  Accursed  Inheritance"  begins  with  a  father  giving 
his  son  of  but  a  few  years  old,  wine  to  drink  on  the  occa- 


doubt  that  they  are  to  be  pitied  in  that,  without  any  fault 
of  their  own,  they  are  retarded  in  their  powers,  backward 
in  their  education  and  with  a  tendency  to  evil  which  is  the 
first   step   towards   that  which   ultimately   becomes   criminal. 

When  grown  to  manhood  the  two  brothers  are  wide  con- 
trasts—the older  one  a  tramp,  and  perhaps  worse;  the 
younger  one  a  prosperous  medical  doctor.  At  the  wedding 
of  the  doctor  the  wandering  brother  enters,  and  his  behavior 
is  so  riotous  that  his  father,  disgusted  and  angry,  becomes 
apoplectic  in  his  rage  and  dies.  Again  circumstances  bring 
the  brothers  together,  and  the  young  wife  of  the  doctor  sug- 
gests that  they  give  him  a  home  and  try  to  reform  him.  In 
the  main  they  are  successful,  and,  free  from  the  cause  of  his 
ruin,  he  rapidly  becomes  a  respected  man.  A  girl  is  born 
to  the  happy  couple,  and  of  course,  "according  to  custom," 
the  christening  must  be  attended  by  the  "drinking  the  health" 
of  the  child,  in  champagne.  This  revives  the  old  taste  with 
the  unfortunate  older  brother,  in  a  frenzy  which  they  cannot 
subdue.  The  young  wife,  in  her  weakness  of  health,  col- 
lapses, and  the  shock  is  so  great  that  she  dies. 

The  drunkard  again  becomes  a  wanderer;  years  roll  on; 
the  baby  girl  is  now  a  young  lady;  she  is  engaged  to_  be 
married;  the  old  family  doctor  protests  that  she  is  subject 
to  the  "accursed  inheritance";  a  council  of  doctors  decide 
that,  as  she  herself  was  not  a  drinker,  neither  her  father, 
she  was  too  far  removed  from  the  cause  of  danger,  the  old 
doctor  still,  however,  dissenting. 

While  driving  out  alone  the  young  lady  is  stopped  by  a 
tramp,  who  steals  her  chatelaine;  she  arrives  home  in  an 
hysterical  condition.  The  authorities  cause  a  round-up  of 
all  tramps,  so  that  she  may  recognize  the  guilty  one;  of 
course  he  turns  out  to  be  her  father's  brother.     The  shock 


Scenes  from  "An  Accursed  Inheritance"   (Eclair). 


sion  of  his  infant  brother's  christening.  The  family  doctor, 
who  is  present,  protests,  as  does  also  the  child's  mother. 
The  father  attempts  to  justify  himself  by  boasting  of  his 
own  freedom  from  any  of  the  evils  which  they  predict. 

In  a  few  years'  time  the  now  grown  boy  becomes  a  vicious 
leader  of  other  boys,  and  takes  a  number  of  them  into  a 
wine  cellar,  where  they  steal  wine,  and  are  ultimately  found 
in  a  drunken  stupor;  of  course  they  are  arrested,  but  as  the 
father  was  a  customer  of  the  wine  seller  the  boy  is  taken 
direct  to  his  home,  where  one  of  the  saddest  pictures  pos- 
sible is  shown  of  a  drunken  boy  who  is  such  by  his  father's 
example  and  precept.  The  younger  boy  is  trained  by  the 
mother  to  abstemiousness  and  is  attentive  to  his  studies  and 
makes  great  progress,  while  the  older  brother  is  listless  and 
indolent;  such  is  the  effect  upon  the  mind  dulled  by  the 
inherited  evil  tendencies.  _ 

This  picture  suggests  a  reason  for  the  backward  condition 
of  many  children  in  the  schools  today.     There  can  be  little 


is  so  great  that  the  young  lady  becomes  very  ill,  and  it  is 
now  apparent  that  her  system  is  not  equal  to  the  strain, 
inherited  weakness  shows  the  nervous  inability  to  recuperate, 
and  she  dies  a  victim  to  the  "poison  of  humanity,"  which 
proved  to  be  an  "accursed  inheritance." 

The  Place  of  Religious  Ceremonies  in  This  Picture. 

It  is  a  sad  truth,  which  is  perhaps  more  conspicuous  than 
the  producers  of  this  picture  supposed,  that  the  time  at  which 
each  particular  evil  was  wrought  was  at  a  religious  ceremony. 
The  first  evil  was  wrought  at  a  christening.  The  first  tragedy, 
the  death  of  the  old  father,  happened  at  a  wedding;  the  sec- 
ond tragedy,  the  death  of  the  young  wife  and  mother,  was 
at  another  christening;  the  third  tragedy,  the  death  of  the 
young  prospective  bride,  was  in  connection  with  the  prepara- 
tion for  the  wedding  festivities.  Does  not  this  film  accom- 
plish more  than  was  originally  intended?  As  a  secondary 
lesson,  does  it  not  reveal  the  evil  results  of  the  use  of  wines 


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and  such  drinks  at  social-religious  festivals?  And,  again, 
does  it  not  strike  a  blow  at  the  foolish  custom  of  supposing 
that  good  wishes  can  only  be  made  with  the  accompaniment 
of  "humanity's  poison"?  Truly,  this  picture  will  be  one  of 
power  along  these  lines  in  schools  and  churches;  refined  in 
its  treatment  of  a  brutal  power,  it  is  a  social,  moral,  religious 
and  scientific  lesson  of  present  and  permanent  value  and 
will,  without  doubt,  be  received  as  such  by  every  one  to 
whom  it  can  be  used  beneficially.  The  exhibitor  anywhere 
and  everywhere  will  fail  in  his  own  opportunities  if,  when 
he  gets  this  picture,  he  does  not  call  the  attention  of  the 
proper  authorities  to  its  value. 


The  Educational  Picture. 

By  the  Rev.  E.  Boudinot  Stockton,  S.  T.  B. 
Pathe's  "Locust." 

EXHIBITORS,  especially  those  in  the  great  agricultural 
districts  of  the  West  and  Northwest  will  find  a  good 
drawing  card  in  Pathe's  release  of  April  nth,  entitled 
"The  Locust."  This  insect  is  not  to-day  the  scourge  that  it 
was  to  farmers  twenty-five  years  ago  when  it  ravaged  whole 
States  and  Territories,  as  its  free  breeding  places  have 
been  restricted  to  certain  parts  of  British  Columbia,  but  it 
still  does  considerable  damage  from  time  to  time  in  restricted 
areas  and  a  knowledge  of  its  development  and  habits  is  not 
only  interesting,  but  valuable  to  all  agriculturists. 

What  the  Educators  Want. 
We  have  just  received  the  following  letter  from  the  Rev. 
Brother  Gerald,  S.  M.,  principal  of  SS.  Peter  and  Paul  High 
School,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  which  speaks  for  itself  and  is  well 
worth  the  attention  of  all  manufacturers,  exchanges  and 
exhibitors. 

I  am  sincerely  grateful  for  your  several  lists  of  educational 
pictures  and  photoplays  found  in  recent  issues  of  The  Moving 
Picture  World.  I  have  heard  the  remark  again  and  again  from 
church  workers,  ministers,  Catholic  priests,  teachers,  etc.:  "If  we 
only  had  a  list  of  good  educational  and  religious  pictures,  we 
would  bring  pressure  upon  those  who  have  machines  to  use  them; 
and  we  would  then  try  to  install  machines  ourselves." 

So  I  say  your  work  is  the  move  in  the  right  direction  regarding 
moving    pictures. 

Being  principal  of  a  parish  school  and  high  school  in  these 
parts,  and  being  the  nroud  possessor  of  a  Power's  6A  machine, 
and  noticing  your  offer  in  the  April  12  issue,  to  furnish  special 
lists  to  particular  exhibitors,  I  make  bold  to  request  such  a  list 
of  both  licensed  and  independent  films,  that  refer  especially  to 
character  formation  in  children  and  that  emphasize  the  virtues 
of  love,  kindness,  politeness,  unselfishness,  etc.  Such  a  list  I  am 
positive  would   be  welcome  by  many  besides  myself. 

Again  would  I  be  imposing  upon  your  time  and  good  will  to 
furnish  a  list  of  reels  that  exhibit  nothing  but  the  cleanest  kind 
of  humor  and  comedy. .  The  above  lists  need  not  mention  only 
late   releases,    but   even    such   as   are   four  to   six   months  old. 

We  have  already  sent  Brother  Gerald  the  list  he  desires 
and  if  we  hear  from  enough  others  to  warrant  it  we  shall  be 
glad  to  publish  the  list  in  some  future  issue  of  the  World. 
Just  now  we  wish  to  emphasize  the  point  that  if  the  manufac- 
turers will  provide  the  goods  and  make  them  accessible  they 
need  not  fear  the  problem  of  a  demand.  The  demand,  as  we 
have  said  over  and  over  again,  is  already  in  existence  ready 
to  spring  into  active  being  wherever  it  can  be  supplied. 
Brother  Gerald,  as  we  have  reason  to  know,  is  only  one  of 
hundreds  already  working  and  the  number  is  increasing 
every  day. 


Educational  Releases,  March  21  to  29. 
We  give  below  the  continuation  of  the  list  of  educational 
pictures  and  photoplays  suitable  for  religious  and  educa- 
tional work  which  embraces  the  releases  up  to  and  including 
Saturday,  March  29th.  Hereafter  we  shall  continue  them  as 
nearly  as  possible  by  weeks,  and  also  include  in  the  list  for 
the  first  and  second  week  of  the  rnonth  the  list  of  the  feature 
releases  for  the  month  preceding. 

GENERAL  TOPICS. 
Newspapers. 

Animated  Weekly.     Universal   26.      (16:86.) 
Gaumont  Weekly.      Gaumont    26.      (16:88.) 
Mutual  Weekly.      Mutual   27.      (16:206.) 
Pathe's   Weekly.      Pathe   24,    31.      (15:1356;    16:80.) 

Children's  Stories.    See  under  Fairy  Tales. 
RELIGION. 

Bread  on  the  Waters.  Edison  25.  (15:1240;  16:48.)  Excellent  for 
sermons  on  Proverbs  11:1  or  Isiah  32:20. 

The  Risen  Soul  of  Jim  Grant.  Edison  22.  (15:1240;  16:48.)  Edison's 
Easter  release.  Good  for  sermons  on  penitence,  conversion,  the  power 
of  the  cross,   the  works  of  mercy,  and   St.  John    12:32. 

The  Dancer's  Redemption.  Selig  21.  (15:1126;  16:47.)  The  purifica- 
tion and  spiritual  regeneration  of  a  dancing  girl  who  plays  the  part 
of   St.    Mary   Magdalene  in   a  primitive   passion   play. 

A  Mother's  Spirit.  Kinemacolor.  (15:1264.)  Illustrates  the  doctrine 
of   the   communion    of   saints,   and    Hebrews    12:1.      A   fairy    tale. 


SOCIOLOGY. 
Capital  and  Labor. 

The  Old  Clerk.     Selig  24.     (15:1238;    16:48.)     A  good  argument  for  the 
well   treatment   of  old  employees. 

Associations  and  Institutions. 

Mine  Rescue  Work  of  the  American   Red  Cross  Society.     Vitagraph  21. 
(n.s.  or  c.p.)     The  work  of  the  society  in  coal  mines. 

Manners  and  Customs. 

Life  in   Somaliland,   East   Africa.      Cines  22.      (15:1248;    16:48.) 

The  New  Red  Man.     Gaumont  22.      (n.s.   or  c.p.)      Study  of  the  Carlisle 

Indian. 
President  Wilson  Reviewing  the  Troops.    Kinemacolor.    (16:00;  15:1338.) 
Native  Carnival  Procession,  Ceylon.     Kinemacolor.      (16:90;    15:1338.) 
Suffragette   Parade   in   Washington.     Kinemacolor.      (n.s.p;    15:1338.) 
Hinemoa.     Melies    27.      (15:1248;    16:163.)     A  Maori  legend. 

Fairy  Tales. 

A   Mother's    Spirit.      Kinemacolor.      (15:1264.) 
Babes  in  the  Woods.     Pathe  25.      (15:1248;    16:49.) 

SCIENCE. 
Physical  and  Dynamic  Geology. 

The   Geysers  of   New   Zealand.     Kinemacolor.      (n.s.p.;    15:1338.) 
Tenyo  Maru.     Vitagraph  29.     (n.s.  or  c.p.)     A  storm  at  sea  as  seen  from 

the  deck  of  the  Pacific  liner  "Tenyo  Maru."     Some  of  the  best  marine 

views  we  have  ever  seen. 

Zoology. 

Sea    Anemones.      Gaumont   25.      (16:90;    n.c.p.) 

Crabs  and  Lobsters.     Pathe  28.      (15:1249;    16:163.) 

The  Dytiscus.     Eclair  23.      (15:1134;    1337.)     A  water  beetle. 

The  Death's  Head  Moth.      Pathe   21.      (15:1130;   16:47.) 

Beautiful    Butterflies.      Kinemacolor.      (16:90;    15:1338.) 

APPLIED  SCIENCE. 

See  also  under  Associations  &   Institutions. 

Agriculture. 

Tobacco  Culture  in   Cuba.     Pathe  28.      (15:1249;   16:163.) 

The    Celery    Industry    in    Florida.      Kalem   21.      (15:1126;    16:47.) 

Won  At  The  Rodeo.     Thanhouser  21.      (15:1256;    1337.) 

The   Crab   and  Lobster   Industry.     Eclipse  26.      (15:1248;    n.c.p.) 

Transportation. 

On  the  Roads  of  Ceylon!     Mutual  educational  27.     (15:1258;   n.e.p.) 

FINE  ARTS. 

The    Chateau    of    Chambord.      Pathe    27.      (15:1020    and    1248;    16:163.) 

-    The   favorite   residence   of  Francis  I   of  France. 
Winter    Sports    at   Aro,    Sweden.      Kinemacolor.      (15 :264 ;    n.c.p. ) 

LITERATURE. 

Saixy    in    Our  Alley.      Selig   28.      (15:1238;    16:163.)      Based  on   Henry 

Carey's   poem  of   the  same  title. 
Cymbeline.       Thanhouser    28.       (2    r.;     15:1362;    16:50;    sp.    rev.    16:60.) 

Photodramatization  of  Shakespeare's  play  of  same  title. 
Tea  and  Toast.     Edison  24.     (15:1240;   16:48.)     From  Joseph  C.  Lincoln's 

novel    "The    Postmaster." 

HISTORY. 

Pauline  Cushman,  the  Federal  Spy.     Selig  24.      (2   r.;    15:1350;    16:48; 

sp.    rev.    15:1085   &   1201;    music  for    16:56.) 
See  also    under   Manners   &    Customs. 

GEOGRAPHY. 
Physical  Geography. 

Fjords   and   Waterfalls  of   Norway.      Eclipse   26.      (15:1248;    n.cp.) 

European  Countries. 

Rambles   in    Paris.     Kinemacolor.      (15:1264;    n.c.p.) 

Glimpses   of   Naples  and   Vicinity.     Cines   29.      (15:1248;    16:164.) 

Picturesque  Bergen,    Norway.      Powers   26.      (n.s.p;    15:1338.) 

The  Port  of   Copenhagen.     Great  Northern  22.      (n.s.    or  c.p.) 

Summer  in  the  North.     Great  Northern  29.      (15:1366;  n.c.p.)     Views  of 

the   coast  of  Jutland. 
See   also    under   Fine   Arts   and    Physical   Geography. 

Asiatic  Countries. 

Shanghai,    China.      Selig   26.      (15:1238;    16:164.) 

Scenes  in  Japan.     Vitagraph  28.     (n.s.p.;  16:163.) 

See  also  under  Manners  &   Customs  and  Transportation. 

African  Countries. 

See  under  Manners  &  Customs. 

North  American  Countries. 

In    Old   Quebec.     Vitagraph    26.      (15:1242;    n.c.p.) 
See    also   under   Agriculture. 

New  Zealand. 
See  under  Manners  &  Customs  and  Geology. 


FULLER  TO  HAVE  STUDIO. 

Charles  L.  Fuller,  of  Fuller's  Feature  Film  Exchange,  472 
Fulton  Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  announces  that  his  company 
is  building  a  studio  for  the  manufacture  of  commercial  and 
educational  pictures.  He  also  announces  that  his  company 
has  secured  a  contract  from  two  South  American  republics 
to  make  pictures  of  different  parts  of  those  countries,  the 
pictures  to  be  distributed  gratis  among  educational  institu- 
tions. Mr.  Fuller's  cameramen  are  already  on  their  way  to 
South  America  to  take  up  this  work. 


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SERGEANT  Jeremiah  J.  O'Connor,  of  the  Chicago  film 
censor  board,  has  been  in  hot  water  with  newspaper 
critics  ever  since  he  went  outside  of  his  special  province 
and  had  a  painting,  entitled  "September  Morn,"  removed  from 
a  shop  window  because  it  showed  the  form  divine  in  the  nude. 
The  Sergeant  has  a  pretty  broad  back  and  a  large  stock  of 
Irish  good  nature,  so  that  he  has  borne  up  well  under  the  pep- 
pering onslaught.  Now  he  has  been  hit  hard  in  a  place  that 
hurts;  for,  if  there  is  any  man  who  takes  pride  in  his  work 
and  strains  himself  to  the  utmost  to  do  it  well  and  honestly, 
that  man  is  Sergeant  O'Connor.  In  charge  of  the  censorship  of 
films  in  Chicago,  the  Sergeant  has  had  a  hard  row  to  hoe.  What 
with  women's  societies  pestering  him  about  laxity  in  the  dis- 
charge of  his  duties,  and  soreheads  kicking  because  of  the  cut- 
outs insisted  upon  in  various  films,  and  of  the  total  rejection 
of  others,  it  would  seem  as  if  his  cup  were  already  full;  but  not 
so.  Along  came  "The  Miracle"  for  review,  and  Sergeant 
O'Connor  gave  it  a  resounding  whack  with  his  censorial  shillelah. 
This  action  evoked  the  following  editorial  from  the  Chicago 
Tribune,  under  the  satirical  heading,  "Our  Budding  Censorship." 

"Max  Reinhardt  is,  perhaps,  the  greatest  living  man  of  the 
theater. 

"Maurice  Maeterlinck  is  one  of  the  greatest  living  writers. 

"  'The  Miracle'  is  Reinhardt's  most  tremendous  attempt  to 
revive  in  beauty  the  art  of  pantomime.  It  is  based  on  the 
Belgian  poet's  reverent  and  lovely  dramatization  of  the  legend 
of  Sister  Beatrice. 

"Two  thousand  people  take  part  in  the  performance.  Two 
hundred  thousand  dollars  were  spent  on  the  performance  be- 
fore the  first  ticket  was  sold.  The  Miracle'  ran  through  the 
winter  in  London  to  what  were  probably  the  largest  audiences 
that  have  ever  attended  any  theatrical  representation  in  modern 
times.  Critics  and  clergymen  praised  it.  The  jealous  British 
censor  approved  it.  It  was  only  when  its  scenes  were  repro- 
duced in  moving  picture  films,  and  thus  encountered  the  acute 
moral  sense  of  Chicago's  censor,  Police  Sergeant  O'Connor. 
that  it  was  discovered  to  be  offensive  to  morals  and  met  an 
official  ban. 

"The  incident  is  more  interesting  than  that  of  'September 
Morn.'  The  work  of  art  then  involved  was  unimportant  if 
innocuous.  Our  censor  now  challenges  the  work  of  two  very 
great  men.  With  a  wave  of  his  masterful  hand  he  overrules 
two  men  of  genius,  the  judgement  of  two  world  capitals,  and 
the  applause  of  hundreds  of  thousands  of  people  in  Germany 
and  in  England. 

"It  might  be  suggested  to  him  who  is  responsible  for  Sergeant 
O'Connor's  activities  that  the  spectacle  of  a  policeman  enthroned 
in  the  high  seat  of  judgment  in  the  fourth  city  of  the  world 
is  rather  remarkable.  As  was  pointed  out  at  the  time  of  the 
'September  Morn'  episode,  if  we  are  to  have  censorship  in  these 
matters,  and  within  bounds  censorship  is  desirable,  a  somewhat 
more  enlightened  tribunal  is  needed." 

In  all  justice  to  Sergeant  O'Connor,  it  must  be  conceded  that 
he  has  been  appointed  not  as  an  art  censor  but  as  a  moral 
censor.  He  is  a  victim  of  conditions.  Children  of  tender  years 
and  minors  flock  to  our  picture  theaters.  What  would  be 
perfectly  proper  for  adults  to  view  would,  in  many  cases,  be 
very  improper  for  them.  Censorship  in  Chicago,  unfortunately 
for  noble  pictures  like  "The  Miracle,"  is  conducted  from  the 
viewpoint  of  minors  and  not  from  that  of  adults.  Since  there 
are  no  special  programs  as  yet  for  children  and  minors,  and 
that  they  are  permitted  to  visit  moving  picture  theaters  at  all 
times,  there  is  no  other  course  open  to  the  Chicago  censor  than 
to  protect  them  from  certain  presentations.  Otherwise  he 
would  be  overwhelmed  by  a  flood  of  denunciation  from  all  sides. 

Milwaukee  Exhibitors  Liberal  to  Flood  Sufferers. 

I  have  been  advised  by  Frank  Cook,  booking  and  publicity 
manager  for  the  Saxe  enterprises  in  Milwaukee,  that  the  ex- 
hibitors of  that  city  have  contributed  over  $2,000  to  the  relief 
of  the  flood  sufferers  in  Ohio  and  Indiana.  "Every  house  in  the 
city  came  nobly  to  the  front,"  writes  Mr.  Cook. 

I  am  indebted  to  Mr.  Cook  for  data  of  the  recent  convention, 
in  Milwaukee,  of  the  exhibitors  of  Wisconsin,  details  of  which 
are  given  in  the  proper  department,  in  this  issue.  The  sessions 
were  conducted  with  zeal  and  enthusiasm.  "It  was  the  best  ever, 
and  our  State  and  City  League  is  going  to  be  a  big  success," 
concludes  Mr.  Cook. 


Chicago  Film  Brevities. 

When  is  a  "joke"  not  a  joke?  For  solution,  read  Arthur 
Leslie's  sample  syndicate  page.  Just  the  same,  now  that  we 
understand  him,  we  wish  him  good  luck  in  the  name  of  the  Lord. 

*  *    * 

H.  H.  Hutchinson  returned  from  his  Honolulu  trip  April  3,  and 
is  well  satisfied  with  what  he  accomplished.  He  is  now  at 
Santa  Barbara,  supervising  the  construction  of  his  new  studk) 
and  plant. 

*  *    * 

Charles  W.  Sheppard,  representating  Hugo  Reisinger,  manu- 
facturer of  "Electra"  pink  label  carbons,  called  at  the  World  office 
last  week.  He  is  traveling  throughout  the  Middle  West  in  the 
interests  of  his  company. 

*  *    * 

The  Twentieth  Century  Theater,  on  Prairie  Ave.,  near  47th 
St.,  which  was  opened  on  April  2,  is  showing  to  fine  business.  It 
seats  1,000  people  and  admission  is  10  cents.  This  theater  has 
a  fine  electric  sign  along  the  entire  front,  which  can  be  seen 
many  blocks  distant.  1  he  sign  was  constructed  by  the  Con- 
solidated Electric  Sign  Co. 

*  *    * 

Abe  Warner,  of  Warner's  Features,  accompanied  by  his  wife, 
stopped  over  in  the  city  last  week  after  an  extended  trip  to  the 
Pacific  Coast.  Mr.  Warner  found  conditions  very  flourishing 
in  every  city  in  which  his  product  is  used.  He  promises  several 
thrilling  features  in  the  near  future. 

*  *    * 

Alfred  C.  Stange,  manufacturer  of  curtain  coating,  pure 
silver  and  white,  and  Tiger  Cement,  has  taken  over  the  inter- 
ests of  the  One  Drop  Oil  Co.,  and  of  the  Bull  Dog  Cement. 
Mr.  Stange  reports  good  business  for  his  products.  He  wishes 
it  known  that  his  Tiger  Cement  will  patch  without  scraping  the 

film. 

*  *    * 

The  Music  Hall,  Cincinnati,  seating  3,600  people,  was  opened 
with  exclusive  picture  programs,  March  29,  by  the  Empire  Ex- 
hibition Co.,  of  New  York.  Licensed  feature  films  are  chiefly 
used.  The  house  was  opened  with  the  "Prisoner  of  Zenda." 
A  fourteen-piece,  selected  orchestra  is  used  to  accompany  the 
pictures,  and  high  class  vocal  and  instrumental  numbers  are 
introduced  during  the  intervals.  John  Bunny,  the  well  known 
Vitagraph  comedian  delivered  his  special  monologue  during 
the  first  week,  and  Francis  X.  Bushman  gave  lectures  the  second 
week.  Both  these  gentlemen  scored  big  hits.  Miss  Florence 
Turner,  another  big  Vitagraph  favorite,  has  been  booked  for  the 
week  of  Monday,  April  14,  to  appear  in  a  comedy  skit,  of  her 
own  composing.  The  admission  to  the  Music  Hall  is  25  cents 
for  evenings  and  Sunday  matinees.  For  other  matinees  the 
charge  is  10  cents.  A.  N.  Smallwood  and  J.  T.  Hennegan  are 
the  managers. 


FRED  MACE  COMING  EAST. 

Fred  Mace  left  Los  Angeles  last  Sunday,  headed  in  the 
general  direction  of  New  York  City.  He  has  completed  his 
arrangements  in  Los  Angeles  for  the  making  of  a  reel  of 
split  comedy,  one  Western  and  one  Indian  or  straight  drama 
weekly,  establishing  ample  studio  and  laboratory  facilities, 
and  is  coming  on  to  close  contracts  for  the  disposal  of  his 
negatives.     He  will  appear  in  all  of  the  comedies  himself. 

He  planned  his  departure  to  be  in  time  for  the  Screen  Club 
ball,  and  will  represent  the  Photoplayers  (of  which  he  is 
president)  at  the  function  of  the  sister  society. 


S.  S.  HUTCHINSON  HAS  NARROW  ESCAPE. 

S.  S.  Hutchinson  and  R.  D.  Armstrong,  who  have  just 
arrived  back  in  America  from  the  Hawaiian  Islands,  relate 
an  interesting  experience  with  water  buffalo.  In  the  rice 
fields  on  the  islands  water  buffalo  are  used,  as  being  the  only 
animals  who  can  travel  thro.ugh  the  heavy  muck.  R.  D.  Arm- 
strong, camera  operator,  had  his  camera  up  and  was  making 
pictures,  with  Mr.  Hutchinson  directing  beside  him,  when 
the  foremost  buffalo  charged.  There  followed  a  thrilling 
series  of  dodges  back  and  forth  behind  the  camera  until  a 
native  rescued  them.  Both  were  thoroughly  exhausted  from 
the  strenuous  exercise  in  the  ankle-deep  mud. 


SENNETT  MAKING  "COMEDY-MELODRAMAS." 
The  Keystone  Film  Company,  with  Mack  Sennett's  master 
hand  at  the  wheel,  is  presenting  a  new  variety  of  film  at  the 
present  time  which  marks  a  departure  in  the  picture  game. 
Mack  calls  them  .comedy-melodramas,  and  if  we  are  to  take 
the  word  of  exhibitors  throughout  the  country  they  are  great. 
The  stories  have  a  well-defined  plot  filled  with  thrilling  inci- 
dents and  intense  moments,  while  a  light  vein  of  comedy 
running  all  the  way  through  the  picture  provides  excellent 
relief  and  much  laughter. 


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Doings  at  Los  Angeles 

Universal    Aetivities — Inhumane   Picture    Men   Fined — Inter- 
esting News  Notes  From  the  Western  Film  Center. 

NOT  satisfied  to  have  earned  for  the  Bison  brand  of 
films  the  reputation  of  being  the  most  expensive,  on 
the  average,  now  being  produced  in  this  country,  the 
Universal  company  is  planning  still  bigger  and  more  expen- 
sive productions  to  be  released  under  this  trademark.  It  is 
difficult  to  conceive  how  the  present  productions  could  be 
greatly  amplified,  and  whatever  the  plans  are.  they  are  being 
jealously  guarded,  but  it  has  leaked  out  that  A.  M.  Kennedy, 
general  manager  of  the  Western  department,  is  preparing  for 
a  totally  new  line  of  Bison  pictures,  to  be  started  about 
July  1st. 

Another  of  the  Lincoln  J.  Carter  melodramas.  "Two  Little 
Waifs,"  has  just  been  filmed  by  the  Universal  company,  and 
Director  Montgomery  and  Mr.  Carter  are  now  at  work  on 
"The  Indian's  Secret." 

Frank  E.  Woods,  who  went  over  to  the  Universal  camp 
from  the  Kinemacolor  company  recently,  to  become  an  Imp 
director,  is  now  making  split-reel  comedies.  The  members 
of  his  company  are  Harry  Fisher.  Lois  Howard,  John  Fran- 
cis. Vera  Sisson,  Edith  Bostwick.  Sylvia  Ashton.  Lee  Morris 
and  Doc.  Vinard. 

George  Gebhardt  resigned  from  the  local  Pathe  company 
last  week,  to  join  the  Universal  forces  as  a  director. 

The  Universal  company  now  claims  to  have  on  its  payroll ' 
the  youngest   regular  motion  picture   actor   in   the   business. 
He  is  Elwood  Horn,  aged  seven  months,   son  of  the  traffic 
manager  of  the  concern. 

The  mess  department  is  not  the  smallest  nor  least  impor- 
tant of  the  many  activities  at  the  Universal  ranch  at  Oak 
Crest.  On  a  quiet  day  there  are  upwards  of  100  mouths  to 
be  fed  three  times  a  day,  and  the  record  is  nearly  4,000  meals 
in  a  day.  For  the  purpose  of  supplying  the  department,  a 
portion  of  the  ranch  has  been  set  apart  for  a  truck  garden. 
Joe  Engle  took  a  party  of  guests  to  visit  the  ranch  one  day 
this  week,  and  among  the  things  served  them  were  the  fol- 
lowing from  the  farm  department:  New  potatoes,  green 
peas,  cucumbers  and  sliced  tomatoes,  fried  chicken,  aspara- 
gus, strawberries  and  cream. 

The  motion  picture  production  of  Maurice  Maeterlinck's 
"Pelleas  and  Melisande,"  in  which  Constance  Crawley  and 
Arthur  Maude  are  to  play  the  name  parts,  is  well  under  way 
and  begins  to  look  more  than  promising. 

One  of  the  results  of  the  recent  fire  at  the  Universal  offices 
in  Hollywood  was  that  Director  M.  H.  Fahrney  has  devoted 
this  week  to  reproducing  half  of  his  first  two-reel  feature, 
"The  Last  Roll  Call."  The  "last  roll"  was  not  rescued  by 
the  firemen.  Another  picture  which  was  lost  in  the  fire,  and 
is  now  being  retaken,  is  "The  Tarantula."  There  was  one 
picture  which,  unfortunately,  was  not  destroyed— unfortu- 
nately, because  if  it  had  burned  the  company  might  have 
recovered  something  on  insurance.  It  is  the  last  picture  in 
which  Edwin  August  appeared  before  he  left  the  Universal 
to  go  with  the  Yitagraph  company.  It  was  a  costly  reel,  in 
which  an  army  of  extra  people  had  worked  and  much  money 
was  spent  for  properties  and  direction.  It  is  all  done  except 
one  little  scene,  but  that  little  one  is  the  most  important  in 
the  entire  play — so  important,  in  fact,  that  until  it  is  finished 
the  whole  production  is  worthless.  In  the  scene  the  leading 
character,  who  is  August,  is  required  to  walk  straight  up  to 
the  lens,  and  there  do  a  bit  of  business  which  "ties"  the  story 
in  the  middle.  August,  by  the  way,  was  the  author  of  the 
script.  On  the  day  he  gave  in  his  notice  he  spoke  of  a  little 
business  matte-  concerning  which  there  was  a  misunder- 
standing. He  was  informed  that  it  would  have  to  be  taken 
up  with  the  New  York  office.  Pending  a  reply  from  New 
York  the  missing  scene  is  being  postponed. 

Film  fans  are  tc  witness  another  impersonation  of  the  late 
President  Lincoln  when  the  Bison  three-reel  feature,  "The 
Toll  of  War."  is  released.  It  is  now  in  process  of  production. 
Francis  Ford  is  playing  the  part,  in  addition  to  directing  the 
picture.  One  of  the  scenes  shows  the  interior  of  Ford's 
Theater  and  the  assassination. 

To  ride  a  galloping  horse  bareback  alongside  of  a  careen- 
ing, rapidly  -  moving  prairie  schooner,  slash  an  opening 
through  the  canvas  with  a  hunting  knife,  tumble  off  the 
horse  through  the  slit  into  the  wagon,  touch  off  six  sticks 
of  dynamite  and  jump  out  the  back  end  just  as  the  prairie 
schooner  was  blown  to  atoms,  was  the  business  Director 
McRae  gave  Charles  Bartlett,  one  of  the  members  of  his 
Bison  company,  to  do  in  "The  Fighting  Chaplain,"  which  is 
being  produced.  Bartlett,  regarding  it  as  a  mere  incident  of 
a  motion  picture   actor's  daily  routine,  played  the  part. 


Fined  for  Inhumane  Realism. 

An  attempt  on  the  part  of  James  Young  Deer,  director  ot 
the  Western  Pathe  company,  to  outdo  all  other  motion  pic- 
ture producers  in  realism  landed  three  of  his  employes  in  the 
police  court  this  week  and  cost  them  $60  in  fines.  Young 
Deer  had  in  mind  a  thrilling  scene  wherein  a  cowboy  was 
to  ride  his  horse  too  close  to  the  edge  of  a  high  precipice. 
The  horse  was  to  be  dashed  to  pieces  on  the  rocks  below, 
and  the  rider  was  to  save  himself  by  jumping  from  the  horse's 
hack  and  catching  the  edge  of  the  cliff.  He  had  a  horse 
which  injured  one  eye  several  weeks  ago,  and  on  account  of 
blood  poisoning  was  practically  useless.  The  cliff  was  se- 
lected, the  camera  was  placed  at  a  point  where  it  commanded 
the  sheer  drop,  and  a  rider  was  sent  up  with  the  horse  to 
carry  out  the  plan.  Half  dead  though  it  was,  the  horse 
seemed  to  sense  the  conspiracy  and  refused  to  go  near  the 
edge.  After  a  number  of  unsuccessful  attempts  it  was  con- 
cluded to  "hog-tie"  the  animal — that  is,  to  fasten  his  legs 
together  so  that  a  push  would  send  it  over.  The  horse  was 
led  to  the  edge  of  the  cliff,  but  while  its  legs  were  being  tied 
it  began  to  scream  like  a  human  being  and  to  struggle.  A 
number  of  women  living  near  the  spot  thought  a  child  was 
being  injured  and  ran. out  to  investigate.  They  were  wit- 
nesses to  the  act  of  pushing  the  horse  over  the  cliff  and 
complained  to  the  authorities.  The  horse  succeeded  by  its 
struggles  in  prolonging  its  miserable  existence,  for,  instead 
of  going  over  the  place  selected,  it  rolled  and  fell  down  a 
steep  slope  at  one  side  and  was  merely  injured,  instead  of 
being  killed  outright.  Jim  Kid,  Milton  Brown  and  George 
Champion  were  arrested  and  fined.  The  incident  has  done 
immense  undeserved  harm  to  the  motion  picture  industry 
in  this  city,  for  the  newspaper  reports  excited  public  senti- 
ment, which,  unfortunately,  is  not  discriminating  and  is  di- 
rected against  all  the  producing  companies.  Those  columns 
of  the  newspapers  which  are  devoted  to  letters  from  readers 
have  been  filled  with  general  condemnation  of  the  motion 
picture  producers. 

News  Briefs. 

Fred  Mace  and  a  company  of  players,  under  his  direction, 
began  work  at  the  new  Hollywood  studio  this  week.  The 
company  is  to  produce  nothing  but  split-reel  comedies,  like 
those  in  which  Mace  used  to  appear  with  the  Biograph  com- 
pany. Through  what  channel  they  will  be  released  is  not 
announced.  Harry  RevieT  is  to  have  charge  of  the  photog- 
raphy and  the  factory.  All  the  prints  are  to  be  made  in  this 
city.  A  revolving  stage  75  feet  in  diameter,  with  a  device 
for  raising  it  20  feet  above  the  ground,  is  now  being  installed. 

*  *     * 

Rollin  Sturgeon,  manager  of  the  Yitagraph  company's 
Western  plant  at  Santa  Monica,  is  now  an  exhibitor  as  well 
as  a  director  and  business  executive.  He  recently  purchased 
the  Majestic,  the  leading  motion  picture  theater  of  Santa 
Monica,  as  an  investment.  Plans  for  the  new  studio  are 
progressing  satisfactorily.  A  new  company  and  a  third 
director  will  begin  operations  within  a  week  or  two. 

*  *     * 

The  Graphic  Motion  Picture  Company,  a  new  independent 
organization,  began  operations  last  Monday  and  finished  the 
first  1,000  feet  in  three  days.  The  studio  is  located  at  200 
East  Avenue  55,  where  there  is  a  big  stage  and  necessary 
buildings,  such  as  dressing  rooms,  prop  rooms  and  scene 
dock.  The  location  is  only  about  half  a  mile  from  the  Lubin 
studio,  where  Wilbert  Melville's  company  is  working. 

*  *     * 

Norval  McGregor,  formerly  director  for  the  Utah  Motion 
Picture  Company,  is  director  for  the  n£w  concern.  George 
W.  W.  Myers  is  president  of  the  company,  E.  F.  Campbell 
is  vice-president  and  also  cameraman,  A.  E.  Weymouth  is 
secretary  and  treasurer,  and  George  Ingalls,  a  motion  picture 
man  from  Boston,  is  general  manager.  President  Myers  says 
the  company  will  make  single-reel  comedies  and  dramas. 
The  method  of  releasing  the  product  is  not  disclosed. 

*  *     * 

David  Belasco  Griffith,  of  the  Biograph  company,  has  a 
new  "assistant."  All  the  actors  were  notified  the  other  day 
that  no  more  frivolous  diversions  such  as  tennis,  handball 
and  croquet  will  be  tolerated  around  the  studio.  Heretofore 
the  members  of  the  company  have  made  use  of  the  athletic 
field  on  the  grounds  while  they  were  out  of  scenes.  Lionel 
Barrymore,  denied  his  daily  training  routine,  is  rapidly  de- 
scending into  a  rotund  and  placid  middle-aged  person.  His 
second  chin  is  thriving.  The  actors  expectantly  scan  the 
callboard  daily  for  new  hints  on  deportment  and  fresh  ideas 
about  their  rights  and  privileges,  and  this  daily  diversion 
accounts  for  the  charming  spirit  of  amity  so  much  in  evi- 
dence around  the  place. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


Karl  Cuolidge,  photoplay  editor  oi  the  Keystone  company, 
is  figuring  on  changing  a  young  woman's  name  next  month. 
He  is  very  sly  and  thinks  he  is  keeping  the  approachmy 
event  a  deep  secret. 

*  *     * 

Joseph  DeGrass  has  been  appointed  assistant  manager  of 
the  Western  Pathe  company,  succeeding  Charles  French. 

*  *     * 

Ernest  Shipman  has  sold  his  interest  in  the  Utah  Motion 
Picture  Company  and  the  "One  Hundred  Years  of  Mormon- 
ism''  feature  and  is  Mining  with  another  motion  picture 
project.  *     *     * 

Irene  Hunt,  former  leading  woman  with  the  Lubin  com- 
pany of  which  Wilbert  Melville  is  producer,  returned  to 
New  York  this  week.  Her  left  arm  was  broken  at  the  wrist 
by  a  fall  from  a  horse.  It  was  not  properly  set,  and  as  a 
result  she  will  have  to  have  it  broken  by  a  specialist  and 
reset;  hence  her  trip  East. 

*  *     * 

Kathlyn  Williams,  Selig  leading  woman,  who  recently 
became  Mrs.  Robert  Allen,  bought  a  large  tract  of  land  near 
Los  Angeles  this  week  and  will  have  a  country  place. 

P.  M.  POWELL. 


KINEMACOLOR  NOTES. 

William  Fox  has  signed  a  contract  with  the  Kinemacolor 
company,  whereby  the  nature-colored  pictures  will  be  in- 
stalled in  all  the  theaters  of  the  Fox  circuit. 

Aaron  Jones,  of  the  Chicago  theatrical  firm  of  Jones. 
Limick  &  Shafer,  came  to  New  York  to  secure  the  Kine- 
macolor service  for  the  Willard  and  Wilson  Theaters  imme- 
diately. Later  Kinemacolor  will  be  installed  in  the  other 
houses  of  their  Chicago  picture  circuit. 

In  response  to  insistent  demands  from  the  mid-western 
territory  for  another  distributing  station  of  the  film  service 
department,  the  Kinemacolor  company  has  opened  a  Chi- 
cago office  in  the  Morton  Building,  on  Dearborn  Street,  near 
Madison,  under  the  management  of  J.  L.  Kempner,  general 
representative.  

S.  S.  HUTCHINSON  BACK  IN  AMERICA. 

Mr.  S.  S.  Hutchinson  and  wife,  who  have  been  in  Hawaii 
for  some  time,  are  again  back  in  America.  Mr.  Hutchinson 
is  visiting  the  producing  center  at  Santa  Barbara. 


INDIAN  WOMEN. 

The  writer  had  occasion  recently  to  look  up  some  points 
regarding  the  Indians,  particularly  the  Iroquois,  and  was 
much  surprised  to  find  that  the  matrons  controlled  the  bal- 
lot, even  having  the  election  of  the  chiefs  in  their  hands.  As 
a  leader  of  his  people  and  a  really  great  statesman,  the  his- 
torical Hiawatha  has  had  full  credit.  He,  with  Dekaniwida, 
consolidated  several  warring  tribes  and  allotted  to  each  the 
work  best  suited  to  them,  and,  cruel  as  their  warfare  was 
against  the  common  enemy,  among  themselves  they  had  a 
wonderful  democracy,  the  only  aristocracy  being  the  mother-, 
who  held  the  public  property  and  outlined  the  policy  of  gov- 
ernment. Our  idea  of  the  position  of  woman  among  the 
Indians  has  been  so  perverted  by  observations  of  superficial 
travelers  that  it  is  commonly  believed  the  woman  to  have 
been  the  slave  of  a  magnificent  brute  in  the  olden  days,  and 


the  drudge  of  the  modern  decadent  despot,  but  nowhere  in 
the  world's  history  has  woman's  position  been  nearer  to 
that  of  man's,  both  in  ancient  and  the  present  times.  When 
one  speaks  slightingly  of  the  Indian's  treatment  of  his  woman 
and  children  his  attention  should  be  called  to  the  fact  that 
in  Germany,  women,  dressed  in  uniforms,  clean  the  streets 
■  if  many  of  the  cities,  and,  with  a  cow  or  dog,  are  hitched  to 
milk  carts  and  plows,  and  even  here  in  the  land  of  the  free 
and  the  home  of  the  brave  the  great  factories  are  filled  with 
women  and  children  who  contribute  a  large  proportion  of 
the  income  of  the  family. 

Mr.  F.  E.  Moore,  the  producer  of  "Hiawatha,''  tells  many 
interesting  stories  of  the  modern  Indian  father.  A  child  is 
rarely  punished  by  him,  and  in  case  of  sickness  the  descend- 
ants of  the  people  Hiawatha  once  led  are  devoted  nurst-. 
"It  is  no  uncommon  sight,"  he  said,  "to  see  a  father  walk- 
ing patiently  to  and  fro  for  hours  with  the  little  sufferer." 
Xor  is  romance  dead  among  them,  as  is  shown  by  the  looks 
of  affection  exchanged  by  the  actors  of  Hiawatha  and  Minne- 
haha in  the  wonderful  picture-mask  he  is  showing. 


MISS  FRANCES  MASON, 
New  Leading  Lady  With  the  Essanay  Stock  Company. 


NEW  OKLAHOMA  COMPANY. 

In  this  issue,  the  Blackstone  Film  &  Amusement  Company, 
of  Muskogee,  Okla.,  makes  its  first  announcement.  While 
the  name  of  the  company  is  new,  the  management  are  pio- 
neers in  the  business.  Mr.  Jake  Mitchell,  manager,  is  well 
known  in  film  circles,  having  been  associated  with  the  largest 
houses  in  the  country  for.  many  years.  Exhibitors  and  all 
people  connected  with  the  business  can  be  assured  of  every 
attention  at  his  hands. 


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New  York  League  Benefit  a 
Big  Success. 

Five  Thousand  New  Yorkers  in  Spite  of  Rainstorm  Attend 
the  Largest  Flood  Benefit  Held  in  New  York. 

ON  SATURDAY  EVENING,  April  12,  the  Motion  Picture 
Exhibitors'  League  of  Greater  New  York,  again  showed 
conclusively  what  it  can  do  when  it  comes  to  doing  things 
on  a  big  scale.  The  league  held  a  benefit  that  evening  at  the 
09th  Regiment  Armory.  25th  Street  and  Lexington  Avenue,  New 
York  City,  and  the  great  hall  was  nearly  filled,  notwithstanding 
a  downpour  of  rain.  The  armory  will  seat  6,000  people;  5,000 
were  in  the  audience.  But  even  under  the  handicap  of  wet 
weather,  the  league,  through  its  benefit,  managed  to  raise  the 
sum  of  $2,500  for  the  Ohio  and  Indiana  flood  sufferers,  which  is 
the  largest  amount  raised  at  a  public  benefit  that  has  come  to 
notice.  Even  the  large  public  benefit  at  the  New  York  Hippo- 
drome netted  only  $1,500;  therefore,  under  the  circumstances, 
the  New  York  League  came  through  with  flying  colors.  There 
is  no  doubt  that  had  the  weather  been  better  the  proceeds  would 
easily  have  reached  $5,000. 

The  results  of  the  benefit  are  still  more  worthy  of  note,  by 
reason  of  the  fact  that  the  whole  affair  was  conceived,  arranged 
and  carried  out  in  the  short  space  of  one  week.  The  admirable 
work  of  the  committee  of  arrangements  stands  out  prominently, 
and  President  Samuel  H.  Trigger,  of  the  New  York  League, 
had  requested  us  to  publicly  thank  the  committee  on  behalf  of  the 
league  members  and  acknowledge  the  excellence  of  their  work. 
The  committee  in  charge  of  arrangements  were :  M.  Needle, 
chairman;  J.  A.  Koerpel,  R.  A.  Mac  Nabb,  A.  Bauernfreund, 
Rudolph  Sanders,  M.  L  Fleischman,  M.  Blumenthal,  Aaron  Corn, 
Eugene  Elmore,  Louis  Germaine,  William  Hilkmeier  and  William 
Brandt. 

Promptly  at  8  o'clock  the  exhibition  began.  Many  members 
of  the  New  York  League  were  assembled  in  the  foyer,  acting  as 
a  reception  committee  and  as  ushers.  All  were  clad  in  immacu- 
late evening  dress,  and  their  appearance  made  it  resemble  a  swell 
social  function.  Before  the  program  began  there  was  a  fine  con- 
cert by  the  New  York  Letter  Carriers'  Band,  fifty  strong;  and 
what  a  band  it  was!  Their  services  were  given  free  and  Mr. 
Trigger  has  also  requested  us  to  publicly  thank  the  members  of 
the  Letter  Carriers'  Band,  both  for  the  valuable  time  given  up 
by  them  and  for  the  excellence  of  their  work. 

We  often  hear  picture  men,  supposed  to  be  generally  wise  to 
their  business,  say  that  people  will  not  sit  for  more  than  two 
hours  looking  at  pictures.  That  theory  was  positively  exploded 
on  this  occasion,  because  the  major  portion  of  that  vast  audience 
of  5,000  people  sat  for  five  hours,  from  8  p.  m.  until  1  a.  m.,  look- 
ing at  pictures,  and  probably  would  have  sat  there  longer  had 
there  been  any  more  pictures  to  run.  Those  who  came  surely 
got  their  money's  worth  and  had  a  very  pleasant  evening.  Dis- 
regarding the  order  of  their  appearance,  the  following  photo- 
plays, many  of  which  have  not  yet  been  released,  were  shown ; 
"Flood  Scenes  in  Ohio,"  Universal ;  "Fred  as  a  Soldier"  and 
"Summer  in  the  North,"  Great  Northern ;  "Okoma,"  Gaumont ; 
"The  Lady  Doctor,"  Solax;  "The  Prisoner  of  Zenda,"  (last  reel) 
Famous  Players;  Pathe's  Weekly  No.  17;  "War"  (second  reel), 
"101"  Bison;  "A  Proposal  by  Proxy,"  Thanhouser;  "Inauguration 
of  Woodrow  Wilson,"  Warner's  Features ;  "Girls  Will  Be  Boys," 
Crystal;  "The  Lost  Memory"  (two  reels),  Great  Northern;  "New 
York's  Society  Life  and  Underworld"-  (three  reels),  Exclusive 
Feature  Film  Company. 

Between  pictures  the  following  artists  and  photoplay  stars  were 
introduced  by  Mr.  Len  Spencer.  Doctor  William  Davis,  by  cour- 
tesy of  William  Fox ;  Little  Audrey  Barry,  formerly  of  Pathe, 
in  dances ;  Crane  Wilbur,  Pathe ;  Miss  Edith  Storey,  Vitagraph ; 
Edward  O'Connor,  Edison ;  Kenneth  Casey,  Vitagraph ;  Rogers 
Lytton,  Vitagraph :  Miss  Alice  Joyce,  Kalem ;  Demetrius  Mit- 
zorias,  Greek  baritone,  Thanhouser ;  David  Thompson,  Than- 
houser, in  songs  accompanied  by  Mignon  Anderson  at  piano; 
Harry  Benham,  Thanhouser,  in  songs;  Helen  Badgley,  the  Than- 
houser Kidlet,  recitation;  King  Baggot,  Imp;  Billy  Quirk.  Gem; 
Yale  Boss,  Edison ;  Newsboy  Sextet,  by  courtesy  of  William 
Fox ;  Miss  Mary  Pickford,  by  courtesy  of  David  Belasco.  A 
company  of  Universal  players  appeared  in  a  farce  comedy  scene, 
entitled.  "How  Moving  Pictures  Are  Made:  or  a  Studio  Re- 
hearsal." Director,  Francis  Powers,  assisted  by  Ha.zel  May 
Hall,  Helen  Powers,  Charlotte  Stanford.  George  Gerenier,  Peter 
Burns,  Charles  Craig,  William  Sorrelle,  H.  Nielson,  Arthur  Peter- 
man  and  Bert  Phillips ;  incidental  dance  by  Hazel  May  Hall. 
In  the  balcony  were  four  booths  occupied  respectively  by  ma- 
chines and  operators  furnished  by  the  Nicholas  Power  Co.,  Stand- 
ard Machine  Co.,  Simplex  Machine  Co..  and  the  Motiograph  Co. 
President  Trigger  desires  The  Moving  Picture  World  to  ex- 
tend the  thanks  of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  to 
each  and  every  one  who  helped  to  make  the  affair  such  a  splen- 


did success,  especially  to  the  many  well  known  firms  in  the  trade 
who  came  forward  with  large  and  substantial  donations. 

The  flower  girls — or  flower  ladies,  as  the  case  may  be — 
helped  to  swell  the  proceeds  by  their  energetic  measures  of 
pinning  flowers  on  gentlemen's  coats  and  then  telling  them 
that  they  owed  something  to  th:  fund  for  the  flowers.  Among 
them  the  ladies  raised  an  extra  $100  for  the  fund  in  this  way. 
Miss  Jeanette  Ehrenberg  has  the  record  of  the  largest  sale, 
disposing  of  $20  worth  by  her  individual  efforts.  She  is  the 
stenographer  of  the  New  York  Exhibitors'  League.  The 
other  ladies  were  Mrs.  Robert  L.  MacNabb,  Misses  Lillian 
Ethyll,  Grace  Langill,  Marie  Smith,  Emma  Ehrenberg,  Ruth 
Allen,  Selma  Bauer  and  Sydelle  Fish.  Miss  Henrietta  Bau- 
renfreund  and  Miss  Carey  gathered  in  $100  between  them 
selling  photos,  salad  and  ushering. 

Benefit  Briefs. 

During  his  appearance  on  the  platform,  Edward  O'Connor,  of 
the  Edison  Company,  drew  forth  a  check  for  $100  from  the  Edi- 
son Company,  which  he  was  delegated  to  turn  in  to  the  general 
fund. 

Len  Spencer  is  the  star  "Master  of  Ceremonies"  of  New  York 
and  environs.  His  work  in  that  capacity  is  so  masterful  that 
any  Exhibitors'  League  racket  without  him  would  be  minus  a 
great  deal  of  its  charm  and  smoothness.  At  covering  up  a  stage- 
wait  he  is  probably  without  a  peer.     In  dealing  with  awkward 

situations  behind  the  footlights  he  is  a  genius. 

*  *    * 

Imagine  that  second  reel  of  "War,"  by  the  "101"  Bison  Com- 
pany, when  accompanied  by  a  brass  band  of  fifty  pieces.  Try  to 
imagine  one  of  the  most  thrilling  battle  scenes  ever  produced 
being  presented  with  the  sound  of  ten  trombones  coming  up  the 
scale  chromatically,  with  an  equal  number  each  of  clarinets, 
cornets,  altos  and  bassos  working  strong  on  the  "hurry"  stuff  in 
counter  melody,  and  you  will  get  an  idea  of  the  right  way  to 
put  that  picture  on.  Of  all  the  punches  and  thrills  of  the  even- 
ing, that  was  the  knock-out. 

*  *    * 

And,  speaking  of  bands,  a  blind  man  would  have  enjoyed  him~ 
self  that  evening  for  no  other  reason  than  listening  to  the  New 
York  Letter  Carriers'  Band,  one  of  the  best  trade  bands  in 
America.     When  it  comes  to  playing  for  pictures,  their  leader 

seems  to  know  just  what  to  select. 

*  *    * 

Pearl  White  is  doing  some  great  work  these  days.  She  ap- 
peared in  a  Crystal  picture,  entitled,  "Girls  Will  Be  Boys,"  and 
scored  a  tremendous  hit  in  the  role  of  a  street  gamin.  Anyone 
who  thinks  Pearl  can  play  only  pretty  girl  parts  should  see  this 
picture.  Her  make-up  as  a  tough  bootblack  boy  was  immense, 
and  her  facial  expression  was  a  scream. 

*  *    * 

Who  says  the  public  will  not  sit  more  than  two  hours  looking 
at  pictures?  Whoever  thinks  so  should  have  seen  the  crowd  that 
stuck  from  8  p.  m.  until  1  o'clock  in  the  morning,  and  still  will- 
ing to  look  at  more  if  the  supply  had  held  out. 

*  *    * 

The  parents  of  Kenneth  Casey  are  making  an  excellent  per- 
former out  of  their  extremely  bright  young  son.  His  act  was 
easily  the  star  number  of  the  evening.  He  did  an  excellent  cor- 
net solo  to  start  with  and  the  most  sincere  applause  came  from 
the  members  of  the  New  York  Letter  Carriers'  Band.  He  sings 
well  and  plays  a  violin  with  much  ability  and  his  stage  technique 
is  very  professional.  By  the  way,  it  is  funny  to  hear  a  family 
•by  the  name  of  Casey  talking  among  themselves  in  German. 

*  *    * 

Judging  from  applause,  King  Baggot  was  the  most  popular 
individual  photoplay  star  who  appeared.  Everyone  in  the  im- 
mense throng  seemed  to  know  him,  and  appeared  very  glad  to 
see  him.  He  spoke  some  kind  words  to  the  audience  and  didn't 
fail  to  mention  the  Screen  Club  Ball,  to  be  held  at  Terrace  Gar- 
den on  the  19th  of  April. 

*  *    * 

Carl  Laemmle.  Bill  Swanson,  Mark  Dintenfass,  and  also  Bill 
Wright,  of  the  Kalem  Company,  can  always  be  depended  upon 
to  show  up  at  any  patriotic  gathering  of  the  trade.     They  were 

on  hand  Saturday  night  in  their  old  reliable  way. 

*  *    * 

The  girl  who  deserves  more  credit  than  any  of  those  present, 
and  the  one  who  did  the  hardest  work  of  any  was  Miss  Alice 
Joyce,  the  popular  leading  lady  of  the  Kalem  Company.  She 
autographed    and    sold    $100    worth    of    her    own    photographs 

in  the  lobby.     She  surely  is  a  patriotic  young  lady. 

*  *    * 

The  Kalem  Company  was  the  leader  of  all  the  others  in  com- 
ing forward  with  assistance.  At  the  first  intimation  that  there 
was  to  be  a  benefit  they  came  across  with  a  good-sized  check 
and  an  offer  to  send  any  of  their  players.  They  also  supplied 
several  hundred  photographs  of  Miss  Joyce,  which  she  sold  in 
the  lobby.    Other  Kalemites  were- on  the  job  all  evening. 


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OBSERVATIONS 

BY  OUR  MAN  ABOUT  TOWN 


111 


Gi  i  publicity  men  and  advertisement  solicitors  are 
among  ihe  most  clever  and  interesting  to  be  found 
in  us   channels  of  business  life.     Sometimes 

they  appi  I       is  shrewd  operators  of  confidence  schemes, 

and  they  art  ii"t  accorded  the  credit  they  really  deserve. 
.Many  of  them  have  heart-breaking  tasks  in  securing  audi- 
ences and  holding  the  attention  of  those  they  are  trying  to 
interest,  even  when  the  propositions  they  offer  are  good  ones, 
and  many  week-,  sometimes  months,  are  spent  in  framing 
the  prospectus  in!*'  plausible  shape.  For  persistency  the 
craft  holds  first  prize.  A  battle  of  wits  in  the  office  of  a 
motion  picture  manufacturer  of  this  city  a  few  days  ago 
demonstrated  this  clearly.  On  one  side  was  the  manufac- 
turer's manager.  On  the  other  were  two  men  from  the 
I  'tie  of  them  was  a  publicity  promoter,  the  other 
an  advertising  agency  man.  Announcing  that  they  had  one 
of  the  most  gigantic  schemes  ever  offered,  they  insisted  upon 
seeing  either  one  of  the  head  officers  of  the  company  or 
somebody  in  charge  with  authority  to  make  a  deal.  Becom- 
ing satisfied,  they  revealed  their  scheme.  A  big  carnival  is 
to  be  held  in  one  of  the  Southern  cities,  and  among  the 
features  is  to  be  a  pageant  in  which  floats  and  other  con- 
trivances are  to  be  incorporated  to  advertise  the  products 
of  certain  concerns  of  national  and  international  reputation 
in  such  a  clever  manner  that  to  cut  them  out  of  the  film 
reproduction  must  destroy  the  entire  picture.  "The  pageant 
itself,"  said  the  men.  "will  be  so  elaborate  and  unique  that 
no  exhibitor  would  think  of  rejecting  it,  and  the  cleverly 
interwoven  advertising  features  will  interest  every  corpora- 
tion and  company  represented,  inducing  them  to  pay  liberally 
for  the  advertising  and  drawing  hundreds  of  thousands  of 
people  interested  in  the  companies  and  their  employes  to 
see  the  pictures,  thereby  interesting  the  exhibitors  on  account 
of  the  prospects  of  greatly  increased  box  office  receipts.  So, 
you  see.  we  havt  everything  down  pat,"  said  the  advertis- 
ing man. 

*  *     * 

The  office  manager  smiled  and  said  he  believed  consid- 
erable thought  and  time  must  have  been  expended  on  the 
scheme.  From  an  advertising  standpoint,  he  said,  it  looked 
fine.  "I  suppose  you  want  to  know  what  we  will  charge  for 
making  the  pictures,"  he  continued,  but  like  a  flash  the  answer 
was  that  the  visitors  wanted  to  know  how  much  the  company 
would  pay  for  the  privilege  of  taking  them.  "We  supply 
everything  up  to  that  point.  You  get  all  the  money  you  can 
from  the  concerns  advertised.  That  is  your  end  of  it."  The 
manager  informed  them  that  that  battle  had  been  fought  out 
several  years  age.  Film  exchanges  will  not  pay  for  films 
issued  for  advertising  purposes,  nor  will  exhibitors  show 
them  in  their  houses.  For  almost  an  hour  the  matter  was 
discussed,  the  visitors  resourceful  in  suggestions.  The 
immense  returns  would  justify  the  film  producer  in  expend- 
ing  a  part  of  them  to  induce  the  exchange  people  and  exhibit- 
or- to  handle  the  film,  which  would  result  in  the  latter  deriv- 
ing benefit  in  two  ways.  "You  forget  that  the  people  are  to 
he  considered  in  such  matters — the  people  who  pay  admis- 
sion to  the  theaters."  said  the  manager.  ''They  pay  for 
amusement  and  entertainment  and  are  prompt  in  expressing 
disapproval  wher.  they  learn  that  they  have  paid  to  see  an 
advertising  device,  no  matter  how  clever  it  may  be."  Again 
one  of  the  visitors  came  back,  stating  that  educational  films 
have  become  very  popular;  that  the  pageant  showing  the 
progress  of  the  various  parts  of  the  country  in  civic,  indus- 
trial and  commercial  lines  would  make  the  picture  a  par- 
ticularly attractive  one  in  the  educational  sense.  Eventually 
the  visitors  departed  with  a  determination  to  seek  "some 
more  enterprising  manufacturer." 

*  *     * 

As  an  efl  ridge  over  any  objection  that  might  pos- 

sibly be  raised  by  either  film  renter,  exhibitor  or  patron  of 
the  picture  theaters  the  scheme  reflected  credit  upon  the 
promoters.  Bu;  it  was  time  wasted.  The  most  skillfully 
produced  picture  of  an  advertising  nature  must  fail  of  success 
if  offered  to  the  public  with  regular  productions.  The  public 
is  keen  to  discover  the  most  clever  interpolation,  and  never 
fail  to  call  the  attention  of  managers  to  them.  Managers 
rightfully    claim    that    they    cannot    be    expected   to   pay   the 


expenses  of  running  their  houses  and  give  free  advertising 
space  to  films  that  concerns  have  with  ingenuity  converted 
to  their  benefit.  There  is  no  better  advertising  avenue  than 
the  motion  picture  film  when  properly  applied.  But  it  must 
have  an  outlet  of  its  own.  A  number  of  large  concerns  dis- 
covered this  some  time  ago.  There  are  several  that  have 
films  made  to  demonstrate  the  process  of  manufacture  and 
marketing  of  their  products,  and  are  exhibiting  them  at  vari- 
ous industrial  exhibitions,  conventions  and  similar  affairs. 
Many  of  the  subjects  are  both  interesting  and  educational 
and  attract  attention  of  the  people  for  whom  they  are  in- 
tended. In  their  legitimate  lines  such  films  are  successful 
to  the  fullest  degree. 

*  *     * 

A  well-known  advertising  manager  stated  that  one  of  the 
chief  reasons  for  antagonism  on  the  part  of  the  public  press 
against  motion  pictures  a  few  years  ago  was  the  impression 
that  they  would  soon  make  inroads  upon  the  advertising  rev- 
enue of  the  papers,  magazines  and  other  publications.  The 
possibilities  of  motion  pictures  as  a  medium  for  advertising 
were  fully  realized,  and  there  was  no  way  in  which  they 
could  be  successfully  attacked  until  the  advertising  features 
were  interwoven  with  the  stories.  Then  the  publications  got 
busy.  The  country  press  became  especially  active  and  the 
informant  states  that  almost  the  first  complaint  registered 
nst  the  foisting  of  advertisements  in  films  was  due  to  a 
country  editor  in  Minnesota. 

*  *     * 

A  theatrical  manager  who  overheard  the  remarks  said  he 
remembered  that  a  few  years  ago  vaudeville  people  would 
work  into  their  dialogues  and  monologues  references  of  a 
complimentary  character  to  certain  commercial  products,  but 
the.  managers  soon  put  a  stop  to  it,  and  what  applies  to  the 
stage  is  equally  applicable  to  motion  pictures.  At  times  drop 
curtains  bearing  advertisements  have  been  criticised,  the 
manager  said,  but  he  considered  it  legitimate,  as  well  as  the 
advertising  slides  that  are  used  in  many  of  the  picture  houses 
so  long  as  they  do  not  usurp  time  that  should  be  devoted  to 
the  regular  program  and  are  not  made  tedious.  Advertise- 
ments on  curtains,  programs  and  slides  are  not  paid  for  by 
the  patrons  of  the  theaters,  and  they  have  no  license  to  ob- 
ject to  them  when  they  are  proper  in  a  moral  sense.  Com- 
mercialism has  always  been  denounced  when  reflected  either 
from  the  pulpit,  stage  or  platform.  The  people  are  very  sen- 
sitive in  this  respect. 

*  *     * 

"Yes,"  said  an  exhibitor,  "I  say  amen  to  that.  Free  adver- 
tising by  means  of  the  pictures  will  not  be  tolerated.  It  is 
not  a  pecuniary  matter,  but  one  of  principle.  1  take  the  same 
stand  that  I  have  taken  against  the  newspapers.  The  best  of 
us  have  been  caught  at  times  and  when  I  fall  for  a  newspaper 
"ad"  I  feel  as  sore  as  I  do  when  some  slick  one  has  rung  in 
something  in  a  picture.  What  is  more  provoking  than  to  be 
caught  when  you  are  reading  the  paper  to  your  wife,  your 
father  or  mother,  or  some  poor  invalid.  After  arousing  their 
interest  in  a  story  of  how  a  father  and  son  became  separated 
in  some  big  battle  of  the  Civil  War  you  reach  the  bottom  lines 
and  suddenly  stop,  so  chagrined  that  you  are  unable  to  utter 
a  word.  'Read  on,  John,  how  did  it  come  out?'  asks  the 
anxious  listener.  Putting  yourself  in  the  boob  class  you 
crawl  out.  'Fifty  years  later  father  and  son  met  again,  when 
the  son  was  canvassing  Squeedonk  in  the  interest  of  Bluffem's 
Pain  Exterminer,  a  remedy  that  never  fails  to  cure  all  dis- 
tress,' etc." 

*  *     * 

Getting  the  eye  is  the  great  secret  of  successful  advertising. 
Mr.  Edwards,  formerly  with  Miles  Bros,  film  exchange  for 
several  years,  is  now  ownsr  of  the  Picture  Theater  Equip- 
ment Company,  21  East  14th  Street.  He  caught  the  eye  a 
few  days  ago  with  a  setting  of  the  interior  of  a  miniature 
picture  house  in  his  display  window.  Screen,  seats  and  all 
were  complete,  a  projecting  machine  being  operated  by  a 
motor.  The  watching  throng  became  so  great  a  policeman 
was  obliged  to  ask  Mr.  Edwards  to  discontinue  the  exhibit. 
Being  unable  to  get  into  booths  a  large  percentage  of  pic- 
ture house  patrons  fail  to  learn  satisfactorily  how  the  pictures 
are  projected,  and  in  this  case  a  close  view  of  the  working 
apparatus  excited  the  curiosity  of  a  crowd  the  policeman  was 
unable  to  handle. 


ENTER  "MISS"  SCARDON. 

Usually  retiring  and  quiet — now  bold  and  boisterous;  usually 
polite  and  considerate — now  rude  and  overbearing;  usually  of 
noble  carriage  and  graceful  step — now  strutting  proudly  with 
his  chest  protruding  out  of  all  proportion — thus  has  Paul 
Scardon,  of  the  Reliance,  been  suddenly  transformed  as  if  by 
a  miracle— it's  a  girl  and  weighed  nine  pounds!! 


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cAivertising"  for  Exhibitors 

Conducted  by  EPES  WINTHROP  SARGENT 


Airdome  Advertising. 

PRETTY   soon   the  heat  waves  will  strike  and  there   will  be   a  scramble 
for  the  open.     The  closed  theater  will  find  itself  at  a  disadvantage  and 
the  man  with  the  screen  at  one  end  of  a  vacant  lot  and  a  projection 
room  at  the  other  is  in  the  ascendant.     With  all  due   respect  to  Mr.   Rich- 
it  is  more  apt  to  be  a  projection  booth  than  a  projection  room,  for 
all  features  of  most  airdomes  are   scamped  and  scant.     Too  many   manage- 
go  at  the  enterprise  with  the  feeling  that  the  open  air  entertainment 
is  more  or  less  a  transient  affair  and  no  more  money  is  sunk  in  the  scheme 
than  is   absolutely   necessary  to   provide   projection   facilities  and   some   sort 
seats. 
All  this  is  a  mistake.    There  are  plenty  of  localities  where  the  investment 
of  a  thousand  dollars  additional  will  bring  a  return  of  several  hundred  per 
cent,   on   the  season,   with  much  of  the  investment  available  for  the  follow- 
:  ar. 
Here  in  New   York  City  the  exactions  ofthe  police  and  fire  departments. 
some    of   which    seem   to   be    needlessly    severe,    discourage    the   management 
from   heavy   investments,   but   even  at   that  there  is  no  excuse   for   some   of 
the    makeshift   inclosures   tnat    we    see.      \\  e    •mow   of   one    typical    airdome 
that  we  look  down  into  daily  as  we  pass  it  on  the  elevated  train.    The  lot  is 
g    two   hundred    feet   square,    of   which   about  thirty  by   fifty   feet   are 
covered    with    board    benches   that    lie   exposed    to   the   elements    all    winter. 
-ruing  space  is  floored  with  boards  as  the  law  provides,  but  absolutely 
no  effort  has  been  made  to  improve  the  appearance  of  the  unoccupied  space. 
In   a    few   weeks  a   man   will   spend  a   day  cleaning  up  the   cans  and   other 
debris    thrown    into    the    lot    through    the    winter    from    the    adjoining    flat 
buildings,  but  otherwise  the  lot  remains  as  it  was  when  it  was  all  a  part  of 
the  wilderness;   the  naked  rocks  crop  up  through  the  bare,   hardbaked   soil, 
as  barren  and  uninviting  as  the  desert.    At  one  end  stands  a  gaunt   frame 
work  faced  with  warped  boards  over  which  a  linen  screen  will  be  stretched, 
but  there  is  no  shadow  box,  no  protection  from  light  of  any  sort  save  a  six- 
inch  board  across  the  top  that  is  supposed  to  be  all-sufficient  to  protect  the 
from  the  street  lamps  and  the  bright  moonlight  of  the  summer  nights. 
When   the  doors  are  opened  a  couple   of  hoys  will   wander  up  and  down 
th;-    aisle?    with   a   constant  cry   of   "Candies!     Peanuts!     Five   a   bag,"    and 
me  to  a  halt  to  make  a  sale  just  as  the  situation  on  the  screen  be- 
come- critical.     When  the  boy  has  achieved  his  exchange  he  will   move  on, 
e  story   will  have  been  spoiled. 
Tlie   boards  of  the   fence  may  be  whitewashed,   as  this  was  not  done  last 
year,  but  that  is  about  all  that  will  be  done  in  the  way  of  "fixing  up." 

Be  Attractive. 

No  very  great  sum  would  be  required  to  turn  this  place  into  an  inviting 
i  ■  r  theater.  The  loose  rocks  could  be  made  into  a  rockery,  ferns 
and  flowers  could  be  introduced,  the  ground  could  be  leveled  and  sodded 
and  instead  of  having  to  make  a  fight  for  the  nickels  of  his  patrons  the 
etor  could  sit  in  his  box  office  and  watch  the  dimes  and  even  quar- 
ters roll  in. 

It  does  not  take  much  money,  but  it  does  take  brains  to  make  an  attrac- 
tive airdome.  A  rockery  need  not  cost  $10  and  yet  it  will  be  worth  a  hun- 
dred times  that  in  the  suggestion  of  coolness  that  it  affords.  Tap  the  water 
pipe  and  put  in  a  small  hose  nozzle.  Build  a  concrete  basin.  Even  a  gal- 
vanized vashtubwith  an  overflow  pipe  will  do.  Some  Saturday  afternoon 
get  in  half  a  dozen  small  boys  and  promise  them  tickets  for  the  entire  open- 
ing week  if  they  will  gather  up  the  stones  in  the  lot.  They'll  work  like 
grownups  if  you  pick  the  right  sort  of  boys,  and  by  night  you'll  have  a 
fine  pile  of  stones.  Mask  in  the  basin  and  pipe  with  these,  adjust  the  noz- 
zle so  lhat  some  of  the  spray  strikes  the  rocks  and  you'll  have  a  tiny  foun- 
tain that  will  splash  musically.  If  you  want  to  go  to  a  little  more  expense 
'arge  electric  light  back  of  the  fountain  with  a  sheet  of  glass  to  cover 
and  an  electric  or  clockwork  motor  to  revolve  a  color  wheel  and  you  have 
an  electric  fountain  that  can  figure  in  your  advertisements  or  on  the  streets 
outside  of  your  house.  Meantime  you  are  rid  of  the  rocks  and  can  grade 
the  ground  with  greater  ease. 

Spend  a  few  dollars  to  turf  the  vacant  spaces,  set  out  some  flowers, 
gravel  your  walks  or  lay  down  cinders,  give  the  place  the  suggestion  if  not 
the  appearance  of  a  park,  and  you'll  be  surprised  to  note  the  difference  in 
the  calibre  of  your  patronage  if  you  advertise  the  place  right. 

There  is  a  growing  tendency  toward  larger  and  better  photoplay  theaters 
and  this  finds  its  reflection  in  the  airdome  patronage.  The  man  who  is  used 
to  all  the  comforts  of  a  regular  theater  does  not  want  to  spend  his  summer 
evenings  in  a  vacant  lot  sitting  on  the  rough  edge  of  a  plank  seat.  Women 
in  their  light  summer  dresses  do  not  want  to  visit  holes  in  the  wall  and  soil 
their  dainty  garments  on  board  seats  that  have  not  been  touched  since  they 
came  from  the  lumber  yards  a  few  years  ago.  You  may  not  be  able  to  pro- 
vide a  double  set  of  crash  coverings  as  one  manager  does,  hut  you  can 
keep  your  benches  clean.  You  may  even  be  able  to  give  each  adult  patron 
a  sheet  of  clean  wrapping  paper  to  sit  upon.  It's  a  small  matter,  but  you'll 
have  shown  a  willingness  to  provide  what  comforts  you  may  and  if  the  pa- 
per costs  half  a  cent  a  sheet  and  you  draw  a  ten  cent  patron,  the  profit  is 
apparent. 

Be  Attentive. 

Do  things  to  show  your  patrons  that  you  watch  their  comfort.  It  is 
human   nature  to   want  to  be   fussed   over  and  if  you  are  there  with   quiet 


courtesy  to  look  to  the  wants  of  your  audience,  you'll  have  a  proper 
audience  to  watch  over. 

Provide  light  drinks  and  confections,  but  do  not  thrust  them  on  your  un- 
comfortable guests.  If  you  do  not  want  to  run  a  stand  yourself  rent  out 
the  privilege  to  someone  who  will  look  after  things  right.  Perhaps  some 
nearby  confectioner  will  be  willing  to  arrange  for  a  stand  or  serve  cream, 
ices  and  soda  from  the  shop,  employing  small  boy  salesmen.  If  you  permit 
smoking,  reserve  one  side  of  the  house  or  certain  rows  for  the  non-smokers 
and  ladies  with  no  men  escorts.  Keep  room  down  front  for  the  small 
kiddies;  they'll  see  better  ai.u  you'll  ua*e  them  where  you  can  keep  them  in 
better  order. 

And  this  season  cut  out  the  use  of  your  park  a?  a  flirtation  walk.  Keep 
the  young  men  and  women  from  congregating  at  the  rear  of  the  seats  and 
paying  more  attention  to  eath  other  than  to  the  pictures.  You  may  lose 
the  trade  of  a  few.  but  if  you  check  these  tendencies  courteously  and  tact- 
fully you'll  lose  very  few,  and  the  straight  laced  who  regard  with  disap- 
proval the  actions  of  these  half  grown  boys  and  girls  will  add  materially  to 
your  receipts  and  you'll  have  the  young  people,  as  well.  More  than  one 
airdome  scheme  has  failed  to  succeed  because  a  shot1:  lighted  manager  per- 
mitted young  people  to  laugh  and  carry  on  until  the  more  staid  patrons  re- 
mained at  home,  unwilling  to  have  their  entertainment  spoiled  by  shrill 
laughter  and  senseless  remarks.  If  you  are  dependent  on  the  patronage  of 
the   young  people  exclusively  you'll   soon   find  your  place  in   disrepute. 

This  does  not  mean  to  check  every  evidence  of  enjoyment.  Encourage 
laughter  and  applause  for  the  pictures.  There  is  a  difference  between  that 
and  the  "mashing"  to  which  reference  is  made. 

Keep  your  entrance  bright  and  attractive   and   keep   the   crowds   of  small 
boys  away.      No  one  wants  to  push  his  way  through   a  score  of  small  boys 
and  girls  thronged  about  the  entrance  to  listen  to  the  music.     Make 
sible  to  enter  without  obstruction. 

Use  Plenty  of  Paper. 

Use  plenty  of  lithographs  on  the  fence,  but  do  not  merely  paste  them  up. 
Get  moulding  and  make  frames  and  give  a  solid  foundation  to  paste  on. 
Use  good  strong  color  combinations  to  gain  effect,  but  not  so  strong  as  to 
detract  from  the  colors  on  the  posters.  A  white  fence  with  light  blue 
frames  is  effective,  so  is  blue  on  gray.  Red  on  a  rich  brown  is  quiet.  Black 
and  yellow,  red  on  yellow  and  even  purple  on  yellow  will  do,  but  the  yellow 
must  be  of  a  shade  that  will  not  turn  dirty  looking  after  short  exposure  to 
the  weather. 

Keep  your  "coming"  attractions  clearly  labeled,  and  as  soon  as  possible 
the  date  when  the  subject  is  expected.  If  you  can  arrange  for  mov- 
able boards  you  will  serve  the  double  purpose  of  being  able  to  move  the  im- 
mediate offerings  closest  to  the  entrance  and  to  take  them  in  during  thun- 
dershowers  and  overnight,  protecting  them  from  being  washed 
rain  or  defaced  by  the  smalt  boy. 

Don't  use  whitewash  on  the  walls,  particularly  about  the  entrance.  This 
will  rub  off  on  to  the  clothing  in  the  rush  and  the  glaring  white  is  hot  and 
trying  to  the  eye.  If  you  cannot  afford  paint  and  must  have  recourse  to 
whitewash,  tint  it  a  soft  green  or  some  other  glare-absorbing  color,  but 
use   paint    if  you   can   afford   it. 

Arranging  the  Screen. 

Mask  the  screen.  Curtain  effects  are  not  practicable  nor  are  the 
keeping,  but  the  bare  surface  should  be  masked  in.  Oiie  effective  way  would 
be  to  erect  a  trellis  perhaps  three  feet  in  front  of  the  picture.  Cut  an 
opening  three  or  four  feet  larger  than  the  picture  on  the  screen  so  placed 
that  the  audience  can  see  the  picture  from  any  section  of  the  seats.  Bank 
in  the  lower  part  with  box  trees,  or  non-flowering  plants  and  train  creeping 
vines  over  the  trellis.  Ivy  is  excellent  for  this  and  will  last  from  year  to 
year  instead  of  requiring  to  be  renewed  yearly.  This  will  give  you  :t 
frame  of  growing  green,  but  you  can  improve  on  this.  Build  a  shadow  box 
between  the  trellis  and  the  screen.  Paint  the  inside  black;  a  dead  black,  as 
well  as  that  portion  of  the  screen  not  covered  by  the  picture,  and  even  on 
the  brightest  moonlight  night  the  picture  will  be  clear  and  distinct  and  gain 
wonderfully  in  quality.  Run  the  trellis  well  above  the  screen  and  to  each 
side,  as  far  to  the  side  as  you  conveniently  can.  If  you  cannot  run  it 
very  far  over,  build  wings  on  either  side.  This  is  particularly  important  if 
your  screen  is  at  the  end  nearest  your  entrance.  It  will  keep  people  from 
passing  between  the  picture  and  the  seated  audience  and  shut  off  the  dis- 
traction of  the  entering  crowd,  enabling  those  already  in  their  seats  to  view 
the  picture  with  the  least  possible  annoyance  from  the  late  arrivals. 

Seating  Arrangements. 

It  is  not  expedient  to  install  costly  seats,  but  some  sort  )i  J  back  should 
be  provided.  Do  not  save  a  couple  of  dollars  on  the  paint  and  get  pigment 
that  will  peel  and  crack.  Have  the  seats  washed  off  each  afternoon  in 
time  to  be  thoroughly  dry  before  the  doors  are  opened  and  advert: 
fact.  Have  a  big  sign  stating  that  "Our  seats  are  thoroughly  cleaned 
every  day"  and  make  the  "every"  large  enough  to  be  clearly  read.  Per- 
haps you  can  obtain  a  supply  of  the  rush  cushions  that  are  used  on  porches. 
These  you  can  supply  to  the  elder  patrons  or  rent  out  for  a  small  sum.  In 
the  neighborhood  airdome,  if  you  can  arrange  for  the  service,  offer  to 
check  cushions  for  the  regular  patrons.  Provide  shelves  and  let  each  pa* 
tron  who  will  bring  a  cushion  to  suit  his  or  her  fancy.  Take  these  up  after 
the   performance   and  be  ready   to   hand   them   out   quickly   when  the   patron 


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comes.  It  is  an  adaptation  of  the  private  cut  in  the  barber  shop,  but  any- 
thing that  serves  to  give  the  patron  the  idea  of  regularity  of  attendance  will 
prove  beneficial.  Get  out  a  little  circular  or  send  out  postcards  something 
like  this: 

Our  seats  are  comfortable,  but  we  supply  cushions  for  a  moderate 
fee  or  you  can  bring  your  own  around  and  we'll  take  care  of  it  for 
you.     Have  your  own  cushion.     No  charge  for  the  service  and  no 
tip   to   the   attendants.      We'll   take   good   care   of   it   for   you   and 
hold  it  for  your  especial  use. 
Last  year   one   old   gentleman    kept   at   a   certain   airdome   one   of  the   in- 
flated rubber   rings  and  declared  that  he  had  vanquished  his  one  objection 
to  the  open  air  show. 

If  you  do  not  supply  cushions,  get  the  white  or  brown  wrapping  paper 
or  even  paper  towels.  These  last  are  thick  and  inexpensive,  selling  at 
three  rolls  of  one  hundred  each  for  a  dollar.  They  would  be  cheaper  still 
in  quantities.  You  will  have  to  do  something  to  counteract  the  prejudice 
against  the  bare  benches  if  you  want  to  get  the  best  trade  and  you  can  do 
it  with  paper  and  advertising. 

New  Business. 

And  keep  well  in  mind  the  fact  that  the  summer  is  the  best  time  of  all 
to  get  the  new  business.  The  theaters  are  closed,  people  do  not  want  to  go 
trolley  riding  or  to  the  resorts  every  night,  yet  if  they  must  stay  in  town 
they  want  to  be  amused.  Get  a/ter  the  people  who  during  the  winter  spend 
their  money  on  the  dramatic  theaters  and  if  you  give  the  right  sort  of 
performance  you'll  hold  them  after  the  theaters  open  again.  If  you  have 
refreshments  put  chairs  and  tables  at  the  rear  of  the  seats,  perhaps  on  a 
slightly  elevated  platform.  Serve  ices  and  sodas  there.  If  there  is  a 
restaurant  close  at  hand  arrange  to  serve  sandwiches  and  cold  cuts.  It 
will  cost  you  nothing  save  the  hire  of  a  boy  to  run  between  the  restaurant 
and  your  place,  and  many  men  and  women  who  are  too  hot  and  tired  to  eat 
the  heavy  dinner  at  six  will  appreciate  a  bite  as  they  watch  the  pictures. 
There'll  be  plenty  light  enough  to  see,  and  yet,  if  you  use  a  shadow  box  the 
picture  will  be  brilliant. 

Make  your  place  so  attractive  and  convenient  that  the  business  man  will 
prefer  the  airdome  to  the  roof  garden.  If  you  can,  provide  parking  space 
for  automobiles,  but  avoid  the  noisy  automobile  parties.  Fight  all  forms 
of  summer  amusement  not  violently  but  tactfully.  Get  after  the  automo- 
bilist  with  some  catchline  like  "Don't  bump  over  dusty  roads.  Come  to  the 
Rex  Airdome.  Just  as  much  breeze,  greater  comfort  and  splendid  pictures. 
Try  it  once.  You'll  not  regret  it."  For  the  man  who  seeks  the  roof- 
garden  say,  "Why  go  downtown.  You  can  drop  around  the  corner  to  the 
Rex  Airdome.  There's  a  bite  to  eat,  light  drinks  and  a  splendid  program. 
Save  time,  save  discomfort.     Save  money." 

Each  class  can  be  reached  with  some  such  appeal  and  if  you  keep  the  cir- 
culars going  out  you'll  get  them  in. 

Free  Tickets. 

Send  well-printed  invitations  to  a  selected  list  of  addresses,  to  people 
whom  you  know  are  not  likely  to  come  without  solicitation.  Tell  them 
you'll  appreciate  it  if  they'll  be  your  guest  some  evening.  Meet  such 
tickets  at  the  door,  see  that  the  holders  are  well  seated,  are  made  acquainted 
with  all  the  comforts  provided  and  made  to  feel  at  home.  All  of  this  can 
be  done  nicely  and  without  familiarity.  Be  courteous  but  not  too  effusive, 
and  once  they  are  seated  do  not  bother  them  again  unless  you  can  re- 
member their  faces  and  greet  them  as  they  pass  out  with  a  courteous  in- 
quiry as  to  whether  they  enjoyed  their  visit.  If  you  can  learn  of  the  men 
who  stay  at  home  while  their  families  go  to  the  country  make  a  bid  for 
them.  They  are  liable  to  drop*  in  several  evenings  a  week  and  perhaps 
they'll  bring  the  family  around  just  before  the  season  ends.  If  you  have  a 
winter  house  you'll  find  them  there,  for  if  you  use  the  right  sort  of  pro- 
giam,  you'll  make  fans  of  the  men  and  \  'men  you  would  least  expect 
to  get. 

Be  sparing  with  your  ticket  distribution.  Do  not  get  the  tickets  all  over 
your  locality.  Make  them  something  valued  because  not  every  man,  woman 
and  child  has  a  pocket  full.  You  have  no  matinees.,  so  make  the  night 
es  represent  as  much  money  as  possible. 

Rain  Protection. 

It  you  can  manage  it,  have  awnings;  not  tiny  strips  of  canvas  but  ample 
rain  protection.  It  is  best,  unless  the  seating  space  is  narrow,  to  have  a 
ridge  pole  run  down  the  center  aisle  and  drop  on  either  side.  If  the  space 
is  narrow  and  deep  have  but  one  cloth  with  the  slant  away  from  the  direc- 
tion in  which  rain  is  most  likely  to  be  expected  and  a  straight  drop  on 
each  side. 

Whatever  protection  you  have,  have  it  planned  to  be  brought  into  opera- 
tion quickly.  Have  regular  awning  drills  with  each  man  trained  to  drop 
his  cloth  in  the  shortest  possible  time.  One  park  has  the  awning  so  tricked 
that  the  cutting  of  a  single  rope  drops  the  entire  system.  The  regular 
rigging  is  used  to  raise  the  awning  later.  Put  there  is  just  one  movement 
to  get  the  curtains  down.  It's  the  first  few  seconds  that  count.  If  a 
woman  gets  her  dress  spattered,  she  doesn't  care  how  dry  she  may  be  kept 
after   that;    the   damage   has   been   done. 

As  part  of  the  rain  protection  see  that  the  ground  is  such  that  it  drains 
quickly.  If  local  regulations  do  not  require  board  flooring,  use  cinders  and 
so  ditch  the  sides  that  the  surface  water  from  outside  cannot  be  brought 
into  the  seating  space.  Give  the  people  confidence  in  your  ability  to  pro-, 
tect  them  from  the  weather  and  it  may  mean  ten  dollars  or  more  each 
threatening  night. 

Do  Your  Very  Best. 

Don't  get  the  idea  that  because  you  run  only  three  or  four  months  a 
year  that  any  old  thing  will  do  for  an  airdome.  If  you  have  a  regular 
theater  you  can  make  business  for  the  long  winter  season.  If  you  have  no 
covered  house  you  may  be  paving  the  way  toward  that  end.  If  you  have 
proven  your  ability  to  conduct  an  airdome  proj.'erly,  you'll  find  it  much 
easier  to  get  capital  when  you  look  for  it  for  the  erection  of  a  regular 
theater.  You  may  even  build  on  that  lot  and  put  a  roof-garden  airdome  on 
top  for  the  next  summer. 

In  advertising  you  must  work  quickly  and  effectively.     Get  into  the  g:unc: 


on  the  jump  and  get  all  there  is  in  it.  You  cannot  run  a  long  campaign 
as  you  would  with  a  winter  house.  You  must  strike  quickly  and  6harply. 
Do  not  trust  too  much  to  the  regulars.  Lots  of  your  regulars  are  away  and 
you  must  get  in  those  that  are  left  and  the  stranger  within  your  gates  as 
well.  Get  after  the  man  you  haven't  got  and  you'll  have  two  where  you 
had  one.  Put  pepper  in  your  catchlines  and  play  up  comfort,  coolness,  con- 
venience and  cleanliness.  Here  are  some  suggested  catch  lines  that  will 
suggest  the  rest  of  the  appeal. 

Keep  cool,  we'll  show  you  how. 

Bring  your   overcoat — you'll   need   it. 

Don't  sweat — shiver.     We  can  explain. 

Come  to  the  North  Pole — it's  right  around  the  corner. 

You  don't  need  a  fan.     We'h  supply  the  breeze. 

Go  to  the  seashore  if  you  can; 

If  you  can't,  come  to  the  Rex  and  cool  off. 

Don't  sit  on  the  steps  all  evening. 

We  know  it's  hot,  but  we  know  where  it's  cool. 

Please  Don't. 

Please  don't  run  into  that  "Is  it  hot  enough  for  you?"  style  of  adver- 
tising. Advertise  the  coolness;  not  the  heat.  Don't  rub  it  in  by  such 
irritating  suggestion.  Speak  of  the  comfort  to  be  had,  not  the  discomforts 
endured.  You  get  the  same  effect  indirectly,  but  you  do  riot  collect  a  herd 
of  goats  at  the  same  time.  A  man  will  catch  more  quickly  at  the  suggestion 
of  cool  spots  than  at  the  bald  statement  that  it's  hot. 

(let  away  from  the  idea  that  only  the  cheap  people  can  be  coaxed  into 
your  place.  Make  it  the  sort  of  place  that  will  appeal  to  those  used  to 
luxury  and  they  will  come,  too,  to  swell  the  crowd.  All  work  along  this 
line  will  appeal  to  your  present  patrons  and  if  you  get  after  the  men  who 
think  two  dollars  not  much  for  a  seat  at  the  theater,  you'll  get  the  regular 
spenders.  Save  in  the  poorest  localities  the  five  cent  show  should  be 
di-'ipied  for  the  summer.  Charge  ten  cents  and  give  at  least  a  ten  cent 
show.  Build  up  with  specials,  play  for  extra  attractions,  but  keep  the 
price  up.  You  can  get  it,  and  perhaps  when  you  go  under  cover  again  in 
the  winter  you  can  still  get  the  dime  ins  -ad  of  the  nickel. 

In  many  localities  you'll  find  that  you  can  erect  boxes  at  the  sides  of 
the  regular  seats  and  get  twenty-five  cents  for  seats  as  easily  as  you  can 
ten.  Lots  of  people  would  come  if  the  prices  were  higher.  They  do  not 
want  to  sit  with  the  ten  cent  people.  This  is  snobbish,  but  it's  human 
nature  and  you're  in  the  amusement  business  not  to  educate  snobs  but  to 
cater  to  them  if  you  can  make  it  profitable  without  offending  the  other 
patrons.  Try  some  sort  of  box  scheme  this  summer  and  see  how  it  works. 
In  most  places  where  it  has  been  tried  it  works  splendidly. 

Photographs. 

In  the  next  few  weeks  we  shall  be  particularly  glad  to  receive  photo- 
graphs of  airdomes  that  are  out  of  the  ordinary  and  airdome  advertising  of 

all  sorts.     Let's  have  your  schemes  and  we'll  pass  along  to  you  the  schemes 
the  other  managers  send  in. 

Has  a  Booklet    - 

Here  is  a  letter  from  W.  S.  McLaren,  of  the  Princess  Theater,  Chelsea, 
Michigan.     He  says: 

Inclosed  you  will  find  our  first  "booklet,"  which  we  have  dis- 
tributed from  house  to  house  and  mailed  to  our  country  patrons. 
We  trust  that  you  will  not  call  us  too  hard  on  our  maiden  effort. 
as  it  was  gotten  out  in  a  hurry.  We  expect  to  issue  them  every 
two  weeks,  giving  our  Tuesday,  Wednesday  and  Thursday  pro- 
gram, but  not  our  Saturday  program,  as  we  do  not  get  advance 
bookings  on  films  except  features.  *Ve  are  running  only  four 
nights  each  week  now,  on  account  of  local  conditions,  our  leading 
factory  having  failed. 

We  note  what  you  say  in  your  last  issue  regarding  "hanging  a 
poster  in  the  window  of  the  corner  grocery."  We  think  we  have  a 
better  one  than  that  for  small  towns.  We  have  two  "A"  boards, 
painted  black,  with  a  removable  front  (many  fine  wires  drawn 
tight  across,  instead  of  glass,  which  hold  poster  in  place),  which 
we  set  out  on  principal  corners  about  town,  changing  location  of 
them  each  day.  We  tried  putting  posters  in  windows,  but  find 
that  "A"  board  puts  the  poster  "right  in  the  person's  eye"  and 
is  much  better.  We  have  a  small  snipe  reading  Princess — Tuesday. 
etc.,  which  we  fasten  on  poster  and  we  find  it's  great  advertising. 
We  use  three  posters  in  front  of  theater  and  four  in  "A"  boards 
on  each  feature. 

It  might  be  of  interest  to  you  to  know  that  we  conducted  a 
voting  contest  as  to  whether  our  patrons  wanted  the  illustrated 
song  continued.  They  voted  it  down  j  to  i,  and  voted  for  multiple 
reel    pictures   over   single    reels   4   to    1. 

The  booklet  is  small,  even  for  its  age,  but  it's  a  step  in  the  right  direc- 
tion and  we  hope  that  the  success  of  the  scheme  will  lead  to  longer 
strides  along  the  same  path.  Most  managers  know  what  an  "A"  board  is, 
if  they  do  not  they  can  look  at  the  letter  and  understand  that  the  two  sides 
of  the  "A"  each  carry  a  poster,  the  cross  bar  keeping  the  lower  ends  from 
stretching  apart. 

We  think  that  most  audiences  would  vote  against  the  illustrated  song  if 
they  were  given  opportunity  and  would  vote  for  the  multiple  reel  for  the 
reason  that  the  additional  footage  permits  the  story  to  be  told  intelligently 
and  intelligibly. 

The  booklet  gives  the  leader  for  each  of  three  performances  for  two 
weeks,  the  back  page  being  given  to  chatty  paragraphs  and  humor,  the 
most  markedly  humorous  paragraph  being  to  the  effect  that  Maurice  Cos- 
tello  has  two  children,  a  boy  and  a  girl.  The  paragraph  does  not  state 
whether  Helen  or  Dolores  is  the  boy.  To  induce  a  reading  of  the  program 
a  prize  of  ten  tickets  is  offered  the  person  sending  in  the  longest  list  of 
misspelled  words.  A  good  catchline  on  the  front  is  "keep  me,  and  keep 
posted." 

We  think  something  more  attractive  than  a  line  cut  of  a  projection  ma- 
chine could  be  used  on  the  front  page  in  subsequent  issues. 


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The  Dinner. 

REMEMBER  that  it  is  not  so  long  before  May  31  conies  along  and 
you'll  be  sorry  if  before  then  you  do  not  get  a  ticket  to  the  third 
dinner  of  the  photoplay  writers,  this  time  given  under  the  auspices  of 
the  Inquest  Club.  It  is  not  intended  to  send  out  invitations.  This  is  a 
personal  invitation  to  you.  George  Hennessy,  Benjamin  Barondess  and  the 
editor  of  this  department  are  the  committee.  Requests  for  tickets  may  be 
addressed   to  either   of  the   three. 

When  Sending  to  Edison. 

\7hen  you  send  stories  to  the  Edison  Company  send  them  to  the  Thomas 
A.  Edison,  Inc.,  2826  Decatur  Avenue.  Bedford  Park.  New  York  City.  If, 
for  any  particular  reason  you  desire  them  sent  to  Bannister  Merwin,  they 
should  be  sent  to  England,  but  if  yon  are  sending  them  to  Edison  do  not 
send  them  to  Mr.  Merwin,  who  is  a  regular  contributor  to  the  Edison  prod- 
uct, but  who  is  no  more  than  a  contributor,  differing  from  you  only  in  that 
he  sells  more  of  his  product  to  that  company. 

It  is  the  height  of  asininity  to  address  your  scripts  to  the  editpr  or  other 
official  of  any  company  unless  you  are  personally  acquainted  with  the  indi- 
vidual addressed.  Only  the  very  young  writers  still  suppose  that*  to  address 
the  editor  direct  is  to  stand  a  better  chance  of  quick  action  and  profitable 
sale.  If  you  still  cling  to  this  moth-eaten  tradition,  drop  it.  Address  the 
Manuscript  Department  of  the  company  and  your  story  will  receive  pre- 
cisely the  same  treatment  as  though  it  were  addressed  to  Jones  or  Smith  or 
Brown  personally.  We  know  one  writer  who  persistently  addressed  the 
Reliance's  office  boy  in  the  fond  belief  that  he  was  getting  on  the  inside 
with  the  editor. 

And  we  may  as  well  retreat  what  we  have  said  before.  Edison  has  no 
editor  of  photoplays.  The  system  followed  there  is  different  from  that 
obtaining  in  other  studios. 

And  just  remember  that  Bannister  Merwin  has  been  in  England  almost  a 
year  now.  It  is  just  as  intelligent  to  send  Edison  scripts  to  him  as  it  is 
to  send  them  to  President  Wilson  or  Mrs.  Pankhurst. 


For  Editors. 

A  Los  Argeles  correspondent  makes  a  valuable  suggestion  to  editors.  He 
sends  in  a  clipping  of  a  Kinemacolor  story  that  is  very  much  like  one  he 
wrote  himself  and  submitted  to  that  company.  He  is  willing  to  admit  that 
it  is  quite  likely  that  the  editors  had  their  own  story  in  hand  when  his  was 
submitted,  but  suggests  that  in  such  a  case  they  add  to  the  formal  rejec- 
tion sheet  the  statement  that  they  are  already  working  on  a  similar  script. 
■We  think  that  with  the  experienced  Dougherty  on  the  editorial  desk  there 
will  be  no  Kinemacolor  complaints,  but  the  suggestion  is  one  that  all 
editors  should  study  as  it  so  frequently  happens  that  a  story  is  received 
very  much  like  one  already  accepted.  The  story  in 'question  follows  such 
obvious  lines  that  it  is  in  a  class  with  at  least  fifty  that  we  have  examined 
ourselves,  but  that  doesn't  take  the  sting  out  of  the  discovery  that  it  is  too 
late  and  the  word  as  to  production  already  in  hand  will  do  much  to  create 
a  better  feeling. 


If  You  Live  in  St.  Louis. 

If  you  live  in  St.  Louis  send  in  your  name  and  address  if  you  want  to 
help  form  a  circle.  A  practical  photoplay  writer  wants  to  get  in  touch 
with  his  kind. 


Regulating  the  Director. 

We  are  glad  to  note  a  tendency  to  direct  the  activities  of  the  director. 
It  lias  been  a  long  time  coming,  but  presently  we  shall  see  the  director 
lifted  from  his  present  dictatorial  position  and  the  man  who  carries  the 
scripts  around  with  him  to  "fix  up"  and  turns  them  back  a  couple  of 
months  later,  black,  crumpled  and  utterly  ruined  for  further  service  is 
going  to  find  that  the  old  oruer  changeth. 

Here  is  an  extract  from  a  letter  from  a  well-known  author: 

In  the  interest  of  photoplay  writers,  generally,  let  me  ask  you 
what  chance  you  see  ior  a  more  deliberate  production  of  photo- 
plays, and  therefore  better  opportunity  for  the  author  to  keep 
his  finger  on  the  interpretation  of  his  work.  The  question  is  one 
that  will  have  to  be  answered  sooner  or  later  if  the  writing  of 
photoplays  is  to  become  an  art. 

And  along  the  same  lines  comes  this  other  comment  from  a  man  who 
proves  that  several  times  he  has  been  blamed  in  criticism  for  matters  that 
are  entirely  foreign  to  his  script,  the  interpolations  of  the  director  who 
put  the   story  on.     He  says  in  part: 

Producers  do  as  well  as  they  can;  but  no  matter  how  carefully 
you  may  work  out  a  script,  they  are  bound  to  make  changes  unless 
you  are  there  to  argue  the  matter  with  them.  In  many  cases  I  have 
been  staying  away  from  the  picture  theaters  simply  to  avoid  the 
heart-breaking  experience  of  seeing  something  which  is  supposed  to 
be  my  own.  Of  course  changes  are  inevitable  in  production,  but 
the  changes  should  be  in  accordance  with  a  correct  interpretation 
of  the  story. 


We  think  that  we  were  the  first  to  point  out  the  proper  relation  of 
author,  editor  and  producer  and  we  are  glad  to  see  others  coming  to  our 
way  of  thinking.  In  a  recent  issue  our  own  Louis  Reeves  Harrison  wrote 
in  his  forceful  style  of  the  evil,  but  at  that  he  only  scratched  the  surface. 

Of  course  there  are  directors  and  directors,  but  the  function  of  the  di* 
rector  should  be  to  realize  the  author's  ideas.  He  should  be  contented 
with  that  function,  for  it  is  not  often  that  he  possesses  the  selective  as  well 
as  the  reproductive  faculty.  He  is  a  producer,  a  realizer,  but  he  is  not 
and  cannot  well  be,  by  the  very  nature  of  his  work,  a  competent  appraiser 
of  the  work  of  the  others. 

The  argument  is  simple.  The  director  is  the  stage  manager.  He  looks 
for  the  dramatic  points,  he  brings  out  the  dramatic  value  of  situation  and 
incident.  He  seeks  for  this  and  for  this  alone.  But  below  the  situation 
and  incident  must  lie  the  soul  of  the  story,  the  literary  quality,  if  you  will. 
in  contrast  to  the  dramatic  values.  This  the  director,  trained  to  expres- 
sion through  voice  and  motion,  does  not  and  canno*  see.  It  does  not  fol- 
low that  because  he  can  put  into  vivid  action  the  ideas  of  the  author,  that 
he  can  as  surely  reach  the  author's  ideas.  To  argue  that  would  be  to 
argue  that  the  man  who  builds  a  house  is  as  competent  to  design  one  as 
the  architect  who  gives  him  the  plans.  It  may  be  that  he  can  design  a 
house,  but  in  the  very  nature  of  things  he  is  apt  to  go  on  designing  the 
sort  of  houses  he  has  built  instead  of  looking  for  new  ideas.  That  house 
he  has  erected  is  a  thorough  job.  He  will  build  another  like  it  and  so 
make  as  good  a  job.  Meantime  the  architect  studies  and  plans.  He  pro- 
duces a  structure  as  fine,  as  substantial,  but  wholly  different.  He  has 
made  a  study  of  designing.  He  has  done  nothing  else.  It  is  his  specialty. 
It  is  his   work. 

Story  planning  should  be  the  work  of  the  author;  story  building,  the 
erecting  of  the  plan  into  the  substantial  structure  of  the  photoplay,  is  the 
work  of  the  director,  but  between  there  comes  the  editor,  a  man  specially 
trained  to  realize  the  work  of  the  story  planner  and  the  story  builder. 
He  stands  a  middleman,  controlling  the  practical  ideas  of  the  producer  and 
the  fancy  of  the  writer,  the  connecting  link  between  the  dreamer  and  the 
realist.  He  can  see  the  .literary  quality  of  the  author  and  the  dramatic 
practicability  of  the  producer  and  if  he  knows  his  business  he  can  so  work 
that  the  best  efforts  of  author  and  producer  are  united  in  the  perfect  pro- 
duction. He  knows  dramatic  work  and  he  knows  the  art  of  writing.  He 
combines  the  two  into  a  perfect  whole,  but  he  can  do  this  only  where  he 
can  control  both  the  source  and  the  outlet,  when  he  can  restrain  the  director 
or  spur  him  on  as  the  case  may  need.  He  has  the  literary  sense  of  the 
writer  tempered  by  the  knowledge  of  studio  needs.  Given  proper  authority 
and  himself  well  qualified,  he  can  pass  the  story  to  the  director  in  such  a 
form  that  adherence  to  the  script  will  produce  a  perfect  play  in  competent 
hards. 

But  it  so  seldom  that  he  has  this  authority  that  the  studios  where  the 
system  prevails  may  be  counted  upon  the  fingers  of  one  hand.  As  a  rule 
the  director  does  precisely  as  he  pleases  with  a  script.  If  he  is  told  to 
make  a  story,  no  matter  how  carefully  the  story  may  have  been  worked 
out  for  him,  he  twists  and  tortures  it  into  precisely  the  same  sort  of  story 
he  made  last  time  and  the  sort  of  story  he  will  make  next  when  this  is  done. 
He  makes  four  of  two  and  two,  but  he  also  makes  four  of  six  and  three, 
of  seven  and  nine,  of  whatever  sum  he  is  given.  No  matter  what  the 
script  may  be  at  the  start,  he  reduces  it  to  the  dead  level  of  his  own  im- 
agination on  the  plea  that  he  cannot  produce  what  does  not  appeal  to  him 
and  must  be  permitted  to  change  the  script  until  this  appeal  is  created. 

That  this  is  wrong,  that  it  is  an  injustice  to  author,  editor  and  manu- 
facturer alike  is  apparent  to  any  thinking  mind.  It  is  unjust  to  the 
author  because  his  creation  is  made  commonplace,  to  the  editor  because 
his  care  is  wasted  and  he  is  blamed  for  the  faults  of  the  producer,  but 
most  of  all  it  is  unjust  to  the  manufacturer  because  the  artistic  value  of 
his  product  is  destroyed.  No  matter  how  good  may  be  the  stories  that  are 
purchased,  the  studio  product  of  this  week  is  the  same  as  that  of  last  week, 
of  last  month,  perhaps  of  last  year,  and  all  because  a  man  in  the  manu- 
facturer's employ  proclaims  himself  to  be  superior  to  all  rules  of  business 
usage. 

We  think  we  can  reply  to  our  first  correspondent  that  the  dawning  of 
a  new  day  is  at  hand.  Already  we  hear  whispers  of  changes  in  the  rela- 
tions between  the  studio  and  the  editorial  office.  To  put  it  into  the  useful 
slang  of  the  day,  the  manufacturer  is  "getting  wise"  to  an  abuse  too  long 
continued.  He  is  learning  that  the  creative,  the  selective  and  the  produc- 
ing faculties  are  seldom  united  in  a  single  person  and  the  day  of  the  know- 
it-all  director  is  drawing  to  the  dusk.  Once  more  the  quaint  philosophy  of 
Lincoln  is  being  realized.  You  cannot  fool  all  of  the  people  all  of  the  time. 
The  next  six  months  will  see  great  changes  in  studio  affairs — changes  for 
the  better. 

Writing  and  Selling. 

You  can  write  stories,  but  can  you  write  stories  that  sell?  If  you  can 
write  stories  that  will  sell,  can  you  sell  them?  You  say  you  can,  but  can 
you?  Is  it  your  fault  that  the  last  script  came  back,  or  is  it  due  to  the 
thick  headedness  of  the  editor  who  utterly  fails  to  recognize  true  merit  when 
he  sees  it? 

We  have  been  watching  with  interest  the  selling  schemes  of  a  recent  addi- 
tion to  the  ranks  of  those  who  get  their  stuff  accepted..  He  found  a  new 
market  and  was  paid  pretty  good  money  for  a  half-reel  idea.  Now  instead 
of  waiting  until  he  conceived  another  idea  as  good,  he  started  right  in  to 
write  a  half-reel  comedy  a  day  and  shoot  them  over  to  the  obliging  editor 
as  soon  as  they  were  written.  The  first  story  got  back  just  one  day  ahead 
of  the  eighth,  for  by  that  time  the  editor  was  beginning  to  sit  up  and  take 
notice,  and  in  self-defense  he  sent  the  stuff  right  back.  In  self-defense, 
because,  being  a  wise  editor,  he  knew  that  he  would  get  one  poor  script  a 
day  until  something  of  that  sort  was  done.  The  writer  had  found  a  new 
market   and   was   proceeding  to  overwork   it. 

In  the  same  way  he  sold  a  drama  of  a  rather  unusual  character.  There 
was  a  touch  of  mysticism  that  redeemed  a  commonplace  foundation.  The 
story  sold  promptly,  but  the  next  eleven  did  not.  They  all  came  back 
home,  the  first  at  the  end  of  the  week,  the  second  the  day  after  it  was 
mailed. 

Not  discouraged,  he  tried  another  tack.  A  story  with  some  trick  work 
found  favor.     For  the  next  ten  days  every  idea  that  came   to  him  was  tor- 


374 


THE    MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


lured  into  a  trick  play,  until  the  editor  called  a  halt  and  explained  that  he 
wanted  a    little   variety   to   the   subjects   put    out    by   his   company. 

A  melodrama  with  plenty  of  drama  and  not  very  much  crime  was  the 
next  seller,  and  immediately  the  typewriter  streamed  gore.  If  the  mild 
melodrama  was  a  hit,  a  "powerful"  one  would  probably  be  a  better  seller, 
and  so  the  butchery  began  and  continued  until  the  second  story  written 
came  back  with  a  reminder  that  there  was  a  Board  of  Censorship  waiting 
fur   such   stuff  with  an   axe. 

All  of  this  sounds  like  a  purely  imaginary  story,  but  it  isn't.  The  young 
writer  merely  did  with  enthusiasm  what  hundreds  of  others  do  more  tem- 
perately. He  simply  went  ahead  and  spoiled  four  perfectly  good  markets, 
and  he  differed  from  the  others  only  that  he  accomplished  his  ruination 
more  quickly  than  the  others  because   he  works  more  rapidly. 

Don't  imagine  that  because  you  manage  to  land  a  story  of  a  certain 
sort  with  an  editor  any  story  of  the  same  general  character  will  sell.  And 
don't   .jumbard   any  editor   with  a  script  a  uay    ui  ditor    a-k-   you  to. 

Most  editors  bave  "lmgs,"  and  if  you  feed  the  bug  you  can  land  stuff 
with  him,  but  even  a  "bug"  can  die  from  overfeeding.  We  made  the 
pleasant  discovery  once  that  the  editor  of  the  Sunday  section  of  one  of 
the  New  York  papers  would  take  any  story  about  an  odd  room.  Before 
we  gave  up  writing  "Sunday  stuff"  we  had  written  up  about  fifty  odd 
rooms,  but  it  took  us  three  years  to  get  rid  of  them,  because  we  knew 
that  if  we  gave  him  his  choice  of  three  or  four  rooms  a  week  he  would 
soon  tire  of  them.  We  nursed  it  along,  and  just  the  other  day  he  told  us 
that  he  wished  we  could  tell  him  about  some  more  odd  rooms  we  have 
seen.  lie  didn't  even  realize  that  he  had  the  "bug,"  and  no  one  else 
seemed  to  see  it,  so  we  had  a  monopoly  simply  because  we  did  not  over- 
work   it. 

It's  the  same  way  with  an  editor  or  producer.  Find  out  what  he  likes, 
if  you  can,  and  then  do  not  overwork  the  discovery.  Nurse  it  along,  but 
when  you  get  a  really  good  editor,  send  him  only  your  best  work.  Get 
him  in  the  habit  of  thinking  that  it  must  be  good  if  it  comes  from  you. 
Now  and  then  give  him  a  story  that  he  can  reject,  because  he'll  feel 
there  is  something  wrong  if  he  takes  everything  you  send  in.  Let  him 
send  back   one  in   four  or  five. 

That  comes,  of  course,  after  you've  gotten  in  right,  but  the  more  im- 
portant matter  is  getting  in  right.  Look  over  the  stories  on  the  screen. 
Study  the  production  of  the  companies  through  the  printed  synopses. 
Select  the  companies  whose  style  of  production  comes  closest  to  the  story 
you  write  best.  Send  all  your  good  stuff  along  these  lines  to  that 
studio  first.  Do  not  be  in  too  much  of  a  hurry  to  get  in  touch  with  the 
editor.  Do  not  try  to  force  h,is  friendship,  but  be  content  if  gradually  he 
sits  up  and  takes  notice  to  the  extent  of  adding  a  personal  line  or  two 
to  the  printed  form.  Thank  him  briefly  and  not  too  profusely  for  his  hint 
and  show  that  you  are  appreciative  by  trying  to  follow  his  suggestions. 
Later  on  he  will  grow  more  friendly  and  you  can  change  the  tone  of  your 
letters  to  correspond,  but  if  you  are  in  too  much  of  a  hurry  to  "get  next" 
you'll  spoil  your  chances  of  a  market  there  and  get  your  stuff  declined 
with    distressing    regularity. 

When  you  do  establish  a  friendship  do  not  abuse  it.  Because  he  is 
friendly  is  no  r?ason  why  you  should  ask  him  to  read  three  or  four  stories 
k  or  why  you  should  expect  him  to  keep  buying  all  your  stuff.  Vary 
your  product  as  much  as  is  possible  within  the  lines  followed  by  the  com- 
pany.    Show   that  you  have  more  than  one  style  of  plot. 

The  nicer  an  editor  is  to  you,  the  nicer  you  should  be  to  him,  but  its  the 
other  way  around  with  most  writers,  and  the  moment  an  editor  shows  a 
disposition  to  be  nice  to  an  author  he  is  flooded  with  the  accumulation  of 
months  or  years  of  rejected  scripts  and  all  sorts  of  fantastic  travesties  of 
the    ideas   he    really    wants. 

It  doesn't  pay  to  write  only  a  single  style  of  script  because  you  have 
found  an  easy  market  for  a  couple  of  the  sort.  That  is  just  the  reason  why 
the  market  will  be  hard.  Stick  to  a  general  style,  if  you  will,  but  do  not 
overwork  a  good  idea  the  moment  you  get  it,  do  not  bother  your  pet  editor 
and  do  not  lay  all  your  eggs  in  one  basket  unless  you  are  pretty  certain 
that    someone   is  not  going  to  steal   the   basket   from   you    some    day. 

There  is  as  much  in  selling  a  play  as  in  being  able  to  write  one.  Some- 
time*   there  is  more. 


like    to    see    the    correspondent's   affidavit    that    peopi' 

cannot    write    stories      We    know-    of    a    number    of   scrap  could 

show   him.     It  is  more  or  less  to  laugh. 


Well,  Well,  Well! 

We  are  indebted  to  George  W.  Terwilliger  for  digging  out  of  the  New 
York  Time;  this  little  gem  of  a  wail  from  a  correspondent  of  that  paper. 
It  runs: 

Frequently  within  the  last  two  or  three  years  literary  friends  of 
mine,  including  book  and  play  writers,  have  complained  to  me,  more 
or  less  good  naturedly,  of  their  poor  luck  in  selling  a  photoplay  to 
any  of  the  purchasers  of  such  material.  I  knew  they  were  capable 
writers,  successful  writers  in  their  own  field,  and  I  wondered  a 
little  that  they  had  not  landed,  knowing  that  the  film  firms  were  de- 
manding material  constantly.  During  the  past  week  I  have  been  to 
see  a  few  of  the  moving  picture  melodramas  shown  on  Broadway, 
and  now  I  know  why  they  did  not.  I  also  know,  and  am  willing  to 
make  affidavit  to  it,  that  any  one  who  is  capable  of  writing  a  photo- 
play is  not  capable  of  writing  anything  else,  unless  it  is  a  check, 
which  I  understand  some  of  them  can  do  quite  successfully. 

Nobody  knows  until  he  has  had  a  night  of  moving  picture  melo- 
drama what  a  photoplay  manager  and  a  photoplay  writer  can  do 
with  a  s-and-io-cent  public.  Then  he  doesn't  know  which  of  the 
three  to  be   sorriest   for. 

The  reason  that  "book  and  play  writers"  cannot  sell  their  scripts  i? 
because  they  cannot  write  practical  photoplays.  If  we  wanted  to  disclose 
confidences  we  could  tell  this  disgruntled  person  the  names  of  half  a  dozen 
authors  of  distinction  who  market  their  .wares  under  another  name  and  a 
half  hundred  who  would  be  only  to  glad  to  do-  so,  if  they  could  write  pro- 
ducible stuff.  Some  photoplay  writers,  it  is  true,  cannot  write  magazine 
stories,  but  most  of  them  can  and  do  not,  because  photoplay  returns  so 
much  more  money  for  the  time  invested.  We  gave  up  magazine  work  a 
year  ago,  because  we  could  get  as  much  for  an  hour's  work  at  photoplay 
as  we  could  for  a  story  that  would  take  us  six  or  seven  hours.     We  would 


Has  a  "Plugger." 

A  correspondent  writes  that  one  of  the   Denver  photoplay   fak 
a    plugger    who    "drops    in"    whenever    a    prospect    shows    up    and    wai 
know   if   the  alleged  sales  bureau   has   sold    any   of  his   scripts   lately.      The 
head  of  the  concern  joyously  responds  that  he  sold  all   three  for  S75  ea:  •. 
then    generally    collects   a    fee    from    the    prospect.      Sime    of    these    schools 
and   sales  bureaus   are   doing  coarse   work. 

One  of  the  Los  Angeles  exchanges  is  said  to  be  running  a  scho' 
the  side."  It's  funny  that  the  supply  of  dupes  la-ts  so  long,  but  t. 
literary   ability  required"   is  a  tempting  bait. 


Cutting  it  Down. 

Now  comes  a  Chicago  "college"  to  offer  its  course  for  $5.  instead  "i 
the  usual  ten.  The  excuse  is  that  the  pupil  will  act  as  "agent"  for  thr 
college.  The  agent  does  not  have  to  promise  to  sel.  any  courses.  All  tha' 
is  required  is  that  he  tell  his  friends  about  it.     The  letter   runs  on: 

You    will    probably   be    surprised    to    learn    from    these    letters 
simple,   how   interesting,  how  enjoyable  writing  photoplays  becomes 
after  having  finished  OUR   COLRSE.      And  you  will  be  more 
prised  to  learn  how  easy  our  students  have   found  it  to  dispose  of 
their  plays,   when   they   made  it  known   to   the   film   companies   that 
they  were   graduates   of   our  college. 

Just   about   the   easiest   way   to  'get   in   had   with   the    film  -   is    i- 

tell  that  you  grauuated  from  a  course  at  a  college. 


Inquiries. 


NOTE — No  questions  can  be  replied  to  by  mail.  Look  for  your  answers 
here.  A  list  of  addresses  to  which  photoplays  may  be  sent  will  be  mailed 
on  receipt  of  a  STAMPED  AND  ADDRESSED  ENVELOPE. 

A.  B.  D. — Use  No.  10  and  No.  11  envelopes  and  twenty-pound  paper.  Yonr 
question  will  be  more  fully  answered  in  this  or  an  early  photoplaywright 
department. 

A.  S.  H. — Write  the  company  for  release  date  and  final  title.  We  do  Dot 
find   that   title. 

CYNTHIA — We  ilo  not  place  the  Butler.  Henry  Walthall  is  the  player 
you  ask    for  in    "Oil    and    Water."     Miss    Clair   McDowell    was    the   mother   in 

'A    Father's    Lesaon,"    and    Miss    Kathlyn    Williams   in    "A   Little    Child 
Lead    Them."      Wheeler    Oak  man    was    the    cobbler's    son    in    "The    Flaming 
Forge." 

CHAS.  L. — Miss  Marguerite  Snow  was  the  Forest  Rose  in  ThanhoiK 
that  title.     She  seems  still  to  be  with  the  company. 

A.     D. — Miss     Margarita     Fischer     was     the     Frenchwoman     in      "The 
Ganton  Mystery."     The  Answers  Man  has  no  opinion  as  to  the  merit-  0 
player.     Universal    handles    srripts    promptly    now    unless    they    are    held 
consideration. 

J.  M.  D. — If  yon  have  had  stage  experience  you  might  apply  in  pen 
the  studios  for  work  as  an  extra,  gradually  working  in.  It's  a  slow  pi 
at  best.     It  does  little  or  no  good  to  write. 

J.  C. — Company  not  In  market  for  outside  scripts. 

RUBENA — Miss   Lillian   I.o^an  was  the  detective's   sweetheart   in    "Feci 

CAMERA — Write  the  Crouse  College  of  Fine  Arts.  Syracuse  Unu- 
Syracuse,  N.  Y..  for  prospectus. 

W.   A.   G. — It  was   Mi-^s   llona   Darkfeather.     We  have  not   seen   that    I' 
film.      Universal    records    no    such    title    as    mentioned    in    your    third    qne& 
Owen    Moore    is    with    -Victor.     How    ran    we    tell    low-    long    a    company    will 
last?     Be    reasonable,    and    do   not    express   opinions;    ;t-k    questions. 

H.    P.    B. — The    first    named    magazine    has    suspended.      Yon    may    gel 
your  script  by   addressing   A.    W.   Thomas,   in  care  of   the   Motion    PI 
Magazine.     The    second    magazine    you    name    has    suspended.      The    editor    i- 
said  to  have  left  town  very  hurriedly  for  a  distant  state      Ther<-  were  others 
who  lost  a  great  deal  more  than  a  quarter. 

C.  M.  S. — The  character  in  'The  Exposure  of  the  Land  Swindlers," 
extra,  whose  name  is  not  known  to  the  company. 

NORMA — The   Kay-Bee    identifier   is   still   under   the   weather.      It   is   as   well 
to  send  a  very  brief  note  In  acknowledgment  of  a  check.     It  is  not   neeesi 
fcut  it  would  be  a  eourtesy. 

A.  W.  B. — See  above. 

RUBENA — Miss  Lottie  Pi-kford  Is  not  in  pictures  at  present. 

RICHARD   ROE: — Hector  Dion  was  the  father  in   "A  Father's   Lesson 
"The  Higher  Duty."  the  wife  and  nurse  were,  respectively,   Mjss  Edna   Payne 
and  Miss  Isabelle  Lamon. 

E.  T. — We  do  not  know  who  wrote  "The  Equine  Hero."  Probably  it  was 
written  in  the  studio  to  fit  the  horse's  trwks. 

C.  B. — Miss  Mary  Charleston  was  Marie  in  "The  Hat."  Bdwin  AugUBl  - 
now  with  Vitagrapli.  Miss  Florence  Barker  died  some  time  ago.  Mis*  Ber- 
nard is  on  the  speaking  stage. 

HELENS — The  correct  title  is  "A  Life  in  the  Balance."  Miss  Fraucelia 
Billington   played  Florette. 

H.   H.   P. — If  you  sent   a  script   addressed   to  Bannister   Merwin,   you   d< 
to   lose   it.     S-ripts   sent    to   the   Bronx   studios   will   be   read    for   speak i- 
silent    plays    as    appears    from    the    script.     Vitagraph    passes    on    script- 
day    received.     Those    held    for    consideration    must    wait    the    convenience    of 
the  men    higher  up. 


Photoplay  Writing. 

The  standard  book  on  the  subject  is  Mr.  Epes  W.  Sargent's 

TECHNIQUE  OF  THE  PHOTOPLAY. 
Price,  $1.00.  Postage  Prepaid.  All  Orders  and  Remittances  to 

CHALMERS    PUBLISHING    COMPANY, 
Box  226,  Madison  Square  Post  Office,  New  York  City 


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Projection  Department 


Edited   by   F.   H.   RICHARDSON 


Film  Renovator. 

WE  see  illustrated  herewith  the  machine  made  by  the  Rex  Film  Reno- 
vator Manufacturing  Company.  At  this  writing  the  editor  has  not 
had  the  opportunity  of  personally  examining  this  device,  but  he  is 
informed  that  the  film  is  cleaned  very  thoroughly,  without  doing  it  any 
damage  whatever.  The  first  of  these  machines  will  be  installed  by  the 
Lake  Shore  Film  Company,  Cleveland,  Ohio.  May  rst.  It  will  be  put  on 
exhibition  in  the  Motion  Picture  Exposition,  New  York.  It  is  not  claimed 
that  the  machine  will  make  new  films  out  of  old,  but  its  manu- 
facturers do  claim  that  6o-day  films,  after  being  treated,  cannot  be  distin- 
guished, except  for  any  jumps  caused  by  cut-outs,  from  io-day  stuff.  Mr. 
R.  D.  Hanish,  the  patentee,  has  tor  a  number  of  years  made  film  reno- 
vating a  study.  When  the  film  is  treated  it  passes  from  the  reel  on  the 
left  on  the  front  side  of  the  machine  to  an  idler  and  between  rollers  to  the 
in]   "ii  the  right.     This  process  is  designed  for  softening  film,  and  it  is  al- 


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process.  Old  films  which  are  very  hard  should  stand  for  from  ro  to  24  hours. 
After  heing  thus  treated  it  passes  from  the  reel  where  the  girl's  hand  is  seen, 
at  the  left,  over  the.  drum  located  under  the  two  upper  drums,  to  the  reel 
at  the  right,  and  it  is  during  this  passage  the  cleaning  takes  place.  The 
two  upper  drums  clean  one  side,  and  the  two  lower  end  drums  the  other. 
Three  reels  can  pass  through  at  one  operation. 

It  is  to  be  sincerely  hoped  that  all  the  claims  of  the  manufacturer  of 
this  device  will  be  made  good.  A  frequent,  thorough  cleaning  of  films 
would  add  very  largely  to  the  excellence  of  the  show,  since  it  would  go  a 
long  way  toward  removing  rain  marks  and  kindred  evils  now  present  on 
all  too  many  theater  screens. 


Operators,  Take  Particular  Notice! 

Letter  from  International  President  Shay, 
Editor    Projection    Department. 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother. — The  General  Executive  Board  of  Inter- 
national Alliance  of  Theatrical  Stage  Employees  of  the  United 
States  and  Canada,  affiliated  with  American  Federation  of  Labor, 
has  instructed  me,  as  their  Chief  Executive  Officer,  to  more  thor- 
oughly organize  the  men  working  at  our  craft.  This  organization,  is, 
as  you  know,  composed  of  over  300  separate  and  distinct  locals. 
scattered  in  all  parts  of  tne  United  States  and  Canada,  with  a 
total  membership  of  over  15.000  loyal  men — men  who  have  shown, 
and  are  daily  showing,  by  their  actions  and  speech,  that  they  are 
the  strongest  of  strong  believers  in  real  fundamental  principles  of 
organization — men  who  are  fighting  consistently  and  persistently 
for  the  progress  of  the  movement,  the  betterment  of  the  craft  and 
the  improvement  of  the  conditions  of  organized  labor  in  general. 
While  we  have  made  wonderful  progress  during  the  past  twenty 
years,  there  are  still  certain  cities  of  sufficient  size  and  importance 
to  warrant  the  organization  of  the  men  working  at  our  craft,  and 
v\e  are  very  desirous  of  organizing  these  cities  and  towns  within 
thirty  to  sixty  days.  We  want  the  men  who  are  working  on  the 
stages  of  theaters  and  in  the  operating  rooms  of  moving  picture 
theaters  to  enjoy  the  many  benefits   :ind  the  protection  afforded  by 


the  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  We  desire  to  improve  the  working  and  financial 
conditions  of  every  man  working  as  a  stage  mechanic  or  a  moving 
picture  operator.  We  want  to  place  them  in  a  position  which  will 
enable  them  to  continually  progress,  and  to  secure  permanent 
solidity  and  absolute  protection.  To  this  end  I  would  ask  that 
stage  mechanics  and  moving  picture  operators  in  unorganized 
cities  and  towns  forward  to  me,  at  their  earliest  convenience,  the 
following  information:  (1)  Your  own  name  and  address.  (2)  the 
names  of  each  theater  in  your  city,  (3)  the  kind  of  a  theater  it  is, 
(4)  the  names  of  employees  working  on  the  stage,  or  as  operators, 
and  (5)  the  age,  experience  and  position  occupied  by  each  man; 
also  (6)  information  as  to  whether  he  belongs  to  any  union.  I 
would  like,  (7)  also,  to  have  the  name  of  the  man  most  competent 
to  organize  a  local  union  in  your  city,  together  with  his  street  ad- 
dress. 

Trusting  you  will  set  this  matter  forth  in  the  Projection  Depart- 
ment at  your  earliest  convenience,  and  that  operators  in  unorganized 
cities  and  towns  will  Tespond  liberally,  I  am 

Fraternally    yours, 
Charles  C.  Shay,  International  President  I.  A.  T.  S.  E. 


International  President  Shay. 

The  Editor  of  this  department  has  met  International  President  Shay 
upon  several  occasions,  but  these  meetings  have,  until  the  last  one,  been 
of  the  most  brief  character.  During  an  experience  covering  many  years, 
in  which  I  was  in  close  touch  with  many  labor  leaders,  I  learned,  and 
very  thoroughly  learned,  the  fact  that  the  combination  of  real  ability 
and  genuine  honesty  in  a  labor  leader  was  not  the  easiest  thing  in  the 
world  to  find.  I  also  was  made  thoroughly  acquainted  with  the  fact  that, 
as  a  general  proposition,  labor  leaders  were  more  or  less  hard  drinkers, 
though,  in  the  very  nature  of  things,  there  was  considerable  excuse  to 
be  found  for  this  condition.  It  was  therefore,  with  a  great  deal  of  in- 
terest that  I  observed  our  International  President  closely  at  our  previous 
brief  meetings,  and  the  impression  conveyed  to  my  mind  was  wholly  and 
entirely  favorable.  Hut  I  was  not  sure.  Recently,  howeVer,  I  took  dinner 
with  President  Shay  at  the  Elks'  Club,  in  New  York  City,  and  spent  the 
evening  there  with  him.  It  was  just  we  two  alone,  and  we  spent  the 
whole  evening  discussing  the  affairs  of  the  International.  I  was  more 
than  pleased  during  this  lengthy  conference,  to  have  my  previous  good 
opinion  of  Charles  Shay  thoroughly  confirmed.  I  am  now  prepared  to 
say,  and  stand  by  my  statement,  that  Charles  Shay  is  thoroughly  honest; 
that  he  is  a  clean-cut  gentleman  who  has  the  real  interest  of  our  Inter- 
national Union  very  much  at  heart.  I  want  to  say  further  that,  with  these 
facts  in  mind,  well  knowing  the  extreme  difficulty  of  finding  an  able  man 
(and  I  call  Charles  Shay  a  thoroughly  able  man),  who  is  clean,  honest 
and  shrewd,  to  fill  such  a  position  as  that  of  International  President,  I 
am  prepared  to  earnestly  advise  his  retention  in  that  office,  provided  he 
will  consent  to  again  he  a  candidate.  Brother  Shay  very  rightly  says 
that,  laying  aside  the  fact  that  Mrs.  Shay  strenuously  objects  to  playing 
the  part  of  grass-widow  while  he  is  wearing  himself  out  chasing  around  over 
the  country,  enduring  the  many  things  such  an  official  must  endure,  he 
can  make  more  money,  and  make  it  far  easier  in  private  life. 

I  am  speaking  of  this  matter  at  this  time  because  this  conference  1 
speak  of  occured  very  recently  and  the  thing  is  very  fresh  in  my  memory; 
also  for  the  reason  that,  as  the  time  for  our  International  Convention 
approaches  and.  in  my  judgment,  the  delegates  from  the  various  unions 
should  be  instructed  absolutely  as  to  whom  to  support  for  the  office  of 
president.  Now,  please  do  not  run  away  with  the  idea  that  Brother  Shay 
has  in  any  manner  prompted  me  to  say  these  things.  He  most  emphatically 
did  not.  I  personally  know,  however,  that  in  conventions  it  is  a  lamentable 
fact  that  the  election  of  officers  too  often  degenerates  into  a  mere  popularity 
contest,  rather  than  the  seeking  of  the  man  best  qualified  to  fill  the  positions 
with   honor   and   credit   to   the   organization. 

Let  me  say  that  it  behooves  the  International  to  be  very  careful  in  its 
selection  of  officers  at  the  next  convention.  Tne  various  theatrical  interests 
have  combined.  They  deny  it,  but  it  is  nevertheless  the  fact.  Unless  I  am 
sadly  mistaken  the  International  Union  is  going  to  be  confronted  with  the 
fight  of  its  life  before  very  long,  and  it  is  going  to  take  a  man  with  a 
good  stiff  backbone  and  a  large  bunch  of  brains  at  the  top  of  it  to  lead 
the  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  through  to  victory. 

This  I  want  to  imixess  upon  you  as  strongly  as  I  can:  the  foregoing 
is  but  the  setting  forth  of  mj  own  mind  in  these  matters.  I  hold  no  brief 
for  Charles  Shay,  or  anyone  else;  but  I  do  want  to  see  him  retained  as 
the  head  of  our  organization  because  I  am  thoroughly  convinced  that  he 
is  eminently  qualified  to  fill  that  important  office  in  the  best  possible  manner, 
and  for  the  best  interest  of  all  concerned. 

Now,  before  I  close  this  matter,  let  me  say  a  word  on  the  "popularity 
contest"  business  in  the  election  of  officers.  Time  and  again,  in  convention, 
I  have  been  asked  to  vote  for  this  man  and  that  man,  wholly  and  solely 
on  the  grounds  that  he  was  a  "good  fellow."  Time  and  again  I  have  seen 
officers  elected,  and  International  officers  too,  who  had  very  little  quali- 
fications for  the  office,  but  were  immensely  popular  with  the  delegates; 
in  other  words,  were   "good  fellows"  and,   while  it  is  true  that  this  line  of 


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procedure  is  not  followed  quite  so  much  nowadays,  it  is  nevertheless  the 
fact  that  it  still  prevails  in  altogether  too  many  cases.  There  should 
be  only  one  thing  considered  in  the  election  of  officers  at  the  International 
Convention,  and  that  one  thing  should  be:  is  the  man  qualified  by  experi- 
ence, knowledge,  shrewdness,  tact  fulness  and  all  those  various  qualities 
which  go  to  make  up  the  successful  executive  otneer?  Personally,  I  repeat, 
I  would  like  to  see  the  International  President  at  least  elected  by  semi- 
referendum,  which  can  be  done  by  the  various  unions  instructing  their 
delegates  as  to  who  they  should  support  for  International  President  and 
I  strongly  advise  all  unions  to  take  that  course,  making  the  instructions 
ironclad. 


Hands  Brother  Sargent  a  Bundle. 

Mr.  E.   L.  Cherry,  Owosso,   Mich.,  contributes  the  following: 

I  enclose  rough  sketch  of  a  scheme  that  may  help  some  operator 
who  is  having  trouble  with  the  lower  loop  of  the  Edison  Exhibi- 
tion model.  This  model  is  sent  out  with  a  plate  or  film  guard 
fastened  to  the  gate  (Fig.  i),  but  this  is  seldom  found  on  the 
machine  after  it  has  been  in  use  any  length  of  time.  The  piece 
shown  in  Fig.  3  is  cut  out  of  galvanized  sheet  iron.  A  nail  will 
answer  as  a  pin  for  the  roller  to  turn  on,  and  should  be  soldered 
to  the  bracket  (Fig.  4).  This  double  loop  runs  much  smoother 
and  quieter  than  the  short  loop,  and  will  avoid  a  great  amount  of 
trouble,  especially  when  running  old  film.  The  roller  should  be 
about    i':J    inches  from  gate. 


Probably  you  have  never  heard  of  this  burg,  but  it  is  on  the 
map.  There  are  three  good  houses  here.  Two  of  them  use -the 
Motiograph  machine  and  Fort  Wayne  compensarc.  I  don't  know 
what  they  have  in  the  other  house.  There  are  about  18,000  people 
to  draw  from.  They  all  run  three  reels  and  no  song  for  5  cents. 
Projection  is  mostly  good.  In  the  March  1st  World,  under  heading 
"Bump,  Zing,  Zowiel"  (page  886),  Mr.  Freeland  expresses  his 
sentiments  on  the  matter  of  subjects.  He  criticises  plots  and  per- 
forations and  blames  the  whole  thing  to  over-production.  The  film 
makers  may  be  exceeding  the  speed  limit,  but  it  seems  there  are 
others  who  affe  also  going  some.  On  page  673  of  the  February 
15th  issue  Mr.  Epes  Winthrop  Sargent  states  that  he  writes  $50 
scenarios  in  50  minutes.  He  says  that  the  "trained"  photoplay- 
wright  should  not  require  more  than  two  hours  to  write  a  full- 
reel  subject.  "Trained"  scenario  writers  will  kindly  take  notice 
that  the  official  time  limit  is  now  two  hours  per  thousand  feet  of 
film.  Mr.  Sargent,  under  heading  "The  Fiction  Writer  Again," 
states  there  is  no  reason  why  the  scenario  should  command  as  high 
a  price  as  the  story.  He  goes  on  to  explain  that  the  story  must 
be  written  and  re-written,  etc.,  but  the  scenario  can  be  ground 
out  offhand  in  50  minutes.  He  gives  the  general  impression  that 
the  silent  drama  is  a  pretty  crude  affair  and  can  never  rise  above 
its  present  level.  Read  the  article;  it  will  do  your  heart  good. 
Probably  Mr.  Freeland  will  have  a  better  opinion  of  the  plots  if  he 
also  reads  Mr.  Sargent's  statements.  Mr.  Freeland  says  that  not 
one  subject  in  twenty  is  worthy  of  screen  room.  It  is  an  unfor- 
tunate fact  that  the  average  person  who  patronizes  the  picture 
shows  thinks  about  the  same  as  Mr.  Freeland  does.  They  endure 
reel  after  reel  of  "hash,"  that  they  may  enjoy  a  real  photoplay — 
the  one  reel  out  of  twenty  that  is  almost  worth  while.  And  I 
think  it  is  a  safe  bet  that  that  one  play  was  not  written  inside  of 
Mr.  Sargent's  two-hour  limit.  I  do  not  dispute  Mr.  Sargent's  con- 
tention that  the  high-priced  fiction  writer  cannot  produce  picture 
plays  that  are  worth  more  than  the  work  of  the  average  photo- 
playwright.  But  I  do  say  that  there  are  reasons  why  the  worth- 
while photoplay  should  command  as  high  a  price  as  the  good  fiction 
story. 

Well,  I  guess  this  will  hold  brother  Sargent  for  a  minute.  Now  will 
you  be  good,  Epes  Winthrop,  dern  you?  I  have  to  apologize  to  brother 
Cherry.  His  letter  somehow  got  mislaid.  It  was  written  in  February,  and 
I  only  discovered  it  a  week  ago,  among  a  mass  of  other  correspondence. 


The  Supper  Hour. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  writes: 

With  regard  to  supper  hour  and  union  matters  which  a  recent 
letter  of  Brooklyn  speaks  of,  in  which  the  statement  is  made  that 
."it  is  all  very  well  with  a  single  man,  but  with  a  married  man  it 
is  different."  I  want  to  remark  that  many  single  men  are  support- 
ing mothers,  sisters,  or  perhaps  both,  and  have  just  as  great 
responsibilities  as  the  married  men.  I  am  the  one  who  wrote  the 
first  letter,  saying  that  all  men  ought  to  see  that  they  get  a  supper 
hour.  It  is  quite  true  there  are  many  men  who  will  work  without 
it,  and  where  one  has  a  motor-driven  machine  it  is  a  different 
story,  too,  since  he  can  then  wash  his  hands  and  eat  without  trouble. 
When  I  wrote  I  had  only  hand-driven  machines  in  mind.  But  if 
all  operators  would  demand  the  supper  hour  the  thing  would  be 
very  quickly  settled,  because  if  a  manager  finds  that  he  cannot  hold 
an  operator  without  giving  him  a  supper  hour  he  will  soon  wake  up 


and  give  a  good  man  time  enough  to  eat  I  read  Mr.  Charles 
Smith's  statement  that  wobbling  of  the  revolving  shutter  will  cause 
out-of-focus  effect.  I  noticed  this  same  thing  myself.  The  picture 
is  not  really  out  of  focus,  but  has  a  slight  travel  ghost  which  makes 
it  appear  so.  One  night  I  noticed  all  horizontal  objects  were 
slightly  out  of  focus,  while  those  which  stood  vertical  were  O.  K. 
I  asked  the  manager  to  step  up  to  the  screen  and  see  in  which 
direction  the  ghost  was  traveling.  He  did  not  believe  there  was 
one  until  he  got  up  close  to  the  screen  and  saw  one  was  really 
traveling  down  from  all  but  vertical  obiects.  Between  reels  I 
moved  the  shutter  slightly  backwards  and  everything  was  O.  K. 
Another  thing  which  causes  out-of-focus  effect  is  if  gears  grind 
very  much  the  jarring  caused  thereby  has  the  effect  of  making  the 
picture  quiver  across  the  aperture,  the  same  as  a  drumhead  quivers 
when  it  is  beaten. 

As  to  the  shutter  wobbling,  I  do  not  see  that  that  would  have  the  effect 
of  causing  either  an  out-of-focus  appearance  or  travel  ghost.  If  there  is 
a  slight  travel  ghost  it  has  the  effect  of  injuring  the  definition,  true,  but  the 
remedy  is  to  set  the  shutter.  Operators  would  find  it  a  distinct  advantage 
to  have  a  pair  of  opera  glasses,  so  that  they  could  closely  examine  their 
pictures  for  slight  faults  of  this  kind.  I  cannot  agree  that  there  is  any 
more  reason  why  a  man  running  a  motor-driven  machine  should  not  have 
a  supper  hour  than  his  cranking  brother.  Most  emphatically  every  operator, 
whether  running  a  motor-driven  or  hand-power  machine,  should  have  time 
to  eat,  and  not  eat  in  an  operating  room,  either. 


Wants  to  Correspond. 

Mr.  George  S.  Dalrymple,  proprietor  Family  Theater,  Youngsville,  Pa., 
writes: 

As  one  of  the  readers  of  the  department  I  feel  I  am  due  to 
thank  you  for  the  many  benefits  received.  I  also  wish  to  congratu- 
late you  on  the  new  Handbook.  It  certainly  is  a  very  thorough 
book  on  moving  picture  work,  and  one  which  every  operator  and 
manager  should  own.  I  wish  some  way  could  be  found  to  per- 
suade the  operators  or  managers  to  study  that  book.  If  they  would 
only  do  so,  most  certainly  our  films  would  be  received  in  better 
condition  and  many  other  evils  would  be  remedied.  Your  reply  to 
"Several  Operators,"  March  15th  issue,  is  very  good.  I  am  in  a 
small  village  and  see  things  just  the  way  you  do.  For  the  benefit 
of  your  readers  let  me  say  that  small,  wire  paper  clips,  such  as  are 
used  for  holding  papers  together,  will  be  found  very  useful  in  con- 
necting films  in  the  lower  magazine  when  the  film  has  been  torn  in 
two.  I  also  have  a  very  good  method  for  making  opaque  announce- 
ment slides,  the  same  requiring  only  one  glass.  If  any  of  the 
brothers  wish  to  correspond  with  me  I  will  advise  them  how  this 
is  done. 

For  your  kind  words,  neighbor  Dalrymple,  accept  our  thanks.  As  to  the 
paper  clips,  the  suggestion  is  a  good  one.  The  two  ends  can  be  lapped 
a  couple  of  inches  and  instantly  temporarily  fastened  by  these  little  wire 
arrangements,  so  that  the  show  can  be  resumed  without  much  delay.  The 
patch  can  be  made  afterward,  of  course.  • 


Testing  For  Grounds. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  orders  a  handbook  and  asks  how  to  test  for  grounds  in 
the  rheostat  or  economizer.  Brooklyn  will  find  method  of  testing  for 
ground  described  on  page  106  of  the  Handbook. 


.Mr.    J. 


He  Loaned  It. 

L.    Magers,    manager   Orpheum   Theater,   Blackwell,   Okla., 


writes: 


Enclosed  find  check  for  $2.50,  for  which  please  forward  me  a 
copy  of  your  Handbook,  as  "I  need  thee  every  hour."  The  Hand- 
book is  a  great  help  to  any  one  in  the  business.  I  had  one  of  the 
old  books  and  loaned  it  to  a  friend;  therefore  I  now  have  none. 
Please  send  the  new  one  as  soon  as  possible,  and  I  will  loan  it — 
not. 

The  moral  of  the  above  is  twofold:  (a)  Get  a  handbook,  (b)  Do  not 
lend  it.  If  the  "other  fellow"  thinks  enough  of  the  book  that  he  wants 
to  study  it,  tell  him  to  invest  $2.50  and  get  one  of  his  own. 


Mr.    Everett  Wagner,  Thomasville,  N.  C,  writes: 

Our  current  is  a.  c.  I  had  a  little  trouble  with  my  light,  and  the 
superintendent  of  the  light  plant  asked  me  what  kind  of  carbons  I 
was'  using.  I  told  him  $i  cored  carbons  above  and  below.  He  says. 
"There  is  your  trouble.  You  should  use  a  half-inch  hard  below  and 
let  it  take  the  lead — that  is  to  say,  let  it  out  a  little  farther  in  front 
in  the  top  carbons."  I  told  him  that  was  the  d.  c.  set,  but  he  con- 
tended that  it  was  correct  for  a.  c.  He  claims  that  perfect  a.  c. 
light  can  be  had  using  %  hard  carbons  above  and  below,  but  that  is 
not  the  best.  He  also  says  he  can  put  a  perfectly  good  picture  on 
an  average  size  screen,  using  a.  c.  with  a  30-ampere  fuse. 

The  superintendent  also  said  a  good  many  other  things,  but  what  is  the 
use  consuming  valuable  space  publishing  such  pirrie  as  this?  If  the  super- 
intendent is  better  posted  than  some  twenty  thousand  operators;  if  he 
knows  more  than  all  the  authorities  on  projection  combined,  then  he  is 
wasting  his  time  fooling  with  the  superintendency  of  a  light  plant.  Let 
him  come  here  to  New  York  and  get  $200  a  week,  instead  of  that  much  a 
month.  Just  let  the  superintendent  talk  as  much  as  he  wants  to,  brother 
Wagner,  but  you  keep  right  on  using  cored  carbons  below  and  above  with 
a.  c.  As  to  putting  on  a  good  a.  c.  picture  of  "average  size,"  using  30- 
ampere  fuses,  why,  that  does  not  mean  anything.  What  does  the  man 
mean  by  "average  size,"  and  does  he  mean  feeding  the  arc  through  a 
transformer  or  through  a  rheostat?  If  the  former,  most  certainly  he  can. 
If  the  latter,  he  most  certainly  cannot,  and  there  you  are.  Talk  is  cheap, 
brother  Wagner,  but  it  takes  real  knowledge  to  put  the  right  kind  of  pro- 
jection on  the  screen.     All  the  "talk"  in  the  world  vill  not  do  that. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


377 


Motiograph  Machine. 

Mr.  H.  D.  McCain,  Harrison,  Idaho,  asks  if  I  consider  a  1909  Model 
Motiograph  capable  of  projecting  as  good  a  picture  as  the  later  models.  If 
not.  can  I  suggest  any  change  in  shutter,  lens,  etc.,  which  might  improve 
the  picture?  No;  I  do  not  consider  it  practical  to  do  as  uniformly  good 
work  with  the  Old  model  machines  as  with  the  new  Nor  is  it  practical  to 
so  change  the  old  model  machine  that  the  same  work  can  be  done.  Many 
improvements  have  been  made  in  the  lamp,  lamphouse,  mechanism  and 
stand,  all  of  which,  in  one  way  or  another,  make  for  better  work,  since 
they  not  only  enaDle  the  operator  to  handle  his  light  better,  but  also  reduce 
vibration  and  in  general  enable  him  to  produce  better  results,  although  the 
intermittent  movement,  lens  and  shutter  have  been  changed  very  little. 
if  any. 


Canton,  Pa.,  writes: 


Machine  Chirps. 


I  am  annoyed  by  a  "chirp,"  or  rattle,  which  has  developed  in 
my  Power's  6-A  machine,  and  which  I  am  unable  to  locate.  The 
sound  is  very  sharp  and  can  be  heard  in  all  parts  of  the  house, 
although  it  is  not  present  when  the  machine  is  run  without  the  film. 
I  have  tested  every  sprocket  idler  and  every  part  that  the  film 
touches  on  its  way  through  the  machine,  and  everything  seems  to 
be  O.  K.  Do  you  consider  it  a  good  plan  to  attach  a  color  wheel 
to  the  cone  of  the  stereopticon?  Can  you  suggest  a  plan  that  will 
enable  me  to  use  the  stereopticon  as  a  flood  light  to  cover  the 
entire  stage?  I  trust  you  can  answer  the  above  through  our  indis- 
pensable Projection  Department. 

As  to  that  chirping  machine  of  yours,  I  hardly  know  what  to  say,  but 
would  recommend  that  you  set  up  the  intermittent  movement  as  per  Instruc- 
tion No.  39,  page  281  of  the  handbook.  If  any  operator  has  had  a  similar 
experience,  let  him  set  it  forth.  Certainly  a  color  wheel  can  be  attached 
in  front  of  the  stereopticon  cone,  but  you  cannot  use  a  stereo  for  flood 
light  unless  one  of  the  condensers  be  removed.  Even  then  it  would  hardly 
be  practical. 


One-Armed  Operator. 

From  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  comes  the  following: 

I  have  a  copy  of  your  latest  handbook  and  think  it  is  great.  Did 
you  ever  come  across  a  one-armed  operator?  Well,  allow  me  to 
introduce  myself.*  I  have  only  one  hand — the  left.  Have  been 
running  a  projection  machine  for  five  years,  and  giving  satisfac- 
tion— or,  at  least,  everybody  says  I  am;  also  they  say  that  I  have 
the  best  a.  c.  light  they  have  ever  looked  at.  Am  using  a  B.  &  H. 
transformer  that  has  had  four  years*  service,  and  I  get  a  spot  like 
a  rectifier  spot — perfectly  round  and  bright.  Of  course  I  use  a 
motor  drive,  but  have  never  found  one  that  gave  perfect  satisfac- 
tion in  speed  control.  Have  used  the  Chambless  motor  attachment 
on  both  Edison  and  Power's  "Six"  and  think  they  are  fine.  Am 
a  member  of  the  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.,  Auxiliary  No.  10,  Evansville.  Ind. 

It  certainly  must  be  considered  something  of  a  feat  to  handle  a  projec- 
tion machine  with  one  hand.  Just  how  the  brother  manages  to  thread  the 
machine  and  the  lower  reel,  and  do  it  quickly,  is  a  puzzle.  The  man  who 
produces  good  results  under  such  conditions  as  these  is  certainly  to  be 
commended,  and  I  congratulate  him  on  the  pluck  he  has  displayed  in 
mastering  the  profession  of  operating. 


Has  Troubles  of  His  Own. 

From  New  Brunswick  (I  cannot  make  out  the  name  of  the  town)  comes 
the  following: 

The  picture  does  not  set  square  in  the  aperture  of  my  Edison 
Model  B.  All  the  sprockets  are  in  line,  and  I  have  my  aperture 
plate  set  straight,  but  when  titles  are  on  the  lines  of  printing  do 
not  set  square  with  the  top  or  bottom  edge  of  the  aperture,  and  I 
cannot  seem  to  locate  the  trouble.  It  is  not  noticeable  in  the  pic- 
ture. We  have  a  very  good  license  law  here,  which  just  came 
into  effect  this  year.  My  employer  is  the  tallest  and  largest  man 
in  the  moving  picture  business.  Perhaps  you  think  I  am  wrong, 
but  I  will  send  you  his  picture  some  time.  We  are  building  a  new 
theater,  and  will  also  send  a  picture  of  that  when  completed. 

As  to  the  machine  trouble,  I  think  either  your  aperture  does  not  set 
-square* with  the  machine,  or  else  your  intermittent  sprocket  is  too  far  one 
way  and  your  top  gate  rollers,  or  the  top  of  the  gate  itself,  too  far  the 
other  way.  It  is  probable,  however,  the  fault  is  due  to  the  aperture.  I 
think  you  will  find  that  the  screws  holding  casting  18181,  plate  5,  page  238 
of  the  handbook,  have  worked  loose  and  allowed  the  casting  to  drop  a 
little  on  one  side,  thus  throwing  the  aperture  out  of  line.  If,  however, 
the  aperture  is  straight  and  square  with  the  machine,  then  you  must  shift 
your  intermittent  sprocket  one  way  and  the  top  roller  gates  the  other.  I 
will  be  glad  to  have  a  picture  of  your  new  theater  operating  room;  also  of 
the  heavyweight  manager. 


Power's  Lamp  Adjustment. 

Mr.  G.  S.  Guernsey,  Harvard,  Neb.,  inquires: 

Where  can  1  secure  carbon  holders  for  the  regular  Power's  Six 
lamp,  with  the  upper  holder  arranged  so  as  to  permit  the  adjust- 
ment of  the  upper  carbon  in  relation  to  the  lower? 

You  cannot,  Brother  Guernsey,  so  far  as  I  know.  Power's  S»x  A  lamp 
has  those  adjustments.  A  number  of  operators  have  remodeled  their  Power's 
Six  A  lamps  and  supplied  that  adjustment  themselves.  You  will  find  their 
methods  described  in  back  numbers  of  the  department. 


Head  Twisted. 

Mr.   Alfred    Fowler,   Alliance,    Ohio,    writes,    enclosing   money    for    hand- 
book and  asking  the  following  question: 

(1)  My  picture  jumps  up  and  down  on  the  screen;  Power's  6-A. 
What  is  the  remedy?  The  operator's  poem  in  February  13th  issue 
certainly  was  fine.  More  truth  than  poetry,  however.  (Huh  I 
Wonder  what  brother  Clark  will  make  out  of  that. — Ed.)  I  hand 
you  herewith  a  photo  of  my  operating  room.  It  only  shows  one 
machine,  though  we  have  two,  but  if  you  publish  it,  for  the  love 
of  Mike  cut  me   out,  because   my   head   is  crooked,   though   that  is 


no  sign  that  I  am  crooKed  myself.  Allow  me  to  assure  you  it  was 
the  photographer's  fault.  On  May  25th  we  are  going  to  have  a 
big  blowout  here,  and  there  will  be  men  from  four  surrounding 
states  attending.  You  are  cordially  invited  to  come  to  the  ban- 
quet. I  am  projecting  a  12-foot  picture  at  76  feet.  There  is  just 
a  least  little  bit  of  travel  ghost  at  the  top  of  titled  letters.  We 
have  a  mirror  screen,  a  two-wing  shutter,  with  a  motor-driven 
machine,  and  the  flicker  is  pretty  bad. 

I  do  not  see  anything  the  matter  with  that  head,  neighbor  Fowler.  Looks 
just  like  a  gink  who  is  having  his  phogytrap  tuk.  I  have  been  there  myself. 
You  were  afraid  the  flashlight  was  going  to  hurt  your  eyes,  but  it  didn't, 
did  it?  As  to  the  jump  in  the  picture,  be  sure  that  there  is  no  gum  or 
dirt  on  the  face  of  your  intermittent  sprocket.  Be  sure  that  your  tension 
is  tight  enough.  If  not,  tighten  up  screw  734,  plate  1,  page  272  of  the 
handbook.  I  cannot  answer  such  questions  very  well  without  having  the 
jump  more  accurately  described.  One  kind  of  a  jump  means  one  thing, 
and  another  kind  may  mean  something  entirely  different.  Your  operating 
room  looks  all  right,  except  that  I  do  not  see  any  vent  flue,  and  I  would 
advise  you  to  hang  your  wall  shutters  as  illustrated  on  page  78  of  the 
handbook.  As  to  the  flicker,  projecting  with  a  two-wing  shutter  on  a 
mirror  screen  will  produce  some  flicker.  I  think  you  will  get  better  results 
by  holding  your  speed  down  below  65,  using  a  three-wing  shutter.  As  to 
the  travel  ghost,  your  shutter  wants  a  little  setting.  In  this  connection  I 
would  recommend  that  you  study  pages  217  to  223,  inclusive,  of  the  new 
handbook.  Meanwhile  loosen  screws  739,  Fig.  120,  page  382,  and  revolve 
the  top  of  the  shutter  away  from  you. just  a  little. 


Moving  your  Lamp. 

Valley,  Wash.,  says  he  has  a  Motiograph  end  that  sometimes  the  spot  is 
large  enough,  and  sometimes  it  is  not,  and  that  he  moves  the  lamphouse 
backward  or  forward  to  alter  the  size  of  the  spot.  Supposing  you  try 
moving  your  lamp  ahead  and  back,  instead  of  moving  the  lamphouse. 


Some  Scheme. 

From  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  comes  the  following  valuable  contribution: 

I  have  been  operating  about  nine  months  and  have  had  excellent 
success.  The  censors  are  very  strict  here,  and  wherever  a  flag 
shows  it  has  to  be  cut  out.  It  occurs  to  me  that,  rather  than  cut 
the  flag  out,  we  could  stick  a  piece  of  tape  on  the  lens  where  it 
shows. 

All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted  to  our  department  readers  as  being 
a  real  bright  idea. 

Hallberg  Found  It. 

Mr.  T.  Rauch,  New  Orleans,  La.,  writes: 

Regarding  the  five-point  star  which  you  recently  said  you  did  not 
think  I  could  get  in  this  country,  Mr.  Hallberg  has  again  proven 
his  ability  to  secure,  somewhere  and  somehow,  about  anything  you 
ask  for.  The  twenty-tooth  sprocket  he  got  for  me  is  giving  A-: 
results.  Your  Handbook,  which  is  right  beside  me  now,  certainly 
is  great;  in  fact,  it  is  indeed  a  "friend  in  need." 

And  now,  I  suppose  neighbor  Hallberg  will  swell  up  like  a  toy  balloon. 
Well,  he  is  a  pretty  good  scout  at  that,  so  I  do  not  mind  handing  him  this 
bouquet  of  words;  particularly  since  he  seems  to  deserve  it.  I  remove 
my  chapeau,  step  two  paces  to  the  rear  and  make  my  most  elaborate  bow, 
friend  Hallberg.  May  your  shadow  never  grow  less,  or  your  ability  to  dis- 
cover things  suffer  no  diminution. 


378 


THE    MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


Isolated  Light  Plant. 

Mr.   \V.   C.   Weygint,  operator  Pierce  Opera  House,  Pierce,  Neb.,   writes: 

In  return  for  what  I  have  received  through  the  department,  I 
will  try  and  help  some  of  the  brother  operators  and  managers  who 
have  been  inquiring  in  regard  to  isolated  electric  light  plants. 
When  we  took  the  opera  house  here  last  May  we  were  unable  to 
get  good  results  from  the  city  current;  therefore  installed  a  4  h.  p. 
Cushman  2-cycle  engine  and  a  Standard  zY%  k.  w.,  60-volt  gen- 
erator— d.  c,  of  course — costing  $320,  which  included  all  wiring, 
globes  and  the  installing  of  the  plant.  We  are  using  about  forty 
incandescent  48  and  16  c.  p.  globes,  besides  the  projection  arc. 
Have  a  Power's  "Six"  machine  on  a  65-foot  throw  and  get  a  pic- 
ture which  traveling  men  say  it  is  hard  to  beat.  I  have,  I  think, 
the  best  electric  light  plant  on  the  market  today.  The  engine  has 
got  everything  that  I  ever  saw  or  heard  of  beat  to  a  standstill. 
It  is  4  h.  p.,  yet  only  weighs  150  pounds,  and  this  alone  is  a  big 
feature.  The  2^/2  k.  w.  generator  weighs  550  pounds.  Anyone 
wishing  a  plant  which  can  be  moved  from  place  to  place  could  not 
get  anything  more  suitable.  I  purchased  this  plant  last  July,  and 
it  has  given  me  the  best  of  satisfaction.  I  would  not  part  with  it 
at  four  times  its  cost  and  do  without  it.  I  start  it  going  and  do  not 
see  it  again  until  the  show  closes,  and  have  run  it  from  7:30  p.  m. 
till  3  o'clock  in  the  morning  on  special  occasions,  such  as  dances, 
so  you  see  I  have  given  it  a  very  good  test,  indeed. 

You  certainly  are  enthusiastic  about  this  plant,  friend  Weygint.  I  am 
publishing  what  you  say  without,  however,  committing  myself  in  any  way 
by  so  doing.  Certainly  a  plant  that  is  as  light  as  this,  and  which  will  pro- 
duce the  results  you  claim,  is  worthy  of  investigation. 


Dynamo  Overload. 

Mr.  E.  F.  Dowdell.  of  the  Idle  Hour  Theater  and  Amusement  Company, 
Artesian,  S.   D.,  writes: 

We  are  projecting  an  11  ft.  picture  with  a  42  ft.  throw,  using  an 
Edison  Exhibition  model  which  has  been  giving  excellent  satisfac- 
tion. Take  current  from  a  2  k.w.,  no  volt  dynamo,  through  a 
rheostat.  We  intend  to  install  a  larger  dynamo  soon,  however. 
We  run  three  25  watt  lamps  when  the  arc  is  on,  but  believe  that 
the  present  dynamo  is  somewhat  overloaded.  We  mention  these 
facts  because  there  seems  to  be  a  great  variance  of  opinion  as  to 
the  amount  of  current  necessary  to  procure  good  light.  From  our 
experience  a  3  or  zlA  k.w.,  no  volt  generator  will  give  ample 
illumination,  unless  a  large  number  of  house  lights  are  to  be  used. 
Of  course  a  60  volt  generator  would  be  much  more  economical  in 
the  matter  of  fuel  consumption.  Have  tried  prepared  chalk  on  the 
commutator  with  excellent  results,  using  it  to  polish  after  an  appli- 
cation of  00  sandpaper  and  vaseline. 

All  of  which  is  respectfully  referred  to  our  readers  for  consideration.  I 
have  many  times  expressed  my  opinion  as  to  the  advisability  of  having  a 
surplus  of  both  engine  and  dynamo  capacity.  It  pays  to  have  it.  Many 
thanks  for  your  kind  words  of  appreciation.  The  work  of  this  department 
is  by  no  means  easy  and  it  encourages  one  to  know  that  his  efforts  are 
appreciated.  There  is  a  vast  amount  of  work  done  by  the  editor  concern- 
ing which  you  know  nothing,  but  the  benefit  of  which  you  reap  in  many 
different  ways. 


What  Ought  I  to  do  to  This  Man? 

Mr.  Benj.  G.  Hull,  Westfield,  Mass.  (Westfield  is  near  Springfield,  and 
tinder  the  jurisdiction  of  that  union),  writes  as  follows: 

I  am  clad  that  you  enjoyed  yourself  on  the  occasion  of  your 
visit  to  Springfield  to  attend  our  ball.  My  wife  asked  why  I  did 
not  introduce  her  to  you.  I  told  her  that  you  were  so  busy  talk- 
ing to  the  boys  that  ladies  did  not  have  any  chance.  Here  is  a 
scheme  I  use  to  prevent  "pulling  down"  in  rewinding.  Take  a 
piece  of  %  inch  gas  pipe  7  inches  long  and  to  one  end  attach  a 
flange.  Bolt  this  down  to  the  rewinding  bench.  Now  drill  a  hole 
Yt  inch  from  the  top,  small  enough  that  a  6  inch  spike  will  fit 
tightly  in  it  when  driven  in  and  so  that  it  will  tilt  up  a  little  bit. 
Next  get  a  large  bolt  nut,  say  1%  inch  and  hold  this  against  the 
reel  while  rewinding,  being  careful  that  the  three  screws  do  not 
stick  out  or  they  will  catch.  If  you  hold  the  nut  tightly  against 
the  reel  the  film  will  rewind  snugly  and  pulling  down  will  be 
avoided.  In  closing  I  must  congratulate  you  on  the  excellence  of 
the  new  handoook. 

Now  what  do  you  think  of  that!  I  am  sure  this  brother  has  a  mighty 
good  looking  wife  and  the  jealous  villain  did  not  introduce  me  to  her.  I 
think  I  will  go  right  back  up  there  and  bite  him.  Now,  Mrs.  Hull,  next 
time  I  come  to  Springfield  you  just  march  right  up  and  we  will  introduce 
each  other  to  each  other  and  tell  Mr.  Hull  to  go  away  back  in  the  corner 
and  fan  himself.  Huh!  As  to  that  rewinding  scheme,  the  idea  is  correct, 
but  why  bother  with  a  crude  appliance  when  you  have  exactly  the  same 
thing  provided  in  most  excellent  form  in  the  rewind  shown  in  Fig.  154, 
page  372t  of  the  handbook. 


Hard  to  Start. 

Mr.  Glenn  Bossard,  Avon,  New  York,  orders  a  Handbook  and  writes: 

I  have  a  new  Power's  Six  A  ^-rojector,  which  is  working  fine. 
I  also  have  a  mercury  arc  rectifier  which  is  very  hard  to  start. 
The  tube  will  tip  but  seems  to  stick  there,  but  the  arc  hu'-ns  fine 
when  I  finally  get  it  going.  Do  you  think  the  trouble  is  in  the 
magnet?     If  you  can  suggest  anything  I   would  be  glad  to  try  it. 

I  have  forwarded  your  letter  to  the  Rectifier  Department  of  the  General 
Electric  Company  with  request  that  tn  y  fix  you  up.  Power's  Six  A 
machine  seems  to  oe  giving  very  general  satisfaction. 


Light  Trouble. 

Excelsior   Springs,  Mo.,  propounds  the   following  inquiry 

Am  using  no  volts  d.  c,  with  a  Simplex  1913  Mode!  projector 
and  an  82-foot  throw.  Use  two  6l/2  and  one  7 r  >  condensers,  the 
6J4  next  the  arc.  Have  two-wing  shutter  and  only  a  very  slight 
ghost.  The  light  is  very  good  when  not  running  the  machine,  but 
when  running  it  gets  dark  all  over.  The  definition  is  sharp,  but 
the  above  trouble  refuses  to  be  remedied.  Have  thought  of  using 
narrower  shutters.  Would  that  help? 
When    the   machine   is   standing   still    the   lens   is    m  i    you   ar« 

getting  all  the  light  which  passes  through  the  aperture,  but  when  th« 
machine  is  running  the  revolving  shutter  cuts  approximately  50  per  cent. 
of  your  light;  therefore  the  illumination  is  only  half  a-  brilliant.  There  is 
no  way  of  overcoming  this  with  the  present  type  of  projector.  If  you 
make  your  shutter  blades  narrower  you  will  get  more  light,  but  you  will 
also  get  a  travel  ghost.  Presumably  by  "slight  ghost"  you  mean  travel 
ghost,  which  would,  if  only  one  way,  indicate  that  your  shutter  needs 
adjustment.  If  both  ways,  the  shutter  blaae  is  too  narrow,  or  too  far 
from   the  lens. 


Mixing  Colors  for  Card  Work. 

Mr    J.    Sursh,  Coffeyville,  Kan.,  writes: 

I  have  not  heretofore  contributed  to  the  department  for  the 
simple  reason  that  I  am  not  an  operator  or  a  manager,  nor  am  I 
■  in  any  way  directly  connected  with  the  motion  picture  business. 
In  traveling  over  the  country,  however,  I  have  noticed  a  great 
many  operators  are  using  prepared  water  colors  for  making  show 
cards  and  posters  for  theater  front  advertising.  I  also  find  that 
most  of  them  would  like  to  know  how  to  make  their  own  colors, 
and  although  I  do  not  believe  the  operator  should  have  to  do  sign 
work  and  other  things  around  a  theater,  still  many  operator- 
also  managers,  particularly  in  the  small  towns,  and  they  seem  to 
like  to  do  this  work.  I  had  supposed  that  every  one  able  to  exe- 
cute a  show  card  knew  how  to  mix  the  colors,  but  it  seems  they 
do  not,  and  for  the  benefit  of  those  I  give  the  following:  Buy 
some  finely  ground  dry'  color,  of  the  shade  you  desire.  Dampen 
this  color  with  grain  alcohol  (wood  alcohol  is  bad  for  the  eyes), 
and  then,  with  a  knife  or  flat  cork,  grind  in  dextrin  mucilage  or 
Le  Page's  glue.  If  the  latter  is  used  you  will  have  to  first  thin 
it  with  a  little  water.  Dextrin  mucilage  can  be  made  by  dissolv- 
ing dextrin  in  water  until  a  point  of  suspension  is  reached.  Use 
boiling  water  and  add  about  20  drops  of  oil  of  cloves  to  every 
quart  of  dextrin.  The  best  dry  colors  I  have  found  can  be  pro- 
cured from  the  Detroit  School  of  Lettering,  Detroit,  Mich.,  the 
price  ranging  from  25  cents  to  Si. 45  for  a  half-pound  package, 
with  the  exception  of  Persian  scarlet  and  purple,  which  always 
sell  at  the  market  price.  For  rapid  one-stroke  work  in  water  colors 
this  school  furnishes  an  excellent  one-stroke  lettering  brush,  which 
beats  anything  I  have  ever  seen. 
Assuming  that  what  the  brother  has  set  forth  is  correct,  I  desire,  on 
behalf  of  our  department  readers,  to  cordially  thank  him  for  the  informa* 
tion  conveyed  in  his  letter.  I  am  sure  it  will  be  appreciated,  especially  by 
small  town   managers.      Information   of  this  Kind  is   of   distinct 


Rheostats  Overloaded. 

Harrisburg.   Pa.,  writes  as   follows: 

The  coils  of  my  rheostat  become  just  red  enough  -:  [  can  see  them 
in    the  dark.      All   my   connections   are   in   good  shape   and    I    clean 
them  twice  a  month.     We  have  our  wall  shutters  arranged   with  a 
master  cord,  as  per  the  handbook,  and   I  note  that  in   this   week's 
World  you   suggested   putting  a   piece  of   film  across  the   spreader. 
The   suggestion   is   already   followed.      You   bet   we  are   up   to   date 
in  this  theater!      We  run   nothing  over   12  days  old,   and  have   the 
best   projection  in   town,   using   two   Standard   machines.      Can   you 
charge  dry  cell  batteries  with  d.  c.  ?     I  think  you  can. 
The   brother   also   made   a   sketch   of  his   method   of  keeping  the   reels   in 
the    operating   room,   but    I    could    not    quite    understand.      Do   you    have   a 
special  can   made,   or   what?      As   to   the    rheostat,   it   is    overloaded  a   little, 
but  if  you  can   only  faintly  discern   the  redness   in   the   dark  the  matter  is 
not  serious.      It  will   do  no   more   than   shorten  the  life   of  the  coils  some- 
what.     As   to   "charging   dry   cells   with   d.   c,"   I    do  not   understand   what 
you  mean.     On  page  387  of  the  handbook  you  will  find  a  method  by  which 
dry    cells    may    be    renewed.      If   that    is    the   kind    of  cell    you    are   talking 
about,  you  cannot  charge  them  with  current.     Storage  batteries   are  charged 
with  d.  c. 


That  Quiver  Explained. 

From  Mr.  Wm.  Long  comes  the  following: 

Some   time  ago   I   sent  a  picture  of  the   Atlantic   City   operators. 
Attached  find  a  newspaper  clipping  which  shows  we  mean  business. 
Now,  as  to  that  quiver  we  were  talking  about.     About  three  years 
ago  a  friend  came  to  me  with  the  same  proposition,  and  I  laughed 
at    him,    but   went    to   see    for    myself.      From    the    operating    room 
objects  really  appeared  to  quiver  on  the  screen.     In  the  center  of 
the  house  I  could  just  see  it  a  little,  but  down  in  front  the  quiver 
was  entirely  absent,  so   I  walked  slowly  back,  watching  the  screen 
all   the   time,   and  discovered   the   trouble,   and   what   do   you  think 
it  was?     Simply  the  effect  caused  by  the  heat  arising  in  the  center 
of  the  house,   the   same  as   you   often  see   it   in   the  summer  time. 
Very  likely  the  brother  who  is   troubled  with  the   quiver  will  find 
that  it  is  due  to  exactly  the  same  thing.     There  are  five  new  houses 
going  up  in  Atlantic  City.     We  now  have  one  seating  1,900. 
As  to  the  quiver,  your  explanation  certainly  is  unique,  brother  Long,  and 
it  is  passed  on  to  the  department   fans  for  their  consideration.     The  news- 
paper clipping  says  that  the  operators'  union   (I.  B.  E.  W.)  was  formed  to 
assist    in   the   enforcement   of   city   ordinances   in   reference  to   having   none 
but   reliable   licensed    operators    in    the    moving   picture   theater*    of   Atlantic 
City. 


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OTGUK  MAX  AND  THE  STAGE  DRIVER"  (Selig),  April 
le  title  picks  out  the  two  heroes  (.William  Duncan  and  Tom  Mix) 
who  bravely  hold  off  ;t  gang  of  desperados  from  robbing  the  stage.  That  is 
all,  except  the  love  episode  at  the  end;  but  there  is  action  all  through  and 
the  picture  held  the  attention  pretty  well.  It  is  set  in  the  same  country 
with  other  recent  Selig  offerings  by  this  company  and  the  photography 
is  fair. 

"THE  SHERIFF'S  WIFE"  (Essanay),  April  9. — A  fair  commercial  of- 
fering made  by  Arthur  Mackley  and  his  usual  company.  There  is  noth- 
ing new  in  it  and  the  first  half  is  rather  slow.  This  company  is  intelli- 
gent in  acting  and  the  photography  is  fair.  The  sheriff's  wife  hiding  in  the 
trunk   and   springing  up  at  the    robbers   got  a   laugh. 

"THE  PURSUIT  OF  THE  SMUGGLERS"  (Kalem),  April  9.—  A  melo- 
drama, rather  old  style;  but  with  good  scenes  taken,  it  seems,  around  the 
harbor  of  New  York  and  in  Great  South  Bay.  Such  pictures  are  made  by 
forcing  a  love  story  into  a  story  of  adventure  and  most  of  our  releases  of 
all  makes  are  of  this  pattern.  The  story's  best  point  is  its  pictures  of  ships 
and  small  wharves.  The  photography  is  only  fair.'  The  audience  watched 
the  picture.  Earlt  Fox  with  Irene  Boyle  play  the  romantic  leads  and  Stew- 
art Holmes  is  the  villain. 

"THE  WELL  SICK  MAN"  (Edison),  April  9.— A  farce  by  Charles 
Menges  that  gave  some  laughter  to  a  few  in  the  audience.  There  is  noth- 
ing new  in  it  and  we  have  heard  audiences  laugh  more  heartily  at  these 
same  things  before  many  times.  Laura  Sawyer,  Charles  Sutton,  Benjamin 
Wilson  and  Jessie  McAllister  have  roles.    L,  S.  Dawley  produced  it. 

"OUT  OF  THE  STORM"  (Vitagraph),  April  9.— The  best  offering  of 
today's  regular  releases,  but  it  is  not  a  great  picture.  Gertrude  Lane  is 
the  authoress  and  Wilfred  North  the  producer.  The  primary  statement 
does  not  build  up  to  the  situation  very  smoothly.  The  first  scene  should 
have  shown  that  the  woman  had  a  sick  child  and  then  we  should  have  been 
told  that  a  storm  was  brewing,  so  that  we  might  have  understood  the 
woman's  being  so  startled.  The  lightning  scene  when  the  telephone  was 
cut  was  fine — we  didn't  know  that  it  had  disconnected  the  house.  That 
subtitle  about  the  little  one's  photograph  was  a  bit  sickly.  The  man  ought 
to  have  asked  for  one  that  he  had  noticed.  Rosemary  Theby,  as  the  woman, 
is  just  what  was  right  and  Harry  Northrup,  as  the  burglar,  is  also  good. 

"TOO  MUCH  PARCELS  POST"  (Patheplay),  April  9.— There  is 
newness  rather  than  real  freshness  in  this  farce  in  which  a  country  postman 
has  to  lug  a  stove,  eggs,  that  are  called  fresh,  but  hatch  before  he  can  de- 
liver them;  a  baby,  a  cat  and  her  family,  etc.,  including  a  goat,  dog  and 
dynamite.  There  was  little  laughter.  The  picture  seemed  distressing  rather 
than  funny.      Charles  Arling  deserves  credit  surely. 

"FOUND  OUT"  (Essanay),  April  10. — A  comedy  of  embarrassing  mis- 
understandings with  Augustus  Carney  and  Eleanor  Blanchard  in  the  lead- 
ing roles,  the  one,  the  master  of  the  house;  the  other,  his  Swedish  cook. 
Gertrude  Scott  plays  his  wife,  to  whom  some  officious  friends  bring  a  false 
report  that  makes  her  jealous  of  some  unknown  "serving  girl."  John  Step- 
pling  is  the  cop  on  the  beat,  married  to  Miss  Willis,  but  flirting  with 
Swedish  Eleanor  for  the  sake  of  goodies  in  the  kitchen.  The  relationships 
in  the  early  part  of  the  picture  are  obscure  and  this  hinders  it,  but  as  soon 
as  we  get  the  thread,  it  becomes  an  amusing  comedy  and  the  audience 
seemed  to  enjoy  it.  Good  comedy-acting  makes  plenty  of  laughter.  The 
photography  is  clear. 

"TOMMY'S  ATONEMENT"  (Selig),  April  10.— A  pretty  picture  full  of 
sweet  sentiment  and  pleasing  scenes.  The  story  is  not  wholly  new  and  is 
built  on  the  plan  of  the  old-time  Sunday  school  book;  that  is.  it  has  a  good 
and  wholesome  mora!.  It  is  good  to  have  pictures  like  this,  if  they  are  not 
too  frequent;  for  they  serve  a  healthy  purpose  and  are  popular  with  a  very 
large  block  of .  patrons.  It  was  produced  by  H.  Kirkland  from  J.  E. 
Hungerford's  script.  C.  Johnson  is  the  child;  Adrienne  Kroell,  the  mother; 
H.  Lonsdale,  the  old  musician,  and  a  player  who  takes  the  role  of  his  wife, 
not  named  but  noticeable  for  good  acting.  Mac.  Barnes  plays  a  hard  land- 
lord and  C.  Winterhoff,  the  boy's  father.     The  photograpny  is  very  good. 

"CUTEY  AND  THE  CHORUS  GIRLS"  (Vitagraph),  April  10.— A 
very  funny  picture,  full  of  laughs,  very  entertaining;  it  pleased  the  audi- 
ence markedly.  It  was  written  by  Mrs.  Breuil  in  a  playful  mood  and  suc- 
cessfully produced  by  James  Young.  Of  today's  comedies,  it  is  perhaps 
the  best  and  every  one  of  today's  releases  is  a  good  offering  to  the  money- 
paying  public.  Wallie  Van,  as  Cutey,  lives  up  to  his  role  and  is  well  as- 
sisted by  Flora  Finch,  the  most  tender-hearted  one  of  the  chorus;  by 
Hughie  Mack,  a  good  natured  comedian  whose  chortling  smile  is  catching, 
and  Harry  Lambert,  another  of  his  companions.  Leah  Baird  and  Lillian 
Walker  also  add  much.  The  Vitagraph  tall  man  is  in  it.  The  pnotogr*. 
phy  is  very  good. 

"THE  MAGIC  SHOES"  (Lubin),  April  10.— A  pleasing  little  offering  in 
comedy  vein,  giving  us  the  dream  of  a  cobbler  that  turns  out  to  be  only  a 
dream.  It  was  a  bit  too  slight  to  stage  in  the  best  way;  yet,  if  it  had  been 
done  expensively,  it  would  have  been  a  gem.  Clarence  Elmer  and  Jennie 
Nelson  play  the  leads  and  it  is  well  photographed. 


"ANGEL  CAKE  AND  AXEL  GREASE"  (Lubin),  April  10.— A  well 
worked-up  comedy  with  the  standard  ranch  setting.  It  might  have  been 
even  more  amusing,  if  the  title  had  not  let  the  "cat  out  of  the  bag"  before 
the  right  moment.  The  two  on  this  reel  make  a  very  fair  offering.  George 
Reehm  and  Frances  DeMoyer  play  the  leads  with  Walter  Stull  as  the 
villain,  Robert  Burns,  the  objecting  father  and  a  large  cast  including  In- 
dians, cowboys,  etc.    The  photography  is  very  fair. 

"AN  UNCLE  TOM'S  CABIN  TROUPE"  (Biograph),  April  10.— A 
dandy  comedy  offering.  There  is  a  touch  of  pathos  in  the  Uncle  Tom 
even  as  given  in  this  farcical  setting  and  the  laughter  that  springs  again 
and  still  again  is  unforced  ar-d  natural,  yet  compelling.  The  audience 
liked  the  offering,  no  doubt  of  it.  Grace  Lewis  is  Little  Eva.  A  large  num- 
ber of  the  best  Biograph  players  supported  the  picture  and  by  personal 
flashes  of  comical  characters  made  it  very  laughable.  The  photography  is 
clear  enough. 

"A  LESSON  TO  MASHERS"  (Biograph),  April  10.— Another  laundry 
farce  that  pleased  a  good  deal.  It  is  well  acted,  clearly  conducted  and 
photographed  and  gives  satisfactory  entertainment.  There  was  much 
laughter. 

"GOD  IS  LOVE"  (Patheplay),  April  10. — A  picture  made  after  one  of 
Tolstoy's  stories  and  a  very  effective  offering.  It  reaches  a  higher  plane 
than  any  picture  that  we  have  seen  for  a  long  while  and,  in  many  of  its 
scenes,  is  truly  great.  We  have  never  seen  an  ascension  scene  that  really 
got  over:  they  all  seem  mechanical.  The  reason  is  that  they  all  are  carried 
up  through  the  roof,  whereas  the  figures  ought  to  disappear  as  soon  as  we 
see  them  beginning  to  rise.  We  ought  not  to  see  the  tail  ends  of  robes; 
they  are  too  material.  Another  thing  would  have  made  this  picture  more 
effective.  It  would  have  been  better,  if  the  cobbler  had  gone  back  to  his 
hammering  tor  a  couple  of  strokes  after  greeting  each  of  his  visitors  that 
came  to  him  in  place  of  Christ.  Coming  as  they  do,  one  after  the  other, 
makes  the  picture  constrained.  The  acting,  on  the  whole  is  excellent.  But 
that  starving  woman  was  very  well  nourished — there  are  thin  players  in  the 
business.  The  photography  is  very  good.  It  is  a  fine,  a  very  desirable  of- 
fering, one  that  ought  not  to  be  missed.  The  producer  deserves  great 
credit. 

"THE  TOLL  OF  FEAR"  (Lubin),  April  10.— We  have  already  reviewed 
this  picture  at  length,  before  release,  on  page  28,  issue  of  April  5th,  1913. 
It  is  a  two-reel  special  offering  and  it  certainly  compels  our  admiration  for 
Romaine  Fielding,  author,  producer  and  cast — he  plays  a  double  role,  a 
sheriff  and  brother,  two  characters  who  look  alike,  but  are  different.  It  is 
a  tragic  picture  of  fear.  People  of  strong  imagination  are  apt,  if  they 
have  Celtic  or  Gothic  blood,  to  exploit  the  morbid  in  their  art  (both  Poe 
and  Hawthorne  did)  and  because  this  realm  of  unrestrained  emotions  of- 
fers the  easiest  way  to  affect  cruder  minds,  to  bring  them  in  touch  with 
that  strange  sense  of  the  infinite  that  we  northern  races  have  developed 
before  all  people.  The  upspring  of  Gothic  arches  is  ours  and  also  the 
plummet  line  into  the  shadows.  With  the  latter  belongs  this  offering.  It  is 
two  reels  of  unrelieved  horror.  There  were  people  in  the  audience  who 
thought  it  was  "great  and  wonderful";  but  some  thought  it  was  "too  terri- 
ble," and  one  man,  we  noticed  turning  away  from  it,  refused  to  give  us 
his  opinion.     It  affected  us  unpleasantly. 

"THE  KENTISH  COAST"  (Eclipse),  April  9.— A  short  trip  to  several 
of  the  seaside  resorts  on  the  English  south  coast.  It  includes  a  fine  pic- 
ture of  the  chalk  cliffs  of  Dover,  that  give  the  sobriquet  of  Albion  to 
England.     It  is  a  very  interesting  offering. 

"MAKING  BIRCH  BROOMS"  (Eclipse),  April  9.— On  the  same  reel, 
is  this  little  topical  that  is  much  better  entertainment  than  the  usual  offer- 
ing of  this  kind;  for  it  was  taken  by  the  hut  of  as  fine  a  specimen  of  Eng- 
lish peasant  as  one  could  find.  The  old  man  makes  brooms  so  fast  and  so 
cleverly  that  he  was  applauded  heartily  by  the  audience.  The  photography 
is  perfect. 

"AN  UP-TO-DATE  AVIATOR"  (Eclipse),  April  9.— A  vaudeville 
sketch  played  by  a  clown  and  with  trick  photography.  It  offers  nothing 
new  and  made  very  little  laughter. 

"THE  CAPTURE  OF  A  WILD  CAT"  (Edison),  April  11.— Shows  the 
capturing  of  a  wild  cat  that  had  been  pillaging  a  hen  roost.  Two  men  and 
a  dog  make  a  spirited  chase  and  capture.  But,  considering  the  picture  as 
entertainment,  we  are  in  doubt  of  its  value.  Some  in  the  audience  liked  it; 
some  didn't.  The  trouble  is  that  the  cat  puts  up  a  good  fight  and  the  odds 
against  it  are  too  great.  The  photography  is  clear  enough  to  show  what 
happens. 

"RU*LE  THYSELF"  (Edison),  April  11. — This  little  comedy  made  a 
good  deal  of  laughter  and  its  author,  Frank  Hart,  deserves  credit  for  hitting 
the  mark  several  times  in  real  comedy.  C.  J.  Williams  produced  it  with 
Herbert  Prior  in  the  leading  role,  as  a  man  who  is  trying  to  control  a  bad 
temper.  Edwin  O'Connor,  as  an  Irishman  who  shows  him  how  to  light  a 
cigar  in  the  wind,  added  a  good  deal.  Mrs.  C.  J.  Williams  plays  the  man's 
wife  and  Arthur  Housman,  her  brother.  Richard  Ridgely  makes  good  fun 
in    the    scene    in    the    man's    office. 

"THE  LITTLE  MOTHER"  (Essanay),  April  11.— A  picture  of  senti- 
ment with  good  comedy  breaking  through  it;  at  times  it  falls  into  senti- 
mentality.    The   little  mother   is   Ruth    Stonehouse,  a   girl   of  the  tenements- 


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who  is  left  with  two  little  sisters  to  take  care  of  and  with  only  what  help 
a  newsboy  brother  can  give.  The  charity  organization,  directed  by  Rev. 
£.  il.  Calvert,  attempts  to  take  the  two  girls  from  her;  but  neither  the  po- 
l.ce  force  nor  the  fire  department  is  able  to  get  them.  Then  there  is  the 
usual  pleasant  ending.  The  audience  liked  the  picture  and  was  moved  by 
it.  Yet  a  much  greater  offering  might  have  been  made  of  this  situation,  if 
the    writer  had  taken   time   to  develop  it  along  truly   human   lines. 

■THE  SPLIT  NUGGET"  (Lubin),  April  n.— Th*»  two  children  have 
each  one-half  of  the  split  nugget.  It  is  an  Indian  story  and  we  have  re- 
viewed a  great  number  of  pictures  like  it.  The  author  is  Wilbert  Melville; 
but  surely  he  deserves  no  great  credit.  The  players  are  commendable — 
Laura  Nevius,  Irene  Hunt,  Henry  King,  Carl  von  Schiller,  and  Joseph  Hol- 
land.    The  backgrounds  and  photography  will  be  liked. 

'•THE  ANALYSIS  OF  MOTION"  (Patheplay),  April  n.— This  unusual 
offering  gives  us  pictures  of  things  in  motion,  a  jet  of  water,  a  bullet  fired 
from  a  gun,  etc.,  taken  a  hundred  times  faster  than  the  normal  so  we  are 
made  to  see  things  happen  that  the  eye  alone  never  can  catch.  It  most 
surely  will   interest. 

"THE  LOCUST"  (Patheplay),  April  n.— A  glimpse  into  the  life  of  one 
o.  our  interesting  summer  visitors. 

■WITH  LOVE'S  EYES"  (Selig),  April  n.— The  beautiful  actress  is 
burned  in  a  fire  and  disfigured.  Her  rich  lover  turns  from  her.  The  fire- 
man who  truly  loved  her  and  who  saved  her  from  the  fire,  has  been  blinded 
and  never  knows  that  she  is  not  as  beautiful  as  when  he  saw  her  last. 
This  is  a  good,  affecting  situation,  but  not  a  wholly  new  one.  It  has  been 
intelligently  acted  by  Kathlyn  Williams  in  the  lead,  fairly  well  supported 
by  Harold  Lockwood  and  others.  The  picture  was  produced  by  L.  B. 
Parker  from  a  script  by  E.  C.  Hall.  The  photography  is  clear.  Most  of 
the  audience  seemed  to  be  watching  closely. 

"THE  SCIMITAR  OF  THE  PROPHET"  (Kalem),  April  M.-An  in- 
teresting, but  rather  boldly  conceived  story  of  some  brash  tourists  who 
steal  the  scimitar  of  Mohammed  from  a  mosque  in  Egypt  and  escape  to 
New  York.  The  vengeance  of  Allah  follows.  The  staging  of  this  offering 
is  remarkably  fine — we  don't  know  that  the  picture  wasn't  produced  partly 
in  Egypt.  Where  those  scenes  came  from  we  don't  know.  It  was  brash 
to  undertake  this  story;  we  have  seen  more  failures  than  successes  with 
stories  like  this.  But  it  surely  held  the  audience,  though  at  the  climax, 
stronger  acting  would  have  made  it  better.  The  photography  is  good.  Earle 
Foxe  with  Alice  Hollister  plays  the  lead,  well  supported  by  Robert  Vign- 
ola,  as  the  Mohammedan  priest. 

"THE  INDESTRUCTIBLE  MR.  JENKS"  (Kalem),  April  n.— A  farce 
on  the  same  reel  that  surely  is  a  success  as  a  laugh-getter.  Ruth  Roland 
makes  biscuits  for  hubby.  Mother  never  made  any  like  them.  John  Bren- 
nan,  who  is  hubby,  has  had  an  eventful  day;  even  a  steam-roller  has  run 
over  him.  Coming  home  one  or  two  of  the  biscuits  fall  on  his  head  and 
Ruth  wears  black. 

"WANTED— A  STRONG  HAND"  (Vitagraph),  April  n.— Norma  Tal- 
madge,  the  child  incorrigible,  needs  a  "strong  hand,"  so  her  father  (Van 
Dyke  Brooke)  marries  widow  Price;  but  it  makes  no  difference  till  the 
widow's  little  boy  (Hughey  Mack)  comes.  The  fun  comes  most  from  the 
unexpected  quarter  from  which  the  hand  is  supplied  and  a  good  deal  of  it 
is  in  Hughey.  It  surely  made  fun  for  the  audience.  The  authoress  is 
Widow  Price  herself.  May  she  write  more.  The  producer  is  Van  Dyke 
Brooke. 

"LAYING  A  MARINE  CABLE"  (Vitagraph),  April  n.— On  the  same 
reel  is  this  very  instructive  topical  which  we  are  sure  will  interest.  It  is 
clearly  photographed  and  shows  much. 

"MINNIE,  THE  WIDOW"  (Lubin),  April  14—  A  farce  in  a  summer- 
land  setting  and  with  a  hotel-life  flavor.  It  is  an  amusing  picture,  but  not 
one  that  makes  much  loud  laughter.  There  were  some  laughs  and  many 
smiles.  Mae  Hotely  plays  the  lead  as  the  widow,  so  charming  that  she 
quite  eclipses  the  chances  of  her  daughter  (Frances  DeMoyer)  and  who, 
when  she  finds  how  things  are,  dresses  in  a  different  style  and  the  men 
crowd  around  Elsie.  It  was  produced  by  Arthur  Hotaling  from  the  script 
of  E.  W.  Sargent.    The  scene-making  and  the  photography  are  commendable. 

"ONE  ON  ROMANCE"  (Lubin),  April  14. — Some  time  ago  a  picture 
was  produced  in  which  a  leading  woman  wore  a  very  low-cut  dress  and 
it  caused,  in  some  localities,  unfavorable  comment.  Now  it  didn't  seem 
at  all  outrageous  to  us  nor  does  this  picture  in  which  the  same  thing 
happens.  It  is  a  burlesque  and  made  a  good  deal  of  laughter,  chiefly,  we 
think,  because  it  really  pokes  fun  at  certain  earnest,  but  very  poor  motion 
pictures.  Anita  Bresman  wrote  the  script  which  E.  Middleton  produced. 
Eleanor    Caines    and    Frank    DeVernon    play    the    leads. 

"MR.  MINTERN'S  MISADVENTURES"  (Vitagraph),  April  14.— A 
pleasing  picture,  taken  on  shipboard  by  Maurice  Costello  and  W.  Ranous. 
It  is  a  slight  love  story  and  borders  on  the  melodramatic  only  to  keep  it 
interesting.  Its  chief  charm  comes  from  the  players  who  are  restrained 
and  natural.  The  man  is  M.  Costello;  the  girl,  Clara  K.  Young.  James 
Young  plays  a  detective  who  nearly  makes  trouble,  thinking  that  Costello 
is  the  man  he  "wants,"  but  who  turns  out  to  be  a  good  angel  in  disguise. 
The   photography  is  clear  enough  to  give  the   story. 

'TATHE'S  WEEKLY"  (April  14)-— It  makes  a  good  number  this  week, 
there  being  several  items  of  great  interest,  including  clear  views  of  the 
devastation  caused  by  tornado  in  Omaha  and  of  floods  in  Dayton  and 
Hamilton,  Ohio.  There  is  a  good  view  of  the  woman  police  officer  of 
Los   Angeles,   Cal.,   Alice   Stebbins. 

"A  WISE  OLD  ELEPHANT"  (Selig),  April  14.— This  offering  has 
been  reviewed  at  length  on  page   142,  issue  of  April  10,   1913. 

"A  STREAK  OF  YELLOW"  (Kalem),  April  14.— Graceful,  sensible  act- 
ing gives  character  to  this  picture.  It  is  one  of  the  best  offerings  among 
today's  regular  releases,  chiefly  on  account  of  this  and  of  its  clear  photog- 
raphy. The  situation  is  surely  now  new;  for  the  pretty  heroine  is  burned 
on  the  face  and  of  her  two  lovers  the  accepted  one  is  made  to  show  the 
yellow  streak.  He  refuses  her  and  the  other  takes  her.  Then  it  is  shown 
that  she  wasn't  really  scarred  after  all.  There  is,  however,  much  that  is 
new    in    the   development   and   it  is   made   very   satisfactory.      The   audience 


liked  it  and  we  also  di^.  Alice  Joyce  plays  the  girl;  Tom  Moore,  the  hero, 
and  Stephen  Purdee,  the  villain.  There  is  some  fine  acting  from  allthree. 
"THE  WOODMAN'S  DAUGHTER"  (Selig),  April  14.— A  dull  picture. 
The  acting  is  fair;  but  the  story  is  old  style  and  the  photography  is  rather 
flat.  The  author  does  not  deserve  much  credit.  It  was  produced  by  F.  W. 
Huntly.  Herbert  Rawlinson,  Margaritta  Loveridge  and  Eleanor  Blevini 
play    the    leads. 

"HE  HAD  A  GUESS  COMING"  (Biograph),  April  14.— A  farce  in 
which  the  joke  that  is  coming  at  the  end  is  too  clearly  apparent  from  other 
pictures  like  it  that  we  all  have  seen.  Grace  Lewis,  Edward  Dillon  and 
others   have   roles.      There   was   some   laughter;    not  a   great   deal. 

"A  HORSE  ON  BILL"  (Biograph),  April  14. — An  excellent  burlesque 
that  gave  unflagging  entertainment.  It  kept  a  ripple  going  all  through 
and  there  was  a  roar  of  laughter  at  the  end.  One  of  the  best  comic 
offerings  the  Biograph  people  have  put  out  for  some  weeks.  Edward  Dillon 
and    Charles   West  have   the  leads   and    make    good   in   them. 

"ON  THE  NEBI  RIVER,  EAST  AFRICA"  (Cines),  April  12.— A  sho?t 
film  that  is  full  of  merit.  Some  good  portraits  of  the  people  of  the  coun- 
try.    It  is  hand-colored. 

"KEEPING  TAB  ON  SAMMY"  (Cines),  April  12.— A  dull  comedy.  It 
has  some  very  pretty  scenes;  but  much  talking  and  too  little  action. 

"THE  HAPPY  HOME"  (Patheplay),  April  12.— A  picture  with  an 
unusually   poor    scenario.      The    director   couldn't   save    it. 

"THE  CALIFORNIA  OIL  CROOKS"  (Kalem),  April  12.— It  is  easy  to 
write  such  pictures  as  this,  which,  at  bottom,  are  only  a  few  stock  prop- 
erty incidents  connected  into  a  story.  The  cause  of  this  one  seems  to  have 
been  a  good  view  of  a  burning  oil  derrick. 

"PETE  TRIES  THE  STAGE"  (Lubin),  April  12.— A  good  comedy 
offering,  written  by  shannon  Fif  and  produced  by  Barry  O'Neil.  As 
usual  in  these  Pete  stories,  it  features  Mrs.  George  B.  Walters  and  Peter 
Lang  in  a  love  story.  Both  are  past  masters  at  this  sort  of  thing  and  it; 
success  is  largely  due  to  their  acting.  A  large  number  of  people  are  in 
the  picture,  as  an  audience  at  Pete's  opening  as  Falstaff,  and  the  pro- 
ducer has  made  a  good"  audience  of  them — they  don't  like  the  play  and 
don't  mind  who  knows  it.  Before  Falstaff  begins  the  comedy  business 
in  his  role,  Pete's  playing  is  charming;  it  makes  us  feel  sure  that  he  would 
make  a  hit  in  that  part.  Mrs.  Walters  is  the  agent  that  got  him  the  job 
and  when  he  failed,  made  room  in  her  heart  for  him.  Richard  Morris 
plays  a  lodging-house  keeper  who  finds  his  unpaid  rent  acting  on  the 
stage  and  demands  his  money  right  in  the  middle  of  the  act.  It  is  clearly 
photographed  and  there  is  no  doubt  that  the  people  liked  it. 

"THE  MYSTERY  OF  THE  STOLEN  CHILD"  (Vitagraph),  April  12.— 
A  comedy  that  is  slight,  but  very  charming  and  fresh.  Hazel  Neason  is 
the  authoress  and  it  was  produced  by  M.  Costello  and  W.  Ranous.  It 
cleverly  keeps  us  expecting  that  the  child  (Helen  Costello)  is  going  to  be 
stolen;  for  George  Cooper  has  read  that  she  is  heir  to  millions  and  has 
got  his  gang  on  the  job.  C.  K.  Young  has  been  sent  to  get  the  position 
of  nurse  in  the  child's  family;  but  has  grown  very  affectionate  toward  her 
charge.  She  manages  to  protect  her  at  every  turn.  The  photography  is 
excellent   and    the   story    makes   a   first  class  offering. 

"BRONCHO  BILLY'S  REASON"  (Essanay),  April  12.— A  picture  that 
has  a  good  deal  to  commend  it,  from  the  average  spectator's  standpoint. 
The  situation  and  the  story  are  not  new  or  startlingly  interesting;  but  they 
give  a  good  chance  for  galloping  of  horses  and  this  is  an  item  that  Broncho 
Billy's  men  are  past  masters  at.  Audiences  still  like  to  see  horses  too. 
It    is    fairly    photographed. 

"THE  MAN  WHO  WOULDN'T  MARRY"  (Edison),  April  12.— The 
kind  of  picture  that  is  likely  to  cause  discussion  among  the  people  as  they 
walk  home.  Indeed,  some  around  us  took  up  the  advantages  and  disad- 
vantages of  matrimony  while  the  man  upstairs  was  putting  the  next  offer- 
ing in  the  machine.  Annesley  Burrowes  wrote  the  script,  which  is  fresh 
in  a  measure,  though  there  is  not  much  "bite"  to  it;  it  doesn't  get  very 
much  below  the  surface  of  things.  Walter  Edwin  is  the  producer.  The 
center  of  interest  is  Marc  MacDermott,  who  proposed  to  a  millionaire's 
daughter  (Priscilla  Dean)  and  was  disposed  of  by  her  sensible  father 
(A.  Phillips).  Many  years  later  he  falls  in  love  with  Miriam  Nesbitt,  but. 
so  it  seems,  is  not  able  to  propose  to  her  and  so  remains  an  old  bachelor. 
It  is  the  acting  and  general  character  of  the  .production  that  gives  interest 
to  it,  not  the  story;  but  even  it  is  commendable.  Bigelow  Cooper,  Robert 
Brower  and  Richard  Tucker  have  good  roles.  The  photography  is  good. 
The   picture   first   shows   us  the   old   man    who  then  tells   the  story. 

"THE  LITTLE  TEASE"  (Biograph),  April  12.— In  this  picture  we  see 
the  Biograph  at  its  best.  It  is  a  story  of  today  and  of  anywhere — the 
story  of  the  unsophisticated  girl  whose  head  is  turned  by  a  smooth  stranger, 
who  leaves  her  home  and  parents  to  go  with  him,  only  to  discover  that 
there  is  another,  of  polish  and  worldlywise,  with  whom  her  newly  found 
friend  and  supposed  protector  is  really  in  love.  The  charm  of  this  story 
lies  in  the  natural  acting.  Most  of  the  work  falls  to  Mae  Marsh  and 
William  Christie  Miller.  Henry  Walthall  is  the  stranger  and  Robert 
Herron  the  lover  who  for  the  time  is  neglec'-d.  The  film  exceeds  the 
regulation  thousand  feet,  and  the  surplus  is  amply  justified.  There  are 
many  strong  situations.  One  was  where  the  old  father — his  daughter 
gone  and  his  wife  just  laid  at  rest,  her  death  the  result  of  shock — re- 
nounces the  Bible;  a  second  is  where  the  girl  sees  her  supposed  lover  in 
the  embrace  of  another;  a  third  is  where  the  girl,  found  by  her  old  sweet- 
heart working  in  a  restaurant,  declines  to  return  to  her  home;  the  best 
of  all,  however,  is  where  the  father  puts  the  lantern  in  the  window  and 
hangs    out    the    latch-string — and    the    ensuing    reconciliation. 

"IN  THE  DAYS  OF  WAR"  (Pathe),  April  12. — Here  is  a  two-reel 
special,  made  in  America,  based  on  the  old,  ever  young,,  story  of  the 
"North  and  South.  There  is  a  sustained  interest  throughout  the  two  parts. 
The  acting  is  strong,  melodramatic,  perhaps,  but  the  chief  actors,  Paul 
W.  Panzer  and  Crane  Wilbur,  were  portraying  stirring  times.  Much  may 
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the  destruction  of  a  railroad  by  means  of  ripping  up  the  rails  and  ties 
and  heating  and  twisting  the  rails  and  burning  the  ties.  There  are  sev- 
eral   battle  scenes,    which   are  well   handled. 

GOD'S  WAV  (Selig),  April  1;. — This  is  a  much  better  picture  than 
its  title  led  us  to  expect.  It  tells  a  slight  story  that  is  not  at  all  dramatic, 
but  is  truer  to  life  and  humanity  than  usual.  It  is  sweet  and  wholesome 
and.  finely  acted  as  it  is,  we  feel  sure  that  it  will  widely  please.  The 
players  are  natural  and  most  engaging  in  the  simple  way  in  which  they 
embody  their  roles.  The  photography  is  clear  and  has  quality.  Hardee 
Kirkland  produced  it  from  the  script  of  Chris  Lane.  Harry  Lonsdale  is 
a  pardoned,  innocent  convict;  Gloria  Gallup  is  his  wife;  and  a  personable 
younger  player,  who  deserves  mention,  takes  the  role  of  a  girl  whom 
they  adopt.     William   Stowell  plays  a  good  tough,   father   of  the  girl. 

"HANKOW,  CHINA"  (Selig),  April  15.— On  the  same  reel  with  the 
above  is  this  clearly  photographed  picture  of  the  great  tea  market  in  China. 
It  has  a  thrill  in  a  series  of  views  taken  from  a  tram  coming  down  a 
steep  slope  very   fast. 

"THE  PAWNED  BRACELET"  (Lubin),  April  15.—  The  best  scenarios 
are  those  that  take  up  a  bit  of  real  life  for  us  and  criticise  it;  their  stories 
have  some  basis  in  fact  that  we  can  touch,  handle  and  examine.  It  is  re- 
markable how  few  pictures  do  this  and  we  call  attention  to  this  offering  as 
showing  what  we  mean.  There  are  said  to  be  a  great  many  women  whose 
husbands  are  rich,  but  who  have  no  allowance  or  regular  pin  money.  In 
this  picture,  one  of  these  women  (Lottie  Briscoe)  has  to  pawn  a  bracelet 
given  to  her  by  her  husband  (Arthur  Johnson).  In  getting  it  back  to  her 
again.  Howard  Mitchell,  who  is  acting  for  one  of  her  woman  friends,  plays 
the  fool  and  gets  her  into  trouble  with  her  husband;  but  there  is  a  happy 
ending.  We  heartily  commend  the  offering  as  worth  while.  It  was  pro- 
duced by  Arthur  Johnson  from  George  Terwilliger's  script.  Every  char- 
acter in  it  is  graceful  and  human  and  the  sets  and  photography  are  perfect. 
Miss  Briscoe  is  growing  better  looking  every  picture  and  she  has  some 
pretty  new  gowns.     A  good  offering. 

"THE  FORTUNE"  (Vitagraph),  April  15.— While  there  were  very  few- 
laughs  over  this  Bunny  picture  there  is  much  of  it  truly  amusing.  The 
situation  is  good  and  the  acting  of  Bunny,  at  times,  hits  the  mark  squarely. 
The  development  from  the  situation  was  old  in  Shakespeare's  time  and  has 
been  used  in  a  number  of  pictures  and  perhaps  this  did  a  good  deal  to 
keep  laughter  down.  Bunny  is  told  by  a  fortune  teller  that  he  will  soon 
be  rich.  He  doesn't  worry,  but  gets  drunk  to  celebrate.  Some  jovial 
practical  jokers  take  him  home  and  make  him  think  that  his  fortune  has 
come  true  and  the  following  evening  when  he  is  drunk  again  take  him  to 
his  home.     The  photography  is  fair.     It  was  produced  by  Wilfred  North. 

"THE  FIRE  OF  VENGEANCE"  (Patheplay),  April  15.— An  interest- 
ing picture  with  a  new  twist,  a  new  kind  of  vengeance.  A  marchioness 
buys  all  the  paintings  of  an  artist  whom  she  hates  and,  after  ten  years, 
invites  him  to  an  "exhibition"  where  he  has  to  see  them  burn.  That 
climax  is  very  well  done  and  effective  and  the  release  a  commendable 
offering  to  the  public.  The  sets  and  photography  are  good  and  the  acting 
is  fair.     It  is  a  picture  made  in  France. 

"THE  ACCUSATION  OF  BRONCHO  BILLY"  (Essanay),  April  15.— 
Broncho  walks  in  his  sleep  and  takes  gold  dust  belonging  to  some  miners 
who,  next  day,  think  he  stole  it.  They  are  going  to  hang  him  when  they 
find   him  asleep,   but   putting  it  back.      It   is  not   a  great  picture. 

"THE  ROCKY  MOUNTAINS  IN  WINTER"  (Edison),  April  15.— 
Some  good  views   of  snowy  hills  and  valleys. 

"JONES  GOES  SHOPPING"  (Edison),  April  15.— This  picture,  by 
Susan  Dyer,  gives  a  woman's  version  of  a  man  shopping.  Mrs.  Jones 
(Mrs.  C.  J.  Williams)  gives  to  the  husband  (Herbert  Prior)  a  bit  of  cloth 
to  match  and  be  has  his  troubles  in  the  department  store.  The  offering 
was  very  popular  with  the  women  and  they  laughed  heartily  over  it.  The 
men  grinned.  It  is  one  of  C.  J.  Williams'  productions  and  is  a  success. 
Mr.   Prior  is  popular   as  a  comedian;   it  is  hardly   necessary   to   say  it. 

"THE  NEW  PUPIL"  (Edison),  April  15.— A  picture  of  pretty  scenes 
and  pretty  acting.  The  story  gives  an  impression  of  being  cheaply  written 
without  care  or  much  trouble  and,  in  itself,  gives  little  entertainment. 
The  producer,  George  Lessey,  might  have  saved  it  in  one  or  two  places. 
That  tough-mug  janitor  didn't  help  to  make  it  convincing  and  in  no 
scene  was  there  any  touch  that  made  it  seem  like  Paris.  Augustus  Phillips 
and  Mabel  Trunnelle  play  the  leads.  It  is  clearly  photographed.  The 
author  is  John  MacCormac. 


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"NATHAN  HALE"  (Kinemacolor). — Here  is  a  historical  drama  that  will 
more  than  interest — it  will  charm.  It  marks  the  beginning  of  a  series  that 
will  portray  the  lives  of  great  men.  The  best  scene  in  the  film  is  a  pano- 
ramic view  of  the  British  camp.  Many  redcoats,  afoot  and  mounted,  are 
being  drilled,  and  make  an  impressive  picture.  The  use  of  the  American  flag 
at  General  Washington's  headquarters  in  1776  will  be  pardoned  as  a  his- 
torical license.  The  photography  is  excellent  and  the  acting  acceptable. 
Gaston  Bell  plays  Nathan  Hale.  The  representation  of  Washington  is  well 
done.  Much  care  was  used  in  the  selection  of  backgrounds.  While  the  pic- 
ture was  made  in  California  the  topography  will  easily  pass  for  the  neigh- 
borhood of  Long  Island   Sound. 

"THE  BERNESE  OBERLAND.  SWITZERLAND"  (Kinemacolor).— 
Fine  scenic,  one  of  the  best  scenes  being  of  the  Jungfrau. 

"KEEPING  UP  WITH  HUBBY"  (Kinemacolor).— A  comedy,  with  a  bit 
of  fun  in  it,  but  notable  chiefly  for  the  fine  gowns  worn  by  the  wife,  who 
on  the  advice  of  her  sister  starts  out  to  arouse  the  jealousy  of  her  negligent 
husband. 

"WATER  BABIES"  (Kinemacolor). — Pictures  of  animals  in  the  water. 
There  are  seals,  Himalayan  and  brown  bears,  hippopotamus,  polar  bears  at 
play — and  they  do  play,  too — sea  lions  and  Russian  bears. 


"THE  BLACK  CHANCELLOR"  (101  Bison),  April  26.— This  product 
of  the  Great  Northern  company,  purchased  by  the  Universal  company  to 
take  the  place  of  a  film  the  negative  of  which  was  destroyed  in  the  recent 
burning  of  one  of  their  Los  Angeles  buildings,  is  a  real  feature  in  all  de- 
partments. It  is  more  than  a  feature.  It  is  a  great  picture.  There  are 
splendid  settings — Old  World  settings,  of  castle,  of  moat,  of  mansion;  there 
are  beautiful  exteriors,  of  flowering  field  and  smooth  highway;  there  are 
splendid  actors,  and  those  who  portray  soldiers  have  been  soldiers — that 
is  plain;  there  is  excellent  direction — the  drama  runs  smoothly,  consecu- 
tively. Above  all,  there  is  a  grade  of  photography  that  is  in  a  class  by 
itself. 

"CUPID  IN  A  DENTAL  PARLOR"  (Keystone),  April  21  —  A  short 
reel,  in  which  the  love  episodes  occur  in  a  dental  parlor.  The  girl  is  the 
dentist's  daughter.     Lots  of  action  but  a  slight  plot. 

"A  DOG  IN  THE  BAGGAGE  CAR"  (Thanhouser),  April  13.— Here  is 
a  railway  story  with  certain  amusing  incidents  in  it.  The  husband  and  wife 
are  stranded  actors  in  the  West,  with  only  enough  money  to  buy  one 
ticket  home.  The  husband  gets  in  a  trunk  and  rides  in  the  baggage  car 
with  the  dog.  When  the  baggage  agent  misses  his  sandwich,  he  blames  the 
dog,  and  finally  throws  the  animal  out  of  the  door.  Then  the  wife  gats 
off  the  train  and  makes  her  husband  do  likewise  to  recover  the  dog.  A 
fresh  little  plot. 

"THE  RUNAWAYS"  (Kay-Bee),  April  18.— The  story  of  an  elopement 
by  an  artist  and  a  girl.  There  is  the  familiar  irate  father  who  tries  to  in- 
tercept the  match,  but  he  is  thrown  in  jail  by  a  friendly  constable  and  re- 
leased only  after  giving  his  sanction  to  the  match.  An  old  plot,  handled 
in  a  fairly  interesting  way. 

"A  FISHY  AFFAIR"  (Keystone),  April  24.— A  successful  half  reel,  full 
of  interesting  foolishness.  Schnitzler's  fishing  experiences  were  certainly 
laughable,  and  he  winds  up  in  an  alligator  farm. 

"THE  BANGVILLE  POLICE"  (Keystone),  April  24— More  laughable 
absurdities,  in  which  Fred  Mace  appears  as  police  captain  in  a  home-made 
automobile.     As  a  whole,  this  reel  is  very  pleasing  and  full  of  laughs. 

"THE  DRAGON'S  BREATH"  (Rex),  April  24.— Here  is  a  gripping 
story  and  original  enough  to  insure  it  a  place  of  its  own,  setting  it  out 
from  the  commonplace  releases  as  a  distinctly  interesting  picture.  It  is  the 
tragic  significance  of  its  situation  that  is  so  effective  in  it;  but  the  setting  is 
suggestively  natural  and  the  acting,  especially  of  the  two  leaders,  is  clear- 
cut  and  powerful  in  bringing  out  its  meaning  and  its  emotional  result.  It 
is  a  story  of  the  Pacific  coast.  The  dragon's  breath  is  opium,  a  need  for 
which  the  young  bride  (Lois  Webber)  of  a  college  president  (.Phillips 
Smalley)  unconsciously  contracts  while  caring  for  a  sick  servant,  a  China- 
man.     It  is  a  commendable  offering. 

"LOVE  AND  GOLD"  (Ramo),  April  23— This  picture  has  a  quality  that 
will  be  very  noticeable — the  beauty  of  its  photography  which  gives  us 
some  new  and  charming  scenes  taken  on  the  northern  end  of  Manhattan. 
Most  of  them  are  looking  out  over  the  Hudson,  but  one  or  two  give 
glimpses  of  the  Harlem  river.  The  story  is  wholesome,  conventional  and 
very  old  fashioned  and  gives  us  the  girl  (Mary  Alden),  daughter  of  a  miser 
(Will  Davis)  and  the  young  physician  who  loves  her  against  the  wishes  of 
his  father  who  wants  him  to  marry  money.  We  commend  the  offering  for 
the  sake  of  its  acting  and  its  photography. 

"THE  BATTLE  OF  LONG  SAULT"  (Briam).— A  special  two  reel 
picture,  now  ready  for  the  market.  It  is  the  initial  offering  of  the  British- 
American  Company  of  Montreal,  Canada,  and  is  released  through  the  Film 
Supply  Company.  It  surely  is  a  good  beginning  and  can  be  commended 
as  a  first-class  feature,  a  historical  picture  dealing  with  an  Iroquois  expe- 
dition against  Montreal  in  1660,  which  is  heroically  turned  back  by  the 
determined  resistance  of  seventeen  brave  Canadians  who  defend  an  out- 
post stockade  and  perished  in  it.  It  shows  one  thing  that  we  have  not  seen 
before,  except  in  the  mind's  eye  when  reading  old  ballads — the  air  thick 
with  arrows.  There  are  thrills  and  some  are  big  ones.  The  glimpses  of 
the  war  expedition  of  the  Iroquois  in  their  canoes  is  one,  and  there  are 
many  during  the  fighting  around  the  stockade.  It  has,  we  believe,  a  high 
educational  value.  The  photography  is  of  good  quality.  We  congratulate 
the  Briam  Company. 

"HIS  SON-IN-LAW"  (Solax),  April  n.— A  farce  with  a  fairly  amusing 
ending,  but  too  long.  There  is  much  in  the  early  scenes  that  has  been 
shown  too  often.  The  photography  is  good.  Marian  Swayne  is  very  pretty 
in  this  picture. 

"THE  LADY  DOCTOR"  (Solax),  April  9.— A  farce  featuring  Blanche 
Cornwall  as  a  lady  doctor  in  a  college  town.  She  reads  in  the  college  li- 
brary and  four  of  the  men  (there  seem  to  be  only  four  at  the  college  at  the 
time)  fall  in  love  with  her.  Darwin  Karr  wins  her.  The  trouble  with  it 
is  that  it  has  nothing  new  and  the  scenario  is  weak. 

"POOR  LITTLE  CHAP— HE  WAS  ONLY  DREAMING"  (Eclair),  April 
20. — One  of  the  Newlywed  screams,  and  just  as  laughable  as  any  of  its 
predecessors — if  anything  more  so. 

"FIRE"  (Eclair),  April  20. — A  scientific  film  showing  many  facts  about 
fire,  especially  as  to  how  it  was  created  in  primitive  days;   interesting. 

"HIS  FRIEND  JIMMIE"  (Nestor),  April  21.— Good  comedy.  A  young- 
ster in  college  gets  married  against  his  father's  wishes.  In  order  to  fool 
his  dad  he  dresses  the  bride  as  a  boy  and  carries  her  home.  There 
are  many  amusing  complications. 

"BURGLARIZING  BILLY"  (Gem),  April  22.— A  lively  Billy  Quirk 
comedy. 

"THE  REGENERATION  OF  JOHN  STORM'  (Imp).  April  21.— Here 
is  good  drama,  although  it  seemed  crowded — as  if  there  were  too  plainly 
an  effort  to  get  the  picture  into  a  single  reel.  The  acting  was  excellent. 
Vivian    Prescott   and    Guy   D'Ennery    had   the   leads. 

"WHEN  DOLLY  DIED"  (Powers),  April  23.— A  child  picture,  in  which 
the    leads    are    taken    by    Matty    and    Early,    the    talented    "Powers    K 
Matty   especially  was  at  bis  best.     The   story  holds   throughout. 


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"BRED  IX  THE  BONE"  (Bison),  April  22.— This  picture,  in  three 
reels,  marks  the  debut  of  Wilfred  Lucas  as  a  Bison  director.  He  has 
done  well.  Bess  Meredith  as  the  daughter  of  the  General  in  command 
carries  the  lead. 

"WHEN  JIM  RETURNED"  (American),  April  24.— There  are  a  few 
promising  scenes  in  this,  but  the  plot  is  too  light  to  hold  the  attention 
well.  It  is  Western  in  setting  and  concerns  the  jealousy  of  some  ranch 
hands  over   a    pretty   girl. 

"BREAD  CAST  UPON  THE  WATERS"  (Broncho),  April  30.— A  two- 
reel  war  production.  Lieut.  Stone,  in  charge  of  a  party  of  Union  foragers, 
refuses  to  take  the  small  boy's  pet  horse.  Later  the  boy  befriends  him, 
when  he  falls  on  the  front  porch,  wounded.  The  lad  and  his  sister  black 
up  the  injured  mar.  and  take  him  to  the  negro's  quarters,  where  the  search- 
ing Confederates  fail  to  recognize  him.  This  is  an  interesting  story,  and 
the  war  scenes  are  done  in  the  usual  effective  manner.  The  photography 
is  also  good. 

"THE  GIRL  AND  THE  GRAFTER"  (Thanhouser),  April  15.— Here  is 
a  bright  little  film  story  of  an  improbable  but  interesting  character.  The 
managing  editor  is  badly  in  need  of  a  scoop  for  his  paper,  and  the  girl 
report*  his  by   getting  a   flashlight   photograph    of  one   man 

in  the  act  of  bribing  another.  The  audience  will  smile  at  the  absurdity 
of   this,   but   the    film  is   enjoyable. 

"RETRIBUTION*1  (Thanhouser),  April  18.— The  country  boy,  who  in- 
a  fortune,  goes  to  the  city.  After  six  months  there  he  writes  a 
brutal  note  to  his  former  sweetheart,  breaking  their  engagement.  She  weds 
another,  and  her  first  lover  loses  his  fortune  and  becomes  a  tramp.  Good 
photography  and  artistic  scenes  help  this  along  and  altogether  it  is  quite 
an    entertaining    offering. 

"BOOBS  AND  BRICKS"  (American),  April  21.— A  small  town  story, 
in  which  a  pretty  female  drummer  charms  the  rural  swains.  She  borrows 
a  lot  of  money  from  them  and  makes  away  with  it.  The  village  belle 
then  refuses  to  take  back  her  old  admirers  and  weds  another.  The  pho- 
tography  is  very   good  indeed   and   the   story   a  passable   one. 

"CALAMITY  AXXE'S  TRUST"  (American),  April  26.— In  this 
Louise  Lester,  in  her  character  of  Calamity  Anne,  adopts  the  daughter  of 
a  suicide.  She  makes  the  various  admirers  dance  to  the  tune  of  her  six- 
shooter  and  finally  marries  the  girl  off  to  a  young  drummer.  This  picture 
is   something   of  an   improvement  on   the  former   offerings   of   this   series. 

■THE  LEADER  OF  HIS  FLOCK"  (Imp),  April  17.— A  two-reel  film 
story,  featuring  King  Baggot  as  a  minister  and  Jane  Gail  as  an  abandoned 
wife.  The  story  depicts  in  a  convincing  manner  the  uncharitable  attitude 
sometimes  existing  in  church  circles,  and  is  a  good  offering  as  a  gentle 
reminder  that  even  the  best  of  us  are  often  harsh  in  our  judgments  of 
womenkind.  The  scenes  in  the  church  and  later  in  the  slum  chapel  are 
very  true  to  actual  conditions.  The  "near"  views  of  Mr.  Baggot  added 
nothing  to  the  effectiveness  of  his  characterization,  but,  if  anything,  de- 
tracted  from   i:.     A   good  offering. 

"A  KNIGHT  OF  THE  GARTER"  (Nestor),  April  14.— The  discovery 
of  a  woman's  fancy  garter  in  the  hall  brings  about  a  duel  between  the 
husband  and  his  neighboring  friend.  The  pictures  are  good  and  prom- 
ised a  little  more  than  was  realized,  as  the  close  of  the  story  was  rather 
weak. 

"FICKLE  PHIL"  (Nestor),  April  14. — A  neat  little  comedy  notion, 
nicely  pictured  on  same  reel  with  above.  Phil  takes  his  frequent  love 
affairs  very  seriously  and  thinks  he  will  end  his  existence  after  each  one, 
but  at   last   his   first   love   accepts  him   and  his   happiness    is   assured. 

"BILLY  TURNS  BURGLAR"  (Gem),  April  15.— In  order  to  obtain 
money  so  he  can  marry  his  sweetheart,  Billy  decides  to  become  a  burglar. 
Instead  he  encounters  some  real  house  breakers  and  brings  them  to  justice, 
thus  obtaining  a  big  reward.  There  is  some  amusement  in  this,  though 
the  plot   is  not   a  novel   one. 

"TlIE  LAPLANDERS"  (Gem),  April  15. — A  few  interesting  glimpses 
of  this  land  of  snow  and  ice,  on  same  reel  with  above.  It  rounds  up  a 
fairly    good    reel. 

•WHY  THE  RANGER  RESIGNED"  (Frontier),  April  19.— Some  very 
attractive  views  of  the  open  range  by  night  and  day  in  the  land  of  cattle 
smugglers.  The  plot  is  weakly  devised,  however,  and  brings  down  the 
merit  of  the  production  somewhat.  The  herd  of  cattle  being  driven  to  the 
boundary  line  was  just  stopped  in  time  by  the  Texas  rangers.  The  actual 
Western  life   in  this  is   well   shown,  but   the  story  value  is   not   so  good. 

"THE  SHERIFFS  WARNING"  (Nestor),  April  23.— The  cabin  scene 
in  this  film,  where  the  girl  holds  up  the  bandit  with  his  own  gun.  was 
its  strongest  feature.  The  story  concerns  a  young  man  who  came  to  grief 
from    bad    associations.      It   is   of  the   conventional   Western    type. 

"WAR"  (Bison),  April  15. — There  is  probably  not  a  moving  picture  film 
in  existence  which  covers  the  subject  of  warfare  more  thoroughly  than 
this  three-reel  offering.  It  is  almost  a  complete  exposition  of  the  actual 
fighting,  the  movement  of  troops  and  all  the  attendant  features  of  war- 
fare. A  few  years  ago  it  would  have  been  a  revelation,  but  its  weakness 
for  present-day  picturegoers  will  be  its  very  slight  plot.  True,  it  follows 
the  fortunes  of  a  girl  and  her  brother  and  lover,  who  are  on  opposing 
sides,  but  there  are  no  complications,  except  for  the  dramatic  scene  in  the 
hospital  in  the  last  reel.  But  as  a  big,  sweeping  incarnation  of  "war's 
rude    alarms"    this   offering   is    worthy    of   high    commendation. 

"THE  COWARD'S  CHARM"  (Victor).  April  18.— A  picture  depicting 
the  psychology  of  cowardice  in  an  interesting,  though  not  powerful,  way. 
James  Kirkwood.  as  the  hero,  believes  himself  to  be  a  coward.  A  doctor 
gives  him  a  charm  to  wear  and  while  he  has  this  he  is  able  to  fight  his 
rival  without  fear.  He  at  last  learns  that  he  is  not  a  coward  even  without 
the  charm.  An  idea  similar  to  this  appeared  not  long  ago  in  a  film 
called   "Napoleon's    Luck    Stone,"   as   we    remember   it. 

"THE  MYSTERY  OF  THE  LOST  CAT"  (Solax),  April  16.— This  is 
a    Burstup    Homes   burlesque,    and   there    is   much    burlesque. 

"WHERE  LOVE  DWELLS"  (Solax),  April  t8.— A  story  of  a  girl 
from  the  country  visiting  a  well-to-do  aunt  who  tries  to  make  the  guest 
ridiculous  when   a  reception   is  given.     The  titles  have  a  strong  Laurajean- 


libby    flavor.      The    picture    is    likely    to    create    amusement    in    unexpected 
ways. 

"THE  DEAD  ALIVE"  (Gaumont),  Special.— Fine  drama.  There  are 
two  reels  of  good  story,  good  acting  and  good  direction.  The  picture  is 
reviewed    at    length    elsewhere. 

"SOME  DOINGS  AT  LONESOME  RANCH"  (Frontier),  April  17.— 
There  is  a  lot  of  good,  hearty  fun  in  this  film  and  it  is  particularly  to  be 
commended  because  it  proves  that  something  different  can  be  given  us  in 
the  way  of  a  Western  comedy  release.  There  are  several  excellent  comedy 
characters  in  this  and  the  situations  are  actually  funny,  even  though  ex- 
aggerated. The  homely  hired  girl  blossomed  out  wonderfully  after  going 
to    the   beauty    doctor.      A   very    good   comedy    offering. 

"THE  EVIL  GENIUS"  (Eclair),  April  16. — The  European  Eclair  com- 
pany has  here  produced  a  fine  two-reel  subject,  dealing  with  the  love  of 
a  man  for  his  friend's  wife.  He  plans  to  wreck  the  husband  by  burning 
his  toy  factory.  The  fire  scenes  were  vivid  and  realistic.  The  people 
escaping  from  the  factory  appeared  to  be  in  real  peril.  The  courtroom 
scenes  were  also  good  and  in  the  end  the  tool  makes  a  dramatic  confession, 
completely  clearing  the  owner  of  the  works.  A  fresh  subject  with  many 
points   of   excellence. 

"ANIMATED  WEEKLY  NO.  57"  (Universal),  April  9.— Full  of  live 
subjects,  including  target  practice  at  Hampton  Roads,  reception  of  the 
aew  Secretary  of  War  on  a  battleship,  views  of  J.  Pierpont  Morgan's 
various   properties,  an   English   steeplechase,   etc. 

"TWO    LUNA  1  I  stal),    April    20.— Pearl    and   Chester,    on   their 

way    to    a    house    party    in    the    country,    meet    with    two    escaped    lunatics. 
There    are    several    laughable    situations    in    this. 

"HIS  ROMANTIC  WIFE"  (Crystal),  April  20.— A  young  wife  rashly 
decides  to  flirt  in  order  to  make  her  husband  pay  more  attention  to  her. 
Plenty  of  trouble  results  and  the  picture  closes  with  two  pretended  suicides. 
Fairly   amusing.      On   same   reel    with   above. 

"FOR  HER  SAKE"  (Nestor),  April  25. — A  peculiar  film  story,  with 
some  very  good  acting  in  it,  bvit  not  a  specially  attractive  plot.  The  Jew, 
who  gave  his  daughter  to  a  couple  to  raise  twenty  years  before,  tries  to 
prevent  her  marriage  with  a  Christian.  His  efforts  are  unavailing,  but  he 
is  forced  to  maintain  silence  because  of  the  agreement  he  entered  into 
years  before.     He  raises  the   wages  of  his  employees  for  the  girl's  sake. 

"A  SPRIG  OF  SHAMROCK"  (Imp),  April  24— This  will  get  some 
laughs  out  of  the  average  audience.  It  is  a  good  offering  of  the  low 
comedy  type,  with  a  Dutchman  and  an  Irishman  in  it.  The  Dutchman 
spoils  his  chances  for  marrying  the  daughter  when  he  eats  her  father's 
shamrocks.  The  character  work  is  very  passable,  Budd  Ross  appearing 
as    the    Irishman. 

"ON  AN  ALLIGATOR  FARM"  (Imp),  April  19.— More  views  of  an 
alligator  farm,  with  various  interesting  performances  by  the  big-mouthed 
reptiles. 

FIXING  THE  FAKERS"  (Imp),  April  19.— On  same  reel  with  above. 
A  burlesque  detective  story,  with  no  apparent  motive  and  scarcely  any 
situations  worth   while.     The  leading  character   was   named   Curlock   Bones. 

'WHEN  STRONG  MEN  MEET"  (Clrampion),  April  21.— A  very  good 
film  story,  in  which  Ramon  Ashley,  known  throughout  Arizona  as  an 
outlaw,  returns  to  New  York  and  becomes  a  social  lion.  He  is  followed 
to  the  city  and  discovered  by  a  detective  and  his  assistant.  There  is  a 
nice  atmosphere  of  suspense  about  the  picture,  though  it  never  becomes 
exciting.     In  the  end  his  redemption  is  brought  about.     A  pleasing  offering. 

"THE  SERGEANT'S  SECRET"  (Kay-Bee),  March  14.— One  of  the 
most  interesting  and  generally  pleasing  two-reel  productions  this  company 
has  turned  out.  The  plot  centers  about  the  Colonel's  wayward  son,  who 
falls  in  with  a  gambler  and  stage  robber.  Sergeant  O'Grady  does  a  little 
amateur  detective  work  in  the  second  reel,  which  makes  the  plot  clear  to 
the  observer.  The  son  is  shot,  but  through  O'Grady's  efforts  is  buried  with 
military  honors.  Brisk,  exciting  and  fascinating  throughout.  A  superior 
offering. 

"THE  MOVING  PICTURE  GIRL"  (Excelsior),  April  14.— The  title 
of  this  offering  is  really  a  misnomer,  as  it  is  a  series  of  views  showing 
how  certain  moving  picture  scenes  are  taken.  A  more  general  title  would 
get  the  idea  to  the  audience  quicker.  There  are  burlesque  scenes,  re- 
hearsals,  a  burglary,   fire  scene,   etc.     It  makes  a  good  novelty. 


WAS  NOMEL  RIGHT? 

Nomel  shall  be  his  name  here.  He  has  stolen  from  the  very 
bank  that  now  employs  him  —  re-employed  him  on  his  leaving 
prison,  that  is.  You  see.  the  president  of  the  bank  had  some  faith 
still  in  his  erring  employe  and  when  Nomel  finished  his  "time" 
for  the  theft,  the  official  gave  him  another  chance. 

You  will  see  from  this  that  it  is  squarely  up  to  Xomel  to  keep 
"straight" — to  vindicate  the  president's  faith  in  him. 

But  at  the  bank  none  of  his  associates  have  any  faith  in  Nomel, 
any  patience  or  sympathy  with  him.     Except — 

The  exception  we  will  call  Hart.  He  is  paying  teller  at  the 
bank,  a  man  with  a  most  responsible  position,  a  wife — and  she  is 
the  girl  Xomel  loved  before  his  fall  from  grace — and  child.  He 
proves  a  true  friend  to  Xomel. 

Nomel  discovers  that  Hart  is  following  in  his  footsteps  —  de- 
faulting. The  bank  president  finds  large  sums  missing.  He 
starts  an  investigation,  and  Hart  decides  to  confess. 

But  Nomel  pushes  him  aside  and  confesses  "everything"  to  the 
president.  That  official  is  shocked  —  and  Nomel  is  returned  to 
the  dungeon f 

Nomel  did  not  care,  as  he  had  no  great  future  anyway. 

He  knew  that  Hart  had  —  future,  wife,  baby! 

Did  Nomel  do  right  ? 

Better  have  a  look  at  the  film-story,  entitled,  "For  Another's 
Sin,*'  in  two  Thanhouser  reels  released  Friday,  April  25th. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


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Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League 


CALIFORNIA  CENSORSHIP  LAW. 


Sweeping    Provisions    Proposed    By    Legislature    of    Golden 

State — Approved  By  Exhibitors  and  Likely  to  Pass. 

By  P.  M.  Powell. 

REPRESENTATIVES  of  the  California  State  Exhibitors' 
League  who  journeyed  to  Sacramento  to  appear  before 
the  various  legislative  committees  and  to  lobby  against 
the  bill  providing  for  state  censorship  now  pending  before 
the  Legislature  succeeded  in  winning  the  two  concessions 
upon  which  they  laid  most  stress.  The  bill  was  reported 
out  of  committee  April  10th,  with  the  recommendation  "that 
it  do  pass."  This  means  that  it  will,  in  all  probability,  become 
a  law  in  the  form  in  which  it  was  reported. 

The  Exhibitors'  League  had  insisted  upon  a  board  of  six 
members,  to  be  divided  into  two  sections  of  three  each,  to 
work  independently — one  at  San  Francisco  and  the  other  at 
Los  Angeles.  The  bill  provides  for  this.  The  other  demand 
was  that  the  provision  barring  persons  connected  with  the 
industry  from  appointment  to  the  commission  be  stricken 
out.  It  has  been  eliminated.  In  its  present  form,  it  is  said, 
the  bill  is  fairly  satisfactory  to  the  committee  which  visited 
the  state  capitol.  although  there  were  a  number  of  other 
changes  which  were  suggested,  but  were  not  made. 

Section  1  of  the  bill  gives  its  title,  and  Section  2  defines 
various  technical  terms  used  therein.  Section  3  declares 
that  "There  is  hereby  created  a  commission  to  be  known  as 
the  moving  picture  censor  commission  of  the  state  of  Cali- 
fornia. The  commission  shall  consist  of  six  members,  who 
shall  be  appointed  by  the  Governor  from  the  state  at  large 
and  shall  serve  at  the  pleasure  of  the  Governor.  Three  of 
said  members  shall  have  office  in  San  Francisco  and  may  act 
as  an  independent  board  of  censors,  and  three  shall  have 
offices  in  Los  Angeles  and  may  act  as  an  independent  board 
of  censors.  The  annual  salary  of  each  member  of  the  com- 
mission shall  be  $2,400,  payable  in  equal  monthly  install- 
ments, and  they  shall  be  paid  in  addition  all  necessary  travel- 
ing expenses  incurred  in  the  performance  of  their  duties." 

Section  4  provides  that  each  half  of  the  commission  shall 
have  the  right  to  employ  a  secretary,  a  projecting  machine 
operator  and  one  other  person  if  necessary.  Sub-section  (c) 
says:  "The  boards  shall  alternate  in  censoring  the  different 
makes  of  pictures,  and  shall  not  duplicate  each  other's  work." 
_  Section  5  gives  the  members  and  employes  of  the  commis- 
sion free  access  to  any  moving  picture  theater  in  the  state. 

"Section  6.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  censors  to  examine 
and  censor  all  films  manufactured  or  produced  in,  or  brought 
into,  the  state  of  California  for  exhibition,  and  either  to 
approve  and  pass,  or  to  reject  and  forbid  the  exhibition  of  every 
such  film;  provided,  that  the  action  of  either  board  in  pass- 
ing and  approving  or  in  rejecting  and  forbidding  the  exhibi- 
tion of  any  film  or  reel  shall  apply  in  the  same  manner  and 
with  equal  force  to  all  duplicates,  counterparts  or  copies  of 
any  particular  film  upon  which  action  is  had  by  the  boards; 
provided  also,  that  either  board  may  approve  and  pass  any 
film  subject  to  such  excisions,  amplifications  or  alterations 
as  they  in  their  discretion  may  direct  and  require  to  be  made, 
and  attach  the  seal  or  tag  of  this  commission,  hereinafter 
provided  for.  to  such  film  or  reel  or  the  duplicate  thereof, 
and  after  the  portion  of  such  reel  or  duplicate  or  counterpart 
objected  to  is  cut  out  and  retained  in  the  possession  of  the 
commission;  and  it  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  exhibit 
any  film  which  has  been  approved  and  passed  by  the  board 
subject  to  such  excision,  amplification  or  alteration  without 
first  making  or  causing  such  excision,  amplification  or  altera- 
tion to  be  made;  provided,  that  the  commission  may,  in  its 
discretion,  accept  the  decision,  in  any  particular  case,  of  any 
municipal,  state,  national  or  international  bureau  or  commis- 
sion in  favor  of  any  film  or  moving  picture,  and  the  com- 
mission by  unanimous  vote  of  its  members  may  in  its  dis- 
cretion work  in  conjunction  with  like  or  similar  censor  boards 
or  commissions  of  other  states  as  a  national  censor  congress, 
and  the  action  of  such  congress  in  approving  films  shall  be 


considered  as  the  action  of  the  commission,  a  certificate  of 
this  commission  given,  and  the  seal  or  tag  of  the  commission 
attached  thereto,  and  have  the  same  force  and  effect  as  if 
approved  by  the  commission  in  separate  session,  but  such 
co-operation  shall  continue  only  at  the  pleasure  of  the  com- 
mission and  may  be  discontinued  at  any  time  upon  the  vote 
of  a  majority  of  the  commission;  provided  also,  that  no  film 
or  reel  shall  in  any  case  be  rejected  by  the  commission  unless 
the  same  shall  have  been  viewed  by  at  least  two  of  its  mem- 
bers, nor  shall  it  be  rejected  except  upon  the  vote  of  a 
majority  of  either  board. 

"Section  7.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  exhibit 
any  film,  reel  or  motion  picture  in  the  state  of  California 
unless  and  until  the  same  shall  have  been  passed  by  the  com- 
mission and  the  mark  or  seal  attached. 

"Section  8  (a).  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  commission  to 
adopt  an  appropriate  seal  or  tag  which  may  be  employed  or 
used  as  a  token  or  sign  to  indicate  the  approval  by  the  com- 
mission of  any  film,  and  the  said  seal  or  tag  shall  be  exhibited 
immediately  preceding  and  in  the  same  manner,  and  as  con- 
spicuously, as  the  exhibition  of  any  film  which  has  been 
approved  and  passed  by  the  board,  and  it  shall  be  unlawful 
for  any  person  to  refuse,  neglect  or  fail  to  exhibit  the  said 
seal  or  tag  in  the  manner  herein  provided. 

"(b).  When  any  film  shall  have  been  approved  and  passed 
by  the  commission  a  secretary  of  the  commission  shall,  upon 
demand,  issue  to  the  owner,  renter,  lessee  or  custodian  of 
said  film  a  permit  or  certificate  in  manner  and  form  to  be 
prescribed  and  adopted  by  the  commission,  each  of  which 
said  certificates  or  permits  shall  bear  a  serial  number  peculiar 
to  itself,  and  shall  also  bear  the  name  or  title  or  description 
of  the  film  or  reel  in  reference  to  or  in  connection  with  which 
it  is  issued,  and  the  date  upon  which  it  was  approved  by  the 
commission,  and  a  notation  designating  or  indicating  the 
number  of  linear  feet  contained  in  such  film  or  reel,  and  the 
said  certificate  or  permit,  when  signed  by  the  secretary  or 
some  other  person  designated  by  the  commission,  shall  con- 
stitute full  and  proper  authorization  and  permission,  and  the 
only  lawful  authorization  and  permission,  to  exhibit  the  seal 
or  tag  provided  for  in  this  section  in  connection  with  the  film 
or  reel  referred  to  in  the  said  certificate  or  permit;  provided, 
that  whenever  any  film  or  reel  shall  not  have  been 
actually  and  literally  examined  and  censored  by  the  commis- 
sion, but  shall  have  been  automatically  approved  and  passed 
by  reason  of  the  approval  of  some  other  board  or  commis- 
sion, as  provided  for  in  this  act,  or  by  reason  of  the  action 
of  the' commission  in  approving  a  duplicate,  counterpart  or 
copy  of  any  film  as  provided  for  in  this  act,  then  the  sec- 
retary shall  issue,  and  there  shall  be  required,  a  separate  cer- 
tificate or  permit  for  each  separate  film,  and  the  issuance  of 
a  permit  for  one  film  or  reel  shall  not  be  authority  for 
exhibiting  the  seal  or  tag  heretofore  provided  for,  in  con- 
nection or  conjunction  with  any  duplicate,  counterpart  or 
copy  thereof. 

"(c).  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  exhibit  the 
aforesaid  seal  or  tag  in  connection  or  conjunction  with  any 
film  or  reel  without  first  obtaining  from  a  secretary  or  other 
proper  officer  or  employe  of  the  commission  a  certificate  or 
permit  as  herein  provided,  and  the  said  certificate  or  permit 
shall  at  all  times  be  attached  to  the  film  or  reel  for  which 
it  was  issued,  in  such  manner  that  it  can  readily  be  inspected 
or  examined  by  any  member  or  other  employe  of  the  com- 
mission or  boards  upon  demand  at  any  time  or  at  any  place 
where  the  said  film  or  reel  may  happen  to  be  in  the  state  of 
California." 

Sub-section  (d)  makes  it  unlawful  to  refuse  any  authorized 
person  the  right  to  examine  the  permit  as  mentioned  in  the 
foregoing. 

"Section  9.  The  commission  shall  charge,  and  the  secretary 
or  some  other  person  designated  by  the  commission  shall 
collect,  the  following  fees  from  the  exchange  controlling  the 
reel  or  film  to  be  censored:  For  each  certificate  or  permit 
issued  under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  a  sum  equal  to  one- 
tenth  (1/10)  of  one  cent  per  linear  foot  for  each  and  every 
linear  foot   of  film  contained  in   the   film   or  reel   named   or 


3§4 


THI     MOVINC    PICTURI    WORLI, 


designated  in  the  said  certificate  or  permit  for  all  original 
new  reels,  and  one-twentieth  (1/20)  of  one  cent  per  linear 
foot  for  all  duplicates  thereof;  and  for  reels  issued  or  released 
more  than  ten  days  prior  to  the  time  this  act  becomes  a  law, 
one-twentieth  (1/20)  of  one  cent  per  linear  foot.  All  fees 
charged  and  collected  under  this  section  shall  be  paid  at  least 
once  each  month  into  the  state  treasury,  to  the  credit  of  a 
fund  to  be  known  as  the  motion  picture  censor  fund,  which 
is  hereby  created. 

"Section  10.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  exchange  to  sell, 
lease,  rent,  give,  loan  or  vend  any  film  or  reel  to  any  exhibitor 
in  the  state  of  California  unless  and  until  the  said  film  or 
reel  has  first  been  approved  and  passed  by  a  board;  provided, 
that  the  neglect  or  failure  of  any  exchange  to  comply  with 
this  or  any  other  section  of  this  act  shall  not  excuse  any 
exhibitor  from  compliance  with  all  the  terms  of  this  act. 

"Section  11.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  exhibit 
any  motion  picture  of  any  human  figure  in  such  detail  as  to 
offend  public  morality  or  decency;  or  of  any  lewd  or  lascivi- 
ous or  sensual  act;  or  of  any  other  matter  or  thing  of  an 
obscene,  indecent,  immoral  or  suggestive  nature,  or  offensive 
to  the  moral  sense,  or  against  public  policy;  or  of  any  mur- 
der, suicide,  robbery,  hold-up,  shooting,  stabbing,  clubbing 
or  beating  of  any  human  being  wherein  such  acts  or  any  of 
them  are  shown  in  gruesome  detail  or  in  a  revolting  manner 
or  in  any  manner  objectionable  to  the  moral  sense;  or  of 
any  act  of  brutality,  cruelty  or  barbarity  shown  in  gruesome 
detail  or  in  a  revolting,  disgusting  or  horrible  manner." 

Section  12  provides  a  fine  of  not  less  than  $50  for  a  first 
violation,  not  less  than  $250  for  a  second  violation,  and  obli- 
gatory imprisonment  for  not  less  than  one  year  for  third 
and  subsequent  violations.  Section  13  appropriates  $5,000 
to  inaugurate  the  work  of  the  commission,  and  provides  that 
all  fines  shall  be  paid  into  the  commission's  fund.  Section 
16  is  the  usual  repealing  section. 

TO  ATTACK  KANSAS  CENSOR  LAW. 

The  Mutual  Film  Corporation  will  contest  the  constitu- 
tionality of  the  Censorship  Act  of  Kansas,  on  the  following 
grounds: 

1.  That  the  act  is  in  violation  of  Section  10,  Article  1,  of 
the  Federal  Constitution,  in  that  it  attempts  to  lay  a  tax  on 
imports  into  the  state  of  Kansas. 

2.  That  it  violates  Section  1,  Article  14,  of  the  Federal  Con- 
stitution, as  amended,  in  that  no  state  shall  abridge  the  privi- 
leges or  immunities  of  citizens  of  the  United  States,  in  that 
it  imposes  a  charge,  duty  and  tax  on  importation. 

3.  That  the  act  is  in  violation  of  the  Constitution  as  to  the 
freedom  of  the  press  and  the  freedom  of  speech,  in  that  it 
censors,  before  trial,  privileged  matters  exempt  under  the 
freedom  of  the  press. 

4.  That  the  act  is  unconstitutional,  being  an  act  of  pure 
censorship,  attempting  to  invest  the  power  in  one  man  to 
censor  the  matter  of  films,  both  good  and  bad,  and  impose 
a  penalty  upon  the  good,  as  well  as  the  bad,  without  judicial 
hearing. 

5.  The  act  itself  is  unconstitutional  because,  under  the 
guise  of  inspection  law,  it  provides  a  state  revenue,  and  the 
act  itself  makes  no  provision  by  reason  of  the  want  of  an 
appropriation  by  the  Legislature  to  defray  the  expenses  of 
such  censorship,  which  makes  the  law  impracticable  and 
unenforcable. 

The  question  involving  the  rights  of  censorship  under  the 
act  will  test  the  question  of  all  such  matters  in  the  entire 
United  States.  Eugene  Batavia  and  Thomas  F.  Gatts  are 
attorneys  for  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation  in  this  action. 


WISCONSIN  CONVENTION. 


MURPHYSBORO,  ILL.,  EXHIBITORS'  MEETING. 

A  meeting  of  Branch  No.  2  of  the  Illinois  League,  of  Mur- 
physboro,  111.,  was  held  in  that  city  on  April  6th.  There  was 
a  large  attendance  and  matters  of  importance  was  disposed 
of.  The  organization  is  growing  rapidly,  new  members  being 
received  at  each  meeting. 


ROCHESTER  EXHIBITORS'  BALL  A  SUCCESS. 

The  entertainment  and  ball  given  by  the  Rochester  Ex- 
hibitors' League,  of  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  on  April  3rd,  was  a 
social  and  financial  success.  The  grand  march  was  led  by 
President  A.  N.  Wolff  and  Miss  Pearl  White,  of  the  Crystal 
Film  Company.  There  was  a  large  delegation  from  New 
York  City,  headed  by  President  Samuel  Trigger  and  Secre- 
tary Rosenthal,  of  the  State  League,  with  Darwin  Karr, 
Hugh  Mack,  Tom  Powers,  James  Morrison  and  many  others. 
Motion  pictures  and  vaudeville  formed  the  entertainment 
program,  and  the  dancing  continued  till  the  early  morning 
hours. 


Large  Gathering  of  Picturemen  and  a  Big  Time  at  Milwaukee 
— A  Successful  Meeting. 

THE  Wisconsin  State  branch  of  the  Motion  Picture  Ex- 
hibitors' League  of  America,  held  their  annual  convention 
at  the  Plankinton  Hotel,  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  April  8th  and 
9th.  The  convention  was  called  to  order  by  President  C.  H. 
Phillips  of  Milwaukee,  promptly  at  10  A.  M.  Tuesday.  The 
out  of  town  members  in  attendance  numbered  about  150  and 
local  members  about  60,  making  a  total  attendance  of  210.  From 
outside  of  the  state  were  Wm.  J.  Sweeney,  President  of  the 
Illinois  State  League  and  C.  M.  Christenson,  National  Secretary 
of  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

The  following  officers  were  elected  for  the  ensuing  year :  Presi- 
dent, Charles  Phillips,  Milwaukee;  secretary,  B.  K.  Fischer, 
Milwaukee;  treasurer,  Tom  Saxe,  Milwaukee;  first  vice-presi- 
dent, M.  Prince,  Milwaukee;  second  vice-president,  F.  H.  Smith, 
Menomonie ;  third  vice-president,  Joseph  Rhode,  Menomonie ; 
fourth  vice-president,  William  McCenna,  Appleton;  fifth  vice- 
president,  Henry  Goldman,  Green  Bay;  Sergeant  at  arms,  Frank 
Bruemmer,  Milwaukee;  delegates  to  national  convention,  Gust 
Frellsin,  Waukesha;  Roy  Cummings,  Madison;  Frank  Bruemmer, 
Milwaukee;  H.  Burford,  La  Crosse,  and  Henry  Trinz,  Mil- 
waukee; alternates,  Henry  Klein,  Milwaukee;  M.  B.  Hackett, 
Stevens  Point;  A.  V.  Johnson,  Milwaukee;  James  Cochrane, 
Milwaukee,  and  Albert  Schoenleber,  Milwaukee 

Green  Bay  was  selected  for  next  Convention  City,  to  be 
held  June  26.  1914. 

President  C.  H.  Phillips  in  his  opening  address  welcomed  the 
members  on  behalf  of  the  Chief  Executive  of  the  city  and  the 
citizens  of  Milwaukee. 

President  Wm.  J.  Sweeney  of  the  Illinois  League  was  the 
next  speaker.  He  spoke  of  the  wonderful  good  accomplishments 
of  the  league  and  the  harmonious  conditions  existing  in  Illinois 
through  its  efforts. 

C.  M.  Christenson,  National  Secretary  of  Cleveland.  O..  was 
the  next  speaker.  Mr.  Christenson  took  up  the  subject  of 
organization.  He  had  just  received  a  telegram  from  President 
Neff  saying  that  Deleware,  Rhode  Island  and  Maryland  had  just 
been  admitted  to  the  league,  making  a  total  of  forty  states  now 
represented  in  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors  League  of  America. 
He  touched  upon  the  necessities  of  an  organization  of  this 
kind  for  mutual  protection  for  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors 
of  the  country  and  for  the  entire  industry  as  well.  He  told 
about  adverse  legislation  that  had  come  up  in  most  of  the  states 
in  the  Union  and  how  well  the  various  branches  of  the  league 
had  defended  themselves  and  had  won  in  most  every  case  at  very 
little  cost  to  any  individual. 

President  Phillips  took  up  the  state  censor  bill,  how  pending 
in  the  legislature.  A  telegram  was  sent  asking  Chairman  John- 
son who  has  the  bill  in  charge  to  hold  same  in  obeyance  until 
the  exhibitors  could  be  heard  from.  The  convention  went  on 
record  favoring  a  state  censor  board  if  certain  charges  were 
made  in  the  proposed  bill  as  now  presented.  The  exhibitors  want 
the  appointive  power  in  the  hands  of  the  Governor  and  they 
ask  for  two  motion  picture  men  on  the  board,  they  also  want 
a  reduction  of  salaries  paid  to  the  members  of  the  board,  they 
also  want  a  reduction  of  cost  on  censoring  old  films  now  in 
stock  in  film  exchanges. 

The  meeting  adjourned  at  2  P.  M.  and  the  entertainment  com- 
mittee had  in  waiting  twenty  automobiles.  All  the  visitors  were 
given  a  joy  ride  through  the  beautiful  residence  district  and 
boulevards  of  the  city. 

Wednesday's  meeting  was  called  to  order  by  President  Phillips 
at  10 :30  A.  M.  By  this  time  many  more  exhibitors  had  arrived 
from  up  state.  The  Milwaukee  local  made  a  report  that  on 
Monday.  March  31,  every  motion  picture  theater  had  turned 
over  to  the  Mayor  the  entire  receipts  on  that  night  to  be  given 
to  the  Ohio  flood  sufferers,  amounting  to  $2,100. 

Mr.  C.  M.  Christenson  on  behalf  of  citizens  of  Ohio  thanked 
the  exhibitors  of  Milwaukee  for  their  kind  and  generous  dona- 
tion and  said  he  would  call  the  Governor  of  Ohio's  attention  to 
the  kindness  and  assured  the  exhibitors  of  Milwaukee  that 
Governor  James  M.  Cox  would  appreciate  the  gift,  also  he 
was  a  staunch  friend  of  the  motion  picture  exhibitors  the 
country  over. 

At  7  P.  M.  the  members  all  donned  night  robes  and  gobling 
caps  and  paraded  the  down  town  streets  led  by  a  band  of  20 
pieces  and  in  their  ghost  appearance,  they  had  the  citizens  all 
guessing  which  one  was  John  Bunny ;  and  the  girls,  of  course, 
wanted  to  know  which  one  was  Francis  Bushman.  After  the 
parade  all  were  ushered  to  the  Eagles  Hall_,  where  all  kinds 
of  gambling  games  were  soon  in  full  blast  with  "stage  money." 
After  everybody  was  broke  the  grafters  and  game  keepers  had 
provided  a  Dutch  spread  and  everybody  was  introduced  to 
Pabst,    Schlitz,    P.latz    and    High    Life    and    after    speeches    and 


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entertainment  by  Professor  Martini,  the  great  mystifier  in  slight 
of  hand.  A  roped  arena  was  the  next  on  program,  after  three 
rattling  good  bouts  were  pulled  off  it  was  1 .30  A.  M.  and  every- 
body scooted  for  taxi  cabs. 

MISSOURI  LEAGUE  NOTES. 

The  third  annual  state  convention  of  the  Missouri  state 
branch  of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  America 
will  be  held  at  Springfield,  Mo.,  on  June  10th  and  nth,  1913. 

The  entertainment  end  of  the  convention  will  be  in  charge 
of  Springfield  Local,  No.  2.  There  will  be  a  vast  amount 
of  important  business  transacted,  including  the  election  of 
state  officers  and  delegates  and  alternates  to  the  New  York 
convention.  President  Wiley  looks  forward  to  the  largest 
attendance  of  any  state  convention  in  the  history  of  the 
state  branch. 

Every  credit  is  due  to  President  W.  J.  Flynn,  of  St.  Louis 
Local,  No.  3,  in  the  excellent  manner  in  which  he  handled 
the  drastic  laws  which  were  introduced  at  our  recent  state 
Legislature.  Through  the  fine  work  of  Mr.  Flynn  there  was 
no  laws  passed  pertaining  to  the  moving  picture  industry. 

National  Vice-President  G.  H.  Wiley  is  working  hard  per- 
fecting arrangements  whereby  the  state  branches  of  Ar- 
kansas, Oklahoma,  Kansas,  Nebraska,  Iowa  and  Missouri 
will  mobilize  all  special  cars  from  the  different  states  in 
Chicago,  and  from  there  to  New  York  travel  in  one  solid 
special  train.  They  will  be  accompanied  by  the  Indian  Band 
of  Oklahoma,  which  has  been  secured  by  the  Oklahoma  state 
branch. 


OPEN  LETTER  TO  PRESIDENT  NEFF. 


•    WHAT  PRESIDENT  NEFF  IS  DOING. 

Leaving  New  York  April  10th,  President  Neff  went  to 
Philadelphia  and  concluded  arrangements  for  a  big  conven- 
tion of  Pennsylvania  exhibitors  in  *hat  city,  to  be  held  on 
May  27th  and  28th.  A  meeting  of  Philadelphia  exhibitors 
was  held  at  the  Belleview-Stratford  Hotel,  at  which  Presi- 
dent Walter  Steumpfig  and  other  officers  of  the  state  and 
local  leagues  were  present.  Arrangements  were  concluded 
to  engage  the  services  of  Clem  Kerr  as  organizer,  and  it  is 
believed  that  a  large  attendance  will  result. 

From  Philadelphia  President  Neff  went  to  Baltimore  and, 
with  J.  Howard  Bennett,  secretary  of  the  Baltimore  exhibit- 
ors' local,  concluded  arrangements  for  a  convention  of 
exhibitors  of  Maryland  at  Baltimore  on  June  3rd  and  4th. 

A  visit  to  Wilmington  resulted  in  arrangements  for  a  con- 
vention of  exhibitors  of  that  state  to  be  held  at  the  DuPont 
Hotel  on  May  26th.  Arrangements  for  this  meeting  are  in 
the  hands  of  James  M.  Ginns,  of  the  Majestic  Theater,  Wil- 
mington,  Del. 

At  Washington,  D.  C,  Mr.  Neff  concluded  arrangements 
for  a  convention  of  exhibitors  for  the  District  of  Columbia, 
date  and  place  of  meeting  to  be  named  later.  He  also  visited 
the  office  of  the  Attorney  General  and  paid  a  call  upon  Sec- 
retary of  State  Bryan. 

Upon  returning  to  Cincinnati,  President  Neff  learned  that 
the  Ohio  Censor  Bill  as  offered  in  the  Ohio  Assembly  had 
been  amended  and  sent  to  the  Senate.  He  immediately 
went  to  Columbus  and  succeeded  in  having  the  amended 
bill  killed  by  the  Senate  committee,  securing  the  introduc- 
tion of  a  new  bill  in  the  Senate  which  subsequently  passed 
without  opposition  in  both  houses. 


CONVENTIONS  SCHEDULED. 

Kansas  State  Convention — At  the  National  Hotel,  Topeka, 
June  2nd  and  3rd. 

Missouri  State  Convention — At  Springfield,  June  10th  and 
nth. 

Iowa  State  Convention — At  the  Auditorium,  Des  Moines, 
May  13th  and  14th. 

Pennsylvania  State  Convention — At  Philadelphia,  May  27th 
and  28th. 

Maryland  State  Convention  — At  Baltimore,  June  3rd 
and  4th. 

Mississippi  State  Convention — At  Jackson,  May  8th. 

West  Virginia  State  Convention — At  Wheeling,  April  29th 
and  30th. 

Delaware  State  Convention — At  DuPont  Hotel,  Wilming- 
ton, May  26th. 


KINEMACOLOR  IN  JAPAN. 

The  rights  for  Kinemacolor  for  Japan  and  Korea  have 
been  disposed  of  to  the  biggest  moving  picture  syndicate 
in  Japan.  Three  Kinemacolor  experts,  in  charge  of  Mr. 
Wark,  left  for  Japan  this  week  to  superintend*  the  installa- 
tion of  equipment  for  the  production  of  Kinemacolor  film, 
as  well  as  for  its  exhibition. 


Cleveland   Exhibitors   Raise   Interesting   Questions   Relating 
to  Rights  of  Picturemen. 

Mr.  M.  A.  Neff,  National  Prcs.  of  M.  P.  E.  L.  of  A.,  Cincinnati.  Ohio. 

Dear  Sir  &  Brother:  The  resolutions  enclosed  herewith  were  passed 
by  unanimous  vote  of  Cleveland  Local  No.  at  our  regular  meeting  April 
9.  The  preamble  and  resolutions  are  self  explanatory.  Our  members  have 
discussed  this  subject  with  each  other  for  a  long  time  until  the  matter 
finally  crystalized  into  it's  present  form.  The  committee  chosen  to  devise 
ways  and  means  to  carry  out  the  purport  of  the  resolutions  have  only  one 
object  in  view,  thus;  to  establish  beyond  all  doubt  and  as  quickly  as  pos- 
sible our  exact  status  in  law.  The  question  of  censorship.  Local,  State  or 
National,  is  a  question  entirely  separate  and  apart  from  the  matter 
covered  by  these  resolutions.  Cleveland  Local  No.  1  insists  upon  finding 
out  for  themselves  and  some  nfteen-thousand  National  Exhibitors  how  much 
longer  they  are  to  be  the  "goats"  upon  this  simple  question  of  Constitu- 
tional rights  and  we  respectfully  submit  the  matter  to  you  as  the  omcial 
head    of    our    organization    for    action. 

We  know  that  no  court  can  or  will  consider  a  question  of  Constitutional 
Rights  until  someone's  rights  have  been  interfered  with  or  ieopardized.  We 
also  know  that  as  yet  no  socalled  legalized  censor  board,  local,  state  or 
national,  has  been  enjoined  or  restrained  from  proceeding  as  they  see 
fit  in  various  localities  and  we  think  that  you  have  plenty  of  available  in- 
formation as  to  where  these  self  constituted  and  "privately  legalized" 
individuals  are  now  operating. 

We  think  Illinois  would  welcome  a  test  per  the  Chicago  police  censorship. 

Michigan  also,  per  the  rights  of  one  Baker  to  follow  his  formula  in 
Detroit. 

Ohio  per  Cleveland,  though  ours  is  only  a  temporary  expediency  operat- 
ing with  our  consent  and  therefore  not  subject  to  the  courts  as  yet. 

This  local  thinks  that  the  manufacturers  should  finance  the  proceedings 
inasmuch  as  both  the  licensed  and  independent  manufacturers  have  ex- 
pended thousands  of  dollars  fighting  each  other  but  not  one  cent  have 
they  spent  to  make  a  legal  stand  in  behalf  of  the  exhibitor  who,  is  com- 
pelled  to  take  their   products  "unsight,   unseen." 

We  suggest  that  the  National  Officers  single  out  a  manifestly  unfair 
decision  rendered  by  one  of  the  above  quoted  censors,  or  elsewhere.  It 
will  be  easy  to  single  one  out.  Have  the  reel  exhibited  in  defiance  of 
the  decision  and  make  the  test  UPON  THE  QUESTION  OF  HIS  RIGHT 
TO  CENSOR.  The  police  power  to  stop  crime  pictures  we  do  not  ques- 
tion, simply  the  question  of  OUR  rights  to  show  pictures  BEFORE  cen- 
soring, just  as  the  newspaper  man  publishes  his  paper,  subject  to  legal 
restrictions  afterwards. 

We  have  everv  confidence  in  you  and  your  fellow  National  officers 
supported  by  the  Hon.  J.  B.  Foraker  and  the  Hon.  T.  T.  Lentz.  our  attorneys 
and  we  feel  that  your  combined  wisdom  will  be  able  to  evolve  a  plan  of 
action  and  carry  the  same  to  a  conclusion  satisfactory  to  all  concerned  at 
an  expense  that  will  fall  very  lichtly  when  divided  pro  rata  among  the 
manufacturers   and    importers. 

In  conclusion  we  submit  that  the  Exhibitors  desire  to  be  open  and  above 
board  in  this  matter  as  we  have  been  heretofore  in  our  business  dealings 
with  the  public  and  the  authorities  and  for  that  reason  we  are  forward- 
ing copies  of  the  resolutions  and  committee's  recommendations  to  the  trade 
papers  and  the  league's  attorneys. 

Hoping  this  will  meet  with  the  approval  of  all  concerned  and  that  success 
may  crown  your  efforts,  we  beg  to  remain.     Fraternally  yours, 

Samuel  Bullock.  Erie  Amusement  Co. 

Gustave  Schroeder,   Majestic  Theater. 

A.  Mahrer,  Avenue  Theater. 

C.  M.  Christensen,  Bronx,  Dreamland  and  Broadway  Theaters. 

W.  J.  Slimm.  Marquis  Theater. 

Committee  on   Resolutions  For  Cleveland  Local   No.    i   M.   P.   E.  L.   of  A. 

Resolutions   on   the    "Freedom   of  the    Screen." 

WHEREAS:  The  highest  authorities,  legal  and  editorial,  have  been  as- 
serting from  time  to  time  in  our  trade  journals  and  public  print  that  "The 
first  test  that  is  made  in  the  courts  regarding  the  freedom  of  the  rights 
of  the  Motion  Picture  from  legalized  censorshin  will  result  in  the  rights 
of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors  being  established"  and  similar  emphatic 
statements  and 

WHEREAS:  The  annoyance,  persecution  and  expense  to  which  the 
a  chaotic  and  insecure  condition  throughout  the  United  States  by  reason  of 
the  fact  that  the  exact  status  of  the  rights  of  the  Motion  Picture  has  not 
as  vet  been  clearlv  defined  by  the  courts  and  . 

WHEREAS:  The  annoyance,  persecution  and  expense  to  which  the 
Motion  Picture  Exhibitors  are  ueing  subiect  in  every  State  and  City  in 
the  Union,  Render  it  imperative  and  absolutely  necessary  that  this  im- 
portant question  be   settled  at   the   earliest   possible  moment    therefore  be    it 

RESOLVED:  That  we  demand  that  a  test  be  mad"  hv  our  National 
League  officials  as  to  the  exact  legal  status  and  rights  of  the  Exhibitors  to 
the  freedom  of  the  Screen  under  the  same  constitutional  rights  which 
guarantee  the  freedom  of  the  press.     Be  it  further 

RESOLVED:  That  the  manufacturers  be  requested  to  finance  this  under- 
taking inasmuch  as  the  Exhibitor  is  entitled  to  morally  clean  and  unob- 
jectionable programs  without  any  additional  expense  beyond  the  cost  of 
regular  service,     further 

RESOLVED:  That  President  M.  ja.  Neff  be  and  is  hereby  requested  to 
act  upon  these  resolutions  at  once  and  arrange  for  a  friendly  action  in 
court  to  settle  this  question  for  all  time. 


MOTION  PICTURE  EXPOSITION   NOTES. 

Mr.  Frank  Samuels  has  returned  from  London.  He  sailed 
from  New  York  for  England  on  March  15  and  landed  back  in 
America  on  April  12.  Mr.  Samuels  went  to  London  as  the 
special  representative  of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League 
of  America,  to  the  International  Kinematograph  Exposition 
and  Conference,  which  was  held  at  the  Olympia.  London,  for 
one  week  beginning  Saturday,  March  22.  The  principal  object  of 
his  trip  was  to  interest  the  English  motion  picture  trade  in 
the  coming  Exhibitors  Convention  and  International  Motion 
Picture  Trade  Exposition  to  be  held  at  the  Grand  Central 
Palace,  New  York  City,  from  July  7  to  12,  1913.  As  represen- 
tative of  the  M.  P.  E.~  L.  of  A.,  Mr.  Samuels  was  vested  with 
full  authority  to  close  contracts  with  European  manufacturers 
of  all  kinds,  pertaining  to  the  trade,  for  space  or  other  repre- 
sentation   at   the   New    York    Exposition.     He   covered    a    con- 


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siderable  amount  of  ground  during  his  two  weeks'  stay  and  re- 
turned with  quite  a  number  of  space  reservations  for  some 
of  the  largest  and  best  English  tirms  in  the  trade.  The  British 
trade  received  him  very  cordially  and  he  succeeded  in  stirring  up 
a  lively  interest  in  the  New  York  Exposition  to  such  an  extent 
that  a  good  number  of  the  English  brothers  have  made  up 
their  minds  to  be  in  New  York  when  the  Exposition  begins 
next  July. 

The  idea  of  sending  Mr.  Samuels  over  there  was  a  very  good 
one.  Mr.  Rich  G.  Holloman,  President  of  the  Eden  Mussee, 
New  York,  was  the  man  who  made  the  suggestion,  and  it  was 
immediately  acted  upon  by  the  Exposition  Committee.  Mr. 
Samuels  was  invited  to  be  guest  of  the  Exhibitors  Association  of 
Great  Britain  and  Ireland  at  their  first  annual  banquet  held 
during  exposition  week  in  London.  At  that  time  he  was  called 
upon  to  address  the  British  association,  and  he  took  advantage 
of  the  opportunity  to  tell  those  present  of  the  work  and  aspira- 
tions of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  America. 
He  gave  them  a  good  first  hand  idea  of  the  general  status  of 
the  exhibiting  branch  of  the  business  in  America  and  pointed 
out  various  improvements  that  could  be  made,  in  which  both 
nations  had  a  common  interest,  if  there  could  be  some  definite 
co-operation  and  plan  of  action  between  the  exhibitors  of  Great 
Britain  and  America.  He  made  it  known  that  one  of  the  objects 
of  his  trip  was  to  establish  co-operative  relations  between  the 
American  and  British  exhibitors,  and  his  statement  met  with  a 
hearty  response.  Mr.  Samuels  is  now  back  at  his  desk  at  the 
offices  of  the  M.  P.  E.  L.  of  A.  Exposition  Committee  in  the 
German  Savings  Bank  Building,  Fourth  Ave,  and  Fourteenth 
Street,  New  York.  He  was  agreeably  surprised  to  find  that 
during  his  absence  many  more  space  reservations  had  been  made 
by  prominent  firms  in  the  trade  for  exhibits  at  the  New  York 
Exposition. 

*  *    * 

One  of  the  advertising  schemes  of  the  Exposition  Committee 
is  the  distribution  of  large  quantities  of  stickers  calling  atten- 
tion to  the  Exposition,  and  giving  the  time  and  place.  These 
are  being  sent  to  the  many  firms  that  have  taken  floor  space 
with  the  request  that  they  stick  one  on  each  and  every  letter 
they  send  out  to  renters,  exhibitors  and  others  in  the  trade. 
This  scheme  not  only  helps  the  exposition  but  it  helps  the  man 
who  sends  the  letter,  by  bringing  more  people  to  see  his  exhibit. 

*  *    * 

The  H.  VV.  Johns-Manville  Company,  manufacturers  of  port- 
able and  permanent  asbestos  operating  rooms,  has  contracted  for 
a  space  on  the  main  floor.  Besides  this  that  company  has  de- 
cided to  install  one  of  its  operating  rooms  in  each  of  the  "model 
theaters"  on  the  mezzanine  floor. 

*  *    * 

The  Day  and  Night  Screen  Co.,  of  192  Broadway,  through  its 
Capt.  A.  M.  Baber,  has  taken  space  in  which  it  will  exhibit  its 
screen  in  daylight.  This  company  has  also  arranged  to  have 
a  screen  installed  in  one  of  the  model  theaters  on  the  mezzanine 
floor. 

*  *    * 

Alex  A.  Wall,  National  vice-president  from  Alabama  comes 
in  with  a  request  for  more  literature  and  more  stickers.  The 
exhibitors  down  South  are  coming  north  in  a  body  to  attend  the 
big  show. 

*  •*  .  * 

Western  and  Southern  picture  men  have  a  fine  alibi  for  being 
in  New  York  next  July.  Incidentally  a  little  whirl  at  Coney 
Island  may  be  arranged  and  perhaps  a  jaunt  around  to  the 
local   moving  picture  studios,  and  other  points  of  interest. 

*  *    * 

Even  the  suffragettes  are  bidding  for  space.  They  want  one 
of  the  model  theaters  for  a  while  each  day  for  expostulating 
purposes.  The  application  is  under  advisement,  but  it  looks 
like  "nothing   didding." 


PUTS  THE  PICTURE  THEATER  ON  THE  LIST. 

Assemblyman  Cuvillier  has  introduced  a  bill  at  Albany, 
N.  Y.,  which  includes  "any  kinetoscope  or  moving  picture 
performance"  in  the  list  of  entertainments  to  be  licensed. 
The  bill  is  an  amendment  to  sections  51  and  1472  of  the 
Charter  of  Greater  New  York,  which  has  not  heretofore 
specifically  named  motion  picture  shows.  At  present  such 
institutions  are  licensed  as  "common  shows.", 


MISS  LAURA  SAWYER. 

Miss  Laura  Sawyer,  leading  lady  in  the  Edison  company, 
who,  as  might  be  readily  surmised  by  the  accompanying 
photograph,  is  commonly  referred  to  by  her  intimates  as 
"Dolly  Dimples,"  is  as  charming  a  young  woman  as  she  is  a 
talented  actress,  and  one  whose  friends  in  and  out  of  the 
professions  are  legion. 

Into  the  four  years  she  spent  before  the  footlights — two 
of  which  as  understudy  to  Ada'  Rehan  in  Shakespearean 
roles — and  the  four  years  she  has  been  with  the  Edison  com- 
pany in  Cuba,  Bermuda,  the  great  Northwest  and  California, 
have  been  crowded  experiences  that  seldom  fall  to  the  lot  of 
so  young  a  woman,  and  covering  which  a  volume  of  inter- 
esting memoirs  might  be  written. 

Miss  Sawyer  is  now  in  Long  Beach,  Cal.,  where,  under 
the  personal  direction  of  J.  Searle  Dawley,  she  is  doing  some 
of  the  best  work  of  her  career. 

Recent  productions  of  the  Edison  company  in  which  her 
finished  work  has  received  the  commendation  of  the  press 
and  public  alike  are  "Unselfish  Love,"  Marguerite  in  "Faust," 
"The  Day  That  Is  Dead,"  "Lead,  Kindly  Light,"  "A  Japanese 
Tea  Party,"  "For  the  Cause  of  the  South,"  "The  Cliff  Dwell- 
er's Romance,"  "'Ostler  Joe,"  "The  Crusader"  and  "The 
Relief  of  Lucknow." 


JUVENILE   FILM    CONSPIRATORS    NOW! 

No,  it  isn't  Laemmle  and  Powers. 

General  and  Kinetograph. 

This  faction  and  that  faction. 

This  producer  and  that  producer. 

Just  kids! 

This  atmosphere  of  meeting  and  conference — this  general 
air  of  conspiracy — that  has  been  so  marked  in  the  film  busi- 
ness of  late,  has  "gotten  to"  the  juvenile  film  people.  At 
last  advices,  the  Thanhouser  Kid  and  Leland  Benham  were 
seen  conspiring  (much  after  the  fashion  of  their  film-business 
elders')  to  oust  an  unpopular  school  mistress  who  had  suc- 
ceeded a  popular  one.  And  no  conspiring  film  magnate  ever 
worked  more  cleverly  than  they!  Thanhouser  releases  the 
result,  entitled  "The  Children's  Conspiracy,"  on  Sunday, 
April  20th. 


The  fog  on  the  day  of  Lord  Wolseley's  military  funeral 
cost  London  cameramen  £30,000,  for  they  only  secured  a 
few  uninteresting  lengths.  Hundreds  of  pounds  were  paid 
by  one  firm  alone  for  stands — that  for  a  single  operator  over 
St.  Paul's  costing  50  guineas. 


SMITH'S  OPERA  HOUSE,  GENEVA,  N.  Y.,  UNDER 
NEW  MANAGEMENT. 
Jerome  Cohen  has  taken  clarge  of  the  above  place  and 
through  Mr.  Hallberg,  "The  Economizer  Man,"  is  installing 
a  Simplex  projecting  machine,  with  Hallberg  A.  C.  Econo- 
mizer. A  Simplex  machine,  with  Hallberg  Economizer,  is 
also  being  installed  at  the  new  Clarendon  Theater,  1105  Flat- 
bush  Avenue,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  together  with  a  full  line  of 
supplies  purchased  through  J.  H.  Hallberg.  This  is  a  very 
line,  up-to-date  theater,  which  will  be  run  only  with  high- 
class  pictures.  Mr.  Hallberg  also  reports  the  sale  of  two 
Power's  No.  6-A  machines  complete  for  use  in  Panama. 


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At  the  Sign  of  the  Flaming  Arcs 

By   George   Blaisdell. 

THOSE  who  favor  what  Mr.  Thanhouser  once  called 
the  natural  reel — i.  e.,  letting  a  picture  run  where  it 
should — will  find  in  Biograph's  "The  Little  Tease" 
material  to  fortify  their  position.  This  film  made  what  one 
operator  "guessed"  was  a  reel  and  a  half.  Probably  his 
guess  was  fairly  accurate.  Here  was  a  picture  it  would  have 
been  a  shame  to  shorten  by  a  hundred  let  alone  several 
hundred  feet.  As  it  was  released,  there  was  opportunity 
for  the  development  of  unusually  fine  situations — time  given 
an  actor  or  an  actress  to  drive  into  the  mind  of  the  observer 
what  the  creator  and  the  producer  of  the.  drama  sought  to 
there  instill. 

Why  should  there  be  an  arbitrary  one  thousand  or  two 
thousand  feet  in  a  picture?  Why  should  not  the  exchange 
man  issue  to  the  exhibitor  each  day  film  based  on  the  num- 
ber of  feet  rather  than  on  the  number  of  reels?  It  would 
amount  to  the  same  thing  to  the  exhibitor.  It  would  mean 
much  to  the  picture  followers.  Too  often  a  story  is  marred 
by  overpruning  to  keep  it  in  the  thousand  feet.  So,  also, 
sometimes — but  rarely — is  it  overextended  to  make  two 
thousand  feet.  It  will  be  said,  of  course,  that  a  change  in 
the  present  system  will  work  havoc  in  the  distribution 
scheme.  Maybe  it  will,  for  a  while.  The  problem  is  of  no 
special  difficulty,  however;  means  could  be  devised  to  attain 
such  a  desirable  end. 

It  is  not  a  matter  for  a  lone  manufacturer  to  take  up.  It 
is  submitted,  nevertheless,  that  it  is  worthy  the  considera- 
tion of  manufacturing  groups. 

*  *     * 

Recurring  to  "The  Little  Tease."  The  splendid  work  in 
this  drama  of  William  Christie  Miller,  the  gentle  and  ven- 
erable actor,  demonstrates  that  on  the  screen,  as  on  the 
stage,  there  is  no  Oslerian  limit. 

The  Photoplayers  honored  themselves  as  well  as  Mr. 
Miller  when  they  made  him  ar.  honorary  life  member. 

*  *     * 

Dropped  over  to  the  Reliance  studio  the  other  day.  A  hun- 
dred yards  away  saw  out  in  front  a  familiar  figure  actively  en- 
gaged in  "warming  up"  for  the  baseball  season.  Line  drives 
and  bounding  grounders  were  being  eaten  up  with  catlike 
agility  and  professional  accuracy.  The  player  was  Captain 
and  First  Basemen  Irving  Cummings,  of  the  Reliance  Motion 
Picture  Baseball  Club.  Mr.  Cummings,  it  may  not  be  gener- 
ally known,  was  a  member  of  the  Milwaukee  American  Asso- 
ciation team  in  1904-5.  His  value  to  the  team  as  a  drawing 
card  was  enhanced  by  a  previous  appearance  in  Milwaukee 
in  stock.  The  Reliance  team  is  ready  for  engagements  be- 
ginning May  5th.  Applications  for  dates  may  be  made  to 
Captain  Cummings  at  540  West  Twenty-first  Street. 

Mr.  Cummings  later  showed  to  the  writer  a  contract  which 
had  arrived  in  the  morning  mail  containing  an  offer  for  a 
stock  engagement  with  a  well-known  theater  at  a  good  salary. 
Mr.  Cummings  confessed  it  had  no  attraction  for  him. 

*  *     * 

So  the  president  of  The  Photoplayers  is  to  be  at  the  Screen 
Club  ball!  It's  a  safe  bet  that  the  Screeners  will  make  such 
a  fuss  over  Fred  Mace  that  he'll  never  regret  the  four-thou- 
sand-mile journey  from  Los  Angeles. 

*  *     * 

The  Kalem  Company  will  release  probably  early  in  June  a 
baseball  drama  in  which  Christie  Mathewson  and  John  Mc- 
Graw  will  appear  as  co-stars.  The  outdoor  pictures  were 
taken  in  Marlin,  Texas,  and  the  studio  scenes  in  Jacksonville. 
Kenean  Buell  was  the  producer.  The  Kalem  officials  have 
not  yet  forgotten  the  great  success  last  fall  of  the  Marquard- 

Joyce  film. 

*  *     * 

Announcement  is  made  at  the  Kalem  offices  that  the  rights 
of   "The   Octoroon"   have   been   purchased    from    Mrs.    Dion 

Boucicault.     The  picture  probably  will  be  in  two  reels. 

*  *     * 

Arthur  Hotaling  is  bringing  his  Lubin  company  north,  and 
will  take  it  to  Atlantic  City,  where  it  will  remain  until  July  I. 
George  Nicholls  will  remain  in  Jacksonville  with  his  company 

until  July  1. 

*  *     * 

The   Excelsior  company  has  returned  to   New  York  from 

Jacksonville. 

*  *     * 

At  the  semi-annual  meeting  of  the  Screen  Club,  Saturday 
night,  saw  a  hearty  handshake  between  William  Shea  of  the 

Vitagraph  and  William  Shay  of  the  Imp. 

*  *     * 

The  Edison  company  will  release  on  April  28th  "When  the 
Right  Man  Comes  Along."     Its  author  is  Mary  Fuller.     As 


it  is  a  comedy-drama,  are  we  permitted  to  assume  that  if  it 
is  a  little  facetious  it  is  also  a  bit  serious — just  a  little  bit? 

*  *     * 

Sitting  in  the  Savoy  Theater,  Saturday  morning,  looking  at 
Pathe's  two-reel  "In  the  Days  of  War,"  the  writer  gradually 
engaged  in  conversation  with  a  substantial-looking  elderly 
man  in  the  adjoining  seat.  The  stranger  was  particularly 
interested  in  the  destruction  of  a  railroad  by  the  soldiers. 
Rails  were  being  torn  up  and  after  a  sufficient  heating  over  a 
fire  made  of  burning  ties  the  sections  of  iron  highway  were 
twisted  around  trees.  "Very  good,"  said  the  stranger.  "I  saw 
between  Chattanooga  and  Atlanta  twenty  straight  miles  of 
railroad  destroyed  by  the  men  under  General  Hood,  and 
broken  up  in  much  that  fashion.  I  have  reason  to  remember 
it,  for  I  was  in  the  Federal  military  construction  corps  and 
was  employed  in  rebuilding  the  road.  These  moving  pictures 
are  getting  better  all  the  time,  don't  you  think?" 

*  *     * 

Lawrence  McGill,  Majestic  producer,  is  back  in  New  York 
from  Jacksonville,  and  is  hard  at  work  at  the  local  studio. 

*  *     * 

Los  Angeles  is  said  to  have  the  picture  craze— in  the  worst 
phase.  Since  the  recent  successful  ball  of  The  Photoplayers 
the  condition  has  been  aggravated.  As  an  indication  of  the 
annoyances  to  which  the  picture  players  are  subjected,  a  re- 
cent letter  from  the  coast  is  eloquent.     Here's  an  extract: 

"Had  a  funny  experience  the  other  day.  In  a  department 
store  I  was  asked  to  call  on  the  manager  in  his  office.  Had 
no  idea  what  he  wanted.  Thought  I  was  spotted  as  a  shop- 
lifter. 'Sore'  was  no  name  for  it.  With  many  excuses  and 
apologies  I  was  requested  to  phone  in  my  orders  in  future, 
as  all  business  was  held  up  on  the  floors  below  by  reason  of  a 
great  part  of  the  girls  coming  up  on  the  floor  where  I  was,  to 
'pipe  me  off.'  I  beat  it  like  a  thief.  It  came  as  such  a  com- 
plete surprise  that  it  made  me  as  nervous  as  an  Iowa  farmer 
with  the  ague.  This  town  is  mad  about  seeing  the  picture 
people  on  the  street.  They  know  a  great  number  are  here 
and  are  on  the  lookout  for  them  all  the  time." 

*  *     * 

When  Arthur  D.  Hotaling,  the  Lubin  comedy  producer,  was 
in  New  York  a  few  weeks  ago  he  engaged  six  actor  persons 
of  color — equally  divided  as  to  sex.  As  it  was  his  intention 
to  use  them  in-  pictures  he  designed  making  in  Jacksonville 
and  in  order  to  provide  against  any  unseemly  "gallivantin"' 
around  in  the  Southern  city  he  wisely  selected  three  married 
couples.  These  were  to  do  the  real  work  of  the  pictures  and 
to  serve  as  the  leaders  of  a  hundred  or  moie  others  of  the 
same  race.  When  the  six  arrived  Hotaling's  troubles  began. 
The  "stars"  found  much. outside  the  studio  to  interest  them. 
When  it  was  seen  the  newcomers  would  not  show  up  at  the 
appointed  hour  an  automobile  was  sent  for  them.  This, 
worked  for  a  few  days;  then  the  machine  had  no  charms. 
Well,  the  four  comedies  are  finished.  It  is  said  Hotaling 
thinks  he  has  earned  a  vacation  for  the  work  and  worry  he 


put  in  on  his  "colored" 


picture. 

*     *     * 


C.  Oscar  Apfel  is  on  his  way  to  Panama  for  a  bit  of  recrea- 
tion.    Mrs.  Marian   Brooks  Apfel  accompanies  him. 

Epes  Sargent  showed  me  over  his  workshop — or  bunk- 
house,  or  scenario  brainery  or  whatever  it  may  be — the  other 
day:  It  is  a  real  place.  Sticking  out  all  over  the  room  is 
System — don't  forget  that  big  S.  That  man  is  wasting  time 
writing  stuff  to  make  people  laugh.     He  ought  to  be  efficiency 

expert  for  some  big  outfit. 

*  *     * 

Talking  the  other  day  with  a  film  man  as  to  the  effect  on  a 
person  of  the  posthumous  appearance  on  the  screen  of  a 
loved  one,  the  name  of  a  well-known  actor  some  months 
passed  away  was  mentioned.  "Why,"  said  my  companion,  "I 
am  well  acquainted  with  his  widow.  In  fact,  I  was  talking 
with  her  only  last  week.  She  told  me  that  whenever  there 
was  issued  a  picture  in  which  her  husband  appeared  she  made 
it  a  point  to  go  and  see  him.  She  said  she  felt  as  if  she  had 
talked  with  him  and  was  happier  for  having  seen  him." 

*  *     * 

Edgena  De  Lespine  ("beautiful  Edgena"),  of  the  Reliance 
company,  stirred  up  no  end  of  talk  last  week  when  she  wrote 
a  letter  to  our  good  and  much  harassed  Mayor  asking  per- 
mission to  introduce  a  new  dance  at  the  Screen  Club  ball. 
The  epistle  sparkled  with  words  familiar  to  those  newspaper 
readers  who  follow  the  Mayor's  published  correspondence. 
It  was  a  wonderful  effort.  Undoubtedly  the  Mayor  rejoiced 
at  the  discovery  of  a  kindred  soul  whose  thoughts  found  ex- 
pression in  his  own  vocabulation.  Appended  to  the  letter 
was  a  glossarial  index,  ostensibly  for  the  convenience  of  the 
mayoral  incubent;  but  really,  of  course,  for  the  benefit  of 
those  Gothamites  not  included  in  the  Epictetian  Circle. 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE  WORLD 


Flickers 


Ira  M.  Lowery. 


WE  have  with  us  this  week  Mr.  Ira  M.  Lowery,  general 
manager    of    the     Lubin    Manufacturing    Company, 
Philadelphia.    During  my  recent  visit  to  Philadelphia, 
I   had  the  pleasure  of  meeting  Mr.   Lowery  while  at  work, 

with  his  coat  off  a  nd 
his  sleeves  rolled  half 
way  up  his  arms,  in- 
specting negatives.  One 
would  naturally  pre- 
sume that  the  business 
head  of  such  a  large 
concern  as  the  Lubin 
Company  would  have 
little  time  to  attend  to 
any  other  than  the 
financial  details  of  the 
plant;  but  such  is  not 
the  case  with  our 
friend.  He  is  here,  there 
and  everywhere,  in- 
s  p  e  c  t  i  n  g  negatives, 
trimming  positives, 
editing  scenarios  and, 
in  fact,  wherever  help 
is  needed,  there  you 
will  find  Lowery.  That 
is  the  reason  he  is  the 
most  popular  man  in 
the  Lubin  plant.  The 
accompanying  likeness 
was  obtained  while  Mr. 
Lowery  was  in  his  own 
office  where,  while  al- 
ways kept  busy,  he  has 
an  opportunity  to  look  upon  his  little  family  occasionally, 
as  you  will  see  if  you  look  closely.  On  his  desk  at  the  right 
as  a  photo  of  the  Mrs.,  and  two  beautiful  children  look  down 
upon  him  from  the  wall. 

*  *     * 

Say,  you  should  see  my  little  Film  Hound.  It's  a  cute 
rthing.  I  am  going  to  show  you  a  picture  of  it  next  week. 
Wait. 

*  *     * 

Albert  Blinkhorn,  manager  of  the  Vitaphone  Company  of 
America,  with  offices  in  the  Longacre  Building,  New  York 
City,  is  tickled  to  death  with  the  large  amount  of  requests 
i'or  prices  and  demonstrations  for  his  new  Talking  Pictures 
He  says  that  he  has  a  shipment  of  five  hundred  on  the  way 
here  from  England,  which  will  reach  New  York  some  time 
within  the  next  ten  days.    Read  his  advertisement  on  another 

page. 

*  *     * 

Mr.  William  Sherry,  of  the  firm  of  Sherry  &  Co.,  feature 
filmers,  was  in  to  see  us  this  week,  and  though  practically  a 
new  man  in  the  film  business,  he  has  made  out  wonderfully 
well  with  his  first  State  rights  picture,  "The  Prisoner  of 
Zenda,"  which  he  purchased  from  the  Famous  Players  Com- 
pany, for  the  State  and  City  of  New  York. 

*  *     * 

I  see  from  an  article  published  in  one  of  the  evening 
papers,  that  a  movement  is  on  foot  to  do  away  with  the  old 
style  of  recording  the  facial  expressions  and  actions  of  crim- 
inals by  means  of  the  Bertillon  system,  and  installing  moving 
picture  cameras  for  the  same  work.  The  suggestion  to  date 
has  met  with  favor. 

*  *     * 

I  spent  a  very  pleasant  hour  with  Mr.  I.  Van  Ronkel,  man- 
ager of  the  Fourth  Avenue  branch  of  the  General  Film  Com- 
pany, New  York,  one  day  this  week.  I  met  Mr.  Van  while 
in  Chicago  last  winter,  so,  naturally  we  could  compare  the 
two  burgs,  but  he  just  refuses  to  see  New  York  City.  How- 
ever, he  is  going  to  stay  over  for  the  Screen  Club  ball,  and 
it  is  probable  that  he  may  meet  some  one  that  will  make  him 
change  his  mind.    You  know  we  are  all  that  way  when  we 

are  away  from  home. 

*  *    * 

President  and  General  Manager  F.  A.  Mackert,  of  the 
Knickerbocker  Amusement  Company,  Braddock,  Pa.,  called 
to  see  us  this  week.  He  was  in  New  York  to  close  a  con- 
tract for  talking  pictures.  They  control  four  theaters  and 
run  pictures  exclusively.  The  Knickerbocker,  in  Braddock, 
Pa.,  seating  70b  in  their  largest  house. 

*  *     * 

Mr.  W.  Arthur  Northam,  of  London,  England,  advertising 
and   publicity  head   of   one   of  the   largest   and   best   known 


chain  of  strictly  moving  picture  theaters  in  England,  is  visit- 
ing New  York  for  the  purpose  of  looking  over  the  film  busi- 
ness in  general,  and  expects  to  be  here  for  only  a  short  time. 
Mr.  Northam  favored  us  with  a  visit  this  week.  MAC. 


VITAGRAPH  STUDIO  NOTES. 

Miss  Zena  Keefe,  of  the  Vitagraph  Stock  Company,  will 
leave  New  York  for  Europe  on  Saturday,  April  26th,  on  the 
Oceanic.  She  will  travel  with  her  mother  and  her  aunt,  and 
intends  to  spend  probably  three  months  there,  visiting  Lon- 
don, Paris,  Berlin  and  possibly  Vienna  and  St.   Petersburg. 

*  *     * 

Mr.  William  Shea,  of  the  Vitagraph  Stock  Company,  is 
coming  to  the  fore  again.  He  will  be  seen  soon  in  a  Coster 
drama,  showing  the  east-end  Londoner  as  he  really  is.  The 
title  of  the  play  will  be  "  'Arriet's  Baby." 

*  *    * 

The  Vitagraph  Bulletin  of  Life  Portrayals  for  May  will 
be  published  next  week.  The  releases  contain  among  their 
number  some  excellent  comedies,  and  also  the  first  of  the 
photoplays  sent  in  by  the  Vitagraph  "globe-trotters,"  one 
of  which,  "The  Wrath  of  Osaka,"  a  thrilling  Japanese  drama, 
will  be  sure  to  arouse  a  great  deal  of  attention. 

*  *    * 

"The  Lion's  Bride,"  which  is  now  engaging  the  attention 
of  the  Vitagraph  company,  is  an  unusually  strong  drama 
founded  on  the  well-known  legend  on  which  the  famous 
picture  of  that  name  by  Gabriel  Max  is  based.  Mrs.  Julia 
Swayne  Gordon  will  be  seen  in  the  title  part.  The  Vitagraph 
lion,  Nero,  will  be  her  fellow  "lead." 

*  *     * 

Mr.  Rollin  S.  Sturgeon,  manager  of  the  Vitagraph  Western 
studios  at  Santa  Monica,  is  turning  out  some  fine  work.  He 
has  sent  in  to  New  York  some  cracking  good  photoplays 
for  release  in  May.  In  "The  Sea  Maiden,"  which  was  prin- 
cipally enacted  at  Catalina,  Cal.,  there  are  some  splendid 
scenic  effects  and  seascapes  served  up  with  an  interesting 
story  of  love  and  thwarted  revenge. 


HARRY  WHITNEY'S  BIG  GAME  HUNT. 

These  unique  pictures  of  adventure  and  life  in  the  great 
frozen  regions  are  meeting  with  great  success  as  evidenced  by 
the  large  number  of  bookings  already  made  by  Northern 
Ventures,  Limited,  and  the  great  demand  for  territory.  The 
immediate  dates  played  include  Toronto,  Canada,  April 
5th,  7th,  8th,  gth,  10th  and  12th;  Washington,  D.  C.  April' 
17th,  18th  and  19th;  Baltimore,  Md.,  April  24th,  25th  and 
26th,  and  Hartford,  Conn.,  the  following  week. 

In  each  instance  a  complete  evenings  entertainment  will 
bt  given,  consisting  of  a  very  interesting  lecture  accompanied 
by  a  few  special  slides  and  five  reels  of  film.  A  special  set 
of  three  reels  is  being  arranged  for  smaller  houses. 

The  Educational  Society,  225  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  and 
other  educational  bodies  are  already  demonstrating  their 
interest  in  this  series,  inasmuch  as  the  pictures  are  regarded 
as  the  most  instructive  photographic  record  ever  taken  of 
the  animal  and  Eskimo  life  of  the  great  Far  North.  In 
addition  to  wonderfully  close-up  pictures  of  Polar  Bear 
and  Seals,  splendid  views  are  given  of  the  Midnight  Sun,  im- 
mense icebergs,  Eskimo  dog  teams,  the  rescue  of  a  ship- 
wrecked crew,  trading  with  the  Eskimo,  and  a  bright  little 
comedy  section  that  will  appeal  to  all. 


WOODWARD  WILL  REMAIN  ANOTHER  WEEK. 

L.  A.  Woodward,  general  manager  of  the  Enterprise  Op- 
tical Manufacturing  Company,  makers  of  the  Motiograph 
machines,  has  decided  to  remain  in  New  York  another  week, 
owing  to  the  large  increase  in  business  of  his  company  in 
this  territory,  and  the  necessity  of  putting  more  men  in  the 
field.  Among  the  recent  installations  of  the  Motiograph  in 
the  New  York  territory  were  two  1913  model  with  motor 
drive  at  the  Colonial  Theater,  Stamford,  Conn. 


HETTIE  GRAY  BAKER  VISITS  SELIG  PLANT. 

Miss  Hettie  Gray  Baker,  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  author  of 
many  popular  and  artistic  Selig  photodramas,  stopped  off 
in  Chicago  last  week,  on  her  way  to  California.  During  her 
stay  in  the  Western  metropolis  she  was  a  much  interested 
visitor  at  the  Selig  studios,  where  she  witnessed  the  produc- 
tion of  an  elaborate  picture  by  Oscar  Eagle,  the  scenario 
for  which  Miss  Baker  recently  wrote. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


389 


"THE  HOODOO  PEARLS"  (Reliance). 

Frederick  Sullivan  directed  this  exceptionally  good  Reli- 
ance film,  and  he  was  assisted  by  the  clever  work  of  several 
prominent  members  of  the  stock  company. 

Mason  and  Davis,  employed  in  a  large  jewel  concern,  both 
love  their  employer's  daughter,  Helen.  She  prefers  Mason, 
much  to  his  rival's  disgust.  On  the  night  that  Mason  starts 
on  his  vacation  a  string  of  pearls  is  delivered  to  the  jeweler, 
with  the  request  that  he  place  it  in  his  safe.  He  carelessly 
drops  the  necklace  into  his  ledger  and  places  the  empty  box 
in  the  safe.  Next  day  the  pearls  are  missing,  and  Mason  is 
suspected  of  the  theft.  He  is  arrested  and  brought  back  to 
town.  Davis  finds  the  pearls  and  carries  them  home,  as  he 
wants  to  incriminate  Mason  in  Helen's  eyes.  His  sister, 
Edna,  finds  the  necklace  and,  thinking  it  of  no  value,  wears 
it  to  a  dance.    She  loses  it,  and  Davis  almost  goes  insane — 


K3S 

Scene  from  "The  Hoodoo  Pearls"  (Reliance). 

for  the  pearls  are  priceless.  Edna's  sweetheart  rushes  back 
to  the  ballroom  and  finds  the  necklace.  Davis  grasps  it 
thankfully,  and  early  next  morning  he  is  at  the  office  and 
replaces  it  in  the  ledger,  where  he  calls  his  employer's  atten- 
tion to  it.  Mason  is  released  at  once,  and  as  Davis  sees 
Helen  rush  to  her  lover's  embrace  he  no  longer  feels  the  old 
jealousy,  but  just  thankfulness  that  the  pearls  are  secure  in 
the  safe. 

Naomi  Childers,  as  Helen,  and  Harry  Spingler,  as  Mason, 
did  excellent  work.  The  cast  also  included  Bill  Sloane,  Edna 
Cunningham,  Hattie  De  Laro  and  Messrs.  De  Carlton  and 
Sarno.    This  picture  will  be  released  April  23rd. 


NICHOLAS  POWER  COMPANY   NOTES. 

Power's  Cameragraph  No.  6-A,  with  motor  and  mechanical 
speed  control,  has  been  approved  for  use  in  Houston,  Texas. 

The  new  Bunny  Theater  in  Flatbush  Avenue,  near  Sterling 
Place,  Brooklyn,  has  been  equipped  with  two  Power's  Cam- 
eragraphs  No.  6-A,  with  motor  drive. 

The  St.  Clair  Opera  House  at  Greensburg,  Pa.,  one  No. 
6-A  complete,  through  the  General  Film  Company,  Pittsburgh. 

The  Princess  Theater,  Marlboro,  Mass.,  one  No.  6  com- 
plete, with  dissolving  view  stereopticon  through  the  N.  E. 
Universal  Film  Exchange,  Boston. 

St.  Patrick's  Church,  Toronto,  Ont.,  has  installed  one 
Power's  Cameragraph  No.  6-A  through  Charles  Potter,  of 
Toronto. 


POWER'S    CAMERAGRAPH    EXHIBITORS'    LEAGUE. 

The  R.  D.  Marson  Moving  Picture  Company,  of  Boston, 
Mass.,  has  installed  in  the  Moving  Picture  Exhibitors'  League 
headquarters  in  Boston  one  Power's  No.  6-A  complete. 


"THROUGH  MANY  TRIALS"  (Lubin). 

This  is  a  very  beautiful  and  pathetic  story.  It  is  a  Lubin 
two-reel  special  and  cast  from  a  selection  of  the  best  players 
in  the  Philadelphia  studio.  Doubtless  it  will  be  popular  with 
the  women,  who  really  do  like  touches  of  pathos. 

Guy  Maurice,  a  young  artist,  goes  to  the  country  and  takes 
board  at  a  farm  house.  There  he  meets  Emily  Brown,  the 
farmer's  daughter,  and  they  fall  in  love.  Abner  Brown  ob- 
jects to  the  engagement  and  turns  Maurice  out  of  the  house, 
but  the  lovers  elope  and  get  married.  They  go  to  the  city 
and  live  comfortably  for  a  while,  but  eventually  the  artist  re- 
turns to  his  companions  of  the  cafe,  and  Emily  is  neglected. 


Scene  from  "Through  Many  Trials"  (Lubin). 

A  child  is  born  and  it  brings  out  the  better  nature  of  Guy. 
He  again  applies  himself  to  his  work  and  makes  a  picture  that 
wins  a  high  award.  Circumstances  change  at  the  farm, 
Abner's  wife  dies  and  the  home  is  sold  out  by  the  sheriff. 
Silas  Brown,  the  son,  goes  to  the  city  and  finds  his  sister. 
The  father  soon  follows  and  is  hurt  by  an  accident.  The 
children  go  to  the  hospital  and  when  the  old  man  has  suffi- 
ciently recovered  they  take  him  to  the  artist's  beautiful  home 
to  end  his  days  in  peace  and  comfort. 


KINEMACOLOR  FEATURE  FILMS. 

An  interesting  announcement  is  made  with  reference  to 
the  production  of  spectacular  subjects  on  an  impressive  scale 
in  Kinemacolor  in  the  near  future.  These  films  will  be  based 
on  the  works  of  world-famous  authors,  and  since  they  will 
be  extremely  costly,  and  at  the  same  time  make  a  world-wide 
appeal  to  Kinemacolor  audiences,  a  subsidiary  company,  to 
devote  its  undivided  attention  to  the  production  of  feature 
subjects,  will  be  financed.  Exhibiting  licensees  will  soon  be 
able  to  include  a  feature  film  for  each  weekly  service.  The 
country  in  which  the  new  company  will  conduct  its  opera- 
tions is  not  yet  settled;  it  is  probable  that  it  will  have  no 
regular  home,  but  will  travel  the  world  in  search  of  appro- 
priate settings.  There  is  no  doubt  that  a  scheme  of  this 
importance  will  attract  the  greatest  talent  in  production, 
acting  and   scenario   writing. 


MARGARITA  LOVERIDGE  JOINS  SELIG. 

Miss  Margarita  Loveridge,  who  has  appeared  in  a  number 
of  Selig  pictures  during  the  past  year,  has  joined  the  Pacific 
Coast  studios  stock  and  will  appear  exclusively  in  the  "Dia- 
mond S"  brand  of  pictures  hereafter. 


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"TOLD  IN  CONFIDENCE"  (Great  Northern). 

In  ye  olden  days  of  New  England  gossips  were  punished 
for  their  activities  and  the  stocks  and  ducking  stool  were  utilized 
to  curb  the  tongues  of  the  scandal  mongers.  In  this  Great 
Northern  comedy  we  are  given  a  "taste"  of  how  gossip  will 
spread  and  while  the  pictures  are  amusing  they  likewise  teach 
a  lesson  that  is  calculated  to  prove  of  benefit.  Dr.  Miller  is 
a  mild  mannered  man  and  enjoys  the  companionship  of  his 
family  consisting  of  his  wife,  mother  and  little  girl.  His  next 
door  neighbor  is  Mrs.  Jones  and  she  makes  a  pastime  of  peering 
into  the  doctor's  dining-room.  One  evening  as  she  is  peeking 
through  the  curtains,  she  sees  the'  doctor  chide  the  butler  and 
maid  for  placing  a  gravy-stained  napkin  upon  the  table.  He  is 
annoyed  and  shows  his  annoyance  in  his  demeanor.  Mrs.  Jones 
hastens  to  Mrs.  Brown  and  tells  in  confidence  of  the  brutal  con- 
duct of  the  doctor  toward  his  family.  He  is  pictured  as  having 
shaken  his  little  daughter  to  the  point  of  strangulation,  breaking 
furniture    and    otherwise    playing    the    role    of    a    brute.      .Mrs. 


Scene  from  "Told  in  Confidence"  (Great  Northern). 

Brown  cannot  resist  the  temptation  for  gossip  and  she  hurries 
over  to  Mrs.  Smith  with  another  elaborated  tale  of  the  exciting 
doings  in  the  Miller  household.  In  this  latest  narrative  Mrs. 
Miller  and  the  butler  are  involved  and  the  cause  of  the  doctor's 
anger  is  ascribed  to  this.  According  to  Mrs.  Brown's  version 
of  the  affair  the  doctor  almost  committed  murder  and  threw 
the  butler  through  a  window,  pointing  a  revolver  at  the  supposed 
offender  as  the  latter  hung  on  a  ledge  far  removed  from  the 
ground.  And  so  the  story  spreads  and  is  elaborated  upon  by  eacn 
new  listener.  As  may  well  lie  imagined,  the  little  village  in 
which  the  doctor  spends  his  summer  is  in  an  uproar  and  the 
good  townsfolk  are  all  wrought  up  over  the  reported  occur- 
in  the  home  of  the  mild  mannered  physician.  A  crowd  of  people 
assemble  outside  and  while  the  three  gossips  stand  in  the  fore- 
ground and  point,  while  giving  a  description  of  what  they 
thought  they  had  seen,  Dr.  Miller  and  his  family  appear  at 
the  portal.  Father,  mother  and  grandmother  are  as  happy  as 
the  flowers  that  grow  in  the  spring  and  as  they  saunter  forth  for 
an  outing,  the  three  village  gossips  scamper  off  amid  the  jeers  of 
the  men  and  women  who  had  been  hoodwinked  into  believing 
that  Dr.  Miller  was  a  fiend  in  human  form.  The  gossipy  versions 
of  Mrs.  Jones,  Mrs.  Brown  and  Mrs.  Smith  are  included  in 
the  unwinding  of  the  story  ami  the  photography  and  acting 
are  up  to  the  Great  Northern  standard. 


THE  "OZONE  PURE  AIRIFIER." 

"Ozone"  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  best  means  of  purify- 
ing: the  air  we  breathe  and  is  a  powerful  disinfectant,  work- 
ing so  rapidly  as  to  make  it  highly  useful  in  securing  perfect 
ventilation.  A  method  of  applying  it  to  the  ventilation  of 
picture  theaters  and  other  auditoriums  has  been  devised  by 
the  Ozone  Pure  Airifier  Company,  of  Chicago,  which  makes 
:i  machine  that  has  the  power  to  accomplish  the  desired 
results,  it  is  claimed.  In  a  certain  New  York  picture  theater 
an  "ozonator"  was  installed  after  all  other  systems  of  ven- 
tilation had  failed  to  remove  the  disagreeable  odors.  By 
passing  the  incoming  current  of  air  through  this  device  an 
instantaneous  result  was  obtained.  The  theater  was  entirely 
deodorized,  even  in  the  hottest  weather.  The  matter  is  one 
that  is  worth  investigating.  The  Ozone  Pure  Airifier  Com- 
pany makes  many  interesting  claims  for  its  device  and  will 
be  glad  to  discuss  the  subject  of  its  use  with  theater  owners. 
Address  the  company  at  Rand-McNally  Building,  Chicago,  111. 


"THE  MOTE  AND  THE  BEAM"  (Majestic). 

This  picture,  directed  by  Lawrence  McGill,  with  all  its 
scenes  laid  in  a  picturesque  Florida  setting,  is  particularly 
good.  The  scenario,  by  George  Henessey,  tells  the  story  of  a 
narrow-minded  country  deacon  who  punishes  his  son  for  a 
petty  falsehood,  yet  does  not  scruple  to  keep  a  purse  he  finds, 
knowing  that  it  belongs  to  a  poor  widow. 


Scene  from  "The  Mote  and  the  Beam"  (Majestic). 

His  son  is  taken  ill  and  the  deacon  thinks  this  a  punishment 
for  his  sin.  After  a  tierce  battle  his  better  self  prevails  and 
he  returns  the  purse,  confessing  his  temptation.  A  young 
man  who  had  been  arrested  on  suspicion  is  freed  and  the 
deacon  forgiven.  He  returns  home  to  find  his  boy  safe  on 
the  road  to  recovery. 

This  photoplay  was  released  on  April  20th. 


Double  Exposure  Scene  in  "The  Dead  Secret." 

A  remarkable  demonstration  of  what  the  camera  can  do 
to  deceive  the  eye  is  given  in  the  Monopol  Film  Company's 
latest  Marion  Leonard  feature  release,  "The  Dead  Secret." 
In  many  scenes  Miss  Leonard  plays  two  different  characters 
— one  the  mother  and  the  other  the  daughter.  Unlike  some 
other  attempts  at  double  exposure,  where  the  performer 
appears  in  two  different  characters  in  one  room  and  merely 
poses',  in  the  double  exposures  in  the  scenes  of  "The  Dead 
Secret,"   where   Miss   Leonard   appears   as   both    mother   and 


Scene  from  "A  Dead  Secret"  (Monopol). 

daughter,  the  room  is  filled  with  other  character?  who  move 
about  the  stage.  Quadruple  exposures,  showing  the  char- 
acters gazing  into  a  glass  globe  and  seeing  themselves  at 
another  period,  proves  weirdly  fascinating.  Visualizing 
thought  and  conscience  in  a  manner  that  leaves  no  doubt 
of  what  the  picture  tries  to  convey  is  another  of  the  attractive 
features  of  this  production. 


Manager  J.  V,  Ritchey,  of  the  Reliance,  has  acquired  the 
rights  to  Forrest  Halsey's  "The  Bawder  Out,"  which  will  be 
produced  in  three  reels  under  Oscar  Apfel's  direction  on 
April  30th. 


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PHILADELPHIA. 

TOM  BIBLE  is  organizing  a  baseball  team,  which 
will  be  composed  of  members  of  the  trade  in 
Philadelphia.  Already  Tom  is  booking  games  with 
some  of   the   fastest   teams  In   this   section. 

W.  B.  Reynolds  has  just  returned  from  a  suc- 
cessful trip  throughout  the  state  in  the  interests 
0/  the  Crown  Feature  Film  Company. 

There  has  been  a  report  current  in  Philadelphia 
for  the  past  week  that  the  Adelpbl  and  the  Opera 
House  may  be  turned  into  moTing  picture  houses 
after  the  close  of  the  present  season.  Both  of 
these  theaters,  it  is  said,  will  be  reopened  and  the 
Edison  talking  pictures  exhibited,  along  with  high- 
class  vaudeville.  No  confirmation  of  the  report 
could  be  obtained  from  the  managers  of  the  houses, 
but  it  is  taken  for  granted  that  something  is  about 
to  happen  that  will  stir  the  theatrical  business  in 
Philadelphia. 

The  Orpheum  Theater,  of  Willlamsport,  was  re- 
opened on  April  5th,  after  having  been  closed 
almost  the  entire  •  winter,  undergoing  repairs  ami 
alterations  which  make  it  one  of  the  most  up-to- 
date  houses  in  Central  Pennsylvania.  The  manager 
and  owner  is  John  A.  Fourney,  Jr.  Mr.  Fourney 
and  his  father  own  the  largest  skating'  rink  in 
Pennsylvania,  which  is  also  located  In  Williainspori. 
H.  J.  Paradis,  manager  of  the  Lumina  Theater, 
of  Wilson,  N.  C,  was  a  local  caller  among  the 
trade  in  Philadelphia  last  week. 

Walter  C.  Lamade,  manager  of  the  Lycoming 
Opera  House  and  the  Family  Theater,  of  Williams- 
port,  was  a  local  visitor  recently. 

Harry  Davis,  of  Milton,  Pa.,  who  owns  one  of 
the  finest  little  theaters  in  the  country,  and  which 
•hows  without  a  doubt  the  very  best  in  the  picture 
line,  was  a  recent  visitor  in  Philadelphia,  making 
numerous  calls  on   members  of  the  trade. 

Motor-drives  projection  machines  are  now  allowed 
In  Philadelphia,  much  to  the  joy  of  a  large  number 
of  the  exhibitors.  After  much  hard  work  on  the 
part  of  the  exhibitors,  the  Department  of  Public 
Safety  was  convinced  that  there  was  no  danger  in 
using  the  added  equipment,  and  thus  the  order  was 
Issued  that  motors  could  be  used. 

The  Moving  Picture  Operators*  Club  of  Philadel- 
phia will  hold  a  second  annual  ball  on  April  26th, 
and  from  all  present  indications  this  year's  festivi- 
ties will  far  surpass  those  of  last  year.  The  com- 
mittee in  charge  is  working  overtime  in  order  that 
there  will  be  no  "fall  down"  of  any  kind. 

Many  residents  in  the  neighborhood  of  Broad  and 
Thompson  Streets  appeared  in  Judge  Barratt's  court 
last  week  to  protest  against  the  establishment  of 
a  moving  picture  house  on  the  southeast  corner  of 
the  streets.  Work  has  already  been  started  on 
the  picture  house.  Just  what  the  result  of  the 
case  will  be  to  have  the  place  built  into  something 
other  than  a  moving  picture  theater  remains  to  be 
teen. 

Several  members  of  Local  37,  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.,  op- 
erated a  show  for  the  benefit  of  the  inmates  of 
the  St.  Vincent  Home  recently,  much  to  the  en- 
joyment of  the  people  who  are  confined  there.  The 
films  and  machine  were  furnished  by  the  Messrs. 
Lubln  and  Brubran,  Sr. 

J.  E.  McEllroy,  who  was  recently  in  the  employ 
of  the  Philadelphia  city  government,  has  accepted 
a  position  with  the  Calehuff  Supply  Company. 

E.  Latisch,  of  the  Keystone  Feature  Film  Ex- 
change, announces  that  he  has  dissolved  partner- 
ship with  W.  Rosenbach,  and  his  former  partner 
,  will  continue  the  above  exchange  as  sole  owner. 
Students  of  history  and  kindred  subjects  in  the 
public  schools  of  Audubon,  N.  J.,  will  have  mo- 
tion pictures  instead  of  text  books,  if  the  $30,000 
bond  issue  asked  by  the  Board  of  Education  he 
authorized  at  the  next  special  election.  Films 
based  on  these  subjects  will  be  shown  in  a  room 
specially  constructed  for  the  purpose,  and  all  classes 
will  make  this  a  part  of  their  regular  work. 

The  Union  Features,  of  New  York,  City  have  es- 
tablisbed  offices  in  Philadelphia,  at  No.  15  North 
Tenth    street. 

Marcus  A.  Benn.  of  the  A.  B.  C.  theater,  located 
at  Nos.  3321-3323  Chestnut  street,  gave  the  entire 
day's  proceeds  of  April  2,  as  a  benefit  for  the  flood 
sufferers  of  the  Middle  West. 

The  Scarlett  Motion  Picture  Company,  has  been 
recently  organized  and  is  now  producing  feature 
films  at  its  new  studio.  Twenty-third  and  Vine 
streets.  W.  T.  Jones,  formerly  producer  and 
director,  is  the  general  manager  of  the  company. 
The  concern  has  been  fortunate  in  securing  as  its 
leading  lady  the  dainty  and  versatile  motion 
picture  actress,  Miss  Eleanor  Caines,  formerly  of 
the  Lubin  Company.  Jerold  T.  Hevener,  also  of 
that  company  will  direct  the  productions  with  a 
companv  of  twenty-two  persons.  The  first  release 
was    "Lost    Identity."    a    thrilling    western    drama 


in  two  parts.  The  company  proposes  to  release  its 
features  through  the  leading  independent  feature 
exchanges. 

The  M.  B.  Dudley  Film  Company  has  recently 
been  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  Delaware  with 
a    capitalization    of    $50,000. 

The  Plaza  theater  in  South  Broad  street  was  sold 
by  the  Plaza  Realty  Company  to  a  syndicate  of 
investors  headed  by  James  J.  Springer,  which  will 
make  extensive  alterations  to  the  building.  The 
theater  was  built  about  six  years  ago  and  has  a 
seating  capacity  of  about  1700.,  It  was  proposed 
to  enlarge  It  last  year,  but  the  plan  was  never 
carried   out. 

A  new  theater  is  now  under  construction  at 
S35  Morris  street,  which  will  cost  about  $5000. 
Just  who  is  back  of  the  new  enterprise  has  not 
been  learned  but  it  Is  rumored  that  a  syndicate 
is    the    promoter. 

M.  Rittenhouse  is  having  a  store  room  located 
at  Nos.  303-7  North  Fifty-third  street  altered  into 
a  moving  picture  parlor  at  a  cost  of  $-1,000.  This 
new  play  bouse  is  located  in  a  district  now 
fairly  well  supplied  with  motion  picture  shows, 
but  competition  is  the  life  of  trade  and  another 
new  one  will  perhaps  increase  the  standard  of 
the  shows. 

Michael  Stiefel,  is  the  owner  of  a  new  theater 
which,  upon  completion,  will  be  one  of  the  finesi 
in  the  North  East  section  of  tbe  city.  The  build- 
ing will  be  of  modern  fireproof  construction,  and 
will  contain  all  the  latest  devices  to  make  it  a 
first-class  picture  theater.  The  cost  of  the  theater 
will  be  about  $50,000.  The  seating  capacity  will 
be  more  than  1500. 

The  Eureka  Amusement  Company  has  purchased 
a  plot  of  ground  at  Fortieth  and  Market  streets 
on  which  it  wil  have  erected  a  picture  theater.  The 
assessed   valuation   of   the   ground   is   $16,000. 

Cape  May,  N.  J.,  is  about  to  have  an  open  air 
theater  for  its  summer  crowds  and  from  the  present 
plans  it  wil  have  a  seating  capacity  of  about 
1000  persons.  This  theater  will  be  part  of  an 
amusement  park  which  will  be  called  Marine  Park. 
Other  attractions  will  also  be  added. 
A  $10,000  motion  picture  theater  will  be  erected 
.  at  Twentieth  and  McKeen  streets  for  James 
McMonigle.  Work  has  already  been  started  by 
the  contractor  and  the  new  bouse  will  be  opened 
to  the  public  in  the  very  near  future. 

Much  interest  was  created  in  Vandergrift  by  the 
owners  of  a  new  theater  by  holding  a  prize  con- 
test for  the  best  name  submitted,  the  winner 
getting  as  a  prize  $10  in  gold  with  a  season  ticket 
to  the  theater.  When  the  judges  made  their 
decision  the  name  of   "Mar-Mac"   was  chosen. 

Added  improvements  have  been  made  to  the 
Bijou  Dream  theater  at  1205  Market  street,  which 
is  under  the  management  of  Frank  Buhler.  It  is 
the  intentions  of  Mr.  Buhler  to  make  this  house 
the    most    attractive    in    Market    street. 

Messrs.  Levich,  Woldow  and  Kapmer,  have  taken 
an  option  on  a  plot  of  ground  located  at  2215-23 
North  Twenty-ninth  Street',  where  they  will  erect 
a  motion  picture  and  vaudeville  theater  at  a  cost 
of  $1S5,000.  The  theater  will  be  ready  for  occu- 
pancy about  September.  It  will  have  a  seating 
capacity   of  2,200. 

Several  of  the  exhibitors  in  Philadelphia  have 
showed  an  earnest  effort  to  do  something  for  the 
flood  sufferers  of  the  Middle  West.  In  a  number 
of  the  theaters  the  entire  day's  receipts  have  been 
turned  over  to  Mayor  Blankenburg,  and  he  in  turn 
has  forwarded  it  to  the  governors  of  the  stricken 
states. 

Lieutenant'  J.  P.  Anderson,  the  Baltimore  repre- 
sentative of  Union  Features,  is  now  located  with 
the  United  Features,  15  North  Tenth  Street,  where 
he  will  book  all  Eclair  subjects  for  Maryland,  Vir- 
ginia, Delaware,  District  of  Columbia,  North  Caro- 
lina  and   Pennsylvania. 

The  Pelham  Amusement  Company  has  taken  title 
to  a  plot  of  ground  at  the  southwest  corner  of  Ger- 
mantown  Avenue  and  Hotter  Street,  45  feet  by  150 
feet  on  which  will  be  erected  a  moving  picture 
theater.  Plans  for  a  model  house  will  be  made  by  a 
local  architect  and  it  is  expected  that  the  theater 
will  be  one  of  the  finest  in  the  northwest  section  of 
the  city. 

The  proposed  moving  picture  theater,  which  is 
to  be  built  at  Seventeenth  Street  and  Susquehanna 
Avenue,  is  meeting  with  many  difficulties.  This  the- 
ater wilt  occupy  a  plot  of  ground  next  to  a  public 
school  and  the  populace  contend  that  if  the  picture 
house  is  built  it  will  interfere  with  the  children 
in  going  to  school.  A  delegation  of  business  men 
of  that  section  headed  by  Charles  L.  Fluck  and  Dr. 
Rnssel  H.  Conwell.  of  the  Temple  Baptist  Church, 
appeared  before  the  School  Committee  and  asked 
that  the  ground  be  bought  for  a  public  playground, 
and  thus  keep  the  backers  of  the  moving  picture 
theater  from  building  the  house.  Jast  what  action 
the  School  Board  will  take  Is  the  subject  of  con- 
versation among  exhibitors  and  the  people  who  are 
opposing   the  erection   of  the   theater. 

OONGDON. 


similar  house  and  office  building  at  1367  Main 
Street,  at  a  cost  of  $70,000.  John  E.  Gishel  is  to 
spend  $15,000  on  a  moving  picture  house  at  257 
Virginia  Street  and  John  J.  Maher  will  erect  one 
at  Rhode  Island  Street  and  West  Avenue,  at  a 
cost  of   $15,000. 

A  permit  has  been  issued  to  Martin  Pleuthner 
to  build  a  moving  picture  theater  at  943  Jefferson 
Street  at  a  cost  of  $13,000,  and  G.  A.  Nichols  will 
erect   one  at  37S  Oak   Street  at   a  cost  of  $2,000. 

Michael  Shea,  who  features  Edison's  talking  pic- 
tures with  high  class  vaudeville  at  Shea's  Theater 
in  this  city,  is  interested  in  a  hippodrome  to  be 
erected  at  5S0  Main  Street  at  a  cost  of  $150,000. 
It  is  expected  that  moving  pictures  will  be  among 
the  attractions  to  be  offered  at  this  house.  The 
theater  will  seat  3,000  persons.  The  work  is  to  be 
doue   in   the   name   of    the   McNaughton    Realty   Co. 

The  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League,  Local  No. 
6,  of  Buffalo,  recently  called  a  meeting  of  pro- 
prietors of  motion  picture  theaters  of  this  city  and 
Western  New  York.  The  members  agreed  to  oppose 
any  legislation  unfavorable  to  their  business.  Pro- 
posed laws  requiring  the  closing  of  motion  pictures 
00  Sunday,  the  use  of  concrete  doors  in  these  houses 
and  similar  subjects  were  discussed. 

"Satan"  is  the  title  of  a  moving  picture  attract- 
ing great  crowds  to  the  Strand  Theater  this  week. 
Harold  Eidel  is  proprietor  of  this  house. 

Manager  Henry  Marcus  of  the  Academy  Theater 
is  featuring  Dayton  flood  pictures  this  week. 

Keith's  Columbia  Theater  of  this  city  recently 
celebrated  what  Manager  Bowe  termed  a  "gala 
week."  These  pictures  were  shown:  "Heroes, 
One  and  AH,"  "A  Prodigal's  Return,"  "The  Spy's 
Defeat,"  "What  Happened  to  Mary"  and  "Detective 
Burns." 

The  Mark-Brock  Theatrical  Enterprises  of  Buffalo 
contributed  to  the  fund  recently  collected  here  for 
the  Ohio  flood  sufferers.  The  theaters  which  are 
owned  by  the  company  here  and  which  sent  money 
to  the  stricken  districts  are  The  Academy,  Strand, 
Family,  New  Lyric  and  Victoria.  These  houses 
feature  moving  pictures. 

•  Proprietors  of  moving  picture  theaters  in  Cana- 
dian towns  near  Buffalo  are  watching  with  interest 
the  campaign  recently  begun  by  the  Toronto,  Ont. 
Methodist  Ministerial  Association  against  certain 
moving  picture  houses  of  that  city.  The  ministers 
claim  that  they  disapprove  of  the  method  alleged 
to  be  employed  by  certain  managers.  It  is  claimed 
that  some  of  the  pictures  put  on  by  these  managers 
frequently  tend  to  impair  the  minds  of  young  pat- 
rons. It  is  also  reported  that  those  proprietors 
who  conduct  clean  shows  will  receive  the  endorsa- 
tion  of  the  ministers. 

"BILLY    BISON." 


BUFFALO. 

ACCORDING'  to  plans  recently  filed  at  the  Bureau 
^~Vof  Buildings,  in  this  city,  Buffalo  is  to  have 
several  new  moving  picture  theaters  in  1913. 
Mitchell  H.  Mark,  head  of  the  Mark-Brock  Theatri- 
cal Enterprises  will  build  a  moving  picture  theater 
at  Grant  and  West  Ferry  Streets  at  a  cost  of  $100,- 
000.      The    Erie    Holding    Corporation    will    build    a 


PITTSBURG. 

THE  co-partnership  lately  existing  between  Geo. 
H.  Smith.  Fred  M.  Smith  and  Edward  h.  Smith, 
nnder  the  firm  name  of  Smith  Brothers  Company, 
which  conducted  a  moving  picture  theater  at  2726 
Penn  Avenue,  this  city,  has  been  dissolved  by  mu- 
tual consent,  Edward  L.  Smith  retiring  and  Geo. 
Smith  taking  over  his  interest  in  the  firm.  The 
business  will  be  conducted  at   the  old  address. 

A  Pennsylvania  state  charter  has  been  applied 
for  by  Pierre  Dannals,  A.  H.  Berg  and  E.  L.  Still- 
wagon  for  an  intended  corporation  to  be  known  as 
the  McKeesport  Amusement  Company,  which  will 
conduct  and  operate  moving  picture  theaters  and 
entertainments. 

Operations  on  the  new  Harris  Theater,  at  Center 
and  Sheridan  Avenues,  have  been  started.  The  new 
theater  will  be  one  of  the  most  attractive  in  the 
city  and  will  cater  to  the  residents  of  the  East 
End. 

The  Kenyon  Opera  House  now  runs  continuous 
motion  pictures  and  vaudeville  as  the  afternoon 
show,  tbe  addition  of  moving  pictures  proving  a 
profitable  experience.  The  regular  evening  show, 
consisting  of  vaudeville,  is  then  put  on.  The  local 
vaudeville  bouses  are  running  more  and  more  mo- 
tion pictures  all  the  time,  and  the  action  of  the 
Kenyon  Is  expected  to  be  followed  by  several  of 
the  other  vaudeville  houses. 

The  East  End  Amusement  Company  has  received 
a  Pennsylvania  charter  to  do  business  under  that 
name  and  to  conduct  moving  picture  theaters  and 
other  places  of  entertainment.  The  members  of 
the  company  are  David  Adler,  Harry  Adler  and 
H.  F.   Reidenback,  all  of  this  city. 

D.   L.   MANLEY. 


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pliable. 

Price  $1.00 


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Letters  to  the  Editor 

"WORLD  GIVES    EXHIBITORS   CREDIT." 

Dundee,    Mich.,    April    3,    1913. 
Editor  Motion  Picture  World,  New  York: 

Dear  Sir — I  am  just  an  exhibitor  in  a  small  country  town;  have  been 
in  the  business  four  years,  and  during  that  time  have  read  the  M.  P. 
World  as  David  Harum  did  the  good  book,  "From  Kiver  to  Kiver."  Facts 
and  Comments  claim  my  attention  first  of  all.  Especially  gratifying  is  the 
stand  you  take  in  behalf  of  the  helpless  exhibitor.  Unlike  the  manu- 
facturer and  exchanges,  you  give  us  credit  for  intelligence,  ability  to  con- 
duct our  own  business,  and  an  earnest  desire  to  bring  it  up  to  a  higher 
standard  by  showing  only  pictures  that  appeal  to  a  high  class  of  patronage, 
those    seeking    instruction    as    well    as   entertainment. 

High  class  comedy  is  wholesome  and  necessary  for  variety,  but  many 
coarse,  if  not  actually  disgusting  pictures  which  are  put  upon  the  market 
by  some  of  the  best  companies  should  not  be  tolerated.  I  do  not  wish  to 
cater  to  the  class  of  people  who  prefer  them.  They  will  patronize  me  any 
way,  and  their  taste  can  be  educated  up;  but  the  really  refined  people 
never  enjoy  them.  But  what  are  we  going  to  do?  We  are  treated  only 
as  inanimate  parts  of  a  huge  machine,  necessary,  of  course,  but  simply 
playing  a  game  of  chance;  brains,  ability,  a  knowledge  of  the  business. 
and  earnest  endeavor,  count  for  nothing  under  the  existing  condition  of 
affairs.  We  have  no  chance  of  establishing  a  good  reputation  for  our 
houses  when  we  cannot  exercise  any  judgment  of  our  own;  and  the 
worst  feature  of  it  is,  we  take  the  people's  money  first  of  all,  many  times 
knowing  they  will  be  neither  pleased  nor  satisfied.  A  few  of  the  charitably 
inclined  ones  will  say,  "You  cannot  expect  to  have  good  pictures  all  the 
time,"  and  I  wonder  why  when  I  know  there  are  plenty  and  to  spare.  Even  the 
booking  of  features  according  to  the  system  of  my  exchange  gives  me 
no  variety  and  no  choice  in  the  matter.  If  I  could  choose  my  programs 
my  friends  would  never  have  to  make  any  excuse  for  me.  An  invitation 
would  always  be  extended  to  the  clergy,  members  of  the  Board  of  Educa- 
tion, etc.,  and  the  worst  enemy  of  the  photoplay  could  never  find  anything 
to  censure  or  condemn.  I  believe  I  am  voicing  the  sentiments  of  the 
majority  of  exhibitors  and  hope  the  day  will  soon  come  when  we  can 
stand  on  equal  footing  with  those  engaged  in  other  lines  of  business  and 
have  the  same  chance  of  pleasing  our  patrons.  In  the  meantime  I  shall 
keep  looking  for  the  "Handwriting  on  the  wall"  in  the  pages  of  your 
valuable    magazine.      Yours   for   better    times, 

Mrs.    S.    J.    Gilman, 
Electric  Theater,  Dundee,  Mich. 


"KEEP  UP  THE  FIGHT." 

Ironton,   Ohio,  Feb.    25,    1913. 
Moving  Picture  World,  New  York  City: 

Gentlemen — Permit  me  to  encourage  you  in  your  good  work  in  striving 
to  elevate  the  moving  picture  business.  Your  criticisms  and  reviews  of 
films,  I  think  are  the  most  important  features  of  your  work.  I  rely  on 
ihe  reviews  of  your  able  critics  and  find  them  great  aid  in  advertising, 
and  my  only  complaints  are  that  occasionally  a  film  is  skipped  and  that  the 
reviews  on   regular  releases  are  not  indexed  as  are   the  synopses. 

Keep   up   the  fight  for  more   educationals. 

The  Scenics  and  Travelogues  would  be  in  greater  demand  if  they  had 
more  explanatory  sub-titles.  I  firmly  believe  the  Educational  film  is  the 
backbone  of  the  future  prosperity  of  the  motion  picture  as  an  entertainment. 

It  tickles  me  when  I  read  your  criticisms  of  the  untrue-to-life  Western 
and  un  Indian  pictures.     Yours  truly, 

A.   J.   Wellmank. 


ABOUT  ADVERTISING  SLIDES. 

Fort    Myers,    Fla.,    March    1 8. 
Editor  Moving   Picture  World: 

Dear  Sir — I  beg  to  call  your  attention  to  a  thing  that  in  my  humble 
opinion,  will  soon  be  a  great  drawback  to  the  motion  picture  exhibitor, 
unless  you,  as  the  press  of  the  industry,  begin  a  campaign  in  no  uncertain 
terms  of  warning.  I  refer  to  the  advertising  slide, -and  I  realize  how  hard 
it  will  be  to  prevent  this  source  of  revenue  from  seriously  injuring  the 
motion  picture  theater,  as  you  are  no  doubt  aware  that  already  various 
advertising  agencies,  are  realizing  this  effective  way  of  getting  their  wares 
before  the  public,  and  exhibitors  are  not  slow  in  accepting  their  slides. 
And  unless  some  steps  are  taken  to  warn  them,  it  will  be  only  a  short 
time  when  patrons  will  begin  to  fall  off,  and  we  will  be  asking  ourselves 
why?  perhaps  little  dreaming  that  the  patron  is  wearied  with  reading 
advertisements. 

I  am  speaking  from  experience,  and  while  I  have  never  taken  but  a 
limited  number,  yet  I  have  oftimes  heard  unfavorable  comment  from 
regular  patrons.      I  am,  most  truly  yours, 

Jho.    T.    Hendry, 
Manager  Hendry's   Grand. 


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SITUATION   WANTED. 

OPERATOR,  LICENSES — At  liberty.  References. 
Wire  or  address,  F.  W.  CLARKE,  Rex  Theatre, 
Calgary,  Alberta,  Canada. 

OPERATORS— In  Vermont  and  New  Hampshire, 
do  you  desire  a  vacation?  I  will  fill  your  place 
while  away.  Strictly  reliable  operator.  Communi- 
cate with  me  at  once.  Address  C.  E.  FULLER, 
White  River  Junction,   Vermont. 

A-l  PIANIST  and  licensed  operator  desires  out- 
of-town  position.  Can  furnish  best  references.  No 
objection  to  locality.  Address  GILBERT  &  FRECK, 
146  W.  98th  St.,  New  York  City. 

OPERATOR — At  liberty:  five  years'  experience. 
Address  H.  W.  CHISM,  309  N.  East  St.,  Blooming- 
ton,  m. 

MANAGER-SINGER  and  pianist.  Young,  experi- 
enced couple  wishes  position  In  small  town.  Best 
of  references.  Address  F.  ROBINSON,  600  Dear- 
born Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 

AMBITIOUS,  ENERGETIC  young  man  (30),  de- 
sires to  enter  the  amusement  field.  Possesses  talent. 
Clean  cut  and  Intelligent.  Would  like  to  connect 
with  some  moving  picture  theatre,  acting  In  the 
capacity  of  manager.  New  York  or  out-of-town. 
Have  had  managerial  experience.  Excellent  cre- 
dentials. Address  EDWARD  E.  LESTER,  957  Hoe 
Ave.,    Bronx,    N.    Y. 

HELP  WANTED. 

WANTED — Experienced  operator  on  motor-driven 
machines  holding  Massachusetts  license.  Only  com- 
petent man  need  apply.  Address  J.  D.  MADISON, 
care  of  Moving  Picture  World,  New  York  City. 

r.kvmina  FOR  SALE. 

URBAN  LATEST  MODEL — Panoramic  tripod  and 
tilting  top,  75  m.  m.  Zeiss-Tessar  lens,  seven  three- 
hundred-foot  magazines,  carrying  cases  and  acces- 
sories. Cost  $500.  Little  used.  Address  CECIL 
GRAHAM.  Room  1211,  145  W.  45th  St.,  New  York 
City. 

GAUMONT  CAMERA  FOR  SALE— Covered  with 
black  leather,  Beater  type,  fine  condition,  Banscb 
&  Lomb  lens,  with  tripod.  First  $150  takes  It. 
Guarantee  express  charges,  will  ship  privilege  of 
examination.  Address  COZY  THEATRE,  Tulsa, 
Okla. 

EQUIPMENT   FOR  SALE. 

FOR  QUICK  BALE — 286  used  opera  chairs.  Write, 
wire,  phone.  ORPHBUM  THEATRE,  Everett, 
Washington. 


FOR  SALE — One  Portable  Asbestos  Booth,  stand- 
ard size,  less  than  half  cost.  Address  COZY  THE- 
ATRE,   Austin,    Minn. 

FOR  SALE — Power's  No.  5  picture  machine,  In 
good  condition,  stereopticon  attachment,  rewinder, 
two  reels,  five  poster  frames,  12  by  12  screen,  good 
lenses,  both  arc  and  gas  burners,  producing  good 
pictures  right  along.  Price  $150.  Write  for  par- 
ticulars.    Address  F.  W.  FONDA,  Dorloo,  N.  Y. 

POWER'S  NO.  6 — Guaranteed  absolutely  perfect, 
nearly  new,  $75.  Address  MARTIN  L.  FREDER- 
ICKS,   2(il7    North    Twelfth    St.,    Philadelphia,    Pa. 

FOR  SALE — 285  Opera  Chairs,  American  Seating 
Company  make.  Crated  and  ready  to  ship  at  Win- 
field,  Iowa.  $200  takes  this  bargain.  Address  DR. 
CHAS.   LYNDON,  Homesworth,  Ohio. 

EQUIPMENT    WANTED. 

WANTED — Two  18  to  24-lncb  110  v.  direct  current 
exhaust  fans.  Give  make,  condition  and  lowest 
spot  cash  price.  Address  G.  BERT  PEW,  Blaine, 
W.  Va. 

WANTED — At  once,  second-band  motion  picture 
machine  in  perfect  condition.  Prefer  Edison  or 
Powers.  Must  be  a  bargain.  Address  E.  D.  MAC- 
FEE,    Petersburg,   Va. 

FILMS    WANTED. 

WANTED — Cold  copies  one  and  two-reel  subjects, 
any  age,  any  make.  Address  DR.  CHAS.  LYNDON, 
Homeworth,    Ohio. 

FILMS    FOR    SALE. 

$225.00  will  secure  the  World  renowned  Pathe 
Freree  Passion  Play,  approximately  3,114  feet,  hand 
colored  and  toned  film.  Fine  condition.  Sent  sub- 
ject to  examination.  Write  or  wire.  WYNDHAM 
ROBERTSON,  Settegast   Bldg.,   Houston,   Texas. 

WILL  8ELL — "Auto  Bandits  of  Darker  Chicago," 
in  two  reels,  with  mounted  lobby  display,  $25.  A-l 
condition,  used  six  times.  Address  G.  DIEFEN- 
BACH,  19  Palace  Arcade,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

THEATRES  FOR  SALE. 

HIPPODROME  OR  THEATRE — For  sale  or  rent. 
In  Chicago.  Moving  picture  or  vaudeville.  Seating 
capacity  500  to  2,500.  Now  being  built  (ready 
May  1st).  Reasonable  rents,  which  include  a  mag- 
nificent Schuelke  Pipe  Organ,  with  Vox  Humana  and 
Cathedral  Chimes.  HUME,  exclusive  representative. 
Room  311.   008  S.  Dearborn  St.,  Chicago,  111. 


FOR  SALE — Opera  House  property,  Wisconsin 
city,  population  10,000.  Seats  800.  Opposition,  one 
picture  bouse.  Excellent  opening  for  pictures. 
Owner  engaged  in  other  business.  Terms,  ft  cash. 
Address  13  Warren  Ave.,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

BUSINESS   OPPORTUNITY. 

FOR  SALE — Property  in  North  Adams,  Mass.  Plot 
of  ground,  90  feet  by  about  257  feet.  Ground  floor 
has  two  large  stores,  hall  and  seven  large  rooms 
and  house  of  eighteen  rooms.  First  floor  has  theatre 
seating  700,  newly  equipped  and  four  large  rooms. 
Second  floor  has  large  ball  and  three  large  rooms. 
Central  location,  suitable  for  offices,  lodge  meetings, 
etc.  Rentals  over  $2,000  yearly.  Price  reasonable. 
Address  S.  FONTI,  100  Holden  St.,  North  Adams, 
Mass. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

NOTICE — If  yon  want  to  buy  or  sell  theatre  In 
Southwest,  communicate  with  AL.  ALLEN,  203 
Andrews  BLDG.,  Dallas,  Texas. 

SOUVENIRS — Business  getters  that  will  bring 
boys  and  girls  on  the  Jump.  Free  samples,  showing 
advertisement.  NEW  ENGLAND  NOVELTY  CtT, 
Westfleld,   Mass. 


A    WALL    STREET    PROMOTER 

CAPABLE  OF  RAISING  hundreds  of  thousands  of 
dollars,  will  undertake  to  raise  additional  capital 
for  any  money  making  moving  picture  enterprise  or 
theatre  needing  additional  capital.  Will  guarantee 
to  buy  or  finance  any  good  paying  theatre  In  three 
months'  time.  The  enterprise  must  be  absolutely 
legitimate  and  making  money.  Address  QUICK 
ACTION,  Box  99,  care  of  Moving  Picture  World, 
New  York  City. 

TYPEWRITTEN  SENARI06  OR  SCENARIOS. 

SCENORIOS  MUST  BE  TYPEWRITTEN  to  re- 
ceive recognition.  Best  work,  correctly  formulated, 
lowest  prices.  Write  me  or  send  on  manuscript- 
Address  C.  L.  BARKER,  2311  Vega  Ave.,  Cleveland, 
Ohio. 

FREE  MUSIC  for  pianists  who  play  pictures,  sent 
for  2-cent  stamp.  Get  new  songs,  marches,  waltzes, 
etc.,  FREE.  Address  SMITH  &  BROWNE,  Inc., 
124   W.  45th  St.,    New   York  City. 

MSS.  CORRECTLY  COPIED,  50c  per  1.000  words. 
Address  MRS.  E.  A.  BAILEY,  220  Fifth  Ave.,  Room 
1813,  New  York  City. 


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with  eyelets  ready  for  hanging 

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One.  Three  and  Six-Sheet  Posters  and  Heralds  for 
all  Features— all  Posters  made  for  Single  Reels. 
Banners,  Lantern  Slides  of  Every  Description. 
Snipes,  Photographs  of  Photoplay  Players,  Screens, 
Curtains,  Carbons,  Roll  Tickets,  Ticket  Choppers, 
Ticket  Dispensers.  Etc..  Etc. 

GENERAL  FILM  COMPANY 

Postal  Department 
Formerly  Photoplay  Advertising  and  Specialty  Co. 

440  Fourth  Ave.,  New  York ;  1022  Superior  Ave.,  Cleveland ;  121  Fourth  Ave., 

Pittsburg ;  71  West  23rd  St.,  New  York ;  7th  and  Walnut  Sts., 

Cincinnati ;  Equity  Bldg.,  70  Griswold  St.,  Detroit 

New  Offices  Opening  Now. 
"WE  HAVE  WHAT  YOU  WANT  WHEN  YOU  WANT  IT" 


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Used  M.  P.  Machines  and  sell  new 
Machines  of  all  makes.  Full  Line  of 
Supplies. 

X-L   FEATURE   FILM   SERVICE   CO. 
103  So.  Main  Street,  Mason  City,    Iowa 


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■cams,    patented.      Buy    the    real 

thing.     Beware   of   imitations 

ALFRED  L.  SIMPSON,  Inc. 
No.  113  W.  132nd  St.,  N.  Y.  City 


My  Omaha  Office 

is  going  right  ahead  with  its  business 
just  as  though  its  disastrous  fire  had 
never  occurred.  My  customers  always 
share  in  my  successes,  but  they  never 
have  to  share  my  losses.  Why  don't 
YOU  join  the  others  who  are  getting 
such  a  nice  soft  snap  as  this? 

CARL  LAEMMLE,  Pro.id.nt 

The  Laemmle  Film 
Service 

304  West  Lake  Street,  Chicago,  111. 

Sykes  Block,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

1312  Farnum  Street,  Omaha,  Neb. 

421  Walnut  Street,  Des  Moines,  Iowa. 

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20  Slides,  Plain,  5.00;  Colored,  8.00  50  Slides,  Plain,  12.50;  Colored,  20.00 
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Current  Releases 

MONDAY,  APRIL  21st,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The    Left-Handed    Man    (Drama) 

EDISON— Hulda   of   Holland    (Comedy-Drama) 1000 

KALEM— The   Sneak    (Drama)    1000 

LUBIN — Back   to   Primitive    (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's  Weekly  No.  17  (News) 

SELIG — Canton,   China   (Scenic)    

SELIG— Alas!  Poor  Yorick!  (Comedy) 

VITAGRAPH— Mixed   Identities   (Comedy)    

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VITAGRAPH— The  Artist's   Great   Madonna   (Special— 

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TUESDAY,  APRIL  22nd,  1913. 

CINES— A   Heart   of  Steel    (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— Winter   Sports   at    Bodele    (Sports).... 

PATHEPLAY— Ancient    Greece    (Scenic)    

EDISON — An   Innocent   Informer   (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY— The   Unburied   Past    (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN— A  Slight  Mistake   (Comedy) 

LUBIN — Sunshine  Sue   (Comedy)    

SELIG — Seeds   of   Silver    (Drama) iooo 

VITAGRAPH— The  Mystery  of  the  Stolen  Jewels  (Dr.) 
VITAGRAPH— In  the  Good  Old  Summer  Time  (Com.) 

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  23rd,  1913. 
CINES — The  Miser's  Millions   (Special — 3  parts — Dr.).. 2700 

ECLIPSE — A   Four-Footed    Detective    (Drama) 1000 

EDISON — His   Undesirable   Relatives    (Comedy) 1000 

ESSANAY— The    Rival    Salesman    (Comedy) 1000 

SELIG — Love,  the  Winner   (Drama) 

SELIG— Dollar  Down,   Dollar  a   Week   (Comedy) 

PATHEPLAY— The  Outlaw    (Drama)    

KALEM — The   Secret    Marriage    (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— There's  Music  in  the  Hair  (Comedy) .  .  . 
VITAGRAPH— Crowd  Attending  Gods  In  Temple,  To- 

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THURSDAY,  APRIL  24th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— A  Rag-Time  Romance  (Comedy) 

BIOGRAPH— The  Cure  (Comedy)   

ESSANAY— City  of   Mexico    (Scenic) 1000 

LUBIN— The  School  Principal   (Comedy) 1000 

MELIES—  How  Chief  Te  Bonga  Won  His  Bride   (Dr.) 
MELIES — A  Trip  to  the  Waitoma  Caves  of  New  Zea- 
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PATHEPLAY— The  Thwarted  Plot  (Drama) 

SELIG — Love  in  the  Ghetto  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— The  Power  That  Rules   (Drama) 1000 

FRIDAY,  APRIL  25th,  1913. 
EDISON— The    High   Tide    of   Misfortune— (Being   the 

tenth  story  of  "What  Happened  to  Mary") — (Dr.)..iooo 

ESSANAY— The   Deacon's    Dilemma    (Comedy) 1000 

KALEM— The   Phoney   Singer    (Comedy) 

KALEM — Japan,    the    Industrious    (Mechanical    Engrg.) 

LUBIN — Diamond   Cut   Diamond    (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — The  End  of  the  Quest  (Special— 2  parts — Dr.). 2000 
PATHEPLAY— Our   Feathered   Friends    (Zootechnic) . . 
PATHEPLAY— A  Trip  on  the  Seine,  France   (Scenic). 

SELIC- — Arabia  Takes  the  Health  Cure   (Comedy) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— The  Stronger  Sex   (Drama) 1000 

SATURDAY,  APRIL  26th,   1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The   Lady  and   the   Mouse   (Drama) 

CINES — Views  in   Liege,   Belgium    (Scenic) 200 

CINES — Forgotten   (Drama)    800 

EDISON — A  Splendid  Scapegrace   (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY— Broncho  Billy  and  the  Rustler's  Child  (Dr.)  1000 

KALEM— The    Fighting    Chaplain    (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN— The   Birthmark    (Drama)    1000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Count's  Will   (Drama) 

PATHEPLAY — An     Exciting    Honeymoon     (Special— 2 

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VITAGRAPH— A    Fighting   Chance    (Drama) ......'.!..  1000 


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MONDAY,  APRIL  28th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— Blame  the  Wife— (Comedy) 

BIOGRAPH— The  Daylight  Burglar   (Comedy) 

EDISON— When  the  Right  Man  Comes  Along  (Comedy).. .  1000 

KALEM — The  Haunted  House   (Drama) iooo 

LUBIN — In  the  Harem  of  Haschem  (Drama) iooo 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's  Weekly  No.  18  (News) 

SELIG — Roses  of  Yesterday  (Drama) iooo 

VITAGRAPH— Hearts  of  the  First  Empire  (Sp-2  pts  D.) 
VITAGRAPH— O'Hara       and      the      Youthful       Prodigal 

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TUESDAY,  APRIL  29th,  1913. 

CINES — Scenes  and  Ruins  Near  Rome   (Travel) 200 

CINES— The  New  Arrival  (Comedy) 800 

PATHEPLAY— The  Cormorant  (Bird  Studies) 

PATHEPLAY— Along  the  River  Eure,  France  (Scenic)... 

PATHEPLAY— Hidden  Life  in  Sea  Weed  (Zoology) 

EDISON— The  Orphan  (Drama)    iooo 

ESSANAY— Cousin  Jane  (Comedy) iooo 

LUBIN — Granny   (Drama)    iooo 

SELIG — Hiram  Buys  an  Auto  (Comedy)    

SELIG — Chinese   Scenes    (Scenic) 

VITAGRAPH — Two'  Company,  Three'  a  Crowd  (Comedy) 
VITAGRAPH — Street  Scenes,  Yokohama,  Japan  (Topical). 

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  30th,  1913. 
ECLIPSE — A     Picturesque     Journey     in     Western     France 

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ECLIPSE — Grandap's  Rejuvenation   (Comedy) 350 

ECLIPSE — German  Cavalry  Maneuvres   (Military) 400 

EDISON— A  Reluctant  Cinderella   (Comedy) iooo 

ESSANAY— Cousin    Bill    (Comedy) iooo 

LUBIN — Through  Many  Trials  (Special — 2  parts — Drama). 2000 

SELIG— The  Burglar  Who  Robbed  Death  (Drama) iooo 

PATHEPLAY— The  Mexican  Defeat   (Drama)    

PATHEPLAY— The  Panama  Canal  To-Dav   (Engineering) 

KALEM— The  Eighth  Notch   (Drama) 

KALEM — A  Coupon  Courtship   (Comedy) 

VITAGRAPH— A  Window  on  Washington  Park  (Drama). iooo 
THURSDAY,  MAY  1st,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— If  We  Only  Knew   (Drama) 

ESSANAY— The  Story  the  Desert  Told  (Drama) iooo 

LUBIN— The  Veil  of  Sleep  (Drama) iooo 

MELIES— A  Buried  Treasure   (Drama) 

MELIES — The  Home  of  Terms  (Zoology) 

PATHEPLAY— The  Parting  Eternal   (Drama) 

SELIG— Absent-Minded  Mr.  Boob   (Comedy) 

SELIG — Some  Chickens   (Zootechnic)    

VITAGRAPH— Bunny  vs.  Cutey  (Comedy)   

VITAGRAPH— Uses   of    Dynamite    by    U.    S.    Engineering 

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FRIDAY,  MAY  2nd,  1913. 

EDISON — Groundless  Suspicion   (Drama)    iooo 

ESSANAY— A   Child's   Precaution    (Drama) iooo 

KALEM— Fattv's  Busy  Day  (Comedy) 

KALEM— Old"  Women  of  the  Streets  of  New  York  (Top) 

CINES — The  Broken  Vow  (Special — 2  parts — Drama) 2000 

LUBIN— The  Girl  Back  East  (Drama) iooo 

PATHEPLAY— Liquid  Air  (Scientific)   

PATHEPLAY— Winter    in    Upper    Engadine,    Switzerland 

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SELIG— Their  Stepmother  (Drama)   iooo 

VITAGRAPH— Cinders   (Drama)    iooo 

SATURDAY,  MAY  3rd,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Wanderer   (Drama)    

CINES— The  Rival  Lovers   (Comedy)    500 

CINES— Jerry's  Rebellion  (Comedv)    500 

EDISON— Billy's  Sweetheart   (Drama)    ioto 

ESSANAY — The   Crazy  Prospector   (Drama)    iooo 

KALEM— The  Wayward  Son   (Drama) iooo 

LUBIN — Clarence  at  the  Theater   (Comedy) 400 

LUBIN — Fixing  Auntie  Up  (Comedy) 600 

PATHEPLAY— General   Scott's   Protege   (Drapia) 

PATHEPLAY— The  Diamond  Miniature  (Sp.-2  pts.  Dr.) 
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SUNDAY,  APRIL  20th,  1913. 

CRYSTAL— His   Romantic  Wife    (Comedy) 

CRYSTAL— Two    Lunatics    (Comedy)     

ECLAIR — Poor   Little    Chap,   He   Was   Only   Dreaming 

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ECLAIR— Fire    (Scientific)     

REX— A  Book  of  Verses  (Drama) 

MONDAY,  APRIL  21st,  1913. 

IMP — The  Regeneration  of  John   Storm   (Drama) 

NESTOR — His    Friend    Jimmie    (Comedy) 

CHAMPION— When  Strong  Men  Meet  (Drama) 

TUESDAY,  APRIL  22nd,  1913. 

GEM — Burglarizing   Billy    (Comedy)    

GEM — Against   the   Law    (Comedy) 

BISON— Bred  in  the  Bone  (Three  parts— Drama) 

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  23rd,  1913. 

NESTOR— The    Sheriff's   Warning    (Drama) 

POWERS— When    Dolly   Died    (Comedy) 

ECLAIR — Mathilda  (2  parts — Drama)    

UNIVERSAL— The  Animated  Weekly  No.  59  (News).. 
THURSDAY,  APRIL  24th,  1913. 

IMP — A  Sprig  of  Shamrock  (Comedy) 

REX — The  Dragon's  Breath   (2  parts — Drama) 

FRONTIER— The  Daughter  of  the  Sheep  Rancher  (Dr.) 

FRIDAY,  APRIL  25th,  1913. 

NESTOR— For   Her   Sake   (Drama) 

POWERS— The  Sham-SuffYagette   (Comedy)    

VICTOR — Loneliness  and  Love   (Drama) 

SATURDAY,  APRIL  26th,  1913. 

IMP — Why  Men   Leave   Home   (Comedy) 

IMP — Pottery  Industry  (Industry)    

BISON— The  Black  Chancellor  (3  parts— Drama) 

FRONTIER— The  Old  Maid's  Last  Attempt   (Comedy) 


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SUNDAY,  APRIL  27th,  1913. 

CRYSTAL— Forgetful  Flossie   (Comedy)    

CRYSTAL— A  Toke  On  the  Sheriff  (Comedv) 

ECLAIR— The  Law  of  the  Wild   (Drama).' 

REX— The  Wayward  Sister   (Drama)    

MONDAY,  APRIL  28th,  1913. 

IMP— The  Cub  (Drama)    

NESTOR— When  Father  Was  Kidnapped   (Comedy) 

CHAMPION— The  Clown  Hero  (Comedv)    

CHAMPIOX— Life  in  Soudan  (Sociology")   

TUESDAY,  APRIL  29th,  1913. 

GEM— Billy's  Suicide   (Comedy)    

GEM — Views  of  Cape  Hatteras  (Scenic)   

101  BISOX— The  Last  Roll  Call  (2  reels— Drama) 

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  30th,  1913. 

NESTOR— The  Greater  Love   (Drama)    

POWERS— In  a  Strange  Land  (Drama)   

ECLAIR— The  Return  of  Crime  (2  Reel— Drama) 

UNIVERSAL— Animated  Weekly  No.  60  (News) 

THURSDAY,  MAY  1st,  1913. 

IMP— The  Rise  of  Officer  174  (2  Reel— Drama) 

REX— The  Turn  of  the  Tide  (Drama) 

FRONTIER— The  Word  of  Jose  (Drama) 

FRIDAY,  MAY  2nd,  1913. 

NESTOR— The  Ingrate   (Drama)    

POWERS— Neighbors    (Comedy)    

VICTOR — The  Unseen  Influence  (Drama) 

SATURDAY,  MAY  3rd,  1913. 

IMP — 1  [er  Lover's  Voice  (Comedy) 

IMP — Opening  of  the  1913  Baseball  Season  (Topical) 

BISON— The  Venegeance  of  the  Skystone  (2  Reel — Drama) 
FRONTIER— An  Eastern  Cyclone  at  Bluff  Ranch  (Comedy) 

Mutual  Film  Corporation  Current  Releases 

SUNDAY,  APRIL  20th,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— The  Mote  and  the  Beam  (Drama) 

THANHOUSER — The  Children's  Conspiracy  (Drama). 

MONDAY,  APRIL  21st,  1913. 

EXCELSIOR— The  Man  From  the  City  (Drama) 

AMERICAN — Boobs    and    Bricks    (Comedy) •. . .  1000 

KEYSTONE — Cupid  In  a  Dental  Parlor  (Comedy) ....  1000 


TUESDAY,  APRIL  22nd,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— Not   for   Mine    (Comedy) 

THANHOUSER — An  American  in  the  Making  (Drama) 
WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  23rd,  1913. 

MUTUAL— Mutual  Weekly  No.   17   (News) 

RELIANCE— The  Hoodoo  Pearls  (Drama) 

BRONCHO — Retrogression  (2  parts — Drama)    

THURSDAY,  APRIL  24th,  1913. 
AMERICAN — When  Jim   Returned    (Comedy-Drama) ..  1000 

KEYSTONE— A  Fishy  Affair  (Comedy)    

KEYSTONE— The  Bangville  Police  (Comedy) 

MUTUAL— Funnicus  Is  Tired  of  Life  (Comedy) 

MUTUAL — Electrical   Phenomena   (Physics)    

FRIDAY,  APRIL  25th,  1913. 
KAYBEE— The  Will  o'  the  Wisp  (2  parts— Drama)  ... . 
THANHOUSER— For  Another's  Sin  (Drama) 

SATURDAY,  APRIL  26th,  1913. 

AMERICAN — Calamity  Anne's   Trust   (Comedy) 1000 

RELIANCE— A   Woman's    Honor    (Drama) 


Advance  Releases 


SUNDAY,  APRIL  27th,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— Old  Mammy's  Charge  (Drama) 

THANHOUSER— Title  Not  Reported) 

MONDAY,  APRIL  28th,  1913. 

EXCELSIOR— The  Surveyors  (Drama) 

AMERICAN— Oil  On  Troubled  Waters  (2  parts— Drama)  .2000 

KEYSTONE— The  New  Conductor   (Comedy) 

KEYSTONE— His  Chum  the  Baron  (Comedy) 

TUESDAY,  APRIL  29th,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— The  Whim  of  Destiny  (Drama)   

THANHOUSER— (Title   Not   Reported) 

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  30th,  1913. 

MUTUAL— Mutual  Weekly  No.  18   (News) 

RELIANCE— The  Bawler  Out  (3  parts— Drama) • 

BRONCHO— Bread    Cast    Upon    the    Waters     (2    parts- 
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THURSDAY,  MAY  1st,  1913. 

AMERICAN— The  Tattooed  Arm   (Drama)    

KEYSTONE— That  Rag  Time  Band  (Comedy) 

MUTUAL— The  Old  Invalid   (Drama) 

MUTUAL— Tachkent,  Asiastic  Russia   (Political  Geog.) 

FRIDAY,  MAY  2nd,  191.3. 

KAY-BEE — A  Black  Conspiracy   (2  parts— Drama) 

THANHOUSER— (Title   Not  Reported) 

SATURDAY,  MAY  3rd,  1913. 

AMERICAN— The  Road  to  Ruin  (Drama) 1000 

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KALEM. 

THE  HAUNTED  HOUSE  (April  28).— There  is  a 
common  superstition  that  tbe  picturesque  old  home 
of  James  Ouilton,  a  millionaire,  is  haunted.  One 
night  as  the  nurse  Is  telling  the  ghost  story  to 
Chilton's  little  daughter,  Adelaide,  Spider  Pete,  a 
notorious  thief,  is  about  to  enter  the  window. 
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fied that  he  abandons  all  professional  thoughts  in  a 
spectacular  flight. 

Cnilton  has  married  a  second  time.  His  Bride. 
Isobel,  devotes  her  life  to  society  and  has  scant 
Interest  in  her  stepdaughter,  making  little  Adelaide 
very  unhappy  by  her  fault  finding. 

Spider  reads  in  a  paper  that  Chilton  has  presented 
his  wife  with  the  famous  Hepworth  sapphires. 
"Ghost  or  no  ghost,  I'll  get  them  stones,"  exclaims 
the  crook,  and  when  the  bouse  is  clother  m  dark- 
ness, he  enters  tbe  window. 

Isobel  punishes  Adelaide  for  some  trifling  dis- 
obedience by  locking  her  in  a  dark  room.  When  the 
wife  retires  to  her  boudoir  she  is  horrified  to  see 
Spider's  reflection  in  the  mirror.  The  crook  is  about 
to  resort  to  violence  to  prevent  Isobel  from  giving 
the  alarm,  when  a  series  of  strange  sounds  issue 
from  the  adjoining  room.  Adelaide,  angered  at  the 
Injustice  of  her  punishment,  is  throwing  things 
about.  Superstitious  Spider  crouches  in  terror  and 
Isobel,  grasping  his  revolver,  is  master  of  the  situa- 
tion Chilton  returns  from  a  late  engagement  and 
summons  an  officer,  and  Adelaide,  who  has  un- 
consciously impersonated  the  celebrated  Chilton 
Ghost,  wins  the  love  of  Isobel. 

THE  EIGHTH  NOTCH  (April  30).— The  seven 
notches  on  the  handle  of  Ed.  Grigg's  gun— one  for 
each  Danver— present  a  grim  story.  For  years  the 
Griggs  and  Danvers  have  been  engaged  in  a  deadly 
feud  One  morning  as  Bill  Danver  is  hitching  his 
horse  to  the  plow,  the  animal  runs  away  and  Dan- 
ver who  is  dragged  over  the  ground,  suffers  a 
broken  leg.  The  horse  returns  to  the  stable  and 
Mrs.  Danver,  full  of  apprehension,  goes  in  search  of 
her  husband. 

Grigg's  little  son,  playing  with  a  jackknife,  cuts 
the  eighth  notch  on  the  gun  handle.  When  Mrs. 
Danver  comes  to  the  Grigg  cabin,  with  rifle  in  band, 
she  sees  the  newly  cut  notch  and  surmises  that  her 
husband    has    been    added    to    the    list    of    G'ngg  s 

Danver  makes  his  way  painfully  over  the  field 
and  is  picked  up  by  a  farmer.  Grigg,  despite  his 
protests  of  innocence,  is  arrested  and  is  about  to  be 
dealt  with  severely  when  the  injured  man  reaches 
the  scene  and  explanations  follow.  Tbe  blacg  looks 
of  tbe  two  enemies  soften  when  they  discover  that 
their  innocent  children  are  playmates. 

A   COUPON   COURTSHIP    (April  30).— Ruth  finds 
a   catalogue   issued   by    the   Smokem   Tobacco   Com- 
pany,  announcing  that  a  grand  piano  will  be  given 
for  one  million  coupons.     She  declares  that  she  will 
marry   the   man   who  secures   the   piano   and   soon  a 
•■smoky  battle"   takes  place.     But  a  as    when  Tom 
and  Dick  have  accumulated  the  required  amount  of 
coupons,   a  law  is  passed  prohibiting  their  ademp- 
tion   and  Harry,  who  has  never  acquired  the  tobacco 
habit,  wins  the  day  by  purchasing  the  coveted  p.ano 
FATTY'S  BUST  DAY  (May  8).— Dissatisfied  with 
farm  life.   Fattv  decides  to  visit  the  city  and  find 
emSoyrnent       His    loquacious    appeal    so    impresses 
the   proprietor   of   a    metropolitan    drug    store    that 
Fatty  secures  the  position  of  soda-fountain  attend- 
ant.    Then  things  begin  to  happen      Mary,  a  charm- 
ing   young   patron   of    the   establishment,    is    nea.  y 
drowned   by   the   amateur  clerk,    -j10   *SttvST7iano 
dismissed.     A    confidence    man    sells    Fatty    a    P>»no 
tantog  outfit  aud  when  a  pedestrian  is  injured L   the 
crowd  mistakes  the  country  boy  for  a  doctor      When 
it    is    discovered    that    the    supposed    medicine ^  case 
contains  nothing  but   tools  Fatty  is   dealt   with   se^ 
verelv    and   he    takes  refuge   in   a   house,    where    ne 
clafufs  to  be   a   paper  banger.    Cruel   fate  again  as- 
serts  itself.   It  is  Mary's  home  which  Fa«>'  has  eJ 
tered    with    such    little    ceremony    and    iM  en    be    is 
driven  away  he  is  corralled  by  Jennie,  who  Is  giv- 
ing  an   entertainment,    and   whose   piano   is   out  of 
iule.     More  twngs  happen  and  Fatty  hastens  back 
to  the  farm,  sadder  but  wiser. 


OLD  WOMEN  OF  THE  STREETS  OF  NEW  YORK 
(May  2). — Old  women  of  the  poor,  touched  by  the 
hand  of  time  and  unable  to  toil  longer,  must  make 
their  own  living  in  the  streets.  Tucked  away  in 
odd  corners  are  many  sidewalk  peddlers.  Odds  and 
ends  of  dress  goods  provide  a  living  for  some, 
while  others  cry  the  penny  papers  at  the  subway 
entrances.  The  apple  woman,  the  shoe-string 
vendor,  the  seller  of  penny  cakes  and  candies  and 
many  other  picturesque  types  are  visited. 

THE  WAYWARD  SON  (May  3).— William  Cart- 
well,  a  wealthy  manufacturer,  is  an  Industrious, 
self-made  man,  and  It  is  a  source  of  sorrow,  as  well 
as  vexation,  to  him  that  his  son,  Wilfred,  is  opposed 
to  any  kind  of  work.  Driven  to  extreme  irritation 
by  his  son's  continued  indolence,  Cartwell  orders 
Wilfred  from  the  home,  telling  him,  in  no  uncertain 
language,  that  the  door  will  be  closed  to  him  until 
be  has  made  bis  way  in  the  world. 

After  a  month  of  shiftless  existence,  Wilfred  be- 
comes a  vagabond.  Unaccustomed  to  work  of  any 
sort,  he  can  neither  find  nor  do  any  profitable  labor. 
Discouraged,  hungry  and  footsore,  he  reaches  his 
native  town.  "Red,"  a  fellow  vagabond,  conducts 
him  to  a  cheap  resort,  where  food  is  bought. 

Two  toughs  in  the  place  see  that  Wilfred  has  a 
watch— the  only  keepsake  of  his  former  happy  life 
which  he  has  been  able  to  retain — and  when  they 
attempt  to  secure  it,  a  fight  ensues  and  Wilfred, 
badly  bruised,  is  thrown  into  the  street. 

Sally,  a  pretty  young  working  girl,  discovers  Wil- 
fred's plight  and  secures  quarters  for  him  in  a 
tenement  building.  During  tbe  evening  Wilfred 
overhears  a  conversation  between  the  two  toughs 
who  occupy  the  adjoining  room  and  is  startled  to 
learn  that  a  plan  is  being  made  to  rob  his  father's 
oflTce.  Wilfred's  presence  is  detected  and  after 
being  mistreated  by  the  toughs,  he  is  left,  bound. 

Sally,  bringing  Wilfred's  supper,  releases  him 
and  by  a  daring  act  they  thwart  tbe  thieves,  who 
are  arrested.  The  elder  Cartwell  gives  Wilfred  a 
new  start  in  life  and  the  young  man  begins  to  work 
with  a  will. 


EDISON. 

WHEN  THE  RIGHT  MAN  COMES  ALONG  (April 
28), — Anyone  seeing  the  handsome  suite  of  offices 
on  Wall  Street'  would  think  the  owner,  J.  Green, 
was  one  of  the  Napoleons  unchanged,  but  they 
would  not  think  that  this  same  J.  Green  was  a 
woman  so  thoroughly  immersed  in  the  intricacies  of 
the  Bulls  and  Bears  of  the  Exchange  that  all  other 
considerations  were  forgotten. 

Her  people,  happily  married  and  scattered  to  the 
four  winds,  wrote  insistent  but  vain  letters  to  her 
to  abandon  money  grabbing  and  enjoy  the  felicity 
of  normal  married  life.  These  letters  she  treated 
with  contemptuous  indifference.  No  man  interested 
her  until  Arthur  Roydon  was  brought  directly 
under  her  notice. 

During  business  hours  she  finds  her  mind  straying 
to  him,  and  when  be  enters  her  office  one  day,  the 
warm  spring  tide  of  love  fills  her  heart.  He  is  all 
business,  cold  and  aloof,  places  a  check  in  her  hands 
for  stock  investment  and  leaves  abruptly.  She  re- 
solves to  win  him,  but  though  their  meetings  at  the 
club  are  frequent,  he  remains  unchanged.  Spurned 
and  lonely,  she  returns  to  her  apartment  late  one 
night  and  after  the  expiration  of  many  hours  and 
the  consumption  of  many  cigarettes  and  brandies 
and  sodas,  she  solves  the  question.  She  is  too 
mannish.    A    phone    message    to    a    woman's    out- 


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fitter's,  a  change  of  clothes  and  manners,  and 
Arthur  Roydon  falls  completely  under  the  feminine 
charms  of  J.  Green,  his  Julia. 

THE  ORPHAN  (April  29).— John,  the  black-faced 
sheep  of  the  Hallet  family,  is  ill  in  a  Western 
mining  town,  and  finding  that  he  Is  about  to  die, 
writes  to  his  younger  brother,  Will  asking  him  to 
take  care  of  his  little  motherless  girl.  Before  he 
can  finish  and  mail  the  letter  the  cold  band  of  death 
stills  his  heart  and  be  is  found  dead  in  his  cabin 
by  a  miner  friend.  The  miner  reads  the  letter  and 
takes  it,  with  the  child,  back  EaBt  to  Will  Hallett, 
wbo  is  a  young  bachelor  and  society  man,  engaged 
to  a  wealthy  and  beautiful  girl,   Betty  O'Moore. 

Will's  first  impulse  is  to  refuse  the  bequest,  but 
the  winsome  little  three-year-old  tot,  with  her 
golden  curls,  worms  herself  into  bis  affections  at 
first  sight,  and  he  decides  to  keep  her. 

An  incident  in  the  park  the  next  day  shows  him 
that  Betty,  his  fiancee,  does  not  care  for  children, 
and  be  puts  off  telling  her  of  his  little  charge. 

The  baby  proves  a  trial  as  well  as  a  delight  to- 
Will,  as  she  is  tbe  cause*  of  his  breaking  an  en- 
gagement with  Betty  for  the  opera,  then  another 
for  a  luncheon,  which  so  angers  Betty  that  she- 
gathers  bis  numerous  presents  together  to  return 
to  him. 

The  little  Rose  Is  suddenly  taken  111  and  Will 
telephones  an  employment  agency  for  a  nurse,  who, 
when  slie  finds  the  patient  is  a  child,  refuses  to 
stay.  Will,  in  desperation,  leaves  tbe  house  to  find 
a  nurse,  and  during  his  absence  Betty,  wbo  haa 
decided  to  return  bis  presents  in  person,  arrive» 
at  his  rooms,  and  finding  the  sick  baby,  realizes 
that  here  is  tbe  innocent  cause  of  her  lover's  ap- 
parent remissness  as  to  his  engagements. 

The  real  woman  heart  of  her  is  awakened  by  the) 
sweet  helplessness  of  tbe  little  one,  and  she  gathers 
her  into  her  arms  and  comforts  her  in  the  way  that 
only  a  woman  can  do  and  thus  Will  finds  them  upon 
his  return. 

He  sees  the  presents  on  the  table  and  Betty's  en- 
gagement ring  at  the  top  of  the  heap,  but  as  she 
takes  this  from  him  and  coyly  replaces  it  on  her 
finger,  be  realizes  that  bis  little  orphan  ward  has 
now  found  a  mother  as  well  as  a  father. 

A  RELUCTANT  CINDERELLA  (April  80).— Grace 
Walker,  a  young  Miss,  attends  a  dinner  dance  In 
slippers  that  are  so  tight  they  pinch  her  feet  beyond 
endurance.  At  the  dinner  table  she  kicks  off  one 
slipper  to  give  her  foot  temporary  relief.  The 
uneasy  feet  of  some  of  the  guests  accidentally  kick 
the  slipper  along  until  it  is  far  out  of  her  reach. 
When  the  hostess  gives  the  signal  for  the  ladles 
to  rise,  Grace  finds  herself  in  an  awkward  pre- 
dicament. In  vain  she  waves  her  foot  in  all  di- 
rections under  tbe  table,  and  is  finally  compelled  to 
rise  and  leave  tbe  room  in  her  stockinged  foot. 

In  tbe  dancing  room  she  seats  herself  in  a  se- 
cluded corner  behind  some  potted  plants,  in  the 
hope  of  resuming  her  search  as  soon  as  the  gentle- 
men vacate  the  dining  room.  Dick  Evans  is  the- 
young  man  wbo  finds  the  slipper.  He  hides  it  in 
bis  pocket  and  makes  up  his  mind  to  find  the  owner, 
resorting  to  all  manner  of  tricks  to  get  a  view  of 
the  ladies'  feet.  Finally  he  comes  upon  Grace  sit- 
ting behind  the  potted  plants  with  one  foot  visible. 
"Here  is  my  pretty  Cinderella  at  last,"  he  mur- 
murs, producing  the  slipper.  But  the  embarrassed 
young  lady  loftily  denies  all  knowledge  of  it.  His 
efforts  at  trying  to  get  a  glimpse  of  her  foot  prove 
fruitless  and  the  situation  develops  into  a  battle  of 
wits.  He  is  about  to  give  up  when  he  conceives  a 
brilliant  idea.  He  goes  down  into  the  kitchen  of 
the  house  and  gets  a  servant  to  get  him  a  mouse  in 
a  trap.  Returning  to  the  dancing  room,  he  lets  it 
loose,  causing  the  panic-stricken  ladies  to  climb 
chairs,  and  thus  Grace  reveals  her  stockinged  foot, 
and  is  forced  to  admit  ownership  of  the  slipper 
which  Dick  deftly  slips  on  her  foot,  enabling  her  to 
join  in  the  merry  whirl. 


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IN  THE  HAREM  OP  HASCHEM  (April  28).— 
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caliph,  wrongs  a  widow.  She  appeals  to  the  caliph, 
and  lie  orders  that  Maisara  shall  repay  her  a  hun- 
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Malsara  pains  entrance  to  tbe  harem,  where  Has- 
chem  is  not  closely  guarded,  and  where  the  blow 
can  be  struck  before  help  can  be  summoned.  Amina 
Is  horror-stricken  at  his  appearance.  Her  distress 
Is  secretly  observed  by  Hascbem,  who  is  on  guard 
against  the  treachery,  and  takes  the  dagger  from 
llaisara.  On  Amlna's  plea,  Maisara's  life  is  saved, 
and  Amina  finds  happiness  in  the  arms  of  the  caliph. 

GRANNY  (April  29). — During  a  rehearsal  of  his 
new  play,  Peter  Richards  recognizes  in  Mary 
Walters,  a  well-known  leading  woman  of  twenty 
years  before.  She  has  met  with  reverses  and  is 
now  employed  as  wardrobe  woman  In  the  company 
whirl)  is  to  produce  his  play.  On  the  opening  night' 
the  play  is  a  failure,  and  the  manager  who  financed 
It  decides  to  take  it  off  immediately.  Mary  "Walters 
la  the  only  one  In  the  theater  who  has  feeling 
enough  to  show  sympathy  for  the  author  in  his 
misfortune.  Through  a  chance  remark  of  an  extra 
girl  Peter  gets  an  idea  for  another  play,  which  he 
writes  and  calls  "Granny,"  and  he  has  enough 
confidence  in  Mary  Walter's  ability  to  offer  her  the 
leading  part,  which  she  gratefully  accepts.  Con- 
ddent  of  Its  success,  Peter's  ambition  is  to  produce 
"Granny"  at  the  same  theater  where  his  former 
play  met  with  such  complete  failure,  but  the  man- 
ager refuses  to  produce  it  and  Peter  Is  forced  to 
aell  his  borne  in  order  to  secure  enough  money  to 
nut  the  play  on.  During  his  days  of  trouble  Peter 
■ees  the  worth  of  Mary  and  as  he  walks  with  her 
to  the  theater  on  the  opening  night,  they  pass  a 
quaint  little  church  and  Peter  asks  her  to  share 
the  future  with  him,  no  matter  what  tbe  night  may 
bring  to  them.  Mary  consents  and  they  enter  the 
rectory  and  are  quietly  married,  after  which  they 
go  to  the  theater  for  the  opening  performance. 
Peter's  Judgment  is  vindicated  and  the  play  is  a  hit. 

THROUGH  MANY  TRIALS  (Special,  2  parts, 
April  30). — Guy  Maurice,  a  rich  young  artist,  goes 
to  the  country  and  takes  board  at  a  farm  house. 
He  Is  shown  around  the  farm  by  Emily  Brown,  the 
farmer's  daughter,  and  he  takes  her  for  a  drive. 
They  fall  in  love  and  Maurice  asks  her  to  marry 
him.  Abner  Brown,  the  farmer,  is  very  angry  when 
he  finds  Maurice  making  love  to  bis  daughter  and 
turns  him  out  of  the  house.  They  elope  and  get 
married.  The  farmer  turns  Emily's  picture  to  the 
wall. 

The  artist  and  his  wife  live  at  their  city  home. 
After  a  time  he  starts  to  go  out  with  his  old  friends 
while  his  wife  sits  borne  waiting  for  his  return. 
He  neglects  his  work  and  they  become  poor.  A 
child  is  born  and  Guy's  hetter  nature  makes  bim 
try  to  bring  back  her  love.  He  paints  another 
picture,  which  is  put  in  the  art  gallery  and  Is 
given  honor.  Mary,  the  farmer's  wife,  Is  still 
crying  for  her  child.  Silus,  the  son,  tells  her  he 
will  find  her,  and  he  leaves  home.  The  old  home 
Is  cleaned  out  by  the  sheriff  and  the  farmer  turned 
•nt  of  his  home;  his  wife  is  dead.  The  son  finds 
his  sister  and  they  are  now  well-to-do  after  getting 
the  prize  for  the  picture.  The  old  farmer  comes 
t*  the  city  to  hunt  for  his  daughter;  he  meets  with 
an  accident;  the  notice  of  it  Is  read  by  the  daugh- 
ter, who,  with  her  husband,  go  to  the  hospital 
aid  bring  the  old  man  home. 

THE  VEIL  OF  SLEEP  (May  1).— In  order  to 
secure  a  change  of  scene  a  f ter  a  nervous  break- 
down, Louise  Gray  goes  to  Silver  City,  and  obtains 
employment  in  the  oflflce  of  the  Good  nope  Mining 
Company,  where  Tom  Price  is  cashier.  Tom  and 
Louise  fall  In  love.  Louise's  happiness  Is  clouded 
by  worry  over  her  mother  and  sister,  who  are  very 
poor  and  In  ill  health.  A  large  sum  of  money  for 
the  payroll  Is  received  and  placed  in  the  safe,  the 
combination  of  which  is  known  by  both  Tom  and 
Louise.  Carlton,  the  manager,  Is  called  away  from 
the  town,  and  during  his  absence  word  Is  received 
of  some  trouble  at  the  mines.  Tom  starts  for  the 
mines,  saying  he  will  return  the  following  day. 
After  Tom's  departure,  Louise  hears  of  a  gang  of 
outlaws  operating  in  the  region,  and  becomes  much 
concerned  for  the  safety  of  the  money.  In  her 
nervous  state  this  effects  her  so  strongly  that.  In 
her  sleep,  she  goes  to  the  office,  removes  tbe  money 
from  the  safe,  and  conceals  if.  Tom,  hearing  of 
the  outlaw  gang,  has  returned  and  sees  her  take 
the  money.  He  thinks  that  she  has  been  unable  to 
resist  temptation  and  has  stolen  the  payroll.  Be- 
ing unable  to  secure  the  money  and  restore  It  to 
the  safe.  Tom,  determined  to  protect  the  girl,  de- 
clares himself  to  be  the  thief  when  the  loss  is 
discovered.  Both  Tom  and  the  girl  are  heart- 
broken, each  thinking  the  other  a  thief.  The  out- 
laws attempt  to  raid  the  town,  and  In  a  fight  with 
the  sheriff  and  citizens,  are  killed  or  captured. 
The  elimination  of  danger  from  the  outlaws  acts 
cpon  Louise's  subconsciousness,  as  did  the  original 
fear  of  them,  and  that  night  she  again  walks  in 
her  sleep,  restoring  the  money  to  the  safe.  This 
time  she  Is  seen  by  the  sheriff,  Tom's  friend.  The 
sheriff  explains  to  Tom  and  Carlton  the  facts,  but, 
to  save  her  feelings,  they  are  kept  secret  from 
Louise,  she  being  told  that  it  was  all  a  mistake, 
that  the  money  was  at  all  times  In  the  safe.  Louise 
gets  well  and  all  probability  of  a  recurrence  of 
somnambulism  Is  removed  by  the  elimination  of 
worry  over  her  mother  and  sister.  When  she  re- 
turns from  her  honeymoon  she  finds  that  Tom  has 
brought  them  West  to  live  with  them. 

THE  GIRL  BACK  EAST  (May  2). — Ed.  Rand  and 
Ed.  Carroll  lived  In  Boston,  and  without  any  knowl- 
edge of  each  other,  met  and  fell  In  love  with  a 
fickle  and  calculating  girl  named  Betty  Brown.  To 
both    she    gave    a    photograph    lovingly    inscribed: 


"From  your  sweetheart,  faithful  and  true."  Each, 
with  a  desire  to  win  her,  went  West  in  search  of 
wealth.  One  day  Carroll,  who  owned  a  cabin  in 
the  hills,  started  ont  to  work  his  claim.  He  was 
ill  from  mountain  fever,  but  overcoming  his  weak- 
ness, continued  on  the  trail.  During  his  absence, 
rand,  who  was  out  of  water,  stopped  to  ask  for 
supply.  Finding  the  cabin  empty,  he  entered  and 
discovered  an  exact  duplicate  of  his  photograph  of 
Betty  on  Carroll's  shelf.  Realizing  the  girl's  du- 
plicity, he  was  about  to  leave  when  Carroll,  who 
had  become  delirious  from  the  fever,  managed  to 
drag  himself  from  the  claim  to  the  cabin,  where 
Band,  with  the  assistance  of  the  country  doctor, 
nursed  him  back  to  health,  keeping  from  Carroll  his 
knowledge  of  Betty's  duplicity.  After  bis  recovery, 
Carroll  by  an  accident,  learned  of  Rand's  secret 
and  Jealousy  prompted  him  to  challenge  Rand  to 
a  duel.  Through  the  accidental  finding  of  a  news 
paper  article  showing  a  notice  of  Betty  Brown's 
marriage  to  a  multi-millionaire  in  tbe  East,  both 
men  became  reconciled. 

CLARENCE  AT  THE  THEATER  (May  8).— One 
of  the  clerks  in  the  office  where  Clarence  Lusk  is 
employed,  tells  him  to  be  sure  and  see  a  musical 
show  that  is  playing  In  tie  city.  Clarence  hurries 
through  the  business  of  tbe  day,  rushes  to  a  restau- 
rant, eats  hurriedly  and  arrives  at  the  theater 
door  just  as  it  is  opened.  He  is  the  first  one  in 
the  house,  but  the  theater  gradually  fills  as  the 
curtain  rises.  His  first  view  of  the  stage  is  ob- 
Bcnred  by  late  arrivals  and,  when  he  finally  gets  a 
clear  view  of  the  stage,  the  curtain  falls.  He 
leaves  in  disgust,  tearing  up  his  programme  and 
seat  check,  vowing  "Never  again." 

FIXING  AUNTIE  UP  (May  3).— Hiss  Bayne  is 
much  perturbed  because  her  nieces,  Bertha,  Bess 
and  Nan,  are  beating  her  badly  at  the  game  of 
hearts,  and  she  strenuously  objects  to  their  getting 
married  until  she  secures  a  husband.  Jack  Carson 
has  a  widowed  father  and  he  coaxes  dad  to  keep 
an  eye  on  the  spinster.  He  tells  him  that  she  is 
rich  and  beautiful,  but  when  old  man  Carson  sees 
her  he  is  much  disappointed.  Tbe  girls  see  what 
is  tbe  trouble  and  they  determine  to  doll  auntie  np. 
By  many  little  arts  they  improve  her  every  day 
until  she  looks  perfectly  human,  and  it  is  not 
long  before  the  old  man  capitulates.  When  he  pro- 
poses, of  course,  auntie  says,  "This  Is  so  sudden," 
but  she  is  too  wise  to  lose  her  chance.  Jack  Car- 
son is  rewarded  with  the  band  and  heart  of  Bertha, 
George  Radnor  wins  Bess  and  Ray  Hewitt  gets 
Nan,  and  the  path  is  paved  for  four  happy  mar- 
riages. 


•BUG. 

ROSES   OF  YESTERDAY    (April  28) John 

Ralston,  and  his  nephew,  John  Ralston,  Jr.,  fa- 
miliarly known  as  "Jack"  live  in  a  New  York 
suburb,  but  have  their  business  in  the  city. 

One  day  Jack  finds  a  pretty  fan  on  the  seat  of 
a  street  car.  Upon  looking,  he  discovers  the 
owner's  name,  "Cyrilla  Drew,  Glenridge,  N.  T.," 
written  upon  the  stick.  Imagining  Cyrilla  to  be  a 
pretty  young  girl,  he  writes  her  a  note  enggestlng 
that  he  return  the  fan  in  person.  Miss  Drew  is  a 
refined,  pretty  woman,  in  the  prime  of  life,  but 
still  retains  the  love  for  romance.  She  lives  in  a 
rose  gardened  home  with  her  eighteen  year  old 
niece,  Margery.  Miss  Drew  answers  Jack's  note, 
telling  him   that   he   can   call   and   return   the    fan. 

Without  telling  his  Uncle  John,  Jack  "dolls 
up"  for  the  occasion,  and  departs  for  his  romantic 
call.  In  the  meantime,  Miss  Drew,  prompted  by 
memories  of  her  youth,  dresses  in  a  simple  gown, 
which  she  had  last  worn  on  the  evening,  twenty 
years  before,  when  she  quarreled  and  parted  from 
her  lover. 

Jack,  approaching  the  Drew  home,  sees  Margery 
and,  thinking  her  to  be  Miss  Drew,  falls  In  love 
with  this  vision  of  loveliness,  and  is  much  dis- 
appointed when  he  Is  introduced  to  the  real  owner 
of  the  fan.  He  makes  the  best  of  the  bad  bargain, 
however,  and  is  polite  to  the  elder  woman;  but 
when  the  occasion  offers,  he  declares  bis  love  for 
Margery,  much  to  the  joy  of  that  young  lady.  Miss 
Drew,  later  writes  Jack  a  note  asking  him  to 
meet  her  at  "Lover's  Bend."  She,  however,  for- 
gets to  add  the  "Jr."  to  the  name  of  Ralston, 
and  tbe  letter  falls  into  the  hands  of  lonely  old 
Uncle   John. 

Uncle  John,  scenting  a  flirtation,  keeps  the  ap- 
pointment and  finds  Miss  Drew  to  be  his  "rose  of 
yesterday."  They  walk  again  in  the  old  rose  gar- 
den, and  as  memories  of  their  youth,  their  love 
and  their  last  parting  prove  overwhelming,  they 
gladly  answer  to  the  call  of  cupld.  Explanations 
are  forthcoming,  and  the  two  couples  agree  upon 
the    day   for    the    double    wedding. 

HIRAM  BUYS  AN  AUTO  (April  29),— Hiram 
Hunt,  a  rube  farmer  of  the  very  verdant  variety, 
decides  to  buy  an  automobile.  So  he  fills  his 
pockets  with  greenbacks  and  visits  town,  accom- 
panied by  his  wife  and  daughter,  and  his  old 
chum  and  neighbor,  Jacob  Smith.  The  automobile 
agents  soon  learn  of  Hiram's  presence  and  his  de- 
sire, and  they  fairly  mob  him  in  their  efforts  to 
get  his  trade.  The  day's  excitement  finally  ends 
disastrously  for  Hiram's  pocket  book,  and  almost 
so  for  his  life.  He  purchases  the  cheapest  little 
old  wheezy  machine  in  town,  and  from  the  mo- 
ment he  starts  off  with  it,  his  career  is  suggestive 


of  a  deliberate  intention  to  murder  his  familv  and 
neighbor,  and  suicide  away  his  own  life '  He 
finally  runs  the  machine  through  a  stout  fence  and 
into  the  side  of  a  barn,  where  the  whole  works 
blow  up;  Jacob  disappears  skyward  with  the  debris 
boon  he  falls  from  the  sky,  and  Is  followed  by 
various  parts  of  tbe  shattered  auto.  Hiram  dole- 
fully gathers  up  such  parts  of  the  machine  as  be 
can  carry,  and  starts  to  walk  home,  a  sadder  but 
wiser    rube. 

THE  BURGLAR  WHO  ROBBED  DEATH  (April 
30).— A  promising  young  physician  has  an  inherent 
weakness  for  drink.  He  is  devoted  to  his  wife  and 
child.  At  one  full  swoop,  diptheria  takes  from 
him  both  wife  and  child.  He  loses  his  nerve 
yields  himself  up  completely  to  liquor,  loses  hla 
practice,  his  friends  and  his  self-respect.  He  final- 
ly arrives  at  the  bottom  of  the  ladder  where 
weakened  and  penniless,  he  falls  in  with  a  gang 
of  yeggs  and  is  persuaded  to  undertake  a  burglary. 
He  spots  the  Harrison  home,  observes  that  Mrs 
Harison  has  been  left  alone  this  particular  night! 
and  enters  by  the  upper  balcony,  first  cutting  the 
•phone  wires.  He  comes  face  to  face  with  the 
mother  endeavoring  to  save  her  child  from  dying 
in  a  violent  fit  of  sickness  which  has  attacked  it. 
She  can't  get  the  doctor  on  the  "dead"  'phone 
and  dares  not  leave  the  child  to  summon  help' 
The  burglar  throws  aside  the  rich  haul  of  jewels 
he  has  just  pocketed,  trusts  his  fate  in  the  bands 
of  the  woman,  and  works  over  the  child  with  all 
his  old  professional  skill.  He  robs  death  of  the 
child.  A  night  watchman  discovers  the  severed 
'phone  wires,  becomes  suspicious  and  commences 
an  investigation.  The  way  in  which  the  grateful 
mother  shields  the  burglar  as  the  latter  labors 
over  her  little  one,  and  the  effect  which  the  good 
woman's  faith  has  on  the  unfortunate  man,  from 
the  intensely   sympathetic   conclusion   of   the  story. 

ABSENT-MINDED  MR.  BOOB  (May  1).— Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Algernon  Boob  are  discovered  breakfasting 
in  their  country  place  at  Lonesomehurst.  He  is  as 
small  and  insignificant  as  she  is  buxom  and  im- 
portant. He  is  consuming  the  contents  of  the  "Pnp 
Edition,"  occasionally  thinking  of  himself  and 
taking  a  bite  of  solid  food.  The  whistle  of  the 
train  reminds  bim  and  he  jumps  Into  his  over- 
coat, but  neglects  to  put  on  his  hat.  He  is  fol- 
lowed to  the  station  by  tbe  Beet  and  faithful  maid 
of  all-works,  who  jams  the  head-piece  on  him  just 
as  he  climbs  in  the  train.  He  has  forgotten  his 
commuter  ticket  so  he  pays  cash,  and  then  he  keeps 
trumping  his  partner's  ace  In  a  friendly  game  in 
most  exasperating  fashion.  His  wife  is  invited  to 
come  to  the  city  and  have  their  child  photographed. 
It  requires  a  photographer  and  a  corps  of  assist- 
ants to  scare  the  baby  into  an  attitude  of  restful 
content    for   a   picture. 

Mr.  Boob  arrives  at  the  station  an  hour  before 
his  train  is  made  up,  so  be  buries  himself  In  his 
newspaper.  His  wife  comes  in  with  the  Infant, 
but  he  is  too  much  engrossed  to  see  her.  At  that 
moment  a  pickpocket  relieves  her  of  her  chatelaine. 
She  grabs  the  man,  but  burdened  with  a  baby, 
cannot  hold  him.  She  rushes  to  her  absent-minded 
hubby  and  throwing  the  baby  In  his  lap,  starts  hot 
foot  after  tbe  thief.  The  big  policeman  outside, 
has  happily  nabbed  him,  but  insists  she  must  go 
to  the  station  with  them  and  lodge  complaint.  Mr. 
Boob  suddenly  burdened  with  a  baby  does  not  rec- 
ognize it  as  his  own,  and  trots  off  to  tbe  station- 
house  where  he  leaves  the  waif.  In  the  Interinm 
his  wife  goes  borne  and  Is  surprised  to  find  he  has 
not  reported.  He  comes  along  on  a  late  train, 
babbling  of  his  remarkable  experience.  His  wife 
tells  him  it  was  his  own  baby  and  consternation 
ensues.  They  spend  a  restless  night  locating  the 
darling,    finding   it   flnaly   in   Bellion   Hospital. 

SOME  CHICKEN  (May  1). — An  educational  show- 
ing   the    output   of    an   incubator. 

THEIR  STEPMOTHER  (May  2).— Nina  hardly 
has  finished  reading  a  fairy  story  to  Trixie,  her 
little  sister,  in  which  there  is  a  horrid  mean 
stepmother,  when  their  father  enters  and  an- 
nounces to  them  that  they  are  about  to  acquire  a 
stepmother  of  their  own.  This  is  more  than  self- 
respecting  children  can  be  expected  to  endure,  and 
taking  their  treasure  with  them,  they  flee  from 
the  house.  They  are  finaliy  found  on  the  street 
by  a  policeman  who  questions  them.  At  this  mo- 
ment, Constance,  tbe  sweet  young  woman  who  is 
betrothed  to  their  father,  rides  up  In  her  auto,  rec- 
ognizes the  children  and  stops  to  hear  their  tale 
of  woe.  She  is  fairly  aghast  at  their  explanation 
to  the  officer  that  they  are  abont  to  come  under 
the  sway  of  a  horrid  stepmother  who  will  beat 
them,  starve  them,  and  work  them  to  death.  Of 
course,  Nina  and  Trixie  have  never  seen  their  fa- 
ther's fiancee  to  know  her  as  such.  Constance 
seizes  her  opportunity  to  win  the  children.  She 
tells  them  she  will  play  their  fairy  godmother  and 
take  them  to  her  home  where  no  bad  stepmother 
can  ever  get  them.  Sbe  gets  them  home  and  in- 
forms their  father  by  'phone  of  the  plot  she  has 
conceived;  he  enters  into  the  "game,"  and  is  over- 
joyed with  the  tact  and  sweetness  of  her  attitude 
toward  his  little  ones.  Finally  the  kiddies  grow 
homesick  for  Daddy,  and  Constance  sends  for  bim. 
Torn  between  their  two  loves,  they  make  Daddy 
promise  to  marry  their  fairy  godmother  so  they 
will  not  have  to  part  from  her;  and  thus  everybody 
in  the  househod  Is  made  happy. 


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ESSANAY. 

COUSTN  JANE  (April  29).— Tom  Allen  visits  bis 
■Ister  at  boarding  school  wbere  be  meets  Jane  Mc- 
Artbur,  and  falls  desperately  in  love  with  her 
charming  beauty  and  personality.  He  spends  a 
rery  pleasant  week,  taking  the  girls  to  the  thea- 
ter, skating,  and  making  himself  congenial  gen- 
erally. Some  time  later,  Jane  returns  borne  to  the 
country  to  spend  the  holidays  with  her  mother. 
Jane  discovers  by  reading  the  paper  that  the  grand 
opera  season  has  commenced  in  New  York.  Mrs. 
McArthur  writes  to  ber  sister  asking  if  Jane  may 
visit  for  a  few  days.  Mr.  Lawrence,  tbe  ancle, 
is  very  enthusiastic  about  it.  while  his  wife  and 
daughter,  are  displeased.  Mr.  Lawrence  finally 
gets  the  consent  of  his  wife  to  write  Jane  asking 
her  to  come  on.  Jane  astounds  her  city  relatives 
by  appearing  as  a  country  yokel.  That  night  at 
the  party,  Jane  meets  Tom  Allen.  To  the  sur- 
prise of  everybody  tbe  young  couple  are  married 
on  tbe  spot.  The  clever  situations  leading  up  to 
the  climax  are  unique. 

COUSIN  BILL  (April  80). — John  Steppllng  bor- 
rowed $3,000  from  his  father-in-law.  He  prom- 
ises his  wife  never  to  speculate  again.  That  after- 
noon a  broker  friend  of  air.  Steppllng's,  gives  tbe 
latter  a  good  tip  In  com.  Bill,  the  Idiotic  office 
boy  absorbs  the  conversation.  Through  persuasion 
on  Steppling  falls  a  martyr  to  tbe  demon  gold,  and 
Is  induced  to  go  home  and  get  tbe  money  he  has 
locked  in  the  desk  that  morning.  This  he  gives  to 
Bill  with  instructions  to  deliver  it  to  the  broker. 
Instead  of  delivering  the  message  Immediately, 
BUI  assists  a  young  lady  by  giving  her  a  stamp 
to  mall  a  letter,  gives  a  handle  to  an  errand  boy, 
so  that  he  might  be  able  to  carry  a  heavy  pack- 
age. He  proved  himself  to  be  a  good  Samaritan 
to  several,  which  took  up  a  considerable  amount  of 
time.  In  the  meantime,  Steppling  buys  a  paper 
which  Informs  him  of  his  loss.  Mrs.  Steppling 
baring  discovered  that  the  money  had  vanished, 
rushes  to  her  husband's  office.  Steppling  confesses 
his  speculation  to  ber.  Bill  returns  and  is  thrown 
bodily  out  of  the  office.  He  enters  again,  bands 
his  employer  the  note  which  had  been  delivered 
too  late  to  be  any  good  and  Is  rewarded  with  a 
crisp   hill    for   his   tardiness. 

THE  STORY  THE  DESERT  TOLD  (Hay  1).— 
One  who  has  not  traveled  across  a  desert  barely 
realizes  what  a  trying  and  dangerous  thing  It  Is. 
The  sheriff  of  Desert  Valley,  California,  received 
a  letter  from  Mrs.  Tom  Decker,  requesting  the 
former  to  send  Marjorle  to  her.  A  volunteer  is 
called  for  to  risk  his  life  in  escorting  the  four- 
year-old  child  across  the  sandy  plain.  John  Hart- 
ley steps  forward  and  promises  to  protect  the 
child  with  his  life.  That  day.  Bill  Barratt,  an 
outlaw,  is  arrested  and  lodged  in  jail  for  the  mur- 
der of  Jim  Ellis'  child.  That  night,  the  sheriff 
Is  informed  that  the  men  of  the  village  are  going 
to  lynch  Barratt.  Sheriff  Mackley  handcuffs  the 
prisoner,  places  him  on  a  horse,  and  takes  him  to 
the  desert,  for  safe  keeping.  In  the  meantime,  John 
Hartley's  mule  succumbs  to  the  heat.  Being  out 
of  water  he  tells  Marjorie  he  will  go  for  some  and 
return  shortly.  Hearing  a  child's  cry,  Mackley 
and  his  prisoner  are  quick  to  And  the  thirsty  in- 
fant. Mackley  returns  to  bis  horse,  which  had 
been  left  a  few  rods  away,  only  to  discover  that 
tbe  animal  had  galloped  off.  Without  water,  they 
are  In  a  hopeless  condition.  Jim  Barratt  promises 
to  guard  the  wagon,  they  discover  the  lifeless  form 
of  the  outlaw,  Jim  Barratt,  who  had  kept  his 
promise. 

A  CHILD'S  PRECAUTION  (Kay  2).— Mr.  John 
Cartlelgh  presents  his  four-year-old  daughter, 
Dorothy,  with  a  doll  for  her  birthday.  That  day 
Cartleigh  collects  several  hundred  dollars  for  his 
employer.  Finding  the  bank  closed  he  takes  the 
money  to  his  home,  unaware  that  be  Is  being  fol- 
lowed. That  night,  Cartleigh  places  the  money  in 
the  buffet  drawer.  The  child,  fearing  that  her 
doll  will  be  taken  from  her,  gets  up  in  the  middle 
of  tbe  night,  and  places  it  In  the  buffet  drawer, 
taking  the  "wallet  out  and  placing  It  under  ber 
pillow.  Having  seen  Cartleigh  place  tbe  money  In 
the  drawer,  the  robber  waits  until  the  household 
is  in  darkness.  He  forces  the  window  open,  looks 
Into  the  drawer,  but  discovers  the  wallet  missing. 
He  is  so  furious  that  be  takes  tbe  doll  and  smashes 
It  on  the  floor  which  awakens  Dorothy.  She  runs 
Into  the  room,  just  as  the  would-be  thief  Is  making 
his  exit.  The  child's  precaution  saved  John  Cart- 
lelgb's  employer's  money.  Dorothy  ia  rewarded 
with   a   new  doll. 


CINES. 

A  FUGITIVE  AT  BAY  (Special,  2  parts,  April 
16).— Vannl  Lupo,  a  young  villager,  returning  from 
a  hunt  with  Baron  Torrie,  is  introduced  to  the 
Baron's  beautiful  daughter,  Minerva.  A  feeling 
of  mutual  attraction  immediately  springs  up  be- 
tween them.  Remembering  her  desire  for  a  live 
pheasant,  he  Is  about  to  trap  one  when  he  is  con- 
fronted by  a  gamekeeper.  In  bis  attempt  to  wrest 
the  bird  from  Vannl,  tbe  gamekeeper  is  mortally 
wounded.  Hardly  had  Vannl  presented  Minerva 
with  the  gift,  when  two  officers  appear  with  a  war- 
rant for  his  arrest  on  the  charge  of  murder.  Van- 
nl seises  an  opportunity  to  over-power  the  officers 
and  makes  bis  escape  to  tbe  mountains.  Incensed 
at  tbe  killing  of  the  gamekeeper  and  provoked   at 


tbe  failure  of  the  police  to  cause  Vannl's  arrest,  the 
populace  is  only  too  ready  to  bring  the  guilty  one 
to  justice  when  a  reward  of  $5,000  is  offered  for  bis 
capture,     dead    or    alive. 

Lending  a  deaf  ear  to  all  precautions,  he  goes 
into  the  village  under  cover  of  darkness  and  places 
bouquets  on  the  ledge  of  bis  sweetheart's  window. 
One  day  he  is  discovered  by  a  couple  of  goat-herd- 
ers, who  Immediately  notify  the  townspeople.  A 
posse  is  quickly  formed  and  a  vehement  vengeance 
Is  their  plan.  Minerva  learns  of  this  and  prompt- 
ed by  her  love  for  him,  she  throws  on  her  cape  and 
determines  to  reach  him  before  the  posse  arrives. 
Tbe  race  is  on!  Although  Minerva  has  chosen  the 
more  hazardous  route,  she  courageously  wins.  She 
crawls  to  the  entrance  of  the  cave  where  her  cry  Is 
heard  by  Vannl.  He  tenderly  picks  her  up  and 
carries  her  into  the  cave  where  she  is  revived,  but, 
almost  at  the  same  time,  he  learns  of  his  own  pre- 
dicament. Fumes  of  smoke  soon  penetrate  the 
place  and  Vannl  realizes  he  is  caught  in  a  trap. 
He  runs  to  an  exit  in  the  cave  where  he  can  look 
out  upon  his  captors.  He  frantically  appeals  to 
them,  telling  of  the  presence  of  Minerva,  the 
daughter  of  the  Baron  Torrie,  in  the  cave.  They 
assure  him  ber  safety,  but  he  must  not  escape  and 
to  save  the  life  of  tbe  woman  he  loves,  be  complies 
with  their  demand  and  jumps  from  the  cliff  onto 
the  rocks  of  the  chasm  below,  and  into  eternity. 

A  HEART  OF  STEEL  (April  22).— Albert  Gra- 
ham is  very  happy  with  his  wife  and  little  daugh- 
ter, Lottie.  His  rich  father,  although  strenuously 
opposed  to  his  son's  marriage,  loves  his  grand- 
child. 

Albert  entertains,  and  Is  persuaded  by  his  per- 
sistent wife  to  enter  into  a  stock  speculation  with 
a  number  of  friends.  He  is  unaware  that  the 
United  Mine  Stock,  which  he  contemplates  buying, 
Is  the  very  stock  his  father  has  given  Mb  broker 
instructions    to    sell. 

A  lively  market  in  stocks  causes  the  inquiry, 
"Who  is  selling,  and  who  is  buying?"  This  ques- 
tion Is  answered  when  Lottie,  visiting  her  grand- 
parents, tells  of  her  father's  gain  of  fifty  thousand 
dollars  on  the  Exchange.  This  fact  Is  verified  when 
their  maid  tells  them:  "Tbe  one  who  ruined  you 
is  your  own  son!" 

Albert  learns  that  he  has  bankrupted  his  fa- 
ther, and  attempts  to  repay  him.  The  father,  be- 
lieving his  son  implicated  in  a  scheme  to  cause 
his  downfall,  refuses,  and  orders  him  from  the 
house. 

Albert's  frequent  quarrels  with  his  wife  are 
heard  of  by  the  father.  One  evening,  Albert  and 
Mrs.  Graham  attend  a  Society  Tableau,  and  Lottie, 
left  at  home,  writes  a  letter  asking  her  grand- 
parents to  forgive  ber  papa  and  mamma.  Tbe 
lamp  upsets,  and  tbe  bouse  is  soon  on  fire.  Lot- 
tie's life  is  in  imminent  danger.  She  is  saved  by 
her  grandfather,  who  is  seriously  burned  in  the 
rescue. 

Albert  and  his  wife,  when  Informed  of  the  fire, 
hurry  home,  where  they  fall  on  their  knees  at  the 
father's  bedside.  He  rejects  their  advances,  how- 
ever, and  raising  himself  upon  his  elbow  speaks 
his  last  words  to  his  son:  "I  will  not  forgive, 
and  tbe  only  reason  that  I  remain  In  your  house  is 
because  I  die. 

FORGOTTEN  (April  26).— Roger  is  a  butler  to 
the  Duke  de  Melan.  One  day,  while  off  duty,  he 
comes  upon  Countess  Ardentl  and  ber  daughter 
Sylvia.  The  Countess  has  sustained  a  slight  in- 
jury to  her  foot.  Roger  and  Sylvia  assist  her 
home,    where   he   is   royally   treated. 

Sylvia  is  a  beautiful  girl,  and  it  is  needless  to 
say  that  Roger  falls  in  love  with  her,  but  how  to 
keep  from  her  the  knowledge  of  the  true  position 
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Meanwhile,  Sylvia  finds  herself  falling  more 
deeply  in  love  with  Roger.  Their  romance,  however. 
Is  short-lived,  for,  upon  accepting  an  invitation  to 
tea  with  the  Duke,  Sylvia  and  her  parents  learn 
of  Roger's  deception.  Upon  the  protest  of  tbe 
Count,    Roger   Is   discharged. 

Heartbroken,  he  leaves  for  Australia,  where  he 
hopes   to  forget   the  past. 

Sylvia's  pride,  accompanied  by  her  social  pleas- 
ares,  soon  tends  to  dismiss  all  thoughts  of  Roger, 
and  like  a  blessing  from  heaven,  be  meets  a  sod- 
den death  while  at  his   work. 

VIEWS  IK  LIEGE,  BELGIUM  (April  86).— These 
views  are  from  tbe  more  Important  surronndlngs  of 
tbe  picturesque  little  city  of  Liege.  Among  the 
sights  shown  are  the  Hotel  Curtis,  St.  Jacques 
Church,  monuments  of  Belgium's  great  men,  and 
glimpses  along  the  River  Meuse,  including  the  fa- 
mous Exposition  Bridge. 

THE  NEW  ARRIVAL  (April  29).— Mr.  Stout  and 
his  family  learn  through  tbe  papers  that  be  is  a 
candidate  for  election  of  County  Judge.  His  daugh- 
ter and  Alfred,  of  a  neighboring  family,  are 
sweethearts.  Mr.  Stout  receives  a  letter  from  his 
cousin  advising  him  that  his  Nellie  Is  now  tbe 
proud  mother  of  a  little  one  which  will  soon  be 
brought   him    to   see. 

Mrs.  Stont  reads  tbe  letter  when  Alfred's  moth- 
er calls,  and  In  her  anguish  urges  ber  to  read  it. 
Alfred's  friend,  a  reporter  on  a  radical  newspaper, 
takes  advantage  of  the  assumed  scandal  and  a 
degrading  article  against  Mr.  Stout  appears  In  the 
next  Issue.  Mr.  Stout  Is  censured  by  his  political 
constituents,  while  Mrs.  Stout  is  obliged  to  re- 
sign  from  a  charity   society. 

Amid  all  the  turmoil  that  follows,  Alfred  and 
his  sweetheart  are  still  true  to  each  other.  His 
father  and  mother  disapprove  of  their  love  affair 
and  go  to  the  Stont  home  wbere  Alfred  had  been 
seen  entering.  They  arrive  to  take  away  their 
son,  who  Is  soon  found  with  the  girl.  During  the 
heated  discussion  between  tbe  two  families,  cousin 
Frank  arrives  with  the  innocent  cause  of  all  the 
trouble.  "Nellie's  little  one'  is  a  pretty,  little 
Spaniel  puppy." 

SCENES  AND  RUINS  NEAR  ROME  (April  29).— 
This  is  an  interesting  series  of  scenes  of  tbe  ruins 
of  csstles  and  aqueducts  in  the  Campague  Ro- 
malne,    Southern   Italy. 

JERRY'S  REBELLION  (May  3).— Jerry  Is  an 
unfortunate  married  man  of  small  statue,  and  pos- 
sesses an  unmerciful  mother-in-law.  Sent  to  the 
market,  he  meets  pretty  Kitty;  an  appointment 
is  made,  and  he  returns  home  late  to  receive  their 
usual  blessing.  How  to  keep  his  appointment  with 
Kitty  worries  him.  Tbe  Superintendent  of  Police, 
a  friend  of  his,  aids  him,  for  on  that  night  Jerry  la 
arrested  in  his  own  borne  and  set  free  outside  of 
tbe    house. 

While  waiting  to  be  served  in  the  Tip  Top  cafe, 
Kitty  and  he  write  postals.  Jerry  writes  a 
pathetic  letter  of  his  suffering  to  his  mother-in-law, 
while  Kitty  informs  a  girl  friend  that  she  Is  at 
that  time  dining  with  Jerry  in  the  Tip  Top  cafe. 
Too  much  gum  sticks  the  postals  together  when 
mailed,  and  Kitty's  postal  falls  Into  the  bands 
o '  tbe  mother-in-law.  She  and  the  wife  immedi- 
ately set  out  to  the  restaurant  and  Jerry  is  brought 
home   in   a   much   dilapidated  condition. 

THE  RIVAL  LOVERS  (May  3).— In  which  ap- 
pear two  young  men.  a  girl  and  her  irritable  ec- 
ctntric  father.  The  young  men,  Tom  and  Jerry, 
denied  the  privilege  of  calling,  resort  to  strategy. 
Pitkuiseo  as  a  butler  and  governess,  they  are  ac- 
cepted by  the  father  when  the  latter  advertises 
for  help.  Their  love- ventures  In  these  capacities 
are  successful  until  Jealousy  on  Jerry's  part  brings 
their  joke  to  an  end.  Tom  feels  the  wrath  of 
tbe  father,  and  Jerry  Is  found  in  such  a  ridiculous 
position  that  the  father's  wrath,  in  spite  of  him- 
self, gives  way  to  the  ludicrous  spectacle  and  a 
general    ban!    shake    follows. 


ECLIPSE. 

GERMAN  CAVALRY  MANEUVERS  (April  30).— 
Aided  by  the  excellent  photography  for  which  the 
producers  of  these  pictures  are  famed,  the  Eclipse 
Company  through  George  Kleine,  present  the 
Crown  Prince  of  Germany  reviewing  and  command- 
ing his  world-famous  regiment  In  all  its  cavalry 
maneuvers. 

GRANDPA'S  REJUVENATION  (April  30).— 
That  the  waters  of  the  Fountain  of  Youth  could 
be  purchased  in  bottles  at  $5.00  each  is  the  belief 
of  Mr.  Waggs  after  he  had  read  an  advertisement 
In  the  local  newspapers.  While  Mrs.  Waggs  is 
sent  to  purchase  a  bottle,  Mr.  Waggs  falls  asleep. 
In  his  dream  he  Is  once  more  living  in  the  age  of 
his  boyhood,  and  is  awakened  by  tbe  return  of  his 
wife  just  as  be  is  playing  in  a  sandpile.  After 
having  lived  tbe  past  over  again,  he  Is  only  too 
glad  to  find  It  all  a  dream.  Horror  that  his  dig- 
nity would  be  lessened  to  such  an  extent  arouses 
in  him  the  abhorrence  to  the  idea  of  it  all,  and 
when  his  wife  returns,  he  violently  throws  the 
bottle  and  its  contents  away. 

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FRANCE  (April  80). — These  pictures  were  taken 
on  a  trip  from  Annecy  to  Chamonix,  and  comprise 
possibly  the  most  magnificent  scenery  to  be  found 
in    France. 


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A  FOUB-FOOTED  DETECTIVE  (April  28).— The 
mysterious  Mr.  Raffles  walks  Into  a  bank  with 
bis  gang.  A  clever  bold-up  is  effected,  and  a  clean 
Set-away   Is  made. 

Detective  Keene  is  notified,  and  soon  arrives 
with  his  dog,  "Spot,"  which,  after  having  been 
Ciren  the  scent,  starts  out  to  locate  the  gang, 
while    Keene    most   unconcernedly    saunters   off. 

"Spot"  successfully  finds  Raffl  aud  shadows 
•Mm  to  his  home,  but  there  he  finds  himself  shut 
fit.  He  resorts  to  strategy,  and  pretending  to 
have  been  run  over,  lies  down  on  the  pavement. 
In  his  feigned  plight  he  is  seen  from  the  window, 
•nd  is  tenderly  carried  into  the  house  by  Raffle's 
woman  accomplice. 

When  left  alone,  "Spot"  procures  some  valuable 
clues.  Including  an  addressed  envelope  and  some 
keys. 

The  detective  returns  from  the  theater  to  find 
"Spot"  waiting  for  him.  Together  they  start  out, 
•nd  with  the  aid  of  the  keys  gain  an  entrance  to  the 
home  of    Raffles. 

Here  lively  scenes  occur.  Keene,  desirous  of 
capturing  not  only  Raffles,  but  his  whole  gang, 
pinions  Raffles  down,  and  sends  a  letter  to  the 
police  headquarters  by  **Spot."  However,  he  al- 
lows the  woman  to  escape.  She  tells  the  gang  of 
Raffles'  situation,  and  they  hurry  to  his  assist- 
ance. Keene  pretends  to  he  fatally  shot,  and  as 
they  leave  the  house  they  are  confronted  by  the 
police,   and   a   clean   sweep  is   made. 

"Spot,"  the  four-footed  detective,  is  again  a 
faerol 


MELIES. 

A  BUHTED  TREASURE  (May  1).— At  a  boarding 
house  in  Sidney,  Australia,  Franz,  a  young  artist. 
holds  himself  aloof  from  his  fellow  hoarders.  In 
▼aln  do  they  try  to  induce  him  to  Join  their  pic- 
nics and  frolics.  Secretly  he  is  in  love  with  the 
young  and  pretty  Dolly,  but  dare  not  make  ad- 
vances because  of  his  poverty  and  her  wealth. 
Secretly    she    loves    him. 

At  length,  peeved  at  the  artist's  reserve,  the 
boarders  decide  to  play  him  a  joke,  a  la  Edgar 
Allan  Toe's  "The  Gold  Rug."  Even  little  Dolly 
Joins  in  the  plot,  lest  by  refusing  she  betray  her 
■secret.  They  ingeniously  steal  from  the  artist  his 
large,  soft,  black  hat — his  inseparable  companion 
— which  they  place  carefully  in  a  large  box  and 
bury  among;  the  rocks  on  Mosman  Point.  While 
the  artist  is  busily  at  work  on  a  picture  of  Sidney 
Harbor,  a  rag  blowing  at  his  feet  attracts  his 
attention.  It  is  supposedly  mi  old  note  written  by 
a  dying  sailor  to  his  pal,  giving  directions  to  a 
buried   treasure  at  Mosinan  Point.     The  artist   bites. 

Not  a  moment  does  he  lose  to  seek  t  e  snot, 
and  not  a  moment  do  the  boarders  lose  to  follow 
him.  Rut  on  opening  the  box  and  discovering  the 
Joke,  the  look  on  his  face  is  so  pitiable  that  Dolly 
deserts  the  jokers,  runs  to  Franz  and  confesses 
her  love.  That  is  revelation  Number  One.  Number 
Two  is  in  the  form  of  a  letter  the  artist  finds  in 
his  hat,  which  ho  had  neglected  to  open.  It  con- 
tains a  check  for  1,000  pounds  in  payment  for  a 
painting.      The    drinks    are    on    the    boarders. 

THE  HOME  OF  TERNS  (Australian  sea-birds)— 
(Hay  1). — The  Tern,  or  Australian  sea-bird,  finds 
its  breeding  place  on  the  little  island  of  Oyster 
Key,  situated  about  thirty  miles  out  at  sea  from 
Cairns,  North  Queensland,  Australia.  They  are  so 
numerous  that,  when  flying,  they  form  a  sort  of 
fog,  and  are  so  tame  that  the  grinding  of  the 
camera    dees   not   in    the   least    scare   them. 


VITAGRAPH. 

O'HARA  AND  THE  YOUTHFUL  PRODIGAL 
(April  28). — Denis  O'Grady,  Tom  and  Aillen's  son, 
1b  eight.  His  grandfathers,  O'Sullivan  and  O'Grady, 
are  Jealous  of  each  other,  and  each  tries  to  win  the 
child's  affection  and  to  object  to  everything  the 
other  does,  but  O'Hara,  his  god-father,  is  really  the 
child's  favorite.  One  day  while  his  mother  is  out, 
Denis  tries  to  steal  a  pot  of  jam.  Aileen  is  going  to 
whip  him,  but'  O'Hara  pleads  for  him  and  he  is 
pardoned.  For  a  while  he  remembers  his  promise, 
then  one  day,  near  Christmas  time,  when  he  is  over 
At  his  grandfather  Sullivan's,  he  is  tempted  to 
•teal  some  tarts.  He  does  so,  and  at  the  same  time 
breaks  a  pet  pipe  of  his  grandfather's.  Sullivan 
would  forgive  the  theft,  but'  not  the  pipe,  so  he 
takes  Denis  home  and  tells  his  mother.  Aileen 
whips  him  soundly  and  shuts  him  up  in  an  outhouse. 
Denis  resolves  to  run  away.     He  climbs  out  of  the 


window,  steals  a  ride  on  a  cart  and  gets  out  into 
the  country.  Night  comes  on,  and  he  Is  lonely  and 
frightened  and  wishes  he  was  home. 

In  the  meantime,  his  flight  has  been  discovered 
and  his  mother  blames  herself  for  her  harshness. 
O'Hara  starts  out  with  Larry,  the  policeman,  to 
And  him  and  they  discover  him  curled  up  by  a 
small  Are,  which  follows  out  the  tactics  of  his 
favorite  heroes.  O'Hara  restores  him  to  his  mother 
and  all  ends  happily. 

TWO'S  COMPANY,  THREE'S  A  CROWD  (April 
29.) — Sadie  is  the  favorite  typewriter  of  the  estab- 
lishment. Both  Binks  and  Bingles  lay  siege  to  her 
heart.  Both  invite  her  to  go  to  the  theater.  Each 
reserves  seats.  Bingles,  to  put  one  over  on  Binks, 
gets  the  rest  of  the  employees  to  make  believe  that 
he  is  ill.  They  all  tell  him  that  he  is  looking 
terribly,  until  poor  Binks  decides  to  go  home  and 
go  to  bed.  Just  as  he  is  leaving,  he  overhears 
Bingles  teil  the  boys  that  the  scheme  has  worked 
to  perfection.  On  his  way  home,  he  stops  at  the 
theater,  and  tells  the  ticket-seller  that  he  can 
cancel  two  of  the  seats  for  that  evening,  and  reserve 
only  two  for  Binks. 

That  evening,  Bingles,  thinking  that  the  coast  is 
now  clear,  stops  for  Sadie  and  takes  her  to  the 
show.  When  he  and  Sadie  arrive  they  find  that  his 
seats  have  been  sold.  Sadie  is  distressed.  Binks 
puts  in  an  appearance  in  full  dress  suit  and  high 
hat.  He  offers  to  share  one  of  his  seats  with  her. 
She  accepts,  and  Bingles,  crestfallen,  stands  aghast. 

STREET  SCENES,  YOKOHAMA,  JAPAN  (April 
29). — The  novel  sights  which  these  scenes  portray, 
bring  before  us  the  activity  and  business  thrift  of 
a  nation  which  has  astonished  the  world,  and  shows 
us  one  of  the  leading  thoroughfares  of  Japan  during 
the  busy  hours  of  the  day. 

A  WINDOW  ON  WASHINGTON  PARK  (April 
30).— -From  his  apartment,  where  he  lives  a  cheerless 
widower's  life,  overlooking  Washington  Park,  Alan 
Dale  sees  a  refined,  but  poverty-stricken  old  gentle- 
man on  one  of  the  park  benches.  Calling  his  butler, 
he  instructs  him  to  go  down  and  tell  the  old  man 
he  would  like  to  see  him.  When  the  butler  ap- 
proaches the  elderly  man  the  old  fellow  is  somewhat 
skeptical,  but  finally  consents  to  go  with  him.  Alan 
receives  his  guest  cordially  and  tells  him  why  he 
has  requested  him  to  come  and  invites  him  to  dinner. 
During  the  meal  the  old  man  tells  his  life's  story; 
how  he  married  a  young  woman,  and  after  the  bir'th 
of  a  little  daughter,  she  died.  How  his  daughter 
had  married  a  young  fellow  and  gone  to  live  in  New 
York,  and  how  he  had  lost  his  money.  The  last 
news  he  had  received  of  her  was  of  her  death.  As 
he  recites  his  story  visions  of  the  events  appear 
before  us  and  we  have  no  trouble   following  them. 

Alan,  at  the  conclusion  of  the  story,  eagerly  grasps 
the  old  gentleman's  hand  aud  tells  him  that  he  is 
his  daughter's  son. 

BUNNY  VERSUS  CUTEY  (May  1).— The  college 
hoys  enjoy  another  joke  on  their  friend,  the  lady- 
killing  Cutey.  John  Bunny  is  at  the  play  with 
Lillie.  a  gTrl  whom  he  knows  slightly,  and  Cutey 
makes  up  his  mind  to  cut  out  Bunny.  After  the 
play,  Bunny  introduces  the  young  lady  to  some  of 
the  boys.  While  he  is  talking,  Cutey  persuades 
Lillie  to  go  to  supper  with  him,  much  to  Bunny's 
disgust.     Cutey  tells  the  boys  about  it. 

In  order  to  reduce  his  weight,  Bunny  is  taking  a 
series  of  flesh-reducing  exercises  and  is  seen  by 
Cutey,  who  rushes  off  to  tell  his  friends  about  it. 
Thinking  that  Bunny's  awkward  antics  will  amuse 
her,  Cutey  and  the  boys  rush  off  to  Lillie  and  bring 
her  along.  By  no  means  a  finished  athlete.  Bunny 
has  a  good  deal  of  trouble  with  some  of  the  exer- 
cises. He  drops  dumb-bells  on  his  t6es,  hits  his 
head  with  the  Indian  clubs,  etc.  With  laughter,  the 
boys  watch  him,  but  Lillie  is  annoyed  at  their 
ridicule.  When,  on  entering  the  room,  site  sees 
Bunny  humiliated  by  their  taunting  him,  she  gets 
highly  indignant  aud  orders  the  immediate  departure 
of  Cutey  and  his  friends,  telling  them  that  John 
Buuny  is  quite  good  enough  for  her.  The  hoys  en- 
joy a  good  laugh  at  the  crest-fallen  Cutey. 

USES  OF  DYNAMITE  BY  U.  S.  ENGINEERING 
CORPS  (May  1). — Dynamite  has  many  uses  in  times 
of  peace  as  well  as  in  warfare.  The  Engineering 
Corps  are  shown  using  it  in  stumping  and  felling 
trees  and  for  a  variety  of  other  purposes.  The  ease 
with  which  this  violent  explosive  may  be  handled 
and  its  enormous  power  when  exploded  in  close 
quarters,   are  most   strikingly   illustrated. 

CINDERS  (May  2). — Cinders,  the  furnace  man  in 
a  large  tenement  building,  has  no  friends,  with  the 


exception  of  his  dog,  Mutt,  and  Katy,  a  poor  little 
girl.  One  day  Mutt  is  away  for  a  long  time.  When 
he  comes  back  he  brings  with  him  a  note  from 
little  Katy,  saying  that  she  is  sick  in  bed.  Cinders 
goes  up  and  she  tells  him  that  she  would  like  some 
real  flowers  instead  of  the  artificial  geraniums  that 
form  her  only  garden.  When  he  goes  to  buy  them 
he  finds  that  he  has  not  enough  money 'and  decides 
to  sell  his  dog.  After  speaking  to  several  men  he 
at  last  finds  a  purchaser,  who  pays  him  a  dollar. 
Cinders  spends  the  money  on  flowers  and  takes 
them  to  Katy.  A  few  minutes  later,  a  man  comes 
in  bringing  Mutt  with  him.  He  is  the  man  who 
had  bought  the  dog  and  is  none  other  than  Katy'a 
father,   who  had  long  been  missing. 

CAPTAIN  MARY  BROWN  (May  3).— Plans  of  the 
new  fortifications  around  New  York  have  been  en- 
trusted to  Colonel  Brown,  who  keeps  them  in  a  safe. 
He  and  his  secretary,  Captain  Kingsley,  are  the 
only  persons  knowing  the  combination,  but  by  an 
ingenious  trick  with  a  mirror,  the  assistant  secre- 
tary, Deland,  really  a  captain  in  the  Belgian  Secret 
Service,  manages  to  learn  it  and  steal  the  plans. 
This  he  does  on  a  Saturday  night,  thinking  to  re- 
turn tliem  before  either  the  colonel  or  Kingsley 
reach  the  office  on   Monday. 

On  Sunday,  however,  the  colonel  receives  an 
urgent  call  for  the  plans  and  he  telephones  to 
Kingsley.  Kingsley  is  with  his  fiancee,  Mary 
Brown,  the  colonel's  daughter,  wneh  he  Is  called 
and  she  takes  him  in  her  car  to  the  oflice,  waiting 
outside  for  him.  When  Kingsley  opens  the  safe 
and  announces  that  the  plans  are  not  there,  the 
colonel  accuses  him  of  stealing  them,  knowing  that 
the  young  man  has  recently  been  spending  a  good 
(leal  of  money.  Mary  comes  into  the  ofllee,  and 
hearing  the  accusation,  declares  that'  her  lover  is 
innocent  and  that  she  will  find  the  real  culprit. 
Meanwhile,  Deland  brings  them  back  to  replace 
them  in  the  safe.  Mary  is  alone  there,  her  father 
and  Kingsley  having  gone,  and  she  guesses  the 
reason  for  Deland's  visit.  When  he  leaves  the 
office,  she  follows  into  the  room  occupied  by  the  two 
spies.  They  discover  and  bind  her,  but  not  before 
she  has  been  able  to  get  a  message  conveyed  to 
her  father,  who  arrives  with  Captain  Kingsley  just 
in  time  to  prevent  tbe  spies  from  making  their 
escape. 

HEARTS  OF  THE  FIRST  EMPIRE  (Special,  2 
parts.  April  28). — In  the  spring  of  1810,  the 
Peninsular  War  begins,  and  fearing  that  the  Aus- 
trian Army  may  again  take  the  field  (he  having 
ignominiously  defeated  them  the  previous  year), 
Napoleon  arrests  the  Count  de  Mauperg,  high  in 
the  favor  of  the  Austrian  Emperor,  Francis.  Mau- 
perg is  to  remain  in  Paris  for  six  months  as  a 
hostage    for    tiie    good    behavior    of    his    sovereign. 

Emperor  Napoleon's  wife,  Marie  Louise,  one  day 
when  driving,  intervenes  in  behalf  of  a  poor  girl 
named  Beatrice  Dupreil,  who  is  being  cruelly 
beaten  by  an  old  hag,  Mere  Pignoue.  The  em- 
press compensates  the  woman  with  a  bag  of  money 
and  takes  Beatrice  to  the  castle.  On  account  of 
her  awkwardness  and  unsophisticated  manners,  her 
first    appearance   causes   much   laughter. 

Directly  after  Count  de  Mauperg's  presentation 
to  the  courtiers  by  Napoleon,  the  empress,  with 
her  ladies,  enters.  Beatrice  is  presented  to  the 
emperor,  and  instead  of  making  a  courtly  bow, 
she  acts  in  a  hoydenish  manner.  This  arouses 
laughter  from  the  court,  but  her  part  is  taken  by 
Mauperg,  who  conceives  an  admiration  for  her, 
and  the  emperor  orders  that  the  court  dancing 
master   instruct   her   in   French  etiquette. 

Six  months  have  nearly  passed  and  3eatrice, 
now  well  acquainted  with  the  French  court  man- 
ners, is  sought  after  by  the  courtiers  and  Count 
de  Mauperg,  whom  she  favors.  This  arouses  the 
Impassioned  jealousy  of  Due  de  Beaufort,  a 
courtier,  who  reminds  Napoleon  that  Mauperg's 
hostage  has  nearly  expired,  thinking  that  by  this 
way  lie  will  get  rid  of  his  rival. 

Juat  as  Mauperg  is  about  to  leave  he  is  secretly 
handed  a  note  in  which  he  is  commanded,  as  a 
true  servant  of  Austria,  to  slay  the  tyrant 
emperor.  Beaufort,  hearing  of  this,  arrests  Mau- 
perg's servant,  obtains  the  note,  which,  he  brings 
to  the  emperor.  Hearing  that  Beaufort  is  com- 
manded to  arrest  Mauperg,  Beatrice  encounters 
the  courtier  in  the  corridor  and,  after  a  tussel, 
bills  him  with  a  rapier.  Beatrice  divests  the 
dead  man  of  his  outer  garments,  goes  to  the 
apartment  of  Mauperg,  tells  him  what  she  has 
done,    and    together   they  flee   from   the  country. 


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PATHEPLAY- 

PAXHE'S  WEEKLY,  HO.  17  (April  21).— Oak- 
lud,  Cal.—  Mayor  Frank  K.  Mott,  of  this  city,  In- 
spects the  oew  street  sweeping  device,  which 
fathers    the    dost   Instead   of   scattering    it. 

New  York,  N.  Y. — Fire  Commissioner  Johnson 
has  accumulated  the  evidence  of  his  having  ob- 
tained $127,000  worth  of  insurance  on  household 
furniture  worth  $3.96,  with  which  he  hopes  to  in- 
fluence insurance  legislation  at  the  State  Capitol. 

London,  England,  — Mrs.  Pa  nk  hurst  leaves  her 
•oUcitors  office  to  go  to  her  trial  In  Oold  Bailey 
Court,  where  she  is  sentenced  to  three  years'  penal 
servitude. 

Ban  Francisco,  Cal. — Mayor  Rolpb  pitches  the 
tret  ball  at  the  opening  baseball  game  of  the  sea- 
son   here. 

Bt.  Augustine,  Fla. — The  landing  of  Ponce  de 
Leon  Is  re-enacted  here  on  the  occasion  of  tbe 
400th    anniversary  of   the   event. 

Madrid,  Spain. — Tbe  King  and  Queen  attend  tbe 
laying  of  the  corner-stone  of  the  College  of  tbe 
Naval    Officers'   Orphans. 

Jersey  City,  N.  J. — One  hundred  and  seven  con- 
testants take  part  in  the  Modified  Marathon  race 
held  on  the  Hudson  County  Boulevard. 

London,  England. — Tbe  King  goes  In  state  to  the 
Embankment  to  open  the  Parliament. 

Washington,  D.  C. — The  suffragettes  parade  up 
Pennsylvania  Avenue  to  the  Capitol,  where  they 
present   their   plea    for    women    suffrage. 

Comic  Section. — Mutt  and  Jeff  try  their  hands  at 
settling   tbe   revolution  in  Mexico. 

THE  CORMORANT  (April  29).— A  sea-bird,  purely 
and  simply,  and  dwelling  in  tbe  crevasses  of  steep 
cliffs,  the  Cormorant's  chief  prey  is  fisb.  Conse- 
quently, It  is  an  expert  angler  and  whenever  a  fish 
Dears  the  surface  of  the  water,  the  Cormorant  is 
waiting  for  it.  The  Cormorant  immerses  its  head 
and  in  the  twinkling  of  an  eye  the  5ah  is  captured. 
Fishermen  use  these  birds  to  help  increase  their 
dally  catch.  The  men  fasten  a  strap  on  the  neck 
of  the  Cormorant  and  the  bird,  after  catching  Che 
Dab,  is  unable  to  swallow.  When  its  neck  is  full 
of  fish  the  Cormorant  returns  to  Its  master  and 
leaves  the  fisb  at  his  feet,  then  goes  back  for  more. 

ALONG    THE    RIVER    ETJRE,     FRANCE     (April 
). — A   scenic  film   of  rare   beauty  and  harmonious 
coloring. 

HIDDEN  LIFE  IN  SEAWEED  (April  29).— A  most 
Interesting  study  of  various  almost  invisible  crea- 
tures that  infest  even  the  commonest  seaweed  is 
obtained  by  means  of  a  planktonograph. 

THE  MEXICAN'S  DEFEAT  (April  30).— Out  of 
revenge,  a  Mexican  army  captain  "frames  up" 
upon,  an  American  and  bis  wife  evidence  of  a  con- 
spiracy against  the  Mexican  government.  The  cap- 
tain, with  a  guard,  calls  to  search  for  the  evidence 
that  he  knows  is  in  the  house.  The  Americans 
seem  to  submit  to  the  search,  but  a  moment  biter 
and  by  clever  maneuvering  they  have  the  advan- 
tage over  the  Mexican  guard,  and  before  the  latter 
really  knows  what  has  taken  place  the  Americans 
are  fast  disappearing  toward  the  shelter  of  an 
TJ.  S.  army  post  over  the  border,  where  they  ar- 
rive in  time  to  dare  the  Mexicans  to  pursue  them 
further. 

THE  PANAMA  CANAL  TODAY  (April  30).— 
The  most  gigantic  engineering  project  in  the  world's 
history  is  almost  completed.  The  Milaflores  locks 
aoxi  the  spillway  are  opened  for  the  first  time  and 
in  this  film  the  camera  gives  a  comprehensive  idea 
of  the  enormity  of  the  undertaking  which  will  link 
the  Atlantic  aud    Pacific. 

THE  PARTING  ETERNAL  (May  1).— When  he 
oever  received  her  letter,  Donald  Morley  took  it 
for  graDted  that  Mary  Leonard  did  not  love  him  and 
left  his  old  home.  Some  years  later  be  is  ordained 
a  priest  and  celebrates  his  first  Mass  in  a  convent 
chapel  where  Mary  is  a  nun.  After  the  service  and 
alone  before  the  altar,  they  meet.  Mary  explains 
the  circumstauces  of  the  misunderstanding,  but 
they  love  each  other  well  enough  to  put  their  world- 
ly emotions  aside  (in  a  strongly  dramatic  s 
and  bold  faithful  to  the  vows  which  their 
scleoees  tell  them  cannot  be  violated  and  then  they 
part — for    eternity. 

LIQUID  AIR  (May  2).— In  one  of  the  experi- 
ments  in    this    tilin    two   eels   are    placed    in   a   tank 

Of     liquid     air.        Wli.n     taken     out     they     are     frozen 
solid.       One    of    them     when     placed     in     water    conic- 

to   life.    hut.    with    a    hammer,    tbe  other    is   easily 

broken    into    small    pieces.       This     is    done    to    prove 


that  liquid  air  merely  suspends  life  for  tbe  time 
being.  Together  with  other  experiments  this  dem- 
onstration has  a  message  of  Interest  to  the  masses 
who  do  not  number  a  knowledge  of  scientific  mat- 
ters  among   their   accomplishments. 

WLNTER  IN  UPPER  ENOADINE,  SWITZER- 
LAND (May  2).— A  view  of  the  Alps  in  all  their 
wondrous  and  glorious  beauty  holding  the  spectator 
spellbound   by   its  very   magnificence. 

GENERAL  SCOTT'S  PROTEGE  (May  3).— When 
her  lover's  life  is  sacrificed  to  pay  the  penalty  for 
a  crime  committed  by  the  chief's  son,  Red  Wing,  an 
Indian  maiden,  leaves  the  camp  and  goes  to  live 
with  the  family  of  General  Scott,  who  Is  in  charge 
of  a  frontier  army  post.  The  Indians  do  Dot  bother 
her  while  General  Scott  is  alive,  but  when  be  dies 
and  the  funeral  procession  is  Journeying  to  the 
cemetery  the  Redmen  demand  the  return  of  Red 
Wing.  She  refuses  to  go,  whereupon  the  savages 
attempt  to  take  her  from  the  soldiers.  In  as 
pretty  a  fight  as  one  would  wish  to  see,  they  are 
defeated  and  the  heroine  of  tbe  battle  is  little 
Ked    Wing,    General    Scott's    protege. 


BIOGRAPH. 

BLAME  THE  WTFE  (April  28).— When  the  Smith 
family  missed  the  train,  it  was  the  wife's  fault — 
that's  what  Smith  said.  But  the  next  day  at  train 
time  his  wife  hurried  off,  leaving  him  alone.  Then 
there  was  no  one  to  answer  his  questions,  "Did  you 
see  my  collar?"  "Where's  my  hat  and  coat?" 
Thus  it  was  that  Smith  learned  who  really  was  to 
blame. 

THE  DAYLIGHT  BTTRGLAR  (April  28).— Harry 
returns  from  the  club  in  a  somewhat  Jagged  con- 
dition and  Is  surprised  by  finding  a  burglar  in  his 
room,  who  is  quick-witted  enough  to  take  advantage 
of  the  situation,  finally  banding  Harry  over  to  the 
policeman    as    the   burglar. 

IF  WE  ONLY  KNEW  (May  1).— A  careless  nurse- 
girl  allowing  the  child   to  wander  away,   made  tbe 
mother    realize    the    poignancy    of    the    little    verse: 
If   we  knew    the   baby's  fingers, 
Pressed   against  the  window   pane. 
Would  be  cold  and  stiff  tomorrow, 
Never  trouble  us   again, 
Would    the    bright   eyes   of   our   darling 
catch    the    frown    upon   our   brow, 
Would   the   prints  of   rosy  fingers. 
Vex  us  then  as  they  do  now? 
But  a  higher  destiny  watched  tbe  child  and  saw 
it  safely  home. 

THE  WANDERER  (May  3).— This  story  is  some- 
what in  the  nature  of  a  poetical  fantasy,  and  may 
be  construed  as  the  spectator  pleases.  It  Is  the 
story  of  a  wanderer  who  prefers  to  seek,  through 
his  flute,  the  spirit  of  truth,  that  he  may  give  it 
out  Into  tbe  world  as  he  passes  through  his  various 
journeys  and  experiences  In  life  and  thus  make 
earth  a  better  and  fairer  place.  He  prefers  this  to 
the   perpetual  strife   for  gain. 


AMONG  THE  EXHIBITORS. 

Lafayette,  Did. — This  city  is  to  have  another 
playhouse  in  Main  Street  between  6th  and  7th. 
Oliver  W.  Peirce,  owner  of  the  property  will  erect 
the   theater.     Cost  $25,000. 

St.  Paul,  Minn. — This  city  is  to  have  a  new 
theater,  C.  H.  Miles,  owner  of  the  Hippodrome  in 
Minneapolis,    is    the    reported    builder. 

Dallas,  Texas. — Arrangements  are  being  made 
through  Dallas  and  eastern  capital  for  the  erection 
of  a  vaudeville  theater  within  the  next  few  months 
at  the  corner  of  Elm  and  St.  Paul  Sts.  The  prop- 
erty  is   owned   by   Mrs.   S.   A.   Gibbs,   of   Dallas. 

Oregon,  Ills. — The  building  on  the  Lyon's  theater 
site  is  being  razed  to  make  way  for  a  new  opera 
house.      Mr.    Lyons,    will    erect    it.      Cost   $15,000. 

Baraboo,  Wis. — Plans  for  the  new  opera  bouse 
here  are  in  the  hands  of  contractors,  and  it  is 
understood  that  Al.  Ringling  will  have  the  build- 
ing   completed    this   year. 

Durant,  Okla. — W.  A.  Roberts  and  J.  B.  Berry, 
of  Cumby,  Texas,  bought  tbe  Gayety  theater  from 
J.    S.    Jennings,    and   will   take  charge. 

Corpus  Christi,  Tex.— Dillard  R.  Fant,  well-known 
property  owner  of  San  Antonio,  has  completed  plans 
for  the  erection  in  this  city  of  an  opera  house  in 
Chaparral   St. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — F.  C.  Micbaelsen  has  filed  plans 
for  the  erection  of  a  moving  picture  theater  at 
Kensington     Avenue     and     Somerset     Street.       Chat 


$25,000.  The  Joseph  Levin  Co.  Is  estimating  on 
a  $10,000  moving  picture  theater  to  be  erected 
at    1426   So.    4tb    Street. 

Bloomsbuxg,  Pa.— This  city  la  to  have  another 
picture  theater.  Wm.  Button  will  erect  it  at  the 
corner  of    Main    and    North    Streets. 

Philadelphia,  Pa, — Clarence  P.  Wynne  has  pur- 
chased from  Wm.  Levis  a  lot  at  2775  Kensington 
Avenue  where  be  will  erect  a  moving  picture 
theater. 

Iahpeming,  Mich. — The  city  of  Ishpemlng  Is  con- 
sidering   the   erection   of   a    moving   picture   theater. 

Los  Angeles,  Cal. — Geo.  E.  Lubin  is  completing 
plans  for  a  brick  theater  to  be  erected  on  E.  1st 
between  Cummings  and  Chicago  Sts.  for  M.  Mlnkus. 

Coshocton,  0. — The  old  Manner  residence  is  be- 
ing razed  and  will  be  supplanted  by  a  modern 
theater. 

Fresno,  Cal. — C.  O.  Daries,  general  manager  of 
the  Empire  theater,  said  the  Empire  will  be  thor- 
oughly renovated  this  summer  at  a  cost  of  $5,000. 

Suffolk,  Va. — The  charter  of  tbe  Suffolk  Theatrical 
Co.  was  recorded  at  city  clerk's  office;  capital  stock 
$3,000    and    maximum    capital    stock    of    $20,000. 

Buffalo,  N.  Y. — The  Columbia  Realty  Co.  of  New 
York  are  to  build  a  $250,000  show  house  on  tbe 
site  at  Pearl   and   Huron  Sts. 

New  York,  N.  Y. — Plans  have  been  filed  for  en- 
larging the  theater  at  258  W.  145tb  St.  Tbe  145th 
St.  Theater  Co.,  of  which  C.  J.  Packard  Is  president, 
is  the  owner.     Cost  $70,000. 

Columbus,  O. — It  Is  expected  that  plans  for  the 
Majestic  theater  building  to  be  erected  in  South 
High  St.  for  Max  Stern  will  soon  be  completed  by 
Architect    Fred    Elliott.      Cost    $100,000. 

Wichita  Falls,  Tex. — This  city  is  to  have  a  new 
theater.  Wren  &  Berry,  proprietors  of  the  Lydla 
Margaret,    by    Stamfli    and    Roberts    will    erect    it. 

Cincinnati,  0. — The  Nortbslde  Amusement  Co. 
will  build  a  motion  picture  house  on  Hamilton, 
near    Lingo   Street". 

Wallace,  Idaho. — This  city  is  to  have  a  new 
theater   building. 

Auburn,  Nebr. — Eustice  &  Bousfield  sold  the  Ideal 
theater    to   Taylor   &   Jones,    of   Shubert. 

Colville,  Wash. — This  city  is  to  have  a  picture 
theater  to  be  opened  In  the  Fair  Store  building. 
W.  S.  and  P.  E.  Newport,  of  Spokane,  will  be 
the   proprietors. 

Williston,  N.  D. — Plans  are  under  way  to  build  a 
picture   theater   in    Main  Street. 

Cincinnati,  0. — The  people  In  the  western  part 
of  the  city  are  to  have  a  new  theater.  Plans  for 
a  $45,000  building  on  Coleraln  Avenue  were  filed. 
I. a  wrence    Bueche,    promoter. 

Bristol,  N.  J. — The  Lyric,  the  photoplay  theater 
on    Mill    st.,    was   reopened   recently. 

Des  Moines,  la. — Work  will  start  soon  in  tearing 
down  the  Great  Western  Accident  Association  build- 
ing in  8th  Street  to  make  way  for  the  new  Empress 
anri  Hippodrome  theater  to  be  erected  by  Albert 
Getchell. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — A  moving  picture  theater  is  to 
be  built  at  2011  Frankford  Avenue  for  J.  J.  Good- 
stein.  A  syndicate  composed  of  Dr.  Geo.  H.  Kolber 
and  others  have  purchased  a  lot  at  1142  Passyunk 
Avenue  and  will  erect  a  moving  picture  theater 
to  cost  $50,000. 

New  York,  N.  Y. — A  moving  picture  theater  will 
be  erected  by  Felix  Isman  on  7th  Avenue,  between 
41st   and  42nd   Streets. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. — Arrangements  were  made  by 
Wm.  I.  Walter,  as  trustee  for  the  Adolph  Bern- 
heimer  estate  and  tbe  Fulton  Building  Co.,  of  which 
A.  L.  Shakman  Is  president,  for  a  lease  of  prop- 
erty at  tbe  corner  of  Broadway  and  81st  Street. 
A  theater  will  be  erected  on  the  site  to  cost  about 
$200,000. 

Meridian,  Miss. — S.  H.  Floyd,  who  i*  to  erect  a 
$30,000  theater  building  in  this  city,  will  let  the 
contract  shortly. 

Cincinnati,  0. — Real  estate  brokers  have  been 
working  for  the  past  few  weeks  with  John  Bradlet 
who  is  investigating  in  this  city  in  an  attempt  to 
find   a    location    for   a    theater. 

Baraboo,  Wis. — Plans  are  being  considered  for  the 
erection  of  a  new  opera  house  here.  Al.  Ringling 
will    erect   it. 

Antigo,  Wis. — Manager  H.  E.  Hansen  of  the 
Palace   Theater   Co.    will  erect   a   new   theater. 

Joliet,  Ills. — Plans  have  been  prepared  for  tbe 
erection  of  a  new  theater  In  110  No.  Chicago  Street. 
Mr-   Rubens,  general  manager.     Cost  $40,000. 

Minneapolis,  Minn. — W.  L.  Harris  starts  work 
on    a   large   theater  here. 

Louisville.  Ky. — The  contract  for  erecting  tbe 
National  theater  at  Louisville,  Kv.,  has  been  let 
to    the    Selden-Breck    Construction    Co. 


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PCWBRS. 

STRANGERS  IN  A  STRANGE  LAND   (April  80). 

lea.  The  wife  dies  and  is  buried  at  sea.  Tony 
knows  no  English  and  has  dlfflcuffllty  in  obtaining 
work.  He  gets  a  Job  with  a  road  gang.  One  day 
he  sees  a  pretty  flower,  he  picks  it  and  his  child 
Is  so  pleased  with  it  that  the  next  evening  he 
picks  another,    bnt   is    pounced   upon    by   the    Irate 

ZTJ  0t  'I,  e?rden-  He  lB  tak*n  to  the  station 
and   la   unable   to   make   them   understand    that   he 

t  n°t  know  he  was  doing  anything  wrong 
hnf??!  £?7,  h8  i8.br??8bt  to  the  night  court, 
but  all  he  can  say  Is  "I  no  ateal'a  da  flower  i 
pick  tor  lettle  Rosa."  The  Judge,  noting  the 
fern? ^rih'5e  man,'.e  efforta  at  explanations, 
truth  of  Watery         POhCemea   t0   ""estlgate   the 

h„inJJ,6*.,me,''ntlm?'  I08"  has  made  tie  tea  and 
has  set  the  lamp  in  the  window.  But  her  Daddy 
doe*  not  come,  bo  she  sets  out  to  find  him.  She 
^"^IL t»  the  street  excavation  and  falls  in  and  is 
rescud  by  the  watchman,  who  soothes  her  and 
carrto.  her  home.  They  arrive  as  Tony,  crazy  at 
her  loss,  la  fighting  desperately  with  the  police- 
men to  get  away  and  hunt  for  her.  The  passion- 
ate warmth  of  the  reunited  Italian  and  his  child 
convinces    the    policemen. 


REX. 

THE  TORN  OF  THE  TIDE  (May  1).-Quairel- 
•ome  Jack  gets  into  a  brawl  with  some  remans  in 

iu8,!!.00^;  e  k10cka  one  down  and'  thinking  he  has 
killed  him,  rushes  off  to  his  boarding  house,  packs 
his  grip  and  goes  to  another  town.  Arriving  there 
he  la  walking  along  the  dock  when  he  sees  a  sim- 

w  Sl'w^.r'r1"116  in  the  P°rch  of  a  bit  for 
her  father.  Old  Joe,  a  fisherman,  passes  and  nods 
to  Jack. 

Old  Joe  is  on  his  boat  in  the  docks  and  finds 
bis  man,  Jim,  asleep.  He  is  tired  of  his  lazy 
ways,   awakes  him  and  discharges  him.     Jack  over- 

■.".1  the  conversation  and  applies  for  the  Job 
which  Joe  gives  him.  Jim  is  angry  and  tries  to 
prevent  Jack  from  entering  the  boat,  but  Jack 
knocks  him  down  and  leaves  him  on  the  sand 
threatening    vengeance. 

Jack  and  Joe  return  and  Joe  points  out  a  board- 
ing house  where  Jack  can  stay,  he  engages  a 
room  and  starts  to  go  upstairs,  but  Is  tripped  up 
by  a  drunken  sailor.  A  fight  commences  while 
Jim,    who   has   planned   it,    looks   on. 

Jack  has  fallen  in  love  with  Peggy,  but  she  does 
not  approve  of  his  quarrelsome  ways,  although  she 
likes  blm.  One  day  he  is  walking  along  the  cliffs 
and  falls  over;  he  is  seriously  hurt  and  is  carried 
to  the  cottage  where  Peggy  and  her  father  live 
where  she  nurses  him  back  to  health,  and  gradually 
gets  to  care  for  him. 

Peggy's  father  is  an  Invalid  and  dies  suddenly 
leaving  Peggy  all  alone.  Jack,  returning  from  his 
work,  learns  of  her  father's  death  and  is  told  that 
Peggy  is  on  the  cliff;  he  goes  to  find  her  and 
holding  out   his   arms,    she   goes   to   him. 


IMP. 


THE  CUB  (April  28).— The  cub  reporter  loved 
the  owners  daughter.  He  learns  by  chance  of  a 
plot  to  sell  the  paper's  power  by  the  managing 
editor  to  a  pair  of  crooked  contractors.  The  own- 
er refuses  to  listen  to  his  discovery,  but  the  girl 
does  and  believes  him.  Together*  thev  plan  to 
force  the  owner  to  take  some  action.  The  dinner 
at  the  owner's  house  Is  spoilt  by  the  girl  who 
compells  them  to  dine  in  a  private  room  at  Musc- 
veys,  where  the  managing  editor  has  an  appoint- 
ment with  the  contractors.  The  cub  plants  a 
dictograph  in  the  room  where  the  contractors  are 
and  puts  the  receiver  In  the  room  where  the  owner 
and  his  party  are  ushered.  Their  entire  conversa- 
tion Is  beard  by  the  owner.  The  cub  is  dragged 
from  the  fire  escape  where  he  has  been  concealed; 
a  terrible  Bght  ensues;  the  police  are  called  In  and 
the  managing  editor  and  his  crooked  friends  are 
taken  into  custody.  The  cub  is  rewarded  with  the 
managing  editor's  position  and   the  girl's   hand. 


?^m.    .""•     ^S  letter  was   on   two  sheets  ask- 

J.™i„Se8Iieri0nJtlle  flr8t  Bbeet  *»  ne'P  her  H>  a 
business  deal  and  arranging  for  an  appointment  on 

?„l  leC°?A  "H"*'.'  WhlcQ  bore  her  signature.  Chester 
w™  ."  „'  «  ia8kSlleet  off  hl8  desk-  a««  visits 
him  and  finds  the  compromising  paper.  She  goes 
home.  Chester  telephones  her  that  important  busi- 
ness will  keep  him  away  that  evening.  She  waxes 
auspicious  and  calls  up  Finder  and  Pinchem  De- 
tective Agency.  They  assign  Pearl,  the  girl  de- 
tective to  the  case.  She  trails  Cheater  and  re- 
ports to  Grace  that  he  dines  at  a  hotel  with  a 
Y°Ti\u  She  then  goes  t0  Chester's  office  and  gets 
a  Job  there  as  stenographer.  The  next  day  Ches- 
ter gets  a  letter  from  Miss  Gaines,  asking  him  to 

TZZw".  a-Sa".-.  .Pea/i  8ets  the  letter  and  '■-me- 
diately, takes  it  to  Grace.  Grace,  when  Chester 
calls  that  evening  la  very  cold  to  him  and  he  is  at 
a  loss  to  understand.  Pearl  believing  her  mission 
accomplished,  wants  to  resign  from  her  Job,  but 
Chester  won't  let  her.  Grace  sorry  for  the  way 
she  treated  Cheater,  decides  to  caU  at  hla  office 
However,  Pearl  and  Chester  have  grown  very  fond 
of  each  other  and  when  Grace  calls,  they  are  In 
each  others  arms.  Grace  is  angry  and  gives  Ches- 
ter back  bis  ring.  He  givea  It  to  Pearl.  Grace 
goes  around  to  the  detective  office  to  complain  about 
Pearl,  and  Preal,  who  is  there,  resigning  submits 
her  bill,  which  is  *2.  Chester  meanwhile  has  dis- 
covered Pearl's  real  Identity  by  finding  her  note- 
book, but  when  she  confesses  his  heart  goes  out 
to  her  and  all  Is  well. 

0!  -WHISKERS  (May  4).— Mr.  Baldwin  was  the 
possessor  of  an  unusual  pair  of  side-whiskers.  He 
was  very  proud  of  them.  He  calls  on  Miss  Hegg 
and  presents  her  jvith  his  photo.  She  la  very  fona 
or  him.  His  nelt  call  is  on  Miss  Lucy  Olning 
a  friend  of  Miss  Heggs  and  he  also  gives  her  a 
photo  of  himself  and  his  glowing  face  adorn- 
ments. He  cannot  make  up  his  mind  which  old 
young  lady  he  likes  better,  on  general  principles 
he  strolls  into  a  barber  shop  to  get  spruced  up. 
The  barber,  a  Frenchman,  misunderstands  Bald- 
wins order,  but  Baldwin,  who  has  fallen  asleep 
is  not  aware  of  the  fact  until  he  is  awakened  bv 
a  frightful  pulling  on  his  face,  and  then  he  see's 
that  the  unknowing  barber  had  cut  off  one  of  his 
whiskers.  There  is  nothing  left  for  him,  but  to 
have  the  other  one  cut  also.  He  rows  with  the 
barber  and  gets  kicked  out.  He  goes  on  the  street 
and  meets  MJss  Hegg.  He  accosts  her,  but  she 
runs  away  from  him,  not  knowing  him.  He  then 
runs  across  Miss  Pining  and  attempts  to  speak 
to  her,  but  she  does  the  same  as  Miss  Hegg  The 
two  ladies  meet  a  policeman  and  tell  him  of  the 
strange  man.  Just  then  Baldwin  comes  up  and  they 
point  him  out  to  the  cop  and  he  chases  him  through 
the  streets.  The  ladles  go  to  Miss  Hegg's  house 
Baldwin  had  sought  refuge  in  her  garden  and 
climbed  through  the  window.  The  ladles  see  him 
and  beat  him  up  with  their  fists  and  sofa  pillows 
until  Baldwin  is  all  in.  He  at  last  gets  them  to 
understand  and  he  exits  vowing  never  to  see  them 
again,  at  the  same  time  bemoaning  tbe  loss  of  bis 
beautiful  whiskers. 


UNIVERSAL. 


ANIMATED    -WEEKLY,      NO.      58      (April     16) 

President  Woodrow  Wilson.— Assists  at  the  opening 
of  the  baseball  season  of  1913.  President  Woodrow 
Wilson,  Manager  Frank  Chance  of  New  York 
Manager    Clarke    Griffith    of    Washington. 

Emperor  Wilhelm.— (And  his  troops  at  Berlin 
Germany. 

The  Duncan.— The  U.  S.  S.  Torpedo  Boat  is 
launched     at     Quincy,     Massachusetts. 

The  Jamestown  Races — This  classic  event  Is  at- 
tended by  several  members  of  President  Wilson's 
cabinet. 

His  Eminence  Cardinal  Farley. — Officiates  at 
laying  of  the  corner-stone  of  the  Church  of  the 
Good   Shepherd,    New    York    City. 

Wheels  of  Commerce.— A  strawberry  farm  near 
Beaumont.    Texas. 

Floral  Display.— For  the  Lincoln  Park  Commis- 
sioners.  Chicago,    Illinois. 

Christening  a  Motor  Boat. — Marquis  of  Soriano's 
Monaco  racer— at   the   Isle  of  Jatte. 

What's  What  in  New  York.— The  New  Muuicipal 
Building,  erected  at  a  cost  of  twelve  millions  of 
dollars. 

King  George. — Attends  the  opening  of  Parliament 
at   London,    England. 

The  Olympic. — First  arrival  In  America  of  the 
only  double-hulled  unsinkable  ocean  liner  In  the 
world. 

Ladies'  Hockey  Match. — The  English  team  wins 
at  Richmond. 

Who's     Who    in     Stageland— Kitty     Gordon. The 

winsome  star  poses  for  the  ANIMATED  WEEKLY. 


CRYSTAL. 

PEARL  AS  A  DETECTIVE  (May  4).— Chester 
!«  engaged  to  Grace.  He  had  Just  received  a  letter 
at   his   office    from    Laura    Gaines    tha   sister   of    a 


NESTOR. 

■WHEN  FATHER  WAS  KIDNAPPED  (April  28). 
—Jack,  a  young  artist  residing  in  the  west,  paints 
a  portrait  of  Nell,  a  ranchman's  daughter.  He 
falls  In  love  with  her.  and  she  with  him.  The 
Irascible  old  father  has  somebody  else  In  view 
than  a  beggarly  artist.  There  is  a  neighboring 
rancher,  Porter,  who  has  ranched  wisely  and  well 
and  his  Income  is  far  more  handsome  than  his 
features.     The  father  sees  the  young  couple  in  an 


JJ?  n«.Jre,.\  embrac«  """J  promptly  breaks  up 
S.V  Stty  /i0'",""'  NeU  '»  marched  home  to  be 
lectured  and  Jack  goea  back  to  his  mother  and  ate- 
rt£h.f  .  J  "Jolly  persuades  Jack  to  dress  in  her 
accedes  aUler-      Jack    demurs.    then 

Sirin^i  C^ar.an,dv ncarly  twlats  hla  neck  off 
getting   his   tie   straight.      On    the   way   he   sees    a 

Si  '/,.  dame  "PPH-g  a"o°g-  He  raises  his  hat 
S  »,|he  dl8Slll8ea  J<"*  Id  Dolly's  clothes  and  some 
or  the  false  curls  leads  him  on.  Porter  gets 
lamlllar  and  geta  a  slap  on  the  cheek  which  makes 
him    curse    the   athletic    training   of   the   up-to-date 

Mr.  Porter  calls  upon  father,  who.  seeing  him 
coming,  runs  in  and  acquaints  Nell  of  the  Joyful 
f^K^T?,-  IorteI  """mounts  and  as  he  and 
father  talk,  the  dainty  dame  trips  by,  bowa  and 
emilea    and   enters    the   house. 

Jack  rona  in  to  NeU  and  pulls  off  his  bonnet 
and  curls  in  order  to  complete  the  surprise.  They 
hear  father  and  Porter  coming  and  Jack  hastily 
dons  the  bonnet  again,  omita  the  cnrls.  Porter 
sees  them  sizes  Jack  up  and  puts  the  curls  In  his 
pocket.  He  says  nothing  to  Dad.  Jack  leaves 
and  on  the  way  home  meets  Pedro,  a  half-breed 
Happy  thought!  He  will  write  a  note  and  send  it 
by  Pedro  He  does  so,  telling  Nell  to  meet  him 
at  a  fixed  place  at  a  certain  hour  and  gives  Pedro 
a  dollar  to   take  it   to   Nell. 

Porter  meets  Pedro  outside  and  gives  him  a  dol- 
£,,,.1  SeS  „tbe  ?ote-  Ne"  "-"eives  it  and  gives 
^  °Ka  „doUar,  for  the  eooi  news-  She  writes  a 
note  back  saying  she  will  be  there.  Again  tbe 
miscreant  Porter  parts  with  regrets,  from  an 
other  dollar  and  reads  Nell's  reply.  Jack  geta  it 
and  in  Joyful  ecstacy  gives  Pedro  a  dollar.  Pedro 
departs  to  spend  the  five. 

Porter  makes  arangements  with  some  cowboys 
to  kidnap  Nell  at  the  meeting  place.  Father 
catches  Nell  in  the  act  of  departingP  and  locks  h" 
In  her  room.  He  dons  some  of  Nell's  clothes  to 
give  Jack  a  surprise. 

Jack  aees  the  cowboys  and  side-steps  them,  and 
father  is  kidnapped,  while  Jack  runs  to  Nell's 
home  gets  her  out  and,  going  to  a  parson,  mar- 
ries her.  Father  is  taken  to  Porter.  Mutual  sur- 
prise, when  the  disguise  is  removed.  Thev  rush 
home— the  birds  have  flown— they  run  to  the  par- 
son s,  who  blandly  tells  father  he  had  the  pleas- 
ure of  marrying  his  daughter  to  a  real  nice  voung 
man.  Father  has  only  one  thing  to  do  and  he 
does  It  gracefully.  Porter  exchanges  his  hard  boil- 
ed  shirt   for  a   comfortable   woolen  one. 

THE  GREATER  LOVE  (April  30). -A  band  of 
outlaws  are  worrying  the  ranchmen  and  farmers 
The  sheriff  and  a  posse  are  sent  out  to  round  them 
up.  One  of  the  band  secures  a  position  with 
Ranchman  Worth  in  order  to  watch  the  comings 
and  goings  of  the  young  heiress,  with  an  eye  to 
detaining  her  and  forcing  a  big  ransom.  He  is  able 
to  ride  off  and  tell  the  outlaws  that  Mabel  is  going 
out  riding  in  a  certain  direction  with  Farnum  and 
King,    two  cowboys  who  are   much  devoted  to  her 

The  three  riders  pass  the  outlaws,  who  fail  to 
ambush  them  as  planned.  Farnum,  King  and  Mabel 
manage  to  reach  a  deserted  shack  and  bar  them- 
selves In.  They  hold  the  outlaws  at  bav,  hoping 
that  relief  will  come.  They  run  out  of"  ammuni- 
tion and  one  of  them  must  get  relief.  They  per- 
suade Mable  to  go  Into  an  inner  room,  when  they 
take  a  pack  of  cards  and  decide  that  the  highest 
poker  hand  dealt  shall  determine  which  of  them 
shall  make  the  hazardous  attempt.  Farnum  draws 
a  high  hand.  He  knows  that  Mabel  has  leanings 
toward  King.  He  throws  his  hand  away,  declar- 
ing that  King  has  bim  beaten,  shakes  hands  with 
his  pal  and  kisses  Mabel's  band  and,  despite  her 
protests,  he  sets  out  upon  his  hazardous  errand. 
He  fails  to  get  far,  for  tbe  outlaws  concentrate 
their  fire  on  him  and  he  falls.  The  sheriff  and 
posse  ride  up,  having  tracked  the  outlaws,  who 
are  captured.  King  and  Mabel  look  up  their  friend 
and  sorrow  over  his  body  who  sacrificed  himself 
for  "The  Greater  Love." 

THE  INGRATE  (May  2).— Bill  and  Bess  are  en- 
gaged,  but  as  Bill  drinks  heavily,  the  girl's  brother 
John,  and  his  wife,  together  with  Bess'  father 
disapprove  of  the  engagement  John  is  going  to  the 
"gold  country'  to  further  work  his  claim  and  Bill 
asks  to  go.  John  is  persuaded  by  his  wife  to 
agree,  after  she  learns  that  Bill  has  promised  to 
stop  drinking.  They  go — months  pass  and  nothing 
Is  heard  of  them.  Finally  they  start  back:  but 
their  pack  mule  gets  away  as  they  are  passing 
through  the  desert.  John  goes  after  him  and  while 
he  is  gone,  Bill  leave  the  camp  with  the  gold,  he 
is  unable  to  find  the  canteen  of  water — the  only 
one  left— as  John  had  carefully  hidden  it.  John 
returns,  finds  the  gold  and  Bill  gone,  and  starts  to 
search  for  him.  After  a  couple  of  davs,  the  mule 
returns  home  and  the  father  obtains  a  horse  from 
a  friend  and  starts  out  in  search  of  the  bovs.  He 
finds  John,  water  gone,  but  still  alive,  they  revive 
him  and  then  hasten  on  for  Bill,  but  death  has 
claimed  him  and  in  his  hand  Is  a  note  «  lilch  reads: 
"May  God  forgive  me  for  what  I  have  done."  On 
the  following  page  is  written:  '-Tell  Bess  my 
last  thoughts  were  of  her.  Bill."  Taking  tbe 
gold,  they  start  back,  but  Instead  of  showing  Bess 
the  entire  note,  he  merely  hands  her  the  second 
page. 


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ECLAIR. 

THE  RETURN  OF  CHIME  (2  parts— April  30).— 
Martha  Elliot,  a  young  music  student,  meets  and 
falls  In  lore  with  Lucieu  Grey,  who  Is  Just  en- 
tering upon  a  promising  career  as  a  physician. 
After  s  brief  lnterral  of  happiness,  Grey  deserts 
the  girl.  Martha  soon  afterwards  finds  herself 
forced  to  provide  a  living  for  two.  She  Is  deeply 
embittered  against  the  perfidious  father,  and  this 
bitterness  she  communicates  to  her  son.  The  boy 
reaches  manhood,  and  proceeds  to  carve  out  for 
himself  a  career  in  the  law.  Martha,  by  thla 
time  a  middle-aged  and  chronic  Invalid,  lives  only 
for  her  brilliant  and  successful  son.  Her  Joy  In 
him  Is  gloriously  crowned  when  he  is  elected  to  the 
office    of    District    Attorney. 

The  sensation  of  many  weeks  comes  to  a  finish 
one  morning  when  the  newspapers  print  in  full- 
page  headlines  the  story  of  the  arrest,  on  a 
criminal  charge  of  the  eminent  and  wealthy  sur- 
geon, Lucien  Grey.  Elliot,  who  knows  the  man 
to  be  his  delinquent  parent,  inflamed  as  be  is 
with  hatred  against  the  man  whom  he  holds  re- 
sponsible for  his  mother's  years  of  disgrace,  hard- 
ship and  want,  and  for  the  resulting  Illness  which 
has  blighted  her  later  life,  resolves  to  prosecute 
the  case  in  person.  His  passionate  hatred  seems 
to  inspire  him,  so  that  he  carries  out  his  intention 
with  such  relentless  skill  and  astuteness,  that  al- 
though the  evidence  is  flimsy,  Grey  Is  soon  lodged 
In   the  death   cell  awaiting   execution. 

The  harrowing  days  during  which  the  case  is  in 
progress  so  tell  upon  Martba  Elliot's  condition  that 
her  malldy  is  seriously  aggravated.  At  last  she 
succumbs  to  the  strain.  A  consultation  of  experts 
declare  that  the  woman's  one  chance  for  life  lies 
in  a  piece  of  surgery  which  none  of  them  baa  the 
skill  to  attempt.  Lucien  Grey,  who  is  awaiting 
the  law's  extreme  penalty  in  the  state  prison,  is 
the  only  man  who  can  perform  it. 

When  Elliot  discovers  the  fact,  he  goes  secretly 
to  the  prison  and,  relying  on  his  close  resemblance 
to  bia  father  to  shield  them  from  detection,  be 
releases  the  latter  and  sends  him  to  the  dying 
woman's  bedside.  He  himself  takes  the  prisoner's 
place  In  the  cell.  Grey  arrives  in  time  to  save 
Martha  Elliot's  life.  But  Just  as  he  is  in  the 
middle  of  his  delicste  task  the  lights  go  out. 
There  is  no  moment  to  be  lost.  The  hour  Is  ap- 
proaching when  the  warden  will  open  the  cell  door 
and  lead  the  occupant  forth  to  death.  Grey  gropes 
bis  way  to  the  switchboard  in  the  hallway,  but 
can  do  nothing.  In  despair,  he  prays.  Instantly 
his  hands  find  out  the  right  switch  in  the  dark- 
ness. He  finishes  his  work  and  rushes  back  to 
the  prison.  But  Elliot's  fiancee,  Alice  Lee,  fearing 
the  truth,  namely,  that  the  young  lawyer's  suc- 
cessful prosecution  was  actuated  by  a  sense  of 
legal  Justice  than  by  personal  animosity,  has  al- 
ready secured  a  reprieve  for  the  prisoner  from 
the  Governor.  Grey  finds  his  cell  empty  and  him- 
self  a   free  man. 


FRONTIER. 

THE  WORD  OF  JOSE   (May  1) Blessing  steals 

a  horse  and  doctors  the  brand.  Jose,  who  is  a 
friend  of  the  sheriff.  Smiling  Chrley  Buck,  is  sus- 
picious of  the  brand  on  the  horse,  but  as  Ynez, 
his  sweethesrt,  insists  upon  it  he  buys  him  for 
ber.  Jose  and  Tnes  visit  town,  Ynes  riding  In  on 
the  horse.  Burns,  the  brand  Inspector,  sees  them 
and  finding  the  horse  to  answer  a  description  post- 
ed some  time  before,  takes  the  whole  party  in 
charge.  They  go  to  the  sheriff's  office,  and  there 
Jose  succeeds  in  having  Buck,  as  a  favor  to  him, 
free  x"nes,  Jose  himself  telling  the  story  of  his 
having    bought    the    horse    from    Blessing. 

Several  loungers  who  saw  Bums  arrest  Jose  and 
T/ne*  rush  into  the  hotel  and  declare  that  Buck 
has  caught  the  horse  thief  for  whom  the  reward 
was  offered.  ThiB  causes  a  large  amount  of  ex- 
citement, and  Blessing  entering  In  time  to  observe 
it,  decides  to  turn  it  to  his  own  advantage  in 
fastening  the  guilt  upon  the  innocent  Jose.  He 
therefore  incites  the  mob  to  riot,  and  when  they 
are  ripe  for  it,  starts  a  lynching  bee  with  Jose 
as  the  Intended  victim.  Warned  by  Burns,  Buck 
has  prepared  for  this,  sending  Jose  away.  Jose 
has  pledged  hiB  word  to  return  when  sent  for  and 
the  sheriff  tellB  him  he  will  send  word  to  Tnea 
when   to    come. 

The  mob  comes  to  the  sheriff's  office,  and  after 
a  while  finds  that  Jose  is  gone.  Buck  snd  Burns, 
however,  delay  them  until  Jose  has  a  good  start. 
Jose  rides  to  Ynes's  home  sad  there  she  conceals 
him  on  the  roof  to  such  good  intent  that  the  pur- 
suing mobsmen  do  not  find  him.  They  return  to 
town   disgusted. 

Buck  sends  for  Jose.  Ynes  gets  the  letter  and 
is  torn  by  her  love  of  Jose  and  her  desire  to  have 
him  prove  the  man  he  seems.  Love  wins,  and  she 
begs  htm  to  fly  with  her.  Mindful  of  his  word, 
Jose  hesitates.  Ynea  is  stung  by  his  hesitation 
and  tells  him  to  1  ep  his  word  to  Buck  then,  since 
he  has  failed  in  his  vows  to  her.  Jose,  despondent, 
starts  for  town  and  trail. 

Ynea  decides  to  follow  Jose  and  seek  forgiveness. 
Jose  though  has  a  long  lead,  and  Bhe  does  not 
catch  hhn.  Blessing  attempts  to  kill  Bnck  with 
whom  he  baa  had  trouble  and  Joee  arrives  Just  in 
time  to  prevent  It.  An  exciting  chase  follows, 
ending  as  it  should,   in  the  clearing   of  Jose  from 


the  charge  of  theft  and  the  fastening  of  the  guilt 
upon  Blessing,  its  rightful  owner,  who  however,  has 
been    killed. 

Jose  and  Ynea  are  united  and  she  lovea  him  more 
than  ever  because  he  had  held  his  word  so  highly. 

AN  EASTERN  CYCLONE  AT  BLUFF  RANCH 
(May  8), — Miss  Bluff,  boss  of  the  ranch  owned  by 
herself  and  her  brother,  undergoes  a  series  of  in- 
teresting and  humorous  adventures  at  the  ranch 
in  which  ber  younger  brother  gets  mixed  through 
his  efforts  to  pacify  the  cowboys  for  her  abuse  of 
them.  Miss  Bluff  decides  that  the  ranch  offers  far 
too  small  a  career  for  her  brother,  however,  and 
sends  him  to  the  city  to  school.  The  welfare  of 
thla  brother  Is  her  only  care. 

Bluff,  on  his  arrival  from  the  country,  speedily 
asslmlluates  city  ways,  but  falls  to  lose  his  coun- 
try chivalry.  When  he  sees  a  drunken  man  at- 
tempt to  force  attentions  upon  a  charming  young 
lady  he  interferes.  The  drunken  man  Is  van- 
quished with  ease,  due  to  Bluff's  magnificent  phy- 
sique and  he  advises  the  young  lady  to  learn  box- 
ing that  she  may  protect  herself  in  the  future 
from  insulting  persons.  An  Introduction  to  the 
lady's  parents  follows  the  encounter  and  Bluff  be- 
comes a  regular  caller  at  her  home.  Meanwhile 
Miss  Bluff  consoles   herself   with   Peruna. 

The  young  lady's  father  gets  her  a  boxing  in- 
structor. She  proves  an  apt  pupil,  for  after  a 
few  lessons  she  defeats  ber  Instructor.  Brimming 
with  rogulshness,  she  assaults  her  father  with  a 
glove,  and  he  engages  her  in  a  match.  She  quick- 
ly puts  him  to  scorn.  Before  she  has  time  to 
remove  her  gloves  Bluff  calls  on  her.  A  love 
scene  and  the  plighting  of  their  troth  follow.  Bluff 
experiencing  some  difficulty  in  fitting  the  ring  over 
the    gloves. 

Bluff  writes  his  sister  that  he  is  bringing  back 
a  present  which  will  delight  her  beyond  measure. 
She  dances  wildly  at  the  newe,  but  when  he  brings 
home  a  wife  she  is  disgusted  and  angry  to  such 
an  extent  that  she  abuses  her  partner  In  the 
peruna  episodes,  the  negro  wench.  Bluff  and  his 
bride  try  expedients  to  escape  from  her  continual 
surveillance,  but  Miss  Bluff  Is  always  on  band  and 
working  when  there  are  any  honeymoon  activities 
In  progress. 

Bluff  must  be  gone  all  day  on  business  one  dsy 
soon  sfter  they  have  arrived,  and  hiB  wife  weeps 
at  the  mere  thought  of  being  left  alone  with  his 
Bister.  This  is  Justified  in  a  short  time  by  the 
action  of  Miss  Bluff  in  locking  the  new  Mrs.  Bluff 
into  a  dark  closet.  Miss  Bluff  then  inaugurates 
a  round  of  peruna  oblations  and  invites  guests  for 
a  dance  that  evening.  Mrs.  Bluff  tries  to  get  out 
of  the  closet  for  a  long  time,  but  when  the  cow- 
boys and  girls  arrive  and  are  ready  to  dance,  she 
csu  stand  it  no  longer.  By  a  great  effort  Bhe 
breaks  down  the  door  of  the  closet  and  rushes 
forth  Just  In  time  to  see  her  husband  arrive. 

Miss  Bluff  is  dancing  at  a  great  rate  to  the  en- 
joyment of  the  guests  when  Mrs.  Bluff  enters  and 
begins  a  repetition  of  her  fistic  triumph  over  her 
boxing  instructor.  Her  husband  interferes  snd 
finally  succeeds  in  restraining  her;  but  not  before 
Miss  Bluff  has  been  whipped  so  thoroughly  that 
life  will  hereafter  be  bearable  for  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Bluff,  at  Bluff  ranch  and  the  cyclone  having  tamed 
the   western    whirlwind. 


MUTUAL  FILM  CORPORA- 
TION. 

AMERICAN. 

OIL  ON  TROUBLED  "WATERS  (2  parts,  April 
2S). — PART  ONE.  Old  Miser  Benton  called  upon 
Mb  widowed  Bister  and  her  charming  daughter, 
Bernlce.  When  he  saw  the  daughter  In  the  anna 
of  Ralph  Conway,  geologist,  he  ordered  him  from 
the  place  and  severely  lectured  his  aged  sister. 
A  lawyer  called  and  made  over  to  him  a  legacy  to 
be  equally  divided  between  him  and  his  poor  sister, 
but  the  miser  carefully  hid  the  true  value  of  the 
property.  Bemice's  mother  finally  died  and  on  the 
day  of  ber  death  Bernlce  became  the  bride  of 
Ralph.  Together  they  started  off  to  the  land  given 
them  by  the  penurious  uncle,  who  chuckled  as  he 
thought  of  the  barren  patch  of  beach  he  had  given 
her.  Imagine  their  disgust  and  despair  when  a 
slovenly  hotel-keeper  pointed  out  the  barren  tract. 
Bernlce  fled,  crying,  while  Ralph  sunk  to  the  ground 
thoroughly  discouraged.  After  a  time  he  noticed  the 
smell  of  oil,  took  a  sip  of  the  water  at  his  feet, 
straightened  up  with  a  new  look  In  his  face — for 
the  scraggly,  rocky  coast  had  oil! 

PART  TWO.  Several  months  passed — Summer- 
land  became  a  boom  town  and  Ralph  and  Bernlce 
were  the  richest  of  the  rich.  Meanwhile  old  Benton 
had  trouble  with  the  railroad.  To  fight  them  he 
mortgaged  every  piece  of  property  he  had  and  soon 
the  news  came  that  be  was  bankrupt.  Aged,  dis- 
heartened, without  a  friend  In  the  world,  Benton 
started  on  foot  for  Summerland.  In  the  interim, 
Ralph  had  worked  industriously  and  one  day,  wltb 
Bernlce,  walked  over  his  oil  field.  He  pointed  out 
to  her  that  this  was  the  only  region  in  the  world 
where  oil  was  mined  from  the  ocean's  bed;  he 
showed  her  the  long  string  of  oil  wells,  in  the  water, 
their  frames  rising  ghost-like  In  the  sinking  sun; 
how  a  25  horsepower  engine  operated  the  forest  of 
wells  by  means  of  an  eccentric  cam;  how  each 
barrel  of  oil  contained  40%  asphalt;  how  the  railroad 


charged  exorbitant  rates  for  shipment,  and  bow 
the  oil  well  owners  built  a  long  pier  Into  the  ocean 
to  transport  the  crude  oil  by  boat.  When  a  child 
came  their  happiness  was  complete.  Then,  one 
day  an  aged,  care-worn  figure  slid,  face  forward 
Into  the  grass  on  his  property.  He  and  Bernlce 
ran  to  the  prostrate  figure  and  turned  up  the  face 
of  Benton.  And  then  good  was  returned  for  evil 
and  Benton  found  a  home  with  the  couple  be  bad 
tried  to  wrong. 

THE  TATTOOED  ASM  (Kay  1).— Ben  Hart,  the 
youthful  mining  expert,  arrived  at  Red  Rock  and 
promptly  sought  out  pretty  Mabel  Whitaker  and 
her  mother,  who  bad  Inherited  a  map  purporting  to 
lead  to  a  gold  deposit.  Ben  made  an  appointment 
to  look  at  the  deposit  and  did  so — quite  unaware 
that  Jim  Halliday,  with  two  bad  pais,  kept  close 
watch  of  bis  every  movement.  They  met  him  on 
the  road  going  back  and  remarked  that  It  was  a 
bad  town  for  experts,  to  which  sally  Ben  merely 
milled. 

That  night  Mabel  was  awakened  by  a  scratching 
noise.  Rising  from  bed  she  seised  a  butcher  knife 
and  hurried  into  the  other  room.  A  hand  was 
slowly  appearing  through  a  freshly  made  opening 
under  the  cabin.  Only  the  ghastly  arm  could  be 
seen,  but  In  that  fleeting  glance  Mabel  saw  n 
American  flag  plainly  tatooed  on  the  outstretched 
arm.  Without  an  instant's  hesitation,  she  plunged 
the  knife  through  the  arm — there  was  a  howl  of 
pain,  hurried  footsteps  and  all  was  silent  again. 
Next  morning  when  Ben  called,  he  was  told  of  the 
nocturnal  visit.  He  quietly  mounted  his  horse  and 
rode  off  in  the  direction  of  the  claim.  In  the 
bushes  he  saw  Halliday  standing,  with  back  toward 
him,  an  outstretched  bare  arm  resting  on  a  con- 
venient tree-trunk.  Ben  drew  his  gun,  Halliday 
faced  quickly  about  and  a  few  minutes  later  was 
safely  lodged  in  the  local  jail.  Then  Ben  rode  back 
to  the  Whitaker  cabin  and  his  thoughts  turned 
toward  softer  things. 

TEE  ROAD  TO  RUIN  (May  3).— The  road  to 
ruin  was  dismal  and  dreary  and  strewn  with  fail- 
ures. On  a  great  boulder,  head  sunk  in  hands,  eat 
Jim  Hathaway,  when  the  bent  figure  of  John  Rad- 
way  entered.  They  fell  to  talking  and  Jim  soon 
learned  that  a  faithless  woman  bad  pointed  the  way 
to  the  road  to  ruin  for  Radway.  He  went  in  search 
of  her  when  Radway  told  him  that  his  wife  had 
deserted  him  for  another.  Jim  saw  her  in  the 
garden — saw  her  kiss  her  affinity  and  after  he  had 
gone,  turn  to  the  garden  gate  to  admit  a  younger 
man. 

Jim,  knife  in  hand,  sped  down  the  path,  touched 
the  elder  man  upon  the  shoulder  and  led  him  back 
to  where  the  younger  man  and  the  woman  were 
wrapped  in  each  others*  arms.  With  a  gasp  of 
horror,  his  companion  broke  away  and  confronted 
her.  She  merely  laughed — and,  bent  and  broken, 
like  the  man  be  bad  destroyed  before  him,  he  turned 
away  toward  the  road  to  ruin.  Then  Jim  sought 
out  that  younger  man  and  warned  him  and  he, 
wiser  than  most  of  his  kind,  bade  farewell  forever 
to  the  faithless  woman.  Alone,  she  turned  about 
and  started  with  hesitating  steps  toward  the  road 
to  ruin — and  all  the  wrecks  that  strewed  that  dreary 
way  smiled  as  she  entered. 

THANHOUSER. 

THE  CHTLDBEN'S  00N8PIBACY  (April  80).— 
All  the  children  at  the  little  village  school  loved 
their  teacher,  bnt  this  fact  did  not  Insure  her 
holding  her  job.  The  most  influential  man  on 
the  school  board  was  the  chairman,  and  he  found 
himself  saddled  with  a  middle-aged  relative  whom 
he  heartily  disliked.  Under  the  circumstances  he 
believed  he  was  justified  in  shifting  the  burden 
to  the  shoulders  of  the  dear  public,  so  the  lov- 
able little  teacher  was  turned  sdrift  while  the 
unpleasant  old  maid   was  given   her  place. 

The  children  didn't  like  that;  the  school  board 
did  not  care  what  the  pupils  thought.  The  son 
of  the  village  banker  and  his  little  sister  failing 
to  accomplish  anything  by  arguments,  determined 
to  try  strategy.  There  were  two  persons  in  that 
village  they  thoroughly  detested,  one  the  new 
teacher  and  the  other  an  old  miser  who  continu- 
alliy  growled  at  them.  Consequently  they  de- 
termined to  make  both  of  these  Individuals  thor- 
oughly unhappy,  and  believed  tbey  could  best  ac- 
complish   it    by    matrimony. 

The  miser  was  walking  along  the  street  one 
day  when  he  noticed  a  bankbook  lying  on  the 
pavement.  He  picked  it  np  and  discovered  that 
it  certified  to  the  fact  that  the  new  teacher  was 
worth  $15,000.  He  wonld  have  committed  murder 
for  half  that  amount,  so  he  lost  no  time  in  court- 
ing the  pedagogue,  who  accepted  his  attentions 
gratefully,  bnt  insisted  on  an  elopement  because 
"they  are  so  romantic."  After  the  marriage  tne 
bridegroom  suggested  that  his  better-half  transfer 
her  money  to  him,  then  he  found  to  his  consterna- 
tion that  he  had  been  tricked  and  she  wasn't 
worth    a    red   cent.  ..__,.« 

He  never  knew  that  two  children  had  killed  two 
birds  with  one  stone.  The  fsct  of  the  matter 
was  that  the  banker's  son  secured  a  blank  pass- 
book, filled  It  up  in  the  wsy  he  wanted  it  to  read 
and  left  it  where  he  knew  the  miser  would  find 
It  By  doing  so  he  made  all  the  children  in  the 
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AN  AMERICAN  IN  THE  MAKING  (April  22).— 
This  story  deals  with  a  young  Hungarian  emigrant, 
whose  brother  in  America  writes  to  him,  telling 
of  the  many  wonders  of  the  new  world.  The  young 
man  finally  comes  to  America,  and  secures  em- 
ployment as  an  unskilled  laborer  at  the  Gary  works 
of  the  United  States  Steel  Corporation.  He  works 
hard,  attends  night  school,  gradually  learns  the 
language  anl  ways  of  the  country,  becomes  a 
skilled  laborer  and  marries.  His  happiness  as 
the  prosperous  head  of  a  family  is  shown,  and 
also  the  interest  which  the  great  corporation  takes 
of  its  employees  and  their  willingness  to  advance 
those   who    are    ambitious    and    competent. 

The  many  safety  appliances  which  hare  been 
installed  at  great  expense  to  prevent  laborers  from 
being  injured  are  shown,  and  the  new  laborer  is 
seen  as  he  is  instructed  in  his  duties. 

FOB  ANOTHER'S  SIN  (April  25).— A  young 
bank  clerk  lived  beyond  bis  means,  associated  with 
vicious  companions  and  finally  attempted  to  pay 
his  debts  by  borrowing  the  funds  intrusted  to  his 
care.  His  fate  was  the  usual  one,  and  ten  years 
later  when  he  emerged  from  prison,  a  physical 
wreck,  he  realized  that  his  follies  were  not  worth 
the  price  he  paid.  He  was  practically  penniless 
and  old  friends  shunned  him.  After  many  strug- 
gles he  secured  a  subordinate  position  in  the  bank 
where  he  formerly  had  been  employed,  and  for  a 
time  worked  diligently,  unheeding  the  snubs  and 
sneers  of  the  other  clerks,  who  were  either  honest 
or   had    not    been    found    out. 

Among  the  employees  was  a  young  teller,  the 
only  person  in  the  bank  who  was  decently  civil 
to  the  ex-convict.  The  teller,  sad  to  relate,  was 
In  rough  waters  himself.  He  dearly  loved  his 
wife,  and  longed  for  the  day  when  she  would 
have  silks,  diamonds  and  a  retinue  of  servants. 
Hoping  to  realize  his  dream,  he  thought  of  specu- 
lation, and  like  the  other  man,  "borrowed"  the 
money  over  which  he   was   guardian. 

That  very  day  his  crime  found  him  out,  for 
the  bank  examiner  paid  an  unexpected  visit.  The 
teller  was  called  in,  questioned,  and  was  on  the 
verge  of  making  a  confession  when  the  ex-convict 
entered  the  room  and  said  he  was  the  guilty  man. 
The  only  one  who  could  not  understand  was  the 
teller,  for  he  had  the  money  in  his  own  pocket 
at  the  time.  A  second  later  the  ex-convict  slipped 
a  note  into  the  teller's  hand.  In  it  he  explained 
that  a  prison  term  would  make  the  teller  "a  friend- 
less wreck  like  myself."  The  ex-convict  knew 
his  days  were  numbered,  and  was  willing  to  sac- 
rifice himself  to  save  another  from  becoming  an 
outcast.  The  teller  accepted  the  sacrifice,  for  he 
bad  a  wife  dependent  upon  him.  The  other  man 
was  lonely  and  friendless,  but  the  good  deed  he 
did  lived  after  him,  for  the  teller  never  forgot 
that  the  liberty  he  enjoyed  was  won  by  his  pledge 
to  be  an  honest,  upright  man  for  the  rest  of  his 
days. 


RELIANCE. 

THE  SHE  WOLF  (April  19).— Jules,  a  trapper, 
is  in  love  with  Toinette,  wife  of  Pierre.  Pierre  goes 
to  the  trading  post,  leaving  Toinette  and  her  little 
girl,  Marie,  alone.  Jules  tries  to  force  an  entrance 
into  the  cabin,  but  Toinette  bolts  the  door.  Later, 
thinking  him  gone,  she  sends  Marie  outdoors  to 
gather  chips.  This  is  his  chance — for,  he  argues, 
"Take  the  cub  and  the  she  wolf  will  follow."  He 
picks  up  the  little  one  and  races  through  the  woods 
with  her.  Toinette,  gun  in  hand,  follows.  But  she 
dares  not  shoot,  as  he  uses  the  child  as  a  shield, 
protecting  himself  with  her  body.  Then  suddenly 
Jules  steps  into  a  bear  trap  and  is  held  captive. 
The  mother  catches  the  child  to  her  heart  and 
rushes   home. 

Pierre  passes  on  his  way  from  town  and  seeing 
Jules,  he  frees  him.  Toinette  puts  her  baby  to 
bed.  Taking  her  gun,  Toinette  goes  out  to  shoot 
the  man  who  is  caught  in  the  bear  trap.  To  her 
surprise  she  finds  her  husband  with  Jules.  She  ex- 
plains the  terrible  ordeal  of  the  afternoon  and  in 
awful  fury,  Pierre  turns  upon  the  other  man  ready 
to  kill.  Then  it  is  that  her  baby's  prayer  softens 
the  mother's  heart.  She  stays  her  husband's  band. 
They  return  home,  leaving  Jules'  fate  In  the  hands 
of   Providence. 

THE  HOODOO  PEARLS  (April  23).— John  Mason 
and  Fred  Ellis  are  in  love  with  their  employer's 
daughter.  She  prefers  Mason.  On  the  day  before 
Mason  leaves  for  his  vacation,  a  string  of  pearls 
is  delivered  to  their  employer,  Dallas,  with  the  re- 
quest that  he  keep  these  so-called  "hoodoo  pearls" 
In  his  safe.    By  some  accident  the  pearls  are  dropped 


Into  the  big  ledger  and  repose  there  snugly  while 
Dallas  places  the  empty  box  in  the  safe.  When 
Dallas  leaves  the  office,  Mason  enters  to  finish  his 
preparations  for  going  away  on  the  morrow.  Next 
day,  Dallas  finds  the  empty  box.  Mason  was  the 
last  man  in  the  office  and  suspicion  points  to  him. 
Ellis,  glancing  through  the  ledger,  finds  the  pearls. 
Resolving  to  disgrace  his  rival,  he  takes  them  home. 
His  sister,  unknown  to  him,  wears  them  to  a  ball 
and  loses  them.  Ellis  is  almost  crazed,  but  the 
necklace    is    finally    discovered. 

Early  the  next  morning,  he  places  the  "hoodoo 
pearls"  where  he  found  them  in  the  ledger  and 
calls  Dallas*  attention  to  them.  The  employer  re- 
members then  that  It  was  all  due  to  his  own  care- 
lessness. Mason  is  released  and  as  Ellis  sees  him 
take   the  girl  he  loves  into  his  arms. 


The  young  fellow  is  released  and  exonerated  and 
the  widow,  out  of  pity,  prevails  upon  the  hard- 
hearted rich  man  to  give  the  deacon  the  time  he 
needs  on  bis  mortgage.  It  is  not  long  before  the 
boy  is  on  the  road  to  recovery,  to  his  father's 
great   joy. 


EXCELSIOR. 

THE  MAN  FROM  THE  CITY  (April  21.)— 
Virginia  Lewis  receives  word  from  her  relations 
ih  the  city  that  her  grandfather  has  left  his  en- 
tire estate  to  her,  providing  she  claims  It  within 
a  certain  date.  She  prepares  to  go  to  town  at 
once  and,  in  a  letter  to  her  aunt,  states  that  she 
should  have  her  cousin  meet  her  at  the  depot, 
wearing   a    white   carnation. 

Ralph,  her  grandfather's  disinherited  ward,  hears 
of  this  and  sets  about  to  find  some  way  in  which 
he  can  hold  her  until  it  will  be  too  late  to  claim 
the  estate  which  will  then  revert  to  him.  The 
cousin's  motorcar,  on  the  way  to  the  depot,  suf- 
fers a  breakdown  and  in  consequence,  is  much 
delayed.  Ralph  arrives  first  wearing  the  white 
flower  and  the  girl  willingly  goes  with  him.  Once 
in  his  home  she  realizes  the  trap.  She  tries  to 
escape,  but  Ralph  and  his  wife  prevent  this.  One 
day  she  writes  a  note  and  throws  it  out  of  the 
window.  It  is  found  by  John  Davis,  a  city  fel- 
low, who  knew  Virginia  in  her  country  home.  He 
rushes  for  assistance,  but  Ralph  has  seen  him  and 
takes  Virginia  away  in  a  motorcar.  John's  car 
is  soon  flying  after  them  and  there  is  an  excit- 
ing chase  through  the  town.  The  girl  is  finally 
rescued  and  enabled  to  claim  her  estate  in  time, 
while  Ralph  and  his  wife  are  arrested.  And  the 
man  from  the  city  resumes  his  romance  with  the 
girl   from  the  country. 


MAJESTIC. 

THE  MOTE  AND  THE  BEAM  (April  20).— A 
sanctimonious  deacon  punishes  his  young  son  for 
going  swimming  and  not  telling  the  truth  about  it. 
Taking  the  boy  into  his  room  he  walks  down  to 
the  village.  A  woman  recently  widowed,  goes 
to  collect  her  insurance  money.  On  the  way  home 
she  stops  to  do  some  shopping  and  drops  her  purse. 

The  deacon,  who  has  come  to  town  to  beg  for 
an  extension  on  his  mortgage,  is  refused  and  is 
returning  home  in  a  very   dejected  frame  of  mind. 

He  sees  the  purse  at  his  feet.  Knowing  to  whom 
it  belongs,  he  cannot  withstand  the  temptation. 
He  takes  the  money  and  throws  the  empty  purse 
away.  This  is  found  by  a  young  chap,  who  picks 
it  up  to  take  to  his  wife.  The  widow  informs 
the  sheriff,  who  finds  the  purse  In  the  young 
chap's  possession.  He  knows  nothing  of  the  money 
and  is  arrested  on  suspicion.  When  the  deacon 
arrives  home,  he  finds  his  boy  dying  of  pneumonia. 
He  thinks  this  is  a  judgment  upon  him  for  bis 
hypocrisy  and  deceit.  He  takes  the  money  and 
rushes  with  It  to  the  widow,  confessing  the  tempta- 
tion. 

NOT  FOR  MINE  (April  22).— Betty  is  engaged 
to  Bob  and  everything  was  running  smoothly  until 
Betty  went  to  spend  a  couple  of  days  with  her 
married  cousin.  Elsa  had  three  children.  Betty, 
for  so  long  used  to  a  quiet  life,  found  it  very 
hard  to  stand  their  noise  and  pranks.  Finally, 
unable  to  hear  it  any  longer,  Betty  catches  the 
last  car  for  town.  In  the  car  she  discovers  that 
Elsa's  youngest  child,  who  had  been  playing  with 
her  urse,  abstracted  all  the  coin.  She  hasn't  even 
enough  to  pay  her  fare.  The  good-looking  young 
chap  who  comes  to  her  assistance  proves  a  masher, 
and    in    this    incident    adds    to    her    discomfort. 

Arriving  home,  her  first  act  is  to  call  Billy  up 
to  notify  him  that  marriage  is  not  a  state  of 
bliss  and  she  has  decided  not  to  enter  it! 

Billy,  utterly  disheartened,  resolves  to  commit 
suicide.  He  has  a  rope  about  his  neck,  a  bottle 
of  poison  in  one  hand  and  a  revolver  in  the  other, 
when  the  'phone  rings.  It  is  Betty  who  has  called 
up  to  say  that  she  has  changed  her  mind  again. 
With  a  whoop  of  joy,  Billy  fires  the  gun  and 
pitches    the    bottle    through    the    window! 


MUTUAL  EDUCATIONAL. 

THE  OLD  INVALID  (May  1).— Mr.  Ducorimer,  a 
professor  of  the  violin,  is  married  to  an  extremely 
jealous  woman.  He  flirts  with  Miss  Lucette,  one 
of  his  pupils,  and  Mrs.  Ducormier,  thinking  that 
the  lessons  are  too  numerous,  suspects  her  husband. 

One  day  she  finds  a  letter  from  Lucette  that  Mr. 
Ducormier  had  forgotten,  in  the  violin  case.  Natu- 
rally, she  doubts  him  no  more. 

Lucette,  believing  that  Mrs.  Ducorimer  Is  sus- 
picious, disguises  her  servant  as  her  father,  and  as 
an  old  invalid. 

Mrs.  Ducormier  calls  on  Lucette  and  is  assured 
that  she  is  mistaken,  but  the  servant,  thinking  that 
he  is  not  paid  well  enough  for  his  services,  writes 
an  anonymous  letter,  and  even  calls  on  her  and 
explains   everything   to  her. 

Without  losing  any  time,  Mrs.  Ducormier  goes 
to  Lucette  and  finds  her  husband,  who  in  the 
absence  of  the  servant,  and  hearing  that  his  wife 
is  here  waiting  to  be  admitted,  disguises  himself 
as  the  old  invalid.  But  all  in  vain,  he  is  recog- 
nized. Luckily  Mrs.  Ducorimer  is  fond  of  jewelry 
and  consents  to  forgive  and  forget  everything  when 
her  husband  presents  her  with  a  beautiful  bit  of 
jewelry.  They  return  home  and  Mr.  Ducorimer 
promises  to  be  good  for  ever  more. 

TAGHKENT,  ASIATIC  RUSSIA  (May  1).— Tach- 
kent  has  been  the  capital  of  Turkestan  since  1867. 
The  city  is  comprised  of  two  sections,  the  old  and 
the  new.  The  new  Russian  town,  with  its  beau- 
tiful gardens,  presents  the  appearance  of  an  im- 
mense park.  The  ancient  part  of  the  city  is  almost 
entirely  surrounded  by  a  great,  crumbling  wall. 
Mutton,  wool  and  camel's  hair  are  among  the  many 
articles  produced  here. 


MUTUAL   WEEKLY 

MUTUAL  WEEKLY,  NO.  16  (April  16).— Cairo, 
111. — Seventh  Regiment  I.  N.  G.,  rescuing  womeu 
from  the  roofs  of  floating  houses. 

American  Fashion.— Costumes  by  Kupler. 

England. — Rugby  Foot-ball  Game.  Devon  beats 
Stade  by  the  score  of  17  to  0. 

Washington,  D.  C. — Cardinal  Gibbons  at  the  dedi- 
cation of   St.    Matthew's  Church. 

Maesboch,  Germany. — King  Louis,  of  Bavaria, 
shooting  peasants. 

Tuscumbia,  Ala. — A  freight  car  is  blown  into  the 
South   Express  by  the  tornado. 

Fashion   in  Paris. — Afternoon   and  evening  gowns. 

Baltimore,  Md. — A  huge  fire  destroys  the  Abattoir 
Buildings.  12  firemen  are  injured.  Fresh  laid  eggs 
by  the  Chinese  dragon. 

Louisville,  Ky. — In  this  city  the  flood  was  within 
a  few  inches  of  breaking  the  flood   record  of  1S84. 

San  Francisco,  Cal.— Chauncey  Olcott,  eminent 
Irish  actor,  selling  newspapers  for  the  "Flood  Re- 
lief Fund." 

Sorrento,  Italy. — On  the  Bay  of  Naples,  hundreds 
of  students  parading  and  dancing  the  Tarentella. 

Arlington,  D.  C. — The  four  French  Army  Officers 
who  are  here  to  connect  directly  by  wireless  the 
Arlington  Tower  with  the  Eiffel  Tower  In  Paris. 

Moscow,  Russia. — Newly  invented  sleigh,  which 
will  become  popular  in  the  U.  S. 

San  Francisco,  Cal. — Chamberlain  C.  Brun,  Min- 
ister of  Denmark,  dedicating  the  site  for  the  Danish 
Building  at  the  Panama-Pacific  Exposition. 

Clamart,  France. — Our  boy  scouts  will  enjoy  see- 
ing their  comrades  in  France  manoeuvre. 

England. — Oxford  defeats  Cambridge  for  the  5th 
consecutive  time. 

Los  Angeles,  Cal. — The  "Perfect  Child,"  12  years 
old,  who  was  presented  to  Colonel  Roosevelt. 

Columbus,  Ohio. — Just  after  the  terrible  disaster, 
the  courageous  citizens  are  clearing  the  ruins  to 
rebuild  a  new  city. 

The  First  Shot. 


KEYSTONE. 

THE  NEW  CONDUCTOR  (April  28).— The  new 
conductor  rings  up  four  fares  by  mistake,  and  then 
tries  to  get  even  by  making  a  pretense  of  pulling  the 
register  rope  and  ringing  a  bell  in  his  pocket.  He 
gets  caught,  however,  by      passenger  and  is  reported 


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TO   EXHIBITORS! 

EDISON  TALKING   PICTURES 

The  KINETOPHONE 

is  now  being  operated  in  every  large  city  in  the  country.    It  is  the  first  Talking-Picture  to 

be  generally  distributed  and  universally  successful  for  the  reason  that  it 

is  the  first  and  only  practical  one  made 


WHAT  EXHIBITORS   SAY 

The  pictures  are  proving  one  of  the  strongest  box 
office  attractions  ever  at  this  theatre. — Samuel  Tauber, 
Colonial  Theatre,  New  York  City. 

I  congratulate  you  on  the  success  of  the  Kinetophone. 
Never  have  I  witnessed  more  enthusiastic  or  well  satis- 
fied audiences. — H.  A.  Bailey,  Bronx  Theatre,  New 
York  City. 

This  is  our  third  week  of  the  Kinetophone.  They 
always  hold  the  closest  attention  of  the  audience  and 
close  to  big  applause. — Benedict  Blatt,  Bushwick  Thea- 
tre, Brooklyn. 

The  Kinetophone  has  caused  more  favorable  com- 
ment at  this  theatre  than  any  feature  ever  before  pre- 
sented here. — William  Mausad,  Orpheum  Theatre, 
Brooklyn. 

After  six  weeks  the  interest  is  still  maintained,  and 
the  picture  subjects  are  getting  better  each  week.  Their 
value  as  a  drawing  card  has  never  been  exceeded  by 
any  headline  vaudeville  act. — Harry  M.  Jordan,  Keith's 
Theatre,  Philadelphia. 

Expectations  more  than  realized  in  the  Kinetophone. 
They  are  the  talk  of  the  town  and  unequalled  as  a 
drawing  card. — G.  E.  Raymond,  Orpheum  Theatre, 
Minneapolis. 

The  Kinetophone  is  a  big  success.  Synchronism,  the 
vital  thing,  has  been  perfect  from  ,the  first  day. — Jules 
Bistes,  Orpheum  Theatre,  New  Orleans. 

During  the  week  of  February  24th  all  records  of  at- 
tendance and  receipts  were  broken.  Over  twenty-four 
thousand  people  saw  the  pictures — they  are  still  a  sen- 
sation.— James  A.  Higler,  Majestic  Theatre,  Milwaukee. 

The  Kinetophone  has  proven  a  greater  success  than 
was  anticipated.  We  are  having  record-breaking  audi- 
ences for  this  time  of  year. — George  Ebey,  Orpheum 
Theatre,  Oakland. 

The  Kinetophone  is  a  huge  success  and  unquestion- 
ably a  new  era  in  motion  pictures. — C.  E.  Willard,  Or- 
pheum Theatre,  Sioux  City. 

In  the  five  weeks  we  have  been  showing  the  Kineto- 
phone the  working  of  the  machine  has  been  perfect. 
Motion  and  sound  are  made  to  synchronize  and  a  per- 
fection of  illusion  is  attained. — H.  D.  Buckley,  Colum- 
bia Theatre,  St.  Louis. 


WHAT  THE  PAPERS  SAY 

At  the  Orpheum  Theatre  yesterday  we  heard  a  mov- 
ing picture  make  a  speech!  Sounds  unbelievable,  but 
with  Thomas  A.  Edison  nothing  seems  impossible.  It 
was  the  first  real  test  in  Los  Angeles;  was  a  great  suc- 
cess.— Evening  Herald,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

The  Kinetophone  is  the  greatest  novelty  on  the  bill 
at  Keith's  and  will  undoubtedly  prove  to  be  the  sensa- 
tion of  the  year. — Providence  (R.  I.)  Journal. 

The  great  crowd  was  amazed  as  they  saw  the  pic- 
ture and  heard  the  voices  with  almost  as  much  clear- 
ness as  if  the  players  were  actually  on  the  screen. — 
New  York  Press. 

I  confess  I  was  skeptical  regarding  the  success  of 
the  Kinetophone.  I  saw  its  perfect  working.  It  was 
beautiful;  it  was  magnificent  and  I  do  not  think  any 
critic  can  say  contrariwise. — Motion  Picture  News. 

When  the  display  closed  it  was  so  real,  so  vivid  and 
so  stirring  that  the  audience  rose  to  its  feet.  It  was  a 
spontaneous  tribute  to  the  actuality  of  an  event  that  has 
genuine  scientific  importance. — Munsey's  Magazine  for 
March. 

Overshadowing  almost  every  other  feature  on  the 
bill,  the  Kinetophone  takes  precedence  from  the  view- 
point of  curiosity  and  rises  to  the  importance  of  £  star 
act. — New  York  Dramatic  Mirror. 

The  value  of  the  Kinetophone  is  too  obvious  to  be 
emphasized  or  discussed.  What  would  we  not  give  for 
such  a  record  of  Lincoln's  Gettysburg  address? — The 
Outlook. 

The  Edison  Kinetophone  proved  a  startling  success. 
Through  it  the  notes  of  the  singer  as  well  as  her  per- 
sonality may  be  sent  to  every  hamlet  in  the  world;  the 
prophecies  of  the  statesman  may  go  thundering  down 
the  ages  and  the  orator  may  now  speak  to  an  audience 
of  millions/ — The  News  Scimitar,  Memphis,  Tenn. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


to  the  inspector.  Amid  amusing  scenes,  he  gets  many 
nickels,  and  the  motorman  wants  to  get  In  on  the 
graft,  and  they  stop  the  car  and  hide  around  the 
corner  to  divide.  The  Inspectors  hare  been  watching 
them,  and  catch  them  matching  to  see  who  shall 
have  the  money. 

HIS  CHUM,  THE  BARON  (April  28).— Smith's 
chum  la  a  very  poor  Baron.  Smith  and  the  Baron 
are  invited  to  a  ball,  and  the  Baron,  not  having 
evening  clothes  of  his  own,  "borroys"  Smith's  dress 
■nit.  He  is  having  the  time  of  his  life  when  Smith 
arrives,  thoroughly  angry,  and  taking  the  Baron 
in  a  room  takes  the  clothes  away  from  him.  The 
Baron  is  In  a  terrible  predicament,  dodging  around 
from  room  to  room,  as  people  Intrude  upon  his  hid- 
ing places.  He  tries  to  hide  his  face  with  a  hand- 
kerchief, and  a  lady  matches  a  glimpse  of  him  as  he 
dives  under  a  bed.  She  screams  in  terror,  thinking 
he  is  a  mad  man,  and  then  the  poor  Baron  is  chased 
all  over  the  house.  Some  one  telephones  for  the  po- 
lice and  they  assist  In  the  capture  and  lead  him 
away. 

THAT  BAG  T'-IE  BANS  (May  1).— The  members 
of  the  rag-time  band  are  rivals  for  the  affections  of 
Mabel,  and  lively  altercations  take  place  at  re- 
hearsal. They  appear  at  an  amateur  night  at  the 
theater,  and  Krause,  the  leader,  Is  bombarded  with 
vegetables.  He  finally  gets  the  hook,  and  in  re- 
venge he  reappears  upon  the  stage  with  a  hose  which 
he  turns  upon  the  audience.  The  results  are  inde- 
scribable. 


SOLAX. 

BOB  WTFE'B  AFFINITY  (April  23).— A  young 
nusband  deceives  his  wife  as  to  his  occupation  and 
has  taken  up  the  stage.  On  his  first  night  in  the 
role  of  the  hero,  his  divine  lovemaklng  to  the  heroine 
affect  the  hearts  of  his  wife  and  her  lady  friends, 
who  have  attended  the  performance  unknown  to  him. 
He  receives  on  invitation  to  tea  after  the  perform- 
ance, recognises  his  wife's  handwriting,  but  stifles 
Jealousy,  and  accepts  the  invitation,  and  is  the 
"pet"  of  a  tea  party  at  his  own  home  with  bis 
wife  and  friends. 

The  ladies  are  called  suddenly  away,  leaving  him 
alone  with  bis  wife,  who  Imagines  her  "husband"  is 
coming  and  hides  the  "hero"  In  a  closet  and  leaves 
the  room.  Husband  removes  *  'hero"  disguise,  gets 
out  of  the  house  and  comes  in  the  front  door  as  the 
husband  and  accuses  his  wife  of  a  lover  in  the 
house,  and  after  a  pretended  search  accuses  wife  of 
the  lover  being  In  the  closet.  To  the  terror  of  his 
wife,  the  husband  flres  a  revolver  at  the  closet, 
causing  her  to  faint.  She  comes  to,  thinking  the 
"hero"  is  dead,  and  shrinks  from  her  husband,  who 
finally  unfolds  the  trick  and  they  make  up;  the  wife 
convinced  that  she  does  not  have  to  go  to  the  theater 
to  find  a  "hero." 

A  SEVERE  TEST  (April  26).— Daisy  Jones  bad 
been  married  just  a  year  when  her  husband  failed  to 
kiss  her  one  morning,  and  she  decided  that  he  did 
not  love  her  any  more.  She  wrote  a  note  to  her 
friend,  Ella,  telling  her  that  she  was  going  to 
leave  her  husband  a  note  telling  him  that  she  had 
Jumped  In  the  lake.  She  would  leave  some  of  her 
clothes  on  the  pier  to  make  it  look  more  plausible, 
and  she  and  Ella  would  hide  themselves  by  and 
■ee  how  he  took  it. 

She  got  the  notes  in  the  wrong  envelopes.  Ella's 
went  to  her  husband  and  vice  versa.  Ella  was  horri- 
fied and  rushed  to  the  husband's  office,  where  she 
learned  the  truth.  The  husband  and  Ella  carry  out 
the  plan  and  he  decides  to  teach  her  a  lesson. 

Daisy  took  a  suit-case  with  some  clothes  in  it  to 
the  pier.  Ella  met  her.  They  placed  the  clothes 
on  the  pier.  The  husband  came  down,  looked  at  the 
clothes,  acted  horrified  for  a  moment,  then  kicked 
the  clothes,  stuck  his  thumb  into  his  vest  and 
walked  away  whistling  a  tune.  Daisy  saw  blm  and 
cried  bitterly;  then  became  indignant.  She  went 
home  with  Ella. 

Jones  decided  to  carry  the  joke  further.  He  went 
to  his  printer  friend  and  had  him  make  out  a 
wedding  invitation  announcing  the  coming  marriage 
of  Frank  Jones  to  Isabelle  Smith,  daughter  of  Mr. 
ft  Mrs.  Thomas  C.  Smith. 

By  a  mistake  in  the  composing  room  It  got  Into 
the  paper.  Jones  was  frantic.  So  was  Mrs.  Jones. 
Jones  looked  in  the  directory  to  see  If  anyone  by 
the  name  lived  in  the  city.  Sure  enough,  there  it 
was,  Smith,  Thomas  C,  Mrs.  Smith,  and  Isabelle. 
Jones  rushed  to  Smith's  to  apologize.  Daisy  rushed 
to  Smith's  to  punish  Isabelle. 

Isabelle  happened  to  be  Smith's  cook,  and  she 
was  a  big  negress.  She  greeted  Mrs.  Smith  with  a 
rolling  pin,  and  when  Mrs.  Jones  saw  her  she  sank 
Into  a  chair.  Jones,  in  the  meantime,  was  on  his 
knees  begging  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Smith  to  forgive  him. 
They  were  elderly  people  and  a  little  deaf,  but 
they  understand  that  Jones  wanted  to  see  Isabelle. 
They  showed  him  to  her  room.  The  negress  turned 
on  Jones.  Daisy  aroused  and  protected  him — then 
turned  on  Jones  to  give  blm  a  good  round  scolding, 
when  he  pulled  the  note  meant  for  Ella  from  his 
pocket  and  his  wife  wept  and  pleaded  for  forgive- 
ness. They  made  up  and  his  wife  learned  that 
Frank  still  loved  her. 

THE  SILVER  CROSS  (April  30).— John  Smith 
leaves  the  little  country  town  in  whlcb  be  was 
born  and  comes  to  New  York  to  earn  enough  money 
to  keep  his  old  parents  from  becoming  dependent 
upon  the  charity  of  neighbors.  Before  leaving  home, 
bis  old  mother  gives  him  a  silver  cross  to  wear  as  a 
keep-sake. 

Ten  years  have  passed  since  John  Smith  left.     He 


has  been  successful  and  has  forgotten  bis  aged  par- 
ents. He  Is  host  at  a  banquet  given  to  bis  friends 
at  his  own  palatial  home.  As  his  guests  depart,  the 
orchestra  plays  "Home,  Sweet  Home."  The  strains 
of  this  familiar  melody  touch  his  conscience.  He 
decides  to  return  unannounced  to  tue  old  homestead. 
He  comes  to  the  cottage.  His  old  mother  is  blind, 
and  his  father  does  not  recognise  him.  When  the 
son  sees  that  even  his  own  parents  do  not  recognise 
him,  he  decides  not  to  reveal  his  identity  until  the 
morning.  He  tells  the  old  couple  that  he  is  a  travel- 
er in  search  of  a  night's  lodging.  Congratulating 
themselves  that  they  have  an  opportunity  of  making 
a  few  cents,  they  bid  him  enter.  He  eats  the  scanty 
supper  prepared  for  blm  and  thinking  that  perhaps 
the  old  couple  might  be  in  immediate  need  of  money, 
he  pays  for  the  supper  in  advance,  from  his  well- 
filled  purse.  The  old  man,  watching  him  narrowly, 
is  very  much  impressed  with  the  stranger's  display 
of  wealth.  He  thinks  over  his  own  poverty-stricken 
condition,  and  decides  to  steal  the  stranger's  money. 
When  the  stranger  is  not  looking,  the  old  man  dopes 
the  stranger's  coffee  with  a  sleeping  powder.  The 
"stranger"  then  retires.  The  old  man  enters  the 
room,  candle  in  one  hand,  the  hunting  knife  in  the 
other  to  kill  the  sleeping  traveler.  At  this  moment 
he  Is  interrupted  by  the  old  mother,  who  intuitively 
feels  something  wrong  and  tries  to  shield  the 
stranger.  Her  hand  touches  the  stranger's  bosom 
and  the  silver  cross. 

A  HOUSE  DIVIDED  (Hay  2).— Gerald  Hutton 
goes  to  his  office,  where  a  salesman  spills  cologne  on 
his  coat.  Diana  helps  Maggie  clean  house.  The  milk- 
man forgets  his  gloves.  Rough  gloves  and  delicate 
perfume — a  combination  begetting  trouble.  It  ar- 
rives. Gerald  and  Diana  agree  to  live  "separately 
together."  There  Is  no  divorce,  but  Diana  and  Ger- 
ald will  never  speak  to  each  other  again.  If  Ger- 
ald wants  his  clean  pajamas,  he  uses  Maggie  for  a 
telephone.  If  Diana  expects  company,  she  writes 
Gerald  a  note. 

Gerald  finds  office  work  a  curse  without  somebody 
to  work  for.  A  message  arrives  from  Diana.  They 
have  forgotten  the  wedding  anniversary  and  mother 
and  other  guests  are  coming.  And  It  Is  Maggie's 
day  out!  Gerald  closes  the  office  and  hurries  home. 
Diana's  mother  arrives.  In  five  minutes  she  has 
heard  both  sides  of  the  story.  Mother  decides  to  re- 
main impartial.  Other  guests  arrive,  and  Gerald  and 
Diana  have  a  hard  time  keeping  the  scandal  to 
themselves  and  mother  and  Obediah,  the  lawyer.  Sud- 
denly, Diana  hears  a  noise  In  the  cellar.  Burglars! 
Without  alarming  the  guests  she  hands  Gerald  a 
note  Informing  him  of  the  catastrophe,  and  Gerald 
hurries  downstairs.  Diana  gets  him  the  revolver 
and  they  wait  in  the  kitchen  for  the  burglar  to 
come  upstairs.  The  door  opens.  Maggie  has  forgot- 
ten her  key,  and  dropped  in  through  the  cellar  win- 
dow. Gerald  recollects  the  quarrel,  frowns  and  en- 
ters the  dining-room  to  throw  the  milkman's  gloves 
out  of  the  window.  Diana  follows  him  to  beg  for  a 
reconciliation.  Instead,  it  is  Gerald  who  "backs 
down."  And  they  had  a  real  wedding  aniversary  af- 
ter all. 


negro  servant  puts  up  a  stubborn  light  to  save  his 
young  master's  pet,  but  is  knocked  dowu  by  a  sol- 
dier. Further  punishment  Is  prevented  by  Capt. 
Blake,  who  arrives  upon  the  scene.  Jlinmle  rushes 
to  the  captain  and  begs  and  pleads  for  his  horse. 
The  tenderhearted  young  officer  Is  touched  by  the 
tears  and  grief  of  the  boy,  and  finally  gives  him  back 
the  animal. 

Edna  sees  Capt.  Blake  about  to  take  a  drink  at 
the  well  and,  nerved  by  her  hatred  of  the  North, 
rushes  out  and  dashes .  the  shell  from  his  hands. 
Amused  by  the  little  spitfire,  Blake  solemnly  bows 
and  says:  In  the  North  our  men  are  gentlemen,  and 
the  women,  ladles,"  and  walks  away.  Edna,  ashamed 
of  her  conduct,  battles  with  her  emotions  for  a  few 
moments,  and  calls  the  Captain  back,  offering  him 
a  drink  with  her  own  fair  bands.  After  his  de- 
parture, Edna  learns  of  his  kindness  in  saving  Jim- 
mie's  horse,  and  the  captain  did  not  suspect  tbe  im- 
pression he  had  made  on  ber  heart. 

Some  time  later  tbe  Union  Army  is  in  desperate 
straits,  being  attacked  by  a  heavy  force.  The  troops 
fight  against  tremendous  odds,  refusing  to  surrender, 
and  Capt.  Blake  volunteers  to  pierce  the  enemy's 
lines  and  deliver  a  message  to  tbe  Union  general 
commanding  the  other  wing  to  come  to  the  rescue  by 
consolidating  the  forces. 

Blake  makes  a  thrilling  ride,  pursued  by  Con- 
federate soldiers,  who  shoot  his  horse  and  wound 
him.  Weak  and  staggering,  he  finds  himself  near 
the  Hamilton  home  and  drags  himself  to  the  door. 
Edna  and  Jimmie  do  everything  in  their  power  to 
make  him  comfortable,  and  he  is  saved  from  cap- 
ture by  a  clever  trick,  blacking  his  face  and  bands 
and  putting  him  in  the  negro  quarters.  The  pursu- 
ing soldiers  are  told  by  old  Mammy  that  he  is  ber 
son  who  has  been  shot  by  the  man  they  are  search- 
ing for. 

The  booming  cannon  in  the  distance  greatly  dis- 
tress Blake,  who  realizes  tbe  predicament  of  his  com- 
rades. In  desperation,  he  asks  Jimmie  to  do  him 
a  favor  and  makes  him  promise  on  his  word  of  honor 
not  to  tell  any  one.  The  grateful  boy  is  staggered 
by  the  request  Jim  makes — of  riding  to  the  Northern 
general  with  the  message — and  refuses  at  first,  but 
in  splendid  dissolving  scenes  visions  of  his  pet  being 
restored  to  him  are  seen — and  he  agrees. 

The  boy  makes  a  daring  ride,  and  the  Union 
forces  are  saved.  The  Confederates  are  driven  back 
through  the  town,  and  Col.  Hamilton,  to  save  him- 
self from  capture  runs  into  the  negro  cabin,  where 
he  Is  astounded  to  find  bis  daughter  and  a  Northern 
officer,  in  an  Instant  his  gun  is  In  his  hand,  but  he 
is  stopped  by  Edna,  who  explains  the  situation.  The 
pursuing  Northern  soldiers  arrive  at  the  door  and 
Blake  hides  Hamilton  behind  the  bed,  and  informs 
the  soldiers  that  no  one  is  there.  He  rejoins  his 
command,  and  rides  away. 

After  the  war  is  over  Blake  comes  back  to  the 
Hamilton  home  and  is  joyfully  received  by  Edna. 


KAY-BEE 

A  BLACK  CONSPIRACY  (2  parts,  Hay  2).— The 
story  opens  with  the  agitation  Just  preceeding  the 
secession  of  the  South.  John  Rivers,  a  Union  senti- 
mentalist, is  forbidden  by  Colonel  White,  a  staunch 
Southerner,  to  call  upon  his  daughter,  Grace.  At 
the  slave  market  the  following  day,  Old  Sam  and 
Mammy,  man  and  wife,  are  bought  by  Rivers  and 
Grace,  respectively.  War  is  declared  and  Rivers  Is 
appointed  to  a  captaincy  In  the  Union  Army.  Sam 
goes  to  the  front  with  Rivers,  and  there  are  some 
amusing  scenes  when  he  is  ordered  by  Rivers  to  buy 
some  chickens,  but  gets  away  with  them  '  'in  the 
natural  way."  General  Butler,  under  whom  Rivers 
Is  fighting,  receives  word  from  McClellan  that  Col- 
onel White's  army  is  concentrating  at  Bethel,  Va. 
The  opposing  armies  meet,  and  the  Unions  are  vic- 
torious. Colonel  White  is  badly  wounded  and  Rivers 
sends  for  Grace  before  her  father  passes  away.  Af- 
ter the  death  of  her  father,  Grace  leaves  for  home. 
When  the  War  is  over,  Rivers  returns  to  his  South- 
ern home  and  Old  Sam  and  Mammy  plan  to  bring 
Grace  and  her  erstwhile  sweetheart  together  again. 
Rivers  learns  that  Grace  is  having  trouble  with  her 
creditors  and  in  order  to  appease  their  wrath,  her 
property  is  to  be  sold.  He  instructs  his  lawyer  to 
purchase  the  property.  The  old  negro  parson,  who 
has  been  taken  Into  the  conspiracy  by  Sam  and  Mam- 
my, writes  this  letter  to  both  Rivers  and  Grace,  the 
one  supposed  to  be  written  and  signed  by  Rivers,  the 
other  by  Grace.  "My  foolish  pride  has  caused  us  a 
world  of  suffering.  I  have  been  all  to  blame.  Will 
be  at  the  old  elm  at  noon.  Please  meet  me  and  let 
us  talk  it  over."  Each  receives  the  letter,  they  keep 
the  appointment  and  in  a  moment  they  are  in  each 
other's  arms.  The  auction  sale  takes  place  and 
Rivers  finds  the  note  purporting  to  have  come  from 
him  in  a  sugar  bowl,  where  Grace  has  hidden  It.  He 
is  puzzled  for  a  moment,  and  then  understands  how 
"the  black  conspiracy"  worked  out. 


BRONCHO 

BREAD  CAST  UPON  THE  WATERS  (2  parts, 
April  30). — Col.  Hamilton  takes  pathetic  leave  of  bis 
daughter,  Edna,  and  his  young  son.  James,  and  goes 
to  the  front  to  fight  for  the  Southern  cause.  The  op- 
posing armies  are  seen  in  thrilling  battles.  One  day 
Capt.  Blake  receives  orders  to  go  on  a  foraging  ex- 
pedition, and  arrives  at  the  Hamilton  home.  The 
soldiers  make  short  work  of  the  chicken  coop,  d 
Don — little  Jlmmie's   pet  horse — Is   taken.     The  old 


MISCELLANEOUS 

KINEMACOLOR. 

WATER  BABIES — A  realistic  natural  history  sub- 
ject, containing  pictures  of  a  number  of  wild  beasts 
under  conditions  approaching  those  in  which  they 
live  in  a  wild  state. 

KEEPING  UP  WITH  HUBBY.— A  wife  has  neg- 
lected her  husband  and  her  personal  appearance  In 
her  devotion  to  her  children.  The  husband  has 
found  bis  pleasures  elsewhere.  When  this  state  of 
affairs  has  nearly  reached  the  breaking  point,  a 
friend  arrives.  She  takes  the  wife  out  and  returns 
with  her  so  beautiful  that  the  children  hardly  know 
tbeir  mother.  As  the  husband  has  invited  his  type- 
writer to  lunch,  his  partner  takes  the  now  beautiful 
wife,  and  across  from  the  table  where  sit  husband 
and  typewriter  the  wife  enjoys  herself  with  the 
partner. 

The  girl  friend  writes  her  brother,  who  takes  the 
women  to  dinner  and  a  masked  ball.  Husband  re- 
turns early  to  dine  with  his  fascinating  wife,  only 
to  find  her  gone.  Flowers  and  present  arrive  from 
the  husband,  but  the  girl  friend  takes  the  wife  away 
for  a  visit.  Husband  and  doctor  play  a  trick  on 
their  own  account,  telegraphing  that  husband  is 
sick ;  wife  hurries  home  and  nearly  catches  the 
tricksters  enjoying  themselves.     All  end  happily. 

THE  BERNESE  OBERLAND,  SWITZERLAND.— 
The  Kursaal  Interlaken;  The  Jungfrau;  The  Lauter- 
brunnen  Valley  and  the  Lauterbrunnen  Falls.  Mur- 
ren,  a  charming  village  situated  on  a  terrace  high 
above  tbe  Lnuterbrunnen  Valley.  Grindelwald,  an 
excellent  starting  point  for  excursions,  and  a 
favorite  winter  and  summer  resort,  and  the  Elger 
Glacier. 

NATHAN  HALE. — Hale  Is  discovered  teaching 
school  when  he  hears  of  the  battle  of  Lexington 
and  the  call  to  arms.  He  enlists  and  is  next  seen 
in  the  camp  of  the  Revolutionists.  At  school  he 
made  an  enemy  of  tbe  town  bully,  Seth  Brown, 
which  later  is  his  undoing. 

Gen.  Washington  desiring  Information  as  to  the 
number  and  condition  of  the  British  troops,  calls 
for  a  spy.  Hale  offers  to  go,  dressed  as  a  country 
school  teacher,  inside  the  British  lines.  He  secures 
the  desired  facts  for  Washington,  but  is  seen  and 
betrayed  by  Seth  Brown,  who  has  joined  the  British. 
He  is  captured,  the  papers  found  on  htm,  and  is 
condemned  to  be  bung  without  trial.  The  picture 
ends  with  a  view  of  Nathan  Hale's  statue  in  City 
Hall  Park,  New  York,  and  the  subtitles— "137  Years 
Later,    Lest  We  Forget." 


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ANOTHER 
SELIG  SCOOP! 


Charles  H.  Hoyt's  Famous 
Rural  Comedy 

"A    MIDNIGHT   BELL" 

IN  TWO  REELS. 
The    first     production    in     Sellg's  exclusive  series  01  re- 
markable HOST  comedy  successes. 

A  FOUNTAIN   OF  RIOTOUS  MIRTH 

Soon  To  Be  Released  On  the  Way  Watch  For  It 

ROSES   OF  YESTERDAY 
April  28th 

The  modern  romance  of  an  uncle  and  his  nephew  and  an 
aunt  and  her  niece.  Delightful  in  conception  and  cleverly 
enacted.  ^ __ 

HIRAM  BUYS  AN  AUTO 
April  29th 

A  laughable  farce-comedy  of  automobile  row.  On  the 
same  reel  with 

CHINESE  SCENES 

A  continuation  of  the  Sellg  series  of  Oriental  travelogues. 

THE  BURGLAR  WHO  ROBBED  DEATH 

April  30th 

A  strong  drama  of  the  regeneration  of  a  one-time  doctor 
who  travels  the  primrose  path  downward  till  he  becomes 
a  burglar.     Founded  upon  an  incident  in  real  life. 


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ABSENT-MINDED 
MR.  BOOB 

May  1st 

A  delightful  comedy  sa- 
tire excellently  character- 
ized. On  the  same  reel  with 

SOME  CHICKENS 

An  educational  subject  showing  some  of  the 
modern  methods  of  chicken  raising. 


THEIR  STEPMOTHER 
May  2nd 

A  tale  of  the  diplomacy  used  by  "daddy's 
new  wife"  in  her  effort  to  win  the  love  and 
affection  of  two  little  stepdaughters.  Kathlyn 
Williams  and  "Baby"  Lillian  Wade  are  seen  to 
advantage. 

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It  has  been  translated  into  nearly  every  language 

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It  is  sung  by  the  greatest  singers 

It  is  played  by  the  greatest  orchestras 

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LES  MISERABLES. 
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LES  MISERABLES— Part  One-^Tean  Valjean.— 
The  story  begins  with  Jean  Valjean  as  an  humble 
worker  endeavoring  to  provide  for  his  invalid 
mother.  They  live  in  a  squalid  borne,  made  more 
wretched  by  his  inability  to  provide  sufficient  food. 
He  goes  out  in  search  of  work,  but  is  unsuccessful. 
Finally,  in  desperation,  he  steals  a  loaf  of  bread 
regardless  of  consequences.  He  hastens  home  with 
it.  pursued  by  a  crowd,  and  gives  it  to  his  mother. 
Valjean  is  arrested  for  the  theft  and  sentenced 
to  five  years  at  hard  labor.  He  with  other  con- 
victs, is  put  in  a  stone  quarry,  and  there  makes 
hie  first  acquaintance  with  Javert,  a  prison  guard, 
who  appears  prominently  throughout  the  story. 
The  first  notice  Javert  takes  of  Valjean  is  on  ac- 
count of  his  great  strength  In  lifting  a  stone  that 
no  other  prisoner  can  lift.  In  the  prison  dormitory 
word  Is  whispered  about  that  there  is  a  chance  for 
one  man  to  escape,  and  among  themselves  the  pris- 
oners decide  that  they  will  draw  lots  to  deter- 
mine the  one  who  shall  make  the  break  for  liberty. 
The  lot  falls  to  Valjean,  and  with  the  aid  of  a 
small  saw,  be  is  soon  in  the  open.  The  alarm  is 
given  and  pursuit  is  begun,  but  Valjean  eludes 
his  pursuers.  Javert  is  greatly  vexed  at  the  es- 
cape, for  he  Is  an  automatic  creature  in  doing  his 
duty.  He  performs  bis  duty  like  a  machine,  and 
his  doty  comes  before  everything  else  with  him. 

Like  a  hunted  animal,  Valjean  reaches  tbe  town 
of  Digne,  in  southern  France.  He  begs  from  door 
to  door,  but  meets  with  many  rebuffs,  until  one 
kind  hearted  woman  directs  him  to  the  bouse  of 
the  parish  priest,  Myriel.  The  good  priest  takes 
him  in,  feeds  him,  and  provides  him  with  a  cot 
for  the  night.  In  the  night  Valjean  yields  to 
temptation.  He  steals  a  pair  of  silver  spoons,  and 
departs.  On  the  road  he  meets  two  "gendarmes" 
who  take  him  back  to  tbe  town,  and  before  the 
priest.  To  bis  surprise  Valjean  is  given  a  pair  of 
silver  candlesticks  by  the  priest  who  dismisses 
the  police,  pretending  that  Valjean  is  an  old  ac- 
quaintance. Myriel  then  gives  Valjean  a  letter 
to  his  brother,  a  manufacturer  of  glass  beads  in 
Montreuil.  The  action  of  the  priest  touches  Val- 
jean's  heart  and  be  repents  bitterly  of  bis  wrong- 
ful act.  He  goes  to  Montreuil  and  is  given  a  posi- 
tion by  the  priests  brother  and  is  thenceforth 
known    as    "Mr.    Madeleine." 

PART  TWO— Fantine. — After  several  years,  the 
priest's  brother  dies  and  leaves  the  glass  bead 
factory  to  Valjean.  By  this  time  the  latter  Is  a 
well  respected  man  and  has  been  elected  mayor 
of  the  town.  Fantine,  a  factory  girl,  having  been 
absent  from  ber  duties  for  eight  days,  returns  to 
work.  She  is  nervous  about  a  note  she  has  re- 
celved  from  Thenardier,  a  country  innkeeper,  de- 
manding payment  for  the  keep  of  her  baby.  Fan- 
tine is  shown  into  tbe  office  of  "Mr.  Madeline" 
and  discharged  on  account  of  her  absence.  Rather 
than  reveal  the  secret  of  her  child,  she  prefers  dis- 
charge   to    exposure. 

Meanwhile,  Javert,  the  prison  guard,  has  been 
promoted  to  the  post  of  Police  Inspector  of 
Montreuil.  In  reporting  to  tbe  mayor,  "Mr. 
Madeleine,"  be  is  struck  by  that  man's  resemblance 
to  the  prisoner  who  escaped  from  him,  and  makes 
a  mental  note  of  it.  Fantine  has  drifted  into  pov- 
erty, and  in  order  to  raise  fundB  for  her  baby's 
keep,  is  obliged  to  sell  her  beautiful  hair.  Shorn 
of  her  hair  she  becomes  an  object  of  derision  among 
her  associates.  This  leads  to  a  quarrel  among  the 
women  of  the  poor  quarter  and  Fantine's  arrest  by 
Javert,  tbe  man  of  duty.  The  mayor,  "Mr. 
Madeleine,"  happens  to  enter  the  police  station 
after  her  arrest.  He  learns  from  tbe  note  taken 
away  from  Fantine  when  she  was  searched,  the 
reason  of  her  absence  from  the  factory  and  her 
subsequent  heroic  self-denial  in  submitting  to  dis- 
charge rather  than  give  away  the  secret  of  her 
child.  He  is  deeply  moved  and  now  orders  her  to 
be  released.  This  action  Javert  considers  an  af- 
front to  the  majesty  of  the  law,  personified  in 
him.  He  becomes  all  tbe  more  determined  to  un- 
mask the  mayor  by  establishing  bis  identity  as 
Jean  Valjean.  Fantine  confides  to  "Mx.  Madeleine" 
the  story  of  her  misfortune,  and  he,  seeing  that 
she  is  suffering  with  a  fatal  malady,  has  her 
1  :aced  in  the  hospital  belonging  to  tbe  bead  fac- 
tory  where  every   possible  care  is  shown  her. 

An  accident,  that  of  an  old  man  pinned  beneath  a 
wagon,  reveals  to  Javert  the  great  strength  of  "Mr. 
Madeleine,"  as  the  mayor  lifts  the  wagon  and  re- 
leases the  man.  This  Javert  connects  with  the 
feat  of  tbe  convict  who  lifted  the  stone  In  the 
prison  yard,  years  ago.  It  convinces  Javert  that 
the  mayor  is  Valjean,  and  he  makes  a  report  to 
tbe  authorities.  Fauchelevent,  the  man  hurt  un- 
der the  wagon,  becomes  a  cripple  and  is  helped  to 
a  position  as  gardener  in  a  convent  near  Paris  by 
the  mayor.  Just  at  this  timr  Javert  reads  a  news 
account  of  a  criminel  crugLt  recently  in  Paris 
whom  tbe  police  believe  *o  be  Jean  Valjean.  After 
reading  this:,  Javert  feels  that  he  has  done  "Made- 
leine" a  wrong  in  supposing  him  to  be  Valjean. 
He  resigns  his  position  giving  "Mr.  Madeline"  his 
reasons.  A  new  torment  comes  into  "Mr.  Made- 
line's '  L'fe  as  he  thinks  of  another  man  being 
sent  back  to  prison  for  bis  own  deed.  He  pic- 
tures an  innocent  i\;aii  being  condemned,  and  Is 
severely  conscience  stricken.  Rather  than  allow 
an  inno-ent  man  to  sutler,  the  mayor  decides  to 
reveal    his    ldetity    and    gees    before    the    court    to 


confess,  prepared  to  take  the  consequences.  In 
proof  of  his  assertion  he  shows  the  court  the  prison 
brand  upon  his  arm,  "T.  F."  (Travaux  Forces), 
meaning  "hard  labor." 

Viiiiean.  lr  h.s  few  last  lours  of  freedom,  hastens 
to  the  bedside  of  the  dying  Fantine.  She  begs 
hltn  to  protect  her  daughter,  Coselte,  who  is  bOU 
in  ttie  care  of  the  Thenardiers.  He  promises  to 
rr-e  bee  jis  i^is  cwii,  an*;  as  Fantine  dies,  he  la 
led  away  by  Javert  who  does  not  comprehend  the 
pity  of  the  ecne,  but  sfrs  only  his  stern  duty 
before  him.  Vaty.in  ensily  makes  his  escape  from 
the  police  station,  where  he  has  been  locked  up  by 
Javert,    awaiting   transportation. 

PART  THREE — Cosette, — Tbe  Thenardiers  and 
their  small  daughter.  Eponine.  and  young  son, 
Gavroche,  are  seen  at  their  dingy  country  tavern. 
Here  little  Cosette,  the  daughter  of  Fantine,  is 
seen  performing  drudgery  and  menial  tasks.  The 
Thenardiers  are  treating  their  own  children  kindly, 
but  are  cruel  to  Cosette.  One  day  she  Is  sent  for 
water  with  a  heavy  pail.  On  the  way  she  passes 
a  toy  store,  and,  longingly  admires  a  doll.  On  her 
way  back  she  meets  Jean  Valjean,  who  asks  her 
the  way  to  tbe  Thenardiers.  Cosette  leads  him 
toward  their  place.  On  the  way  she  looks  long- 
ingly at  the  doll  once  more,  and  ber  action  is  ob- 
served by  Valjean.  He  has  learned  by  her  talk 
that  she  is  Fantine's  child,    whom   he  is  seeking. 

Cosette  runs  ahead,  and  Valjean  enters  the  tav- 
ern while  Cosette  is  being  scolded.  He  remon- 
strates with  the  Thenardiers,  and  goes  out  to  the 
toy  store  and  buys  the  doll  for  Cosette.  Returning, 
he  informs  the  Thenardiers  that  he  has  come  to 
pay  the  child's  board  bill,  and  take  ber  away. 
They  gleefully  accept  the  money  and  Valjean  de- 
parts with  the  little  girl.  Thenardier,  thinking  he 
might  have  got  more,  follows  blm,  but  Valjean 
shows  him  the  note  that  Fantine  had  written  be- 
fore she  died,  telling  him  to  take  care  of  the 
child. 

Valjean  realizes  a  sum  of  money  on  securities, 
and  decides  to  live  in  an  obscure  bouse  in  tbe  poor 
quarter  of  Paris  with  little  Cosette,  away  from 
the  prying  police.  But  the  janltress  of  the  house 
becomes  suspicious  of  her  new  tenants  and  calls 
in  the  police  after  peeping  and  observing  Val- 
jean counting  money,  an  unusual  thing  In  that 
quarter  of  Paris.  Javert  by  this  time  has  been 
appointed  to  the  detective  force  of  Paris.  He 
considers  this  case  worthy  of  his  personal  in- 
spection and  goes  to  Yaljean's  lodgings  and  secrets 
himself  in  the  garret  above  Valjean's  room.  Val- 
jean takes  alarm  at  Javert's  boring  through  the 
ceiling.  He  leaves  quickly,  carrying  Cosette,  but 
is  followed  by  Javert  and  his  men.  He  is  cornered 
In  a  blind  alley,  but  makes  his  escape  with  a  clothes 
line  by  tbe  thrilling  and  dramatic  feat  of  scaling 
an  almost  perpendicular  wall.  After  a  night  of 
suspense  he  finds  himself  hiding  in  the  grounds  of 
a  convent.  Here  he  meets  the  old  gardener,  Fau- 
chelevent. whom  he  assisted  from  under  the  wagon 
and  obtained  for  him  his  present  position.  The 
old  man  shows  bis  gratitude  by  giving  them  asylum 
and  getting  Valjean  a  position  as  assistant  gar- 
dener. The  old  man  introduces  him  to  tbe  nuns 
as  his  brother,  and  thereafter  Valjean  is  known 
as  "Fauchelevent."  Javert  gives  up  the  hope  of 
capturing    Valjean. 

Years  after,  Valjean  still  known  as  "Fauchel- 
event," is  living  in  quiet  ease  with  Cosette,  now 
grown  up,  as  his  daughter.  Tbe  Thenardiers  have 
moved  to  Paris  and  are  living  in  poverty,  under 
an  assumed  name.  In  the  next  room  to  them 
dwells  Marias,  a  student.  Thenardier  frequently 
appeals  to  him  for  money,  and  usually  gets  some. 
E'ponine.  Thenardier's  daughter,  also  grown  up, 
has  fallen  deeply  in  love  with  Marius,  unbeknown 
to  him.  Marius  walks  and  studies  in  the  park, 
and  there  for  the  first  time  sees  Cosette,  sitting 
with  her  "father"  Valjean.  The  two  young  peo- 
ple are  attracted  by  each  other  at  once.  A  little 
later  Valjean  Is  accosted  by  Eponine  who  is  beg- 
ging. She  tells  a  pitiful  story  and  Valjean  and 
Cosette  decide  to  go  to  her  home  and  Investigate 
the  condition  she  has  told  concerning  her  family. 
Arriving  there,  Valjean  leaves  his  coat  and  money, 
but  neither  he  nor  Cosette  are  recognized  by  any 
of  the  Thenardiers.  As  they  leave  tbe  place, 
Marius  is  just  returning  home  and  be  again  comes 
face  to  face  with  Cosette.  an  Incident  which  Val- 
jean does  not  seem  to  like.  Cosette  accidentally 
drops  a  rose,  Marius  quickly  picks  it  up  and  presses 
it  to  his  lips.  This  action  is  observed  by  Eponine 
who  becomes  Intensely  jealous.  Valjean  has  left 
his  address  with  the  Thenardiers  in  case  they 
should  need  any  further  assistance.  Marius  de- 
mands of  Eponine  to  give  him  the  address,  and 
this  she  does  in  a  spirit  of  self-sacrifice.  Marius 
starts  at  once  to  the  house  where  Valjean  and 
Cosette  reside.  He  writes  a  note  declaring  his 
love,  and  puts  It  on  a  garden  bench  where  Eponine 
has  Informed  him  Cosette  lingers  every  evening. 
At  this  moment  Cosette  appears,  reads  the  note 
and  is  surprised  by  Marius  who  has  stepped  be- 
hind the  bushes  at  her  approach.  Valjean  coming, 
suspects  something,  thongh  Marius  gets  out  of  the  g 
way,  and  Oosette  Is  taken  to  task  by  her  foster 
father  for  tbe  first  time  in  his  life. 

Marius  has  a  wealthy  grandfather  who  dotes  on 
the  lad  provided  his  wishes  are  followed.  The 
young  man  writes  him  of  his  love  for  Cosette  and 
begs  his  sanction  to  an  early  marriage.  Tbe 
grandfather  sends  for  Marius  and  tells  him  he 
cannot  consent.  Marius  repudiates  him  then  and 
leaves    in    high    anger. 


PART  FOUR— Cosette  and  Maxim.— The  rebellion 
of  1832  Is  on.  There  is  rioting  and  barricading 
in  the  streets.  Marius  in  despair,  and  In  tbe  hope 
that  a  bullet  will  soon  end  his  life,  Joins  the  mob 
and  becomes  a  fighter  In  the  ranks  of  tbe  Insur- 
gents. Javert  gets  orders  to  Investigate  the  ex- 
tent of  the  insurrection.  He  assumes  a  disguise, 
and  goes  to  a  tavern,  the  headquarters  of  the  re- 
bellion. He  is  quickly  recognized  and  seized.  They 
search  him  and  tie  him  to  a  wooden  pillar.  Docu- 
ments on  him  reveal  his  Identity,  and  the  rioters 
condemn  him  to  die  If  the  barricade  is  taken.  Mar- 
tial law  is  proclaimed,  and  the  people  are  ordered 
to  disperse.  They  refuse,  and  a  volley  is  fired. 
Eponine,  In  tbe  mob,  dies  at  the  first  fire.  Marius 
thinking  his  death  to  be  at  hand,  writes  a  note  to 
Cosette,  telling  her  where  to  find  his  body  in  case 
he  is  killed.  Gavroche  is  sent  with  tbe  note,  but 
Valjean  gets  it  at  bis  home.  He  sees  that  this 
love  affair  is  deeper  than  he  bad  supposed,  and  he 
goes  to  tbe  scene  of  the  rioting  to  find  Marius. 
Gavroche  Is  killed  while  trying  to  secure  ammuni- 
tion for  the  revolutionists  in  searching  dead  sol- 
diers for  cartridges.  Fierce  fighting  follows  and 
the  rioters,  realizing  that  they  are  losing  ground, 
order  the  execution  of  Javert.  Valjean  interferes 
and  tells  them  that  Javert's  life  belongs  to  him. 
Taking  Javert  outside,  Valjean  frees  his  bands, 
fires  a  pistol  in  the  air,  and  lets  Javert  go,  there- 
by sparing  his  life.  The  military  take  the  barri- 
cade by  storm.  Marius  badly  wounded,  is  picked 
up  by  Valjean,  who  disappears  into  a  sewer  open- 
ing and  escapes  with  him  underground.  Javert,  in 
the  streets,  comes  upon  Thenardier,  robbing  the 
dead.  In  pursuit  of  this  man,  he  comes  upon  Val- 
jean emerging  from  another  part  of  the  sewer. 
Javert  drops  Thenardier  and  arrests  Valjean.  Val- 
jean shows  him  tbe  note  of  Marins  to  Cosette  con- 
cerning the  disposing  of  his  body,  and  he  begs  per- 
mission to  take  Marius  to  the  home  of  bis  grand- 
father before  submitting  to  arrest.  Javert  con- 
sents, but  accidentally  drops  upon  the  ground  tbe 
order  of  arrest  for  Jean  Valjean,  which  he  has 
carried  on  his  person.  Thenardier  pounces  upon  the 
order  and  keeps  it  for  future  blackmailing  pur- 
poses. He  also  follows  Valjean  and  Javert  to  the 
home  of  the  grandfather  of  Marius.  Javert  ob- 
serving the  God-like  character  of  Valjean,  la  over- 
come with  remorse,  and  for  tbe  first  time  In  hia 
life  departs  from  his  path  of  duty  and  allows  his  ' 
prisoner  to  escape.  He  then  writes  hiB  resignation 
to  the  police,  and,  as  a  public  acknowledgment  of 
his  mortification  and  weakness,  he  ends  his  own 
life.  Tbe  grandfather  of  Marius  is  deeply  grateful 
for  the  boy's  safe,  return.  He  sends  for  Valjean 
and  asks  the  hand  of  Cosette  for  Marius.  This 
Valjean  grants,  and  transfers  bis  property  to 
Cosette.  The  lovers  are  married  at  the  church,  at 
which  time  Valjean  shows  the  first  signs  of  fail- 
ing health.  Thenardier  thinks  the  time  now  ripe 
to  commence  blackmailing  with  the  order  of  ar- 
rest. He  negotiates  with  Marius,  who  buys  it 
from  nim  for  a  good  sum .  Ma rins  goes  to  see 
Valjean  to  question  him  about  tbe  paper,  but  finds 
him  low  in  health,  and  fondling  Cosette's  little 
dress  of  other  days,  the  place  lighted  with  tbe 
good  priest's  candlesticks.  Marius  hands  him  the 
order  of  arrest.  Valjean  feebly  acknowledges  it, 
and  tells  tbe  story  of  his  persecutions.  Oosette 
arrives  as  Valjean  is  dreaming  of  the  good  priest 
who  helped  him  to  be  a  better  man.  and  soon  he 
expires  peacefully  in  the  arms  of  his  two  chil- 
dren. 


GAUMONT. 

GAUMONT  WEEKLY,  NO.  58  (April  16).— Gen- 
eral Hosbino  Inspects  French  Artillery. — Japanese 
military  chief  watches  embarkation  of  war  equip- 
ment In  Paris. 

The  Fastest  Boat  in  the  World. — Infanta  Eulalia 
of  Spain,  christens  auto  craft  "Sigma  IV,"  at 
Paris. 

Spring  Gowns. — The  latest  fashions  from  Paris, 
as  posed  by  Jeanne  Halke,  Diemert  &  Co. 

Baseball  Season  Opens. — New  York  Americans 
meet   Washington  team  at  letter's  grounds. 

Ludwig  Visits  Berlin. — New  regiment  of  Bavaria 
is  royally  received  in  German  capital. 

Street  Car  Jumps  Bridge. — Baltimore  scene  of 
unusual  accident,  in  which  one  person  is  killed  and 
30  Injured. 

A  Barcelona  .Religious  Ceremony. — A  pilgrimage 
to  the  Hermitage  of  Saint  Medin. 

The  New  Ambassador. — Mr.  Walter  Page,  famous 
American  publisher,  accepts  post  at  Court  of  St. 
James. 

Parliament  Opens. — King  and  Queen  present  on 
that   occasion. 

Bunny. — Is  this  a  proof  of  evolution? 

The  Passing  of  Morgan. — Famous  financier  laid  at 
rest  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

Skiing  in  Germany. — Athletes  compete  In  winter 
contest  at  Schreiberhau. 

WHEN  SCANDAL  THREATENED  (April  15).— 
Sir  John  Glenavan  neglects  his  young  wife  and  his 
sister  to  go  fox  bunting.  His  sister,  Victoria,  is 
enamored  with  a  dashing  young  blade,  who  in  part 
returns  her  affections.  But,  he  is  engrossed  In 
one-sided    flirtation   with   Sir   John's    wife. 

As  Lady  Glenavan  and  Victoria  are  sitting  In  a 
balcony  overlooking  the  river,  the  dashing  cavalier 
rows  to  where  they  sit  and  throws  a  note  on  the 
balcony.  Lady  Glenavan  throws  it  into  the  river. 
Victoria  taking  a  row  boat,   searches   for  the  note. 


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SINGING    AND    TALKING    PICTURES 

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The  Pendleton  Oregon  Round-Up 

Four  reels  cut  down  from  over  15,000  feet  of  negative.  Not  one  inch  of  drag!  World's  championship  Western 
tournament.  By  far  the  greatest,  best  and  most  important  of  Round-Ups.  World  championship  contests  only.  THE 
PENDLETON  OREGON  ROUND-UP  is  the  greatest  Western  and  Northwest  event,  held  annually  at  Pendleton, 
Oregon,  near  the  Umatilla  Indian  Reservation,  the  center  of  the  greatest  range  country  of  the  world.  NO  FAKE 
STUFF  THERE!  A  real  breath  of  the  virile  Golden  West.  Playing  at  present  only  the  biggest  theatres  of  the  Pacific 
Coast. 

FIRST  REEL — Street  Parade   of   Contestants;  Entrance  to   Round-Up;  Arena  Charge; 

Fancy  Riding;  Roman  Race;  Cowboy's  Relay  Race;  Girls'  Bucking  Contest;  Riding 

Bucking  Bulls  and  Cows. 
SECOND  REEL — Fancy  Roping;   War  and  Love  Dance;   Tug  of  War;   Maverick  Race; 

Barrel  Race;  Steer  Roping;  Pony  Express  Race;  Stage  Coach  Race. 
THIRD  REEL — Steer  Bulldogging;  Cowgirls'  Relay  Race;  Squaw  Race;  Wild  Horse  Race. 
FOURTH  REEL — Bucking  Contest,  Restricted  to  most  vicious  outlaw  horses. 

Net  price  of  States,  including  one  set  of  four  reels,  subject  to  being  unsold: 

Alabama,  $500;  Arkansas,  $500;  Colorado,  $650;  Florida,  $500;  Georgia,  $650;  Illinois,  $2,000;  Indiana,  $1,200;  Iowa, 
$800;  Kansas,  $1,000;  Kentucky,  $800;  Louisiana,  $500;  Maryland,  $500;  Michigan,  $1,000;  Minnesota,  $800;  Mississippi, 
$500;  Missouri,  $1,200;  Nebraska,  $800;  Nevada,  $500;  New  Mexico,  $500;  North  Carolina,  $500;  North  Dakota,  $500; 
Ohio,  $2,000;  Oklahoma,  $500;  South  Carolina,  $500;  South  Dakota,  $500;  Tennessee,  $500;  Texas,  $650;  Utah,  $500;  Vir- 
ginia (includes  D.  C),  $800;  West  Virginia,  $500;  Wisconsin,  $1,000;  Wyoming,  $500.  For  other  territory  apply.  Very 
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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


which  she  finds  among  the  water-lilies.  It  reads: 
"Dear  Maud,  I  know  that  yon  will  never  betray 
your  husband  but  without  you  I  have  no  desire  to 
live.      I   Bball   be   waiting   for  you   tonight   at   the 

little  gate  in  the  park  In  the  hope  .     If  not 

— Goodbye.     Jack   Treharne." 

Sir  John  with  a  servant  is  in  the  woodland  after 
game.  He  sees  a  veiled  woman  approaching  hur- 
riedly. Her  garments  are  those  of  his  wife.  As- 
tonished at  seeing  her  in  this  lonely  place  at 
night  unattended,  he  draws  back  Into  the  bushes 
and  watches.  He  follows.  He  sees  her  meet  a 
man,  who  was  waiting  at  the  cross-road  with  two 
horses.  They  embrace.  The  woman  doesn't  lift 
her  veil. 

The  baron  pursues.  Changing  horses  at  an  inn, 
he  gains  on  the  elopers.  Arriving  at  a  road  house, 
outside  of  which  stands  the  horses  on  which  the 
runaways  had  ridden,  he  Is  told  that  the  man  and 
woman  are  in  a  private  room.  In  be  dashes,  dis- 
regarding the  strength  of  the  lock.  There  he  con- 
fronts the  veiled  woman  and  the  cavalier.  He 
strikes  the  man.  A  fight  is  about  to  ensue.  Sir 
John  then  snatches  the  veil  from  the  woman's 
face.  He  starts  back  In  surprise.  "My  sister!" 
he  gasps.  It  Is  with  a  sense  of  relief  as  well  as 
of  pain  to  find  that  his  sister  Is  the  runaway.  He 
Is  glad,  however,  to  know  that  it  is  not  his  wife, 
and  that  this  action  is  remedial.  He  tells  the 
Cavalier,  who  is  also  amazed  to  see  whom  he  has 
met,  that  English  convention  is  imperative  and 
that  he  must  marry  Victoria,  having  thus  com- 
promised her.  The  Cavalier,  believing  tbat  the 
worst   can  be  the   best,    capitulates. 


GREAT  NORTHERN  SPECIAL  FEA- 
TURE FILM  CO. 

THROUGH  THE  TEST  OF  FIRE  (3  reels).— 
Count  Hardegg  is  faced  by  ruin.  He  obtains  an 
Interview  with  Goldstein,  a  factory  owner  and 
money  lender,  endeavoring  to  obtain  a  loan.  But 
Goldstein,  remembering  past  transactions,  refuses 
to  help  Hardegg  unless  a  certain  condition  is 
complied  with.  The  condition  Is  that  the  Countess 
Helena,  Hardegg's  beautiful  daughter,  shall  marry 
Goldstein's  son,  Henry.  Sorrowfully  the  count 
acquaints  bis  daughter  with  the  ultimatum,  and 
Helena,  in  a  spirit  of  filial  love,  agrees  to  make 
the  sacrifice.  Over  the  telephone,  Hardegg  ac- 
cepts Goldstein's  condition,  and  the  usurer  glee- 
fully tells  his  son  to  prepare  for  the  wedding.  So, 
a  month  later,  tbe  marriage  takes  place,  and  amid 
the  acclamations  of  their  friends,  the  pair  drive 
off.  But  tbe  horses  are  restive,  and  at  length, 
getting  out  of  the  control  of  their  driver,  they  dasb 
madly  along.  Just  about  this  time,  tbe  employees 
of  one  of  Goldstein's  factories  are  trooping  home 
from  their  work,  and  one  of  their  number,  Jack, 
seeing  the  runaways,  makes  a  dash  at  their  beads 
and  effectually  arrests   their  career. 

Bight  days  later,  Helena  sends  for  Jack  In  order 
tbat  she  may  thank  him  for  his  action.  He  comes 
sullenly  enough,  for,  discontented  with  his  em- 
ployer's harsh  methods,  he  has  been  advising  bis 
comrades  to  strike.  Helena's  whole-hearted  thanks 
and  genuine  admiration  completely  soften  him,  and 
he  becomes  henceforth  her  devoted  slave.  About 
this  time,  Goldstein  is  killed  by  an  explosion  tbat 
occurs  during  an  inspection  of  his  factory.  The 
blow  of  his  father's  death  has  barely  fallen  upon 
Henry  Goldstein  ere  another  comes  to  Join  it.  A 
strike  is  declared  at  the  works.  A  deputation  waits 
upon  Henry,  who  refuses,  however,  to  accede  to 
their  demands,  and  Jack,  the  leader  of  the  deputa- 
tion, Is  badly  humiliated  before  his  fellows.  Mean- 
while, Baron  Hardegg  has  been  left  a  vast  fortune, 
and  now  that  he  is  no  longer  In  pecuniary  diffi- 
culties, endeavors  to  persuade  his  daughter  to  di- 
vorce her  husband.  This  Helena  refuses  to  do, 
declaring  that  to  leave  her  husband  when  be  Is  in 
such  distress  would  be  an  act  unworthy  of  the 
basest  woman.  Truth  to  tell,  Helena  was  gradually 
falling  in  love  with  Henry,  who,  on  more  than  one 
occasion,  had  proved  his  worth.  While  out  riding, 
Helena  and  Henry  are  attacked  by  a  party  of 
strikers,  but  are  defended  by  Jack,  who  enjoins  his 
companions  not  to  harm  them,  and  so,  a  second 
time,  Jack  proves  his  worth. 

The  count  makes  another  attempt  to  aleniate  his 
daughter  from  her  husband,  but  without  success. 
Then  comes  an  incident  that  brings  the  realization 
upon  Helena  that  she  Is  really  In  love  with  the 
man  who  at  tbe  outset  she  was  prepared  to  hate. 

A  fire  breaks  out  in  one  of  tbe  villager's  cot- 
tages and  Is  soon  out  of  all  control.  Suddenly, 
with  a  cry  of  alarm,  a  woman  in  the  crowd  re- 
members her  child.  Henry,  who  arrives  at  this 
moment,  volunteers  to  save  the  little  one,  and 
flinging  off  his  coat,  rushes  Into  the  burning  build- 
ing. 

A  moment  later  he  appears  at  a  window,  tbe 
child  in  his  arms.  A  pair  of  willing  hands  catch 
the  little  one  as  It  is  thrown  down  from  above. 
Henry  turns  to  make  bis  escape,  but  finds  all 
progress  barred  by  a  sheet  of  flame  and  smoke. 
Gradually  the  smoke  overpowers  bim  and  he  falls 
unconscious.  Outside,  Helena  learns  what  has  hap- 
pened. She  bethinks  herself  of  her  friend,  Jack, 
and  implores  him  to  save  her  husband.  So  Jack 
follows  Henry  into  the  burning  cottage,  and  by  a 
superhuman  effort,  succeeds  in  bringing  the  un- 
conscious man  out  into  the  open,  and  overcome,  falls 
dead  at  his  feet.  So,  after  all,  Helena  and  Henry 
realize  that  they  love  one  another,  and  we  leave 
them  in  the  last  scene  wrapped  in  love's  embrace. 


GREAT  NORTHERN. 

TOLD  IN  CONFIDENCE  (April  26).—  Dr.  Miller 
and  his  family,  consisting  of  his  wife,  a  little  daugh- 
ter and  his  mother  live  happily  in  their  own  home 
and  have  in  their  employ  a  faithful  butler  and  a 
serving  maid.  Mr.s.  Jones,  a  middle-aged  busy-body 
and  gossip  occupies  apartments  in  au  adjoining 
house,  which  gives  her  a  view  of  the  Miller  dining- 
room.  During  the  family  repast,  Dr.  Miller  chides 
tbe  maid  and  butler  for  spilling  gravy  on  one  of  the 
napkins  and  plainly  shows  his  annoyance.  There- 
upon Mrs.  Jones  hurries  over  to  Mrs.  Brown  and  tells 
in  confidence  that  the  doctor  has  upset  furniture  and 
is  about  to  chastise  the  entire  family.  The  doctor 
la  pictured  as  brute,  pure  and  simple  and  both  Mrs. 
Jones  and  Mrs.  Brown  are  horrified.  The  latter 
loses  no  time  in  rushing  off  to  Mrs.  Smith  and  by 
the  time  she  arrives  she  has  enlarged  upon  the  orig- 
inal story  to  such  an  extent  that  Mrs.  Smith  Is  led 
to  believe  that  the  disturbance  in  the  doctor's  fam- 
ily was  caused  by  the  fact  that  the  latter's  wife  was 
caught  making  love  to  the  butler  and  then  it  was 
that  Dr.  Miller  became  furious  and  tried  to  murder 
everyone  in  tbe  house.  His  little  child,  she  is  told, 
was  most  violent!  handled  and  his  wife  was  tossed 
about  like  a  rag  doll.  No  sooner  had  Mrs.  Brown 
departed  than  Mrs.  Smith  donned  her  hat  and  cloak 
and  hurried  to  another  nearby  neighbor  to  whom  she 
imparted  tbe  Information  that  the  infuriated  Dr. 
Brown  had  thrown  the  butler  out  of  the  window  and 
while  the  unfortunate  man  was  clinging  to  tbe  ledge, 
he  was  shot  by  the  doctor.  And  so  the  story  spread 
and  became  enlarged  upon  until  a  large  crowd  as- 
sembled in  front  of  the  doctor's  home.  Imagine  the 
surprise  of  the  curious  ones  when  Dr.  Miller  and  his 
family  appear  at  the  portal  In  merry  mood  prepara- 
tory to  taking  a  drive.  The  three  gossips  slink 
away  amid  the  jeers  of  their  neighbors.  The  Inci- 
dent of  the  napkin  and  the  stories  told  by  the  wom- 
en^are  depicted  In  the  unfolding  of  the  story. 

LUX. 

A  SAFEGUARD  FOR  BACHELORS  (April  26).— 
Showing  what  kept  the  fair  sex  away  from  the 
bachelors. 

THE  TRUANT  HUSBAND  (April  25).— After 
having  a  rather  one-sided  discussion  with  his  wife, 
Smlthkins  decides  that  t'would  be  better  to  leave 
that  talkative  lady,  and  go  in  search  of  happiness 
which  he  will  never  attain  in  her  company.  He 
therefore  locks  her  in  the  bedroom  and  sallies  forth. 
His  wife,  however,  is  waiting  for  him  on  the  bal- 
cony above,  and  he  is  promptly  lassoed  and  "brought 
back  home  by  the  indefeatigable  dame.  Smith- 
klns's  next  move  is  to  pack  his  box  and  go  to  live 
at  a  hotel.  His  wife,  however,  gets  wise  to  this 
scheme  and  packs  herself  In  her  husband's  box. 
When  hubby  comes  to  open  bis  box  at  the  new 
"digs,"  he  finds  his  wife  waiting  to  open  Are  upon 
him  as  usual.  Wifie  then  determines  to  put  hubby 
in  the  box  and  take  him  home  again.  A  porter  of 
the  hotel  enters  the  room  at  this  moment,  and  in 
tbe  confusion  he  gets  put  in  the  box,  whilst  hubby 
gets  away  free.  Wifie  has  a  horrible  surprise  when 
she  gets  home. 


Among  the  Exhibitors 

Moline,  His. — C.  M.  Larson  and  Louis  Bernhoeft, 
Jr.,   will  have  a  moving  picture  theater  here. 

St.  Paul,  Minn. — Finkelstein  and  Ruben,  pro- 
prietors of  tbe  Princess  theater  will  build  a  new 
vaudeville  theater  here. 

Ida  Grove,  Za. — Wilson  Bender  will  open  a  mov- 
ing picture   theater  here. 

Ida  Grove,  la,.— W.  L.  Hester  will  open  a  motion 
picture  theater  here. 

Ainsworth,  Nebr.— H.  I.  Hjelmer  moving  picture 
theater  succeeded   by   John  Stevison. 

Pullman,  Wash. — Thomas  Miller  sold  tbe  Star 
motion  picture  theater  to  Geo.   Rwing. 

Durand,  Wis. — C.  F.  Hansen  opened  a  motion 
picture  theater  here. 

Lake  Charles,  La. — J.  E.  Pearce,  of  New  Orleans, 
general  manager  of  the  Pearce  amusement  enter- 
prises, announced  that  J.  L.  Troxall,  who  has  been 
manager  of  the  Arcade  and  Dreamland  Theaters 
of  that  city  for  the  past  year,  would  hereafter 
manage  the  new  theater  in  Houston  and  that  the 
Lake  Charles  houses  would  be  under  the  manage- 
ment of  Mr.  Van  Wart,  who  has  been  with  the 
company  in  New  Orleans   for  a  number  of  years. 

Oroflno,  Idaho. — Theodore  Fohl  began  excavating 
for  a  brick  building  24  x  SO  feet,  one  story,  which 
will  be  used  for  a  moving  picture  show  when  com- 
pleted. 

Port  Arthur,  Tex. — Permit  for  a  new  moving  pic- 
ture theater  to  be  located  in  Procter  Street  was 
issued  to  A.  Lombardo,  proprietor  of  tbe  new  play- 
bouse. 

Ripon,  Wis. — Funds  are  being  raised  for  the  pur- 
pose of   erecting   a    moving    picture    theater. 

Tulsa,  Okla. — A  theatrical  company  will  erect  a 
new  theater  here  at  4th  and  Main  Streets;  It  witt 
be  in  charge   of   Frank   Haver. 

Barring-ton,  Ills. — Architect  Geo.  E.  Morris  is 
drawing  plans  for  a  new  motion  picture  theater 
to   be  erected  here. 

Colorado  Springs,  Colo.— Theo.  Loreh,  will  soon 
open  his  new  theater  which  is  being  erected  at  a 
cost  of  $150,000. 

Burlington,  Wis.  —  The  Teutonia  society  pur- 
chased the  Interest  of  H,  it.  Colburn  and  F.  W. 
Boulden    in    the    Orphemii    moving    picture    business 


at  the  Burlington  opera  house  and  is  now  the  sole 
owner  of  the  same.  H.  H.  Oolburn  will  continue  as 
manager  of  the  theater  for  the  present  at  least. 

Buffalo,    N.    Y.— M,    N.    Mark,   303  W.   Ferry  will 
build  a  motion  picture  theater  here  to  cost  $90,000. 
Buffalo,    N.    Y.— Carmel    Battlsta,    98    Dante,    Is 
altering  building   for  a   motion   picture  theater. 

Buffalo,    N.     Y.— Levyn    Michaels,    205    Allen    Is 
building   a  motion   picture   theater  to  cost  $45,000. 
Buffalo,    N.    Y.^Jno.    R.    Clshel,    257    Virginia    is 
building  a  motion  picture  theater  to  cost  $15,000. 

Buffalo,   N.   Y.^Jno.  J.   Maher,   186  Rhode  Island 

is  building  a  motion  picture  theater  to  cost  $15,000. 

Buffalo,   N.   y. — Jubilee  Realty   Co.,    1284  Niagara 

is   building   a   motion   picture  theater  to   cost   $20,- 

000. 

Buffalo,  N.  y. — Martin  Pfeuthner,  943  Jefferson 
Is  building  a  motion  picture  theater  to  cost  $13,- 
000. 

Detroit,  Mich. — Schliess  &  Bachman,  general 
contractors  have  the  contract  to  build  the  new  Em- 
pire theater  at  Detroit  to  cost  $40,000. 

Oroflno,  Idaho. — Theo.  Fohl  will  erect  a  moving 
picture    theater   building. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — S.  J.  Reich  will  erect  a  mov- 
ing picture  theater  at  1708  Susquehanna  Avenue  for 
Wm.    Cohen  to  cost  $12,000. 

Boston,  Mass. — A  new  theater  will  be  erected 
on  Tremont  St.  A.  L.  Wilbur,  manager,  in  asso- 
ciation   with   the  Shuberts. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y, — Shampan  &  Shampan  have 
drawn  plans  for  a  new  theater  to  be  erected  at 
tbe  northeast  corner  of  Bath  and  20th  Avenues, 
Bath  Beach  for  I.  Novlck  &  Co.,  of  Manhattan  as 
owners. 

Woodstock,  nis. — This  city  is  to  have  another 
moving  picture  theater.  Wlttenburg  &  Boden- 
scbate,  will  open  a  first-class  house.  Geo.  L. 
Murphy  will  erect  the  building. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Wm.  R.  Dougherty,  has  been 
awarded  the  contract  to  build  a  theater  at  Berwyn 
for  Richard  Zimmerman.  Plans  by  Stearns  and 
Castor. 

Brighton,  la. — T.  Thompson  will  erect  a  new 
opera  house  here. 

Barbourville,  Ky. — J.  F.  Hawn  and  others  will 
erect   a   moving   picture   theater  here. 

Davenport,  la. — Arthur  H.  Bbeling  bas  plans  for 
the   erection   of   a  moving  picture   theater  here. 

Clinton,  la. — Hart  Brothers  will  erect  a  new 
picture  house  here. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. — Leo.  O.  Teller,  manager  of  the 
Broadway  Theater,  will  erect  a  moving  picture 
theater  io  cost   $180,000. 

Meridian,  Miss.— S.  H.  Floyd  has  plans  for  a 
moving    picture    theater. 

Okmulgee,  Okla. — This  city  will  erect  a  new 
opera  bouse. 

Los  Angeles,  Calif. — The  general  contract  has 
been  let  to  F.  O.  Engstrum  Co.  at  $105,000  for  the 
erection  of  a  theater  for  Mrs.  L.   Ducommun, 

West  Point,  Va. — J.  W.  Owens  is  having  plans 
prepared  by  Shepherd  and  Peale,  Inc.  and  Chas. 
K.   Bryant,  of  Richmond,   for  a  theater. 

Logansport,  La. — C.  R.  and  J.  W.  Caraway  will 
erect   a   moving  picture  theater. 

Tunkhannock,  Pa. — Mr.  Burkee  bas  secured  a 
lease  on  the  Piatt  Opera  House  and  will  open  a 
moving    picture    show. 

Eagle  Grove,  la. — Mr.  Bottgar  has  opened  the 
Eagle  Theater. 

Tulsa,  Okla. — R.  W.  Castle  &  Son  and  Harry 
Castle,  purchased  tbe  Palace  Theater  from  Carl 
Gtegg. 

Norwich,  N.  Y, — Bids  for  tbe  building  of  a  new 
theater  here  will  be  received.  The  Delaney  Amuse- 
ment Co.  will  own  and  operate  It. 

Platteville,  Wis. — The  Grand  Theater  has  come 
under  new  management  with  P.  J.  Williamson  as 
manager. 

Olens  Falls,  N.  Y. — Tbe  McCarthy  building  has 
been  remodeled  for  a  moving  picture  theater.  Jos. 
Delaronde,    promoter. 

Muscatine,  la. — Geo.  Frank  Dippel,  will  draw 
plans  for  a  moving  picture  theater  here. 

Harlan,  la. — Tbe  Photoplay  theater  bas  changed 
hands,  Mrs.  Allen  selling  to  Jos.  Bishop  and  Geo. 
Fowler. 

Lamoni,  la. — T.  C.  Higgins  and  Henry  Webb 
have  let  tbe  contract  for  an  airdome  to  be  built 
at  Kellerton. 

Imperial,  Cal. — Wm.  McHenry  has  purchased  two 
lots  in  8tb  Street,  Just  west  of  Imperial  Avenue, 
and   has  ordered  plans   for  a   play-house. 

North  Tazewell,  Va.— <H.  C.  Peery,  of  this  city,  is 
contemplating   erecting    an   opera    house    here. 

Timpson,  Tex. — P.  W.  McKittrick  is  remodeling 
the  Johnson  building,  to  be  used  as  a  picture  show 
and   opera  bouse. 

Eisinore,  Cal, — Tbos.  Lee  has  the  contract  to 
erect  a  moving  picture  theater  at  Bath  and  Main 
Streets   for   Tbos.   Carmady. 

Spencerville,  0. — This  city  will  erect  a  new 
opera  house.  M.  C.  Shricker,  proprietor  and  owner 
of  the  Consevertory  hotel,  has  instructed  his  archi- 
tect  to   draft   plans  for  same. 

Little  Rock,  Ark. — M.  Sanders  has  prepared  plans 
for  a  $75,000  picture  theater. 

Catskill,  N.  Y. — This  city  is  to  have  a  new 
$50,000  theater  and  the  plans  for  it  are  being 
made  by  E.  0.  Horn  &  Son,  well-known  theatrical 
architects   of   New   York   City. 

Crooksvillo,  0.— A  theater  to  cost  $30,000  will 
be  erected  in  this  city  during  the  coming  summer 
on   the  old  Taylor  lot  In  W.   Main  Street. 


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NEW  YORK  STATE  EXHIBITORS  GREATER  NEW  YORK 

THE  DEMAND  FOR  THE  MAGNIFICENT  PHOTO-PRODUCTION 

OF 


Biggest  of  all  hits 
in  the  history  of  film 
play. — N.    Y.   Journal. 

The  Prisoner  of 
Zenda  is  better  in  mo- 
tion pictures  than  the 
original  production. — 
N.  y.  Press. 


Mr.  JAMES  K.  HACKETT  in 

"The  Prisoner  of  Zenda" 


A  work  of  art — an 
achievement  —  a  reve- 
lation thought  i  m  - 
possible  at  this  early 
stage  of  the  motion 
pictures. — JV.  Y.  Tele- 
gram. 


LICENSED  BY  THE  MOTION  PICTURE  PATENTS  CO. 

Has  been  so  great  that  we  have  been  compelled  to  procure  from  the  FAMOUS  PLAYERS 
FILM  COMPANY  several  additional  prints  in  order  to  accommodate  all  who  desire 
to  secure  this  great  masterpiece. 

This  marvelous  production  has  filled  to  capacity  all  the  "  Loew "  Houses,  including  the 
Broadway  and  Herald  Square  Theatres,  and  is  now  being  exhibited  to  record  attend- 
ance at  the  Morse  &  Brill  Houses. 

The  best  trade  critics  claim  this  to  be  the  strongest  and  most  elaborately  portrayed  photo 
play  ever  produced. 

Should  you  desire  to  avail  yourself  of  the  opportunity  of  exhibiting  this  wonderful  photo  production  of  what 
was  undoubtedly  Mr.  Hackett's  greatest  success  on  the  American  stage,  better  wire  or  write  at  once 
for  bookings  to 

^X^oif^L^T^'&^i  Wm.  L.  Sherry  Feature  Film  Co.,  Inc., 

2&£   Wr^p^l  SSLES  Suite  301,  Times  Building,  NEW  YORK  CITY 


CARBONS 


THE  carbon  is  a  small  item  in  the  expense  of  a  motion  picture  theatre;  but 
it  is  the  most  important  factor  in  the  production  of  clear,  steady  pictures.^ 
Brilliant  white  light  with  steady,  noiseless  burning  has  been  the  distin- 
guishing quality  that  has  made 

"ELECTRA"    PINK    LABEL    CARBONS 

the  choice  of  well-informed  operators.     Their  use  insures  a  perfect  arc,  requiring 
least  adjustment. 


PINK 


LABEL 


•TRADE     MARK' 


HUGO  REISINGER 

11   BROADWAY  sole  .  importer  new  YORK 


INDEX 


ADVERTISING     FOR     EXHIBITORS     371 

"AN    ACCIDENTAL   ALIBI"     (Edison)     381 

AT  THE  SIGN  OF  THE   FLAMING  ARCS 387 

"BATTLE   FOR   FREEDOM,    THE"    (Kalem) 360 

BUFFALO      391 

CALENDAR    OF    LICENSED    RELEASES 396 

CALENDAR    OF    INDEPENDENT    RELEASES.  .398 

CALIFORNLV     CENSORSHIP     LAW      383 

CHICAGO     LETTER      366 

COMMENTS    ON    THE    FILMS     (Licensed) 379 

COMMENTS  ON  THE  FILMS   (Independent) 381 

CORRESPONDENCE      391 

"DEAD    ALIVE,    THE"    (Ganmont)    363 

DOINGS    AT    LOS    ANGELES    367 


CARBON  IMPORTERS. 

FRORUP,    L.    E 401 

KIEWERT,    CHARLES   L 434 

REISINGER,    HUGO    425 

ELECTRICAL  &  MECHANICAL  EQUIPMENT. 

AMUSEMENT  SUPPLY    CO 437 

BELL    &    HOWELL 402 

BENDER,    GEORGE 437 

CALEHUFF   SUPPLY    CO 401 

CAPITOL   MERCHANDISE   CO 437 

OUSHMAN   MOTOR  WORKS 395 

DETROIT    ENGINE    WORKS 432 

FORT   WAYNE   ELECTRIC   WORKS 432 

GENERAL   ELECTRIC  CO 427 

HALLBERG,   J.   H 407 

HOKE,    GEORGE    M 438 

MYERS  MANUFACTURING  CO 438 

PICTURE  THEATRE  EQUIPMENT  CO 432 

SAFETY   BLEC.   CO 437 

SCHNEIDER,    B 438 

SMITH,   L.   O.  &  CO 402 

STERN   MANUFACTURING  CO 401 

FEATURE  FILMS. 

ALLARDT   FEATURE   FILM   CO 437 

AMERICA'S  FEATURE  FILM  CO 437 

ARCO  FEATURE  FILM  CO 437 

ECLECTIC    FILMS 342-343 

FAMOUS   PLAYERS  FILM   CO 341 

FULLER'S    FEATURES 433 

GENERAL  FILM  CO 348-9,  393,  404,  405 

GT.  NORTHERN  SPECIAL  FEATURE  FILM  C0.413 

M.   &  F.   FEATURE  FILM  CO 402,  298 

MONOPOL    FILM    CO 434-6 

MOORE,    F.    E 421 

NEW  YORK  FILM  CO 400 

NORTHERN    VENTURES 395 

OREGON  M.  P.  CO 423 

ROYAL  FEATURE  FILM   CO 435 

ROYAL  FEATURE  FILM  CO.    (Columbus,  Ohio).. 436 

SHERRY,    WM.    L 425 

SPECIAL   EVENT  FILM   CO 437 

VITA  FILM  SALES  CO 435 

TRUE    FEATURES 395 

WARNER'S  FEATURES 429 

IMPORTERS  &  DEALERS. 

WESTERN  FILM  BROKERS 437 

FIREPROOF  APPARATUS. 

H.   W.   JOHNS-MANVILLE  CO 434 

TRAINER,    C.    W 437 

FILM  EXCHANGES. 

BLAOKSTONE  FILM  AMUSEMENT  CO 432 

BRADENBURG,   G.   W 401 

CLAPHAM,    A.    J 394 

EAGLE  FEATURE  FILM  CO 434 


TO  CONTENTS. 

EDUCATIONAL     PICTURE,     THE     365 

EDUCATIONAL     TEMPERANCE, 

—A    CRITICAL    REVIEW     364 

FACTS    AND    COMMENTS     355 

FASCINATING     CRIMINAL,     THE     356 

FLICKERS     388 

INDEPENDENT     FILM     STORIES      414 

INDEPENDENT     RELEASE     DATES     428 

"INTO    THE    NORTH"     (Bssanay)     358 

INQUIRIES     374 

"LES   MISERABLES"    (Eclectic) 362 

LICENSED    FILM    STORIES     403 

LICENSED    RELEASE    DATES     430 

MANUFACTURERS     ADVANCE     NOTES     390 

TO  ADVERTISERS. 

GREATER  N.   Y.   FILM  RENTING  CO 415 

G-T'NB Y    BROTHERS 402 

HETZ,    L 438 

LAEMMLB  FILM  SERVICE 394 

LAKESIDE    FILM    E-XOHANGE :..  437 

MUTUAL  FILM  CORPORATION 399 

NORTHERN    FEATURE    FILM    EXCHANGE 436 

X-L   FEATURE   FILM   CO 394 

INDEPENDENT  FILM  MANUFACTURERS. 

AMBROSIO  AMERICAN  FILM  CO 411 

AMERICAN     ?A4 

BRONCHO  FILM  CO 339 

G  AUMONT    340 

KAY-BEE     339 

KEYSTONE     339 

KINEMACOLOR  CO.  OF  AMERICA 394,  417 

MAJESTIC  402 

N.   Y.   MOTION   PICTURE  CO 346-7 

RELIANCE   417 

SOLAX    345 

THANHOCSER    334 

UNIVERSAL   FILM   MANUFACTURERS 336-7-9 

LICENSED  FILM  MANUFACTURERS. 

EDISON    351 

ESSANAY    335 

KALEM    354,  409 

LUBIN    352 

MELIES    439 

P ATHE    FRERES 350 

SELIG   421 

VITAGRAPH    353 

LECTURERS. 

ADAMS.    GEO.    M 438 

BUSH,    W.    S 401 

MARION,    L.    M.     (Miss) 433 

SMITH,    NAT   B 403 

LENS  MANUFACTURERS. 

BAUSOH    &    LOMB 400 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

A.    B.    O.    CO 426 

AMERICAN  CINEMATOGRAPH  CO 394 

AMERICAN  SCHOOL  OF  CORRESPONDENCE.  .  .434 

AMERICAN    SLIDE   &   POSTER   CO 430 

AMERICAN    TALKING    MACHINE   CO 419 

BRADY,    A 403 

BURKE,     J.     R 398 

CHALMERS  PUBLISHING   CO 400 

CLASSIFIED  ADVERTISEMENTS   392 

CORCORAN,    A.    J 437 

COSS,    W.   0 402 

EASTMAN    KODAK    CO 435 

EXHIBITORS'   ADV.    &  SPECIALTY  CO 396 

EXHIBITORS'   FILM   INSURANCE   CO 433 


MOTION    PICTURE    EXHIBITORS    LEAGUE...   383 

MOVING    PICTURE    EDUCATOR,    THE    364 

NEW    YORK    BENEFIT    A    BIG    SUCCESS     ....360 
OBSERVATIONS   BY    MAN   ABOUT   TOWN    ....370 

OPEN    LETTER    TO    PRESIDENT    NEFF    388 

PHILADELPHIA      391 

PHOTOPLAYWRIGHT,     THE     373 

PITTSBURGH     391 

PROJECTION      DEPARTMENT      375 

STORIES   OF  THE   FILMS    (Licensed)    403 

STORIES    OF    THE    FILMS    (Independent)     414 

SUCCESSFUL    ORGANIZER,    A    357 

"THROUGH  TEST  OF  FIRE"    (G.   Northern) ...  .363 

WARNER    BACK    FROM    LONG    TRIP     359 

WISCONSIN     CONVENTION      384 

FIREPROOF  FILM  CO 435 

HUME,  T.  D.,  &  CO ".'437 

KEN  VON,    C 402 

KRAUSE   MFG.    CO 403 

LUMIERE- JOUGLA    CO .  434 

MclNTYRE    &    RICHTER 437 

McKBNNA  BROS.  BRASS  CO 394 

MORTIMER   FILM  CLEANER 437 

MOTION    PICTUTtE  CAMERA   CO 408 

NATIONAL    TICKET    CO 428 

NATIONAL    WATERPROOFING    FILM    CO 391 

NATIONAL   X-RAY    REFLECTOR   CO 401 

NEWMAN    CO 438 

PHOTO  ART  CO 437 

RAW   FILM  SUPPLY   CO 401 

REYNOLDS  &  CO.,  B.  F 435 

SARGENT,    E.    W 438 

STANGE,     A.     K 437 

VAN  HORN    &  SON 437 

VITAPHONE     CO 423 

VONNEGUT    HARDWARE    CO 435 

WHYTE,   WHITMAN  CO 433 

ZENITH    MFG.    CO 43T 

MOVING  PICTURE  MACHINE  MANUFACTURERS. 

AMERICAN    401 

EDISON    351 

ENTERPRISE   OPTICAL   CO 407 

POWERS    CAMERAGRAPH 440 

SIMPLEX    397 

MUSICAL  INSTRUMENTS. 

AMERICAN   PHOTOPLAYER  SALES   CO 437 

DEAGAN,   J.    0 431 

SCHCELKE   AUTOMATIC  MUSIC   CO 438 

SINN,    C.    E 438 

WURLITZER,     RUDOLPH 400 

OPERA  CHAIR   MANUFACTURERS. 

AMERICAN    SEATING    CO 438 

ANDREWS,  A.  H 438 

BENNET,    GEO.    W 438 

STEEL    FURNITURE    CO 438 

WISCONSIN    SEATING    CO 438 

PROJECTION  SCREENS. 

AMERICAN    THEATRE   CURTAIN    CO 436 

MIRRORIODE    CO 436 

MIRROR   SCREEN  CO 395 

SONG  &  ADVERTISING   SLIDES. 

ERKER   BROS 394 

MIDLAND    TRANSPARENCY    CO 437 

NIAGARA  SLIDE  CO 395 

SIMPSON,    A.    L 394 

UTILITY  TRANSPARENCY  CO 395 

THEATRICAL  ARCHITECTS. 

DECORATORS'   SUPPLY  CO 394 


One,  Three  and  Six  Sheet  Posters 

NOW  READY  FOR 
LUBIN'S  Two  Reel  Special  "THROUGH  MANY  TRIALS"  Released  April  30th,  and 
KALEM'S   Saturday  Subject  "THE  WAYWARD   SON"  Released  May  3rd. 

ALSO  THREE  SHEETS  for  releases  of  the  week  of  April  28th 

KALEM 

The  Haunted  House 
The  Wayward  Son 


LUBIN 

In  the  Harem  of  Haschem      The  Veil  of  Sleep 
GRANNY  The  Girl  Back  East 

Fixing  Auntie  Up 

A.  B.  C.  COMPANY 


BIOGRAPH 

The  Daylight  Burglar 
If  We  Only  Knew 
The  Wanderer 


Cleveland,  Ohio 


426 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


427 


This  Tr-ade Marte  The  Guarantee  of  Excellence  on  Goods    Electrical. 


Better  Pictures 
At  Less  Cost 

The  use  of  a  G-E  Rectifier  to  fur- 
nish direct  current  for  a  projector  not 
only  greatly  improves  the  quality  of  the 
pictures,  but  in  addition  it  materially 
reduces  the  current  consumption. 

Even  with  the  best  economizers,  the 
alternating  current  lamp  is  so  much  less 
efficient  for  projecting  pictures  than  the 
direct  current  lamp,  that  the  use  of  the 
rectifier  will  make  a  substantial  saving 
in  the  cost  of  electricity. 

When  no  economizer  is  used,  to  produce  the  same  amount 
of  light  the  alternating  current  lamp  requires  four  times  as  much 
current  as  the  direct  current  lamp  and  rectifier. 

Write  our  nearest  office  for  Booklet  B-3107  giving  results  of 
tests  of  comparative  current  consumption  of  alternating  current 
lamps  with  and  without  economizers,  direct  current  lamp  with 
rheostats  and  direct  current  lamp  with  a  rectifier  taking  current 
from  an  alternating  current  circuit. 

General  Electric  Company 


Atlanta,  Ga. 
Baltimore,   ltd. 
Birmingham,    Ala. 
Boise,    Idaho 
Boston,  Mass. 
Buffalo,    N.   Y. 
Bntte,    llont. 
Charleston,    W.   Va. 
Charlotte,  N.  C. 
Chattanooga,  Tenn. 
Chicago,  111. 

For  Texas  and 
Honston 


Cincinnati,  Ohio 
CleTeland,    Ohio 
Columbus,  Ohio 
Davenport,  Iowa 
Dayton,  Ohio 
Denver,  Colo. 
Detroit,    Mich., 

(Office  of  Agent) 
Elmira,   N.  Y. 
Erie,   Pa. 
Indianapolis,    Ind. 

Oklahoma  business 
and  Oklahoma  City. 


Largest  ElectricalManufacturer  in  the  World 
General  Office:      Schenectady,  N.  Y. 
ADDRESS    NEAREST  OFFICE 


Jacksonville,  Fla. 
Joplin,   Mo. 
Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Keokuk,  Iowa 
Knoxville,   Tenn. 
Los  Angeles,  Cal. 


Louisville,  Ky. 
Mattoon,   111. 
Memphis,    Tenn. 
Milwaukee,   Wis. 
Minneapolis,    Minn. 
Nashville,   Tenn. 


New  Haven,  Conn. 
New  Orleans,  La. 
New  York,  N.  Y. 
Omaha,   Neb. 
Philadelphia,    Pa. 
Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Portland,  Ore. 
Providence,    R.    L 
Richmond,    Va. 
Rochester,   N.  Y. 
Salt  Lake  Oity,  Utah 


San  Francisco,  OaL 
St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Schenectady,  N.  Y. 
Seattle,  Wash. 
Spokane,    Wash. 
Springfield,  Mass. 
Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Toledo,  Ohio 
Washington,  D.  O. 
Youngstown,  Ohio 


refer  to  Southwest  General  Electric  Company    (formerly   Hobson   Electric  Co.)— Dallas,   Bl   Paso, 
For  Canadian  business  refer  to  """*'*"  General  Electric  Company,   Ltd.,   Toronto,   Ont 


•40-42 


The  Trade  Mark,  of  the  Largest  Eleetpieal  rtanu-factupei3   in  The  WopIcj. 


428 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


AMERICAN. 

Apr.  14 — Suspended   Sentence    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  IT— In  Another's   Nest    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  18— The  Ways  of  Fate   (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  21— Boobe  and  Bricks   (Oomedy) 1000 

Apr.  24 — When  Jim  Returned  (Com. -Dr.) 1000 

Apr.  26— Calamity    Anne's   Trust    (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.  28 — Oil     On     Troubled     Waters     (2     parts. 

Drama) 2000 

May     1 — The  Tattooed   Arm    (Drama) 

May     3— The  Road  to  Ruin  (Drama) 1000 

AMBR0BI0. 
Ifar.  22— Lore   Levels  All    (2    reels)    (Drama).. 
Mar.  29 — The  Human  Target    (2  reels — Drama) 

Apr.     8— For    Hla    Sake    (2    reels — Drama) 

Apr.  12 — Auto  Suggestion;  or  the  Crime  of  An- 
other   (2    reel3 — Drama) 

Apr.  10 — Child  Labor  Traffic  (2  parts,  Drama) . . 
Apr.  26 — Golden  Rain   (2  reels,  Drama) 

'•it.  IS— The   Cowgirl    and   the   Night    (Drama)  .1000 

Feb.  20 — The  Coward   (Drama) 1000 

Teh.  27— The    Quality    of    Mercy     (Drama) 1000 

Mar.     0 — Kith    and    Kin     (Drama) 

Mar.  II — Wine,    Women  and   Reformation    (Dr.) 

BISON. 

Apr.     IS — Tap  (2  part*.    Drama) 

Apr.  8 — Bedford's  Hope  (3  parts — Drama)... 
Apr.  12 — The  Darling  of  the  Regiment   (2  reels 

— Drama)      

Apr.  1!5 — War  (3  parts,  Drama) 

Apr.  19 — The  Last  Roll  Call  (2-pans  Drama).. 
Apr.  22 — Bred  In  the  Bone  (3  parts,  Drama) . . 
Apr.  28 — The  Black  Chancellor  (3  parts.  Dr.) 
Apr.  29— -The  Last  Roll  Call  (2  parts.  Drama).. 
May  3 — The  Vengeance  of  the  Skystone  (2 
parts,  Drama) 

BRONCHO. 

Mar.  26— The  Iconoclast    (3  reels — Drama) 

Apr.  2 — The  Sinews  of  War  (2  parts.  Drama) 
Apr.  9 — The  Grey  Sentinel  (2  parts — Drama) 
Apr.  16 — A   Southern    Cinderella    (3   parts,    Dr.) 

Apr.  23 — Retrogression    (2   parts,    Drama) 

Apr.  30 — Bread  Cast  Upon  the  Waters  (2  parts, 
Drama) 

CHAMPION. 

Apr.     7 — Shanghaied   (Drama)   

Apr.     7— The       Llfe-Savers      of      Chlcamocomo 

(Vocational)      

Apr.  14 — Lena's  Flirtation   (Comedy) 

Apr.  21 — When    Strong   Men   Meet    (Drama) 

Apr.  28 — The  Clown   Hero    (Comedy) 

Apr.  28 — Life  In  Soudan    (Sociology) 

CRT8TAL. 

Apr.  20 — His  Romantic   Wife   (Comedy) 

Apr.  20 — Two  Lunatics    (Comedy) 

Apr.  27 — Forgetful    Flossie    (Comedy) 

Apr.  27 — A  Joke  on  the  Sheriff   (Comedy) 

May    e-^-Pearl  As  a  Detective   (Comedy) 

May    4 — O!    Whiskers!    (Comedy) 

ECLAIR. 

Apr.  28 — Mathilda   (2  parts,   Drama) 

Apr.  27— The  Law  of  the  Wild  (Drama) 

Apr.  30 — The  Return  of  Crime  (2  parts,  Drama) 

May    4 — Bewitched  Matches   (Comedy) 

May    4 — Salamanders   (Scientific) 

EXCELSIOR. 
Mar.  24 — The  Legends  of  the  Everglade  (Dr.).. 
Mar.  SI — The  Romance  of  a  Fisher  Boy  (Drama) 
Apr.  7 — Temperamental  Alice  (Comedy-Drama) 
Apr.  14 — The  Moving  Picture  Girl  (Drama).... 
Apr.  21— The  Man  from  the  City  (Drama) 

FRONTIER. 
Apr.  19 — Why   the  Ranger  Resigned   (Drama) . . 
Apr.  24 — The    Daughter   of   the   Sheep   Rancher 

(Drama) 

Apr.  26— The  Old  Maid's  Last  Attempt   (Com.) 

May    1 — The   Word  of  Jose   (Drama) 

May    3— An    Eastern    Cyclone    at    Bluff    Ranch 

(Comedy) 


GAUM0NT. 
Apr.     2 — Gaumont's   Weekly,    No.    56    (Newa) . . 
Apr.     3 — Marriage  by  the  Wholesale  (Comedy).. 

Apr.     3 — Exotic  Fish   (Zoology) 

Apr.     6—  (An   Educational  and  Topical  Subject) 

Apr.     8— The  Angel  of  Mercy   (Drama) 

Apr.  9 — Gaomont'a  Weekly,  No.  57  (News) . . 
Apr.  10 — The    Cupidity    of    Cupid    (Com. -Dr.).. 

Apr.  10 — On    the    Firing   Line    (Comedy) 

Apr.  15— Lobsters,  All  Styles   (Comedy) 

Apr.  16 — Gaumont's  Weekly,  No.  58  (Topical) 
Apr.  17 — When  Scandal  Threatened  (Drama) . . . 
Apr.  19 — (An    Educational    &    Topical    Subject) 

OEM. 

Apr.  15 — Billy    Turns    Burglar     (Comedy) 

Apr.  15 — The  Laplanders  (Typical)   

Apr.  22— Burglarizing    Billy    (Oomedy) 

Apr.  22 — Against    the    Law    (Comedy) 

Apr.  29 — Billy's   Suicide    (Comedy) 

Apr.  29 — Views   of  Cape   Hatteras    (Scenic) 

GREAT  NORTHERN. 

Mar.  29 — Fred  aa  a  Soldier   (Comedy) 

Mar.  29 — Summer  In  the  North   (Scenic) 

Apr.     5 — A  Skipper's  Story    (Comedy) 

Apr.     5 — Under  Southern  Sklea    (Physical  Geog- 
raphy)   

Apr.  12— The        Bewitched         Rubber        Shoes 

(Comedy)     

Apr.  12 — Spanish     Towns      (Scenic) 

Apr.  19 — The  Two  Convicts    (Drama) 

Apr.  26 — Told  In  Confidence    (Drama) 

TM-p 

Apr.  21 — The  Regeneration  of  John  Storm  (Dr.) 

Apr.  24 — A   Sprig  of  Shamrock    (Comedy) 

Apr.  26 — Why   Men   Leave  Home    (Comedy) 

Apr.  26 — Pottery    Industry     (Comedy) 

Apr.  28 — The  Cub   (Drama) 

May     1 — The  Rise  of  Officer  174  (2  parts,  Dr.) 

May    3 — Her  Lover's  Voice  (Comedy) 

May    3— Opening   of    the   1913   Baseball   Season 
(Topical) 

KAY-BEE. 

Mar.  28 — Texaa  Kelly  at  Bay   (Drama) 

Apr.  4 — With  Lee, In  Virginia  (2  parte.  Drama) 
Apr.  11 — On  Fortune's  Wheel   (2  parts — Drama) 

Apr.  18 — The  Runaways   (Comedy) 

Apr.  25 — Will  O'  the  Wisp  (2  parts,  Drama).. 
May.     2 — A  Black  Conspiracy  (2  parts,  Drama) 

KEYSTONE. 

Apr.  14 — A  Life  in  the  Balance  (Comedy) 

Apr.  17 — Murphy's  I.  0.  U   (Comedy) 

Apr.  17— A  Dollar  Did   It    (Comedy) 

Apr.  21— Cupid  In  a  Dental  Parlor   (Comedy).. 

Apr.  24 — A  Fishy  Affair   (Comedy) 

Apr.  24 — The   Bangville    Police    (Comedy) 

Apr.  28 — The  New  Conductor   (Comedy) 

Apr.  28 — His  Chum,   the  Baron   (Comedy) 

May     1— That  Bag  Time  Band   (Comedy) 

LUX. 

Apr.  11 — Sacrificed    to    the    Lions    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  18 — The  Leopard  Avenger   (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  25— A  Safeguard  for  Bachelors  (Comedy)..  315 
Apr.  25 — The  Truant   Husband    (Comedy) 695 

MAJESTIC. 

Apr.     8— The     Night     Riders     (Drama) 

Apr.  13 — Pedro'a   Revenge    (Drama) 

Apr.  15 — I    Love    You    (Drama) 

Apr.  15 — The    Leaning    Tower    of   Pisa    (Monu- 
mental)  

Apr.  20 — The  Mote  and  the  Beam  (Drama) 

Apr.  22 — Not  for  Mine   (Comedy) 

MECCA. 
Mar.     1— A  ttranger  la  the  Bscklas   (Drama) . .       , 
Mar.     8— The    Inauguration    of    President     Wil- 
son   (Topical)    

Mar.  15 — The   Fisher   Lady    (Drama) 

Mar.  22 — The  Lineman  and  the  Reformer   (Dr.) 

Mar.  29 — The   Criminals    (Drama) 

Apr.     6— By  the  Cnxate'a  Aid  (Drama) 

aOLANO. 

Feb.  15 — Out  »t  the  Depths   (2  reels — Drama).. 

April      1— A  Study  In  Sociology   (Drama) 

Feb.  22— Parted  at  the  Altar  (2  reels  I  (Dr.) 
Mar.     1— The  Defeat  ef  the  Conqueror  (2  reels) 

(Historical) 

Mar.  8— The  Victory  of  Virtue  (2  reels)  (Dr.) 
Mar.  IB— The    Sins    of    the    Father     (2    reels) 

(Drama) 

MUTUAL  WEEKLY. 

Mar.  26— Mutual  Weekly,  No.  13   (Newa) 

Apr.     2— Mutual  Weekly,    No.  14   (Newa) 

Apr.     9 — Mutual  Weekly,   No.  15   (Newa) 

Apr.  16— Mutual  Weekly,   No.   18   (News) 

Apr.  23 — Mutual  Weekly,   No.    17   (News) 


MUTUAL  EDUCATIONAL. 
Apr.  10 — The    Golden    Horn,     Turkey     (Scenic) 

'Apr.  17 — Willy  and  the  Conjuror   (Comedy) 

Apr.  17 — Village     Customs     in     Ceylon,      India 

(Manners    and    Customs) 

Apr.  24 — Funnicus  is  Tired  of  Life  (Comedy) . . 
Apr.  24 — Electrical  Phenomenon   (Physics)...... 

May    1— The  Old  Invalid   (Drama) 

May    1 — Tachkent,     Asiatic     Russia     (Political 

Geography) 

NESTOR. 

Apr.  11— The    Forgotten    Letter    (Drama) 

Apr.  14— -A  Night  of  the  Garter   (Comedy) 

Apr.  14 — Dad's   Surprise    (Comedy) 

Apr.  16 — An  Affray  of  Honor  (Drama) 

Apr.  18 — Paying   for  Silence   (Drama) 

Apr.  21 — His   Friend   Jimmle    (Comedy) 

Apr.  23 — The  Sheriff's  Warning    (Drama) 

Apr.  25 — For  Her   Sake    (Drama) 

Apr.  28 — When  Father  Was  Kidnapped    (Com.) 

Apr.  30 — The  Greater  Love   (Comedy) 

May    2 — The    lngrate    (Drama) 

POWERS. 

Apr.    9 — The    Elixir    of    Youth    (Comedy) 

Apr.  11 — The    Fear     (Drama) 

Apr.  16 — The    Lesson    (Drama) 

Apr.  18 — The  Troubadour  of  the  Rancho  (Dr.).. 

Apr.  23 — When    Dolly    Died    (Drama) 

Apr.  25 — The  Sham  Suffragette   (Comedy) 

Apr.  30 — In   a   Strange  Land   (Drama) 

May    2 — Neighbors    (Comedy) 

PUNCH. 

Feb.  27— Tracked    to    Florida    (Oeaaedy) 

Mar.     6 — Impetuoua     Jim     (Corned?) 

Mar.     6 — No    Wedding    Baa*    for   Jenes    (Cobb.) 

Mar.  13 — Father    Tamed     (Comedy) 

Mar.  13 — Hla    First    Kodak     (Comedy) 

PILOT. 
Mar.  20— Till  Death  Do  Us  Part  (2  reels)   (Dr.) 
Mar.  27 — When    Lincoln    waa    Prealdent     (BS» 

totteal-Drama)    

Apr.     3— In  the  Battle's  Smoke  (Drama) 

Apr.  10 — Across   the   Border    (Drama) 

Apr.  17 — The    Promoter    (Drama) 

RAMO. 

Mar.  12— The   Better    Way    (Drama) 

Mar.  19— The    Dividing     Line     (Comedy) 

Mar.  26 — The  Grip  ef  Jealousy    (Drama) 

April  2— The  Last  Ola  Lady    (Comedy) 

April  2 — Rapid  Transit  in   New   York 

RELIANCE. 

Apr.    9 — The  Stronger  Call   (Drama) 

Apr.  12 — For  Love   of  Columbine    (Drama) 

Apr.  16 — Held  for  Ransom    (2  parts.   Drama).. 

Apr.  19 — The  She   Wolf    (Drama) 

Apr.  23 — The  Hoodoo  Pearls  (Drama) 

REX. 

Apr.  17 — A  Friend  of  the  Family  (Drama) 

Apr.  20 — A  Book  of  Verses    (Drama) 

Apr.  24 — The  Dragon's   Breath    (2   parte   Dr.).. 

Apr.  27— The  Wayward  Sister   (Drama) 

May    1 — The  Turn  of  the  Tide   (Drama) 

May    4 — The   Rosary    (Drama) 

RYN0. 

Mar.  IT — Memories  of  Long  Ago   (Drama) 

Mar.  24— The  Sea  Waif   (Drama) 

Mar.  31 — Memories   ot    Long    Ago    (Drama) 

Apr.    4 — Classmates     (Drama)      

Apr.    7 — The     Outcast     (Drama) 

Apr.  11— Off    the    Mainland     (Drama) 

mix, 

Apr.    4 — The   Ogres    (Drama) 

Apr.    9— The     Lady     Doctor     (Comedy) 

Apr.  11 — His  Son-ln-Law    (Drama) 

Apr.  16— The  Mystery  of  the  Lost  Cat  (Comedy) 

Apr.  18— Where  Love  Dwells    (Drama) 

Apr.  23 — His  Wife's  Affinity  (Drama) 

Apr.  25 — A  Severe  Test    (Comedy) 

THANHOUSER. 

Apr.    8 — The  Patriot   (Drama) 

Apr.  11— The  Changeling    (Drama) 

Apr.  13 — The  Dog  in  the  Baggage  Car  (Com.) 
Apr.  15 — The  Girl  and  the  Grafter   (Drama)... 

Apr.  18 — Retribution     (Drama) 

Apr.  20— The  Children's  Conspiracy  (Drama) . . . 
Apr.  22 — An  American  in  the  Making  (Drama) 
Apr.  25 — For   Another'a   Sin    (Drama) 

VICTOR. 

Apr.    4 — A  Letter  to  Mother   (Drama) 

Apr.  11 — Two    Lives    (Drama) 

Apr.  18 — The  Coward's  Charm    (Drama)    

Apr.  25— Loneliness  and  Love    (Drama) 

May    2 — The  Unseen  Influence   (Drama) 


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BIOGRAPH. 

12— The  Little  Tease  (Drama) 

14 — He  Had  a  Guess  Coming  (Comedy)... 

14 — A  Horse  on  Bill    (Comedy)    

17 — A   Frightful   Blunder    (Drama) 

19 — A   Misunderstood   Boy    (Drama)    

21— The  Left  Handed  Man   (Drama) 

24 — A    Ragtime    Romance    (Comedy) 

24 — The   Cure    (Comedy) 

26 — The    Lady    and    the    Mouse    (Drama). 

28 — Blame  the  Wife  (Comedy) 

28 — The  Daylight  Burglar  (Comedy) 

1— If  We  Only  Knew   (Drama) 

3 — The  Wanderer  (Drama) 


CTNES. 


(G.  Seine.) 

Apr.  12— On     the     Nebl     River,     East     Africa 

iPhysical     Geography) 200 

Apr.  12 — Keeping  Tab  on    Sammy    (Comedy)...  800 
Apr.  IS — The  Ancient  Town  of  Gnbblo,  Umbria, 

Central   Italy    (Scenic)    400 

Apr.   15 — Auita    the  Orphan    (Drama)    600 

Apr.  16— A    Fugitive    at    Bay     (2-parts    Drama 

Special )      1800 

Apr.    lit—  For  His  Child's  Sake   (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  22— A   Heart  of  Steel    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  .'3— The  Miser's  Millions  (3  parts,  special, 

Drama) 2700 

Apr.  26 — Views  in  Liege,    Belgium    (Scenic) 200 

Apr.  26 — Forgotten    (Drama) 800 

Apr.  29 — Scenes  and  Ruins  Near  Rome   (Trav.)  200 

Apr.  29— The  New  Arrival  (Comedy) 800 

May    2— The   Broken   Vow     (Special,     2     parts, 

Drama)   2000 

Mav    3— The  Rival  Lovers   (Comedy) 500 

May     3— Jerry's  Rebellion  (Comedy) 500 

EDISON. 

Apr.     9— The  Well  Sick  Man   (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.  11— The  Capture  of  a  Wild  Cat  (Sport)..  350 

Apr.   1 1— Rule    Thyself     (Comedy) 650 

Apr.   12— The      Man      Who      Wouldn't      Marry 

(Drama)      1000 

Apr.  14 — Jones  Gees  Shopping    (Comedy) 

Apr.  1 1— The      Rocky     Mountains     In     Winter 

(Geography)    

Apr.  15 — The    New    Pupil    (Comedy-Drama) 1000 

Apr.  16 — Seven  Years  Bad  Luck   (Comedy)    1000 

Apr.  18 — The  Man  from  the  West   (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  19 — The  Twelfth  Juror   (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  21 — Hulda    of    Holland    (Comedy-Drama) .  .1000 

Apr.  22 — An    Innocent    Informer    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  23 — His  Undesirable  Relatives  (Comedy) .  .1000 
Apr.  25 — The   High   Tide   of    Misfortune    (Being 
the    tenth    story    of    "What    Hap- 
pened to  Mary,"   Drama) 1000 

Apr.  26 — A  Splendid  Scapegrace    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  28 — When    the    Right    Man    Comes    Along 

(Comedy)   1000 

Apr.  29— The  Orphan  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  30 — A  Reluctant  Cinderella    (Comedy) 1000 

May    2 — Groundless  Suspicion  (Drama) "...1000 

May    3— Billy's  Sweetheart  (Drama) 1000 

May     5 — The    One    Hundred    Dollar    Elopement 

(Comedy-Drama)    1000 

May    6— When  Greek  Meets  Greek  (Drama) 1000 


ESSANAY. 

Apr.  12 — Broncho    Billy's    Reasen     (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  15 — The     Accusation     of     Broncho     Billy 

(Drama)     1000 

Apr.  16 — The  Capture    (Comedy)    1000 

Apr.  17 — The  Unknown    (Drama)    1000 

Apr.  18 — The  Crossing  Policeman   (Drama)    1000 

Apr.  19— Alkali    Ike's   Homecoming    (Comedy )..  1000 

Apr.  22— The  Unburied  Past  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  23— The  Rival  Salesmen   (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.  24 — City    of    Mexico    (Scenic) 1000 

Apr.  25 — The    Deacon's    Dilemma    (Comedy) ...  .1000 
Apr.  26— Broncho  Billy  and  the  Rustler's  Child 

(Drama) 1000 

Apr.  29 — Cousin  Jane   (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.  30 — Cousin  Bill   (Comedy) 1000 

May     1 — The  Story  the  Desert  Told   (Drama)  ..1000 

May     2 — A  Child's  Precaution    (Drama) 1000 

May    3— The  Crazy   Prospector    (Drama) 1000 


rTAT.TTM, 

Apr.  16— A  Plot  for  a  Million    (Drama)    1000 

Apr.  18 — The      Bravest      Girl      In      California 

(Comedy )     

Apr.  18 — The  Millionaires'  Playground  (Topical) 
Apr.  19 — The   Fire-Fighting   Zouaves    (Drama).. 

Apr.  21— The  Sneak    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  23 — The  Secret  Marriage    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  25 — The    Phoney   Singer    (Comedy) 

Apr.  25 — Japan,     the     Industrious     (Mechanical 

Engineering) 

Apr.  26 — The  Fighting  Chaplain    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  28 — The  Haunted  House  (Drama) 1000 

■  pr.  30— The  Eighth  Notch  (Drama) 

Apr.  30 — A  Coupon  Courtship   (Comedy) 

May    2 — Fatty's  Busy  Day   (Comedy) 

May     2 — Old    Women    of    the    Streets    of    New 

York  (Topical) 

May    3 — The   Wayward  Son    (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN. 

Apr.  15— The  Pawned   Bracelet    (Comedy).. 1000 

Apr.  17— The   Right   Road    (Drama)    1000 

Apr.  18 — The     Power     of     the    Cross     (2-parts- 

Speclal    Drama)     2000 

Apr.  18 — Baby's    New    Pin    (Comedy) 400 

Apr.  18 — Beating  Mother  To  It  (Comedy)   600 

Apr.  19 — A    Florida   Romance    (Drama)    1000 

Apr.  21 — Back   to   Primitive    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  22 — A    Slight    Mistake     (Comedy) 

Apr.  22 — Sunshine    Sue     (Comedy) 

Apr.  24 — The  School  Principal    (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.  25 — Diamond    Cut    Diamond    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  25 — The    End    of    the    Quest     (Special,    2 

parts,    Drama) 2000 

Apr.  26— The    Birthmark     (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  28 — In  the  Harem  of  Haschem   (Drama) .  .1000 

Apr.  29 — Granny    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  30 — Through  Many  Trials  (Special,  2  parts. 

Drama) 2000 

Mav    1— The   Veil   of   Sleep    (Drama) 1000 

May     2— The  Girl  Back  East  (Drama) 1000 

May    3— Clarence  at  the  Theater  (Comedy) 400 

May    3— Fixing  Auntie  Up   (Comedy) 600 

MELLES. 

Mar.  20— Honor    Thy    Mother     (Drama) 1000 

Mar.  27— Hlnemoa   (Drama)    1000 

Apr.    3 — The  Stolen  Tribute  to  the  King   (Dr.) 

Apr.     3 — The  River  Wanganul    (Scenic) 

Apr.  10 — The  Maoris  of  New  Zealand   (Manners 

and   Customs)     1000 

Apr.  17 — What  Is  Sauce  for  the  Goose  (Comedy)  684 
Apr.   17 — A    Tahitian    Fish    Drive     (Fishing    In- 
dustry)       

Apr.  24 — How  Chief  Te  Ponga   Won  His  Bride 

(Drama) 

Apr.  24 — A  Trip  to  the  Waitoma  Caves  of  New 

Zealand    (Geology) 

May     1 — A  Burled  Treasure  (Drama) 

May    1 — The  Home  of  Ferns   (Zoology) 

ECLIPSE. 

(O.  Bala*.) 

Mar.  19 — An    Innocent    Offender    (Drama) 1000 

Mar.  16 — Fiords     and     Waterfalls     of     Norway 

(Scenic)    SOO 

Mar.  26 — The   Crab   and     Lobster     Industry 

(Industrial)   850 

Mar.  26— He  Saw  the  Point   (Comedy) 350 

Apr.     2 — The  Fruit  of  Suspicion  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.    9 — The  Kentish  Coast,   England   (Physical 

Geography)      250 

Apr.     9 — Making   Birch    Brooms    (Trades) 300 

Apr.    9— An    Cp-to-Date    Aviator    (Comedy) 450 

Apr.  16 — The      Winner     at      the     Sweepstakes 

(Drama)      1000 

Apr.  23— A   Four-footed  Detective    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  30 — A     Picturesque    Journey     In    Western 

France  (Travel) 250 

Apr.  30 — Grandpa's    Rejuvenation    (Comedy) 350 

Apr.  30 — German    Cavalry    Maneuvres    (Mill.)..  400 


PATHEPLAY. 

Apr.  14—  Pathe's  Weekly  No.  16  (News)    

Apr.  15 — The  Fire  of  Vengeance  (Drama) 

Apr.  16 — The    Italian    Bride    (Drama) 

Apr.  17 — Glimpses     of     the     National     Capital 

(Topical)      

Apr.  17 — The  Sponge  Industry  In  Cuba  (In- 
dustry)       

Apr.  IS — School   of   Gymnastics    (Military)    

Apr.  18— The   Cuttlefish    (Zoology)    

Apr.  19 — The    Pride   of    Innocence    (Drama).... 

Apr.  21— Pathe's  Weekly,  No.   17   (News) 

Apr.  22 — Winter  Sports  at  Bodele   (Sports) 

Apr.  22 — Ancient  Greece   (Scenic) 

Apr.  23— The   Outlaw    (Drama) 

Apr.  24 — The  Thwarted    Plot    (Drama) 

Apr.  25 — Our   Feathered   Friends    (Zootechnlc). . 

Apr.  25 — A  Trip  on  the  Seine  (Scenic) 

Apr.  26 — The  Count's   Will    (Drama) 

Apr.  26 — An    Exciting    Honeymoon    (Special,    3 

parts,    Comedy) 

Apr.  28 — Pathe's  Weekly,   No.   18   (News) 

Apr.  29— The  Cormorant   (Bird  Studies) 

Apr.  29 — Along  the  River  Eure,  France  (Scenic) 
Apr.  29 — Hidden   Life  In  Sea  Weed   (Zoology).. 

Apr.  30 — The  Mexican   Defeat    (Drama) 

Apr.  30 — The   Panama   Canal   To-day    (Eng.)... 

May     1— The   Parting   Eternal    (Drama) 

May     2— Liquid  Air  (Scientific) 

May     2 — Winter    In    Upper    Engadine,    Switzer- 

1.  id   (Scenic) 

May    3 — General  Scott's  Protege  (Drama) 

May    3— The     Diamond     Miniature     (Special— 2 

parts— Drama)   


SELIG. 

Apr.  11 — With    Love's   Eyes    (Drama) 1099 

Apr.  14 — A  Wise  Old   Elephant   (Special-2-parta 

Drama)     JO** 

Apr.  14 — The    Woodman's    Daughter    (Drama).  .1009 

Apr.  15 — God's  Way   (Drama) 

Apr.  15 — Hankow,    China    (Scenic)    

Apr.  16 — Dixieland    (Drama)    1W19 

Apr.  17— The  Tie  of  the  Blood  (Drama) 10S» 

Apr.  18 — Cured  of  Her  Love  (Comedy)    

Apr.  18 — That  mail   Order  Snit   (Comedy) 

Apr.  21 — Canton,    China    (Scenic) 

Apr.  21 — Alas!    Poor   Yorlck!    (Comedy) 

Apr.  22— Seeds    of    Silver    (Drama) 1006 

Apr.  23 — Love,    the    Winner    (Drama) 

Apr.  23 — Dollar   Down,    Dollar   a    Week    (Com.) 

Apr.  24 — Love    in    the    Ghetto    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  25 — Arabia  Takes  the  Health  Cure   (Com.)lOOn 

Apr.  28 — Roses  of  Yesterday  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  29 — Hiram  Buys  An  Auto  (Comedy) 

Apr.  29 — Chinese    Scenes    (Scenic) 

Apr.  30— The  Burglar  Who  Robbed  Death  (Dr.). 1000 
May     1 — Absent-Minded   Mr.   Boob    (Comedy) . . . 

May     1 — Some  Chickens  (Zootechnlc) 

May    2— Their  Stepmother  (Drama) 1000 


VITAGRAPH. 

Apr.     5 — He  Answered  the  Ad   (Comedy) 1S*» 

Apr.     7— Bnnny's    Honeymoon     (Comedy) 10*0 

Apr.     8 — The     Transition     (Drama) 10»« 

Apr.     9 — Out   of    the   Storm    (Drama) ion* 

Apr.  10— Cutey  and  the  Chorus  Girls   (Comedy). 109* 
Apr.  11 — Wanted,    a    Strong    Hand    (Comedy) . . 
Apr.  11 — Laying    a    Marine    Cable    (Telegraph). 
Apr.  11— The    Web    (Special— 2    parts— Drama).90»0 
Apr.  12— Mystery  of   the  Stolen  Child    (Drama).  IV* 
Apr.  14 — Mr.    Mlntern's  Misadventures    (Drama)l**o 

Apr.  15 — The  Fortune  (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.  16 — After    the    Honeymoon    (Drama) I'*** 

Apr.  17 — Sleuthing    (Drama)    1609 

Apr.  18— Playing   with   Fire    (Drama) 1090 

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it  cut  the  juice  bill  50  per  cent.  Still  gives  a  brighter  picture 
than  previously   obtained   on   direct   current. 

Yours  very  truly. 
t.  W.  SPRETTER, 
Auburn  Film  Ex. 
March  29,  1913. 
From  Mr.  Petters,  of  580  E.  138th  St.,  New  York  City. 
Gentlemen: 
Just  a  few  lines  to^  inform  you  that  I  have  your  Mirroroide 
Screen   up  and  find   it  is   as  good  as  you  claim  it  to  be.      In 
fact   it   is    so    good  that   several   exhibitors    have   been    here    to 
look  it  over,  and  you  can  rest  assured  you  will  get  orders  from 
them. 

Enclosed  is  another  order  for  one  14117  Grade  B  Screen  for 
my  new  house  which  I  open  shortly. 

Yours  very   truly, 

FRANK  PETTERS. 

We  have  thousands  of  testimonials  that  proves  conclu- 
sively MIRROROIDE  is  all  we  claim  for  it 

Sold  under  a  five-year  guarantee.     Another  big  J.   H. 
Genter  invention  coming.     See  our  other  ad. 

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NEWBURGH,  N.  Y.  -  -  U.  S.  A. 

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Jewish  and  English  Titles 

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82  Centra  Str*at  Naw  York  City 


SHERLOCK    HOLMES   SERIES 

Eight  subjects  to  choose  from — two  reels  each. 
Territory  in  Indiana,  Kentucky,  Wisconsin 
(south  of  Green  Bay),  Illinois  (north  of  Spring- 
field). 

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Phone,  Franklin  1174 


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FOB  SALE  OB  BENT  EN  CHICAGO 
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in  original.  Complete  outfit  and  directions,  $1 .00. 
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and  cameramen. 

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248  W.  35th  Street  New  York  City 


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weighs  only  15  pounds;  easily  hand- 
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Write  for  particulars. 
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438  S.  Dearborn  St.,      Chicago,  III. 


We  Sell  On  Time 

POWERS  -  SIMPLEX 
M0TI0GRAPH  and 
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Let  us  know  equipment  you  are 
interested  in  and  we  will  send 
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160  A.  No.  Fifth  Ave,  Chicago,  01 


Small  storing  Picture  Camera  complete,  with 
Voclander  lens,  four  120-feet  magazines  and  tripod 
for  $90.  Will  ship  for  10%  with  order  and  balance 
C.  0.  D.,  with  privilege  of  examination  to  your  own 
satisfaction 

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248  West  35th  Street,  New  York. 


We  buy  and  sell  Second  Hand  Films 
and  Moving  Picture  Machines 

WESTERN  FILM  BROKERS 

538  S.  Dearborn  Street  ChloaflOi  III. 


For  Sale— Three  Reel  Features 

Features  in  first-class  physical  condi- 
tion,   full    reels,    fine    lobby    display, 
hand  dodgers. 
ARCO  FILM  COMPANY, 
167  W.  Washington  St.,  Chicago. 


"FOTOPLAYER" 

the  instrument  that  supplies 
MUSIC     FOR     THE     PICTURES 

The  American  Photo  Player  Sales  Co. 
130   Kearny   St.,    San    Francisco,    Cal. 


Headquarters  for 

ASBESTOS 

CURTAINS  and  PICTURE  BOOTHS 
f™*  C.  W.  Trainer  Mfg.  Co. 
Booklet    39  Pearl  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 


Incandescent  Lamps  for 

THEATRES  -  PARKS  -  SHOWS 

Buy    direct    from    manufacturers.     Reduced    Prices. 

800     Hours — Clear    or    Colored,     8c. 

600     Hours — Clear     or     Colored     60. 

GUARANTEED. 

SAFETY  ELECTRIC  CO. 

342  N.  Michigan  Ave.,  CHICAGO 

Exhibitors'  Business  Booster 

"We  have  solved  the  problem.  Fine  pictures  of  the 
players  that  appear  on  your  screen,  $1.00  per 
hundred  on  cardboard  mount,  size  7  x  10  (any 
player).  No  order  for  less  than  500.  Gash  with 
order.  These  are  very  fine  reproductions.  Please 
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pictures  will  please  your  patrons  and  help  to  hold 
their  patronage- 


>     ART     CO. 

Room  40,  166  No.  State  St.,  Chicago,  HI. 


BUSINESS    OPPORTUNITY 

World  Renowned  Tragedienne 

Possessing  new  costumes  for  entire  company 
and  presenting  plays  of  best  known  authors, 
would  consider  proposition  to  enter  motion 
picture  field.  Address  ROOM  86,  Metro- 
politan Opera  House  Bldg.,   New  York  City. 


Gives  Satisfaction 

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A.  J.  CORCORAN,  Inc. 

11  John  Street  New  York 


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Correct  Moving  Picture 
Theatre   Addreeaea 

In  Bute  form.  20c  per  100. 
Book  of  600  addressee,  25c.  Con- 
densers, 45c.  Hear?  Arc  Lamp, 
12.26.  Vlorlng  Picture  Lenses 
or  Jackets.  $2-25.  Stereoptlcon 
Lenses,  Si.  25.  Announcement 
.  Win  Connectors,  5c.  Film  Renrinders, 
19  at.  glide  Carriers.  26c.  Eccentric  or  Plane  Bush- 
ma*.  Be.  PUm  Tension  Sprints,  4c.  Sprocket  Wheels, 
bbs.  Oaletnm  Jets.  12.76.  Btereoptlcons,  112.00.  Films, 
le   per   foot,    any    length.     Catalogue. 

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Theatre    Pipe    Organs 

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built  to  order. 

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of  o«r  catalogues   of  cut-rate  Moving   Pic- 
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Send  for  it  today. 

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5146-7  Jenkins  Arcade,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 


GEORGE     M.     ADAMS 

FEATURE  LECTURER 

Address,  c/o  Song  Slide  Service, 
ia  Union  Square,  New  York  City. 


Send  foe  our  prices  before  buying 


BENNETT  SEATING  CO. 

M  EAST  3rd  ST.  CINCINNATI.  O. 


SCENARIO 

WRITERS  ! 

If  your  scenarios  do  not  sell 
find  out  why.  Perhaps  your 
manuscript  can  be  rewritten  and 
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may  be  corrected  in  future  manu- 
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nique of  the  Photoplay,"  etc, 
will  give  your  manuscript  per- 
sonal criticism  for  a  fee  of  $2. 

Exhibitors ! 

Submit  your  difficulties  to  the 
author  of  r'The  Photoplay  Thea- 
ter," and  other  articles  on  man- 
agement, for  advice  and  sugges- 
tion, the  result  of  twenty  years' 
experience  in  amusement  enter- 
prises. Simple  questions  $1  each. 

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Baa  70,  Madison  Squaxa  Station 

New  York  City 


It  pay  to  discriminate  when  you  buy 

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the  publio  than  ft 
bright  brass  frame 
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snd  Film  Making  Outfit,  simplest  method,  none 
setter.  World's  greatest  productions  made  with 
thla  earners.  Expert  advice  and  guarantee. 
TMsods.  TUts,  Printers,  Perforators,  Raw  Film, 
Leases,  Developing  done,  wbole  building  to  the 
business.  Write  for  catalogue. 
Iberherd    Schneider,    S19    Second    Are.,    N.    Y. 


Orchestra  Music 

FOR 

MOVING  PICTURES 

Violin,  Cornet  and  Brum  parts  have 
been  added  to  the  popular  "Orpheuin 
Collection"  of  piano  music  (dramatic 
and  descriptive)  for  Moving  Picture* 
Practical  for  piano  alone  or  any  nam 
ber  of  above  instruments.  Issued  n> 
two  parts:  No.  I  and  No.  2. 

Piano,  58  cents  each;  both  No.'s  $1.15 
Violin,  40  cents  each;  both  "  75* 
Cornet,  35  cents  each;  both  "  *gc 
Brums,  30  cents  each;  both  "  55c 
Send  for  free  sample  pages. 

CLARENCE  E.  SINN 

1501  Sedgwick  St.,  Chicago,  IB. 


When  Your  Picture  Machine  Needs  Repairing 

Why  don't  yon  send  It  to  as? 

We  have  the  best  equipped  machine  shop  in  the  country  and  can 
repair  any  make  of  machine.    Write  us  and  get  acquainted. 

We  Buy  Second-hand  Machine*. 

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IT  STANDS  THE 
TEST  OF  TIME 

POWER'S 

Cameragraph  No.  6  A 

The  Machine  That  Wears  Well 
Produces    Perfect    Projection 

Two  important  qualities  in  a  moving  picture  machine  are: 

1-DURABILITY 

All  parts  must  be  of  the  very  best  for  the  purpose — your  machine  is  sub- 
ject to  hard  usage;  it  must  wear  well;  it  has  got  to  back  you  up. 

"On  the  22nd  day  of  April,  191 1,  we  installed  Power's  Cameragraph.  It  has  run  for 
over  2,000  hours  without  one  cent  cost  for  repairs.  What  can  an  operator  want  with 
any  other  machine  when  he  can  get  this  result  with  Power's?" 

Yours  truly, 

BEN  ST.  CLAIR, 

Palace  Theatre,  Martin,  Tenn. 

2- PERFECT  PROJECTION 

Without  this  you  cannot  please;  pictures  must  be  clear,  without  flicker. 

"In  the  reproduction  of  the  Paul  J.  Rainey  African  and  Arctic  pictures,  perfect  pro- 
jection has  been  absolutely  necessary. 

"After  carefully  comparing  the  merits  of  Power's  Cameragraph  with  other  machines, 
The  Jungle  Film  Co.  decided  on  the  Power's  Cameragraph. 
We   are   using   over  30  machines   in   our   various   shows, 
where  they  are  giving  entire  satisfaction." 
Yours  truly, 

J.  C.  HEMMENT. 

WHY    HESITATE? 

CATALOGUE  G  WILL 
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• 

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90  Golo^St.,  New  York 

The  Lea  din  g~  Makers  of  Motion  Picture  Machines 


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Sunday,  April  27 


ROSIE'S      REVENGE 

She  attempted  to  be  a  stenographer  and  found  herself  "at  liberty"  so  quick  it  made  her  head  swim; 
hut  she  got  a  job  as  cook  and  made  her  first  employer  rue  the  day  he  had  discharged  her.  It  was  all  in  the  meal 
she  cooked  for  him! 

THE  GIRL  DETECTIVE'S  RUSE   T»e,d.y,  ap„i  w 

The  prize  female  counterfeiter  had  been  liberated  ;  she  slunk  out  of  the  prison  yard  and  into  a  waiting 
automobile  that — as  soon  as  the  driver  was  certain  none  watched — whizzed  her  to  the  counterfeiter's  headquarters. 
But    she    wasn't    the    counterfeiter;    she    was    a    detective    and  the  close   resemblance   makeup  was  her   ruse! 

THE    WIDOW'S    STRATAGEM    '*»■*  M*y  2 

She  appealed  mightily  to  the  young  farmer.  She  was  from  the  city,  you  see,  and  there  was  a  city  charm 
to  her  that  was  new  and  irresistible  to  him.  But  the  coldness  of  the  city  was  not  with  her  when  his  first  love 
came  and  asked  her  to  give  him  back;  indeed,  her  stratagem  was  simply  in  aid  of  this  country  girl  rival. 

THANHOUSER   FILM   CORPORATION 

NEW  ROCHELLE,  NEW  YORK 

WINTER   STUDIOS        651    FAIRV1EW   Ph.,   LOS   ANGELES.  CAL. 

Coming!  Sunday,  May  9 — A  Comedy  of  a  Rose  Tournament:  "The  Other  Girl." 
Coming!  Tuesday,  May  13 — A  Two-Reel  Thanhouser  Classic:  "Marble  Heart." 


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Does  Your  System  Need  Building  Up  ? 

Is  Your  Health  Impaired?     Is  Your  Business  Failing? 

#  ESSANAY  PHOTOPLAYS 


Released  Tuesday,  April  29th. 

"COUSIN  JANE" 

Jane  plays  a  joke  on  her  aunt,  much  to  the  disgust  of  her  daughter.    It's  a  splendid  comedy. 


Released  Wednesday,  April  30th. 

"BILL" 

An  idiotic  office  boy  saves  his  employer  from  destruction.  The  comedy  situations  are  clever. 


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"THE  STORY  THE   DESERT  TOLD" 

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"A  CHILD'S  PRECAUTION" 

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"THE  CRAZY  PROSPECTOR" 

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PROMISING  NEGATIVES 

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"THE  BROTHERS'9 

(Released  Monday,  May  5,   1913) 
A  Western  of  genuine  worth.    Two  brothers,  opposites  in  nature,  meet  a  woman.     The  parting  of 
the  ways  then  commences. 

"HUMAN    KINDNESS" 

(Released  Thursday,  May  8,  1913) 
A  heartless  head  gardener  finds  the  aged  gardener  too  old.    He  is  replaced  by  a  younger  man — his 
staff  of  life  is  removed  until  a  kindly  neighboring  miss  enters  the  story. 


"YOUTH  AND  JEALOUSY 


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(Released  Saturday,  May   10,   1913) 

When  you  were  courtin'  Sally  maybe  some  fresh  young  feller  tried  to  bust  it  up !  Sent  anonymous 
notes  to  her  and  all  that!  Well,  that's  what  a  jealous  suitor  tried — but  love  itself  branded  it  a 
failure  and  himself  a  fraud.    A  splendid  story.    You  will  want  it. 

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A    Stirring     Western    Dramatic 

Subject,  With  Thrilling 

Battle  Scenes 


Fleeing  from  a  brutal  husband  with 
her  infant,  a  woman  is  caught  in  an 
Indian  fight.  Her  husband  is  killed 
and  she  is  left  for  dead.  The  baby  is 
adopted  by  the  Indians  and  finally  be- 
comes chief.  The  woman  conceals 
her  past  and  marries  a  Colonel,  though 
secretly  mourning  her  child.  The 
young  chief  kills  a  soldier  and  is  con- 
demned to  death.  The  mother  discov- 
ers his  identity  and  liberates  him,  with- 
out telling  him  her  relationship.  He 
returns  with  a  large  force  and  over- 
powers the  fortress.  In  trying  to  ap- 
peal to  her  son  she  is  struck  by  a  bul- 
let, but  secures  a  promise  from  the 
chief  to  stop  hostilities.  He  is  grief- 
stricken  when  he  learns  she  is  his 
mother,  and  buries  her  with  the  most 
solemn  Indian  rites. 

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The  Dark  Town  Belle 

May  8— Split  Reel 

The  belle's  sweetheart  is  Big  Sam,  the 
barber.  She  is  a  dashing  girl  and  has 
many  admirers,  and  Big  Sam  has  to  fight 
to  try  to  keep  her.  After  a  particularly 
strenuous  time  with  a  new  rival  he 
finally  gives  up  in  disgust  when  he  sees 
her  accepting  the  attentions  of  still  an- 
other new  aspirant  for  her  wandering 
affections. 

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A  Little  Hero 

A  clever  comedy  in  which  a  tiny  dog 
and  three  big  collies  act  with  human  in- 
telligence. The  small  dog  routs  a  cat 
which  is  seeking  to  devour  a  canary,  and 
gets  all  the  credit  for  the  heroic  deed. 


Algy  on  the  Force 

May  5— Split  Reel 

Algie  captures  a  supposed  thief  in  a 
thrilling  encounter  and  then  discovers,  to 
his  chagrin,  that  his  prisoner  is  the  new 
chief  of  police. 

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His  Ups  and  Downs 

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Past  Redemption 

2  Reels,  May  9 

Sensational  Western  Story,  Show- 
ing the  Tragic  Fate  of  a  Girl, 
Reclaimed  by  a  Minister, 
Who    Makes     Her    His 
Wife,   and  Who  Meets 
Her   Death    Through 
Gossiping  Tongues 


Nell  Howard's  father,  gambler  and 
liquor  dealer,  brings  his  daughter  up 
in  a  rough  atmosphere.  He  is  driven 
out  of  business  through  the  efforts 
of  the  minister,  and  arrested  after  a 
hard  fight.  Her  maternal  instincts 
are  aroused  by  the  little  son  of  the 
minister  praying  for  his  dead  mother 
and  his  daddy,  and  she  accepts  a 
home  with  the  minister.  Her  charac- 
ter is  completely  changed,  and  he  falls 
in  love  with,  and  marries,  her.  His 
congregation  refuses  to  recognize 
her,  and  gossiping  tongues  cause  a 
flaring  up  of  her  old  nature  and  she 
violently  attacks  one  of  the  women, 
and,  to  save  her  husband  humiliation 
goes  away,  becomes  lost  on  the  desert 
and  dies. 

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A  BUBBLING  FOUNTAIN  OF  RIOTOUS  MIRTH 

An    ambitious   pictorial   revival    of   the   late    Charles   H.   Hoyt's    foremost  comedy  success.     A  play  whose  situations  are   fraught 
with   charming  imagery.     A  play  which  abounds  in   good  council    and   is   tremulous   with    the    romance   and   contrivings   of   happy, 

care-free,    simple    villagers. 

Hoyt's    A    MIDNIGHT    BELL 

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May  5th 

AN  OLD  ACTOR 

The  pathetic  story  of  an  old  player's  lonely  midnight  triumph 
in  the  character  of  Cardinal  Richelieu. 

May  6  th 

A  WELDED  FRIENDSHIP 

An  Alaskan  romance  depicting  the  life,  love  affairs  and  follies 
of  two  generations.     On  same  reel  with 

HATCHING  CHICKENS 

Demonstrating  in  an  educational  manner  some  of  the  modern 
methods  of  chicken  raising. 

May  7th 

BELLE  BOYD- A  CONFEDERATE  SPY 

A  historic  story  depicting  some  of  the  remarkable  exploits 
of  the  foremost  woman  in  Confederate  history.  Big  battle 
scenes.     Thrilling  escapes.     A  feature  military  picture. 


May  8th 

HER  GUARDIAN 

The  story  of  a  lonely  old  bachelor  and  his  adopted  child.     A 
true-to-lite  example  of  the  call  of  youth. 

May  9th 

IN  THE  DAYS  OF  WITCHCRAFT 

A   story  of  puritanical  New  England  in   the  days  of   Cotton 
Mather.     Picturesque  and  gripping  in  the  extreme. 


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General  Film  Service  is  the  magnet 
that  draws  the  crowds 


WHEN  you  were  a  kid  you  had 
a  magnet.  Every  youngster 
had.  You  marveled  at  the  way 
objects  of  steel  were  attracted  to  it. 
You  didn't  worry  much  about  the 
principle  of  the  thing  or  attempt  to  an- 
alyze why  they  fairly  jumped  at  the 
magnet.  They  did  —  and  that  was 
enough. 

General  Film  Service  is  the  magnet 
of  the  exhibiting  business.  It  draws 
the  crowds  right  in  your  door.  The 
reason  is  easily  explained;  but  here 
again  you  needn't  worry.  The  con- 
tinued popularity  of  General  Film  Ser- 
vice is  dependent  upon  our  maintaining 
its  present  high  standard.  And  that 
standard  will  be  maintained  so  long  as 
motion  pictures  are  exhibited.    We  put 


the  stuff  in  our  programs  that  insures 
the  success  of  your  show.  About  all 
you  have  to  do  is  arrange  for  the  service. 

Just  the  other  day  an  exhibitor  in 
Kansas  said:  "We  have  tried  out  other 
services,  but  the  General  beats  them 
all."  His  case  is  not  unusual  by  any 
means.  The  staunchest  friends  Gen- 
eral Film  Service  has  to-day  are  exhib- 
itors who  first  tried  some  other  service, 
and,  in  some  cases,  several  others! 
Why  not  investigate  now? 

We  have  printed  a  little  booklet  that 
we'd  like  you  to  have.  It's  a  concise 
review  of  the  things  that  stamp  Gen- 
eral Film  Service  as  superior.  The 
colored  cover  alone  is  worth  the  stamp 
it  will  cost  you  to  get  it.  Mention 
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BILLY'S   SWEETHEART 

Western-Drama    (lOOfll     Released    Saturday,    Hay    3,    1913. 

A  young  cowboy  finds  a  baby  girl  only  to  lose  her 
after  becoming  very  fond  of  her.  She  is  picked  up  by 
an  old  freighter  who,  twelve  years  later,  stakes  her 
against  a  Mexican's  winnings  in  a  poker  game  and  loses 
her.  Billy,  not  knowing  who  she  is,  wins  her  from  the 
Mexican  and  later  captures  her  heart. 

THE  ONE  HUNDRED  DOLLAR 
ELOPEMENT 

Comedy-Drama    (1000)    Released   Monday,    Hay   5,    1913. 

A  young  boarding  school  girl  becomes  fascinated  by 
a  village  youth  and  arranges  to  elope  with  him.  The 
principal  notifies  her  father  who,  on  learning  the  char- 
acter of  the  fellow,  buys  off  the  ardent  lover  for  $100.00 
and  appears  at  the  meeting  place  in  his  stead.  . 

WHEN   GREEK   MEETS  GREEK 

Drama    (1000)    Released    Tuesday,    Kay   6,    1913. 

An  obstinate,  over-bearing,  hot-tempered  financier 
meets  his  match  in  a  young  stenographer  who  has  all 
his  qualities — and  a  few  more.  His  first  angry  surprise 
slowly  gives  way  to  admiration  for  her  character  and 
good  sense.    Then  the  inevitable  happens. 

AUNTY  AND  THE  GIRLS 

Comedy    (400)    Released  Wednesday,   Hay  7,    1913. 

The  girls  decide  to  dress  up  in  boys'  clothes  and  kid- 
nap Aunty  while  she  is  out  for  her  usual  walk.  But 
Bobby  tells  Aunty  the  scheme  and  the  girls  find  them- 
selves in  the  hands  of  two  desperadoes  who  later  prove 
to  be  Aunty  and  Bobby  in  disguise. 

WITH  THE  ASSISTANCE  OF  "SHEP" 

Comedy    (600)    Released  Wednesday,    Hay  7,    1913. 

A  beautiful  collie  proves  the  salvation  of  a  young 
couple  who  are  continually  being  interfered  with  by 
the  girl's  aunt.  After  playing  the  piano,  singing  and 
doing  other  useful  things  for  their  benefit,  he  slams  a 
door  in  the  spinster's  face  and  enables  them  to  elope. 


THE  GOLDEN  WEDDING 

Reverie  (975)  Released  Friday,  Hay  9,  1913. 
Dozing  before  the  fireplace  on  their  golden  wedding 
night,  an  old  couple  see  the  vision  of  their  life  together 
from  childhood — school-days,  courtship,  marriage  and 
then  the  cruel  Civil  War.  He  is  wounded — her  tin- 
type saves  his  life — and  then  sent  home  where  happi- 
ness once  more  reigns. 

AN   ACCIDENTAL  ALIBI 

Drama  (1000)  Released  Saturday,  Hay  10,  1913. 
Convicted  of  murder  on  circumstantial* evidence  which 
seems  strong,  a  young  man  is  saved  by  his  sweetheart 
who  sees  him  in  a  moving  picture  which  is  proven  to 
have  been  taken  in  New  York  on  the  day  of  the  sup- 
posed murder.     The  film  is  projected  in  court. 

THE  HEART  OF  VALESKA 

Drama,  (1000)  Released  Honday,  Hay  12,  1913. 
Valeska,  the  daughter  of  a  poor  Russian  cobbler,  is 
driven  by  poverty  and  the  illness  of  her  mother  to  of- 
fering herself  for  sale  at  public  auction.  A  nobleman 
previously  attracted  by  her,  buys  her  and  after  hearing 
her  story,  falls  deeply  in  love  with  her  and  weds  her. 

THE  PROPHECY 

Drama    (1000)    Released    Tuesday,    Hay    13,    1913. 

Having  been  warned  to  beware  of  a  woman  in  black. 
a  young  man  falls  desperately  in  love  with  the  Countess 
Morowsky  and  nearly  breaks  his  fiancee's  heart.  At 
the  girl's  request  the  countess  leaves  the  house-party, 
but  Dick  pursues  her,  only  to  prove  himself  a  cad. 

THE  TWO   MERCHANTS 

Drama  (1000)  Released  Wednesday,  Hay  14,  1913. 
Two  rival  merchants  in  a  small  town  hate  each  other 
like  poison.  The  kind  act  of  one  in  helping  the  other's 
daughter  brings  on  a  hand-to-hand  encounter,  but  they 
realize  their  folly  and  unite  to  fight  the  invasion  of  a 
new  store. 


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the  best  show  is  the  Edison  Kinetoscope.  With  it  you 
show  the  sharp,  flickerless  pictures  which  do  not  strain 
the  eyes. 

The  Edison  Kinetoscope  is  easy  to  operate  and  it  is 
built  to  stand  the  grind.  There  are  no  "intermissions  for 
repairs"  to  provoke  the  crowd.  Take  the  first  step  toward 
bettering  your  show  by  sending  today  for  full  particulars 
and  a  copy  of  the  Edison  Kinetogram. 

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"GRANNY" 


1000  feet  Tuesday,  April  29th 

A  pretty  story  of  the  theatre — failures  and  successes. 


THROUGH    MANY  TRIALS"         Two  Reel  Feature         Wednesday,  April  30th 

A  simple  story  of  plain  people — with  plenty  of  heart   interest. 

THE    VEIL    OF    SLEEP  1000  feet  Thursday,  May  1st 

A  girl's  fear  while  awake  causes  serious  complications  when  she  sleeps. 

THE    GIRL    BACK    EAST  1000  feet  Friday,  May  2nd 

Showing  that  the  love  of  a  fickle  girl  is  not  worth  quarreling  over. 

SPLIT  COMEDY  REEL,  SATURDAY  MAY  3rd 

"CLARENCE    AT    THE    THEATRE"  3S0  feet  Saturday,  May  3rd 

His  view  obstructed  by  late  arrivals — funny  and  true   to  life. 

"  '  "  650  feet  Saturday,  May  3rd 


FIXING  AUNTIE  UP" 

.Three  nieces  cannot  marry  until  they  get  their  aunt  married. 


"PEDRO'S    TREACHERY"  1000  feet  Monday,  May  5th 

The  treachery  of  a  Mexican  cowboy  causes  trouble  extraordinary. 

LUBIN    TWO-REEL    FEATURES 

"A  GIRL  SPY  IN  MEXICO" 

Saturday,  May  10th 

A  Powerful  Two-Reel   Story 
of  the    Mexican    Border 

The  war  is  on  between  the  Insurrectos  and  Federal 
troups  in  Old  Mexico  and  the  intermittent  firing  is 
playing  havoc.  The  Senorita  Armaje  not  hearing  of 
her  lover,  Lieut.  Blanco,  goes  to  the  Insurgent  Camp 
and,  to  assist  his  cause,  dresses  as  a  Red  Cross  Nurse 
and  enters  the  Federal  Camp  as  a  spy.  She  is,  how- 
ever, discovered  and  arrested.  Through  the  aid  of 
Armaje,  Blanco  captures  one  of  the  Federal  spies  and. 
using  him  as  a  guide,  he  himself  enters  the  Federal 
Camp.  There  he  succeeds  in  effecting  his  sweet- 
heart's escape.  Col.  Ferro  declares  he  will  .capture 
them  again  and  accomplishes  his  wish.  Blanco  and 
the  Senorita  are  marched  onward  to  what  end — we 
know  not. 
"A    Girl    Spy    in    Mexico" 

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"O'HARA  AND  THE  YOUTHFUL  PRODIGAL"    cww 

Monday,  April  28th 

His  heart  is  all  wrapped  up  in  his  little  godson. .  The  boy  runs  away  from  home  and  his 
godfather  restores  him  to  his  anxious  parents. 

1.  "TWO'S  COMPANY,  THREES  A  CROWD"  j  g,™w 

2.  "STREET  SCENES,  YOKOHAMA,  JAPAN"  J  E4ucalional 

Tuesday,  April  29th 

1.  Binks  and  Bingles  are  rivals.     Binks  turns  Bingles's  trick  just  in  time  to  have  Sadie 
all  to  himself.    Bingles  isn't  in  it.    2.  A  busy  day  on  a  Japanese  thoroughfare. 

"A  WINDOW  ON  WASHINGTON  PARK"  iw  TgSfaSF 

Through  an  act  of  charity  a  young  man  finds  his  grandfather  and  unexpectedly  learns 
his  family  history.    A  touching  story  of  life  in  a  great  city. 


1.  "BUNNY  VERSUS  CUTEY"  2"USES 
OF  DYNAMITE  BY  U.  S.  ENG.  CORPS" 


Comedy  and    Thursday, 
Educational      May  1st 


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1.  Instead  of  making  Bunny  ridiculous  in  the  eyes  of  Lillie,  Cutey  is  the  butt  of  ridicule 
and  loses  another  conquest.  2.  The  wonderful  and  miraculous  uses  of  a  dangerous 
explosive. 

CINDERS  "  D«™a  Friday«  Ma* 2nd 

Through  love  and  self-denial,  a  poor  man  brings  happiness  to  himself  and  a  little  child. 
Gives  his  all  and  accomplishes  much. 

"CAPTAIN    MARY    BROWN"  Drama  Saturday,  May  3rd 

By  quick  wit  and  action  a  nervy  girl  saves  her  father  from  a  military  intrigue.  Proves 
her  intended's  innocence  and  brings  the  guilty  ones  to  imprisonment  and  justice. 


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"BINGLES    MENDS 
CLOCK"— On  Time 

Monday,  May  5th 

"OMENS  AND  ORACLES" 
Signs  of  Good  Luck 

Tuesday,  May  6th 

"DISCIPLINING  DAISY" 
"QUEBEC  POLICE" 

Comedy  and  One  of  the  Finest 
Wednesday,  May  7th 

"THE  WRATH  OF  OSAKA"— Japanese  Drama  Thursday,  May  8th 

"CUPID'S  HIRED  MAN"— Comedy  Friday,  May  gth 

"THE  SEA  MAIDEN"— Vision  of  Loveliness  Saturday,  May  10th 

SPECIAL  FEATURE,  "THE  DEERSLAYER,"  FROM  THE  TALE 
EY  J.  FENIMORE  COOPER,  IN  TWO  PARTS;  RELEASED  WED- 
NESDAY, MAY  7th. 

SPECIAL  FEATURE,  "THE  VAMPIRE  OF  THE  DESERT,"  IN 
TWO  PARTS;  RELEASED  FRIDAY,  MAY  16th. 

SPECIAL  FEATURE.  "THE  STILL  VOICE,"  BY  GEORGE   CAM- 
ERON, IN  TWO  PARTS;  RELEASED  SATURDAY. 
MAY  24th. 

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The  Adventure   of   an  Heiress 

Miss  Alice  Joyce  in  a  Romantic  Society  Drama 

Vexed  at  parental  restrictions,  a  young  heiress  goes  in  search  of  adventure.    Through  a  startling 
incident  she  captures  a  society  crook. 

Released  Monday,  May  12th  Special  1  and  3-Sheet  .Posters 

Man's  Greed  For  Gold 

Blinded  by  avarice,  a  janitor  unknowingly  de- 
livers a  miser's  hidden  wealth  to  an  antique 
dealer.  Later  the  fortune  is  the  means  of  re- 
deeming an  unscrupulous  bank  clerk. 

Released  Wednesday,  May  14th 


Pat,  the  Cowboy 

Pat,  fresh  from  the  ould  sod,  outwits  the  cow- 
boys who  make  him  the  brunt  of  their  jokes,  and 
carries  off  the  belle  of  the  ranch. 
On  the  Same  Reel 

Food  Inspection 

Produced    in    co-operation    with    the    Commis- 
sioner of  Health  of  New  York  City. 

Released  Friday,  May  16th 


The  Poet  and  the  Soldier 


Wounded  in  a  spectacular  battle  of  the  Boer  War,  the  soldier  tells  the  poet  the  thrilling  story 
of  his  life. 


Based  upon  Herbert  Trench's  Celebrated  Poem 

spectacular  battl 

Released  Saturday.  May   \7tl1  Special    1,   3   and  6-Sheet  Posters 

The  Cheyenne  Massacre 

Feature  Indian  Classic  in  two  parts.      Special  release  Friday,  May  9th. 
Special  Piano  Music  15c,  postage  prepaid.   Special  1,  3,  6-sheet  posters 


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Published  Weekly  by  the 

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Saturday,  May  3,  1913 


Facts  and  Comments 

MR.  W.  Stephen  Bush,  of  the  editorial  staff  of 
The  Moving  Picture  World,  is  making  a 
business  tour  of  England  and  the  Continent. 
He  sailed  April  12th,  and  will  remain  abroad  from  six 
weeks  to  two  months  inspecting  productions  and  making 
a  study  of  the  European  market  generally.  It  is  ex- 
pected that  Mr.  Bush  will  contribute  some  interesting 
stories  upon  the  various  phases  of  the  motion  picture 
business  in  Europe  as  presented  to  his  critical  eye  for 
the  benefit  of  readers  of  The  Moving  Picture  World. 


AS  is  already  well  known,  The  Moving  Picture 
World  has  declared  itself  as  unalterably  opposed 
to  any  sort  of  official  censorship  for  motion  pic- 
tures upon  the  ground  that  the  very  idea  of  censorship 
of  anything  we  do  is  distinctly  un-American,  and  should, 
therefore,  be  repugnant  to  all  true  Americans.  So  far 
we,  citizens  of  the  United  States,  have  successfully  com- 
batted  all  attempts  to  impose  this  paternal  institution 
upon  the  body  politic  as  it  relates  to  the  press,  the  drama 
or  the  rostrum.  It  is  true  that  we  have  laws  calculated 
to  regulate  individual  action  and,  in  some  instances,  these 


laws  seem  to  approach  censorship;  but  careful  analysis 
will  prove  that  their  purpose  is  to  establish  and  protect 
the  rights  of  the  individual,  not  to  circumscribe  them. 
By  this  means  public  morals  are  amply  protected,  and 
anything  else  would  be  an  invasion  of  that  freedom  of 
speech  and  action  which  is  guaranteed  under  our  consti- 
tution. For  these  reasons  and  an  abiding  faith  in  the 
ultimate  good  sense  and  judgment  of  the  American  people 
in  whatever  community  they  may  abide  we  have  opposed 
and  shall  continue  to  oppose  any  and  all  forms  of  official 
censorship  as  applied  to  motion  pictures. 

* 

Notwithstanding  the  deep-seated  feeling  against  cen- 
sorship that  exists  in  this  country,  there  has  come  from 
a  source  influential  in  the  moving  picture  trade  a  distinct 
demand  for  official  censorship  of  pictures.  So  insistent 
has  been  this  demand  that,  in  the  State  of  Ohio  in  par- 
ticular, a  law  has  been  passed  which  provides  that  all 
motion  pictures  shown  in  that  State  shall  first  be  ap- 
proved by  a  board  of  censors  appointed  by  the  Governor 
of  the  State.  Action  of  a  similar  nature  has  been  taken 
in  other  States,  but  in  this  case  it  was  taken  at  the  in- 
stance of  the  proprietors  of  motion  picture  theaters,  the 
text  of  the  act  being  drawn  by  the  president  of  their 
trade  organization.  Other  States  have  followed  suit, 
and  there  promises  to  be  a  crop  of  laws,  more  or  less 
burdensome  to  the  exhibitor,  enacted  by  the  lawmakers 
of  the  several  States  of  the  Union.  While  disclaiming  all 
desire  for  censorship  the  sponsors  of  the  Ohio  law  allege 
that  they  were  compelled  to  appeal  to  the  State  to  head 
off  the  multiplicity  of  local  censorship  boards  with  which 
they  were  threatened ;  that,  if  they  did  not  secure  a  State 
board,  they  would  have  to  accept  numerous  other  boards 
of  censors  appointed  by  the  police  authorities  of  each  city* 

* 

Without  questioning  the  motives  of  those  responsible 
for  the  laws  passed  in  Ohio  and  other  States,  The  Mov- 
ing Picture  World  is  inclined  to  disbelieve  the  allegation 
that  there  is  a  general  demand  upon  the  part  cf  the  pub- 
lic for  a  censorship  of  pictures.  There  is  no  evidence  in 
the  public  press  or  in  the  wide  and  voluminous  corre- 
spondence that  reaches  this  office  to  indicate  such  a  de- 
mand. On  the  contrary,  wherever  the  exhibitors  have 
united  to  oppose  proposals  to  establish  boards  of  censors, 
either  by  State  or  local  authorities,  the  opposition  has 
been  successful,  for  it  has  been  proved  time  and  again 
that  there  is  no  real  need  for  a  distinct  official  censorship 
of  pictures,  and  once  the  public  has  been  fully  advised 
of  the  true  conditions  it  has  failed  to  support  the  few  who 
have  urged  the  necessity  of  such  measures. 

* 

The  Moving  Picture  World  is  inclined  to  the  conclu- 
sion that  where  the  exhibitor  has  become,  or  appears  to 
be,  sponsor  for  official  censorship,  he  is  acting  upon  a 
mistaken  conception  of  the  attitude  of  the  public  toward' 
motion  pictures  or  has  been  deceived  as  to  the  true  state 
of  affairs  and  has  thus  been  induced  to  invoke  the  as- 
sistance of  political  power  that  is  certain  to  prove  more 
troublesome  and  burdensome  in  the  end  than  local  cen- 
sorship, which  is,  in  the  main,  an  imaginary  menace.  In 
the  instances  where  censorship  laws  have  been  forced 
upon  the  trade  the  fine  hand  of  the  politician  is  plainly 
discernible  seeking  to  provide  a  lucrative  position  for 
some  henchman.  Reference  to  the  provisions  of  such 
acts  as  have  been  printed  in  these  columns  proves  this 
contention.  With  that  evidence  at  hand  The  Moving 
Picture  World  feels  justified  in  branding  every  attempt 
at  official  censorship  as  a  distinct  effort  to  levy  political 
toll  upon  the  motion  picture  business.  In  no  sense  are 
such  efforts  calculated  or  intended  to  protect  the  morals 


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of  the  community ;  they  are,  in  fact,  but  the  reaching  out 

of  the  grafting  politician  for  more  spoils,  and  should  be 

fought  to  the  last  ditch. 

* 

Our  sympathies  are  with  the  exhibitor  who  opposes  all 
such  invasion  of  his  rights,  and  our  congratulations  are 
for  the  exhibitor  who  has  been  successful  in  defeating 
such  measures.  We  regret  that  some  have  been  cajoled 
or  dragooned  into  giving  consent  to  the  passage  of  cen- 
sorship laws,  but  we  believe  that  there  is  still  a  legal 

remedy  and  hope  that  remedy  will  be  invoked  in  all  cases. 
*     *     * 

A  FRIEND  and  correspondent  of  The  Moving 
Picture  World  writes  to  us  from  California  com- 
plaining of  a  film  which  shows  the  torturing  of  a 
horse  for  apparently  no  other  purpose  of  giving  a  touch 
of  "realism."  It  appears  that  the  horse  was  taken  to  the 
top  of  a  hill,  where  there  was  a  grade  of  sixty  per  cent. 
A  number  of  men.  supposedly  in  the  employ  of  a  motion 
picture  company,  then  threw  the  animal  to  the  ground 
and  tied  his  legs  in  such  a  manner  as  to  render  him 
entirely  helpless.  Leaving  the  saddle  on  his  back,  these 
inhuman  persons  pushed  the  animal  over  the  edge  and 
started  him  rolling  down  the  hill  over  stumps  and  stones, 
while  the  cameraman  turned  the  crank.  Our  corre- 
spondent encloses  a  newspaper  clipping,  from  which  we 
quote  the  following: 

"At  every  turn  the  horse  would  bound  off  the  ground 
and  strike  it  again  with  a  sickening  thud,  and  after  roll- 
ing perhaps  two  hundred  feet,  he  lodged  in  a  huge  stump 
of  a  tree  and  laid  there  groaning  with  pain  in  the  most 
pitiful  manner." 

* 

It  is  hard  to  stay  within  the  bounds  of  moderation  in 
commenting  on  such  an  act  of  inhumanity.  We  are  sorry 
we  do  not  know  the  name  of  the  company  which  en- 
couraged or  permitted  such  a  shocking  outrage  in  the 
name  of  the  motion  picture.  If  ever  a  concern  deserved 
the  pillory  it  surely  is  this  concern,  which  has  been  guilty 
of  such  horrible  and  revolting  cruelty.  Happily  the 
motion  picture  has  in  all  these  years  kept  itself  free  from 
such  reproaches.  If  our  memory  serves  us,  there  was 
but  one  similar  instance  in  the  early  days.  A  French 
producer  introduced  a  bit  of  "realism"  in  which  an  old 
horse  was  the  sufferer,  but  the  French  government  took 
action  in  the  case  and  the  offense  was  never  repeated. 
There  are  legal  ways  of  punishing  such  barbarity  in  this 
country  as  well  as  in  France,  but  more  powerful  than 
any  printed  statute  is  the  feeling  of  pity  for  suffering 
animals  which  is  implanted  in  every  human  breast.  We 
have  no  doubt  at  all  that  if  a  picture  portraying  this 
sickening  spectacle  is  ever  thrown  on  the  screen  of  an 
American  motion  picture  theater  the  patrons  will  turn 
away  in  loathing  and  disgust  and  avoid  such  a  theater 
ever  after.  We  do  not  think  that  the  picture,  if  it  is 
released,  will  ever  get  as  far  as  the  screen.  Exhibitors 
nowadays  are  too  careful  and  conscientious  for  any  such 
thing  to  happen. 

":  *  * 

THE  clerical  enemies  of  the  motion  picture  are  not 
always  as  sincere  and  as  consistent  as  they  would 
like  to  have  the  public  believe.  We  know  of  a 
clergyman  in  a  neighboring  city  who  devoted  whatever 
time  he  could  spare  from  his  regular  vocation  of  saving 
souls  to  the  indiscriminate  denunciation  of  the  motion 
picture.  Right  in  his  neighborhood  were  several  exhib- 
itors conducting  a  clean  entertainment  and  taking  good 
care  of  the  safety  of  their  patrons.  This  we  assert  not  as 
a  matter  of  assumption,  but  as  a  fact  well  within  our  own 
personal  knowledge.  Naturally  these  exhibitors  pros- 
pered.    The  reverend  person  kept  on  inveighing  against 


motion  pictures,  but  the  attendances  on  the  moving  pic- 
ture shows  were  just  as  good  as  ever.  The  thought  of  so 
many  parishioners  spending  nickels  in  these  picture  houses 
harrowed  up  the  pious  soul  of  the  priest.  He  decided  he 
would  have  motion  pictures  in  the  parish  hall.  Without 
paying  any  license  and  without  bothering  himself  much 
about  the  regulations  governing  the  exhibition  of  motion 
pictures.  It  is  said  that  the  seats  are  loose,  that  the  num- 
ber of  exits  is  insufficient  and  that  until  recently  there 
was  not  even  a  booth  in  which  to  enclose  the  machine. 
These  shows  run  Sunday  afternoons,  and  are  by  no 
means  confined  to  pictures  in  keeping  with  the  character 
of  the  day. 

We  mention  this  case  because  it  is  typical.  There  are 
reformers  whose  only  objections  to  the  motion  picture  is 
their  inability  to  derive  some  personal  profit  in  the  matter. 
We  are  very  glad  indeed  to  see  churches  using  motion 
pictures,  but  why  should  the  church,  which  makes  a  regu- 
lar practise  of  showing  motion  pictures  for  profit  be 
exempt  from  the  rules  and  regulations  which  the  law  im- 
poses upon  the  ordinary  exhibitor.  If  through  the  care- 
lessness or  connivance  of  the  authorities  a  panic  occurs 
in  a  church  or  school  which  is  not  properly  safeguarded, 
the  blame  will  be  put  not  upon  the  church  or  school  but 
upon  the  motion  picture.  Where  the  motion  picture  is 
used  for  educational  purposes  only,  no  license  ought,  of 
course,  to  be  exacted,  but  a  wholly  different  situation  is 
presented  where  the  church  or  any  other  institution  goes 
into  the  business  of  exhibiting  motion  pictures  for  profit- 
only.  A  conscientious  exhibitor,  who  rigidly  observes 
every  provision  of  the  law  and  who  pays  his  license  into 
the  treasury  of  the  city,  has  a  right  to  expect  that  every 
competitor  must  comply  with  the  same  provisions  of  the 
same  law.     It  makes  no  difference  whatever  who  the 

exhibitor  is. 

*     *     * 

ELSEWHERE  in  this  number  of  the  Moving 
Picture  World  will  be  found  an  appeal  from 
the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Motion  Picture 
League  of  America  for  aid  for  the  members  of  the  trade 
who  suffered  loss  by  reason  of  the  recent  floods  in  the 
states  of  Indiana  and  Ohio.  It  is  declared  that  only  two 
picture  theaters  of  nearly  forty  in  the  city  of  Dayton  es- 
caped serious  damage  and  that  many  are  a  total  loss  even 
to  the  buildings,  which  were  so  badly  damaged  by  the 
rush  of  water  that  they  will  have  to  be  torn  down.  It 
should  also  be  considered  that  the  owners  of  these  houses 
have  not  only  lost  their  places  of  business  and  their  per- 
sonal effects,  but  that  it  will  be  some  time  before  picture 
theaters  can  be  conducted  at  a  profit  in  Dayton  and  many 
other  towns  in  the  flooded  district,  so  that  the  unfortunate 
picture  men  are  not  only  destitute  in  many  instances,  but 
they  are  also  deprived  of  earning  a  livelihood.  We  can 
think  of  no  better  occasion  for  cheerful  and  liberal  giv- 
ing and  would  urge  all  members  of  the  trade  to  come  to 

the  front  with  their  contributions. 

* 

For  this  purpose  the  Moving  Picture  World  will  be 
pleased  to  receive  and  transmit  to  the  proper  authorities 
any  sums  that  may  be  contributed  in  its  care.  The  ex- 
ample of  the  New  York  exhibitors  is  worthy  of  emulation. 
A  benefit  held  by  them  raised  a  sum  of  $2,500,  which  is 
now  in  the  hands  of  Mayor  Gaynor,  and  which  will  be 
used  to  enable  some  of  the  sufferers  in  the  flood  district 
to  resume  business.  If  every  member  of  the  League 
would  contribute  a  day's  receipts  to  this  cause  it  is  more 
than  likely  that  an  amount  sufficient  to  restore  all  the  dam- 
aged picture  theaters  would  be  quickly  realized.  Now  is 
the  time  to  show  your  fellow  feeling.  Dig  down  into  your 
pocket  as  deeply  as  you  can. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 

Apostles  of  Nothingness 


465 


By  Louis  Reeves  Harrison 


CONSIDERING  moving  pictures  as  a  means  of  en- 
tertainment, acknowledging  that  they  must  inter- 
est to  be  of  value,  we  cannot  get  away  from  the 
fact  that  they  are  for  the  communication  of  facts,  ideas 
or  emotions,  and  are  therefore  a  form  of  visualized  litera- 
ture. Producers  are  publishers ;  exhibitors  are  distrib- 
utors; the  public  pays  for  reading  whatever  is  presented, 
whether  poetic,  romantic,  historic,  scientific  or  amusing. 
Only  a  part  of  the  public,  however,  finds  the  pictures 
worth  while,  and  many  of  those  who  do.  or  who  go  to 
the  theaters  for  a  little  inexpensive  recreation,  are  dis- 
satisfied. 

What  is  the  trouble? 

It  is  quite  possible  that  the  fleeting  character  of  motion- 
picture  presentation — it  is  shown  one  day  and  vanishes 
the  next — is  responsible  for  much  of  its  wearisome  repe- 
tition and  lack  of  variety.  It  exhibits  too  much  of  the 
peculiarities  of  journalism  and  not  enough  of  true  litera- 
ture, because  the  best  photodrama  soon  becomes  a  mere 
legend  driven  into  oblivion  by  less  worthy  successors, 
overpowered  by  the  force  of  numbers  rather  than  by 
superior  quality.  A  journalist  records  pretty  much  the 
same  kind  of  news  even-  day.  Even  an  editorial  writer 
is  obliged  to  keep  hammering  away  until  he  drives  his 
nail  home,  because  it  is  his  business  to  rouse  and  con- 
vince his  readers  by  repetition,  with  only  such  variations 
as  different  points  of  view  permit.  The  scenario  writer 
possibly  resembles  him  because  there  is  no  element  of  per- 
manence in  his  work. 

What  is  the  remedy? 

I  do  not  see  why  we  should  dispose  of  short  stories,  on 
the  screen  because  some  splendid  feature  plays"  have 
drawn  the  crowds.  When  twenty-minute  skits  are  good, 
when  they  are  smart  and  bright,  they  fit  in  little  niches  of 
their  own.  The  best  of  them  are  quite  as  entertaining  as 
short  stories  in  the  magazines.  Veritable  O.  Henrys  will 
sprout  up  in  time,  screen  tangos  and  hitchy-koos.  when 
brain  food  is  placed  on  the  free  list  and  authors  are  per- 
mitted to  pay  rent  in  tabloid  form. 

But  this  is  not  the  remedy. 

Iteration  may  be  all  right  in  photoplays — possibly  you 
have  seen  the  seven  hundredth  presentation  of  one  in 
which  the  villain  plugs  father  and  leaves  the  hero's 
weapon,  glove  or  other  misleading  testimony  near  the 
victim  for  the  sake  of  revenge — but  it  becomes  annoying 
at  times.  We  feel  that  what  should  be  perishable  is  be- 
coming permanent.  No  one  who  writes  that  kind  of 
brain  fag  need  suspect  himself  of  authorship,  and  we 
need  authors.  We  need  men  who  know  how  to  create 
new  and  varied  picture  plays  for  the  enjoyment  or  edifi- 
cation of  plain  people. 

Delicatessen  drama  is  beginning  to  pall. 

We  need  something  fresh  from  the  garden  of  bright 
and  original  thought,  a  mental  diet  that  will  fill  the  thea- 
ters to  overflowing  in  baseball  season.  Some  of  the 
canned  goods  we  are  now  struggling  to  digest  are  so  old 
that  they  are  beginning  to  ferment.  A  number  of  gen- 
tlemen profess  to  teach  the  young  idea  how  to  shoot  for 
a  consideration — there  are  so  many  of  them  that  business 
must  be  good — but  the  best  they  can  do  is  to  indicate  the 
technics.  Some  of  them  may  really  be  able  to  teach  pic- 
ture expression  to  those  who  have  nothing  to  express, 
but  they  are  kindling  high  hopes  for  a  low  standard  of 
work,  and  the  few  releases  that  result  are  born  and  die 
the  same  daw 


While  the  motion-picture  art  is  differentiated  from  the 
drama  by  silence  and  from  photography  as  formerly  con- 
stituted by  its  representation  of  action,  it  is  generally  re- 
garded as  their  child,  because,  like  them,  it  attempts  to 
represent  the  visible  world.  It  is  certainly  not  to  be  esti- 
mated by  the  tests  applied  to  either.  Still,  photography 
can  only  be  judged  by  the  principles  of  its  own  art,  and 
the  same  is  true  of  the  stage  presentation.  What  does  the 
average  scenario  writer  know  about  either?  The  most 
successful  ones  know  little  about  photography  and  less 
about  putting  on  a  play. 

The  difference  between  a  story  in  silent  action  and  one 
of  oral  discourse  is  even  more  pronounced  than  the  dif- 
ference between  words  written  and  those  spoken.  I  have 
elaborated  on  the  distinction  from  a  dozen  points  of 
view — it  is  not  to  be  told  in  a  sentence — and  I  incline 
more  and  more  to  the  idea  that  an  entirely  new  art  has 
come  into  existence,  a  powerful  means  of  thought  distri- 
bution capable  of  disseminating  the  beauty  of  truth  to  all 
parts  of  the  earth.  Moving  pictures  are  destined  to  go  to 
all  organized  nations,  irrespective  of  their  forms  of  gov- 
ernment or  religious  faith,  messengers  sent  out  on  impor- 
tant business,  not,  as  many  of  them  now  are,  Apostles  of 
Nothingness. 

All  the  blame  cannot  be  put  on  any  class  of  men  hand- 
ling this  new  method  of  thought  interpretation  and  dis- 
tribution. The  author  who  writes  a  meaningless  scenario 
is  as  guilty  as  the  producer  who  authorizes  it,  the  director 
who  materializes  it,  the  exhibitor  who  projects  it  on  the 
screen.  All  are  contributory  to  the  weakness  of  what  is 
going  before  the  public,  'arid  I  may  as  well  include  that 
benighted  creature,  the  critic  of  no  ideals. 

Bearing  in  mind  the  youth  of  this  art,  especially  when 
it  is  compared  with  hoary-headed  stage  presentation,  a 
great  deal  has  been  accomplished  by  those  far-sighted 
producers  who  are  now  striving  for  leadership.  I  have 
critically  reviewed  the  best  of  their  work;  and  have  ac- 
corded it  full  measure  of  praise  in  these  columns  because 
development  of  the  art  is  only  a  thing  of  yesterday,  and 
many  do  not  yet  know  how  to  take  it.  It  is  a  younger 
brother  of  the  arts,  and  is  richer  in  possibilities  than  in 
precedent.  Presented  as  it  is  to  the  eyes  of  many  millions 
of  people,  is  bound  to  grow  more  interesting  and  more 
important  when  it  begins  to  take  a  part  in  our  social  and 
political  improvement.  When  it  comes  to  be  generally 
known  how  immense,  how  far-reaching,  is  its  influence,  it 
will  become  apparent  to  its  publishers  that  they  must  set 
up  no  false  standards  if  they  would  command  public 
respect. 

The  remedy? 

I  do  not  know  what  better  to  suggest  than  what  the 
French  call  a  rapproachment.  a  getting  together,  of  all 
concerned  in  production  and  exhibition.  Any  sort  of 
unity  of  spirit  may  seem  out  of  the  question  at  first  glance, 
but  it  would  be  far  more  profitable  in  the  end  if  it 
broadens  and  beautifies  the  field  than  the  maintenance  of 
unreasonable  antagonisms  for.  purely  selfish  purposes. 
What  is  true  of  painting,  sculpture,  literature,  of  all  that 
enriches  existence,  must  eventually  apply  to  moving  pic- 
tures. The  creative  artists  must  be  remunerated  accord- 
ing to  quality  if  the  art  itself  is  to  be  self-respecting 
There  is  a  direct  medium  here  for  genius,  one  which  will 
eventually  broaden  our  sympathies  and  quicken  our 
minds. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


"The  Tiger  Lily" 

A  Strong  Three-Reel  Vitagraph  Feature  Drama. 

Kcviewed  by  Louis  Reeves  Harrison. 

ASTAR'iLING  and  beautiful  drama  of  the  screen,  so 
well  i •instructed  and  developed  that  it  is  far  above  the 
average,  set  with  exquisite  taste  and  portrayed  by 
veritable  art.sts,  "The  Tiger  Lily''  is  sure  to  seize  and  hold 
the  interest  oi  any  audience  to  which  it  may  be  presented. 
There  is  visible  in  every  scene  that  fine  and  exhausting  at- 
tention to  detail  which  characterize  releases  requiring  brains, 
skilled  labor,  money  and  time  to  produce.  When  the  added 
risk  and  danger  are  considered,  turning  out  such  a  produc- 
tion is  little  short  of  a  heart-breaking  business. 

1  suppose  that  is  one  reason  why  we  get  so  few  picture- 
plays  of  real  merit.  Time  is  a  tremendous  factor  and  the 
average  studio  is  little  more  than  a  factory — some  of  them 
turn  out  a  string  of  sausage-like  variety  and  beauty — and  the 
application  of  time  in  conjunction  with  taste  in  this  case  is 
in  evidence  from  start  to  finish.  This  photodrama  enjoys  the 
undeniable  advantage,  if  not  distinction,  of  starting  well. 
Characterization  of  a  delicate  sort  is  indicated  before  a  scene 
of  action  is  presented.  A  beautiful  tiger-lily  appears  on  the 
screen — it  dissolves  and  is  reincarnated  in  a  magnificent 
tigress — again  there  is  dissolution  and  a  woman  embodying 
both  the  lily  and  the  tiger  is  gradually  materialized.  This 
artistic  bit  of  characterization  will  have  its  charm  for  people 
of  cultivation  yet  be  within  the  comprehension  of  the  lowly, 
a  spur  to  the  interest  of  all  classes  in  a  mixed  audience. 

The  human  tigress  is  portrayed — is  illuminated — by  an  ac- 
tress whose  advance  to  this  high  opportunity  has  been  grad- 
ual. Miss  Julia  Swayne  Gordon's  acting  was  at  one  time  too 
fervid,  but  a  decided  and  unexpected  improvement  came  last 
year,   when    she   began   to   acquire    the    hundred   indefinable, 


subconscious  little  arts  that  make  visible  the  reaction  on 
character  of  crucial  events.  As  the  photodrama  proceeds  and 
suspense  becomes  quickened,  she  easily  rises  to  each  occa- 
sion presented,  the  more  forceably  because  of  previous  sup- 
pression, yet  without  varying  the  mastering  passions  which 
sway  her  in  the  role.  The  principal  motive  force  in  the  na- 
ture of  the  human  tigress  grows  in  intensity  according  to  the 
requirements  of  the  action. 

Supported  by  Miss  Florence  Foley,  Roger  Lytton,  Charles 
Kent  and  Earle  Williams,  it  may  be  seen  that  Miss  Gordon 
is  in  good  company,  but  she  easily  dominates  while  there  are 
human  beings  only  in  evidence.  Her  rival  is  Princess,  a  tre- 
mendous tigress — the  cameraman  managed  to  keep  on  turn- 
ing his  crank  at  an  exciting  moment  in  the  play  when  Princess 
yielded  to  early  instinct  and  set  her  teeth  on  Miss  Gordon's 
arm — for  the  great  beast  is  formidable-looking  in  her  most 
peaceful  moments.  The  play  is  not  written  around  Princess, 
and  her  role  is  not  one  of  particular  importance  in  most  of 
the  scenes,  but  she  holds  the  attention  every  second  that  she 
is  in  action. 

When  Princess  descends  the  grand  staircase  at  a  bal 
masque,  no  directorial  instructions  were  needed  to  make  the 
dancing  guests  "look  frightened."  From  in  front  tliey  were 
really  and  truly  scared,  and  no  one  can  blame  them.  One 
can  not  help  feeling  that  both  director  and  cameraman  must 
have  been  endowed  with  iron  nerve  in  most  of  the  scenes — 
as  for  that  of  Miss  Gordon — it  was  incomparable  at  all  times. 
1  am  not  in  favor  of  plays  written  around  wild  animals  or 
mechanical  accessories,  but  "The  Tiger  Lily"  is  no  such  pro- 
duction. 

The  story  presents  varied  and  interesting  phases  of  sex 
character  in  the  woman  who  is  sister  of  the  flower  at  mo- 
ments and  at  others,  those  of  her  jealous  rage,  as  savage  and 
pitiless  as  the  beast  she  counterfeits.  The  futility  of  ven- 
geance   is    as    powerfully    shown    as    in    the    Durand   photo- 


Scene  from  "The  Tiger  Lily"  (Vitagraph). 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


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Scene  from  "The  Tiger  Lily"  (Vitagraph). 

drama  by  Rex  Beach — the  subtle  workings  of  destiny  are 
more  admirably  depicted — but  it  is  the  outrageous  jealousy 
of  the  Tiger  Lily  that  leaves  the  strongest  impression.  Her 
intended  victim  is  her  own  daughter,  though  the  relationship 
is  unknown,  and  the  conspicuous  failure  of  the  mother  to 
recognize  the  rights  of  others  easily  justifies  the  retribution 
that  overtakes  her.  Such  jealousy  is  usually  masculine,  as 
well  as  the  direction  of  consequent  schemes  of  vengeance, 
but  it  is  made  consistent  in  this  case  by  the  admirable  char- 
acterization. The  scenic  beauty  throughout  is  of  a  very  high 
order,  and  the  entire  production  an  advance  over  previous 
work  of  the  kind. 


"At  the  Risk  of  Her  Life"  (Apex). 

THERE  is,  it  seems,  a  perennial  demand  for  "good,  old 
melodramas,"  and  the  Apex  Film  Company's  new  three- 
part  feature,  "At  the  Risk  of  Her  Life,"  has  been  pro- 
duced to  fill  that  demand.  It  is  not  a  legitimate  dramatic 
picture;  but  a  connected  series  of  sensational  thrills  and  hair- 
breadth escapes  in  which  we  find  all  the  old  breath-holding 
situations  and  new  ones.  For  American  spectators,  the  set- 
tings and  backgrounds  will  have  a  good  deal  of  fresh  interest. 
It  opens  with  some  fine  views  of  a  great  ship-building  plant 
in  Germany  and  carries  through  some  lovely  scenes  from 
German  roadsides,  views  along  a  railroad,  docks,  a  harbor 
and  at  length  back  again  to  rural  places,  with  most  interest- 
ing farm  houses  and  then  to  city  back  yards. 

As  the  picture  opens,  we  are  introduced  to  Fred  Watkins, 
an  inventor  who  is  perfecting  a  device  that  will  revolutionize 
ship  building.  He  has  interested  a  big  contractor,  in  whose 
shop  he  has  an  office.  This  man's  daughter  is  in  love  with 
the  inventor  and  we  are  given  a  few  pretty  love  scenes,  pho- 
tographed along  some  quiet  stream  and  under  the  green  um- 
brage of  leafy  trees.  The  day  comes  when  the  invention  is 
complete  and  we  see  the  trial  of  it  in  the  great  works,  a 
most  interesting  scene.  It  is  a  proved  success;  but  there  is  an 
accident  which  results  in  the  injury  of  the  young  inventor. 
He  is  carried  by  his  friends  into  the  house,  connected  with 
the  office  of  the  works.  The  accident  keeps  him  confined  to 
his  bed  and  he  is  tended  carefully  by  the  girl. 

A  scene  in  New  York  is  flashed  to  let  us  know  that  an 
American  firm  of  ship  builders  there,  warned  of  the  new 
contrivance  and  concerned  for  its  prosperity,  has  determined 
to  secure  it.  A  man  is  sent  to  obtain  photographs  of  the  ma- 
chine and  of  the  plans,  so  that  one  can  be  made  by  the  firm. 
The  man  arrives  in  Germany  and  interviews  the  contractor 
with  the  pretence  of  being  a  reporter.  Not  being  able  to  get 
any  information,  he  finds  from  an  employe  where  the  plans 
are  kept  and,  slipping  back,  obtains  the  desired  photographs. 

In  the  sick  room,  the  inventor  having  need  of  a  note  book, 
sends  the  girl  to  his  office  for  it  and  she  finds  the  villain  at 
w:ork  with  his  camera.  Running  back,  she  tells  and  the  in- 
ventor exclaims  that  unless  the  camera  is  recovered  from 
the  man  their  future  is  ruined.  The  girl  promises  to  get  it, 
come  what  will,  and  keeps  her  word;  but  we  hardly  believe 
that  she  will  be  anxious  to*  repeat  her  exploits  or  even  will- 
ing to  do  the  same  thing  over  again  for  twice  the  money. 
The  thief  makes  good  his  escape  by  climbing  from  a  win- 
dow and  dropping  to  the  ground.  He  has  taken  a  carriage 
so  the  girl  has  to  follow  on  foot,  running  all  the  way  to  the 
railroad  station. 


A  combination  train,  half  passenger,  half  freight,  is  wait- 
ing and  he  secures  a  seat  in  it.  The  girl  reaches  it  only  in 
time  to  catch  the  end  of  the  last  car,  from  which  she  works 
her  way.  now  along  the  top  and  now  along  the  running 
board,  from  which  she  discovers  where  the  man  is.  She  can 
not  take  the  camera  from  him  by  force,  so  she  secretly  fol- 
lows him  on  board  the  ship  by  hiding  in  a  case  which  is  trans- 
ferred from  the  dock  to  the  hold.  Later,  by  reaching  her 
arm  in  through  his  port  hole  she  gets  possession  of  the  cam- 
era. To  get  to  the  port  she  has  to  lower  herself  down  over 
the  side  of  the  vessel  by  a  rope.  He  sees  the  camera  going 
out  and  hurries  to  the  deck  only  to  find  that  the  plucky  girl 
has  jumped  into  the  sea.  Not  to  be  outdone,  he.  too,  leaps 
overboard  and  the  chase,  turned  backward  now,  is  continued 
swimming. 

The  girl  reaches  a  launch  and  is  darting  away;  but  the 
man,  too,  contrives  to  come  by  a  faster  one  and  is  on  the 
point  of  overtaking  her's  when  she  makes  a  landing.  In  a 
lonely  country  road  she  finds  a  horse  tethered  near  a  thatched 
cottage  and  uses  its  help,  the  man  following  on  a  bicycle. 
Galloping  under  a  bit  of  woods,  she  is  caught  by  her  hair  and 
hangs;  but  just  before  she  is  overtaken,  manages  to  work  free 
and  we  have,  in  the  rest  of  the  third  reel,  thrill  after  thrill  of 
the  same  sensational  nature,  with  which  are  also  woven  a  good 
many  freshly  clever  and  freshly  interesting  incidents,  until 
at  length  she  gets  the  precious  camera  home  and  the  man 
is  foiled.  It  is  surely  a  successful  offering  of  its  kind,  not 
cheaply  produced.  At  one  point,  we  ourselves  were  made  to 
jump  up.  It  is  not  a  high-brow  offering;  but  an  exciting 
melodrama  for  the  people. 


"QUO  VADIS"  AT  THE  ASTOR. 
George  Kleine's  Big  Feature  Production  Attracting  Increas- 
ing Business  at  Leading  New  York  Theater. 

WITH  the  distinction  of  being  the  first  big  dramatic  mo- 
tion picture,  or  photoplay,  to  open  for  a  run  in  a 
first-class  New  York  theater,  "Quo  Vadis"  was  given 
its  first  public  presentation  by  Mr.  George  Kleine  at  the 
Astor  Theater,  Broadway  and  45th  Street,  on  Monday,  April 
21.  Two  performances  were  given  on  that  date,  to  large, 
fashionable  and  enthusiastic  audiences.  The  picture  was 
simply  staged  with  an  accompaniment  of  appropriate  musie 
provided  by  a  Wurlitzer  unit  orchestra.  There  was  no  lec- 
ture to  detract  from  the  picture  and  the  audience  seemed  to 
enjoy  every  scene  of  this  truly  wonderful  picture.  The  en- 
tertainment lasted  two  and  one-half  hours;  the  picture  be- 
ing run  in  three  parts,  or  acts,  with  brief  intermissions  be- 
tween each  act,  the  length  of  the  picture  being  about  9,000 
feet. 

A  review  of  this  production,  which  is  by  the  Cines  Com- 
pany of  Rome,  will  not  be  attempted  at  this  time,  but  will 
appear  in  a  later  issue.  But  it  is  timely  to  remark  the  beau- 
tiful photography  and  the  realistic  effects  that  place  "Quo 
Vadis"  in  the  highest  rank  of  motion  picture  classics.  Nota- 
ble among  the  effects  were  the  scenes  depicting  the  burning 
of  Rome.  At  this  point  the  audience  was  unable  to  longer 
restrain  itself  and  burst  into  loud  and  prolonged  applause.. 
There  were  thrills  in  almost  every  scene;  some  calling  for 
enthusiastic  applause  and  yet  others  which  commanded  pro- 
found reverence.  Altogether  it  was  a  delighted  people  who 
rose  reluctantly  to  leave  the  theater  when  the  curtain  fell  on 
the  last  scene. 

Since  the  opening,  the  business  done  at  the  box  office  of 
the  Astor  has  been  steadily  increasing,  which  fact,  consider- 
ing the  prices  of  admission  ranged  from  25  cents  to  $1.50, 
gives  reason  for  the  belief  that  "Quo  Vadis"  will  have  a  long 
and  successful  run  in  New  York. 

Having  thus  successfully  launched  the  New  York  presenta- 
tion it  is  Mr.  Kleme's  intention  to  open  at  McVicker's  Thea- 
ter, Chicago,  111.,  on  May  5,  where  an  equally  enthusiastic 
reception  may  be  expected. 


DEATH  OF  ROBERT  FERGUSON,  COMEDIAN. 

Robert  Ferguson,  the  well-known  comedian,  whose  last  en- 
gagement was  with  the  Imp  Company,  died  at  his  home,  308 
West  mth  Street,  on  Monday,  April  21.  Mr.  Ferguson  was 
present  at  the  Screen  Club  ball  on  the  Saturday  evening  pre- 
vious; he  was  feeling  ill  at  that  time.  Mr.  Ferguson's  last 
appearance  was  as  the  henchman  of  Robespierre  in  the  forth- 
coming three-reel  production  of  that  title.  His  work  in  pic- 
tures had  been  marked  by  the  same  high  degree  of  skill  as 
that  for  which  he  was  noted  on  the  regular  stage.  His 
funeral  took  place  on  Wednesday  evening.  The  Screen  Club, 
of  which  Mr.  Ferguson  was  a  member,  was  represented  at 
the  services  by  Herbert  Brenon,  Matt  Snyder,  William  E. 
Shay  and  Frank  Smith. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


"The  Bawlerout"  (Reliance). 

By  George  Blaisdell. 

HERE  is  a  story  to  approach  which  is  a  pleasure.  For- 
rest Halsey  is  the  author.  It  is  not  a  one-part  drama, 
nor  yet  a  two-part.  Provision  is  made  for  many 
characterizations  demanding  intelligence  in  interpretation. 
Such  a  condition  necessarily  imposes  responsibility  upon  a 
director;  likewise,  also,  it  presents  opportunities.  Oscar  C. 
Apfel,  who  made  this  picture,  shows  in  his  selection  of  types, 
in  his  management  of  ensembles,  in  his  skill  in  bringing  out 
on  the  faces  of  his  people  a  realization  of  a  given  situation, 
and  in  his  logical  presentation  of  the  story  throughout  the 
three  reels  that  he  has  met  both  these  factors. 

"The  Bawlerout"  is  a  tale  of  the  city— built  around  condi- 
tions from  which  smaller  communities  are  comparatively  free. 
It  portrays  the  train  of  evils  flowing  from  the  maleficent 
activities  of  the  loan  sharks,  and  incidentally  reveals  the  real 
backer  of  the  unscrupulous  "brokers"  as  none  other  than  a 
bank  president.  It  is  likely  that  this  phase  of  the  story  will 
not  find  favor  among  some  in  an  audience.  However,  the 
complainants  will  have  difficulty  in  disproving  its  "inherent 
probability."  One  noticeable  thing  about  the  whole  story  is 
the  working  out — you  don't  instinctively  feel  what  the  next 
move  will  be;  you  are  in  doubt. 

The  title  role  is  carried  by  Edgena  De  Lespine — and  the 
way  she  carries  it  takes  the  observer  with  her.  She  has  the 
dash,  the  absolute  disregard  of  everybody  and  everything, 
the  pushful,  smashing  quality  that  breaks  down  all  opposi- 
tion. It  is  a  splendid  portrayal.  That  the  manner  of  the 
Bawlerout  softens  in  the  end  merely  serves  to  disclose  the 
real  woman  under  the  rough  exterior.  Irving  Cummings 
plays  Dick,  the  young  bank  clerk  whose  kindness  to  a  friend 
in  distress  starts  a  long  train  of  disaster.  His  work  meas- 
ures up  to  the  standard  that  his  friends  have  come  to  expect. 
Throughout  the  play  it  is  natural — showing  the  light-hearted 
youngster  with  all  things  coming  his  way.  He  has  a  good 
position,  a  good  home  and  a  good  mother,  and  he  has  a 
sweetheart  who  seems  to  be  in  love  with  him — anyway,  the 
average  young  man  would  feel  justitied  in  thinking  so.  We 
see  him  gradually  broken  down  by  worry  and  real  trouble, 
everything  going  against  him.  and  when  the  tide  turns  become 
as  buoyant  as  of  old. 

Other   characters   deserving  of  special   mention   are   those 
of  the  mother  of  the  bank  clerk,  Sue  Balfour;  the  bank  cash- 


ier, Ralph  Lewis;  his  daughter,  Muriel  Ostrich;  the  philan- 
thropic investigator  who  brings  about  the  downfall  of  the 
shark,  Thomas  R.  Mills;  President  Bendis,  George  Siegman; 
the  tool  of  the  real  shark,  E.  P.  Sullivan. 

There  are  many  fine  situations  in  "The  Bawlerout."  One 
of  the  best  is  where  the  Bawlerout  goes  to  a  factory  and,  in 
the  presence  of  the  employes  and  in  the  most  offensive  man- 
ner, discloses  the  fact  that  one  of  the  number  is  not  paying 
his  debts.  It  is  a  dramatic  scene  and  will  make  strong  appeal 
to  every  audience.  There  is  another  scene,  in  which  the  com- 
edy element  enters.  This  is  where  the  Bawlerout  administers 
to  the  bank  president  a  tongue-lashing  in  the  presence  of  the 
entire  bank  force,  not  knowing  that  the  president  is  her 
actual  employer.  Over  the  telephone,  word  is  immediately 
sent  to  the  dummy  head  to  "fire"  the  pugnacious  woman. 
There  are  other  scenes  that  stand  out,  many  of  them  in 
which  pathos  is  marked,  and  in  which  are  portrayed  the 
tragedies,  minor  and  major,  in  the  lives  of  everyday  people. 

The  picture  is  one  which  will  make  the  widest  appeal.  It 
cuts  into  and  discloses  in  some  of  its  worst  phases  an  ulcer 
which  has  drawn  many  tears  from  its  victims  and  caused 
much  thought  on  the  part  of  legislators.  While  dramatic  in 
the  highest  and  best  sense,  it  is  also  educational  in  marked 
degree.  As  such  it  will  be  as  heartily  welcomed  in  settle- 
ments, in  schools  and  in  churches  as  it  is  in  the  theater. 


AMERICAN   ADOPTS   NOVEL  METHOD  TO   ADVER- 
TISE ITS  NEW  STUDIO. 

The  American  Film  Manufacturing  Company  is  building  a 
new  studio  at  Santa  Barbara,  Cal.  During  the  process  of 
construction  a  few  feet  of  film  are  made  each  day.  This  will 
be  shown  in  a  short  release,  giving  the  effect  of  the  entire 
studio  being  constructed  in  seven  or  eight  minutes.  Thus  ex- 
changes and  theaters  as  well  as  patrons  will  get  a  wee  glimpse 
of  the  home  of  their  favorite  pictures.  The  pictures  are  being 
made  under  the  personal  supervision  of  Mr.  Hutchinson. 


McKEESPORT,   PA.,  TO   HAVE   NEW   PICTURE 
HOUSE. 

M.  Komnas  is  building  an  exclusive  picture  theater  at  Mc- 
Keesport,  Pa.  While  the  house  will  not  be  of  the  large  type, 
it  will  be  equipped  and  decorated  to  compare  favorably  with 
any  of  the  larger  picture  houses.  The  Olympic,  which  is  to 
be  the  name  of  the  new  theater,  will  be  under  the  manage- 
ment of  Mr.  Komnas. 


Scene  from  "The  Bawlerout,"  Forthcoming  Three-Reel  Reliance  Feature 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE  WORLD 


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"The  Diamond  Miniature" 

Fascinating  and  Original  Two-Reel  Pathe  Release. 

Reviewed  by  Louis  Reeves  Harrison. 

FASCINATING  describes  it  not  only  on  account  of  its 
original  plot  and  entertaining  incidents,  but  in  what 
weighs  heavily  on  the  merit  side  of  a  screen  presenta- 
tion—delightful pictorial  beauty.  The  soft  tints  of  interiors 
give  a  subtle  charm  to  the  settings  of  rare  taste.  These  set- 
tings are  so  carefully  chosen  and  arranged  that  the  element 
of  time  evidently  plays  a  part — the  director  took  a  month 
instead  of  a  week  to  lay  his  scenes.  That  is  the  way  it  ought 
t0  be— and  I  hope  it  will  be— with  all  good  photodramas. 

Equally  good  are  the  exteriors.  Most  of  them  are  located 
in  and  around  the  park  of  a  French  country  house,  and  they 
are  very  sweet  to  the  eye.  The  grounds  of  our  own  village 
are  quite  as  beautiful,  but  they  are  more  formal.  Those  of 
the  French  are  only  formal — almost  formidable — in  the  mat- 


HP 
Scene  from  "The  Diamond  Miniature"   (Patheplay). 

ter  of  approach.  High  walls  guard  them  from  the  gaze  of 
common  people;  tall  iron  gates  exclude  all  but  the  bidden 
guest;  footmen  in  livery  receive  at  the  gate  instead  of  at  the 
door;  all  is  impressive  to  the  outsider.  Once  within,  once 
welcomed,  there  is  something  so  delightful  democratic  about 
the  wealthy  French  of  good  descent  that  they  resemble  our 
kindly  and   hospitable   Western   and   Southern   families.     All 


Scene  from  "The  Diamond  Miniature"  (Patheplay). 

this  is  obvious  in  the  picture  play  and  correspondingly  edi- 
fying to  Americans.  We  get  acquainted  with  the  people  of 
our  sister  republic.  , 

The  plot  is  not  intended  to  point  a  moral.  It  is  ingenious 
in  detail,  but  is  so  light  and  dainty  that  it  seems  to  merely 
serve  the  purpose  of  transferring  to  the  screen  a  series  of 
animated  pictures  of  an  interesting  phase  of  life.  I  do  not 
mean  by  that  statement  that  the  theme  is  devoid  of  the  prin- 
ciples of  proportion  and  composition.  To  the  contrary,  it 
is  a  bright  one,  complete  and  well  rounded,  and  that  high 
essential  of  the  drama,  the  pitting  of  one  human  will  against 
another  builds  up  an  amusing  sort  of  tension.     In  order  to 


have  the  hero  involved  in  a  daringly  impossible  and  highly 
ingenious  struggle  with  an  amateur  detective  the  play  is 
started  at  a  gathering  of  the  "Booster  Club,"  an  organization 
devoted  to  helping  along  any  worthy  aspirant  for  successful 
marriage. 

Before  "Booster  Club"  members  will  give  their  services 
they  require  a  severe  trial  of  nerve  and  courage.  The  hero 
goes  it  blind,  promises  everything,  and  is  instructed  to  break 
the  safe  of  his  intended  father-in-law  and  abstract  therefrom 
a  miniature  of  his  daughter  set  in  a  diamond  frame,  a  price- 
less treasure  of  high  intrinsic  and  sentimental  value.  In 
order  to  make  the  task  difficult,  the  "Boosters"  exact  that  the 
deed  shall  be  done  at  an  expected  garden  party,  and  they  in- 
form an  amateur  detective  that  a  designing  thief  has  planned 
to  lift  the  treasure  on  the  specific  occasion,  challenging  him 
to  arrest  the  culprit. 

To  even  up  matters  the  club  members  provide  the  hero 
with  a  costly  set  of  tools,  including  an  acetelyne  gas  appa- 
ratus for  burning  a  hole  through  the  safe  door. 

The  detective  has  no  clue  to  the  thief,  but  makes  himself 
known  to  the  owner  of  the  country  house  and  is  given  ample 
opportunity  by  the  latter  to  do  his  work.  His  suspicions  are 
at  first  distracted  by  a  theory  that  one  of  the  servants  has 
planned  the  robbery,  but  he  finally  trails  the  right  man.  Find- 
ing himself  followed,  the  hero  hides  behind  a  curtain,  where 
the  outlines  of  his  moving  form  are  visible.  Satisfied  that  he 
has  cornered  the  criminal,  watches  the  moving  figure  behind 
the  curtain— the  hero  has  no  accomplices— yet  the  safe  is 
opened  and  the  miniature  stolen  while  he  is  watching.  He 
has  been  ingeniously  fooled. 

The  robbery  is  discovered,  and  an  incriminating  clue  points 
to  a  servant.  The  latter  is  arrested  in  the  presence  of  the 
host,  the  daughter,  and  the  aspirant  for  her  hand,  the  real 
thief,  the  hero.  Rather  than  have  an  innocent  man  convicted 
of  his  crime,  he  makes  a  confession,  gives  up  the  miniature 
and  submits  to  having  one  handcuff  fastened  to  his  wrist.  A 
letter  from  the  "Boosters"  enlightens  the  host  that  the  guilty 
man  committed  the  folly  through  love  for  the  host's 
daughter,  and  a  reconciliation  follows  when  she  fastens  the 
other  handcuff  around  her  own  wrist.  The  tension,  though 
amusing,  holds  tight  to  the  last  and  adds  materially  to  the 
sum  of  attractions  in  a  very  entertaining  photoplay. 

IMPROPER   USE  OF   KALEM   POSTERS. 

The  Kalem  Company,  as  is  well  known  in  the  trade,  spends 
a  large  sum  of  money  in  the  production  of  suitable  posters  to 
advertise  its  moving  pictures,  and  has  for  a  long  time  been 
very  much  annoyed  by  the  unauthorized  use  of  these  posters 
by  theaters  to  advertise  pictures  not  produced  or  manufac- 
tured by  the  Kalem  Company,  and  the  company  finallv  de- 
cided that  it  will  no  longer  permit  the  use  of  such  posters, 
and  violation  of  its  copyright,  by  persons  not  authorized  to 
use  the  same.  . 

The  company  on  the  tenth  day  of  April,  1013,  obtained  a 
summons  from  Magistrate  Appleton,  of  the  Second  District 
Magistrate's  Court,  summoning  the  manager  of  a  theater  on 
Sixth  Avenue,  New  York  City,  upon  the  complaint  of  the 
Kalem  Company,  for  violation  of  the  provisions  of  the  penal 
code  relating  to  unlawful  use  of  trade  marks. 

The  case  came  up  for  hearing  before  the  magistrate  on  the 
.  eleventh  day  of  April,  1013,  and  the  Kalem  manager  having 
stated  that  "such  use  of  the  posters  was  unauthorized,  the 
Kalem  Company  through  Mr.  William  Wright,  its  vice- 
president,  requested  permission  of  the  magistrate  to  with- 
draw the  charge.  Magistrate  Appleton  stated  at  the  time  that 
he  thought  it  was  the  duty  of  the  Kalem  Company  to  prose- 
cute the  case  and  protect  its  property,  but  upon  the  promise 
of  the  defendant  that  similar  violations  would  not  occur  in 
the  future,  permitted  the  Kalem  Company  to  withdraw  the 
charge  and  dismissed  the  case. 

It  is  the  intention  of  the  Kalem  Company,  however,  in 
future  to  vigorously  prosecute  the  unauthorized  use  of  its 
posters  to  advertise  moving  pictures  not  manufactured  by 
their  company.  The  Kalem  Company  believes  that  the  pub- 
lic should  be  protected  in  this  matter,  and  that  all  reputable 
moving  picture  houses  will  co-operate  with  them  in  stopping 
this  practice  of  improper  use  of  posters. 

NEW  PICTURE  THEATER  COMPLETED. 

Greenberg  Bros.  have,  recently  opened  at  3H-3I3  Market 
Street,  Chester,  Pa.,  a  high-class  moving  picture  theater.  The 
theater,  including  both  realty  and  improvements,  aggregates 
an  expenditure  of  $50,000.  The  house  has  a  frontage  of  40 
feet  and  a  depth  of  120  feet.  The  place  is  thoroughly  fire- 
proof Greenberg  Bros,  are  also  building  a  new  moving  pic- 
ture theater  in  Camden,  N.  J.  This  will  also  be  an  expensive 
picture  house. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League 


AN  APPEAL  FOR  FLOOD  SUFFERERS. 


National  Exhibitors'  League  Seeks  Aid  for  Picture  Men  in 
Ohio  and  Indiana. 

SINCE  the  subsidance  of  the  waters  which  wrought  great 
damage  to  property  in  the  cities  of  Dayton,  Columbus 
and  Hamilton,  Ohio,  and  several  other  towns  in  Indiana, 
the  executive  committee  of  the  Motion  Picture  League  has 
been  busy  collecting  information  regarding  the  condition  of 
the  picture  theaters  owned  by  members  of  the  league  in  the 
stricken  cities  and  devising  means  to  enable  the  proprietors 
of  the  damaged  houses  to  resume  business.  Writing  of  the 
scenes  in  the  wrecked  cities,  President  Neff  finds  himself 
unable  to  adequately  describe  conditions.  Every  one  is  busy 
doing  what  they  can  to  bring  order  out  of  chaos. 

Regarding  the  condition  of  the  theaters  he  writes:  "Our 
committee  visited  many  picture  theaters  and  heard  the  stories 
of  the  narrow  escapes  of  the  sufferers  when  the  flood  came. 
Many  had  to  run  for  their  lives,  saving  nothing  but  what 
they  had  on  their  backs.  With  the  exception  of  two,  all 
the  picture  theaters  in  Dayton  lost  all  their  furnishings, 
everything  being  destroyed  except  the  building,  and  in  many 
cases  the  building  is  a  total  wreck." 

As  a  result  of  the  inspection  made  by  the  committee,  the 
following  appeal  has  been  drafted: 

"After  visiting  many  places  and  personally  consulting  with 
members  of  our  league  who  have  suffered  from  the  floods — 
some  of  them  losing  not  only  their  entire  theater,  but  also 
their  homes — it  has  been  decided  by  the  National  Executive 
Committee  to  ask  your  co-operation  in  raising  funds  to  assist 
the  members  of  our  league  in  re-establishing  their  business. 
If  they  are  given  assistance  at  the  earliest  possible  date  it 
will  not  only  encourage  them,  but  it  will  make  it  possible 
for  them  to  reopen  their  theaters.  While  there  has  been, 
we  are  informed,  $1,600,000  contributed  to  the  flood  sufferers 
up  to  date,  however  it  is  only  a  small  amount  to  be  com- 
pared with  what  has  been  lost,  and  if  pro-rated  to  each  suf- 
ferer it  would  not  exceed  $100.  This  statement  is  made  to 
give  the  public  an  idea  of  the  magnitude  of  this  great  dis- 
aster. The  societies  who  have  charge  of  the  large  fund  to 
be  distributed  are  handling  it  very  carefully,  judiciously  and 
effectively.  The  fund  that  we  ask  will  be  given  directly  to 
the  members  of  our  league,  and  a  committee  representing 
the  press  and  the  members  of  our  organization  will  dis- 
tribute the  money  donated,  and  the  journals  will  print  the 
name  of  each  contributor. 

'The  committee  to  distribute  the  funds  will  be  announced  . 
in  the  next  issue.  The  money  should  be  contributed  at  once, 
owing  to  the  fact  that  we  must  act  quickly  to  relieve  our 
brother  and  to  help  him  to  re-establish  his  business.  We 
do  not  expect  to  build  a  theater  for  those  who  have  lost, 
but  we  expect  to  receive  enough  contributions  to  assist  him 
whereby  he  may  reopen  his  theater,  although  it  may  be  a 
year  or  two  before  he  will  have  his  theater  entirely  paid  for. 
"We  call  upon  every  member  of  our  league  to  give  as  lib- 
erally as  they  can.  The  reason  for  this  call  has  been  delayed 
because  it  was  the  desire  of  the  national  officers  to  first  inves- 
tigate and  be  sure  they  were  right  before  they  went  ahead, 
and  now  that  the  investigation  has  been  made  and  there  is 
a  positive  need  for  contribution,  we  appeal  not  only  to  our 
members,  but  every  one  connected  with  the  motion  picture 
industry  to  contribute  as  liberally  as  possible.  We  assure 
all  that  every  cent  will  be  accounted  for  and  an  itemized 
statement  made  through  the  press  to  those  who  donated. 

"We  ask  all  contributors  to  make  checks  or  money  orders 
pavable  to  1.  J.  Rieder,  treasurer.     Very  truly  yours, 
"M.  A.  NEFF;  President, 
"C.  M.  CHRISTENSON,  Secretary, 
"J.  J.  RIEDER,  Treasurer, 
"G.  H.  WILEY, 
"L.  F.  BLUMENTHAL, 

"Executive  Committee." 
Supplementing   the   foregoing  appeal,   the   Moving   Picture 
World  wishes  to  emphasize  the  necessity  of  immediate  assist- 


ance. It  will  not  be  a  great  hardship  for  every  member  of 
the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  to  contribute  the 
proceeds  of  one  day's  business  for  the  relief  of  those  mem- 
bers of  the  trade  who  have  been  practically  impoverished 
by  the  floods.  Such  sums  might,  in  the  aggregate,  be  suffi- 
cient to  enable  the  picture  men  to  resume.  It  is  to  be  hoped 
that  there  will  be  a  liberal  response  to  the  executive  com- 
mittee's appeal. 


NEBRASKA  EXHIBITORS  TO   MEET. 

The  Nebraska  State  Convention  of  the  M.  P.  E.  L.  of  America 

Will  Be  Held  in  Omaha,  May  8  and  9. 

William  F.  Stoecker,  president  of  the  Nebraska  branch  of 
the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  America,  writes 
that  the  Paxton  Hotel,  Omaha,  Neb.,  has  been  secured  for 
the  use  of  the  convention  to  be  held  May  8  and  9;  also  that 
during  the  two  days  previous,  exhibitors  and  representatives 
of  supply  houses,  etc.,  will  be  given  a  chance  to  arrange 
their  instruments  and  appliances  for  exhibition.  The  privi- 
lege of  using  the  gallery,  as  well  as  the  main  lobby  for  ex- 
hibition purposes,  has  been  granted  by  the  hotel  manage- 
ment. President  Stoecker  looks  forward  to  a  very  success- 
ful meeting.  He  believes  that  everyone  of  the  exhibitors 
of  Nebraska  will  attend  the  convention.  All  the  film  ex- 
changes in  Omaha  are  co-operating  with  Mr.  Stoecker  by 
sending  out  circular  letters  to  every  exhibitor  in  the  State. 
E.  C.  Preston,  secretary  of  the  Nebraska  branch,  in  addition, 
will  send  out  official  notices  to  every  exhibitor. 

A  banquet  will  be  held  in  dining-room  No.  2  of  the  Paxton 
Hotel,  with  plates  for  250  people,  on  the  closing  night  of 
the  convention.  The  Governor  of  Nebraska,  the  Mayor  of 
Omaha,  and  M.  A.  Neff,  president  of  the  National  League, 
will  be  present.  President  Stoecker  is  exerting  all  his  ener- 
gies and  influence  to  make  the  coming  convention  a  credit 
to  the  State  of  Nebraska.  He  has  advised  all  concerned,  by 
letter,  to  attend  and  participate  in  the  proceedings. 


ALL  READY  AT  WHEELING. 

Everything  is  now  in  readiness  for  the  second  annual  con- 
vention of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  West 
Virginia,  which  is  to  be  held  in  Wheeling,  April  29th  and 
30th.  The  convention  was  originally  scheduled  for  April 
15th  and  16th,  but  the  heavy  floods  made  it  necessary  to 
change  the  dates.  Mr.  Clem  Kerr,  who  was  sent  from 
Dayton  to  take  charge  of  the  work,  had  to  leave  on  account 
of  the  flood.  Mr.  George  Spragg,  president  of  the  Spragg 
Amusement  Company,  of  Bellaire,  was  chosen  chairman  of 
the  convention,  and  the  work  had  to  be  started  over  again, 
however,  everything  is  in  shape,  and  the  Little  Mountain 
State  expects  a  convention  that  will  be  a  credit  to  the  picture 
industry. 

It  will  afford  the  West  Virginia  exhibitors  a  chance  to  see 
everything  that  is  new  in  the  profession,  as  the  talking  pic- 
tures, the  Kinemacolor  and  other  novelties  will  be  seen.  Essa- 
nay,  Gaumont,  Universal,  Mutual  and  other  cameramen  are 
expected,  and  the  usual  convention  and  industrial  pictures 
will  be  made.  Among"  the  exhibitors  will  be  the  Wurlitzer 
Company,  Power's,  Enterprise  Optical,  several  of  the  poster 
companies,  as  well  as  other  branches  of  the  trade.  The 
entire  convention  is  to  be  held  in  the  big  McLure  Hotel. 


SOUTH  DAKOTA  CONVENTION. 

There  was  a  meeting  of  South  Dakota  exhibitors  held  at 
Huron  on  April  9th,  with  practically  all  of  the  state  league 
members  present.  The  work  of  the  winter  before  the  Legis- 
lature was  considered,  and  it  was  decided  to  have  the  execu- 
tive committee  prepare  a  general  bill  regulating  the  moving 
picture  business  in  this  state  and  have  it  initiated  under  our 
state  law  to  present  at  the  next  session  of  the  Legislature, 
so  that  the  same  could  be  voted  on  by  the  people.  The  same 
bill  that  the  league  presented  this  winter,  with  some  slight 
changes,  will  be  adopted. 

South  Dakota  escaped  any  radical  legislation  against  pic- 
ture exhibitors  or  makers,  although  our  Legislature  passed 


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more  reformed  laws  at  the  1913  session  than  any  former 
session.  The  exhibitors  will  also  initiate  a  repeal  of  the 
present  State  Sunday  law,  so  that  any  kind  of  pictures  may 
be  shown  on  Sunday.  The  Bijou,  at  Pierre,  is  operating 
regularly  Sunday  nights,  showing  educational  and  topical 
pictures,  and  charging  admission,  which,  it  is  conceded,  can 
be  legally  done,  although  no  pictures  which  contain  any  dra- 
matic work  can  be  legally  shown  on  that  day.  C.  C.  Baker, 
of  Britton.  was  elected  treasurer  of  the  State  league;  several 
new  additions  to  membership  were  reported,  and  those  pres- 
ent were  encouraged  at  the  prospect  of  a  growing  member- 
ship. The  General  Film  Company,  of  Minneapolis,  had  two 
representatives  on  the  ground,  looking  after  business. 

PENNSYLVANIA  CONVENTION  COMMITTEES. 

Arrangements  for  the  big  Pennsylvania  convention,  to  be 
held  in  Philadelphia,  May  27th  and  28th,  are  progressing 
finely.  At  a  recent  meeting  of  local  exhibitors  the  following 
convention  committees  were  appointed:  General  arrange- 
ments, E.  A.  Jefferies  (chairman),  M.  J.  Walsh,  Charles 
Segall.  H.  Hessar  Walraven  and  George  B.  Roth;  exhibit 
committee.  Walter  Steumpfig  (director),  John  Greenbaum 
and  Walter  Tacobs;  entertainment  committee,  J.  Weinreich 
(chairman),  A.  R.  Cavanaugh  and  John  Smith.  Clem  Kerr 
has  been  elected  general  director  of  the  convention  arrange- 
ments. 

The  members  of  the  Pittsburgh  Local  are  working  hard  at 
their  end  of  the  State  and  will  make  a  canvass  for  the  pur- 
pose of  getting  out  a  large  attendance. 

LEGISLATION  IN  OHIO. 

As  briefly  noted  in  the  Moving  Picture  World  of  last  week. 
the  Ohio  Legislature  passed  the  bill  providing  for  a  state 
censor  board.  This  bill  was  introduced  during  the  final  ses- 
sions of  the  Legislature  and  took  the  place  of  another  cen- 
sorship bill  that  was  killed.  Through  the  energetic  efforts 
of  President  Neff  of  the  Exhibitors'  League,  and  the  co- 
operation of  Governor  Cox,  the  new  bill  was  hustled  through 
just  before  the  Legislature  adjourned. 

Six  other  bills  bearing  upon  the  motion  picture  business, 
but  which  were  not  favored  by  the  exhibitors,  were  killed. 
One  of  these  bills  prohibited  the  showing  of  pictures  on 
Sunday. 


CONVENTIONS  SCHEDULED. 

Kansas  State  Convention — At  the  National  Hotel,  Topeka, 
June  2nd  and  3rd. 

Missouri  State  Convention— At  Springfield,  June  10th  and 
nth. 

Iowa  State  Convention — At  the  Auditorium,  Des  Moines, 
May  13th  and  14th. 

Pennsylvania  State  Convention — At  Philadelphia,  May  27th 
and  28th. 

Maryland  State  Convention  —  At  Baltimore,  June  3rd 
and  4th. 

Mississippi  State  Convention — At  Jackson,  May  8th. 

West  Virginia  State  Convention — At  Wheeling,  April  29th 
and  30th. 

Delaware  State  Convention — At  DuPont  Hotel,  Wilming- 
ton. May  26th. 

Nebraska  State  Convention  —  At  Paxton  Hotel,  Omaha, 
May  8th  and  9th. 


MISS  TURNER  ENTERTAINED  AT  CINCINNATI. 

On  the  occasion  of  Miss  Florence  Turner's  recent  visit  to 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  she  went  to  appear  at  the  Music 
Hall  picture  show,  the  Exhibitors'  League  of  that  city  enter- 
tained her  and  Mr.  Lawrence  Trimble,  her  manager,  at  the 
Sinton  Hotel,  where  an  elaborate  dinner  was  served.  Miss 
Turner  also  received  several  beautiful  floral  tributes  at  the 
close  of  her  engagement  at  the  Music  Hall;  one  large  bouquet 
of  American  Beauty  roses  from  the  league,  and  one  from 
A.  C.  Dingelstedt,  president  of  the  local. 


MOTION  PICTURE  EXPOSITION  NOTES. 

At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  exposition  committee  many 
plans  were  talked  over.  It  was  decided  to  award  a  prize 
of  $25  for  a  comedy  scenario  to  be  used  during  the  week  of 
the  show.  This  scenario  must  be  suitable  for  either  a  man 
or  a  woman,  and  must  not  take  more  than  five  minutes  to 
act.  This  competition  is  open  to  all,  and  the  manuscripts 
are  to  be  sent  to  Frank  E.  Samuels,  second  floor  of  the 
German  Bank  Building,  Fourth  Avenue  and  14th  Street, 
Xew  York  City. 

♦    *    * 

Mr.  W.  A.  Northam,  general  manager  of  a  large  circuit  of 
theaters  in  England,  is  in  New  York.     Mr.  Northam  is  greatly 


interested  in  our  coming  exposition  and  says  that,  although 
he  cannot  stay  here  until  July,  he  will  surely  return  in  time 
for  it,  and  that  most  of  the  influential  manufacturers  and 
exhibitors  in  Great  Britain  are  planning  to  attend  the  coming 
international  exposition  here 

*  *     * 

Committees  have  been  appointed  by  President  Trigge- 
take    care    of    hotel    accommodations,    railroad    time    t.i 
steamship  lines,  etc. 

*  *     * 

Letters  are  coming  every  day  from  exhibitors  from  all 
parts  of  the  world,  asking  for  more  information  about  the 
exposition  and  convention. 

Space  is  being  sold  rapidly  now,  and  there  is  not  a  line  in 
the  business  that  will  not  be  represented. 

*  *     * 

Some  of  the  designs  drawn  by  the  G.  H.  Masten  Realty 
Company  look  very  attractive  on  paper,  and  no  doubt  the 
different  exhibitors  will  have  very  pietty  booths  on  the  main 

floor. 

*  *     * 

The  theaters  on  the  mezzanine  floor  are  being  looked  after 
by  Mr.  Samuels,  and  by  the  time  he  gets  through  with  them 
they  will  be  models  of  perfection. 


ALFRED  WEISS  STARTS  INDEPENDENT 
EXCHANGE. 

Following  the  sale  of  the  Kinetograph  Company 
General  Film  Company  last  week,  Mr.  Alfred  Weiss,  the 
well-known  New  York  exchange  manager,  has  become  a  free 
agent.  Mr.  Weiss  formerly  conducted  a  licensed  exchange 
at  219  Sixth  Avenue.  This  exchange  was  later  purchased  by 
the  General  Film  Company,  and  Mr.  Weiss  was  retained  as 
branch  manager.  In  January  of  this  year,  when  the  Kineto- 
graph Company  was  formed,  he  affiliated  himself  with  that 
organization  and  ceased  to  be  identified  with  the  General 
Film  Company.  The  Kinetograph  Company  did  business 
until  last  week  on  the  eighteenth  floor  of  the  Masonic  Build- 
ing, on  West  23rd  Street.  After  the  sale  Mr.  Weiss  decided 
to  return  to  his  old  quarters  at  219  Sixth  Avenue  and  open 
an  Independent  exchange.  He  moved  into  the  premises  this 
week,  but  the  General  Film  Company  ordered  him  out.  on 
the  claim  that  their  lease  does  not  expire  until  May  1st 
There  was  an  altercation  between  men  from  the  General 
Film  and  the  Weiss  employes,  and-  Mr.  Weiss,  yielding  to 
force  of  numbers,  moved  his  belongings  to  the  offices  of 
Alfred  Harstn,  on  the  floor  above,  from  which  place  he  will 
serve  his  customers  until  he  is  permanently  located  in  his 
old  quarters. 

Alfred  Weiss  is  one  of  the  most  popular  exchange  men  in 
New  York.  He  has  a  great  following  and  will  no  doubt  soon 
be  doing  a  thriving  business.  Mr.  Herman  Schmidt,  his  able 
and  popular  lieutenant,  will  be  at  his  old  stand  behind  the 
counter,  and  all  of  the  former  Weiss  staff  willbe  in  their  old 
places,  just  as  though  nothing  had  ever  happened. 


NEWMAN  FRAMES  TO  BE  DISPLAYED. 

The  Newman  Manufacturing  Company,  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
and  101-103  Fourth  Ave.,  New  York  City,  have  contracted 
with  the  managing  director  of  the  International  Exposition 
Company  for  space  at  the  Moving  Picture  Convention  to 
be  held  at  the  Grand  Central  Palace  in  New  York  from  July 
7th  to  July  12th.  They  will  have  on  display  some  of  the  very 
latest  ideas  in  brass  lobby  displays,  brass  railings,  inter- 
changeable signs,  etc.  During  the  Exposition  the  Newman 
Company  will  throw  open  their  entire  first  floor  of  the  New 
York  branch  to  the  use  of  visiting  exhibitors,  and  every 
courtesy  will  be  extended  them.  Mr.  S.  J.  Newman,  Secretary 
of  the  firm,  states  that  his  salesmen  on  the  road  report  that 
a  great  many  exhibitors  throughout  the  country  are  making 
preparations  to  attend  the  Convention,  and  it  will  be  the 
biggest  thing  ever  attempted  along  this  line. 


NEW  THEATERS  INSTALLING  HALLBERG  ECONO- 
MIZERS. 

Carl  Michelfelder  will  soon  open  his  beautiful  New  Theater 
at  Montclair,  N.  J.  Through  J.  H.  Hallberg  "The  Econo- 
mizer Man,"  he  will  install  a  Hallberg  60  amp  A.  C.  to  D.  C. 
Economizer,  two  Power's  No.  6A  M.  P.  machines  with  motor 
drive,  spot  light,  bunch  lights  and  full  theater  equipment. 
Mr.  Hallberg  is  also  installing  a  60  amp  A.  C.  to  D.  C.  Econo- 
mizer in  the  New  Star  Theater,  Geneva,  N.  Y.  F.  H.  Burt 
has  taken  the  lease  of  the  Columbia  Theater  at  Bath,  Maine, 
and  purchased  through  Mr.  Hallberg  a  Power's  No.  6A 
machine. 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


Screeners  Hold  Their  First  Ball. 

It  Is  a  Most  Successful  Function,  Socially  and  Financially — 
Kessel  &   Baumann  Pay  $1,000  for   Souvenir. 

HUNDREDS  of  gay  dancers  in  serried  ranks  of  sixteen 
marching  across  a  ballroom  floor,  stepping  to  the 
strains  of  "Members  of  the  Screen  Club  We";  over 
their  heads  and  falling  among  them,  interrupted  in  flight  by 
tiny  wires  crossed  at  regular  intervals,  hundreds  of  unwind- 
ing reels  of  serpentine  ribbon  thrown  by  the  applauding  oc- 
cupants of  the  gallery  boxes;  showering  also  on  the  happy 
throng  are  handfuls  of  confetti;  held  aloft  by  the  men  and 
swinging  to  the  music  are  canes  bearing  Screen  Club  ban- 
ners, by  the  women  small  parasols;  illuminating  and  enhanc- 
ing the  charm  of  the  spectacle  are  the  flashing,  dancing  rays 
of  spotlights — ribbon,  confetti,  souvenirs  and  lights  all  in 
the  red,  white  and  blue  which  marked  the  color  scheme  of 
the  occasion.  Such  was  the  climax  of  the  grand  march  of 
the  Screen  Club  ball  at  Terrace  Garden  on  Saturday,  April 
19.     It  was  a  scene  to  linger  in  the  memory. 

The  hall  was  well  filled  at  9  o'clock.  By  midnight,  when 
the  grand  march  started,  there  were  present  as  many  as 
could  be  comfortably  accommodated.  Who  were  there? 
Well,  it  is  a  much  simpler  matter  to  enumerate  the  few  in 
filmdom  and  picturedom  who  were  not  there.  In  the  boxes 
were  Siegmund  Lubin,  who,  by  the  way,  was  much  in  evidence 
all  over  the  house  throughout  the  night  and  at  the  breakfast 
in  the  Screen  Club  long  after  the  sun-up;  King  Baggot, 
Herbert  Brenon,  William  Robert  Daly,  John  Bunny,  C.  O. 
Baumann,  A.  J.  Kessel,  Herbert  and  Mme.  Blache,  Carl 
Laemmle,  William  J.  Ivory,  P.  A.  Powers,  Jules  Bernstein, 
Moe  Streimer,  Frank  Tichenor,  W.  F.  Haddock,  Alec  B. 
Francis,  O.  A.  C.  Lund,  Miss  Jordan,  James  Kirkwood,  Will- 
iam E.  Shay,  "Pop"  Rock  of  the  Vitagraph,  A.  C.  ("Doc") 
Willat,  "Billy"  Quirk,  J.  C.  Graham,  Harold  Shaw,  J.  V. 
Ritchie,  Harry  Raver.  Among  other  boxholders  were  the 
"Billboard,"  Edison,  Ryno  and  Thanhouser. 

Miss  Swayne,  Jane  Gail,  Lottie  Briscoe  and  Florence 
Hackett  sold  during  the  evening  many  copies  of  the  Screen 
Club  Souvenir.  This  creditable  production  contained  forty- 
seven  pages  of  text  and  sixty  pages  of  advertisements  of 
manufacturers  and  cards  of  directors  and  players.  The  cover 
is  of  green  suede.  The  edges  are  of  gilt.  There  is  a  history 
of  the  club  and  sketches  and  photographs  of  the  officers. 
There  are  also  photographs  of  sixty-six  of  the  members.  The 
roster  of  the  club  as  printed  in  the  souvenir  reveals  327 
names,  showing  that  many  members  failed  to  furnish  the 
committee  with  likenesses.  Four  pages  are  devoted  to 
sixty-six  self-drawn  photographs.  The  result  is  as  startling 
as  it  is  amusing.  Following  the  "mugs"  department  are 
sketches  of  some  of  the  manufacturers  and  "Club  Stuff." 

The  grand  march  was  conceived  by  Herbert  Brenon  and 
William  Robert  Daly.  The  former  was  in  command  of  the 
marching  hosts.  In  the  front  of  the  dancers  were  King 
Baggot  and  "Little  Mary,"  as  blithe  and  sunny  as  ever,  and 
sharing  the  honors  with  the  president  of  the  Screeners. 
Others  were  John  Bunny  and  Florence  Hackett,  Arthur 
Johnson  and  Lottie  Briscoe,  Tom  Moore  and  Alice  Joyce, 
and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  Jay  Williams. 

Also  in  the  front  ranks  was  Exhibitor  "Bill''  Aldridge,  of 
the  Piedmont  Theater  of  Charlotte,  X.  C.  Mr.  Aldridge,  who 
is  one  of  the  big  film  men  of  the  South,  has  been  a  strong  ad- 
mirer of  the  president  of  the  Screen  Club,  but  had  never 
met  Mr.  Baggot  until  the  recent  gathering  of  exchange  men 
in  New  York.  When  they  came  together  it  developed  the 
regard  was  mutual.  Mr.  Aldridge  made  such  a  hit  at  the 
club  and  was  so  impressed  by  the  "bunch"  he  met  at  the 
rooms  that  he  made  a  return  trip  for  the  ball.  On  the  night 
before  the  event  a  special  meeting  was  held  to  elect  Mr. 
Aldridge  to  membership.  The  popular  Southerner  said  he 
would  not  have  missed  the  occasion,  and  furthermore  would 
be  on  hand  for  the  second  annual  even  if  lie  had  to  travel 
further  than  from  North  Carolina. 

From  Philadelphia  besides  the  players  already  named  also 
came  Charles  Brandt  and  Howard  Mitchell,  of  Arthur  John- 
son's company.  From  the  New  York  studios  came  prac- 
tically every  prominent  artist  stationed  in  the   East. 

Frank  Smith,  chairman  of  the  committee  of  ushers,  did 
yeoman  service  all  night  at  the  door,  and  he  was  assisted 
most  ably  by  Matt  Snyder  and  Lee  Beggs,  who  were  stationed 
at  the  gallery  entrances. 

The  program  besides  the  grand  march  included  the  sing- 
ing of  the  Screen  Club  Anthem,  with  "Bob"  Daly  on  the 
platform  wielding  the  baton.  Following  came  the  auction  by 
Mr.  Baggot  of  the  first  copy  of  the  souvenir,  attested  by  the 
signatures  of  many  of  those  present.  After  spirited  bidding 
the  book  was  declared  sold  to  Kessel  &  Baumann  of  the  New- 


York  Motion  Picture  Company,  for  $1,000.  The  announce- 
ment was  greeted  with  hearty  applause  and  three  cheers  for 
the  buyer. 

Mr.  Baggot  next  introduced  Fred  Mace,  president  of  the 
Photoplayers,  the  Pacific  Coast  organization  of  the  screen 
men.  Mr.  Mace  made  a  spirited  plea  for  the  bringing  into 
one  club  of  all  the  film  men  and  players — "make  it  a  great, 
big,  overwhelming  organization,  a  world-around  organiza- 
tion, the' greatest  ever,"  he  said. 

The  excellent  electric  effects  were  arranged  and  executed 
by  Joseph  O'Donnell,  electrician  of  the  Imp  Company. 

It  was  s  o'clock  when  the  orchestra  ceased  playing.  It  was 
a  half  hour  later  before  all  good-bys  were  said.  Then  many 
of  the  dancers  adjourned  to  the  Screen  Club  for  breakfast. 
The  rooms  had  been  tastily  adorned  with  ferns  and  flowers 
and  throughout  the  day  and  night  were  open  to  the  women 
friends  of  the  members.  At  the  head  of  one  of  the  breakfast 
tables  was  the  bride  of  the  president,  entertaining  a  party  of 
her  friends — a  charming  hostess.  Tables  were  arranged  in 
all  of  the  rooms;  there  were  no  vacant  chairs. 

Among  those  who  came  early  and  joined  the  survivors  at 
the  club  was  Samuel  H.  Trigger,  president  of  the  New  York 
State  Exhibitors.  Mr.  Trigger  was  as  pleased  with  the  occa- 
sion as  if  it  had  been  one  of  his  own  division  of  the  industry 
— and  it  may  be  said  he  did  his  full  share  to  help  the 
Screeners. 

The  ball  was  a  success  in  every  way.  The  wisdom  of  the 
committee  in  placing  the  price  of  tickets  at  $2  was  amply 
justified.  Had  there  been  any  greater  attendance,  discom- 
fort would  have  resulted.  There  is  no  question,  however, 
that  for  the  "second  annual"  provision  will  have  to  be  made 
for  a  greater  throng.  That  this  is  so  is  due  to  the  intelligent 
work  of  those  who  planned  and  executed  the  arrangements 
of  the  Screen  Club's  first  annual  ball. 


A  THIRD  "RELIANCE." 

As  the  result  of  urgent  demands  for  Reliance  films.  Man- 
ager J.  V.  Ritchey  has  decided  to  make  a  third  release.  So 
the  Reliance  program,  beginning  May  12th,  will  be  a  release 
every  Monday,  Wednesday  and  Saturday.  Mr.  Ritchey  has 
succeeded  in  securing  one  of  the  best  known  leading  women 
in  the  picture  world  and  is  about  to  close  a  contract  with  a 
leading  man  of  international  reputation  to  be  featured  in  his 
third  Reliance. 

A  beautiful  new  studio  is  being  planned,  the  location  of 
which  will  be  announced  in  a  few  weeks.  The  Reliance  policy 
will  continue  to  be  the  production  of  strong.  Jiigh-class 
drama.  Several  prominent  magazine  writers  are  already  as- 
sociated with  the  company  as  regular  contributors,  and  the 
Reliance's  present  slogan.  "Great  Dramas  by  Famous 
Authors,"  will  be  religiously  adhered  to. 


MR.  R.  F.  OUTCAULT  VISITS  ESSANAY  STUDIO. 

R.  F.  Outcault,  one  of  the  most  talented  and  best  known 
comic  supplement  artists,  visited  the  Essanay  studio  in  Chi- 
cago last  week,  and  drew  several  pictures  of  Buster  Brown 
and  Tige,  the  famous  characters  made  popular  by  him.  His 
work  at  the  plant  caused  so  much  excitement  that  Theodore 
W.  Wharton,  an  Essanay  producer,  suggested  that  Outcault 
draw  pictures  especially  for  an  Essanay  release,  which  he  did 
willingly.  So  on  Tuesday,  May  20th,  the  above-mentioned 
company  will  release  "Buster  Brown  and  Tige,  With  Their 
Creator,  R.  F.  Outcault.'1 


Scene  from  "The  Helping  Hand"  (Ramo). 


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CHICAGO   LETTER 

By  J  AS.  S.  McQDADE 


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CHICAGO  film  circles  have  been  much  interested  in  the 
recent  appointment  of  Major  M.  L.  C.  Funkhouser  as 
second  deputy  chief  of  police  and  mentor  of  morals 
in  Chicago.  With  the  announcement  the  rumor  was  circu- 
lated that  important  changes  would  be  made  in  the  board  of 
censors  for  moving  pictures,  which  naturally  created  alarm, 
because  of  the  damage  that  might  be  wrought  by  the  inexpe- 
rience of  new  members.  On  the  initiative  of  Joseph  Hopp, 
of  the  Standard  Film  Exchange,  a  delegation  representing 
manufacturer^,  exchanges  and  exhibitors .  called  on  Mayor 
Harrison,  Friday  afternoon,  April  .iSth,  arid  pointed  out  tTie 
danger  that  threatened  the  industry.  The  Mayor  assured  the 
visitors  that  no  sudden  change  in  the  censor  board  was  con- 
templated and  that  the  matter  had  been  placed  in  the  hands 
of  Major  Funkhouser,  to  whom  he  referred  the  delegation. 

During  the  discussion  between  the  Second  Deputy  and  the 
film  men  it  was  soon  seen  that  there  was  no  disposition  to 
introduce  destructive  measures.  "With  the  approval  of  Mayor 
Harrison,  I  have  already  served  notice  that  we  will  not  pass 
films  that  depict  crime,  that  ridicule  constituted  authority 
or  that  deal  with  vice  or  women  of  the  underworld,"  said 
the  Major. 

Attention  was  then  drawn  to  the  smut  songs  in  certain 
picture  theaters,  and  the  Major  was  assured  uy  those  present 
that  they  would  work  hand  in  hand  with  him  to  abolish  such 
evils.  Representatives  of-  exchanges  promised  that  they 
would  go  so  far  as  to  refuse  furnishing  films  to  the  offend- 
ing houses.  The  Major  was  much  'pleased  by  this  offer. 
"That  w  ill  give  us  a  strong  club  over  the  exhibitor  who  tol- 
erates the  smut  song  and  who  permits  his  theater  to  become 
a  meeting  place  for  foolish  girls  and  designing  men,"  he  said. 
Major  Funkhouser  has  invited  representatives  of  the 
churches,  the  legal,  medical,  teaching  and  newspaper  profes- 
sions and  of. the  reform  organizations  to  meet  with  him  to 
discuss  the  organization  of  his  board  of  censorship.  The 
date  of  the  meeting  has  not  yet  been  fixed,  but  the  Second 
Deputy  gave  an  invitation  to  a  committee,  selected  from  the 
filrn  men  present,  to  attend. 

Serving  on  this  committee  are  the  following:  Representing 
manufacturers — John  Pribyl,  Selig  Polyscope  Company;  V. 
R.  Day,  Essanay  Film  Manufacturing  Company;  R.  H.  Nehls, 
American  Film  Manufacturing  Company;  representing  ex- 
changes— Harry  Cohen,  General  Film  Company;  F.  A.  Parn- 
ham.  Mutual  Film  Corporation;  Joseph  Hopp,  Standard 
Film  Exchange;  representing  exhibitors — R.  R.  Levy,  W.  1. 
Sweeney  and  John  DufHn. 

Major  Funkhouser  is  not  confining  his  attention  alone  to 
moving  pictures.  Theatrical  performances,  billboard  adver- 
tising, cabaret  performances,  nickel  novels,  dance  halls,  smut 
songs  and  animal  dances  are  included.  He  thus  explains  the 
object  of  the  morals  bureau: 

"To  stop  crime  before  it  starts;  to  catch  the  crime  tendency 
and  strangle  it  to  death;  that  is  the  business  of  this  depart- 
ment. We  are  going  to  try  to  improve  moral  conditions 
because  that  will  decrease  crime. 

"In  going  about   the  job   of  regulating  morals  and  moral 
atmosphere  we  must  first  find  what  it  is  best  to  do,  and  then 
I  with  all  the  emphasis  possible.     Just  now  we  are  in  the 
inquiring  stage  for  the  most  part. 

"The  criminal  history  of  Chicago  in  recent  years  shows 
that  most  of  our  criminals  are  young  criminals.  Our  most 
j'erate  law-breakers  are  young  men.  Poverty  and  envi- 
r  nment  cause  some  of  these  young  men  to  get  a  wrong 
Mart,  but  my  study  of  the  subject  convinces  me  that  a  great 
many  more  receive  their  impulses  to  crime  from  the  cheap 
novels  of  crime,  from  the  moving  pictures  depicting  crime 
and  ridiculing  all  constituted  authority,  and  from  dance  halls 
and  theaters  of  the  lower  sort. 

"Motion  picture  men  appear  to  have  acquired  the  idea  that 
the  proposed  board  of  censorship  is  aimed  at  them  and  that 
we  are  out  to  destroy  their  business.  Nothing  could  be  fur- 
ther from  the  truth,  and.  incidentally.  I  want  to  remind  the 
public  that  the  censoring  body  has  not  yet  been  appointed. 
Let  us  not  cry  out  before  we  are  hurt.  I  ask  the  public  to 
suspend  judgment  on  the  board  of  censorship  until  its  per- 
sonnel is  made  known  and  its  methods  announced." 


Miss  Kate  Davis  Praises  Chicago  Censorship. 

According  to  a  special  from  Washington,  D.  C,  dated 
April  21st,  Miss  Kate  Davis,  president  of  the  National  Reg- 
ulation League,  has  stated  that  Chicago  is  the  only  city  in 
the  United  States  in  which  youth  is  not  subject  to  the  im- 
moral and  criminal  influence  of  objectionable  moving  pic- 
tures. Miss  Davis  had  just  arrived  in  Washington,  after 
completing  an  investigation  of  conditions  throughout  the 
entire  country. 

Miss  Davis  continued:  "Conditions  in  motion  picture 
theaters  in  Chicago,  so  far  as  the  character  of  the  films  is 
concerned,  are  practically  perfect.  I  was  unable  to  find  a 
single  place  displaying  pictures  to  which  the  least  objection 
could  be  made.  This  is  the  result  of  a  strict  municipal  cen- 
sorship, such  as  ought  to  be  adopted  by  the  state  of  Illinois 
and  by  other  states. 

"Chicago  is  the  only  really  clean  city  in  the  country  in 
this  respect.  I  tried  in  vain  to  find  something  to  criticise 
in  the  pictures  exhibited  in  the  cheapest  theaters  of  the 
poorest  sections  of  the  city. 

"Some  settlement  workers  told  me  I  would  find  the  bad 
pictures  in  South  State  Street,  if  anywhere.  I  visited  all 
the  nickel  shows  in  that  quarter.  They  were  all  clean,  and 
the  entertainment  good.  At  noon  I  found  the  places  crowded 
with  laborers  with  their  dinner  pails,  and  they  were  getting 
something  educational  and  uplifting,  when  otherwise  they 
might  have  been  in  saloons. 

"The  credit  for  these  admirable  conditions  is  due  to  the 
police  censorship  bureau,  headed  by  Sergeant  O'Connor,  and 
to  the  man  who  actually  passes  on  the  films.  Sergeant  O'Con- 
nor catches  a  bad  picture  every  time." 

Exhaustive  Moving  Picture  Records  of  Panama  Canal. 

The  Isthmus  of  Panama  and  its  attractions  are  being  filmed  to 
an  extent  never  before  attempted.  H.  H.  Buckwalter,  formerly 
manager  of  the  General  Film  Company's  branch  in  Denver,  is 
now  at  the  Isthmus,  representing  the  Selig  Polyscope  Company. 
He  has  with  him  what  is  probably  the  most  complete  picture 
making  set  of  apparatus  ever  taken  out  on  the  road  and  used 
outside  of  studio  work.  Mr.  Buckwalter  was  one  of  the  first 
dozen  camera  operators  in  the  world,  and  his  present  visit  to 
the  Isthmus  is  to  make  a  pictorial  clean-up  before  the  actual 
opening  of  the  canal.  It  will  require  10,000  feet  of  film  to 
cover  properly  the  different  points  of  interest  and  construction, 
and  the  pleasant  features  of  every  day  life  in  the  settlements. 
The  films  will  be  finished  in  about  a  month  and  will  be  released 
in  the  United  States  in  about  three  months,  coming  just  at  a 
lime  when  the  world's  interest  in  the  canal  will  be  at  fever  heat. 

"The  canal  is  rapidly  nearing  completion,  and  a  full  and  care- 
fully studied  photograph  record  should  be  made,"  writes  Mr. 
Buckwalter.  "The  films  will  be  placed  at  the  disposal  of  lec- 
turers, as  well  as  shown  in  all  the  Licensed  picture  theaters 
throughout  the  United  States  and  Canada.  The  Selig  Polyscope 
Company's  branches  in  England  and  the  continent  will  put  out 
the  films  simultaneously  with  America.  The  ability  to  secure 
very  late  and  accurate  motion  views  of  the  great  work  will  be 
a  boon  to  hundreds  of  lecturers  and  within  a  very  short  time 
the  effect  will  be  noticed  in  the  increased  numbers  in  the 
audiences. 

"Thousands  would  like  to  visit  the  canal,  but  they  have  been 
scared  away  by  unfortunate  statements  made  by  lecturers  who 
got  the  idea  that  the  rainy  season  starts  in  February  and  that 
it  is  unhealthy  and  almost  impossible  to  live  here  after  that.  It 
is  a  positive  wrong  for  these  inexperienced  persons  to  spread 
such  reports  and  deprive  thousands  of  citizens  of  the  pleasure 
of  seeing  the  greatest  work  in  the  history  of  man.  My  short 
experience  here  of  one  week  has  shown  me  the  astonishing  fact 
that  Panama  has  a  better  climate  than  Colorado  and  vastly  supe- 
rior to  the  summers  in  Chicago,  New  York  or  Washington. 
The  people  here  can  scarcely  realize  what  it  means  to  suffer 
with  the  stifling  heat  and  lack  of  breeze  in  the  north. 

"I  may  not  he  able  to  show  the  climate  in  the  pictures,  but 
I  certainly  have  found  a  number  of  very  pleasant  customs,  sights 
and  scenes  that  will  promote  even  more  harmonious  relations 
opening  of  the  canal.  It  will  require  about  10,000  feet  of  film  to 
and  feelings  between  the  people  of  the  two  sections  of  America. 
There  are  some  startling  and  thrilling  features  on  the  canal 
that  have  never  been  photographed,  but  there  are  also  some 
exceedingly  interesting  subjects  in  the  cities  and  among  the 
people  themselves  and  the  pleasure  in  photographing  them  can 
scarcely  be  described.  The  Panamanians  show  a  friendly  spirit 
and  warm  interest  in  the  work  and  when  they  get  in  the  picture 
there  is  a  wonderful  glance  of  friendly  feeling  behind  their 
smiles  that  will  have  an  exceedingly  favorable  effect  when  seen 
on  the  hundreds  of  screens  in  the  north  during  the  coming 
summer.  Did  you  ever  notice  how  well  pleased  you  were  when 
you  looked  at  a  moving  picture  of  some  people  away  from  home 
and  found  a  pleasant  smile  on  the  faces  ?  Notice  it  next  time 
you  go  to  a  picture  show,  and  then  you  can  realize  what  good 


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fellowship  can  be  created  by  the  pictures  now  being  made.  And 
for  the  canal  and  its  wonderful  accomplishment  motion  views 
will  make  millions  of  warm  friends." 

Old  Theory  of  Stomachic   Digestion  Disproved  by  Moving 
Pictures. 

By  means  of  a  combination  of  the  Roentgen  rays  and  the 
moving  picture  camera  it  has  been  recently  discovered  that  the 
old  theorv  of  digestion,  as  it  takes  place  in  the  human  stomach, 
is  incorrect.  The  apparatus  employed  in  registering  the  move- 
ments of  the  stomach  is  known  as  the  bio-roentgenograph. 

The  patient  under  examination  is  given  a  meal  of  digestible 
food,  which  remains  opaque  under  the  Roentgen  rays.  He 
stands  with  his  back  opposed  to  the  rays  and  the  camera,  with 
a  film  considerably  larger  than  the  regulation  size,  records  the 
movements  of  the  stomach  from  the  front.  Instead  of  several 
exposures  a  second,  about  twelve  pictures  are  taken  in  twenty 
seconds.  From  this  negative  a  positive  film  of  the  regulation 
size  is  made. 

The  former  theory  of  the  movement  of  the  stomach  was  that 
the  food  was  gradually  worked  to  the  end  of  the  organ  and  there 
simplv  emptied  by  the  opening  of  a  valve.  The  pictures  have 
shown  this  theory  to  be  utterly  wrong.  There  is  a  contraction 
which  divides  off  "part  of  the  food  just  above  the  discharging  end 
of  the  organ,  and.  by  the  pumping  and  writhing  of  the  stomach,  . 
the  undigested  food  works  its  way  up  to  this  contraction  and 
pushes  it  further  along,  as  though  it  were  a  collar  that  was 
gradually  being  worked  off.  The  contraction  finally  disappears 
after  the  portion  of  food  is  discharged  into  the  small  intestine 
through  the  pyloric  valve.  So  the  pictures  show  the  stomach 
very  arduously  at  work  pushing  the  segregated  food  of  this 
rapidly   diminishing  pocket   through   the   valve. 

The"  bio-roentgenograph  has  also  great  value  in  making  diag- 
noses. In  the  normal  stomach  there  are  no  contractions  or  col- 
lars, except  in  the  normal  discharge  of  food;  but  in  the  diseased 
organ  there  are  added  contractions  which  interfere  with  the 
pumping.  When,  after  an  unusually  heavy  meal,  a  feeling  of 
great  discomfort  disturbs  the  eater,  the  stomach  is  protesting 
against  new  contractions  which  delay  the  passage  of  the  food, 
and  the  pictures  would  show  the  stomach  being  tightly  squeezed 
by  a  collar  in  the  middle  as  well  as  by  the  regular  collar  near 
the  pyloric  end. 

The  machine  has  been  used  in  Germany  for  three  years,  and 
one  apparatus  is  already  in  America,  the  property  of  a  Battle 
Creek  specialist.  It  had  just  been  invented  when  the  late  E.  H. 
Harriman,  railroad  magnate,  was  in  Europe  before  his  final  ill- 
ness. Moving  pictures  of  his  stomach  were  taken  in  Munich  and 
his  trouble  was  diagnosed  positively  for  the  first  time.  Dr.  J. 
Rosenthal,  a  famous  specialist  of  Munich  and  one  of  the  in- 
ventors of  the  bio-roentgenograph,  has  stated  that,  in  all  prob- 
ability. Mr.  Harriman's  life  might  have  been  saved  had  the  ex- 
amination been  made  four  weeks  earlier. 

Chicago  Film  Brevities. 
Benj.  F.  Riley,  who  managed  the  Jeffries  and  Johnson  fight 
pictures  throughout  the  United  States  and  South  America,  died 
at  Henrotin  Hospital,  this  city,  at  8  o'clock,  Monday  evening, 
April  21.  He  suffered  from  cancer  of  the  spleen  and  was  sick 
only  two  weeks.     He  was  23  years  old. 

*  *    * 

At  the  present  writing  it  looks  as  if  there  will  be  a  meeting 
of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Independent  Exchange  Com- 
pany in  New  York,  about  Friday,  April  25 

*  *    * 

George  Cox,  who  has  been  with  the  Selig  Polyscope  Company 
in  the  capacities  of  actor  and  director  for  several  years,  has 
been  engaged  by  the  Advance  Motion  Picture  Company,  122  S. 
Michigan  Avenue,  this  city,  to  take  full  charge  of  their  dramatic 
productions.  Mr.  .Cox  is  a  genial  gentleman  with  a  host  of 
friends,  and  the  World  wishes  him  the  greatest  success. 

*  *    * 

H.  G.  Whitton,  of  London,  England,  paid  a  visit  to  the  World 
office  last  week.  He  has  charge  of  Alfred  West's  "Our  Navy," 
and  gave  a  performance  at  the  U.  S.  Naval  Training  Station, 
Great  Lakes,  near  this  city,  about  two  weeks  ago.  The  presen- 
tation of  "Our  Navy"  was  received  with  great  enthusiasm,  and 
•Mr.  Whitton  has  received  the  following  letter  from  George  R. 
Clark,  U.  S.  N.,  commander  of  the  station :  "The  entertainment 
recently  given  by  you  at  this  station  was  very  interesting  and 
instructive,  and  well  worth  while  in  every  respect." 

*  *    * 

N.  T.  Zurawski,  owner  of  the  Lux  Theater,  35th  and  Michigan 
Avenue,  visited  the  World  office  last  week  and  subscribed  for 
that  publication.  The  Lux  was  erected  at  a  cost  of  $50,000  and 
seats  Soo  people.  The  admission  is  5  cents  on  week  days  and 
10  cents  on  Sundays.  Mr.  Zurawski  is  well  pleased  with  the 
volume   of   business   done   with   Independent   programs. 


"The  Road  to  Ruin"  (American). 

Reviewed  by  James  S.  McQuade. 

OUITE  an  unusual  one-reel  subject,  of  a  mystic,  allegori- 
cal character,  will  be  released  by  the  American  Film 
Manufacturing  Company,  on  May  3.  The  Western 
Company,  No.  I,  engaged  in  the  production,  and  the  members 
have  realized  all  the  possibilities  offered  by  the  characters. 
Warren  Kerrigan  has  a  rather  thankless  part,  one  that  per- 
mits but  small  scope  for  the  exercise  of  his  fine  histrionic 
talent.  We  hope  to  see  Mr.  Kerrigan  shortly  in  some  strong 
dramas  where  his  ability  as  a  leading  man  will  be  shown  to 
better  advantage.  The  woman  in  the  case  is  well  drawn  by 
Miss  Charlotte  Burton,  and  the  victims  of  her  perfidy  are 
strongly  presented  by  Jack  Richardson  and  George  Periolat. 
"The  Road  to  Ruin,"  shows  us  the  downward  course  of  a 
woman  vampire,  who  wrecks  the  lives  of  three  men,  and  in 
the  end  join  the  ranks  of  the  hopeless  derelicts  who  long 
for  death  to  end  their  sorrows.  Two  of  her  victims  succeed 
in   turning  their   backs  on   the   ruin   that   faced   them  and   in 


Scene  from  "The  Road  to  Ruin"  (American). 


regaining  the  heights  of  restored  happiness.  We  see  them 
in  the  picture  toiling  up  these  heights,  while  far  below,  in 
the  valley  of  shadows,  we  catch  sight  of  the  listless  shades 
that   people   it. 

The  film  is  marked  by  fine  photography  and  several  artis- 
tic backgrounds.  The  scene  depicting  the  road  to  ruin  has 
been  well  selected.  Indeed,  the  perspective  of  this  scene  im- 
presses one  by  its  uncanniness.  It  is  a  most  fitting  setting 
for  the  weird,  ghostly  residents  of  that  land  where  hope  and 
sunshine  have  forever  set. 

A  CORRECTION. 

On  page  168  of  the  issue  dated  April  12  we  printed  a  no- 
tice to  the  effect  that  the  Dixie  Theater,  of  Houston,  Texas, 
has  turned  independent.  This  is  an  error.  The  manager  of 
the  Dixie  Theater,  F.  W.  Peters,  says  that  he  has  no  inten- 
tion of  turning  from  licensed  to  independent,  for  he  is  thor- 
oughly satisfied  with  the  service  he  is  now  getting. 


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Doings  at  Los  Angeles 

General   Film   Company   Gains   Many   Theaters — Interesting 
News   Budget   From   California's    Great   Picture    Center. 

AS  MANY  theaters  as  it  lost,  during  the  recent  assault 
upon  its  business  made  by  the  combined  independent 
exchanges,  were  regained  this  week  by  the  General 
Film  Co.,  in  this  city,  and  for  good  measure  the  company 
took  over  two  or  three  extra  houses  so  that  the  licensed  pro- 
gram is  stronger  in  this  city  today  than  it  has  been  at  any 
time  since   the   first  independent  exchange   opened. 

The  fact  that  so  great  a  number  of  exhibitors  deserted  the 
independent  manufacturers  and  flocked  over  to  the  licensed 
group  in  so  brief  a  time  makes  the  change  revolutionary. 
Two  weeks  ago  the  only  downtown  houses  in  Los  Angeles, 
which  were  showing  films  handled  by  the  General  Film  Co., 
were  Clune's,  Tally's,  Home's,  the  "Liberty,  the  Union,  the 
Metropolitan  and  the  California.  All  the  other  downtown 
houses  were  being  supplied  by  the  independent  exchanges. 
The  switch  began  last  week  when  seven  big  and  important 
downtown  houses  went  over  to  the  General  within  three  or 
four  days.  They  are  the  Optic,  the  Isis,  the  Plaza,  the  United 
States,  the  Novelty  and  the  International.  The  Majestic, 
which  is  one  of  the  leading  theaters  of  the  San  Pedro  dis- 
trict, and  the  Idle  Hour,  the  principal  Hollywood  theater, 
made  the  change  about  the  same  time.  The  Independents 
still  have  the  College,  the  Garrick,  the  American,  the  Shell, 
Mozarts,  the  Bijou  and  the  Picture  theaters,  in  addition  to 
half  a  dozen  or  so  of  lesser  importance. 

Meanwhile,  although  the  General  Film  Co.  is  prospering, 
A.  P.  Tugwell,  president  of  the  California  Exhibitors'  League 
is  digging  a  deep  pit  for  it.  Tugwell  has  originated  a  plan 
which  he  has  been  explaining  to  the  exhibitors  all  over  the 
state  as  his  position  has  brought  him  in  contact  with  them, 
whereby  he  believes  they  may  get  back  a  part  of  the  money 
they  have  paid  the  General  Film  Co.  in  the  past.  Before  he 
became  an  exhibitor  Tugwell  was  a  lawyer  and  he  has  delved 
deep  into  the  law  relating  to  the  fee  of  $2  a  week  which  the 
General  Film  Co.  charges  exhibitors  for  their  licenses.  He 
believes  that  this  charge  is  illegal  under  the  laws  of  this 
state  and  that  exhibitors  who  have  paid  it  in  the  past  can 
compel  the  exchanges  to  refund  all  the  license  fees  which 
have  been  paid.  His  plan  is  to  unite  the  exhibitors  who  have 
claims  against  the  company  and  to  bring  a  suit  in  the  name 
of  one  of  them.  The  case  will  be  taken  to  the  supreme  court 
as  quickly  as  possible  and  if  the  plaintiff  is  given  the  decision 
it  will  establish  a  precedent  under  which  all  the  other  ex- 
hibitors will  be  able  to  collect. 

*  *    » 

The  members  of  the  Edison  producing  company  under  the 
direction  of  J.  Searle  Dawley  departed  for  New  York  this 
week  having  been  recalled  to  the  Eastern  studio.  The  com- 
pany came  here  last  fall  at  the  end  of  a  long  trip  across 
the  continent,  having  made  stops  of  varying  lengths  at  many 
cities  on  the  way.  Originally  the  intention  was  to  remain 
here  only  for  a  month  or  so,  but  the  climatic  conditions  and 
the  variety  of  scenic  backgrounds  resulted  in  the  stay  being 
prolonged  until  this  time.  Another  factor  that  had  an  ef- 
fect was  the  fact  that  the  company  found  comfortable  studio 
quarters  at  Alamitos  and  Sixth  Streets  in  Long  Beach. 

*  *     * 

The  Long  Beach  studio  which  the  Edison  company  vacated 
on  its  return  East  was  retaken  on  the  same  day  the  depart- 
ing players  moved  out,  by  the  Balboa  Amusement  Co.  This 
company  has  one  of  the  costliest  amusement  concessions  at 
the  San  Francisco  Exposition  and  was  organized  primarily 
to  operate  the  concession.  Included  in  its  scheme  is  a  thea- 
ter on  the  fair  grounds  which  will  have  a  seating  capacity 
of  4,000  and  will  be  used  for  motion  picture  productions  of 
magnitude,  one  of  which  will  be  the  story  of  Balboa,  dis- 
coverer of  the  Pacific  Ocean.  A  large  part,  if  not  all.  of  this 
picture  will  be  made  in  Southern  California.  In  addition  the 
company  has  decided  to  undertake  the  regular  manufacture 
of  motion  pictures  and  will  put  on  three  producing  companies 
at  once — a  Western,  a  dramatic  and  a  comedy  company. 

*  *     * 

In  order  to  be  able  to  congratulate  "Pop"  Lubin  in  person 
on  his  birthdav  April  20.  Wilbert  Melville,  producer  of  the 
Xo.  1  Lubin  Company  in  Southern  California  made  the  trip 
from  Los  Angeles  to  Philadelphia,  leaving  here  April  15. 
Since  the  birthday  will  be  past  before  this  reaches  print  it 
may  be  added  that  Melville  took  with  him  a  substantial  sum 
of  money  which  was  subscribed  by  the  Lubin  employees  in 
this  vicinity  toward  the  purchase  of  the  loving  cup  which  had 
Ijct-n  ordered  as  a  birthday  present. 


Both  companies  are  still  at  work  although  it  is  reported 
that  the  Grandon  section  at  Glendale  is  soon  to  return  to 
Philadelphia.  The  Melville  company,  which  is  being  directed 
by  E.  B.  Bracken  during  Melville's  absence,  will  remain  here 
for  several  months  longer,  and  may  possibly  become  a  perma- 
nent institution.  The  improvement  being  made  at  the  studio 
at  4550  Pasadena  Avenue,  all  of  a  permanent  character,  seem 
to  indicate  that  the  company  expects  to  stay. 

*  *     * 

Members  of  "The  Photoplayers"  Club  entertained  their 
women  friends  April  9,  when  the  first  "Ladies'  Night''  in  the 
new  club  home  was  held.  The  rooms  were  filled  with  cut 
flowers,  there  was  special  music  and  refreshments  and  after 
the  reception  which  occupied  the  early  hours  of  the  evening 
there  was  an  informal  dance  lasting  until  midnight.  About 
200  women  guests  were  entertained,  many  of  them  famous 
in  the  motion  picture  profession. 

*  *     * 

Richard  Garrick,  formerly  a  motion  picture  man,  later  a 
director  with  the  Universal  group,  and  now  head  of  the  Gar- 
rick Dramatic  Exchange  in  this  city,  is  reported  to  be  at  the 
head  of  a  new  motion  picture  producing  company  which  is 
being  formed.  He  says  that  he  is  not  ready  to  discuss  the 
subject.  "The  whole  thing  is  entirely  tentative  at  this  time," 
he  says,  "and  it  may  be  that  there  will  be  no  announcement 
to  be  made." 

*  *     * 

The  new  offices  of  the  Universal  Film  Co.  at  Sunset  Boule- 
vard and  Gower  Street  in  Hollywood,  opposite  the  site  of  the 
buildings  which  were  burned  a  month  ago  are  now  nearly 
completed  and  will  be  ready  for  occupancy  the  first  of  next 
week.  A  week  later  the  company  will  be  serving  meals  in 
the  new  cafe  which  is  being  erected  on  the  grounds  for  the 
exclusive  use  of  employees.  Another  convenience  which  is 
being  prepared  for  the  actors  is  a  barber  shop. 

At  Universal  City  on  the  big  Oak  Crest  ranch  there  is  to 
be  a  general  election  May  20.  With  more  than  300  perma- 
nent residents  and  a  floating  population  of  from  100  to  1,000 
a  day  more  the  city  has  become  large  enough  to  have  a  gov- 
ernment of  its  own.  At  the  forthcoming  election  a  mayor, 
a  board  of  supervisors,  a  district  attorney  and  many  other 
officials  will  be  elected.  The  republicans,  the  democrats  and 
progressives  have  all  signified  their  intention  of  putting  full 
tickets  in  the  field  and  the  conventions  are  to  be  held  within 
the  next  week.     An  exciting  campaign  is  in  prospect. 

*  I  *      * 

For  a  couple  of  days  this  week  it  seemed  highly  probable 
that  the  Kinemacolor  company  would  have  to  suspend  op- 
erations and  lay  off  the  members  of  the  company.  Something 
went  wrong  with  a  shipment  of  raw  film  from  New  York 
and  the  supply  began  to  run  low.  Although  there  are  no  un- 
usually big  productions  in  the  course  of  making  at  the  pres- 
ent time,  three  regular  companies  working  every  day  use 
up  film  rapidly.  Cameramen  were  told  to  be  sparing  with 
the  rapidly  diminishing  supply  on  hand  and  Producer  David 
Miles  nursed  it  in  every  way  he  knew,  but  finally  the  last 
foot  was  used.  While  arrangements  were  being  made  to  lay 
the. people  off  a  message  came  from  the  freight  depot  say- 
ing that  the  new  stock  had  reached  town.  The  company 
was  obliged  to  suspend  operations  only  for  about  two  hours. 

*  *     * 

A  bill  providing  for  the  censoring  of  vaudeville  acts  has 
been  introduced  in  the  legislature  at  Sacramento  at  the  in- 
stance of  the  motion  picture  exhibitors  of  the  state.  When 
the  motion  picture  censorship  bill  was  before  the  senate 
committee  on  public  morals  the  representatives  of  the  Cali- 
fornia Exhibitors'  League  protested  against  the  discrimina- 
tion which  censored  motion  pictures  and  permitted  vaude- 
ville to  go  free.  Their  complaints  resulted  in  a  bill  being 
introduced  to  cover  the  other  form  of  public  amusements, 
but,  since  the  legislature  is  rushing  to  get  through  and  has 
more  legislation  than  it  can  possibly  handle  before  the  day 
set  for  adjournment,  there  is  little  probability  that  the  new 
bill  will  ever  come  out  of  committee.  P.  M.  POWELL. 


WATCH  OUT  FOR  IMPOSTER. 

Many  young  women  have  called  up  the  American  Film 
Manufacturing  Company  recently  asking  for  a  Mr.  Hart,  who 
claims  to  be  its  manager.  This  party  has  evidently  left  busi- 
ness cards  giving  such  misinformation  in  beauty  parlors  and 
other  places  where  girls  congregate.  The  Chicago  police  are 
after  this  man  who  is  evidently  attempting  to  entice  pretty 
girls  into  Texas,  where  he  claims  the  American  is  operating  a 
company.  The  American  is,  of  course,  in  no  way  responsible 
for  anything  this  party  may  do  and  issues  this  warning  in 
the  hope  that  it  may  prevent  imposture. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


IF  SOME  of  the  self-appointed  guardians  of  the  public 
welfare  would  spend  some  of  their  wasted  time  in  look- 
ing about  for  some  really  good  work  to  perform  they 
could  find  a  big  field  for  their  efforts  among  some  of  the 
so-called  schools  for  the  grinding  out  of  actors  and  actresses 
for  motion  picture  producing  companies.  The  subject  is 
not  a  new  one,  but  each  week  there  are  developments  show- 
ing that  many  of  the  so-called  schools  are  becoming  more 
daring  in  their  operations.  It  is  pitiable  to  note  the  plight 
of  some  of  their  victims.  It  is  the  old,  old  story  of  stage- 
struck  people  allowing  themselves  to  become  victimized  by 
shrewd  scheming  people,  who  are  always  watching  for  op- 
portunities to  live  well  with  the  least  possible  effort  in  earn- 
ing it,  regardless  of  the  loss  to  the  victims.  It  is  by  no 
means  unreasonable  to  ask  the  consideration  on  the  part  of 
the  municipal,  or  state  authorities  of  some  measure  whereby 
many  of  the  so-called  schools  could  be  placed  under  official 
supervision.  Hundreds  of  innocent  young  women  and  men, 
and  many  older  people,  who  feel  they  possess  some  talent 
in  the  theatrical  line  that  needs  only  the  coaching  of  a  pro- 
fessional to  develop  it  and  bring  them  fame  and  fortune 
are  daily  put  in  the  ranks  of  dupes.  Many  of  them  are  hard 
working  people  who  have  been  induced  to  part  with  a  good 
portion  of  their  savings  in  the  hope  of  bettering  their  con- 
dition, stenographers  and  typewriters  form  a  large  percentage 
of  the  victims  and  many  of  them  resign  from  good  positions 
to  devote  their  whole  time  to  the  development  of  what  some 
school  manager  has  told-  them  is  a  rare  talent  that  requires 
only  the  magic  touch  of  experienced  actors  and  actresses. 
The  anguish  of  victims  created  by  the  discovery  that  they 
have  been  duped  has  touched  the  hearts  of  many  managers 
to  an  extent  that  a  short  time  ago  one  of  them  wrote  a 
personal  letter  to  the  manager  of  one  of  the  so-called  schools 
that  drove  the  latter  under  cover. 

*  *     * 

"I  do  hope  1  am  not  too  late."  said  a  well  dressed  young 
woman,  who  entered  the  office  of  a  motion  picture  producing 
concern  in  this  city  a  few  days  ago. 

"What  do  you  mean?"  asked  the  party  addressed. 

"Why,  the  try-outs.  I  know  I  am  a  little  late,  but  I  hope 
you  will  be  able  to  give  me  a  chance  this  afternoon.  It  is  a 
matter  of  great  importance  to  me,  in  fact  I  feel  that  disap- 
pointment  would   ruin   me.     I   have   been   taking  instruction 

in    the  school   for   the   past   three    months   and    the 

manager  tells  me    1    am   now  ready  for  a   try-out." 

"We   have    no   try-outs   here,"    the  young  woman    was    told. 

"1  do  not  mean  here,  right  in  this  office.  I  am  ready,  to 
go   into   your   studio   and   make   good.      What!      Do   not   say 

that.     There   must  be   some   mistake.     Why,   Mr.  — ,   the 

manager  of  the  school  told  me  your  company  devotes  Sat- 
urday afternoons  to  the  trying-out  of  the  graduates  of  his 
school.  I  have  tried  several  studios,  but  was  turned  away 
because  I  could  not  show  professional  stage  experience. 
Your  company  was  pointed  out  as  my  final  hope." 

*  *     * 

This  young  woman  had  given  up  a  lucrative  position  in 
one  of  the  western  cities  and  came  to  New  York  to  become 
a  moving  picture  star.  Her  savings  were  almost  exhausted 
and  the  grief  she  displayed  when  finally  convinced  that  she 
had  been  sent  on  a  fool's  errand  showed  that  the  future  had 
a  most  discouraging  aspect   for  her. 

*  *     * 

"It  is  a  shame."  said  the  producing  manager.  "This  is 
but  one  of  scores  of  cases  that  come  before  us  each  week. 
The  producing  companies  that  do  not  draw  the  lines  on 
amateurs  are  very  few.  Professional  people  are  plentiful. 
Every  studio  of  reputable  standing  has  a  long  list  of  them 
awaiting  assignments  and  it  is  like  taking  money  under  false 
representation,  to  lead  non-professionals  into  the  belief  that 
a  field  awaits  them.  Even  the  number  of  professionals  will- 
ing to  work  as  "extras"  exceed  the  demand,  yet  some  of 
the  schools  tell  their  pupils  that  their  lists  are  drawn  upon 
by  the  producing  companies.  Some  years  ago  it  became 
necessary  to  place  employment  agencies  under  certain  legal 
restrictions,  and  it  seems  to  me  that  some  of  the  schools  for 


instruction  in  motion  picture  acting  could  be  reached  un- 
der these  laws,  as  many  of  them  promise  the  pupils  posi- 
tions on   completion   of   the   course." 

*  *     * 

Mayor  Gaynor,  Police  Commissioner  Waldo,  Fire  Com- 
missioner Johnson  and  Street  Commissioner  Edwards  made 
their  debut  in  motion  picture  studio  work  one  day  last  week. 
They  figured  in  talking  moving  pictures  and,  while  some 
people  look  upon  it  as  a  joke,  the  event  will  do  much  towards 
demonstrating  the  value  of  the  pictures  in  the  exemplifica- 
tion of  the  work  attached  to  the  various  civic  departments. 
Communities  finding  it  impossible  to  secure  the  personal 
attendance  for  lectures  of  men  who  become  prominently 
identified  with  municipal,  state  and  national  departments  will 
find  a  valuable  acquisition  in  such  pictures.  Chatauqua  cir- 
cuits and  lecture  platforms  will  be  particularly  interested  in 
the  development  of  this  branch  of  the  industry.  It  is  to  be- 
come one  of  the  most  important  factors  in  the  educational 
line.  Each  day  brings  forth  some  new  development  or  un- 
dertaking, showing  clearly  that  the  day  is  not  far  distant 
when  the  motion  picture  will  become  as  indispensable  in  edu- 
cational circles  as  it  has  become  popular  in  the  world  of  en- 
tertainment. It  is  no  longer  a  question  as  to  how  long  the 
pictures  will  survive.     Truly  they  are   in   their   infancy. 

*  *     * 

And  yet  many  leading  lights  of  the  theatrical  profession 
refuse  to  look  upon  motion  pictures  seriously.  Lewis  Waller, 
the  well  known  English  actor,  is  one  of  them.  Before  leav- 
ing our  shores  last  week  he  took  occasion  to  say.  "New 
Yorkers  have  very  light  taste";  that  they  do  not  want  good 
plays,  or  even  good  comedies.  He  says  they  want  light 
musical  comedy  or  sensational  drama  to  take  the  place  of 
moving  pictures,  and  if  they  do  not  get  either  they  will  take 
the   "movies." 

Mr.  Waller  shows  that,  despite  his  success  upon  the  stage, 
he  is  not  in  touch  with  the  pulse  of  the  people  of  the  world. 
New  York  is  not  alone  in  the  "light  taste"  brigade.  Reports 
come  continually  from  all  quarters  of  the  globe  showing 
gigantic  strides  by  motion  pictures  and  the  conversion  of 
theaters  for  their  exploitation.  Among  the  latest  of  Euro- 
pean cities  to  fall  in  line  is  the  City  of  Merlin.  Five  of  the 
largest  theaters  in  the  cities  have  become  picture  houses. 
Xew  Yorkers  like  good  plays  and  good  comedies.  Their 
taste  in  that  direction  is  as  strong  as  ever,  but  the  productions 
must  be  good,  real  good,  to  hold  their  own  with  the  photo- 
plays of  today.  In  other  words,  the  motion  picture  is  setting 
the  pace.  That  is  why  so  many  well  know  theatrical  mana- 
gers and  players,  as  well  as  play  writers  and  authors  are 
flocking  to  the  picture  standard. 

*  *     * 

Watch  the  public  sentiment  and  you  will  find  an  inclina- 
tion to  forget  that  photoplays,  as  they  are  more  frequently 
called  today,  are  moving  pictures.  The  people  formerly  said. 
"I  guess  I'll  take  in  the  movies  tonight."  Now  they  either 
mention  the  photoplay  by  name,  or  the  actor  being  starred 
in  it,  just  as  they  used  to  say,  "I  am  going  to  see  Marlowe, 
Drew,  or  Hamlet,"  or  some  other  play.  The  other  night  I 
heard  a  well  known  newspaper  man  say  to  a  friend.  "Come 
over  to  the  Crystal.  They  have  — billed."  The  in- 
terest manifested  in  the  results  of  studio  work  is  even  greater 
than  the  most  sanguine  promoters  anticipated  a  few  years 
ago.  The  offices  of  manufacturers,  film  exchanges  and  ex- 
hibitors are  kept  busy  answering  inquiries  by  letter  and  tele- 
phone as  to  where  this  or  that  picture  is  being  produced  and 
it  seems  a  certainty  that  the  time  will  soon  be  at  hand  when 
the  newspapers  will  devote  space  to  announcements  as  to 
when  and  where  certain  photoplays  may  be  seen.  This 
initial  step  has  already  been  taken  by  many  vaudeville  houses. 
Heretofore  they  simply  announced  at  the  bottom  of  their 
list  of  attractions,  "motion  pictures."  Now  they  announce 
the  title  of  the  photoplay.  Many  people  are  now  subscribing 
for  the  descriptive  pamphlets  issued  by  some  of  the  pro- 
ducing companies  so  as  to  keep  posted  on  coming  releases 
and  they  also  acquaint  themselves  with  the  class  of  service 
handled  by  the  various  theaters  so  they  will  not  miss  seeing 
certain  films. 


A  FOUR-REEL   ROUND-UP  PICTURE. 

"A  real  breath  of  the  virile  Golden  West"  is  the  way  the 
Oregon  Motion  Picture  Manufacturing  Company  describe 
their  Pendleton  Round-Up  in  advertisement  this  week.  For 
genuine  hard  work  it  would  be  impossible  to  beat  the  action 
in  these  annual  round-up  pictures  and  American  audiences, 
especially  those  in  the  Western  States,  never  seem  to  tire  of 
them. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


477 


"Pelleas  and  Melisande" 

Great   Drama   Admirably   Produced   by   Universal   in   Three 

Parts. 
By  H.  C.  Judson. 

TRULY  here  is  an  encouraging  picture.  It  is  so;  because, 
although  it  tells  a  better  story  than  nine-tenths  of  the 
melodramas,  it  has  been  produced  and  acted  to  please 
the  most  discriminating  lover  of  beauty  and  to  appeal  strong- 
ly, to  that  best  part  of  the  average  spectator,  which  is  worth 
while  doing.  It  is  a  photoplay  of  Maurice  Maeterlink's  great 
drama,  "Pelleas  and  Melisande"  and  is  full  of  tragic  poetry. 
The  name  of  Maeterlink  on  the  heralds  and  billboards  an- 
nouncing this  picture  will  count  for  much.  The  world  makes 
a  good  deal  of  such  authors  and  their  work  and  it  must  be 
valuable.  For  some  reason,  people  are  glad  to  pay  for  what 
they  give  and  we  promise  the  exhibitor  that  the  average 
spectator,  who  may  come  in  to  see  this  photoplay  will  not 
leave  feeling  that  any  catch  penny  imitation  of  something 
good  has  been  sold  to  him.  It  is  a  very  artistic  and  lovely 
picture,  a  true  three-part,  feature  offering. 

In  putting  on  the  screen  such  a  drama,  something  is  almost 
necessarily  lost  and  something  is  gained.  It  happens  that, 
without    words,    the    role    of    Pelleas    loses    something    of    its 


Melisandi's  father,  and  we  find  Prince  Challant  offering  t.> 
throw  dice  with  the  old  man  for  the  hand  of  his  daughter. 
The  vile  prince  wins  and  attempts  to  force  his  suit  upon  the 
high  spirited  girl  and  at  the  door  of  the  palace  is  stabbed  by 
her.  Now  we  are  shown  the  wood  through  which  she  i^ 
fleeing  from  the  prince's  wild  followers.  A  scene,  flashed 
in,  gives  us  Prince  Golaud's  departure  from  his  parents  in 
their  castle  and  now  he,  in  his  hunting,  finds  the  princess 
whom  he  takes  to  the  cell  of  a  monk,  the  God  man,  where, 
after  wedding  her,  lie  protects  her  from  the  three  villains  in 
well  produced  and  dramatic  scenes.  The  story  is  now 
in  and  around  the  castle  of  Golaud's  father.  King  Arkel,  and 
his  mother,  the  queen.  There  are  one  or  two  acceptable  in- 
teriors and  some  lovely  outside  views  including  a  glimpse 
or   two   of  a  beautiful   mansion. 

The  marriage  of  Melisande  was  one  of  convenience:  yet 
she  loves  her  lord  and  is  never  untrue  to  him.  But,  meeting 
the  younger  brother,  Pelleas,  the  dreamer,  she  finds  a  soul 
kindred  to  her  own  and  a  warm,  but  innocent  friendship  is 
the  result.  Golaud,  at  length,  becomes  suspicious  and  his 
jealousy,  increasing  by  what  it  feeds  upon,  drives  him  tem- 
porarily insane.  The  growth  of  this  distemper  is  developed 
by  severely  dramatic  and  wholly  legitimate  means,  step  by 
step  to  its  tragic  end  and  makes  a  tremendously  effective 
story.     Subtile  contrasts  are  not  wanting:  for  the  tragedy  is 


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charm.  He  is  the  lover  and  is  one  with  Tristam  and  with 
Paolo.  Such  characters  live  in  their  burning  words,  and  one 
thing  for  which  Producer  MacDonald  can  take  credit  is  in 
his  being  able  to  suggest  so  much  of  the  poetry  in  Pelleas' 
part  in  the  situation.  In  this,  the  backgrounds  count  for 
much;  in  fact  he  has  found  an  ideal  setting  for  the  whole 
story  in  the  poetic  scenes  of  California.  We  can  not  deny 
that  the  photoplay  is  weakened  a  little  by  this  absence  of 
speech  in  the  characterization  of  Pelleas;  but  it  doesn't  spoil 
the  picture;  it  keeps  it  from  giving  all  that  some  may  expect. 
It  makes  his  elder  brother,  Golaud,  the  most  interesting 
character  and  we  don't  believe  a  better  choice  of  a  player 
to  take  the  role  could  have  been  made  than  Arthur  Maude. 
There  is  something  royal  in  his  portrayal,  a  dignity  that  pro- 
tects it  from  all  that  is  brutally  rough.  He  is  every  inch  a 
prince,  a  courtly,  charming  figure.  Melisande  is  taken  by 
Constance  Crawley,  an  actress  who  has  full  command  of  her- 
self and  skill  in  utilizing  her  art.  We  have  not  been  able  to 
get  the  entire  cast  of  players;  but  have  only  commendation 
for  each.  Though  Golaud's  mother  should  have  been  older. 
The    picture    opens    in    the    drinking    hall    of    King    Luchi, 


drawn  against  the  background  of  the  castle's  plea-ins  and 
stately  life.  Little  Yniold,  son  of  Golaud  in  a  former  mar- 
riage, is  effective  in  brightening  dark  moments  with  his  af- 
fectionate courting  of  his  father's  attention,  on  one  hand, 
while  the  old  king's  friendship  for  his  daughter-in-law  re- 
lieves her  position  as  a  newcomer,  far  away  from  her  home 
and  kindred  without  the  help  of  other  counsel.  At  the 
climax,  Golaud  finds  his  brother  kissing  Melisande  farewell: 
for  the  king,  to  avert  a  tragedy,  has  sent  him  away.  This 
embrace  seems  to  Golaud  proof  of  guilt  and,  in  a  sudden 
rage,  he  runs  Pelleas  through  with  his  sword.  In  the  next 
moment  he  knows  that  he  has  been  unjust  and  repents. 
Harrison  Del  Ruth  is  responsible  for  the  adaptation. 

In  the  photography,  as  in  all  other  departments,  the 
ture  shows  finish  and  care.  As  entertainment  pure  and  sim- 
ple, it  will  rank  very  high;  but  it  is  also  a  most  instructive- 
offering  and  one  that  will  appeal  strongly  to  educators 
Surelv.  it  is  worthy  of  being  featured  strongly  and  we  feel 
certain  that  it  will  generously  repay  any  reasonable  expendi- 
ture to  promote  it. 


478 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


BRITISH  NOTES. 

THE  activities  of  the  American  Producing  Company  seek- 
ing suitable  places  in  this  country  for  the  establish- 
ment of  a  plant  and  studio,  and  to  which  I  referred 
some  time  ago,  are  again  in  evidence.  Actually  there  were 
no  less  than  three  names  mentioned  at  the  time,  those  of  the 
Yitagraph,  Lubin  and  Kalem  concerns.  Whatever  the  two 
latter  are  doing  in  the  matter  seems  shrouded  in  secrecy,  or 
it  may  even  be  that  these  rumors  were  accellerated  by  the  ap- 
pearance in  this  country  about  the  same  time  of  Mr.  John 
Bunny  in  his  Cockney  sketches,  the  Kalem  Company's  Irish 
players  and  the  visit  of  Mr.  Siegmund  Lubin.  But  now  the 
Yitagraph  have  definitely  moved  and  are  shortly,  I  hear  on 
best  of  authorit3r,  to  establish  new  premises  in  London 
Whether  these  are  to  be  employed  in  the  actual  work  of  pro- 
duction is  improbable,  as  the  company  already  own  a  site  in 
Paris  much  better  equipped  for  the  work. 

*  *     * 

The  famous  New  York  detective,  Mr.  Wm.  J.  Burns,  is  at 
present  in  London  on  business  in  connection  with  some  bank 
frauds.  He  has  evidently  other  business,  for  he  states  that  he 
has  written  a  real-life  detective  play,  the  only  thing  of  its 
kind.  It  is,  I  understand,  to  be  called  "The  Argyll  Case,"  and 
the  characters  are  drawn  from  people  Mr.  Burns  has  en- 
countered in  the  American  business  and  criminal  worlds.  The 
play  of  four  acts  will  probably  be  staged  at  a  London  theater, 
but  there  has  also  been  some  mention  made  of  "filming"  the 
same  story  in  which  Mr.  Burns  himself  appears  under  the 
name  of  Detective  Ashe  Kayton.  I  do  not  wish  to  attack 
too  forcibly  any  contiguity  between  this  and  the  foregoing 
paragraph,   but   probably  readers   can   draw   an   inference   of 

their  own. 

*  *     * 

A  novelty  capable  of  extensive  development  is  being  em- 
ployed at  the  Majestic  Picturedrome,  London.  It  is  an  ap- 
pliance to  the  projector  for  perfect  synchronisation  between 
the  orchestra  and  the  films.  As  an  illustration  of  the  very 
fine  degree  to  which  the  contrivance  can  be  regulated  a  film 
is  now  being  shown  of  a  well-known  conductor  conducting 
the  calisthenics  of  the  rag-time  couple  on  the  picture.  But  in 
addition  the  conductor  also  directs  the  living  orchestra  of  the 
theater  and  makes  it  keep  time  with  the  movements  on  the 
film. 

*  *     * 

Mr.  Vijalur  Steflfansson,  the  Arctic  explorer  who  is  under- 
taking an  expedition  shortly  to  the  Arctic  under  the  British 
flag,  is  to  include  one  or  two  kinema  cameras  and  an  operator 
in  his  equipment.  Probably  the  explorer  will  make  con- 
siderable additions  when  passing  through  the   States  on  his 

way  to  Victoria,  B.  C,  from  whence  the  expedition  starts. 

*  *     * 

Mr.  Geo.  R.  Sims,  a  journalist  and  author  of  some  note,  has 
Avritten  an  article  in  a  London  newspaper  on  silly  blunders 
made  by  film  producers.  American  manufacturers  are  singled 
out  for  a  large  share  of  Mr.  Sim's  satires.  Amongst  other  in- 
stances he  mentions  that  of  a  prominent  New  York  company 
who,  enacting  an  arrest  incident  in  a  picture  they  were  pro- 
ducing ;it  Dartmoor,  Eng.,  caused  the  prisoner  to  be  arrested 
fleers  in  the  uniform  of  the  New  York  police!  Another 
Western  company  in  a  scene  supposed  to  have  a  fifteenth 
century  setting  forgot  to  remove  a  line  of  telegraph  poles, 
attention  and  condemnation  is  directed  on  to  one 
American  firm  who  will  persist  in  printing  their  sub-titles  in 

m  of  spelling  of  their  own. 

*  *     * 

A  film  founded  on  Daudet's  novel.  "Sapho,"  has  been  offi- 

cially  banned  in  Leeds  as  unsuitable  for  exhibition. 

*  *     * 

Showmen  here  are  asking  "what  is  kinoplastition"?  the  new 
attraction  at  the  Scala  Theater,  in  London.  It  is  really  a 
kinematograph  show  without  either  curtain  or  screen.  A 
stage  with  scenery  and  effects  as  in  an  ordinary  theater  are 
and  the  images  from  the  machine  projected  thereupon. 
The  effect  is  remarkably  realistic  for  the  scenery  and  furni- 


ture   give    a    clear,   stereoscopic   vista.     The  figures    (which 

otherwise  would  be  on  the  screen)  appear  to  enter  from  the 
wings,  use  the  furniture,  and  gesticulate  with  almost  lifelike 

facility.     Mr.    Chas.    Urban,    of    Kinemacolor  fame,    both   in 

America  and  England,  is  the  producer  of  the  novelty  in  this 
country. 

*  *     * 

London  will  shortly  enjoy  another  moving  picture  distinc- 
tion. A  huge  motor-polo  tournament  has  been  arranged  by 
one  of  the  sporting  clubs  and  the  rights  conceded  to  a  pro- 
ducing firm  for  taking  animated  records  of  the  game  from  a 
motor  car  that  will  follow  the  players.  As  polo  in  any  form 
is  not  by  any  means  as  popular  in  this  country  as  in  America, 
I  should  forecast  greater  success  for  the  film  in  the  latter 
country. 

*  *     * 

Many  gentlemen  well  known  to  the  American  trade  were 
present  at  a  meeting  the  other  day  in  London  which  pledged 
itself  to  resist  all  the  actions  of  the  film  combine.  In  order 
to  put  the  scheme  contemplated  into  operation  one  exhibitor 
proposed  a  general  closing  down  of  all  picture  theaters  dur- 
ing June  and  July,  but  the  suggestion  was  not  adopted. 

*  *     * 

"The  Picture  Girl"  is  the  title  of  a  new  musical  comedy 
produced  at  the  Gaiety  Theater.  It  deals  with  the  world  of 
film  and  several  light  opera  "stars"  have  been  cast  for  princi- 
pal parts.  The  first  scene  is  laid  in  the  office  of  an  American 
film  producing  company,  while  to  create  the  proper  kinema 
atmosphere  the  third  act  consists  of  a  reproduction  on  the 
screen  of  the  second. 

*  *     * 

It  is  calculated  that  if  picture  palaces  multiply  here  at 
their  present  rate  we  shall  be  a  nation  of  blind  people  before 
long.  When  a  gentleman  in  the  trade  read  this  he  caustically 
observed  that  it  was  high  time  some  other  source  than  saloons 
ceased  to  monopolize  the  affliction. 

*  *     * 

The  Lancet,  the  principal  British  medical  publication,  this 
week  makes  a  furious  attack  upon  the  moving  picture  theater 
as  a  disease  den,  and  urges  sanitary  authorities  to  give  urgent 
attention  to  the  matter. 

*  *     * 

Mr.  Arthur  P.  Grubb,  of  the  "Methodist  Times,"  speaking 
before  a  religious  conference,  said  that  some  so-called  reli- 
gious films  were  simply  preposterous,  but  films  such  as 
"From  Manger  to  Cross,"  reverently  prepared,  were  val- 
uable auxiliaries,  but  were  rare  and  expensive.  Mr.  Grubb 
was  full  of  praise  for  the  Kalem  company. 

*  *     * 

The  Lubin  Company's  pictures  of  the  floods  in  the  Central 
States  have  been  received  here  with  an  enthusiasm  that  I  have 
never  seen  equalled  for  an  American  topical  subject.  I  saw 
the  films  at  an  East  Anglian  picture  house  and  in  that  dis- 
trict which  was  similarly  water  swept  last  year,  the  damage 

done  was  brought  home  in  painful  truth  to  many  patrons. 

*  *     » 

After  the  recent  International  Exhibition  at  Olympia  we 
are  to  have  smaller  local  kinematograph  trade  exhibitions  at 
several  provincial  towns  here.  Those  at  Glasgow  and  Man- 
chester, will  no  doubt  be  the  most  important. 

J.  B.  SUTCLIFFE. 


PAULINE  BUSH  BACK  AT  WORK. 

Pauline  Bush,  the  popular  leading  lady  of  the  American 
Film  Manufacturing  Company,  is  again  back  at  work  after  a 
long  and  serious  illness  in  a  Santa  Barbara  hospital.  The 
charming  personality  of  Miss  Bush  has  been  missed  from 
"Flying  A"  pictures  for  some  time  and  her  many  admirers 
will  hear  of  her  recovery  with  genuine  pleasure. 


A  cablegram  from  the  Campbell  Amusement  Company,  of 
Southport.  England,  to  the  J.  H.  Genter  Company  says: 
"Your  Mirroroid  screen  sent  us  is  the  best  on  which  a  pic- 
ture has  ever  been  projected  in  the  whole  of  Britain." 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


479 


cAdvertising-  for  Exhibitors 

Conducted  by  EPES  WINTHROP  SARGENT 


Approved  by  the  Schools. 

CR.  BLUBAUGH,  of  the  Vaudette  Theater,  Fort  Scott,  Kan.,  gives  a 
weekly  educational  matinee  on  Friday  afternoons  from  3.30  to  5.30  to 
which  school  children  are  admitted  for  the  nominal  sum  of  two  cents, 
al!  of  the  teachers  being  on  the  free  list.  The  superintendent  of  schools  is  a 
broad  minded  man,  who  recognizes  the  value  of  this  feature  and  co-operates 
with  Mr.  Blubaugh  by  permitting  him  to  telephone  the  program  to  the 
schools  and  having  the  teachers  announce  the  same  to  their  respective  classes. 
The  fee  just  about  covers  the  cost  of  the  extra  service,  the  return  coming  in 
the  tremendous  advertising  value  of  the  idea,  which  carries  ths  ndorsement 
of  the  school  system  and  sends  each  child  out  an  advertisement  for  the 
bouse.     The  attendance  is  as  heavy  as  the  law  permits. 

Mr.  Biubaugh  is  getting  his  weekly  program  into  excellent  shape,  a 
uniform  publication  in  brown  ink  on  brown  paper.  He  has  standardized 
the  type  sizes  with  the  result  that  the  sheet  looks  like  a  real  program  and 
not  like  a  type  sample.  A  few  outside  advertisements  are  carried,  not 
many,   but   enough   to   make   it  self-supporting. 

It's  Nic. 

It's  the  "Nic"  end  of  Hay  and  Nicholas,  that  writes  the  Haynic  poetry 
and  other  advertising  for  the  Haynic,  Fairmount,  Minn.     He  writes: 

We  note  with  interest  the  editorial  comment  in  this  week's  issue 
upon  the  free  farmers'  matinee  stunt  being  pulled  by  the  exhibitor 
at  Weeping  Water,  Neb. 

We  don't  know  whether  Weeping  Water  is  the  originator  of  the 
scheme,  but  we  first  got  hold  of  it  through  a  communication  from 
Gregory,  S.  D.,  to  the  projection  department  in  the  March  first 
issue. 

We  got  the  March  first  issue  out  of  the  post  office  at  10:30  and 
at  11  o'clock  we  were  out  soliciting  support  for  the  scheme.  We 
have  been  running  it  three  weeks,  and  it  is  the  biggest  thing  ever 
pulled  off  in  a  country  town.  Forty-five  business  men  each  pay  us 
75c  per  week  for  putting  on  the  matinee;  we  furnish  each  sub- 
scriber all  the  tickets  he  wants  to  give  away,  and  they  are  given 
absolutely  without  condition.  In  fact,  our  merchants  make  it  a 
point  all  through  the  week  to  get  the  tickets  into  the  hands  of  the 
country  people,  the  theory  being  that  if  the  country  children  once 
get  the  tickets  into  their  possession  they  are  very  apt  to  bring 
them  in  and  use  them.  As  a  trade  getter  for  the  local  merchant,  it 
is  proving  the  biggest  thing  ever  attempted,  and  as  a  means  of 
making  picture  fans  of  the  farmers'  families,  we  believe  that  it 
has  any  other  scheme  backed  completely  off  the  boards.  With  this 
matinee  we  are  drawing  trade  that  never  came  here  before,  and 
we  are  gettings  hundreds  of  people  into  the  house  who  never  be- 
fore saw  a  moving  picture. 

By  broaching  the  matter  as  a  booster  proposition  for  the  town 
we  were  able  to  work  all  three  of  our  newspapers  to  donate  a 
half-page  display  advertisement,  copy  of  which  we  enclose,  and 
these  papers  reach  practically  every  home  in  the  county. 

We  take  off  our  hats  to  the  man  who  thought  up  this  stunt.  It 
is  sure  a  dandy.  Any  country  exhibitor  who  has  a  fairly  large  house 
can  do  something  for  his  town,  get  all  the  business  men  in  the 
town  boosting  for  him,  and  at  the  same  time  get  paid  for  pulling 
off  the  best  advertisement  of  motion  pictures  that  has  yet  been 
found. 

We  Had  It,  Too. 

This  department  ran  a  somewhat  similar  item  some  months  ago,  but  we 
are  glad  that  *'Nic"  found  it  and  made  good  use  of  it.  There  are  hundreds 
of  small  towns  where  this  scheme  can  be  worked.  It  is  good  for  the  theater, 
good  for  the  business  men  and  good  for  the  farmers.  In  the  long  run 
it  will  be  found  that  they  will  come  in  at  other  times  than  Saturdays.  But 
Hay  and  Nicholas  have  another  proposition. 

Want  Big  Stencils? 

They  want  a  large  stencil  and  believe  that  they  can  get  them  if  there 
is  sufficient  demand.  We  have  taken  up  the  matter  here  in  New  York 
and  can  get  18-inch  stencils  for  $25.50  per  alphabet  or  $35  for  the  24-inch 
size,  brass  plate.  Meantime  you  might  write  Hennegan  if  you  are  inter- 
ested.    Here  is  the  letter: 

Can  anybody  tell  us  where  to  find  sets  of  stencil  letters  ranging 
from  12  inches  to  24  inches  in  height  with  which  to  block  out 
cloth  banners? 

The  small  town  exhibitor  so  often  needs  a  good  banner,  but  the^ 
price  charged  by  the  local  painter  (even  when  the  town  is  fortunate 
enough  to  possess  one  competent  to  do  the  work)  is  prohibitive. 
It  seems  to  us  that  sets  of  block  letter  stencils  with  which  the  ex- 
hibitor could  quickly  and  cheaply  paint  his  own  banners  would  be 
a  great  thing  for  the  small  town  exhibitor. 

We  have  taken  the  matter  up  with  Hennegan  &  Co..  but  they  as- 
sure us  that  there  would  be  no  demand  for  this  kind  of  thing. 
We  don't  agree  with  them,  and  we  want  to  ask  every  exhibitor 
who   may   be   interested   in   the   matter  to   drop   Hennegan   a   postal 


card.  If  a  sufficient  number  respond,  Hennegan  will  make  the 
stencils  and  we  shall  be  able  to  get  our  banners  for  the  cost  of 
the  materials.  If  you  think  the  stunt  worth  while,  drop  a  card  to 
Hennegan  &  Co.,  and  DO  IT  NOW. 

Most  theaters  prefer  to  hire  banners  ready  painted  and  where  these  may 
be  had  quickly  and  at  a  reasonable  price  it  would  pay  to  hire  rather  than 
to  make  and  divide  the  cost  among  many  houses,  bu%  places  so  situated 
that  banners  cannot  be  had  quickly  should  welcome  such  a  stencil.  Mean- 
time the  single  block  letters  on  paper  supplied  by  Hennegan  can  be  used 
to  good  effect.  These  can  be  pasted  on  cloth  or  board  and  present  a  really 
handsome  appearance,  particularly  if  someone  around  the  house  can  put  in 
ornamental  scroll  work.  If  they  cannot,  common  wall  paper  of  a  design 
running  in  strips  will  do  very  nicely  for  a  frame  and  given  a  finish  that 
will  greatly  enhance  the  appearance  of  the  home-made  sign. 

Wants  An  Anniversary  Week. 

Nat   Charnas,   of  the  Opera  House,  CurNvensville,   Pa.,   writes   as   follows: 

This  is  my  first  attempt  in  writing  your  department,  although 
I've  read  The  Moving  Picture  World  ever  since  I  went  into  the 
theater  business.  I  am  a  pretty  young  and  green  manager,  being 
only  nineteen.  I  am  always  on  the  lookout  for  "helping  hints" 
from  your  department  and  I  can  truthfully  say  it  has  helped  me 
wonderfully. 

I  am  enclosing  you  some  of  my  dodgers  and  printed  matter, 
I  hope  you  will  tell  me  wherein  I  can  improve.  This  was  form- 
erly a  five-cent  house,  but  I  wish  to  make  a  ten-cent  house  out  of 
it  and  am  doing  so  gradually.  I  think  that  way  is  the  best.  I 
charge  ten  cents  on  Saturdays,  and  on  every  Wednesday  I  have 
a  "feature  day"  and  also  charge  ten  cents.  This  makes  my  Wed- 
nesday every  bit  as  good  as  Saturday. 

This  being  the  only  house  in  the  town  I  must  accommodate  all 
good  road  shows  and  also  good  vaudeville.  Pertaining  to  vaude- 
ville, I  never  take  any  "over  the  'phone."  I  always  run  down  and 
see  the  show  if  it  is  close  by  and  if  it  is  good  I  take  it.  In  that 
way  I  very  seldom  disappoint  the  people. 

I  contemplate  having  an  "aniversary  week."  I  will  appreciate 
it  very  much  if  you  will  give  me  suggestions  by  return  mail  as  how 
to  run  tt.  1  would  like  to  give  some  kind  of  a  souvenir  each 
night. 

Some  Suggestions. 

We  are  sorry  that  we  cannot  reply  by  mail  to  Mr.  Charnas*  request,  but 
it  is  not  possible  to  conduct  an  extended  correspondence,  much  as  we 
should  like  to.  In  a  recent  issue  we  spoke  of  an  anniversary  week  run  by 
a  Brooklyn  manager  who  booked  in  a  series  of  multiple  reels  and  then  got 
out  an  illustrated  booklet,  the  advertising  in  the  program  enabling  him  to^ 
break  even  on  the  added  cost. 

It  goes  without  saying  that  the  interior  and  exterior  of  the  house  should 
be  decorated,  the  front  being  made  gay  with  bunting.  The  souvenirs  might 
be  postal  cards  of  the  favorites  or  a  booklet  carrying  cuts_  of  the  photo- 
players.  With  Mutual  service  taken,  there  are  plenty  of  Kay-Bee,  Than- 
houser,  Broncho  and  other  specials  for  auded  attractions  and  we  think  it 
might  be  possible  to  borrow  or  rent  some  of  the  cuts  to  illustrate  the 
program.  If  there  is  only  a  piano  orchestra,  three  or  four  pieces  might 
be  added  for  the  week  and  the  exact  anniversary  day  could  be  marked  by 
special  exercises  with  a  soloist  or  two,  and  an  address  by  some  prominent 
official.  Most  of  the  leading  tradesmen  will  -come  in  on  the  advertising 
end,  if  the  price  is  not  too  high,  and  the  cost  of  the  book  will  be  reduced 
to  little  or  nothing  at  all.  Perhaps  the  Hennegan  covers  could  be  used  to 
advantage,  these  being  had  in  several  different  designs  and  at  remarkably 
small    cost   considering   the   excellence    of   the   color   printing. 

There    should   be    a    greeting,    calling   attention    to    the   excellence    of    the 
pictures,  the  improvements  made  in  the  past  year  and  similar  points, 
ing  up   with   a  paragraph   of  sincerely  worded   thanks   for  the   patronage   of 
the  public.     Mr.   Charnas  will  find  plenty   of  material   in  the  back  numbers 
of  this  department  if  he  needs  a  little  help. 

Work  the  curtain  with  a  series  of  slides  announcing  the  coming  cele- 
bration. Get  every  man,  woman  and  child  in  the  town  interested  in  the 
anniversary  and  make  certain  that  all  promised  will  be  given.  For  ja 
windup  give  a  free  special  matinee  Saturday  with  an  all  educational  pro- 
gram. The  present  release  programs  of  the  Mutual  do  not  supply  much  in 
tms  line,  but  the  series  of  nature  studies  put  out  by  the  Reliance  some 
ago,  will  probably  be  available,  even  if  not  in  very  good  shape,  and  enough 
scenics  may  be  had.  Give  a  two-hour  show,  say  at  eleven  o'clock, 
tickets  being  distributed  by  the  teachers.  Very  probably  the  superin- 
tendents can  be  interested  and  their  co-operation  secured.  It  is  surprising 
what  a  lot  of  noise  can  be  made  with  comparatively  small  outlay. 

Pick  the  Features. 

We  think  that  Mr.  Charnas  would  find  it  easier  to  raise  the  price  to 
ten  cents,  if  he  will  leave  the  ultra-sensational  alone  and  go  after  the  really 
good  rhines  that  have  been  put  out.     Such  bloodthirsty  specials  as  Petrosino 


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be    tar   less   likely   to   attract   and   hold   the   ten    cent    patrons   than    the 
Thanhousei     l  ess,    scheduled    for   another   night. 

His  Jess  dodger  looks  more  like  a  type  specimen  sheet  than  an  advertise- 
ment. The  printer  seems  to  have  put  in  a  little  of  everything  that  he  had 
in  the  shop.  One  reason  for  this  is  that  the  advertisement  is  set  as  an 
acrostic  spelling.  "Feature  Day,  Opera  House."  The  tines  are  of  such 
varying  length  that  all  sorts  of  lower  case  letters  are  used  to  fill  out  the 
lines.  There  is  a  knack  in  writing  lines  that  will  fit,  but  an  acrostic 
in  a  regular  hash  of  type  is  not  attractive.  We  think  that  Mr.  Charnas  will 
improve    as   he   goes    along 

A  Chatty  Cuss. 

Bertram  I.  Williams,  of  Ponca  City,  Oklahoma,  sends  in  some  advertising 
for  the  Wonderland  theater,  with  the  suggestion  that  we'll  find  some  of 
the  stuff  in  the  back  pages  of  this  department.  That's  very  true,  but  he 
puts  back  something  in  place  of  what  he  takes.      This  seems  to  be  new: 

TWO   CENTS! 


Two  cents  for  a  reel  of  pictures.     Two  cents  for  a  song. 

MUSIC    FREE 

and  heat,  light  and  the  "House  Cozy'*  thrown  in. 
Four  reels  of  moving  pictures  and  an  illustrated  song  for  a  dime. 
It's  most  as  cheap  as  the  air  you  breathe,  and  take  a  tip  from  us, 
you're  going  to  be  entertained.  You  don't  know  who  lives  in  town 
till  you  see  them  at  the  theater.  All  the  live  ones  will  be  there. 
This  is  Mart  of  a  chatty  column  advertisement  of  the  house.  One  good 
like    reads: 

It's   a    STEVE   picture.    You'll    "get"    it. 
Another  reads: 

The  greatest  comedy  you  have  ever  seen.     Cast  a  glance  at  these 
snaps  from  a  ginger-snappy  film.     They  only  tell   part   of  the  story, 
the  film   tells  the  whole  story.      Introducing  sensation  battle    scenes 
and  a  topical  subject  into  a  comedy  that  will  cause  screams  of  laugh- 
ter.     An    old   veteran   and   a    farmer. 
This  is  what  is  generally  known  as  the   Howard    Athenaeum  style,  and    is 
most  valuable  if  you   can   be   chatty   without  becoming  offensive.      Mr.    Will- 
iams toes  the  mark. 

A  Novel  Frame. 

F.   E.   Moore,   of  the  Hiawatha  pictures,   is  booming    this   notable   produc- 
tion   in    many    novel    ways.      One    attractive    scheme    is    shown    in    the    ac- 
lanying    cut,    the    photographs    being    framed    ill    birch    bark.      The    bark 
eeled    by    the    Indians    and   shipped    to    New    York    so    carefully    packed 


that  the  moss  was  not  disturbed  and  the  frames  give  a  genuine  touch  of 
tile  woodland  to  the  lobby  of  the  theaters  where  Hiawatha  is  to  be  run. 
Not  all  feature  film  handlers  give  proper  care  to  lobby  displays,  but  Mr. 
Moore  is  going  to  do  things  right  outside  of  the  house  as  well  as  within. 
You  have  to  see  the  frames  to  appreciate  them  to  the  full.  It's  not  merely 
birch  bark  but  bark  that's  worked   up  properly. 

All  But  the  Title. 

We  like  all  but  the  title  of  The  Movies,  a  paper  published  in  Austin, 
Texas,  apparently  in  the  interest  of  the  pictures  generally.  The  Movies 
i(S   not  the   sort  of   word   that   is  going  to   help  the   photoplay  business   gain 


ill  dignity  ii  deserves.  It  has  been  adopted  from  the  children's  street 
slang  into  general  use  because  it  is  convenient,  but  it  cheapens  the  picture 
theater  and  is  doing  more  than  most  persons  will  realize  to  associate  cheap- 
i.'  ss  with  the  photoplay  in  which  nothing  is  cheap  but  the  admission  price. 
The  majority  of  the  text  devoted  to  pictures  presently  to  be  shown  at  the 
lecal  theaters,  though  the  dates  are  not  always  given.  There  is  a  reasonable 
amount  of  miscellaneous  matter  and  the  paper  is  clean  looking  and  well 
printed.  It  lacks  the  snap  of  some  of  the  smaller  sheets,  such  as  the  I  sis 
News,  for  example,  but  it  interests  and  helps  the  cause.  Only  one  theater 
can  ies  an  advertisement,  the  remainder  seemingly  trusting  to  the  reading 
matter.  We  think  cards  giving  the  location,  hours  of  opening,  prices  of 
admission  arid  other  details  would  vet  y  greatly  increase  the  value  of  the 
issue  to  the  managers  even  though  most  persons  in  a  town  the  size  of 
Austin   may  know  all   about   the  theaters. 

The  paper  is  still  in  its  early  issues  ?.nd  shows  a  gradual  improvement. 
There  is  no  reason  why  it  cannot  be  made  an  important  factor.  One 
point  of  importance  is  that  it  gives  both  Licensed  and  Independent  news. 

Easy  Guessing. 

The  Olympic  theater,  Louisville,  Kentucky,  doesn't  believe  in  giving  its 
patrons  Inn  in  fever.  Manager  Joseph  Goldberg  sends  in  a  contest  sheet 
that    carries  this   "puzzle.*' 

.    M    .     .     .    C    .     . 

.    .    T    .    .    .    N    . 

M    .     .     .     .    T    .    . 

.    .    .    N    .    .    O 

.    .    U    .    .    .    T 

You  are  supposed  to  fill  in  the  letters  missing  to  form  the  names  of 
brands  shown  at  the  theater.  The  first  ten  answering  correctly  get  ten 
tickets  each.  A  little  study  will  show  that  Mutual  service  is  used.  We 
think  the  puzzle  is  a  little  too  simple.  It  would  have  been  better  to  have 
taken  the  names  of  the  brands,  mixed  the  letters  up  and  then  asked  the 
patrons  to  form  the  letters  into  words.  Anything  that  gets  them  guessing 
is  good,  but  give  them  a  halfway  decent  chance  to  guess.  One  syndicate 
editor  never  took  a  puzzle  for  his  page  that  he  could  not  solve  mentally 
instead  of  putting  it  on  paper,  but  they  never  came  as  easy  as  this  to  him. 

Still  Growing. 

The  Isis  News.  Triniaad,  Colorado,  still  progresses.  We  think  we  men- 
tioned that  they  had  stopped  commencing  a  new  volume  with  every  issue. 
The  editor  sends  the  first  issue  and  the  last  for  the  purpose  of  comparison. 
We  did  not  need  that  to  note  the  improvement.  In  the  last  issue  it  is  an- 
nounced that  the  kiddies  will  have  a  chaperone  at  the  Saturday  matiness. 
There  is  a  gro\ving  use  of  local  items  and  pretty  soon  the  city  editor  will 
have  a  reporter  on  his  staff  and  the  advertising  man  will  ue  busier  than 
ever.  There  is  plenty  of  really  readable  miscellaneous  stuff  and  the  para- 
phrase on  the  postoffice  entry  that  states  that  the  paper  is 
Entered  as  first  class  Matter  in 
Every  Home  in  Trinidad,  Colorado, 
is  something  more  than  a  joke.  It's  getting  to  be  a  fact.  What  Jack  Nash 
has  done,  others  can  do,  if  they'll  take  the  time  or  hire  someone  else  to 
take  the  time,  jf  you  do  it  right  there  is  no  better  advertising  and  with 
eleven  advertisements  we  think  that  this  publication  is  not  costly,  though  it 
is  well  printed  on  good  paper.  We  think  Mr.  Nash  will  be  glad  to  send  one 
to  any  brother  exhibitor  who  will  send  a  No.  10  envelope  addressed  and 
stamped. 

Getting  Out  Copy. 

Bertram    I.    Williams,    "the    man    who   makes   his    own 
Lily.    Okla.,    writes   these   words    of   sound   sense: 


rords,'*    of    Ponca 


Hilling  my  experience  in  the  printing  line,  I  have  always  found 
it  to  be  a  fact  that  if  an  advertisement  is  properly  written  with 
some  regard  to  the  various  type  values,  and  the  printer  himself, 
it  is  always  easy  to  secure  a  good,  well-set  ad  in  almost  any 
newspaper.  I  am  enclosing  you  an  ad  from  our  leading  daily 
here,  and  am  also  sending  a  carbon  copy  of  the  advertisement  as 
I  turned  it  into  the  office.  You  will  note  that  in  almost  every 
case,  the  printer  has  followed  the  instructions  of  the  copy.  Of 
course,  in  doing  this,  it  is  necessary  for  you  to  be  familiar  with 
the  type  faces  and  sizes  in  each  shop,  but  after  all,  that  is  not 
much  of  a  job. 

We  do  not  think  that  many  managers  can  turn  in  copy  the  way  that  Mr. 
Williams  does,  but  there  is  no  reason  why  they  cannot  learn.  His  copy 
reads   in  part: 

6  col.    7    in.   6   pt.    rule    border. 

i.  WAR    IS    DECLARED    (72    pt.    B.    B.    Bold). 

And  in  this,  the  THANHOUSER  COMPANY'S  latest  and  great- 
est success,  we  have  the  actual  battle  scenes  as  they  were  taken 
reproducing  the  most  famous  battles  of  the  BOER  WAR! 
MARGUERITE  SNOWr  and  JAMES  CRUZE  in  (12  pt.  Chelten- 
ham medium  c.   and  Ic). 

3.  JESS    ( 12    line    wood    gothic). 

2.  H.   RIDER   HAGGARD'S    (18   pt.    B.    B.    Con.  caps). 

Wonderful    story    Transposed    into    The    Greatest    Fotofilm    of    the 
Age    (12    pt.    Cheltenham,    medium). 

There  are  six  divisions  all  written  in  straight  lines  on  the  typewriter. 
A  key  at  the  bottom  gives  the  layout  of  the  advertisement,  each  box  being 
numbered  to  correspond  with  the  copy.  It  is  a  lot  easier  than  hand  print- 
ing everything  to  scale  and  with  a  sample  sheet  of  type  at  hand  it  is  easy 
even  for  the  novice  to  approximate  the  choice  of  type.  B.  B.  is  an  office 
abbreviation   for  Boston  Breton,  but  the  rest  is  self-explanatory. 

The  resultant  :u\\  ertiseraent  is  well  balanced  and  well  displayed.  We 
think,  however,  that  Mr.  Williams  is  tampering  with  the  truth  just  a  trifle 
when  he  announces  a  supporting  company  of  8,000.  That's  putting  it  on 
a  bit  too  heavy. 


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We  PHOTOPLAYWRIGHT 

Conducted  by  Epes  Wwthrop  Sarqenx 


That  Inquest  Club. 

THE  next  meeting  of  the  Inquest  Club  will   be   held  at  the   Savoy   The- 
ater,   Thirty- fourth    Street,    just   west   of    Broadway.      If   you    want   to 
belong,    witness   the    performances    Monday   evening,    April    28th,   and 
Dime  into   the   lobby   about   9:30.      You    will    readily    recognize    the    Coroner's 
Jury.      Join   them    and   come    along. 


B  Stands  for  Boob. 

We  are  favored  by  a  splutter  from  a  correspondent  who  signs  himself 
It  B  and  BBB.  We  think  that  B  stands  for  Boob  in  this  case,  though  we 
have  some  adjectives  to  go  with  it  that  the  editor  will  not  permit  us  to  use. 
Were  it  possible  we  would  have  a  cut  made  of  the  letter,  but  the  typing  is 
about  as  poor  as   the   spelling.     Anyhow,   here's   the   way  it   looks: 

Dear  sirs  could  you  please  tell  me  why  so  many  of  your  plays 
are  rejectd  by  the  moving  picture  cos.  They  tell  you  they  want 
the  plays  bad  enough  and  when  you  send  themn.  plays  they  keep 
them  about  three  or  four  weeks  then  send  them  back  and  tell  you 
they  are  in  vailable  to  them.  As  far  as  i  can  make  out  of  it,  poison 
would  be  to  good  for  some  of  them,  I  think  they  are  nothing  but  a 
dirty  bunch  of  dead  beats,  robers,  crooks  and  such  pet  names  are 
to  good  for  them,  I  got  this  right  of  off  an  old  actor,  that  they  will 
change  your  plays  and,  pruduce  them  andy  way,  aand  i  do  beleive 
it  is  true.  I  would  like  to  see  a  half  a  doz.  or  more  of  them 
choke  to  death  ,  by  getting  thier  films  run  down  thier  t  throats. 
I  would  enjoy  it  more  than  thier  movie-.  .  kindly  publish  this  in 
the  Moving  Picture  World  so  they  can  see  this  and  if  they  have 
any  thing  to  say  about  it  i  my  self,  alone  ,  will  writ  to  ther  amd 
give  them  a  little  of  this  savings,  yours  very  trully, 
B.  B  and  B  B  B. 

The  Capacity  for  Care. 

We  just  persuaded  an  author  to  rewrite  a  story.  We  pointed  out 
that  he  had  about  seventeen  words  of  leader  that  meant  three  bad  breaks 
in  scenes  and  he  had  a  couple  of  people  acting  as  no  human  beings  would 
act.  He  was  strong  for  sending  it  out  because  he  had  written  three 
pages  of  stuff  and  wanted  to  sell  it.  We  presuaded  him  that  it  was  better 
to  write  six  pages  of  stuff  to  sell  three  than  to  write  three  and  not  make 
a    sale. 

That's  the  trouble  with  a  lot  of  writers.  The  typing  is  a  torment.  It 
is  a  torment  to  most  persons  and  our  own  idea  of  hell  is  a  place  crowded 
with  strange  typewriting  machines  that  we  have  to  work  in  turn,  but 
since  typing  is  an  essential  evil,  don't  be  afraid  of  running  the  machine 
and  don't  be  afraid  to  do  it  two  or  three  times  to  get  the  story  just  right. 

If  a  script  sells  it  means  anywhere  from  $15  to  $50  unless  it  is  an  ex- 
ceptional story,  but  let's  take  the  minimum.  Suppose  that  it  is  only  $15. 
Wouldn't  you  work  for  anyone  else  for  a  day  of  six  hours  for  $15  a  day? 
Then,  why  expect  to  knock  out  a  $15  story  in  an  hour?  If  it  doesn't 
look  just  right,  pick  out  the  flaws  and  do  it  over  again.  You  can't  afford 
to  ship  the  first  copy  in   the  belief  that  it  will  be  good  enough. 

In  the  script  in  question  there  were  lots  of  bad  breaks,  things  that 
people  would  not  do,  excess  leader,  badly  handled  scenes  and  all  the 
other  things  that  go  to  make  for  rejection.  By  revision  the  author  got 
most  of  this  out  and  bettered  his  chance  of  a  sale  a  thousand  per  cent. — 
and  yet  we  had  to  coax  him  to  do  it. 

The  capacity  for  taking  infinite  pains,  the  ability  to  do  things  just  right 
is  worth  more  to  the  author  who  is  just  starting  than  the  greatest  plot 
that  ever  happened,  because  he  cannot  develop  that  plot  without  taking  pains. 


Too  Bad. 

An  author  we  know  sold  six  scripts  in  eight  days.  Instead  of  offering 
congratulations  we  offered  condolences.  That  doesn't  seem  to  be  a  very 
nice  way  to  act,  but  we  think  that  for  a  comparatively  new  writer  to  make 
a  lot  of  sales  in  a  short  time  is  about  the  worst  thing  that  could  happen. 

In  the  first  place  the  acceptances  give  the  newcomer  an  idea  that  he 
is  a  world  beater.  No  matter  how  sensible  he  may  have  been,  the  fact 
that  he  can  sell  six  in  eight  days  is  bound  to  go  to  his  head.  He  gets 
the  idea  that  anything  he  writes  is  going  to  sell.  He  starts  in  to  "crowd 
his  luck"  and  the  first  thing  he  knows  he  is  getting  all  of  his  stuff  back 
and  he  gets  discouraged  and  so  far  down  in  the  dumps  of  disappointment 
that  it   takes   him   several  weeks  to  get  back   into  writing   form  again. 

Even  without  this  forced  production  he  would,  in  the  natural  course, 
strike  a  slump,  and  fail  to  make  as  many  sales  as  he  anticipated  and  again 
discouragement  would  have  him  in  its  grip. 

The  man  who  has  been  through  the  mill  learns  to  regard  with  suspicion 
the  sudden  acceleration  of  his  sales.  He  knows  that  it  is  not  normal, 
that  back  of  the  cumulation  there  is  bound  to  be  a  slump  to  justify  the 
law  of  averages  and  he  is  prepared  for  it.  He  knows  his  capacity  for 
work  and  his  capacity  for  sales.  He  knows  that  in  six  months  there  is 
bound  to  be  an  averaging  up  and  he  feels  no  special  joy  in  the  sales 
that  come  crowding  in.  The  inexperienced  writer  who  goes  through 
the  experience  for  the  first  time  does  not  see  this  coming  and  when  it 
does  happen  he  sinks  the  deeper  because  he  falls  from  greater  heights. 
If  you  average  one  a  week  and  sell  five  in  one  week,  figure  that  some- 
where ahead  there  may  be  four  bad  weeks  waiting  for  you — and  don't 
get  excited. 


The  Synopsis. 

Miss    Hettie    Cray    Baker,    who    by    the    way    is  'enroute    to    Los    Angeles 

idy  photoplay  making  at  close  range,  writes  of  the  synopsis,  and  very 
probably  voices  the  thoughts  of  many  others.  This  is  what  she  says: 
If  the  synopsis  is.  as  we  are  told,  the  thing  by  which  the  editor 
judges  whether  or  not  he  wants  the  play,  should  we  not  put  a 
good  deal  more  into  it  than  merely  an  outline  of  the  plot?  It  is 
really  an  advance  notice,  a  press  notice  of  the  play,  and  should 
contain  not  only  the  plot,  hut  any  other  items  which  make  it  at- 
tractive.  Hundreds  of  good  plays  are  produced  whose  plots  are,  in 
outline,  purely  conventional,  but  which  contain  at  one  scene  or  an- 
other, unique  photography,  an  emotional  climax  affording  great 
opportunity  to  the  leading  man  or  woman,  some  little  bit  of 
business  or  twist  of  circumstance  which  lifts  it  out  of  the  common- 
place. Just  a  skeleton  plot  of  one  of  these  plays  would  not  bring 
any  of  these  facts  distinctly  to  the  editor's  mind,  and  he  would 
never  know  about  them  because  the  svnnpsis  would  present  only 
a  story  resembling  hundreds  of  others — and  there  he  would  stop. 
It  seems  to  me  it  is  well  worth  while  using  forty  or  fifty  of  our 
precious  two  hundred  and  fifty  words  in  an  opening  paragraph 
which,  like  the  opening  paragraph  of  a  newspaper  story,  tells  the 
most    striking    thing    about    the    play    before    starting    on    the    plot 

itself.      Such   as  "Scene    19   is   unique  in   that etc;"    or    "This 

play    is    based    on    a    romantic    incident    in    tne    Confederate    secret 
service   which   has   never   before   been   used   in   pictures;"    or   "The 

climax   of   this   play.    Scene   31,   affords    opportunity    for etc." 

I  think  it  is  a  mistake,  too,  to  follow  the  development  of  the  play 

in    exact,    literal    order    in    our    synopsis,    merely    stating    one    fact 

baldly   after   the   other.      Literary  excellence,   taboo   in  the   scenario 

proper,  apparently,  still  has  a  place  in  the  synopsis,  in  my  humble 

judgment.     Of  course,  it  is  of  no  avail  if  the  play  lacks  ideas,  but 

it    would    seem    as    if    good    ideas    clothed    in    attractive    language 

are  to  be  preferred  to  good  ideas  clothed  in  language  that  is  strictly 

useful   but  not  ornamental.      I  may  be  wrong  about  this,   however. 

But   I  know  I   am  not  satisfied,  and  wish   I   knew   some   short   cut 

way  of  attaining  the  perfect  synopsis.     I  wish,  too,  the  Inquest  Club 

or  some  of  the  other  circles  wouid  discuss  this  and  give  the  rest  of 

us  the  benefit  of  their  conclusions. 

This    is    precisely    what    we    have    said    right    along.      The    synopsis 

not   have    to    be   a   catalogue    of   scenes   and    the    incidents    in    those    scenes. 

It  would  not  always  be  possible  to  get  the  synopsis  within   250  words  were 

that   the  case.     We   have   repeatedly  pointed   out  that   in   the   synopsis  alone 

does  literary   style   help.      The    synopsis   is   not   really   a   synopsis   any    more 

than    the    happily    extinct    "scenario"     represented    a    scenario    within    the 

definition    of    the    word.      In    clearer    expression    the    sketch    of    the    story 

is   the   advertisement   of   that   story   and   is   not,    or   rather  should   not    be   a 

synopsis. 

It  is  not  only  admissible,  but  advisable,  to  call  attention  to  the  big 
point  of  the  story  even  at  a  heavy  cost  of  words.  That's  what  you  want 
to  sell   the   story   on.      That's  what   you   want   the   editor   to   see. 

In  our  own  practise,  most  of  our  synopses  are  very  brief  condensations 
of  the  plot,  running  from  fifty  to  two  hundred  and  fifty  words.  If  we 
send  in  to  a  strange  director  we  would  use  more  advertisement.  The 
synopsis  of  "Dolores'  Decision"  (see  page  1124,  issue  dated  March  15th) 
would  read  something  like  this  to  a  strange  editor: 

Her  sister's  life   was  more  to   Dolores  than  an   offer  of  $70,000. 

It    cost    Richard    Marston    more    than    that    to    lose    his    train    for 

the  north  when  he  received  telegraphic  warning  that  his  opponents 

were  raiding  his  pet  stocks  in  his  absence  in  Florida  in  search  of 

health,  but  he  realized  that  a  girl  of  Dolores'  determination  would 

make    a    good    wife    for    his    son,    and    so    he    gave    his    consent 

to  the   wedding  that   followed   the   little   romance  on    Snake    River, 

Florida,  where  the  Marstons  went  when  the  physicians  ordered  him 

into  retirement.     A  drama,  mostly  outdoors,  in  pretty  settings,  with 

plenty  of  romance,  the  legitimate  and  effective  use  of  a  child,  and 

plenty   of  appeal   to   heart    interest.      Dolores   runs  the    motor   ferry 

and   she   goes   up   river   for   the   doctor   instead    of   taking   Marston 

down    the    river    to    the    railroad.       The    child's    life    is   saved,    and 

Marston  realizes  that   her   decision  was  best. 

That's  only    157   words;   97   less  than   might   have  been    used,    but   it   tells 

all    the    real    story    and   enough    of    the    story   to    get    the    interest.      If    the 

interest    is    obtained,    the    plot    of    action    will    be    read.       If    the    story    is 

what    is    wanted    it    will    be    taken,    but    the    point    is,    that    the    editor    must 

learn    from   the   synopsis  enough  of  the   story  to  be  able   to  decide   whether 

or  not  the  story  is  the  sort  he  wants. 

And  don't  say  it  is  easy  for  a  trained  newspaper  man  to  write  a  brief 
synopsis.  The  trained  man  was  without  his  training  at  one  time.  He  got 
the   training  through   practise  just   the   same  as   you    can.      Proceed. 


An  Investment  in  Film. 

Here's  a  new  way  of  looking  at  the  proportioning  of  film  to  scene  that 
may  help  the  beginner  to  realize  the  importance  of  not  wasting  film.  Instead 
of  dealing  with  film  at  the  trade  price,  let  us  suppose  that  we  have  a 
thousand  dollars  with  which  to  purchase  film  at  the  price  of  one  dollar  a 
foet. 

First  of  all  we  must  buy  some  film  for  the  title.  We  cannot  afford  to  be 
stingy  and  use  only  a  couple  of  feet.  We  must  use  the  regulation  ten  feet. 
That  leaves  us  only  $990.  But  we  must  have  a  tail  piece.  This  runs  from 
five  to  ten  feet.  Most  makes  use  ten  because  it  carries  the  announcement 
that  the  picture  has  been  passed  by  the  Board  of  Censorship.  Now  we  have 
but  $880  for  film  for  the  story  proper.  Knowing  that  a  foot  and  a  second 
are  interchangable  terms,  let  us  proportion  our  investment  to  the  story. 
Like  all  good  buyers  we  want  to  get  the  most  for  our  money;  we  want  to 
buy  to  the  best  advantage. 

First  we  need  to  buy  a  scene  one.  Here's  a  nice  little  scene,  only  $90 
marked  down  from  $110.  It  looks  pretty  much  like  a  bargain  but  let's  look 
around.  Here's  one  for  $80.  but  sti.l  we  feel  that  $80  is  rather  much  to 
pay  for  an  opening  scene  and  we  look  over  the  stock.     Here  is  a  piece  that 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


will  do  just  as  well.  It  costs  only  $22.  We  might  have  gone  ahead  and 
spent  $90  when  we  can  get  something  precisely  as  good  for  less  and  have 
saved  $68  that  we  are  going  to  need  later  on. 

Here's  a  fine  little  scene  two  for  $27.  It  is  a  little  gem,  but  it  will  not 
be  sold  without  a  strip  of  scene  three  which  costs  $18.  That's  $45  for  the 
two,  rather  more  than  we  expected  to  pay.  Let's  shop  around  and  see  what 
we  can  do.  Here's  a  strip  for  $35  that  will  serve  both  for  scenes  two  and 
three.  We're  about  to  buy  it,  but  we  happen  on  a  perfectly  good  little 
scene  two  for  only  $29.  By  buying  $3  worth  of  leader  we  can  make  it  do 
for  scenes  two  and  three.  The  cost  is  $32.  We  have  saved  $3.  By  buying 
closely,  when  we  come  down  to  the  big  scenes  for  which  we  must  pay  $40 
and  $60  apiece,  we  find  that  we  have  the  money  left  with  which  to  make  the 
purchase,  but  if  we  buy  the  first  thing  that  comes  along  in  the  way  of  early 
we'll  find  that  we've  spent  the  entire  thousand  and  we  have  only 
about  enough  to  half  make  the  story. 

That's  just  another  way  of  telling  you  that  if  you  can  make  a  short 
leader  and  a  short  scene  tell  two  scenes  in  the  early  part  of  the  story 
Instead  of  using  two  thirty-foot  scenes,  you'll  save  the  film  for  later  and 
more  urgent  use.  It  is  not  easy  to  tell  exactly  how  the  film  will  run,  but 
you  can  tell  about  how  long  a  scene  will  run  and  if  you'll  save  the  length 
for  the  real  need  and  condense  the  early  run  you'll  find  yourself  with  a 
story  more  likely  to  sell — plot  being  equal — than  the  one  that  would  run 
two  thousand  feet  as  written  and  yet  not  be  good  enough  for  a  two  part 
release. 

Don't  just  write  a  picture.  PLAN  it. 


Inquiries. 


"The  Reward  for  Reading." 

By  Mrs.  Beta  Breuil,  Vitagraph  Editor. 

Some  years  ago,  when  motion  pictures  were  yet  in  their  infancy,  and  the 
ten- twenty-thirty  melodrama  reigned  supreme,  the  public  seized  upon  the 
novelty  of  trick  pictures,  absurd  chases,  and  fairy  spectacles,  as  a  relief 
from  the  dark  deeds  of  the  desperate  villain,  and  the  plaintive  pleading  of 
the  Lady  Gwendolyn.  For  some  time,  this  class  of  pictures  flourished, — ■ 
but  with  the  growth  of  the  new  industry,  and  the  consequent  broadening 
of  its  scope,  the  need  grew  for  a  real  basic  plot — a  logical,  well-planned, 
interest-holding  story,  the  sort  that  would  appeal  to  the  ever-increasing 
number   of  intelligent  audiences. 

A  new  field  of  writers  blossomed  forth,  timidly  at  first,  but  as  time  passed, 
growing  in  volume  and  efficiency.  At  the  present  day  motion  pictures  hold 
an  enviable  place  among  the  world's  standard  amusements,  appealing  to 
every  class,  from  the  simple  untutored  mind,  to  the  most  highly  developed 
intellect.  World-famous  plays  have  been  reproduced, — with  more  faith- 
fulness to  detail  than  would  be  possible  upon  the  more  limited  speaking 
stage.  And  not  only  the  most  famous  writers  gladly  contribute  their  share 
of  plots,  but  from  every  part  of  the  country  humbler  genius  submits  its 
efforts. 

As  a  result,  the  different  companies  have  found  it  necessary  to  establish 
scenario  departments — where  all  manuscripts  are  considered  as  to  their 
availability.  Each  company  naturally  has  a  system  of  its  own,  for  this 
line  of  work;  and  in  some  cases,  it  takes  from  three  weeks  to  two  months 
and  sometimes  longer,  for  a  script  to  undergo  the  whole  process  of  con- 
sideration. 

As  time  means  money  to  the  Vitagraph  Company  and  such  a  delay  in 
reading  would  cause  the  manuscripts  to  pile  up  annoyingly,  the  scenario 
force  was  increased  some  time  ago,  and  all  scripts  are  considered  the  day 
they  arrk-c  (arranging  in  numbers  from  seventy-five  to  one  hundred  a  day), 
receiving  sound  judgment  from  two  well  trained  readers.  Those  that  are 
deemed  worth  while  are  submitted  to  the  editor,  the  rest*being  returned  im- 
mediately. The  editor  keeps  only  the  best,  and  has  the  rest  sent  back. 
Those  she  chooses  are  submitted  to  the  heads  of  the  firm,  who  consider 
them  and  fix  a  price.  It  is  only  in  this  last  stage  that  any  delay  is  likely 
to   occur — for   the  head-office    is   a   very  busy   one. 

Yet,  despite  this  well-executed  system,  there  are  those  who  declare 
that  their  scripts  have  had  no  consideration,  because  they  were  returned 
with  such  promptness.  In  every  case,  where  a  manuscript  is  returned, 
there  is  at  least  one  good  reason  for  its  unavailability — sometimes  there  are 
twenty, — and  often  nineteen  out  of  the  twenty  are  that  it  is  just  plain 
"bad!"  Of  course,  every  author  has  the  idea  that  his  script  is  a  gem,— but 
he  wouldn't  write  it  if  he  didn't!— and  the  reader  knows  best  the  needs 
of  the  company. 

A  short  time  ago,  one  lot  of  thirty-one  manuscripts  were  handed  to  the 
reader, — after  a  long  day's  struggle  against  a  Monday  flood  of  mail.  The 
whole  office  staff  groaned — for  here  were  violations  of  every  variety — No 
return  postage,  heavy  colored  cover-pages,  gorgeously  hand  painted, 
brought  personally,  with  explicit  directions  to  hold  till  called  for  and  to 
keep  lying  flat.  The  reader  sighed  and  regarded  them  with  a  hostile  eye — 
but  rules  are  rules  and  she  was  conscientious — so  these  must  be  read. 
She  took  them  all  tenderly  home  with  her  and  waded  through  them. 
As  a  rule,  when  manuscripts  are  so  flagrantly  heedless  of  law  and  order, 
they  prove  unworthy,  but  these  were  an  exception,  for  out  of  the  en- 
tire number,  seventeen  were  returned  to  the  author  for  various  reasons, 
cither  something  impractical  in  them,  or  not  just  suitable  for  our  needs, 
and  the  other  fourteen,  some  of  them  full  reel  subjects,  and  some  split 
reel,  went  through  with  flying  colors, — and  are  now  in  the  hands  of  the 
"bosses"    for   consideration. 

And  the  exclamations  of  rejoicing  at  the  discovery  of  a  new  author  of 
such  promise,  far  exceeded  in  volume  the  groans  at  the  receipt  of  the 
tening  pile! 

Photoplay  Writing. 

The  standard  book  on  the  subject  is  Mr.  Epes  W.  Sargent's 

TECHNIQUE  OF  THE  PHOTOPLAY. 
Price,  $1.00.  Postage  Prepaid.  All  Orders  and  Remittances  to 

CHALMERS    PUBLISHING    COMPANY, 
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answered  will  please  ask  again.-  We  are  glad  to  say  that  the  Identifier  ia 
once  more  on  the  job. 

W.  H. — Miss  Blanche  Sweet  bad  the  part  in  "Oil  and  Water."  Ri<  hard 
Stanton  was  Lieut.  Bell  in  "Wheels  of  Destiny,"  and  Miss  Hazel  Buckbam 
was  bis  grown  daughter.  In  the  "Scout,"  S.  Clifford  Smith  played  Bob  Worth 
and  E.  L.  Morrow  was  Lieut.  Bruce  in  "Wheels  of  Destiny."  You  appear  to 
think  they  are  one  person. 

M,  E.  H. — Miss  Hazel  Buckbam  played  opposite  Joe  King  in  "The  Lost 
Dispatch."     S.   Clifford  Smith  was  Lieut.   Lane  in  "The  Lure  of  the  Violin." 

SENORITA — Ford  Sterling  was  Dad   in   "Saving  Mabel's  Dad." 

W.  J.  X.— Don't  try  to  be  a  comical  cuss.  Just  send  a  courteous  inquiry. 
The  suggestion  is  amusing,  but  might  be  regarded  as  sarcasm.  It  would  be 
well  to  write,  however. 

HELENE — Miss  Gertrude  Bambrick  was  Marie  in  "Near  the  Earth." 

J.  L. — The  way  to  get  into  a  studio  is  to  ask  the  boss  to  give  you  a  Job. 
The  probabilities  are  that  he  won't,  but  that's  the  only  way  you  can  get  in. 

M.  T.  J. — Write  the  Advertising  Department,  Thomas  A.  Edison.  Inc., 
Orange,  N.  J.  We  do  not  know  Yale  Boss'  age.  Perhaps  Essanay  will  reply 
to  your  third  question.     We  cannot. 

P.  R.  P. — You  have  the  wrong  point  of  view  on  the  states  rights  matter. 
The  General  Film  and  the  Universal  are  both  "big  enough"  to  handle  states 
rights.  They  have  an  established  outlet  for  their  product  and  60  they  call 
them  specials.  Makers  not  having  a  regular  releasing  connection  must  find 
some  other  plan  to  distribute  their  product  and  so  sell  state  rights  as  the 
next  best  thing. 

F.  J.  M.— You  probably  have  as  much  time  as  we  have.  Take  the  recent 
issues  and  look  up  the  Lubin  release  yourself.  If  you  are  certain  it  is  a 
Lubin  you  can  find  it  quickly  enough. 

F.  W,  L. — Next  time  you  paste  a  clipping  on  a  postcard,  put  another  one 
cent  stamp  on,  as  that  subjects  the  card  to  letter  postage.  Static,  used  in 
the  sense  you  show,  means  the  serpentine  lines  appearing  in  the  film  like 
tiny  snakes  wriggling  across  the  screen.  Static  is  electricity  produced  by 
friction,  and  is  most  pronounced  in  a  cold,  dry  atmosphere.  It  is  the  same 
electricity  you  produce  by  stroking  a  cat's  fur  or  rubbing  a  celluloid  comb 
with  a  bit  of  silk.  Film  is  akin  to  celluloid,  though  not  exactly  that  material, 
and  the  friction  of  the  film  on  itself  or  against  the  velvet-lined  light  traps 
of  the  film  boxes,  produce  an  electrical  discharge,  very  tiny,  but  sufficiently 
strong  to  "expose"  the  film.  This  makes  the  marks  that  are  sometimes  seen 
in  pictures.  Thousands  of  feet  of  film  are  spoiled  each  winter  by  static,  and 
that  is  the  reason  the  companies  drop  below  the  frost  belt  when  cold  weather 
comes  on. 

H.  M. — The  companies  mentioned  are  not  now  releasing,  but  they  still  have 
some  sort  of  business  entity.  Do  not  send  script,  If  that  is  the  reason  for 
your  question.  The  Historical  Film  Company  is  not  using  outside  scripts. 
We  have  not  the  casts  asked  for.  We  have  stated  half  a  dozen  times  that 
the  Keystone  wants  synopses  ooly. 

0.  T. — We  do  not  keep  record  of  the  places  where  particular  subjects  are 
filmed.  This  is  more  or  less  a  trade  secret  of  the  company.  The  Pilot  Com- 
pany has  a  studio  In  Yonkers.  The  nearest  studio  to  San  Francisco  is  at 
Niles,  Cal.,   where  Essanay  maintains  two  companies. 

ORCHESTRA — L.  Rogers  Lyttou  was  Durand  in  "The  Vengeance  of  Durand." 
We  do  not  recall  that  he  was  ever  with  Edison. 

E.  L.  S. — The  mere  fact  that  you  took  your  story  from  actual  life  does  cot 
make  It  impossible  that  the  same  idea  may  have  been  thought  out  by  someoie 
else.  If  the  editor  says  it  is  a  magazine  story,  you  will  do  well  to  take  his 
word  for  it  and  retire  the  script.  We  do  not  read  manuscripts  not  accom- 
panied by  a  fee. 

A.  J.  B. — Keystone  answer  next  week.  Romanie  Fielding  was  Fernandez  in 
"Courageous  Blood." 

G.  H. — We  do  not  place  that  title  in  the  Vitagraph  releases.  Lubin  used 
the  title  lately,  but  there  was  no  Paul.  The  son  was  Roy.  The  part  was 
played  by  Edwin  C'avewe.  Irving  White  was  the  father.  Perhaps  It  is  this 
you  mean.  t 

D.  L,  W. — Miss  Mae  Marsh,  now  of  the  Biograph,  is  the  player  to  whom 
you  have  reference. 

W.  H.  K. — You  might  try  Universal  Western,  Kay-Bee  and  Kalem,  but 
the  subject  has  been  overworked. 


WANTED 

Strong,  Gripping  Photoplays  of  all 

classes  for  two  (2)  Reel   produc= 

tions.    Good  prices  for  good  plots. 

Address : 

American  Film  Mfg.  Co. 

Scenario  Dept. 
SANTA  BARBARA,  CALIFORNIA 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


483 


Projection  Department 


Edited  by   F.   H.   RICHARDSON 


Operators    Union  Directory,  I.  A.  T.  S.  E. 

NOTICE:     Each  union  is  entitled  to  have  its  roster  of  officers,  meeting 
nights,    etc..    listed   here    one    per    year,    free    of   cost.      Preserve    this 
list,  as  it  will  not  be  republished.     The  mail  address  of  the  secretary 
should  be   included  in  each  list,  as  well  as   the  time   and   place  of  meeting. 

Moving  Picture  Operators,  Memphis  Local  No.  144, 
I.  A.  T.  S.  E. 

President,  H.  H.  Huddleston ;  vice-president,  A.  Schwalbe;  financial  sec- 
retary, E.  B.  Grace;  Corresponding  Secretary,  L.  T.  Williams,  box  57; 
treasurer,  J.  B.  Amis;  delegates  to  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  convention,  J.  B.  Amis; 
business  agent,  A.  Finley. 


to  the  end  that  your  productions  be  placed  before  theater  audiences  in  the 
very  best  possible  manner,  and  the  business  not  only  retain  its  already 
strong  hold  on  the  amusement  loving  public,  but  be  placed  still  higher  in 
their  esteem   and  affections. 


To  the  Film  Producer. 

For  more  than  four  years  the  editor  of  this  department  has  waged  a 
battle  for  improvement  in  projection.  For  the  first  year  this  was  done 
through  the  medium  of  occasional  articles,  a  small  handbook  he  put  out, 
and  a  series  of  "Plain  Talks  to  Operators  and  Managers."  During  all  this 
time  he  has,  in  place  and  out  of  place,  consistently  and  continuously 
insisted  upon  better  operating  rooms,  improved  projection  machinery,  and 
particularly  better  men  in  charge  of  projection. 

During  all  that  time  he  has  had  little  or  no  active  support  from  those 
from  whom  it  might  best  be  expected.  It  is  quite  true  that  almost  every- 
body has  acknowledged,  in  a  half-hearted  kind  of  way,  that  his  position 
was  correct  and  that  there  was  urgent  need  for  improvement  along  the 
lines  he  has  advocated.  But  this  is  not  enough,  and  I  am  going  to  give. 
you,  Mr.  Film  Producer,  Mr.  Playwright  ana  Mr.  Film  Exchange  Man,  a 
little  good  plain  talking  to,  but  I  want  more  particularly  to  apply  this  di- 
rectly to  the  manufacturing  film  producer. 

Did  it  ever  occur  to  you,  Mr.  Film  Producer;  did  you  ever  stop  and 
seriously  consider  how  very  much,  from  your  point  of  view,  depends  upon 
the  moving  picture  operator?  If  you  have  not  done  this  it  will  be  well 
for  you  to  think  deeply  upon  this  subject.  Put  the  question  to  yourself 
something  like  this:  "I  am  a  film  producer,  and  the  permanency  and 
future  of  my  business  depends  absolutely  upon  how  well  my  product  pleases 
the  public  of  this  and  other  countries  who  pay  a  price  of  admission  to  be 
amused  or  instructed  by  it.  If  my  product  pleases  them,  then  they  will 
continue  to  pay  the  price  of  admission  to  see  future  releases,  and  the 
permanency  of  my  business  is  established.  If,  on  the  other  hand,  it  does 
not  please  them,  then  the  future  of  my  business  must  inevitably  suffer. 
But  in  this  connection  I  am  placed  in  a  peculiar  position.  I  may  spend 
any  amount  of  money  in  producing  what  is  really  a  magnificent  film.  It 
may  be  nerfect  in  photography,  accurate  in  perforation,  and  the  acting  may 
be  splendid.  In  fact,  the  whole  thing  is  beautiful,  and,  provided  it  be 
sEown  to  the  public  as  it  should  be  shown,  cannot  fail  but  please  them, 
even  to  the  extent  of  arousing  their  enthusiasm,  thus  adding  to  my 
reputation.  But  what  really  happens  to  this  magnificent  piece  of  work  of 
which  I  am  so  proud?  It  is  sent  up  into  an  operating  room  to  be  projected 
by  a  $is-a-week  'operator.'  Now,  in  our  cities,  at  least,  we  do  not  expect 
the  $i5-a-wee<v  man  to  be  in  possession  of  any  large  fund  of  ideas.  He 
may  be  able  to  successfully  drive  a  truck,  or  do  certain  other  things  the 
planning  for  which  has  been  all  done  by  other  men,  of  higher  attainments, 
and  in  which  he  is  not  called  upon  to  originate  ideas.  But  in  the  operating 
room  things  are  different.  My  actors  interpret  a  certain  role,  and  do  it 
perfectly;  but  the  moving  picture  operator,  through  the  graduation  of  speed 
of  his  machine,  interprets  the  actor.  But,  more  than  this,  it  lies  in  the 
operator's  hands  whether  my  splendid  production  will  be  produced  on  the 
screen  clear-cut,  sharp  and  brilliant,  or  whether  it  will  appear  before  the 
audience   'fuzzy/  shadowy  and  dull." 

Now,  Mr.  Manufacturer,  just  roll  those  ideas  around  in  the  top  of  your 
cranium  for  a  while  and  see  if  you  cannot  grasp  the  idea  that  it  will  be 
well  for  you  to  actively  co-operate  with  the  Projection  Department  in  edu- 
cating the  moving  picture  theater  manager  up  to  the  point  where  he  will 
realize  the  vital  importance  of  perfection  in  projection.  There  are  many 
.things  you  could  do  to  help  in  this  matter,  Mr.  Manufacturer,  if  you  would 
:>ut  wake  up  to  your  own  interest  and  do  them.  Up  to  date,  however,  I 
am  sorry  to  say  you  have  done  practically  nothing,  although,  through  the 
medium  of  handbooks  and  the  Projection  Department,  we  have  done  much 
for  you  and  your  business.  I  do  not  say  this  through  any  spirit  of  egotism, 
but  as  a  statement  of  a  fact  which  no  sensible  man  will  deny. 

The  time  has  come,  however,  to  demand  the  co-operation  of  those  who 
are  being  benefited  by  this  work.  Exhibitors  are  erecting  beautiful  moving 
picture  theaters,  some  of  them  at  a  cost  of  many  thousands  of  dollars. 
The  store  room  theater  is  slowly  passing.  Soon,  except  in  the  smaller 
towns,  it  will  be  but  a  memory.  The  tendency  now  is  to  increase  the  price 
of  admission,  but  while  immense  strides  have  been  made  in  the  perfection 
of  projection,  projection  machinery,  operating  room  and  operating  room 
equipment  in  general,  still  the  results  on  the  screen,  while  vastly  improved, 
are  not  what  they  should  be,  except  in  a  comparatively  few  isolated  cases. 
Xow.  gentlemen,  I  want  your  active  co-operation  in  this  matter;  therefore, 
in  the  language  of  the  street,  /'come  across"  and  let  us  all  work  together 
for  the   good   of   the   business  in   general,   and   your  business   in    particular. 


Lots  of  Help. 

Chadron,  Neb.,  orders  a  handbook  and  says: 

Business  is  excellent  out  here  in   this  part  of  the  country.     We 
are   looking   for    an   extra  good    year   for    moving   picture    theaters. 
We    are    using    Power's    6-A,    getting   excellent    results,    though    we 
are  always   trying  to   improve.      Have   found   several   things   in   the 
recent   issues    of    the    Projection    Department    which    were    a   lot   of 
help  to  us.     We  think  a  whole  lot  of  the  department. 
We  sincerely  trust  your  expectations  of  good  business  will  be   fully  real- 
ized, and  that  1913  will  prove  to  be  a  banner  year  for  moving  picture  men, 
not  only  in  this  city,  but  in  other  localities  as  well. 


Carbon  or  Metal  Filament  Lamps. 

While  it  is  the  intention  of  this  department  to  use  nothing  but  original 
matter,  still  occasionally  something  is  found  which  seems  to  be  well  worthy 
of  reproduction.  In  the  February  27th  issue  of  the  Bioscope,  a  London, 
England,  publication-  a  correspondent  asks  whether  carbon  or  metal  fila- 
ment lamps  are  to  be  preferred  "in  the  long  run."  and  the  answer  is  so 
excellent   that   we    reproduce  it.      It   runs   as  follows: 

It  is  impossible,  Light,  to  answer  your  question  definitely  with- 
out consideration  of  all  the  facts  relating  to  the  particular  installa- 
tion. For  instance,  as  an  extreme  illustration,  if  electricity  can 
be  obtained  at  about  2  cents  per  unit  it  is  very  doubtful,  under 
the  conditions  of  burning  metal  filament  lamps,  if  a  saving  can 
be  shown.  Consider  the  life  of  both  metal  filament  and  carbon 
lamps  to  average  1,000  hours.  The  electricity  consumption  of  a 
16  c.  p.  metal  lamp,  with  an  efficiency  of  1 J4  watts  per  c.  p.,  would 
be  20  watts  per  hour,  and  so  the  lamp  would  run  50  hours  for 
2  cents.  On  the  i,ooo-hour  basis,  then,  40  cents  would  be  con- 
sumed in  electricity  before  the  lamp  failed.  On  a  high  voltage 
supply — that  is,  between  200  and  250 — the  price  of  the  lamp  would 
be  75  cents,  and  the  total  cost  for  the  1,000  hours  burning  $1.12. 
Now,  in  the  case  of  a  similar  candlepower  carbon  lamp,  consum- 
ing 60  watts,  1,000 -=-60,  or  1653  hours,  would  be  the  lighting  time 
with  one  unit  of  electricity  costing  2  cents.  So,  for  1,000  hours 
burning,  60  units  of  electricity,  at  a  cost  of  $1.25,  would  be  con- 
sumed. A  good  carbon  lamp  could  be  obtained  for  20  cents,  which, 
added  to  the  cost  of  current,  brings  the  total  up  to  $1.40.  So  we 
see  that,  under  the  conditions  referred  to,  there  is  a  saving  of  26 
cents,  but,  even  admitting  that  the  metal  filament  lamp  is  any  more 
fragile   than   the   carbon,   there   is  little  in    hand    for   contingencies. 

Now  do  not  consider  that  we  are  by  any  means  advocating  the 
use  of  the  carbon  lamp,  but  only  enforcing  the  point  of  considera- 
tion of  all  details,  which  frequently  are  overlooked.  Metal  filament 
lamps  mean  low  current  consumption  during  business  hours  in 
return  for  high  capital  outlay.  Carbon  lamps,  on  the  other  hand, 
mean  increased  current  consumption,  but  minimum  of  expense. 
There  seems  to  be  a  popular  fallacy  that  the  use  of  the  metal  fila- 
ment lamp  gives  the  consumer  three  times  the  light  at  one-third 
the  cost.  This,  of  course,  is  not  the  case — one  can  either  obtain 
practically  three  times  the  light  at  the  same  cost,  or  a  similar 
amount  of  light  as  one  may  have  been  previously  obtaining  with  the 
carbon  lamp  at  one-third  the  cost.  It  is  a  fact  that,  through  am- 
biguity of  many  advertisements,  many  householders  or  small  con- 
sumers change  from  eight  candle  power  carbon  lamps  to  25  c.  p. 
metal  lamps,  and  then  wonder  why  the  electricity  bill  is  not  re- 
duced. Until  the  advent  of  the  drawn  wire  metallic  lamp,  which 
has  come  into  popularity  only  during  the  past  few  months,  metal 
lamps  were  notoriously  fragile,  and,  unless  the  greatest  care  was 
exercised  in  handling,  a  short  life,  even  if  a  bright  one.  was  the 
inevitable  result.  The  new  drawn  wire  filament  is  considerably 
stronger,  and  less  liable  to  fracture.  At  the  same  time,  there  are 
conditions  where  its  use  is  not  advisable.  The  greatest  disadvantage 
with  the  metal  lamp  is  that,  when  cold,  the  filament  has  a  very 
much  lower  resistance  than  the  running  normal  resistance.  For 
this  reason,  every  time  the  lamp  is  switched  on,  a  big  rush  of 
current  occurs,  which  tends  to  rupture  the  filament.  So,  for 
flasher  sign  work,  a  very  short  life  can  be  expected  with  the  metal 
lamp  and  it  may  quite  easily  be  more  economical  to  use  carbon 
lamps.  Sign  work,  indeed,  imposes  the  severest  strain  '-pen  metal 
lamps,  which,  from  the  point  of  view  of  life,  show  up  very  badly 
in  comparison  with  carbon  lamps  when  fitted  horizontally  and  in 
exposed  positions.  Nevertheless,  it  must  truthfully  be  said -that 
the  position  is  exceptional  where  the  metal  filament  lamp  does  not 
pan  out  cheaper  in  the  long  run  than  the  carbon  one.  and  so  we 
think  it  is  safe  to  say  that  you  can  have  no  qualms  of  fear  in 
using  metallic  lamps.  ' 


4*4 


THE    MOVING   PICTURE    WORLD 


The  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  Convention. 

The  time  for  the  convention  of  the  International  Association  of  Theatri- 
tage  Employees  approaches.  It  is,  therefore,  right  and  fitting  that  we 
now  take  up  and  discuss  the  various  things  which  it  may  seem  desirable, 
from  the  operators'  point  of  view,  to  bring  before  the  convention.  I  there, 
fore  invite  all  unions,  or  individual  operators  who  may  have  ideas  which 
wish  to  discuss,  to  set  them  forth  in  the  department.  There  is  very 
good  reasons   for  this.      I   am   not  a   believer  in  the   supremacy  of  the  dele- 

The  delegate  who  goes  to  the  convention  without  previous  knowledge 
of  what  other  delegates  from  other  cities  purpose  to  bring  before  the  con- 
vention, must  rely  wholly  upon  his  own  judgment,  since  he  is  not  then  in 
a  position  to  secure  the  opinion,  ideas  and  views  of  those  he  represents. 
It  may  therefore  be  that  he  will  take  action  which  will  be  at  wide  variance 
with  the  \iews  of  the  members  of  his  local  union.      Now,  there  is  no  dark, 

dense,  mystery  about  these  matters.  There  is  no  reason  in  the  world 
why  they  should  not  be  discussed  in  the  department.  We  are  not  a  band 
if  anarchists,  black  banders  or  high-binders,  but  a  body  of  respectable 
American  citizens,  holding  a  convention  for  only  one  purpose  in  the  world, 
\iz:  to  regulate  the  affairs  of  our  profession,  just  as  the  doctors  regulate 
and  the  lawyers  regulate  theirs,  and  the  bankers  regulate  theirs  and 
the   exhibitors    regulate    theirs,    through   their   various   organizations.     To   il- 

c,  let  us  cite  an  example.  Suppose  a  small  union  in  some  state, 
for  instance(  conceived  some  scheme  which  it  intends  to  present  to 
the  convention  through  its  delegate.  Nothing  is  known  of  this  particular 
matter  by  anyone  except  the  union  propounding  the  proposition.  The  dele- 
gate goes  to  the  convention  and  there  springs  the  scheme.  At  best  it  can 
only  be  studied  by  the  comparatively  few  delegates  there  present.  The 
great  body  of  members  know  nothing  of  it  until  it  is  enacted  into  law 
or  thrown  into  the  discard,  Now  this  particular  proposition  might  be  highly 
beneficial  to  the  union  in  Texas,  but  it  might  not  work  out  well'  with  the 
Union  in  New  York,  Cincinnati  or  San  Francisco.  But  in  the  rush  of  busi- 
il  perhaps  goes  through  the  convention  and  becomes  law. 
Now  had  the  Texas  union,  instead  of  taking  this  kind  of  procedure,  sent 
their  proposal  to  the  Projection  Department  for  publication,  it  would  thus 
have  been  placed  before  the  entire  operator  membership  of  the  I.  A.  T. 
S  E.,  and  could  have  been  and  would  have  been  discussed  in  the  various 
meetings.  Without  a  doubt  many  unions  would  have  instructed  their  dele- 
c.ites  how  to  vote  on   the  matter,  or  at  least  the  delegate  would  know  what 

ntiment  was  in  his  own  organization,  with  regard  to  that  particular 
thing. 

To  sum  this  whole  matter  up,  the  offer,  or  rather  the  request  I  make,  is 
that  the  various  unions  and  individuals  set  forth  their  views  and  ideas  in 
the  department  at  once,  to  the  end  that  they  be  discussed  all  over  the  coun- 
try and  that  the  delegates  go  to  the  convention  prepared  to  act  intelligently 
and  to  voice  not  only  their  own  individual  opinion  but  the  opinion  of  their 
heal    unions    on    the    various    propositions    present ed. 

And  now,  to  start  the  ball  rolling.  I  will  spring  one  of  my  own.  I  do 
not  like  the  name  of  the  organization.  In  my  opinion  it  should  be 
changed.  It  will  be  a  comparatively  short  time  when  there  will  be  as  many 
or  more  moving  picture  operators  in  the  I.   A.   T.    S.    E.  than   there  will  be 

■mployees.  But,  as  the  matter  now  lies,  the  name  of  the  organization 
includes  only  stage  employees.  Personally,  I  am  not  a  believer  in  long 
names.  Internationa!  Association  of  Theatrical  Stage  Employees  is  some- 
thing  of   a   mouthful.      A    man    wants   to   take  a   pood   deep   breath    before   he 

in  to  pronounce  it.  Now  if  we  make  it  International  Association  of 
Theatrical  Employees  and  Motion  Picture  Machine  Operators,  the  first 
page  of  every  letter  would  be  consumed  in  setting  forth  the  name  of  the 
organization.      1    think   the    name   should    be    shortened.      The    International 

ation  part  of  it  is  superfluous  anyhow.  It  is  a  useless  waste  of  good 
ink.  I  would  like  to  have  suggestions  as  to  a  short,  impressive  name  which 
would  include  both  stage  employees  and  operators,  without  consuming  a 
ream  of  paper  to  do  it.  How  would  Stage  Men  and  Operators'  International 
Union  do?  We  do  not  need  the  "theatrical,"  because  we  all  know  that  both 
operators  and  -stage  men  are  theatrical.  Stage  Men,  Spotlight  and  Projector 
Operators*  Union  would  not  be  so  bad.  Let  us  hear  your  ideas  on  this  sub- 
ject and  on  other  things  you  think  ought  to  be  brought  before  the  convention. 
And  now,  while  I  am  about  it,  let  me  finish  this  article  by  calling  your 
attention  to  the  importance  of  sending  delegates  to  the  convention.  We  all 
fully  realize  that  the  convention  will  be  a  comparatively  small  one.  since 
the  great  bulk  of  large  unions  lie  in  the  East,  and  it  will  be  impossible  for 
these  unions  to  send  their  full  quota  of  delegates.  To  send  the  delegate 
from  New  York  will  cost  approximately  $300;  in  fact,  the  delegate  can 
hardly  get  through  on  any  less  then  that  sum.  though  I  think  $300  would 
be  sufficient.  Possibly  be  might  do  with  $275,  but  it  would  be  tight  squeez- 
ing. Now  even  the  most  powerful  unions  cannot  afford  to  send  five  or  six 
delegates  at  $300  per.  The  idea  is  out  of  the  question.  But,  notwith- 
standing the  expense,  every  union  should  be  represented — particularly, 
every  operators'  union.  A  vigorous  campaign  is  now  being  waged,  the  in- 
tent of  which  is  to  thoroughly  organize  both  the  stage  employees  and 
the  operators.  Matters  of  the  utmost  importance  will  come  before  the  con- 
vention and  you,  brothers,  should  by  all  means  be  represented  by  at  least 
one  delegate.  I  know  it  is  a  hardship  to  the  eastern  unions  to  send  dele- 
gates so  far  away,  the  same  as  it  has  been  a  hardship  to  the  west  to  send 
mleeates  to  the  extreme  cast.  It  is  possible  that  I  may  attend  that  covnen- 
tion  mystlf,  and,  if  so,  I  propose  to  try  to  get  a  law  enacted  either  fixing  a 
peimanent  convention  place  in  some  city  near  the  center  of  population,  or 
else  define  certain  eastern  and  western  lines  beyond  which  the  convention 
must  not  go.  It  is  all  very  well  for  cities  in  the  East  or  in  the  West  to 
want  the  convention,  but  in  either  case  a  hardship  is  worked  on  one  sec- 
tion of  the  country  or  another,  as  well  as  upon  the  organization  itself, 
since  it  is,  in  cither  case,  deprived  of  a  full  attendance  of  delegates  at 
the  annual   conventions. 

As  a  sort  of  a  post  postscript,  I  want  to  add  that  I,  personally,  am 
opposed  to  annual  conventions.  It  costs  approximately  $35,000  to  hold  a 
convention  and  I  do  not  believe  it  is  worth  that  sum  every  year.  My  idea 
is  to  hold  biennial  conventions  and  use  the  money  thus  saved  for  organi- 
zation purposes.  The  money  that  would  be  saved  by  doing  this  would  very 
nearly  pay  the  salary  and  expenses  of  five  general  organizers,  and  you  will 
hove  to  show  me  that  a  year's  work  by  five  general  organisers  would  not 
be  of   more  value  to   the  organisation   than   an   annual  convention. 


Unions'  and   Operators'  Attention — Important! 

I  believe  I  have  evolved  a  scheme  which,  if  the  various  local  unions  will 
lend  their  assistance  in  the  matter,  will  be  of  vast  benefit  to  operators,  in 
that  it  will  cause  them  to  study  and  learn  the  technical  side  of  their  pro- 
fession. I  now  purpose,  beginning  within  the  next  few  weeks,  to  propound 
a  series  of  questions,  three  or  four  each  week,  and  when  the  entire  list  is 
completed  I  can  assure  you  that  the  man  who  has  been  able  to  answer  them 
all,  and  answer  them  right,  will  have  demonstrated  the  fact  that  he  pos- 
.  borough  technical  knowledge  of  his  profession. 

In  order,  however,  to  get  the  most  out  of  this  matter  there  must  be 
something  which  will  stimulate  the  individual  to  study  and  seek  out  the 
correct  answers.  To  this  end  I  would  suggest  that  local  unions  take  action 
and  appoint  a  committee  to  whom  their  members  shall  return  the  answers 
to  the  various  questions  from  week  to  week.  The  answers  to  these  ques- 
tions will  be  printed  either  one,  two,  three  or  four  weeks  after  the  ques- 
tions themselves  are  printed.  I  shall  begin  with  comparatively  easy  qu< 
but,  believe  me,  before  I  get  through  I  will  give  you  some  corkers.  I 
should  like  to  at  once  hear  from  all  unions  willing  to  take  action  along  the 
lines  suggested  and  co-operate  with  me  in  this  matter.  It  will  be,  in  effect, 
a  correspondence  course,  and,  as  such,  cannot  but  be  of  vast  benefit  to  the 
men  and  to  the  organizations  taking  part.  In  this  connection  let  me  say 
to  you  that  the  time  has  come  when  the  union  slide  ought  to  be  made 
to  stand  for  excellence  in  projection  in  the  mind  of  the  public.  It  is  for 
the  benefit  of  the  organization  and  the  individual  member  that  this  be 
brought  about.  If  the  union  slide  be  displayed  on  the  screen,  and  be  fol- 
lowed by  poor  work,  there  is  no  difference  in  the  mind  of  the  public  when 
there  is  a  strike  or  trouble  and  the  green  man,  who  also  puts  poor  work 
on  the  screen,  steps  in.  The  public  misses  the  slide,  yes,  but  inasmuch  as 
there  is  no  change  on  the  screen  its  absence  does  not  mean  anything.  If. 
on  the  other  hand,  the  union  slide  is  followed  by  the  excellence  in  projec- 
tion, then  when  the  union  slide  is  missing,  and  the  projection  suddenly 
becomes  bad.  the  public  will  be  very  wide  awake  to  the  fact  that  something 
is  wrong.  Now,  gentlemen  and  brothers,  let  us  all  pull  together  in  this 
matter  and  make  it  a  huge  success.  But  I  do  not  want  the  small  town 
man.  who  is  unorganized,  to  for  a  moment  imagine  that  he  is  barred.  This 
matter  is  open  to  all.  Certainly  the  small  town  man  can  study  the  ques- 
tions and  evolve  their  answers  if  he  wishes  to.  But  the  greatest  good  can 
be  reaped  where  there  is  an  organization  and  a  certain  amount  of  rivalry 
is  set  up  among  the  various  members.  Possibly  the  union  committee  could 
offer  prizes  to  those  making  the  best  general  average.  The  answ. 
members  could  be  posted  up  in  the  meeting  hall  each  week,  and  then  when 
the  answers  arrive  they  could  also  be  posted,  so  that  there  could  be  no 
accusations  of  favoritism  made  against  the  committees.  The  posting  of  the 
answers  of  the  members  would  also  stir  up  much  exceedingly  valuable 
discussion. 


From  Memphis  Union,  144. 

Brother    L.    T.    Williams.    Secretary    Local    union     144,    I.    A.    T.    S.    E.. 

Memphis,  Tennessee,  calls  forth  the  blushes  of  the  Editor  with  the  following; 
I  hand  you  herewith  names  of  officers  elected  to  serve  our  local 
during  the  ensuing  year.  You  will  cblige  us  by  printing  the  same 
in  the  Department  Directory  at  your  easliest  convenience.  The 
members  of  this  union  are  ardent  supporters  of  the  Moving  Picture 
World,  and  are  also  very  fond  of  the  latest  edition  of  the  hand- 
book, of  which  quite  a  few  are  the  proud  owners.  You  have  our 
congratulations  upon  the  completeness  of  this  book.  It  is  doing 
more  towards  perfecting  projection  than  anything  else  up  to 
date.  My  brother  operators  let  me  tell  you  that  while  you  may 
hear  one  talk  of  the  handbook,  you  cannot  realize  its  value  until 
you  get  it  in  to  your  hands  and  read  it.  I  myself  would  not 
be  without  it. 
For  all  of  which  both  yourself  and  the  members  of  Local    144   will  please 

accept  my  thanks.     The  list  of  officers  appears  in   the  directory  at  the  head 

of   the   department   this   week. 

Great  Scott!— Next? 

Mr.  Joseph   Boden.   Cumberland,   Maryland,   writes: 

Permit  me   for  the   first   time   the   liberty   of  encroaching  on  the 
sacred  columns  of  the  department.     I  noticed,  in   March   22nd  issue 
a    sketch   and   description    of   a    polarity   indicator.      Would    like    to 
suggest  another  process  which   I   use,   and   have   used,   successfully. 
It  is  as  follows:   take  an   ordinary  Irish   potato  and   cut  it  in   half. 
Into  the  newly  cut  surface  of  one  of  the  halves  insert  both   wires 
of  a  circuit,  first  having  stripped  the  insulation  back  from  the  end 
of  each   wire.     Close   the   switch   for  a  half  minute   and   there    will 
be  a  greenish  circle  around  one  of  the  wires  in  the  surface  of  the 
potato,  and  that  side  is  the  positive.     This,  I  think,  is  a  quick  and 
simple   process. 
And  now,  I  suppose  there  will  be  a  raid  on  the  potato  bins  all  over  the 
country.       I    would    earnestly    advise    the    wives    of    operators    to    lock    up 
the  potatoes  before  their  husbands  use   up  the  whole  works  experimenting. 
Joking  aside,  however,  if  the  thing  really  works,  it  is  a   great  scheme,  and 
the  most  simple  method   of  rinding  polarity  I   have  ever  heard   of. 


Shutter  Blade  Perforation. 

Tampa,  Florida,  orders  a  handbook  and  sends  in  sketch  of  a  three  wing 
outside  shutter  he  has  made  and  claims  it  reduces  the  flicker.  The  shutter 
appears  to  be  nothing  more  than  Power's  Six  outside  three  wing  shutter, 
with  three  rectangular  spaces  cut  out  of  each  wing,  the  same  being  probably 
about  half  an  inch  wide  by  two  inches  Ijng,  the  long  way  running  with 
the  diameter  of  the  shutter. 

For  the  benefit  of  Tampa,  I  will  say  that  all  these  schemes  have  been 
tried  out  and  discarded  long,  long  ago.  It  is  quite  true  that  such  a 
shutter  might,  to  some  extent,  reduce  flicker,  but  it  sets  up  other  troubles 
not  the  least  of  which  is  the  injuring  of  the  sharpness  of  definition,  due 
to  slight  travel  ghost. 


THE    MO\  [NG    PICTURE   WORLD 


48; 


Various  Things. 

Mr.   H    S.  Klink,  Canton,  Ohio,  one  of  our  old  contributors,  sends  in  the 

e    of    the    brothers    asked,    some    time    ago,   about    a    screen    he 
angle  and  still   raise   it   into   the   fl) 


No.  1.  I  think  he  will  find  his  answer.  The  black  border  G.  G.  rep- 
■  a  good,  strong  frame  of  wood.  A  A  are  sharp  spikes 
to  legs  F  F.  B  B  are  strong  casters  set  in  legs  G  G. 
C  C  are  ropes  or  chains  made  to  any  length  desired  to  give  the 
screen  the  proper  angle.  D  D  are  heavy  hinges  to  hold  the  back 
frame  F  F  and  the  front  frame  G  G  together.  E.  E.  E  are  lines 
used  to  raise  the  screen  into  the  fly-loft.  A  little  study  will  show 
us  that,  as  the  screen  is  let  down  from  the  fly-loft,  legs  F.  F.,  con- 
taining the  spikes,  strike  the  floor  first.  This  will  have  the  effect  of 
keeping  the  screen  from  slipping  and  at  the  same  time  spreading  it 
as  far  as  chain  C  C  will  permit.     Sketch  Xo.  2  shows  the  details  of 


of   an    0  r   the  intermittent  movement,   which    can   be  at- 

:y  any  Edison  machine.  A  is  the  left  hand  side-frame  of 
the  machine.  J}  is  the  intermittent  shaft,  carrying  the  intermittent 
sprocket  and  star.  C  is  the  cam  shaft.  Of  course  these  shafts  are 
longer  than  the  original  shafts,  but  are  the  same  size.  1)  are  small 
collars  turned  on  the  shaft  to  hold  bearings.  E  is  the  eccentric  and 
F  is  the  plain  bearing.  G  is  the  oil  casing.  H  is  a  casting  made 
to  carry  the  bearings.  A  A — A  A  is  where  the  box  fits  to  the  cast- 
ing, both  surfaces  being  planed  perfectly  true,  with  screws  provided 
for  fastening  the  parts  together.  B  B — B  B  are  screws  to  fasten  H 
to  frame  side  A.  C  C  is  a  screw  and  rubber  washer  for  the  pur- 
pose of  draining  and  cleaning  in  the  oil  box.  1  is  the  cam.  2  is 
the  star.  D  D  are  set  screws  holding  the  bushings,  the  same  being 
headless.  The  sketch  is  j  ust  about  actual  size.  There  is  also  a 
hole  in  the  top  of  the  casing  to  put  in  oil.  Xow,  why  cannot  the 
Edison  Company  put  such  an  oil  casing  on  their  machines  if  some 
scrub  of  an  operator  can  do  it?  It  reduces  wear  and  cuts  down 
that  awful  hammering  between  the  star  and  cam.     Sketch  3   shows 


the  old  and  new  intermittent   idler  on  the  same   make   of   machine, 

11   that  the  old  style  is  the  better, 

since  (he  film   is  gripped  by  more  teeth  and   has  a   wider  bearing  on 
the   sprocket   face.      With    the   old   style,    we   get   a   steadier   pit 
than    with    the    ne«  ;   also   there   is   less   strain   on    the   sprocket 
Neighbor  Klink  has  long  since  demonstrated  the  fact  that  he  is  a  man  with 
ideas.       His    tilting    screen    is    very    clever.      The    oil    casing    shows    real    in- 
genuity.     Brother   Klink   has   lengthened   the  cam  and   intermittent    sprocket 
shafts,  and   has   placed    the   bearings  in  a  separate  casting,   with   the   star  and 
cam    outside,    all    of    which    is    thoroughly   practical,    and,   provided    the    star 
and  cam  set  up  close  to  the  trashing,  without  any  serious  objection.  His  draw- 
ings   set    forth    the    plan    very   clearly,    so    that    anyone    can    construct    one   of 
these  casings   for  himself,  if  he  so  desires.     Also  these  drawings  were  done 
in  black   draftsman's   ink— a  very   rare  thing,   indeed — and  are   printed  just 
as  Neighbor  Klink  made  them.    As  to  sketch  Xo.  3.  I  thoroughlv  agree  that 
the  old  style  is  much  the  better,  since  the  film,  as  Neighbor  Klink  saj 
a  much  greater  bearing,  both  as  to  the  number  of  teeth  engaged  and  on  the 
face  of  the  sprocket,  all  of  which  will  make  for  steadiness.     Moreover,  the 
old  Style  would.  I  believe,  form  a  better  lower  loop. 


Amperage. 
Fort  Worth,  Texas,  writes: 

I  see  on  page  1102,  March  15th  issue.  Brother  Hayes  suggests 
that  I  measure  B's  screen  again.  I  still  say  screen  is  12  x  14,  but  B 
projects  a  picture  15  feet  wide  and  11  feet  4  inches  high,  throwing 
over  on  each  side  six  inches.  Brother  Hayes  says  he  would  not  use 
as  much  current  as  A.  Now  that  is  not  the  point.  My  argument  is, 
which  of  the  two  uses,  or  should  use  the  most  current  to  get  the 
same,  or  as  near  as  possible,  the  same  illumination,  A  having  a 
mirror  screen  9  x  12,  and  B  12  x  14,  but  the  real  size  of  the  picture 
is  15  x  11.25.  If  you  look  at  my  other  letter  you  will  see  I  said  B 
projects  168  or  174  square  feet  and  A  108  square  feet.  I  still  con- 
tend that  A  should  use  but  22  amperes  or,  to  be  more  exact.  21.6 
amperes-.  B  should  use  33.8  amperes  on  d.  c,  or  mercury  arc 
rectifier  on  a.  c.  A  should  use  32.2  amperes  and  B  50.7  amperes. 
B  then  should  use  11.2  amperes  more  than  A  on  d.  c,  and  18.3 
on  a.  c,  on  the  same  kind  of  projection  surface.  But  as  A  has 
a  much  better  screen  than  B.  B  would  only  be  using  about  .216 
amperes  to  the  square  foot  if  he  used  15  amperes  more  than  A. 
What  1  was  trying  to  get  at  it  this:  A  covers  108  square  feet  of 
mirror  screen,  at  about  90  feet,  while  B  covers  169  square  feet 
at  63  feet.  Who  should  use  the  more  current,  and  how  much 
more  should  B  use  to  get  the  same  illumination  as  A?  You  can 
imagine  A  using  2.6  amperes  on  a  mirror  screen  and  B  using 
less  than  A  and  projecting  61  square  feet  more  than  A.  I  am 
sending  a  few  samples  of  film  containing  "high  class"  patches. 
Samples  No.  1  and  No.  2  you  cannot  keep  in  frame  without  it 
showing  a  dividing  line.  Sample  No.  3:  imagine  running  a 
comedy  (Crystal),  and  see  the  camera  man's  feet  hanging  over 
the  lens  for  about  15  feet  at  the  beginning  and  the  ending,  thus 
spoiling  30  or  40  feet  of  film.  Why  not  devote  a  half  a  page  to 
camera  men?  It  would  help  the  projecting  machine  operators  a 
whole  lot.  Anytime  I  write  for ,  information  or  suggestions,  or 
write  the  Projection  Department,  you  are  at  liberty  to  use  my 
name. 
I     wouldn't    doubt    your    word,    brother,    but    all    the    same    I    smelt    fish 

ft  hen    I    read    your   explanation    of   the    picture    size.      As    to    the    cameramen. 

some   of   them    most    certainly   have   a    few    things    to    learn.      The    pictures 

wc  re    beauties— of    their    kind. 


Aluminum   Screen. 

Brother  Sargent.  Editor  of  Advertising  for  Exhibitors'  Department,  sub- 
mitted to  me  a  sample  of  what  is  supposed  to  be  an  aluminum  coated 
screen,  made  by  some  company  on  14th  Street.  New  York  City.  Mr. 
Chaney,  Hillsboro,  Ohio,  had  sent  the  same  to  him  asking  him  to  get  my 
opinion   of   it. 

Once  and  for  all.  let  me  say  in  the  most  positive  manner  that  I  abso- 
lutely will  not  express  a  favorable  opinion  upon  things  of  this  kind  until 
the  manufacturer  has  proven  to  me  that  his  goods  are  what  he  claims 
them  to  be.  In  the  present  case,  the  surface  of  the  screen  is  excellent. 
Its  coating  appears  to  be  aluminum,  but  this  may  not  be  the  fact.  How- 
ever, I  would  advise  all  purchasers  of  aluminum  screens  to  insist  upon 
an  iron-clad  guarantee  as  to  two  things,  viz:  (a)  That  the  screen  will  not 
tarnish;  that  is  to  say,  it  will  retain  its  original  color  and  brilliancy,  and 
(b)  that  if  it  is  of  rough  surface  type,  which  will  catch  and  hold  dirt,  it 
can  be  readilv  cleaned. 


That  Screen  Problem. 

Philadelphia.    Pa.,    contributes    the    following    concerning    Fort    Worth's 
screen  problem,  or  rather,  iight  problem. 

The    illumination   of   the    picture   depends    partly   upon    everything 

the    current    might    pass   from    the   time    it    leaves   the    power   plant 

until    it    reaches   the   arc,   and   what   the   light    must   pass   from   the 

time   it   leaves  the  arc   until   it   strikes   the   screen.     Aside   from    this. 

B's   picture  is   the   wrong  size  and   Fort   Worth   does   not  say  what 

kind  of  current  is  being  used  by  A  or  B;  a.  c.  or  d.  c,  nor  does 

he  give  the  voltage  or  cycles  of  the  current.    There  are  also  other 

things   which    have   a   bearing,    such    as    the    kind    of   carbons,    their 

size  and   how   they  are   set,   kind   of  machine,   shutters,   condensing 

lenses,    etc.,    resistance,    wiring,    how    the    inside   of   the   theater    is 

painted  or  decorated  and   whether  the  screen   is  outlined   in   black; 

also   whether  the  lamp  is   in   good   condition   and   the   lenses  clean, 

the  speed  of  the  intermittent,   etc. 

Well.   Philadelphia,   most  of   those   who  have  answered   this   problem  have 

erred  in  not  naming  all  the  things  which  might  have  a  bearing.    You  go  to 

the   other   extreme.      In   such   a    problem   we  must   assume   the  current  and 

the  theater  decorations  to  be  essentially   the  same  in  each   case.    However. 

your  letter  is  of  value,   since  it   calls   attention   to   the   very   large   number  of 

things   which   may    possibly   have   to   do   with   projection    light   in   one   way   or 

another. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


Soapstone  for  Condensers. 

Here  is  one  from  Mr.  J.  C.  Long.  197  Adams  St..  Rochester,  N.  Y. : 
I  am  operating  in  a  place  which  just  opened  five  weeks  ago.    It 
is    called    "Fitzhugh     Hall"    and    used    to    be    a    bowling    alley 
with    a    picture   show    in    one    end.    seating   300,    but    has    been    re- 
modeled to  seat  1,000.    We  have  a  throw  of   138  feet,  and  project 
'  a  picture  20  feet  wide,   on   a   painted   screen.    On  one   machine  I 
have  a  Power's  75  ampere  grid  rheostat;  on  the  other  one  Power's 
25  ampere  grid   rheostat  and  one  Power's   coil   rheostat,   using  six 
coils.    I  apparently  get  the  same  light  on  both  machines.    Am  using 
two  Power's  Six  machines  with  the  6A  lamp  and  lamphouse,  using 
Ya,    inch   Bio    carbons.     These    machines   are  proving   entirely    satis- 
factory.     I    have    considerable    trouble    with    breaking    condensers. 
The  first  three  weeks  I  tried  several  ways  to  prevent  this  trouble, 
and  finally  got  a  soapstone  7  x  9  x  1%   inches,  and  cut  two  inches 
off  the  long  way,  making  it  seven  inches  square.     Drilled  a  hole  ij4 
inches  deep  in  one  end  and  attached  an  eight  inch  rod.     Drilled  a 
hole  in   the   top   of   the   lamphouse    Y*    of   an    inch    from   the   front 
and   in   the  middle  sideways.     Attached   a    rope   and   pulley   with   a 
weight   on   the    other   end.     I   let   the    soapstone   down   in    front   of 
the  condensers,  and  light  the  lamp  for  about  twenty  minutes  before 
starting  the  machine.    As  soon  as  I  pull  the  switch  I  let  the  soap- 
stone   down    over   the   condensers.      I    also    completely    packed    the 
condenser  jacket  with    asbestos.     In   three   weeks    running,    without 
the   soapstone,   I   broke   twenty-one   condensers.     In   the  two   weeks 
I  used  the  soapstone  I  haven't  broken  one.     I  would  like  to  get  in 
communication    with    Film    Exchange    or    theater    manager    in    Mis- 
soula, Montana.     That  is  my  reason  for  giving  my  full  address. 
The   soapstone   protector   is  passed   along  to   the   department   readers   for 
consideration.     You  do  not  say  whether  the  two  rheostats  are  connected  in 
multiple  or  in  series,  but  inasmuch  as  only  six  coils  of  the  coil   rheostat 
are   in   use,    I    assume  it   is  in   series.     Most    certainly   there  is   something 
twisted   with   your    resistance,    since,    if    all    those    rheostats    were"  made    to 
work   on  the  same   voltage,   the  thing  does  not  stack  up   right   at   all.      As 
to  the  back  number  of  the  World  you  ask  for,   send  ten  cents  in  stamps 
and  it  will  be  forwarded  to  you. 


A  Joke  On  All  Of  Us. 

On  page  46,  January  4th  issue,  in  a  letter  from  Hays,  Kan.,  the  follow- 
ing sketch  appears.  Now  I  am  going  to  be  honest  enough  to  admit  that  I 
myself   did   not   notice   anything   wrong,    though    I    re-drew   the    thing.     Ap 


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parently  nobody  else  has  noticed  it,  except  one  man  who  asked  me  last 
week  if  I  were  asleep  or  day-dreaming  when  I  passed  that  particular  thing. 
Now,  some  of  you  fellows  wake  up  and  tell  me  what  is  the  matter  with  it. 


Has  a  Booth. 

Park   Falls,   Wisconsin,  contributes  the  following: 

I  have  both  of  your  handbooks  and  most  certainly  would  not 
be  without  them.  Is  it  possible  for  one  to  get  one  of  the  first  ones. 
and  if  so,  what  is  the  price?  Some  time  ago,  I  had  occasion  to  use 
colored  slides  and  seeing  some  colored  light  globes  started  me 
thinking.  I  took  the  cover  glass  off  a  few  old  slides  and  dipped 
them  in  lamp  color  solution.  It  worked  fine.  Is  there  any  de- 
vice, other  than  a  motor  generator  set,  for  reducing  d.  c.  from 
line  to  arc  voltage?  We  have  some  theater  here.  The  booth  (I  use 
the  word  "booth"  for  that  is  what  it  is)  is  about  $*/2  feet  high  by 
4  feet  6  inches  by  5  feet  4  inches.  The  operator  has  to  stoop 
when  he  stands  up. 

It  is  a  strange  thing  that  theater  managers  will  expect  results  from  a 
man  working  in  a  cracker  box  of  that  kind.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  theater 
managers  do  not  expect  anything  of  the  kind.  They  know  better  than  to 
expect  results  under  such  conditions.  It  is  inhuman  to  ask  a  man  to  work 
through  the  hot  summer  months,  jammed  into  a  little  4x5  space  beside 
what  is,  in  effect,  a  heating  stove.  Park  Falls  also,  for  our  private  ear, 
gives  some  other  interesting  information  about  the  "operator"  employed. 
Among  other  things,  it  seems  that  "Jimmy,  the  usher"  visits  a  nearby 
saloon  every  once  in  a  while,  carrying  a  very  suspicious  looking  lard  pail. 
If  this  is  true  and  that  lard  pail  reaches  the  operator,  that  is  an  elegant 
combination.  Inflammable  film — arc-light — can  of  beer.  Fine!  Let  us  hope, 
however,  that  either  the  "manager"  or  "Jimmy-the-usher"  consume  the 
contents  of  the  lard  can  instead  of  passing  it  up  to  the  "operator."  The 
small  handbook  was  a  vest  pocket  affair.  I  don't  know  where  you  could 
get  one  now.     No,  a  motor  generator  is  the  only  thing. 


In  the  first  place,  Neighbor  Daniels,  I  do  not  suggest  kicking  the  ex- 
change man.  What  I  said  was  "put  up  a  kick  to  the  exchange  man*'  and 
my  idea  was  that  the  exchange  man  would  kick  the  operator  who  is  guilty 
of  flooding  his  machine  with  thin  oil,  which  flies  off  and  becomes  smeared 
on  the  film.  As  to  the  waterproofing  of  films,  you  have  never  yet.  my  dear 
Mr.  Daniels,  taken  the  trouble  to  prove  to  me  that  the  waterproofing  pro- 
cess has  not  some  serious  objections.  Others  have  told  me  it  has.  Now, 
my  mind  is  open  on  this  proposition,  but  the  waterproofing  process  has 
been  in  use  for  a  matter  of  three  of  four  years,  and  has  not  been  gen- 
erally adopted,  which  is  pretty  good  evidence  that  there  are  serious  objec- 
tions to  it.  Now,  Friend  Daniels,  this  is  not  a  knock,  but  simply  a  state- 
ment of  fact  from  my  point  of  view.  If  you  can  show  me  and  prove 
to  me  that  your  process  is  wholly  and  entirely  good,  and  has  not  seri- 
ous objections,  I  most  certainly  will  recommend  its  adoption,  but  I  say  and 
say  again  that  all  manufacturers.* no  matter  who  they  may  be,  who  want 
the  endorsement  of  this  department  or  of  its  editor,  for  their  product,  must 
prove  to  me  that  their  product  is  all  they  claim  for  it. 


Oil  Stains  Film. 

Mr.  W.  A.  Daniels,  National  Waterproof  Film  Co..  writes: 

In  your  answer  to  "Oily  Film"  complaint,  March  22nd  issue,  you 
say  this  trouble  can  be  avoided  by  kicking  the  Exchange  man.  I 
believe  it  will  be  difficult  to  find  any  part  of  the  anatomy  of  an 
exchange  man  that  has  not  metaphorically  been  hit  by  kicks  be- 
cause of  this  trouble  with  oily  films,  but  for  all  of  this  the  oil 
continues.  You  know,  of  course,  that  some  films  are  easily  stained 
with  oils  and  that  once  on  some  oils  can  never  be  removed,  so, 
instead  of  suggesting  ineffectual  kicks  as  a  remedy,  why  not 
tell  the  unenlightened,  that  the  only  real  remedy  for  oily  films 
lies  in  having  films  waterproofed,  for  oil  cannot  then  reach  the 
emulsion  of  a  waterproof  film,  and  oil  which  gets  on  waterproof 
films  can  be  easily  washed  away  with  warm,  soapy  water  and  a  rag? 


Colored  Ink  Drawings. 

Mr.  Bertram  Williams,  Ponca  City,  Okla.,  sends  in  a  very  interesting 
letter  and  five  drawings,  none  of  which  are  available  for  publication  be- 
cause the  lettering,  and  much  of  the  drawing,  is  done  in  colored  ink.  I  have 
told  you  before  that  the  only  kind  of  a  drawing  we  will  reproduce  is  that 
done  in  black.  Brother  Williams'  letter  contains  two  original  ideas.  One  is 
he  has  removed  the  framing  lever  of  his  Edison  Exhibition  Model  and 
placed  it  at  right  angles  to  its  original  position  by  the  use  of  bevel  gears, 
so  that  it  extends  out  on  the  operating  side  of  the  machine,  the  lever  itself 
being  reduced  to  fourteen  inches  in  length.  The  other  idea  has  to  do 
with  some  sort  of  a  tension  for  the  handling  of  large  reels  of  film,  but  the 
drawings  are  largely  in  color,  and  anyhow  I  do  not  fully  understand  his 
idea.  Come  again,  Brother  Williams,  Dut  be  a  little  plainer  and  cut  out 
that  colored  ink  business,  especially  blue  writing  fluid,  which  will  not 
reproduce    at    all. 


Who  is  the  Inventor? 

Mr.  C.  J.  Kaho,  Trinidad,  Colorado,  who  recently  welded  the  point  on  a 
broken  star,  has  an  idea  that  Mr.  Edison  did  not  invent  talking  pictures. 
He  sets  things  forth  as  follows: 

Thanks  for  the  information  you  gave  me  through  the  department. 
I  welded  the  point  on  my  star  as  follows:  at  the  Novelty  Works 
I  attempted  to  fix  the  point  so  as  to  get  a  day  or  two's  work  out 
of  it  until  I  could  get  another.    Their  machinist  told  me  he  thought 
he  could  fix  me  up,  so  I  let  him  go  to  it.     The  point  was  welded 
on    with   an   Autogenous   Welding  Torch,   using   saltine   and   crude 
oil  for  flux.     You  said,  in  a  recent  issue,  that  you  were  not  ready 
to  pass  an  opinion  as  to  Mr.  Edison's  latest  invention,  the  talking 
motion  pictures.    Let  me  say  that  if  Mr.  Edison  is  the  inventor  of 
talking  motion  picture,  which  he  is  not,  then  who  is  this  man  Cap- 
tain Kouade,  of  Paris — see  article,  July  31st,  1909,  issue? 
So  far  as  I  know.  Brother  Kaho,  Mr.  Edison  never  claimed  to  be  the  in- 
ventor of  talking  motion  pictures.     What  he  has  done  is  to  invent  a  method 
of  reproducing  the  sound  so  that  the  words  of  the  actors  are  recorded  on 
the  phonograph  record  as  the  actual  act  proceeds,  and  in  this  be  has  been 
marvelously  successful.     For  this  part  of  the  invention,   most  certainly  he 
is  entitled  to  great  credit.     He  has  also  invented  a  method  of  synchronizing 
the  phonograph  with  the  picture,  but  of  this  I  do  not  think  so  much,  since 
the  actual  synchronism  still,  to  all   intents  and  purposes,  lies  in  the  hands 
of  the  operator,  and  as  long  as  the  operator  controls  synchronism,  talking 
moving  pictures  cannot,  in  my  opinion,  be  pronounced  a  success  except  for 
the  projection  of  an  occasional  short  film  during  the  running  of  which  the 
entire    attention   of    the    operator   can    be   closely   concentrated    on   the    syn- 
chronism.    To  put  the  ordinary  operator  in  charge  of  such  a  machine  and 
expect  him  to  project  one  film  after  the  other  for  hours  and  keep  the  thing 
in  even  approximately  exact  synchronism,  would  be  expecting  the  impossible. 
It  simply   could  not   be  done.      I   do   believe   this,    however:   Mr.    Edison's 
method  of  reproducing  the  sound  marks  an  immense  step  in  advance  towards 
real   talking  pictures,   but,   in  my   opinion,   talking  pictures   will   never  be  a 
reality    except    with    absolutely    perfect    films    and    positive   mechanical    syn- 
chronism.    By  this,  I  mean  films  from  which  nothing  has  been  cut  out,   or 
even  if  one  picture  has  been  removed,  it  has  been  replaced.    I  look  for  a 
big  future  for  talking  pictures,  but  only  as  a  high-class  proposition  of  that 
kind,  in  theaters  where  good  prices  of  admission  are  charged,,  and  nothing 
but  perfect  reels  are  used.     I  have  witnessed  the  performance  of  the  present 
talking  picture  on  six  different  occasions,  and  I  have  yet  to  see  a  single  500 
foot  reel  run  through  with  the  synchronism  perfect  all  the  time — and  there 
you  are!    I  set  forth  my  views  because  I  have  received  an  immense  number 
of  inquiries  and  requests  for  my  opinion  as  to  the  Edison  talking  pictures.    I 
have  refused  to  express  any  opinion  until  I  was  thoroughly  satisfied  that  I 
was  right.     I  believe  Mr.  Edison's  invention  has  a  future.     I  think  he  will 
perfect  it.     But  I  do  not  think  it  is  an  entirely  practical  proposition  for  the 
ordinary  moving  picture  theater  in  its  present  stage,  though   as  a  novelty, 
in  the  large  houses  running  only  one  short  film  in  the  evening,  it   is  most 
emphatically  making  good. 


Making  Motion  Picture   Camera. 

Mr.  J.  L.  Aney,  Worcester,  New  York,  writes: 

Some  time  ago  a  correspondent  in  Ogdensburg,  N.  Y..  inquired 
about   the   making   of    a    motion    picture   camera.      If    the    Brother 
in   Ogdensburg  will   walk  to   the  red  building  at  the   foot  of   State 
Street,  and  look  in  the  files  of  the  Scientific  American,  volume  103, 
page  483,  issue  01  December  17,  1910,  he  will  find  an  article  "How 
to  Make  a  Motion  Picture  Camera." 
The   above  is  submitted   tor  the  benefit  of  the    ogdensburg  brother.      As 
to  the  practical  value  of  the  article  in  question  I,  of  course,  know  nothing. 
I    do  not   believe,  however,   that   an  amateur   would  stand    much   chance   of 
constructing  a  really  practical  motion  picture  camera  which  would  do  good 
work.     Perhaps  he  could,  but  you  would  have  to  show  me. 


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Comments  on  the  Films 


Licensed 


"THE  MYSTERY  OF  THE  STOLEN  JEWELS"  (Vitagraph),  April 
22. — A  picture  taken  mostly  in  mid-ocean.  Plainly  a  studio  was  rigged; 
interiors  are  shown  as  clearly  as  if  the  scenes  were  taken  in  Flatbush. 
Two  of  the  officers  of  the  ship  are  in  the  cast.  It  is  another  of  the  Lambert 
Chase  series,  in  which  Maurice  Costello  plays  the  detective.  The  picture 
will  interest. 

"THE  UNBURIED  PAST"  (Essanay),  April  22.— It  seemed  to  the 
writer  as  if  in  this  picture  there  was  insufficient  identification  of  the  char- 
acters at  the  beginning,  thereby  marring  throughout  the  coherency  and 
clearness   of    the   drama. 

"SEEDS  OF  SILVER"  (Selig),  April  22.— The  first  half  or  more  of 
this  picture,  while  well  photographed  and  containing  pleasing  scenes,  seemed 
rather  slow.  The  latter  part,  however,  was  better,  and  carried  over  the 
story.      Hobart   Bosworth   and    Margarita   Loveridge   have   the   leads. 

"A  SLIGHT  MISTAKE"  (Lubin),  April  22.— A  story  of  a  drunken 
young  man  who  gets  into  the  wrong  room  and  makes  trouble.  A  half  reel 
seems  to  be  sufficient  to  tell  the  story. 

"SUNSHINE  SUE"  (Lubin),  April  22.— On  the  same  reel  is  this  com- 
edy, showing  the  difference  on  the  temper  of  an  office  force  exerted  by  a 
woman  of  pleasing  appearance  compared  with  one  of  lesser  charms. 
Frances  Ne  Mover  has  the  title  role.  Walter  H.  Stull  is  the  boss.  Between 
these  two  and  the  office  force  much  hearty  laughter  is  created.  Arthur 
Hotaling  produced  the  comedy,  and  E.  W.  Sargent  wrote  it. 

"AX  INNOCENT  INFORMER"  (Edison),  April  22.— Good  drama  by 
the  Western  company.  Sydney  Ayres,  Charles  Sutton  and  Betty  Harte 
play  the  principal  parts.  The  story  is  of  a  Kentucky  moonshiner  whose 
daughter  innocently  leads  the  revenue  men  to  her  father's  still;  the  father 
escapes  arrest  through  the  act  of  the  sweetheart,  who  in  miraculous  fashion 
avoid  the  revenue  officers  also. 

"WINTER  SPORTS  AT  BODELE,  AUSTRIA"  (Pathe),  April  22.— 
Fine  and  interesting  scenes.  Many  pictures  illustrate  the  dangers  of  skiing. 
There  are  also'  well  photographed  panoramic  views  of  snow-covered 
mountains. 

"ANCIENT  GREECE"  (Pathe),  April  22.— On  the  same  reel  as  the 
foregoing  are  many  interesting  pictures  taken  in  and  about  Athens.  One 
cf  the  best  is  of  the  canal  between  Corinth  and  the  Piraeus.     A  good  reel. 

"THE  WRONG  ROAD  TO  HAPPINESS"  (Patheplay),  April  19.— 
Two  reels  of  strongly  emotional  melodrama.  The  story  is  of  the  daughter 
of  a  sea-faring  man  who,  against  the  wishes  of  her  father,  marries  a  man 
from  the  city  and  rejects  the  proposal  of  a  man  in  her  own  station.  Her 
married  life  is  unhappy  and  she  returns  to  her  father.  Rejected  by  him, 
she  accidentally  falls  over  a  cliff.  Before  she  dies  she  is  reconciled  to 
her  first  lover,  the  man  of  the  sea.  The  picture  will  hold  all  the  way. 
Paul  Panzer  plays  the  seaman  lover.  His  work,  as  well  as  that  of  the 
woman  who  portrays  the   daughter,  is  excellent. 

"THE  POWER  OF  THE  CROSS"  (Lubin),  April  18.— One  of  the  most 
powerful  dramas  this  writer  has  ever  seen  on  the  screen.  It  is  always  a 
pleasure  to  see  Arthur  Johnson  in  a  picture,  but  when  he  puts  his  energies 
to  a  two-reel  subject  we  are  certain  of  something  unusual.  Thy3  drama  is 
splendidly  staged  and  splendidly  acted.  Most  of  the  scenes  are  interiors, 
and  they  are  elaborate.  Mr.  Johnson  always  is  skillful  in  plotting  a  res- 
taurant scene.  So  also  he  is  here.  Above  all,  however,  in  this  picture  is 
the  holding  power.  From  beginning  to  end  it  keeps  the  onlooker  on  edge. 
While  Mr.  Johnson  personally  dominates  the  two  reels,  there  are  several 
who  yield  him  the  strongest  support — Florence  Hackett,  Lottie  Briscoe, 
Charles  Brandt,  Harry  Kendell  and  Clara  Lambert.  Exhibitors  should 
net  fail  to  give  their  patrons  an  early  opportunity  to   see  this  picture. 

"THE  LEFT-HANDED  MAN"  (Biograph),  April  21.— A  very  cleverly 
worked  up  picture  dealing  with  bright  detective  work  that  brings  a  criminal 
to  justice.  This  criminal  has  fixed  things  so  that  his  crime  will  be  traced 
to  his  friend,  and  it  seems  as  though  there  can  be  no  escape  except  by  the 
culprit's  confession.  The  detective  finds  it  an  easy  one — he  knows  how. 
It  has  been  made  convincing  by  carefulness  in  even  small  details,  and  the 
interest  has  been  heightened  by  weaving  a  love  story  in  as  a  natural  part 
of  the  whole.  It  is  well  acted  by  Lillian  Gish,,  Charles  West  and  Harry 
Carey,  as  the  left-hnnded  scoundrel.  These  are  supported  by  a  large  cast. 
Finally,  it  is  well  photographed.  The  offering  took  strongly  with  the 
audience. 

"THE  SNEAK"  (Kalem),  April  21. — In  some  ways  this  picture  is  the 
most  artistic  offering  of  today,  but  it  has  some  astonishingly  weak  places 
and  doesn't  hold  together.  Its  best  quality  is  quiet,  restrained,  sensible 
acting,  while  its  sets  and  photography  are  perfect.  It  held  well  until  its 
villain  (Stephen  Purdee)  said  to  the  heroine  (Alice  Joyce):  "Your  brother 
(Jack  Pickford)  is  a  thief,  and  unless  you  marry  me  I'll  expose  him."  The 
hero  is  Tom  Moore. 

"ALAS,  POOR  YORICK"  (Selig),  April  21.— A  fairly  amusing  pictute 
with  a  good  situation  that  seemed  to  give  entertainment  to  the  audience. 
A  man  wno  thinks  he  is  an  actor  has  escaped  from  an  asylum,  and  a  well- 
known  manager  is  notified  by  the  authorities  that  he  may  receive  a  call.  A 
real  actor,   '"at  liberty,"   is   mistaken   for  the   crank  and  has   an  unpleasant 


quarter  of  an  hour,  but  is  given  a  meal  ticket.  Thomas  Santschi  plays  the 
crank,  and  Wheeler  Oakman  the  actor,  and  both  do  well.  The  author 
and  producer  is  Colin  Campbell.     The  photography  is  fair. 

"CANTON,  CHINA"  (Selig),  April  21.— A  few  views  mostly  of  a  popu- 
lous canal.     The  photography  is  not  very  clear. 

"HULDA  OF  HOLLAND"  (Edison),  April  21.— Perhaps  this  picture 
was  suggested  by  the  old  story  of  the  boy  who  put  his  finger  in  the  leaking 
dyke  and  saved  the  city.  The  great  trouble  with  it  is  the  artificiality  of  its 
backgrounds,  which  give  no  suggestion  of  Holland.  It  has  some  fresh- 
ness. Its  heroine  (Laura  Sawyer)  is  charming  in  this  role.  The  author 
is  Charles  Menges,  and  the  producer  is  L.  S.  Dawley. 

"MIXED  IDENTITIES"  (Vitagraph),  April  21.— A  little  farce  that 
tickled  the  audience;  there  was  a  good  deal  of  laughter.  The  Nash  twins 
have  just  graduated  as  stenographers  and  get  jobs  in  different  offices. 
Their  employers  are  friends,  and  much  fun  is  got  from  this  situation  by 
working  up  the  possible  misunderstandings.  It  is  naturally  acted  by  W. 
Humphrey  and  Wallie  Van,  the  employers,  and  others.  W.  Humphrey 
produced  it  from  the  script  of  Eliza  G.  Harral.     The  photography  is  good. 

"GALA  DAY  PARADE,  YOKOHAMA"  (Vitagraph),  April  21.— On  the 
same  reel  with  the  above  are  these  street  scenes  in  Yokohama  on  what 
seems  to  be  the  great  advertising  holiday.  Many  carts  pass,  mostly  with 
some  make  of  beer.     The  photography  is  poor. 

"BACK  TO  PRIMITIVE"  (Lubin),  April  21.— An  old  style  picture 
melodrama  with  its  hero  an  Indian  chief;  a  college  graduate,  and  its 
villainess,  a  white  woman,  hired  to  inveigle  him  into  signing  away  to 
some  capitalists  a  valuable  water  power  right.  The  white  woman  falls 
"back  to  primitive"  and  wants  to  marry  the  Indian,  but  he  is  wise  enough 
to  send  her  back  to  her  people.  Joseph  Holland  plays  the  chief;  Irene 
Hunt,  the  woman;  Clara  Von  Schiller,  a  squaw.  H.  F.  McDonald,  James 
King  and  B.  A.  Nevius  also  have  roles.  The  photography  is  clear  enough, 
but  lacks  quality. 

"ALKALI  IKE'S  HOMECOMING"  (Essanay),  April  19.— The  very 
popular  comedian  comes  back  with  one  of  his  delightful  old-time  cowboy 
pictures,  and  it  clearly  pleased  the  audience.  We  found  it  enjoyable 
and  dare  predict  that  it  will  be  the  most  popular  of  today's  releases.  The 
author  who  thought  up  this  picture  to  fit  Augustus  Carney's  homecoming 
to  his  old  friends,  the  old  crowd,  deserves  credit.  The  photography  is 
clear. 

"THE  PRIDE  OF  INNOCENCE"  (Patheplay).  April  19.— The  photog- 
raphy of  this  picture  is  of  excellent  quality;  there  is  none  of  today's  regular 
releases  that  equals  it.  The  story  is  artificial,  but  will  interest.  It  was 
watched  closely  by  the  audience  here.  The  acting  in  part  is  very  good, 
but  all  of  it  is  intelligent  and  fairly  acceptable.  The  staging  of  the  story 
is  perfect  and  it  is   full  of  interesting  scenes  and  pretty  sets. 

"THE  FIRE-FIGHTING  ZOUAVES"  (Kalem),  April  19.— A  war  pic- 
ture that  will  surely  win  favor  with  the  public.  It  has  the  Kalem  fighting 
scenes,  that  are  popular,  and  as  a  point  of  special  interest  it  deals  with 
the  famous  Zouave  regiment,  recruited  from  the  fire  laddies  of  the  Bowery 
in  New  York  City.  These  Irish  laddies  behaved  so  well  in  battles  of  the 
war  that  the  remnant  of  them  form  the  most  popular  section  of  every 
G.  A.  R.  parade.  The  regiment,  as  shown  in  the  picture,  is  at  first 
looked  down  on,  but  has  a  chance  to  show  its  mettle  in  a  fine  scene,  and 
at  the  climax  it  helps  its  captain  rescue  the  fair  heroine  from  her  home, 
set  on  fire  by  shells  of  the  enemy.  The  photography  is  clear.  The  picture 
is  full  of  action,  and  the  acting  acceptable.  Guy  Coombs  and  Marguerite 
Courtot  have  the  romantic  leads,  ably  assisted  by  H.  Millard  and  H.  Hallem. 

"A  MISUNDERSTOOD  BOY"  (Biograph),  April  19.— A  good,  inter- 
esting picture  with  clearly  drawn  characters  and  a  well-developed  story 
which,  in  itself,  offers  nothing  note  wort  hy.  Circumstantial  evidence  plays 
a  big  part  in  too  many  pictures  to  affect  us  deeply  any  more.  Of  course 
this  is  true  only  for  those  who  have  seen  pictures  for  a  long  while.  The 
speed  with  which  this  picture  is  carried  to  its  climax,  and  the  acting  of 
most  of  its  characters  makes  it  a  very  fair  offering.  The  photography  is 
clear  enough. 

"THE  TWELFTH  JUROR"  (Edison),  April  19.— The  twelfth  juror  is 
the  man  who  really  had  committed  the  murder,  and  is  played  by  B.  F. 
Wilson,  who  is  also  the  author  of  the  story.  It  is  not  a  very  original 
story,  but  gives  a  good  chance  of  doing  strong  dramatic  work,  and  in  this 
case  has  an  effective  ending.  Yet  the  early  scenes,  while  done  well,  are 
not  of  really  great  interest.  The  acting  is  fair.  Laura  Sawyer  plays  her 
role — the  romantic  lead — finely.  Jack  Conway  and  Robert  Grey,  as  the 
two  rivals,  show  intelligence.  The  setting  is  in  the  orange  country,  and 
the  photography  is  clear. 

"SEEING   DOUBLE"    (Vitagraph).    April    10.— -There    were    one    or   two 
hearty  laughs  during  this  farce  in   which  Bunny's   wife    (Rose  Tapley)   gets 
the   two   Nash   girls   to   make   her    "hubby"    think    he   is   seeing    do 
so   frightens   him   into   reforming.      It   was  written  by  Mrs.   Breuil  and  pro- 
duced by  Wilfred  North. 

"A  FLORIDA  ROMANCE"  (Lubin),  April  10.— A  picture  set  in  Florida 
orange  land  and  with  an  interior  or  two  in  "the  city."  It  is  well  acted 
in  part,  but  doesn't  strongly  convince  as  romance.  The  story  is  well 
v  ritten    on    a   strictly    conventional    plot    by   George    Nicholls   and   produced 


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by  him.  It  makes  a  passable  offering.  The  leads  fall  to  Ormi  Hawley 
and  Edwin  Carewe,  supported  by  John  Ince  and  Irving  White.  The 
photography  is  clear. 

"JEAN  AND  HER  FAMILY"  (Vitagraph),  April  19.— On  the  same 
reel  we  find  this  very  acceptable  picture  of  Jean,  the  Vitagraph  collie,  and 
six  puppies. 

"THE  MAX  FROM  THE  WEST"  (Edison),  April  18.— Good  drama. 
There  are  several  notable  situations,  the  one  at  the  end  being  the  strongest. 
In    this  scene   are   Augustus   Phillips,    William    West   and    Mabel   Trunnelle. 

"PLAYING  WITH  FIRE"  (Vitagraph),  April  18.— The  best  of  the  day. 
It  is  the  story  of  a  coquette,  whose  affection  for  her  husband  was  dimin- 
ished by  his  amiability  and  unwavering  concern  for  her  welfare.  The 
flirtatious  woman  was  encouraged  by  a  former  suitor,  who  had  never  really 
ceased  his  attentions.  Dorothy  Kelly  is  the  woman,  and  she  does  splendid 
work.  Harry  Morey  is  the  indulgent  husband,  whose  patience  finally  is 
exhausted;  he  gets  out  of  his  role  all  there  is  in  it.  Harry  Northrup  is 
the  trouble-maker.  It  is  a  difficult  part,  and  an  unpopular  one,  but  Mr. 
Northrup  gives  a  strong  portrayal.  The  climax  stirs  the  heart  and  thrills. 
A  splendid  release.  Mrs.  Breuil  is  the  author.  Bert  Angeles  is  the 
director. 

"THE  BRAVEST  GIRL  IN  CALIFORNIA"  (Kalemt.  April  18.— 
Rather  slight  comedy,  in  which  Messrs.  Brennan  and  Neilan  and  Ruth 
Roland  take   part. 

"THE  MILLIONAIRES'  PLAYGROUND"  (Kalem),  April  iS.— On  the 
same  reel  as  the  foregoing  are  scenes  of  Palm  Beach,  Fla.,  showing  how 
the  winter  colony  enjoys  itself.  4     m 

"BABY'S  NEW  PIN"  (Lubin),  April  18.  —  A  burlesque  which  will 
amuse  some. 

"BEATING  MOTHER  TO  IT"  (Lubin),  April  18.— On  the  same  .reel  is 
this  good  comedy.  It  did  seem  as  if  the  fun  might  have  been  extended 
by  having  the  self-substituted  chauffeur,  accompanied  by  his  bride,  drive 
thje  major  and  the  widow  to  the  minister's  and  stand  up  with  them  E.  W. 
Sargent  wrote  the  script. 

"SLEUTHING"  (Vitagraph),  April  17.— The  second  of  the  "Belinda" 
series,  produced  by  Bert  Angeles  from  the  script  of  Mrs.  Breuil.  It  brings 
out  very  clearly  the  imitative  faculty  of  Norma  Talmadge,  who  has  the  role 
of  the  slavey,  Belinda,  and  whose  work  in  this  picture  furnishes  most  of 
the  fun.  There  was  no  hearty  laughter,  and  for  the  most  part  it  was 
watched  silently  by  an  East  Side  10-cent  audience.  Florence  Radinoff  is 
the  boarding  house  keeper;  Wally  Van,  the  star  boarder;  Kate  Price,  the 
ccok;   Mr.  Dowling,  the  tall  man,   and  Hughie  Mack,  the  cop. 

"A  FRIGHTFUL  BLUNDER"  (Biograph),  April  17.— The  situation  in 
this  picture  surely  is  nothing  new,  but  because  it  has  been  carefully  devel- 
oped and  kept  speedy  by  flash  scenes  it  makes  a  good  offering.  A  druggist 
puts  up  carbolic  acid  instead  of  boric  acid,  but  it  is  discovered  in  time  to 
avert  in  a  dramatic  way  the  catastrophe.     The  photography  is   fair. 

'WHAT  IS  SAUCE  FOR  THE  GOOSE"  (Melies).  April  1 ;.— A  farce- 
comedy  that  has  a  number  of  fresh  and  amusing  twists  and  that  brought 
out  a  good  deal  of  laughter.  It  would  have  been  even  better  if  it  had 
been  conducted  more  naturally,  and  not  so  conventionally.  One  or  two 
of  its  scenes  are  a  trifle  vulgar.  Most  of  it  was  taken  on  ship,  but  it  hao 
a  few  scenes  in  Tahiti.     The  photography  is  clear  enough  to  tell  the  story. 

"A  TAHITIAN  FISH  DRIVE"  (Melies),  April  17.— A  very  interesting 
and  well-ohotographed  picture  of  islanders.  We  see  them  driving  the  fish 
in.  but  we  see  no  fish  speared,  and  we  don't  even  know  whether  there 
were  any  fish  there  or  not.     The  fishermen  had  a  day's  sport,  if  no  catch. 

"THE  CAPTURE"  (Essanay),  April  16. — A  farce  that  made  only  two 
good  laughs — not  a  big  showing  for  a  thousand  feet,  of  film.  Lack  of 
freshness  is  its  chief  difficulty;  it  makes  u=.e  of  many  old  treadmill  inci* 
that  have  been  used  and  used.  Billy  Mason.  Ruth  Hennessy  and 
John  Steppling  play  the  leading  roles,  with  the  help  of  Dolores  Cassennili, 
Joseph   Allen  and  others  of  the    Essanay   stock.     The  photography   is   good. 

"DINIFLAND"  (Selig),  April  16. — A  piciure  illustrating  the  words  of 
the  South's  famous  song.  It  has  not  "oeen  made  dramatic,  but  carries  a 
thread  of  pleasing  sentiment  that  holds  the  attention.  It  might  have  been 
cone  better,  for  it  shows  little  real  atmosphere  of  the  South  and  the  scenes 
seem  bare — the  whole  might  have  been  made  in  the  studio  and  in  a  back 
yard  or  two  in  Chicago,  with  the  one  exception  of  the  view  of  the  old 
Mississippi  steamboat  at  its  mooring.  The  acting  is  only  fair,  the  photog- 
raphy is  not  always  clear,  and  the  action  is  not  at  all  times  convincing. 
It  was  produced  by  H.  Kirkland  from  the  script  of  G.  Willets.  William 
Stowell  plays  "Will  de  weaver,"  and  Winnifred  Greenwood  plays  "Belle." 
Miss  Johnston  plays  Will's  wife,  who  dies  when  she  finds  that  he  is  "a 
gay  deceiver."  Jack  Nelson  plays  her  brother,  who  in  the  end  marries 
Belle. 

"THE  ITALIAN  BRIDE"  (Patheplay).  April  16.— This  offering  is  per- 
haps the  freshest  of  today's  releases  (we  haven't  seen  the  Eclipse  yet), 
but  there  is  very  little  in  it  that  has  "not  been  used  a  number  of  times 
already.  The  situation  is  not  at  all  fresh,  but  it  has  been  freshly  handled. 
It  is  the  same  old  triangle  found  in  these  I  tali  an- American  pictures,  of 
which  we  have  had  plenty,  but  Paul  Panzer  and  others  play  it  pretty  well, 
and  the  photography  is  fair.     It  has  a  pleasant  ending. 

"SEVEN  YEARS  BAD  LUCK"  (Edison),  April  16.— This  offering 
pictures  a  series  of  comical  incidents  following  the  breaking  of  a  mirror. 
They  are  not  convincing,  and  stand  each  by  itself.  Only  the  rough  ones 
of  the  ill  luck  part  made  any  laughter,  and  then  only  from  isolated  parts 
of  the  audience,  while,  if  the  truth  must  he  told,  isolated  expressions  of 
contempt  were  heard  from  the  more  fastidious  spectators.  When  the  luck 
turns  the  picture  becomes  more  entertaining.  ■  The  producer  might  have 
treated   the   story   in   a  more  consistent  way.      The    photography   is   clear. 

"A  PLOT  FOR  A  MILLION"  (Kalem).  April  16. — The  story  of  this 
picture  has  been  illustrated  a  number  of  times,  and  no  longer  has  edge. 
\"et  it  has  been  worked  up  as  effectively  as  possible  and  may  be  com- 
mended as  a  fair  offering.  The  backgrounds  are  the  New  York  office  of  a 
rich   broker,  and  Florida,   where  he  has  his  yacht.      The   broker'-   son   loves 


a  tug  captain's  daughter,  who  is  not  acceptable  to  the  broker,  but  when 
Plotters  manipulating  stocks,  try  to  keep  the  broker  from  communicating 
with  his  office,  the  girl  plays  an  important  part  in  saving  the  situation. 
James  Vincent  and  Irene  Boyle  play  the  leads;  H.  Hallam,  the  broker, 
and  H.  Millard,  the  villain,  his  secretary.  J.  B.  Ross  plays  a  pilot,  bribed 
tc  run  the  broker's  yacht  on  shore.  The  photography  is  clear  enough, 
but  not  up  to  Kalem  standard. 

"AFTER  THE  HONEYMOON"  (Vitagraph),  April  16.— A  farce-comedy 
by  the  Western  company  that  amused  a  part  of  the  audience.  It  is  com- 
mendably  acted,  but  lacks  the  freshness  to  capture  an  audience  that  has 
seen  many  pictures.  R.  T.  Thornby  and  Mary  Charleson  play  the  leads. 
Miss  O'Connor  plays  a  typical  shrewd  landlady,  with  Florence  Weil  as  a 
good  slavey.  The  photography  is  clear.  R.  S.  Sturgeon  produced  it  from 
W".  H.   Durham's  script. 

"THE  UNKNOWN"  (Essanay),  April  17.— A  picture  that  can  be  com- 
mended as  exceptional  rather  than  for  its  artistic  merits.  The  situation 
is  one  not  often  used  in  pictures,  and  at  first  is  kept  in  part  from  us,  but 
as  it  develops,  more  and  more  light  is  thrown  on  it,  till  it  stands  wholly 
revealed.  Ruth  Stonchouse  plays  a  maid  in  a  house  of  which  E.  H.  Cal- 
vert is  the  master  and  Dolores  Cassinnelli  the  mistress,  the  former  being 
imich  older  than  his  wife.  Ruth's  mother  (Helen  Dunbar)  comes  to  visit 
her.  and  she  and  Calvert  come  face  to  face.  They  recognize  each  other, 
and  the  spectator  guesses  what  each  knows,  and  at  the  end  it  is  stated  that 
Ruth  is  Calvert's  daughte-.  Mr.  Calvert  is  not  at  his  best  in  this  role, 
which  he  has  made  a  morbidly  self-conscious  man  who  acts  as  though  he 
had  committed  some  terrible  crime;  but  perhaps  he  had;  the  story  doesn't 
go  deeply  into  what  the  circumstances  of  Ruth's  birth  were.  It  makes  a 
iair  offering. 

"THE  RIGHT  ROAD"  (Lubin),  April  17.— A  love  story,  not  wholly 
new,  but  fairly  pleasing.  It  is  set  in  a  mining  country  and  was  produced 
by  F.  J.  -Grandon  from  a  script  of  W.  C.  Clifton.  Edgar  Jones  and  Clara 
Williams  play  the  romantic  leads,  ably  supported  by  Franklyn  Hall,  as  the 
villain,  and  C.   Burton  and  Emma  Bell,  as  her  parents. 

"THE  TIE  OF  THE  BLOOD"  (Selig),  April  17.— An  interesting  pic- 
ture of  Indians.  It  tells  a  melodramatic  love  story  and  deals  with  life  at 
Carlisle  College.  It  interests  chiefly  because  it  shows  the  life  of  these 
Indians  just  as  though  they  were  white  men,  and  so  makes  it  seem  as 
though  we  were  getting  more  from  it  than  we  really  are.  The  players 
ere  very  natural  redmen;  they  seem  to  be  real  Indians,  especially  Harold 
Lockwood  and  Amy  Trask,  who  play  the  romantic  leads.  A.  E.  Garcia 
plays  the  villain.     H.  Otto  and  A.  W.  Filson  play  two  chiefs  most  naturally. 

"A  FUGITIVE  AT  BAY"  (Cines).  April  16.— A  two  reel  special  offer- 
ing that  has  a  good  deal  to  commend  it  among  the  other  releases  of  the 
day;  yet  it  was  guyed  during  the  first  reel.  The  exhibitor  stopped  us  as 
wc  were  entering  ihe  theater  to  tell  us  that  it  was  not  worth  reviewing. 
The  only  trouble  with  it  is  that  the  story  is  very  old  style  and  ultra- 
remantic.  It  is  acceptably  acted,  perfectly  staged  in  unusually  interesting 
backgrounds,  and  is  well  photographed.  It  has  a  moment  of  hreat bless 
thrill  at  the  end,  when  the  hero  voluntarily  throws  him-elf  over  a  cliff 
near  the  foot  of  which  we  stand — wc  see  the  dummy  fall  all  the  way.  The 
done  to  suve  the  heroine.     We  ourselves  enjoyed  it. 

-GLIMPSES  OF  THE  NATIONAL  CAPITAL"  (Patheplay).  April  17.— 
The  photography  of  this  picture  seems  to  us  better  than  usual.  We  dare 
call  it  the  best  views  of  Washington  that  we  have  ^een.  It  surely  is  a  very 
pretty  picture. 

"THE  SPONGE  INDUSTRY  IN  CUBA"  (Patheplay),  April  17.— 
Though  we  have  seen  other  pictures  of  this  industry,  there  will  be  a  large 
number  of  spectators  who  will  be  thankful  for  it,  we  feel  sure.  It  is 
clearly  photographed. 

"THAT  MAIL  ORDER  SUIT"  (Selig),  April  iS.— A  ranchman,  inspired 
by  pictures,  buys  a  dress  suit  and  wears  it.  He  makes  no  hit  at  all.  When 
it  is  discarded  a  Mexican  gets  it,  and  trouble  with  it.  There  is  some 
laughter  at   the   conclusion,   when   two   men   take   turns  kicking   each   other. 

"CURED  OF  HER  LOVE"  (Selig),  April  iS.— On  the  same  reel  is  this 
story  of  a. girl  in  love  with  the  family  chauffeur.  Her  infatuation  is  dis- 
"  sipated  when  she  sees  her  lover  misbehave  at  a  dinner  party.  The  laugh- 
ter seemed  to  come  from  those  of  the  chauffeur's  sort. 

"THE  CROSSING  POLICEMAN"  (E-sanay).  April  iS.— A  good  dra- 
matic story  with  strong  heart  interest.  It  seemed  strange,  though,  that  a 
policeman  could  he  dismissed  from  the  force  for  leaving  his  beat  to  visit 
a  sick,  crippled  little  girl  friend  without  summoning  as  witnesses  at  his 
trial  the  doctor  and  the  mother  of  the  child.  Frank  Dayton,  Helen  Dunbar 
and  little   Eleanor  Kahn   have  the  principal  parts. 


Independent 

"IX  A  STRANGE  LWD"  (Powers),  April  30. — A  human  story,  with- 
out very  Tiuch  plot  to  it,  but  following  so  closely  to  real  life  that  it  makes 
quite  an  appeal  to  the  observer.  We  see  the  young  Italian  father  arrive 
with  his  daughter  in  this  country,  and  later  after  he  has  obtained  work,  the 
child  is  lost,  but  only  temporarily.     Well  pictured  and  entertaining. 

'NEIGHBORS"  (Powers),  May  2. — With  cne  exception  the  scenes  in 
this  comprise  a  bright,  attractive  comedy,  showing  the  love  story  of  a  boy 
and  girl  whose  parents  have  quarreled.  The  musical  flirtation  was  nicely 
handled.  The  rip  in  the  young  man's  trousers  was  a  coarse  touch,  entirely 
out  of  keeping  with  the  rest  of  the  story,  and  could  be  cut  out  to  great 
advantage.     Otherwise  this  is  a  decidedly  attractive  comedy  film. 

:TIIE  DAUGHTER  OF  THE  SHEEP  RANCH"  (Fronrier)i  April  :.».— 
The  photography  in  this  offering  is  very  good,  but  the  Western  story  is 
rather  conventional.  The  murderer  employs  the  old  device  of  placing  the 
hero's  pistol  near  the  dead  man,  in  order  to  have  the  blame  thrown  upon 
him,  but  in  the  end  the  truth  comes  out.  The  glimpses  of  the  great  flocks 
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-THE    OLD    MAID'S    LAST    ATTEMPT"    (Frontier),    April    26.— This 

of  how   the  old   maid   goes   west  to   marry   her  correspondent   with   a 

matrimonial    turn,    is    well    enough   acted,    but   lacks    freshness.      The    theme 

has  been   used   so  frequently  that  it   is  hard  to  get  up  much  interest   in  it. 

The  photography  is  good. 

"LONELINESS  AND  LOVE"  (Victor),  April  25.— An  excellent  little 
film  story  is  this,  showing  the  friendship  of  the  neglected  little  girl  for  the 
servant.  Tillie.  The  animal  views  in  the  Bronx  Zoo  will  please  childish 
observers,  and  the  later  scenes,  where  the  parents  awaken  to  their  lack  of 
irterest  in  the  girl,  bring  a  mist  to  the  eyes  of  observers.  Edith  Haldeman 
and  Gert.-ude  Robinson  have  the  leading  roles  in  this  offering,  which  was 
produced  by  James  Kirkwood.     A  desirable  release. 

"THE  LAST  ROLL  CALL"  (Bison),  April  29.— This  two-reel  offering 
tells  a  grim  war  story,  which  lacks  romance,  but  undoubtedly  adheres 
closer  to  the  actual  conditions  than  the  average  film  of  this  character. 
Sergeant  Hale,  being  denied  the  privilege  of  going  to  the  bedside  of  his 
dying  wife,  deserts  after  a  strenuous  battle  has  been  fought.  He  hides 
in  the  chimney  of  his  home  while  a  search  is  being  made  for  him.  When 
he  comes  down  his  wife  is  dead.  Twenty  years  later  he  returns,  to  find 
his  daughter  grown  up  and  ready  to  marry.  No  one  knows  him  but  the 
old  negro  mammy,  whom  he  swears  to  secrecy.  At  the  last  he  dies  in  a 
coughing  fit.  A  pathetic  story,  giving  an  unvarnished  view  of  warfare  as 
it   was  in   the  early   '60s. 

"THE  MAX  FROM  THE  CITY"  (Excelsior),  April  21.— This  story 
gets  a  conventional  start,  but  later  becomes  more  interesting.  It  concerns 
a  girl  about  to  become  an  heiress  by  a  change  in  her  uncle's  will.  She  is 
taken  and  held  by  her  rascally  cousin  and  his  wife,  but  rescued  after  an 
exciting  automobile  chase.  The  latter  part  of  the  story  is  stronger  than 
tb(    beginning. 

"NOT  FOR  MINE"  (Majestic).  April  22.— Paul  Scardon  and  Miss 
Crall  picture  for  us  an  engaged  couple.  The  girl  is  invited  into  the 
country,  where  three  mischievous  children  show  her  very  plainly  that 
married  life  is  not  "all  beer  and  skittles.'*  She  refuses  to  marry,  but 
repents  just  in  time  to  save  her  fiance  from  suicide.     A  fairly  amusing  film. 

"THE  BAWLEROUT"  (Reliance),  April  30.— A  strong  three-reel  film 
story  by  Forrest  Halsey.  It  contains  a  large  number  of  well-defined  char* 
ac:ers,  including  a  bank  president  who  also  conducts  a  loan  shark  business 
on  the  side.  The  "bawlerout"  is  a  girl  employed  as  collector,  the  part 
being  well  played  by  Edgena  de  Lcspine.  Other  members  in  the  large 
cast  are  Irving  Cummings,  Muriel  Ostriche,  Sue  Balfour  and  E.  P.  Sulli- 
van. The  story  is  rather  involved  and  the  interest  of  the  observer  jumps 
from  one  plot  thread  to  another,  which  renders  the  situations  somewhat 
confusing  at  times.  But  it  has  a  good,  live  theme  and  gives  an  insight 
into  loan  shark  manipulations,  as  well  as  showing  the  danger  of  getting 
into  the  clutches  of  such  men.  There  are  two  love  stories  running  through 
the   film. 

"THE  HOODOO  PEARLS"  (Reliance),  April  23.— A  girl  leaves  a 
string  of  pearls  in  an  office  ledger.  One  of  the  clerks  hides  the  pearls  in 
order  to  embarrass  his  rival,  but  is  glad  to  return  them  after  the  misfor- 
tunes which  follow  this  action.     Well  pictured,  but  rather  slight  in  plot. 

"OLD  MAMMY'S  CHARGE"'  1  Majestic).  April  27.— This  picture  shows 
us  a  Southern  man  casting  off  his  daughter  because  she  marries  a  Yankee. 
They  elope,  and  a  year  later  their  child  is  born.  The  scenes  showing  the 
accidental  death  of  the  father  were  very  jerky  and  badly  timed.  Later 
the  mother  dies,  and  the  three-year-old  child  goes  to  a  negro  mammy.  The 
closing  scenes,  where  the  grandfather  comes  to  the  court  and  claims  the 
child,  are  full  of  strong  human  interest  and  bring  up  the  average  of  the 
film  very  much. 

"THE  SURVEYORS"  (Excelsior),  April  28.— A  reel  in  which  Southern 
darkies  are  employed  to  represent  African  tribes  in  native  garb.  One 
tribe  attacks  the  headquarters  of  the  white  people,  and  the  hero  makes  up 
as  a  native  to  bring  the  other  tribe  to  their  aid.  The  attack  on  the  cabin 
was  exciting,  and  the  reel  is  quite  a  "thriller"  in  its  way.  The  photography 
is  good. 

"A  DARKTOWX  BELLE"  (Keystone),  May  S.— A  half  reel,  showing 
Fred  Mace  as  a  negro  barber.  He  has  many  rows  with  the  dusky  wooers 
who  come  to  see  his  flirtatious  intended.     Xot  especially  interesting. 

"A  LITTLE  HERO"  (Keystone),  May  8.— A  novelty,  showing  Mabel 
XWmand  and  her  three  pets — a  cat,  a  dog  and  a  bird.  The  cat  makes 
many  efforts  to  catch  the  bird,  and  the  dog  gets  three  others  and  gives 
the  cat  a  run.  It  is  unique  and.  though  a  little  rough  on  the  cat,  will  pass 
muster.      On   same   reel   with   above. 

"MABEL'S  AWFUL  MISTAKE"  (Keystone),  May  12.— In  the  first 
J.art  of  this  reel  Mabel  comes  very  near  marrying  a  man  who  already  has 
a  wife  and  numerous  children.  Mack  saves  her  just  in  time,  but  the 
would-be  bigamist  plans  a  terrible  revenge  and  places  her  on  a  planing 
u.b!e  in  a  sawmill,  near  the  revolving  saw.  Mack,  by  brute  force,  holds 
back  the  entire  machinery  till  help  arrives.  The  latter  part  of  this  reel 
makes   very   good  burlesque. 

'"THE  WAY  OF  THE  MOTHER"  (Broncho),  May  7.— This  is  a  very 
strong  anJ  convincing  two-reel  offering,  giving  us  the  story  of  a  mother 
who  was  parted  from  her  baby  in  its  infancy.  The  boy  fell  into  the  hands 
of  Indians  and  became  known  as  Running  Elk,  the  chief's  son.  His 
mcther  married  the  colonel  at  the  fort,  and  twenty  years  later  she  learns 
that  Running  Elk  is  her  son.  The  lapse  of  time  is  not  well  shown  here 
in  some  of  the  characters,  particularly  the  mother.  After  a  stirring  engage- 
ment iii  battle.  Running  Elk  claims  his  mother,  who  dies  in  his  arms 
and  is  given  an  Indian  burial.  Good  photography  and  altogether  a  desir- 
able release. 

"AX  AMERICAN  IX  THE  MAKING"  (Thanhouser),  April  22.— This 
film,  as  announced  at  the  beginning,  was  gotten  up  to  aid  the  work  of  the 
Xational  Social  Betterment  Association.  It  shows  a  young  Italian  immi- 
grant arriving  in  this  country.  His  brother  meets  him  at  the  Ellis  Island 
dock,  and  the  later  scenes  show  him  at  the  model  factory  city — Gary,  Ind. 
The  picture  then  shows  many  devices  used  to  protect  workmen,  such  as 
goggles    to    protect    the   eyes   in   the    steel   works,    guards   attached    to    saws. 


belts,  etc.  Six  years  !atcr  he  is  seen  happily  married,  with  a  ?on  going 
tc  a  model  school.  Such  a  film  as  this  makes  an  interesting  novelty  and 
distributes    valur.ble    information    concerning    industrial    matters. 

"FOR  AXOTHER'S  SIX"  (Thanhouser),  April  25.— A  two-reel  story, 
notable  for  the  strength  of  its  acting.  The  story  is  rather  obvious,  but 
nevertheless  it  grips  the  observer  and  holds  his  attention  closely  through- 
out. Harry  Ben  ham  gives  a  very  commendable  characterization  of  the 
embezzling  bank  clerk  who  serves  ten  years  and  then  appeals  to  the  bank 
for  re-employment.  .  The  scene  between  him  and  the  president  was  par- 
ticularly effective.  Later  he  assumes  the  blame  for  another  man's  crime 
because  the  man  had  befriended  him  when  others  shunned  him.  The  scenes 
in  this  move  in  a  leisurely,  well-ordered  way  and  give  the  story  a  chance 
to  sink  into  the  mind  of  the  observer.     A  good  offering. 

"A  SOUTHERX  CIXD^RELLA"  (Kay-Bee).  April  16.— The  Cinderella 
situation  is  here  brought  into  the  midst  of  warfare.  The  colonel's  daugh- 
ter finds  herself  suddenly  possessed  of  a  supercilious  stepmother  and  step- 
sister, who  force  her  to  live  in  the  servants'  quarters.  The  Union  officer 
discovers  her,  however,  and  falls  in  love  with  her,  much  to  the  disgust 
of  the  stepmother  and  daughter.  The  idea,  which  is  nicely  entertaining, 
rather  than  powerful,  extends  over  three  reels.  The  plot  is  interspersed 
with  war  scenes  handled  in  typical  Kay-Bee  fashion.  An  interesting  mix- 
ture of  war  and  polite  drama. 

"THE  LAW  OF  TILE  WILD"  (Eclair).  April  27.— This  shows  us  the 
American  Eclair  company  at  its  best  in  a  one-reel  story  of  the  Xorthwest. 
Johnson,  Truesdale  and  Barbara  Tennant  work  out  an  interesting  series 
of  dramatic  situations.  There  are  some  splendid  scenic  effects  and  the 
close  is  very  effective.     A  good   offering. 

"FORGETFUL  FLOSSIE"  (Crystal),  April  27.— Flossie  has  a  very 
short  memory.  She  forgets  everything,  gets  coats  and  hats  mixed  up, 
leaves  ber  lover  in  the  street  to  go  auto  riding  with  another,  and  finally 
forgets  she  is  engaged.     An  amusing  idea  in  this. 

;'A  JOKE  ON  THE  SHERIFF"  (Crystal),  April  27.— The  sheriff's 
prisoner  bests  him  at  cards  and  then  wins  his  lady  friend  away  from  him. 
This  is  an  interesting  comedy  offering  and,  with  the  above,  makes  a  very 
presentable   reel. 

"THE  INGRATE"  (Xestor),  May  2.— A  consistent  him,  in  which  a  man 
befriended  by  a  girl  tries  to  rob  her  brother  of  his  gold.  The  desert 
scenes  are  strong,  and  the  ingrate  comes  to  his  bad  end  in  accordance  with 
the  laws  of  justice.     The  photography  is  good. 

"THE  CUB"  (Imp),  April  28. — A  brisk,  modern  newspaper  story,  written 
and  produced  by  Harold  Shaw.  The  dictagraph  is  employed,  and  there 
are  some  good  dramatic  moments  of  a  plausible  character.  The  title  of 
"The  Cub"  was  not  well  chosen,  however,  as  the  reporter-hero  was  really 
a  veteran  at  his  job.     A  good  offering. 

"AXIMATED  WEEKLY  Xo.  38"  (Universal).  April  16.— President 
Woodrow  Wilson  is  seen  in  this,  opening  the  baseball  season  in  Washing- 
ton. Other  baseball  pictures  are  shown,  also  views  of  the  Jamestown 
races,  Cardinal  Farley  laying  a  cornerstone,  an  interesting  strawberry  farm 
near  Beaumont,  Texas,  etc.  The  Kaiser  reviewing  troops,  and  King  George 
of   England  appear  in  this  again,  and  are  not  especially   new. 

"THE  SQUASHVILLE  LADIES'  FIRE  BRIGADE"  (Xestor),  May 
12. — This  makes  a  fairly  good  burlesque,  though  there  is  not  quite  enough 
action  to  stir  up  the  laughs.  The  ladies  pose  as  firemen,  but  take  so  much 
time  to  dress  that  the  fire  is  out  before  they  make  their  appearance  on 
the   scene.     The  latter   part  of  the   film  is  very  entertaining. 

"THE  CLEAX-UP"  (Nestor).  May  21. — A  Western  offering  similar  in 
some  respects  to  a  picture  produced  some  time  ago.  in  which  the  villain 
steals  the  child  in  order  to  induce  its  mother  to  follow  him.  He  locks 
her  in  the  cabin,  but  her  woman  friend  comes  to  the  rescue.  The  film  is 
strongly  melodramatic. 

"HER  HERO'S  PREDICAMEXT"  (Xestorl,  May  iq.— There  is  an 
extremely  funny  situation  in  this,  where  Eddie  is  pushed  into  the  ballroom 
minus  his  trousers,  which  his  girl  is  mending  for  him.  He  then  flees 
from  room  to  room  and  out  upon  the  street  to  his  home.  Not  every  per- 
former could  have  taken  this  part  without  jarring  the  sensibilities,  but  it 
passes  very  well  as  played  by  Eddie.     A   laughing  success. 

"THAT  RAGTIME  BAND"  (Keystone),  May  1.— This  pictures  the 
doings  of  Prof.  Smeltz  and  his  German  band,  Mabel  being  in  love  with 
one  of  the  members.  The  vaudeville  acts  contain  coarse  touches,  which 
are  unfortunate,  and  the  "rough-house"  ending  will  not  appeal  to  a  refined 
audience. 

"THE  NEW  CONDUCTOR"  (Keystone"),  April  28— Schnitzel  creates 
considerable  amusement  by  his  antics  as  a  street  car  conductor.  The 
spotter  catches  him  and  the  motbrman  dividing  up  the  day's  receipts.  An 
amusing  half  reel. 

"HIS  CHUM,  THE  BAROX"  (Keystone),  April  28.— This,  on  same 
reel  with  above,  is  not  so  good".  The  garb  in  which  the  French  count 
appears  after  the  dress  suit  is  taken  from  him  makes  a  poor  impression  on 
the  observer,  and  the  picture  will  scarcely   pass  for  good  comedy. 

"THE  CHILDREX'S  COXSFIRACY"  (Thanhouser\  April  20.  —  In 
this  the  Thanhouser  Kid  and  a  small  boy  friend  fix  up  the  new  teacher's 
bankbook,  making  the  village  miser  think  she  is  well  off.  He  marries  her, 
and  their  old  teacher  is  re-employed.  This  plot  is  an  amusing  one,  but 
the  scheme  was  one  that  children  would  not  have  devised. 

"THE  GREATER  LOVE"  (Xestor).  April  30.—  The  "make-up"  char- 
acter of  the  situations  in  this  rob  it  of  suspense.  The  rounding  up  of 
Black  Jack  and  his  sang.  «vho  arc  trying  to  abduct  the  heiress  for  ransom. 
gives  a  very  conventional  s-rtting.  and  the  attack  on  the  cabin  was  not  very 
convincing.  Some  of  the  scenic  effects  and  riding  in  the  open  were 
attractively  shown. 

"TOLD  IX  COXFIUEXCE"  (Great  Northern),  April  26.— A  story  of 
gossiping  women,  showing  how  a  story  will  magnify  in  retelling.  It  will 
i:ake   some    fun. 

"THE  SHE  WOLF"  (Reliance).  April  19.— This  is  a  good  story  of  the 
woods,    wherein    Jules    sets    a    spring    steel    trap    for    a    bear,    but,    instead. 


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catches  the  man  who  is  trying  to  lure  away  his  wife.  The  woman's  pur- 
suit of  the  man  running  through  the  woods  with  her  child  was  well  done, 
and  the  climax  very  effective.     A  strong  story  of  its  type. 

"UNCLE  TOM'S  CABIN"  I  '■■■.■  I  -A  special  three-part  feature  offer- 
ing. This  picture  gets  value  I  ibject  and  will  make  a  strong  appeal. 
Even  a  full  set  of  drawings  illustrating  the  pathetic  story  of  Uncle  Tom 
would  be  acceptable,  and  this  is  very  much  better.  Its  character  drawing 
is  fine.  Uncle  Tom  is  a  most  worthy  darkey;  little  Eva  is  sure  to  win 
every  heart;  Simon  Legree  is  Simon  Pure  villain  with  a  heart  as  black  as 
the  blackest  slave  he  ever  lashed  until  the  victim  died.  There  is  marked 
Southern  atmosphere  in  the  home  of  the  St.  Clairs  and  in  the  steamboat 
scene.  There  are  some  small  weaknesses,  and  the  escape  across  the  ice  is 
too  artificial.  On  the  stage,  dim  light  makes  it  effective,  while  for  a  photo- 
graph strong  light  is  needed.  Yet  it  might  have  been  taken  in  a  snow- 
which  would  have  k.-pt  us  from  seeing  how  it  was  made.  Producer 
Otis  Turner  deserves  credit  for  what  is,  on  the  whole,  an  artistic  picture. 
The   photography   is  clear. 

"BEAUTY  AXD  THE  BEAST''  (Powers). — A  three-part  special  release 
for-  children,  produced  by  H.  C.  Mathews.  This  will  be,  if  it  is  rightly 
exhibited,  a  fine  offering  for  young  folks  and  will  interest  their  elders,  too. 
For  a  fairy  story  it  has  an  ideal  setting  in  the  scenes  of  California,  which 
add  greatly  to  its  value,  and  they  are  beautifully  photographed.  The  story 
is  told  at  length,  and  the  sole  criticism  we  can  make  is  that  some  of  it 
will  be  over  the  heads  of  all  but  exceptionally  bright  children.  If  the 
exhibitor  has  someone  to  tell  the  story  as  the  picture  is  unrolled  it  will  be 
perfect. 

"THE  WAYWARD  SISTER"  (Rex),  April  25.— A  story  that  distantly 
resembles  Jekyll  and  Hyde,  in  that  it  has  two  characters,  sisters,  who  look 
so  much  alike  that  the  fiance  of  the  innocent  one  is  deceived  into  thinking 
the  wayward  sister  the  one  to  whom  he  has  plighted  his  troth.  She  leads 
him  down  to  the  "dregs."  It  is  not  an  offering  that  could  be  made  con- 
vincing, and  it  has  no  -character  with  whom  it  is  possible  to  sympathize. 
Yet  it  surely  has  scenes  and '  situations  that  hold  strongly  because  of 
acting  mostly.  Margarita  Fisher  plays  both  sisters  in  a  perfect  double 
exposure  scene  at  the  climax.  Bob  Leonard  plays  the  man.  The  producer 
is  Otis  Turner. 

"WHEN  FATHER  WAS  KIDNAPPED"  (Nestor),  April  28.— A  comedy 
that  has  not  a  great  deal  of  real  freshness,  but  gives  fair  entertainment, 
because  it  is  acted  with  a  feeling  for  character  by  a  large  cast,  all  of  whom 
seem  to  be  people  of  ability.  The  backgrounds  are  well  photographed  and 
ar<  often  either  full  of  interest  or  of  beauty.  The  whole  is  unconvincing, 
but  is  done  in  a  light-hearted  way — the  players  had  a  good  time  together, 
and  it  goes  toward  making  us  all  have  a  good  time.  Al.  Christie  is  the 
producer. 


HOPPER  TAKES  TO  VAUDEVILLE. 

E.  Mason  Hopper,  known  in  practically  every  city  in  the 
United  States  as  "Lightning  Hopper,"  the  cartoonist  and 
comedy  producer  for  the  Essanay  Film  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany, has  severed  his  connections  with  the  above  mentioned 
firm  and  will  tour  the  United  Vaudeville  Circuit  in  a  sketch 
entitled  "Making  the  Movies."  Mr.  Hopper  has  produced 
such  notable  and  clever  comedies  as  "Alkali  Ike  in  Jayville," 
"Bolind  to  Occur,"  "Bill"  and  "The  Capture."  His  success 
as  a  producer  has  been  a  phenomenal  one.  Those  who  know 
Hopper  are  sorry  to  see  him  leave  the  Essanay,  but  are  sure 
he  will  achieve  success  on  the  stage. 


GLADYS  FIELD. 

.Miss  Gladys  Field,  once  leading  woman  for  G.  M.  Anderson, 
went  into  retirement  a  couple  of  years  ago,  owing  to  a  pro- 
longed illness,  and  it  is  only  lately  that  she  has  resumed  film 
work.  When  the  Mackley  section  of  the  Essanay  company 
went  to  Los  Angeles  to  work,  Miss  Field  assumed  the  lead- 
ing parts.  She  will  presently  be  seen  in  a  number  of  Essa- 
nays,  and  later  may  be  seen  under  another  trade  mark. 


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Trelles,  4 — Charles   L.   Montague,   5 — Juan   Sereano,   diplomatists. 


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THE  EDUCATIONAL  PICTURE. 

By  the  Rev.  E.  Boudinot  Stockton,  S.  T.  B. 
It  Fills  a  Need. 

THE   following  letter  from   Mr.   Oliver   Kohrlein,   of  the 
San  Jose  Theater,  San  Jose,  Cal.,  one  of  the  Turner  and 
Dahnken  circuit,  which   is  said  to  be  the  largest  chain 
of  theaters  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  is  not  given  because  we  wish 
to  blow  our  own  trumpet,  but  because  it  shows  the  need  for 
just  the  kind  of  work  we  are  doing  and  because  we  believe 
that  other  exhibitors  will  send  in  their  criticisms,  experiences, 
suggestions  and  needs,  now  that  one  of  them  has  led  the  way. 
After  admiring  your  work  in  our  trade  journal  and  hearing  from 
our  great   booster,   E.   W.    Sargent,   your   enthusiastic   praises   sung, 
and  also  from  Dr.  Miller,  whom   I  might  call  a  local  coworker,  I 
feel  that  I  want  to  know  you  and  impose  on  your  good  will  by  re- 
ferring  to   you   when    I  need   assistance.      The    need    of   an    intelli- 
gent catalog  has  struck  me  so  strongly  and  so  often  that  I  had  un- 
dertaken  just   such   a   task.     The   results,    however,    were   so   imper- 
fect  that  "I   rec-ived   with  joy   the   news  of  some  competent  person 
taking    it    up    with    an    object,    for    then    I    knew    that    it    would   be 
done  conscientiously.     Our  present  catalogs  are  done  by  office  boys 
T  am  sure.     San  Jose  is  beginning  to  realize  the  possibilities  in  the 
films   and   there   is   very   good   response   lately.;    The   Sunday-school 
association    is   now   considering   ways   of   opening   a    show    of   their 
own,  which  is  a  splendid  indication.     As  for  your  catalog,   I  would 
.   be  very  glad  to  hear  under  what  conditions  it  is  available.    Allow 
me  to  express  my  appreciation  of  your  good  work  in  The   Moving 
Picture   World   and   to  thank   you   for  all   I  have  already  derived 
from  your  section. 

The  Dr.  Miller  referred  to  is  the  Reverend  George  A. 
Miller.  D.  D.,  pastor  of  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
of  San  Jose.  We  have  written  Mr.  Kohrlein  that  we  shall 
be  very  glad  to  answer  all  inquiries  we  can,  provided  a  self- 
addressed  and  stamped  envelope  is  enclosed  for  the  reply, 
and  by  this  time  he  ought  to  have  received  our  letter  thank- 
ing him  for  his  appreciation  of  our  efforts.  What  we  said 
to  him  we  say  to  all,  even  at  the  risk  of  having  everybody 
speak  at  once. 

Health  Pictures  Wanted. 

Mr.  Harry  E.  Downer,  the  head  resident  of  the  Friendly 
House,  1228  West  Third  Street,  Davenport,  Iowa,  has  sent  a 
long  letter  in  regard  to  the  work  of  Friendly  House  and  its 
aspirations,  work  and  needs.  In  particular  he  wishes  a  list 
of  pictures  on  health  subjects  to  accompany  a  series  of  lec- 
tures by  the  local  medical  association.  We  spent  half  a  day 
hunting  through  our  catalogue  of  releases  since  January  1st, 
191 1,  but  were  unable  to  find  a  dozen  all  told  and  those  were 
all  of  them  on  topics  of  public  hygiene.  So  far  as  we  know 
there  is  nothing  at  all  on  the  subject  of  personal  hygiene, 
such  as  food,  drink,  clothing,  care  of  the  body,  homes,  work, 
rest,  recreation,  sleep,  the  needs  of  the  nervous  system,  time 
of  life.  etc.  There  are  a  number  of  releases  treating  of  the 
abuse  of  alcohol  and  other  drugs  and  several  on  the  institu- 
tional care  of  children,  but  the  first  have  no  value  from  a 
hygienic  viewpoint  and  the  latter  belong  to  public  hygiene 
and  domestic  economy  rather  than  to  personal  health.  We 
give  below  an  extract  from  Mr.  Downer's  letter  because  it 
shows  the  kind  of  work  for  which  these  and  similar  pictures 
are  needed. 

Friendly  House  is  a  social  settlement  equipped  with  a  plant  for 
motion  picture  projection.  The  residents  and  the  trustees  believe 
strongly  in  the  educative  power  of  motion  pictures.  Each  Satur- 
day since  January  1st  children  have  been  shown,  pictures  without 
admission  charge.  The  attendance  now  totals  27,875.  It  has  been 
expensive,  the  evening  receipts,  when  admission  is  charged,  reach- 
ing about  one  half  of  the  cost  of  projection.  The  pictures  shown 
have  been  as  nearly  educational  in  tone  as  Manager  Eisner  of 
the  Chicago  branch  of  the  General^  Film  Company  could  furnish. 
We  expect  to  count  upon  the  special  kindness  of  thoughtful  peo- 
ple to  continue  the  pictures  until  the  call  of  the  outdoors  becomes 
so  insistent  as  to  rob  us  of  the  children.  This  week  the  Typo- 
graphical Union  sent  in  a  check  to  cover  the  deficit  for  a  pair  of 
weeks.  Now  the  local  medical  association  wish  to  inaugurate  a  ser- 
ies of  health  talks  for  older  school  children  and  their  parents, 
the  lectures  to  be  merely  running  comment  on  3  four-reel  pro- 
gram. We  will  gladly  co-operate  with  them  and  I  promised  the 
committee  to  secure  from  motion  picture  people  any  information  as 
to  the  source  and  volume  of  any  material  of  that  sort. 

Loan  Collections. 
In  another  part  of  his  letter,  Mr.  Downer  suggests  the  es- 
tablishment of  "loan  collections  of  educational  films  for  the 
use  of  such  institutions"  as  Friendly  House.    We  do  not  alto- 


gether like  his  scheme  because  we  believe  that  much  better 
results  are  always  obtained  by  the  man  or  institution  that 
has  to  stand  on  his  own  ground  and  fight  his  own  way.  It  is 
quite  ...-ue  that  the  Russell  Sage  Foundation,  the  Anti-Tuber- 
culosis Societies,  other  associations  and  occasionally  some  of 
the  manufacturers  have  and  do  leni  pictures  for  special  dem- 
onstrations and  exhibitions,  but  this  is  a  very  different  thing 
from  supplying  them  for  the  carrying  on  of  the  ordinary 
work  of  an  institution.  As  a  matter  of  experiment  and  to 
introduce  the  picture  to  a  community  we  heartily  endorse 
the  loaning  of  the  pictures,  but  Friendly  House  has  already 
made  its  experiment  and  Mr.  Downer's  account  proves  its 
success  for  the  work  they  -want  to  do.  We  have  lived  in 
Davenport  and  unless  the  place  has  changed  very  much  in 
the  last  few  years  a  determined  effort  will  bring  forth  more 
than  enough  voluntary  subscriptions  from  the  community 
itself  to  fiance  the  work  Mr.  Downer  wishes  to  accomplish. 
Releases  for  March  30  to  April  5. 
This  week  we  include  the  feature  and  State  rights  releases 
for  the  month  of  March.  The  abbreviation  "Adv."  stands 
for  "advertisement." 

GENERAL  TOPICS. 

Newspapers. 

Animated    Weekly.      Universal   2.      (16:202.) 
Gacmont  Weekly.     Gaumont  2.      (16:206.) 
Mutual  Weekly.     Mutual  2.     (n  - 
Pathe's  Weekly.     Pathe  31.      (16:80.) 

•    RELIGION. 

The  Elder  Brother.  Edison  31.  (15:1352;  16:164.)  Good  for  sermons 
on  St.  John  15:13,  and  Romans  12:10;  also  illustrates  brotherly  love 
and  the  practise   of  Christian  devotion  and  self-sacrifice. 

By  Design  of  Heaven.  Gaumont  zx.  feature.  (15  =  1366;  1222;  sp.  'rev. 
15:1227.)      Devotion  to  the  Blessed  Virgin.  > 

The  Price  of  Gold.  Ecsanay  z.  (15:1356;  16:279.)  Good  for  sermons  on 
the  meaning  of  marriage  and  the  choice  ©f  a  partner  in  life. 

SOCIOLOGY. 

Modern  Progress  in   Somaliland,  East  Africa.     Cines   5.     (16:196;   280.) 
A    Change   of   Administration.      Selig   5.      (2r;    16:80;    280.)      Deals   with 

the  political  patronage  evil. 
Our  Coast  Defenders.     Vitagraph  3.     (15:1354;   16:279.) 
A   Day  at   Tuskegee.      Anderson  Watkins    3r   feature.    (Adv.    15:1022.) 

Manners  and  Customs. 

New  York  Public  Markets.     Kalem  4.      (15:1356;   16:280.) 

Madame    du    Barry.       Eclectic    feature.      (sp.    rev.    15:980.)      Court    life    in 

France  in  the  reign  of  Louis  XV. 
A  Royal  Visit  to  Ireland.     Kinemacolor.      (16:90.) 
The    Suffragette    Pageant    and    Tableaux.       Colonial    Film    Co.    feature. 

(Adv.   15:1391.)  • 

SCIENCE. 
Meteorological  Phenomena. 

Ohio  and  Indiana  Floods.     Selig  1.     (Adv.  16:131.) 

"Ohio  Floods.     Essanay  1.     (Adv.    16:131.) 

Dayton,  Ohio.  E^.ood  Disaster.     Lubin  2.     (Adv.   16:131;  com.   16:279.) 

The  Omaha,  Nebraska,  T_>rn\do.      Essanay   1.      (Adv.   16:131.) 

APPLIED  SCIENCE. 

The  Circulation  of  the  Blood.     Itala  sp.     (Adv.  15:856.) 

The  Story  of  the  Orange.     Kinemacolor.     (16:92.) 

How  Plaster  is  Obtained.     Pathe   1.     (13:1358;   16:165.) 

FINE  ARTS. 

Architecture. 

Chinese  Temples.     Selig  2.     (n.s.p. ;  16:2-0.1 

An   Excursion   to  the  Grand  Chartreuse.    France.      Pathe  4.      (15:1358; 

16:280.) 

Amusements. 
Winter  Sports  in  Norway.     Mutual  educational  3.     (15:1364.) 
The   Moros.      Pathe    1.      (15:1358:    16:165.)      Acrobats. 
Tobogganing  in  Switzerland.     Kinemacolor.     (16:92.) 
Hunting  Rig  Game  in  the  Arctic.     Northern  Ventures  4r  feature.     (Adv. 

15:1021.) 

LITERATURE. 

English. 

Hiawatha.  Indian  Players  4r  feature.  Photodramatization  of  Longfel- 
low's poem  of  same  name. 

Mystery  of  Boscombe  Valley.  Union  feature  zr.  (15:932.1  Photodrama- 
tization of  Conan  Doyle's  "Boscombe  Valley  Mystery"  in  his  "Adven- 
tures of   Sherlock  Holmes." 

The  Copper  Beeches.  Union  feature  2r.  (15:934.)  Photodramatization  of 
story  of  same  title  in  Conan  Doyle's  "Adventures  of  Sherlock  Holmes." 

The  Musgrave  Ritual.  Union  feature  2r.  (15:1020.)  Photodramatiza- 
tion of  story  of  same  title  in  Conan  Doyle's  "Adventures  of  Sherlock 
Holmes." 


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THE    MOVING    PICTURE   WORLD 


The  Stolen   Tapers.    Union  feature  rr.  uatizatiort  of 

story  in  Conan  Doyle's  "Adventures  of  Sherlock  Holmes." 

French. 

The  Bishop's  Candlesticks.  Imp  2X  3.  (Com.  16:49*)  From  the  inci- 
dent in  Victor  Hugo's  "Les   Miserabh 

Tits  Wandering  Jew.  Rom?-  American  jr  feature.  Photodramatization  of 
Eugene    Sue's   novel  of  same   title. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

Rivers. 
The  River  Wanganui.     Melics  3.     (15:1356:  16:279.) 

European  Countries, 
ider  Manners  and  Customs,   Architecture  and  Amusements. 

Asiatic   Countries, 
under   Architecture. 

African  Countries. 

Cairo,   Egypt,   and   its   Environs.      Pathe   2.      (15:1358;  .16:279.) 
See  al-o  under  Sociology. 

The  United  States. 

See   under    Sociology,    Manners   and    Customs    and    Meteorological    The- 

New  Zealand. 


nomena. 
See  above  under  Rivers. 

Arctic  Regions. 

See  under  Amusements. 

Antarctic   Regions. 
Captain  Scott's  South  Pole  Expedition.     South  Pole   Expedition  Co.  fea- 
ture.    (Adv.   15:811.) 

BIOGRAPHY. 

Madame  Sarah   Bernhardt  at  Home.     AH  Star  2r.      (Sp.   rev.   15:467.) 
Life  of    Dante.      Ambrosio  3r.      (Sp.    rev.    15:1202.) 
The  German  Kaiser.  Wilhelm   II.     True   Features.      (Adv.   15:1367.) 
President  Wilson's  Inauguration.     Warner's  feature.      (Adv.    15:1043.) 


THE  TIMELY  USE  OF  PROPER  PICTURES. 
By  Rev.  W.  H.  Jackson. 

Appropriateness  in  picture  exhibiting  is  one  of  the  essen- 
tials of  success.  In  these  times  when  the  feature  films  and 
educational  subjects  are  in  the  ascendant,  it  is  to  the  best 
interests  not  only  of  the  exhibitor,  but  of  all  parties,  to  see 
that  a  wise  choice,  and  timely  adjustment,  is  shown  in  the 
make-up  of  programs.  That  this  is  appreciated  is  evidenced 
by  inquiries  which  are  occasionally  made  for  help  along  these 
lines,  yet  it  is  to  be  feared  that  this  appreciation  is  not  suf- 
ficiently widespread.  From  time  to  time  the  educator  makes 
suggestions  as  to  what  class  of  pictures  are  most  imme- 
diately suitable,  a  too  frequent  use  of  these  suggestions  would 
soon  become  "vain  repetitions,"  therefore  a  timely  word  is  re- 
sorted to,  with  the  sole  object  of  helping  along  the  best 
principles  which  will  best  serve   the   purpose  in  view. 

A  good  feature  film  would  seem  to  be  acceptable  at  any 
time,  and  industrial  subjects  are  always  appropriate;  but  an 
indiscriminating  run  of  educationals  might  result  in  some 
exhibitions  as  untimely  as  snow  in  summer. 

Along  historical  lines,  and  patriotic  occasions  and  adver- 
saries, there  is  both  the  need  and  the  supply  for  particularly 
interesting  programs.  We  are  in  close  proximity  to  two 
important  dates  and  occasions:  Decoration  Day  and  Inde- 
pendence Day;  without  taking  up  space  here  there  will  be 
fcfund,  by  reference  to  the  published  lists,  ample  choice  for 
subjects  of  more  than  simple  suitability,  but  of  entrancing 
interest.  A  consultation  with  the  Grand  Army  posts  will 
secure  in  each  town  a  support  and  interest  which  would  re- 
dound to  the  credit  and  profit  of  all.  In  like  manner  con- 
stant consultation  with  the  various  authorities,  such  as  the 
boards  of  health  and  school  boards,  with  the  printed  list  in 
hand,  would  result  in  an  encouraging  co-operation.  The 
spring  of  the  year  and  summer  time,  are  each  respectively 
met  with  pictures  in  the  natural  history  series  which  will  in- 
spire the  young  people  by  the  tens  of  thousands. 

The  old  and  long  taught  truth,  that  "prevention  is  bettet 
than  cure,"  was  never  more  thoroughly  illustrated  than  it  is 
today  by  the  moving  picture.  The  sociological  and  hygienic 
li>ts  contain  subjects  which  are  riot,  as  supposed  by  some, 
as  of  a  dry  and  difficult  scientific  nature;  they  are  of  lively 
common  everyday  interest,  thrilling  the  most  unlearned  with 
information  that  they  have  been  proved  to  devour  with  a 
keen  appetite.  The.  cleanliness  of  homes,  schools,  working 
places,  and  even  certain  forms  of  personal  care,  are  vividly 
portrayed  with  an  interest  which  makes  such  pictures  wel- 
come  even   at  ''a   show." 

The  wide  choice  of  scenics  and  travel  pictures  is  such  that 
they  afford  opportunity  for  a  careful  selection,  suitable  to 
the  times  and  seasons,  so  that  the  "stay  at  homes"  and  locally 
"shut  ins"  may  journey  abroad  with  a  proportionate  profit  to 
that  experienced  by  the  tourist. 

While  we  have  said  that  industrials  are  always  welcome, 
even  here  there  is  room  and  opportunity  for  educational  dis- 


crimination. Agriculture  and  other  industries  have  their 
peculiar  seasons,  and  these  may  be  very  properly  arranged 
to  cause  ^the  public  to  see  that  they  are  designed  to  attract 
them  in  a  way  that  will  at  the  same  time  please,  interest, 
and  instruct.  To  the  high-minded  exhibitor  a  satisfying  pro- 
gram is  the  best  advertisement.  The  flaming  poster  i~  first 
alluring,  then  disappointing,  then  ignored.  The  truthfully 
announced  program  is  first  tried,  proves  surprising,  grows 
with  reflection,  leaves  a  pleasant  impression,  gives  help  with 
pleasure,  and  magnet-like  attracts  again  thus  proving  the 
best  advertisement,  besides  winning  the  support  and  co-op- 
eration of  the  best  people,  and  they  come  again,  and  again, 
because  it  pays  them  in  pleasure,  and  the  growth  of  a  profit- 
able knowledge  acquired  without  effort. 

The  exhibitor  who  thus  studies  the  timely  use  of  proper 
pictures,  will  find  that  he  is  filling  a  valuable  place  wherever 
his  house  may  be,  and  helping  forward  that  which  he  himself 
most  desires  to  obtain,  while  giving  the  same  to  his  patrons. 

Keep  Up  the  Demand. 

An  exhibitor  writing  to  this  paper,  and  whose  letter  ap- 
peared in  the  last  issue,  commends  "the  good  work  in  striv- 
ing to  elevate  the  moving  picture  business,"  which  has  ever 
been  the  aim  of  the  Moving  Picture  World  and  Educator. 
He  also  further  adds  "keep  up  your  fight  for  more  educa- 
tionals." This  last  exhortation  is  worth  special  notice.  The 
fight  for  educationals  is  an  old  one,  long  and  close,  but  we 
do  not  hesitate  to  declare  that  it  now  seems  as  though  "The 
fight  is  o'er,  the  battle  done." 

And  now  the  victory  is  won!  The  educational  picture  is 
the  most  established  fact  in  the  world  of  moving  pictures; 
from  now  on  it  will  not  need  to  be  the  cry  "more  educa- 
tionals" for  they  are  nearly  legion,  but  rather  more  demand 
for  the  use  of  them,  and  a  greater  and  wider  circulation. 
Less  than  three  years  ago  this  class  of  picture  was  a  rarity, 
and  little  called  for;  it  is  now  in  excess  of  the  demand.  It 
is  gratifying  to  have  letters  like  the  one  referred  to,  not  only 
because  it  shows  how  intelligent  exhibitors  like  the  correspon- 
dent are  increasing,  but  because  of  the  fact  that  there  is  a 
growing  demand  pressing  itself  upon  the  exhibitors  from  their 
patrons. 

To  encourage  this  demand,  is  now  more  necessary  than  to 
ask  for  more  pictures;  more  than  three  thousand  educational 
pictures  are  now  listed,  and  the  educator  knows  of  hundreds 
more  of  which  even  the  titles  have  not  yet  seen  the  light  of 
day;  an  increase  in  the  demand  will  bring  them  from  their 
resting  places.  Another  important  fact  worthy  of  special 
mention  is  that  the  supply  is  being  given  more  attention  than 
any  other  class  of  picture  as  there  are  those  at  the  helm 
of  the  production  of  educational  subjects,  who  are  quietly 
working  along  lines  indicative  of  the  belief  that  there  is 
going  to  be  a  sudden  and  wide-spread  use  of  the  moving  pic- 
ture, along  these  lines  that  will  require  an  immediate  re- 
sponse; keep  up  the  demand  for  their  use  as  fast  as  the-y  are 
produced. 


BUILDING    BRIDGES    OR    ROBBING    BANKS? 

At  a  meeting  of  certain  educationally  inclined  people  (so 
far  as  moving  pictures  are  concerned),  a  prominent  city 
worker  told  how  one  interested  in  the  association  of  the 
young  people  and  the  pictures  made  it  his  object  to  inquire 
among  them  for  the  purpose  of  obtaining  their  views  and 
predilections.  The  most  interesting  experience  was  that  of 
a  bright  schoolboy  who  at  an  ordinary  exhibition,  had  just 
seen  an  industrial  subject  describing  the  building  of  bridges. 
Anxious  to  know  the  way  in  which  such  pictures  were  re- 
ceived, the  boy  was  asked  how  he  liked  them?  "I  would 
rather  see  pictures  of  building  bridges  than  of  robbing 
bands,"   was   the   extraordinary   reply. 

An  analysis  of  this  strong  answer  is  full  of  important  in- 
terest. In  the  first  place  it  shows  the  way  in  which  educa- 
tional pictures  are  received,  also  that  the  average  or  repre- 
sentative youth  is  not  seeking  the  sensational  or  lurid  un- 
satisfying picture.  It  further  revealed  the  discriminating 
ideas  of  right  minded  people,  the  criminal  picture  needs  no 
censorship  by  the  authorities  when  it  is  repellant  to  the 
young  patrons;  these  makers  who  supposed  that  pictures  on 
the  order  of  "yellow  journalism"  were  needed,  met  with 
a  severe  rebuke  at  the  mouth  of  this  schoolboy;  even  if  they 
do  occasionally  happen  to  satisfy  a  certain  class,  they  are 
only  responding  to  a  degenerate  appetite  which  it  is  a  pleas- 
ure to  find  is  not  common  with  the  average  American  youth. 
Tlu  boy's  preference  is  a  splendid  advertisement  for  the 
educational  picture,  and  this  is  by  no  means  the  first  time 
that  there  have  come  in  reports  as  to  the  welcome  accorded 
the  industrial  picture. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


4'J3 


NEW  SERIES  OF  LUX  PICTURES. 

We  understand  that  among  the  summer  visitors  that  we 
may  expect  to  see  pretty  soon  will  be  the  widely  known  and 
popular  Mr.  R.  Prieur.  the  American  agent  of  the  Lux  films. 
His  American  representative,  Mr.  Paul  Hernoud,  says  that 
he  will  be  in  this  country  shortly  to  arrange  for  a  wider 
distribution  of  the  greatly  improved  output  of  the  Lux  fac- 
tories. Like  some  other  manufacturers,. the  Lux  people  have 
been  specializing  on  animal  pictures,  and  some  of  their 
releases  in  the  near  future  will  be  as  realistic  and  thrilling 
as  could  be  desired.  The  Lux  studios  are  among  the  largest 
in  Paris.  They  have  heretofore  largely  produced  short 
comics,  but  recently  turned  their  attention  to  dramatic  sub- 
jects. "Pursued  by  a  Lioness,"  "Face  to  Face  With  a  Leop- 
ard," "The  ,  Man  Eater''  and  "The  Leopard  Avenger"  are 
titles  ot  some  of  their  recent  productions  that  have  met  with 
exceptional  success  all  over  the  world.     Instead  of  a  comedy 


"BILL,"    (Essanay). 

"Smiling  Hilly"  Mason  is  the  whole  show  and  then   some 
in   this  picture.      His  acting  as    Bill,   the   idiotic   office   boy,   is 

something  that  will  captivate  the  audience  upon  his  entrance. 
Rarely  rave  we  seen  Mason  to  better  advantage.  His  work 
as  termed  by  the  Essanay  publicity  department,  is  "superla- 
tive and  aristocratic.  Following  1-  a  short  synopsis:  John 
Steppling  borrows  three  thousand  dollars  from  his  father-in- 
law  to  pay  his  debts.  He  promises  his  wife  never  to  speculate 
again.  That  afternoon.  John  Wallace,  a  broker,  call-  on  Mr. 
Steppling  and  gives  the  latter  a  good  "tip"  in  corn.  Bill,  the 
semi-responsible  office  boy,  absorbs  the  conversation  and 
comes  to  the  conclusion .  Through  persistent  persua- 
sion Steppling  falls  a  martyr  to  his  old  ways,  and  i-  induced 
to  return  home  and  gel  the  money  he  had  locked  in  the  desk 
that  morning.  Tl  is  he  gives  to  Bill  with  instructions  to 
deliver   immediately   to    Wallace.      Instead    of   delivering    the 


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subject  for  every  weekly  release,  the  American  offices  at 
10  East  15th  Street,  New  York  City,  will,  for  the  future 
months  at  least,  release  one  of  these  animal  pictures  every 
other  week,  and  their  well-known  comedy  subjects  will  be 
continued  on  the  alternate  weeks. 

Mr.  Prieur  has  several  agencies  on  the  Continent,  but  his 
London  office  is  the  one  that  is  taking  most  of  his  time  at 
present.  Beside  representing  the  Lux  films  in  Great  Britain. 
Mr.  Prieur  is  the  agent  for  the  Nestor  Film  Company  and 
the  Powers  picture  plavs  and  three  or  four  other  European 
brands.  His  London  office  is  in  the  center  of  the  film  dis- 
trict of  the  British  metropolis  and  now  does  a  larger  busi- 
ness than  any  of  his  other  offices.  He  has  been  one  of  the 
largest  advertisers  in  the  British  trade  papers  and  he  is  now- 
one  of  the  largest  distributors  of  films  in  England.  With 
his  various  offices  in  every  country,  his  duties  have  been 
such  that  his  American  friends  have  seen  much  less  of  him 
for  the  past  two  years  than  formerly.  His  success  has  been 
achieved  through  his  boundless  capacity  for  hard,  constant 
work  and  his  tenacity  of  purpose. 


THE  ESSANAY  WESTERN. 

FV>r  this  roster  of  the  Essanay  players  now  at  Niles,  Cal., 
we  are  indebted  to  Charles  R.  Holmes:  G.  M.  Anderson,  Miss 
Bessie  Sankey,  William  H.  Todd,  Mrs.  Todd,  Arthur  Mackley. 
Mrs.  Mackley,  Miss  Evelyn  Selbie,  Brinsley  Shaw,  Frederick 
Church,  Miss  Edna  Sharp.  True  Boardman,  Miss  Virginia 
Ames,  Gus  Carney,  Miss  Margaret  Joslin.  Victor  A.  Potel, 
Mrs.  J.  J.  Robbins,  Jay  Hanna,  Baby  Audrey  Hanna,  Mrs. 
Hanna,  David  Kirkland,  Patrick  Rooney.  George  Briggs, 
Jesse  J.  Robbins,  cameraman;  Col.  Elder,  properties. 


Scene  from  "Bill"  (Essanay). 

message  post-haste,  Bill  loiters  on  the  way  and  proves  himself 

a   good    Samaritan    to   several   who   are   in    trouble.      First    he 

furnishes    a    postage    stamp    to    a   charming   young    lady, 

had   forgotten   her   stamp   hook.      Second,   he   a-si-ts   a   young 

errand   hoy   by  giving  him    1   handle  by  which   he  could   c 

a    heavy    package.      And    so    on    until    he    reaches    Wallace's 

office  after  the  newspapers  had  notified   the  world  that 

had  fallen  to  a  desperately  low  price.     Steppling  buys  a  paper 

and  discovers  that  he  is  again  bankrupt.     Mrs.  Steppling  then 

finds  that  the  money  hai  ared   from  the  desk,  rus 


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to  her  husband's  office,  where  she  tells  him  what  she  thinks 
of  his  ungentlemanly  procedure.  Bill  enters  at  this  untimely 
moment  and  is  kicked  bodily  out  of  the  office.  With  the  de- 
termination of  Napoleon  he  again  enters  and  hands  his  em- 
ployer the  undelivered  message.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Steppling  are 
overjoyed  at  the  return  i  f  the  money,  and  reward  Bill  with 
-a  crisp  bill  for  his  tardiness.  This  production  is  booked  for 
release  Wednesday,  April  30th. 


SELIG  PICTURES  HOYT'S  "A  MIDNIGHT  BELL." 

Something  of  a  sensation  was  created  when  the  Selig  Poly- 
scope Company  announced  it  had  secured  the  moving  picture 
rights  for  the  entire  series  ot  farce  comedies  from  the  pen 
of  the  late  Charles  Hoyt,  who  in  his  generation  stood  on  a 
par  in  popularity  with  that  which  at  present  obtains  for 
George  Cohan  as  a  maker  of  entertainments.  The  first  play 
of  the  series  to  be  released  will  be  "A  Midnight  Bell,"  which 
makes  its  premiere  on  May  5th.  The  importance  of  this  play 
chronologically  in  this  list  is  that  it  represents  the  highest 
ambition  of  the  author  in  play  making,  a5  it  incorporates 
many  of  the  devices  of  the  traditional  drama.  It  is  particu- 
larly strong  in  character  type  and  deals  with  the  life  of  a 
New  England  village  in  winter,  when  the  amusement  season 
reaches  it-  height  in  the  church  social. 


Scene  from  Selig's  Adaption  of  Hoyt's  "A  Midnight  Bell.' 


In  the  fads  and  fancies  of  the  bucolic  community  the 
•dramatist  found  much  material  for  congenial  characterization, 
but  he  did  even  more  in  arranging  a  thrilling  situation,  in- 
volving the  hero,  discrediting  him  in  the  eyes  of  the  heroine 
and  setting  the  whole  community  by  the  ears.  How  the 
wrong  man  jealous  of  the  right  one  takes  the  funds  from  the 
bank  and  hides  them  in  the  cushion  of  the  old  church  pew  and 
then  pursues  the  beauty  of  the  village  with  his  unwelcome 
attention  while  the  good  young  man  is  made  to  hide  his  head 
in  a  cloud  of  false  accusation.  How  the  clever  detective  from 
the  city  suspects  him  in  spite  of  his  cleverness,  how  the 
hard  cider  drinking  deacon  gets  caught  in  a  bear  trap  when 
he  goes  to  oil  the  old  church  bell  and  then  witnesses  the  ac- 
tions of  the  guilty  man  that  lifts  the  imputation  from  the  in- 
nocent one,  are  all  features  of  this  interesting  story  in 
pictures. 


R.  L.  FRANK  IN  MINNEAPOLIS. 
Roy  L.  Frank  has  taken  charge  of  the  Minneapolis  office 
of  the  Sedig  Feature  Film  Company  at  555  Temple  Court. 
This  office  is  purchasing  all  Sedig,  Solax,  Itala  and  Gaumont 
features  for  Minnesota,  North  Dakota,  South  Dakota,  Mon- 
tana and  the  north  of  Michigan.  Mr.  Frank  has  been  in  the 
exchange  and  manufacturing  business  for  the  past  nine  years, 
but  this  is  his  first  attempt  at  the  feature  end  of  the  game. 
His  experience  and  knowledge  of  the  field  should  spell 
success. 


GLORIA  FILMS  COMING. 

It  is  announced  that  "Gloria"  films  will  have  a  representa- 
tive in  the  United  States.  Gloria  films  will  be  produced  by 
Mario  Caserini,  for  nine  years  with  the  Cines  Company  at 
Rome,  and  later  with  the  Ambrosio  at  Turin.  With  him  will 
be  associated  Domenico  Cazzulino,  who  is  well  known  in  the 
trade.  A  new  studio  is  being  built  at  Turin.  Two,  three  and 
four-reel  productions  will  be  made. 


RICHARDSON'S  "DOPE"  GOOD  FOR  "INDIGESTION." 

Philip  Haywood,  of  Haywood  &  Co.,  has  opened  the 
"Queen"  moving  picture  theater  in  Cincinnati,  O.  The  new 
house  is  situated  in  McMillan  Street.  Although  Mr.  Hay- 
wood has  been' in  the  picture  business  for  many  years,  he  ad- 
mits that  he  does  not  know  all  there  is  to  be  known  about 
projection  and  its  allied  branches  and  says  -that  he  finds 
much  efficacious  "dope"  in  F.  H.  Richardson's  handbooks 
and  _  "Projection  Department,"  which  is  good  for  "indiges- 
tion" of  the  projection  end  of  the  business. 


IN  CORRECTION. 


In  a  recent  criticism  in  Comments  on  the  Film,  attention 
was  called  to  the  fact  that  "Memories  of  His  Youth,"  a  Lubin 
production,  of  which  Clara  S.  Beranger  was  the  author,  was 
very  like  one  of  F.  Hopkinson  Smith's  stories,  "An  Old-Fash- 
ioned Gentleman."  Not  being  gifted  with  second  sight,  the 
critic  could  not  know  that  this  story  was  accompanied  by  a 
letter  from  Mr.  Smith  granting  Mrs.  Beranger  the  privilege 
of  making  his  story  into  a  photoplay,  and  the  alert  Lubin 
press  agent  thoughtfully  refrained  from  making  use  of  this 
valuable  advertising  fact.  Mrs.  Beranger  backs  up  her  state- 
ment of  facts  by  a  letter  from  S.  McCloskey,  the  Lubin 
editor  and  the  World  is  very  glad  to  set  the  matter  straight. 
In  the  interest  of  accuracy  both  "Memories  of  His  Youth" 
and  "Art  and  Honor"  are  based  on  the  story  and  are  repro- 
duced by  permission  of  Mr.  Smith. 


UNIVERSAL  COMPANY  ENTERS  OBJECTION. 

In  our  issue  of  April  19,  our  Los  Angeles  correspondent 
called  attention  to  a  three-reel  picture  of  the  Mexican  revo- 
lution that  was  being  shown  there  and  that  had  caused  a 
formal  protest  from  the  Mexican  consul.  It  was  stated  that 
the  picture  was  a  special  release  of  the  Universal  Company. 
We  are  advised  by  the  Universal  Company  that  the  only  pic- 
tures of  this  nature  that  they  have  released  is  their  well- 
known  two-reel  feature,  every  foot  of  which  they  guarantee. 
A  thorough  investigation  is  being  made  of  the  matter.  As 
our  correspondent  specifically  mentions  three  reels,  it  seems 
as  though  something  had  been  added  by  someone,  even  if 
two  of  the  reels  were  really  the  output  of  the  Universal 
Company. 


CLEVELAND  BACK  IN  VAUDEVILLE. 

W.  S.  Cleveland,  of  vaudeville  fame,  who  has  been  con- 
siderably before  the  public  recently  on  account  of  his  numer- 
ous lawsuits,  fighting  the  efforts  of  the  "interests"  to  prevent 
him  doing  business  as  a  booking  agent,  now  announces  his 
speedy  return  to  his  chosen  field  of  endeavor.  He  has  been 
successful  in  his  legal  battles,  and  the  last  suit  brought  by 
him  against  Kohl  &  Castle,  of  Chicago,  resulted  in  an  un- 
qualified victory  for  Geveland.  He  has  just  returned  to 
Broadway  after  a  long  distance  "marathon"  around  the  coun- 
try visiting  managers  of  theaters,  parks,  fairs,  et  cetera,  in  the 
interests  of  his  "Cleveland  Circuit"  booking  offices. 

Cleveland  claims  to  have  broken  all  records  in  the  number 
of  cities  and  towns  covered  in  a  given  length  of  time.  His 
combined  trips  totalled  thirty-nine  days.  He  traveled  over 
the  larger  part  of  twelve  States,  and  visited  all  the  larger 
towns  in  Ontario  and  Quebec,  Canada,  calling  on  managers 
of  one  or  more  places  of  amusement  in  one  hundred  and 
forty  towns,  or  on  an  average  of  a  little  more  than  three 
and  one-half  towns  per  day — some  going.  He  states  that 
he  can  verify  this  record,  and  challenges  all  comers  to  dupli- 
cate it. 


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"IN  THE  HAREM  OF  HASCHEM"   (Lubin). 

"In  the  Harem  of  Haschem"  is  a  romance  of  Arabia.  The 
story  is  thrilling  and  the  costuming  and  scenery  realistic 
and  beautiful.  The  tale  is  told  in  Bagdad  and  the  atmosphere 
of  the  Arabian  Night's  dreams  is  well  sustained.  The  touch 
of  tragedy  is  well  compensated  with  the  sequel  of  a  love 
episode. 

Maisara,  a  collector  of  revenue  for  Haschem,  the  Caliph, 
wrongs  a  widow  woman.  She  appeals  to  the  Caliph  and  he 
orders  the  Maisara  shall  repay  her  an  hundredful  and  lose  his 
place.  Vowing  vengeance  Maisara  seeks  his  kinsmen,  the 
tribal  spirit  being  an  Arabian  characteristic.  They  counsel 
with  him  and  decide  Masiara  shall  send  his  daughter,  Amina, 


Scene  from  "In  the  Harem  of  Haschem"   (Lubin). 

to  the  Caliph  as  an  ostensible  peace  offering,  but  in  reality 
that  she  may  assassinate  him.  She  falls  in  love  with  Haschem 
and  fails  to  redeem  her  promise.  Maisara  warns  her  that 
unless  she  carries  out  the  undertaking  he  will  do  so  him- 
self. It  drives  home  the  horror  of  the  deed  she  has  prom- 
ised. She  throws  the  dagger  from  her  and  this  is  taken  to 
Maisara  by  Zied,  his  cousin.  Under  pretense  of  seeing 
Amina,  Maisara  gains  entrance  to  the  harem,  where  Haschem 
is  not  closely  guarded  and  where  the  blow  can  be  struck  be- 
fore help  can  be  summoned.  Amina  is  horror  stricken  at 
his  appearance.  Her  distress  is  secretly  observed  by 
Haschem,  who  is  on  guard  against  the  treachery  and  takes 
the  dagger  from  Maisara.  On  Amina's  plea  Maisara's  life 
is  saved  and  Amina  finds  happiness  in  the  arms  of  the 
Caliph. 


A  NEW  FILM  VIEW  OF  CITYGIRL. 

In  the  films  Citygirl  is  almost  always  shown  as  a  heart- 
breaker  without  heart.  Countrygirl,  on  the  other  hand,  has 
come  into  celluloid  notice  as  a  confiding,  affectionate  crea- 
ture who  loves  as  she  is  loved.  Citygirl  heartless,  that  is — 
Countrygirl  loving.    Just  watch  the  screen! 

But  Thanhouser  upsets  some  film  traditions  in  a  story  of  a 
young  farmer  who  is  won  from  his  Countrygirl,  by  Citygirl, 
who  is  in  the  country  on  a  vacation.  In  her  griefT  Country- 
girl goes  to  victorious  Citygirl  with  her  story  of  the  sweet- 
heart lost. 

And  to  assist  the  country  girl  to  win  back  the  man,  the 
city  girl  fools  him  into  thinking  her  (the  city  girl)  a  totally 
unrefined  and  undesirable  creature,  whereupon  he  immedi- 
ately renounces  her! 

So  he  weds  the  country  girl.  This  story  of  a  city  girl's 
"heartlessness"  is  released  Friday,  May  2,  under  the  title  of 
"The  Widow's  Stratagem." 


HIAWATHA  AT  THE  BERKELEY. 

So  great  was  the  demand  for  a  projection  of  the  Hiawatha 
picture-masque  after  it  was  given  at  the  American  Museum 
of  Natural  History,  that  Mr.  F.  E.  Moore  has  taken  the 
Berkeley  Theater,  19  West  44th  Street,  New  York  City,  be- 
ginning May  3rd,  with  three  performances,  one  at  10,  the 
second  at  11:30  and  the  third  at  1:30,  all  of  these  at  special 
prices  for  school  children.  There  will  be  no  performances 
on  the  Sundays,  but  each  day,  beginning  May  5th,  regular 
performances  will  be  given  at  3  and  8:30,  and  extra  Satur- 
day performances  for  children.  At  all  performances  for 
children,  souvenirs  made  by  the  Indians  will  be  given  each 
child,  and  at  every  performance  Mr.  Pigott  will  recite  Long- 
fellow's poem. 


EDISON  STUDIO  NOTES. 

Mary  Fuller  recently  had  an  opportunity  to  show  what  she 
knows  about  "first  aid"  when  an  automobile  in  which  she  was 
riding  collided  with  a  delivery  wagon.  The  driver  of  the 
vehicle  was  injured.  Miss  Fuller  was  the  first  to  reach  his 
side  and  attended  to  him  until  the  arrival  of  an  ambulance. 

*     *     * 

William  West  denies  with  some  vehemence  that  he  is  the 
actor  of  that  name  recently  reported  dead. 

•  *     *     * 

Richard  Tucker,  a  comparatively  new  arrival  on  the  screen, 
has  made  a  tremendous  impression  by  his  excellent  work  in 
Edison  films.  He  combines  youth  and  good  looks  with  a 
convincing  manner  that  is  winning  him  a  host  of  friends. 


VITAGRAPH  STUDIO  NOTES. 

Miss  Leah  Baird  will  be  seen  shortly  in  an  interesting  love 
drama,  "A  Soul  in  Bondage,"  produced  by  the  Vitagraph 
Company.  In  addition  to  playing  the  leading  part,  Miss 
Baird  is  also  the  author  of  the  play.  Several  other  Vita- 
graph  successes  owe  their  credit  to  her  fertile  imagination. 
Among  them  are  "The  Dawning"  and  "A  Woman." 

*  *     * 

Among  the  recent  additions  to  the  menagerie  of  the  Vita- 
graph  Company  are  four  lions  and  lionesses,  and  also  some 
kangaroos.  One  of  the  latter  animals  escaped  last  Sunday 
while  a  pictureplay  was  being  enacted  on  a  farm  near  Me- 
tuchen,  N.  J.  The  animal  led  his  keepers  a  lively  chase  across 
the  fields,  over  which  he  proceeded  with  twenty-foot  leaps. 
The  men  following  him  lost  all  track  of-the  beast,  but  he  was 
finally  secured  by  some  farm  boys,  who  found  that  the  ani- 
mal had  some  way  or  other  managed  to  break  its  leg.  The 
photoplay  in  question  was  "The  Circus  Comes  to  Town." 
This  will  probably  be  released  by  the  Vitagraph  Company- 
some  time  in  June. 

*  *     * 

The  Vitagraph  motor  boat  enthusiasts  are  very  busy  just- 
now  getting  their  craft  ready  for  business.  Competition  be- 
tween them  is  keen  and  some  interesting  races  are  promised 
later  in  the  season,  probably  after  the  return  of  Mr.  Black- 
ton,  secretary  of  the  Vitagraph  Company,  from  the  vacation 
he  is  now  taking  in  Europe.  Wally  Van  and  Walter  Arthur 
are  especially 'keen  on  the  sport  and  make  a  good  combina- 
tion against  Charles  Chapman  and  Eddie  Wentworth,  who  are 
also  well-known  citizens  of  the  motor  boat  world. 


NICHOLAS  POWER  COMPANY  NOTES. 

The  phenomenal  success  achieved  by  the  Power's  Camera- 
graph  since  its  introduction  to  the  London  market  some  two 
years  ago,  has  enjoyed  a  steady  growth. 

At  the  recent  exposition  in  London  the  Walturdaw  Com- 
pany, Ltd.  (sole  agent  for  Nicholas  Power  Company),  oc- 
cupied one  of  the  largest  spaces.  The  fact  that  this  com- 
pany sold  twenty  Power's  Cameragraphs  in  a  single  week 
is  conclusive  proof  of  the  superiority  of  this  machine. 

In  view  of  the  many  and  varied  makes  of  projectors  on 
the  English  market  this  result  is  both  emphatic  and  gratify- 
ing. 

Power's  No.  6A  with  motor  and  mechanical  speed  control 
has   been   approved   for   use  in   Galveston,   Texas. 

The  following  installations  have  been  made  during  the 
past  week: 

A  No.  6A  complete  Moyer  and  Bateman,  Johnsburg, 
Pa.,  through  the  General  Film  Company,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

A  No.  6A  at  the  Majestic  Theater,  Worcester,  Mass.,  by 
the  New  England  Universal  Film  Company  of  Boston,  Mass. 

A  No.  6  Cameragraph  complete  with  Dissolving  View  At- 
tachment at  St.  Stephen's  Church,. Winnipeg,  Man.,  through 
the  Canadian  Film  Co.,  Ltd.,  of  Toronto. 

One  No.  6A  complete  with  motor  and  mechanical  speed 
control  by  Rosen  Bros.,  393  Grand  Street,  Brooklyn,  through 
Picture  Theater  Equipment  Co.,  21  East  14th  St.,  New  York 
City. 


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Current  Releases 

MONDAY,  APRIL  28th,  igi3. 

BIOGRAPH— Blame   the   Wife— (Comedy) 

BIOGRArH— The  Daylight  Burglar   (Comedy) 

EDISON— When  the  Right  Man  Comes  Along  (Comedy)..  .1000 

KALEM— The  Haunted  House   (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN— In  the  Harem  of  Haschem  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's  Weekly  No.  18  (News) 

SELIG — Roses'of  Yesterday  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— Hearts  of  the  First  Empire  (Sp-2  pts  D.) 
VITAGRAPH— O'Hara       and      the      Youthful       Prodigal 

(Drama)    IOOO 

TUESDAY,  APRIL  29th,  1913. 

ONES— Scenes  and  Ruins  Near  Rome   (Travel) 200 

CINES— The  New  Arrival  (Comedv) 800 

PATHEPLAY— The  Cormorant  (Bird  Studies) 

PATHEPLAY— Along  the  River  Eure,  France   (Scenic)    .. 
PATHEPLAY— Hidden  Life  in  Sea  Weed   (Zoology) 

EDISON— The  Orphan   (Drama") 1000 

ESSANAY— Cousin  Jane   (Comedy) ,000 

LUBIN — Granny   (Drama)    ioeo 

SELIG — Hiram  Buys  an  Auto  (Comedy)    

SELIG — Chinese   Scenes    (Scenic) 

XJJASRAPH— Tw0'  Company,  Three'  a  Crowd  "(Comedy') 
VITAGRAPH— Street  Scenes,  Yokohama,  Japan  (Scenic) 

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  30th,"  19 13. 

ECLIPSE— A     Picturesque     Journey     in     Western     France 

(Travel)     250 

ECLIPSE — Grandpa's   Rejuvenation    (Comedy)    '.  . .  .   350 

ECLIPSE — German  Cavalry  Maneuvres   (Military) 400 

EDISON— A  Reluctant  Cinderella   (Comedy) 1000 

ESSANAY— Cousin    Bill    (Comedv) V iiooo 

LUBIN— Through  Many  Trials  (Special— 2  parts— Drama)  2000 

SELIG— The  Burglar  Who  Robbed  Death  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Mexican  Defeat   (Drama)     . . 
PATHEPLAY— The  Panama  Canal  To-Day   (Engineering) 
KALEM-The  Eighth  Notch    (Drama) . . ..".......  g^ 

KALEM— A  Coupon  Courtship    (Comedy)- 

VITAGRAPH— A  Window  on  Washington  Park  (Drama) !  1000 

THURSDAY,  MAY  1st,  1913. 
BIOGRAPH— If  We  Only  Knew   (Drama)... 

ESSANAY— The  Story  the  Desert  Told  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN— The  Veil  of  Sleep  (Drama) . .    . .         "1000 

MELIES— A  Buried  Treasure  (Drama) 

MELIES— The  Home  of  Terms  (Zoology) ; 

PATHEPLAY— The   Parting  Eternal    (Drama) '.'...'. 

SELIG — Absent-Minded  Mr.  Boob   (Comedy) ' 

SELIG- — Some  Chickens   (Zootechnic)    j 

VITAGRAPH— Bunny  vs.  Cutev  (Comedv)   

VITAGRAPH— Uses   of    Dynamite    bv    U.    S.    Engineering 
Corps   (Scientific)    

FRIDAY,  MAY  2nd,  1913. 

EDISON— Groundless  Suspicion   (Drama)    1000 

ESSANAY— A   Child's   Precaution    (Drama) ieoo 

KALEM— Fattv's  Busy  Day   (Comedy) 

KALEM— Old  Women  of  the  Streets  of  New  York  (Top) 

CINES — The  Broken  Vow   (Special— 2  parts — Drama) 2000 

LUBIN— The  Girl  Back  East  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— Liquid  Air  (Scientific)   

PATHEPLAY— Winter    in    Upper    Engadine,    Switzerland 

(Scenic)     

SELIG— Their  Stepmother  (Drama)    1000 

VITAGRAPH— Cinders   (Drama)    . .  .  1000 

SATURDAY,  MAY  3rd,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Wanderer   (Drama)    

CINES — The  Rival  Lovers   (Comedy)    500 

CINES — Jerry's  Rebellion   (Comedy)    500 

EDISON— Billy's  Sweetheart   (Drama)    1000 

ESSANAY— The  Crazy  Prospector   (Drama)    1000 

KALEM— The  Wayward  Son   (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — Clarence  at  the  Theater   (Comedy) 400 

LUBIN— Fixing  Auntie  Up  (Comedy) 600 

PATHEPLAY— General  Scott's  Protege   (Drama) 

PATHEPLAY— The  Diamond  Miniature  (Sp.-2  pts.  Dr  ) 
VITAGRAPH— Captain  Mary  Brown   (Drama)    1000 


Advance  Releases. 

MONDAY,  MAY  5th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Tenderfoot's  Money  (Drama) 

EDISON — The  $100  Elopement  (Comedy-Drama) IOOO 

KALEM — The  Heart  of  an  Actress  (Drama) 1600 

LUBIN — Pedro's  Treachery  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's  Weekly  No.  19  (News) 

SELIG — A  Midnight  Bell  (Special — 2  Parts — Drama) ..  .2000 

SELIG — An  Old  Actor  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— Bingles  Mends  the  Clock  (Comedy) 1000 

TUESDAY,  MAY  6th,  1913. 

CINES — A  Mixed  Affair  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Ant-Lion  .(Zoology) 

PATHEPLAY— The    Chateau   of    Blois,    France    (Archi- 
tectural). ..  .- 

EDI  SOX — When  Greek  Meets  Greek  (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY — A  Tango  Tangle  (Comedy) 1000 

LUBIN — The  Judgment  of  the  Deep  (Drama) 1000 

SELIG — A  W'elded  Friendship  (Drama) 

SELIG— Hatching  Chickens  (Zootechnic) 

VITAGRAPH— Omens   and   Oracles   (Third   of   the    Be- 
linda Series)  (Comedy)   1000 

;  WEDNESDAY,  MAY  7th,  1913. 

ECLIPSE— The  Dividing  Wall  (Comedy-Drama) 1000 

EDISON — Aunty  and  the  Girls  (Comedy) 400 

EDISON— With  the  Assistance  of  "Shep"  (Comedv)....  600 

ESSANAY— The  Prophecy  (Drama) 1000 

SELIG — Belle  Boyd,  a  Confederate  Spy  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Crooked  Bankers  (Drama) 

KALEM— The  Alien  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— The  Deerslayer  (Special— 2  Parts— Dr.)  .2000 
VITAGRAPH— Inspection   of  the  Quebec  Police    (Typ-. 

ical)  

VITAGRAPH— Disciplining    Daisy    (Comedy)'. 

THURSDAY,  MAY  8th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— Frappe  Love  (Comedy) 

BIOGRAPH— The  Coveted  Prize  (Comedy) 

ESSANAY— Two  Western  Paths  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN— She  Must  Be  Ugly  (Comedy) 400 

LUBIN— Hattie's  New  Hat  (Comedy) 600 

MELIES— A  Trip  Through  the  "North  Island"  of  New 

Zealand  from  Auckland  to  Wellington  (Travel) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— Her  Mother's  Ambition  (Drama) 

SELIG — Her  Guardian  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— The  Wrath  of  Osaka  (Drama) 1000 

FRIDAY,  MAY  9th,  1913. 

EDISON — The  Golden  Wedding  (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY — A  Woman's  Way  (Drama) 1000 

KALEM — The  Hash  House  Count  (Comedy) 

KALEM— Toothache   (Comedy)    

KALEM — The   Cheyenne    Massacre    (Special — 2   Parts — 

Drama)    2000 

LUBIN — A  Mock  Marriage  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— Montreal,  Quebec  and  Halifax  (Travel). 
PATHEPLAY— In  the  Valley  of  Vesubie,  France  (Seen.) 

SELIG — In  the  Days  of  Witchcraft  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— Cupid's  Hired  Man  (Comedy) 1000 

SATURDAY,  MAY  10th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  House  of  Darkness  (Drama) 

CINES — The  People  of  Somaliland,   East  Africa   (Man- 
ners and  Customs) . 300 

CINES — Excess' Baggage  (Comedy)  400 

CINES — Beautiful  Lake  Como,  Italy  (Physical  Geog.)..   300 

EDISON — An  Accidental  Alibi  (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY — "Alkali"  Ike's  Mother-in-Law  (Comedy) ...  1000 

KALEM — The  River  Pirates  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — The  Paymaster  (Drama)  1000 

LUBIN — A  Girl  Spy  in  Mexico  (Special — 2  Parts — Dr.).. 2000 

PATHEPLAY— Pittin'  It  Over  on  Papa  (Comedy) 

VITAGRAPH— The  Sea  Maiden  (Drama) 1000 


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SUNDAY,  APRIL  27th,  1913. 

CRYSTAL— Forgetful  Flossie   (Comedy)    

CRYSTAL— A  Joke  On  the  Sheriff  (Comedy) 

ECLAIR— The  Law  of  the  Wild   (Drama) 

REX — The  Wavward  Sister   (Drama)    

MONDAY,  APRIL  28th,  1913. 

IMP— The  Cub  (Drama)    

NESTOR— When  Father  Was  Kidnapped   (Comedy) 

CHAMPION— The  Clown  Hero  (Comedy)    

CHAMPION— Life  in  Soudan  (Sociology)  

TUESDAY,  APRIL  29th,  1913. 

GEM — Billy's  Suicide   (Comedy)    

GEM — Views  of  Cape  Hatteras  (Scenic)   

101  BISON— The  Last  Roll  Call  (2  reels— Drama) 

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  30th,  1913. 

NESTOR— The  Greater  Love   (Drama)    

POWERS— In  a  Strange  Land  (Drama)   

ECLAIR— The  Return  of  Crime  (2  Reel— Drama) 

UNIVERSAL— Animated  Weekly  No.  60  (News) 

THURSDAY,  MAY  1st,  1913- 

IMP— The  Rise  of  Officer  174  (2  Reel— Drama) 

REX— The  Turn  of  the  Tide  (Drama) 

FRONTIER— The  Word  of  Jose  (Drama) 

FRIDAY,  MAY  2nd,  1913. 

NESTOR— The  Ingrate    (Drama)    

POWERS— Neighbors    (Comedy)    

VICTOR— The  Unseen  Influence  (Drama) 

SATURDAY,  MAY  3rd,  1913. 

IMP — Her  Lover's  Voice  (Comedy) 

IMP— Opening  of  the  1913  Baseball  Season  (Topical) 

BISON— The  Vengeance  of  the  Skystone   (2  Reel— Dr.) 
FRONTIER— An  Eastern  Cyclone  at  Bluff  Ranch  (Comedv) 


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SUNDAY,  MAY  4th,  1913- 

CRYSTAL— Pearl  As  a  Detective  (Comedy) 

CRYSTAL— Oh,  Whiskers!  (Comedy) 

ECLAIR— Bewitched  Matches   (Comedy) 

ECLAIR — Salamanders   (Scientific}    

REX — The  Rosary  (Drama) 

MONDAY,  MAY  5th,  1913. 

IMP — Eureka  (2  Parts — Drama) 

NESTOR— The  Country  Cousin  (Comedy) 

CHAMPION— The  Shark  God  (Drama) 

TUESDAY,  MAY  6th,  1913. 

GEM— Billy's  First  Quarrel  (  Comedy) 

GEM— Call  Him  Whiskers  (Comedy) 

101-Bison — The  Indian's  Secret  (2  Reels — Drama) 

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  7th,  1913. 

NESTOR— The  Awakening  of  Papita  (Drama) 

POWERS— The  Black  Smallpox  Scare  (Comedy) 

ECLAIR— The  Sons  of  a  Soldier  (3  Parts— Drama) 

UNIVERSAL— The  Animated  Weekly,  No.  61  (News).. 
THURSDAY,  MAY  8th,  1913. 

IMP— The  Whole  Truth  (Drama) 

REX— The  Smuggler's  Daughter  (2  Reels— Drama) 

FRONTIER— The  Sheriff's  Rival  (Drama) 

FRIDAY,  MAY  gth,  1913. 

NESTOR— Miss  Nobody  (  Drama) 

PI  )\\'ERS— Bozo  Arrives  (Comedy) 

VICTOR— The  Unknown  (Drama) 

SATURDAY,  MAY  10th,  1913. 

IMP — Leo  Makes  Good  (Comedy) 

IMP— The  Oyster  Industry  (  Industry) 

BISON— The   Northern   Spy    (-'-Reel   Drama) 

FRONTIER— The  Tenderfoot's  Ghost  (  Comedy) 


Mutual  Film  Corporation  Current  Releases 

SUNDAY,  APRIL  27th,  1913. 

MA  JESTIC— Old  Mammy's  Charge  (Drama) 

THAXHOUSER— Rosie's   Revenge    (Drama) 

MONDAY,  APRIL  28th,  1913. 

EXCELSIOR— The  Surveyors  (Drama) 

AMERICAN— Oil  On  Troubled  Waters  (2  parts— Drama)  .2000 

KEYSTONE— The  New  Conductor   (Comedy) 

KEYSTONE— His  Chum  the  Baron  (Comedy) 

TUESDAY,  APRIL  29th,  1913- 

MAJESTIC— The  Whim  of  Destinv  C  Drama)   

THAXHOUSER— The  Girl  Detective's  Ruse  (Drama).. 


WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  30th,  1913. 

MUTUAL— Mutual  Weekly  No.  18   (News) 

RELIANCE— The  Bawler  Out  (3  parts— Drama) 

BRONCHO— Bread    Cast    Upon    the    Waters     (2    parts- 
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THURSDAY,  MAY  1st,  1913. 

AMERICAN— The  Tattooed  Arm  (Drama)    

KEYSTONE— That  Rag  Time  Band  (Comedy) 

MUTUAL— The  Old  Invalid  (Drama) 

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MONDAY,  MAY  5th,  1913. 

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AMERICAN— The  Brothers   (Drama) 

KEYSTONE— Algie  on  the  Force  (Comedy) 

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THANHOUSER— (Title  Not  Reported) 

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  7th,  1913. 

MUTUAL— Mutual  Weekly  No.  19  ( News) 

RELIANCE— A  Cruel  Suspicion   (Drama) 

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AMERICAN — Human  Kindness  (  Drama) 1000 

KEYSTONE— The  Darktown  Belle  (Comedy) 

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MUTUAL— (Title  Not  Reported) 

FRIDAY,  MAY  9th,  1913. 

KAY-BEE— Past  Redemption  (2  Parts— Drama) 

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the  situation  In  one  South  Boston  theater  was 
Unchanged.  Agent  Franke  reported  that  be  had 
offered  three  moving  picture  machines  and  opera- 
tors to  Major  Fitzgerald  for  the  flood  sufferers. 
The  Mayor  has  sent  a  vote  of  thanks  for  the  proffer. 
This  local  is  in  a  most  flourishing  condition,  and 
things  are  working  harmoniously  among  its  mem- 
bers-. 

A  recent  incorporation  is  the  Mayer  and  Hirsb- 
fleld  Company,  of  Boston.  Adolph  Mayer,  Kathryn 
A.  McDermott  and  Wilton  Hirshfield  are  the  pro- 
moters.     This    is    a    $2,000    concern. 

On  Monday,  April  7,  Douglas  Fairbanks  and 
members  of  his  company,  presenting  "Hawthorne 
of  the  U.  S.  A."  at  a  Boston  theater,  were  the 
guests  of  Edwin  Bower  Hesser,  at  Tremont  Tem- 
ple, Boston,  to  view  the  Kinemacolor  pictures  of 
"Actual  Scenes- of  the  Balkan  War"  and  the  "Mak- 
ing of  the  Panama  Canal."  As  the  scenes  of 
'Hawthorne  of  the  U.  S.  A."  are  laid  in  the 
Balkans,  the  interest  of  Mr.  Fairbanks  and  bis 
company,  are  particularly  directed  to  that  portion 
of  the  Kinemacolor  entertainment.  "The  Chocolate 
Soldier,"  with  its  scenes  also  laid  in  the  Balkans, 
is  soon  to  come  to  Boston,  and  the  writer  under- 
stands that  members  of  that  company  will  also  be 
invited  to  attend  the  Kinemacolor  exhibition  at 
Tremont  Temple,  which  is  drawing  capacity 
bonses. 

Harvard  College,  Cambridge,  Mass.,  has  at  last 
recognized  motion  pictures,  and  this  week,  for 
the  first  time,  moving  pictures  were  thrown  upon 
the  screen,  at  the  Harvard  Union,  when  members 
of  the  freshmen  class  assembled  for  their  weekly 
entertainment.  The  inherent  value  of  the  Kine- 
matograph  is  surely  breaking  down  every  prejudice 
that    may    be    raised    against    its    universal    use. 

The  Victor  Amusement  Company,  of  Worcester, 
Mass.,  was  incorporated  for  $10,000  this  week, 
with  Albert  V.  Pickering,  Richard  Pickering,  Al- 
bert Fisk,  George  Walts  and  Frank  W.  Wellis  as 
the  promoters.  A  moving  picture  and  vaudeville 
theater  is  proposed  by  the  new  concern  for  Worces- 
ter. 

On  Wednesday  evening,  April  16,  the  Catholic 
Club  of  Everett,  jointly  with  the  Everett  theater, 
gave  a  performance  for  the  benefit  of  the  flood 
sufferers.  A  minstrel  show,  with  65  people  in  the 
cast  formed  the  entertainment.  Manager  Brown 
of  the  Everett  theater  was  only  too  happy  to  give 
the  free  use  of  his  theater  to  the  Club,  for  such 
a  worthy  cause.  Manager  Brown  has  always  been 
particularly  active  in  co-operating  with  the  local 
societies  of  his  town,  and  has  reaped  his  reward 
in  the  way  of  increased  business,  as  his  theater 
is   held    in    the    highest    esteem. 

West  Somerville,  Mass.,  people  were  interested 
in  the  announcement  that  Joseph  A.  Hobbs,  owner 
of  property  at  the  corner  of  Holland  and  Dover 
Streets,  with  a  frontage  in  Davis  Square,  is  ready 
to  replace  the  old  building  with  a  first  class  thea- 
ter, with  a  seating  capacity  of  1,200,  provided 
Mayor  Burns  will  agree  to  issue  a  license  for  the 
operation  of  a  moving  picture  and  vaudeville  thea- 
ter. The  writer  understands  that  plans  for  the 
proposed  theater  have  already  been  submitted  to 
the  Mayor.  A  majority  of  the  business  men  of 
Davis  Square  are  said  to  be  in  favor  of  the  plan, 
and,  although  Mayor  Burns  has  hardly  begun  bis 
Investigation,  it  is  thought  that  he  will  grant  a 
theater  license  at  this  location,  under  certain 
conditions.  There  surely  can  not  be  any  good 
reason  why  the  license  should  not  be  granted  un- 
less West  Somerville  insists  on  being  way  be- 
hind the  times. 

The  Bowdoln  Square  theater,  Boston,  has  secured 
the  right  to  show  Kinemacolor  pictures,  starting 
April  14,.  This  is  the  first  time  that  Kinemacolor 
subjects  have  been  shown  in  this  city,  at  a  ten- 
cent    admission    price. 

On  Sunday,  April  13,  the  Boston  American  used 
the  greatest  portion  of  a  full-page  to  explain  how 
motion  pictures  were  used  in  the  public  schools 
to  teach  the  proper  care  of  the  teeth.  This  spe- 
cial article  was  liberally  illustrated,  showing 
photographs    from    actual    moving    pictures. 

New  England  exhibitors,  using  programs  from 
the  Mutual  Film  Corporation  were  most  pleased 
to  find  out  that  the  New  York  Motion  Picture 
Companv,  producers  of  Kay-Bee,  Broncho  and  Key- 
stone photoplay,  had  signed  a  new  two-year  con- 
tract with  that  firm.  The  three  brands  controlled 
by  the  New  York  Motion  Picture  Company  are 
particularly  popular  In   this  section. 

Pearl  White,  leading  lady  in  Crystal  Films, 
visited  Danbury,  Conn.,  last  week  and  while  there, 


improved  the  opportunity  to  give  a  talk  on  motion 
pictures  at  the  Majestic  theater.  Mr.  Meehan, 
who  owns  the  Empire  theater,  reports  that  Miss 
White  interested  her  hearers  to  such  an  extent, 
that  his  patrons  are  now  clamoring  for  a  return 
engagement. 

The  First  TJnlversalist  Church  and  grounds,  have 
just  been  purchased  by  the  E.  J.  Caron  Amuse- 
ment Company,  at  Manchester,  New  Hampshire. 
Mr.  E.  J.  Caron  states  that  about  $25,000.  was  paid 
for  the  property,  for  which  his  company  had  been 
negotiating  for  months.  A  model  photoplay  thea- 
ter will  be  made  out  of  the  church,  which  has  a 
suitable  location  for  this  business. 

D.  P.  Egan,  of  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  announces 
that  he  has  had  plans  made  calling  for  a  moving 
picture  and  vaudeville  theater  to  seat  750  persons, 
and    will    start   building   in    the    near    future. 

S.  Z.  Poll  announces  that  the  plans  for  the  con- 
struction of  his  new  theater  at  New  Haven,  Conn., 
have  just  been  prepared  and  passed.  This  house 
is  to  seat  very  nearly  2,500,  of  which  total  there 
will  be  a  balcony  seating  about  700,  a  gallery, 
holding  600  persons  and  an  orchestra  of  approxi- 
mately 1,150  seating  capacity.  The  new  house 
will  stand  on  a  piece  of  land  measuring  150  by 
100,  and  it  Is  estimated  that  the  cost  will  be  well 
over  $200,000.  Mr.  Poli  hopes  to  have  this  thea- 
ter ready  for  its  opening  performance  by  Janu- 
ary 1,  1914.  Vaudeville  and  pictures  are  sebed- 
uled    to    do    the   business. 

James  H.  Clarkin,  of  the  Park  Casino.  Hartford, 
Conn.,  is  no  longer  in  charge  and  F.  C.  Curtis,  has 
now  taken  over  the  active  management.  Mr. 
Olarkin  states  that  Mr.  Curtis  intends  to  make 
very  extensive  alterations  and  improvements,  and 
then  will  operate  the  Park  Casino  as  a  moving 
picture  and  vaudeville  theater,  to  seat  2,000  peo- 
ple. 

A  large  number  of  the  S.  Z.  Poll  theaters  in 
New  England  will  change  over  from  vaudeville  and 
picture  shows  to  stock  company  attractions,  for 
the  Spring  and  Summer  season.  This  plan  Is  car- 
ried out  each  year,  but  the  houses  never  fail  to  re- 
turn to  vaudeville  and  pictures  early  in  the  Fall. 
Poll's. theaters  at  Springfield  and  Worcester,  Mass., 
and  at  Bridgeport.  Hartford  and  New  Haven,  Conn., 
are  all   scheduled   for  stock   shows. 

John  Keon.  known  to  all  the  New  England  trade, 
had  a  most  encouraging  opening  day's  business  at 
his  new  Federal  theater,  Salem,  Mass.,  on  March 
24,  and  up-to-date  business  has  been  increasing 
daily,  until  it  is  now  a  case  of  "come  early  or 
stand."  Even  with  a  seating  capacity  of  about 
1,600,  Mr.  Keon  finds  be  Is  often  at  a  loss  to 
seat  his  patrons.  John  Keon,  Is  well  known  to 
Salem  photoplay  fans,  as  he  bad  owned  and  man- 
aged a  theater  there,  previous  to  building  the  Fed- 
eral, which  is  strictly  modern  and  high-class  in 
every  particular.  The  Federal  is  of  brick  and 
cement  construction,  and  Is  also  thoroughly  fire- 
proof. Good  programs  of  photoplays,  projected  by 
two  brand  new,  improved  1913  model  MoOographs, 
tell  the   story   of  the   Federal's  success. 

Messrs.  Yeaton  Brothers  report  that  business  is 
good  with  them,  which  explains  why  these  enter- 
prising exhibitors  are  about  to  build  two  new 
theaters,  one  at  Wolfeboro,  and  the  other  at  New- 
market, N.  H.,  to  take  care  of  all  the  people 
wishing  to  take  in  a  real  good  moving  picture 
program.  The  Masonic  Temple  at  Wolfeboro  seats 
700,  while  the  Star  theater  at  Newmarket  has  a 
capacity  of  about  500.  A  straight  program  of 
photoplays,  and  illustrated  songs  is  bringing  home 
the    "bacon"    for    Yeaton    Brothers. 

Active  preparations  are  being  made  for  the 
coming  exposition  at  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  at  which 
moving  pictures  are  scheduled  to  play  a  most 
prominent  part.  Moving  picture  cameras  are  now 
busily  employed  in  this  city;  taking  views  of  local 
scenes,  Industries  and  celebrities.  Some  of  the 
larger  business  houses  of  Bridgeport  are  being 
photographed  to  show  the  commercial  progress  of 
this    city. 

William  Fox  announces  that  he  has  just  entered 
into  a  contract,  whereby  all  of  his  theaters  will 
soon  begin  to  use  Kinemacolor  film  service.  This 
contract  applies  to  the  Fox  theaters  in  New  Eng- 
land,  as   well   as   elsewhere. 

George  Arnold  Is  about  to  start  work  on  the 
erection  of  a  new  moving  picture  theater  at  Rock- 
ville.   Conn.,   to  seat  425  persons. 

The  Scenic  theater,  Westbrook,  Me.,  was  sold 
this  week  by  Woodman  Brothers  to  Ray  Poole, 
formerlv  associated  with  the  Thanbouser  Company. 
Mr.  Poole  will  continue  to  operate  the  Scenic  as  a 
photoplay  theater.  The  Star  theater,  which  is 
managed  by  Alfred  Fredette.  is  the  strongest  op- 
position to  the  scenic,  but  both  houses  do  a  nice 
business. 

The  Hartford,  Conn.,  "Courant,"  a  very  live 
and  enterprising  newspaper,  Is  making  quite  a  suc- 
cess of  its  moving  picture  department.  It  would 
pay  every  editor  to  look  Into  the  advisability  of 
instituting  such  a  department,  that  would  surely 
appeal    to   all    readers. 

Mlddletown,  Conn.,  has  a  very  broad  minded  and 
intelligent  gentleman,  In  the  person  of  the  Rev. 
George  B.  Gilbert,  a  clergyman,  who  realizes  the 
true  worth  of  the  pictures.  Rev.  Gilbert  Is  in- 
tending to  show  moving  pictures  at  Lakeview  Park, 
near    Mlddletown.     this    summer. 

The  Columbia  theater.  Taunton,  Mass.,  is  being 
completely  renovated,   and   a  stage  has  been  added, 


as  also  has  been  a  balcony.  The  theater  has  bene- 
fited greatly  from  the  many  needed  improvements. 
The  Hudson  theater,  South  Main  Street,  Spring- 
field, Mass.,  is  a  new  theater,  and  one  of  the  finest 
in  that  city.  It  has  a  seating  capacity  of  nearly 
1,000,  and  is  of  fireproof  construction,  and  thor- 
oughly first-class  and  modern  in  every  way.  John- 
Hudson,  formerly  of  the  Globe  theater  of  that 
city,  will  be  the  general  manager  of  the  theater 
bearing  his  name.  When  it  is  taken  into  con- 
sideration that  Mr.  Hudson  is  thoroughly  familiar 
with  what  Springfield  theatergoers  demand  in  the 
way  of  moving  pictures  and  vaudeville  and  also- 
that  It  has  a  fine  location,  it  is  easy  to  predict 
that  the  Hudson  theater  should  be  a  prosperous 
bouse. 

The  Children's  Welfare  League,  of  Roxbury, 
Mass.,  held  a  public  meeting  at  4  P.  M.,  April  18, 
in  the  ward  room  of  the  Roxbury  Municipal  Court- 
bouse,  for  the  consideration  of  moving  pictures. 
Representatives  of  the  Parents'  Associations,  the 
schools,    and  of   moving  picture   theaters,    spoke. 

At  Tremont  Temple,  commencing  Monday,  April 
28,  and  for  the  following  two  weeks  the  citizens  of 
Boston  will,  for  the  first  time,  have  the  oppor- 
tunity of  seeing  the  "Life  of  John  Bunyan,"  and 
his  classical  allegory,  "Pilgrim's  Progress,"  made 
by  the  Hochstetter-Pierson  Company.  This  picture 
contains  the  celebrated  findings  of  F.  W.  Hoch- 
stetter,  the  greatest  since  the  days  of  Deguerre. 
S.  Z.  Poli,  owning  a  chain  of  New  England 
vaudeville  and  moving  picture  theaters,  will  have 
a  regular  press  bureau  next  season,  provided  the 
permission  of  E.  F.  Albee  can  be  secured.  Abe 
Levy  is  the  man  Mr.  Poli  has  in  mind  for  this 
position.  Mr.  Poli  hopes  to  be  able  to  secure 
mucb  free  newspaper  publicity  for  his  theaters  by 
means  of  this  new  scheme  of  bis. 

The  Roderick  Theater.  Monson,  Mass.,  was  sold 
at  public  auction  this  week  by  Raymond  J.  Jodoln. 
This  house  was  playing  photoplays  and  illustrated 
soniis,   but  business  was  slack. 

Springfield,  Mass.,  exhibitors,  were  interested 
last  week  in  watching  the  results  of  the  attempt 
of  one  of  their  nnmber  to  show  an  unauthorized 
picture  of  "The  Miracle."  A.  H.  Woods,  who  con- 
trols the  real  "Miracle"  pictures,  immediately  noti- 
fied Attorney  Thomas  J.  Barry,  of  Boston,  to  take 
action  In  the  matter.  Mr.  Barry  quickly  made  for 
Springfield,  and  had  but  little  difficulty  in  securing 
an  injunction  restraining  the  exhibition  of  the  < 
pictures.  The  courts  of  Massachusetts  and  New 
York  have  both  upheld  the  genuine  Prof.  Max 
Bernhardt  pictures,  as  having  the  sole  right  to  the 
use  of  the  name  "Miracle"  in  connection  with  the 
moving  pictures. 

The  Empire  Theater,  Holyoke,  Mass.,  Is  finding 
that  the  theater-going  public  of  that  city  is  not 
over -enthusiastic  about  the  stock -company  attrac- 
tions it  has  been  presenting.  April  26  marks  the 
end  of  this  policy,  and  vaudeville  and  pictures  are 
expected  to  be  inaugurated  In  its  stead. 

Harry  Cohen,  who  has  been  connected  with  Poli's 
Theater,  Bridgeport.  Conn.,  for  the  last  eight 
years,  has  severed  his  connection  with  that  theater, 
and  has  been  engaged  as  treasurer  of  the  Broad- 
way Theater,  Springfield.  Mass.  Mr.  Cohen  Is  well- 
known  among  the  trade,  and  considered  a  capable 
worker. 

W.  D.  Ascough,  manager  of  Poli's  Theater,  Hart- 
ford, Conn.,  was  made  an  honorary  member  of  the 
Governor's  Foot  Guard  Band  last  week.  This  action 
was  considered  quite  an  honor,  as  the  Band  is  a 
rather  exclusive   organization. 

The  Prlncaas.  Theater,  Hartford,  Conn.,  Is  now 
presenting  Kinemacolor  pictures,  also  the  Casino 
Theater,  of  that  city.  The  Princess  will  continue 
to  exhibit  some  black  and  white  subjects,  while 
the  Casino  intends  to  use  Kinemacolor  exclusively. 
Walter  T.  Murphy,  manager  of  the  Lyceum  The- 
ater, New  London,  Conn.,  will  show  Kinemacolor 
subjects  on  and  after  May  1.  The  Lyceum  holds 
the  reputation  of  being  the  best  house  in  New 
London  devoted  to  vaudeville  and  pictures.  Man- 
ager Murphy  states  that  bis  business  is  increasing 
In  good  shape. 

James  P.  Baxter  is  considering  the  advisability 
of  building  a  new  theater  at  the  corner  of  Congress 
and  High  streets.  Portland,  Maine.  The  location 
is  excellent,  and  a  theater  can  be  erected  to  seat 
well    over   1.000. 

It  is  rumored  that  the  Park  Theater,  Manchester, 
N,  H-,  is  to  give  up  its  policy  of  stock-company 
shows,  and  replace  it  with  vaudeville  and  picture 
programs. 

The  Kinemacolor  entertainment  at  Tremont 
Temple.  Boston,  added  an  extra  attraction  this 
week,  "Washington  Women's  Suffrage  Parade"  ana 
the  "Inaugural  Parade."  "The  Making  of  the 
Panama  Canal,"  and  "Actual  Scenes  of  the  Balkan 
War,"  are  the  two  Kinemacolor  subjects  that  are 
creating  no  end  of  favorable  comment  In  Boston. 
M.  Blumenberg,  owner  of  the  Casco  Theater,  at 
Portland.  Me.,  may  build  a  second  house  in  that 
city.  The  Casco  is  a  rather  small  house,  but  it 
does  an  unusually  large  business,  with  photoplays 
and  singing  specialties.  This  bouse  Is  unusually 
well  managed. 

S.  Z.  Poli  secured  no  end  of  free  publicity  for 
bis  Poli  Theater,  Springfield,  Mass.,  when  he 
promised  a  guarantee  of  at  least  $1,560  to  the 
building  fund  of  a  new  Y.  M.  O.  A.  The  papers 
commented  on  the  liberality  and  public  spirit  dis- 
played bv  Mr.  Poli  in  such  a  worthy  cause. 
Up   to  a   while  ago,    Mayor  Hardy,   of  Fitchburg, 


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Haas.,  granted  licenses  for  Sunday  exhibitions  of 
moving  pictures.  This  attitude  on  the  part  of 
Alayor  Hardy  Immediately  evoked  a  great  deal  of 
talk  and  opposition  on  the  part  of  the  local  clergy. 
In  fact,  so  noisily  did  the  clergy  clamori  that  Mayor 
Hardy  decided  to  abide  by  the  wishes  of  the 
reverend  gentlemen,  and  refused  to  grant  further 
licenses.  Salem,  Mass.,  Is  another  Massachusetts 
town  in  which  Sunday  conditions  are  the  same.  It's 
about  time  that  the  exhibitors  of  these  towns  got 
busy,  and  try  to  see  what  they  can  do  to  change 
matters. 

One  of  the  largest  real  estate  deals  ever  con- 
summated in  Rutland,  Vt.,  was  closed  last  week, 
and  included  the  site  for  the  new  $75,000  theater  for 
Thomas  A.  Boyle,  the  well-known  and  popular 
manager  of  the  Rutland  Opera  House.  The  plans 
for  the  new  -theater  have  already  been  accepted  by 
the  local  authorities.  The  new  theater  is  slated 
to  have  a  seating  capacity  of  1,400,  and  will  be 
located  on  Center  street,  the  main  thoroughfare  in 
that  city,  and  In  the  very  heart  of  the  business 
district.  Ground  will  be  broken  within  a  very 
short  time.  Mr.  Boyle  hopes  to  have  his  theater 
open  by  the  latter  part  of  August.  Rutland  has 
sorely  needed  a  first-class,  thoroughly  modern  and 
up-to-date  theater,  which  is  exactly  what  the  new 
house  will  be.  The  house  has  not  been  named. 
The  policy  will  he  vaudeville  and  pictures,  and 
some  road  shows. 

Mayor  John  F.  Fitzgerald,  and  members  of  the 
Boston  Chamber  of  Commerce,  who  are  going  on 
a  tour  of  inspection  of  the  Panama  Canal,  secured 
a  private  view  of  those  scenes  of  the  Klnemacolor 
pictures  at  Tremont  Temple,  Boston,  having  to  do 
with  the  construction  of  the  canal. 

The  Hyperion  Theater,  New  Haven,  Conn.,  has 
booked  the  Kinemacolor  pictures  of  the  Panama 
Canal  and  Balkan  War,  for  an  extended  engage- 
ment. The  week  starting  April  14,  was  the  begin- 
ning of  the  engagement,  and  Manager  E.  D.  Eld- 
ridge  states  that  he  is  well  pleased  with  the  busi- 
ness thus  far.  The  Hyperion  is  considered  the  best 
house  in  New  Haven,  and,  as  a  rule,  play3  nothing 
but  the  best  road  shows. 

Bath,  Maine,  is  to  have  a  new  theater,  seating 
about  1200  people,  built  by  the  Abrams  Amusement 
Company,  of  Portland,  Me.  Mr.  Hiram  Abrams 
states  that  the  new  house  will  be  by  far  the  best 
In  Bath,  and  further,  that  nothing  will  be  left 
undone  to  erect  a  handsome,  fireproof  and  thor- 
oughly modern  theater.  Vaudeville  and  pictures 
will   form  the  program. 

Louis  M.  Boas,  manager  of  the  Academy  The- 
ater, Fall  River,  Mass.,  offered  an  unusually  large 
bill  of  vaudeville  and  pictures  last  week,  due  to  the 
fact  that  the  Academy  passed  its  fortieth  milestone 
during  the  week.  In  all  its  long  career,  It  is  very 
doubtful  If  the  Academy  has  ever  been  more  pros- 
perous than  it  is  at  present,  under  the  able  con- 
trol of  Mr.  Boas,  one  of  the  cleverest  vaudeville 
and  photoplay  men  in  this  section. 

J.  J.  Haggerty,  who  has  been  connected  with 
the  Court  Square  Theater,  Springfield,  Mass.,  for 
a  long  period  of  time,  is  now  associated  with  the 
new   Broadway  Theater  of  that  city. 

Both  the  Pastime  and  Premier  theaters,  of  Lowell, 
Mass.,  are  closed,  but  it  is  expected  that  they  will 
be  reopened  in  the  near  future,  with  programs  of 
motion  pictures  and  illustrated  songs. 

Boylen'i  Theater,  Taunton,  Mass.,  which  was 
recently  opened  to  the  public,  has  been  leased  by 
Messrs.  Donovan  and  Walker,  for  a  long  term  of 
years.  Boylen's  Theater  is  thoroughly  modern,  and 
one  of  the  best  in  the  city.  With  programs  of 
vaudeville  and  pictures,  it  is  safe  to  say  that 
Walker  &  Donovan  have  a  winner  in  Boylen's.  This 
concern  is  a  growing  one  and  now  Is  interested  in 
four  theaters  at  Taunton,  all  of  which  are  doing 
very  well  with  photoplays. 

Very  extensive  alterations  are  being  made  in  the 
Columbia  Theater,  of  Taunton,  Mass.,  and  It  will 
not  be  ready  for  another  week  or  two.  A  great 
many  badly  needed  Improvements  are  being  made. 
The  regulation  programs  of  pictures  will  be  offered 
as  usual  by  the  Columbia. 


On  April  14,  the  Opera  House,  Lawrence,  Mass., 
opened  to  the  public,  under  the  management  of 
Mr.  William  White.  The  Victoria  Theater,  also 
of  Lawrence,  playing  programs  of  pictures  and 
illustrated  songs,  is  likewise  under  the  management 
of  Mr.  White.  The  Opera  House  will  show  vaude- 
ville and  feature  pictures,  and  there  is  every  rea- 
son to  believe  that  it  will  make  good.  Manager 
White  knows  what  the  people  of  Lawrence  want, 
and  is  prepared  to  give  it  to  them. 

HENRY. 


ST.  LOUIS. 

rpHE  Franklin  Avenue  Improvement  Association, 
A  composed  of  prominent  business  men  along  that 
thoroughfare,  met  recently  and  discussed  plans  pro 
and  con  relative  to  the  erection  of  a  $65,000  motion 
picture  and  vaudeville  house.  It  is  the  purpose  of 
the  merchants  who  are  live,  energetic  hustlers  to 
Improve  that  street  by  erecting  a  popular  price 
house  which  will  cater  to  the  many  thousands  of 
patrons  of  the  popular  price  bouses  and  put  forth 
a  brand  of  amusement  somewhat  similar  to  the 
class  of  entertainment  now  offered  by  the  Hippo- 
drome, which  has  done  so  much  good  for  Sixth 
Street,  and  which  has  caused  that  thoroughfare  to 
be  christened  the  "St.  Louis  White  Way."  A 
committee  was  organized  to  raise  the  necessary 
funds.  C.  A.  Smith  was  chosen  president;  Herman 
Mauch,  vice-president;  A.  C.  Neldringhaud,  secre- 
tary,  and  W.   F.   Durkham,    treasurer. 

Captain  Roald  Amundsen,  discoverer  of  the  South 
Pole,  lectured  at  the  Odeon,  Monday,  March  3rd, 
and  with  the  aid  of  motion  pictures  showed  some 
Interesting  views  of  life  on  the  ship  "Fram"  and 
other  interesting  features  connected  with  the  now 
historic  attainment  of  reaching  a  goal  long  sought 
for  by  hardy  spirits  for  many  centuries. 

Frank  L.  Tabot,  owner  of  the  Hippodrome,  was 
recently  presented  with  a  $400  set  of  silverware  by 
attaches  of  that  theater  for  his  many  acts  of  cour- 
tesy toward  them  in  the  past,  and  especially  for 
the  donation  of  the  house  on  last  New  Year's, 
which  he  turned  over  to  allow  the  employes  to  give 
a  benefit- 
Chief  Inspector  H.  C.  Henley  of  the  Fire  Pre- 
vention Bureau,  aided  by  the  fire  insurance  men  of 
St.  Louis,  is  strongly  urging  the  Municipal  As- 
sembly to  pass  a  bill  now  pending  before  that  body 
asking  for  the  regulation  of  film  exchanges  sit- 
uated in  the  downtown  fire  skyscraper  district, 
due  to  the  fact  that  the  said  film  exchanges  carry 
an  explosive,  very  dangerous,  In  the  shape  of  "a 
film  of  nltro- cellulose,  which  burns  with  explosive 
violence  and  cannot  be  extinguished  by  the  devices 
usually  at  hand."  Chief  Henley  says  that  film 
exchange  managers  do  not  attach  enough  impor- 
tance to  the  danger  this  explosive  carries,  and 
earnestly  solicits  the  Assembly  to  pass  the  meas- 
ure. The  bill.  If  passed,  will  provide  that  each 
reel  of  film  containing  500  feet  or  more  shall  b* 
kept  in  a  separata  metal  box,  except  when  It  Is 
being  examined  or  repaired.  The  bill  also  pro- 
vides that  films  shall  be  stored  in  a  concrete  or 
brick  vault  provided  with  tight-fitting  automatic 
bank  vault  doors.  The  vaults  must  be  lighted  only 
by  vapor-proof  Incandescent  lamps,  the  wiring  to 
be  carried  in  iron  conduits  and  controlled  by 
switches  outside.  The  bill  forbids  the  use  of  any 
heating  apparatus  except  hot  air,  hot  water  or 
steam,  and  all  smoking  Is  strictly  prohibited.  An- 
other important  provision  in  the  bill  Is  to  the  effect 
that  no  film  exchange  shall  be  conducted  In  any 
building  higher  than  two  stories,  or  in  any  build- 
ing used  as  a  habitation,  with  the  maintenance  In 
every  room  containing  nitro -cellulose  films  of  two 
three-gallon  chemical  fire  extinguishers,  two  palls 
of  water  and  two  pails  of  sand,  with  a  penalty  for 
violation  of  any  provision  of  the  ordinance  amount- 
ing to  not  less  than  $25  nor  more  than  $500.  It 
can  readily  be  seen  from  the  above  that  the  meas- 
ure Is  drastic,  to  say  the  least. 

The  Grand  Central,  at  Sixth  and  Market  Streets, 
Is  doing  a  thriving  business.  With  vaudeville  to 
right  of  him  and  vaudeville  to  left  of  him,  Mr. 
Sievers,    who    has    managed    this    house    for    years, 


continues  to  demonstrate  that  the  public  knows 
what  they  want  when  they  want  it.  Mr.  Sievers 
has  the  best  organ  in  town  and  a  corps  of  assist- 
ants looking  after  the  wants  of  the  patrons.  These 
assistants  are  the  essence  of  politeness,  and  picture 
house  managers  could  learn  a  good  deal  by  pattern- 
ing after  them. 

The  office  of  the  St.  Louis  representative  of  the 
Moving  Picture  World  is  now  located  at  909  North 
Third  Street,  and  all  matter  respecting  St.  Louis 
news  will  be  taken  care  of  it  addressed  to  that 
number. 

The  New  Grand  Central,  a  $150,000  theater  the 
perfection  in  moving  picture  houses,  was  opened 
Monday,  March  31.  The  new  theater  is  located 
at  the  northeast  corner  of  Grand  and  Lucas  Ave- 
nues, and  was  put  up  by  a  company  composed 
of  William  Sievers,  manager  of  the  present  house 
known  as  the  Grand  Central  on  6th  and  aMxket 
Streets,  in  the  downtown  district.  Associated  with 
Mr.  Sievers  in  the  building  of  the  new  playhouse 
are  Edmond  Koeln,  City  Collector,  Otto  F.  Stifel 
a  brewer,  Theodore  Rassieur,  a  lawyer.  The  New 
Grand  Central  makes  the  fourth  new  picture  house 
to  go  up  in  the  Grand  Avenue  district,  which  has 
come  to  the  front  very  rapidly  the  past  few  years 
as  an  amusement  center.  The  New  Grand  Central 
is  built  of  re-inforced  concrete  as  the  basis  of  its 
structure  with  concrete  floors  and  rough  cast  stucco 
as  the  exterior  cover,  the  only  wood  In  the  house 
Is  in  conjunction  with  tlie  furnishings  for  the  seats. 
The  total  seating  capacity  is  estimated  at  2,000 
of  which  1,200  are  on  the  lower  Boor  which  meas- 
ures SO  x  100  feet.  The  proscenium  arch  is  40 
feet  wide  by  25  feet  high  adhering  to  the  general 
dimensions  of  the  present  downtown  St.  Louis 
theaters.  The  plans  for  the  theater  were  under  the 
supervision  of  Hirsch  Helfensteller  and  Watson 
architects. 

The  temporary  injunction  granted  to  the  Street 
and  Smith  Publishing  Company,  restraining  the 
Atlas  Film  Co.,  of  St.  Louis,  from  using  the  title 
Nick  Carter  fiction  hero  and  detective  in  the  Atlas 
production  of  "The  Great  $100,000  Jewel  Mystery" 
was  recently  reversed  by  the  United  States  Court 
of  Appeals.  Street  and  Smith  who  publish  a  weekly 
containing  the  adventures  of  the  said  "Nick 
Carter,"  charged  that  the  Atlas  Film  Co.,  had  no 
right  to  use  the  name.  Tbe  Court  of  Appeals  held 
that  because  the  Street  and  Smith  Co.,  had  no 
copyright  to  the  name  there  had  been  no  infringe- 
ment, and  the  Atlas  people  were  within  their  rights 
in  dramatizing  any  of  the  stories  of  Street  and 
Smith    under    the   same   name. 

Negotiations  are  under  way  for  the  erection  of 
a  moving  picture  house  at  southeast  corner  of  Mar- 
ket and  23rd  Streets.  The  house  will  be  erected 
by  C.  H.  Turpin  of  the  Adler  Goldman  Commission 
Co.  The  area  of  the  site  is  on  a  lot  100  feet  by 
144  feet  and  was  leased  on  a  basis  of  four  per 
cent,  on  a  valuation  of  $50,000.  Vaudeville  will 
also  be   shown  In   conjunction  with   the   pictures. 

Mr.  O.  E.  Goebel,  president  of  the  St.  Louis 
Motion  Picture  Co.,  25th  and  Montgomery  Streets, 
has  announced  the  purpose  of  his  company  to  en- 
large tbe  factory  and  double  the  capacity  of  the 
business.  The  fact  that  the  St.  Louis  Motion  Pic- 
ture Company  has  had  to  keep  three  shifts  of  em* 
ployees  working  night  and  day  for  months  to  keep 
up  with  orders  led  to  the  plans  for  increasing  the 
plant. 

Kalem's  magnificent  picture  *Trom  the  Manger 
to  the  Cross,"  was  put  on  Easter  week  at  the 
Talbot  Hippodrome  and  crowded  that  popular  bouse 
to  the  doors.  So  many  people  being  unable  to  see 
the  pictures  Easter  week,  Manager  Talbot  decided 
to  give  the  public  another  chance  and  the  reel  was 
put   on    again    the    week    of   April    12. 

The  Grand  Opera  House,  the  oldest  playhouse 
in  the  city,  has  been  remodeled  and  was  opened  t> 
the  public  the  past  week  when  in  conjunction  with 
eleven  acts  of  vaudeville,  the  Edison  talking  pic- 
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known  has  been  remodeled  to  a  greater  seating 
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LUBIN. 

PEDRO'S  TREACHERY  (May  5).— Ned  Fields  and 
Helen  Andrews  are  sweethearts,  when  Bob  Murry, 
the  new  foreman,  arrives.  Helen  is  immediately 
infatuated  with  this  handsome  cattleman,  ami  Leaves 
Ned  much  chagrined.  A  Mexican  workman  observes 
this  and  gives  Xed  the  laugh.  Ned  knocks  him 
down  and  Pedro,  the  Mexican,  swears  vengeance. 
Helen  and  Bob,  the  new  foreman,  later  get  married. 
Pedro,  in  the  mean  time,  gees  an  opportunity  to 
square  his  account  with  Ned.  Be  steels  Xed's  chaps 
from  the  bunkhouse,  and  disguised  bj  a  handker- 
chief and  Ned's  hat,  sneaks  into  Andrew's  home  and 
steals  the  money  which  Bob  had  procured  to  pay 
off  the  men.  Old  man  Andrews  catches  Mm  in  the 
act.  A  struggle  ensues  and  Andrews  is  mortally 
wounded.  Ned.  returning  from  searching  for  some 
absolute  suspect,  goes  to  the  door  of  the  home  and 
hears  Helen  tell  Bob  and  the  doctor  that  she  saw 
Ned  disappear  through  the  door  as  she  entered  the 
room. 

Knowing  that  no  pity  will  be  shown  him  by  the 
cowmen  when  they  learn  of  this,  he  determines  to 
cross  the  border  until  he  can  dear  his  name  and 
prove  his  innocence.  He  does  so,  and  there  meets  a 
Mexican  Senorita  and  falls  in  love  with  ber.  Ohapo 
is  caught  being  cruel  to  an  animal  and  discharged 
from  the  Andrews*  ranch.  He  also  goes  to  Mexico 
and  is  hired  by  Juanita,  later  meeting  with  Ned. 
He  attempts  to  bribe  Ned  by  showing  him  a  dipping 
from  a  home  paper.  Pedro,  being  unable  to  black- 
mail Ned,  be  takes  the  clipping  to  the  girl,  Juanita. 
Ned  calls  on  Juanita  that  evening  and  learns  of  the 
act,  and  determines  to  settle  with  Pedro.  They  have 
a  struggle,  a  revolver  is  discharged,  and  Pedro  is 
seriously  wounded.  The  sheriff,  in  the  meantime. 
who  has  secured  evidence  of  Pedro's  guilt  through 
the  confession  of  his  (Pedro's)  squaw,  appears  upon 
the  scene  in  time  to  arrest  the  guilty  one  and  send 
the  sweethearts  into  each  others'  arms. 

THE  JTJDGMEHT  OF  THE  DEEP  (May  6).— Oily; 
the  lighthouse  keeper's  daughter,  is  persuaded  by 
her  father  to  accept  the  attentions  of  Joe,  a  fisher- 
man, whom  she  dislikes.  Dick  Mathews  arrives  at 
the  seashore  with  his  mother  to  spend  his  vacation 
and  calls  at  the  lighthouse  In  view  of  renting  a 
boat  for  a  daily  row.  He  meets  Oily  and  it  is  a 
case  of  love  at  first  sight.  They  are  seen  quite 
frequently  together  by  Joe.  The  seed  of  vengeance 
now  sprouts  in  his  heart,  and  being  cognizant  of 
Dick  taking  a  daily  row,  saws  the  oars  partly  in 
half  in  the  hopes  that  Dick  would  row  out  to  sea, 
the  oars  break,  and  that  he  would  perish.  It  oc- 
curs, however,  that  Oily,  deciding  to  play  a  joke 
on  Dick,  takes  out  the  boat.  TYhen  out  quite  a 
distance  the  oars  break  and  she  is  tossed  around 
by  the  waves.  Dick  goes  down  to  where  his  boat 
is  kept,  followed  from  behind  by  Joe,  who  is  anx- 
ious to  see  his  plans  fulfilled,  but  is  surprised  to 
see  that  his  boat  Is  gone.  He  finds  Olly's  bonnet, 
and,  thinking  that  she  has  played  a  joke,  passes 
on.  Joe  is  horrified  to  Bee  the  boat  gone,  and  on 
finding  Olly's  bonnet,  it  occurs  to  him  instantly 
that  the  fate  he  prepared  for  Pick  has  befallen 
Oily,  and  he  rushes  to  her  father,  stating  that 
Oily  must  have  drifted  into  the  sea.  The  father 
rushes  down  to  the  sea,  followed  by  Joe,  and  they 
start  a  search.  Joe  in  a  boat,  the  father  searching 
the  shore.  Dick,  on  Looking  from  a  rooky  elevation 
overlooking  the  sea,  spies  Oily  frantically  waving 
her  apron  in  the  drifting  boat,  and  with  the  aid 
of  two  fishermen,  rowa  out  and  rescues  her  just 
as  she  collapses  from  exhaustion.  The  sea  be- 
comes very  rough  and  Joe's  boat  is  wrecked  and  he 
swims  to  "a  reef,  where  he  finds  the  wreck  of  Olly's 
boat.  He  becomes  remorse-stricken,  but  be  reali 
that  he  is  doomed.  The  next  morning  Oily  is  taken 
to  her  father,  whom  she  tells  of  Joe's  dastardly 
attempt  to  kill  Dick.  The  father,  wild  with  rage, 
rushes  out  to  search  for  Joe.  He  finds  Joe's  body 
washed  ashore  and  proceeds  to  denounce  him,  but 
sees  that  be  is  dead. 

HATTIE'S  NEW  HAT  (May  8).— Mrs.  Jones  ami 
Mrs.  Smith,  neighbors  of  the  Hotalings,  have  new 
hats,  and  Mrs.  Hotaling  tells  her  husband  that 
she   really   must   have  a   new  lid   to   be   equal  with 


the    others.     Arthur    demnnt,    tml    Battle    not    only 

gets    the    price,     hut     lakes    her     hUSband     with    her     to 

bring  the  package  borne.  When  Arthur  aees  the 
box  he  nearly  swoons,  it  is  big  enough  to  hold 
a   rocking   chair.     To   navigate   the, streets   and  get 

by      without     Injuring      people,      requires     all     of      liis 

optic  measurement,  and  with  an  of  his  care  he 
runs  a-foul  of  many  offensive  and  inoffensive  pe- 
destrians, which  cause  arguments  that  are  annoying. 
Beaching    home   Mrs.    Hotaling   shows    the   neighbors 

the  largest  box  and  dearest  little  hat  ever  seen, 
Arthur  is  worn  out  with  the  jolt  and  well  nigh 
demented,  attempts  suicide  by  getting  Into  the  boa 
*  and  attaching  a  gas  heater  hose.  Hat  tie  rescues 
him  and  administers  a  spanking  to  make  him  be- 
have, 

SHE  MUST  BE  UGLY  (May  8).— Robert  Hums  is 
tired  of  having  bis  stenographers  quit  their  jobs  to 
get  married.  He  hits  upon  an  idea — to  advertise 
for  a  stenographer  that  is  so  ugly  there  is  no 
chance  for  her  to  g*t  married.  Pretty  girls  apply 
for  the  position,  but  are  decidedly  turned  down  on 
aCCoant  of  their  good  looks.  Mae  Hotely  decides 
to  make  herself  ugly  and  applies  for  the  position. 
The  boss  engages  her.  One  .Sunday  afternoon,  while 
he  is  out  walking  in  the  park,  he  meets  her  in  her 
own  proper  person,  and  falls  violently  in  love,  not 
knowing  that  she  is  his  own  stenographer.  He 
tries  to  scrape  up  an  acquaintance  with  her.  but 
she  appeals  to  a  policeman  for  protection.  He  is 
utterly  miserable  until  one  day  in  the  office,  when 
Mae's  smoked  glasses  fall  off.  He  sees  through 
the  rest  of  her  make-up;  she  is  the  girl  of  his 
dreams.  Everything  ends  happily,  as  she  promises 
to  be  his  stenographer  for  life. 

A  MOCK  MARRIAGE  (May  9).^John  Colby, 
fortune  spoiled  and  a  reckless  ne'er-do-well,  on  a 
Jaunt  to  the  little  town  of  Westhury,  meets  Betty 
Carter,  the  daughter  of  'Lige  Carter,  the  country 
grocer.  Betty  is  artlessness  personified,  and  Colby 
fills  her  mind  with  tales  of  city  life,  and  then 
leaves  her  dreaming  of  gay  parties  and  autos. 
t'pon  returning  to  tbe  city  Colby  boasts  of  his 
conquest  to  several  of  his  reckless  companions.  His 
frieuds  doubt  the  story.  Colby  becomes  angered 
and  says  that  he  will  show  them.  He  loads  the 
party  in  an  auto  and  speeds  out  to  the  cross  roads 
grocery.  The  party  finds  Betty  at  the  well  and  the 
girl  is  the  recipient  of  much  ttattery  when  Colby 
Introduces  all  of  bis  friends.  The  old  grocer  sees 
the  visitors  and  the  sand  of  suspicion  is  blown  into 
his  eye.  He  orders  the  party  away.  One  of  Colby's 
companions  proposes  a  mock  marriage  ceremony, 
and  Colby,  angry  at  the  girl's  father,  agrees.  The 
girl  Is*  sent  for  and  the  preparations  made  for  the 
pretended    ceremony.     Old    man    Carter    sees    Betty 


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steal  away,  and,  seizing  a  shot  gun,  follows.  He 
comes  upon  the  young  profligates  just  as  they  are 
going  through  the  ceremony,  and  as  they  prepare 
to  take  Betty  away  with  them.  The  old  grocer 
Area,  mortally  wounding  Colby.  Betty  turns  against 
her  father.  She  baa  Colby  taken  to  ber  father's 
home,  where  she  nurses  htm  back  to  life.  During 
tie  interim  the  city  chap  has  fallen  In  love  with 
her.  This  time  a  real  minister  Is  brought  into 
service,  and  alt  are  made  happy,  even  uhl  Mr. 
Carter,  who  is  pleased  that  matters  were  so  easily 
mended. 

A  GIRL  SPY  IN  MEXICO  (Special,  2  parts, 
May  10).—  In  the  hills  Of  old  Mexico  the  skim 
Inge  Thai  ravished  the  lives  <>£  its  people  continued) 
intermittently  for  weeks.  Lieut.  Blanco's  sweet- 
heart, the  Seaorita  Anna  jr.  having  beard  no  word 
from  him,  goes  to  his  camp,  finds  him,  and  de- 
termlnes  to  work  tor  her  lover's  side  of  the  ques 
tion.  She  done  tii.  garb  Of  a  red  cross  nurse  and 
enters  the  Federal  lines  and  conveys  to  Blanco  from 
time  to  time  Important  information.  She  is  finally 
discovered  stealthily  returning  to  camp  and  is 
placed  under  arrest.  The  spy,  who  has  been  sent 
out  ii\  the  Federal  Colonel  Ferro,  is  badly  wanted  by 
the  Insurgents,  and  is  thrown  in  the  hands  of  the 
Insurgent's  leader  by  the  braveness  of  Armaje.  who, 
as  he  is  climbing  over  a  el  iff,  chops  tbe  rope  in  two 
with  rocks  and  throws  him  into  their  arms.  Lieut. 
Blanco  conceives  the  idea  of  dressing  in  Federal 
uniform  and  entering  the  Federal  camp  in  person, 
using  the  spy  to  show  him  the  way.  After  arriving 
in  said  camp,  he  discovers  that  his  sweetheart  has 
been  placed  under  arrest  on  the  serious  charge  of 
being  a  spy.  lie  effects  her  escape.  Col.  Ferro,  a 
ferocious  Federal  officer,  after  learning  of  ber  de- 
parture, makes  dire  threats  to  capture  every  lnsur- 
recto  in  his  territory  and  starts  out  to  accomplish 
his     end.      He     invades     the      Insurgent's     stronghold, 

and    there,    after    terrific    fighting,     lasting    several 

hours,  be  accomplishes  hi-;  desires,  and  I.ieiil.  Blanco 
and  his  Bweethetrt  are  made  prisoners  of  war,  the 
Colonel  inarching  them  onward  to  what  end  we 
know  not. 


SELIG. 

AN  OLD  ACTOR  (May  5). — Murdock,  a  mediocre 
actor.  i>  Hearing  the  end  of  his  career.  All  his 
life  he  has  had  the  ambition  to  play  the  part  of 
Richelieu.  He  is  now.  in  his  old  age,  playing  a 
small  part  with  Edwin  Irving,  a  star  who  is  Im- 
personating the  great  Cardinal  Richelieu.  Old 
Murdock 's  memory  is  beginning  to  fail  him,  and 
bis  heart  has  had  -spells/'  lie  fails  to  turn  up 
on  time  at  rehearsal  one  day.  and  when  be  dues 
get  there,  be  can't  recall  his  lines.  A  repetition 
of  this  sort  Of  thing  occurs,  and  be  is  discharged. 
He  falls  asleep  In  the  "extra"  dressing-room  and 
dreams  be  is  playing  Richelieu.  The  other  players 
dress  for  the  street  and  depart.  The  electric  lights 
are  turned  off.  The  old  janitor  comes  around 
with  a  lantern  to  lock  up.  He  discovers  Murdock 
and  throws  him  out.  The  old  actor,  bewildered 
and  with  his  dreams  still  vividly  before  him, 
wanders  hack  to  the  theater,  gains  entrance  to 
the  deserted  ^ia:_-c  through  a  coal  chute,  gets  into 
the  star'-;  dressing-room,  dons  the  Richelieu  eos- 
tume,  turns  on  all  the  stage  lights,  and  plays 
Richelieu  grandeloquently  and  to  his  heart's  con- 
tent, liis  am  hi  tion  is  realised;  but  his  feeble 
spark  of  vitality  spends  itself  in  the  heroic  effort 
and  old  Murdock  falls  back  into  the  throne  chair. 
deau.       Tbe     next     day     at     rehearsal     they     find     hi  in 

there,  a  sublime  old  figure  clothed  in  the  scarlet 
and    ermine   of    Cardinal    Richelieu. 

A  WELDED  FRIENDSHIP  (May  6).— Violet 
Trevor,  whose  mother  has  recently  died,  starts 
..ut  to  find  her  talher.  who  sometime  before  had 
gone  to  Alaska  to  search  for  gold.  After  a  long, 
difficult,  and  fruitless  Journey,  she  finally  reaches 
an  obscure  Alaskan  village.  She  sees  an  American 
outside  one  of  the  snow-bunked  huts,  and 
Stumbles    inside    utterly     exhausted.       John     Bowling, 

owner  of  the  but,  helps  her  to  a  chair  and  hastens 
to    make    ber    comfortable.      She    tells    him    of    her 

[■CD    and     ; nic-s    that    si  e    is    the    daughter    of 

Mary      Wilton,       who      had      married      Paul       Trevor. 

i  :i  she  sinks  into  a  sleep  of  utter  exhaustion. 
John  Bowling  sits  and  stares  into  the  tire.  In  the 
flames  he  sees  a  retrospective  vision  of  the  past 
t\\  enty    years. 

Handsome  young  Paul  Trevor,  candidate  for 
states  Attorney,  meets  and  falls  in  love  with 
pretty  Mary  will  on.  ;,  stenographer  in  the  office 
of  Martin  Kelly,  a  crooked  politician.  Later  Kelly 
Bttemupts  to  take  liberties  with  Mary,  and  Bow- 
ling, a  friend  of  Trevor's,  kills  him.  while  at- 
tempting to  protect  the  girl,  Trevor  is  accused 
of  the  crime,  but  Bowling  and  Mary  save  him  by 
their     testimony.       Before     Bow  ling    can    be    rear- 


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d,  be  departs  r.ir  the  Ar.ti._-  on  a  n 
Bchooner.  He  is  shipwrecked,  bnt  eventually  finds 
bis  way  to  a  sewi-rlvilizn  tion  in  Alaska.  In  ilie 
meantime  Trevor  and  Mary  Wilton  have  married. 
The  dames  die  out:  Violet  awakes  and  heals  Bow- 
lines story.  Together  they  start  out  to  hunt  for 
her  father.  They  eventually  And  him,  and  his 
mine — which    is    called     -The    Welded    Friend: 

HATCHING  CHICKENS  (Hay  6).— An  educa- 
tional subject  demonstrating  the  efficiency  of  the 
incubator. 

BELLE  BOYD— A  CONTEDEKATE  SPY  (May  7). 
— Belle  Boyd  was  one  of  the  most  daring  and 
dashing  figures  of  the  South  in  the  great  Civil 
War.  She  was  captured  and  imprisoned  a  number 
of  times,  and  was  personally  commended  bv  1. en- 
era!  Stonewall  Jackson  for  her  distinguished  ser- 
vices on  behalf  of  his  army  and  her  country.  The 
details  of  this  story  are  fictional,  although  it  is 
an  historic  fact.  Belle  Iioy,i  went  through  the 
zone  of  fire  on  a  battlefield,  escaping  by  dropping 
to  the  ground  between  every  volley  and  then 
jumping  to  her  feet  and  runuing  toward  the  Con- 
federate   battery. 

The  scene  opens  with  the  home  of  Belle  Bovd 
in  neutral  ground.  She  and  her  girl  companions 
are  "sewing  up"  the  gallant  battle-scarred  South- 
erners, whose  uniforms  were  necessarily  neglected 
after  the  first  few  years  of  strenuous  service. 
The  watchful  darkey  rims  into  the  parlor  where 
the  tailoring  is  proceeding  on  the  living  models 
and  sounds  the  alarm.  "The  Yanks  are  coming." 
The  Confederate  officers  desert  their  sweethearts 
mount  in  hot  haste  and  make  for  their  lines! 
They  are  well  out  of  the  way  when  a  Federal  troop 
of  cavalry  escorting  General  Shields  and  staff  come 
upon  the  porch.  The  General  says  they  must  use 
the  house  a  few  moments  to  discuss  battle  plans. 
Aunt  Cloe  nshers  them  into  a  parlor  at  the  in- 
vitation of  Belle  Boyd.  This  parlor  is  rather  di- 
lapidated. The  General  sends  his  orderly  out  to 
inspect  the  premises  to  observe  if  thev  are  safe 
from  eavesdroppers  and  posts  a  sentinel  at  the  door 
of  the  parlor.  The  soldier  inspects,  but  he  no 
sooner  leaves  the  room  above  the  parlor  than  Belle 
Boyd  emerges  from  hiding  in  an  old  armor.  She 
darkens  the  room,  draws  aside  the  rug  in  the 
center  and  looks  through  the  hole  in  the  ceiling, 
the  plans  exposed  on  the  parlor  table  below 
and  hears  of  a  plot  to  capture  General  Jackson. 
She  makes  note  of  them,  as  they  are  most  im- 
portant for  "the  cause."  When  the  officers  de- 
part she  is  at  the  front  door  to  big  them  "good 
bye"  and  through  substituting  a  blank  roll  se- 
cures the  battle  plan  from  an  enamored  subor- 
dinate. Men  follow  her  wild  ride  and  her  race 
through  the  battlefield,  bringing  information  that 
saves   Jackson's    corps    from   defeat. 

HER  GTJABDIAN  (May  8).-^Tohn  Broderick. 
wealthy  bachelor,  globe  trotter  and  devotee  of  out- 
door sports,  is  seated  in  his  den  enjoying  a  pipe 
and  a  magazine  when  his  Japanese  valet  hands 
him  a  letter  which  proves  to  he  a  tnrniug  point  in 
his  life.  It  is  from  his  life-long  friend.  Samuel 
Farley.  Farley  is  dying  and  writes  to  Broderick 
that  he  has  appointed  Broderick  the  guardian  of 
his  young  daughter  and  looks  to  him  to  bring 
her  np  in  proper  fashion.  One  dav  Louise  Farlev 
arrives  unannounced.  When  Broderick  returns 
home  and  finds  this  bit  of  budding  womanhood  on 
his  hands  he  is  considerably  perplexed.  He  turns 
her  over  to  his  housekeeper,  and  wonders  how  he 
is  going  to  adapt  himself  to  the  new  conditions. 
But  rime  goes  on.  Louise  forces  her  way  into  his 
rt  deeper  than  he  realizes.  He  sends  her  awar 
to  l>oarding  school,  and  takes  himself  off  to  hunt 
In  Africa,  to  overcome  a  loneliness  which  her  ab- 
sence makes  him  suddenly  reali*.  Finally  the 
day  of  her  graduation  arrives  and  he  hurries"  home 
to  receive  her.  At  school  Louise  has  become  in- 
sted  in  young  Dick  Davis,  and  invites  him  to 
call  on  her  at  Broderick 's  home.  On  seeing  the 
girl  again  Broderick  is  overwhelmed  with  the  real 
ization  that  he  loves  her.  not  as  a  father,  hut  as 
a  lover.  Dick  arrives,  and  one  evening  Broderick 
inadvertently    surprises    the    two     in    a     lover's    em- 

e.  He  then  bravely  acknowledges  to  himself 
-  youth  must  needs  seek  youth,  and  that  he 
st  not   staud   in  the  way   of  his  ward's  happiness. 

He  manfully  turns  Louise  over  to  Dick — and  once 
more  seeks  the  solace  of  the  bachelor's  pipe  and 
fireside. 

IN    THE    DAYS    OF    WTTCHCHATT     (May    9).— 

A    story    of    Puritan    New    England    in    the    .lavs    of 

ton    Mather.      One    morning    Adam    Badcliffe    and 

wife    find    an    abandoned    baby    on    their    door- 

with  a  note  telling  them  it  is  of  gentle  birth. 

Mr-      Badcliffe.     an    austere    woman,     is    determined 

nothing    to    do    with    the    child,    which    is 

•     the    wiseacres   of    the    village    to    he    of 

witch    parentage:    but   Adam   is  tender   hearted    and 

eeds    in    keeping    the    baby    in    the    family.      The 

child,    named    Anne,    grows    up    to    he    a    heautifnl 

girl.       A    young    cavalier    by    the    name    of     Yorke 

visits    (he    colony    from    England,    with    a    letter    of 

In. ii..n      to      Radcliffe.        Lady      Beresford.      a 

autlful     l.nt    unscrupulous    noblewoman,     in     love 

1    Yorke.    follows    him    to    Xew    England.      Yorke 

-    in    love    with    Anne.      To    cause    the    separation 

of    Yorke    and     Anne.     Lady    Beresford     pretends    to 

have     been     bewitched     by      Anne.        Anne's      foster 

mother,    who  has  never  been  kind   to  her.   sides   with 

Lady    Beresford   and   a    formal    accusation    is   brought 

against  Anne.      She   is    tried   before   Cotton    Mather. 

and   sentenced   to    the   stake.      At    the   last    moment 


Yorke    succeeds    in    rescuing    bet    from    the    jail    and 
escapes    to    England    with   her. 


ESSANAY. 

THE  CRAZY  PROSPECTOR  (May  3) John  Har- 
lan, a  crazy  prospector  living  with  his  daugl 
in  Nevada,  accidentally  discovers  gold.  He  is  BO 
enthused  over  it  that  he  immediately  goes  to  tlie 
town  saloon,  where  he  informs  everybody.  Harriet, 
the  daughter,  discovering  her  father  has  not  re- 
turned, goes  to  the  saloon,  where  she  is  informed 
by  her  half-virted  father  that  he  has  told  the  men 
"i  the  location  and  that  they  have  already  departed 
for  the  bidden  treasure.  Broncho  Billy  enters  the 
saloon  and  Harriet  imblores  him  to  help  her  keep 
the  men  from  staking  out  the  property.  Driving 
his  stage-coach  at  dare-devil  speed  over  rocks, 
through  marshes  and  small  streams,  he  finally 
reaches  a  high  spot  in  the  road,  where  the  deep 
canyon  yawns  below.  Harriet  unhitches  one  of  the 
horses  and  rides  to  the  claim  agent's  office,  where 
her  name  is  riled  on  the  state's  books  for  the  prop- 
erty. With  the  certificate  of  the  state  in  her 
hands,  she  dashes  madly  to  the  gold  pit.  where  she 
stakes  out  her  claim.  In  the  meantime,  the  men 
arrive  on  horseback  and  are  prevented  from  passing 
the  coach,  which  takes  up  the  whole  road.  Broncho 
Billy  saves  the  claim  for  the  crazy  prospector  and 
wins  the  hand  of  his  daughter  as  a  reward. 

A  TANGO  TANGLE  (May  6).— Mrs.  Beverly  Jig- 
ger writes  t<>  her  dear  friend.  Mrs.  Styles,  that 
she  w  ill  be  unable  to  attend  her  dance,  as  she 
does  not  know  how  to  dance  the  Tango.  Hubby 
takes  a  different  view  of  the  matter,  however, 
when  he  discovers  an'  "ad"  in  the  newspaper, 
stating  that  the  advertiser  will  teach  anyone  how 
to  dance  the  Tango.  Mr.  Jigger  learns  rapidly. 
Mrs.  Jigger  reads  the  same  "ad,'*  and  she  too 
becomes  a  Tango  enthusiast.  Mrs.  Jigger  calls 
at  her  husband's  office  and  discovers  a  handker- 
chief on  the  floor.  She  comes  to  the  untimely 
conclusion  that  her  husband  is  not  true  to  her. 
When  hubby  returns  borne  that  evening,  Mrs. 
Jigger  informs  him  that  she  is  going  home  to 
mother.  Hubby  informs  bis  wife  that  she  may 
remain,  that  lie  will  leave.  Their  trouble  and 
misunderstanding  comes  to  an  abrupt  end  when 
they  bear  the  mellow  tones  of  a  grind  organ  in 
front  of  their  bouse.  This  starts  their  feet  agoing, 
and  they  dance  the  Tango,  much  to  the  surprise 
of  each  other.  Hubby  explains  that  the  hand- 
kerchief was  dropped  by  one  of  his  clients.  Wifey 
forgives. 

THE  PROPHECY  (May  7). — John  Carlton  is  ac- 
cused of  the  murder  of  George  Skinner,  a  baker. 
Sheriff  Davis  testifies  that  he  encountered  Carlton 
and  Skinner  in  a  furious  religious  argument.  Cir- 
omnstantial  evidence  convicts  Carlton.  Bert  Samp- 
son, a  cobbler,  and  manufacturer  of  counterfeit 
money,  tried  to  pass  a  fake  bill  on  Skinner.  Samp- 
son kills  him.  Anita,  daughter  of  John  Carlton. 
consults  &  palmist  and  is  informed  that  she  will 
meet  a  man  that  will  steal  her  heart  away.  Ralph 
Peters,  a  traveling  salesman,  calls  on  Sampson 
to  collect  a  bill  past  due.  He  is  paid  with  counter- 
feit money.  Peters  informs  the  sheriff,  who  arrests 
the  cobbler.  Carlton  is  exonerated.  Peters  is 
rewarded  by  the  acceptance  of  a  proposal  of  mar- 
riage   to    Anita. 

TWO  WESTERN  PATHS  (May  8) — John  Lynch. 
sheriff  of  Lone  Pine,  Montana,  falls  in  love  with 
La  Tunita,  a  dancing ,  girl.  The  following  morn- 
ing, while  on  his  way  to  work.  Lynch  discovers 
La  Tunita  beside  the  railroad  tracks  and  carries 
her  to  the  postoffice.  where  she  is  given  into  the 
care  of  the  post  mistress.  A  few  months  later, 
the  sheriff  marries  the  pretty  girl  of  the  stage. 
Some  time  later.  La  Tunita's  former  manager 
returns  to  town.  The  dancing  girl  tells  him  that 
she  is  tired,  wretched  and  miserable  with  the  life 
she  has  been  leading,  and  wants  to  go  back  to 
the  bright  lights.  The  two  are  about  to  run  away 
when  Lynch  enters.  Realizing  that  he  is  keeping 
the  woman  he  loves  from  what  is  most  dear  to 
her.  be  gives  her  some  money  an.l  bids  her  a 
fond  farewell.  He  sacrifices  his  happiness  for 
her's. 

A  WOMAN'S  WAY  (May  9).— Marion  Walker, 
engaged    to    Dudley    Mason,    becomes    jealous    of    her 

Allele,     when    she    discovers    that    Mason    is 

treating    her    courteously.     That    evening,    for    spite, 
Marion     refuses     to    go     to    a    dance     with     Dudley. 
Dudley   takes  Adele.     A    few   months  later,    w  e 
Dudley   married   to  Marion's   sister,    living   in    wealth 
and     splendor.     Marion     sobs     out     her     grief.     The 
life    that     Adele    led    in    her    artificial     atmosphere, 
makes     her     forget     her     new    baby     for     the     - 
whirl.     Baby    Dudley    is    taken    sick    ami    Adele    re- 
fuses  to  stay   with   him,   but  leaves  for  a   week-end 
party.      Mason    calls    Marion    on    the    telephone    and 
asks   her   to  come   to   bis   assistance   in   nursing    back 
the   strength  of   bis  son.      Marion   compiles   willingly. 
Adele    is    killed    in    the    Omaha    tornado.     Five    years 
later,    Marion    and   Dudley    join   hands    in    marriag 
tm    tin-   joy   of   Dudley   Jr. 

ALKALI  IKE'S  MOTHER-IN-LAW  (May  10).— 
For  some  unknown  reason  or  other.  Alkali  Ike 
cannot  get  along  with  his  wife.  To  make  matters 
worse.  Mrs.  Alkali  invites  her  mother  to  visir  her. 
Mother-in-law  starts  right  in  trying  to  reform  her 
son-in-law.  Alkali  meets  her  at  the  railroad  sta- 
tion, and  instead  of  hiring  a  bus  to  carry  up  her 
rgage,     slie    makes    Alkali    carry    three    or    four 


hat  boxes,  a  parrot,  and  a  trunk,  on  his  back  to 
the  bouse.  Alkali  enters  the  bouse,  throws  bis  bat 
on  the   table.     Mother-in-law  Alkali 

by  the  hair  and  gently  l.nr  firmly  ropiest-  bin)  to 
hang  bis  hat  up  where  ir  belongs.  That 
Alkali  Ike  decides  to  visit  his  friends  at  the 
Green  Turtle,  but  mother-in-law  decides  that  he 
will  remain  right  in  the  house  and  listen  to  her 
selections  on  the  organ.  Wifey  assists  ber  mother 
by  rendering  a  solo.  Alkali  finally  sneaks 
He  purchases  a  hook  teaching  hypnotism,  and 
What  be  doesn't  do  to  bis  mother-in-law  is  a  cau- 
tion. Wifey  interferes  just  as  ber  mother  is  about 
to  make  her  exit  from  the  town  under  a  hypnotic 
spell,  and  the  tables  turn.  Just  see  what  happened 
to    Alkali    Ike. 


VITAGRAPH. 

BINGLES  MENDS  THE  CLOCK  (May  5).— Satur- 
day, being  a  balf-boHday.  Bingles  volunteers  to  help 
Mrs.  Biugles  with  the  housework.  She  sends  him 
to  the  clock-maker's  with  a  clock  that  she  wants 
repaired.  Biugles  thinks  that  the  clock-maker's 
charge  is  too  high  and  brings  the  clock  back  again. 
He  will  mend  it  himself.  His  troubles  soon  begin. 
After  be  lias  taken  the  clock  to  pieces  he  finds  that 
he  needs  some  machine  oil.  On  the  way  to  the  hard- 
ware store  he  meets  some  friends,  who  are  celebrat- 
ing, and  they  persuade  Bingles  to  lubricate  himself 
as  well  as  the  clock.  Finally  be  gets  away  from 
tbem  and  goes  home  again.  By  the  time  he  gets 
there  lie  is  feeling  rather  quarrelsome,  and  when 
he  finds  that  the  children  have  been  trying  their 
hands  at  clock-mending,  he  makes  some  rude  re- 
marks. He  spanks  all  the  children  and  then  turrife 
them  and  his  wife  out  of  the  room.  She,  thinking 
him  a  brute,  decides  to  go  back  again  to  home  and 
mother.  Dressing  the  children  in  their  best,  she 
leaves  the  house  with  her  wailing  family,  placing 
on  the  table  a  note  for  her  husband,  telling  bim 
where  she  has  gone. 

Bingles  finds  most  of  the  clock  works  and  puts 
them  together.  Then,  hanging  the  clock  on  the 
wall,  he  looks  at  his  watch.  It  is  supper  time  and 
he  is  hungry,  doing  in  search  of  bis  wife  he  finds 
her  note  and  is  plunged  into  despair.  Supper  or 
no  supper,  he  decides  to  start  the  clock.  Putting 
it  to  the  right  time,  he  sets  the  pendulum  moving. 
Bingles  begius  to  doubt  his  sanity.  That  clock 
certainly  does  go.  It  goes  at  double  express  speed 
backwards,  from  6  p.  m.  today  to  o  a.  m.  yesterday 
in  five  minutes.  He  looks  at  it  upside  down,  side- 
ways and  several  other  ways,  but  he  cannot  make 
head  or  tail  of  the  matter.  Making  up  his  mind 
to  give  the  clock-maker  a  job,  he  decides  to  fetch 
his  wife  home  to  cook  supper.  Xo  more  economy 
for  Bingles. 

OMENS  AND  ORACLES  (May  8).— (The  Belinda 
Series.  Number  Three).  "See  a  pin  and  pick  it 
up.  and  all  the  day  you'll  have  good  luck."  says 
the  faithful  Belinda  as  she  finds  one  on  the  door- 
step. Just  then  a  good-looking  young  man  comes 
along,  looking  for  a  boarding  place.  He  makes  ar- 
rangements with  Ophelia,  Belinda's  mistress,  and 
she  shows  him  to  his  room.  Ophelia  falls  in  love 
at  first  sight  of  the  stranger,  and  confides  in  Be- 
linda. A  policeman,  who  is  "walking  out"  with 
the  rook,  finds  a  fortune-teller's  card  on  the  side- 
walk on  his  way  to  visit  her.  While  the  cook  is 
giving  bim  a  feed,  Belinda  comes  in,  and,  after 
flirting  with  the  policeman  a  little  on  her  own 
account,  she  gets  the  card,  which  she  takes  to  her 
mistress.  Miss  Ophelia  decides  to  go  to  the  fortune- 
teller, Madam  Miriam,  and  takes  Belinda  with  her. 
Madame  Miriam  tells  Ophelia  that  a  blonde  young 
man  will  fall  in  love  with  her.  Both  Ophelia  and 
Belinda  think  the  young  man  must  be  the  new 
boarder.  Sidney,  the  boarder,  finds  that  he  has  not 
enough  money  to  pay  his  board  bill,  and  to  get 
on  the  right  side  of  Ophelia,  he  takes  her  out 
to  an  ice-cream  parlor  and  spends  bis  last  quarter 
on  her.  While  they  are  gone.  Belinda  finds  a 
photo  of  Sidney's  wife  in  his  room  and  sees  that 
the  wife  is  none  other  than  Madam  Miriam.  Be- 
linda is  very  much  shocked.  Madam  Miriam  sees 
Sidney  and  Ophelia  on  their  way  back  to  the  house 
and  she  follows  them  in  and  claims  her  husband. 
Ophelia  will  not  let  him  go  until  the  board  bill  is 
paid,  and  calls  the  policeman  up  from  the  kitchen 
to  arres  him.  Madam  Miriam  pays  the  bill  and 
bears  off  her  husband  in  triumph.  Belinda  does  her 
best  to  comfort  her  sorrowing  mistress,  thiukiug  it 
is  all  her  fault. 

THE  DEERSLAYER  (Special,  2  parts.  Mar.  7).— 
PART  ONE.— Wah-Ta-Wah.  or  Hist,  the  lady-love 
of  Chingachgook,  a  Delaware  chief,  has  been  cap- 
tured by  the  warlike  Hurons.  Chingachgook  asks 
the  aid  or  Deerslayer,  a  white  man  brought  np 
among  the  Indians,  in  rescuing  her,  and  the  two 
men  arrange  to  meet  at  Lake  Otsego,  then  called 
Glimmerglass. 

Deerslayer  sets  out  for  the  meeting  pis 
panted  by   Hurry   Harry   March,    a    trapper,    who  acts 
ide.     Hurrv    takes    him    to    meet    Hotter, 
another    hunter,    who    has    established    a    permanent 
home    on    the    lake.      With    bis    two    daughters.    Judith 
and     Hetty,     Hutter    lives    In    a     peculiar    foi 
called    the    rastie,    set    on    piles    in    the   middle   of 
the    lake,    and    also    spends    much    of    the    time    on    a 
strange  vessel  called  The  Ark.   similar  to  the  Oa 
but    built   on    B    SCOW.      It    is    on    this    vessel,    Ashing 
an    a    small    stream,    that    they    are    found    by    Deer- 
slaver    and    Hurry    Harry.     The   two   men   receive    a 
bearty    welcome    from   Judith,    who   is   betrothed    to 


506 

Harry    and  who  at  once  greatly  admires  the  evident 
strength  of  Deerslayer. 

News  arrives  that  the  Hurons  are  on  the  war- 
path, and  all  hasten  to  get  the  Ark  out  of  the 
stream  and  out  into  the  lake.  That  night,  Hurry 
Harry,  Hutter  and  Deerslayer  take  the  canoe  and 
land  on  shore.  The  others  wish  to  go  on  a  scalping 
expedition  to  the  now  unprotected  Indian  encamp- 
ment, but  Deerslayer  will  not  accompany  them. 
When  the  camp  Is  attacked,  both  men  are  "captured 
and  Deerslayer  is  obliged  to  return  without  them. 
Hutter  having  charged  him  with  the  care  of  his 
daughters  in  case  harm  should  have  befallen  him. 
The  next  day,  Deerslayer  goes  to  the  foot  of  the 
lake,  where  he  meets  his  friend,  Chingachgook,  and 
brings  him  to  the  Ark.  Hetty,  the  simple-minded 
daughter  of  Hutter,  secretly  takes  the  canoe  and 
goes  off  to  shore  to  plead  for  her  father  and  Harry, 
whom  she.  loves  greatly.  She  is  treated  kindly  by 
the  Indians,  who  always  revere  the  simple-minded, 
and  given  the  freedom  of  the  camp,  while  there. 
Hetty  meets  Hist,  and  having  told  her  that  ChiDga- 
chgook  Is  at  the  Ark,  she  is  given  a  message  for 
him.  She  is  brought  back  the  next  day  to  the  Ark 
by  one  of  the  Indians,  who  is  given  a  present  for 
his  chief  by  Deerslayer,  who  ofTcrs  a  ransom  for 
hia  friends.  Harry  and  Hutter  are  exchanged  for 
a  pair  of  ivory  chess-men,  castles  mounted  on 
elephants,  and  are  soon  back  again  with  Deerslayer 
and  the  anxious  girls. 

FAST  TWO. — Hist  had  sent  a  message  saying 
that  she  would  be  awaiting  her  lover  at  sunset,  and 
accordingly  Chingachgook  and  Deerslayer  set  off  to 
fetch  her.  By  heading  off  the  Indians  in  another 
direction,  Deerslayer  makes  good  the  escape  of  Hist 
and  Chingachgook,  but  Is  himself  captured.  Riven- 
oak,  the  Huron  chief,  promises  Deerslayer  his  life 
If  he  will  join  the  tribe  and  marry  Sumac,  wife  of 
a  brave  he  had  killed  in  the  struggle,  but  he  will 
not  accept  the  offer. 

Hutter  has  not  been  near  the  Castle  for  some 
days  and  goes  there  with  Hurry  Harry,  notwith- 
standing the  warning  they  receive  from  Chiuga- 
cbgook.  They  are  ambushed  by  the  Hurons.  who 
scalp  Hutter.  Harry  gets  away  and  brings  the 
dreadful  news  to  his  daughters  at  the  Ark.  He  pro- 
poses that  Judith,  long  betrothed  to  him,  now 
marry  him,  that  he  may  have  the  right  to  protect 
her  and  her  sister.  She  refuses  because  of  the 
secret  love  she  had  conceived  for  Deerslayer  from 
the  moment  she  first  saw  him. 

Hurry  then  leaves  the  two  girls  in  the  care  of 
Chingachgook  and  Hist  and  goes  to  the  British  fort, 
where  he  tells  of  the  death  of  Hutter  and  the  cap- 
ture of  Deerslayer,  and  asks  for  aid.  While  he  is 
gone,  Judith,  who  would  give  her  life  for  the  man 
she  loves,  goes  to  the  camp,  masquerading  as  a 
queen,  seeking  the  release  of  Deerslayer.  The  In- 
dians, who  have  never  seen  her  before,  are  at  first 
taken  in,  but  her  identity  is  unwittingly  betrayed 
by  Hetty  to  Chief  Rivenoak.  The  chief  tells  Judith 
that  at  sunset  the  brave  Deerslayer  must  die. 

Meanwhile,  Hurry  Harry  March  is  bringing  the 
soldiers  towards  the  Indian  camp.  They  arrive 
Just  In  time  to  prevent  the  death  of  Deerslayer  and 
rout  the  Indians  after  a  short  but  sharp  skirmish. 
When  all  fighting  is  over  and  examination  made 
of  the  wounded,  it  is  found  that  Hetty  has  been 
hit  by  a  stray  bullet  and  is  dying.  In  her  last 
words  she  confesses  her  love  for  Hurry  Harry,  and, 
asking  a  kiss  from  him,  dies  in  his  arms. 

Judith,  now  deprived  of  father  and  sister  both, 
is  offered  a  home  by  the  captain  of  the  soldiers, 
who  will  take  her  back  with  him  to  his  wife  and 
sisters  at  the  fort.  She  will  not  at  once  answer 
him,  however,  but  asks  time  to  consider  what  she 
shall  do.  She  goes  with  Deerslayer  a  little  apart 
from  the  camp  and  there  confesses  her  love  for 
him,  telling  him  that  if  he  return  her  love,  she  will 
understand  by  his  silence.  Deerslayer  listens  to  her 
gravely  and  with  all  respect,  but  answers  not  a 
word. 

DISCIPLINING  DAISY  (May  7).— The  girls  of 
the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  sonority  are  highly  indignant 
at  the  conduct  of  one  of  their  members,  Daisy 
Manners,  and  resolve  to  teach  her  a  much-needed 
lesson.  By  hook  or  by  crook,  she  must  be  cured 
of  the  borrowing  bablt.  They  overhear  Phil 
Matthews  ask  her  to  go  with  him  to  a  garden  fete 
that  evening,  and  they  lay  their  plans  accordingly. 
Daisy  is  dressing  for  the  occasion,  and  goes  round 
to  the  rooms  of  various  fellow  co-eds,  on  borrowing 
bent.  Everyone  seems  to  be  out,  but  that  does  not 
bother  her.  She  just  helps  herself  and  leaves  notes 
explaining  that  she  has  taken  the  things.  In  this 
way,  Daisy  acquires  a  nev?  party  dress,  a  new  hat, 
a  new  pair  of  shoes,  a  necklace,  earrings  and  even 
some  false  bair.  Attired  in  all  this  finery  she  de- 
scends to  join  the  expectant  Phil. 

As  Boon  as  Daisy  has  left  the  Chapter  House  the 
other  girls  go  to  their  rooms  to  see  what  she  has 
taken.  They  plan  to  set  out  in  a  body  to  reclaim 
their  missing  belongings.  .They  reach  the  fete  just 
as  Daisy  and  Phil  are  having  dinner.  First  the 
owner  of  the  false  hair  demands  her  property,  much 
to  Phil's  amusement.  Then  the  others  in  turn  take 
what  is  theirs,  leaving  Daisy  with  no  hat,  no  shoes, 
her  hair  all  mussed  up  and  wearing  an  old  sweater 
coat  that  was  brought  her  to  replace  the  fine 
•'borrowed"  dress.  Daisy  finally  gets  home,  wear- 
ing an  old  pair  of  shoes  that  Phil  has  bought  from 
a  beggar  for  a  nickel  and  sent  to  her  by  him.  She 
finds  Phil  having  a  good  time  with  the  other  girls. 
After  listening  to  their  singing  and  laughing  for  a 
while,  her  anger  dies  down  and  she  Is  quite  ready 
to  own  that  she  herself  Is  to  blame.  She  resolves 
never  to  borrow  again. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 

INSPECTION  OF  THE  QUEBEC  POLICE  (Kay 
7) — Showing  the  splendid  police  force  of  the  oldest 
Canadian  city,  the  men  that  now  patrol  the  Historic 
Heights  of  Abraham,  the  scene  of  General  Wolfe's 
famous  exploit. 

THE  WRATH  OF  OSAKA  (May  8).— Kobe,  the 
father  of  Miro,  is  a  grouch.  Miro  is  beloved  of 
nsaka.  a  poor  man,  whose  suit  is  rudely  rejected 
by  Kobe,  who,  in  a  drunken  orgy,  offers  his  daugh- 
ter to  the  highest  bidder  among  his  friends.  She 
Is  won  by  Okyto.  a  rich  profligate,  who  takes  her 
away  with  him  to  his  summer  palace,  refusing  to 
allow  even  her  faithful  servant,  Suzi,  to  accompany 
her.  Suzi  tells  Osaka  of  the  marriage,  and  when  he 
attempts  to  speak  with  Miro,  he  is  rudely,  beaten 
off  by  Okyto's  attendants.  Osaka  then  goes  to  Kobe 
and  tells  him  that  if  harm  comes  to  his  daughter, 
Miro.  his  life  shall  pay  the  forfeit. 

After  reaching  the  palace  with  her  husband. 
Okyto,  Miro  is  treated  shamefully.  On  one  occa- 
sion, she  is  rudely  pushed  aside  in  favor  of  geisha 
girl.  Miro  flees  into  the  garden  and  drops  un- 
conscious, where  she  is  found  by  Suxi.  Okvto 
presently  seeks  her  and  again  handles  her  roughly. 
Osaka  sees  bim,  forces  his  way  Into  the  palace 
grounds,  approaches  him  and  a  terrific  struggle  takes 
place  between  the  two  men.  Osaka  is  victorious 
and  leaves  Okyto  bleeding  upon  the  ground.  He 
then  picks  up  Miro  and  carries  her  off,  tries  to  re- 
vive her,  and  being  unable  to  do  so,  he  leaves  her 
in  the  care  of  Suzi  and  goes  to  wreak  his  venge- 
ance upon   Kobe,   whom  he  kills. 

While  Osaka  is  away,  Nikko,  a  peddler,  whom  he 
has  befriended,  comes  up  and  by  means  of  a 
powerful  elixir,  to  which  he  holds  the  secret,  re- 
stores Miro  to  consciousness.  When  Osaka  returns, 
he  is  overjoyed  and  departs  with  Miro,  Suzi  and 
Nikko,  to  find  a  new  home  in  the  fertile  vallevs 
of  Nippon. 

CUPID'S  HIRED  MAN  (May  9).— The  laughing 
stock  of  a  small  country  village  is  an  old  maid. 
Miss  Anne  Matthews.  In  desperation  she  decides 
that  if  she  cannot  get  a  real  lover,  she  will  hire 
one.  In  the  middle  of  the  night  her  house  is  en- 
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point  of  her  revolver.  As  a  condition  of  freedom, 
he  agrees  to  pose  as  her  lover,  for  which  she  is 
to  pay  him  five  dollars  a  week  and  give  bim  bis 
board. 


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AU  goes  well,  until  the  night  of  the  church 
social,  when  John  Henry  Jones,  one  of  Anne's 
former  lovers,  who  has  made  his  fortune  In  New 
York,  tries  to  flirt  with  her.  The  "hired  man"  In- 
terferes and  succeeds  in  making  Mr.  Jones  very 
jealous,  so  much  so,  that  the  next  day  he 
upon  Miss  Matthews  to  propose  marriage.  rhe 
proposal  takes  her  entirely  by  surprise  and  con- 
science-stricken, she  tells  him  the  truth  about 
her  hired  lover.  Jones  agrees  to  forgive  her,  pro- 
viding that  the  burglar  be  sent  away.  At  this 
moment  the  burglar  lover  interrupts  them  and  a 
quarrel  between  the  two  men  seems  inevitable. 
The  burglar  does  not  want  to  lose  what  he  thinks 
is  a  soft  job.  At  last  he  sees  that  nothing  is  left 
for  him  to  do  but  resign,  so  he  demands  his  pay. 
Jones,  who  is  feeling  full  of  joy  at  the  thought  of 
his  coming  marriage  with  Miss  Anne,  insists 
that  he  will  settle  all  demands.  He  bands  the 
burglar  fifty  dollars  and  bustles  him  away  at  top 
speed.  Everything  lias  turned  out  well  after  all. 
Jones  and  Miss  Matthews  are  each  happy  at  having 
secured  a  life  partner,  while  the  'hired  man"  is 
glad  of  the  chance  to  follow  again  his  own  in- 
clinations and  get  away  with  a   whole  skin. 

THE  SEA  MAIDEN  (May  10).— Just  after  bid- 
ding a  fond  farewell  to  Stella  Chapman,  his  sweet- 
heart, Edmund  Vance,  receives  a  telegram  tell- 
ing bim  that  he  has  acquired  a  fortune.  He  rushes 
back  to  tell  Stella  of  his  good  luck,  but  finds  her 
In  the  arms  of  another  man.  Disgusted  by  her 
faithlessness,  he  demands-  the  return  of  their  en- 
gagement ring  and  immediately  leaves  her.  Stella 
finds  out  about  the  fortune  and  realizes  that  she 
has  lost.  She  determines  to  get  back  at  him  and 
to  this  end  seeks  out  Madeline  Turner,  a  young 
and  pretty  girl  who  has  recently  lost  her  father 
in  a  very  tragic  manner.  Mr.  Turner  had  been 
involved  by  other  business  men.  in  some  under- 
banded  stock  transactions.  Exposure  had  come 
and  as  a  result,  he  lost  his  money.  The  sudden 
loss  of  his  fortunes  gave  the  old  man  a  shock  which 
he  did  not  survive,  leaving  Madeline  and  her 
mother  almost  penniless.  Stella  tells  Madeline 
that  it  was  Edmund  Vance  who  ruined  her  father 
and  poisons  her  mind  against  him.  Madeline  agrees 
to  win  his  love  nod  then  break  his  heart.  Ed- 
mund goes  away  to  Catalina  for  a  vacation,  where 
the  two  girls  follow  him.  Madeline,  by  pre-ar- 
rangement  with  Stella,  makes  it  possible  for  IM- 
mnnd  to  see  her  posing  as  a  sea-maiden  and  he  at 
once  falls  in  love  with  her.  She.  very  much  against 
her  will,  also  falls  in  love  with  him,  but,  never- 
theless, when  he  proposes  to  her,  she  accuses  him 
of  being  the  cause  of  her  father's  ruin  and  death. 
Later,  Stella  tells  Edmund  that  she  bad  lied  to 
Madeline  about  him  and  gloats  over  the  effect  her 
disclosure  produces.  Madeline,  overhearing  the 
conversation,  enters  the  room  and  faces  Stella,  who 
now  sees  that  the  game  is  up.  Stella  laughs 
scornfully  and  retires,  calling  them  a  pair  of  fools. 
Madeline,  her  heart  torn  with  anguish  that  Ed- 
mund should  know  that  she  had  been  led  to  con- 
spire against  him,  turns  to  depart,  but  is  stopp 
by  Edmund,  who,  understanding  her  position,  for 
gives   her  and   warmly   clasps   her   to  his   heart. 

mma 

A  TRIP  THROUGH  THE  "NORTH  ISLAND" 
OF  NEW  ZEALAND — From  Auckland  to  Welling- 
ton ( May  8 ) .—Pa rt  one  of  this  reel  is  of  t he 
beautiful  city  of  Auckland  and  its  environs.  Pan- 
oramic views  of  Auckland:  a  characteristic  New 
Zealand  ferryboat  bringing  business  people  from 
the  suburb  of  Takapuna  to  Auckland ;  striking 
Waterside  workers  on  parade:  picturesque  Albert 
park;  Grafton  Bridge,  the  loosest  single  concrete 
arch   in   the   werid:    and    the   Kauri    log  industry. 

Part  two  Is  of  a  New  Zealand  ostrich  farm.  A 
baby  ostrich;  hooding  the  ostriches  to  pluck  their 
feathers,  a  rrethod  employed  because  the  ostrich, 
ordinarily  a  wild,  nervous  bird,  becomes  as  tame 
as  a    house   cut   when    its   sight   Is   obstructed. 

Part  three  is  of  a  present  day  Maori  Tillage, 
Paranuui.  A  typical  dwelling,  showing  the  crude 
native  Inventions  supposed  to  aid  comfort  and 
health:    a    homemade    water    hoist. 

Part  four  is  of  Wellington,  the  great  seaport  of 
New  Zealand,  where  the  great  products  of  the 
country  are  transferred  for  shipment  to  all  parts 
of  the  world.  Methods  of  loading  and  unloading 
flax  and  tallow  into  and  Jrom  the  holds  of  great 
steamships  by  the  use  of  hydraulic  cranes  are 
shown    in   actual   operation. 


BIOGRAPH. 

THE  TENDERFOOT'S  MONEY  (May  5).— The 
tenderfoot  came  into  camp  with  his  ill-gotten 
money  Intending  to  purchase  a  claim.  The  faker 
salted  a  claim,  hoping  thereby  to  secure  the  money. 
But  the  gambler  got  ahead  of  him  through  cheating 
at  cards.  Later  the  tenderfoot  sought  to  regain 
his  money  and  in  the  struggle  It  fell  Into  worthier 
bands. 

FRAPPE  LOVE  (May  8).— Bessie,  the  harum- 
scarum  of  the  village,  realizes  that  her  mother, 
a  widow,  has  a  love  affair  with  SI  Harris.  This 
condition  furnishes  material  a-plenty  for  mis- 
chievous Bessie  to  keep  her  busy  for  some  time,  but 
she  brought  things  to  a  climax  before  she  herself 
realised  It. 

THE  COVETED  PRIZE  (May  8).— Arabella  Is 
sought  in  marriage  by  three  suitors,  two  of  whom 
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of  her  dad,  one  or  the  other  of  these  is  favored 
by  paterfamilias.  The  minister,  however,  Is  Ara- 
bella's choice.     But   dad  being  the  boss  of  the   sit- 

N,    l(    looked    BS    if   the   poor  girl   was  doom 
Brother  Dick,   however,  evolves  a  plan  which  brings 
the    two  loving   hearts   together. 

THE  HOUSE  OF  DARKNESS  (May  10).— A 
noted  judge  is  one  of  the  most  violent  patients  in 
the  sanatorium  until  it  is  discovered  tha*t  music 
baa  the  power  to  quiet  him.  One  day  he  esi 
and  going  to  the  house  of  a  former  nurse,  now 
the  wife  of  a  physician,  he  finds  her  alone.  In 
bis  capacity  as  judge,  he  sentences  her  to  die  in 
five  minutes.  It  is  then  by  mere  accident  that  the 
terror-Stricken    woman   learns    the    power   of   music. 


PATHEPLAY. 

FATHE'S    WEEKLY,    NO.    18,    1913    (April    28).— 
San    Francisco,    Cal. — One   of    the    most    interesting 
ires   of    the    Blossom    Festival    is   the   auto-polo 
game  on  the  Heyward  Field. 

Jacksonville,  Fla. — The  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania scientific  expedition,  en  route  to  explore  the 
upper  reaches  of  the  Amazon  River,  arrives  at 
Jacksonville    for    coal    and    provisions. 

Adrianople,     Turkey. — The     graves     of     the     Bul- 

iis.    dead   In   the  siege  of  this  city,   are   a    sad 

lor    of    the    rigors   of    the   campaign. 

San     Francisco,      Cal. — The     fire     department     ac- 

pliSbes    an    interesting    and    difficult    drill    before 

the  fire  Commissioner. 

Washington,  D.  C. — President  Wilson  throws  the 
first  ball  of  the  season  at  the  ball  park  after 
Cbance    and    Griffith   have   shaken    hands. 

Madrid,  Spain. — The  King  and  Queen  attend  the 
laying  of  the  corner  stone  of  the  College  of  the 
Naval   Officers'   Orphans. 

San  Francisco,  Cal. — Mayor  Rolpli  digs  the  first 
shovelful  of  earth,  thus  beginning  the  work  on 
the    new    City    Hall. 

Pahleo  Beach,  Fla. — The  life-saving  crew  pre- 
sents their  drill  for  Mayor  McClellan  after  he  has 
given   them    the  key   to   their  new  building. 

Memphis,  Tenn. — Two  thousand  persons,  made 
homeless  when  the  Mississippi  River  overflows  its 
bunks  here,  are  cared   for  at  Camp  Crump. 

New  York,  N.  Y. — On  the  first  anniversary  of 
the  Titanic  disaster,  a  memorial  lighthouse,  erected 
on  the  roof  of  the  new  Seamen's  Institute  here,  is 
dedicated    with    appropriate    ceremony. 

Comic  Section, — Jeff  meets  a  sand-storm — and  an 
ostrich. 

THE  ANT-LION  (May  6). — The  ant-lion  is  a  very 
interesting  little  creature  about  a  quarter  of  an 
inch  long  whose  principal  occupation,  as  the  name 
suggests,  la  the  trapping  of  ants.  It  chooses  B 
patch  of  soft  sand  on  which  to  build  the  trap 
■nd  then  bnriea  itself  in  it.  By  maneuvering  un- 
derneath the  sand  the  ant-lion  forms  an  imitation 
ant-hill    with    a    hole    through    the    center.      When    the 

ant  passes  across  the  bill  the  sand  slips  beneath 
his  feet  and  the  more  he  struggles  the  deeper  he 
goes  until  the  ant-lion  feels  the  pang  of  hunger 
which  prompts  him  to  reach  through  the  sand  and 
make    sure   of    his    prey. 

THE  CHATEAU  OF  BLOIS  (France— May  6).— 
A  castle  high  on  the  bank  of  a  beautiful  river. 
Tli*-  -hat. -an  Is  an  arcliiteerural  masterpiece  remin- 
Iscenl  of  the  days  of  royalty  and  replete  with  his- 
toric   mementos. 

^THE  "cRfToKED  BANKERS^  (May  7).-^Jomn 
W.  Turnbull,  a  banker  and  his  partner.  Paul 
Brower,  after  a  hard  struggle  to  avoid  it.  find 
themselves  face  to  face  with  bankruptcy.  An  el- 
derly   man    burriea    into    the    office    at    this    juncture 

,.,  tenders  $65,000  to  the  bankers  to  be  held  in 
trust  for  Ids  wife  and  daughter  should  anything 
happen  to  him  on  a  journey  he  is  about  to  under- 
take.      Turnbull    gives    Jenkins,     the     de] 

i  |pi    for    the    money    and    the   latter   is    leaving    the 
See      with      it      when      lie     drops     dead.        Here     is     8 

Strong  temptation  for  the  bankers.  They  sm 
t->  it.  take  the  receipt  from  the  dead  man's  pocket 
and  under  cover  of  darkness  leave  his  body  in  an 
unfrequented  part  of  the  city.  They  divide  the 
|g  and  with  his  share  Brower  leaves  town. 
live     years     later     he     returns     to    Tund. nil's     office, 

broke  '  and  bent  on  blackmail.  The  natural  se- 
quence of  events  brings  the  plight  of  the  women 
be  has  helped  to  rob  home  to  Brower  and  through 
his  efforts  Turnbull  is  forced  to  make  restitution. 
HER  MOTHER'S  AMBITION  (May  8).— Nancy 
Hanford  is  loved  by  two  men.  Frank  Merrill,,  a 
young    man    with    prospects   of    success,    and    Harvey 


I>i\oii,  a  wealthy  broker.  Nancy  loves  Merrill, 
but  does  not  love  Dixon  and  Nancy's  younger  sis- 
ter. .Marion,  also  loves  Merrill.  Mrs.  Hanford, 
being  ambitious  to  marry  off  both  daughters  to 
advantage,  brings  all  her  influence  to  bear  to 
make    Nancy   marry  Dixon   and   after   no  little   per- 

Mii  Nancy  consents  to  the  sacrifice,  A  while 
later  Frank  falls  In  love  with  and  marries  Marlon. 
Nancy's    marriage    is    not    a    happy    one.    but    when 

1 1 nils  that  the  man  she  loves  has  married  her 
sister  she  secrets  the  hunger  in  her  heart  and 
suffers  on,  silently — a  martyr  to  her  mother's  am- 
bltion. 

MONT  REAL,  QUEBEC  AND  HALIFAX  ( Hay 
9), — This  film  offers  an  opportunity  to  everyone  to 
visit  every  place  of  interest  in  these  three  thriving 
cities  of  Canada.  No  country  in  the  world  has 
more  scenes  of  historic  interest  and  bistorlc  land- 
marks    than     this     and     persons     by     means     of     lids 

tilui.  may  view  at  their  leisure  the  monuments  and 
;  inarks  In  a  more  comprehensive  manner  than 
would  be  possible  through  a  personal  visit  with  its 
resultant   expenditure   of   much   time  and   money. 

IN  THE  VALLEY  OF  VESTJBIE  (France— May 
9) — The  Vesubie  River,  rising  in  Italy  at  a  height 
of  6,000  feet,  winds  its  way  through  the  Alps  to 
France  aud  the  spectators  follow  its  course  through 
a  valby.  beautiful  in  black  and  white,  but  whose 
beauty    is    enhanced   by    handsome   coloring. 

PUTTIN'  IT  OVER  ON  PAPA  (May  10).— Papa 
Sinclair,  a  prosperous  farmer  and  very  headstrong, 
refuses  to  accept  Jack  Wilcox,  an  artist,  as  bis 
Bon-in-law,  so  Bessie  Sinclair  and  Jack  elope. 
After  the  wedding  father  is  still  obdurate,  but 
Jack  has  a  plan.  Disguised  as  a  farmhand,  he 
secures  a  position  on  Papa's  farm.  The  next  day 
Bessie  comes  home  with  the  story  that  Jack  has 
deserted  her.  Papa  says  "I  told  you  so."  Sev- 
eral times  in  the  course  of  the  day  he  nearly 
catches  his  daughter  in  the  arms  of  the  new  farm- 
hand. At  a  barn  dance  in  the  evening.  Papa  in- 
troduces Jack  to  Bessie  with  the  remark  "If  you 
had  married  a  man  like  that  I  would  have  been 
glad."  The  young  folks  laugh,  Jack  removes  his 
disguise  and  although  he  rants  around  for  a  while 
he  admits  the  joke  is  on  him  and  gives  the  couple 
blessing. 


KALEM. 

THE  CHEYENNE  MASSACRE  (Special,  2  parts, 
May  9).— PART  ONE.  Ellis,  an  Intrepid  young 
lieutenant,  is  located  at  the  frontier  post,  Fort 
Bryson.  He  pays  ardent  court  to  General  Foster's 
daughter,  Gertrude,  and  is  a  prime  favorite  with 
his  comrades. 

At  a  military  ball  Ellis  steps  out  for  a  stroll  and 
finds  Lieutenant  Allen  annoying  Mountain  Dew.  an 
Indian  girl,  who  has  been  attracted  by  the  music, 
and  who  has  found  innocent  entertainment  in  watch- 
ing the  dances  at  the  window.  Ellis  roundly  de- 
le. nines  the  thoughtless  officer  and  his  intercession 
in  Mountain  Dew's  behalf  wins  the  girl's  gratitude. 
Some  time  later  Mountain  Dew's  father.  Chief 
Swift  Bear,  comes  to  the  post  with  a  band  of  his 
tribesmen  and  openly  defies  the  authority  of  General 
Foster.  The  Chief  cites  imaginary  grievances  and 
declares  that  his  people  on  the  reservation  will  no 
longer  submit  to  the  white  man's  rule.  General 
Foster  attempts  to  pacify  the  Indians  and  bids  them 
return  in  peace. 

The  crafty  Chief,  waiting  for  an  opportunity  to 
incite  an  outbreak,  sends  two  vicious  braves  to  the 
u  of  John  Simmons,  a  settler,  to  make  a  demand 
for  food.  Knowing  that  the  Indians  are  well  pro- 
vided for,  Simmons  refuses  and  orders  the  two  away. 
The  braves  bring  their  message  to  the  camp  and 
Swift  Bear,  flying  into  a  passion,  gathers  the  tribe 
and  declares  war.  All  determine  to  wreak  venge- 
ance on  the  settler. 

That  night  John  Simmons  sends  his  son.  Bob,  to 
the  spring,  and  during  the  boy's  absence  the  In- 
diana sweep  down  upon  the  cabin.  Simmons  and  his 
wife  barricade  themselves  against  the  fusillade  of 
bullets  and  arrows  and  bravely  defend  their  lives 
until  the  maurauding  savages  burn  down  the  cabin. 
Bob,  in  terror,  watches  the  attack  from  the  dis- 
tance and  is  powerless  to  protect  his  parents.  When 
the  bowline  tribe  proceeds  on  its  way,  bent  on 
further  depredations,  Bob  reaches  his  home  and  finds 
it  a  mass  of  burning  embers.  Overcome  with  grief 
be  goes  in  search  of  his  horse,  which  has  broken 
away.  The  faithful  animal  responds  to  Bob's  call 
and  the  young  settler  sets  forth  to  warn  Fort  Bry- 
son. At  "daybreak  he  reaches  the  post  and  tells  his 
pitiful   story. 


PART  TWO.  General  Foster  gives  a  sharp  com- 
mand. The  bugle  is  sounded  and  the  troops  dash 
away  to  quell  the  outbreak.  Scouts  who  bave  kept 
a  keen  surveillance  on  Fort  Bryson.  hasten  to  In- 
form Swift  Bear,  who  ceases  his  spoliations  and 
forms  an  ambuscade  in  the  pathway  of  the  ap- 
proaching soldiers.  Besieged  on  all  shies,  tbe  troops 
are  almost  annihilated  and  the  survivors  flee  in 
panic  to  the  post. 

•  Foster  returns  to  Fort  Bryson,  realizing  that  bis 
forces  are  insufficient  to  cope  with  the  Indians,  and 
he  endeavors  to  comuiiniiejiie  with  the  next  post  by 
telegraph.  Suspecting  the  General's  purpose.  Swift 
Bear  orders  the  wires  cut  and  feeling  assured  It  will 
be  impossible  for  Fort  Bryson  to  withstand  an  at- 
tack, be  gathers  his  tribesmen  at  the  camp. 

Finding  the  fort  imperilled,  General  Foster  calls 
for  a  volunteer  to  discover  the  enemy's  num 
and  secure  aid.  Lieutenant  Ellis  responds  and 
starts  on  his  hazardous  journey.  As  he  comes  in 
sight  of  the  Indian  camp,  Ellis  meets  and  over- 
powers an  Indian,  whose  blanket  be  takes.  Mas- 
querading as  the  brave,  the  young  officer  approaches 
to  observe  the  Indians'  movements  and  Is  discovered 
by  Mountain  Dew,  the  girl  whom  he  has  befriended. 
She  bids  him  flee,  but  Ellis  has  no  intention  of  doing 
so,  and  while  he  watches  Swift  Bear  marshalling  his 
forces,  he  is  detected.  With  a  quick  movement 
Ellis  places  bis  revolver  at  the  girl's  temple  and 
declares  that  he  will  fire  at  the  first  suspicions 
action.  Still  covering  Mountain  Dew,  the  lieutenant 
jumps  on  his  horse  and  speeds  away. 

Swift  Bear  is  beside  himself  with  rage  and  leads 
the  tribe  in  an  assault  on  Fort  Bryson.  General 
Foster  is  not  unprepared,  but  his  weakened  forces 
have  little  hope  of  resisting  the  Indians. 

Meanwhile  Ellis  dashes  madly  down  the  valley 
and  reaches  Fort  Craig.  The  commanding  officer 
responds  to  the  call  for  reinforcements  and  Ellis. 
with  a  fresh  horse,  leads  the  troops  to  Fort  Bryson. 
Tbe  Indians  break  through  tbe  stockade  and  a 
terrific  hand  to  hand  battle  is  being  waged  when 
Ellis  with  the  command  from  Fort  Craig  surrounds 
F»rt  Bryson  and  saves  the  day. 

THE  HEART  OF  AN  ACTRESS  (May  5).— Alice 
Stewart  and  her  parents  are  in  destitute  eitf  '(in- 
stances. Their  plight  comes  to  tbe  attention  of 
Jane  Thompson,  the  daughter  of  a  wealthy  manu- 
facturer and  she  renders  timely  aid.  thus  gaining 
the   eternal    gratitude    of   Alice. 

Alice  secures  a  minor  role  with  a  tVeatrical 
company  and  after  a  patient  struggle  si  e  becomes 
a  popular  favorite.  Thomas  Morton,  the  sweet- 
heart of  Jane,  attends  a  performance  and  is  cap- 
tivated by  the  beautiful  actress.  He  obtains  an 
introduction  and  a  warm  friendship  Is  established. 
Soon  Tom  and  Alice  find  they  are  deeply  in  love 
and    Jane    is    forgotten. 

Jane  cannot  understand  Tom's  indifference  and 
seeks  an  explanation  from  his  father.  The  elder 
Morton  is  infuriated  when  he  reads  r  press  agent's 
article  that  his  son  is  to  marry  the  actress.  He 
takes  Jane  to  Alice's  hotel  and  a  mutual  recogni- 
tion takes  place  between  the  girls.  Alice  declares 
that  she  will  restore  Tom  to  the  girl  who  befriend- 
ed   her. 

After  the  performance  that  night  Alice  gives  i 
supper  on  the  stage  for  the  members  of  her  com- 
pany, which  is  attended  by  Mr.  Morton  and  .lane. 
Tom  arrives  and  is  horrified  to  discover  that  Alice 
is  the  leading  spirit  of  a  gay  wine  party.  He 
can  scarcely  restrain  himself  when  Alice  ace* 
a  check  from  Morton  and  laughingly  announces 
that-  she  has  been  paid  to  give  up  the  young  mil- 
lionaire. Alice,  overcome  with  emotion,  retires  t" 
her  dressing  room  and  Tom,  rushing  in  to  denounce 
her,  learns  that  tbe  BUpoosed  cheek  is  blank  and 
that   the   wine   gl;i*s  of   the   hostess   Is    untouched. 

Jane,    appreciating   the  sacrifice  which   the  stress 
has    made,    leads    Tom's    father    from    the    s-  ene 
love   claims    its    own. 

THE  ALIEN   (May  7). — Paola,  a  skilled  n banlc 

in  a  modler's  factory  in  Italy,  defends  Ins  friend 
Brocco,  when  the  latter  is  discharged  and  incurs 
the    foreman's    enmity. 

The  treacherous  BrOCCO  -Tenls  an  empty  >i\- 
pound  shell.  Which  Psola  treasures  :is  a  relic  of 
the  war.  and  makes  a  bomb,  with  whi. 
Wrecks  the  modler's  factory.  A  pieee  of  the  bomb 
which  bears  Faola's  name  is  found  and  on  this 
evidence  the  innocent  man  is  sent  to  prison  for 
five  years. 

When  Paolo  is  liberated  be  has  a  lodged  hatred 
for  the  law  and  takes  his  two  children  to  America, 
where  he  secures  work  as  a  stevedore  and  estab- 
lishes   a    comfortable    home. 


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Federal  authorities  are  advised  that  opium  Is 
being  smuggled  into  the  section  where  Paolo  re- 
sides, and  through  peculiar  circumstances,  the 
Italian  becomes  the  unwitting  tool  of  the  crooks. 
Anxious  to  accommodate  the  clever  rascals  who 
hare  cunningly  won  the  friendship  of  his  chil- 
dren, Paolo  Innocently  meets  one  of  the  smugglers' 
accomplices  tnd  carries  a  package  of  the  contra- 
band goods  to  the  rendezvous.  When  the  smug- 
glers are  arrested  and  brought  to  justice  It  appears 
that  Paolo  Is  hopelessly  Implicated,  but  the  Fed- 
eral officers  establish  the  fact  that  he  Is  Innocent. 
Full  of  gratitude,  the  Italian  develops  a  wholesome 
respect  for  the  laws  of  his  new  country  and  takes 
an  oath  of  allegiance  to  the   United  States. 

THE  HASH  HOUSE  COUNT  (Kay  9).— When 
Jim  proposes  to  Jane  she  declares  that  she  has 
determined  to  marry  a  title.  Jim  regards  bis  case 
as  hopeless  until  a  brilliant  Idea  occurs  to  him 
while  dining  In  a  cafe.  Be  bargains  with  Adolph, 
a  portly  waiter,  to  masquerade  as  a  count,  think- 
ing; that  Jane  will  be  disguested  with  royalty  when 
the  supposed  nobleman,  with  his  uncouth  manners, 
la  Introduced. 

But  Jim's  plans  miscarry.  Adolpb's  skill  at 
mixing  salads  greatly  Impresses  the  girl  and  when 
Jim  forbids  the  pretender  from  seeing  Jane  again, 
the  temperamental  gentleman  announces  '  'I  too, 
love  the  fair  Jane.*' 

Driven  to  desperation  Jim  hires  several  ruffians 
to  visit  the  cafe  and  complain  of  Adolpb's  service 
but  his  plans  go  wrong  a  second  time  and  the 
toughs  are  forcibly  ejected. 

It  Is  cow  up  to  Jim  to  convince  Jane  that  Adolph 
is  cot  a  count  and  he  Invites  her  to  the  cafe. 
Adolph  pleads  illness  to  the  headwalter,  but  Jim 
will  not  stand  for  any  substitutes.  What  happens 
when  Jane  sees  the  pretender  in  his  real  position 
is  best  shown  in  the  picture. 

TOOTHACHE!  (May  9).— A  wealthy  broker,  suf- 
fering from  a  severe  toothache,  discovers  that  the 
town's  only  dentist  is  absent  for  the  day.  He 
secures  a  hot  water  bottle  and  endeavors  to  make 
himself  comfortable.  A  tramp,  suffering  with  a 
similar  ailment,  passes  the  broker's  window  and 
seeing  the  hot  water  bottle,  determines  to  secure 
possession  of  It.  A  lively  tussel  ensues  and  the 
broker  Is  unable  to  buy  off  the  tramp.  Finally 
they  compromise  and  through  one  touch  of  nature 
they   become  akin. 

THE  RIVER  PIRATES  (May  10). — The  Robert 
Judson  Fruit  Company  receives  word  from  the 
>f  ay  port  distritMitors  that  the  former*s  recent  ship- 
ments have  not  reached  their  destinations.  The 
May  port  people  are  inclined  to  believe  that  a 
gang  of  river  pirates  is  located  along  the  route. 

In  the  employ  of  Judson  is  a  rough  individual 
•oy  the  name  of  Caesar  who  is  really  a  secret  agent 
■of  the  pirates  and  who  informs  his  chief  of  the 
■dates  of  the  shipments.  Caesar  becomes  alarmed 
and  returns  to  the  gang,  where  his  attentions  to 
the    chief's    nelce,    Zelma,    are    repulsed. 

Robert  Judson,  Jr.,  decides  to  locate  the  gang 
and  sets  forth  alone.  He*  meets  Zelma.  who  Is 
greatly  Impressed  by  the  stranger,  but  while  Rob- 
ert endeavors  to  secure  the  information  which  will 
enable  him  to  bring  about  the  capture  of  the 
pirates,    he   Is  made  a   prisoner. 

Zelma'e  attempts  to  liberate  Robert  are  frus- 
trated and  Caesar,  Infuriated  at  the  girl's  inter- 
cession in  behalf  of  the  prisoner.  Is  about  to  deal 
severely  with  the  young  man  when  a  pirate  signals 
from  a  tree  top  that  a  heavily  loaded  steamboat 
Is  coming  down   the  river. 

Immediate  preparations  are  made  to  seize  the 
cargo  and  Robert  Is  left  in  the  cabin  securely 
twund.  Alarmed  at  his  son's  absence,  Judson,  Sr.. 
lias  sent  his  shipment  ahead  under  the  guard  of 
several  armed   men. 

The  pirates  meet  with  unexpected  resistance  and 
•flee  to  the  camp  in  panic.  Caesar  determines  to 
make  an  end  of  his  rival,  but  his  desperate  at- 
tempt Is  thwarted  by  Zelma  and  the  outlaws  are 
captured. 


A  wall  dividing  their  properties  has  been  the  cause 
of  the  feud.  Unaware  of  each  other's  Identity, 
they  become  acquainted  under  the  most  humorous 
circumstances  on  the  train  going  to  the  country, 
but  the  steward  of  the  Wilkinson  estate  and  the 
housekeeper  of  the  Johnson  estate  terminate  their 
pleasant  conversation  when  they  meet  their  re- 
spective guests  at  the  station. 

They  arrive  at  the  attorney's  office  on  the  ap- 
pointed day.  He  quickly  sees  their  thoughts  are 
more  of  each  other  than  of  the  lawsuit,  and  dismisses 
them  for  a  few  days.  The  dividing  wall  at  this 
time  plays  a  prominent  part  in  a  pretty,  romantic 
scene,  where  a  truce  of  peace  Is  reached  between 
Ernest  and  Suzanne.  However,  the  bitterness  be- 
tween the  servants  Is  not  abated. 

Ernest  and  Suzanne  are  again  called  to  the  office 
of  the  attorney  under  the  pretext  that  a  decision 
has  been  reached. 

After  they  arrive,  the  attorney,  with  a  mischiev- 
ous smile,  hands  each  a  copy  of  the  judgment. 
When  opened  up,  It  proves  to  be  only  an  agreement 
of  marriage.  A  demure  smile  on  the  part  of  the 
girl,  an  awkward  "will  you?"  from  the  man,  and 
the  decision  is  approved  by  both  parties. 

The  anxiety  of  the  servants  brings  them  to  the 
office  entrance,  where  they  impatiently  wait  the 
outcome  of  the  case.  An  argument  starts  between 
them;  words  fly  thick  until,  at  last,  the  wool  flies! 

Imagine  the  spectacle  they  present  when  out  walks 
Suzanne  on  Earnest's  arm  I 

CINES. 

THE  MISER'S  MILLIONS  (Special,  8  parts, 
April  23).— A  despicable  old  miser  lives  alone  with 
Peter,  his  butler.  His  greatest  pleasure  Is  hoard- 
lug  away  money  in  a  secret  vault  In  the  cellar  of 
his  house,  access  to  which  is  only  gained  by  a 
series  of  concealed  trapdoors  operated  by  electricity. 
When  be  espies  Peter  watching  him  in  the  treasure- 
vault,  a  fight  ensues  In  which  the  miser  la  acci- 
dentally killed  and  Peter,  having  been  turned  over 
to  the  police,   is  later  sent  to  the  penitentiary. 

His  property  descends  to  Mrs.  Rice  and  her 
daughter,  Dorothy,  but  his  money  cannot  be  located. 
Peter,  now  serving  time,  confides  the  secret  of  the 
hidden    money    to    a    fellow    prisoner.     The    latter 


ECLIPSE. 

THE  DIVIDING  WALL  (May  7).— Ernest  Wilkin- 
son, plaintiff  in  a  lawsuit  started  by  his  grandfather 
against  his  country  neighbor  some  years  back,  re- 
reives  a  letter  from  bis  attorney  requesting  him  to 
call  at  his  office,  as  a  settlement  is  about  to  be 
made. 

Simultaneously,  Suzanne  Johnson,  the  defendant 
in  the  case,  receives  a  like  letter. 


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finally  escapea,  and  remembering  the  story  told 
him  by  Peter,  starts  out  to  find  the  house.  While 
attempting  to  procure  the  money  in  the  vault,  he 
tampers  with  the  wrong  levers  and  is  instantly 
seized  by  two  steel  arms  and  held  fast  as  in  a 
vise,  with  no  one  to  hear  his  death  cries. 

Some  years  later,  Peter  obtains  a  pardon  through 
the  gratitude  of  the  warden  and  returns  to  his 
home  town.  He  finds  the  widow  and  daughter  have 
mortgaged  everything  to  meet  the  demands  of  their 
creditors  and  are  about  to  be  thrown  out.  Dorothy 
Is  beloved  by  the  mortgagee's  son,  but  the  stern 
father  will  not  allow  bis  son  to  marry  her.  The 
secret  of  the  treasure-chamber  Is  told  Dorothy,  and 
when  her  lover's  father  hears  of  it  he  goes  in  search 
of  the  money.  He  is  successful  in  gaining  entrance 
to  the  cellar,  where  his  eyes  behold  the  skeleton  of 
the  ex-convict  still  in  the  clutches  of  the  steel 
arms.  In  his  frantic  effort  to  leave  the  grewsome 
place  be  finds  himself  shut  in.  However,  bis  faint 
cries  are  beard.  With  the  assistance  of  Peter,  the 
vault  is  again  opened  and  the  father  staggers  out. 
The  vast  board  of  gold  is  found  to  be  Intact,  thus 
clearing  up  a  mystery  that  has  perplexed  the 
vicinity  for  years.  Dorothy  is  then  happily  mar- 
ried. 


AMONG  THE  EXHIBITORS. 

American  Fork,  Utah. — The  J.  J.  Jackson  residence 
•n  west  Main  St,  is  being  torn  down  to  make  room 
for   a    new   theater   building. 

Peru,  Ills. — Architects  are  working  on  plans  for 
a  new  theater  to  be  erected  east  of  the  postofnee  in 
Peru.     Chas.  Nadler  is  to  have  this  building  erected. 

Albany,  N.  Y. — Harry  Hellman  and  Wm.  Frisch- 
neck,  have  purchased  the  Lutheran  Tabernacle 
Ohurch  on  Clinton  Ave.  above  the  north  boulevard 
and  convert  same  into  a  theater  building.  Harry 
Hellman,   manager.  . 

Carey,  O. — A  new  opera  house  will  be  built  Vera 
this  spring.  The  E.  of  P.  Lodge  has  purchased  site 
west  of  the  Carnegie  library  in  Main  St. 

Louisville,  Ky. — Levi  Tyler  Land  Co.,  will  erect 
a  new  theater  on  the  north  side  of  Jefferson  St., 
near  4th,  and  plans  are  now  ready  and  work  will 
soon   begin. 

Port  Huron,  Mich. — Wm.  NIchoIal  baa  purchased 
of  Capt.  Slyfield,   the  Arcade  theater. 

Rochester,  N.  Y. — Fltshugh  Hall  will  be  converted 
Into   a   moving  picture   theater. 

Birmingham,  Ala. — Work  on  the  new  motion  pic- 
ture show  on  Broad  St.,  the  "Bonlta,"  will  begin 
soon.  , 

Bay  City,  Mich.— W.  S.  Butterfleld,  of  Battle 
Creek,  closed  a  deal  for  a  lease  on,  the  Washington 
theater. 

Fargo,  N.  D. — A  moving  picture  theater  is  being 
erected  at  Marshall  Springs. 

Freeport,  HI, — Plans  for  the  enlargement  and  Im- 
provement of  the  Majestic  Theater  may  be  com- 
pleted  In   the  near  future. 

Boise,  Idaho. — Boise  is  to  have  a  new  theater; 
It  Is  to  be  built  on  10th  street,  between  Main  and 
Grove  streets.     L.  P.  Kieldsen,   manager. 

Amarillo,  Tex. — A  contract  has  been  awarded 
for  the  erection  of  a  new  theater  here. 

Alamosa,  Colo. — The  doors  of  the  new  Isis  The- 
ater on  Main  street,   was  opened  to  the  public. 

Bethany,  Mo. — J.  S.  Rathburn  of  Cincinnati,  la.. 
Is  in  town  looking  for  a  location  for  a  moving  pic- 
ture theater.  The  old  Neff  garage  is  the  only  place 
available  for  the  proposed  house. 

Marion,  Ind.— The  Rex  Theater  In  West  4th 
street,  near  Boots,  is  under  new  management. 

Temple,  Tex, — The  Temple  Auditorium  Co.  has 
been  organized,  capital  stock,  $20,000,  and  the  pur- 
pose of  the  corporation  is  the  building  and  operation 
of  a  theater  In  this  city.     Cost,  $30,000. 

Grundy  Centre,  la..— C.  H.  Johnston  expects  to 
erect  a  new  opera  house  on  bis  corner  lots  near  the 
Bchafer  Building. 

Rochester,  K.  Y.— Anna  Copeland  will  erect  a 
one-Btory    moving    picture    theater    in    this    city. 

Elizabeth,  N.  J. — Louis  Qulen,  Jr.,  has  prepared 
plans  for  a  one-story  moving  picture  theater  to  be 
erected  on  Court   Street. 

Newark,  K.  J. — Albert  T.  Sessing  will  erect  a 
one-story   moving   picture   theater  to   cost   $8,000. 

Kittanning,  Pa. — Joseph  L.  Neal  has  prepared 
plans  for  a  one-story  moving  picture  theater  to 
coBt   $15,000. 

Marshfield,  Wis.— J.  W.  Tborne  sold  the  Unique 
Theater  to  Chas.  W.   Rice. 


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NESTOR— "The  Awakening  of  Papita"  (Dr.) 
POWERS— "The    Black    Small    Pox    Scare" 

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ECLAIR— "The   Sons   of   a   Soldier"    (Three 

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IMP— "The  Whole  Truth"  (Dr.) 
REX— "The     Smuggler's     Daughter"     (Two- 
Reel  Dr.) 
FRONTIER— "The  Sheriff's  Rival"   (Dr.) 


NESTOR— "Miss  Nobody"  (Dr.) 
POWERS — "Bozo  Arrives"   (Com.) 
VICTOR— "The  Unknown"  (Dr.) 


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ECLAIR— "A     Wise     Judge"— and— "Manu- 
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CRYSTAL— "When  Love  is  Young"— and— 
"His  Awful  Daughter"   (Split) 


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CRYSTAL. 

WHEN  LOVE  IS  YOITNG  (May  11).— Harry  Es 
mond,  the  son  of  a  noble  southern  family  visits 
the  Barrlngtons,  who  are  also  old  southerners.  He 
is  smitten  with  Pearl,  the  beautiful  daughter  of 
the  Harrington  household.  Harry  and  Mr.  Barring- 
ton  play  chess  while  Pearl  is  an  interested  on- 
ooker.  She  hears  the  welcome  noise  of  carriage 
rheels  coming  up  the  wide  pathway  and  leaves 
room,  sin-  receives,  in  the  garden,  George 
:  i - r Uiu.in .  the  scion  of  another  wealthy  southern 
family,  and  another  one  of  her  ardent  admirers, 
flarry  excuses  himself  to  Mr.  Barring  ton  and  goes 
>ut  to  the  garden  In  search  of  Pearl.  He  sees  her 
ami  George  and  becomes  Insanely  Jealous.  When 
Pearl  and  George  return  to  the  house  Harry  lies 
in  wait  until  I 'earl  has  gone  upstairs  and  enters 
into  an  altercation  with  George,  Pearl  bears  tin- 
row  and  steals  downstairs.  She  is  just  in  time 
to  see  Harry  strike  George  and  to  hear  the  chal- 
lenge to  a  duel.  Realizing  that  duelling  is  pro- 
hibited the  rivals  agree  to  place  two  -aids  in  a 
hat,  and  that  the  one  drawing  the  card  marked 
X     shall      kill      himself,      leaving     the     other     as     the 

sole    suitor    of    Pearl.      They    exit    to    the    gunroom 

to    get    their    guns.      Pearl,    realizes    the    seriousness 

of    the    situation    and    substitutes    a    blank    card    in 

place   of   the    marked    one.      The   rivals   come   hack, 

each    draws    a    card    and    goes    to    his    room    to    find 

out  his  fate.     They  each  are  happy   in   the   thought 

'hat     they     have     been     saved.       Pearl,     determining 

(i    have    some    fun    with    them    shoots    ofT    a    revolver. 

ml     the     love     smitten     youths     imagine     themselves 

he    cause    of    the    other's    death.      They    enter    the 

arlor    and    collide    With    each    other   and    after    their 

nrprise  has  given   way  to  anger,    they   accuse  each 

-ther  of  cowardice.  However.  Pearl,  steps  out 
rom  her  biding  place  and  explains  her  part  in 
.he  bloodless  duel  and  compels  them  to  shake 
hands    and     they     leave    as     friends. 

HIS  AWFUL  DAUGHTER  (May  11).— Nellie 
loves  Ned.  Her  father  won't  have  Ned  around 
the  house  and  insists  upon  choosing  Nellie's  callers. 
He  finds  Neil  at  the  house  one  day  and  telephones 
to  Freddie,  a  rather  effeminate  youth,  asking  him 
to  call   Immediately.     Freddie   does   and    Pb    makes 

Nellie  talk  to  him  while  be  engages  Ned  in  con- 
versation. Ned  gets  disgusted  and  leaves.  Freddie 
in    his    awkwardness,    steps    on    Nellie's    dress    and 

tears  it.  That  finis  ties  him  and  he  leaves.  Fa- 
ther determines  to  ^et  a  real  man  for  his  daugh- 
ter the  next  time  and  sends  for  captain  Fltabugle 
of  the  town  militia.  The  Captain  calls  and  Nellie 
Bees  him.  He  boasts  of  his  feats  of  COttragS  to 
father,  and  pa  thinks  he  is  the  bravest  iu  the 
world.  Nellie  decides  to  have  some  fun  with  her 
father  and  the  brave  man  in  uniform  and  dresses 
iu  her  father's  clothes,  wearing  a  mask.  She 
Cels  an  obi  horse  pistol  and  enters  the  room  when 
the  Captain  Is  still  waving  his  sword.  She  points 
the    jrun    at    them    ami    they    collapse,      she    makes 

the  Captain  stand  on  his  head  and  he  runs  from 
the  house  with  Nellie  close  at  his  heels,  waving 
tin-  gun.  The  Captain  runs  into  a  policeman  who 
chases  Nellie  through  the  streets  and  back  into 
■    house.      She    inns   into   the    parlor   and    the  poliee- 

n  is  about  to  arrest  her  when  father  explains 
it  the  desperado,  unmasked  is  ins  daughter, 
1  the  policeman,  after  taking  the  gun  away 
ni  her  leaves.  Father  seeing  that  he  is  unable 
curb  his  daughter's  waywardness,  writes  Ned 
call,  hoping  tiinsh    to  cure  her  bad   ha  hits.     Ned 

accepts  the  invitation  and  Nellie  and  he  are  re- 
united. 


sweetheart,  Keala  stroll  on*.  They  are  watched 
by  another  who  adores  Keala.  Visitors  from  a 
nearby  village  arrive.  One  of  them  is  Plilani.  n 
dancer.  A  dance  is  held  and  Pilllani  fascinates 
Keoli ;  she  gradually  draws  him  away  from  his 
sweetheart.  Piiliani  makes  seduclve  love  to  Keoli 
who  loses  his  head  over  her  fascinations.  Kane 
watches  with  the  girl  he  thinks  so  much  of. 
Kane  goes  to  the  foolish  young  fellow  and  reasons 
with  him.  'but  can  make  but  little  impression; 
poor   Keala   grieves. 

Keoli  recovers  his  reason  and  goes  to  his  love 
for  forgiveness.  Piiliani,  seeing  her  power  has 
gone,  seeks  out  the  witch  doctor,  begging  him 
to  pray  to  the  Shark  Gfod  to  strangle  her  rival  to 
death.  The  old  man  does  as  he  la  bid  and  starts 
to  pray  the  girl  to  death.  She  is  affected  and 
starts  to  strangle  despite  the  efforts  of  her  lover. 
Kane  sees  her  too,  and  seeks  out  the  dancer  and 
tries  to  find  what  she  has  done.  The  woman 
boasts  of  her  deed  and  Kane,  taking  a  native 
weapon,  goes  to  the  old  witch  doctor  and,  as  he 
sees  the  man's  triumph,  he  strikes  him  down.  The 
girl  Immediately  recovers.  Kane,  horrified  at  what 
he  has  done  (for  the  old  man  is  held  sacred  In  the 
islands  l.  starts  out  to  sea  for  his  last  swim,  to 
sacrifice     himself     to     the    Shark    God. 


CHAMPION. 

THE      SHARK      GOD      (May      B).— The      young 

Hawaiian  athlete.   Keoii.  is  a  leader  in   ti itdoor 

sports     BO     beloved     of     the     natives,        He     and     his 


IMP. 

THE  RISE  OF  OFFICER  174  (2  parts,  May  1).— 
Police  Officer  King  Baggot  174.  is  in  love  with  Jane, 
the  stenographer  to  the  •"man  higher  up,"  who  has 
the  whole  of  the  criminal  element  of  the  city  in 
his  grasp.  One  evening  while  Jane  and  Officer  174 
are  walking  along  the  street,  he  Identifies  the 
cleverest  picture  thief  in  the  world  getting  out  of 
an  outomobile  and  entering  millionaire  Forgan's  Art 
Gallery.  Suspecting  that  something  is  wronR, 
Officer  174  tells  Jane  to  go  home,  and  he.  by  a  clever 
ruse,  overcomes  the  chauffeur,  puts  on  the  chauf- 
fuer's  uniform  and  hat  and  takes  his  place  In  the 
automobile.  The  picture  thief  comes  out  with  the 
priceless  treasure  under  his  arm,  and,  not  sus- 
pecting that  the  chauffeur  is  an  officer,  gives  hira 
instructions  to  drive  rapidly  away.  Officer  174 
drives  him  to  the  nearest  police  station  and  puts 
him  under  arrest.  For  his  clever  work  he  is  thanked 
by  the  Commissioner  of  Police,  who  makes  hira  a 
detective  officer.* 

The  city  is  so  thoroughly  alarmed  at  the  pre- 
dominance of  vice  and  gambling  that  the  mayor  ap- 
points Officer  174  as  lieutenant  of  the  squad.  Imme- 
diately all  the  denizens  of  the  underworld,  thor- 
oughly alarmed,  appeal  to  the  "man  higher  up"  to 
protect  them.  He  sends  his  emissary  with  an  offer 
to  Officer  174  of  a  position  at  a  fabulous  salary  as 
manager  of  an  orange  grove  in  Florida.  Officer  174 
promptly  sees  through  the  whole  thing  and  kicks  the 
emissary  out  of  the  place.  He  rushes  with  dismay 
to  the  "man  higher  up"  and  tells  him  that  Officer 
174  cannot  >be  bought.  By  this  time  the  inhabitants 
of  the  underworld  are  in  fear.  Levenstein,  pro-" 
prletor  of  the  Nestor  Gambling  Club  in  the  tender- 
loin, defies  law  and  order  and  insists  upon  running 
his  club.  Officer  174  makes  a  sensational  raid  and 
arrests  Levenstein,  his  operators  and  his  guests. 
The  underworld,  now  thoroughly  frightened,  Is  de- 
termined to  adopt  drastic  measures,  and  two  noto- 
rious gunmen  are  hired  to  get  Officer  174  out  of 
the  way.  He,  by  a  clever  ruse,  outwits  them  by 
placing  a  dummy  in  his  place.  They  fire  at  the 
dummy.  Thinking  they  have  succeeded  in  killing 
him,  they  rush  back  with  the  news  to  the  "man 
higher  up."  To  their  amazement  they  find  this  Is 
not  the  case.  Then  the  "man  higher  up"  makes 
bis  first  mistake.  He  interviews  the  Commissioner 
of  Police,  telling  bim  that  Officer  174  is  a  grafter, 
and  to  prove  it,  he  hands  the  commissioner  some 
bills  and  asks  bim  to  mark  them,  and  that  lie  will 
find  them  on  the  person  of  Officer  174  in  the  office 
of  the  "man  higher  up"  at  3  o'clock  that  afternoon. 
He  then  sends  a  message  to  Officer  174  to  the  effect 
that  if  he  comes  to  the  office  that  afternoon  at  3 
o'clock,  the  "man  higher  up"  will  make  a  con- 
fession and  give  evidence,  laying  bare  the  whole 
system.  Jane,  the  officer's  sweetheart,  through  the 
use  of  the  dlctOphone,  overhears  the  plot,  and  when 
he  arrives  she  tries  to  persuade  him  not  to  go  into 
the  office;  but  she  Is  too  late.  While  he  is  in  there 
the  marked  bills  are  placed  in  his  hand.  The  com- 
missioner, with  several  police  officers,  accuses  Officer 
174  or  grafting.  He  is  arrested  and  the  marked 
bills  are  found  in  his  hat.  The  commissioner  tells 
him  that  he  Is  to  leave  the  force  in  disgrace  and 
ignominy,   when  Jane  arrives  on   the  scene  with  the 


dictophone  and  compels  the  commissioner  to  listen 
to  the  voice,  wherein  the  whole  plot,  the  "man 
higher  op"  and  his  accomplices  are  revealed.  Then 
the  commissioner  arrests  the  '"man  higher  up"  and 
the  city  is  relieved  of  a  terror  that  has  menaced 
it  BO  long. 

THE  WHOLE  TRUTH  (May  5).— George  Truth- 
tell  has  a  wife  who  keeps  close  watch  upon  his 
pay  envelope  and  always  demands  its  surrender 
every  pay  day  iutaet.  Temptation  befalls  George 
in  the  person  of  Miss  Demure  and  after  a  few  hours 
In  a  cafe.  George  loses  his  sense  of  responsibility 
only  to  find  at  the  end  of  the  joyous  hours  that 
lie  lias  l.ist  considers. My  more.  1'nable  to  summon 
up  courage  to  tell  his  Wife  the  true  happenings 
to  the  pay  envelope,  he  has  himself  bandaged  up 
b\  a  friendly  druggist  and  concocts  a  tale  of 
heroic  rescue  of  an  old  lady  by  himself  and  later 
falling  into  the  hands  of  a  horde  of  desperate 
ruffians,  led  by  the  ones  be  first  defeated  and 
how,  despite  a  titfht  lie  was  vanquished  and  all 
his  valuables  taken  from  him.  The  tale  succeeds 
in  changing  wifie's  suspicion  and  unbelief  to  faith 
and  tenderness  and  admiration,  but  a  further  com- 
plication between  Miss  Demure  and  a  clever 
policeman,  who  recognizes  in  the  girl  a  misde- 
meanor, nearly  wrecks  George's  successful  "cover- 
up:"  but  quick  thinking  brings  matters  to  a 
happy    conclusion    to    all    concerned. 


UNIVERSAL. 

ANIMATED  WEEKLY,  NO.  59  (April  23).— The 
Late  John  Pierpont  Morgan  is  laid  to  rest.  Cortege 
on  the  way  to  Hartford,    Connecticut. 

A  Marathon  in  the  Mud. — Twenty  miles  through 
mud  and  rain  at  Washington,  I>.  C,  is  won  by 
Prank   A.    Ruth. 

King  George  and  Queen  Mary. — On  the  way  to 
the  opening  ot  the  new  reservoir  at  Chingford, 
England. 

At  Guantanamo  Bay,  Cuba. — The  middies  of  the 
U.  s.   Navy  participate  in  a  friendly  race. 

General  Leonard  A.  Wood. — Chief  of  Staff  of  the 
United  States  Arniv.  iu  his  office  at  Washington, 
D.    C. 

Terrific  Trolley  Accident. — Kills-  one  and  injures 
many  at  Baltimore,    M<1. 

Stock  Show. — Splendid  specimens  shown  at 
chandler,  Oklahoma. 

M.  Poincare.  President  of  France. — Holds  his 
first  review   of  the  French   Army  at   Vincejmes. 

The  Wheels  of  Commerce. — Cultivating  the 
largest    potato   farm   in   the   world,   near   Beaumont, 

Texas. 

The  Ballybunion  Railway. — A  monorail  railway 
tbroogb    the    picturesque   parts  of    Ireland. 

The  Boy  Scouts. — Assist  In  the  removal  of  tiny 
debris  of  the  cyclone  at  Omaha,   Nebraska. 

What's  What  in  New  York. — Famous  old  Madi- 
son Square  and  Madison  Square  Garden,  New  York 
city. 

Who's  Who  in  Stageland — Ann  Murdoch. — The 
comely  comedy  star  poses  for  THE  ANIMATED 
WEEKLY. 


FRONTIER. 

THE  SHERIFF'S  RIVAL  (May  8). — Since  child- 
hood the  slit-rilY  and  Edythe  have  heen  sweethearts, 
imt  their  love,  as  far  as  Edytbe  is  concerned,  has 
never  progressed  beyond  the  hoy  and  girl  stage. 
With  the  sheriff  it  is  different.  He  is  shy  and 
awkward  when  it  comes  t"  telling  her  so.  but  he 
loves  F.dythe  with  iiis  whole  heart.  Because  lie 
understands   the    human    male    animal    he   does    not 

loose    his    t per    when    his    deputies   administer   a 

ruthless  loshlng  as  they  catch  bim  starting  for 
F.dythc's  home  witli  a  hugli  bouquet.  Oesiiite 
laughing  espionage  by  a  brother,  Edythe  and  the 
sheriff   manage   to  put   in  a   very   pleasant  evening. 

X,,t  lung  after  this  a  stranger  arrives  in  town. 
Tills  stranger  is  a  gambler  who  is  known  to 
Edythe's  brother  ami  who  Is  well  supplied  with 
money.  Before  he  lias  gene  a  dozen  yards  from 
the  stage  which  brought  him  he  is  offering  to  buy 
a  drink.  Because  of  this  acquaintanceship  with 
her  brother  it  is  a  very  easy  matter  for  him  to 
secure    an    introduction    to    Edythe.    When    he    sees    1  or 

riding  int..  town.  tee.  the  sheriff,  sees  this  in- 
troduction   and    is    much    hurt    by   it. 

The    Introduction     paves     the    way    for    an    ac- 
quaintanceship.      Mythe     rides     much     with     the 
gambler    and    it    <nm<    that    tin-    sheriff    has   in    htm 
an    able    rival.      As    time    goes    on    and    their    friend- 
ship grows.    Edythe  and   tin'  gambler  are   more  and 


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more  together.  One  day  Lee  sees  them  embrace 
and  realizes  that  there  Is  no  hope  for  this  affair 
any  longer.  In  his  mind  he  relinquishes  Edythe 
to   the   gambler. 

By  an  accident  the  sheriff  later  sees  upon  the 
gambler's  arm  a  scar  and  asks  about  It.  He  Is 
really  careless  about  the  matter,  but  the  gambler 
attaches  some  concern  to  the  question.  A  sheriff 
comes  from  a  neighboring  country  searching  for 
a  man  wanted  for  manslaughter.  While  he  talks 
to  Lee  about  him,  giving  a  description  from  which 
Lee  recognizes  the  gambler,  through  the  scar,  a 
deputy  posts  the  town  with  offers  of  a  reward 
for  this  man.  The  gambler  sees  one.  Realizing 
that  the  officers  are  after  him  and  growing  des- 
perate be  jumps  upon  a  nearby  horse  and  makes  a 
hurried   flight. 

Meanwhile  Lee  is  haying  a  struggle  with  him- 
self. For  Edythe's  sake  he  desires  to  shield  the 
gambler,  while  ns  an  officer  he  should  aid  in  his 
capture.  He  solves  the  question  by  denying  knowl- 
edge of  the  man.  To  make  this  act  compatible 
with  bis  official  capacity  he  feels  that  he  must  re- 
sign. This  he  does  to  the  surprise  of  the  president 
of  the  county  supervisors.  Then  he  goes  to 
Edytbe's  home. 

Meanwhile  the  gambler's  horse  has  gone  lame, 
and  he  too,  has  come  to  the  ranch  home.  He 
begs  Edythe  to  hide  him.  Edythe  sees  the  sheriff 
entering  the  gate,  apparently  In  search  of  the  fugi- 
tive and  she  conceals  him  in  a  closet.  The  sheriff 
enters  and  shortly  finds,  through  a  couple  of  in- 
voluntary slips  made  by  Edythe,  that  the  gambler 
is  not  only  In  the  house,  bnt  near  him.  He  places 
a  chair  before  the  door,  folds  bis  arms  and  in- 
vites the  gambler  to  come  out.  This  the  fugitive 
does  with  a  rush.  He  covers  the  ex-sheriff  with 
a  revolver  and  is  about  to  shoot  him  but  the  cool 
courage  displayed  disarms  Mm.  For  Edythe's 
sake,  Lee  gives  the  gambler  his  own  horse  and  lets 
him    go. 

ECLAIR. 

MATHILDE  (2  parts,  April  23). — Owing  to  hit 
gambling  proclivities,  Viscsunt  de  Lancry  Is  re- 
duced to  a  state  of  absolute  penury.  Mathllde,  a 
niece  of  Mme.  de  Rochegune,  is  courted  by  the  Vis- 
count and  Chevalier  Lngarto.  She  favors  the  latter. 
Knowing  that  his  rival  cannot  marry  Mthllde  with- 
out money,  the  Chevalier,  through  his  diabolical 
machinations,  Inveigles  the  Viscount  into  accepting 
a  check  for  20,000  francs.  Bnt  the  Chevalier  does 
not  Intend  to  help  his  rival,  the  offering  of  the  check 
being  given  for  the  sole  purpose  of  confirming  his 
belief  that  the  Viscount  is  without  money.  The 
Viscount  leaves  the  room  and  upon  returning,  he 
finds  a  note  from  the  Chevalier  to  the  effect  that 
he  has  left  for  abroad.  Being  nnable  to  find  the 
check,  and  thinking  that  It  must  have  been  lost, 
the  Viscount  forges  the  signature  of  the  Chevalier 
to  another,  cashes  It  and  receives  the  money. 

A  few  days  later  the  Chevalier  calls  upon  the  Vis- 
count, and  is  well  received.  Ignoring  the  fact  that 
he  had  received  a  check  from  the  Chevalier  and 
that  he  had  taken  it  away  from  him  while  he  was 
out  of  the  room,  the  former  reveals  his  true  char- 
acter and  forces  the  Viscount  to  sign  a  paper  ac- 
knowledging that  he  obtained  the  20,000  francs  by 
forgery.  Even  though  he  finds  himself  In  the  vil- 
lainous clutches  of  the  Chevalier,  the  Viscount  mar- 
ries Mathllde.  Fearing  that  his  wife  will  learn  of 
his  illegal  deed,  the  Visconnt  goes  to  the  Chevalier 
and  begs  that  he  destroy  the  Incriminating  paper. 
Bnt  he  is  informed  that  the  paper  has  been  sent 
to  the  Chevaliers  lawyers  in  London.  As  soon  as 
the  Viscount  has  left  for  abroad,  the  Chevalier 
lnnres  Mathllde  to  a  place  where  she  Is  at  his 
mercy.  He  Is  abont  to  show  Mathllde  her  husband's 
confession  of  forgery  when  It  is  quickly  snatched 
away  from  him  by  Mr.  de  Rochegnue,  who  has 
learned  of  the  abduction.  The  Chevalier  tries  to 
escape  through  the  chimney,  but  meets  his  death 
there  by  suffocation. 

POOR  LITTLE  CHAP  HE  WAS  ONLY  DREAM- 
ING (April  20). — When  "Snookrums"  started  to  cry, 
Pa-da  thought  it  was  because  there  was  no  milk  In 
the  house,  and  so  he  started  on  a  run  to  the  nearest 
store.  Here  he  aroused  the  proprietor,  who  had  been 
sleeping  peacefully,  and  purchased  a  bottle  of  milk 
for  a  dollar.  Bnt  in  running  back  to  the  house 
Da-da  slipped  on  some  ice  and  landed  on  one  ear. 
Incidentally,  the  bottle  of  milk  was  broken.  Back 
went  Da-da  on  the  run,  and  again  he  got  the  store- 
keeper ont  of  bed.  This  time  the  precious  milk  cost 
two  dollars  for  the  bottle,  but  Da-da  "should  worry'' 
when  It  was  going  to  make  "Snookums"  happy.     So 


he  raced  home  and  climbed  cautiously  up  the  steps, 
which  were  covered  with  Ice.  Into  the  house  be 
crept  quietly,  so  as  not  to  disturb  the  precious 
darling.  But  it  was  dark  In  the  bouse  and  Da-da's 
only  match  soon  burned  out — the  very  next  step,  and 
he  went  headlong  over  a  chair,  breaking  the  second 
bottle  of  milk.  He  was  making  a  few  remarks  on 
the  subject  In  no  gentle  tone,  when  "Snookums'  " 
mother  appeared  and  cautioned  him  against  making 
such  a  disturbance,  since  Snookums  was  sleeping  bo 
peacefully. 

FIRE  (April  20).— This  subject  la  both  beautiful 
and  instructive,  since  It  shows  the  many  forms  of 
fire,  from  the  days  when  the  Ignorant  savages  first 
rubbed  two  sticks  together,  op  to  the  blue  blaze 
of  an  air  torch. 

SONS  OF  A  SOLDIER  (3  parts — May  7). — The 
earlier  scenes  depict  the  members  of  the  older 
branches  of  the  Primrose  family  in  the  trying 
crises  of  the  Revolution  and  the  Civil  War,  show- 
ing their  mettle  and  preparing  the  way  for  the 
Incidents  of  the  main  narrative,  in  which  the  sons 
of  that  sterling  race  become  prominent  factors  In 
the  fearful  death  struggle  of  East  with  West. 

Young  George  Prlmsose,  on  leaving  West  Point, 
receives  a  lieutenant's  commission,  and  is  detailed 
at  once  for  active  service  In  the  war.  Shortly 
after  his  departure  his  elder  brother  is  elected  to 
the  office  of  president.  The  ancient  homestead  of 
the  Primroses,  which  has  sheltered  four  genera- 
tions of  patriotic  scions  of  this  tree,  has  fallen 
into  the  hands  of  the  Japanese,  who  are  using  it  as 
their  military  headquarters.  The  grandfather  of 
the  two  boys,  and  old  soldier  of  Lookout  Mountain 
and  Gettysburg,  though  driven  from  his  home  and 
falling  in  health,  Is  yet  a  lusty  and  active  partisan, 
fighting  vicariously  for  the  land  he  loves  through 
the  medium  of  his   two  grandsons. 

Lieutenant  Primrose  is  sent  to  the  Commander- 
in-Chief  with  a  dispatch  of  vital  importance.  At- 
tempting a  short  cut  through  an  everglade,  he 
loses  his  horse  and  becomes  himself  bemlred,  his 
strength  having  been  undermined  by  a  fresh  wound 
from  the  carbine  of  a  Japanese  guerilla.  Just  as 
be  has  fainted  from  exhaustion,  Denison,  bis  class- 
mate at  West  Point,  comes  upon  him.  This  man 
hates  the  young  officer,  as  he  has  been  an  unsuc- 
cessful aspirant  for  the  hand  of  Polly  Blake, 
Primrose's  fiancee.  Denison  extracts  the  paper 
from   Primrose's  belt,    and   makes  good  his  escape. 

The  hue  and  cry  is  ont  after  the  young  lieuten- 
ant. The  evidence  all  points  to  desertion.  Deni- 
son pursues  his  advantage  with  the  girl,  declaring 
that  he  has  tried  to  retrieve  his  friend's  disgrace 
by  delivering  the  dispatch  himself.  He  produces 
the  paper  as  proof.  Primrose  Is  finally  found  and 
brought  on  to  Washington  for  court  martial.  Denl- 
son's  testimony  turns  the  case,  and  the  order  is 
issued  to  shoot  the  traitor.  The  old  grandfather 
who  loves  the  boy  more  than  anything  in  the 
world,   is  the  most  unrelenting  of  his  judges. 

On  the  day  set  for  the  execution,  Polly  Blake 
arrives  at  the  Capitol  and  demands  immediate  au- 
dience with  President  Primrose.  She  has  discov- 
ered a  thumb  mark  In  blood  on  the  dispatch  which 
Denison  gives  ber.  The  fact  that  the  latter  has 
received  no  wound  arouses  her  suspicions.  The 
thumb  print  Is  identified  as  George  Primroses. 
The  president's  reprieve  saves  his  brother  from  dis- 
graceful death  at  the  last  moment,  and  the  treach- 
ery of  young  Denison  is  unmasked  to  the  world. 


BISON. 

THE  nnjIANS  SECRET  (2  parts— May  6).— 
Raymond  receives  a  letter  from  his  brother,  Dud- 
ley, telling  of  his  finding  an  old  Aztec  Temple. 
He  leaves  his  brother's  baby.  Myrtle,  with  her  aunt 
Mildred,  and  with  his  wife  and  child,  goes  In 
search  of  the  ancient  treasures.  Raymond  finds 
the  Temple  and  gets  Imprisoned  therein  by  the 
falling  of  a  pillar  upon  his  leg.  When  he  manages 
to  get  It  off,  he  finds  that  the  party  have  all  been 
murdered,  Including  his  wife.  He  becomes  a 
maniac  and  returning  to  the  Temple  he  lives  there, 
obtaining  food  and  drink  from  the  Sloox  Indians, 
who  believe  him  to  be  a  White  Spirit.  His  little 
four  year  old  boy  is  found,  uninjured,  by  Big 
Cloud,  the  chief  of  the  Sioux,  who  brings  the  hoy 
up  to  believe  he  is  an  Indian  and  names  him 
White  Eagle. 

Eighteen  years  later.  Myrtle  learns  of  the  trag- 
edy from  her  aunt,  and  with  a  letter  to  the  com- 
mander of  a  frontier  fort  she  obtains  an  escort 
and  goes  in  search  of  the  treasure  temple  and  of 
news  of  her  kinsfolk.     She  and  others  find   White 


Eagle,  who  has  been  treacherously  shot  and  left 
for  dead  by  the  Apache  chief,  Wolf,  following  a 
peace  conference. 

Myrtle  takes  a  great  Interest  In  him,  to  the 
anger  of  young  Llentenant  Gray,  who  has  been 
placed  In  charge  of  the  escort  and  who  has  fallen 
in  love  with  her.  Myrtle  (Joes  not  believe  White 
Eagle  to  be  an  Indian,  and  the  frequent  meetings 
of  the  two  and  Myrtle's  derisive  refusal  of  the 
lieutenant's  offer  of  marriage,  make  him  desperate 
and  All  him  with  a  desire  for  revenge.  He  comes 
across  Chief  Wolf  and  makes  a  compact  with  him 
whereby  he  agrees  to  steal  the  ammunition  so  that 
the  Apaches  may  attack  with  success  and  with 
the  agreement  that  Myrtle  is  not  harmed  Is  hand- 
ed   over   to   him. 

The  Sioux  Chief,  Big  Cloud,  alarmed  at  the  ab- 
sence of  his  beloved  White  Eagle,  and  seeing  a 
vision  of  his  son  being  attacked,  calls  his  braves 
together  and  they  set  out  to  search  for  White 
Eagle.  They  are  In  time  to  rescue  Myrtle  and  her 
party,  including  White  Eagle.  Big  Cloud  invites 
them  to  stay  a  while  in  their  camp  and  the  pipe 
of  peace  is  smoked.  A  messenger  la  sent  back  to 
the    fort   to    report    the   disturbance. 

The  lieutenant  Is  again  repulsed  by  Myrtle  and 
he  again  seeks  out  Wolf  and  his  Apaches.  Wolf 
kills  Big  Cloud,  believing  him  to  be  White  Eagle, 
the  latter  rides  out  with  his  Indians  to  exter- 
minate them.  The  Apaches  hide  and  ride  back 
to  kill  the  hated  whites,  who  escape  to  the  Aztec 
Temple,  which  Myrtle  has  found  by  following 
Raymond. 

The  Apaches  attack  and  many  are  blown  to 
pieces  by  the  maniac  Raymond.  The  identity  of 
White  Eagle  is  established  and  he  and  Myrtle  are 
happily   united. 


NESTOR. 

THE  COUNTRY  COUSIN  (May  6) Eddie  Is  well 

content  with  his  bachelor  quarters  and  life.  He 
is  not  Interested  as  he  should  be  when  his  af- 
fectionate Uncle  Russell,  backed  by  Aunty,  write 
reminding  him  that  he  will  lose  a  legacy  of  $75,- 
000  if  he  is  not  married  by  his  25th  birthday,  which 
is  fast  approaching,  and  begging  him  to  come  and 
meet  the  bevy  of  nice  girls  and  boys  he  has  in- 
vited for  a  visit.  Eddie  likes  the  old  couple 
and  rather  than  disappoint  them,  he  wires  an  ac- 
ceptance  of    their    invitation. 

The  guests  have  arrived — a  bevy  of  pretty  girls 
and  smart  boys.  The  girls  are  all  agog  over  the 
coming  of  the  young  man — the  boys  Indifferent. 
When  Uncle  Russell  goes  to  the  station  to  meet 
Eddie,  the  girls  Insist  upon  going  to.  The  boys 
are  disgusted  at  their  conduct.  Eddie  scents 
trouble,  and  making  Uncle  get  In  the  back  with 
the  girls,  he  sits  In  front  with  the  driver. 

Uncle  Russell  Is  an  artful  soul.  He  goes  among 
the  girls  and  tells  them  that  if  Eddie  marries 
be  will  inherit  $75,000.  Each  girl  thinks  she  is 
the  only  one  who  knows,  and  makes  up  her  mind 
to  land  such  a  desirable  prize. 

There  ensues  a  bad  time  for  Bridie,  for  they 
all  try  to  amuse  him  and  practice  all  the  artful 
wiles  at  their  command.  Eventually  he  escapes 
In  a  canoe  and  paddles  to  the  only  haven  of  refuge 
— the  middle  of  the  lake.  Returning,  he  sees  a 
simply  dressed  little  girl  carrying  a  grip.  It  Is 
the  little  country  cousin,  Louise,  who  has  ar- 
rived late.  The  girls  are  outwardly  polite  to  her, 
but  laugh  at  the  quaint  country  maiden  behind 
her  back.  Eddie  notices  it  and  is  disgusted  at 
them  and  finding  out  that  it  is  the  possible  money 
which  interests  them,  he  evolves  a  plan  to  escape 
from  the  sirens. 

Eddie  goes  to  his  lawyer  and  obtains  a  letter 
from  him  stating  that  a  new  will  has  been  found  . 
leaving  all  the  money  to  charity.  It  Is  read  and 
all  the  girls  become  cool  toward  blm  and  the  boys 
sneer.  Little  Louise  alone  shows  sympathy.  Eddie 
has  much  fun  In  trying  to  persuade  the  girls  to 
go  with  him,  but  the  refrigerator  Is  wide  open. 
Louise  sees  him  snubbed  and  shows  her  sympathy. 
He  proposes  and  Is  accepted,  and  all  the  boys  and 
girls  listen  to  the  reading  of  a  later  faked  tele- 
gram stating  that  the  second  will  was  fonnd  in- 
valid and  the  provisions  of  the  first  will  hold  good. 
At  this  touching  moment  Eddie  introduces  the  girl 
who  "makes  the  $75,000  a  dead  certainty.  It  Is 
tbe   little   country   cousin   Louise. 

THE  AWAKENING  OF  PAPITA  (May  7) — Hal 
Osborn,  a  cowboy,  is  engaged  to  Madge.  She  is 
coveted  by  Mert  Sabin,  a  renegade  cowpuncher. 
As  cowboys  will  do,  Hal  occasionally  frequents 
the   saloon    and   dance   hall.      Papita,    a  dance  hall 


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girl,  is  Infatuated  with  Hal,  does  not  hesitate  to 
show  it.  Hal  is  naturaly  kind  to  women,  no  mat- 
ter who  and  what  they  are.  He  tells  her  he  loves 
another  girl  and  she,  furious  at  being  put  aside, 
follows  him  to  find  out  who  the  girl  Is.  She  sees 
him  enter  the  Barton  Ranch  gate  and  cautiously 
creeps  behind  some  bushes  and  is  an  eye  witness 
to  a  scene  in  which  Mert  attempts  to  take  Madge 
in  his  arms  after  her  refusal  to  countenance  his  at- 
tentions. Hal  arrives  in  time  to  fight  him  off, 
takes  bis  gun  away  and  sends  him  about  his  busi- 
ness. 

Papita  picks  up  a  letter  from  Hal,  which  Madge 
was  reading  and  which  she  dropped,  during  the 
struggle,  and  follows  Mert;  togetber  they  hatch 
a  plot.  They  forge  Hal's  handwriting  and  send  a 
note  by  a  Mexican  half-breed  to  Madge,  telling 
her    to    keep    an    appointment    at    the    bridge. 

Madge,  believing  the  note  to  be  from  Hal,  rides 
slowly  along  to  keep  the  appointment.  Passing  the 
saloon,  she  sees  Papita,  and  speaking  a  kindly 
word  she  throws  a  Bower.  Papita  takes  it  won- 
deringly,  for  her  conscience  smitred  her.  She  en- 
ters the  saloon  and  is  grossly  insulted  by  a  drunk- 
en cowboy.  Hal  interferes  and  thrashes  the  brute 
and  goes.  It  is  too  much  for  Papita.  She  runs 
after  liim  and  tells  him  of  the  infamous  plot. 
They  apprise  the  sheriff  and  the  three  of  them  ride 
off    to   the   rescue. 

Madge  arrives  at  the  trysting  place  and  is  seize.! 
bv  Mert  and  the  Mexican  and  taken  to  a  deserted 
cabin.  Here  Mert  tells  the  girl  that  her  only  hope 
of  release  is  to  marry  him.  The  rescuers  creep 
up  and  the  Mexican  is  overpowered,  while  Mert 
puts  Madge  before  him  and  alms  at  Hal.  Papita 
sees  the  danger,  and  throwing  herself  before  Hal 
she  receives  the  fatal  bullet.  She  dies  happy  in 
the    thought    that    she    has    righted    the    wrong. 


MUTUAL  FILM  CORPORA- 
TION. 

AMERICAN. 

THE  BROTHEBS  (Hay  5). — Robert  and  John 
Gregory  were  left  orphans.  Robert,  a,  worthy 
soul,  found  his  health  falling  and  the  doctor  ad- 
vised him  to  seek  the  lower  levels.  John,  drunk 
most  of  the  time,  agreed  to  accompany  Dim.  The 
senor,  Estabon,  lived  with  his  pretty  wife  and 
sister  in  the  little  cabin  in  the  valley.  Alone 
in  the  woods  he  found  Robert  and  John.  Robert 
prone  upon  the  ground  from  exhaustion  and  John, 
quite  drunk,  beside  him.  The  Spaniard  took  them 
home  and  in  the  days  that  followed  Robert's  health 
returned,    and    he    grew    to    love    the    Spanish    girl. 


John,  on  the  other  hand,  made  violent  love  to 
the  wife  of  the  senor  and  when  she  repulsed  him, 
threatened  to  kill  her.  Behind  the  barn  Robert 
came  upon  them,  she  straggling  to  free  herself 
from  John's  embrace.  All  ties  of  blood  were 
swept  away  in  Robert's  fury  and  he  struck  his 
brother  to  the  ground.  Slinking  away,  John  dis- 
covered an  aged  mendicant  who  agreed  to  kill  his 
brother  and  the  senor  in  consideration  of  certain 
money.  They  went  toward  the  little  cabin  home 
and  the  beggar  demanded  bis  money.  This  John 
refused,  promising  pay  when  the  job  was  done. 
An  argument  arose  between  them.  John,  in 
drunken  fury,  struck  the  thug,  who  fell.  Turning 
over  oil  his  side,  the  mendicant  fired  and  John 
dropped  dead.  A  little  later  the  occupants  of  the 
little    cabin    gathered    solemnly    around    his    body. 

HUMAN  KINDNESS  (May  8). — Old  Jasper,  now! 
in  his  eightieth  year,  affectionately  kissed  his 
aged  wife  good  bye  and  started  for  his  day's  work 
on  the  big  estate,  Ralph  Martin,  a  young  over- 
seer, looked  at  his  watch  and  spoke  roughly  to 
the  old  man  of  his  tardiness.  Old  Jasper,  without 
answering  took  his  spade  and  rake  and  started 
work.  A  pretty  flower  caught  his  eye  and  he 
plucked  it.  When  Miss  Mabel,  daughter  of  the 
owner  of  the  estate,  passed  by,  he  offered  it  to 
her.  but  she  only  frowned  and  passed  him  by  in 
silence.  A  moment  later  Martin  braskly  told  him 
to  stop  that  fooliBhness.  Pretty  Betty,  from  a 
neighboring  estate,  passed  into  the  big  garden  on 
her  way  to  visit  Miss  Mabel.  She  took  the  pretty 
flower  which  the  kindly  old  man  offered  her  and 
pressed  it  in   her   book. 

Later,  with  Miss  Mabel,  she  passed  him  by  and 
smiled  kindly.  That  afternoon,  a  young  man 
applied  for  work.  Martin  gave  btm  a  peremptory 
"No:"  then  seeing  old  Jasper  feebly  digging, 
called  bim  hack  and  hired  him.  He  discharged 
Jasper,  who.  tottering  from  excitement  and  worry, 
found  his  way  home  to  the  arms  of  his  aged 
sj>ouse. 

A  few  days  later  pretty  Betty,  again  visiting 
Mabel,  asked  for  him.  The  overseer  was  called 
an.l  replied  that  he  had  discharged  him.  Mabel 
shrugged  her  shoulders,  but  the  news  worried 
Betty,  on  •  bench  In  her  own  garden  she  picked 
Dp  her  book  and  found  the  pressed  flower.  Then 
she  went  to  old  Jasper's  home  and  gave  him 
work.  There  was  much  joy  In  the  old  gardener's 
home  that  night  and  in  the  days  that  followed 
old  Jasper's  wife  and  Betty  were  inseparable 
companions. 

YOUTH  AND  JEALOUSY  (May  10).— Big  Ben 
from  the  Bar  N  Ranch  called  often  on  Margaret. 
As  the  two  were  inseparable.  It  soon  became 
known    that    they    would    soon    marry.      This    news 


greatly  displeased  Bill  Higgins,  who  promptly  set 
about  to  make  trouble.  He  wrote  an  anonymous 
note  and  attached  it  to  Ben's  saddle,  saying  "She 
don't  love  you.  She  was  with  Bill  Higgins  al! 
day  yesterday.  A  Friend."  When  Ben  found  it 
he  frowned  and  tucked  it  idly  into  his  pocket. 
This  happened  regularly  thereafter.  If  Ben  had 
been  a  trifle  older  he  might  have  smiled  derisively,. 
but  he  didn't.  Youth  and  jealousy  are  old  ac- 
quaintances and  so  Ben  made  his  visits  shorter 
and  shorter.  One  day,  lonesomeness  overcame  him 
and  he  sent  the  notes  in  a  bundle  to  Margy.  she 
read  them  and  promptly  burst  into  tears.  Then, 
with  true  Western  suddenness,  she  hurried  into  the 
house,  where  she  told  her  brother  all  her  trouble. 
The  latter  only  smiled,  but  looked  more  serious 
when  he  caught  Margy  loading  a  big  six-shooter. 
He  told  Bill  to  watch  out  for  himself  and  ceased 
further  to  trouble  himself.  But  Bill  was  more 
wise.  Carefully  unloading  the  bullets,  he  sub- 
stituted blanks  and  when  Margy  later  threatened 
him  he  only  smiled.  And  then  Ben  rode  up,  ut- 
terly miserable  and  determined  upon  an  under- 
standing with  Margy.  This  was  easily  obtained 
to  the  vast  satisfaction  of  everyone  concerned, 
but  Bill  Higgins. 


MAJESTIC. 

OLD  MAMMY'S  CHARGE  (April  87).— Beatrice 
Prentiss,  a  southern  girl,  marries  a  chap  from  the 
north  against  her  father's  will.  He  casts  her 
off  and  with  her  husband  and  Old  Mammy,  the 
girl  goes  north.  Things  do  not  go  very  well  after 
that  and  when  a  baby  is  born,  the  girl'  wife  dies. 
The  young  husband  soon  follows  and  Mammy  is  left 
to  care  for  the  baby  herself.  She  brings  little 
Beatrice  up  and  takes  great  pleasure  In  keeping 
the  child  dainty  and  pretty.  Time  passes.  Ob! 
MammV  washes  clothes  for  a  living  and  has  her 
home  in  the  colored  section  of  the  city.  People 
notice  the  well-dressed  white  child  in  the  woman's 
care  and  moch  speculation  arises  concerning  Bet. 
Finally  some  well-meaning  people  bring  the  matter 
up    in    the    court    and    Mammy    is   summoned    to    ap- 

PeAbout  this  time  old  Major  Prentiss  has  arrived 
in  the  city,  in  search  of  his  long  missing  daughter 
whom  he  "wants  to  bring  home  again.  He  is  in 
the  courtroom  on  the  morning  that  Mammy  appears 
and  recognizes  the  old  servant  at  once.  Explana- 
tions follow  after  which  lie  learns  that  his  daugh- 
ter  and    her   husband   are   dead. 

He  then  takes  Mammy  and  the  little  girl  back 
home  where  peace  and  comfort  await  them. 

THE  WHIM  OF  DESTINY  (April  89).— Young- 
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vacation — meets  and  falls  in  love  with  pretty 
Laura  Graham.  The  two  are  soon  eugaged.  Some 
moonshiners  in  the  vicinity  suspect  Weston  of  be- 
ing a  revenue  officer  and  keep  a  close  watch  on 
him. 

Laura's  father — keeper  of  a  gambling  house  in 
the  city — has  a  run  in  with  the  police  and  escapes 
to  bis  daughter's  home.  Tbe  next  morning  Wes- 
ton receives  a  telegram  from  bis  chief  advising 
him  to  look  for  Graham,  who  is  suspected  of  being 
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RELIANCE. 

THE  BAWLEROUT  (3  parts— April  30).— Miss 
Sullivan,  the  bawlerout  for  Cbarker  &  Co.,  loan 
bankers  to  the  poor,  is  the  terror  of  every  unfor- 
tunate who  baa  to  borrow  money  on  his  salary. 
If  they  do  not  pay  up  promptly  she  is  the  one 
who  goes  to  .their  place  of  employment  and  "bawls 
them    out." 

Young  Dick  Lewis,  a  bank  clerk,  to  help  his 
fellow  clerk.  Jack  Gray,  borrows  $200  of  Charker 
a  Oo  I'll-'  bawlerout  is  sent  to  his  home  to  find 
out  nil  ftOOvt  him.  She  pretends  to  be  a  book 
jigi'iit  and  talks  with  bis  mother — a  kindly  old 
gentlewoman1.  Satisfied  that  the  boy  is  all  he  said, 
Charker  &  Co.,  advance  him   the  money. 

Dick  Is  eugaged  to  Edith  Downs,  the  pretty 
daughter  of  the  bank  cashier.  She  Is  a  selfish, 
irtless  girl,  caring  more  for  dress  than  she  does 
for  anything  else.  When  Dick — owing  to  the  fact 
that  he  has  do  evening  clothes — finds  himself  un- 
able to  go  to  a  ball  with  her,  she  calls  his  rival 
on  the  'phone  and  makes  an  appointment  to  go 
with    him. 

Dick's  friend  refuses  to  help  Dick  pay  back  the 
money  he  borrowed  for  his  sake;  so  the  bawlerout 
Is  sent  to  the  bank  to  disgrace  the  boy.  But  as 
she  begins  she  sees  his  mother  entering  with  the 
hank  president.  The  sight  of  the  gentle  old  lady 
softens  the  girl  and  she  goes  away  without  ac- 
complishing   her   purpose. 

John  Howard — a  reformer — disguises  as  a  work- 
man to  find  out  tbe  truth  about  the  loan  shark 
••stablishment.  He  interests  the  bawlerout  and 
together  they  find  out  that  President  Bendis  of  the 
hank  In  which  Dick  is  employed  is  the  real  head 
of  Charker  &   Co. 

Edith's  father,  to  keep  up  with  his  daughter's 
extravagance,  borrows  money  from  the  bank  which 
he  is  unable  to  repay.  The  girl,  learning  of  this 
and  dreading  to  see  her  father  disgraced,  suggests 
that  as  Dick  loves  her — he  take  the  blame.  The 
boy  agrees. 

Miss  Sullivan,  who  has  become  friendly  with 
Dick's  mother,  is  a  constant  visitor  at  the  house. 
But  she  has  never  permitted  herself  to  soften  to- 
ward Dick,  who,  despite  this  and  the  fact  of  his 
engagement  to  Edith,  falls  in  love  with  the  erst- 
while  bawlerout. 

Howard  and  Miss  Sullivan  secure  the  necessary 
evidence  against  Charker's.  In  the  bank  the 
money  la  missed  and  Dick  accused.  He  says  nothing 
and  is  about  to  be  arrested  when  Howard  enters 
with  tbe  bawlerout.  Bendis  Is  told  that  he  is 
wanted  by  the  police  and  Miss  Sullivan,  seeing 
Dick  handcuffed,  asks  tbe  reason  and  Is  told.  One 
glance  from  the  boy  to  the  shrinking  cashier  con- 
vinces her  as  to  Just  who  the  thief  Is.  She  "bawls 
out"  Downs  and  breaks  him  so  that  be  readily  con- 
fesses. As  he  and  Bendis  are  taken  away,  Edith 
turns  to  Dick  and  informs  him  that  she  is  done 
with  him — she  has  become  engaged  to  the  other 
man. 

With  a  great  sigh  of  relief,  Dick  holds  out  his 
arms  to  Miss  Sullivan,  and  she,  despite  her  past 
coldness,  enters  his  embrace.  And  it  is  thus  that 
Dick's   mother  finds   them   a   little  later. 


THANHOUSER. 

BOSIE'S  REVENGE  (April  27).— Rosle  was 
•  born  and  brought  up  on  a  farm,  but  had  longings 
for  the  gay  life  of  the  city.  She  was  not  pretty, 
far  from  It;  in  fact  even  she  realized  tbere  would 
be  no  "place  for  her  on  the  stage,  except  in  sup- 
port of  the  Cherry  Sisters.  She  couldn't  be  an 
artists's  model,  or  a  grand  opera  singer,  so  she 
compromised  on  stenography.  The  station  agent 
In  their  village  (he  was  a  distant  relative),  gave 
her  two  lessons  and  then  she  went  forth  to  con- 
quer  the   metropolis. 

Rose  got  a  Job.  No  one  could  ever  explain  how 
she  did  it.  Her  tenure  of  office  work  was  one 
hour  and  seven  minutes,  at  the  end  of  which  time 
she  was  discharged  for  Incompetency.  She  blamed 
her  employer  and  vowed  vengeance.  It  must  be  ad- 
mitted that  he  talked  harshly  to  her,  but  on  the 
other  hand  it  cannot  be  denied  that  Rosie's  work 
on  the  typewriter  was  pretty  coarse.  She  tried 
for  other  positions,  but  did  not  succeed  in  landing 
one.  When  her  money  ran  out  she  was  Induced 
to  take  a  position  as  cook  in  a  private  family  and 
there  demonstrated  that  she  was  In  her  proper 
sphere.  As  a  typewriter  Rosie  was  an  Insult,  as 
a    cook,    she   was   a    delightful   dream. 

Tefl  years  after,  her  one  essay  at  office  work, 
Rosle  was  employed  by  a  wealthy  young  widow, 
who  lived  alone  In  the  country.  The  widow  had  a 
suitor,  a  clean  cut  young  business  man,  and  Rosie 
heartily  approved  of  him.  Then  one  day  Rosle's 
former  employer  appeared.  It  developed  later 
that  he  had  hoped  to  retrieve  his  fortunes  by  marry- 
ing the  widow,  who  was  a  friend  of  his  sister.  He 
was  received  graciously,  but  Rosie  determined  to 
get   rid   of   him    without   delay. 


She  was  an  excellent  cook,  and  she  easily  ac- 
complished her  purpose.  The  poor  man  had  a  most 
lie  ineal,  and  could  not  understand  bow  the 
I  v  and  her  other  suitor  enjoyed  it.  He  did  not 
that  he  as  partaking  of  a  special  diet, 
but  the  little  he  ate  worried  him,  and  he  finally 
Herl  from  tbe  house,   never  to  return. 

The  widow  in  time  married  the  merchant  and 
retained  Rosle,  who  became  even  a  better 
cook  as  the  years  passed  by. 

THE  GIRL  DETECTTVE'8  RUSE  (April  29).— 
A  gang  of  counterfeiters  made  their  headquarters 
In  a  large  city  and  the  police,  despite  many  deter- 
mined efforts,    were  unable  to  arrest  them. 

One  of  the  cleverest  detectives  in  the  city's  em- 
ploy was  a  young  girl  who  bad  won  a  name  for 
age.  She  learned  that  a  certain  woman  coun- 
terfeiter, who  had  been  sentenced  to  prison  with 
her  husband  was  soon  to  be  released,  and  a  daring 
plan  occurred  to  her.  The  convict  resembled  the 
detective  In  appearance,  and  the  latter  felt  sure 
that,  properly  disguised  she  would  be  taken  for 
the  other  woman.  Arrangements  were  accordingly 
made,  the  prisoner  was  detained  in  the  peniten- 
tiary, while  the  detective,  wearing  the  shapeless 
clothing  given  to  discharged  prisoners,  slunk  out 
of  the  prison  yard.  As  she  had  anticipated  she 
was  met  by  men  who  warmly  greeted  her  and  es- 
corted  her   to  a   waiting   automobile. 

The  woman  counterfeiter  had  been  noted  as  an 
engraver,  and  the  detective's  "friends"  were  none 
other  than  the  gang  of  which  the  police  were  In 
search.  At  their  headquarters  the  girl,  firmly  es- 
tablished in  the  gang's  confidence,  learned  all  the 
information  necessary  and  6ent  a  cipher  message 
to  the  chief  of  police,  telling  him  to  raid  the  place. 

The  convict's  husband  escaped  from  prison  on  the 
day  set  for  the  raid.  He  made  his  way  to  the 
counterfeiter's  headquarters,  and  when  presented 
to  his  "wife"  denounced  her  as  an  imposter  and  a 
spy.  Tbe  girl  was  In  great  peril,  but  her  cour- 
age did  not  fail  ber.  Seizing  a  chair,  she  smash- 
ed the  lamp  and  the  room  was  shrouded  In  dark- 
ness. While  the  angry  men  floundered  around  trying 
to  find  her,  the  detective  fled  to  the  roof  of  the 
building  in  an  effort  to  elude  her  pursuers.  She 
was  overtaken  and  seized.  Death  was  very  near 
at  band  when  policemen  poured  in  from  adjoining 
houses  and   the  counterfeiters  were  made  prisoners. 

The  girl  was  complimented  for  her  gallantry  and 
promoted,  and  the  woman  whose  place  she  had 
taken  was  released  from  prison  and  helped  to  lead 
ai    honest    life. 

THE  WTDOW'S  STRATAGEM  (May  2).— The 
doctor  diagnosed  the  wealthy  widow's  case  as  "too 
much  society."  He  ordered  that  she  leave  the 
city  for  the  summer,  and  spend  at  least  a  couple 
of  months  In  some  quiet  farm  house.  With  many 
sighs  the  order  was  obeyed,  and  the  woman  soon 
found  herself  the  paying  guest  of  a  country  woman 
far   from   civilization. 

At  first,  time  bung  heavily  on  tbe  visitor's  hands, 
t.nr  she  soon  learned  to  reconcile  herBelf  to  ber 
surroundings.  The  fare  was  plain  but  good.  She 
passed  many  happy  hours  sketching,  and  lastly, 
there  was  a  "mighty  nice  boy"  who  came  over  al- 
most   daily    to  chat   with   her. 

Tbe  widow  was  young  and  beautiful,  but  she 
never  dreamed  for  a  moment  of  falling  In  love 
with  the  youthful  farmer.  He,  however,  was  daz- 
zled by  the  style  and  beauty  of  the  city  resident 
and   soon   was  paying  much  attention   to   her. 

For  some  little  time  the  widow  did  not  know 
that  she  was  causing  sorrow  for  another.  Her 
hostess  bad  a  daughter,  an  awkward  country  girl, 
and  one  day  this  girl  confronted  tbe  widow.  She 
told  her  that  the  young  farmer  bad  been  her  sweet- 
heart, but  was  now  being  won  away  and  dropping 
on  her  knees  she  pleaded  "Don't  take  him  away, 
he  is  all   I   have." 

Tbe  blase  city  woman's  heart  was  touched.  She 
felt  for  the  poor  little  girl  who  had  had  so  few 
Joys  in  life,  and  tenderly  promised  her  that  she 
would  nip  the  undesired  romance  In  the  bud.  She 
flld,  hut  the  farmer  never  realized  how  it  was 
accomplished.  He  simply  found  that  tbe  woman 
he  had  admired  was  not  so  beautiful  as  he  had 
at  first  believed,  that  she  was  course  and  common. 
so  almost  Insensibly  he  ceased  to  care  for  her  and 
drifted  back  to  tbe  one  who  steadfastly  loved  him. 

The  widow  returned  to  the  city,  her  health 
fully  restored,  and  again  assumed  her  position  in 
society.  The  country  girl  married  the  man  of  ber 
choice  and  always  realized  that  she  owed  her  hap- 
piness to  the  success  of  tbe  widow's  stratagem. 


KEYSTONE. 

THE  DARKTOWN  BELLE  (May  8).— Caroline 
Is  the  belle  of  Coontown.  Her  sweetheart  is  Big 
Sam,  a  barber.  Sam  has  an  awful  time  keeping 
away  the  admirers  of  Caroline,  and  many  fierce 
encounters  take  place.  A  new  arrival  comes — a 
regular  dude — and  meets  Caroline.  She  gives  him 
one  of  her  photographs,  and  he  goes  to  the  barber 
shop  to  get  shaved.  While  sitting  in  the  chair 
he  gazes  at  the  photograph  and  kisses  it.  Sam 
sees  the  photo,  and  goes  for  htm  with  a  razor. 
The  dude  manages  to  get  out  of  the  shop,  pur- 
sued by  Sam,  who  finally  catches  the  dude  and  be- 
gins to  beat  him  and  cut  him  up.  Caroline,  mean- 
while, has  annexed  another  admirer,  and  Sam 
catches  sight  of  her  kissing  him.  With  a  look  of 
disgust,  he  releases  his  victim,  gives  him  the  razors 
and  walks  away,  deciding  that  It  Is  impossible  to 
keep    In    check    Caroline's    wandering    affections. 


A  LITTLE  HERO  (Hay  S). — Mabel  has  a  canary 
bird,  a  tiny  pet  dog  and  a  cat.  She  goes  out,  and 
the  cat  goes  after  tbe  canary.  Doggie  hears  tbe 
racket  and  takes  In  the  situation.  Knowing  he  la 
no  match  for  Tabble  he  runs  as  fast  as  his  little 
legs  will  carry  him  to  a  kennel  where  he  tells  his 
troubles  to  three  big  collies,  who  run  back  with 
.  bim.  They  Becure  entrance  to  the  house  through 
a  basement  window,  and  arrive  In  time  to  save  the 
bird's  life.  Tabby  rnns  away,  and  an  exciting 
chase  follows. 

When  Mabel  comes  home  and  sees  the  overturned 
bird  cage  and  the  canary's  tail  feathers  pulled 
oat  she  thinks  her  little  doggie  has  chased  the 
cat  away,    and  hugs  her  hero. 

ALGIE  ON  THE  FORCE  (May  6).— Algle  secures 
a  Job  on  the  force.  A  new  chief  of  police  Is  ap- 
pointed, who  wears  a  soft  hat  and  a  frock  coat. 
A  woman  reports  the  theft  of  her  watch  by  a 
thief  with  a  soft  hat  and  a  frock  coat  and  Algie 
goes  out  looking  for  the  thief.  He  meets  the  chief 
of  police  and  arrests  him  after  a  chase  and  a 
fight,  and  handcuffs  his  prisoner  to  a  telegraph 
pole  while  he  goes  for  assistance.  The  Captain's 
consternation  can  be  Imagined  when  he  arrives 
with  his  men  and  finds  his  chief  a  prisoner.  Algle 
gets   bounced. 

HIS  UTS  AND  DOWNS  (May  6).— A  clever 
comedy,  in  which  an  aeroplane  and  a  giant  balloon 
are  nsed.  Ford  Sterling  takes  a  flight  In  the  aero- 
plane, and  interesting  views  are  shown  of  Los 
Angeles  and  surrounding  country  thaken  from  the 
aeroplane  at  a  great  height. 


tsRONCHO 

THE  WAT  OF  A  MOTHER  (2  parts,  May  7).— 
The  brutality  of  Mrs.  Cardigan's  husband  excites 
comment,  and  one  day  a  miner  named  Norton 
Intercedes  in  behalf  of  the  wife.  Norton  agrees 
to  take.  Mrs.  Cardigan  away  from  her  vicious 
husband;  but  they  are  overtaken.  In  trying  to 
escape  with  her  half-dressed  baby,  a  bullet  grazes 
her  temple  and  she  falls  unconscious  upon  the 
ground.  Norton  is  killed  In  the  skirmish.  In- 
dians, hearing  the  shots,  attack  the  whites  and 
take  the  baby,  leaving  Mrs.  Cardigan  for  dead. 
The  wife  Is  found  by  the  soldiers  and  Is  taken  to 
the  fort,  where  she  recovers,  and  eventually  falls 
In  love  and  marries  tbe  colonel. 

Twenty  years  later  her  baby,  now  grown,  Is 
appointed  chief  of  the  Indians,  the  old  chief 
having  died.  The  redmen,  thinking  the  pin  that 
he  wears  bearing  his  name,  John,  a  charm,  have 
named  him  Running  Elk.  One  day  Running  Elk 
calls  at  the  fort  to  sell  furs,  and  lias  an  alter- 
cation with  a  drunken  soldier.  In  the  fight  that 
follows  the  soldier  is  killed  and  Running  Elk  Is 
sentenced  to  death.  The  mother  meets  the  Indian 
and  learns  that  he  is  her  son,  hut  does  not  reveal 
her  identity.  When  she  hears  that  the  Indian  Is 
to  be  shot,  she  effects  his  escape.  She  Is  dis- 
covered by  the  colonel  and,  In  a  dramatic  scene, 
tells  him  of  her  past  life,  and  he  forgives  her. 
Smarting  under  the  indignities  he  has  received. 
Running  Elk  incites  his  tribe  to  war  with  the 
soldiers.  Seeing  that  the  soldiers  are  losing,  the 
mother  decides  to  tell  Running  Elk  who  she  Is; 
but  in  climbing  the  stockade,  she  is  struck  by  a 
bullet.  With  her  dying  breath  she  impresses  up- 
on her  son  that  she  is  his  mother.  A  truce  is 
declared  and  she  Is  hurled  amidst  impressive 
Indian  rites. 


KAY-BEE. 

PAST  REDEMPTION  (2  parts,  M»y  8).— 
Through  the  efforts  of  the  Rev.  John  Drummond, 
who  comes  to  a  small  western  mining  town  with 
his  little  boy,  all  the  saloons  are  closed.  Jim 
Howe  and  his  daughter,  Nell,  being  unable  to 
carry  on  a  liquor  business  In  the  town,  move  to 
the  mountains,  where  he  runs  an  illicit  still  and 
continues  to  supply  whiskey  to  the  Indians.  The 
sheriff  gets  on  his  trail  and  he  is  soon  placed  in 
the  custody  of  the  law.  Nell,  determining'  to 
avenge  herself  for  the  capture  of  her  father,  fires 
a  shot  into  a  party  of  hostile  Indians,  secreting 
herself  in  a  bush  as  she  does  so.  The  Indians, 
seeing  the  soldiers  coming,  and  thinking  that 
they  fired  the  shot,  rush,  at  them,  but  are  de- 
feated. This  plan  of  revenge  having  failed,  she 
makes  her  way  to  the  minister's  home,  but  is 
prevented  from  doing  any  harm  to  him  by  the 
maternal  instinct  which  rises  in  her  when  she 
sees  his  little"  boy  praying  for  his  mother  in 
heaven.  Just  then  the  sheriff's  posse  captures 
her  and  Is  about  to  lead  her  off  when  the  min- 
ister persuades  the  deputies  to  parole  the  girl  In 
his  custody.  She  falls  In  love  with  the  reverend 
gentleman  and  they  are  later  married.  This  in- 
cident causes  the  villagers  to  pass  much  adverse 
comment  upon  the  pair.  Being  unable  to  with- 
stand such  criticism,  Nell  leaves  a  note  on  the 
table  saying  to  her  husband  that  she  Is  going 
away.  Soon  after  her.  departure  the  sheriff  calls 
upon  the  minister  with  a  warrant  for  Nell's  arrest 
on  account  of  her  fight  with  a  woman  who  has  a 
vitrollc  tongue.  The  sheriff  and  his  posse  decide 
to  help  the  minister  find  his  wife,  a»d  they  start 
out.  They  locate  the  lifeless  body  upon  the 
desert,  and  a  pathetic  scene  takes  place  aa  the 
minister  comes  upon  the  body. 


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MISCELLANEOUS 

LUX. 

THE  MILLERS  DAUGHTER  (May  2).— The  old 
miller  has  only  one  treasure.  Ills  wife  bas  long 
ilnce  left  to  struggle  alone,  and  all  his  lore 
4s  now  centered  upon  his  only  daughter.  He  is 
angered,  therefore,  when  he  finds  that  she  bas 
given  ber  heart  to  his  assistant,  and,  in  his  anger. 
be  dismisses  the  assistant  and  forbids  his  daughter 
to  have  any  more  to  do  with  the  young  man.  His 
daughter  is  very  much  grieved,  and  Is  soon  dis- 
covered by  her  father  meeting  her  lover  in  secret. 
At  first  the  old  man  is  angered,  hut  the  song  of 
youth,  bursting  forth  in  his  heart  again,  recalls 
him  to  his  true  self,  and  he  writes  to  the  young 
fellow  telling  him  to  come  to  the  mill  the  next 
■evening  and  they  will  celebrate  the  reunion.  That 
day  a  friend  of  his  warns  him  against  the  danger 
■of  a  fire  being  caused  ;it  his  mill  through  the 
fermentation  of  the  grain,  which  has  been  stored 
there  for  a  longer  time  than  usual.  The  miller 
dismisses  the  matter,  bat  that  night,  when  his 
daughter  goes  into  the  upper  storerooms  to  see  that 
all  is  safe  for  the  night,  the  lamp  which  she  car- 
ries causes  the  gases  to  ignite,  and  a  fearful  con- 
flagration follows.  The  young  girl  finds  herself 
unable  to  escape.  There  she  remains  imprisoned 
by  the  flames,  whilst  ber  aged  father  hastens  for 
assistance.  Fortunately,  the  assistant  arrives  upon 
the  scene,  and  bravely  forces  his  way  Into  the 
burning  mill.  He  attaches  a  rope  to  the  window 
sill  and  proceed*  to  lower  himself  and  his  sweet- 
heart out  of  the  window.  The  flames  creep  along 
the  rope,  and  at  last  i{  snaps,  and  both  are  im- 
mediately thrown  into  the  river  below.  They  are 
in  a  danger  even  as  great,  for  the  river  is  deep, 
and  the  floods  have  caused  it  to  run  with  more  than 
its  usual  force  and  rapidity.  The  old  miller  en- 
trusts bis  feeble  person  to  a  boat,  and  bravely  suc- 
ceeds in  rescuing  his  treasured  ones  at  a  great 
personal  risk.  In  after  years  he  has  occasion  to 
be  thankful  for  his  brave  deed,  and  for  the  song 
of  youth  that  sounded  In  bis  heart  at  the  right 
moment,  for  now,  instead  of  having' -a  daughter,- 
he   has   a   son   as  well. 

THE  INVINCIBLE  HANDS  (May  2).— This  is  a 
clever  trick  film,  somewhat  the  same  as  that  pop- 
ular   subject:     "wonderful    fruits." 


OAUMONT. 

GAtmONT  WEEKLY,  NO.  59  (April  28).— 
tiding  the  Winds. — French  sportsmen  evolve  an 
jjterestiiiK    means    of    locomotion. 

Exposition  of  Physical  Training. — Paris  pupils 
Jrilled    under    the    supervision    of    naval    officers. 

The  New  Olympic  Comes  to  Port. — Reconstruct- 
ed sister  ship  to  ill-fated  Titantic  reaches  New 
York. 

An  Interesting  Football  Ka.tch. — Artists  from 
London  music  halls  give  public  exhibition  for 
benevolent    institution. 

Memorial  Day  in  New  Orleans. — Confederate 
veterans    decorate    comrade's    graves    in    Crescent 

Spring  Hats. — Small,  simple  but  expensive.  Di- 
rect   from    Paris. 

Let  the  Glass  Pass. — Munich  Germans  hold  their 
annual    beer    festival. 

Life  Saving  on  Pacific  Coast. — Scenes  secured  in 
ilarch  at  Coronado  Beach.  California. 

Electric  Tug  Boats.— 'French  canals  rapidly  1«- 
ing   converted    into   profitable    propt-rtifs. 

A  Dangerous  Feat. — Acrobat  performs  on  wire  at 
great    height    in    western    cities. 

A  Novel  Fire  Escape. — Ohute  the  chutes  idea  ap- 
plied  in    San   Francisco   public   schools. 

San  Francisco's  Civic  Center. — City  begins  work 
on  new  municipal  building.   Mayor  Rolph  officiating. 

O  KOMA  SAN  (April  22). — Olshi  Danjuro.  the 
young  Prince  of  Satsuma,  meets  a  dainty  giesha. 
O  Koma  San.  He  finds  her  charming.  Both  soon 
become  enmeshed  In  (lipid's  net.  As  their  love- 
making  progresses,  the  Prince  is  recalled  to  Toklo 
by  an  order  from  the  Emperor.  O  Koma  San  is 
heart-broken  at  the  prospect  of  an  indefinite  sepa- 
ration. She  Is  somewhat  reconciled  when  the  Prince 
swears  on  the  fan  and  dagger,  given  him  by  his 
father,  that  he  will  return  within  a  year. 

Time  passes  and  the  Prince  doesn't  return.  De- 
spairing, the  little  giesha  goes  to  Toklo  with  the 
t.ahv  born  of  the  love  that  had  come  to  such  an 
abrupt  end.  On  the  threshold  of  Oishls  palace  she 
learns  that  the  Prince  has  married  the  young  Prin- 
Futiwara.  The  geisha  forces  her  way  into  the 
c  and  faces  her  rival,  the  princess.  Overcome 
with  tge,    the   wronged   girl   threatens  the 

life  of  the  Princess.  Anguish  and  hopelessness  in 
her  heart.  O  Koma  turns  the  dagger  with  which  she 
had  threatened  the  Princess  upon  herself.  It  is  the 
poor  girl's  hope  that  she  will  rejoin  her  lover  by 
the  banks  of  the  Saino-Kaware,  the  River  of  De- 
parted Souls.  The  Prince  comes  into  the  room  to 
find  her  lifeless  body,  learning  too  late  of  the 
tragedy  be  bas  caused. 

LESSONS  FOR  THE  BASHFUL  (April  24).— 
Young  Marquis  de  Cargouet  is  a  very  ■  apple-pisus 
youth.  He  is  the  last  of  his  line.  He  longs  for  the 
quiet  cloister.  He  decides  to  renounce  the  pleasures 
of  this  world,  enter  a  monastery  and  embrace  the 
monastic  life.  His  uncle  writes,  says  that  instead 
of  embracing  the  monastic  life,  he  will  embrace  the 
pretty   lady  selected   for  him. 

The  young   Marquis   arrives  at  his  uncle's  borne, 


and  Is  about  as  bashful  as  a  garter  snake.  The 
young  lady  is  not  used  to  reticent  gentlemen  and 
tells  his  uncle  that  she  will  never  marry  such  a 
stupid,  that  be  Is  so  thick  that  you  cannot  see 
through  him  with  an  X-ray. 

Uncle,  desperate,  seeks  the  aid  of  the  housekeeper, 
one  of  our  best  little  flirts.  She  has  made  love 
so  often  that  she  can  do  it  In  the  dark  without 
missing  a  stroke.  In  fact,  she  can  make  love  and 
chow-chow  at  the  same  time  without  changing  hands. 
She  instructs  him  how  to  flash  the  glad  eye.  how 
to  bow  until  his  eyebrows  brush  the  sidewalk,  how- 
to  put  his  arm  around  a  lady's  waist,  how  to  bite 
his  initials  in  her  cheek  and  how  to  convince  all 
round  that  he  is  a  regular  fellow. 

He  learns  very  well.  He  soon  can  do  it  with  his 
fingers  crossed.  He  takes  up  his  courtship  with  the 
young  lady  of  his  uncle's  choice  and  quickly  shows 
ber  that  he  has  forgotten  more  about  lovemaklng 
than  she  ever  knew. 


GREAT  NORTHERN. 

WHO  IS  MOST  TO  BLAME  (May  3).— Mr.  Par- 
son is  a  wealthy  banker  and  his  wife  is  one  of 
the  most  fashionable  women  in  her  set.  Mr. 
Donald  is  a  solicitor  and  bad  been  an  ardent  ad- 
mirer of  Mrs.  Parson  before  her  marriage.  The 
latter  attends  a  reception,  while  her  husband  hur- 
ries to  attend  a  meeting  of  the  board  of  directors 
of  the  bank  in  which  he  Is  interested.  At  the 
reception  she  meets  Donald  and  in  a  spirit  of 
frivolity,  invites  him  to  her  home,  explaining  to 
her  hostess  that  she  is  suffering  from  a  headache, 
li  the  meantime,  Jennie,  the  maid  in  the  employ 
of  the  Parson's,  has  taken  advantage  of  the  ab- 
sence of  her  employers  to  invite  the  butcher's 
assistant  to  the  house.  The  two  are  feasting  and 
the  butcher's  clerk  Is  smoking  expensive  perfectos 
when  Mrs.  Parson  rings  for  admittance.  The  young 
man  is  hidden  under  a  couch  and  Jennie  hurriedly 
removes  the  remnants  of  the  repast  from  the 
table.  Soon  after  the  arrival  of  Mrs.  Parson,  she 
receives  the  promised  visit  from  Donald  and  the 
two  are  chatting  amiably  when  Mr.  Parson  pro- 
ceeds to  let  himself  into  the  house.  The  fact  is 
that  after  the  meeting  of  the  bank  directors,  the 
staid  financiers  visit  a  music  hall  and  then  engage 
in  a  friendly  game  of  cards  at  the  club.  Par- 
son becomes  weary  of  the  entertainment  at  the 
club  and  decides  to  hurry  to  his  home.  Before 
he  enters,  his  wife  secrets  Donald  under  the  same 
couch  under  which  the  butcher's  clerk  is  hidden. 
The  solicitor  and  the  former  meet  for  the  first 
time  under  these  awkward  circumstances  and  all 
goes  well  until  Mr.  Parson  discovers  two  empty 
glasses   on   the   mantel.     The   maid   arrives   in   time 


The  Battle  of 
Flowers 

(Fiesta  of  Flowers) 

One  of  the  most  beautiful  films 
released  in  the  past  year — is  now 
ready  for  booking — 

SAN  ANTONIO 

This  picture  is  being  taken  in 
the  heart  of  this  historic  setting. 

Remember 
the  Alamo 

1,000  Feet  — 10  cents  per  foot. 
Full  line  of  paper.  Texas  sold. 
Wire   for  your  territory   today. 

ADVANCE 

Motion   Picture   Company 

Manufacturer* 

Peoples  Gas  Building 

CHICAGO 


and  explains  ttiat  tie  mistreat  and  herself  had 
taken  a  little  "nightcap."  Then  the  banker  finds 
a  stub  of  a  cigar  which  the  butcher's  helper  had 
been  smoking  and  once  again  his  suspicions  are 
aroused.  Sounds  of  breathing  from  beneath  the 
couch  cause  him  to  investigate  and  the  serving 
maid's  sweetheart  Is  1  mi  led  from  cover  by  the 
ear.  Again  Jennie  cornea  bo  the  rescue  and  re- 
moves an  embarrassing  situation  by  admitting  that 
she  bad  been  entertaining  ber  sweetheart  during 
the  absence  of  the  family.  Donald  escapes  unseen 
and  mi  the  day  following  he  receives  a  visit  from 
the  butcher's  apprentice.  They  laugh  heartily  over 
the  strange  predicament  in  which  they  found  them- 
selves  on    the   previous   night   and  all  ends   merrily. 


PILOT. 

THE  HYPNOTIC  COLLECTOR  (April  24).— Willie 
Dunn  Is  out  of  work,  and  broke.  He  Is  about  to  be 
evicted  from  his  furnished  room.  He  is  In  love 
with  a  beautiful  girl,  who  in  turn  loves  him.  The 
girl's  father,  however,  violently  dislikes  Willie. 
Willie  sees  an  advertisement  for  a  collector,  an- 
swers it  and  secures  the  position.  Then,  his 
troubles  begiu !  He  goes  to  collect  a  bill  from  a 
society  woman,  and  is  unmercifully  suubltcd  by  her. 
When  Mrs.  Hooligan,  who  is  not  a  society  woman, 
won't  pay,  he  attempts  to  take  her  pig.  but  Mr. 
Hooligan  appears  and  does  a  few  things  to  poor 
Willie  Dunn  that  leaves  blm  rather  the  worse  for 
wear.  His  adventures  with  the  tough  saloon-keeper, 
the  physical  culture  instructor  and  the  liveryman 
are  very  funny  to  the  observer,  but  not  to  Willie. 
He  and  his  clothes  are  badly  battered  when,  at  the 
end  of  the  day,  he  returns  to  bis  employer  with  no 
collections.  He  gets  no  sympathy,  but  Is  told  he 
must  see  the  same  people  next  day.  and  if  he 
doesn't  get  any  money,  he  loses  his  job!  Discon- 
solate, he  wanders  the  streets,  and  with  his  last 
dime  buys  a  copy  of  "Conquer  by  Hypnotism"  from 
a  fakir.  He  learns  the  art  over  night,  and  starts 
out  in  the  morning  with  new  courage.  Hypnotism 
delivers  the  goods:  He  makes  the  debtors  go  through 
all  kinds  of  funny  antics,  and  finally  marches  the 
whole  crowd  to  bis  employer's  office,  when  he  makes 
them  pay  up.  Then  he  hypnotizes  his  employer  into 
signing  a  contract  engaging  Willie  for  tive  years 
at  $5,1. KK)  a  year.  His  final  and  greatest  victory  Is 
when  he  forces  his  sweetheart's  father  to  consent 
to  the  marriage. 

THE  SONG  OF  SONGS  (May  1).— Louise  and 
Grace,  sisters,  who  early  in  life  were  orphaned, 
grow  up  together  with  a  deep  love  for  each  other. 
On  Louise,  the  elder,  has  devolved  most  of  the 
cares  of  the  household,  and  her  "motherly"  care 
of  her  youuger  sister  is  repaid  by  the  love  the 
younger  sister  bears  for  her.  Both  are  In  love 
with  the  same  man,  though  they  have  concealed  the 
knowledge  from  each  other,  and  when  Louise  ac- 
cident ly  discovers  Grace's  love  for  him.  with  a 
sacrifice  boru  of  true  love  for  her  younger  sister, 
she  hides  her  grief,  and  leads  Grace  to  believe  she 
never  cared  fr  him.  Louise  accepts  a  position  to 
appear  in  concert  work,  and  leaves,  while  Grace 
and  John  are  happily  married.  Several  years  pass, 
and  John  and  Grace  ore  happy  In  their  love  of  each 
other  and  of  a  baby  girl,  their  only  dark  cloud 
being  Grace's  failing  health.  Louise  has  made 
a  success  in  ber  chosen  work,  and  has  just  re- 
ceived an  offer  for  a  world-wide  concert  tonr,  the 
goal  for  which  she  has  been  working  when  news 
is  brought  to  her  of  Grace's  death.  Louise  sac- 
rifices iier  career  to  return  to  care  for  the  mother- 
less baby,  which  she  learns  to  love  as  she  would 
her  own.  In  the  passing  years,  however,  her  love 
for  the  baby  and  John  growing  stronger,  and  fear- 
ful of  betraying  her  secret,  she  decides  to  leave, 
but  in  this  she  is  prevented,  and  at  the  same  time 
wins  her  reward,  through  ber  baby  names 
Louise. 


Among  the  Exhibitors 

Burlington,  Wis. — E.  Dale  Ferkins  sold  an  interest 
In  the  Crystal  theater  to  Walter  McNeel. 

Kaukauna.  Wis. — Earl  Nugent  sold  a  half  interest 
In    bis   motion    picture    theater   to   John    M.    Scheer. 

Lebanon,  Tenn. — W.  E.  Scales,  of  Shelbyville. 
who  has  recently  moved  bis  family  here,  opened 
his  new  theater  at  this  place.  This  makes  the 
second  moving  picture  and  vaudeville  house  for 
Lehanon.  The  other  one  "The  N'ew  Lyric"  Is 
owned  by  E.  E.  Adams  and  is  leased  by  L.  B. 
Long,    formerly    of   Cookeville. 

Manchester,  la. — A.  T.  Prescott,  who  has  con- 
ducted the  motion  picture  theater  on  Franklin 
street  for  the  past  twelve  months,  has  sold  his 
equipment    to    Clbnla    Bros.,    of   Cedar    Rapids. 

Marshalltown.  la. — The  Orpheum,  a  pretty  new- 
vaudeville  and  moving  picture  play-house  was 
opened    recently. 

Corsicana,  Tex. — J.  E.  Whiteselle  has  let  the 
contract  to  Berry  &  Metealf  to  build  a  brick  theater 
building  here  to  cost  $6,000.  The  building  will  be 
used  as  a  picture  show  and  theater  exclusively  for 
negroes. 

Berlin,  Wis. — R.  A.  Hughes  sold  his  interest  In 
the  Wonderland  theater  to  his  partner,  L.   Latbrop. 

La  Crosie,  Wis. — Wm.  and  F.  M.  Rehfuss  will 
open   a   motion   picture   theater  here. 

Marinette,  Wia.— L.  R.  Pinkowskl  bought  the 
Cosv   theater. 

New  London,  Wis. — A.  W.  Anderson  sold  the  Iris 
theater  to  Thomas  E.  Johnston. 


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Among  the  Exhibitors. 

Boone,  la. — The  Lyric  Theater  on  Keeler  Street 
has  been  sold  to  W.  F.  Martin  of  Wellsburg. 

Denver,  Colo. — A  permit  has  been  granted  (or  the 
building  of  a  moving  picture  theater  on  Seventeenth 
Avenue  between  Lafayette  and  Marion  Street.  Cost 
13,000.     Dr.  Juo.  It.  Hopkins,  owner. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.— Jno.  McKenna  &  Son  and  J.  E. 
&  A.  L.  Pennock  are  estimating  on  plans  for  a 
moving  picture  theater  to  be  built  at  No.  2021 
Blchmond  Street  for  Wm.  B.  BuUer.     Cost  $30,000. 

Hopkins,  Mo.— The  managers  of  the  Bag  Tent 
picture  show  have  rented  the  Lltsch  building  on 
Barnard  Street  and  are  fixing  It  op  for  business. 

Bronson,  Mich. — This  city  is  considering  the  erec- 
tion of  an  opera  bouse. 

Newark,  N.  J. — Frank  Grad  has  completed  plans 
for  a  motion  picture  theater  which  B.  Rosenthal 
will  erect  here  on  Norfolk  Street  and  So.  Orange 
Avenue  at  a  cost  of  $12,000. 

Evanaton,  His. — Contracts  have  been  let  Cor  re- 
modeling the  store  recently  vacated,  next  to  the 
City  Ball  National  Bank,  for  a  new  moving  picture 
theater.     Cost   $15,000. 

Fairmont,  Minn.—  B.  J.  McCaddon  has  purchased 
from  David  Wlckham  the  residence  property  south  of 
the  opera  house. 

Birmingham,  Ala. — A  new  moving  picture  thea- 
ter was  recently  opened.  H.  M.  Newsome,  is  pro- 
prietor. 

Ulnden,  Kebr. — Dan  Doyle  has  purchased  the  Gem 
moving  picture  theater,  and  will  improve  same. 

Somonauk,  Bis.— The  building  that  was  formerly 
occupied  by  Fred.  O.  Miller  has  been  remodeled 
into  a  moving  picture  theater  by  Cress  ft  Mooring. 

Indiana,  Pa. — Wilson  ft  Wood,  clothiers,  will 
close  out  their  business  and  put  in  a  modern  motion 
picture    house. 

Toledo,  0. — Plans  are  now  being  prepared  for 
rebuilding  the  Jewel  theater  near  Western  Avenue. 

St.  Paul,  Minn. — C.  H.  Miles  will  erect  another 
picture   theater   at   92   B.    Ttb   Street. 

Sunnyvale,  Cal.— A  contract  has  been  let'  for  the 
erection  of  a  picture  theater  here.  Alphone  Shurra 
is  advancing  the  project. 

Lisbon,  0. — Smiley's  opera  house  cbsnged  hands, 
N.  0.  Morrison  purchasing  it  outright  from  R.  B. 
Pettlt  of  Cleveland. 

Boohester,  Minn. — The  Majestic  theater  has 
changed  |  hands,  J.  0.  Moore  has  sold  his  interest 
in   the   theater  to   B.   F.    Boberg. 

Ravenna,  Neb,— Dr.  Gehrke  will  erect  a  picture 
theater  here. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.— HeDry  E.  Baton  and  Geo. 
Borst  are  figuring  on  a  moving  picture  theater  at 
8841  Market  Street  for  the  Eureka  Amusement  Co. 


Mineral  Wells,  Tex. — W.  E.  Mayes,  awarded  a 
contract  to  Shirley  ft  Galley  to  erect  a  theater. 
Cost   $7,000. 

Chlchaaha,  Okla.— J.  D.  Sugg  awarded  a  contract 
to  Lisle-Dunning  Construction  Co.,  Oklahoma  City, 
Okla.,   to  erect  a  theater. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — J.  T.  Sanders  bss  the  contract 
to  erect  a  $10,000  moving  picture  theater  on  Mc- 
Kean  Street  for  Jas.   McMooigle. 

Hastings,  Neb. — Manager  Peterson  announces  that 
the  Lyric   theater  has  reopened. 

Asheville,  N.  C. — S.  A.  Lynch  has  bought  the 
Columbia  theater  here. 

Madison,  Wis. — A  moving  picture  theater  Is  be- 
ing erected  at  617  University  Avenue  by  Knudt 
Johnson.      Cost    $6,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Plans  by  Jno.  D.  Allen  tor  a 
moving  picture  theater  in  Frankford  for  Wm.  Frel- 
bofer  were   filed. 

Lestershire,  N.  Y. — This  city  will  have  a  new 
theater.  B.  M.  Davidson,  owner  of  the  Delphi 
theater,    to    build   it 

.  .Atlanta  City,  N.  J. — Plans  were  filed  by  Thompson 
Bros.,  contractors,  for  a  moving  picture  theater 
at  1829  Atlantic  Avenue. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.— The  contract  has  been  let  for 
the  erection  of  a  $14,000  moving  picture  theater 
at  2768  Ruth  Street.     F.    C.    Mlchaelsen,    Mgr. 

Martinez,  Cal. — The  contract  for  the  new  theater 
has  been  awarded  to  O.  B.  Ludden  and  H.  W. 
Lamley  by  Henry  J.   Curry  of  Martinez. 

Pikeville,  Ky. — The  Sam  Saad  Mercantile  Co.  has 
contracted  for  the  erection  of  a  new  theater  build- 
ing. 

Dea  Moines,  la.— The  contract  of  erecting  the 
Empress  theater  on  8th  Street  was  awarded  to 
Chas.   Welts  Sons. 

Freeport,  Ills.— Jack  O'Toole,  of  Chicago,  formerly 
manager  and  owner  of  the  Orpheum  theater  in  Fiee- 
port,  is  considering  the  erection  of  a  new  theater 
in  Freeport.     Cost  $50,000. 

Columbia,  8.  C. — The  Grand  theater  in  Columbia 
has  been  resold  by  the  Montgomery  Amusement  Co. 
to  S.   A.   Lynch,  of  Asheville. 

New  York,  N.  Y. — Plans  have  been  filed  for  the 
erection  of  a  theater  at  the  corner  of  Broadway 
and   81st   St.     Cost  $15,000. 

Wheeling,  W.  Va. — M.  Francis,  proprietor  of  the 
picture  theater  in  6th  St.,  will  make  elaborate  Im- 
provements on  the  place  in  the  near  future. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — M.  Bittenhouse  will  erect  a 
motion   picture   theater  it  303   No.    53rd   St. 

Portage,  Wis. — The  Gem  theater  will  be  re- 
modeled. 

Grant  City,  Mo.— The  Grant  City  Improvement 
Co.  will  erect  a  new  theater  on  the  Goodsill  site 
south  of  the  Gentry  Bldg,  to  cost  $5,000. 


Chambersburg,  N,  J. — Bella  ft  Brandt  will  erect 
a  moving  picture  house  at  Morris  and  Chestnut 
Avenues. 

New  York,  N.  Y. — Jane  Sands  and  Catherine  S. 
Rose,  will  erect  a  moving  picture  theater  at  the 
comer  of  1st  Avenue  and  64th  Street.     Cost  $10,000. 

Herkimer,  N.  Y, — A.  F.  Flummerfelt  of  the. 
Herkimer  Amusement  Co.  will  erect  i  theater  in 
this  village  on  the  old  Caswell  property  in  No. 
Main  Street. 

Kansas  City,  Mo. — The  permit  for  the  new  theater 
Louis  Oppenstein  is  to  build  at  the  S.  W.  corner  of 
13th    and    Walnut   Sts.    was   Issued.     Coat  $61,000. 

Manchester,  la.— The  Princess  theater,  the  new 
playhouse  operated  by  Enaach  ft  Son,  was  opened. 

New  Albany,  Ky. — This  city  is  to  have  a  new 
theater  next  summer.  The  announcement  was  made 
with  the  completion  of  the  organization  of  the 
North  Side  Amusement  Co.     H.  H.  Legg,  president. 

Houston,  Tex, — E.  H.  Bulsey,  of  Galveston,  has 
leased  property  at  the  corner  of  Capitol  Aveaue 
and  Main  Street,  and  will  erect  a  theater  on  same. 

New  York,  N.  Y. — Plans  are  being  drawn  for  a 
theater  at -the  corner  of  Broadway  and  95th  Street. 
It  Is  owned  by  the  Astor  estate. 

Mankato,  Minn. — The  American  Amusement  Co. 
will  erect  a  new  theater  building  here. 

Decatur,  Ala. — H.  B.  Cagle  and  Robert  L.  Lips- 
comb, well-known  business  men  of  the  Decaturs, 
have  leased  the  Star  theater  in  Decatur,  and  the 
Delite  theater  in  New  Decatur.  The  Star  and  the 
Delite  theaters  will  be  run  as  moving  picture 
theaters. 

Manchester,  la. — The  Princess  theater,  the  new 
playhouse  operated  by  Knaack  and  Son,  was  opened 
recently. 

Evansville,  Wis.— Will  Standish  opened  his  pic- 
ture   house. 

Green  Bay,  Wis. — The  Gem  theater,  on  the  corner 
of  Broadway  and  Walnut  streets,  formerly  owned 
by  Henry  Goldman  of  this  city,  has  been  sold  to 
Earl  H.   Neugent  of  Kankauna. 

Bunge,  Tex. — J.  F.  Murray  and  Eugene  Brown 
have  purchased  the  Airdome,  a  moving  picture 
show,    here. 

Wharton,  Tex. — P.  A.  Freddie  bought  the  Rex 
moving    picture    theater    here. 

Oconto,  Wis. — Ed.  I.  Daltch  has  opened  a  mov- 
ing picture   theater  here. 

Willis,  Tex. — Mullens  Bros,  will  open  a  motion 
picture  theater  here. 

Racine,  Wis.— The  White  Bouse  Theater  ft  Amuse- 
ment Co.,  incorporated,  capital  $20,000,  Incorpora- 
tors, A.  F.  Buetow,  V.  B.  Whaley,  C.  Nelson 
and    Wm.    Jones. 

Labadieville,  La. — Mrs.  Elgard  Blmel  will  open 
a  moving   picture   theater   here. 


Opens  Monday,  May  5,  at  the  BERKELEY  THEATRE 

The  New  York  Home  of  Educational  Presentations 

State   Right   Buyers  Are   Urged   to   See  These  Pictures 

THE   INDIAN    PLAYERS    PRESENT    THEIR    PASSION    PLAY 


Four  Parts 


HIAWATHA 


4,000  Feet 


An  eminent  New  York  divine  said:    "I  have  seen 'The  Passion  Play' 
and    '  Hiawatha '   is   equally    impressive    and   far    more   beautiful." 

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A  Fetching  Line  of  Advertising  and  Accessories 
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SUNDAY,  APRIL  27th 

"OLD    MAMMY'S   CHARGE" 

The  Sweetest  Southern  Story  Ever  Told  In  Pictures 
By  MARION   BROOKS 

The  character  drawings  are  perfect — the  heart  interest  beautiful ! 

TUESDAY,  APRIL  29th 

"The  Whim 
of  Destiny" 

An  unusual  combination 

of  a  clever  detective 

drama   and   a  charming 

romance. 

The  Mutual  Program 


'OLD    MAMMY'S    OHAEOE." 


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"THE  VIVAPHONE" 

Invented  by  Cecil  M.  Hepworth,  London,  England.    Patented  in  U.S.A.  and  Canada 

INSTANTANEOUS  SUCCESS 

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for  my  nine  Southern  States?"     "So  much."   Answer  "Right;  you've  sold  'em;  supply  me  with  100 
machines  for  a  start  and  2  film  subjects  per  week  for  each  State,  18  pictures  each  week." 

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Britain  and  Ireland  ever  since 

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S.  A.  and  Canada 


Longacre  Buildings,  1480  B'dway,  N.Y. 


Phone    3095    Bryant. 


RELIANCE. 


EDGENA  DE  LESPINE 


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THREE  SENSATIONAL  REELS 


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Forrest  Halsey's  Popular  Success 

THE  BAWLEROUT 


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With  Beautiful  Edgena  De  Lespine  (the  Lillian 
Russell  of  Pictures)  in  the  Title  Role 

Supported  by  IRVING  CUMMINGS,  MURIEL  OSTRICH, 
E.  P.  SULLIVAN,  SUE  BALFOUR,  GEORGE  SIEG- 
MANN,  RALPH   LEWIS  and  a  SPLENDID   COMPANY. 

The  Great  "Loan  Shark"  Drama 

Full  off  Thrilling  Situations  and  Absorbing  Heart  Interest 

Excellently  Staged  by  Oscar  C.  Apfel 

ARTISTIC  ONE,  THREE  and  SIX  SHEET  POSTERS 

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MEN 


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SITUATIONS    WANTED. 

OPEBATOR,  LICENSED— At  liberty.  References. 
Wire  or  address,  P.  W.  CLAJiKE,  Bex  Theatre, 
Calgary,  Alberta,  Canada. 

PUBLICITY — Live  wire  advertising  man,  seven 
jears  In  Moving  Picture  field,  would  like  to  connect 
with  manufacturer,  feature  film  company  circuit, 
theatre,  or  enterprise  that  can  use  a  publicity  man 
capable  of  doing  more  than  looking  wise.  Am  an 
adept  copywriter,  a  capable  manager  and  an  ex- 
pert sign-painter.  Address  'ABILITY, "  1311 
Jefferson  St.,    Philadelphia,    Pa. 

OPEEATOE — Five  years'  experience,  desires  po- 
sition in  Moving  Picture  Studio,  Airdome,  or  nearby 
summer  resort.  Address  G.  G.,  care  of  Moving 
Picture  World,    New  York   City. 

AT  LIBERTY — Manager.  Six  years'  experience 
In  Moving  Picture  business.  Also  A-l  operator. 
Can  fill  both  places.  Salary  reasonable.  Or  will 
lease  picture  bouse  in  good,  live  town.  State  all 
in  first  letter.  Best  of  references.  Answer  quick. 
Address  AL.  K.  BELT,  General  Del.,  Newark,  Ohio. 

A-l  CAMERA  MAN — Seeks  position.  Long  ex- 
perience. With  or  without  camera.  Address  WM. 
GILLEN,   206  East  18th  St.,   New  York   City. 


HELP    WANTED. 

WANTED— The  Pastime,  at  Columbia,  South 
Carolina,  desires  a  pianist  and  drummer  who  can 
furnish  real  music  and  who  can  play  the  pictures. 
Permanent  positions  for  reliable,  competent  musi- 
cians. No  mediocre  musicians  can  hold  the  job. 
Seven  hours*  work  a  day.  Wire  night  letter,  stat- 
ing ability  and  salary.  PASTIME  THEATRE, 
Columbia,   S.   C. 

EQUIPMENT    WANTED. 

WANTED — Two  18  to  24-inch  110  v.  direct  current 
exhaust  fans.  Give  make,  condition  and  lowest 
spot  cash  price.  Address  G.  BERT  PEW,  Blaine, 
W.  Va. 


EQUIPMENT    FOR    SALE. 

FOR  QUICK  SALE — 285  used  opera  chairs.  Write, 
wire,  phone.  ORPHEUM  THEATRE,  Everett, 
Washington. 

FOR  SALE— One  Portable  Asbestos  Booth,  stand- 
ard size,  less  than  half  cost.  Address  COZY  THE- 
ATRE,   Austin,    Minn. 

FOR  SALE — 250  opera  chairs,  iron  frame,  flve- 
ply  veneer  back,  plush  upholstered  seat,  good  as 
new.  Will  sell  for  less  than  half  price  if  taken 
at  once.  Address  EASTWOOD  CONGREGATIONAL, 
CHURCH,  48  North  21st  St.,  Columbus,  Ohio. 

GREAT  BARGAIN  —  Underwriters'  automatic 
Moving  Picture  Machine,  block  top,  22  by  70. 
Chairs,  screens  and  16  reels  of  films.  Cheap  quick 
sale.  Address  MORTGAGEE,  Box  58  Yadkinville, 
N.  O. 

FOR  SALE — Ninety  good  opera  chairs,  also  Edi- 
son machine,  complete  with  lamp  house.  Price 
reasonable.  Address  C.  L.  SMITH,  670  Canton  Ave., 
Detroit,   Mich. 

BUSINESS   OPPORTUNITY. 

FOR  SALE— SEVERAL  PLOTS  SUITABLE  FOR 
MOVING  PICTURE  STUDIOS.  ADDRESS  J.  F. 
BURDETT,    FORT  LEB,    N.    J. 

FILMS    WAMTED. 

WANTED— Cold  copies  one  and  two-reel  subjects, 
any  age,  any  make.  Address  DR.  CHAS.  LYNDON, 
Homeworth,    Ohio. 

FILMS  FOR  SALE. 
FOR  SALE — Saint  George  and  the  Dragon,  3 
reels,  $175.00.  Also  3-reel  copy  Four  Dare  Devils, 
$100.00.  Big  line  of  Posters,  Heralds,  etc.  Films 
like  new.  Positively  biggest  bargain  ever  offered. 
Sent  subject  to  inspection  on  receipt  of  Express 
charges.     Address  BO±  269,   Bay  City,  Texas. 

GENUINE  CIVIL  WAR  FEATURE — Now  Illinois. 
Big    houses    only.     50-50   or    lease.     25    Scenes    Ad- 
dress  "KROHN-FIELD,"    Bloomington,   Hi. 


FOR  SALE — Or  will  book  moving  picture  pro- 
duction of  Blanche  Walsh  In  Regurrectlon,  4  parts, 
in  the  state  of  Ohio.  Write  or  wire  for  dates. 
Big  lobby  display.  Will  sell  this  feature  at  a 
bargain.  Address  JULES  LEVEY,  1418  Cherry  St., 
Toledo,  Ohio. 

THEATRE  FOR  SALE. 

FOR  SALE — Modern  picture  house  in  hustling 
town  of  15,000.  Beat  location  in  city.  Seating  ca- 
pacity 325.  Rectifier  in  use.  Address  K.  T.  P., 
care  of  Moving  Picture  World,  New  York  City. 

CAMERAS  FOR  SALE, 

TWO  MOTION  PICTURE  CAMERAS  FOR  SALE. 
Prices  reasonable.  Address  HENRY  GILLEN,  206 
East  18th  St.,   N.   Y. 

A   WALL   STREET    PROMOTER 

CAPABLE  OF  RAISING  hundreds  of  thousands  of 
dollars,  will  undertake  to  raise  additional  capital 
for  any  money  making  moving  picture  enterprise  or 
theatre  needing  additional  capital.  Will  guarantee 
to  touy  or  finance  any  good  paying  theatre  in  three 
months'  time.  The  enterprise  must  be  absolutely 
legitimate  and  making  money.  Address  QUICK 
ACTION,  Box  99,  care  of  Moving  Picture  World, 
New  York  City. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

NOTICE — If  you  want  to  buy  or  sell  theatre  in 
Southwest,  communicate  with  AL.  ALLEN,  208 
Andrews  BLDG.,  Dallas,  Texas. 

SOUVENIRS — Business  getters  that  will  bring 
boys  and  girls  on  the  jump.  Free  samples,  showing 
advertisement.  NEW  ENGLAND  NOVBLTY  CO., 
Westfield,  Mass. 

TYPEWRITTEN  6ENARIOS  OR  SCENARIOS. 
SCENORIOS  MUST  BE  TYPEWRITTEN  to  re- 
ceive recognition.  Best  work,  correctly  formulated, 
lowest  prices.  Write  me  or  send  on  manuscript. 
Address  C.  L.  BARKER.  2311  Vega  Ave.,  Cleveland, 
Ohio. 


The  Feature  that  is  Creating  a  Sensation 

STATE  RIGHT  BUYERS  TAKE  NOTICE 

M.  B.  Dudley's  $30,000  Production.    Presenting  America's  Greatest 
Tragedian,  MR.  FREDERICK  WARDE,  in  Shakespeare's  Masterpiece 

RICHARD  III 

5  REELS  OF  MARVELOUS  PHOTOGRAPHY  —  CONTAINING  4440  FEET 

NOW  READY  FOR  DELIVERY 

READ  WHAT  MR.  GOODMAN,  OF  LONDON, 
ENG.,  SAYS  OF  THIS  GREAT  PICTURE: 


Cable  Address—  MUSCHENHEIM  —  New  York  Telephone  Address— 2100  BRYANT 

TIMES  SQUARE  l^OtCl     StglOt  NEW   YORK 

WM.  C.  MUSCHENHEIM— F.  A.  MUSCHENHEIM 

SHAKESPEREAN  FILM  CO.,  New  York,   April  22,    1913. 

Long  Acre  Building,   City. 
Gentlemen: — 

During  my  stay  in  New  York  I  have  viewed 
approximately  five  thousand  feet  of  film  daily,  and  wish 
to  state  that,  your  production  of   "RICHARD  III"   is  one 
of  the  best  of  its  kind  I  have  ever  had  the  pleasure  of 
witnessing.  Yours  very  truly,  C.   GOODMAN, 

Ruff ells  Imperial  Bioscope  Co.,  Ltd., 
8  and  9  Long  Acre,  London 


THE  SHAKESPEARE  FILM  CO.,  815  Longacre  Bldg.,  42d  and  B'dway,  N.  Y.  City 


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ll. 


MONOPOL  FILM  CO.,     145  West  45th  St.,  New  York 


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OUR      TWO      REEL        RELEASES 
THE  SPIDER"       In  2  reels 

Startling  story  of  the  stock  exchange,  a  woman's  love  and  a  gold  King's 

perfidy. 

May  10th  "TEMPEST    AND     SUNSHINE"     In  2  reels 

Neither  thrilling,  melodramatic  nor  sensational;  just  a  plain  old-fashioned  love  story  that  will  touch  every  heart. 

May  mh  "A    MAID    OF    HONOR" 

The  story  of  a  court  intrigue,  and  how  a  Queen's  honor  was  saved. 


TORINO 


AMBROSIO    AMERICAN    CO. 


15  East  26th  Street,  New  York 


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MOTION  PICTURE  FILM 

Used  by  Makers  of  Quality  Films 
WRITE  FOR  PRICES 

Sole  American  Agent* 

Raw  Film  Supply  Company 

15  East  26th  Street  New  York,  N.  Y. 


CONTRACTS  NOW  BEING  MADE  FOR 

Edison  Talking  Pictures 
THE  KINETOPHONE 

WRITE  FOR  TERMS 

American  Talking  Picture  Co. 

SOLE  DISTRIBUTERS 

1493  BROADWAY  NEW  YORK 


This  cut  will   remind  you  of  the  little  machine 
that  is  making  all  the  managers  happy. 


The  new  attachment  has  set  them  all  talking.  It 
improves  the  cleaner  50  per  cent.  Send  us  the 
number  of  your  cleaner  and  get  it  quick,  free. 
Express  paid.  All  cleaners  manufactured  in  the 
future  will  have  the  new  attachment.  Address 
The  Mortimer  Amusement  Co.,  Freeport,  Maine 

"The  Home  of  the  Mortimer  Film  Cleaner" 
Retail    Price,    $10.00 — Discount    to    Exchanges 

EXHIBITORS  -£*■  MOVING  PMIRES 

We  have  the  following  to  offer  at  a  bargain  price: 

Two  No.  5  machines  complete,  slightly  used,  PER- 
FECT running  order,  lenses  to  suit,  and  no 
rheostats  Each,  $105.00 

One  Exhibition  Model,  Edison,  complete,  with 
lenses  and  rheostat  90.00 

One  Model  B  Edison,  good  as  new,  complete 
lenses  and  rheostat  1 15.00 

One  No.  6,  slightly  shop  worn,  NEVER  USED.  . .    195.00 

One  No.  6-A,  with  loop  setter,  NEW,  slightly  shop 

worn    225.00 

Ticket    holders,    polished,   at   $1.00   each;    Aluminum,   75 
cents  each. 

Maltese   Cross   Condensers,   very   best;   one   half   dozen, 
$4.00;  one  dozen,  $7.50. 

THE  STERN  MANUFACTURING  COMPANY 

109  N.  16th  St..        Philadelphia.  Pa. 
(No  connection  with  any  other  supply  house  in  the   country.. 


THE    GANGSTERS 

or  Shadows  of  the  Night     —3200  Feet 

A  Detective  Episode  of  two    countries.    European  press  termed  this  feature  the  most 

sensational  of  all  films. 


One  — Three  — Six  Sheets 


Heralds  and  Photographs 


NEW   YORK    FILM    CO. 


145  West  45th  Street 


New  York  City 


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"TOR  I  M  O 


"IN   THE    CLAWS    OF 
THE   VULTURE" 

Feature  in  Three  Reels 


An  amazing 
succession  of 
breathless  thrills 
staged  and  acted 
beyond 
comparison. 


A  superb 

symposium  of 

spectacular 

sensation. 
Greatest  Yet. 


Publicity  Yes!  1,  3,  6  and  8  sheet  posters  that  are  works 
of  art  Heralds  and  Cuts.  Full  sets  of  Photos  for  Lobby 
Display  will  be  supplied  direct  from  A.  J.  Clapham,  130  West 
37th  St.,  New  York.  If  you  can't  come  and  see  this  — 
DON'T  HESITATE!    WIRE! 

Ambrosio  American   Co. 

15  East  26th  Street  New  York 


53° 


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TIGER 

Film    Cement,   the  only   Cement   that    will 
all  makes  of  Film. 

hold 

AT  ALL  EXCHANGES,  or 

ALFRED  C.  6TANGE, 

2214  W.  Monroe  St., 

Chicago,    III. 

When  Your  Picture  Machine  Needs  Repairing 

Why  don't  yon  send  It  to  ns? 

We  have  the  best  equipped  machine  shop  in  the  country  and  can 
repair  any  make  of  machine.    Write  us  and  get  acquainted. 

We  Buy  Second-hand  Machine*. 

GEO.  M  HOKE  SUPPLY  CO.,  176  N.  State  SL,BSLLd^h*  Chicago,  ID. 


Costumes  for  Photo  Plays 

VAN  HORN  @  SON 

r   theatrical    ana   historic*!    cos- 
tume*. 
pmi.ATnrr.PTTTA_  PEtTNA. 
BiteUiahea  ISM. 


Theatre    Pipe    Organs 

All   atoes  «f  Fife   Orrua   for  Theatre   ewpesee 

built  to  order. 

Write  Mr  entalogne  u«  eetunates. 

TaTJt   WH.   RHHIim.TTB;    OaOAJT   08,. 

Milwaukee,   Wli. 

T,    D.    HTOCE,    Chicago   ItnauMlK 

TU  TrmMPorteW—  Ma».7<M»«4».   BL 


SHERLOCK    HOLMES   SERIES 

Eight'  subjects  to  choose  from — two  reels  each. 
Territory  In  Indiana,  Kentucky,  Wisconsin 
(south  of  Green  Bay),  Illinois  (north  of  Spring- 
field). 

Allardt  Feature  Films,    Inc. 

D.  W.  WcKinney,  Mgr. 

810    Straus    Bldgr.,  Chicago 

Phone,  Franklin  1474 


THE  L.C.SMITH  REWINDING  SET 

EMBRACES  THE    FIRST  NOTEWORTHY 
IMPROVEMENTS    TO    REWINDING 

MECHANISM    SINCE    REWINDING 

BECAME    NECESSARY.    PRICES500 

>    err  our  from  your       i  r  cuitu  r  n         € 

CXCIAHCC  OR  AKORFSS    L.l».J  l»ll  1  fl    \>  M  . 

US    FOR   LFAF^CT        SCHEN  ECTAO  Y.  H   Y.  mi 


FOR  SALE  BY 


M  &  F  Feature  Film  Service 

167  West  Washington  Street,  Chicago 


Motion  Pictures  to  Order! 

Printing  and  developing  for  the  trade.  The  most  modern  system  of 
developing  and  printing  is  employed  in  our  completely  equipped  labo- 
ratories. The  greatest  care  is  exercised  to  obtain  the  very  best  possible 
results. 

Duhem  ®  Harter  Motion  Picture  Co. 

652  Oak  St..  San  Francisco,  Calif. 


Unwritten  Law 2  reels  $60 

Fools  of  Society 3  reels    70 

Bed  Rose  of  the  Apache 3  reels    76 

Boys  of  the  Golden  West... 3  reels  125 

Tom  Butler 3  reels  185 

Courier's     Dispatch     (Hand- 
colored)  3  reels  100 

For  Her  Father's  Sake 3  reels  125 

Hamlet  2  reels    60 


Lady  Mary's  Lover 2  reels  $60 

Passion  Play  (Hand-colored). 3  reels  225 

Penalty  is  Death 3  reels    90 

The  Siege  of  Calais    (Hand- 
colored)  2  reels    90 

Sins  of  the  Father 3  reels    75 

Tragedy  of  the  Underworld.  .3  reels    75 

Uncle    Tom's   Cabin 3  reels  200 

Saved  from  Siberia 3  reels    75 


One  reel  of  Dayton  Flood,  6o  per  foot. 
One,  three,  and  sheet  posters  on  all.     Wire  your  order  at  our  expense. 


MAKE.  'EM  YOUR- 
SELF SLIDES 

Make  them  yourself.  Written  with  pea  and  iak 
or  typewriter.  Three  minutes  to  make  a  slide.  Used 
for  advertising;  slides,  to  announce  future  or  featwe 
programmes,  Tor  chorus  slides  when  chorus  slide  is 
missing.  We  send  four  colors  of  gelatin.  The  slides 
look  well  and  anyone  can  make  them.  They  are 
handy  also  for  announcing  vaudeville  acts.  In  feet, 
they  may  be  readily  used  for  anything  you  may  wish 
to  say  to  your  audience. 

For  the  sum  ef  $3.50  we  will  send,  by  parcel  pott, 
prepaid  and  insured,  the  following: 

24  cover  glass,  1  package  binder  strips,  1  dozen 
mats,  1  instruction  sheet,  1  form  sheet  and  50  stripe 
assorted  colors  gelatin — enough  for  from  300  to  40s 
slides.    Order  now.    Address: 

UTILITY  TRANSPARENCY  CO. 


1733  West  9th  St. 


Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


Silver  Tour  Curtain  with  SILVER  IT 

Increase  your  business  by  showing  a  clean,  clear  white  picture. 
SILVERIT  can  be  applied  on  your  curtain,  smooth  and  even.  Makes  . 
a  day-light  screen  at  a  low  cost.  Reduces  your  light  bill  and  gives  you 
a  perfect  picture.  One  pound  will  cover  a  curtain  ox  12,  if  applied 
over  aluminum  or  paint.  If  applied  over  alabastine,  double  the  amount. 
1 -lb.  Can $3.00  2-lb.  Can 


$3-oo 

A.    G.    THOMAS 

Manufacturer  of  SILVERIT  AND  SATEEN 


$5.oo 

1705    Fairacres  Avenue 
Pittsburgh,       Penn. 


Mr.     Randall    F.    Smith,    of    Springfield,    Mass.,    has    been    using    the 
"MIRROR  SCREENS"   for  four  years. 

He  writes: — "I  don't  understand  why  more  of  the 
houses  in  this  section  don't  buy  your  Screens,  after 
seeing  what  they  are  doing  for  me  in  my  houses. 

"The  first  cost  is  all  there  is  to  it.  No  trouble  what- 
ever excepting  the  extra  time  it  takes  to  reckon  up  the 
receipts  thereafter." 

"MIRROR  SCREEN"  CO. 

F.  J.  REMBUSCH 
President 

Branch  ]  Chicago,  Boom  403,  ISO  'West  Washington 

Offices  I  New  York,  022  Sixth  Arena*. 
Phone  Ml  Plaza. 
Write  for  Catalftgue  of  our  New  "SNOW  WHITE"  Finish  Screens 


i  Shelby ville,  Ind. 


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4  Reels        LET  'ER  BUCK        4  Reels 

The  Pendleton  Oregon  Round-Up 

Four  reels  cut  down  from  over  15,000  feet  of  negative.  Not  one  inch  of  drag!  World's  championship  Western 
tournament.  By  far  the  greatest,  best  and  most  important  of  Round-Ups.  World  championship  contests  only  THE 
PENDLETON  OREGON  ROUND-UP  is  the  greatest  Western  and  Northwest  event,  held  annually  at  Pendleton, 
Oregon,  near  the  Umatilla  Indian  Reservation,  the  center  of  the  greatest  range  country  of  the  world.  NO  FAKE 
STUFF  THERE!  A  real  breath  of  the  virile  Golden  West.  Playing  at  present  only  the  biggest  theatres  of  the  Pacific 
Coast. 

FIRST  REEL — Street  Parade  of   Contestants;  Entrance  to   Round-Up;  Arena  Charge; 

Fancy  Riding;  Roman  Race;  Cowboy's  Relay  Race;  Girls'  Bucking  Contest;  Riding 

Bucking  Bulls  and  Cows. 
SECOND  REEL — Fancy  Roping;   War  and  Love  Dance;  Tug  of  War;   Maverick  Race; 
__  Barrel  Race;  Steer  Roping;  Pony  Express  Race;  Stage  Coach  Race. 

THIRD  REEL— Steer  Bulldogging;  Cowgirls'  Relay  Race;  Squaw  Race;  Wild  Horse  Race. 
FOURTH  REEL — Bucking  Contest,  Restricted  to  most  vicious  outlaw  horses. 

Net  price  of  States,  including  one  set  of  four  reels,  subject  to  being  unsold: 

Alabama,  $500;  Arkansas,  $500;  Colorado,  $650;  Florida,  $500;  Georgia,  $650;  Illinois,  $2,000;  Indiana,  $1,200;  Iowa, 
$800;  Kansas,  $1,000;  Kentucky,  $800;  Louisiana,  $500;  Maryland,  $500;  Michigan,  $1,000;  Minnesota,  $800;  Mississippi, 
$500;  Missouri,  $1,200;  Nebraska,  $800;  Nevada,  $500;  New  Mexico,  $500;  North  Carolina,  $500;  North  Dakota,  $500; 
Ohio,  $2,000;  Oklahoma,  $500;  South  Carolina,  $500;  South  Dakota,  $500;  Tennessee,  $500;  Texas,  $650;  Utah,  $500;  Vir- 
ginia (includes  D.  C),  $800;  West  Virginia,  $500;  Wisconsin,  $1,000;  Wyoming,  $500.  For  other  territory  apply.  Very 
attractive  prices  to  buyers  of  three  States  or  more. 

OREGON  MOTION  PICTURE  MANUFACTURING  CO. 

709  COUCH  BLDG.,  PORTLAND,  OREGON 


POWERS,    SIMPLEX, 
MOTIOGRAPH    and    EDISON 

FACTORY  SELLING  HEADQUARTERS 
Hallberg  Standard  A.  C.  Economizers  Hallberg  D.  C.  Economizers  Mercury  Arc  Rectifiers 

uaiiko»  t:^*  n!c«««M«         MOVING  PICTURE  MACHINE    ^*       ^"L.  ^_  _ 
Hallberg  T.cket  D.spensers         FLAM£    ARC (^1*13  OI1S 

An  Elaborate  Theatre  Beautiful  Decorations 

Expensive  Fixtures  Every  Comfort 

BUT  WHAT'S  THE  USE! 

You  have  neglected  to  provide  the  proper  light  for  projecting  and 
showing  your  picture.    This  is  what  your  patrons  pay  for. 

HALLBERG'S   A.  C.  to    D.  C.    ECONO- 
MIZER  and  D.  C.   ECONOMIZER 

Fill  your  curtain  with  a  perfect,  even,  flat  light  which  brings  out 
Hallberg  A.  C.  to  D.  c.  and  D.  C  Economizer  every  detail,  gives  the  proper  perspective  and  makes  the  actors  look 

lifelike  and  scenery  true  to  nature. 

Write,  stating  your  voltage,  cycles,  phase  of  your  current;  length 

ExhiUtOrS    ShOUld  your^uiremenls^111"-     ^  ^  **"  **  ° 

Write  for  price  list  of  "USED  MACHINE  BARGAINS" and  also  tecond-hand  current  saving 

devices  of  all  makes 


I    EQUIP    THEATRES    COMPLETELY 

on  all  makes  of  M.  P.  Machines,  but  Hallberg 's  Big  Catalog 
costs  you  25c  by  mail. 

J.  H.  HALLBERG,  36  E.  23rd  St.,  New  York  1 


Free  Circulars  on  all  makes  of  M.  P.  Machines,  but  Hallberg 's  Big  Catalogue,  100  Pages, 

costs  you  25c  by  mail. 


Protect     Tour     Box     Offloe 
lth    Hallberg    Ticket    Die- 
penser. 


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HENNE 

Special   Feature— Three   Sheets 

FOR  PASTING  IN  ONE  SHEETS 

12  Stylet  2S  cents  each 

S  for  St.00 

100  Styles  One  Sheets,  Day  Strips,  Dates,  Streamer 
Letters,    Frames,    Etc.     SEND    FOR    CATALOG. 


MONEY      Ol 


1000- 


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^*  ^^  ^»  fca*  ^*     FEATURES 

-      -      $2.00        Additional  1000,  $1.50 

Dating  50c  per  1000  extra 


NNEOAN  &  OO 


Souvenir  Photo-Cards  ro"TT,T»Li« 

ASSOCIATION  PLAYERS 

500    -    ■    $2.00  1000         -         -    S3.S0 

2000        -    -         fS.SO 

<»e«esee     Blvd. 
9     Oincinnati,       O. 


The  "GLORIA"  Artistic  FILMS 


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IHE  achievement  of  the  master-mind  and  the  re-  being  made  for  the  initial  production.     In  the  most 

|       suit  of  long  years  of  experience,  will  soon  be  modern   studio  ever  built,  located  at  Turin,  Italy,  a 

produced.      A    galaxy    of    experts    have    been  band  of  famous  actors  and  scores  of  mechanics  are 

secured  by  this  company,  and  preparations  are  now  making  what  will  be  the  sensation  of  the  Universe. 


THIS   GREAT  COMPANY  HAS   ESTABLISHED 

A    UNITED   STATES   AGENCY 


Full  particulars  will  be  given  later.  Watch  for  the 
name  of  the  American  Agent  and  the  title  of  the  first 
picture. 

The  "GLORIA"  films  will  be  all  artistic ;  they  will 
be  in  two,  three  and  four  reels.  They  will  present  ex- 
clusive productions  from  the  masterpieces  of  the 
world's  greatest  authors.  The  greatest  features  yet 
known  will  be  made. 

Mario  Caserini,  nine  years  with  the  Cines  Company 
at  Rome  and   later  with   the  Ambrosio  Company  of 


Turin,  will  be  the  director.  Mr.  Caserini's  great  suc- 
cess presages  wonderful  releases  with  the  "GLORIA" 
Company. 

Domenico  Cazzulino,  well  known  in  the  cinemato- 
graph world,  will  also  be  associated  with  the  new  com- 
pany. 

The  decision  has  been  made  to  show  these  great 
films  in  this  country  and  the  agency  has  been  placed. 
Full  announcement  shortly. 


The  Owners'  Stand-By 

The  Motiograph 
Machine 

EVEN  A  GOOD  OPERATOR  can  ruin  a  good  film  UNLESS  HE  is  given  a 
machine  that  will  protect  the  film  in  its  entire  passage  from  reel  to  reel.  NO 
MACHINE  offers  this  protection  to  the  film  so  strongly  as  does  THE 
MOTIOGRAPH. 

ON  THE  MOTIOGRAPH  the  film  is  guided  over  the  film  sprockets  by  A 
FLANGED  IDLER  ROLLER  (Patented  and  Controlled  by  us)  which  touches 
only  the  outside  edge  of  the  film  and  does  not  come  in  contact  with  any  other 
part. 

Do  You  Know  The  Motiograph? 
Does  Your   Operator   Know   It? 

Unless  you  are  both  familiar  with  this  machine  you  are  not  only  NOT  UP-TO-DATE,  but  you  are  doing  injustice  to 
yourselves,  to  your  patrons  who  are  paying  for  good  projection,  but  also  to  us,  the  manufacturer  who  has  spent 
thousands  upon  thousands  of  dollars  in  yearly  improvements  to  furnish  you  with  a  "QUALITY  MACHINE" 
where  an  exchange  of  dollars  brings  you  an  equal  amount  of  value. 


MANUFACTURED  AND  GUARANTEED  BY 


THE 


ENTERPRISE   OPTICAL  MANUFACTURING  COMPANY 

Main  Office  and  Factory*  Chicago,  Illinois 


Eastern  Office: 
30  East  23rd  St.,  New  York  City. 

4288    Gram. 


Western  Office: 
833  Market  St,  San  Francisco,  CaL 


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A  Bargain 
for  Canadians 

State  Rights  for  the  Dominion  of  Canada 
and  one  new  set  (3  reels)  of  the  Feature 

iikt  BLOOD 


First  check  for  $310.00  secures  this 
well  known  subject. 

This  is  only  a  fraction  over  10c.  per 
foot.  We  took  this  in  trade,  hence 
our  offer. 

World's  Moving  Picture  Glassies 

Box  485,  Madison  Square  P.  0.,  N.  Y.  City 


LEARNandEM^ 

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MOTION  PICTURE  BUSINESS 


DrJLn Read  our  preat  offer  to  teach  you  to  become  an 

Lnu       expert  Moving  Picture  Operator  or  Manaoer.    Then 
mail  the  coupon  at  Mice  for  complete  information.    Never  be- 
fore in  the  history  of  the  motion  picture  business  have  there  been 
such  wonderful  opportunities  for  making  money  as  there  are  today! 


Id  their  spare  time.      Owners    and 
Managers    are    simply     ' '  coining- 


FREE! 


Operators  Earn  $75  to  $150  a  Month 

money  in  this  greatest  amusement  business  of  the  Century.     Positively  tremendous  profits  today 
lor  ambitious  men  who  take  up  this  work. 

We  offer  you  a  complete,  thoroughly  prmetieai  and  easily  learned 
etane  of  instruction.  Learn  right  In  your  own  home*  You  can 
become  an  expert  in  a  very  short  time. 

Qnonial  Vntinaf  0ur  "Cyclopedia  of  Motion  Picture  Work" 
OpCUIdl  nUllLC.  is  just  ofi  the  press!  The  only  complete 
work  on  this  subject  ever  pnbllshed.  Of  great  value  to  both  owners 
and  managers. 

If  You  Write  At  Once 

We  will  send  our  illustrated  booklet 

"The  Motion  Picture"  to  you  absolutely 

free.     This  interesting  book  gives  valuable  information  about  the 

business  that  you  should  know  —  explains  all  about  our  Motion 

Picture  Course. 

Mail  Coupon  for  Complete  Information 

Every  man  who  is  interested  in  the  Motion  Picture  Business — 
Bay  man  who  expects  to  become  an  operator  or  manager  —  in  Tact, 
every  man  ambitious  to  succeed  —  should  mail  the  coupon  at  once. 
Specify  whether  you  want  the  books  or  the  course.  No  obligations 
in  sending  the  coupon,  so  marl  it  to  us  right  away. 

AMERICAN  SCHOOL  OF  CORRESPONDENCE,   CHICAGO,  U.  S.  A. 

Free  Information  and  Book  Coupon 

AMERICAN  SCHOOL  OF  CORRESPONDENCE.  Chicago,  U.  S.  A. 

Without  any  obligations  on  me  whatsoever,  please  send  FREE,  your  illustrated 
booklet  "The  Motion  Picture."     Also  send  me  information  about  your 

(      )  Motion  Picture  Course. 

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EXHIBITORS 

everywhere  are  talcing  advantage  of  our  generous 
offer  to  teach  them  or  their  operators  to  become 
efficient  camera  men : 

LOCAL   EVENTS   BRING 
TREMENDOUS  RETURNS 

OUR  COMPACT  MARVEL  is  the  only  com- 
plete Motion  Picture  Outfit  in  the  market  today: 

OUTFIT  CONSISTS  OF  THE  FOLLOWING: 

1  Motion  Picture  Camera 

4  Film   Magazines 

1  Panoramic  Tripod 

1  Leather  Plush-lined  Camera  Case 

1  B.  ®  L.  Zeiss-Tessar  prof.  F.  3-5 

1  Carrying  Case  for  Tripod 

1  Tilting  Table  Attachment 

This    outfit   with    complete   instructions    sells    for 

$150.00 

WRITE    FOR    CATALOGUE 

We  also  furnish  Williamson  Professional  Types 
from  $260  to  $350.    Tripod  $75.    Tilt  $30. 

Whyte-Whitman  Company 

36  East  23d  Street  New  York  City 


THE  CURTAIN,  YOU  WILL 

Eventually 
BUY 

WHY  NOT  NOW  ? 

AmericanTheatre  Curtain 
and  Supply  Co. 

105  North  Main  Street        ST.  LOUIS,  MO. 


GEO.  BRECK 
70  Turk  St.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


INDEX 


ADVERTISING    FOR     EXHIBITORS 479 

AN  APPEAL  TO  FLOOD  SUFFERERS 470 

APOSTLES   OP   NOTHINGNESS, 

By   Louis  Reeves  Harrison 465 

"AT   THE    RISK    OF    HER    LIFE"     (Apex) 467 

"BAWLEROUT,     THE"     (Reliance) 468 

CALENDAR    OF    LICENSED    RELEASES 498 

CALENDAR  OF  INDEPENDENT  RELEASES 500 

CHICAGO     LETTER 473 

COMMENTS    ON    THE    FILMS     (Licensed) 487 

COMMENTS  ON  THE  FILMS    (Independent) 488 

CORRESPONDENCE    502 


CARBON  IMPORTERS. 

FRORUP,    L.    E 5^1 

KIEWERT,    CHARLES    I '.'.'.'.'.'.'. 542 

REISINGER,    HUGO '.'.'.'.'.530 

ELECTRICAL  &  MECHANICAL  EQUIPMENT. 

AMUSEMENT  SUPPLY    CO "Ji 

BELL   &    HOWELL "  "   Sx> 

BENDER,     GEORGE 545 

CALEHUFF   SUPPLY    CO 544 

CAPITOL  MERCHANDISE   CO "  "-a5 

DETROIT   ENGINE    WORKS 546 

FORT  WAYNE  ELECTRIC  CO.  .      .  540 

GENERAL   ELECTRIC    CO ".535 

HALLBERG,    J.     H 531 

HOKE,    GEORGE    M 53O 

PICTURE    THEATER    EQUIPMENT    Co! '. '. '. '. '. '.  .524 

SAFETY    ELEC.    CO 54s 

SCHNEIDER,     E ^ 

SMITH,   L.  C.  &  CO 530 

STERN    MANUFACTURING'    CO '.'.'.'.'.'. V.'.'.'.BX 

FEATURE   FILMS. 

ADVANCE  MOTION   PICTURE  CO d'O 

ALLARDT   FEATURE   FILM    CO 530 

AMERICA'S  FEATURE  FILM  CO...  454 

APEX   FILM  CO 516  517 

DUHEM   &    HARTER    M.    P.    CO 530 

EAGLE    FEATURE    FILM    CO 541 

ECLECTIC    FILMS 450-1 

FULLER'S      FEATURES '         524 

GENERAL     FILM     CO 455  6-7 

GT.     NORTHERN     SPECIAL     FEATURE     FILM 

COMPANY     5->l 

KLEINE,    GEO 500-1 

M.    &   F.    FEATURE   FILM   CO 530-43 

MONOPOL    FILM    CO 527 

MOORE,  F.   E 522 

-NEW    YORK    FILM    CO '.'.'.'.'.'. 5'8 

O'DONNELL,     F.     J 500 

OREGON    M.    P.    CO 53! 

RUBY   FEATURE   FILM    CO 509 

SHAKESPEARE   FILM  CO 526 

SPECIAL    EVENT   FILM    CO 545 

SUPREME   FEATUHE   FILM  CO 544 

TRUE   FEATURES     503 

VITA    FILM    SALES    CO -,24 

UNION    FEATURES    507 

WARNER'S    FEATURES 537 

IMPORTERS   &  DEALERS. 

WESTERN     FILM     BROKERS... 545 

FIREPROOF  APPARATUS. 

TRAINER,    C.     W 546 

FILM  EXCHANGES, 

BRADENBURG,    G.     W 544 

CHICAGO    M.    P.    SUPPLY    CO 543 

CLEOPATRA    FILM    CO 544 

CONDOR  FILM  EXCHANGE 543 

EAGLE    FEATURE    FILM    CO 541 

GLORIA     FILMS 532 


TO  CONTENTS. 

DOINGS  AT  LOS   ANGELES 475 

FACTS    AND    COMMENTS 463 

FOREIGN  TRADE   NOTES 478 

INDEPENDENT    FILM    STORIES 512 

INDEPENDENT    RELEASE    DATES 536 

INQUIRIES   482 

LICENSED    FILM    STORIES 504 

LICENSED     RELEASE     DATES 538 

MANUFACTURERS     ADVANCE     NOTES 493 

MOTION    PICTURE    EXHIBITORS    LEAGUE 470 

MOVING    PICTURE    EDUCATOR 491 

NEW    ENGLAND 502 

TO  ADVERTISERS. 

GUNBY    BROTHERS    541 

HETZ,     L 543 

LAEMMLE    FILM     CO 540 

MAPLE   LEAF   FILM   EXCHANGE 513 

MUTUAL    FILM    CORPORATION 505 

NORTHERN    FEATURE    FILM    EXCHANGE 545 

X-L   FEATURE    FILM   CO 546 

INDEPENDENT  FILM  MANUFACTURERS. 

AMBROSIO    AMERICAN    FILM    CO 528-29 

AMERICAN     452-524 

BRONCHO  FILM.  CO 453 

CRYSTAL  FILM  CO 515 

GAUMONT    447 

KAY-BB 453 

KEYSTONE     453 

KINEMACOLOR   CO.    OF   AMERICA 523-40 

MAJESTIC     523 

N.     Y.    MOTION    PICTURE    CO 448-9 

RELIANCE     525 

SOLAX       508-10-12-14 

THANHOUSER    442 

UNIVERSAL  FILM   MANUFACTURERS.  .444-5-6-511 

LICENSED    FILM    MANUFACTURERS. 

EDISON    459 

BSSANAY     443 

KALEM    462 

LUBIN      460 

MELIES    547 

PATHE  FRERES   458 

SELIG      454 

VITAGRAPH    461 

LECTURERS. 

ADAMS,    GEO.    M 545 

BUSH,     W.    S 544 

MARION,     L.     M.      (Miss) 541 

LENS  MANUFACTURERS. 

GUNDLACH    MANHATTAN    CO 542 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

A.    B.   O.   CO Indei 

AMERICAN    CINEMATOGRAPH    CO 545 

AMERICAN   SCHOOL  OF   CORRESPONDENCE.  .533 

AMERICAN    TALKING    PICTURE    CO 528 

BURKE    &  JAMES,    INC 540 

BUSHMAN,    F.    X 524 

CALLERMAN.     0.     C 545 

CHALMERS   PUBLISHING   CO 524 

OLAPHAM.     A.     1 546 

CLASSIFIED  ADVERTISEMENTS    526 

CLEVELAND,     W.     S 540 

COLUMBIA    PAINT    &    VARNISH    CO 545 

CORCORAN,    A.    J 545 

C.     R.      S 546 

EASTMAN     KODAK     CO 542 

FIREPROOF     FILM     CO 542 

FLAMHAFT,     H.     V 540 

HENNEGAN    532 

HOUSEHOLD    OUTFITTING    OO "43 

HUME,    T.     D.     &    CO 545 


OBSERVATIONS    BY    MAN    ABOUT   TOWN 476 

"PELLEAS  AND  MELISANDE"    (Universal) 477 

PHOTOPLAYWRIGHT,  THE 481 

PROJECTION     DEPARTMENT 488 

"ROAD    TO    RUIN,    THE"    (American) 474 

SCREENERS   HOLD    THEIR    FIRST   BALL 472 

ST.    LOUIS 503 

STORIES  OF  THE  FILMS    (Licensed) 604 

STORIES   OF   THE  FILMS    (Independent) 612 

"THE    TIGER    LILY"     (VlUgrapta) 466 

KRAUSE    MFG.    CO 504 

McINTIRB  &  RICHTER 543 

McKENNA   BROS.    BRASS    CO 646 

MORTIMER    FILM    CO 528 

MOTION    PICTURE    CAMERA    CO 508 

NATIONAL  TICKET  CO 536 

NATIONAL    WATERPROOF   FILM   CO ..545 

NATIONAL  X-RAY  REFLECTOR  CO 641 

NEWMAN      CO 543 

PHOTO    ART    CO 545 

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BIOGEAPH. 

Apr.  19 — A   Misunderstood   Boy    (Drama)    

Apr.  21— The  Left  Handed  Man    (Drama) 

Apr.  24 — A    Ragtime    Romance    (Comedy) 

Apr.  24— The   Cure    (Comedy) 

Apr.  26 — The   Lady   and    the   Mouse    (Drama). 

Apr.  28 — Blame  the  Wife  (Comedy) 

Apr.  28— The  Daylight  Burglar  (Comedy) 

May     1— If  We  Only  Knew   (Drama) 

May    3 — The  Wanderer  (Drama) 

May     5 — The    Tenderfoot's    Money     (Drama)... 

May     S — Frappe    Love    (Comedy) 

May     8 — The  Coveted   Prize    (Comedy) 

May  10— The  House  of  Darkness   (Drams) 

CINES. 


(O,  Kleine.) 

Apr.  16— A    Fugitive    at    Bay     (2-parta    Drama 

Special)    1800 

Apr.  19— For  His  Child's  Sake  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  22— A  Heart  of  Steel    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  23 — The  Miser's  Millions   (3  parts,  special. 

Drama) 2700 

Apr.  26 — Views  in  Liege,   Belgium    (Scenic) 200 

Apr.  26 — Forgotten    (Drama) 800 

Apr.  29 — Scenes  and  Ruins  Near  Rome   (Trav.)  200 

Apr.  29— The  New  Arrival   (Comedy) 800 

May    2 — The   Broken   Vow     (Special,     2     parts. 

Drama)   2000 

May    3 — The  Rival  Lovers   (Comedy) 500 

May    3 — Jerry's  Rebellion  (Comedy) .inn 

May     8 — A    Mixed    Affair    (Drama) 1000 

May  10 — The  People  of  Somaliland,    East  Africa 

(Manners    and   Customs) ::im» 

May  10 — Excess  Baggage    (Comedy) 400 

May  10 — Beautiful  Lake   Como,    Italy    (Physical 

Geography) 300 


EDISON. 

Apr.  14 — Jones  Gees  Shopping    (Comedy) 

Apr.  14— The     Rocky     Mountains      In     Winter 

(Geography)    

Apr.  16 — The    New    Pupil    (Comedy-Drama) 1000 

Apr.  16 — Seven  Years  Bad  Luck   (Comedy)    10(10 

Apr.  18 — The  Man  from  tbe  West   (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  19 — The  Twelfth  Juror   (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  21 — Hulda    of    Holland    (Comedy-Drama).  .1000 

Apr.  22 — An    Innocent   Informer    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  23— His   Undesirable  Relatives  (Comedy).  .1000 
Apr.  25 — Tbe  Hlgb   Tide  of  Misfortune    (Being 
tbe    tenth    story    of    "What    Hap- 
pened to  Mary,"   Drama) 1000 

Apr.  26 — A  Splendid  Scapegrace    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  28 — When    the    Right    Man    Comes    Along 

(Comedy)  1000 

Apr.  29 — The  Orphan  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  30 — A  Reluctant  Cinderella    (Comedy) 1000 

May    2 — Groundless  Suspicion  (Drama) 1000 

May     3 — Billy's  Sweetheart   (Drama) 1000 

May    5 — The    One    Hundred    Dollar    Elopement 

(Comedy-Drama )    1000 

May    6 — When  Greek  Meets  Greek  (Drama) 1000 

May    7 — Aunty   and    the   Girls    (Comedy) MO 

May     7 — With   the  Assistance  of  "Shep"    (Com.)   600 

May     9 — The   Golden   Wedding    (Drama) 1000 

May  10 — An   Accidental   Alibi    (Drama) 1000 


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ESSANAY. 

18— The  Crossing  Policeman   (Drama)    1000 

19 — Alkali    Ike's   Homecoming    (Comedy) .  .1000 

22— The  Dnburied  Past  (Drama) 1000 

23— Tbe  Rival  Salesmen  (Comedy) 1000 

24 — City    of    Mexico    (Scenic) lOiio 

25 — The    Deacon's    Dilemma    (Comedy) 1000 

26 — Broncho  Billy   and  the  Rustler's  Child 

(Drama) 1000 

29 — Cousin  Jane   (Comedy) 1000 

30 — Cousin  Bill   (Comedy) 1000 

1 — The  Story  tbe  Desert  Told    (Drama).  .1000 

2 — A  Child's  Precaution    (Drama) 1000 

3 — The   Crazy   Prospector   (Drama) 1000 

6 — A   Tango   Tangle    (Comedy) nxxi 

7 — The   Prophecy    (Drama) 1000 

8 — Two  Western   Paths    (Drama) 1000 

9 — A  Woman's   Way    (Drama) 1000 

10 — Alkali   Ike's  Mother-in-law    (Comedy)..  1000 

KALEM. 

23 — The  Secret  Marriage    (Drama) 1000 

25 — The    Phoney   Singer    (Comedy) 

2.^ — Japan,      the     Industrious      (Manners     & 

Customs)     

26 — Tbe  Fighting  Chaplain    (Drama) lOnn 

28 — The  Haunted  House   (Drama) 1000 

80— The  Eighth  Notch  (Drama) 

30 — A  Coupon  Courtship   (Comedy) 

2 — Fatty's  Busy  Day   (Comedy) 

2 — Old    Women    of    the    Streets    of    New 

York  (Topical) 

3 — The  Wayward  Son    (Drama) 1000 

5 — The  Heart  of  An  Actress    ( Drama )...,  1000 

7 — The   Alien    (Drama) 1000 

9 — The    Hash    House   Count    (Comedy) 

9 — Toothache     (Comedy) 

9 — The     Cheyenne     Massacre     (Special,     2 

parts.    Drama) 2000 

10— The    River    Pirates    (Drama) 1000 

LUBES. 

21— Back   to   Primitive    (Drama) 1000 

22— A    Slight    Mistake     (Comedy) 

22 — Sunshine    Sue    (Comedy) 

24 — The  School  Principal    (Comedy) 1000 

2." — Diamond    Cut    Diamond    (Drama) 1000 

25 — The    End    of    the    Quest     (Special,    2 

parts,    Drama) 2000 

26— The    Birthmark     (Drama) 1000 

28 — In  the  Harem  of  Haschem   (Drama)..  1000 

29 — Granny   (Drama) 1000 

30 — Through  Many  Trials  (Special,  2  parts, 

Drama) 2000 

1— The   Veil  of   Sleep    (Drama) 1000 

2 — The  Girl  Back  East  (Drama) 1000 

3 — Clarence  at  tbe  Theater  (Comedy) 400 

3 — Fixing  Auntie  Up  (Comedy) 600 

5 — Pedro's    Treachery     (Drama) 1O0O 

6 — The  Judgment   of  the  Deep   (Drama) .  .1000 

8— She    Mast    he    Ogly     (Comedv) 400 

8 — Hattie's     New     Hat     (Comedy).- 600 

9 — A    Mock    Marriage    (Drama) 1000 

10— The   Paymaster    (Drama) 1000 

10— A  Oirl  Spy  in  Mexico  (Special,  2  parts. 

Drama) 2000 

MELEES. 

10 — The  Maoris  of  New  Zealand   (Manners 

and    Customs)    1000 

17 — What  Is  Sauce  for  the  Goose  (Comedy)  684 
17— A    Tahitian    Fish    Drive    (Fishing    In- 
dustry)      

24 — How  Chief  Te   Ponga   Won  His  Bride 

(Drama) 

24 — A  Trip  to  the  Waltoma  Caves  of  New 

Zealand    (Geology) 

1 — A  Buried  Treasure   (Drama) 

I— The    Home   of   Terns    (Zoology) 

S — A  Trip  Through  the  "North  Island" 
of  New  Zealand,  from  Auckland  to 
Wellington      I  Travel  1 1000 


ECLIPSE. 
(O.   Seine.) 

Apr.     2 — The  Fruit  of  Suspicion  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.    9 — The  Kentish  Coast,  England   (Physical 

Geography)      .  — 250 

Apr.     9 — Making    Birch    Brooms    (Trades) 300 

Apr.     9 — An    Up-to-Date   Aviator    (Comedy) 450 

Apr.  16 — The      Winner     at      the     Sweepstakes 

(Drama)     1000 

Apr.  23 — A   Four-footed   Detective    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  30 — A     Picturesque    Journey     In    Western 

France  (Travel) 250 

Apr.  30 — Grandpa's   Rejuvenation    (Comedy) 350 

Apr.  30 — German    Cavalry    Maneuvres    (Mill.)..  400. 
May     7— The   Dividing    Wall    ( ComedyiDrama ) . .  1000 

PATHEPLAY. 

Apr.  23 — The  Outlaw    (Drama) 

Apr.  24 — The  Thwarted    Plot    (Drama) 

Apr.  2,"i — Our    Feathered    Friends     (Zoology).... 

Apr.  25 — A  Trip  on  the  Seine  (Scenic) 


Apr.  26— The  Count's  Will    (Drama) 

Apr.  26 — An  Exciting.  Honeymoon  (Special,  3 
parts,    Comedy) 

Apr.  28— Pathe's  Weekly,  No.   18   (News) 

Apr.  29— The  Cormorant   (Bird  studies) 

Apr.  29 — Along  the  River  Eure.  France  (Scenic) 

Apr.  29 — Hidden  Life  in  Sea   Weed   (Zoology).. 

Apr.  30 — Tbe   Mexican    Defeat    i  Drama  i 

Apr.  30 — The   Panama    Canal   To-dav    (Eng.)... 

May     1— The   Parting  Eternal    (Drama) 

May     2— Liquid   Air    (Scientific) 

May  2 — Winter  In  Upper  Engadlne,  Swltzer- 
1     d   (Scenic) 

May    3 — General  Scott's  Protege  (Drama) 

May  3 — Tbe  Diamond  Miniature  (Special— 2 
parts — Drama)   

May    5 — Patbe's  Weekly.   No.  in  (News) 

May     6 — The    Ant-Lion    (Zoology) 

May  (J — The  chateau  of  BlOls,  France  (Archi- 
tecture)   

May     7— The    Crooked    Bankers    (Urania, 

May     S — Her  Mother's  Ambition    (Drama) 

May     9 — Montreal.  Quebec  and   Halifax    (1 

May     r> — In   the   Valley  of  Vesubie.    France    iS.-., 

May   10 — I'uttlu'    il    liver  on    Papa    (Oomedj  I 


SELIG. 

Apr.  17— The  Tie  of  the  Blood  (Drama) 10M 

Apr.  18 — Cured  of  Her  Love  (Comedy)    

Apr.  18 — That  mail  Order  Suit   (Comedy) 

Apr.  21 — Canton.    China    (Scenic) 

Apr.  21 — Alas!    Poor   Yorick!    (Comedy) 

Apr.  22— Seeds    of    Silver     (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  23 — Love,    the    Winner    (Drama) 

Apr.  23 — Dollar   Down,    Dollar   a    Week    (Com.) 

Apr.  24 — Love   in    the    Ghetto    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  25— Arabia  Takes  tbe  Health  Cure   (Com.)  1000 

Apr.  28 — Roses  of  Yesterday  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  29 — Hiram  Buys  An  Auto  (Comedy) 

Apr.  29 — Chinese    Scenes    (Scenic) 

Apr.  30— The  Burglar  Who  Robbed  Death  (Dr.). 1000 
May     1 — Absent-Minded   Mr.   Boob    (Comedy) . . . 

May    1 — Some  Chickens  (Zootechnlc) 

May    2 — Their  Stepmother  (Drama) 1000 

May     5 — A     Midnight     Bell     (Special.     2    parts, 

Drama  l 2000 

May     5 — An    Old    Actor     (Drama) 1000 

May     6 — A   Welded  Friendship    l Drama) 

May     6 — Hatching    Chickens    (Zootecbnic) 

May     7— Belle   Boyd— A  Confederate   Spy    (Dr. (.1000 

May     8 — Her     Guardian      (Drama) 1000 

May     9 — In    the  Days  of   Witchcraft    (Drama) .  .1000 


VITAGRAPH. 

Apr.  23 — There's  Music  la  the  Hair  (Comedy) . . 
Apr.  23 — Crowds    Attending    Gods    In    Temple, 

Tokyo,  Japan  (Typical) 

Apr.  24 — The  Power  that  Rules   (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  25 — The  Stronger  Sex  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  26— A  Fighting  Chance   (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  28 — Hearts  of  the  First  Empire   (2  puts, 

Special,  Drama) 2000 

Apr.  28 — O'Hara     and     the     Youthful     Prodigal 

(Drama)   1000 

Apr.  29 — Two's     Company,     Three's     a     Crowd 

(Comedy)    

Apr.  29 — Street  Scenes,  Yokohama,  Japan  (Top.) 
Apr.  30— A  Window  On  Washington  Park  (Dr.). 1000 

May    1 — Bunny  Versus  Cutey  (Comedy) 

May    1 — Uses  of  Dynamite  by  U.  S.   Engineer- 
ing Corps   (Scientific) 

May    2 — Cinders  (Drama) 1000 

May     3 — Captain  Mary  Brown   (Drama) 1000 

May     5 — Bingles    Mends    the    Clock     i  Comedy ).  .1000 
May     6 — Omens   and  -Oracles    (Third    in    the   Be- 
linda    Series.     Comedy) 1000 

May     7 — The   1 1,  ,-rslayei-   (Special,    2   parts.   Dr.). 2000 

May    7 — Disciplining    Daisy     (Comedy) 

May     7-    Inspection      of      the      Quebec      Police 

(Typical) 

May     8 — The    Wrath    of    nsaka     (Drama) 1000 

May     9— Cupid's    Hired    Man     (Comedy) 1000 

May  10—  The    Sea    Maiden     ( Drama  I 1000 


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May     3 — The    Diamond    Miniature     l2    [-arts),    Patbe- 
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May     ." — A     Midnight    Bell     IL'    part- p.     Belig. 
May      7 — The    Dcerslayer     |2    parts),     Vitayraph. 

May    9 — The  Cheyenne   Massacre   (2  parts),   Kalem. 
May   10— A     Girl    Spy    in    Mexico     (2    parts),    Lubln. 
May  12 — The   Japanese    Dagger    (2   parts),    Eclipse- 
Klelne. 

May  1-1 — ner    Masked  Beauty    (2   parts),    Patheplay. 
May  16 — The     Vampire    of     the    Desert     (2    parts), 

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May  19 — Into  the   North    (2  parts),    Essanay. 
May     2 — The      District      Attorney's      Conscience      (2 

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Apr.  21— Boobs  and  Bricks   (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.  24 — When  Jim  Returned  (Com.-Dr.) 1000 

Apr.  28 — Calamity   Anne's   Trust    (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.  28 — Oil    On    Troubled    Waters     (2    parts. 

Drama) 2000 

May     1— The  Tattooed  Arm    (Drama) 

May    3— Tbe  Road  to  Ruin  (Drama) 1000 

May  '  6 — Tbe    Brothers    (Drama) 1000 

May    8— Human    Kindness    (Drama) 1000 

May  10 — Youth  and  Jealousy    (Drama) 1000 

AJCBR0SIO. 
Mar.  22— Lore   Levels  All    (2   reeli)    (Drama).. 
Mar.  29 — The  Human  Target    (2  reela — Drama) 

Apr.     6 — For    His   Sake    (2    reels — Drama) 

Apr.  12 — An  to  Suggestion;  or  the  Crime  of  An- 
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Apr.  19— Child  Labor  Traffic  (2  parts,  Drama) . . 
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re*.  27— The    Quality    of     Mercy     (Drama) 100» 

Mar.     6 — Kith    and    Kin     (Drama) 

Mar.  1* — Wine,   Women  and   Reformation   (Br.) 

BISON. 
Apr.  12 — The  Darling  of  the  Regiment   (2  reels 

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Apr.  15 — War   (3  parts,  Drama) 

Apr.  19 — The  Last  Roll  Call  (2-paris  Drama) . . 
Apr.  22 — Bred  in  the  Bone  (3  parts,  Drama).. 
Apr.  26 — Tiie  Black  Chancellor  (3  parts.  Dr.) 
Apr.  29 — The  Last  Roll  Call  (2  parts,  Drama) . . 
May    3 — The    Vengeance    of    the    Skystone     (2 

parts.  Drama) -. 

May  6 — The  Indian's  Secret  (2  parts,  Drama) 
May  10 — The    Northern    Spy    (2    parts,    Drama) 

BRONCHO. 
Apr.     2— The  Sinews  of  War  (2  parts.     Drama) 
Apr.     9 — The    Grey    Sentinel    (2   parts — Drama) 
Apr.  18 — A    Southern   Cinderella    (3  parts,    Dr.) 

Apr.  23 — Retrogression    (2   parts,    Drama) 

Apr.  30 — Bread  Cast  Upon  the  Waters  (2  parts, 

Drama) 

May    7— The  Way  of  a  Mother   (2  parts,   Dr.) 

CHAMPION. 
Apr.     T — The       Life-Savera      of      Cblcamocomo 

(Vocational)     

Apr.  14 — Lena's  Flirtation   (Oomedy) 

Apr.  21 — When   Strong   Men   Meet    (Drama) 

Apr.  28 — The  Clown    Hero    (Comedy) 

Apr.  28 — Life  In  Soudan    (Sociology) 

May    6 — The  Shark   God    (Drama) 1000 

CRYSTAL. 

Apr.  27 — Forgetful    Flossie     (Comedy) 

Apr.  27 — A  Joke  on  the  Sheriff   (Comedy) 

May    4 — Pearl  As  a  Detective   (Comedy) 

May    4 — O!    Whiskers!    (Comedy) 

May  11 — When  Love  Is   Young    (Comedy) 

May  11 — His    Awful    Daughter    (Comedy) 

ECLAIR. 

May    4 — Bewitched  Matches   (Comedy) 

May    4 — Salamanders    (Scientific) 

May    7 — The  Sons  of  a  Soldier   (3  parts,    Dr.) 

May  11— A    Wise    Judge    (Comedy) 

May  11 — Manufacturer    of    Steel     (Industry  | .. . 

EXCELSIOR. 
Mar.  24 — The  Legends  of  the  Everglade  (Dr.).. 
Mar.  81— The  Romance  of  a  Fisher  Boy  (Drama) 
Apr.  7 — Temperamental  Alice  (Comedy-Drama) 
Apr.  14 — Hie  Moving  Picture  Girl  (Drama).... 
Apr.  21— The  Man  from  the  City  (Drama) 

FRONTIER. 
Apr.  26— The  Old  Mald'a  Last  Attempt   (Com.) 

May    1— The   Word  of  Jose    (Drama) 

May    3 — An    Eastern    Cyclone    at    Bluff    Ranch 

(Comedy) 

May    8— The    Sheriff's    Rival    (Drama) 

May  10 — The   Tenderfoot's   Ghost    (Comedy) 


GATTMONT. 
Apr.     9 — Gaumont'a    Weekly,    No.    57    (Newa).. 
Apr.  10 — The    Cupidity    of    Cupid    (Com.-Dr.).. 

Apr.  10 — On    the    Firing   Line    (Oomedy) 

Apr.  15 — Lobsters,  All  Styles   (Comedy) 

Apr.  16 — Gaumont'a  Weekly,  No.  58  (Topical) 
Apr.  17 — When  Scandal  Threatened  (Drama) . . . 
Apr.  19 — (An    Educational    &    Topical    Subject) 

Apr.  22 — O  Koma  San   (Drama) 

Apr.  22 — The     River     Romantic 

Apr.  23— Ganmont's  Weekly,  No.  69  (News)... 
Apr.  24 — Lessons  for  the  Bashful  (Comedy) .... 
Apr.  25 — (An    Educational    &   Topical    Subject.) 

GEM. 

Apr.  22 — Burglarizing    Billy    (Comedy) 

Apr.  22 — Against    the    Law    (Oomedy) 

Apr.  29— Billy's   Suicide    (Oomedy) 

Apr.  29 — Views  of  Cape   HatteraB    (Scenic) 

May    6 — Billy's   First    Quarrel    (Comedv) 

May    6 — Call    Him    Whiskers    (Comedy) 

GREAT    NORTHERN. 

Mar.  29 — Summer  In  the  North    (Scenic) 

Apr.     6 — A  Skipper's  Story   (Oomedy) 

Apr.     5 — Under  Southern  Skies    (Physical  Geog- 
raphy)   

Apr.  12 — The        Bewitched         Rubber        Shoes 

(Comedy)     

Apr.  12 — Spanish     Towns     (Scenic) 

Apr.  19 — Tbe  Two  Convicts    (Drama) 

Apr.  26 — Told   In   Confidence    (Drama) 

May    3 — Who   Is   Most   to   Blame    (Com.-Dr.).. 

IMP. 

Apr.  28 — Tbe  Cub   (Drama) 

May     1— The  Rise  of  Officer  174   (2  parts,   Dr.) 

May    3 — Her  Lover's  Voice   (Comedy) 

May    3 — Opening   of    the   1913   Baseball   Season 

(Topical) 

May    5 — Eureka    (2   parts,    Drama) 

May    S — The   Whole  Truth    (Drama) 

May  10 — Leo   Makes  Good    (Oomedy) 

May  10 — The   Oyster    Industry    (Industry) 

KAY-BEE. 
Apr.     4— With  Lee  In  Virginia  (2  parti.    Drama) 
Apr.  11 — On  Fortune's  Wheel   (2  parts— Drama) 

Apr.  18— The  Runaways   (Comedy) 

Apr.  25 — Will  O'  the  Wisp  (2  parts,  Drama).. 
May.  2 — A  Black  Conspiracy  (2  parts,  Drama) 
May    9 — Past   Redemption   (2  parts,   Drama)... 

KEYSTONE. 

Apr.  24 — A  Fishy  Affair   (Comedy) 

Apr.  24— The    Bangville    Police    (Oomedy) 

Apr.  2S — The  New  Conductor   (Comedy) 

Apr.  28 — His  Chum,   the  Baron   (Comedy) 

May     1— That   Rag  Time   Band    (Comedy) 

May    5 — Algie   on   the  Force    (Comedy) 

May     5 — His  Ups  and  Downs   (Comedy) 

May    8— The  Dark  Town  Belle    (Comedy) 

May     8 — A    Uttle    Hero    (Comedy) 

LUX. 
Apr.  25 — A  Safeguard  for  Bachelors  (Comedy)..  315 

Apr.  25— The    Truant    Husband    (Comedy) 59a 

May    2— The    Miller's   Daughter    (Drama) 7G0 

May    2— The   Invincible  Hands    (Comedy) 235 

MAJESTIC. 

Apr.  15 — I    Love    Yon    (Drama) 

Apr.  15 — The    Leaning    Tower    of   Pisa    (Monu- 
mental)   

Apr.  20 — The  Mote  and  the  Beam  (Drama) 

Apr.  22— Not  for  Mine   (Comedy) 

Apr.  27— Old    Mammy's    Charge    (Drama) 

Apr.  29 — The   Whim  of  Destiny    (Drama) 

MECCA. 
Hii.     l— A  Stranger  la  the  Rockies   (Drama,).. 
Mar.     8— The    Inauguration    of    President    Wil- 
son   (Topical)    

Mar.  IB— The   Flaher   Lady    (Drama) 

Mar.  22— Tha  Lineman  and  the  Reformer   (Dr.) 

Mar.  29 — The   Criminals    (Drama) 

Apr.     5— By  tha  Onrate'a  Aid  (Drama) 

MXLANO. 
Feb.  IB— On*  »f  tha  Depths   (3  reala— Draama) . . 

April      1— A  Study  In  Sociology   (Drama) 

Feb.  22— Parted  at  tha  Altar  (2  reala)  (Be.) 
Mar.     1— The  Defeat  of  tha  Conqueror  (»  seats) 

(Historical) 

Mar.  8— Tha  Victory  of  Virtue  (3  reala)  (Da.) 
Mar.  15— The    Sins    of    tha    Father     (3    reels) 

(Drama) 

MUTUAL  WEEKLY. 

Mar.  26— Mutual  Weekly,   No.  18   (Newa) 

Apr.     2— Mutual   Weekly,   No.   14    (Newa) 

Apr.    9— Mutual  Weekly,   No.  IB    (Newa) 

Apr.  16 — Mutual   Weekly,   No.   16   (Newa) 

Apr.  23— Mutual  Weekly,   No.   17   (Newa) 


MUTUAL   EDUCATIONAL 
Apr.  10 — The    Golden    Horn,     Turkey     (Scenic) 

Apr.  17 — Willy  and   the  Conjuror   (Oomedy) 

Apr.  17 — Village     Customs     la     Ceylon,     India 

(Manners    and   Customs) 

Apr.  24 — Funnicns  is  Tired  of  Life   (Comedy).. 

Apr.  24 — Electrical  Phenomenon  (Physics) 

May     1 — The  Old  Invalid   (Drama) 

May    1 — Tachkent,     Asiatic     Russia     (Political 

Geography) 

NESTOR. 

Apr.  16 — An  Affray  of  Honor  (Drama) 

Apr.  18 — Paying  for  Silence   (Drama ) 

Apr.  21 — His   Friend   Jlmmle    (Comedy) 

Apr.  23 — The  8herifTB   Warning    (Drama) 

Apr.  25 — For  Her   Sake    (Drama) 

Apr.  28 — When  Father  Was  Kidnapped    (Com.) 

Apr.  30— The  Greater  Love   (Oomedy) 

May    2 — The    Ingrate    (Drama) 

May     5 — The    Country    Cousin     (Comedy) 

May    7 — The  Awakening  of  Papita    (Drama)... 
May    9 — Miss    Nobody     (Drama) 

POWERS. 

Apr.  16 — Tbe    Lesson    (Drama) 

Apr.  18 — The  Troubadour  of  tbe  Rancho  (Dr.).. 

Apr.  23 — When    Dolly    Died    (Drama) 

Apr.  25 — The  Sham  Suffragette   (Comedy) 

Apr.  30 — In  a  Strange  Land   (Drama) 

May     2 — Neighbors    (Comedy) 

May    7 — The  Black  Small  Pox   Scare    (Com.).. 
May    9 — Bozo    Arrives     (Comedy) 

PUNCH. 

Mar.     6— Impetuous     Jim     (Oomedy) 

Mar.     •— No    Wadding    Belli    for    Jonas    (Coaa.) 

Mar.  13 — Father    Tamed     (Oomedy) 

Mar.  13 — His    First    Kodak     (Camady) 

PILOT. 
Mar.  20— Till  Death  Do  Us  Part  (2  reels)   (Dr.) 
Mar.  27 — When    Lincoln    was    President     (His 

torlcal-Drama)    

Apr.    S — In  the  Battle's  Smoke  (Drama) 

Apr.  10 — Across  the   Border    (Drama) 

Apr.  17 — Tbe    Promoter    (Drama) 

Apr.  24 — The  Hypnotic  Collector  (Drama) 

May     1— The   Song   of   Songs    (Drama) 

RAMO. 

Mar.  12— Tha   Better    Way    (Drama) 

Mar.  16— Tha    Dividing     Line     (Comedy) 

Mar.  28 — Tha  Grip  of  Jealousy   (Drama) 

April  2— The  Last  Ota  Lady    (Comeay) 

April  2 — Rapid  Transit  in   New  York 

RELIANCE. 
Apr.  18 — Held  for  Ransom    (2  parts.   Drama).. 

Apr.  19— The  She   Wolf   (Drama) 

Apr.  21— The   Hoodoo   Pearls    (Drama) 

Apr.  26— The  Woman-Hater's  Defeat  (Drama).. 
Apr.  30 — The    Bawlerout    (3    parts.    Drama) 

REX. 
Apr.  21 — The   Dragon's   Breath    (2   parts   Dr.).. 

Apr.  27— Tbe  Wayward  Sister   (Drama) 

May     i— The  Turn  of  the  Tide   (Drama) 

Mav     4 — The    Rosary    (Drama) 

May     S— The    Smuggler's    Daughter     (2    parts, 

(Drama) 

May  11— The  Poverty  of  Riches    (Drama) 

BYSO. 

Mar.  17— Memories  of  Long  Ago    (Drama) 

Mar.  24— The  Sea  Waif    (Drama) 

Mar.  81 — Memoriae   of    Long   Ago    (Drama).... 

Apr.     4— Classmates     (Drama)      

Apr.     7— The    Outcast     (Drama) 

Apr.  11— Off    the    Mainland     (Drama) 

SOLAX. 

Apr.  11— His   Son-ln-Law    (Drama) 

Apr.  18 — The  Mystery  of  the  Lost  Cat  (Comedy) 

Apr.  18—  Where  Love  Dwells   (Drama) 

Apr.  23 — His  Wife's  Affinity  (Drama) 

Apr.  25 — A   Severe  Test    (Comedy) 

Apr.  30— The    Silver    Cross     (Drama) 

May    2— A  House  Divided  (Comedy) 

THANH0U8ER. 
Apr.  IB — The  Girl  and  the  Grafter   (Drama)... 

Apr.  18 — Retilbution     (Drama) 

Apr.  20 — The  Children's  Conspiracy    (Drama) . . . 
Apr.  22 — An  American  In   the  Making   (Drama) 

Apr.  25 — For   Another's   Sin    (Drama) 

Apr.  27 — Rosie's     Revenge     (Drama) 

Apr.  29 — The    Girl    Detectives   Ruse    (Drama).. 
May    2 — The   Widow's   Stratagem    (Drama) .... 
VICTOR. 

Apr.  11— Two   Lives    i  Drama) 

Apr.  18 — The  Coward's  Charm    (Drama)    

Apr.  25 — Loneliness  and  Love    (Drama) 

May    2 — The  Unseen  Influence  (Drama) 

May    9 — The    Unknown    (Drama) 


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Present  address  for  short  time 
Crocker  Houss,  New  London,  Conn. 


High-Class 

VaudevilleSketch 

entitled 

"MOTHER  and  SON" 

with 
Strong  Specialties 


EYE  COMFORT 

LIGHTING 

System 

So  necessary  to  the  success  of  ev«ry 
Motion     Picture     Theatre     that     we 
engineer  60  Theatres  a  month. 
This    is    a    free    service    to    fletetiou 
Picture  Theatre  Manage«s. 


Distance  Screen  to  Bear  of  Auditorium 

Celling   Height 

Width  ef  Bonus 

Name  — 

NATIONAL  X-RAY  REFLECTOR  CO, 
Chicago  New  York 

229  W.  Jackson  Blvd.  5°5  *****  Ave- 


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Gundlach  Projection  Lenses 

The  Only  Lentil  Which  Guarantee  Tou  The  Best  Pictures 
The  Only  Lenses  Giving  The  Greatest  Pessible  lllumiaatioi 
The  Oily  Lenses  Exact  in  Fecal  Length  Te  Within  1-180  et  an  Inch 

Therewere  no  high  grade  Lenses  on  the  market  nntU  GUND- 
LACH LENSES  were  made  and  none  now  that  equal  them  In  optical 
quality  and   Illuminating    power. 

Tbe  GUNDLACH  XO.  8  PROJECTION  LENSES  made  the  lose 
throw  possible  and  already  hnndreda  of  theater  owners  hare  takea 
adrantafe  of  this  opportunity  to  Increase  their  theater*  to  length 
and  aeatlac  capacity  adding  to  their  profits  at  the  same  time. 

The  superior  quality  of  GUNDLACH  PROJECTION  LENSES 
Is  recognised  by  the  leading  makers  of  machines  and  they  will  be 
supplied  to  order  In  place  of  the  ordinary  lens  equipment  at  yery 
little  Increase  In   price. 

No  matter  how  well  satisfied  yon  are  with  your  picture  we  ln- 
rtte  yen  to  order  a  GUNDLACH  PROJECTION  LENS  for  trial  to 
see  the  dUrersnoa.  Nearly  all  ear  lenses  are  sold  to  exhibitors 
who  hare  ordinary  lenses,  bat  are  looking  for  something  bettor. 
In  many  cases  a  customer  orders  one  lens  for  trial  and  then 
re-eqoipe  all  bis  machines,  sometimes  the  machines 
of  several  theaters. 


GUNDLACH  PROJECTION  LENSES  are  used 
by  the  Klnemacolor  Company  of  America  because 
they  must  hare  tbe  best. 

Gundlach -Manhattan  Optical  Co. 

808  Clinton  Ave.,  So.,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 


EASTMAN 

motion  picture 
film—the  acknowl- 
edged standard  the 
world  over. 


EASTMAN  KODAK  CO- 
ROCHESTER,  N.  T. 


ANNOUNCEMENT 

THE  FIREPROOF  FILM 
COMPANY  is  prepared 
to  accept  orders  and 
mane  contracts  for  mo- 
tion picture  film  guaran- 
teed to  be  superior  to 
the  best  on  the  market. 

Manufactured  by 

Fireproof  Film  Company 

Rochester,  N.  V. 


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Special  Sale 
FEATURES 

Largest  line  of  used  twoand  three      MfflTAU 
reelers  in  the  country- 
Write  for  List 


PICTURES 


Special  Sale 
CURIOSITIES 

One  Reel  subjects.  Old  Favorites 
ZJU4..3.      Fine  Posters,  condition  perfect 
ftwtork*  Wholesale  in  Lots 


First  class  commercial  service  at  moderate 
prices.  Used  films  for  Bale  at  3,  4  and  5 
Dollars  per  reel.  We  buy,  rent,  sell  or  ex- 
change Machines,  Transformers  or  anything  in 
the    Picture    line. 

CONDOR    FTT.M    EXCHANGE, 
164   Third   Ave.,    Mew   York. 


WHY    SHOW   A 

Jumpy— Flicker*— BUSINESS  KILLING  Picture' 
WHEN  tot;  can 

HAVE   YOUR    MACHINE   FIXED   AS   GOOD   AS 

NEW,    WORK   GUARANTEED 
We  sell  all  makes  of  machines,  new  and  second- 
hand.     Also    machine    parts,     supplies,     tickets 

* carbons,  etc. 

CHICAGO     MOVING     PICTURE     8UPPLT     CO., 
638  S.   Dearborn  St.,  Chicago,    Illinois. 


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Warlc'i  Ut|Mt  Wfn. 


'WURUFZE!*1 


We    have    a    Catalogue    of 

full   line  of   Moving   Picture 

Machine   repair   parts    ready 

to    put  in   your  machine   at 

reduced     prices.      We    make 

them,    and    for    that    reason 

can  sell  them  rery  low.    We 

also    sell    Stereopticona    for 

$12.00;  Calcium  Jets.   $3.00;   100  Carbona,  $2.00:  Oon- 

denaera,  55c:  Are  Lamps,  $2.25;  Stereopiicon  Lenses, 

l  50cj  Slide  Carriers,  25c.;  Moving  Picture  ObjectiTes, 

t75;  Jackets,  $LT5;  Ticket  Holders,  75c;  Eheostats, 
00;  60  Candle  Power  Stereoptioon  Lamps,  75c 
L.  HTEZ,  302  East,23rd  Street,  New  York  City 


Established   ISM 


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LISTEN!      LISTEN! 
Can  you  keep  a  secret? 

book  of  us 
MARION  LEONARD'S 

"DEATH  SECRET" 
One   of    the  strongest    pro- 
ductions   this    best     known 
world's  artist  has  portrayed. 
The  greatest  thrillers  of  to-day.    Write  or  wire  for  bookings 
M.  &  F.  FEATURE  FILM  SERVICE 

167  West  Washington  St.  CHICAGO,  ILL. 

Watch  Our  New  Sensational  Releases 


We   Buy  for   State 
Rights  of  Illinois 

ITALA 
MONOPOL 
APEX 

NEW  YORK  FILM  CO. 
VITASCOPE 

EUROPEAN   FEAT.  FILM  CO. 
AND  OTHERS 


$700  Peerless  Electric  Piano  $250 

Will  sell  a  $700  used  Peerless  Electric  Piano  in  good 
order.    Made  by  Roth  &  Englehart  for  $250. 

Household  Outfitting  Co.,  Evansville,  Ind. 


WnrlltMr  PionOrchestra  and  Mandolin  Sextet  In  Royal  Theatre,  Lima,  0. 

Write    for    32-page     booklet,    showing 

Wurlitzer  Automatic  Musical  Instruments 

in  the  leading  picture  theatres  of  the  country. 
The  Wurlitzer  Instruments  furnish  better  music  than  musicians  and 
reduce  expenses.     50  different  styles;  time  payments;  big  catalog  free. 
If  you  can't  call,  write  to  our  nearest  branch. 


The  Rudolph  Wurlitzer  Company 

CCNOINNATI  NEW  YOKE  O  H  I  O  A  G  O  PHILADELPHIA 
117-121  E.  4th  26-27  W.  32d  829-331  S.  Wabash  1838  Ohettnnt 
sTT.  LOUIS  OLBVBLAND  BUFFALO  LOUISVILLE  COLUkfBUS,  O. 
•12  PIm  9t   800  Huron  Road      T01  Main      426  W.  Greene     57  B.  Main 


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Do  You  Want  One  ?     It's  Free 

Our  special  Picture  Show  Souvenir  and  Premium  catalog 
has  just  come  from  the  press.  It  lists  chil- 
dren's souvenirs  from  45c.  per  gross  up, 
and  special  souvenirs  suitable  for  ladies  at 
all  prices. 

With  each  request  for  one  of  the  catalogs 
we  will  send  you  our  leaflets,  How  to  In- 
crease the  Attendance  at  Picture  Shows, 
and  A  New  Scheme  Which  Will  Increase 
Your  Attendance  at  Absolutely  No  Cost  To 

You  Whatever.    It's  All  Free— A  Postal  Will 

Do — But  Hurry. 

TAKITO,  OGAWA  &  CO. 

156  W.  Lake  St.  CHICAGO,  ILL. 


Make  Your  Lobby 
Display  Attractive 

There  is  nothing  more  fas- 
ctnating  to  the  public  than  a 
brightT>rass  frame  to  display 
your  photos  or  posters. 
We  make  Lobby  and  Theatre 
Fixtures  and  Brass  Rails  of 
every  description. 

Don't  fail  to  visit  our  com- 
plete Show  Booms  at 

101-103     FOTJRTH     AVE., 
NEW  YORK,  N.   Y. 

Write  for  Catalog 

Established  1882. 

The  Newman  Mfg.  Co. 

715-721  Sycamore  St. 
CINCINNATI,  OHIO 


il'I'I.l'. 

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BRASS    BAILING 

BBASS  EASELS 

BRASS  FRAMES 

BRASS   WICKETS 

PUSH  A1TD  KICK 

PLATES 

,      DOOR  GUARD  RAILS     -X«L 

ELECTRIC  SIGNS 

ELECTRIC    LAMPS 

BRASS    LETTERS 

BRASS  SIGNS 

DISPLAY  FIXTTTRES 

PLATING   OF   ALL   KINDS 

BBASS    GRILLES 

BBASS   CASTINGS 

BBASS   FITTINGS 

SPECIAL  BRASS  WORK 

TILE  LETTER    SIGNS 


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E  X  M  I  B  I 


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All  we  have  to  say  is  that  we  control  the  New  York  City  and  State  Rights  to  the  only 
complete  copy  in  America  of  Ambrosio's   $200,000.00  masterpiece. 

SATAN,   or  The  Drama  of  Humanity 

IN   FOTTH   FASTS 

And  what  it  means  for  your  box-office  receipts,  ask  those  who  used  it  and  insist  on 
return  dates.  Realize  that  it  is  the  only  picture  ever  shown  at  the  largest  theater  in 
the  world — the  New  York  Hippodrome — to  capacity  business. 

The  Supreme  Feature  Film  Co.,  Inc.,  64  E.  14th  St.,  New  York 


EXHIBITORS'  HEADQUARTERS 

CALEHUFF  SUPPLY  COMPANY 

(Incorporated) 

80  North  Eighth  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Jobbers  in  Edison.  Powers  and 
Motiograph  Machine*  and  Parts 

Parti  Or*  Uaad 


Madanea  Repaired  by  Eiaert  Meduaies, 
SPECIALTIES 


Eaiaon  TraaafereKn 
ft.  Wayaa  Ceajeeaearea 

"tate  Seetke 


■finer  Screeai 

Caaba 

Tiekete 

Plaaee  Aabeetee  State 

Bio  a  Deetra  Carbeae  Aebeatoa  Wire 
SpecUl  GoudlMk  Sirlteaee 

Lhiw  Plus.  Spotflakti 

CHAS.  A.  CALEHUTF,  Free,  aaa  Ocm.  Mrr 


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Breaea    GtMrtl    DWs- 
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Scenery,  StaaeEtecta 
TWter.  Bvaeat,   Sola. 


FILM  LECTURES 

By  W.  STEPHEN  BUSH 

Hew  to  Put  Oa  tha  Passion  Play  (Pathe  Frcres' 

World  Rasowacd  Production)  ...Sun 

How  to   Pat   Oa  "Tha   Crusaders,   or   Jaraaalaaa 

DaHTorad*  (World*!  Beat  Film  Co.) urn 

Key  aad  Ceeaplste  Loetore  for  "Danta'a  Iaferao" 

(MSaao  FUm  Co.;  Fhra  RmU) , fcaa 

"Ufa  of  IfeW  (Vltafraph  Fhre-Beel) J« 

tS-oo  par  Haadrad  to  Excaaafce  for  This  Oa*. 
Copyrighted  aad  For  Sale  Oaly  »y 

CM *L MORS   PUBLISHING   CO. 
BOX  ate  MADISON  SQWARK  "1  O.  a.  T.  CITY 


How  about  VENTILATING  your  theatre  ? 

Our  system  of  single  heat  transmission,  the  most  economical  in  first  cost  and  operation.    We  manufacture  and 

install  complete  heating  and  ventilating  equipments  in  accordance  to  the  most  rigid  ventilating  laws. 

B.  F.  REYNOLDS  &  CO.  412-414  Dearborn  Ave.,  CHICAGO,  ILL. 


G.  W.  BRADENBURGH 

Pioneer  off  Features  Renting  Service 

Gay  St,  Balto.,  Md.,  A.  Ganx,  Mgr.;  «33  N.  8th  St,  Phlla.; 
Real  Estate  Bldg,  Scrantoo,  PsL,  G.  B.  Rockwell,  Mgr. 

SPECIALIST 

DEALER   and 

IMPORTER 

Buyer   oa    Moderate    Commission    for    the    American 
Market  Office  Show  Copiea  of  Long  Modern 

FEATURE  FILMS  ftK*o/iR& 

Large  atack  af  new  an4  Soeana  Haas  Claa  ready  far  immeaUte 
abisaieat.     Write  far  Hata  from  »j  •»  ear  reel  aad  aewaraa,  wish 


FILM 


American  Moving  Picture  Machine  Co. 


aLAirr/TAonraxia  or  txx 


STANDARD 


Automatic  Moving  Picture  Machine 


101-102  Beekman  Street 


New  York 


Is    Your    TTr.a3.a-tr* 


In 


Idaho,  Montana,  Nevada,  Utah,  Arizona,  New  Mexico,  Colorado,  Wyoming,  Oklahoma,   Nebraska,  Iowa,   Minnesota, 
Arkansas,  Louisiana,  North  or  South  Dakota?   We  have  the  exclusive  rights  for 

HELEN  GARDNER  in  CLEOPATRA 

The  greatest  Motion  Picture  ever  made.  Played  Melbourne  Theatre,  Seattle,  Wash.,  ten  days  to  40,000  people  at 
25  cents:  People's  Theatre,  Portland,  Ore.,  one  week  to  3S,ooo  at  25  to  50  cents;  Paris  Theatre,  Deliver,  Col.,  three 
days  to  27,284  and  return  date,  April  22,  23  and  24.     Now  playing  the  State  of  Colorado. 

Exhibitors  desiring  this  feature  write  to 


CLEOPATRA  FILM  CO. 


1835  Broadway,  Seattle,  Wash. 


We  will  pay  $50.00  reward  for  information  of  any  one  attempting  to  play  any  of  our  territory. 

for  any  loss  to  us.    Wire  us  at  Seattle,  Wash. 


Will  hold  all  parties 


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MASS 
RAILINGS 

EASELS 

GRILLES 
CUSPIDORS 

KICK 

PLATES 

POSTER 

FRAMES     <g|^ 


for 

Catalog 


liKenna  Bros.  Brats  6s. 

PITTSBURGH 


We  buy  and  tefl  Secand  Hand  Fins 
and  Moving  Picture  Machines 

WESTERN  FILM  BROKERS 

638  S,  Dearborn   Street  CaaaMSi  ni. 


GEORGE     Ml.     ADAMS 

FEATURE  LECTURER 

Address,  c/o  Song  Slide  Service, 
12  Union  Square,  New  York  City. 


America's  Feature  Film  Co. 

406-7-8  Schiller  Building,  Chicago,  111. 


Illinois 


Ixhibito  rs 


CLEOPATRA    with    HELEN    GARDNER 

The  hit  of  the  season.  Don't  fail  to 
book  AMBROSIO'S  "CHILD  LABOR 
TRAFFIC."  For  genuine  features 
address 

Northern   Feature   Film    Exchange 
405   Schiller   Bldg.,   Chicago. 

Columbia  Theatre  Varnish 

Dries  in  Three  Hours. 
This  Varnish  is  made  especially  for  the  Theater 
Trade.  Apply  in  morning,  theater  ready  for  use 
in  afternoon.  May  be  applied  with  brush  or  a 
piece  of  cheese  cloth.  This  is  no  polish,  but  a 
high  grade  Varnish.  One  gallon  will  be  furnished 
you   on    receipt  of  $2.50. 

COLUMBIA    PAINT    &    VARNISH    CO., 
Cleveland,    0. 


Headquarters  for 

ASBESTOS 

CURTAINS  and  PICTURE  BOOTHS 
f£*     C.  W.  Trainer  Mfg.  Co. 

Booklet    39  Pearl  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 


Small  Moving  Picture  Camera  complete,  with 
Voclander  lens,  four  120-feet  magazines  and  tripod 
for  $90.  Will  ship  for  10%  with  order  and  balance 
C.  O.  D.,  with  privilege  of  examination  to  your  own 
satisfaction 

SPECIAL  EVENT  FILM  COMPANY,    INC.. 
248  West  35th  Street.  New  York, 


THE   SIMPSON   SOLAR  SCREEN 

The  only  Metallic  Screen  without 

stnrna,    patented.      Buy    the    tool 

thing.     Beware  of  imitations 

ALFRED  L.  SIMPSON.  Inc. 

Ho.  1X3  W.  132nd  St,  N.  Y.  Ghy 


Gives  Satisfaction 

Our  Developing  Tank  System 
A.  J.  CORCORAN,  Inc. 

11  John  Street  New  York 


POWERS-SIMPLEX 
M0TI0GRAPH  and 
EDISON  MACHINES 

On  time  payments  or  cash.  We 
have  used  equipments  and  mech- 
anisms in  good  repair.  Let  us 
know  kind  of  outfit  you  are  in- 
terested in.  Carbons,  tickets  and 
all  kinds  of  supplies  for  the 
Moving  Picture  Theatre. 

Amusement  Supply  Co. 

160-A  No.  Fifth  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 


PERFECTft 
CALCIUM  LIGHT  \a# 

Pleases  Patrons,  Exhibitor  &  Operator 


Electricity's  Rival 

Perfecto 

users  are 

assured  of  a  steady, 

brilliant  light.   Not  even 

an  occasional  flicker — so 

near  an  electrical  effect  as  to 

deceive  a  practical   electri- 

_    cian.    Ask  Perfecto  users. 

It  has  no  intricate  parts  to  get  out  of 

order    It  is  constructed  strong  and  sim. 

ply— it  generates  its  own  gas  as  needed— 

Producing  Maximum  Light 
at  a  Minimum  Cost 

PebpectO  is  30-in.  high  and  its  weight 
does  not  exceed  15  pounds.  This  outfit  is 
absolutely  reliable;  easily  hand-  .ab* 
led.  safe  and  non- explosive.  */«. 
Price  complete  with  burner,     *■■«]*▼ 

Write  for  particulars. 
CAPITAL  MERCHANDISE  CO. 
438  S.  Dearborn  St..        Chicago,  III. 


Exhibitors'  Business  Booster 

We  have  solved  the  problem.  Fine  pictures  of  the 
players  that  appear  on  your  screen,  $1.00  per 
hundred  on  cardboard  mount,  size  7  x  10  (any 
player).  No  order  for  less  than  500.  Cash  with 
order.  These  are  very  fine  reproductions.  Please 
don't  confuse  them  with  cheap  poet  cards.  These 
pictures  will  please  your  patrons  and  help  to  bold 
their  patronage- 

«=»s-io-ro    ART    CO., 

Room  40,   166  No.   State  St.,   Chicago,  SI. 


Orchestra  Music 

FOR 

MOVING  PICTURES 

Violin,  Cornet  and  Brum  parts  hars 
been  added  to  the  popular  "Orphsasaa 
Collection"  of  piano  music  (dramatic 
and  descriptive)  for  Moving  Picture*. 
Practical  for  piano  alone  or  any  n am- 
ber of  above  instruments.  Issued  ta 
two  parts:  No.  I  and  No.  2. 

Piano,  58  cents  each;  both  No.'i  $1.15 
Violin,  40  cents  each;  both  "  7%e 
Cornet,  35  cents  each;  both  "  ije 
Drums,  30  cents  each;  both  "  55* 
Send  for  free  sample  pages. 

CLARENCE  E.  SINN 

IStt  Stdgwick  St.,  Chicago,  IB. 


AMERICAN 
MOTION  PICTURE 
CAMERAS 

are  acknowledged  by  the  leading 
expert  film  producers  to  be  the 
finest  and  most  accurate  Cameras 
in  the  world. 

We  also  manufacture  a  complete 
line  of  Studio  and  Bark  Room 
Equipment 

Send  for  Catalogue* 

AMERICAN  CINEMATOGRAPH  CO. 

61 7431  W ,  JACKSON  BLVD.  CMICMO.  ILL. 


Incandescent  Lamps  for 

THEATRES  -  PARKS  -  SHOWS 

Buy    direct    from    manufacturers.     Reduced    Prices. 
800    Hours — Clear    or    Colored,    80. 
600     Hours — Clear     or     Colored     60. 

GUARANTEED. 

SAFETY  ELECTRIC  CO. 

342  N.  Michigan  Ave.,  CHICAGO 


ELECTRIC   EXHAUST   FANS 

Tweaty-four-lnch,  SSS.  Thirty-inch,  1110. 
Also  soma  oscillating  twalYs-laah  fus,  S1I.TI 
•son.  All  General  Eleotrlo  msi(  uU  fat  altor- 
nattna-    ourrsat.     1    phase,    SS    eycls,    US    rait. 

GEORGE  BENDER 
82  Contra  Stmt  Naw  York  City 


Moving  Picture  Cameras  for  sale  cheap. 
Local  Pictures  Made.  We  rent  cameras 
and  cameramen. 

SPECIAL  EVENT  FILM  MFRS.,  Inc. 
248  W.  35th  Street  Naw  York  City 


Theatres  and  Hippodromes 

FOR  SALE  OR  RENT  IN  CHICAGO 
Moving  picture  or  vaudeville.  New,  specialty 
constructed.  Seating  capacity,  300-2,500.  Reas- 
onable rents,  which  include  a  magnificent 
Schuelke  Pipe  Organ  with  Vox  Humana  and  Oa- 
thedral  Chimes.  Correspondence  solicited. 
T.  D.  HUME  tc  CO.,  Exclusive  Representatives, 
Suite  711,   608  S.    Dearborn  St.,   Obioaco,   111. 


BARGAINS!    WILL  SACRIFICE  FEATURES. 

2  Reels  ROMANCE  OF  A  CIRCUS  GIRL $7(5.00 

2  Reels   ART   &   INNOCENCE 80.00 

2  Reels  FOR  ANOTHER'S  CRIME 75.00 

All    PERFECT    CONDITION. 
G.  C.  CALLERHAN,  2443  Wabash  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 


"FOTOPLAYER" 

the  instrument  that  supplies 
MUSIC     FOR     THE     PICTURES 

The  American  Photo  Player  Sales  Co. 
130   Kearny   St.,   San   Francisco.   Cal. 


Junior  Professional  Camera 

tad  rilm  Matin*-  Outfit,  simplest  method,  nose 
•attar.  Warld's  greatest  productions  made  wltt 
this    camera.      Expert    advice    and    guarantee. 


Tripods,  Tilts,   Printers,  Perforators,  Raw  Film, 
fiansaa,  Developing  dona,  whole  building  to  the 
business.     Write  for  catalogue. 
Xtorhars    faoaaalder,    SIS    Second    Avs.,    N.    T. 


■Softens  old,  brittle 
films  in  one  night 
Keeps  new  films 
pliable. 

Price  $1.00 


National  Waterproof  Film  Co. 

42B0-4202   W.   Adams  St.,   Chicago,   111. 


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It  pay  to  discriminate  when  you  buy 

THEATRE  SEATING 

HID  IT  C  TnniV    tor  Cat   V2  (Moving  Picture  Chairs) 

lllf  lit    IUUAI    and    Cat.    V3    (Upholstered    Chairs) 

Bend  Floor  Sketch  (or  Free  Seating  Plan. 

Widest  range  of  styles  and  prlcea.     Large  stocks. 

American   Seating   Company 

218  S.  Wabash  Ave.,  CHIQAGO.    15  E.  ttnd  St.,  NEW  YOKE 


\a/e:    buy 

Used  M.  P.  Machines  and  sell,  new 
Machines  of  all  makes.  Full  Line  of 
Supplies. 

X-L  FEATURE  FILM  SERVICE   CO. 
103  So.  Main  Street,  Mason  City,    Iowa 


MOVING  PIGTUREKAGHIHES 

aHa*M»tJ**sta.  Slid**.  Awilirin 

CHAS.M.STEBBINS 

lOa*  Mala  ■«. 
KANSAS  CITT,  MO 

Large  Llae  •(  MtoM  Oooai 
■.tabti»k«d  UBS 


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which  lasted  three  days,  and  which  is  faithfully  reproduced. 
Thousands  of  soldiers  are  seen  engaged  in  a  whirlwind  combat, 
with  charges  and  artillery  fire.  Fighting  with  desperate  fury, 
the  Southern  troops  fought  superior  numbers  with  amaz- 
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Hon  in  Five  Reels 


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to  Gen.  Pickett  to  charge,  and  the  brave  soldiers  followed 
their  leader  through  a  murderous  rifle  fire  and  a  fierce  can= 
nonading,  nor  did  they  stop  until  most  of  their  numbers  were 
stretched  lifeless  upon  the  field.  This  is  the  most  heroic  and 
sensational  incident  in  the  war  history  of  the  world,  and 
is  shown  in  the  film  in  all  detail. 


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THIS  IS  NOT  A  PIKER'S  PROPOSITION 

We  are  not  in  a  position  to  consider  small  offers.     The  production  calls    for    large 
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THIS  PICTURE  WILL  BREAK  ALL  RECORDS 
As  a  production  of  magnitude  and  superb  rendition  it  has 
already  broken  two  records.  The  next  record  it  breaks  will 
be  that  of  paid  admissions.  The  wise  state  right  buyer  will  dis- 
count the  pessimistic  theories  of  men  who  have  bought  state  right 
"lemons"  on  the  get-rich-quick  plan.  This  is  a  real  feature  for 
real  showmen.     If  you    know  your  business,  here   is  your  chance. 


WE  are  not  offering  you  a  lot  of  warmed  over  thrills  for 
the  mere  sake  of  marketing  a  feature.  The  story 
is  not  made  to  order.  It  is  known  wherever  books  are 
read.  We  are  advertising  the  pictured  version  of  a  literary 
classic,  following  the  text  of  the  story  absolutely,  with  cultured 
intelligence,  and  enacted  by  the  most  capable  actors  of  the 
French  stage.  Our  big  circular  will  stand  the  test  of  a  school- 
room reading.  It  contains  a  couple  of  good  lessons  in  itself, 
and  we  guarantee  that  any  one  who  gets  and  reads  it  will 
never  be  content  until  he  has  seen  the  picture ;  not  to  mention 
the  drawing  power  of  our  excellent  line  of  special  posters. 


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SCENE    FROM    "ANGEL    OF    THE    CANYONS" 

MOST  COMPANIES    GIVE  YOU  A  "GRAYISH" 
POSITIVE  BECAUSE  IT'S  EASIER  AND  CHEAPER 

American  Pictures  Are  Always   Brilliant    "Contrasty"    With    An  Abundance  of  "Blacks  and 
Whites"— That's  What  You  Call   "Good   Photography."     It's  Harder  to  Print  and  Develop  a 
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All    Unite    in    Praise    of    American   Photography— Pick    Up— Just  at  Random— Any    Journal 
Devoted  to  Film  Criticism  and  You  Will  See— 

"Boobs  and  Bricks"  (American),  April  21 — A  small  town  story,  etc. — the  photography  is  very  good  in- 
deed, etc M.  P.  World,  April  19. 

"Matches"   (American),  April  3 — Amid  most  entrancing  settings,  etc. — Photography  is  superb,  etc 

Dramatic  Mirror,  April  9. 


"The  Lesson"  (American),  March  20. — Good  pictures  and  pleasing,  etc . . 


.  M.  P.  World,  March  22. 


"Lonesome  Joe"  (American),  March  27 — Charming  settings  and  splendid  photography 

M.  P.  News,  March  22. 

"ANGEL     OF     THE     CANYONS"  (Release  Monday,  May  12) 

He  loved  art  and  the  girl,  too — but  the  girl  loved  only  him  and  looked  upon  his  art  as  a  rival.  Then 
came  the  angel  and  after  that  discord  and  then  a  blissful  harmony. 

"THE     KISS"  (Release  Thursday,  May  15) 

The  old  trapper  told  his  daughter  that  a  kiss  was  poison.  When  the  young  city  man  kissed  her  inno- 
cently and  impulsively,  she  sought  in  poisoned  berries  an  antidote  for  the  poisoned  kisses.  An  unusual 
and  striking  Western. 

"THE     GREAT     HARMONY"  (Release  Saturday,  May  17) 

The  church  committee  told  old  Von  Berlitz  he  was  too  antiquated  to  further  render  service  on  the 
great  pipe  organ.  His  youthful  successor  smoothed  the  way,  brought  fortune  to  Von  Berlitz  and  added 
himself  to  the  family.  A  splendid  offering. 

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Slave's  Devotion 

2  Reels,  May  14 

An  episode  of  the   Civil 

War,  in  which  a  slave 

heroically  lays  down 

his   life   to   save 

his  master  from 

capture. 


In  financial  difficulties,  Trent 
sells  his  slave,  Jim,  to  Beal.  The 
latter  later  is  about  to  ruin  Trent 
and  Jim  tries  to  save  his  old 
master  by  destroying  the  notes. 
He  escapes,  pursued  by  blood- 
hounds, and  attaches  himself  to 
Capt.  Craig,  the  sweetheart  of 
Edith  Trent.  Several  years  later 
Jim  saves  Craig's  life  by  donning 
Craig's  uniform  and  drawing  the 
attention  of  soldiers  who  are  pur- 
suing Craig.  The  negro  meets  his 
death, after  a  sensational  pursuit. 

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Mabel's  Awful 
Mistake 

May  12 

Mabel  is  tied  in  front  of  the  big  saw- 
in  the  mill  by  a  revengeful  suitor.  Her 
sweetheart  rescues  her  after  a  series  of 
intensely  melodramatic  and  humorous  in- 
cidents. While  the  police  are  hurrying  to 
the  scene,  meeting  all  sorts  of  mishaps, 
the  lover  holds  back  the  big  fly  wheel. 


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Their  First  Execution 

May  15 

The  inconsiderate  victim  escapes  on 
the  day  set  for  his  execution.  The  sleuth 
gives  chase,  disguised  as  a  convict,  and  is 
captured  by  the  guards  who  decide  to 
execute  him  in  order  not  to  disappoint 
the  waiting  crowd.  The  sleuth  resists 
the  electricity,  and  is  having  a  strenuous 
time  when  the  proper  victim  is  caught 
and  brought  to  the  prison, 


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"For  Love  of  the 
Flag" 

2  Reels,  May  16 

A  sensational  Western  dramatic 

military  subject  showing  how 

a  soldier  sacrificed  the  life 

of    the  girl  he   loved  for 

the  flag  of  his  counfry. 


Unjustly  driven  from  his 
post,  the  young  lieutenant  keeps 
his  oath  of  allegiance  to  the 
flag  by  saving  his  persecutors. 
Suspecting  treachery  when  he 
leads  the  Indians  into  an  am- 
bush, the  chief  forces  him  to 
take  his  sweetheart  with  him, 
and  she  is  killed  by  the  bullets 
of  the  soldiers. 


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IN  the  show  business,  the  percentage  of  "chance"  is  greater  than  in  any  other  busi- 
ness.    Experience  has  taught  that  the  showman  who  has  been  willing  to  speculate 
three  dollars  on  the  chance  that  it  will  bring  back  three-fifty  is  the  showman  who 
to-day  is  on  top.    On  the  other  hand,  the  day  of  the  "100  to  1"  chance  is  gone. 

It  is  understood — it  is  almost  an  axiom  that  "you've  got  to  spend  money  in  order 
to  make  money."  Xo  one  appreciates  this  more  than  theatrical  and  moving  picture 
producers.  In  the  moving  picture  business,  a  manufacturer  can,  for  a  short  period,  get 
away  with  "piker"  productions  if  he  is  backed  by  a  strong  distributing  or  exchange 
corporation.  But  it  isn't  long  before  the  exhibitor  "gets  wise"  and  then  down  the 
toboggan  goes  the  reputation  of  the  "piker  producer."  and  his  "piker"  brand,  and  the 
exchange  handling  it.     Once  down  it  is  difficult  to  rise  again. 

The  same  conditions  that  govern  productions,  govern  exhibition.  The  showman 
who  gets  into  the  habit  of  giving  a  "piker  show"  composed  of  "piker  productions" 
attracts,  if  at  all,  piker  patrons.  The  slogan  of  the  real  showman  is  "Give  the  public 
its  money's  worth"  and  not  "Give  it  as  little  for  its  money  as  possible."  The  trouble 
to-day  is  that  too  many  go  into  the  show  business  with  an  idea  of  getting-rich-quick. 
The  stigma  these  few  leave  behind  after  they  are  gone  makes  it  all  the  more  difficult 
for  showmen  who  are  in  the  business  to  stay. 

"You  have  got  to  spend  money  in  order  to  make  money."  Some  exhibitors  scratch 
their  heads  often  and  wonder  why  they  are  not  making  as  much  as  their  competitors. 
They  cannot  understand  why  persons  will  pass  their  theatres  and  pay  to  enter  the 
theatre  on  the  next  block.  This  problem  can  be  solved  without  scratching  the  head. 
The  answer  is  self-evident.  It  means  that  his  competitor  is  a  better  showman  than  he 
is.     It  is  a  question  of  delivering  the  goods,  giving  the  public  its  money's  worth. 

Because  of  the  keen  competition  among  manufacturers  and  exchanges,  exhibitors 
to-day  are  more  powerful  than  they  ever  were.  They  can  get  what  they  want.  The 
opportunities  are  really  unlimited.  Besides  regular  service  they  can  get,  if  they  have 
the  enterprise,  two  or  three  features  a  week  with  which  to  bolster  up  their  "slow" 
nights.  The  feature  exchange  to-day  is  as  well  established  as  the  regular  exchange. 
The  general  tendency,  the  general  demand  is  for  three-reel  features.  One  subject  for 
an  entire  evening's  entertainment  is  in  greater  demand  than  anything  else.  Why  waste 
opportunity?  The  service  of  a  feature  may  cost  a  few  dollars  extra — Remember  the 
slogan  of  all  successful  showmen  is  "Spend  money  to  make  money." 

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Have  you   ever  lived   in  a   small   country  town?     Do  you   remember  the   sewing-   circle,    the   spell-down, 
the  church   bazar,   and  the  events  of  that  picturesque  community?      Don't  you  often  recall    the  village   school 
teacher,    the   squire,   the  redoubtable  constable  and  other  small  town  types? 

Let  your  audience  live  those  days  again — enjoy   once  more   the    humor    of    those    quaint     characters    and     the     memories    of 
yesterday.  1   . 

Be  Sure  and  Book  Hoyt's  Rural  Riot 

"A    MIDNIGHT    BELL" 

In   Two  Uproarious  Reels.     Special  Release  for  May  Sth. 


The    Week's     Best    Bookings 


May  12th 

THE  POST-IMPRESSIONISTS 

Something-  is   Nothing'. 

A  farctcial  satire  on  the  recent  Cubist  art  fad.     Timely   and 
laughable. 

May  13th 

LIEUTENANT  JONES 

iry  of  military  life  at  a  southwestern   post.     Dramatic. 
May  14th 

BUCK  RICHARDS*  BRIDE 

The   story   of   a    western    ranch    bachelor's    regeneration.     In* 
eluding  both  pathos  and   humor. 


May  25th 

IN  THE  LONG  AGO 

A  dramatic  tale  of  reincarnation  and  prehistoric  life.     Based 
upon  recent  scientific  discovery.     A  feature. 

May  16th 

A  DAUGHTER  of  the  CONFEDERACY 

The  dramatic  story  of  a   heroic  Southern  girl.     On  same  reel 

WITH  the  STUDENTS  of  the  NORTH 
DAKOTA  AGRICULTURAL  COLLEGE 

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General  Film  Service  Special  Features 


Four  a  week.     Released  on  Monday,  Wednesday,  Friday 
and   Saturday,   in   regular   service   at  no   extra    charge 


Saturday,  May  10th,  1913 

"A  Girl  Spy  in  Mexico" 

Lubin.     2  Reels 

A  charming  senorita  fearlessly  faces  the  punish- 
ment meted  out  to  spies,  to  be  near  her  lieutenant 
lover.  Her  thrilling  experiences  and  hair-breadth 
escapes  furnish  the  action  in  this  film,  which  was 
photographed  in  the  beautiful  country  along  the 
Mexican  border. 

Monday,  May  12th,  1913 

"The  Japanese  Dagger" 

Eclipse-Kleine.     Two  Reels 

"Never  must  I  leave  this  country;  evil  will  befall 
anyone  who  carries  me  away,"  reads  the  inscription 
on  the  curious  dagger  that  a  naval  officer  buys.  He 
laughs  at  the  warning,  but  strangely  enough  the 
knife  eventually  finds  its  way  to  the  heart  of  the 
girl  whom  he  was  to  marry. 


Wednesday,  May  14th,  1913 

"Her  Masked  Beauty 

Patheplay.     2  Reels 


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A  pretty  governess  loses  several  positions  because 
of  her  attractiveness  and  decides  to  make  herself  as 
unbecoming  as  possible.  An  altogether  worthy 
young  chap  looks  through  the  disguise  and  finds  in 
her  the  woman  of  his  choice.  A  plain  but  effective 
story  with  a  pretty  climax. 

Friday,  May  16th,  1913 

The  Vampire  of  the  Desert" 

Vitagraph.     Two  Reels 

An  allegory — a  distinct  novelty  in  motion  pictures. 
A  dramatic  adaptation  of  Kipling's  well-known 
poem,  "The  Vampire."  Produced  by  an  all-star 
cast  headed  by  HELEN  GARDNER,  and  including 
Flora  Finch  and  Teflft  Johnson.  Unquestionably 
one  of  the   strongest  feature  offerings  of  the  year. 


Saturday,  May  17th 

"The  Battle  for  Freedom" 

Kalem  war  drama  in  two 
reels,  based  on  an  actual 
battle    in    the    Boer    War. 


Monday,  May  19th 

"Into  the  North" 

Essanay  drama  in  two 
reels.  A  story  of  the 
Northwest  Mounted 
Police. 


Wednesday.  May  21  it 

"The  District  Attorney's 
Conscience" 

Lubin  drama  in  two  reels. 
Arthur  Johnson  as  the 
District  Attorney. 


Friday,  May  23rd 

"The  Open  Secret" 

Patheplay  in  two  reels.  A 
comedy-drama  full  of  hu- 
man interest. 


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General   Film    Service   Single   Reels 

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are  without  a  near  rival  in  the  industry,  General  Film  Ser- 
vice offers  the  biggest,  most  varied  and  strongest  program 
of  single  reel  features  it  is  possible  to  produce.  When  one 
considers  the  strength  and  scope  of  the  organization  through 
which  these  films  are  served,  it  seems  almost  incredible  that 
there  should  be  any  exhibitors  who  are  retarding  their 
progress  towards  the  goal  of  success  by  using  something 
advertised  to  be  "just  as  good." 

This  Little  Book  Was  Printed  for  You 

It  tells  briefly  of  the  features  that  have  contributed  so 
largely  to  the  success  of  General  Film  service.  Every 
statement  in  it  is  true,  and  is  made  subject  to  proof  by 
any  General  Film  office.  Write  for  your  copy  today.  A 
postal  reading  "Send  the  book,"  will  be  sufficient.  Or 
write  direct  to  any  of  our  distributing  offices  in  the 
principal  cities. 

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BEAUTY 


TWO    REEL    PATHEPLAY 
RELEASED  WEDNESDAY,  MAY  14th 


The  life  of  a  beautiful  girl  whose  marvelous  beauty  bars 
all  avenues  to  success  but  those  she  does  not  dare  to 
travel,  so  masking  her  beauty  ingeniously  she  succeeds 
in  winning  for  herself  a  place  to  work  and  the  sin- 
cere  admiration   and   love   of  the   man   of   her   dreams. 

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COMING  EDISON  FILMS 


THE  GOLDEN  WEDDING 

Reverie    (975)    Released  Friday,   Hay   9,    1913. 

Dozing  before  the  fireplace  on  their  golden  wedding 
night,  an  old  couple  see  the  vision  of  their  life  together 
from  childhood — school-days,  courtship,  marriage  and 
then  the  cruel  Civil  War.  He  is  wounded — her  tin- 
type saves  his  life — and  then  sent  home  where  happi- 
ness once  more  reigns. 

AN  ACCIDENTAL  ALIBI 

Drama  (1000)  Released  Saturday,  Hay  10,  1913. 
Convicted  of  murder  on  circumstantial  evidence  which 
seems  strong,  a  young  man  is  saved  by  his  sweetheart 
who  sees  him  in  a  moving  picture  which  is  proven  to 
have  been  taken  in  New  York  on  the  day  of  the  sup- 
posed murder.     The  film  is  projected  in  court. 

THE  HEART  OF  VALESKA 

Drama  (1000)  Released  Monday.  May  12,  1913. 
Valeska,  the  daughter  of  a  poor  Russian  cobbler,  is 
driven  by  poverty  and  the  illness  of  her  mother  to  of- 
fering herself  for  sale  at  public  auction.  A  nobleman 
previously  attracted  by  her,  buys  her  and  after  hearing 
her  story,  falls  deeply  in  love  with  her  and  weds  her. 

THE  PROPHECY 

Drama  (1000)  Released  Tuesday,  May  13,  1913. 
Having  been  warned  to  beware  of  a  woman  in  black, 
a  young  man  falls  desperately  in  love  with  the  Countess 
Morowsky  and  nearly  breaks  his  fiancee's  heart.  At 
the  girl's  request  the  countess  leaves  the  house-party, 
but  Dick  pursues  her,  only  to  prove  himself  a  cad. 

THE  TWO   MERCHANTS 

Drama.  (1000)  Released  Wednesday,  Hay  14,  1913. 
Two  rival  merchants  in  a  small  town  hate  each  other 
like  poison.  The  kind  act  of  one  in  helping  the  other's 
daughter  brings  on  a  hand-to-hand  encounter,  but  they 
realize  their  folly  and  unite  to  fight  the  invasion  of  a 
new  store. 


JOHN  MANLY'S  AWAKENING 

Drama  (1000)  Released  Friday,  Hay  16,  1913. 
Refused  by  the  girl  he  loved,  a  man  shuns  feminine 
society  until  the  death  of  an  old  friend  forces  him  to 
become  the  guardian  of  a  delightful  young  girl.  Then 
he  realizes  that  a  new  happiness  is  his  and  that  the  old 
love  is  forgotten. 

A  CONCERTO   FOR  THE  VIOLIN 

Drama  (1020)  Released  Saturday,  May  17,  1913. 
A  selfish,  temperamental  composer  is  blind  to  the 
wonderful  ability  of  his  self-sacrificing  wife.  His  new 
concerto  is  to  be  played  by  a  great  Russian  violinist, 
with  whom  he  falls  in  love.  A  quarrel  between  them 
results  in  the  wife's  triumphantly  playing  the  concerto 
at  the  recital. 

BY  MUTUAL  AGREEMENT 

Sentimental  Comedy  (1000)  Released  Monday,  May  19,   1913. 

A  fat,  good-natured  man,  after  having  been  bullied 
for  years  by  an  energetic  wife,  finally  asserts  himself. 
There  is  nothing  to  do  but  get  divorced.  Their  lawyer 
suggests  a  separation  and  he  goes  to  the  city  to  enjoy 
his  freedom,  but  soon  comes  back  and  is  warmly  wel- 
comed. 

THE  GOOD  IN  THE  WORST  OF  US 

Drama    (1000)    Released   Tuesday,   May   20,    1913. 

Two  criminals,  hiding  from  the  Northwest  mounted 
police,  are  found  by  the  sergeant's  baby  girl.  They 
hide  in  a  barn  with  her;  one  is  wounded  trying  to  get 
food,  and  the  other  bravely  carries  her  to  her  father 
and  gives  himself  up,  to  save  her  from  starving. 

GLIMPSES  OF  COLORADO  IN  WINTER 

Scenic  (315)   Released  Wednesday,  May  21,  1913. 

BRAGG'S  NEW  SUIT 

Comedy  (685)  Released  Wednesday,  May  21,  1913. 
The  modest  one  is  pushed  into  a  ditch  by  an  Irish 
laborer  and  ruins  his  clothes.  The  Irishman  loans  him 
his  best  suit  and  Bragg  tells  the  boys  at  the  club  a  ro- 
mantic story  about  the  new  suit,  but  the  real  owner 
spoils  it  all. 


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A  Dramatic   Sea  Coast  Story 

Dick  Mathews,  a  city  man,  goes  to  the  Sea  Coast 
for  vacation  and  hires  a  boat  from  the  Light  Keeper 
for  daily  exercise.  He  meets  Oily  Olson,  the  light- 
house keeper's  daughter,  and  they  fall  in  love.  Joe 
Crane,  a  fisherman,  also  loves  Oily  and,  to  get  rid  of 
his  rival  one  day,  saws  the  oars  half  way  through,  so 
that  they  will  snap  when  out  in  rough  water.  Next 
morning  Oily  takes  the  boat  out  for  a  joke,  the  oars 
snap  and  she  is  in  peril.  The  three  men  take  boats  to 
rescue  her.  She  is  saved  by  Dick,  but  the  body  of  Joe 
is  washed  ashore  dead. 


A  scene  from  "THE  JUDGMENT  OF  THE  DEEP" 


"SHE  MUST  BE  UGLY"  4oofeet 

She  tried  to  be,  but  the  boss  caught  her. 


"HATTIE'S  NEW  HAT"  ecofeet 

And  it  drove  her  husband  crazy. 


Thursday,  May  8th 
Thursday,  May  8th 


"A  MOCK  MARRIAGE"  1000  feet 

But  a  real  minister  is  finally  employed. 


Friday,  May  9th 


"THE  PAYMASTER" 


1000  feet 

Excellent  Western  melodrama. 


Saturday,  May  10th 


"LUCKY  COHEN" 


400  feet 

The  experience  of  a  lucky  peddler. 


"A  TEN  ACRE  GOLD  BRICK"  eoofeet 

The  tricky  Real  Estate  man  is  beaten. 

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Monday,  May  5th 

He  fixes  it,  gets  in  a  pretty  fix  himself,   and  has  a  hard  time  getting  things  to  run 
smoothly  again.     James  Lackaye  and  Flora  Finch  make  a  funny  pair. 


"OMENS  AND  ORACLES" 


Comedy 


Tuesday,  May~6th 


Belinda  and  Ophelia,  in  another  of  the  Belinda  series,  pin  their  faith  on  a  fortune  teller, 
who  leads  them  into  a  serious  and  funny  mistake. 

"DISCIPLINING    DAISY"  1    Command  Wednesday 

"QUEBEC  POLICE"        J    Topical  May  7th 

i.  Daisy  in  her  borrowed  finery  learns  a  lesson  that  prompts  her  to  forswear  forever 
the  borrowing  habit.    2.  A  topical  review  of  Canada's  finest. 

"THE    WRATH     OF     OSAKA"       Japanese  Drama       Thursday,  May  8th 

Miro,  a  beautiful  Japanese  maiden,  held  in  bondage  by  a  rich  profligate,  is  rescued  by 
Osaka.     The  scenes  are  laid  and  taken  in  Japan.     Maurice  Costello  appears  as  Osaka. 


Friday,  May  9th 


"CUPID'S  HIRED  MAN"  g~* 

He  hurries  things  along  and  materially  helps  Cupid  in  bringing  about  a  very  happy 
match,  with  John  Bunny  and  Flora  Finch  as  the  two  most  concerned. 

"THE    SEA    MAIDEN"  Comedy-Drama  Saturday,  May  M)th 

A  jealous  woman  involves  the  "Sea-Maiden"  in  a  conspiracy,  which  leads  to  her  own 
overthrow.     Mary  Charleson  and  Edwin  August  are  features  in  this  beautiful  picture. 


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"THE  GRAND  CANYON" 
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"HORATIO  SPARKINS" 
From  Charles  Dickens 

Tuesday,  May  13th 

"TWO  SOULS  WITH  BUT  A 
SINGLE  THOUGHT,"  OR  "A 
Maid  and  Three  Men"— Fat 
Laughs     Wednesday,  May  14th 

"A  SOUL  IN  BONDAGE"— Grasping  Drama  Thursday,  May  15th 

"HIS  LIFE  FOR  HIS  EMPEROR"— Historic  Drama    Friday,  May  16th 

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The  Artist's  Sacrifice 


Miss  Alice  Joyce  in  a  Dramatic  Classic 

A  beautiful  model  brings  fame  to  a  struggling  artist,  who  makes  a  noble  sacrifice  for  his 
younger  brother. 
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A  Stirring  Western  Drama 

The  plainsman  rescues  a  fair  passenger  from 
a  wrecked  stage-coach,  and  falls  in' love,  only 
to  find  that  a  barrier  stands  in  the  way  of  his 
happiness. 


John   Brennan,  Marshal   Neilan  and  Ruth  Roland 
in  a  screaming  comedy. 

(On  the  same  reel) 

The  Egyptian  Mummy 

Another   comedy  riot.     A   professor  buys   an  old 
muminy  and  meets  with  a  great  surprise. 


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The  Infamous  Don  Miguel 

A   Thrilling  Drama  of  the  Cuban   War 

An  American  girl,  visiting  in  Cuba,  falls  into  the  clutches  of  a  tyrant,  but  escapes  through  a 
daring  stratagem. 

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such  action  serve  as  a  notice  to  that  class  of  manu- 
facturers who  deal  in  the  ultra-sensational  and  the  ob- 
jectionable picture  that  such  productions  are  not 
wanted?  It  is  a  mistaken  idea  that  exhibitors  are 
compelled  by  the  exchanges  to  take  what  is  given, 
them  regardless  of  quality  and  character,  and  de- 
termined and  concerted  action  by  the  exhibitors  will 
go  a  long  way  toward  impressing  the  manufacturers 
with  the  necessity  of  making  pictures  that  will  not 

offend. 

* 

This  naturally  leads  to  a  few  remarks  upon  the 
question  of  censorship.  Why  should  not  the  exhibi- 
tor be  his  own  censor  rather  than  to  turn  the  job  over 
to  politicians  whose  only  interest  is  to  create  a  few 
more  easy  berths  for  political  "heelers."  Under  the 
proposed  official  censorship  the  exhibitors  will  find 
that  the  cost  of  the  system  will  add  considerable  to 
their  schedule  of  fixed  charges.  Why  should  the  ex- 
hibitor be  the  goat? 

*     *     * 

IT  is  announced  by  the  chairman  of  the  committee  of 
New  York  exhibitors  which  is  handling  the  Mo- 
tion Picture  Exposition  that  is  to  be  held  at 
Grand  Central  Palace  in  conjunction  with  the  National 
Convention  of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League 
during  the  week  of  July  7,  that  the  success  of  the 
venture  is  positively  assured..  Reservations  of  space 
have  been  liberal  and  the  amount  of  rentals  is  some- 
thing over  $20,000 — more  than  sufficient  to  cover  the 
cost  of  the  exposition.  The  committees  in  charge  of 
the  convention  arrangements  are  busy  with  the  plans 
for  the  entertainment  of  delegates  and  visitors.  A 
large  attendance  of  members  of  the  Exhibitors'  League 
and  other  exhibitors  is  expected,  together  with  a  big 
delegation  of  exhibitors  and  others  connected  with  the 
motion  picture  trade  from  abroad.  That  the  event 
will  be  the  most  auspicious  in  the  history  of  motion 
pictures  in  America  there  is  no  longer  any  doubt. 
Those  who  have  been  hesitating  should  get  in  the 
band  wagon  at  once,  for  no  one  identified  with  the 
trade  can  afford  to  remain  on  the  outside. 


Facts  and  Comments 

CONVENTION  season  for  the  Motion  Picture 
Exhibitors'  State  organizations  is  now  on. 
Members  of  those  bodies  are  now  taking  stock 
of  the  year's  work  and  planning  for  the  year  to  come. 
Officers  are  being  elected  and  delegates  chosen  to  at- 
tend the  big  National  Convention  in  New  York  City. 
These  are  all  important  matters  to  the  several  or- 
ganizations and  deserve  careful  consideration.  But, 
with  the  elections  and  the  banquets  and  the  other  good 
times  that  go  with  conventions  would  it  not  be  well  to 
give  some  thought  to  the  character  of  the  entertain- 
ment that  is  being  offered  to  the  public  by  the  in- 
dividual members  of  these  organizations.  We  do  not 
seem  to  catch  that  note  in  the  reports  of  meetings  that 
come  to  the  editorial  desk. 

Suppose  all  the  members  of  a  state  organization 
were  to  agree  that  they  would  not  exhibit  pictures 
which  might,  in  the  least  degree,  offend  the  most  criti- 
cal among  their  patrons,  or  which  would  arouse  the 
antagonism  of  the  self-appointed  censors  of  public 
morals.  Would  not  concerted  action  of  this  nature 
go  a  long  way  toward  disarming  the  critics  and  quieting 
their   demands    for   official   censorship?    Would   not 


A  CORRECTION  FOR  OUR  EUROPEAN 
READERS. 

Some  misunderstanding  has  been  caused  by  an  account 
in  our  English  contemporary,  the  "  Kinematograph 
Weekly,"  of  a  dinner  given  to  the  editors  of  the  Kine- 
matograph journals  attending  the  recent  Exhibition  in 
London.  Mr.  H.  Samuels  is  mentioned  as  representing 
The  Moving  Picture  World.  There  is  no  one  of  this* 
name  on  the  staff  of  The  World  in  any  capacity  what- 
soever. As  noted  in  a  former  issue  of  The  World,  Mr. 
F.  E.  -Samuels  attended  the  London  Exposition  as  the 
representative  of  the  Exposition  Committee  of  the  Mo- 
tion Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  America.  Neither 
Mr.  H.  Samuels  nor  Mr.  F.  E.  Samuels  has  any  connec- 
tion with  The  Moving  Picture  World. 

Correspondents  will  please  note  that  all  mail  intended 
for  The  World  should  be  addressed  to  Post  Office  Box 
226,  Madison  Square  Station,  New  York  City,  as  per 
title  and  cover  pages  of  the  paper. 

THE  WORM  TURNS. 

Out  in  Portsmouth,  Ohio,  Judge  Blair,  proprietor  of  the 
Portsmouth  Blade,  and  the  Ministerial  Association,  joined 
to  cause  the  arrest  of  the  managers  of  Portsmouth  picture 
theaters  for  running  Sunday  shows.  Now  the  picture  men 
have  turned  on  their  persecutors  and  have  caused  the  arrest 
ol  Judge  Blair  and  many  other  proprietors  of  businesses 
operated  on  Sunday.  The  picture  men  declare  that  if  they 
are  to  be  prosecuted  for  breaking  the  Sunday  laws  all  the 
rest  of  the  violators  must  be  punished  as  well. 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 

Why  Is  a  Censor? 

By  Louis  Reeves  Harrison 


EVERY  day,  during  afternoon  and  evening,  during 
twelve  hours  of  the  twenty-four,  twelve  thousand 
little  theaters  are  patronized  by  ten  or  eleven  mil- 
lions of  our  people,  a  number  aggregating  per  week 
nearly  three  quarters  of  our  entire  population.  The  pic- 
tures shown  at  these  little  theaters  have  steadily  im- 
proved in  character,  and  as  they  gain  wider  and  wider 
vogue  it  is  to  be  presumed  that  they  will  eventually  com- 
mand the  solid  support  of  those  who  believe  that  any 
thing  exhibited  in  public  should  be  clean  enough  to  be 
exposed  to  the  eyes  of  their  producer's  friends  and 
family. 

The  workman  who  puts  on  his  coat  and  shirt  collar 
after  dinner  and  goes  out  to  the  picture  show  for  an  hour 
or  two  of  diversion  might  not  be  deeply  offended  by  cer- 
tain imbecilities  and  vulgarities  of  the  screen,  but  he 
sometimes  takes  his  wife  and  children,  and  the  same 
program  shown  him  in  the  evening  is  held  up  for  the 
amusement  and  edification  of  an  audience  largely  com- 
posed of  women  and  children  in  the  afternoon.  There 
is  no  doubt  that  certain  objectionable,  if  not  ribald 
phases  of  life  appeal  to  those  in  over-sympathy  with  its 
coarser  expressions,  especially  of  the  spine-thrilling  kind, 
but  their  tastes  need  not  cause  so  much  concern,  any 
more  than  a  small  boy's  predilection  for  dead  cats.  They 
will  get  over  it  in  time. 

"Getting  down  to  nature"  has  become  a  trick  phrase 
to  cover  glaring  indecencies  that  are  the  spawn  of  de- 
cadent minds.  Whatever  elevates  a  man  above  that  kind 
of  "nature"  is  the  making  of  him.  The  animals  that 
man  eliminated  from  the  face  of  the  earth  were  close 
down  to  nature  of  that  kind — the  spirited  and  splendid 
things  he  has  been  doing  are  all  in  the  way  of  getting 
control  of  nature's  forces.  He  is  in  a  state  of  progress ; 
he  is  relegating  the  past  to  the  past ;  he  is  transforming 
himself  and  his  kind  by  his  wondrous  energy  and  self- 
determination.  Moving  pictures,  while  they  may  sanely 
deal  with  the  tremendous  and  dramatic  influences  of 
self-preservation  and  reproduction,  must  not  be  used  to 
confuse  or  degrade,  but  to  assist  in  the  general  struggle 
for  spiritual,  social  and  political  freedom  if  they  are  to 
appeal  to  all  the  people  all  the  time. 

The  producers  of  photoplays  are  nearly  all  keen  busi- 
ness men  who  are  operating  in  syndicates.  Many  of 
these  men  are  superior  to  those  conducting  the  theatrical 
"syndicates  in  artistic  appreciation,  and  others  are  liberal 
in  engaging  talent.  The  best  of  them  have  done  finer 
and  therefore  more  immediately  profitable  things  on  the 
screen  than  theatrical  managers  have  done  on  the  stage. 
Their  scope  of  action  is  wider,  their  audience  is  to  be 
counted  in  millions  rather  than  in  thousands,  and  that 
they  have  been  progressive  is  shown  by  the  tre- 
mendous advance  in  photoplay  quality  so  noticeable  in 
the  last  twelve  months.  They  were  not  afraid  of  cen- 
sorship. 

"I  am  willing  to  turn  out  the  best  pictures  brains  and 
money  can  produce  when  there  is  a  demand  for  them," 
said  one  of  the  largest  producers  in  reference  to  this 
subject.  The  false  conclusion  implied  was  that  the  peo- 
ple were  not  ready  for  photoplays  of  superior  character. 
I  always  resent  an  implication  that  there  is  a  lack  of  in- 
telligence on  the  part  of  the  audience,  though  I  am  fully 
aware  of  the  common  impression  that  the  poor,  the  in- 
dustrious, the  overworked  members  of  the  community, 
constitute  an  ignorant  class,  but  that  is  no  reason  why 


we  should  fill  their  minds  with  false  ideas.  If  a  certain 
class  of  people  now  kept  in  poverty  and  toil  by  lack  of 
knowledge  is  given  to  spending  hard-earned  nickles  and 
dimes  at  the  little  shows,  is  that  any  reason  why  pictures 
should  be  used  to  lower  or  corrupt  them  ? 

I  am  getting  at  the  false  reasoning  in  this  matter,  and 
I  may  have  to  shock  some  who  have  made  no  study  of 
humble  moving  picture  audiences  when  I  assert  that  I 
have  yet  to  find  a  lack  of  ability  to  appreciate  what  was 
beautiful,  what  was  inspiring,  what  was  instructive 
among  the  poorest  of  our  working  people,  but,  to  the 
contrary,  I  have  found  an  eagerness  to  fill  the  vacant 
places  in  their  defective  knowledge  with  whatever  was 
true  and  tending  to  lift  them  above  their  condition.  I 
asked  the  man  who  said  he  would  respond  to  the  demand 
for  better  pictures  why  he  had  not  actually  done  so. 

Driven  from  point  to  point,  he  admitted  that  he  was 
better  able  to  put  out  a  higher  quality  of  photodrama  be- 
cause of  what  he  had  learned  in  the  trying.  He  acknowl- 
edged that  the  superior  performance  was  more  remun- 
erative in  the  end.  He  granted  that  criticism  had  been 
of  undoubted  value,  and  he  finally  conceded  that  it  was 
poor  business  policy  for  a  firm  to  expend  time  and  money 
on  a  release  which  might  not  pass  the  constituted  Board 
of  Censorship.  By  piecemeal  a  confession  was  extracted 
that  censorship  had  accomplished  a  purpose  that  might 
not  have  been  wholly  in  the  minds  of  those  who  inaugu- 
rated it — it  established  the  whole  business  on  a  higher 
plane  and  a  more  profitable  basis. 

False  conclusions  drawn  from  little  knowledge  of  the 
subject  were  then  the  principal  guide  to  action  at  the 
outset  and  error  is  very  persistent  about  "what  the  peo- 
ple want/"  A  great  deal  of  rot  is  still  being  shown  on 
the  screen  for  which  profound  apologies  are  due,  but 
which  do  not  come  under  regulations  for  suppressing 
the  unfit.  Some  of  it  is  comparatively  harmless,  strained 
attempts  to  get  a  hand  or  a  laugh ;  much  of  it  is  obviously 
cheap,  and  still  more  of  it  displays  wearisome  repetition 
of  worn  out  themes,  but  there  is  improvement  enough  to 
rouse  high  hopes  for  the  future. 

Without  that  improvement,  without  those  achieve- 
ments in  screen  presentation  which  attempt  to  keep  pace 
with  the  times,  the  entire  New  Art  would  have  suffered 
and  the  pockets  of  those  depending  on  it  in  proportion. 
I  sound  this  note  of  appreciation  of  what  has  been  done 
by  the  Board  of  Censorship  because  it  has  been  a  profit- 
less and  almost  thankless  undertaking.  The  worst 
strictures  that  have  been  cast  come  directly  from  bene- 
ficiaries. There  is  no  such  thing  as  censorship  in  this 
matter  for  its  own  sake — it  is  founded  on  a  broad  and 
humanitarian  basis  by  generous  men  and  women,  who 
are  engaged  in  breaking  down  the  artificial  inequalities 
of  society. 

Every  once  in  a  while  some  man  or  woman  shoots  up 
a  rocket  on  the  subject  of  censorship,  but  it  is  only  brill- 
iant for  a  fleeting  instant,  not  at  all  illuminating  so  far 
as  permanent  problems  are  concerned.  A  remedy  for 
censorship  of  all  kinds,  one  which  might  exert  a  power- 
ful influence  for  the  betterment  of  moving  pictures,  one 
which  would  materially  increase  the  pleasure  and  the 
profit  of  moving  picture  audiences,  would  be  a  united 
demand  for  screen  presentations — bright,  entertaining, 
instructive,  softening  in  variety — from  the  exhibitors 
themselves.  The  pictures  would  then  be  more  popular 
and  still  greater  agents  of  civilization. 


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Yankee  Films  Abroad. 

An  Interesting  Budget  of  Information  on  Picture  Conditions 

In  Great  Britain. 

Written  on  the  Spot  by  W.  Stephen  Bush. 

IF  you  want  to  realize  what  can  be  done  with  American- 
made  films,  do  not  fail  to  come  to  London.  If  you 
happen  to  be  an  exhibitor  it  might  pay  you  to  come  and 
see,  and  then  go  back  and  put  your  experience  into  dollars 
and  cents. 

There  are,  indeed,  in  some  of  the  very  cheap  sections  in 
the  East  End,  moving  picture  theaters  where  they  charge 
as  low  as  id.  (2  cents)  and  2d.  (4  cents),  but  in  the  West 
End  the  prevailing  price  of  admission  is  6d.  (12  cents)  rang- 
ing upwards  to  as  high  as  io/6d.  (2  dollars  62  cents).  English 
capital  which  is  hopelessly  shy  about  supporting  any  film 
producing  enterprise,  is  remarkably  eager  to  invest  in  mov- 
ing picture  theaters  or  "cinemas"  as  they  are  called  over 
here.  The  concrete  and  immediate  strongly  appeal  to  the 
British  mind.  While  through  the  lack  of  financial  support, 
English  film  making  enterprises  languish  like  an  exotic  plant 
on  unfriendly  soil,  the  city  is  dotted  with  modern  superb 
moving  picture  theaters.  I  will  not  attempt  on  such  short 
acquaintance  as  I  have,  to  theorize  about  this,  and  to  explain 
why  the  London  exhibitors  are  generally  prosperous  and 
the  British  manufacturers  generally  poor,  while  the  renters 
too  are  coming  in  for  some  of  the  cream.  Perhaps  the  open 
market  has  something  to  do  with  this.  Perhaps  the  liberal 
patronage  of  the  London  public  may  help  to  explain  it,  and 
perhaps  it  is  the  superior  method  of  presentation  or  per- 
haps it  is  due  to  a  combination  of  all  these  factors. 

In  the  West  End  Cinema,  where  I  attended  a  moderately 
good  entertainment  last  evening,  consisting  of  six  reels,  the 
scale  of  prices  was  as  follows: 
Orchestra  Seats  in  the  Rear  SO  cents. 

"      nearer  the  curtain  25      " 

Second  Balcony  25,  35  and  50  cents. 

First  Balcony  60  and  75  cents. 

Private  Boxes  $2.60. 

At  10  o'clock  the  house  was  crowded.  The  seating  capacity 
was  only  800,  but  that  is  good  enough  with  such  a  scale  of 
prices.  The  furnishings  were  of  a  high  order  throughout. 
There  was  an  invisible  orchestra,  which  played  music  suit- 
able to  the  pictures.  Please  take  that  word  "suitable"  in 
its  actual,  and  not  in  its  American  or  Pickwickian  sense.  No 
doubt  the  music  had  been  carefully  rehearsed,  as  it  invari- 
ably struck  home  at  the  psychological  moments.  I  have  a 
painful  recollection  of  an  orchestra  in  New  York  engaged 
in  an  effort  to  follow  the  pictures  with  suitable  music,  and 
frequently  coming  to  a  dead  stop  at  precisely  the  wrong 
moment,  closing,  for  instance,  with  a  crashing  finale  just  a 
minute  before  the  climax  of  the  play  on  the  screen.  The 
highest  price  in  the  New  York  theater  was  15  cents.  I 
will  leave  it  to  the  reader  to  draw  his  own  conclusions.  I 
characterized  the  program  as  moderately  good,  and  barring 
the  luxurious  surroundings,  the  splendid  music  and  the 
perfect  management.  I  have  seen  moving  picture  enter- 
tainments at  home  a  grade  better  than  this,  and  charging 
no  more  than  10  cents.  Again  I  leave  the  reader  to  draw 
his   own  conclusions   which   lie   on   the   surface. 

It  is  evident  to  even  the  inexpert  eye  that  the  exhibitor 
has  a  decided  say  in  the  moving  picture  industry  hereabouts. 
Both  the  renter  and  the  manufacturer  respectfully  consult 
his  wishes.  The  progressive  London  exhibitor  with  possibly 
two  or  more  theaters  has  his  "viewers"  or  "selectors"  scout- 
ing about  projection  rooms,  and  when  the  "viewers"  or 
"selectors"  commend  something  to  the  exhibitor,  the  latter 
suggests  to  the  renter  the  purchase  of  the  film,  and  as  a  rule 
the  renter  accepts  the  suggestion  and  acts  upon  it.  The 
exhibitor's  freedom  in  the  selection  of  his  program  is  ab- 
solute, and  because  he  is  able  to  grade  his  service  according 
to  the  character,  and  demands  of  his  audience,  he  gets  the 
crowd,  whether  he  is  in  a  fine  residential  section  or  in  a 
rougher  neighborhood,  or  in  a  location  where  he  depends 
on  the  transient  trade. 

Mr.  Seymour  Hodges,  the  Manager  of  the  Marble  Arch 
theater,  admittedly  one  of  the  finest  in  England,  was  quite 
emphatic  on  the  subject.  "If,"  said  Mr.  Hodges  who  had 
had  theatrical  experience  on  our  side,  "we  had  to  depend  for 
our  supply  of  film  on  just  one  single  group  of  manufacturers 
we  would  soon  suffer.  The  present  arrangement  enables 
us  to  select  just  what  we  think  our  patrons  like  best."  The 
splendid  crowd  in  the  Marble  Arch  theater  at  10  o'clock 
p.  m.  seemed  to  indicate  that  this  particular  exhibitor  at 
least  knew  the  tastes  of  his  audience.  Music,  projection, 
management  worked  co-operatively  toward  absolute  per- 
fection, nor  were  there  any  first  runs.     The  backbone  of  the 


particular  program  was  an  Edison  subject,  which  an  Ameri- 
can friend  at  my  elbow,  had  seen  at  St.  Louis  three  months 
ago,  and  which  must  have  been  in  England  at  least  a  week 
or  two.  If  the  American  film  of  today  continues  to  hold 
an  easy  supremacy  over  the  rest,  it  is  due  largely  to  the 
good  judgment  of  the  British  exhibitor.  There  are  not  a 
few  somewhat  irresponsible  men  in  the  exhibiting  business 
here,  especially  in  the  City  of  London,  who  have  a  small 
place,  and  can  never  under  any  circumstances,  see  one  inch 
further  than  the  entrance  to  their  theater.  But  for  them,  the 
exhibitors  organization  in  this  country,  would  be  a  deal 
stronger  than  it  is.  These  men,  however,  care  nothing  about 
the  common  weal  and  are  stumbling  blocks  in  the  path  of 
progress.  The  larger  exhibitors,  on  the  contrary,  are  keenly 
alive  to  the  fact  that  harmony  and  co-operation  make  them 
strong  and  powerful,  and  they  are  well  united.  The  result 
is,  that  they  have  a  pretty  free  hand  in  the  selection  of 
their  programs,  and  I  think  that  helps  to  explain  their  suc- 
cess and  prosperity.  But  a  short  time  ago,  there  happened 
to  be  a  short  and  sharp  conflict  of  interest  between  the  ex- 
hibitors and  renters  on  the  one  hand,  and  certain  manu- 
facturing interests  on  the  other.  No  attempt  was  made  by 
any  of  the  parties  to  the  conflict  to  resort  to  "steam-roller" 
methods,  there  were  amicable  conferences,  and  a  final  agree- 
ment to  disagree  on  certain  matters  and  to  re-unite  on 
others.  The  liberty  of  the  exhibitor  to  arrange  his  own 
program  as  long  as  he  pays  for  it,  remains  in  full  force  and 
vigor. 

The  only  films  which  seem  to  appeal  to  the  British  public 
are  the  products  of  either  purely  American  or  partly  Ameri- 
can films.  It  is  a  high  compliment  to  American-made  films 
that  they  are  hardly  ever  objected  to  by  the  Censor.  The 
very  fact  that  they  are  of  American  origin  seems  to  create 
a  presumption  in  their  favor.  I  have  seen  a  few  French 
and  German  films,  which  would  drag  down  almost  any  pro- 
gram to  either  the  level  of  licentiousness  or  stupidity.  The 
unadultered  or  rather  unpurified  French  products  are  apt  to 
rouse  the  ire  of  the  Censor,  while  the  ordinary  German 
melodramatic  films,  mostly  in  two  or  three  reels,  have  value 
only  as  an  unfailing  antidote  for  insomnia. 

I  have  heard  and  read  a  whole  lot  about  the  superior  pro- 
jection in  the  capitals  of  Europe,  and  as  far  as  London  is 
concerned  I  have  seen  much  actual  proof  of  it.  Projection 
varies  here  too,  some  of  it  is  good,  some  of  it  indifferent, 
and  some  of  it  awfully  bad,  but  the  average  is  high.  The 
trade  conditions  are  far  more  settled  here  than  they  are  on 
the  other  side  of  the  water.  There  are  no  daily  changes 
of  programs  here.  Programs  are  changed  twice  or  three 
times  weekly,  and  this  applies  to  the  cheap  as  well  as  the  ex- 
pensive theaters. 

It  is  a  pleasure  to  relate  that  the  educational  film  is 
doing  well  here  in  London.  I  have  just  had  a  long  talk  with 
Mr.  Chas.  Urban  of  the  Kineto  Co.  Mr.  Urban  who  is 
known  on  both  sides  of  the  water  as  one  of  the  earliest 
pioneers  in  the  educational  field.  He  has  retired  from  the 
Urban  Trading  Co.,  and  is  devoting  all  his  energies  to 
Kinemacolor,  and  educational  kinematography  both  in  natural 
colors  and  in  black  and  white.  I  learned  from  him  that 
the  London  County  Council  have  had  a  plan  of  kinemato- 
graphic  instruction  under  consideration  for  some  time.  They 
wanted  to  add  a  kinematographic  course  of  instruction  to 
the  program  of  the  Polytechnic  schools  and  after  viewing 
a  large  variety  of  films  submitted  by  the  different  manu- 
facturers they  arrived  at  the  conclusion  that  the  Kinema- 
color would  probably  lend  itself  best  to  moving  picture  in- 
struction. They  have  just  completed  an  agreement  with 
Mr.  Urban,  which  provides  for  a  trial  of  educational  films 
extending  over  a  period  of  six  weeks.  The  conditions  and 
details  are  as  follows:  At  each  one  of  the  six  Polytechnics 
(industrial  schools,  teaching,  Carpentry,  Machinery,  Teleg- 
raphy, etc.)  there  are  to  be  four  exhibitions  per  day,  each 
lasting  from  45  to  50  minutes,  each  of  these  exhibitions  are 
to  be  attended  by  classes  of  1000.  This  means  that  there 
will  be  an  attendance  of  4000  children  per  day,  or  20,000 
per  week  or  120,000  for  the  entire  period  of  the  experiment. 
Children  of  all  grades  will  be  asked  to  attend  these  exhibit- 
ions, and  the  teachers  intend  to  ascertain  the  value  of  kine- 
matographic instruction  by  carefully  questioning  each  child. 
If  the  results  thus  obtained  are  satisfactory,  machines  are 
to  be  installed  at  once.  There  is  no  question  that  this  would 
then  be  the  entering  wedge  for  a  general  kinematographic 
course  of  instruction  in  all  the  schools  of  England,  both 
public  and  private.  ,  . 

Mr.  Urban  tells  me  that  he  had  a  most  interesting  visitor 
in  the  person  of  a  gentleman  named  Margunrien,  who  was 
authorized  by  the  Greek  Minister  of  Education  to  inquire 
in  London  as  to  the  supply  of  educational  films.  He  brought 
with  him  a  letter  of  authorization,  which  I  think  will  often 


574 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


be  quoted  by  the  future  historian  of  kinematographifc  educa- 
tion. The  document  sets  forth  the  fact  that  there  are  4000 
schools  in  the  Kingdom  of  Greece,  and  that  the  Greek 
Minister  of  Education  desires  to  make  a  thorough  test  jf 
the  moving  picture  as  a  means  of  teaching  the  young  mind. 
It  goes  on  to  state  that  the  Minister  does  not  know  how 
much  of  a  supply  there  is  on  hand  at  the  present  time  and 
he  assures  Mr.  Urban  that  he  will  be  able  to  absorb  and 
utilize  almost  any  supply  that  may  be  on  hand  at  this  moment. 
The  Greek  representative  has  had  numerous  interviews  both 
with  Mr.  Urban  and  his  General  Manager,  Mr.  Hickey,  and 
the  probabilities  point  to  a  large  order  of  machines  and 
films.  Mr.  Urban  will  construct  a  special  model  of  machine, 
which  will  generate  its  own  electricity,  and  take  a  standard 
size  of  film.  It  seems  probable  then,  that  Greece,  the  mother 
of  education,  will  be  the  first  to  make  practical  and  general 
use  of  the  new  invention  in  schools  of  the  modern  Kingdom. 
Mr.  Hickey  will  leave  for  our  side  with  a  large  supply  of 
black  and  white  educational  films  on   May  6th. 

Mr.  Urban  was  in  a  reminiscent  mood,  as  he  talked  and 
recalled  the  early  days  of  kinematography,  here  and  in 
America.  He  spoke  with  some  feeling  of  a  memorable  trip  he 
made  to  our  side  of  the  water  in  the  winter  of  1910.  He 
came  with  hopes  running  high,  banking,  as  he  said,  on 
promises,  which  were  not  fulfilled.  He  spoke  in  grateful 
words  of  the  assistance  and  encouragement  which  the  late 
founder  of  the  Moving  Picture  World  extended  to  him.  Mr. 
Urban  has  now  been  in  London  for  18  years  and  his  en- 
thusiasm in  the  cause  of  education  still  remains  unabated. 
He  is  firm  in  the  belief  that  eventually  the  moving  picture 
as  an  educator  will  in  importance  far  surpass  the  moving 
picture  as  a  form  of  amusement. 

Passing  through  Cecil  Court,  otherwise  known  as  "Flicker 
Alley,"  I  noticed  the  sign  of  "Warner  Feature  Film  Co.,"  I 
walked  in  and  found  Sam  Warner  in  full  charge.  He  has 
been  here  for  about  one  month,  and  has  had  a  busy  time  of 
it  familiarizing  himself  with  conditions,  and  with  the  various 
denominations  of  British  currency.  He  thinks  this  is  an 
ideal  market  for  an  enterprising  American  picture  man  and 
he  is  going  at  full  speed  all  the  time.  He  is  the  latest  Ameri- 
can invader. 


ANOTHER  BOY  LOST. 

On  April  10th,  Charles  Allen  Reed,  a  boy  15  years  old, 
about  five  feet  tall,  weighing  about  75  to  80  lbs.,  light  blue 
eyes,  rather  small  face,  thick  lips,  dark  hair  combed  straight 
back  over  his  head,  left  home.  For  some  time  prior  to  his 
leaving,  he  had  been  endeavoring  to  write  some  photoplays, 
and  had  completed  one  called  "The  Wreckers."  He  has 
tried  to  sell  a  number  of  plays.  Nothing  has  been  heard 
from  him  since  he  left  home.  We  believe  he  will  try  to  sell 
some  plays,  and  secure  a  position  as  an  actor  with  some 
concern.  Should  he  write,  in  such  communication,  he  might 
sign  some  other  name,  but  he  is  a  very  poor  writer,  He 
might  also  mention  this  play,  "The  Wreckers."  Should  he 
call  or  communicate  with  any  firm,  if  it  will  wire  collect 
to  1 1435  Euclid  Avenue,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  all  expenses  will 
be  paid,  together  with  a  reasonable  reward  for  any  services 
which  may  be  rendered. 


NEW  YORK  CITY  EXHIBITORS. 
Hold  Meeting  and  Appoint  Committee  on  Grievances — 
Cuvillier  Bill  Killed. 
A  special  meeting  of  the  New  York  City  Exhibitors'  As- 
sociation, called  for  the  purpose  of  considering  the  matter 
of  quality  and  price  of  service,  was  held  at  the  association 
headquarters,  136  Third  Avenue,  on  Wednesday  night, 
April  30.  About  two  hundred  exhibitors  were  present  and  a 
lively  interest  in  the  subject  under  discussion  was  shown. 
President  Trigger  upon  calling  the  meeting  to  order  stated 
that  they  were  here  for  the  purpose  of  hearing  any  com- 
plaints of  unfair  treatment  which  members  of  the  associa- 
tion might  have  received  at  the  hands  of  the  exchanges,  and 
a  committee  was  appointed  to  go  to  headquarters  to 
straighten  out  the  matter.  There  were  no  very  serious 
complaints  developed  at  the  meeting,  so  President  Trigger 
appointed  a  grievance  committee  consisting  of  J.  A.  Koerpel, 
chairman;  Siegmund  Seckel,  L.  A.  Ochs,  F.  Goldfarb,  M. 
Needle  and  H.  Huber,  to  which  further  complaints  are  to  be 
submitted  in  writing. 

Cuvillier  Bill  Killed. 
President  Trigger  announced  that  the  Cuvillier  bill,  which 
was  backed  by  the  Children's  Society  and  provided  that  the 
moving  picture  shows  should  be  taken  out  of  the  hands  of 
the  Mayor's  License  Bureau  and  put  in  charge  of  the  police 
department,   under   the   same   regulations   which   govern   the 


dramatic  houses,  with  a  license  fee  of  $500  per  annum,  has 
been  killed  in  Assembly.  Superintendent  Walsh,  of  the 
Children's  Society,  was  the  only  person  appearing  at  the 
hearing  in  favor  of  the  bill  and  he  gravely  announced  to  the 
committee  that  if  the  bill  was  passed  and  the  picture  theaters 
placed  in  charge  of  the  police  department,  the  children  of 
New  York  would  then  be  fully  protected  for  all  time.  At- 
torney Rogers  appeared  for  the  exhibitors  and  informed  the 
committee  that  the  only  thing  which  the  bill  would  do  would 
be  to  raise  a  moving  picture  theater  license  to  $500  a  year. 
The  bill  was  subsequently  killed  by  a  large  majority.  It 
was  reported  that  other  legislation  favorable  to  the  exhibi- 
tors was  in  a  fair  way  of  being  passed. 

Attorney  Rogers  delivered  a  timely  warning  to  the  ex- 
hibitors on  the  subject  of  the  standee  law.  He  said  that  there 
was  only  one  thing  to  do  and  that  was  to  obey  the  law  to 
the  limit.  He  warned  the  exhibitors  that  he  had  gone  about 
as  far  as  he  could  in  securing  lenient  action  from  the  judges 
of  Special  Sessions  before  whom  these  cases  were  tried,  and 
that  he  looked  for  a  prison  sentence  for  somebody  very 
shortly  if  the  violations  continue  to  occur.  Several  new 
members  were  added  to  the  rolls  and  the  meeting  adjourned 
at  2  a.  m. 


LEON  GAUMONT  COMING  TO  NEW  YORK. 

Mr.  Leon  Gaumont,  head  of  the  Gaumont  Company  of 
Paris,  is  expected  to  arrive  in  New  York  on  May  10.  Mr. 
Gaumont  comes  prepared  to  give  a  demonstration  of  the 
Gaumont  talking  pictures  and  the  Chrono-chrome  of  colored 
pictures. 


"BRONCHO  BILLY"  BUILDING  NEW  THEATER. 

The  "San  Francisco  Examiner,"  a  daily  published  on  the 
Pacific  Coast,  some  time  ago  printed  an  architect's  drawing 
and  particulars  concerning  the  proposed  playhouse  to  be 
erected  by  G.  M.  Anderson  (Broncho  Billy),  of  the  Essanay 
Manufacturing  Company.  From  the  data  published  in  the 
Western    daily,    the    house   is   to   cost   $150,000   and   will   be 


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G.  M.  "Broncho  Billy"  Anderson. 

known  as  the  "Winter  Garden."  It  is  to  be  built  on  the 
site  of  the  old  Alcazar  Theater  on  O'Farrel  Street,  between" 
Stockton  and  Powell  Streets,  San  Francisco.  It  will  have  a 
seating  capacity  of  1,600.  Exterior  and  interior  decorations- 
will  be  of  Spanish  renaissance,  the  interior  being  treated 
with  mural  paintings.  The  indirect  lighting  system  will  be 
used.  The  stage  will  be  one  of  the  largest  in  the  city,  with 
a  proscenium  opening  30  by  38  feet. 


THE  MOVING  PICTURE  WORLD 


575 


"In  the  Long  Ago"  (Selig) 

Reviewed  by  James  S.  McQuade. 

IT  is  a  delightful  treat  to  find  a  photoplay  of  Indian  life 
so  far  removed  from  the  beaten  track  as  that  of  "In  the 
Long  Ago,"  by  one  of  Selig's  Western  companies.  Poetic 
in  conception  and  artistic  in  production,  this  photoplay 
will,  doubtless,  be  welcomed  by  all  who  like  to  get  a  glimpse 
of  the  primitive,  away  back  in  the  dim  past — a  glimpse  that 
reveals  the  gentler  emotions  as  well  as  the  fiercer  instincts 
of  the  red  man.  There  is  strife  in  it,  but  mastery  is  gained 
by  the  pitting  of  strength  against  strength,  not  by  the  aid 
of  weapons;  and  there  is  love  in  it,  of  the  kind  that  nature 
smiled  on  when  men  and  women  found  their  mates  in  the 
wildwood,  while  the  songs  of  birds  and  the  splash  of  water- 
fall added  to  the  sweet  harmony  of  their  hearts. 

This  one  reel  film  was  made  under  the  direction  of  Colin 
Campbell,  and  the  scenario  was  written  by  Lanier  Bartlett. 
The  latter  has  made  a  novel  departure  at  the  close  by 
using  the  old  Indian  legend  of  thousands  of  years  ago  to 
bring  to  a  happy  ending  the  courtship  of  two  lovers  of  the 
present  day.  The  antiquary's  discovery  of  the  wind  instru- 
ment made  from  the  thigh  bone  of  an  Indian  chief — the 
same  that  was  used  by  the  Indian  lover  of  the  story  to  rouse 
his  sweetheart  from  the  deathlike  lethargy  into  which  she 
had  been  placed  by  the  medicine  man  of  the  tribe — and  the 


Scene  from  "In  the  Long  Ago"  (Selig). 


successful  use  of  it  by  the  modern  lover  to  bring  his  capri- 
cious sweetheart  to  his  side  furnish  a  happy  comedy  conceit. 
Wheeler  Oakman  appears  in  the  roles  of  the  Indian  lover 
and  the  modern  lover.  The  first  affords  him  opportunity  for 
strong  characterization,  of  which  he  takes  due  advantage. 
Miss  Bessie  Eyton  is  seen  as  the  Indian  maiden  and  the 
modern  sweetheart.  In  the  part  of  Starlight  Miss  Eyton 
measures  up  to  the  requirements  by  the  display  of  fine  ability. 
Mr.  Santschi  is  strong  as  the  Indian  warrior,  the  rival  for 
Starlight's  hand.    Frank  Clark  does  effective  work  in  the  roles 


of  Starlight's  father  and  the  father  of  the  modern  girl,  and 
Harry  W.  Otto  is  acceptable  as  the  medicine  man. 

Dreamer,  the  hero  of  the  story,  seeks  the  solitude  of  the 
forest  and  the  sea  shore.  He  loves  music  and  the  beauties 
of  nature.  His  beloved  reed  pipe  is  always  with  him,  and 
he  imitates  the  notes  of  the  song  birds  and  the  moan  of  the 
sea.  The  members  of  his  tribe  despise  him;  for  they  look 
upon  him  as  the  soft-handed  one,  who  has  no  love  for  battle 
or  the  chase.  But  Starlight,  the  only  daughter  of  the  chief 
of  the  tribe,  loves  him.  Her  father  tries  to  force  her  to  wed 
a  visiting  chief,  but  Starlight  refuses. 

The  stranger  chief  induces  the  medicine  man  to  place  Star- 
light in   a  deep   sleep.     Soon  afterwards  he  meets  Dreamer 


Scene  from  "In  the  Long  Ago"  (Selig). 

and  is  killed  in  conflict.  Dreamer  then  demands  Starlight 
from  her  father  and  rushes  off  to  find  her.  He  comes  upon 
her  in  the  cave  of  the  medicine  man,  but  cannot  arouse  her. 
The  medicine  man  also  attempts  to  awaken  her  and  fails. 
Then  she  is  mourned  by  her  father  and  the  tribe  as  one  who 
is  dead. 

Dreamer  then  remembers  an  old  Indian  legend  about  a 
wonderful  wind  pipe,  made  from  the  thigh  bone  of  a  great 
chief.  Notes  from  it,  so  the  legend  ran,  would  bring  back 
the  dead  to  life.  After  great  effort  he  succeeds  in  finding 
the  instrument,  and  restores  Starlight  to  life. 

The  release  date  is  May  15. 


BOOMING  IN  AUSTRALIA. 

Mr.  J.  E.  Smith,  Inspector  of  Theaters  and  Public  Enter- 
tainments, Adelaide,  South  Australia,  advises  in  a  recent 
letter  that  the  moving  picture  business  is  booming  in  his 
country.  The  numerous  picture  theaters  are  incapable  of 
accommodating  the  numbers  of  people  desiring  to  attend 
them.  As  a  consequence,  several  large  and  up-to-date  theaters 
are  now  in  course  of  erection,  and  will  be  opened  within  the 
next  few  months. 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


A  Child  of  War. 

Two-Reel  Broncho. 

Reviewed  by  Louis  Reeves  Harrison. 

THIS  pathetic  and  humanizing  story  is  in  line  with  fine 
work  preceding  it  so  far  as  presenting  the  destructive 
forces  of  war  in  contrast  with  the  creative  ones  of 
peace  is  concerned,  with  an  added  charm  in  the  adventures 
of  a  little  girl  who  is  plunged  into  the  midst  of  the  death- 
dealing  action.  A  touching  incident  projects  her  between 
the  lines  of  blue  and  grey  at  a  time  when  bullets  are  scream- 
ing and  cannons  vomiting  flame — she  rescues  her  doll. 
Mildred    is    the    heart    link    between    a    sturdy    blacksmith 


Scene  from  "A  Child  of  War"  (Broncho). 

named  Judson  and  his  wife,  their  only  child  and  a  fascinating 
personality.  Judson  is  living  in  the  danger  zone  when  he  de- 
cides to  be  one  of  those  responding  to  Lincoln's  second  call 
for  troops.  He  leaves  his  work  and  his  family,  just  as  loyal 
men  must  do  in  time  of  stress  and  storm,  and  becomes  a  pri- 
vate in  the  Union  army,  but  there  is  an  added  stimulus — the 
troops  in  grey  are  within  striking  distance  of  his  home. 

The  parting  scenes  between  the  blacksmith  and  his  wife 
are  unusually  affecting,  due  largely  to  the  exceptional  acting 
of  the  lady  who  plays  the  lead,   whose  name  has   not  been 


Scene  from  "A  Child  of  War"  (Broncho). 

furnished.  She  displays  striking  capability  throughout  the 
play,  though  I  do  not  recall  having  seen  her  face  before  on 
the  screen.  The  little  girl,  Mildred,  does  all  that  might  be 
expected  of  a  child  under  the  circumstances — she  knows  noth- 
ing of  patriotism  and  glory — and  her  opportunities  come 
later  on.     All  three  leads  are  consistent  performers. 

When  the  tide  of  battle  rises  to  the  village  where  the 
blacksmith's  family  lives  the  inhabitants  flee  on  foot  and  in 
all  sorts  of  vehicles  with  whatever  valuables  they  can  carry. 
Mildred  is  seated  in  the  rear  of  a  wagon  when  she  drops  her 
doll,  and  she  climbs  out  to  recover  it.  She  stands  gazing  at 
the  stream  of  refugees  passing  her  for  a  while,  then  wanders 


away  and  is  lost  in  neighboring  woods,  where  she  is  exposed 
to  the  fire  of  both  armies. 

She  wanders  on  and  on,  hugging  her  doll  close  to  her 
breast,  while  the  ravages  of  war  are  going  on  all  around  her. 
She  screams  when  shells  explode  near  her  and  runs  from 
them  in  horror,  but  she  escapes  uninjured  until  nightfall. 
She  is  not  far  away  from  the  Union  lines  when  the  soldiers 
in  blue  stack  their  arms  and  light  their  camp  fires,  and  her 
movements  are  noticed  by  one  of  the  pickets — her  own 
father.  He  challenges;  receives  no  answer  and  fires.  He  is 
overwhelmed  with  grief  on  finding  that  he  has  severely 
wounded  his  precious  little  girl  and  deserts  his  post  to  carry 
her  to  his  own  house. 

His  wife  has  returned  in  search  of  her  little  one  and  lies 
prostrated  with  grief  over  her  loss.  There  is  an  affecting 
scene  when  the  three  are  brought  together,  but  other  sentinels 
have  discovered  the  absence  of  Judson,  have  reported  him 
as  missing  from  post,  and  a  squad  has  been  sent  to  capture 
him  at  his  home.  He  is  placed  under  arrest,  tried  by  drum 
head  court  martial  and  sentenced  to  be  shot  at  sunrise.  So 
much  for  the  liberty  of  him  who  sacrifices  all  that  he  holds 
dear  for  the  sake  of  liberty.  He  is  brought  to  a  realization 
during  his  brief  imprisonment  that  patriotism  counts  for  so 
little  in  the  end  that  he  had  better  have  stuck  to  his  forge 
and  his  family. 

Now  comes  little  Mildred's  opportunity.  She  and  her  in- 
valid mother  go  to  the  tent  of  the  officer  in  command  to 
plead  for  the  life  of  the  man  who  yielded  to  God-given  in- 
stincts in  saving  his  child  at  the  risk  of  leaving  his  post  un- 
guarded. The  rules  of  war  are  not  those  of  compassion,  and 
the  weak  ^reatures  are  not  permitted  to  enter,  but  the  child 
takes  the  law  into  her  own  hands  and  slips  by  the  sentry. 
Her  appeal  in  behalf  of  her  father  is  the  high  point  in  the 
drama,  and  it  is  successful  in  every  sense  of  the  word.  The 
stern  martinet  refuses  with  grim  determination  until  the 
child's  gentle  presence  recalls  a  parting  scene  at  his  own 
home,  when  he  gradually  relents.  The  prisoner  is  set  free 
and  restored  to  his  family.  In  artistic  conclusion — in  relief 
from  the  conventional — the  commanding  officer  is  seen  in 
his  tent  absorbed  in  his  work  when  he  receives  a  letter  and  a 
package  from  Mildred.  The  latter  contains  her  doll.  The 
note  says,  "I  am  sending  you  my  best  doll  because  you  were 
so  kind  to  daddy.  When  he  is  through  fighting,  please  send 
him  home."  

TRIPLE  SHOW  ALL  IN  ONE. 
Lions,  Tigers  and  Monkeys,  are  Some  Actors  at  the  Vita- 
graph  Studios. 

No  one  has  ever  attended  a  three-ring  circus  without  going 
away  from  the  performance  feeling  decidedly  cross-eyed. 
It  is  a  physical  impossibility  to  watch  so  many  wonderful 
things  being  done  at  the  same  time,  without  wishing  that  you 
had  more  time  to  see  each  part  of  the  performance  separately 
that  you  might  fully  enjoy  it.  Just  at  this  time,  the  Vitagraph 
studios  resemble  a  combination  of  three  distinct  shows,  all 
in  one;  theater,  circus  and  menagerie. 

Just  imagine,  if  you  can,  seventy  players  and  a  dozen 
directors  producing  dramas  and  comedies,  while  in  another 
studio,  the  lions,  tigers,  boars  and  wildcats  and  monkeys  are 
being  put  through  their  several  stunts  incidental  tp  their 
parts  in  the  thrilling  plays  being  staged  in  which  they  pre- 
dominate and  share  honors  with  the  brave  players  who 
venture  into  the  arena  with  them.  There  is  one  surprise, 
however,  which  is  kept  in  store  for  some  of  the  thespians 
who  are  anxious  to  show  their  nerve  in  these  marvellous 
animal  pictures.  The  supreme  test  will  come  when  the 
cobra  de  capellas,  rattlers  and  the  moccasins,  crawl  forth 
from  their  cages,  to  the  surprise  of  actors  and  audiences. 

The  handling  of  these  denizens  of  the  forest  is  no  small 
qifestion  and  no  inconsiderable  item  of  finesse  and  finance. 
Two  hundred  pounds  of  prime  Beef  is  consumed  daily  by 
these  live-stock  members  of  the  Vitagraph  corps  of  actors. 
The  vegetarians  of  the  company  are  barely  satisfied  with 
two  wagon  loads  of  grain  and  other  edibles  suitable  to  their 
tastes,  in  the  distribution  of  which  a  number  of  keepers  are 
kept  busy  attending  to  their  wants.  At  times,  one  would 
think  pandemonium  had  been  let  loose.  The  shouting  of 
directors,  the  roar  of  the  lions,  tigers,  and  bears,  combined 
with  the  shrieks  of  the  monkeys,  make  the  studio's  walls 
tremble  and  the  settings  vibrate  so  perceptibly  that  it  is 
necessary  to  stop  turning  the  cameras  until  the  unreasonable 
beasts  are  quieted  by  the  sheer  exhaustion  of  their  own  efforts. 

The  meaning  of  all  this  trouble  and  expense  will  be  made 
perfectly  clear  in  the  dramatic  masterpieces  and  the  roaring 
comedies  that  will  be  released  and  shown  upon  the  screens 
in  the  near  future.  The  Vitagraph  Company  will  be  repaid 
for  their  indefatigable  labors  by  the  responsive  appreciation 
of  the  moving  picture  public,  with  whom  it  has  established 
itself  as  a  prime  favorite. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


577 


"Carmen 


Three-Reel  Thanhouser. 
Reviewed  by  Louis  Reeves  Harrison. 

THE  Thanhouser  version  of  this  much  produced  story 
may  be  better  than  any  of  those  preceding  it,  but  I 
am  not  prepared  to  make  comparisons,  not  having  seen 
the  others.  Two  features  of  it  were  delightful  to  me,  and 
they  will  probably  meet  with  general  approval — the  exquisite 
photography  and  the  fine  acting  of  Marguerite  Snow  in  the 
title  role.  All  other  members  of  the  cast  were  good,  with 
one  exception,  the  exteriors  are  chosen  with  excellent  taste, 
the  costumes  are  elaborate  and  costly,  and  one  of  the  in- 
teriors— that  associated  with  the  toreador's  first  appearance — 
is  a  gem. 

I  am  informed  that  this  version  is  taken  from  the  famous 
book  of  the  same  name  by  Prosper  Merimee,  and  here  is 
where  I  may  be  seriously  at  fault.  The  author  was  a  brilliant 
literary  critic,  a  great  historian,  a  famous  archaeologist  and 


Scene  from  "Carmen"   (Thanhouser) 


wrote  a  veritable  masterpiece  in  "Colomba,"  but  the  par- 
ticular story  we  are  dealing  with  first  attracted  public 
attention  to  any  large  extent  in  the  libretto  of  Meilhac  and 
Halevy,  made  renowned  by  Bizet's  music.  The  libretto  was 
admirably  suited  to  purposes  of  grand  opera  because  it  af- 
forded opportunity  for  Bizet's  style  of  composition  and  for 
gorgeous  costume  display. 


Scene  from  "Carmen"   (Thanhouser). 

Without  the  music  there  is  little  left  but  the  chance  for 
costume  display — the  theme  is  worn  threadbare — and  Than- 
houser directors  have  gone  to  great  pains  in  the  matter  of 
beauty.  They  have  even  gone  to  extremes.  We  can  stand 
for  perfectly  clean  Gypsies  in  the  silks  and  satins  of  a  mas- 
querade ball,  but  when  Mercedes  steps  out  of  a  hovel — this  is 
an  exterior  in  broad  sunlight — with  two  Marguerite  braids  of 
hemp  and  her  pretty  feet  encased  in  silk  hosiery  and  satin 
slippers  with  rhinestone  buckles,  the  incongruity  becomes 
overwhelming.  The  actress  who  attempted '  this  role — at- 
tempt is  the  best  that  can  be  said  for  her  impersonation — 
possibly  had  a  "Tango"  on  hand  for  the  evening  and  did  not 
consider  it  necessary  to  dress  her  tootsies  to  suit  her  part. 


I  should  have  given  her  part  to  a  girl  who  flashed  on  the 
scene  for  a  brief  instant  and  filled  the  screen  while  she  was. 
there  although  she  was  only  one  of  a  group.  1  took  the 
trouble  to  inquire  about  this  member  of  the  company  who 
only  came  into  view  for  a  second  and  learned  that  her  name 
was,  and  still  is,  "Billings."  She  will  probably  remedy  that 
fault  before  she  cuts  all  of  her  teeth,  for  she  has  what  I  am 
compelled  to  designate,  for  the  lack  of  a  better  expression, 
"Picture    Personality,"    a   valuable    asset    for    a   photoplayer. 

I  am  accused  of  a  bias  for  original  plays,  but  please  con- 
sider how  much  attention  is  given  to  discovering  what  is 
obvious  and  how  millions  of  amusement  seekers  are  being 
enfranchised  from  what  is  old  and  stale  by  what  is  new  and 
inspiring  in  present  improvement  and  radiant  hopes  for  the 
future,  eager  to  enjoy  themselves  at  the  little  theaters  ac- 
cording to  the  development  of  the  period.  You  cannot 
quench  that  demand  by  repetition  of  what  has  done  service 
a  quarter  of  a  century  ago.  Our  lives  are  becoming  more 
and  more  full  of  meaning  and  purpose,  and  whatever  mirrors 
life  as  we  know  it  rings  true.  If  I  have  a  bias  for  original 
productions,  so  have  you,  and  so  has  nearly  every  intelligent 
exhibitor  in  the  land.  This  new  art  is  destined  to  appeal 
to  the  millions  now  in  a  state  of  progression  who  are  not 
afflicted  with  minds  that  are  primitive,  and  no  one  who 
respects  and  loves  the  art  and  sincerely  desires  to  see  it 
established  in  national  esteem  on  sane  and  safe  grounds 
is  without  that  bias  which  I  am  accused  of  having,  a  bias 
intended  to  increase  the  popularity  and  influence  of  moving 
pictures  all  over  the  world. 


A  "CHANCE  DAY"  PICTURE. 
Selig  Secures  Exclusive  Privilege  to  Take  Big  Chicago  Base- 
ball Gala  Day. 

The  Selig  Polyscope  Company  has  completed  arrange- 
ments whereby,  weather  permitting,  they  will  secure  ex- 
clusive motion  pictures  of  the  much  heralded  gala  celebration 
in  honor  of  Frank  Chance's  first  Chicago  appearance  as  a 
member  of  the  American  League  Ball  Club.  On  May  17th, 
the  "Peerless  Leader"  will  bring  his  New  York  Highlanders 
to  Chicago.  As  Frank  Chance  is  probably  the  most  popular 
idol  in  organized  baseball  today,  it  is  needless  to  say  that  the 
reception  which  will  be  accorded  him  by  his  Chicago  friends 
will  make  a  riot  look  like  a  pink  tea.  The  committee  in 
charge  of  arrangements  have  planned  many  original  sur- 
prises for  the  occasion. 

Probably  the  most  unique  and  elaborate  automobile  parade 
ever  organized  in  Chicago  will  escort  Chance  to  the  White 
Sox  Park.  In  this  parade  will  be  over  1000  touring  cars,  a 
full  band  of  sixty  pieces,  several  hundred  mounted  police, 
squads  of  motorcycle  escorts,  and  other  attractions  too  nu- 
merous to  mention.  Intermingled  in  the  parade  will  be  a 
number  of  male  quartettes  who  will  sing  appropriate  songs 
especially  written  for  the  occasion.  Each  person  in  the  pa- 
rade will  wear  "Frank  Chance  Day"  badges,  and  carry  a 
small  American  flag. 

At  the  park,  before,  during,  and  after  the  game,  the  bands 
will  play,  quartettes  will  sing,  well  known  vaudeville  players 
will  entertain  and  the  huge  ball  park  will  take  on  the  ap- 
pearance of  a  mammoth   circus. 

Weather  permitting,  Selig  camera  men  will  secure  inter- 
esting scenes  of  the  parade,  the  game  and  the  celebration  at 
the  park. 

This  film  will  be  released  as  a  special  shortly  after  May  17th. 


WINNIFRED    GREENWOOD    GETS    STAGE   FRIGHT. 

Although  Winnifred  Greenwood,  one  of  the  most  popular 
leading  women  with  the  Selig  organization,  was  "born  in  a 
dressing  room  trunk,"  as  the  saying  goes,  and  led  her  own 
stock  organization  for  many  years,  and  played  hundreds 
of  stage  heroines  during  her  successful  career,  she  has  never 
forgotten  how  to  blush  and  is  still  subject  to  stage  fright. 
A  week  ago  she  happened  to  be  an  innocent  spectator  at 
the  Parkway  Theater,  in  Chicago,  where  the  Selig  pictorial 
war  play  of  "Pauline  Cushman"  was  the  feature.  Manager 
Nelson  recognized  her  and  led  her  reluctantly  to  the  stage 
where  she  was  introduced  to  the  crowded  house  as  the  woman 
who  made  the  shadow  of  the  celebrity  so  vital  and  fascinating. 
There  were  vociferous  calls  for  "speech,  speech."  This  was 
something  new  to  Miss  Greenwood.  All  at  once  the  heroine 
had  three  varieties  of  stage  chill,  including  an  attack  of 
"tongue-tiedness."  She  finally  managed,  however,  to  stammer 
her  thanks  and  then  dodged  a  shower  of  boquets,  that  admir- 
ing women  in  the  audience  heroically  and  impetuously  sacri- 
ficed to  honor  the  actress  who  so  splendidly  portrayed  the 
heroine  in  the  story  had  earned  the  singular  distinction  of 
being  made  a  Major  for  gallantry  in  the  great  Civil  War. 


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Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League 


KENTUCKY  CONVENTION. 

Interesting  Meeting  of  Blue  Grass  Exhibitors  at  Louisville — 

Officers  Elected. 

WHILE  the  second  annual  convention  of  the  Motion 
Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  Kentucky,  held  in 
Louisville,  April  23,  at  the  Seelbach  Hotel,  was  not 
largely  attended,  the  session  may  be  considered  as  highly 
successful  from  every  other  standpoint.  Much  enthusiasm 
was  manifested,  indicating  that  a  healthy  growth  will  con- 
tinue in  the  organization;  a  full  set  of  new  officers,  as  well 
as  delegates  to  the  convention  of  the  national  organization, 
was  elected,  and  the  occasion  was  made  still  more  notable 
by  the  presence  and  encouragement  of  National  President 
M.  A.  Neff,  of  Cincinnati,  O.,  who  addressed  the  convention. 

The  set  program,  arranged  by  an  entertainment  committee 
consisting  of  L.  J.  Dittmar,  Max  L.  Simons,  and  H.  L.  Strube, 
representing  the  Louisville  exhibitors,  was  as  follows:  Meet- 
ing at  the  Red  Room  of  the  Seelbach  Hotel  at  noon;  routine 
business  and  election  of  officers;  luncheon  and  afternoon 
session,  followed  by  dinner  at  the  hotel;  evening  at  B.  F. 
Keith's  vaudeville  theater,  with  the  special  object  of  viewing 
the  "talking  pictures"  which  are  a  weekly  feature  at  that 
house;  Dutch  lunch  in  the  evening  at  the  Seelbach. 

This  program  was  followed  out  from  beginning  to  end, 
many  of  the  exhibitors  adding  a  further  feature  by  remaining 
over  to  see  the  opening  ball  game  on  the  following  day 
between  the  Louisville  and  Kansas  City  Clubs  of  the  Ameri- 
can Association. 

The  convention  was  called  to  order  by  President  J.  H. 
Stamper,  Jr.,  of  Lexington,  Ky.,  who  presided  over  the 
conduct  of  the  business  which  followed.  One  of  the  motions 
carried  was  that  indicating  the  sense  of  the  convention  that 
members  of  all  local  associations  should  be  requested  to 
join  the  state  organization,  in  order  that  the  larger  body 
might  be  increased  in  numbers  and  strengthened  in  the 
handling  of  the  work  which  it  will  necessarily  have  to   do. 

The  members  present  tendered  a  rising  vote  of  thanks 
to  the  retiring  officers  for  the  splendid  work  which  they  have 
done  during  what  has  practically  been  the  initial  year  of 
the  organization,  and  which  was  correspondingly  trying. 
Those  so  honored  were  |President  Stamper,  Vice-President 
L.  J.  Dittmar,  of  Louisville,  Second  Vice-President  Sherman 
Arns,  of  Maysville,  and  Secretary  L.  H.  Ramsey,  of  Lexing- 
ton. 

The  new  officers  elected  were  as  follows:  President,  L.  J. 
Dittmar,  of  Louisville;  first  Vice-President,  George  A.  Bleich, 
of  Owensboro;  second  Vice-President,  J.  J.  Ciarlo,  of  New- 
port; Secretary,  Fred  J.  Dolle,  of  Louisville;  treasurer,  Max 
L.  Simons,  of  Louisville.  These  officers  ex  officio  constitute 
the  board  of  directors,  with  two  more  members  added  by  a 
vote  of  the  convention.  For  the  ensuing  year  these  additional 
members  will  be  two  of  the  retiring  officers,  J.  H.  Stamper, 
Jr.,  and  L.  H.  Ramsey. 

It  was  voted  to  hold  the  next  session  of  the  organization 
at  Owensboro,  Ky.,  on  the  same  date  in  1914,  subject  to 
change  both  as  to  place  and  date  by  the  board  of  directors. 
The  next  meeting  of  that  body  will  be  held  at  Estill  Springs, 
Ky.,  on  July  23,  at  which  time  action  will  be  taken  on  this  and 
other  matters  which  may  come  before  it. 

Orine  Parker,  of  Covington,  National  vice-president  for 
Kentucky,  was  one  of  those  unfortunately  unable  to  be  present 
at  the  convention,  but  he  was  unanimousely  re-elected  as  a 
testimony  to  his  good  work  in  that  capacity. 

An  important  measure  adopted  by  the  convention  was  a 
motion  to  the  effect  that  the  membership  fee  in  the  organiza- 
tion be  increased  from  $5  to  $15,  the  increase  taking  effect 
after  the  October  directors'  meeting.  This  date  was  fixed 
upon  in  order  to  give  those  who  have  not  yet  affiliated  with 
the  state  body  an  opportunity  to  do  so  before  the  increase 
takes  effect.  The  growing  strength  of  the  League,  however, 
and  the  generally  prosperous  condition  of  the  moving  pic- 
ture business,  with  the  desirability  of  having  the  treasury  in 
good  condition,  were  felt  to  be  good  reasons  for  the  step 
taken;  and  the  several  months  which  will  elapse  before  the 


change  goes  into  force  were  considered  ample  to  give  every- 
body a  chance  to  get  in  under  the  lower  fee. 

The  following  committees  were  "appointed: 

Legislative:  J.  C.  Taylor,  of  Frankfort;  J.  J.  Ciarlo,  New- 
port; J.  H.  Stamper,  Lexington;  Sherman  Arns,  Maysville; 
Georga  A.  Bleich,  Owensboro. 

Grievance:  A.  B.  Arnett,  Midway;  Clyde  Gaines,  Irvine; 
H.  B.  Strube,  Louisville. 

The  committee  on  by-laws  was  not  appointed  as  a  separate 
body,  but,  it  was  decided,  is  to  be  composed  of  the  delegates 
and  alternates  attending  the  national  convention  at  New 
York  in  July,  with  a  view  to  enabling  them  to  harmonize 
the  by-laws  of  the  Kentucky  League  with  those  of  the  na- 
tional body.  The  delegates  elected  were  L.  H.  Ramsey,  of 
Lexington;  A.  B.  Arnett,  of  Midway;  Carl  Tarvin,  of  Dayton; 
L.  J.  Dittmar,  of  Louisville;  Joseph  J.  Ciarlo,  of  Newport; 
and  H.  B.  Strube,  of  Louisville;  George  A.  Bleich,  Joseph  L. 
Steurle,  B.  D.  Griffith,  Fred  J.  Dolle,  J.  M.  Wentsell,  and  Clar- 
ence Bloomfield  being  elected  as  alternates,  in  case  of  the  in- 
ability of  any  of  the  delegates  to  attend.  All  of  the  prin- 
cipals elected,  however,  indicated  their  intention  of  attend- 
ing the  national  convention,  and  it  is  at  least  certain  that 
there  will  be  six  delegates  representing  the  Blue  Grass  State. 

President  Neff  was  called  upon  for  an  address  at  the 
supper  in  the  evening,  which  was  heard  by  the  members 
with  deep  attention  and  interest.  He  stated  that  there  are 
at  this  time  38  state  organizations  affiliated  with  the  National 
League,  while  last  year  there  were  only  seventeen  or  eighteen; 
and  that  he  expected  to  see  40  states  represented  at  New 
York  in  July.  He  related  several  instances  indicating  the 
good  results  brought  about  by  organization  in  producing 
harmony  and  good  feeling  among  exhibitors;  and  his  closing- 
remarks,  which  were  enthusiastically  applauded,  indicate 
the  tenor  of  his  address  and  express  the  feelings  of  the  Ken- 
tucky exhibitors: 

"You  are  destined  to  be  one  of  the  greatest  powers  that 
ever  existed  in  Kentucky,  for  the  good  of  the  state  and  of 
the  public  at  large.  You  are  engaged  in  the  greatest  business 
in  the  world  today;  and  it  is  only  in  its  infancy.  You  have 
a  great  organization,  and  a  great  opportunity,  and  I  am 
confident  that  you  will  realize  it  to  the  fullest." 


CANADIAN  CENSORSHIP  BILL. 
Full  Text  of  the  Law  Passed  for  British  Columbia — News- 
paperman Appointed  Chief  Censor — Square  Deal  Expected. 
The  government  of  the  Province  of  British  Columbia  has 
passed  a  law  establishing  a  Board  of  Censorship  of  theaters 
and  motion  pictures,  which  body  will  assume  its  duties  on 
May  i,  1913.  C.  L.  Gordon,  a  newspaperman  of  considerable 
experience,  has  been  appointed  chief  censor,  with  authority 
to  appoint  his  assistants.  Concerning  the  matter,  W.  E. 
Morphy,  of  Vancouver,  B.  C,  writes  that  the  British  Colum- 
bia Exhibitors'  Association  called  a  meeting  at  which  Mr. 
Gordon  was  invited  to  be  present.  There  was  a  mutual  ex- 
change of  ideas  on  the  subject  of  censorship  and  the  ex- 
hibitors gained  the  impression  that  they  would  get  a  fair 
deal  from  Mr.  Gordon's  department. 

Through  the  courtesy  of  Mr.  Morphy  the  Moving  Picture 
World  is  able  to  give  its  readers  the  full  text  of  the  British 
Columbia  bill. 

An  Act  to  Regulate  Theaters  and  Kinematographs. 

His  Majesty,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Legislative- 
Assembly  of  the  Province  of  British  Columbia,  enacts  as  follows: 

1.  This  Act  may  be  cited  as  the  "Moving  Pictures  Act" 

2.  In  this  Act,  unless  the  context  otherwise  requires,  "Censor"  shall 
mean  the  official  Censor  appointed  under  this  Act,  and  shall  include  an/ 
assistant  and  assistants  to  such  Censor  so  appointed. 

3.  Notwithstanding  any  law  to  the  contrary,  the  Lieutenant-Governor  in- 
Council  shall  have  power  from  time  to  time  to  make  regulations,  similar 
or  different  in  different  localities,  or  with  reference  to  different  classes 
of  buildings,  or  to  different  conditions,  governing  the  construction,  erection, 
operation,  ventilation,  lighting  and  safety  of  theaters,  halls  and  other 
buildings  erected  or  used  for  places  of  public  resort,  entertainment  or 
amusement,  in  which  any  kinematograph,  moving  picture  machine  or  other 
similar  apparatus  is  used  or  operated,  including  inspection  and  supervision. 

4.  Notwithstanding. any  law  to  the  contrary,  the  Lieutenant-Governor  in 
Council  shall  have  power  from  time  to  time  to  make  regulations  governing 


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the  use  and  operation  of  kinematographs,  moving  picture  machines  and 
other  similar  apparatus,  and  prescribing  the  conditions  under  which  such 
machines  shall  be  operated,  and  for  prohibiting  or  regulating  films  and 
slides  to  be  exhibited,  and  prescribing  the  conditions  under  and  the  man- 
ner in  which  all  such  films  shall  be  kept  or  stored,  and  providing  also  the 
conditions  under  which  such  films  shall  be  exhibited  for  inspection  by  the 
Censor,  and  fixing  the  fees  to  be  paid  upon  such  inspection. 

5.  The  Lieutenant-Governor  in  Council  may  appoint  an  officer,  to  be 
caUed  the  "Censor,"  together  with  one  or  more  assistants,  who  shall  hold 
office  during  pleasure,  and  each  of  whom  shall  have  power  to  permit  the 
exhibition  of  or  absolutely  to  prohibit  or  reject  all  films  or  slides  which  it 
is  proposed  to  use  or  exhibit  in  the  Province;  and  such  officers  and  assist- 
ants snail  be  paid  such  salary  as  may  be  determined  from  time  to  time  by 
the  Lieutenant-Governor  in  Council. 

6.  AH  films  or  stationary  picture  slides  intended  to  be  used  in  connection 
with  any  such  kinematograph,  moving  picture  machine  or  other  similar 
apparatus  shall,  before  being  exhibited  for  public  entertainment,  be  inspected 
by  the  Censor,  who  shall  examine  and  pass  upon  the  fitness  for  public 
exhibition  of  all  such  films  and  stationary  picture  slides,  with  a  view  to  the 
prevention  of  the  depiction  of  scenes  of  an  immoral  or  obscene  nature,  the 
representation  of  crime  or  pictures  reproducing  any  brutalizing  spectacle, 
or  which  indicate  or  suggest  lewdness  or  indecency,  or  the  infidelity  or 
unfaithfulness  of  husband  or  wife,  or  any  ether  such  pictures  which  he 
may  consider  injurious  to  morals  or  against  the  public  welfare,  or  which 
may  offer  evil  suggestions  to  the  minds  of  children,  or  which  may  be 
likely  to  offend  the  public. 

7.  After  the  coming  into  force  of  this  Act  it  shall  be  unlawful  for  any 
person,  firm  or  corporation  to  rent,  lease  or  exhibit  any  such  film  or  slide 
to  any  moving  picture  exhibition  or  in  any  moving  picture  show,  or  other 
similar  show,  anywhere  in  the  Province,  unless  the  same  has  been  approved 
bv  the  Censor  and  bears  a  stamp  signifying  such  approval  in  such  manner 
that  the  stamp  will  show  upon  the  canvas,  screen,  or  any  substitute  there- 
for, or  js  accompanied  by  a  certificate  of  such  approval  signed  by  the 
Censor,  which  certificate  shall  be  submitted  to  the  inspection  of  any  person 
on  demand. 

8.  (1)  No  person  or  persons  in  charge  of  a  theater,  hall  or  other  build- 
ing where  shows  are  given  by  means  of  a  kinematograph  or  moving  picture 
machine,  and,  in  the  case  of  a  company  or  society,  no  manager  or  other 
person  in  charge  of  the  establishment  shall  receive  in  any  way  or  permit 
to  attend,  at  any  such  show,  any  child  less  than  fourteen  years  old  unless 
such  child  is  accompanied  by  an  adult. 

(2)  This  section  shall  not,  unless  ihe  Lieutenant-Governor  in  Council  by 
regulation  otherwise  provides,  apply  to  children  received  or  permitted  to 
attend  such  show  as  aforesaid  between  the  hours  of  three-thirty  o'clock 
and  six  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  on  days  upon  which  the  public  schools 
are  open  in  the  place  where  such  theater,  hall,  building  or  establishment 
is  situate,  or  before  six  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  on  any  other  day. 

9.  Any  person  contravening  or  committing  any  breach  of  or  committing 
any  offense  against  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  Act  or  any  of  the  regula- 
tions of  the  Lieutenant-Governor  in  Council  passed  hereunder,  or  refusing, 
omitting  or  neglecting  to  fulfill,  observe,  carry  out  or  perform  any  duty 
or  obligation  by  this  Act  or  by  such  regulations  created,  prescribed  and 
imposed,  shall  be  liable,  upon  summary  conviction,  to  a  fine  of  not  less 
than  five  dollars  and  not  more  than  three  hundred  dollars,  and  a  further 
fine  of  twenty-five  dollars  for  each  day  during  the  time  after  conviction 
which  such  offense  continues. 

10.  The  Censor  and  all  officers  of  the  Provincial  police,  city  and  munici- 
pal police  are  hereby  empowered  and  directed  at  any  time  to  enter  any 
theater,  hall  or  other  building  where  moving  picture  shows  are  given  to 
ascertain  if  the  provisions  of  this  Act  are  complied  with,  and  to  enforce 
the  provisions  of  this  Act  and  the  regulations  passed  thereunder. 

11.  All  fees  paid  and  all  fines  recovered  under  this  Act  and  the  regula- 
tions passed  thereunder  shall  be  paid  to  the  Minister  of  Finance  and  Agri- 
culture for  the  use  of  the  Province. 

12.  For  the  purpose  of  carrying  into  effect  the  provisions  of  this  Act 
according  to  their  true  intent  and  supplying  any  deficiency  therein,  the 
Lieutenant-Governor  in  Council  may  make  such  regulations  not  inconsistent 
with  the  spirit  of  this  Act  as  may  be  deemed  necessary,  advisable  or  con- 
venient, which  shall  have  the  same  force  and  effect  as  if  incorporated 
herein. 

13.  This  Act  shall  come  into  force  on  a  day  to  be  named  by  the  Lieuten- 
ant-Governor by  bis  proclamation. 


CALL  FOR  MISSISSIPPI  CONVENTION. 

A  convention  of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of 
Mississippi,  State  Branch  No.  26  of  the  National  League, 
will  be  held  in  Jackson,  Miss.,  on  the  8th  of  May,  1913.  The 
meeting  will  be  called  in  the  Dixie  Theater  promptly  at  2  p.  m. 
At  this  meeting  delegates  to  the  National  Convention,  to  be 
held  in  New  York  in  July  will  be  appointed. 

Every  motion  picture  Exhibitor  in  the  state  is  invited  and 
urged  to  attend  this  meeting.  It  matters  not  what  service 
you  use  or  what  your  neighbor  uses,  grab  him  by  the  hand 
and  come.  All  roads  lead  to  Jackson.  This  league  will  mean 
much  to  the  exhibitor  who  is  a  member,  so,  if  you  are  a 
"live  wire,"  come  with  us. 

A  regular  "feature"  program  has  been  arranged  to  follow 
the  business  meeting,  including  demonstrations  of  latest 
electric  effects,  orchestrians,  pianos,  machines,  etc.,  for  popu- 
larizing picture  shows.  After  this  we  will  "take  in"  Jackson 
and  wind  up  with  an  11  o'clock  Dutch  lunch,  et  al. 

This    promises    to   be    a    history-making    occasion    in    the 
motion  picture  circles  of  Mississippi,  so  make  your  arrange- 
ments to  attend.     Remember  the  date,  May  8th. 
Very  truly  yours, 

H.  A.  Carleton,  President. 
R.  H.  Redus,  Secretary. 
Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  Mississippi. 


IN  THE  GRIP  OF  THE  FLOOD. 

The  illustration  printed  herewith  is  from  a  view  of  the 
Jewel  Theater,  Hamilton,  Ohio,  during  the  recent  flood 
which  worked  so  much  havoc  in  that  town.  It  is  owned 
by  J.  H.  Bramhall,  who  writes:  "Just  coming  out  of  the 
worst  flood  that  ever  struck  Ohio,  Hamilton  is  in  terrible 
shape — east,  west,  north  and  south  nothing  but  ruin,  but 
the  people  are  brave  and  are  working  hard  to  put  the  city 
on  its  feet.  They  are,  as  suggested  by  the  Lubin  feature 
picture,  'Heroes  One  and  All.'  My  theater  is  on  the  highest 
spot  in  town.  but.  like  the  rest  I  was  battered,  but  I  am 
coming  out.  I  get  a  ray  of  sunshine  every  Monday — the 
Moving  Picture  World." 


CONVENTIONS   SCHEDULED. 

Kansas  State  Convention — At  the  National  Hotel,  Topeka, 
June  2nd  and  3rd. 

Missouri  State  Convention — At  Springfield,  June  10th  and 
nth. 

Iowa  State  Convention — At  the  Auditorium,  Des  Moines, 
May  13th  and  14th. 

Pennsylvania  State  Convention — At  Philadelphia,  May  27th 
and  28th. 

Maryland  State  Convention — At  Baltimore,  June  3rd  and 
4th. 

Mississippi   State   Convention — At  Jackson,   May  8th. 

Delaware  State  Convention — At  DuPont  Hotel,  Wilming- 
ton, May  26th. 

Nebraska  State  Convention — At  Paxton  Hotel,  Omaha, 
May  8th  and  9th. 

Tennessee  State   Convention — May   17;  place   not  given. 

Texas  State  Convention — At  Dallas,  May  28  and  29. 


It  is  indeed  "A  Splendid  Scapegrace"  that  Marc  MacDer- 
mott  has  made  out  of  Yancey  Goree,  O.  Henry's  familiar 
character  in  "A  Blackjack  Bargainer."  There  seems  to  be 
no  limitation  to  the  versatility  of  MacDermott's  work.  He 
is  always  good  in  comedy,  but  he  is  undoubtedly  at  his  best 
in  character  delineation  such  as  he  does  as  Yancey  Goree. 


PRESIDENT  NEFF  APPOINTS  RELIEF  FUND  COM- 
MITTEE. 

A  committee  to  distribute  the  funds  for  the  relief  of  the 
picture  men  suffering  loss  from  the  floods  in  Ohio  and 
Indiana  has  been  appointed  by  President  Neff.  It  will  con- 
sist of  himself,  Secretary  Christenson,  J.  J.  Reider  of  Jack- 
son, Mich.,  F.  J.  Rembusch,  of  Shelbyville,  Ind.,  and  repre- 
sentatives of  each  of  the  trade  papers. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


CHICAGO   LETTER 

By  J  AS.  S.  McQDADE  -J  j 


IT  has  been  discovered  that  a  bill  has  been  recently  in- 
troduced in  the  lower  house  at  Springfield,  this  state, 
for  the  creation  of  a  State  board  of  censors,  for  moving 
pictures  in  Illinois.  About  iooo  bills  have  already  been 
introduced  during  the  present  session,  and  the  bill  in  ques- 
tion will  be  read  and  discussed  in  its  turn — when,  at  the 
present  writing,  is  not  known. 

It  is  understood  that  A.  M.  Gollas,  owner  of  the  Jeffer- 
son Theater,  on  the  South  side,  and  a  member  of  Illinois 
State  Branch  Xo  2,  of  the  M.  P.  E.  L.  of  America,  has  been 
in  Springfield  recently  in  the  interests  of  the  bill;  but, 
whether  as  a  representative  of  the  League  or  not  it  has 
not  been  divulged.  Indeed,  he  is  credited  with  being  the 
father  of  the  bill. 

On  such  an  important  question,  in  which  every  department 
of  the  moving  picture  industry  is  vitally  interested,  it  is 
surely  due  manufacturers,  exchanges  and  exhibitors  gen- 
erally, throughout  the  state,  that  wide  publicity  should 
be  given  the  nature  of  the  measure  now  awaiting  reading 
and  discussion.  It  might  also  relieve  Mr.  Gollas  of  any 
suspicion  that  might  hereafter  attach  to  him  of  being  at 
present  an  aspirant  for  membership  on  the  state  censorship 
board  which  it  is  sought  to  create. 

These  state  boards  of  censorship  of  moving  pictures  must 
be  kept  strictly  outside  the  pale  of  politics.  Once  in  that 
whirlpool  of  mingled  interests,  censorship  will  become  a 
mockery,  and  the  progress  of  the  moving  picture  will  be 
seriously  menaced.  There  is  too  much  at  stake  to  permit 
small  men  and  small  measures  to  retard  that  progress. 

I  can  write  nothing  more  pertinent  to  the  point  at  issue 
than  the  editorial  paragraph  which  appeared  on  page  463,  in 
the  issue  of  the  Moving  Picture  World,  dated  May  3,  and 
which  is  herewith  given: 

"The  Moving  Picture  World  is  inclined  to  the  conclusion 
that  where  the  exhibitor  has  become,  or  appears  to  be, 
sponsor  for  official  censorship,  he  is  acting  upon  a  mistaken 
conception  of  the  attitude  of  the  public  toward  motion  pic- 
tures or  has  been  deceived  as  to  the  true  state  of  affairs 
and  has  thus  been  induced  to  invoke  the  assistance  of  political 
power  that  is  certain  to  prove  more  troublesome  and  burden- 
some in  the  end  than  local  censorship,  which  is,  in  the  main, 
an  imaginary  menace.  In  the  instances  where  censorship 
laws  have  been  forced  upon  the  trade  the  fine  hand  of  the 
politician  is  plainly  discernible  seeking  to  provide  a  lucra- 
tive position  for  some  henchman.  Reference  to  the  provisions 
of  such  acts  as  have  been  printed  in  these  columns  prove 
this  contention.  With  that  evidence  at  hand  The  Moving 
Picture  World  feels  justified  in  branding  every  attempt  at 
official  censorship  as  a  distinct  effort  to  levy  political  toll 
upon  the  motion  picture  business.  In  no  sense  are  such 
efforts  calculated  or  intended  to  protect  the  morals  of  the 
community;  they  are,  in  fact,  but  the  reaching  out  of  the 
grafting  politician  for  more  spoils,  and  should  be  fought  to 
the  last  ditch." 

What  about  the  recently  proposed  bill  for  a  state  censor 
board  in  Wisconsin? 

Let  every  member  of  the  Wisconsin  state  branch  of  the 
M.  P.  E.  L,  of  America  see  to  it  that  the  promoters  are 
absolutely  unbiased,  and  that  no  one  of  them  is  seeking 
position  at  the  expense  of  the  industry. 

Valuable  Educational  Pictures  from  Central  Africa. 

Cherry  Kearton,  the  world  famous  camera  man,  left  Lon- 
don recently  on  an  exploring  trip  through  Central  Africa. 
He  accompanied  the  English  naturalist,  James  Barnes,  with 
whom  he  will  take  moving  pictures  of  rare  animals,  in- 
cluding the  bonga,  gorilla  and  okapi.  No  white  man  has 
ever  seen  the  latter  animal  alive,  so  a  great  feat  will  have 
been  accomplished  if  Mr.  Kearton  should  get  a  snap  shot 
of  it.  The  habits  of  the  gorilla  in  his  native  haunts  will  be 
carefully  studied  and  pictured,  and  search  will  be  made  in  the 
Congo  region  for  a  new  species  between  the  size  of  a 
chimpanzee  and  the  gorilla.  An  attempt  will  also  be  made 
to  secure  pictures  of  the  pigmy  amphibious  elephant,  which 
was  recently  reported  as  having  been  seen  in  that  region. 

Of  one  thing  we  may  rest  assured;  Mr.  Kearton  will 
bring  back  with  him  moving  pictures  of  great  educational 
value  that  will  be  welcomed  throughout  the  world. 


Gary,  Ind.,   Stirred   by  "A   Man  in  the   Making." 

It  is  reported  that  the  superintendent  of  the  great  steel 
mills  down  in  Gary,  Ind.,  is  much  perturbed  by  the  unwel- 
come publicity  which  the  film,  entitled  "A  Man  in  the  Mak- 
ing," chances  to  give  one  of  the  members  of  his  family. 
The  film,  it  is  said,  tells  the  story  of  "the  superintendent  of 
the  Gary  mills,"  and  shows  that  he  has  a  beautiful  daughter 
of  marriageable  age  and  the  winning  of  her  hand  by  a  man 
who  has  risen  from  the  ranks  of  factory  life. 

Now  it  happens  that  the  superintendent  of  the  Gary  mills 
has  a  young  and  beautiful  daughter,  and  it  also  happens  that 
the  film  shows  real  scenes  of  the  great  mills.  What  perplexes 
the  superintendent  is  how  to  prevent  the  workmen  and 
their  families  from  believing  that  the  other  scenes  are  also 
real.  His  daughter  and  her  mother  are  at  present  visiting  in 
California,  oblivious  of  the  rumors  prevailing  in  their  home 
town. 

There  was  no  need  to  speak  of  the  "Gary  mills"  in  this 
film.  It  would  have  done  just  as  well,  and  would  have  been 
more  happy,  if  another  name  had  been  chosen.  The  invasion 
of  the  privacy  of  one's  home  is  not  a  creditable  exploit  for 
the  writer  of  a  scenario. 

Chicago  Council  Bars  Smut  Songs. 

The  smut  song,  thank  heaven!  has  been  doomed  in  Chicago. 
At  the  council  meeting,  held  Monday  night,  April  28,  an 
ordinance  introduced  by  Alderman  Kerner  included  a  para- 
graph forbidding  the  singing  of  any  song  the  words  of 
which  are  suggestive  of  indecency  or  immorality.  This  bars 
the  singing  of  such  songs  in  restaurants,  theaters  and  else- 
where. Some  of  the  smaller  picture  theaters  in  the  city  had 
also  fallen  into  the  habit;  now  the  moving  picture  has  been 
saved  from  the  filthy  association. 

Films  from  Picturesque   Cumberland   Mountains. 

George  L.  Cox,  producer  of  the  Advance  Motion  Picture 
Co.,  this  city,  will  take  a  company  of  players  to  the  Cum- 
berland Mountains  of  Tennessee,  in  the  near  future,  and 
will  produce  five  or  six  one-reel  photoplays  in  the  mountains, 
near  Monteagle.  The  scenario  of  one  of  these  photoplays 
has  been  written  by  Robert  Foran,  and  is  entitled  "The  Girl 
of  Wonder  Cave."  This  film  will  be  produced  in  Wonder 
Cave  nearly  four  miles  under  ground,  and  will  lequire 
special   electrical   equipment  to   take  the   pictures. 

Alvin  B.  Giles,  advertising  director  of  the  company,  ad- 
vises me  that  it  is  the  intention  to  make  good  pictures  from 
every  view  point.  The  company  will  make  split  reels,  full 
reels,  two  reels,  three  reels  and  four  reels,  and  in  no  case 
will  a  one  reel  story  be  padded  into  a  two  reel  production. 

"The  Advance  Company  is  building  for  the  future  along 
commercial,  educational  and  industrial  lines  and  for  the  pro- 
duction of  legitimate  photoplays,"  says  Mr.  Giles.  "We 
are  not  worrying  about  our  market,  as  we  feel  that  good 
pictures  will  always  find  one.  With  our  capital,  energy  and 
ability,  we  believe  we  can  make  our  own  place  in  the  mov- 
ing picture  world. 

"We  are  making  at  present  a  3,000-foot  educational  pic- 
ture for  the  Chicago  Railways  Company.  This  picture 
will  be  used  throughout  the  United  States,  and  will  be 
shown  by  the  allied  street  railways'  interests.  They  have 
been  produced  for  the  purpose  of  training  employees  in 
their  duties,  and  also  to  show  the  public  how  they  should 
board  and  leave  surface  cars,  and  how  to  avoid  danger.  We 
have  just  finished  an  excellent  picture  for  the  safety  depart- 
ment of  the  Rock  Island  Railroad,  and  have  just  begun 
work  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  for  the  Dow  Wire  &  Iron 
Works.  We  have  also  contracted  with  Clarence  and 
Leslie  Dietz,  of  Cameron  Dam,  Wis.,  to  produce  for  them, 
in  three  reels,  a  history  of  the  Dietz  family.  This  will  make 
a  very  interesting  picture,  as  few  citizens  of  this  country 
have  ever  been  given  more  publicity  than  John  Dietz  in  his 
famous  defence  of  Cameron  Dam. 

"  'The  Battle  of  Flowers'  has  just  been  taken  in  San 
Antonio.  It  will  show  the  old  historic  missions  there,  scenes 
of  the  automobile  races  and  the  coronation  of  the  queen 
of  the  event.  We  are  the  only  company  making  full  reels 
of  the  events  transpiring  in  San  Antonio  at  this  time  .in- 
cluding San  Jacinto  day,  and  are  working  under  the  direction 
of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  The  Sons  of  Alamo.  The 
latter  is  an  organization  of  the  descendants  of  the  defenders 
of  the  Alamo." 

Chicago   Film   Brevities. 

John  F.  Pribyl,  personal  representative  of  William  N. 
Selig,  left  for  a  pleasure  tour  of  Europe,  Saturday,  April 
26th.     He  will  be  gone  several  weeks. 


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An  executive  meeting  of  the  executive  committee  of  the 
Independent  Exchange  Co.,  will  be  held  in  the  Hotel  Knick- 
erbocker, New  York  City,  Friday,  May  and. 

*  *    * 

Frank  H.  Zimmerman,  well  known  in  film  circles  through- 
out the  country  and  owner  of  the  Zimmerman  buffet  in  the 
Unity  Building,  this  city,  was  killed  by  a  Milwaukee  elec- 
tric car,  in  Winnetka,  Sunday,  April  27.  Mr.  Zimmerman 
died  a  few  minutes  after  being  struck.  He  failed  to  hear 
the  motorman's  gong,  it  is  said.  His  numerous  friends  regret 
exceedingly  his  untimely  end.  He  was  47  years  old  and 
leaves  a  wife  and  two  children  to  mourn  his  loss.  The 
funeral  took  place  from  his  home,  at  1240  Hood  avenue, 
this   city,   Wednesday,   April  29. 

*  *     * 

The  Powers  Theater,  one  of  the  old  legitimate  houses 
of  the  city,  has  been  playing  to  capacity  lately  by  putting 
all  seats  (not  taken  at  7:30  o'clock  p.  m.)  on  sale  for  50  cents. 
This  is  one  of  the  old  $2.00  houses. 

*  *     * 

Extensive  preparations  have  been  made  for  the  opening 
of  the  Cines-Kleine  production  of  ''Quo  Vadis"  in  McVickers, 
on  May  5th.  There  will  be  a  matinee  every  day.  The  prices 
are:  evenings,  25  and  50  cents;  matinees,  25   cents. 

*  *     * 

L.  E.  Goetz,  proprietor  of  the  Crystal  Theater,  Monroe, 
Wis.,  called  at  the  World  office  last  week.  He  stated  that 
he  installed,  recently,  a  special  Wurlitzer  Piano-orchestra, 
at  the  cost  of  $1,600,  and  that  he  finds  it  a  very  good  draw- 
ing card.  The  Crystal  uses  licensed  service  and  charges  5 
and  10  cents  admission. 

*  *     * 

J.  G.  Conner,  manager  of  the  International  Feature  Fijm 
Exchange,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  writes  that  the  St.  Louis  feature 
film  renters  held  a  meeting,  April  23,  for  the  purpose  of  form- 
ing a  credit  association  for  the  state.  Those  in  attendance 
were:  C.  Werner,  American  Feature  Film  Co.,  St  Louis;  M. 
J.  Goldbaum.  Warner's  Feature  Films,  St.  Louis,  and  J. 
G.  Conner.  The  next  regular  meeting  was  held  April  30, 
to  which  all  the  exchange  men  of  the  state  were  invited. 

*  *     * 

Twenty-seven  automobiles,  lining  both  sides  of  N.  Clark 
street,  near  the  Parkway  Theater,  this  city,  were  counted  one 
day  last  week.  This  showing  is  almost  a  nightly  occurrence 
at  this  fashionable  picture  theater.  In  addition  to  finely 
projected  licensed  pictures,  F.  O.  Nielsen,  proprietor,  pro- 
vides fine  vocal  and  instrumental  numbers.  Great  praise 
is  due  Miss  Olive  Bergeron,  pianist,  and  Mrs.  Clyde  Slusser, 
organist,   for  their   talented  accompaniment   of  the   pictures. 


WHO   HAS   SEEN   THIS   BOY? 

If  anyone  in  the  picture  business  has  seen  the  young 
man  whose  likeness  is  printed  herewith  they  will  confer 
a    great    favor    upon    his    relatives    by    communicating   with 

them,  or  urging  him 
to  do  so  without  delay. 
His  name  is  George  S. 
Boulard  and  he  has 
made  his  home  with 
his  aunt,  Mrs.  F.  W. 
Davis  at  142  West  12th 
Street,  New  York. 
Young  Boulard  is  21 
years  of  age  and  of  ex- 
cellent character.  Sev- 
eral months  ago  he 
worked  in  some  pic- 
tures at  Fort  Lee,  N. 
J.,  and  becoming  infat- 
uated with  the  work, 
is  believed  to  have 
joined  some  picture 
company. 

Boulard's  father  and 
mother  are  dead,  but 
he  has  a  sister  who  is 
deeply  interested  in 
his  welfare,  and  his 
••  ,  .         ,  .  continued   absence   and 

silence  as  to  his  whereabouts  has  seriously  affected  her 
health.  His  aunt  fears  that  if  word  is  not  received  from 
him  soon  she  will  not  be  long  foi  this  world.  Mrs. 
iJavis  is  greatly  concerned  in  the  matter  and  is  anxious 
to  receive  some  news  of  her  nephew.  Any  information 
addressed  to  her  as  abo-e  noted  will  be  appreciated 


George  S.  Boulard. 


The  Kehrleins  Building, 

Will  Have  a  Fine  Picture  House  in  Fresno— Others  to 
Come  Later. 
When  Emil  Kehrlein,  Jr.,  was  in  New  York  last  winter 
he  announced  that  presently  he,  with  his  father  and  brother, 
would  have  a  circuit  of  motion  picture  theaters  along  the 
California  coast.  He  had  resigned  from  the  Turner  and 
Dahnken  circuit,  with  the  success  of  which  the  Kehrleins 
have  been  closely  identified,  but  the  months  passed  with  no 
announcements  and  the  matter  was  supposed  to  have  dropped, 
ft  ow  comes  the  announcement  that  ground  is  being  broken 
ior.,t,he,  first  of  these  houses  which  will  be  located  in  Fresno. 

All  three  of  the  Kehrleins  are  more  than  ordinarily  adroit 
managers  and  the  announcement  of  their  plans  is  of  more 
than  ordinary  import: 

The  building  is  to  cost  $150,000  and  is  to  occupy  a  space 
75.x  150  feet  and  is  to  be  constructed  of  steel,  cement  and 
brick.  It  will  be  entirely  fireproof.  In  height  it  will  be 
equal  to  a  two-story  building,  and  in  architecture  it  will 
be  of  a  classic  design. 

The  theater  will  be  devoted  exclusively  to  moving  pic- 
tUT=u-  a"d  '*  wi"  have  a  seatinS  capacity  of  2,000  people. 

This  is  to  be  but  one  of  a  large  circuit  of  moving  picture 
houses,  and  Fresno  is  to  have  the  honor  of  being  the  city 
where  the  first  house  of  the  circuit  will  be  opened.  When 
Mr.  Kehrlein  left  this  city  some  months  ago  he  went  to  New 
York,  where  he  laid  the  foundation  for  this  circuit  of  houses, 
which  will  be  known  as  the  Kehrlein  Kinema  Circuit  of 
California.  Already  negotiations  are  under  way  for  twenty  or 
more  especially  constructed  theater  buildings,  Richmond, 
Stockton.  Berkeley,  Hayward,  Oakland  and  Fresno  to  be 
among  the  cities  where  new  houses  will  go  up.  Plans  for 
all  of  these  photo  theaters  are  now  in  the  hands  of  the 
architects. 

The  structure  will  be  equip'ped  with  all  of  the  latest  de- 
vices known  to  the  metropolitan  photo  playhouses,  and 
with  every  convenience  for  the  patrons.  Every  one  of  the 
2,000  seats  will  be  provided  with  the  mushroom  system  of 
combined  heating  and  cooling,  a  system  which  has  been  little 
used  in  the  \\  est  up  to  the  present  time,  but  which  has  proved 
to  be  very  successful  in  the  East.  Regarding  the  music 
Mr.  Kehrlein  says: 

"We  have  found  that  the  piano  and  the  organ  are  rapidly 
becoming  obsolete  for  the  interpretation  of  photoplays,  so 
we  shall  install  a  Kinema  organ-orchestra,  costing  $15,000, 
which  has  proved  to  be  perfectly  adapted  for  the  orchestra- 
tion of  Kinema  plays." 


RELIANCE  STUDIO  NOTES. 

General  Stage  Director,  Oscar  C.  Apfel,  and  his  talented 
wife,  Marion  Brooks,  have  returned  from  a  two  weeks  trip 
to  Panama.  Oscar  enjoyed  his  much  needed  rest  and  had  a 
visit  with  Irving  Willett  and  Anna  Lehr  in  Havana  where 
pictures  of  the  Atlantic  Squadron  have  just  been  completed. 

Edgar  Lewis  returned  from  Oklahoma  with  four  big  West- 
ern pictures  which  he  directed  on  Miller's  101  Ranch  for 
early  Reliance  release.  The  first  one,  "The  Sheriff,"  will 
be  presented  on  May  10th  to  be  followed  by  "After  the 
Massacre"  on  May  14th. 

Among  the  new  members  of  the  Reliance  Stock  Company 
is  Ethel  Phillips,  the  well-known  Australian  actress,  who 
will  make  her  first  American  appearance  in  Reliance  films. 
Thomas  R.  Mills  and  Alan  Hale  have  also  been  added  to 
the  Reliance  ranks  as  has  the  beautiful  child  actress,  Runa 
Hodges. 

Irving  Cummings  has  been  elected  Captain  of  the  Re- 
liance Baseball  Team  which  is  practicing  daily  and  expects 
to  schedule  a  number  of  interesting  games.  Challenges  from 
Lubin,  Edison  and  a  number  of  other  teams  have  been 
received. 

Mgr.  J.  V.  Ritchey  was  made  a  railroad  president  on 
Tuesday  of  last  week  but  only  held  the  job  down  for  a  few 
hours.  The  responsibility  was  gladly  shifted  to  other 
shoulders  after  a  picture  was  taken  of  a  railroad  incident 
which  compelled  Mr.  Ritchey  to  assume  all  responsibility 
for  the  road  in  case  of  accident  during  the  making  of  the 
film. 


"THE  MASTER  CRACKSMAN"  TO  BE  PRODUCED. 

Following  his  policy  of  presenting  dramas  by  recognized 
writers,  J.  V.  Ritchey  of  the  Reliance  has  completed  ar- 
rangements with  Stephen  Allen  Reynolds,  the  well-known 
author,  to  make  a  moving  picture  production  of  his  recent 
story,  "The  Master  Cracksman,"  which  appeared  in  a  late 
issue  of  "Adventure."  The  picture  will  be  staged  by  Direc- 
tor Oscar  C.  Apfel,  in  two  reels  and  seventy-five  scenes. 


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Doings  at  Los  Angeles 

Biograph  to  Issue  Instructions  to  Exhibitors — Many  Changes 
in  Producing  Staffs  on  the  Coast. 

CAREFULLY  framed  suggestions  to  exhibitors  and  op- 
erators about  how  to  project  Biograph  pictures  in  order 
to  get  the  effect  planned  by  the  producer  are  now  being 
prepared  by  the  Biograph  Company.  The  plan  is  to  send  a 
copy  to  every  licensed  theater  in  the  United  States  and  tp 
exhibitors  abroad  who  use  Biograph  releases. 

The  Biograph  management  has  been  much  annoyed  lately 
by  complaints  of  rapid  and  jerky  action  in  the  films.  In- 
vestigation in  many  cases  has  disclosed  the  fact  that  the 
method  of  projection  rather  than  the  process  of  manufacture 
is  the  cause  of  the  trouble.  The  pictures  are  carefully  gauged 
to  give  exactly  the  proper  slowness  or  rapidity  of  movement 
of  the  characters  on  the  screen  when  run  at  a  uniform 
speed  of  eighteen  minutes  to  the  thousand-foot  reel. 
In  the  making  of  the  original  negative,  however,  the 
film  is  not  run  at  a  uniform  speed.  In  some  scenes 
exposures  are  made  at  the  rate  of  ten  a  second  and 
in  others  they  are  increased  to  double  that  number. 
When  the  scene  which  was  made  photographed  at  the 
rate  of  ten  pictures  a  second  is  run  through  a  projecting 
machine  at  the  rate  of  15  or  16  a  second,  the  figures  on  the 
screen  will  seem  to  move  three-fifths  faster  than  the  actors 
actually  moved  when  the  picture  was  being  taken,  and,  on 
the  other  hand,  the  rapidly  photographed  picture  will  give  the 
appearance  of  slow  motion  on  the  screen. 

The  directors  of  the  Biograph  pictures  are  carefully  timing 
their  scenes,  regulating  slowness  or  rapidity  of  action  to  the 
spirit  of  the  scene.  When  a  too  energetic  operator  therefore 
grinds  a  full  reel  through  in  twelve  or  fourteen  minutes  it  is 
no  wonder  that  some  of  the  scenes  race  like  mad,  or  that  the 
slow  scenes  step  along  at  a  lively  pace. 

All  this  ground,  and  a  great  deal  more,  is  to  be  fully  cov- 
ered in  the  circular  now  in  preparation. 

The  entire  Biograph  organization  will  return  to  New  York 
within  another  month.  May  28  is  the  date  which  has  been 
tentatively  selected  for  the  departure.  There  will  be  upwards 
of  60  persons  in  the  party  which  will  make  the  trip  across 
the  continent.  Most  of  the  men  in  the  organization  are  mem- 
bers of  The  Photoplayers  and  the  club  is  planning  a  farewell 
party  to  be  held  during  the  last  week. 

Changes  in  Universal  Staff. 
Resignations  and  dismissals  have  separated  more  than 
thirty  persons  from  the  payroll  of  the  Universal  Company 
this  week.  Several  of  the  directors  have  left  to  join  other 
companies  and  a  number  of  well-known  actors  and  actresses 
are  among  the  missing.  J.  F.  McDonald  and  C.  H.  Mat- 
thews, who  have  been  in  charge  of  the  Power's  companies,  re- 
signed to  take  positions  with  Thomas  Evans,  who  has  come 
here  to  open  a  studio.  He  has  taken  the  Monopol  studio  in 
Hollywood  and  will  make  regular  releases.  Gossip  here  is 
that  he  will  work  under  an  arrangement  with  Pat  Powers. 
Wilfred  Lucas  left  this  week  to  return  to  New  York,  but 
has  made  no  announcement  of  his  future  plans.  Another 
director  who  resigned  is  Frank  E.  Montgomery,  one  of  the 
oldest  directors  in  the  Universal  camp.  He  is  going  into  the 
producing  business  on  his  own  account. 

While  these  directors  were  leaving,  others  were  coming  on. 
Allan  Dwan,  until  a  week  ago  producer  for  the  American 
Company  at  Santa  Barbara,  was  brought  down  to  succeed 
Montgomery,  in  charge  of  one  of  the  three  Bison  companies. 
He  brought  with  him  three  of  the  principal  members  of  the 
American  organization — Wallie  Reid,  son  of  Hal  Reid,  as 
leading  man,  Pauline  Bush  as  leading  woman,  and  Jessalyn 
Von  Trump,  ingenue. 

C.  H.  Grandon,  who  has  been  directing  the  second  Lubin 
company  at  Glendale,  was  also  induced  to  join  the  Universal 
forces.  He  carried  away  with  him  three  of  his  best  people 
in  the  Lubin  company — Clara  Williams,  his  leading  woman, 
A.  W.  Hall,  heavy,  and  Marshal  Neilan,  formerly  juvenile 
lead  with  the  Santa  Monica  Kalem  company.  These  deser- 
tions from  the  Lubin  ranks  are  supposed  to  be  the  princi- 
pal reason  for  the  Lubin  company  being  ordered  back  to 
Philadelphia  this  week.  Grandon  is  not  altogether  a  stranger 
in  the  Independent  group,  for  he  was  formerly  in  charge  of 
the  Imp  studio  in  this  city,  several  years  ago,  before  the  Uni- 
versal was  formed. 

These  directorial  changes  have  resulted  in  a  new  lineup 
among  the  companies.  The  Universal  companies  now  at 
work  nere,  together  with  their  directors,  are  as  follows: 

Rex — Otis   Turner,   Mr.   and   Mrs.    Phillips   Smalley,   Bob 
Leonard. 
Powers — Harry  Pollard  and  Jack  O'Brien. 
Bison — Francis  Ford,  Harry  McRae,  Allan  Dwan. 
Nestor — Al  E.  Christie,  M.  H.  Fahrney,  C.  H.  Grandon. 
Imp — Frank  E.  Woods. 
A.  M.  Kennedy,  general  manager  of  the  Pacific  Coast  stu- 


dios of  the  Universal  Company,  announces  a  change  of  pol- 
icy with  reference  to  the  big  Bison  productions.  Indian, 
Western  and  Civil  War  subjects  have  been  discontinued  and 
for  the  next  six  months  or  a  year  the  subjects  will  all  relate 
to  the  occupation  of  the  Philippines  and  Cuba  by  the  Ameri- 
can Army.  Francis  Ford  will  occupy  himself  with  Philip- 
pine pictures  and  Harry  McRae  will  direct  the  Cuban  pic- 
tures. Ford  is  now  at  work  on  his  first  picture,  a  three-reel 
subject  called  "The  Stars  and  Stripes  Forever."  Aguinaldo 
is  one  of  the  characters  in  the  story.  McRae's  first  three- 
reel  Cuban  story  will  be  "Life,  Love  and  Liberty."  Follow- 
ing these  Ford  will  do  "The  Battle  of  San  Juan  Hill"  and 
McRae  will  put  on  "The  Grand  Old  Flag." 

For  use  in  these  pictures  Kennedy  has  just  bought  $2,700 
worth  of  Spanish  uniforms  to  add  to  the  monster  wardrobe 
already  owned  by  the  company.  Another  costly  purchase 
was  four  machine  guns  of  modern  type  which  are  now  on 
their  way  here  from  New  York.  For  the  Filipino  pictures  a 
quantity  of  bolos  was  needed.  After  many  telegraphic  in- 
quiries, including  one  to  Manila,  it  was  found  that  a  dealer 
in  St.  Louis  had  150  of  them.  How  they  happened  to  be  in 
St.  Louis  is  a  mystery,  but  they  are  now  in  Los  Angeles. 

Another  change  of  policy  relates  to  Otis  Turner's  Rex 
company.  For  the  next  year  Turner  will  devote  his  talents 
to  the  production  of  pirate  pictures.  Kennedy  has  leased 
from  the  Southern  Pacific  railroad,  for  a  period  of  one  year, 
a  fleet  of  42  lateen  rigged  Greek  fishing  vessels  which  are  the 
exact  types  which  were  used  by  pirates  on  the  Spanish  main. 
Turner's  first  three-reel  pirate  picture  is  under  way.  It  is  to 
be  called  "The  Buccaneers."  It  has  been  in  preparation  for 
nearly  three  months. 

Richard  Willis,  who  has  been  scenario  editor  for  the  Uni- 
versal Western  branch  ever  since  it  was  formed,  severed  his 
connection  with  the  company  this  week.  He  is  open  for  a 
new  connection. 

Harold  Lockwood,  formerly  with  the  Selig  Company,  is 
the  new  leading  man  with  Director  McRae's  company.  Mc- 
Rae until  lately  was  a  Selig  director. 

Evelyn  Quick,  formerly  of  the  Keystone,  succeeded  Louise 
Glaum  as  leading  woman  with  Christie's  Nestor  company 
this  week. 

Selig  Will  Feature  the  Ostriches. 

The  next  wild  animal  novelty  of  the  Selig  company  is  to 
feature  ostriches,  if  they  can  be  regarded  as  animals.  For 
several  months  a  trainer  has  been  working  with  an  ostrich 
at  the  Selig  Wild  Animal  Farm  and  this  week  Director  Colin 
Campbell  took  the  trained  bird  and  several  members  of  the 
company  to  San  Jacinto,  where  there  is  a  big  ostrich  breed- 
ing farm,  with  several  thousand  young  and  adult  birds  roam- 
ing at  large. 

Vitagraph  Activities. 

Director  Bowman,  formerly  with  the  K-B  company,  has 
joined  forces  with  Rollin  S.  Sturgeon's  company  of  Western 
Vitagraph  playei's  at  Santa  Monica,  Cal.  Director  Bowman's 
first  production  as  a  Vitagraph  producer  will  be  "The  Yellow 
Streak,"  a  strong  domestic  drama,  by  W.  Hanson  Durham, 
of  the  scenario  department. 

The  new  studio  at  Santa  Monica  is  rapidly  nearing  com- 
pletion and  will  soon  be  ready  for  occupancy. 

W.  Hanson  Durham,  scenario  editor  of  the  Western  Vita- 
graph company,  who  recently  fractured  his  knee  at  the  open- 
ing recention  of  the  Photoplayers  club,  March  8th,  is  now 
able  to  be  up  and  about  his  rooms  with  the  aid  of  a  cane. 
Editor  Durham  is  still  on  the  job,  notwithstanding  his 
accident. 

Miss  Daisy  Smith,  formerly  with  the  Kalem  Company  in 
the  scenario  department,  and  Mrs.  David  Miles,  formerly 
with  the  Kinemacolor  Company,  are  now  with  the  scenario 
department  at  Santa  Monica,  Cal. 

Miss  Anne  Schaefer  and  Mr.  George  C.  Stanley,  the  two 
well-known  and  versatile  stars,  have  been  selected  to  attend 
and  represent  the  Western  Vitagraph  Company  of  America 
at  the  exhibitors'  league  at  San  Francisco,  by  the  league,  and 
they  will  go  there  about  the  first  or  second  of  May. 

Another  new  camera  man  has  been  added  in  Frank  Will- 
iams, who  was  formerly  with  the  Pathe,  Gaumont  and  Es- 
sanay  companies.  He  was  -with  Pathe  at  Paris,  Versailles 
and  Nice  and  Gaumont  at  Paris.  He  made  most  of  the 
Pathe  notable  scenic  and  trick  as  well  as  other  large  produc- 
tions for  the  past  few  years  until  1911.  He  has  also  been 
with  Essanay  Chicago  company,  and  was  behind  the  camera 
in  most  of  their  big  industrial,  scenic  and  general  work. 

Notes. 
Frank  Shaw,  who  directed  pictures  for  a  short  time  with 
Wilbert  Melville's  Lubin  company,  has  left  that  organization. 
The  ordinance  enlarging  the  local  municipal  motion  pic- 
ture censor  board  from  5  to  7  members  having  become  effec- 
tive, the  Mayor  has  filled  the  two  new  positions  by  appoint- 
ing Mrs.  Florence  Moore  and  Mrs.  P.  G.  Hubert. 

P.M.POWELL. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 

Among  the  Picture  Theaters 

News  and  Views  of  Houses  Here  and  There. 


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IDEAL  THEATER,  LOUISVILLE,   KY. 

WHILE  the  business  district  of  every  city  of  importance 
can  boast  of  handsome  moving  picture  theaters, 
comparatively  few  high  class  houses  are  to  be  found 
in  the  residential  districts  of  cities  throughout  the  country. 
It  is  generally  believed  by  moving  picture  magnates  that  the 
medium-sized  theaters  are  still  good  enough  for  sections  of 
a  city  where  the  residents  must  be  depended  on  for  patronage. 
An  exception  to  this  rule  is  the  Ideal  Theater,  located  at 
Twenty-third  and  Market  streets,  Louisville.  The  cost  of 
the  Ideal  was  no  less  than  $65,000.  When  the  plans  were 
announced,  moving  picture  men  were  amazed,  to  say  the 
least.  They  seriously  questioned  the  judgment  of  Fred  Dolle, 
and  Joseph  and  Louis  Steurle,  of  the  Broadway  Amusement 
Company,  which  put  up  the  Ideal.  The  acumen  of  these 
men  has  been  demonstrated  by  the  popularity  of  the  Ideal 
and  the  tremendous  success  it  has  attained  since  the  day 
it  was  thrown  open  to  the  public,  a  few  months  ago. 

The  Ideal,  in  which  no  expense  was  spared,  compares  favor- 
ably with  any  animated  picture  house  in  the  business  dis- 
trict of  Louisville,  or  any  other  Southern  city.  In  general 
style  and  appearance,  it  is  rivalled  by  but  one  animated  pic- 
ture house  in  the  Kentucky  metropolis.  The  Ideal,  however, 
has  the  advantage  of  being  even  more  modern,  and  the 
few  improvements  of  note  which  have  appeared  since  the 
erection  of  its  peer  have  been  incorporated  in  the  Ideal. 

With  municipal  authorities  throughout  the  country  turn- 
ing their  attention  to  motion  picture  houses  and  urging  more 
caution  in  safeguarding  patrons,  the  Ideal  stands  out  promi- 
nently as  absolutely  immune  from  danger.  Particular  at- 
tention was  devoted  to  the  fire  prevention  side  of  the  struc- 
ture when  the  plans  were  drawn,  while  every  modern  device 
was  installed  to  minimize  the  possibility  of  loss  of  life  in  case 
of  a  conflagration.  The  Ideal  has  provided  no  less  than 
34  exits  for  its  clientele,  all  of  which  are  available  at  all  time. 
An  automatic  device  insures  the  proper  operation  of  the 
doors  at  any  time,  and  the  big  theater,  capable  of  seating 
1,300  people,  could  be  emptied  in  a  very  few  minutes.  These 
precautions  might  be  regarded  as  superfluous,  in  view 'of  the 
assurances  of  the  architects  and  contractors  who  planned 
the  building.  Brick,  steel  and  concrete  were  used  in  the 
work,  and  it  is  difficult  to  see  how  a  fire  could  gain  any  head- 
way. However,  Manager  Fred  Dolle  contemplates  the  added 
safety  appliances  with  satisfaction,  while  the  public  has  put 
the  stamp  of  approval  on  the  arrangements  by  patronizing 
the  house  liberally. 


The  Ideal  is  75  feet  wide  and  150  feet  long.  A  feature  is 
the  unusual  height  of  the  ceiling,  measuring  40  feet.  The 
Ideal  is  exceptional  in  that  a  balcony  has  been  installed. 
The  addition  seats  200  people,  besides  the  1,100  on  the  main 
floor.  Should  it  prove  necessary,  a  gallery  might  also  be 
added  without  alterations,  the  height  of  the  ceiling  making 
a  third  floor  possible. 

The  color  scheme  of  the  Ideal  has  been  one  of  its  most 
attractive  features,  giving  the  house  an  atmosphere  of  luxury 
found  in  few  of  the  moving  picture  theaters.  Old  rose 
and  ivory  are  the  colors  utilized,  the  two  blending  in  the 
most  harmonious  style  and  making  the  theater  a  delight  to 
that  part  of  the  public  which  pays  especial  attention  to  de- 
tails. The  plaster  relief  work  which  is  to  be  found  on  both 
interior  and  exterior  is  in  the  same  style,  adding  a  satisfying 
finishing  touch  to  the  decorations.  The  inverted  indirect 
system  of  lighting  is  used  and  has  given  satisfaction,  diffus- 
ing the  theater  with  the  soft  light  which  has  proven  so 
restful  in  comparison  with  the  glare  from  the  old  fixtures. 
Current  is  secured  from  the  wires  of  the  Louisville  Lighting 
Co.,  a  leading  central  station  of  that  section. 

The  Ideal,  though  featuring  moving  pictures,  has  catered 
to  those  who  like  a  little  vaudeville  mixed  with  their  amuse- 
ment. While  it  is  probable  that  the  films  will  always  prove 
the  leading  attraction  at  the  West  End  house,  practically 
any  attraction  would  find  itself  at  home  in  the  theater.  Back 
of  the  stage  are  a  half-dozen  dressing  rooms,  where  every 
facility  demanded  by  stars  of  the  stage  may  be  found.  The 
stage  itself  is  large  enough  to  accommodate  the  majority 
of  legitimate  shows,  being  75  feet  wide  and  30  deep.  The 
proscenium  arch  is  30  feet  wide.  The  rigging  loft  is  60 
feet  in  height,  giving  stage  hands  plenty  of  working  space. 
However,  pictures  will  probably  prove  the  main  drawing- 
card  at  the  Ideal,  and  one  or  two  vaudeville  acts  only  will 
be  used  each  week. 

The  exterior  lighting  arrangements  of  the  Ideal  are  note- 
worthy, being  novel  in  the  extreme.  Not  a  single  electric 
light  has  been  placed  on  the  exterior  of  the  theater,  not- 
withstanding which  the  house  is  admitted  to  be  one  of  the 
most  brilliantly  lighted  in  Louisville  or  the  South.  Illumi- 
nation has  been  provided  by  the  General  Electric  Company 
by  four  powerful  arc  lamps,  attached  to  posts.  The  lamps 
have  found  favor  in  the  East,  being  used  in  Baltimore,  New 
Haven  and  other  cities  for  street  lighting.  They  resemble 
the  ordinary  street  lamp  to  a  great  extent,  differing  only 
in   that  the  mechanism  is  inverted  for  ornamental  purposes. 


Interior  View  of  the  Ideal  Theater,  Louisville,  Ky. 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


While  the  lighting  at  the  Ideal  has  proved  unusually  effec- 
tive, it  also  is  tasteful  and  has  been  a  feature  which  has 
appealed  strongly  to  many. 

The  comfort  offered  by  the  Ideal  has  perhaps  been  one 
of  the  salient  factors  in  its  popularity.  Every  device  which 
could  add  to  the  well-being  of  spectators  is  to  be  found  in 
the  Market  Street  theater.  The  drop  of  seven  feet  in  the 
floor  is  sharp  enough  to  permit  patrons  in  the  rear  of  the 
house  to  gain  a  clear  view  of  the  stage,  regardless  of  the  size 
of  the  person  occupyirlg  the  seat  immediately  ahead.  The 
chairs  are  of  the  standard  opera  type,  broad  and  roomy 
enough  to  allow  the  tired  business  man  to  watch  the  per- 
formance with  ease  after  his  day's  work.  The  chairs  are 
heavily  upholstered,  and  in  restfulness  rival  the  Morris  chairs 
to  be  found  in  the  homes  of  the  affluent. 

The  air  of  the  Ideal  is  changed  hundreds  of  times  daily, 
two  big  monitors  in  the  ceiling  performing  that  important 
function.  Steam  heat  is  used  in  the  winter  and  the  house 
is  kept  at  an  agreeable  temperature  at  all  times.  In  the 
summer  the  structure  resembles  an  airdome.  The  venti- 
lators in  the  ceiling  are  opened,  while  the  thirty-four  exits 
also  allow  natural  air  to  enter.  In  addition,  there  are  thirty- 
four  windows  over  the  doors,  which  further  give  the  Ideal 
the  appearance  of  an  out-of-door  theater  in  the  summer. 
Modern  oscillating  electric  fans  add  to  the  comfort  of  patrons 
during  the  hot  weather.  . 

The  lobby  of  the  Ideal  is  one  of  the  widest  in  Louisville, 
measuring  65  feet  in  width.  The  outside  of  the  house  is  as 
attractive  as  the  inside,  and  persons  who  are  in  doubt  need 
take  but  one  look  to  be  convinced  of  the  excellence  of  the 
shows.  The  operating  booth  is  carefully  isolated  from  the 
remainder  of  the  house  by  steel  compartments.  The  throw 
is  an  even  100  feet,  offering  no  difficulty  to  experienced 
operators  in  charge  of  the  Power's  6-A  machines. 

A  three-piece  orchestra  plays  to  the  pictures  nicely  and 
the  music  at  the  Ideal  is  of  the  same  high  calibre  as  other 
features.  Matinees  are  given  on  Sunday  only.  The  admis- 
sion price  is  five  and  ten  cents,  the  former  applying  to 
children.  Two  shows  are  the  usual  number,  four  being 
given  on  Sundays. 

The  popularity  of  the  Ideal  has  been  a  surprise  to  many 
keen  exhibitors.  However,  Manager  Fred  Dolle  evinced  no 
astonishment  at  the  money-making  proclivities  of  the  house. 

"We  draw  from  the  entire  western  section  of  Louisville," 
said  Mr.  Dolle,  "and  our  shows  are  good  enough  to  cause 
transients  to  leave  the  beaten  path  to  take  a  look.  In  fact, 
a  good  deal  of  our  business  comes  from  transients  who  have 
heard  of  the  theater  and  are  anxious  to  inspect  it.  The  bulk 
of  the  business,  however,  is  from  the  residential  districts,  and 
is  what  we  must  depend  on.  The  success  of  the  house  merely 
indicates  that  courteous  treatment  and  giving  full  value  are 
as  vital  in  the  moving  picture  business  as  in  any  other." 

The  Ideal  employs  fifteen  men.  This  staff  has  been  able 
to  take  care  of  the  work  nicely,  all  being  veterans  of  the 
amusement  field.  Two  operators,  two  men  at  the  doors, 
three  ushers,  three  musicians,  two  on  the  stage,  and  several 
other  attaches  form  the  staff.  As  stated,  Fred  Dolle  is 
manager  of  the  house,  which  is  operated  by  the  Broadway 
Amusement  Company.  The  Broadway  handles  four  other 
motion  picture  houses  in  Louisville,  but  is  especially  proud 
of  its  latest. 


The    accompanying   photograph    shows    a    crowd    of    mer- 
chants trying  to  get  into  Judge's  theater  on   the   afternoon 


BUYS  PARTNER'S  INTEREST. 

I.  Summerfield  is  now  the  sole  owner  of  the  Improved 
Feature  Film  Company  of  America,  with  main  offices  at  42 
East  14th  Street,  New  York  City,  having  bought  the  interest 
of  his  partner,  Samuel  S.  Marcussen.  Mr.  Summerfield  has 
changed  the  firm  name  to  the  Improved  Feature  Film  Co. 

JUDGE'S  THEATER,  TEMPLE,  TEXAS. 

J.  J.  Judge,  when  manager  of  the  "Judge"  theater,  inaugu- 
rated a  series  of  merchants'  matinees,  which  proved  both  a 
financial  and  advertising  success.  The  matinees  were  given 
on  Wednesday  and  Saturday  afternoons.  This  popular  play- 
house has  been  remodeled  and  completely  rewired  according 
to  National  Board  of  Underwriters  Rules.  The  Judge's 
theater  is  now  the  very  coziest  in  the  city  and  one  of  the 
best  equipped  from  a  mechanical  standpoint  in  the  State. 
Three  reels  of  first  run  licensed  pictures  with  orchestral 
music    constitutes   the   daily   program    to    capacity   business. 

J.  J.  Heggman,  manager  of  the  Crescent  theater,  has  re- 
cently purchased  the  Judge  and  Majestic  theaters  from  J.  J. 
Tudge.  Mr.  Judge  has  moved  to  Pasadena,  Cal.  This  house 
"remains  closed  except  on  Saturdays  when  high  class  two 
and   three  reel  Licensed  features  are  shown.  m 


Judge's  Theater. 

of  January  18  last.  The  house  was  crowded  with  over  one 
thousand  people  waiting  on  the  outside.  The  picture  was 
taken  about  three  o'clock  that  afternoon. 


CIRCLE  THEATER,  PORTLAND,   OREGON. 

We  publish  herewith  an  exterior  view  of  Circle  Theater, 
Portland,  Oregon.  Seats  900  and  is  of  the  most  up-to-date 
fireproof  construction.  Filtered  air  is  used  for  ventilation 
which  passes  through  a  water  tank  every  two  minutes.  All 
lights  are  concealed  in  the  ceiling.  The  theater  is  beautifully 
decorated  with  a  tone  that  is  pleasing  to  the  eye.  The 
paintings  on  the  side  of  the  walls  are  fastened  in  such 
manner  that  same  can  be  removed  at  any  time  and  others  put 


Circle  Theater. 

in  place.  A  white  enameled  rest  room  is  the  center  attraction 
for  the  ladies,  and  afternoon  parties  are  frequently  in  vogue 
for  this  particular  theater  that  caters  to  a  high  class  patron- 
age. The  operator's  booth  is  set  in  a  steel  encasement 
covered  with  concrete.  A  hidden  organ  costing  $5,000  is 
one  of  the  features  of  the  place.  The  theater  is  operated  by 
the  Circle  Amusement  Company  of  which  Mr.  C.  J.  Kerr  is 
manager,  formerly  of  Chicago,  Illinois.  Licensed  films  are 
shown  exclusively  and  a  seven  piece  orchestra  adds  to  the 
musical  specialties. 


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THE  GRAND  THEATER,  SHERIDAN,  WYO. 

The  Grand  Theater,  Sheridan,  Wyo.,  is  one  of  the  nicest 
and  best  equipped  motion  picture  and  vaudeville  houses  of 
its  kind  to  be  found  anywhere.  There  are  a  little  over  three 
hundred  nicely  upholstered  chairs,  and  the  width  between 
each  row  is  such  that  a  person  may  come  in  or  go  out  with- 
out disturbing  those  seated.  All  the  electrical  wiring  is  in 
conduits.     The  operating  room  is  built  of  fireproof  material 


Grand  Theater. 

with  two  machines,  an  Edison  and  a  Motiograph,  in  constant 
use.  X-Ray  reflectors  are  used  for  lighting  the  auditorium. 
Although  there  is  a  big  stage  with  three  dressing  rooms, 
no  vaudeville  has  been  used  for  over  a  year.  James  Klindt, 
the  proprietor  and  manger,  has  been  in  the  motion  picture 
business  for  over  four  years,  and  knows  how  to  hold  his 
patrons  by  always  giving  them  a  good  entertainment. 


LUNA  THEATER,  DANVILLE,  PA. 

There  are  very  few  small  towns  the  size  of  Danville,  Pa., 

that  can  boast  of  having  a  handsome  moving  picture  theater, 

for  most  men  contemplating  the  erection  of  picture  houses 

are  afraid  to  build  an  expensive  house  in  a  town  with  a  small 


Luna  Theater. 

population.  But  this  is  not  the  case  with  Joseph  Hein,  who 
is  the  manager  and  owner  of  the  Luna  Theater  at  Danville, 
a  photo-engraving  of  which  is  herewith  published.  The 
Luna  has  a  seating  capacity  of  460.  There  are  three  four- 
foot  aisles  and  one  cross  aisle.  Six  six-foot  exits  have  been 
provided   for.     The   auditorium   is   lighted  by   X-Ray   reflec- 


tors. The  curtain  is  in  front  instead  of  at  the  back  as  is 
usually  the  case.  There  are  two  Power's  No.  6  machines  in 
constant  use.  

ISIS  THEATER,  PORT  ARTHUR,  TEXAS. 

One  of  the  most  beautiful  moving  picture  theaters  in 
the  South  is  the  Isis  Theater,  Port  Arthur,  Texas,  a  photo- 
graph of  which  is  herewith  published.  Its  dimensions  are 
140  feet  long  by  32  feet  wide.  The  seating  capacity  is 
six  hundred,  four  hundred  being  on  the  parquette  floor  and 
the  remaining  two  hundred  on  the  balcony.  The  house 
was  built  and  furnished  two  years  ago  at  a  cost  of  $28,000. 


Isis  Theater. 

It  has  been  under  the  pr  sent  management  for  the  past 
eight  or  nine  months.  In  the  photograph  of  the  front,  the 
man  standing  to  the  right  of  the  box  is  R.  S.  Lazenby,  the 
proprietor  and  general  manager;  the  other  person  being  L. 
W.  Irick,  assistant  manager  and  chief  operator.  The  house 
is  steam  heated;  it  is  ventilated  by  two  thirty-six  inch  and 
one  eighteen-inch  exhaust  fans.  There  is  a  large  stage  for 
vaudeville,  but  for  some  time  past  nothing,  but  three  reels  of 


Interior  View  of  Isis  Theater. 

Licensed  pictures  have  been  shown.  The  admission  charges 
are  five  and  ten  cents.  The  managers  say  that  they  have 
one  of  the  best  five-piece  orchestras  within  a  radius  of  three 
hundred  miles. 


Auditorium,  Mamaroneck,  N 


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THE  telest  topic  of  local  discussion,  namely:  discrimina- 
tion in  favor  of  churches  and  schools  with  regard  to 
the  enforcement  of  regulations  and  laws  bearing  upon 
motion  picture  exhibitions,  presents  many  phases  of  import- 
ance, all  of  which  justify  the  complaints  of  the  exhibitors  who 
have  brought  about  the  discussion.  The  point  is  well  taken 
when  the  exhibitor  claims  that  a  church  giving  exhibitions 
for  revenue  becomes  a  competitor  of  the  regular  houses  and 
is,  therefore,  subject  to  the  same  regulations  imposed  upon 
the  regular  exhibitors,  even  to  the  payment  of  the  license 
fee,  notwithstanding  the  claim  of  some  churches  that  they 
are  exempt  from  taxation  and  the  license  fee  is  a  tax.  No 
stretch  of  imagination  can  make  a  motion  picture  show  to 
which  admission  is  charged  part  of  a  form  of  religious  wor- 
ship. Some  clergymen  have  made  the  plea  that  they  inaugu- 
rated the  exhibitions  to  "get  the  young  people  away  from  the 
environments  of  unwholesome  picture  houses."  This  gives 
color  to  their  claim  that  the  exhibitions  they  give  are  in  line 
with  church  work,  a  department  of  reform,  but  the  color  is 
rubbed  off  when  the  pecuniary  phase  enters  into  the  question. 

*  *     * 

Where  exhibitions  are  without  charge,  exemption  from  the 
license  fee  seems  reasonable,  but  the  churches  are  subject  to 
all  other  regulations,  as  well  as  schools.  It  has  been  cor- 
rectly stated  that  in  cases  of  carelessness  or  incompetency 
and  a  resultant  panic  the  blame  for  it  is  placed  solely  upon 
the  motion  pictures  and  for  a  time  at  least  exhibitors  feel  the 
effects  in  their  box  office  receipts,  particularly  those  located 
in  the  vicinity  of  the  occurrence.  From  this  standpoint  of 
view  the  regular  exhibitors  are  justified  in  demanding  that 
the  electrical,  health,  fire  and  all  other  municipal  departments 
that  enforce  the  regulations  against  the  regular  places  of  ex- 
hibition shall  enforce  the  same  regulations  against  churches 
and  schools,  whether  or  not  admission  fees  are  charged,  for 
it  becomes  solely  a  matter  of  safeguarding  the  public  against 

accident. 

*  *     * 

It  is  but  fair  to  concede  that  the  inclination  to  evade  the 
conditions  that  are  imposed  upon  regular  exhibitors  is  not 
general.  To  the  contrary,  it  is  exceptional.  The  writer  has 
known  of  instances  where  clergymen  were  desirous  of  get- 
ting away  from  the  regulations,  but  not  because  they  felt 
that  exemption  should  be  accorded  as  a  matter  of  custom,  or 
right.  Nor  were  they  disposed  to  take  advantage  of  influence 
and  induce  connivance  of  evasions.  With  them  it  was  a  ques- 
tion of  expense.  In  some  cases  the  project  was  abandoned 
when  it  was  explained  that  the  saving  of  expense  might  re- 
sult in  some  very  serious  accident.  There  have  been  cases 
where  the  projects  were  carried  on  with  the  provision  that 
as  fast  as  sufficient  funds  could  be  realized  they  would  be 
devoted  from  time  to  time  to  the  work  of  complying  with 
the  regulations.  This  inconsistent  action  is  deserving  of  as 
much  condemnation  as  that  of  the  person  who  ignores  the 
regulations.  It  is  taking  a  chance,  and  it  is  a  chance  that  the 
authorities  will  not  concede  to  regular  exhibitors. 

*  *     *  . 

It  may  also  be  stated,  in  justification  to  the  authorities, 
that  the  records  will  show  that  the  filing  of  applications  for 
permission  to  give  exhibitions  is  being  enforced  and  inspec- 
tors are  sent  to  places  to  see  that  the  requirements  are  car- 
ried, even  in  cases  of  only  one  night  shows.  The  erection 
of  booths,  full  safety  equipment  of  projecting  machines  and 
the  qualifications  of  the  operator  are  looked  after.  It  is  true 
that  some  exhibitions  have  been  "put  over''  without  the 
knowledge  of  the  authorities,  but  that  rarely  happens  now. 
One  well-known  inspector  said,  when  questioned  as  to  the 
frequency  of  such  occurrences,  "No,  they  don't  do  that  so 
often.  Many  inspectors  found  themselves  before  the  de- 
partment on  charges  of  neglect  or  connivance  because  they 
could  not  show  a  record  of  having  made  an  inspection.  Their 
plea  that  no  application  had  been  filed,  and  therefore  they 
could  not  be  expected  to  know  that  an  exhibition  was  to  be 
given  was  frequently  looked  upon  with  suspicion  and  they 
had  to  satisfy  the  department  that  no  intimation  had  been 
given  that  application  and  inspection  was  not  necessary. 
Now  the  inspectors  are  so  fortified  by  regulations  that  few 


people  try  to  beat  them.  Licensed  operators  who  wish  to  re- 
tain their  license  will  run  no  show  until  an  inspection  has 
been  made.  If  a  trick  has  been  turned  by  a  non-licensed  man 
lie  may  give  up  all  hope  of  getting  a  license  and  the  party 
giving  the  show  hears  something  that  deters  him  from  a 
repetition  of  the  act.  We  don't  go  into  the  courts  with  such 
cases.  We  have  a  method  of  our  own  that  is  very  effective." 
"Are  churches  and  schools  considered  amenable  to  the 
same  regulations  that  apply  to  regular  picture  houses?" 

*  *     * 

"They  certainly  are.  Most  of  the  one-night  exhibitions  are 
in  churches  and  schools,  and  when  such  shows  are  supervised 
there  is  absolutely  no  reason  why  daily  or  nightly  shows  in 
similar  places  should  be  exempted.  There  may  be  some  modi- 
fications. For  instance,  regular  picture  houses  are  required 
to  have  exits  of  a  certain  number  and  character.  In  this 
connection  I  do  not  think  a  rigid  enforcement  is  insisted  upon 
by  any  department  as  applying  to  churches,  but  they  should 
have  ample  and  proper  means  of  exits.  This  matter  was 
taken  up  in  connection  with  a  public  school  recently.  The 
only  available  place  for  the  exhibition  was  the  top  floor  of 
the  building.  The  show  was  not  given.  The  authorities  de- 
cided that,  while  the  means  for  exit  were  adequate  for  regu- 
lar attendants  at  the  school,  they  were  not  within  the  re- 
quirements for  a  public  attendance  at  a  moving  picture  show.  < 
An  argument  that  other  entertainments  are  frequently  given 
in  the  same  place  with  public  attendance  was  of  no  avail,  it 
being  contended  in  reply  that  none  of  the  officials  would  take 
the  responsibility  of  evading  the  exit  regulations  enacted  to 
govern  the  kind  of  exhibitions  they  were  asked  to  sanction." 

*  *     * 

A  well-known  exhibitor  said  he  had  given  the  question  of 
requiring  churches  to  comply  with  the  moving  picture  thea- 
ter regulations  some  thought,  more  particularly  since  it  has 
become  a  matter  of  public  discussion.  "So  far  as  I  am  per- 
sonally concerned,"  he  said,  "all  the  churches  in  my  neighbor- 
hood may  give  picture  shows.  I  would  not  look  upon  them 
as  competitors.  Other  exhibitors  probably  would.  It  all  de- 
pends on  local  conditions.  As  a  rule,  the  churches  that  go 
into  the  business  get  a  very  cheap  grade  of  service  and  most 
of  them  lean  to  the  educational  style  of  entertainment.  This 
is  the  condition  in  any  neighborhood  and  I  know  that  none 
of  the  churches  would  undertake  to  compete  with  me  on 
quality.  They  feel  that  it  is  unnecessary  for  them  to  pay  big 
prices  for  service  because  their  people  will  patronize  them 
on  account  of  interest  in  the  church.  In  localities  where 
there  are  small  exhibitors  who  cannot  afford  the  better  grade 
of  service  the  situation  takes  on  another  aspect.  There  such 
church  becomes  a  competitor.  But,  while  I  look  upon  the 
question,  so  far  as  it  applies  to  my  locality,  with  indifference, 
I  want  to  go  on  record  as  being  opposed  to  the  opening  of 
picture  shows  in  churches  until  the  regulations  to  which 
regular  picture  places  are  subjected  are  complied  with.  I  am 
in  hearty  accord  with  the  objection  to  the  seats  not  being 
fastened  to  the  floor.  One  of  the  greatest  dangers  in  case  of 
a  panic  is  the  chance  of  seats  and  benches  being  knocked 
over.  I  would  also  insist  that  booths  and  approved  outfits 
be  installed  and  that  the  operators  of  the  shows  be  licensed 
men,  and  I  see  no  reason  why  the  seating  capacity  rule 
should  not  be  enforced  also.  Pay  the  license  fee,  too?  Why, 
most  undoubtedly,  if  they  charge  admission.  They  have  no 
rent  or  taxes  to  pay,  which  are  handicaps  on  the  regular 
exhibitors  with  whom  they  compete,  and  almost  invariably 
the  ticket  sellers,  ticket  takers,  ushers  and  pianists  are 
volunteers." 


FRANK  WOODS  MAKING  COMEDIES. 

Frank  Woods,  who  is  making  comedies  for  the  Universal 
Company  at  the  Coast  studios,  already  has  finished  six  films, 
according  to  word  from  Los  Angeles.  These  include  "Buck 
and  Sadie's  First  Quarrel,"  a  simple  comedy  of  country  town 
types;  "The  Home  Doctor  Book,"  a  domestic  farce;  "The 
Black  Smallpox  Scare,"  a  country  town  farce;  "Buck,  Sadie 
and  Gossips,"  a  sequel  to  the  first;  "The  Hungry  Soldiers." 
a  broad  burlesque  farce,  and  "The  Tourist  and  the  Flower 
Girl,"  a  love  comedy.  Mr.  Wood,  it  is  understood,  aims 
more  at  maintaining  a  consistent  average  in  mirth-provok- 
ing qualities  in  his  pictures  than  at  turning  out  occasional 
"screaming"  stuff.  If  he  succeeds  he  will  be  doing  what  few, 
if  any,  other  directors  have  so  far  accomplished. 

SMALL  TOWN  HOUSE  THRIVING. 

Ralph  W.  Brill  has  been  operating  a  small  show  at  Chad- 
wicks,  N.  Y.,  with  excellent  success  since  he  closed  the  Ru- 
dolph Theater  in  the  Catskills  last  fall.  The  picture  house 
at  Chadwicks  is  the  only  show  in  that  town  and  the  pictures 
have  become  very  popular  with  the  factory  and  mill  people. 
A  Standard  No.  4  machine  is  used. 


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c^dvertising-  for  Exhibitors 

Conducted  by  EPES  WINTHROP  SARGENT 


Pie  and  Pictures. 

JOSIAH  PEARCE  and  Sons,  who  control  a  dozen  theaters  in  various 
parts  of  the  South  and  are  preparing  to  3dd  a  thirteenth,  just  to  show 
that  they  are  not  superstitious,  send  in  a  weekly  bulletin  that  serves 
their  various  theaters  in  New  Orleans.  Typographically  the  issue  might  be 
bettered.  It  lacks  a  clean-cut  appearance,  in  part  due  to  the  fact  that  the 
type  employed  is  ratiher  too  large  for  the  column  and  page.  It  is  eight 
point  in  the  standard  thirteen  em  width,  but  the  column  is  little  less  than 
eight  inches  long  and,  in  that  measure  the  length  of  column,  a  six  point 
would  have  looked  more  in  proportion.  The  objection  is  that  it  would  greatly 
increase  the  cost  of  composition,  but  on  the  other  hand  the  issue  serves 
four  theaters  and  carries  plenty  0?  outside  advertising.  Each  house  gets 
less  than  a  column  for  the  weekly  program.  It  would  be  better  to  give  each 
bouse  a  full  page  (it  is  sixteen  pages  and  cover)  and  give  a  really  good 
display  to  the  list  of  coming  attractions.  There  is  no  use  in  getting  out  a 
twenty-page  paper  and  using  less  than  two  pages  for  the  house  programs, 
when  the  programs  form  the  ostensible  reason  for  the  publication. 

There  should  be  a  page  to  each  and  it  should  be  one  of  the  right  hand 
pages  to  show  up  well.  The  right  hand  pages  are  used,  but  only  the  inside 
column.  One  two  and  a  quarter  inch  line  is  all  any  film  gets  except  three 
specials  that  are  given  a  half-column  each.  Each  of  these  carries  a  cut  and 
not  one  in  a  late  issue  has  the  cut  that  belonged  to  the  story.  About  half 
the  remaining  space  is  giv«;n  to  miscellaneous  stuff,  the  rest  being  given  the 
foreign  advertising.  We  think  it  would  pay  the  company  to  give  some  local 
man  $25  or  $50  to  get  out  one  issue  and  get  it  out  right  as  a  sample  for 
ethers.     But  they  have  one  unique  feature.     It  relates  to  pie  and  pictures. 

An  Object  Lesson. 

The  feature  is  an  argument  for  the  ten  cent  house  against  the   five  cent 
theater  and  may  be  useful  to  others  who  want  to  raise  the  price.     It  runs: 
There  is  just  as  much  difference  in  motion-picture  shows  at  the 
Pearce    Theaters    as   there    is   in    pies.      If   you    approach    a    lunch 
counter  and  call  for  pie  at  five  cents  per  slice,  your  portion  will  look 
about  like  this: 

There  follows  a  cut  of  a  skimpy  section  of  pie  on  a  plate  with  a  sign, 
"Five  cents  per  slice. 

If  you   patronize   th?  same   counter  every  day  and  order   pie,   at 
the  end  of  a  week  you  will   have  taken  into  your  system  a  collec- 
tion of  pies  resembling  this: 
There  is  inserted   a   picture  of  seven    slices   of  pie  on  as   many  plates. 
On   the  other  hand,  if  you   patronize  a  first-class  restaurant  and 
order   pie,  a  slice   will   cost   ten   cents — sometimes   more — and    your 
portion  will  be  more  like  this: 
This  time   the   slice   is    more   than   twice   the   size   of  the   former   piece. 
Most  of  us  do  not  care  for  pie  every  day,  but  would  prefer  to 
divide   the   week's  cousamption   into   three   liberal    "quality"    slices. 
like  this: 

And  now  come  three  slices  of  pie  that  look  larger  than  the  seven  cheaper 
cuts,  instead  of  seven  smaller  and  less  palatable  slices,  as  pictured  above. 
We  all  know  that  the   reason   »ve  pr.y  more   for  one  piece  of  pie 
than   another   is   that  one's   superior — has   more   good    things   in   it, 
and  is  served  to   us   under    more   inviting  conditions   and   in   more 
pleasant  surroundings. 

The   reason    you    pay   more    for   viewing   motion    pictures   at   the 
Trianon  Theater   (where  an  admission  of  ten  cents  for  three  reels 
is  charged,  as  against  five  cents   in   theaters  showing  two  reels)   is 
just  this:     You  get  a  show  that  is  j,ZlA%  longer  and  50%  better. 
Therefore: 
When  you  pay  more  at  the  Pearce  Theaters,  you  do  so  for  the 
same   reason   that  you  pay  ten   cents  for  pie — because  you  get   su- 
perior quality  and  greater  quantity,  in  more  pleasant  surroundings. 
Now,  we  will  tell  you  exactly  what  steps  are  necessary  to  give  a 
show  such   as   is   run   in   the   Pearce   Theaters,  and   prove   that   su- 
perior ingredients  enter  into  the  making  of  their  programs  exactly 
as  superior  ingredients  enter  into  the  making  of  ten-cent  pies. 
The  rest  of  the  argument  is  to  the  effect  that  Licensed  service,  properly 
displayed,  is  what  makes  the  ten  cent  article. 

The  use  of  the  cuts  is  much  more  effective  than  a  straightaway  argu- 
ment would  be.  We  think  that  perhaps  the  Pearce  Company  would  be 
willing  to  have  electros  made  from  their  originals  for  the  benefit  of  the 
manager  who  may  wish  to  reproduce  the  advertisement.  They  can  be  ad- 
dressed at  the  Trianon  Theater,  New  Orleans. 

We  would  like  to  see  another  issue  of  the  bulletin  when  they  make  fur- 
ther progress.  It  is  in  its  eighth  issue.  There  is  lots  of  time  for  improve 
ment. 

A  General  Appeal. 

Emery  N.  Downs,  of  the  Knickerbocker  Playhouse,  Oeveland,  O..   has  to 
get  in   the  silk  stocking  crowd.     He  has  hit  upon   a  useful  style  of  adver- 
tisement that  will  perhaps  appeal  10  others  similarly  situated.     He  writes: 
I    thought    you    would    be    interested    in    my    method    of    getting 
my    advertising   read    by    the   public. 


Realizing  that  a  moving  picture  theater  has  some  difficulty  in 
attracting  the  interest  of  "non-picture  fans"  especially  in  the 
Press.  I  am  giving  the  style  of  my  copy  a  great  deal  of  thought, 
especially  at  the  prevailing  rates,  $3.50  per  inch. 

The  above  theater  is  located  in  a  strictly  residential  neighbor- 
hood, ten  blocks  away  from  the  nearest  business  center,  where 
there  are  two  large  picture  houses,  one  seating  1,200,  the  other 
800.     We   seat   963,  orchestra   and  balcony,    10  and   20  cents. 

We  have  to  make  our  appeal  to  the  exclusive  residence  dwellers, 
hence   the   "preserved"   amusement   and   "fresh"   orchestra  ad. 

We  play  pictures  only,  6  to  10  days  run,  and  an  orchestra  of 
exceptional  ability,  directed  by  Cleveland's  pet  violinist,  the  orches- 
tra (7  pieces)  is  a  great  item  of  expense.  Each  man  is  the  best 
obtainable  and  is  paid  accordingly. 

The  public  have  formed  the  conclusion  that  the  Knickerbocker 
has  never  made  a  dollar  profit,  owing  to  the  expensive  program 
.  offered  and  you  can  be  assured  I  never  enlighten  them.  We  have 
been  open  a  year  and  one  month.  In  keeping  a  personal  vigilance 
over  the  house  I  have  gained  in  that  time  a  reputation  which  has 
placed  the  Knickerbocker  in  a  class  by  itself.  . 

Reaching  the  Residents. 

Mr.  Downs  appreciates  the  fact  that  the  statement  that  he  has  a  special 
Btograph  or  Lubin.  or  that  Miss  Florence  Turner  will  appear  in  a  subject 
that  evening  will  not  appeal  to  possible  patrons  who  never  heard  of  Miss 
Turner  and  know  only  in  a  general  way  that  the  Biograph  is  a  motion  pic- 
ture company.  He  makes  his  appeal  on  more  general  lines  of  the  excellence 
of  the  entertainment,  using  two  inches  across  two  columns  enclosed  in  a 
box  with  rounded  corners  made  of  six  point  border.  Each  carries  the 
catchline  "Get  going — you'll  like  it,"  and  in  two  of  the  three  samples  sent, 
a  single  six  point  line  tells  what  he  has  in  the  way  of  a  special.  The 
third  advertisement  is  half  argument  and  half  announcement,  perhaps  a 
better  plan  since  this  appeals  to  the  fans  as  well.  We  give  these  three 
as  suggestions. 

DELIGHTING    THOUSANDS. 

The  selected  program  of  Licensed  photoplays  and  the  famous 
concert  orchestra,  whose  musical  interpretation  of  the  photoplays 
is  remarkable. 

At    the    Knickerbocker,    Euclid    and   E.    83d    Street. 
Get    going — you'll    like    it. 

DESPITE   THE   RAIN. 
In   raincoats  and  wraps,   in  autos  and  afoot,   hundreds  of  Cleve- 
land's Best  People  braved  the  rain  and  snow  to  go  to  the  Knicker- 
bocker Theater,  because  they  knew  it  was  WORTH  WHILE. 
Get    going — you'll    like    it. 

CANNED    AMUSEMENT. 
Preserved   amusement    ot    the  very   highest   quality   i>   to   be   had 
at   a  very   low   cost,    together  with   a   wonderful    (fresh)    orchestra, 
every  night  at  the  Knickerbocker  Theater,  on   Euclid  Avenue  at  E. 
83rd  Street. 

TWO    CHOICE    OFFERINGS    NEXT    WEEK. 
The    attractions    follow. 

These  advertisements  are  not  particularly  brilliant,  but  they  give  an 
argument  to  the  man  who  doesn't  care  much  about  the  photoplay  theaters. 
They  mildly  pique  nis  curicsity  and  some  time  he'll  drop  around  and  then 
"get  going." 

If  you  want  to  reach  the  non-fan  resident,  this  is  a  good  way  to  go 
about  it. 

Want's  to  Know. 

W.  W.  Dilley,  of  the  South  Side  Theater,  Erie,  Pa.,  sends  in  a  dodger 
and  wants  to  know  what  we  think  of  it.  He  explains  that  he  recently 
bought  the  house  and  is  rather  green  at  the  business. 

From  one  angle  we  do  not  think  much  of  the  production.  It  is  done  on 
very  cheep  news  paper  with  no  display.  There  is  a  lot  of  text  without  re- 
lief and  the  display  is  merely  the  name  and  address  at  the  bottom.  The 
top  looks  bare  and  there  is  nothing  to  catch  the  eye.  Some  line  in  at 
least  an  eighteen  point  should  have  been  run  at  the  top  to  get  the  atten- 
tion. Even  the  timeworn  "Announcement"  would  have  been  better  than 
nothing,  but  a  catchy  attractor  would  have  been  better  yet.  scomething  like 
"Just  a  minute!"  "Lend  me  your  ear,"  or  anything  that  would  rouse 
curiosity.  Then  about  half  the  matter  should  have  been  thrown  out  that 
the  other  half  might  be  read. 

One  of  the  best  lines — the  really  good  line,  is  lost  down  at  the  bottom. 
It  runs:  "We  are  looking  for  YOU  to-night."  It  is  in  the  same  type  as 
the  rest,  with  the  exception  of  the  capitalized  "you." 

The  dodger  is  the  announcement  that  the  theater  will  be  re-onened  with 
improvements.  The  first  two  paragraphs  contain  the  essentia!  facts:  the 
changes  to  be  made  and  the  service.  The  third  is  given  to  the  Power's 
projector  and  might  have  been  kept  in.  but  the  reference  to  "the  best  little 
piano  player  in  town"  should  have  been  kept  for  later  as  should  a  some- 
what wandering  statement  that  runs  to  the  effect  that  the  photoplay  has 
suffered    evil    repute    but    is   now    coming   into   its    own.      The    argument   is 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


sound,    but    it   is    not    driven    home   and   it    does   not   belong   to   the    rest   of 
tbc  text. 

It  is  better  to  write  a  hundred  words  that  are  read  than  two  hundred 
words  that  are  thrown  away,  and  this  greeting  is  too  lengthy  for  a  dodger. 
It  conveys  the  suggestion  that  it  is  the  only  piece  of  advertising  that  Mr. 
Dilley  ever  expects  to  do,  so  he  puts  it  nil  in. 

Be   Punchy. 

Mr.  Dilley  should  seek  to  acquire  the  punch.  Using  more  modern  slang, 
he  should  put  the  pep  into  his  advertising  matter. 

Something  like  this  might  have  given  the  same  result  and  it  is  certain 
that  it  would  be  more  generally  read: 

Closed? 

Certainiv    NOT. 

WIDE   OPEN. 

If    you     don't     believe     it     come     to     the 

SOUTH    SIDE    THEATER 

Monday  evening,  March  24th. 

You'll  see  a  better  show  than  yoj  ever   saw   there  before. 

You'll  see  a  cleaner  and  more  comfortable  house. 

You'll    be    treated    RIGHT. 

SOUTH    SIDE   THEATER, 

Peach    Street    at    Twenty-Fifth. 

Only  a  nickel,  but  worth  a  quarter  at  least 

That's  the  sort  of  thing  to  put  on  a  dodger  or  throwaway.  If  you  want 
to  tell  it  all  to  them  print  on  fine  paper,  be  finical  in  the  choice  of  type. 
Make  it  a  product  that  will  be  read  because  it  looks  important,  but  when 
you  want  to  give  out  cheap  advertising  print  it  in  short  lines  and  big 
type  that  will  be  taken  in  before  the  recipient  gets  a  chance  to  throw  it 
away.  Mr.  Dilley  has  twenty-five  lines  of  argument  additional  to  the  name 
of  the  house  and  the  address.  If  you  do  it  at  all  do  it  right.-  Matter  like 
this  has  no  place  on  a  dodger:     it  belongs  in  a  better  class  of  work: 

Since  the  invention  of  the  Motion  Picture  it  has  been  a  hard 
fight  and  people  are  just  beginning  to  realize  the  educational  value 
of  them.  Lecturers,  Schools  and  some  Churches  are  using  them 
and  it  won't  be  long  before  they  are  universally  used  in  educa- 
tional institutions  of  all  descriptions. 

We  think  that  Mr.  Dilley  will  make  progress  as  he  grows  up  in  the 
business.     He  might  have  done  much  worse  for  a  first  attempt. 

With  the  Exchanges. 

Between  the  Isis  News,  the  Cameraphone  Bulletins  and  Mr.  Smithers* 
Idle  Hour  Educator,  we  are  getting  to  feel  very  much  like  an  exchange 
editor,   for  these  publications  are  regular  and  welcome. 

Mr.  Smitflers  starts  off  a  late  issue  with  a  sane  discussion  of  the  state 
censorship,  and  winds  up  with  a  write-up  of  G.  D.  Storm,  of  the  Laemmle 
I'.xchange,  Minneapolis,  who  has  been  in  the  lantern  and  projection  busi- 
ness for  56  years,  a  sufficiently  picturesque  personality  to  interest  those  in 
Aberdeen,  particularly  as  he  supplies  the   house  with  its   reels. 

The  Isis  News  continues  to  grow  better.  A  late  issue  announced  a 
series  of  union  revival  services,  surely  in  marked  contrast  to  the  time 
when  the  churches  were  denouncing  the  pictures  and  their  promoters. 

A  new  wrinkle  is  Identification  Day,  explained  by  this  clipping: 

Some  of  the  players  like  John  Bunny  are  well  known  to  all  of 
you.  Some  of  you  are  acquainted  with  Mary  Fuller.  Others  are 
well  acquainted  with   Maurice  Costello. 

But  who  knows  the  greatest  number  of  the  actors  and  actresses 
who  play  at  this  theater.  In  order  to  find  out  for  ourselves,  and 
to  have  the  satisfaction  of  having  you  introduced  to  the  different 
actors  we  are  going  to  give  six  prizes  to  the  women  who  can  name 
the  greatest  number  of  the  players  next  Thursday.  Each  prize 
will  be  well  worth  having  and  if  bought  by  you  would  cost  you  at 
least  $6  or  $7. 

The  way  we  are  going  to  work  it  is  this.  Each  lady  who  enters 
the  ISIS  will  be  given  a  blank  sheet  of  paper  on  which  to  write 
the  names  of  the  players  she  recognizes,  or  thinks  she  recognizes. 
After  you  have  filled  in  with  all  the  names  you  can  the  sheets  are 
to  be  handed  to  the  lady  at  the  box  office  with  your  name  written 
below  the  list  of  players. 

These  sheets  will  be  submitted  to  the  editor  of  the  Motion  Pic- 
ture World,  who  will  give  as  near  a  correct  list  of  the  players  in 
the  three  reels  as  he  can.  The  six  who  come  the  nearest  to  nam- 
ing correctly  the  greatest  number  of  players  will  be  awarded  the 
prizes. 

Likes  Us. 

We  appreciate  this  letter  from  Ole  M.  Nelson,  of  the  Orpheum,  Greeley, 
Colorado.     He  writes: 

You  sure  are  a  friend  and  no  two  ways  about  it.  I  AM  just 
like  so  many  of  the  fellows  that  you  have  spoken  about — I  have 
been  admiring  you  and  your  department  at  a  distance,  but  never 
ventured  near  enough  to  make  my  appreciation  known.  But 
here  goes   to   say   a  word  or  more. 

The  first  thing  I  will  mention  is  our  latest  innovation  which  I 
think  is  original,  at  least  it  is  as  far  as  we  know.  Out  here  in 
Colorado,  the  sun  shines  about  as  bright  as  any  thing  you  fellows 
ever  saw  and  no  matter  how  light  the  house  is  for  our  matinees, 
it  is  very  hard  to  see  in  the  subdued  light  of  the  theater  after 
just  coming  in  from  the  sunshine.  Our  ushers  each  have  a  small 
flash  light,  and  as  a  patron  enters  the  house  he  is  ushered  to  a 
seat  by  means  of  the  little  light  in  the  ushers  hand.  It  is  working 
fine.  There  is  no  more  cases  of  the  usher  "beating  it  down  the  aisle 
and  leaving  the  patron  groping  along  with  a  timid  feeling  that  he 
is  going  to  bump  into  something.  The  light  is  simply  held  at 
the  ushers  side   and   the  light   cast   on   the  floor. 


Like  several  others  we  had  a  little  paper  of  our  own  for  a 
while,  but  had  to  give  it  up  for  various  reasons.  People  liked 
the  paper,  but  the  editor  was  not  a  picture  man  as  he  claimed, 
and  did  not  make  good  after  a  couple  of  issues  and  Mr.  Wilson 
and  I  are  too  busy  to  look  after  it,  as  we  want  it  done.  Hope  to 
resume  it  soon  and  if  it  is  done  as  we  want  it  we  will  forward 
some  copies. 

The  enclosed  letter  in  regard  to  the  Steeplechase  was  the  big- 
gest business  getter  we  ever  tried.  The  picture  was  booked  to  us  on 
short  notice  and  we  had  but  two  or  three  days  in  which  to  adver- 
tise it  and  packed  the  house  every  show  for  two  days.  It  gave 
"Columbus"  a  hard  run  for  honors  on  receipts.  Speaking  of 
"Columbus."  Our  town  is  8,838  strong  and  we  showed  to  3,011 
people.      Isn't   that   a   good    per    cent.? 

The  "Irish  Day"  and  Xmas  folder  is  not  original  with  us,  but 
it  is  new  in  Greeley  and  we  did  an  excellent  business  from  their 
use. 

We  have  had  excellent  results  from  inviting  the  Sororities  of 
the  Teachers  College  to  attend  in  a  body,  too.  The  first  invita- 
t:on  called  for  a  free  admission  and  since  then  they  have  been 
at' ending  in  a  bunch  about  once  a  week,  and  it  has  so  happened 
that  they  have  always  come  on  nights  that  would  have  been  pretty 
slim,  had  it  not  been  for  them.  We  are  already  booked  for  Dec- 
oration Day  (Fathe's  "Days  of  War"),  and  I  am  preparing  to 
invite  the  G.  A.  R.  and  \V.  R.  C.  to  attend  the  matinee  as  our 
guests. 

You  are  probably  familiar  with  Selig's  Press  "dope"  for  Pauline 
Cushman.  I  am  using  every  one  of  those  articles  in  the  papers 
besides  a  little  of  my   own. 

There  may  be  some  things  in  this  that  will  be  worth  printing 
and  maybe  not,  but  the  main  thing  that  I  am  hitting  at  is  the 
fact  that  we  are  great  believers  in  printers'  ink.  Our  printing 
bills  amount  to  nearly  $100  a  month.  The  result  has  been  that 
we  took  a  "frost"  and  built  it  up  to  a  paying  basis — put  three 
fellows  out  of  commission,  started  a  new  and  better  house  and 
are  doing  the  business.  The  Orpheum  seats  500,  has  a  Power's 
six  and  a  faultless  picture  on  A.  C.  current.  The  Sterling  was 
built  for  a  road  show  house  and  is  a  pippin.  Seats  1,100,  has 
a  Motiograph  1913,  projecting  a  flickerless  picture,  but  has  some 
faults  which  I  am  going  to  write  to  Richardson  about  and  also 
get  a  Handbook  to  help  me  out  of  difficulties  which  arise  hereafter. 

The  sheet  entitled  Film  Index  has  been  a  great  help  to  me  in 
my  selection  of  films  and  where  a  fellow  has  an  exchange  like 
the  Denver  to  deal  with  they  are  worth  while.  Mr.  Drumm  and 
his  assistants  are  sure  fine  to  deal  with  and  we  get  some  bookings 
a  month  in  advance  almost  solid.  I  should  modify  that  by  saying 
features  and  specials  like  our  Irish  diys  and  Xmas  programs.  By 
use  of  the  index  I  have  not  had  a  picture  slip  by  without  knowing  . 
whether  or  not  there  was  some  sensation  or  exceptionally  good 
point  in  it  without  advertising  same.  It  also  saves  time  hunting 
through   four  or   five   back  numbers   for   data   on   my   programs. 

After  writing  all  of  this  I  hope  there  is  something  that  will 
help  some  poor  fellow  suffer  along  the  way  and  out  of  the  ruts 
that  come  to  us  all. 

Lamps  Not  New. 

We  think  that  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House,  New  York,  was  the 
first  to  use  electric  flash  lamps  to  guide  late  comers  to  their  seats.  This 
was  some  years  before  the  photoplay  theater  came  to  the  front.  Quite  a 
number  of   New   York  picture   houses  have   used   the  lamps   for   some   time. 

We  are  sorry  that  Mr.  Nelson  did  not  elaborate  on  his  film  index,  a 
sample  of  which  he  sends.  \Ve  cannot  quite  "get"  some  of  the  abbre- 
viations, but  it  is  a  loose  leaf  sheet  with  printing  headings  giving  the 
name  and  brand  of  the  film  and  apparently  references  to  the  advertise- 
ment, story,  Comment  on  the  Films,  class,  number  of  reels,  the  booking 
date  and  the  name  of  the  star  and  other  remarks.  There  is  nothing  to 
show  how  any  particular  subject  is  quickly  located  unless  it  be  through 
the  exchange  number,  but  any  system  of  this  sort  helps  the  manager  to 
keep  advised  as  to  the  coming  attractions  and  permits  the  rapid  prepara- 
tion of  good  copy.  It  has  always  been  a  matter  of  surprise  to  us  that 
Frank  Montgomery  does  not  use  some  such  scheme,  yet  we  caught  him 
last  winter  with  a  special  story  of  Florida  that  he  did  not  know  anything 
about  until  we  told  him  that  it  was  an  old  Florida  legend.  The  Orpheum 
li3S  that  much  "on"  one  of  the  shrewdest  managers  in   the  country. 

That  Paper. 

Looking  at  it  from  this  distance  it  would  seem  that  the  paper  was  the 
production  of  a  reporter  who  had  recently  lost  his  position  through  the 
merger  of  two  daily  papers.  There  was  too  much  grouch  and  too  little 
about  the  pictures  that  were  coming,  and  what  there  was  was  not  con- 
vincing. These  little  papers  are  an  immense  help  if  they  are  properly 
done,  but  unless  there  is  the  proper  balance  between  house  stuff  and  gen- 
eral matter  it  represents  only  an  expense.  We  think  the  Isis  bulletin 
has  come  closest  to  the  proportions  to  date.  Perhaps  Mr.  Nash  will  be 
good  enough  to  send  Mr.  Nelson  one.  He's  a  newspaper  and  a  film  man 
— the  right  combination.  We  think  Mr.  Nelson  could  get  out  a  good  one 
himself   if   he   had   the   time. 

The  two  booklets  spoken  of  are  borrowed  material,  but  the  steeplechase 
letter  is  something  new.  It  had  reference  to  a  racing  topical.  The  most 
unique  feature  is  found  in  a"  postscript  that  reads: 

On  Friday  night  two  hundred  seats  will  be  set  aside  for  horse- 
men,   bringing   the    equestrian    admirers   together. 

There  is  something  good  in  that  scheme  if  you  can  set  aside  a  suf- 
ficiently large  section  without  robbing  the  regulars.  It  does  not  apply 
to  horsemen  only,  get  the  doctors,  the  lawyers  or  any  one  class  of 
professionals   and    faddists  together.      It   will   make   talk   and   business. 

Now  that  Mr.  Nelson  has  found  his  way  in,  we  hope  that  he  keeps 
on    coming. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


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^fe  PHOTOPLAYWRIGHT 

Conducted  by  Epes  Winthrop  Sargekx 


The  Inquest  Club. 

AT    the    Post    Mortem    of   the    Inquest    Club,    held    April    21st,    it    was 
decided   to   stick    to   the    Savoy   Theater,   Thirty-fourth    Street,    West 
of   Broadway,   and   meetings   will   be   held   there   until   further   notice 
each  Monday,  the  Jury  meeting  in  the  lobby  at  half-past  nine  and  repairing 
to  the  Morgue  in  Keen's  Chop  House,  where  the  use  of  one  of  the  private 
rooms  has  been  granted  the  Club. 

At    the   last    Post    Mortem,    Edward    Ray    Coffin,   of    Dexter,    N.    M.,    was 
made  an  honorary  member  because  of  the  appropriateness  of  his  name. 

If  you   want   to   join    the    Inquest   Club,   meet   the  Jury   in   the   lobby   of 
the  Savoy  at  half-past  nine,   May  4th. 


Dinner. 

The  time  is  getting  short  and  we  hope  by  next  week  to  give  full  particu- 
lars of  the  Photoplay  dinner  under  the  auspices  of  the  Inquest  Club. 
Meantime  mark  it  in  your  memory  that  you  have  a  date  for  Saturday, 
May  31st. 


Going  to  Buy. 

In  the  genera!  adjustment  of  the  Mutual's  affairs,  one  of  the  Carleton 
brands  will  be  moved  to  the  Thanhouser  plant  at  New  Rochelle,  and  outside 
scripts  will  be  purchased.  Lloyd  Lonergan,  who  has  written  most  of 
the  Thanhouser  scripts,  will  read  for  the  other  brand. 


No  Half  Reels. 

Recent  rejections  by  the  Vitagraph  company  carried  the  announcement 
that  the  company   would   make  no   more   half   reel  comedies. 

Along  the  same  lines  Hopp  Hadley,  of  the  Reliance  writes:  "We  are 
not  trying  to  put  on  half  reel  comedies  or,  in  fact,  half  reel  pictures  of 
any  sort.  We  will  confine  all  our  efforts  from  now  on  to  strong  drama 
with   an   occasional   full   reel   comedy." 

They  are  closing  down  on  the  half  reels,  apparently,  partly  because 
they  are  hard  to  get  and  partly  because  there  are  few  directors  who 
can  get  a  story  in  five  hundred  feet  and  keep  it  a  story. 


Bull  Con  for  Bull  Moose. 

The  Progressive  Party  in  Ohio  is  going  to  use  motion  pictures  for 
propaganda  purposes  and  William  Lord  Wright  is  going  to  write  the 
stories.  In  view  of  the  dental  decorations  of  their  Presidential  candidate, 
we  presume  that  the  man  in  the  fuzzy  nat  got  the  job  on  the  strength 
of  the  dentistry   industrial   he   recently   turned   out. 


Good  Advice,  BUT— 

The  nearly-editor  of  a  would-be  trade  paper  is  moved  to  froth  at  the 
mouth  at  the  effrontery  of  the  photoplay  editors  in  stealing  copyrighted 
stdries  and  thinks  that  they  should  be  urged  to  study  the  Copyright  Laws 
and  find  out  the  awful  penalties  to  be  inflicted  if  the  Bogey  Man  catches 
them  at  their  nefarious  practices.     Then  he  goes  on  to  say: 

My  advice  to  every  scenario  writer  is,  before  sending  a  plot  or 
scenario  to  any  company  (no  matter  which  one),  to  copyright  the 
story    first;    it   would    cost    only    a    dollar. 

That's  good  advice,  but  will  the  whiskered  person  please  stand  up  and 
explain  how  you  can  copyright  your  story  if  the  law — which  he  urges  others 
to  study — prevents  the  Copyright  Office  from  accepting  scripts  for  registra- 
tion before  publication?  Until  a  photoplay  has  been  produced  in  Him 
it  cannot  be  copyrighted  for  a  dollar  or  a  hundred  dollars  or  a  million. 
The  law  says  that  until  the  story  is  filmed  it  has  precisely  the  same  rights 
in  Copyright  Law  that  the  unpublished  book  has.  In  other  words,  it  is 
not  entitled  to  any  copyright  protection.  If  you  send  it  in  with  the 
copyright  line  on  you  are  liable  to  prosecution. 

A  little  knowledge  is  a  dangerous  thing.  We  have  carefully  explained 
the  copyright  law  before  in  this  department.  We  also  explained  that 
Register  Thorvald  Solberg  did  his  utmost  to  obtain  copyright  protection  for 
the  unpublished  script  and  was  denied  by  the  Congressional  Committee. 
This  being  the  case  the  statement  that  a  copyright  can  be  had  does  not  in 
the  least  alter  the  fact  that  it  cannot.     Don't  be  misled. 

Our  almost   contemporary  should   read   this    department   and   keep   posted. 

Knowing  the  Story. 

It  may  be  a  wise  child  that  knows  its  own  father,  but  it's  a  mighty  wisa 
author  that  knows  his  own  brainchild.  We  were  looking  at  a  script  the 
other  day  in  which  a  rambling  and"  utterly  inconsistent  idea  did  not  run 
quite  far  enoug.i  and  to  piece  out,  the  author  developed  as  a  pad  as  nice 
a  little  comedy  idea  as  any  producer  could  ask  for.  He  only  ran  about 
four  scenes  of  this  for  it  was  just  a  filler  to  him,  but  all  the  same  it  was 
a  real  story,  something  new  and  really  novel. 

It  is  by  no  means  an  isolated  instance.  An  author  sits  down  to  write  out 
an  idea.  It  is  not  a  very  good  idea,  but  it  is  the  one  he  started  to  write 
and  he  sticks  to  it  through  thick  and  thin,  though  he  may  hit  upon  a  scene 
that  would  lead  to  a  new  climax,  a  novel  complication.  He  doesn't  see  it, 
because  he  is  not  looking  for  it.  He  is  looking  merely  at  the  story  he 
started  to  write  and  may  even  regard  the  incident  as  an  intrusion,  but  that 


would  be  a  story,  and  the  one  he  has  written  is  not  a  good  story,  because 
it  is  so  old. 

Watch  every  development  for  some  hint  that  may  lead  you  from  the 
beaten  track.  Be  ever  on  the  watch  for  the  lead  that  will  present  novelty 
and  do  not  be  afraid  to  throw  over  a  story  if  that  story  has  led  you  to 
a   better  idea. 

Most  beginners  are  in  too  much  of  a  hurry  to  get  their  ideas  out.  They 
want  to  put  them  on  paper  and  get  the  paper  in  the  mail  box  in  the 
shortest  possible  time,  so  that  they  will  the  sooner  get  the  checks.  It 
will  pay  to  hang  on  to  a  story  and  rewrite  until  it  cannot  be  improved. 
That  is  what  is  most  likely  to  bring  a  check  quickly;  not  the  hurried  pro- 
duction. 


We  Pass. 

We  respectfully  refuse  to  take  up  the  club  handed  us  by  a  Western 
photoplay  writer  who  bewails  the  fact  that  there  are  kisses  in  99  per  cent, 
of  the  films"  which  lead  small  boys  in  the  audience'  to  echo  the  kiss. 

With  crimes  and  sordid  themes  barred  we  fail  to  see  where  we  would 
get  ideas  if  kisses,  too,  are  barred.  The  author  is  honest  and  admits  it 
would  make  no  difference  to  him  since  he  writes  only  children  stories,  but 
he  thinks  the  time  is  ripe  and  even  over-ripe  to  cut  out  this  demoralizer 
of  children's  morals.  We  think  if  our  correspondent  will  go  out  and  fall 
in  love  with  some  nice  girl  he  will  not  call  upon  the  rest  of  us  to  omit 
kisses — "nasty,  lustful  kissing  scenes,"  he  calls  them — from  all  scripts  in 
the  interests  of  a   few  children   with  overheated   imaginations. 

We  pass. 


No  Zulus. 

Pretty  soon  there  will  be  a  number  of  Zulu  pictures  released.  Lubin  has 
made  four  and  several  of  the  other  Jacksonville  companies  have  done  the 
same.  Don't  get  the  idea  that  there  is  a  brisk  market  for  Zulu  stories. 
There  is  not  and  there  is  not  going  to  be.  In  the  first  place  the  com- 
panies are  coming  up  north  and  in  the  second  no  director  who  made  Zulu 
pictures  will  make  any  more  and  no  director  who  has  heard  a  Zulu  director 
relieve  himself  of  his  feelings  on  the  subject  is,  going  to  tackle  them. 
Arthur  D.  Hotaling,  the  Lubin  director,  declares  himself  cured,  and  we 
think  it  will  be  at  least  a  couple  of  years  before  he  tries  again.  The  others 
feel  the  same  way  about  it,  so  don't  write  about  Zulus  if  you  want  to 
sell   your  stuff. 


Editors. 

Here  is  a  sane  paragraph  from  a  somewhat  silly  letter  in  which  the  cor- 
respondent declares  that  in  defending  the  lack  of  probability  as  a  reason  for 
rejecting  a  farce  we  defend  the  one  editor  who  is  guilty  of  rejecting  im- 
probable farces.  We  did  not  know  that  there  was  but  one  editor  who  did 
this.  In  fact  we  know  lots  of  editors  who  will  refuse  to  accept  the  inane 
just  because  it  is  labeled  farce. 
But  the  good   paragraph  is  this: 

In  my  judgment  an  editor  is  one,  in  most  cases,  who  has  achieved 
success   through  his   writings,   he   naturally   has   good   faith   in   his 
own   judgment  and  if  he  turns  down  a  script,  it  does  not  neces- 
sarily mean  that  it  is  not  good,  but  I  have  learned  from  experience 
that  writing  for  one  or  two  companies  and  catering  to  their  style, 
will  pay  best  in   the  long  run. 
An    editor,    these   days,    is   mostly   a   person    who   knows   a   good   picture 
when  he  sees  it  on  a  piece  of  paper.     He  generally  is  a  writer  because  he 
is  most  apt  to  have  gained  his  experience  in  that  way,  but  there  is  not  an 
editor  in  the  game  who  does  not  turn  down   lots  of  good  scripts.     Some- 
times it  is  because  the  idea  does  not  appeal  to  him,  sometimes  because  the 
idea    does    not   appeal    to   his   employer.      There  are   as    many    reasons    for 
rejections   as   there   are   script  writers,   and  the   refusal   of  a  single   editor 
to  accept  a  script  is  not  a  sign  of  the  lack  of  value.     For  that  matter  the 
editor  may  have  liked  the  script  immensely.     We  have  put  back  into  their 
envelopes   stories  that  we  fairly  hated  to  let  go  of,   but  there  were  office 
reasons  why  we  had  to. 

We  had  three  Arabic  comedies  sent  back  to  us  the  other  day,  not  be- 
cause they  were  bad,  just  because  in  the  final  argument  it  was  decided  that 
they  would  conflict  with  two  dramas  made  in  the  same  unique  settings. 
No  question  of  their  worth  or  worthlessness  entered  into  the  matter.  It 
was  merely  that  they  did  not  want  to  spoil  two  dramas  with  unusual  set- 
tings by  using  the  same  settings  for  comedies. 

Unless  the  editor  tells  you  that  the  story  had  been  done  before,  or  unless 
you  can  see  for  yourself  that  the  story  is  worthless,  do  not  accept  any 
one  decision.  Keep  it  going  until  all  have  had  a  chance  to  pass  on  the 
merits  of  the  script.     And  even  if  they  all  say  it's  bad  it  still  may  be  good. 


Directors  and  Editors. 

The  comment  last  week  on  the  coming  change  in  the  studios  whereby 
the  editors  will  edit  and  the  directors  will  direct  and  not  presume  to  ex- 
ercise the  editorial  functions  as  well,  has  made  a  lot  of  talk.  Many  have 
declared  that  the  article  is  widely  at  variance  with  the  truth,  but  it  will 
presently  appear  that  we  are  a  little  advance  of  the  general  news,  but  not 
so  far  ahead  as  some  would  like  to  think. 

As  George  F.  Hennessy  put  it  the  other  day,  the  photoplay  situation 
resembles  a  pot  of  molten  metal.  The  dross  has  risen  to  the  top  and  it  is 
about  to  be  skimmed  off  that  the  pure  metal  beneath  may  be  reached. 
It  is  an  apt  simile.  There  is  far  too  much  dross  and  it  is  high  time  that 
the  skimmer  was  brought  into  use. 

In  the  last  ten  or  twelve  years  the  making  of  motion  pictures  has  been 
so  profitable,  the  demand  has  so  well  kept  pace  with  the  supply,  that  there 
never  has  been  a  proper  housecleaning.  Assured  of  their  standing  orders, 
the  manufacturers  as  a  whole  gave  little  thought  to  the  quality  of  their 
product.  If  it  was  a  picture  and  ran  a  thousand  feet  it  was  released.  Now 
a  new  condition  rises.  Here  and  there  exchanges  are  refusing  to  accept 
poor  product  even  on  standing  orders,  the  advance  of  the  Independent  prod- 
uct is  causing  the  Licensed  makers  more  concern  than  it  did  two  years  ago. 


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and  while  the  real  open  market  may  yet  be  far  off,  there  is  a  growing 
tendency  on  the  part  of  the  exhibitor  to  demand  better  work  and  this 
demand  can  be  met  only  through  improved  production  conditions.  These 
conditions,  in  turn,  cannot  be  greatly  improved  until  the  director  is  as- 
signed his  proper  position  in  the  scheme  of  affairs.  Some  of  those  earliest 
in  the  business  have  kept  pace  with  the  march  of  progress.  Others  are 
doing  no  better  work  today  than  they  did  five  or  six  years  ago  when  any 
stock  stage  director  who  would  graciously  condescend  to  mingle  with  the 
despised  motion  pictures  was  regarded  as  several  degrees  more  important 
than    his   employer. 

The  producer  roust  have  a  certain  license  to  make  minor  changes  that 
will  facilitate  production,  but  it  is  the  remnant  of  an  antiquated  system 
to  permit  him  to  completely  change  a  script  to  suit  his  own  ideas  and 
convenience.  The  man  who  evolved  the  plot  might  be  supposed  to  be 
better  able  to  turn  out  a  homogenous  story  than  the  director.  It  is  to  be 
presumed  that  the  editor  is  better  able  to  edit  than  the  producer. 

It  means  a  better  -chance  for  the  photoplay  writer  when  the  change 
comes,  but  it  means  that  he  must  first  learn  his  business  before  he  can 
hope  to  sell. 


Inquiries. 


"Similar  Theme  Used  Before." 

About  twice  a  week  someone  wants  to  know  what  to  do  when  a  script 
comes  back  marked  as  above.  Some  even  want  to  know  why  it  is  not 
possible  to  sell  it  to  some  editor  who  has  not  seen  the  story.  Others 
declare  that  it  cannot  be  that  the  story  has  been  done  before;  because  it 
is    wholly    original. 

If  a  story  is  marked  "done  before,"  whether  on  the  film  or  in  fiction, 
it's  a  good  plan  to  drop  it.  You  might  sell  it  to  some  other  editor,  but 
the  chances  are  poor.  If  you  do  land  it,  the  probabilities  that  the  editor 
will  be  told  by  someone  better  informed.  Then  you'll  be  in  bad  with  one 
editor  and  by  keeping  at  it  long  enough  you'll  be  tabbed  by  every  studio. 

Lately  we  saw  a  story  founded  on  a  newspaper  squib  that  we  read  some 
thirty  years  ago.  The  writer  grew  quite  peevish  when  we  told  him  so  and 
opined  that  he  had  as  good  a  right  as  anyone  to  the  idea  since  it  was 
not  copyrighted.  That  was  not  the  argument.  He  was  trying  to  sell 
second  hand  material  as  new  with  a  pure  food  label.  It  was  not  legally 
wrong,  but  just  plain  foolish. 

Another  correspondent  wrote  that  he  had  a  good  idea,  but  it  had  been 
done  before  he  could  put  it  on  paper.  "It  happened  to  one  of  my  friends," 
he  wrote,  "so  I  thought  I  was  safe  in  taking  my  time  about  it."  We  were 
able   to   point  to  a   story   nearly   four   years  old   that   had   the  same   theme. 

Just  because  it's  new  to  you  it  does  not  follow  that  it  is  new  to  the 
editor.     Be  willing  to  take  his  word   for  it. 


That  Director's  Sheet. 

A  Denver  correspondent  writes  that  he  thinks  that  what  a  recent  corre- 
spondent means  by  a  "director's  sheet"  is  the  first  page,  giving  the  cast 
of  characters  and  scene  plot  as  well  as  the  synopsis.     He  says: 

As  far  as  I  can  learn  it  is  a  sheet  that  has  been  recommended 
by   some   journals   as   a   great   help   to    the  director. 
It    is    a    help    to    the    director    only    when    the    script    requires    so    little 
changing  that   the  scenes  are  played  about  as  they   are   written.      The  cast 
should  always  be  given,  but  the  scene  plot  is  only  for  the  advanced  writers.  - 
It   was  first  shown  in  print  a  couple  of  years  ago  when  Technique  of  the 
Photoplay  was   run   in   this   paper  in   serial    form,  though    it   has   been   used 
by  us  for  nearly  four  years.     If  that  is  what  a  director's  sheet  is,  it  is  no 
novelty — nor  is  it  a  director's  sheet  any  more  than   the  rest   of  the  script. 
We   are   obliged   to   our   correspondent. 


You  Never  Can  Tell. 

No  author  can  judge  his  own  work,  no  matter  how  cleverly  he  may 
appraise  the  work  of  another,  and  so,  when  that  pet  script  of  yours  gets 
turned  down  in  a  dozen  studios  don't  declare  that  there  is  no  intelligence 
among  the  studio  editors.  Be  willing  to  admit  that  fifty  per  cent,  of  the 
fault  lies  with  the  script 

The  script  of  "Collecting  the  Bill"  didn't  look  very  promising  to  us, 
but  on  the  screen  it  is  getting  lots  of  laughs  while  its  companion  picture, 
"His  Widow,"  is  given  second  place,  though  we  liked  this  much  the  better 
of  the  two  when  we  wrote  it. 

When  you  get  $20  for  that  corking  good  story  that  you  wanted  to  make 
into  two  reels  and  are  paid  $35  for  another  not  half  so  good,  wait  until 
you  see  the  picture  on  the  screen  before  you  throw  rocks  at  the  Editor. 

You  stand  too  close  to  your  own  work  to  get  a  proper  perspective.  Be 
willing  to  trust  to  the  man  who  stands  far  off  and  can  get  the  true  values. 
Because  you  got  $25  for  a  story  that  should  have  brought  you  $50  do  not 
price  everything  you  send  out.  We  never  have  priced  either  a  fiction 
story  or  photoplay  and  we  never  will.  In  the  long  run  the  profit  is  on 
our   side. 


Old  Jokes. 

The  other  day  a  newcomer  argued  with  us  that  he  had  a  perfect  right 
to  use  old  jokes  as  the  foundation  for  comedy  stories.  He  pointed  out 
that  it  was  regarded  as  being  within  the  moral  law  to  use  press  clippings 
and  he  saw  no  reason  why  he  could  not  use  press  jokes. 

There  are  two  good  reasons.  The  first  of  these  is  that  someone  is 
bound  to  recognize  the  old  joke  and  mark  the  writer  down  as  a  thief 
and  an  unsafe  person  to  deal  with.  The  second  reason  is  that  the  author 
who  sells  a  play  is  required  to  state  over  his  signature  or  even  under  oath 
that  what  he  is  selling  is  his  own  creation.  The  newspaper  clipping 
developed  into  a  story  ceases  to  be  a  news  item  and  becomes  a  story. 
The  joke  worked  into  a  play  remains  the  joke  still.  Nothing  has  been 
added.  Morally  the  objection  is  that  you  are  affirming,  or  swearing  to, 
a  falsehood;  a  crime  legally  designated  as  perjury.  If  the  ethical  side 
does  not  interest;  and  it  generally  doesn't  interest  the  man  who  cannot 
think  for  himself,  there  is  the  straight  business  objection  that  discovery  is 
inevitable  and  the  result  will  be  a  blacklisting  of  the  work  of  the  unoriginal 
thief.  In  either  case  it  does  not  pay  to  work  up  Joe  Miller,  nor  yet 
Puck  or  Judge. 


NOTE — Replies  cannot  be  sent  by  mail.  State  name  of  character.  3>o  not 
ask  for  "leads"  or  "that  man."  Addresses  cannot  be  given  here,  but  a  list 
of  studio  addresses  will  be  sent  for  a  stamped  and  self- addressed  envelope. 
Only  questions  of  general  interest  will  be  answered.     Replies  cannot  be  repeated. 

W.  E.  B.— The  Universal  has  asked  that  carbons  he  sent  them  of  All  scripts 
that  were  on  band  at  the  time  of  the  fire.     Send  In  your  carbons  to  them. 

N,  P. — Sorry,  but  the  Universal  gives  out  few  of  Its  casts,  and  it  is  not 
easy   to  obtain   the  desired   information. 

M.  S. — Watch  the  synopses  for  the  story  of  the  film  you  mention.  We  do 
not  know  its  title. 

J.  F.  M. — Charles  Murray  was  the  convict  in  "Edwin  Masquerades."  You 
may   remember  him  as  being  of  Murray  and   Mack. 

R.  P.  K. — Read  the  notice  at  the  top  of  this  column  and  learn  that  the 
list  will  be  sent  for  a  stamped  and  addressed  envelope. 

RUBEENA — It  wasn't  because  Flossie  O.  P.  wrote  so  many  letters  that 
sbe  became  famous.  Remember  that.  If  you  land  that  photoplay  let  us  bear 
about  it.  but  it  is  one  thing  to  write  them,  and  a  very  different  one  to  sell 
tbem.  We  do  not  identify  half-tones.  Eugene  Savoyard  had  the  lead  in 
"A  Leap  Year  Elopement."  You  seem  to  refer  to  Edison's  'The  Kid  from 
Klondyke."  Miss  Reeva  Greenwood  was  the  stenographer.  We  did  not  care 
for  the  poem. 

C.  F.  C. — We  do  not  know  why  Miss  Buckley  is  with  Selig  instead  of  Lubin. 
If  you  want  to  know  you'll  have  to  ask  her  yourself.  Jack  Pickford  Is  Miss 
Mary  Pick  ford's'  brother.  He  was  until  recently  known  as  Jack  Smith.  In 
April  we  find  Yale  Boss  cast  only  for  "The  Inventor's  Sketch,"  which  was 
released  April  4th.     The  May  list  is  not  yet  ont. 

W.  S.  B. — The  "truce"  didn't  come  to  hand.  Were  you  "kidding"  the 
Answers  Man? 

LOIS — It  is  useless  to  ask   "is  be  married?"   for  we  won't  tell. 

M.  T. — Mr.  Solter  is  a  director,  not  an  actor,  and  we  do  not  recall  that 
he  ever  played  a  part.  Your  second  question  refers  to  a  dim  too  old  to  be 
Identified  now. 

X.  X.  J. — We  do  not  locate  the  player  you  mention. 

ORIENT — Gus  Pixley  was  the  real  King  and  Charles  Murray  the  tramp 
in  "All  Hail  to  the  King."  How  did  it  happen  that  you  got  the  full  title? 
All  the  others  call  it  "Hail  to  the  King."  Thanks.  Mrs.  George  Nicholls 
was  the  jealous  sister  in  Women  of  the  Desert.  She  is  not  a  regular  member 
of  the  company.    Miss  Florence  Hackett  was  Iris  in  "The  Power  of  the  Cross. " 

MRS.  T. — Please  ask  questions  when  you  write. 

C.  H.  E. — We  cannot  answer  Pathe  questions.  Miss  Mardin  BaJj  was  the 
stenographer  in  "The  California  Oil  Crooks." 

C.  N. — You  can  obtain  information  as  to  the  laws  from  the  License  Bureau. 
The  other  material  you  can  get  out  of  recent  issues  of  the  paper.  We'd 
like  to  help,  but  writing  speeches  for  school  debates  is  no  part  of  the 
job  of  a  Union  Answers  Man. 

EXHIBITOR — The  film  Is  not  licensed.  We  do  not  believe  that  the  Edi=on 
Talking  Pictures  can  be  shown  in  Independent  houses.  Mr.  Stanton  Is  still 
with  K-B. 

B.  S. — Sign  your  name. 

B.  D.— Please  mention  names  instead  of  asking  for  "leading  players."  Jack 
Standing  and  Miss  Isabelle  Union  were  the  leads  in  "For  the  Child's  Sake." 

Joe  King  had  the  title  part  in  "Smiling  Dan." 

B.  A.  D. — You  brought  joy  to  the  heart  of  the  KB  Identifier  by  leaving 
plenty  of  margin  around  your  questions  for  the  replies.  Ferd  Sterling  had 
the  title  part  in  "The  Land  Salesman,"  and  ran  down  the  street  after  Miss 
Normand  (who  wouldn't),  in  "Sleuths  at  the  Floral  Parade."  The  decadent 
stories  to  which  you  (and  others)  object,  are  made  in  the  supposition  that 
such  "strong"  stories  are  appreciated.  Many  of  the  Punch  people  were 
transferred  to  Excelsior  when  the  Punch  was  dropped.  The  company  you 
name  has  no  releasing  affiliation.  It  sells  where  and  when  it  can  find  a 
purchaser.  You  are  always  welcome  to  come  in  with  questions.  See  the  news 
columns  for  Fred  Mace. 

E.  J,  G. — Guy  Coombs  was  Gordon.  Henry  Hallarn,  Alden.  and  Hal  Clem- 
ents, Nelson,  in  "The  Exposure  of  the  Land  Swindlers."  Give  the  correct 
title  of  that  Vitagraph.  If  you  devise  your  own  titles,  you  cannot  expect 
to  be  answered  out  of  our  card  catalogue.  We  do  not  name  Oices  players. 
George  Gebbardt  Is  no  longer  with  Pathe,  having  gone  over  to  Universal 
to  direct. 

MRS.  R. — W.  J.  Shea  was  George,  and  Miss  Jane  Fearnley  Cora,  in  "A 
Woman's  Power." 

J.  C. — Now  we  know  what  the  "director's  sheet"  is.  Y<m  are  giving  too 
much  for  the  money.  The  proper  script  consists  of  a  synopsis  ia  less  than 
250  words,  a  cast  of  characters,  and  the  plot  of  action  by  scenes,  into  which 
are  written  the  necessary  leaders  and  inserts.  The  so-called  Director's  Sheet 
is  worse  than  useless,  and  the  director  generally  prefers  to  make  ont  his 
own  property  plot.  The  scene  plot  can  be  added,  but  It  is  not  required,  and 
unless  you  are  pretty  certain  that  your  script  will  be  followed  exactly,  it  is 
useless.  The  principal  use  of  the  scene  plot,  unless  you  are  writing  for  some 
director  whose  method  you  know,  and  who  is  apt  to  follow  your  script,  is  to 
give  a  general  idea  of  the  layout.  Send  a  number  ten  stamped  and  ad- 
dressed envelope  to  the  Answers  Man. 

C.  E.  C. —  Miss  Barker  died  in  Los  Angeles  some  weeks  ago.  Read  the 
paper  more  closely. 

E.  R. — See  reply  to  E.  J.   G.     We  have  not  the  second  cast  you  ask  about. 
8.  E.  P. — Miss  Gertrude  Bambrick  was  Marie  In  "Near  to  Earth." 


Photoplay  Writing. 

The  standard  book  on  the  subject  is  Mr.  Epes  W.  Sargent's 

TECHNIQUE  OF  THE  PHOTOPLAY. 
Price,  $1.00.  Postage  Prepaid.  All  Orders  and  Remittances  to 

CHALMERS    PUBLISHING    COMPANY, 
Box  226,  Madison  Square  Post  Office,  New  York  City. 


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Projection  Department 


Edited  by  F.   H.   RICHAKDSON 


Operators'  Union  Directory,  I.  A.  T,  S.  E. 

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should  be  included  on  each  list,  and  the  address  of  regular  meeting  place, 
if  any. 


Moving  Picture  Machine  Operators'  Local  Union  No.  228, 
I.  A.  T.  S.  E.,  Toledo,  O. 

President,  R.  O.  Sheats;  Vice-President,  Carl  Koch;  Recording  Secre- 
tary, A.  W.  Hooper;  Financial  Secretary,  Raymond  Fouke;  Treasurer,  Joe 
Seligman,;  Business  Agent,  Tom  McCormick.  Meet  at  Room  3,  Central 
Labor  Union  Hall,  314  Cherry  Street,  first  and  third  Tuesday,  11  P.  M. 
sharp.  Address  all  communications  to  A.  W.  Hooper,  Willard  Apts.,  809^ 
Madison  Ave.,  Toledo,  Ohio. 

Projection  by  Reflection. 

The  Editor  of  this  department  has  received  hundreds  of  inquiries  with 
regard  to  a  new  projection  machine  which  is  being  exploited  in  Chicago. 
The  claim  is  made  that  this  machine  has  no  intermittent  movement  and 
no  shutter,  therefore  utilizes  the  entire  light  and  has  a  total  absence  of 
flicker.  We  have  invited  the  manufacturers,  or  rather  the  inventors 
(it  is  not  manufactured  yet)  to  submit  their  machine  to  this  department 
for  examination.  They  have  not  done  so.  We  have  invited  them  to 
give  us  the  number  of  their  patent.  They  have  not  done  so.  Now,  I  do 
not  purpose  to  either  endorse  or  condemn  this  or  any  other  proposition 
until  I  have  seen  it  and  examined  it.  When  I  have  done  that,  I  will 
make  my  decision  and  stand  by  it,  taking  the  blame,  if  I  am  wrong.  I 
have,  however,  in  view  of  the  large  number  of  inquiries  received,  done 
some  investigating.  According  to  a  printed  description  of  this  machine, 
the  film  is  beneath  the  arc  lamp  and  runs  horizontally  and  continuously 
without  any  intermittent  movement.  The  projection  is  accomplished  by 
means  of  two  rocking  mirrors,  or  revolving  mirrors  which  reflect  the 
image   of  the   picture  into   the  objective   lens. 

Xow,  before  commenting  on  this  kind  of  a  device,  let  me  say  that  essen- 
tially the  same  thing  was  patented  October  14,  1902,  and  bears  the  patent 
number  711,440,  the  only  difference  being  that  in  this  case  the  light  was 
reflected  by  revolving  or  rocking  mirrors  into  a  prism,  which  threw  the  rays 
into  the  objective  lens  at  right  angles.  Aside  from  this  minor  detail  the 
method  seems  to  be  practically  the  same  as  in  the  machine  in  question,  yet 
it  was  discarded  as  impractical.  The  best  description  I  have  seen  of  this 
machine,  or  at  least  what  seems  to  be  the  best,  is  contained  in  popular 
electricity.  I  reproduce  it.  Whether  the  description  is  accurately  cor- 
rect or  not,  I  could  not  say,  but  I  presume  it  is: 

The  film,  the  ordinary  kind,  travels  horizontally.  The  arc  lamp 
lens  is  above  the  film  and  the  ray  of  light  is  projected  down  verti- 
cally through  the  film.  Below  the  film  is  a  mirror  so  set  as  to 
project  the  beam  of  light  out  horizontally  to  the  screen. 

Imagine,  now,  a  single  picture  moving  through  the  beam  of  light. 
The  picture  is  caught  by  the  mirror  and  thrown  on  the  screen. 

"But,"  you  say,  "in  that  case  the  image  would  travel  down 
across  the   screen   as   a   blur." 

True  enough,  it  would,  if  the  mirror  remained  stationary. 
But  is  does  not.  It  rocks.  This  rocking  motion  is  regulated  so 
accurately  that  it  just  corrects  for  the  forward  motion  of  the  film 
and  the  image  of  the  particular  picture  wte  are  considering  remains 
stationary  for  an  instant  on  the  screen.  If  someone  were  carrying 
a  candle  by  in  front  of  you  and  you  were  attempting,  with  a 
mirror,  to  throw  the  image  of  the  flame  at  one  point  on  a  large 
mirror  or  screen  in  front  of  you,  you  would  have  to  move  the 
mirror  in  your  hand  a  very  little  as  the  candle  passed  by.  In  this 
new  projector  the  principle   is  the  same. 

Another  question  now  immediately  arises.  "This  is  but  a 
single  picture  on  the  film.  How  about  the  next  one  following 
right  behind  it?  Does  the  mirror  jump  back  to  pick  up  this  new 
image?  In  that  case  there  would  be  the  same  period  of  darkness 
as   with   a   shutter." 

The  answer  is  that  there  is  more  than  one  mirror.  They  are 
mounted  on  a  revolving  shaft — at  a  slight  angle  that  gives  the 
rocking  motion.  As  one  picture  passes  through  the  beam  of  light  it 
is  taken  up  by  one  of  the  mirrors  and  thrown  onto  the  screen. 
Passing  through,  it  begins  to  fade,  but  immediately  behind  it  comes 
the  next  picture,  -which  is  taken  up  by  the  following  mirror  and 
begins  to  come  on  the  screen  as  the  preceding  one  begins  to 
grow   dim. 

To  carry  our  analogy  further,  suppose  four  persons  with  hand 
mirrors  stand  in  a  circle  facing  outward.  Now  suppose  a  line 
of  several  hundred  people  carrying  candles,  all  held  at  the  same 
height,  to  be  passing  by  at  uniform  speed  on  one  side  of  the  circle. 
In  the  background  is  a  large  mirror  or  screen.  Now  let  the  circle 
of  mirror  holders  begin  to  revolve.  The  first  member  of  the 
circle  catches  the  image  of  the  first  candle  and  projects  it  at 
one  point  on  the  screen  just  as  long  as  he  can  by  rocking  his 
mirror.     But  he  finally  passes  out  of  range.     But  long  before  this 


the  second  member  of  the  circle  has  caught  the  image  of  the  second 
candle  and  projected  it  on  top  of  the  first  image — and  so  on 
around.  //  the  members  of  the  circle  could  move  just  fast  enough 
and  manipulate  their  mirrors  with  mechanical  exactness  a  continu- 
ous image  of  a  candle  flame  could  be  kept  on  the  screen. 

In    other    words    it    is    a    dissolving    effect,    only    this    dissolving 
is   done    so    rapidly — say    about    eight    times    per    second,    that    the 
blending  of  one  picture  into  another  is  scarcely  perceptible.     When 
the  machine  is  perfected  it  is  expected  that  the  change   from   one 
picture   to  another   will  be   imperceptible   to   the   eye  and   that   the 
resulting  picture   will   be  flickerless. 
You  will  observe  that  I  have  placed  a  certain  clause  in   italics,  and  that 
seems  to  me  to  be  the  splinter  in  the  finger  in  this  particular  proposition, 
so  far  as  I  can  see  it  at  present.     To  illustrate  what  I  mean:  There  is  no 
doubt  but  what  the  manipulation  of  mirrors  would  accomplish  the  purpose 
substantially    as   set    forth.      That   has   been    proven    long   ago,    but   the   fly 
in    the    ointment    lies    in    the    fact    that   in    order    to    secure    sharpness    of 
definition,  the  movement  of  these  mirrors  must,  at  all  times,  be  absolutely 
mechanically  correct,   and  I   will  have  to  be  shown  that  this  can   be  done. 
Supposing  you    have   a    100   foot   throw,    you   take   a   mirror   and   reflect   a 
beam  of   light   from  your   operating  room   to  the   screen.      Nov.,    move   that 
mirror,   that  is  to  say,  alter  the  angle  just  the   least  little   bit — so   little  in 
fact    that    vou    can    hardly    perceive    the    motion    in    the    mirror,    and    watch 
what   that   light   out   on    the    screen    does.      If   these    two    mirrors    could   be 
made  to  maintain  absolute  mechanical  accuracy   in  their  movement,  I  really 
believe   the   thing  could  be  done,   but,   as   I   before  said,   you   will   have  to 
show  me  that  any  such   scheme  as  this  is  really   practical.     Frankly,  I   do 
not  believe  it  is,  and  will  not  believe  it  until  it  has  been  thoroughly  demon- 
strated to  me,   and  until   this  demonstration  takes  place  I   have  no  advice 
to  offer  concerning  the  Chicago  machine,  except  be  very  sure  of  where  you 
are   g»ing   to   land   before   you    invest  money.     If  the  thing   is    all    right — 
if  it  is  a  really  practical   proposition,  let  its  sponsors   present   it  to  this  de- 
partment  for   examination.      If   it   is   found   to   be    what   they   claim    for   it, 
that  fact   will  be   set   forth   fully  and  completely   in   this  department,   since 
such  a  projector  would  be  a  godsend  to  the  business. 

Admitting  Managers. 

Fairmount,   W.   -Va.,    writes: 

Enclosed  find  money  order  for  $2.50  for  copy  of  the  Handbook. 
I  am  a  member  of  L.  TJ.  No.  239.  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.     Members  of  the 
American    Federation    Musicians'    Local    507   claim    that    our    union 
will   not   amount    to    much    because    we   do   not   admit   managers  to 
membership.     What  is  your  opinion  as  to  this?     By  close  attention 
to  the  projection  department  we  have  attained  excellence  in  projec- 
tion.    All  the  boys  in  Local  239  join  in  sending  their  best  wishes. 
As  regards   admitting  managers   to  membership.    I   have  had  this   matter 
up    with    International    President   Shay.      His    ruling   is   that    when    a    local 
union  is  in  process  of  being  formed,  managers,  who  are  also  operators  and 
can    qualify    as   such   in    the    examination,    should   be   taken   in.      I   do   not 
think    I    quite    agree    with    brother    Shay    in    this    particular,    but    I    fully 
realize  that  there  are  things  to  be  said  on  both  sides;   therefore,  I   simply 
give  you  the  ruling  as  given  by  International  President  Shay  to  me.^ 

An  Announcement  Slide  Scheme. 

Baltimore,    Md.,    contributes   the    following   idea: 

Here   is   another  new   announcement   slide   scheme.      Get   half   a 
vard    of    draftsman's   tracing   cloth,    and    a    twenty-five  cent   bottle 
of    Higgins'    black    drawing    ink.      Cut    the    cloth    up    into    small 
pieces,  the  size  of  the  slide,  and,  using  the  ink,  write  anything  you 
wish    on    it   with   an    ordinary   pen.     The   cloth    costs   about   thirty 
cents      It  will  make  something  like  forty  slides. 
All  of  which  is  passed  along  to  our  readers,  with  the  remark,  however, 
that  the    cloth   would   have   to   be   bound   up   between   cover   glasses  in   the 
usual   way. 


He  Is  All  Smiles  Now. 

Mr.  R.  Stanco,  Waterbury,  Conn.,  writes: 

I  see  Brother  Blaine  Day,  of  Sherman,  Texas,  believes  that 
"everything  comes  to  him  who  waits."  He  is  right,  and  I.  myself, 
am  all  smiles  since  the  Colonial  Theater  opened,  three  weeks  ago 
I  have  two  Power's  Six  A  machines  and  take  current  through  Hall- 
berg's  35  ampere  d.  c.  economizer.  My  operating  room  is  g<_i  x  8, 
7  feet  high.  Have  vent  pipe  14  inches,  with  an  exhaust  fan  at- 
tached. Throw  is  81  feet,  with  a  12K  foot  picture  projected  on  a 
white  plaster  screen,  bordered  with  black.  I  think  plaster  is  far 
better  than  cloth,  as  the  light  does  not  penetrate  and  you  there- 
fore get  the  full  benefit.  Six  weeks  ago  I  ordered  a  Handbook, 
which  I  have  read  over  and  over  again.  I  would  not  take  ten  dollars 
for  my  copy  if  I  thought  I  could  not  procure  another.  Its  author  s 
photograph  is  in  a  frame  in  my  new  operating  room. 
Very  glad  indeed  that  you  have  such  a  nice  plant,  friend  Stanco  The 
only  criticism  I  have  is  that  I  much  prefer  a  larger  vent  flue  w,  hout  any 
fan  attached.     The   trouble   with   the   fan  proration   is  that,  just  when   1 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


fire   occurs,  it  might  be    broken   down,   or,   at   any   rate   not    running.      Its 
blades  would  then   only  serve   to  obstruct  the  already  too  small  vent  flue. 


Burns  Midnight  Oil. 
Mr.  Jess  Bowman,   Orpheum  Theater,   Racine.   Wisconsin,   writes,  dating 
his  letter  at  i  A.  M.     He  says: 

You   will   doubtless  wonder  what  I   am  doing  writing  letters  at 
this  time  of  night  when  I  should  be  in  bed.     Well,  I  am  correspond- 
ing with  some  of  the  boys.  I  just  wrote  to  Mr.  Potter,  Springfield, 
Oregon,   about   light   trouble.      I    am   projecting  a    14   foot   picture 
at  84  feet,  using  no  volt,  d.  c.     I  use  two  ^  cored  carbons  and 
about   25    amperes   of  current.      Enclosed   find   money   for    another 
handbook.     I  sent  the  first  one  to  a  friend  in  California.     I  feel 
that  I  cannot  do  without  this  book,  however,  so  here  is  the  money 
for  another.     In  this  connection  I  want  to  say  to  brother  operators 
that,  in  the  interest  of  better  projection,  they  should  push  the  hand- 
book along.     I  have  found  it  to  be  invaluable. 
There  are  a  few   who  have   mildly   criticised   me   saying  so   much   about 
the  handbook,   or,   rather,   publishing  so   many   favorable  comments.     Well, 
Brothers,  I  plead  guilty.     I  shall  be  guilty  some  more  too.     I  want  to  see 
a  copy  of  that  book  in  every  theater  in  this  country,  for  the  very  simple 
reason  that  there  is  not  a  theater  where  one  is  not  needed.     I  am  trying 
to  bring  about  better  projection,  and  I  firmly  believe  that  the  distribution 
of    the    handbook    will    go    a    long    ways    towards    accomplishing    that    end, 
therefore    I    feel    that    space    used    in    the    department    for    the    purpose    ot 
convincing  you  that  the  book  is  a  good  investment,  is  space  well  expended. 
I  can  also  assure  you  that  I  do  not  publish  one  tenth  of  the  favorable  things 
said  about  the  book.     In   fact,  brother  Bowman   himself  said  a  great   deal 
more  in  his  letter  than  I  gave  space  to.  I  think,  friend  Bowman,  you  would 
get   better    results   with    a    H    cored    carbon   above    and    a    half    inch   solid 
below,   or  if  you   are   not  using  more  than   2s   amperes,   a   half  inch   solid 
above  and  a  7-16  inch,  or  even  a  half  inch  solid  below. 


A  New  Idea. 

Mr.  George  Schlesinger,  Orpheum  Theater,  Suianville,  California,  writes: 
While   I    myself   have   not   contributed   anything    in    the   past,    I 
will    endeavor    to    do    so    in    the    future.      I    have    noticed    several 
suggestions    offered   to    prevent    condenser   breakage.      I    have    not 
had    a   broKen    condenser    in    three    of    four   years   though   I    have 
handled  several  types  of  condenser  cells.     The  only  reason   I  can 
offer  is  that  I  clean  my  condenser  often  and  thoroughly,  two  or 
three  hours  before  using.     I  have  noticed  when  cleaning  an  ordinary 
lamp   chimney   that   through    constant    rubbing   the    glass    seems  to 
gather   electricity   and   heat,   and    after   having   given    the   chimney 
a  vigorous  rubdown  and  then  when  set  in  the  lamp  on  numerous 
occasions  it  would  break  just  as  soon  as  it  came  in  contact  with 
the  cold  metal.     I  think  that  the  same  result  can  be  expected  with 
a   condenser   under    the    same    conditions,    taking   in    consideration 
the   sudden    changes;   first    trie   rubbing;   then   the   cold   metal    and 
finally  the  heat  of  the  arc,  should  a  condenser  be  put  in  use  right 
after  the  cleaning.     My  observation  proved  to  my  own  satisfaction 
in   every    day  experience   that   a   dirty   condenser   will   break  more 
quickly   than    a   clean    one.      It    seems    that    heat   will    gather   and 
remain    between   the    dirt  and    the   glass.       Whether   there   is    real 
merit    in    my    observations,    I    will    leave    for    other    operators    to 
decide,  anyway  I  am  not  going  broke  buying  condensers.     I  do  my 
own   operating,   projecting  a    19   foot  picture  at   95   feet,   using  35 
amperes  through  a  Mercury  Arc  Rectifier  with  satisfactory  results. 
Enclosed  find  check  for  $2.50  for  which  please  send  me  your  latest 
edition  of  the  handbook. 
Your  ideas  concerning  condenser  breakage  are  certainly  new  and  unique. 
It   is   quite    true   that   when    a    glass   is    vigorously    rubbed    there    is    static 
electricity   generated,   though   I   have   nevet    understood  that   this   had  any- 
thing to  do  with  breakage.     I  do  not  think  I  would  care  to  comment  on  this 
proposition  at  all,  but  merely  pass  the   idea  along  to  our  readers  for  con- 
sideraticn.      I    have    never    myself   observed    that    a    dirty    lens    broke    any 
quicker  than  a  clean  one.      What  has  been  the  observation  of  our  readers 
in   this   respect? 


Edison  Machine-Trouble  Remedy. 

El  Paso,  Texas,  contributes  the  following: 

On    page    1217,    March    22nd    issue.    I    notice    Mr.    Bryan    has 

trouble    similar    to    that    I    myself    experienced,    and    remedied    as 

follows:      Remove    casting   which    supports    the    shutter    shaft    and 

middle  gear.     A  small  slot  will  be  found  which  fits  over  one  of  the 

braces  of  the  carrier.     File  out  about  1-32  of  an  inch  from  the  top 

of  the  opening.     Now  put  the  casting  back  in  place  and  draw  it 

down  as  far  as  possible,  while  tightening  up  the  small  nuts  which 

hold   it   in   place.     The   effect  will   be   to   separate   the   upper   gear 

somewhat  from  the  middle,  so  that  the  vibration  in  the  shutter  shaft 

will  not  be  noticeable.     I  have  one  of  the  new  handbooks  and  would 

not  sell   it    for   five   dollars   if   I    could   not  get  another.     I   have 

derived  much  benefit  from  the  different  problems  submitted  in  the 

department.      Would   like   to    know   a    formula    for   figuring   lenses 

by  the  back  focus  instead  of  the  equivalent  focus. 

Neighbor    Bryan    will    please    take   notice    of    the    remedy    suggested    for 

hit  trouble.     As  to  a  formula  for  figuring  back   focus,  I   do  not  know  of 

any.      The    equivalent    focus    is,    however,    the    back    focus    plus    half    the 

difference   between    the    two    factors   of  the   lens.     To  get   the    back    focus 

measure  the  distance  between  a  flat  wall  and  the  rear  lens,  when  the  image 

is  sharp  on  the  wall. 


An  Interesting  Experiment. 

Mr.  Albert  Caulkins,   Carthage,  Missouri,  submits  the  following: 

Glad  to  have  your  comment  on  our  flicker  trouble,  noted  on  page 

1334,  of  March  29th  issue.     With  the  three  wing  shutter  making 

sixteen   revolutions  a   second   we   have  2880   interruptions  of  light 

a  minute.     25  cycle  current  gives  us  3000  pulsations  on  the  d.   c. 

side  of  our   rectifier  per  minute.     You  can  readily  see  that  these 

two   rates   of  interruptions  synchronize  very    frequently.      A   three 

wing   shutter   is   an    impossibility   as  the    whole   house,    side   walls, 

ceiling  and  floor  will  seem  to  dance  with  light  in  a  most  ghostly 

effect     A  two  wing  shutter  to  a  great  extent  corrects  this  as  the 

two   rates  of  interruptions   do   not  synchronize,   but  the  two   wing 

shutter  causes  a  very  serious  eye  strain.     We  are  at  the   present 

time  arranging  to  float  a  storage  battery  on  the  line  on  the  d.   c. 

side    of   the    rectifier,    and    in    theory   figure   that    the   battery   will 

compensate   on   the   high   and   low    point;    of   the   pulsations.      We 

will    write  you   further   when    we   have  given   this  a  fair  test   and 

in  the  meantime  would  be  very  glad  to  have  you  put  it  up  in  your 

department  for  general  discussion.     The  fact  that  25  cycle  current 

as  a  power  proposition   is  coming  into  such   general   use   and   can 

be  obtained  so   much  cheaper  than   60   from   the  power  companies 

makes  its  use  advisable,  if  satisfactorily  solved. 

The  experiment  you  suggest  will  be  very  interesting,  Neighbor  Caulkins, 

but    I    am    not    exactly    certain    what   the   effect    of    connecting   in    storage 

battery    will    be    to    the    battery    itself.      I    shall    expect    to   hear    from    you 

as   to   the    result    you   get,   and    thank   you    for   having   submitted    the    idea 

to  the  department. 


A  Lockout. 

Mr.  H.   Beisel,  Pres.,  Local  Union   157,  I.   A.   T.   S.  E.,   Allentown,  Pa., 
writes: 

Every  man  should  be  aware  of  the  fact  that  the  Orpheum  stage 
employees,  Allentown,  Pa.,  have  been  locked  out  for  two  weeks.  The 
trouble  occurred  as  follows:     The  Nowin  troupe  of  acrobats  came 
to  the  Orpheum  with  a  complete  set  of  scenery,  but  did  not  carry 
an  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  man  as  required  by  the  international  union  laws. 
The   Nowin   troupe   was   fair   enough    to   be   willing  to   work  with 
the  house  scenery,  but  the  Orpheum  theater  manager  insisted  we  put 
on  the   troupe  scenery,   which  would  be  in  violation  of  our  inter- 
national laws,  and  subject  us  to  the  possibility  of  a  heavy  fine  or 
the    revocation    of    our    charter.      At    11:50    in    the    morning    the 
Orpheum  manager  came  to  the  stage  and  gave  us  ten  minutes  to 
either   put   on   the   entire   Nowin    scenery   set  or  quit.     Of  course 
there  was  nothing  to  do  but  refuse,  and  we  were  promptly  locked 
out     We  therefore,  ask  the  moral  support  of  all  union  men  in  this 
matter.     The  Lyceum  and  Lyric  theaters  employ  union  stage  men, 
while    the    Orpheum    stage    is    worked    by    non-union    employees. 
I  want  to  compliment  Brother  Beisel  on  his  very  conservative,  gentlemanly 
manner  of  setting  forth   this   difficulty.     The  Orpheum   manager   most   cer- 
tainly took  the  wrong   course  in  attempting  to  force  the   members  of    157 
to  do  something  which  they  could  not  do  without  working  irrepairable  in- 
jury to  themselves.     Managers  must  not  demand  impossibilities,  and  to  have 
the  Orpheum  men  to  put  on  that  set  of  scenery  would,  to  all  intents  and 
purposes,   come    under   the    head    of    "practical    impossibilities."      It    is   one 
of  the  duties  of  the  house   manager  to  know  that  the  acts  coming  to   his 
house  are  equipped  to  put  their  act  on  without  violating  either  the  rules  of 
the  house  or  the  laws  of  the  International  Union  to  which  the  stage  men 
belong. 


Went  Him  One  Better. 

Covington,   Kentucky,   contributes  the   following: 

Noticed,  in  March  22nd  edition,  Mr.  George  J.  Eberwine,  Marble- 
head,    Ohio,   stopped   condenser   breakage   by   sawing  into   his   ring 
mount     I  believe  I  went     him  one  better  by  sawing  my  mount  in 
half  and  using  a   hinge.     This,   I   think,  allows  all  the  expansion 
necessary.     On  the  thread  end,  using  a  pair  of  tinner's  snips,  I  cut, 
every  inch,  a  space  about  %  inch  wide,  and  bent  these  narrow  pieces 
inward.     This  held  the  lenses  in  place.     What  do  you  think  about 
a  7  inch  condenser  lens?     If  you  have  the  time,  take  the  matter 
of   such   a   lens    up    with    the   manufacturers.      I    believe   it   would 
help  projection. 
The  condenser  mount  scheme   is  passed  along   for   consideration,   though 
I  believe  Marblehead's  scheme  answers  every  purpose,  and  I  am  not  sure 
but  what  it  answers  it  better  than  your  own,  Covington.     As  to  the  seven 
inch  condenser  lens,  it  might  be  a  good  scheme,  but  you  will  find  that  a  great 
many  6'/2    inch   lenses  are  6$i  by  actual  measurement,   whereas  many   y'/i 
lenses  will  be  found  to  actually  measure  only  7%. 

A  Collection. 

Mr.    Claude    Mc Adams,    Charles   Hathaway    and   Wm.    Blackmore,    write: 
The   undersigned   have   conceived  the    following  idea,   which    we 
sincerely    trust    will    meet    with    your    approval:       We   believe    the 
majority  of  operators,  as  well  as  theatrical  people,  in  general,  would 
be  quite  willing  to  contribute  to  the  flood  suffers.     Would  you  be 
willing  to  devote  a  little  space,  asking  all  who  are  willing  to  send 
whatever  amount  they  can  to  you,  and  let  you  forward  it  to  the  suf- 
fers in  Ohio  and  other  states?     Let  us  know  through  the  department 
and  we  will  start  it  going.  Projection  is  excellent  in  Muskogee.  We 
organized  about  a  year  ago,  and  are  getting  along  very  nicely. 
While   the   idea  does  you  credit,  brother,   I   hardly  think  it  would  work 
out,  in    that  by  the  time  such  a  collection   could  be   raised,  the   need   for 
it   would    very    largely    have   passed.      Operators    who   desire    to   contribute 
can    do    so    through    the    local    collections    which    are    being    made    up    all 
over   the    country.      By   the   time  such   a   thing   could   be  handled   through 
the  Moving  Picture  World,  at  least  two  or  three  weeks  would  have  elasped, 
and   the   relief  that  is  needed   is  needed  immediatly — not  in   two   or   three 
weeks  from  now. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


593 


Size  of  Picture. 

Mr.    H.    E.    Burns,    Martinsburg,    West   Virginia,    writes: 

I   have  a  room  14  x  70,  with  a  10  foot  ceiling.     What  size  pic- 
ture can  I  make  and  what  lens  will  be   required?     I  can  put  my 
operating  room  in  the  center  at  the  front,  and  put  it  as  high  or  as 
low  as  I  want  it,  as  there  will  be  no  ticket  office  beneath. 
The   room   is   not   suitable    for   a   moving  picture   theater,    friend   Burns. 
The  bottom  of  your   light  ray  should  at  least  be  six   feet   from  the  floor, 
and    that   would   only  leave   you   room   for   a   very   small    picture.      Locate 
your  lens  as  high   as  you  can  get  it,  and   even  then  it  will  be  impossible 
to  have  anything  like  a  good  size  picture  without  the  heads  of  the  audiences 
interfering  in  the  light  as  they  come  in  and  go  out,  particularly  down  near 
the  front.     You  could  not  have   more   than  a  6  x   8   pcture  at  most.     To 
find   the   required   lens  to  project   that   picture,   see   pages   356   and   357   of 
the  handbook.     If  you  have  not  that  book,  then  send  $2.50  to  the  Moving 
Picture  World   and  get   it.     You  will   find  it   worth  many  times  its  price, 
since  it  answers  all  such  questions  as  this  and  hundreds  more  besides.     The 
elevating   of   your    floor    will    make    no   difference    concerning   the   problem 
which  confronts  you.    You  will  find,  on  pages  413  and  414  of  the  Handbook 
the  slope  of  the  floor  dealt  with. 

Projecting  on  an  Angle. 

Creseht    Amusement    Co.,    Brooklyn,    N.    Y.,    sets    forth    its    problem    as 
follows: 

We  are  erecting  a  new  theater,  53  x  70  in  size.     The  throw  will 
be    60    feet.      Will   it   be    possible    to    project    a   picture    from   the 
extreme  side  of  the  building  without  too  much  distortion?     Propose 
to  have  a  two-machine  operating  room,  which  will  make  quite   an 
angle  from  the  further  machine  to  the  screen.  Owing  to  construction 
of  building  it  is  necessary  to  have  the  operating  room  on  one  side 
of  the  building. 
You  will*  have  lots  of  distortion  and  a  great  deal   of   trouble  in  getting 
away  from  an  out-of-focus  effect,  if  you-  undertake  to  project  60  feet  with 
a  side  throw  of  almost  25.     As  for  me,  I  would  not  consider  such  a  prop- 
osition.    By  manipulation  of  the  aperture  plates  of  your  machines  you  may 
be  able  to  do  away  with  the  side  keystone  effect,  but  there  will  still  remain 
the  distortion  of  the  picture  itself  and  the  out-of-focus  effect  to  deal  with. 
The  former  cannot  be   remedied   at  all,  though  possibly  the  latter  may  be. 
A  heavy  ?ide  throw  is  a  very  bad  business  indeed. 


possibly  keep  all  these  things  in  my  head,  and  to  go  back  and  look  through 
perhaps  a  dozen  numbers  of  the  department,  takes  time.  It  would  accom- 
modate me  very  much  if,  when  referring  to  previous  letters,  you  would 
give  the  date  of  their  publication. 


The  First  Moving  Picture  Machine. 

Mr.   A.   S.   Clopton,   Parsons,  Kansas,  writes: 

I  am  writing  for  information   regarding  the  first  motion   picture 
machine,  as  to  when,  where  and   how  built.     I  am  a  high   school 
student,  in  my  junior  year,  but  in  the  summer  am  an  operator  of 
motion  picture  machines,  and  have  chosen  for  my  term  essay  "The 
Educational    Effect   of   Moving   Pictures,"   therefore  would   like    to 
know  as  much  as  I  can  find  out  about  the  first  machine. 
You   have  sprung  a  very  large  proposition,  my  dear  boy.     However,  by 
sending    $1.25    to    the    Moving   Picture   World    for    a   copy    of   the    Motion 
Picture    Annual    you    can    get    what    is    known    of    this    subject   under    the 
heading    of    "History    of    the   Motion    Picture,"    pages    12,    13   and    14,   the 
closing  remark  of  which  is:  The  Edison  machine  was  the  first  which  com- 
mercially and  practically  demonstrated  the  possibilities  of  the  new  invention." 


It  Is  To  Laugh. 

Mr.  Herbert  Griffin,  of  the  American  Moving  Picture  Machine  Co.,  New 

York,  writes: 

Something  oecurred  at  our  office  this  morning  which  struck  us 
as  being  so  amusing  that  possibly  you  might  wish  to  pass  it  along 
to  the  boys.  One  of  our  exhibitor  customers  came  in  complaining 
about  the  poor  service  an  operator  gave  him  last  summer.  Said  he 
always  had  poor  light,  etc.  Somehow  the  remark  was  passed  that  it 
was  possible  the  man  kept  his  carbons  froze  too  tight.  You  can 
imagine  the  roar  that  went  up  when  our  customer  came  back  with 
this:  "How  could  his  carbons  be  frozen  in  such  warm  weather?" 
Another  time  the  same  man  sent  his  head  down  to  be  fixed 
(Good  Heavens,  man!  what  do  you  mean,  Ed.?),  because  it  "cut 
off  the  people's  feet  in  some  of  the  pictures."  Can  you  beat  that? 
Well,    Brother   Griffin,    I    thoroughly    agree   with    you   that   any    manager 

who  would  make  such   !.;?*  fool  breaks,  ought  to  have  his  head  fixed,  and 

I  am  very  glad  indeed  that  you  attended  to  the  job. 


From  Tampa. 

Tampa,   Fla.,  writes: 

In  my  last  letter,  referring  to  the  metal  strips  attached  to  lamp 
and  extending  outside  of  the  lamphouse,  they  are  heavily  insulated, 
though  I  failed  to  mention  it  in  the  letter.  We  receive  excellent 
film  service  from  the  General  Film  Co.,  Atlanta,  Ga.  The  reels 
are  always  in  perfect  condition,  being  "first  run,"  and  we  try  to 
have  them  leave  our  hands  the  same.  We  clean  our  lamps  two 
times  a  week  and  our  machines  every  day,  which  I  believe  is  a  plan 
all  operators  should  follow.  Our  operating  room  is  6  x  12  feet 
with  a  six  foot  ceiling.  There  is  a  window  and  a  sixteen  inch  fan. 
All  port  holes,  windows  and  doors  automatically  close  by  pulling 
a  cord  attached  to  the  door.  The  equipment  consists  of  two  Power's 
Six  machines.  Seating  capacity  is  250.  The  orchestra  consists  of 
piano,  flute,  violin  and  drum.  Operators  may  tell  whether  their 
carbons  are  set  straight  or  not,  as  follows:  Strike  an  arc,  let  it 
burn  a  few  seconds,  pull  the  switch  and  open  the  lamphouse  door, 
glancing  at  the  rear  condenser,  in  which  you  will  see  the  reflection 
of  the  carbon  position. 
But  why  do  all  this  when  a  pin-hole  in  the  back  wall  of  the  lamphouse 
will  show  you  the  position  constantly,  and  show  it  to  you  much  better? 
As  to  your  reference  to  a  former  letter:  I  wish  I  could  get  you  boys  to  give 
the  date  of   publication   when   you   refer   to  anything  like   that.      T    cannot 


Picture  Bobs. 

Lake  Crystal,  Minn.,  after  informing  us  that  he  is  new  at  the  business, 
and  not  yet  far  enough  advanced  to  call  himself  an  operator,   says: 

I  have  trouble  occasionally  with  a  picture  bobbing  up  and  down 
on  the  screen.     There  is  no  flicker,  but  once  in  a  while  the  picture 
gives  quick  little  jumps  on  the  canvas.     Also  on  the  right  side  of 
the  curtain,  the  sprocket  holes  can  be  seen.     I  know  that  the  film  is 
not   central   over  the   aperture,    but   do   not   know   how   to   remedy 
the   trouble. 
According   to    your   description    of   the   jumps,    they    are   caused    by    bad 
patches  going  through.     There  is  no  remedy  for  this,  except  to  cut  out  the 
stiff  patches.     As   to   the   other,   I   cannot  advise  you,   since   you   have  not 
told  me  what  kind  of  machine  you  are  using. 


Questions  Some  Statements. 

Mr.   John   Dignam,   Pittsburgh,   Pa.,   writes: 

In  your  reply  to  McClelland  in  one  of  the  March  numbers,  you 
speak   of  "cartridge"  cakes   of  oxzone.      Are  these'  practical  for  a 
model  B  gas  making  outfit?     McClelland  speaks  of  using  two  cans 
of  oxzone  a   night.      I   do   not  believe   it  can  be  done,   since  two 
cans  would  not  dissolve  in  eighty  minutes — or  at  least  that  is  my 
experience  with  the  stuff.     I  would  like  also  to  ask  if  he  is  correct 
when  he  says  he  can  get  a    12   foot  picture  at  40  feet.     I   cannot' 
do  it  with  a  model  B.     30  feet  is  as  far  as  I  dare  go  back,  and 
the  picture  is  about  6  x  8. 
As  to  the  oxzone  matter,  I  will   have  to  refer  your  query  to  (hose  who 
use  oxzone.     I  am  not  familiar  with  the  cartridge  oxzone  myself.    As  to  the 
matter  of  throw,  I  am  going  to  take  issue  with  you,  Brother  Dignam.     Sup- 
pose you   are  projecting  an  eight  foot  picture  at  30   feet;   move  your  ma- 
chine  back    10   feet  further,   or   20    feet  further   for  that  matter,   take  an- 
other lens  and  project  the  same  size  picture,  and  I  will  wager  you  cannot 
tell  the  difference.     If  you  use  the  same  lens  and  set  back  10  feet  further, 
that  would  be  something  else  again,  since  the  picture  would  then  be  much 
larger,   hence  require  much   more  light  to  make  it  equal  in  brilliancy. 


Cannot  See  It. 

Mr.  Claude  Warner,  Lowell,  Mich.,  suggests  that  Washburne  can  elimi- 
nate his  rainbow  effect  by  using  an  Electra  carbon  above  and  Bio  below. 
Says  that  he  does  and  gets  fine  results.     He  then  continues: 

The    two   and   three  wing   shutter    is   as  you   have   described   it, 
if    you    use    the    manufacturer's    shutters.      I   have    a    Motiograph, 
equipped  with  an  outside  shutter.     It  was  very  unsatisfactory  until  I 
constructed  a  three  wing  mica  shutter,  which  gave  me  a  very  good 
picture.     But  wishing  to  improve  this,  I  made  a  two  wing  shutter, 
and  it  is  doing  grand  work.     To  make  a  mica  shutter,  cut  the  size 
wings   desired  and  coat  the  same   with   a  thin  coating  of  blueing. 
Have  the  coating  barely  thick  enough  so  that  there  will  be  no  travel 
ghost   in   the    picture.      I   have   been  having  trouble   with   my  star 
binding  on  every  other  picture.     Can  you  help  me? 
I  cannot  see  any  advantage  whatever  in  the  mica  shutter,  brother  Warner. 
All  those  things  have  been  tried  out  and  discarded  long  ago;  also  I  cannot 
see  any  reason  why  using  two  brands  of  carbons  would  remedy  the  rainbow. 
As  to  the  star  matter,   the  only  thing  I  can  suggest  is  that  you  set  your 
geneva  up  close,  as  per  instruction  No.  36,  page  257,  of  the  Handbook.     Be 
sure,  however,  that  the  star  or  cam  pin  is  not  badly  worn.     That  might  ac- 
count for  your  trouble.     If  it  were  a  type  of  machine  having  an  unprotected 
geneva  movement  I  would  say  the  star  points  were  bent;  but  I  don't  see  how 
that    could   happen    with    a    Motiograph    since   all    the   parts   are   completely 
enclosed. 


Airdome  Screen. 

Ohio,    inquires    concerning    projection    screens    thusly: 

I    want  some   information   concerning   a   screen   for.  an  airdome. 

Will  it  be  necessary  to  box  around  the  screen,  and,  if  so,  how  far 

out  should  the  boxing  extend- on  the  sides  and  top?     Am  running 

an    Exhibition    Model   maciine,   useing    no   volt,    60   cycle   current 

through    a    Fort    Wayne    Compensarc,    with   good    results,    but    my 

lamp  leads  heat  up  considerably.     I   do  not  know  what  amperage 

I  am  using,  as  I  have  never  had  the  current  tested  with  an  ammeter. 

I  have  No.   6  wires,  with  sterling  terminals,  all  connections  clean 

and  tight.     The  compensarc  is  on  the  40  ampere  notch.     Does  the 

new  handbook  treat  of  the  airdome  operating  room?     Have  a  copy 

of  the  first  issue,  but  have  not  got  the  second  one  as  yet.     There 

are    two    theaters    here    both    running    licensed    service,    and    both 

projection  and  attendance  is  good. 

You   will   find   airdomes   and    airdome   screens  treated   on  pages  414  *ni 

415   of  the  handbook,  but  there  are   no  special  instructions  about   airdome 

operating    rooms.      In    fact,    I    think    none   are   needed,    since    the   airdome 

operating  room  is  a  very  simple  affair.     It  can  perhaps  best  be  constructed 

of  corrugated  iron,  about  6x8  feet  in  size,  if  only  one  machine  is  to  be 

used,  and,   inasmuch   as  there  can  be  windows  opening  directly  out,  there 

is   no   special  need   for  a   vent   flue,   though,   of   course,   it  may   be  added. 

The   floor  can   be   covered   with    cork   matting   or   linoleum    for   insulation. 

There  is  no  danger  from  fire  in  an  airdome,  since  an  audience  would  hardly 

become  panic   stricken    in   the   open   air,   even   if   there   should  be   a  blaze. 

The  screen  should  have  a  flaring  hood  at  the  sides  and  the  top,  painted  dead 

black  inside   right  up  to  the  edges  of  the  picture,  and   I   advise  that  this 

hood  be  made  about  ten  feet  wide.     It  may  be  made  of  lumber,  or  canvas 

which  can  be  rolled  back,  thus  reducing  the  wind  pressure  when  the  screen 

is  not   in  use. 


594 


THE   MOVING    PICTURE   WORLD 


From   North   Carolina. 

Mr.  D.  A.  Morris,  Durham,  N.  C,  complains  that  North  Carolina  is 
not  more  frequently  represented  in  the  department.  He  encloses  $2.50 
for  the   handbook  and   writes  as    follows: 

Why   don't   the    N.    C.    operators    wake   up  ?      J  very   seldom    see 
anything  in  the   department   from   our   state   and   am  at   a  loss  for 
the  reason,  unless  it  is  because  the  managers  out  here  are  robbing 
the    cradles    to    obtain    operators.      You    very    often    find    operating 
rooms  in  this  section  in  charge  of  fifteen  and  sixteen  year  old  kids, 
and  the  managers  do  not  seem  to  reauze  that  this  is  killing  their 
business.     I  presume  this  will  not  be  stopped  until  we  have  a  few 
more  fires  and  get  a  few  more  stringent  laws  passed.     I  see  High- 
point,  N.   C,   March  22nd  issue,  page   121 7,  is  having  trouble  with 
his    shutter    gears    on    an    Edison    Model    B.      I    am    running   two 
Edisons    and    was    bothered    with    the    same    thing    for    something 
like  two  weeks.     I  found  the  difficulty  was  caused  by  one  of  three 
things,  viz:    (a)    the   pin   that  holds   the  mitre  gear,    (b)   the   screw 
that  holds  the  first  shutter  gear  on  the  shaft,   (c)  or  the  screw  hold- 
ing the  shutter  on  the  shaft  being  loose.      Either  one  of  these  three 
things   will    cause   the    trouble.      I    hope    we   shall    hear   more    from 
North   Carolina  in   the   future. 
Well  Durham,  perhaps  the  rest  of  the  N.   C.  operators  were  in  the  same 
boat  with  yourself.     You  must  remember,  old  man,   that  you  yourself  just 
"woke  up."      At  least   I   do   not   remember   having  heard    from  you   before. 
As  to  the  fifteen  and  sixteen  year  old  "operators,"  I  have  already  expressed 
my   opinion   on    that   kind   of   a   proposition   so   often  that   it  seems   hardly 
worth   while   doing  it   again.      North    Carolina   managers    will   probably   con- 
tinue   to    use    child    labor    and    endanger    the    lives    of    their    audiences    by 
hiring  incompetent   youths  to   operate   their   machines   until   the   law   makers 
get  busy  and  pass  laws  which   will   put  things  on  the  other  extreme,  and 
then   the   managers   will   set   up   a   terrific   howl,   forgetting   that   they   them- 
selves, through  their  penurious  short     sightedness,  have  brought  the  trouble 
about.      As   to   the   shutter   trouble,    many    thanks   for   your   solution,    which 
is   passed   on   to   the   Highpoint  brother. 


Rectifier  Trouble. 

Recently  a  correspondent  wrote  that  he  had  trouble  starting  his  mercury 
arc  rectifier.  The  tube  would  tip  all  right,  but  would  stick.  I  referred 
the  matter  to  the  General  Electric  Company,  requesting  them  to  take  the 
matter  up  with  the  brother,  and  to  inform  me  as  to  what  was  the  probable 
reason  of  the  difficulty.     I  have  their  reply.     It  is  as  follows 

In  regard  to  Mr.  S.  Glenn  Bossard's  trouble  with  rectifier, 
at  Avon,  New  York,  there  are  two  possible  causes:  (a)  that  some 
dirt  has  gotten  into  the  shaking  magnet,  and  the  plunger  sticks. 
(b)  Possibly  the  tube  holder  has  become  bent  in  such  a  way  that 
the  mercury  in  the  cathode  does  not  join  the  mercury  in  the 
anode  when  the  shaking  coil  tips  the  tube  to  the  left,  facing  the 
panel.      The    remedy    for   either    difficulty    is    obvious. 


He  Does  Not  Agree. 

Mr.   S.    A.   Kerr,  Texarkana,  Tex.,   writes: 

I    do    not    quite  agree    with   the    Booneville   Article,    March    29th 
issue,    as    regards    lowering    the   top    carbon    holder    to    remedy    his 
double    spot    with    a    Standard   machine,    though    I    will    admit    that 
his  theory   is   partly   correct,   but   it   will   not   put   the   double   spot 
entirely  out  of  existence.      I  am  myself  operating  a  Standard,   1913 
model,  machine  and  have  done  everything  I  could  with  condensers, 
but    the    double    spot    fails    to    leave    altogether.      However,    I    am 
still   holding  my   record    in    the    two    shows   where    I   am    employed 
as    chief    operator,    viz.:    showing   the    best    pictures   in   the    South 
Central  States.     I  have  a  good  manager  who  gives  me  the  supplies 
I    ask    for,   but  he   knows   I   never   ask   for  things    I   do   not   need. 
With    regard    to    my    letter    on    Iamphouse    ventilation,     published 
some  weeks  ago,   which  did  not  pass  examination,   I   will   have  an- 
other one   soon   that   is   better,    and   which    I   trust   will   meet   with 
your  approval. 
I  am  inclined  to  agree  with  you,  brother,  but  I  think  some  of  this  double 
spot   business  is   due  to   not  giving  the  lamp   enough  angle.     As  to  this,    I 
may  be  in  error,   but  I  do  not  believe  it.     Some  of  you  fellows  who  are 
troubled    with    a    double    spot    should    set    your   carbons    very    carefully,    as 
directed  on  page  209  of  the  Handbook,  so  that  the  condition  shown  at  C, 
rig.   98,  page  209.  will  be  had,  and  then   give  your  lamp  just  a  little  more 
angle.     I  am  inclined  to  think  that  the  double  spot  will  thus  be  eliminated. 
At  any  rate,  it  is  worth  trying  and  I  would  very  much  like  to  know  what 
the  result  is. 


made    by    the   G.    E.    Co.      The   rewind    will    also    be   motor   driven, 
with    tension    device.      Generator,    washstand,    toilet,    carbon    racks, 
work   bench   and  tool  rack,   will   be   in   the  smaller  room.      We  are 
leaving  a   space  three   feet   high,   extending  the  width    of  the   front 
wall,   and    four    feet   from   the   floor,   open,   until   the   machines   are 
set.      A   sheet   of  steel   will    then   be   fitted    into    this    opening,   the 
port    holes    marked    and    cut,    the    automatic    shutters    placed    and 
presto,  we  are  ready  for  business.     And  last,  but  by  no  means  least, 
there    will    be    two   vent    flues,    one    intake   located    near    the    floor, 
and    one    outlet    near    the    ceiling,    the    outlet    will    contain    an    ex- 
haust   fan    and    each    will    have    144    square    inches    of    air    space. 
I    enclose   an   invitation   we   used   in   a  recent   get-together   meeting 
with    the   managers.      As   you   will    see,   we   did    not    use   the    name 
union  at  all.     We  did  not  want   the  manager  to  get   the  idea  that 
the  meeting  concerned  the  union  in  any  way.      The   outcome  of  it 
was  that  every  manager  in  town   was  present,  and  the  union  then 
showed    itself.      The   managers   were    well    pleased  at   the   way    we 
were    starting,    and   to   say   that  the   meeting   did   more   to   establish 
friendly    feeling    between    the    operators    and    managers,    and    that 
all  present  had  a  rip  roaring  good  time,  would  be  putting  it  mildly 
indeed.      One    of    the    managers    has    already    commenced    making 
arrangements   to    return   the   compliment.      It   was   a   grand   success 
in  every   way.     There   were  talks  by   Mr.   Marcus  of   the  General 
Film  Co.,  Mr.  Goldstean  of  the  Swason  Film  Co.,  and  Mr.  Madsen 
of  the  Mutual   Co.     Each  and  every  manager  expressed  himself  as 
being   well    pleased    with    the    results   so   far    and    hoped    we    would 
continue  the  good  work.     We  explained  to  them  our  school   propo- 
rtion,   and    that    we    intend    to    make    a    first    cla^s    workman    out 
of  every  man  in  the  local,  and  that  those  that  we  could  not  make 
good   men   of   would  be   dropped.      We   now   have    their   hearty   co- 
operation and  approval.     They  are  now  with  us,  instead  of  against 
us.      This    affair    was    handled    by    Brothers    Porter.    Holliday    and 
(ahem)     Yours    Truly. 
That   operating   room   of  yours  has  many   points   of   excellence.      In    fact, 
it  might  well  serve  as  a  model   in   several   respects,   but   I  want   to  caution 
you   as  to   one  thing:    arrange   your   port   shutters  as   per  page    78   of   the 
Handbook    and    add    shutters,    arranged    the    same    way,    over    that    intake 
port,  since  otherwise,  should  a  fire  occur,  there  would  be  a  very  heavy  draught 
through    the    room    and    a    liability    of    smoke    to    show    around    the    cracks 
of  the  shutter,   thus  alarming  the  audience — the  very' thing  we  must  guard 
against.      I    do    not    like    that    fan    in    the    vent    flue,    and    the    flue    itself 
is  too  small.      Like   as  not,   should  an  accident   occur,   the   fans   will  not  be 
running,  hence,  would  only  serve  to  obstruct  the  passage  of  the  smoke  and 
fumes.      Other   than    this,    I    have   no   other   criticism   to   offer,      I    want   to 
particularly   commend   the   enterprises   of   Salt   Lake   Local    Union    No.   250. 
That    school    idea   of   yours   I    have   already   heartily    approved   through    the 
department,   and   this   last   stunt   is  also   excellent.      You    got    the   managers 
together  and  showed  them  that  the  walls  of  the  union   hall  were  not  lined 
with  dynamite  cartridges,  bowie  knives  or  blunderbusses.     The  effect  will  be 
good— it  cannot   help  but  be  good,   though   you   must  also,   in   a  courteous 
way,   let  the  managers  understand  that,  while  you  propose   to  be   fair,   and 
run   your  organization   in  the  right  kind  of  a  way,  still,   at  the   same  time, 
you    purpose,   along    reasonable    lines,    to   protect    the    interests    of    the    Salt 
Lake    operator.      Let    the    Salt    Lake    managers   thoroughly   understand   that 
the  union   purposes   itself,   to   do   what  is   right,   and   that,   also,   it  expects 
the    Salt   Lake   managers -to   do   what   is  right.     My   compliments   to  Local 
Union   No.   250,  and  if  everything  goes  right  that   organization   may  expect 
a  visit  from  the  editor  of  this  department  some   time   in  July.      I    will   not 
swear  to  that,  but   I  think  it  is  likely  to  come  about. 


Flickerless  Projector. 

Mr.  Rufus  R.  Bliss.  Park  Falls,  Wis.,  very  kindly  informs  us  of  two 
different  descriptions  of  the  Chicago  "flickerless"  projector,  one  in  "Popular 
Mechanics"  and  one  in  "Popular  Electricity."  Many  thanks,  Brother  Bliss, 
but  we  have  already  seen  these  descriptions.  You  will  find  our  views  con- 
cerning this  machine  set  forth  elsewhere  in  the  department. 


From  Salt  Lake  City. 

Brother  Bob  Worthen,  Liberty  Theater,   Salt  Lake  City,   Utah,   sends  in 
the   following  excellent  letter: 

In  reply  to  the  criticism  by  Mr.  O.  J.  Chandler,  page  1334,  of 
March  29th  issue,  the  article  in  question  did  not  concern  the 
Liberty  Theater,  but  the  new  American  now  being  built  by  the 
Liberty  Theater  Company.  I  agree  with  Mr.  Chandler  that  a 
theater  of  that  kind,  costing  that  amount  of  money,  would  need  an 
operating  room,  not  a  "booth,"  "coop"  or  "box."  That  theater 
will  have  an  operating  room  second  to  none  in  this  part  of  the 
country,  if  not  in  the  entire  United  States.  It  will  be  12  x  18  x  8, 
built  of  steel  and  reinforced  concrete  with  walls  four  inches  thick. 
It  will  be  located  in  the  front  of  the  balcony,  and  the  center  of 
the  screen  will  be  on  a  direct  line  with  the  lenses.  It  will  have 
two  rooms,  one  of  which  will  contain  nothing  but  the  machines 
and  dissolver.  The  machines,  by  the  way,  will  be  motor  driven 
Power's  No.  Six  A.  This  room  will  contain  the  switchboard  for 
the  machines  only.  There  will  be  an  automatic  house  light  control 
at  the  side  of  each  machine.  Double  throw  switches  for  straight 
d.    c.    and    motor    generator,    which    will   be   a    70    volt,    5    k.w    set, 


Flicker  Trouble. 

Lawton,  Okla.,  has  difficulty  with  his  machine,  which  is  described  thusly: 
I  have  a  bad,  bad  flicker  and  am  seemingly  up  against  it.     Have 
bought  a  large  list  of  repairs  for  my  machine,  which  is  only  four 
months  old,  but  their  installation  does  not  seem  to  make  any  differ- 
ence.    I  am  using  a  three-wing  shutter, on   no  volt.  60  cycle,  a.  c. 
I  have  tried  the  two  winger,  but  it  does  not  help  matters  at  all. 
In   fact  the  flicker  seems  to   be  worse  with  the  two   wing  shutter. 
My  pictures  were  absolutely  flickerless  up  to  about  two  months  ago. 
We   run   pictures   exclusively  and   have   the  reputation   of   running 
the  best  in  town.     My  employer  said  we  must  keep  it  up  and  that  it 
is   up   to   me   to    get   the   flicker   out   some    way.      He    is    willing  to 
purchase    any    repairs    I    may    need,    but    expects    me    to    deliver 
the   goods. 
The   repairs  you   have  gotten,   Lawton.   would   not    have   any   bearing  on 
flicker  trouble.     On   pages   219  to   223  of  the   Handbook  you   will   find  an 
explanation    of    the   reason    for    flicker.      If    your    machine    gave    no    flicker 
two  months   ago,  and  you  have  made  no  change  in  it,  it  will  not  give  any 
now,   unless  you   have:    (a)    increased   the   intensity   of   your   light,      (b)    in- 
stalled a  different  screen.     Personally,  I  am  inclined  to  think  the  latter  is 
what  has  happened.     I  believe  you  have  put  in  a  new  screen   of  a  semi- 
reflecting  type.     If  you  have  not  then  I  do  not  know  what  is  the  matter, 
provided    you    are    not    confusing    the   term    flicker    with    something    else — 
travel   ghost,    for  instance.     One   thing,   however,   I  will   say,   and   that   is, 
it   is   with  a  two  wing  shutter  you   will  get   a   nicker,   but  with   the  three 
wing  shutter  and  60  cycle,  a.  c,  you  are  likely  to  get  a  flashing  of  the  light 
when  you   run   the  machine  a  little  over  normal   speed.     However,   if  this 
was  not  present  two  months  ago,  it  ought  not   to  be  present   now. 


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"THERE'S  MUSIC  IN  THE  HAIR"  (Vitagraph),  April  23.— John 
Bunny,  great  musician  and  social  lion,  is  the  rival  of  Robert  McWade,  also  a 
musician  and  a  lion.  Iolanthe  McSwat  (Flora  Finch)  loves  famous  mu- 
sicians, but  prefers  McWade  until  Bunny  proves  to  her  that  his  rival 
wears  a  wig.  It  is  the  queer  characters  that  mostly  make  the  offering 
amusing,  but  there  is  a  commendable  atmosphere  of  banter  in  it.  R.  L. 
McCardell   is  author  of  the  script  and  Larry  Trimble  the  producer. 

"THE  SECRET  MARRIAGE"  (Kalem),  April  23.— Pictured  in  inter- 
esting backgrounds,  this  story  holds  one's  attention  fairly  well,  especially 
after  the  hero's  villain  brother,  who  has  secretly  wed  the  heroine,  begins 
to  tire  of  her.  The  good  brother  is  truly  in  love  with  her.  The  villain  is 
thrown  from  his  horse  and  killed  and  the  good  brother  wins  the  girl.  The 
acting  is  intelligent  and  the  photography  so  so.  Irene  Boyle  is  the  hero- 
ine; J.    Vincent   the   good   brother  and   H.    Millard   the   evil   brother. 

"THE  OUTLAW"  (Patheplay),  April  23. — A  substantial,  well-made  and 
exciting  melodrama.  There  is  a  good  fire  with  an  explosion  in  it  and 
scenes  shewing  these  have  been  made  as  effective  as  was  possible.  It  is 
built  on  a  standard  plot,  is  well  acted  and  clearly  photographed.  A  good 
offering. 

"THE  MISER'S  MILLIONS"  (Ones),  April  23.— A  three-part  special, 
which   we  have  reviewed  at  length.     See  page  258,  issue  of  April  19,   1913. 

"HIS  UNDESIRABLE  RELATIVES"  (Edison),  April  25.— There  is 
amusement  rather  than  loud  laughs  in  this  picture  as  it  runs.  The  rela- 
tives, uncles,  cousins  and  aunts  of  the  newly  married  couple  are  caricatures 
in  that  they  each  represent  characters  entertainingly  and  comically  and 
not  truthfully;  yet  they  are  characteristic  and  individual  and  so  very 
interesting.  To  the  little  family  they  are  a  nuisance.  To  get  rid  of  them, 
the  cook  suggests  that  they  be  told  she  has  smallpox.  Every  person  in 
the  cast  deserves  mention  for  some  special  point.  The  young  couple  are 
played  by  W.  Wadsworth  and  Bessie  Learn.  Alice  Washburn  is  the  cook; 
Herbert  Prior,  the  first  cousin  to  call,  is  followed  by  Florence  Coventry 
and  Margaret  Weston  and  then  Uncle  Jabez's  family  comes  (Frank  Lyon, 
Lizzie  Conway  and  Edna  flugrath).  It  is  clearly  photographed  and  makes 
a  very  fair  offering.  It  was  written  by  Mark  Swan  and  produced  by 
C.    T.    Williams. 

"THE  RIVAL  SALESMEN"  (Essanay),  April  23.— A  picture  that  holds 
the  interest.  A  practical  joke  sends  the  two  salesmen  to  a  small  country 
town  after  a  supposititious  order.  One  stops  to  help  two  women  in  dis- 
tress and  has  the  pleasure  of  seeing  his  rival,  who  was  ahead  of  him. 
discomfited.  It  has  been  worked  up  clearly  and  convinces  fairly  well. 
A  big  load  of  hay  is  upset  on  the  rig  of  the  selfish  salesman.  John  Step- 
pling  and  Frank  Dayton  are  the  rivals.  E.  H.  Calvert  is  the  joker. 
Beverly  Bayne  and  Clara  Smith  are  the  two  women  in  the  runaway,  and 
Joseph  Allen  is  the  proprietor  of  the  country  stoie.  The  photography  is 
clear. 

"DOLLAR  DOWN,  DOLLAR  A  WEEK"  (Selig),  April  23.— A  light- 
hearted,  irresponsible  farce  that  seemed  to  amuse  the  audience.  It  was 
written  and  produced  by  Colin  Campbell.  Thomas  Santschi  and  Wheeler 
Oakman  play  two  impecunious  lads  who  borrow  their  neighbor's  furniture 
and  entertain  Uncle  and  Auntie  (Eugenie  Besserer) ;  but  the  neighbor 
(Frank   Clark)    returns   and   there   is   trouble.      Photography  is   clear. 

"LOVE,  THE  WINNER"  (Selig),  April  23.— On  the  same  reel  is  this 
love  story  in  which  a  rich  girl  plays  waitress  in  her  brother's  house  and 
wins  the  real  love  of  a  "fortune  hunting*'  earl.  It  is  a  pretty  picture,  well 
acted  and  finely  set;  but  very  simple.  Highbrows  will  make  fun  of  it. 
Winnifred  Greenwood  is  charming  as  the  girl,  Harry  Lonsdale  is  good  as 
the  earl  and  Emma  Meffert  is  Winnifred's  sister-in-law.  Helen  Combes  is 
authoress  and   Lorimer  Johnston   producer. 

"THE  END  OF  THE  QUEST"  (Lubin),  April  25.— A  very  good  two- 
part  feature  offering.  The  story  is  substantial  and,  though  it  has  been 
done  before,  it  is  here  produced  with  care,  and  convinces.  The  acting, 
especially  that  of  Edwin  August,  who  has  the  leading  role  (that  of  a  young 
Italian,  jilted  by  a  girl  on  the  other  side — he  follows  her  to  America  in 
order  to  be  near  and  save  her  when  she  wakes  up  and  finds  the  other  man 
a  villain),  is  most  commendable.  The  photography  is  clear.  A  safe  feature 
offering. 

"A  HEART  OF  STEEL"  (Ones),  April  22.— A  story  about  people  of 
wealth  in  Italy,  and  of  a  father  who  has  steeled  his  heart  against  an  only 
son  who  married  against  his  will.  The  old  man  loves  his  little  granddaugh- 
ter and  gives  his  life  to  save  her  from  a  burning  building,  but  even  as  he 
dies  he  refuses  to  forgive  his  son.  There  are  some  finely  made  sets  in  it 
and  the  story  ;s  clear.  The  photography  is  excellent  and  the  fire  is  ef- 
fectively handled  and  made  to  seem  most  realistic.  It  makes  a  very  fair 
»  ffering. 

"A  FOUR-FOOTED  DETECTIVE"  (Eclipse),  April  23.— The  detective 
referred  to  is  a  well-trained  dog  who  makes  a  good  deal  of  laughter  by  his 
"acting"  in  the  most  approved  sleuth  manner.  It  is  a  well-made  offering  in 
every  way  and  the  audience  plainly  liked  it.     The  photography  is  clear. 


"A  RAG-TIME  ROMANCE"  (Biograph),  April  24.— A  laughable  farce, 
taken  in  Ragtime  Land  that  we've  heard  about  in  a  song.  Whenever  it  be- 
comes really  in  ragtime,  it  is  funny;  in  parts  it  is  very  funny.  As  a  whole, 
it  seemed  to  please  the  audience.     The*  right  music  will  help  a  lot. 

"THE  CURE"  (Biograph),  April  24. — Some  of  the  funny  situations  in 
this  picture  made  even  the  reviewer  laugh.  It  is  a  clever  bit,  fresh,  well 
worked  out  and  amusing.  Grace  Lewis  plays  an  artist  whose  father  (W.  J. 
Butler)  wants  her  to  marry  Gus  Pixley.  She  is  not  peevish  at  all;  but 
chances  to  see  the  gardener  (C  H.  Mailes)  of  their  neighbor  and  he  is  to 
be  "tlie  hero  of  her  masterpiece,"  a  painting.  Her  romantic  idealism  is  en- 
tiiely  cured  by  the  outcome  which  the  audience  seemed  to  enjoy. 

"CITY  OF  MEXICO"  (Essanay).  April  24.— We  found  this  picture  a 
very  instructive  and  interesting  one.  What  it  shows  is  wisely  chosen  and 
clearly  photographed.     A  valuable  offering. 

"THE  THWARTED  PLOT"  (Patheplay).  April  24.— A  story  of  an  at- 
tempted crime  from  the  criminal's  side  of  things.  All  the  suspense  comes 
from  the  question:  Will  it  succeed.'*  The  ending  has  a  touch  of  comedy 
which  makes  a  laugh.     George  Gebhardt  plays  the  lead. 

"THE  DEACON'S  DILEMMA"  (Essanay),  April  25.— Another  of  the 
Ilickville  stories  in  comedy  vein  in  which  the  deacon's  (Augustus  Carney) 
two  small  boys  make  trouble  for  their  parent  and  for  the  new  minister. 
The  scrape  they  get  into  brings  about  the  marriage  of  the  widower  deacon 
tc  Miss  Simpkins,  whom  he  doesn't  want.  The  picture,  as  far  as  acting 
and  general  conduct  goes,  is  commendable;  but  it  needed  a  livelier  scenario. 
There  was  little  laughter;  but  it  was  watched  closely.  Joseph  Allen  is  the 
parson;  Mrs.  Smith  and  Ruth  Hennessy,  his  wife  and  daughter;  Eleanor 
Blanchard  is  Miss  Simpkins. 

"OUR  FEATHERED  FRIENDS"  (Patheplay),  April  25.— The  camera 
sees  better  than  the  eye  and  teaches  more  than  the  average  visitor  to  the 
country  could  by  himself  ever  learn.  This  fine  offering  gives  us  clear,  close 
views  of  mostly  nesting  birds;  the  sparrow  hawk,  reed  warbler,  rook,  robin, 
blackwing,  swan,  hen  and  dipper,  a  bird  shown  seeking  its  provender  from 
a  swift  stream. 

"A  TRIP  ON  THE  SEINE,  FRANCE"  (Patheplay),  April  25.— Starting 
from  Rouen,  we  are  carried  down  the  Seine  to  the  sea.  Among  other  things 
or.'  great  interest,  we  are  shown  the  ruins  of  the  castle  of  Robert,  the  Devil, 
of  the  Monastery  of  Wandrill,  and  of  the  immense  Chateau  of  Tancarville. 
It  is  hand-colored  and  a  very  beautiful  picture. 

"DIAMOND  CUT  DIAMOND"  (Lubin),  April  25.— A  melodrama;  it 
has  a  charming  heroine,  Isabelle  Lamon.  Some  may  think  it  a  comedy. 
James  Curwood  is  the  author  and  it  was  produced  by  L.  B.  Carlton. 

"ARABIA  TAKES  THE  HEALTH  CURE"  (Selig),  April  25.— Specta- 
tors will  remember  Arabia  as  the  white  trick  horse  which  has  been  featured 
in  one  or  two  other  pictures  of  late.  His  tricks  are  very  entertaining  in 
this  offering,  more  so  than  in  the  last,  and  we  feel  sure  that  the  public 
will  enjoy  them.  A  good-sized  audience  laughed  heartily  and  was  well 
entertained.  The  photography  is  clear.  Cris  Lane  thought  up  the  stunts 
for  the  horse  to  do   and  the  picture  was  produced  by  Oscar   Eagle. 

"THE  STRONGER  SEX"  (Vitagraph),  April  25.— A  picture  that  gives 
entertainment  by  its  dignified  conduct,  including  acting,  staging  and  photog- 
raphy, rather  than  by  its  story,  which  is  not  without  its  value,  though  not 
strong.  It  exploits  an  old  situation,  in  which  a  young  adventuress  falls 
in  love  with  the  son  of  the  old  man  she  has  married,  and  it  is  worked  out 
according  to  convention  till  the  last  scene  or  two  in  which  the  woman  (a 
desperate  adventuress  with  a  good  character)  sacrifices  herself  to  straighten 
the  trouble  she  has  caused.  It  reflects  credit  on  its  authoress,  Leah  Baird, 
as  a  human  being;  while  her  acting  in  the  leading  role  reflects  credit  on 
her  as  an  artist.     Charles  Kent  and  Courtenay  Foote  ably  support  her. 

"THE  HIGH  TIDE  OF  MISFORTUNE"  (Edison),  April  25— This  is 
the  tenth  of  the  series,  telling  the  story  of  "What  Happened  to  Mary." 
It  seemed  to  hold  much  more  strongly  than  any  of  the  last  few  of  the 
scries;  is,  indeed,  if  one  has  seen  the  others,  an  interesting  offering.  The 
backgrounds  are  fine'  and  include  scenes  from  New  York  Harbor  and  from 
Martha's  Vineyard,  off  Massachusetts.  The  characters  are  human 
enough  and  are  naturally  acted.  Mary  Fuller  is,  as  usual,  in  the  lead,  play- 
ing Mary.  Charles  Ogle  and  Barry  O'Moore  are  the  two  Craigs;  W.  Wads- 
worth,  Peart;  Mrs.  C.  J.  Williams,  Mary's  friend,  and  Augustus  Phillips,  a 
schooner  captain.     The   photography  is  good. 

"HOW  CHIEF  TE  BONGA  WON  HIS  BRIDE"  (Melies).  April  24  — 
Another  of  this  company's  folk-lore  stories  played  by  Maori  people  in  New 
Zealand.  It  is  a  simple  love  story,  giving  an  insight  into  the  lives  of  these 
primitive  folk  and  so  is  instructive  and  valuable.  The  great  value  of  such 
offerings  will  be  most  apparent  to  those  who  know  most.  The  average 
spectator  looks  upon  them  as  something  new  and  different;  we  have  never 
had  anything  like  them  before  and  they  seem  to  be  taking  very  well. 
The  photography  is  clear  in  most  of  the  scenes;  in  some  it  is  poor. 

"A  TRIP  TO  THE  WAITOMA  CAVES"  (Melies),  April  24.— A  short 
picture,  giving  some  views  of  New  Zealand  back-country  and  a  glimpse  or 
two  of  a  cave.     The  photography  is  clear. 


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"THE  SCHOOL  PRINCIPAL"  (Lubin),  April  24.— A  pleasant,  whole- 
some story,  not  at  all  pretentious,  makes  this  picture  one  to  be  commended 
with  pleasure.  It  uses,  rather  than  deals,  with  life  around  a  big  public 
school  and  has  a  true  American  flavor  that  is  sure  to  take  well  with  all 
kinds  of  people.  It  mixes  romance  and  comedy,  makes  laughter  and  ap- 
peals to  the  heart;  it  is  beautifully  photographed;  its  scenes  are  neat  and 
pretty,  and  it  is  acted  in  a  convincing  and  intelligent  way.  The  script  was 
written  by  Lawrence  McCloskey  and  produced  by  Arthur  Johnson,  and 
both  deserve  credit  The  romantic  roles  are  taken  by  Mr.  Johnson  (the 
principal)  and  Lottie  Briscoe,  a  pretty  girl  who  will  be  a  teacher  and  some 
use  in  the  world,  but  whom  the  principal  has  to  discharge.  The  ending 
(always  important  in  these  stories)  is  freshly  thought-up  and  will  please. 
Clara  Lambert,  Florence  Hackett  and  Messrs.  Daly,  H.  M.  Mitchell,  Charles 
Brandt  and  Albert  Hackett  also  have  good  roles. 

"THE  POWER  THAT  RULES"  (Vitagraph),  April  24  — A  study  of 
the  social  bee  and  of  the  kind  of  honey  that  it  makes.  There  is  depth  to 
it  and  its  characters,  conceived  at  first  hand,  are  clearly  drawn  and  stand 
out  sharply.  There  is  a  weak  man,  a  woman  with  a  most  unpleasant  char- 
acter and  a  good  woman,  and,  in  setting  them  in  their  lives,  the  author  has 
done  very  little  side-stepping  from  truth  and  actuality,  little  mixing  of 
rcmantic  slush.  It  seems  to  have  much  of  the  same  tang  as  "The  House  of 
Mirth."  One  might  find  small  faults;  but  it  is  a  big  picture,  a  very  de 
sirable  offering.  Both  W.  E.  Wing,  author,  and  R.  S.  Sturgeon,  producer, 
have  done  well.  Laura  Oakley  and  Anne  Schaefer  show  up  mighty  well  in 
the  picture's  big  scene,  which  is  astonishingly  strong  for  a  dialogue. 
George  Stanley  gives  good  support.  Charles  Bennett,  Mrs.  Hathaway  and 
R.  T.  Thcrnby  have  good  roles  and  are  natural.  The  photography  is  of 
high  quality. 

"LOVE  IN  THE  GHETTO"  (Seiig),  April  24.— A  very  commendable 
comedy  of  Jewish  lovers  and  their  parents.  Frank  Weed's  Abe  Marks, 
clothing  dealer  and  father  of  the  girl,  made  a  decided  hit  with  a  large 
audience  and  deserves  praise;  he  is  very  amusing.  Lillian  Logan  and 
Thomas  Carrigan,  as  the  lovers,  are  all  that  could  be  asked,  and  G.  L. 
Cox,  as  the  pawnbroker  and  father  of  the  boy,  is  also  good.  It  is  ably  pro- 
duced by  Oscar  Eagle  from  the  clever  script  of  J.  E.  Hungerford.  The 
photography  is  clear. 

"A  SPLENDID  SCAPEGRACE"  (Edison),  April  26.—  We  count  our- 
selves fortunate  in  seeing  this  picture  on  account  of  its  entertaining  story 
so  finely  acted.  It  is  one  of  O.  Henry's  and  Director  C.  J.  Brabin  has  done 
well  with  it.  Marc  MacDermott  is  perfect  as  the  splendid  scapegrace 
Yancey  Goree,  a  ruined  aristocrat,  a  character  who  has  a  fine  contrast 
in  Charles  Ogle's  newly-rich  mountaineer,  who  having  the  man's  ancestral 
home  and  wanting  to  become  an  aristocrat,  buys  for  two  hundred  dollars 
his  feud  with  the  Coltranes,  another  old  family  in  the  neighborhood.  A 
little  weak  in  its  costuming,  the  picture  is  kept  very  convincing  by  the 
sincere  acting  of  all  concerned.  Bigelow  Cooper's  Judge  Coltrane  is 
dignified  and  full  of  character.  Mrs.  Bcchtel  gives  some  fine  things  in 
the  role  of  the  mountaineer's  wife ;  but  has  made  the  character  a  bit 
too  close  to  the  falsely  genteel  for  such  a  woman.  The  glory  of  the  picture 
is  the  author's:   the  producer  and  his  cast  have  worked  to  make  that  plain. 

"BRONCHO  BILLY  AND  THE  RUSTLER'S  CHILD"  (Essanay),  April 
26. — This  offering  will  rank  high  as  entertainment  solely  because  of  the 
child's  acting,  which  is  wonderfully  natural  and  pleasing.  The  situation  is 
the  same  as  that  used  in  the  "Littlest  Rebel"  when  the  child  saves  her 
father  from  the  Union  officer  who  is  looking  for  him,  the  spy.  Broncho 
Billy  is  the  Sheriff.  The  other  qualities  of  the  picture  are  fine  glimpses  of 
horses  and  the  Western  scenes  usually  found  in  offerings  by  this  company. 
The  photography  is  clear. 

"THE  LADY  AND  THE  MOUSE"  (Biograph),  April  26.— A  story  of 
sentiment  in  which  a  too  easy-going  country  grocer  takes  in  a  tramp  found 
sick  at  his  door.  The  tramp  turns  out  to  be  a  millionaire  and  plays  the 
good  ar.gel.  The  picture  is  clear  and  commendably  made;  it  stands  up  well 
as  an  offering;  ftut  lacks  distinction.  The  "mouse"  is  utilized  to  show  that 
Dorothy  Gish,  the  grscer's  daughter,  is  tender  hearted.  Lionel  Barrymore 
plays  the  grocer;  Kate  Toncray,  his  efficient,  Puritanical  sister;  the  two 
Gish  girls,   his  daughters. 

"THE  FIGHTING  PARSON"  (Kalem),  April  26.— A  war-time  picture 
with  some  very  commendable  battle  scenes.  The  Kalem  people  seem  to 
make  these  battle  pictures  more  effective  with  every  one  they  produce; 
but,  in  the  stories,  there  is  something  of  sameness.  They  seem  to  be  all 
love  storits  as  one  would  expect,  yet  they  are  still  romantic  and  interest- 
ing. Guy  Coombs  ar.d  Marguerite  Courtot  play  the  romantic  roles  with 
Stewart   Holmes    as   the    foil.      The   photography   is   good. 

"A  FIGHTING  CHANCE"  (Vitagraph).  April  26.— A  picture  that  stands 
by  its  prettiness,  in  acting,  scenes  and  photography.  The  story,  by  J.  O. 
Curwood,  is  not  convincing,  as  produced.  It  deals  with  the  somewhat 
trite  proposition  of  the  unmarried  woman,  a  pretty  and  extragavantly 
dressed  typist,  to  the  neglected  and,  by  comparison,  shabby  wife  of  the 
man  who  is  spending  money  on  her,  to  dress  up  and  so  have  "a  fighting 
chance"  against  herself  the  stenographer.  Miss  Anna  Stewart  plays  the 
typist,  Rosemary  Theby,  the  wife  in  gingham,  and  Ned  Finley,  the  man. 
I:   was   directed  by   Ralph    Ince. 

"THE  BIRTH  MARK"  (Lubin),  April  26.— A  story  of  the  West. 
It  is  not  fresh  nor  is  it  acted  very  convincingly. 

"THE  COUNT'S  WILL"  (Patheplay),  April  26.— Why  do  they  make 
so  many  heroes  counts,  and  why  are  so  many  stories  set  in  high  society 
lift  ?  The  majority  seem  to  prefer  homely  stories.  We  are  convinced  that 
there  was  a  belter  offering  in  this  story  than  the  present  picture,  for  it 
i>  awkward  in -its  high  setting  and  not  convincing.  The  photography  is 
clear,  the  acting  fair,  the  conduct,  as  a  whole,  very  poor.  Octavia  Hand- 
worth  and  Wilbur  Crane  have  the  leads. 

"IN  THE  HAREM  OF  HASCHEM"  (Lubin),  April  28.— A  dramatic 
story  with  a  good  deal  of  substantial  merit.  It  deals  with  Oriental  people,  as 
its  name  implies,  and  has  a  first-class  setting  in  the  Moorish  architecture 
of  a  great  hostelry  in  Florida,  and  in  the  semi-tropical  garden  scenes  about 
it.     John  Ince's  swarthy  Arab  Maisara  stands  out  from  the  other  characters, 


although  nearly  all  of  them  are  finely  acted  and  natural;  he  is  perfect. 
Edwin  Carew  plays  Haschem,  the  caliph  whose  justice  incenses  the  wild 
arab  Maisara  who,  to  be  avenged,  gives  to  him  his  daughter,  Ormi  Hawley, 
so  that  she  can  murder  him.  There  are  many  fine  scenes;  but  weak  places 
are  noticeable  and  at  one  or  two  critical  moments  lacked  the  right  kind 
of  acting.  The  photography  is  fair.  George  Nicholls  produced  it  from 
the  script  of  E.   W.   Sargent. 

"PATHE'S  WEEKLY,"  April  28.— A  number  of  good  items,  including 
a  good  clear  view  of  the  King  of  Spain  and  a  fair  one  of  the  Kaiser. 
Woodrow  Wilson  throws  the  ball  to  the  pitcher  at  the  first  game  in 
Washington. 

"BLAME  THE  WIFE"  (Biograph),  April  28.— A  farce  that  made  some 
laughter.  It  is  played  by  Dell  Henderson  as  the  husband;  Kate  Toncray, 
the   wife;   and   many    others. 

"THE  DAYLIGHT  BURGLAR"  (Biograph),  April  28.— This  farce  is 
not  wholly  new,  but  there  is  more  to  it  than  to  the  other  on  this  reel 
and  it  took  better  with  the  audience.  Dell  Henderson  gets  home  in  the 
morning  drunk  and  finds  the  burglar  at  work  bright  and  early.  The 
burglar  compels  Dell  to  give  up  his  dress  suit  and,  when  the  cop  comes, 
turns  him  over  to  "the  band  of  the  law."  A  friend  recognizes  Dell 
and  then  there  is  an  exciting  chase  after  the  burglar,  who  has  jumped 
on  a  motor  cycle. 

"WHEN  THE  RIGHT  MAN  COMES  ALONG"  (Edison),  April  28.— 
A  picture  by  Mary  Fuller,  in  which  she  has  the  leading  role,  a  young 
woman  broker  who  npes  mannish  ways  until  the  "right  man  comes  along" 
and  then,  because  he  will  not  pay  attention  to  one  so  much  like  his  man 
friends,  she  buys  a  cascade  of  lace  and  a  new  hat.  Pretty  soon  he  pro- 
poses. There  is  something  entirely  fresh  and  new  about  it,  and  it  is  this 
that  chiefly  holds  the  interest.  Mary  Fuller  plays  a  curious  character 
and  gets  a  good  deal  out  of  it;  it  is  most  creditable  to  her.  As  a  dramatic 
production,  it  is  cleverly  conceived,  but  only  fairly  worked  out.  Arthur 
Housman,  R,  Ridgely  and  Bliss  Milford  are  her.  support.  The  photography 
is  good. 

"O'HARA  AND  THE  YOUTHFUL  PRODIGAL"  (Vitagraph),  April 
28. — Authors  are  apt,  when  they  find  an  especially  good  vein,  to  overwork 
it.  There  is  some  evidence  of  this  in  the  present  case,  a  picture  that  shows 
knowledge  of  the  technique  of  photoplay  writing,  but  lacks  spontaneity. 
The  characters  are  fair,  but  do  not  make  laughter.  Produced  by  Van 
Dyke  Brooke  from  the  script  of  W.  L.  Tremayne,  it  is  played  by  the 
same  company  as  appeared  in  former  O'Hara  pictures,  Jesse  Kelly,  the 
youthful  prodigal,  is  the  exception. 

"THE  HAUNTED  HOUSE"  (Kalem),  April  28.— A  not  very  interesting 
offering,  because  it  is  not  at  all  convincing.  The  audience  laughed  at  what 
was  not  intended  to  be  comedy.     The  photography  is  excellent. 

"ROSES  OF  YESTERDAY"  (Selig),  April  28.— A  simple  story  of  sen- 
timent,  not  new  but  pleasing,  makes  this  picture  an  acceptable  offering. 
The  acting  is  natural  and  even;  it  does  a  good  deal  to  help  the  story. 
The  photography  is  fair  in  most  of  the  scenes.  Jack  Nelson  plays  a  young 
man  who  has  found  a  fan  and  returns  it  to  the  owner  (Caroline  Cooke),, 
aunt  of  a 'pretty  niece  (Edna  Buryea),  with  whom  he  falls  in  love.  The 
aunt  had  hoped  for  a  romance  of  her  own;  but,  in  the  end,  is  consoled  by 
Jack's  widowered  father  (L.  S.  McKee),  who  meets  her  by  mistake.  Pro- 
duced by  H.   Kirkland   from   Maibelle  Justice's  script. 

"HEARTS  OF  THE  FIRST  EMPIRE"  (Vitagraph),  April  28.— A  two- 
part  love  story  in  the  gorgeous  costume  of  the  Court  of  Napoleon  I.  The 
leading  romantic  roles  are  taken  by  Leah  Baird,  a  peasant  whom  the 
empress  has  noticed  and  taken  to  the  court,  and  Earle  Williams,  a  hostage 
from  Austria,  who  falls  in  love  with  her.  These  two  escape  together  after 
a  most  pleasingly  romantic  climax.  A  large  cast  of  the  Vitagraph  Company's 
best  players  support  the  story.  It  doesn't  give  any  "great"  moments  and, 
except  in  the  unexpected  and  startling  outcome,  is  never  brilliant;  yet 
it  interests  and  is  a  very  good  offering.  The  lighting  and  photography 
ate  only  so  so.  There  is  some  not  wholly  unforced  comedy  in  the  first 
reel,  but  when  the  story  gets  under  way,  it  is  substantial. 

"COUSIN  JANE"  (Essanay),  April  29.— Very  pretty  scenes  will  be 
found  in  this  picture  rather  than  a  pood  story.  It  would  have  been  hard 
indeed  to  have  made  the  picture  convincing  enough  to  truly  interest  us. 
What  its  producer  has  done  is  to  make  its  scenes  distinguished  and  to 
fill  them  with  an  atmosphere  that  suggests  a  good  time  in  a  luxurious 
home  of  society  folks.  The  dresses,  the  posing,  the  background  and 
the  out-door  pictures  are  all  that  could  be  desired.  Beverly  Bayne  and 
John  Steppling  play  the  leads,  well  supported  by  Joseph  Allen, 
Eleanor  Blanchard,  Frances  Mason  and  Clara  Smith,  with  others.  We 
feel  that  Miss  Bayne,  once  in  a  while,  in  attempting  to  be  very  vivacious, 
misses   the   impression    intended.      At   times   she    is  her   own   charming   self. 

"GRANNY"  (Lubin),  April  29. — As  charming  a  little  picture  as  one 
could  want  to  look  at.  It  is  a  simple  story  of  theatrical  life.  Such  pic- 
tures are  apt  to  touch  something  real  in  the  personal  backgrounds  of  all 
who  have  to  do  with  producing  them  and  give  the  spectator  a  sense  of 
reality.  Surely  this  offering  convinces  and  we  found  it  very  delightful 
and  affecting.  Mrs.  George  B.  Walters  is  wholly  charming  in  the  leading 
role  as  a  one  time  star  who  had  for  some  reason  dropped  behind,  but 
who  comes  back  to  win  new  success  for  an  old  friend  and  laurels  and  love 
for  "herself.  Mrs.  Walters  is  probably  one  of  the  best  loved  old  ladies  in 
phJtoplaydom  and  in  such  a  part  she  is  thoroughly  herself.  She  is  vel) 
supported  by  R.  Morris  and  B.  McCullum.  The  photography  is  perfect; 
these  Philadelphia  pictures  are  causing  comment  on  this  score  and  deserve 
all  the  praise  they  get.  The  author  is  W.  G.  Clifton,  and  Barry  O'Neil 
has  produced  the  script,  making  some  lovely  scenes  and  keeping  the  whole 
human  and  clear. 

"THE  CORMORANT"  (Patheplay).  April  29.— A  clearly  photographed, 
hand-colored  film  of  the  "sea  raven."  Some  of  the  scenes  show  a  cliff 
where  the  cormorant  builds  his  nest  and  others  show  the  tamed  bird  fishing 
in   the  water  and  bringing  the  catch   to   his  master. 


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•HIDDEN  LIFE  IN  SEA  WEED"  (Patheplay),  April  29.— On  the  same 
reel  is  this,  showing  us  some  of  the  small  animals  that  are  found  around 
sea  weed  along  the  seashore      Some  of  these  creatures  are  worth  seeing. 

"THE  ORPHAN"  (Edison),  April  20. — A  picture  whose  chief  asset  is 
the  prettiness  of  many  of '  its  scenes  and  especially  those  in  which  the 
orphan  herself  is  the  center  of  interest,  for  she  is  a  charming  little  girl, 
not  at  all  conscious  of  the  camera.  The  story  is  full  of  incompatibilities 
that  take  away  all  belief  and  make  it  wholly  artificial. 

"TWO'S  COMPANY,  THREE'S  A  CROWD"  (Vitagraph),  April  29  — 
A  comedy  that  made  some  laughter,  especially  at  its  clever  ending,  but 
that  is  hardly  believable  enough  to  be  amusing  as  a  whole.  It  is  well 
acted  by  E.  K.  Lincoln,  James  Lackaye  and  Anna  Stewart,  in  the  leading 
roles.  Hughie  Mack  made  some  laughter  by  his  acting  at  one  point. 
Ralph   Ince  produced  it   from  the  script  of  Marguerite  Bertsch. 

"STREET  SCENES,  YOKOHAMA,  JAPAN"  (Vitagraph),  April  29.— 
This  short  offering  is  like  a  post  card  sent  home  by  the  travelers.  It  is 
fairly  clear. 

"HIRAM  BUYS  AN  AUTO"  (Selig),  April  29.— A  burlesque  farce  in 
which  a  farmer  buys  and  runs  an  automobile.  It  is  a  very  well  made 
picture  of  its  kind  and  brought  out  a  good  deal  of  hearty  laughter.  Owen 
Campbell  is  producer  and  author.  Thomas  Santschi  and  Lillian  Heyward 
are  the  farmer  and  his  wife.  Bessie  Eyton  is  their  girl.  The  photography 
is  of  good  clear  quality. 

"CHINESE  SCENES"  (Selig),  April  29. — A  very  interesting  picture 
of  substantial  length  clearly  photographed.  It  Was  taken  in  Macao,  a 
sea  port,  founded  by  the  Portuguese. 


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"ROSIE'S  REVENGE"  (Thanhouser),  April  27.— A  very  commendable 
effort  at  comedy,  in  which  Riley  Chamberlain  plays  the  part  of  an  old  maid 
stenographer  and  cook.  Her  employer  discharges  her  from  the  first  place 
(she  was  "fired"  the  subtitle  very  slangily  stated),  and  ten  years  later  is 
cook  in  his  sweetheart's  home.  The  manner  in  which  Rosie  obtains  her 
revenge  by  doctoring  the  broker's  food  is  very  funny  and  will  bring  several 
laughs  from  the  average  audience. 

"THE  WOMAN  HATER'S  DEFEAT"  (Reliance),  April  26.— In  this,  E. 
P.  Sullivan  appears  as  the  woman  hater.  His  nephew  and  the  latter's 
fiancee  bring  the  hard-hearted  uncle  to  time.  The  story  is  not  a  very  en- 
tertaining one,  however,  as  the  plot  is  very  slight. 

"PAST  REDEMPTION"  (Kay-Bee),  May  9.— The  first  reel  of  this  two- 
reel  offering  shows  Jim  and  his  daughter  Nell  running  a  gambling  house 
and  saloon.  The  new  minister  arrives  and  an  interesting  fight  on  the  liquor 
question  results.  Later  Jim  plies  his  trade  in  a  cave.  He  is  traced  here, 
but  the  girl  saves  him.  The  attempt  to  hang  the  girl  seemed  somewhat 
overdrawn,  though  well  enough  acted.  The  last  reel  shows  the  minister 
befriending  the  girl  and  the  usual  village  gossip  results.  She  finally  goes 
out  on  the  desert  and  dies  before  help  reaches  her.  Good  photography  and 
good  acting,  but  not  an  entirely  new  story. 

"THE  BLACK  SMALLPOX  SCARE"  (Powers),  May  7.~A  country 
folk  farce  that  is  likely  to  make  a  number  of  laughs,  especially  from  the 
gallery,  but  it  is  very  light.  Dad  and  the  rival  lover,  both  of  whom 
have  been  "hitting  the  bottle,"  have  their  faces  painted  and  then  are 
quarantined.  The  hero  and  the  girl  manage  to  get  married  out  Of  it.  It 
is  played  in  a  lively,  amusing  way. 

"BOZO  ARRIVES"  (Powers),  May  9. — A  cowboy  tramp  has  a  comedy 
dieam  which  gives  him  a  sentimental  experience  and  then  comes  the  joke 
at  the  end  when  the  love  story  is  cut  short  by  his  awakening.  Played  by 
George  Gebhart,  it  has  much  of  the  dashing,  free  atmosphere  of  the  plains 
and  hills.     A  very  fair  offering. 

"THE  COUNTRY  COUSIN"  (Nestor),  May  5.— A  light  comedy  idea 
fairly  well  presented.  Eddie's  stock  falls  greatly  when  the  girls  learn 
that  he  is  not  to  inherit  the  fortune  after  all.  But  the  country  girl  re- 
mains true  and  eventually  gets  Eddie  and  his  fortune  also.  Some  good  out- 
door scenes  in  this,  which  has  some  of  the  elements  of  smart  comedy. 

"THE  AWAKENING  OF  PAPITA"  (Nestor),  May  7.— Papita  plans  the 
abduction  of  her  rival,  but  later  repents  and  saves  the  girl  at  the  cost  of 
her  own  life.  The  scenes  in  this  are  handled  poorly,  the  shot  from  which 
Papita  was  supposed  to  die  being  fired  directly  at  the  floor.  The  photog- 
raphy is  better   than  the  story  in  this  offering. 

"YOUTH  AND  JEALOUSY"  (American),  May  10.— In  this  picture  the 
jealous  rival  sends  messages  to  the  successful  lover,  telling  him  the  girl 
is  untrue.  The  truth  comes  out  in  the  end  and  all  is  well.  The  story  is 
not  very  strong,  though  the  photography  is  good. 

"ALGY  ON  THE  FORCE"  (Keystone),  May  5—  Fred  Mace  as  Algy, 
on  the  police  force,  gets  tangled  up  and  arrests  the  new  mayor.  There 
is  some  amusement  in  this 

"HIS  UPS  AND  DOWNS"  (Keystone),  May  5.— Schnitzler  goes  up  in 
an  airship,  and  the  resulting  scenes  are  novel  enough  to  be  very  enter- 
taining. 

"LIFE  IN  SUDAN"  (Champion),  April  28.— A  scenic  half  reel,  giving 
entertaining  glimpses  of  native  life  in  Sudan,  a  land  of  palm  trees  and 
odd    train    service. 

"THE  CLOWN  HERO"  (Champion),  April  28.— A  children's  phantasy, 
which  will  please  the  little  folks  very  much.  The  children  dream  that  one 
of  the  kittens  has  become  a  lion  and  that  the  clown  doll  has  become  a 
live  hero.     On  same  reel  with  above.     A  nice  fairy  tale, 

"THE  RETURN  OF  CRIME"  (Eclair),  April  30.— This  two-reel  offering 
contains  some  exceptionally  good  photography,  but  its  story  is  somewhat 
involved  and  the  scenes  lack  clearness.  The  three  lapses  of  time,  one  of 
them  covering  20  years,  are  largely  responsible  for  this.  The  acting 
is  commendable  and  centers  about  the  life  of  a  prominent  surgeon,  who 
sees   an   entire   generation   grow  up  around  him.     He  is   falsely   accused   of 


a  murder  and  his  son  takes  his  place  in  the  death  cell  while  he  goes  to 
perform  an  operation  on  a  woman  he  discovers  to  be  his  wife.  Making  a 
drug  fiend  of  the  leading  character  did  not  add  to  its  appeal.  While 
faulty   in  construction  the  film   story   has  strong  situations  at  times. 

"ANIMATED  WEEKLY  No.  59"  (Universal),  April  23.— Scenes  of  the 
J.  Pierpont  Morgan  funeral  lead  this  number,  which  includes  pictures  of  a 
marathon  race  in  the  mud  at  Washington,  a  trolley  accident  at  Baltimore, 
a  stock  show  in  Oklahoma,  a  queer  railroad  in  Ireland,  etc. 

"THE  WORD  OF  JOSE"  (Frontier),  May  1.— Good  photography  and 
an  entertaining  story  of  the  picturesque  Southwest,  combine  to  make  this 
an  attractive  offering.  The  horsethief  throws  suspicion  on  Jose,  but  the 
girl  heroine  saves  bim  as  they  struggle  in  hand  to  hand  conflict  on  a 
cliff.  The  scenic  effects  are  very  good.  Better  than  the  average  offering 
of  its  type. 

"PEARL  AS  A  DETECTIVE"  (Crystal),  May  4.— Pearl  is  more  amus- 
ing than  honest  in  the  role  of  detective,  as  she  deliberately  steals  the  fas- 
cinating Chester  away  from  her  lady  client  and  then  charges  her  $155 
for  her  work.     Good  comedy. 

"O.  WHISKERS!"  (Crystal),  May  4. — Baldwin  has  some  sad  experiences 
after  shaving  his  abundant  whiskers  and  losing  his  wig.  His  lady  friends 
do  not  recognize  him.     Fairly  amusing.     On  same  reel  with  above. 

"THE  KEY"  (Eclair),  May  14. — A  two-reel  production  telling  a  simple 
but  well-acted  story,  which  is  consistent  throughout  and  generally  better 
than  sonu:  more  ambitious  undertakings.  A  little  girl  becomes  locked  in 
an  old-fashioned  safety  vault  and  the  obstacle  presented  is  to  get  her  out, 
the  key  being  gone.  Everything  is  tried  by  the  excited  father,  played  by 
Alec  Francis.  An  expert  safe  cracker  is  brought  from  the  penitentiary, 
out  succeeds  only  in  drilling  a  hole  through  the  door.  At  last  the  key 
turns  up,  the  bookkeeper  having  taken  it  away  from  the  son,  who  had 
stolen  it  in  order  to  obtain  money  for  his  mother,  living  separately  from 
her  husband.  This  makes  quite  a  story,  though  it  is  built  around  a  stock 
situation. 

"THE  RISE  OF  OFFICER  174"  (Imp.),  May  1.— Here  is  a  two-reel 
story,  by  W.  MacNamara,  which  not  only  shows  a  brisk,  modern  episode 
in  the  management  of  city  affairs,  but  also  gives  an  insight  into  the  manner 
in  which  gambling  dens  are  actually  raided  by  the  police.  We  would  have 
shortened  the  scenes  leading  up  to  the  first  incident  somewhat,  as  it  really 
makes  the  film  tell  two  complete  stories,  but  the  interest  does  not  drag 
anywhere  after  the  real  business  begins.  The  conference  of  the  crooks 
in  the  Tenderloin  and  their  plans  to  get  the  new  chief,  played  by  King 
Baggot,  out  of  the  way  w?.s  convincing  The  raid  of  the  garmbliug  looms 
was  true  to  life  and  later,  where  the  girl  makes  use  of  the  dictagraph,  the 
attention  is  still  held  strongly.  This  is  one  of  the  best  films  of  the  kind 
that  has  been  exhibited. 

"THE  ROSARY"  (Rex),  May  4. — If  you  know  of  anyone  sceptical 
about  the  artistic  possibilities  of  the  moving  pictures,  tell  him  to  see  this 
film.  It  reprints  the  familiar  song,  "The  Rosary,"  verse  by  verse,  and  tells 
a  story  that  will  delight  observers  everywhere.  The  close  is  tender  and 
effective,  and  tears  spring  to  the  eyes  as  the  returning  soldier  finds  his 
sweetheart  has  become  a  nun.  The  scenes  are  pictured  within  a  rosaryl  and 
(he  film  tints  of  blue  and  orange  are  very  pleasing.  Phillips  Smalley  enacts 
the  leading  role.     A  very  desirable  offering. 

"liEWITCHED  MARCHES"  (Eclair),  May  4.— A  fantastic  story,  in 
which  an  old  witch  causes  Schmoker's  matches  to  form  all  sorts  of  curious 
and   entertaining   things,   including   a   windmill,    skeleton,    etc. 

"THE  SALAMANDER"  (Eclair),  May  4.— This,  on  same  reel  with 
above,  pictures  the  manners  and  customs  of  the  salamander,  a  lizard-like 
reptile  somewhat  resembling  the  frog.  Not  a  very  beautiful  creature  at 
close  range. 

"THE  VENGEANCE  OF  THE  SKYSTONE"  (Bison),  May  3.— A  two- 
reel  story  of  the  Hopi  Indians,  which  adheres  rather  close  to  Indian  customs 
and  superstitions  and  furnishes  a  relief  from  the  familiar  warfare  between 
the  soldiers  and  rebellious  tribes.  Juan,  an  educated  Indian,  is  accused 
of  having  stolen  the  "skystone"  and  exiled  temporarily  from  his  people. 
His  rival,  fearing  the  bad  influence  of  the  stone  which  he  really  stol? 
himself,  attempts  to  hide  it.  In  doing  so  he  is  struck  by  a  rattler,  this 
being  pictured  rather  sensationally.  Juaa  saves  a  white  girl  in  a  lively  run- 
away and  there  are  other  features  which  make  the  offering  a  pleasing 
variation  of  the  Western  type. 

"A  FAIR  EXCHANGE"  (Victor),  May  16.— This  two-reel  offering  is 
one  that  lingers  pleasantly  in  the  memory,  because  of  its  strong  char- 
acter work,  original  plot  and  the  marked  individuality  of  the  players. 
The  son  of  the  rich  man,  played  by  James  Kirkwood,  falls  in  love  with  the 
fickle  sister,  whom  his  father  dislikes.  Later  he  learns  to  love  the  other 
sister,  who  mends  his  coat  and  leaves  monev  in  his  room  after  his  father 
has  cast  him,  out.  All  ends  happily,  except  for  the  fickle  sister,  who 
married  a  thieving  clerk.  They  sail  for  Europe,  but  not  with  the  stolen 
money,  as  they  supposed,  having  taken  along  the  wrong  suit  case.  A 
good  live  story,  with  good  photography  throughout. 

"MISS  NOBODY"  (Nestor),  May  9.— Miss  Nobody,  daughter  of  the 
ranchman,  gets  a  new  dress  and  blossoms  out  wonderfully.  The  wealthy 
landowner  and  the  doctor's  nephew  aspire  to  her  hand.  She  feigns  illness 
and  on  the  day  of  her  wedding  with  the  wealthy  landowner  exhibits  her 
cruntenance,  marred  by  scars.  The  landowner  offers  the  young  hero  a 
thousand  dollars  to  marry  her,  which  is  gladly  accepted,  for  the  dis- 
figurement of  course  is  not  genuine.  Not  a  new  idea,  but  well  worked 
out  and   fairly  amusing. 

"AN  EASTERN  CYCLONE  AT  BLUFF  RANCH"  (Frontier),  May  3.— 
This  film  comedy  has  not  much  to  recommend  it.  It  attempts  to  get  humor 
out  of  drunkenness,  which  is  almost  impossible,  especially  when  the  im- 
biber is  a  woman,  as  in  this  instance.  We  think  this  is  off  the  key  simply 
as  the  result  of  accident,  as  the  Frontier  people  have  turned  out  some  very 
passable  comedies. 

"THE  WHIM  OF  DESTINY"  (Majestic),  April  29.— This  is  quite 
a   yarn,    pictured    in    the   Southern    mountains,    where    moonshiners   abound. 


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The  hero  is  a  detective,  who  bas  to  arrest  the  father  of  the  girl  he  loves. 
But  the  moonshiners  take  them  both  for  revenue  officers  and  they  join 
forces  in  a  lively  gun  fight.  Not  a  powerful  offering,  but  a  clear-cut  story 
which  holds  the  attention  well. 

"THE  BROTHERS"  (American)  May  5.— The  photography  in  this  film 
is  again  better  than  the  story.  One  of  the  brothers  is  good  and  the  other 
bad.  They  fall  in  love  with  two  pretty  Mexican  girls.  The  plot  lacks 
action  and  does  not  hold  the  interest  strongly  enough. 

"THE  CHILDREN  OF  ST.  ANNE"  (Majestic),  May  6.— A  two-reel 
story  by  Forrest  Halsey.  The  first  reel,  picturing  the  barefooted  boy  and 
girl  in  the  woods,  is  very  pretty  and  gets  hold  of  the  observer  nicely. 
The  second  reel,  however,  where  the  boy  has  gone  to  the  city  to  study 
art,  does  not  quite  come  up  to  expectations.  The  changes  in  Jacques' 
station  are  too  abrupt,  giving  a  "set"  effect  to  the  scenes  and  shattering 
the  element  of  suspense.  The  photography  is  clear  and  smooth  and  the 
acting  very  capable,  but  the  story  does  not  develop  with  the  strength  we 
anticipated. 

"THE  GOOD  WITHIN"  (Reliance),  May  3.— A  film  story  showing 
the  lengths  to  which  a  jealous  woman  will  sometimes  go  when  she  sees 
her  rival  outdistancing  her.  Paula  allows  everyone  to  think  Will  stole 
the  famous  Nelson  diamond  from  the  coronet  until  he  seems  likely  to  be 
imprisoned  for  theft,  when  she  relents  and  tells  where  the  gem  is  hidden. 
There  is  some  interesting  double  exposure  work  in  the  latter  part  ot  thJe 
reel.     The  story  is   well  acted  and  fairly  strong. 

"BROTHERS  ALL"  (Excelsior),  May  5.—  This  is  a  story  of  a  young 
preacher  who  goes  into  the  Big  Tree  parish  and  has  to  fight  his  way  to 
the  good  will  of  the  people.  He  whips  a  bully  and  in  the  latter  part  of 
the  reel  knocks  out  three  men  in  a  prize  fight.  The  character  work  is 
not  very  strong  and  for  this  reason  the  story  does  not  get  hold  as  it  might. 
The  plot  also  lacks  freshness. 

"A  CHILD  OF  WAR"  (Kaybee),  May  30.— A  two-reel  war  story, 
featuring  a  pretty  little  girl,  who  becomes  lost  in  the  woods  near  which 
fighting  is  going  on.  The  plot  and  the  battle  scenes  merge  together  nicely, 
which  is  desirable  in  this  sort  of  production.  The  child's  own  father 
shoots  her  by  mistake,  while  on  sentry  duty,  and  deserts  his  post  to 
take  her  home.  This  is  a  forced  situation,  as  is  the  following  where  he  is 
to  die  for  leaving  his  post.  But,  putting  aside  the  improbability  of  the 
situation,  it  is  worked  out  appealingly  and  makes  a  good  story.  The  grateful 
little  girl  sends  the  general  her  doll  because  he  condoned  her  father's 
offense.     A  good  offering. 

"HUMAN  KINDNESS"  (American),  May  8.— A  pretty  story,  with  a 
slight  plot,  in  which  an  old  gardener  is  discharged  as  being  "useless." 
The  girl  on  an  adjoining  estate,  to  whom  he  had  given  some  flowers,  be- 
friends him  by  giving  him  employment,  so  that  he  and  his  aged  wife  may 
have  an  income.  The  scenes  in  this  are  attractive  and  the  photography 
good,  but  the  story  is  not  of  exceptional  interest.  Pauline  Bush  makes  a 
welcome   reappearance  in  this  picture,   after  her  recent   illness. 

"THE  GIRL  DETECTIVE'S  RUSE"  (Thanhouser),  April  29.— The 
best  detective  story  recently  shown,  with  a  girl  in  the  leading  part.  The 
girl  impersonates  a  woman  counterfeiter.  shout  to  be  released  from  prison. 
A  member  of  the  gang  meets  her  with  an  automobile  and  she  is  taken 
to  their  apartments.  All  goes  well  till  the  woman's  husband  escapes  from 
prison  and  appears  on  the  scene.  The  girl's  escape  contains  a  genuine 
thrill.     A  good  release. 

"THEIR  FIRST  EXECUTION"  (Keystone),  May  15.— Once  more  this 
intrepid  company  of  burlesquers  has  chosen  a  rather  dubious  subject  for 
humor,  an  electrocution.  The  subject  is  treated  in  such  a  light,  ridiculou? 
fashion  that  we  forget  its  serious  side  and,  while  this  is  not  uproariously 
funny,  there  are  some  really  amusing  situations  in  the  film.  It  will  please 
a  certain  class  of  picture  goers. 

"THE  WIDOW'S  STRATEGM"  (Thanhouser),  May  2.— Good  photog 
raphy  helps  along  this  light,  summer  story.  The  rich  young  widow  at- 
tracts the  heroine's  lover,  but  when  she  sees  that  this  will  break  the  girl's 
heart,  she  proceeds  to  discourage  the  young  man's  attentions.  To  do  this 
she  dresses  as  a  frump  and  succeeds  in  disillusionizing  him.  A  clever 
little  plot,  well  acted  and  artistically  pictured.     A  pleasing  offering. 

"EXPRESS,  C.  O.  D."  (Thanhouser),  May  4. — The  widow  quarrels 
with  the  express  agent,  who  is  in  love  with  her.  She  refuses  to  accept  the 
box  of  rabbits  sent  her  C.  O.  D.  for  her  child.  The  rabbits  multiply  in 
the  express  company's  office  and  finally,  when  the  widow  and  the  agent 
bury  the  hatchet,  they  get  married  and  start  a  rabbit  farm.  The  idea  in  this 
is  amusing  and  parallels  that  in  a  well  known  short  story,  entitled  "Pigs 
Is  Pigs,"   by   Ellis   Parker  Butler. 

"AN  EYE  FOR  AN  EVE"  (Nestor),  May  16.— Another  desert  story, 
this  time  with  a  tragic  ending.  The  man  shot  by  his  partner  writes  a 
message  in  blood  on  his  white  horse.  Help  comes  and  he  lives  to  denounce 
his  assassin.  The  photography  is  good  and  the  picture  very  good  of 
its  kind. 

"THE  VIOLET  BRIDE"  (Powers),  May  14.— Here  is  a  story  which 
develops  into  one  of  power,  chiefly  by  reason  of  the  strong  acting  of 
Edwin  August.  •  Particularly  may  this  be  said  of  the  scene  wherein  he 
denounces  his  mother  for  having  drawn  him  into  an  unhappy  marriage 
resulting  in  a  tragedy  on  the  wedding  day.  Edith  Bos t wick  is  good  as 
the  bride  and  so  is  Jeanie  MacPherson  as  the  sweetheart. 

"THE  TARANTULA"  (Powers),  May  16.— Jeanie  MacPherson  has  the 
role  of  a  mining  camp  follower.  She  is  known  as  the  Tarantula;  it  is 
through  a  tarantula  that  she  meets  her  death.  The  story  is  not  strong, 
although  there  is  a  moment  of  suspense  when  she  discovers  the  spider  on 
her  breast. 

"IN  THE  SECRET  SERVICE"  (Bison),  May  17.— Mr.  McRae  gives 
us  here  a  good  picture  in  two  reels.  There  is  some  fighting  and  plenty  of 
action,   with  a  dramatic  ending. 

"THE   TURN   OF   THE  TIDE"    rRex),    May    1.— Robert  Leonard  takes 


the  role  of  a  burly  smashing  bully  of  a  fisherman,  who  is  reformed  through 
the  influence  of  a  woman  (Margarita  Fisher).  The  story  will  interest.  The 
best  bit  is  where  he  is  assailed  after  the  regeneration  and  curbs  his  old 
instinct  to  fight  at  the  drop  of  a  hat.  The  photography  is  excellent,  al- 
though it  may  be  a  bit  overtimed  at  times.  Also  there  are  fine  seashore 
backgrounds. 

"THE  WHOLE  TRUTH"  (Imp),  May  S.— There  is  a  rich  vein  of 
comedy  running  through  this  picture  which  in  a  "wise"  house  will  be 
heartily  enjoyed.  Miss  Jane  Gail  has  the  role  of  a  charmer  who  lures  to 
a  restaurant  and  separates  from  his  salary  a  clerk  who  has  been  instructed 
by  his  wife  to  bring  home  immediately  all  his  money.  Probably  the 
majority  of  the  men  in  any  audience  will  be  more  inclined  to  sympathize 
with  and  to  pity  rather  than  to  condemn  the  clerk — he  was  human.  Miss 
Gail's  work  will  interest  the  women  as  well  as  the  men;  it  is  splendid. 
So  also  is  that  of  George  L.  Tucker,  who  plays  the  husband.  Howard 
Crampton  as  the  policeman  and  the  woman  who  plays  the  wife  add  to  the 
charm  of  the  play. 

"THE  INDIAN'S  SECRET"  (Bison),  May  6.—  Another  of  the  series 
of  Lincoln  Carter  pictures.  It  is  pronounced  melodrama.  There  are 
good  exteriors-^fine  backgrounds — and  well  photographed.  There  is  an 
Indian  fight  which  will  please  those  who  like  this  sort  of  thing,  but  the 
story  does  not  vary  from  the  ordinary  Western. 

"A  HOUSE  DIVIDED"  (Solax),  April  30— Farce  comedy  portraying 
the  troubles  of  a  married  couple.  A  lawyer  draws  up  articles  of  separation, 
which  are  shown  on  the  screen  duly  signed.  Then  the  husband  and 
wife  sign  their  names.  There  is  a  stenographer  in  this  picture  who  will 
cause  more  rage  than  laughter;  she  chews  gum  and  operates  in  a  style 
peculiarly  her  own.     The  picture  will  make  some    fun   in   some  houses. 

"THE  SILVER  CROSS"  (Solax),  May  2.— There  is  in  this  film  a  "pic- 
ture license."  It  is  where  the  mother  of  the  man,  home  after  an  absence 
of  ten  years,  is  drawn  to  his  side  to  save  him  from  impending  danger 
through  the  spirit  of  a  silver  cross  she  had  given  him  when  he  went 
away.  It  is  an  impossibility,  of  course,  but  it  serves  to  create  one  of 
the   situations   in   a   play   that   is    not   strong. 

"HER  FIRST  LOVE  AFFAIR"  (Great  Northern),  May  10.— A  rather 
unsatisfactory  picture;  there  is  a  mild  flirtation  and  an  elopement. 

"CROSSED  SWORDS"  (Great  Northern),  April  26.— This  is  a  two- 
reel  special.  There  is  a  thrilling  rescue  of  a  woman  who  has  fallen  from 
the  top  of  a  castle  and  in  some  unaccountable  way  has  secured  a  grip  on 
a  window  many  feet  below.  She  is  lowered  to  the  moat  by  an  officer  let 
down  on  a  rope.  The  story  seems  to  have  been  written  around  an  army 
post.  While  the  settings  are  excellent  and  the  photography  likewise  there 
is  an  absence  of  heart  interest. 


KINEMACOLOR  CURRENT  ECONOMY. 

As  the  result  of  many  months  of  most  laborious  and  expen- 
sive research  work,  conducted  in  both  Mr.  Urban's  London 
laboratories  and  those  of  the  American  company  at  White- 
stone,  L.  J.,  a  discovery  has  been  made  which,  beyond  all 
doubt,  marks  the  greatest  single  step  ever  made  in  the  ad- 
vancement of  Kinemacolor. 

In  the  Kinemacolor  process,  owing  to  the  necessity  of 
projecting  the  light  through  the  colored  niters,  the  absorp- 
tion of  the  light  rays  by  the  filters  has  increased  many  fold 
the  difficulties  with  which  the  early  producers  of  black  and 
whites  had  to  contend. 

The  problem  has  been,  in  effect,  to  find  a  transparent  color 
ingredient,  and  it  is  the  discovery  of  this  remarkable  ingre- 
dient (or,  rather,  combination  of  ingredients)  its  application 
to  the  Kinemacolor  filter  and  the  remarkable  results  which 
have,  been  attained  in  exhaustive  demonstrations  that  makes 
the  step  of  such  great  importance. 

This  ingredient,  while  acting  as  a  non-absorbent  of  light 
rays,  gives  full  effect  to  all  color  values.  As  a  conse- 
quence of  this  new  invention,  the  Kinemacolor  pictures  are 
now  projected  with  practically  the  same  amperage  required 
for  good  black  and  whites.  Formerly  Kinemacolor  required 
fully  100  amperes,  but  the  new  light  filter  cuts  this  figure 
almost  in  half. 

The  Kinemacolor  factories  at  Whitestone  are  working 
overtime,  turning  out  the  new  filters  as  fast  as  possible,  and 
within  a  week  or  ten  days  they  will  be  installed  on  every 
Kinemacolor  machine  in  the  East — to  the  great  saving  of 
exhibitors  using  the  Kinemacolor.  It  is  estimated  that  the 
saving  on  the  ten  "Balkan  War  and  Panama  Canal"  shows 
alone  will  amount  to  a  considerable  sum — probably  enough 
to  pay  the  salaries  of  the  lecturers. 


NEW   TRADE  LITERATURE   ON   VENTILATION. 

The  Mechanical  Appliance  Co.,  Milwaukee,  has  just  pub- 
lished Booklet  No.  151  for  distribution.  This  booklet  de- 
scribes Watson  Motor-driven  Ventilating  Fans  made  in 
sizes  from  18  inch  to  42  inch,  for  direct  current  and  alter- 
nating current,  single  and  polyphase  circuits.  Methods  of 
installation  are  illustrated  and  a  chart  is  included  for  de- 
termining fan  capacity  required  for  rooms  of  various  sizes 
and  used  for  various  purposes,  as  moving  picture  theaters, 
garages,  billiard  parlors,  restaurants,  schools,  etc. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


599 


"The  Scarlet  Letter"  (Kinemacolor). 

By  George  Blaisdell. 

THIS  old  but  ever  young  story  of  Nathaniel  Hawthorne 
has  been  put  on  the  screen  by  Kinemacolor,  and  in 
a  manner  befitting  the  dignity  of  this  great  American 
novel.  David  Miles  is  the  producer.  He  has  gone  to  great 
pains  to  create  the  early  colonial  atmosphere;  he  has  suc- 
ceeded, especially  in  his  backgrounds,  his  settings  and  his 
costumes.  Certain  changes  are  made  from  the  book,  as 
necessarily  must  be  made.  For  instance,  the  opening  in- 
stead of  in  Boston,  with  Hester  condemned  to  wear  the 
blazing  scarlet  A,  is  back  in  England.  It  shows  Hester  in 
the  garden  of  her  home,  with  her  father;  and  then  the  intro- 
duction of  the  old  medico  Roger  Chillingworth,  who  asks 
for  and  receives  from  the  father  the  hand  of  Hester.     One 


Scene  from  "The  Scarlet  Letter"  (Kinemacolor). 

of  the  great  charms  of  the  book  is  the  delineation  of  the  char- 
acter of  little  Pearl.  Here  the  elflike  little  one  is  shown, 
but  is  not  featured. 

There  are  two  scenes  that  particularly  will  stir  the  emotions. 
These  are  where  the  pastor,  attracted  to  the  young  wife  on 
sight,  reproaches  her  for  avoiding  him,  "when  thou  knowest 
thy  husband  was  lost  at  sea";  and  Hester,  hesitating,  re- 
sponds to  the  desire  of  her  heart  and  flies  to  his  arms.   Again, 


Scene  from  "The  Scarlet  Letter"  (Kinemacolor). 


years  later,  when  Hester  sees  the  minister  dying  slowly 
under  the  torturing  of  his  conscience  and  the  evil  influence 
of  old  Chillingworth,  she  entreats  him  to  go  with  her  and 
begin  life  over  again — away  from  the  scarlet  letter,  away 
from  Chillingworth,  away  from  the  shame  and  suffering  of 
the  past  seven  years;  as  Dimmesdale  takes  Hester  in  his  arms 
after  all  the  penance  they  have  undergone  one  feels  that 
this  couple  have  been  more  sinned  against  than  sinning, 
that  they  have  earned  the  right  to  have  peace,  to  be  by  them- 
selves. 


There  is  realism  when  the  Indians  rescue  the  shipwrecked 
Chillingsworth.  He  is  washed  ashore  lashed  to  a  mast,  the 
waves  driving  over  him.  Again  where  Hester  tells  Dimmes- 
dale "Fear  not— I'll  not  betray  thee";  where  the  old  man 
confronts  Hester,  with  babe  in  arms,  and  in  the  secrecy  of 
a  cell  warns  her  to  tell  no  one  she  had  ever  called  him 
husband;  where  the  minister  appeals  to  Hester,  "Give  us 
the  man's  name  and  thou  shalt  go  free";  where  the  minister, 
conscience-stricken,  stands  in  the  pillory  and  bares  his  seared 
breast,  not  knowing  that  old  Roger  is  looking  on;  and  where 
the  minister,  after  Hester  had  made  all  plans  for  their  escape 
—plans  which  the  old  man  had  upset — falls  by  the  pillory  and 
dies  in  Hester's  arms.  There  are  some  beautiful  scenes  in 
these  three  short  reels.  One  that  stands  out  is  of  Hester, 
her  troubles  behind  her,  standing  by  the  rail  of  a  ship  out- 
ward bound.  Little  Pearl  is  by  her  side.  The  photography 
throughout  is  excellent. 

Linda  Griffith  gives  us  a  splendid  portrayal  of  Hester 
Prynne.  She  is  the  embodiment  of  Hawthorne's  creation — 
the  high  type  of  woman  who  under  a  calm  exterior  con- 
ceals her  suffering  as  she  conceals  her  love.  Her  work  in 
this  drama  will  rank  with  the  best  we  have.  Charles  Perly 
carries  the  role  of  the  Rev.  Arthur  Dimmesdale.  He  looks 
the  clergyman,  the  clergyman  of  bounding  red  blood,  full  of 
the  joy  of  living;  his  delineation  of  the  workings  of  a 
Puritai*  conscience  is  carried  through  in  craftsmanlike  man- 
ner, convincingly.  M.  J.  MacQuarrie  is  a  strong  Roger 
Chillingworth.  His  work  completes  that  of  his  two  associates. 
There  is  a  competent  cast  and  a  large  one.  A  word  of  praise 
is  due  for  the  excellent  stagecraft,  especially  in  the  pillory 
scene.  "The  Scarlet  Letter"  wilfcr  make  wide  appeal  to 
thoughtful  persons.  Also  it  will  vislalize  in  artistic  manner 
some   of  the  best-known   characters   in ;  American   fiction. 


"The  Perils  of  the  Past"  (Gaumont). 

THE  perils  of  the  past  in  this  case  appear  to  be  the  usual 
convict's  secret;  that  of  keeping  from  the  world 
the  fact  that  he  has  served  a  term  behind  prison  bars. 
The  convict  managed  to  keep  his  secret  through  the  greater 
part,  and  after  everybody  knew  it  he  got  along  much 
better  than  he  did  before.  The  dominant  idea  of  the 
piece  hinges  upon  an  ex-convict's  willingness  to  serve  an- 
other term  in  prison  for  another's  deed,  in  order  not  to 
disgrace  his  sister  who  had  married  well.  There  is  a  strong 
web  of  circumstantial  evidence  worked  into  the  plot  that 
holds  the  interest  as  far  as  it  goes,  but  it  is  cleared  up 
eventually,  leaving  the  last  scenes  to  be  devoted  to  the 
pursuit  of  the  guilty  parties.  This  pursuit  ends  in  the  fugi- 
tive automobile   running  over  a  precipice  and  being  dashed 


Scene  from  "The  Perils  of  the  Past"  (Gaumont). 

to  pieces  below.  The  wreck  of  the  auto  is  the  only  sensa- 
tional incident  of  any  in  the  piece,  and  a  spectator  could 
not  reasonably  expect  to  see  more  than  one  automobile 
destroyed  per  picture. 

As  an  example  of  motion  picture  technique  the  picture  is 
admirably  done.  The  acting  is  of  the  very  highest  order; 
the  photography  is  excellent  and  the  scenes  are  all  well 
chosen  and  artistic.  Altogether  it  is  well  up  to  standard  and 
will  easily  hold  its  own  with  the  average  run  of  films.  If 
there  is  any  fault  to  find  it  is  in  the  story  itself.  To  our 
way  of  thinking  the  Gaumont  Company  has  made  it  a 
snappy  picture  by  condensation  from  the  original  five  reels. 


6oo 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


"In  Slavery  Days"  (Rex) 

By   George  Blaisdell. 

HERE  is  a  fine  convincing  story  of  ante-bellum  times. 
Otis  Turner  produces  the  picture,  the  script  of  which 
was  written  by  James  Dayton  of  the  Universal  staff. 
There  are  many  good  situations,  and  they  are  all  well  handled. 
One  of  the  surprises  in  this  California  picture  is  the  sight  of 
an  old  stern-wheeled  steamboat,  which  somehow  we  associate 
with  eastern  waters.  This  old  craft,  which  is  said  to  have 
been  found  on  the  Sacramento  River,  furnishes  the  back- 
ground for  one  of  the  most  effective  bits  in  the  two  reels. 
In  keeping  with  the  period  of  the  boat  are  the  costumes  and 
the  settings.    The  photography  is  good. 

It  is  possible  many  will  doubt  that  the  mother  of  an 
eighteen-months-old  child,  even  though  the  parent  be  blind, 
can  be  imposed  on  in  a  case  of  substitution;  they  will  be 
inclined  to  believe  that  the  natural  keenness  of  a  blind  person, 
strengthened  by  the  interest  of  mother  love,  even  following 
an  illness,  would  detect  a  difference  in  voice  if  not  in  figure 
or  features.  And  again  three  years  is  a  long  time  for  a  planter 
to  remain  in  Europe  on  a  business  trip.  However,  a  scenario 
writer  is  entitled  to  take  some  liberties,  if  these  be  liberties, 
in  these  days. 


Scene  from  "In  Slavery  Days"  (Rex). 

The  story  is  of  an  octoroon  who,  while  caring  for  the  child 
of  the  Warrens  in  the  absence  of  the  head  of  the  family, 
returns  to  the  family  mansion  her  own  child  in  place  of  the 
daughter  of  the  house.  The  child:  en  grow  up  in  this  reversed 
fashion.  Carlotta,  the  unconsciously  usurping  slave  girl,  be- 
comes the  absolute  mistress  of  Tennessee;  she  is  headstrong, 
willful.  When  the  girls  are  grown  to  young  womanhood 
Robert  Thornton,  betrothed  in  childhood  to  the  daughter  of 
the  house,  returns.  He  meets  Tennessee  and  is  attracted  to 
her.  Carlotta,  piqued,  says  Tennessee  is  a,  friend.  Later, 
when  the  attachment  is  growing,  Robert  repudiates  the  early 
arrangement.  Carlotta  then  reveals  to  Robert  the  relation- 
ship. The  young  man  is  stunned.  Carlotta  then  violates  a 
rule  of  her  house  and  sells  Tennessee,  who  is  taken  away 
down  river  on  a  steamboat.  Sue,  the  octoroon,  conscience- 
stricken,  tells  the  parents  of  her  deception.  Robert  starts 
after  the  steamboat.  There  is  a  hard  ride  to  the  waterfront, 
where  another  steamboat  is  started  in  pursuit.  In  the  mean- 
time Carlotta  goes  to  the  cabin  of  her  mother,  and  in  a  quarrel 
the  hut  is  set  on  fire  and  both  are  burned.  On  the  steamer 
Tennessee  is  fighting  against  the  advances  of  the  slave  buyer. 


Robert,  on  the  pursuing  craft,  sees  the  danger  of  the  girl. 
When  the  steamer  makes  a  landing  he  ties  his  craft  alongside 
and  rescues  the  girl.     Of  course,  a  wedding  follows. 

The  part  of  Robert  is  taken  by  Robert  Leonard;  it  is  a 
fine  portrayal  he  gives  us.  Jane  Ainslee  is  the  blind  mother; 
she  is  convincing  in  a  difficult  part.  Margarita  Fischer  as 
Tennessee,  Edna  Maison  as  Carlotta,  and  Iva  Shepard  as 
Sue  all  are  worthy  of  special  mention.  "In  Slavery  Days"  is 
a  picture  well  above  the  average. 


COLORED  LUBIN  COMEDIES. 

Director  Hotaling  Produces  Some  Startlingly  Realistic  Zulu 
Pictures  at  Jacksonville,  Fla. 

Not  to  be  outdone  by  George  O.  Nicholls  and  his  Arabian 
dramas,  Arthur  D.  Hotaling,  of  the  comedy  section  of  the 
Lubin  Company,  went  in  for  novelties  and  produced  three 
Zulu  comedies  just  before  he  left  Jacksonville. 

For  the  last  couple  of  years  Mr.  Hotaling  and  Frank  Mont- 
gomery, "The  Motion  Picture  Man,"  have  been  having  fun 
with  their  colored  fellow  citizens  trying  to  hire  a  negro 
driver  for  a  supposed  grave-robbing  expedition,  but  lately 
the  darkies  have  been  having  their  turn  and  unconsciously 
avenged  the  wrongs  of  their  fellows. 


Several  negro  actors  were  taken  down  from  New  York  for 
the  leading  parts,  but  the  extras  were  procured  in  Jackson- 
ville and  it  was  a  matter  of  several  days  before  they  could  be 
made  to  realize  that  when  they  were  told  to  report  at  half 
past  eight  Monday  it  did  not  mean  Thursday  afternoon,  but 
at  last  the  troupe  was  gathered  together  and  the  large  yard 
of  the  Southern  studio  was  converted  into  an  African  village 
with  the  aid  of  several  truck  loads  of  palms,  some  of  them 
being  brought  in  twenty  miles  from  the  beach.  The"  supers 
were  willing  enough — but  dense,  and  Mr.  Hotaling  declared 


that  it  would  be  possible  to  do  four  times  as  much  work 
with  white  extras.  The  members  of  the  regular  company 
were  ranged  along  the  side  lines  to  keep  the  colored  players 
inside  the  field  of  the  camera  and  even  then  it  required  re- 
peated rehearsals  to  drill  an  idea  of  the  simple  business  into 
their  heads.  But  the  results  justify  the  trouble  and  three 
capital  comedies  are  the  result. 

The  accompanying  photographs  show  A.  D.  Hotaling, 
George  Reehm  and  Walter  Stull  conducting  their  temporary 
school  of  acting. 


THE  MOVING  PICTURE  WORLD 


60 1 


At  the  Sign  of  the  Flaming  Arcs. 

By  George  Blaisdell. 

THE  Screen  Club  ball  was  late  in  breaking  up.  That 
is,  the  aftermath — if  it  so  may  be  described — at  the 
clubhouse,  where  many  of  the  members  gathered 
for  breakfast  and  a  social  hour.  The  rooms  were  well  filled 
when  the  writer  decided  at  6:30  to  make  a  getaway.  As  he 
passed  down  the  stairway  he  saw  resting  on  the  settee  just 
inside  the  entrance  "Little  Mary,"  a  trifle  tired  looking,  per- 
haps, but  undoubtedly  happy.  Escorted  by  Owen  Moore,  she 
was  awaiting  the  car  that  was  to  take  her  home.  It  had 
been  a  busy  day  and  evening  for  her.  There  had  been  a 
matinee  and  an  evening  performance  of  "The  Good  Little 
Devil,"  and  then  the  grand  march,  which  she  had  led  with 
President  Baggot.  Following  that.  Miss  Pickford  had  been 
the  center  of  a  never-lessening  group  of  admirers.  At  5:30  she 
was  strenuously  endeavoring  to,  get  her  party  together,  re- 
marking that  as  she  corralled  one,  another  would  disappear. 
Awaiting  her  machine  "Little  Mary"  talked  most  entertain- 
ingly of  some  of  her  sisters  of  the  screen  and  in  keenly 
discriminating  manner  of  pictures  generally. 

*  *     * 

Albert  Bigelow  Paine,  the  author  of  the  absorbingly  in- 
teresting 1700-page  biography  of  Mark  Twain,  was  a  recent 
visitor  at  the  Kinemacolor  exhibition  room  at  1600  Broad- 
way. For  the  benefit  of  Mr.  Paine,  who  for  the  last  few 
'years  of  the  life  of  the  gfeat  humorist  was  his  constant 
companion,  an  old  black  and  white  film  showing  Mr.  Clemens 
in  familiar  poses  was  thrown  on  the  screen.  .  Mr.  Paine 
expressed  his  regret  that  during  his  association  with  this 
marvelous  man  he  had  not  possessed  a  motion  picture 
camera  that  he  might  have  secured  for  coming  generations 
an  adequate  physical  portrayal  of  the  master.  Nevertheless. 
it  is  unnecessary  to  point  out  that  the  bit  of  film  in  the 
possession  of  the  Kinemacolor  company  is  priceless. 

*  *     * 

Word  comes  from  Jacksonville  that  Sidney  Olcott,  director 
of  the  Gene  Gauntier  Feature  Players,  was  on  Sunday,  April 
27,  operated  on  for  appendicitis.  He  is  said  to  be  doing 
finely.  Jack  J.  Clark  is  in  charge  of  the  company  during 
Mr.  Olcott's  illness.  The  company  had  planned  to  be  back 
in  New  York  by  May  10,  as  most  of  the  work  had  been 
completed.  The  season  has  been  very  successful.  The 
many  friends  of  "Sid"  will  wish  him  a  speedy  convalescence 
and  a  complete  restoration  to  health. 

*  *     * 

On  Saturday,  April  26,  there  were  inscribed  on  the  registry 
book  of  the  Screen  Club  the  names  of  sixty-six  members 
and  nineteen  guests.  Surely  this  is  indicative  of  healthy 
interest  on  the  part  of  the  membership. 

*  *     * 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Herbert  Brenon  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Maurice 
Fleckles  sail  on  Saturday,  May  3,  on  the  Olympic  for  a 
European  trip.  Mr.  Fleckles  is  the  Chicago  manager  of  the 
Laemmle  Film  Service.  Mr.  Brenon  is  the  well-known  Imp 
dramatic  director.  While  away  he  will  visit  London,  Paris, 
Berlin,  Vienna,  Rome,  Turin  and  Naples.  It  is  Mr.  Brenon's 
intention  to  visit  all  the  principal  Continental  studios.  He'll 
have  a  lot  to  tell  us  when  he  returns — possibly  he  may  find 

time  to  drop  a  line  while  on  tour. 

*  *     * 

How  sudden  was  the  death  of  "Bob"  Ferguson!  At  the 
Screen  Club  ball  on  Saturday — and  passed  away  the  follow- 
ing Monday  evening.  He  was  a  comedian  of  unusual  talent 
and  had  had  many  years'  experience  on  the  legitimate  stage. 
He  was  a  great  favorite  of  Mrs.  Fiske's.  With  her  he  played 
in  among  other  pieces  "Tess  of  the  D'Urbervilles"  and 
"Becky  Sharpe,"  in  the  latter  being  especially  effective  in 
the  role  of  Sir  Pitt  Crawley.  One  of  his  most  recent  suc- 
cesses on  the  screen  was  as  Red  Barney  in  the  three-reel 
"Kathleen  Mavourneen"  of  Imp,  of  which  company  he  was 
a  member.  His  last  work,  completed  a  few  days  before 
his  death,  was  as  the  henchman  of  Robespierre,  in  the  big 
historical-dramatic  production   of   that   title. 

*  *     * 

A  card  received  from  Lamar  Johnstone  indicates  that 
he  has  realized  his  long-time  craving  and  landed  in  Los 
Angeles.  "Bully  place  for  pictures  this,"  says  Lamar.  Yes, 
that's  about  what  they  all  say.  Begins  to  look  as  though  in 
time  to  come  New  York  might  he  rather  lonesome  for 
picture  fellers  and  girls,  especially  in  cold  weather.  As 
Mr.  Johnstone  can  adorn  a  saddle  equally  as  well  as  he  can 
a  dress  suit,  Los  Angeles  ought  to  suit  him  down  to  the 
ground.     Good  luck! 

*  *     * 

Ganes'  Theater,  at  Broadway  and  Thirty-first  street,  has 
passed  from  the  ranks  of  pictures.  It  is  said  a  restaurant 
will   take   its   place.     Thus   is   the   usual   order  reversed.     It 


is  seldom  that  a  picture  theater  is  converted  into  anything — 
unless  it  be  a  still  bigger  and  better  one.  The  Ganes  will 
be  the  exception  that  will  prove  the  rule. 

*  *     # 

William  Leith,  well  known  among  Fourteenth  street  pic- 
ture followers,  i?  up  for  membership  in  the  Screen  Club, 
sponsored  by  the  president. 

*  *     * 

Miss  Florence  Turner,  old-time  and  always  favorite  of 
the  world's  picture  followers,  has  sailed  for  England.  There 
she  will  fill  a  number  of  vaudeville  engagements  and  then 
return  to  the  screen  surrounded  by  a  company  of  English 
players.  Sailing  by  the  same  ship  was  Larry  Trimble,  Miss 
Turner's  old  producer  at  the  Vitagraph  studio,  who  will 
continue  in  the  same  relation  to  the  popular  star.  It  was 
Mr.  Trimble  who  made  the  "Pickwick"  films  last  year, 
so  he  is  no  stranger  to  the  task  of  making  pictures  handi- 
capped by  English  weather.  A  host  of  friends,  many  known 
but  many  more  unknown,  will  wish  them  godspeed  and  a 
full   measure  of  success. 

*  *     * 

King  Baggot  paid  a  flying  visit  to  Washington  the  week 
following  the  ball.  He  got  the  glad  hand  from  all  sides. 
When  he  first  walked  up  to  the  desk  in  the  New  Willard 
he  faced  a  clerk  he  never  had  met.  Before  he  had  a  chance 
to  register,  however,  he  was  greeted  by  a  most  cordial: 
"Why,  how  do  you  do,  Mr.  Baggot!"  You  see,  there's  nothing 
to  it;  the  fans  are  legion. 

*  *     * 

Edwin  August's  first  Vitagraph  appearance  will  be  with 
Mary  Charleson  in  "The  Sea  Maiden"  on  May  10.  The  scene 
of  the  drama  is  laid  on  Santa  Catalina  Island,  and  there 
are  said  to  be  some  fine  backgrounds. 

*  *     * 

It  is  said  the  net  receipts  from  the  Screen  Club  ball  will 
approximate  $4,000. 

*  *     * 

Mary  Fuller  deserves  credit  for  more  than  giving  us  some- 
thing new  in  writing  "When-  the  Right  Man  Comes  Along," 
in  which,  by  the  way,  she  also  played  the  lead.  She  showed 
her  originality  as  a  designer  of  striking  garb.  The  semi- 
masculine  attire  in  which  she  appeared  was  evolved  along 
with  the  script.  If  the  arrival  suggested  by  the  title  of  this 
fine  drama  is  to  rob  us  of  her  screen  portrayals,  may  the 
day  of  his  appearance  be  long  deferred. 

»     *     * 

William  West,  of  the  Edison  Company,  was  cast  in  a 
real  tragedy  recently  in  which  for  a  few  moments  he  had 
an  uncomfortably  prominent  role.  Mr.  West  lives  in  Mamaro- 
neck,  where  there  have  been  some  stirring  labor  troubles. 
A  block  from  his  home  Mr.  West  found  his  way  blocked 
by  police.  He  made  a  detour,  only  to  find  he  was  between 
the  lines.  He  flattened  himself  against  a  high  fence  and 
fortunately  escaped  the  bullets  and  bricks,  but  not  before 
he  had  seen  one  man  killed  and  several  injured. 

*  *  "  * 

This  sample  of  judicial  wisdom  is  ascribed  to  a  minor 
judge  in  New  York  City:  "The  easiest  way  for  a  mother 
to  make  a  thief  of  her  son  is  to  give  him  money  to  see 
picture  shows,  so  that  he  will  become  anxious  to  see  them  all 
the  time."  The  judge  said  more  than  this.  He  admitted  that 
"it  is  not  the  pictures  themselves  that  do  the  work,"  but 
rather  the  lure  of  them.  The  moral  of  this  seems  to  be  to 
bar  from  picture  shows  all  children  but  those  of  unlimited 
means — rather  a  large  undertaking;  also  somewhat  of  a 
hardship  on  the  children  that  do  not  steal. 

*  *     * 

An  echo  of  the  facetious  "press  stuff"  epistle  conceived 
by  shrewd  Screeners  and  sent  to  the  Mayor  signed  by  Edgena 
De  Lespine  was  heard  early  in  the  night  at  the  Screen  Club 
ball.  The  letter  told  all  about  the  "movie  dance"  which  the 
writer  wished  permission  to  introduce.  An  earnest  and 
rather  young  reporter  from  one  of  the  dailies  very  seriously 
inquired  at  the  door:  "What  time  are  you  going  to  put 
on  this  new  'movie  dance'?"  "Eleven  o'clock!"  was  the  con- 
fidently reply.  How  long  the  cub  waited  is  not  known. 

When  Miss  De  Lespine  heard  of  the  incident  she  was 
disappointed.  "Why  didn't  they  send  him  to  me?"  she  in- 
quired; "after  my  getting  out  all  those  definitions,  too!" 

*  *     * 

It  is  said  that  most  men  and  possibly  and  probably  also 
women  have  a  small  or  large  curiosity  to  see  themselves 
on  the  screen.  If  the  present  plans  of  the  Philadelphia 
police  department  are  carried  out  this  general  desire  will 
not  be  shared  by  certain  denizens  of  the  Quaker  City.  It 
is  proposed  to  record  an  animated  photograph  of  criminals 
along  with  the  Bertillon  measurements.  Five  feet  of  film 
is  believed  to  be  sufficient  to  reveal  the  characteristics  of 
gait  and  other  essential  points  of  identification  of  prisoners. 


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THE  MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


Flickers. 


Arthur  Smallwood. 


THE    subject    of    my    opening    "wheeze"    this    week    is 
Mr.  Arthur  Smallwood,  who  has  been  in  and  out  of 
the    picture    business    for    several    years    past.      Mr. 
Smallwood  came  to  New  York  from  Cincinnati  a  few  years 

ago  with  nothing  but 
his  nerve.  He  joined 
the  selling  forces  of 
the  Wurlitzer  Com- 
pany and,  in  the  course 
of  his  work  canvassing 
managers  of  picture 
theaters  for  orders  for 
Wurlitzer  orchestrions, 
he  found  a  theater  that 
needed  a  good  man- 
age r,  whereupon  he 
took  the  job  and  made 
some  real  money.  This 
tempted  him  to  try  his 
hand  at  making  motion 
pictures,  with  the  result 
that  he  soon  dropped 
his   little  bundle. 

A  little  incident  like 
that  had  no  appreciable 
effect  upon  Small- 
wood's  nerve  and  he 
was  soon  busy  again 
piling  up  the  iron  men 
for  another  venture. 
He  kept  on  the  job 
longer  this  time  be- 
cause the  plan  he  had  in  mind  was  bigger  than  anything  he 
had  tackled  before  and  required  more  capital;  but  matters 
shaped  up  to  suit  him  recently  and  the  picture  show  in  Music 
Hall,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  now  being  operated  by  him,  is  the 
Tesult.  This  is  some  enterprise,  but  from  all  reports  Small- 
wood  is  getting  away  with  it. 

Not  satisfied  with  his  success  in  Cincinnati,  Mr.  Small- 
wood  attempted  to  secure  a  lease  on  the  Bijou  theater, 
New  York,  and  he  surely  would  have  had  a  Broadway 
house  had  not  the  owners  of  the  property  been  so  greedy 
•as  to  want  to  declare  themselves  in  on  the  profits.  Small- 
wood  could  not  see  that  proposition,  so  the  deal  was  not 
consummated  and  Smallwood  is  back  in  Cincinnati  packing 
■them  in  at  Music  Hall. 

*  *     * 

Albert  Blinkhorn,  manager  of  the  Vivaphone  Company,  at 
present  located  in  the  Long  Acre  Building,  will  shortly 
move  to  new  and  larger  quarters  in  110-112  West  40th  Street. 

*  *     * 

Say,  fellows,  if  you  want  a  real  laugh,  ask  Ed  Barry,  of 
the  Ambrosio  Company,  what  happened  to  him  last  Sunday 
night.     What?     No,  I  won't  tell  you;  ask  him. 

*  *     * 

About  three  weeks  ago  everybody  bid  Tom  Evans  good- 
"bye  and  wished  him  a  happy  voyage,  on  account  of  his  ad- 
vertising the  fact  that  he  was  to  sail  for  Europe,  but  from 
mail  that  we  have  received  from  him  within  the  past  few 
days,  it  appears  that  the  ship  on  which  he  sailed  must  have 
been  caught  in  the  fog  and  taken  a  short  cut  through  the 
■uncompleted  Panama  Canal  and  dumped  its  burden  on  the 
Pacific  coast,  for  Tom's  communications  are  postmarked 
Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

*  *     * 

We  were  favored  with  a  visit  from  Tom  Bible,  manager 
■of  the   Keystone   Feature   Film   Company,   Philadelphia,   Pa. 

*  *     * 

After  asking  L.  J.  Rubenstein  (Ruby)  what  he  was  laugh- 
ing at,  and  looking  so  happy  over,  he  told  me  that  the  fea- 
ture film  game  was  "a  pretty  soft  thing."  His  picture,  "The 
Gunmen  of  New  York,"  has  made  such  a  hit  that  he  is  com- 
pelled to  work  nights  to  get  out  all  the  prints  that  have  been 
ordered.  He  has  also  had  several  good  offers  for  his  nega- 
tive in  Europe. 

*  *    * 

Mr.  I.  Van  Ronkel,  manager  of  the  Fourth  Avenue  branch 
of  the  General  Film  Company,  has  left  for  a  few  days'  trip 
through  the  Middle  West,  and  is  expected  back  in  town 
about  Monday  next. 

*  *    * 

If  you  should  see  A.  J.  Corcoran,  the  "Tank"  man,  run- 
ning through  the  downtown  section  of  the  city  with  several 
bundles,  don't  laugh — pity  him.  He  is  now  a  suburbanite. 
They  all  acquire  that  habit. 

MAC. 


REMODELING  A  BINGHAMTON  THEATER. 

Ned  Kornblite,  proprietor  of  the  Star  Theater,  Binghamton, 
N.  Y.,  visited  the  office  of  the  Moving  Picture  World  last 
week  upon  the  occasion  of  a  flying  visit  to  the  "Big  Town" 
in  search  of  novelties  for  his  house.  Mr.  Kornblite  is  plan- 
ning to  spend  $20,000  in  remodeling  his  theater.  Its  capacity 
will  be  increased  from  500  to  1000,  seats  all  on  one  floor. 
The  entrance  will  be  on  Chenango  Street  and  the  exit  in  the 
rear  leading  out  Henry  Street.  Ample  light  and  ventilation 
will  form  attractive  features  of  the  new  house.  A  five  cent 
admission  is  charged  for  a  four  reel  show  running  from 
2  o'clock  to  11  o'clock  p.  m.  Licensed  pictures  are  shown, 
with  Motiograph  and  Power's  machines. 

KALEM  PRODUCING  "THE  OCTOROON." 
The  Kalem  Company,  which  has  produced  Boucicault's 
successes  "The  Colleen  Bawn,"  "Arrah-na-Pogue"  and  "The 
Shaughraun"  in  picturesque.  Ireland,  recently  secured  the 
exclusive  motion  picture  rights  to  another  well  known  drama 
by  the  same  author — "The  Octoroon."  This  celebrated  story 
of  plantation  life,  intrigue  and  revenge  is  peculiarly  adapted 
to  pictures,  with  its  many  intense  and  thrilling  situations, 
and  the  older  playgoers  will  remember  that  several  gripping 
climaxes  are  entirely  dependent  upon  pantomime.  It  will 
be  in  two  parts. 

Mr.  Kenean  Buel,  who  is  directing  the  production,  has 
combined  the  three  Kalem  companies  located  at  Jacksonville, 
Florida,  and  a  star  cast  is  assured.  The  authoritative  loca- 
tions to  be  visited  in  the  course  of  the  production  promise 
many  striking  backgrounds. 


MARIAN  SWAYNE,  SOLD  PROGRAMS. 

Marian  Swayne,  one  of  the  Solax  leading  women,  sold 
programs  at  the  Screen  Club  Ball  to  the  amount  of  $100. 
Miss  Swayne  worked  industriously  from  eight-thirty  to 
twelve.  Programs  sold  for  "paper  only"  and  this  charming 
Solax  Star  saw  to  it  that  the  paper  she  received  in  return 
for  programs  were  decorated  with  V's  and  X's  and  authorized 
by  Uncle  Sam  as  legal  tender.  Members  and  guests  parted 
with  their  money  as  readily  as  they  parted  with  compliments. 
All  just  could  not  resist  Marian's  "Magnetic  Touch"  and 
"Irresistible  Personality." 

Miss  Swayne  has  been  with  the  Solax  Stock  Company  for 
nearly  two  years.  She  left  the  company  last  summer  for 
several  months  to  play  in  stock  in  Syracuse,  but  she  came 
back  because  she  likes  the  pictures  and  Madame  Blache's 
organization. 


DID  ROSIE  DO  THE  RIGHT  THING? 

Rosie  is  a  Thanhouser  comedy  product,  a  stenographer 
turned  cook.  In  "Rosie's  Revenge,"  released  Sunday,  April 
27,  you  see  why  she  had  to  become  a  cook.  She  was  a  bum 
stenographer!  Bill  Scroggins,  by  whom  she  was  employed, 
needed  an  amanuensis  who  could  amanuense.  So  he  told 
Rosie  to  run  along  and  find  a  job  as  dishwasher. 

But  Rosie  looked  higher  than  that.  She  got  the  job  of 
cook.  Her  mistress  was  a  handsome  society  woman  whom 
Bill  Scroggins  courted.  So  did  another  fellow.  One  day 
Rosie's  mistress  had  the  rivals  to  dinner,  and  Rosie  put  red 
peppers  and  things  into  Rival  Scroggins'  food. 

Now,  did  Rosie  do  the  right  thing? 

Of  course,  Scroggins  made  such  a  mess  of  himself  at  the 
table  that  he  never  had  the  nerve  to  come  back  to  court 
Rosie's  employer.  So  weigh  this  question  carefully  in  your 
mind. 


WARNER'S  FEATURES  POPULAR  ON  COAST. 

The  Mozart  Theater,  the  leading  Independent  house  of 
Los  Angeles,  has  booked  "The  Eye  of  a  God"  for  an  entire 
week.  Warner's  San  Francisco  office  has  closed  contracts 
with  the  "Silver  Palace  Theater"  and  the  "Garrick  Theater" 
of  Frisco  for  first  runs  on  all  Warner's  Features. 

The  "Alhambra  Theater"  of  Seattle  has  arranged  for  a 
four  days'  run  of  "A  Daughter  of  the  Confederacy."  Their 
advertising  is  a  revelation.  The  People's  Amusement  Co., 
of  Portland,  operating  a  circuit  of  sixteen  houses,  have  en- 
rolled themselves  for  a  continuous  service  of  Warner's 
Features. 

Mr.  Tom  Lyle  has  opened  the  "Empress  Theater"  in 
Aberdeen,  Wash.,  and  will  show  three  Warner's  Features 
every  week. 

MOTIOGRAPH   HAS   NEW   OFFICE  IN   NEW  YORK. 

The  eastern  offices  of  the  Motiograph  are  now  located  at 
21  East  14th  Street,  New  York.  Patrons  will  please  make 
a  memorandum  of  this  fact.  A  new  1913  Model  Motiograph 
has  been  installed  at  the  Crown  theater,  Hackensack,  N.  J., 
by  J.  H.  Hallberg. 


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Manufacturers  Advance  Notes 


"ALKALI"  IKE'S  MOTHER-IN-LAW  (Essanay). 

Exhibitors  all  know  the  remarkable  drawing  quality  of 
Essanay's  "Alkali  Ike"  productions.  It  is  unnecessary  to 
say  that  this  feature  is  a  riot  of  mirth  from  beginning  to 
end.  It  seems  that  Augustus  Carney  improves  in  every  pic- 
ture. Audiences  will  clamor  to  see  "Alkali  Ike's"  Mother-in- 
law,  as  it  is  a  side-splitting  hilarious  reel  of  jovial  enter- 
tainment. Synopsis:  For  some  unknown  reason  or  other, 
and  much  like  other  human  beings,  Alkali  Ike  cannot  get 
along  with  his  wife.  To  cap  the  climax  Mrs.  Alkali  invites 
her  mother  to  visit  her.    Alkali  Ike  meets  his  fond  parent- 


Sketch  of  Scene  in  "Alkali  Ike's  Mother-in-Law"  (Essanay). 

in-law  at  the  railroad  station  and  is  compelled  by  the  latter 
to  carry  all  of  her  luggage,  consisting  of  a  large  and  cumber- 
some parrot  cage,  two  over-sized  hat  boxes,  and  worst  of 
all,  a  trunk,  which  was  neatly  strapped  to  his  back.  Alkali 
was  surprised  to  discover  he  had  so  much  strength,  but 
realized  it  only  too  well,  when  his  mother-in-law  trod  behind 
him  with  an  umbrella  forcing  the  hero  onward.  Foot  sore 
and  weary  Mr.  Henpecko  arrives  at  his  distination,  only  to  be 
ordered  around,  at  the  will  of  the  new  arrival.  In  his  rude 
western  manner,  Alkali  throws  his  hat  on  the  table,  only 
to  be  taken  by  the  ear  and  ordered  to  hang  it  up  where 
it  belongs.  After  supper,  which  does  not  pass  without  mis- 
hap, Alkali  is  about  to  steal  out  for  a  quiet  smoke  when  his 
mother-in-law  takes  him  gently  but  firmly  by  the  hair  and 
orders  him  to  sit  down  and  listen  to  one  of  her  beautiful 
selections  on  the  organ,  which  was  painful.  Alkali  Ike  finally 
sneaks  out,  goes  to  the  book  store  and  buys  some  literature 
on  hypnotism,  and  oh  my  what  he  doesn't  do  to  his  mother- 


in-law  is  a  caution.  The  tables  turn,  however,  when  Alkali 
Ike's  wife  discovers  her  mother  leaving  for  the  railroad 
station  under  the  hynotic  influence  of  her  husband.  You 
just  ought  to  see  what  happens  to  Alkali. 

Miss  Margaret  Joslyn  as  Alkali  Ike's  mother-in-law,  is  a 
scream,  while  Augustus  Carney,  the  "Gibraltar  of  Fun"  keeps 
his  audience  in  a  continual  uproar. 

This  production  is  booked  for  release  Saturday,  May  10th. 


"THE  TWO  CONVICTS"  (Great  Northern). 
This  breezy  little  comedy  has  to  do  with  the  complications 
which  arose  over  a  case  of  mistaken  identity.  These  same 
complications  were  rather  serious  for  a  time,  but  all  is  set 
right  and  Dan  Cupid  makes  his  appearance  before  the  story 
closes.  It  has  plenty  of  the  genuine  element  with  her  and 
there  a  touch  of  melodrama  and  maintains  its  interest  from 
the  beginning.  Two  young  tourists  make  their  appearance 
in  a  country  place  and  about  the  time  of  their  arrival  two 
convicts  escape  from  a  prison  in  the  neighborhood.  The 
convicts  discard  their  prison  garb  and  come  across  the  tour- 
ists. The  former  decide  upon  a  ruse  and  inform  the  local 
magistrate  through  the  medium  of  a  note  that  two  escaped 
convicts   are   in   the   vicinity    disguised   as   tourists.     In    the 


Scene  from  "The  Two  Convicts"  (Great  Northern). 

meantime  the  latter  are  enjoying  the  hospitality  of  a  wealthy 
resident,  who  is  the  father  of  two  charming  daughters.  Dur- 
ing the  night,  Black  Bill,  one  of  the  jail  birds,  enters  the 
house  and  steals  a  purse  belonging  to  one  of  the  young  men. 
He  is  about  to  escape  when  Lind,  the  tourist,  nabs  him.. 
Instead  of  turning  him  over  to  the  police  he  allows  him  to  go. 
free  and  gives  him  the  purse.  On  the  following  morning,  the 
magistrate  appears  at  the  house  and  accuses  the  two  young 
tourists  of  being  the  escaped  convicts.  Naturally  the  family 
is  dumbfounded,  especially  the  young  women,  who  insist  the 
accusation  is  unfounded.  Just  as  the  strangers  are  about  to 
be  arrested,  Black  Bill  appears  on  the  scene  and  returns  the 
stolen  purse  to  Lind.  Explanations  follow  and  believing  that 
there  is  no  time  like  the  present  the  tourists  propose  for  the 
hands  of  the  daughters  of  the  house  and  are  accepted.  The 
comedy  is  splendidly  acted  and  many  of  the  scenes  are  out 
of  the  ordinary  from  the  standpoint  of  photography. 


BUILDING  NEW  THEATER  AT  WATERLOO,  IOWA. 

Messrs.  C.  Mercurio  and  T.  Chapo  are  building  one  of  the 
finest  little  moving  picture  theaters  in  Waterloo,  la.,  to  be 
known  as  the  "Cozy."    A  Power's  No.  6-A  projection  machine 
is  to  be  used.     Mr.  Chado  will  be  manager  and  Mr.  Mercurio.- 
assistant  manager. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


"THE  CHILDREN  OF  ST.  ANNE" '(Majestic). 
This  beautiful  love  story  of  Creole  life  in  Louisiana  was 
made  amid  the  picturesque  southern  scenery  so  well  suited  to 
the  development  of  this  particular  theme.  Marie  finds  a 
starving  boy  at  the  shrine  of  her  patron  saint  and  persuades 
her  mother  to  adopt  him.  Later  an  artist  for  whom  the  boy 
has  posed,  recognizes  in  him  a  talent  for  art  and  takes  him 
away  to  the  city  to  educate.  The  boy  does  not  prove  worthy, 
however,  and  puts  pleasure  before  work.  Disgusted  the  artist 
casts  him  off  and  he  becomes  an  outcast.  One  day  hearing 
from  a  tramp  that  he  is  on  his  way  to  the  village  where 
Marie  lives,  he  gives  him  a  little  carved  statue  of  St.  Anne 
and  asks  that  it  be  delivered  to  Marie.     When  the  girl  gets 


Scene  from  "The  Children  of  St.  Anne"   (Majestic). 

this  she  starts  far  the  city.  The  boy  meantime  has  found 
honest  employment  in  an  art  shop.  Marie  arrives  and 
thoroughly  ignorant  of  the  city  and  its  ways,  she  falls  into  the 
clutches  of  a  human  hawk.  Passing  the  shop  where  the 
boy  works  she  sees  a  carved  St.  Anne  in  the  window  and 
falling  upon  her  knees  prays  for  help  The  man  attempts  to 
drag  her  away,  but  the  boy  who  has  heard  her  cry  rushes 
out  and  rescues  her.  When  he  sees  it  is  Marie,  his  joy 
knows  no  bounds.  They  are  married  and  Marie  pleads  with 
the  artist  who  takes  the  boy  back  and  he  is  soon  on  the  road 
to  success.  This  picture  was  produced  with  beautiful  artistic 
effect  by  Director  Lawrence  McGill.  Laura  Lyman  as  Marie, 
Louis  Kimball  as  the  boy,  and  Allen  Hale  in  the  role  of  the 
artist  were   notably  good. 

This  picture  was  released  on  May  6th,  1913,  in  two  reels. 


CRYSTAL  TO  RELEASE  TWO  A  WEEK. 
Beginning  Tuesday,  May  27th,  the  Crystal  Film  Co.,  of 
New  York,  will  start  their  second  release  of  Crystal  films. 
This  subject  will  be  dramatic  and  special  pains  are  being 
taken  to  make  each  reel  intensely  interesting  and  worthy. 
It  will  be  the  policy  of  the  Crystal  to  make  this  new  release 
entirely  different  from  anything  present  on  the  program,  in- 
tending same  to  be  a  high  class  society  drama.  There  will 
be  absolutely  nothing  Western  about  any  of  the  subjects.  The 
reel  will  feature  Miss  Pearl  White,  the  popular  Crystal  star. 
who  has  endeared  herself  to  every  patron  of  the  silent  drama. 
The  extreme  high  quality  that  has  always  been  maintained 
in  the  Sunday  split-reel  comedy  release  of  the  Crystal  will 
be  the  keynote  and  standard  of  the  dramatic  release,  and 
the  superb  photography,  interesting  story,  wonderfully  vivid 
portrayals,  elaborate  settings  and  exceptional  technical  work 
that  will  be  incorporated  therein,  practically  assures  instant 
popularity  and  success.  The  first  dramatic  release  will  be 
Tuesday,  May  27th.  and  the  subject  will  be  Where  Charity 
Begins,  with  Miss  White. 


Important  Changes  at  American's  Santa  Barbara  Studio. 
Important  changes  have  occured  since  the  return  of  Mr. 
Hutchinson  at  the  Santa  Barbara  headquarters.  Principal 
among  these  was  the  engaging  of  Albert  W.  Hale,  a  producer 
of  Vitagraph  and  Thanhouser  experience  who  will  hereafter 
have  charge  of  the  first  company.  The  western  business 
management  has  been  given  into  the  hands  of  Wallace  Kerri- 
gan, twin  brother  of  Jack  Kerrigan,  the  American's  leading 
man.  Mr  Wallace  Kerrigan,  has  been  with  the  "Flying  A" 
forces  ever  since  the  company  was  sent  to  California  almost 
two  years  ago,  and  during  that  time  devoted  his  energies 
toward  the  business  end.  The  new  arrangement  will  make 
toward  greater  and  better  "Americans." 


MARTHA  RUSSELL,  in  "Their  Lives  By  a  Thread." 
Lovers  of  the  sensational   will  find   in  "Their   Lives  by  a 
Thread,"   a   three-reel   Warner's   Feature,   some   startling   in- 
cidents.    Martha   Russell,  as   the   daughter   of   a  prosperous 

American  living  in  Mexico, 
who  has  defrauded  his  life 
insurance  company  out  of 
$100,000  by  a  fiendish  plot, 
falls  in  love  with  the  presi- 
dent of  the  insurance  com- 
pany and  saves  him  from 
death  at  the  bottom  of  a 
deep  excavation. 

To  accomplish  this,  she 
climbs  inside  an  ore-bucket 
and  with  a  Mexican  girl  at 
the  throttle  of  the  hoisting 
engine,  is  carried  five  hun- 
dred feet  in  the  air,  then 
lowered  to  the  spot  where 
her  admirer  has  been  thrown 
by  half-crazed  strikers  who 
believe  him  to  be  a  strike- 
breaking leader. 
Miss  Russell  is  supported  by  Robert  Kelly,  leading  man 
of  the   Satex  Film  Co.,  of  Austin,  Texas. 


"THE  GOOD  WITHIN"  (Reliance). 

Frederick  Sullivan  who  produced  this  picture,  Irving  Cum- 
mings  and  Edgena  De  Lespine  who  portrayed  the  leading 
roles  all  deserve  credit  for  a  very  satisfactory  offering.  Miss 
De  Lespine  in  the  role  of  Paula  Varis  loves  her  cousin,  Paul, 
played  by  Irving  Cummings,  and  she  takes  his  cousinly  ad- 
vances too  seriously.  Discovering  that  he  is  engaged  to  Edith 
Weston    (Marion    Ferel)    her    rage    knows    no    bounds.      A 


Scene  from  "The  Good  Within"  (Reliance). 

diamond  is  discovered  to  be  missing  from  a  tiara  which  Paul 
takes  to  his  fiancee  as  a  wedding  gift  from  his  mother. 
Knowing  that  Paul  owes  a  business  associate  some  money, 
Paula  hides  the  jewels  and  makes  it  appear  as  though  he 
had  taken  it.  But  the  boy's  blind  mother's  grief  so  softens 
the  girl's  heart  that  she  produces  the  gem,  vindicating  her 
cousin.     This  film  to  be  released  May  3rd. 


LUBIN  READY  FOR  PLAY. 

The  Lubin  Baseball  Team  is  on  the  firing  line  and  is  ready 
for  a  battle  with  any  of  the  film  men.  Mgr.  Billy  Hallman 
has  the  men  in  first  class  shape.  The  team  is  composed  of 
G.  H.  Stillfield,  Matty  Kilroy.  Harry  Myers,  Bill  Engel,  Ira 
M.  Lowry,  John  Mclnnis,  Billy  Hallman,  Arthur  V.  Johnson 
and  John  DeFoney.  Any  one  wishing  to  challenge  this 
strong  team,  address  G.  H.   Stillfield,  business  manager. 


AMERICAN  BASEBALL  TEAM  ISSUES  CHALLENGES. 
Now  that  the  pleasant  weather  has  started,  and  spring  is 
here,  not  only  does  the  "young  man's  fancy  lightly  turn  to- 
ward thoughts  of  love"  but  baseball  as  well.  In  pursuance 
of  this  markedly  national  tendency,  the  factory  forces  of 
The  American  Film  Mfg.  Co.,  have  organized  or  reorganized 
the  "Flying  A"  baseball  team.  Exuberant  spirits,  noon 
practice  in  the  prairie  and  challenges  are  now;  the  order  of 
the  day. 


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605 


"THE  OPEN  SECRET,"   (Patheplay). 

Gaston  Jouvenal,  a  retired  banker,  and  his  wife  .are  anxious 
that  their  son  and  heir,  Henry,  shall  marry  the  daughter  of 
a  favored  neighbor.  When  Henry  is  consulted  in  the  matter 
he  refuses  to  consider  the  proposal,  but  will  give  no  reason. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jouvenal  storm  and  rage  but  the  young  man  is 
obdurate.  By  a  chance  meeting  a  few  days  later  the  elder 
Jouvenal  find's  that  his  son  has  been  married  for  quite  some 
time  and  is  the  proud  father  of  a  daughter.  His  curiosity 
overcomes  him  and  he  visits  his  son's  home.  He  finds  the 
doctor  in  attendance  upon  the  baby  girl,  although  the  illness 
is  not-  serious,  but  the  sight  of  the  suffering  little  one  plays 
strangelv  and  pathetically  upon  the  old  man's  heart-strings. 
He  begs  his  charming  daughter-in-law  not  to  inform  his  wife 


Scene  from  "The  Open  Secret"  (Patheplay). 

that  he  has  made  her  a  visit  and  leaves  the  house  with  a 
new  joy  in  his  life.  Mrs.  Jouvenal,  however,  has  herself 
learned  of  her  son's  marriage  and  fearing  that  her  husband 
will  disown  Henry  she  keeps  the  knowledge  of  the  situation 
secret. 

In  their  surreptitious  visits  to  Henry's  home  the  elderly 
couple  frequently  miss  meeting  each  other  by  only  a  few 
seconds  and  their  efforts  to  avoid  being  discovered  visiting 
Henry  are  highly  diverting.  When  the  opportunity  offers, 
Henry  and  his  young  wife  decide  to  precipitate  matters  and 
accordingly  arrange  a  little  scheme  which  brings  Henry's 
father  and  mother  to  the  house  at  the  same  time.  When 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jouvenal  arrive  their  grandchild  greets  them  and 
they  both  confess  to  the  happiness  they  feel. 

In  this  two-reel  dramatic  comedy,  the  smile  and  the  tear 
follow  each  other  in  rapid  succession  with  a  satisfying  and 
entertaining  effect  that  is  distinctly  novel.  It  will  be  re- 
leased May  23rd. 


"THE  VEIL  OF  SLEEP,"  (Lubin). 

A  beautiful  somnambulist  story  which  came  near  wrecking 
the  happiness  of  two  worthy  lovers.  The  atmosphere  of  the 
drama  is  typically  Western  and  admits  of  picturesque  scenic 
background.  To  secure  a  needed  change  Louise  Gray  goes 
to  Silver  City  and  obtains  employment  in  the  Good  Hope 
Mining  Co.,  where  Tom  Price  is  cashier.  Tom  and  Louise 
fall  in  love,  but  Louise's  happiness  is  clouded  by  worry  over 
her  mother  and  sister,  who  are  poor.    A  large  sum  of  money 


CLEVELAND    STILL    TELLING    MINSTREL    JOKES. 

W.  S.  Cleveland  tells  the  following  annecdote  of  his  recent 
trip  through  the  South,  in  the  interest  of  his  Cleveland 
Fidelity  Booking  Service. 

He  disembarked  from  a  sleeping  car  at  Raleigh,  North 
Carolina,  about  seven  o'clock  one  morning,  too  early  to 
find  managers  with  whom  to  talk  business,  and  thought  it 
would  be  interesting  to  drive  through  the  city  for  an  hour 
or  so,  and  accordingly  hailed  one  of  those  ever-present  land- 
marks of  the  South,  an  aged  colored  driver  of  a  one-horse 
carriage.  As  Cleveland  had  not  traveled  through  the  South- 
ern part  of  the  country  for  some  years,  he  was  greatly  im- 
pressed by  the  remarkable  improvements  and  indications  of 
progress  that  were  apparent  on  every  hand.  The  driver,  in 
the  usual  good  natured  and  loquacious  manner  of  his  kind, 
was  delighted  to  be  able  to  point  out  the  various  sights  which 
he  thought  would  be  of  interest  to  his  fare,  and  proceeded 
to  do  so  as  follows: 

"They  is  many  places  of  note  and  interest,  historical  and 
othawise  in  ouah  city.  On  yondah  hillside,"  pointing  with 
his  whip,  "is  whah  Gen'ral  Sherman's  army  was  camped 
when  he  heard  tell  dat  Gen'ral  Lee  had  done  surrendered 
to  Gen'ral  Grant.  And  hyar  am  de  capital  building  of  de 
state  of  Xorf  Carolina.  And  right  ovah  dah,"  pointing  with 
the  other  hand,  "is  de  Grand  Theater,  a  permanent  picture 
moving  institution,  what  am  constantly  on  de  go." 


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Scene  from  "The  Veil  of  Sleep"  (Lubin). 

for  the  payroll  is  placed  in  the  safe,  the  combination  of 
which  is  only  known  to  Tom  and  Louise.  The  manager  and 
Tom  are  away  when  Louise  hears  that  a  gang  of  outlaws 
are  in  the  neighborhood.  That  night  in  her  sleep  she  goes 
to  the  safe  and  taking  the  money  out  conceals  it.  Tom  sees 
her  take  the  money  and  believes  that  she  is  stealing  it  for 
her  family.  The  next  day  the  outlaws  are  captured  or  killed 
and  in  the  night  Louise  again  in  her  sleep  restores  the  money 
to  the  safe.  The  act  is  witnessed  by  the  Sheriff  and  the  girl 
exonerated.  The  honeymoon  quickly  follows  and  Louise  is 
cured  of  her  nervous  trouble. 


NICHOLAS  POWER  COMPANY  NOTES. 

Mr.  Will  C.  Smith,  assistant  manager,  has  been  making 
a  short  trip  through  Central  New  York  visiting  Syracuse 
and  other  points  and  attending  the  convention  of  the  Moving 
Picture   Exhibitors  at   Wheeling,  West  Virginia. 

Through  the  Walturdaw  Company  of  London,  England, 
there  have  been  installed  thirty  Power's  No.  6s  in  twenty 
various  theaters  in  the  Birmingham  district;  also  twelve  .No. 
6s  in   Bradford,   Sheffield,   Aberdare,   and   Plymouth. 

The  Metropolitan  Opera  House  of  Philadelphia  has  been 
equipped  with  motion  pictures  which  are  projected  by  Power's 

6A-  ,  ,     , 

The  Quo  Vadis  pictures  have  been  so  successful,  that  six 

Power's   No.  6s   have    been   purchased   for   other   companies 
of  this  concern. 

The  following  installations  have  been  made:  1  6A  com- 
plete to  Star  Theater,  Wytheville,  Va.,  through  General 
Film  Companv,  Washington,  D.  C.  1  6A  complete  with 
Inductor  to  Mobile  Light  &  Railway  Co.,  Mobile,  Ala., 
through  W.  H.  Peck.  Atlanta,  Ga.  1  6A  with  14  inch  maga- 
zines for  2,000  feet  film  to  Turn  Hall,  North  Salina  Street, 
Syracuse.  New  York,  through  Auburn  Film  Company,  Auburn 
New  York.  2  6A,  complete  equipment  with  motors  and 
mechanical  speed  control  to  Charles  Stalder,  North  Hill, 
Akron.  Ohio,  through  Mutual  Film  Corporation.  1  6A  com- 
plete with  motor  and  mechanical  speed  regulator  to  W.  H. 
Wilcox,  Jonesboro.  Arkansas,  through  Mutual  Film  Corpora- 
tion, New  Orleans. 


FEATURE  FILM  CREDIT  ASSOCIATION. 
The  Feature  Film  Renters  of  Missouri  have  organized  a 
credit  association.  The  first  meeting  was  held  in  St.  Louis, 
on  April  23,  at  which  these  concerns  were  represented; 
T.  G.  Conner  of  the  International  Feature  Film  Exchange; 
C  Werner  of  the  American  Feature  Film  Co.,  and  M.  .1. 
Goldbaum  of  Warner's  Feature  Film  Company.  A  subse- 
quent meeting  was  held  on  April  30. 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


PHILADELPHIA. 

'T'HBBH  are,  in  course  of  construction  in  Phila- 
A  delphla,  the  following  picture  theaters:  1121-23-25 
Falrmonnt  avenue,  Sixty-fourth  street  and  Haver- 
ford  avenue,  by  Overbrook  Amusement  Company; 
Forty-ninth  street  and  Woodland  avenue,  Fifth  and 
Olney  streets,  by  Frank  Hess;  Thirteenth  and 
Market  streets,  Eighteenth  and  Walnut  streets; 
Broad  and  Reed  streets,  by  Morgolin  &  Block; 
1614  Market  street,  by  Horace  Stein;  Anreka 
Amusement  Company,  building  at  3941  Market 
street  Besides  these  there  is  a  number  being 
planned  by  local  men  and  real  estate  promoters. 

Exhibitors  will  have  to  clean  up  their  houses,  as 
the  Are  inspectors  are  about  to  begin  another  round 
of  inspection,  and  all  places  that  do  not  come  up 
to  expectations  will  be  closed.  Some  time  ago  the 
Inspectors  visited  every  show  bouse  in  Philadelphia, 
and  many  of  them  were  claimed  to  be  fire-traps. 
The  owners  of  these  places  were  given  orders  to 
clean  up  and  make  the  theaters  safe.  Now  the  in- 
spectors are  going  to  see  If  their  Instructions  were 
carried  out. 

The  Philadelphia  public  will  have  free  motion 
pictures  this  summer  if  a  a  plan  is  carried  out  by 
the  city  government.  It  is  planned  to  have  motion 
pictures  with  the  evening  concerts  of  the  Municipal 
Band  at  the  City  Hall.  Director  Neff,  of  the  De- 
partment of  Public  Health  and  Oharities,  is  the 
man  back  of  the  movement,  and  he  is  sure  to  have 
the  support  of  every  official  in  getting  the  necessary 
money  for  the  project. 

Daniel  Faunce,  of  Philadelphia,  has  purchased  a 
plot  of  ground  along  the  Boardwalk  at  Atlantic 
City,  where  he  will  erect  a  motion  picture  .theater. 
Plans  are  now  under  way  by  local  architects  for 
the  theater  building. 

The  Gem  Moving  Picture  Theater,  recently  opened 
its  doors  to  the  public  at  Watsontown,  Pa,  This 
is  the  first  theater  to  be  built  in  that  town  and  it 
seems   fair   to   be   the   big   attraction   of   the   place. 

The  Broad  Theater,  at  Bethlehem,  Is  under  lock 
and  key,  the  proprietor,  Grover  C.  Hastings,  who 
sank  an  inheritance  of  $8,000  in  the  project  during 
the  past  year,  having  been  adjudged  a  voluntary 
bankrupt.     The   liabilities   may   reach   $10,000. 

John  G.  Hoffman,  proprietor  of  the  Theatorium, 
at  Chester,  has  made  another  venture  In  the  mov- 
ing picture  theater  business.  Last  week  he  pur- 
chased the  Majestic  Theater  and  Immediately  as- 
sumed charge  of  the  place.  Freldman  and  Ginn 
were  the  former  proprietors  of  the  amusement  place, 
but  only  held  Interest  for  a   short   time. 

C.    H.   CONGDON. 

INDIANAPOLIS. 

AYQR  SAMUEL  L.  SHANK  has  denied  the  re- 
quest of  some  twenty-five  or  thirty  churches 
that  the  motion  picture  theaters  of  the  city  be 
required  to  close  on  Sunday.  The  mayor  says  the 
only  law  under  which  he  could  take  such  action 
would  be  the  one  forbidding  one  to  follow  his  usual 
avocation  on  Sunday,  and  that  to  enforce  this  would 
mean  bringing  action  against  drug  stores,  grocers, 
cigar  stands,  streetcar  men,  newspaper  men.  etc. 
An  effort  to  obtain  the  passage  of  a  law  permitting 
Sunday  performances  of  motion  picture  theaters  and 
other  theaters  was  made  at  the  recent  biennial 
aeslon  of  the  Indiana  legislature.  The  bill  was  de- 
feated, however,  by  legislators  from  the  rural  dis- 
tricts, who  feared  such  action  might  be  opposed  by 
their  constituents. 

One  of  the  first  fireproof  motion  picture  theaters 
In  the  city  is  now  being  erected  at  2731  East 
Washington  street,  by  Frank  J.  Gelger.  Outer 
walls  are  to  be  of  brick,  floors  of  concrete,  and  the 
ceiling  of  steel.  There  will  be  two  entrances  from 
Washington  street  and  two  exits  to  Pearl  Street. 
There  will  be  a  seating  capacity  of  420  and  stand- 
ing room  for  about  sixty.  The  operator's  booth  will 
be  of  steel,  with  an  exit  from  the  side.  Instead  of 
by  the  usual  trap  door,  which  is  regarded  as 
dangerous.  The  building  will  cost  approximately 
$8,000  without  the  seats  and  other  equipment. 

The  Lyric,  giving  motion  pictures  and  light  vaude- 
ville performances,  has  engaged  Mayor  Samuel  L. 
Shank  to  give  a  humorous  monologue  during  the 
week  beginning  January  5,  1914,  the  salary  for  the 
week  to  be  $600. 

Michael  F.  Gill,  Guy  D.  Rock  and  O.  M.  Deem 
have  organized  the  Tacoma  Amusement  Company, 
which  has  been  Incorporated  with  an  authorized 
capitalization  of  $25,000.  The  company  expects 
Immediately  to  erect  a  two-story  brick  building  at 
Washington  street  and  Tacoma  avenue,  at  a  cost 
of  $20,000.  Part  of  this  will  be  occupied  by  a 
motion  picture  theater,  while  the  remainder  will  be 
rented  for  other  business  purposes.  The  theater 
will  have  a  seating  capacity  of  about  400,  and  la  to 
be  equipped  with  all  modern  conveniences  and  safety 
appliances. 


The  Idle  Hour  motion  picture  theater  will  be 
operated  by  the  newly  organized  Idle  Hour  Amuse- 
ment Company,  which  has  been  organized  and  in- 
corporated with  an  authorized  capitalization  of 
$10,000.  Those  Interested  in  the  company  are: 
Albert  Locbnit,  Jr.,  Jess  C.  Collins  and  Llndsley 
McNees. 

The  Mutual  Film  Corporation.  217  North  Illinios 
street,  recently  suffered  a  $16,000  loss  by  fire,  but 
there  has  been  little  interruption  in  business. 
About  one  hundred  films  were  destroyed,  together 
with  several  machines,  and  the  office  furniture  and 
fixtures.  Many  films  were  water-soaked.  The  fire 
is  believed  to  have  been  caused  by  an  explosion. 
Strangely  enough  the  building  in  which  the  con- 
cern is  located  was  not  seriously  damaged.  E.  H. 
Brient   is  local   manager   for  the   company. 

There  has  been  a  crusade  at  Richmond  against 
motion  picture  theaters  giving  Sunday  perform- 
ances. O.  G.  Murray  opened  his  place  one  Sunday 
recently,  giving  the  proceeds  to  the  flood  victims. 
He  was  arrested  for  following  his  usual  vocation 
on  Sunday,  and  a  jury  acquitted  him.  The  police 
department  has  now  ceased  its  efforts  to  close 
the  motion  picture  theaters  on  Sunday. 

Edward  S.  Sourbier  has  leased  the  Oriental  The- 
ater at  1105  South  Meridian  street.  This  Is  the 
largest  motion  picture  theater  in  the  city,  seating 
1,600  persons.  The  formal  reopening  of  the  place, 
under  new  management,  took  place  a  few  days  ago, 
Mapor  Samuel  h.  Shank  being  the  guest  of  honor  of 
the  occasion. 

About  $500  loss  was  caused  by  fire  at  the  Scenic 
Theater,  504  East  Washington  street,  a  few  days 
ago.  There  happened  to  be  a  small  audience  and 
It  passed  out  quietly.  The  fire  started  from  three 
films.  Jack  Hamilton,  the  operator,  jumped  from 
the  booth  to  the  Boor,  but  was  not  injured.  The 
theater  is  owned  by  Edward  Phillips  and  A.  Braem. 

The  Lyric  Theater  is  now  using  Kinemacolor  films 
as  a  feature,  the  only  place  in  the  city  to  use  these 
'films. 

The  McLean  Place  Theater,  at  2148  North  Dlinois 
street,  has  been  reopened  after  extensive  remodel- 
ing. An  addition  was  built,  increasing  the  seat- 
ing capacity  and  the  theater  was  redecorated.  Mrs. 
Leona  A.  Beatty  owns  and  manages  the  theater. 

With  an  authorized  capitalization  of  $5,000,  the 
Northern  Indiana  Motion  Picture  Company  has  been 
organized  and  incorporated  at  Huntington,  to  con- 
duct motion  picture  theaters.  Those  Interested  in 
the  company  are:  R.  &'.  Mitchell,  M.  W.  Strauss 
and   I.   E.   Clark. 

A  motion  picture  and  vaudeville  theater  will  be 
conducted  at  New  Albany  by  the  New  Albany 
Amusement  Company,  which  has  just  been  or- 
ganized by  H.  H.  Legg,  P.  N.  Curl,  E.  V.  Knight, 
Charles  Miller,  Frank  Beaucond,  James  Dea  trick 
and  Joseph  Bruns. 

Indianapolis  Local  No.  1,  of  the  Indiana  Ex- 
hibitors* League,  contributed  $100  to  the  citizens' 
general  relief  committee  for  the  benefit  of  flood 
sufferers. 

Contracts  are  about  to  be  let  for  an  addition  to 
the  Manhattan  motion  picture  theater,  that  will 
increase  the  seating  capacity  to  800,  making  it  the 
largest  motion  picture  theater  in  the  downtown 
district. 

B.  F.  Keith's  Theater  is  showing  the  Edison  talk- 
ing pictures  as  a  regular  feature,  this  being  the 
initial  introduction  of  the  pictures  in  this  city. 

Motion  picture  theaters  have  been  opened  re- 
cently, as  follows:  L.  Kornsteln,  3005  W.  Washing- 
ton street;  Luella  Waltman,  Clifton  street,  near 
29th  street:  Hamilton  Amusement  Co.,  2116  East 
Tenth  street:  Margaret  Mason  and  Nellie  Ridlen. 
1660  Bellefontalne  street;  and  Frank  J.  Laswell, 
2508    West    Michigan  street. 

C.  L.  CUMMINS. 


NEW  ENGLAND. 

"T_T  M.  GOODHUE,  for  some  time  manager  of  the 
±x  Bijou  theater,  Fall  River,  Mass.,  playing 
programs  of  vaudeville  and  pictures  has  resigned, 
to  become  general  manager  of  the  Moe  H.  Mark 
theaters,  Buffalo,  New  York.  Moe  Mark,  whose 
chain  of  theaters  will  now  be  handled  by  Mr. 
Goodhue,  was  formerly  a  New  England  moving 
picture  man,  as  be  began  bis  activities  In  this 
field  by  building  the  Comique  and  Premier  theaters 
of  Boston,  Mass.,  which  he  afterwards  sold  to  the 
Automatic  Amusement  Company,  of  New  York. 
Mr.  Goodhue  is  to  be  succeeded  by  Mr.  George  H. 
Hill,  who  comes  to  the  Bijou  theater  with  an  ex- 
cellent record,  as  manager  of  the  Weller  theater, 
Zanesvllle,  Ohio.  The  regular  policy  of  vaudeville 
and  picture  programs  will  continue  at  the  Bijou, 
as    formerly. 

One  of  the  finest  theaters  built  for  the  exhibition 
of  motion  pictures,  to  be  opened  to  the  public  In 
Connecticut,  this  year,  is  the  new  Casino  theater 
of  Hartford.  This  theater  Is  a  model  of  its  kind 
in  every  way.  It  is  of  fireproof  construction,  and 
built  along  the  most  approved  lines.  The  Casino 
opened  on  April  19,  and  capacity  business  has 
been  the  general  rule  this  far.  The  Casino  Is 
featuring  Klnemacolor  service  In  every  way,  and 
the  public  at  once  set  its  stamp  of  approval  on  the 
colored   films. 

Manager  Fred  P.  Dean  of  the  Hartford  theater, 
Hartford,  Conn.,  believes  in  offering  added  at- 
tractions to  offset  the  warmer  days  now  upon  us, 
and  Colt's  Band  Is  the  newest  feature  at  the 
Hartford,   which  la  doing   a   good   business. 

Messrs.    Pindar   and    Rndolff,    owners   and    mana- 


gers of  the  Crystal  theater,  Meriden,  Conn.,  are 
doing  a  really  capacity  business,  with  high-grade 
programs  of  photoplays.  Mr.  Pindar  states  that 
it  is  the  present  intention  to  remain  open  during 
the  entire  summer  months,  due  to  the  increasing 
business    at    the    Crystal. 

Adams,  Mass.,  is  not  a  particularly  large  city, 
but  it  Is  assured  of  having  a  large  and  up-to-date 
theater,  in  the  near  future,  to  be  devoted  to  vaude- 
ville and  pictures.  E.  K.  McPeck,  a  local  attorney 
and  Mr.  William  B.  Plunkett,  a  prominent  manu- 
facturer of  cotton  goods,  are  behind  the  project. 
Plans  are  now  being  made  by  E.  S.  Osteyee,  of 
Pittsfield,  Mass.,  calling  for  a  theater  to  seat  over 
800  people.  The  house  will  be  along  the  same 
general  lines  as  the  Union  Square  theater,  Pitts- 
field,    Mass.,    which   was    designed   by    Mr.    Osteyee. 

Mr.  Blumenberg,  manager  of  the  cosy  Casco  thea- 
ter, Portland,  Me.,  playing  photoplay  programs 
and  illustrated  songs,  turned  over  his  theater  on 
April  29  to  the  Bowdoiu  College  Masque  and 
Gown  Club.  This  club  presented  a  play  of  its 
-own  at  the  Casco  for  the  single  performance,  after 
which  the  theater  returned  to  the  moving  picture 
policy    again. 

Mat  Reilly,  manager  of  the  Bijou  theater,  Provi- 
dence, R.  I.,  Is  a  mighty  clever  photoplay  man, 
which  accounts  for  the  fact  that  seats  are  always 
at  a  premium  at  the  Bijou,  which  offers  a  straight 
program  of  pictures,  no  vaudeville  being  needed 
to  pull  in  the  trade. 

Manager  Jack  Loewer  of  the  Nelson  theater, 
Springfield,  Mass.,  reports  that  business  Is  "simply 
great."  The  Nelson  took  a  new  lease  on  life  since 
it  became  one  of  the  William  Fox  Circuit,  and  is 
proving  a  big  money  maker,  although  it  formerly 
did  but  little  business  before  Mr.  Fox  secured 
control.  Kinemacolor  pictures  are  now  a  fixture  at 
this  house  and  they  are  proving  themselves  a  dis- 
tinct  acquisition. 

On  Monday,  April  21,  S.  Z.  Poll  had  work  start- 
ed on  his  new  theater  at  Springfield,  Mass.  Now 
that  ground  has  been  broken,  Mr.  Poll  intends 
to  push  the  construction  to  the  limit,  as  the  new 
house  is  to  be  ready  by  early  Fall.  The  new  thea- 
ter is  on  the  regulation  Poll  idea,  meaning  a  seating 
capacity  of  about  3,000  people.  In  general  ap- 
pearance, it  will  be  much  like  the  newer  Poll 
theaters  and  the  plans  call  for  fireproof  construc- 
tion. A  thoroughly  modern  bouse  is  scheduled,  with 
pictures    and    vaudeville   to   bring   in   the    money. 

The  local  moving  picture  bouse  at  Ashland,  N. 
H..  was  thrown  into  an  uproar  on  Wednesday, 
April  23,  when  Edgar  A,  Moulton,  a  singer,  at- 
tempted suicide  by  taking  poison.  The  man  was 
found    in    time,    and    recovered. 

Greenfield,  Mass.,  Is  now  the  proud  owner  of  a 
"really  and  truly"  theater,  and  one  that  is  dis- 
tinctly first-class  in  every  way,  since  Lawlor 
Brothers  threw  open  their  new  Lawler  theater 
on  April  23.  This  theater  will  alternate  programs 
of  vaudeville   and   pictures  with   road  shows. 

The  Scenic  theater,  Waltbam,  Mass.,  has  cast  out 
its  programs  of  vaudeville  and  pictures,  but  only 
temporarily,  however.  After  a  few  weeks  of  stock 
company  attractions,  the  management  Intends  to 
return    to    the    regulation    programs. 

J.  H.  Tebbletts,  who  has  been  managing  the 
Empire  theater,  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  found  that  it 
was  Impossible  to  Interest  the  public  in  his  stock 
company  attractions,  and  has  severed  his  con- 
nections with  the  Empire.  Mesars.  Warren  D. 
Lombard,  and  Edward  Beck  have  secured  a  lease 
on  the  house,  but  have  not  definitely  decided  what 
kind  of  entertainment  to  inaugurate.  Moving  pic- 
tures   and    vaudeville    will    probably    be    tried    out. 

On  May  5,  the  majority  of  the  S.  Z.  Poll  thea- 
ters In  this  territory,  say  good-bye  to  vaudeville 
and  picture  programs,  until  early  Fall,  when  they 
return  to  the  regular  policy.  During  the  summer, 
stock  company  attractions  are  to  be  tried  out. 
The  Poli  theaters  at  Worcester,  Mass.,  New 
Haven,  Bridgeport  and  Hartford,  Conn.,  are  among 
those  to  make  the  change  on  May  5. 

Abraham  Spitz,  of  Spits  and  Nathanson,  operat- 
ing a  chain  of  New  England  theaters,  states  that 
the  business  in  those  of  his  houses  devoted  to 
vaudeville  and  pictures.  Is  exceptionally  good.  On 
this  account,  it  is  probable  that  the  Empire  thea- 
ter, Providence,  R.  I.,  owned  by  this  firm,  but 
playing  stock  shows  will  be  changed  over  to 
vaudeville  and  pictures,  by  early  fall,  If  not 
sooner. 

Manager  T.  A.  Boyle,  of  the  Opera  Hou6e,  Rut- 
land, Vermont,  states  that  his  patrons  are  very 
fickle,  a&d  always  want  something  new.  On 
this  account,  Mr.  Boyle,  has  decided  to  alternate 
his  vaudeville  and  picture  programs  with  musical 
shows,    starting    next   fall. 

"The  Prisoner  of  Zeuda,"  a  feature  picture  at 
the  Olympla  theater,  Lynn,  Mass.,  this  week,  was 
Just  the  vehicle  that  Mr.  Geoffrey  Wbalen  dotes 
upen,  and  the  lecture  given  was  worth  going  miles 
to  hear.  Mr.  Wbalen  is  a  lecturer  of  unusual 
dramatic  ability,  and  Lynn  audiences  are  held  spell- 
bound during  his  discourse.  The  Olympla  is  doing 
capacity    business. 

On  April  21,  there  was  held  a  public  meeting  of 
the  Roxbury,  Mass.,  Improvement  Society,  at  the 
Roxbury  court  house,  at  which  the  social  condi- 
tions of  the  district  were  discussed,  by  representa- 
tives of  the  Children's  Welfare  League,  social 
workers,  and  ministers.  Roger  F.  Scannell  pre- 
sided, and  while  moving  pictures  were  discussed, 
nothing  unfavorable  regarding  local  theaters,  or 
the  pictures  shown,  was  brought  up.  In  fact, 
many  good  points  were  duly  noted  at  this  meeting 


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which  is  much  different  from  former  meetings  of 
this  and  similar  organizations,  when  moving  pic- 
tures were  the  pet  prejudice  of  most  of  the  mem- 
bers. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Theatrical  Stage  Employes' 
Union,  on  April  27,  nominations  were  made  for  the 
election  of  officers  and  for  delegates  to  the  inter- 
national   convention. 

The  National  theater,  Boston,  playing  vaudeville 
and  picture  programs,  is  doing  a  very  satisfactory 
business.  The  feature  of  the  picture  program  this 
week  were  local  subjects,  including  views  of 
some  of  Boston's  industries,  with  the  employees 
going  to  and  fro;  scenes  from  ice-boat  races  at 
Mystic  Lake,  the  sports  at  Franklin  Park,  and 
many    other    scenes   of   local   interest. 

Salem,  Mass.,  has  a  most  peculiar  executive  In 
Mayor  John  F.  Hurley.  The  Mayor  is  greatly  in- 
terested in  things  pertaining  to  the  moving  pic- 
ture business.  This  week,  the  Mayor  turned  down 
an  offer  to  appear  on  the  vaudeville  stage.  This 
offer  had  been  prompted  by  the  fact  that  Mayor 
Hurley  had  appeared  at  the  new  Federal  theater, 
Salem,  on  Sunday,  April  13,  scoring  a  real  hit. 
The  Federal  theaters  offers  vaudeville  and  picture 
programs.  However,  the  Mayor  has  signed  a  con- 
tract with  a  certain  moving  picture  manufacturer 
to  take  part  In  some  films.  As  a  part  of  this  deal, 
the  entire  police  force  of  Salem  was  called  out, 
April  26,  when  the  riot  call  was  sounded,  and 
arrested  three  fake  desperadoes,  who  were  shoot- 
ing op  the  town.  Over  3,000  people  witnessed  this 
proceeding.  On  Monday,  April  28,  the  Mayor  will 
produce  a  fake  fire  in  his  own  house,  before  the 
camera,  In  which  he  will  be  seen  trying  to  put  out 
the  blaze.  Later,  he  will  pull  the  alarm,  and 
the  fire  department  will  be  called  out.  Thrilling 
rescues  by  the  Mayor  will  form  a  most  important 
part  of  the  reel.  A  great  deal  of  adverse  criti- 
cism of  the  scheme  is  heard  among  the  people  of 
Salem.  * 

The  Mutual  Film  Corporation's  Boston  offices 
report  that  business  is  booming,  and  that  the  de- 
mand for  Mutual  service  through  Maine  has  shown 
a  sharp  increase,  since  a  branch  office  was  opened 
at  Waterville,  Me.,  April  15.  This  new  office  is 
in  charge  of  Fred  Murphy,  a  live  hustler,  formerly 
assistant    manager    of    the    Boston   office. 

The  new  Lawlor  theater,  Greenfield,  Mass.,  that 
opened  on  April  16  is  located  on  Federal  Street, 
and  has  a  total  seating  capacity  of  nearly  1,200. 
The  color  scheme  of  the  decorations  is  brown  on 
the  theater  walls,  and  the  woodwork  is  done  in 
old  ivory,  with  the  ceiling  in  a  lighter  tint.  There 
are  three  boxes  on  each  side  of  the  orchestra  fioor, 
and  brass  railed  inclosure  for  the  orchestra.  The 
chairs  are  upholstered  in  leather.  The  inclining 
Boors  of  the  orchestra  and  one  balcony  affords 
an  unobstructed  view  of  the  stage.  The  Lawlor 
Brothers  Theater  Company,  Incorporated,  has  its 
officers — Nicholas  J.  Lawlor,  president;  \  Thomas 
L.  Lawlor,  treasurer;  and  Frank  J.  Lawlor,  secre- 
tary. 

Both  the  Premier  and  Pastime  theaters  of  Lowell, 
Mass.,  are  again  open  and  Bhowing  programs  of 
photoplays,  as  all  difficulties  have  been  settled  in 
a    satisfactory    manner. 

S.  Z.  Poli  has  promised  to  give  one  entire  day's 
receipts  of  his  theater  at  Springfield,  Mass.,  to- 
wards the  $200,000  fund  raised  to  build  a  new 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  building  on  Chestnut  Street.  Local 
newspapers  were  busy  lauding  Mr.  Poli's  generosity 
this  week. 

Although  William  White  has  only  had  charge  of 
the  Opera  House,  Lawrence,  Mass.,  for  one  week, 
yet  he  has  already  made  numerous  changes  about 
the  theater,  all  of  which  have  helped  business  at 
this  house  in  no  uncertain  manner.  Manager 
White  is  offering  vaudeville  and  pictures,  and  is 
playing    to    capacity   houses. 

J.  Fred  Lovett,  manager  of  the  Broadway  thea- 
ter, Lowell,  Mass.,  Installed  talking  pictures  in 
this  theater  on  April  21,  and  to  judge  from  the 
cordial  reception  they  were  accorded,  it  will  be 
long  before  the  '  'talkers' '  are  removed.  The 
Premier  theater,  also  of  Lowell,  and  under  Mr. 
Lovett's  supervision,  is  doing  a  very  nice  busi- 
ness,   with    photoplay   programs. 

George  Delmore,  one  of  the  best  known  moving 
picture  operators  In  New  England,  is  now  connected 
with  the  Opera  House,  Lowell,  Mass.  Mr.  Delmore 
left  the  Nickle  theater  of  that  city  to  take  up 
hla  present  duties.  The  Opera  House  is  now  as- 
sured of  excellent  projection,  as  Delmore  is  one 
of  the  best  moving  picture  men  in  this  territory. 
The  Princess  theater,  Marlboro,  Mass.,  is  a 
photoplay  house  that  does  a  big  business,  because 
it  is  managed  ably.  In  order  to  keep  the  projec- 
tion up  to  the  highest  standard,  a  new  Power's 
Cameragraph  No.  6,  has  been  installed  at  the 
Princess,  through  the  New  England  Universal  Film 
Exchange,    Boston. 

The  headquarters  of  the  Moving  Picture  Ex- 
hibitors* League,  Massachusetts  branch,  at  La 
Grange  St.,  Boston,  Is  now  getting  into  first-class 
shape.  A  Power's  No.  6VA  complete  outfit  was  in- 
stalled by  the  R.  D.  Marson  Moving  Picture  Com- 
pany,   of   Boston, 

The  Columbia  theater,  Bath,  Me.,  has  been 
leased  by  the  Burt  &  Burt  Company.  Some  needed 
alterations  and  improvements  are  contemplated  by 
the  now  owners,  after  which  the  Columbia  will  be 
operated  as  a  photoplay  house,  no  vaudeville  being 
osed,  according  to  present  plans. 

Plans  have  been  filed  and  accepted  for  a  thea- 
ter on  Grove  Street,  Meriden,  Conn.  The  new 
house,   which   will   be   devoted    to   moving    pictures, 


is  to  be  built  by  Joseph  Ricci.  Plans  call  for  a 
seating  capacity  of  nearly  500  people,  and  a  theater 
that  will  be  thoroughly  modern  and  fireproof. 
With  a  good  location  on  Grove  Street,  Mr.  Ricci 
should    have    a    paying    proposition. 

The  Helen  Gardner  pictures  of  "Cleopatra,"  the 
five-reel  production  are  scheduled  for  presentation 
at  the  exclusive  Symphony  Hall,  Boston,  on  April 
28,  29,  30  and  May  1.  Miss  Gardner  Is  billed  as 
the    "Bernhardt  of  moving  pictures." 

A  moving  picture  theater  is  soon  to  be  built  at 
New  Haven,  Conn.,  by  McLellan  and  Moore,  to 
seat  750  persons.  An  excellent  location  has  been 
secured   on   Oak   Street,    in   the   business   district. 

Edison's  talking  pictures  at  Keith's  theater, 
Boston,  Mass.,  have  made  a  most  favorable  im- 
pression, and  are  regularly  placed  in  the  very  mid- 
dle of  the  vaudeville  program,  between  the  "feature 
acts."  The  Pathe  Weekly  still  closes  the  show, 
and  is  a  fixture  at  this  house. 

The  Star  theater,  Boston,  is  now  showing  first 
run  Mutual  films,  and  Illustrated  songs,  having  cut 
out  all  the  vaudeville  acts.  A  special  feature  is 
Lecturer  Noonan,  who  ably  explains  and  enlarges 
upon    the    feature    photoplays. 

Jacob  Lurie  of  the  Beacon  theater,  Boston,  gives 
a  big  show  and  does  a  big  business  with  licensed 
films  and  vaudeville.  In  fact,  Mr.  Lurie's  show  is 
so  good  that  he  charges  20  cents  on  Sundays,  and 
then   is  unable   to   accommodate   the   crowds. 

Colonel  Bill  Stanton,  manager  of  Harry  Katzes' 
Auditorium  Theater,  Fitchburg,  Mass.,  Is  now  play- 
ing stock-company  attractions,  but  will  probably 
turn  the  Auditorium  Theater  back  to  vaudeville  and 
pictures  by  early  Fall.  The  Colonel  has  made  a 
decided  success  of  his  Fitchburg  venture. 

A  Powers  Cameragraph,  No.  6,  was  bought  by  the 
U.  S.  S.  "Prairie,"  Guantanamo  Bay,  Cuba,  throws* 
the  New  England  Universal  Film  Exchange,  Boston. 
Both  Powers  and  the  Edison  Exchange  seem  to  do 
an  international  business. 

Mutual  exhibitors  in  New  England  are  satisfied 
exhibitors — there  can  be  no  doubt  of  it,  as  the 
next  few  lines  will  prove.  Under  date  of  April  A, 
the  Mutual  Film  Corporation  received  this  letter: 
"To  Those  Interested: — We,  the  undersigned  man- 
agers, do  most  cheerfully  recommend  the  Mutual 
service  to  all  those  who  have  been  bo  unfortunate 
as  not  to  have  discovered  the  supreme  excellence 
of  the  pictures  comprising  the  program  Issued 
each  week  by  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation.  Henry 
Sbanley,  Columbia  Theater,  Attleboro,  Mass.;  O. 
Harpnot,  Jewel  Theater,  Lowell,  Mass. ;  D.  B. 
Reed,  Star  Theater,  Pawtucket,  R.  I.;  L.  H.  Man- 
ning, Union  Theater,  Providence,  R.  I.;  John  Levey, 
Superb  Theater,  Boston,  Mass.;  Felix  Alland, 
Pastime  Theater,  Boston,  Mass.;  M.  Sandler,  Revere 
Theater,  Revere,  Mass. ;  A.  B.  Howard,  Nickel 
Theater,  Taunton,  Mass.;  J.  L.  Caffrey,  Ideal  The- 
ater, Boston,  Mass. ;  T.  R.  Leamon,  Central  Theater, 
Stoneham,  Mass.;  Lon  Vail,  Scenic  Theater,  Warren, 
R.  I.;  C.  H.  Parker,  Congress  Hall,  South  Boston, 
Mass.;  C.  E.  Cook,  Opera  House,  Woonsocket,  R.  I.; 
J.  F.  Williams,  Gem  Theater,  East  Boston,  Mass.; 
Alfred  Basolet,  Auburn  Theater,  Auburn,  R.  I.; 
W.  L.  Bigelow,  Globe,  Nickel  and  Palace  theaters, 
Fall  River,  Mass." 

George  Arnold,  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  intends  to 
build  a  theater  in  that  city,  to  be  devoted  to  vaude- 
ville and  picture  programs.  Plans  are  now  being 
made  by  local  architects. 

Messrs.  Sweetser  and  Powers  are  to  build  a  new 
theater  at  Caribou,  Maine,  which  will  seat  550 
people.  The  house  will  be  modern  and  has  a 
location  in  the  business  district  of  the  city. 

Fogarty  Brothers  report  that  their  new  theater, 
Jewett  City,  Conn.,  has  opened  to  very  encourag- 
ing business,  with  programs  of  pictures  and  songs. 
The  Park  Theater,  as  it  has  been  named,  seats 
350,  and  is  very  neat  and  cozy,  having  been  built 
this  winter  by  Fogarty  Brothers. 

Pittsfield,  Mass.,  is  soon  to  have  a  new  theater, 
to  be  devoted  to  photoplays,  as  Mr.  D.  S.  Freed- 
man  has  secured  a  permit  from  the  local  authorities 
and  has  had  his  plans  approved. 

HENRY. 


LOUISVILLE. 

PICTURES  played  an  important  part  In  the  en- 
tertainment tendered  by  the  Louisville,  Ky., 
Paper  Company  to  members  of  the  Kentucky 
Printers*  Cost  Congress,  who  gathered  In  the  Ken- 
tucky metropolis  recently  for  their  annual  conven- 
tion. C.  W.  Dearden,  advertising  manager  of  the 
Strathmore  Paper  Company,  of  Mittineague,  Msbs., 
was  on  hand  with  three  reels  of  film  showing  the 
various  stages  of  the  manufacture  of  paper.  The 
show  was  given  at  the  plant  of  the  paper  com- 
pany at  Thirteenth  and  Maple  streets,  and  was 
attended  by  more  than  200  printers  of  Kentucky 
and  Indiana.  Mr.  Dearden  lectured  in  connection 
with  the  film,  and  the  printers  left  Louisville  with 
definite  ideas  regarding  the  paper-making  business, 
In  lieu  of  the  hazy  thoughts  which  they  formerly 
possessed  on  that  subject.  It  is  conceded  that  the 
introduction  of  motion  pictures  at  the  convention 
was  a  clever  stroke,  and  one  that  emphasized  the 
educational  features  of  the  gathering.  Other  enter- 
tainment features  included  singing  by  Fred  Wells 
and  Will  Green,  both  of  whom  are  now  singing 
in  a  Louisville  moving  picture  house.  B.  F.  Keith's 
Louisville  theater,  which  recently  Introduced  Edi- 
son's talking  pictures  in  the  Kentucky  metropolis, 
is  to  run  through  the  entire  season,  according  to 
present  plans.  Ten,  twenty  and  thirty  cents  are 
to  be  the  admission  prices  charged.  The  number  of 
vaudeville  acta  is  to  be  reduced  to  five,   and  It  is 


believed  that,  coupled  with  both  the  talking  and* 
silent  pictures,  this  program  will  be  strong  enough 
to  allow  the  theater  to  run  profitably  during  the 
hot  weather. 

The  National  Moving  Picture  Company,  recently 
formed  in  Louisville,  is  resorting  to  the  daily 
papers  in  a  stock-selling  campaign.  The  advertis- 
ing has  been  on  an  extensive  basis,  full  pages- 
having  been  nsed  recently.  The  company,  accord- 
ing to  its  ads,  will  send,  without  charge,  the 
booklet,  "The  Story  of  a  Nickel,"  telling  some- 
thing of  the  vast  growth  of  animated  pictures. 
Under  the  head,  "An  Appreciation,"  the  company 
paid  tribute  to  the  moving  pictures,  referring  to 
them  as  the  "marvel  of  science,  mirror  of  art, 
product  of  the  ingenuity  of  man  and  the  inventive- 
power  of  his  mind."  It  ended  with  the  assertion: 
"Motion  picture,  you  are  great!  You  are  the  agent 
of  the  age,  the  messenger  of  futurity !  You  are 
great — and  we  are  grateful!"  The  company's  plans 
to  erect  a  theater  in  the  Eastern  section  of  Louis- 
ville have  not  been  abandoned,  according  to  a 
recent  announcement,  and  plans  will  be  completed 
,  shortly.  The  Crescent  Hill  house  is  to  seat  about 
1,000  people,  and  will  be  one  of  the  handsomest 
in  the  Kentucky  metropolis.  The  National  also 
expects  to  erect  other  houses  in  Kentucky  and  else- 
where,  forming  a  chain  of  photoplay  theaters. 

William  Hibbitt,  of  Louisville,  after  holding  va- 
rious positions  at  Keith's  Louisville  house,  was 
given  the  management  of  the  Olympic,  a  moving 
picture  house.  He  resigned,  and  sow  is  staging  a 
vaudeville  act  In  moving  picture  houses,  with  him- 
self in  the  leading  role. 

The  Mutual  has  established  a  branch  office  Id 
Louisville,  and  will  henceforth  distribute  its  films 
through,  the  new  station,  Instead  of  shipping  direct 
to  exhibitors,  -as  in  the  past.  Offices  have  been 
taken  In  the  Novelty  Theater  Buiding,  at  Fourth 
and  Green  streets.  The  Universal  has  maintained 
an  establishment  in  Louisville  for  some  time,  while 
other  distributing  companies  also  are  represented, 
the  addition  of  the  Mutual  filling  the  field. 

The  North  Side  Amusement  Company,  which  re- 
cently took  over  a  business  bouse  in  New  Albany, 
Ind.,  with  the  Intention  of  remodeling  it  for  service 
as  a  moving  picture  theater,  has  filed  articles  of 
incorporation,  the  capitalization  being  set  at 
$15,000.  Those  interested  in  the  new  company  are: 
H.  H.  Legg,  P.  N.  Curl,  Charles  Miller,  B.  V. 
Knight  and  others.  The  new  theater  will  be  ready 
for  occupancy  within  sixty  days. 

A  permit  has  been  taken  out  by  the  Woodland 
Amusement  Company,  of  Louisville,  for  an  alrdome 
to  go  up  at  1021  South  Preston  street.  About  $300 
will  be  expended.  Alf  Oldham  Is  the  chief  stock- 
holder In  the  company. 

With  a  capitalization  of  $12,500,  the  Covington, 
Ky.,  Amusement  Company  has  filed  articles  of  In- 
corporation. S.  K.  Long,  Polk  Lafoon,  Charles  B. 
Clark,  and  William  Rledlin,  Jr.,  are  Incorporators 
of  the  company,  which  will  operate  a  moving  pic- 
ture theater  in  Covington. 

The  new  Prows  Theater  has  opened  at  Cynthiana, 
Ky.,  doing  a  rushing  business  on  its  initial  per- 
formances. The  theater  is  a  handsome  one,  with 
a  seating  capacity  of  400. 

J.  A.  Pendery  Is  to  erect  a  new  motion  picture 
theater  on  Dun  street,  Cincinnati.  The  house  will 
have  a  seating  capacity  of  about  300,  and  will 
cover  a  site  28  by  100  feet. 

Work  on  the  new  Odeon  Theater,  Benson  street, 
Cincinnati,  has  begun,  and  will  be  rushed.  The 
house,  with  a  seating  capacity  of  500,  will  be  ready 
for  business  by  August  1.  George  G.  Fox  has  se- 
cured the  contract  for  excavation  and  construction 
work. 

The  Gem  Theater  Company  has  been  awarded  a 
charter,  and  will  alter  a  house  at  Nashville,  Tenn., 
for  exhibition  purposes.  F.  B.  Haun  is  president 
of  the  company,  while  Charles  H.  Smith,  J.  M. 
Meek  and  V.  N.  Hacker  also  are  interested. 

A  new  alrdome  is  to  go  up  at  Dayton  street  and 
Coleraln  avenue,  Cincinnati.  It  will  have  a  seat- 
ing capacity  of  500,  and  will  be  owned  by  Charles 
B.  Marqua.  Brick  and  steel  will  be  used  in  its 
construction.     It  will  be  50  by  150  feet. 

Those  who  recently  announced  that  they  would 
operate  the  Gayety  Theater,  Louisville,  during  the 
coming  summer,  have  announced  that  other  plans 
have  been  decided  on.  The  Gayety  will  probably 
be  dark  during  the  summer.  Vaudeville  and  mov- 
ing pictures  were  to  have  been  exhibited,  but  those 
considering  the  plan  did  not  relish  the  idea  of 
competing  with  the  straight  moving  picture  houses 
and  Keith's  Theater,  which  also  is  to  operate 
without  a  stop. 

The  Crystal  Theater,  of  Louisville,  is  undergoing 
improvements,  the  lobby  being  redecorated.  A 
feature  of  the  Crystal,  which  is  controlled  by  the 
Falls  City  Amusement  Company,  Is  a  Wurtlltier 
seven-piece  orchestra,  which  is  being  tested  The 
instrument  plays  thirty  pieces  without  supervision 
of  any  description.  The  orchestrion  has  P">ved 
generally  satisfactory,  the  only  fault  being  that  It 
aoes  not,  of  course,  play  to  the  pictures. 

The  Broadway  Amusement  Company  has  taken 
over  the  Royal  Theater,  at  Eighteenth  street  and 
Broadway,  buying  it  from  the  Royal  Amusement 
Company.  There  were  several  reasons  for  the 
transaction,  the  chief  being  that  the  West  Broad- 
way Theater,  across  the  street  from  the  Royal,  gaye 
that  eorner  almost  too  many  houses.  Though  both 
did  welL  it  was  felt  that  it  was  policy  for  one  of 
the  companies  to  withdraw  from  the  field.  The i  con- 
sideration involved  was  not  announced.  The  Royal 
will  be  conducted  as  in  the  past,  with  motto* 
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Current  Releases 

MONDAY,  MAY  5th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Tenderfoot's  Money  (Drama) 

EDISON— The  $100  Elopement  (Comedy-Drama) 1000 

KALEM— The  Heart  of  an  Actress  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN— Pedro's  Treachery  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's  Weekly  No.  19  (News) 

SELIG— A  Midnight  Bell  (Special— 2  Parts— Drama) ..  .2000 

SELIG— An  Old  Actor  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— Bingles  Mends  the  Clock  (Comedy) 1000 

TUESDAY,  MAY  6th,  1913. 

CINES— A  Mixed  Affair  (Drama) , 1000 

EDISON— When  Greek  Meets  Greek  (Drama) xooo 

ESSANAY— A  Tango  Tangle  (Comedy) 1000 

LUBIN — The  Judgment  of  the  Deep  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Ant-Lion   (Zoology) 

PATHEPLAY— The    Chateau   of   Blois,   France    (Archi- 
tectural)   

SELIG— A  Welded  Friendship  (Drama) 

SELIG — Hatching  Chickens  (Zootechnic) 

VITAGRAPH— Omens   and   Oracles   (Third   of   the    Be- 
linda Series)  (Comedy) 1000 

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  7th,  1913. 

ECLIPSE— The  Dividing  Wall  (Comedy-Drama) 1000 

EDISON — Aunty  and  the  Girls  (Comedy) 400 

EDISON— With  the  Assistance  of  "Shep"  (Comedv) ....   600 

ESSANAY— The  Prophecy  (Drama) 1000 

KALEM— The  Alien  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Crooked  Bankers  (Drama) 

SELIG — Belle  Boyd,  a  Confederate  Spy  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— The  Deerslayer  (Special— 2  Parts— Dr.)  .2000 
VITAGRAPH— Inspection   of  the  Quebec  Police   (Typ- 
ical)   

VITAGRAPH— Disciplining   Daisy    (Comedy) 

THURSDAY,  MAY  8th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— Frappe  Love  (Comedy") 

BIOGRAPH— The  Coveted  Prize  (Comedy) 

ESSANAY— Two  Western  Paths  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN— She  Must  Be  Ugly  (Comedy) 400 

LUBIN— Hattie's  New  Hat  (Comedy) 600 

MELIES— A  Trip  Through  the  "North  Island"  of  New 

Zealand  from  Auckland  to  Wellington  (Travel) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— Her  Mother's  Ambition  (Drama) 

SELIG — Her  Guardian  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— The  Wrath  of  Osaka  (Drama) 1000 

FRIDAY,  MAY  9th,  1913. 

EDISON — The  Golden  Wedding  (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY — A  Woman's  Way  (Drama) 1000 

KALEM— The  Hash  House  Count  (Comedy) 

KALEM — Toothache   (Comedy)    

KALEM — The   Cheyenne    Massacre    (Special — 2   Parts — 

Drama)    2000 

LUBIN — A  Mock  Marriage  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— Montreal,  Quebec  and  Halifax  (Travel). 
PATHEPLAY— In  the  Valley  of  Vesubie,  France  (Seen.) 

SELIG — In  the  Days  of  Witchcraft  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— Cupid's  Hired  Man  (Comedy) 1000 

SATURDAY,  MAY  10th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  House  of  Darkness  (Drama) 

CINES — The  People  of  Somaliland,   East  Africa   (Man- 
ners and  Customs) 300 

CINES — Excess  Baggage  (Comedy)  400 

CINES — Beautiful  Lake  Como,  Italy  (Physical  Geog.) . .   300 

EDISON — An  Accidental  Alibi  (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY — "Alkali"  Ike's  Mother-in-Law  (Comedy)  ...  1000 

KALEM — The  River  Pirates  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — The  Paymaster  (Drama)   1000 

LUBIN — A  Girl  Spy  in  Mexico  (Special — 2  Parts — Dr.) .  .2000 

PATHEPLAY— Pittin'  It  Over  on  Papa  (Comedy) 

VITAGRAPH— The  Sea  Maiden  (Drama) 1000 


ADVANCE  RELEASES. 
MONDAY,  MAY  12th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  King  and  the  Copper  (Comedy).... 

BIOGRAPH— A  Rainy  Day  (Comedy) 

EDISON — The  Heart  of  Valeska  (Drama) 1000 

ECLIPSE — The  Japanese  Dagger  (2  parts — Drama) .... 2000 

KALEM — The  Adventure  of  an  Heiress   (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — Lucky  Cohen  (Comedy)    400 

LUBIN— A  Ten  Acre  Gold  Brick  (Comedy) 600 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's   Weekly   No.  ,20   (News) '.. 

SELIG — The    Post-Impressionists    (Comedy) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— The  Wrong  Pair  (Comedy) 

VITAGRAPH— The  Grand   Canyon   (Scenic) 

TUESDAY,  MAY  13th,  1913. 

CINES— Willie's    Alarm    Clock    (Comedy) 780 

CINES — Relics  of  Ancient   Rome   (Travel) 220 

EDISON — The    Prophecy    (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY— The   Ranch   Girl's   Partner   (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — The   Padre's  Strategy   (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— A  Woman  of  Impulse  (Drama) 

SELIG — Lieutenant  Jones   (Drama)    1000 

VITAGRAPH— Horatio   Sparkins    (Comedy)    1000 

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  14th,  1913. 

ECLIPSE— The  Will  of  Fate  (Drama) 1000 

EDISON— The   Two   Merchants   (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY— The  Same  Old  Story  (Comedy) 1000 

KALEM — Man's  Greed  for  Gold  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— A   Redskin's   Mercy   (Drama) 

PATHEPLAY— Her    Masked    Beauty    (Special— 2    parts 

Comedy)    

SELIG— Buck  Richards"  Bride    (Comedy) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— Two  Souls  With  But  a  Single  Thought 

(Comedy)     IOOO 

THURSDAY,  MAY  15th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Stolen  Loaf  (Drama) 

ESSANAY — Boosting   Business    (Comedy)    1000 

LUBIN — Longing  for  a   Mother   (Drama) 1000 

MELIES— The  Black  Trackers   (Drama) 

PATHEPLAY— An  Itinerant  Wedding  (Comedy) 

SELIG — In    the    Long   Ago    (Comedy) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— A  Soul  In   Bondage   (Drama) 1000 

FRIDAY,  MAY  16th,  1913. 

EDISON — John    Manley's    Awakening    (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY— Two    Social    Calls    (Drama) 1000 

KALEM— Pat,    the    Cowboy    (Comedy) 

KALEM — Food   Inspection    (Topical)    

LUBIN — Breed  of  the  West  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Jelly   Fish   (Zoology) 

PATHEPLAY— Along    the    Banks    of    the    River    Eure 

(Travel)    

PATH EPLAY— Saragossa   (Scenic)    

SELIG — A  Daughter  of  the  Confederacy  (Drama) 

SELIG — With  the  Students  of  the  North  Dakota  Agri- 
cultural  College   (Topical)    

VITAGRAPH — His  Life  for  His  Emperor  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— The   Vampire   of   the    Desert    (Special— 

2  parts — Drama)    2000 

SATURDAY,  MAY  17th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Yaqui   Cur   (2  parts— Drama) 

CINES— A   Woman's   Influence    (Drama) 820 

CINES — Gulf  of  Togulio,   Northern   Italy   (Scenic) 180 

EDISON— A  Concerto  for  the  Violin  (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY— Broncho    Billy's    Grit    (Drama) 1000 

KALEM— The  Poet  and  the  Soldier  (Drama) 1000 

KALEM — The  Battle  For  Freedom   (Special — 2  parts — 

Drama)     2000 

LUBIN — Retribution    (Drama)    1000 

PATHEPLAY— A  Wrecked   Life   (Drama) 

VITAGRAPH — Bunny  and  the  Runny  Hug  (Comedy) ..  1000 


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WITHSTANDS  TORNADO  AND  FLOOD 

Perhaps  you  think  it  is  not  essential  that  your  motion  picture  projector  should  have  this 
qualification. 

Messrs.  Weaver  and  Finch  did  not  think  their  machines  would  ever  be  tested  so  severely. 
You  never  can  tell  what  is  going  to  happen,  so  be  prepared  for  the  worst.  To  its  other  vir- 
tues we  add  this  assurance  of  reliability. 

Another  reason  why  you  should  use  Simplex  Projectors: 


Diamond  Theatre, 
O.   S.   Finch.   Proprietor. 

Omaha,   Neb.,  April   16,   1913. 
Precision    Machine    Co., 

New  York,  N.  Y. 
Gentlemen: 

As  I  have  had  a  Simplex  machine  since  last  October,  it's 
about  time  I  said  something  about  it.  Have  given  the  ma- 
chine a  thorough  trial  before  making  any  comments.  It  not 
only  stands  the  test  of  running  pictures,  but  also  stands  a 
tornado.  As  you  may  have  heard  my  theatre  was  destroyed 
by  that  awful  tornado  of  March  23rd.  Of  all  the  brick  and 
timbers  that  fell  on  the  machine  nothing  broke  only  the  top 
magazine.  The  weight  would  have  smashed  any  other  ma- 
chine. Am  sorry  I  did  not  get  a  picture  of  the  machine  as 
it  was  after  the  storm,  but  had  too  much  trouble  to  think  of. 
I  would  not  trade  a  Simplex  for  any  other  make  going.  You 
have  them  all  beat  a  mile,  as  the  saying  goes.  I  have 
started  to  rebuild  again,  so  will  have  the  machine  in  opera- 
tion about  the  first  of  June.  There  was  no  one  killed  in  the 
theatre  as  was  advertised  over  the  country. 
Very  truly  yours, 

(Signed)   O.  S.   FINCH. 
Mr.  O.  B.  Weaver,  Prop.  Lyceum  Theatre,  Main  St.,  Day- 
ton, Ohio,  has  a  Simplex  Projector  which  was  submerged  for 
days  in  the  flood.     A  little  time  spent  in  cleaning  it  up  and 
it  is  now  as  good  as  new. 

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Calendar  of  Independent  Releases 


Universal  Film  Mfg.  Co.  Current  Releases 

SUNDAY,  MAY  4th,  1913- 

CRYSTAL— Pearl  As  a  Detective   (Comedy) '. 

CRYSTAL— Oh,  Whiskers!   (Comedy)    

ECLAIR— Bewitched   Matches    (Comedy)    

ECLAIR — Salamanders  (Scientific)    

REX— The  Rosary  (Drama)    

MONDAY,  MAY  5th,  1913. 

CHAMPION— The  Shark  God   (Drama) & 

IMP— Eureka    (2    Parts— Drama)    

NESTOR— The  Country  Cousin  (Comedy) 

TUESDAY,  MAY  6th,  1913- 

GEM— Billy's  First  Quarrel  (Comedy) 

GEM— Call  Him  Whiskers  (Comedy) 

101-BISON— The  Indian's  Secret  (2  Reels--Drama) 

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  7th,  1913. 

ECLAIR— The  Sons  of  a  Soldier  (3  Parts— Drama) 

NESTOR— The  Awakening  of  Papita   (Drama) 

POWERS— The  Black  Smallpox  Scare   (Comedy) 

UNIVERSAL— The  Animated  Weekly  No.  61  (News).. 
THURSDAY,  MAY  8th,  1913. 

FRONTIER— The   Sheriff's   Rival    (Drama) 

IMP— The   Whole  Truth   (Drama) 

REX— The  Smuggler's  Daughter  (2  Reels— Drama) 

FRIDAY,  MAY  9th,  1913. 

NESTOR— Miss  Nobody  (Drama)    

POWERS— Bozo  Arrives   (Comedy) 

VICTOR— The  Unknown  (Drama)   

SATURDAY,  MAY  10th,  1913. 

FRONTIER— The  Tenderfoot's   Ghost   (Comedy) 

IMP — Leo  Makes  Good  (Comedy) 

IMP — The   Oyster   Industry    (Industry) 

BISON— The   Northern   Spy   (2-Reel   Drama) 


ADVANCE  RELEASES. 


SUNDAY,  MAY  nth,  1913. 

CRYSTAL— When  Love  Is  Young  (Comedy)... 

CRYSTAL— His  Awful   Daughter  (Comedy) 

ECLAIR— A  Wise  Judge  (Comedy) 

ECLAI R — Manufacture   of   Steel    (Comedy) 

REX— The  Poverty  of  Riches   (Drama) 

MONDAY,  MAY  12th,  1913. 

IMP — A   Woman   Loved    (Drama) 

NESTOR — The  Squashville  Ladies'  Fire  Brigade  (Com.) 
CHAMPION— Hawaiian  Love  (Drama)    

TUESDAY,  MAY  13th,  1913. 

GE&l — Billy's  Adventure   (Comedy)    

101-BISON— The  Toll  of  War   (3  parts— Drama) 

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  14th,  1913. 

NESTOR— The  Clean  Up  (Drama) 

POWERS— The  Violet  Bride  (Drama) 

ECLAIR— The    Key    (Drama)    

UNIVERSAL— Animated  Weekly  No.  62  (News) 

THURSDAY,  MAY  15th,  1913. 

REX— The  Cap  of  Destiny  (Drama) 

IMP— The  Heart  That  Sees  (Drama) 

FRONTIER— In  the  Great  Southwest  (Drama) 

FRIDAY,  MAY  16th,  1913. 

NESTOR— An  Eye  For  An  Eye  (Drama) 

POWERS— The  Tarantula  (Drama)   

VICTOR— A  Fair  Exchange  (2  parts— Drama) 

SATURDAY,  MAY  17th,  1913. 

IMP — Beetles    (Centimology)    ^. . . 

BISON — In  the  Secret  Service  (2  parts — Drama) 

FRONTIER— Betty's  Bandit  (Comedy) 


Mutual  Film  Corporation  Current  Releases 

SUNDAY,  MAY  4th,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— A  Country  Man's  Romance  (Drama) ., 

THANHOUSER— Express   C.   O.   D.    (Comedy-Drama) 

MONDAY,  MAY  5th,  1913. 

AMERICAN— The  Brothers  (Drama) 

EXCELSIOR— Brothers  All  (Drama) 

KEYSTONE— Algie  on  the  Force  (Comedy) 

KEYSTONE— His  Ups  and  Downs  (Comedy) 


TUESDAY,  MAY  6th,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— The  Children  of  St.  Anne  (2  Parts— Dr.).. 

THANHOUSER— Her  Sister's  Secret   (Drama) 

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  7th,  1913. 
BRONCHO— The  Way  of  a  Mother  (2  Parts— Drama)  . . 

MUTUAL— Mutual  Weekly  No.  19  (News) 

RELIANCE — A  Cruel  Suspicion  (Drama) ^.. 

THURSDAY,  MAY  8th,  1913. 

AMERICAN— Human  Kindness  (Drama) iooo 

KEYSTONE— The  Darktown  Belle  (Comedy) 

KEYSTONE— A  Little  Hero  (Comedy) 

MUTUAL— The  Old  Clock  (Drama) 

MUTUAL — Mosques  and  Tombs  of  Caliphs  and  Mame- 
lukes   (Architectural)    

FRIDAY,  MAY  9th,  1913. 

KAY-BEE — Past  Redemption  (2  Parts — Drama) 

THANHOUSER— The  Other  Girl  (Comedy) 

SATURDAY,  MAY  10th,  1913. 

AMERICAN— Youth  and  Jealousy  (Drama) iooo- 

RELIANCE— The  Sheriff  (Drama) 


ADVANCE  RELEASES. 
SUNDAY,  MAY  nth,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— Billy's  New  Watch   (Comedy) 

MAJESTIC— Liquid   Air    (Scientific)    

THANHOUSER— Barred  from  the  Mails  (Comedy)... 
MONDAY,  MAY  12th,  1913. 

AMERICAN — Angel  of  the   Canyons   (Drama) 1000 

EXCELSIOR— Title  not  reported. 

KEYSTONE— Mabel's   Awful   Mistake    (Comedy) 

RELIANCE— The   Eternal   Sacrifice   (Drama) 

TUESDAY,  MAY  13th,  1913- 

MAJESTIC— My   Lady's   Boot   (Drama) 

THANHOUSER— The   Marble   Heart   (Drama) 

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  14th,  1913. 

BRONCHO— A  Slave's  Devotion  (2  parts— Drama) 

MUTUAL— Mutual  Weekly  No.  20   (News) 

RELIANCE— The    Big   Boss    (2  parts— Drama) 

THURSDAY,  MAY  15th,  1913. 

AMERICAN— The   Kiss    (Drama)    

KEYSTONE— Their  First   Execution   (Drama) 

MUTUAL— His  Master's  Rival  (Comedy) 

MUTUAL— The  Valley  of  Albula,  Switzerland  (Scenic) 
FRIDAY,  MAY  i6th,  1913. 

KAY-BEE— For  Love  of  the  Flag  (2  parts— Drama) 

THANHOUSER— Title  not  reported. 

SATURDAY,  MAY  17th,  1913. 

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"The  Grey  Sentinel" Apr. 

"With  Lee  in  Virginia" Apr. 

"The  Sinews  of  War" Apr. 

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pictures  the  attraction.  The  West  Broadway  also 
will  be  operated  as  usual,  Fred  Dolle  and  other 
n?.™.  °'  •"*. fcB™a<,w«y  believing  there  is  enough 
patronage  in  that  section  of  the  city  to  give  both 
houses  plenty  of  action.  The  Broadway  now  owns 
five  theaters  in  Louisville,  all  using  moving  pictures. 
In  conjunction  with  the  aims,  the  Arlington  Blanch- 
ard-carr  Company  is  providing  amusement.  This 
stock  company  Is  now  on  its  sixteenth  week  in 
Broadway  theaters,  playing  in  rotation  to  the  Ideal, 
nest  and  East  Broadway  theaters 

The  sale  of  the  Boyal  Theater  to  the  Broadway 
Amusement  Company,  has  lightened  considerably 
I  e^du  ™9  ot  Maflaser  Louis  J.  Dittmar,  of  the  Ma- 
jestic Theater  Company.  Mr.  Dittmar  has  super- 
vised both  these  houses  in  the  past.  The  opening 
., he  ?£".  Arcadia  skating  rink  and  dance  hall 
made  additional  calls  on  Mr.  Dittmar's  time,  and 
this  fact  was  partly  responsible  for  the  sale  of 
the  Royal,  which  seats  440  people.  Mr.  Dittmar 
will  retain  the  management  of  the  Majestic,  one 
of  the  most  popular  theaters  in  the  South.  He  also 
Is  interested  in  several  business  houses,  and  in  addi- 
tion to  his  regular  duties  is  vice-president  of  the 
Kentucky   Motion   Picture  Exhibitors'   League 

Much  improvement  has  been  felt  in  Louisville 
motion  picture  circles  in  the  receipt  of  aims,  which 
for  a  tame  was  exceedingly  poor.  Railroad  facili- 
ties have  been  put  back  on  a  normal  basis,  ap- 
parently, and  exhibitors  are  receiving  and  showing 
new  aims  dairy,  as  In  the  past.  Theaters  of  Jeffer- 
aonvllle,  Ind.,  which  were  closed  down  for  a  time 
by  higbt  waters,  have  resumed  business.  The  Ohio 
after  striving  to  break  all  previous  records  for 
altitude,  has  crawled  back  into  its  normal  channels 
and  business  in  moving  picture  circles  is  splendid 
The  Central  Film  Service  Company,  of  Indian- 
apolis, has  secured  the  Kentucky  rights  on  "As  In 
a  Looking  Glass,"  the  three-reel  Monopol  offering. 
The  same  concern  will  show  the  feature  in  Indiana 
including  It  in  the  regular  service. 

The  Orpheum  Theater,  of  Louisville,  one  of  tie 
most  popular  houses  of  the  Princess  Amusement 
Company,  attracted  big  crowds  recently  with  pic- 
tures of  flood  scenes  In  Dayton. 

Work  has  begun  on  the  new  annex  to  the  GVand 
Theater  of  New  Albany,  Ind.,  the  house  of  the 
Switow  Amusement  Company.  Plans  have  been  com- 
pleted whereby  the  Grand  will  be  closed  down  but 
a  few  days  during  the  anal  stages  of  the  building, 
rhe  Grand,  when  completed,  will  have  a  seating 
capacity  of  about  1,200.  M.  Switow  Is  head  of  the 
company  which  only  recently   was  incorporated 

Despite  the  fact  that  the  Gaiety  Theater,  a  bur- 
lesque   house   of   Louisville,    Is    to   lose   Its   present 
service   by  a   re-arrangement  of  interests,    the   pro- 
posed   Jefferson    Theater    will    go    up    according    to 
original    plans.    The    Gayety    Is    to    lose   out    after 
this    season,    and    the    disposition    of    the    Jefferson 
street  bouse  is  uncertain.     It  is  announced  that  co 
change    will    be   made    in   plans    for    the   JefTe    on 
which  will   present  vaudeville  and   moving  pi,      r 
Irvln   C.    Simon,    president  of  the   Princess   Am 
ment  Company,  is  manager  of  the  Jefferson  The;.,  { 
Company. 

Attendance  at  the  Orpheum  Theater,  Louisville, 
is  likely  to  be  hurt  somewhat  by  the  building  ope- 
rations taking  place  on  adjoining  property.  This 
was  recently  pot  out  of  commission  by  a  fire  The 
place  Is  owned  by  the  Whallen  Brothers,  proprietors 
of  the  Buckingham  Theater,  the  home  of  burlesque 
and  moving  pictures,  and  for  a  time  it  was  thought 
that  a  new  theater  would  go  up  on  the  ruins  How- 
ever, the  Whallen  Brothers  recently  decided  to  erect 
a  business  house  there,  and  work  has  begun.  The 
entrance  to  the  Orpheum  is  cut  off  to  some  extent 
by  the  razing  of  the  ruins. 

Miss  Vera  Black  was  a  recent  visitor  at  the 
Majestic  Theater,  of  Louisville,  lecturing  on  the 
making  of  motion  pictures.  Miss  Black  Is  very 
popular  in  Louisville  through  her  connection  with 
the  Biograph  Company,  and  exceptionally  large 
crowds  heard  her  descriptions  of  the  inside  of  the 
film-making  industry. 

Despite  unfavorable  weather,  Louisville  exhibitors 
have  had  splendid  business  recently.  Many  high- 
class  films  found  their  way  Into  the  Kentucky  me- 
tropolis, and  have  proved  attractions  of  note,  with- 
out exception.  With  good  prospects  for  better 
weather,  the  situation  is  in  splendid  shape.  Films 
are  being  changed  dally  in  most  of  the  houses,  as 
In  the  past,  express  companies  now  being  able  to 
accept  shipments  for  immediate  delivery,  and  the 
famine  of  a  couple  of  weeks  ago  being  a  thing 
of  the  past. 

David  Levlnson,  manager  of  the  Noveltv  Theater, 
has  enlarged  his  orchestra  and  added  two  popular 
Louisville  singers  to  his  program.  A  three-piece 
aggregation  is  now  providing  music  for  films  shown 
at  the  Novelty.  Fred  Wells  and  William  Green, 
both  well  known  In  moving  picture  circles,  are  the 
vocalists  at  the  Novelty.  This  Is  a  good  deal  of 
an  Innovation,  as  Mr.  Levinson  has  not  favored 
singers  greatly  In  the  past.  An  added  attraction 
la  J.  Howard  Albert,  who  carries  his  own  slides 
with  him  and  lectures  on  celebrated  cathedrals, 
great  thoroughfares  and  the  tombs  of  noted  men. 

While  the  moving  picture  theaters  as  a  whole  are 
in  good  shape  In  every  respect,  a  rumor  which  la 
now  going  the  rounds  In  the  Kentucky  metropolis, 
Indicates  that  this  is  not  altogether  true  of  the 
theaters  which  stage  legitimate  shows,  with  the 
regular  season  approaching  an  end,  stories  of  all 
kinds  are  getting  Into  circulation,  and  while  per- 
haps not  absolutely  trustworthy,  are  at  least  Inter- 
esting. It,  Is  said  that  but  one  or  two  of  the  legiti- 
mate theaters  has  made  money'  during  the  season 
which  Is  ending.  This  being  the  case,  theatrical 
men  are  looking  askance  at  the  nevf  National  The- 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 

ater,  on  which  work  is  progressing  slowly.  The 
Gayety,  the  home  of  burlesque,  is  scheduled  to  be 
closed  next  fall,  and  may  be  converted  into  a  mov- 
Ing  Picture  house.  The  old  Avenue,  formerlv  noted 
for  the  class  of  melodrama  presented,  but  more 
recently  a  motion  picture  house,  also  Is  to  pass 
away.  It  is  aaid  that  work  on  the  Jefferson  The- 
ater a  vaudeville  house,  will  begin  shortly.  Both 
the  Shubert,  Masonic  and  Macauleys  theaters,  which 
have  presented  bigh-class  attractions,  are  said  to 
have  done  no  better  than  break  even  this  season, 
and  it  Is  asserted  that  one  will  be  closed  during 
the  coming  season,  in  the  meanwhile,  animated 
pictures  are  drawing  big  crowds  daily,  and  ex- 
hibitors are  free  from  worry. 

Thpugh  pedestrians  were  alarmed  bv  the  ex- 
plosion of  a  barrel  of  denatured  alcohol  at  Taylor's 
drug  store,  at  Fourth  and  Chestnut  streets,  patrons 
of  the  Masonic  Theater  and  Keith's  Theater  a  few 
feet  away,  were  not  frightened,  and  few  knew 
there  was  a  fire  near  by  until  they  arrived  on  the 
street.  Both  playhouses  are  near  the  drug  store. 
Patrons  of  the  Masonic  left  the  house  when  the  odor 
of  smoke  reached  them.  At  Keith's  it  was  an- 
nounced that  the  moving  pictures,  which  usuallv 
conclude  the  performance,  would  not  be  shown  and 
the  audience  was  in  ignorance  of  the  cause  until  the 
street  was  reached.  The  blaze  was  kept  from 
spreading,    the  loss  being  only  $500. 

W.  O.  Legg,  of  the  New  Albany,  Ind.,  Amusement 
Company,  has  returned  from  Indianapolis,  Ind 
where  he  secured  a  permit  for  the  erection  of  a 
vaudeville  and  moving  picture  theater  in  New 
A'bany.-  . A,  four-storr  brick  building  on  the  south 
side,  of  Main  street,  between  Pearl  and  State  has 
been  purchased  by  the  new  company.  The  upper 
floors  are  to  be  removed  and  extensive  alterations 
made.  The  house  will  be  60  by  120  feet,  and  will 
have  a  seating  capacity  of  1,000.  Work  will  begin 
May  1. 

Moving  picture  theaters  of  Maysvllle,  Ky.,  have 
reopened  after  a  shut-down  of  a  week  because  of 
the  flood.  Both  the  Pastime  and  the  G'em  have  re- 
opened, while  the  Washington  will  follow  shortly 
Cornelius  Owen,  manager  of  the  Rex  Theater,  of 
Fulton,  Ky.,  sustained  slight  injuries  recentlv  on 
his  flrst  trup  with  a  new  Ford  automobile,  which  he 
purchased.  Mr.  Owen  lost  control  of  the  machine 
and  drove  It  into  a  grocery  store.  Neither  exhibitor 
nor  car  was  injured,  the  chief  loss  being  to  the 
grocer's  eggs. 

The  new  Princess  Theater  has  opened  at  Earling- 
ton,  Ky.,  Forrester  &  Fawsett  being  the  owners 
Four  reels  of  picture  are  to  be  supplied  daily  by  the 
St.  Louis  License  Film  Exchange.  Handsome  souve- 
nirs were  given  away  to  patrons  at  the  opening 
performances. 

The  opening  of  the  new  Princess  Theater  of 
Russellville,  Ky.,  has  been  delayed  by  reason  of 
the  flood,  which  held  back  furnishings  for  the 
house.  The  motion  picture  theater  will  be  put  into 
commission  late  In  April,  however. 

The  American  Amusement  Company  has  been 
formed  at  Central  City,  Ky.,  and  will  operate  a 
chain  of  theaters,  according  to  present  plans.  The 
American  has  taken  over  the  Empress,  formerly 
owned  by  the  Consolidated  -Theaters  Company  of 
Louisville.  Alterations  are  planned  In  the  theater 
which  is  a  modern  one.  The  roof  is  to  be  elevated 
to  make  room  for  the  installation  of  a  balconv 
which  will  provide  seats  for  colored  people.  John 
T.  May  has  been  elected  president  of  the  American 
Amusement  Company,  which  will  erect  other 
houses  shortly.  T.  W.  Murphy  retains  the  manage- 
ment of  the  Empress. 

A  Power's  projection  machine  has  been  purchased 
by  the  management  of  ihe  Auditorium,  of  Danville. 
Ky.  The  machine  supplements  other  new  equip- 
ment recently  purchased. 

The  City  Council  of  Henderson,  Ky.,  has  rejected 
a  proposal  to  close  a  moving  picture  theater  of  that 
city.  A  petition  from  the  Audubon  Baptist  Church 
and  the  Clay  Street  Methodist  Church  was  presented 
to  the  Council  recently,  asking  that  the  theater  in 
question  be  forced  to  close  from  Saturday  night 
to  Monday  morning.  The  Council  held  that  the 
matter  was  out  of  their  Jurisdiction,  and  that  they 
had  no  voice  in  the  matter. 

The  management  of  the  Tabb  Opera  House,  of  Mt. 
Sterling,  Ky.,  came  to  the  rescue  of  Ohio  flood 
sufferers  recently,  giving  a  benefit  performance. 
The  admission  price  was  raised  to  15  cents,  am] 
more  than  SGO  was  netted  for  victims  of  the  high 
J.  F.  Hawn  is  president  of  a  company  formed  at 
Barbonrville,  Ky.,  for  the  purpose  of  erecting  a 
new  theater.  A  site  has  been  purchased  and  work 
will  begin  immediately.  Motion  pictures  are  to  form 
a  part  of  the  program  to  be  presented  in  the  new- 
theater,    according  to  plans  of  the   promoters. 

Dr.  Edward  Behymer,  of  Cincinnati,  will  erect  a 
motion  picture  theater  at  3737  and  3739  Eastern 
avenue,  in  the  near  future.  It  will  be  32  by  125 
feet  and  contain  400  seats. 

The  owners  of  Norwood  Theater,  Cincinnati,  have 
postponed  improvements  in  the  theater  temporarily. 
Owing  to  upset  conditions,  contractors  have  been 
unable  to  bid  on  the  work,  and  the  alterations  will 
be  held  in  abeyance  for  a   few  weeks. 

The  Imperial  Theater,  280  West  McMicken  ave- 
nue, Cincinnati,  Is  to  be  improved  by  the  addition 
of  a  balcony,  which  will  increase  the  seating  ca- 
pacity by  about  250.  G.   D.    GRAIN,   Jit 


ing  picture  men  in  New  York  In  July  were  dis- 
cussed     Exhibitors   from   other  parts  of   toe  State 

IVd  „r  ,ai"rdanCe-  11>e  ldea  ot  nM»g  tbe  ataud 
ard    of   pictures    was   advocated    at    the    meeting. 

A  strike  of  Buffalo  street  railway  employees 
seriously  hurt  business  at  the  moving  picture  the 
aters  here  last  week.  The  streets  were  patrolled 
«  .»."-.,  'bo^and  members  of  the  New  York 
State  Militia.  On  account  of  serious  rioting  by 
the  strikers  the  regular  patrons  of  moving  picture 
houses  preferred  to  witness  the  exciting  scenea  on 
the  streets  than  to  go  to  shows.  The  strike  ended 
Irlday  night  with  a  victory  for  the  men  and  at- 
tendance at  the  theaters  soon  resumed  regular 
proportions.  >=*"■« 

Manager  Marcus  is  taking  care  of  large  crowds 
at  the  Academy  Theater  this  week,  where  pictures 
of   the   Dayton   floods   are   being   shown. 

An  attractive  electric  sign  was  erected  In  front 
or  the  Strand  Theater  last  week.     Manager  Eidel 

"'..I!18,*  h?use'  is  using  the  nlS"  class  Picture! 
entitled  Satan,"  as  a  feature.  "The  Prisoner 
of  Zenda  was  the  attraction  at  this  house  the 
week  of  April  21.  There  was  a  special  musical 
program. 

On  account  of  traflic  being  tied  up  bv  the  afreet 
car  strike  Manager  Laughlln  of  the  Majestic  The- 
ater advertised  the  middle  of  last  week  that  there 
would  be  no  moving  picture  show  at  that  house 
Sunday    night. 

Mitchell  II.  Mark,  head  of  the  Mark-Brock  The- 
atrical Enterprises,  owners  of  several  moving  pic- 
ture theaters  and  others,  have  sold  the  Lewis 
block,   Swan   and   Washington  Streets,   in  this  city 

The  Edison  talking  pictures  still  occupy  a  head- 
line position  on  the  bill  at  Shea's  vaudeville  the- 
ater here.  Al  Becker  and  John  Carr  are  In  charge 
of  this  part  of  the  program.  Mr.  Becker  has  op- 
erated moving  pictures  at  Shea's  for  several  years 
His  assistant  is  a  brother-in-law  of  Michael  Shea 
owner  of   the    theater.  ' 

The  New  Lyric  Theater,  on  Washington  Street 
near  Lafayette  Square,  will  open  May  22,  and  will 
feature  vaudeville  and  KInemacolor  pictures.  The 
owner  Is  Mitchell  H.  Mark,  who  is  proprietor  of 
the  Family  Theater,  Buffalo,  and  several  other 
moving  picture  houses  here  and  in  other  cities 
The  Family,  which  has  played  vaudeville  and  pic- 
tures, will  feature  pictures  exclusively  after  May 
22.  A.  R.  Sherry,  manager  of  the  Family,  will 
also  manage,  the  New  Lyric,  which  is  only  a  few 
feet  from  the  former  house.  Isidore  Moses  Is  his 
assistant.  The  Lyric,  which,  by  complete  re- 
modeling, has  been  converted  into  the  New  Lyric 
played  the  Stair  &  Haviland  attractions  for  sev- 
eral years.  The  house  was  flrst  called  The  Corinne 
and  later  the  Lyceum.  Work  on  Mr.  Mark's  mag- 
nificent theater,  The  Strand,  at  47th  Street  and 
Broadway.    New    York,    Is    progressing    rapidly. 

An  effort  Is  being  made  to  prevent  the  opening 
of  moving  picture  theaters  In  Hornell.  N  Y'  on 
Sundays.  ' 

The  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  Buf- 
falo has  adopted  a  resolution  that  its  members 
will  refrain  from  exhibiting  any  film  showing  ad- 
vertising in  any  form. 

A  representative  of  a  Chicago  moving  picture 
theater,  whose  name  has  not  been  announced  is 
considering  a  plan  to  build  a  similar  house  on 
Central    Avenue,    Dunkirk,    N.    Y. 

The  new  Globe  Theater.  Main  and  Ferrr  Streets 
Buffalo,  will  open  May  5  under  the  management 
of  the  Sherman  Amusement  Companv.  The  house 
will  feature  moving  pictures  and  will  be  fireproof. 
Charles  Bowe,  manager  of  Keith's  moving  pic- 
ture theater,  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Academy,    when  It  played   melodrama. 

H.  E.  Hughes,  formerly  president  of  the  Slide 
Advertising  Company,  of  this  citv,  has  been  ap- 
pointed salesman  in  charge  of  the  Buffalo  and 
Rochester  territory  of  the  Lee  Lash  Company  of 
New  York.  This  concern  deals  in  slide  advertis- 
ing   for    moving   picture    theaters,    scenic    painting. 

The  Bijou  Dream,  Main  and  North  Division 
Streets,  managed  by  J.  H.  Beaver,  will  be  remod- 
eled at  a  considerable  expense.  This  moving  pic- 
ture house  was  one  of  the  first  of  its  kind  lo 
Buffalo  and  occupies  a  valuable  site  In  the  heart 
of  the  business   section. 

BILLY     BISON. 


BUFFALO. 

IV/tOTION  PICTURE  EXHIBITORS'  LEAGUE  Lo- 
J-'-1  cal  No.  6,  of  Buffalo,  recently  held  a  luncheon 
at  which  plans  for  the  national  convention  of  mov- 


INDIANA. 

A  TANAGER  JOHNSON,  of  the  Lvric  Theater  at 
'  ,  Champaign,  111.,  has  closed  a  deal  with  Dr. 
P.  Mackay,  of  LaFayette,  wherebr  that  citv  will 
have  a  modern  picture  house.  A  site  has  been  se- 
cured on  Main  Street  and  work  begun  on  a  fire- 
proof structure  37  ft.  6  ins.  x  120  ft.,  which  will 
represent  an  investment  of  $35,000.  The  Cham- 
paign house  will  be  managed  bv  C.  L  Hunter 
who  has  been  assistant  manager  for  the  last  six 
months. 

The  Palmer  Amusement  Companv,  of  Washing- 
I-S'™s  been  in™Torated  with  a  capital  stock  of 
J50.000  to  operate  theaters.  The  Incorporators  are 
Lyman  H.  O'Ponnell,  Ernest  E.  Forsythe,  Samuel 
I .  Oskndge,  John  Bourgboltzer,  Harry  M  Palmer 
and  Ray  Palmer. 

The  Ticket  Premium  Company,  of  Fort  Wavne 
has  been  Incorporated  with  a  capital  stock'  of 
flO.OOO  to  conduct  picture  shows.  The  incor- 
porators are  E.  T.  Keech,  J,  Kamlnski,  Edward 
Krause  and    F.    L.    King. 

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KALEM. 

THE  ABVENTTTRE  OF  AN  HEIRESS  (May  12).— 
Florence,  the  daughter  of  H.  Benjamin  Baker,  a 
millionaire,  chafes  at  the  restrictions  which  her 
parents  exercise  over  her.  Some  girl  friends  call, 
explaining  that  it  is  "Tag  Day."  and  ask  Florence 
to  join  them  in  selling  tags  to  raise  funds  for  a 
benevolent  organization.  The  parents  of  the  heiress 
are  horrified  and  will  not  listen  to  the  proposition. 
Baker  is  not  inclined  to  favor  his  secretary,  Dick, 
as  a  son-in-law,  and  when  the  young  man  attempts 
to  intercede  for  Florence,  he  is  dismissed  from  the 
millionaire's   service. 

Later,  Florence's  father  relents  somewhat,  and 
brings  the  girl  a  handsome  necklace  as  a  peace 
offering.  She  places  the  pearls  in  her  jewel  box, 
and,  putting  the  key  in  her  purse,  she  quietly 
\eaves  the  bouse  to  join  the  girls. 

An  enterprising  reporter  learns  of  the  gift  and 
writes  an  article  for  his  paper,  stating  that  the 
young  heiress  will  no  doubt  wear  tbe  necklace  at 
her  forthcoming  debut.  The  item  comes  to  the 
notice  of  Prentiss,  a  society  crook,  who  manages  to 
steal  Florence's  purse  while  purchasing  a  tag  from 
ber.  Having  secured  tbe  key  to  ibe  jewel  case, 
Prentiss  enters  the  residence  in  the  guise  of  an 
employe  of  a  vacuum   cleaning  corn-era. 

While  in  search  of  another  position,  Dick,  the 
former  secretary,  becomes  suspicious  of  Prentiss' 
actions  and  is  tbe  means  of  securing  the  necklace 
and  bringing  the  crook  to  justice. 

HAN'S  GREED  FOR  GOLD  (May  14).— The  old 
miser,  living  in  a  tenement,  keeps  his  savings  in 
an  earthen  idol.  The  janitor  of  the  building  sus- 
pects that  the  old  man  has  concealed  wealth,  but  is 
unable  to  locate  it.  Finally  the  miser  dies  and  the 
janitor  disposes  of  the  idol  to  a  dealer  in  antiques. 
Carter,  a  bank  clerk,  is  given  to  speculation,  and 
in  response  to  his  wife's  earnest  appeal,  he  promises 
to  give  up  the  precarious  practices,  which  are 
jeopardizing  his  position  and  happiness.  However, 
the  young  man  is  weak  and  breaks  his  promise. 

While  shopping  the  wife  buys  the  Idol  and  brings 
it  home.  Carter  is  called  upon  for  margins  and 
takes  his  wife's  jewels  to  meet  the  demand.  Later 
in  the  day  he  receives  a  second  telegram  in  the 
wife's  presence,  and  the  sacrificing  woman  brings 
out  tbe  jewel  box,  only  to  discover  that  she  has 
been  robbed  by  her  husband. 

Fearing  that  Carter  will  become  desperate,  his 
wife  removes  tbe  cartridges  from  the  revolver 
which  he  keeps  In  a  drawer. 

That  night  a  burglar  visits  the  house.  Carter 
goes  after  the  Intruder  with  the  revolver,  but  the 
crook  discovers  that  the  weapon  is  unloaded  and 
attacks  the  bank  clerk.  Mrs.  Carter  rushes  to  the 
scene  and  fells  tbe  burglar  with  the  idol  which 
she  grasps  from  the  mantel.  The  earthen  image  is 
shattered  and  a  fortune  lies  at  the  feet  of  the 
young  couple.  As  the  bnrgler  is  led  to  prison,  tbe 
clerk  assures  his  wife  that  he  will  profit  by  his 
experience  and  they  happily  make  their  plans  for 
the  futnre. 

PAT,  THE  COWBOY  (May  16).— Pat  bids  fare- 
well to  the  ould  sod  and  sets  sail  for  America, 
where  he  secures  work  on  a  ranch.  His  eccen- 
tricities furnish  a  great  deal  of  amusement  for  the 
cowboys,  and  Betty,  the'  ranchman's  daughter, 
misses  no  opportunity  to  ridicule  the  stranger. 
When  the  men  leave  for  tbe  round-up,  Pat.  de- 
termined to  demonstrate  his  efficiency,  mounts  his 
pet  male  and  proceeds  to  corrall  all  the  pigs.  This 
is  the  last  straw  and  he  is  banished  from  the  ranch. 
Betty  has  given  her  promise  to  tbe  foreman,  and 
goes  to  the  church  to  await  the  ceremony.  But  the 
bride-groom  has  a  thrilling  experience  with  some 
desperate  bandits  and  falls  to  keep  the  appoint- 
ment. Betty  becomes  tired  of  waiting  and  when 
Pat  appears  on  tbe  scene  with  the  captured  out- 
laws, the  girl  decides  that  her  first  choice  was  a 
mistake. 

FOOD  INSPECTION  (May  16).— From  cold  statis- 
tics the  average  person  is  unable  to  comprehend 
the  immense  amount  of  work  accomplished  by  the 
Health  Department  of  America's  metropolis. 
Through  this  interesting  topical  production  we 
learn  that  four  and  one-half  billion  pounds  of  food 


are  received  in  New  York  annually.  In  1912, 
26,000,000  pounds  of  impure  food  were  destroyed 
by  the  inspectors.  A  cargo  of  34,000  boxes  of 
lemons  from  Italy  is  examined,  together  with  other 
commodities.  Tbe  five  million  quarts  of  milk  re- 
reived  each  day  in  New  York;  the  bacteriological 
tests  and  the  examination  of  eggs,  present  an 
interesting  sight. 

THE  POET  AND  THE  SOLDIER  (May  17).— 
Adapted  from  Trench's  "Apollo  and  the  Seaman," 
by  permission  of  Henry  Holt  &  Company,  Pub- 
lishers,  New  York. 

"I  heard  a  soldier  sing  some  trifle 

Out  in  the  sun-dried  veldt,   alone; 

He  lay  and  cleaned  his  grimy  rifle 

Idly  behind  a  stone. 
What  grief  of  love  had  he  to  stifle 

Basking  so   Idly   by   his   stone. 
That  grimy  soldier  with  his  rifle, 
Out  in  the  veldt  alone?" 
The   poet   finds   an   answer   to   his   question   when, 
later,    he    meets    the    soldier,    mortally    hurt    in    the 
army   hospital,    and   hears  his   story.     He    learns   of 
the   soldier's    courtship   and    happy    married    life    in 
an   English   village:    his   transfer   to   a   hill   garrison 
in  India,  where  tribesmen  have  been  making  trouble; 
the  attempt  made  by  a  native  rebel   to  assassinate 
him   as  he  and  his  wife   sit   together  in   the   moon- 
light;   the  sacrifice  of  her  own  life  to  save  his. 

Happy  in  knowing  that  the  period  of  waiting 
for  his  loved  one  is  almost  over,  tbe  soldier  takes 
the  hand  of  the  poet. 

"If  after  death,  love,  comes  a  waking, 

And  in  their  camp  so  dark  and  still, 

The  men  of  dust  hear  bugles  breaking 

Their  halt  upon  the  hill, 
To  me  the  slow  and  silver  pealing 

That  then  the  last  high  trumphet  pours 
Shall  softer  than  the  dawn  come  stealing 
For,  with  its  call,  comes  yours!" 
THE  BATTLE  FOR  FREEDOM  (2  parts— May 
17). — An  illustration  of  the  perils  of  crossing  the 
South  African  veldt.  The  Willis  family  at  Cape 
Town  suffers  reverses  and  starts  with  a  party 
across  tbe  arid  plain  for  Kimberly  to  recoup  their 
fortunes,  leaving  behind  the  son  Charles,  aged  20. 
and  the  old  grandfather.  The  entire  party  perishes 
on  the  wav  for  lack  of  water,  except  the  little 
Willis  girl,  Ellen,  whose  father  steals  enough 
water  from  the  general  supply  to  keep  her  alive. 
She  Is  found  by  a  party  of  Boers,  and  Is  adopted 
by  a  Boer  family  named  Joubert.  Charles  and  his 
grandfather  at  Cape  Town  bear  of  the  calamity 
and  never  expect  to  see  any  of  their  family  again. 
Twenty  years  later  Ellen  is  the  belle  of  Jacobs- 
dal.  Charles,  her  brother,  is  a  captain  in  the 
British  army.  The  Boer  war  is  on  and  the  Joubert 
farm  becomes  a  battlefield.  A  great  battle  takes 
place  and  the  Boers  are  defeated.  Charles  takes 
charge  of  the  prisoners.  A  locket  Ellen  wears 
discloses    to    him    her    identity. 

LUBIN. 

THE  PAYMASTER  (May  10) , — Shorty  Kennedy 
and  Bill  Watson,  two  notorious  ex-convicts,  ap- 
plied for  work  at  the  Great  Western  Mining  Com- 
pany. The  superintendent,  not  knowing  of  their 
record,  gave  them  employment.  In  less  than  a 
week  the  two  men  were  discharged  for  drinking, 
and  when  they  saw  Carson  go  to  town  for  money, 
they  decided  to  hold  him  up.  Carson  was  delayed 
at  the  bank  until  too  late  to  pay  the  men  that 
day,  and  there  being  no  safe  at,  the  superintend- 
ent's office,  he  took  the  money  home  and  secreted 
it  In  his  bedroom.  The  ex-convicts  concocted  a 
plan  to  get  Carson  away  from  the  house,  and,  by 
securing  one  of  the  Mining  Company's  letter  heads, 
sent  Carson  a  note  purporting  to  be  from  the  super- 
intendent's wife,  stating  that  her  husband  was 
taken  suddenly  111  and  asking  his  assistance. 
His  suspicions  were  not  aroused  until  on 
his     arrival     at     tbe     superintendent's     house,     he 


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found  him  in  perfect  health  and  his  wife  declared 
the  note  a  forgery.  During  Carson's  absence,  the 
ex-convicts  entered  his  home,  bound  his  wife  and 
endeavored,  through  intimidation,  to  make  her  dis- 
close where  the  money  was  hidden.  When  she  re- 
fused, they  made  a  careful  searcb,  during  which 
Kennedy  found  a  box  of  "Rough  on  Rats,"  and 
with  fiendish  Ingenuity,  the  two  desperadoes  de- 
cided on  a  plan  to  force  Carson's  wife  to  tell  where 
the  money  was  bidden.  Taking  a  piece  of  bread, 
they  mixed  the  rat  poison  with  butter  and  sugar, 
and  before  the  helpless  mother,  they  offered  it  to 
her  child.  As  the  baby  reached  out  its  hand  for 
the  poisoned  bread,  the  mother  could  stand  the 
strain  no  longer,  and  told  the  men  where  the  money 
was  hidden.  In  the  meantime,  Carson  tried  to 
reach  his  borne  by  telephone,  but  tbe  crooks  had 
broken  the  receiving  cord,  leaving  the  wire  open. 
Carson  beard  the  struggle  his  wife  was  having 
with  tbe  robbers,  and  calling  on  the  miners  for 
assistance,  arrived  at  bis  home  in  time  to  save 
the  money. 

LUCKY  COHEN  (May  12) Sol  Cohen,  a  Jew- 
peddler,  has  tbe  whole  village  of  Pikeville  buying 
the  cheap  jewelry  that  he  has  for  sale.  He  tells 
them  that  it  is  solid  gold,  and  they  fall  for  the 
"stall"  and  many  of  the  men  and  women  make 
purchases.  Sol  leaves  them  well  satisfied,  and  he 
is  also  satisfied,  for  he  has  made  a  fine  profit.  Not 
long  after  one  of  the  jays,  while  washing  his 
bands,  makes  the  discovery  that  the  ring  that  he  has 
bought  is  nothing  more  than  brass,  and  wild  with 
excitement,  he  informs  the  constable  and  towns- 
people, who  have  also  been  stung.  They  immedi- 
ately get  clubs  and  other  weapons  and  start  In 
pursuit  of  the  Jew.  In  the  meantime,  he  has 
wandered  along  and  a  tramp,  who  is  hiding  behind 
a  tree,  holds  him  up  with  his  empty  hand  covered 
with  a  handkerchief,  takes  his  pack  and  clothes 
away  from  him  and  leaves  him  bewailing  his  fate. 
The  crowd  catch  sight  of  tbe  tramp,  now  dressed 
up  in  the  Jew's  clothes,  and  give  chase.  They 
catch  him  after  he  has  dropped  the  pack  and  tray, 
right  at  the  foot  of  the  tree  behind  which  tbe  Jew- 
Is  hiding.  They  beat  the  tramp  up  thinking  that 
he  is  the  Jew.  while  lucky  Sol  recovers  his  goods 
and  goes  on   his   way   rejoicing. 

A  TEN-ACRE  GOLD  BRICK  (May  12).^Jed 
Bascom  and  his  wife,  who  live  in  the  Middle  At- 
lantic States,  where  the  winters  are  noted  for 
their  severity,  are  about  tired  of  the  cold  and 
snow.  One  evening,  after  Jed  has  put  In  a  hard 
day's  work  on  the  farm,  and  has  arrived  home  with 
an  armful  of  wood,  he  receives  a  prospectus  and 
reading  matter  concerning  Tropical  Farms.  He 
answers  the  letter  and  tells  the  real  estate  men 
that  he  will  come  on  as  a  prospective  purchaser. 
Skin  &  Dolle,  tbe  real  estate  men.  who  are  land 
sharks,  upon  receiving  Jed's  reply  decide  to  fix  up 
a  fake  fruit  farm  on  one  of  the  worthless  pieces 
of  land  that  they  have.  Accordingly  they  buy  a 
quantity  of  grape  fruit,  oranges,  bananas  and 
pine  apples.  These  they  give  their  men  instructions 
to  tie  upon  the  trees  with  twine,  so  that  when  the 
unsuspecting  buyer  arrives  they  can  show  him  the 
wonderful  bargain  they  are  going  to  sell  him. 
Jed  arrives  and  falls  into  tbe  trap.  He  buys  the 
farm,  but  he  pays  the  bill  with  a  check.  The 
next  day  he  takes  a  survey  of  his  purchase,  and 
finds  out  the  deception.  Instead  of  raising  a  row, 
he  and  his  wife  borrow  a  hundred  dollars  from  the 
land  sharks.  Then  he  wires  the  bank  to  stop 
payment  on  the  check.  He  then  sends  Skin  &  Dolle 
a  letter,  telling  them  what  he  has  found  out.  When 
they  receive  the  letter  they  faint. 

THE  PADRE'S  STRATEGY  (May  13).— Ramona 
Martinez,  a  beautiful  Mexican  flower  girl,  is  the 
support  of  her  widowed  mother.  One  day.  "while 
out  gathering  flowers  for  her  basket,  she  meets  a 
young  Mexican  youth  and  they  are  mutually  at- 
tracted with  each  other.  In  time  the  acquaintance 
ripens  into  love.  Manuel  Vasquez,  the  leader  of  a 
band  of  Mexican  guerillas,  comes  to  the  city  one 
night  and  enters  a  cafe  where  many  of  the  army 
officers  and  better  class  of  Mexicans  are  enjoying 
themselves.  Daring  the  evening.  Ramona  enters  the 
cafe  to  sell  her  flowers.  She  passes  from  table  to 
table  and  finally  comes  to  where  Vasquez  is  seated. 
He  speaks  to  her  but  she  repulses  him.  He  leaves 
the  cafe  and  calls  his  lieutenant  and  one  of  his 
band,  and  tells  them  that  tbey  shall  get  the  girl 
and  bring  her  to  him.  They  go  to  the  cafe,  and 
as  the  girl  leaves  she  is  overpowered  and  carried 
away  by  the  bandits.  Jose,  who  is  coming  to  meet 
her  and  take  her  home,  sees  tbe  abduction,  but  is 
too  late  to  be  of  any  service.  He  enters  the  cafe 
and  tells  of  Ramon's  trouble.  The  habitues  of  the 
place  are  not  interested  in  the  flower  girl  and  his 
appeal  for  aid  is  unheeded.  He  then  decides  to 
go  to  the  priest  and  ask  for  aid.  He  does  so,  and 
while  there  a  messenger  comes  from  the  bandit, 
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into  the  mountains  to  perform  a  marriage  cere- 
mony. Tlie  Padre  hits  upon  a  plan  whereby  they 
can  rescue  Ramona,  and  he  gives  Jose  a  priest's 
robe,  and  they  arm  themselves.  They  then  ac- 
company the  messenger  to  the  stronghold  of  the 
bandits.  As  the  ceremony  is  about  to  be  per- 
formed the  Padre  and  Jose  suddenly  draw  the 
guns  and  overpower  the  two  bandits  and  bind  them. 
The  Padre  and  Ramona  then  leave  the  camp,  she. 
dressed  as  a  priest,  goes  for  aid,  for  Jose  has  been 
captured.  They  take  two  of  the  bandit's  horses 
and  start  for  the  city.  Arriving  there,  they  go 
for  the  cavalry,  who  immediatelv  set  out  for  the 
rendezvous.  They  surprise  the  bandits  and  capture 
the  entire  band.  As  they  are  led  away.  Jose  and 
Ramona  kneel  and  receive  the  blessings  of  the 
Padre. 

LONGJJfG  FOR  A  MOTHER  (May  15).— This 
story  deals  wilh  the  longing  of  a  child  for  his 
mother,  whom  he  has  never  seen.  The  father,  Lord 
Harcourt,  avoids  the  little  fellow,  who  is  a  con- 
stant reminder  of  the  woman  whose  life  went  out 
when  the  long  hoped  for  son  came.  The  art  gallery 
where  a  full  length  oil  painting  of  the  sweet  faced 
woman  hangs,  is  the  little  boy's  favorite  resting 
place.  Raymond  gazes  on  the  face,  and  he  fancies 
that  his  mother  smiles  at  him.  Then  in  a  phantasy 
he  sees  his  mother  step  out  of  the  frame.  They 
hold  sweet  communion,  and  the  boy  feels  that  he 
Is  no  longer  alone.  They  play  and  romp  over  the 
lawn.  The  phantasy  continues:  his  mother  hears 
his  evening  prayer,  he  kneels  by  her  side  and  re- 
peats  the  words  she  has  taught  him.  She  lays 
him  In  his  little  bed  and  tells  him  stories  till  the 
"sand  man"  comes  to  claim  him.  Then  he  awakens 
from  his  day-dream,  and  only  the  sweet  figure  on 
the  canvas  remains.  He  is  sobbing  out  his  dis- 
appointment against  the  unresponsive  painting 
when  a  sweet  young  woman  that  Lord  Harcourt 
has  asked  to  be  his  wife,  comes  upon  the  mother- 
less boy,  and  hears  his  Impassioned  appeal  to  bis 
mother  to  return  to  him.  Her  whole  heart  re- 
sponds to  the  child  and  she  takes  him  In  her  arms. 
Lord  Harcourt,  missing  bis  fiancee,  hurries  to  the 
picture  gallery  in  search  of  her  and  sees  the  tender 
scene.  The  man  has  never  before  realized  the 
heart  hunger  of  the  motherless  boy,  and  the  woman, 
soon  to  be  his  wife,  shows  him  how  the  child  has 
suffered  for  a  parent's  love.  Harcourt's  conscience 
reproves  him,  he  tries  to  atone  to  the  boy  who 
responds  eagerly,  and  finds  happiness  at  last,  in 
the  tender  arms  of  his  new  mother,  and  in  the  long 
denied   companionship  of  his  father. 

BREED  OF  THE  WEST  (May  16).— Tom  Morris 
a  young  cowboy,  is  in  love  with  Helen  Walters 
the  daughter  of  an  old  miner.  Jim  Watson  the 
foreman  of  a  ranch,  is  also  in  love  with  Helen  bnt 
she  prefers  Tom,  and  Jim  resolves  to  get  rid  of  his 
rival  In  some  way,  thereby  leaving  the  coast  clear 
for  his  own  wooing.  A  band  of  Indians  have  been 
committing  depredations  in  the  neighborhood  and 
Jim  devises  a  plan  of  forming  an  expedition  to 
exterminate  them.  He  also  plans  to  have  Tom 
accompany  them,  resolving  that  be  will  not  return 
alive.  Helen,  hearing  of  the  plan  to  exterminate 
the  Indians,  makes  Tom  promise  that  he  will  not 
accompany  the  party.  When  the  posse  is  being 
formed,  Tom  is  asked  to  join,  but  refuses.  The 
men  tannt  him  and  accuse  him  of  cowardice.  He 
finally  gains  Helen's  consent  to  go,  and  receives 
Jim's  sacred  promise  that  he  will  bring  Tom  back 
unharmed.  The  expedition  departs.  In  a  battle 
with  the  Indians  the  little  party  is  nearly  ex- 
terminated and  Tom  and  Jim  are  both  badly 
wounded.  Jim  discovers  Tom  lying  unconscious  and 
determines  to  kill  him.  As  he  is  about  to  raise  his 
gun  to  commit  the  deed,  a  vision  comes  to  him 
of  his  promise  to  Helen,  and  he  decides  to  prove 
himself  a  man.  Placing  the  form  of  the  uncon- 
scious Tom  on  his  shoulders,  he  starts  across  the 
desert  for  home.  During  a  little  party,  at  which 
Helen  is  present,  she  sits  thinking  of  her  lover, 
when  suddenly  a  premonition  comes  to  her  that 
Tom  is  in  great  danger.  So  strongly  is  it  sug- 
gested to  her  that  she  induces  her  father  and 
several  other  friends  to  accompany  her  in  a  search 
for  Tom.  They  start  out  on  the  trail  taken  by  the 
expedition.  In  the  meantime,  Jim  has  been  tramp- 
ing across  the  desert  with  his  burden  and  finally 
the  strain  proves  too  much  and  he  falls  exhausted. 
There  is  only  a  little  water  left  and  as  be  is  about 
to  drink  some  of  it,  the  unconscious  Tom  revives 
and  asks  for  a  drink.  Jim  hands  him  the  canteen 
and  Tom,  in  his  delirium,  drains  it.  Realizing  that 
they  must  have  water  to  remain  alive,  Jim  again 
picks  Tom  up  and  starts  on  his  weary  tramp. 
After  a  short  time,  he  is  unable  to  go  further  and 
sinks  to  the  ground.  Here  Helen  and  the  searchers 
find  them.  Tom  is  revived,  but  Jim's  wounds  and 
bis  exertions  have  proved   too  much  for  him  and  he 


is  beyond  help.  Helen  realizes  that  he  has  given 
his  life  to  fulfill  the  promise  he  made  her,  and 
she  presses  a  kiss  upon  bis  lips  as  he  dies  in  her 
arms. 

RETRIBUTION  (May  17).— Stephen  Elliott'is  the 
president  of  the  Traders  Bank  and  Milton  Gray  is 
the  cashier.  One  day  Elliott  comes  into  Gray's 
office  and  is  introduced  to  the  cashier's  wife.  She 
is  a  pretty  woman  and  the  president  feels  that  he 
would  like  to  possess  her.  The  next  day  he  sends 
an  invitation  for  Gray  and  his  wife  to'  visit  him 
and  take  dinner,  that  he  may  become  more  ac- 
quainted with  the  cashier's  wife.  He  then  plans 
to  incriminate  the  husband.  A  few  days  later  he 
again  visits  the  cashier's  office,  and  during  a 
pleasant  conversation,  Gray  drops  his  pencil.  As 
he  stoops  to  pick  it  up  the  president  surreptitiously 
takes  a  bundle  of  currency  from  the  desk.  The 
next  morning  it  is  found  that  the  money  of  the 
bank  is  short.  An  investigation  takes  place,  with- 
out favorable  result.  Gray  declares  his  innocence, 
but  without  avail.  The  president  sends  for  the 
police  and  has  the  cashier  arrested.  He  then  goes 
to  Gray's  home  and  informs  the  wife  that  her  hus- 
band is  a  criminal  and  in  jail.  He  promises  that 
be  will  help  clear  him,  but  of  course  does  not  in- 
tend to  do  so.  Gray  is  tried  and  sentenced  to  a 
term  in  the  penitentiary.  The  next  action  of  the 
arch  rascal  is  to  Induce  '.ray  s  wife  to  get  a  divorce 
which  is  successfully  carried  through.  Elliott  then 
proposes  to  the  woman  and  is  accepted,  The  warden 
of  the  prison  treats  Gray  very  kindly  and  instead 
of  giving  him  menial  duties  to  perform,  assigns 
him  to  do  typewriting  and  act  as  a  clerk,  six 
years  pass,  Elliott  has  married  the  divorced  wife 
and  they  have  a  child.  Gray  having  served  his 
term,  is  released  from  prison  and  swears  venge- 
ance. He  watches  the  president's  mansion,  and  one 
night,  Elliott,  sitting  in  his  library,  sees  Gray's 
face  at  the  window.  He  is  appalled.  The  wife 
and  maid  are  upstairs  putting  the  child  to  bed. 
The  guilty  husband  is  terrified  with  fear  as  he  sees 
bis  victim  draw  a  gun.  Gray  will  kill  him  on 
the  stroke  of  twelve.  As  be  makes  a  movement 
to  prevent  Kate  from  entering  the  room,  he  is 
attacked  with  heart  failure  and  falls  back  In  the 
chair  dead. 


8ELIG. 

A  MIDNIGHT  BELL  (Special— 2  parts— May  5). 
— The  picture  opens  showing  the  sitting  room  in 
Widow  Gray's  house,  the  residence  of  Nora  Fair- 
ford,  village  school  teacher.  She  and  the  widow's 
daughter,  Annie,  are  friends.  On  her  way  to 
school,  the  teacher  is  met  by  John  Bradbury  the 
young  minister.  They  walk  together  as  far  as  the 
postoffice  and  there  are  met  by  Lizzie  Webber  and 
Nellie  Bowen,  spinsters,  who  engage  the  minister's 
attention  with  gossip  of  the  coming  church  social 
and  he  is  forced  to  leave  Norji.  They  walk  to 
the  church  where  the  party  is  augmented  by  the 
minister's  sister.  Dot,  and  the  old  deacon,  Lemuel 
Tidd. 

The  next  scene  takes  place  in  the  village  bank, 
of  which  Stephen  Larabee,  is  cashier.  Annie 
Grey  loves  Ned,  an  officer  of  the  bank  and  nephew 
of  the  president.  Squire  Olcott.  Finding  that  Annie 
doesn't  love  him,  Larabee,  on  the  night  of  the 
church  social,  goes  to  the  bank,  opens  the  inside 
door  of  the  safe  with  a  duplicate  of  the  key  he 
had  given  Ned,  and  abstracts  several  packages 
of  money,  hiding  them  in  the  cushion  of  his  pew 
at  church.  This  is  done  to  direct  the  blame  to- 
ward Ned.  Martin  Tripp,  an  overgrown  school- 
boy, seeing  the  church  door  ajar,  thinks  that  a 
ghost  has  been  there  and  places  a  bear  trap  in 
the   belfry   with  which   to  catch    the  ghost. 

The  next  morning  with  malevolent  intent,  Lara- 
bee asks  Ned  for  the  safe  key  and  upon  opening 
the  safe  he  feigns  great  surprise  In  finding  the 
money  gone.  In  self -protection  he  brings  the 
justice  of  the  peace.  A  few  days  later  the  con- 
stable gets  a  telegram  from  Boston  stating  that 
Ned  is  innocent,  but  that  Squire  Olcott  has  been 
speculating.  Thereupon  Ned,  in  a  spirit  of  Im- 
molation, proclaims  that  he  is  the  guilty  one.  The 
Boston  detective,  feeling  sure  that  Ned  is  inno- 
cent, helps  him  to  escape  jail  and  flee  to  another 
part  of  the  country  in  order  that  the  trial  may  be 
delayed,  thus  giving  him  time  to  run  down  the 
real  thief.  The  fugitive  goes  to  the  church  to 
sleep  and  there  encounters  Larabee  taking  the 
hidden  money.  The  deacon,  who  is  up  in  the  belfry 
doing  some  oiling,  see  the  struggle,  but  being 
caught  in  the  bear  trap  is  unable  to  get  down.  He 
therefore  Pings  the  bell  at  midnight,  bringing  the 
villagers  to  the  church.  The  desperate  but  quick- 
witted Larahee  declares  that  lie  found  Ned  with 
the  money,   but  when  Deacon   Tidd  comes  down  with 


the  bear-trap  on  his  foot,  he  tells  the  true  story, 
which  sends  Larabee  off  to  jail,  where  he  belongs 
—so  that  justice  is  meted  out  to  the  wicked  and 
several    pretty    romances    culminate  Drily 

THE  POST-IMPRESSIONISTS  (May  12 1.—  Dirk 
Carew,  the  son  of  a  soap-maker,  and  Dorothy  Wil- 
ton, the  daughter  of  a  lawyer,  meet  in  Paris, 
where  they  have  gone  from  America  to  imbibe  .in 
atmosphere  sicklied  with  artistic  bunoomb  by  the 
OubiBts.  'Hie  young  man,  visiting  a  cabaret,  the 
meeting  place  of  frousy  post-impressionists,  is  im- 
pressed with  their  windy  theories,  mainly  denuncia- 
tions of  everything  that  common  sense  and  decency 
understands.     Dick    is    .just    Ignorant    enough    about 

art   to  be   impressed   with    this   bunc b,    and    takes 

Dorothy  to  the  Cubist.  Their  fathers  come  to  Paris 
to  visit  them,  and  are  allowed  to  go  to  a  night 
where  the  merry  maniacs  are  studying  a 
model  that  has  been  distorted  artificially  by  Cubes 
in  order  to  impress  the  onimaginary,  so  that  the 
face  of  the  boxy  model  is  the  only  semblance  to 
"the  human  form  divine."  The  lathers  naturally 
think  they  need  the  services  of  an  alienist  Insl 
of  an  artist,  to  tell  them  what  it  is  all  about. 
The  parents  are  next  dragged  to  an  exhibition  of 
the  raw  art  products,  and  gaze  with  wonder  at  the 
inscrutable  crude  color  markings  on  the  wall.  The 
judges  pick  out  two  lovely  nudes,  that  look  like  a 
jumble  of  Jack-straws,  the  complications  of  Jacks- 
at-the-eaael,  and  award  them  the  first  prizes.  These 
strange  things  are  from  the  brushes  Of  thelt  chil- 
dren) and,  by  a  trick  in  photography,  they  reveal 
from  the  seeming  wreckage,  the  faces  of  their 
"fathers. 

LIEUTENANT  JONES  (May  13).— Col.  Stanleigh 
is  a  "sporty"  individual,  infatuated  with  Mary 
Thompson,  the  sister-in-law  of  the  post  command- 
ant, and  the  daughter  of  an  old  reprobate  addicted 
to  cups  and  cards.  Mary  loves  Lieut.  Jones.  This 
fact  infuriates  Stanleigh,  who  plans  dire  revenge 
on  both.  Old  Thompson,  heavily  indebted  to  Stan- 
leigh, .  is  induced  by  him  to  rob  the  safe  of  the 
monthly  pay  roll.  Jones  frustrates  this  plan,  but 
is  not  disposed  to  ruin  the  weak  old  man,  on  ac- 
count of  the' love  he  bears  for  his  daughter.  Stan- 
leigh discovers^  this  and  diverts  suspicion  toward 
Jones,  who  is  'tried,  convicted  and  sentenced.  An 
Indian  uprising  calls  the  garrison  away  from  the 
fort.  Lieut.  Jones  rides  out  alone,  disgraced.  He 
discovers  the  ruse  of  the  Indians  in  time  to  make 
a  desperate  ride,  get  in  touch  with  the  misguided 
troops,  and  get  tbem  back  to  save  the  post.  Poor 
old  Thompson,  mortally  wounded,  confesses  bis 
crime.  This  exonerates  Jones  and  implicates  Stan- 
leigh. The  lovers  are  again  united  and  Stanleigh 
loses  his  insignia  of  rank. 

BUCK  RICHARDS*  BREDE  ("May  14).— Buck 
Richards  lives  in  untidiness  on  a  lonely  ranch  with 
a  slovenly  Chinaman  as  a  cook.  He  is  too  much 
engrossed  in  his  affairs  to  realize  the  loneliness  or 
meagerness  of  bis  life  until  be  is  accidentally 
visited  by  a  homesteader  with  a  neat,  wholesome 
wife  and  babies.  This  brisk,  orderly  woman  pro- 
ceeds to  straighten  up  his  home.  He  feels,  for  the 
first  time,  the  potential  thrill  of  fatherhood  and 
the  lack  of  bis  lonely  life.  He  finds  a  bright, 
capable  young  woman  on  his  next  trip  to  town, 
and  marries  her.  She  grows  to  like  him.  but  he 
seems  so  completely  absorbed  in  his  business  affairs 
that  a  misunderstanding  arises.  Finally  she  feels 
that  he  no  longer  loves  her,  and  goes  back  to  her 
old  life  of  service  at  a  cheap  restaurant  in  a 
frontier  town.  But  the  thing  not  counted  upon 
comes  to  pass,  and,  as  she  sits  one  day  with  her 
own  baby  cooing  in  her  arms,  she  feels  that  its  busy 
father  has  the  right  to  know  of  its  existence.  She 
sends  him  a  postal  card  with  the  picture  of  herself 
and  the  baby.  This  brings  him  flying  into  town  and 
their  misunderstandings  are  soon  patched  up  and  a 
happier  life  begins. 

IN  THE  LONG  AGO  (May  15>. — Dreamer  comes 
wandering  down  a  canyon  toward  the  sea,  playing 
softly  on  a  reed  pipe.  Starlight  and  a  group  of 
maidens  are  picking  flowers.  They  have  no  thought 
of  him.  But  the  low,  sweet  music  moves  Starlight 
away  from  the  vacuous  gayety  of  her  companions. 
In  the  lodge  of  her  father,  the  great  chief,  she  sits 
moodily  unanswering  the  suit  of  the  painted  war- 
rior lingering  in  the  shadows  of  the  big  tepee. 
ignoring  his  gifts,   to  the  disgust  of  her  father. 

Dreamer  sits  by  the  moonlit  waves  playing  a 
sea-tune.  Starlight  comes,  drawn  by  the  magic  of 
his  melody.  The  love  motif  holds  them  in  its  spell; 
but  it  Is  broken  by  the  rude  song  of  warriors  draw- 
ing their  war-craft  on  the  beach.  He  hides  the 
girl  behind  him,  as  he  ploys  to  disarm  the  suspicions 
of  the  grim  savages.  They  pass,  reviling  him  for 
his   gentle   weakness. 

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cine  man  make  an  evil  compact  to  win  the  girl 
through  a  love  potion.  Dreamer  Is  brought  before 
tlie  chief  and  scoffing  warriors;  for  the  nonce  weak- 
ness leaves  him  and  he  combats  with  tbe  greatest 
warrior  and  overcomes  him  in  the  Interim.  Tbe 
mi  diet ne  man  sneaks  into  tbe  chief's  lodge  and 
Throws  Starlight  into  a  trance.  Aftetr  victory 
I 'reamer  demands  the  hand  of  tbe  chief's  daughter, 
and  then  finds  her  as  one  dead,  owing  to  tbe  mis- 
chievous incantation  of  the  medicine  man.  He 
would  play  her  back  to  life,  but  his  flute  was  broken 
before  battle,  so  be  flees,  helpless,  to  the  loneliness 
of  the  woods.  The  medicine  man  comes  to  restore 
the  maiden  but  fails.  In  bis  solitude  Dreamer  re- 
calls the  legend  that  a  flute  from  the  thigh-bone 
of  a  rival  will  restore  life.  As  Starlight  Is  about 
to  be  laid  away  her  true  lover  comes  running1  with 
bis  flute  of  rigid  bone  that  has  cost  him  much  effort 
to  secure.  Then  he  comes  playing  in  the  village, 
and  the  music  lifts  above  the  wailing  lamentation— 
tbe  dead.  Starlight  rises  from  her  catafolque,  the 
color  of  life  Is  restored  to  her  cheeks,  and  she  fol- 
lows Dreamer  away  beyond  tbe  horizon  to  happiness. 

A  DAUGHTER  OF  THE  CONFEDERACY  (May 
16). — General  Lee  gives  Lieut.  Archer  a  despatch 
to  be  carried  to  General  Jackson.  Tbe  young  sold- 
ier meets  a  Union  scouting  party,  and  wounded,  he 
finds  sanctuary  at  the  Allen  mansion.  The  house  is 
subsequently  searched  by  the  Union  party,  but 
Virginia  Allen,  by  conducting  the  officer  through  a 
secret  door  in  the  wainscoating  of  the  dining  room, 
saves  him.  She  then  takes  him  away  and  bides 
him  in  a  cave.  She  takes  General  Lee's  despatch 
from  the  lining  of  Archer's  coat  and  tucks  it  in 
her  hair,  and  then  rides  away  with  tbe  Union 
soldiers  toward  tbe  Confederate  lines.  She  takes 
this  document  to  G'en.  Jackson  without  difficulty 
and  he  is  deeply  grateful.  E-'ventually  she  returns 
to  her  own  home  and  finds  Lieutenant  Archer  re- 
covered. They  plight  their  troth  and  he  goes  back 
to  tbe  field  of  war. 

WITH  THE  STUDENTS  OF  THE  NORTH  DA- 
KOTA AGRICULTURAL  COLLEGE  (May  16).— One 
of  Sellg's  informing  educational  pictures,  showing 
a  notable  trip  of  the  students  of  the  North  Dakota 
Agricultural  College  on  a  trip  through  the  great 
Northwest.  The  students  show  their  practicability 
In  caring  for  every  detail  on  this  trip. 


VITAGRAPH. 

THE  VAMPIRE  OF  THE  DESERT  (2  parts,  May 
16). — Isbmael,  tbe  son  of  Hagar,  au  old  hag,  living 
on  the  edge  of  the  desert,  falls  completely  under 
tbe  charms  of  Lispeth,  a  vampire.  One  day  there 
passes  the  miserable  hut  In  which  these  three 
strange  people  live,  a  wealthy  banker,  named 
William  Corday,  his  wife  aid  son,  Derrick.  Lispeth 
wields  her  magic  power  over  the  husband  and  soon 
has  him  in  her  power.  When  he  attempts  to  kiss 
her,  she  repulses  him.  So  clever  is  she  that  the 
wife  has  no  idea  of  her  husband's  unfaithfulness. 
Acceding  to  the  wishes  of  Lispeth  to  be  taken  away 
from  ber  humble  abode,  the  banker  and  his  wife 
take  ber  to  the  city  and  give  ber  a  home  with  them. 
In  fashionable  dress  her  fascinating  powers  seem 
doubled,  and  one  day  in  his  study  the  husband  be- 
seeches Lispeth  to  flee  with  him.  This  is  overheard 
by  tbe  son,  who  denounces  bis  father.  In  order 
that  the  son  should  not  tell  his  mother,  Lispeth 
assures  him  that  it  was  with  him  whom  his  father 
wanted  her  to  flee.  The  son,  believing  this,  em- 
braces Lispeth,  but  is  thrown  aside  by  the  angry 
father.  Then  Lispeth  tells  the  father  that  she  had 
to  win  the  son  over  in  order  that  be  should  not  tell 
his  mother.  Lispeth  continues  her  play  with  the 
father  and  son;  but  at  length  arranges  to  elope  with 
the  old  man.  Just  as  they  are  leaving  the  house. 
Lispeth  is  Interrupted  by  the  son.  Father  and 
son  are  facing  an  awkward  situation,  when  Isbmael 
arrives  and  takes  Lispeth  back  home.  In  a  maniacal 
burst  of  fury,  Isbmael  takes  ber  life. 

THE  WRONG  PAIR  (May  12).— Peter  Hobson.  nn 
Irascible  old  gentleman,  throws  fits  when  he  is  told 
over  the  phone  that  his  daughter  is  about  to  elope. 
He  starts  for  home  at  top  speed,  thinking  perhaps 
to  be  in  time  to  stop  tbe  couple.  On  the  way  he 
almost  winged  by  an  automobile,  and  on  looking 
around  sees  it  to  be  that  of  bis  would-be  son-in-law, 
with  his  daughter  actually  in  the  car  with  him. 
Hobson  quickly  secures  the  aid  of  a  policeman, 
who  starts  off  in  a  racing  car  to  chase  and  arrest 
tbe  couple.  Then,  In  his  excitement,  tbe  old  man 
posts  up  a  notice  offering  a  reward  of  one  thousand 
dollars  for  the  capture  of  tbe  pair  In  time  to 
preven  c  the  marriage.  Erery  young  man  in  the 
neighborhood  scours  the  country,  seeking  the  elopers. 

The  policeman,  in  the  racing  car,  catches  up 
with    and    arrests    a    pair   of    speeders    in    an    auto- 


mobile, bringing  tbem  back  with  him  to  Hobson's 
residence.  He  will  not  listen  to  any  explanation, 
but  just  forces  tbem  to  come  along.  Simultaneously 
with  the  policeman's  arrival  at  the  house,  comes  a 
number  of  young  men,  bringing  several  other 
pairs  In  tow.  It  costs  Mr.  Hobson  quite  a  lot  of 
money  to  get  rid  of  them  all  without  suits  or 
damages.  The  last  pair  to  arrive,  come  unattended, 
and  prove  to  be  the  elopers,  who  have  had  the  knot 
tied  and  come  back  for  papa's  forgiveness.  Papa 
is  by  this  time  all  in  and  has  not  energy  enough  to 
refuse  it.  He  sees  that  he  cannot  change  the  con- 
dition of  affairs,  and  so  decides  to  make  the  best 
of  it. 

THE  GRAND  CANYON  (May  12).— A  splendid 
travelogue,  showing  the  wildest  scenes  of  the  ma- 
jestic valley  of  the  Colorado  River.  The  valley 
where  tbe  human  voice  may  be  heard  over  fourteen 
miles  away. 

MR.  HORATIO  SPARKINS  (May  13).— A  young 
linen  draper's  clerk  "blues"  himself  and  has  a  rare 
good  time,  posing  as  a  society  man  named  Horatio 
Sparkins,  while  his  real  name  is  Samuel  Smith.  He 
spends  all  his  money  on  fine  clothes  and  his  even- 
ings in  going  to  assemblies  and  balls,  where  he 
pretends  to  be  a  poet  and  a  man  of  considerable 
means.  At  one  of  the  balls  he  meets  the  Malder- 
tons,  a  family  of  parvenues,  who  at  once  see  a 
chance  of  making  a  good  match  for  their  daughter, 
Teresa,  who  is  getting  to  be  decidedly  passe.  They 
go  to  a  Mr.  Flamwell,  a  young  man  who  claims  to 
have  acquaintances  in  tbe  best  society,  and  ask 
about  Mr.   Sparkins. 

Flamwell  tells  them  that  he  believes  that  Horatio 
is  a  young  mobleman  in  disguise.  Mama  Malderton 
then  makes  plans  to  get  the  supposed  nobleman 
into  the  matrimonial  net,  in  which  also  shall  be 
her  daughter.  She  invites  noratio  to  dinners  and 
parties  and  shows  him  a  right  good  time.  The 
whole  family  lionize  him  to  the  best  of  their 
ability  and  write  to  their  friends,  saying  that 
Teresa  has  at  last  made  an  Ideal  conquest.  Spark- 
ins, who  well  sees  what  they  are  after,  does  not 
spoil  the  fun,  but  enjoys  himself  thoroughly,  making 
the  best   of  his  opportunities   for  cheap  enjoyment. 

All  goes  well  until  Mama  Malderton  takes  her 
daughter  on  a  shopping  expedition.  By  chance  they 
enter  the  store  in  which  Smith,  alias  Horatio 
Sparkins,  is  employed.  To  their  horror  they  dis- 
cover that  their  poetic  young  nobleman  Is  merely 
a  dry-goods  clerk.  Teresa  promptly  has  hysterics 
and  is  conveyed  home  by  her  mother,  who  has  to 
break   the  dreadful  news  to  the  deluded  family. 

A  SOUL  IN  BONDAGE  (May  16).— Passing  into  a 
cabaret  show  with  a  gay  party  of  friends,  Winnie 
Alden,  acting  on  a  sudden  impulse,  takes  a  little 
flower  girl  with  her.  This  causes  much  Joking 
among  her  companions,  who  cannot  understand  what 
has  come  over  her.  A  chance  remark  of  the  little 
girl's  shows  Winnie  what  a  false  life  she  is  leading. 
and  she  decides  to  abandon  it.  Edward  Ferris,  her 
man-friend,  laughs  at  her  when  she  tells  him  her 
intention  and  insultingly  asks  her  to  come  to  him 
when  she  needs  money. 

Good  luck  attendB  Winnie,  who  ohtains  a  typist's 
position  in  a  city  office.  She  lives  very  happily  in 
a  boarding-house  and  cuts  herself  off  entirely  from 
all  her  former  companions.  While  working  here  she 
meets  Roy  Dayton,  who  falls  in  love  with  her,  and 
after  a  time  proposes  marriage  to  her.  His  earnest 
pleading  wins  her  consent  and  she  is  looking  for- 
ward to  the  wedding  day. 

Edward  Ferris  finds  out  where  she  is  working, 
and  one  day  shadows  her  to  her  home.  She  sees 
him  and  lets  him  see  plainly  that  she  does  not  want 
anything  to  do  with  bim,  but  he  forces  himself 
upon  her  by  calling  at  tbe  bouse  the  next  day. 
When  she  tells  him  of  her  engagement  he  laughs 
rudely  at  ber  and  asks  her  what  her  intended  hus- 
band would  think  of  her  past  life,  telling  her  that 
if  she  will  come  to  him  she  will  have  all  the 
luxury  she  can  desire.  Roy  Dayton  enters  the  room 
and  overhears  part  of  what  is  said.  He  demands 
an  explanation  from  Winnie,  who  eannot  give  it. 
Upbraiding  her  for  having  won  his  love  falsely,  he 
leaves  her  in  anger. 

Winnie  falls  in  a  swoon  and  afterwards  beeomes 
seriously  ill,  and  is  taken  to  a  hospital.  In  her 
delirium  she  raves  constantly  of  Roy,  who  is  finally 
sent  for  by  the  nurse,  who  sees  that  unless  Winnie 
sees  him  she  will  die.  When  Roy  sees  the  con- 
dition of  his  sweetheart  he  is  stricken  with  remorse 
and  his  love  is  re-awakened.  Warmly  clasping  her 
to  his  heart  he  asks  forgiveness  and  brings  the 
smile  back  to  her  wasted  cheeks. 

HIS  LIFE  FOR  HIS  EMPEROR  (May  16).— The 
schemes  of  certain  English  merchants  and  politi- 
cians require  that  the  Etnperor  Napoleon  be  un- 
seated,   whether    by    fair    means    or    foul.     Hearing 


of  ex-Captain  Lacroix,  who  has  been  degraded  by 
Napoleon,  tbey  send  nn  emissary  to  arrange  with 
him  for  the  emperor's  assassination.  Lacroix  ac- 
cepts their  money  and  plans  with  bis  cronies  to 
lure  the  object  of  their  hate  to  an  empty  house, 
where  they  intend  to  kill  him.  The  plot  is  hatched 
in  the  secluded  corner  of  a  wine  shop,  but  the  con- 
spirators neglect  to  notice  an  intoxicated  man  who 
is  sleeping  there.  Tbe  man  is  Pierre  Duchesne,  an 
official  who  has  been  discharged  from  a  government 
bureau  for  drunkenness,  but  who,  nevertheless,  real- 
izing that  he  has  only  himself  to  blame,  bears  no 
malice. 

Lacroix  writes  a  letter  to  Napoleon,  telling  him 
that  valuable  maps  may  be  obtained  from  a  dis- 
graced English  officer  then  in  Paris,  and  bidding 
him  to  come  alone  to  fetch  them.  A  youth  is  de- 
spatched with  the  letter  and  further  details  of  the 
plot  then  arranged.  Meanwhile  Duchesne  has  re- 
mained silent  in  his  corner,  but  has  heard  every 
word  of  what  has  passed.  He  rushes  to  the  palace 
and  unfolds  the  plot  to  Napoleon,  who  has  just  de- 
cided to  go  to  the  meeting  place.  Duchesne  pleads 
with  the  emperor  to  allow  him  to  go  in  his  stead, 
disguised  to  resemble  his  sovereign.  Napoleon  con- 
sents, and,  after  testing  Duchesne  to  see  if  he  can 
carry  out  the  part  successfully,  sends  him  to  the 
rendezvous,  ordering  that  a  band  of  soldiers  shall 
follow  him  and  ensure  his  safety. 

Duchesne  enters  the  bouse  and  is  slain  as  he 
enters,  before  the  soldiers  can  come  to  bis  aid. 
Napoleon,  "The  Scourge  of  Europe."  who  has  fol- 
lowed the  Boldiers.  kneels  and  kisses  Duchesne's 
dead   body  reverently  as  it  is   laid  upon  the  divan. 

BUNNY  AND  THE  BUNNY  HUG  (May  17).— 
Nonmap  Winthrop,  a  surveyor,  accidentally  meets 
John  Bunny,  an  Irish  watchman  of  a  building.  He 
introduces  him  to  Tom  and  Will  Hawley,  two  of  his 
friends,  at  a  little  poker  game  in  which  Bunny 
pockets  all  the  winnings.  Talking  over  the  matter 
the  next  day.  the  three  men  agree  that  it  would 
be  a  great  Joke  to  introduce  Bunny  into  society, 
and  accordingly  they  take  him  to  a  ball,  first  buy- 
ing him  the  correct  outfit.  Bunny  has,  In  fun, 
styled  himself  Count  O'Rooney,  and  it  is  under 
this  name  that  he  Is  introduced  to  tbe  guests.  Tom 
and  Will  tell  everybody  that,  in  addition  to  being 
a  count.  O'Rooney  is  a  multi-millionaire,  and  every- 
one tries  to  become  acquainted  with  him,  particu- 
larly as  he  is  found  to  be  an  amusing  story-teller. 

The  "count"  makes  a  decided  hit  with  the  ladies, 
especially  with  Ethel  and  Molly  Donovon,  the  sweet- 
hearts of  Tom  and  Will.  When  the  girls  cancel  a 
dance  with  the  two  boys,  preferring  to  listen  to 
Count  O'Rooney's  side-splitting  anecdotes,  both  be- 
come considerably  peeved  and  rather  wish  they  had 
tried  another  kind  of  joke.  Bunny  convulses  every- 
body by  explaining  that  a  red  bandana  handkerchief, 
which  he  absent-mindedly  pulls  from  bis  pocket, 
was  a  gift  from  the  Czar  of  Russia.  After  the  ball 
the  girls  rave  so  much  about  the  "count"  that  tbe 
boys  feel  even  more  sick  about  it  and  decide  to 
put   a   spoke   in  bis  wheel. 

After  a  day  or  two  they  organize  a  party,  in- 
cluding the  girls,  and  go  down  to  the  building  where 
Bunny  works  as  a  watchman.  When  the  girls 
see  who  he  really  is  they  receive  a  powerful  shock 
and  get  very  angry  with  the  poor  old  man.  He 
soon  gets  tbem  laughing  again,  however,  with  one 
of  his  good  stories.  With  a  pocketfnll  of  Havana 
cigars,  Bunny  is  quite  satisfied  with  the  ending 
of  the  affair,  which  he  regards  as  the  funniest  in- 
cident of  bis  life. 


ESSANAY 

THE  RANCH  GIRL'S  PARTNER  (May  13),— A 
bandana  handkerchief,  a  horse,  and  love,  are  the 
chief  characters  in  this  Western  drama.  John 
Kelton  falls  in  love  with  Marjorle  Wayne.  Charlie 
Stevens,  the  richest  man  in  the  western  town,  is 
also  in  love  with  Marjorie.  Stevens  steals  a  horse 
and  unintentionally  drops  a  bandana  handkerchief. 
Stevens  blames  Kelton.  Tbe  sheriff  finds  the  band- 
kerchief  and  arrests  the  real  thief.  Kelton  later 
pays  tbe  mortgage  on  Marjorie's  home  and  marries 
ber. 

THE  SAME  OLD  STORY  (May  14).— Augustus 
Carney  falls  martyr  to  the  enchanting  ways  of 
Beverly  Bayne,  a  manicurist  in  a  barber  shop. 
Carney  makes  a  date  with  her  for  seven  o'clock 
that  evening.  Later,  Carney  tells  his  private  sec- 
retary, Billy  Mason,  about  the  appointment.  Mrs. 
Carney  enters  the  office  about  a  quarter  of  seven, 
plants*  herself  in  a  chair  and  refuses  to  move.  The 
manicurist  arrives  and  is  introduced  to  Mrs.  Carney 
as  Mason's  wife.  Mrs.  Mason  arrives  and  de- 
mands an  explanation,  which  is  rather  amateurishly 


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gircn.  Miss  Bayne,  Carney  and  Mason  leave  and 
meet  Raymond,  a  female  impersonator,  who  assists 
the  two  men   to  escape  trouble. 

BOOSTING  BUSINESS  (May  15) — Jim  Barratt,  a 
baking  powder  salesman,  arrives  in  the  town  of  St. 
(  harle8   and   finds   that   business  is   miserably  slow. 
Barratt    originates    a    clever    scheme    by    which    he 
will    nnt    leave    empty,  handed.     He    writes   a   note, 
stating  that  Charles,   the  grocer,   had  not  found  the 
$100  bill   that  had  been  packed  in  one  of   the  cans 
■  king   |H)Wder.     Tills   Barratt  accidentally   drops 
the   street.     One  of  the  villageites  picks  It   up. 
ids    fast.     In    an    hour  both   grocers 
are    completely    solil    out    of    the    celebrated    baking 
i.t.     Barratt     "happens"     by    and    is    given    a 
splendid    order  by   Charles,    the   ?ro.-er.    and  Joseph, 
ompetitor.      Barratt  enters  the  hotel  bar,   where 
Julius    several    men   seated   about,    of   his   clever 
and    how    it    worked.     The    tables    turn,    how- 
ever,   when    the    men    discover    that    their    wives    bad 
"stuni;."     Just     see    what     happened     to    the 
baking  powder  salesman. 

TWO  SOCIAL  CALLS  (May  16). — Jim  Malone.  an 
ex-conviet  out  of  work,  leaves  his  wife  and  two 
babies  in  search  of  employment.  On  the  other  side 
of  life  we  see  a  happy  couple  with  a  young, 
healthy  child,  surrounded  by  all  that  prosperity 
affords.  Charles  Randolph,  the  father,  accidentally 
drops  his  pocketbook  that  afternoon.  Jim  picks  it 
np  and  escapes  to  his  home  with  it.  Mrs.  Malone 
returns  the  pocketbook  to  its  owner  by  mall.  The 
next  day,  Mrs.  Randolph's  maid,  heavily  laden 
■i  tb  food  and  clothing,  makes  a  visit  to  the  slums 
to  help  the  needy  ones.  During  her  absence  from 
the  automobile,  Margaret,  the  child,  in  search  of 
the  maid,  gets  lost.  The  maid  returns  to  the 
Randolph  home  and  explains  the  situation.  Mrs. 
Randolph  becomes  hysterical.  The  police  are  no  ti- 
lled and  a  search  is  made.  Margaret  Is  finally 
found  in  Jim  Malone's  home.  Randolph  recognizes 
him  as  the  thief.  Margaret's  love  for  Jim  saves 
him  from  the  penitentiary  and  rewards  him  with  a, 
splendid  position. 

BRONCHO  BILLY'S  GRIT  (May  17).— Broncho 
Billy,  intoxicated,  enters  Brown's  general  store, 
knocks  over  a  barrel  of  brooms,  and  is  about  to 
help  himself  to  the  chewing  tobacco,  when  the 
grocer  interferes.  Brown  finally  shoots  Broncho 
Hilly  in  the  wrist.  Mary  Walker,  a  villageite 
enters,  and  discovering  Broncho  Billy  suffering 
,i  the  wound,  washes  and  bandages  it  for  him. 
The  following  day  Broncho  Billy  calls  on  Mary  to 
thank  her  for  her  kindness.  Mr.  Walker,  over- 
hearing the  conversation,  intrudes  and  orders  the 
cowpuncher  off  his  premises.  That  afternoon,  the 
sheriff  having  been  informed  of  the  episode  at 
the  grocery  store,  tells  Broncho  Billy  that  he  is  a 
detriment  to  the  community  and  to  leave  town  im- 
mediately or  take  the  consequences.  The  following 
day  Mary's  brother  takes  several  horses  to  the 
nearby  town  to  sell.  The  sale  is  made  in  good 
order  and  everything  goes  smoothly  enough,  until 
the  weak  son  meets  a  gambler.  The  gambler  has 
no  trouble  in  getting  the  son  intoxicated  and  taking 
his  mdhey  from  him  by  a  clever  gambling 
me.  Broncho  Billy  enters  the  saloon  and  is 
nonplussed  when  he  sees  Mary's  brother  gambling 
the  watch  with  the  fair  face  of  his  sister  in  it. 
Broncho  Billy  holds  up  the  gambling  joint,  re- 
stores the  money  to  its  owner,  and  takes  the  half- 
paralyzed  form  to  his  home.  The  rest  of  tie  story 
is   very   interesting. 


EDISON. 

GROUNDLESS  SUSPICION  (May  2).— One  day, 
while  the  husband  is  at  his  office,  the  nurse  informs 
the  wife  that  their  baby  is  blind.  Not  wanting  to 
break  the  awful  Hews  to  her  husband,  the  wife 
writes  for  an  eye  specialist  to  come  at  once,  telling 
him  that  her  husband  must  not  know  of  bis  coming. 
But  before  the  doctor  arrives,  the  husband  comes 
home  and  finds  his  wife  in  tears.  He  is  informed 
that  nothing  is  wrong:  but  his  suspicions  are 
aroused  when  his  wife  receives  a  letter  from  the 
dalfst,  which  she  will  not  show  to  him.  He 
goes  out  and  upon  returning,  hears  his  wife  say  to 
someone  over  the  telephone,  "Can  you  come  now, 
while  my  husband  is  away?"  He  goes,  greatly 
<]<•] tressed,  into  his  study.  Half  an  hour  later  he 
returns  to  where  his  wife  and  the  specialist  are  and 
sees  hia  wife's  arms  around  the  man's  neck,  begging 
for  he  knows  not  what.  He  is  about  to  shoot  both 
when  his  wife,  with  a  hysterical  cry,  throws  her 
arms  around  him  because  her  little  one  can  -now 


BILL'S  SWEETHEART  (May  3).— Bill,  who  is 
with  a  bunch  of  cowboys  on  their  way  to  town, 
picks  up  from  the  wreckage  of  a  prairie  schooner 
b  little  baby  girl.  Five  years  later  the  little  girl, 
while  running  after  butterflies,  gets  lost.  Bill, 
waking  up  from  his  siesta,  goes  in  search  of  her, 
but  she  cannot  be  found.  The  little  girl,  in  the 
meantime,  has  climbed  into  a  freighter's  wagon. 
For  twelve  years  she  lives  with  him.  One  evening, 
while  gambling  with  Mexican  Pete,  the  Freighter 
loses  his  money,  and  the  girl,  whom  lie  had  staked 
against  the  Mexican's  winnings.  But  before  the 
ican  ran  take  the  srirl  away.  Bill  wins  her  from 
the  Mexican,  places  her  in  the  care  of  a  woman 
neighbor  and  eventually  marries  her. 

THE  HUNDRED  DOLLAR  ELOPEMENT  (May  5). 
— G'eraldine  Gwynne  is  taken  to  a  school  for  young 
by  her  father.  She  is  a  headstrong,  wilful 
girl  who  lost  her  mother  when  she  was  quite 
young.  She  forms  a  strange  attachment  for  a  young 
village  loafer  and  is  about  to  elope  with  him.  but 
the  principal  of  the  school,  Miss  Preston,  discovers 
it  In  time  to  telegraph  her  father.  On  learning  the 
character  of  the  fellow  with  whom  his  daughter  is 
planning  to  elope,  he  goes  straight  to  bis  bouse 
and  offers  him  one  hundred  dollars  to  forget  the  girl. 
This  the  ardent  lover  promptly  accepts  and  signs  an 
agreement  to  that  effect.  Then  the  father  repairs 
to  the  rendezvous  and  awaits  the  coming  of  his 
daughter. 

Slipping  down  a  ladder  from  her  window,  she 
Bteals  cautiously  across  the  lawn  and,  running 
around  the  corner  of  the  bain,  she  comes  face  to 
face  with  her  own  father.  It  is  a  terrible  shock 
and  the  girl  is  led  away,  sobbing  with  anger,  grief 
and  disappointment.  But  when  her  father  shows 
her  the  agreement  which  her  ardent  lover  signed 
for  the  consideration  of  one  hundred  dollars,  she 
realizes  what  a  fool  she  lias  been  and  that  the 
hateful,  prying  school  principal  is  really  her  best 
friend. 

WHEN  GREEK  MEETS  GREEK  (May  6).^John 
Blackstone,  the  successful  financier,  recognizes  no 
will  but  his  own.  The  committees  of  the  various 
companies  he  controls  are  directors  in  name  only, 
as  Blackstone's  voice  is  a  dominant  force.  His 
household  consists  only  of  himself,  his  son,  whom 
he  treats  as  a  child,  and  a  host  of  frightened 
servants  and  a  stenographer,  who  is  mortally  afraid 
of  his  testy  temper  and  violent  imperiousness.  In 
one  of  his  tantrums  one  day  a  serious  mistake 
costs  her  her  position,  and  although  his  son,  touched 
by  the  elderly  woman's  tears,  pleads  for  her.  ber 
dismissal  is  abrupt  and  certain. 

Blackstone  telephones  to  the  agency  for  another 
stenographer,  and  the  lady  in  charge,  knowing  the 
difficulties  that  would  confront  the  new  applicant, 
decides  that  there  is  but  one  girl  on  her  list  who 
could  cope  with  the  situation,   Portia  Wood. 

When  Portia  first  meets  Blackstone,  he  looks  upon 
her  as  another  victim  of  his  domination.  He  hurls 
the  most  rapid  dictation  at  ber  in  the  first  test  of 
speed,  and  is  surprised  and  annoyed  to  find  that 
she  takes  it  easily  and   instantaneously. 

In  the  days  that  follow  comes  a  struggle  of  wills. 
Gradually  Blackstone  recognizes  Portia's  abilities. 
In  the  meantime,  Blackstone  Jr.,  has  fallen  in  love 
with  her  and  one  day  proposes  marriage.  On  being 
refused,  he  becomes  angry  and  insinuates  that  she 
has  designs  upon  his  father.  This  is  the  cause  of 
a  violent  quarrel.  During  it  Blackstone  Sr..  enters. 
His  son  leaves  in  a  rage,  leaving  Blackstone  Sr.. 
and  Portia  to  speak  their  minds.  Suddenly  they 
discover  they  love  each  other  and  end  their  opposi- 
tion in  an  embrace. 

AUNTY  AND  THE  GIRLS  (May  7).— Aunt  Elsa. 
a  full-of-life  old  lady,  and  her  nephew,  Bobby, 
concoct  a  scheme  to  frighten  Bobby's  young  sisters. 
She  puts  a  false  face  on  and  wraps  herself  in  a 
sheet.  Thus  arrayed,  she  appears  before  the  young 
ladies  and  badly  frightens  them.  At  a  sewing  bee 
the  girls  try  to  get  even  by  putting  on  men's  clothes 
and  endeavoring  to  kidnap  aunty;  but  their  plan 
is  overheard  by  the  wily  Bobhy,  who  advises  aunty 
of  the  scheme.  Aunt  Elsa  then  dresses  the  cook 
in  her  clothes.  She  is  captured  by  the  girls,  bound 
to  a  tree,  and  as  they  are  laughing  at  "aunty,"  the 
girls  themselves  are  pounced  upon  by  two  "western 
desperadoes,"  are  blindfolded  and  taken  to  a  house, 
where  they  learn  that  they  have  been  beaten  at 
their  own  game  by  Bobby  and  aunty,  who  prove 
to  be  the  desperadoes. 

WITH  THE  ASSISTANCE  OF  "SHEP"  (May 
7), —Ruth,  a  very  nice  young  girl,  is  under  the 
guardianship  of  her  Aunt  Jane,  a  straight-Jaced 
spinster.  Ruth  is  in  love  with  a  young  man,  and 
every    time    her    aunt    catches    her   in    his    company 


she  orders  her  home  to  play  the  piano.  No  sooner 
has  the  aunt  left  the  room  when  Ruth  runs  out  to 
her  lover,  leaving  "Shep,"  their  faithful  dog,  play- 
ing the  piano.  Edw:ird  is  ordered  out  of  the  house; 
but  "Shep"  takes  a  note  to  him  from  Ruth,  ami 
returns  with  one,  fixing  a  meeting  place.  "Shep." 
seeing  no  one  in  the  room  but  the  aunt,  hides  the 
note  in  the  waste  paper  basket  until  Ruth  romps, 
Because  Ruth  tears  up  the  note  without  letting 
ber  see  it,  the  aunt  locks  her  in  the  woodshed. 
When  the  aunt  brings  Ruth  her  supper,  she  leaves 
the  door  open  and  Ruth,  seizing  the  opportunity. 
runs  away,  while  "Shep"  slams  the  door,  locking 
in  the  aunt.  She  manages  to  get  out  Just  in  time 
to  see  a  fast  receding  automobile,  with  the  lovers 
and  ••Shep"  in  it. 

AN  ACCIDENTAL  ALIBI  (May  10).— Joe  Hardy. 
nig  farmer  of  good  standing,  proposes  to.  and 
is  accepted  by  Jessie  Barnes,  daughter  of  a  n> 
boring  farmer.  When  Toe  brings  the  matter  to  the 
attention  of  Mr.  Barnes,  he  receives  a  flat  refusal. 
Joe,  being  a  hot-tempered  man,  goes  to  the  saloon, 
and,  in  the  presence  of  several  witnesses,  makes 
threats  against  Mr.  Barnes'  life.  He  later,  however. 
decides  to  forget  it  all  and  goes  to  the  city.  During 
bis  absence,  Mr.  Barnes,  while  riding  through  the 
country,  is  thrown  from  his  horse  and  killed.  Tl  e 
bodj  is  found  and  when  Joe  returns  home  he  is 
captured,  tried  and  convicted.  After  .Toe's  trial 
i-  persuaded  to  visit  a  friend  in  New  York, 
and  while  there  she  goes  into  a  moving  picture 
theater,  where  she  sees  her  lover  on  the  screen. 
She  communicates  with  Joe's  attorney,  and  by  the 
moving  picture  it  is  proved  that  Joe  was  in  New 
York  at  the  time  of  Mr.  Barnes'  death. 

THE  GOLDEN  WEDDING  (May  9).— Their  anni- 
versary over,  the  guests  going,  two  weary  old  people 
sit  by  the  fireside  to  rest.  They  fall  asleep  and 
dream  of  their  past  life.  Their  dreams  carry  them 
from  boy  and  girlhood  all  through  life  to  this  day. 
greatest  of  all,  their  golden  wedding.  Their  first 
meeting  shows  them,  at  the  age  of  five,  on  their 
way  to  school,  and  even  then,  as  young  as  they 
are,  the  seed  of  love  is  sown.  A  few  years  and  we 
see   them    growing   past    the   school  age. 

Next  we  see  the  youth  proposing  and  being  ac- 
cepted; the  happiest  moment  of  their  lives,  their 
first-born  baby.  War  between  the  North  and  South 
breaks  out  and  the  youth  Is  called  to  fight  for  his 
side,  the  South.  As  he  goes  away  he  puts  the 
picture  of  his  wife  in  his  pocket  next  to  his  heart. 
Daily  letters  are  written  from  the  front  telling  of 
the  war  and  the  little  wife  anxiously  waits  for  the 
next  one  to  come,  but  one  day  none  arrives,  then 
another   day.     Something   must    be   wrong. 

At  the  front  the  boy  is  wounded,  and  if  it  had 
not  been  for  the  tintype  in  bis  pocket,  the  bullet 
would  have  killed  him  instead  of  glancing  off,  only 
causing  a  broken  arm.  Home  he  comes  to  rest  and 
to  wait  for  his  arm  to  heal.  Happiness  reigns  once 
more  in  the  little  home.  War  is  over  and  they 
live  the  quiet  happy  lives  of  country  folk  till  we 
meet  them  again,  asleep  at  the  fireplace.  His  pipe 
drops.  He  awakens.  It  is  time  to  go  to  bed.  He 
lights  the  candle  and  the  good  wife  calls  in  the 
cat  and  both,  arm  in  arm,  go  upstairs  to  dream  the 
dreams  of  their  youth  again. 

THE  HEART  OF  VALESKA  (May  12).— Valeska, 
the  daughter  of  a  poor  cobbler,  is  occupied  caring 
for  her  sick  mother  and  keeping  house.  Nearly 
enough  money  has  been  saved  to  pay  the  taxes, 
when  the  medicine  bottle  becomes  empty  and  Va- 
leska  borrows  from  the  taxes  to  buy  medicine,  hop- 
ing to  be  able  to  repay  it 

In  the  small  town  In  which  they  live  is  a  man 
who  is  paying  attention  to  Valeska.  and  favored  by 
her,  except  at  times  when  his  drinking  makes  biin 
a   useless  wretch. 

One  day,  while  gathering  firewood.  Valeska  is 
overtaken  by  a  nobleman,  and  be  offers  her  assist- 
ance in  giving  her  a  lift  in  the  coach  to  her  home. 
Time  goes  on — more  money  is  needed  for  medi- 
cine and  the  tax  money  is  again  borrowed.  When 
the  medicine  bottle  is  filled  and  wrapped  in  neys- 
paper  and  taken  home,  Valeska  discovers  an  an- 
nouncement in  the  paper  of  the  coming  marriage 
auction — a  custom  still    in  existence. 

First  of  all,  to  raise  more  money,  Valeska  sells 
her  beautiful  hair  to  help  her  poor  parents — then 
goes  off  to  auction  herself  to  become  some  worthy 
HP's  wife.  At  the  auction  the  nobleman  has 
dropped  in  out  of  curiosity.  He  sees  Valeska  on 
tin-  stand  and  bids  the  highest  for  her — gets  her 
and  when  he  learns  her  story  from  her  own  lips, 
he,  honest  nobleman  that  he  is,  takes  her  to  her 
home,  buys  medicine  and  comforts  for  the  sick 
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izing  ber  love  is  truly  for  him.  and  seeing  bis 
answer  in  her  eyes,  goes  for  a  minister. 

THE  PROPHECY  (May  13).— Among  the  fash- 
ionable guests  and  fortune  hunters  at  Lady  Jane 
Manners'  brilliant  house  party,  were  Dick  Bruce 
ami  his  affianced  wife,  Dorothy  Cameron.  The 
hearts  of  all  the  men  began  to  beat  faster  when 
Lady  Manners  announced  that  Countess  Morowsky 
had  accepted  her  invitation  and  would  arrive  that 
evening.  In  the  afternoon  the  men,  returning  home 
with  some  game  they  had  shot,  ran  into  a  Gypsy 
camp,  and  in  the  course  of  the  fortune-telling  Dick 
Brace  was  admonished  to  "beware  or  a  lady  in 
black."  That  evening  he  was  introduced  to  a 
lady  in  black,  who  proved  to  be  Countess  Morowsky. 
He  fell  in  love  with  the  countess  and  ignored  his 
sweetheart  to  such  an  extent  that  she  went  to  the 
countess'  boudoir  and  begged  her  to  return  with  her 
retinue  of  servants  to  London.  This  the  countess 
agreed  to  do,  and  the  next  morning  she  left.  Dick. 
having  heard  of  Dorothy's  interference,  upbraided 
her,  and  he  too  Journeyed  to  London.  Sir  George  be- 
came  jealous  of  Dick's  fascination  for  the  countess 
and  contrived  to  break  up  an  opera  party  between 
Dick  and  the  countess.  She  came  to  Dick's  apart- 
ment for  an  explanation,  learned  of  his  weakness 
and  reconciled  the  sweethearts. 

THE  TWO  MERCHANTS  (May  M).— Ebenezer 
Burke  and  Jeremiah  Briggs  are  in  the  same  line 
of  business  in  the  small  city  of  Bedford.  Julia 
Burke  has  become  fascinated  with  a  traveling  sales- 
man and  she  receives  court  from  him  against  her 
father's  wishes.  They  plan  an  elopement,  but  their 
plan  is  frustrated  by  Briggs.  who  asserts  that  it  is 
his  business  to  protect  her,  even  if  he  is  her 
father's  rival. 

While  ont  driving  with  his  family,  Briggs  sees 
the  salesman  waiting  In  a  seclnded  spot  with  a 
buggy.  Becoming  suspicions  at  once,  he  stops 
and  watches  him.  He  soon  sees  Julia  coming  with 
a  suit  case  and  his  suspicions  are  confirmed. 
Jumping  out  of  his  carriage,  he  rushes  over  to 
the  buggy  and  seizes  the  girl.  The  salesman  at- 
tempts to  interfere  but  Briggs  thrusts  him  aside 
and  Julia  is  taken  back  home  in  the  Briggs  equi- 
page, dissolved  in  tears. 

Bnrke  is  wild  with  rage  at  this  interference  on 
the  part  of  his  rival  and  he  decides  that  the 
meddlesome  old  codger  has  gone  too  far  entirely. 
Early  next  morning  Burke  is  at  his  store  waiting 
for  the  appearance  of  Briggs.  When  he  arrives 
the  climax  is  reached.  Into  the  back  yard  of 
Briggs'  store  they  go  and  fight  it  out  'in  true 
country  style.  Both  'winded."  they  realize  that 
they  are  a  couple  of  old  fools  anil  a  reconciliation 
takes  place.  They  join  hands  and  fight  the  ap- 
pearance   of   a   new   store. 


ECLIPSE. 

THE  WILL  OF  FATE  (May  14).—  Dick  is  in 
love  with  Anna,  a  neighbor's  pretty  daughter. 
Dick's  father  and  Tony,  the  brother  of  Anna,  both 
of  a  smuggler's  band  quarrel  and  are  separated 
by  townspeople.  The  revenue  officers  for  some 
time  have  been  in  search  of  Dick's  father,  and  he 
is  fatally  shot  upon  being  discovered  by  them. 
Anxious  about  his  father's  return.  Dick  and  sev- 
eral of  his  companions  set  ont  to  learn  of  his 
whereabouts.  After  a  long  search,  he  is  found 
lifeless  behind  a  crag  of  rocks.  Dick's  mother  re- 
members his  former  quarrel  and  accuses  Tony  of 
the  mnrder  of  her  husband.  A  month  passes*  and 
although  Dick  and  Anna  still  love  each  other,  his 
mother  will  not  consent  to  the  marriage  of  her 
son  to  the  sister  of  the  man  who  caused  the 
death  of  her  husband.  Dick  becomes  one  of  the 
smuggling  band  and  the  hiding  place  of  their 
goods  is  operated  by  Dick's  mother.  She  receives 
a  letter,  telling  her  to  leave  the  trap-door  open 
that  night  as  Tony  will  arrive  with  a  bale  of  lace. 
A  diabolical  revenge  is  formed  in  her  mind,  and 
that  evening  the  trap-door  is  shut  upon  the  sup- 
posed Tony.  In  the  meantime.  Dick  had  persuaded 
the  smugglers  to  allow  him  to  carry  the  goods  to 
the  hiding  place,  his  motive  being  the  seeing  of 
his  sweetheart.  Therefore,  Dick  is  the  victim 
of  his  own  mother's  revenge  and  when  the  trap- 
door is  opened  some  time  later  the  catastrophe 
is    revealed. 


discharges  him.  Emma  pleads  with  her  father  for 
Peter's  sake  in  vain.  She  often  visits  him  and 
tries  to  console  him  in  his  misery.  After  he  Is 
caught  poaching  on  the  estate  by  Mr.  Morse  him- 
self, he  is  so  furious  that  he  swears  revenge.  Not 
wishing  to  be  weakened  in  his  purpose  he  avoids 
Emma  as  much  as  possible.  A  few  days  later 
Emma  remembers  the  gamekeeper's  birthday  and 
wishing  to  present  him  with  the  watch  she  has 
purchased  for  him,  sets  out  to  look  for  him  with 
It.  In  the  meantime  Peter  has  been  lying  In  ambush 
for  bis  former  employer.  His  senses  are  awak- 
ened when  Mr.  Morse  is  seen  coming  up  the  lane 
and  Peter  immediately  aims  his  rifle  at  him. 
He  is  just  about  to  pull  the  trigger  which  un- 
doubtedly would  have  made  him  a  murderer,  when 
he  hears  Emma's  masterful  voice  behind  him. 
"Peter,  look  and  see  the  present  I  have  for  you." 
Peter  timorously  drops  the  gun  and  falls  mortified 
at   her   feet. 

GULF  OF  TOGTJLIO,  NORTHERN  ITALY  (May 
17). — This  is  one  of  the  most  picturesque  land- 
scapes of  which  Italy  can  boast.  In  detail  are 
shown  St.  Marguerite,  St.  Michael,  Rapallo,  Anni- 
bale    Bridge    and    many    other    noteworthy    edifices. 

WILLIE'S  ALARM  CLOCK  (May  13).— Willie's 
attitude  towards  work  causes  the  disgust  of  Ger- 
trude's father,  who  disapproves  of  their  marriage 
until  Willie  is  satisfactorily  employed.  Gertrude 
secures  a  position  for  him  In  the  office  of  her 
cousin,  a  banker,  who  believes  Willie's  services  a 
doubtful  Investment.  He  is  right.  Willie,  by 
his  unpuneiuality,  soon  arouses  the  ire  of  the 
banker;  so  much  so  that  Gertrude  learns  of  it.  She 
presents  her  lover  with  an  alarm  clock,  which,  not 
being  set  right,  interrupts  his  sleep.  Willie's 
well-aimed  boot  knocks  it  from  the  table.  The 
alarm  is  broken,  and  consequently,  he  does  not 
arrive  at  the  office  until  late,  when  he  is  promptly 
discharged. 

Willie  receives  an  indifferent  audience  when 
again  calling  on  his  sweetheart,  which  immedi- 
ately causes  his  repentance.  By  using  every  possible 
precaution  he  wins  the  confidence  of  the  banker, 
and  is  taken  on  the  pay-roll  again,  and  makes 
good. 

Later,  Willie  and  Gertrude  are  married,  and  on 
their  honeymoon  the  alarm  clock  again  makes  its 
appearance,  only  to  wind  np  a  most  interesting 
comedy. 

RELICS  OF  ANCIENT  ROME  (May  13).— These 
views  carry  with  them  the  very  atmosphere  of 
the  days  when  these  grounds  were  traveled  by  the 
men    who    made    their    country    foremost    iu    archi- 


CINES. 

A  WOMAN'S  INFLUENCE  (May  17).  —  Mr. 
Morse  is  often  compelled  to  reprimand  Peter, 
his  gamekeeper,  for  the  tatter's  brutality.  Peter, 
however,  has  a  great  reverence  for  Emma,  Mr. 
Morse's  daughter,  and  in  her  presence  lie  is  easily 
pacified.  Invitations  are  sent  out  by  the  Morses 
for  a  wild  boar  hunt.  The  bunt  Is  a  grand  suc- 
cess, but  so  many  complaints  against  the  game- 
keeper  are    presented    to   Mr.    Morse   that   he  finally 


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EXCESS  BAGGAGE  (May  10).— In  order  to  save 
expenses  while  on  their  honeymoon,  the  Newly- 
weds  resort  to  economical  methods  of  living.  Their 
bridal  chamber  is  also  their  dining  room  and  at 
the  end  of  their  two  weeks'  stay  it  resembles  a 
pantry  Just  before  honse-eleanlng.  When  they  de- 
ride to  leave,  the  tin  pans,  can  openers  and  cook- 
ing utensils,  are  taken  out  of  the  bureau  drawers 
and  wrapped  up  In  one  large  bundle.  Their  in- 
tention is  to  drop  the  bundle  at  the  first  convenient 
place,  but  try  as  they  might,  it  always  comes 
i..  Their  first  attempt  fails,  their  second  al- 
most succeeds  and  when  the  last  is  made  Mr. 
Newly-wed  arouses  the  ire  of  a  policeman  and  is 
arrested.  He  makes  explanations  to  the  sergeant 
and  Is  dismissed,  but  before  leaving  be  drops  the 
bundle  on  the  other  side  of  the  desk  out  of  the 
sergeant's    view    and    leaves    unmolested. 

THE  PEOPLE  OF  60MALILAND,  EAST  AFRICA 
(May  10). — In  this  Educational  picture  of  the 
Somali  natives,  we  see  them  in  their  every  habit. 
A  typical  village  is  first  shown,  after  which  comes 
thf  Sultan  of  Gheledl.  As  to  the  local  marketing  ■ 
a  butcher  with  a  cleaver  is  shown  at  work.  The 
methods  of  protecting  their  homes  against  storms, 
the  maintenance  of  their  maize  and  cotton  planta- 
tions comes  next.  Weaving  and  many  other  in- 
dustries in  their  crude  state  closes  this  picture. 

BEAUTIFUL  LAKE  COMO,  ITALY  (May  10).— 
This  picture,  in  colors,  reveals  one  of  the  most 
favorite  haunts  of  the  American  tourist:  therefore, 
the  assurance   of   its   beauty   and   picturesqueness. 

THE  BROKEN  VOW  (Special— 2  parts— May  2). 
— Although  Juliet  is  only  a  simple  shepherdess,  she 
is  quite  conscious  of  her  charms.  Tony,  a  cattle- 
herder  on  the  ranch  of  a  wealthy  cattle  king  is 
in  love  with  her.  While  on  his  way  to  town  with 
a  herd  of  cattle,  he  stops  for  a  few  moments  to 
see  his  sweetheart,  and  presents  her  with  a  neck- 
lace, which  they  agree  is  a  token  of  their  betrothal. 

He  tells  his  employer  of  the  joyous  news  of 
his  engagement.  The  favorite  meeting  place  of 
the  lovers  is  under  a  tree  at  the  edge  of  a  cliff 
and  on  this  sacred  spot  they  swear  eternal  devo- 
tion. 

The  home  of  the  cattle  king  is  a  rendezvous  for 
fast  society.  While  at  one  of  these  society 
functions,  the  cattleman  and  his  friends  decide  on 
a  hunting  trip,  Tony  to  be  their  guide.  During 
the  hunt  Juliet  is  accidently  shot  and  is  taken 
away  by  the  ranchman  in  his  automobile,  despite 
Tony's  pleadings. 

Juliet's  convalescence  comes  about  several  months 
later  and  unconsciously  she  has  captivated  the 
admiration  of  the  rich  ranchman.  Well  and  strong 
again,  she  is  ready  to  return  home,  when  the 
ranchman  allures  her  by  presenting  her  with  jewels 
and  decorative  ornaments.  She  is  so  enchanted 
that  her  engagement  to  him  is  soon   announced. 

Receiving  no  word  from  Juliet  and  filled  with 
anxiety,  Tony  makes  an  inquiry  at  the  home  of 
his  employer,  where  he  finds  Juliet  alreadv  mar- 
ried. Broken-hearted  and  miserable,  Tony  decides 
to    go   far   away    and    forget. 

Two  years  pass,  when  Tony  being  in  the  vicinity 
again,  observes  the  ranchman  riding  through  the 
woods,  and  a  diaholieal  revenge  is  framed  in 
Tony's  mind.  He  jumps  up  and  drags  the  cattle- 
man from  his  horse  to  the  ground,  and  a  pitched 
battle  between  them  ensues.  The  outcome  is  In 
Tony's  favor,  after  tying  the  ranchman  to  the 
tree  dear  to  his  memory  as  the  spot  where  he  had 
often  courted  Juliet,  sends  for  her,  and  before 
the  eyes  of  her  husband,  leaps  with  her  over  the 
cliff    Into    eternity. 

A  MIXED  AFFAIR  (May  6).— When  Albert  learns 
that  by  his  marriage  to  Lncy,  a  beautiful  girl  and 
friend  of  the  family,  she  will  inherit  a  fortune,  be 
immediately  leaves  for  the  city  to  meet  ber.  Albert 
has  never  seen  Lucy. 

Through  a  series  of  misconceptions,  he  unknow- 
ingly falls  in  love  with  Lucy,  believing  her  to  be 
Helen,  an  indirectly  introduced  cousin  of  his  friend, 
Henry. 

When  Helen  appears,  he  mistakes  her  for  Lucy, 
and  when  his  anxious  father  arrives  to  see  how 
matters  are  progressing,  Helen  is  introduced  as  his 
fiancee.  While  Helen  Is  escorted  and  dined  by  his 
father,  Albert  and  Lucy  (of  whose  identity  he  Is 
still  ignorant),  love  each  other,  and  leaving  a 
note,   they  decide  to  elope. 

Whan  the  father  returns  with  Helen,  he  is  ex- 
asperated. Albert  and  Lucy  are  hunted  down,  and 
found  entering  a  hotel,  where  explanations  fall 
thick   and   fast. 

Henry  not  only  wins  an  heiress,  but  also  possesses 
the  girl  he  loves. 


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PATHEPLAY. 

FATHE'S  WEEKLY,  NO.  19,  1913  (May  5).— 
Salonica,  Turkey. — Constantine  XII,  the  new  King 
of   Greece,    arrives  in   this  city. 

Salamanca,  N.  Y. — An  enormous  girder  for  a  new 
bridge  is  transported  through  this  city  and  placed 
across  the  Allegheny  River.  The  girder  is  7  feet 
high,  117  feet  long  and  weighs  522,931  pounds 
(263    tons). 

Issy-Les-Mouluneaux,  France.— The  Chinese  Mili- 
tary Commission  visits  the  military  aviation 
grounds. 

New  York,  N.  Y. — The  22nd  Regiment  Engineers 
march  away  from  their  old  armory  to  the  new 
quarters  at  Broadway   and   16Sth   street. 

Seville,  Spain. — The  fete  day  of  Macarena.  the 
patron  saint  of  the  toreadors,  is  attended  by  great 
crowds. 

Spokane,  Wash. — After  the  team's  mascot  has 
been  discovered  in  an  enormous  baseball,  the  season 
opens  with  Governor  Lister  pitching,  Lieutenant 
Governor  Taylor  catching  and  Mayor  Hindley  at 
the  bat. 

Stockholm,  Sweden. — The  corner-stone  of  the 
English  church  is  laid  in  the  presence  of  the 
Crown  Prince  and  Princess. 

Comic  Section.— Mutt  puts  one  over  on  Jeff,   who 
will  probably  recover  in  a  couple  of  months. 
And  Many  Others. 

A  WOMAN  OF  IMPULSE  (May  14).— On  the 
Countess  Cherneh's  estate,  a  farmer  named  Sol- 
man  employs  one  Gaston  Larue,  an  old  man  who 
is  supporting  his  three  motherless  children  by 
driving  for  Solman.  Larue  is  making  a  hurried 
delivery  of  a  heavy  load  one  day  when  the  Count 
happening  past  rebukes  him  for  whipping  his 
horse.  Impulsively  the  Countess  drives  to  Sol- 
man's  farm  and  instructs  him  to  discharge  Larue. 
This  is  done,  and  the  old  man,  unable  to  find 
work,  is  starving  with  his  children,  while  the 
Countess,  decrying  cruelty  in  others,  is  hunting 
deer  with  friends.  On  a  lonely  road  one  day  the 
horse  the  Counters  is  riding  shies  and  throw* 
and.  painfully  injured,  she  is  found  by  Larue's 
children.  Her  timely  discovery  by  the  youngsters 
saves  her  life.  When  she  has  recovered  the 
Countess  goes  humbly  to  the  home  of  the  driver 
to  reward  the  children  and  beg  Larue's  forgiveness 
for    her    inhumanity. 

A  REDSKIN'S  MERCY  (May  14).— Silver  Cloud 
and  Yellow  Hear,  two  Indian  warriors,  in  Bear  eh  of 
a  token  of  their  bravery  to  bring  back  to  their 
chief,  come  upon  Marion  Watkins,  the  wife  Of  fl 
white  settler  in  the  neighborhood.  Her  plea  for 
molts  the  heart  of  Silver  Cloud,  but  Yrllmv 
Bear  is  not  so  affected.  A  fight  between  the  two 
braves  ensues  and  as  a  result  of  it  Silver  Cloud 
hurries  with  Marion  to  the  paleface  camp,  while 
Yellow  Bear,  mortally  wounded,  struggles  back 
to  his  tribe.  Hearing  Yellow  Bear's  story  the 
Chief  Calls  his  men  together  and  the  Indians  set 
out  to  annililate  the  pioneers.  After  a  stirring 
battle  strength  of  number  tells  and  the  white  set- 
tlers are  toned  to  flee.  Silver  Cloud  again  helps 
Marion  to  escape,  but  his  own  life  is  the  forfeit. 
AN  ITINERANT  WEDDING  (May  15).— The 
Widow  Woods  has  a  beautiful  daughter,  Gwen- 
doline, whose  hand  is  sought  by  Charley  Arloss. 
He  sends  a  rather  ambiguous  note  to  the  widow, 
wliieh  gives  her  the  impression  that  it  is  her  hand 
he  is  seeking.  At  the  widow's  reception  the  next 
day,  Arloss  finds  himself  inn  love  with  Gwendoline, 
but  loved  by  both  Gwendoline  and  the  widow. 
Fearing  that'  should  Mrs.  Woods  learn  the  truth 
she  will  forbid  the  banns,  Arloss  presses  a  clergy- 
man guest  into  service,  but  before  the  ceremony 
has  been  even  started  the  widow  is  beard  ap- 
proaching. The  lovers  and  the  witnesses  hurry 
upstairs  where  the  ceremony  is  continued  until 
Mrs.  Wood  is  heard  hurrying  up  the  stairs.  .  The 
party  is  on  the  roof  of  the  bouse  when  the  knot 
is  finally  tied  and  in  the  excitement  the  bride  falls 
through  a  chimney  that  is  being  repaired.  Hubby 
goes  to  the  rescue  and,  man  and  wife,  they  tum- 
ble out  on  the  hearth  before  the  assembled  guests. 
THE  JELLY  FISH  (May  16).— This  film  deals 
with  the  jelly-fish  that  inhabits  the  Mediterranean 
Sea  and  the  species  is  more  richly  colored  and  more 
beautiful  than  that  of  any  other  part  of  the 
world.  Some  of  the  specimens  examined  are  a 
yard  in  diameter.  The  jelly-fish  has  introduced 
himself  to  practically  every  surf  bather  and  they 
should  take  this  opportunity  to  study  the  inno- 
cent-looking   creature    at    close    range. 

ALONG  THE  BANKS  OF  THE  RIVER  ETTRE 
(May  16).— A  scenic  film  that  includes  views  of 
the  ruined  aqueduct  used  to  carry  the  waters  of 
the  Eu re  to  Versailles  and  several  examples  of 
Fifteenth  Century  architecture  built  at  the  in- 
stance of  Louis  XIV,  and  the  whole  handsomely 
colored. 

SARAGOSSA  (May  16).— The  capital  of  the  an- 
cient Province  of  Aragon  and  a  reminder  of  the 
golden  age  of  Spain  when  she  was  the  greatest 
power  In   the  world. 

A  WRECKED  LIFE  (May  17).— Three  miners 
stop  at  a  country  inn  for  refreshments  and  become 
interested  in  the  story  of  an  idiotic  woman  serv- 
ant in  the  place.  The  owner  of  the  inn  tells  the 
story  of  the  woman's  life.  Deserted  by  her  bus- 
searched  for  him  for  years  in  vain  and 
after  she  had  given  him  up  for  dead  and  bad  be- 
come, engaged  to  the  son  of  the  narrator  she  found 
her  husband— and  her  dead  lover  at  his  feet.     The 


nexl  morning  she  was  found  stark  mad.  At  the 
conclusion  Of  the  story  one  of  the  visitors  rises, 
e  with  terror,  and  calling  the  woman  announces 
that  he  La  her  husband.  The  inn-keeper  turns  upon 
him  savagely  and  avenges  at  one  stroke  the  death 
of   his   son   and  the  wreck   of  the   woman's  life. 


horses  struck  terror  in  the  boy's  heart.  The  in- 
censed warriors  cast  him  from  the  tribe  with  the 
brand  of  a  coward.  It  was  then  that  his  op- 
portunity came  to  follow  the  white  man's  wonderful 
doctrine.     "Big  love  man  lay  down  life  for  friend." 


MELIES. 

THE  BLACK  TRACKERS  (May  15).— In  a  wild 
part  of  Australia,  Wilson,  an  English  trader  in 
kangaroo  skins,  has  his  camp.  Coming  into  daily 
contact  with  the  black  negroes  of  that  country, 
he  becomes  their  friend  and  they,  in  return,  pro- 
tect him.  An  Englishman,  a  stranger,  comes  to 
the  camp  whom  Wilson's  black  friends  take  an 
instinctive  dislike  to,  but  since  be  brings  news  of 
the   outside    world,    the    trader    takes    him    in   as   a 

Wilson  receives  gold  for  a  consignment  of  skins, 
and,  believing  the  stranger  to  be  asleep,  steals 
carefully  away  to  place  it  in  his  secret  hiding 
place.  But  his  guest  sees  all,  and,  following  him,. 
learns  of  the  hiding  place.  When  Wilson  returns 
the  stranger  is  lying,  as  when  he  left,  apparently 
asleep,  but  no  sooner  is  the  trader  off  his  guard 
than  his  guest  pounces  on  him  and  deals  a  terrific 
blow.  Then  so  as  to  point  suspicion  of  the  crime 
toward  the  black  natives,  he  places  spears  about 
the  trader's  body  and  sets  fire  to  the  camp.  The 
ffames  and  smoke  alarm  the  natives  and  they  come 
in  time  to  rescue  their  friend  from  being  burned 
to  death.  Then,  assured  that  his  wounds  are  but 
slight,  they  leave  him  and  take  up  the  trail  of 
the    culprit. 

The  stranger  having  secured  the  gold  takes 
refuge  in  the  nearest  village,  spreading  the  news 
that  the  blacks  have  murdered  Wilson.  The  vil- 
lage is  aroused  and  a  party  sets  out  to  avenge  the 
crime.  Meeting  the  blacks  they  learn  the  truth. 
verified  by  Wilson,  and  all  make  haste  back  to  the 
tge  Just  in  time  to  prevent  the  stranger  from 
making    his    escape    by    boat. 


BIOGRAPH 

THE  KING  AND  THE  COPPER  (May  12  ).— 
The  King  of  the  Cannibal  Islands  has  selected  a 
queen  to  adorn  his  throne,  but  the  royal  police- 
man with  his  hypnotizing  eyes  wins  her  away. 
Jealous,  he  pretends  to  have  committed  suicide 
and  to  the  throne  his  subjects  raise  a  fisherman. 
Under  the  rule  of  the  fisherman  the  copper  loses 
bis  job  and  the  queen's  love,  so  consequently  every 
thing  works  out  well  in  the  end  for  the  king. 

A  RAINY  DAY  (May  18).— It  is  a  gloomy  day 
at  the  club  rooms  and  Jinks  goes  out  to  rubber. 
In  this  occupation  he  is  discovered  by  a  couple  of 
members  Of  the  club  who  tell  Of  it  Ul  the  rooms. 
The  hoys  put  up  a  job  on  Jinks  that  teaches  him 
a  lesson  and  cuts  him  aloof  from  the  rubber- 
necks, 

THE  STOLEN  LOAF  (May  15).— The  butler,  a 
Raffles,  stole  the  necklace,  but  cornered,  he  hid 
it.  Fate  gave  it  to  a  poor  man  and  the  clever 
Raffles  had  him  arrested  and  con  vie  ted.  But 
fate  also  brought  happiness  to  the  poor  man  for 
through  his  sorrow  fate  convicted  the  butler  and 
made  society  recognize  its  injustice  to  the  poor 
man. 

THE  YAQTJI  CUR  (2  parts — May  17). — The  pros- 
pector bad  taught  the  Indian  boy  the  doctrine  of 
peace.  When  his  tribe  resisted  the  attack  of 
another  tribe  the  boy  did  not  take  part.  The  din 
of  the  battle,  as  the  horsemen  circled  them  again 
and  again,    the  moans  of  men  caught  under  falling 


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Lancaster,  Pa. — The  property  formerly  owned  by 
J.  B.  Martin  St.  Co.  at  W.  King  and  Prince  Sts., 
this  city,  will  be  used  for  a  moving  picture  theater. 
Solon  R.  Wonders,  former  manager  of  the  Family 
theater,    this   city,   will   be   manager. 

Richmond,  Cal. — This  city  is  to  have  a  $50,000 
theater  this  year.  A  theatrical  syndicate  of  San 
Francisco  is  ready  to  erect  the  structure  and  real 
estate   men    are   looking   for  a   site. 

Sidney,  His. — Dahl  and  Epperson  will  start  a 
new  picture  show  here. 

Reading,  Pa.— W.  I.  Hippie  took  out  a  permit 
for  a  moving  picture  house  in  this  city.  It  will 
be  located  at  108  Oley  St.  and  will  cost  $12,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — The  Eureka  Amusement  Co. 
will  erect  a  moving  picture  theater  at  3941  Market 
Street.     Cost  $25,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Levick  &  Woldow  have  pup- 
chased  a  lot  at  23  No.  29th  Street  and  will  erect 
a   theater  on  the  site  to  cost  $150,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Kahn  &  Greenberg  have  made 
a  contract  with  Geo.  Hogg  to  build  a  moving 
picture  theater  on  lot  at  corner  of  Broad  and 
Thompson  Streets. 

St,  Joseph,  Mo. — Don  W.  Stuart,  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  Mutual  Vaudeville  Association,  of 
Chicago,  is  in  the  city  with  a  view  to  bringing 
about   the   erection   of  a   new    theater  here. 

Stroudsburg,  Pa. — A  $40,000  opera  house  Is  to  be 
erected  on  a  site  purchased  from  the  Wyckoff 
and  Houston  estate.  The  theater  will  be  financed 
by  the  Stroudsburg  Opera  House  Co. 

Virginia,  Minn. — Well-known  Duluth  theatrical 
men  are  said  to  have  approached  local  Odd  Fellows 
to  proceed  with  the  tentative  plans  for  the  erection 
of  a   large   theater. 

Columbus,  0. — Property  in  the  rear  of  59  South 
High  Street  has  been  leased  by  Jas.  Ross  and  Jno. 
McCaferty  to  Max  Steam  who  will  build  a  moving 
picture  theater  on  the  premises. 

Americus,  Ga. — C.  J.  Wall,  manager  of  the  Alca- 
sar  motion  picture  theater,  disposed  of  his  Interest 
in  it  to  Messrs.  Quinten  Sorrells  and  McCord 
Prather,    who  will  conduct  it  in   future. 

St.  Louis,  Mo. — The  St.  Louis  Motion  Picture 
Company,  of  which  O.  E.  Goebel  is  president,  Is 
preparing   to  enlarge  Its   building. 

Adams,  Neb. — A  deal  was  closed  recently  whereby 
H.  C.  Rosenfelt  purchased  the  Ben  DeBore  prop- 
erty in  W.  Main  Street.  He  will  remodel  the  build- 
ing  into  a   motion   picture  theater. 

Chico,  Cal. — Turner  &  Dahnken  are  getting  ready 
to  erect  a  $40,000  theater  In  this  city  on  Broad- 
way below  Second. 

Paducah,  Ky. — Architect  A.  L.  Lassiter,  of  this 
city,  has  completed  plans  for  the  Auditorium  theater 
to  be  erected  at  Dawson  Springs  by  an  association, 
headed  by  W.  I.  Hamby,  a  prominent  resident  of 
the   health   resort. 

Fowlerton,  Tex. — Earnest  Fowler  and  Henry  Bur- 
deck  opened  the  Electric,  their  new  picture  show. 
It  is  located  in  Texas  Street,  next  door  to  Silver's 
drug   store. 

Higginsville,  Mo. — The  Gem  theater  has  opened 
for  business.     C.  G.  Quails,  proprietor. 

Greensboro,  If.  C— The  City  Commissioners  will 
receive  bids  to  remodel  the  Grand  Opera  House. 
Plans   at  office  of  T.   J.   Murphy,   Mayor. 

Austin,  Tex.— C.  Pitts,  H.  F.  Ford  and  associates 
are  reported  to  erect  a  $200,000  theater. 

Kansas  City,  Mo.— G.  W.  Ellsworth  will  erect  a 
moving  picture  theater  at  2510  E.  39th  Street. 
Cost   $4950.  _     .. 

Mt.  Pleasant,  Tex.— M.  Greenspun,  of  Ft.  Worth, 
Tex.,  contemplates  erecting  a  moving  picture 
theater 

Philadelphia,  Pa.— P.  F.  Berger  has  Invited 
estimates  on  a  moving  picture  theater  to  be  built 
at  York,  Hope  and  Howard  Streets  for  Zorn  ft 
Spaulding,  at  a  cost  of  $35,000. 

Orange  Tex.— Thos.  Tatum,  an  Orange  citiien, 
announced  that  he  would  erect  a  building  on  the 
grounds  formerly  occupied  by  the  old  opera  house 
In  Division  Street  where  he  would  conduct  a  mOT- 
inf   picture   show. 

Canton  Ohio.— Louis  Bloom  has  plans  under  way 
for  a  three-story  moving  picture  theater  and  apart- 
ment building.  The  project  will  probably  com- 
nrtse  several  stores  on  the  ground  floor. 
P  WuS-ton,  Del.-A.  L.  and  F.  M.  Crawford 
have  received  bids  for  the  erection  of  a  four-story 
moving   picture   theater  and  office  building   to   cost 

^Bi^hamton,  N.  Y.-Ned  Koinblite.  of  the  St.; 
theater  has  plans  under  way  for  an  additional 
story  to  his  moving  picture  theater  to  increase  the 
seating  capacity  400  seats  and  include  two  offices 
to    cost    $10,000.  ,         „ 

Salineville,  Ohio.— Frank  Conlin  has  had  prelim- 
inary plans  prepared  for  a  one-story  moving  picture 
theater  with  a  seating  capacity  for  »0. 

Rochester,  Ind.— J.  F.  Dysert  will  take  bids  about 
May  1st.  for  the  erection  of  a  three-story  moving 
picture  theater  and  office  building  to  cost  $ 7  000. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y.— Harry  L.  Ford.  26  Court  Street, 
has  plans  nearly  completed  for  the  erectionof  a 
two  story  moving  picture  theater  to  cost  $.,000. 


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CHAMPION. 

HAWAIIAN  LOVE  (May  12).— A  native  girl, 
Lahela,  is  beloved  by  Kalike:  she  suffers  his  em- 
braces and  be  is  content.  The  captain  of  a  small 
trading  vessel  visits  the  planter  and  sees  the  girl, 
who  appeals  to  him.  He  makes  love  to  her  and 
•he  finally  agrees  to  marry  him.  The  boat  puts  to 
■ea  and  Kalike  is  broken-hearted. 

The  captain  abnses  bis  crew  and  ill  treats  the 
poor  girl  he  married.  The  crew  decide  to  scuttle 
the  ship  and  chop  a  hole  in  the  bottom,  they  getting 
away  in  the  only  boat. 

The  boat  sinks,  but  the  captain  and  his  wife 
manage  to  get  away  on  some  wreckage.  They  come 
to  the  beach  and  the  man  seeks  out  a  Chinese 
liquor  keeper;  he  is  tired  of  the  woman  and  trades 
her  for  money  to  the  Chinaman.  She  is  seen  by 
her  old  lover,  who  comes  up,  and,  after  a  struggle 
with  the  Chinaman,  he  strangles  him  and  takes  the 
girl  away.  His  mind  is  full  of  murder,  and  he 
seeks  out  the  captain.  The  captain  sees  him  and 
staggers  back,  thinking  he  sees  an  avenging  angel. 
He  falls  over  a  cliff,  paving  the  way  of  happiness 
for  Lahela  and   Kalike. 


ever,  she  is  caught  upstairs  listening  at  the  door 
by  the  servant,  and  is  kicked  downstairs.  The 
woman  pulls  her  ears  for  leaving  the  kitchen,  and 
all  in  all,  Pearl  is  treated  exactly  how  a  real 
detective  should  not  be.  However,  at  last,  Pearl 
succeeds  In  gaining  access  to  the  room  and  is  fondly 
dreaming  of  the  five  thousand  dollar  reward  and 
her  noble  work  and  bravery,  when  Hanley's  friends 
enter  and  explain.  Pearl  appreciates  that  she  has 
been  stung  and  beats  a  hasty  retreat,  resolving  to 
detect  in  a  more  profitable  way  in  the  hereafter. 
OUR  WILLIE  (May  18). — Willie's  Pa  and  Ma 
have  been  divorced.  Willie  tries  to  get  them  to 
make  up,  but  without  avail.  Ma  has  engaged  her- 
self to  young  Belmont.  Pa  has  induced  youthful 
Miss  Stuart  to  consider  him  as  her  future  husband. 
Willie  plans  to  reconcile  Uie  foolish  couple.  He  is 
sick  and  they  visit  him.  Ma  brings  her  youthful 
fiance  and  Pa  brings  his  lady  friend.  They  each 
object  to  the  other  administering  to  Willie's  wants. 
In  the  meantime,  the  young  husband  to  be  and 
the  young  wife  to  be  are  carrying  on  a  merry 
flirtation.  The  elder  people  leave,  taking  their 
young  friends  with  them,  before  the  flirtation  is 
carried  too  far.  The  next  day  the  young  people 
meet  on  the  street  and  Belmont  asks  Miss  Stuart 
to  marry  him.  She  agrees,  and  tliey  each  write  a 
letter  to  their  respective  ex-fiancees  that  they  have 
met  sweethearts  more  to  their  liking.  Willie, 
meanwhile  is  conspiring  and  scheming  as  to  how  he 
can  reconcile  his  parents.  He  has  his  friend,  Tom, 
pose  as  a  doctor,  and  he  pretends  to  be  very  ill. 
He  has  Tom  phone  for  his  warring  parents.  They 
arrive  and  are  very  solicitious  as  to  Willie's  wel- 
fare. Willie  insists  that  he  is  going  to  die  and 
the  supposed  doctor  agrees  with  him.  Willie  then 
begs  his  parents  to  re-marry  before  he  dies  and 
they  agree  to  do  it  for  his  sake.  Tom  phones  for 
a  minister,  and  they  are  remarried.  This  seems  to 
have  hastened  Willie's  recovery,  for  he  immediately 
jumps  out  of  bed  and  congratulates  them. 


GEM. 


BILLY'S  ADVENTURE  (May  13).— Violet  Horner 
Is  in  love  with  Billy  Quirk.  Her  father  dislikes 
BUI  and  tells  this  to  Bill's  father.  Incensed  at 
this,  the  elder  Quirk  bets  Violet's  dad  that  he 
(Horner),  will  beg  Bill  to  marry  his  daughter. 
Horner  takes  the  bet.  To  keep  Violet  away  from 
Billy,  she  is  sent  to  a  boarding  school.  Bill,  dis- 
guised as  a  girl,  gets  into  the  same  school  and 
nearly  wrecks  it.  The  ruse  is  discovered  by  the 
principal.  Billy  persuades  Violet  to  elope  with 
him,  and  while  rmtning  to  the  parson,  they  bump 
Into  her  father,  who  calls  an  offlcer,  but  Bill  gives 
the  cop  the  slip.  Later,  Mr.  Horner  gets  a  letter 
from  his  old  friend.  Captain  Spar  (who  has  settled 
In  the  Canary  Islands),  telling  that  his  son,  the 
Prince,  will  call.  Violet  steals  this  letter  and 
shows  it  to  Billy,  who  conceives  the  idea  of  hiring 
a  conple  of  tramps.  He  makes  them  up  as  Zulu 
•laves,  and  himself  as  the  Prince.  In  this  disguise 
they  go  to  the  Horner  home,  where  they  get  dad's 
goat.  Pa  Horner  'phones  to  Billy's  dad  to  have 
Billy  come  over  to  marry  Violet,  and  collect  the 
wager  that  the  young  folks  may  have  as  a  wedding 
present. 

VICTOR. 

A  FAIR  EXCHANGE  (2  parts,  May  16).— A  rich 
voung  man  is  attached  to  his  father's  stenographer. 
Knowing  her  character  the  father  objects,  disowning 
his  son  when  he  persists  in  his  attentions  to  the 
girl.  In  the  grip  of  poverty,  the  girl's  true  nature 
is  disclosed,  and  the  gentleness  and  goodness  of 
her  sister  is  revealed.  The  Insincere  girl  finally 
rejects  her  lover,  who  is  aided  by  the  good  sister. 
Father  and  son  are  reconciled,  the  latter  real- 
izing that  he  had  chosen  the  wrong  sister.  An 
embezzling  clerk  in  the  father's  employ  finds  favor 
with  the  fickle  girl,  and  an  elopement  is  arranged. 
Through  an  error,  the  elopers  carry  away  a  suit 
case  containing  embroidering.  The  other  case, 
containing  the  embezzled  '  funds,  is  knowingly 
restored  to  the  rightful  owner  by  the  sincere  sister. 


rantula  is  preparing  the  evening  meal  and  the 
American  walks  in.  He  has  made,  up  his  mind  to 
meet  her  eyes  and  defy  her.  He  does  so,  but  she 
cannot  meet  his.  She  laughs  and  rashes  out  of 
the   tent. 

She  is  now  tired  of  the  Mexican  boy,  Jose,  and 
begins  to  hate  him  and  thinks  if  he  is  out  of  the 
way  she  can  win  the  American  engineer.  That 
night  she  goes  out  on  the  desert  to  look  for  a 
tarantula,  she  having  decided  to  kill  him  by  hiding 
one  of  these  deadly  Insects  in  his  bed.  She  finds 
one  and  returns  to  the  encampment,  and  placing 
it  in  his  pillow,  creeps  to  her  own  bed.  Jose  has 
been  in  the  habit  of  tending  to  her  comfort,  and 
that  night,  as  it  Is  cold,  he  takes  the  thick  blanket 
off  his  bed  and  tenderly  puts  it  on  hers.  Finding 
that  his  pillow  is  a  little  softer  than  hers  he 
changes  it,  quite  innocent  of  the  fact  that  she  has 
placed  a  tarantula  there,  whose  bite  Is  Instant 
death. 

They  retire  for  the  night  when  the  camp  Is 
awakened  by  a  scream  and  Tarantula  appears  with 
a  wound  on  her  breast  where  she  has  been  bitten  by 
the  tarantula  that  she  Intended  should  kill  Jose. 
She  goes  to  speak,  but  falls  dead  between  Jose 
and  the  American.  Jose  throws  himself  on  the 
ground  and  drawing  a  stiletto,  attempts  to  kill 
himself,  but  the  American  prevents  him.  The 
American  packs  up  his  kit,  telling  Jose  to  come 
with  him  and  start  life  afresh  in  the  East. 


CRYSTAL. 

HOMLOCK  SHERMES  (May  18).— Pearl,  the  girl 
detective,  is  at  home  chafing  with  inactivity  and 
the  want  of  something  to  do.  Sbe  decides  to  go 
out  for  a  walk  in  the  hope  that  something  in  the 
way  of  an  adventure  may  come  her  way.  Fred 
Hanley,  a  young  man,  has  become  a  confirmed 
drunkard.  A  friend  of  his  brings  a  doctor  to  visit 
Hanley.  Hanley  becomes  excited  during  their  visit 
and  frightens  them  nearly  unto  death  by  shooting 
at  them  with  a  revolver.  They  leave  In  haste, 
but  decide  to  lock  Hanley  in  his  room.  This  they 
do,  leaving  a  servant  to  watch  the  door.  Hanley, 
crazed  for  want  of  drink,  writes  a  note  that  he  is 
wrongfully  imprisoned,  and  offers  $5,000  reward  for 
anyone  who  liberates  him.  This  he  throws  out  the 
window,  just  as  Pearl  Is  passing  the  house.  She 
picks  it  up,  reads  it  and  realizes  that  her  quest  for 
an  adventure  has  borne  fruit.  She  immediately 
goes  home  and  disguises  as  a  boy.  Coming  back, 
she  applies  for  a  job  and  the  woman  downstairs 
employs  her  and  puts  the  supposed  boy  to  work. 
Pearl  has  a  hard  time  of  it,  peeling  potatoes  and 
scrubbing  floor,  but  with  never  a  chance  to  liberate 
the    unfortunate,    supposed    prisoner.     Later,    how- 


PCWERS. 

THE  VIOLET  BRIDE  (May  14).— David  Arm- 
strong, a  young  offlcer  in  the  United  States  Army, 
is  engaged  to  a  young  girl.  According  to  the 
ideas  of  his  mother,  his  ambitions  will  be  crushed 
and  his  life  ruined  if  he  marries  this  middle  class 
girl.  Mrs.  Armstrong  does  all  In  her  power  to  per- 
suade her  son  to  propose  to  a  fascinating  widow, 
Mrs.    Greeley-Hamilton. 

David  gets  a  month's  leave  of  absence.  Mrs. 
Armstrong  meets  him  with  Mrs.  Greeley-Hamilton. 
The  widow  bestows  upon  him  her  choicest  fas- 
cinations, but  both  are  much  disgusted  when  he  in- 
sists upon  calling  on  Cecile.  That  evening  the 
mother  tells  her  son  that  he  will  break  her  heart 
if  he  does  not  marry  as  she  wishes.  She  works 
upon  Ms  feelings  so  far  that  he  promises  to  obey 
her  and  he  writes  a  note  to  Cecile  trying  to  ex- 
plain things  to  her. 

Back  in  the  home  of  Mrs.  Greeley-Hamilton,  she 
is  telling  her  accepted  admirer,  Charles  Fellowes, 
that  her  marriage  will  make  no  difference  to  them. 
Fellowes  accepts  the  state  of  affairs. 

The  wedding  takes  place  and  Cecile  attends  and 
almost  creates  a  scandal  by  breaking  down.  During 
the  dance  that  follows  the  marriage,  Fellowes  sends 
a  note  by  a  servant  to  the  new  Mrs.  Armstrong, 
and  she  steals  out  to  him.  Their  meeting  is  an 
impassioned  one  and  he  crushes  her  to  his  bosom, 
and  in  so  doing  the  violets  she  wears  leave  an  Im- 
pression on  his  shirt  front.  David,  having  followed 
his  bride,  sees  the  embrace,  but  does  not  detect 
the  man.  He  speaks  with  his  wife  and  notes  that 
the  violets  have  been  crushed. 

He  walks  among  his  guests  and  In  the  card  room 
sees  Fellowes.  He  gives  him  an  imperative  order 
to  follow  him,  and  Fellowes  goes  upstairs  with  him. 
A  lady,  who  has  watched  the  happening,  tells  the 
wife  and  she  follows  them  upstairs.  She  looks 
through  the  door  and  sees  David  with  a  revolver, 
threatening  to  kill  Fellowes.  She  screams  and  the 
quests  arrive  in  time  to  prevent  a  tragedy,  but 
the  woman  that  David  married  swoons  by  the  stairs, 
and  falling  down  their  length,  is  mortally  injured. 
A  month  later  David  returns  to  his  regiment,  where 
he  Introduces  the  forgiving  Cecile  as  his  beloved 
wife. 

THE  TARANTULA  (May  16).— A  Spanish-Mexi- 
can girl,  known  as  the  Tarantula,  Is  coolly  polishing 
the  blade  of  a  stiletto  with  which  she  has  jnst 
killed  a  lover  she  was  tired  of — her  new  lover 
being  a  young  Mexican  boy  whose  beauty  and 
Innocence  appeals  to  her.  An  American  engineer 
rides  into  the  camp  and  reports  the  finding  of  the 
body  of  a  man  who  has  been  stabbed.  An  old  man 
in  the  camp  warns  the  American  of  the  evil  this 
woman  does  and  tells  him  she  is  guilty  of  the 
murder,  and  points  out  the  young  Mexican  boy  as 
the  latest  victim. 

The  American  makes  up  his  mind  to  resist  her, 
while  she,  noticing  him,  tries  to  catch  his  eye. 
He  refuses  to  look.  He  makes  his  way  into  the 
bar,  where  he  meets  the  Mexican  boy.  They  both 
take  a  great  fancy  to  each  other  and  the  American, 
who  is  on  his  way  East,  promises  to  take  the 
boy  with  him.  In  the  meantime,  the  small  encamp- 
ment have  a  long  Journey  to  make  across  the  desert. 
The  boy  tells  of  his  love  for  the  Tarantula,  and 
taking  the  American  outside,  Introduces  him,  hut 
the  American  refuses  to  meet  her  eye.  She  laughs 
at  him,  and  picking  a  flower  offers  it  to  him,  hat 
he    refuses    it.     In   a    tent   in    the    desert    the    Ta- 


UN1VERSAL. 

ANIMATED    WEEKLY   NO.    60    (April    80).- 
Friederich  F.  Friedmann,  the  great  German  Scientist, 
is  received  by  Governor  Pothier,  of  Rhode  Island. 

The  King's  Stakes  are  won  by  Battledore,  at 
Churchill  Downs,  England. 

The  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution  are 
received  by  President  and  Mrs.  Woodrow  Wilson,  at 
Washington,  D.  O. 

French  Fire  Department  inspected  by  M.  Poln- 
care,  at  Paris,  France. 

The  Wheels  of  Commerce. — Process  of  making 
solder  and  malleable  iron  from  old  tin  cans. 

The  Old  Guard  hold  their  annual  parade,  New 
York  City. 

Ospreys — Commonly  called  Fish  Hawks,  who  come 
the  first  day  of  summer.  They  draw  an  imaginary 
furthest  North  line  at  the  point  of  Sandy  Hook,  and 
not  one  has  ever  been  known  to  cross  it. 

European  Athletics — Exercises  and  sports  in  Eng- 
land and  Germany. 

What's  What  in  New  York— The  Aquarium  and 
Battery  Park  as  viewed  from  the  30th  story  of  a 
skyscraper. 

William  Jennings  Bryan — Secretary  of  State  of 
the  United  States,  receiving  the  Foreign  Diplomats 
in  his  office,   Washington,  D.   C. 

Dublin  Dog  Show — Some  prize  winning  beauties 
exhibited  before  the  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland. 

Croton  Dam — The  late  heavy  rains  cause  the  dam 
to  overflow,   Croton.   New  York. 

Who's  Who  in  Pictures — Jane  Fearnley,  poses  for 
the  Animated   Weekly. 

NESTOR. 

THE    SaUASHVILLE    LADIES'    FIRE    BRIGADE 

(May  12). — Things  have  been  very  quiet  with  the 
Squashville  Fire  Brigade  and  the  boys  have  fallen 
Into  bad  ways.  The  unexpected  happens  and  the 
fire  bell  rings,  the  boys  rush  to  the  fire  house  and 
eventually  get  off  with  the  machine.  An  annoying 
thing  occurs  to  spoil  all  the  glory  and  fun.  Some 
interfering  girls,  the  sweethearts  of  the  firemen, 
happen  to  be  near  the  scene  of  the  fire  and  thought- 
lessly put  it  out  before  the  fire  fighters  arrive.  They 
jeer  at  the  boys  and  the  latter  ask  the  girls  if 
they  hadn't  better  organize  a  fire  brigade  of  their 
own.  The  girls  say  they  will  and  that  in  future 
all  fire*  will  be  put  out  promptly.  The  boys  turn 
over  the  costumes  and  fire  house  to  the  girls. 

The  girls  get'  busy  and  sweep  the  Are  house  out 
and  make  it  look  real  cute  with  pretty  pink  cur- 
tains and  bows  and  things.  They  hang  pictures 
of  themselves  on  the  walls,  as  well  as  photographs 
of  their  mammas  and  papas.  The  girls  give  the 
nicest  pink  teas  imaginable.  At  other  times  they 
have  sewing  bees  and  hang  ribbons  on  the  trumpet. 

Unfortunately,  a  perfectly  horrid  fire  breaks  out 
at  Daddy  Basset's  home  and  daddy  and  mother  take 
to  the  draughty  veranda.  The  t.oys,  with  their  bad 
habits.  :ire  still  up;  they  run  in  and  manage  to 
stamp  out  the  fire.  In  the  mi-antime,  a  person  has 
rung  the  Are  bell  and  the  ladies  have  been  disturbed 
from  their  slumbers.  They  rise  quite  hastily,  dress 
and  do  their  hair.  They  go  to  the  fire  station  and 
prepare  to  enter,  when  the  captain  finds  she  has 
forgotten  the  key.  She  returns  to  get  the  key  and 
finds  it  is  hanging  by  a  piece  of  baby  ribbon  on 
her  trumpet.  She  returns  and  they  all  enjoy  the 
joke  on  the  captain.  The  old  machine  is  very 
heavy,  but  the  girls  are  brave  and  get  going. 
Little  Corinne  drops  off  and  weeps  in  the  road. 
The  others  find  she  has  disappeared  and  go  back, 
to  find  her.  One  girl  is  dispatched  to  the  machine 
to  get  the  smelling  salts  in  the  medicine  chest  on 
the  back,  and  Corinne  is  soon  able  to  proceed. 

The  girls  are  met  by  the  boys,  who  are  most 
rude  and  say  unnecessary  things  to  them.  The 
-iris  >vill  not  be  ridiculed.  They  throw  off  the 
costumes  and  make  the  boys  resume  the  work. 

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mine  is  out.    He  has  done   well  and  the  check   he 


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will  go  to  get  from  the  smelter  tomorrow  will  give 

.  and  his  wife,  Mary,  enough  to  go  and  bay  the 
farm  they  longed  for.  Tom  is  a  rascal.  He  mis- 
takes Mary's  interest  in  him  for  a  deeper  feeling. 
He  knows  of  the  savings  in  Jack's  home,  and  he 
covets  Mary.  He  waits  until  Jack  goes  to  the 
smelter,  and  shaking  off  the  attentions  of  poor 
Sadie,  he  goes  to  Jack's  cabin.  Sadie,  inflamed 
with  jealousy,  follows  and  watches  him.  She  creeps 
up  to  the  window  in  time  to  see  Tom  terrorize 
Mary,  who  has  repulsed  him.  and  to  see  him  write 
a  note  and  leave  it  on  the  table,  seize  the  baby  and 
tell  Mary  that  if  she  wants  it  she  bad  better  follow 
him  and  get  It. 

Mary  follows  the  brute,  frantic  in  her  fear  for 
her  child's  safety,  to  a  sback  in  the  hills  and 
Sadie  follows  cautiously.  Tom  locks  the  woman 
and  her  child  in  the  shack,  and  barring  the  window, 
he  goes  to  bury  the  bag  of  savings  which  he  had 
forced  Mary  to  give  blm. 

Sadie  creeps  UP  *°  where  Tom  has  thrown  his  coat 
down  and  takes  the  gun  from  his  pocket.  She  runs 
to  the  6hack,  smashes  the  window  in,  and  releasing 
Mary  and  the  child,  she  sends  them  home,  refusing 
to  go  herself. 

Sadie  has  a  mission  to  perform.  She  gets  in 
the  window  and  awaits  the  coming  of  the  brute  she 
once  loved  and  now  hates.  He  enters  the  shack 
and  is  taken  aback.  He  attempts  to  bully,  but 
Sadie  holds  him  up  In  a  determined  manner.  She 
backs  him  out  of  the  shack  and  makes  him  dig  up 
the  bag  of  savings  and  throw  it  to  her.  She  then 
tells  him  to  hit  the  trail  and  to  keep  going,  be- 
cause she  intends  to  put  the  sheriff  upon  his  trail. 
He  goes,  cursing  her. 

In  the  meantime  Jack  has  returned  home  and  has 
found  a  scrawled  note  telling  him  that  his  wife 
has  left  for  good  with  Tom.  Jack  cannot  believe 
it,  but  failing  to  find  Mary,  he  is  crushed.  His 
grief  turns  to  rage.  When  Mary  appears  he  will 
not  listen  to  her,  and  matters  are  at  a  crisis  when 
Sadie  appears  with  the  money.  Jack  is  penitent 
and  all  is  well,  except  with  poor  Sadie,  who,  refus- 
ing to  go  with  them,  goes  away  to  fight  out  her 
battles  alone. 

AN  EYE  FOE.  AN  EYE  (May  16).— Tom  Kirby 
and  Buck  Edwards  are  partners  in  their  mining 
claims.  Both  have  been  up  against  it.  Tom  makes 
a  big  strike  and  he  suggests  that  Buck  finish  mak- 
ing the  monuments,  so  that  he  may  be  able  to  go 
and  record  the  claims  as  quickly  as  possible.  Tom 
gets  his  horse  and  as  he  Is  about  to  mount  when 
the  demon  of  avarice  enters  Buck's  sou]  and  he 
shoots  at  his  partner  and  wounds  him.  Buck  thinks 
he  is  dead,  and  going  on  to  the  county  town,  he 
records  the  claims.  When  questioned,  he  states 
that  Tom  shot  himself  in  despair  before  the  strike. 
He  proposes  to  the  saloon  keeper's  daughter  and  is 
accepted. 

Tom  pulls  himself  together  and  with  his  finger 
dipped  in  bis  own  blood,  he  writes  on  the  horse's 
side,  "My  partner  killed  me."  The  horse  is  found 
at  a  water  hole.  Tom  is  found,  revived  and  taken 
home.  Buck  confesses  and  Is  taken  to  the  desert 
.and   left   there. 


BISON. 

THE  TOLL  OF  WAB  (3  parts,  May  13).— Edith 
Eldridge.  daughter  of  Colonel  Eldridge.  disguises 
herself  as  a  boy  to  enlist  with  her  two  brothers 
in  the  Confederate  army.  Her  identity  is  discovered 
and  she  is  rejected.  Federal  raiders  ransack  and 
burn  the  Eldridge  home,  and  kill  Edith's  father. 
Enos  and  Mammy,  faithful  slaves,  save  Edith's 
life.  To  avenge  the  murder,  Edith  turns  spy  for 
the  Confederates.  With  Enos.  she  goes  through 
the  swamps  to  the  headquarters  of  General  John- 
son. The  general  pleads  with  her  to  give  up  her 
perilous  undertaking,  but  she  insists.  Entering  the 
T'nion  Hoes,  she  arrives  alone  near  the  quarters  of 
Ueut.  Phillips.  She  feigns  illness  and  the  ofBcer  car- 
ries the  seemingly  prostrate  girl  to  quarter,  where 
confides  her  to  the  wife  of  an  officer.  Edith's 
story  Is  plausible,   and  she  is  allowed  to  remain. 

Slowly,  but  surely,  Lieut.  Phillips  is  falling  in 
love  with  her.  Enos  is  captured.  Edith  aids  him 
to  get  work  around  the  quarters.  She  plans  to 
secure  the  outline  map  of  the  Union  fortifications, 
entrusted  to  Lieut.  Phillips.  By  betraying  her  faith 
she  Becurea  them  and  makes  her  escape.  She  is 
pursued  and  wounded,  but  reaches  the  Confederate 
lines. 

As  a  result  of  the  information  the  Confederates 
make  an  immediate  attack.  During  the  battle 
Edith  beefl  both  of  her  brothers  fall,  and  witnesses 
the  danger  of  the  Confederate  ammunition  wagons. 
Lblng  Into  the  seat  of  an  ammunition  wagon, 
whose  driver  has  been  shot,  she  attempts  to  cross 
the  stream  with  it.  The  Confederates  are  repulsed, 
and  Lieut.  Phillips  captures  Edith,  takes  her  back 
to  the  Union  camp  as  a  prisoner.  Enos  learns  she 
will  meet  the  fate  of  a  spy.  The  old  negro  decides 
to  appeal  to  President  Lincoln.  He  steals  away 
In    the    night. 

Upon  reaching  Washington.  Enos  is  first  denied 
admittance  to  the  White  House,  but  on  the  fol- 
lowing day  is  allowed  to  plead  for  the  life  of  his 
mistress.  His  story  touches  Lincoln't  heart,  and 
the  president  wires  General  Thomas  to,  suspend 
execution  and  send  the  girl  to  him.  The  message 
arrives  in  the  nick  of  time,  and  Lieutenant  Phillips 
js  si-lected  to  take  the  prisoner  to  Washington. 

Edith  is  bitter  in  her  prejudice  and  heaps  in- 
vectives on  the  president's  head  when  she  comes 
before   him.     Nevertheless    he    par.lous    her.     She    is 


taken    away    by    Lieutenant    Phillips,    who   telle   her 
to  go  where  she  will,  as  she  is  free. 

Edith  remains  in  Washington,  and  Enos  becomes 
man-of-all-work  at  her  boarding  place.  She  works 
as  a  seamstress.  She  treasures  a  picture  given 
her  many  months  before  by  Lieut.  Phillips.  Wise 
old  Enos  brings  her  a  newspaper  in  which  she 
reads  an  article  concerning  the  president's  plans 
to  attend  Ford's  theater  and  witness  the  perform- 
ance of  "Our  American  Cousin."  The  article  states 
that  Lieut.  Phillips,  in  company  with  Gen.  Grant 
and  hb3  wife  are  expected  as  the  president's  guests. 
Edith,'  hoping  that  the  Phillips  mentioned  Is  her 
Northern  lover,  scrapes  her  savings  together  and 
with  the  aid  of  Enos'   "coppers,"  attends  the  play. 

All  cheer  when  the  presidential  party  enter  the 
box.  During  the  play  Edith  watches  the  box  in- 
tently. She  sees  a  man  glide  along  toward  the 
president.  A  shot  is  fired.  President  Lincoln's 
head  falls  quietly  on  his  breast  and  bis  arms  to  his 
side. 

In  the  uproar  that  follows  Edith  hastens  out  and 
to  her  lodgings,  where  the  wounded  president  is 
broug-ht  and  placed  in  Edith's  bed.  Lieut.  "Phillips 
assists  Mrs.  Lincoln  from  the  room  and  turns  her 
over  to  a  woman.  He  recognizes  her.  It  is  Edith. 
Back  in  the  room  with  the  dying  man,  they  stand 
with  clasped  hands  as  Abraham  Lincoln  closes  his 
eyes  on  this  earthly  world.  Sometime  later  Enos 
apprises  Mammy  that  he  is  back  and  well,  and  with 
him  is  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Marshall  Phillips. 

IN  THE  SECRET  SERVICE  (May  17—2  parts).— 

General  Gordon,  of  the  Federal  army,  receives  a 
message  from  General  Grant,  telling  him  to  inter- 
cept important  dispatches  "from  Lee  to  Webber, 
carried  over  wires"  in  Gordon's  vicinity.  Lieu- 
tenant Barrett  assumes  the  task;  takes  his  In- 
struments and  sets  out.  Colonel  Webber,  of  the 
Confederate  army,  has  a  daughter  Edith.  Lieu- 
tenant Fairfax  aspires  to  her  hand,  but  his  atten- 
tions only  annoy  her.  Barrett  taps  the  wires,  but 
is  seen  by  a  Confederate  officer  and  shot.  The 
officer  creeps  up  to  him,  thinking  him  dead,  and 
Barrett  suddenly  shoots,  kills  him,  and  takes  bis 
uniform.  He  finds  some  plans  in  the  dead  man's 
pockets  addressed  to  Col.   Webber  and  copies  them. 

He  ties  the  copied  information  on  bis  horse  and 
starts  the  animal  toward  the  Federal  camp.  He 
then  mounts  the  Confederate's  horse  and  soon  meets 
Bdith.  She,  seeing  a  wounded  Confederate  officer, 
sympathizes  with  him  and  takes  him  to  her  fa- 
ther's home.  Meanwhile  the  horse  reaches  the 
Federal  eauip  and  Gordon  gets  the  message  and 
plans. 

Barrett  meets  Webber  and  Fairfax,  and  gives 
Webber  the  original  plans.  Edith  binds  Barrett's 
wounded  hand  and  the  handsome  couple  are  might- 
ily attracted  to  each  other.  The  household  re> 
tires  for  the  night  and  Barrett  prepares  some 
dummy  despatches.  For  seals  he  uses  candle  wax 
and  the  blood  from  a  cut  finger.  He  then  enters 
the  Colonel's  room,  changes  the  dummy  dispatches 
tor  real  ones.  On  the  following  morning  Webber, 
Fairfax  and  ethers  depart  for  the  front  and  Bar- 
rett Is  left  with  Edith.  By  this  time  he  is  thor- 
oughly iu  love  with  the  girl  and  he  leaves  her  with 
genuine  regrets.  Riding  to  the  dead  officer  he 
dons  his  own  garments  and  rides  safely  to  the 
Federal  lines.  That  night  Edith  takes  a  message 
that  the  Federals  are  advancing.  She  gets  her 
horse  and  rides  madly  to  her  father's  camp,  where 
Barrett's  treachery  is  discovered.  The  Confeder- 
ates fill  the  trenches  with  dummy  soldiers.  When 
the  Federals  charge  they  are  overwhelmed  by  the 
Confederates.  Barrett's  troops  are  beaten  back. 
The  retreating  Federals  decide  to  surprise  the  town 
where  Webber  lives.  The  Colonel.  Edith  and  Fair- 
fax barricade  the  house,  but  Fairfax  is  fatally 
wounded.  The  Colonel  also  Is  badly  wounded. 
Barrett  gives  Edith  his  coat  and  hat,  telling  her 
to  save  her  father.  As  they  are  about  to  go.  Bar- 
rett is  shot  in  the  head  and  passes  away  in  the 
arms   of    Edith. 


FRONTIER. 

BETTY'S  BANDIT  (May  17).— Betty,  a  ranch- 
man's pretty  daughter,  has  a  birthday.  All  the 
cowboya  have  presents  for  her  in  hopes  of  gaining 
her  favor.  There  is  a  cowboy  villain  in  the  piece: 
a  eomie  opera  villain.  He  is  very  self-im|K>rtant 
and  is  certain  he  will  capture  Betty  with  his  | 
ent.  He  is  a  joke  with  Betty  and  tin-  boys,  and 
vows  all  kinds  of  revenge.  Betty  is  really  in  love 
with  Joe  Franz,  a  handsome,  but  very  bashful 
eowboy.  She  visits  the  Padre  and  tells  him  of 
Joe's  bashfulness  and  the  Father  gives  her  some 
adTice.  Betty  starts  to  flirt  to  arouse  Joe's  jeal- 
ousy and  succeeds  very  well.  She  flirts  with  the 
villain.  Joe  goes  to  the  Padre  for  consolation.  The 
Padre  advises  Joe  to  disguise  himself  as  the  villain, 
kidnap  Betty  and  meet  him  at  a  cave,  where  he 
will  marry  them.  The  marriage  takes  place  and 
Betty  is  scared  into  keeping  it  secret.  She  thinks 
she  Is  married  to  the  villain  and  when  he  sends 
for  her  she  is  about  to  go,  but  Joe  is  on  the  job. 
He  routs  the  villain  and  informs  Betty  that  she  is 
his    wife. 

IMP. 

A    WOMAN     LOVED     (May     12).— Vivian     Morris 
takes    a    horseback    ride    with    Count    Schwenk.     a 
snob,    whom    her    parents    wish    her    to    marry,    a!- ' 
though  she   does   not   admire   him.      Her  horse   runs 
away  and  she  is  thrown  senseless  across  a  railroad 


track.  Harry  O'Connor,  a  plain  manly  basin 
man,  saves  her  from  being  run  over.  This  begins 
a  love  affair  between  Vivian  and  Harry.  Harry  dis- 
covers later  that  Vivian's  younger  sister,  Jum\ 
i-  deeply  in  love  with  him,  and  that  Vivian  is  be- 
coming fond  of  the  count.  Harry  puts  the  girls 
to  a  test.  After  three  weeks  absence  he  appears 
with  an  ugly  scar  on  his  face  and  with  one  arm 
gone,  saying  he  has  been  in  an  auto  accident. 
Vivian  no  longer  sees  in  him  her  idol,  hut  June 
loves  him  none  the  less.  The  nest  time  Harry 
sees  June  the  painted  scar  is  gone  and  the  hidden 
arm  is  sound  and  whole.  She  has  stood  the  test 
and   all   is   well   for  June  and  Harry. 

THE  HEAHT  THAT  SEES  (May  15).— King 
Baggot.  a  hunchback,  is  the  greatest  optician  in 
New  York.  He  is  charitable  to  the  poor  and  Tery 
sensitive  of  his  deformity.  With  all  his  goodness 
no  woman  has  ever  loved  him.  He  takes  an  In- 
terest in  the  case  of  a  poor  blind  girl  and  gives 
her  and  her  brother  a  home  with  himself  and 
mother.  The  oculist  and  the  blind  girl  learn  to 
love  each  other.  He  tries  to  keep  his  deformity 
from  her,  but  she  discovers  it  with  her  sense  of 
touch,  unbeknown  to  him.  He  finally  restores  her 
sight  and  is  about  to  leave  the  country  so  that 
she  may  never  see  him  as  he  is,  but  she  tells  him 
she  has  long  known  of  his  disfigurement  and  that 
it  will  make  no  difference  in  her  love  for  him, 
because    after    all    "The    Heart    Sees    Best." 


MUTUAL  FILM  CORPORA 
TION. 

AMERICAN. 

ANGEL  OF  THE  CANYONS  (May  12).-^Fim 
Beverley  was  an  untrained,  natural  artist.  His 
sweetheart,  Madge,  often  visited  him  while  at 
work  in  the  mountains,  but  never  completely  sym- 
pathized with  his  work.  She  wanted  his  whole  love 
and  attention. 

Bill  Hogan  was  much  beloved  by  pretty  Carrie, 
but  lie.  being  also  in  love  with  Madge,  ignored  her. 
Bill  felt  that  Jim's  ability  to  paint  was  what  had 
won  Madge's  heart. 

In  a  cosy  part  of  the  canyon  lived  charming  Paul- 
ine, commonly  called  "The  Angel' of  the  Canyon," 
because  of  her  many  good  deeds  for  the  villagers. 
One  morning  she  saw  the  artist  at  work  with  pretty 
Madge  gazing  petulantly  at  his  canvas.  She  saw 
them  quarrel,  Madge  fly  toward  the  house,  and  Jim 
turn  angrily  toward  his  work.  Then  she  stepped 
close  beside  him  and  he,  thinking  it  Madge,  took 
up  her  hand  and  kissed  it,  without  looking  up  from 
his  work.  Even  an  angel  can  have  human  feeling, 
and  the  angel  in  this  case  found  a  special  delight 
in  tbe  unexpected  kiss.  When  Jim,  in  confusion, 
apologized,  it  seemed  a  desecration.  But  Madge, 
watching  from  a  distance,   thought  otherwise. 

Several  days  later  the  angel,  walking  in  the  di- 
rection of  the  artist's  glen,  found  and  took  away 
his  canvas.  Three  weeks  later  he  called  upon  her 
and  found  a  check  for  $100  awaiting  him  and  a 
brand  new  box  for  bis  equipment.  Delighted,  he 
showed  his  treasures  to  Madge,  who  only  pouted 
and  then  cried.  Meanwhile,  Bill  Hogan  nursed 
a  grudge  in  secret. 

A  dav  came  when  the  angel,  strolling  through  the 
woods,  saw  a  terrific  fist  fight  between  Bill  Hogan 
and  Jim.  Beside  them  stood  Madge  and  Carrie,  vainly 
trying  to  separate  them.  Then  came  the  angel's 
moment  of  renunciation.  She  had  grown  to  love 
Jim  and  bad  to  fight  herself  to  repress  the  desire  to 
go  away.  But  her  better  nature  conquered.  She 
separated  the  combatants,  gave  Jim  to  Madge  and 
pacified  the  troublous  Bill.  She  strolled  with  Bill 
into  the  forest  and  when  she  returned,  he  went 
willingly  to  the  happy  Carrie. 

THE  KISS  (April  15).— Old  man  Hathaway  was  a 
trapper  and  lived  with  his  only  daughter  in  the 
mountains.  Pretty  Claudine  often  went  forth  to 
visit  tbe  traps  with  him  and  one  day,  when  so 
bound,  they  saw  a  youth  kiss  a  maiden  affection- 
ately. Seeing  a  chance  for  an  object  lesson,  tbe 
old  trapper  sagely  shook  bis  head,  saying.  "My 
child,  such  kisses  are  poison.     Guard  against  tbem." 

Claudine  had  a  herd  of  goats  which  she  tends 
carefully,  and  one  day,  sitting  on  a  rock  with  them 
scampering  about  her,  she  made  so  pretty  a  picture 
that  Ralph  Walters,  a  young  artist  from  the  city, 
asked  her  to  pose  for  him.  They  arranged  an  en- 
gagement for  the  following  day.  He  posed  her 
prettily  and  then,  overcome  by  her  beauty,  im- 
pulsively kissed  her  upturned,  Inquiring  lips. 
(Taudine  fled  In  shame.  From  a  distance  she 
watched  him.  debating  her  father's  advice.  Then, 
plucking  a  handful  of  poisoned  berries,  she  went 
again  to  him.  He  ate  them  gladly.  In  a  few 
moments  he  fell,  deathly  sick,  across  the  rock  and 
Claudine  ran,   badly  scared  to  her  father. 

Together  they  rescued  the  sick  artist,  and  took 
him  home,  ne  recovered,  and  one  day.  while  away 
with  her  father,  she  told  him  her  reason  for  giving 
bira  tbe  poisoned  berries.  Furious  at  the  insult 
offered  his  daughter,  the  aged  trapper  hurried  back, 
gave  Ralph  a  gun,  and  offered  him  a  chance  for  his 
life.  Overcome  by  feeling,  Claudine  stepped  in  be- 
tween them  and  spared  Ralph  from  the  deadly 
hatred  of  the  old  man.  A  few  minutes  later  Ralph 
was  picking  his  way  through  the  boulders,  ponder- 
ing upon  the  quaintness  of  backwoods  ways  and 
the  ease  with  which  an  innocent  expression  of 
admiration  was  transformed  into  an  excuse   to  kill. 


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THE  GREAT  HARMONY  (May  17).— Old  von  Ber- 
litz lived  in  the  little  village  with  bis  daughter, 
Gretchen.  He  played  the  pipe  organ  at  the  church, 
loved  it,  and  in  quiet  worked  on  plana  for  a  new 
patented  pipe  organ.  Gretchen  worked  In  the 
grocery  store. 

The  church  committee,  ever  seeking  a  chance, 
grew  tired  ef  von  Berlitz  and  discharged  him, 
bringing  from  the  city  young  Ziegfried,  a  hand- 
some musician  of  note.  Ziegfried  called  on  the 
old  man  and  felt  mighty  guilty  of  depriving  him 
of  support.  Incidentally,  he  fell  madly  in  love 
with  Gretchen,  and  began  to  visit  the  hqu.se  regu- 
larly, bringing  his  own  pupils  for  Instruction.  In 
spite  of  himself,  the  old  musician  began  to  love 
the  younger  man  for  his  kindness. 

One   day    Ziegfried   called    when   von    Berlitz  was 
working  on   his   drawings  of   the  new  organ.     Zieg- 
fried became   interested   and   finally   took  the  draw- 
ings to  the  far  away  city.    Thus  he  did  not  appear 
for  recital  at  the  church,  and  the  committee  again 
visited  old   von  Berlitz,   this  time  to  offer  him  his 
old    place    back    again,    and    to   tell   him    that    the 
young   musician   had    run   away   with    the   drawings. 
Two  weeks  passed  and  then  three,  and  still  the  old 
man    held    his    faith.     Then    came    to    Gretchen    a 
telegram,   which  she  read  Joyously  to  him.     It  said: 
"American    Organ    Co.    offers   $10,000   for 
new    patent.     Will    hold    out    for    $15,000. 
Home  soon.  ZIEGFRIED." 

And  home  he  came  with  the  check  and  in  return 
asked  a  gift  he  was  willingly  given — the  hand  of 
the  more  than  happy  Gretchen. 


THANHOUSER. 

EXPRESS  C.  0.  D.  (May  4).— It  is  said  that  luck 
comes  to  every  man  once,  but  In  the  case  of  a 
certain  crabbed  old  express  agent,  Dame  Fortune 
made    a    bunny    nose    at    him. 

When  the  opportunity  to  achieve  fortune  came 
to  him,  the  express  agent  did  not  realize  It.  He 
had  just  been  rejected  by  the  woman  he  loved,  a 
beautiful  widow,  and  life  looked  very  dark  to  him. 
Then  an  express  package  arrived,  consigned  to 
the  woman  he  loved  and  containing  two  rabbits, 
the   property  of   her  small   son. 

If  the  widow  had  paid  the  express  charges  right 
away  the  chances  are  that  this  story  would  never 
have  been  written.  But  the  rabbits  were  detained 
in  the  musty  railroad  station,  their  new  owner  be- 
ing out  of  town,  and  by  the  time  she  returned 
she  absolutely  refused  to  pay  the  board  bills  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rabbit  and  all  the  little  Rabbits. 
There  were  many  arguments  between  the  woman 
who  was  beautiful  and  the  man  who  was  scorned, 
and  the  rabbits  kept  on  multiplying.  Finally  it 
reached  a  point  here  the  woman  would  have  lost 
nil  her  savings  had  she  tried  to  pay  the  bill,  so 
she  agreed  to  marry  the  express  agent  on  his 
promise  to  cancel  the  debt.  Now  they  live  very 
happily  together,  and  are  known  among  their  neigh- 
bors as  '  'the  rabbit  milMonaries, ' '  because  of  the 
nature    of    their    fortune. 

HER  SISTER'S  SECRET  (May  6). — The  famous 
specialist  was  grave  as  he  gave  his  verdict.  His 
patient  must  go  to  California  if  she  wished  to 
regain  her  health.  The  proposed  trip  to  the  land 
of  perpetual  summer  seemed  a  great  treat  to  his 
youthful  patient,  but  her  older  sister,  who  was 
to  accompany  her,  realized  fully  the  fight  that  had 
to  be  made  before  health  was  won  back  for  the 
invalid. 

In  California  the  younger  girl  soon  regained  her 
strength,  and  she  and  her  sister  prospered  on  their 
little  farm.  Love  came  to  the  older  girl  in  the 
person  of  a  young,  manly  farmer.  She  cared  for 
him,  although  she  admitted  it  to  no  one,  and  as 
for  him,  one  look  into  his  eyes  was  enough,  but 
she  had  'little  sister"  to  consider,  and  gave  him 
no    opportunity    to    speak    his    mind. 

The  younger  girl  thought  that  the  many  presents 
of  flowers  ami  fruit  which  the  farmer  brought 
were  intended  for  her  alone,  and,  being  of  a  very 
romantic  temperament,  mistook  a  passing  fancy 
for  the  farmer  for  love.  She  told  her  secret  to 
her  sifter,  and  the  older  girl,  accustomed  to  mnking 
sacrifices  for  the  younger,  mnde  the  greatest  one 
In  her  life,  when  she  refused  the  farmer's  proposal 
of  marriage.  Then  in  her  diary,  where  she  recorded 
the  events  of  each  day,  she  wrote  that  she  had 
refused  the  man  she  loved,  although  it  nearly 
broke  her  heart,  because  her  little  sister  loved 
him. 

"Big  Sister"  had  gone  on  an  errand  to  a  nearby 
town  when  the  younger  girl  accidentally  found  the 
diary,  and  curiosity  led  her  to  open  it.  She  read 
the  pathetic  entry,  realized  the  love  which  had 
prompted  the  sacrifice,  and  resolved  to  be  worthy 
of  it.  She  went  to  the  farmer  and  told  him  why 
he  had  been  rejected,  then  leaving  a  note  of  fare- 
well to  her  sister  she  took  the  train  for  the  East 
and    returned    to    her    relatives. 

Ae  for  the  older  girl,  she  did  not  refuse  her 
lover  a  second  time.  She  married  him  and  they 
were  very  happy.  And  her  sister  in  the  East 
later  met  the  man  of  her  choice,  and  never  re- 
gretted the  action  which  had  won  her  sister's 
respect   and    gratitude. 

THE  OTHER  GIRL  (May  9).— The  annual  tour- 
nament of  roses  at  PasadeTia,  California,  Is  par- 
ticipated in  by  many  summer  visitors,  who  eagerly 
vie   with  one   another  for  supremacy. 

A  young  college  man  decided  one  year  to  com- 
pete,   prepared    hlB    entry    with    care    and    arranged 


with  his  fiancee  to  be  the  driver.  This  young 
woman  was  of  a  Jealous  disposition,  however,  con- 
tinually quarreled  with  the  young  man,  and  Just 
before  the  hour  set  for  the  fete,  declined  to  take 
charge  of  his  chariot  and  left  him  apparently  help- 
lesa.  While  he  was  wondering  what  he  should  do, 
he  saw  a  beautiful  flower  girl  pass.  She  was  a 
farmer's  daughter  and  with  her  mother  was  bound 
for  the  city,  hoping  to  sell  posies  to  the  merry- 
makers. The  young  man  noted  how  attractive  she 
was  and  on  a  sudden  impulse  urged  her  to  drive 
his  car.  She  demurred  at  first,  but  finally  con- 
sented,   much   to  his   delight. 

'  The  "other  girl"  was  angrier  than  ever,  and 
broke  her  engagement.  She  expected  that  her 
fiance  would  beg  her  pardon,  but  he  took  his  dis- 
missal in  a  matter  of  fact  way  and  seemed  quite 
cheerful  about  it.  Then,  like  a  latter  day  prince 
be  started  out  to  find  his  "Cinderella,"  whose 
modesty  and  beauty  had  won  his  heart.  They  met 
at  last  and  the  girl  was  glad  to  see  him,  for  she 
had  dreamed  of  "a  fairy  prince"  and  the  owner 
of  the  chariot  of  roses  was  the  man  whose  face 
appeared  in   her  dreams. 


SOLAX. 

THE  CASE  OF  THE  MISSING  GIRL  (May  7).— 
Burstup  Homes,  the  detective,  tries  to  locate  a 
girl  who  mysteriously  disappears.  The  girl's  par- 
ents, while  they  suspect  that  she  has  eloped,  still. 
In  order  to  avoid  a  scandal,  keep  the  matter  quiet 
and  rely  on  the  ingenuity  and  resourcefulness  of 
Burstup. 

Naturally  the  bum  detective  follows  many  wrong 
clues.  The  girl's  powder  and  puff  leads  him  in 
the  wrong  trail  and  into  a  bag  of  flour.  Many 
other  ludicrous  accidents  happen  to  him  until  he 
finally  discovers  the  girl's  and  her  lover's  hiding 
place.  In  order  to  get  to  her,  however,  he  has  to 
contend  with  a  big  gang.  He  reduces  them  to  sub- 
mission by  means  of  hypnotism;  but  before  he 
gets  away  something  happens  and  breaks  his  hyp- 
notic spell,  and  he  Is  temporarily  defeated.  His 
hour  of  triumph  comes  later  when  he  has  himself 
smuggled  into  the  gang's  den  enclosed  in  a  life- 
sized  frame.  With  one  shot  he  kills  the  whole 
outfit,    and   carries  off   the  missing  heiress. 

THE  PAST  FORGIVEN  (May  9)  .—Margaret 
Reeves,  an  unfortunate  girl,  who  has  fallen  Into 
the  clutches  of  a  white  slaver,  Is  induced  by  a 
Salvation  Army  rescue  worker  to  give  up  her 
present  life,  and  make  a  new  beginning.  She  de- 
cided to  redeem  herself  in  the  new  west,  as  a 
helper  to  an  overworked  wife  on  a  big  cattle  range 
out  West.  She  meets  the  foreman  of  the  range. 
Attracted  by  Margaret's  reserve,  he  falls  in  love. 
and  tries  to  win  the  girl  as  his  wife.  A  conflict 
between  conscience  and  love  rages  In  the  girl's 
mind  and  love  wins.  She  pushes  the  past  far  be- 
hind her,  and  takes  a  chance  for  happiness.  Secure 
in  her  Western  home,  her  Joy  reaches  its  zenith 
when  their  child  Is  placed  in  the  foreman's  arms. 
The  first  Jar  to  her  happiness  comes  when  she 
meets  the  keeper  of  the  dance  hall.  She  pleads 
with  him  for  the  child's  sake,  to  keep  her  secret. 
and  leave  her  secure  in  an  honest  man's  home. 
Pretty  fn^es  being  scarce,  the  man  follows  her 
home  and  forces  his  attentions  on  the  terrified 
girl.  The  foreman,  entering  unexpectedly,  sees 
him  and  hurls  the  intruder  against  the  wall,  and 
the  disgruntled  man  sneers  his  revenge  to  the 
husband,  leaving  a  shattered  faith  and  a  wrecked 
home.  The  husband,  unforgiving,  drives  the  shrink- 
ing wife  from  his  hearth,  and,  snatching  their  baby 
girl  from  its  cradle,  swears  she  will  never  follow 
in  her  mother's  footsteps.  Margaret,  bereft  of 
home  and  child,  wanders  Into  the  open,  and  en- 
rounters  a  young  Indian  mother  playing  with  her 
papoose.  The  desolate  woman,  hungering  for  her 
baby,  caresses  and  croons  over  the  Indian  child, 
and  so  wins  the  gentle  young  squaw's  heart,  that 
si  10  takes  Margaret  home  to  her  people.  In  her 
simple  way,  the  Indian  wife  sees  the  white  woman 
is  in  great  trouble,  and  draws  the  story  from  her. 
She  determines  that  Margaret's  baby  shall  soon 
rest  In  its  mother's  arms.  Stealing  away  from 
tlic  camp,  she  locates  the  home  where  the  lonely 
man  mourns  over  the  motherless  babe  in  its  cradle, 
and.  In  her  tragic,  broken  English,  shows  the  hus- 
band his  cruelty  in  keeping  the  child  from  Its 
mother.  With  barbaric  gestures  she  depicts  Mar- 
garet's remorse,  and,  seeing  the  man's  face  soften- 
ing, she  gently  places  the  sleeping  child  in  his  arms 
and  leads  him,  with  his  precious  hurden,  to  the 
camp   which   shelters   a  bruised   and  stricken   woman. 

DAD'S  ORDERS  (May  14). — Frank  Goodman  after 
graduating  from  college  as  a  doctor  goes  to  a 
nearby  country  town  to  visit  his  uncle,  an  old 
doctor  by  the  same  name.  When  he  arlves  he  be- 
comes acquainted  with  Bertie  Parsons,  daughter 
of  wealthy  old  Ed.  Pearsons,  whose  one  great 
desire  is  to  see  her  wedded  to  Dr.  Frank  Good- 
man. Old,  mean  and  with  a  sour  disposition  he 
is  as  distasteful  to  Bertie  as  he  is  ardent  in  his 
lovemaking  to  her.  When  young  Dr.  Goodman 
meets  Bertie,  he  Is  greatly  attracted  by  her  and 
when  he  Yearns  of  her  father's  choice  for  her  hus- 
band,   he   rebels. 

While  waiting  in  the  old  doctor's  office  a  note 
Is  left  there  which  he  reads.  It  is  from  Ed.  Pear- 
sons saying  that  he  is  dying  and  requesting  the 
doc- tor  to  come  at  once  prepared  to  marry  his 
daughter  by  his  death  bed.  To  save  her,  the  young 
doctor    decides    to    masquerade    as    the    old    doctor 


and  marry  her  himself.  In  his  haste  he  leaves 
the  note  on  the  table.  The  old  doctor  finds  the 
note  and  prepares  to  comply  with  the  request.  In 
the  meantime,  the  young  doctor  secures  his  disguise 
and  Is  married  to  the  girl  not  even  herself  know- 
ing the  difference.  After  the  marriage  while  In 
another  room,  the  doctor  attempts  to  kiss  the  bride 
which  she  does  not  want  and  in  an  outburst  of 
temper  she  grabs  his  whiskers.  When  they  come 
off  and  she  becomes  aware  of  the  deception  prac- 
ticed on  her,  she  is  very  angry,  but  as  she  thinks 
of  her  escape  from  the  other  man  she  becomes 
grateful. 

While  they  are  absent,  the  old  doctor  appears 
and  says  he  Is  ready  for  the  ceremony.  When 
the  girl's  father  learns  the  truth,  he  is  so  angry 
that  he  gives  up  all  idea  of  dying  and  Jumps  out  of 
bed  a  well  man.  When  the  facts  become  known 
to  him,  his  humor  overcomes  his  anger  and  all  is 
forgiven. 

THE    MAN    LN    THE    SICK    ROOM    (May    16) 

Miriam  Scott  is  loved  by  two  men;  Robert  Hen- 
derson, only  son  of  wealthy  people,  and  Richard 
Blakely,  a  poor  but  ambitious  young  doctor.  She 
admits  she  prefers  Blakely,  yet  decides  to  marry 
Henderson  for  the  home  and  social  position  he  can 
give  her.  Blakely's  failure  to  win  Miriam  makes 
him  reckless.  He  starts  gambling,  gets  in  with  a 
rough  set  who  rob  him  and  finally  becomes  a 
thief. 

Meanwhile  Miriam  marries  Henderson,  who  grad- 
ually tires  of  her,  and  neglects  her.  One  evening, 
Henderson  quarrels  with  his  wife,  and  leaves  the 
house  for  his  club.  Miriam  is  left  alone  with 
their  sick  baby,  which  grows  worse  and  worse. 
Miriam  becomes  frightened,  goes  into  another* 
room  to  telephone  for  the  doctor  and  is  con- 
fronted by  a  masked  burglar.  Frightened,  yet 
more  alarmed  for  her  baby's  life,  she  tells  him 
her  troubles.  He  recognizes  In  Miriam  his  former 
sweetheart — but  keeps  masked.  He  treats  her 
baby,  and  saves  Its  life.  The  mother,  grateful 
wishes  to  pay  him;  he  refuses,  takes  off  his  mask 
identifying  himself — Blakely.  Explanation  of  his 
present  position  follows.  He  denies  knowledge  of 
whose  home  he  has  entered.  Meanwhile,  the  police 
have  followed  Blakely's  trail  to  Henderson's 
home.  They  demand  admittance,  and  ask  Miriam 
his  whereabouts,  She  answers  that  no  burglar 
has  been  there;  the  officers  withdraw  satisfied. 
Miriam  hastens  back  to  Blakely — gives  him  a  suit 
of  her  husband's  clothes,  slips  money  in  the  pocket 
and  sends  him  away.  The  husband  returns  peni- 
tent, hears  the  story,  sees  the  baby  now  peace- 
fully sleeping,  realizes  how  badly  he  has  treated 
his  wife  and  begs  her  forgiveness  which  is  granted. 


KEYSTONE. 

MABEL'S  AWFUL  MISTAKE  (May  12).— Mabel 
has  two  suitors — Smith  and  Jones.  Smith  is  an 
elderly  man  who  impetuously  sweeps  everything 
before  him,  and  his  dashing  ways  win  Mabel's 
heart.  Poor  Jones  is  downcast  when  he  learns  that 
Mabel  is  to  marry  Smith,  and  follows  Smith  home. 
He  learns  that  Smith  is  already  married  and  has 
ten  little  children.  Peering  through  the  window 
he  sees  the  terror-stricken  family  bullied  by  Smith. 
Smith  and  Mabel  go  to  the  minister's  house  to  be 
married,  and  Jones,  dogging  their  footsteps,  at- 
tempts to  interfere  but  Is  driven  away  by  Smith. 
Jones  has  an  idea,  and  rushing  to  the  Smith  home 
he  tells  Mrs.  Smith  that  her  husband  is  marrying 
another  girl.  She  grabs  two  arms  full  of  little 
ones,  and  with  the  rest  toddling  at  her  heels  she 
arrives  in  time  to  prevent  the  wedding.  Smith 
and  his  wife  and  the  kids  go  home,  and  Jones  gets 
the    girl. 

In  revenge,  Smith  captures  Mabel  and  carries  her 
to  the  old  saw  mill.  Tying  her  on  a  board  he  awaits 
the  moment  when  the  saw  shall  cut  her  in  two. 
Jones  tries  to  rescue  her  but  is  driven  away  by 
Smith.  Jones  telephones  the  police,  who  have 
many  exciting  adventures  before  they  reach  the 
spot.  In  despair,  Jones  holds  back  the  big  fly 
wheel.  It  lifts  him  off  his  feet  and  he  revolves 
rapidly  around,  but  he  finally  masters  it  and  holds 
it  back.  In  a  laughable  melodramatic  manner  the 
doors  are  broken  down  and  the  heroine  Is  rescued 
'  'in   the   nick   of  time. " 

THEIR  FIRST  EXECUTION  (May  15).— A  new 
electric  chair  has  been  installed  In  the  prison,  and 
the  officials  impatiently  await  the  first  execution. 
The  victim,  with  careless  disregard  for  their  feel- 
ings, makes  his  escape  from  the  prison.  The 
sleuth  goes  in  pursuit,  and  finding  the  discarded 
convict's  garb  dons  It  as  a  disguise,  hoping  to 
meet  the  hunted  man  and  ingratiate  himself.  Pri- 
son guards  capture  the  sleuth,  and  disliking  to 
disappoint  the  waiting  crowd,  decide  to  execute 
him.  He  Is  placed  In  the  chair  and  the  current 
turned  on,  but  he  stubbornly  resists  death.  The 
current  is  doubled  and  trebled,  to  no  avail.  Mean- 
while the  real  criminal  has  been  captured,  and  he 
is  brought  hack  in  time  to  save  the  sleuth  from 
his  perilous  position. 


MUTUAL    WEEKLY 

MUTUAL  WEEKLY,  NO.  17  (April  23).— Balti- 
more, Md.— One  killed  and  many  hurt  when  car 
plunges    from    bridge    Into   the   river. 

St.  Petersburg,  Russia. — Nicolas  II.,  Czar  of 
Russia,  celebrating  the  third  centennial  reign  of 
his    family,    the    Romanoffs. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


Cuba. — Admiral  Wiuslow  trying  a  flight  In  a 
Curtis    hydro-aeroplane. 

Union  Hill,  N.  J, — Modified  Marat  lion  Race  or- 
ganized   by     tbe    Hudson    Despatch. 

New    York    City. — A    National    mourning.     J.     P. 
m's     funeral.       At     Hartford,     Mr.     Morgan's 
birthplace. 

Paris,  France. — The  President  of  France  reviews 
the   troops  of  Paris. 

Milwaukee,  Wis. — Early  Spring  water  sports  on 
the  river. 

The   Fashion   in   Paris. 

Hamburg,    Germany.— Ice   floes  in   the   Elba   River 
-    navigation    vffry    difficult. 

Seattle,   Wash. — +0  old   street  cars  are  burned  by 
mpany   to  obtain  the  metal  they  contain. 

Leipzig,    Germany. — The   annual    fair   draws    thou- 
of    people   here. 

St.    Louis.    Mo. — Baptising   negroes   In   the   Mi- 
Blppl    River. 

New   York   City. — In   order   to   insure    the   pasaen- 
against    the    Titantic's    fate    the    Olympic    ar- 
rives  equipped   with    a    double   hull. 

London,  Eng. — King  George,  at  the  opening  of 
Parliament,    lauds   peace    but   does    not    fear   war. 

Washington,  D.  C. — President  Wilson  opening 
the   haseball    season. 

Berlin,     Germany. — 1813-1913.      The     Kaiser     and 
Germany"    celebrate    a    century    of    German 
Jence. 

New  York  City. — Paris  newspaper  booth  that 
Park  Commissioner  Stovel  intends  to  install  in 
Central  Park.  Mr.  Stovel,  Commissioner  of  Cen- 
tral   Park. 

Portland,  Ore. — Only  4  of  22  escaped  when  the 
hark     "Mi  mi"    capsized. 

Antwerp,  Belgium. — The  Peten  refinery  is  en- 
tirely   wiped    out   by    fire. 

MUTUAL    WEEKLY,    NO.    18    (April    30).— Pitts- 
burg,      Pa. — The      "Pirates,"      Pittsburg      National 
i;>?    Baseball    Club,    in    action. 

Florence,  Italy. — A  peculiar  custom  of  celebrat- 
ing   Holy    Saturday. 

Los  Angeles,  Cal. — Testing  the  new  high  pres- 
sure   auto    fire-engines. 

New  York  City. — Mr.  Higgins,  Commissioner  of 
Bronx  Park,  unveiling  the  tablets  presented  by 
the    Bronx  Society  of  Arts. 

Aniche,  France. — Contest  between  human  rat 
banters. 

Fresno,  Cal. — From  all  over  California  people 
meet   to   celebrate    "Raisin   Day." 

Shooter  Island.  N.  Y, — $250,000  fire  sweeps  half 
of  Shooter  Island. 

London,  England. — Beautiful  specimens  of  horse 
flesh    are   seen   at   the   opening  of  the  Horse  Show. 

Paris,  France. — Showing  the  Secretary  of  Agri- 
culture how   hazelwood  is  used   to  locate   water. 

The  Fashion  in  New  York  and  Paris. 

London,  England. — King  George  V.  at  the  open- 
ing of  the  Clingford  Reservoir. 

Hanover.  Germany. — A  cross-country  walking 
contest.  The  winner  covered  the  45  miles  in  5 
hours   and   52   minutes. 

New  York  City. — Cardinal  Farley  at  the  conse- 
cration of  tbe  Spanish  Church,  "Coir  Lady  of 
Hope." 

Livonia,   Russia. — Ice  cutting  on  the   River  Neva. 

Louisville,  Ky. — The  steamer  "Sam  Brown"  of 
Pittshurg   sinks    after    hitting    a    submerged    log. 

Bradford.  Eng. — An  unusual  football  match. 

Patterson,  N.  J. — 4,000  strikers  march  at  the 
funeral  of  Vallaino,  who  was  killed  in  the  silk 
strikers*    riot. 

Paris,  France. — Dignitaries  at  the  memorial  serv- 
ice held  for  the  late  King  of  Greece. 

Berlin,  Germany.— Prince  Regent  of  Havana, 
visiting   the   City   Hall. 

New  York  City.— Tbe  Old  Guard  parading  on 
Fifth    Avenue. 

Paris,  France. — French  athletic  contest. 


MOSaUES     AND     TOMBS      OF      CALIPHS     AND 

MAMELUKES  (May  8).— This  particularly  enter- 
taining and  instructive  film  gives  a  very  compre- 
hensive idea  of  Arabian  architecture,  which  is  en- 
tirely different  from  all  others.  The  mausoleums 
which  the  Arabians  erect  for  their  departed  rulers 
are  most  beautiful.  Each  one  of  them  is  an  ever- 
lasting monument  to  the  Mohammeden  belief  of 
the  immortality  of  the  soul.  Each  stone  that  is  used 
in  the  construction  of  these  tombs  is  inscribed  with 
extracts    from    the    Koran,    which    is    their    Bible.      It 

is  in  the  Mosques  that  the  peculiarity  of  their  art 
of  building  is  most  forcibly  portrayed*  The  roofs  of 
these  are  huge  domes,  which  resemble  an  enormous 
inverted  bowl.  Surrounding  them  are  count  less 
spires  or  minarets  as  they  are  called.  From  these 
the  famous  "call  to  prayer"  is  given  by  the  priests. 
The  Arabian  sunsets,  which  are  almost  sublime, 
gild  the  domes  and  minarets  of  the  mosques  until 
they  look  like  huge  balls  and  tongues  of  fire. 

HIS    MASTER'S    RIVAL    (May    15).— When    Cap- 
tain    Ronchon     received    a    letter    from    Mrs.     I>«-s- 
granges,    saying   that    she    would    he   pleased    to   see 
at   Nice  and  listen  to  his  proposal  of  marriage, 
he   immediately    prepares   to  start    for  that  city. 

He,  therefore,  grants  his  servant  a  week's  holi- 
day. The  valet,  however,  starts  for  Nice  ahead 
of  his  master.  As  soon  as  he  arrives  there  he 
starts  frequenting  the  most  fashionable  restaurants 
and  in  one  of  them  makes  the  acquaintance  of  a 
young  woman,  to  whom  he  gives  his  name  as  Cap- 
tain   Ronchon. 

A  short  time  after  that  he  finds  himself  in  trou- 
ble  with   an   American   major,    who  is   also   making 
love  to  this  same  lady.     The  Major  challenu'ev 
to  a  dnel,  but  tbe  best  be  receives  is  a  dish  of  ice 
cream   in   his   face. 

When  Jean's  holiday  comes  to  an  end  and  Captain 
Roucliou  arrives  at  Nice,  he  finds  affairs  in  a  pretty 
mess.  When  he  goes  to  call  on  Mrs.  Desgrii. 
she  exclaims,  "This  cannot  be  Captain  Ronchon. 
He  is  a  different  looking  man  from  you."  She  then 
catches  sight  of  the  Captain's  valet,  who  had  been 
hiding  behind  him  during  all  this  excitement,  point- 
ing   to   him    saiil,    "Why,    this   is   Captain    Ronchon." 

The  Captain  turns  around  and  asks  his  valet  for 
an  explanation.  Of  course,  Jean  has  all  kinds 
of  excuses  to  offer  and  things  are  finally  getting 
straightened  out,  when  just  at  this  moment  tbe 
Captain's  card  is  brought  in  from  the  Major,  and 
on  it  is  wri t ten  a  note  in  which  he  calls  him  a 
coward.  The  Captain,  not  stopping  to  find  out  how 
the  card  came  in  the  Major's  possession,  rushes 
out  to  search  for  him.  He  finally  locates  the  man 
who  has  insulted  him  and  they  Immediately  start 
to  fight  a  duel. 

However,  while  the  duel  is  going  on  between 
the  Captain  and  the  Major,  Mrs.  Desgranges  decides 
that  she  likes  the  valet  better  than  the  Captain 
and  they  go  to  secure  their  marriage  papers.  When 
Captain  Konehon  returns,  he  finds  that  he  has  been 
jilted  by   the  widow  in   his  absence. 

THE  VALLEY  OF  AX BULA— Switzerland  (May 
15).— This  film  reproduces  the  beautiful  landscape 
through  which  the  railroad  passes  in  the  Valley 
of  Albula.  This  road,  built  from  1897  to  1903. 
lias  opened  the  Haute  Engandine  to  Internal  1 
service.  It  may  be  compared  to  tbat  of  St.  Goth- 
ard,  except  that  it  is  shorter.  Following  this  road, 
we  run  along  the  mountain,  around  the  plain  of 
Campi,  through  tunnels  and  over  viaducts,  all  of 
which  afford  a  splendid  view  of  Albula  and  its 
vicinity. 


MUTUAL  EDUCATIONAL. 

THE    OLD    CLOCK     (May    8). — Marius    Capistrol 

ilways  expected  a  big  legacy  when  his  aunt 
died,    but    was    greatly    disappointed    when    he    re- 

1  nothing  but  an  old  clock.  In  order  to  raise 
enough  money  to  pay  the  interest  on  the  mortgage 
of  his  little  farm,  Marius  offers  to  sell  some  of 
his  furniture  to  a  wealthy  neighbor  farmer,  named 
Mathias.  But  Mathlas  did  not  want  any  of  the 
furniture  except  the  old  clock,  which  Marios  was 
loathe  to  give  away,  having  become  mnch  attached 
to  It.  *  toe  day  Marius  receives  a  letter  from  a 
in  a  distant  town  saying  that  a  relative 
in  .lav;!  had  died  and  left  him  his  entire  fortune, 
lie  shows  the  letter  to  Mathias  and  asks  him  to 
advance  him  enough  money  to  go  to  the  city  and 
back.  Mathias  gives  him  the  money  with  the 
stipulation  that  should  he  fail  to  pay  him  back 
within  twenty-four  hours,  tbe  old  clock  would  re- 
vert to  him.  In  the  city  Marius  finds  that  be 
must  wait   two   hours  for  the  notary.     During   that 

he  goes  out  and  boys  many   valuable   things, 

of  which  is  to  be  paid  for  at  5  o'clock  at  the 

Golden  Hen  Hotel.     When  he  meets  the  notary,  he 

formed  that  there  was  a  mistake  in  reading 
the  legatee's  name,  and  Marias  has  to  return  all 
the  purchases  he  has  made.  He  arrives  home  just 
as   Mathias  is  taking  the  clock  from  the  wall.     He 

lea  the  oil  farmer  and  in  the  struggle  the 
clcek  falls  to  the  ground,  disclosing  a  large  num- 
ber of  bank  bills  and  gold.  Marius  pays  the  old 
farmer  what  he  owes  him,  and  he  and  his  wife 
settle  down  to  a  long  life  of  happiness. 


KAY-BEE. 

FOR  LOVE  OF  THE  FLAG  (2  parts— May  16).— 
Prairie  Flower,  the  squaw  storekeeper,  has  a  pretty 
half-breed  daughter,  named  Winnie,  who  is  courted 
by  many,  but  favors  Sergt.  Ashford,  of  Ft.  McKee. 
Prairie  Flower  does  not  approve  of  her  daughter's 
attachment,  and  endeavors  to  stop  the  growing 
romance. 

Ashford  receives  his  commission  as  second  lieu- 
tenant, wbich  does  not  please  Ool.  Flanders  and 
the  other  ohVers,  who  are  academy  graduates  and 
do  not  take  kindly  to  tbe  man  who  has  risen  from 
the  ranks.  He  finds  himself  in  a  peculiar  position. 
the  privates  treating  him  as  a  superior  officer,  and 
his  brother  officers  avoiding  him  as  much  as  possi- 
ble. 

Ashford  goes  to  visit  at  Sergt.  Adam's  house, 
and  has  a  pleasant  time  chatting  with  Mrs.  Adams, 
and   playing   with   the   baby. 

Mary  Flanders,  the  colonel's  daughter,  gives  a 
dance,  and  neglects  to  invite  Ashford.  lie  feels 
tlie  snub  deeply,  and  violates  military  etiquette  by 
spending  the  evening  with  the  Adams,  who  are 
giving  a  party  for  their  baby,  which  is  attended 
by  the  private  soldiers.  Tbe  Colonel  is  furious,  and 
in  a  fit  of  passion  orders  Asb ford's  arrest.  An- 
gered beyond  control,  Ashford  resists  arrest,  leaps 
upon  the  colonel  and  knocks  him  down,  and  then 
runs  away.  Jumping  on  his  horse  he  gallops  away, 
pursued  by  the  soldiers.  A  wild  chase  takes  place, 
and  Ashford"  s  horse  is  shot  and  comes  era  shim.' 
down.  He  jerks  the  horse  to  its  feet  and  forces 
it  to  continue  its  flight.  Eluding  the  pursuers, 
Ashford  takes  refuge  in  Prairie  Flower's  cabin, 
and  Winnie  hides  him  in  the  attic.  The  Colonel 
orders  Sergt.  Admns  upstairs  to  search  for  the 
lieutenant,  and  Adams  reports  that  no  one  is  there, 
and    the    soldiers    depart. 

A  week  later  the  soldiers  dam  the  creek,  bring- 
ing a  protest  from  the  Indians,  who  have  their  sup- 


ply of  water  cut  off.  The  Colonel  treats  them 
arrogantly,  arousing  their  anger.  From  the  attic 
Ashford  hears  the  Indian  chief  tell  his  sister, 
Prairie  Flower,  tbat  an  attack  is  to  be  made  on 
tbe  fort.  Visions  of  himself  taking  the  oath  of 
allegiance  to  the  flag  come  to  him,  and  be  decides 
to  warn  the  colonel,  writing  a  letter  which  he 
persuades  Winnie  to  carry  for  him,  she  being  in- 
nocent of  the  contents  of  the  letter,  which  advise 
Col.  Flanders  that  the  fort  will  be  attacked  that 
night  and  suggesting  that  he  mass  all  the  cannon 
at    that    point. 

The  Indian  chief  hears  of  Winnie's  visit  to  the 
fort  and  suspects  treacbery.  He  questions  his 
sister,  and  Ashford  tells  him  that  the  message 
was  one  of  defiance,  that  the  whites  were  now  his 
enemies  and  he  would  lead  the  Indians  against 
them.  The  chief  suspects  treachery,  and  insists 
upon  Winnie  and  Ashford  leading  the  attack. 

The  attack  is  made,  and  is  met  with  a  roar  of 
cannon  which  mows  down  the  redskins.  The  bat- 
tle is  soon  over,  and  Winnie  is  lying  dead.  The 
men  at  the  fort  try  to  express  their  admiration  of 
Ashford's  bravery,  but  he  turns  fiercely  on  the  col- 
onel and  tells  him:  "I  did  it  not  for  you,  but  for 
my  oath  to  the  flag."  Abashed,  the  soldiers 
withdraw,  and  Ashford  takes  Winnie's  body  to 
Prairie    Flower's   cabin. 


bRONCHO 

A  SLAVE'S  DEVOTION  (2  parts— May  14).— 
Col.  Trent  speculates  in  cotton  and  loses,  and  is 
compelled  to  borrow  ffJ500  from  Beal.  for  which 
he  gives  his  I.  O.  U.  payable  in  one  month.  Edith 
Trent  is  in  love  with  John  Craig.  Beal  is  de- 
termined to  win  her,  and  his  loans  to  her  father 
are  made  with  the  idea  of  getting  Col.  Trent  In 
his  power.  Trent  is  forced  to  sell  three  negro 
slaves,   among   them  his   faithful  Jim. 

Abraham  Lincoln  is  inaugurated  as  president  of 
the  United  States,  and  rumors  of  impending  war 
create  much  excitement.  Beal  buys  the  three 
slaves,  and  takes  them  to  his  plantation.  Trent 
continues  gambling,  and  Beal  refuses  to  advauce 
him  any  more  money,  until  his  notes  have  been  paid. 

The  war  breaks  out  and  Beal  demands  payment 
of  his  notes.  He  agrees  to  cancel  the  Indebtedness 
it  Trent  will  persuade  Edith  to  marry  him,  which 
proposition  is  indignantly  declined  by  Trent.  Edith 
overhears  the  conversation,  and  to  save  her  father 
promises  to  marry  Beal.  She  writes  to  Craig: 
"Dear  John:  Circumstances  over  which  I  have  no 
control  make  it  necessary  for  me  to  break  our 
engagement.  I  cannot  explain  the  reason.  Please 
do  not  try  to  see  me.  Edith."  Craig  is  worried 
and  angry,  and  endeavors  to  see  Edith,  without  suc- 
cess. 

Beal's  overseer  has  always  treated  the  slaves 
with  brutality,  and  they  rebel  and  turning  upon 
him  one  day  give  him  a  severe  beating.  The  ring- 
leader is  caught,  and  Beal.  furious  with  anger, 
gives  him  a  terrible  beating,  which  is  stopped  by 
Edith,  who  is  horror  stricken  at  his  brutality  and 
breaks  her  engagement.  In  revenge,  Beal  deter- 
mines to  foreclose  his  mortgage  on  the  Trent  home- 
stead, and  Jim,  the  slave,  makes  up  his  mind  to 
save  his  old  master  by  destroying  the  notes.  Beal 
catches  him  in  the  act,  and  a  terrific  struggle  en- 
sues. Jim  breaks  away  and  escapes,  and  Beal  puts 
bloodhounds  on  his  track.  Jim  runs  to  Col.  Trent 
and  tells  him  the  story,  and  the  Trents  try  to  save 
Jim  from  his  pursuers,  spiriting  him  to  the  swamp 
where    his   trail   is   lost. 

Three  years  later  Craig  is  a  captain  in  the  south- 
ern army.  The  Beal  plantation  is  occupied  by  the 
northern  troops,  and  Capt.  Moore,  the  union  officer, 
receives  word  that  Capt.  Craig  is  sending  des- 
patches through  the  lines  by  a  negro  messenger 
and    is   instructed    to   catch   him. 

The  negro  referred  to  is  Jim,  who  has  attached 
himself  to  Craig.  The  message  he  carries  is  one 
to  Edith,  telling  her  that  he  will  make  his  way 
through  the  lines  on  the  following  Wednesday 
night.  Jim  is  captured,  and  Beal  is  jubilant  as 
a  trap   is   set    for  Craig. 

Tbe  appointed  hour  arrives,  and  Beal  comes  rid- 
ing along  in  the  moonlight.  A  soldier  takes  care- 
ful aim  and  fires,  and  tlie  horse  goes  down.  Craig 
darts  into  the  hushes.  In  his  anxiety  to  see  Craig 
captured  or  killed,  Beal  has  pushed  forward  and  is 
struck  by  one  of  the  bullets  sent  after  Craig,  and 
dies.  Craig  makes  his  way  to  Edith,  and  is  joy- 
fully greeted  by  her.  Jim  escapes  and  rushes  to 
the  Trent  home,  warning  Jim  that  ihe  Yankees 
are  coming.  Escape  seems  shut  off,  when  the  negro 
makes  Jim  change  coats  and  hats  with  him  and 
dash  out.  The  Union  soldiers  take  after  him  and 
Craig,  goes  the  other  way.  A  thrilling  chase  takes 
place,  the  negro  being  finally  wounded  and 
captured,  and  he  dies  with  a-"  smile  on  his  face. 
pleased  at  having  saved  Craig.  After  the  war  1 
erects  a  tombstone  over  grave  of  the  negro  reading: 
reading:  "Oreater  love  hath  no  man  than  he  who 
layeth  down  his  life  for  a  friend.'' 


MAJESTIC. 


THE  WHIM  OF  DESTINY  (April  29).— Young 
detective  Weston — away  in  the  mountains  on  a 
vacation — meets  and  falls  in  love  with  pretty 
Laura  Graham.  Tbe  two  are  soon  engaged.  Some 
moonshiners  in  the  vicinity  suspect  Weston  of  be- 
ing a  revenue  officer  and  keep  a  close  watch  on 
him. 


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4  Reels        LET  'ER  BUCK        4  Reels 

The  Pendleton  Oregon  Round-Up 

Four  reels  cut  down  from  over  15,000  feet  of  negative.  Not  one  inch  of  drag!  World's  championship  Western 
tournament.  By  far  the  greatest,  best  and  most  important  of  Round-Ups.  World  championship  contests  only.  Trill 
PENDLETON  OREGON  ROUND-UP  is  the  greatest  Western  and  Northwest  event,  held  annually  at  Pendleton, 
Oregon,  near  the  Umatilla  Indian  Reservation,  the  center  of  the  greatest  range  country  of  the  world.  NO  FAKE 
STUFF  THERE!  A  real  breath  of  the  virile  Golden  West.  Playing  at  present  only  the  biggest  theatres  of  the  Pacific 
Coast. 

FIRST  REEL — Street  Parade  of  Contestants;  Entrance  to  Round-Up;  Arena  Charge; 

Fancy  Riding;  Roman  Race;  Cowboy's  Relay  Race;  Girls'  Bucking  Contest;  Riding 

Bucking  Bulls  and  Cows. 
SECOND  REEL— Fancy  Roping;   War  and  Love  Dance;  Tug  of  War;   Maverick  Race; 

Barrel  Race;  Steer  Roping;  Pony  Express  Race;  Stage  Coach  Race. 
THIRD  REEL— Steer  Bulldogging;  Cowgirls'  Relay  Race;  Squaw  Race;  Wild  Horse  Race. 
FOURTH  REEL — Bucking  Contest,  Restricted  to  most  vicious  outlaw  horses. 

Net  price  of  States,  including  one  set  of  four  reels,  subject  to  being  unsold: 

Alabama,  $500;  Arkansas,  $500;  Colorado,  $650;  Florida,  $500;  Georgia,  $650;  Illinois,  $2,000;  Indiana,  $1,200;  Iowa, 
$800;  Kansas,  $1,000;  Kentucky,  $800;  Louisiana,  $500;  Maryland,  $500;  Michigan,  $1,000;  Minnesota,  $800;  Mississippi, 
$500;  Missouri,  $1,200;  Nebraska,  $800;  Nevada,  $500;  New  Mexico,  $500;  North  Carolina,  $500;  North  Dakota,  $500; 
Ohio,  $2,000;  Oklahoma,  $500;  South  Carolina,  $500;  South  Dakota.  $500;  Tennessee,  $500;  Texas,  $650;  Utah,  $500;  Vir- 
ginia (includes  D.  C),  $800;  West  Virginia,  $500;  Wisconsin,  $1,000;  Wyoming,  $500.  For  other  territory  apply.  Very 
attractive  prices  to  buyers  of  three  States  or  more. 

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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


Laura's  father — keeper  of  a  gambling  honse  In 
the  city — has  a  ran  In  with  the  police  and  escapes 
to  bis  daughter's  home.  The  next  morning  Wes- 
ton receives  a  telegram  from  bis  chief  advising 
bim  to  look  for  Graham,  who  Is  suspected  of  being 
In  hiding  somewhere  in  the  mountains.  When 
Weston  goes  to  see  Laura,  he  finds  Graham,  the 
notorious  gambler,  with  her.  The  older  man  reads 
his  doom  in  the  detective's  eyes  and  as  soon  as 
the  girl  Is  out  of  hearing,  he  signifies  his  readi- 
ness to  go  back  and  asks  only  that  bis  daughter 
be  spared  all  knowledge  of  his  reputation.  Un- 
seen by  Laura,  Graham  starts  for  the  city  with 
Weston.  On  the  road,  the  moonshiners,  who  have 
been  waiting  their  opportunity,  jump  out  and  fire 
at  the  detective.  He  is  rendered  unconscious. 
This  is  Graham's  chance  to  escape.  Bat  as  he 
looks  at  the  injured  man  and  realizes  what  Weston 
means  to  Laura,  he  knows  be  cannot  go  away  and 
leave  him  to  his  fate  in  the  lonely  woods.  He  man- 
ages to  get  him  borne,  where  with  tbe  girl's  help, 
he  Is  brought  around  ail  right.  On  the  road  to 
recovery,  Weston  makes  up  his  mind  not  to  bring 
back  the  father  of  the  girl  he  loves  and  writes  to 
the  chief  handing  in  his  resignation  and  stating 
at  the  same  time  that  Graham  is  not  in  bis  neigh- 
borhood. 

THE  CHILDREN  OF  ST.  ANNE  (2  parts— May 
6). — Running  away  from  bis  brutal  father,  Jac- 
ques is  found  starving  at  tbe  foot  of  the  shrine  of 
St.  Anne,  by  Marie  and  her  mother.  The  boy  is 
taken  home  and  given  food.  Moved  by  her  daugh- 
ter's prayers  for  the  preservation  of  the  boy,  tbe 
mother  adopts  Jacques.  Years  pass  and  the  boy 
and  girl  fall  in  love.  He  carves  a  little  St.  Anne 
for  Marie  which  she  bangs  around  her  neck.  Jac- 
nieets  an  artist  of  wealth  who  realizes  the 
boy's  talent  and  takes  him  to  the  city  where  he 
puts  him  in  the  Art  Students  League.  Jacques 
drifts  into  a  life  of  dissipation,  gradually  forgets 
Marie  and  is  eventually  cast  off  In  disgust  by  the 
artist.  He  meets  a  tramp  who  suggests  that  tbey 
go  south  for  tbe  winter.  On  their  way  to  the  ferry 
Jacques  sees  an  Italian,  whose  business  it  1b  to 
make  plaster  casts  of  saints  for  churches,  dis- 
charging one  of  his  workmen.  He  applies  for  the 
job,  and,  after  proving  to  the  Italian  that  he  Is 
a  sculptor  is  taken  on.  Jacques  models  a  statuette 
of  St.  Anne  which  pleases  bis  employer  so  much 
that  he  places  it  In  the  window.  The  tramp  wan- 
ders to  the  south  and  comes  upon  the  cottage  of 
Marie,  whose  mother  is  now  dead.  During  her 
conversation  with  the  tramp  she  knows  by  in- 
stinct that  tbe  man  be  met  Is  Jacques,  and  she 
has  an  old  curate  write  this  note  for  her  which 
she  takes  to  the  city,  showing  it  to  different  peo- 
ple: "This  girl  cannot  speak  English.  Please 
take  her  to  where  in  your  city  lives  Jacques  Le 
Blanc."  In  the  city  she  shows  the  note  to  a 
flashily  dressed  young  man  who  pretends  to  know 
where  Jacques  resides.  On  their  way  they  pass 
the  window  in  which  the  statuette  of  St.  Anne  is 
displayed  and  Marie,  thinking  it  is  a  shrine,  kneels 
and  prays.  The  young  man  In  trying  to  drag  her 
away,  tears  her  dress  at  tbe  throat,  revealing  the 
carved  St.  Anne.  Her  screams  bring  the  work- 
men out  of  the  shop,  among  them  Jacques,  who 
recognizes  Marie.  He  saves  her,  and  ambittion  and 
good  fortune  come  to  the  children  of  St.  Anne. 


RELIANCE. 

THE  GOOD  WITHIN  (May  3).— Mrs.  Clemens, 
blind,  hires  Garda  Willis,  a  girl  of  questionable 
character,  as  her  companion.  Ralph  Clemens,  on 
bia  return  from  college,  falls  under  the  spell  of  the 
fascinating  beauty  and  she  leads  bim  on  to  spend 
every  cent   he  gets  on  her. 

Mrs.  Clemens,  not  dreaming  of  this  state  of  af- 
fairs, is  very  kind  to  her  companion,  who  softens  to 
the  old  lady  under  this  better  influence.  But  she 
does  not  let  up  on  the  boy.  Coveting  a  diamond 
Btar,  worn  by  one  of  Mrs.  Clemen's  friends,  Bhe 
makes  this  known  to  Ralph  and  hints  that  if  he 
gets  it  for  her  she  will  accept  his  proposal  and 
elope  with  him. 

The  boy  manages  to  get  the  Jewel  and  gives  it  to 
Garda,  who  foolishly  displays  it  on  her  gown.  She 
is  arrested.  Mrs.  Clemens  is  heart-broken  over  the 
girl's  predicament.  Garda  is  given  the  third  de- 
gree and  refuses  to  confess.  Later,  realizing  that 
the  mother's  heart  will  break  when  she  knows  ber 
boy  committed  the  crime,  the  woman  takes  the  full 
blame  on  ber  shoulders  and  confesses  to  the  theft. 
That  night,  the  boy,  at  bis  mother's  side,  realizes 
Garda  is  paying  the  penalty  for  his  foolish  act,  and 
that  his  mother  will  never  know  the  truth. 

A  CRTTEL  SUSPICION  (May  7). — Mr.  Boyd,  a 
very  Jealous  husband,  through  a  combination  of 
circumstances,  finds  his  wife  talking  to  a  good 
looking  bachelor  named  Perry.  He  forbids  his 
wife  to  talk  to  the  man  again,  but  later  when  she 
meets  with  an  accident,  Mr.  Perry  goes  to  her  as- 
sistance and  they  are  both  discovered  in  each 
other's  company  by  the  irate  husband.  He  will 
listen  to  no  explanation  and  orders  bis  wife  home. 
Later,  their  child,  a  boy,  of  four  years,  is  taken 
suddenly  ill  during  the  evening  while  the  maid  is 
out.  The  mother  starts  to  go  for  remedies  and  on 
her  way  to  the  drug  store,  meets  Perry,  and  in  her 
anxiety  for  her  sick  boy,  asks  Perry  to  go  to  the 
drug  store  for  ber.  He  does  so  and  returns  with 
the  prescription  and  helps  the  wife  In  her  care 
for  the  child.  Mr.  Boyd,  who  has  been  working 
in  his  office  late,  returns.  Their  boy  has  just 
gone    to    sleep    and    Perry    is    about    to    leave    the 


house  when  they  hear  Mr.  Boyd  returning.  Perry 
and  wife  remember  Boyd's  Insane  Jealousy.  The 
wife  tells  Perry  to  hide  behind  the  curtain  or 
he  will  kill  him  before  she  has  a  chance  to  explain. 
Perry  does  so.  Boyd  enters  the  room,  notices 
Perry's  stick  which  he  forgot  to  take  with  him. 
Tbe  maid  who  has  been  spending  tbe  evening  out 
with  the  policeman  on  the  beat,  who  is  escorting 
her  home,  arrives  in  time  to  see  Perry  Jump  out 
of  the  window.  He  grabs  Perry  and  holds  bim. 
Meantime,  the  husband,  who  has  looked  about  the 
room  for  some  explanation  of  his  wife's  guilty 
looks,  hears  a  commotion  outside.  He  takes  his 
gun  from  the  drawer  and  exits.  Tbe  policeman 
tells  Mr.  Boyd  that  he  caught  Perry  Jumping  out 
of  the  window.  Boyd  Is  sure  now  that  bis  wife 
Is  nntrne  to  him.  He  tells  the  policeman  that  be 
will  deal  with  Perry  and  under  cover  of  gun  forces 
Perry  back  into  the  house  to  confront  the  guilty 
wife.  When  the  wife  pleads  for  Perry  and  tries 
to    explain    he    threatens    to    shoot    them    both. 

Meantime,  the  druggist  discovers  that  he  bas 
given  laudanum  in  place  of  some  other  ingredients 
while  mixing  the  medicine  for  the  sick  child.  He 
starts  on  a  run  for  the  house  and  arrives  there 
Just  in  time  to  prevent  Boyd  killing  his  wife  and 
Perry,  and  they  all  turn  to  revive  the  child.  The 
husband  now  willing  to  listen  to  explanations,  begs 
Perrv's    pardon    and    bis    wife's    forgiveness. 


MISCELLANEOUS 

GAUM  O  NT. 

GATJMONT  WEEKLY,  NO.  60  (April  30).— 
Gymnastic  Contest.  —  International  meeting  of 
world's   athletes    at   Nice,    France. 

Canadian  Train  is  Wrecked.— Six  killed  and  fif- 
teen injured  when  excursion  party  meets  disaster 
near   Montreal. 

The  "Vaterland"  Launched. — Sister  ship  of  Im- 
perator  Is  christened  at  Hamburg. 

Aftermath  of  tbe  Flood.— Railroad  companies 
lost    millions    in    bridges    swept    away. 

Dresses  and  Coats. — Creations  of  Callot  Soeurs, 
Paris,    shown    for    the    first    time    in    America. 

International  Boat  Race. — Yachts  from  all  the 
world   compete   on    the    Riviere    for   trophy. 

Almost  Human.  —  Lumber  -  carrying  machinery 
used  by  Pacific  Redwood  lumber  yards  in  Cali- 
fornia handles  one  million  feet   of  lumber  per  day. 

Italy's  Royal  Cavalry-— Imperial  guard  cele- 
brates   Its    22nd    anniversary. 

The  Funeral  of  King  George. — Slain  monarch  of 
Greece    is    burled    with    royal    splendor. 

WHILE  THE  ROBBER  ROBBED  (April  29).— 
The  manager  of  the  Princess  Theater  seeks  free 
publicity.  He  Informs  newspapers  that  Miss  Mela 
Drammer,  leading  actress  in  "Tbe  Green  Camel" 
company,  in  a  fit  of  artistic  temperament,  refused 
to  appear  in  her  part  on  the  previous  night,  be- 
cause her  famous  pearl  collar  had  vanished.  She 
subsequently  went  on,  so  the  story  went,  tbe  collar 
being  found.     It   bad  been  hidden  in  a  joke. 

The  actress,  while  she  didn't  have  the  artistic 
temperament  In  the  form  attributed  to  her,  had  it 
in  other  ways.  She  was  fearfully  extravagant  and 
was  almost  submerged  in  debt.  Her  jewels  were 
paste,  and  her  furniture  bought  on  the  installment 
plan. 

She  receives  a  note  from  a  lawyer  representing 
several  creditors.  He  writes  that  if  he  doesn't 
receive  a  settlement  within  twenty-four  hours,  her 
goods  will  be  sold  at  auction.  This  doesn't  trouble 
the  actress. 

A  man  in  the  burglaring  business  has  beard  of  the 
actress'  pearl  collar.  He  would  like  to  have  It.  In 
the  night  be  forces  entrance  Into  the  house  and 
finds  the  actress  asleep.  He  takes  the  collar,  which 
of  course,  is  paste.  He  is  stricken  by  the  actress* 
beauty.  He  hasn't  the  heart  to  take  her  belong- 
ings. He  notices  the  dun  from  the  lawyer,  and 
numerous  bills.  This  determines  him  in  his  action. 
He  restores  the  jewels  to  the  dressing  table.  All 
he   takes  is  a  rose. 

In  the  morning,  tbe  actress  awakes  and  is 
alarmed  to  find  that  her  mucb-advertised  pearl  col- 
lar has  vanished.  She  at  last  finds  it  where  the 
burglar  bad  left  it.  She  never  knew  that  she  had 
been  visited  by  a  burglar  and  that  she  was  as 
effective  to  the  hearts  of  men  when  asleep  as  when 
awake,  until,  when  opening  a  letter  that  day,  she 
reads:  "Darling:  I  am  sorry  my  visit  last  night 
was  so  brief.  It  grieves  me  to  think  that  one  so 
young  should  be  worried  by  debt.  I  therefore  en- 
close money  to  satisfy  your  creditors,  and  have 
taken  a  rose  in  exchange.     Yours,  JACK." 

THE  SHOE  ON  THE  OTHER  FOOT  (May  1).— 
Mr.  Pumpernickel  installs  bis  son  and  brand  new 
daughter-in-law  In  a  house  which  he  owns.  In  the 
same  building  lives  a  music-mad  policeman.  Tbe 
copper  has  powerful  lungs.  Every  time  he  plays, 
the  melody  is  so  powerful  that  he  shakes  the  house, 
which  rocks  like  a  ship  in  a  gale.  Persons  In 
various  parts  of  the  building  have  the  pleasure  of 
seeing  their  family  heirlooms  topple  over.  There  is 
destruction  generally. 

Young  Mr.  Pumpernickel's  excellent  father  tells 
the  policeman  that  be  will  have  to  vacate  or  shut 
np.  The  policeman,  angered  that  his  art  Is  not 
valued,  determines  that  he  will  get  even.  When 
young  Mrs.  Pumpernickel  goes  out  into  the  street 
where  the  policeman  is  patrolling  his  beat,  be  ar- 
rests her  after  she  has  refused  to  pick  up  a  piece 
of  paper  which  she  had  thrown  on  the  street.     This 


action  is  a  violation  of  the  highway  ordinance.  Mrs. 
Pumpernickel  is  bo  prostrated  after  she  has  been 
bailed  out  that  she  Is  hysterical.  When  she  goes 
home  she  takes  to  her  bed. 

A  doctor  Is  called.  After  hearing  details,  he 
prescribes  complete  rest  and  quietness,  and  that 
a  policeman  be  obtained  whom  she  can  torture 
every  morning  for  a  week. 

A  dummy  is  made  of  a  policeman,  they  being 
unable  to  find  a  live  one  who  will  consent  to  being 
tortured  in  the  morning.  Young  Mrs.  Pumpernickel 
and  her  kin  punch  the  bloomln'  'ead  off  the  dummy, 
stick  their  fingers  In  his  eyes  and  bite  their  initials 
in  his  cheeks.  There  is  a  bole  in  the  partition 
between  the  apartment  of  the  policeman  and  that 
of  the  young  Pumpernlckels.  The  policeman  looks 
through  and  sees  the  Indignities  being  practiced 
upon  the  effigy.  He  enters  the  apartment  surrepti- 
tiously when  the  Pumpernickels  are  absent.  He 
carries  out  tbe  dummy  and  takes  its  place.  When 
the  Pumpernlckels  return  and  take  up  their  exercises 
upon  tbe  supposed  dummy,  the  "dummy"  suddenly 
comes  to  life.  Then  the  invalid  bas  another  shock 
for  her  already  outraged  nerves. 


GREAT  NORTHERN. 

HER  FIRST  LOVE  AFFAIR  (May  10).— Amelia 
Barlow,  was  a  charming  young  girl  who  had  reached 
the  age  when,  in  fact,  she  was  neither  girl  nor 
woman.  She  wore  braids  on  Monday,  marcel  waves 
on  Tuesday,  wore  short  skirts  on  Wednesday,  and 
long  frocks  on  Thursday.  But  she  was  charming 
withal,  and  spent  most  of  ber  spare  time  in  reading 
"Along  the  River,"  and  other  stories  of  love  and 
romance.  Her  fond  parents  were  tolerant  and 
granted  her  every  wish  until  one  Mr.  Henry  made 
bis  appearance  and  announced  that  be  had  just 
passed  his  exams,  and  was  anxious  to  take  unto 
himself  a  wife.  Amelia's  parents  were  willing, 
but  when  Henry  proposed  to  the  young  woman,  she 
laughed  at  him  and  sent  bim  away  in  despair. 
He  wore  glasses  and  was  of  the  "small  lemonade" 
type  of  suitor.  The  Barlows  were  indignant  and 
decided  that  their  daughter  must  be  taught  a  severe 
lesson.  After  a  family  conference,  It  was  decreed 
that  Amelia  must  serve  a  year  at  clerical  work  in 
Mr.  Barlow's  offices.  The  girl  was  duly  installed, 
and  on  the  third  day  makes  tbe  acquaintance  of 
Tom,  one  of  the  junior  clerks.  It  appears  to  be  a 
case  of  love  at  first  sight,  and  all  goes  well  until 
the  elderly  chief  accodntant  discovers  his  em- 
ployer's daughter  in  the  embrace  of  tbe  young  clerk. 
Then  it  was  that  drastic  measures  were  decided 
upon  and  the  family  decides  that  Amelia  must  be 
sent  to  a  friend  in  the  country,  where  she  may  be 
able  to  repent  her  folly.  Tom  bears  of  this  de- 
termination on  the  part  of  Amelia's  parents  and 
plans  to  thwart  them  In  their  designs  to  send  their 
daughter  away  and  deprive  the  young  couple  of 
the  happiness  which  they  had  planned  for  the 
future.  Through  a  signal  he  summons  Amelia  to 
a  window  and  deposits  a  note  in  one  of  the  flower 
bushes  which  surround  the  Barlow  mansion.  In 
this  he  imparts  the  information  that  he  will  be 
on  board  the  same  train  which  will  take  her  to  her 
destination  in  the  country.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Barlow 
escort  their  daughter  to  tbe  depot,  and  while  tbey 
are  bidding  farewells,  Tom  boards  the  coach  ahead 
and  is  unseen  by  the  unsuspecting  parents.  At 
the  first  station  out  of  tbe  city,  Amelia  and  Tom 
■alight  and  hasten  to  a  minister,  where  they  are 
married.  Then  a  telegram  is  sent  to  Papa  Barlow 
announcing    the   event    and    asking   for   forgiveness. 


Among  the  Exhibitors. 

Cape  May,  N.  J. — J.  P.  Cassidy  has  been  award- 
ed the  contract  for  an  open  air  moving  picture  thea- 
ter, with  a  Dutch  windmill  entrance;  also  a  large 
dancing  pavilion  and  surrounding  booths,  pergolas, 
fountain,  etc. ,  for  the  Marine  Park  Amusement 
Company   to   cost   $50,000. 

Newark,  N.  J. — Grand  Amusement  Company  83 
Sixteenth  Avenue,  have  received  bids  for  an  addi- 
tion to  their  moving  picture  theater  to  cost  $8,000. 

Tamaqua,  Fa. — G.  T.  Freidenberger  is  to  build 
a  three-story  moving  picture  theater  to  cost  $22,000. 

Reading,  Pa.— W.  I.  Hippie.  134  Oley  Street,  Is 
taking  sub-bids  for  a  one-story  moving  picture 
theater    to   cost   $12,000. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y.— D.  J.  McCurdy,  400  East  Eighth 
Street,  is  taking  bids  for  the  erection  of  a  one- 
story    moving    picture    theater    to    cost    $9,000. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y.— A.  A.  Kloster,  2111  Caton 
Avenue,  bas  invited  estimates  on  tbe  general  con- 
tract for  the  building  of  a  one-story  moving  pic- 
ture theater  to  cost  $8,000. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. — Solomon  Frotnan,  57  Hope 
Street,  Is  taking  sub-bids  for  the  erection  of  a 
one-story  moving  picture  theater   to  cost  $6,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Cramp  and  Company  were 
awarded  a  contract  for  a  $300,000  theater  to  be 
built  on  the  site  of  the  Boston  and  Albany  Railroad 
station,  on  Park  Square,  Boston,  for  the  Park 
Square    Theater    Company. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y.— Frank  Pasquallno,  6626  New 
Utrecht  Avenue,  has  received  bids  for  the  erection 
of  an  open  air  moving  picture  theater  to  cost  $3,- 
600. 

Peoria,  HI.— Miles  Murphy,  1112  First  Avenue, 
bas  plans  under  way  for  a  one-st<  ry  moving  picture 
theater  and  store  building  with  a  seating  capacity 
for  350   and    to  cost  $12,000. 


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ROCHESTER.  N.  Y. 


ANNOUNCEMENT 

THE  FIREPROOF  FILM 
COMPANY  is  prepared 
to  accept  orders  and 
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SITUATIONS  WANTED. 
AT  IIBEETY — Manager.  Six  years'  experience 
Id  Moving  Picture  business.  Also  A-l  operator. 
Can  fill  both  places.  Salary  reasonable.  Or  will 
lease  picture  bouse  In  good,  live  town.  State  all 
In  first  letter.  Best  of  references.  Answer  quick. 
Address  AL.  K.  BELT,  General  Del.,   Newark,  Ohio. 

CAPABLE  OPERATOR  —  8  years'  experience 
i  Massachusetts  Licensed),  desires  good  position 
anywhere.  Can  furnish  own  Edison  machinery  if 
desired.  Also  bave  large  experience  as  representa- 
tive manager.  Have  electric  "Couilque"  sign  for 
sale.  Address  OPERATOK,  74  Unden  Ave.,  Mai- 
den,  U 

VIOLIN  PLAYER— Experienced,  desires  position 
In  picture  theatre  in  Greater  New  York  for  nights 
only.  Address  B.  SILVER,  496  Bushwick  Ave., 
Brooklyn,  N.   Y. 

HELP  WANTED. 

WANTED — Expert  film  printer  and  developer  to 
take  charge  of  laboratory  and  entire  film  manu- 
facturing plant.  Exceptional  opportunity.  Ad- 
dress J.  M\  W.,  care  of  Moving  Picture  World, 
Boi  226,    Mudison  Sq.   P.  O.,   New   York   City. 

EQUIPMENT   FOR    SALE. 

FOR  QUICK  8ALE— 285  used  opera  chairs.  Write, 
wire,  phone.  ORPHEUM  THEATRE.  Everett, 
Washington. 

FOR   SALE — 285    Opera    Chairs,    American  Seating 
pany    make.      Crated   and    ready    to   ship   at    Win- 
field,   Iowa,     $200  takes  this  bargain.     Address  DR. 
(HAS.   LYNDON,    Homeawortb,   Ohio. 

GREAT  BARGAIN  —  Underwriters*  automatic 
Muving  Picture  Machine,  black  top,  22  by  70. 
Chairs,  screens  and  16  reels  of  films.  Cheap  quick 
sale.  Address  MORTGAGEE,  Box  58  Yadkin ville. 
N.  O. 

FOR  SALE.  —  Edison  exhibition  model,  also 
Power's  No.  5,  slightly  used,  guaranteed  absolutely 
perfect    condition.     Eight    reels    good    film,    western 


and  comedy.  Sell  all  or  separate,  cheap.  Address 
MARTIN  L.  FREDERICKS,  2017  North  Twelfth 
St.,    Philadelphia,  Pa. 

FOR  SALE. — Complete  equipment  for  moving  pic- 
ture theatre.  180  folding  chairs.  Edison  Machine, 
no  take  up,  Little  Giant  current  saver.  Piano,  Co- 
lumbia Giaphaphone,  lighting  fixtures.  Would  make 
a  good  outfit  for  an  Airdome.  Address  W.  H. 
MART,    Griunell,    Iowa. 

EQUIPMENT   WANTED. 
WANTED — Panoramic    tripod    tilting    head.     State 
lowest    price    and    make.     Address    KINEMEA,    care 
of  Moving  Picture  World,  Chicago,   111. 

FILMS  FOR  SALE. 

FOR  SALE — Saint  George  and  the  Dragon,  3 
reels,  $175.00.  Also  3-reel  copy  Four  Dare  Devils, 
$100.00.  Big  line  of  Posters,  Heralds,  etc.  Films 
like  new.  Positively  biggest  bargain  ever  offered. 
Sent  subject  to  Inspection  on  receipt  of  Express 
charges.     Address  BOX  269,   Bay   City,   Texas. 

FOR  SALE — Or  will  book  moving  picture  pro- 
duction of  Blanche  Walsh  In  Resurrection,  4  parts, 
in  the  state  of  Ohio.  Write  or  wire  for  dates. 
Big  lobby  display.  Will  sell  this  feature  at  a 
bargain.  Address  JULES  LEVEY,  1418  Cherry  St., 
Toledo,   Ohio. 

FOR  SALE — Pathe's  wonderful  production,  "The 
Passion   Play,"   three  reels,   bl  :   and  toned; 

fine    condition,    including    attractive    lobby    die 
heralds,     carrying    cases,     etc.     W<  irtn     $51 « '      Price 
$229.     Privilege    of    examination.     Address    WYND- 
II  AM      ROBERTSON,      Settegast     Bldg.,      Houston, 
Texas. 

CAMXRAS    FOR    SALE. 

PATHE    CAMERA— 1018    a    Model,    containing   4 

. ,-. 1 1 1 -  ■  -      carrying     csf  il      Volghl     Lander 

brand  new,  price  $295.  Also  panoramic  Pathe 
special  tripod,  price  $6Si  coat  $110.  AJeo  Warwick 
Bioaeope  Camera,  slightly  used,  with  G  magazines, 
price  $295.  An  exceptional  opportunity.  Address 
ALBERTA,  31  West  46th  St.,  New  York  City. 


CAMERAS — All  standard  makes  (Urban,  War- 
wick, Gaumont.  Prestwieh,  American).  Also  tri- 
pods, lilm  and  developing  apparatus.  Address  MOR- 
TON H.  POWERS,  First  National  Bank  Bldg., 
Chicago,   111. 

MUSICAL   INSTRUMENTS    FOR    SALE. 

FOR  SALE — 20  Electric  Pianos.  65-note  with  key- 
board for  hand  playing,  $100,  $125,  $165.  44-note 
pianos  ?50  and  $60.  Orchestrian  pianos  with  pipes, 
$276  to  $300.  Practically  new  and  all  in  first  class 
playing  condition.  Also  10  D.C.  motors,  H  horse- 
power, $8  to  $10.  We  allow  inspection  at  depot. 
Write  for  list.  Address  J.  F.  HERMAN,  1420  Pa. 
Ave.   N.    Y\\,   Washington,  D.  C. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

SOUVENIRS — Business  getters  that  will  bring 
boys  and  girls  on  the  Jump.  Free  samples,  showing 
advertisement.  NEW  ENGLAND  NOVELTY  CO.. 
Westfield,  Mass. 

TYPEWRITTEN  SENARIOS  OR  SCENARIOS. 

SCENORIOS  MUST  BE  TYPEWRITTEN  to  re- 
ceive recognition.  Best  work,  correctly  formulated, 
lowest  prices.  Write  me  or  send  on  manuscript. 
Address  C.  L.  BARKER,  2311  Vega  Ave.,  Cleveland, 
Ohio. 

PENNANT  BASE  BALL  table  (new),  earns  $1  per 
hour,  t:  reels  filuj.  fine  condition:  lens,  best  offer. 
Will  exchange  for  car,  motorcycle  or  moving  pic- 
ture machine.  Popular  sheet  music.  Fine  Jap  Fans 
$2  per  hundred.  Make  great  sduvenirs.  Address 
< ;  CM   THEATER,    New   Berlin,    N.    Y. 

SELL  YOUR  THEATRE  or  fixtures  quickly  for 
cash,  no  matter  where  located.  Particulars  free. 
PHOBNEX  THEATRE  00.,  Sixth  Floor,  Phoenix 
Bldg.,    Minnefl  polia,    Minn. 

FAULTLESSLY   typewritten   and   correctly  formu- 
late] >repared  for  submission  to  producers. 
Accurate   knowledge   of   photoplay   technique.     Write 
DONALD  THOMAS,   Expert  Manuscript 
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OZONE  PURE/AIRIFIER 

SJhat  this  Machine 
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BUSINESS 


What  This  Machine 
Does  for  YOUR 
PATRONS 

Supplies  a  healthful,  oxygen- 
filled  atmosphere  for  them 
to  breathe — rendering  the 
air  »weet  and  wholesome 
in  the  most  illy-ventilated 
theatre. 

Does  away  with  bad  odors 
and  "closeness"  (so  objection- 
able to  many  persons) ;  destroys 
disease  germs — thus  minimizing 
possibility  of  contagion. 


Advertises  you,  to  an  extent 
Worth  one  hundred  times  its 

cost.each  season— insuring 
standing-room-only  at  all 
performances. 

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CARBONS 


THE  carbon  is  a  small  item  in  the  expense  of  a  motion  picture  theatre;  but 
it  is  the  most  important  factor  in  the  production  of  clear,  steady  pictures. 
Brilliant  white  light  with  steady,  noiseless  burning  has  been  the  distin- 
guishing quality  that  has  made 

"ELECTRA"  PINK  LABEL  CARBONS 

the  choice  of  well-informed  operators.    Their  use  insures  a  perfect  arc,  requiring 
least  adjustment. 


PINK 


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HUGO    REISINGER 

11  BROADWAY  '      sole  importer  NEW  YORK 


LAST  CALL 


LAST  CALL 


A  CROWNING  SUCCESS  IN  ALL  PARTS 
OF  THE  WORLD 


HELEN  GARDNER 


in  CLEOPATRA 


Charles  L.  Gaskill,  Director-Manager 

AH   Territory   Sold    Except    Eastern    Canada,   Greater 
New  York,  Mexico,  South  America  and  Asia 

Will  Sell  Eastern  Canada  at  a  Bargain  Price        The  Greatest  of  all  Box  Office  Attractions 

First  Come  First  Served- WIRE  NOW 


UNITED  STATES  FILM  CO. 

145  West  45th  Street  NEW  YORK  CITY 


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"IN  THE,  CLAWS 
THE,    VULTURE 


OF 


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In  Three  Reels 


Hold 

Your 

Breath! 

You  will  need  it 
after  you  have  seen 

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1,  3,  6,  and  8 
sheets  post- 
ers. Photos, 
Heralds  and 
Cuts 


HOW  IS  THE  ABOVE  FOR  A  SIX  SHEET? 


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OUR       TWO       REEL         RELEASES 

May  10th 

•TEMPEST    AND    SUNSHINE" 

Just  an  old  fashion  love  story  but  a  big  winner 

May  mh   "A    MAID    OF    HONOUR" 

The  story  of  a  court  intrigue,  and  how  a  Queen's  honour  was  saved 

May  24th    "THE   YELLOW    MAN" 

A  thrilling  story  of  the  Japanese  secret  service  in  America,  something  extra  good 

AMBROSIO    AMERICAN    CO.  -  -  15  East  26th  Street,  New  York 


FOR  SALE  —  FEATURES  ! 


60.00 
60.00 

(Ohio)   75.00 

'•        75.00 

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(Ohio)    150.00 

South    Va    Ohio.  .125.00 

(Ohio)    200.00 

W.  Va 125.00 

(Ohio)    200.00 

200.00 

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NOTE  REDUCED  PKICES  FOE   QUICK  SALE. 

Blaaiiw  the  Trail 2  "els   $50.00 

Poet  Telegrapher » 

The    Crisis ; 

Dead   Man's    Child g 

Wreok  of  the  Aurora g 

Last  of  the  Frontignaea g 

Florodora   g 

Lured  from  Home g 

St.   George  and  the  Dragon g 

Paul   Revere g 

Dalton  Boys g 

Dalton  Boys g 

Wage   Earners g 

Secret  Service  Steve g 

Midnight   Express 3 

Renovated  and  in  Al  condition.  »k„„_j      „„_,j 

Plenty  of  paper  at  7c  per  sheet,  heralds,  ,1.00  per  thousand.  Herald 
plates  for  last  four  subjects,  $10.00  each.  Discount  of  10%  on  '•>"? 
or  more   subjects  taken   at  one  time.    Terms,    10%   with  order    (draft) 

balance   C.  0.  D.,   subject  to  Inspection.  Above  features  also  for  rent. 

Royal  Feature  Film  Co.,  Schultz  Building,  Columbus,  Ohio 


EXHIBITORS'  HEADQUARTERS 

CALEHUFF  SUPPLY  COMPANY 

(Incorporated) 

30  North  Eighth  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Jobbers  in  Edison.  Powers  and 
Motiograph  Machines  and  Parts 

Mictuoea  Repaired  by  Eipert  Medunita.    Genu  Parts  Only  Uead 
SPECIALTIES 


CONTRACTS  NOW  BEING  MADE  FOR 

Edison  Talking  Pictures 
THE  KINETOPHONE 

WRITE  FOR  TERMS 
AMERICAN  TALKING  PICTURE  CO. 

SOLE  DISTRIBUTERS 
1493  BROADWAY  NEW  YORK 


Condensers 

EdJton  Trsnsfenaers 


Gas  Making  Outfits 
Limea  FUai  Cement 

Branca    General    Disin- 
fectant Co. 
Scenery.  Stage  Effect* 
Theaters   Boswht,  Sola. 
Plan  Spotlight*       Rented 

CHAS.  A.  CALEHUTF,  Pre*,  tad  Gen.  Mar. 


Miner  Screens 
Chain 

Ticket* 

Piano*  Aabeato*  State 

Bio  a  Eleetr*  Carbon*  Anbertot  Wire 
Special  GnadUca  Switch** 


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Used  bv  Makers  of  Quality  Films 
WRITE  FOR   PRICES 

Sole  American  Agents 

Raw  Film  Supply  Company 

15  East  26th  Street  New  York,  N.  y. 


THE    GANGSTERS 

or  Shadows  of  the  Night    — 3200  Feet 

A   Detective   Episode   of   two    countries.     European   press   termed   this   feature  the  most 

sensational  of  all  films. 


One  —  Three  —  Six  Sheets 


Heralds  and  Photographs 


NEW  YORK    FILM    CO. 

145  West  45th  Street  New  York   City 


640 


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J-M  ASBESTOS  BOOTHS 
AND    CURTAINS 


Made  in  styles  to  meet  all  re- 
quirements. They  meet  the  ap- 
proval of  fire  underwriters  of 
every  city.  Write  for  Catalog. 
H.  W.  JOHNS  MANVILLE  CO. 
New  York  and  Every  Large  City. 


Illinois      Exhibitors 
CLEOPATRA    with    HELEN    GARDNER 

The  hit  of  the  season.  Don't  fail  to 
book  AMBROSIO'S  "CHILD  LABOR 
TRAFFIC."  For  genuine  features 
address 

Northern   Feature   Film    Exchange 
405  Schiller   Bldg.,   Chicago. 


Gives  Satisfaction 

Our  Developing  Tank  System 

A.  J.  CORCORAN,  Inc. 
11  John  Street  New  York 


Moving  Picture  Cameras  for  sale  cheap. 
Local  Pictures  Made.  We  rent  cameras 
and  cameramen. 

SPECIAL  EVENT  FILM  MFRS-,  Inc. 
248  W.  35th  Street  New  York  Cit- 


Changeable  Illuminated 

PROGRAM    SIGN 

WRITE  FOX  CATALOGUE 

ZENITH    MFC.    CO. 

■o»  252  Cincinnati.  Ohio 


Headquarters  for 

ASBESTOS 

CURTAINS  and  PICTURE  BOOTHS 

C.  W.  Trainer  Mfg.  Co. 

39  Pearl  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 


Send 

for 

Booklet 


Incandescent  Lamps  for 

THEATRES  -  PARKS  -  SHOWS 

Buy    direct    from    manufacturer-!.     Reduced    Prices. 
800    Hours — Clear    or    Colored,     80. 
600     Hours — Clear     or     Colored     60, 

GUARANTEED. 

SAFETY   ELECTRIC   CO. 
342  N.  Michigan  Ave.,  CHICAGO 


ELECTRIC    EXHAUST   FANS 

Twenty -four- in  oh,  $80,  Thirty-tnah,  9110. 
Also  some  oscillating-  twelre-LmoA  fans,  $18.78 
•svoh.  All  General  Electrio  make  aa4  for  alter* 
Detinf    ouTTent.     1    phase,     80    cycle,     110    volt. 

GEORGE  BENDER 
82  Centra  Street  New  York  City 


PICTURE  THEATERS  PROJECTED. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — B.  A.  Rehllc,  has  filed  plans 
for  a  two-story  moving  picture  theater,  40  by  115 
feet  on  the  north  side  of  Woodland  Avenue,  west 
of  Fifty-eighth  Street,  for  the  West  Philadelphia 
Amusement   Company.     The   cost   will   be   $28,000. 

Belleville,  111.— Grace  Amusement  Company,  Louis 
Landon,  president  have  plans  under  way  for  the 
erection  of  a  one-story  air  dome  stage  to  cost  $6,- 
000. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. — Louis  Winden,  877  Johnson 
Place  Is  taking  bids  for  the  erection  of  a  one-story 
moving    picture    theater    to   cost  $15,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — John  M.  Kennedy,  Jr.,  will 
erect  a  one-story  moving  picture  theater,  73  by 
106  feet,  on  the  west  side  of  York  Street,  from 
Hone    to    Howard    Street    to   cost    $25,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa, — Application  has  been  made  to 
the  State  authorities  by  Fred  G'.  Nison-Nirdllnger. 
Thomas  M,  Love  and  Thomas  M.  Dougherty  for  a 
charter  for  a  corporation  to  be  known  as  the  Loew, 
Nison-Nlrdlinger  Company,  which  will  finance  the 
erection  of  the  Colonial  Theater,  at  Germantown 
and  Maplewood  Avenues.  The  theater  will  measure 
90  by  150  feet  and  will  cost  upward  of  $250,000. 
Marcus  Loew,  a  theatrical  magnate,  of  New  York, 
will  be  interested  in  the  company,  which  will  erect 
a  chain   of  theaters  in   this  city. 

Decatur,  HI. — Orpheum  Theater,  L.  G.  Nicholas, 
manager,  355  North  Water  Street,  have  received 
bids  for  the  erection  of  a  one-story  moving  picture 
theater    with    a    seating    capacity    for    400. 

Kansas  City,  Mo. — Appenstein  Brothers,  1017 
Main  Street,  have  awarded  the  contract  to  Harvey 
Stiver,  Shupert  Building,  for  the  building  of  a  two- 
story  moving  picture  theater,  60  by  120  feet  to  cost 
$100,000.  Lessees  are  the  Western  Vaudeville  Cir- 
cuit  of  Chicago. 

Des  Moines,  la. — J.  Miloslowsky,  1160  A  Street 
will   remodel    his    two-story   moving   picture    theater. 

Des  Moines,  la. — Elbert  Getcbell,  313  Fourth 
Street,  will  soon  start  work  on  the  erection  of  a 
three-story  moving  picture  theater  with  a  seating 
capacity    for   2,000    to   cost   $75,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — M.  Shore  has  commenced  work 
on  a  one-story  moving  picture  theater  for  Wolf 
Bodek    to   cost   $27,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — The  Franklin  Amusement  Com- 
pany has  filed  plans  for  a  one-story  moving  pic- 
ture theater,  40  by  100  feet,  at  the  intersection 
of  Twenty-third  Street,  Gray's  Ferry  road  and 
South  Street.      The   cost   wil   be  $13,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — James  J.  Springer,  John  H. 
Love  and  Meyer  L.  Sluiner  have  appealed  to  the 
State  authorities  for  a  charter  for  the  South  Phila- 
delphia Realty  Company,  which  will  take  title  to 
the  Plaza  Theater,  at  Broad  and  Porter  Streets. 
The  theater  will  be  rebuilt  and  a  gallery  erected  at 
a    cost   of   $15,000. 

Rock  Island,  Quebec,  Canada. — T.  S.  Haskell, 
Derby  Lane  has  received  estimates  for  the  erection 
of  a  one-story  moving  picture  theater  to  cost  $10,- 
000.  It  will  be  constructed  of  metal  siding,  stucco 
pattern,    metal    roof,    etc. 

New  York,  N.  Y. — Ardsley  Amusement  Company, 
are  having  plans  prepared  for  the  erection  of  an 
eight-story  theater  and  office  building,  100  by  162 
feet,    to  cost  $150,000. 

Marion,  Ohio. — Sealed  bids  have  been  Invited  by 
the  Marlon  County  Chautauqua  Company,  for  car- 
penter work  to  complete  the  proposed  auditorium 
to   be   erected   in    the   Oity    Park. 

J.  B.  C. 


America's  Feature  Film  Co. 

406-7-8  Schiller  Bui  ding,  Chicago,  111. 


We  have  a  Catalogue  of 
full  line  of  Moving  Picture 
Machine  repair  parts  ready 
to  put  in  your  machine  at 
reduced  prices.  We  make 
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can  sell  them  very  low.  We 
also  sell  Stereopticons  for 
$12.00;  Calcium  Jets,  $3.00:  100  Cflrbonn.  $2.00;  Con- 
densers, 55c.;  Arc  Lamps,  $2.25;  Stereoptlcon  Lenses, 
50c. ;  Slide  Carriers,  25c. ;  Moving  Picture  Objectives. 
$2.76;  Jackets,  $1.75;  Ticket  Holders.  75c:  Rheostats, 
$4.00;  50  Candle  Power  Stereopticon  Lamps.  75c. 
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Moving    picture   or    vaudeville.      New,    specially 
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and  Film  Unking  Outfit,  simplest  method,  none 
better.  World's  greatest  production,  made  with 
this  camera.  Expert  advice  and  guarantee. 
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the  instrument  that  supplies 
MUSIC      FOR     THE     PICTURES 

The  American   Photo  Player  Sales  Co. 
130    Kearny    St..    San    Francisco.   Cal. 


SHERLOCK    HOLMES   SERIES 

Eight  subjects  to  choose  from — two  reels  each. 
Territory  In  Indiana,  Kentucky,  Wisconsin 
(south  of  Green  Bay),  Illinois  (north  of  Spring- 
field). 

Al larch  Feature  Films,    Inc; 

D.   W.   McKinney,  Mgr. 

810    Straus    Bldg.,  Chicago 

Phone,   Franklin  1474 


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Curtain  Coatings 

PREPAID  1 

alfred  c.  stance,  is  s.  Leaviit  st,  chkago,  Hi- 


Theatre    Pipe    Organs 

all   sun*   *f   Pipe   Organs   for  Theatre   purpose* 

built  to  order. 

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Moving  Picture  Equipment 

All   kinds — all   sizes — all   makes. 
CAMERAS,     PRINTERS.      PROJECTORS,     TRI- 
PODS.  Lenses  and  General   Supplies. 
WBITE   FOR   PRICES  b   further   particulars,    to 

Star  "A"  Shop 
129  W.  Chicago  Ave.  Chicago,  111. 


The  Bombardment  in   Mexico  City 

February  9-18,  1913 

Stereopticon     lecture,     copyrighted.     Grp.it     hit. 

Will   fill   your   house  every   time. 

Lecture,    with    20   slides,    $50.00 

Lecture,    with    30   slides,    $75.00 

Lecture,    with   40   slides,    $10<j.iki 

Apply    for    reserved    territory.     Address 

0.    S.,    care    of    Western    Office,    Moving    Picture 

World,    167   W.    Washington   St.,    Chicago,   111. 


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RENTAL  PRICE  ONLY  $1.00  PEB  HEEL. 

LAKESIDE  FILM    EXCHANGE 

538    S.     DEARBORN     STR..     CHICAGO,     ILLINOIS. 


Costumes  for  Photo  Plays 

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tunafactuxer*   of    theatrical   and   historical   o**> 

tumee. 

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641 


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The  Biggest  Motion  Picture  Supply  House  in  America 

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experience  and  many  thousands 
of  dollars  to  make  the  Radium 
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Do  Not  Speculate 
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Exhibitors  who  know  the  facts 
never  hesitate  to  pay  the  price.  If  there 
is  a  difference  in  price  there  is  a  differ- 
ence in  quality.  There  is  no  occasion 
for  you  to  make  a  mistake  if  you  do 
your  own  thinking. 

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Sole  Manufacturers, 
105  N.  Main  Street  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Pitzer  &  Smith,  32  Union  Square,  New  York  City. 

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High -Class  Lens  Equipment 
Means    High- Class  Pictures 

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depends  upon  the  lens  equipment  and  realize  that  the 
Bausch  &  Lomb  objectives  and  condensers  mean  as  much 
to  the  success  of  a  film-story  as  a  good  stage  manager  does 
to  the  success  of  a  play. 

Equip  your  machine  with  Bausch  &  Lomb  lenses,  and 
assure  your  patrons  high-class  pictures — the  kind  that 
attract  and  hold  a  desirable  clientele. 

The  Edison  and  Nicholas  Power  Machines  are  regularly  equipped 
with  our  lenses.   They  can  be  procured  also  through  any  film  exchange. 

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INDEX 


ADVERTISING   FOR   EXHIBITORS BS7 

AMONG    THE    PICTURE    THEATERS 583 

AT  THE  SIGN  OF  THE    FLAMING  ARCS 601 

BUFFALO    G12 

CALENDAR   OF  LICENSED  RELEASES «,0S 

CALENDAR  OF   INDEPENDENT  RELEASES 610 

"CARMEN"     (Thantaouser) 577 

CANADIAN    CENSORSHIP    BILL 57S 

CHICAGO   LETTER 580 

"CHILD  OF  WAR,  A"    (Broncho) 

COLORED    LUBIN    COMEDIES 600 

comments  on  THE  FILMS  (Licensed) 5U5 

COMMENTS    ON    THE    FILMS    (Independent) ...    ■.07 

CORRESPONDENCE    606 

DOINGS    AT    LOS    ANGELES 5S2 


CARBON   IMPORTERS. 

FRORUP.      L.      E 053 

KIEWERT,    CHARLES    L IVIS 

REISINGER,    HUGO 637 

ELECTRICAL  &  MECHANICAL  EQUIPMENT. 

AMUSEMENT  SUPPLY  CO 652 

BELL   &   HOWELL 653 

BENDER,     GEORGE 640 

OALEHPFF   SUPPLY   CO 639 

CAPITAL    MERCHANDISE   CO 649 

DETROIT  MOTOR  CAR  CO 652 

FORT   WAYNE    ELECTRIC    CO 654 

GENERAL   ELECTRIC   CO 643 

HALLBERG,    .1.    H 625 

HOKE,    GEORGE    M 654 

MECHANICAL    APPLIANCE    CO 625 

PICTURE  TTIEATRE  EQUIPMENT  CO    .  641 

SAFETY  ELEC.  CO "040 

SCHNEIDER.     E 040 

SMITH,  L.  C.  &  CO 610 

FEATURE  FILMS. 

ADVANCE  MOTION   PICTURE  CO 681 

ALLARDT    FEATURE   FILM   CO 640 

AMERICAS    FEATURE    FILM    CO 640 

APEX     FILM     CO 619 

ECLECTIC    FILMS 558-59 

FULLER'S    FEATURES 650 

GENERAL  FILM  CO 564-65 

GT.     NORTHERN     SPECIAL    FEATURE     FILM 

COMPANY 651-622 

ITALA    FILM    CO 649 

M.   &  F.   FEATURE  FILM  CO 650-653 

MONOPOL    FILM    CO 555 

MOORE.    F.    E 627 

NEW  YORK  FILM  CO .039 

OREGON  M.   P.  CO 633 

ROYAL    FEATURE    FILM    CO 639 

SPECIAL   EVENT   FILM   CO 640 

SUPREME  FEATURE   FILM   CO 651 

UNITED   STATES    FILM   CO crs? 

VITA   FILM  SALES  CO.  ..'. 641 

WARNERS    FEATURES 621 

IMPORTERS  tc  DEALERS. 

WESTERN    FILM    BROKERS 640 

FIREPROOF  APPARATUS. 

H.   W.   JOHNS-MANVILLE   CO 640 

TRAINER,   C.   W 640 

FILM  EXCHANGES. 

BRADENBURG,   G.    W 648 

CONSOLIDATED   FILM  SUPPLY   CO 623 

CI'NBY     BROTHERS 649 

HETZ.    L 640 

LAEMMLE  FILM   CO 651 

LAKESIDE  FILM  EXCHANGE 640 


TO  CONTENTS. 

FACTS    AND    COMMENTS -.7! 

FLICKERS    \\  '.602 

INDIANA     612 

INDIANAPOLIS    606 

INDEPENDENT  FILM   STORIES 'e26 

INDEPENDENT   RELEASE    DATES 644 

"IN    SLAVERY    DAYS"     (Res) 600 

■IN    THE    LONG    AGO"    (Selig) 575 

INQUIRIES .590 

KEnRLEINS    BUILDING.     THE 

KENTUCKY    CONVENTION 57s 

LICENSED   FILM   STORIES 613 

LICENSED    RELEASE    DATES 646 

LOUISVILLE    007 

MANUFACTURERS'    ADVANCE    NOTES 603 

TO  ADVERTISERS. 

LIBERTY   FILM    RENTING'  CO 649 

MUTUAL  FILM  CORPORATION 

NORTHERN   FEATURE   FILM   EXCHANGE...      640 

INDEPENDENT  FILM  MANUFACTURERS. 

AMBROSIO    AMERICAN    FILM    CO 69 

AMERICAN     560 

BRONCHO    FILM    CO 561 

GAUMONT     614-15 

KAY-BEE    561 

KEYSTONE     561 

KINEMACOLOR    CO.    OF    AMERICA 617-627-649 

MAJESTIC     821 

N.    Y.    MOTION   PICTURE  CO 650  57 

PILOT   FILM   CO 829 

RAMO    FILM    CO 635 

RELIANCE      623 

SOLAX     562 

THANHOUSER    550 

UNIVERSAL    FILM    MANUFACTURERS 552-3-4 

LICENSED  FILM  MANUFACTURERS. 

EDISON    567 

ESSANAY      551 

KALEM    670 

LUBIN      56S 

MELIES   956 

PATHE    FRERES 560 

SELIG 563 

VITAGRAPH    569 

LECTURERS. 

BUSH,     W.    S 653 

MARION,    L.    M.    (Miss) 648 

LENS  MANUFACTURERS. 

BAUSCH    &    LOMB 641 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

A.    B.   C.    OO Index 

AMERICAN  CINEMATOGRAPH  CO 652 

AMERICAN   TALKING   PICTURE   CO 630 

CHALMERS   PUBLISHING   CO 648 

CLASSIFIED     ADVERTISEMENTS 636 

CLEVELAND,    W.    S 650 

CORCORAN.    A.    J 640 

EASTMAN    KODAK   CO 686 

EOKEB,     J 652 

FILMO    CHEMICAL   CO 654 

FIREPROOF    FILM    CO 035 

HOUSEHOLD    OUTFITTING    CO 652 

HUME.    T.    D.    &    CO 640 

KEYSTONE     PRESS 622 

KRAUSE   MFG.    CO 613 

LINDELL,    C.    E 635 

LUMIERE    JOUGLA    CO 663 

McINTIRE  &  RICHTER 652 

McKDNNA    BROS.    BRASS    CO 652 

MOORE.    HUBBLE   &   CO 653 

MOTION   PICTURE  CAMERA   CO 624 


MOTION    PICTURE    EXHIBITORS'    LEAGUE. ..  .678 

N i: W   YORK   EXHIBITORS 574 

NEW    ENGLAND '  ! .  .606 

OBSERVATIONS    BY    MAN-ABOUT -TOWN 586 

"PERILS   OF  THE   PAST"    (GaumonU 599 

PHILADELPHIA    606 

I'HOTOPLAYWRIGHT.     THE 589 

PROJECTION     DEPARTMENT 59] 

"SCARLET   LETTER.    THE"    (Kinemacolor) 599 

STORIES    OF   THE   FILMS    (Licensed) 613 

STORIES   OF   THE   FILMS    (Independent) 626 

WHY    IS   A    CENSOR  ? 572 

YANKEE    FILMS    ABROAD 573 

NATIONAL    TICKET    CO 644-650 

NATIONAL    WATERPROOF    FILM    CO 652 

NATIONAL   X-RAY    REFLECTOR   CO 653 

NEWMAN    CO 652 

O.    S..    C/O   WESTERN    OFFICE 640 

OZONE    PURE    AIRIFIER    OO 636 

RAW   FILM   SUPPLY   CO 639 

REYNOLDS  &  CO.,  B.  F 653 

SARGENT,    E.    W 652 

SCENARIO    PUB.    CO 652 

STANGE,  A.   K 640 

STAR  A  SHOP 640 

VAN   HOrvNE   &   SON 040 

VIVAPHONE    CO 649 

VONNEGUT    HDW.    CO 653 

ZENITH    MFG.    CO 640 

MOVING  PICTURE  MACHINE  MANUFACTURERS. 

EDISON    567 

ENTERPRISE    OPTICAL   CO 633 

POWERS    OAMERAGRAPH 656 

SIMPLEX    609 

MUSICAL  INSTRUMENTS. 

AMERICAN  PHOTOPLAYEB  SALES   CO 640 

DEAGAN.   J.   C 645 

SCHUELKE   AUTOMATIC   MUSIC   CO 640 

SINN,    C.    E 652 

WUELITZER,    RUDOLPH 648 

OPERA    CHAIR    MANUFACTURERS. 

AMERICAN   SEATING    CO 654 

ANDREWS,    A.    H 654 

BENNETT,    GEO.    W 654 

HARDESTY    654 

STEEL  FURNITURE  CO 654 

WISCONSIN  SEATING  CO 654 

POSTERS. 

AM    SLIDE  &  POSTER  CO 646 

BRADY,    A 613 

EXHIBITORS'   ADV.   &   SPECIALTY   CO 608 

GENERAL    FILM    CO 647 

HENNEGAN    &   CO 650 

PROJECTION  SCREENS. 

AMERICAN   THEATRE   CURTAIN    CO 641 

CENTER,   J.   H 631 

MIRROR  SCREEN   CO 650 

SONG  &  ADVERTISING  SLIDES. 

ERKER     BROS 640 

MIDLAND    TRANSPARENCY 652 

SIMPSON,      A 640 

THOMAS,    A.    G 653 

UTILITY    TRANSPARENCY    CO 650 

THEATRICAL  ARCHITECTS. 

DECORATORS'   SUPPLY  CO 651 


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In   Two  Reels 


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TN  previous  advertisements  we  have 
-*■  explained  how  the  G-E  Rectifier 
makes  pictures  more  brilliant,  how  it 
gives  these  better  pictures  at  less  cost 
for  current,  and  how  it  can  be  used  to 
advertise  your  theatre. 

Better  pictures  will  give  increased 
attendance  of  old  patrons.  Advertising 
your  theatre  will  attract  new  trade,  and 
reduced  operating  expense  will  increase 
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Butte,  Mont 
Charleston.  W.  Va. 
Charlotte,  N.  C. 
Chattanooga,  Tenn. 
Chicago,  111. 


Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Cleveland,  Ohio 
Columbus,  Ohio 
Davenport,  Iowa 
Dayton,  Ohio 
Denver,  Colo. 
Detroit,  Mich. 
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Elmira,  N.  Y. 
Erie,  Pa. 
Indianapolis,  Ind. 


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Jacksonville,  Fla. 
Joplin,  Mo. 
Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Keokuk,  Iowa 
Knoxville,  Tenn. 
Los  Angeles,  Cal. 


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AMERICAN. 
Apr.  28— Oil    On     Troubled    Waters     (2    parts, 

Drama) 2000 

May     1— The  Tattooed  Arm    (Drama)     

May     3— The  Road  to  Ruin  (Drama) "lOOO 

May    5 — The    Brothers    (Drama) 1000 

May    8 — Human     Kindness     (Drama) !iooo 

May  lei — Youth   snd  Jealousy    (Drama) lnon 

May  12 — Angel   of    the   Canyons    (Drama) 1000 

May  15 — The     Kiss      (Drama) 1000 

May  17 — The    Great    Harmony    (Drama) 1000 

AMSROSIO. 
"*'■  22—  l.ove    Levels   All    (2   reels)    (Drama).. 
Mar.  29 — The   Human   Target    (2   reeli — Drama) 

Apr.     0 — For    Hla   Sake    (2    reels— Drama) 

Apr.  12 — An  to  Suggestion :   or  the  Crime  of  An- 
other   (2    reels — Drama) 

Apr.  19 — Child  Labor  Traffic  (2  parts.  Drama).. 
Apr.  26 — Golden  Rain    (2  reels,   Drama) 

Aarerr-g- 
reo.  IS — Ths  Cowgirl    and   the    Night    (Drama  1.1000 

l*sb.  20 — Ths  Coward    (Drama) lnoo 

re*.  27— The    Quality    of     Mercy     (Drama) 100(1 

afar.     • — Kith    and    Kin     (Drama) 

Mar.  It — wine.    Women  and    Reformation    (Dr.) 

BISON. 

Apr.  IS — War  (3  parts,  Drama) 

Apr.  IB— The  Last  Roll  Call  (2-partS  Drama).. 
Apr.  22— Bred  In  the  Bone  (3  parts.  Drama).. 
Apr.  26— The  Black  Chancellor  (3  parts.  Dr.) 
Apr.  29 — The  Last  Roll  Call  (2  parts,  Drama) . . 
May     3 — The     Vengeance    of     the    Skystone     (2 

parts,  Drama) 

May  6— The  Indian's  Secret  (2  parts.  Drama) 
May  10— The  Northern  Spy  (2  parts.  Drama) 
May  13 — The  Toll  of  War  (3  parts — Drama).. 
May  17 — In  the  Secret  Service  (2  parts — Drama) 

BRONCHO. 
Apr.     9 — The    Grey    Sentinel    (2   parts — Drama) 
Apr.  16— A    Southern   Cinderella    (8  parts,    Dr.) 

Apr.  23 — Retrogression    (2    parts,    Drama) 

Apr.  30 — Bread  Cast  Upon  the  Waters  (2  parts, 

Drama ) 

May  7— The  Way  of  a  Mother  (2  parts.  Dr.) 
May  14 — A   Slave's   Devotion    (2   parts — Drama) 

CHAMPION. 

Apr.  14 — Lena's  Flirtation   (Comedy) 

Apr.  21 — When   Strong   Men    Meet    (Drama) 

Apr.  28— The  Clown   Hero    (Comedy) 

Apr.  28 — Life  In  Soudan    (Sociology) 

May    B — The   Shark    God    (Drama) 1000 

May  12 — Hawaiian  Love   (Drama) 

CRYSTAL, 

May    4 — Pearl  As  a  Detective   (Comedy) 

May    4 — 01    Whiskers!    (Comedy) 

May  11 — When  Love   Is   Young    (Comedy) 

May  11 — His    Awful    Daughter    (Comedy) 

May  IS — Homlock  Sbermes   (Comedy) 

May  18 — Our    Willie     (Comedy) . . .' 

ECLAIR. 

May    4 — Bewitched  Matches   (Comedy) 

May    4 — Salamanders   (Scientific) 

May    7— The  Sons  of  a  Soldier   (3  parts,   Dr.) 

May  11 — A    Wise    Judge    (Comedy) 

May  11 — Manufacture  of  Steel    (Industry) 

EXCELSIOR. 
Apr.     T — Temperamental   Alice    (Comedy-Drama) 

Apr.  14 — The  Moving  Picture  Olrl   (Drama) 

*pr.  21— The  Man  from  the  City  (Drama) 

Apr.     28 — The  Surveyors  (Drama ) 

May    5 — Brothers    All     (Drama) 

FRONTIER. 

May    1 — The  Word  of  Jose    (Drama) 

May    3 — An    Eastern    Cyclone    at    Bluff    Ranch 

(Comedy ) 

May    8— The    Sheriff's    Rival    (Drama) 

May  in— The  Tenderfoot's   Ghost    (Comedy) 

May  17— Betty's    Bandit     (Comedy) 


OATJMONT. 
Apr.  16 — Gaumont's    Weekly,    No.   58    (Topical) 
Apr.  17 — When  Scandal  Threatened   (Drama) . . . 
Apr.  19 — (An    Educational    &    Topical    Subject) 

Apr.  22— O  Koma  San   (Drama) 

Apr.  22 — The     River    Romantic 

Apr.  23 — Gaumont's  Weekly,  No.  59  (News) . . . 
Apr.  24 — Lessons  for  the  Bashful  (Comedy) .... 
Apr.  26—  (An  Educational-  &  Topical  Subject.) 
Apr.  28 — While  the  Robber  Robbed    (Comedy).. 

Apr.  30 — Gaumont's  Weekly,  No.  60  (News) 

May  1 — The  Shoe  on  the  Other  Foot  (Comedy) 
May    8— (An   Educational   &   Topical    Subject). 

GEM. 

Apr.  29— Billy's   Suicide    (Comedy) 

Apr.  29 — Views  of  Cape  Hatteras    (Scenic) .... 

May    6— Billy's    First    Quarrel     (Comedy) 

May     fi — Call     Him     Whiskers     (Comedy) 

May  13 — Billy's    Adventure    (Comedy) 

GREAT    NORTHERN. 

Apr.     6 — A   Skipper's  Story    (Comedy) 

Apr.     5 — Dnder  Southern  Skies    (Physical  Geog- 
raphy)   

Apr.  12— The         Bewitched         Rubber        Shoes 

(Comedy)     

Apr.  12 — Spanish     Towns     (Scenic) 

Apr.  19 — The  Two  Convicts    (Drama) 

Apr.  26 — Told  In  Confidence   (Drama) 

May  3 — Who  Is  Most  to  Blame  (Com. -Dr.).. 
May  10 — Her     First     Love     Affair     (Comedy — 

Drama)     

IMP. 

May     5 — Eureka     (2    parts.    Drama) 

May     8 — The    Whole   Truth    (Drama) 

May  10 — Leo    Makes   Good    (Comedy) 

May  10 — The    Oyster    Industry    (Industry) 

May  12 — A-    Woman    Loved     (Drama) 

May  15 — The    Heart    that    Sees    (Drama) 

May  17 — Beetles     (Centimology) 

KAY-BEE. 
Apr.  11— On  Fortune's  Wheel    (2  parts — Drama) 

Apr.  18 — The   Runaways    (Comedy) 

Apr.  25 — Will  O'  the  Wisp  (2  parta,  Drama).. 
May.  2 — A  Black  Conspiracy  (2  parts.  Drama) 
May  9 — Past  Redemption  (2  parts.  Drama)... 
May   10 — For  Love  of  the  Flag  (2  parts — Drama) 

KEYSTONE. 

Apr.  28 — The  New  Conductor   (Comedy) 

Apr.  28 — His  Chum,    the  Bsron    (Comedy) 

»lay     1— That  Rag  Time   Band    (Comedy) 

May    5 — Algie   on   the  Force    (Comedy) 

May     5 — His  Ups  and  Downs   (Comedy) 

May    8 — The  Dark  Town  Belle   (Comedy) 

May    8 — A    Little   Hero    (Comedy) 

May  12 — Mabel's    Awful    Mistake    (Comedy) 

May  1j — Their    First    Execution     (Comedy) 

LUX. 
Apr.  25 — A  Safeguard  for  Bachelors  (Comedy)..  815 

Apr.  25 — The   Truant    Husband    (Comedy) 685 

Mav    2 — The    Miller's   Daughter    (Drama) 760 

May     2— The   Invincible   Hands    (Comedy) 285 

May    9 — Saved     from     the     Grip     of     Alcohol 

(Drama)     995 

MAJESTIC. 

Apr.  20— The  Mote  and  the  Beam  (Drama) 

Apr.  22 — Not   for  Mine    (Comedy) 

Apr.  27 — Old    Mammy's    Charge    (Drama) 

Apr.  29 — The    Whim    of   Destiny    (Drama) . 

Mav     4 — A   Country   Man's   Romance    (Drama) . . 
May    6— The   Children   of  St.   Anne    (2  parts- 
Drama)  

MECCA. 

Mar.  15— The    Fisher   Lady    (Drama) 

Uar.  22 — The  Lineman  and  the  Reformer   (Dr.) 

Uar.  29 — The   Criminals    (Drama) 

Apr.    5 — By  the  Curate's  Aid  (Drama) 

MTLANO. 
Mar.     1— The  Defeat  ef  the  Conqueror  (J  reel*) 

(Historical) 

afar.  8— The  Victory  of  Virtue  (9  reels)  (Dr.) 
Mar.  16— The    Sins    ef    the    Father     (1    reels) 

(Drama) 

KTrTTJAL  WEEKLY. 

Apr.     9— Mutual  Weekly,   No.  15    (News) 

Apr.  16 — Mutual  Weekly,   Ne.   1«  (News) 

Apr.  2S— Mutual  Weekly.   Ne.   17  (News) 

Apr.  30 — Mutual    Weekly,    No.     18    (News) 

May     7— Mutual    Weekly,     No.    19     (News) 

MUTUAL  EDUCATIONAL 
Apr.  24 — Funnlcus  Is  Tired  of  Life   (Comedy).. 

Apr.  24 — Electrical  Phenomenon  (Physics) 

May     1 — The  Old  Invalid  (Drama) 


May    1— Tachkent,     Asiatic     Russia     (Political 
Geography) 

May    8— The    Old    Clock    (Drama) 

May     8 — Mosques    and    Tombs    of    Caliphs    and 

Mamelukes   (Architectural)    

May  15 — His     Master's     Rival     (Comedv) 

May  15 — The     Valley     of     Albula,     Switzerland 

(Scenic)      

NESTOR. 

Apr.  25 — For   Her   Sake    (Drama) 

Apr.  28 — When  Father  Was  Kidnapped    (Com.) 

Apr.  30— The  Greater  Love   (Comedy) 

May    2 — The    Ingrate    (Drama) 

May     5 — The    Country    Cousin     (Comedy) 

May    7 — The  Awakening  of  Paplta   (Drama)... 

May    9 — Miss     Nobody     (Drama) 

May  12 — The    Squasbville    Ladles    Fire    Brigade 

(Comedy)     

May  14 — The     Clean     Up     (Drama) 

May  16 — Au   Eye    for  an   Eye    (Drama) 

POWERS. 

Apr.  23 — When    Dolly    Died    (Drama) 

Apr.  25 — The   Sham   Suffragette    (Comedy) 

Apr.  30 — In   a   Strange   Land    (Drama ) 

May  ,  2 — Neighbors    (Comedy) 

May    7 — The  Black   Small   Pox  Scare    (Com.).. 

May    9 — Bozo    Arrives     (Comedy) 

May  14 — The     Violet    Bride     (Drama) 

May  16 — The     Tarantula     (Drama) 

PUNCH. 

Uar.     6 — Impetuous     Jim     (Comedy) 

Uar.     6— No    Wedding    Bells    for    Jones    (Com.) 

Uar.  13— Father    Tamed     (Comedy) 

Mar.  13—  His    First    Kodak     (Comedy) 

PILOT. 
Mar.  20— Till  Death  Do  Us  Part  (2  reels)   (Dr.) 
Mar.  27 — When     Lincoln     was     President     (His- 
torical-Drama)     

Apr.     8 — In  the  Battle's  Smoke  (Drama) 

Apr.  10 — Across   the   Border    (Drama) 

Apr.   17 — The    Promoter     (Drama) 

Apr.  24 — The  Hypnotic  Collector  (Drama) 

May    1 — The   Song   of   Songs    (Drama) 

RAK0. 

April  2 — The  Last   Ola   Lady    (Comedy) 

April  2— Rapid  Transit  In   New   York 

RELIANCE. 

Apr.  19 — The  She   Wolf    (Drama) 

Apr.  23 — The  Hoodoo  Pearls   (Drsms) 

Apr.  26 — The  Woman-Hater's  Defeat  (Drama).. 
Apr.  30 — The   Bawlerout    (3   parts.    Drama).... 

May    3 — The    Good    Within    (Drama) 

May     7 — A     Cruel     Suspicion     (Drama) 

May  10— The    Sheriff    (Drama) 

REX. 
Apr.  24 — The   Dragon's   Breath    (2  parts   Dr.).. 

Apr.  27 — The   Wayward   Sister    (Drama) 

May    1 — The  Turn  of  the  Tide   (Drama) 

May    4 — The   Roaary    (Drama) 

May    8 — The    Smuggler's    Daughter     (2    parta, 

(Drama) 

May  11 — The  Poverty  of  Riches   (Drama) 

EYNO. 

Mar.  17 — Memories  of   Long  Ago   (Drama) 

Mar.  24 — The  Sea   Waif    (Drama) 

Mar.  81 — Memories   of    Long    Ago    (Drama).... 

Apr.     4 — Classmates     (Drsma)      

Apr.     7 — The     Outcast     (Drama) 

Apr.  11— Off    the    Mainland    (Drama) 

SOLAX. 

Apr.  25 — A   Severe  Test    (Comedy) 

Apr.  30 — The    Silver    Cross    (Drama) 

May     2 — A   House  Divided    (Comedy) 

May  7 — The  Case  of  the  Missinp  Girl  (Comedy) 
May     9 — The     Past     Forgiven      (Drama)  .....'..  . 

May  14 — Dad's    Orders     (Comedy) 

May  16 — The  Man  in  the  Sick  Room  (Drama).. 

THANHOUSER. 
Apr.  22 — An   American  in   the  Making   (Drsma) 

Apr.  25 — For  Another's   Sin    (Drama) 

Apr.  27 — Rosie's     Revenge     (Drama) 

Apr.  29 — The  Girl  Detective's  Ruse  (Drsma).. 
May  2 — The  Widow's  Stratagem  (Drama).... 
May    4 — Express    C.    O.    D.    (Comedy-Drama) . . 

May    6 — Her  Sister's  Secret   (Drama) 

May    9— The     Other    Girl     (Drama) 

VICTOR. 

Apr.  18 — The  Coward's  Charm   (Drama)    

Apr.  26— Loneliness  and   Lore    (Drama)....*... 

May    2 — The  Unseen  Influence  (Drama) 

May    9 — The    Unknown    (Drama) 

May  16 — A   Fair    Exchange    (2  parts — Drama) . .. 


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BIOGEAPH. 

Apr.  28 — The   Lady   and    the   House    (Drama). 

Apr.  28— Blame  the  Wife  (Comedy) 

Apr.  28 — The  Daylight  Burglar  (Comedy) 

May     1 — If  We  Only  Knew   (Drama) 

Hay     3 — The  Wanderer   (Drama) 

May    5 — The   Tenderfoot's   Money    (Drama)... 

May     8 — Frappe    Love    (Comedy) 

May     8 — The  Coveted   Prize    (Comedy) 

May  10 — The  House  of  Darkness  (Drama) 

May  12 — The   King   and   the   Copper    (Comedy). 

May  12 — A     Rainy     Day     (Comedy) 

May  15 — The     Stolen     Loaf     (Drama) 

May  17 — The    Yaqui    Cur     (2parts — Drama)... 


CINES. 


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Apr.  23 — The  Miser's  Millions  (3  parts,   special. 

Drama) 2700 

Apr.  26 — Vlewa  in  Liege,    Belgium    (Scenic) 200 

Apr.  28— Forgotten    (Drama) 800 

Apr.  29 — Scenes  and   Ruins   Near  Rome    (Trav.)  200 

Apr.  29 — The  New  Arrival  (Comedy) 800 

May    2 — The  Broken   Vow     (Special,     2     parts. 

Drama)    2000 

May    3 — The  Rival  Lovers   (Comedy) 500 

May    3 — Jerry's  Rebellion  (Comedy) 500 

May    6— A  Mixed   Affair    (Drama) 1000 

May  10 — The  People  of  Somaliland,  East  Africa 

(Manners    and    Customs) 300 

May  10 — Excess  Baggage    (Comedy) 400 

May  10— Beautiful   Lake   Como,    Italy    (Physical 

Geography) 300 

May  13 — Willie's    Alarm    Clock     (Comedy) 780 

May  13— Relics    of    Ancient    Rome    (Travel)...  220 

May  17 — A   Woman's   Influence    (Drama) S20 

May  17 — Gulf      of      Togulio,       Northern      Italy 

(Scenic) 180 


EDISON. 

Apr.  19— The  Twelfth  Juror   (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  21 — Bulda   of    Holland    (Comedy-Drama) .  .1000 

Apr.  22 — An    Innocent    Informer    (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  23 — His  Undesirable  Relatives  (Comedy)..  1000 
Apr.  25 — The  High   Tide  of  Misfortune    (Being 
the    tenth    story    of    "What    Hap- 
pened to  Mary,"   Drama) 1000 

Apr.  26— A  Splendid  Scapegrace   (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  28 — When    the    Right    Man    Comes    Along 

(Comedy)  1000 

Apr.  29—  The  Orphan  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  30 — A  Reluctant  Cinderella    (Comedy) 1000 

May    2 — Groundless  Suspicion  (Drama) 1000 

May    3 — Billy's  Sweetheart  (Drama) 1000 

May    5 — The    One    Hundred    Dollar    Elopement 

(Comedy  ~rama)    1000 

May    6 — When  Greek  Meets  Greek  (Drama) 1000 

May    7 — Annty  and  the  Girls    (Comedy) 400 

May    7 — With  the  Assistance  of  "Shep"  (Com.)  600 

May    9 — The  Golden  Wedding   (Drama) 1000 

May  10 — An  Accidental   Alibi    (Drama) moo 

May  12— The  Heart  of  Valeska   (Drama) 1000 

May  13 — The    Prophecy     (Drama) 1000 

May  14 — The    Two    Merchants    (Drama) 1000 

May  16 — John    Manley's   Awakening    (Brama).  .1000 
May  17 — A  Concerto  for   the   Violin    (Drama).  .1000 


ESSANAY. 

Apr.  25 — The    Deacon's    Dilemma    (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.  26— Broncho  Billy  and  the  Rustler's  Child 

(Drama) 1000 

Apr.  29 — Cousin  Jane   (Comedy) 1000 

Apr.  30 — Cousin  Bill   (Comedy) 1000 

May    1— The  Story  the  Desert  Told    (Drama).. 1000 

May    2 — A  Child's  Precaution    (Drama) 1000 

May    3— The  Craiy  Prospector    (Drama) 1000 

May     6 — A   Tango   Tangle    (Comedy) 1000 

May     7 — The   Prophecy    (Drama) 1000 

May     8 — Two   Western   Paths    (Drama) 1000 

May     9 — A  Woman's  Way    (Drama) 1000 

May  10 — Alkali   Ike's  Mother-in-law    (Comedy) .  .1000 
Mav  13 — The    Ranch    Girl's    Partner    (Drama) .  .1000 

May  14 — The    Same    Old    Story    (Comedy) 1000 

Mav  15 — Boosting     Business      (Comedy) 1000 

Mar  16— Two  Social   Calls    (Drama) 1000 

May  17— Broncho    Billy's    Grit    (Drama) 1000 

TTATTVM 

pr.  SO— Tea  Eighth  Notch  (Drama) 

Apr.  30 — A  Coupon  Courtship   (Comedy)...; 

May    2 — Fatty's  Busy  Day   (Comedy) 

May     2 — Old    Women    of    the    Streets    of    New 

York  (T    leal) 

May    8 — The  Wayward  Son    (Drama) 1000 

May    5 — The  Heart  of  An  Actress  (Drama) 1000 

May    7 — The  Alien   (Drama) 1000 

May    9 — The  Hash   Honse  Count    (Comedy) 

May    9— Toothache    (Comedy) 

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Apr.  28 — In  the  Harem  of  Haschem   (Drama) . .  1000 

Apr.  29— Granny  (Drama) 1000 

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May    1— The   Veil  of   Sleep    (Drama) 1000 

May    2— The  Girl  Back  East  (Drama) 1000 

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May    3 — Fixing  Auntie  Up  (Comedy) 600 

May    5 — Pedro's    Treachery    (Drama) 1000 

May     6— The  Judgment  of  the  Deep  (Drama) .  .1000 

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May    8 — Hattle's    New    Hat    (Comedy) 600 

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Mav  12— Luckv     Cohen     (Comedy) 400 

May  12— A   Ten   Acre   Gold   Brick    (Comedy) 1000 

Mav  13— The    Padre's    Strategy     (Drama) 1000 

Ma'vlS — Longing    for    a    Mother    (Drama) 1000 

May  16— Breed   of   the  West    (Drama) 1000 

May  17 — Retribution    (Drama) 1000 

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May     1— The   Home   of  Terns    (Zoology) 

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May  14 — The    Will    of    Fate    (Drama) 1000 

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What  Causes  People 

(o  continually  patronize  one  Picture  Theatre  in  preference  to  another?! 
Ot  course,  location,  appearances,  films,  etc.  have  a  great  deal  to  do  with  it^ 
but  quality  of  the  picture  is  what  builds  up  a  steady  patronage  that  makes  the 
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This  depends  largely  on  your  light  and  if  you  are  using  any  other  device  than  a' 

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to  step  down  your  current  you  are  not  getting  best  results. 

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ITS  "FLYING  A"  BANNER  WEEK 

Three  Splendid  Pictures,  beginning  Monday,  May  19th,  with  a  REAL,  GENUINE,  DYED-IN- 
THE-WOOL  WESTERN  in  "Her  Innocent  Marriage,"  followed  Thursday,  May  22d,  by  "Calamity 
Anne,  Parcel  Post,"  by  all  odds  best  of  that  best  of  "Calamity  Anne"  series.  Saturday,  May  24th,  re- 
leases another  Bully  Western,  "The  Modern  Snare."  A  charming  story  of  a  youthful  sheriff  and  a  faith- 
ful wife. 

To  Miss  One  is  to  Miss  a  Business-Puller— An  Asset— A  Bit  of  Picture-Craft  That  Wrll  Delight 
and  Entertain.  See  That  You  Get  All  Three,  and  Your  Program,  Patrons  and  Your  Conscience  Will  Be 
the  Better  for  It. 


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HER    INNOCENT    MARRIAGE"      Release  Monday,  May  19,  1913) 

Deprived  of  happiness  through  a  drunken  husband,  she  leaves.  In  the  years  that  follow  she  hears  of  his 
death  and  remarries.  Then  some  unexpected  things  happen — events  that  stir  the  blood  and  pique  the  interest 
to  the  breaking  point. 


"CALAMITY  ANNE  PARCEL  POST" 


(Release  Thursday, 
May  22,  1913) 

You've  seen  that  funniest  of  women — "Calamity  Anne" — Louise  Lester  never  was  better  in  that  difficult 
role.  Calamity  this  time  becomes  a  parcel  post  carrier  with  extraordinarily  funny  results.  It  all  ends  by  a 
successful  stroke  on  Calamity's  part  that  nets  her  a  cozy  little  nest  egg. 


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(Release  Saturday,  May  24,  1913) 

The  newly  appointed  sheriff  unwittingly  creates  the  dislike  of  his  predecessor.  Result — the  ex-sheriff  tries 
a  dangerous  game  to  discredit  him.  When  all  lose  faith,  the  wife  of  the  youthful  sheriff  shows  a  bit  of  wit 
and  a  whole  lot  of  confidence  in  her  hubby.  How  she  brings  right  from  wrong  makes  a  thrilling  and  wholly 
satisfying  picture. 

MATr  ■  Handsome  lithos   of  Jack   Kerrigan   and  Jack  Richardson  for  your  lobby.     Dandiest  sort  of 

■* v  ■  fc  !     business-attractors.     Better  get  a   couple   of   each.    See  your  exchange. 

WANTED1  Scenarios — not   the   trite  and   commonplace,   but   rather   stories   with   a   kick,   something 

,  „  ■  fcl^"    new  and  out  of  the  ordinary.     We  are  now  equipped  to  make  any  and  all  classes  of  picture- 

plays.     Hence  we  want  one,  two  and  three-reel  stories,  and,  as  we  want  the  unusual  in  stories,  so  will  we  pay  the 
unusual  in  price. 


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That  is   the   Kalem  Slogan 

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you  need  not  be  told  what  the  Kalem  policy  is. 

If  you  are  not  showing  these  features  it  is  high  time  you  arranged  for  them. 

It  Costs  Money  to  Make  Genuine  Features 

Kalem  has  been  expending  sums  without  precedent.  No  undertaking  has 
been  too  costly;  no  part  of  the  globe  too  remote  to  be  visited. 

Kalem  paid  Detective  Wm.  J.  Burns  the  largest  sum  ever  received  by  an 
individual  in  any  country  for  appearing  in  a  photoplay.  "From  the  Manger 
to  the  Cross"  represents  an  expenditure  of  $100,000.00. 

And  you  need  not  look  exclusively  to  the  Kalem  Specials  for  headline  attrac- 
tions.  You'll  find  many  extraordinary  features  in  our  regular  one-reel  issues. 

Kalem  photoplays  will  make  good  everything  you  claim  for  them. 
Next  week  we  will  give  you  additional  reasons^ 

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May  20th 


HIS  FATHER'S  THE  TATTLE  BATTLE 


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Tellinghow  four  obstreperous  juveniles 
involved  the  entire  neighborhood  in  a 
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Another 
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WAMBA 


comedy     of    the 
animal    trainer's 
domestic 
life. 


A      CHILD      OF     THE     JUNGLE-IN  JWOjREELS 

A  thrilling  drama  of  life  in  the  tropical  wilds.     Sensation  after  sensation— thrill  after  thrill— see 

"Baby  Lillian   Wade  make   her   desperate  head-long  plunge   to   safety.     The   frantic   race 
between   "Portuguese    Pete"   and   the   frenzied   lions.     -'Baby"   Lillian   Wade   rescued 
from  the  devouring  animals  by  "Wamba." 

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May  21st 

THE 
STOLEN  MELODY 

The  heart  interest  story  of  an  old  com- 
poser and  his  music. 

May  22nd 

INDIAN  SUMMER 

A  romance  of  "Dixieland,"  picturesque 
in  environment  and  appealing  in  theme. 

May  23rd 

THE    NOISY    SIX 

An  appealing  story  of  six  college  boys 
whose  generosity  aided  an  old  veteran 
and  his  family. 


COMING 

The  Greatest 

Baseball    Film   Ever 

Made— Selig's    Exclusive 

Feature— a  Scoop. 

"FRANK- CHANCE  DAY 
BASEBALL  FESTIVAL" 

Close-up  views  of  each  and  every  ^well-1 
known  player,  manager  and  owner  in  the 
American  League.  Selected  scenes  showing 
the  monster  parade,  game  and  festivities  in 
honor  of  Frank  Chance's  appearance  in  Chi- 
cago on  May  17. 

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A  Quartet  of  Strong  Two-Feel  Features 

A  thrilling  war   story,   a   gripping   tale   of   the   Great   Northwest,   an   intensely 
interesting  drama  and  a  charming  comedy. 

"The  Battle  for  Freedom"  ,eSL 

TheWar  Story  Based  on  an  actual  battle  in  the  Boer  War  and  produced  by  a  director  who 
participated  in  the  encounter.  A  pretty  love  story  runs  through  the  several 
exciting  scenes. 


TheTale  of  the 
Northwest 


"Into  the  North" 


ESSANAY 
Two  Reels 

A  story  of  the  Northwest  Mounted  Police:  In  the  depths  of  the  wilds  a  noto- 
rious crook  is  brought  to  bay  and  made  to  pay  the  penalty  for  a  crime  com- 
mitted years  before  in  a  far-off  city. 


The  Drama 


LUBIN 
Two  Reels 


"The  District  Attorney's  Conscience" 

A  drama  that  holds  the  attention  to  the  very  last  scene.  You  wonder  how 
it's  going  to  turn  out.  Then  when  the  climax  is  reached  it  seems  perfectly 
logical.     Arthur  Johnson  as  the  District  Attorney. 


The  Comedy 


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PATHEPLAY 
Two  Reels 


"The  Open  Secret 

A  banker's  son  defies  his  parents  and  marries  secretly.  The  father  discovers  his 
secret  and  agrees  to  keep  it  from  his  wife.  Then  the  wife  learns  of  the  son's 
marriage  and  promises  not  to  tell  her  husband.  Of  course  they  both  have  a 
good  laugh  in  the  end,  and  everything  turns  out  happily. 


That's  the  way  the  programs  of  multiple-reel  features  in  General  Film  Service 
are  balanced  each  week,  and  not  only  features,  but  single  reels  as  well.  You 
get  quality  in  General  Film  Service;  and  variety  too. 


COMING! 


"THE  STILL  VOICE" 

May  24th  Vitagraph,  Two  Reels 

"WAMBA" 

May  26th  Selig,  Two  Reels 

"LOVE  and  WAR  IN  MEXICO" 

May  28th  Lubin,  Two  Reels 

"THE  HUMAN  VULTURE" 

May  30th  Patheplay,  Two  Reels 


"THE  WHITE  SLAVE" 

May  31st  Vitagraph,  Two  Reels 

"THE    RIVAL    ENGINEERS" 

June  2nd  Cines-Kleine,  Two  Reels 

"THE  LAW  and  THE  OUTLAW" 

June  4th  Selig,  Two  Reels 

"THE  ACCUSING  HAND" 

.  June  6th  Lubin,  Two  Reels 


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"Experience  Is  the  Best  Teacher" 

Without  doubt  one  of  the  most  remarkable  unsolicited  com- 
pliments ever  paid  a  film  company  is  the  following  letter  written  by 
an  exhibitor  in  Texas,  upon  his  return  to  General  Film  Service 
after  trying  for  two  months  to  get  along  with    another  service. 

"I  announced  last  Saturday  night  that  beginning  on  Monday  I 
would  show  licensed  pictures  again,  featuring  G.  M.  Anderson,  John 
Bunny,  Lillian  Walker  and  others  that  were  well-known  to  my  patrons. 
The  applause  that  followed  made  me  sit  up  and  take  notice.  I  am 
frank  to  confess  that  the  worst  thing  I  ever  did  in  my  life  was  to  dis- 
continue your  service,  but,  believe  me,  as  long  as  you  give  me  anything 
like  decent  pictures  I  am  with  you.  I  had  a  better  crowd  on  Monday 
night  than  I  had  any  Monday  night  during  the  time  I  used  the  other 
service,  and  there  wasn't  anything  special  on  in  town  either  to  bring 
the  people  out.  They  all  came  'round  with  a  satisfied  smile  and 
words  of  praise  for  the  pictures.  Many  of  them  said  'We're  glad  you 
changed.'  There  is  an  old  saying  that '  Experience  is  the  best  teacher.' 
I  have  found  it  so." 

The  public  knows  what  it  wants  and  will  patronize  the  theatres 
that  use  General  Film  Service.  The  experience  of  this  one  ex- 
hibitor proves  that.  Why  not  travel  along  the  line  of  the  least 
resistance  and  use  it? 


DID  YOU  GET  YOUR  COPY  OF  OUR  LITTLE  BOOK? 

If  you  didn't  it's  waiting  for  you.    Tells  all  about 
General   Film  Service,  and  why  you  should   use  it 

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COMING  EDISON  FILMS 


JOHN   MANLY'S  AWAKENING 

Drama    (1C00)    Released  Friday,    May   16. 

Refused  by  the  girl  he  loved,  a  man  shuns  feminine 
society  until  the  death  of  an  old  friend  forces  rjim  to 
become  the  guardian  of  a  delightful  young  girl.  Then 
he  realizes  that  a  new  happiness  is  his  and  that  the  old 
love  is  forgotten. 

A  CONCERTO   FOR  THE  VIOLIN 

Drama   (1020)  Released  Saturday,  May  17. 

A  selfish,  temperamental  composer  is  blind  to  the 
wonderful  ability  of  his  self-sacrificing  wife.  His  new 
concerto  is  to  be  played  by  a  great  Russian  violinist, 
with  whom  he  falls  in  love.  A  quarrel  between  them 
results  in  the  wife's  triumphantly  playing  the  concerto 
at  the  recital. 

BY  MUTUAL  AGREEMENT 

Sentimental  Comedy  (1000)   Released  Monday,   May  19. 

A  fat,  good-natured  man,  after  having  been  bullied 
for  years  by  an  energetic  wife,  finally  asserts  himself. 
There  is  nothing  to  do  but  get  divorced.  Their  lawyer 
suggests  a  separation  and  he  goes  to  the  city  to  enjoy 
his  freedom,  but  soon  comes  back  and  is  warmly  wel- 
comed. 

THE  GOOD  IN  THE  WORST  OF  US 

Drama    (1000)    Released   Tuesday,   May   20. 

Two  criminals,  hiding  from  the  Northwest  mounted 
police,  are  found  by  the  sergeant's  baby  girl.  They 
hide  in  a  barn  with  her;  one  is  wounded  trying  to  get 
food,  and  the  other  bravely  carries  her  to  her  father 
and  gives  himself  up,  to  save  her  from  starving. 

GLIMPSES  OF  COLORADO  IN  WINTER 

Scenic    (315)    Released    Wednesday,    May    21, 

BRAGG'S  NEW  SUIT 

Comedy  (685)  Released  Wednesday,  May  21. 
The  modest  one  is  pushed  into  a  ditch  by  an  Irish 
laborer  and  ruins  his  clothes.  The  Irishman  loans  him 
his  best  suit  and  Bragg  tells  the  boys  at  the  club  a  ro- 
mantic story  about  the  new  suit,  but  the  real  owner 
spoils  it  all. 


A   RACE  TO  NEW  YORK 

Being  the  eleventh  story  of   "What  Happened  to  Mary."     Produced  In 

collaboration  with  "The  Ladies'  World." 

Drama   (1000)  Released  Friday,  May  23. 

Craig  traces    Mary    to   the   light-house   only   to   find 

that  she  has  sailed  away  on  the  supply  boat.    By  launch, 

auto  and  train,  he  makes  a  desperate  attempt  to  stop 

the    girl    before    she    reaches    New    York.   ■  He    finally 

overtakes  her,  but  Mary  outwits  him  and  escapes. 

THE   TRANSLATION    OF  A   SAVAGE 

Drama    (1000)    Released  Saturday,    May  24. 

Rejected  by  a  society  belle,  a  young  Englishman 
marries  a  daughter  of  the  Canadian  woods  and  ships 
her  home  to  disgrace  his  family.  The  little  savage 
suffers  mental  and  physical  anguish  in  her  new  home, 
but  her  husband,  returning  a  year  later,  finds  a  beauti- 
ful woman. 

DANCES  OF  THE  AGES 

Fantastic  Medley  (975)   Released  Monday,  May  26. 

A  remarkable  review  of  various  styles  of  dancing, 
from  1200  B.  C.  to  the  present  day,  performed  by 
miniature  dancers  upon  a  banquet  table  before  an  as- 
semblage of  old  dancing  masters.  One  of  the  aged 
fellows  tries  to  perform  the  awkward  new  steps,  but 
decides  that  he  would  rather  starve. 

AN  UNWILLING  SEPARATION 

A  DECORATION  DAT  STORY. 
Drama   (1000)  Released  Tuesday,  May  27. 

Both  made  miserable  by  their  first  separation,  a 
crippled  Civil  War  veteran  and  his  wife  steal  away 
from  their  respective  new  homes  on  Decoration  Day 
and  are  found  at  the  burial  ground  by  their  anxious 
children.  Then  the  children,  realizing  their  mistake, 
re-open  the  old  home. 

NEWCOMB'S   NECKTIE 

Comedy    (1000)    Released  Wednesday,    May  28. 

Newcomb's  wife  presents  him  with  a  horrible  parody 
on  a  necktie  which  he  tries  in  every  conceivable  way 
to  lose.  After  a  nerve-racking  day  at  the  office  he  suc- 
ceeds, only  to  have  his  deep-laid  plot  foiled  by  the 
janitor's  daughter. 


The  EDISON  KINETOSCOPE 

UNDERWRITERS'  TYPE  "B" 

HTHE  BEST  SHOW  is  the  show  that  "gets  the  money, 
A  and  the  moving  picture  machine  that  will  make  yours 
the  best  show  is  the  Edison  Kinetoscope.  With  it  you 
show  the  sharp,  flickerless  pictures  which  do  not  strain 
the  eyes. 

The  Edison  Kinetoscope  is  easy  to  operate  and  it  is 
built  to  stand  the  grind.  There  are  no  "intermissions  for 
repairs"  to  provoke  the  crowd.  Take  the  first  step  toward 
bettering  your  show  by  sending  today  for  full  particulars 
and  a  copy  of  the  Edison  Kinetogram. 

Price,  with  Rheostat,  110  volts.  24-40  amperes,  $225.00 
Price,  with  1 10  volt,  60  Cycle  Transformer,      .    245.00 

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"THE  PADRE'S  STRATEGY" 


1000  feet 


Tuesday,  May  13th 


A  thrilling  Mexican  story  or  love,  strategy  and  power. 


"LONGING    FOR    A     MOTHER"  lOOOfeet  Thursday,  May  15th 

A  motherless  boy  dreams  of  the  mother  he  never  knew. 


"BREED  OF  THE  WEST" 


1000  feet 


Friday,  May  16th 


True   chivalry   shows  in   the   breed — a   very   strong   story. 


"RETRIBUTION"  ICOOfeet  Saturday,  May  17th 

The  penalty  of  deceit  and  treachery  is  trouble  and  heart  failure.' 

"  MARGARET'S     PAINTING  "  1000  feet  Monday,  May  19th 

The  wife's  painting  shows  real  mother-love  and  true  art. 


EXCEPTIONAL  1WO-REEL  FEATURES 


THE  DISTRICT  ATTORNEY'S 
CONSCIENCE 

FEATURING  ARTHUR  JOHNSON 

TWO  REELS-WEDNESDAY,  MAY  21st 


Will  Mason,  the  District  Attorney,  discovers  Fred 
Jackson,  a  supposed  friend,  making  love  to  his  wife. 
A  shot  is  fired  and  Jackson  is  found  dead.  Mason 
thinks  his  wife  fired  the  shot.  An  Italian,  who  has 
had  an  altercation  with  Jackson,  is  caught  rushing 
from  the  grounds.  Mason,  to  clear  his  wife,  accuses 
the  Italian,  tries  and  convicts  him  and  sends  him  to 
the  chair.  Mason  is  crazed  with  remorse,  thinking 
he  has  convicted  an  innocent  man,  but  finally  receives 
a  note  from  the  Italian,  confessing  the  crime. 


"THE    DISTRICT    ATTORNEYS    CONSCIENCE." 


"LOVE    AND    WAR    IN    MEXICO"  Two  Reels  Wednesday,  May  28th 


A  remarkable  story  of  the  Mexican  Border. 


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1.  "THE  WRONG  PAIR" 

2.     "THE  GRAND  CANYON" 


Comedy  &  Scenic         Monday,  May  12th 


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1.  They  elope.  Papa  tries  to  apprehend  them.  Every  couple  but  the  right  pair  is 
arrested.  The  elopers  return  married  and  papa  gives  them  his  blessing,  repenting  his 
haste.     2.  A  series  of  scenic  views. 

HORATIO     SPARKINS"    A  Dickens  Comedy  Tuesday,  May  13th 

Posing  as  a  wealthy  man,  a  dry  goods  clerk  makes  an  impression  at  the  expense  of  his 
job  and  a  matrimonial  possibility  that  would  have  brought  him  a  fortune. 

"TWO  SOULS  WITH  BUT  A  SINGLE  THOUGHT" 

Or   "A  MAID  AND  THREE  MEN"        Comedy       Wednesday,  May  14th 

Two  fat  men  make  love  to  an  already  engaged  girl.    When  their  love  waxes  hottest  she 


walks  off  with  her  sweetheart,  leaving  them  to  their  overthrow. 


Thursday,  May  15th 


"A  SOUL  IN  BONDAGE"         *w 

Haunted  by  her  past  association,  a  young  girl  is  tempted  to  depart  from  her   good 
resolutions.     She  prevails  in  doing  right  and  happily  triumphs. 

"HIS  LIFE  FOR  HIS  EMPEROR"  h**i*-.  Friday,  May  isth 

To  save  the  Emperor  Napoleon  from  death,  a  soldier  receives   the   fatal  blow.     The 
Emperor  mourns  the  loss  of  such  a  real  friend,  of  which  he  had  so  few. 

"BUNNY  TAKES  A  DIP  INTO  SOCIETY" 

Or  "BUNNY  AND  THE  BUNNY  HUG"  Comedy  Saturday,  May  17th 

As  an  Irish  Count,  Bunny  captivates  the  girls  and  provokes  the  boys.     It  was 
all  a  joke,  as  the  girls  learn  afterwards,  then  the  laugh  starts  all  over  again. 


NEW  YORK, 
LONDON  AND  PARIS. 


NEXT    WEEK 
SIX-A-WEEK 

"BUNNY'S     BIRTHDAY     SUR- 
PRISE" 
"Vitagraphers  at  Kama  Kura" 
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A  Victim  of  Heredity 

A  Gripping  Sociological  Drama  ■ 

Jane  has  an  inherited  propensity  for  stealing,  which  is  cured  by  a  noted  specialist  who,  with  his 
colleagues,  performs  a  novel  experiment. 
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Captured  by  Strategy         The  Widow  from  Winnipeg 

r  J  "•'  A    lonelv    ranchman    advertises    for    a    wife — t 


Tom  learns  that  robbers  have  followed  his 
sweetheart's  father,  who  has  taken  passage  on  a 
river  steamer.  By  making  a  sensational  lea]) 
from  a  huge  dredge  he  boards. the  vessel  and 
captures  the  criminals. 
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loses  his  nerve. 

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that   they  should  have  a  year's  engagement. 

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John  Burns  of  Gettysburg 

Based  upon  Bret  Harte's  Famous  Poem 

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Facts  and  Comments 

IT  is  gratifying  to  learn  that  another  "official  state 
censorship-'  bill  has  been  killed.  This  time  it's  the 
Wisconsin  bill,  which  was  sweeping  in  its  provisions 
for  censorship  and  state  regulation  of  the  motion  picture 
theater.  Advices  from  Madison,  Wis.,  are  to  the  effect 
that  Assemblyman  Hall,  himself  a  theatrical  manager, 
spoke  so  eloquently  against  the  measure  that  a  majority 
was  obtained  against  it  when  a  vote  was  called.  Over  in 
Xew  Jersey,  too,  the  efforts  of  the  exhibitors  have  put 
the  finishing  touches  upon  a  measure  introduced  in  the 
legislature  at  Trenton  providing  for  local  censor  boards. 
We  believe  that  the  record  of  censorship  bills  defeated 
should  be  enough  to  satisfy  those  among  the  exhibitors 
who  have  favored  these  iniquitous  and  un-American 
measures  that  censorship  of  the  official  sort  is  not  wanted 

bv  either  exhibitors  or -public. 

* 

The  ideal  censorship  is  the  voluntary  censorship,  such 
as  is  maintained  by  the  Xational  Board  in  the  United 
States  or  British  Board  in  Great  Britain.  Regarding 
the  methods  of  the  latter  organization  Mr.  W.  Stephen 
Bush  of  the  Moving  Picture  World  staff,  now  in  London, 
Eng.,  tells  a  very  interesting  story  on  another  page  of 


this  issue.  There  the  exhibitors,  renters  and  manufac- 
turers have  combined  to  maintain  a  board  of  censors 
which  is  operated  for  the  good  of  the  trade  at  a  nominal 
cost.  All  exhibitors  bind  themselves  to  use  only  such  pic- 
tures as  have  been  passed  by  the  board,  and  that's  all 
there  is  to  it.  The  same  method  of  procedure  might  be 
put  into  operation  here  with  the  National  Board  as  now 
constituted  as  the  censoring  authority.  All  that  is  needed 
to  make  judgment  and  dictates  of  that  body  effective  is 
for  exhibitors  to  refuse  to  show  pictures  that  do  not  bear 
fficiaJ  appioval.  Tr.ere'is  no  necessity  to  invoke  the 
authority  of  the  State  to  accomplish  the  desired  result. 
KEEP  PICTURES  OUT  OF  POLITICS. 


44  \  X  /E  arc  runnm&  pictures  only  and  succeeding  as 
V/Y/  we  never  did  with  vaudeville,"  is  the  message 
received  from  a  picture  theater  company 
operating  in  the  vicinity  of  New  York  City,  which  is 
offering  its  scenery  fcr  sale.  There  is  no  doubt  about  the 
fact  that  the  picture  loving  public  prefer  the  pictures 
alone,  to  a  mixture  of  vaudeville  of  questionable  char- 
acter. Nothing  quite  equals  the  picture  as  a  drawing 
card  these  days.  It  has  been  the  belief  of  the  Moving 
Picture  World  that  vaudeville  had  no  place  in  the  pic- 
ture show,  and  it  is  gratifying  indeed  to  know  that  the- 
ater managers  are  coming  to  the  same  conclusion. 


HERE  is  a  suggestion  that  should  interest  every 
exhibitor:  Down  Connecticut  way  an  at- 
tempt is  being  made  to  get  the  State  Legis- 
lature to  pass  a  law  that  will  permit  Sunday  picture 
shows.  In  order  that  the  legislators  might  know 
what  sort  of  entertainment  they  were  expected  to 
put  their  "O  K"  on,  Fred  P.  Dean,  manager  of  the 
Hartford  Theater,  invited  the  entire  body  to  visit  his 
theater  and  see  what  kind  of  program  would  be 
offered  for  Sunday  entertainments.  It  is  reported  that 
ioo  members  of  the  General  Assembly  accepted  the 
invitation  and  that  many  brought  their  wives  and 
sweethearts  with  them  and  that  the  performance  was 
so  satisfactory  that  many  remained  for  the  regular 
show.  What,  if  any,  influence  the  exhibition  had 
upon  the  attitude  of  the  legislators  toward  the  pro- 
posed Sunday  opening  law  has  not  been  reported, 
but  Manager  Dean's  plan  is  surely  a  practical  way  of 
presenting  the  question  and  should  have  some  weight 

with  the  lawmakers. 

* 

This  is  really  a  novel  method  of  presenting  the  pic- 
ture man's  side  of  the  question  and  has  the  advantage 
of  being  a  true  statement  of  the  question,  which  can- 
not be  said  for  the  usual  argument  advanced  by  those 
who  oppose  the  Sunday  picture  show.  We  are  fre- 
quently called  upon  to  hear  and  read  "reasons"  why 
this  or  that  law  regulating  picture  shows  should  be 
•passed,  offered  by  men  who  have  never  attended  one  of 
those  exhibitions  or  whose  allegations  are  mainly 
hearsay,  or  are  based  upon  premises  insufficient  to 
support  the  action  demanded.  An  example  of  this 
latter  condition  is  now  before  the  legislature  of  the 
State  of  New  York  in  which  the  Society  for  the  Pre- 
vention of  Cruelty  to  Children  sets  up-  the  allegation 
that  during  the  past  five  years  there  have  been  a  hun- 
dred or  so  crimes  committed  against  children  di- 
rectly traceable  to  picture  shows  and,  thereupon,  de- 
mands the  practical  abolishment  of  them.  The  con- 
clusion is  as  logical  as  a  proposition  to  send  all  bank 
presidents  to  jail  because  some  one  bank  president 
happened  to  become  a  defaulter. 


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Historical  Photoplays 


By  Louis  Reeves  Harrison 


THE  public  seems  to  like  them,  and  that  counts  for 
something.  "Quo  Vadis"  is  crowding  a  New 
York  theater,  but  I  doubt  if  this  is  on  account 
of  the  history  it  portrays  so  much  as  on  account  of  the 
nature  and  character  of  that  history.  The  history  of  the 
"Prisoner  of  Zenda"  might  do  just  as  well,  although  the 
latter  is  pure  romance.  The  audience  is  not  particular 
about  the  veracity  of  a  presentation  so  long  as  it  is  enter- 
taining. No  lesser  light  than  Robert  Louis  Stevenson 
decided  that  the  historical  romance  was  a  dead  duck,  and 
many  smaller  luminaries  have  voiced  the  same  opinion, 
but  it  seems  to  have  as  many  lives  as  a  cat.  It  is  up  and 
around  and  doing  as  well  as  could  be  expected  at  present. 

Items  worth  serious  consideration  in  the  screen  pag- 
eants are  certain  scenic  and  costume  advantages. 

Henry  Arthur  Jones,  in  a  lecture  delivered  some  years 
ago  to  Yale  University,  on  "Literature  and  the  Modern 
Drama,"  called. "costume  plays"  some  hard  names,  "sorry 
pieces  of  fustian  and  artifice."  "When  such  very  fine 
•clothes  are  paraded,  such  heroic  sentiments  uttered,  such 
gallant  deeds  done,  such  wasteful  feats  of  self-sacrifice 
performed,  I  fear  it  shows  a  mean  and  churlish  spirit  to 
•call  for  any  examination  of  the  author's  diction,  of  the 
truth  of  his  characterization,  or  of  the  common  sense  of 
his  whole  scheme."  This  is  rather  a  sweeping  charge 
for  the  brilliant  playwright  to  bring  against  the  pretty 
things  of  historical  romance,  but  his  utterances  are  in 
line  with  those  of  Prosper  Merimee,  Anatole  France  and 
others  high  in  gifts  critical  and  creative. 

They  were  not,  however,  directed  against  the  photo- 
drama  of  historical  pretensions. 

The  good  old  props  will  come  in  handy  for  many  and 
many  a  day,  the  spears  and  swords  and  armor  and 
chariots  and  iron  money-chests,  though  we  may  despair 
of  ever  being  able  to  get  an  idea  of  events  contemporary 
that  are  to  be  history  for  the  generations  to  follow.  For 
one,  I  enjoy  artistic  settings  on  the  screen  when  they 
glimpse  decorative  styles  and  periods,  whether  or  not  the 
Renaissance,  the  Empire,  the  Queen  Anne,  or  other 
antique  furnishings  were  made  in  Michigan.  The  screen 
presentation  is  set  forth  in  a  series  of  pictures,  and  beauty 
■contributes  heavily  to  their  success. 

Time  was  when  we  men  outblazoned  the  women  in 
:splendor  of  raiment.  In  our  present  state  of  humiliation 
— we  are  tailored  in  sackcloth  and  ashes — it  is  hard  to 
tell  one  of  us  from  the  others.  Brains  not  counting,  we 
have  to  depend  for  distinction  upon  neckties  and  socks. 
Perhaps  it  is  on  this  account  that  our  eyes  linger  fondly 
upon  costume  heroes  of  the  days  when  a  man  could  attain 
distinction  by  the  feather  on  his  bonnet  or  the  curves  of 
'his  silken  legs.  True,  we  have  not  lost  that  last  despair- 
ing resource,  the  bathing  suit,  but  heroic  strutting  in  that- 
■final  exhibit  of  manly  perfections  has  blistering  disad- 
vantages besides  that  of  short  season. 

Let  us  not  disparage  the  wardrobe-room  hero  of  chiv- 
alrous longing  to  rescue  unhappy  creatures  in  skirts  with- 
out regard  to  his  geographical  or  chronological  status, 
for  his  costumes  are  various  and  audiences  are  fickle. 
We  are  all  fond  of  change,  and  there  are  as  many  fash- 
ions as  periods  of  history  to  draw  upon  in  picturing  the 
■days  gone  by.  It  is  not  of  any  special  consequence  that 
•the  only  historical  dramas  depicting  a  period  as  it  really 
was  are  those  written  while  history  was  being  made.  The 
sooner  we  get  rid  of  false  gods  the  better. 

A  Lubin  comedy  was  shown  the  other  night  in  which 


a  romantic  girl  fell  into  the  water  in  order  to  be  "saved," 
and  the  audience  tittered.  Next  on  the  screen  came  a 
"drammer"  in  which  "Jim  proves  his  mettle"  by  jumping 
into  the  water  to  save  the  girl — this  time  in  earnest — and 
the  audience  roared.  The  Lubin  skit  caught  on  because 
it  was  in  accord  with  the  modern  spirit,  that  of  common 
sense,  and  the  other  made  a  hit  that  was  never  intended 
— it  merely  illustrated  a  need  for  drastic  comedies.  The 
sooner  we  find  that  theatrical  heroes  are  idols  made  of 
mud  the  sooner  we  shall  have  historical  plays  that  deserve 
to  be  placed  under  the  heading  "educational."  Worse 
than  none  at  all  are  those  pretending  to  be  instructive 
when  they  are  really  misleading. 

"The  Retreat  from  Moscow"  contained  no  element  of 
romance.  Great  pains  were  taken  to  make  the  pictured 
representation  in  faithful  and  bitter  accord  with  the  facts. 
No  written  account  yet  published  equals  the  pictural  one 
in  force  and  dramatic  interest,  and  there  is  a  powerful 
lesson  in  the  last  scenes.  Releases  of  that  kind  are 
leaders  in  a  drift  toward  what  is  sane  and  sensible,  in 
what  is  as  near  the  truth  as  intelligent  production  can 
make  them.  Historical  photodramas  of  that  kind  de- 
serve a  dignified  place  that  can  never  be  accorded  to  ex- 
travagant and  irresponsible  historical  romance. 

Our  Civil  War  has  furnished  the  background  for  many 
stirring  photodramas,  but  most  of  them  are  marred  by 
the  inevitable  trio  of  young  people  in  whom  it  is  difficult 
to  rouse  interest.  While  it  is  not  my  place  to  suggest 
themes,  there  are  thousands  of  deep  interest  connected 
with  those  sad  pages  of  our  national  history.  Consider 
the  force,  for  instance,  of  a  powerful  contrast  between 
those  going  down  in  battle  to  nameless  graves  and  poli- 
ticians besetting  the  Washington  Government  and  filching 
through  despoliating  enactments  while  the  nation's  atten- 
tion was  fastened  upon  the  mighty  issues  of  the  war! 

Dramatic  periods  of  the  Revolution  may  bring  out  the 
principles  laid  down  by  Washington  and  Jefferson  and 
have  some  meaning  for  those  of  us  who  read  the  papers 
and  discuss  strained  relations  with  foreign  governments. 
We  are  making  history  at  this  very  moment  in  dealing 
with  darker  races  of  Mexico  and  Japan.  Our  past  rela- 
tions with  either  offer  an  abundance  of  material  historical 
of  contemporaneous  interest.  There  are  live  issues  in- 
volved in  what  has  already  occurred  between  these  coun- 
tries and  ourselves,  and  their  careful  presentation,  avoid- 
ing yellow  drama  development,  would  create  a  sensation. 

There  is  a  struggle  between  local  and  national  issues 
going  on  now  that  offers  some  fine  opportunity  for  the 
producer  of  moving  pictures.  Handled  impartially  and 
intelligently  such  a  subject  would  draw  people  to  the  little 
theaters  who  seldom  attend  them  and  would  not  drive 
any  of  the  regular  patrons  away.  Why  weary  the 
audience  with  constant  repetitions  of  past  worries  and 
problems  and  the  legendary  hero  unless  there  is  a  vital 
point  to  be  made  which  stirs  the  souls  of  twentieth-cen- 
tury men  and  women  ?  Why,  indeed,  unless  the  presenta- 
tion has  a  value  strictly  educational?  Even  Shakespeare, 
when  he  utilized  the  customs  and  usages  of  other  days 
than  his  own,  aimed  at  the  creation  of  living  men  and 
women.  If  we  must  use  historical  settings,  let  the  motive 
be  a  thrilling  one  of  today. 

Dr.  Francis  Ward,  a  naturalist  of  British  and  American 
popularity,  has  just  produced  some  remarkable  pictures  of 
embryo  fish  wriggling  about  inside  an  egg  and  of  the  heart- 
beats of  baby  salmon  when  hatched. 


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"Quo  Vadis?" 


The  Superb  Cines  Photodrama  Now  Being  Presented  in  the 

Leading  Theaters  of  the  United  States  and  Canada 

by  George  Kleine. 

Reviewed  by  James  S.  McQuade. 

SOME  time  ago,  when  reviewing  "Pharaoh,  King  of 
Egypt,"  by  Cines,  I  made  the  assertion  that  when  the 
Societa  Italiana  Cines  attempted  to  do  a  big  thing  it 
was  always  done  well.  In  the  case  of  "Quo  Vadis?"  the  as- 
sertion is  altogether  too  tame,  and  even  to  say  that  the  pro- 
duction is  "superbly  well  done"  falls  short  of  the  mark.  But 
the  mere  use  of  superlatives  is  inadequate  to  do  justice  to 
any  great  work;  there  must  be  careful  analysis  and  a  keen 
study  of  the  component  elements,  as  well  as  a  nice  apprecia- 
tion of  what  constitutes  their  harmonious  arrangement  and 
treatment  in  the  synthetic  whole. 

Surely  one  of  the  most  vital  and  indispensable  requisites 
in  the  production  of  such  a  subject  as  "Quo  Vadis?"  is  that 
of  atmosphere,  by  which,  in  this  case,  for  the  lack  of  a  bet- 
ter term,  is  meant  the  subtle  power  of  translating  the  be- 
holder into  the  midst  of  old  Rome  when  the  early  Christians 
were  looked  upon  as  members  of  a  pernicious  secret  society, 
when  the  last  of  the  Caesars  and  his  favorites  drained  to  the 
dregs  the  cups  of  the  reveling  and  cruelty,  and  when  arenic 
spectacles  included  fights  to  the  death  of  gladiators  and  the 
devouring  of  men,  women  and  children  by  ravenous  beasts. 

The  "Quo  Vadis?"  of  Cines  does  more;  it  gives  us  a  view 
of  Rome,  burning,  one  of  the  most  impressive  spectacles 
ever  pictured.  Nowhere  else  could  this  have  been  done  with 
equal  fidelity;  for  the  style  of  architecture  has  changed  but 
slightly,  though  the  narrow,  tortuous  streets  of  the  old  city 
have  been  replaced  by  broader,  straighter  avenues  and  the 
buildings  made  more  substantial,  while  those  in  charge  of 
the  selection  of  the  sections  in  front  of  the  camera  were 
perfectly  familiar  with  the  appearance  of  the  old.  Where 
else  could  the  hiding  places  of  the  early  Christians  have 
been  pictured  so  realistically?  The  catacombs  and  the  other 
underground  retreats  of  the  new  sect  in  Rome  would  have 
been  imperfectly  reproduced  had  the  pictures  been  made  in 
any  other  country.     And  where  else   eould  the  vast  amphi- 


theatre, with  its  perfect  outlines  and  faithful  observance  of 
the  minutest  details,  have  been  secured?  One  is  actually 
impressed,  as  he  looks  at  the  flying  chariots  in  the  arena, 
the  clash  of  the  gladiators,  the  shimmer  of  the  white  gar- 
ments of  the  vestal  virgins,  on  a  section  of  the  amphitheatre 
immediately  to  the  right  of  that  occupied  by  Nero  and  his 
court  and  patrician  followers,  the  huddled-up  crowd  of  de- 
voted Christians  calmly,  or  affrightedly,  awaiting  death  in 
the  arena  and  the  rush  of  the  hungry  lions  on  their  prey, 
one,  I  say,  is  actually  impressed,  for  the  moment,  that  he  has 
forced  his  way  back  through  the  past,  for  a  period  of  some 
iooo  years,  and  is  gazing  into  the  face  of  Nero  with  its  im- 
perious and  cruel  lines. 

Are  there  yet  other  examples  needed  to  accentuate  the 
omnipresence  of  atmosphere  throughout  this  photodrama? 
It  there  be,  come  with  me  to  the  last  banquet  of  Petronius, 
the  Arbiter,  the  Canon,  of  Court  taste  at  the  time,  who,  after 
drinking  his  last  drink,  crashes  the  costly  and  exquisitely 
fashioned  myrrhine  bowl  on  the  floor  so  that  Nero  may  not 
possess  it,  and  then  smilingly  bleeds  to  death.  View  also 
the  banquets  at  the  Imperial  Palace  and  on  the  Pond  of 
Agrippa.  There  you  have  extravagant  expenditures  on 
costly  wines  and  rare  delicacies;  lavish  display  of  dress  and 
ornament  and  furnishings,  with  flash  of  wit  and  show  of  fair 
beauty,  intermixed  with  beguiling  coquetry  and  shameless 
debauchery. 

And  atmosphere  is  accompanied  by  fine  dramatic  con- 
struction and  treatment.  Interest  becomes  more  tense  as 
the  photodrama  proceeds,  with  climax  succeeding  climax — 
each  outrivalling  its  immediate  predecessor — until  the  scene 
showing  the  great  amphitheatre  is  reached  and  eclipses  all 
of  them.  The  photodrama  follows  closely  the  story  by 
Henryk  Sienkiewicz,  but  I  am  of  the  opinion  that  the  scenes 
in  the  Imperial  Gardens,  showing  the  Christians  being  burned 
alive  as  human  torches,-  might  better  have  been  omitted  for 
the  sake  of  dramatic  effect.  The  only  scenes  which  can  fol- 
low that  in  the  arena  acceptably  and  effectively  are  the 
flight  and  death  of  Nero: 

It  is,  perhaps,  necessary  to  note  here,  in  view  of  the  tre- 
mendous impression  which  a  presentation  of  "Quo  Vadis?" 
creates,  that  the  story  by  Sienkiewicz  does  not  conform 
strictly  to  historical  facts  in  certain  places.  The  photodrama 
conveys  the  impression  that  Nero  gave  orders  to  fire  Rome. 


The  Poet  Lucan  Reading  His  Works  to  Nero — From  Cines-Kleine  Production,  "Quo  Vadis." 


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Most  of  the  writers  since  Tacitus  have  conveyed  the  same 
impression,  but  the  best  scholars  are  agreed  that  the  fire 
occurred  by  chance.  The  fire  broke  out  at  night  near  the 
Ureat  Circus  at  the  base  of  the  Palatine  and  Caelian  hills, 
raging  for  six  days,  when  it  seemed  to  have  spent  its  fury, 
then  suddenly  broke  out  again  on  the  north  side  of  the  city 
and  continued  for  three  days  more.  Nero  was  at  Antium, 
thirty-five  miles  away.  "His  own  palace  and  all  its  treasures 
were  lapped  up  by  the  flames.  He  opened  the  Campius 
Martius  by  the  river  side  and  all  the  public  buildings  on  it 
to  harbor  the  homeless.  He  built  shelters  in  his  own  gar- 
dens to  house  them.  He  hurried  up  stores  from  Ostia  and 
the  neighboring  towns  to  feed  them,  and  fixed  the  cost  of  corn 
at  one-half  the  prevailing  market  price.  Though  conspirators 
sought  his  life,  he  roamed  the  city  all  night  alone  as  his 
noble  palace  flared  away  to  ruin.  His  efforts  at  succor  and 
his  careless  exposure  of  his  person  were,  however,  quite  use- 
less to  restore  his  reputation,  and  the  ruined  denounced  him 
as  the  author  of  the  conflagration.  Men  whispered  that  he 
had  been  seen  on  the  tower  of  Maecenas,  on  the  Esquiline 
height,  clad  in  habit  of  the  stage  gazing  down  on  the  lurid 
inferno  beneath,  revelling  at  sight  of  the  beauty  of  the  flames 
while  chanting  in  wild  glee  the  song  of  Illium's  (Troy's) 
capture.  To  ascribe  the  fire  to  its  real  cause,  chance,  would 
never  appease  the  mob  of  Rome."  But  Nero  supported 
gladly  the  charge  against  the  Christians  and  indulged  with 
fiendish  cruelty  in  their  massacre. 

A  striking  feature  of  the  production,  and  one  that  cannot 
fail  to  please  the  eye  of  the  most  critical,  is  the  care  be- 
stowed on  detail.  One  fails  to  find,  even  in  a  great  mob 
scene,  a  single  instance  where  something  better  than  that 
which  happens  could  be  suggested.  Watch  the  crowds  dash- 
ing frantically  through  the  burning  streets,  the  streams  of 
humanity  sometimes  rushing  in  opposite  directions.  Is  it 
not  panic  conceived  fully  to  the  letter?  Or  take  the  pa- 
trician throng  in  the  great  banquet  scene,  in  the  Imperial 
Palace,  after  the  Empress  Poppaea  has  retired,  her  exit  be- 


ing the  signal  for  still  greater  license  and  more  delirious 
reveling.  Or  again  refer  to  the  death  scene  of  Petronius  at 
his  last  banquet.  What  amazing  painstaking  has  been  taken 
in  their  rehearsal  as  in  all  the  other  big  scenes  of  the  photo- 
drama!  And  the  almost  interminable  array  of  costumes,  in- 
terior furnishings  and  properties!  What  a  labor  these  must 
have  cost  the  archaeologist!  Indeed  the  perfection  of  detail 
makes  one  wonder  while  he  sings  its  praises. 

The  photography  and  technique  of  this  eight-reel  photo- 
drama  are  in  full  keeping  with  its  other  excellent  features. 
In  several  cases  one  is  treated  to  scenes  with  extraordinarily 
beautiful  light  effects.  Take,  for  example,  the  scene  in  the 
underground  room  where  Lygia  is  nursing  Vinitius  back  to 
health,  after  she  had  saved  his  life  from  the  wrath  of  Ursus. 
Could  there  be  finer  depth  and  definition  in  moving  pictures 
than  are  shown  there,  or  greater  softness?  Another  example 
is  the  scene  showing  the  baptism  of  Vinitius  by  the  Apostle 
Peter,  where  we  have  shadows  photographed,  yet  even- 
person  and  object  in  the  room  are  clearly  and  softly  defined. 

And  now  the  acting.  What  a  splendid  assemblage  of  his- 
trionic talent!  Or  should  I  more  happily  say  photodramatic 
talent?  G.  .Serena  as  Petronius  is  undoubtedly  our  favorite 
among  the  leading  parts.  A.  Mastripietri  as  Chilo  commands 
attention  next  for  forceful,  artistic  character  acting.  But  it 
is  really  like  splitting  hairs  to  praise  any  one  of  the  principals 
at  the  expense  of  the  others  in  the  cast.  A.  Novelli  as  Vini- 
tius, C.  Moltini  as  Tigellinus,  Miss  L.  Giunchi  as  Lygia,  C. 
Cattaneo  as  Nero,  Mrs.  O.  Brandini  as  Poppaea,  J.  Gizzi  as 
the  Apostle  Peter,  L.  Lupi  as  Aulus  Platius,  Mrs.  A.  Cattaneo 
as  Eunice,  and  B.  Castellani  as  Ursus  are  other  bright  stars 
in  the  firmament  of  this  extraordinary  production. 


Mr.  R.  Mundstock,  while  in  New  York  City  last  week, 
called  at  the  offices  of  the  World  and  acquainted  us  with  .the 
fact  that  he  has  secured  the  Illinois  rights  for  all  Apex 
features. 


Lions  Entering  the  Arena — Scene  from  Cines-Kleine  Production,  "Quo  Vadis. 


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British  Censorship. 

Based  On  An  Agreement  Between  Producers,  Renters  and 
Exhibitors — Has   No   Legal  Authority — How   JLt   Works. 

By  W.  Stephen  Bush. 

THE  British  Board  of  Film  Censors  is  lodged  in  a  little 
three-room  apartment  in  an  unpretentious  building  on 
Shaftesbury  Avenue.  Despite  its  impressive  title  it 
has  no'  official  authority  whatever.  Such  power  and  prestige 
as  may  attach  to  its  verdicts  upon  films  is  derived  not  from 
any  governmental  power,  but  from  the  consent  of  the  manu- 
facturers and  exhibitors.  In  other  words,  the  board  of 
censors  is  nothing  more  or  less  than  a  trade  committee 
working  for  the  best  conditions  possible  within  the  industry. 
Some  of  the  daily  newspapers  in  America  have  given  a 
wrong  impression  about  this  board  of  censors  by  making  it 
appear  that  the  British  government  imposed  official  censor- 
ship on  the  industry,  and  appointed  Mr.  G.  A.  Redford 
(former  censor  of  plays)  as  a  sort  of  inquisitor.  As  a  mat- 
ter of  fact,  Mr.  Redford  owes  his  position  as  president  of  the 
British  Board  of  Film  Censors  to  the  producers,  renters 
and  exhibitors  of  England.  It  was  sought  to  obtain  from 
the  Home  Secretary,  Reg.  H.  McKenna,  the  approval  of  a 
workable  scheme  of  censorship  which  had  been  drafted  by 
the  trade  associations.  The  object  of  all  this  work  has  been 
to  keep  the  control  over  films  out  of  the  hands  of  the  police. 
This  object  has  been  fully  accomplished,  and  a  system  of 
censorship  has  been  introduced  which  works  admirably  for 
the  benefit   of  the   entire  industry. 

Every  producer  or  importer  of  films  in  England  is  re- 
quested rather  than  required,  to  submit  his  production  to  the 
British  Board  of  Film  Censors,  if  be  desires  to  exhibit  his 
films  publicly  within  the  British  jurisdiction.  No  exhibitor 
will  handle  any  film  which  does  not  bear  the  certificate  of 
approval  issued  by  the  censors.  The  only  exceptions  are 
films  of  actual  events,  reported  in  the  daily  or  local  press, 
and  known  in  the  industry  as  "topicals"  or  "locals."  The 
publisher  of  films  enters  into  an  agreement  with  the  British 
Board  of  Film  Censors  whereby  he  obliges  himself  to  pay  a 
fee  at  the  rate  of  1  shilling  (25  cents),  ot  a  part  thereof, 
with  a  minimum  fee  of  5  shillings  ($1.25),  and  to  submit  to 
the  board  all  films  to  be  released  by  him,  except  as  above 
stated.  The  publisher  agrees  not  to  publish  any  film  what- 
soever that,  after  due  examination,  shall  be  rejected  by  the 
board.  If  the  film  is  approved  by  the  board  of  censors,  a 
certificate  of  approval  is  issued  in  either  of  two  forms — one 
for  "Universal"  and  one  for  "Public"  exhibition.  A  film  that 
is  passed  for  universal  exhibition  may  be  shown  to  any  audi- 
ence, while  the  film  proved  for  public  exhibition  may  not 
be  shown  to  children.  The  publisher  obliges  himself  to  make 
a  photographic  reproduction  of  the  certificate  granted  by 
the  board  for  each  subject  passed  to  appear  in  every  such 
copy  of  the  film  immediately  after  the  main  title. 

Exhibitors  enter  into  an  undertaking  with  the  board  of 
film  censors  to  the  effect  that  they  will  not  show  any  film 
in  their  theaters  that  has  not  been  passed  and  which  does 
not  bear  the  certificate  of  approval.  The  board  then  issues  a 
certificate  to  the  exhibitor.  The  certificate  displayed  in  the 
lobby  of  the  theater  is  an  assurance  to  the  public  that  only 
clean  and  wholesome  subjects  will  be  shown  on  the  screen. 

The  expenses  of  the  office  are  borne  by  the  producers  and 
exhibitors  whp  pay  certain  fees  on  receiving  their  certifi- 
cates, and  for  so  many  hundred  feet  of  film  censored.  If, 
after  all  expenses  are  paid  there  remains  a  surplus,  it  is  paid 
back  to  the  producers  and  exhibitors  in  proper  proportions. 
One  incidental  advantage  of  this  system  consists  in  the  pro- 
tection it  affords  to  the  producer  against  duped  or  piratical 
copies.  The  board  will  only  issue  certificates  to  the  pub- 
lisher in  person  or  his  authorized  representative.  -  It  will  be 
noticed  that  there  is  nothing  official  about  all  this.  An  ex- 
hibitor may  if  he  chooses,  do  without  a  certificate,  and  the 
publisher  of  films  has  the  legal  right  to  offer  his  productions 
for  sale  without  the  approval  of  the  board  of  censors.  The 
fact,  however,  is  that  the  exhibitors  are  anxious  to  get  the 
certificate  as  it  assures  their  patrons  against  an  objection- 
able show  and  the  producer  and  importer  will  find  it  next 
to  impossible  to  sell  to  the  renter  or  the  buyer  without  the 
certificate. 

It  is  the  hope  of  the  whole  industry  in  England  that 
eventually  the  official  authorities  will  take  cognizance  of  the 
certificate  whenever  the  exhibitor  asks  for  a  license  to  open 
a  theater.  In  various  parts  of  England  the  boards  of  magis- 
trates (who  have  control  over  the  licensing  of  theaters)  have 
actually  made  it  a  rule  not  to  grant  a  license  to  any  person 
who  is  not  able  to  show  a  certificate  from  the  British  Board 
of  Film  Censors.     If  this  practice  becomes  general  and  the 


granting  of  a  license  will  hereafter  depend  more  or  less  on 
the  favorable  action  of  the  board  of  censors,  the  problem  of 
keeping  out  immoral  films  has  been  solved  without  in  any 
way  recognizing  the  right  of  any  governmental  or  official 
censorship.  Thus  the  industry  does  its  own  censoring  and 
effectively  eliminates  all  objectionable  films,  without  calling 
upon  either  the  executive  or  the  legislative  branches  of  the 
government.  It  is  easy  to  see  how  this  method  of  self-im- 
posed censorship  is  bound  to  meet  and  disarm  the  hostile 
clamor  of  the  enemies  of  the  motion  picture. 

1  had  q*ite  an  interview  with  Mr.  Redford,  who  is  the 
president  of  this  board  of  censors.  Mr.  Redford  has  never 
been  in  America,  but  he  has  a  good  opinion  of  us  and  is  will- 
ing to  express  it.  As  Mr.  Redford  is  one  of  the  most  non- 
committal men  I  ever  met,  this  is  quite  a  concession.  The 
producer  who  submits  an  objectionable  film  is  invited  by 
Mr.  Redford  to  call  at  the  office  of  the  board. 

"I  take  the  matter  up  with  the  producer  and  point  out 
to  him  just  why  I  think  a  particular  scene  is  objectionable 
and  ought  to  come  out,"  said  Mr.  Redford.  "We  talk  the 
matter  over  in  a  friendly  spirit,  and,  as  a  rule,  we  have  no 
difficulty  in  coming  to  a  satisfactory  conclusion.  Of  course, 
I  cannot  do  all  this  censoring  myself;  in  fact,  I  only  do  a 
very  small  part  of  it.  I  have  four  assistants  who  review  the 
films  for  me.  I  have  the  utmost  confidence  in  these  assis- 
tants and  I  have  selected  them  with  the  utmost  care.  They 
know  my  general  views  and  if  in  the  judgment  of  any  of 
them,  there  is  a  well-grounded  objection  to  any  part  of  the 
film  they  tell  me  of  it,  and  I  then  look  myself  to  see  whether 
the  passage  in  question  ought  to  come  out  or  not." 

"Will  you,"  I  asked  Mr.  Redford,  "give  me  the  names  of 
your  assistants?" 

"Oh,  no;  I  could  not  do  that,"  said  Mr.  Redford  in  a  state 
of  genuine  alarm.  "All  of  these  assistants  have  been  chosen 
after  the  most  minute  inquiry  with  regard  to  their  fitness  and 
I  really  cannot  see  what  purpose  it  would  serve  to  reveal 
their  names.  Some  of  them  have  been  suggested  by  pro- 
ducers and  exhibitors.  Now,  1  do  not  want  you  to  get  the 
impression  that  we  are  doing  anything  in  the  dark,  but  for 
reasons  of  policy  I  think  it  wise  not  to  reveal  these  names. 
I  must  ask  you  not  to  press  me  any  further  on  this  point." 

"Let  me  ask  you  about  American-made  films.  Is  it  not  a 
fact  that  they  are  of  the  cleanest  and  hardly  ever  call  for 
action  by  your  board?" 

"Well,  now;  I  cannot  commit  myself  as  to  that.  I  have 
only  recently  seen  some  sublime  and  marvelous  productions 
by  you  Americans,  but  you  know  it  would  not  do  for  me  to 
praise  you  too  much,  otherwise  I  would  be  treading  on 
somebody's  corns.  I  will  say  though,  that  your  enterprise 
is  remarkable." 

Mr.  Redford  is  taking  both  himself  and  his  job  very  seri- 
ously indeed,  he  is  a  man  of  theatrical  experience  and  con- 
nections, and  assured  me  that  he  was  very  broad-minded. 
His  manner  is  somewhat  nervous  and  anxious,  and  he  is 
perhaps  haunted  by  a  fear  of  committing  himself. 

I  asked  him  whether  his  decisions  were  sure  of  being 
honored  by  the  various  local  Boards  of  Magistrates  in  Eng- 
land. He  looked  pained  and  said  that  this  was  a  subject 
which  he  did  not  care  to  go  into  just  then.  He  intimated, 
however,  that  if  there  was  any  official  dissent  from  his  ver- 
dicts, matters  could  be  straightened  out  with  little  trouble. 

It  was  stated  at  the  office  that  the  reports  of  a  ban  on 
Biblical  subjects  was  entirely  unfounded. 

I  had  a  most  interesting  talk  with  Mr.  B.  Nichols,  who 
manages  the  Moving  Picture  Sales  Agency  on  this  side  of 
the  water,  representing  principally  Biograph,  Lubin  and 
Kalem.  He  is  a  very  astute  and  experienced  film  general 
and  his  knowledge  of  British  conditions  is  very  thorough. 
He  has  an  astonishing  grasp  on  details  and  sells  probably 
more  prints  than  any  other  single  agent.  His  huge  office  is 
run  with  a  methodical  precision  and  the  popularity  of 
American-made  film  of  to-day  is  in  no  small  measure  due  to 
his  scientific  handling.  He  is  a  native  of  Vermont  and  likes 
to  return  occasionally  to  the  land  of  his  birth. 

The  finest  projection  room  in  England,  and  I  am  inclined 
to  think  in  the  world,  is  owned  by  the  "Essanay  Co.,"  repre- 
sented by  Mr.  H.  A.  Spoor.  Mr.  Spoor  is  popular  and  ener- 
getic. His  offices  while  somewhat  removed  from  the  hub  of 
London  filmdom,  are  little  short  of  luxurious. 

The  Vitagraph  Co.  is  situated  in  "Flicker  Alley"  and  un- 
der the  management  of  Mr.  G.  H.  Smith.  Mr.  Smith's  com- 
pany is  progressing  daily  on  the  road  of  prosperity.  They 
have  just  re-issued  "The  Tale  of  Two  Cities"  in  response  to 
a  genuine  public  demand.  Of  the  "Vengeance  of  Durand," 
Mr.  Smith  says  they  sold  a  quarter  of  a  million  feet.  The 
rumor  that  the  Vitagraph  Co.  was  going  to  build  a  studio 
on  this  side  has  caused  no  end  of  trouble  to  Mr.  Smith  and 


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his  staff.  He  has  been  deluged  with  offers  from  architects, 
actors,  directors,  etc.  It  is  possible  that  the  Vitagraph  may 
erect  a  studio  here,  but  a  final  decision  will  scarcely  be 
reached  in  a  hurry.  Mr.  Smith  and  his  office  keep  in  close 
personal  touch  with  the  exhibitor  and  the  public,  which  adds 
not  a  little  to  the  great  popularity  of  the  Vitagraph  film  in 
England. 

Mr.  Montagu,  of  the  Selig  Co.,  being  absent  on  business, 
I  had  a  pleasant  chat  with  his  representative  and  assistant, 
Mr.  F.  W.  Ingram.  He  says  that  the  present  quarters  are 
inadequate  to  the  transaction  of  the  agency's  btsiness,  and 
that  they  will  soon  move  into  larger  and  more  commodious 
offices.  Mr.  Ingram  is  an  enthusiast  and  heart  and  soul  de- 
voted to  the  promotion  of  Selig  interests  in  England. 

A  mile  or  two  away  from  the  moving  picture  center  of 
London  on  Clerkenwell  Road  is  the  big  but  somewhat  old- 
fashioned  building  in  which  the  Edison  Co.  is  doing  business. 
I  had  a  most  delightful  chat  with  Mr.  Harrison  and  other 
managers.  System  and  order  are  very  typical  at  this  office. 
The  business  done  by  this  company  in  England  is  of  big 
proportions.  There  were,  of  course,  numerous  other  places 
interesting  to  an  American  moving  picture  man  in  London 
where  I  visited  and  received  most  cordial  and  hospitable  re- 
ceptions, and  of  them  more  will  be  said  in  my  next  letter. 


BRITISH   NOTES. 

Sir  Hubert  von  Herkomer,  the  celebrated  artist,  has  taken 
up  film  producing  seriously,  and  I  have  heard  that  an  impor- 
tant American  firm  is  to  have  the  first  copies.  Sir  Hubert 
gives  three  reasons  for  taking  up  the  profession.  "You  can 
make  pictures  without  the  bother  of  painting,  act  plays  with- 
out a  stage,  and  compose  stories  without  the  labor  of  book 
compiling,"  he  states. 

*  *     * 

American  exhibitors  showing  suffragette  pictures  be  pre- 
pared! At  a  metropolitan  picture  palace  the  other  evening 
a  lady  applauded  the  representation  of  a  burnt-out  mansion, 
the  work  of  the  militant  suffragettes.  A  member  of  her  own 
sex  sitting  behind  her  showed  her  disapproval  by  smartly 
bringing  down  her  umbrella  on  the  other's  hat.  Then  the 
manager  had  the  delicate  duty  of  separating  two  hostile 
women. 

*  *     * 

"Calamity  Anne  (Miss  Louise  Lester)  makes  no  pretense 
to  good  looks,  nor  is  she  any  longer  young.  A  hanger-on 
of  mining  camps,  quick  with  a  gun,  fpnd  of  her  pipe  and 
glass,  a  demon  with  her  tongue  and  temper,  she  yet  compels 
respect  because  of  her  innate  goodness  of  heart  and  strong 
sense  of  fairness." — Such  is  an  English  writer's  appreciation 
of  a  famous  "Flying  A"  artiste. 

*  *    * 

A  man  at  Birmingham  became  so  excited  at  a  Wild  West 
film  showing  at  a  local  theater  that  he  drank  a  bottle  of 
prussic  acid  which  he  had  in  his  pocket,  and  died  immedi- 
ately. The  film  in  question,  I  think,  was  a  Broncho,  but  it 
would  be  exceedingly  bad  taste  to  appropriate  the  unhappy 
incident  for  advertising  purposes. 

*  *     * 

Two  new  animated  bulletins  have  made  their  debut  on 
the  English  market  this  week.  One  is  the  "Eclair  Journal" 
by  the  company  of  that  name  and  the  other  the  "Williamson 
Animated  News."     Both  are  produced  twice  a  week. 

*  *     * 

The  English  agent  of  the  Edison  Co.,  has  a  good  eye  for 
advertising  novelties.  He  has  just  issued  a  smart  little 
imitation  of  a  bottle  of  medicine  which  is  presented  free 
to  managers  of  unsuccessful  picture  theaters.  There  is  nothing 
on  it  but  the  label — "Edison  films,  to  be  used  regularly." 

*  *     * 

Another  invention  which  it  is  expected  will  cause  something 
of  a  furore  both  in  the  States  and  here  is  a  new  process  for 
showing  ordinary  films  in  most  lifelike  stereoscopic  relief. 
Messrs.  Gaumont  first  brought  the  new  advance  to  my 
notice,  but  it  is  commercially  introduced  by  the  Stereoscopic 
Cinematography  Syndicate  Ltd.,  of  London.  It  is  claimed 
that  without  alteration  any  projector  may  be  made  to  trans- 
mit a  perfectly  well  distanced  stereoscopic  image  from 
standard  films.  The  scientific  adaption  of  the  optical  laws 
of  refraction  in  conjunction  with  those  of  reflection  is  the 
prime  cause  of  the  illusion  which,  says  an  expert,  makes 
the  pictures  almost  breathe  with  life. 

*  *    * 

It  is  being  stated  that  the  filmed  version  of  Bunyan's 
"Pilgrims  Progress"  is  to  be  produced  at  His  Majesty's 
Theater  under  the  direction  of  Sir  H.  B.  Tree. 


Mr.  Charles  Urban,  founder  of  the  Urbanora  Co.,  but  per- 
haps better  known  to  America  as  the  inventor  of  Kinema- 
color,  has  informed  a  confrere  of  mine  that  the  export  of 
Kinemacolor  machines  and  accessories  to  the  States  is  in 
the  ascendant.  Almost  two  hundred  projectors  have  crossed 
the  Atlantic  this  year,  while  the  total  number  exported 
since  the  inauguration  of  the  sister  company  in  New   York 

is  45°-  * 

*  *     * 

Mr.  J.  C.  B.  Mason,  the  expert  apiarist  of  the  British  Bee 
Keepers'  Association,  has  been  lecturing  at  the  London  opera 
house  to  a  series  of  films  of  bee  life.  Mr.  Mason  is  now 
touring  fhe  provinces,  while  I  also  hear  that  an  American 
tour  of  these  special  nature  films  is  being  considered. 

*  *     * 

"Frontier,"  the  new  brand  of  Western  films,  is  being  intro- 
duced this  week.  From  the  quality  of  the  first  release 
"Tracked  to  the  Sandia  Mountains,"  I  should  forecast  a 
successful  future  for  the  productions  so  far  as  British  support 
is  concerned.  Messrs.  R.  Prieur,  of  London,  are  the  agents 
for  Britain  and  Colonies  and  one  renter  asked  me  if  this 
meant  that  "Frontier"  films  must  come  through  the  English 
agency  before  going  to  Canada? 

A  suggestion  was  made  at  the  Kinematograph  Conference 
that  special  halls  should  be  established  for  the  sole  display 
of  religious  films.  A  committee  supported  principally  by 
clergymen  is  considering  the  scheme.  SUTCLIFFE. 

EDISONCOMPANY  GOES  TO  ENGLAND. 

Director  Charles  J.  Brabin,  Miriam  Nesbitt,  Marc  Mac- 
Dermott  and  Otto  Brautigan,  photographer,  sailed  for  Eng- 
land on  Saturday,  May  3.  It  is  said  that  this  company  will 
remain  abroad  for  six  months  visiting  all  points  of  interest 
in  the   British   Isles. 


J.  SEARLE  DAWLEY  RETURNS. 

After  an  extended  tour  of  the  far  west  J.  Searle  Dawley 
and  his  company  of  Edison  players  have  returned  to  the 
studio,  Bronx,  New  York. 


MISS  MAUDE  FEALY 
In  Pictures. 


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685 


"While  John  Bolt  Slept" 

An  Artistic  Edison  Release: 

Reviewed  by  Louis  Reeves  Harrison. 

CHARACTERIZED  by  acting  of  the  highest  quality  and 
some  exquisite  double  exposures,  this  well-known 
theme  is  presented  in  decidedly  superior  fashion — its 
message  is  better  enforced  than  ever  before.  It  matters  not 
that  Ebenezer  Scrooge,  the  leading  character  in  Dickens's 
"Christmas  Carol"  is  thus  revitalized.  "A  squeezing,  wrench- 
ing, grasping,  scraping,  clutching,  covetous  old  sinner," 
visited  by  a  spirit  who  points  out  the  results  of  his  misdeeds 
until  he  is  changed  into  a  kindly  man,  he  is  representative 


Scene  from  "While  John  Bolt  Slept"  (Edison). 


of  the  "beezeness"  man  of  to-day,  who  has  only  one  ambi- 
tion above  animal  instincts  and  desires,  that  of  getting  all 
there  is  to  get  in  the  game,  to  the  impoverishment  of  his 
spiritual  nature  and  the  ultimate  paralysis  of  all  that  raises 
man  above  the  beast. 

The  message  of  "While  John  Bolt  Slept"  is  to  the  effect 
that  perversion  of  spiritual  life  has  but  one  positive  result, 
the  eventual  demoralization  of  the  individual.  It  points  out 
that  man  may  reach  his  pitiful  goal,  may  reject  and  mock  at 


Scene  from  "While  John  Bolt  Slept"  (Edison). 


that  which  enlightenment  presents  to  him  in  one  form  or 
another  as  an  aim,  that  he  may  seek  to  fill  his  life  com- 
pletely with  such  material  interests  as  the  gratification  of 
his  inclinations,  but  he  can  not  do  this  without  withdrawing 
from  the  respect  and  kindly  feeling  of  working  companions 
and  without  degenerating  into  a  creature  barely  tolerated 
and  secretly  despised. 

As  enacted  by  Marc  MacDermott,  "John  Bolt"  is  a  mar- 
velous characterization,  one  of  the  finest  of  his  many  mas- 
terly performances,  and  one  depending  upon  suppression 
rather  than  emotional  expression  of  what  is  passing  in  his 
mind.     This  is  one  of  those  instances  in  which  only  an  ac- 


complished actor  could  carry  the  message  over  into  the 
•»!  °f  the  audience>  but  there  is  not  an  instant  of  failure 
on  MacDermott's  part  from  artistic  beginning  to  artistic 
conclusion.  To  vitalize  the  paralytic  and  reveal  by  an  in- 
finitude of  small  signs  the  true  nature  of  John  Bolt  required  a 
delicacy  of  perception  on  the  part  of  the  performer  seldom 
possesses  by  those  who  rely  on  pantomime  in  the  picture 
plays. 

The  support  afforded  the  lead,  Charles  Ogle  as  the  visi- 
tant, Robert  Brower  as  the  physician,  Richard  Ridgely  as 
we  Poor  inventor  tardily  rewarded  by  the  old  thief,  Augustus 
Phillips  as  the  minister  to  whom  is  delegated  the  disposition 
°*  „■£  iH-gotten  gains,  Miriam  Nesbit  as  the  wife  and 
Nellie  Grant  Mitchell  as  the  nurse,  was  without  a  flaw. 
J.  he  most  interesting  scene  in  the  production  is  apparently 
an  exterior,  a  dirty  courtyard  or  street  that  looks  like  a 
veritable  section  of  the  East  Side  of  New  York,  but  which 
I  am  informed,  is  a  studio  setting. 

Next  to  MacDermott's  wondrous  impersonation  in  value 
is  the  photographic  work,  marking,  as  it  does,  another  ad- 
vance over  the  past  performances.  John  Bolt's  spirit  rises 
from  his  body  in  the  dream  and  goes  wandering  with  the 
visitant.  These  two,  like  Dante  and  Virgil,  visit  the  only 
hell  known  on  earth,  the  more  terrible  that  it  is  realistic 
The  photographic  work  in  these  scenes  is  all  of  superior 
quality  and  reaches  masterly  performance  in  a  triple  ex- 
posure when  John  Bolt  in  the  flesh  and  in  the  spirit  are 
given  a  vision  of  his  past  life.  The  whole  presentation  is  a 
work  of  art. 


BULL-FIGHT   IN   FRANCE. 
A  Sensational  Pathe  Release. 

Reviewed  by  Louis  Reeves  Harrison. 

IN  some  respects  this  is  one  of  the  most  extraordinary 
pictures  ever  shown  on  the  screen.  For  screen  purposes 
it  is  more  thrilling  than  baseball  or  football— it  is  a 
veritable  combat  between  man  and  beast  with  the  odds  in 
the  latter  s  favor,  and  he  comes  out  victorious  as  a  rule  It 
is  rude  and  dangerous  play,  filled  with  exciting  escapes,  is  a 
marvelous  exhibition  of  human  skill,  strength  and  nerve 
and,  best  of  all,  it  makes  the  brutal  Spanish  amusement  look 
like  thirty  centimes. 


Scene  from  "Bull  Fight  in  France"  (Pathe). 


I  don  t  know  how  many  years  ago  it  was  that  Cervantes 
recited  the  fortuitous  adventures  of  Don  Quixote  and  laughed 
away  Spain's  pompous  chivalry,  so  that  it  has  never  been 
seriously  revived  outside  of  motion  picture  producers  with  a 
lot  of  second-hand  theatrical  costumes  to  utilize.  What  he 
did  to  the  false  pretenses  of  that  age,  this  release  of  Pathe 
Freres  does  to  the  solemn  importance  of  those  participating 
in  the  regular  Spanish  bull-fight.  The  bulls  in  the  French  ex- 
hibition are  really  dangerous  and  need  no  torturingAto  do 
their  share  in  the  arena,  whereas  the  men  are  really  brave 
because  they  are  without  weapons  of  any  kind. 

At  the  beginning  and  end  very  attractive  pictures  of  the 
spectators  are  shown,  and  the  great  crowds  of  people  are 
as  thoroughly  representative  as  those  at  the  Grand  Prix  or  at 
other  famous  races  at  Longchamps  or  Bois  de  Bologne. 
There  is  nearly  an  even  balance  of  the  sexes  and  the  gather- 
ing is  made  bright  by  attractive  costumes  of  ladies  from  the  ■ 
high  and  low  worlds  in  the  gay  French  capital.  There  is  a 
reason    for    reviewing    the    passing    throng    aside    from    the 


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natural  interest  that  attaches  to  any  national  gathering — 
the  people  attending  are  nearly  all  of  the  better  class.  They 
are  going  to  witness   a   spirited   contest   devoid   of   brutality. 

When  the  arena  is  shown  there  is  a  parade  of  men  in  cos- 
tume, a  lot  of  athletes,  but  they  are  all  on  foot  and  carry  no 
weapons.  There  is  no  picador  with  spear  and  armored  legs 
on  a  poor  old  horse  destined  to  be  disemboweled,  no  torea- 
dors on  horseback,  no  banderillos  with  dart-like  javelins  to 
torture  the  animals,  no  matador  with  naked  sword  to  be 
plunged  into  the  bull's  neck  in  final  and  repulsive  tragedy. 
Mr.  Bull  is  a  thoroughbred.  He  goes  into  the  game  with 
relish,  rushing  the  athletes  all  over  the  ring.  The  chase 
grows  exciting  when  one  of  the  men  is  knocked  down  and 
rolls  away  in  bare  time  to  keep  from  being  gored. 

Some  astounding  leaps  are  made  by  the  men.  "  One  stands 
on  tip-toe  as  the  bull  rushes  madly  at  him  and  jumps  clean 
over  him  from  head  to  tail.  Others  are-  not  so  fortunate. 
Man  after  man  is  knocked  down;  one  is  chased  to  where  he 
is  compelled  to  climb  the  surrounding  fence  into  the  first 
row  of  spectators.  The  bull  is  gentleman  enough  not  to 
follow — there  are  ladies  and  children  in  the  audience.  A 
lively  fellow  on  four  legs — I  came  near  saying  a  bully  fellow 
— has  some  new  tricks  of  his  own.  He  rushes  a  man  and 
turns  suddenly.  In  this  way  he  lands  an  unfortunate  who 
has  to  be  carried  from  the  arena.  There  is  constant  prom- 
ise of  tragedy  in  this  lively  release,  a  strange  element  of 
comedy  in  the  actual  hypnotizing  of  the  enraged  bull,  and, 
beneath  it  all,  a  keen  satire  on  the  ridiculous  pretensions  of 
the  brutal  Spanish  bull-fight. 


"The  Rajah's   Casket"  (Gaumont) 

A  Lively  Three-Reel  Detective  Story  That  Holds  the  Interest 

and  Pleases  the  Eye. 

Reviewed  by  Hugh  Hoffman. 

DETECTIVE  stories  evidently  have  taken  a  strong  hold 
on  the  fancy  of  French  motion  picture  directors, 
judging  from  the  numerous  plays  of  that  character 
which  have  lately  been  coming  from  France.  It  will  be  re- 
membered that  our  own  heroic  friend  of  boyhood  days,  Nick 
Carter,  made  a  tremendous  hit  with  the  French  public,  both 
in  fiction  and  photoplay.  The  Gaumont  Company  in  par- 
ticular seems  to  have  a  liking  to  detective  plays,  and  "The 
Rajah's  Casket"  is  such  a  play. 

The  majority  of  scenes  in  the  picture  were  taken  about 
Biarritz,  a  very  fashionable  southern  French  winter  resort. 
On  that  account  alone  they  are  extremely  interesting;  not  to 
mention  the  intense  interest  that  is  injected  into  them.  As 
a  title  "The  Rajah's  Casket"  would  suggest  that  we  were 
going  to  see  an  Oriental  play,  but  it  turns  out  to  be  a  strictly 
modern  and  Occidental  story.  The  Rajah's  casket  is  a  jewel 
case  that  is  presented  by  an  Oriental  potentate  to  an  English 
army  officer  of  whom  he  is  very  fond,  with  the  proviso  that 
it  shall  be  given  to  the  officer's  sweetheart  as  his  wedding 
gift.  The  casket  contains  various  kinds  of  precious  stones, 
all  of  which  are  very  valuable.  The  orientalism  of  the  piece 
ceases  at  this  point,  when  the  officer  returns  to  his  home  in 
England.  A  set  of  thieves  gets  wind  of  the  fact,  through 
mail  thefts  they  have  committed,  that  the  Rajah's  casket 
will  be  delivered  to  the  young  lady,  and  they  at  once  lay 
clever  and  complicated  plans  to  get  possession  of  it.  They 
are  high-class  crooks  and  their  plan  of  action  is  interesting 
to  observe. 

At  the  English  hotel  in  Biarritz  a  noted  detective  becomes 
interested  in  the  movements  of  the  crooks  and  without  being 
engaged  for  the  work  he  undertakes  to  discover  their  game. 
The  action  of  the  plot  is  logically  progressive  and  holds  the 
interest  from  step  to  step  without  a  break.  The  selections 
of  scenes  throughout  the  picture  are  more  than  pleasing. 
They  are  certain  to  be  admired  by  all  beholders  who  will  at 
the  same  time  make  some  audible  remark  of  appreciation. 
There  are  some  of  the  best  sea  pictures  that  have  been  seen 
collectively  in  any  picture,  and  to  anyone  who  is  a  lover  of 
the  seashore  the  production  will  be  a  very  pleasant  treat. 

The  acting  is  strictly  high  class  as  is  usual  with  Gaumont 
productions,  while  the  photography  is  as  clear  as  a  crystal 
throughout.  There  is  not  an  illogical  scene  or  jarring  ana- 
chronism in  the  entire  piece.  If  we  were  running  a  theater 
we  would  not  hesitate  to  bill  it  very  strong,  because  in  our 
opinion  it  is  "some  picture." 

FILM    MEN    ABROAD. 

J.  A.  Berst,  of  the  Pathe  American  Company,  sailed  for 
Paris  on  Tuesday,  May  6.  H.  E.  Aitken,  of  the  Mutual 
Film  Corporation,  sailed  for  London  a  week  earlier,  and 
F.  J.  Marion,  of  the  Kalem  Company,  has  been  in  London 
for  the  past  week  or  more. 


"Balaoo"   (Union  Features) 

Astonishing  Acting  in  the  Role  of  Man-Monkey  Makes  This 

Picture  of  Gaston  Leroux's  Famous  Story  a  Big  Success. 

By  H.  C.  Judson. 

THE  title  of  this  big,  three-part,  feature  offering  prom- 
ised very  little.  We  have  looked  at  other  offerings- 
featuring  some  queer  man-animal  and  expected  some- 
thing on  the  order  of  "The  Head-Egg,"  a  melodrama  we 
once  had  the  pleasure  of  seeing  Corse  Payton  put  over.  We 
were  anything  but  enthusiastic;  but  on  seeing  it  were  most 
agreeably  surprised.  When  we  had  watched  M.  Bataille, 
who  takes  the  role  of  the  monkey-man,  this  feeling  became 
astonishment  and  wonder.  He  was,  at  times,  so  like  a  baboon 
that  we  forgot  that  he  really  wasn't  one.  Wonderful  art  was 
needed  to  make  upon  us  the  impression  left  by  this  strange 
being.  Of  course,  some  of  the  startling  effects  found  in  the 
weird  story  had  necessarily  to  be  contrived  mechanically  and 
we,  who  have  seen  so  much  of  picture-making,  recognized 
the  means  that  made  them  possible;  but,  nevertheless,  in  all 
of  its  three  reels,  it  held  us  in  wakeful  suspense.  It  is  most 
truly  a  big  feature.  It  will  startle  the  average  spectator  and 
it  will  surely  be  talked  about.  It  should  have  several  days' 
run,  so  that  it  might  have  a  chance  to  advertise  itself.  We 
have  never  seen  anything  on  stage  or  screen  that  was  at  all 
like  it.     It  is  new  and  far  off  the  beaten  track. 


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,  The  uncouth  animal  "makes"  the  picture — that  goes  with- 
out question;  but  the  story  has  its  human  side,  and  the  people 
whose  fates  are  linked  up  with  what  the  terrible  babboor* 
does  are  also  truly  drawn  and  natural.  Gaston  Leroux  is 
no  novice  at  plot  making,  that  hardly  needs  saying.  His  art 
is  apparent  in  this  picture.  The  tale  runs  smoothly  and, 
since  M.  Bataille's  acting  forces  us  to  accept  the  animal,  it 
is  convincing.  Nothing  happens  in  it  that  would  be  improb- 
able if  such  a  beast-man  were  possible,  and  since  the  whole 
cast  is  of  first  rank,  and  the  characters  are  not  forced  out  of 
their  natural  humanity  by  what  they  have  to  do,  the  picture 
seems  like  a  glimpse  of  life  in  some  rural  community  of 
France.  We  find  among  the  characters  the  scientist  who  has 
trained  the  baboon  to  serve  like  a  man  and  rwho  has  culti- 
vated in  its  dull  brain  the  first  glimmerings  of  human  rea- 
son. Then  there  is  the  scientist's  daughter.  These  three 
might  be  compared  to  Prospero,  Miranda  and  Caliban;  but 
Leroux  has  not  leaned  very  heavily  on  Shakespeare's  "The 
Tempest."  It  is  not  a  love  story,  nor  even,a  melodrama,  but 
a  "ghost"  or  "were-wolf"  story,  a  weird  tale.-  The  human 
villian  of  the  story  is  a  poacher  who  has  taken  a  fancy  to  the 
pretty  girl  whom  he  has  seen  walking  in  the  woods.  This 
poacher  has  gained  the  allegiance  of  the  beast  by  some  in- 
significant service  and  now  uses  him  to  obtain  vengeance 
on  a  man  of  the  village  and,  later,  possession  of  the  girl  who 
has  spurned  him.  The  man  has  been  found  murdered  and 
although  the  poacher  is  suspected  he  is  able  to  prove  an 
undeniable  alibi.  It  was  the  beast  who  had  done  it,  of 
course.  When  he  gets  the  aid  of  this  accomplice  to  abduct 
the  girl,  he  reckons  without  one  of  the  baboon's  peculiari- 
ties. The  girl's  beauty  has  made  the  beast  worship  her.  He 
"is  willing  to  drop  out  of  a  tree  under  which  she  is  passing 
and  carry  her  off  to  the  hovel  of  the  poacher;  but,  when  he 
sees  her  struggling  against  the  man,  he  takes  her  part. 

There  is  no  padding  in  the  action;  for  such  interest  is  in 
the  very  walk  of  the  beast  that  it  holds  all  the  way  and  he  is 
also  a  wonder  of  activity. 


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687 


Melies  In  Australia 

Gets    Many    Interesting    Subjects    Illustrating   Present    and 

Primative  Life  and  Scenes. 

By  Dore   Hoffman. 

The  life  of  the  Australian  aboriginal  is  a  matter  that  is 
very  vague  to  the  vast  majority  of  Americans.  We  all  know 
in  a  general  way  that  there  are  Ethiopians  somewhere  on 
that  continent,  but  exactly  how  they  differ  from  our  own 
American  negro  is  not  a  matter  of  common  knowledge.  The 
purpose  that  actuated  Mr.  Melies  in  including  Australia  in 
his  around-the-world  motion  picture  making  trip  was  to 
give  us  a  true  idea  of  the  life  and  habits  of  the  Australian 
aboriginal.  One  of  the  principal  purposes  of  this  trip  was 
to  record  in  motion  picture  form  something  of  lasting  edu- 
cational value,  served  to  the  spectator  with  an  entertaining 
story  interwoven  with  it.  Mr.  Melies  has  elected  to  roam 
in  out-of-the-way  places  of  the  earth  and  make  animated 
records  of  tribes  and  peoples  that  are  little  known  and,  in 
some  cases,  those  that  are  rapidly  vanishing  from  the  face 
of  the  earth.  The  Australian  aboriginal  is  a  primitive  race 
of  blacks  which,  like  the  American  Indian,  will  soon  be  ex- 
tinct; wherefore  these  studies  of  their  life  and  habits  may  be 
considered  as  being  distinctly  valuable. 

The  Melies  company  arrived  in  Sydney,  Australia,  late  in 
October  of  1912,  from  New  Zealand,  where  they  had  been 
taking  pictures  of  the  native  Maoris.  They  were  welcomed 
to  Sydney  by  Mr.  J.  D.  Williams,  the  well-known  American 
promoter,  who  has  been  a  large  factor  in  the  motion  picture 
business  of  Australia.  It  was  the  intention  of  Mr.  Melies  to 
spend  only  a  day  or  two  in  Sydney,  but  he  was  so  attracted 
by  the  natural  charm  of  the  place  that  he  prolonged  his  stay 
for  a  xouple  of  weeks.  They  took  a  number  of  local  scenic 
subjects  showing  the  city  and  environs  and  then  worked  out 
a  story  picture  entitled  "A  Buried  Treasure,"  founded  upon 
the  story  by  Edgar  Allan  Poe. 

Before  leaving  Sydney  for  the  territory  of  Queensland, 
where  the  aboriginals  in  their  native  state  are  mostly  to  be 
found,  arrangements  were  made  with  the  Colonial  govern- 
ment for  an  expert  on  aboriginal  life  to  accompany  the 
party.     At  the  suggestion  of  the  Premier  of  Queensland,  Mr. 


Archibald  Meston,  a  well-known  ethnologist  and  government 
official  at  Sydney,  was  appointed  to  go  with  the  Melies 
party.  His  knowledge  of  the  aboriginals  and  their  language 
was  a  wonderful  help  in  the  making  of  these  pictures. 
Through  his  familiarity  with  their  legends  and  customs,  it 
was  possible  to  make  several  extremely  interesting  story 
pictures,  which  introduce  in  a  logical  way  much  interesting 
typical  matter,  such  as  the  boomerang,  spear  throwing, 
kangaroo  hunting,  native  dances,  etc.  Before  the  party  left 
Sydney  it  was  further  augmented  by  the  addition  of  a  new 
leading  lady,  Miss  Claire  Nightengale,  a  well-known  Aus- 
tralian actress. 

The  Australian  aboriginal  is  a  very  different  creature,  even 
in  appearance,  from  the  American  or  African  negro.  He  is 
much  more  majestic  in  bearing  than  either  of  these.  The 
African  black,  with  his  ringed  nose,  bushy  hair  and  painted 
body,  together  with  his  shield  and  headgear,  gives  us  at  once 
an  impression  of  the  remotest  savagery,  which  impression, 
of  course,  is  quite  true.  The  American  black,  descending 
from  the  African,  resembles  him  in  general  characteristics  of 
feature  and  does  not  possess  the  serious  and  more  honest 
countenance  of  the  Australian  aboriginal.  The  beards  of  the 
Australian  "blackfellows,"  as  they  are  called  there,  seem  to 
whiten  soon  in  the  sunshine,  which  gives  them  a  venerable 
appearance  that  is  rendered  still  more  stately  by  a  tuft  of 
feathers  fixed  erect  upon  the  head. 

The  Australian  blackfellow  has  never  been  warlike.  There 
never  has  been  a  race  war  or  a  lynching  in  the  entire  history 
of  Australia.  When  Captain  Cook,  of  the  British  navy,  took 
possession  of  Australia  in  the  name  of  the  Crown,  in  1770, 
the  natives  made  no  opposition.  They  looked  on  in  their 
characteristic  silence  and  allowed  the  white  man  to  do  about 
as  he  pleased.  A  great  injustice  was  done  to  the  aboriginals 
shortly  afterward  by  the  English  government  in  making  of 
Australia  a  penal  colony.  For  a  number  of  years  the  scum  of 
England's  population  was  exiled  to  this  land.  Murderers, 
thieves,  degenerates  and  undesirables  of  all  kinds  were  there 
turned  loose  to  roam  at  will.  In  bands  Ihey  roamed  the 
country  and  made  much  trouble  for  the  poor  blacks.  They 
killed  the  men  and  carried  off  the  women  and  did  everything 
that  was  possible  to  harm  the  black  man  and  make  him  hate 
them.     Before   this  period   the  aboriginal   was   happy   in   his 


Gaston  Melies  and  Australian  Bushmen  who  appear  in  Melies  Pictures  of  Australia. 


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ignorance  of  tobacco,  opium  and  whiskey.  The  natives  in 
the  face  of  firearms  were  helpless  and  receded  gradually  in- 
land with  the  advance  of  the  whites.  However,  they  became 
addicted  to  the  white  man's  vices  and  succumbed  to  diseases 
which  they  had  never  known  before,  until  at  the  present  time 
they  are  in  a  sad  state  of  degeneration  and  well  on  the  way 
to  final  extinction. 

The  Australian  aboriginal  is  a  sober  individual.  He  seems 
to  have  no  music  in  his  soul,  as  has  his  African  cousin.  His 
civilization  never  was  as  fully  developed  as  that  of  the  Afri- 
can. His  mode  of  living  was  inferior  to  that  of  the  African 
black,  for  he  did  not  even  build  himself  a  hut,  much  less  a 
village.  The  aboriginals  were  nomadic.  In  small  parties 
they  roamed  about  from  place  to  place,  wherever  the  hunting 
was  good.  The  kangaroo  and  the  opossum,  and  frequently 
fish,  were  the  principal  items  of  diet.  The  game  was  usually 
cooked  just  as  it  was  killed,  and  eaten  when  about  half  done. 
If  the  weather  became  a  little  cool,  rude  shelters  of  bark 
were  made  by  the  "gins,"  or  women,  and  these  were  aban- 
doned as  the  party  moved  on. 

The  aboriginal  custom  of  wooing  was  simple,  though  force- 
ful. In  courting  a  maiden  the  usual  method  was  for  the  man 
to  accost  his  intended  gin  and  hit  her  upon  the  head  three  or 
four  times  with  the  flat  side  of  his  tomahawk,  to  show  her 
that  he  was  interested.     When  she  recovered   consciousness 


Mr.  Melies  and  Party  Lunching  Between  Scenes. 

she  was  quite  impressed  with  him  and  not  disposed  to  make 
much  further  resistance.  The  blackfellow  generally  secured 
his  bride  from  some  opposite  tribe  that  came  into  conflict 
with  his  own.  When  the  woman  became  a  gin  she  became 
a  slave  at  the  same  time,  so  the  words  are  practically 
synonymous. 

For  their  use  of  the  boomerang  the  aboriginals  are  justly 
renowned.  In  the  origin  of  this  homing  bludgeon  they  in- 
troduced a  problem  in  physics  and  aeronautics  that  has  never 
been  figured  out  on  paper  by  scientists  or  others.  Their 
spear-throwing  abilities  are  marvelous,  and  for  long-distance 
spear-throwing  they  make  use  of  a  simple  contrivance  that 
gives  further  evidence  of  their  inventive  genius.  This  ap- 
paratus consists  merely  of  a  piece  of  wood  about  as  long  as 
a  baseball  bat  and  as  round  as  the  large  end  of  it.  There  are 
two  firm  rings,  one  set  near  each  end,  and  through  these 
rings  the  spear  is  inserted.  The  handle  of  the  spear  is  then 
bent  downward  and  when  ready  the  native  lets  go  of  the 
handle  and  the  spring  in  it  is  sufficient  to  propel  the  spear  a 
distance  of  a  thousand  feet  with  deadly  accuracy.  The  ab- 
original has  always  led  a  lazy  kind  of  life.  It  has  been  his 
custom  to  hunt  the  kangaroo  until  he  secured  a  good  supply. 
While  this  supply  lasted  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  time 
dozing  in  the  shade,  surrounded  by  his  gins  who  sang  or 
danced  as  he  desired,  and  fulfilled  all  other  commands.  The 
high  cost  of  living  never  bothered  him,  as  there  were  no 
clothes  to  buy  for  himself  and  family.  The  highest  that  liv- 
ing ever  came  for  him  depended  entirely  on  how  high  an 
opossum  could  climb  a  tree. 

By  way  of  Brisbane  the  Melies  party  came  to  a  little  vil- 
lage called  Murgon,  near  Baranibah,  a  missionary  station. 
At  that  place,  with  the  assistance  of  natives  in  native  roles, 
they  enacted  an  interesting  story  entitled  "Captured  by 
Boomerang  Throwers."  Briefly,  the  tale  is  that  of  five  white 
explorers,  one  of  whom  was  lost  from  the  party  and  fell 
among  a  tribe  of  blacks.  To  them  he  represented  some  sort 
of  a  deity.     When  he  lit  his  pipe  with  a  match  they  became 


certain  of  his  divinity.  A  microscope  that  he  showed  them 
how  to  use  further  convinced  them.  He  was  very  desirous 
of  making  his  departure,  but  the  daughter  of  the  old  warrior 
fell  in  love  with  him  and  this  made  his  presence  at  the  camp  a 
compulsory  matter  for  an  indefinite  period.  To  make  matters 
worse,  a  young  chief,  who  was  desirous  of  having  the  young 
lady  for  his  gin,  became  jealous  of  the  explorer  and  made 
things  decidedly  interesting  for  him.  During  the  action  of 
the  story,  a  number  of  accurate  scenes  of  aboriginal  camp 
life,  native  dances  and  ceremonies  have  been  introduced.  The 
method  of  the  young  explorer's  escape  from  the  natives  we 
shall  leave  for  the  picture  to  tell,  with  the  assurance  that  it 
is  all  very  interesting  as  well  as  educational.    Another  picture 


Miss   Claire    Nightingale,    Melies   Australian    Leading    Lady. 

taken  in  these  surroundings  is  entitled  "The  Golden  Gully." 
the  story  of  a  shipwrecked  sailor  cast  among  a  trite  of  hos- 
tile blacks;  one  of  unusual  dramatic  originality  and  power. 

From  Murgon  the  Melies  party  went  to  Yarrabah,  another 
native  settlement,  where  two  other  aboriginal  pictures  were 
taken,  entitled  "The  Black  Trackers"  and  "The  Foster 
Brothers."  Then  followed  a  trip  to  Gympie  in  the  heart  of 
the  gold  fields.  At  this  point  were  taken  some  pictures  of 
typical  Australian  mining  life  of  the  present  time.  One  of 
these  that  is  especially  good  is  entitled  "Gold  and  the  Gilded 
Way,"  a  story  of  two  young  men  who  strike  a  rich  claim. 
Another  is  "The  Stolen  Claim,"  showing  the  rough  Aus- 
tralian miner  exactly  as  he  appears  in  this  wild,  unsettled 
country;  for  it  should  be  borne  in  mind  that  in  Australia 
there  would  be  only  one  inhabitant  to  every  no  square  miles, 
if  they  were  so  distributed. 

While  the  dramatic  company  was  at  work  on  the  story  pic- 
tures, the  Melies  special  cameraman,  Mr.  George  Scott,  was 
attending  to  the  educational  side  of  the  expedition  and  has 
sent  home  to  America  several  thousand  feet  of  film  showing 
Queensland  scenery  and  country  life  and  industrial  enter- 
prises. Special  trips  were  made  to  the  reefs  of  the  Great 
Barrier  and  to  the  famous  Barron  Falls.  On  the  6th  of  De- 
cember, Mr.  Melies  and  his  party  embarked  at  Cairns  for 
Thursday  Island,  the  center  of  the  pearl-fishing  industry  in 
Oriental  waters. 


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CHICAGO   LETTER 

By  JAS.S.  McQDADE 


WITH  the  advent  of  "Quo  Vadis?"  and  the  manner  of 
its  handling  by  George  Kleine,  the  moving  picture 
has  taken  a  big  stride  forward  into  the  field  of 
entertainment  in  this  country.  This  photodrama  has  been 
dignified  as  no  preceding  film  subject  has  been  distinguished 
in  the  past.  For  "Quo  Vadis?"  there  has  been  no  such  thing 
as  a  release  date.  It  has  had  its  New  York  opening  and  its 
Chicago  opening,  and  is  now  having  its  "run"  in  each  city. 
By  the  time  this  appears  in  print  it  will  have  had  its  Phila- 
delphia opening,  to  be  followed  by  that  in  Boston,  and 
so  on  throughout  the  country.  The  largest  theaters  are 
being  used  for  its  presentation,  and  advanced  prices  are 
charged  for  admission. 

The  influence  exerted  by  photodramas  of  this  type  is 
bound  to  be  distinctly  felt  by  the  industry.  The  encroach- 
ment made  on  the  special  domain  of  the  drama  will  enlist 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  new  fans  for  moving  pictures. 
The  smaller  houses  will  benefit  in  the  long  run;  for,  once 
awakened  by  seeing  eight  or  ten  reel  productions  in  the  large 
houses,  these  new  converts  to  moving  pictures  will  learn 
to  attend  the  smaller,  well  conducted  houses  in  the  neighbor- 
hood of  their  homes. 

It  is  of  vital  importance  that  the  presentation  of  these 
great  photodramas  shall  be  of  such  high  character — in  pro- 
jection, musical  accompaniment  and  effects — that  they  will 
serve  as  educational  aids  to  the  managers  of  the  regular 
moving  picture  theaters.  The  higher  prices  of  admission 
and  the  larger  seating  capacity  of.  the  theaters  will  enable 
those  interested  to  furnish,  without  stint,  the  requisite  com- 
plementary aids  to  the  photodramas.  Mere  money-making, 
as  the  object  in  view,  will  kill  the  goose  with  the  golden 
egg.  There  is  much  art  required  for  the  proper  development 
of  moving  picture  presentations,  and  in  this  new  departure, 
in  this  country,  from  the  old  order  of  things  there  is  a 
magnificent  opportunity  to  invest  the  moving  picture  with 
greater  dignity. 

"Quo  Vadis?"  opened  at  McVickers,  this  city,  at  a  matinee, 
Monday,  May  5,  to  a  large  and  fashionable  audience.  The 
principal  features  were  vigorously  applauded  both  at  the 
matinee   and   evening  presentations. 

Great  Gain  of  Moving  Pictures. 

At  a  meeting  of  subdivision  committee  No.  19  of  the 
Chicago  Association  of  Commerce,  in  the  Hotel  La  Salle, 
April  30,  a  report  was  read  which  showed  that  Chicago  now 
holds  third  place  among  the  cities  of  the  world  in  number 
of  theaters  and  total  attendance.  London  and  New  York 
stand  first  and  second.  The  members  of  the  committee  re- 
ferred to  confine  their  attention  to  theaters,  amusements, 
clubs  and   expositions. 

Chicago  is, destined  to  become  the  theatrical  center  of 
the  United  States,  is  the  opinion  of  the  committee,  and  the 
members  drew  attention  to  the  fact  that  many  theatrical 
managers,  realizing  the  advantage  of  a  central  booking  point, 
have  moved  from  New  York  to  Chicago  in  the  last  few 
years.  Chicago  has  at  present  116  play  houses  and  452 
moving  picture  theaters. 

A  grand  total  of  $46,000,000  is  invested  in  the  city  for 
the  entertainment  and  pleasure  of  Chicagoans.  In  the  down- 
town theaters  alone  $6,500,000  is  turned  in  annually  at  the 
box  offices,  while  the  total  attendance  is  8,000,000.  This  was 
the  showing  made  in  1912.  "If  it  were  possible  to  estimate 
the  total  amount  of  money  spent  by  Chicago  each  year  for 
theatrical  attractions,"  declared  the  report,  "it  would  prob- 
ably be  easy  to  prove  that  more  money  is  spent  on  amuse- 
ments in  this  city  than  for  any  single  commodity  of  merchan- 
dise or  for  any  of  the  necessities  of  life."  • 

The  report,  unfortunately,  affords  no  comparison  of  figures 
showing  the  volume  of  business  done  by  the  larger  theaters 
and  that  done  by  the  moving  picture  houses.  This  would 
have  been  valuable  and  interesting,  as  it  would  have  shown 
at  a  glance  the  advance  in  the  receipts  of  Chicago  pic- 
ture theaters  and  also  that  of  the  large  houses  for  the  past 
few  years.  It  would  also  have  shown  wiiat  decline,  if  any, 
has  been  experienced  by  the  large  houses  due  to  the  compe- 
tition of  the  picture  theaters. 


Paris  does  things  more  thoroughly,  as  is  shown  by  the 
following  cable,  of  May  3,  to  the  Chicago  Tribune:  "An 
evidence  of  the  effect  of  the  moving  picture  shows  on  theaters 
and  other  entertainments  is  afforded  in  the  publication  of  the 
receipts  from  all  amusements  in  1912.  The  returns  are 
official,  as  they  are  issued  by  the  assistant  publique,  which 
collects  10  per  cent,  of  the  receipts  for  the  poor. 

"The  receipts  last  year  reached  the  record  mark  of  $13,100,- 
000,  which  was  nearly  $1,400,000  more  than  for  the  previous 
year.  As  every  class  of  shows  give  an  increase,  it  is  argued 
by  some  that  the  moving  pictures  have  not  injured  the  older 
entertainments,  but  that  they  have  found  their  own  audiences. 

"An  analysis  of  the  report,  however,  shows-  that  the  re- 
ceipts of  the  theaters  increased  from  33,000,000  francs  to 
34,000,000  francs,  or  something  over  3  per  cent.;  those  of 
concerts  and  cafe  concerts  from  6,842,000  to  9,459,000  francs, 
or  nearly  40  per  cent.;  those  of  music  halls  from  7,000,000  to 
7,410,000  francs,  which  is  not  5  per  cent. 

"But  the  moving  pictures  jumped  from  2,800,000  to  6,800,000 
francs,  an  increase  of  143  per  cent." 

Opera  shows  the  greatest  returns,  with  a  grand  total  of 
10,003,000   francs. 

Chicago  Film  Brevities. 

S.  L.  Rothapfel,  director  of  presentations  at  the  Lyric.  Min- 
neapolis, paid  a  special  visit  to  the  city,  Tuesday,  May  6, 
to  see  a  presentation  of  "Quo  Vadis?"  at  McVickers.  Mr. 
Rothapfel  reports  fine  business  at  the  Lyric,  and  great  en- 
thusiasm over  his  programs. 

*  *     * 

C.  Lang  Cobb,  Jr.,  of  the  Ramo  Film  Co.,  arrived  in  the 
city,  Monday,  May  5,  from  Detroit.  Mr.  Cobb  left  New 
York  April  28,  and  went  direct  to  Wheeling,  West  Va.,  to 
attend  the  exhibitor's  state  convention.  Thence  he  pro- 
ceeded to  Pittsburgh,  Cleveland,  Toledo,  and  Detroit.  He 
left  this  city  for  Indianapolis  Wednesday,  May  7,  from  which 
point  he  proceeded  to  Buffalo  and  back  to  New  York.  Mr. 
Cobb  reported  a  fair  demand  in  all  places  visited  for  the 
Ramo  brand.  *     *     * 

W.  H.  Needham,  proprietor  and  manager  of  the  Gladstone 
Theater,  Gladstone,  Mich.,  was  in  the  city  last  week,  arrang- 
ing for  service  with  the  General  Film  Co.'s  branch,  429  S. 
Wabash  Ave.  Mr.  Needham  made  a  call  at  the  World  office 
and  reported  satisfactory  business. 

*  *     * 

The  Moore  Feature  Films,  Inc.,  has  opened  offices  in  this 
city,  in  the  Straus  Building,  Clark  and  Madison  Sts.  Menlo 
Moore  is  president  and  W.  W.  Willis  is  manager.  The  firm 
has  exclusive  state  rights  in  Ohio,  Indiana,  Kentucky,  Wis- 
consin and  Michigan  for  a  number  of  feature  films  by  Gau- 
mont,  Itala,  Solax  and  other  makes.  The  firm's  advertise- 
ment will  be  found  on  another  page,  in  this  issue. 


A  NEW  PICTURE  BY  "LITTLE  MARY." 

Miss  Mary  Pickford  is  the  author  of  "When  Fate  Decrees," 
a  single-reel  story  which  the  Kalem  Company  will  release 
on  June  4.  Miss  Pickford  has  written  the  story  for  Miss 
Alice  Joyce — who  will  play  the  lead — between  whom  and 
"Little  Mary"  there  is  a  strong  friendship.  Miss  Pickford 
is  no  novice  as  a  photoplaywright,  being  the  author  of  many 
produced  pictures. 


NEW  YORK  MOTION  PICTURE   COMPANY   NOTES. 

Ad.  Kessel  and  C.  O.  Baumann,  of  the  New  York  Motion 
Picture  Company,  returned  to  New  York  on  May  9  from  a 
short  trip  to  the  Pacific  Coast,  where  they  have  been  looking 
over  things  in  general. 

The  Mutual  Film  Corporation  is  being  flooded  with  re- 
quests, for  bookings  for  the  five-reel  special,  "Battle  of 
Gettysburg,"  which  will  be  ready  for  shipping  the  latter 
part  of  the  month. 

Word  comes  from  the  coast  that  Jay  Hunt,  who  is  direct- 
ing Kay-Bee  and  Broncho  pictures,  is  making  good,  which 
is  just  what  his  friends  expected. 


KATHLYN    WILLIAMS    TO    PRODUCE     HER     OWN 
PICTURE. 

Kathlyn  Williams,  the  talented  leading  woman  of  the 
Selig  Polyscope  Co.'s  Pacific  Coast  Stock  Company,  has  al- 
ready gained  a  great  deal  of  prominence  through  her  ability 
as  an  originator  and  writer  of  successful  scenarios.  Now 
she  is  going  to  add  further  laurels  to  her  reputation  by  per- 
sonally producing  a  series  of  pictures  which  she  has  writ- 
ten herself  and  in  which  she  will  play  the  principal  roles. 
Mr.  W.  N.  Selig  has  completed  arrangements  whereby  her 
initial  effort  in  this  direction  will  receive  the  co-operation 
of  the  entire  Pacific  Coast  studio  organization. 


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Doings  at  Los  Angeles 

Strong    Picture    Coming    From    the    Biograph    Company — 
Mutual    Changes   and    Other    Newsy   Notes. 

I  AM  of  the  opinion  that  the  verdict  of  the  motion^  picture 
world,  when  a  forthcoming  production  called  "Mother 
Love"  is  released  by  the  Biograph  Company,  will  be 
that  David  N.  Griffith,  the  Biograph  producer,  has  made  his 
masterpiece.  In  the  past  Griffith  has  turned  out  a  number 
of  pictures  which  have  been  recognized  as  something  corre- 
sponding, within  the  motion  picture  field,  to  the  classics  in 
older  and  maturer  channels  of  artistic  expression.  Of  course, 
no  one  can  tell  what  other  ideas  may  be  fermenting  in 
Griffith's  brain,  or  what  he  may  give  forth  later,  but  in 
"Mother  Love"  he  has  produced  a  film  which  many  critics 
will  undoubtedly  declare  to  be  the  most  artistic  picture  ever 
made.  Superlatives  have  been  so  much  overworked  in  con- 
nection with  motion  picture  productions  that  they  have  be- 
come cheapened  and  have  lost  their  meaning.  Here  is  a  pic- 
ture which  calls  for  their  legitimate  use  and  because  the 
words  have  been  so  impaired  it  is  difficult  to  express  strongly 
enough  the  merit  of  this  picture. 

In  making  it  Griffith  has  not  permitted  himself  to  be  re- 
stricted in  any  avoidable  way.  For  example,  he  has  disre- 
garded the  arbitrary  condition  of  length  usually  insisted 
upon  and  as  a  result  the  picture  has  run  about  700  feet  over 
one  reel  and  will  be  released  in  the  odd  length.  He  has  been 
unwilling  to  make  any  attempt  to  finish  the  picture  in  a 
stated  time  and  consequently  it  has  been  about  five  weeks  in 
the  making,  although  he  has  been  producing  other  pictures 
meanwhile.  Expense  has  never  been  considered  and  there- 
fore a  single  scene — a  cabaret  entertainment  in  a  large  met- 
ropolitan cafe — cost  $1,800,  exclusive  of  salaries.  "If  it  serves 
no  other  purpose  it  will  at  least  teach  cafe  managers  in  the 
interior  how  to  run  a  cafe,"  Griffith  observed  the  day  he 
made  it.  The  producer  himself  recognizes  it  as  a  supreme 
effort.  It  will  be  interesting  to  see  what  its  reception  will 
be  by  the  public. 

Griffith  is  preparing  one  other  big  effort  before  the  com- 
pany returns  East  for  the  summer.  For  a  couple  of  weeks 
carpenters  and  masons  have  been  building  a  village  in  the 
San  Fernando  valley.  This  does  not  mean  that  they  have 
been  putting  up  flats  to  represent  store  fronts,  but  that  sub- 
stantial frame  structures  have  been  erected  and  so  formed 
and  grouped  as  to  express  Griffith's  idea  of  a  certain  Western 
village.  Thus  far  no  photographing  has  been  done,  although 
a  few  of  the  scene*  have  been  roughly  rehearsed.  The  punch 
of  the  story  will  be  the  destruction  of  the  entire  town  by 
fire.  This  will  be  the  last  picture  made  before  the  company's 
departure.  The  date  for  this,  originally  set  for  May  28,  has 
been  advanced  so  that  it  will  probably  not  be  earlier  than  the 
second  week  of  June,  and  may  be  even  later,  depending  on 
how  the  San  Fernando  production  goes. 

Thanhouser  Company  Goes  East. 
The  entire  Thanhouser  company  returned  East,  leaving 
this  city  April  30,  to  take  up  their  quarters  in  the  new  studio 
in  New  Rochelle.  It  is  reported  that  the  organization  will 
probably  return  to  this  city  next  fall.  Meanwhile  the  studio 
is  to  be  retained  by  the  Mutual  forces.  L.  J.  Henderson, 
director,  and  Frederick  Vroom,  manager,  remained  behind' 
and  are  now  organizing  a  new  Majestic  company  to  make 
regular  releases.  Since  the  Thanhouser  company  took  pos- 
session of  the  old  Imp  studio  on  Brooklyn  Heights  soon 
after  arriving  here  last  fall,  many  improvements  have  been 
made.  A  number  of  buildings  have  been  erected  and  it  is  now 
one  of  the  best  equipped  studios  in  Southern  California. 
Fred  Mace,  who  is  organizing  a  company  to  make  "Mace 
Philms,"  returned  from  New  York  on  the  same  day  the 
Thanhouser  forces  departed,  and  it  was  announced  that  dur- 
ing the  next  month,  while  his  new  studio  at  Hollywood  is 
being  made  ready  for  occupancy,  he  will  put  on  a  series  of 
experimental  comedies  at  the  Brooklyn  Heights  studio  and 
they  will  be  released  under  the  Majestic  brand. 
New  Monopol  Company  Busy. 
The  first  picture  to  be  made  by  the  new  c"ompany,  which  is 
working  under  the  direction  and  management  of  Tom  Evans 
at  the  old  Monopol  studio  in  Hollywood,  was  started  this 
week.  It  is  to  be  a  three-reel  production  of  "A  Florentine 
Tragedy,"  with  Constance  Crawley,  Arthur  Maude  and  Wil- 
fred Lucas  in  the  principal  roles.  Lucas,  who  gave  up  a 
position- as  director  with  the  Universal  company  to  return 
to  New  York,  decided  to  remain  here  for  a  while  with  the 
Evans  company.  Except  that  it  is  generally  understood  that 
Pat  Powers  is  behind  the  new  company,  little  is  known 
about  it  here.  Evans  is  not  particularly  communicative. 
Practically  the  entire  Powers  sub-organization  deserted  from 
the  Universal  upon  Evans'  arrival  and  went  over  with  him 
to  the  new  studio.     Directors  McDonald  and  Matthews,  who 


were  the  Powers  directors  with  the  Universal,  are  now  with 
him  and  nearly  all  the  actors  are  at  the  new  place.  There 
are  twenty-two  members  of  the  new  company,  not  including 
cameramen  and  those  employed  in  the  factory  department. 
Factory  buildings  are  now  being  added  to  the  developing 
rooms,  so  it  is  evident  that  the  company  expects  to  make  its 
prints  here.  A  carpenter  shop  for  the  manufacture  of  furni- 
ture and  props  is  being  built  and  two  new  stages  of  60  by  40 
feet  each  are  being  laid.  Mr.  Evans  says  that  the  studio  will 
have  no  stated  output.  He  will  simply  make  as  many  reels 
as  he  can  without  impairing  quality. 

New  Picture  Company. 

The  Panama-Pacific  Motion  Picture  Company  is  a  new 
organization  which  has  been  formed  for  the  purpose  of  pho- 
tographing the  State  of  California.  Head  offices  are  to  be 
in  this  city.  A.  L.  Richardson,  of  Pasadena,  is  president; 
W.  E.  Macarton  is  general  manager,  F.  W.  Bloom  is  secre- 
tary, and  Jesse  H.  Buffum  is  head  of  the  mechanical  depart- 
ment. The  company  will  begin  operations  May  10,  when  an 
expedition  equipped  with  three  big  Pierce  Arrow  seven-pas- 
senger automobiles  and  a  truck  will  leave  San  Diego  for  an 
overland  tour  to  Eureka  embracing  all  the  points  of  interest 
between.  The  old  Spanish  missions,  the  Yosemite  national 
park,  the  big  trees  reservation  and  Lake  Tahoe  will  all  be 
used  as  backgrounds  for  pictures  having  stories  behind  them, 
and  a  great  many  straight  scenic  and  educational  pictures 
are  to  be  made.  The  party  will  include  eighteen  actors, 
three  cameramen  and  a  scenario  writer. 
News  Briefs. 

The  second  public  appearance  of  The  Photoplayers  will 
probably  be  made  the  first  week  in  June,  when  the  club  will 
give  a  burlesque  show  in  Temple  Auditorium  in  this  city  for 
three  nights  and  a  matinee.  At  a  general  meeting  of  the 
club  held  last  Saturday  night  a  committee  was  appointed  to 
make  the  preliminary  plans  and  report  back  to  the  club  at  a 
special  meeting  next  Saturday  night.  At  that  time  the  mem- 
bers will  decide  whether  the  data  as  presented  by  the  com- 
mittee justifies  the  move.  The  committee  will  make  a  favor- 
able report,  and  since  the.  sentiment  in  the  club  is  strongly 
in  favor  of  the  show  it  will  probably  be  given. 


*  *     * 
William  Selig,  head  of  the  Selig  Polyscope  Company,  who  . 

was  called  back  to  Chicago  on  business  soon  after  he  ar- 
rived in  Los  Angeles  on  what  was  to  have  been  a  visit  of 
several  months'  duration,  is  back  here  again,  this  time  to 
stay  until  he  is  ready  to  return. 

*  *     * 

Lem  Parker,  Selig  producer,  took  a  company  out  of  town 
this  week  to  make  a  series  of  scenes  along  the  Los  Angeles 
Aqueduct  in  the  Mojave  desert.  The  story  has  to  do  with  a 
great  construction  work. 

*  *     * 

Karl  Coolidge  resigned  as  scenario  editor  of  the  Keystone 
company  last  week  and  has  gone  to  Portland,  primarily  to 
get  married  and  incidentally  to  attend  to  business. 

*  *     * 

Frank  E.  Montgomery,,  formerly  director  for  the  Universal, 
is  organizing  a  company  for  the  purpose  of  producing  spe- 
cial multiple  reel  features  of  Indian  life  featuring  Mona 
Darkfeather,  for  a  long  time  one  of  the  Universal  stars. 
Princess  Darkfeather  in  private  life  is  Mrs.  Montgomery. 

*  *     * 

Local  newspapers  have  carried  stories  to  the  effect  that 
Jack  London,  the  novelist,  has  sold  the  motion  picture  rights 
to  several  of  his  stories  and  will  not  only  direct  the  filming 
of  them,  but  will  play  the  leads  in  several  pictures.  The 
local  angle  is  that  the  pictures  are  to  be  made  in  Los  An- 
geles— by  whom,  is  not  announced. 

*  *     * 

Word  from  Sacramento  is  to  the  effect  that  the  Legisla- 
ture is  in  such  a  row  over  the  alien  land  bill  that  everything 
else  is  being  neglected  and  consequently  the  bill  now  pend- 
ing creating  a  board  of  censors  and  providing  for  the  censor- 
ing of  motion  pictures  may  fail  to  get  consideration  before 

the  date  set  for  the  adjournment  of  the  Legislature. 

*  *     * 

A  valuable  Indian  sacred  bull  owned  by  the  Selig  com- 
pany and  kept  at  the  company's  wild  animal  farm  on  the 
outskirts  of  the  city  was  practically  ruined  one  night  last 
week  when  some  person,  supposed  by  the  police  to  be  in- 
sane, mutilated  it  with  a  knife.  Several  head  of  cattle  have 
been  cut  in  the  same  manner  in  other  portions  of  the  city. 

P.  M.  POWELL. 

S.  O.  MURPHY,  JR.,  DEAD. 

Samuel  O.  Murphy,  Jr.,  who  was  treasurer  and  manager 
of  the  Rex  Film  Company,  of  Albany,  N.  Y.,  died  at  the 
Albany  Hospital  on  Sunday,  April  6,  following  an  operation 
for  appendicitis.  The  remains  were  buried  at  his  old  home, 
Spring  Valley,  N.  Y. 


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THE  EDUCATIONAL  PICTURE. 

By  the  Rev.  E.  Boudinot  Stockton,  S.  T.  B. 
A  Word   of  Warning. 

THE  First  Christian  church,  of  St.   Louis,  Missouri,  had 
lately  adopted  what   it  calls  "a  novel  plan  to   secure 
attendance   from   the  boys   and  girls  as  well   as  from 
older  persons."     The   account  given  of  the   plan   by   the   St. 
Louis  "Star''   is  as   follows: 

The  new  idea  goes  into  effect  Sunday  morning,  and  each  person 
who  attends  the  morning  services  will  be  given  a  free  ticket  to  a 
moving  picture  entertainment  on  the  following  Friday  evening  in 
the  First  Christian  church.  The  tickets  will  be  distributed  to  schol- 
ars every  Sunday  morning  and  the  entertainments  will  consist  of 
three  reels  of  beautiful  and  inspiring  religious  and  educational 
pictures. 

This  plan  is  not  altogether  novel  as  it  has  been  tried  by 
several  other  Sunday-schools  last  year  among  the  number 
being  the  Dr.  Fry  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  South,  of 
St.  Louis  itself.  Moreover,  there  are  grave  objections  to 
the  plan  on  moral  grounds  and  the  final  results  are  bound 
to  be  much  more  harmful  than  good.  It  is  all  right  to  use 
the  pictures  for  amusement,  or  as  money-getters,  or  for 
religious  and  educational  purposes;  but  to  use  them  as^  a 
bribe  is  altogether  wrong,  and  when  you  tell  a  child  "If 
you  will  come  to  church  or  Sunday-school  I  will  give  you 
something  for  doing  so,"  you  are  doing  exactly  the  same 
thing  as  the  "big  interests"  do  when  they  say  to  legislatures 
"pass  or  kill  this  bill  and  I  will  give  you  so  much  cash." 
We  have  had  over  a  quarter  of  a  centurv's  experience  in 
church  and  Sunday-school  work  and  we  have  seen  the  boys 
and  girls  we  have  taught  in  Sunday-school  go  out  into  the 
world  as  grown  men  and  women.  We  have  also  seen  coals 
and  blankets  and  picture  cards  and  all  sorts  of  other  things 
used  to  procure  adherence  to  church  and  Sunday-school. 
The  results  we  have  also  seen  and  they  have  been  invariably 
bad.  Persons  who  go  to  church  for  what  they  can  get  out 
of  it  not  onlv  quit  when  they  can  get  nothing  more,  but 
their  whole  moral  tone  and  spiritual  life  has  been  lowered 
and  degraded.  They  become  the  men  and  women  who  do 
and  wink  at  the  doing  of  illicit  things  and  the  persons  who 
are  guilty  of  the  sharp  and  shady  practices.  They  have  no 
real  religion  and  if  you  use  a  system  of  bribery  in  teaching 
them  religious  tenets  and  beliefs  they  cannot  possibly  get 
any,  because  while  you  are  preaching  the  word  of  God  you 
are  practicing  the  works  of  the  devil. 

A  Much  Better  Plan. 
A  much  better  plan  would  be  to  use  the  admission  tickets 
as  rewards  for  well  learnt  lessons  or  for  continued  good 
conduct  in  the  same  way  that  rewards  and  prizes  are  offered 
in  the  secular  schools  and  one  church  has  been  very  suc- 
cessful in  employing  a  free  distribution  of  tickets  to  non- 
church  goers  together  with  an  invitation  to  some  particular 
exhibition.  No  obligation  was  attached  to  the  acceptance 
of  the  ticket,  but  the  givers  depended  on  the  natural  in- 
clination of  the  recipient  to  come  and  see  what  was  going 
on.  The  picture  service  and  the  sermon  made  their  own 
appeal  and  those  who  had  been  first  attracted  by  curiosity, 
came  again  for  pleasure  and  stayed  for  better  reasons.  In 
the  First  Christian  church  of  St.   Louis, 

Moving  pictures  are  shown  everv  Sunday  evening  after  the  sermon 
in  the  church  auditorium.     The  Rev.  John  L.  Brandt,  the  pastor, 
and    Mr.    Charles    A.    Forse,    the    superintendent    of    the    Sunday- 
school,  having  charge  of  the  exhibition. 
We  would  suggest  that  this  service  be  made  a  missionary 
service,   that   the   picture  be   selected   and   the   sermon   com- 
posed 'upon    it    so   that   both    will    teach     a    single     definite 
evangelical  truth   of  a  "converting"   nature,   that  the  hymns 
and  prayers  and  Bible  readings  be  chosen  'o  correspond  and 
that  the  whole   service  be  made  to   center  round  some  one 
truth   that   will   rouse    the    congregation   to   an    appreciation 
and  knowledge   of  their  spiritual   needs  and  responsibilities. 
Then  distribute   cards  of  admission  and  notices  throughout 
the   town   inviting  everyone   to  attend.     This   plan   will  pay 
not  only  in  increased   attendance   but  also  in  increased  and 
deeper  spiritual  life  in  the  parish,  and  it  is  not  open  to  the 


charge  of  bribery  and  corruption,  as  is  the  Sunday-school 
attendance  plan  referred  to  above.  The  plan  is  not  ours; 
it  was  tried  about  a  year  ago  by  a  diocesan  missionary  in 
Pennsylvania,  who  went  into  a  town  where  there  was  no 
church  and  the  people  did  not  care  for.  church.  He  secured 
a  hall,  gave  a  series  of  services  as  above  described,'  and  in 
six  months  had  an  earnest  and  enthusiastic  mission  started 
that  has  been  growing  ever  since. 

An  Advertising  Adjunct. 
The  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  "Pioneer  Press"  sends  us  the  follow- 
ing  notice   as   to   how  the   moving  picture    theaters   are   co- 
operating  with   the   Social   Service   institutions    of   that   city 
in   religious   and   educational   work: 

Weekly  announcement  of  the  Social  Service  church  will  be  made 
in  motion  picture  houses  of  the  city  through  slides  furnished  by 
the  publicity  bureau  of  the  church.  The  owners  have  offered  to  do 
this  without  charge,  the  plan  being  very  acceptable  to  them.  This 
is  the  first  step  in  the  movement  which  the  church  has  started  to  co- 
operate with  the  various  activities  of  the  city.  The  Rev.  C.  W. 
Barnes,  pastor  of  the  church,  preached,  for  instance,  on  Lincoln, 
Sunday,  and  the  slides  for  that  week  displayed  a  picture  of  the 
emancipator  and  gave  the  title  of  the  sermon. 

This  is  a  capital  idea  and  it  can  easily  be  adopted  by  others 
elsewhere.  The  live  exhibitor,  especially  in  the  smaller  and 
country  towns,  is  generally  very  glad  to  educate  his  com- 
munity in  a  knowledge  and  appreciation  of  the  picture  and 
to  help  the  better  element  in  the  town  to  see  their  beauties 
and  utilities.  The  work  of  the  religious  and  educational 
bodies  does  not  interfere  with  his  business  and  as  a  matter 
of  fact  even  makes  it  better,  because  the  persons  who  start 
to  use  the  pictures  seriously  get  to  going  to  his  theater  for 
amusement.  Consequently  it  will  in  most  cases  need  only 
a  request  and  the  supplying  of  an  inexpensive  slide  announce- 
ment for  churches,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  other  social  and  religious 
workers  to  have  at  their  command  an  excellent  medium  of 
publicity. 


LATEST  EDUCATIONAL  RELEASES. 
Releases  April  6  to  12. 
Following  each  title  are  given  the  volume  and  page  of 
the  Moving  Picture  World  where  the  synopsis  and  comment 
on  that  particular  picture  is  to  be  found,  the  volume  number 
before,  the  page  number  after  the  colon.  The  notes  after 
certain  of  the  titles  are  not  intended  as  synopses,  but  merely 
as  hints  on  the  uses  for  which  the  picture  is  or  has  been 
found  available.  The  following  abbreviations  are  used  in 
the  catalog: 

2r    ,r    etc means two-reel,  three-reel.  etc. 

n.s.p.  ' "     ....  no  synopsis  published  to  date 

n  c'p'     '.'.'.....'. "     ...no  comment  published  to  date 

sp/rev. ".'.' "     special   review 

mfg.    .'..'.' "     ....manufacturer's   advance   note 

adv.' "     advertisement 

GENERAL  TOPICS. 

Animated  Weekly.     Universal  9.     (16:308.) 
Gaumont  Weekly.     Gaumont  9.     (16:314.1 
Mutual  Weekly.    Mutual  9.     (16:310.) 
Pathe's  Weekly,     rathe  7.     (16:198.) 

PHILOSOPHY. 

The  Fear.     Powers  11.     (t6:8^;  281.)     A  psychological  study  of  fear. 

RELIGION. 

The  Wanderer.  Imp  7.  (16:86;  282.)  Illustrates  the  works  of  mercy 
and  the  example  and  imitation  of  Christ. 

SOCIOLOGY. 

The  Maoris,  of  New  Zealand.     Melies  10.     (16:78;  n.c.p.) 

SCIENCE. 

The  Analysis  of  Motion.  Pathe  11.  (16:80;  380.)  A  new  venture  in 
kinematography;  pictures  taken  at  the  rate  of  1.200  per  second  anl 
projected  at  the  ordinary  rate  so  as  to  render  visible  such  rapid  mo- 
tion as  Ihe  flight  of  a  bullet  for  instance. 

Crystallization.     Eclair  6.     (15:1360;  n.c.p.) 

The  Locust.     Pathe  11.     (n.s.p.;  16:380;  note  16:365.) 

APPLIED  SCIENCE. 

The  Life  Savers  of  Chicamamico.     Champion  7.     (n.s.p.;   16:282.) 
Laying  a  Marine  Cable.     Vitagraph  11.     (16:76;  380.) 
Making  Birch  Brooms.     Eclipse  9.     (16:98;  379.) 


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FINE  ARTS. 

Tombs  of  the  Ming  Emperors.     Sehg  10.      (n.s.  or  c.p.) 

Eighth  Anniversary  Celebration  of  the  New  York  Hippodrome.     Kine- 

macolor.      (n.s.  or  c.p.;   sp.   rev.   16:173.) 
The  Capture  of  a  Wild  Cat.     Edison  ii.     (16:78;  379.) 

LITERATURE. 

Art   and   Honor.      Lubin    21    Feb.      (15:626;    997.)      From    F.    Hopkinson 

Smith's  "An  Old-Fashioned  Gentleman." 
Memories  of  His  Youth.      Lubin   27   Mar.      (15:1246;    16:163.)      From  F. 

Hopkinson   Smith's  "An  Old-Fashioned  Gentleman." 
God  Is   Love.      Pathe   10.      (16:80;    370.)      Photodramatization   of  Tolstoi's 

story  "Where  love  is  there  is  God  also." 

GEOGRAPHY. 
Rivers  and  Coasts. 

The  Kentish  Coast,  England.     Ellipse  9.     (16:198;  379.) 

The  River  Clyde,  at  Lanark,  Scotland.     Pathe  8.     (16:80;  n.c.p.) 

The  River  Rhine,  Germany.     Nestor  7.     (n.s.p. ;  16:282.) 

Scenes  Along  the  Pescara  River,  Central  Italy.  Ones  8.     (16:196;  281.) 

On  the  Nebi  River,  Somaliland,  East  Africa.     Cines  12.     (16:196;  380.) 

European  Countries. 

Spanish  Towns.    Great  Northern  12.     (n.s.  or  c.p.) 

The  Golden  Horn,  Turkey.    Mutual  educational  10.     (16:88;  n.c.p.) 

See  also  under  Rivers  an:>  Coasts  above. 

Asiatic  Countries. 

See  under  Fini  Arts. 

African  Countries. 

See  under  Rivers  and  Coasts  above. 

New  Zealand. 

See  under  Sociology. 


LIFE  IN  DUST— DEATH  IN  DUST. 
A  Health  Study  of  the  Rotifer. 

It  will  be  a  surprise  to  a  great  many  people  to  know  that 
common  dust  is  possessed  of  life.  In  the  seventeenth  century 
a  naturalist  named  Leeuwenhoech,  noticed  when  he  moistened 
the  dust  gathered  from  the  sides,  roof,  or  gutters  of  his 
house,  tiny  little  strange  beings  made  their  appearance.  By 
the  process  of  subaqueous  microscopy  these  atoms  of  life, 
or  rotifers,  are  animalculae  which  collect  in  the  dust  wherever 
it  is  permitted  to  lie.  When  these  atoms  are  no  longer  wet, 
the  tiny  forms  secrete  themselves  in  cists  and  await  more 
favorable  times.  These  cists  are  formed  of  a  cartilaginous 
envelope  inside  of  which  the  little  animal  appears  as  though 
mumified,  animated  solely  by  latent  life,  their  actual  size  being 
1-10  of  a  millimetre.  When,  however,  they  are  placed  again  in 
water,  the  beneficial  action  of  the  humidity  revives  the  animal, 
which,  after  several  hours,  recovers  from  its  torpor. 

After  having  stretched  itself  as  though  awakening  from 
a  long  sleep,  it  departs  in  search  of  an  appropiate  place  in 
which  to  dwell;  its  size  is  now  about  ^  of  a  millimetre. 
Its  process  of  feeding  is  extremely  peculiar;  by  extending 
two  "collars"  surmounted  by  vibratile  hairs  which  serve 
to  create  a  violent  current,  the  effect  being  the  attraction 
of  nutritive  particles  towards  its  mouth.  Any  infusoria  (a 
minute  form  of  life),  which  are  at  all  too  large  are  immedi- 
ately rejected,  for,  in  the  twinkling  of  an  eye,  its  mouth 
is  immediately  closed,  only  to  be  reopened  with  hesitance 
and  timidity. 

This  unusual  picture  from  the  Eclair  studios  will  be  a 
revelation  to  all  who  see  it,  as  showing  the  possibilities  and 
powers  of  life  in  dust.  The  advantages  to  be  derived  from 
its  exhibition  are  manifold,  under  all  circumstances,  and 
especially  in  schools  it  will  be  educational;  the  knowledge 
gained  therefrom  will  again  in  turn  teach  lessons  in  clean- 
liness as  the  only  means  of  preventing  this  subtle  life  which 
of  course  increases  as  dust  accumulates  and  becomes  moist. 

Poisonous  Dust. 

It  is  not  a  new  theory  that  dust  is  a  common  danger  to 
health.  People  who  work  in  factories  where  certain  forms 
of  dust  abound,  such  as  possess  lead  and  similar  substances 
are  the  common  victims  of  tuberculosis;  as  shown  in  the 
above  pictures  that  life  which  is  latent  in  the  dry  state  be- 
comes active  and  vicious  immediately  it  is  moistened  in 
nostrils  and  throat.  All  forms  of  vegetable  life  are  subject  to 
the  evil  effects  of  dust,  and  as  a  case  in  point  it  may  be 
mentioned  that  at  the  present  time  a  case  is  pending  in  the 
Pennsylvania  courts,  in  which  damages  are  being  sought  for 
the  destruction  of  valuable  plants  caused  by  cement  dust 
floating  from  a  factory  half  a  mile  away.  While  this  in- 
structive nicture  is  not  especially  classified  in  hygienic  lists, 
no  one  who  sees  it  can  fail  to  interpret  for  himself  the  pos- 
sibility of  the  growth  of  many  dangerous  diseases,  when 
the  cultivation  of  the  germ  is  so  encouraged  by  dust.  This 
film  giving  such  wonderful  microscopic  enlargements  of  the 
rotifer  or  dust-germ,  is  an  addition  to  educational  films  for 
which  much  credit  is  due  to  the  makers. 

W.  H.  J. 


PLANTS  WHICH  SEEM  TO  POSSESS  ANIMAL  LIFE. 

Another  deep-sea  picture  magnificently  tinted  in  natural 
colors,  is  that  of  the  Polypes.  Authorities  tell  us  that  while 
the  Polypes  are  close  to  the  animal  kingdom,  they  resemble 
and  are  often  mistaken  for  plants.  When  found  in  their 
natural  state  they  are  of  most  varied  and  unexcelled  shape, 
whilst  the  delicate  colorings  are  magnificent.  Their  beauty 
is  such  that  nature  seems  to  have  determined  that  they  shall 
not  be  ruthlessly  destroyed,  having  given  them  long  sharp 
thorns  which  repel  unwelcome  visitors. 
The  Alcoymuim. 

This  is  a  special  species  of  animal  plant  of  exceptional 
interest  in  that  it  is  covered  with  a  shell,  upon  which  grow 
minute  living  flowers.  These  three  specimens,  the  Polypes, 
the  Alcoymuim,  and  Anemone  are  very  similar,  yet  live  in- 
dependently, the  commonest  species  being  found  in  the  Atlan- 
tic. This  addition  to  the  series  of  the  natural  history  of  the 
deep  sea,  are  entirely  new  and  have  probably  never  found 
their  way  in  educational  works  obtainable  by  the  average 
student  or  scholar.  Educational  cinematography  is  making 
unusual  headway  by  the  constant  production  of  these  extra- 
ordinary subjects  from  the  world's  deepest  and  hitherto  un- 
explored places.  While  universal  in  its  revelations,  it  is 
only  by  such  subjects  as  these  that  the  moving  picture  is 
equally  valuable  in  research;  these  pictures  cannot  be  used 
too  quickly  or  too  frequently. 


LATEST  NOTES  OF  PROGRESS. 

The  public  press  is  everywhere  recording  the  development 
and  progress  of  the  moving  picture  along  educational  lines. 
Questions  of  censorship  and  inferior  pictures  are  now  of  little 
importance.  The  educational  film  is  demanding  and  receiving 
universal  attention.  The  most  recent  advantage  particularly 
noticed  is  the  photographing  of  motion.  The  movements 
of  animals,  birds  and  under-water  life,  as  recorded  by  the 
latest  cameras  in  revealing  motions  impossible  to  the  human 
eye,  and  consequently  never  seen  before  and  are  command- 
ing especially  attention. 

Speaking  of  these  advantages  Thomas  A.  Edison  says 
"Through  the  artificial  eye  of  the  camera  and  the  moving 
picture  machine,  we  are  now  able  to  analyze  motions  too 
fast  for  the  human  eye  to  perceive  unaided,  and  through  this 
analysis  of  motion  science  is  now  able  to  get  a  keener  in- 
sight into  the  processes  of  natural  phenomena  than  could  be 
obtained  in  any  other  way.  The  camera  and  the  moving  pic- 
ture will  ultimately  lay  bare  many  of  Nature's  darkest 
secrets." 

It  should  also  be  noticed  that  this  same  camera  power  is 
being  used  in  France  in  the  gymnasium  and  on  the  athletic 
field  and  all  kindred  sports.  It  will  be  to  the  advantage  of 
all  schools  to  know  that  the  moving  picture  is  not  to  be  con- 
fined to  the  science  room  or  even  the  class-room.  The  audi- 
torium properly  equipped  with  the  moving  picture  machine 
will  be  prepared  to  bid  defiance  to  the  world's  secrets,  whether 
in  depths  of  earth  or  sea,  or  hidden  by  science  or  nature; 
even  humanity  itself  is  so  closely  analyzed  that  no  move- 
ment possible  to  the  human  system  can  any  longer  be  hidden, 
not  only  from  full  sight,  but  so  enlarged  that  its  most 
minute  detail  becomes  an  exhibition  of  power. 

IN  HIGHEST  PLACES. 

Secretary  Redfield  is  proving  the  progressive  nature  of  the 
new  administration  at  Washington  by  an  unlimited  and  un- 
restricted use  of  the  moving  picture  in  the  Departments  of 
Commerce  and  Labor.  The  saving  of  time,  the  better  re- 
production of  details  with  thoroughness  of  research,  and 
rapidity  of  teaching,  are  the  causes  given  for  the  govern- 
mental use  of  the  moving  picture.  This  is  not  referred  to 
here  as  an  indorsement  of  the  moving  picture  in  highest 
places,  but  as  an  example  which  neither  labor  or  education 
can  afford  to  slight.  The  time  is  not  far  distant  when  any- 
where, wherever  knowledge  is  sought,  or  the  value  of  teach- 
ing is  expected,  to  exclude  the  moving  picture  will  be  the 
ignoring  of  one  of  the  most  necessary  advantages. 


"LONDON  ASSURANCE"  TO  BE  SEEN  IN  PICTURES. 

Under  the  direction  of  Lawrence  McGill,  the  old  comedy 
favorite,  "London  Assurance,"  is  being  staged  by  the  Re- 
liance Company  for  the  release  of  May  19th.  The  classic 
role  of  "Lady  Gay  Spanker"  will  be  portrayed  by  Edgenea 
De  Lespine. 

By  means  of  a  mechanical  contrivance  a  camera  is  taking 
every  five  minutes  a  picture  of  the  construction  of  the 
Palace  of  Machinery,  the  great  structure  of  the  San  Fran- 
cisco 1915  exposition.  This  means  ninety-six  each  day  or  six 
feet  of  film.  The  camera  is  amply  protected  from  sun  and 
rain.     The  resulting  picture  ought  to  be  worth  seeing. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


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oMusic  for  the  Picture 


BY    CLARENCE    E.    SINN 


■HI 


"Otello,"  very  softly, 
That    My    Redeemer 


MISS  DITTMAR  is  here  again  with  her  usual  good  of- 
fering. I  hope  it  is  in  time  to  be  of  service  to  those 
who  may  have  occasion  to  play  for  this  picture,  as  it 
appears  to  be  well  balanced,  thoughtful  and  in  every  way 
worthy  of  the  subject  which  it  accompanies.  She  says:  "In- 
closed find  my  program  for  'The  Crimson  Cross'  (Eclair). 
It  might  be  of  help  to  some  one." 
First  Reel. 

1.  "Pilgrim's  Chorus"  (Thannhauser). 

2.  "Prayer  from  'Der  Freischiitz' "  (Weber). 

3.  "The  Rosary." 

4.  "Consolation"  (Leschetszky). 

5.  "How  Lovely  Are  the  Messengers"  (from  Saint  Paul). 

6.  "Gloria  from  Twelfth  Mass." 

Second  Reel. 

1.  "The  Agony"  from  "Crucifixion." 

2.  "Procession  to  Calvary"  (Crucifixion). 
Mysterious  and  Agitato  until  end  of  reel. 

Third  Reel. 

1.  Several   bars   from   introduction   to 

then    a    few    bars    of    "I    Know 
Liveth." 

2.  "The  Heavens  Are  Telling." 

3.  "Funeral  March"  by  Tschaikowsky. 

4.  "How  Lovely  Are  the  Messengers"  until  end  of  reel. 

A  splendid  accompaniment.  I  would  suggest  that  it  might 
be  easier  for  another  to  use  if  you  had  given  an  idea  of  where 
to  begin  and  stop  each  number,  taking  cues  from  the  action 
or  from  sub-titles  appearing  on  the  screen.  Anyhow,  the 
constituency  is  your  debtor. 

*     *     * 

J.  D.  S.,  Nebraska,  says  in  part:  "Can  you  give  us  a  list 
of  classified  music  (not  dramatic)  in  your  suggestions.     For 

instance,   some   suggestions   for   music   say   'play ,   or 

or .' 

"Now  it  seems  that  a  list  of  music  might  be  made  out  in 
which  all  music  of  the  same  character  might  be  placed  under 
the  same  head,  thus  enabling  a  person  to  choose  from  25  or 
SO  numbers  if  he  doesn't  happen  to  have  the  particular  one 
called  for." 

I  want  to  say  to  J.  D.  S.  that  this  question  occurred  to  me 
when  I  first  began  contributing  to  this  page  three  years  ago. 
It  seemed  to  me  that  considering  the  countless  musical  num- 
bers on  the  market  and  in  various  libraries  (and  possibly  no 
two  pianists  in  the  world  have  libraries  exactly  alike),  a  long 
list  of  numbers  similar  in  character  would  fill  more  space 
than  its  importance  would  warrant.  I  therefore  chose  sev- 
eral numbers  of  different  character,  all  of  them  well  known, 
and  let  each  one  stand  as  a  representative  of  its  class.  For 
example,  Schumann's  "Traumerei"  is  presumably  well  enough 
known  to  give  any  pianist  an  idea  of  the  character  of  music 
intended.  Knowing  this,  he  might  play  that  number  or  sub- 
stitute any  similar  piece  of  music  he  chose.  The  same  may 
be  said  of  "Angel's  Serenade,"  and  "Melody  in  F."  I  believe 
these  three  numbers  are  sufficiently  well  known  to  represent 
any  number  of  similar  pieces  a  pianist  may  chance  to  have  in 
his  library.  Novelettes  are  so  much  alike  it  is  seldom  neces- 
sary to  specify  any  particular  one,  though  when  a  corre- 
spondent mentions  titles  his  program  of  course  appears  as 
he  sends  it.  Bendix's  suite  of  four:  "Longing,  Parting,  Meet- 
ing and  Reconciliation"  I  have  also  mentioned  freely,  not  be- 
cause I  don't  know  any  others,  but  because  they  are  good 
representatives  of  their  class  of  music,  are  fairly  well  known 
and  easy  to  get.  The  "Barcarolle  from  Tales  of  Hoffmann" 
might  be  taken  as  representative  of  another  class;  Gautier's 
"La  Secret,"  and  Delibes'  "Pizzicato  from  Slyvia  Ballet"  may 
be  taken  as  typical  allegretto  movements  from  scenes  calling 
for  something  light,  rather  lively  and  not  so  noisy  as  a 
march  (for  example)  might  suggest.  About  all  of  the  old 
standard  music  is  published  in  cheap  form  by  some  one  or 
other  and  is  easily  obtainable  at  small  cost.  I  take  it  for 
granted  that  the  average  pianist  is  more  familiar  with  these 
as  a  whole  than  with  the  more  recent  publications — that  is. 
that  these  numbers  are  more  widely  known.  For  that  reason 
alone  I  have  thought  it  advisable  to  stick  pretty  closely  to 


well-known  pieces  in  my  suggestion  for  music  to  the  pic- 
tures, believing  it  would  be  intelligible  to  a  larger  number  of 
readers  than  if  I  tried  to  choose  new  programs  of  up-to-date 
music  for  them.  Your  plan  is  all  right,  so  far  as  it  goes,  but 
it  would  take  quite  a  large  catalogue  to'hold  a  list  that  would 
be  useful  to  all  and  for  this  reason  would  not  be  expedient 
in  our  limited  space. 

*  *     * 

The  Selig  Polyscope  Company  are  making  into  pictures 
some  of  the  successful  satires  of  Chas.  T.  Hoyt,  which  were 
so  popular  a  couple  of  decades  ago.  The  first  one  to  be  re- 
leased is  "The  Midnight  Bell."  This  is  a  comedy  with  a 
little  melodrama  running  through  it.  The  music  is  mostly 
of  a  lively  nature,  and  as  the  characters  are  all  of  the  "Down 
East"  country  type  I  would  suggest  that  "barn  dances"  and 
"rube"  music  generally  would  help  to  carry  out  the  atmos- 
phere of  the  story.  Suggestions  for  the  music  are  here 
offered: 

"THE  MIDNIGHT  BELL"  (Selig). 
Part  One. 

1.  Any  "Barn  Dance"  until  title:  "Steve  and  Ned  Are  Rivals." 

2.  Chorus  of  "My  Irene  Is  a  Village  Queen"  (Remick)  once. 

(Von  Tilzer's  "Sun  Bonnet  Sue"  may  be  substituted. 
Not  important.) 

3.  "Daly's  Reel"  (not  too  fast),  or  any  similar  "rube"  tune; 

until  title:  "Steve  Decides  to  Rob  the  Bank." 

4.  Light    mysterious    music    (not    too    pronounced)     until: 

"Next  Morning." 

5.  Agitato    pp.    until    title:    "Lemuel    Tidd,    Justice    of    the 

Peace." 

6.  Any  intermezzo  for   neutral   scenes  until:   "The   Squire's 

Lawyer  Is  Called  From  Boston." 

7.  Short    waltz — about    16    bars — just    enough    to    make    a 

change  of  music  for  this  scene;  until  title:  "Nora  Re- 
sents, etc." 

8.  "Parting"    (Bendix-Witmark),    until:    "Afraid    of    Being 

Caught,  etc." 

9.  Mysterious  until  end  of  reel. 

Part  Two. 

1.  "Chicken  Reel"  (by  Daly),  or  "Barn  Dance,"  until:  "The 

Entertainment  at  the  School  House." 

2.  "Well,  I  Swan"  (Rube  song  pub.  by  Witmark),  until  tele- 

gram is  shown;  then  a  few  bars  of  moderato  (leading 
to  next  movement)  until  title:  "Stop,  My  Uncle  Is 
Innocent." 

3.  Light  Agitato.     After  he  coasts  down  hill,  a  short  strain 

of  "rube"  music  may  be  introduced  for  comedy  busi- 
ness to  end  of  scene.  Then  back  to  agitato  and  con- 
tinue until:  "The  Sewing  Society." 

4.  "A  Good  Old-Time  Straw  Ride"  (Witmark),  or  any  lively 

music  suggestive  of  country  scenes;  until:  "Leave  My 
House  Immediately." 

5.  "Meeting"    (Bendix-Witmark),   until:   "But   As   a   Citizen 

of  These  United  States." 

6.  "Turkey  in  the  Straw"  until:  "After  Choir  Practice." 

7.  First  strain  of  "Meeting"  until  Steve  enters  Church. 

8.  Long  Agitato.     A  church  bell  effect  is  used  in  this  num- 

ber. Play  until  crowd  enters  church  and  Steve  is 
arrested. 

9.  Lively  intermezzo  until:  "The  Minister's   Faith  in   Nora 

Is  Restored." 

10.  Any  Novelette  until  end  of  reel. 

*  *     * 

"THROUGH  THE  TEST  OF  FIRE"  (Great  Northern). 
Part  One. 

1.  Waltz  Lento  (long)  until  Count  leaves  Goldstein's  room. 

2.  "Apple   Blossoms"   or  any   similar  slow  "Reverie"   until: 

"After  the  Wedding." 

3.  Waltz  until  "Bride  and  Groom  Depart." 

4.  Novelette  until:  "The  Factory  Workmen  Have  Arranged." 

5.  Lively  music — work  up  to  gallop  as  runaway  horse  is  seen; 

crescendo  till  Jack  falls,  then: 

6.  Short  plaintive  (about  16  bars). 

7.  Allegretto  ("La  Secret"  by  Gautier  or  "Passion"  by  Helf 

&  Hager),  until  end  of  reel. 


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Part   Two. 

"In  the  Shadows"  (Finck)  until:  "Jack  Advises  His  Com- 
rades to  Strike." 
'Entr'  Acte  Gavotte"  (Gillet)  until:  "Eight  Days  Later." 
Pirouette — "Pas  Seul"  (Finck)  until:  "A  Few  Days  Later." 
Waltz  until  she  is  seen  on  bridge. 

Agitato — p.     Work  up  to  f;  till  both  men  knocked  down. 
Waltz  until:  "Mr.  Goldstein  is  Killed  in  the  Explosion." 

7.  Hurry  p.  and  f.   (fire  scene)  until:  "Count  Hardegg  Has 

Inherited  a  Vast  Fortune." 

8.  Pirouette  until:  "No,  I  Will  Not  Leave  My  Husband." 

9.  "Reverie"  until:  "Youthful  Arrogance." 

10.  "The  Flatterer"   (Caprice  by  Chaminade),   or  some  light 

allegretto;  work  up  faster  in  agitated  manner  as  action 
develops — until  men  exit.     Then: 

11.  Intermezzo  until  end  of  reel. 

Part  Three. 

1.  Any  novelette  until:  "The  Workmen  Press  Their  Claims." 

2.  Agitato — p.  and  f.  until  they  ride  through  crowd  and  exit. 

3.  "Love   In  Idleness"   (Carl   Fischer)   until:  "Let   Me   Stay 

With  You,  Dear." 

4.  Short  waltz  one  scene. 

5.  Hurry  (fire  scene)  till:  "I  Will  Find  Your  Husband." 

6.  Change   to   heavier,   hurry   until   both   men   come   out   of 

burning  building. 

7.  Plaintive    until   wreck   is    seen    burning,    then    hurry    (fire 

scene)  until  end  of  reel. 


was  presented  by  Anna  Levitt  and  Mary  Powers,  two 
little  girls,  both  players  and  under  four  years  of  age.  Charles 
Goldsmith  made  the  presentation  speech,  to  which  Siegmund 
Lubin  responded  in  a  very  emotional  reply.  The  buildings 
were  decoiated  with  bunting  and  the  executive  office  filled 
with  flowers.  The  cup  was  manufactured  by  the  Caldwell 
Company  of  Philadelphia  and  weighs  %l/2  pounds.  Barry 
O'Neil,  Tom  Cochran,  Wm.  Kerry,  Charles  Goldsmith,  H.  A. 
D'Arcy  and  Tom  Hopkins  were  the  committee  of  arrange- 
ments and  made  a  success  of  a  function  that  will  for  many 
years  remind  Herr  Lubin  of  the  love  and  loyalty  of  his 
people. 

CROWN  THEATER,  HACKENSACK,  N.  J. 

The  Crown  Theater,  Hackensack,  N.  J.,  owned  by  Charles 
G.  Tefft  and  Mrs.  Edith  L.  Shafer,  opened  Saturday,  May  3rd. 
It  is  a  beautiful  300  seat  house,  especially  constructed  for 
the  purpose;  well  ventilated,  fire  proof  booth,  etc.,  and  tio 
expense  has  been  spared  on  trie  equipment  which  was  furn- 
ished by  J.  H.  Hallberg  "The  Economizer  Man."  Motiograph, 
1913  Model,  Hallberg  A.  C.  Economizer,  300  Andrews  Chairs, 
Ticket  Receiver,  and  full  line  of  supplies.  Mr.  Hallberg 
also  reports  the  sale  of  a  Simplex  Projector  with  Gundlach 
lens  through  Chas.  P.  Gilmore,  Oswego,  N.  Y.,  Power's  No.  5 
through  T.  B.  Ashton,  Provo,  Utah.  Hallberg  Standard  A.  C. 
Economizer  to  E.  S.  Thrope,  San  Marcos.  Tex. 


SIEGMUND  LUBIN'S  BIRTHDAY. 

A  very  pretty  function  was  pulled  off  at  the  Lubin  plant, 
Philadelphia,  last  Monday,  April  21,  the  date  being  the  anni- 
versary of  Mr.  Lubin's  birthday.  At  noon  a  gun  was  fired 
and  over  four  hundred  of  the  employees,  players  and  execu- 
tives poured  out  into  the  grounds  shouting  "Many  happy 
returns  of  your  birthday."  Mr.  Lubin  was  directed  to  a 
platform    to    receive    the    congratulations,    and    a    silver    cup 


IMPRESSIVE  PICTURE  PRESENTATION. 

An  extraordinary  scene  was  enacted  the  other  day  in  a 
picture  theater  at  Pontefract,  a  village  in  Yorkshire.  The 
attraction  was  the  Kalem  picture,  "From  the  Manger  to 
the  Cross,"  and  practically  every  inhabitant  of  the  little 
township  saw  it.  On  the  last  night,  just  before  the  picture 
was  about  to  be  projected,  the  vicar  of  the  parish,  the  Rev. 
W.  Gell,  left  his  seat  in  the  stalls  and  mounted  the  elevation 
in  front  of  the  screen.  He  asked  for  silence,  which  was  most 
reverently  accorded  by  the  crowded  house,  and  then  con- 
ducted a  short  prayer  service.  The  effect  on  the  audience 
was  most  profound,  for  after  the  exhibition  the  audience 
sang  most  impressively  the  well-known  hymn,  "Sun  of  my 
Soul." 


'Pop"  Lubin,  the  Cup  and  Some^pf  the  Lubin  Happy  Family  at  the  Birthday  Party. 


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cyldvertising-  for  Exhibitors 

Conducted  by  EPES  WINTHROP   SARGENT 


Likes  Our  Idea. 

THE  M.  P.  Sales  Agency,  London,  in  its  last  batch  of  advertising 
matter  sends  a  Kraus  postcard  with  a  blank  back  for  the  advertise- 
ment of  the  theater  in  place  of  the  usual  postcard  printing.  This 
is  an  idea  that  was  advanced  in  this  department  some  months  ago  and 
we  are  glad  to  see  that  Mr.  Nichols  liked  the  scheme.  The  blank  back 
postcard  makes  a  capital  medium  for  special  announcements  and  pro- 
grams. If  any  exhibitor  is  interested  we  can  tell  him  where  they  may  be 
had. 

Another  interesting  novelty  that  has  been  adopted  by  Mr.  Nichols 
is  the  small  book  of  pictures  which  may  be  slipped  under  the  finger  and 
made  to  reproduce  action.  The  idea  is  old,  but  its  use  as  a  trade  ad- 
vertisement of  the  Kalem  films  is  something  really  new.  We  think  that 
their    use    over   here    would    prove    effective    as    souvenirs. 

It  is  more  of  a  fight  for  business  abroad  with  the  open  market  and 
the  Agency's  weekly  packet  of  advertising  matter  would  delight  the 
heart    of    the    American    exhibitor. 

Finds  It  Pays. 

Steve  M.  Farrar,  of  the  Casino,  Eldorado,  111.,  writes  that  he  is  getting 
business  when  he  advertises.  He  adds  "I  know  it  is  rough,  but  that  was 
what  I  wanted  as  my  crowd  is  not  the  highbrow  society  kind,  but  work- 
ing people  who  spend  their  money  freely  if  they  get  their  money's  worth." 
It's  a  lot  to  know  just  what  sort  of  advertising  will  bring  the  best  re- 
sults and  to  be  able  to  reach  them  with  that  sort  of  stuff.  One  of  the 
samples  submitted  is  a  half  page  advertisement,  the  same  type  being  used 
to  run  off  a  throwaway.  It  uses  the  "scoop,  we've  got  'em  copy  with 
the  "scoop"  in  fifteen  line  letters.  It  catches  the  eye  and  holds  the  at- 
tention, but  further  down  we  think  that  "The  dare-devil  criminal  in  three 
reels'"  would  have  been  improved  by  a  dash  between  "criminal"  and  "in," 
using  "parts"  in  place  of  reels,  making  the  line  look  like  this 
The  Dare-Devil  Criminal— In  THREE  parts. 
As  a  whole  the  advertisement  is  well  displayed  and  should  pull.  Mr. 
Farrar  writes  that  he  had  a  turnaway  two  show.s.  Another  dodger  gives 
this: 

SUPPOSE 

You   were   living  happily  with   your  wife  and  young  son   and 

A     MAN 

whom    you    thought    to    be    your    friend,    made    love    to    your    wife 

and  in   the   end 

STOLE 

Her  away  from  you,  would  you 

KILL  THAT   MAN? 

That's  what  you  will  have  decided  for  you 

TO-NIGHT 

at   the 

CASINO 

That   was  The   Unwritten  Law,  but  it  could  be  made  to  apply   to  other 

releases.     We  think  that  the  wording  should  have  been  worked  to  get  the 

word    Wife    in    between    stole    and    kill.      It    is    not    good    advertising    for 

some   houses,   but   in   the  cheaper  sections   that  sort   of   thing  will   grip  the 

attention. 

Four  Cent  Programs. 

Some  of  the  exhibitors  who  are  wrestling  with  the  program  problem 
should  see  the  program  that  E.  H.  Montague,  the  Selig  London  agent  sent 
us.  It  is  that  of  the  West  End  picture  theater,  London.  Its  cover  is 
heavy  French  gray  about  nine  by  eleven  inches,  with  a  cipher  in  gold. 
Inside  is  a  single  four  page  sheet  of  white  hand-made  paper  carrying 
wood  cuts  of  the  interior  on  the  first  and  fourth  pages  and  the  program 
on  the  other  two.  Just  the  titles  of  the  pictures  are  given  and  the  scale 
of  prices.  It  is  anything  but  imposing,  yet  four  cents  must  be  paid  for 
this  and  a  red  seal  with  the  price  printed  on  is  gummed  over  the  edge 
that  the  program  may  not  be  read  without  paying  for  the  privilege.  It  is 
a  swagger  house,  having  cost  three  quarters  of  a  million,  but  it  seems 
tough  to  pay  four  cents  for  six  titles  of  pictures  and  not  even  a  synopsis. 
We    like    the    American    way    better. 

Aberdeen  Notes. 

C.  T.  Smithers,  of  the  Idle  Hour,  Aberdeen,  S.  D.,  offers  what  seems 
to  be  a  new  wrinkle  in  his  last  Educator,  the  eight  page  weekly  he  gets 
out    for   the   house.      He    announces: 

Ladies  hat  pins  can  now  be  found  in  holders  on  the  tables  both 
in    oalcony    and    on    the    ground    floor    at  the    Idle    Hour.      Ladies 
losing  hat  pins  can  now  always  find  some  to  use  in  their  place. 
It   pays   to    have   the   women    realize    that   you   regard   their   comfort   and 
convenience    with    the    same    attention    that    you    give    the    coins    they    pass 
into    the    box   office. 

Say's  He's  the  Comp. 

Not  long  ago  we  expressed  the  opinion  that  Bertram  I.  Williams,  of 
Ponca  City,  Okla.,  should  give  the  printer  a  cigar  for  the  way  in  which 
he  set  the  Wonderland  ads.  Now  Mr.  Williams  explains  that  he  set  the 
stuff  himself.  We  think  that  the  printer  is  likely  to  get  a  better  cigar 
than  if  his  name  was  not  Williams.  That's  the  way  it  looks  to  us.  Just 
to    help    a    hardworking    editor    out,    Mr.    Williams    gives   his    ideas   on    ad- 


vertising. They  are  good  because  Mr.  Williams  has  proven  that  he  can 
get  results  not  only  on  paper  but  in  the  boxoffice.  It  is  rather  a  lengthy 
communication,  but  it  is  all   meat.     He  says: 

"To  me,  advertising  is  one  of  the  most  essential  points  of  the  motion 
picture  industry.  Of  course,  the  small  town  exhibitor  will  say,  "Yes — 
but  we  have  not  the  advantages  that  the  houses  in  the  big  cities  have!" 
Naturally  not.  but  there  are  thousands  of  new  schemes  as  yet  untried, 
and  it  is  a  peculiar,  yet  interesting  fact  that  90  per  cent,  of  the  greatest 
advertising  schemes  of  the  world  have  had  their  origin  in  the  so-called 
"tank-towns." 

Small  Town  Advertising. 

For    the    small    town    exhibitor    there    are    many    methods    of    advertising. 
The   great  majority   of   them,   however,   may  be  divided   into  four  classes: 
Newspaper  advertising. 

Handbills,   posters,   circulars,    folders,   weekly   programs,    cards,   etc. 
Lobby    advertising,    "Front    Display,"    etc. 
Street   advertising. 

Naturally  the  first  and  second  methods  are  those  to  which  the  small 
town   exhibitor   turns   first. 

In  writing  advertisements  for  newspapers,  I  have  found  that  a  com- 
prehensive knowledge  of  type  values  and  effects  is  almost  a  necessity  for 
the  production  of  good  work.  And  it  is  really  easier  than  most  people 
consider  to  get  that  knowledge.  Go  to  the  different  printing  offices 
which  you  may  favor  with  your  patronage,  and  as  a  general  rule,  you 
will  find  them  very  willing  to  present  you  with  a  sample  sheet  containing 
lines  of  every  type  in  use  in  the  office,  together  with  the  names  and  differ-, 
ent  sizes  of  the  same.  The  "point  system"  or  the  method  by  which  one 
size  of  type  is  determined  from  another,  may  puzzle  you  at  first,  but  you 
will  quickly  become  familiar  with  it.  It  might  not  be  out  of  order  to 
explain  herein  that  the  standard  of  measurement  in  printing  offices  is  reg- 
ulated by  inches  the  same  as  an  ordinary  rule.  But  instead  of  dividing 
an  inch  into  halves,  quarters,  eighths,  etc.,  the  printer  divides  it  into  72 
particles,  or  "points."  Por  measurement  of  advertisements  they  still  have 
kept  the  old  time  "pica,"  a  "pica"  being  exactly  12  "points"  or  one-sixth 
of  an  inch. 

Advertising  should  be  progressive  and  full  of  variety,  otherwise  it 
becomes  monotonous.  The  same  little  ad  in  the  same  position  in  the 
same  paper  day  after  day  with  nothing  but  the  names  of  your  house  and 
the  title  of  your  day's  program  may  be  all  right  in  a  way,,  but  it  won't 
pack  your  house  at  any  time.  When  you  invest  in  any  business  you  ex- 
pect interest  and  returns  on  your  investment.  When  you  advertise  you 
should   expect   the  same   thing. 

Trade-Mark  Good. 

It  is  a  recognized  fact  in  all  lines  of  commercial  business  that  a  trade- 
mark is  a  business  getter.  Take  a  look  at  any  brand  of  groceries  or 
the  output  of  any  manufacturer  and  you  will  find  a  trade-mark.  That 
sign  will  become  impressed  upon  your  memory  far  quicker  than  any 
article  of  great  length  or  artistic  words.  Make  it  quietly  effective,  but 
make  it  SINK  IN  and  stay  in  the  minds  of  your  townspeople.  Flamboyant 
boasting  may  be  all  right  with  a  traveling  show  where  you  are  in  one 
minute  and  out  the  next,  but  it  doesn't  work  very  long  when  a  man  has 
to  stay  in  the  same  town  with  the  same  people.  In  the  minds  of  your 
patrons  it  will  soon  become  established  and  the  name  of  your  theater  will 
be  synonymous  with  and  will  instinctively  suggest  your  trade-mark.  The 
combination  of  changed  copy  and  size  of  advertisements  together  with  a 
fixed   "catch-line"  offers  an   ideal  lay-out  for  continuous   advertising. 

If  you  are  accustomed  to  using  handbills  in  connection  with  your 
advertising  write  the  copy  and  regulate  the  space  so  that  one  composi- 
tion may  be  used  for  both  the  ad  and  the  handbills.  In  that  way  you  will 
save  considerable   during   the   course   of   a  year. 

Overcrowding  a  display  ad  with  too  much  copy  is  bad  business.  Use 
snappy  sentences,  one  or  two  to  each  reel,  but  catch  up  the  salient  points 
of  each  film  and  tell  it.  But  at  the  same  time,  don't  go  to  the  other 
extreme  and  have  too  little  display.  The  title  of  a  film  alone  will  not 
give  its  full  effect.  Some  little  bragging  must  be  done  and  the  bragging 
will  not  be  effective  unless  it  is  carefully  planned.  To  overboom  is  fatal, 
since  the  cry  of  "Wolf!"  grows  stale,  but  it  is  possible  to  make  people 
want  to  see  almost  any  picture  if  it  is  attractively  described.  It  fre- 
quently happens  that  the  manufacturer's  advertising  will  carry  a  line 
that  can  be  made  over,  and  it  does  not  always  happen  that  the  right  line 
is  the  one  played  up  in  the  original  advertising.  Read  the  ad  and  the 
story  of  the  film  and  anything  else  you  can  get  hold  of,  then  make  a  choice 
of  the  line  that  will  suit  your  clientele  best.  If  you  can't  find  the  right 
line,  write  one  yourself,  and  don't  select  the  first  thing  that  comes  into 
your  head.  Work  out  a  dozen  and  then  select  the  best  one  of  the  lot. 
Of  course,  it  will  be  a  little  hard  at  first  to  change  from  the  old,  worn- 
out  style  to  the  original,  but  it  is  not  one-tenth  as  hard  as  it  seems  and 
one  does  not  have  to  be  a  trained  press  agent  to  at  least  better  the  cut- 
and-dried  formal  announcement  that  will  be  skipped  by  all  save  those 
who  are  so  interested  that  they  would  go  to  the  theater  anyway.  If  you 
have  something  to  brag  about,  MAKE  A  NOISE.  Don't  merely  tell  the 
regulars  what  you  have.  Get  after  the  guy  who  never  comes  and  get 
him  in.     That,  after  all,  is  what  press  work  really  means. 


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Weekly  Programs. 
Weekly    programs   are   a   good   method   of   advertising,    and   they  can   be 

made  almost  self-supporting  by  the  judicious  use  of  commercial  adver- 
tisements. A  good  many  exhibitors  have  claimed  that  it  does  not  pay  to 
have  commercial  copy  on  the  pages  of  a  program,  but  after  trying  the 
effect  in  a  number  of  towns  I  will  have  to  disagree  on  that  statement. 
It  is  unwise  to  crowd  in  so  much  advertising  that  the  house  advertising 
is  over-sbadowed,  but  advertising  in  proper  proportion  to  the  house  an- 
nouncements cuts  down  the  printer's  bills  to  almost  nothing  and  shows 
a  certain  stability  in  that  it  carries  the  tacit  approval  of  the  concern's  ad- 
vertising. Anything  can  be  overdone,  as  I  have  noticed  from  several  sam- 
ples of  programs  from  the  larger  cities,  where  it  seems  that  the  theater 
is  merely  running  as  a  side  line  for  the  program.  Objectionable  adver- 
tising has  no  place  anywhere,  but  the  leading  drug  store,  some  shoeshop 
or  perhaps  a  real  estate  advertisement  can  do  no  harm,  and  the  checks 
will  help  pay  the  printer.  Purely  house  advertising,  circulars,  handbills 
and  similar  paper  should  be  held  to  the  house  announcements,  but  when 
it  comes  right  down  to  anything  in  the  nature  of  a  program,  there  can 
be  no  objection  to  a  reasonable  amount  of  foreign  advertising.  If  you 
can  use  the  space  to  good  advantage  yourself  there  is  a  good  reason  for 
leaving  out  the  outside  advertising,  but  the  advertising  bills  are  sometimes 
pretty  serious  problems  to  the  manager  of  a  small  town  show  and  the 
extra  advertising  is  sometimes  the  only  thing  that  makes  it  possible. 

Programs  can  be  made  a  source  of  profit  and  prestige  to  every  moving 
picture  house  if  properly  arranged.  Some  care  must  be  taken  and  some 
money  must  be  spent  at  first  to  introduce  and  popularize  them.  When 
this  is  done,  however,  there  will  be  no  lack  of  advertisers,  who  will  buy 
enough  space  to  pay  for  the  printing  and  circulation.  The  public  ap- 
preciate a  neat,  cleverly  arranged  program,  and  the  exhibitor  who  gives 
them  such  a  program  will  have  an  advantage  over  his  rival  who  does  not. 
Attention  to  details  of  this  sort  is  often  the  secret  of  success. 

Not  Type  Alone. 

But  remember,  advertising  is  not  confined  to  stuff  in  type.  Your  pro- 
jection, your  program,  your  house  and  the  house  management  are  all 
advertisements,  good  or  bad,  and  it  does  not  avail  you  much  to  get  the 
people  in  if  you  can't  hold  them  after  you  get  them.  Just  to  be  doing 
something,  the  writer  the  other  day  decorated  the  front  of  the  Wonder- 
land theater  here  for  the  Kay-Bee  release  "When  Lee  Surrenders." 
And  what  did  he  use?  Nothing  but  Fourth  of  July  flags  and  bunting.  But 
everyone  who  came  down  the  street  stopped  to  inquire  what  all  the  noise 
was  about  and  the  result  was  that  at  the  evening  show  we  couldn't  come 
anywhere  near  holding  the   people  who   tried   to  get   in. 

Small  Towns  and  Large. 

In  declaring  that  the  small  town  is  the  most  productive  of  good  ideas, 
Mi.  Williams  echoes  our  own  statements  (as  in  most  of  what  he  writes). 
In  part  there  is  a  reason,  for  in  the  cities  the  business  is  ready  to  hand, 
while  in  the  towns  the  manager  has  to  fight  for  existence,  but  we  think 
that  men  like  S.  A.  Arnold,  N.  E.  Chaney,  C.  T.  Smithers,  J.  C.  Rath- 
bone  and  others  could  come  into  a  city  and  make  business  in  the  resi- 
dential sections  where  houses  now  starve.  The  locality  house  is  in  the 
same  class  with  the  larger  of  the  small  towns  and  the  man  who  can  hustle 
can  get  the  business  where  the  indolent  manager  gives  up  the  fight  and 
makes  way  for  another. 

And  speaking  of  Mr.  Arnold,  we  are  going  to  send  him  an  alarm  clock 
by  express,  charges  collect,  if  he  doesn't  wake  up  and  come  in.  We  have 
missed  him  of  late. 

Getting  back  to  Mr.  Williams,  here  is  a  rather  impertinent,  but  catchy 
throwaway,  mostly  in   wood   type. 

IF  YOUR  HEAD 

is  used  for  anything  except  to  keep  your  collar  down 

bring  it   to  see 

L   U   C   I    L    E    1 

It   would   seem   to   take   rather   a    long  time   for   films   to   find  their  way 

down   to  Oklahoma. 

An  Occasional  Bulletin. 

M.  S.  Glen,  Mountain  Grove,  Mo.,  has  made  a  start  in  the  right  direc- 
tion with  a  bulletin,  "published  now  and  then."  It  is  a  single  sheet, 
printed  on   one   side  only,  but  snappy.     We  print  some  of   the  paragraphs. 

Glad  you  came.    Do  it  some  more. 

*Tis  said  that  "every  knock  is  a  boost."     But  don't  try  to  boost 
'  us  too  much. 

Don't  let  anything  you  see  in  this  Bulletin  offend  you.  It's  just 
our   way   of  talking,   between   reels. 

You  say  you  have  no  use  for  a   Picture   Show?     That's  nawthing 

— we  know  some  of  your  neghbors  who  haven't  any  use  for  YOU! 

A  fellow  who  "can't  see  anything  in  motion  pictures,"  nowadays, 

will  find  himself  in  the  same  fix  by  stepping  in  front  of  a  MIRROR 

— he   won't   SEE  anything! 

Old  and  worn  films  jump  the  machine,  occasionally,  because  of 
their  bad  condition;  new  ones  jump  the  machine  because  of  their 
stiffness.  Think  of  this,  loved  one,  before  criticising  machine 
or    operator. 

WANTED,  for  some  Wednesday  night— a  WEDDING,  to  take 
place  on  the  stage.  Will  give  the  couple  $5.00  in  cash,  free 
clergical  service,  and  a  dandy  brand-new  baby  cart.  Parties  desiring 
to  accept  this  offer  should  see  us  at  least  five  days  previous  to  the 
date  desired. 

Springfield  has  just  furnished  a  fine  example  of  what  would  hap- 
pen in  lots  of  the  smaller  towns  if  some  of  the  kickers  against  Picture 
Shows  would  only  do  the  right  thing.  A  lot  of  kickers  there  got 
together,  organized  a  board  of  "censorship,"  appointed  from  their 
own  ranks  an  "investigating"  committee,  put  said  committee  on  duty 
and  then — with  bated  breath  and  big  "collicky"  eyes  that  rolled  to- 
ward heaven  like  a  dying  calf,  awaited  that  committee's  awful,  awfui 
report!  And  what  did  they  get  for  their  self-appointed  official 
bigotry?     An  open  and  honest  confession  that  after  numerous  visits 


to  every  moving  picture  house  in  town,  nothing  had  been  seen  at 
either  place  that  could  be  adjudged  bad  or  improper  in  any  manner 
whatever;  that  they  were  in  fact  surprised  (they  hadn't  been  going 
to  these  awful  "naughty"  places,  you  know),  to  find  the  picture 
shows  so  clean,  whulesome  and  educational  in  their  general  and 
continuous  grind  of  motion  picture  stories,  travel-scenes,  topical  in- 
cidents and  industrial  achievements,  the  world  over.  The  same 
story,  nine  times  out  of  ten,  would  have  to  be  told  if  chronic 
kickers,  everywhere,  would  only  spend  a  dime,  now  and  then, 
and  personally  visit  their  local  picture  show!  In  fact,  if  they 
possess  any  mentality  at  all,  an  occasional  visit  to  a  properly-con- 
ducted picture  show  will  do  them  more  real  honest  good  than  a 
million  visits  to  some  hair-brained  sanctimonious  "know-it-all," 
who  thinks  he  isn't  performing  his  duty  except  when  bitterly  con- 
demning other  people's  business  affairs  and  legitimate  enterprises. 
The  writer  of  this  is  a  strong  believer  in  true  Christianity,  an 
earnest  stickler  for  social  and  moral  cleanliness,  is  now  and  has 
been  for  about  20  years  a  Church-member  in  "fairly  good"  stand- 
ing— BUT,  please  deliver  us  from  that  form  of  supreme  ignorance 
and  brass-mounted  hypocrisy  that  tries  to  hide  its  supernal  hideous- 
ness  behind  the  mighty  bulwarks  of  true  religion!  Nothing  could 
be  more  dangerous  .to  the  future  welfare  of  a  rising  generation.  If 
you  don't  believe  this,  go  jump  in  the  lake  I 
Mr.  Glen  may  be  from  Missouri,  but  we  do  not  think  that  he  needs 
to  be  "shown"  when  it  comes  to  handling  the  language. 

Cameraphone  Clips. 

We  think  that  the  Cameraphone  might  occasionally  give  credit  to  this 
paper  for  its  paragraphs.  When  it  reproduces  a  part  of  one  of  Louis 
Reeves  Harrison's  criticisms  there  would  be  a  certain  added  strength  in 
the  credit  line  and  they  might  pay  tor  their  generous  clips  with  an  oc- 
casional credit. 

In  the  line  of  original  stuff  they  have  put  on  a  writer  to  do  specials 
for  the  series  of  bulletins.  .  This  is  an  exclusive  feature  and  we  believe 
that  this  is  the  first  time  that  a  writer  has  been  employed  by  a  photoplay 
theater  to  do  specials  for  the  program.  We  think  the  Tenth  Street,  Kan- 
sas City,  was  the  first  to   use  syndicate  stuff,  but  this  is  a  step  further. 

A  thoughtful  tribute  was  this  memorial  to  the  many  motion  picture 
lights  who  went  down  with  the  Titanic  a  year  ago: 


April   15th 
1912  1913 

IN  MEMORIAM 
To  the  memory  of  those  builders  of  the  modern  theater 
and  uplifters  of  the  American  stage,  and  to  the  memory 
of  those  noble  exponents  of  the  age  of  the  motion  picture, 
who  went  out  from  our  stage  a  year  ago  today,  and  left  it 
trembling  at  its  own  loss,  we  render  loving  tribute  on  this 
day. 
S.   S.   Titanic  Homeward   Bound 


It  is  a  graceful  act  and  appreciated. 

The  Cameraphone   Weekly  is  only  a  matter  of  time. 

Fashion  Note. 

Carey  Wilson,  who  is  now  dividing  his  time  between  hats  and  the 
Prisoner  of  Zenda  film  in  New  York  State,  writes  that  he  has  a  hat  that 
is  a  wonder.  He  adds  that  Zenda  is  going  strong  "up-state."  We  are 
glad  to  see  real  hustlers  like  Mr.  Wilson  getting  out  with  these  spe- 
cials. The  average  big  release  would  do  double  the  business  if  its  ap- 
pearances  were  better  advertised. 

Getting  Around  It. 

H.  B.  Smith,  of  the  Fremont  theater,  Melrose,  Calif.,  sends  in  a  throw- 
away  for  The  Reincarnation  of  Karma.  He  explains  that  there  was  some 
adverse  comment  when  the  subject  was  shown  in  San  Francisco,  but 
that  he  personally  viewed  the  film  and  saw  no  objeetion.  To  forestall 
criticism   he   ran    this    note: 

SPECIAL  REMARK,  PLEASE  READ  CAREFULLY 
The    management    had    considerable    hesitation    about    presenting 
this  classic  masterpiece,  owing  to  a  doubt  as  to  whether  all   would 
view  it  with   the  spirit  in   which  it  was  conceived.      However  as  it 
has  passed  the  censorship  both  in  the  East  and  now  in  the  West, 
we  feel  that  we  can  safely  show  it,  bearing  in  mind  the  old  motto, 
"Honi  soit  qui   mal  y  peuse."      (Evil  be   to   him   who  evil   thinks.) 
He    doesn't    like    the    idea    of    translating   the    motto,    but    he    found    that 
few    he    approached    knew    the    translation    and    so    he    played    safe.      They 
played   to   packed   houses  and   encountered   no   objection.      There  is  no   par- 
ticular   reason    why   any   should   be    found,    for   that   matter. 

Got  It  Wrong. 

J.  Howard  Newell,  of  the  Idle  Hour,  Bloomfield,  Iowa,  takes  exception 
to  an  editorial  in  a  recent  issue  of  the  Chicago  Tribune.  If  Mr.  Newell 
had  looked  more  closely  he  would  have  found  that  while  the  editorial 
stated  the  house  to  be  a  moving  picture  theater,  it  was  in  reality  a 
"Jargon"  theater  where  plays  are  given  in  Yiddish.  We  think  that  some 
of  the  members  of  the  Exhibitor's  League  in  Chicago  should  have  taken 
the  Tribune  to  task.  It  was  no  more  a  picture  theater  than  is  the  First 
Methodist  Church.  Mr.  Newell  is  jealous  of  the  reputation  of  the  busi- 
ness. We  wish  there  were  more  with  his  spirit.  We'll  never  get  where 
we  are  headed  for  until  the  managers  take  the  same  pride  in  the  reputation 
of  the  business  in  which  they  are  engaged  as  they  do  in  their  bank  bal- 
ances. 

Mr.  Newell  sends  in  a  lot  of  dodgers,  none  of  which  offers  new  catch- 
lines,  but  all  of  which  seem  planned  to  get  the  business.  In  most  in- 
stances he  crowds  his  space  with  too  much  type.  Half  or  even  a  third 
as   much  would  stand  ten   times  the   chance  of  being  read   through. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


697 


We  PHOTOPLAYWRIGHT         !j 

Conducted  by  Epes  Wwthbop  Sargent    r~l  Ml 


The  Dinner 


THE   third    dinner   of  the    photoplay   writers   of  New   York,   this   time 
under   the  auspices  of   the    Inquest    Club,    will   be   given   at   Keen's 
Chop    House.    West  Thirty-Sixth     Street,     Saturday     evening,     May 
31st.,  promptly  at  eight  o'clock. 

Tickets  are  two  dollars  each  and  may  be  bad  of  any  member  of  the  club 
or  of  the  Dinner  Committee,  Box  Seventy,  Madison  Square  Station,  New 
York  City.  If  tickets  are  ordered  by  mail  please  send  a  stamped  and 
addressed  envelope  ifor  return.  Remittances  should  be  payable  to  E.  W. 
Sargent. 

Reservations   must   be   made   not   later   than  Thursday,   May   29th. 
All  persons  interested  in  photoplay  are  invited  whether  they  are  writers, 
editors,    producers,    players    or    manufacturers. 

Please  consider  this  YOUR  personal  invitation  to  be  there. 


Pathe  Not  Buying. 

Pathe  Freres  ask  that  announcement  be  made  that  they  are  not  in  the 
market  for  photoplay  scripts.  As  they  have  never  been  very  heavy  buyers 
in  the  general  market,  the  announcement  will  not  seriously  disturb  the 
regulars  who  have  known  for  some  time  that  the  Pathe  chances  were  so 
slight  as  to  be  negligible. 

The  staff  of  tame  authors  has  been  brought  to  the  point  where  the 
supply  ef  office  made  scripts  is  ample,  and  it  is  useless  to  waste  your 
postage  on   Pathe. 


Likes   It. 

Hopp  Hadley  sends  us  a  letter  tlat  a  Lynn  author  sent  him  thanking 
the  Reliance  company  for  putting  her  name  on  the  film  of  hers  they  released. 

This  points  two  morals:  It  pleases  the  authors  to  get  credit  and  gives 
the  crediting  companies  the  first  call  on  good  scripts.  The  other  moral 
is  that  editors  appreciate  courteous  thanks. 


Don't  Pay  Their  Bills. 

Lately  a  certain  correspondence  school  in  New  York  has  been  adver- 
tising broadcast  in  the  smaller  papers.  Several  editors  have  reported 
that  they  were  unable  to  collect,  but  a  correspondent  in  Oneida,  N.  Y., 
has  done  a  little  investigating  and  finds  the  condition  universal  in  his 
section.     He   writes: 

Sometime  ago  I  wrote  you  about  The  National  Author's  Institute 
Correspondence  School  running  an  ad  in  the  paper  on  which  I 
work  and  was  surprised  to  see  it  reprinted  as  I  didn't  think  you 
would  consider  it  worth  while.  Since  that  time  the  boss  tells  me 
he  has  placed  the  bill  in  the  hands  of  a  lawyer  to  collect.  The 
ad  was  4  columns  wide  by  10  inches  long  at  15c  per  inch.  That 
set  me  looking  into  the  matter  and  I  find  that  practically  every 
weekly  paper  in  Madison  County  got  "stung,"  and  no  reason  for 
it  either  as  I  also  found  that  an  even  twenty  had  taken  the  course 
in  this  town  alone  or  at  least  claimed  they  had,  so  you  see  that  a 
nice  little  sum  is  being  collected  up  around  the  country  by  these 
grafters.  A  man  here  learning  that  I  had  disposed  of  a  story 
or  two  and  seeing  the  ad  in  the  paper  wanted  to  know  if  he  and 
myself  couldn't  start  something  like  that  and  offered  to  finance 
the  scheme,  but  I  told  him  I  wanted  to  be  able  to  market  some 
of  my  own  before  I  tried  to  teach  others.  The  other  night  I 
spent  two  hours  with  a  young  lady  trying  to  make  her  see  the  im- 
possibility of  some  things  in  her  scenario  which  would  never  get 
by  the  Censors  if  filmed,  only  to  be  told  I  had  better  take  the  course 
and  learn  what  was  right.  Really  it  is  pitiful  some  of  the  stuff 
some  of  them  turn  out  and  most  of  them  come  to  me  for  advice  and 
if  I  tell  them  the  truth  as  I  see  it,  am  very  apt  to  be  accused  of 
jealousy. 
This  is  the  school  that  sent  with  its  advertising  copy  a  page  from  the 
Motion  Picture  Story  Magazine  and  called  attention  in  its  letter  to  the 
fact  that  they  advertised  in  that  magazine. 

Self  Criticism. 

We  think  there  would  be  a  lot  more  good  writers  if  they  would  only 
learn  to  criticize  themselves.  Of  the  best  little  goat  coaxers  that  can  be 
shoved  at  us  is  the  letter  that  says  "I  cannot  understand  why  my  scripts 
do  not  sell  when  they  are  so  much  better  than  what  I  see  on  the  screen." 

The  complacent  fools  who  give  utterance  to  that  sort  of  a  remark  are 
utterly  beyond  the  reach  of  help.  They  ar-:  too  well  content  with  them- 
selves to  be  willing  to  admit  that  they  possess  faults,  let  alone  look  for 
them.  The  more  they  read  the  products  of  their  heaven-inspired  genius, 
the  better  satisfied  they  are  that  they  have  written  a  literary  gem,  and  so 
they  write  some  more,  in  sheer  pity  for  the  world  that  has  already  lost 
one  masterpiece  through  the  stupidity  of  the  editors.  And  the  second 
is  just  as  rotten  as  the  first  because  the  same  mistakes  are  repeated  and 
the  same  disregard  for  the  rules  is  shown. 

It  is  hard  to  appraise  your  own  scripts  and  impossible  to  gauge  them  as 
accurately  as  another  may,  but  there  is  a  very  great  deal  that  can  be  learned 
from  self-criticism,  if  only  it  be  honest  and  sincere  self-examination. 


When  your  script  is  returned  by  some  callous  editor,  say  what  you  will  of 
his  intelligence,  his  ancestry  and  any  other  little  thing  like  that  which  may 
occur  to  you,  and  then  go  over  in  a  corner  and  look  the  script  over. 

First  ask  yourself  if  the  story  on  the  paper  is  the  same  story  you  have 
in  your  mind.  Have  you  succeeded  in  getting  it  over  to  the  other  man? 
Have  you  made  it  plain  just  what  you  were  driving  at?  You  thought  you 
had,  but  did  you? 

Remember  that  the  editor  has  not  your  knowledge  of  the  plot  to  help 
him.  All  he  has  to  go  by  is  the  three  or  four  sheets  of  typed  matter. 
In  reading  over  the  script  you  may  unconsciously  supply  as  much  as  half 
of  the  psychology  of  your  story.  You  think  it  is  in  the  script,  because  the 
story  is  clear  to  you,  but  you  do  not  mail  your  mind  along  with  the 
manuscript  and  all  the  editor  gets  is  the  script.  Have  you  put  into  the 
script  all  that  there  is  to  the  story,  or  have  you  left  a  lot  undone? 

If  the  story  really  is  all  there,  what's  the  matter  with  it?  Is  it  the 
fault  of  the  situations  or  of  the  development?  Your  big  scene  is  where 
the  husband  discovers  that  the  smell  of  liquor  on  his  own  breath  has  roused 
in  his  wife  an  hereditary  love  for  alcohol.  That's  a  pretty  good  idea, 
hut  have  you  made  the  most  of  it?  Have  you  made  that  the  one  big 
thought  of  all  the  business  that  has  gone  before?  Have  you  bent  all  your 
actions  and  situations  toward  that  one  point,  or  have  you  brought  the 
climax  so  suddenly  as  to  suggest  it  was  an  afterthought?  You  know  that  it 
is  because  of  a  transmitted  craving  for  liquor  that  your  heroine  falls,  but 
have  you  put  it  down  on  paper,  or  have  you  left  the  audience  to  suppose 
that  it  is  because  the  husband  drinks  so  much  that  the  wife  contracts 
the  habit?  Have  you  shown  the  hereditary  taint,  or  have  you  shown  a 
succession  of  scenes  of  the  husband  indulging  his  appetite  and  the  wife 
tempted?  Have  you  brought  out  in  the  early  scenes  the  struggle  against 
the  terrible  craving  for  intoxicants  or  have  you  planned  the  business  so 
that  it  suggests  rather  that  it  is  a  recently  acquired  taste? 

The  hereditary  craving  is  the  groundwork  for  a  powerful  situation.  The 
wife  who  drinks  because  she  smells  whiskey  on  her  husband's  breath  is 
the  story  of  a  weak-willed,  self-indulgent  woman  who  is  not  worthy  of  a 
leading  role.  You  know  you  were  writing  of  the  inherited  trait,  but  have 
you   really  told  the  editor  so? 

If  you  have  told  him,  have  you  told  him  in  the  right  way,  the  most 
effective  way?  Perhaps  the  story  was  so  good  that  the  editor  hated  to 
send  it  back,  but  he  did  not  want  to  keep  it  and  spend  a  couple  of  days 
of  his  own  time  fixing  it  up.  How  did  you  develop  it?  Did  you  ring  in 
a  letter  along  about  scene  ten  in  which  the  mother  writes  the  daughter  to 
be  careful  not  to  acquire  the  drinking  habit,  or  did  you  present  the  thing 
visually  with  the  aid  of  a  leader?  The  letter  is  easier,  but  it  does  not  drive 
home  the  fact  as  would  a  leader  supported  by  a  scene  or  two  in  which 
the   fact  is  demonstrated. 

If  you  have  demonstrated  the  fact,  have  you  used  the  most  telling  com- 
bination of  incidents  or  have  you  simply  slapped  it  together,  trusting  to 
the  strength  of  the  big  scene  to  carry  over  the   slipshod   work? 

If  you  have  not  done  it  right,  do  it  right  now.  Don't  think  that  perhaps 
some  other  editor  will  be  less  exacting.  Don't  take  any  changes.  Do  it 
right  before  you  send  it  out  again  and  perhaps,  this  time,  it  will  not  come 
back. 

Don't  write  exactly  this  sort  of  story,  because  this  sort  of  story  will 
not  sell,  which  is  why  we've  taken  it  as  an  illustration  instead  of  using  a 
salable  plot,  but  the  same  idea  holds  good  in  both  comedy  and  dramatic 
work.  First  make  sure  you  really  have  written  the  story  you  meant  to 
write,  then  assure  yourself  that  you've  made  the  best  possible  use  of  your 
material. 

And  make  your  own  examination.  Don't  give  it  to  all  your  friends  and 
neighbors  to  criticize.  They  know  less  about  it  than  you  do  and  they'll 
tell  you  that  it  is  great  because  that  is  the  easiest  way  of  avoiding  any 
argument.  Nine  hundred  and  ninety-nine  persons  out  of  every  thousand 
will  praise  rather  than  censure,  because  it  is  the  easiest  way  out  of  it. 
Don't  trust  your  friends.  Trust  yourself.  If  you  go  at  it  the  right  way 
you  can  not  only  fix  over  the  story,  but  you'll  fit  yourself  for  better  work 
on  the  stories  to  come.  But  your  criticism  must  be  exact  and  honest. 
Ycu  must  be  just  and  truthful  to  yourself,  neither  overpraising  nor  dis- 
couraging yourself.     It's  the  best  and  about  the  only  way  to  learn  to  write. 


Not  For  Him. 

In  the  Projection  Department  an  operator  takes  lis  to  task  for  saying 
that  a  trained  writer  can  do  a  script  in  a  couple  of  hours.  He  thinks  that's 
why  some  stories  are  so  poor.  We  don't  know  what  the  average  operator 
knows  about  writing  methods,  but  we'll  venture  the  opinion  that  nine- 
.tenths  of  the  really  good  stuff  that  gets  on  the  screen  was  written  inside 
of  two  hours  and  that  much  that  is  poor  might  have  taken  as  many  days 
or  weeks.  The  trained  writer  does  not  spend  several  days  at  the  machine 
mulling  over  a  story.  He  waits  until  he  gets  it  well  set  in  his  mind  and 
then — and  not  until  then — he  starts  to  put  it  on  paper.  Having  the  run 
of  scenes  clearly  arranged  in  his  mind,  the  author  faces  only  the  mechanical 
work  of  getting  the  idea  on  paper  and  this  can  be  done  well  within  two 
hours.  The  story  that  requires  the  labor  of  days  at  the  machine  is  seldom 
good  because  the  spontaneity  is  lost. 

And  just  in  passing,  nine  times  out  of  ten  the  poor  story  is  the  fault  of 
the  producer  rather  than  the  writer. 

Just  Goes  to  Show. 

Miss  Marie  T.  Jacobs  sends  in  a  clipping  from  the  Motion  Picture 
Story  Magazine  advertising  a  Chicago  correspondence  school.  The  greater 
part  of  the  advertisement  is  taken  up  with  a  list  of  plays  preceded 
by  "We  have  many  successful  graduates.  Here  are  a  few  of  their  plays." 
Heading  the  list  is  'From  Susie  to  Suzanne,"  by  the  Vitagraph.  The 
Vitagraph  did  not  release  a  play  of  that  title,  but  did  release  "Susie  to 
Suzanne"  crediting  Miss  Jacobs  with  the  authorship  in  their  bulletin. 
Miss  Jacobs  writes: 

I  was  rather  amused  upon  finding  the  enclosed  "ad,"  in  The 
Motion  Picture  Story  Magazine.  Heading  this  list  of  photoplays, 
supposedly  written  by  the  "graduates"  of  the  Associated  Motion 
Picture  Schools,  I  find  one  for  which  I  received  a  check  from  the 
Vitagraph   Company.     Interesting,   isn't  it,   to   find   oneself  a   grad- 


698 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


uate  of  a  ten  lesson  college  of  which  one  has  never  heard?  Look 
over  the  list — perhaps  you  will  find  one  of  yours,  and  you  can 
jotn   "our"    (?)    Alumni. 

That   photoplay   bought  a   suit.      I   know,  because   I   have  it   on 
now,    and   if  one   of    the    real  grads.   drew  a  check  for  it,   I  con- 
gratulate him.     The  ten   lessons  taught  him   to  make  money  more 
easily  than  I  can. 
It  is  not  surprising  to  learn  that  the  schools  resort  to   downright   false- 
hood  of   this  sort   since   all   their   advertising  is  a   tissue   of   lies   and   half 
truths,  but  we  are  glad  to  learn  that  Miss  Jacobs  is  bringing  suit 

Another  story  is  The  New  Day's  Dawn,  by  the  Rev.  E.  Boudinot  Stock- 
ton. When  he  became  interested  in  photoplay  writing,  Dr.  Stockton  took 
a  few  scripts  and  submitted  them  to  several  "schools"  and  to  private 
criticism.  After  the  third  or  fourth  lesson  this  particular  school  wrote 
him  that  no  director  would  touch  the  script  under  discussion  "with  a 
ten  foot  pole."  As  he  had  already  received  a  check  for  the  script  from 
the  Imp,  he  decided  that  the  school  was  not  of  much  value  to  him  and  he 
did  not  complete  the  course.  He  can,  in  no  sense,  be  called  a  graduate, 
nor  can   the  school   claim  any   merit  for  his  subsequent  progress. 

There  is  a  postal  regulation  concerning  the  circulation  of  misleading 
information  that  we  should  like  to  see  enforced. 


Give  Them  Names. 
Marc  Edmund  Jones,  head  of  the  Chicago  Circle,  who  has  been  staying 
in  New  York  since  the  dinner,  writing  scripts  and  fixing  up  clocks  for  the 
editor  of  this  department  (and  believe  us  he  leaves  an  eight-day  clock  that 
ran  only  two  minutes  so  that  it  runs  eight  days  and  then  some),  con- 
tributes the  following: 

In  writing  a  script  today,    I   was  reminded  of  a  matter  that   I 
have   thought   might   be    taken    up   and   discussed   in   your   column. 
I  have  noticed,  while  watching  the  pictures,  that  people  around  me — 
those  that  talk  about  the  picture  while  watching  it — often  have  diffi- 
culty in  referring  to  a  certain  character  unless  his  name  has  been 
revealed  in  a  sub-title.  In  writing  a  sub-title,  I  always  make  it  a 
point  to  reveal  the  name  of  the  character  referred  to,  but  I  have 
not  yet  got  to  the  point  of  making  a  sub-title  merely  to   fasten  a 
name  to  a  character.    It  is  an  open  question  in  my  mind  if  it  would 
not   stimulate  interest  to   see   the   names   of  ail   the   principles    re- 
vealed in  some  way  similar  to  Edison's  system. 
This  is  another  way  of  saying  that  the  audience  likes  to  be  introduced 
to  the  people  on  the  screen  and  we  said  a  long  time  ago  that  Mr.  Plompton's 
scheme  was  the  only  thing  that  adequately  covered  the   point     All   other 
schemes  tried  have  failed  in  practice.     Why  not  write  your  scripts  to  cover 
this   point,   writing  in  the   leaders   yourself?      It    is   easier    for    the    editor 
to  cut  out  than  to  put  in. 


Is  It  the  Editor? 

A  New  York  author  takes  up  two  whole  pages,  single  spaced  -at  that. 
to  advise  us  that  all  editors  are  a  specified  variety  of  fools.  He  writes 
that  he  has  arrived  at  what  the  editor  wants  through  his  own  intelligence, 
and  this  is  his  answer: 

They  don't  want  originality  at  all.  No  one  does,  in  drama, 
novel,  magazine  story  or  patterns  of  neckties.  For  originality  per- 
tains to  genius  and  the  world  is  not  ready  for  it  What  caterers 
to  the  general  public  really  want  is  something  that  is  time-honored 
and  therefore  recognizable  and  when  they  use  the  word  originality 
all  they  mean  is  something  that  has  a  novel  twist  in  a  pattern  to 
which  they  are  already  accustomed,  and  therefore  ready  and  pre- 
pared to  like. 
There  is  more — a  lot  more — than  this,  but  this  is  the  meat  of  the  argu- 
ment, that  editors  do  not  want  original  stuff,  but  won't  say  so. 

We  think  the  trouble  is  that  the  editor  would  rather  have  a  new  twist 
to  an  old  plot  than  an  "original"  plot  that  is  so  jumbled  and  confused 
that  no  spectator  could  follow  it.  We've  seen  "original"  stories  of  a  sort 
that  never  could  get  by.  They  were  "original,"  it  is  true,  but  they  were 
utterly    impossible. 

When  an  editor  says  he  wants  original  stuff  he  means  what  he  says, 
but  perhaps  he  forgets  to  add  that  he  does  not  want  ravings.  He  knows 
that  he  must  get  stories  within  the  range  of  his  audiences,  and  therefore 
he  sends  back  the  ultra-novel,  but  he  wants  something  that  is  a  shade 
above  the  average,  and  if  it  all  looks  alike  on  the  screen,  blame  the 
producer  who  makes  perfunctory  production. 

Our  correspondent  need  not  worry  about  the  editors  and  their  ability 
to  judge.  If  he'll  send  them  what  they  want,  they'll  take  it.  If  he  does 
not,  he  gets  no  checks,  and  that  seems  to  be  where  this  rub  comes. 


First  Sales. 

The  other  day  a  note  of  despair  was  sounded  in  a  letter  because  the 
writer  had  written  seven  scripts  and  he  sold  none,  despite  the  glittering 
promise  of  the  school  he  sudied  with. 

We  never  hear  of  an  apprentice  spending  a  couple  of  days  in  a  cobbler's 
shop  and  then  making  first  class  shoes,  and  there  seems  to  be  no  particu- 
larly good  reason  why  the  photoplay  writer  should  expect  a  percentage 
of  sales  from  the  very  start.  No  fiction  writer  expects  to  start  full 
fledged,  and  while,  in  one  way,  photoplay  writing  is  easier,  there  are 
still  many  points  to  be  learned  through  disheartening  experience.  The 
person  who  sells  only  half  a  dozen  scripts  the  first  year  stands  a  far  bet- 
ter chance  of  success  than  he  who  sells  five  to  ten  times  as  many.  The 
man  or  woman  who  makes  quick  sales  develops  habits  of  carelessness  that 
never  can  be  eradicated,  but  the  patient  cobbler,  learning  through  rebuffs, 
is  getting  a  ground  work  that  in  later  years  will  serve  as  the  foundation 
of  a  lasting  success  due  to  a  combination  of  technique  and  invention. 

But  mind  you,  technique  does  not  mean  a  certain  set  form  of  writing  a 
story.  It  does  not  mean  using  "leader"  instead  of  "sub-title"  or  vice 
versa.  Technique  is  the  knowledge  of  the  art  and  the  proper  form  of  writ- 
ing the  photoplay  is  but  the  smallest  part  of  that  art.  Technique  means 
getting  the  best  possible  development  for  a  given  idea.     It  means  the  culti- 


vation of  the  selective  faculty  that  enables  the  author  to  take  the  good 
and  leave  the  bad.  It  means  the  elaborate  development  of  a  sense  of 
dramatic  values;  an  instinctive  appraisal  of  the  weight  of  a  situation  or  in- 
cident. Technique,  in  a  word,  means  the  knowing  how  to  write  as  well  as 
the  manner  in  which  to  write. 

The  professional  landscape  photographer  instinctively  places  his  camera 
in  the  spot  from  which  he  can  get  the  best  effect  with  a  given  scene.  He 
possesses  the  technique  of  his  art  and  he  selects  without  hesitation  the 
point  of  view  that  best  lends  itself  to  composition.  The  novice  may  move 
the  camera  a  dozen  times  and  then  not  get  a  picture  half  so  good,  but 
each  time  the  novice  moves  his  camera  he  learns  something  of  composition 
and  viewpoint  and,  if  he  has  it  in  him  to  develop  into  an  expert,  he  will 
gain   this   development,   though    thousands   of   movements   of   the   camera. 

It  is  the  same  way  with  photoplays.  If  you  can  write  well  enough  to 
sell  the  first  two  or  three  months  you  will  rest  content  with  your  achieve- 
ments. You  will  get  the  idea  that  the  art  is  easy  and  one  not  requiring 
practise  and  study.  You  will  not  develop  and  in  time  will  be  passed  by 
the  less  brilliant  beginner,  who  through  study  and  practise  has  gained  more 
than    a  superficial   knowledge   of   the   business. 

Once  in  a  while  the  born  photoplay  writer  appears,  the  author  whose 
mental  equipment  specially  fits  him  for  his  wrok  without  elaborate  study, 
but  these  are  few  and  far  between  and  for  the  rest  the  tortoise  will  pass 
the  hare  that  sleeps. 

Don't  worry  if  your  scripts  do  not  sell  the  moment  you  start  writing. 
Worry  if  they  do. 


Two  Color  Scripts. 

Several  authors  want  to  know  if  it  is  well  to  use  red  and  black  ribbons 
in  writing  scripts.  It  is  more  or  less  a  matter  of  personal  taste  and  a 
detail  that  does  not  affect  in  any  way  the  value  of  the  story,  but  we  be- 
lieve that  most  editors  have  a  greater  respect  for  the  all  black  ribbon, 
if  they  have  any  prejudice  at  all.  The  use  of  two  colors  suggests  the 
fussy  novice,  rather  than  the  practiced  hand.  It  creates  the  sub-conscious 
impression  that  the  care  that  should  have  been  taken  on  the  story  has 
been  wasted  in  putting  in  the  scenes  in  red  ink  and  the  business  in  black. 
If  we  had  a  machine  that  used  two  color  ribbons  we  would  get  a  solid 
black  and  use  the  second  half  after  we  had  exhaused  the  first  On  the 
other  hand,  Marc  Edmund  Jones,  who  almost  paints  pictures  with  his 
machine,  tells  us  that  the  bi-chrome  ribbon  is  a  better  grade  than  the 
solid  colors.     In  that  case  the  red  could  be  used  for  practice  work. 


Inquiries. 


NOTE — No  questions  can  be  replied  to  by  mail.  Look  for  your  answers 
here.  A  list  of  addresses  to  which  photoplays  may  he  sent  will  be  mailed 
on  receipt  of  a  STAMPED  AND  ADDRESSED  ENVELOPE. 

J.  H.  G.— We  do  not  know  that  the  player  mentioned  was  In  but  one 
picture.     Broncho  and  Kay-Bee  occasionally  exchange  casts. 

G.  £.  J.— A  six  months'  subscription  to  this  paper  is  $1.50. 

H.  M.  8.— Your  question  was  answered  while  it  was  coming  in  the  mail. 
See  last  week. 

T.  a. — Edwin  August  was  Pietro  in  "The  End  of  the  Quest."  He  Is  with 
the  western  section  of  the  Vitagraph  now.  The  Toothache  picture  is  not 
licensed.  According  to  the  rules,  any  picture  shown  in  a  licensed  theater 
must  be  licensed. 

N.  D. — We  do  not  know  how  long  the  company  takes  to  reply,  but  we  would 
give  most  companies  eight  weeks  before  querying.  Remember  it  is  In  the 
mail  five  days  each  way. 

CURIOUS— Exact  figures  are  not  obtainable.  The  estimates  run  all  the 
way  from  10,000  to  15,000  photoplay  theaters  in  the  United  States.  We  think 
it  nearer  the  former  sum. 

M.  E.  T. — The  company  Is  said  to  be  making  special  releases.  We  have  no 
line  on  how  long  they  take,  but  three  weeks  is  not  a  very  long  time. 

K.  C. — The  Photoplay  Magazine  suspended.  There  would  seem  to  be  no 
way  of  getting  your  money  back.  Pathe  names  are  not  available.  Union  re- 
leases when  it  has  something  to  release,  not  on  stated  days  or  dates.  The 
British  and  American  company  Is  Independent. 

J,   C. — The  company  does  not  want  outside  scripts. 

EUNICE — See  above. 

B.  S. — Ethel,  In  "Heroes  One  and  All,"  was  Miss  Ethel  Clayton.  In  the 
synopsis  she  is  referred  to  as  Jane.  "The  Recoil"  was  released  May  8,  1012. 
"The  Two  Browns"  was  released  November  29,  1911.  Tbanhouser's  "Dora 
Thorne"   was  released   May   17,   1912. 

TWO  GIRLS. — In  "The  Lost  Dispatch,"  Charles  Ray  was  Major  Payton's 
rival.  The  bugler  is  not  cast.  Miss  Helen  Case  was  Ruth  in  "The  Tell  Tale 
Hat  Band."     We  have  not  that  last  cast  yet. 

R.  A.  D. — Write  a  courteous  note  to  the  editor  and  see  if  the 
story  Is  being  held.     That  may  be  the  case. 

C.  P. — We  have  not  that  Nestor  cast.  Miss  Edna  Payne  was  the  girl  in 
both  pictures.  The  late  Florence  Barker  was  the  girl  in  "The  Burglar  and 
the  Rose."  The  Nestor  studios  are  at  Hollywood,  California,  a  suburb  of 
Los  Angeles. 

L.  G. — Miss  Gertrude  Bambrick  was  the  lass  In  "Near  to  Earth,"  not  Miss 
Sweet. 

DALLAS  BUG — John  Ince  was  the  Count  In  "A  Florida  Romance."  The 
other  identifications  are  not  at  hand.  Mrs.  Hackett  was  Flavia  in  "The 
Prisoner  of  Zenda."  We,  too,  would  like  to  see  Flossie  C.  P.  resume  her 
questions,  but  parental  edict  forbids.  She  has  many  imitators,  but  no  suc- 
cessors.    She  was  interesting  because  she  was  genuine. 

MRS.  T. — Sorry,  but  we  cannot  reply  by  mail.  The  reference  was  general, 
and  not  specific.  "Too  conventional"  on  a  rejection  slip  means  that  you 
are  writing  the  same  sort  of  stories  that  a  couple  of  thousand  other  writers 
turn  out.  There  is  nothing  new,  nothing  startling  to  your  plots.  They  are 
merely  the  things  that  happen  every  day,  told  in  every-day  fashion.  We  are 
far  from  holding  the  beginner  In  contempt.  We  were  a  beginner  once,  and 
we  remember  that  fact.  But  we  do  despise  the  "literary  loafer"  who  Is  not 
willing  to  work   for  success. 

H.  C. — It  is  distinctly  stated  that  we  do  not  reply  to  questions  by  mail. 
Even  If  we  did,  we  would  require  a  stamped  and  addressed  envelope,  in- 
stead of  the  stamp  alone.  The  editor  of  a  picture  company  reads  scripts 
when  he  gets  the  time.  This  may  be  the  day  of  receipt  or  some  time 
afterward,  according  to  the  pressure  of  his  other  work.  A  title  is  frequently 
duplicated.  The  title  you  ask  about  has  not  been  used  since  October,  1911. 
If  a  photoplay  is  rejected,  a  reason  may  or  may  not  be  given.  The  last 
question  would  require  the  reading  of  your  script,  and  we  are  too  busy  to 
do  this. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


699 


Projection  Department 


Edited  by  F.   H.  RICHARDSON 


Stereopticon  Trouble. 

MR.  VERNER  HICKS,  Marion.  111.,  has  trouble  with  his  stereo.  The 
light  shows  dark  in  three  of  the  corners.  I  think  quite  likely  friend 
Hicks  is  using  condensers  of  too  short  focal  length,  or  else  he  has  a 
quarter-size  lens.  Tf  your  stereopticon  lens  is  of  more  than  10  inch  e.  f. 
(and  it  is),  it  will  probably  be  impossible  to  avoid  yellow  corners  if  it  is  a 
quarter-size  lens.  You  should  have  .»  half-size.  Possibly  you  are  running  a 
very  small  moving  picture,  as  compared  to  the  stereopticon,  or  vice-versa. 
Give  me  the  exact  width  of  both  pictuies  and  I  can  advise  you  further. 

A  Rewinder  Device. 

Mr.  A.  W.   Barthel,  Brownsville,  Texas,   writes: 

As  I  have  not  contributed  anything  for  some  time,  I  will  make 
up  by  sending  description  of  an  automatic  stop  device,  designed  by 
myself,  to  be  attached  to  the  left  hand  part  of  the  film  rewinder — 
the  part  receiving  the  film  to  be  rewound.  The  purpose  of  this 
device  is  to  stop  the  motor  automatically  when  the  film  is  all 
rewound,  or,  should  the  film  through  any  cause  break  during  the 
process  of  rewinding.  In  making  use  of  the  phonograph  governor 
principle  care  should  be  taken  that  the  two  contact  points,  which 
are  best  made  of  platinum,  be  ground  perfectly,  so  as  to  touch  each 
other  over  their  entire  surface,  thus  preventing  sparking.  The 
entire  device  should  be  enclosed  in  a  sheet  iron  box  to  prevent  any 
possibility  of  fire  through  sparking.  The  motor  is  started  by  means 
of  a  switch,  which  is  to  be  pulled  immediately  afterwards.  In  the 
sketch,  1  is  a  friction  disc,  fastened  to  15,  which  must  be  loose  on 


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Cross  section  of  left-hand  part  of  rewinder  with  automatic 
stop  device. 

the  shaft.  2  and  24  are  oil  wells  for  bearings.  3  is  the  pivot  of 
the  governor  shaft.  4  is  a  metal  casting,  fastened  to  wood  base 
9,  by  means  of  screws  13  and  pin  7  to  prevent  slipping.  5  is  a 
leather  disc,  fastened  to  spring  6  and  contact  point  35.  8  is  the 
starting  switch.  10  and  11  are  porcelain  tubes  for  wires  leading 
to  switch.  12  and  13  are  screw  nuts  to  fasten  wires  to  con- 
tact carriers  4  and  44.  14  is  a  screw  to  fasten  spring  18,  holding 
weight  16,  to  parts  15  and  19.  17  is  the  main  shaft.  18,  32 
and  33  are  governor  springs.  20  is  a  tube  by  means  of  which 
shaft  17  is  fastened,  or  coupled  to  shaft  27.  using  the  two  screws  21, 
34.  22  and  23  are  fibre  discs.  25  is  the  film  clip.  26  is  a  reel  held 
rigidly  to  shaft  27  by  28  and  29.  36  is  the  second  contact  point 
fastened  to  casting  44  by  screw  37.  38  is  a  screw  by  means  of 
■  which  spring  6  is  fastened  to  casting  4.  3:  is  a  thumb  screw,  press- 
ing against  spring  40.  Fastened  to  casting  47  by  screw  41  are  two 
pins.  45  and  46.  42  is  one  of  the  wood  screws  which  hold  re- 
winding casting  7  on  base  9.  When  reel  36  is  rotating,  weights  16, 
17,  etc.,  which  are  fastened  to  thin  springs  18,  32  and  33,  will 
cause  these  springs  to  bulge  out  in  their  center.  This  in  turn 
forces  part  15,  fastened  to  friction  disc  1,  to  bring  contact  point  35, 
fastened  to  spring  No.  6,  in  touch  with  contact  point  36,  which 
keeps  the  motor  going  after  switch  8  has  been  thrown  off.  A  break 
in  the  film  will  immediately  separate  the  contact  point  and  the 
same  thing  will  occur  when  the  film  is  all  rewound,  since  reel  26 
then  stops  revolving.  Now  this  is  rather  a  lengthy  description,  and 
possibly  somewhat  more  elaborate  than  is  necessary,  but  there  are 
many  operators  who  are  not  as  familiar  with  mechanical  matters  as 
they  might  be,  therefore  I  have  made  the  thing  as  complete  as 
possible,   and   I   trust  the  description   will  be  of  use  to  some  one. 


First  of  all.  Barthel,  I  must  compliment  you  on  the  excellent  drawing 
you  have  submitted.  As  to  the  device  itself,  while  it  is  a  little  bit  com- 
plicated to  construct,  it  undoubtedly  would  work  perfectly,  therefore  it 
is  passed  along  to  our  readers  for  examination.  I  have  no  doubt  quite 
a  number  of  the  boys  will  get  busy  constructing  automatic  rewinder  stops. 


Thanks  to  the  Moving  Picture  World. 

Pinole,   Cal.,   makes  a   talk  thusly: 

I  started  a  little  show  with  a  1908  model  Motiograph,  but  have 
since  installed  a  Power's  Six  and  a  Pathe  Professional.     I  have  my 
machines  working  perfectly.     I  have  had  to  do  all  kinds  of  repair 
work  and  have  got  away  with  it  successfully,  thanks  to  the  Hand- 
book   and    the    Moving    Picture    World.      And    now    I    want    to 
answer    a    question    which    has    been    asked    several    times    in    the 
Projection  Department,  viz:  is  the  course  in  the  American  Corre- 
spondence  School   of  any  benefit?     My   advice,   to   anybody   want- 
ing  to    learn    the    business    or    unable    to    serve    an    apprenticeship 
under  a  competent  operator,  is  to  get  the  Handbook  and  the  Moving 
Picture    World.      The    American    Correspondence    Course    is    not 
complete.     You  can  finish  the  three  months'  course  in  one  month. 
I   have   taken  it   and  know   what  I  am  talking  about.     What  size, 
condensers   should   I   use   for   an   85   foot  throw,    is   foot   picture? 
My   lens   is   a   five   inch   e.   f.   and  the  light  on   the  screen   seems 
to    have   a   yellow   tint   to   it. 
You    should    have    two    7^2    condensing    lenses,    but    be    sure    they    are 
pure  white  as  you   look  through   them   edgeways.      If   they   have   a  yellow 
or   green    tint,    reject   them.      You  have   not  told  me   the   kind   of   current 
or   the    number    of   amperes   you    are   using.      Possibly   you    are   not   using 
current  aaough. 

It  Is  To  Smile. 

A  certain  trade  publication  is  now  running  a  series  of  articles,  entitled 
"Motion  Picture  Making  and  Exhibiting,"  written  by  one  who  presum- 
ably assumes  to  speak  with  authority.  I  have  not  read  these  articles  in 
their  entirety,  but  in  glancing  at  one  of  them  I  find  some  queer  things. 
Speaking  of  the  projection  machine,  of  which  he  gives  a  supposed-to-be 
authoritative    description,    the    following   appears: 

After  being  pulled  into  exact  position,  the  film  must  be  held  so 

rigidly  that  no  vibration  will  affect  its  centering.     The  device  that 

turns  on   and  cuts  off  the  light  must  be  so  adjusted  that  no  light 

passes  through  the  film,  except  when  it  is  stationary  in  the  gate. 

Again,   we   have   this   choice   bit  of   information: 

Any  wear  of  the  parts  causing  lost  motion,  or  any  lack  of  ad- 
justment, will  cause  serious  flickering  due  to  uncertainty  of  film 
position. 
Now  here  is  a  man  presuming  to  speak  with  authority  upon  projection 
matters,  who  evidently  does  not  know  that  light  passes  through  the  film 
of  a  projection  machine  continuously  during  the  time  the  machine  is  in 
operation,  and  that  it  is  cut  off  from  the  screen  by  the  revolving  shutter, 
which  is  located  between  the  film  and  the  screen;  also  this  particular  au- 
thority does  not  know,  or  does  not  seem  to  know,  that  movement  of  the 
picture  on  the  screen  is  not  "flickering,"  this  term  being  applied  to  the 
flickering  of  light  due  to  the  action  of  the  revolving  shutter.  It  does  seem 
strange  that  men  will  undertake  to  teach  others  on  a  subject  concerning 
which  their  own  ideas  are  so  hazy  that  they  do  not  even  know  the  correct 
names  of  things.  What  the  man  in  question  may  know  about  picture  mak- 
ing I  cannot  say,  but  he  had  better  examine  a  projection  machine  carefully 
and  put  in  two  or  three  years  studying  it  and  its  action  before  he  attempts 
to  teach,  with  the   projector  as  his  text. 

Difference  in  Throw. 

The  Star  Theater  Company,  Jefferson  City,  Missouri,  propounds  the 
following  question: 

We  are  contemplating  building  a  new  theater.      Our  throw  now 
is  65   feet,   but  in   the  new  place  we  want  a  throw  of  at  least  80 
feet  and  would  like  to   make  it  90  or  95.     Can  we  get  a  perfect 
picture  at  this  distance?     Will  it  require  more  current?     What  size 
lenses    are    required    for    different    throw;    also    what    condensers? 
Also  what  size  picture  can  we  project  at  90  or  95  feet?  Stamped 
envelope  enclosed  for  reply. 
Replies  are  only  sent  by  mail  where  a  minimum  fee  of  $1.00  is  enclosed. 
Please  keep  that  fact  in  mind.      As  to  your  queries,   75  to   100   feet  is  an 
ideal   distance  to  project,  so  far  as  the  projection  itself  is  concerned.      If 
the  picture  be  of  ordinary  size,  that  is  to  say  18  feet  or  less  in  width,  I 
would  not  very   much   care   whether   the   projection   were  6s,   80,   90   or  95 
feet.     The  only  difference  would  be  in  the  focal  length  of  the  lens  required 
to   give  picture   of  desired   size.      On   pages   356  to  364   of  the  Handbook 
you  will  find  full  and  complete  directions,  illustrated,  as  to  how  to  figure  the 
size  and  the  focal  length  of  lenses  required  to  project  a  picture  of  given 
size   at  a  given   distance;   also  the  proper   condensing  lens   focal   length  to 
go   with   them.     In    fact   the   whole   matter   is   set   forth   together    with  the 
reasons  why  75  to  100  foot  throw  is  preferable  to  a  shorter  one. 


700 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


The  Show  at  Lamar. 

Mr.  Jesse  P.  McBride,  manufacturer  of  the  Wagner  Film  Holder,  Inde- 
dependence,  Kansas,  writes: 

I  had  just  got  my  nose  in  the  department,  March  29th  issue, 
when  I  ran  into  Mr.  Abbey's  letter  regarding  Mr.  E.  E.  Wagner's 
"Spook  Show,"  at  Lamaf,  Mo.  Mr.  Abbey's  description  of  the 
Bijou  is  very  good.  I  have  been  over  the  theater  many  times  and 
can  certify  to  the  description  as  setting  forth  just  about  what  Mr. 
Wagner  actually  does,  though  friend  Abbey  failed  to  state  that  he 
goes  over  his  pictures  as  they  come  in,  and  if  an  effect  is  needed 
which  he  has  not  got,  he  just  simply  jumps  in  and  makes  it  Mr. 
Wagner  is  the  inventor  of  the  Wagner  Film  Holder,  recently  il- 
lustrated and  recommended  in  the  department.  I  am  pleased  to 
advise  that  the  Inter-State  Commerce  Commission  will  very  likely 
approve  this  shipping  pail  at  their  next  meeting.  I  expect  to  go 
over  to  Lamar  in  a  short  time  and  see  if  I  can  get  Mr.  Wagner  to 
send  in  a  description  of  how  he  does  those  stunts. 

We  should  be  very  glad  indeed  to  have  you  induce  Mr.  Wagner  to  chase 
his  pencil  around  on  paper,  sending  in  a  description  of  his  methods,  which 
most  certainly  are  unique.  It  would  make  mighty  interesting  reading. 
Glad  to  know  the  Wagner  pail  is  to  be  approved.     It  is  a  first-class  device. 

A  Beautiful  Pillow. 

The  Editor  is  in  receipt  of  a  charmingly  beautiful  sofa  pillow,  the  work 
of  the  mother  of  Brother  L.  J.  Shafranek,  Secretary  L.  U.  160,  I.  A.  T. 
S.  E.,  Cleveland,  Ohio.  The  pillow  may  be  made  in  any  colors  and  con- 
tains   the   emblem    of   the    order,   as    per    accompanying   picture,    picked   out 


Sorry  I  was  not  able  to  respond,  gentlemen,  but  too  many  miles  of  hili 
and  vale  intervene.  I  trust  you  had  one  rip-roaring  good  time  and  that 
the  new  star  in  the  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  diadem  will  shine  with  undimmed  bril- 
liancy   for    many   years. 


with  gold.  In  the  pillow  I  have,  the  body  is  a  rich  purple  and  the  emblem 
in  orange  and  white,  the  whole  being  surrounded  by  a  heavy  braided  cord 
of  white,  having  tassels  as  shown.  Brother  Shafranek's  mother  offers  to 
make  these  pillows  at  $2.50  each,  and  you  may  take  it  from  me,  they  are 
very  reasonable  at  that  figure.     Brother  Shafranek  writes  thusly: 

Mother  doesn't  care  to  make  much  on  them  and  $2.50  certainly  is 
no  more  than  that  class  of  work  is  worth.  Father  is  getting  along 
in  years  and  was  injured  recently,  so  I  thought  perhaps  a  few 
could  be  sold,  which  would  help  them  out  a  little.  The  pillow  can 
be  made  in  any  colors  desired.  It  is  all  hand-made,  with  the  very 
best  material  obtainable  (felt).  Goid  braid  outlines  the  emblem 
and  the  edges  may  be  finished  with  heavy  braided  silk  cord,  draped 
ribbon,  etc.  The  back  is  made  of  fine  satin.  The  number  of  the 
local  union  of  the  purchaser  will  be  placed  in  the  center.  Mother 
will  also  make  a  pennant  with  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  and  the  local  union 
number  on  one  side  for  fifty  cents. 

If  the  "boys"  could  see  that  pillow,  your  mother  would  be  kept  busy  I  am 
sure,  Brother  Shafranek.  Address  orders  to  L.  J.  Shafranek,  7617  Union 
Ave.,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  enclosing  money  order  for  $2.50. 


Operators'   Feast. 

From    Saskatoon,    Saskatchewan, '  Canada,    comes   a  neatly   engraved   invi- 
tation to  attend  a  banquet.     The  invite  tells     the  story.      It  reads  thusly: 

You   are  cordially  invited  to  attend  a 

BANQUET 

given   by   the   Inaugurated   Motion  Picture 

Operators  of  Saskatoon 

Pending  affiliation  with  I.  A.  T.   S.  E. 

at    Little's    Cafe,    21st    Street    East, 

Saturday,  April   12th,   1913,  at  11    P.  M.  sharp 

Informal 

W.  H.  Spicer,  Pres.  G.  E.  Dealtry,  Sec.-Treas. 

West   Side  Theater  P.   O.   Box  126 


Ghost. 

Ellwood  City,  Pennsylvania,  describes  his  difficulty  thusly: 

Have  been   running  a  show  here   for  the   past   three   years  and 
all  that  while   I  have  been  fighting  a  ghost.     Am   using   no  volt, 
60  cycle  current  through  a  Sterling  coil.     Project  a  12  foot  8  inch 
picture    75    feet,    on   a    mirror   screen.      Have   used    hard   and    soft 
carbons;  condensers  are  about  an  eighth  of  an  inch  apart;  machine 
is    in    line   with    lamp;    wiring   is    all    tight;    am    using    ^    carbons 
above    and    below    and    have    set    them    in    different   ways    without 
result.     Have  used  different  projection  lenses.     If  you  or  some  of 
the  department  readers  can  help  me,  it  will  surely  relieve  my  mind. 
In  the  first  place,  you  have  not  told  me  how  many  amperes  you  are  us- 
ing, which  is  a  very  important  item  of  information,  I  can  assure  you.     You 
should    not    use    less    than    40,    and    60    would    be    better.      You    say   your 
machine  is  in  line  with   the  lamp,  if  you   mean   your   optical  system   is  in 
line   throughout — all    right,    but  the   "machine  in   line  with  the   lamp"   does 
not  mean  anything  in   particular.      Be  sure  that  your   front   condenser  lens 
sets  approximately  square  with  the  machine— not  only  in  line,  as  per   page 
227  of  the  handbook,  but  square  the  other  way  also.     I  presume,  of  course, 
you    have    tried    moving   your    lamphouse    backward    and    forward.      If   you 
have  not,  then  do  so.     Outside  of  this,  I  do  not  think  of  anything  further 
to  suggest. 


Picture  Blurs. 

Mr.   J.    M.    Yeaton,   Newmarket,    N.   H.,  is   having  trouble   with   his   pic- 
ture  blurring   in    the   center.      He   says: 

Issue  of  April  12th,  Lloyd  G.   Balkam,  Washington,  D.  C,  com- 
plains of  a  blur  in  the  center  of  Independent  films.     I  am  having 
the    same   trouble,    though    I   would   describe   it  a  little   differently. 
The    blur    occurs    when    the    figure    moves — not    always    when    it 
moves   fast,  but   often   when  the  motion  is  at  a   moderate  rate  of 
speed.      When    a    figure   lifts   an   arm   quickly,   sits   down    or    turns 
its    head,    etc.,    the    eftect    occurs.      It    is    sometimes    caused    by   a 
person    moving    across    the    picture    quickly,    but    it    is    understood 
that  this  cannot  be  avoided.     It   seems,  however,  that  the  figures 
in    the    center    and    background    ought    not    to    blur    when    moving. 
Mr.    Balkam    seems    to    have    found    it   only    on    Bison    101,    but    I 
meet   it   in   other   films  also.     The  agent  representing  the   company 
I  purchased  my  projector  from  says  such  a  thing  could  only  be  in 
the   photography  of  the  picture. 
This    same    thing,    if    I    rightly    remember,    has    been    treated    of    in    the 
department  before,  and  several  explanations  have  been   offered.     Just  what 
tliey   were,    I    do   not  at  this   time    remember,   nor  have   I   the   time   to   look 
back  through   the   files   of   the   department   and   find   them.      I    think  if  you 
will  search   back  numbers  you   will   discover  an  answer   to   this  same  thing 
somewhere.       If    any    of    the    brothers    remember    it,    please    let    us    know 
about  when   it  was,   or  if  they   have   any   solution  to   offer  let  them   set  it 
forth    for    the   benefit   of   all.      Any    object   moving   very   fast   will   be   more 
or  less  blurred  in  the  picture.     The  closer  to  the  camera  the  more  blurred 
it  will  be. 


Shutter  Trouble. 
Mr.    Fred   Bleecker,   Monticello,   111.,  writes: 

Enclosed  find   $2.50   for  the  new   Handbook.     Have  one   of  the 
old  ones  and   find  it  very  satisfactory.     We   have  a  motor-driven 
Power's  Six  machine.     Is  there  any  way  to  make  it  noiseless  when 
the   film    is  in?     Is   there   anything  to   the  soaking   of   carbons   in 
salt  water?     Up  to  a  week  ago  my  shutter  was  all  right,  but  now  I 
cannot  seem  to  get  the  travel  ghost  all  out.     Put  in  a  new  shutter 
shaft  and  that  seemed  to  help,  but  I  cannot  wholly  eliminate  the 
travel  ghost.     The  shutter  is  a  two-winger  and  cuts  a  clear  picture, 
but  there  is  considerable  flicker. 
No  machine  is  entirely  noiseless  when  the  film  is  in.     The   Power's   Six 
is   perhaps   as   nearly   so   as   any,   but   the   film   and  intermittent  are   bound 
to  make  a  certain  amount  of  noise,  and  this  noise  varies  with  the  individual 
machines,   even   where   they  are   of   the   tame   make.      As   to    the  shutter,   I 
cannot  say,  from  your  description,  what  is  the  matter.     With  the  two-wing 
shutter  you  are  bound  to  get  some   flicker,   though  you  get   a  greater  per- 
centage of  light   than    you   would   with   a  three-winger.      You   can   eliminate 
the  travel  ghost  by  riveting  a  narrow  piece  of  metal  on  the  stamped  blade, 
increasing  its  width  slightly,  but  this,  of  course,  will  cut  a   slightly  greater 
percentage    of   the    light.      Very    likely    your    gears    are   worn    considerably. 
I    would   suggest,    however,    that  the   first    thing   to   try   would  be   to   get  a 
soft,    thin,    very    pliable    leather    strap,    something    like    half   an    inch    wide, 
and    about    six   inches   long.      Put    it    around    the    shutter    shaft   and    fasten 
it  into  the   form   of  an   endless  belt.     Now   let   it  hang  down   and  to    the 
lower  end   attach   a  weight  just  as   heavy  as  it   will   stand  without   making 
the    machine   pull    hard.      This    will    hold   the    back-lash   out   of   the   shutter, 
and,  after  you   get  it  set   right  it  will   probably  eliminate  the  travel   ghost. 
But    do   not    get    the    weight    too    heavy    or    it    will   make    the    machine    run 
objectionably  hard.     On  the  other  hand,  if  it  is  too  light  it  will  not  do  any 
good.      The    Power's    Six    travel    ghost    is    usually    caused    by    worn    gears, 
which  allows   a  certain   amount   of   ba^k-l^sh   to   the  shutter,   and  the   strap 
acts  on    the   shutter   shaft   like   a   brake  and   tends   to  eliminate   this. 


Operators'  School. 
Mr.  W.  G.  Baily,  Belize,  B.  H.  (which  I  presume  stands  for  British 
Honduras)  orders  a  Handbook  and  says  he  expects  to  go  into  the  business 
and  would  be  very  glad  if  I  could  recommend  a  good  school  which  quali- 
fies moving  picture  operators.  The  book  is  on  its  way  to  you,  brother,  but 
I  know  of  no  school  which  I  could  conscientiously  recommend  to  you  as 
"qualifying"  a  moving  picture  operator.  You  might  as  well  try  to  learn 
to  run  a  locomotive  by  "going  to  school."     It  cannot  be  done. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


701 


Another  Automatic  Motor.    Cut-Out. 

Mr.  Wm.  Hofmann,  member  Local  Union  507.  Kewanee.  III.,  submits 
•ketch  and  description  of  an  automatic  cut-out  for  the  rewinder  motor. 
He  writes: 

It  was  a  lot  easier  for  me  to  make  the  outfit  I  am  going  to  de- 
scribe than  to  draw  a  picture  of  it;  at  least  I  did  a  better  job 
of  the  machine  than  of  the  drawing.  The  sketch  represents  an 
automatic  cut-out  for  the  motor  of  the  rewinder.  It  is  designed 
to  stop  the  motor  when  the  reel  has  been  rewound.  It  has  been  a 
successful  operation  for  more  than  a  year.  I  use  a  six  volt  bat- 
tery motor  and  get  the  current  for  it  from  two  coils  of  my  projec- 
tion circuit  rheostat.  It  requires  about  one  minute  to  rewind, 
using  a  spindle  with  a  tension  on  it  for  the  other  reel.  The 
rewound  reel  stops  in  about  three  revolutions  after  the  end  of  the 
film    has    left    the   other    reel.      All    that   is   necessary    is   to    press 


0f 


spring  A  against  the  magnet.     This  closes  the  circuit  through  the 
motor  and  the  other  one  through  the  relay,  which  acts  as  a  separate 
circuit  breaker  at  the  same  time.      When  the  film  is  rewound  the 
end  hits   the   relay   circuit   breaker,    which   is   made   of   sheet   brass 
a  little  wider  than  the  film,  and  this  separates  D   from   C,   which 
two  are  held  together  by  a  weak  coil  spring.     The  effect  is  to  break 
the  relay  current  and  the  magnet,  of  course,  lets  go  of  its  armature, 
allowing  spring  A  to  pull  away,  thereby  breaking  the  motor  circuit. 
For  use  on   no  volt  current  it  would  only  be  necessary  to  have  a 
magnet   with   more  resistance,   or  a   couple  of   incandescent  lamps, 
wired  in   multiple,   in  series  with  it. 
The   sketch    makes    the   whole   thing    clear,    Brother    Hofmann,    with    the 
exception    of   your   rheostat   connection.      This   I   do   not   quite   understand 
and  I   think  you   will   have   to   explain   a  little  more   in   detail.      I   have   re- 
drawn your  sketch  just  as  you  had  it.     Re-drawing  was  necessary  since  you 
used  purple  ink.     I   have  told   you  men  a  good  many   times  that  nothing 
but  black  ink  will  do  for  this  kind  of  work.     If  the  two  rectangles  on  either 
side  of  the  word  "Line"  represent  your  projection  resistance,  as  they  appear 
to,  I  do  not  seem  to  be  able  to  dope  out  that  part  of  it  at  all,  nor  do  I 
quite  understand  whether  the  line  marked  X  connects  to  parts  A,  B  and  Z, 
or  only  to  part  X.     The  way  you  have  it  drawn  it  connects  to  all  of  them. 
Please  make  yourself  a  little  plainer. 


Arc  Roars. 

Saskatchewan,  Canada,  comes  South  with  the  following: 

I'm  stuck  for  fair.  Using  a  Power's  6-A  and  a  Motiograph,  no 
v.,  d.  c,  through  a  Ft.  Wayne  compensarc.  Everything  running 
slick  as  a  whistle  until  two  weeks  ago,  then  began  having  trouble 
with  the  arc  in  one  of  the  machines.  It  started  in  by  humming  a 
trifle  louder  than  ordinary  and  every  once  in  a  while  would  sound 
as  if  the  current  had  broken  for  a  fraction  of  a  second.  I  put 
new  wire  connections  in  the  lamphouse  and  the  current  breaking 
sound  disappeared  but  the  thing  then  began  to  roar.  The  carbons 
won't  burn  right.  They  are  set  almost  on  a  line  with  each  other, 
with  a  little  outward  slant.  They  are  set  the  same  in  both  ma- 
chines. If  I  set  the  carbons  so  that  they  are  exactly  centered,  one 
above  the  other,  the  top  carbon  burns  almost  flat  and  the  bottom 
one  burns  off  in  front.  If  I  bring  the  carbon  (top  one)  back  about 
1-16  or  1-12  of  an  inch  behind  the  center  of  the  bottom  carbon, 
the  top  carbon  burns  with  a  deep  groove  in  front  and  the  bottom 
one  burns  inverted  V-shaped.  I  file  the  points  of  the  carbons 
down  at  the  end  of  every  picture  so  that  I  can  get  the  desired 
light  for  a  while  anyway.  Iz  holds  good  for  about  three  minutes 
and  then  the  flame  begins  working  to  the  front.  If  the  film  is  a 
light  one  I  cut  the  compensarc  down  to  40  amps  and  with  a  good 
long  arc  it  comes  into  its  own  and  burns  a  good,  steady  light,  with 
very  little  noise.  The  funny  part  of  it  is  that  the  other  machine 
takes  the  60  amps  like  a  duck  takes  to  water  and  burns  the  car- 
bons in  fine  shape,  with  very  little  noise.  In  the  sketch  herewith, 
I'  give  the  setting  of  the  carbons  and  also  the  wiring  from  the 
compensarc  to  the  machines.  I  use  Bio  carbons,  top  and  bottom. 
Have  cleaned  all  vent  holes  in  the  lamphouse.  Our  power  is 
very  unsteady,  especially  at  this  time  of  the  year  when  the  city  is 
thawing  out  hydrants  with  electricity.  Have  tried  reversing  the 
positive  and  negative  sides  but  it's  worse  than  ever  then. 
Well,  Brother  Perry,  I  am  not  sure  but  what  I  am  stuck,  too.     In  the 

first   place,   there   is   no   "positive"    and   "negative"    to   alternating  current. 

Each   carbon  is  alternately   positive   and  negative.      It   is  possible  that   the 


loaring  sound  is  due  to  vibration  in  the  lamphouse.  Try  holding  some- 
thing firmly  against  the  two  doors  of  the  lamphouse  for  a  moment  and  see 
if  the  sound  is  diminished.  I  do  not  see  any  reason  why  this  condition 
should  obtain  with  one  lamp  and  not  with  the  other.  But.  even  so,  this 
ought  not  to  affect  the  burning  of  the  carbons;  As  to  the  slanting  of  the 
lamp  and  the  setting  of  the  carbons,  I  would*  refer  you  to  pages  204  to 
212,  inclusive,  of  the  Handbook.  If  any  of  our  correspondents  have  had 
a  similar  experience  or  can  offer  any  suggestion  to  Brother  Perry,  let  them 
stand  forth  and  be  heard. 


The  Chambless  Motor-Drive. 

Brother  James  Chambless  has  done  what  every  manufacturer  should  do, 
viz.:  sent  in  actual  working  models  of  his  motor  drive  for  our  examination. 
He  also  senJs  directions  for  their  installation.  Brother  Chambless  says, 
and  I  know  his  words  to  have  a  large  foundation  in  fact,  that  the  only 
time  he  has  had  any  trouble  whatever  is  where  the  device  was  not  properly 
attached  to  the  machine  and  that  a  great  many  operators  do  not  seem  to 
have  sufficient  knowledge  or  ingenuity  to  properly  adjust  a  mechanical 
device.  I  have  examined  these  models  carefully.  They  are  well  con- 
structed and  apparently  made  of  good  material.  They  are  the  best  thing 
I  have  seen  for  the  Edison  machine  and  will  do  good  service  with  the 
Power's  Six,  though  I  cannot  see  that  they  are  superior  to  the  regular 
Power's  Six  motor  drive.  Both  with  Brother  Chambless*  device  and  the 
Power's  Six  motor  drive,  the  power  is  applied  in  an  excellent  way.  But  the 
Power's  drive  has  the  advantage  of  being  on  the  off  side  of  the  machine, 
hence  entirely  out  of  the  way;  also  it  is  very  simple  and  has  no  chain.  The 
Chambless  drive,  Power's  Six  model,  can  be  used  for  the  Motiograph  and 
Standard  machines.  Taken  altogether.  I  can  heartily  recommend  Brother 
Chambless'  device  with   the  qualification   noted   as  regards   the   Power's   Six. 


The  directions  for  attaching  to  Edison  machine  are  as  follows:  Photo  1 
shows  the  device  as  made  for  Edison  Exhibition  Model,  with  parts  broken 
away  to  show  the  method,  of  attachment  Drill  a  %  inch  hole  to  match  A. 
When  attachment  has  been  placed  in  position,  as  shown,  and  gear  D 
meshes  with  main  driving  gear  F,  bolt  A  to  the  frame  with  a  quarter-inch 
bolt,  and  hook  the  link  over  gear  shaft,  as  shown  at  B.  Remove  bar  E 
by  loosening  screw  C  and,  after  placing  hook  on  crank  shaft,  as  shown, 
replace  bar  E  and  tighten  screw  C.  which  completes  the  job.  Photograph  2 
shows  the  attachment  with  its  parts  in  place,  ready  to  receive  the  belt. 
To  put  on  the  Power's  Six  attachment,  first  remove  the  machine  crank  and 
put  the  large  sprocket  wheel  on  the  shaft  in  its  place.  Place  driving 
chain  over  same.  Loosen  wing-nut  on  belt  which  holds  the  machine  to  its 
base  and  place  V  slot  under  it,  retightening  the  wing-nut.  There  is  a 
screw  hole  in  the  other  end  of  the  base  of  the  attachment  ana  a  hole  in  base  of 
machine  to  match.  This  completes  the  job.  To  attach  to  the  model  B  Edison, 
drill  a  hole  to  match  A  in  the  sketch.  Three  and  one-half  inches  up  from  point 
guide  pins  D  and  E.  Mesh  gears  as  D  in  the  Exhibition  Model;  also 
attach  link  in  the  same  way.  Brother  Chambless  also  sends  picture  of  a 
field  rheostat  for  small  motor,  which  he  says  is  excellent.  It  is  made  by 
the  Ward  Leonard  Electric  Company,  but  where  that  concern  is  located, 
deponent  sayeth  not. 


The  Best  Gas. 

Mr.  H.  M.  Elliott,  Chicago,  III.,  rises  to  make  the  following  remarks: 
April  5th  issue,  New  York,  asks  about  oxzone  -gas  and  wants 
to  know  if  it  is  the  best  substitute  for  electricity.  I  worked  around 
road  picture  shows  under  canvas  and  in  halls,  churches,  etc., 
and  the  best  gas  I  have  found  yet  is  the  ozo  carbide  (oxygen- 
acetylene)  gas  outfits  put  out  by  Moore  Hubbel,  of  this  city.  With 
this  outfit  you  have  to  generate  the  gas  before  the  show  starts. 
It  is  stored  in  two  tanks,  similar  to  ordinary  tanks  such  as  gas 
is  purchased  in  when  one  uses  the  manufactured  article.  One 
contains  the  ozo  (oxygen)  and  the  other  the  carbide  (acetylene). 
This  outfit  costs  quite  a  little  more  than  the  others;  also  it  weighs 
a  little  more,  but  it  does  not  cost  nearly  so  much  to  operate,  and 
once  your  tanks  are  filled  you  have  no  more  bother  for  the  eve- 
ning. The  outfit  costs  more  in  the  beginning,  but  it  is  the  cheapest 
in  the  long  run.  In  limelight  projection  the  hotter  the  light  is  the 
more  light  there  is  and  the  whiter  it  will  be.  Oxygen-acetylene 
is  the  hottest  of  all  commercial  gases.  If  I  was  ever  to  put  a 
picture  show  on  the  road,  I  would  use  nothing  but  the  ozo  carbide 
outfit.  But  no  road  show  for  mine.  I  have  been  there  once, 
though  not  as  owner,  and  there  is  not  enough  money  in  it  for  the 
work  required. 
All  of  which  is  submitted  to  our  gas  using  readers  without  comment, 
ft*  I  know  nothing  whatever  concerning  this  particular  outfit. 


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Little  Rock  Operating  Room. 
Mr.  Benjamin  Smart,  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  contributes  the  following  letter: 
I  send  you,  under  separate  cover,  photograph  of  my  operating 
room  and  myself  (on  the  right)  and  helper.  The  room  is  12  x  12, 
with  a  10  foot  ceiling.  There  is  one  large  window  opening  on  the 
street,  two  doors,  one  leading  to  the  stairway  and  one  to  the  work 
room.  I  also  have  two  vent  pipes,  one  an  inlet  and  one  an  outlet, 
with  exhaust  fan  of  the  regular  type  in  the  latter — although  I  know 
you  do  not  approve  of  that.  There  are  also  vents  from  each  ma- 
chine, but  they  were  being  painted  when  the  picture  was  taken. 
On  the  right,  but  not  in  the  picture,  are  two  shelves,  one  above 
the  other.  One  is  for  the  rewinding  and  the  other  for  carbons, 
etc.  I  do  not  expect  you  to  publish  this  picture,  as  it  is  too 
large,  8  x  :o. 


Well  now,  brother  Smart,  take  a  good  rubber  at  that  picture  and  see 
if  it  looks  like  8  x  10.  1  am  going  to  criticise  you  pretty  sharply  on  one 
or  two  things.  The  room  is  of  good  size,  but  how  about  those  port  shut- 
ters? I  do  not  see  any  over  the  observation  port  at  all,  and  the  others 
are  of  the  flapper  type,  which  are  next  door  to  nothing.  Also  the  ar- 
rangement for  holding  them  up  is  not  of  the  best.  Your  rheostats  set 
right  under  your  switches,  and,  especially  in  summer  time,  the  effect  will 
be  to  subject  both  switches  and  fuses  to  considerable  heat,  which  is  highly 
undesirable.  My  advice  is  to  raise  that  shelf  up  above  the  switches  and 
set  the  rheostats  as  near  the  ceiling  as  you  can  get  them.  It  will  be  bet- 
ter for  you  and  the  switches  too.  As  to  the  vent — well,  it  ought  to  be  at 
least  288  sq.  inches  in  area  and  not  be  obstructed  by  a  fan. 


A  New  One. 

Mr.  Frank  Malcolm,  Pomeroy,  Washington,  springs  the  following  new 
one  on  the  department: 

Am  operating  at  the  Grand  Theater,  at  Pomeroy,  Washington. 
Have  a  Power's  Six-A  machine,  bought  new  three  months  ago.  It 
is  in  good  condition,  and  when  putting  a  picture  on  the  screen  it  is 
plain  and  nice,  but  when  it  conies  to  a  title  it  shows  a  dark  spot 
in  the  center.  Have  tried  everything  to  eliminate  it,  but  without 
result.  The  above  trouble  is  the  only  one  we  have  experienced. 
We  have  a  new  house  just  completed,  with  a  seating  capacity  of 
44?;  nice  opera  chairs.  It  has  a  first-class  stage  and  up-to-date 
scenery;  al«o  an  orchestra  pit  and  six-piece  orchestra.  Travelers 
say  it  is  the  best  small  house  in  the  northwest.  Pomeroy  has  only 
1,000  inhabitants  and  is  located  at  the  end  of  a  branch  railroad, 
30  miles  from  the  main  line.  I  want  to  join  the  union.  How  is  it 
best  to  do  it?  Pardon  so  many  questions,  but  I'm  in  earnest.  I 
enjoy  operating.  It  is  fascinating.  Good  is  not  enough  for  me. 
I  want  the  best  projection  possible  and  am  not  satisfied  till  I 
obtain  it. 

I  do  not  know  of  any  reason  in  the  world  why  a  ghost  should  develop 
in  the  title  and  not  in  the  picture  itself.  If  any  brother  has  had  a  similar 
difficulty,  let  him  get  up  on  his  hind  feet  and  tell  us  all  about  it.  Glad  to 
know  you  have  Mich  a  nice  little  house  and  that  you  are  endeavoring  to  put 
up  the  right  kind  of  projection.  Let  the  good  work  go  on.  Write  Lee  C. 
Hart.  Int.  Sec.-Treas.,  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.,  No.  63  W.  Adams  St.,  Chicago, 
about  joining  a  union. 


Short  Circuit  in  Rheostat. 

New  York  City  wants  to  know  what  is  the  proper  way  to  find  a  short 
circuit  in  a  rheostat.  If  New  York  gets  a  short  circuit  in  a  rheostat,  he 
will  not  have  to  look  for  it,  since  a  short  circuit  means  fireworks.  Prob- 
ably what  he  refers  to  is  a  ground,  which  is  a  very  different  matter.  In 
fact,  he  could  rot  very  well  have  a  short  circuit  in  a  rheostat,  unless  his 
coils  or  grids  were  grounded  to  the  frame  and  the  other  wire  of  the  circuit 
touched  the  frame  at  some  point  where  its  (the  wire's)  insulation  was  broken. 
If  he  has  a  ground  in  the  rheostat — well,  I  dunno.  My  own  way  is  just  to 
get  busy  and  hunt  it  up.  Might  be  a  coil  touching  the  frame  or  might  be 
the  insulation  bad  at  some  point.  If  you  get  a  ground  in  your  rheostat, 
just  set  it  on  a  slab  of  marble  or  some  earthen  plates  or  other  insulating 
material.     That  is  the  easiest  way  out. 


A  Scheme. 

Mr.  E.  J.  Marshick,  Detroit,  Michigan,  has  evolved  this  scheme  which 
certainly  does  credit  to  his  ingenuity.     He  writes  as  follows: 

Enclosed  find  sample  of  ticket  used  in  a  scheme  I  evolved  after 
reading  friend  Van  Allen's  letter  in  April  12th  issue.  I  work  it 
by  the  month  and  the  lowest  amount  for  that  period  was  $2.00, 
which  gave  the  merchants  a  limited  amount  of  tickets,  up  to  500, 
according  to  their  needs.  For  $3.00  a  month  I  gave  them  up  to 
the  thousand  limit.  We  had  100,000  tickets  printed,  used  20,000 
the  first  week.  I  am  not  in  the  show  business  myself  any  more, 
but  undertook  the  scheme  for  what  there  is  in  it.  This  is  the  way 
I  worked  it:  I  gave  the  manager  of  the  theater  a  certain  cash 
sum,  say  $50,  for  the  four  Saturday  matinees  each  month.  I  con- 
tracted a  ten-inch  space  in  the  paper  for  $10  per  month,  secured 
enough  business  men  on  the  job  to  net  me  a  little  on  the  side  for 
my  trouble.  The  theaters  furnished  the  tickets,  which  cost  them 
$8.00  per  hundred  thousand.  I  contracted  the  theater  and  the 
business  men  for  three  months  If  satisfactory,  we  continue.  Get 
my  cash  for  each  month  on  delivery  of  tickets,  thus  saving  myself 
the  trouble  of  going  around  every  Monday  to  collect.  I  run  a  dry 
cleaning  store  and  in  our  window  we  have  80,000  tickets.  Along- 
side of  the  tickets  we  have  a  sign  "Guess  how  many  tickets  in  the 
window."  This  has  drawn  a  large  crowd  every  day  and  has  be- 
come the  talk  of  the  neighborhood.  Who  says  the  scheme  will 
not  work  as  well  in  the  large  city  as  well  as  in  the  small  town?  Have 
requests  from  different  sections  of  the  city,  both  from  business 
men  and  managers  of  theaters,  to  establish  th-  same  scheme  for 
them. 

It  really  seems  to  me  that  our  friend  Marshick  has  sprung  something  .of 
considerable  value  to  the  business.  The  giving  away  of  these  tickets  for 
Saturday  matinee  will  undoubtedly  have  the  effect  of  starting  a  great  many 
people  going  to  the  moving  picture  theaters,  who  were  never  inside  of  one 
in  their  lives.  My  judgment  is,  that  instead  of  decreasing  the  business  of 
the  theaters  involved,  it  would  increase  their  cash  attendance  on  other 
days.  We  are  obliged  to  friend  Marshick  for  setting  forth  his  scheme  for 
the  benefit  of  all.     His  advertisement   reads   as   follows: 

By   contributing   a   small   sum   each    month,   we   will    give   to   the 
merchants    as    many    tickets    to    the    theater   as    they   need,    to    be 
given    free    to    their   customers    and    families   only.      We    advertise 
this    Saturday    show    hi    the    local    papers   as    being   given    by    the 
business   men,   and   make   customers   go   to  the   merchant   for  their 
tickets.     This  will   draw  new  trade   for  the  theater  as   well   as  in- 
crease   business    for    the    merchant.      Better    than    trading    stamps. 
Our  representative  will  call  on  you. 
By  "a  small   sum"   he  means  $2  to  $3   for  a  limited   number  of  tickets. 
He  has  fifty  merchants  in  on  the  scheme  already,  totaling  $135.     His  total 
expense  is  $75,  which  leaves  $60  clear.     By  taking  up  the  scheme  individually, 
the  theater  could  make  the  whole  thing  itself. 


As  To  Rheostat  Loss. 

Mr.  W.  A.  Norman,  manager,  the  Magic  Theater,  Rockwell,  Iowa,  asks: 
Will  you  kindly  advise  me  as  to  the  amount  of  loss  when  I  am 
using  20  amperes  through  a  220  volt  adjustable  rheostat  from  a  220 
volt  d.  c.  line.  Please  explain  just  what  the  loss  is?  Would  also 
like  you  to  offer  some  suggestion  as  to  how  to  eliminate  flicker. 
This  time  I  am  using  no  volt,  a,  c,  through  a  compensarc,  and 
the  machine  has  a  two-wing  outside  shutter.  When  I  use  a  three- 
wing  shutter,  it  makes  the  picture  too  dark.  Enclosed  find  two- 
cent  stamp  for  reply. 

Replies  are  only  made  by  mail  when  a  minimum  fee  of  $1.00  is  enclosed. 
You  will  find  your  rheostat  question  fully,  thoroughly  and  completely  an- 
swered on  pages  123  and  124  of  the  new  Handbook,  a  450-page  book  to 
be  had  from  The  Moving  Picture  World,  price  $2.50,  which  will  answer  not 
only  that  question,  but  hundreds  of  others  for  you.  As  to  the  flicker,  that 
will  always  be  present  as  long  as  you  use  a  two-wing  shutter.  The  reason 
for  this  you  will  find  fully  explained  on  pages  219,  220.  221,  222  and  223 
of  the  Handbook.  The  remedy  is  to  use  a  three-wing  shutter  of  proper 
proportions,  but  if  your  current  is  60  cycle  and  you  use  a  three-winger, 
there  will  be  a  flashing  of  the  light  when  the  speed  is  increased  to  about  70 
turns  of  the  crank  per  minute.  This  is  by  reason  of  the  fact  that  the  blades 
of  the  three-wing  shutter  get  into  synchronism  with  one  side  of  the  alterna- 
tions nt  about  that  speed.  As  to  soaking  carbons  in  salt  brine,  this  matter 
is  dealt  with  on  page  212  of  the  Handbook,  where  you  will  find  your  ques- 
tion answered.  I  cannot  give  valuable  space  in  the  department  to  answer- 
ing questions  which  have  been  previously  dealt  with  in  its  columns  many 
times,  and  which  are  fully  set  forth  in  the  Handbook,  a  copy  of  which  every 
operator  and  manager  should  have,  not  because  I  am  its  compiler,  but  be- 
cause it  contains  450  pages  of  matter  which  it  took  a  year  and  a  half  of 
hard  work  to  prepare;  423  pages  being  actual,  solid  reading  matter  and  illus- 
trations dealing  with  the  practical  side  of  projecting  moving  pictures  and 
dealing  with  it  in  a  practical  way  for  the  practical  operator  and  manager. 


Light  Trouble. 

Falls  Creek,   Pennsylvania,   writes,   enclosing  money   for  book,   and   says: 
I    would  like   to   have   your   answer  as   to   the   following:      I   am 
projecting  a  9   foot  picture  on  a  48   foot  throw,  and  have  trouble 
getting  a  clear  field.     There  are  rainbow  colors  in  the  corners,  as 
per  sketch.      I    can   get   rid   of  them   by   moving  carbons   closer  to 
condenser,  but  that  causes  a  dark  spot  to  appear  in  the  center  of 
the  screen.      I  think  my  trouble  lies  in  the  condensers,  but  cannot 
find  out  whether  they  are  6J/2  or  7  inch  lenses. 
On  page  356  of  the   Handbook  you  will  find  how  to  measure  your  con- 
densing lenses.     I  think  two  7  J4   condensing  lenses  will  be  the  right  thing 
for  you.     Try  moving  your  lamphouse  backward  and  forward  and  see  what 
effect   that   has  before   you   change   lenses. 


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"THE  BROKEN  VOW"  (Cines),  May  2.— This  two-reet  picture  is  a 
genuine  feature.  Above  all  else  are  the  backgrounds.  They  will  appeal 
to  all  sorts  and  conditions — and  they  prove  what  can  be  accomplished  by  a 
director  of  artistic  taste.  Showing  these  backgrounds  to  full  advantage  is 
splendid  photography.  The  tinting  of  sunlight  is  especially  striking.  The 
interiors,  showing  the  home  of  the  cattle  owner,  are  elaborate  and  rich. 
Throughout  the  first  reel  there  is  a  succession  of  pastoral  scenes.  There 
is  a  large  flock  of  sheep  in  the  opening.  A  little  later  we  see  a  big  herd  of 
cattle  on  the  way  to  market — the  scene  where  they  ford  a  stream  is  unusual. 
The  picture  of  the  rural  lovers  as  they  sit  by  the  edge  of  the  great  cliff, 
the  drowsy  hound  by  their  side,  would  be  a  setting  for  a  painting.  On  the 
dramatic  side  the  picture  holds  all  the  way — straight  from  first  to  last. 
The  climax  is  tragic  and  sudden.  The  cattle  owner  who  has  lured  the 
shepherdess  from  her  old  lover  and  installed  her  as  his  wife  is  bound  against 
the  tree  under  which  the  girl  and  the  cattle  herder  had  plighted  their  troth; 
the  herder,  who  has  returned  to  the  estate  after  an  absence  of  two  years, 
takes  the  wife  in  his  arms  and  jumps  into  space.     The  picture  ends  abruptly. 

"THE  WANDERER"  (Biograph),  May  3.— A  mystery  picture,  like  "The 
Top  Floor  Back,"  or,  "Annie  Oimbs  Upstairs,"  or  "Little  Sunbeam";  but 
unlike  the  latter,  it  has  no  real  characters.  The  "wanderer"  is  a  strolling 
musician  whose  artistic  soul  longs  for  the  perfect  note.  The  effect  of  his 
self-sacrificing  life,  symbolized  in  the  influence  of  his  music  when  heard  by 
evildoers  as  it  passes  below,  like  Pippa,  in  Browning's  poem,  links  two  or 
three  human  lives  together;  but  not  at  all  dramatically.  Henry  Walthall 
is  the  musician,  outcast  like  the  true  artist,  and  he  marries  Mae  Marsh,  who 
is  woman  and  therefore  also  outcast.  Of  course,  we,  in  our  statement,  are 
cruder  than  the  picture,  as  the  mind  is  cruder  than  the  soul.  Besides 
these,  there  are  Lionel  Barrymore  and  Claire  McDowell,  a  couple  in  trouble 
who  also  overhear  the  strains.  This  gives  Miss  McDowell  a  chance  to  be- 
come most  truly  tragic  heroine,  but  no  chance  to  become  a  personality.  We 
have  used  mueh  space  to  say  merely  this.  The  picture  is  only  art,  not  life. 
It  stands  on  its  scenes  and  they  are  fine.  The  photography  is  not  as  good  as 
it  should  have  been. 

"BILL'S  SWEETHEART"  (Edison),  May  3. — In  a  rough  barroom  in  the 
West  we  find  the  heroine  of  this  picture,  an  American  girl,  being  played  for 
and  won  at  cards  by  a  Greaser  from  a  trader  who  owns  her  only  by  right 
of  his  having  found  her  when  a  baby  and  brought  her  up.  Then  the  noble 
hero  plays  for  her  and  wins  her  from  the  Greaser.  We  can't  see  that  the 
people  like  this  sort  of  stuff  and  are  somewhat  pained  to  see  it  coming 
from  Edison. 

"THE  CRAZY  PROSPECTOR"  (Essanay).  May  3.— A  good  offering. 
There  have  been  one  or  two  something  like  it  long  ago;  but  that  won't  hurt 
it  any.  The  situation  is  tragic  and  true  enough  to  get  across  with  a  punch. 
The  prospector  is  only  silly,  is  pegging  away  at  a  cliff  where  he  thinks 
there  is  gold.  At  the  bar  they  laugh  at  him.  He  really  finds  gold.  His 
daughter  tries  to  keep  him  from  blabbing;  but  he  slips  away.  She  finds 
him  at  the  empty  bar;  all  the  "bunch"  has  gone  to  register  his  claim;  but 
Broncho  Billy,  the  stage  driver,  helps  her.     It  is  well  put  over. 

"THE  WAYWARD  SON"  (Kalem),  May  3.— A  melodrama  with  nothing 
new;  yet  it  seemed  to  interest  the  audience.  The  wayward  son,  disowned 
and  down-and-out,  gets  wind  of  a  plot  to  rob  his  father.  He  "gets  in  bad" 
before  he  and  the  girl  are  able  to  warn  his  father  and  then  comes  the  cap- 
ture of  the  thugs.  It  is  intelligently  played  by  the  Western  company  of 
the  Kalem    forces   and   the    photography   is   first    class. 

"CLARENCE  AT  THE  THEATER"  (Lubin),  May  3.— A  farce  bit  almost 
too  slight  to  notice  seriously. 

"FIXING  AUNTY  UP"  (Lubin).  May  3. — On  the  same  reel  is  this  farce 
in  the  well  known  style  of  A.  D.  Hotaling*s  company.  We  found  it  fairly 
entertaining  ourselves  and  it  seemed  to  please  the  audience.  Aunty,  played 
by  Mae  Hotely,  won't  let  her  three  nieces  get  married  to  their  three  lovers 
till  she  is  herself  disposed  of  in  wedlock.  George  Reehm  writes  to  his  dad, 
Robert  Eurns.  to  come  and  marry  her.  Tired  of  widowerhood,  he  comes; 
but  is  repelled  by  her  looks,  so  the  girls  "fix  her  up"  and  she  comes  out 
01  it  a  most  charming  young  woman.  Dad  is  now  glad  he  came.  E.  W. 
Sargent  is  the  author. 

"GENERAL  SCOTT'S  PROTEGE"  (Patheplay),  May  3.— An  Indian 
story  pictured  in  beautiful  backgrounds  and  fairly  well  photographed. 
There  is  action  in  it;  but  the  action  isn't  new.  Where  Indian  stories  are 
not  too  often  shown,  this  will  make  a  good  offering.  It  didn't  take  very 
well    here. 

"A  MIDNIGHT  BELL"  (Selig),  May  5.— The  story  of  this  old,  rural 
melodrama  is  pretty  widely  known  and  as  well  liked.  It  has  an  old-time  plot 
and  is  a  popular,  rather  than  an  artistic  offering,  with  plenty  of  the  good, 
old  horse-play.  It  didn't  take  strongly  with  a  Broadway  audience  in  the 
afternoon;  but  there  were  many  that  seemed  impressed  and  we  believe  that 
it  will  go  well  in  most  places.  We  like  the  adaptation  as  acted  and  pro- 
duced; the  characters  are  pleasing.  Clara  Dale  is  nothing  else  but  charming 
in  the  role  of  Annie  Gray  and  Theodore  Gamble  makes  his  Ned  Olcott  a 
fine,  manly  lad.  T.  J.  Corumerford  makes  up  into  a  perfect  Squire,  although 
his  playing  offered  not  enough  contrast;  he  didn't  seem  sensitive  at  all 
times.     Edith  De   Yalnaaseda,  as  the  school  teacher,  adds  much  to  the  pic- 


ture's charm.  Lillian  Leighton  is  a  motherly  Mrs.  Gray.  John  Lancaster 
looks  his  part  in  the  role  of  the  justice  of  the  peace.  These  are  capably  sup- 
ported by  a  large  cast.  The  producer  is  Charles  French.  The  camera 
work  is  of  good  quality. 

"THE  TENDERFOOT'S  MONEY"  (Biograph),  May  S.— There  is 
freshness  in  this  offering,  though  it  deals  with  mining  village  doings  that 
many  pictures  have  shown.  There's  an  idea  behind  it  and  it  has  a  touch 
of  irony  which  is  uncommon  enough  to  be  acceptable.  The  "money"  was 
"come  by"  in  some  evil  way  and  we  are  not  sorry  to  see  the  tenderfoot 
lose  it.  We  watch  it  as  it  changes  hands,  until  it  finally  rests  with  the  least 
dishonest  man,  who  dishonestly  keeps  it.  The  photographs  are  very  clear 
in  most  of  the  scenes  and  the  backgrounds  (a  bit  of  rocky  mountain  country) 
are  worth  seeing.  Henry  Walthall,  Claire  McDowell,  Alfred  Paget  and 
others   have  roles. 

"THE  ANT-LION"  (Patheplay),  May  6.— A  short  picture  showing  how 
this  creature  lures  his  prey. 

"THE  CHATEAU  OF  BLOIS,  FRANCE"  (Patheplay),  May  6.— Fine 
views  of  this  great  structure  on  the  River  Loire.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that 
all  of  the  views  were  of  different  wings  and  that  there  was  none  of  the 
whole. 

"A  TANGO  TANGLE"  (Essanay),  May  6.— There  is  shown  in  this  pic- 
ture what  we  may  believe  is  an  authentic  demonstration  of  the  dance  about 
which  there  is  so  much  discussion — and  which  will  go  far  to  confirm  all 
-  that  has  been  said  against  it,  especially  in  the  opinion  of  non-dancers.  In 
this  respect  the  film  may  be  said  to  be  educational.  The  picture  contains 
nothing  other  than  the  dancing  to  raise  it  out  of  the  ordinary,  either  in 
acting    or    otherwise. 

"THE  JUDGMENT  OF  THE  DEEP'  (Lubin),  May  6.— This  picture  is 
laid  by  the  sea,  the  views  of  which  will  interest  some.  The  story  is  nil — 
mechanical,  almost  painful.  Where  there  is  opportunity  for  acting,  on  the 
part  of  nearly  the  entire  cast  it  is  overdone — melodramatic,  stagy. 

"HATCHING  CHICKENS"  (Selig),  May  6.— A  very  short  reel  showing 
a  chick  working  out  of  its  shell.  This  is  the  second  chicken  release  from 
the  same  manufacturer   in  five  days. 

"A  WELDED  FRIENDSHIP"  (Selig).  May  6.— On  the  same  reel.  A 
picture  without  a  thrill  in  it.  There  is  at  first  a  lapse  of  five  years,  fol- 
lowed shortly  by  another  of  twenty  years.  There  is  also  a  lapse  of  memory. 
The  story  is  called  an  Alaskan  romance,  but  somehow  you  don't  feel  as  if 
you  were  in  Alaska.     Kathlyn  Williams,  in  a  dual  role,  has  the  lead. 

"WHEN  GREEK  MEETS  GREEK"  (Edison),  May  6.— This  story  is 
written  by  Mary  Fuller,  and  she  and  Charles  Ogle  have  the  leads.  It  is  a 
pretty  story  and  will  be  heartily  enjoyed.  The  work  of  Miss  Fuller  and 
Mr.  Ogle  is  of  their  best.  Miss  Fuller  portrays  a  stenographer  who  has  a 
will  of  her  own;  she  is  continually  at  odds  with  a  somewhat  forceful  em- 
ployer, who  has  a  son  in  love  with  her.  When  the  time  arrives,  however, 
she  tells  the  son  that  not  only  does  she  care  nothing  for  him,  but,  in  an- 
swer to  an  insinuating  remark,  for  the  father  either.  There  are  several 
comedy  situations.  The  climax,  in  which  the  two  leads  hold  the  stage,  and 
in  which  the  stenographer  discovers  she  really  does  love  the  employer,  is 
finely  carried  out 

"OMENS  AND  ORACLES"  (Vitagraph),  May  6.— This  is  the  third  of 
the  Belinda  series.  It  is  written  by  Eliza  G.  Harral.  It  will  make  a  lot 
of  fun  in  a  great  many  houses.  The  character  work  of  Miss  Florence 
Radinoff  as  the  boarding-house  keeper  is  excellent.  Norma  Talmadge  as 
Belinda  is  good.     There  is  a  competent  cast. 

"PEDRO'S  TREACHERY"  (Lubin),  May  5  —  A  picture  of  the  Mexican 
border  by  Romaine  Fielding  and  his  company.  The  story  is  not  original 
or  planned  to  be  most  effective.  The  photography  is  very  clear  in  most 
of   the  scenes. 

"THE  HEART  OF  AN  ACTRESS"  (Kalem),  May  5.— There  is  little 
that  is  new  in  this  story  and  it  is  not  convincing  as  probable  life.  It  has 
been  acted  with  dignity  and  grace  and  perfectly  photographed.  As  an 
offering,  it  stands  on  its  scenes,  not  on  its  unbelievable  storv.  Alice  Joyce 
plays  the  actress  who  tries  to  give  back  her  lover  (Tom  Moore)  to  the 
other  girl,   in  whom  she   has   found  an  old  benefactress. 

"AN  OLD  ACTOR"  (Selig),  May  5.— An  old  story  done  in  pictures;  it 
makes  a  good,  interesting  offering.  In  the  story,  the  actor  is  described  as 
playing  in  Hamlet.  He  is  found  to  be  too  old  to  play  the  grave  digger 
and  is  discharged;  but  comes  back  at  night,  puts  on  Hamlet's  robes  and  dies 
on  the  throne.  This  makes  very  appropriate  the  quotation,  "After  this  is 
silence."  The  picture  makes  the  drama  "Richelieu,"  and,  even  in  this,  the 
quotation  is  not  very  much  out  of  place;  but  we  think  that  the  story  was 
better  as  first  told.  This  old  actor  is  played  well  by  Frank  Clark  and  he  is 
ably  supported  by  Bessie  Eyton,  H.  W.  Otto,  T.  Santschi  and  W.  Hutchin- 
son.    Colin  Campbell  is  author  and  producer. 

"SINGLES  MENDS  THE  CLOCK"  (Vitagraph),  May  5.— A  dull  offer- 
ing which  made  very  little  laughter.  When  J.  Lackaye  mends  the  clock  it 
goes  backward;  but  that  was  the  only  real  laugh  in  the  picture  this  morn- 
ing. There  is  a  bit  of  acting  in  poor  taste  which  made  one  or  two  laugh. 
Flora  Finch  has  a  role.  F.  Thompson  produced  it  from  the  script  of  Eliza 
Barrel. 


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"THE  ONE  HUNDRED  DOLLAR  ELOPEMENT"  (Edison),  May  5.— 
The  price,  $100,  was  what  the  gin's  dad  had  to  pay  the  young  man  in  the 
case  to  withdraw.  You  see,  he  was  not  just  the  kind  of  man  that  was 
wanted.  The  offering  is  clearly  told,  pleasing  and  commendable  for  common 
sense  that  will  do  no  harm  and  may  Jo  a  lot  of  good.  The  best  thing  about 
it  is  that  it  teaches  a  lesson  without  being  a  sermon.  The  best  character 
in  the  picture  is  Mrs.  Bechtel's  drawing  of  Nelson's  mother.  Gertrude 
McCoy  plays  the  girl  and  Edward  Roulden  the  youth  Nelson.  The  principal 
of  the  school  from  which  the  girl  tries  to  elope  is  played  by  Mrs.  C.  J.  Wil- 
liams. Bigelow  Cooper  plays  the  girl's  father.  Mrs.  E.  F.  Fenello,  the 
authoress,  deserves  commendation.     The  photography   is  clear. 

"PATIIE'S  WEEKLY"  (May  5). — A  good  number;  it  covers  a  pretty 
wide  range  of  interest.  Many  of  these  items  would  have  been  better  if 
the  date  at  which  they  were  taken  had  been  flashed.  Those  views  of  the 
grain  ships  getting  out  of  the  ice-locked  harbor  on  the  north  shore  of  Lake 
Superior  should  surely  have  had  the  date. 

"BILL"  (Essanay),  April  30.— A  burlesque,  with  "Billy"  Mason  in  the 
leading  role.  The  situation  is  not  new  and  we  have  seen  it  worked  out  to 
more  advantage.  Mr.  Mason  is  good  in  many  kinds  of  roles,  but  is  hardly 
a  great  success  in   this.     The  photography  is  clear. 

"THE  BURGLAR  WHO  ROBBED  DEATH"  (Selig).  April  30.— The 
burglar  is  a  broken  down  doctor  and  finds  while  following  his  new  calling 
of  burglar  that  his  professional  services  are  greatly  needed  by  a  child. 
So  he  who  had  broken  in  to  steal  remains  to  cure.  This  situation  is  in- 
teresting; but  it  might  have  been  worked  up  more  effectively.  Some  time 
and  attention  were  lost  on  unimportant  details.  The  picture  is  fairly  well 
acted  and  clearly  photographed,  and  will  be  reasonably  popular.  It  is  written 
by  Lanier  Bartlett  and  produced  by  Lem  Parker.  Kathlyn  Williams  plays 
the  mother  of   the   child   and   Harold   Lockwood   the  doctor. 

"THE  EIGHTH  NOTCH"  (Kalem),  April  30.— There  were  dramatic 
possibilities  in  this  situation  that  were  utilized,  but  not  wholly  developed, 
and,  though  it  is  a  good  offering,  it  might  have  been  even  stronger.  There 
is  one  place  where  it  is  not  at  once  clear;  it  comes  after  the  woman  finds 
the  feudist's  gun  with  the  eighth  notch  and  from  it  thinks  that  he  has 
killed  her  husband,  because  the  other  notches  represent  others  of  her  family. 
The  struggle  between  the  sheriff  and  the  crowd  that  wants  to  lynch  the 
feudist,  before  it  is  found  that  he  is  innocent,  doesn't  convince  strongly. 
The  qualities  of  the  offering  are  the  truthfulness  of  the  characters  and  the 
setting,  and  especially  the  ragged  children.  The  photography  is  not  as 
good  as  it  might  have  been. 

"A  COUPON  COURTSHIP"  (Kalem),  April  30.— On  the  same  reel  is 
this  little  offering  that  will  please,  because  it  gets  hold  of  something  actual. 
It  will  especially  appeal  to  men  whose  wives  collect  tobacco  coupons  and 
also  it  shows  two  ways  of  buying  a  piano.  Ruth  Roland  has  said  that  she 
will  marry  the  man  who  gets  a  piano,  offered  for  a  million  tobacco  coupons. 
John  Brennan  and  Jack  McDermott  smoke,  smoke,  smoke,  to  get  it;  neither 
succeed.  Marshal  Neilan  saves  his  money  and  buys  it.  The  farce  made 
good  laughter. 

"THE  MEXICAN'S  DEFEAT"  (Patheplay),  April  30.— The  opening 
scenes  of  this  offering  promise  a  realistic  story  of  actual  people;  but  it 
stiaightway  becomes  very  much  like  a  travesty  and  actually  caused  some 
merriment  at  the  wrong  place.  Those  opening  scenes  couldn't  have  been 
better — they  alone  are  truly  worth  while.  George  Gebhardt  plays  the  lead. 
There   is   some    good   scenery. 

"THE  PANAMA  CANAL  TODAY"  (Patheplay),  April  30.— On  the 
same  reel  is  this  offering  that  will  surely  be  appreciated  by  all  who  see  it. 
We  have  looked  at  many  motion  pictures  of  the  Canal,  but  are  sure  that 
we  never  have  seen  any  that  were  more  newsy  or  interesting.  The  photog- 
raphy is  good,  too.  The  only  shortcoming  is  that  there  is  too  little  of  it. 
Spectators  will  want  more. 

"A  RELUCTANT  CINDERELLA"  (Edison),  April  30.— A  modern 
story  in  farcical  vein  that  caused  a  good  deal  of  laughter  and  pleased  the 
audience.  Its  quality  comes  from  the  good  things  that  break  out  in  it  now 
and  then  rather  than  from  the  situation  itself,  which,  after  all,  is  plainly 
contrived.  There  are  pretty  scenes  at  a  dinner-dance,  perfectly  photographed. 
Elsie  MacLeod  is  the  heroine  and  is  pretty  in  her  evening  frock.  Her 
shoe  is  tight  and  she  pushes  it  off  durirfg  the  dinner.  It  is  kicked  away 
and  she  can't  get  it.  Arthur  Housman  plays  the  other  lead.  C.  J.  Williams 
has  made  a  light-hearted  and,  at  times,  sparkling  production.  Alice 
Williams  is  the  authoress. 

"A  WINDOW  ON  WASHINGTON  PARK"  (Vitagraph),  April  30.— 
A  picture  that  will  please  by  its  sentiment  rather  than  by  the  strength  of 
its  art.  A  young  man  living  on  Washington  Square,  New  York  City, 
looks  out  and  sees  an  old  man,  whom  he  invites  in.  The  stranger  tells  a 
story,  and  it  turns  out  that  he  is  the  youth's  grandfather.  It  might  have 
been  taken  in  any  park  and  the  view  of  the  "Little  Church  Around  the 
Corner"  might  have  been  of  almost  any  church.  Charles  Kent  is  strong  in 
the  role  of  the  old  man;  but  Tom  Powers  is  not  so  good  as  the  youth.  Flor- 
ence Turner  has  a  small  role,  as  has  Courtenay  Foote.  The  photography 
is  fair.  The  picture  is  produced  by  Larry  Trimble  from  Marguerite  An- 
drews' script. 

"THE  ABSENT-MINDED  MR.  BOOB"  (Selig).  May  1.— One  will  be 
likely  to  conclude  that  the  author  of  this  farce,  Malcolm  Douglas,  deserves 
more  credit  than  the  producer,  C.  H.  France.  Its  situation  has  been  ap- 
proached in  other  offerings;  but  it  is  cleverly  arranged  and  might  have  been 
made  most  effective.  There  were  a  number  of  laughs,  but  it  was  burlesqued, 
out  of  all  humanity  and  amused  the  few  rather  than  the  many.  The  pho- 
tography  is  clear. 

"SOME  CHICKENS"  (Selig),  May  i.-On  the  same  reel;  and  when  it 
— the  title — came  out  on  the  screen,  every  man  sat  up.  For  what?  Jus- 
chickens — leghorns,  cochins,  and  other  gallacious  fowls.  They  were  clearly 
photographed  and  all  that;  but,  really,  ought  they  to  have  been  called  "some" 
chickens  ?  "Just"  chickens  would  have  been  better ;  then  we  wouldn't 
have  been  disappointed. 

"THE  STORY  THE  DESERT  TOLD"  (Essanay),  May  1.— A  dramatic 
story  of  the   desert   that  is  new,   though  it  is  along  well-trodden   lines.      It 


has  a  good  punch  and  is  a  first-class  offering.  Arthur  Mackley's  company 
puts  it  over,  and  it  is  naturally  and  intelligently  acted.  It  shows  how  a 
sheriff,  taking  an  outlaw  across  the  desert,  finds  a  child  of  the  village 
abandoned  and  dying  of  thirst.  The  bandit  has  to  wait  while  the  sheriff 
takes  the  kid  to  safety  and  when  they  get  back  to  him  he  is  dead.  The 
desert  scenes  are  very   interesting. 

"BUNNY  VERSUS  CUTEY"  (Vitagraph),  May  1.— There  is  much 
laughter  while  Bunny  is  doing  gymnastics  to  reduce  his  weight,  and  the 
great  comedian  is  truly  most  amusing  going  through  the  new  wrinkles  to 
give  muscle  or  reduce  flesh.  The  little  farce  features  these  funny  things 
and  it  seemed  to  be  liked. 

"USE  OF  DYNAMITE  BY  UNITED  STATES  ENGINEERING 
CORPS"  (Vitagraph).  May  1. — Clear  photographs  show  how  explosives  are 
handled  by  Uncle  Sam's  boys.     There  are  some  thrilling  explosions  pictured. 

"THE  VEIL  OF  SLEEP"  (Lubin),  May  1.— An  old-style  story;  its 
chief  assets  are  good  and  very  clearly  photographed  sleepwalking  scenes 
and  generally  clear  camera  work.  It  is  set  in  the  West,  in  a  mining  town. 
E.  C.  Hall  is  the  author  and  L.  B.  Carlton  the  producer.  The  sleepwalker 
is  Vivian   Prescott.     Jack   Standing  plays  opposite  to  her. 

"IF  WE  ONLY  KNEW"  (Biograph),  May  1.—  There  is  an  easily  recog- 
nized Biogranh  style  about  this  offering,  which  tells  a  not  improbable  and 
interesting  story  clearly.  There  is  nothing  great  or  even  very  clever  about 
it;  but  it  is  somewhat  emotional  and  well  acted.  It  is  set  in  and  around 
one  of  the  beautiful  places  in  California  and  has  some  surf  scenes  along  a 
sandy  beach.  Blanche  Sweet  and  Henry  Walthall  play  a  married  couple 
whose  little  girl  falls  asleep  in  a  dory  on  the  sand  and  is  carried  by  the 
tide  out  to  sea.  It  is  some  time  before  her  parents  find  that  she  has  been 
re?  cued. 

"BURIED  TREASURE"  (Melies),  May  1. — A  practical  joke  story  in  an 
interesting  setting — around  Sydney  Harbor.  The  acting  is  able  and  pleas- 
ing and  the  photography  is  fair.  There  is  nothing  very  startling  or  new 
in  the  story.     It  makes  a  fair  offering. 

"THE  HOME  OF  THE  TERNS"  (Melies),  May  t.— Terns  are  birds 
living  around  the  sea  like  the  gulls,  and  the  "home"  referred  to  is  an 
island  off  North  Queensland.  The  picture  is  well  photographed  and  shows 
plenty  of  terns  flying  about  or  resting  on  the  ground.  The  eggs  laid  on 
the  sand  will  interest. 

"THE  PARTING  ETERNAL"  (Patheplay),  May  1.— Two  lovers  are 
parted;  one  becomes  a  nun,  the  other  a  priest.  They  come  face  to  face  at 
the  priest's  first  mass.  The  story  is  not  new  or  probable,  but  is  likely  to 
interest  some.  It  offers  a  chance  to  the  scornful  to  mock — three  or  four 
did  so  and  very  loudly.  The  large  audience  didn't  show  any  surprise  at 
this.  The  photography  is  clear  and  the  acting  intelligent.  The  leads  are 
taken  by  Betty  Gray  and  Donald  Mackenzie. 

'TATTY'S  BUSY  DAY"  (Kalem),  May  2.— Pretty  mechanical  stuff  for 
a  comedy.  A  fat  man  tries  several  employments  during  the  day  and  gets 
into  trouble  on   each  occasion. 

"OLD  WOMEN  OF  THE  STREETS  OF  NEW  YORK"   (Kalem),  May 

2. — On  the  same  reel  as  the  foregoing  is  this  picture  in  line  with  the  news 
films  put  out  by  this  company.  It  is  interesting  as  showing  the  methods 
of  making  a  living  pursued   by  many  women  advanced  in  years. 

"THEIR  STEPMOTHER"  (Selig),  May  2.— Here  is  a  pretty  story.  It 
is  written  by  Hettie  G.  Baker — a  picture  that  will  strike  many  as  one  which 
only  a  woman  could  write.  It  touches  a  phase  of  domestic  life  which  will 
appeal  strongfy  to  the  feminine  heart.  Two  motherless  children  read  a 
tale  of  a  heartless  stepmother.  They  are  told  by  their  father  they  are  to 
have  a  new  mother.  They  decided  to  leave  home.  As  they  wander  away 
they  are  found  by  the  prospective  stepmother,  who  on  learning  of  their 
decision  takes  them  to  her  home  and  there  keeps  them  until  she  has  won 
their  hearts.  You  see  the  finish?  Kathlyn  Williams  is  the  future  step- 
mother, and  it  is  a  fine  characterization  she  gives  us.  She  will  win  other 
hearts   than   those   of  the  two  little   ones. 

"CINDERS"  (Vitagraph),  May  2. — Here  is  a  story  the  theme  of  which 
is  "ag'in  natur*."  No  man  in  poverty  and  alone  in  the  world  will  sell  a 
splendid  dog  for  a  dollar  in  order  to  buy  flowers  for  a  sick  child  friend. 
He  might  do  it  to  save  a  life;  hardly  under  circumstances  short  of  that. 
George  Stanley  and  Anne  Schaefer  do  their  work  in  faultless  style,  but 
they  are  handicapped  by  a  story  that  is  not  strong. 

"THE  GIRL  BACK  EAST"  (Lubin),  May  2— There  are  but  three  char- 
acters in  this  picture,  and  one  of  them  has  but  little  to  do.  Two  men  in 
the  mountains — it  may  have  been  once  upon  a  time — are  in  love  with  the 
same  g:r1  as  is  proved  by  the  looks  they  bestow  upon  the  same  photo- 
graph. One  is  ill;  the  other,  though  a  stranger,  decides  to  nurse  him  back 
to  health,  which  he  does.  Then  he  prepares  to  depart.  The  first  man  sees 
in  a  newspaper  a  notice  of  the  marriage  of  the  girl  in  the  case.  He  tells 
the  second.     They  shake  hands.     There  is  a  lack  of  real  heart  interest. 

"GROLTNDLESS  SUSPICION"  (Edison),  May  2.— A  good  story  of  a 
foolish  wife  who  tries  to  conceal  from  her  husband  the  fact  that  their  in- 
fant is  blind  and  who  in  his  absence  secures  the  services  of  a  specialist  in 
an  effort  to  restore  the  sight  of  the  little  one.  The  husband  is  aware  that 
something  is  wrong,  but  of  course  gets  the  wrong  view.  He  bursts  in  on  the 
surgeon,  the  wife  and  the  maid  just  after  the  operation  has  been  pro- 
nounced successful.  It  is  too  bad  that  the  husband  was  made  to  draw  a 
pistol  as  he  entered  the  room — the  hackneyed  action  marred  an  otherwise 
splendidly  executed  picture.  Laura  Sawyer  and  Benjamin  Wilson  were  the 
wife  and  husband,  Jessie  McAllister  the  maid,  and  Richard  Allen  the 
specialist. 

"LIQUID  AIR"  (Patheplay),  May  2. — An  interesting  demonstration  of 
the  possibilities  of  liquid   air. 

"WINTER  IN  UPPER  ENGADINE,  SWITZERLAND"  (Patheplay), 
May  2. — On  the  same  reel  as  the  foregoing  are  these  fine  views  of  snow- 
covered  mountains  and  villages  nestling  among  them.  The  best  is  of  a  ride 
up  the  inclined  railway  on  Mount  Schatzalp.  The  photography  is  unusually 
good.     A  picture  that  will  charm. 


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•  "™E  N?RTHERN  SPY"  (Bison  101),  May  :o.— A  two-part  picture  that 
is  half  Indian  story  and  half  Civil  War  story.  It  is  an  extremely  well 
made  offering  and  where  this  kind  of  story  has  not  been  told  too  often, 
will  be  very  effective.  In  the  story  there  is  nothing  new  except  in  the  ar- 
rangement. The  human  situations  are  fine;  they  have  always  been  effective 
and  haven't  lost  their  power  yet.  The  Indian  raid  scenes  are  fair.  The 
battle  scenes  during  the  war  are  full  of  beauty;  there  is  one  that  goes 
ahead  of  anything  of  its  kind  that  we  remember  seeing.  It  gives  us  a 
glimpse  of  the  charge  of  a  long  line  of  infantry  and  cavalry.  This  is  full 
of  sweep  and  a  big  thrill.     The  photography  is  excellent  throughout. 

"BLACK  JACK'S  ATONEMENT"  (Powers),  May  23.— This  story  is 
simple  in  plot,  but  after  the  first  few  rather  choppy  scenes,  it  grips  the 
attention  and  holds  it  without  ceasing  till  the  end  of  the  reel.  Harry 
Pollard  appears  as  the  sailor  who  shanghaied  a  man  and  then  repented  of  it, 
after  learning  that  he  had  a  wife  and  two  small  children,  one  of  them  a 
lame  newsboy,  upon  whom  the  family  relied  for  support.  The  diving 
scenes  are  quite  exciting.     Simple  and  strong,  with  good  heart  appeal. 

"EUREKA"  (Imp),  May  5. — This  is  a  strong  two-reel  conception  and 
well  acted,  particularly  the  part  of  the  woman,  taken  by  Helen  Gardner. 
The  photography  is  not  first  class,  however,  and  there  is  a  certain  unpleas- 
antness about  the  end  of  the  story.  The  scenes  between  the  sailor  who 
found  the  woman  on  the  beach,  where  the  waves  had  tossed  her,  and  the 
woman  herself  were  nicely  handled  and  made  a  strong  appeal.  Her  mem- 
ory is  lost  and  she  marries  the  sailor,  at  her  own  suggestion,  after  learning 
that  he  loves  her.  When  her  memory  returns  she  remembers  that  she  is 
already  married  and  this  drives  her  mad.  The  sub-titles  in  this  are  long  anj 
ungrammatical    in    places. 

"BILLY'S  FIRST  QUARREL"  (Gem),  May  6.— Billy  and  his  wife 
quarrel.  She  pretends  to  commit  suicide  and  later  he  also  makes  a  like  pre- 
tense.    An  old  idea  handled  in  good,  live  fashion. 

"CALL  HIM  WHISKERS"  (Gem),  May  6.— This,  on  same  reel  with 
above,  is  merely  an  illustrated  joke.  The  woman  sees  a  sign,  "Whiskers 
Died  Here,"  and  thinks  her  dog  is  dead,  his  name  being  "Whiskers."  Not 
a  big  enough  idea  to  be  worth  while. 

"ANIMATED  WEEKLY  NO.  60"  (Universal),  April  30.— An  unusually 
good  number  of  the  Weekly,  bristling  with  timely  features.  We  have 
glimpses  of  Dr.  Friedmann,  Secretary  of  State  Bryan,  the  Croton  Dam, 
a  steeplechase  in  England,  the  Old  Guard  parade  in  New  York,  see  some 
splendid  views  of  lower  Manhattan,  and  learn  how  the  dump  heap  tin 
cans  are  melted  up  into  solder. 

"THE  SHARK  GOD"  (Champion),  May  5. — A  slight  plot,  located  in 
Honolulu,  with  natives  attired  in  breech  clouts  for  actors.  The  scenes  are 
artistic  and  well  taken,  but  exhibitors  catering  to  particular  audiences  will 
find  perhaps  that  the  close  views  of  these  almost  naked  natives  is  rather 
objectionable.  The  story  has  to  do  with  certain  superstitions  in  the  islands 
and  at  the  close  the  wicked  lover  goes  out  to  sea  and  gives  himself  up  to 
the  shark  god. 

^BETTY'S  BANDIT"  (Frontier).  May  20.— A  Western  burlesque,  in 
which  the  hero  impersonates  his  bandit  rival.  He  catches  the  girl  and  mar- 
ries her  by  force.  But  later  the  real  bandit  gets  her  and'  the  hero  has 
trouble  saving  her  from  him.  The  photography  is  good  and  there  are 
some  fairly  amusing  moments  in  this. 

"THE  BOY  SCOUTS  TO  THE  RESCUE"  (Nestor),  May  21.— This  is 
a  typical  boy's  picture,  enacted  by  boys  and  we  believe  boys  will  be  its 
chief  admirers.  But  other  people  will  undoubtedly  like  it  too,  as  the  pho- 
tography is  excellent  and  the  story  exciting.  It  shows  us  how  the  Boy  Scouts 
save  the  sheriff  from  death  and  help  round  up  a  band  of  cattle  and  horse 
thieves.     An  interesting  picture   yarn. 

"WHEN  LOVE  IS  YOUNG"  (Crystal),  May  11.— This  half-reel  con- 
tains a  mixture  of  drama  and  comedy,  the  latter  predominating  at  the  end. 
Pearl  White  makes  a  very  attractive  heroine  in  Colonial  costume.  The 
windup,  where  she  fires  a  gun  and  each  of  the  lovers  believes  the  other 
has  shot   himself,   is    amusing. 

"HIS  AWFUL  DAUGHTER"  (Crystal),  May  11.— On  same  reel  with 
•above.  Naughty  Nell  does  not  like  her  father's  selections  in  the  way  of  ad- 
mirers and  contrives  to  get  rid  of  each  of  them.  He  finally  consents  to 
her  marriage  with  Ned.     This  is  also  fairly  entertaining. 

"THE  SHERIFF'S  RIVAL"  (Frontier),  May  8.— This  is  not  a  very 
convincing  story,  but  it  holds  the  attention  nicely.  The  handsome  young 
gambler  and  the  sheriff  love  the  same  girl.  The  sheriff  learns  that  there 
it  a  reward  out  for  his  rival  and  resigns  his  office  rather  than  arrest  him. 
He  advises  him,  hewever,  to  ride  across  the  Mexican  border  and  stay 
there,  which  answers  the  purpose,  as  it  leaves  the  girl  to  himself.  Breezy 
and  well  pictured. 

"THE  UNSEEN  INFLUENCE"  (Victor),  May  2.— This  story,  by  Ber- 
nard Musson.  is  a  type  which  has  many  friends  among  picturegoers.  James 
Kirkwood  and  Gertrude  Robinson  are  brother  and  sister.  He  is  an  artist 
and  leads  a  fast  life,  neglecting  his  sweetheart  for  his  model.  The  sister 
is  a  mission  worker,  and  after  her  heath  her  spirit  returns  and  exerts  a 
beneficent  influence  over  those  who  knew  her  in  life.  This  influence  eventu- 
ally turns  her  brother  back  to  the  strait  and  narrow  path.  The  photog- 
raphy is  good  and  the  film  a  good  offering  of  its  kind. 

"A  WOMAN  LOVED"  (Imp),  May  12.— In  this  offering,  the  lover  of 
two  girls  tries  to  decide  which  he  most  desires  by  pretending  he  has  lost 
an  arm  and  had  his  face  disfigured.  The  scheme  works  out  to  his  satisfac- 
tion, but  we  fear  such  a  plan  will  lose  the  sympathy  of  the  average  audience 
for  him.  The  story  is  not  overly  strong  and  the  pictures  are  out  of  focus 
in    some   places. 

"THE  OYSTER  INDUSTRY"  (Imp),  May  10— Interesting  views,  show- 
ing how  oysters  are  raked  up  from  the  bottom  of  the  sea,  opened  for  can- 
ning, etc.  Incidentally  there  is  an  interesting  exhibit  of  pearls  taken  from 
the  bivalves. 


'LEO  MAKES  GOOD"  (Imp),  May  to.— This,  on  same  reel  with  fore- 
going, shows  how  a  struggling  musician  borrows  a  dress  suit  from  his  room- 
mate, a  waiter,  and  makes  a  hit  at  a  big  reception.  There  is  some  good 
comedy  in  the  picture. 

"WHERE  CHARITY  BEGINS"  (Crystal),  May  27.— Helen  neglects  her 
own  mother  to  go  into  the  rlums  and  look  after  a  sick  woman.  Her  mother 
becomes  sick  and  almost  dies  while  she  is  away.  The  story  wavers  between 
comedy  and  tragedy  and  this  uncertainty  weakens  it  very  much.  The  end 
is  not  as  strong  as  might  be  expected. 

"SLAVERY  DAYS"  (Rex),  May  22. — A  very  strong  two-reel  number, 
which  tells  in  graphic  pictures  the  old  story  of  the  octoroon  who  switched 
babies  in  order  that  her  own  might  not  be  sold  into  slavery.  The  real 
daughter  of  the  planter  and  his  wife  grows  up  as  the  property  of  the 
changeling.  Later  the  hero,  not  knowing  she  is  a  slave,  falls  in  love  with 
her.  The  close  is  dramatic,  the  octoroon  finally  acknowledging  the  truth 
of  the  situation.  She  and  her  own  daughter  perish  in  a  burning  house  and 
the  real  daughter  is  given  her  proper  place  in  the,  family.  Marguerita 
Fischer  and  Edna  Maison  play  the  parts  of  the  two  girls.  Good  photography 
and  first  class  melodrama. 

"SONS  OF  A  SOLDIER"  (Eclair),  May  7.— There  is  a  lot  of  good 
acting  and  some  elaborate  costuming  in  this  three-reel  offering,  but  those  are 
its  main  points  of  interest.  It  follows,  so  far  as  we  could  understand,  the 
lives  of  members  of  the  Primrose  family,  from  1776  down  to  1912.  War 
scenes  are  given  in  Revolutionary  and  Civil  War  times  and  later  there  are 
imaginary  scenes  from  a  war  between  Japan  and  America.  Washington  and 
Lincoln  are  impersonated  and  later  Fred  Truesdale  appears  as  Woodrow 
Wilson,  whom  he  resembles  strongly.  But  as  a  story  this  lacks  any  compell- 
ing interest  and  when  it  is  all  over  the  observer  is  considerably  puzzled  ad 
to  its  intent. 

"THE  ANGEL  OF  THE  CANYON"  (American),  May  12.— A  human 
and  appealing  picture,  with  a  number  of  fresh,  natural  touches  in  it.  Ker- 
rigan, Richardson,  Pauline  Bush  and  Jessalyn  van  Trump  play  the  leads. 
There  is  a  double  love  story,  which  becomes  rather  involved  and  then  comes 
out  happily  at  the  close.  This  makes  a  very  satisfactory  and  desirable 
offering. 

"MY  LADY'S  BOOT"  (Majestic),  May  13.— A  love  incident  in  Civil 
War  times,  nicely  pictured,  without  the  usual  attendant  warfare.  The  Union 
officer  intercepts  Virginia  in  the  woods  and  pulls  a  boot  from  her  foot, 
thinking  to  find  a  dispatch.  Later,  when  the  war  is  over,  he  replaces  the 
boot  on  her  foot  and  wins  her  heart  and  hand.  Some  rather  pretty  effects 
in  this. 

"A  COUNTRY  GIRL'S  ROMANCE"  (Majestic),  May  4.— A  familiar 
plot,  worked  up  into  a  fairly  entertaining  story.  The  country  girl  tem- 
porarily forgets  her  country  lover,  Joe,  and  elopes  with  a  city  man,  who 
had  come  to  the  farm  in  an  automobile.  It  turns  out  that  the  auto  was 
stolen  and  Joe  gets  to  the  station  just  in  time  to  save  the  girl. 

"A  CRUEL  SUSPICION"  (Reliance),  May  7.— Bobby's  sick  spells  bring 
trouble  to  his  parents,  as  his  benefactor  is  always  the  same  handsome 
young  man,  impersonated  by  Irving  Cummings.  As  the  latter  brings  medi- 
cine to  the  sick  boy's  room,  the  father  appears  on  the  scene  and  there  is 
a  terrific  hand-to-hand  conflict.  This  is  not  a  very  powerful  story,  but  it 
certainly  holds  the   attention. 

"BILLY'S  NEW  WATCH"  (Majestic),  May  11.— A  very  good  half-reel 
comedy,  in  which  the  hero  thinks  the  old  gentleman  who  bumped  into  him 
took  his  watch.  He  proceeds  to  choke  the  old  gentleman  and  takes  his 
watch  away  from  him,  thinking  he  is  getting  back  his  own.  After  that  the 
plot  rolls  along  to  a  happy  conclusion,  in  which  the  old  gentleman  turns 
out  to  be  his  best  girl's  uncle. 

"LIQUID  AIR  EXPERIMENTS"  (Majestic).  May  11.— This,  on  same 
reel  with  above,  shows  Prof.  Wood,  of  Johns  Hopkins  University,  making 
some  interesting  demonstrations  with  liquid  air.  "Seeing  is  believing"  and 
these   experiments  are  very  entertaining.     A  good    reel. 

"THE  SHERIFF"  (Reliance),  May  10. — A  film  story  located  in  Oklahoma, 
somewhat  conventional  in  development,  but  with  some  pleasing  effects. 
The  outlaw  turns  out  to  be  the  sheriff's  brother,  but  the  sheriff  brings  him 
to  justice.  The  outlaw  writes  a  pathetic  note  and  jumps  over  a  cliff.  The 
close  was  very  effectively  done.  The  opening  views  on  the  big  cattle  ranch 
were    attractive. 

"THE  GREAT  HARMONY".  (American).  May  17.— This  is  a  story 
with  strong  heart  appeal.  The  old  musician  is  relieved  from  his  work  as 
organist  and  a  younger  man  employed.  The  young  man,  impersonated  by 
Warren  Kerrigan,  has  sympathy  for  the  old  organist  and  goes  to  the  city 
to  sell  one  of  his  compositions,  if  possible.  He  succeeds  and  brings  back 
a  big  check.  Later  he  wins  the  organist's  daughter.  This  is  nicely  pictured 
and    generally   acceptable. 

"THE  KISS"  (American),  May  15. — An  original  conception,  with  a 
very  pretty  girl  acting  as  goat-herd  in  the  hills.  The  artist  promptly  falls 
in  love  with  her  and  kisses  her  unexpectedly.  Her  father  has  told  her  that 
kisses  were  poison,  and  she  retaliates  by  feeding  him  poison  berries.  Later 
she  repents  and  he  is  taken  to  her  home  where  he  recovers.  The  significance 
of  the  shotgun  and  revolver  toward  the  close  was  a  little  obscure,  unless 
the  old  man  was  proposing  a  duel.  There  are  some  wonderfully  attractive 
effects  in  this,  but  the  close  must  be  regarded  as  disappointing  and  a  little 
unnatural,  as  the  young  man  was  sent  away. 

"BARRED  FROM  THE  MAILS"  (Thanhouser),  May  11.— In  this  pic- 
ture a  young  mother  actually  tries  to  send  her  baby  to  her  sister  by  parcels 
pnst.  It  is  tagged  and  taken  by  the  postman  to  the  postoffice,  where  it  is 
finally  rejected  on  the  ground  that  live  animals  are  inadmissible.  There  is 
novelty  in  this  picture,  but  the  baby  seemed  in  such  genuine  distress  at 
times  from  rough  handling,  that  it  may  make  some  difference  in  the  re- 
ception of  the  picturewith  an  audience. 

"THE  DRUMMER  OF  THE  EIGHTH"  (Broncho),  May  28.— This  two- 
reel  war  story  sounds  a  deeply  pathetic  note  at  the  close.  It  shows  us  in 
the  beginning  a  small  boy  who  wants  to  go  to  war.  His  parents  will  not 
let  him  do  so,  but  he  gets  up  in  the  night,  finds  his  drum  and  goes  out 
with    the    volunteers.      There    are    some    splendid    war    scenes,    with    tense. 


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close  fighting  in  the  trenches  and  over  broad  fields.  The  drummer  boy  is 
wounded  and  taken  to  the  hospital.  He  writes  home  telling  his  parents  to 
expect  him  soon  after  the  war  ends,  but  dies  and  is  brought  home  in  a  coffin. 
Well  pictured  and  nicely  acted  throughout. 

"THE  FOREMAN  OF  THE  JURY"  (Keystone),  May  tz.—A  burlesque 
in  the  courtroom,  which  occasionally  rises  to  laughable  moments.  Mr. 
Bingo  finds  a  necklace  and  gives  it  to  Mary.  Later,  when  foreman  of  the 
jury,  he  finds  he  is  helping  try  the  man  who  is  charged  with  stealing  the 
necklace  in  the  first  place.  His  conscience  leads  him  to  reveal  the  truth. 
A  reel  of  pure  nonsense,  but   hardly  the  Keystone's  best, 

"HUBBY'S  JOB"  (Keystone),  May  19. — If  the  main  situation  in  this 
were  not  so  questionable,  the  outcome  would  be  more  appealing.  As  it 
stands,  it  is  merely  a  foolish  predicament  on  the  part  of  a  married  woman, 
posing  as  single,  with  a  "rough  house"  finish. 

"BETWIXT  LOVE  AND  FIRE"  (Keystone),  May  19.— In  this  half- 
reel,  which  appears  with  the  above,  there  is  a  lot  of  hilarity.  You  can  feel 
the  humor  coming  up  as  the  situations  progress  and  the  general  havoc 
wrought  by  the  jealous  husband  toward  the  close  is  very  funny.  It  is  ex- 
ceptionally good  of  its  type. 

"THE  MISER"  (Kaybee),  May  23. — This  two-reel  offering  is  worthy  of 
especial  commendation  from  the  fact  that  it  tells  a  story  that  is  different 
and  appealing.  The  character  of  the  old  miser  is  acted  most  admirably  and 
lifts  the  whole  picture  into  a  class  by  itself.  The  theme  is  not  new,  but  it 
is  consistently  worked  out,  and  we  can  plainly  see  the  manner  in  which 
the  pretty  young  niece  finds  her  way  into  his  heart.  The  sharp  engagement 
between  the  Indians  and  soldiers  in  the  second  reel  gave  the  hero  his 
chance  to  prove  himself  worthy  of  the  girl's  hand.     A  good  offering. 

"HER  SISTER'S  SECRET"  (Thanhouser),  May  6.— A  nicely  pictured 
offering,  showing  the  manner  in  which  two  sisters,  one  of  them  ill,  arrive  in 
California,  land  of  flowers  and  sunshine.  A  pretty  love  story  develops, 
James  Cruze  playing  the  attractive  young  neighbor.  The  invalid  accepts 
all  his  presents  as  coming  to  herself,  but  in  this  she  was  not  altogether 
correct,  as  the  story  shows. 

"THE  OTHER  GIRL"  (Thanhouser),  May  9.— A  light  plot  strung  to- 
gether largely  for  the  purpose  of  including  the  annual  flower  parade  at 
Pasadena,  with  its  handsome  floats  and  chariots.  The  college  boy's  best  gir. 
refuses  to  drive  his  vehicle  and  he  chooses  a  pretty  girl  to  take  her  place. 
The  girl  also  wins  his  heart  in  the  end. 

"THE  TOLL  OF  WAR"  (Bison),  May  13. — A  production  in  three  reels, 
the  last  of  which  pictures  graphically  the  assassination  of  Lincoln.  The  last 
reel  is  very  interesting  and  overshadows  the  first  two,  which  are  conven- 
ticnal  war  pictures  centering  about  an  attractive  girl  spy,  portrayed  by 
Miss  Ethel  Grandon.  Her  role  is  not  one  to  awaken  much  sympathy,  as 
she  is  called  upon  to  steal  a  dispatch  from  her  lover.  The  war  scenes  were 
strong,  but  the  movement  of  troops  meaningless  so  far  as  the  plot  was  con- 
cerned till  toward  the  last.  The  portrayal  of  Lincoln  was  better  from  the 
full  face  view  than  from  the  profile;  the  scene  at  the  death  bed  suggested 
famous  pictures  of  the  dying  president.  William  Clifford  gave  a  splendid 
portrayal  of  the  assassin,  Booth,  and  the  portion  of  the  story  beginning 
with  the  shooting  at  the  theater  was  its  strongest  part. 

"FOR  LOVE  OF  THE  FLAG"  (Kay-Bee),  May  16. — A  two-reel  offering, 
which  is  well  pictured  and  well  acted.  It  gets  a  very  dashing  and  interest- 
ing start,  but  we  could  not  look  upon  the  ending  of  the  last  reel  as  anythine 
but  far-fetched  and  disappointing.  The  motive  of  the  wayward  young  off 
cer,  Ashford,  for  killing  the  squaw,  Winnie,  is  not  clear.  In  the  forepart 
of  the  picture  the  scenes  in  which  Ashford  is  reprimanded  for  dancing  and 
assaults  his  superior  officer,  are  very  well  done,  and  the  later  scenes  lead- 
ing up  to  the  attack  on  the  fort,  which  he  is  forced  to  lead,  are  also  strongly 
presented.     The  photography  is  good. 

"THE  SMUGGLER'S  DAUGHTER"  (Rex).  May  8.— A  two-part  tale 
of  the  seaside  with  some  interesting  characters,  especially  a  strong  man  who 
nobly  gets  into  trouble,  because  he  will  neither  do  wrong  nor  tell  the  reve- 
nue officer  of  the  wrong  that  the  smuggler's  daughter  is  doing.  He  man- 
ages to  escape  and  is  the  means  of  saving  the  revenue  officer's  daughter  from 
rough  smugglers.  The  ending  shows  the  capture  of  the  evil  doers  and  the 
unraveling  of  the  whole  difficulty.  There  is  one  exceptionally  fine  scene  in 
which  we  are  shown  the  revenue  launch  coming  over  the  tossing  waters.  It 
is  most  effective.  Wilfred  Lucas  is  the  producer  and  plays  the  leading 
role.     He  certainly  is  a  good  actor. 

"A  WISE  JUDGE"  (Eclair),  May  n. — A  very  slight  story  of  a  middle- 
aged  couple  who  quarrel  and  of  a  judge  who  takes  a  clever  way  to  show 
l hem  that  they  don't  really  desire  to  separate.  It  gives  a  chance  for  acting; 
but  does  not  get  over  with  any  punch. 

"MANUFACTURE  OF  STEEL"  (Eclair),  May  1— On  the  same  reel  is 
this  industrial,  which  is  truly  a  big  offering  and  will  be  liked  by  all  kinds 
of  people.  It  is  a  picture  of  wonders  such  as  are  found  in  the  tremendous 
factories  at  Pittsburgh  and  shows  tne  steel  furnaces  and  glimpses  of  the 
factories.     The  photography  is  clear. 


"HIAWATHA"  AT  THE  BERKELEY. 

Keen  interest  has  been  aroused  in  educational  circles  in 
the  "Hiawatha"  picture  masque  which  opened  a  two  weeks 
engagement  at  the  Berkeley  Theater,  New  York,  May  3rd, 
with  Robert  Stuart  Pigott  reciting  the  poem  as  it  is  enacted 
on  the  screen.  Some  of  the  most  prominent  educators  are 
giving  the  exhibition  their  hearty  support  and  a  large  at- 
tendance of  school  children  is  assured  for  the  three  special 
performances  each  Saturday.  For  these  presentations  Mr. 
Moore  has  had  the  Indians  make  up  some  very  pretty 
souvenirs  which  will  be  presented  to  the  little  folks. 

"Hiawatha"  is  a  story  interesting  to  all  classes  of  people. 
The  New  York  Sun  devoted  more  than  half  a  page  to 
reviewing    the    play    from    which    we    quote    the    following: 

"Even  Bill,  the  Harlem  plumber's  helper,  who  has  taken 
his  Bertha  through  the  gate,  thinking  this  must  be  a  good 
snappy  wild  west  show,  soon  falls  into  the  spell  that  so  easily 
convinces  one  that  surely  this  is  Gitche  Gumee  and  that 
the  trees  across  the  lake  are  the  'pine  trees  ever  sighing, 
ever  singing.' " 


"ASHES  OF  THREE"  STORY  BY  STEWART  WHITE. 
On  Monday,  May  26.  "Ashes  of  Three"  will  be  released 
by  the  American  Film  Mfg.  Co.  This  story  was  written 
by  Stewart  Edward  White,  the  famous  novelist.  The  plot 
centers  about  the  rejuvenation  of  a  worthless  character. 
This  is  Jack  Kerrigan  and  the  story  was  written  by  Mr. 
White,  who  lives  in  Santa  Barbara.  Cal.,  where  the  American's 
studio  is  located,  and  was  especially  designed  to  show  Jack 
at  his  best.  You  will  like  Kerrigan  in  the  part  of  the  parent- 
less  child.     The  story  is  in  two  reels. 


FOR  THE  FANS. 

Charles  R.  Holmes  sends  in  this  budget  of  notes  from 
San  Francisco: 

It  is  reported  that  G.  M.  Anderson  will  vary  his  western 
releases  with  a  series  of  pictures  featuring  vaudeville  favorites. 
Kolb  and  Dill  and  Rock  and  Fulton  are  said  to  be  among 
those  scheduled.  The  pictures  will  be  made  at  the  Niles 
Studio. 

Mr.  Anderson  also  plans  to  take  a  number  of  pictures  on 
the  O'Day  ranch  near  Dixon.  Mr.  Anderson  is  part  owner 
of  this  ranch  of  800  acres  and  will  have  free  run  of  the  place.  Ethel  Clayton  is  the  star  of  the  Lubin  Company;  she  is  an 

Miss  Iva  Shepherd,  late  of  Selig  and  Ammex,  has  joined  extremely  beautiful  woman,  about  twenty-one  years  ot  age. 
the  Universal  to  appear  under  the  Nestor  brand.  Last  summer  Miss  Clayton  was  with  the  stock  company  sta- 

Miss  Florence  Oakley,  formerly  of  the  Belasco  stock,  Honed  at  Port  Elizabeth,  Maine.  Some  of  the  Sea  Coast 
has  joined  the  Selig  company.  The  Belasco  stock  is  an  en-  pictures  made  were  very  thrilling  and  noticeable  for  the  dar- 
terprise  of  Fred.   Belasco,  brother  of  David.  ing  of  this  charming  actress. 


ETHEL  CLAYTON. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


707 


"The  Tragedy  of  Big  Eagle  Mine" 

Two-Reel  Kalem  Release. 
By  George  Blaisdell. 

JANE  WOLFE  in  this  picture  has  full  opportunity  for  the 
display  of  her  talent  as  an  actress.  She  carries  the  role 
of  an  Indian  woman,  a  woman  who  marries  a  white 
hunter  whom  she  has  nursed  following  an  accident.  Her 
portrayal  of  the  undemonstrative  native  is  marked  through- 
out by  an  entire  absence  of  the  theatrical,  the  melodramatic. 
It  is  an  accomplishment  in  the  art  of  expression — and  of  re- 
pression.    Laughing  -Water  has  five  years  of  happiness,  fol- 


Scene  from  "The  Tragedy  of  Big  Eagle  Mine"  (Kalem). 

lowing  her  union  with  Tom  Morton,  the  trapper,  who  fell 
under  the  great  figure-four  bear  trap  and  in  his  convalescence 
fell  in  love  with  her.  Following  the  departure  of  her  husband 
and  their  young  son  for  the  East,  in  response  to  a  letter  from 
a  widowed  mother,  her  life  is  one  of  loneliness,  of  ostracism 
from  all  the  Indians  in  the  camp  to  which  she  returns — with 
the  exception  of  her  brother,  Big  Eagle,  who  remains  stead-, 
fast.  The  deserted  Indian  woman  is  a  pathetic  figure.  She 
will  carry  the  interest  and  the  sympathy  of  any  audience. 
There  is  a  strong  scene  where  Laughing  Water  enters  the 
empty  cabin  and  calls  for  her  husband  and  for  her  son;  she 


Scene  from  "The  Tragedy  of  Big  Eagle  Mine"  (Kalem). 

looks  into  favorite  hiding  places,  as  if  suspecting  a  joke  is 
being  played  on  her.  The  gray  look  that  comes  over  her 
face  as  she  realizes  her  position  goes  straight  to  the  heart. 
When,  twenty  years  later,  a  broken  woman,  she  looks  into 
the  face  of  a  well-dressed  young  man  and  recognizes  her 
own  son,  in  the  likeness  of  his  father,  you  feel  what  she  feels. 
There  is  a  good  cast.  Carlyle  Blackwell  has  two  roles — 
the  trapper  who  marries  the  Indian  woman,  and,  later,  that 
of  the  son  who,  with  his  bride,  goes  to  the  West  on  the 
honeymoon  and  visits   the  gold  mine  which  all  these  years 


the  father  had  controlled.  The  trapper,  grown  older,  is  por- 
trayed by  Knute  Rahmn.  Jack  Hoxie  is  Big  Eagle,  the 
brother  of  Laughing  Water.  He  gives  a  fine  characteriza- 
tion of  the  Indian  chief.  There  is  a  four-footed  member  of 
the  cast  who  will  arouse  much  interest.  It  is  a  bear.  He 
comes  into  the  picture  at  the  third  or  fourth  scene.  He  is  a 
big  fellow,  and  a  fine  specimen  of  the  black  species.  Also  he 
is  a  good  actor.  He  wallows  in  a  brook  so  close  to  the 
camera  that  he  fills  the  screen,  but  he  minds  his  own  busi- 
ness, is  concerned  with  no  doings  of  humans  about  him.  He 
will  excite  the  youngsters  and  many  of  the  elders. 

There  are  splendid  backgrounds,  of  mountain  and  stream; 
the  country  is  wild,  such  as  is  suited  for  a  setting  of  primi- 
tive Indian  life.  The  Indian  camp  is  laid  out  in  convincing 
fashion — even  to  the  small  target  wherewith  the  young  idea 
is  taught  to  shoot  with  bow  and  arrow.  Entirely  apart  from 
its  pictorial  value,  however,  the  story  carries  on  its  dramatic 
merit.  It  is  a  pleasure  to  see  an  Indian  picture  devoid  of 
the  time-worn  features  that  pall  on  so  many  picture-goers — 
but  yet,  it  must  be  conceded,  still  are  popular  in  many 
houses.  Nevertheless,  "The  Tragedy  of  Big  Eagle  Mine" 
will  appeal  to  all.     It  will  be  released  June  7. 

"LITTLE  MARY"  AGAIN  IN  PICTURES. 

When,  a  few  weeks  ago,  David  Belasco  began  to  perfect 
his  arrangements  for  next  season's  tour  of  "A  Good  Little 
Devil,"  which,  has  just  closed  its  extraordinary  run  of  152 
performances  at  the  Republic  Theater,  he  was  confronted 
by  a  demand  for  this  charming  fairy-play  several  times 
greater  than  the  possible  supply.  In  other  words,  every 
manager  in  the  country  was  demanding  "A  Good  Little 
Devil"  during  its  first  season  out  of  New  York.  On  the 
other  hand,  a  series  of  long  engagements  in  Boston,  Chicago, 
Philadelphia,  Washington,  Baltimore  and  a  few  other  large 
cities  left  no  possible  open  time  wherewith  to  satisfy  the 
public  in  other  cities.  Through  an  arrangement  between 
Mr.  Belasco  and  Daniel  Frohman,  managing  director,  and 
Adolph  Zukor,  president  of  the  Famous  Players,  all  the 
wonderful  scenes  and  effects  of  "A  Good  Little  Devil"  will 
be  shown  in  motion  pictures. 

This  work  is  now  going  forward.  The  entire  company, 
including  William  Norris,  Mary  Pickford,  Ernest  Truex, 
Ernest  Lawford,  Edward  Connelly  and  the  others  are  busily 
engaged  every  day  at  the  studio  of  the  Famous  Players' 
Film  Company,  and  the  results  so  far  have  exceeded  the 
fondest  hopes  of  all  concerned.  "A  Good  Little  Devil"  is 
peculiarly  adapted  to  motion  pictures,  offering  unequaled 
opportunities  for  illusions,  visions  and  other  camera  effects. 
It  will  be  in  three  reels.  As  the  result,  no  city  of  any  size 
in  the  country  will  be  deprived  next  season  of  this  Belasco 
fairy-play. 


Miss  Alice  Hollister,  Kalem  Leading  Woman. 


708 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League 


DRASTIC   ILLINOIS   BILL. 

Here    is   a    Censorship    Measure    That    Should    Stir    Illinois 

Picture  Men  to  Action. 

By   Frank   H.    Madison,   Mid-West   Service. 

Not  only  every  exhibitor  in  Illinois,  but  every  film  ex- 
change and  every  producer  is  affected  by  the  bill  which  has 
introduced  into  the  Illinois  Legislature  as  House  Bill 
-\T,»-  575,  by  Representative  Igoe  of  Chicago.  This  bill  car- 
ries an  emergency  clause  declaring  that  because  an  emer- 
gency exists  it  is  necessary  for  the  immediate  preservation 
and  safeguarding  of  the  public  morals  that  the  act  take 
effect  after  its  passage  and  approval.  The  measure  was  in- 
troduced April  17,  but  no  attention  was  paid  to  it,  even  by 
the  newspapermen  who  believed  it  merely  the  house  com- 
panion of  Senator  Denvir's  less  drastic  motion  picture  cen- 
sorship bill. 

Illinois  exhibitors  who  will  not  relish  the  idea  of  securing 
a  permit  to  run  their  shows  from  a  board  selected  because 
of  political  achievement. 

Film  exchanges  operating  within  the  State,  State  right 
owners,  industrial  film  makers  and  producers,  will  be  forced 
to  have  all  their  reels  pass  the  State  inspection  and  must  pay 
a  fee  of  $1  a  reel. 

The  Illinois  Legislature  expects  to  end  its  work  about 
June  20,  which  gives  opponents  of  the  measure  little  time  for 
work  of  organization  and  for  appearing  before  committees. 
The  Denvir  censorship  bill,  it  will  be  remembered,  went  into 
committee  in  the  Senate  and  was  reported  out  with  the 
recommendation  that  it  pass.  It  was  sent  back,  however,  by 
Lieutenant-Governor  Barratt  O'Hara  because  there  was  not 
a  quorum  present  when  it  was  acted  upon.  _    . 

The  measure,  which  is  entitled  "An  act  providing  a  board 
to  censor  motion  picture  films  and  prescribing  the  duties 
and  powers  of  the  same"  has  been  referred  to  the  Committee 
on  Judiciary.     The  bill  is  as  follows: 

Section  1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  tbe  State  of  Illinois,  represented 
in  tbe  General  Assembly:  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  firm  or  corpo- 
ration to  show  or  exbiblt  in  a  public  place  or  in  a  place  where  the  public  is 
admitted,  anywhere  in  tbe  State  of  Illinois,  any  picture  or  series  of  pictures, 
of  the  classes  or  kinds  commonly  shown  in  mutoscopes,  kinetoscopes,  cine- 
matographs, and  such  pictures,  or  series  of  pictures,  as  are  commonly  shown 
or  exhibited  in  so-called  penny  arcades,  and  in  all  other  automatic  or  moving 
picture  devices,  whether  an  admission  fee  is  charged  or  not,  without  first 
having  secured  a  permit  therefor  from  the  Illinois  State  Censor  Board,  as 
hereinafter   provided. 

Sec.  2.  There  is  hereby  created  a  board,  known  as  the  Illinois  State  Censor 
Board,  consisting  of  three  members  to  be  appointed  by  tbe  G'overnor,  for 
terms  of  four  years,  and  until  their  successors  shall  be  appointed  and  qualified. 

Sec.  3.  Before  any  such  permit  is  granted,  an  application  in  writing  shall 
be  made  therefor  and  tbe  plates,  films,  rolls,  or  other  like  apparatus,  by  or 
from  which  such  picture  or  series  of  pictures  are  shown  or  produced, 
or  the  picture  or  series  of  pictures  itself,  as  shown  to  said  board, 
who  shall  inspect  or  cause  to  be  inspected,  such  plates,  films,  rolls  or  appa- 
ratus, or  such  picture  or  series  of  pictures,  and  within  three  days  after  such 
inspection,  said  board  shall  either  grant  or  deny  the  permit.  In  case  a  per- 
mit Is  granted,  it  shall  be  in  writing,  and  in  such  form  as  the  censor  board 
may  prescribe. 

Sec.  4.  The  permit  herein  provided  for  shall  be  obtained  for  each  and 
every  picture  or  series  of  pictures  exhibited,  and  shall  be  required  in  addi- 
tion to  any  license  or  other  Imposition  now  required  by  law  or  ordinance. 

Tbe  fee  for  each  inspection  by  such  board  shall  be  $1.00  for  each  film  to 
be  censored,  or  for  any  reel  of  film  exceeding  one  thousand  lineal  feet,  the 
Bum  of  $2.00,  and  a  fee  of  $1.00  for  each  permit  shall  be  paid  to  said  board. 

Sec.  5.  All  and  only  such  films  as  are,  In  the  judgment  and  discretion  of 
said  board,  of  a  moral,  amusing  or  educational  character,  and  not  of  an 
indecent  subject,  nor  representing  lust,  shall  be  passed  or  approved  by  said 
board  and  shall  be  stamped  or  designated  in  an  appropriate  manner  and 
consecutively  numbered,  that  tbe  same  may  be  projected  upon  the  screens 
preceding  tbe  picture. 

Sec.  6.  A  majority  of  the  members  of  said  board  shall  constitute  a  quorum, 
and  In  regular  sessions  may  exercise  all  of  the  powers  and  duties  of  tbe 
board.  During  the  absence  or  incapacity  of  any  member  of  said  board,  the 
Governor  may  appoint  a  member  to  fill  such  temporary  or  permanent  vacancy. 

Sec.  7.  When  films  have  been  passed  and  approved  by  the  Illinois  Censor 
Board,  and  stamped  and  numbered  by  said  board,  as  provided  for  herein, 
they  may  be  shown  and  exhibited  within  the  State  of  Illnois,  without 
restriction  or  interference,  any  other  ordinances  or  regulations  to  the  con- 
trary   notwithstanding. 

Sec.  8.  Such  censor  board  shall,  before  the  tenth  day  of  each  month,  make 
a  complete  report  of  the  amount  of  money  received  by  them  for  censoring 
picture  films,  and  shall  pay  all  money  so  received  into  the  general  revenue 
fund  of  the  Illinois  State  Treasury. 

Sec.  9.  Each  member  of  said  board  of  examiners  shall  receive  an  annual 
salary  of  $2,000.00,  except  tbe  chairman,  who  shall  receive  an  annual  salary 
of  $3,000.00.  The  secretary  of  such  board  shall  receive  an  annual  salary  of 
$1,200.00.  All  salaries  hereunder,  and  all  expenses  necessary  to  maintain 
such  board  and  carrying  into  effect  the  purpose  thereof,  shall  be  paid  out  of 
the  general  revenue  fund  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  which,  however,  shall  not 
exceed  in   any  one  year,    tbe  revenue    produced   in   censoring   films. 

Sec.  10.  In  case  a  permit  shall  be  refused  for  any  such  moving  picture 
plates,  films,  rolls  or  other  like  article  or  apparatus  from  which  a  series  of 
pictures  for  public  exhibition  can  be  produced,  it  shall  be  unlawful  for  any 
person,   firm  or  corporation   to  lease  or  transfer  *he  same  to  any  exhibitor  of 


moving  pictures  or  otherwise  put  same  into  circulation  for  purposes  of  ex- 
hibition  within   the  State. 

In  every  case  where  such  objectionable  moving  picture  plates,  films,  rolls 
or  other  like  articles  or  apparatus  from  which  a  series  of  pictures  for  pub- 
lic exhibition  can  be  produced,  shall  be  put  into  circulation  contrary  to  the 
provisions  of  this  section,  the  same  shall  be  confiscated,  and  in  addition 
thereto,  the  person,  firm  or  corporation  so  leasing,  transferring  or  putting 
the  same  into  circulation,  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  $50.00,  nor  more  than 
$3<H).00,  for  each  effense. 

Sec.  11.  Any  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  Act  shall,  upon 
conviction  thereof,  be  fined  not  less  than  $50.00,  nor  more  than  $300.00,  or 
to  Imprisonment  not  less  than  thirty  days,  or  more  than  one  year,  or  both, 
for  each  offense. 

Sec.  12.  An  emergency  Is  hereby  declared  to  exist,  by  reason  whereof  it  is 
necessary  for  tbe  immediate  preservation  and  safeguarding  of  the  public 
morals  that  this  Act  take  effect  from  and  after  its  passage  and  approval. 


PENNSYLVANIA    SECOND     ANNUAL    STATE     CON- 
VENTION. 

Until  a  short  time  ago  the  name  of  Philadelphia  was 
synonymous  with  somnambulism.  It  is  most  gratifying  to 
note  the  many  ways  in  which  this  quaint  old  city,  has  not. 
only  taken  hold,  but  is  now  running  close  on  par  with  the 
most  progressive  cities  of  the  world.  This  fact  is  well 
evidenced  by  the  way  those  interested  in  the  motion  picture 
industry  and  art  have  displayed  their  enthusiasm  over  the 
coming  second  annual  state  convention  of  the  Motion  Pic- 
ture Exhibitors'  League,  which  is  to  be  held  in  Philadelphia, 
on  May  27  and  28,  at  the  Continental  Hotel,  Philadelphia. 

On  last  Wednesday  Messrs.  Kerr,  Walraven  and  Roth, 
of  the  Convention  Committee  were  the  guests  of  Mr.  S. 
Lubin  at  luncheon  at  the  Lubin  plant,  together  with  many 
of  the  Lubin  producers  and  artists.  Mr.  Lubin  showed  great 
enthusiasm  in  regard  to  the  coming  convention,  and  will 
detail  a  number  of  his  cameramen  to  make  a  reel  of  film,  for 
the  Exhibitors'  League,  under  the  guidance  of  the  League 
Convention  Committee,  depicting  the  historic  points  of  in- 
terest in  and  around  Philadelphia.  Also  showing  many  of 
the  various  commercial  industries  together  with  the  civic 
development  of  the  city,  as  well  as  taking  a  picture  of  all 
the  exhibitors  and  their  families.  These  pictures  will  be 
displayed  in  every  civilized  corner  of  the  world,  and  strange 
as  it  may  seem,  this  will  be  the  first  complete  motion  pic- 
ture ever  made  showing  the  many  points  of  interest  in  the 
city,  which  is  looked  on  throughout  the  entire  world  as  the 
birth-place  of  modern  civilization. 

Elaborate  arrangements  will  be  made  by  Mr.  Lubin  to 
entertain  the  many  out  of  town  exhibitor's  and  their  families, 
who  will  wish  to  visit,  not  only  the  Lubin  plant  in  Phila- 
delphia, but  the  new  two  million  dollar  plant,  which  is  near- 
ing  completion  at  historic  Betzwood,  outside  of  Philadelphia. 
Words  are  inadequate  to  describe  this  plant,  as  it  covers 
over  five  hundred  acres  of  ground,  laid  out  in  parks,  cattle 
ranges,  mountains,  etc.,  besides  containing  a  mammoth 
studio  with  many  stages,  together  with  scores  of  other  build- 
ings for  the  manufacturing  of  the  "Clear  as  a  Bell,"  films. 


JERSEY  LEGISLATION  SIDETRACKED. 

Joseph  Stern,  of  Newark,  N.  J.,  chairman  of  the  legis- 
lative committee  of  the  New  Jersey  Exhibitors'  League, 
reports  that,  while  the  New  Jersey  exhibitors  have  not  been 
successful  in  passing  any  of  the  measures  proposed  by  them, 
they  have  prevented  the  passage  of  a  number  of  bills  at 
Trenton  that  would  have  been  troublesome.  A  bill  providing 
for  a  local  censorship  board  in  every  town  was  defeated  as 
also  was  a  bill  amending  the  present  "childrens  law"  to 
eliminate  the  words  "adult  friend"  which  would  have  made 
it  a  little  more  difficult  to  handle  the  children. 

A  bill  similar  to  the  New  York  law  regarding  the  ad- 
mission of  children  after  school  hours  and  until  7  o'clock 
p.  m.,  was  passed  by  the  Senate,  but  did  not  get  to  the 
Assembly.  Another  bill  permitting  children  to  enter  upon  the 
written  authority  of  their  parents  took  the  same  course. 

A  joint  resolution  providing  for  a  commission  to  study 
the  moving  picture  theater  question  was  passed  by  the  Senate, 
but  did  not  get  to  the  Assembly.  This  subject  will  be  taken 
up  by  the  Public  Welfare  Committee  of  Essex  County,  which 
has  called  a  congress  of  all  civic  societies  of  the  state  to 
be  held  in  Newark  on  May  15.  The  meeting  will  be  held 
at  665  Broad  Street.  President  Robinson  and  Vice-President 
Blumenthal  will  appear  for  the  New  Jersey  exhibitors. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


709 


WISCONSIN    STATE    CENSORSHIP    KILLED. 

"Honor  to  whom  honor  is  due"  surely  applies  to  Hon. 
Don  C.  Hall,  of  the  Don  C.  Hall  Repertoire  Co.,  author, 
actor  and  assemblyman  from  Steven's  Point,  Wis.,  the  only 
theatrical  man  in  the  Wisconsin  Legislature. 

Mr.  Hall  appeared  before  the  State  Affairs  Committee,  in 
the  Assembly,  and  made  a  strong  appeal  against  the  passage 
of  Bill  1,029  A,  a  drastic  state  censorship  bill.  His  argument 
was  so  clear,  forceful  and  convincing,  that  an  attorney  em- 
ployed to  appear  against  the  passage  of  the  bill,  arose  and 
said  he  had  practically  nothing  to  say,  as  Mr.  Hall  had  cov- 
ered every  point  he  wished  to  raise,  even  the  constitutionality 
of  the  bill. 

On  the  floor  of  the  Assembly,  Mr.  Hall  also  argued  against 
the  passage  of  Goff  Bill  No.  1,187,  requiring  each  motion 
picture  theater  to  secure  a  license  from-  the  state,  and  placing 
it  under  the  State  Industrial  Committee,  with  power  to  regu- 
late and  control,  or  cancel  such  license  at  any  time. 


Assemblyman  Don  C.  Hall. 

Mr.  Hall's  Company  has  a  private  car  and  reaches  most 
every  hamlet  in  the  state,  and  he  evidently  knew  whereof 
he  spoke,  when  he  claimed  there  was  no  need  for  a  censor- 
ship bill,  and  that  the  exhibitors  were  opposed  to  it.  Also 
that  the  public  did  not  need  such  a  bill  for  its  protection, 
the  pictures  being  clean   and  wholesome. 

The  motion  picture  exhibitors  of  the  state  surely  can 
credit  and  thank  Mr.  Hall  for  his  stand  and  action  in  the 
matter. 

Regarding  the  fight  made  against  the  Goff  bill  by  Mr.  Hall, 
the   Evening  Wisconsin  said: 

"Under  the  spell  of  oratory  by  Don  C.  Hall,  the  actor- 
legislator,  the  Assembly  killed  the  Goff  bill  Monday  night, 
empowering  the  industrial  commission  to  censor  and  regu- 
late moving  picture  shows.  Mr.  Hall  objected  to  a  law 
that  would  amount  to  giving  a  free  pass  to  the  commis- 
sioners and  the  numerous  members  of  the  staff.  His  prin- 
cipal argument  was  that  moving  pictures  are  amply  cen- 
sured now  by  the  national  board." 


INTERNATIONAL  GETS  TENNESSEE  PAGEANT. 

On  Tuesday,  May  6,  at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  there  was  an 
elaborate  pageant,  Greek  in  character,  in  which  several  thou- 
sand citizens  and  citizenesses  took  part.  The  affair  lasted 
for  two  days  and  aroused  widespread  interest,  drawing  people 
from  all  over  the  State.  By  special  arrangements  with  the 
International  Feature  Film  Company  two  motion  picture 
cameramen  were  brought  on  from  New  York  to  make  mo- 
tion pictures  of  the  occasion. 


WEST  VIRGINIA  CONVENTION. 

A  successful  meeting  of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors' 
League  of  West  Virginia  was  held  at  Wheeling  on  Tuesday 
and  Wednesday,  April  29  and  30.  The  attendance  was  satis- 
factory and  considerable  business  was  transacted.  Officers 
and  delegates  to  the  New  York  convention  were  elected  as 
follows: 

President,  A.   G.   Frohme,  Home  Theater,   Wheeling. 

First  Vice-President,  Russell  Lynn,  Dixie  Theater,  Fair- 
mount. 

Second  Vice-President,  Patrick  McGovern,  Odeon  Thea- 
ter, Clarksburg. 

Secretary,  M.  A.   Sybert,  Park  Theater,   Moundsville. 

Treasurer,  D.  B.  Eagan,  Amusu  Theater,  Ronconverte. 

National  Vice-President,  A.  L.  Cottrill,  Wonderland,  Point 
Pleasant. 

Delegates:  L.  R.  Thomas,  R.  Robinson,  U.  P.  Kemper, 
P.  W.  Barrett,  D.  B.  Eagan,  R.  E.  McCray.  Alternates: 
C.  W.  Perrine,  Frank  McCray,  J.  B.  Cotts,  Jas.  Velas,  John 
Papaulias,  O.  F.  Langworthy. 

On  the  night  of  April  30th  a  big  banquet  was  given.  Many 
distinguished  gentlemen  were  present;  among  them  were: 
Mayor  of  Wheeling,  Mayor  of  Bellaire,  Ohio;  Mayor  of 
Bridgeport,  and  National  President  M.  A.  Neff  and  several 
other  efficient  gentlemen  who  delivered  speeches. 

Manufacturers  and  supply  men  were  represented  as  fol- 
lows: L.  O.  Hunt,  of  the  Rudolph  Wurlitzer  Company;  Fred 
C.  Amer,  manager  of  the  Buckeye-Lake  Shore  Film  Com- 
pany, Columbus,  O.;  W.  J.  Newman,  of  the  Newman  Manu- 
facturing Company,  Cincinnati,  Ohio;  C.  Lang  Cobb,  Jr.,  of 
the  Ramo  Film  Company,  New  York;  Will  C.  Smith,  of  the 
Nicholas  Power  Company,  New  York;  Eric  Morrison,  of 
the  American  Moving  Picture  Machine  Company,  New  York; 
H.  A.  Ross,  of  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation,  Wheeling 
Branch,  and  J.  E.  Robin,  of  the  Simplex  Machine,  New  York. 


CALIFORNIA   FIGHTING   OBNOXIOUS    CENSOR 
BILL. 

A  stubborn  fight  is  being  made  by  the  motion  picture  ex- 
hibitors of  California  against  a  particularly  obnoxious  bill 
in  the  legislature,  which  provides  for  a  censorship  board, 
with  three  members  who  shall  receive  a  salary  of  $3,600  a 
year  and  traveling  expenses,  and  power  to  appoint  a  secre- 
tary and  other  help  needed  to  perform  their  duties.  Among 
other  things,  this  censorship  board  shall  examine  all  pic- 
tures manufactured  in  California,  a  provision  that  will  mean 
serious  trouble  for  the  manufacturers  if  the  bill  should  be- 
come a  law.  Another  paragraph  of  the  bill,  which  is  suscep- 
tible of  various  construction,  is  Section  13,  which  reads  as 
follows: 

Section  13.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  exhibit  any  motion  pic* 
ture  of  any  human  figure  in  such  detail  as  to  offend  public  morality  or  de* 
cency;  or  of  any  lewd  or  lascivious  or  sensual  act;  or  of  any  other  matter  or 
thing  of  an  obscene,  indecent,  immoral  or  suggestive  nature,  or  offensive^  to 
the  moral  sense  or  against  public  policy;  or  of  any  act  educational  to _ im- 
morality or  crime;  or  of  any  murder,  suicide,  robbery;  hold-up.  shooting, 
stabbing,  clubbing  or  beating  of  any  human  being,  wherein  such  acts  or  any 
of  them  are  shown  in  grewsome  detail  or  in  a  revolting  manner,#  or  in  any 
manner  objectionable  to  the  moral  sense  or  of  any  actof  brutality,  cruelty 
or  barbarity  shown  in  grewsome  detail  or  in  a  revolting  or  disgusting  _  or 
horrible  manner,  or  of  any  act  or  scene  untruthfully  or  inaccurately  depict- 
ing or  representing  any  nationality,  race,  sect,  class  or  type  in  such  man- 
ner as  to  tend  to  bring  the  said  nationality,  race,  sect,  class  or  type  into  pub- 
lic scorn,  hatred,  ridicule  or  contempt;  and  the  commission  shall  have  power 
to  forbid  and  suppress  the  exhibition  of  reel  or  motion  picture  not  in  accord 
with  this  section. 

While  there  seems  to  be  little  chance  of  this  bill  becoming 
a  law  at  this  session  of  the  California  legislature,  on  account 
of  the  press  of  more  important  measures,  it  is  to  be  hoped 
that  the  exhibitors  of  California  will  keep  up  their  fight 
until  it  is  effectually  killed  or  sidetracked. 


CONVENTIONS  SCHEDULED. 

Kansas  State  Convention — At  the  National  Hotel,  Topeka, 
June  2nd  and  3rd. 

Missouri  State  Convention — At  Springfield,  June  10th  and 
nth.  ' 

Iowa  State  Convention — At  the  Auditorium,  Des  Moines, 
May  13th  and  14th. 

Pennsylvania  State  Convention — At  Philadelphia,  May  27th 
and  28th.  1 

Maryland  State  Convention — At  Baltimore,  Emerson  Ho- 
tel, June  3rd  and  4th. 

Delaware  State  Convention — At  DuPont  Hotel,  Wilming- 
ton, May  26th. 

Tennessee  State  Convention — May  17,  Tulane  Hotel,  Nash- 
ville. 

Texas  State   Convention — At   Dallas,   May  28  and  29. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


MOTION  PICTURE  EXPOSITION  NOTES. 
The    recent    cinematograph    exposition    held    in    London 
proved    conclusively    that    all    the    world,    men,    women    and 
children,  are  interested  in  moving  pictures. 

*  *     * 

The  forthcoming  International  Exposition  of  the  Motion 
Picture  Art  to  be  held  at  the  New  Grand  Central  Palace, 
New  York  City,  July  7th  to  12th,  1913,  bids  fair  to  awaken 
even  greater  interest  than  that  held  in  London,  which  was 
a  big  success.  This  exposition  will  be  of  great  assistance  to 
exhibitors,  a  wonderful  business  medium  for  manufacturers, 
and  of  appealing  interest  to  thousands  of  the  general  public 
who  are  interested  in  the  motion  picture  art. 

*  *     * 

Educational  bodies  will  be  represented  at  this  exposition, 
as  well  as  branches  of  the  church,  and  undoubtedly  its  in- 
fluence will  have  a  favorable  and  lasting  effect  with  them. 

*  *     * 

The  main  floor  of  the  New  Grand  Central  Palace  is  being 
rented  to  manufacturers  of  all  articles  pertaining  to  the 
industry.  Price  of  space  inclusive  of  rails,  back  platform 
and  signs  is  $2  per  square  foot.  Space  on  the  mezzanine 
floor  is  $1.50  per  square  foot.  On  this  floor  arrangements 
have  been  made  to  install  four  "Model"  theaters,  which  will 
be  fitted  with  the  most  up-to-date  appliances  pertaining  to 
making  motion  picture  houses  a  pleasing  and  safe  place  of 

amusement  and  education. 

*  *     * 

Three  of  these  theaters  have  been  taken.  The  General  Film 
Co.,  The  Mutual  Film  Corp.,  and  the  Universal  Film  Co.,  will 
each  have  a  theater  of  their  own  in  which  pre-release  pictures 
will  be  shown.  The  other  theater  will  be  rented  to  the 
feature  photoplay  manufacturers,  so  that  everyone  will  have 
an  opportunity  of  being  represented.  These  theaters  will 
be  fully  equipped  by  manufacturers  of  different  articles  who 

have  taken  space  on  the  main  floor. 

*  *     * 

Several  scenarios  have  been  received  at  the  offices  of  the 
Exposition  Committee,  but  none  of  them  quite  hit  the  point. 
The  idea  is  to  have  a  five  minute  play  that  will  be  suit- 
able for  either  a  man  or  a  woman.  A  prize  of  $25  will 
be  given  for  the  one  selected  and  no  doubt  there  are  many 
working  on  this  scenario  now.     They  are  all  to  be  sent  to 


the   Secretary  of  the    Exposition   Committee,   German    Bank 
Building,  4th  Ave.,  &  14th  Street,  New  York  City. 

*     *     * 

President  Trigger's  Convention  Committee  has  been  very 
busy  during  the  past  week  making  arrangements  for  the 
entertaining  of  the  large  number  of  out  of  town  exhibitors 
who  will  attend  the  First  International  Exposition  of  the 
Motion  Picture  Art.  It  is  getting  busier  every  day  at  the 
exposition  offices  now  that  the  time  is  getting  nearer  for 
the  big  show.  Ten  thousand  dollars'  worth  of  floor  space 
has  been  sold  during  the  past  week. 


ANOTHER  CENSOR  BILL  KILLED. 

Advices  from  Nebraska  are  to  the  effect  that  a  particularly 
obnoxious  bill  providing  for  a  State  censor  board  for  Ne- 
braska, has  been  killed.  This  bill  provided  a  committee  of 
censorship  for  each  incorporated  city  and  town  in  the  ^tate, 
one  member  to  be  appointed  by  the  mayor  of  the  city  or 
town,  one  by  the  Board  of  Education  of  the  school  district 
in  which  the  city  or  town  is  located  and  a  third  by  the 
superintendent  of  the  school.     Some  bill,  that. 


TEXAS  STATE  CONVENTION. 

Arrangements  are  being  made  for  a  convention  of  Texas 
exhibitors  at  Dallas,  Texas,  on  May  28  and  29.  National 
Vice-President  T.  P.  Finnegan  has  charge  of  the  arrange- 
ments and  promises  a  bigger  attendance  than  at  any  previous 
meeting  in  that  state. 


MAJESTIC  STUDIO  NOTES. 

Another  two  reel  subject  will  be  released  by  the  Majestic 
on  May  6th.  It  is  Forrest  Halsey's  Creole  love  story  of  old 
Louisiana  entitled  "The  Children  of  St.  Anne,"  which  was 
produced  by  the  Majesties  Florida  Company  and  promises 
to  be  a  worthy  successor  of  "Hazel  Kirke,"  which  was  the 
Majestic's  first  two  reel  production. 

Two  educational  pictures  are  scheduled  for  early  Majestic 
release — "The  Oyster  at  Home,"  which  will  appear  on  the 
reel  with  "Billy's  New  Watch,"  on  May  nth,  and  "Liquid 
Air"  on  the  same  reel  with  "Rivals  Outwitted,"  released  on 
May  18th. 


KENTUCKY  STATE  CONVENTION— President  L.  J.  Ditmar.  Secretary  Fred  J.  Dolle,  J.  H.  Stamper,  L.  H.  Ramsey 

and  other  members. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


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PRESIDENT    NEFF'S    SUGGESTIONS    FOR 
EXPOSITION. 

Although  President  Neff  is  a  very  busy  man  these  days 
in  endeavoring  to  organize  every  State  in  the  Union  before 
the  first  of  July,  he  finds  time  every  now  and  then  to  send 
out  helpful  suggestions  to  the  committee  in  charge  of  the 
First  International  Exposition  of  the  Motion  Picture  Art. 

During  the  months  of  May  and  June  there  will  be  held 
conventions  at  Omaha,  Neb.;  Des  Moines,  Iowa;  Topeka, 
Kan.;  Springfield,  Mo.;  Oklahoma  City,  Okla.;  Little  Rock, 
Ark.;  Dallas,  Texas;  New  Orleans,  La.;  Jackson,  Miss.; 
Birmingham,  Ala.;  Baltimore,  Md.;  Wilmington,  Del.,  and 
Pittsburgh,  Pa.  At  Mr.  Neff's  suggestion  copies  of  the 
prospectus,  floor  plan,  diagram  of  booth,  etc.,  will  be  sent 
to  all  these  conventions. 

Although  most  of  the  exhibitors  from  all  over  the  coun- 
try have  already  planned  to  attend  the  Third  Annual  Con- 
vention in  New  York  this  coming  July,  it  is  quite  likely  that 
during  the  enthusiasm  of  these  conventions,  when  the  Third 
Annual  Convention  is  brought  to  the  exhibitors'  notice,  that 
many  of  them  who  have  not  planned  to  come  to  New  York 
will  make  arrangements  to  do  so. 


MARYLAND  EXHIBITORS'  CONVENTION. 

Chances  for  a  rousing  convention  of  Motion  Picture  Ex- 
hibitors of  the  state  of  Maryland  at  Baltimore,  Md.,  on 
June  3  and  4  look  particularly  good  at  this  writing.  J. 
Howard  Bennett,  proprietor  of  the  New  Pickwick  Theater, 
Baltimore,  has  the  matter  of  arrangements  in  charge  and  is 
being  ably  assisted  by  Marion  Pierce  and  other  Baltimore 
exhibitors.     Headquarters   will   be   at   the    Emerson   Hotel. 


DELAWARE  EXHIBITORS'  CONVENTION. 

James  N.  Ginns,  of  Wilmington,  Del.,  has  charge  of  the 
arrangements  for  the  convention  of  exhibitors  of  the  State 
of  Delaware  which  will  be  held  at  Wilmington  on  Monday, 
May  26. 


WRITE    TO    PRESIDENT    NEFF. 

President  Neff,  of  the  National  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors' 
League,  wants  to  hear  from  a  few  live  exhibitors  in  the 
states  of  Arizona,  Georgia,  Idaho,  Montana,  New  Hamp- 
shire, New  Mexico,  North  Carolina,,  North  Dakota,  Oregon, 
S.  Carolina,  Vermont  and  Wyoming. 

President  Neff's  address  is  1003  Mercantile  Library  Build- 
ing,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 


NICHOLAS  POWER  COMPANY  NOTES. 

Mr.  F.  VV.  Swett,  traveling  representative,  has  secured 
the  approval  of  Power's  6A  with  motor  and  mechanical  speed 
control  at  Dallas,  Texas.  A  No.  6A  has  been  placed  in  the 
Loss  Angeles  High  School  through  the  Los  Angeles  Motion 
Picture  Supply  Company,  Los  Angeles. 

The  following  installations  have  been  made:  One  No. 
6A  complete  to  O'Melay  Amusement  Company,  Jackson, 
Michigan,  through  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation  of  Detroit; 
one  Xo.  6A  to  Casino  Theater,  New  Bedford,  Mass.,  through 
K.  D.  Marson  Moving  Picture  Supply  Company,  Boston; 
one  6A  complete  to  O.  P.  Herndon,  Sanford,  Fla.,  through 
Tampa  Photo  and  Art  Supply  Company,  Tampa;  one  No. 
6A  to  the  U.  S.  Reclamation  Service,  Washington,  through 
General  Film  Company,  Washington. 


A  CORRECTION. 

Through  misinformation  it  was  stated  last  week  that  six 
Power's  6a's  had  been  purchased  for  "Quo  Vadis?"  shows. 
We  are  advised  that  Simplex  machines  were   ordered. 


THIS  PREACHER  TALKED  TOO  MUCH. 
Rev.  John  J.  MacDonald,  pastor  of  the  South  Presbyterian 
Church,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  has  been  made  the  defendant  in  a 
suit  for  $10,000  upon  the  complaint  of  Rudolph  Sanders,  a 
Brooklyn  exhibitor,  who  alleges  defamation  of  character. 
It  is  reported  that  the  reverend  gentleman  has  since  ex- 
pressed a  desire  to  make  a  full  public  apology  to  Mr. 
Sanders. 


S.  S.  HUTCHINSON  BACK  IN  CHICAGO. 

S.  S.  Hutchinson  and  wife  rounded  out  a  four  months 
absence  from  the  Chicago  office  by  returning  to  the  city 
last  week.  Mr.  Hutchinson  spent  most  of  his  time  at  the 
Santa  Barbara  studio,  but  found  time  to  make  a  trip  to 
Honolulu,  where  he  obtained  some  splendid  views  of  life 
in  the  Islands. 


Feature  Production. 

Madame  Blache  Talks  Interestingly  of  the  Difference  Be- 
tween Three-Reel  "Features"  and  "Subjects." 

A  successful  showman,  in  talking  about  multiple  reels  and 
differentiating  the  feature  from  the  three-reel  subject,  is 
quoted  as  saying:  "A  three-reel  feature  differs  from  the 
three-reel  subject  as  much  as  the  Broadway  attraction  dif- 
fers from  the  road  show.  A  three-reel  subject  is  a  story 
drawn  out  to  three  thousand  feet  with  nothing  noteworthy 
achieved,  either  in  its  staging  or  general  atmosphere.  A 
feature,  however,  is  a  production  which  has  every  element  of 
attraction  and  popularity.  By  elements  of  attraction  and 
popularity,  I  mean  what  a  salesman  terms  'talking  points.' 
The  'talking  points'  of  a  real  feature  are  popular  titles,  well 
established  in  the  public  mind,  casts  with  well-known  actors 
in  the  leading  role,  good  support,  exceptional  locations,  ar- 
tistic interiors,  correct  in  every  detail,  and  a  story  with  the 
'proverbial   punch' — technically,   well   developed." 

While  there  are  not  many  productions  such  as  described 
by  the  showman  quoted  above,  productions  like  "Les  Miser- 
ables,"  "Quo  Vadis,"  and  "Dick  Whittington  and  His  Cat," 
come  up  very  near  to  the  perfect  feature  of  our  exacting 
showmen  and  meet  nearly  all  of  the  requirements. 

In  a  talk  on  this  subject  with  Madame  Blache,  president 
and  manager  of  production  of  the  Solax  Company,  and  her- 
self the  producer  of  features  like  "Fra  Diavolo,"  "Dick 
Whittington  and  His  Cat,"  and  a  few  others  said:  "Besides  an 
expenditure  of  large  sums  of  money,  the  production  of  a 
feature  means  weeks  of  tedious  preparation  and  research. 
Before  a  single  foot  of  film  was  taken,  'Dick  Whittington 
and  His  Cat'  consumed  five  weeks  of  my  time  and  the  time 
of  my  staff.  Our  coming  feature  with  the  famous  Barney 
Gilmore  in  the  leading  role,  'Kelly  from  the  Emerald  Isle,' 
was  produced  after  six  weeks  of  preliminary  work.  There 
were  consultations  with  the  director,  with  Mr.  Gilmore,  with 
the  author  of  the  scenario,  and  with  the  scenic  artists.  After 
the  scenario  was  finally  in  shape,  it  was  beyond  the  recog- 
nition of  the  author.  Then  followed  the  routine  work  of 
sketching  costumes  for  the  costumers,  of  laying  out  plans 
and  sketches  of  sets,  of  going  the  rounds  for  props  and  inci- 
dentals, and  finishing  touches.  Mr.  Gilmore's  friends  in  the 
old  country  were  of  considerable  assistance.  They  sent  over 
a  trunk  full  of  stuff  for  atmosphere  and  local  color.  The 
sheebeens  (country  tavern  of  Ireland),  Irish  sitting-rooms, 
and  dwellings  and  furnishings  for  these  sets  were  secured 
with  considerable  difficulty. 

"There  are  several  scenes  in  the  production  which  are 
genuinely  thrilling.  In  one,  Kelly,  and  his  sweetheart  cling- 
ing to  his  neck,  is  seen  climbing  down  a  declivity  several 
hundred  feet  deep.  Another  scene  shows  Kelly  escaping 
death  by  jumping  on  the  cow-catcher  of  a  train  going  at  full 
speed.  There  is  also  a  spectacular  destruction  of  a  hut  by 
gunpowder  and  dynamite. 

"Throughout  the  production  is  preserved  an  atmosphere 
characteristically  Irish.  Humor  and  pathos  mingle.  To 
register  the  story  which  teems  with  human  interest,  an  all- 
star  cast  was  needed.  Selections  for  the  parts  were  made 
with  the  utmost  care.  Fraunie  Fraunholz,  the  well-known 
comedian,  who  has  been  a  member  of  some  of  the  best  stock 
companies  in  Baltimore,  Philadelphia,  Washington,  Buffalo, 
Chicago,  Denver  and  New  York,  and  Joseph  Levering,  fa- 
miliar to  Biograph,  Pathe  and  Kalem  fans,  were  the  specials 
in  the  cast,  besides  Barney  Gilmore  and  the  members  of 
the   Solax  Stock   Company. 

"If  hard  work,  careful  preparation  and  the  expenditure  of 
large  sums  of  money  add  to  the  feature  definitions  of  the 
showman  you  have  been  telling  me  about,  then  'Kelly  from 
the  Emerald  Isle,'  with  Barney  Gilmore,  should — well,  not 
to  blow  my  own  horn  —  be  awaited  with  interest.  There  is 
a  surprise  coming." 

It  would  seem  that  Madame  Blache's  enthusiastic  ex- 
pressions regarding  features  are  significant.  What  will  be 
the  future  policy  of  the  Solax  Company  and  other  com- 
panies? It  had  been  predicted  in  The  Moving  Picture  World 
a  long  time  ago  that  manufacturers,  because  of  the  demands 
of  exhibitors  and  the  public,  will  gradually  wean  themselves 
from  the  single-reel  production  and  produce  the  multiple 
reel.     The  tendency  seems  to  be  in  that  direction. 


RECENT  SALES  BY  MR.  SCHNEIDER. 

Eberhard  Schneider,  of  219  Second  Avenue,  reports  that 
large  orders  for  junior  professional  motion  picture  cameras 
and  film  finishing  outfits  have  been  placed  with  him  by  the 
United  States  War  Department.  Columbia  University,  An- 
sonion  Institute  and  Hampton  Normal  and  Agricultural 
Institute. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


"THE  BIG  BOSS"  (Reliance). 
This  big  two-reel  feature  deals  with  the  political  graft 
prevalent  in  most  large  cities.  The  "Big  Boss"  will  award 
the  aqueduct  contract  to  Bascom,  who  is  badly  in  need  of 
it,  providing  Bascom's  daughter  becomes  his  wife.  But 
Muriel  is  already  engaged  to  Dick,  a  young  reporter,  who 
has  been  detailed  to  go  after  the  graft  scandals  that  are 
alarming  the  city.  Dick  overhears  a  conversation  between 
the  boss  and  one  of  his  men  in  an  East  Side  saloon.  The 
boss  is  arranging  to  open  all  the  bids  submitted  for  the  con- 
tract that  night  at  9  o'clock,  so  that  he  may  make  his  man's 
lower  than  any  of  the  others. 


Scene  from  "The  Big  Boss"  (Reliance). 

Dick,  with  Muriel's  help,  plants  a  dictograph,  gets  the  in- 
formation, and  is  nearly  beaten  to  death  by  the  boss  who 
discovers  the  little  machine.  Bascom  saves  the  boy  and 
gives  the  boss  to  understand  what  honest  men  think  of  him. 
Pondering  the  matter  over,  the  boss  experiences  a  change 
of  heart,  and  is  content  to  let  the  contract  go  where  it  hon- 
estly belongs  —  to  Bascom. 

George  Siegman  plays  the  "Big  Boss"  with  telling  effect. 
Irving  Cummings  as  Dick,  and  Muriel  Ostritch  as  Bascom's 
daughter,  do  some  clever  work.  A.  Balfour  played  Bascom. 
Frederick  Sullivan  directed  this  picture,  which  will  be  re- 
leased on  May  14th. 


"AND   THE   PHONE   BELL   RANG!" 

About  everything  that  could,  to  a  photoplayer,  happened 
to  Fred  Mace  on  his  recent  stay  here,  according  to  the  rumor 
factory.     Here  are  the  reports,  as  spread  around: 

Monday — A  new  feature  company  is  what  brought  Fred 
Mace  New  Yorkward. 

Tuesday — The  genuine  reason  for  Mace's  New  York  visit 
is  to  make  the  Screen  Club,  headquartered  in  Manhattan,  a 
branch  of  the  Photoplayers.  of  Los  Angeles,  of  which  Mace 
is  founder  and  president. 

Wednesday — Mr.  Mace's  doctor  advised  a  temporary 
change  of  climate,  hence  the  New  York  trip. 

Thursday — Mace  was  never  better  in  his  life  and  the  real 
reason  for  his  New  York  stay  is  out:  He  came  on  to  in- 
terest New  York  capital  in  backing  his  mayorality  race  in 
Los  Angeles. 

Friday — It's  England  for  him,  there  to  shine  at  the  head  of 
an  all-American  company  of  players;  he's  in  Manhattan  to 
recruit  these  players  and  the  release  will  be  known  as  Mace- 
film. 

Saturday — It  was  the  vaudeville  powers,  i.  e.,  the  United 
Booking  Offices,  that  beckoned  Mace  to  come  to  New  York; 
they  want  his  picture — famous  face  with  a  monologue  on  the 
"big  time."  Salary — well,  you  wouldn't  believe  it  if  we 
told  you! 


"A    GIRL    SPY    IN    MEXICO"    (Lubin). 

This  Lubin  picture  gives  a  vivid  picture  of  the  tempera- 
ment of  the  Mexican  senorita.  For  love,  she  will  dare  any- 
thing, even  death.  The  military  atmosphere  is  perfect,  the 
picture  being  taken  in  Nogales  on  the  Mexican  border,  half 
of  the  town  being  in  Arizona  and  the  other  half  in  Mexico. 

The  war  is  on  between  the  insurrectos  and  federal  troops 
in  old  Mexico,  and  the  intermittent  firing  is  playing  havoc. 
The  Senorita  Armaje,  not  hearing  of  her  lover,  Lieut.  Blanco, 


Scene  from  "A  Girl  Spy  in  Mexico"  (Lubin). 

goes  to  the  insurgent  camp,  and,  to  assist  his  cause,  dresses 
as  a  Red  Cross  nurse  and  enters  the  federal  camp  as  a  spy. 
She  is,  however,  discovered  and  arrested.  Through  the  aid 
of  Armaje,  Blanco  captures  one  of  the  federal  spies,  and, 
using  -him  as  a  guide,  he  himself  enters  the  federal  camp. 
There  he  succeeds  in  effecting  his  sweetheart's  escape.  Col. 
Ferro  declares  he  will  capture  them  again  and  accomplishes 
his  wish.  Blanco  and  the  senorita  are  marched  onward  to 
what  end  — we  know  not. 


SELIG  TO   PRODUCE  NEW  JUNGLE   THRILLER. 

On  May  28th,  the  Selig  Polyscope  Company  will  release 
another  gripping  picture  of  jungle  life,  in  which  realism  runs 
rampant  to  the  very  fullest  extent.  In  many  respects, 
"Wamba,  A  Child  of  the  Jungle,"  as  the  latest  thriller  is  known. 
far  excels  all  previous  efforts  of  the  famous  "Diamond  S" 
makers,  along  this  line.  The  entire  production  was  staged 
on  the  mammoth  Selig  Wild  Animal  Farm  in  Los  Angeles, 
and  no  expense  was  spared  to  make  this  feature  greater  than 
those  which  have  gone  before. 

The  picture  abounds  in  thrilling  scenes.  One  of  the  most 
daring  of  these  shows  "Baby"  Lillian  Wade,  the  remarkable 
child  actress,  in  a  desperate  headlong  plunge,  over  an  em- 
bankment into  the  deep  waters  below,  where  she  has  jumped, 
in  order  to  save  herself  from  being  torn  to  pieces  by  a  huge 
male  lion.  At  another  time,  "Baby"  Lillian  Wade  crawls 
into  the  hollow  trunk  of  a  huge  felled  tree,  just  in  time  to 
escape  the  claws  and  open  mouths  of  a  pack  of  lionesses. 
Thomas  Santschi,  Bessie  Eyton,  "Baby"  Lillian  Wade  and 
Frank  Clarke  are  the  principal  players.  The  production  is 
in  two  reels,  and  will  be  released  as  a  special  on  May  28th. 


NEW   GARDEN   THEATER. 

The  F.  &  G.  Amusement  Company  has  erected  a  hand- 
some theater  in  the  Bedford  Park  district,  Webster  Avenue 
and  197th  Street,  New  York  City.  It  will  be  known  as  the 
Garden  Theater,  and  is  said  to  have  cost  $100,000.  It  is  built 
in  compliance  with  the  New  York  City  theater  laws,  and  will 
have  a  seating  capacity  of  800. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


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"A  RUINED  LIFE"  (Eclectic). 
In  this  offering  we  have  the  unusual  pleasure  of  witnessing 
a  genuine  Swedish  lilm  which  was  made  in  Stockholm,  acted 
entirely  by  Swedish  actors,  and  their  work  measures  very 
well  up  to  the  general  run  of  continental  pictures.  There  are 
some  charming  glimpses  of  landscapes  in  the  vicinity  of 
Stockholm,  and  the  interior  settings  are  altogether  satisfac- 
tory. The  photography  is  also  without  fault.  The  picture 
tells  an  entirely  domestic  story,  limited  to  the  immediate 
members  of  the  family.  The  unfortunate  conditions  that 
occur  as  the  plot  unfolds  are  the  results  of  selfishness  on  the 
part  of  a  brother-in-law  who  desires  to  keep  down  the  size 
of  the  family  in  order  that  there  shall  be  no  heirs  to  his 
father-in-law's  estate.  The  leading  male  character  is  that  of 
a  young  army  lieutenant  who  is  very  fond  of  horse  racing, 
and,  incidental  to  the  picture,  there  is  a  genuine  steeplechase 
that  is  entirely  realistic.  The  lieutenant  is  thrown  from  his 
horse  during  the  race  and  is  fatally  injured  by  the  fall. 


"THE  SAME  OLD  STORY"  (Essanay). 
The  firmament  is  illumined  with  two  shining  stars  in  this 
magnificently  beautiful  comedy  of  errors.  Beverly  Bayne  as 
the  alluring  and  enchanting  manicurist,  more  than  demon- 
strates her  remarkable  talents  in  this  subject.  Augustus 
Carney,  always  the  same  old  comedian  with  his  humor  and 
wit,  does  more  than  justice  to  his  character.  Synopsis: 
Augustus  Carney  falls  martyr  to  the  enchanting  ways  of 
Beverly  Bayne,  a  manicurist.  Carney  made  a  date  with  her 
for  seven  o'clock  that  evening.  Returning  to  his  office,  Car- 
ney informs  his  private  secretary,  Billy  Mason,  about  the 
appointment.  To  the  utter  surprise  and  disappointment  of 
Mr.  Carney,  his  wife  enters  the  office  about  a  quarter  of 
seven,  plants  herself  in  a  chair  and  refuses  to  move.  A  few 
moments  later  Miss  Bayne  enters,  and  is  introduced  to  Mrs. 


Scene  from  "A  Ruined  Life"  (Eclectic). 


On  his  death-bed  he  makes  known  to  his  family  that  he  has 
been  secretly  married  and  is  the  father  of  a  boy.  After  his 
death  the  lieutenant's  wife  and  pretty  boy  are  taken  into  the 
family.  This  arouses  the  jealousy  of  the  brother-in-law,  who 
sees  in  the  lieutenant's  young  son  a  possible  claimant  for  the 
fortune  of  his  grandfather.  This  prompts  the  brother-in-law 
to  resort  to  underhanded  means  to  get  rid  of  both  mother 
and  son,  and  through  his  evil  maneuvering  he  brings  about 
the  ruin  of  the  good  woman's  life  by  means  of  a  long  jail 
sentence.  When  she  finally  comes  from  the  prison  there  is 
little  left  in  the  way  of  hope  and  she  lives  only  long  enough 
to  find  her  son,  who  is  now  a  military  cadet  and  still  a  mem- 
ber of  her  husband's  family.  The  picture  is  not  a  problem 
play,  as  the  title  might  lead  one  to  suppose.  There  is  no 
reference  to  the  social  evil,  drink,  or  any  other  vice;  it  is 
purely  a  domestic  drama,  well  told,  by  a  competent  company. 


Scene  from  "The  Same  Old  Story"  (Essanay). 


Carney  as  Mason's  wife.  To  make  matters  worse,  Mrs 
Mason  arrives.  When  told  that  Miss  Bayne  had  been  intro- 
duced as  her  husband's  wife,  Mrs.  Mason  demands  an  expla- 
nation, which  is  rather  clumsily  given.  The  two  wives 
leave  in  a  huff.  Miss  Bayne,  Carney  and  Mason  leave,  and 
to  their  enjoyment  and  complete  satisfaction,  meet  Raymond, 
a  world  renowned  female  impersonator.  A  little  later,  after 
the  trio  had  arrived  at  Mr.  Carney's  office,  Raymond  enters 
with  his  paraphernalia.  Raymond  calls  Mrs.  Mason  on  the 
phone  and  tells  her  that  her  husband  is  entertaining  a  woman 
in  his  office.  When  Mrs.  Mason  arrives  with  Mrs.  Carney, 
they  are  overjoyed  at  discovering  that  the  home-wrecker  is 
not  a  woman  after  all.  Raymond's  timely  assistance  saved 
Carney  and  Mason  from  the  divorce  courts.  In  the  mean- 
time. Miss  Bayne  has  an  enjoyable  time  in  the  clothes  closet 
waiting  for  her  wardrobe. 

This  production  is  booked  for  release  Wednesday,  May  14. 


CORCORAN  IS  BUSY. 

Although  the  general  impression  is  that  business  is  slow 
and  quiet,  the  A.  J.  Corcoran,  Inc.,  of  11  John  Street,  Xew 
York  City,  has  no  complaint  to  make  as  it  is  now  working 
its  plant  in  Jersey  City,  N.  J.,  to  full  capacity  filling  orders 
for  different  film  manufacturers  in  all  parts  of  the  world  who 
must  and  will  have  their  developing  tanks  built  by  Corcoran. 
Only  last  month  a  large  order  was  consigned  to  Shanghai, 
China,  for  the  Asiatic  Film  Company,  and  this  month  will 
see  three  large  orders  go  forward,  one  to  the  American  Film 
Company,  Santa  Barbara,  Cal.,  one  to  Burke  &  Jaine,  Chicago, 
111.,  and  the  third  to  Pathe  Freres,  Bound  Brook,  N.  J.  Those 
who  have  not  received  our  new  price  list  No.  6  and  discounts 
should  write  at  once  as  they  will  learn  something  to  their 
advantage. 


DRAWS  BLOOD  FROM  LOAN  SHARKS. 
The  Reliance  three-reel  subject,  "The  Bawlerout,"  in 
which  the  methods  of  the  "loan  shark"  are  graphically  por- 
trayed, has  drawn  blood  from  the  loan  companies  doing 
business  in  Evansville,  Ind.  Greatly  annoyed  by  the  ex- 
posure of  the  "loan  sharks"  methods,  probably  not  wholly 
unknown  to  them,  these  companies  have  taken  large  ad- 
vertising space  in  the  local  papers  to  denounce  the  film 
in  question.  Just  what  the  Evansville  loan  sharks  expected 
to  accomplish  by  thus  widely  advertising  "The  Bawlerout" 
does  not  appear  from  a  casual  reading  of  their  advertise- 
ment, but  they  certainly  did  advertise  the  picture. 


EASTERN  DISTRIBUTION  OF  THE  MOTIOGRAPH 
MACHINE. 

An  item  of  considerable  interest  to  Eastern  exhibitors,  and 
to  the  motion  picture  machine  trade  in  general,  centers  around 
the  arrangement  just  made  by  Mr.  H.  T.  Edwards,  President 
of  the  Picture  Theater  Equipment  Co.,  of  21  Ea>t  14th 
Street.  Xew  York  City,  to  take  over  the  eastern  distribuiton 
of  the  Motiograph  Motion  Picture  Machine. 

This  change  in  the  policy  of  the  Motiograph  maker-; 
comes  as  a  surprise  because  of  the  recent  advance  in  favor 
among  Eastern  exhibitors  of  this  well  known  machine. 
The  change  should  be  of  particular  interest  to  Eastern  ex- 
hibitors, and  Motiograph  users,  because  of  the  fact  that 
Mr.  Edwards'  Company  will  not  only  be  fully  equipped  to 
handle  Motiograph  business,  but  will  in  addition  enable 
the  exhibitor  to  concentrate '  his  purchases  of  all  supplies 
with  the  one  supply  house.  The  Picture  Theater  Equipment 
Co.,  are  also  authorized  distributors  of  the  Nicholas  Power, 
the  Simplex,  the  Edison  and  Standard  machines,  and  you 
need  not  leave  their  show  room  and  offices  to  purchase 
anything  pertaining  to  the  motion  picture  theater.  They 
carry  in  stock,  ready  for  the  exhibitors'  inspection,  every- 
thing that  is  necessary  for  the  equipment  of  a  modern  and 
up-to-date  motion  picture  theater.  A  call  at  their  offices, 
and  show  room  will  more  than  convince  you  and  out-of- 
town  customers  will  find  their  mail  orders  receive  equal 
attention. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


"THE     PROFESSOR'S     TRAVELING    ADVENTURES" 
(Great  Northern). 

In  this  delightful  comedy  Professor  Miller  affords  no  end 
of  amusement  by  reason  of  his  adventures  while  traveling 
in  search  of  health.  He  has  been  a  bookworm  for  many 
years  and  when  his  physician  orders  him  into  the  country, 
the  old  gentleman  is  somewhat  bewildered  and  gets  into 
all  sorts  of  perplexing  situations.  His  first  adventure  is  in 
the  railway  coach  when  he  unwittingly  throws  an  old  ladies' 
shoes  out  of  the  window,  mistaking  them  for  the  overshoes 
of  a  traveler  who  had  left  them  on  the  floor.  Next  we 
find  him  in  collision  with  a  bicycle  while  attempting  to  cap- 
ture a  pet  dog  belonging  to  a  fellow  traveler.     In  the  stage 


Scene  from  "The  Professor's  Adventures"  (Great  Northern) 

coach  he  again  becomes  an  innocent  offen^Hf  and  finally 
arrives  at  an  old  inn  for  a  night's  lodging.  Tie  has  been 
accustomed  to  home  comforts  and  the  hard  bed  is  not  to  his 
liking,  but  he  is  about  to  fall  into  slumber  when  a  sound 
under  the  bed  attracts  his  attention.  He  finds  a  dog  and 
ejects  it,  but  the  animal  finds  its  way  back  through  a  hole 
in  the  wall.  Three  times  the  offender  is  ejected  and  finally 
the  professor  arrives  at  the  conclusion  that  he  is  sleeping 
over  a  kennel,  and  makes  ready  to  return  to  his  home.  When 
he  arrives,  he  finds  his  faithful  old  housekeeper  entertaining 
a  number  of  her  female  friends,  but  instead  of  being  angry, 
the  old  gentleman  is  so  overjoyed  at  being  home  once  again 
that  he  bids  them  all  welcome.  The  principal  funmaker  is 
Fred  Buch  and  in  this  role  he  appears  to  the  best  advantage. 
The  trained  dog  is  another  source  of  merriment  when  he 
appears  on  the  screen. 


MUTUAL     GETS     CANADIAN     GAUMONT     OFFICES. 

The  Mutual  Film  Corporation  has  bought  outright  the 
entire  business  of  the  Gamiiont  Company  of  Canada,  includ- 
ing the  big  film  exchange  offices  at  St.  Johns,  N.  B.;  Mon- 
treal, Que.;  Toronto,  Ont. ;  Winnipeg,  Man.;  Vancouver, 
B.  C,  and  Regina,  Sask.  This  is  one  of  the  biggest  deals 
of  the  year,  and  again  calls  attention  to  the  marvelous  prog- 
ress of  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation,  which  now  owns  fifty- 
four  exchanges,  and  is  paying  dividends,  on  both  its  pre- 
ferred and  common  stocks. 

Arthur  Lucas,  special  representative  of  the  Mutual  Film 
Corporation,  is  now  in   Canada  on  a   tour  of  inspection. 


WARNER'S    FEATURE    NOTES. 

Phil.  H.  Solomon,  manager  of  the  Chicago  office,  has  taken 
new  quarters  in  the  Dapples  Building.  Exhibitors  in  Chi- 
cago and  adjacent  territory  should  address  Mr.  Solomon 
at   room   304. 

Warner's  Feature  Film  Co.'  will  serve  exhibitors  in  the 
District  of  Columbia,  and  the  State  of  Virginia  from  the  new 
Washington  office,  located  at  420  Qth   Street,  N.  W. 

Another  notable  Gene  Gauntier  production  in  three  reels 
will  be  released  shortly.  It  is  entitled,  "On  the  Firing  Line." 
Miss  Gauntier  has  also  written  and  enacted  a  powerful  Klu 
Klux  Klan  story.     This  film  is  going  to  make  history. 

The  second  issue  of  "Warner's  Feature  News"  will  be  out 
the  fifteenth  of  this  month.  Exhibitors  desiring  to  receive 
copies  gratis  should  forward  their  names  at  once  to  the 
New  York  office. 

A  new  office  is  now  open  in  Denver,  with  J.  C.  Butts  as 
resident  manager.     Address,   1229   16th   Street. 


LARRY  McGILL'S  HUNT  FOR  HOUNDS. 

The  Reliance  company,  a  week  or  two  ago,  decided  to  do 
"London  Assurance,"  the  well-known  English  comedy- 
drama,  in  pictures.  Somebody  wished  the  script  onto  Law- 
rence McGill  and  told  him  to  go  to  it.  To  produce  this  play 
properly  it  calls  for  some  scenes  of  fox  hunting,  with  a  pack 
of  hounds.  On  a  Monday  morning,  Mr.  McGill  started  out 
in  a  motor  car  to  find  a  pack  of  fox  hounds.  He  spent  three 
days  visiting  every  hunt  club  within  twenty  miles  of  New 
York  and  found  that  there  was  not  a  pack  of  dogs  anywhere. 
In  the  depths  of  his  despair  he  was  telling  a  friend  his  trou- 
bles, and  the  friend  asked,  "Why  don't  you  go  over  to  the 
Manhattan  Opera  House  where  'The  Whip'  is  playing;  they 
have  a  fine  pack  of  foxhounds  there?" 

And  Larry  did.  All  winter  long  this  fine  pack  of  English 
hounds  had  been  within  five  minutes'  ride  of  the  Reliance 
studio,  unbeknownst  to  him.  Larry  got  the  dogs  and  took 
the  scenes.  The  dogs  did  their  work  like  professionals  and 
the  scenes  are  great.  We  have  a  film  hound  that  we  would 
have  loaned  him  if  we  had  known  about  it. 


THE    MEINHARDT    CLOCK    SLIDE. 

Fred  A.  Apfelbaum,  president  of  the  Levi  Company,  Inc., 
1560  Broadway,  New  York,  slidemakers,  announces  the  pur- 
chase of  the  exclusive  manufacturing  rights  of  the  Meinhardt 
Clock  Slide  from  H.  A.  Meinhardt  and  Thomas  J.  Urell, 
owners  of  the  basic  patent. 

Some  years  ago,  when  the  patent  was  issued,  Messrs. 
Meinhardt  and  Urell  started  a  company  for  the  promotion 
and  manufacture  of  the  new  slide,  but  through  inexperience 
and  the  small  demand  at  the  time,  the  project  was  not  a 
success,  and  the  invention  remained  under  cover. 

Out  of  touch  entirely  with  the  industry,  the  inventor  was 
not  aware  of  the  fact  that  certain  manufacturers  were  pro- 
ducing and  selling  his  patented  slide  without  his  permission, 
and  immediate  action  will  be  taken  against  those  concerns 
for  damages.  Exhibitors  are  cautioned  not  to  use  any  clock 
slides  not  made  by  the  Levi  Company,  Inc.,  inasmuch  as 
the  showing  of  the  same  makes  them  a  party  to  the  infringe- 
ment,  and,   therefore,   liable. 


"CALAMITY  ANNE"  PICTURE  MADE  AT  VENICE. 

Director  Hale  of  the  American  Film  Mtg  Co.,  in  company 
with  Jack  Kerrigan,  Jack  Richardson,  Louise  Lester, 
"Calamity  Anne,"  a  number  of  cowboys  and,  last  but  not 
least,  the  famous  American  burro  which  plays  such  star 
parts  in  all  the  "Calamity  Anne"  pictures,  left  Santa  Bar- 
bara last  week  for  Venice,  Cal.,  to  finish  some  scenes  in  a 
new  picture.  The  journey  is  125  miles  from  Santa  Barbara, 
a  distance  traveled  for  the  sake  of  six  scenes.  Much  diffi- 
culty was  found  in  inducing  the  burro  to  travel  alone  in 
the  freight  out  of  Santa  Barbara.  He  refused  to  mount  of  his 
own  accord  and  in  an  effort  to  drag  him  on  he  fell  from 
the  platform  of  the  freight  station  and  everyone  thought 
a  dead  burro  would  be  found.  But  Woodrow  was  unscathed, 
and  by  dint  of  ropes  was  finally  pushed  and  hauled  into 
the  car,  rending  the  suburban  atmosphere  with  burro  calls 
for   help. 


ESSANAY  NOTES. 

Harry  McRae  Webster,  General  Director  for  the  Essanay 
Film  Mfg.  Company  is  in  New  York  for  the  purpose  of 
securing  new  talent  for  photoplays.  If  you  see  a  little,  short, 
red  haired  gentleman  lurking  around  the  Times  Square 
Bldg.,  at  Broadway  and  42nd  Street,  just  tap  him  on  the 
shoulder  and  impress  him  gently  but  firmly  that  you  are 
desirous  of  appearing  in  motion  pictures. 

*  *     * 

"Toothless  Ted,"  commonly  known  as  Theodore  W.Wharton, 
the  producer  of  par  excellent  merit  with  the  Essanay  Film 
Mfg.  Company,  earned  his  title  as  "Toothless  Ted"  in  a 
rather  painful  manner.  Last  Thursday,  April  24th,  Mr. 
Wharton  had  fifteen  teeth  extracted  and  had  nine  nerves 
taken  out  without  an  anaesthetic.  This  was  all  done  in  less 
than  an  hour  and  before  another  hour  had  elapsed,  Mr. 
Wharton  was  on  the  floor  of  the  studio  directing  a  photo- 
play. One  would  think  Mr.  Wharton  should  have  lost  all 
his  nerve. 

*  *     * 

A  novel  advertising  scheme  has  developed  into  the  Essanay 
Film  Mfg  Company  ordering  several  thousand  "Alkali"  Ike 
dolls  on  hobby  horses.  The  above  company  has  made  ar- 
rangements with  Louis  Amberg  &  Son  to  distribute  these 
novelties  throughout  the  entire  United  States  and  Canada 
to  the  department  stores.  The  dolls  are  non-breakable.  A 
mold  was  made  which  cost  considerable,  so  that  the  dolls' 
faces  would  be  the  exact  likeness  of  Augustus  Carney.  The 
dolls  will  sell  for  $1.50. 


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ILLINOIS. 

G.  W.  Gebhardt,  proprietor  of  the  American, 
the  North  End  picture  house  In  Decatur,  is 
making  preparations  to  turn  his  house  Into  a 
vaudeville  theater.  However,  be  announces  the 
change  in  policy  win  not  become  effective  for  a 
year  or  two.  The  first  steps  were  to  increase  the 
capacity  from  400  to  500,  put  in  a  new  steel  front 
and  make  many  needed  improvements  in  the  in- 
terior. Next  fall  the  second  floor  of  the  building 
will  be  torn  out  and  a  balcony  seating  500  per- 
sons added,  which  will  give  a  total  capacity  of 
1,000. 

Walker  &  Woodyatt,  of  the  Bio,  at  Moline,  have 
Installed  a  new  $5,000  Wurlitzer  orchestrion. 

C.  E.  Kepner.  manager  and  proprietor  of  the 
Bijou  and  Grand  theaters  at  Mattoon,  bas  begun 
matinee  performances  from  2  to  5  o'clock  each 
afternoon.  The  management  has  announced  that  no 
children  will  be  admitted  at  either  theater  during 
school  hours,  but  special  educational  and  travel 
pictures  will  be  offered  on  Saturdays,  when  the 
youngsters  will  be  given  especial  attention.  New 
ventilating  systems  have  been  Installed. 

Marcus  Beiman,  of  Madison,  Wis.,  has  recently 
been  in  Champaign,  and  is  reported  to  have  options 
on  four  sites  for  a  theater. 

Miss  Marie  Clark,  who  has  been  managing  the 
Lyric  Theater  on  Grove  avenue,  at  Elgin,  has  re- 
signed her  position  and  the  place  was  closed  by 
W.  J.  Meehan,  owner  of  the  building.  It  was  an- 
nounced at  first  that  Meeban  would  operate  the 
place,  but  later  reports  came  that  he  bad  several 
proposals   from  would-be  lessees. 

George  L.  Murphy  has  purchased  a  Main  Street 
alte  in  Woodstock  and  will  erect  upon  It  a  modern 
theater  building,  which  will  be  used  as  a  picture 
house  by  Wittenberg  &  Bodensxchatz.  It  is  re- 
ported that  tbe  lessees  will  have  the  privilege  of 
purchasing  the  theater. 

A  new  borne  is  being  erected  at  Paxton  for  the 
Crystal.  Tbe  building,  which  will  be  of  concrete, 
brick  and  steel,  will  have  a  modern  appearance, 
especial  attention  being  given  to  the  decoration  of 
the  Interior  and  the  lobby.  It  will  seat  about  400 
persona. 

Tbe  Industrial  Moving  Picture  Company,  of  Chi- 
cago, recently  took  a  series  of  pictures  of  the  fire 
department  at  Jollet.  There  is  nothing  unusual 
in  such  a  statement,  for  tbe  Industrial  Company 
has  taken  pictures  of  most  of  the  fire  departments 
In  Illinois.  This  picture,  however,  will  be  ex- 
hibited by  tbe  Phoenix  Horse  Shoe  Company,  be- 
cause tbe  animals  which  made  tbe  demonstration 
runs   were   Phoenix -shod. 

L.  Dal  ton  will  erect  -a  new  building  at 
Elmwood,  to  be  used  as  a  moving  picture  theater. 
Miss  Bessie  Miller,  pianist  at  tbe  Star  Theater, 
In  Aurora,  and  an  unusually  accomplished  manu- 
script sight  reader,  was  awarded  the  gold  medal  at 
the  annual  contest  recently  held  in  the  Chicago 
Conservatory   of  Music. 

Gallagher  Brothers  have  sold  the  Royal  Theater 
at  Litchfield  to  R.  L.  McComas,  of  Pontiac,  111., 
who  has  already  assumed  the  management  of  the 
photoplay  lionse.  The  Gallaghers  will  continue  to 
operate  their  theater  in  Bloomington,  which  is 
being  managed  by  J.  P.  Gallagher.  They  started 
in  the  Litchfield  bouse  in  October,  1911. 

The  Banner  Theater  Company,  of  Chicago,  has 
been  incorporated  with  a  capital  stock  of  $17,500, 
to  operate  theaters.  The  Incorporators  are:  Menlo 
E.  Moore,  James  C.  Matthews  and  Samuel  A. 
Bristow. 

Mllo  Phares,  of  Elmwood,  is  opening  a  new  pic- 
ture show  at  Henry. 

The  Photo-Drama  Company,  of  Chicago,  has  been 
Incorporated,  with  a  capital  stock  of  $1,000,  to 
operate  moving  picture  shows.  The  incorporators 
are:  John  A.  Verhoeven,  Matthew  Dynewicx  and 
Richard  J.  Cooney. 

Charles  Vance,  manager  of  Dawn  Theater,  at 
Streator,  was  at  Ottawa  and  La  Salle,  looking 
over  tbe  films  recently  made  of  those  two  cities, 
with    a    view   to   exhibiting   them   io    Streator. 

Tbe  Igoe  bill,  re-establishing  boxing  In  Illinois. 
was  attacked  by  Rev.  Philip  W.  Yarrow,  president 
of  the  Young  People*s  Civic  League  at  Chicago,  be- 
came It  would  open  the  door  to  tbe  exhibition  of 
moving  pictures  of  boxing  matches,  and  these  would 
demoralise   the  younger  generation. 

Vernon  C.  Reavers  will  equip  his  new  Hippodrome 
at   Peoria,   with   a    moving  staircase. 

An  ordinance  creating  an  examining  board  for 
operators  bas  been  introduced  before  the  Galesburg 
City  Council  by  Alderman  McFarland.  This  board 
Is  to  consist  of  the  chief  of  the  fire  department, 
tbe  city  electrician  and  a  practical  operator.  A 
elide  must  be  exhibited  at  each  performance  show- 
ing  that   tbe   operator   bas   been  licensed.     Smoking 


witbln  twenty  feet  of  the  machine  will  be  pro- 
hibited. 

Work  Is  being  rushed  on  the  construction  of  the 
new  Gerrlb  Theater  at  Westville.  The  structure 
will  be  fireproof,   and  will  have  a  handsome   front. 

Carl  Rademacher,  manager  of  the  Orpheum  The- 
ater at  Freeport,  was  sponsor  for  a  eet  of  films 
of  the  show  places  of  that  city.  Tbe  matinee 
crowd  at  the  Orpheum  was  one  of  the  pictures. 

The  Argmore  Theater  Company,  of  Chicago,  baa 
been  Incorporated,  with  a  capital  stock  of  $7,000, 
to  operate  theaters.  The  incorporators  are:  David 
R.   Levy,  Douglass  C.   Gregg  and  Ethel  W.  Downes. 

John  Ellts,  of  Minonk,  has  leased  the  Grand 
Opera  House,  at  El  Paso.  The  deal  IncludeB  the 
picture  show  now  in  operation. 

The  Moore  Feature  Films,  of  Chicago,  have  been 
Incorporated,  with  a  capital  stock  of  $3,000,  to 
operate  moving  pictures.  The  Incorporators  are: 
M.  E.  Moorem,  W.  W.  Willis  and  M.  J.  Boyer. 

It  is  reported  that  owing  to  a  dissention  between 
the  owners,  Paul  Kohl  and  Charles  Garrett,  the 
moving  picture  show  in  the  Schlitz  Opera  House 
at  Minonk  was  closed. 

The  Main  Street  Theater,  in  Edwardsville,  has 
taken  on  a  bit  of  vaudeville  in  addition  to  its 
picture  program. 

Hillsboro  and  her  suburbs,  soon  will  have  seven 
theaters.  Dr.  Fred  Rogers  has  entered  the  field, 
and  has  let  tbe  contract  for  the  erection  of  the 
Grand  Central  Theater  on  South  Main  Street,  In 
Hillsboro.  In  addition,  he  has  leased  a  site  In 
Schram  City,  the  factory  addition,  and  will  erect 
an   airdome   120  x  50  feet. 

The  Majestic,  Dawn,  Dreamland  and  the  Lyric 
theaters  at  Streator,  each  gave  benefit  performances 
on  April  15  for  the  baseball  team  of  tbe  Illinois- 
Missouri  league. 

Harry  Aldricb  has  sold  his  interest  In  the  Main 
Street  Theater  at  Mason  City,  to  his  partner,  Tru- 
man Hardin. 

The  Elite  Theater,  on  South  Cherry  street,  at 
Galesburg,  was  recently  closed  while  new  ventila- 
tion apparatus  was  installed,  a  new  concrete  front 
placed  and  the  interior  redecorated  and  repainted. 

Pictures  of  Evanston  will  be  one  of  tbe  opening 
attractions  of  the  new  Star  Theater,  which  is  being 
erected  on  Davis  street  in  that  city,  by  Bodkin  & 
Keane. 

Moving  picture  houses  at  Cairo  which  bad  closed 
down  during  the  flood  scare,  were  not  allowed  to 
reopen  as  soon  after  the  excitement  subsided  as  they 
wished.  Health  officers  feared  an  epidemic,  as 
contagious  diseases  were  numerous,  and  postponed 
the  resumption  of  business. 

Rockford  recently  enjoyed  the  novelty  of  two 
religious  bodies  debating  the  Sunday  moving  picture 
show  question.  The  team  from  the  Adelphic  So- 
ciety of  the  Emmanuel  Lutheran  Church  upheld  the 
Sunday  picture  and  defeated  the  debaters  from  the 
Luther  League.  Another  debate  was  held  in  the 
Swedish  Free  Church  on  the  subject,  "Which  Would, 
Under  Existing  Conditions,  Be  Considered  the  Most 
Dangerous,  the  Saloon  or  the  Moving  Picture 
Show?"  "It  was  decided  that  the  two  could  not 
be  compared.  After  thirty  had  discussed  the  ques- 
tion, a  majority  of  the  300  persons  present  un- 
qualifiedly condemned  both  the  saloon  and  the  "mov- 
ing picture  shows  as  the  latter  are  now  consti- 
tuted." 

Judge  Paul  McWilliams,  of  Pana  City  Court,  bas 
sustained  the  decision  of  Jndge  Morgan  that  O.  M. 
Otloe  violated  the  law  by  opening  his  picture  show 
on  Sunday.  Since  this  case  originated  the  Supreme 
Court  has  decided  that  ordinances  of  this  class  are 
valid  and,  as  a  new  measure  bas  been  enacted  In 
Pana,  the  city  will  be  without  Sunday  shows. 

Tbe  advisory  vote  taken  at  the  regular  city  elec- 
tion In  Freeport  showed  that  a  majority  of  1633 
favored  the  opening  of  moving  picture  theaters  on 
Sunday.  Tbe  question  is  still  up  to  the  city  council 
if  it  wishes  to  disregard  the  voice  of  the  people. 
That  this  vote  cannot  be  construed  as  the  opening 
wedge  for  a  lawless  Sabbath  is  shown  by  the  fact 
that  a  proposition  to  allow  pool  rooms  and  billiard 
halls  to  remain  open  was  defeated  by  a  majority  of 
172.  Even  the  majority  in  favor  of  allowing  regular 
theatrical  attractions  on  Sunday  was  about  six 
hundred  less  than  that  of  the  photoplay  advocates. 

Hacker  &  Krapp  are  now  operating  the  moving 
picture  show  at  Mokena. 

Phil  Wade  has  opened  a  moving  picture  show  in 
the  Central  Opera  house  at  Fairbnry. 

Manager  Rademacher  of  the  Orpheum,  at  Free- 
port,  will  Install  a  $5,000  pipe  organ  and  a  $400  set 
of  cathedral  chimes  In  his  house. 

J.  J.  Reilly,  who  owns  tbe  Princess  In  Alton, 
bas  opened  his  new  Outagua  theater  at  Upper  Al- 
ton. A  new  building  was  erected  for  the  purpose 
and  the  suburb  will  have  an  up-to-date  photoplay 
house. 

Moving  pictures  prepared  by  the  Chicago  Tuber- 
culosis Institute  were  shown  at  the  Princess  in  Dan- 
ville  by   the  Danville   Physicians   Club. 

Moving  picture  houses  In  Illinois  will  have  an 
open  amusement  field  earlier  than  usual  this 
year  because  the  theatrical  houses  are  beginning 
to  shut  up  shop.  The  theatrical  business  has  been 
none  too  good  In  the  state.  Half  of  the  smaller 
one-night  stands  have  been  booking  pictures  on 
open  dates  and  found  that  it  paid  just  as  well,  was 
less  trouble,  and  consequently  the  road  shows  have 
not  found  easy  sledding.  Many  of  the  road  com- 
panies were  bard  hit  by  the  floods  in  Ohio,  In- 
diana and  Illinois,  and  are  glad  to  get  cut  of  the 
way. 


Tbe  Coles  Syndicate,  of  St.  Louis,  Is  seeking  a 
site  In  Elgin  for  an  airdome.  A  $25,000  enterprise 
Is  planned.  The  concern  operates  seven  bousea  and 
four  airdomes  In  St.  Louis,  and  is  said  to  have  had 
an  envious  eye  on  Elgin  for  some  time.  Elgin  now 
bas  one  picture  bouse  less,  tbe  Lyric,  which  was 
closed  recently,  having  been  leased  as  a  home  for 
tbe  Woolworth  five  and  ten  cent  store. 

The  Idle  Hour  Theater,  at  Huntley,  plans  to  give 
three  shows  a  week  this  summer. 

Tbe  Sunday  moving  picture  show  proposition  won 
In  Rockford  by   a  small  majority. 

Ira  Thorpe,  manager  of  tbe  Gem,  at  Clinton,  is 
rejoicing  over  a  new  Power's  6-A  In  his  operating 
room. 

Illinois  Negroes  are  taking  bold  of  the  picture 
proposition.  There  Is  a  bouse  in  Springfield  which 
caters  to  the  Negroes  exclusively,  and  is  said  to  be 
a  money-making  venture.  Joseph  During  has  been 
playing  some  African  Methodist  Episcopal  Churches 
in  Southern  Illinois  with  tbe  "Passion  Play,"  and 
has  been  very  successful. 

Earl  Smith  has  sold  the  Dreamland  Theater  at 
Farmington  to  Theodore  Bass,  and  will  go  west. 
The  new  owner  is  connected  with  the  electric  light 
company  and  bas  a  reputation  for  progressiveness. 

The  Bijou,  at  Wilmington,  has  been  closed  for 
redecorating  and  remodeling. 

A  school  children's  bucket  brigade  fighting  a  fire 
was  one  of  the  pictures  which  the  cameramen  of  the 
Industrial  Motion  Picture  Company  stumbled  upon 
at  Freeport.  Tbe  buggy  factories  of  that  city 
played  a   very  important  part  In  the  reels. 

Mrs.  Musa  Reese,  proprietor  of  tbe  Aero  and  Air- 
dome at  Charleston,  Is  contemplating  a  summer 
season  of  vaudeville  at  the  Airdome,  or  a  mixed  bill 
of  vaudeville  and  stock  companies.  She  also  plana 
to  place  new  chairs  in  the  Aero  and  make  It  one 
of  the  most  up-to-date  picture  houses  in  the  State. 
Tbe  robbery  of  the  Bio  Theater,  In  Moline,  Is 
reported  by  newspapers  of  that  city.  The  thief 
evidently  hid  himself  in  the  orchestra  pit  as  the 
last  crowd  was  leaving,  and  then  forced  In  the 
door  of  the  box  ofl5ee  and  took  a  sack  containing 
between  $75  and  $100  In   money. 

J.  C.  Lyons  is  having  a  new  opera  house. erected 
In  Oregon.  The  building  will  be  of  brick  and  the 
auditorium  will  seat  400  persons. 

Presbyterians  of  Hillsboro  are  going  to  build  a 
new  church,  and  S.  E.  Hurst,  proprietor  of  the 
Gem,  is  going  to  help  them  along  by  turning  over 
to  The  Young  Ladles'  Aid  Society  the  matinee  per- 
formances for  five  Saturdays.  An  endeavor  was 
made  to  book  as  many  Biblical  films  as  possible, 
Including  the  "Passion  Play." 

Secretary  Fred  Jencks,  of  the  Elgin  National  Road 
Race  Association,  announces  that  he  has  received 
several  bids  from  motion  picture  companies  for  the 
privilege  of  filming  the  Elgin  races  this  year. 

The  Orpheum  Amusement  Company  Is  contemplat- 
ing a  new  vaudeville  house  to  seat  about  1,600  per- 
sons in  Rockford.  It  will  cost  about  $100,000.  The 
present  house  will  be  used  for  stock  companies  and 
other  theatrical  attractions. 

The  Princess,  at  Dixon,  is  becoming  more  and 
more  of  a  picture  house,  and  has  taken  out  its 
stage  to  make  more  seating  room.  The  place  has 
been  redecorated,  a  new  screen  Installed,  and  other- 
wise improved. 

Manager  Burr  Swan,  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias 
Opera  House  at  Pittsfleld,  not  only  allowed  tbe 
Ladies*  Charity  Club  to  have  a  special  program  in 
connection  with  his  picture  show,  but  appeared  with 
two  others  in  the  third  act  of  "The  Lion  and  the 
Mouse." 

Women  of  Evanston  have  asked  Bodkin  &  Keane, 
who  are  building  the  new  Star  Theater  in  that  city, 
to  install  an  indirect  lighting  system  and  protect 
the  young  people. 

Business  and  professional  men  of  Madison  are  op- 
posed to  moving  pictures  If  one  can  believe  the  re- 
ports eminating  from  that  city.  So  awakened  to  the 
evil  of  the  film  have  they  become,  according  to  the 
story,  that  they  have  named  a  lyceum  board  of  two 
members  to  regulate  entertainments  and  lectures 
that  are  designed  to  draw  the  citizens  away  from 
tbe  photoplay  and  attract  them  to  "another  form  of 
educative  amusement."  R.  V.  Studebaker,  cashier 
of  the  Tri-city  State  Bank,  of  Madison,  and  Henry 
Counole,  police  magistrate,  have  been  named  to 
guide  the  amusement  destiny  of  Madisonlans. 

Hayne  &  Huff,  of  Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  have  leased 
the  Princess  Theater  Building  at  Marshall,  from 
Seymour  Hurst,  and  will  open  a  moving  picture 
and  vaudeville  house.  They  take  with  them  four 
years  of  experience  In  tbe  photoplay  business  at 
West  Terre  Haute. 

The  Colonial  Amusement  Company,  of  Harris- 
burg,  bas  increased  its  capital  stock  from  $40,000 
to  $75,000. 

Dreamland  Theater,  at  Farmington,  has  been  Bold 
again.  Theodore  Bass,  head  of  the  electric  light 
plant,  was  but  temporarily  in  possession  of  tbe 
place.  He  bas  sold  It  to  L.  J.  Anderson,  of  Fair- 
view,  who  will  manage  the  house. 

The  Airdome  on  North  Main  street.  Canton,  has 
been  leased  by  Woodruff  &  Miller,  managers  of  the 
Varietie  Theater  In  that  city,  who  will  operate  It 
as  a  picture  show.  It  was  planned  to  open  about 
May  1.  The  place  was  given  some  remodeling  and 
repainting. 

It  is  reported  that  the  library  board  of  the  public 
schools  at  Wood  River,  contemplates  the  use  of 
Pictures  in  the  school,  either  slides  or  films.  The 
members  recently  made  a  trip  to  St.  Louis  to  In- 
vestigate tbe  matter. 


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Miss  Marjorie  Imnan,  who  has  been  singing  for 
several  mouths  at  the  Crystal  Theater  Id  Cuba,  bas 
gone  to  Matbersrille,  where  she  will  sing  in  the 
picture  show  operated  by  John  Boulden,  formerly 
of  Cuba. 

Plans  Lave  been  submitted  to  the  building  in- 
spector at  Peoria,  for  a  new  picture  house  iu  the 
1200  block,  on  South  Adams  street.  It  is  said 
Pekln  capital  is  interested.  The  plans  call  for  a 
bouse  which  will  seat  about  350  persons,  and  will 
cost   about  $12,000  or  $15,000. 

The  Trades  and  Labor  Assembly  of  Bellville,  is 
given  credit  for  a  vigorous  Sunday  closing  move- 
ment now  under  way  in  that  city. 

Bmil  Seng  bas  added  a  reel  to  bis  show  at  Rob- 
erts, and  is  now  running  a  four-reel  show. 

George  Haganiann,  Tarry  Carpenter,  and  the 
Misses  Emma  and  Cora  Goeppiuger,  bave  purchased 
the  Majestic  Theater  at  Bushnell.  They  may  re- 
model the  place. 

The  West  End  Amusement  Company,  of  Cbicago, 
has  been  incorporated  with  a  capital  stock  of  $60,- 
000,  to  operate  theaters.  The  Incorporators  are: 
Harry  J.  Lurie,  James  E.  Davis,  and  John  L.  Ander- 
son. 

The  Opera  House  Building,  at  Litchfield,  has 
been  sold  by  Snell  Brothers  to  the  various  Masonic 
lodges  of  the  city,   who  will  remodel  it. 

The  Star  Theater,  at  Aurora,  ran  a  ten-day  pro- 
gram of  What  Happened  to  Mary."  Photographs 
of  Miss  Mary  Fuller  were  given  as  souvenirs  at 
two  matinees. 

The  Loop  Theater  Company,  of  Chicago,  has  been 
Incorporated  with  a  capital  stock  of  $15,000,  to 
operate  theaters.  Tbe  Incorporators  are:  Siegmund 
Ruhstadt,   Jacob  Kaplan   and   Nathan   Kaplan. 

Moving  pictures  of  an  unusual  job  of  sewer  ex- 
cavation In  Quincy,  were  recently  made  for  Man- 
ager Peter  Pinkelman,  of  tbe  Gem  Theater. 

Moving  pictures  will  form  a  part  of  tbe  program 
at  a  roof  garden  in  course  of  construction  at  Water 
and  Eldorado  streets,  Decatur.  G.  W.  Scovil  is 
manager. 

The  "K"  Theater,  on  Broadway,  near  Seventeenth 
street,  Mattoon,  bas  been  opened,  featuring  first-run 
pictures.  The  first  ten  ladies  to  buy  tickets  for 
tbe  opening  performance  were  given  handsome 
souvenirs.  Matinee  and  night  performances  will  be 
given.  A  five  and  ten  cent  admission  will  be 
charged. 

Tweed  &  Sherers  have  rented  the  theater  In  the 
Red  Top  Inn,  at  Fox  Lake,  a  summer  resort  near 
McHenry,   and  will  run  pictures   this  summer. 

Dawn  Theater,  Streator,  recently  gave  a  benefit 
performance  for  tbe  Boy  Scouts  of  the  city. 

Dates  for  educational  pictures  at  tbe  Lyric,  Mor- 
rison, have  been  changed  from  Saturday  to  Friday 
matinee  and  evening,  for  tbe  benefit  of  tbe  school 
children. 

The  Lyric,  at  Freeport,  recently  gave  a  benefit 
performance  for  the  Center  street  school.  More  than 
4,000  advance  tickets  were  sold,  and  it  was  neces- 
sary to  run  two  morning  shows.  Manager  Hopper, 
of  the  Lyric,  who  recently  acquired  a  camera, 
planned  to  take  a  series  of  local  pictures  and  exhibit 
them  at  his  house  May  16  and  17. 

The  subject  of  ventilation  in  moving  picture  thea- 
ters Is  up  for  discussion  In  Illinois  and  enough 
opinions  have  been  expressed  by  health  authorities 
and  by  the  press  to  warrant  the  moving  picture 
managers  to  see  that  their  houses  are  right.  The 
Orpheum  at  Elgin  bas  taken  the  pains  to  advertise 
Itself  "Orpheum — House  of  Ventilation."  Howard 
L.  Rann,  who  writes  for  a  syndicate  of  Illinois 
papers  says,  "The  moving  picture  show  is  a  great 
deal  better  tban  it  was  on  tbe  start,  and  will  Im- 
prove Just  as  fast  as  tbe  public  taste  will  allow  it 
to.  It  could  be  improved  in  tbe  way  of  ventilation 
at  once,  however,  without  dragging  out  a  protest 
from  anybody."  The  Jollet  News  has  an  editorial 
upon  the  subject,  and  believes  that  the  theaters  and 
churches    could    stand    more    airing. 

E.  C.  Llnd,  of  Anna,  has  purchased  a  site  on 
Railroad  Street  in  that  city  and  will  erect  a  new 
vaudeville  and  picture  bouse  at  a  cost  of  *7 
The  building  will  be  fireproof  throughout,  will  bave 
a  handsome,  three-arch  front,  and  will  contain  a 
stage  and  four  dressing  rooms.  Vaudeville  bills  will 
be  changed  twice  a  week  but  tbe  picture  program 
will  be  changed  daily.  He  will  continue  to  operate 
tbe  old  Lyric  theater  on  West  Railroad  Street  un- 
til bis  lease  expires  In  1914.  The  new  bouse  will 
also  be  called  the  Lyric. 

The  Ideal  Amusement  Company,  of  Canton,  has 
been  Incorporated  with  a  capital  stock  of  $20,000 
to  operate  places  of  amusement.  Tbe  incorporators 
are  L.  B.  Woodruff,  E.  R.  Miller  and  G.  R.  Beam. 
C.  w.  Dougherty  of  Monmouth  bas  sold  his  in- 
terests in  the  Colonial  and  Colonade  moving  picture 
theaters  on  South  Prairie  Street,  Galesburg,  to 
Raymond  C.  Schroeder  and  William  Oliver  of  Jollet. 
Schroeder  is  on  old  newspaper  man,  having  conducted 
a  funny  column  on  the  *' Jollet  News"  for  some 
time.  He  will  have  active  charge  of  both  houses. 
The  places  will  be  overhauled.  A  three-reel  pro- 
gram  will   be  given. 

The  Olympia  Theater  at  Areola  showed  the  In- 
ternational Harvester  Company's  picture  "Tbe 
Romance  of  the  Reaper,"  May  1,  in  co-operation 
with  a  local  implement  firm.  Despite  its  advertis- 
ing tendency  this  reel  Is  very  popular  in  Illinois 
because  it  reaches  the  rural  residents,  and  it  bas 
never  had  any  difficulty  getting  onto  tbe  program 
of    any    agricultural    meeting. 

When  'Satan"  was  shown  at  the  Lyric  theater 
at  Greenville  It  was  lectured  by  J.  M.  Leaverton, 
a  former   resident  of  the  county. 


Kills  Jackson  has  been  remodeling  the  Alrdome 
at  Bushnell. 

Gallagher  Brothers,  who  recently  disposed  of  their 
interests  in  tbe  Royal  Theater  at  Litchfield,  bave 
now  sold  the  Oastle  in  Bloomington  to  William 
Lyons  who  has  been  associated  with  Joseph  Galla- 
,gher  in  the  management  of  the  place.  Gallagher 
Brothers  are  said  to  contemplate  opening  a  house 
in    Murphysboro,    111. 

W.  A.  Peterson  who  has  been  connected  with  the 
picture  destinies  of  Bloomington  and  Quincy  from 
time  to  time  is  again  in  Quincy.  A  room  formerly 
occupied  by  a  laundry  is  being  fitted  for  a  picture 
show,  for  which  Wiley  McConnell,  manager  of  the 
Bijou,  the  vaudeville  house,  is  sponsor.  Peterson 
will  act  as  manager.  Until  the  new  house  is  ready 
tbe  pictures  will  be  shown  In  the  vaudeville  bouse. 

Harland  Anderson  and  Marion  Stuits,  of  Mon- 
mouth, have  purchased  the  Idle  Hour  Theater  at 
White    Hall    and    assumed   charge    of   it    May    1. 

The  proposed  new  vaudeville  bouse  in  Rock  ford 
has  been  named  the  Palace.  The  promoters  have 
been  granted  a  charter  under  the  name  of  the  Palace 
Amusement  Company  with  a  capital  stock  of  $100,- 
000.     The   incorporators   are  Fred  S.    Sterling,   Fred 

E.  Carpenter    and    Marcus    Heiman.      Construction 
work  will  soon  begin. 

Mark  and  eBrt  Cooper,  of  Champaign,  have  se- 
cured a  site  on  Church  Street  in  that  city  and  will 
erect  a  new  fireproof  moving  picture  house.  It  is 
planned  to  erect  a  house  with  a  seating  capacity 
of  about  750.  A  pipe  organ  will  be  a  feature.  Spe- 
cial attention  will  be  given  to  tbe  ventilation  which 
will  be  by  means  of  invisible  ducts  set  into  the  ceil- 
ing panels.  It  is  hoped  to  open  the  theater  about 
September  1. 

The  celebration  of  the  ninety-fourth  anniversary 
of  the  founding  of  the  I.  0.  0.  F.  was  especially 
happy  at  the  order's  Old  Folks'  Home  at  Mattoon. 
Upon  that  occasion  Samuel  Baker,  grand  scribe  of 
the  grand  encampment,  presented  to  the  Institution 
a  moving  picture  machine  which  had  been  donated 
by  the  grand  encampment.  Views  of  eight  homes 
In  as  many  states  began  the  program.  Patriotic 
and  sacred  films  were  joyously  received  by  the  old 
people. 

Tbe  motto  used  by  the  Palm,  Aurora  is  puzzling 
some  persons:  "Good  Pictures!  That's  All."  Nev- 
ertheless it  also  advertises  itself  as  "the  theater 
beautiful." 

St.  Louis  capital  Is  reported  to  be  interested  in 
a  $25,000  airdome  project  in  Waukegan. 

Evan  Wheeler  of  Kankakee  is  to  build  a  new 
brick  and  concrete,  40x115,  moving  picture  theater 
building  on  North  Market  Street  In  Champaign. 
He  has  had  experience  in  the  show  business. 

The  people  of  Vermont  have  made  a  real  Issue 
of  the  moving  picture — not  of  its  evil  influence  nor 
of  tbe  question  of  showing  it  on  Sunday.  The  town 
is  divided  upon  the  grave  subject  of  how  to  best 
entertain  the  visitors  from  the  countryside  round- 
about. Some  say  band  concerts,  some  say  moving 
pictures  and  some  say  both. 

Improvements  costing  $15,000  will  transform  the 
Tavern  theater  on  Cass  Street,  Joliet,  into  the 
splendid  new  Drexel.  Among  the  interior  changes 
will  be  newer  and  larger  ball-bearings  seats, 
woman's  rest  room,  tile  floor  in  lobby,  new  light- 
ing effects  and  a  new  daylight  curtain.  A  new 
front  will  be  Installed.  The  musical  equipment  will 
be  complete  with  the  addition  of  a  $10,000  pipe 
organ  and  a  set  of  cathedral  chimes.     Manager   W. 

F.  Clark  will  continue  the  place  as  a  five-cent  pic- 
ture  house. 

Tbe  city  council  of  Sterling  has  legislated  out 
of  existence  the  Sunday  picture  show.  The  ordi- 
nance prohibiting  photoplays  and  theatrical  shows 
on  Sunday  was  passed  by  the  new  council  and  be- 
came effective  at  once.  The  matter  had  been  at  issue 
in  the  municipal  campaign  and  while  the  question 
was  not  submitted  to  the  people  a  canvass  was 
taken  of  the  candidates  for  aldermen  and  mayor. 
Alderman  Harmon  attempted  to  have  the  new  ordi- 
nance tabled  and  a  vote  cast  at  the  next  spring 
election  by  the  citizens  but  failed.  The  council 
tied  on  his  proposition  and  Mayor  Piatt  voted 
against  it. 

An  ordinance  closing  many  places  of  business  on 
Sunday  is  up  in  Joliet,  but  there  seems  to  be  a 
disposition  to  treat  the  moving  picture  men  fairly. 
J.  W.  D'Arcy,  representing  the  photoplay  mana- 
gers, visited  the  city  council  and  asked  that  the 
moving  picture  houses  be  eliminated  from  the  list 
of    businesses   which    would   have    to   close. 

MIDWEST    SPECIAL    SERVICE. 


SPRINGFIELD,  ILL. 

CPRINGFIELD  is  Just  a  little  bit  nearer  than  it 
^  ever  was  before  to  having  a  local  branch  of 
the  Exhibitors'  League.  Gus  Kerasotes,  owner  of 
the  Savoy  and  the  Royal  theaters,  is  tbe  latest  to 
Join  the  Illinois  League,  and  other  managers  have 
announced  their  intention  of  forwarding  their  ap- 
plication fee.  A  local  league  is  badly  needed  even 
If  it  would  ignore  the  matter  of  programs  entirely. 
There  Is  enough  to  do  in  the  way  of  creating  a 
favorable  sentiment  toward  pictures  and  fighting 
tbe  Ill-advised  campaigns  against  the  photoplay 
which  develop  from  time  to  time.  At  this  time 
it  Is  announced  that  blank  warrants  have  been 
asked  by  the  Meat-Cutters'  Union  for  all  business 
houses  that  opened  on  Sunday  while  the  butcher 
shops  were,  by  law,  kept  closed.  It  Is  presumed 
that  this  Includes  the  picture  houses,  for  they  were 
given  prominence  In  the  plans  of  the  meat-cutters 


who  hoped,  by  cutting  off  people  from  their  de- 
sired amusements,  to  force  the  opening  of  the 
butcher  shops.  Then,  too,  the  musical  problem  la 
not  settled;  the  union  bas  taken  active  steps  in 
the  matter.  The  cry  of  boycotting  the  houses 
that  do  not  employ  union  men  has  arisen,  and 
few  of  them   employ   union  men. 

Aside  from  these  things  the  program  question 
needs  settling.  There  Is  too  much  fighting,  too 
many  four,  five  and  even  six  and  seven-reel  shows 
for  a  nickel.  Photoplay  patrons  have  been  puzzled  by 
seeing  licensed  pictures  in  independent  houses  and 
independent  pictures  in  licensed  houses.  When 
a  manager  starts  out  to  give  a  long  program  for  a 
nickel  he  has  got  to  do  one  of  two  things — he  will 
be  forced  to  use  cheap  stuff,  or  he  must  do  a 
juggling  stunt  with  licensed  and  independent  films. 
Either  course  will  ultimately  prove  disastrous  for 
him.  It  is  said  that  a  local  branch  might  be 
formed  if  the  program  question  were  to  be  left 
out.     But  that  is  the  real  problem  here. 

Rocchiccloli  &  Buche  have  sold  the  Casino  The- 
a  ter  on  East  Washington  Street  to  Slmonetta 
Brothers.  Frank  Palmisan  will  continue  as  man- 
ager. Mr.  Rocchiccloli  is  managing  a  theater 
which  he  recently   purchased  at   Auburn. 

Isadore  Burnstine  and  Joseph  W.  Shepbard,  own- 
ers of  the  Capital,  have  purchased  tbe  property 
at  613  East  Washington  Street  which  has  been 
occupied   by  the   theater  for  several  years. 

The  floods  in  southern  Illinois  made  it  neces- 
sary for  the  Vaudette  Amusement  Company  of  this 
city  to  cancel  many  bookings  for  the  Kalem  pic- 
ture "From  the  Manger  to  tbe  Cross."  Among 
the  towns  which  could  not  be  played  were  Cairo, 
Mound  City,  Mounds,  Metropolis  and  Shawneetown. 
The  picture,  however,  was  In  demand  about  that 
time  for  playing  flood  benefits.  It  was  shown  at 
McLeansboro,  Flat  Rock,  and  Mt.  Vernon  to  help 
the  sufferers.  The  Vaudette  Company,  which  has 
the  Illinois  rights  for  the  picture,  probably  will 
purchase  a  third  set  of  the  films  because  two  sets 
will  hardly  meet  the  demand.  One  set  has  been 
booked  for  Waukegan  and  Zion  City  and  early  In 
May  will  go  to  tbe  Cort  Theater  at  Chicago,  where 
a  long  run  is  expected.  There  is  a  big  demand 
for  the  picture  from  the  towns  in  Illinois  which 
have  a  large  foreign  population  and  the  additional 
reels  will  take  care  of  these  emergency  calls. 
Word  comes  from  St.  Louis  that  Frank  Talbot 
has  been  wonderfully  successful  with  this  picture 
at  his  Hippodrome.  When  he  showed  it  during 
Holy  Week  he  could  give  It  but  two  hours  a  day, 
vet  had  an  attendance  of  almost  60.000  persons. 
Mr.  Hall,  of  Hall  &  Lynch,  Chicago,  who  pur- 
chased tbe  Wisconsin  State  rights  for  this  pic- 
ture,   Is   dead   at   his  home. 

J.  Bruner,  who  Installed  the  pipe  organ  in  W.  W. 
Watts'  new  Chicago  house,  writes  that  he  Is  go- 
ing to  open  a  picture  house  in  Metropolis.  At  the 
time  he  wrote,  however,  the  flood  was  tbe  prin- 
cipal issue  in  Metropolis,  which  is  on  the  Ohio 
River. 

Springfield  has  been  filmed  again — this  time  by 
the  Advance  Motion  Picture  Company  of  Chicago. 
The  company  took  the  Lincoln  Monument,  the 
State  capital  and  the  other  places  of  historic  In- 
terest.    Two   reels   were   made. 

A  big  campaign  to  interest  farmers  In  central 
Illinois  In  growing  alfalfa  will  be  conducted.  The 
tours  and  others  features  will  be  filmed,  it  is  an- 
nounced, by  the  International  Harvester  Company, 
which  originated  tbe  project  and  which  is  a  great 
advocate  of  industrial  moving  pictures.  It  Is  also 
reported  that  the  Essanay  Company  will  take  some 
pictures. 

Tbe  Denvir  bill,  creating  the  office  of  State  mo- 
tion picture  inspector  and  providing  for  the  State 
licensing  of  all  motion  picture  machine  operators, 
has  been  pending  on  its  third  reading  in  the  Illi- 
nois   Senate. 

W.  W.  Olinger,  of  this  city,  has  opened  Ms  new 
picture    show    at    Petersburg. 

The  Lyrie,  on  South  Fifth  Street,  Is  again  using 
an    orchestra    in    the    evening. 

Blue  laws  have  been  the  chief  topic  of  discussion 
among  Springfield  photoplay  men.  One  of  them, 
Ariolph  Kunz.  proprietor  of  the  Grand  Theater. 
529  East  Washington  street,  w.ns  named  In  a  war- 
rant Issued  with  ten  others,  through  the  efforts  of 
the  Springfield  Law  Enforcement  League,  ebarginz 
them  with  laboring  on  the  Sabbath.  John  O'Connor, 
of  the  Empire,  and  Smith  &  Burton,  of  the  Gaiety, 
vaudeville  houses  which  run  pictures,  were  also  ar- 
rested. Tbe  Springfield  City  Commission,  was  very 
much  worried  by  the  action.  Recently,  at  an  elec- 
tion, a  referendum  vote  was  taken  upon  the  ques- 
tion of  closing  the  saloons  on  Sunday.  The  citizens 
decided  they  wanted  them  open.  The  present  action 
Is  locally  termed  "spite  work,"  because  It  grew 
out  of  the  "I'11-get-even'*  spirit  of  some  butchers 
whose  meat-markets  were  closed  on  Sunday.  But 
the  law  was  on  the  books  and  has  never  been  re- 
pealed. The  moving  picture  men  talked  of  asking 
for  a  referendum  vote  upon  the  question  of  Sunday 
shows,  as  they  were  confident  that  the  proposition 
would  carry.  Victor  Bender,  editor  of  tbe  "News," 
said:  "The  most  critical  rarely  have  occasion  to 
find  fanlt  with  the  ebnracter  of  the  pictures  pre- 
sented, and  the  wisdom  of  closing  these  popular 
places  of  amusement  may  well  be  questioned." 
When  the  cases  above  mentioned  were  brought  to 
Police  Magistrate  Clark  B.  Shlpp,  by  the  Spring- 
field Law  Enforcement  League,  he  characterized 
them  as  "small  town  stuff,"  and  dismissed  them. 
His  opinion  is  unique  and  ef  interest  to  the  motion 
picture    trade   In    general.     He   said:     "The   present 


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trouble  over  the  enforcement  of  the  ordinance  in 
question  bad  its  incipieucy  in  an  attempt  some  time 
ago  on  the  part  of  certain  nnion  organizations,  which 
bad  passed  rules  compelling  the  shopkeepers  in  the 
organisation  to  close  their  places  of  business  on 
Sunday,  to  also  compel  non-union  keepers  of  similar 
■bops  to  obserre  the  Sunday  closing  order.  Under 
that  attempt  this  ordinance  was  taken  up  to  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Illinois,  and  its  validity  ascer- 
tained. The  non-union  shopkeepers  now  come  back, 
with  the  aid  of  the  Law  Enforcement  League,  and 
are  attempting  to  put  out  of  Sunday  business  all 
lines  of  commercial  traffic. 

"This  situation  contains  no  element  of  moral  up- 
lift except  as  regards  the  members  of  the.  Law  En- 
forcement League,  who  are  allowing  themselves  to 
be  used  in  this  matter  under  the  belief  that  the 
attainment  of  the  end  they  seek  would  justify  any 
means  of  reaching  there. 

"This  matter  has  been  brought  to  the  attention 
of  the  local  municipal  government,  through  its 
legal  department,  and  has  been  passed  up  to  this 
office  with  the  suggestion  that  this  court,  in  turn, 
pass  It  on  to  a  Jury.  So  far  as  this  court  is  con- 
cerned, this  and  other  matters  based  upon  this  and 
other  similar  ordinances,  will  be  passed  upon  finally. 

"Xo  law  or  ordinance  based  thereon  can  possibly 
be  paramount  to  the  desires  and  wishes  of  a  ma- 
jority of  the  people  over  whom  it  has  jurisdiction. 

"Until  the  adoption  of  the  commission  form  of 
government  in  this  city,  and  the  subsequent  taking 
of  office  thereunder  by  the  commissioners,  it  was  a 
debatable  question  whether  certain  moral  ordinances 
of  the  city  should  be  enforced. 

"There  was  no  question  as  to  the  constitutionality 
of  these  ordinances,  nor  is  there  now,  the  sole  ques- 
tion being:  Does  a  majority  of  the  electors  in  this 
community  desire  such  ordinances,  termed  by  the 
liberalist  'blue  laws,'  be  literally  enforced? 

"CertaiD  men  were  elected  commissioners  upon  a 
strict  law  enforcement  platform,  some  of  whom 
deemed  it  a  duty  to  discover  if  a  majority  of  per- 
sons in  the  community  did  or  did  not  want  these 
so-called  'blue  laws*  enforced  immediately.  A 
referendum  vote  of  the  people  was  bad  upon  an 
ordinance  which  presented  the  following  question: 
'Do  you  want  the  saloons  closed  on  Sunday  In  the 
city  of  Springfield?' 

"This  question  was  answered  by  a  majority  vote 
In  no  uncertain  terms,  and  it  was  decreed  in  very 
plain  language,  of  which  there  can  be  no  misin- 
terpretation, that  the  people  in  this  community 
want  the  open  Sunday  saloon,  under  certain  regula- 
tions. 

"Here  it  is  sought  to  enforce  a  similar  ordinance 
to  collect  penalty  from  citizens  of  Springfield  for 
operating  saloons,  theaters,  bowling  alleys,  pool 
rooms,  business  bouses,  shoe  shining  stands,  and 
other  business  on  Sunday,  when,  by  a  clear  ex- 
pression of  the  votes  of  Springfield  it  was  ascer- 
tained that  they  wanted  saloons  operated  on  Sun- 
day. 

•'It  Is  a  clear  proposition  that  if  a  majority  of 
the  citizens  of  the  community  are  not  only  willing 
to  tolerate  the  Sunday  saloon,  but  will  affirmatively 
champion  the  existence  of  the  same  by  going  to 
the  polls  and  casting  their  ballots  to  that  end,  they 
most  assuredly  are  willing  and  desirous  that  other 
placea  of  business  or  amusement  may  be  operated 
on  Sunday,  free  from  the  operation  of  the  ordinance 
in  question. 

"I  do  not  wish  to  be  construed  as  championing 
the  Sunday  saloon,  for,  on  the  contrary,  I  am 
against  It.  However,  I  believe  that  the  majority 
of  the  voters  of  Springfield  want  it,  and  that  it 
19  ray  business  to  tolerate  the  same  or  move  into 
some  community  whose  views  coincide  with  mine. 

"In  conclusion,  I  beg  most  earnestly  to  suggest 
that  the  time  is  ripe  when  the  citizens  as  well  as 
we  public  officials  of  Springfield  get  together  and 
endeavor  to  do  something  of  importance  for  Greater 
Springfield,  instead  of  spending  so  much  time  in 
petty  wrangling  and  lawsuits  over  a  lot  of  small 
town  stuff.  The  defendants  under  the  warants  now 
before  me  will  be  discharged." 

1  rporatlon  Counsel  Frank  Hatch,  for  the  city, 
immediately  gave  notice  of  an  appeal  to  the  County 
Court,  which  was  filed  later.  Hatch  has  been 
Identified  with  reform  movements  in  Springfield,  and 
a  local  paper  says  that  his  attitude  in  pushing  the 
cases  may  cause  his  removal  from  the  city's  legal 
department. 

Affairs  of  the  Central  Motion  Picture  Corpora- 
tion, with  headquarters  at  Springfield,  are  a  puzzle 
to  the  public.  The  company  was  granted  a  charter 
by  the  State  of  Illinois,  with  capital  stock  of 
$1,000.  Adevrtisements  in  local  papers  offered 
Stock  in  a  $100,000  corporation,  which  was  to  build 
a  string  of  motion  picture  theaters  and  operate 
them  at  a  profit.  A  representative  of  the  Moving 
Picture  World  called  the  other  day  at  the  office, 
504  Odd  Fellows'  Building,  which  bears  the  sign 
of  the  $100,000  corporation.  It  was  locked.  Peer- 
ing through  the  frosted  glass  door  he  saw  It  was 
empty.  Inquiry  at  the  office  of  the  building  man- 
ager, revealed  the  fact  that  the  man  who  had  been 
in  charge  had  fled.  Also  that  he  owed  a  rent  bill. 
Furthermore,  many  other  claim-holders  had  ap- 
peared, hut  the  local  members  of  the  concern  had 
disclaimed  all  responsibility.  W.  H.  Ogle,  one  of 
the  Incorporators,  was  given  In  the  ad  as  president, 
but  his  telephone  bad  been  disconnected  and  could 
not  be  reached.  Herbert  Woods,  Sangamon  county 
recorder,  was  an  incorporator,  and  the  newspaper 
ads  ranked  him  as  vice-president.  To  the  World 
representative  he  disclaimed  knowledge  of  the  af- 
fairs of  the  corporation.     He  was  merely   the  third 


incorporator  he  said.  He  admitted,  however,  that 
the  man  who  had  been  In  charge  of  the  office  in 
the  Odd  Fellows*  Building  had  incurred  bills  without 
authority,  and  he  also  fixed  the  responsibility  for 
the  advertising  upon  the  missing  office  man.  When 
asked  if  he  was  not  an  officer  in  the  corporation, 
he  did  not  know;  he  was  just  the  third  man.  He 
volunteered  the  information  that  Ogle  and  David- 
son, the  two  other  Incorporators,  had  under  way  a 
house  in  Danville,  which  would  soon  be  opened,  and 
were  Interested  in  a  Chicago  project,  and  also 
some  other  sites.  He  was  reminded  of  the  fact 
that  the  company  had  been  granted  a  charter  with 
$1,000  capital  stock,  and  advertised  $100,000  capital. 
Later  an  increase  had  been  made,  he  thought,  but 
could  not  explain  why  it  had  not  appeared  in  the 
list  of  corporation  changes  issued  daily  by  the 
Secretary  of  State. 

I.  Davidson  and  William  H.  Ogle,  Incorporators 
of  and  said  to  be  officials  in  the  Central  Motion 
Picture  Corporation,  former  proprietors  of  the  Sub- 
way saloon,  have  been  made  defendants  in  a  $10,000 
damage  suit,  filed  in  the  Sangamon  County  Circuit 
Court  by  Mrs.  Maude  L.  Bush,  widow  of  William 
C.  Bush,  who  died  November  9,  1912,  following 
trouble  in  the  Subway  saloon.  Bush  was  injured 
at  the  entrance  of  the  place,  and  Davidson  and 
Ogle  were  held  until  released  on  the  finding  of  a 
coroner's  jury  that  Bright's  disease  had  caused  his 
death.  Mrs.  Bush  bases  her  claim  on  the  fact  that 
intoxicating  liquors  supplied  by  the  defendants 
caused  her  husband's  death. 

The  Vaudette  Amusement  Company,  of  this  city, 
had  two  sets  of  reels  of  "From  the  Manger  to  the 
Cross,"  in  Chicago  April  27.  In  addition  to  the 
show,  which  Is  to  remain  at  the  Cort  Theater,  two 
performances  were  given  at  St  Alphonse  Catholic 
church.  All  the  churches  of  Oarterville  united  In 
the  exhibition  of  this  picture  in  that  city  May  4. 
The  dates  in  Southern  Illinois  which  were  cancelled 
because  of  floods,  probably  will  be  booked  again 
and  played,  as  many  managers  who  have  re-opened 
their  houses,  have  evinced  an  anxiety  to  play  this 
attraction. 

Roy  Elliott,  violinist,  and  Fletcher  Trumpy, 
cornetist,  at  the  Vaudette  Theater,  have  resigned 
and  will  play  this  summer  In  an  orchestra  on  a 
Mississippi  River  steamboat  between  St.  Louis  and 
St,  Paul. 

Springfield  moving  picture  men  were  discussing 
the  relation  of  the  saloon  and  the  picture  house 
the  other  day,  when  it  was  recalled  that  the  block 
in  which  the  Vaudette  and  Lyric  are  located 
formerly  had  ten  saloons,  and  now  has  but  five. 
The  moral  effect  upon  adjoining  property  is  ap- 
parent. 

More  legislation  affecting  moving  picture  houses 
has  developed  in  the  Illinois  legislature.  Repre- 
sentative Mitchell  ■  has  introduced  into  the  House 
of  Representatives  a  bill  prohibiting  amusement 
parks  or  theaters  within  1,000  feet  of  any  public 
hospital,  church  or  cemetery.  A  fine  of  from  $200 
to  $1,000  is  provided  for  each  offense.  Senator 
Edmond  Beall,  one  of  the  most  advertised  intro- 
ducers of  freak  legislation  in  the  state,  has  offered 
a  bill  which  makes  it  necessary  for  all  persons 
conducting  places  of  amusement  to  provide  for 
persons  in  attendance  reasonable,  proper  and  ade- 
quate accommodation,  service  and  facilities  for  their 
comfort,  convenience  and  safety.  The  Senator  did 
not  get  the  seats  he  paid  for  at  a  Chicago  ball 
game,  and  the  measure,  which  will  keep  every 
photoplay  manager  on  the  alert,  Is  the  result. 
Nobody  wants  to  oversell  a  house  when  a  fine  of 
from  $100  to  $500  is  liable  to  result. 

The  Educational  Committee  of  the  local  T.  M. 
C.  A.  is  doing  great  work  in  seeing  that  pupils 
from  the  public  school  get  to  see  some  good  films. 
"The  Coming  of  Columbus"  was  recently  shown  at 
the  association  building,  and  periods  were  set  apart 
when  the  pupils  from  the  sixth,  seventh  and  eighth 
grades  of  eighteen  schools  scattered  about  the  citv 
were  to  attend.  The  principals  of  the  schools  talked 
on  the  pictures  before   their  respective  pupils. 

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LOUISVILLE. 

HE  Orpheum  Theater,  conducted  by  the  Princess 
Amusement  Company,  of  Louisville,  has  re- 
duced admission  prices  to  five  cents.  This  drop 
leaves  the  Majestic  and  Novelty  theaters  the  only 
moving  picture  houses  In  the  business  section  of 
Louisville,  which  charge  ten  cents  admission.  The 
Princess  several  months  ago  announced  that  admis- 
sion to  both  the  Casino  and  Orpheum  theaters  would 
be  ten  cents.  The  advance  was  more  or  less  of  an 
experiment,  and  it  was  discovered  that  even  with 
added  attractions,  the  extra  nickel  was  not  a 
proflt-maklng  device.  The  Casino  dropped  back  to 
the  old  rate  a  couple  of  months  ago,  recently  being 
followed  by  the  Orpheum.  The  latter,  while  one  of 
the  most  popular  theaters  in  Louisville,  Is  likely 
to  produce  larger  profits  under  the  rate  of  five  cents 
than  with  double  that  amount. 

The  Broadway  Amusement  Company  will  shortly 
open  Its  alrdome  on  Baxter  avenue.  The  "Baxter" 
will  do  duty  on  hot  days,  while  in  case .  of  bad 
weather,  the  Highland,  an  orthodox  house  Juat 
across  the  street,  will  be  utilized.  The  Highland 
has  been  operated  throughout  the  winter.  The 
Broadway  is  now  utilizing  vaudeville  acts  In  several 
mer  in  having  two  theaters  to  run,  the  state  of  the 
weather    deciding    just    which    shall    be    used.     The 


Broadway  Is  now  utilizing  vaudeville  acts  in  several 
of  its  houses.  The  Royal  Theater,  recently  taken 
over  by  the  Broadway,  is  doing  a  nice  volume  of 
business,  while  the  West  Broadway  Theater,  across 
the  street,  also  Is  maintaining  its  customarv  large 
following. 

Records  of  the  Kentucky  Motion  Picture  Exhibit- 
ors' League  now  are  being  transferred  from  Lexing- 
ton to  Louisville,  following  the  election  of  Fred 
Dolle,  of  the  Broadway  Amusement  Company,  of 
Louisville,  as  secretary,  and  Louis  J.  Dlttmar  as 
president.  Members  of  the  State  Association  ap- 
parently believe  in  locating  the  two  working 
executive  officers  In  the  same  city,  that  they  may 
the  more  easily  co-operate.  This  was  true  last 
year,  when  Messrs.  Stamper  and  Ramsey,  of  Lex- 
ington, held  the  offices  of  president  and  secretary. 
President  Dlttmar  announced  that  an  active  mem- 
bership campaign  would  be  launched  at  once,  this 
feature  having  been  somewhat  neglected  up  to  the 
present.  While  most  of  the  large  exhibitors  of 
Kentucky  are  aflillated  with  the  organization,  the 
Association  is  not  alone  for  the  more  influential 
members  of  the  profession.  Mr.  Dittmar  believes 
that  every  exhibitor,  regardless  of  any  considera- 
tion, will  be  benefited  by  Joining  the  Kentucky 
Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League,  and  will  work 
along  that  line. 

Members  of  the  Kentucky  Motion  Picture  Exhibit- 
ors' Leagus  were  non-committal  after  attending  a 
performance  at  B.  F.  Keith's  Theater,  where  the 
Edison  "talking  pictures"  are  shown.  The  mem- 
bers of  the  organization  attended  the  performance 
specifically  for  the  purpose  of  studying  the  pictures. 
It  is  not  probable  that  the  pictures  will  be  installed 
In  many  Kentucky  bouses  tn  the  near  future,  owing 
to  the  somewhat  complex  operation  and  the  necessity 
of  skilled  operators.  The  pictures  at  Keith's  are 
working  much  more  smoothly  than  when  first  in- 
stalled,  but  still  get  out  of  gear  once  in  a  while. 

The  Hippodrome  Amusement  Company,  of  Lex- 
ington, Ky.,  took  moving  pictures  of  the  "Society 
Race  Meeting"  recently  given  at  the  country  home 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clarence  LeBus,  of  Lexington. 
One  reel  of  film  was  made  of  the  meet,  showing 
every  feature  of  Interest.  The  race  film  Is  ex- 
pected to  be  a  business-puller  throughout  the  Blue- 
grass  State,  where  racing  pictures  are  always 
warmly  greeted. 

The  Colle  Carnival,  an  annual  event  with  the 
students  at  Central  University,  Danville,  Ky.,  Is  to 
be  photographed,  according  to  a  recent  announce- 
ment. The  carnival  Is  the  most  brilliant  event  of 
the  season  in  the  college  town,  everyone  participat- 
ing. The  streets  of  Danville  are  turned  over  to 
the  merry-makers,  and  in  enthusiasm,  at  least.  New 
Orleans  has  nothing  on  the  Kentucky  town  during 
the  annual  event. 

J.  E.  Stivers,  who  has  been  connected  with  a 
moving  picture  house  at  Lexington,  Ky.,  has  re- 
turned to  his  old  stand  at  Jackson,  Ky.,  and  has 
taken  charge  of  the  Hipp.  Mr.  Stivers  plans  to 
install  a  couple  of  vaudeville  acts  with  the  moving 
pictures  now  being  shown,  believing  the  addition 
would  be  popular  with  Jackson  residents. 

Conventions  have  helped  Louisville  exhibitors  re- 
cently, though  bad  weather  has  about  evened  the 
score.  The  Kentucky  Printers'  Cost  Congress  gath- 
ered In  Louisville  recently,  and  many  of  the  printers 
took  advantage  of  the  opportunity  to  inspect  the 
handsome  moving  picture  theaters  of  the  metropolis. 
Many  expressions  of  admiration  were  heard  over 
the  equipment  of  the  Majestic,  Ideal  and  other  beau- 
tiful houses.  The  Kentucky  State  Optical  Associa- 
tion also  gathered  in  Louisville  for  its  annnal  con- 
vention. The  opticians  paid  particular  attention  to 
the  moving  picture  theaters,  attempting  to  figure 
whether  or  not  the  films  are  responsible  for  eye 
troubles.  It  was  the  general  opinion  that  under 
present  conditions,  and  with  modern  equipment, 
patrons  of  the  animated  pictures  are  in  no  danger, 
and  may  gratify  their  taste  as  often  as  they  wish 
without   taking  chances  of  hurting   their  optics. 

The  Novelty  Theater  secured  the  contract  for 
handling  the  moving  pictures  shown  at  the  plant 
of  the  Louisville  Paper  Company  in  conjunction  with 
the  annual  convention  of  the  Kentucky  Printers' 
Cost  Congress.  The  Novelty  staff  was  force"  to 
work  under  a  severe  handicap.  Facilities  »vere 
poor,  but  unusually  good  results  were  attained,  con- 
sidering the  conditions.  Both  stereopticon  slides 
and  moving  pictures  were  used  to  illustrate  a  lec- 
ture on  paper-making.  In  addition.  "The  Cactus 
County  Lawyer."  which  was  a  favorite  a  couple 
of  years  ago,  was  shown  and  proved  as  effective 
as  of  yore. 

The  West  End  Amusement  Company,  of  which 
E.  W.  Clay  is  manager,  has  reopened  its  alrdome 
at  Twenty-sixth  and  Alford  streets.  The  theater 
has  been  extended  to  seat  3,000  people.  A  feature 
will  be  an  illustrated  song  each  week.  This  sec- 
tion of  the  program  has  been  eliminated  by  many 
Louisville  exhibitors,  bnt  Mr.  Clay  believes  there 
are  many  who  enjoy  it.  Four  reels  of  Universal 
service  and  two  vaudeville  acts  will  complete  the 
bill  at  the  alrdome. 

A.  F.  Mayer,  manager  of  the  Louisville  branch 
of  the  Central  Film  Service  Company,  celebrated 
a  momentous  occasion  In  fitting  style  recently.  All 
exhibitors  who  encountered  Mr.  Mayer  on  April  2S 
were  entitled  to  one  drink.  Mr.  Mayer  Is  an  uncle, 
a  nephew  having  arrived  In  Chicago  on  the  date 
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Calendar  of  Licensed  Releases. 


Current  Releases 

MONDAY,  MAY  12th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  King  and  the  Copper  (Comedy).... 

BIOGRAPH— A  Rainy  Day  (Comedy) 

EDISON— The  Heart  of  Valeska  (Drama) 1000 

ECLIPSE — The  Japanese  Dagger  (2  parts — Drama) ....  200c 

KALEM — The  Adventure  of  an  Heiress   (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — Lucky  Cohen   (Comedy)    400 

LUBIN— A  Ten  Acre  Gold  Brick   (Comedy) 600 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's   Weekly   No.  20   (News) 

SELIG — The    Post-Impressionists    (Comedy) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— The  Wrong  Pair  (Comedy) 

VITAGRAPH— The  Grand   Canyon   (Scenic) 

TUESDAY,  MAY  13th,  1913. 

CINES— Willie's    Alarm    Clock    (Comedy) 780 

CINES— Relics  of  Ancient  Rome   (Travel) 220 

EDISON— The   Prophecy    (Drama)    1000 

ESSANAY— The  Ranch  Girl's  Partner   (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — The  Padre's  Strategy   (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— A  Woman  of  Impulse  (Drama) 

SELIG — Lieutenant  Jones   (Drama)    1000 

VITAGRAPH— Horatio   Sparkins    (Comedy)    1000 

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  14th,  1913. 

ECLIPSE— The  Will  of  Fate  (Drama) 1000 

EDISON — The   Two   Merchants   (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY— The  Same  Old  Story  (Comedy) 1000 

KALEM — Man's  Greed  for  Gold  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— A  Redskin's   Mercy   (Drama) 

PATHEPLAY— Her   Masked   Beauty    (Special— 2   parts 

Comedy)    

SELIG — Buck  Richards'   Bride    (Comedy) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— Two  Souls  With  But  a  Single  Thought 

(Comedy)     1000 

THURSDAY,  MAY  15th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Stolen  Loaf  (Drama) 

ESSANAY — Boosting   Business    (Comedy)    1000 

LUBIN — Longing  for  a  Mother   (Drama) 1000 

MELIES— The  Black  Trackers   (Drama) 

PATHEPLAY— An  Itinerant  Wedding  (Comedy) 

SELIG — In    the    Long   Ago    (Comedy) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— A  Soul  In   Bondage   (Drama) 1000 

FRIDAY,  MAY  16th,  1913. 

EDISON — John    Manley's    Awakening    (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY— Two   Social    Calls    (Drama) 1000 

KALEM— Pat,    the    Cowboy    (Comedy) 

KALEM — Food    Inspection   (Topical)    

LUBIN— Breed  of  the  West  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Jelly  Fish   (Zoology) 

PATHEPLAY— Along    the    Banks    of    the    River    Eure 

(Travel)    

PATHEPLAY— Saragossa   (Scenic) 

SELIG- — A  Daughter  of  the  Confederacy  (Drama) 

SELIG — With  the  Students  of  the  North   Dakota  Agri- 
cultural   College    (Topical)    

VITAGRAPH— His  Life  for  His  Emperor  (Drama).. .  .1000 
VITAGRAPH— The   Vampire   of   the   Desert    (Special— 

2  parts — Drama)    2000 

SATURDAY,  MAY  17th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Yaqui   Cur   (2  parts— Drama) 

CINES — A   Woman's   Influence   (Drama) 820 

CINES — Gulf  of  Togulio,  Northern   Italy   (Scenic) 180 

EDISON — A  Concerto  for  the  Violin   (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY — Broncho   Billy's    Grit    (Drama) 1000 

KALEM — The  Poet  and  the  Soldier  (Drama) 1000 

KALEM — The  Battle  For  Freedom   (Special — 2  parts — 

Drama)     2000 

LUBIN — Retribution    (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— A  Wrecked  Life   (Drama) 

VITAGRAPH — Bunny  and  the  Bunny  Hug  (Comedy). .  1000 


Advance  Releases 

MONDAY,    MAY    19th,    1913. 

BIOGRAPH— Olaf— An  Atom   (  Drama) 

EDISON— By   Mutual  Agreement   (Comedy)    1000 

ESSAXAY — Into  the  North  (Special  2-part  Dram a> ...  .2000 

KALEM — The  Artist's  Sacrifice  ( Drama)    1000 

LUBIN — Margaret's  Painting  (Drama)    1000 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's   Weekly   No.  21    (News) 

SELIG- — His  Father's  Deputy  (Drama)   1000 

VITAGRAPH— Bunny's   Birthday   Surprise    (Comedy).. 
VITAGRAPH— Vitagraphers  at  Kama  Kura  (Topical) . . 

TUESDAY,  MAY  20th,  1913. 

CIXES— Red    Wins    (Drama)    1000 

EDISON — The  Good  in  the  Worst  of  Us  (Drama  1 1000 

ESSANAY — Buster    Brown,    Tige    and    Their    Creator, 

R.    F.    Outcault    (Comedy)    1000 

LUBIN — Kidnapping  Father  (Drama)    1000 

PATHEPLAY— A  Jocky  for  Love  (Comedy)   

PATHEPLAY— The  City  of  Rouen.  France   (Scenic)... 

SELIG— The   Tattle    Battle    (Comedy)    

SELIG — The   Leopard   Tamer   (Comedy)    

VITAGRAPH — The   Amateur  Lion   Tamer    (Comedy) ..  1000 

WEDNESDAY,    MAY    21st,    1913. 

ECLIPSE — In  the  Tyrolese  Alps   (Travel)    175 

ECLIPSE — The   Chicken   Industry   (Industrial)    400 

ECLIPSE— Big    Game    (Zoological)     .   425 

EDISON — Glimpses  of  Colorado  in  Winter  (Scenic  1  ... .   315 

EDISOX— Bragg's  New  Suit  (  Comedy)   .685 

ESSAXAY — The  Letter's  Mission   (Comedy)    1000 

KALEM — The  Circle  of  Fate  (Drama)    1000 

LUBIN — The  District  Attorney's  Conscience  (Special  2- 

part  Drama)    2000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Price  of  Silence  (Drama)    

SELIG — The   Stolen   Melody    (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— Counsellor  Bobby  (Comedy)    1000 

THURSDAY,  MAY  22nd,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Kicksville   Epicure   (Comedv)    

BIOGRAPH— Cinderella  and  the  Boob  (Comedy)    

ESSANAY — A  Widow  of  Nevada  (Drama) 1000 

LUB1 N — A  Perilous  Ride  (Drama)    1000 

MELIES — Gold  and  the  Gilded  Way  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Right  of  Way  (Drama) 

SELIG — Indian    Summer    (Drama)    1000 

VITAGRAPH— A    Lady   and    Her   Maid    (No.   4   of   the 
Belinda   Series— Comedy-Drama)    

FRIDAY,   MAY   23rd,    1913. 
EDISON— A   race   to   New   York    (Being    the    Eleventh 

Story  of  "What  Happened  to  Mary"  Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY — Jealousy  (Drama)    1000 

KALEM— The   Black   Hand    (Comedy)    

KALEM — The   Egyptian   Mummy   (Comedy)    

LUBIN— Detective   Dot   (Comedy)    400 

LUBIN — His  First  Experience  (Comedy)   600 

PATHEPLAY— Night    Birds    (Zoology)     

PATHEPLAY— The    Ailanthus    Silkworm    (Nat.    Hist.) 
PATHEPLAY— The  Open  Secret  (Special  2-part  Drama) 

SELIG— The    Noisy    Six    (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— The  Midget's  Revenge    

VITAGRAPH— Going  to  Meet  Papa  (Comedy)   

SATURDAY,  MAY  24th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— Just   Gold    (Drama)    

CIXES— Exceeding  the  Time   Limit   (Comedy)    300 

CIXES— The  Maid  and   the   Yarn    (Comedy)    300 

CIXES — Curing  a   Would-Be   Aviator    (Comedy  1    400 

EDISON — The  Translation  of  a  Savage  (Drama;    1000 

ESSANAY — Broncho     Billy    and     the     Express     Driver 

(Drama)    1000 

KALEM— The  Infamous  Don  Miguel   (Drama)    1000 

LUBIN — Brightened   Sunsets   (Drama)    1000 

PATHEPLAY— A  Woman  Scorned  (Drama)   

VITAGRAPH— Cupid  Through   the   Keyhole    (Comedy)  1000 
VITAGRAPH— The  Still  Voice   (Special  2-part  Drama)20oo 


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Calendar  of  Independent  Releases 


Universal  Film  Mfg.  Co.  Current  Releases 

SUNDAY,  MAY  nth,  1913. 

CRYSTAL— When  Love  Is  Young  (Comedy) 

CRYSTAL— His  Awful   Daughter   (Comedy) 

ECLAIR— A  Wise  Judge  (Comedy) 

ECLAIR — Manufacture   of   Steel    (Comedy) 

REX— The  Poverty  of  Riches   (Drama) 

MONDAY,  MAY  12th,  1913. 

IMP — A    Woman    Loved    (Drama) 

NESTOR— The  Squashville  Ladies'  Fire  Brigade  (Com.) 
CHAMPION— Hawaiian  Love  (Drama)    

TUESDAY,  MAY  13th,  1913. 

GEM— Billy's  Adventure   (Comedy)    

101-BISON— The  Toll  of  War  (3  parts— Drama) 

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  14th,  1913. 

NESTOR— The  Clean  Up  (Drama) 

POWERS— The  Violet  Bride  (Drama) 

ECLAIR— The    Key    (Drama)    

UNIVERSAL— Animated  Weekly  No.  62  (News) 

THURSDAY,  MAY  15th,  1913. 

REX— The  Cap  of  Destiny   (Drama) 

IMP— The  Heart  That  Sees  (Drama) 

FRONTIER— In  the  Great  Southwest  (Drama) 

FRIDAY,  MAY  16th,  1913. 

NESTOR— An  Eye  For  An  Eye  (Drama) 

POWERS— The  Tarantula  (Drama)   

VICTOR— A  Fair  Exchange  (2  parts — Drama) 

SATURDAY,  MAY  17th,  1913. 

IMP — Beetles    (Centimology)     

BISON— In  the  Secret  Service  (2  parts— Drama) 

FRONTIER— Betty's  Bandit  (Comedy)   

ADVANCE  RELEASES. 

SUNDAY,  MAY  18th,  1913- 

CRYSTAL — Homlock  Shermes  (Comedy)   

CRYSTAL— Our  Willie  (Comedy)    

ECLAIR— He    Loves    to    Watch    the    Flight    of    Time 

(Comedy)    

ECLAIR— Cuttlefish  (Zoology)  

REX— Gold  and  Two  Men  (Drama) 

MONDAY,   MAY    19th,    1913. 

IMP— The  Twins   (Comedy)    

NESTOR— Her  Hero's  Predicament  (Comedy) 

CHAMPION— The  Leper  (Drama)   

TUESDAY,  MAY  20th,  1913. 

GEM— Billy   Plays   Poker   (Comedy)    

101   BISON — Stars  and  Stripes  Forever   (3-part  Drama) 

WEDNESDAY,   MAY   21st,   1913. 

NESTOR— The  Boy  Scouts  to  the  Rescue  (Drama) 

POWERS— The  Curate's  Outing  (Comedy) 

ECLAIR— Thus  Saith  the  Lord   (2-part  Drama) 

UNIVERSAL— Animated  Weekly  No.  63  (News) 

THURSDAY,  MAY  22nd,  1913. 

REX — In  Slavery  Days  (2-part  Drama)  

IMP— She  Never  Knew  (Drama)    

FRONTIER— The  Stage  Driver's  Chivalry  (Drama) 

FRIDAY,  MAY  23rd,   1913. 

NESTOR — A  Mine  and  a  Marathon  (Drama)   

POWERS — Black  Jack's  Atonement  (Drama)  

VICTOR— Good  For  Evil  (Drama)  

SATURDAY,  MAY  24th,  1913. 

IMP — Just   for    Luck    (Comedy)    

IMP — Hy  Mayer — His  Magic  Hand  (Novelty) 

BISON— Under  Fire  (2-part  Drama)   

FRONTIER— Where  Wits  Win  (Comedy)    


Mutual  Film  Corporation  Current  Releases 

SUNDAY,  MAY  nth,  1913. 


MONDAY,  MAY  12th,  1913. 

AMERICAN — Angel  of  the  Canyons   (Drama) 1000 

KEYSTONE— Mabel's    Awful    Mistake    (Comedy) 

RELIANCE— The   Eternal   Sacrifice    (Drama) 

TUESDAY,  MAY  13th,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— My    Lady's    Boot    (Drama) 

THANHOUSER— The  Marble  Heart  (2-parts  Drama).. 

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  14th,  1913. 

BRONCHO— A  Slave's   Devotion   (2  parts— Drama) 

MUTUAL— Mutual  Weekly  No.  20  (News) 

RELIANCE— The    Big   Boss    (2   parts— Drama) 

THURSDAY,  MAY  15th,  1913. 

AMERICAN— The    Kiss    (Drama)    

KEYSTONE— Their  First   Execution   (Drama) 

MUTUAL— His  Master's  Rival   (Comedy) 

MUTUAL— The  Valley  of  Albula,  Switzerland  (Scenic) 

FRIDAY,  MAY  16th,  1913. 

KAY-BEE — For  Love  of  the  Flag  (2  parts — Drama) 

THANHOUSER— (No  Release  This  Date) 

SATURDAY,  MAY  17th,  1913. 

AMERICAN — The   Great    Harmonv    (Drama) 1000 

RELIANCE— After   the   Massacre '(Drama) 

ADVANCE  RELEASES. 
SUNDAY,  MAY   18th,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— The   Rivals  Outwitted   (Comedy)    

MAJESTIC— Oysters    (Zoology)    

THANHOUSER— (Title  Not  Reported)    

MONDAY,   MAY    19th,    1913. 

AMERICAN — Her  Innocent  Marriage  (Drama) 1000 

KEYSTONE— Hubby's  Job   (Comedy)    

KEYSTONE— 'Twixt  Love  and  Fire  (Comedy) 

RELIANCE — London  Assurance   (Drama)    

TUESDAY,  MAY  20th,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— Shep,  the  Hero  (Drama)    

THANHOUSER— (Title  Not  Reported)    

WEDNESDAY,   MAY   21st,   1913. 

BRONCHO— The  Sea  Dog  (2-parts  Drama) 

MUTUAL— Mutual  Weekly  No.  21   (News) 

RELIANCE— Early  Oklahoma  (Comedy) 

THURSDAY,  MAY  22nd,  1913. 

AMERICAN — Calamity  Anne  Parcel  Post  (Comedy) 1000 

KEYSTONE— The  Foreman  of  the  Jury  (Comedy).... 
MUTUAL— (Title   Not   Reported)    

FRIDAY,  MAY  23rd,   1913. 

KAYBEE— The    Miser    (2-parts    Drama)    

THANHOUSER— (Title   Not  Reported)    

SATURDAY,  MAY  24th,  1913. 

AMERICAN— The  Modern  Snare  (Drama)   1000 

RELIANCE— (Title   Not   Reported)    


MAJESTIC— Billy's  New  Watch  (Comedy) 

MAJESTIC— Liquid  Air   (Scientific)    

THANHOUSER— Barred  from  the  Mails  (Comedy).. 


Exclusive  Supply  Corporation  Advance  Releases 

MONDAY,  MAY  12th,  1913. 
DRAGON— The  Outcast  (Drama)    1000 

TUESDAY,  MAY  13th,  1913. 
GAUMONT— In  the  Wake  of  the  Brainstorm  (Comedy) 
GAUMONT — Through  Mountains  Majestic  (Scenic) 

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  14th,  1913. 

SOLAX— Dad's  Orders  (Comedy)  

GAUMONT— Gaumont's  Weekly  No.  62  (News) 

THURSDAY,  MAY  iSth,  1913. 

GAUMONT— Sweets  to  the  Sweet  (Comedy) 

FRIDAY,  MAY  16th,  1913. 

SOLAX— The  Man  In  the  Sick  Room  (Drama) 

LUX— A  Mighty  Hunter  (Comedy)  495 

LUX — Pat  Moves  to  Diplomatic  Circles  (Comedy) 495 

SATURDAY,  MAY  17th,  1913. 
GREAT  NORTHERN— The  Professor's  Traveling  Ad- 
ventures (Comedy)   


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BRANCH 

OOLO.     Denrer— Mutual  Film  Corporation,  21  Iron  Bnlldlnc. 
°°3P*-     Bridgeport—  Park  Film  Eicfcaoge,  IS  Fairfield  Anna*. 

New  Haren — Tale  Motion  Picture  Co.,  M  Church  Street. 
DIST.    OF   COLtTHBIA,     Waehlngton— Mutual   Film  Corporation,    428  Ninth 

Street,    N.    W. 
FLA.     Tampa,    Mutual   Film   Corporation,   405   Curry  Bid*. 
ft*,     Atlanta — Mutual  Film  Oorporatloa,  81  Marietta  Street. 
ILL.      Chicago— H.    *   H.    Film  Serrice  Co.,    80S   Monadneck    Bld«. 

Majestic  Film  Serrice  Co.,  216  N.  Fifth  Arenue. 

ifatnal  Film  Corporation,  164  W.   Washington  at. 
DTD.      Indianapolis — Mutual    Film    Corporation,    217    N.    Illlnola    Street. 
IOWA.      Dea   Ltolnei — Mutual    Film   Corporation,    Fourth    A-    Locust   Street. 
XAX.     Wichita— Mutual   Film   Corporation,   417-419  Barnes   Bide. 
LA.     New  Orleans — Mutual  Film  Corporation,   liaison  Blanche  Bis*-. 
MARYLAND.      Baltimore — Continental    Film    Exchange,    28    W.    Lexington 

Street. 


Boston— Mutual   Film   Corporation,    82   Boylston    Street. 
Springfield — Mutual   Film    Exchange,    318  Fuller   Building. 
Mipx.      Detroit— Mutual    Film    Corporation,    97    Woodward    Arena*. 
Grand    Rapids — Mutual    Film   Corporation,    7-8    Hawkina    Building. 
HTKN.     Minneapolis — Mutual  Film  Oorporatloa,   440-448  Temple  Court. 
MISSOURI.     Kansas  City— Mutual  Film  Corporation,  214  B.  Twelfth  Street. 
MONTANA.     Butte — Mutual  Film  Corporation,    Illinois   Building. 
*■"»•     Omaha— Mutual  Film  Corporation  1417  Farnam  Street 
NSW   JERSEY.      Newark— Royal    Film   Exchange,    288   Market  Street. 
MXW  YORK.     Buffalo— Mutual  Film  Oorporatloa,  272  Washington  Street. 
New  York  City— Empire  Film  Company,  160  B.   Fourteenth  Street. 
Great  Eastern  Film  Exchange,  21  B.  Fourteenth  Street. 
Metropolitan  Film   Exchange,  122  Unrrersity  Place. 
Western  Film  Exchange  of  New  York,  145  W.  45th  Street. 


OFFICES 

NO.    CAROLINA.      Charlotte— Mutual    Film    Oorporatloa,    Carton    BnDilaaj. 

OHIO.      Cincinnati— Mutual   Film   Corporation,    17    Opera   Place. 

Clerelanu— Lake   Shore   Film   A-  Supply   Co.,    106   Prospect   Street. 

Columbus — Buckeye   Lake  Shore  Film   Co.,   422  N.   High  St. 

Toledo — Superior  Film  Supply   Co.,   410-412  Superior  Street. 
FENN.      Philadelphia— Union    Film  Serrice,   142   N.    8th   Street. 
Continental    Film    Exchange,    902    Filbert    Street. 

Wllkesbarre — Mutual     Film    Exchange,     61    S.     Pennsylranla    Areas*. 

BO.    DAKOTA.     Sioux   Falls — Mutual   Film  Corporation,    Emerson   Building. 

TENN.     Memphis— Mutual  Film  Corporation,    Kallaher    Building,   8th   tee*. 

TEXAS    Dallas— Mutual  Film  Corporation,  1807  Main  Street. 

UTAH.     Salt  Lake  City— Mutual  Film  Oorporatloa,  15  Mclntyr*  Balldlnc. 

W.  VIE.     Wheeling— Mutual  Film  Corporation,  34  16tn  St. 

WIS.      Milwaukee — Western   Film    Exchange,    807    Enterprise    Building. 

CANADA.      Montreal,    Gaumont    Co.,    154    St.    Catherine    St. 

St.    Johns,    N.    B.,    Gaumont   Co.,    Waterloo   St. 

Toronto,   Gaumont  Co.,  5-6  Queen  St 

Vancouver,   B.   C,   Gaumont  Co.,  Loo  Building,  Hastings  St. 

Winnipeg,    Gaumont   Co.,    Atkins   Block,    McDermott   Are. 

Regina,  Sask.,    Gaumont  Co. 

EXCHANGES  TOIUG  THE  MUTUAL  PB0GHAM  NOT   OWNED  BY  TXB 
MUTUAL  FILM  CORPORATION. 

OAL,     Los  Angeles— Golden  Gate  Film  Exchange,  614  W.  8th  St. 

San  Francisco — Golden  Gate  Film   Exchange,   234   Eddy  Street 
MISSOUBL      St.    Louis — Swanson-Crawford    Film    Exchange,    Century    Bldg. 
OREGON.     Portland— Film  Supply  Co.,   385   1/2  Alder  Street 
FENN.     Pittsburg— Pittsburg   Photoplay  Co.,   412  Ferry  Street 
WASH.      Seattle— Film    Supply    Co.,    1301    5th    Arena*. 


THE  MUTUAL  FILM  CORPORATION 

has  purchased  and  is  now  the  owner  of 

THE  GAUMONT  CO.  OF  CANADA 

with  offices  at  Montreal;  St.  Johns,  N.  B.;  Toronto;  Vancouver,  B.  C; 

Winnipeg  and  Regina,  Sask. 


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THANHOUSER,  KAY-BEE,  BRONCHO,  MAJESTIC,  RELIANCE,  EXCELSIOR, 
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RELIANCE 

KAY-BEE 

BRONCHO 

AMERICAN 

KAY-BEE 

BRONCHO 

KAY-BEE 

BRONCHO 

RELIANCE 

THANHOUSER 

MAJESTIC 

KAY-BEE 

RELIANCE 

BRONCHO 

AMERICAN 

KAY-BEE 


"The  Master  Cracksman" May  31 

"A  Child  of  War" May  30 

"Drummer  of  the  8th" May  28 

"Ashes  of  Three" May  26 

"The  Miser"   May  23 

"The  Sea  Dog" May  21 

"For  Love  of  the  Flag" May  16 

"A  Slave's  Devotion" May  14 

"The   Big   Boss" May  14 

"The  Marble  Heart" May  13 

"Children  of  St.  Anne" May    6 

"A  Black  Conspiracy" May    a 

"The  Bawler  Out"  (3) Apr.  30 

"Bread  Cast  Upon  the  Waters".. Apr.  30 

"Oil  Upon  Troubled  Waters" Apr.  38 

"Will  o'  the  Wisp" Apr.  as 


BRONCHO 

BRONCHO 

RELIANCE 

KAY-BEE 

BRONCHO 

KAY-BEE 

BRONCHO 

RELIANCE 

THANHOUSER 

BRONCHO 

BRONCHO 

RELIANCE 

KAY-BEE 

BRONCHO 

KAY-BEE 

BRONCHO 

RELIANCE 


"Retrogression"    Apr.  33 

"A  Southern  Cinderella"  (3) Apr.  16 

"Held  for  Ransom" Apr.  16 

"On  Fortune's  Wheel" Apr.  11 

"The  Grey  Sentinel" Apr.    9 

"With  Lee  in  Virginia" Apr.    4 

The  Sinews  of  War" Apr.    ■ 

"The  Judge's  Vindication" Apr.    • 

"Cymbeline"    Mar.  *8 

"The  Iconoclast"   (3) Max.  s6 

"The  Pride  of  the  South"  (3) . . .  Mar.  19 

"The  Vengeance  of  Heaven" Mar.  19 

"The  Sergeant's  Secret" Mar.  14 

"The  Sins  of  the  Father" Mar.  1a 

"The  Lost  Despatch" Mar.    7 

"The  Barrier"    Mar.    3 

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SELIG. 

HIS  FATHER'S  DEPUTY  (May  19).— John  Wil- 
eon  goes  to  the  mountain-town  bank  to  draw  out  the 
pay-roll.  Sam  Marvin  and  Ed  Hauley  "pike"  this 
proceeding  and  ride  on  ahead,  up  the  road,  to 
await  the  coming  of  the  superintendent  in  his  auto. 
Jim  Carter,  the  son  of  Sheriff  Carter,  also  his 
deputy,  observes  their  actions,  and  finds  their  pic- 
tures in  prison  records.  In  the  Interim  Sam  and 
Ed,  well-muffled  in  their  slickers,  capture  the  coin 
and  hide  it  at  a  road-house.  The  deputy  tells  bis 
father  his  suspicions.  The  latter  cannot  arrest  the 
men,  as  the  superintendent  cannot  identify  them; 
but  he  finds  bis  son,  the  deputy,  drinking  in  com- 
pany with  them.  He  raises  a  commotion,  takes 
away  bis  star,  and  discharges  him  for  drunken- 
ness. This  puts  him  "strong"  in  the  confidence  of 
the  desperadoes,  and  he  rides  away  with  them  to 
their  mountain  fastness.  The  deputy  takes  ad- 
vantage of  Ed's  absence  to  slip  the  "bracelets"  on 
his  partner,  but  Jim,  returning,  opens  fire.  They 
leave  their  ex-friend  for  dead  and  ride  away  with 
the  money.  When  he  recovers  consciousness,  he 
takes  up  their  trail  and  locates  their  quarters  in  a 
'  road-house.  Jim  has  another  hand-to-hand  tight 
and  bests  both  men,  handcuffing  them  together.  He 
also  secures  the  bag  of  coin.  When  he  conies  back 
with  bis  prisoners  bis  father  gives  him  his  star,  and 
then  explains  the  joke  to  Sam  and  Ed,  in  the  Be- 
elusion  of  their  jail  cells. 

THE  TATTLE  BATTLE  (May  20).— Two  little 
tots  have  a  babyish  quarrel  in  a  sandplle,  and  they 
toddle  borne  and  tell  their  mamas.  These  worthy 
women  send  children  a  little  older  to  correct  the 
matter,  and  they,  in  turn,  get  the  mothers  and 
fathers  involved.  Then  the  neighbors  take  sides 
and  finally  the  police  are  called  to  suppress  a  riot. 
The  blue  coats  cannot  arbitrate,  so  the  fire  depart- 
ment is  called  In.  They  throw  cold  water  on  the 
hot-heads.  Next  day  a  wise  old  magistrate  reads 
them  a  lecture.  Finally,  they  all  make  up,  and  the 
juvenile  disputes   are   happily   adjusted. 

THE  LEOPARD  TAMER  (May  20).— A  tale  of 
the  redoubtable  tamer  of  beasts,  who  figures  so 
colorfully  In  the  bills  and  so  sensationally  in  the 
dens  of  his  animals,  but  who  is  not  so  unflinchingly 
brave  when  it  comes  to  facing  a  hectoring  old  wo- 
man who  demonstrates  that  she  is  truly  his  "better- 
half." 

INDIAN  SUMMER  (Hay  22).— In  the  Springtime, 
Robert  leaves  his  love,  Virginia,  and  goes  to  fight 
for  Dixie  in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion.  In  leading 
his  regiment  In  a  desperate  charge  he  Is  felled  by 
a  blow  on  the  head  and  left  In  the  field  as  dead. 
Eventually  he  Is  picked  up  and  taken  to  a  hos- 
pital. His  memory  has  gone  and  soon  afterwards 
he  loses  his  identity  and  Is  posted  as  "missing." 
Thereafter  he  becomes  a  wanderer  on  the  face  of  the 
earth.  Virginia  refuses  to  believe  him  dead,  and 
waits  patiently  through  the  years  for  his  return. 
He  has  gone  up  and  down  the  country  as  an  Itiner- 
ant peddler,  forgetful  of  his  former  identity.  Now, 
after  years  of  restless  moving  about,  some  irresist- 
ible desire  seizes  him  and  he  returns  to  his  old 
home,  finding  it  in  spite  of  himself.  As  he  comes 
npon  the  scene  of  bis  earlier  life  the  faithful  Vir- 
ginia is  Bet  upon  by  a  thieving  tramp.  Robert 
rushes  to  her  rescue,  and  the  blow  he  receives  In  ' 
the  ensuing  fight  eventually  restores  his  memory. 
After  all  the  years  the  good  lovers  meet  again  at 
the  old  gate  in  the  glowing  twilight  of  Indian 
Summer,  never  now  to  part  until  death  does  them 
Beparate. 

THE  NOISY  SIX  (May  23).— Dick  Carter,  aged 
six,  and  an  orphan,  lives  with  his  grandparents. 
The  only  resource  of  the  family  is  the  army  pension 
of  the  old  man.  Just  when  the  money  is  needed 
moat,  it  is  lost  by  the  old  veteran.  The  little  boy, 
impressed  by  the  magnitude  of  the  job,  writes  a 
letter  to  Heaven  for  help;  but,  as  he  cannot  reach 
the  mall  box,  puts  It  into  the  slot  of  a  hitching 
post.  "The  Noisy  Six,"  the  chief  mischief  milkers 
of  their  college  class,  on  a  night  raid,  drag  away 
the  hitching  post,  and  are  much  sobered  when  they 
intercept  the  letter  of  the  orphan  boy  to  Heaven. 
They  return  the  post  to  Its  original  location  with  a 


letter  of  reply  enclosed.  Then  they  follow  the  boy 
home  and  surreptitiously  slip  in  the  amount  of 
money  that  was  lost.  The  boy  and  old  Carter  are 
led  to  believe  that  the  money  has  come  straight 
from  Heaven.  "The  Noisy -Six"  stopped  their  d 
chief-making  for  an  errand  of  mercy,  and  impressed 
youth   in   the   faith  of  the  higher  power. 

THE  STOLEN  MELODY  (May  21).— Rudolph  Bur- 
meister,  an  old  musician  In  straightened  circum- 
stances, is  shown  composing  at  a  piano.  Suddenly 
his  face  lights  up,  as  the  Inspired  melody  fills  the 
air.  He  repeats  It  and  then  writes  it  on  music 
paper.  In  the  room  above  the  old  musician,  lives 
Richard  Davidge,  a  keen-eared  young  man,  who  Is 
also  i>oor,  but  whose  face  is  filled  with  the  look  of 
lurking  evil.  He  listens  with  quickening  Interest 
to  the  music  of  the  old  master.  The  new  melody 
fascinates  him  and  he  writes  it  down  as  he  hears  it. 
Then  he  rushes  out  with  it.  The  old  musician  calls 
his  daughter  and  she  listens  to  the  air,  and  is  at 
once  thrilled  with  the  haunting  beauty  of  the 
melody.  The  scene  shifts  to  the  office  of  Henry 
Richard,  a  popular  publisher,  when  Richard  Davidge 
appears  with  his  freshly  written  manuscript.  He 
knows  the  value  of  his  discovery  and  plays  it  in  a 
fashion  that  wins  the  publisher,  and  he  gets  it  on  a 
royalty  basis,  with  $500  in  advance.  Time  passes. 
The  old  musician  has  been  seriously  ill,  hut  now  a 
change  has  come  and  he  is  convalescent.  Davidge 
has  deserted  his  shabby  quarters  and  is  now  rolling 
in  luxury  as  a  result  of  his  profits  on  the  stolen 
"His  Dream  of  Youth."  He  Is  the  guest  of  honor  at 
a  "turft-hunters"  home  on  the  Riverside  Drive. 
Herr  Burmeister  himself  now  goes  to  the  music- 
publisher  and  proceeds  to  play  his  composition.  He 
Is  informed  that  it  is  "The  Dream  of  Youth,"  al- 
ready their  best  seller.  He  is  humiliated  and 
amazed,  and  returns  home  crest-fallen.  His  daugh- 
ter takes  to  the  matter  more  seriously.  She  visits 
the  publisher  and  recognizes  the  picture  on  the  title 
page  as  that  of  the  man  who  lived  upstairs  and 
moved  away  so  suddenly,  Immediately  after  her 
father  composed  the  piece.  Then  it  transpires  that 
the  impudent  musical  ini poster  has  been  convicted 
of  grand  larceny  in  London,  and  Is  a  fugitive  from 
justice,  "wanted  at  Scotland  Yard."  Davidge  Is 
exposed  at  a  swell  reception  in  bis  honor,  and  Is 
taken  away  by  the  police;  and  good  old  Burmeister 
gets  the  re wa  rd  he  deserved  for  giving  the  world 
a  new  glory  in  melody. 


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returning  to  do  some  night  work.  Fear  overcomes 
the  thief  and  he  drops  the  package  at  Weutwortb's 
feet.  Wentworth,  not  realizing  what  bad  happened, 
picks  up  the  package,  enters  the  bank,  and  is  over- 
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Fate  however  lends  a  hand  to  Wentworth,  and  he 
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fearing  he  will  be  caught  sooner  or  later  in  the 
States,  makes  his  getaway  into  Northern  Canada. 
The  straight  and  narrow  path  was  never  meant  for 
Davis,  he  now  occupying  his  time  by  smuggling 
whiskey  and  distributing  the  fiery  liquid  among  the 
Indians.  Davis  finally  persuades  an  old  Back  to 
sell  bim  his  daughter,  a  beautiful  French-Canadian 
Indian.  Wentworth,  now  fully  recovered,  joins  the 
Mounted  Police  and  is  selected  by  the  Chief  to  run 
down  the  smugglers.  The  new  recruit  meets  the 
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Davis  Is  the  chief  of  the  gang,  and  that  be  exports 
and  sells  his  whiskey,  which  bas  been  bottled  and 
placed  inside  of  logs,  to  deceive  anyone  who  might 
question  him.  Wentworth  examines  a  log  near  the 
grate  In  Davis'  log  cabin,  and  discovers  that  the 
Indian  girl  hajj  told  bim  the  truth.  Davis  enters  at 
this  juncturesjkd  covers  Wentworth  with  a  revolver. 
Wentworth  uHesitatingly  knocks  the  weapon  from 
the  murderer's  hand  and  a  fierce  battle  ensues  In 
which  Wentworth  is  overpowered.  Davis  runs  from 
the  cabin  only  to  be  shot  down  by  a  mounted 
policeman.  In  the  meantime,  the  Chief  of  the 
mounted  police  1b  visited  by  his  brother,  who  bap- 
pens  to  be  no  other  than  the  President  of  the  bank 
in  Minneapolis.  When  Wentworth  is  brought  before 
the  captain,  the  president  recognizes  him.  Davis 
makes  a  dying  confession  to  the  mounted  police, 
stating  that  Wentworth  was  sent  to  jail  for  a 
murder  the  former  had  committed.  This  confession 
Is  handed  to  the  president  of  the  bank  In  the 
presence  of  the  Chief  of  the  mounted  police,  who 
exonerates  Wentworth  and  promotes  him  for 
bravery. 

BUSTER  BROWN,  TIGE,  AND  THEIR  CRE- 
ATOR, R.  F.  OUTCAUX.T  (May  20).— Buster  Brown 
and  Tige  In  real  life  enjoy  their  creator's  carica- 
ture of  them.  Having  purchased  box  seats  at  a 
theater  where  R.  F.  Outcault  is  appearing,  they 
are  given  a  splendid  opportunity  to  see  themselves 
as  others  see  them.  R.  P.  Outcault  enjoys  the  en- 
tertainment as  much  as  his  porteges.  and  delights 
In  giving  their  secrets  away  to  the  public. 

THE  LETTER'S  MISSION  (May  21).— Tom  Galla- 
gher, a  shrewd  Irish  office  boy  In  the  employ  of 
Mr.  Carney,  plays  a  terrible  trick  on  his  employer, 
which  almost  cost  the  latter  his  wife's  affections. 
Not  only  did  this  letter  get  Mr.  Carney  Into  trou- 
ble, but  It  caused  friction  between  Carney's  cook, 
Bedella,  and  Officer  O'Brien.  The  trouble  did  not 
stop  here.  Carney's  daughter  Gwendolyn,  and  her 
fiance,  Harold  Wbeeler,  had  a  terrible  spat  over  it. 
Gallagher  is  finally  caught  and  discharged. 

A  WIDOW    OF   NEVADA    (May  22) Jim    Rider 

leases  an  old  played  out  mine.  Six  months  later  be 
strikes  gold.  Foster,  owner  of  the  mine,  steals 
Rider's  lease  and  Informs  bim  that  the  contract  has 
expired.  Widow  Gale,  in  love  with  Rider,  secures 
the  lease  by  a  clever  ruse.  The  lease  Is  returned 
to  Jim  Rider,  who  rejoices  In  It's  return  and  in  the 
acceptance  of  the  widow's  hand  in  marriage. 

JEALOUSY  (May  23).— Winston  Wallace,  a  trav- 
eling man  telegraphs  his  wife  that  he  will  be  un- 
able to  attend  the  grand  opera  with  her  that  even- 
ing, on  account  of  an  important  business  engage- 
ment, which  will  keep  bim  In  Milwaukee  over  night. 
Mrs.  Wallace  Is  disappointed.  Her  son  Informs  her 
that  he  Is  going  to  Milwaukee  to  the  traveling  men's 
mask  ball.  Mrs.  Wallace  becomes  suspicious  and 
Imagines  her  husband  having  a  gala  time  at  the 
bail  with  other  women.  Mrs.  Wallace's  Imagination 
carries  ber  to  the  extreme.  Jnst  as  her  nerves  are 
about  to  give  way  under  the  strain  she  bas  worked 
herself  into,  the  butler  announces  her  husband's 
return.  Mrs.  Wallace  Is  overjoyed.  This  only  goes 
to  prove  what  your  imagination  will  do  if  you  al- 
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he  Is  working,  discovers  to  his  sorrow  that  the 
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received  a  bag  of  gold  to  deliver  to  the  nearby 
town.  He  Implores  tbe  heartsick  westerner  to  help 
him  hold  up  tbe  express  rider.  Broncho  Billy  re- 
fuses emphatically.  Returning  to  his  bunk  bouse 
some  time  later,  Broncho  Billy  discovers  that  tbe 
men  have  robbed  Bessie's  sweetheart.  Broncho 
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LUBIN. 

MARGARET'S  PAINTING  (May  19).— Robert 
Ford,  a  young  artist,  with  bis  wife  Margaret,  and 
baby  are  living  in  comparative  poverty.  Their  only 
Income  is  derived  from  her  illustrations  upon  which 
work  he  looks  down  in  lofty  disdain.  His  Is  an 
art,  hers  a  trade.  One  day  he  rescues  a  Pomo- 
ranian  dog  from  some  cruel  boys  to  the  great  re- 
lief of  Mrs.  von  Norden,  a  wealthy  society  woman. 
He  would  leave  but  she  insists  on  having  bis  card, 
which  he  gives  her.  She  tells  her  husband  of  tbe 
kind  artist  that  rescued  "dear  Fido"  and  that  they 
must  patronize  him.  They  call  at  the  studio  and 
offer  to  have  his  painting  exhibited  at  the  Academy. 
He  Is  thankful.  Tbe  picture  is  exhibited  and  as 
Mrs.  von  Norden  is  a  society  leader  and  Ford's 
patron,  he  becomes  a  success  and  is  lionized  by 
society  women,  and  while  at  one  of  their  parties 
his  baby  dies.  The  critics  say  bis  pictures  lack 
soul  and  feeling,  which  angers  him  and  be  decides 
this  is  caused  by  Margaret's  mourning  and  Bad- 
ness, and  so  their  studio  must  be  divided.  He  can 
work  better  alone.  On  her  return  from  the  ceme- 
tery, Margaret  wishes  for  a  study  of  her  baby,  and 
tries  to  draw  him,  but  black  and  white  is  so 
cold,  she  tries  colors  and  succeeds.  The  picture 
becomes  sacred  to  her.  During  Robert's  absence 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  von  Norden  call  to  see  his  latest  can- 
vas. They  see  the  baby's  picture  and  say  that  at 
last  Ford  has  put  feeling  into  his  work.  Robert 
is  surprised  at  the  baby's  picture  and  denies  it  is 
his.  Margaret  enters  and  a  scene  follows,  ending 
in  Robert  asking  assistance  in  a  love  scene.  Her 
picture  Is  hung  in  the  Academy  and  receives  the 
highest  award. 

KIDNAPPING  FATHER  (May  20).— John  Worth, 
a  rich  old  banker,  disinherits  his  son,  Robert,  for 
marrying  against  his  wishes.  The  boy  gets  a  posi- 
tion as  chauffeur  with  a  taxicab  company  and  tbe 
next  day  the  father,  finding  that  his  car  Is  out  of 
order,  calls  a  taxi  and  by  chance  Robert  is  sent  to 
answer  the  call.  Robert  decides  to  kidnap  his 
father  and  hold  him  for  ransom.  With  the  aid 
of  two  hired  thugs  he  Imprisons  the  old  man  in  a 
lonely,  deserted  shack  down  by  the  river.  He  then 
slips  a  note  under  the  door  reading,  "Write  your 
check  for  a  thousand  dollars,  or  we  will  blow  the 
place  up  tonight."  The  father  tries  to  escape 
through  a  window  but  be  Is  too  large  for  the  open- 
ing and  gets  wedged  in  and  can't  get  either  out  or 
back  into  tbe  room.  Robert  tells  bis  wife  of  his  plan 
and  arranges  for  her  to  rescue  his  father.  She 
does  and  the  old  man  rewards  her  with  a  thou- 
sand dollars.  He  grows  very  fond  of  the  girl  and 
questions  her.  She  tells  him  she  Is  married,  opens 
tbe  door  and  Robert  comes  in.  The  father  is 
thunder  struck  for  a  moment,  but  finally  collects 
himself  and  starts  to  denounce  the  boy.  The  girl 
Intercedes  and  through  fondness  for  the  girl  the 
old  man  relents  and  all  ends  happily. 

THE  DISTRICT  ATTORNEY'S  CONSCIENCE 
(special — Z  parts — May  21). — Tony  G'azeco,  one  of 
the  workers  In  the  factory,  is  an  anarchist  and  agi- 
tator. Being  of  excitable  nature  he  is  looked  upon 
by  the  other  men  as  a  leader  and  during  the  lunch 
hour  makes  impassionate  speeches.  Will  and  May 
Mason  passing  In  an  auto  are  witnesses  to  one  of 
the  tirades  and  going  to  the  office  of  Fred  Jack- 
son, the  owner,  tell  him  of  the  probable  strike. 
The  two  men  become  friendly  and  Jackson  is  in- 
vited to  dine  with  the  Mason's  that  evening.  As 
the  auto  drives  off  Jackson  goes  to  meet  his  men, 
an  altercation  ensues  and  Gazeco  is  discharged. 
Oazeeo's  wife  with  her  child  in  her  arms  goes  to 
Jackson  and  begs  that  her  husband  be  reinstated. 
Jackson  tells  her  to  send  Tony  to  call  at  the  of- 
fice. The  Italian,  three  parts  drunk,  goes  and  an- 
other altercation  takes  place  in  which  Tony  pulls  a 
revolver,  which  is  taken  from  him  by  the  factory 
owner.  The  Italian  is  kicked  out  and  Jackson  puts 
the  gun  In  his  pocket.  He  then  proceeds  to  keep 
his  dinner  engagement  with  the  Mason's.  He  is 
cordially  received,  but  at  the  same  time  Mason, 
who  Is  the  district  attorney  receives  a  'phone  from 
bis  assistant,  requesting  his  presence  at  the  office 
quick.  Mason  orders  his  auto  and  kisses  his  wife 
good4>ye.  Telling  Fred  to  make  himself  at  home, 
be  drives  to  the  depot;  Jackson,  being  left  alone 
with  the  wife,  proceeds  to  infatuate  her  and  she 
appears  to  be  interested.  Then  Jackson  tells  May 
of  his  encounter  with  the  Italian  during  which  he 
takes  out  the  gun  and  carelessly  lays  It  on  a  desk. 
May  appears  horrified  and  Jackson  asks  her  If  it 
would  have  made  any  difference  to  her  if  he  had 
been  killed!  Her  affirmative  answer  gives  blm  en- 
couragement. The  Italian  appears  at  the  window 
and  takes  In  the  scene.  By  this  time  Jackson  has 
thoroughly  fascinated  the  woman  and  she  allows 
herself  to  he  taken  in  bis  arms.  Mason  having 
missed    the    train    returns   to   the   house    and   enters 


just  as  Jackson  is  about  to  kiss  bis  wife.  His  first 
impression  is  to  kill  Jackson,  then  feeling  that  his 
wife  was  equally  to  blame  he  retires  to  bis  room. 
Presently  it  dawns  on  May  that  she  is  allowing 
too  much,  and  she  turns  on  Jackson  and  strikes 
him  in  the  face.  Mason  who  is  upstairs  hears  a  shot 
fired  and  rushing  down  finds  bis  wife  standing  over 
tbe  dead  body  of  Jackson.  Tony  Is  seen  rushing 
from  the  grounds  and  is  caught  by  the  chauffeur. 
Tbe  police  are  sent  for  and  Mason,  seeing  a  way  to 
clear  bis  wife,  accuses  the  Italian.  Gazeco  is  ar- 
rested and  tried;  he  is  prosecuted  by  tbe  district 
attorney  and  sentenced  to  tbe  chair.  Tbe  morning 
that  Mason  reads  of  the  execution  be  is  In  agony 
at  tbe  thought  that  be  has  permitted  an  innocent 
man  to  be  executed,  for  a  crime  that  he  believes 
to  have  been  done  by  his  wife.  A  messenger  ar- 
rives with  a  note  written  by  tbe  Italian,  which 
reads: 

"Dear  Lady,  Forgive  me,  I  coward.  I  did  not 
want  Rosa  know  me  bad  man,  so  said  yon  bad. 
When  you  fight  him  by  window  I  shoot.  My  Rosa 
not  know  please, ' '  Tony.  Frantic  with  Joy  Mason 
falls  at  his  wife's  feet  and  sobs  out  bis  plea  for 
forgiveness. 

A  PERILOUS  RIDE  (May  22).— Nellie  Merrill,  a 
telegraph  operator  and  station  agent  in  charge  of 
a  small  station  at  Lowery,  Arizona,  has  plighted 
her  troth  with  Tom,  a  young  foreman,  of  a  near- 
by ranch,  and  the  couple  are  looking  forward  to  tbe 
time  when  Nellie  can  resign  her  position  with  the 
railroad  and  they  can  marry.  Nellie's  beauty,  how- 
ever, has  attracted  the  attention  of  Senior  Gazanga, 
an  unscrupulous  Mexican,  who  owns  and  manages 
a  large  copper  mine  Just  outside  of  Lowery.  One 
day  while  he  is  annoying  Nellie  with  bis  unwelcome 
attentions,  he  goes  a  step  too  far  and  her  frightened 
cry  for  aid  is  heard  by  Tom  who  happens  to  be 
outside  of  tbe  station.  Tbe  Mexican  is  quickly  put 
to  route  in  a  manner  which  he  regards  as  humiliat- 
ing and  he  determines  on  revenge.  Returning  to  bis 
mine,  he  instructs  his  foreman  to  round  up  twenty- 
five  or  thirty  of  his  companions  whom  he  can  trust 
and  they  start  out  with  the  determination  to  abduct 
the  pretty  operator.  In  the  meantime,  Nellie  hap- 
pens to  see  one  of  Gasanga's  scouts  peering  In  at 
her  through  the  window  and  becoming  alarmed, 
sends  a  note  to  Tom,  telling  him  of  her  fears  and 
requesting  him  to  Join  her  at  the  station,  which  he 
does.  Gazanga's  men  approach  the  station  and  he- 
gin  an  attack.  A  thrilling  battle  ensues,  contin- 
uing until  the  gallant  defender's  find  their  ammuni- 
tion is  running  short  when  Nellie,  by  unexpected 
means,  manages  to  make  her  escape  from  tbe  be- 
sieged building  and  returns  with  aid  in  time  to 
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HIS  FIRST  EXPERIENCE  (May  23) — John 
Joline,  who  Is  old  enough  to  be  married  and  happy, 
comes  borne  from  bis  office  with  a  headache,  to 
find  a  new  family  moving  in  next  door,  and  his 
valet,  Muggins,  already  in  love  with  the  new  maid. 
Muggins  is  lectured  severely.  Joline  learns  that 
tbe  new  neighbors  are  Roxanne  Cameron,  a  widow, 
and  Buster,  her  little  boy.  Joline  detests  boys  as 
much  as  be  detests  women.  As  soon  as  he  finds 
that  Buster  has  slipped  through  a  hole  in  tbe  fence 
to  make  friends  with  his  collie  dog,  be  captures 
bim  and  takes  him  home.  He  is  overwhelmed  by  the 
charms  of  Roxanne,  and  Instead  of  repeating  his 
lecture,  he  stammers  an  apology  and  falls  in  love 
with  her.  Some  time  later  Roxanne  goes  on  a 
visit,  leaving  Buster  in  charge  of  her  maid.  Joline 
takes  her  to  the  train  and  has  reason  to  be  encour- 
aged over  the  progress  of  his  suit.  Tbe  same  after- 
noon Muggins  and  Maggie  elope,  leaving  Buster 
asleep  in  Mr.  Joliue's  study,  with  a  note  beside 
him.  Joline  returns  and  finds  the  note  and  then 
Buster.  Joline  has  grown  fond  of'  tbe  boy,  but  the 
responsibilities  of  temporary  charge  of  a  five-year- 
old  seem  Infinite.  Muggins  gone  and  nobody  home 
next  door,  he  gets  a  good  supper  for  Buster,  and 
failing  nerve  to  undress  tbe  youngster,  rocks  blm 
to  sleep  in  bis  arms.  Roxanne  is  expected  back  the 
next  day  and  Joline  and  tbe  boy  watch  for  her. 
She  arrives  and  Joline  sends  Buster  to  meet  her. 
Buster  before  going,  bands  Joline  a  painfully  writ- 
ten letter,   which  Joline  reads  as  follows: 

"I  like  yon  because  you  have  a  nice  dog.     I  like 
you  too.     So  does  my  mama.     If  you  was  my  papa 
I  guess  yon  would  let  me  play  with  the  dog  when- 
ever  I  wanted  to.     I  wish  yon  was  my  papa. 
Your  friend, 

Buster  Cameron." 
This  is  enough  for  even  an  old  bachelor  to  en- 
thuse over,  and  Joline  has  grown  tired  of  bachelor 
life.  There  was  but  one  way  to  end  it  and  tbe  way 
led  bim  into  the  house  next  door,  and  into  Rox- 
anne's  arms.  So  Mr.  Joliue's  first  experience  In 
love,  ended  in  a  honeymoon,  and  it  was  Buster  who 
lit  the  moon. 

DETECTIVE  DOT  (May  23).— Dot  Tryon  Is  a 
stenographer,  in  a  detective  bureau,  but  she  wants 
to  be  a  lady  "Sherlock  Holmes."  She  is  such  a 
nuisance  that  to  keep  her  quiet  they  give  her  a 
badge,  and  send  her  out  to  look  for  a  bank  burglar, 
for  whom  a  reward  of  $5,000  Is  offered.  Dot  chases 
a  bearded  man,  who  appeals  to  a  policeman  for 
protection.  Then  she  gets  after  another  man  with 
a  beard,  but  his  wife  comes  to  his  rescue,  and 
musses  up  Dot,  before  hubby  can  call  the  police- 
man. Dot  goes  back  to  the  office  and  the  type- 
writer, but  that  evening  as  she  goes  home  a  man 
insults  her.  and  she  arrests  blm  at  tbe  point  of 
her  hat  pin.  He  is  smooth  shaven,  but  he  Is  the 
bank   thief,   all  right  and  Dot  wins  the   reward. 

BRIGHTENED  ST/NSETS  (May  24). — Rosemary 
Sweet  Is  a  dear  old  widow  of  Blueberry  Corners. 
She  lives  aaone  in  her  cottage,  generally  neglected 
by  neighbors,  and  even  scandalized  by  some  through 
the  gossip  of  one  of  the  villagers,  Hilda  Splugg,  be- 
cause she  accepts  the  advances  of  Henry  Widdle, 
the  physician  of  the  village.  Alice,  adores  Rose- 
mary, and  makes  freqnent  visits  to .  the  sitting 
room  of  the  widow.  Rosemary  reads  that  a  rela- 
tive has  died  leaving  a  fortune  to  his  cousin.  She 
supposing  herself  to  be  the  cousin,  communicates 
with  the  lawyers  and  receives  a  reply  to  come  to 
New  York  and  they  will  adjust  matters.  She  calls 
on  tbe  lawyers  only  to  be  told  she  is  not  the  heir 
referred  to,  that  the  demise  was  another  party  and 
no  relative  to  hers.  The  dear  old  soul  journeys 
back  to  her  country  home  worn  out  with  fatigue. 
But  at  Blueberry  Corners  she  had  not  been  forgotten. 
The  old  physician  longed  for  her  return  day  after 
dav.  and  Alice,  the  little  girl,  continued  to  make 
daily  visits  to  Rosemary's  cottage  hoping  she  will 
return.  She  arrives  at  her  cottage  in  a  rainstorm, 
contracts  violent  illness,  and  lies  alone  in  her  bed- 
room. The  next  day  little  Alice,  continuing  to 
make  her  accustomed  call,  at  last  discovers  the 
door  to  be  unlocked,  enters  and  finds  Rosemary  ill 
in  bed.  She  summons  the  old  physician,  who  makes 
the  most  hurrier  call  of  his  life  in  his  old  rattle- 
trap of  a  buggy  and  promptly  administers  medical 
relief.  Rosemary  recovers  and  the  repentant  neigh- 
bors fill  her  room  with  gifts  and  cheer.  In  her 
gratefulness  towards  the  physician  she  finally  ac- 
cepts him  and  they  become  engaged,  both  of  their 
lives  being   thus  brightened  in  their  sunsets. 


BTOGRAPH. 

THE  mCKSVTXLE  EPICT/RE  (May  22).— It  may 
have  been  due  to  the  Purity  League  that  there  were 
no  prisoners  In  the  town  jail  and  the  constable 
slept  on  his  Job.  Anyway,  a  drunken  tramp  ap- 
pears as  the  first  criminal  In  the  town.  He  prove* 
himself  an  epicure  of  the  cook  stove,  and  a  handy 
prisoner  around  the  jail.  Naturally,  the  constable 
is  loath  to  let  him  go.  The  farce  relates  how 
President  Purity  stepped  In  and  Bettled  the  case. 
She  broke  up  the  constable's  Httle  game  when  he 
would   sentence   the  prisoner  for   life. 

CINDERELLA  AND  THE  BOOB  (May  22).— In 
this  film  the  Biograph  comedy  players  have  given 
their  version  of  the  old  tale  of  Cinderella.  It  must 
be  said  it  does  not  strictly  follow  the  old  tale, 
and  whether  yon  like  the  change  or  not  depends 
on  your  sense  of  humor — but  It  should  make  you 
laugh  if  there  is  any  laugh  in  you. 


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Two   Reels,  May  21 

A    Dramatic    Subject    of    Pathetic 
Tenderness,    Showing    the    At- 
tachment of   a  Little   Boy 
for  an  Old  Sailor. 


The  retired  sea  captain  and  his 
grandson  become  fast  friends.  The 
boy's  father,  a  minister,  objects  to 
the  friendship  of  the  two,  owing  to 
the  manners  and  language  of  the  old 
man.  The  grandfather  is  deeply 
hurt,  and  goes  away  "to  learn  eti- 
quette." During  his  absence  the 
child  pines  for  his  grand-dad,  and, 
becoming  violently  ill,  calls  for  him 
in  his  delirium.  To  save  the  child's 
life  the  old  man  is  telegraphed  for, 
and  a  touching  scene  takes  place  as 
the  little  one  has  his  wandering 
mind  restored. 

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"Hubby's  Job" 

Split  Reel,  May  19 

Hubb's  wife,  posing  as  a  single 
woman,  works  as  a  stenographer.  She 
gets  Hubby  a  job  with  the  same  firm, 
and  amusing  complications  result  as  the 
boss  tries  to  make  love  to  his  pretty 
typist. 

"Twixt  Love  and  Fire" 

Split  Reel,  May  19 

A  jealous  husband  is  locked  into  a 
room  by  his  wife  and  brother,  who  do 
not  recognize  him  in  his  disguise.  The 
room  catches  fire  from  a  burning  cigar- 
ette and  he  has  an  exciting  time  before 
the  fire  department  and  the  police  rescue 
him. 


"The  Foreman  of  the  Jury" 

One  Reel,  May  22 

The  foreman  of  the  jury  refuses  to 
find  the  prisoner  guilty,  as  the  necklace 
the  prisoner  is  accused  of  stealing  has 
been  found  by  the  foreman  and  given 
to  his  sweetheart.  The  girl  comes  into 
the  court  room  with  the  necklace  on, 
bringing  about  rapid-fire  situations  of  a 
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"The  Miser" 

Two  Reels,  May  23 

Sensational  Dramatic  and  Western 
Subject,    Showing    the    Regen- 
eration of  a   Man  through 
the     Unselfish     Love 
of    a    Little    Girl. 

The  old  miser  is  angered  when  his 
son  dies,  leaving  a  little  girl  in  his 
care.  He  tries  to  get  rid  of  the 
child,  who  is  taken  by  neighbors. 
Through  kindly  acts  the  girl  wins  the 
old  man's  heart,  and  brings  about 
his  reformation,  but  not  before  his 
miserly  practices  have  brought  on  a 
conflict  with  the  Indians,  resulting 
in  desperate  battles  in  which  the  old 
man  is  fatally  wounded. 

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OLAF— AN  ATOM  (May  19).— A  story  of  recipro- 
cated kindness  la  an  unbind  world.  Alter  the  death 
of  bis  wife.  Olaf  became  a  wanderer  In  search  of 
kindness.  In  his  travels  be  met  bat  one  kind  per- 
son, the  homesteader's  wife.  She  gave  him  food 
and  in  return  he  saved  the  homesteader  nod  his 
family  from  the  artful  land-grabbers.  But  In  their 
Joy  they  forgot  Olaf  and  he  again  became  a  wan- 
derer. 

JUST  GOLD  (May  24). — The  brothers  choose  be- 
tween love  and  gold.  The  three  brothers  sought 
the  gold  regions.  The  fourth  chose  to  be  a  stay- 
at-home.  He  sought  Just  love,  and  love  was  his 
reward:  in  the  happiness  of  two  old  parents  and 
the  heart  of  a  sweet  girl.  But  those  ia  the  gold 
regions,  each  for  himself,  seeking  just  gold,  found 
their  MI  rewards  In  the  sordid  earth  of  the  "Bad 
Lands." 


PATHEPLAY. 

PATHE'S  WEEKLY,  NO.  20  (May  19).— New 
York,  N.  Y, — Sir  Cecil  Spring-Rice,  the  new  ambas- 
sador from  England,  arrives  here  on  his  way  to 
take  up  his  duties  at  Washington. 

Cambridge,  Mass. — The  'Varsity  crews  begin  their 
spring   training. 

Luneville,  France. — The  latest  type  of  German 
military  dirigible  balloon,  out  for  a  trial  trip,  lands 
Id  this  town,  creating  an  international  incident 
which  fortnnately  does  not  result  seriously. 

New  York,  N.  Y. — Twenty-five  hundred  letter  car- 
riers of  the  New  York  Letter  Carriers'  Association 
march  to  St.  Patrick's  Cathedral,  where  memorial 
services  are  held  in  memory  of  the  deceased  mem- 
bers of  the  Association. 

Athens,  Greece. — The  late  King  George,  assassin- 
ated in  Salonika,  is  buried  with  great  pomp  and 
ceremony,  the  new  King,  Constantfne  XII,  leaving 
the  widowed  Queen  at  the  church  and  following  the 
bier  on  foot. 

Comic  Section. — Mutt  expatiates  and  Jeff  recipro- 
cates. 

And  Many  Others. 

A  JOCKEY  FOE  LOVE  (May  20).—  Max  meets 
the  Countess  Duvienne  In  a  very  distressing  mo- 
ment, for  she  has  Just  learned  that  ber  Jockey  will 
be  unable  to  ride  her  horse,  the  favorite  for  the 
owner's  stakes.  In  that  irresistible  way  of  bis, 
Max  volunteers  to  ride  in  the  jockey's  stead.  The 
countess  thanks  him  but  cannot  accept  his  offer,  be- 
cause of  bis  excessive  weight.  The  gallant  Max, 
nothing  daunted,  decides  to  reduce.  After  running 
a  mile  with  a  forty-pound  dumbell,  he  looks  like 
a  wet  rag.  but  goes  gamely  to  a  Turkish  bath. 
This  treatment  brings  Max  down  to  weight,  and 
mounted  on  the  countess'  horse,  Max  fights  every 
stride  of  the  tight  race,  bat  wins,  not  only  the 
race,   but  the   countess  as  well. 

THE  CITY  OF  EOT/EN,  FRANCE  (May  20).— 
One  of  the  oldest  cities  in  France,  with  a  quaint 
charm  that  is  all  its  own.  The  beautiful  band- 
coloring  of  the  film  makes  it  truly  a  feast  for  the 
eye. 

THE  PRICE  OF  SILENCE  (May  21).— Amy  Frazer 
hears  the  call  of  the  footlights  and  deserts  her 
husband  and  baby  daughter  to  answer.  The  daugh- 
ter, Marion,  is  raised  to  young  womaahood  with  the 
understanding  that  her  mother  is  dead.  After  her 
father's  death,  Marlon  marries  a  wealthy  young 
broker.  The  notice  of  this  marriage  first  brings  the 
thought  of  her  daughter  back  to  the'  mother  and 
she  attempts  to  see  her,  but  Marion's  hosband  Inter- 
feres and  bribes  Mrs.  Frazer  to  keep  the  knowledge 
of  her  profession  from  bis  wife.  The  frequent  visits 
of  the  strange  woman  nearly  wreck  the  happiness 
of  the  young  lovers  and  finally  precipitate  a  crisis 
in  which  Marion  learns  the  truth.  The  call  of  the 
blood  Is  too  much  for  the  young  wife  to  overcome, 
and  forgiving  her  mother,  she  opens  wide  her  arms 
and   welcomes  ber  to  her  new   home. 

THE  RIGHT  OF  WAY  (May  22).— A  poverty- 
stricken  laborer  scurries  from  his  home  to  get  a 
physician  for  bis  child.  On  his  way  to  Dr.  Huber's 
office,  be  sees  a  child  falling  from  a  window  above 
him.  Down,  down  the  child  drops,  but  Into 
McCann's  strong  arms.  He  bears  the  baby  back  to 
her  mother,  who,  wild  with  Joy,  seeks  to  reward 
Mm,  but  McCann  wilt  not  wait.  The  mother  pleads 
for  his  name  and  McCann  gives  it,  then  hurries  on 
to  Dr.  Huber's  office.  The  doctor  is  expected  back 
any  moment  and  McCann  waits.  A  few  minutes 
and  there  enters  the  office  a  man  of  wealth  and 
power,  one  Nicholas  Preston.  He  is  Informed  by 
the  maid  that  the  laborer  is  first.  The  roll  of  bills 
pressed  Into  her  hand  convinces  the  girl  that  Preston 
shall  be  first  served.  The  doctor  returns.  Preston 
Is  being  ushered  into  his  office  when  McCann  pro- 
tests. A  fight  ensues,  bat  Justice  triumphs,  and 
Dr.  Huber  accompanies  McCann  to  his  home,  where 
he  guarantees  to  bring  the  girl  around.  Preston 
secures  another  doctor  for  his  sick  child  and  the 
physician  informs  him  that  she  owes  her  life  to  the 
man  who  caught  her  when  she  fell  from  the  window. 
Overjoyed,  Preston  hurries  to  the  home  of  the  man 
and  there  McCann  and  Preston  again  meet.  Preston 
begs  forgiveness  and  McCann  is  touched  by  bis  plea. 
Dr.  Huber  Is  told  to  send  the  McCann  bill  to 
Preston's  office   for  payment. 

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THE  AILANTHUS  SILKWORM  (May  23).— A 
Study  of  the  hahits  of  the  little  worm  that  is  re- 
sponsible for  the  Cabrte  that  delights  every  woman's 
heart.  It  is  Interesting,  it  is  instructive,  and  It's 
new. 

A  WOMAN  SCORNED  (May  241.— When  Phil  Bar- 
ton spurned  his  old  sweetheart  over  a  petty  Jealousy, 
he  little  suspected  that  she  would  turn  on  him  so 
suddenly.  Shi-  sent  him  to  jail  for  a  crime  he  did 
not  commit,  tortured  him  after  his  escape,  but 
she  made  one  mistake  when  she  attempted  to  notify 
the  police.  Barton's  friend  and  prospective  father- 
in-law.  Dr.  Swain,  was  present  at  the  time  and 
through  him  Phil's  name  was  cleared  and  be  married 
the  girl  he  really  loved.  Crane  Wilbur  and  Oetavia 
Hand  worth  play  the  leads,  and  they  are  at  their 
best,  which  means  that  the  characters  are  per- 
fectly portrayed. 

THE  OPEN  SECRET  (Special,  2  parts,  May  23).— 
Gaston  Jouvenal,  a  retired  banker,  and  his  wife, 
are  anxious  that  their  son  and  heir.  Henry,  shall 
marry  the  daughter  of  a  favored  neighbor.  When 
Henry  is  consulted  In  the  matter,  he  refuses  to 
consider  the  proposal,  but  will  give  no  reason. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jouvenal  storm  and  rage,  but  the 
young  man  is  obdurate.  By  a  chance  meeting  a 
few  days  later,  the  elder  Jouvenal  finds  that  his 
son  has  been  married  for  quite  some  time,  and  is 
the  proud  father  of  a  daughter.  His  curiosity  over- 
comes him  and  he  visits  his  son's  home.  He  finds 
the  doctor  in  attendance  upon  the  baby  girl. 
although  the  illness  is  not  serious,  but  the  sight 
of  the  suffering  little  one  plays  a  strange,  pathetic 
tune  on  the  old  man's  heartstrings.  He  begs  his 
charming  daughter-in-law  not  to  tell  his  wife  of 
bis  visit  and  leaves  the  house  with  a  new  Joy  in  his 
life.  Mrs.  Jouvenal,  however,  has  herself  learned  of 
her  son's  marriage,  and,  fearing  that  her  husband 
will  disown  Henry,   she  keeps  the  knowledge  secret. 

In  their  surreptitious  visits  to  Henry's  home  the 
elderly  couple  frequently  miss  meeting  each  other 
by  only  a  few  seconds,  and  their  efforts  to  avoid 
being  discovered  visiting  the  house  are  highly  di- 
verting. When  the  opportunity  offers,  Henry  and 
his  young  wife  decide  to  precipitate  matters,  and 
accordingly  arrange  a  little  scheme  which  brings 
Henry's  father  and  mother  to  the  house  at  the 
same  time.  When  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jouvenal  arrive 
their  grandchild  greets  them  and  they  meet  each 
other  face  to  face  In  their  son's  home,  and  It  Is 
then   they   both  confess   to   the   happiness    they    feel. 


MFTJES 

GOLD  AND  THE  GILDED  WAY  (May  22).— Two 
young  Australian  prospectors.  Brown  and  Smith, 
ride  up  to  a  settler's  shanty.  The  settler  Is  an 
old  man,  living  alone  and  endeavoring  to  clear  a 
heavily  stumped  bit  of  land.  He  places  before  the 
visitors  the  best  fare  he  has  and  moves  off  toward 
the  creek  with  bucket  in  hand.  Brown  kindly  re- 
lieves him  of  the  bucket  and  himself  goes  to  fetch 
the  water.  At  the  creek.  Brown  discovers  indica- 
tions of  gold.  That  evening,  having  accepted  the 
old  roan's  hospitality  for  the  night,  they  steal  off 
to  the  creek  and  their  beliefs  are  confirmed.  They 
buy   out   the  settler   for   100  pounds. 

Two  years  later  a  prosperous  mine  is  developed. 
Brown  sticks  to  the  property,  but  Smith  sells  out 
his  half  Interest  for  20,000  pounds  and  goes  to  the 
city.  Brown  becomes  rich,  and  in  bis  prosperity 
befriends  the  old  settler  making  him  confidential 
man   at   the   mine. 

After  ten  years,  Smith  returns,  a  poor  and  dissi- 
pated tramp,  to  find  bis  old  partner  still  managing 
the  mine,  married,  and  happy  in  his  home  life. 
Smith  is  given  a  Job  at  the  mine,  and  an  attempt 
Is  made  to  reform  bim.  but  the  seeds  of  envy  are 
sown  too  deep.  He  is  ungrateful.  Jealous,  and  sullen, 
and  tries  to  rob  the  mine.  The  old  settler  foils 
the  plot.  Smith  Is  driven  away  In  disgrace,  goe» 
out  prospecting  for  another  mine,  and  dies  of  thirst 
in  the  bush — the  end  of  a  career  along  the  gilded 
way. 


PINES. 

RED  WIN8  (May  20).— Mr.  Carter  will  not  con- 
sent  to  the  marriage  of  his  daughter,  Bernice,  to 
Fred  Warren,  a  reputable  gambler.  Marguerite,  an 
adventuress,  discovers  Bernlce's  photograph  on 
Fred's  person,  and  Immediately  her  Jealousy  is 
aroused. 

Mr.  Carter  receives  a  letter  from  the  detective 
agency  which  be  had  employed,  luforming  him  that 
Fred  had  gone  to  Ravisloe  for  the  purpose  of  gam- 
bling. Mr.  Carter  takes  Bernice  to  Ravisloe  to  find 
Fred  gambling,  and  Marguerite,  suspecting  that 
Fred  had  gone  with  the  Carters,  determines  to 
follow  them. 

Fred  Immediately  tries  bis  fortune  at  roulette, 
but,  not  wishing  to  be  found  gambling,  he  has 
Ernest,  his  friend,  play  for  him,  whom  he  In* 
structs   to  stake  everything  on   "red." 

"I  am  only  amusing  myself  here,"  Is  the  ex- 
planation Mr.  Carter  gives  Fred  upon  meeting  him 
in  the  gambling  rooms.  While  the  game  Is  In  pro- 
gress Fred  wins  at  almost  every  turn  of  the  wheel, 
and  bis  conversation  with  Mr.  Carter  Is  so  -broken 
that  it  Is  apparent  to  the  latter  that  Fred  Is  more 
Interested  in  the  game.  When  at  lust  Fred  has 
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"Take  this  money  and  tell  Bernlce  that  yon  are 
rich  and  wish  to  marry  her."  He  promises  her  that 
he  will  never  gamble  again,  and  Bernlce,  with  new 
faith  in  him,   accepts. 

Just  as  her  father  comes  In,  Marguerite  tries  to 
create  a  scene,  but  her  utmost  efforts  go  to  naught. 
As  the  young  couple  leave  they  receive  hearty  con- 
gratulations and   a    fond   farewell   from   the  father. 

CUBING  A  WOULD-BE  AVIATOR  (Hay  24).— 
Bloomer,  a  cadet  at  a  Military  Academy,  almost 
disrupts  the  morning  drill,  when  he  rushes  through 
the  lines  exclaiming,  "Look  at  the  balloon!"  While 
the  men  are  in  derision  for  his  action,  a  hazing  Is 
planned  for  Bloomer.  He  is  quickly  tied  np  In  a 
bag  and  he  first  experiences  a  rough  ride  in  a  wheel- 
barrow, after  which  be  is  dumped  into  a  bay-mound. 
He  is  next  suspended  In  midair  at  the  end  of  a 
rope,  where  be  is  left  to  dangle  until  he  is  re- 
leased by  his  superior  officers.  After  many  such 
painful  subjections,  he  is  finally  given  a  note  to 
deliver  to  tbe  landlady,  which  upon  reading,  she 
begets  herself  into  such  a  passion  that  before 
Bloomer  leaves  the  room,  be  is  a  sorrowful  looking 
spectacle. 

EXCEEDING  THE  TIME  LIMIT  (May  24).— Mr. 
Henpeck  is  granted  permission  by  his  obstinate  wife 
to  enjoy  an  evening  to  himself.  His  only  restriction 
Is  that  he  must  be  home  at  nine  o'clock.  Busily 
engaged  in  a  card  game  with  a  number  of  the  boys, 
the  time  goes  by  more  rapidly  than  usual,  and  when 
he  looks  up  be  Is  surprised  to  find  he  has  only  five 
minutes  to  reach  home.  His  progress  home  is  im- 
peded in  various  and  humorous  ways.  How  he  gains 
entrance  to  his  home  after  reaching  it  and  being 
locked  out,  affords  a  ludicrous  climax. 

THE  MAID  AND  THE  YAKN  (May  24).— Bess  is 
busy  reading  a  book  when  her  folks  come  in  and 
command  her  to  spend  more  time  at  work.  They 
give  her  a  ball  of  yarn,  a  crochet  needle  and  set 
her  to  work.  She  is  left  alone  and  while  moving 
around  In  her  chair  she  loses  track  of  the  ball  of 
yarn.  It  happens  to  have  been  caught  in  her  belt 
at  her  back  and  out  of  her  own  view.  Being  a  girl 
of  quick  temper  and  strong  in  athletics,  the  home  Is 
in  so  much  of  a  turmoil  when  her  parents  return 
that  Bess  has  not  been  subjected  to  work  since. 


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THE  CHICKEN  INDUSTRY,  FRANCE  (May  21). 
—The  chicken  industry  In  France  has  reached  the 
height  that  hardly  no  other  country  can  boast.  In 
this  picture  Is  shown  a  model  stock  farm  Feeding 
and  cramming  poultry  follow;  after  which  their 
methods  of  plucking  and  sanitary  packing  are 
shown.  The  special  method  used  to  whiten  and 
make  the  flesh  tender  is  also  illustrated. 

BIG  GAME  (May  21).— These  views  were  taken 
at  the  London  Zoo,  England,  and  show  many  of  the 
largest  animals  In  captivity.  The  different  species 
of  each  family  are  also  shown,  making  it  a  most 
edncatlonal  and  interesting  picture. 

IN  THE  TYHOLESE  ALPS,  AUSTRIA  (May  21). 
—By  the  most  extraordinary  efforts  these  views 
were  taken  along  the  rivers  between  snow-capped 
mountain  ranges,  which  running  down  to  the  rivers 
far  below,  display  by  the  vegetation  along  their 
sides,  every  season  of  the  year. 

THE  JAPANESE  DAGGER  (Special-^  parts- 
y  12)-— Lieutenant  Davis  of  the  Asiatic  squad- 
ron, while  in  Tokyo,  Japan,  bnys  an  old  dagger 
as  a  cnrlo.  While  showing  his  curio  to  a  Japa- 
nese friend,  a  quaint  Inscription  Is  found  on  the 
Wade,  reading  as  follows:  "Never  must  I  leave 
this  country:  evil  will  befall  anyone  who  carries 
me  away.  '  Undisturbed  by  any  foreboding,  Davis 
brings  it  home  and  hangs  it  on  the  wall  in  his 
studio. 

The  Lieutenant  makes  the  acquaintance  of  Count 
Firoenzl  and  his  beautiful  sister,  Bertha.  They 
become  intimate  friends  and  while  calling  at  his 
•tudlo  the  Countess  finds  a  photograph  of  a  young 
woman.  Stung  with  Jealousy,  she  takes  It  with 
her,  together  with  an  envelope  which  she  suspects 
contains   a   love   letter. 

That  evening  an  ominous  thing  happens!  With- 
out of  apparent  cause  the  dagger  falls  from  tbe  wall 
and  breaks  the  glass  of  the  Countess'  portrait. 
Davis  becomes  annoyed. 

The  trio  visit  the  battleship,  and  In  the  Com- 
mander's room  Davis  finds  that  he  has  overlooked 
an  envelope  containing  a  secret  signal  code.  He 
immediately  rushes  home,  but  the  code  Is  nowhere 
to   be   found. 

The  Countess  finds  that  the  plfotograph  is  that 
of  the  Lieutenant's  mother  when  she  was  a  young 
lady,  and  in  the  envelope  she  finds  the  secret  code. 
Wanting  to  atone  for  her  folly  without  recogni- 
tion, she  attempts  to  replace  the  documents.  She 
succeeds  In  entering  the  studio  under  cover  of 
darkness,  but  Davis  has  been  on  the  lookout  for 
a  person  he  suspects  of  robbing  him.  As  Bertha 
is  bending  over  the  table  Davis  bounds  upon  her 
dark  form,  at  the  same  time  drawing  tbe  Japa- 
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He  strikes,  and  Is  horrified  to  gee  that  he  has 
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when  Jack  and  Muck  Happen  upon  the  fair  Llllie. 
The  young  ladv's  beau  has  gone  awax  on  a  businesj 
trip  and  she  is  left  all  by  her  lonesome.  To  pass 
away  the  lagging  hours,  she  flirts  most  outrageously 
with  Jim  and  Mack,  two  fat  men,  and  gets  lots 
of  fun  out  of  their  frenzied  pursuit  of  her. 

They  first  meet  Llllie  at  a  fashionable  entertain- 
ment, and  once  fall  head  and  ears  in  love  with  her. 
Secretly  flattered  by  their  attentions,  she  flirts  with 
them  both  and  fans  the  flame  of  their  obvious  de- 
votion, making  them  extremely  jealous  of  each 
other.  The  next  day  they  all  meet  at  a  theater 
and  the  men  boy  seats  on  each  side  of  the  girl,  who 
has  slyly  let  them  see  the  number  of  ber  ticket. 
During  the  performance  they  both  pester  her  nearly 
to  death,  crowding  up  near  her  and  both  attempt- 
ing to  speak  at  once,  absolutely  crushing  her  be- 
tween them.  In  spite  of  the  discomfiture  she 
suffers,  Lillie  enjoys  the  fun  and  eggs  them  on  all 
manner  of  extravagances,  their  enmity  growing 
more  bitter  all  the  while.  After  the  day  of  the 
theater  party,  she  sees  them  again  and  again  and 
finally  announces  that  she  is  going  to  Atlantic  City 
for  a  month's  vacation. 

Jim  and  Mack  both  obtain  leave  of  absence  and 
present  themselves  to  her  at  the  hotel  where  she 
is  staying.  Their  huge  size  makes  their  billing  and 
cooing  very  evident  to  everyone  and  they  become 
the  stock  joke  of  the  beach.  The  greatest  laugh 
of  all,  however,  comes  at  a  masquerade  ball,  where 
they  make  most  violent  love  to  tbe  fair  damsel. 
Her  real  "knight"  appears  on  the  scene  and  tri- 
umphantly bears  off  his  lady,  to  the  great  dis- 
comfiture of  Jim  and  Mack,  who  are  left  to  console 
themselves  as  best  they  can. 

BUNNY'S  BIRTHDAY  SURPRISE  (May  19).— 
Birthday  or  no  birthday,  John  Bunny  has  to  go 
to  his  city  office  just  the  same.  On  this  particular 
occasion  be  has  an  unusually  tiring  day's  work  and 
arrives  home  completely  fagged  out.  His  wife  and 
son,  Dave,  have  prepared  a  surprise  for  bim  in  the 
shape  of  a  dinner-party,  to  which  several  guests 
have  been  invited.  Not  knowing  of  this,  Bunny, 
who  is  feeling  absolutely  all  In.  goes  straight  to 
his  room  and  gets  into  bed.  instead  of  dressing  for 
dinner,   as  is  his  usual  custom. 

In  the  dining  room,  his  wife  and  the  guests  are 
anxiously  awaiting  his  arrival.  Mrs.  Bunny  turns 
off  the  lights  and  instructs  tbe  guests  to  rise  and 
give  bim  a  rousing  cheer  when  he  enters  the  room 
and  switches  them  on.  Then  she  calls  to  her  hus- 
band to  hurry,  as  she  wants  him.  Not  expecting 
company,  Runny  descends  the  stairs  In  his  pajamas, 
and  is  seen  In  that  garb  by  the  scandalized  guests 
when  he  turns  on  the  electric  lights.  Indignant  at 
what  they  consider  a  very  poor  kind  of  a  joke,  they 
all  depart  hasily,  leaving  Bunny  to  comfort  bis 
sorrowing  wife  and  explain  matters  as  best  be 
can. 

Before  he  goes  upstairs  to  don  his  dress  clothes, 
his  son,  Dave,  arrives  with  his  sweetheart,  Ethel, 
who  also  sees  bim  in  flimsy  attire  and  flees  from  the 
room  with  a  horrified  shriek.  Dave  rushes  after 
ber  and  explains  things.  After  a  good  laugh  at  her 
future  father-in-law's  expense,  she  consents  to  stay 
to  dinner. 

VITAGRAPKERS  AT  KAMA  KURA  (May  19).— 
A  beautiful  reproduction  of  life  in  the  Land  of 
Lotus  Flowers,  showing  the  Vitagraph  "Globe- 
Trotters,"  as  they  appeared  at  one  of  their  first 
stops  in  the  Mikado's  Empire.  The  neighborhood 
of  some  of  the  Vitagraph  Japanese  plays,  the  first 
of  their  kind  ever  produced. 

THE  AMATEUR  UON-TAMER  (May  20)  .— 
Weary  and  worn,  yet  with  an  active,  full-slaed  ap- 
petite, Ike,  a  village  character,  mooches  along  the 
street.  He  Is  an  out-and-out  "bum,"  with  a  dironlc 
indisposition  to  anything  in  the  nature  of  honest 
work.  An  empty  stomach,  however,  will  work 
miracles;  Ike  Is  actually  looking  for  a  job.  He 
goes  to  the  boss  of  a  large  circus  that  happens 
along  and  asks  for  something  to  do.  Tbe  boss  turns 
bim  over  to  the  tender  mercies  of  the  chief  animal 
trainer,  who  seems  to  be  somewhat  less  stony- 
hearted. Ike  Is  offered  twenty-five  dollars  If  he 
will  go  into  the  arena  with  three  lions  during  the 
afternoon  performance,  and  he  accepts  tbe  offer. 
Cringing  with  fear,  but  fortified  a  little  by  a  drink, 
Ike  enters  the  cage  for  a  preliminary  rehearsal,  at 
the  end  of  which  he  is  led  off  in  a  fainting  condi- 
tion. When  the  time  comes  for  the  public  perform- 
ance, he  cannot  be  found.  A  search  reveals  bim 
hiding  behind  the  tents  and  he  Is  dragged  into  the 
limelight  and  forced  to  fulfill  his  contract.  A  little 
more  whiskey  gives  him  the  necessary  courage  and 
he  enters  the  cage  in  front  of  a  tent  full  of  people. 
All  goes  well  until  he  is  left  alone,  when  his  nerve 
suddenly  evaporates  and  be  Is  about  the  most  scared 
man  in  all  creation.  In  his  hasty  exit  from  tbe 
cage  he  lets  tbe  lions  loose  and  Immediately  every- 
thing is  in  an  uproar. 

Ike  rushes  at  full  tilt  down  a  passage,  the  lions 
in  pursuit  of  him  and  two  or  three  keepers  in  pur- 
suit of  the  lions.  He  dashes  through  tbe  living 
tents  of  the  circus  people  and  creates  a  general 
panic  and  turmoil,  finally  taking  refuge  up  a  tree, 
to  which  he  clings  for  dear  life.  Tbe  keepers  come 
up  and  take  possession  of  the  beasts,  dragging  them 
back  to  their  cages.  Ike  comes  down,  rubs  himself 
carefully  to  see  if  be  is  all  there,  and  satisfied  to 
get  away  with  a  whole  skin,  beats  it  as  rapidly 
as  lils  size  permits. 

COUNSELLOR  BOBBY  (May  21).— Old  man  Holll- 
day  favors  Lionel  Dough,  the  son  of  an  old  friend, 
as  a  future  son-in-law.     His  daughter,  Jenny,  thinks 


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otherwise,  and  would  much  prefer  to  marry  her  own 
choice,  young  Dr.  Randall.  The  young  lovers  hear 
from  Bobby,  Jenny's  twelve-year-old  brother,  that 
T.ionel  will  arrive  at  tlie  house  the  next  day.  Bobby 
establishes  a  law  office  in  the  dog-house,  outside 
of  which  he  has  painted  the  sign.  "Bobby  Holllday, 
Counsellor  at  Law,"  and  says  that  he  will  handle 
the  case  of  Randall  versus  Lionel  very  cheaply. 
After  he  has  been  given  a  "retainer"  by  -Randall, 
he  makes  his  preparations  for  Lionel's  arrival. 
Bringing  with  him  a  toy  poodle  dog.  Lionel  reaches 
the  house,  looking  very  much  of  a  brainless  dude. 
While  he  Is  talking  dog  to  his  sister,  Bobby  man- 
ages to  fasten  some  striped  material  around  his 
trouser  legs,  making  it  appear  as  if  Lionel  had  a 
coat  on  over  convict  clothes.  Bobby  rushes  away 
and  tells  the  sheriff  that  there  Is  an  escaped  crim- 
inal at  the  house  and  Lionel  is  forthwith  arrested 
and  hauled  to  the  local  lock-up.  Bobby  releases 
him  by  a  clever  ruse  and  then  has  him  chased 
again,  this  time  making  it  appear  that  he  is  an 
escaped  lunatic.  Lionel  cuts  such  a  ridiculous  figure 
that  he  cannot  very  well  press  his  suit  for  Jenny; 
Bobby  therefore  has  succeeded  with  his  first  case, 
and  presents  his  bill.  Randall  is  somewhat  as- 
tonished at  the  amount  he  has  to  pay,  but  digs  for 
it  with  a  good  grace.  Among  other  items  in  the 
account  Is  figured  cempensation  at  the  rate  of  five 
dollars  for  injured  feelings,  from  a  spanking  ad- 
ministered by  his  father  during  the  course  of  the 
case. 

A  LADY  AND  HER  MATD  (No.  4  of  "The  Be- 
linda Series")  (May  22). — The  photographer  sends 
Miss  Ophelia  a  dozen  photographs  of  her  in  differ- 
ent poses.  Selecting  the  best  one,  she  presents  it  to 
her  favorite  boarder.  Billy,  who  does  not  think 
much  of  it  and  who  gets  very  indignant  when  it  Is 
compared  with  the  photo  of  his  sweetheart.  HQafl 
Ophelia  goes  up  to  ber  room  in  tears  and  tells  her 
faithful  maid,  Belinda,  that  her  heart  is  broken. 
Belinda  goes  down  and  forcibly  tells  Billy  what  she 
thinks  of  him. 

Miss  Ophelia  resolves  on  suicide,  because  no  one 
seems  to  love  ber.  Belinda  gets  back  In  time  to 
prevent  this  and,  to  divert  her  mistress,  she  sug- 
gests that  they  go  together  to  a  beauty  specialist. 
Arriving  there,  both  receive  attention.  Miss  Ophelia 
gets  a  new  complexion,  while  Belinda  gets  new 
teeth.  Both  Invest  in  new  gowns  and  dresses  and 
the  transformation  Is  complete.  At  supper  time, 
the  boarders  are  all  astounded.  Miss  Ophelia  is 
really  nice-looking  and  arouses  the  Jealousy  of  all 
the  ladles,  bo  much  attention  does  she  receive  from 
the  gentlemen.  Receiving  no  return  to  their  ad- 
vances to  Miss  Ophelia,  they  try  to  flirt  with  Be- 
linda, who  now  appears  like  a  trim  French  maid. 
She  turns  them,  all  down  very  coldly,  very  much  to 
their  surprise.  Billy's  heart  unaccountably  changes 
and  he  seeks  out  Miss  Ophelia  to  propose  to  her. 
Flis  offer  is  indignantly  refused  and  be  is  still  more 
astonished,  when,  a  few  minutes  later,  he  and  all 
tlie  other  boarders  receive  notice  to  quit  the  house. 
A  sign,  "For  Sale,"  is  placed  outside  the  door  and 
Miss  Ophelia  and  her  maid,  Belinda,  drive  off  in  an 
automobile  before  everyone,  none  of  whom  can 
account  for  the  sudden  transformation  of  their 
erstwhile  boarding  mistress's  appearance  and  habits. 
Miss  Ophelia  decides  to  try  the  effect  of  her  newly- 
acquired  fascinations  in  higher  spheres  and  hopes 
now  to  be  able  to  make  a  notable  conquest  and 
enter  at  last  the  much-longed-for  haven  of  matri- 
mony. 

THE  MTDGETS  REVENGE  (May  23).— Many 
strange  characters  may  be  met  in  a  theatrical 
boarding  house  and  both  friction  and  jealousy  is 
often  rife  between  them.  One  such  house  Is  filled 
mainly  with  circus  people,  a  decidedly  motley 
crowd.  Among  them  is  a  fat  lady,  a  female  living 
skeleton,  a  strong  man,  a  seven-foot  giant  and  a 
two-foot  midget  woman.  Various  love  affairs  are 
In  progress.  Both  the  giant  and  the  strong  man 
love  the  fat  lady,  while  the  living  skeleton  wants 
the  strong  man,   who  hates  her. 

One  night,  the  strong  man,  who  Is  Jealous  of  the 
Midget,  offers  her  many  indignities,  such  as  squash- 
ing her  under  his  high  hat.  Her  part  is  taken  by 
the  giant,  who  has  taken  quite  a  fancy  to  her. 
Enraged  at  the  treatment  she  has  received,  the 
Midget  determines  to  put  a  kink  in  the  strong 
man's  freshness  and  Incidentally  do  a  good  turn  to 
the  giant.  Carefully  watching  the  movements  of 
the  strong  man,  the  Midget  sees  him  leave  notes 
at  the  -rooms  of  both  the  living  skeleton  and  of 
the  fat  lady.  With  the  assistance  of  the  giant, 
she  gets  over  the  transom  of  the  fat  lady's  door 
and  takes  the  note,  which  she  exchanges  with  that 
left  under  the  door  of  the  skeleton's  room.  The 
result  Is  that  each  woman  gets  the  letter  intended 
for  the  other.  When  they  all  meet  In  the  morning, 
the  skeleton  falls  on  the  neck  of  the  strong  man 
and  warmly  embraces  bim,  much  to  his  disgust, 
while  the  fat  lady  seeks  consolation  In  the  arms 
of  the  love-Bick  giant.  Both  the  Midget  and  the 
giant  are  satisfied  with   their  night's  adventure. 

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room,  which  is  fitted  with  a  spring  lock.  Here  she 
is  found  later  by  her  sweetheart,  Harry  Eecbert, 
who  has  returned  for  some  forgotten  papers.  Harry 
Is  a  boarder  with  Mrs.  Lane,  who  at  this  moment 
la  out  for  a  drive  with  her  husband.  Anita,  Lila's 
sister,  is  also  out  in  an  auto  with  her  beau,  Fred 
Brockway. 

In  the  morning  Harry*  and  Lila  have  bad  a  severe 
tiff.  Judge  their  horror,  then,  when  the  door 
slams  on  them  and  they  find  themselves  locked  in 
together.  Harry  has  left  the  door  open  on  enter- 
ing tbe  bouse  and  tbis  fact  is  noticed  by  Jack 
Weary  foot,  a  tramp,  who  enters  the  house  and  helps 
himself  to  the  dinner.  Aunt  Maria  presently  ar- 
rives and  is  surprised  at  seeing  no  one  about,  for 
tlie  tramp  quickly  hides  himself  behind  a  trunk. 
Soon  she  hears  the  noise  made  by  Harry  and  Lila, 
who  are  pounding  the  door.  Going  upstairs,  she  Is 
still  more  surprised  when  she  finds  her  nelee  shut 
in  a  room  with  a  young  man.  While  she  Is  speak- 
ing her  mind  to  them,  tbe  tramp  slams  tbe  door 
on  the  three  of  them. 

Meanwhile,  Fred  and  Anita  have  a  spat  and  she 
tells  him  to  take  her  home.  They  Investigate 
the  noise  In  the  Btoreroom  ami.  not  heeding  quickly 
enough  Harry's  warning  about  the  door,  get  shut 
in  also.  The  room  becomes  decidedly  cool  as  there 
are  two  couples  In  it,  neither  of  whom  will  speak 
to  each  other,  while  Aunt  Maria  eazes  frigidly  on 
all.  Presently  the  young  folks  realize  the  humor 
of  the  situation  and  are  soon  in  each  other's  arms. 
to  the  horror  of  the  spinster  aunt.  They  are  all 
released  later  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lane,  who  take 
care  not  to  get  shut  in,  and  sit  down  to  a  big 
dinner  to  celebrate  the  two  engagements  that  are 
announced.  — 

THE  STILL  VOICE  (Special— 2  parts— May  241.— 
Lindsley  Ferris,  head  of  a  banking  house,  unthink- 
ingly places  an  important  paper  in  bis  desk  at 
home,  and  causes  the  blame  for  its  mysterious  dis 
appearance  to  rest  upon  the  shoulders  of  the  cash- 
ier, Steele,  who  Is  subsequently  discharged.  Some- 
time later,  Ferris  discovers  the  paper,  and,  desir- 
ing to  reinstate  Steele,  calls  at  his  home  only  to 
learn  that  through  tbe  death  of  his  invalid  wife 
and  his  fruitless  attempts  to  secure  another  posi- 
tion, he  and  his  daughter  have  immigrated  to  a 
distant  city.  Fifteen  years  later  Steele,  returning 
to  the  city  under  an  assumed  name  and  now  mas- 
ter of  millions,  determines  to  bring  abont  tbe 
ruTfi  of  Ferris,  now  president  of  the  banking  house. 
At  a  ball,  Marjorie,  Steele's  daughter,  meets  and 
falls  in  love  with  Arthur  Ferris,  son  of  the  bank 
president.  When  the  young  people  bring  the  mat- 
ter to  Steele's  attention  he  turns  them  down  flatly 
and  forbids  his  daughter  from  further  association 
with  young  Ferris.  Tbe  young  man  appeals  to 
his  father  to  help  him  further  his  suit,  and  Ferris 
senior  goes  to  Steele  to  see  what  he  can  do  In  be- 
half of  his  son.  But  when  he  learns  the  identity 
of  Steele,  he  makes  no  further  entreaties,  but 
leaves    Immediately. 

Steele  then  orders  his  secretary  to  buy  up  tlie 
controlling  stock  of  every  company  with  which 
Ferris  is  connected.  In  meditation  be  bears  a 
voice  bidding  him  to  be  merciful  and  at  tbe  same 
time  he  sees  a  vision  of  Christ  preaching  on  the 
Mount.  His  strange  actions  alarm  bis  sister  who 
sends  for  a  doctor,  but  is  told  that  her  brother  Is 
only  suffering  from  overwrought  nerves.  Steele's 
plans  work  and  a  run  is  precipitated  on  Ferris' 
bank.  The  climax  comes  when  Steele  draws  a 
check  on  Ferris'  bank  for  $25,000.  Young  Ferris 
makes  frantic  appeals  to  other  bankers  to  come 
to  the  aid  of  his  father,  but  all  decline.  Under 
tbe  pretense  of  desiring  solitude  the  banker  sends 
all  persons  away,  takes  a  revolver  from  his  desk 
and  shoots  himself.  As  a  last  resort,  Arthur  Fer- 
ris, Ignorant  of  his  father's  suicide,  goes  to  Steele, 
asking  him  to  save  his  father.  Steele,  very  angry, 
renounces  both  father  and  son.  The  son  is  abont 
to  throttle  Steele,  when  Marjorie  intercedes  for 
her  father.  Then  Steele  again  hears  the  mysterious 
voice,  and,  calling  for  a  pen  and  paper,  he  Is 
about  to  direct  bis  secretary  to  deposit  enough 
money  in  Ferris*  bank  to  tide  him  over  the  diffi- 
culties, when  he  hears  the  voices  of  newsboys  yell- 
ing, "Suicide  of  Lindsley  Ferris."  His  reparation 
had  been  too  late  and  he  sinks  back,  dead  In  his 
chair. 


KALEM 

THE  ARTIST'S  SACRIFICE  (May  19) — Joe 
Stanton,  a  struggling  artist,  has  been  able  by 
careful  management  to  keep  bis  younger  brother, 
Ted,  in  college.  Ted  is  unappreclative  and  becomes 
so  extravagant  that  Joe  Is  sorely  pressed  for  funds. 
One  morning  Joe  reads  the  announcement  of  the 
Century  Art  Society  that  $10,000  in  prizes  will  be 
given  for  the  best  studies  of  "The  American  Girl." 
He  desides  to  compete,  but  is  unable  to  secure  a 
suitable    model. 

Nell  Winston,  employed  In  a  department  store, 
resents  the  advances  of  an  overbearing  floorwalker 
and  is  discharged.  As  she  sits  in  the  park  she  at- 
tracts tbe  attention  of  Joe,  who  has  been  strolling 
aimlessly  and  gloomily,  thinking  of  the  futility  of 
entering  the  contest.  He  is  struck  by  the  girl's 
beauty  and,  introducing  himself,  Induces  her  to 
act   as    his    model. 

Nell  agrees  and  visits  the  studio.  As  the  days 
pass  tbe  old  story  repeats  itself  and  the  artist  falls 
deeply    In    love    with   the   girl. 

Holidays    arrive   and   Ted    dashes    Into    the    studio 


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State  and  Territorial  Rights  for 

Sale  for 

Edison's  Talking  Pictures 


In  compliance  with  our  contract  with 
the  Thomas  A.  Edison,  Incorporated, 
whereby  we  were  not  permitted  to  place 
the  Talking  Pictures  in  motion  picture 
houses  until  after  June  first,  nineteen 
thirteen,  we  are  now  prepared  for  the 
first  time  to  offer  for  sale  territorial  or 
state  rights  for  the  Edison  Kinetophone 
on  terms  which  will  meet  conditions  of 
the  moving  picture  business. 

Parties  can  now  secure  for  themselves 
territorial  rights  for  as  many  machines  as 
they  may  desire  for  the  smallest  or  larg- 
est city,  and  machines  can  be  placed  in 
any  theatre  after  June  first  that  can  com- 
ply with  terms  and  conditions. 

The  Edison  Kinetophone  is  the  only 
genuine  Talking  Picture  made.  The 
photograph  and  record  are  taken  at  the 
same  time,  insuring  perfect  synchronism 


and  illusion.  They  are  not  limited  to  any 
particular  class  of  subject  or  to  the  num- 
ber of  people  or  to  size  of  stage. 

Unlimited  capital  and  every  facility  in- 
sure constant  improvement,  which  can  be 
noted  week  by  week. 

AFTER  JUNE  FIRST,  FOUR  SUB- 
JECTS PER  WEEK;  AFTER  OCTO- 
BER FIRST,  SIX  SUBJECTS  PER 
WEEK. 

This  is  the  greatest  opportunity  for 
money-making  in  the  history  of  the  mo- 
tion picture  business. 

The  Edison  Talking  Picture  will  re- 
juvenate the  photo-play  theatre.  It  has 
come  to  stay. 

Write  or  telegraph  at  once  for  printed 
matter,  terms  and  particulars. 


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to  be  confronted  by  a  beautiful  stranger.  He 
makes  known  his  Identity  and  learns  tbat  Nell  is 
waiting  for  Joe.  Ted  prevails  upon  her  to  take  a 
stroll  and  during  the  walk  he  discovers  that  he 
has    found    "the   one   girl." 

The  days  pass  and  the  painting  is  completed. 
Joe  is  summoned  before  the  art  committee  and 
awarded  the  'first  prize.  Hastening  home  with 
the  glad  news,  his  spirits  fall  fhen  be  learns  that 
Nell  has  given  her  promise  to  Ted. 

THE  CHICLE  OF  FATE  (May  21).— The  hnsband 
has  an  ungovernable  temper.  He  stormily  leaves 
the  house  and  lighting  his  pipe,  tosses  the  burn- 
ing match  into  a  pile  ol  brush.  The  flames  spread 
and  soon  the  little  cabin  is  ablaze,  making  a  prison- 
er of  the  wife.  While  the  man  visits  at  the 
tavern,  the  woman  bravely  fights  for  her  life  and 
finally    succeeds    in    escaping    by    the    window. 

Hushing  away  in  terror,  the  wife  falls  exhausted 
and  Is  picked  up  by  a  passing  stagecoach.  In  the 
course  of  the  journey  the  horses  take  flight  and 
the   coach   Is   wrecked. 

The  plainsman  witnesses  the  accident  and  rescues 
the  young  woman,  whom  he  tenderly  bears  to  his 
mother's   cottage. 

The  young  man  falls  in  love  with  the  strange 
woman,  but  one  day  he  discovers  her  wedding  ring 
and  finds  tbat  a  barrier  stands  in  the  way  of  his 
happiness.  He  hears  her  story  and  determines 
to   locate   the   husband  and   bring  him   back. 

After  a  weary  search  the  plainsman  finds  the 
husband  and  prevails  upon  him  to  visit  bis  wife. 
Again  the  ungovernable  temper  brings  disastrous 
results  and  this  time  the  man  forfeits  his  life. 
Time,  the  leveller  of  all  things,  brings  final  hap- 
piness to  the  young  woman,  who  finds  a  devoted 
helpmate    In    the   plainsman. 

THE  BLACK  HAM)  (May  23).— Tom  vainly  en- 
deavors to  convince  Mr.  Mont  ford  that  he  will 
make  a  desirable  son-in-law.  The  old  gentleman 
not  only  refuses  to  be  convinced  but  prohibits 
Tom   from    visiting  Clara. 

Mr.  Montford  is  very  nervous  and  becomes  greatly 
excited  when  he  reads  the  newspaper  accounts 
of  Black  Hand  escapades.  Just  at  this  time  Tom 
conceives  the  idea  of  masquerading  as  a  colored 
cook  and  securing  employment  in  the  Montford 
home.  Tom  gets  the  position,  but  his  make-up  is 
not  of  the  permanent  kind  and  everything  he 
touches  leaves  a  mark  which  brings  terror  to 
Montford.  When  Tom  and  Clara  discover  father's 
discomfort,  they  proceed  to  make  capital  of  it  and 
as    a    result    Montford    witdraws    bis    objections. 

THE  EGYPTIAN  MTJMMY  (May  23).— Prof. 
Howe  knows  more  about  antiques  than  he  does 
about  love  affairs  and  consequently  he  declares 
that  Dick,  bia  daughter's  sweetheart,  is  a  nui- 
sance. Howe  purchases  au  ancient  Egyptian 
mummy  and  Dick  observes  the  delivery  of  the  huge 
case.  A  daring  scheme  occurs  to  him.  With 
Arvilla's  assistance  he  takes  the  place  of  the 
mummp  and  when  Howe  opens  the  case  be  hears 
a  sepulchral  voice  exclaim:  "Let  your  daughter 
marry  whom  she  cboses !  Ramesis  demands  1 1 ! ' * 
Arvilla  says  she  choses  Dick,  and  Howe,  grasp- 
ing his  daughter  by  the  hand,  hastens  to  Dick's 
house  to  satisfy  the  mummy.  Dick  has  the  time 
of  his  life  in  making  a  wild  dash  to  his  home  be- 
fore the  arrival  of  the  professor.  Then  he  is  in- 
duced   (?)    to  listen. 

THE  INFAMOUS  DON  MIGUEL  (May  24)  .— 
Dixie  Hardie  receives  a  letter  from  an  old  school- 
mate, Juanita  Dias,  extending  an  invitation  to 
visit  the  Dias  plantation  in  Cuba.  Rumors  of  war 
are  In  the  air,  but  Dixie  insists  upon  going  and 
her  parents  finally  consent. 

The  American  girl  finds  a  great  deal  to  interest 
her  in  Cuba  and  spends  many  happy  hours  at  the 
elegant  Dias  estate.  One  day  a  party  of  Cuban 
refugees  dash  into  the  house  with  the  alarming 
news  that  they  are  pursued  by  Spanish  soldiers. 
The  pursuers,  headed  by  a  tyrant,  Don  Mlquel,  ar- 
rive and  take  possession  of  the  Dias  home. 

Don  Miguel  begins  a  series  of  persecutions  and 
Dias  determines  upon  a  daring  dash  for  liberty. 
He  and  the  two  girls  disguise  themselves  as 
Cuban  servants  and  steal  from  the  house  under 
the  cover  of  darkness,  only  to  be  captured  and  led 
to   prison. 

Meanwhile  American  troops  arrive  on  the  Island 
and  Dixie's  brother,  Capt.  James  Hardie,  is  a 
member  of   the   expedition. 

Don  Miguel  taunts  his  prisoners  and  offers  them 
liberty  if  Dixie  will  consent  to  become  bis  bride. 
The  girl  recoils  in  dismay  and  the  hot-blooded  Dias 
makes  matters  worse  by  attacking  the  tyrant. 
That  night  the  three  captives  succeed  In  removing 
the  bars  from  the  tower  window.  Dixie  dives  into 
the  water  below  and  swims  across  to  the  Ameri- 
can camp,  where  she  finds  her  brother.  The  next 
day  Capt.  Hardie's  troops  attack  the  prison,  and 
capture    the    infamous    Don    Miguel. 


Among  the  Exhibitors 

Watertown,  Wis. — Chas.  Buchhalter  sold  the 
Orpbeum   to  Jerome  Kostermann. 

Mondovi,  Wia. — John  Larson  has  bought  Miles 
Brotzman's  interest  in  the  Star  theater,  and  the 
business  will  from  now  on  be  conducted  under  the 
firm  name  of  Cosford  ft  Larson. 

Argents,  Ark. — J.  W.  Lippincott  sold  the  Colonial 
moving  picture  theater  to  J.  H.  Bandy. 


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Our  copyrighted  scale  of  chimes  can  be  used 
with  great  effect  in  hundreds  of  photoplays. 
Sent  for  2oc.     Details  for  stamp. 

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WHEN  TOTJ   CAM 
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We  sell  all  makes  of  machines,  new  and  second- 
hand.    Also    machine    parts,     supplies,     tickets, 

carbons,    etc. 
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638   S.    Dearborn  St.  Chicago,    Illinois. 


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manufacturers    of    theatrical    and    historical    cos- 
tumes. 
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Established   1852. 


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Twenty- four- inch  $80.  Thirty-inch.,  $110. 
Also  some  _  oscillating  twelve-inch  fans,  $13.75 
each.  All  General  Electric  make  and  for  alter- 
nating   current,     1    phase,     GO    cycle,     110    volt. 

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Headquarters  for 

ASBESTOS 

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w  c.  W.  Trainer  Mfg.  Co. 
Booklet  39  Pearl  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 


Dallas,  Wis. — A  moving  picture  theater  will  be 
opened  here  by  Mr.  Joppa. 

Portage,  Wis. — The  Gem  theater,  newly  remodeled 
arid   enlarged,   reopened   recently. 

Chewelah,  Wash. — H.  J.  Skinner  has  been  awarded 
the  contract  for  the  erection  of  a  one-story  brick 
bollding  on  Second  street.  When  completed  it 
will  be  occupied  jointly  by  the  Chewelah  Independent 
and  the  A.  ft  B.  Photoplay  shows.  The  building 
will  be  fireproof  and  steam  heated. 

Galveston,  Tex. — G.  E.  Jorgenson  of  this  city 
contemplates  the  erection  of  a  $100,000  moving 
picture  theater  on  the  site  now  occupied  by  the 
Crystal  theater  in  Main  street.  Plans  are  being 
prepared    by    I.    A.    Walker,    architect. 

Mt.  Washington,  Pa.— J.  Ballantl  will  erect  a 
one-story  moving  picture  theater  to  cost  $4,000. 
The  contract  has  been  awarded  to  D.  H.  Lash, 
720   Grandvlew    Avenue,    Pittsburg,    Pa. 

Pittsburgh,  Pa. — Adam  Schlmpf  will  erect  a  one- 
story  moving  picture  theater  to  cost  $8,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.— The  buildings  303,  5  and  7 
North  53d  Street  will  be  altered  for  a  three-story 
moving  picture  theater.  The  alteration  will  cost 
$15,000. 

Cincinnati,  O. — The  Belrtdere  Company,  will' 
erect    a    one-story    moving    picture    theater. 

Cincinnati,  0. — The  Park  Amusement  Company 
will  erect  a  one-  and  two-story  moving  pleture 
theater,  to  cost  $25,000  at  CummlnBvllle,   O. 

Norwood,  0. — The  Norwood  Theater  Company, 
have  completed  plans  for  a  one-story  moving  pic- 
ture theater  with  a  seating  capacity  for  1,200. 

Gazette,  Little  Rock. — V.  E.  and  W.  P.  Florence 
have  purchased  the  interest  of  Tom  Nell  la  the 
Stamps  Airdome  here. 

Lansing,  la. — Both  moving  picture  theaters  of 
this  city  have  changed  hands.  The  new  proprietor 
Is  Will  Ruprecbt,  and  It  Is  understood  that  the 
Princess  and  Midland  will  be  consolidated  Into  one 
large    entertainment    house. 

E-eedsburg,  Wis. — The  United  Amusement  Com- 
pany   bought    the    Orpbeum    theater    here. 

Princeon,  Ind. — Brown  ft  Agar  sold  the  Palace 
theater  to  G.    W.   Coffee. 

Minot,  No.  Dak, — Archie  Miller  will  open  a  Bering 
picture    show    here. 

Woodstock,  HI. — Geo.  L.  Murphy  has  purchased 
property  here  and  will  erect  thereon  a  new  theater 
building. 

New  York,  N.  Y. — L.  and  A,  Plneus  have  brought 
from  the  Kingman  estate  land  on  Fulton  Street 
at  the  Junction  of  Grand  and  Putnam  Avenues 
and  they  are  having  plans  prepared  for  the  erec- 
tion of  a  moving  picture  theater.     Cost  $250,0l>0. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.— Cramp  ft  Co.  was  awarded 
the  contract  for  a  $300,000  theater  to  be  built  on 
Park  Square,  Boston  for  the  Park  Square  Theater 
Co. 

Lewiston,  Ida. — B.  D.  Dickson  bought  the  Lyric 
motion    picture    theater. 

Aitkin,  Minn. — F.  W.  Hall  sold  his  moving  picture 
theater  to   John   C.    Moore. 

East  Troy,  Wis. — L.  Churchill  opened  a  moving 
picture    theater    here. 

Jennings,  La. — The  Princess  picture  photo  plsy 
bouse  under  the  management  of  Clair  MahaTey  and 
Will    Wlldman,    opened    recently. 

Morganton,  N.  C. — Messrs.  Webb  and  Davis  will 
open  on  June  10  a  moving  picture  bouse  here  to 
be  known  as  "The  New  Theater."  It  will  have 
a  seating  capacity  of  300,  and  the  pictures  will 
be  projected  by  a  Powers  6A.  Licensed  film  seiv- 
ice  will   be   used. 

Denver,  Colo. — A.  E.  Carlton,  a  Cripple  Creek 
mining  man,  plans  to  erect  a  moving  picture  thea- 
ter building  at  the  corner  of  Colfax  Avenue  and 
York    Street      Cost    $25,000. 

Ma  ilka  to,  Minn. — H.  H.  San  don,  of  Jackson, 
leased  the  building  now  occupied  by  the  Wonder- 
land Theater.  The  lease  goes  into  effect  June  1 
and  Mr.  Saudon  will  conduct  a  motion  picture 
house  there.  The  building  Is  the  property  of  David 
Evans  of  West  Front  Street.  Until  June  1  the 
American  Amusement  Company  will  occupy  the 
building. 

Henry,  Ills. — Milo  Phares  will  open  a  moving 
picture    theater    here. 

Rome,  N.  Y. — W.  B.  Sbane,  of  Syracuse,  leased 
a  store  of  Albert  Kaufman,  128  North  James  Street, 
and  will  transform  it  into  a  moving  picture  thea- 
ter. 

Paxton,  His. — The  contract  has  been  let  for  the 
erection  of  a  theater  for  M.  E.  Hunt  and  Chas. 
Sullivan  on  South  Market  Street. 

Muskogee,  Okla. — This  city  is  contemplating  the 
erection  of  a   new  opera   bouse. 

Temple,  Tex. — The  directors  of  the  Temple  Audi- 
torium awarded  the  contract  for  building  the  new 
theater  to  H.  D.   McCoy  of  Cleburne. 

Milwaukee,  Wis. — The  Miramar  Theater  com- 
pany will  erect  a  nickel  theater  on  Oakland  Ave- 
nue, south  of  Folsom  Place  to  cost  In  the  neigh- 
borhood of  $25,000.  The  building  will  be  60  feet 
wide  by  120  feet  deep,  with  a  seating  capacity  of 
800.  The  building  will  be  fireproof.  J.  H.  Sta- 
pleton  will  manage  the  theater.  The  sale  of  prop- 
erty was  made  through  the  offle  of  William 
Etewart. 

Lincoln,  Nebr. — John  Bitner  has  Just  let  the 
contract  to  erect  a  theater  for  moving  pictures  at 
North  Platte.  The  building  will  be  fireproof  and 
it  Is  expected  that  it  will  be  ready  for  occupancy 
by  June  1. 

Bochelle,  Ills. — Ed.  Welk  has  bought  out  his  part- 
ner,   Mr.   Keager. 


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"IN  THE   CLAWS   OF 
THE    VULTURE" 


Copyright  1913 


Free  from  impossible 
situations,  yet  replete 
with  tremendous 
force.  This  drama 
teems  with 

Exciting 

Episodes  ! 


In  Three  Reels 


The  acting  is  superb. 
It  carries  one  away 
with  its  dramatic 
force.  The  scenes 
are 

Positively 

Enthralling ! 


PUBLICITY  i,  3,  6  and  8  sheet  posters,  heralds  and  cuts;  also  a  complete  set  of  enlarged  photos  {or  lobby  display. 
BE  WISE;  DO  NT  LET  YOUR  OPPOSITION  GET  THIS  WINNER. 


"SATAN" 


The  following  states  are  still  open  for  this  wonderful  subject,  viz.:  North  &  South  Carolina,  North  &  South  Dakota 

and  Minnesota.    Wire  at  once. 


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Few  states  yet  open.     Wire  for  prices. 


In  Three  Reels 


May  17th 


OUR    TWO    REEL   RELEASES 

"A  MAID    OF   HONOUR5 ' 


A  thrilling  drama  woven  around  the  grandeur  of  a  foreign  court.    Melodramatic,  yet  full  of  pathos.    The  kind  the 

public  want. 


May  24th 


"THE  YELLOW  MAN" 


A  topical  MONEY  GETTER,  a  sensational  drama  of  the   Japanese  secret  service  in  America. 
Do  you  realize  the  drawing  power  of  this  subject  on  the  Japanese  situation?    It  means  big  business. 

NOTICE:     i,  3  and  6  or  8  SHEETS  WITH  ALL  OUR  RELEASES. 


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both  become  popular  cai^.cstes  for  mayor,  but  this 
does  not  Interfere  with  their  fr  endshtp.  At  a  poli- 
tical meeting,  Captain  Mead,  who  is  In  love  with 
John's  tiancee,  tells  t.ie  ass.  u.oly  that  John  cannot 
hold  public  office  and  is  not  entitled  to  a  vote,  as  he 
14  a  deserter  from  the  arcy.  But  Frank  and  the 
Colonel  rise  up  in  the  meeting  and  give  them  the 
true  story,  while  Frank  withdraws  in  favor  of  his 
friend. 


UNIVERSAL 

BISON. 

THE  STARS  AND  STRIPES  FOREVER  (3  parts 
— May  20). — Sepulveda  leads  a  doable  existence.  By 
day  he  is  the  trusted  clerk  to  the  General,  com- 
manding the  American  forces;  by  night  he  is  the 
dreaded  and  unscrupulous  leader  of  Manila's 
Secret  Order  of  Filipinos.  He  has  a  valuable  ally 
in  Madame  Revier,  with  whom  he  keeps  in  close 
touch.  Madura  has  a  maid,  Mestizo,  who  is  one 
day  approached  and  Insulted  by  a  drunken  Filipino. 
Captain  Smalley,  of  the  American  army,  hears  the 
scuffle  and,  interfering,  rescues  the  girl  and  there- 
by earns  her  gratitude. 

One  day  General  Wilson  hands  Sepulveda  an  or- 
der to  typewrite,  which  is  addressed  to  Smalley. 
It  tells  him  to  report  to  Colonel  Ketchnin,  and  of 
the  Filipinos'  plan  to  surprise  the  American  trenches 
on  the  morrow.  After  the  day's  work,  Sepulveda 
sends  a  note  to  the  Filipino  general,  telling  him 
that  their  plans  are  known  and  to  hasten  the  at- 
tack. 

Smalley  goes  to  a  dance  which  Is  also  attended 
by  both  Sepulveda  and  Madame  Revier.  They  watch 
Smalley.  who,  in  the  course  of  the  evening,  re- 
ceives the  order  from  his  general.  Smalley  pre- 
pares to  go,  although  be  dislikes  leaving  Madame, 
who  has  fascinated  him.  She  feigns  a  slight  sick- 
ness and  persuades  Smalley  to  at  least  see  her 
home.      He    agrees.      Sepulveda    follows. 

Smalley  accepts  her  invitation  to  enter  her  home 
for  a  few  moments;  he  is  recognized  by  tbe  maid. 
Sepulveda  watches  them  from  a  mirror  and  when 
Smalley  says  he  must  go  after  he  has  had  a  pre- 
ferred drink,  Sepulveda  drugs  his  wine  and  Smalley 
would  drink  it,  but  for  the  fact  that  he  sees  some- 
thing peculiar  about  Madame's  attitude  with  the 
mirror  and  takes  the  opportunity  to  look  into  it 
himself,  when  he  is  surprised  to  see  the  maid  beck- 
oning him  not  to  drink  tbe  glass  of  wine.  He  feigns 
being  affected  by  the  heat  and  pretends  to  drink 
the  wine.  He  follows  this  by  feigning  stupor. 
Sepulveda  enters  the  room  delighted  with  their  ruse 
and  ordering  more  wine  he  goes  to  the  window  and 
drops  out  some  Instructions  to  be  taken  to  the 
Filipino  forces.  The  maid,  Mestizo,  brings  the 
wine  and  tbe  man  and  woman  lapse  into  uncon- 
sciousness, for  the  maid  has  drugged  their  wine 
In  turn.  She  tells  Smalley  he  Is  now  safe,  and  he, 
after  showing  deep  gratitude,  hastens  for  the  front. 
He  arrives  too  late  to  save  many  of  the  trenches. 
He  raises  the  main  body  of  the  defenders,  however, 
and  after  a  brisk  fight  tbe  Filipino  army  is  routed 
and  dispersed. 

Sepulveda  and  Madame  recover  their  senses  and 
he  accuses  her  of  trapping  him.  He  will  not  listen 
to  her  and  she  is  dragged  to  the  secret  council 
where  the  news  of  the  overwhelming  defeat  is 
brought  to  the  engaged  men.  The  maid  follows 
her  mistress  and  Sepulveda  makes  her  go  for  help. 
She  thinks  of  Smalley  and  goes  to  him  when  he 
is  reporting  his  victory.  He  gets  permission  to  take 
a  body  of  men  with  him  and  breaks  in  upon  the 
meeting  as  tbe  brutes  are  branding  Madame. 

From  his  prison  Sepulveda  manages  to  get  a  note 
to  Smalley  through  one  of  his  band.  It  purports 
to  be  from  Madame  Revier  and  asks  him  to  call  at 
once  when  she  will  give  him  news  of  tbe  Filipino 
plans.  Smalley  tells  tbe  messenger  that  be  will  go 
to  her  and  goes  to  her  residence.  As  soon  as  Smalley 
Is  in  the  house,  one  of  the  secret  society  men 
throws  a  bomb  and  Madame  is  buried  In  the  ruins. 
The  maid  manages  to  protect  Smalley  from  a  falling 
beam,   while   tbe  girl  loses  her  life. 

TTNDEB  FIRE  (2  parts— May  24).— Colonel  Lewis, 
an  old  admirer  of  the  widow  Kent,  calls  with  hla 
son,  Frank,  bringing  the  latest  war  news,  "the 
call  for  volunteers."  Frank  urges  her  son,  John, 
to  enlist  with  him  and  reluctantly  the  widow  con- 
sents. The  boys  leaves  for  the  front — but  at  their 
first  battle,  Frank  becomes  terror-stricken  and  but 
for  John's  interference,  would  have  deserted.  At 
tbe  next  battle  John  is  not  near  his  friend,  so  the 
younger  man  again  seized  with  terror,  runs  from  tbe 
field.  John  sees  him  and  starts  In  pursuit,  but 
Captain  Mead.  Frank's  cousin,  believes  that  John 
Is  deserting.  He  Informs  the  Colonel  and  a  guard 
is  sent  to  bring  him  back.  John  has,  in  the  mean- 
while, overtaken  Frank  and  persuaded  him  to  re- 
turn, which  he  does  just  in  time  to  answer  his 
name  at  roll  call.  John  Is  taken  prisoner  and  sent 
to  the  guard  tent  to  await  court-martial,  which  re- 
sults In  bis  beHg  sentenced  to  be  shot,  as  he  re- 
fuses to  explain  his  absence.  As  soon  as  Frank 
learns  of  his  friend's  troubles  he  confesses  to  his 
father  and  the  Colonel  goes  to  John  and  offers  him 
a  metis  of  escape.  John,  however,  refuses  it. 
At  dawQ  the  Confederate  forces  attack  the  camp 
an  1  John  Is  taken  prisoner  He  escapes  and  after 
the  war  Is  over  joins  his  mother. 

John  and  Frank,  who  has  also  come  there  to  live. 


NESTOR. 

HER  HERO'S  PREDICAMENT  (May  19).— Lee 
rejoices,  for  has  he  not  a  holiday  to-morrow?  He 
meets  Eddie,  who  is  employed  in  a  large  dry  goods 
emporium.  He  hears  of  Lee's  luck  and  wants  to 
join  him.  They  plan.  The  following  morning 
Eddie  has  sudden  and  excruciating  pains.  The  boss 
sees  him.  He  Is  excused  for  tUo  day  and  duly  meets 
Lee  as  arranged.  They  go  to  the  beach  and  see  a 
party  of  pretty  girls, 

Lee  and  Eddie  resolve  to  bathe  and  get  into  lovely 
striped  costumes.  The  girls  also  make  up  their 
minds  to  take  a  dip  and  appear  on  the  beach,  not 
too  heavily  attired.  They  coquette  with  the  little 
wavelets  and  she  Is  tossed  around.  She  screams. 
Tbe  boys  hear  the  pitiful  squeak  and  Eddie  bravely 
dashes  In  and  rescue  the  maiden.  When  they  are 
all  dried  out,  they  adjourn  for  refreshments  and 
tbe  girls  Invite  the  boys  to  accompany  them  home 
in  their  big  auto.  Arriving  at  the  door  Eddie 
wilts,  for  the  portly  gentleman  who  meets  Louise 
and  whom  she  addresses  as  pa  Is  none  other  than 
his  boss.  Explanations  ensue,  and  Eddie  is  for- 
given. He  is  even  invited  to  a  dau'?e — a  Lean  Year 
ball. 

He  is  delighted,  but  grows  serious  when  .ie  thinks 
of  the  question  of  a  dress  suit.  Lee  suggests  hiring 
one,  and  this  is  done.  He  dons  the  suit  and  notes 
a  tear  in  the  pants.  Lee  mends  the  rent  of  the 
rented  pants  and  Eddie  sallies  forth  and  is  charm- 
ed at  the  beauty  of  Louise  in  her  pretty  dress.  She 
drops  her  fan  and  Eddie  stoops  to  get  ft.  He  man- 
ages to  reach  it  when  words  fail  to  describe  his 
mortification  and  misery.  He  backs  rut,  tut  Louise 
insists  upon  knowing  what  is  the  matter.  He  takes 
a  chance  and  tells  her  and  finds  that  she  is  sym- 
pathetic and  what  is  more,  practical.  She  hunts 
up  a  needle  and  thread  and  a  shawl.  Kddle  and 
she  go  to  a  little  waiting  room  and  Lddie  gets 
behind  a  comfortable  palm  and  be  takes  the  shawl 
wiille  she  reft" he*  for  the  pants  and  gets  to  work. 

Some  interfering  women  persons  come  in  and  will 
insist  upon  going  behind  the  palm.  Eddie  sees  a 
door  and  backs  through  It,  only  to  find  himself  In 
the  ball  room.  With  the  shawl  wound  tightly 
around  him  he  bolts  for  it  through  the  hall,  down 
the  stairs,  through  the  street  and  never  stops  until 
his  own  door  is  closed  behind  him  and  he  is 
threatening  tbe  cheerful  idiot,  Lee,  for  laughing 
at  him. 

The  next  day  Eddie  has  another  headache,  which 
is  dispelled  by  a  sweet  note  from  Louise,  asking 
him  to  call  and  get  a  bundle.  He  does.  He  gets 
the  bundle,  but  puts  it  aside  until  he  goes  home, 
for  her  invitation  to  stay  awhile  is  very  cordial. 
Papa  sees  them  together,  smiles  and  leaves  them 
by    themselves. 

A  MINE  AND  A  MARATHON  (May  23).— W,  E. 
Todd  is  owner  of  mining  properties  in  Deerfoot 
Valley,  which  are  undeveloped  and  are  thought  not 
valuable.  The  Consolidated  Properties  Co.,  which 
own  adjoining  properties  has  secretly  had  Todd's 
holdings  lnvesticated  and  found  them  very  valu- 
able. They  make  Todd  a  reasonable  offer  for  so- 
called  un valuable  lands,  saying  they  want  to  In- 
crease their  holdings.  Todd  does  not  accept  but 
sends  Gray,  a  young  mining  engineer  who  is  In  his 
employ,  to  test  the  property.  He  also  Invites  his 
nephew.  Dean,  who  Is  an  aspirant  for  honors  In 
the  Marathon  at  the  coming  Olympic  games,  to  go 
out  with  Gray  and  get  a  few  months  training  In  tbe 
mountains.  Gray  and  Dean  arrive  on  the  property 
where  Dean  trains  and  Gray  puts  a  crew  of  men 
at  work  and  with  one  workman  goes  for  a  walk 
to  look  over  the  ground.  They  see  likely  rock 
and    Gray   puts   a    workman    at   digging. 

Lee.  the  agent  of  the  Consolidated  Co.,  and  the 
man  who  made  the  offer  to  Todd,  arrives  on  the 
lands.  Gray  visits  the  crew  who  have  found  nothing 
and  then  visits  the  lone  workman,  who  has  struck 
it  rich.  On  his  way  to  the  office  Gray  meets  Lee. 
who  immediately  sees  that  Gray  has  discovered 
that  tbe  property  is  valuable.  Lee  very  smoothly 
humors  Gray  and  soon  makes  an  offer  to  Gray  to 
keep  mum.  Gray  is  Insulted,  but  when  a  larger 
offer  Is  made  gradually  accepts  Lee's  terms.  A  few 
days  later  a  telegram  Is  received  by  both  men  from 
their  New  York  offices  that  Todd  will  accept  the 
terms  of  the  Consolidated  Co.  on  a  specified  day  if 
he  does  not  hear  from  Gray  to  the  contrary.  At 
the  end  of  Lee's  message  his  company  writes: 
"Keep  the  lid  on  tight,"  and  Lee,  while  In  con- 
versation with  Gray,  absently  tears  his  message 
in  pieces  and  drops  them  in  the  waste  basket. 

Just  after  leaving  the  office,  Dean  comes  In.  His 
spiked  shoe  has  been  hurting  him  on  account  of 
unevenness  inside.  He  goes  to  the  waste  basket 
to  find  pasteboard  from  which  to  cut  an  insole. 
From  the  folded  paste-board,  pieces  of  Lee's  tele- 
gram fall  out. 

One  piece  attracts  Dean's  attention,  as  It  reads, 
11 — e  lid  on  tight.**  Curiosity  prompts  him  to 
match  the  pieces  of  the  telegram  together  and  put 
them  in  his  pocket.  On  the  day  on  which  Todd 
will  sell.  Dean,  on  his  morning  run,  attired  In  track 
suit,   rounds  a  bend  and  comes  upon  Lee,  Gray  and 


the  workman  and  overbears  Lee,  who  is  boasting 
loudly.  Dean  now  understands  the  telegram  ami 
their  scheme.  Just  then  a  stone  slips  and  the 
conspirators  turn  to  see  Dean,  who  feigns  Just 
running  up.  He  salutes  and  goes  on.  Gray  and 
Lee  are  suspicuous  and  wonder  If  be  overheard. 
The  three  follow  and  they  talk  to  Dean,  who  has 
just  jumped  into  an  auto  standing  before  the  office. 
As  Dean  drives  off  he  answers  Gray's  question  and 
they  know  Dean  is  going  to  foil  them.  Gray  and 
Lee  get  horses  and  start  in  pursuit.  Twenty  miles 
to  go  and  two  hours  to  do  It  in,  when  after  going 
fifteen  miles  theauto  breaks  down.  Dean,  deter- 
mined, grits  his  teeth  and  starts  out  fast  for  the 
five  mile  run.  He  just  makes  the  railroad  station 
ahead  of  Gray  and  Lee,  and  succeeds  In  getting 
the  operator  to  send  a  message  to  Todd  telling 
him  not  to  sell  at  any  price,  before  they  appear  on 
the  scene.  After  the  pursuers  are  sent  back  en- 
raged and  disconsolate;  Dean  borrows  an  overcoat 
and  overalls  and  catches  the  next   train  homeward. 


UNIVERSAL. 

ANIMATED  WEEKLY,  NO.  61  (May  7).— The 
Blue  Ribbon  Winners  at  the  Annual  Baby  Show, 
Denver,  Colorado. 

President  Wilson  leaving  the  Capitol — after  his 
first  visit  to  the  United  States  Senate. 

Sailing  on  the  Sand — Fascinating  sport  of  sand- 
yachting  opens  the  season  at  Berck-on-Sea,  England. 

Governor  Colquitt  reviews  the  Texas  State  Troops 
at   Fort  Sam  Houston,   Texas. 

The  Prison  Ship  "Success,"  used  In  the  Eighteenth 
Century,  to  transfer  prisoners  from  England  to  Aus- 
tralia. 

Wheels  of  Commerce— The  lumber  Industry. 

Who's  Who  in  the  Cabinet — Secretary  of  War 
Garrison. 

Aquatic  Sports — Novel  hydroplane  feats  at  the 
annual  government  tests,   Monaco. 

Festival  at  San  Antonio — The  populace  give  them- 
selves up  to  floats  and  flowers  at  their  Season's 
Carnival. 

What's  What  in  New  York — Some  beautiful  statu- 
ary  In  Central   Park. 

Army  Athletes  Race — The  Aldershot  Cross-Country 
Championship  Is  won  by  a  member  of  the  First 
Hampshire  Regiment.    London.    England. 

Eighty  Thousand  Electric  Lights  turned  on  In  the 
largest  office  building  in  the  world  by  President 
Wilson. 

Society  at  Meadowbrook — Society  turned  out  in 
large  numbers  for  the  opening  of  the  racing  season 
at   Meadowbrook,   L.  I. 

The  Last  of  the  Old  Scouts — "Buffalo  Bill"  Cody. 

Knight  Templars  parade  at  Minneapolis,  Minne- 
sota. 

Who's  Who  in  Pictures — King  Babbott  poses  for 
the  Animated  Weekly. 


FRONTIER. 

THE  RANCH  STENOGRAPHER  (May  17).— Lil- 
lian Farly  has  been  somewhat  of  an  invalid  all  her 
life  and  since  tbe  death  of  their  father  and  mother. 
Dorothy,  the  sister,  has  acted  the  part  of  the  little 
mother,  working  as  a  stenographer.  The  Y.  W. 
C.  A.  has  been  Interested  in  her  case  and  they 
assist  when  they  find  it  necessary.  One  morning 
after  Dorothy  has  departed  for  her  dally  work,  Lil- 
lian is  taken  with  a  bad  spell.  The  Y.  W.  O.  A. 
nurse  is  with  her  and  a  doctor  is  called.  He  or- 
ders her  to  New  Mexico  for  pure  air.  It  Is  very 
hard  for  the  sisters  to  part,  but  Dorothy  has  to  stay 
in  the  city  and  work  hard  to  furnish  the  necessi- 
ties  for  Lillian. 

We  next  see  Lillian  on  the  ranch;  her  health  Im- 
proves and  she  falls  in  love  with  one  of  the  boys. 
She  wires  to  Dorothy  that  she  hap  a  serious  heart 
affliction,  but  tells  Dorothy  not  [o  worry.  Dorothy 
misunderstands  the  telegram  fti.d  feels  that  Lil- 
lian must  be  very  sick.  We  ne.s.1  see  her  getting 
off  the  '.rain  In  a  little  town  in  New  Mexico.  She 
inquires  the  way  to  tbe  ranch  rrom  two  cowboys 
who  are  standing  at  the  station:  -he  starts  to 
walk  to  ihe  ranch  and  In  trying  to  $et  through  a 
barbwire  fence  gets  caught.  The  cowboys  decide 
to  have  some  fun:  they  scare  her  almost  to  death 
by  chasing  her  over  the  hills  until  a  manly  cowboy 
comes  to  her  aid.  He  assists  her  to  mount  his 
horse:  she  reaches  the  ranch  Just  In  tlm  eto  see 
her  sister  coming  back  from  the  morning  ride  with 
her  sweetheart.  Explanations  follow.  Dorothy, 
seeing  she  has  been  tricked,  decides  to  go  back  to 
the  city. 

The  two  cowboys,  who  have  fallen  in  love  with 
the  two  sisters,  decide  to  keep  her  there.  One  of 
them  goes  to  the  village,  gets  a  typewriter  and  sets 
her  up  in  business.  All  the  cowboys  of  tbe  ranch 
suddenly  remember  that  they  should  have  written 
many  letters  and  they  crowd  around  awaiting  their 
chance  to  dictate  to  the  pretty  stenographer.  Later 
Dorothy  realizes  she  loves  her  hero  cowboy.  Double 
elopement  to  the  parson's  home  Is  planned. 

The  cowboys  get  onto  the  scheme;  they  decide 
to  show  them  a  trick  or  two.  Just  as  the  couples 
are  coming  out  of  the  minister's  home,  the  boys 
come  np  with  a  carriage,  force  the  newly  married 
couples  In.  They  rush  away  with  them  which  ends 
up  In  riding  the  couples  into  a  river  and  leaving 
them  there  to  get  out  in  the  best  way  they  can. 
This  they  succeed  In  doing  after  getting  a  thor- 
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THE  STAGE  DRIVER'S  CHIVALRY  (May  22).— 
Tint,  the  stage  driver,  has  a  besetting  sin  and 
when  the  boys  press  him  to  take  a  drink  before  go- 
ing ont  on  his  long  trip,  he  consents.  However,  be 
fails  to  stop  with  one  drink  and  before  he  knows  it, 
it  la  time  for  the  stage  to  go.  Fatty,  an  ex-stage 
driver,  knows  what  time  it  is,  and  breaks  away 
from  the  crowd  and  goes  to  the  stage  office.  The 
manager  of  the  line  sends  a  man  in  search  of  Tim, 
and  when  he  cannot  be  found,  gives  Fatty  the  run. 
Tim  comes  to  the  office  too  late,  for  Fatty  has 
driven  ont. 

Losing  the  right  to  welld  the  reins  is  a  bitter 
blow  to  Tim,  for  be  has  been  a  happy-go-lucky 
sort  of  fellow  and  has  little  saved.  Soon  bis  wife 
and  child  are  rednced  to  want.  Meanwhile,  Fatty 
bas  discovered  that  a  government  strong  box  is  to 
be  shipped  on  a  certain  day.  The  prospect  of  easy 
gain  by  holding  up  the  stage  when  the  other  driver 
is  on  it  is  too  much  for  him.  Tim's  dire  strait 
Is  remembered  and  be  writes  a  note  to  him,  asking 
him  to  talk  over  a  plan  for  a  hold-up.  In  the 
shadow  of  great  rocks  he  and  Fatty  perfect  a  plan 
which  necessitates  Tim's  riding  on  the  stage  that 
la  to  be  robbed. 

Next  morning  he  is  seen  getting  on  the  stage  at 
the  station  next  beyond  the  main  office,  in  fact,  at 
the  end  of  his  own  former  run.  In  the  stage  he 
finds  a  girl  who  tells  him  of  a  sad  circumstance 
which  is  calling  her  home.  Her  mother  is  dying 
and  she  wants  to  get  there  as  quickly  as  possible. 
This  brings  about  a  conflict  In  Tim.  His  better 
nature  and  bis  natural  chivalry  urge  that  he  help 
the  girl,  bnt  his  own  needs  protest  that  he  had 
better  carry  out  the  plan  made  by  himself  and 
Patty. 

The  best  side  of  him  wins,  and  he  climbs  through 
the  window  to  the  top  of  the  coach.  There  he 
forces  the  driver  and  shotgun  messenger  to  dis- 
mount, and  he  drives  on.  Fatty  is  waiting  for  the 
stage  down  the  road,  but  Tim  drives  it  another  way. 
Fatty  pursues  him  and  a  mad  race,  Tim,  driving 
with  one  hand  and  shooting  with  the  other  ensues. 
Tim  almost  comes  to  grief,  but  manages  to  keep  the 
stage  right  side  up  and  gets  to  the  town  where  be 
and  the  girl  live.  He  drives  past  the  stage  station, 
the  manager  sees  him  on  the  box,  and  another  pur- 
suit is  commenced.  Tim  stops  at  the  girl's  home, 
and  she  enters  in  time  to  see  her  mother  alive. 

Then  the  manager  catches  up  with  him  and  he 
goes  to  jail.  A  trial  frees  him,  and  the  manager 
gives  him  back  his  place,  bis  explanation  having 
proven  satisfactory  and  Fatty  having  been  dis- 
posed of  by  a  fall  sustained  in  the  running  battle 
with  Tim. 


POWERS. 

BLACK  JACK' S  ATONEMENT  (May  23)  .—A 
sailor  returns  home  from  a  voyage  and  Is  met  by 
a  letter  telling  him  to  hurry,  for  there  la  a  new 
baby  to  be  seen  and  a  Bick  wife  to  be  cheered  up. 
His  companions  insist  upon  drinking  to  the  new- 
comer's health  and  in  spite  of  his  protests  the 
sailor  Is  forced  to  Join  them.  Unused  to  liquor, 
the  fumes  enter  his  head  and  the  seamen  leave  the 
young  fellow  sleeping.  A  schooner  Is  short  of  men 
and  a  professional  shanghaier  sees  the  sailor,  and 
getting  him  into  an  inner  room,  opens  a  trap  and 
drops  him  into  the  waiting  boat  and  takes  him 
aboard  the  schooner.  In  the  meantime  the  poor 
wife,  unable  to  work,  grieves  over  bis  non-arrival 
and  worries,  while  the  little  lame  boy  goes  out  and 
sells  newspapers  to  hold  the  home  together  and  get 
enough    to    eat. 

The  shanghaier  returns  and  while  fingering  the 
gold  earned  by  his  nefarious  transaction  is  asked  to 
buy  a  paper  by  a  little  lame  boy.  The  man's  one 
sensitive  spot  is  children.  He  asks  the  boy  why 
he  la  selling  papers  and  learns  all  about  the  sick 
mother  and  the  new  baby.  He  asks  the  boy's  name 
and  starts  as  he  hears  it,  and  takes  the  papers  from 
his  pocket  which  he  took  from  the  sailor.  He 
reads  the  pathetic  letter  and  the  right  chord  Is 
touched.  He  tells  the  boy  to  go  home  and  inform 
his  mother  that  father  will  be  there  soon.  He 
also  gives  the  boy  some  money  and  Bends  the  little 
fellow  away  with  a  glad  heart. 

Stirred  to  action  (for  the  schooner  is  departing), 
the  man,  with  new  resolutions  in  his  heart,  searches 
for  a  launch  and  overtakes  the  schooner.  He  gets 
aboard,  and,  offering  the  money  back  to  the  captain 
and  making  an  explanation,  be  asks  for  the  return 
of  the  sailor.  The  captain  laughs  at  him.  The 
sailor  comes  up — there  is  a  desperate  fight  and  the 
two  men  go  overboard,  the  crook  being  badly  wound- 
ed. They  are  picked  up  by  the  launch  and  the 
sailor  takes  the  wonnded  man  home  with  him.  Jack 
leaves  the  money  paid  him  by  the  sea-captain  on 
the  table,  and  goes  out  wounded  and  alone  a  better 
man,  determined  to  give  up  the  nefarious  trade 
forever. 


IMP. 

THE  TWINS  (May  19). — Jfrs.  Tom  Tucker  ex- 
tracts ten  dollars  from  her  hobby's  pocket  while  he 
Is  peacefully  slumbering.  Later  unknown  to  Tom, 
his  twin  brother,  Paul,  and  his  wife,  sub-let  an 
apartment  across  the  hall.  The  likeness  is  so 
great,  that  the  wives  continually  mistake  the  wrong 
man  for  their  own  husbands.  This  leads  to  a  series 
of  complications,  and  nearly  canses  a  double  di- 
vorce, but  which  1b  Anally  averted  by  tiie  meeting 
of  the  two  families. 


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SHE  NEVER  KNEW  (May  22).— Hector  Aloscourt 
was  idolized  by  bis  old  mother.  She  had  not  seen 
him  for  a  long  time,  but  he  bad  never  failed  to 
write.  His  last  letter  was  penned  under  extraordi- 
nary circumstances  and  although  it  was  dated  from 
a  hospital  where  he  informed  her  be  was  convalesc- 
ing after  a  slight  illness.  The  truth  was  that  he 
was  an  inmate  of  the  death  cell  and  the  day  set 
for  his  execution  was  not  far  distant. 

The  Immediate  members  of  bis  family  knew  of 
bU  crime  and  the  sentence,  but  all  bad  agreed  to 
spare  no  pains  to  keep  the  dear  old  lady  in  ignor- 
ance. As  she  fondled  the  relics  of  his  innocent  boy- 
hood, her  kind  old  face  glowed  with  pride  as  she 
thought  of  her  noble  and  handsome  son  and  of 
bow  well  he  was  getting  along  in  the  world. 

She  was  very  feeble  and  the  doctor  bad  warned 
them  that  her  death  was  not  far  distant.  Aa  the 
day  of  the  extcutior  advanced  the  unfortunate  son 
wept  bitter  and  unavailing  tears  as  he  thought  of 
he**. 

The  fatal  bcur  arrived  and  as  he  was  led  toward 
the  little  green  t'oor  the  spirit  of  the  old  mother 
whose  great  love  km*w  no  bounds  passed  away.  She 
never  knew. 


VICTOR. 

GOOD  FOR  EVIL  (May  23). — A  toymaker  engages 
a  young  girl  to  work  as  a  servant,  she  is  little 
more  than  a  child.  The  toymaker  Is  very  harsh 
to  her  and  to  his  son,  forbidding  them  to  touch  the 
toys,  which  they  love. 

The  slavey  and  the  boy  are  sent  to  deliver  some 
toys.  The  boy  loses  the  money  he  has  collected 
for  them.  On  his  return  the  father  beats  him,  and 
discharges    the    slavey. 

A  kind-hearted  woman,  a  customer  of  the  toy- 
maker,  takes  the  slavey  home,  and  there  with  her 
benefactress's  little  daughter,  the  girl  is  very  happy. 

The  toymaker  falls  HI,  and  bis  son  comes  to  the 
rich  home  and  gets  the  slavey  to  return  with  him 
and  nurse  his  father.  The  old  man  becomes  con- 
valescent. The  rich  woman  goes  to  the  shop  to 
take  the  girl  back  home.  The  slavey  turns  to  the 
father  and  son  and  asks  them  if  they  wish  her  to 
remain.  They  eagerly  say  "yes"  and  the  girl  de- 
cides to  stay  with  her  poor  friends.  Touched  by 
their  sacrifice  the  toymaker's  nature  changes  and 
he  treats  the  children  affectionately  and  generously. 


CRYSTAL. 

TOODLEUMS  (May  25). — Chester  is  in  love  with 
Pearl.  Pearl  is  very  fond  of  Mm  bnt  spends  most 
of  her  time  fondling  and  caressing  Toodleums,  her 
wee  little  dog.  Chester  bas  absolutely  no  use  for 
Toodleums  and  is  insanely  jealous  of  him.  He 
visits  Pearl  and  she  persists  in  paying  more  atten- 
tion to  the  dog  than  she  does  to  him.  Chester  con- 
spires to  get  rid  of  Toodleums  and  hires  a  tough 
to  steal  him.  The  tough  lies  in  wait  outside  of 
Pearl's  home  and  at  the  first  opportunity  he  steals 
Toodleums.  He  runs  away  and  sells  him  to  a 
stranger  for  $1.  The  stranger  afterwards  meets 
Chester  and  Pearl  and  Chester  claims  Toodleums  and 
demands  his  return.  This  the  stranger  refuses  un- 
til he  is  paid  $30.  Pearl  compels  Chester  to  pay 
this  amount  despite  Chester's  protestations.  Mean- 
while the  tough  who  had  stolen  the  dog  anxiously 
awaits  his  pay  and  demands  payment.  Chester  re- 
fuses and  the  tough't  vows  vengeance.  He  decides 
to  tell  Pearl  that  Chester  put  him  up  to  steal 
Toodleums  and  Pearl  confronts  Chester  with  this 
information.  Chester,  of  course,  denies  it,  but  the 
tough  appears  and  he  cannot  deny  it;  Pearl  orders 
him  from  the  house  and  he  leaves  lamenting  his  loss 
of  both  the  girl  and  the  $30. 

SUPPER  FOR  THREE  (May  25).—  Wilklns  loses 
his  pay  envelope.  He  comes  home,  and  bis  wife, 
who  is  a  shrew,  refuses  to  believe  him.  She  refuses 
to  give  him  anything  to  eat  and  orders  him  from 
the  house.  Wilklns,  disconsolate  goes  to  the  home 
of  two  of  his  friends,  who  are  actors,  out  of  work. 
They  suggest  a  scheme  whereby  they  can  all  get  a 
meal.  The  actors  get  out  their  trunks  and  one 
dresses  as  a  woman,  and  the  other  as  a  prosperous 
gentleman,  and  give  Wilklns  a  high  hat.  They 
then  go  to  a  restaurant  and  have  their  fill.  The 
proprietor  Judges  that  his  patrons  are  prosperous 
and  never  imagines  that  bis  bill  will  not  be  paid. 
However,  they  ask  him  for  their  check,  the  actor 
who  Is  masquerading  as  a  millionaire  pretends  to 
faint,  and  the  proprietor  goes  out  to  have  a  police- 
man call  an  ambulance.  The  plot  is  to  run  out 
while  the  restraunteur  is  calling  help.  However,  Wil- 
klns' wife  sees  her  husband  with  a  supposed  woman. 
She  rushes  in  and  immediately  starts  breaking 
things  up.  She  tears  the  actors  bat  off  together 
with  his  wig  and  then  takes  Wilklns  home,  there 
to  treat  with  him  more  dispatch.  The  proprietor 
returns  with  an  officer  and  the  two  actors  are  ar- 
rested,  being  unable   to  make  the  damage  good. 

REX. 

THE  TRIFLER  (May  25).— Thomas  Lloyd  writes 
to  Mrs.  Willis,  an  old  friend  living  In  a  small  vil- 
lage, that  he  bas  an  opening  In  his  city  office  for 
one  of  her  two  sons.  Botb  Ed  and  Joe  are  in  love 
with  Ellen,  a  village  belle.  Bd  goes  to  the  city 
and  Joe  stays  on  the  farm.  This  displeases  Ellen, 
for  she  wants  Joe,  and  also  wants  to  live  In  the 
city.  Ed  becomes  interested  in  Flossy,  of  his  board- 
ing house.  She  makes  him  spend  freely  and  he 
steals    from    bis    employer.     His    employer    finds    it 


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Coast!  The  following  territory  sold:  Washington,  Oregon,  California,  Arizona, 
Idaho,  Montana,  Massachusetts,  British  Columbia.  Negotiations  now  on  for 
other  territory.  As  it  is  making  good  on  the  Coast,  what  ought  it  to  do  in 
the  East  ?  Why  not  wire  at  once  ?  See  description  and  prices  of  territory 
in  previous  ads.     Time  of  State  rights  runs  two  years. 

WANTED:  Road  Show  Managers  for  some  of  our  remaining  territory,  sup- 
ported by  consistent  trade  advertising.  Percentage  basis  with  option  to  buy, 
if  desired.  *  State  your  qualifications  and  experience. 

EXHIBITORS :  We  receive  numerous  inquiries  for  booking  and  shall  for- 
ward same  to  territory  managers.  While  we  can  hardly  answer  all  inquiries 
personally,  we  wish  to  assure  you  that  they  will  be  taken  care  of  promptly. 

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TUESDAY,  MAY  13th 

"My  Lady's  Boot" 

A  romance  of  the  Civil 
War,  in  which  love  and 
strife  are  strangely  mixed 
at  General  Lee's  Head- 
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out,  but  won't  prosecute  him  on  account  of  bis 
mother.  He  makes  Ed  go  borne  and  Flossy  throws 
him  over.  Ed  is  welcomed  borne  by  Ellen,  who 
tells  blm  that  she  has  broken  her  engagement  to 
Joe.  Lloyd  has  come  to  the  village  and  these  three 
overhear  him  telling  Mrs.  Willis  of  her  son's  dis- 
honesty. Lloyd  then  offers  to  give  the  widows 
other  son   a   chance. 

Joe  goes  in  search  of  Ellen  and  finds  her  at  their 
old  trystlng  place — the  old  hollow  tree — where, 
after  a  pretty  little  love  scene,  Ellen  and  Joe  forget 
all  their  differences,  happy  with  the  thoughts  of  their 
furore. 


ECLAIR. 

THE  BEWITCHED  MATCHES  (May  4).— There  is 
a  little  plot  to  this  subject,  and  the  beginning  shows 
how  the  old  fortune-teller  took  her  revenge  on  the 
old  German,  who  refused  to  allow  bis  daughters  to 
have  their  fortunes  told,  by  bewitching  the  matches, 
with  which  he  tries  to  light  his  pipe.  And  then  the 
matches  do  some  unusual  things.  The  matches, 
when  they  start  their  antics,  do  some  very  amus- 
ing and  seemingly  quite  human  tricks.  One  of  them 
even  walks  a  tight  rope  and  stands  on  his  head 
on  It 


MUTUAL  FILM  CORPORA 
TION. 

AMERICAN. 

HEH  INNOCENT  MARRIAGE  (May  19).— Bessie 
married  Bob  Evans  with  her  eyes  shut.  That  is  to 
say  Bessie  loved  an  idol,  a  very  perishable  clay 
idol  much  addicted  to  the  use  of  liquor.  Shortly 
after  their  marriage,  Bob  came  home  reeling  drunk. 
Bessie  tried  in  vain  to  break  him  but,  with  the 
further  use  of  the  poison,  Bob  fell  into  evil  ways, 
returned  home  but  seldom  and  then  only  to  mal- 
treat and  abuse  her.  A  day  came  when  Bessie 
could  no  longer  stand  the  strain;  so  she  packed 
her  small  belongings  and  dolefully  went  forth  to 
seek  new  joys  in  new  fields.  Bob,  coming  home 
quite  drunk,  found  the  house  locked  and  drifted 
away  with   the   oddities  of  Fate. 

Tired,  Bessie  sat  down  upon  a  rock.  Will  Wayne, 
riding  slowly  down  the  road  saw  her,  stopped  and 
bearing  her  story  took  her  home.  Old  man  Wayne 
and  Will's  mother  kept  her  for  several  weeks  and 
Will  grew  to  love  her  dearly.  But  independent 
Bessie  thought  the  time  had  come  to  leave  and  was 
only  dissuaded  by  the  urgent  request  of  the  whole 
family. 

Two  years  later,  Bessie  found  the  morning  paper 
on  the  stoop.  It's  first  page  contained  the  story  of 
a  railroad  wreck  and  among  the  slain  was  Bob. 
A  year  later  Bessie  married  Will  and  the  young 
people  moved  to  Will's  new  home  and  were  happy. 
Riding  through  the  mountains  one  day,  Will  came 
across  Bob  Evans,  very  much  alive,  quite  sick  and 
quite  dirty.  Not  knowing  him  he  took  blm  home. 
Between  Bob  and  Bessie  there  was  Instant  trou- 
ble. Will  started  to  interfere  and  a  scuffle  fol- 
lowed. Will  dropped  dead  with  a  bullet  through 
him.  The  cowboys  then  found  the  slayer  creeping 
through  the  hills  and  ended  a  career  that  had  wreck- 
ed the  life  and  happiness  of  Bessie. 

CALAMITY  ANNE  PARCEL  POST  (May  22) 

Calamity  Anne  rose  from  her  bed  of  straw  In  the 
barn  and  sighed  dismally.  Then  she  woke  Wood- 
row,  her  partner,  the  burro  and  both  sallied  forth 
in    search   of   adventure. 

At  the  same  time  the  "most  Important  man  in 
town"  rose  and  went  to  bis  place  of  business.  He 
hnng  out  his  shingles  one  after  the  other.  Some  of 
them  read  "Sheriff,"  "Justice  of  the  Peace,"  "Gen- 
eral Store,"  "Physician  and  Surgeon,"  "Lawyer" 
and  plain  "Merchant"  and  "Postmaster."  That 
morning  the  "important  one"  received  official  au- 
thority to  hire  a  parcels  post  carrier. 

Frightful  experiences  awaited  Calamity.  A  negro 
baby,  must  be  delivered  without  address.  Calamity 
forced  it  on  the  unhappy  "Important  one"  who 
rushed  wildly  home  with  it.  A  rooster  formed  an- 
other barrier  to  Calamity's  happiness,  for  how  can 
one  lead  a  burro  and  a  rooster  too?  But  better 
things  awaited  Calamity.  The  town  had  long  been 
terrorised  by  the  Meanest  Man  until  a  $1,000  re- 
ward was  offered  for  his  capture.  Now  the  meanest 
man  was  tired  and  through  the  Influence  of  Calam- 
ity's gnardlan  angel  he  songht  Calamity's  own  barn 
to  rest.  Then  the  rooster  got  away  from  Calamity 
and  with  her  madly  after  it,  sought  refuge  In 
Calamity's  hay-mow.  Result — Calamity's  gun  was 
out  and  the  meanest  man  In  her  care  directly.  With 
a  rope  around  his  leg,  a  rope  around  the  chicken's 
leg,  and  a  rope  by  which  she  led  her  burro,  Cal- 
amity made  her  appearance  before  the  boys  and  the 
sheriff. 

And  now  that  the  "Important  one"  handed  the 
J1.000  to  Calamity  It  became  his  fine  esthetic  sense 
to  hand  the  poor  motherless  negro  baby  to  her.  This 
he  did  and  fled  rapidly  from  the  range  of  Cal- 
amity's six-shooter. 

THE  MODERN  SNAKE   (May  24) When  Ralph 

married  pretty  Jane  Hathaway,  all  the  boys  started 
a  commotion  to  make  Ralph  sheriff  for  the  present 
Incumbent  of  the  office  was  growing  dally  more  lax 
in  his  duties. 

This  came  to  pass  and  amid  the  cheers  of  Ralph's 
friends  and  the  scowla  of  Ben  Baldwlck,  the  de- 
posed sheriff. 


Scarcely  bad  he  taken  office  when  Ben  put  up  a 
Job  on  blm.  Passing  through  the  hills  with  the 
new  sheriff  was  James  Hartwell,  a  well  known 
resident  of  the  little  town.  The  new  sheriff  could 
find  no  trace  of  the  would-be  murderer  and  in  the 
■  lays  that  followed  all  the  town  lost  confidence  in 
the  new  sheriff,  but  bis  wife.  Jane  had  an  idea 
and  a  suspicion.  Site  plotted  with  Ralph  and  the 
result  of  the  plot  was  the  spreading  of  a  report 
that  James  had  died  of  the  shot  and  his  body  would 
be  carried  through  town.  This  was  done  in  a  rig, 
the  body  covered  by  a  blanket  lvlng  In  the  back' 
Ben  Baldwlck.  ex-sheriff,  staggered  against  the 
saloon  door  when  he  saw  the  result  of  his  trick  to 
[It   the  new  sheriff. 

A  week  later  at  ten  a.  m..  when  Ralph  with 
several  friends  and  Ben  hung  around  the  office  the 
telephone  rang.  Ralph  answered  it  and  called  to 
Ben  that  he  was  wanted  at  the  'phone.  Ben  an- 
gered wondering.  Then  he  staggered  back  death- 
ly white  as  a  voice  over  the  wire  called  to  him 
Hello,  Ben.  This  is  Jim  whom  vou  killed  two 
weeks   ago." 

The  effect  was  paralizing.  Ben  turned  and  fled 
through  a  window.  The  sheriff  and  a  posse  quicklv 
mounted  horses  and  gave  chase.  Others  headed 
Ben  off  and  seeing  the  jig  was  up.  he  threw  his 
hands  in  the  air.  confessed  the  deed  and  the 
sheriff's  honor  among  men  was  restored   to  him 


RELIANCE. 

THE  ETERNAL  SACRIFICE  (May  12).— Xan  a 
girl  who  has  grown  op  in  a  den  of  thieves,  runs 
away  to  avoid  the  attentions  of  the  leader  Tonv 
She  seeks  the  country  and  falls  fainting  at  the 
door  of  a  fashionable  residence.  Its  voung  owner 
Margaret  Lyle.  takes  her  in  and  after  she  is  re- 
stored to  health,  makes  her  a  servant  in  the 
household.  Margaret  is  engaged  to  Arthur  Ellis 
who,  day  by  day,  finds  his  thoughts  turning  to 
the  pretty  little  witch  of  the  slums.  He  is  the 
only  man  who  has  ever  been  kind  to  her  and 
her  heart  goes  out  to  him.  Then,  one  day  realizing 
that  this  is  not  loyal  to  her  benefactor,  she  runs 
away— back  to  the  old  life.  Tony  plans  to  rob 
Margaret's  house:  the  girl  cannot  dissuade  him, 
but  she  refuses  her  help.  They  set  out  after  lock- 
ing her  np.  She  breaks  the  window  and.  jumping 
into  a  taxi,  rushes  to  the  house  with  two  police- 
men. They  arrive  In  time  to  prevent  the  burglary 
and  Nan.  Jumping  In  front  of  the  other  girl,  re- 
ceives Tony's  bullet   and  dies. 

THE  BIG  BOSS  (2  parts— May  14).— Bascom, 
very  worried  about  business,  decides  to  apply  to 
Morgan,  the  big  boss,  for  help.  Morgan  offers  to 
throw  the  Aqueduct  Contract  in  his  way  if  he 
will  influence  his  young  daughter,  Nell,  to  marrv 
him.  Bascom  agrees — but  later  finds  that  Nell 
has  engaged  herself  to  Dick,  a  young  reporter, 
and  will  have  nothing  to  do  with  the  boss.  Mor- 
gan, furious,  tells  Bascom  that  now  he  will  be 
ruined,  indeed.  By  accident,  Dick  wanders  Into 
an  East  Side  saloon  where  in  a  private  room,  the 
boss    meets    his   constituents. 

Dick  overhears  Morgan  telling  Hart,  contractor, 
to  meet  him  in  the  saloon  at  nine  sharp  as  he  is 
going  to  open  all  bids  submitted  so  that  Hart 
may  make  his  lower  than  the  others.  Dick  rushes 
back  to  his  editor  and  tells  him  that  he  can  se- 
cure a  great  graft  story — but  bow.  They  hit  upon 
the  dictagraph.  Dick  plants  It  In  the  saloon  and 
that  night  at  nine  Is  busy  In  a  little  upstairs  room 
with  the  receiver  at  his  ear  busily  Jotting  down 
notes.  Nell  is  with  him.  The  bids  are  brought 
to  the  boss  by  the  commissioner's  clerk — one  of 
his    henchmen. 

Bascom's  bid  is  discovered  to  be  the  lowest  of 
all  and  just  as  Hart  Is  about  to  reduce  his — the 
dictagraph  wires  are  discovered  and  the  boss 
dashes  upstairs.  Jumping  upon  Dick,  be  almost 
kills  him  when  Bascom  enters  and  saves  the  young 
chap's  life.  He  takes  the  two  young  folks  home 
and  Dick  is  preparing  his  article  for"  the  press  when 
the  boss,  who  has  experienced  a  change  of  heart, 
enters  and  tells  Bascom  that  his  bid  will  get  the 
contract.  Nell  thanks  him  and  Dick,  for  her  sake 
flings  his   "graft  scandal"   story   into  the  Are. 


MAJESTIC. 

BILLY'S  NEW  WATCH  (May  11).— Philip  Rand 
on  the  way  home  from  a  dance,  where  he  has  met 
and  fallen  in  love  with  Marion  Lang,  Is  Jostled  by 
an  unknown  man  and  upon  recovering  his  balance 
flnds  his  watch  Is  missing.  He  Immediately  gives 
pursuit  and  overtaking  his  assailant  grabs  him 
suddenly  from  the  rear  and  demands  the  watch. 
It  Is  handed  over  to  him.  He  pockets  it  and  con- 
tinues on  to  his  home.  Upon  his  arrival  there  he 
flnds  to  his  amazement  that  his  own  watch  Is 
lying  on  the  dresser  where  he  had  left  It.  He 
has  unconsciously  become  a  highway  robber. 
Luckily  the  watch  he  had  taken  from  the  stranger 
bears  Its  owner's  name  on  the  case  and  he  realizes 
that  the  only  thing  to  do  Is  to  return  it  without 
delay  and  explain  the  unfortunate  mistake.  In  the 
meantime,  the  man  who  has  been  robbed,  has  ap- 
pealed to  the  first  policeman  he  meets  and  told 
his  story.  Pursuit  Is  started  and  Philip  tracked  to 
his  rooms.  Hearing  the  cry  from  his  window  and 
realizing  the  difficulty  of  making  an  explanation 
during  the  excitement,  Philip  escapes  by  the  fire 
escape  as  the  officers  break  Into  his  room.  They 
follow  him  to  the  roof  top — he  finally  eluding  them 


by  ducking  down  an  open  sky-light.  lie  goes  to 
the  nearest  drug  store  and  looks  up  the  address 
of  the  owner  of  the  watch  and  goes  there  at  once 
to  expluin  his  position.  To  his  surprise  the  door  is 
opened  by  the  girl  of  the  dance  aud  he  learns 
that  he  has  robbed  her  uncle.  Her  uncle  returns 
irate   and    Philip    is    hidden    until    -  ;  .ased 

him— though  at  first  sight  he  wants  to  ring  for 
the  police.  Donaldson's  humor  is  anally  aroused 
aud  the  unfortunate  mistake  proves  to  have  had 
a  fortunate  side,  for  Marion  has  revealed  her  in- 
terest iu  Philip  during  the  mix-up  and  he  parts 
from  her  with  every  indication  that  wedding  hells 
loon    chime. 

MY  LADY'S  BOOT  (May  13  .—  During  the  Civil 
War,  young  Lieutenant  Grabam  from  the  North 
is  housed  with  his  men  in  the  Southern  home  of 
Virginia  Fairmont.  She  hates  him  as  she  does  all 
Yankees,  despite  his  consideration  and  courtesy. 
One  day  a  peddler  comes  to  her  home.  He  is  her 
brother  Randolph,  a  Confeedrate  spy.  He  mai 
to  give  her  a  note  which  must  be  conveyed  to 
General  Lee  before  sunrise.  Virginia,  who  has 
been  permitted  to  ride  wherever  she  pleass.  starts 
off.  At  the  turn  in  the  road  she  manages  to  slip 
the  message  into  her  boot.  Graham  sees  this,  fol- 
lows and  demands  to  know  what  it  is.  She  holds 
out  the  wrong  foot  and  as  he  pulls  eff  ti  e  boot 
she  rides  away.  She  delivers  ber  message  to  Gen- 
eral Lee  safely  and  the  Confederate  Army  is  thus 
enabled  to  make  an  advantageous  move.  After 
the  war.  young  Graham  calls  upon  Virginia  1'iir- 
uioot  to  return  her  boot,  and  takes  her  heart  in 
exchange. 


THANHOUSER. 

BARRED  FROM  THE  MAILS  (May  11).— The 
young  matron  lived  in  the  Bronx,  did  her  own 
housework,  had  a  baby  to  look  after,  but  still 
found  a  way  to  enjoy  a  day's  uninterrupted  shop- 
ping. She  sent  ber  baby,  by  parcels  post  to  her 
mother  in  Jersey  City,  meaning  to  drift  ovfcr  there 
in  the  evening,  have  dinner  and  reclaim  the  child. 
It  was  a  very  Ingenious  plan,  and  because  the  let- 
ter man  whom  she  accosted  on  the  street  was  a 
new  member  of  the  service,  she  induced  him  to 
take  the  baby.  Then  she  went  cheerily  on  her 
way. 

The  letter  carrier  had  his  own  troubles  with  the 
baby,  but  be  got  it  to  the  post  office  and  turned 
the  youngster  over  to  the  superior.  He  found 
to  his  sorrow,  bowever,  that  "live  animals"  could 
not  be  sent  through  the  malls,  and  the  package 
was  restored  to  him.  neatly  marked  "returned 
to  sender."  Under  orders  he  tearfully  located  the 
woman's  house,  but  the  place  was  locked,  and 
there  was  no  one  in  sight  to  accept  the  unwelcome 
package.  The  postman  tried  to  leave  it  on  the 
doorstep,  but  a  stern  policeman  convinced  him  he 
was  wrong,  so  again  he  wandered  back  to  the 
post    office. 

By  this  time  tbe  mother  had  discovered  that 
there  was  something  wrong  with  the  parcels  post, 
for  her  baby  had  not  arrived  in  Jersey  City.  She 
made  frantic  search,  finally  heard  the  policeman's 
story  and  rushes  around  to  the  post  office  Just  in 
time  to  save  the  little  one  from  a  Jonrney  to  the 
dead  letter   office. 

Any  postal  official  who  religiously  lives  up  to 
the  rules  will  tell  you  that  this  is  exactly  what 
would  happen  when  a  "live  animal"  barred  from 
the  mails  Is  turned  in  and  the  owner  thereof  can- 
not  be    located. 

THE  MARBLE  HEART  (2  parts— May  13).— 
Outside  the  door  of  the  home  of  a  sculptor  and 
his  mother,  fell  a  poor,  friendless  young  girl. 
They  took  the  girl  in  and  cared  for  her,  and  as 
time  went  on  the  mother  began  to  regard  her  as 
her  daughter.  The  son  regarded  the  affectionate 
advances  of  the  girl  with  only  brotherly  love. 
But  there  came  a  time  when  tbe  misgivings  of  the 
son  changed,  for  he  began  to  pay  scant  attentions 
to  a  young  beauty  he  met  at  a  reception  and  who 
was  characterized  as  a  woman  with  a  heart  "cold 
as  marble."  This  piqued  the  bueaty,  who  was  ac- 
customed to  abject  adulation.  She  determined  to 
bring  him  to  her  feet  and  In  this  she  succeeded. 
She  offered  to  pose  for  him,  and,  spurred  on  by 
such  a  splendid  model  and  her  praises,  he  produced 
a  figure  which  was  acclaimed  by  all  the  critics 
as  a  masterpiece.  With  fame  thus  attained  he 
neglected  his  borne  and  spent  all  his  time  wooing 
the  beauty,  who  was  cold  and  impassive  as  the 
statue.  The  sculptor  was  warned  by  an  editor 
friend  that  tbe  beauty  did  not  care  for  him  and 
that  he  would  meet  the  fate  of  her  other  ad- 
mirers. 

The  sculptor,  disbelieving  his  friend's  warning, 
fell  asleep  and  dreamed  that  he  was  a  sculptor  in 
ancient  Athens  when  Diogenes,  the  philosopher, 
lived.  He  had  created  a  beautiful  statue  for  a 
rich  man,  and  having  failed  in  love  with  his  work, 
he  was  loathe  the  part  with  it  when  the  rich 
man  came  to  claim  it.  The  rich  man  then  ordered 
the  soldiers  to  carry  the  statue  away,  and  they 
were  on  the  point  of  doing  so  when  Diogenes  ap- 
peared and  told  them  that  the  statue  should  de- 
cide who  the  owner  would  be.  The  sculptor  pre- 
sented his  case,  pleading  great  love,  which  the 
statue  paid  no  heed  to;  then  the  rich  man  dis- 
played Jewels  and  money,  and  immediately  tbe 
statue  extended  its  arms  to  him.  Tbe  sculptor 
then  awoke  and  found  that  It  was  only  a  dream. 

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be  found  that  she  bad  pledged  herself  to  another. 
This  drove  him  frantic,  and,  rushing  to  bis  studio, 
b«  smashed  the  statue  and  fell  dying  on  the  floor, 
where  be  was  found  by  the  beauty  and  the  friend. 
The  latter  indignantly  ordered  the  beauty  from 
the    borne   she   had   wrecked. 


KAY-BEE. 

THE  MISER  (2  parts^-May  23).— That  he  may 
Dot  have  to  care  for  the  daughter  of  his  deceased 
sod,  Jim  Beadles,  a  wealthy  bachelor  aDd  ranch- 
man, signs  a  five-year  contract  with  a  neighbor, 
Jonh  Roach,  for  her  services.  But  great  Is  the 
surprise  of  all  when  she  arrives,  a  little  tot, 
and,  unable  to  break  the  contract,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Roach  take  the-  child.  One  day,  a  month  or  so 
after.  Beadles  Is  taken  down  with  the  gout,  and 
the  minister  tells  the  Roach  family  of  bis  neigh- 
bor's condition.  They  give  him  scant  sympathy, 
but  little  Mildred's  heart  is  touched  and  she  does 
many  kind  acts  for  tbe  afflicted  man,  thereby  in- 
gratiating herself  into  his  good  graces.  She  likes 
to  stay  with  Beadles,  and  a  dramatic  scene  takes 
place  when  Roach  calls  Beadle's  attention  to  the 
contract.  Mildred,  however,  manages  to  make  se- 
cret calls  upon  Beadles.  Bud  Sloan,  whose  father 
won  bis  bride  away  from  Beadles,  and  Mildred 
become  friends.  These  men  have  several  scraps, 
and  Mildred  scolds  her  grandfather.  Old  Beadles' 
heart  is  bo  far  touched  by  Mildred's  good  nature 
that  he  buys  her  a  new  hat  and  writes  her  to 
come  for  it  But  before  she  arrives  he  is  at- 
tacked by  the  band  of  Wiggings,  an  Indian  tenant 
of  his,  evicted  on  account  of  being  In  arrears  in 
bis  rent,  and  is  brought  to  the  village  in  an  un- 
conscious condition.  In  the  meantime,  Mildred 
comes  to  the  house  and,  finding  an  Indian  arrow 
and  horse  tracks,  she  goes  to  Bud  Sloan  with  her 
suspicions.  Bud  Informs  the  ranch  hands  and  they 
go  to  the  Indian  village  and  flght  the  redmen. 
They  are  In  a  serious  position  when  the  troops 
come  up  and  turn  the  tide.  During  the  battle 
Beadles  is  hit  by  a  bullet,  and  just  before  he  dies, 
writes  a   will,    leaving  all  to  Mildred. 


BRONCHO 

THE  8EA  DOG  (2  parts— Kay  21).— Old  Jabez 
Blunt,  a  retired  sea  captain,  has  fitted  up  a  house 
like  a  ship,  and  lives  with  his  faithful  old  mate. 
Bill  Sqneers.  The  rough  old  men  are  always  quarel- 
ling,  while  holding  a  deep  affection  for  each 
other.  Blum's  daughter,  whom  he  has  not  seen 
for  many  years,  has  married  a  minister,  and  she 
has  a  little  boy.  The  Rev.  Clayton  has  been  doing 
missionary  work  In  China,  and  secures  tbe  pulpit 
In  Blunt'a  town.  Blunt  is  overjoyed  to  receive  a 
letter  from  Alice,  telling  him  she  is  coming.  The 
minister  does  not  understand  the  old  sailor,  and 
does  not  approve  of  his  manners  and  language. 
The  boy,  however,  falls  in  love  with  his  grand- 
dad, and  the  two  become  chums.  Clayton  tries  to 
persuade  Alice  to  keep  the  boy  away,  but  seeing 
that  it  pains  her  to  think  of  breaking  up  the 
friendship  between  her  father  and  their  son,  he 
doeB  not  mention  the  matter  again  until  one  day 
the  child  comes  running  into  the  house  as  a  church 
committee  1b  being  entertained,  carrying  a  pull 
of  clams,  which  he  triumphantly  says:  "Are 
damn  good  eating,    for  Grand-dad  says   so." 

There  is  Instant  consternation.  Alice  is  humil- 
iated before  her  guests,  and  the  minister  decides 
to  take  a  firm  stand.  It  is  planned  to  send  the 
boy  away  to  Clayton's  mother  for  a  while,  so 
the  old  man's  feelings  will  not  be  hurt.  The  boy, 
however,  bears  the  talk  and  rushes  to  Blunt  and 
tearfully  tells  him  the  whole  story.  Blunt's  pride 
is  touched,  and  he  decides  to  go  away  and  study 
etiquette.  Amusing  scenes  are  shown  of  Blnnt 
and  Sqneers.  Little  Jim  worrieB  his  head  about 
hie  grand-dad,  and  is  taken  violently  HI.  In  his 
delirium  he  keeps  calling  for  the  old  man,  and 
Clayton  is  compelled  to  telegraph  Blunt,  pleading 
with  him  to  make  all  baste  home.  The  crisis  In 
the  boy's  condition  is  approaching  as  Blunt  comes 
Into  tbe  room  and  drops  at  the  bedside  with  tears 
streaming  down  his  face.  The  little  eyes  open 
slowly  and  look  blankly  aronnd  till  they  spy  the 
face  of  the  old  man.  With  a  scream  of  Joy  the 
little  arms  are  clasped  about  Blunt's  neck — and 
the  child's   life   la   saved. 


KEYSTONE. . 

HUBBY'S  JOB  (May  19).— Hubby  is  out  of  work, 
and  wifey  is  working  as  a  stenographer,  posing  as  a 
single  woman,  in  an  employment  agency.  The 
boss  is  in  love  with  the  pretty  typist.  He  tells 
her  he  wants  a  man  right  away,  and  she  tele- 
phones her  husband  to  come  down.  He  gets  the 
Job,  wbich  is  that  of  porter.  While  hubby  sweeps 
the  floors  and  cleans  the  cuspidors,  the  boss  is  hold- 
ing wifey's  hand  in  the  private  office.  Another 
suitor,  who,  also,  does  not  know  the  stenographer 
ia  married,  tries  to  see  her  and  Is  kicked  ont  by 
the  boss.  He  tells  bis  tronbles  to  the  porter,  and 
then  rushes  off  to  tell  the  boss's  wife,  for  re- 
venge. Hubby  listens  at  the  door  and  is  caught 
bv  the  boss,  who  tips  him  to  stop  spying.  The 
boss's  wife,  a  two-hundred-pounder,  arrives  juBt 
as  hobby  has  gotten  up  his  courage  to  beat  up  the 
boss,    and    a    lively    scrimmage   ensues. 


TWIXT  LOVE  AND  FIRE  (May  19).— A  Jealous 
husband  tries  to  lay  a  trap  for  his  wife.  While 
hiding  he  sees  her  embrace  her  brother,  who  has 
returned  from  abroad,  and  whom  the  husband  has 
never  met.  The  wife  and  brother  think  him  a 
burglar  and  lock  him  up  in  a  room.  He  throws 
down  a  cigarette,  which  sets  the  couch  on  fire  and 
soon  the  whole  room  is  blazing.  He  makes  frantic 
efforts  to  escape,  but  is  held  a  prisoner  until  the 
police  and  fire  department  arrive.  The  firemen 
turn  streams  of  water  onto  the  fire,  and  the  Irate 
man,  and  the  police  take  him  from  the  room.  Ex- 
planations   follow. 

THE  FOREMAN  OF  THE  JURY  (May  22).— 
Jones  is  broke.  His  girl  is  giving  a  birthday 
party,  and  her  various  suitors  give  her  costly 
presents.  Jones  finds  a  beautiful  la  valuer,  which 
he  gives  to  Mabel,  and  wins  her  heart.  He  Is 
chosen  as  the  foreman  of  a  Jury,  and  when  petty 
offenders  are  brought  to  trial  turns  a  deaf  ear  to 
all  pleas  for  mercy,  gaining  the  hatred  of  the 
other  jurors.  Finally  a  man  is  brought  up  who  is 
to  be  tried  for  stealing  the  necklace  Jones  found. 
A  strong  case  is  shown,  and  all  the  other  Jurors 
want  to  find  him  guilty,  but  Jones  holds  out  for 
an  acquittal.  Mabel  comes  Into  the  court  room 
and  sits  alongside  of  the  complainant.  Tbe  neck- 
lace is  seen  and  an  uproar  takes  place.  Jones 
is  accused  as  a  thief  and  In  a  highly  melodramatic 
manner  takes  a  huge  vial  from  his  pocket,  drinks 
the   contents   and    falls   back    dead. 


MUTUAL  WEEKLY 

MUTUAL  WEEKLY,  NO.  19  (May  7).— New 
York  City. — Tbe  annual  French  Bull-dog  Show, 
at  the  Hotel  Astor. 

Granada,  Spain.— King  Alfonso  viewing  the  mar- 
vels   of    Arabian    architecture. 

Leavenworth,  Kan, — The  burning  of  the  Lansing 
prison    workshops   and   storehouses. 

Hackensack,  N.  J. — 3,000  Boy  Scouts  take  part 
in  a  sham  battle  under  Majors  Wurtz  and  Sticht. 

San  Francisco;  Cal.— All  that  remains  of  tbe 
man-of-war  "Pensacola,"  after  being  raided  by 
junk  dealers  in  the  Bay  of  San  Francisco. 

The    Fashion    in    New    York    and   Paris. 

New  York  City — 3,000  carriers  attend  the  serv- 
ice at   the  Cathedral,   to  honor  dead  postmen. 

Washington,  D.  C. — Mr.  E.  Reid  trying  out  a 
new   gyro   aero-boat. 

Athens,  Greece. — -Funeral  of  King  George  of 
Greece,  who  was  murdered  after  bis  triumphal  entry 
into  Salonica. 

Baltimore,  Md. — Miss  Wilson,  daughter  of  the 
President,  attends  the  Federation  of  the  Women's 
Clubs. 

Luneville,  France. — The  German  war  dirigible 
Zeppelin  IV,  lands  by  mistake  amid  French  sol- 
diers maneuvering.  Owing  to  the  courtesy  of  the 
French  authorities,  the  Zeppelin  is  allowed  to  re- 
turn   to   Germany. 

Los    Angeles,     Cal. — Feeding    young    alligators. 

Going  to  California  to  present  her  with  the  Japs, 
Mr.  Bryan  Is  presented  with  a  dilicacy  for  his 
famous   wlneless  dinners  by  the  wine  state. 


EXCLUSIVE  FILM  COR- 
PORATION 

LUX. 

SAVED  'FROM  THE  GRIP  OF  ALCOHOL  (May 
9). — In  a  little  out-of-the-way  trading  station  in 
the  heart  of  the  African  wilds,  Henry  Becker  lives 
happily  with  his  young  wife  and  child.  As  time 
goes  on  his  wife  cannot  endure  the  climate  and  at 
last  she  goes  to  her  grave,  leaving  her  husband 
bowed  under  the  burden  of  his  grief.  A  faithful 
nurse  takes  charge  of  the  child,  and  Becker  goes 
on  with  his  daily  work  as  best  he  can.  Gradually 
he  succumbs  to  the  temptation  to  drown  bis  sorrow 
in  wine,  gradually  the  evil  effects  of  alcohol  claim 
him  for  their  own.  He  neglects  bis  duty  and 
spends  many  hours  locked  in  his  study  In  a  drunken 
stupor. 

One  day  the  whole  of  the  members  of  the  station 
go  out  hunting  big  game,  but  they  return  home 
later  after  a  fruitless  search.  When  the  hunt  is 
over,  Becker  returns  to  his  study,  and  spends  the 
rest  of  the  day  indulging  in  one  of  his  usual 
drunken  orgies.  Paralyzed  by  the  awful  effects  of 
the  liquor,  he  is  unable  to  stir  when  the  nurse's 
heartrending  cry  for  aid  peals  through  the  silent 
house.  The  tense  moment  which  follows  serves  to 
Impress  upon  the  drunkard's  deadened  senses  the 
fact  that  some  terrible  calamity  is  about  to  befall. 
Strive  as  he  will,  he  cannot  get  his  limbs  to  obey 
him,   and  he  sinks  helpless  to  the  floor. 

Meanwhile,  a  fierce  forest  leopard  Is  prowling 
around  the  house,  seeking  to  overtake  Becker's  little 
child.  The  leopard  has  escaped  the  hunters,  and, 
made  bold  by  hunger,  It  dares  to  enter  the  habita- 
tions of  men,  and  seeks  the  little  child  for  its  prey. 

The  nurse  at  last  bravely  places  herself  between 
tbe  leopard  and  the  child.  The  little  one  escapes, 
and  the  noise  of  the  dreadful  struggle  Is  borne  to 
the  ears  of  the  powerless  Becker.  Fortunately, 
assistance  from  another  Bource  arrives  in  time,  and 
a  party  of  traders  drive  off  the  leopard.  When  they 
open  his  study  door,  Becker  rolls  out,  to  find  his 
little  one  is  saved,  thanks  to  the  efforts  of  her  faith- 


ful nurse.  He  gives  thanks  for  this  providential 
aid,  and  the  lesson  he  learns  suffices  to  make  him 
scorn  the  bottle  henceforth,  and  do  his  duty  to 
his  little  child. 

A  MIGHTY  HUNTER  (May  16).— A  hunter  re- 
counts bis  adventures  to  his  admiring  sweetheart. 
That  day  a  wild  beast  makes  a  raid  upon  a  farm 
and  the  hunter  is  called  upon  to  prove  what  he  can 
do.  Discretion  overpowers  him  and  be  decides  that 
he  is  safer  in  bed  than  waiting  for  the  animal. 
The  wonderful  way  In  which  he  hunts  the  lion 
shows  bim   to  be  a   mighty  hunter,   but  a  mightier 

PAT  MOVES  TO  DIPLOMATIC  CIRCLES  (May 
16). — This  is  an  amusing  comedy  showing  the  alarm- 
ing results  caused  by  a  mistake  on  the  part  of 
some  representatives  of  the  French  Government, 
who  are  sent  to  meet  the  new  Ambassador  of 
Illyria.  The  ambassador  postpones  his  departure, 
and  Pat,  who  is  traveling  by  the  train  which  he 
should  have  taken,  is  mistaken  for  the  illustrious 
person.  His  behavior  Is  not  becoming  to  an  am- 
bassador, and  leads  to  a  serious  rupture  In  the 
diplomatic  relations  between  France  and  Illyria. 


PILOT. 

THE  CRUCIBLE  OF  LOVE  (May  8).— Raphael 
Moore,  a  dramatist,  has  written  a  brilliant  play. 
He  submits  it  to  Roth,  the  manager  of  a  theater, 
but  it  meets  with  no  success.  Louise  Kent,  an 
actress  of  reputation,  working  for  Roth,  meets 
Moore,  and  asks  bim  to  show  her  bis  manuscript. 
She  and  her  uncle,  Mr.  Marchand,  go  over  the  play 
very  carefully  and  Louise  decides  to  put  tbe  play 
on,  against  tbe  wishes  of  her  manager,  Roth.  It 
Is  a  failure.  As  a  work  of  art,  it  is  a  triumph, 
but  It  lacks  the  prime  quality — heart  Interest.  The 
boy  Is  a  genius,  but  does  not  know  life.  His  char- 
acters are  chiseled  from  cold  marble;  he  has  not 
yet  been  awakened  to  his  full  capacity.  Louise  Is 
Impressed  and  resolves  to  put  tbe  theory  to  the 
test.  Raphael  is  made  to  believe  that  she  is  false 
to  bim — for  they  have  become  betrothed — and  with 
bis  soul  in  torment,  he  turns  again  to  his  abandoned 
art  for  solace,   and  writes  a  truly  great  play. 

TONY.  THE  TENOR  (May  15).— On  the  sway- 
ing girders,  high  above  the  street,  Tony  sang  at  his 
work,  his  fellow  workers  listened  in  rapture  to  bis 
sweet  tenor,  which  made  the  work-day  pass  rapid- 
ly. One  day  a  great  Impressario,  passing  along 
tbe  busy  street,  heard  the  voice  from  above  and 
stopped.  He  investigated  and  thus  was  Antonio 
Bolino  discovered.  But  Tony  would  not  give  up 
his  humble  quarters,  and  his  Italian  sweetheart, 
much  to  the  disapproval  of  the  impressario,  who 
was  compelled  to  let  him  have  his  way,  and  Tony 
and  Mercedes  talked  and  sang  of  sunny  Italy 
and  looked  forward  to  the  day  when  they  should 
be  able  to  return.  His  first  appearance  was  one 
grand  ovation  and  the  papers  lauded  him  to  the 
skies,    but   Tony   was   not    vain   over   bis   prosperity. 

The  once  little  bank  account  now  grew  rapidly, 
and  when  tbe  year  came  around  in  which  his  con- 
tract with  the  impressario  ended,  be  came  home 
to  Mercedes,  threw  off  his  evening  dress  and  sent 
for  beer,  and  over  the  little  lunch  they  laughed 
and  talked  and  tore  up  the  expired  contract.  Next 
day  a  big  ocean  liner  received  on  board  two  Italian 
passengers.  The  lmpressariu,  with  a  new  contract, 
and  visions  of  fame  and  wealth,*  went  to  the 
Italian  tenement,  and  In  the  window  saw  a  sign 
"To  let."  He  inquired  and  learned  that  his  find 
with  the  sweetheart  bad  returned  to  Italy. 


GREAT  NORTHERN, 

THE  PROFESSOR'S  TRAVELING  ADVENTURES 
(May  17). — Professor  Miller  Is  so  completely  wrap- 
ped up  In  his  books  that  he  is  threatened  with  Ill- 
ness, but  In  spite  of  tbe  urglngs  of  bis  friends  he 
refuses  to  take  a  needed  vacation.  It  Is  not  until 
the  family  doctor  appears  upon  tbe  scene  and  an- 
nounces that  unless  the  man  of  letters  takes  a 
rest  he  will  have  but  a  short  time  to  live,  that 
Miller  consents  to  go  on  a  journey.  His  faithful 
old  housekeeper  packs  his  valise  and  the  professor 
boards  a  train  for  his  destination.  In  the  same 
compartment  is  a  young  woman  and  an  elderly 
matron,  and  the  latter  removes  her  shoes  for  better 
comfort.  When  the  young  woman  alights  from  tbe 
coach,  she  realizes  that  she  has  forgotten  her  over- 
shoes, and  tbe  professor  gallantly  throws  from  the 
window  the  shoes  belonging  to  the  matron.  There 
Is  an  exciting  scene,  but  the  professor  makes  due 
apologies  and  supplies  the  price  of  a  pair  of  new 
shoes.  A  journey  in  a  stage  coach  Is  next  In  order 
and  the  professor  manages  to  get  mixed  up  In  all 
sorts  of  complications  In  his  desire  to  be  helpful 
to  bis  fellow  passengers.  Upon  arriving  at  an 
Inn,  he  collides  with  a  bicycle,  and  is  thrown  Into 
a  ditch,  and  is  rescued  in  a  sadly  battered  con- 
dition. After  signing  the  register,  the  professor 
is  shown  to  a  room  in  wbich  the  only  furniture  is 
a  hard  cot  and  a  chair,  but  as  be  is  weary,  he 
retires,  and  Is  about  to  drop  into  slumber  when  a 
noise  under  tbe  bed  attracts  bis  attention.  He  in- 
vestigates and  finds  a  dog.  The  animal  Is  ejected, 
but  finds  bis  way  back  to  the  room  by  means  of  a 
bole  leading  from  tbe  courtyard.  Again  the  In- 
truder is  ejected,  but  when  he  returns  a  third  time, 
the  professor  suspects  that  he  is  sleeping  over  a 
kennel,  and  makes  a  protest  to  the  landlord.  On 
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wishing  for  the  comforts  of  his  own  home,  the 
professor  boards  an  early  train  and  arrives  at  his 
bouse  In  time  to  find  his  faithful  housekeeper  enter- 
taining a  number  of  her  female  cronies  at  luncheon. 
They  are  dumbfounded  and  attempt  to  beat  a  hasty 
retreat,  but  the  old  gentleman  is  so  overjoyed  at 
being  home,  and  the  prospect  of  a  good  meal  and 
bis  own  comfortable  bed,  that  he  shows  no  signs 
of  resentment  and  enters  into  the  spirit  of  the 
occasion. 


SOLAX. 

THE  AMATEUR  HIGHWAYMAN  (May  21).— 
Deacon  Winkle  reads  of  frequent  bold-ups  in  his 
neighborhood,  arms  himself  and  goes  out  to  a 
deacon's  meeting.  A  stranger  on  the  street  asks 
directions  of  him.  As  be  leaves,  Winkle  finds  that 
his  watch  and  fob  are  missing.  He  orders  the 
stranger  to  bait,  holds  him  up,  and,  as  he  sup- 
poses, gets  back  bis  watch  and  fob.  He  vain- 
gloriously  recounts  bis  adventure  to  his  brother 
deacons  and  his  wife  at  home.  She  produces  his 
own  watch  and  fob,  which  he  left  at  home.  Con- 
sternation. 

Winkle  reads  that  the  town  is  aroused  over  this 
fresh  outrage,  and  proceeds  to  try  to  return  ,the 
watch  to  his  victim,  a  Mr.  Shivers.  After  the 
deacon  tries  the  registered  mail,  a  messenger  boy, 
and  the  plan  of  concealing  the  watch  In  a  loaf  of 
bread,  he  gives  up  In  despair.  Shiver  is  now  thor- 
oughly frightened,  believing  that  someone  Is  try* 
ing   to   kilt    him   with   an   Infernal  machine. 

Winkle  decides  to  force  his  way  into  Shiver's 
house.  He  does  so  and  is  about  to  leave  the 
watch,  when  he  collides  with  and  smashes  a  piece 
of  statuary.  He  hurriedly  and  hopelessly  leaves. 
The  following  night  he  disguises  as  a  night  watch- 
man, and  goes  to  the  Shiver's  home.  .  Shivers,  his 
wife  and  his  friends  are  sitting  up,  variously 
armed,  watting  for  a  highwayman,  a  bomb  or  a 
burglar.  The  supposed  watchman  is  welcomed, 
and  when  they  are  all  asleep  in  their  chairs,  he 
rigs  an  Ingenious  arrangement  of  pans  in  the  kitch- 
en so  that  they  will  fall  when  filled  with  running 
water.  When  the  racket  arouses  the  sleepers,  Win- 
kle  volunteers    to   investigate    alone. 

He  does  so,  and  creates  a  terrible  combat  with  a 
chair  that  through  the  closed  door  appeals  to  their 
Imagination.  As  they  finally  rush  In,  he  points 
to  the  shattered  window,  and  holds  forth  Shiver's 
watch  and  fob;  his  man  has  escaped  but  he  has 
captured  the  lost  booty.  Tableau  and  gratitude 
of  all. 

THE  MAN  WHO  FAILED  (May  23).— Alicia,  the 
daughter  of  a  poor  man,  is  very  HI  and  needs  to 
be  sent  away  for  expensive  treatment.  The  father 
appeals  to  bis  wealthy  employer  for  aid.  The 
rich  man,  seeing  a  picture  of  the  girl,  becomes 
Infatuated  with  her  and  agrees  to  save  her  life  If 
the  father  will  give  bis  word  of  honor  that  she 
will  marry  him  when  she  recovers.  The  promise 
Is  given  and  when  Alicia  returns  cured,  she  learns 
of  the  pledge.  She  marries  the  man  without  love, 
but  he  wants  her  heart  and  assures  ber  that  he 
will  demand  nothing  of  her  until  she  comes  to  him 
of  her  own  free  will.  He  gets  about  to  win  her 
love,  but  fails  even  by  giving  her  fine  gifts  and 
making  her  the  queen  of  society.  To  get  honors 
to  lay  at  her  feet,  he  accepts  the  nomination  for 
mayor,  but  he  refuses  to  promise  the  bosses  his 
support  after  the  election  If  they  help  him  before, 
so  be  is  defeated.  The  wife  knows  the  stand  her 
husband  took  and  begins  to  honor  him.  During 
the  campaign,  the  political  bosses  incite  the  em- 
ployes of  his  factory  to  strike  and  while  the  strike 
Is  on,  the  men  get  desperate  and  blow  up  tbe 
factory.  Counting  himself  a  failure,  he  determines 
to  gt>  away  and  tells  his  wife  in  time  she  can  get 
a  divorce.  But  Alicia  has  come  to  love  him  and 
he  finds  that  it  is  not  riches  and  power  that  win 
a    woman's   heart. 


GAUMONT. 

GATJMONT  WEEKLY,  NO.  61  (May  7).— The 
King  Plays  Tennis. — Gustave  V,  of  Sweden,  Is  an 
enthusiastic   racket   wlelder. 

Motorcycling  in  Spain. — Interesting  road  races  at 
Stlges.   near   Barcelona. 

Noon-day,  Wall  Street. — The  curb  market  at  full 
blast,  using  sign  language  to  convey  orders  and 
prices. 

A  New  Cunarder  Launched. — S.  S.  "Indiana** 
christened  at  Greenwich,  England. 

New  Gowns. — French  modistes  submit  designs  for 
season's  wear. 

Greater  Portland. — Oregon  city  celebrates  opening 
of   $1,600,000   bridge    across    the    Willamette    River. 

Auto  Boats  for  Monaco.— Crown  Prince  opens  the 
exhibition  at  Monte  Carlo. 

Denver  Gets  Open  Air  Concert. — Celebrated  song- 
birds appear  in  public  entertainment. 

An  Egyptian  Wedding. — Princess  Attiat  Allah 
Hanem,  daughter  of  the  Khedive.  Is  married  at 
Cairo,   to  S.   E.   DJellalleddlne  Pacha. 

Youngest  Wireless  Operator, — Boy  Scouts  send 
message  from  Woolworth  Tower,  New  York,  to 
President  Wilson   In  Washington. 

New  York  Suffragists. — Thousands  of  them  give 
annual   demonstration   in  Fifth   Avenue,    New   York. 

ITS  GREAT  TO  BE  GREAT  (May  8).— Kittle 
likes  Willie,  but  Klttie'B  papa  doesn't  like  him. 
Papa  Is  scheduled  to  go  out  one  evening.  Klttie 
notifies  Willie   to   come   around.     Papa  comes  back 


unexpectedly  and  throws  Willie  out  of  the  window, 
Willie  lands  on  the  sidewalk.  He  goes  Into  a  drug 
store  for  treatment.  When  he  emerges  his  head  is 
all   bound  round   with  white  cloth. 

The  police  department  this  day  have  been  told 
of  the  arrival  of  a  Maharajah,  Prince  of  Kalama- 
zoo. 

Every  policeman  is  so  notified  to  watcb  for  him. 
When  one  sees  a  young  man  with  apparently  what 
is  a  turban,  they  believe  that  it  fs  the  Maharajah 
in  disguise.  They  follow  him  about,  much  to  his 
dismay. 

As  Willie  strolls  through  the  park  he  meets 
Kittle,  The  police  meanwhile  are  taking  It  all  in 
with  great  zest.  Who  then  should  come  along  but 
Kittie's  father.  The  police  believe  that  papa  is 
an  anarchist  and  they  pounce  upon  him,  as  he  tries 
to  get  at  Willie.  They  arrest  him  and  hustle  him 
to  the  station. 

The  Chief  of  Police  struggles  with  papa  and 
whispers  to  him  that  Willie,  who  has  followed,  Is  a 
real  live  Maharajah  and  he  should  induce  him  to 
allow  him  to  become  one  of  his  fathers-in-law.  It 
is,  of  course,  expedient  for  father  to  bow  to  the 
Maharajah.  At  tbe  last  moment  after  papa  had 
given  bis  consent  to  allow  Willie  to  come  Into  the 
family,  a  telegram  is  received.  This  reads  that 
the  Maharajah  left  town  the  day  before  and  that, 
therefore,  a  police  guard  Is  not  necessary.  There- 
fore it  Is  discovered  that  Willie  is  only  Willie  and 
not  a  Maharajah. 

A  MAN  OF  LETTERS  (May  8).—  Alphonse  Wlen- 
erscbnitzel  is  a  postoflSee  clerk.  He  falls  In  love 
with  a  young  woman  who  calls  to  collect  her  mail. 

He  loves  her  so  much  that  he  neglects  his  duties. 
He  writes  a  love  poem  to  the  young  woman  which 
he  slips  into  her  postofflce  box.  It  turns  out  to  be 
a  real  slip,  as  the  letters  belonged  to  her  husband 
who    conducted    a    mail    order    business. 

The  husband  who  Is  a  large  man  reads  Schnltzle'fl 
poem  and  straightway  goes  around  to  Schnltzle's 
office  and  musses  blm  up.  Therefore,  Schnltzie 
takes  refuge  in  the  pneumatic  mail  tube. 

AN  EYE  FOR  AN  EYE  (May  6).— The  Interest 
of  the  manager  and  assistant  manager  of  a  large 
department  store  for  one  of  their  minor  employees 
is  of  a  strong  nature.  The  manager  is  highest  in 
her  affections. 

The  credit  of  the  store  is  low  and  the  manager 
seeks  to  retrieve  fallen  fortunes  by  speculations  on 
the  stock  market.  He  uses  the  company's  money, 
but   speculates   In   his  own   name. 

The  assistant  manager  hears  of  this  and  exposes 
his  superior  to  the  directors  of  tbe  company.  The 
manager's  act,  although  his  motive  is  good,  is 
criminal  on  the  surface.     He  is  sent  to  Jail. 

His  sweetheart,  the  store-woman,  is  heart-broken 
and  determines  that  the  wrong  done  him  by  his 
rival  will    not  be  unavenged. 

She  encourages  the  courtship  of  tbe  assistant 
manager,  who  has  been  promoted  to  the  manager- 
ship. She  proves  to  be  very  expensive,  developing 
taste  for  diamonds  and  other  costly  things.  So 
wrecked  Is  bis  fortune  by  these  extravagances  that 
he  decides  to  rob  the  department  store  safe. 

The  girl,  believing  that  this  Is  his  Intention,  noti- 
fies the  directors  of  the  company  and  the  police. 
They  catch  tbe  manager  In  the  act.  The  girl  ap- 
pears on  the  Bcene  and  tells  the  manager  that  she 
has  led  him  on  to  his  ruin,  that  she  never  loved 
him,  and  that  ber  heart  is  with  the  man  who  is 
still  in  prison  and  that  she  has  long  plotted  to  put 
him  where  he  bad   put  her  fiance. 

THE  RAJAH'S  CASKET  (3  parts,  State  Rights). 
— As  a  token  of  bis  esteem  for  Captain  George 
Cooper's  prospective  father-in-law.  Lord  Peters,  the 
Rajah  of  Palakotta  presents  the  captain  with  a 
casket  of  precious  jewels.  Cooper  writes  to  his 
fiancee,  telling  her  of  this  gift  he  will  give  her  on 
his  return.  The  notorious  crasksman,  Clement 
Rocca,  robs  the  mail-train  and  readB  tbe  letter. 
He  determines  to  steal  tbe  casket.  He  goes  to  the 
English  hotel  where  the  colonel  and  bis  daughter 
are  staying.     He  meets   them. 

At  the  same  hotel  is  detective  Harry  Derwent. 
His  suspicions  are  stirred  by  the  action  of  Rocca. 
A  telegram  from  Captain  Cooper  tells  the  time  that 
his  father  and  himself  will  arrive.  The  colonel  and 
his  daughter  accept  Rocca's  Invitation  to  Join  him 
Iri  a  shooting  trip  on  an  island  off  the  coast.  On 
arriving  at  the  island,  the  criminal,  on  a  pretext, 
leaves  his  guests.  He  returns  to  the  mainland, 
knowing  when  the  tide  rises  the  Island  will  be 
completely  submerged.  Not  all  his  own  way,  how- 
ever, Is  the  criminal  going  to  conduct  his  nefarious 
schemes,  for  Derwent  Is  keen  and  on  the  alert. 
On  tbe  previous  night  he  had  seen  through  a  hole 
bored  In  the  floor  separating  their  rooms  that  Rocca 
Is  supplied  with  disguises.  He  had  also  learned  of 
secret  meetings  with  a  man  in  an  out-of-the-way 
cave,  which  Is  accessible  only  by  a  dangerous  foot- 
path. 

Capt.  Cooper  and  his  father  duly  arrive  and  the 
casket  Is  deposited  in  the  hotel  safe.  Captain  Cooper 
goes  for  a  walk  on  the  cliffs.  Half  an  hour  later  he  is 
found  insensible.  The  receipt  for  the  casket  has 
been  stolen  from  the  captain's  pocketbook.  It  Is 
Rocca's   work. 

An  accomplice,  disguised  as  an  orderly,  goes  to 
the  hotel  and  is  handed  the  casket  on  the  strength 
of  having  the  receipt.  Cooper  and  the  detective, 
arriving  at  the  hotel,  find  that  the  box  is  gone. 
The  captain  gives  chase  to  an  automobile  disap- 
pearing  down    tbe   road.    The   detective    hastens   to 


keep  watch  over  the  cave.  He  hides  behind  a  pre- 
jecting  piece  of  rock.  In  the  interior  Rocca's  a< 
complice  hands  over  the  casket.  Derwent  cau- 
tiously proceeds  to  the  mouth  of  the  cave,  revolver 
in  hand.  He  encounters  Rocca.  Before  the  1  a  1 1  >  . 
recovers  from  the  surprise  Derwent  snatches  the 
precious  package  from  him.  There  is  a  struggle. 
The  thief  loses  his  bold  on  the  slippery  rocks 
staggers  back  over  the  edge  into  the  sea,  dis- 
appearing  forever. 

The  colonel  and  his  daughter,  marooned  on  Bird's- 
Island,  have  to  swim  for  It  when  tbe  tide  rises. 
They  keep  afloat  until  they  are  picked  up  by  a 
fishing  smack.  They  don  dry  clothes  loaned  them 
by  sailors  and  are  soon  back  at  the  hotel.  CapUm 
Cooper  returns  from  the  unsuccessful  pursuit  of 
the  casket.  A  happy  reunion  takes  place  when  De- 
tective Derwent  enters   with   the  jewels. 


MISCELLANEO  US 

UNION  FEATURES. 

BALAOO,  THE  DEMON  BABOON  (Feature  Re- 
lease—3  parts). — Dr.  Coriolis,  au  eminent  scientist, 
transformed  an  enormous  baboon  into  a  being, 
half  human  and  half  ape.  Balaoo,  the  name  glvei: 
the  hideous  creature  by  the  doctor,  was  caught 
one  day  in  the  wolf  trap  laid  by  Hubert,  a  no- 
torious poacher.  When  he  was  rescued  by  Hubert, 
the  poor  creature  demonstrated  by  gestures  that 
he  would  be  his  devoted  slave.  At  last  Dr.  Cario- 
lis  discovered  that  Balaoo  was  the  cause  of  all 
the  outrages  that  had  been  perpetrated  in  the  vil- 
lage, and  reprimanded  him  so  severely  that  be 
ran  away.  This  was  the  last  the  doctor  had  setc 
of  his  protege  until  one  day  he  read  of  an  elusive 
creature  terrorizing  Lagana,  Switzerland,  and  he 
knew  it  must  be  Balaoo.  After  a  consultation  with 
the  mayor  of  that  city,  a  searching  party  waa 
formed.  At  last  the  creature  was  discovered 
swinging  from  tree  top  to  tree  top  and  instinctively 
noting  that  be  was  being  cornered,  he  threw  him- 
self into  a  lake.  The  pursuing  party  went  after 
him  in  a  launch,  but  this  was  soon  capsized  by 
the  powerful  arms  of  Balaoo  aud  he  escaped.  Some- 
time later,  Balaoo  turned  up  in  the  vicinity  of  the 
doctor's  home,  but  no  one  knew  of  bis  where- 
abouts with  the  exception  of  Hubert,  who  instructed 
the  beast  to  enter  the  village  inn  and  strangle  a 
traveler  with  whom  he  had  an  altercation.  The 
faithful  Balaoo  did  as  he  was  told  and  the  next 
morning  tbe  crime  was  discovered,  but  no  one 
could  ascribe  its  perpetration  to  anyone.  Hubert 
waa  suspected,  but  he  easily  proved  an  alibi.  The 
next  malevolent  act  that  Hubert  instructed  Balaoo 
to  perform  was  the  abduction  of  Madeline,  the 
daughter  of  Dr.  Oariolis,  with  whom  he  was  in 
love.  By  clinging  to  the  leafy  foliage  of  a  tree 
under  which  Madeline  passed,  Balaoo  seized  the 
girl  and  brought  her  to  Hubert's  cabin,  where  be 
perceived  the  poacher's  wicked  intentions,  Pick- 
ing up  an  empty  cask,  Balaoo  hurled  It  at  the 
poacher  who  dodged  It  and  fired  a  shot  Into  tbe 
body  of  Balaoo.  Tbe  animal  then  laid  a  trap  in 
the  nature  of  a  pit  for  the  poacher  who  unsus- 
pectingly walked  right  into  it  and  broke  both  legs. 
The  poacher  told  Balaoo  by  gestures  where  he  had 
bidden  Madeline.  Balaoo  then  brought  Dr.  Oario- 
lis to  the  place  where  his  daughter  was  hidden. 
The  police  were  notified,  the  poacher  was  taken 
from  the  pit  and  placed  under  arrest,  and,  after 
telling  by  gestures  who  was  the  Instigator  of  the 
murder,    Balaoo  passed  away. 


ECLECTIC. 

A  RUINED  LIFE  (2,600  feet— Special}.— Lieu- 
tenant Muller,  secretly  married,  lives  with  his- 
parents  and  his  married  sister,  but  chafes  under 
the  conditions  and  wishes  they  could  all  live  to- 
gether, which  is  impossible  owing  to  his  wife's- 
lack  of  social  standing.  Muller  Is  fond  of  horses 
and  rides  his  own  horse  in  the  steeplechase,  a  big 
society  event.  His  horse  falls  and  Muller  is 
fatally  Injured.  On  his  death  bed  he  tells  bis 
secret  and  implores  his  parents  to  care  for  his 
wife  and  little  boy.  They  are  taken  Into  tbe 
family,  but  incur  the  displeasure  of  Muller's  broth- 
er-in-law, who  Bees  In  the  lad  a  possible  claimant 
for  his  grandfather's  fortune,  which  the  brother- 
in-law  hopes  to  inherit.  He  offers  Muller's  widow 
some  money  if  she  will  go  away  with  the  boy. 
She  spurns  this  but  leaves  with  her  son  and  tries 
to  make  a  living  by  sewing.  She  does  not  suc- 
ceed and  finally  yields  to  the  proposal  of  her  son's- 
grandmother  that  she  will  adopt  tbe  boy,  but  can- 
not receive  his  mother.  Some  time  afterward  see- 
ing her  son  in  the  park  with  his  nurse,  she  seize* 
him  and  jumps  in  the  lake,  intending  to  end  both 
their  lives,  but  they  are  rescued  by  some  men. 
For  this  act  the  mother  is  sentenced  to  a  long^ 
term  In  prison.  When  she  gets  out  she  Is  old, 
and  her  son,  now  grown  up,  Is  a  military  cadet, 
still  living  with  his  grandparents  who  are  very 
proud  of  him.  His  old  mother  gets  employment  as- 
a  scrub  woman,  but  Is  soon  discharged  for  incom- 
petency and  she  wanders  about  in  search  of  work. 
Her  son  comes  across  her  as  she  lays  fainting  in 
the  road,  while  some  boys  are  ridiculing  her.  He- 
drives  them  off  and  carries  her  borne,  where  be  finds 
out  that  she  is  his  mother. 


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SITUATIONS    WANTED. 

LICENSED  OPERATOR— At  liberty,  wishes  posi- 
tion oat  of  town  or  Jersey  City.  Address  W.  G.t 
care  of  Moving  Picture  World,   New  York  City. 

OPERATOR — Desires  position  June  first.  Ex- 
perienced, Power's  6.  Medium  sized  city  in  Middle 
States  preferred.  References.  State  all  In  first 
letter.  Write  at  once  to  HAYNES  (VORMLEY,  234 
Racine  St.,   Delavan,   Wisconsin. 

PIANIST— (Male)),  first-class  picture  player. 
Best  of  reference,  sober,  reliable.  Prefer  pictures 
only.  State  all.  Address  M.  P.  PIANIST,  No.  8 
Allan  Avenue,   Baltimore,    Md. 

A-l  CAMERAMAN — Seeks  position  around  New 
York.  Address  H.  C,  De  G.,  care  of  Moving  Pic- 
ture World,   New   York  City. 

HELP   WANTED. 

WANTED — Operator  and  pianist.  Address  BAR- 
NARD'S THEATRE,   Millbrook,   Dutchess  Co.,   N.   Y. 

WANTED — Experienced  operators  on  slitting  and 
perforating  machines  for  motion  picture  film.  Refer- 
ences required.  Address  FIREPROOF  FrLM  CO., 
Rochester,   N.   Y. 

EQUIPMENT   FOR   SALE. 

GREAT  BARGAIN  —  Underwriters'  automatic 
Moving  Picture  Machine,  black  top,  22  by  70. 
Chairs,  screens  and  16  reels  of  films.  Cheap  quick 
sale.  Address  MORTGAGEE,  Box  58  YadklnvlUe, 
N.  O. 

FOR  SALE — A  Wurlitzer  Flute,  Electric  Piano, 
used  eight  months.  Address  MYSTIC  THEATRE, 
Gallon,  Ohio. 

ONE  EDD30N  MACHINE— Complete  with  Rheo- 
Btat  and  Lens,  $75.  Two  hundred  folding  chairs, 
25c  each.     B.   &   D.,    Kane,    Pa. 

THREE  60  CYCLE  110  VOLT  Obmpenaarcs,  used 
10  days  each,  $42.  Address  IRA  B.  ALDEN,  538 
W.    Lehigh    Ave.,    Philadelphia,    Pa. 

FOR  SALE — 9-6x12-8  "Mirror  Screen."  Address 
WM.  SAVAGE  AMUSE.  CO.,  Alton,  111.  Reason  for 
selling,  am  Installing  larger  "Mirror  Screen."  This 
one  is  as  good  as  tbe  day  it  left  the  factory. 

CAMERAS   FOR   SALE. 

BEFORE  BUYING  don't  fall  to  get  information 
on  our  cameras,  tripods,  tilts,  etc.  We  ship  for 
inspection.  Address  PHOTO  RECORDS  CO.,  11  W. 
112th  St.,   New   York   City. 


FILMS  FOR  SALE. 

FOR  SALE — Or  will  book  moving  picture  pro- 
duction of  Blanche  Walsh  In  Resurrection,  4  parts, 
in  the  state  of  Ohio.  Write  or  wire  for  dates. 
Big  lobby  display.  Will  sell  this  feature  at  a 
bargain.  Address  JULES  LEVEY,  1418  Cherry  St., 
Toledo,   Ohio. 

FOR  SALE — I  bought  new  Dayton  Flood  film  for 
own  exhibition  and  also  showed  several  nearby 
townB.  Tremendous  drawing  card  and  big  money 
maker.  Have  $8  worth  of  banners.  All  sent  for 
$45.  Better  wire.  Sent  C.  0.  D.  on  receipt  of  $10. 
Address  H.  CHANCELLOR,  prop.,  Dreamland  The- 
atre, Arcanum,  Ohio. 

FOR  SALE — 500  reels  of  film  with  posters  to 
match,  all  in  good  condition.  Many  subjects  prac- 
tically new.  Address  McINTIRE  &  R1CHTER,  23 
E.   14th  St.,   New  York  City. 

FILMS   WANTED. 

WANTED— A  few  reels  of  the  cameraphone  talk- 
ing pictures.  Film  and  records  must  be  In  good  con- 
dition. Address  FRANK  D.  GREENE,  Grand  Is- 
land, Nebr. 

BUSINESS  OPPORTUNITY. 

I  WILL  BUY  anything  from  a  second-hand  roll  of 
tickets  to  a  theatre.  I  sell  machines,  chairs, 
pianos,  etc.,  of  long  ago  or  up-to-date.  Have  also 
a  few  picture  theatres  for  sale.  Address  TRIGGER, 
Two  Hundred  Twelve  Third  Ave.,  near  Eighteenth 
St.,    New   York   City. 

THEATRE    FOR    RENT. 

TO  RENT — A  first-class  moving  picture  house, 
fully  equipped,  capacity  500.  Rent  reasonable. 
Address  GOLDBERG  BROS.,  Glen  Cove,  N.  Y. 

THEATRES   FOR    BALE. 

FOR  SALE,  THEATRE — Moving  picture  theatre  in 
live  mining  town  in  Michigan,  13,000  population. 
Two  other  theatres  in  town.  Seats  250,  fully  equip- 
ped, two  Edison  machines.  Owner  unable  to  give 
business  his  attention.  Address  JOHN  LAMMI, 
Marquette,  Michigan. 

FOR  SALE — Moving  picture  theatre  in  city  of 
90,000,  doing  good  business.  Owner  must  leave  city. 
Terms  to  right  party.  Address  C.  C,  care  of  Mov- 
ing Picture   World,   New  York  City. 


FOR  SALE — Three-reel  feature,  "The  Four  Dare 
Devils,"  in  perfect  condition,  Including  lot  of  ad- 
vertising, banners,  posters,  electros  for  printing, 
heralds,  cards,  etc.  $100  takes  whole  lot.  O.  P. 
WOODWORTH,  Macomb,   HI. 

HIPPODROMES  AND  THEATRES  for  sale  or 
rent.  In  Chicago.  Moving  picture  or  vaudeville. 
Seating  capacity  500  to  2,500.  Now  being  built 
(ready  May  1st).  Reasonable  rents,  which  includes 
a  magnificent  Schuelke  Pipe  Organ,  with  Vox  Hu- 
mana and  Cathedral  Chimes.  HUME,  exclusive 
representative,  Room  311,  608  S.  Dearboro  St., 
Chicago,    111. 

THEATRES  WANTED. 

WANTED  TO  BUY — Moving  picture  theatre  or 
good  location  In  Wisconsin  or  Minnesota  town  of 
10,000  or  more.  Must  stand  investigation.  Address 
CHAS.  L.  HILLER,   Eau  Claire,  Wis. 

MUSICAL  INSTRUMENTS  FOR   SALE. 

FOR  SALE — 20  Electric  Pianos,  65-note  with  key- 
board for  hand  playing,  $100,  $125,  $165.  44-note 
pianos  $50  and  $60.  Orchestrian  pianos  with  pipes, 
$275  to  $300.  Practically  new  and  all  in  first  class 
playing  condition.  Also  10  D.C.  motors,  %  horse- 
power, $8  to  $10.  We  allow  inspection  at  depot. 
Write  for  list.  Address  J.  F.  HERMAN,  1420  Pa. 
Ave.  N.   W.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

SOUVENIRS— Business  getters  that  will  bring 
boys  and  girls  on  the  jump.  Free  samples,  showing 
advertisement.  NEW  ENGLAND  NOVHJLTY  CO., 
Westfleld,  Mass. 

SELL  YOUR  THEATRE  or  fixtures  quickly  for 
cash,  no  matter  where  located.  Particulars  free. 
PHOENIX  THEATRE  CO.,  Sixth  Floor,  Phoenix 
Bldg.,   Minneapolis,   Minn. 

WANTED — At  once,  some  good  service  for  air- 
dome.  Address  E.  D.  MACFEE,  JR.,  Petersburg, 
Va. 

TYPEWRITTEN  SENARIOS  OR  SCENARIOS. 

SCENORIOS  MUST  BE  TYPEWRITTEN  to  re- 
ceive recognition.  Best  work,  correctly  formulated, 
lowest  prices.  Write  me  or  send  on  manuscript. 
Address  0.  L.  BARKER,  2311  Vega  Ave.,  Cleveland, 
Ohio. 


KINEMACOLOR. 

REEDHAM  DRILL. — Reedham  Orphanage  is  at  a 
little  town  called  Purley,  not  far  from  London. 
It  la  for  the  children  of  soldiers,  and  is  managed 
under  the  direct  patronage  and  interest  of  the 
King  and  Queen.  Children  are  taught  there  the 
duties  they  will  have*  to  perform  when  they  be- 
come members  of  the  British  Army,  and  one  of 
the  features  of  the  school  is  the  annual  display 
of  their  fancy  marching.  To  the  sound  of  their 
instructor's  whistle  they  go  through  many  Inter- 
esting  evolutions. 

MUMPS. — Jack,  a  young  millionaire,  see  Mary 
and  falls  in  love  with  her.  For  a  long  time  he 
follows  her,  but  can  not  learn  her  name,  until 
she  writes  an  advertisement  for  a  chauffeur.  Jack 
buys  a  chauffeur  suit  and  a  book,  "How  to  run 
an  Automobile  in  one  lesson"  and  gets  the  posi- 
tion. Of  course,  when  he  takes  out  his  employer, 
he  has  an  accident.  A  passing  machine  takes  the 
party  home.  Through  nursing  her  little  sister 
Mary  contracts  the  mumps.  Jack  gets  them  too. 
Both  are  confined  to  their  rooms.  Mary  hears 
burglars  and  calls  Jack.  Then  she  sends  for  tbe 
police.  The  burglars  escape,  but  the  two  invalids 
are  arrested.  Before  matters  are  straightened 
out  the  entire  police  force  is  on  its  way  to  Mumps- 
ville.  When  Jack  gets  away  from  the  station  he 
makes  arrangements  to  leave  his  "job,"  but  Mary 
detains  him.  She  gets  Jack;  the  police  get  the 
mumps. 

MIXED  SIGNALS. — A  retired  sea  captain  buys 
a  sail-boat  and  engages  an  old  shipmate  for  "crew." 
the  "crew"  falls  in  love  with  the  captain's  daugh- 
ter. The  old  man  is  opposed  to  the  match.  Jack 
gets  employment  as  a  lighthouse  keeper,  marries 
the  daughter  and  takes  her  with  him  to  tbe  light. 
When  the  bride  arrives  at  her  new  home  she  dis- 
covers that  Instead  of  clothes  In  her  trunk  there 
are  only  two  signal  flags,  which,  flown  together, 
mean  "Am  attacked,  need  help."  Many  months 
pass;  the  old  captain  is  lonely,  bnt  still  stubborn 
and  unreconciled.  Jack  has  written  his  mother 
announcing  an  impending  event,  telling  her  that 
one  flag  will  mean  a  boy,  two  a  girl.  Two  are 
flown  on  the  great  day.  The  captain  discovers  tbe 
signals  and  blows  the  bugle  to  arouse  the  village. 
The  "enemy"  is  delivered  to  the  arms  of  the 
grandfather;    all    la   forgiven. 

POWER  OF  PRAYER. — Busy  with  work  till  late 
at  hla  office  John  realizes  his  stenographer  Is  tired 


and  sends  her  home  determined  to  finish  the  work 
himself.  He  telephones  his  wife  he  will  not  be 
home  to  dinner,  not  alone  on  account  of  the  work, 
but  he  does  not  care  to  meet  the  clergymen  she  has 
Invited.  The  wife  is  bitterly  disappointed,  and  is 
compelled  to  make  excuses  for  her  husband's  ab- 
sence. John  has  a  stroke  of  paralysis  and  falls 
helpless  over  his  desk.  The  guests  having  gone, 
and  unable  to  get  any  answer  from  her  husband 
over  the  'phone,  the  wife  sends  the  butler  to  the 
office.  There  he  finds  John  unconscious,  telephones 
for  a  doctor  and  together  they  take  the  stricken 
man  home.  He  recovers  hut  is  not  able  to  walk, 
is  compelled  to  spend  bis  time  in  a  rolling  chair 
nnable  even  to  move  that  about.  Still  he  scoffs 
at  all  sacred  subjects  and  refuses  to  see  the 
minister   when   he   calls. 

At  last  we  see  blm  seated  in  bis  chair  reading. 
The  baby  haa  been  put  to  bed  and  his  wife  and 
maid  go  to  a  prayer  meeting.  He  dismisses  the 
butler  and  reads.  In  the  bedroom  a  newspaper 
on  a  table  near  the  crib  blows  and  flutters,  finally 
catches  fire  in  the  candle.  Tbe  paper  finally  blows 
onto  the  crib,  and  soon  the  bed  is  on  fire.  The 
smoke  wakes  John,  he  rings,  calls,  endeavors  to 
move  his  chair1 — all  in  vain.  In  desperation  he  prays 
for  power,  for  help,  to  reach  his  child.  Slowly  he 
makes  the  chair  move.  Finally  the  frantic  man 
gets  his  chair  to  the  door,  it  sticks  and  he  cannot 
move  it.  Sitting  helpless  In  sight  of  the  flames 
crawling  towards  his  baby,  he  once  more  prays  for 
help,  and  with  a  tremendous  effort  of  will,  staggers 
out  of  the  chair  to  the  bed,  gets  the  baby,  but  hla 
power  is  gone,  be  sinks  helpless  Into  a  chair  amid 
smoke  and  flame.  Meantime  the  wife  has  left 
the  prayer-meeting,  the  butler  opens  the  door.  The 
minister  Is  with  her.  The  men  get  a  blanket  and 
wrap  the  now  fiercely  burning  bedclothes  in  It, 
throwing  all  out  of  the  window.  The  picture 
closes    with    the   husband   repentant. 

LOVE  AND  LAUNDRY. — It  starts  when  George 
writes  two  letters — one  to  bis  sweetheart — call- 
ing for  an  answer  to  a  very  Important  question 
when  be  calls  later — the  other  to  his  laundress — 
who  has  been  casting  sheep's-eyes  at  George  while 
she  ironed  his  shirts — calling  her  down  for  neg- 
lecting her  duty.  By  mistake  of  the  messenger 
tbe  letters  get  mixed  and  are  delivered  to  the 
wrong  parties.  Not  hearing  from  either,  George 
decides  to  call  on  Bridget  wb4le  on  his  way  to  get 
his  sweetheart's  answer.  Bridget  assumes  that 
he   is  on   altogether  a   different   errand,    and   when 


he  insists  on  talking  about  the  shirt,  she  casts  it 
aside,  saying  there  are  more  important  matters  to 
take  up.  With  this  she  throws  her  arms  above 
his  neck.  George  demands  an  explanation — when 
she  flashes  the  miscarried  letter.  George  tries  to 
explain  that  It  was  not  intended  for  her,  but  she 
will  not  release  him.  Bolting  out  with  Bridget 
still  hanging  about  his  neck,  the  two  run  Into 
a  policeman,  who  Is  appealed  to  by  both.  He  has 
been  casting  sheep-eyes  at  Bridget,  end  of  course, 
decides  in  George's  favor,  so  George  is  allowed  to 
go  his  way,   a  little  worse  for  the  conflict. 

Enter  George  in  the  presence  of  Mazie.  Here 
more  explanations  are  needed.  However,  George 
convinces  Mazie  that  it  was  all  an  error,  and  is 
about  to  take  her  in  his  arms,  when  she  pushes  him 
back,  saying  "Oh,  no,  I  may  soil  your  white 
shirt  front,"  bnt  George  says  "I  don't  care."  As 
you  may  Imagine  there  Is  bnt  one  finish. 

THE  SAND  MAN. — The  opening  scene  shows  a 
student  pouring  over  his  books  as  the  day  closes. 
Enter  the  Sand  Man,  woh  says:  "The  day  is  done, 
the  time  for  rest  is  here."  The  student  replies, 
"No;  I  mustwork,"  whereupon  the  sand  man  scat- 
ters the  dust  in  bis  eyes,  and  as  be  dozes  off,  tbe 
Sand  Man  says:  "Come  with  me,  and  I  will  show- 
yon  why   I   make  my  rounds  so  early." 

The  first  place  they  enter  Is  the  kitchen  of  a 
workman's  house.  There  sits  a  frail  woman,  as  her 
husband,  a  working  man,  enters  drunk.  The  wife 
prepares  the  meal  for  her  husband  and  child,  but 
her  solicitation  is  met  with  poor  reward,  for  the 
brute  of  the  man  asserts  itself,  and  as  he  is 
about  to  strike  tbe  defenseless  woman,  tbe  Sand 
Man  scatters  the  dust,  and  sleep  comes  to  their 
rescue. 

From  here  they  go  to  the  sick  bed  of  a  child 
where  the  Sand  Man  induces  sleep — -a  panacea 
better   than   all. 

Next  they  visit  the  attic  of  a  poor,  struggling 
artist,  who  is  about  to  seek  sleep  with  drugs, 
when  the  Sand  Man  scatters  his  dust. 

Thus  tbe  Sand  Man  guides  the  student  through 
the  night,  bringing  him  back  to  his  study,  and 
when  the  night  is  gone,  he  reviews  himself  awak- 
ening from  a  refreshing  sleep,  the  window  open, 
the  morning  light  shining  in  on  his  face,  and  he 
realizes  that  the  night's  experience  was  all  a 
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ADVERTISING   FOR    EXHIBITORS «96 

"BALAOO"     (Union    Features) use 

BRITISH    CENSORSHIP 683 

BULL   FIGHT    IN    FRANCE    (Patbe) 685 

CALENDAR    OF    LICENSED    RELEASES 720 

CALENDAR  OF  INDEPENDENT   RELEASES 722 

CHICAGO    LETTER 689 

COMMENTS    ON   THE    FILMS    (Licensed) 703 

COMMENTS  OF  THE  FILMS    (Independent) 705 

CORRESPONDENCE    715 

DOINGS   AT   LOS   ANGELES 690 

DRASTIC    ILLINOIS    BILL 708 


CARBON   IMPORTERS. 

FRORUP.     L.     E 759 

KIEWERT.    CHARLES    L 760 

REISIXGER,    HUGO 

ELECTRICAL  &   MECHANICAL  EQUIPMENT. 

AMUSEMENT   SUPPLY    CO 732 

BELL   &    HOWELL 757 

BENDER.     GEORGE 734 

CALEHUFF   SUPPLY   CO 756 

CAPITAL   MERCHANDISE   CO 728 

DETROIT  ENGINE   WORKS 

FORT   WAYNE    ELECTRIC    CO 726 

HALLBERG.    J.     H 787 

HOKE.     GEORGE     M 762 

LAVEZZI  MACHINE  WORKS 756-7 

PICTURE  THEATRE    EQUIPMENT   CO 761 

SAFETY    ELECT.    00 725 

SCHNEIDER,    E 725 

SMITH,  L.   C.   *  CO 757 

FEATURE  FILMS. 

ALLARDT   FEATURE   FILM    CO 725 

AMERICA'S    FEATITRE    FILM    CO 730 

DUHBIM  &  HARTER   M.    P.   CO 757 

EAGLE   FEATURE   FILM   CO 747 

ECLECTIC   FILMS 741 

FEATURE    FILM    CO 718 

FULLERS    FEATURES 719-757 

GENERAL  FILM  CO 1,72  3 

GT.   NORTHERN  SPECIAL  FEATURE  FILM  CO.731 

ITALA    FILM    CO 761 

M.    &   F.    FEATURE   FILM  CO 762 

MINNEAPOLIS   FEATURE   FILM   SERVICE 767 

M0N0P0L   FILM    CO 669 

MOORE    FEATURE    FILMS 743 

MOORE,    F.    E 718 

NEW   YORK   FILM  00 761 

OREGON    M.    P.    CO 739 

SPECIAL   EVENT   FILM  OO 725 

STATE  RIGHTS  FILM  CO 751 

SUPREME   FEATURE   FILM  CO 747 

VITA    FILM    SALES   CO 756 

WARNER'S     FEATURES 745 

IMPORTERS  &   DEALERS. 

WESTERN    Fn.M    BROKERS 732 

FIREPROOF  APPARATUS. 

TRAINER,    0.    W 734 

FILM   EXCHANGES. 

BRADENBURG.   G.   W 759 

CHICAGO   M.    P.    SUPPLY    CO 734 

GUNBY    BROTHERS 728 

HETZ.    L 732 

LAEMMLE   FILM   CO 738 

LIBERTY   FILM   RENTING   CO 725 

McINTIRE  &   RICHTER 732 


TO  CONTENTS. 

FACTS    AND    COMMENTS 679 

HISTORICAL     PHOTOPLAYS 680 

ILLINOIS     715 

INDEPENDENT  FILM  STORIES 736 

INDEPENDENT    RELEASE   DATES 752 

INQUIRIES     698 

LICENSED   FILM   STORIES 724 

LICENSED    RELEASE    DATES 754 

LOUISVILLE    717 

MANUFACTURERS    ADVANCE    NOTES 712 

MELIES     IN    AUSTRALIA 687 

MOTION    PICTURE  EXHIBITORS'    LEAGUE 708 

TO  ADVERTISERS. 

MAGNET    FILM    CO 738 

MUTUAL    FILM    CORPORATION 725 

NORTHERN    FEATURE    FILM    EXCHANGE 734 

SOUTHERN    FILM    SERVICE 734 

INDEPENDENT    FILM    MANUFACTURERS. 

AMRROSIO   AMERICAN   FILM  CO 735 

\MF.RICAN     668 

BRONCHO    FILM    CO 727 

i  RYSTAL   FILM   CO 729 

OAUHONT   CO 74«74;> 

KAY-BEE    727 

KEYSTONE     727 

KINEMACOLOR   CO.    OF   AMERICA 745-728 

MAJESTIC     739 

N.    Y.    MOTION   PICTURE  CO 664-5 

RELIANCE    743 

SOLAX      666-7 

THANHOUSER      65S 

UNIVERSAL    FILM    MANUFACTURERS.  .  .060-1-2-3 

LICENSED  FILM  MANUFACTURERS. 

EDISON    675 

ESSANAY      659 

KALEM     670-678 

LUBIN    676 

MELIES    763 

PATHB     FRERES 674 

SELIG' 671 

VITAGRAPH      677 

LECTURERS. 

MARION,     L.     M.      (Miss) 756 

LENS  MANUFACTURERS. 

GUNDLACH  MANHATTAN   OPTICAL  CO 758 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

A.    B.    C.    CO 750 

AMERICAN    CINEMATOGRAPH    CO 730 

AMERICAN    SCHOOL  OF  CORRESPONDENCE.  .747 

AMERICAN   TALKING   PICTURE  CO 733 

A.     W 734 

BALLARD    &    McINTIRE 757 

CHALMERS    PUBLISHING    CO 75S-760 

CLASSIFIED     ADVERTISEMENTS 746 

CLEVELAND.    W.    S 756 

CORCORAN.    A     J 732 

EASTMAN   KODAK   CO 758 

EWING    MUSIC  CO 734 

FILMO  OHMEICAL  CO 762 

HOUSEHOLD   OUTFITING   CO 757 

HUME.    T.    D.    &  CO 738 

KEYSTONE   PRESS 724 

KRAUSE   MFG.    CO 724 

LUMIERE  JOUGLA  CO 756 

McKENNA  BROS.    BRASS   CO 730 


MOVING   PICTURE   EDUCATOR,   THE 691 

MUSIC    FOR    THE    PICTURE 693 

PHOTOPLAYWRIGHT,     THE 697 

PROJECTION   DEPARTMENT 699 

"RAJAH'S  OASKET,   THE"    (Ganmont) 686 

SPRINGFIELD.    ILL 715 

STORIES  OF  THE  FILMS    (Licensed) 724 

STORIES   OF   THE   FILMS    (Independent) 736 

•TRAGEDY  OF  BIG  EAGLE  MINE,  THE" 

iKalem) 707 

"WHILE  JOHN   BOLT  SLEPT"    (Edison) 685 


MOTION   PICTURE   CAMERA  00 726 

NATIONAL  TICKET  CO 752-757 

NATIONAL  WATERPROOF  FILM  CO 738 

NATIONAL  X-RAY   REFLECTOR   CO 759 

NEWMAN    CO 725 

RAW    FILM    SUPPLY    CO 759 

REYNOLDS   &  CO.,    B.   F 757 

SARGENT.    E.    W 761 

STANGE,  A.   K 725 

STAR    A    SHOP 734 

STEBBINS.    C.     M 725 

TAKITO  AG  AW  A  &  CO 757 

TRADE  CIRCULAR  ADDRESSING   CO 725 

VAN   HORNE  &  SON 734 

VIVAPHONB    CO 762 

MOVING  PICTURE  MACHINE  MANUFACTURERS. 

EDISON    L 675 

ENTERPRISE    OPTICAL   CO JJ.L 737 

POWER'S     CAMERA&RAPH V 764 

SIMPLEX 721 

MUSICAL  INSTRUMENTS. 

AMERICAN    PHOTOPLAYER    SALES    CO 732 

DEAGAN.     J.     C 753 

SHUELKE    ORGAN    CO 725 

SINN,    C.    E 730 

WTJBLITZER,     RUDOLPH 759 

OPERA  CHAIR  MANUFACTURERS. 

AMERICAN   SEATING    CO "62 

ANDREWS,    A.    H 762 

BENNETT,    GEO.    W 762 

HARDESTY    762 

STAFFORD,     E.     H 730 

STEEL    FURNITURE   CO 762 

WISCONSIN    SEATING    CO 762 

POSTERS. 

AM.   SLIDE  &   POSTER  CO 754 

BRADY,    A i2* 

EXHIBITORS'   ADV.    &  SPECIALTY   CO '20 

GENERAL    FILM    CO i55. 

HENNEGAN    &    CO '57 

THE  MORGAN   LITHOGRAPH  CO 758 

PROJECTION  SCREENS. 

AMERICAN  THEATRE  CURTAIN  CO 760 

GENTER,   J.  H i4: 

MIRROR  SCREEN  CO '°' 

SONG    &    ADVERTISING    SLIDES. 

SIMPSON,    A I?-' 

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DECORATORS'     SUPPLY     CO 725 


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LUBIN'S  Next  TWO-REEL  SPECIAL: 

"THE  DISTRICT  ATTORNEY'S  CONSCIENCE"  Rdeased May  2ist 

Also  for  KALEM'S  SPECIAL  (IN  TWO  PARTS) 

"THE  BATTLE  FOR  FREEDOM" 

And  KALEM'S  Regular  Saturday  Release 

"THE  POET  AND  THE  SOLDIER"  (Mayi?th) 

REMEMBER,  we  make  all  three  sizes  for  every  SATURDAY  KALEM  now.  Also  THREE  SHEETS  for  every 
Monday  Kalem,  and  ALL  LUBIN  and  BIOGRAPH  releases.     SEND  FOR  A  LIST  OF  BACK  STOCK. 

N.  B. — In  our  Ad  last  week  we  gave  the  release  rate  for  Kalem's  "The  Battle  for  Freedom"  as  May  16th.  This 
was  an  error,  as  this  subject  is  to  be  released  Saturday,  May  17th. 

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Standing  Room  Only  Crowds 

You  are  no  doubt  among  the  many  State  right  operators  appre- 
ciating the  value  of  the  picture  with  a  punch.  The  road  to  prosperity 
leads  to  the  box-office  window,  and  the  wide-awake  manager  is  always 
on  the  lookout  for  a  feature  that  means  a  line  at  the  box  office.  The 
American  public  demands  the  play  of  adventure — the  drama  abounding 
with  thrills — the  story  with  a  punch.  All  the  reigning  stage  successes 
of  the  hour  are  crook  plays — viz.:  "Within  the  Law,"  "The  Conspiracy," 
"Are  You  a  Crook?"  "The  Argyle  Case,"  "Stop  Thief,"  and  "The  Mas- 
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RAFFLES,"  which  is  the  most  sensational  and  absorbing  crook  play 
ever  offered  the  lovers  of  motion  pictures. 

"THE  FEMALE  RAFFLES"  is  a  thrilling  story  depicting  the 
startling  adventures  of  an  American  detective  in  Paris,  and  is  a  picture 
that  holds  the  audience  spellbound,  as  stirring  scene  after  scene  is 
vividly  portrayed  with  machine-like  rapidity. 

STATE  RIGHT  OPERATORS:  We  have  the  picture  that  the  public 
wants — the  picture  that  means  a  line  at  the  box  office  window — the  pic- 
ture that  furnishes  a  thrill  a  second — the  picture  that  will  make  the  most 
blase  sit  up  and  take  notice — the  picture  that  sends  an  audience  away 
from  the  theatre  talking— AND  A  PICTURE  THAT  WILL  PASS 
ANY  CENSORSHIP  BOARD. 

We  are  offering  "THE  FEMALE  RAFFLES"  at  a  bargain— selling 
the  films  at  fifteen  cents  per  foot,  which  will  include  territorial  rights 
fully  protected.  Unsurpassed  line  of  pictorial  printing  at  Otis  Litho- 
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May     5 — The    Brother*    (Drama) 1000 

May    8 — Human    Kindness     (Drama) 1000 

May  10 — Youth   and  Jealousy   (Drama) 1000 

May  12— Angel    of    the    Canyons    (Drama) 1000 

May  15—  The     Kiss     (Drama) 1000 

May  17— The    Great    Harmony    (Drama) 1000 

May  19 — Her  Innocent  Marriage  (Drama).  ...1000 
May  22 — Calamity  Anne  Parcel  Post  (Comedy)  .1000 
May  24 — The   Modern  Snare    (Drama) 1000 

AMBROSIO. 

Apr.     B — For    Hli   Sake    (2    reel' — Drama) 

Apr.  13 — An  to  Suggestion;  or  the  Crime  of  An- 
other   (2    reels — Drama ) 

Apr.  19 — Child  Labor  Traffic  (2  parts,  Drama).. 

tnr    2« — <?olden   Rain    (2   reels.    Drama) 

Hay    8 — The    Spider    (2    parts— Drama) 

May  10 — Tempest  and  Sunshine  (2  parts — 
Drama)     

May  17 — A   Maid   of   Honor    (2   parts — Drama).. 

May  24 — The  Yellow  Man    (2  parts — Drama)... 


BISON. 

Apr.  15 — War  (3  parte,  Drama) 

Apr.  19 — The  Last  Boll  Call  (2-pari*  Drama) . . 
Apr.  22 — Bred  In  the  Bone  (3  parts,  Drama).. 
Apr.  26— The  Black  Chancellor  (3  parts.  Dr.) 
Apr.  29 — The  Last  Roll  Call  (2  parts,  Drama) . . 
I/ay    3 — The    Vengeance    of    the    Skystone     (2 

parts,  Drama) 

May  6 — The  Indian's  Secret  (2  parts,  Drama) 
May  10 — The  Northern  Spy  (2  parts.  Drama) 
May  13 — The  Toll  of  War  (3  parts — Drama) . . 
May  17 — In  the  Secret  Service  (2  parts — Drama) 
May  20 — The     Stars     and    Stripes     Forever     (3 

parts — Drama)     

May  24 — Under   Fire    (2   parts — Drama) 


BEONCHO. 

Apr.  16 — A    Southern    Cinderella    (8    parts,    Dr.) 

Apr.  23 — Retrogression    (2   parts,    Drama) 

Apr.  80 — Bread  Cast  Upon  the  Waters  (2  parts, 

Drama ) 

May  7 — The  Way  of  a  Mother  (2  parts,  Dr.) 
May  14 — A  Slave's  Devotion  (2  parts — Drama) 
May  21 — The    Sea    Dog     (2    parts — Drama) 

CHAMPION. 

Apr.  14 — Lena's  Flirtation    (Comedy) 

Apr.  21 — When   Strong    Men    Meet    (Drama) 

Apr.  28 — The  Clown   Hero    (Comedy) 

Apr.  28 — Life  In  Soudan    (Sociology) 

May    B — The   Shark    God    (Drama) 1000 

May  12 — Hawaiian  Love   (Drama) 

May  19 — The    Leper     (Drama) 

CBYSTAL. 

May  11 — When  Love   Is   Young    (Comedy) 

May  11 — His    Awful    Daughter    (Comedy) 

May  18 — Homlock  Shermes  (Comedy) 

May  18— Our    Willie     (Comedy) 

May  25— Toodleums     (Comedy) 

May  25 — Supper    for    Three     (Comedy) 

DRAGON. 

May  J2— The    Outcast    (Drama)     1000 

May  19 — The    Sergeant's    Daughter     (2    parts — 

Drama)     2000 

May  26 — Love's  Monogram   (Drama) 1000 

ECLAIR.  .... 

May  11 — A    Wise    Jndge    (Comedy) 

May  11 — Manufacture  of  Steel    (Industry) 

May  18— He  Loves  to  Watch  the  Flight  of  Time 

(Comedy)     *. 

May  18 — Cuttlefish    (Zoology)    

May  21 — Thus     Salth     the     Lord      (2     parts — 
Drama) 


EXCELSIOR. 

Apr.  7 — Temperamental  Alice    (Comedy-Drama) 

Apr.  14 — The  Moving  Picture  Girl   (Drama) 

Apr.  21 — The  Man  from  the  City  (Drama) 

Apr.    28 — The  Surveyors  (Drama) 

May    5 — Brothers    All     (Drama) 

FRONTIER. 

May    8 — The    Sheriff's    Rival    (Drama) 

May  10 — The  Tenderfoot's   Ghost    (Comedy) 

May  17 — Betty'B    Bandit     (Comedy) 

May  17 — The  Ranch  Stenographer  (Comedy)... 
May  22— The  Stage  Driver's  Chivalry  (Drama). 
May  24 — Where   Wits   Win    (Comedy) 

GAUM0NT. 

Apr.  23 — Gaumont's  Weekly,  No.  59  (News)... 
Apr.  24 — Lessons  for  the  Bashful  (Comedy).... 
Apr.  26— (An  Educational  &  Topical  Subject.) 
Apr.  29 — While  the  Robber  Robbed   (Comedy):. 

Apr.  80 — Gaumont's  Weekly,  No.  60  (News) 

May  1 — The  Shoe  on  the  Other  Foot  (Comedy) 
May    3 — (An   Educational    &  Topical    Subject). 

May     6 — An    Eye   for   an   Eye    (Drama) 

May    7 — Gaumont's    Weekly,    No.    61    News).. 

May    8 — It's   Great   to   be   Great    (Comedy) 

May    8 — A    Man    of    Letters    (Comedy) 

May  10 — (An  Educational  and  Topical  Subject). 

OEM. 

Apr.  29 — Views  of   Cape  Hatteras    (Scenic) .... 

May    6 — Billy's    First    Quarrel    (Comedy) 

May    6 — Call    Him    Whiskers    (Comedy) 

May  13 — Billy's    Adventure    (Comedy) 

May  20 — Billy  Plays  Poker   (Comedy) 

GBEAT  NORTHERN. 

Apr.  12— The  Bewitched  Bobber  Shoes 
(Comedy)      

Apr.  12 — Spanish     Towns     (Scenic) 

Apr.  19— The  Two  Convicts    (Drama) 

Apr.  26 — Told  In  Confidence   (Drama) 

May    3 — Who    Is    Most   to   Blame    (Oom.-Dr.).. 

May  10 — Her  First  Love  Affair  (Comedy — 
Drama)     

May  10 — The  Hartz   (Science) 

May  17 — The  Professor's  Traveling  Adventures 
(Comedy)     

IMP. 

May  12 — A    Woman    Loved     (Drama) 

May  15— The    Heart    that    Sees    (Drama) 

May  17 — Beetles    (Centimology) 

May  19 — The     Twins     (Comedy) 

May  22 — She    Never   Knew    (Drama) 

May  24 — Just    for    Luck    (Comedy) 

May  24 — Hy  Mayer — His  Magic  Hand   (Novelty) 

KAY  BEE. 

Apr.  18 — The   Runaways   (Comedy) 

Apr.  25 — Will  O'  the  Wisp  (2  part*.  Drama).. 
May.  2 — A  Black  Conspiracy  (2  part*.  Drama) 
May  9 — Past  Redemption  (2  parts.  Drama)... 
May  16 — For  Love  of  the  Flag  (2  parts — Drama) 
May  23 — The    Miser    (2    parts — Drama) 

KEYSTONE. 

May    8 — The  Dark  Town  Belle   (Comedy) 

May    8 — A    Little   Hero    (Comedy) 

May  12 — Mabel's   Awful    Mistake    (Comedy) 

May  15— Their    FirBt     Execution     (Comedy) 

May  19 — Hubby's   Job    (Comedy) 

May  19 — Twlxt   Love   and   Fire    (Comedy) 

May  22 — The   Foreman  of    the   Jury    (Comedy) . 

LUX. 

Apr.  25 — A  Safeguard  for  Bachelors  (Comedy)..  315 

Apr.  25 — The  Truant    Husband    (Comedy) 595 

May    2— The    Miller's   Daughter    (Drama) 760 

May    2 — The   Invincible  Hands    (Comedy) 235 

May    9 — Saved     from     the     Grip     of     Alcohol 

(Drama)     995 

May  16— A   Mighty  Hunter   (Comedy) 495 

May  16 — Pat      Moves     to      Diplomatic     Circles 

(Comedy) 495} 

MAJESTIC. 

Apr.  29 — The    Whim   of   Destiny    (Drama) 

May  4 — A  Country  Man's  Romance  (Drama).. 
May     6 — The    Children    of    St.    Anne    (2   parts — 

Drama) 

May  11— Billy's    New   Watch    (Comedy) 

May  11— Liquid    Air    (PuyslCB) .• 

May  13 — My    Lady's    Boot    (Drama) 


MUTUAL  WEEKLY. 

Apr.     9 — Mutual   Weekly,   No.  15    (New*) 

Apr.  16— Mutual   Weekly,   No.    16   (News) 

Apr.  23 — Mutual   Weekly,   No.    17   (News) 

Apr.  30— Mutual    Weekly,    No.    18    (News) 

May    7 — Mutual    Weekly,    No.    19     (News).... 

MUTUAL  EDUCATIONAL 

Apr.  24 — Funnicus  is  Tired  of  Life   (Comedy) . ." 

Apr.  24 — Electrical  Phenomenon  (Physics) 

May     1— The  Old  Invalid    (Drama) 

May    1— Tachkent,     Asiatic     Russia     (Political 

Geography) 

May    8— The    Old    Clock    (Drama) 

May    8 — Mosques    and    Tombs    of    Caliphs    and 

Mamelukes  (Architectural)    

May  15 — His     Master's     Rival     (Comedy) 

May  15 — The     Valley     of     Albula,     Switzerland 

(Scenic)     

NESTOR. 

May     2 — The    Ingrate     (Drama) 

May     5 — The    Country    Cousin     (Comedy ) 

May     7 — The  Awakening  of  Psplta   (Drama) . . . 

May    9 — Miss    Nobody     (Drama) 

May  12 — The    Squashville    Ladles    Fire    Brigade 

(Comedy)     

May  14 — The     Clean     Op     (Drama) 

May  16 — An    Eve    for   an    Eye    (Drama) 

May  19 — Her  Hero's  Predicament  (Comedy) . . 
May  21 — The  Boy  Scouts  to  the  Rescue  (Drama) 
May  23 — A    Mine    and    a    Marathon    (Drama).. 

POWERS. 

Apr.  30 — In  a  Strange  Land  (Drama) 

May     2 — Neighbors    (Comedy) 

May    7 — The  Black   Small   Pox  Scare    (Com.) . . 

May    9 — Bozo    Arrives     (Comedy) 

May  14 — The    Violet    Bride     (Drama) 

May  16 — The    Tarantula     (Drama) 

May  21— The    Curate's    Outing     (Comedy) 

May  23 — Black   Jack's   Atonement    (Drama) 

PILOT. 

Apr.     8 — In  the  Battle'*  Smoke  (Drama) 

Apr.  10 — Across   the   Border    (Drama) 

Apr.  17 — The    Promoter    (Drama) 

Apr.  24 — The   Hypnotic    Collector    (Comedy) .... 

May     1 — The   Song  of   Songs    (Drama) 

May     8 — The    Crucible    of    Love    (Drama) 

May  1!S — Tony,    the    Tenor    (Drama) 

May  22— School  Days    (Comedy) 

RELIANCE. 

Apr.  30— The   Bawlerout    (3   part*.    Drama).... 

May     3 — The    Good    Within     (Drama) 

May    7 — A     Cruel     Suspicion     (Drama) 

May  10 — The   Sheriff    (Drama) 

May  12 — The    Eternal    Sacrifice    (Drama) 

May  14 — The    Big   Boss    (2   parts — Drama) 

May  17 — After    the    Massacre    (Drama) 

BEX. 

May    4 — The    Rosary    (Drama) 

May     8 — The    Smuggler's     Daughter     (2     parti, 

(Drama) 

May  11 — The  Poverty  of  Riches   (Drama) 

May  18 — Gold    and    Two    Men    (Drama) 

May  22 — In  Slavery  Days  (2  parts — Drama) . . . 
May  25 — The  Trifier   (Drama) 

80LAX. 

May    7 — The  Case  of  the  Missing  Girl  (Comedy) 

May     9 — The     Past     Forgiven     (Drama) 

May  14 — Dad's    Orders     (Comedy) 

May  16 — The  Man  in  the  Sick  Room  (Drama).. 
May  21 — The  Amateur  Highwayman  (Comedy). 
May  23— The    Man    Who    Failed    (Drama) 

THANHOUSEB. 

Apr.  29 — The   Girl   Detective's   Ruse    (Drama).. 

May    2 — The   Widow's   Stratagem    (Drama) 

May    4 — Express    C.    O.    D.    (Comedy-Drama).. 

May    6 — Her  Sister's  Secret   (Drama) 

May    9 — The    Other    Girl    (Drama) 

May  11 — Barred  from  the  Malls  (Comedy).... 
May  13 — The  Marble  Heart  (2  parts — Drama). 
May  16— (No   Reliance  this  date) 

VICT0B. 

Apr.  25 — Loneliness  and   Love    (Drama) 

May    2 — The  Unseen  Influence   (Drama) 

May     9 — The    Unknown     (Drama) 

May  16 — A  Fair  Exchange  (2  parts — Drama).. 
May  23 — Good    for    Evil    (Drama) 


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BIOGBAPH. 

Hay    3 — The  Wanderer  (Drama) 

May    B — The   Tenderfoot's   Money    (Drama) 

May    8 — Frappe   Love    (Comedy) 

May    8 — The  Coveted  Prize  (Comedy) 

May  10— The  House  of  Darkness  (Drama) 

May  12 — The  King  and  the  Copper   (Comedy) . . 

May  12 — A     Rainy    Day     (Comedy) 

May  16 — The    Stolen     Loaf     (Drama) 

May  17 — The    Yaqul    Cur     (Spares — Drama) 

May  19 — Olaf — An  Atom  (Drama) 

May  22— The    HicksTille    Epicure     (Comedy)... 

May  22 — Cinderella  and  the  Boob  (Comedy) 

May  24— Just    Gold     (Drama) 

cures. 

(O.  Xlalne.) 

Apr.  29— The  New  Arrival  (Comedy) 800 

Mar    2 — The  Broken   Vow     (Special,     2     parts, 

Drama)  2000 

May    3 — The  Rival  Lovers   (Comedy) 500 

May    3 — Jerry's  Rebellion  (Comedy) 500 

May    8— A   Mixed  Affair    (Drama) 1000 

May  10— The  People  of  Somallland,  East  Africa 

(Manners    and    Customs) 900 

May  10 — Excess  Baggage   (Comedy) 400 

May  10— Beautiful   Lake  Como,    Italy    (Physical 

Geography) 300 

May  13 — Willie's    Alarm    Clock     (Comedy) 780 

May  13 — Relics    of    Ancient    Rome    (Travel) . . .  220 

May  17 — A  Woman's  Influence   (Drama) 820 

May  17 — Gulf      of      Togullo,      Northern      Italy 

(Scenic) 180 

May  20 — Red    Wins    (Drama)     1000 

May  24 — Exceeding  the  Time  Limit  (Comedy).  300 
May  24 — The  Maid  and  the  Tarn  (Comedy) . .  300 
May  24 — Curing  a   Would-Be  Aviator    (Comedy)  400 

May  27 — Borrowed    Plumage    (Comedy) 

May  27 — The    Champion    Fixer    (Comedy) 

May  27 — In    Somallland     (Scenic) 

EDISON. 

Apr.  26 — A  Splendid  Scapegrace   (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  28 — When    the    Right    Man    Cornea    Along 

(Comedy)  1000 

Apr.  29—  The  Orphan  (Drama) 1000 

Apr.  30— A  Reluctant  Cinderella    (Comedy) 1000 

May    2 — Groundless  Suspicion  (Drama) 1000 

May     3 — Billy's  Sweetheart   (Drama) 1000 

May    5 — The    One    Hundred    Dollar    Elopement 

(Comedy  *"  rama)    1000 

May     6 — When  Greek  Meets  Greek   (Drama) 1000 

May    7 — Aunty  and   the  Girls    (Comedy) 400 

May    7 — With  the  Assistance  of  "Shep"  (Com.)  600 

May    9— The  Golden  Wedding   (Drama) 1000 

May  10— An  Accidental  Alibi   (Drama) 1000 

May  12— The  Heart  of  Valeska   (Drama) 1000 

May  13— The    Prophecy     (Drama) 1000 

May  14 — The   Two   Merchants    (Drama) 1000 

May  IS— John  Manley'a  Awakening  (Drama).  .1000 
May  17 — A  Concerto   for   the   Violin    (Drama).  .1000 

May  19 — By    Mutual    Agreement    (Comedy) 1000 

May  20— The  Good  In  the  Worst  of  Us  (Drama).lOOO 
May  21 — Glimpses      of      Colorado      in      Winter 

(Scenic)     315 

May  21— Brigg's    New    Suit    (Comedy) 6S6 

May  23 — A     Race    to    New    York     (Being    the 
Eleventh   Story    of    "What    Happened 

to    Mary"    (Drama)     1000 

May  24 — The  Translation  of  a  Savage   (Drama). 1000 


ESSANAY. 

May    6— A  Tango  Tangle    (Comedy) 1000 

May    7— The   Prophecy    (Drama) 1000 

May    8— Two  Western  Paths   (Drama) 1000 

May     9 — A   Woman's  Way    (Drama) 1000 

May  10— Alkali  Ike's  Mother-in-law  (Comedy).  .1000 
May  13 — The    Ranch    Girl's   Partner    (Drama)..  1000 

May  14— The    Same    Old    Story    (Comedy) 1000 

May  15 — Boosting     Business     (Comedy) 1000 

May  16— Two  Social  Calls   (Drama) 1000 

May  17— Broncho   Billy's   Grit    (Drama) 1000 

May  19 — Into    the     North     (Special — 2     parts — 

Drama)     2000 

May  20 — Buster  Brown,  Tige  and  Their  Creator, 

R.   F.    Outcault    (Comedy)    1000 

May  21— The  Letter's  Mission    (Comedy)    1000 

May  22— A    Widow   of    Nevada    (Drama) 1000 

May  23 — Jealousy     (Drama)     1000 

May  24 — Broncho  Billy   and   the  Express  Driver 

(Drama)      1000 

■gaT.CTT 

May    3 — The  Wayward  Son    (Drama) 1000 

May    5 — The  Heart  of  An  Actress  (Drama) 1000 

May    7— The  Alien   (Drama) 1000 

May    9 — The   Hash   Honse  Count    (Comedy) .... 

May    9 — Toothache    (Comedy) 

May    9 — The    Cheyenne    Massacre     (Special,     2 

parts,    Drama) 2000 

May  10— The   River   Pirates    (Drama) 1000 

May  12 — The  Adventure  of  an  Heiress  (Drama).  1000 

May  14 — Man's   Greed   for   Gold    (Drama) 1000 

May  16 — Pat,    the   Cowboy    (Comedy) 

May  16 — rood    Inspection    (Topical) 

May  17— The  Poet  and  the  Soldier  (Drama) 1000 

May  17— The    Battle    for    Freedom     (Special — 2 

parts — Drama)     2000 

May  19 — The     Artist's    Sacrifice     (Drama) 1000 

May  21— The    Circle    of    Fate    (Drama) ...1000 

May  23 — The    Black    Hand    (Comedy) 

May  23 — The    Egyptian    Mummy    (Comedy) .... 
May  24 — The    Infamous   Don   Miguel    (Drama) .  .1000 

LUBES. 

May    2— The  Girl  Back  East  (Drama) 1000 

May    3 — Clarence  at  the  Theater  (Comedy) 400 

May    3 — Fixing  Auntie  Up  (Comedy) 600 

May    5 — Pedro's    Treachery    (Drama) 1000 

May    6 — The  Judgment  of  the  Deep  (Drama) .  .1000 

May    8— She   Must  be  Ugly    (Comedy) 400 

May    8— Hattle's    New    Hat    (Comedy) 600 

May    9 — A  Mock   Marriage    (Drama) 1000 

May  10 — The  Paymaster   (Drama) 1000 

May  10— A  Girl  Spy  in  Mexico  (Special,  2  parts, 

Drama) 2000 

May  12 — Lucky    Cohen     (Comedy) 400 

May  12 — A  Ten  Acre  Gold  Brick    (Comedy) 1000 

May  13 — The    Padre's    Strategy    (Drama) 1000 

May  15 — Longing    for   a   Mother    (Drama) 1000 

May  16 — Breed  of  the  West  (Drama) 1000 

May  17 — Retribution    (Drama) 1000 

May  19 — Margaret's     Painting     (Drama) 1000 

May  20— Kidnapping    Father     ( Drama ) 1000 

May  21 — The     District    Attorney's     Conscience 

(Special— 2    parts — Drama)    2000 

May  22 — A   Perilous    Ride    (Drama) 1000 

May  23 — Detective   Dot    (Comedy) 400 

May  23 — His   First    Experience    (Comedy) 600 

May  24 — Brightened    Sunsets    (Drama) 1000 

ME  LIES. 
Apr.  24 — How  Chief  Te   Ponga   Won  His  Bride 

(Drama) 

Apr.  24 — A  Trip  to  the  Waltoma  Caves  of  New 

Zealand    (Geology) 

May    1 — A  Burled  Treasure  (Drama) 

May    1— The  Home  of  Terna   (Zoology) 

May    8 — A   Trip   Through    the    "North    Island" 

of  New  Zealand,   from  Auckland  to 

Wellington     (Travel) 1000 

May  15 — The  Black  Trackers  (Drama) 

May  22 — Gold   and   the  Gilded    Way    (Drama) .  .1000 

ECLIPSE. 

G     PIl«in«.  ' 
Apr.  30 — A     Picturesque    Journey     In     Western 

France  (Travel) 250 

Apr.  SO— Grandpa's  Rejuvenation  (Comedy) ....  850 
Apr.  30 — German  Cavalry  Maneuvres  (Mill.)..  400 
May  7— The  Dividing  Wall  (Comedy JDrama).  .1000 
May  12 — The  Japanese  Dagger  (Special — 2  parts 

—Drama)   2000 

May  14 — The    Will    of    Fate    (Drama) 1000 

May  21 — In    the    Tyrolese    Alps     (Travel) 175 

May  21— The   Chicken    Industry    (Industrial) 400 

May  21— Big    Game    (Zoological) 426 

PATHEPLAY, 

May  2 — Winter  In  Hpper  Engadlne,  Swttaer- 
1.    d    (Scenic) 

May    3 — General  Scott's  Protege  (Drama) 

ay  3 — The  Diamond  Miniature  (Special — 2 
parts — Drama)    

May    5 — Pathe's  Weekly,  No.  19  (News) 

May    6 — The   Ant-Lion    (Zoology) 

May  6— The  Chateau  of  Blola,  France  (Archi- 
tecture)   


May    7 — The   Crooked   Bankera    (Drama) 

May    8 — Her  Mother's  Ambition   (Drama) 

May    9 — Montreal,  Quebec  and  Halifax  (Travel) 
May    9 — In  the  Valley  of  Vesobie,  France  (Sc.) 

May  10 — Puttie1  It  Over  on  Papa  (Comedy) 

May  12 — Pathe's    Weekly,    No.    20    (News) 

May  13 — A    Woman    of    Impulse     (Drama) .... 

May  14 — A    Redskin's    Mercy    (Drama) 

May  14 — Her  Masked   Beauty    (Special— 2  parts 

—Comedy)   

May  16 — An    Itinerant    Wedding    (Comedy)....    - 

May  16— The    Jelly     Fish     (Zoology) 

May  16 — Along    the    Banks   of    tbe    River    Eure 

(Travel)     

May  16 — Saragossa     (Scenic) 

May  17 — A     Wrecked     Life     (Drama) 

May  19 — Pathe's    Weekly,    No.    21     (News) 

May  20 — A   Jockey    For    Love    (Comedy) 

May  20 — Tbe   City   of   Rouen,   France    (Scenic) . 

May  21 — The  Price  of  Silence  (Drama) 

May  22— The  Right  of  Way  (Drama) 

May  23 — Night     Birds     (Zoology) 

May  23 — Tbe  Allanthus  Silkworm  (Nat.  Hist.).. 
May  23 — The    Open    Secret    (Special— 2    parts — 

Comedy-Drama)     

May  24 — A   Woman   Scorned    (Drama) 

8EXJG. 

Apr.  30 — The  Burglar  Who  Robbed  Death  (Dr.). 1000 
May    1 — ^Absent-Minded   Mr.   Boob    (Comedy) . . . 

May     1 — Some  Chickens  (Zooteofanlc) 

May    2 — Their  Stepmother   (Drama) 1000 

May    5— A    Midnight    Bell     (Special,    2    parts, 

Drama) 2000 

May    5 — An   Old   Actor    (Drama) 1000 

May    6— A  Welded  Friendship  (Drama) 

May     6 — Hatching   Chickens    (Zootachnlc) 

May    7 — Belle  Boyd— A  Confederate  Spy   (Dr.).lOOO 

May    8 — Her    Guardian     (Drama) 1000 

May    9— In  the  Days  of  Witchcraft  (Drama) .  .1000 
May  12 — The    Post-Impressionists    (Comedy). ..  .1000 

May  13 — Lieutenant    Jones     (Drama) 1000 

May  14 — Bock    Richard's    Bride    (Comedy) 1000 

Mar  15 — In    the    Long    Ago     (Comedy) 1000 

Mar  16 — A      Daughter      of      tbe      Confederacr 

(Drama)     

Mar  16 — With   the  Students   of   the   North   Da- 
kota  Agricultural  College    (Topical).. 

May  19— His   Father's  Deputr    (Drama) 1000 

Mar  20— The   Tattle   Battle    (Comedy) 

May  20 — The  Leopard  Tamer   (Comedy) 

May  21— The    Stolen    Melody     (Drama) 1000 

May  22 — Indian    Summer     (Drama) 1000 

May  23— The  Noisy  Six    (Drama) 1000 

VXTAGRAPH. 

May    6 — Singles   Mends   tbe   Clock    (Comedy) .  .1000 
May    6 — Omens  and  Oracles   (Third  In  the  Be- 
linda   Series,     Comedy) 1000 

Mar    7 — The  Deerslarer  (Special,  2  parta,  Dr.). 2000 

Mar     7— Disciplining    Daisy     (Comedy) l... 

Mar    7 — Inspection      of      the      Quebec      Police 

(Typical) 

May    8 — The  Wrath   of   Osaka    (Drama) 10O» 

Mar    9 — Cupid's   Hired   Man    (Comedy) 1000 

May  10 — The  Sea   Maiden    (Drama) 1000 

Mar  12— The    Wrong    Pair    (Comedy) 

Mar  12 — The     Grand     Canyon     (Scenic) 

May  13 — Horatio    Sparkins     (Comedr ) 1000 

Mar  14— Two  Souls  With  But  a  Single  Thought 

(Comedy)     1000 

May  16 — A   Soul    In    Bondage    (Drama) 1000 

May  16 — His  Life  for  His   Emperor   (Drama).  .1000 
May  16 — The  Vampire  of  the  Desert   (Special — 

2   parts — Drama)    2000 

Mar  17— Bunny  and  tbe  Bunny  Hug  (Comedy).lOOO 
Mar  19 — Bunny's    Birthday    Surprise    (Comedy) 
May  19 — Vitagraphs    at    Kama    Kura    (Topical) 
May  20 — The   Amateur    Lion   Tamer    (Comedy (.1000 

May  21 — Counsellor    Bobby    (Comedy) 1000 

May  22 — A  Lady  and   Her  Maid    (No.  4  of  the 

Belinda    Series — Comedy-Drama)     1000 

May  23— Midget's  Revenge    (Comedy) 

May  23 — Going  to  Meet  Papa   (Comedy) 

May  24 — Cupid  Through  the  Keyhole   (Comedy). 1000 
Mar  24— The    Still     Voice     (Special— 2    parts- 
Drama)     2000 


GENERAL  FILM  CO.  FEATURE  RELEASES. 

May  S — Tbe  Diamond  Miniature  (2  parts),  Pathe- 
play. 

May    5— A    Midnight    Bell    (2   parts),    Sellg. 

Mar    7— The  Deerslarer    (2  parts),    Vltagraph. 

Mar    9 — The  Cheyenne  Massacre   (2  parts),  Kalem. 

Mar  10— A    Girl   Spr    In    Mexico    (2    parts),    Lubln. 

Mar  12— The  Japaneae  Dagger  (2  parts),  Bcllpee- 
Klelne. 

May  14— Her  Masked  Beauty   (2  parts),   Patheplay. 

May  16— The  Vampire  of  the  Desert  (2  parts), 
Vltagraph. 

Mar  17 — Tbe  Battle  for  Freedom  (2  parts),  Kalem. 

May  19 — Into  tbe  North   (2  parts),  Essanay. 

May  21— The  District  Attorney's  Conscience  (2 
parts),  Lubln. 

May  23 — The   Open  Secret    (2   parts),    Patheplay. 

May  24— The  Still  Voice    (2  parts),   Vltagraph. 


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The  simplest  prac- 


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New  Model  No.  8  just  out.    "ALL  ABOUT  THE 

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SECURITY  BUILDING  DEPT.  P.  CHICAGO,  ILLINOIS 


EXHIBITORS'   HEADQUARTERS 

CALEHUFF  SUPPLY  COMPANY 

(Incorporated) 

SO  North  Eighth  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Jobbers  in  Edison,  Powers  and 
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Machines  Repaired  by  Expert  Mechanics.    Genuine  Parts  Only  Used 
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Lenses  Pings  Spotlights       Rented 

CHAS.  A.  CALEHUFF,  Pres.  and  Gen.  Mgr. 


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programmes,  for  chorus  slides  when  chorus  slide  is 
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look  well  and  anyone  can  make  them.  They  are 
handy  also  for  announcing  vaudeville  acts.  In  fact, 
they  may  be  readily  used  for  anything  you  may  wish 
to  say  to  your  audience. 

For  the  sum  of  $3.50  we  will  send,  by  parcel  post, 
prepaid  and  insured,  the  following: 

24  cover  glass,  1  package  binder  strips,  1  dozen 
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1733  West  9th  St. 


Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


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Is  the  Best  Wearing  Stock  Manufactured 
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75  Fifth  Avenue.  New  York  City,  N.  Y. 

Chicago  Branch,  946  First  Nat'l  Bank  Bldg.,  Chicago,  111. 


Here  is  Your  Library, 
Mr.  Exhibitor. 


The  Motion  Picture  Annual,  published  by  the  Chalmers  Publishing 
Company,  is  a  small  encyclopedia.  The  exhibitor  can  always  turn  t<> 
it  witli  confidence.  It  has  been  prepared  by  practical  moving  picture 
men,  who  know  and  understand  the  needs  of  the  exhibitor.  Add  this 
to  your  library  forthwith,  for  it  costs  lmt  one  dollar  an. I  I 
cents  in  paper  covers  or  $1.50  in  cloth  boards.  It  is  fullv  worth  it. 
The  best  writers  in  the  motion  picture  field  have  provided  the  literary 
matter  in  it.  The  complete  list  of  releases  for  1912  (Licensed  and 
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results. 

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652  Oak  St.,  San  Francisco,  Calif. 


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156  W.  Lake  St.  CHICAGO,  ILL. 


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order.    Made  by  Roth  &  Englehart  for  $350. 

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1 11c  isuictcuic  star,  raited  our  office  and  demonstrating  theatre  last  week 
and  seeing  his  pictures  on  the  "Mirror  Screen,"  expressed 
himself   as    "simply   astounded"    at   the    DIFFERENCE. 

"Why  "  he  said,   "Even  the  painted  scenery  in  the  studio 
where  the  pictures  were  taken  look  different.    It  looks  REAL  ' ' 
Our  new  catalogue   of  improved   SNOW-WHITE  finish    will 
explain  the  DIFFERENCE;    Write  for  one  TODAX 

"MIRROR  SCREEN"  CO. 


F.  J.  REMBUSCH 
President 


Shelbyville,  Ind. 


Branch   Office:      New   York,    922  Sixth   Avenue. 
Phone  Ml  Plata. 
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over  aluminum  or  paint.  If  applied  over  alabastine,  double  the  amount. 
1 -lb.  Can $3.00 

A.    G.    THOMAS 

Manufacturer  of  SILVERIT  AND  SATEEN 


2-lb.  Can $5.00 

1705    Fairacres  Avenue 
Pittsburgh.      Penn. 


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LAOH  T w>r»«  wen  made  and  none  now  that  equal  them  In  optical 
quality  and   llininlnating    power. 

Oil*  OTODUOH  NO.  t  PROJECTION  LEN0E8  mad*  the  lone 
throw  poaalble  and  already  hundreds  of  theater  owners  hare  taken 
adrantage  •(  this  opportunity  to  Increase  their  theaters  In  length 
and  —ting  capacity  adding  to  their  profits  at  the  same  time. 

The  superior  qnalltr  of  OUnlDLACH  PROJECTION  LENSES 
Is  recognized  by  the  leading  makers  of  machines  and  they  will  be 
supplied  to  order  In  place  of  the  ordinary  lens  equipment  st  rery 
little   Increase   In   price. 

No  matter  how  well  satisfied  yon  are  with  your  picture  we  in- 
rite  yon  to  order  a  GUNDLACH  PROJECTION  LENS  for  trial  to 
see  tM  Uffsrsao*.  Nearly  all  our  lenses  are  sold  to  exhibitors 
who  hare  ordinary  lenses,  bat  are  looking  for  something  better. 
In  many  cases  ■  customer  orders  on*  lens  for  trial  and  tksa 
re-equips  all  his  machines,  sometime*  the  machines 
•f  **T*nl  theaters. 


OTTNDLA.CH  PROJECTION  LENSES  are  used 
by  the  Klnemacolor  Company  of  America  because 
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Film  Manufacturing  Co.  with  the  right  to  seize  any 
Universal  films  found  in  the  above  mentioned  territory 
and  secured  from  any  source  other  than  through  the 
undersigned  company. 

We  Will  Open  a  Brand  New  Universal  Exchange  in  Char- 
lotte, N.  C,  on  or  About  the  First  off  June  and  It  Will 
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theatres  to  secure  the  program  that  surpasses  any  and  all 
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IT'S    FAMOUS    AUTHORS'   WEEK 

Stewart  Edward  White  and  Richard  Washburn  Child,  Both  Well  Known  to 
You,  Have  Written  Two  Splendid  Yarns  for  the   Present  Week's  Output 

Commencing  Monday,  May  26th,  we  give  vou  a  wonderfully  clever  two-reel  by  Stewart 
White,  entitled  "Ashes  of  Three."'  White  is  long  noted  for  his  delightful  tales  of  the  Primiti 
and  West.  s 

Thursday,  May  29th,  we  offer  "On  the  Border,"  a  Mexican  or  Spanish  Western.  No  famous  name 
attaches  to  this  mid-week  picture,  but  for  quality  of  story  it  is  quite  the  equal  of  any  Western  we  have 
seen  in  a  long  time.  It's  GOOD,  GENUINELY,  HONESTLY  GOOD,  and  will  delight  and  amuse  anv 
audience. 

Saturday,  May  31st,  we  offer  you  Richard  Washburn  Child's  "Her  Big  Story,"  a  yarn  of  a  clever 
newspaper  girl  and  a  corrupt  political  boss.  Richard  Washburn  Child  is  known  to  all  lovers  of  good 
fiction.  "Her  Big  Story"  is  published  synonymously  in  the  "Popular  Magazine" — so,  many  of  your  pa- 
trons will  READ  and  SEE  the  story.         ■  ' 


Release  Monday,  May  26 


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Ashes  of  Three"      B* Stewart  Edward  White 

tu  ^uar!jen  KerTrig,an  as  a  derelict,  a  stupid  creature  with  dulled  brain,  is  a  revelation,  quite  the  opposite  from 
the  handsome  Jack  you  are  familiar  with.  A  rejuvenation  takes  place,  fostered  by  the  giant  mother  love  of  a 
woman  made  insane  by  grief  over  her  own  lost  boy.  A  powerful,  well-told  story.  From  the  Ashes  of  Three 
a  Man  was  Made! 


Release    Thursday,  May  29 


"On  the  Border 


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The  pretty  dancer  and  the  casual  cowboy  visitor  at  the  cabaret  fell  in  love.  A  Mexican  waiter  loved 
L-mquita  with  the  passionate  ardor  of  his  race.  A  Gringo  get  this  daintv  bundle  of  Spanish  nerves  and  beauty? 
^eyer.  He  planned  to  destroy  the  cowboy  lover  by  a  drop  of  poison  'in  his  cup.  What  happened  makes  a 
thrilling  and  entirely  satisfying  Western 


Release  Saturday,  May  31 


"Her  Big  Story" 


By  Richard  Washburn  Child 


She  loved  the  managing  editor,  but  she  also  loved  the  joy  of  the  big,  exclusive  story.  A  corrupt  political 
Doss  and  the  Mayor  of  the  town  got  her  job,  but  couldn't  keep  the  storv  from  an  opposition  paper.  How  she 
landed  it,  in  the  Mayor  s  private  library,  laid  him  out  with  a  statuette  when  he  grabbed  her  and  finally  found 
consolation   in  her   lover-managing-editor,   makes   a   charming  story 


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BARNEY  GILMORE 

A  personality  with  a  box-ofiice  value — a  character  known  from  coast  to  coast — one  who 
has  played  to  two  dollar  audiences  appears  in  the  title  role  in 

KELLY  Z  EMERALD  ISLE 

Three  Reels  of  Thrill  and  Sensation. 

Red-blooded  scenes  vibrating  with  action  and  charged  with  quaint  and  characteristic 
Irish  humor — Kelly's  descent  down  a  three-hundred-foot  declivity  with  his  colleen 
dangerously  clinging  with  almost  a  death-grip  to  his  throat — a  miraculous  escape  from 
the  grinding  wheels  of  a  forty-ton  locomotive  in  which  Kelly  leaps  on  the  cow-catcher, 
with  the  train  going  at  full  speed  and  the  spectacular  destruction  of  a  hut,  are  the 
thrills  in  this  big,  popular  attraction  with  the  biggest  box-office. 

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heralds,  announcement  slides  and  booklets. 

Ready  for  shipment  latter  part  of  May.     Write  or  wire. 


Regular  Two-Reel  Release 

Wednesday,  June  4th,  1913 

BLOOD  and  WATER 

On  the  Mutual  program  and  others. 
One  and  three  sheets. 

The  story  concerns  two  old  persons  who  have  raised  their  son's  child,  because  his  wife 
was  of  the  child-hating  kind.  After  having  cared  for  the  child  for  ten  years,  the 
mother  comes  to  take  it  away.  The  child  is  reluctant  to  go,  having  grown  attached 
to  her  grandparents.  Numerous  complications  ensue,  and  it  is  finally  determined  which 
is  thicker,  blood  or  water,  when  the  grandfather  saves  the  child  from  the  hands  of  a 
gang  of  crooks  who  had  planned  to  teach  the  little  girl  the  art  of  picking  pockets. 

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"TheDrummerofthe8th" 
Two  Reels,  May  28 

Dramatic   War   Story,   Featuring  a 
Wonderful    Boy    Actor 

Little  Billy  runs  away  and  enlists 
as  a  drummer  boy.  His  big  brother  is 
also  a  soldier  in  the  Union  Army,  and 
both  are  seen  in  sensational  battles. 
Billy  has  used  an  assumed  name,  and 
his  brother  is  unable  to  find  any  trace 
of  him.  Billy  is  captured  by  the  con- 
federates, and  while  making  his  escape 
hides  in  a  house  where  the  officers  are 
formulating  plans  for  the  following 
day's  battle.  He  carries  the  informa- 
tion to  the  Union  general,  but  the  con- 
federates suspect  their  plans  have  been 
overheard  and  change  them,  resulting 
in  a  different  plan  of  attack  which 
nearly  annihilates  the  entire  Union 
Army.  Billy  is  badly  wounded,  and 
writes  to  his  mother  that  he  is  com- 
ing home.  There  is  great  rejoicing  in 
his  home,  and  preparations  are  made 
to  receive  the  little  hero.  He  arrives, 
but  in  a  casket,  carried  by  sorrowful 
soldiers,  for  little  Billy  dies  before  he 
can  see  his  folks  again. 

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"Toplitsky  &  Co." 

One  Reel,  May  26 

Toplitsky  has  a  partner,  and  a  wife. 
He  suspects  the  partner  of  being  in  love 
with  his  wife,  and  decides  to  sue  for  a 
divorce.  His  lawyers  persuade  him  to 
forgive  her.  The  partner  is  chased  by  a 
bear,  and  takes  refuge  in  Toplitsky's 
house,  jumping  through  an  open  win- 
dow, and  hiding  under  the  bed.  It  hap- 
pens to  be  Mrs.  Toplitsky's  bedroom 
and  when  her  husband  finds  his  partner 
there,  war  breaks  out  anew. 


"The  Gangsters 


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A  burlesque  on  gang  fighters.  The 
police  try  to  arrest  them,  but  are 
worsted  by  the  gangsters  in  an  amusing 
manner.  The  police  lay  a  trap  for  the 
gangsters  at  the  water's  edge,  with  the 
result  that  all  fall  into  the  water,  where 
a  wet  battle  takes  place. 

"Barney  Oldfield's 
Race  for  a  Life" 

A  comedy-sensational.  The  famous 
dare-devil  automobilist  is  seen  in  a  sen- 
sational race  with  a  train.  A  great  fea- 
ture.    One  and  three  sheet  posters. 


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"A  Chfld  of  War" 

Two  Reels,  May  30 

Sensational   Dramatic  and  Military- 
Production,  in  Which  a  Little 
Girl     Saves     the     Life     of 
Her  Father,  Who  De- 
serted    His     Post 
To    Save    Her 

In  a  series  of  thrilling  scenes,  dur- 
ing an  attack  by  the  confederate 
forces,  little  Mary  becomes  lost  and  is 
caught  between  the  lines.  She  hides, 
trembling  with  fear  while  the  shot 
and  shell  whistle  over  her  head.  That 
night  her  father,  a  Union  sentry,  hears 
her  moving  and  challenges  the  un- 
known person,  and  receiving  no  reply 
fires.  With  a  shriek,  the  child  drops 
to  the  ground,  shot  through  the  arm. 
To  save  his  child  he  deserts  his  post 
and  carries  her  to  the  village,  where 
she  is  taken  care  of  by  his  wife.  He 
is  arrested  and  sentenced  to  be  shot. 
His  wife  fails  to  reach  the  Colonel, 
but  the  little  girl  manages  to  gain  his 
presence,  and  her  eloquent  plea  saves 
her  father's  life. 

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"It's  the  greatest  picture  we 
have   ever  seen.     Booked   solid 
for  twenty-seven  days." 

JOSEPH    CONOLY 
Gen.  Mgr.  U.  S.  Film  Co. 
"The    most    remarkable    pic- 
ture I  have  ever  seen." 


W.  E.  GREENE 
Buyer  of  New  England  States 
"I'll  take  two  sets.     It  beats 
anything  I  have  seen." 

UNIVERSAL     FILM     EX. 

Buyers   of   Greater  New   York 

"As  good  as  I  have  ever  seen." 

Ed.   Saunders,   Gen.  Mgr. 

M  &  F  FEATURE  SERVICE 
Buyers  of  Illinois 
"Showed  'Dead  Secret'  to  ex- 
hibitors. Booked  it  solid  for 
forty-seven  days.  All  pro- 
claimed it  the  greatest  ever 
shown.  Am  sending  deposit  for 
another  set."  Muxdstock. 


TEXAS  FEATURE  FILM  CO. 

Buyers  of  Texas 

"Dead  Secret'  is  causing  a 
great  sensation  here.  No  trouble 
to  book  for  indefinite  period. 
Will  buy  everything  vou  pro- 
duce." 

E.  T.  Peters 

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COMPANY 

Buyers  of  West.  Penn. 

"Mark  down  another  winner 
for  Monopol.  It's  a  wonder. 
We  have  booked  it  solid." 


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Kalem  Sets  the  Pace 

Remember  that  Kalem  does  not  trail  any  one.  This 
company  is  continually  establishing  precedents  by  fol- 
lowing one  innovation  with  another. 

Kalem  was  the  first  to  organize  a  permanent  photoplay 
stock  company. 

Kalem  was  the  first  to  send  producing  organizations  to 
foreign  countries. 

Kalem's  stupendous  military  plays  have  never  been 
excelled. 

In  other  words,  Kalem  systematically  specializes  on  nov- 
elties— and  every  one  a  money-maker  for  the  Exhibitor. 

Four  Kalem  Features  Every  ]\eek 

Every  week  Kalem  presents  three  one- reel  headliners 
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An  Astounding  Picture  of  Jungle  Terrors 

The  house  of  Selig  is  world  famous  for  its  wild  animal  dramas.  Selig  originated  this 
style  of  picture.  To-day  the  market  is  flooded  with  imitation  jungle  plays.  Selig  leads 
—others  follow.  The  present  offering— "Wamba,  a  Child  of  the  Jungle"— is  unques- 
tionably 

The  Most  Startling  Animal  Photodrama  Yet  Produce 

RELEASED  AS  A  TWO-REEL  SPECIAL  ON  MAY  26th. 

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ANOTHER   GREAT  SELIG  TRIUMPH 

"THE  LAW  AND  THE  OUTLAW" 

IN  TWO  REELS. 

A  sensational  Western  feature  dramatic  in  the  extreme.  The  best  of  its 
kind  that  Selig  ever  produced.    "A  Strong  Statement,'.'  you  say!    See  the 
picture  and  you  will  say  so  too. 

BOOK  IT  TO-DAY.     RELEASED  AS  A  SPECIAL  JUNE  4th. 


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May  26th. 

RELIGION  AND  GUN  PRACTICE 

The  story  of  a  western  gun  man"*  reformation. 

May  27th. 

THE  GIRL  AND  THE  JUDGE 

Drama.     The  country  bred  girl  forces. the  city  judge  to  accept  her 
as  a  daughter. 

May  28th. 

THE  CORDLESS  MESSAGE 

The  dramatic  tale  of  a  wandering  girl  who  returned  to  her 
child. -od  home  through  the  aid  of  a  motion  picture   - 


May  29th. 

THE  EX-CONVICT'S  PLUNGE 

Showing  how  one  paroled  prisoner  won  success  and  happiness;  on 
same  reel  with 

SCENES  IN  MANILA 

Educational  travelogue. 

May  30th. 

THE  WOODFIRE  AT  MARTIN'S 

A  strong  story  of  a  cafe  singer's  fight  for  success. 


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The  Still  yoke. 


Saturday,  May  24th,  1913 


Wamba — A  Child  of  the  Jungle. 


Monday,  May  26th,  1913 


"THE   STILL   VOICE"     "Wamba— A  Child AFE Jungle" 


A  powerful  YITAGRAPH  drama  in  two  reels,  intro- 
ducing Sidney  Drew,  the  famous  actor,  to  the  motion 
picture  public. 

Unheeding  the  still,  small  voice  of  his-  conscience,  the 
vengeance  an  unfortunate  man  plans  for  others  is  visited 
upon  himself. 

The  cast  includes,  besides  Mr.  Drew,  Edith  Story, 
Tefft  Johnson  and  Sidney  Drew,  Jr. 


Another  remarkable  "Animal"  feature  in  two  reels, 
produced  by  SELIG,  at  the  Selig  wild  animal  farm  in  Los 
Angeles. 

A  story  of  the  tropical  jungle  with  one  thrill  following 
another  in  rapid  succession.  "Baby"  Lillian  Wade  in  her 
best  role  yet.  Her  desperate,  headlong  plunge  to  safety 
while  escaping  the  frenzied  lions  is  a  real  sensation. 


MULTIPLE-REEL  FEATURES  "IN  THE  MAKING" 

SATURDAY,  MAY  31st,   i9i3-"THE    WHITE    SLAVE."      VITAGRAPft,   Two    Reels. 

A  Story  of  the  Old  South. 

MONDAY,  JUNE  2nd,   i9i3-"WHEN    A    WOMAN    LOVES."     CINES-KLEINE,  Three  Reels. 

A  Dramatic  Masterpiece. 

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  4th,  i9i3-"THE    LAW    AND    THE     OUTLAW."      SELIG,  Two  Reels. 
Next  to  "The  Cowboy  Millionaire,"  the  greatest  "Western"  Ever   Released. 

FRIDAY,   JUNE   6th.   1913-*  THE    ACCUSING     HAND."      LUBIN,  Two  Reels. 

An  Unusual  Story,  Handled  in  an  Unusual  Way. 

SATURDAY,  JUNE  7th,  i9i3-"THE   TRAGEDY   OF   BIG    EAGLE   MINE."     KALEM,  Two  Reels. 

A  Tale  of  an  Indian  Girl  and  Her  White  Husband. 


For  complete  list  of  single-reels,  see  "Calendar  of 
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Love  and  War  in  Mexico. 


Wednesday,  May  28th,  1913 

"Love  and  War  in  Mexico" 

As  its  title  implies,  a  Mexican  war  drama  of  more  than 
usual  interest.     Two  reels,  produced  by  LUBIN. 

A  young  American,  a  civil  engineer,  makes  the  fatal 
mistake  of  marrying  the  daughter  of  a  Mexican  farmer. 
They  quarrel  and  he  strikes  her,  leaving  her  for  dead. 
Years  later,  he  does  penance  for  his  crime,  by  giving  his 
life  for  his  son,  who  has  been  captured  as  a  spy. 

"IT" 


The  Human   Vulture. 


Friday,  May  30th,  1913 

"The  Human  Vulture 


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An  absorbing  and  intensely  dramatic  story  dealing  with 
the  destiny  of  a  criminal  who  is  prevented  time  and  time 
again  from  committing  a  crime  by  entirely  unexpected, 
but  perfect  plausible  circumstances. 

A  production  in  two  reels,  faultlessly  staged  by  the 
PATHE  directors.  A  splendid  cast  portrays  the  various 
characters  in  unusually  good  style. 


ITS  THE  LITTLE  THINGS  THAT  COUNT" 

IN  EVERY  office  of  the  General  Film  Company  is  a  department  of  inspectors 
*  whose  principal  duty  it  is  to  keep  our  reels  in  exhibitive  condition.  Every  film 
shown  by  a  theatre  is  carefully  inspected  when  it  comes  back  for  exchange.  Hastily- 
made  patches  are  repaired  and  bad  spots  of  any  description  are  eliminated.  In 
short,  the  function  of  this  department  is  to  reduce  to  a  minimum  the  possibility  of  a 
film  breaking  in  the  middle  of  your  show,  just  when  your  audience  is  all  keyed  up. 
It  is  easy  to  see  that  this  inspection  is  of  great  benefit  to  all  exhibitors,  particularly 
those  who  are  using  the  older  ages  of  service. 

Send  for  a  copy  of  our  booklet,  "General  Film  Service" 

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A  PATHEPLAY  OF  INTENSE  INTEREST,  IT  TELLS  THE  STORY 
OF  A  CRIMINAL  AND  THE  WOMAN  FORCED  INTO  HIS  POWER, 
AND  CONTRASTS  THE  LIFE  OF  A  MILLIONAIRE  WITH  THE 
LIFE  OF  A  RULER  IN  THE  UNDERWORLD  TO  WHOM  THE 
WEALTHY  MAN  RESORTS  TO  SAVE  HIS  FORTUNE. 


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A   RACE  TO  NEW  YORK 

Being  the  eleventh  story  of  "What  Happened  to  Mary."     Produced  In 

collaboration  with  "The  Ladies'  World." 

Drama   (1000)  Released  Triday,  May  23. 

Craig  traces   Mary   to   the   light-house   only   to   find 

that  she  has  sailed  away  on  the  supply  boat.    By  launch, 

auto  and  train,  he  makes  a  desperate  attempt  to  stop 

the    girl    before    she    reaches    New    York.      He    finally 

overtakes  her,  but  Mary  outwits  him  and  escapes. 

THE  TRANSLATION    OF  A  SAVAGE 

Drama  (1000)  Released  Saturday,  May  24. 
Rejected  by  a  society  belle,  a  young  Englishman 
marries  a  daughter  of  the  Canadian  woods  and  ships 
her  home  to  disgrace  his  family.  The  little  savage 
suffers  mental  and  physical  anguish  in  her  new  home, 
but  her  husband,  returning  a  year  later,  finds  a  beauti- 
ful woman. 

•  DANCES  OF  THE  AGES 

Fantastic  Medley  (975)  Keleased  Monday,  May  26. 

A  remarkable  review  of  various  styles  of  dancing, 
from  1200  B.  C.  to  the  present  day,  performed  by 
miniature  dancers  upon  a  banquet  table  before  an  as- 
semblage of  old  dancing  masters.  One  of  the  aged 
fellows  tries  to  perform  the  awkward  new  steps,  but 
decides  that  he  would  rather  starve. 

AN  UNWILLING  SEPARATION 

A  DECORATION  DAT  STORY. 
Drama  (1000)  Released  Tuesday,  May  27. 
Both  made  miserable  by  their  first  separation,  a 
crippled  Civil  War  veteran  and  his  wife  steal  away 
from  their  respective  new  homes  on  Decoration  Day 
and  are  found  at  the  burial  ground  by  their  anxious 
children.  Then  the  children,  realizing  their  mistake, 
re-open  the  old  home. 

NEWCOMB'S   NECKTIE 

Comedy  (1000)   Released  Wednesday,   May  28. 

Newcomb's  wife  presents  him  with  a  horrible  parody 
on  a  necktie  which  he  tries  in  every  conceivable  way 
to  lose.  After  a  nerve-racking  day  at  the  office  he  suc- 
ceeds, only  to  have  his  deep-laid  plot  foiled  by  the 
janitor's  daughter. 


THE   HONOR  OF  A  SOLDIER 

War  Drama  (1000)  Released  Friday,  May  30. 
Torn  by  the  conflict  between  love  and  discipline,  a  soldier 
leaves  the  battle  line  to  rescue  his  family  from  their  burn- 
ing home.     He  is  pursued  as  a  deserter,  but  escapes  and 
goes  to  headquarters  where  he  tells  his  story  and  is  cleared. 

AN   ALMOND  EYED  MAID 

Drama  (1000)  Released  Saturday,  May  31. 

Rescued  from  a  hated  suitor  by  an  American,  a  Japanese 
girl  becomes  jealous  of  the  latter's  fiancee  and  determines 
to  kill  her.  When  she  sees  her  old  suitor  waiting  to  kill 
her  protector,  love  conquers  jealousy,  she  rushes  forward 
and  receives  the  blow  intended  for  him. 

PROFESSOR   WILLIAM   NUTT 

Comedy  (1000)  Released  Monday,  June  2. 
Professor  Nutt,  the  vegetarian,  goes  to  the  house  of  an 
old  friend  for  dinner.  It  is  wash  day  and  the  pantry  is 
emptier  than  usual,  so  they  scurry  around  and  borrow  a 
big  dinner  from  the  neighbors.  But  the  professor  carries 
his  dinner  in  his  vest  pocket. 

RIGHT  FOR  RIGHT'S  SAKE 

Drama  (1000)  Released  Tuesday,  June  3. 
The  district  attorney  prosecutes  one  of  the  opposition 
for  graft  to  help  his  own  election.  He  knows  the  man  is 
innocent  and  his  wife,  learning  the  truth,  leaves  him, 
broken-hearted,  when  he  refuses  to  stop  the  trial.  But  he 
makes  atonement  later  and  they  are  reconciled. 

SOME   SPOTS   IN   AND   AROUND 
LOS  ANGELES,  CALIFORNIA 

Scenic   (350)  Released  Wednesday,  June  4. 

DON'T  WORRY 

Comedy   (640)    Released  Wednesday,  June  4. 

Hubby  is  detained  at  the  office  and  his  silly,  worried  wife 

sees  bandits  rob  him  at  the  office,  an  automobile  mangle 

him  n  the  street  and  then  he  s  taken  to  the  hospital,  where 

he  suffers  all  sorts  of  tortures.   Then  he  strolls  in  unharmed. 


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show  the  sharp,  flickerless  pictures  which  do  not  strain 
the  eyes. 

The  Edison  Kinetoscope  is  easy  to  operate  and  it  is 

built  to  stand  the  grind.     There  are  no  "intermissions  for 

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^^^      and  a  copy  of  the  Edison  Kinetogram. 

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KIDNAPPING    FATHER"  1000  feet  Tuesday,  May  20th 

The  son  marries,  the  father  objects,  but  the  young  wife  triumphs. 


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THE  DISTRICT  ATTORNEY'S  CONSCIENCE"   2Reeis  wed.,  May  2ist 

A    particularly    strong    picture — featuring    Arthur    Johnson. 


"A  PERILOUS  RIDE"  1000  feet 

A  girl's  daring  outwits  a  band  of  ruffians. 


Thursday,  May  22nd 


SPLIT  COMEDY  REEL,  FRIDAY,  MAY  23rd 

DETECTIVE    DOT"  450  feet  Friday,  May  23rd 

Every  man   with   whiskers   fascinates   a  girl   detective. 


"HIS  FIRST  EXPERIENCE"  seofeet 

Little  Buster  chooses  his  own  new  father. 


Friday,  May  23rd 


"BRIGHTENED  SUNSETS" 


1000  feet 


Saturday,  May  24th 


After  many  severe  shocks,  the  dear  old  lady's  life  is   brightened. 


"THE  REWARD  OF  SERVICE" 


1000  feet 


Monday,  May  26th 


The   story  of  an  old  soldier — appropriate   Decoration  Day  picture. 


LUBIN  TWO -REEL  PICTURES  ARE  FEATURES 

"Love  and  War  in  Mexico" 

Two  Reels 
Released  Wednesday,  May  28th 

James  Hudson  is  married  to  a  beautiful  Mexican 
girl  Pequita.  In  a  maudlin  condition  he  strikes  her  and 
leaves  her  for  dead.  He  seeks  refuge  in  a  Mission 
and  becomes  a  Monk.  Pequita  is  nursed  back  to  life 
and  has  a  son.  Twenty  years  later,  the  hoy  becomes 
a  spy  in  the  Mexican  Revolution,  is  discovered  and 
sentenced  to  die.  He  escapes,  but  the  soldiers  trace 
him  to  the  Mission  and  capture  him.  He  pleads  that 
they  send  for  his  mother.  She  recognizes  her  hus- 
band and  tells  him  it  is  his  son.  The  father  changes 
clothes  with  the  boy  and  suffers  the  penalty. 


Scene  from  "Love  and  War  in  Mexico." 


"THE  ACCUSING  HAND" 


2  Reels 


A  thoroughly  convincing  argument  for  the  silent  third  degree. 


Friday,  June  6th 


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1.  "BUNNY'S    BIRTHDAY    SURPRISE"!  c-^^^^ 

2.  "V1TAGRAPHERS  AT  KAMA  KURA"[  ■*»•»•*  Ma*  15*h 

1.  His  wife  prepares  it  for  him.     He  gives  her  and  everybody  else  a  bigger  surprise. 
It's  a  howl.    2.  "The  Vitagraph  Globe  Trotters"  in  Japan. 

"THE  AMATEUR  LION  TAMER"   Comedy  Tuesday,  May  20th 

The  lions  give  him  a  run  for  his  money.     They  give  him  a  terrible  scare  and  he  gives 
the  people  something  to  laugh  about  for  weeks  to  come. 

"COUNSELLOR  BOBBY"  Comedy  Wednesday,  May  21st 

He  helps  his  sister  and  her  beau  get  rid  of  an  objectionable  suitor.     After  Bobby  gets 
through  with  him  he  is  glad  to  get  away.    Bobby  gets  a  liberal  fee  for  his  services. 


"A  LADY  AND  HER  MAID"  cw, 


Thursday,  May  22nd 

Ophelia  and  her  maid,  Belinda,  blossom  forth  in  all  their  beauty.     They  astonish  the 
neighbors  and  make  a  few  crushes  with  the  gentlemen. 


"1.  MIDGET'S  REVENGE" 
"2.  "GOING  TO  MEET  PAPA" 


Two  Comedies 


Friday,  May  23rd 

1.  The  Midget  creates  a  big  mix-up  with  the  giant,  the  strong  man,  the  skeleton  and 
the  fat  lady.    2.  The  meeting  of  Papa  is  altogether  a  funny  affair. 


"CUPID  THROUGH  THE  KEYHOLE 


If    Comedy 


The  little  Love-God  furnishes  a  strange  complication  of  funny  sights, 
who  laughs  last  and  that  means  everybody. 


Saturday,  May  24th 

He  laughs  best 


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Monday,  May  26th 

"TRICKS    OF   THE    TRADE"— 
Comedy-Drama 

Tuesday,  May  27th 

"CUTEY  PLAYS  DETECTIVE" 
— Comedy 

Wednesday,  May  28th 

"THE  ONLY  VETERAN  IN  TOWN"— Drama        Thursday,  May  29th 
"A  HUSBAND'S  TRICK"— Comedy  Friday,  May  30th 

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RELEASED  SATURDAY,  MAY  24th. 

SPECIAL  FEATURE,  "THE  WHITE  SLAVE,"  IN  TWO 
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A  powerful  drama  of  modern  society,  written 
Pickford,  "Little  Mary." 
Released  Wednesday,  June  4th 

The  Terror  of  Conscience 

A  noted  actor,  appearing  in  the  role  of 
Richelieu,  stands  at  the  stage  entrance  one  even- 
ing and  hears  the  confession  of  a  conscience- 
stricken  Italian,  who  mistakes  him  for  a  priest. 

Released  Friday  June  6th 


The  Bandit's  Child 


A   Thrilling   Western  Drama 

Lost  in  the  mountains,  a  child  discovers  the   retreat  of  its   father,  an  outlaw,  who  is  regen- 
erated through  a  startling  incident. 

Released  Monday,  June  2d 


When  Fate  Decrees 


especially  for  Miss  Alice  Joyce  by  Miss  Mary 
Special  I  and  3-sheet  Posters 

When  Women  Are   Police 

Jennie  is  appointed  to  the  police  force,  but  re- 
signs after  an   exciting  experience. 

(ON  THE  SAME   REEL) 

Percy's  Wooing 

Percy,     accused     of     cowardice,     takes 
measures  to  gain  a  reputation  for  bravery. 

Released  Saturday,  June  7th 


The  Tragedy  of  Big  Eagle  Mine 

Feature  Indian  Classic  in  two  parts.  Special  Release     Saturday  June  7th 

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Facts  and  Comments 

ADVOCATES  of  official  political  censor  boards  for 
pictures  will  find  food  for  thought  in  the  attitude 
of  the  exhibitors  of  the  District  of  Columbia  and 
the  State  of  Minnesota  toward  that  subject.  At  a  meet- 
ing held  in  Washington,  D.  C,  the  other  day  the  District 
League  adopted  resolutions  indorsing  the  work  of  the 
National  Board  of  Censorship  and  agreeing  to  exhibit  in 
their  theaters  only  such  pictures  as  bear  the  stamp  of  ap- 
proval placed  on  them  by  the  board.  Up  in  Minnesota 
the  exhibitors  are  congratulating  themselves  that  they 
were  successful  in  defeating  a  state  censorship  measure 
introduced  in  the  legislature  of  their  state  along  with 
other  proposed  legislation  for  the  regulation  of  pictures 
and  picture  theaters.  To  this  information  the  president 
of  the  Minnesota  League  adds  that  the  Minnesota  law- 
makers took  a  very  favorable  view  of  the  work  of  the 
National  Board  and  were  inclined  to  the  belief  that  it  was 
sufficient  for  the  needs  of  the  public  for  censorship. 
Learning  this  friendly  feeling  to  the  National  Board  the 
exhibitors  have  pledged  themselves  to  make  the  rulings  of 
the  National  Board  effective  in  that  state. 

This  is  the  most  hopeful  word  that  has  come  to  us  in 
all  the  season's  controversy  over  the  censorship  question. 


All  that  is  needed  is  that  the  several  state  branches  of  the 
Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  shall  back  up  the 
work  of  the  National  Board  to  give  the  public  the  kind 
of  censorship  it  wants,  and  all  that  the  business  requires. 
With  the  Exhibitors'  League  lined  up  strongly  behind  the 
National  Board  its  rulings  would  have  greater  force  and 
would  command  the  increased  respect  of  both  the  public 
and  the  purveyors  of  pictures.  No  greater  authority  is 
required  than  the  resolution  of  the  exhibitors  of  the  land 
to  insist  that  all  pictures  to  be  shown  in  their  houses  must 
first  have  obtained  the  approval  of  the  Board  of  Censor- 
ship as  nowr  constituted.  There  is  no  demand  for  po- 
litical supervision ;  no  necessity  for  the  distribution  of 
political  pap  to  insure  clean  picture  shows. 

KEEP  THE  PICTURES  OUT  OF  POLITICS!' 


IT  has  been  discovered  that  Mayor  Gaynor's  efforts  to 
secure  proper  regulation  of  the  public  taxicab  service 
for  New  York  City  have  been  balked  by  the  distribu- 
tion of  graft  to  certain  members  of  the  Board  of  Alder- 
men, who  were  not  required  to  pay  for  their  taxi  service. 
Wish  someone  would  discover  what  peculiar  form  of 
graft  is  preventing  Mayor  Gaynor's  recommendations  for 
the  proper  regulation  of  picture  theaters  in  Greater  New 
York  from  becoming  a  law.  Commenting  upon  the  situa- 
tion Mayor  Gaynor  is  reported  to  have  exclaimed :  "What 
good  is  the  Board  of  Aldermen?  Why,  I  can't  get  them 
to  pass  a  Christian  ordinance  to  regulate  moving  picture 
houses."  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  some  investigator  will  be 
able  to  locate  the  Senegambian  in  the  woodpile  before 
long. 

*  *     * 

MOST  encouraging  to  the  advocates  of  the  motion 
picture  for  educational  purposes  is  the  word 
that  the  American  Philosophical  Society  has 
found  a  place  for  pictures  in  its  scheme  of  things.  On  an- 
other page  is  told  the  story  of  a  meeting  at  the  historic 
.home  of  the  society  in  Philadelphia  recently  when  scien- 
tific motion  pictures  were  shown  to  an  audience  which 
crowded  the  hall  and  was  composed  of  the  most  learned. 
The  representative  of  The  Moving  Picture  World, 
whose  presence  at  this  notable  gathering  was  invited, 
draws  some  inferences  and  points  to  some  conclusions 
which  should  direct  the  attention  of  American  picture 
makers  to  the  insistent  demands  of  educators  for  suitable 
subjects  and  convenient  service.  Everywhere  educators 
are  asking  the  question :  What  pictures  are  available  and 
where  can  we  get  them?  Thus  far  the  manufacturers 
have  been  too  busy  catering  to  the  demand  for  the  amus- 
ing to  study  the  demand  for  the  instructive.  Possibly,  as 
is  hinted,  it  will  become  necessary  for  those  interested  to 
provide  means  for  the  manufacture  of  such  educational 
subjects  as  are  needed,  but  it  does  seem  that  much  valu- 
able time  might  be  saved  if  the  existing  manufacturers 
would  lend  some  of  their  experience  for  the  development 
of  the  new  field. 

*  *     * 

UP  in  Vermont  the  State  Board  of  Health  has  found 
a  way  to  use  motion  pictures  to  advantage  in  the 
fight  against  "the  white  plague."  As  noted  else- 
where the  board  has  purchased  a  picture  machine  and 
a  portable  lighting  plant  with  which  it  visits  even  the 
smallest  towns  where  such  pictures  as  "The  Awakening 
of  John  Bond"  and  "The  Man  Who  Learned"  with  their 
forceful  lessons  regarding  the  prevention  of  tuberculosis 
and  the  protection  of  the  milk  supply  are  being  shown  to 
people  who  seldom  see  pictures.  In  this  work  the  Ver- 
mont Board  of  Health  is  surely  a  pioneer,  for  no  similar 
undertaking  has  been   reported. 


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Americans  Win  on  Quality 

The  "Projection  Room"  a  Characteristic  British  Institution — The  Work  of  "Viewers" — Value  of  Frank  Criticism. 

By  W.  Stephen  Bush 


London,  April  29th,  1913. 

IF  there  are  any  changes  impending  in  our  market  and 
we  are  about  to  pass  through  a  period  of  either  evolu- 
tion or  revolution  it  is  quite  probable  that  conditions 
will  eventually  adjust  themselves  to  the  British  state  of 
things.  The  American  exhibitor  and  film  buyer  no  less 
than  the  producers  may  therefore  profit  by  taking  a  look 
at  conditions  here.  In  the  early  days  of  the  industry  in 
our  own  country  the  buyer  was  the  dominant  figure,  but 
when  leasing  succeeded  buying  and  organization  took  the 
place  of  competition,  the  buyer  took  a  very  modest  seat 
'  a  Way  up  in  the  gallery. 

Here  in  England  the  buyer  and  exhibitor  occupy  the 
private  boxes.  The  comparison  is  not  inept,  for  the  study 
of  the  comforts  and  conveniences  of  the  projection  rooms 
ih  London  tells  the  story  of  the  buyer's  power.  The  pro- 
ducers and  the  importing  agents  vie  with  each  other  in 
providing  attractive  projection  rooms.  There  are  few 
moving  picture  theaters  in  New  York  City  that  in  point 
of  comfort,  elegance  and  in  the  matter  of  projection  can 
be  compared  to  the  London  projection  rooms  of  even  the 
smaller  American  agencies.  Take  for  example  such  pro- 
jection rooms  as  Urban's,  the  M.  P.  Sales  Co.  and  Es- 
sanay's.  There's  music,  there  are  luxurious  chairs  with 
facilities  to  make  notes  and  experts  only  are  permitted  to 
be  in  the  operating  rooms.  By  the  way,  the  operating 
chambers  yield  nothing  in  thoroughness  and  equipment 

•  to  those  in  the  very  best  theaters.  Then  there  are  refresh- 
ments for  the  buyer  and  exhibitor  and  "viewer."  If  an  in- 
tending buyer  for  instance  comes  to  the  M.  P.  Sales 
Agency  he  is  bound  to  forget  any  possible  "grouch"  he 
may  have  acquired  in  the  daily  toil  and  struggle.  An  air 
of  quiet  contentment  and  of  unboastful  efficiency  sur- 
rounds him  once  he  enters  the  building.  If  he  is  a  man 
in  a  hurry  he  is  accommodated  accordingly  and  if  he 
wants  to  take  his  time  he  is  just  as  welcome.     The  re- 

•  freshments  by  the  way  are  substantial  and  there  is  a  va- 
riety to  suit  most;  tastes.  Nor  does  the  buyer  or  exhibitor 
have  to  wait.  'Performances  are  practically  continuous 
for  the  current  output  of  each  agency  and  there  are  re- 
serve projection  rooms,  where  releases  of  older  date  are 
shown  to  those  who  ask  for  them. 

I  have  mentioned  B.  Nichols'  agency,  the  M.  P.  S.  Co., 
as  a  leading  example,  but  the  conditions  are  similar  every- 
where. The  "viewers"  or  "selectors"  of  film  are  im- 
portant factors  here.  Every  big  exhibitor  and  renter  has 
1  his  "viewers."  In  plain  English  these  men  are  film  critics 
of  experience  and  judgment.  Their  system  of  judging  a 
film  has  great  merit,  they  grade  each  product  on  civil 
service  principles.  Out-of-town  renters  and  buyers  have  a 
corps  of  "viewers"  in  London  and  are  largely  guided  by 
their  reports  in  the  selection  and  purchase  "of  films. 

Room  for  a  little  thought  here:  What  of  the  critical 
reviews  of  our  esteemed  British  contemporaries,  in  most 
respects  so  ably  and  conscientiously  managed  and  con- 
ducted? I  have  touched  the  question  and  I  am  told  that 
the  producer  and  his  agent  are  dreadfully  "touchy."  They 
yearn  for  criticism,  they  cry  insistently  for  honest,  even 
if  adverse  criticism,  but  it  is  general  criticism  they  want 
or  criticism  of  the  rival  product,  but  when  the  criticism 
touches  them  directly  they  dance  about  like  a  man  who 
has  just  left  the  dentist's  chair  after  a  particularly  painful 
operation.  At  least  a  score  of  renters  and  buyers  here 
have  told  me  how  eagerly  they  wait  for  The  Moving  Pic- 
ture World  every  week  because  they  know  its  reviews 


are  candid  and  far  removed  from  the  "puff"  variety  of 
article.  There  are  no  "viewers  and  selectors"  in  our  own 
country  simply  because  the  buyer  and  exhibitor  has  the 
free  benefit  of  the  services  of  a  large  and  capable  body  of 
"viewers"  on  the  staff  of  The  Moving  Picture  World. 
In  England  and  on  the  continent  the  advertiser  thinks  he 
is  entitled  to  a  "complimentary  write-up"  as  a  matter  of 
law  and  wholly  regardless  of  the  true  merits  of  his  film. 

I  paid  a  visit  both  to  the  Bioscope  and  the  Kinemato- 
graph,  and  in  both  offices  I  found  men  of  decided  ability 
with  a  large  outlook  on  the  film  world  and  inspired  by  the 
highest  ideals.  Both  papers  are  a  credit  to  the  industry 
the  world  over.  All  the  editors  thoroughly  believe  in  the 
future  of  Kinematography  and  all  encourage  the  educa- 
tional picture.  They  realize  how  far  in  the  rear  the 
British  manufacturer  is  and  I  believe  they  are  anxious  to 
bring  about  better  conditions.  What  the  British  manu- 
facturer needs  just  now  is  the  plain,  blunt  truth  about  his 
work.  It  is  bad.  With  golden  opportunities  all  about 
him  he  keeps  on  turning  out  poor  stuff.  After  all,  we  have 
no  cause  to  worry.  Some  day  in  the  not  distant  future 
these  golden  opportunities  will  bear  a  golden  harvest  and 
Americans  are  likely  to  gather  in  the  sheaves.  This  talk 
about  poor  light  in  England  is  far  more  of  an  excuse  than 
a  justification  for  inferior  work.  Good  British  films,  deal- 
ing with  big  British  subjects  of  either  history  or  literature 
and  made  on  British  soil,  whether  by  Englishmen  or 
Americans,  will  be  among  the  best  possible  film  invest- 
ments of  the  immediate  future. 

Of  course  a  film  man's  visit  to  London  would  be  incom- 
plete without  "looking  up"  Frank  Brockliss,  agent  for 
Imp,  Rex  and  Solax:  Brockliss  is  doing  well  with  the 
Solax  films  and  assures  me  that  his  other  brands  are 
"coming  up."  He  has  a  strong  Yankee  touch  about  him 
and  is  constantly  "on  the  go."  His  only  regret  is  the 
small  size  of  Europe  which  he  knows  "like  a  book."  His 
agencies  are  like  a  network  of  railways  in  Europe,  where 
the  name  of  Brockliss  is  one  to  conjure  with.  He  is  a 
thorough  believer  in  the  American^made  film. 

It  would  be  interesting  to  see  a  statement  of  the  profits 
made  by  American  producers  and  their  agents  in  this 
market.  The  British  market  distributes  for  the  continent. 
On  the  continent  the  American  picture  is  not  a  whit  less 
popular  than  in  Great  Britain.  The  statement  would  be 
especially  interesting  in  view  of  the  fact  that  all  this 
enormous  amount  of  money  was  made  under  trade  con- 
ditions radically  different  from  our  own.  I  do  not  believe 
that  there  is  any  American  agent  here  who  would  want  to 
change  conditions.  The  open  market  has  developed  a 
high  class  of  exhibitors  here  with  plenty  of  initiative  and 
enterprise.  Splendid  theaters  are  everywhere  and  next  to 
no  vaudeville,  while  the  producer  and  his  agent  have  been 
doing  equallv  well.  Of  course  there  is  no  millennium.  It 
is  said  that  some  of  the  bigger  agents  want  to  eliminate 
the  renter  and  do  business  directly  with  the  exhibitor. 
One  prominent  producer,  indeed,  has  adopted  this  policy, 
but  he  is  having  an  up-hill  fight.  He  may  eventually  win, 
although  few  persons  can  believe  it,  but  even  a  victory 
would  be  very  costly  indeed.  There  is  some  dissatisfac- 
tion, too,  with  the  Board  of  Censors.  The  principle  of  the 
thing,  i.  c,  self-imposed  censorship,  is  concurred  in  by  all, 
but  some  believe  that  the  charges  of  the  office  are  too 
high,  while  a  great  number  would  like  to  know  the  identity 
of  the  four  or  five  assistants  who  go  about  their  work  so 
mysteriously,  masked  as  it  were  like  the  executioners  of 


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medieval  times.  On  the  whole,  however,  conditions  here 
are  highly  satisfactory  and  quality  wins  every  time. 
Quality  commands  fancy  prices  and  it  must  be  added  that 
the  British  buyer  and  "viewer"  know  quality  when  they 
see  it. 

The  causes  of  the  popularity  of  the  American-made 
film  deserve  careful  consideration.  Some  kinds  of  pic- 
tures are  more  popular  than  others,  but  there  is  an  excel- 
lent market  for  all  of  them.  I  have  studied  to  some  pur- 
pose, I  hope,  the  character  and  conduct  of  the  average 
British  audience  and  an  analysis  of  their  tastes  and  pre- 
dilections may  be  of  some  possible  benefit  to  some  of  our 
native  producers.  One  or  two  of  the  bigger  agents  are 
sending  critical  opinions  and  suggestions  to  their  pro- 
ducers and  the  latter  have  greatly  profited  thereby. 


BRITISH  NOTES. 


By  Our  Own  Correspondent. 

A  collective  exhibit  has  now  been  organized  by  leading  British 
firms  for  the  forthcoming  International  Exposition  at  Ghent, 
Belgium.  This  will  be  displayed  in  the  British  section.  Ameri- 
can manufacturers  partaking  in  the  Exposition  are,  I  am  given 
to  understand,  to  be  accommodated  in  an  equally  representative 

American  section. 

*  *     * 

"When  and  where  were  the  first  moving  pictures  shown  to  the 
public  by  means  of  the  kinematograph  ?"  Even  in  this  age  of  ad- 
vanced commercialism  these  little  historical  reflections  on  the 
industry  can  scarcely  fail  to  be  of  some  interest.  Mr.  Freise- 
Greene  is  generally  credited  as  being  the  inventor,  and  there  is 
no  doubt  that  the  perfection  of  the  machine  owed  much  to  his 
experiments.  But  the  actual  inventor  of  motion  pictures  was  one 
Edward  Muybridge,  of  Kingston-on-Thames,  who  made  his  first 
animated  picture  in  1872.  This  statement  is  made  by  a  London 
scientist,  and  is  endorsed  by  Messrs.  Gaumont,  while  further  evi- 
dence of  its  authenticity  could  be  furnished  by  the  records  of  the 
Patent  Office,  which  show  that  two  deposits  were  made  on 
"chronophotograph"  apparatus  (the  name  by  which  moving  pic- 
tures were  first  known),  in  April,  1889.  The  first  public  exhibi- 
tion of  moving  pictures,  however,  was  given  by  Mr.  Robert  Paul 
and  Sir  Augustus  Harris  in  1896  in  Olympia.  the  building  where 
the  recent  trade  exhibition  w-as  held.  The  claims  of  Olympia  on 
the  industry  are  now  doubly  interesting. 

*  *     * 

Dr.  Len  G.  Broughton,  one  of  the  leading  luminaries  in  Ameri- 
can theology  and  who  took  up  a  pastorate  here  last  year,  has 
apparently  some  novel,  if  not  really  feasible  ideas.  His  latest 
crusade  consists  of  an  attempt  to  close  the  Sunday  theaters,  to 
the  realization  of  which  he  is  trying  to  induce  other  denomina- 
tions to  co-operate  with  him.  "I  do  not  object  to  the  kinema,  or 
even  the  Sunday  kinema,"  says  Dr.  Broughton,  "if  it  is  conducted 
on  proper  lines"  What  I  am  against  is  the  stuffy  atmosphere  of 
many  of  these  places,  which  does  not  benefit  the  worker.  I  also 
object  to  Sunday  entertainment  run  for  profit."  Dr.  Broughton's 
Utopian  ideal  is  free  shows  in  the  open  air  in  the  London  parks, 
provided  for  by  the  municipal  authorities.  Unfortunately  for 
Dr.  Broughton,  the  authorities  do  not  seem  to  see  the  suggestion 
in  the  same  light,  with  the  rates  of  London  as  they  are  at  present. 

*  *     * 

A  practice  of  film  dealers  which  sooner  or  later  must  be  of- 
ficially condemned  is  that  of  supplying  small  strips  of  positive 
film  to  shopkeepers  to  retail  out  to  children  for  the  modest  return 
of  a  penny  or  a  halfpenny,  according  to  the  length  supplied.  Only 
his  week  my  attention  has  been  drawn  to  the  action  of  a  firm  of 
well-known  film  dealers  in  the  nor.th,  who  are  supplying  disused 
junk,  put.  up  in  packets,  to  shopkeepers.  Even  a  small  quantity 
of  celluloid,  when  alight,  is  sufficient  to  cause  serious  conse- 
quences amongst  children,  and  were  these  brought  to  the  notice 
of  magistrates,  they  would  obviously  infer  that  the  films  had  been 
obtained  from  a  picture  theater. 

*  *    * 

The  religious  section  of  the  recent  Kinematograph  Conference, 
comprising  many  leading  clerics,  has  formed  itself  into  a  com- 
mittee which  will  meet  the  trade  shortly  and  discuss  the  various 
aspects  of  their  allied  interests. 

*  *     * 

Edison's  "Charge  of  the  Light  Brigade"  was  shown  to  a  crowd 
of  25,000  in  the  open  air  at  Leeds  last  week  in  connection  with 
the  visit  of  Lord  Roberts  to  that  city.  "The  Relief  of  Lucknow" 
'  is  also  being  used  for  recruiting  purposes. 

J.  B.  Sutcliffe. 


The  Triangle  of  Filmdom 

By  Leslie  J.  Wilson. 

WHERE  there  is  smoke,  science  has  taught  us  that  there 
shall  we  find  fire.  Film  manufacturers  have  long  sat  in 
near-idleness  and  watched  smoke  arise,  but  in  their  hurry 
to  garner  the  waiting  dollars  and  nickels  they  overlooked  their 
chance  to  discover  the  fire  w-hich  now  faces  them  in  the  shape  of 
a  triangle,  namely:  politics,  censorship,  and  high  salaries 'for  state 
censors. 

Slowly  but  surely  have  the  politicians  been  closing  in  on  the 
film  makers  and  film  exchanges  with  their  cry  of  "Make  the 
motion  picture  business  clean."  The  slogan  has  sounded  attractive 
to  the  ordinary  citizen,  and  he,  too,  in  many  cases  has  joined  the 
chase  and  echoed  the  cry  of  the  politician. 

From  the  politician's  point  of  view,  motion  picture  censorship 
will  cost  the  public  nothing.  The  admission  price  of  five  cents 
charged  by  the  exhibitors  will  hardly  ever  be  raised,  as  the  price 
has  had  much  to  do  with  making  motion  pictures  popular.  There- 
fore the  theater-goer  or  the  voter  is  satisfied  when  the  politician 
declares  censorship  will  cost  the  state  nothing,  but  that  the  charges 
will  revert  to  the  manufacturer  or  film  exchanges. 

In  several  states  bills  have  been  offered,  carrying  fancy  salaries 
for  censors,  or  rather  a  censorship  board  who  would  have  the  say 
when  it  came  to  film  service.  Several  of  these  bills  have  already 
been  defeated,  and  several  others  are  hiding  away  from  the  axe 
sharpened  by  film  exchange  men  and  the  exhibitors. 

In  Ohio  a  state  censorship  bill  has  been  offered  by  those  who 
favor  state  censorship.  Cleveland  has  just  passed  through  a  three 
months'  stage  of  censorship,  during  which  time  an  attorney  dance- 
hall  inspector  and  his  assistant  viewed  films  as  legal  represen- 
tatives of  the  mayor,  but  paid  bv  the  film  exchanges. 

During  the  censors'  tenure  of  office  they  had  but  little  recourse 
to  the  shears,  and  their  report  was  striking  for  the  small  amount 
of  film  ordered  cut  out.  In  fact  their  work  was  a  most  telling 
argument  against  city  or  state  censorship. 

However.  Ohio  is  in  for  state  censorship,  if  all  is  to  be  believed 

.which  comes  from  political  camps.    It  is  proposed  to  have  a  board 

of  three  or  four  censors,  costing  about  $12,000  yearly  (which  the 

film  exchanges  would  pay),  who  would  pass  upon  all  films  before 

their  release. 

A  long  newspaper  experience  would  lead  me  to  say  the  censor- 
ship party's  slogan  should  be,  "Make  the  motion  picture  business 
pay,"  rather  than  "Make  the  motion  picture  business  clean." 

To  the  politician  figures  always  look  good.  Connected  with  film 
censorship  they  look  extremely  well.  Just  suppose  censorship  is 
established  in  forty  states  of  the  union.  The  cost  will  easily 
average  10,000  yearly  per  state.  According  to  all  rules  of  arith- 
metic, forty  times  10,000  silver  dollars  reaches  an  amount  some- 
thing like  $400,000,  or  nearly  a  half  million  dollars  for  the  poli- 
tician elevated  to  the  job  of  film  censor. 

I  could  almost  favor  state  censorship  myself,  but  the  proposed 
jobs  in  Ohio  already  have  twenty  candidates  in  waiting. 

There  is  "to  my  mind  no  need  for  municipal  or  state  censorship. 
An  attempt  to  foist  it  upon  the  public  and  film  men  savors  of  the 
"spoils"  system.  The  National  Board  of  Censorship  has  in  the 
past  done  its  work  well,  and  public  opinion  quickly  puts  the  lax 
exhibitor  out  of  business  should  his  films  get  below  par. 

The  motion  picture  business  is  fast  growing  out  of  the  amuse- 
ment stage.  Every  day  it  is  turning  into  the  industrial,  historical, 
and  educational  channel.  The  comedies  and  film  dramas  are  but 
an  adjunct  for  the  moment's  entertainment,  the  real  features  be- 
ing instructive  and  liked  by  patrons.  Day  in  and  day  out  do  I 
receive  telephone  calls,  postcards  and  letters  from  bankers, 
brokers,  professional  men,  and  the  like,  asking  where  such  and 
such  a  film  can  be  seen.  The  standard  of  intelligence  of  the  mo- 
tion picture  show  patron  has  been  wonderfully  raised  during  the 
past  five  years— but  the  standard  of  the  politician  seeking  a  job 
has  ever  remained  on  the  same  level  from  whence  it  had  its 
source. 

Public  opinion  has  in  the  past  year  (1912)  become  the  greatest 
censorship  force  the  motion  picture  world  has  ever  known.  The 
triangle  and  its  efforts  are  puny  beside  public  opinion. 

Presidents,  kings,  actors  of  renown,  and  what  not,  figure  in  the 
film  of  to-day.  Millions  of  dollars  are  invested  in  the  management 
and  production  of  film.  No  event  of  consequence  can  take  place 
without  the  cameraman  is  on  the  job.  Flood,  fire,  or  warfare 
form  a  basis  for  his  activities.  The  newspaper  records  the 
events  transpiring  to-day,  and  to-morrow  along  comes  the 
"movie"  man  with  his  pictures  of  the  same  event. 

Classes  are  taught  natural  history  by  the  use  of  botanical  pic- 
tures; physicians  are  studying  diseases  and  insanity  with  the  aid 
of  films;  the  explorer  penetrates  a  foreign  land,  only  to  return 
with  real,  active  scenes  of  the  regions  entered,  and  churches 
throw  biblical  stories  on  the  screen  as  the  Sabbath  school  teacher 
instructs  his  class.  .  , 

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those  of  Sullivan  and  Considine?  Are  those  of  any  other  play- 
house censored  ?  No.  Public  opinion  is  all  the  censorship  needed 
to  keep  the  owners  of  circuit  or  theater  from  booking  unworthy 
acts.  Therefore  we  might  well  let  public  opinion  do  its  own 
censoring  when  it  comes  to  the  film  drama. 

Or,  if  we  must  have  film  censorship,  let  the  same  rulings  advo- 
cated by  the  film  censors  be  applied  to  the  legitimate  theatrical 
business.  If  we  did,  many  theaters  would  be  dark,  and  many 
"stars"  would  not  shine  to-night. 

The  film  business  is  a  goose — the  same  bird  that  lays  the  golden 
eggs.  If  the  politicians  will  leave  well  enough  alone,  I  believe 
the  manufacturer  and  the  film  exchanges  can  be  trusted  not  to 
kill  the  goose  that  lays  their  golden  eggs,  by  foisting  unworthy 
films  upon  the  theater  patrons. 

Yet  I  fear  the  goose  will  get  some  of  its  tail  feathers  plucked 
if  the  manufacturer,  exchanges,  and  exhibitors  do  not  do  their 
utmost  to  down  impending  legislation. 

The  eleventh  commandment  of  the  film  business  should  be: 

"Feed  not  the  hungry  politician." 


Changes  at  Lubinville 

Hereafter  Script  Department  is  to  Take  Its  Proper  Place 
in  the  Scheme  of  Things — Four  Noted  Star  Writers. 

SIEGMUND  LUBIN  has  been  making  important  changes  in 
production  matters  at  his  great  plant  in  Philadelphia  and 
stands  in  advance  of  most  manufacturers  of  photoplays 
in  that  he  leads  the  new  movement  toward  assigning  the  Script 
Department  to  its  proper  place  in  the  production  scheme.  For 
several  years  the  Edison  company  has  followed  the  system  of 
having  a  manager  of  production  to  direct  the  efforts  of  the  pro- 
ducers, and  at  the  Vitagraph  either  Mr.  Blackton  or  Mr.  Smith 
has  directed  the  selection  and  reconstruction  of  scripts,  but  in 
most  studios  a  more  or  less  chaotic  condition  has  existed.  In 
some  studios  the  directors  have  produced  their  own  scripts 
without  consultation  with  any  responsible  head  or  have  selected 
scripts  from  those  sent  in  without  reference  to  the  Script  Depart- 
ment. Mr.  Lubin,  through  his  son-in-law  and  General  Manager, 
Ira  M.  Lowery,  has  decided  to  reorganize  the  production  methods 
on  more  modern  lines,  and  hereafter  the  Script  Department  and 
the  directors  will  collaborate  on  all  productions  instead  of  fol- 
lowing the  haphazard  methods  that  have  obtained. 

The  Manuscript  Department  at  the  Lubin  plant  is  now  a 
double  organization.  The  existing  script  room  will  be  main- 
tained for  the  purpose  of  handling  the  incoming  scripts,  as  has 
always  been  done,  but  a  new  section  has  been  established  to 
handle  those  scripts  accepted  and  put  them  in  perfect  technical 
shape  before  they  are  handed  to  the  director  for  production,  per- 
mitting the  latter  to  give  his  full  attention  to  production  without 
requiring  him  to  handle  the  editorial  and  revision  work  that  he 
has  hitherto  performed,  this  work  now  being  done  by  the  trained 
staff  writers  whose  literary  qualifications  and  technical  training 
in  combination  better  fit  them  for  the  work.  In  future  Lubin 
scripts  will  be  given  the  director  in  such  form  that  he  has  only  to 
follow  the  script  in  order  to  get  a  properly  proportioned  produc- 
tion. 

Lawrence  S.  McCloskey  and  Edwin  Barbour,  who  have  been 
with  the  company  for  some  time,  now  have  the  assistance  of 
George  Terwilliger  and  Emmett  Campbell  Hall.  Mr.  McCloskey 
will  remain  in  editorial  charge  of  both  departments.  He  is  a 
former  newspaper  man  and  has  been  with  the  Lubin  company 
nearly  three  years.  He  has  written  most  of  the  recent  Arthur 
Johnson  plays  a&d  many  of  the  "Pete"  comedies,  as  well  as  con- 
tributing to  the  other  directors.  Some  of  the  best  of  the  recent 
Lubin  productions  have  been  written  by  him  and  produced  from 
the  script  without  alteration.  Edwin  Barbour  has  also  been 
with  the  company  for  some  time  as  assistant  to  Mr.  McCloskey. 
He  is  a  veteran  dramatist  and  the  author  of  a  score  of  melo- 
dramatic successes  when  melodrama  was  successful,  one  of  his 
best  known  works  being  "The  White  Squadron."  He  is 
thoroughly  well  versed  in  dramatic  literature  and  can  "spot"  the 
adaptation  of  a  standard  play  as  far  as  he  can  see  the  type. 

George  W.  Terwilliger  is  a  former  Dramatic  Mirror  man  and 
a  script  writer  of  years'  standing.  He  was  editor  for  the  Reli- 
ance company  for  a  long  time  and  wrote  many  notable  produc- 
tions for  them.  Since  last  November  he  has  been  doing  most  of 
his  work  for  the  Lubin  company.  Emmett  Campbell  Hall  was 
one  of  the  earliest  of  the  Lubin  contributors,  but  he  has  written 
many  notable  successes  for  the  Biograph  and  Selig  companies. 
Among  the  former  may  be  mentioned  "The  House  with  the 
Closed  Shutters,"  "His  Trust"  and  "His  Trust  Fulfilled."  He  is 
the  only  one  of  the  four  who  has  not  had  constant  studio  ex- 
perience, but  he  has  barely  escaped  being  photoplay  editor  for  at 
least  three  companies,  only  his  disinclination  for  moving  from 
his  home  near  Washington  preventing  him  from  accepting  the 
offers  made.  He  has  already  removed  to  Philadelphia  and  plans 
to  make  his  home  in  the  Fairmount  Park  district. 


In  the  new  scheme  of  affairs,  these  experts  will  prepare  per- 
fect working  scripts  of  every  story  accepted.  These  will  be 
cast  and  the  script  and  cast  presented  to  Mr.  Lowery  for  ap- 
proval. This  gained,  the  script  and  cast  will  be  given  a  director 
who  will  make  the  production  without  departing  from  the  lines 
laid  down,  though  any  suggestions  from  the  director  will  be  wel- 
comed by  the  Script  Department. 

The  scheme  of  casting  the  plays  to  fit  the  story  instead  of  buy- 
ing stories  to  fit  each  director's  cast  will  do  away  with  the 
special  company  system,  making  for  variety  of  production  and 
permitting  a  much  wider  scope  of  plays  to  be  selected  than  where 
a  script  must  be  made  to  fit  particular  leads.  There  will  be  but  a 
single  big  company  instead  of  small  sections,  and  there  will  be 
greater  variety  not  only  in  the  stories  but  in  the  acting. 

It  is  announced  that  the  retention  of  a  staff  of  expert  writers 
will  not  result  in  closing  the  market  to  the  outside  writer.  To 
the  contrary,  emphasis  is  laid  upon  the  fact  that  there  will  be  a 
better  market  than  ever  for  the  really  good  story  and  that  prices 
will  be  commensurate  with  the  merit  of  the  story.  But  it  will  be 
well  to  note  that  only  the  best  is  wanted.  The  mediocre  will 
stand  no  chance — it  never  did,  for  that  matter — under  the  Mc- 
Closkey editorship. 

Mr.  Lubin's  action  is  notable,  but  he  has  only  anticipated  the 
others  by  a  few  months,  at  best.  It  was  inevitable  that  to  get 
the  best  in  production  the  editors  should  edit  and  the  producers 
produce,  neither  assuming  the  functions  of  the  other  department. 

E.  W.  S. 


AMERICAN    HAS    TWO    HEADLINE    STORIES    FOR 
WEEK  OF  MAY  26. 

The  week  of  May  26th  will  see  the  release  of  two  splendid 
stories  by  famous  authors  now  writing  for  the  American 
Film  Manufacturing  Company.  The  Monday  release  is 
"Ashes  of  Three,"  by  Stewart  Edward  White,  a  two-reel  sub- 
ject. The  Saturday  release  is  a  delightful  newspaper  story 
by  Richard  Washburn  Child.  Thus  theaters  and  exchanges 
using  "Flying  A"  stories' are  assured  an  unusually  good  week. 


Miss  Miriam  Nesbitt,  Popular  Photoplay  Artiste  Now  With 
the  Edison  Players  in  England. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE  WORLD 


791 


"Mercy  Merrick." 

An  Edison  Photodrama  from  "The  New  Magdalene." 

Reviewed  by  Louis  Reeves  Harrison. 

WILKIE  COLLINS  had  penetrated  the  profoundest 
depths  of  the  human  heart  or  was  gifted  with  a  spirit 
of  prophecy  when  he  wrote  the  novel  from  which 
the  photoplay  was  taken.  The  situation  is  one  of  the  most 
interesting  ever  devised  by  a  maker  of  plots,  but  its  merit 
lies  in  what  has  been  long  slumbering,  wholly  unexpressed, 
in  the  hearts  of  sympathetic  natures,  recognition  of  the  su- 
perioritv  of  individual  morality  over  that  of  society.  It  is  a 
subject  so  deep,  so  pregnant  with  meaning,  that  it  can  be 
handled  in  a  thousand  ways  without  losing  interest,  gaining 
in  significance  rather  than  losing  by  repetition. 

Mercy  Merrick  has  in  her  the  vital  things  that  make  an 
individual  of  high  importance  to  society,  but  they  are  unrec- 
ognized bv  society  because  she  lacks  opportunity.  Chance 
enables  her  to  exchange  her  lowly  position  tor  that  ot  a 
woman  who  has  inherited  a  high  one,  and  she  makes  switt 
use  of  it  She  proves  conclusively  that  character-building  is 
as  important  as  the  inheritance  of  capacity.  She  rises  su- 
perior to  a  social  status  that  the  woman  she  impersonates 
could  barely  maintain.  The  story  presents  a  fascinating  so- 
ciological problem  and  solves  it  with  deep  sympathy. 

Miss  Fuller  in  the  title  role  grasps  the  essentials  that  make 
her  part  interesting  to  an  audience.  The  novelist  and  the 
dramatist  is  forced  to  select  and  utilize  the  exceptional  traits 
of  a  character  to  make  it  visible,  swiftly  sketch  what  nature 
takes  plenty  of  time  to  portray— acute  moments,  fleeting 
thoughts,  vital  signs  of  character,  so  that  those  who  run  may 
read  and  understand.  The  intelligent  young  actress  visual- 
izes the  essentials  with  a  rare  combination  of  force  and 
delicacv.  What  her  expressive  eyes  do  not  telegraph,  she 
manages  to  express  bv  a  hundred  little  arts  she  has  learned 
in  hard  experience.    It  is  not  an  easy  matter  to  portray  char- 


acter in  the  photoplay.  Stand  before  the  mirror  and  attempt 
to  portray  what  you  believe  to  be  your  own  if  you  would 
realize  how  inadequate  are  the  ordinary  means  at  the  dis- 
posal of  an  individual.  To  isolate  a  character  from  those 
with  which  it  is  compared  and  contrasted  is  enormously  dirh- 
cult  besides  being  what  might  be  called  a  transplanted  art, 
conveyed  by  dramatist  to  actor.  . 

Mary  Fuller's  impersonation  of  Mercy  Merrick  is  such  an 
exquisite  interpretation  that  the  photoplay  itself  would  have 
been  four  times  as  strong  if  it  had  been  twice  as  long  it 
it  a  pity  that  such  a  realistic  delineation  was  narrowed  down 
to  the  limitations  of  one  reel.  Two  reels  would  have  enabled 
the  accomplished  young  artiste  to  make  the  impression  of 
her  own  personality  as  revealed  in  the  character  still  more 
intense.  There  was  enough  material  in  the  novel  to  have  ex- 
tended this  photoplay  over  greater  space  with  no  loss  ot 
tension  and  decided  gain  in  other  dramatic  values.  Brevity 
is  about  the  only  fault  I  can  find  in  it.  It  is  so  good  that  one 
wants  more.  

DIPLOMATIC  CORPS  ENTERTAINED  BY  T.  M. 
EASTWOOD. 

A  short  while  ago,  T.  M.  Eastwood,  manager  of  the  Dixie 
Amusement  Company,  Washington,  D.  C.  sent  out  invita- 
tions to  members  of  the  Diplomatic  Corps  to  visit  the  Dixie 
Theater  and  see  themselves  in  moving  pictures  taken  during 
the  Inaugural  ceremonies.  A  special  program  was  presented, 
including  Pathe's  Inaugural  Supplement,  together  with  a  fine 
musical  accompaniment.  Their  Excellencies  thoroughly  en- 
joyed themselves  and  a  few  days  after  the  entertainment  Mr. 
Eastwood  received  letters  of  thanks  and  praise  from  the 
Legation.  Among  those  present  were  the  Italian  Ambassa- 
dor, the  Russian  Ambassador,  the  Costa  Rican,  the  Vene- 
zuelian,  the  Nicaraguan,  the  Cuban,  the  Chilian,  the  Gaute- 
malian  and  Peruvian  ministers  with  their  wives,  attaches  and 
Charges  d'Affaires  of  the  Legations. 


Scene  from  "Mercy  Merrick"  (Edison). 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


"A  Regiment  of  Two" 

Two-Reel  Vitagraph  Farce-Comedy. 
Reviewed   by  Louis   Reeves   Harrison. 

THIS  amusing  pastel  is  really  a  regiment  of  nine.  Nearly 
every  one  of  the  principals  becomes  by  force  of  cir- 
cumstances a  comedian  or  a  comedienne,  consciously 
or  unconsciously,  willingly  or  unwillingly,  before  the  two 
reels  reach  a  definite  conclusion,  and  some  of  them  will  be 
surprised  at  themselves  when  they  come  to  see  the  play  in  a 
theater.  There  is  such  an  abundance  of  comedy  opportunity 
that  a  laugh  trots  all  the  way  round  and  back  again. 

The  honors  are  supposed  to  go  to  Sidney  Drew,  brother  of 
the  much  adored  John,  and  first  of  the  "legits"  to  enter 
vaudeville,  who  impersonates  in  this  particular  instance  a 
character  for  which  nature  seems  to  have  qualified  him  in 
advance,  that  of  a  sporty  old  husband  who  gets  his  second 


Scene  from  "A  Regiment  of  Two"  (Vitagraph). 

wind  at  fifty  and  manifests  a  "Silk-Hat-Harry"  tendency  to 
go  gunning  for  squabs  and  wrens.  This  incarnation  of  a 
ranging-sex-tendency-to-take-a-night-off  hears  of  a  place 
where  the  Tango  is  on  and  finds  a  willing  confederate  in  his 
son-in-law  as  represented  by  Harry  Morey.  The  antics  of 
these  two  constitute  the  main  line  of  interest  in  the  story, 
but  the  limelight  is  not  all  theirs. 


Scene  from  "A  Regiment  of  Two"  (Vitagraph). 

In  order  to  deceive  their  wives,  fashioned  respectively  by 
Rose  Tapley  and  Anna  Stewart,  they  pretend  that  they  have 
joined  the  13th  Regiment  and  furnish  drills  at  the  armory  as 
an  excuse  for  absence  from  home.  The  regiment,  however, 
is  suddenly  called  upon  to  suppress  an  outbreak  at  Panama 
and  they  are  compelled  to  live  their  lie  out  to  the  end.  They 
procure  uniforms  from  a  dealer  in  the  main  attraction  of  a 
costume  play  and  tearfully  part  from  their  families  only  to 
sneak  away  on  a  fishing  orgie  after  arranging  to  have  letters 
forwarded  from  the  front,  describing  their  deeds  of  heroism. 

This  is   an    old   farce   motive,   but   every   possible   drop   of 


amusement  is  wrung  from  it  by  the  actors,  while  another 
well-worn  plot  is  interwoven,  the  eternal  ting-a-ling,  Edith 
Stpry  and  E.  K,  Lincoln  forming  the  right  angle,  with 
Ralph  Ince  as  the  hypotenuse.  Edith,  as  the  marriageable 
daughter  of  the  old  buck  who  has  gone  off  fishing  under  pre- 
tense of  departing  with  the  13th  Regiment,  enters  a  crying 
match  with  Miss  Tapley  and  Miss  Stewart  on  the  occasion 
of  her  father's  leave-taking,  and  she  wins.  The  charming 
former  Melies  star  lets  out  a  "how-wow"  that  might  have  in- 
duced the  author  of  the  farce-comedy  to  change  the  name 
of  his  piece  if  he  had  seen  her  to  "When  Edith  Wept," 
though  it  can  be  seen  with  one  eye  shut  that  neither  of  the 
other  ladies  is  troubled  with  tonsilitis. 

When  Ralph  Ince  gets  into  action — he  is  the  ill-starred 
suitor  in  this  photoplay,  whatever  his  status  in  real  life — the 
limelight  turns  pale  with  envy.  James  Young,  authority 
on  makeup,  will  turn  green  with  envy  if  he  happens  to  see 
this  play  somewhere  on  his  trip  around  the  world.  Ince, 
who  was  Lincoln  in  the  immortal  Gettysburg  photodrama, 
has  accomplished  another  transformation  of  note,  and  he 
astonishes  himself  as  a  comedian.  His  struggle  with  the 
water  pipe  that  has  burst  and  is  overflowing  the  house  in  the 
first  reel  will  keep  every  moving  picture  audience  fortunate 
enough  to  see  it  in  a  roar  of  laughter.  His  characterization 
in  its  delicious  solemnity  is  far  above  that  ordinarily  seen 
in  farce-comedy  of  any  kind. 

It  takes  some  acting  to  carry  a  photoplay  of  this  kind 
through  two  reels,  but  it  looks  to  me  like  a  success. 


"THE  DREAD  OF  DOOM"  (Itala). 
"-T"HE  DREAD  OF  DOOM"  is  a  three-part  offering  and 
1^  deals  with  a  subject  not  without  great  interest;  but 
hardly  suited  to  the  average  audience  which  comes 
to  an  exhibition  to  be  amused  and  not  primarily  to  be  in- 
structed. As  a  picture  of  acting  it  ranks  extremely  high. 
Senor  Zacconi,  the  famous  Italian  actor,  plays  the  lead,  a 
doctor  dying  of  consumption  who,  in  his  last  moments,  takes 
a  dose  of  strychnine.  Now,  the  strychnine  death  is  convul- 
sive and  painful  and,  because  of  the  muscular  contractions 
and  peculiar  spasms  that  it  sets  up,  it  gives  a  chance  to  a 
great  actor  to  show  things  that  are  real  enough  but  not 
beautiful.     Senor  Zacconi  shows  them  to  us  vividly. 

The  story  was  fabricated  to  give  a  setting  to  this  strych- 
nine death;  it  is  fair;  but.  finely  acted,  staged  and  all  that, 
lacks    real    distinction.      The    doctor's    ailment    comes,    as    is 


Scene  from  "The  Dread  of  Doom"  (Itala). 


shown,  from  the  bite  of  a  consumptive  monkey.  The  doctor 
had  known  enough  to  disinfect  the  wound,  but  this  didn't 
avail  to  save  him  from  the  germ.  Jt  happens  that  he  is  en- 
gaged to  a  girl  whose  brother  is  engaged  to  his  sister  and 
he  fears,  when  he  knows  that  the  disease  has  clutched  him, 
that  his  prospective  mother-in-law  will  think  it  hereditary  in 
his  family  and  forbid  his  sister's  marriage  to  her  son.  For 
this  reason,  he  hides  that  they  may  not  know  the  real  trou- 
ble. As  soon  as  the  other  wedding  is  consummated  he,  being  in 
the  last  stages,  takes  the  poison  and  then  we  have  the  terrible 
death  scenes.  They  are  truly  done  with  wonderful  power,- 
but  high  as  they  must  rank  as  art,  they  are  not  of  the  best  as 
entertainment. 

The  photography  and  the  sets  are  full  of  interest  and 
merit.  The  picture  is  full  of  pretty  scenes  showing  home 
life  among  Italian  people  of  social  prominence  and  wealth. 
There  is  much  that  is  good  also  in  small  incidents  naturally 
and  humanly  acted. 


THE. 'MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


793 


"Mary's  Romance"  (Crystal) 

OFTTIMES  people  have  been  heard  to  remark  that 
"There  is  nothing  new  under  the  sun,"  but  when  an 
old  theme  is  taken  as  the  subject  for  a  film  story  and 
the  action  so  well  laid,  and  the  scenes  so  well  portrayed  that 
the  entire  plot  seems  different  by  the  clever  work  of  the 
players  and  the  subtle  mind  of  the  director,  it  seems  that 
the  old  adage  does  not  seem  to  hold  good. 

The  idea  of  a  pretty  country  miss  becoming  infatuated 
with  a  smooth,  oily  city  chap,  has  been  done  time  and  time 
again,  but  it  can  be  truthfully  said  that  never  before  has  a 
story  been  welded  together  and  made  so  full  of  heart  throbs 
and  interest  as  the  forthcoming  Crystal  release,  "Mary's 
•  Romance." 


Scene  from  "Mary's  Romance"  (Crystal). 


Mary  is  a  pretty  country  miss.  She  is  full  of  romance, 
having  read  numerous  books  of  that  type.  John,  the  farm 
hand,  gains  Mary's  promise  to  marry  him,  he  having  been 
her  constant  companion  for  years.  Mary  is  out  one  day, 
enjoying  the  company  of  a  very  soulful  novel  when  Donald 
Belmar,  who  is  on  a  hunting  trip,  comes  across  her.  He 
engages  her  in  conversation  and  she  is  fascinated  by  his 
smooth  manner  and  clever  tongue.  She  makes  an  appoint- 
.ment  to  meet  him  the  next  day,  and  is  happy  in  the  thought 
that  at  last  there  is  a  romance  in  her  life.     She  meets  Belmar 


learn  that  he  is  really  married  and  that  all  his  protestations 
of  love  were  sham  and  that  she  was  but  a  plaything  for  him. 
She  staggers  blindly  from  the  house  and  wanders  homeward. 
Upon  her  return  her  father  orders  her  from  the  house,  her 
actions  in  leaving  home  spelling  disgrace  to  the  honest 
farmer  and  his  wife. 

Mary  determines  to  end  her  life  and  journeys  to  the  river 
shore  seeking  a  watery  grave.  A  youngster  sees  the  pa- 
thetic scene  between  father  and  daughter  and  runs  off  and  in- 
forms John.  He  hurries  to  the  home  and  it  requires  all  his 
will  to  restrain  him  from  a  wild  desire  to  choke  her  father 
to  death.  He  hurries  to  the  river  and  is  just  in  time  to  pre- 
vent the  poor  girl  from  throwing  herself  in.  He  comforts 
her  and  assures  her  that  he  has  forgiven  her  and^  Mary 
awakens  to  the  depths  of  her  own  as  well  as  to  John's  love 
and  realizes  that  life's  real  romance  had  indeed  started  for 
her.  The  happy  couple  hasten  to  the  minister  and  are  mar- 
ried.    Returning  home,  they  are  welcomed  back  to  the  fold. 

The  story  is  so  well  done,  the  scenes  so  pretty,  showing 
farm  life  in  all  its  rural  beauty,  and  the  action  so  continuous, 
combined  with  matchless  photography  that  this  film  is  sure 
to  please  all  classes  and  uphold  the  Crystal's  well-known 
policy  of  "The  Best  At  All  Times." 

Miss  Pearl  White  is  Mary  and  the  entire  thousand  feet 
inspires  one  to  the  thought  that  any  role  in  this  young 
woman's  hands  is  sure  of  proper  interpretation.  Mr.  Chester 
Barnett  is  John,  which  insures  a  strong  characterization. 


AMERICAN  USES  FAMOUS  ARLINGTON  IN 
PICTURES. 

The  American  forces  at  Santa  Barbara  were  particularly 
lucky  in  obtaining  the  use  of  the  beautiful  Arlington  Hotel 
for  the  making  of  a  negative  entitled  "A  Husband's  Mis- 
take." Owing  to  the  wonderful  lighting  facilities  of  this 
beautiful  hotel,  some  magnificent  interiors  were  obtained. 
In  fact,  practically  all  the  action  concentrates  in  these  de- 
lightful interiors.  Lovers  of  pretty  pictures  will  be  charmed 
with  the  remarkable  results  obtained.  Jack  Kerrigan  was 
never  better  than  in  his  part  of  the  husband.  It  is  the  first 
picture  in  which  Miss  Vivian  Rich  plays  opposite  Kerrigan 
since  her  promotion  to  the  first  company. 


Scene  from  "Mary's  Romance"  (Crystal). 

the  next  day  and  a  small  boy  who  is  watching  them  tells 
John. 

John  hurries  to  the  trysting  place  and  comes  upon  them  just 
as  Belmar  is  crushing  the  willing  Mary  to  his  heart.  John 
thrashes  the  intruder  and  compels  Mary  to  go  home.  This 
.  she  does,  but  refuses  to  talk  to  John,  she  imagining  that 
John  has  destroyed  the  few  happy  moments  of  her  life. 
Mary  continues  to  be  angry  for  a  few  days,  when  later  Mary 
receives  a  note  from  the  city.  It  is  from  Belmar  and  he 
writes  that  his  few  days  in  the  country  were  the  happiest  in 
his  life,  because  he  was  with  her,  and  inviting  the  innocent 
girl  to  visit  him  in  the  city. 

Mary  decides  to  accept  his  invitation  and  late  at  night, 
she  leaves  her  home  and  journeys  to  town.  The  next  day 
she  visits  the  Belmar  abode  and  is  received  by  Belmar's 
wife.      Mary    confronts    her    deceiver    and    is    astounded    to 


MISS  DOLORES  CASSINELLI, 
Charming   Leading  Woman   Who   Has   Recently  Joined 
Essanay. 


794 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


We  Moving  Picture  Educator 


■ 


THE  EDUCATIONAL  PICTURE. 

By  the  Rev.  E.  Boudinot  Stockton,  S.  T.  B. 
Memorial  Day. 

IN  accordance  with  our  promise  of  several  weeks  ago,  we 
give  below  a  list  of  pictures  suitable  for  a  special  exhi- 
bition appropriate  to  Memorial  Day.  The  list  includes 
the  releases  for  191 1  and  1912  and  some  of  the  releases  for 
1913.  We  should  have  been  glad  to  have  included  the  com- 
plete list  for  1913,  but  the  manufacturers  are  apparently 
averse  to  or  indifferent  about  giving  advance  information 
and  for  suitable  pictures  released  during  this  and  last  month 
those  interested  are  referred  to  the  pages  of  the  World.  The 
list  does  NOT  include  the  five  reel,  States'  rights  "Battle  of 
Gettysburg"  of  the  New  York  Motion  Picture  Company, 
now  being  handled  by  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation;  nor 
does  it  include  the  long  list  of  so-called  "Civil  War  dramas" 
that  have  appeared  during  the  past  two  years.  The  last 
named  class  has  very  little  if  any  pretense  to  historical  ac- 
curacy and  any  exhibitor  who  wishes  can  easily  make  his 
own  selection  from  the  back  files  of  the  World.  It  also 
seemed  needless  to  put  in  the  list  of  pictures  dealing  with 
the  American  Revolution  as  they  are  really  more  appropriate 
to  Independence  Day,  but  if  one  of  this  sort  is  desired  we 
should  advise  one  of  Edison's  series  on  the  American  Revo- 
lution, Rex's  "Heroine  of  '76"  (8:437;  484;  sp.  rev.  8:373),  or 
Thanhouser's  "For  Washington"  (8:436;  486),  the  last  two 
released  respectively  16  and  21  February,  191 1. 

Dramas  and  Comedies. 

The  Forced  Despatch.     Imp  22MV1911.     (8:1149;   1260;  mfg.    1191.) 

Hearts  and  Flags.     Edison  26MV1911.     (8:1206:  1313.) 

Fifty  Years  Ago.      Powers  27Myi9ii.      (8:1206;    1317.) 

A  War-Time  Wooing.     Thanhouser   30MV1911.      (8:1208;   1319.) 

The  Railroad  Raiders  of  f62.     Kalem   i6Jei9ii.     (8:1322;   1620.) 

True  Till  Death.     Melies  25AP1912.     (12:160;  527;  mfg.   12:236;  sp.  rev. 

12:43-) 
The  Sunset  Gun.     Edison  24MV1912.     (12:654;  942;  mfg.  638.) 
The    Soldier's   Last    Call.      Republic    28Myi9i2.      (12:764;    946;    sp.    rev. 

12:514.) 
Heroes  of  the  Blue  and  Gray.     Champion  29Myi9i2.     (12:766;  946.) 
A    Reconstructed    Rebel.        Selig    3oMyi9i2.       (12:758;     1026;    sp.    rev. 

12:817.) 
The  Peril.     Imp  3oMyi9i2.     (12:762;  946;  mfg.  835.) 
The  Grandfather.     Edison  21S1912.     (13:1102;  14:41;  sp.  rev.  13:847.) 
Pauline   Cushman,   the   Federal   Spy.       Selig   2r;    24Mri9i3.      (15:1350; 


On    Board   the    Naval  Training    Ship   "Dubuque."      American    30X1912. 

(14:816;  978.) 
The  Newest  Method  of  Coaling  Battleships  at   Sea.      Edison   26F1913. 

(15:920;   1103.) 
The  Last  Rites  of  the  "Maine,"   and  the  Burial  of  its   Dead.      Selig 

3AP1912.     (n.s.p.;   12:229.) 
Uncle  Sam's  Tribute  to  the  Heroes  of  the  "Maine."     Selig  3Myigi2. 

(12:448;  n.cp.) 
The   Ninth   International   Red   Cross  Congress,   Washington,    D.   C,   7 

to  17  May,  1912.     Edison  3Agi9i2.     (13:368;  672.) 
The   National   Soldiers'    Home,    Virginia.       Edison    18S1912.      (13:1102; 

14:40.) 
Any  suggestions  or  criticisms  will  be  gladly  received  and 
any  inquiries  will   be  cheerfully  answered  provided   a  self- 
addressed  and  stamped  envelope  is  enclosed  for  the  reply. 


GENERAL  TOPICS. 

Releases  April  13  to  19. 

The  list  of  educational  pictures  and  photoplays  suitable 
for  educational  and  religious  work  released  between  April  13 
and  19,  inclusive,  is  given  below.  For  the  explanation  of 
abbreviations,  etc.,  see  the  issue  of  last  week. 

Newspapers. 

Animated  Weekly.     Universal  16.      (16:414;  489.) 
Gaumont  Weekly.     Gaumont   16.     (16:422.) 
Mutual  Weekly.     Mutual    16.     (16:418.) 
Patbes  Weekly.     Pathe   14.     (16:412.) 

Children's  Stories. 

The  Lesson.     Powers    16.     (n.s.p.;    16:281.) 

Religion. 

God's  Way.     Selig  15.     (16:198;   381.)     Illustrates  love  to  one's  neighbor; 
the  example  and  imitation  of  Christ;   St.  Matthew  25.40. 

Sociology. 

The   Twelfth    Juror.     Edison    19.     (16:300;    487.)     Illustrates    the   value 

of  circumstantial  evidence. 
A   School  of   Gymnastics,    Pathe    18.     (16:200;    n.cp.)     French   military 

exercises. 
The  Laplanders.     Gem  15.     (n.s.p.;  16:382.) 
Village    Customs    in    Ceylon.    India.     Mutual    educational    17.     (16:304; 

A  Tahitian  Fish  Drive.     Melies  17.     (16:200;  488.)     A  tribal  festival  held 
once  in  ten  years  by  permission  of  the  French  government. 


16:48;  sp.  rev.  15:1085;  1201;  music  for  16:56.) 
Belle  Boyd,  a  Confederate  Spy.     Selig  7Myi9i3.     (16:504.) 
An  Unwilling  Separation.    Edison  27*^1913.     (16: — .) 
John  Burns,  of  Gettysburg.     Kalem  31^1913.     (16: — .) 

Songs  and  Ballads. 

The  Battle  Hymn  of  the  Republic     Vitagraph  3oJei9ii.     (8:1457;  mfg. 

1506;  sp.  rev.  1497) 
The  Star  Spangled  Banner.     Edison  3oJei9ii.     (8:1458;  9:38.) 
Curfew   Shall  Not  Ring  To-night.     Reliance  29Myi9i2.      (12:864;   mfg. 

638.) 
Driving  Home  the  Cows.     Kalem  ijei9i2.     (10:1090;  1126;  mfg.  994.) 

LLncolniana. 

Lincoln's    Gettysburg    Address.       Vitagraph    3JI1912.      (12:1258;    13:244; 

sp.  rev.  12:1017.) 
His  First  Commission.     Edison  10F1911.     (com.  8:430.) 
Thb  Seventh   Son.      Vitagraph  3AP1912.     (11:1190;    12:229;  sp.   rev.    11: 

1 1 50.) 
The  Higher  Mercy.     Vitagraph  10S1912.      (13:908;   1176.) 

__  U.  S.  Army  and  Navy. 

OTS.  Army  Manoeuvres.     Powers  28Agi9i2.     (13:912;  976.) 

The  Capture  of   New   York.      Thanhouser   1S1912.      (13:916;    1076;  mfg. 

984) 
Army  Target  Practise.     Lubin  6Mnoi3.     (15:914;  1220.) 
Daring    Feats    on    U.    S.    Cavalry    Horses.       Imp    i6Mri9i2.      (12:896; 

n.cp.) 
U.  S.  Cavalry  Drill.     American   iMyi9ii.     (8:1088;  n.cp.) 
A  Modern  Light  Battery  in  Action.     Kalem  2oJai9ii.      (n.s.p. ;  8:243.) 
U.  S.  Artillery  Practise.     Imp  27AP1912.     (12:264;  529.) 
Work  in  a  U.   S.  Arsenal.      Lubin  23.^1912.      (13:686;  975.) 
Evening  Parade  and  Big  Gun  Practise  at  Fort  Hamilton.      Vitagraph 

17O1912.     (14:164;  n.cp.) 
Army  Aviation  Practice.     Lubin  19F1912.     (11:710;  780.) 
Torpedo  Practise  in  the  U.  S.  Navy.     Vitagraph  28F1912.     (n.s.p.;   11: 

961.) 
Tek  Days  with  a  Fleet  of  U.  S.  Battleships.     Edison  njei9i2.     (12: 

950-1127.) 
Target  Practise  of  the  Atlantic  Fleet,  U.  S.  N.     Edison  I9jei9i2.  (12: 

1060;  13:42.) 
The  U.  S.  Armada.     Pathe  26O1912.     (n.s.  or  cp.) 
A  Day  on  the  Battleship  "Florida."     Majestic  5N1912.    (n.s.p.;  14:660.) 


Science. 

The  Octopus.     Eclair  13.     (16:84;  281.) 
The  Cuttlefish.     Pathe  18.     (16:200;  n.cp.) 

Applied  Science. 

Steam.  Kinemacolor.  (16:312;  281.)  Tells  the  story  of  the  Invention 
of  the  steam-engine  and  locomotive  by  Watts  and  Stephenson. 

Jean  and  Her  Family.  Vitagraph  19.  (15:1242  &  16:194;  16:488.)  The 
Vitagraph  dog  and  her  puppies. 

On  An  Alligator  Farm.     Imp  19.     (n.s.p.;   16:382.) 

The  Sponge  Industry  in  Cuba.    Pathe  17.     (16:200;  488.) 

Fine  Arts. 
Modeling    Extraordinary.     Kinemacolor.     (16:312;     281.)     Trick    pbotog- 

The  Millionaire's  Playground,  Palm  Beach,  Florida.  Kalem  18.  (16: 
196;  488.) 

Literature. 

Dixieland.  Selig  16.  (16:198;  488;  adv.  134.)  Suggested  by  the  song 
"Dixie."  _ 

Feathertop.  Kinemacolor.  (16:312;  281.)  Based  on  Nathaniel  Hi* 
thorne's  story. 

Geography. 

The  Rocky  Mountains  in  Winter.     Edison  14.     (16:192;  381.) 

For  France  see   under  Sociology. 

Pisa,    Italy.     Majestic   15.     (16:310;    281.) 

The    Ancient    Town    of    Gubbie,    Umbrja,    Central    Italy.     CInea    if. 

(16:196:  n.cp.) 
For  Lapland  see  under  Sociology. 
Hankow    China.     Selig  15.     (16:198;   381.) 
For  Ceylon  see  under  Sociology. 

Glimpses  of  the  National  Capital.     Pathe  17.     (16:200;  488.) 
For  Palm  Beach,  Florida,  see  under  Fine  Arts. 
For  Tahiti  see  under  Sociology. 

Biography. 

Stephenson,  George.     See  under  Applied  Science. 
Watts,  James.     -See  under  Applied  Science. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


795 


HOW  NATURAL  HISTORY  PICTURES  ARE  TAKEN. 

Rev.  W.  H.  Jackson. 

During  the  last  few  months  quite  a  large  number  of  Natural 
•History  pictures  have  been  reviewed  on  this  page.  To  a  large 
number  of  people  the  extraordinary  details  of  a  number  of  these 
subjects  must  have  seemed  very  perplexing;  it  will  be  of  interest 
to  such  to  know  something  of  the  time  and  patience  required, 
and  also  to  know  something  of  the  methods  used  to  procure  these 
valuable  living  examples.  The  photographers  of  a  series  of  pic- 
tures such  as  "Wild  Birds  in  Their  Haunts"  have  told  us  of  the 
long  hours  of  tedious  secretiveness  and  patient  silence  it  was 
necessary  to  undergo.  In  a  recent  issue  of  the  London  "Kine- 
matograph  Weekly"  Mr.  Frank  Newman  gives  some  interesting 
details  of  the  methods  he  used  for  many  of  his  natural  history 
pictures. 

Writing  of  the  Wild  Fox  series,  he  says :  "The  first  thing  I 
find  is  the  permanent  home  of  the  animal,  then  an  observation 
■chamber  is  built,  and  from  it  notes  are  made  of  its  habits;  the 
time  of  his  walks  in  the  morning  or  evening,  and  the  kind  of 
prey  he  brings  home.  A  hiding-place  must  now  be  constructed 
which  must  not  be  in  too  striking  a  contrast  to  the  surroundings, 
and  must  be  in  such  a  position  that  will  secure  best  lighting 
results.  With  the  fox  I  noticed  that  he  brought  home  rabbits 
and  fowls.  I  therefore  decided  rabbits  would  make  the  most 
interesting  pictures.  I  procured  some  wild  rabbits  trapped  alive, 
and  a  box  made  to  contain  them  with  a  trap-door  fitted  with  an 
electric  release.  This,  with  the  rabbits,  was  placed  inside  an  old 
rabbit-warren  at  4  =30  A  M.,  when  the  fox  was  away.  He  gener- 
ally returned  about  an  hour  after  daybreak,  thus  allowing  plenty 
of  time  for  the  human  scent  to  disappear,  an  essential  factor  in 
this  kind  of  work. 

"On  the  reappearance  of  the  fox  I  immediately  released  the 
rabbits  by  my  electrical  connection ;  they,  of  course,  came  to  the 
surface  and  began  feeding.  The  fox  spotted  them  and  killed  two. 
Thus  I  had  the  incident.  Perhaps  it  is  well  to  mention  that 
success  did  not  always  attend  the  first  attempt,  as,  of  course,  the 
animals  did  not  work  automatically. 

"Some  of  my  most  successful  pictures  were  taken  from  my 
'cow.'  This  is,  of  course,  a  representation  of  a  cow,  constructed 
with  cardboard,  covered  with  red  cork  lino,  with  the  entrance 
door  at  the  back;  this  particular  'cow'  is  mounted  on  a  middle 
leg,  on  which  the  structure  turns  at  will  from  the  inside.  Sev- 
eral spy-holes  are  used,  each  fitted  with  a  ruby  glass  shutter. 
Another  successful  device  is  the  imitation  trunk  of  a  tree,  from 
which  I  was  able  to  take  the  nest  and  habits  of  a  wasp  within  a 
distance  of  four  feet. 

"For  some  reptile  and  insect  subjects  I  found  it  necessary  to 
use  my  devices  all  the  year  round.  It  takes  twelve  months — 
sometimes  longer — to  complete  a  subject,  because  of  the  necessity 
of  following  the  development  from  the  egg,  through  the  various 
stages  to  the  full-grown  life  in  its  natural  surroundings. 

'Insect  life,  no  matter  how  small,  to  be  photographed  success- 
fully, requires  the  aid  of  a  microscopic  attachment,  as  many 
minute  forms  are  invisible  to  the  naked  eye.  For  many  pictures 
I  have  the  run  of  an  estate  in  Surrey,  about  one  hundred  acres 
in  extent.  I  also  keep  a  number  of  animals  in  captivity  suitable 
for  kinematography,  my  strangest  combination  being  a  Persian 
rat  which  adopted  a  wild  rabbit  when  a  day  old,  and  which  has 
now  outgrown  its  foster-parent.  I  have  also  a  lion  cub  brought 
up  with  a  pet  lamb.  It  is  at  times  necessary  to  go  out  of  England 
for  special  subjects.  Last  year  I  visited  the  Upper  Nile  and 
secured  the  life  of  the  crocodile  from  the  egg  upwards,  getting 
some  excellent  under-water  pictures.  Great  patience  is  required 
here  on  account  of  the  dull  and  wet  days,  when  nothing  can  be 
accomplished."  The  knowledge  which  Mr.  Newman  here  gives 
is  very  valuable,  as,  besides  showing  how  the  pictures  are  taken, 
it  also  gives  truth  and  authenticity  to  these  natural  history  pic- 
tures, so  that  the  users  of  the  films  may  be  assured  that  they  can 
safely  be  used  for  educational  purposes. 


EDUCATED  INSECTS. 
Reviews  of  natural  history  films  would  be  incomplete  if 
any  which  portrayed  that  which  is  of  more  than  usual  in- 
terest were  omitted.  From  time  to  time  men  of  great  pa- 
tience have  been  able  to  produce  in  the  insect  world  what 
others  have  accomplished  in  the  animal  world;  and  trained 
specimens  of  special  kinds  have  occasionally  been  brought 
to  the  attention  of  an  appreciative  public.  A  valuable  addi- 
tion to  the  films  which  are  classed  as  educationals  is  one 
showing  marvelous  success  in  the  education  of  beetles  along 
various  lines;  such  a  film  is  here  described  by  Mr.  J.  B. 
Sutcliffe,  British  correspondent  of  the  Moving  Picture 
World,  with  careful  detail. 

Training  Beetles. 
"Habit  and  not  intelligence  is   the   great  secret  of  a  suc- 
cessful animal  actor,"  said  Mr.  Paul  Bourgeois,  the  talented 
young  Frenchman  who  has  supplied  numerous  American  film 


manufacturing  concerns  with  the  animal  members  of  their 
stock  companies,  when  asked  how  he  trained  his  subjects. 
But  does  this  apply  to  beetles  and  other  insects  who  have 
recently  invaded  the  picture  theater  via  the  screen  (not  the 
floor)?  The  training  of  animals  for  the  photoplay  cannot, 
after  all,  be  much  more  than  a  glorified  circus  training  which 
is  easily  conceivable  by  any  one,  but  the  preparation  of  the 
beetle  is  vastly  different,  for  in  the  first  place  it  is  so  minute, 
while  psychologists  would  further  say  that  in  equal  ratio  to 
the  physique  of  the  beetle,  is  its  intellect. 

Beetle  training  therefore  must  be  something  like  a  game 
of  patience,  and  so  far  as  I  know  there  is  only  one  trainer  in 
existence  who  attends  solely  to  the  beetle  and  his  few  com- 
panions. His  name  is  Loyshki,  a  Russian.  How  he  first  came 
to  be  professionally  introduced  to  the  beetle  would  provide 
a  better  plot  for  a  scenario  than  a  simple  treatise  on  his 
business.  In  1881,  Loyshki,  then  a  young  Russian  student, 
was  arrested  for  complicity  in  a  Nihilist  outrage.  After 
some  months'  confinement  he  was  acquitted  and  released, 
but  not  until  he  had  tasted  Russian  prison  life  to  the  full. 
During  the  long  weeks  he  was  confined  in  his  lonely  cell,  he 
made  friends  with  the  beetles  which  swarmed  the  building. 
To  his  surprise,  they  quickly  learned  to  come  at  his  call,  to 
obey  his  voice,  even  to  perform  simple  little  tricks  at  his 
bidding,  so  when  out  of  gaol  he  turned  his  attention  to  train- 
ing these  insects,  experimenting  with  different  kinds,  and 
eventually  choosing  the  large  and  exceedingly  strong  stag 
beetle  as  being  the  kind  best  adapted  for  his  purpose.  Thus 
Loyshki  was  a  eugenist.  He  bred  his  beetles  as  poultry 
breeders  breed  chickens,  or  dog-fanciers  dogs,  carefully  se- 
lecting the  strains,  sterilizing  the  unfit,  pairing  the  most 
clever.  The  life  of  a  beetle  is  short.  This  helped  him 
greatly,  and  to-day  after  years  of  patient  practice  the  beetles 
he  is  experimenting  with  represent  the  453rd  generation  in 
the  direct  line  of  descent  from  the  original  ones  he  started 
to  teach  in  1881. 

Respecting  the  actual  training  of  the  beetle  Loyshki,  with 
his  assistant,  now  spent  his  time  in  instructing  his  insectile 
pupils  in  the  diverse  arts  of  play-acting,  dancing,  warfare, 
house-building,  and  love-making.  Music  takes  a  prominent 
part,  for  like  human  beings,  beetles  have  their  emotions. 
"Indeed,"  says  their  trainer  referring  to  the  effects  of  rag- 
time, "one  of  them  danced  so  wildly  and  fiercely  when  he 
heard  the  strains  of  'Everybody's  Doing  It'  played  on  a  flute, 
that  he  ultimately  fell  dead  from  exhaustion." 

When  he  had  effectually  trained  his  beetles,  M.  Loyshki 
exhibited  them  up  and  down  the  country,  but  the  advent  of 
the  moving  picture  opened  up  new  possibilities.  The  trainer 
first  carefully  examined  the  various  poses  and  movements  of 
his  beetles,  then  studied  them  at  leisure  and  more  closely. 
From  this  to  filming  a  drama  in  which  beetles  should  take 
the  place  of  human  beings  as  actors  and  actresses  was  but  a 
step.  Taking  advantage  of  the  stag  beetle's  natural  pugnac- 
ity, Loyshki  marshalled  his  troops  in  regiments  like  soldiers, 
dressed  them  in  uniforms  and  marched  them  forth  to  battle 
against  one  another.  The  effect,  as  seen  on  the  screen  is 
most  weird  and  wonderful.  The  rival  beetle  armies  march 
and  counter  march  in  the  most  perfectly  natural  manner, 
with  drums  beating  and  banners  flying.  To  further  describe 
the  film  would  be  almost  superfluous.  Every  American 
showman  must  be  familiar  with,  "A  Drama  of  the  Middle 
Ages,"  enacted  by  beetles  and  in  which  the  theatrical  ability 
shown  by  many  of  the  principals  is  really  almost  uncanny. 
They  fence,  fight,  make  love,  and  crave  mercy  with  all  the 
skill  of  human  actors  and  the  peculiar  movements  of  their 
horns  and  the  attitudes  they  adopt  convey  as  clearly  as 
human  beings  their  thoughts  and  feelings.  Fear,  anger, 
craftiness,  and  courage,  are  all  displayed  by  gestures  which 
no  one  can  mistake. 

Although  strictly  insectile,  Loyshki's  efforts  have  not  been 
solitarily  confined  to  beetles  and  now,  I  understand,  he  is 
producing  films  in  which  mosquitoes,  dragon-flies,  and  Daddy- 
'Longlegs  take  part.  A  new  film  called  "The  Beetle's  De- 
ception," a  love  drama,  is  at  the  moment  being  exhibited  in 
London.  Beetle  films  take  about  a  year  to  produce,  the  in- 
sects having  to  be  constantly  rehearsed  and  each  single 
movement  separately  photographed.  Incidentally,  it  was 
found  that  the  grasshoppers  were  far  harder  to  train  than 
the  beetles,  the  little  fellow  who  takes  so  prominent  a  part 
in  "The  Deception"  being  the  best  choice  of  over  200  of  his 
kind. 

J.  B.  SUTCLIFFE. 


Mr.  Arthur  Roberts,  the  comedian,  is  advocating  the  forma- 
tion of  a  society  for  the  collection  and  preservation  of  kinemato- 
graph  records  of  dramatic  art.  "What  would  we  not  give."  he 
asks,  "for  such  records  as  David  Garrick  in  'Hamlet'  or  Henry 
Irving  in  'Faust'?" 


796 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


CHICAGO   LETTER 

By  J  AS.  S.  McQDADE 


A  CONFERENCE  of  all  the  stockholders  of  the  Inde- 
pendent Exchange  Co.,  will  be  held  in  the  Hotel 
Sherman  Monday,  May  19.  The  opening  session  will 
be  held  at  2  P.  M.  Every  exchange  included  in  the  Inde- 
pendent Exchange  Co.,  will  have  one  or  more  representatives. 
It  is  understood  that  the  main  purpose  of  the  meeting 
will  be  to  examine  and  discuss  a  contract  drawn  up,  and 
submitted,  by  the  Universal  Film  Manufacturing  Company. 
I  understand  that  definite  action  will  be  positively  taken  at 
this  conference  to  make  an  equitable  arrangement  for  weekly 
programs.  The  rights  of  exhibitors  and  exchange  men  as 
well  as  those  of  the  manufacturers  will  be  carefully  kept 
in  view  during  the  conference,  so  that  a  satisfactory  and 
equitable  contract  for  all  concerned  can  be  made. 

It  is  sincerely  hoped  that  the  difference  between  the 
Universal  and  the  members  of  the  Independent  Exchange  Co., 
will  be  settled  at  this  meeting.  There  is  no  good  reason 
why  this  cannot  be  done,  as  further  bickering  will  only 
serve  to  injure  the  business  in  this  especial  field. 
Jones,  Linick  &  Schaefer  Acquire  McVicker's  and  the  Colonial 
McVicker's  theater,  known  to  thousands  of  patrons  of  the 
drama  in  Chicago  and  throughout  the  country,  has  been 
sold  to  the  firm  of  Jones,  Linick  &  Schaefer,  known  as  the 
"jitney  kings,"  owners  of  a  string  of  moving  picture  houses 
and  neighborhood  theaters  in  the  city.  The  deal  is  said  to 
have  involved  an  amount  exceeding  $500,000. 

The  Jones,  Linick  &  Schaefer  combination  got  title  to 
the  entire  property,  and  it  is  rumored  that  it  will  be  turned 
into  a  10,  15  and  25  cent  vaudeville,  with  Kinemacolor  pic- 
tures. The  deal  was  transacted  through  Litt  &  Dingwall, 
the  agents  representing  the  heirs  to  the  McVicker  estate. 

McVicker's  has  had  a  historic  career.  It  passed  through 
five  fires  and  was  often  remodeled.  Of  late  it  has  been 
devoted  chiefly  to  spectacular  plays.  Numerous  efforts  had 
been  made  in  the  past  to  purchase  it.  Several  syndicates 
desired  to  buy  it  for  use  as  a  vaudeville  theater.  It  was 
the  only  large  theater  in  the  Loop  with  $1  as  its  maximum 
price. 

"Quo  Vadis?"  at  present  having  a  triumphant  run  at 
this  house,  will  be  permitted  to  fill  out  the  term  contracted 
for. 

The  Colonial  Theater,  originally  named  the  Iroquois,  on 
Randolph  street,  also  passed  to  the  control  of  this  firm,  the 
week  of  May  5.  A  lease  for  10  year?  was  given.  The  terms 
have  not  been  made  public.  Negotiations  were  completed 
by  the  firm  and  Wm.  B.  Harris,  president  of  the  Metropolis 
Theater  Co.,  of  New  York. 

Vaudeville  performances  will  begin  Monday,  May  26,  at 
10,  15  and  25  cents.  The  Colonial  had  been  a  $2  house  up 
to  the  time  of  the  transfer. 

Moving  Pictures  Valuable  in  "Safety  First"  System. 
"Safety  first,"  as  the  system  is  employed  in  many  of  the 
large  factories  of  the  United  States,  was  shown  by  moving 
pictures  and  explained  to  the  labor  commissioners  and 
factory  inspectors  of  the  various  states  Wednesday.  May 
7,  at  their  annual  joint  convention  in  the  Hotel  Sherman. 

Ferdinand  C.  Schwedtman,  general  manager  of  the  Racine- 
Sattley  company  of  Springfield,  111.,  and  vice-president  of 
the  National  Manufacturers'  Association,  said  that  more  than 
$50,000  had  been  spent  by  his  association  in  the  last  three 
years  in  spreading  the  "safety  first"  gospel. 

He  said  that  in  all  probability  a  museum  to  show  the 
benefits  of  "safety  first"  appliances  would  be  fitted  un  at 
Washington,  D.  C,  soon.  Three  reels  of  motion  pictures 
were  presented  at  the  session,  showing  how  accidents  occur 
in  factories,  how  to  prevent  fires,  and  the  education  of  the 
employees  by  the  employer. 

Fine  Quarters  for  G.  F.  Co.'s  Branch. 
The  General  Film  Company's  branch  office  at  117  N.  Dear- 
born street  has  been  transferred  to  magnificent  quarters  in 
the  City  Hall  Square  Building,  N.  Clark  street,  near  Randolph, 
where  the  entire  fifth  floor  has  been  occupied  by  the  office 
force.  W.  R.  Scates,  the  manager,  has  been  highly  compli- 
mented on  the  arrangement  of  the  various  departments  by 
C.  W.   Hejda,  chief  inspector  of  the  bureau  of   fire  preven- 


tion and  public  safety,  of  the  Chicago  fire  department.     In-     , 
spector    Hejda   pronounces    the   offices   the   best   in   the   city 
for  exchange  purposes,  and  has  recommended  other  exchange 
men  in  the  city  to  take  them  as  a  model. 

An  excellent  feature  of  the  plans  is  that  any  department 
can  be  entered  by  a  visitor,  on  business,  without  passing 
through  another  department.  The  arrangement  has  proved 
a  great  time  saver  for  the  office  force,  as  they  cannot  now 
be  distracted  from  their  work  by  the  needless  entrance  of 
customers. 

"From  the  Manger  to  the  Cross"  at  Saxe's  Lyric. 
S.    L.    Rothapfel,    director    of   presentations    of    the    Lyric 
Theater,    Minneapolis,    while    here    specially    to    see    "Quo    ■ 
Vadis?"  informed  me  that  "From  the  Manger  to  the  Cross" 
had  created  remarkable  interest  and  aroused  great  enthusiasm 
among    the    picture    lovers    of    Minnesota's    metropolis.      So 
impressive   were    the   presentations    during   the    first    run    of 
this    production,    requests    poured    in    from    all    sides    for    its 
re-presentation   after   the   lapse   of  a  week.     These   requests 
were   complied  with,  and   overflowing  houses   again   marked 
the  appearance  of  the  great  biblical  drama. 

Mr.  Rothapfel  introduced  a  new  rule  for  the  government 
of  his  patrons  during  the  presentations  of  this  drama.     He 
issued   the   following   special   notice,   which   appeared   on   all 
the    programs:      "During    the    De    Luxe    presentations,    im- 
mediately upon  commencing  the  performance,  the  doors  will 
be  closed  and  no  one  will  be  allowed  to  enter  until  the  fol- 
lowing performance.     This  is  imperative  for  the   success  of 
the  presentation,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  our  patrons  will 
assist  us  in  this  effort." 

Mr.  Rothapfel  was  highly  pleased  at  the  way  in  which  the 
audiences    complied    with    this    request,    and    many    present 
congratulated  him  on  the  great  benefits  resulting  therefrom, 
there  being  nothing  to  distract  the  attention  of  those  present 
from  the  pictures  and  the  accompanying  music. 

The  presentations  were  given  daily  as  follows:    With  pipe 
organ  at   12:00,   1:15,  5:00  and  6:15.     With  pipe  organ,  con- 
cert orchestra  and  choir,  2:30,  3:45,  7:15,  8:30  and  9:45. 

I  have  before  me  seven  large  sheets  on  which  are  pasted 
the  notices  given  these  presentations  by  the  local  press.  These 
notices    are    both    advance    and    critical,    the    advance    work 
being  of  excellent  character. 

For  the  benefit  of  exhibitors  who  have  not  yet  presented 
"From    the    Manger    to    the    Cross."    the    following    musical 
numbers  were  offered  during  the  presentation: 

Prelude       -----     Arranged  by  Julius  K.  Johnson 

Adeste    Fideles    --------     Entire     ensemble 

Holy  Night  -------     Miss  Williams  and  choir 

The  Palms  -----     Mr.  Kenyon,  assisted  by  choir 

Calvary  ---------     Miss  Brown  and  choir 

Following  is  an  extract  from  the  criticism  which  appeared 
in  the  Minneapolis  Tribune:  "Manager  Rothapfel,  who  is 
not  infrequently  called  'The  Belasco  of  Moving  Picture 
Presentations,'  has  outdone  his  own  record  in  the  produc- 
tion of  the  Kalem  film  'From  the  Manger  to  the  Cross,'  at 
the  local  picture  de  luxe  house  this  week.  The  notable 
film  is  given  a  reverent  and  deeply  appreciative  mounting 
by  Mr.  Rothapfel — a  flower-strewn  stage,  choir  boys,  low 
lights  and  appropriate  music  securing  atmosphere  for  'the 
sweetest  story  that  e'er  was  told.' 

"Here  is  a  new  passion  play  for  the  moving  picture  public, 
as  reverent  as  Oberammergau  and  more  beautifully  and 
accurately  imagined.  This  film  should  not  be  missed.  It 
marks  the  top  notch  of  moving  picturedom." 

Chicago  Film  Brevities. 
Mrs.  William  H.  Bell,  wife  of  William  H.  Bell,  the  well 
known  manager  of  the  Greater  J.  D.  Williams  Co.,  Sydney, 
Australia,  is  visiting  relatives  in  this  city,  after  an  absence  of 
over  a  year  in  the  Antipodes.  Mrs.  Bell  will  remain  in  this 
country  several  weeks  and  will  visit  friends  and  relatives  both 

in  the  east  and  the  west. 

*  *     * 

Messrs.  Blair  and  Wentz,  of  the  Eastman  Kodak  Co., 
were  in  the  city  Monday,  May  5,  on  business. 

*  *     * 

Ed.  Barry,  representing  the  Raw  Film  Supply  Co.,  of  New 
York  City,  was  in  the  city  May  7  and  8  in  the  interests  of 
"Agfa."  Mr.  Barry  is  also  well  known  as  the  American 
representative   for  Ambrosio. 

.  *     *     * 

J.  E.  Robin,  traveling  representative  for  the  Simplex  ma- 
chine, stopped  over  at  the  World  office  last  week  on  his 
way  to  the  Omaha  and  Des  Moines  conventions.  Mr.  Robin 
is   now    completing   his   24,000   mile   trip   in    the    interest   of 

his  company. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


797 


''Quo  Vadis?"  is  having  a  phenomenal  run  at  McVicker's. 
"Sold  out"  is  the  customary  greeting  for  all  late  comers 
at  the  matinee  and  evening  presentations. 

*  *     * 

C.  Lang  Cobb,  Jr.,  during  his  recent  visit  to  the  city, 
showed  the  first  four  releases  of  the  Ramo  Film  Co.,  in  the 
private  projection  rooms  of  the  Standard  exchange  and 
the  Mutual  Film  Corporation's  exchange.  They  made  a 
very  favorable  impression  on  those  who  viewed  them. 

*  *     * 

I  have  just  received  a  handsome  watch  fob  from  my  old 
friend  Bill  Wright,  of  Kalem  fame.  The  face  represents 
the  Kalem  trade  mark,  in  old  Roman  gold,  with  the  firm 
name  in  the  same  color  in  the  center,  in  blue  enamel  setting. 
The  souvenir  is  quite  artistic  and  nobby. 

*  *     * 

The  Union  Film  Co.,  an  Independent  feature  film  concern, 
was  launched  in  this  city  Friday,  May  9,  under  the  laws 
of  the  state  of  Illinois.  It  is  said  to  have  solid  backing 
and  is  already  operating  in  its  offices  in  Chicago,  St.  Louis, 
Milwaukee,  Indianapolis,  Des  Moines,  Cleveland  and  Phila- 
delphia.   It  is  the  intention  to  open  offices  in  other  important 

cities. 

*  *     * 

The  regular  meetings  of  Chicago  Local  No.  2,  M.  P.  E.  L. 
of  America,  will  henceforth  be  held  in  Arcanum  Hall,  Masonic 
Temple,  Schiller  Hall,  in  the  Schiller  Building,  having  been 
given  up.  Suite  1422,  in  the  Masonic  Temple,  has  also  been 
rented  by  the  local  organization  for  the  benefit  of  its  mem- 
bers. The  members  of  the  consecutive  committee  will  take 
turns  in  keeping  the  suite  open  daily,  so  that  members  can 
call  and  discuss  matters  of  importance  at  any  time.  The 
regular  meetings  of  Local  Xo.  2  will  be  held,  as  formerly, 
on  the  first  and  the  third  Monday  of  every  month. 


J.  A.  Maddox,  manager  of  the  Colonial  Theater,  Colum- 
bus, O.,  and  president  of  the  local  exhibitors'  league,  put 
over  a  new  one  on  his  patrons  last  week.  It  appears  that 
the  Olentangy  stock  company,  about  to  open  their  season 
at  the  Southern  theater,  in  the  Ohio  city,  were  all  taken 
in  moving  pictures  by  Mr.  Maddox.  The  object  of  it  was 
not  seen  until  the  following  day,  when  every  member  of  the 
company  was  introduced  on  the  screen  to  the  patrons  of 
the  Colonial.  As  it  is  the  largest  picture  theater  in  Columbus 
and  extremely  well  patronized,  many  theater  goers  had  the 
pleasure  of  getting  acquainted  with  the  players  before 
seeing  them  on  their  first  appearance,  on  the  local  stage. 


GEORGE  NICHOLLS'  NEW  AUTO. 

George  O.  Nicholls,  of  the  Lubin  Company,  has  a  new 
automobile  and  he  pessimistically  says,  "It's  running  fine — 
but  they  all  do  at  first,"  which  is  a  line  of  talk  that  would 
discourage  any  high  grade   car  from  trying  to   do  its  best. 

It  is  getting  now  so  that  his  private  automobile  is- as  es- 
sential to  a  director  as  a  script  or  a  leading  lady.  It  is  not 
his  leading  lady  in  the  car,  for  Mr.  Nicholls  has  Miss  Ormi 
Hawley  for  a  leading  woman.  You've  heard  of  the  man  who 
felt  like  thirty  cents,  but  here's  a  whole  family  that  only 
looks  like  fifteen  for  the  three  passengers  in  the  car  are 
Mr.  Nicholls,  Mrs.  Nicholls  and  George  O.  Nicholls,  Jr. 
Add  them  up. 


A  Real  Supply  House 

Picture    Theater    Equipment    Company     Has    Built    Up    a 
Splendid  Business  and  Is  a  Safe  Place  to  Trade. 

It  has  taken  the  motion  picture  supply  business  a  long 
time  to  rise  to  a  plane  of  commercial  importance.  Hereto- 
fore the  selling  of  motion  picture  supplies  has  been  carried 
on  as  a  side  line  or  adjunct  to  some  other  branch  of  the 
business.  On  this  account  it  will  be  a  matter  of  pride  for 
exhibitors,  and  others  in  the  trade,  to  point  to  a  real  moving 
picture  store  where  anything  pertaining  to  the  mechanics  of 
projection  may  be  had,  over  a  fine,  clean  counter.  With  all 
due  respect  to  film  exchanges  that  carry  a  line  of  supplies  in 
a  show  case  resembling  a  cigar  stand,  for  the  accommoda- 
tion of  their  patrons,  such  a  line  of  supplies  is  but  a 
picayune  business  as  compared  with  an  establishment  that 
has  every  appearance  of  a  high  class  modern  store,  but 
which  is  stocked  exclusively  with  every  size  of  every  kind 
of  motion  picture  appliances  and  supplies,  ready  to  fill  any 
order  on  the  instant. 

We  refer  to  the  Picture  Theater  Equipment  Company,  of 
21  East  Fourteenth  Street,  New  York.  It  is  a  moving  pic- 
ture emporium  in  every  sense  of  the  word,  doing  business 
as  a  legitimate  mercantile  house  that  prides  itself  upon  its 
reputation  for  honest  dealing  and  reliability.  Its  president 
and  guiding  spirit  is  Mr.  H.  T.  Edwards,  a  man  who  is 
noted  for  his  integrity  and  courtesy.  His  knowledge  of  the 
motion  picture  business  is  extensive  and  thorough.  During 
our  recent  interview  with  him  we  expressed  a  desire  to 
have  a  photograph  of  himself  for  publication  with  this  re- 
view, but  he  cavailed  with  genuine  modesty.  Instead  of  a 
portrait  he  produced  a  copy  of  the  United  States  Trade  Re- 
ports, dated  November  1,  1912,  which  contains  an  unsolicited 
report  of  his  business.  "This  is  something."  said  Mr.  Ed- 
wards, "that  money  cannot  buy.  I  am  far  more  proud  of  it 
than  I  am  of  my  portrait,  and  I'd  much  rather  you  would 
use  it  instead."    The  report  is  as  follows: 

Lately  we  have  been  investigating  the  subject  of  supplies  for 
motion  picture  theaters,  so  that  we  could  name  to  interested  pro- 
prietors of  such  establishments  some  concern  or  firm  that  is  the  best 
prepared  to  supply  them  with  the  highest  grade  supplies  and  fur- 
nishings of  all  kinds  (excepting  films)   and  at  best  prices. 

As  the  result  of  our  research  we  find  that  the  Picture  Theater 
Equipment  Company,  office  at  21  East  Fourteenth  Street,  New- 
York  City,  is  highly  recommended  by  prominent  moving  picture 
theater  proprietors  and  managers  in  all  parts  of  the  country  as 
being  exceptionally  well  prepared  to  furnish  everything  used  in 
such  theaters  excepting  films,  and  at  correct  prices. 

We  are  thoroughly  convinced  that  these  supplies  will  answer  all 
purposes  admirably,  and  that  their  quality,  value  and  merits  will 
surprise  and  please  all  purchasers,  as  has  been  the  case  with  hun- 
dreds of  moving  picture  theater  men  who  have  bought  their  house 
equipment  from  this  leading  and  enterprising  company. 

The  Picture  Theater  Equipment  Company  is  well  and  widely 
known  for  its  business  tact  and  progressiveness.  as  well  as  sterling 
integrity,  and  its  standing  commercially  is  of  the  highest  order. 
It  conducts  a  large  business,  having  a  patronage  that  extends  to  all 
parts  of  the  country,  which  is  steadily  increasing. 

Mr.  H.  T.  Edwards,  who  is  president  of  the  above-named  com- 
pany, is  well  and  widely  known  to  the  moving  picture  world,  and 
his  ability  and  progressiveness  have  been  important  factors  to  the 
great  success  attained  by  the  .company. 

This  is  truly  a  remarkable  establishment  and  Mr.  Edwards 
is  justified  in  taking  the  pride  he  does  in  it.  It  occupies  a 
full  store  and  it  looks  like  a  store.  In  the  show  cases  are 
all  conceivable  kinds  of  machine  parts  for  every  machine 
that  is  used  in  projection.  A  fully  equipped  repair  depart- 
ment is  in  charge  of  experts.  Fully  assembled  machines  of 
every  standard  make  also  stand  upon  the  floor,  ready  for 
immediate  delivery.  One  of  the  principal  claims  of  this 
company  is  that  it  has  what  you  want  when  you  want  it. 
It  does  not  make  a  practice  of  selling  out  of  a  catalogue 
and  making  the  customer  wait  until  the  article  can  be  ob- 
tained from  the  manufacturer,  as  is  so  often  done  by  many 
supply  concerns;  the  goods  are  there.  Another  policy  of 
this  company  is  that  it  positively  guarantees  everything  it 
sells.  "If  it  isn't  right."  said  Mr.  Edwards,  "we  will  make 
it  right,  and  I  don't  care  how  strong  you  put  it."  That 
surely  sounds  like  business  and  good  business  at  that. 

There  are  no  spurious  parts  handled  by  this  concern,  nor 
does  it  carry  any  of  the  cheaper  grades  of  anything.  Only 
the  best,  is  the  rule,  and  this"  applies  to  machines,  rheostats, 
economizers,  motor  generators,  rectifiers,  arc  lamps,  car- 
bons, condensers,  rewinders,  slides,  lenses,  opera  chairs, 
reels  and  cases,  lobby  frames,  signs,  dissolving  stereopticons. 
screens,  connectors,  novelties,  indirect  light  chandeliers, 
tickets  and  ticket  venders,  flaming  arc  carbons,  film  cleaners, 
spot-lights,  and.  in  fact,  everything  for  the  theater  except 
the  film.  The  Picture  Theater  Equipment  Company  has  re^ 
cently  taken  over  the  Eastern  distribution  of  the  Motio-graph 
machines,  selling  wholesale  and  retail  to  points  east  of  Pitts- 
burgh. This  concern  is  also  a  jobber  and  dealer  in  Power's, 
Simplex,    Edison,    Standard   and    other   projecting   machines. 


798 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


Doings  at  Los  Angeles 

Selig  Announces  Plans  for   Largest  Studio — Lubin   Locates 
Permanently — Actor  Murray  Injured — Notes. 

A  MILLION'  DOLLAR  motion  picture  studio  and  the  great- 
est zoo  in  the  world  are  provided  for  in  plans  which 
William  N.  Selig,  head  of  the  Selig  Polyscope  Co.  made 
public  this  week.  Within  the  last  ten  days  Mr.  Selig  has  been 
negotiating  with  local  attorneys,  real  estate  agents  and  landscape 
gardeners  and  has  set  the  big  project  in  motion.  He  has  also 
decided  to  buy  a  home  in  Los  Angeles  and  will  live  here  at  least 
four  months  of  every  year. 

The  zoo,  already  a  large  one,  adjoins  Eastlake  park,  which  is 
to  Los  Angeles  what  Central  Park  is  to  New  York.  His  hold- 
ings have  been  more  than  doubled  by  the  purchase  of  tracts  of 
land  adjoining  the  Wild  Animal  Farm.  These  land  purchases 
alone  represent  an  outlay  of  approximately  $200,000,  and  when 
he  closes  additional  options  which  he  has  secured,  his  realty 
purchases  will  have  reached  the  sum  of  half  a  million  dollars. 
This  includes  the  ground  upon  which  the  Edendale  plant  is  lo- 
cated in  another  portion  of  the  city. 

Already  animals  which  cost  upwards  of  $50,000  are  on  hand 
at  the  Animal  Farm  and  another  shipment  of  animals  costing 
$50,000  is  en  route  from  Hagenbeck  and  from  Mr.  Selig's  travel- 
ing purchaser,  who  is  now  abroad.  By  August,  1914.  there  will  be 
$200,000  worth  of  wild  animals  housed  at  the  Animal  Farm. 

"My  plans  are  fully  laid  for  the  greater  studio  here,"  Mr.  Selig 
told  the  local  newspapers,  "but  it  will  require  time  and  much 
work  to  put  my  Eastlake  grounds  in  the  form  I  desire. 

"Dr.  A.  McDonald,  naturalist  and  scientist,  is  making  a  tour 
of  the  world  gathering  rare  animals,  tropical  plants  and  vegeta- 
tion peculiar  to  India,  Japan,  South  America,  Africa  and  Aus- 
tralia for  the  Animal  Farm,  in  order  to  have  the  effect  called  for 
in  our  animal  pictures. 

"Already  I  have  a  large  zoo,  some  tropical  and  jungle  growth 
and  a  heavy  investment  in  Los  Angeles,  but  my  new  plans  call 
for  many  times  as  much  wild  growth  and  a  great  many  more 
animals. 

"My  Los  Angeles  studio  will  be  increased  by  several  more 
companies.  In  order  to  attend  to  the  increase  of  business  here 
I  am  arranging  .to  purchase  a  home  in  Los  Angeles  and  pass 
at  least  four  months  a  year  here." 

The  first  shipment  of  the  new  animals  is  expected  to  arrive 
from  Europe  within  a  week  and  preparations  are  now  being 
made  for  their  accommodation.  Landscape  gardeners  will  begin 
work  at  the  zoo  within  thirty  days. 

Permanent   Lubin   Studio. 

The  Lubin  company  is  not  only  to  maintain  a  permanent  or- 
ganization in  Southern  California,  but  new  signs  which  appeared 
in  front  of  the  studio  at  4550  Pasadena  Avenue  in  this  city  a 
few  days  after  the  return  of  Producer  Wilbert  Melville  from 
Philadelphia  last  week,  indicated  that  the  place  is  now  head- 
quarters of  the  company's  Western  branch.  Mr.  Melville,  who  is 
in  full  charge  of  the  new  branch,  returned  with  a  big  campaign 
mapped  out.  It  is  said  that  another  complete  company  is  to  be 
organized  and  that  there  will  be  a  number  of  big  and  costly 
two-reel  pictures  made  within  the  next  six  months.  Military, 
Western  and  Mexican  dramas  will  predominate  among  the  sub- 
jects, although  there  will  probably  be  several  big  pictures  showing 
navel  scenes.  D.  L.  Davis,  head  cameraman  from  headquarters, 
came  with  Mr.  Melville  on  his  return  and,  it  is  said,  will  direct 
important  improvements  in  the  technical  department.  E.  E. 
Blackwell,  who  has  been  cameraman  with  the  company  ever 
since  its  arrival  in  Los  Angeles  last  December,  has  left.  Ray 
Gallagher  joined  the  organization  this  week  to  play  juvenile 
parts,  succeeding  Carl  Von  Schiller. 

Actor  Murray  Injured. 
Charles  Murray,  formerly  a  member  of  the  world-famous  com- 
edy team  of  Murray  and  Mack  and  now  the  star  of  the  Biograph 
company's  comedy  section,  was  seriously  injured  this  week  when 
a  keg  of  gunpowder  exploded  in  his  hands.  Fortunately  the 
powder  was  not  tightly  confined  and  consequently  there  was 
not  much  concussion  when  it  caught  fire,  but  he  was  badly 
burned  about  the  hands,  arms,  chest  and  face.  The  flame  nearly 
removed  the^loth  from  his  arms.  -The  accident  occurred  while 
he  was  working  in  a  burlesque  of  a  melodrama  under  the  direc- 
tion of  Dell  Henderson.  One  of  the  scenes  called  for  Murray  to 
deposit  a  keg  of  gunpowder  and  light  a  fuse  leading  into  it. 
Henderson's  instructions  were  that  the  fuse  was  not  to  be  lighted 
until  the  subsequent  scene,  but  there  was  a  misunderstanding, 
which  resulted  in  a  premature  explosion.  Murray  is  now  in  the 
hospital,  but  it  is  believed  that  he  will  be  out  in  a  month  and 
that  he  will  not  suffer  permanent  injury.  The  Biograph  company 
is  now  closing  its  season's  work  and  will  probably  return  east 
about  June  I,  although  the  exact  date  will  depend  upon  the  com- 
pletion of  a  big  Western  picture  which  Director  David  N.  Griffith 
now  has  in  hand. 


News  Briefs. 

This  is  written  on  the  eve  of  the  big  First  Annual  Universal 
Picnic  of  all  the  employees  of  the  Pacific  Coast  branch  of  the 
Universal  company,  which  is  to  be  held  on  the  company's  Oak 
Crest  ranch,  Sunday,  May  n,  beginning  at  10  o'clock  in  the 
morning  and  continuing  until  dark.  Preparations  have  been 
made  to  entertain  about  1,500  men  and  women.  There  will  be 
such  a  feed  as  never  was  served  at  a  picnic  before,  and  afterwards 
there  will  be  "games  and  sports,"  but  not  the  usual  "old  fash- 
ioned" ones.  The  entire  program  is  made  up  of  novelties.  There 
will  be  a  directors'  race,  in  which  each  of  the  fifteen  directors 
will  nush  his  leading  lady  in  a  wheelbarrow  covering  a  distance 
of  100  yards.  Another  directors'  contest  will  involve  each  man 
drawing  a  scene  at  random  from  a  bag  and  then  setting  up  and 
finishing  his  scene  on  the  spot.  The  man  who  makes  the  best 
scene  in  the  shortest  time  will  get  the  prize.  Afterward  the 
fifteen  scenes  when  properly  joined  will  make  a  complete  reel 
which  will  probably  be  released  as  a  curiosity  to  amuse  the  Uni- 
versal patrons.  Another  interesting  contest  will  be  a  battle  with 
bombs  between  the  Hollywood  and  Oak  Crest  sections  of  the 
company. 

*  *    * 

Carl  Van  Schiller,  a  well-known  motion  picture  actor, 
and  Miss  Ethel  Brayton,  an  ingenue  who  has  worked  with 
several  of  the  local  companies,  surprised  all  their  friends 
and  acquaintances,  including  their  respective  and  respected 
parents  by  eloping  to  a  nearby  town  one  day  last  week  and 
having  a  wedding  ceremony  performed  when  there  was  no 
camera  working. 

*  *     * 

Without  any  announcement  of  any  kind  concerning  his 
plans  and  purposes,  J.  A.  Crosby,  formerly  head  of  the 
technical  department  of  the  Selig  Polyscope  Co.,  at  Chicago, 
has  opened  a  big  and  fully  equipped  studio  in  the  downtown 
district.  Before  more  than  a  dozen  or  so  of  persons  knew 
that  he  had  a  project  on  foot  he  was  making  his  first  pic- 
ture. Frank  E.  Woods,  formerly  a  Kinemacolor  director 
and  later  director  of  the  Imp  company  at  the  Hollywood 
Universal  studios,  is  making  the  pictures,  but  will  remain  with 
the  organization  only  until  such  time  as  regular  routine  is 
established.  In  fact  Woods  had  left  the  Imp  for  the  purpose 
of  returning  to  New  York  City  and  was  persuaded  by  Crosby 
to  remain  after  he  had  made  all  preparations  to  leave. 

*  *    * 

P.  A.  Home,  general  manager  of  the  Seltagraph  Company, 
which  was  organized  to  feature  the  most  conspicuous,  if  not 
the  most  noted  Biograph  star,  went  to  Bakersfield  last  week 
as  official  photographer  of  the  Bakersfield  automobile  road 
races.  Mr.  Home  is  the  son  of  "Billy"  Home,  proprietor 
of  "Home's  World  Famous  Spring  Street  Palace  Amuse- 
ment Emporium"  otherwise  a  picture  theater,  whose  rotund 
features  and  expansive  smile  just  nicely  fill  up  the  screen 
in  those  Biograph  scenes  which  show  crowds  and  "audiences." 

P.  M.  Powell. 


CLEVELAND  BUILDS  BIGGER  THAN  BEFORE. 

W.  S.  Cleveland,  who  has  just  re-entered  the  vaudeville 
agency  field  after  a  two  years,  absence,  announces  that  his 
first  week's  endeavors  have  been  even  more  fruitful  than  he 
had  hoDed  for.  Cleveland  announces  that  he  has  re-organized 
the  Cleveland  circuit  and  has  assumed  management  of  the 
Fidelity  Booking  Offices,  and  in  addition  has  absorbed  the 
the  Central  Booking  Agency,  which  controls  a  big  club  and 
cabaret  business.  He  states  that  before  another  week  rolls 
around  he  will  announce  the  absorption  of  two  other  large 
"small  time  agencies,"  which  will  make  the  new  "Ceveland- 
Fidelity  Circuit"  the'  biggest  of  them  all,  and  that  it  will  take 
the  place  of  pre-eminence  in  the  field  that  the  Prudential 
Vaudeville  Exchange  held  while  under  his  control. 

The  Prudential  was  the  original  Cleveland  agency  and 
under  the  guiding  hand  of  "Big  Bill"  it  grew  from  two  or 
three  picture  houses  until  it  was  the  booking  representatiye 
of  more  theaters,  large  ana  small,  than  any  other  agency  in 
the  world.  Over-work  in  accomplishing  this  result  caused 
Cleveland's  health  to  break  down  about  two  years  ago.  He 
sold  the  Prudential  and  took  a  much  needed  rest.  Since  that 
time  he  has  been  accused  of  owning  almost  every  "small 
time"  agency  in  the  field. 


"AND   THE   PHONE   BELL   RANG." 

The  World  last  week  had  a  story  appropos  the  various 
film  connections  Fred  Mace  was  reported  as  making  each 
day  of  his  New  York  stay,  and  the  heading  was  "And  the 
Phone  BeH  Rang" — the  story  was  written  at  press  time.  The 
call  was  from  the  Majestic  office  and  the  information  was 
that,  notwithstanding  the  daily  reports,  they  had  signed 
Mace  for  their  California  productions. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


799 


Pictures  In  Learned  Society. 

The  American  Philosophical  Society  Has  Endorsed  the  Edu- 
cational Picture. 

By  the  Rev.  E.  Boudinot  Stockton,  S.  T.  B. 

OX  Friday,  May  2,  the  American  Philosophical  Society, 
founded  by  Benjamin  Franklin,  in  1744,  and  one  of  the 
most  famous  and  exclusive  of  the  learned  societies  in 
the  country,  gave  a  moving  picture  exhibition  in  its  rooms 
on  South  Fifth  Street,  Philadelphia,  and  discussed  the 
application  and  value  of  the  kinematograph  to  biological 
and  medical  investigations.  The  demonstrators  were 
professor  Arthur  W.  Goodspeed,  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania;  Dr.  W.  M.  Late  Coplin,  Dr.  A.  P.  Brubaker 
and  Dr.  Alexander  C.  Abbott.  Through  the  courtesy  of  Mr. 
Sigmund  Lubin  the  society  obtained  from  Dr.  T.  H.  Weisen- 
burg,  of  Philadelphia,  the  loan  of  six  of  the  eight  films 
shown,  the  other  two  coming  from  Columbia  University, 
one  obtained  through  the  courtesy  of  Professor  F.  S.  Lee,  of 
Columbia,  and  the  other  being  loaned  by  and  exhibited 
through  the  courtesy  of  Dr.  J.  W.  McWhorter  and  Dr.  F. 
Prime,  of  Columbia. 

The  meeting  room  of  the  society  was  filled  to  overflowing 
with  the  members  themselves  and  their  invited  guests  and 
several  late  comers  were  obliged  to  stand  on  the  radiators 
and  window  sills  in  order  to  obtain  a  view  of  the  pictures. 
A  list  of  those  present  would  include  the  best  known  names 
in  Philadelphia  scholastic  and  social  life,  and  while  it  is  not 
necessary  to  enumerate  them  it  ought  to  be  borne  in  mind 
that  such  a  gathering,  seriously  considering  the  application 
of  the  moving  picture  to  scientific  investigation  and  educa- 
tion is -a  distinct  step  in  advance  that  every  manufacturer 
and  exhibitor  should  not  only  weigh  well,  but  also  spend 
time  and  pains  and  even  money  in  advertising  and  making 
known.  The  mere  fact  that  one  of  the  greatest  of  the  learned 
societies  in  the  United  States  should  have  seriously  con- 
sidered the  moving  picture  as  an  element  in  education  will 
be  a  powerful  argument  in  their  favor  to  many  who  are  still 
antagonistic  or  holding  aloof,  wfiile  the  fact  that  such  a  so- 
ciety should  give  public  endorsement  of  the  pictures  for 
serious  educational  work  will  not  only  greatly  increase  the 
already  existing  demand  for  pictures  that  can  be  used  in  this 
way,  but  is  also  a  call  on  the  manufacturers  and  exchanges 
to  supply  the  goods  that  will  meet  it. 

Incidentally  it  is  a  veiled  warning  that  if  the  manufac- 
turers and  exchanges  do  not  meet  the  demand,  it  is  only  a 
question  of  time  before  the  educators  find  the  means  of 
manufacturing  for  themselves  the  kind  of  pictures  that  they 
need.  It  is  a  fact,  although  it  is  probably  not  generally 
known,  that  the  experiments  of  Muybridge  were  made  pos- 
sible by  the  financial  and  other  assistance  rendered  to  him 
by  -the  American  Philosophical  Society  and  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania  and  Mr.  William  Pepper,  and  that  the 
process  patented  by  Smith  and  Urban,  and  now  used  by  the 
Kinemacolor  Company,  was  first  invented  and  discovered  by 
a  member  of  the  same  society,  the  only  difference  being  that 
he  used  three  instead  of  two  color  screens,  and  that  his  work 
was  done  too  early  for  him  to  reap  the  benefit  of  the  flexible 
celluloid  film.  At  the  business  meeting  which  preceded  the 
demonstration  Friday  night,  the  secretary  read  a  letter  from 
Mr.  B.  P.  Findlay,  of  Washington,  D.  C,  in  which  he  asked 
the  co-operation  of  the  society  in  demonstrating  a  new 
method  of  transmitting  photographs  by  telegraph  which  he 
had  invented  as  he  did  not  have  sufficient  funds  to  do  so  by 
himself.  This  kind  of  co-operation  is  one  of  the  objects  for 
which  the  American  Philosophical  Society  exists,  and  while  the 
educational  value  of  the  moving  picture  has  been  already 
demonstrated,  the  fact  that  such  a  society  stamps  its  approval 
upon  the  application  of  kinematography  to  education  will  go 
very  far  indeed  towards  procuring  the  aid  of  other  institu- 
tions and  individuals  in  financing  the  means  of  giving  the 
educators  what  they  need,  unless  the  manufacturers  and  ex- 
changes rise  to  the  opportunity  which  is  knocking  at  their 
door  and  make  such  financing  unnecessary  by  meeting  the 
demand  themselves. 

The  Edison  company  in  this  country  and  Pathe  Freres  in 
Europe  have  for  some  time  been  making  tentative  efforts  to 
supply  the  needs  of  educators  and  the  six  films  procured  for 
the  society  by  Mr.  Lubin  were  all  of  them  the  microphoto- 
graphic  work  of  the  French  company.  One  film  showed  the 
Dlood  of  a  mouse  inoculated  with  the  germs  of  N'gana,  the 
African  horse  sickness,  by  the  tse-tse  fly,  a  parasite  belong- 
ing to  the  same  group  as  that  producing  the  sleeping  sick- 
ness in  man.  Another  film  showed  the  leucocytes  or  white 
corpuscles  in  the  blood  of  a  newt  fighting  the  disease  germs 
and  demonstrated  how  the  corpuscles  destroy  the  germs  and 
the    patient   gets   well   or  how   the   germs    destroy   the   cor- 


puscles and  the  patient  dies.  A  third  film  illustrated  how 
relapsing  tever  was  transmitted  to  the  blood  by  ticks,  and 
a  fourth  showed  the  effect  of  a  current  of  electricity  on  ty- 
phoid germs  in  the  blood  of  a  fowl.  The  fifth  film  showed 
how  germs  acted  in  cuts  and  injuries  and  the  sixth  film  de- 
picted the  circulation  of  the  blood  in  the  tail  of  a  tadpole. 
The  seventh  film,  which  was  loaned  by  Professor  Lee,  of 
Columbia  University,  showed  how  the  beating  of  the  heart 
was  recorded  and  was  affected  by  different  drugs.  After  a 
series  of  pictures  explaining  the  method  and  apparatus  used 
in  recording,  came  views  of  a  normally  beating  heart.  Then 
the  action  of  chloroform  in  arresting  the  heart  action  was 
shown  and  the  recovery  of  the  heart  from  the  effects  of  the 
drug,  and  lastly  came  views  of  the  heart  accelerated  and 
stimulated  by  the  action  of  such  drugs  as  adrenalin  and 
strychnine.  The  eighth  film,  also  from  Columbia  University, 
demonstrated  the  growth  of  tissues,  the  movements  of  cell 
granules  and  the  beating  of  the  heart  of  the  chick  embryo. 
In  pain  English,  the  spectator  saw  how  the  white  and  yolk 
of  an  egg  turned  into  a  chicken  inside  the  shell.  In  speaking 
of  the  use  of  the  picture  in  medical  work,  Dr.  Abbott  said 
that  Dr.  Weisenburg  told  him  that  he  had  "twelve  hundred 
feet  of  epileptic  fits,"  which  were  not  only  of  incalculable 
value  for  comparative  study,  but  also  of  inestimable  worth 
in  his  class  work  as  heretofore  he  had  frequently  found  it 
impossible  to  obtain  a  patient  in  a  fit  when  he  needed  one 
for  his  clinic,  while  now  "he  could  throw  a  fit  on  the  screen 
any  time  he  wished." 

The  French  pictures  described  above  are  all  of  them  listed 
in  the  C.  G.  P.  C.  "Nature  and  Science  Series,"  of  which  sev- 
eral have  already  been  released  in  the  United  States  by 
Pathe,  who  could  do  nothing  better  for  himself  or  for  educa- 
tion than  to  make  the  entire  series  available  in  this  country. 
Of  course  the  microphotographic  reproduction  of  the  revela- 
tions of  the  ultra-microscope  will  be  mainly  useful  in  the 
higher  educational  work  of  the  colleges  and  universities,  al- 
though any  of  the  films  mentioned  above  could  very  easily 
be  made  both  popular  and  interesting  to  the  ordinary  audi- 
ence by  a  competent  lecturer;  but  the  characteristics  of  these 
pictures  must  be  copied  by  educational  films  of  all  kinds, 
and  apart  from  their  subjects  the  films  are  noteworthy  for 
their  accuracy  of  detail,  their  direct,  simple  treatment  of  the 
subject  handled  and  their  definite  adherence  to  and  emphasiz- 
ing of  the  lesson  conveyed  by  the  facts  presented. 

At  present,  aside  from  the  work  of  Edison  and  Pathe, 
there  are  few,  if  any,  pictures  of  this  kind  and  it  is  quite  true 
that  the  exchanges  as  a  rule  are  unwilling  to  handle  educa- 
tional stuff,  but  the  demand  for  this  class  of  picture  is  stead- 
ily increasing,  the  attention  of  those  who  will  be  able  and 
willing  to  provide  the  means  of  supplying  this  demand  is 
being  aroused,  and  unless  the  manufacturers  begin  to  do 
something  they  are  going  to  lose  what  is  eventually  going 
to  be  one  of  the  most  lucrative  sources  of  profit  in  the  business. 
If  it  is  not  deemed  advisable  just  now  to  put  such  pictures  out 
as  general  releases,  why  can't  they  be  made  available  through 
an  educational  exchange  or  through  the  educational  depart- 
ments of  already  existing  exchanges?  One  manufacturer 
thinks  that  they  can  and  is  willing  to  make  the  experiment. 
How  many  others  will  follow  suit? 


KINEMACOLOR   FOR   LADIES    ONLY. 

The  Kinemacolor  Company  of  America  has  arranged  with 
Gimbel  Brothers  to  photograph  in  natural  colors  "La  Pari- 
sienne  Elegance  in  Her  Boudoir" — the  demonstration,  for 
ladies  only,  of  the  correct  manner  of  wearing  the  latest 
styles  of  French  lingerie.  For  this  fashion  display  Paris  has 
sent  her  loveliest  and  most  novel  specimens  of  under-apparel. 
Naturally  such  intimate  displays  are  not  for  the  general  pub- 
lic, but  these  pictures  will  be  supplied  to  theaters  having  the 
Kinemacolor  fashion  service  with  the  understanding  that 
they  are  to  be  shown  only  at  special  morning  matinee  per- 
formances' for  ladies  only.  The  popularity  of  the  "Fashion 
Parade"  in  Kinemacolor  proved  to  exhibitors  that  style 
shows  are  something  new  in  filmdom.  and  such  a  decided  in- 
novation has  already  resulted  in  renewed  demand  for  the 
Kinemacolor  Fashion  Service. 


"ROBERT    GRAY    AND    'BILLY'    WEST    NEW    LEADS 
FOR  AMERICAN." 

Robert  Gray  and  "Billy"  West  joined  the  American  forces 
at  Santa  Barbara  last  week.  Mr.  Gray  comes  from  fresh 
honors  with  Kalem,  Edison  and  Pathe.  Miss  West  is  a 
charming  ingenue  in  whom  much  confidence  is  expressed. 
They  will  play  opposite  each  other  in  the  second  company. 
Miss  Vivian  Rich,  who  has  been  playing  leads  in  the  second 
company,  has  been  transferred  and  hereafter  will  play  oppo- 
site Warren   Kerrigan. 


8oo 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


"Alkali  Ike's  Misfortunes"  (Essanay) 

Reviewed  by  James  S.  McQuade. 

THE  Alkali  Ike  series  by  Essanay  has  been  productive 
of  great  hilarity  in  the  past,  and  the  latest,  "Alkali 
Ike's  Misfortunes,"  scheduled  for  release  May  31,  puts 
all  former  efforts  in  this  line  in  the  shade,  with  the  possible 
exception  of  "Alkali  Ike's  Auto."  Augustus  Carney  is  in  a 
class  by  himself  in  these  screaming  farce  comedies,  which 
possess  the  virtue  of  being  free  from  suggestiveness  and 
that  indulgence  in  vulgarity  which  so  often  mar  broad  farce 
on  both  stage  and  screen. 

The  story  can  lay  claim  to  originality  of  a  laughable  type. 
Take,  for  instance,  the  fortification  of  Alkali  Ike's  person  by 
the  use  of  electric  belts,  which  are  wound  around  his  body 
from  hip  to  armpit.  The  short  circuiting  that  follows,  when 
his  three  enemies  pounce  upon  him,  brings  about  the  most 
mirth  provoking  results  ever  seen  on  a  screen.  The  climax 
comes  when  his  sweetheart,  Sophie  Clutts,  endeavors  to  re- 


Scene  from  "Alkali  Ike's  Misfortunes"  (Essanay). 

move  him  from  the  fence  on  which  he  has  fallen  exhausted. 
The  lightning-swift  gyrations  of  the  hapless  pair  and  the 
venomous  hair-tugging  to  which  Alkali  Ike  is  subjected, 
after  the  dry  battery  has  burned  itself  out,  cannot  fail  to 
provoke  a  roar  of  mirth  in  any  audience. 

Sophie  Clutts,  of  Lizardville,  as  impersonated  by  Miss  Mar- 
garet Joslyn,  is  a  worthy  mate  of  Mr.  Carney's  Alkali  Ike. 
The  name  of  the  buxom  beauty  and  that  of  her  home  town 
are  risible  in  themselves.  Hearty  laughter,  next  to  fresh 
air,  is  health's  best  tonic,  and  it  is  created  in  large  doses  by 
viewing  the  latest  escapades  of  our  old  favorite  Alkali  Ike. 

Sophie  is  the  belle  of  Lizardville.  Her  visit  to  friends  in  the 
East  has  caused  much  heart  anguish  among  her  admirers  in 
the  little  Western  camp.  Her  return  is  eagerly  awaited  by 
Alkali  Ike  and  three  other  suitors.  On  the  day  she  arrives, 
there  is  scrambling  for  clothes  and  hot  haste  in  dressing  by 
the  four  lovers  to  get  the  first  interview  with  her.  Suitors 
number  one  and  two  help  themselves  to  Alkali  Ike's  sus- 
penders, coat  and  hat,  leaving  him  in  sorry  plight;  but,  no- 
wise daunted,  he  makes  the  best  of  odds  and  ends  and  ar- 
rives fourth  in  order  at  Sophie's  home. 


Now  it  happened  that  the  other  suitors  arrived  singly,  and 
to  preserve  the  necessary  privacy  Sophie  has  stowed  number 
one  in  the  kitchen  when  number  two  put  in  an  appearance, 
and  number  two  in  the  parlor  when  number  three  knocked 
at  the  door.  So  deeply  engaged  were  Sophie  and  number 
three,  when  Alkali  Ike  called,  his  repeated  knocks  were  un- 
heard. He  then  dispensed  with  good  manners  and  boldly 
entered  the  room.  Thereupon  he  was  soundly  trounced  and 
thrown  into  the  parlor  by  number  three,  where  in  turn  he 
was  made  a  football  by  number  two  and  kicked  into  the 
kitchen.  There  he  was  tossed  through  a  window  by  number 
one,  and  landed  on  a  hard  place  with  wind  and  energy  clean 
gone. 

While  gathering  himself  together  in  a  nearby  store,  a 
salesman  for  electric  belts  entered.  Alkali  immediately 
bought  the  outfit  and,  clothing  himself  with  the  strength 
producers,  sallied  forth  to  the  fray.  Samson  never  wrought 
greater  havoc  with  the  famous  jaw  bone  than  did  Alkali  on 
this  occasion;  but,  unfortunately,  in  the  end,  he  suffered 
serious  scalp  injuries  at  the  hands  of  Sophie. 


"BUSTER   BROWN   AND   TIGE"    (Essanay). 
Reviewed  by  James  S.  McQuade. 

R.  F.  Outcault,  of  Buster  Brown  and  Tige  fame,  was  in  the 
city  about  three  weeks  ago  and  made  a  stay  of  several  days, 
on  the  invitation  of  Producer  Wharton,  of  the  Essanay 
Company.  Mr.  Outcault  made  a  national  reputation  by  his 
famous  cartoons  in  the  New  York  Herald,  with  Buster 
Brown  and  Tige  as  his  subjects. 

Few,  if  any,  outsiders  knew  that  Mr.  Outcault's  presence 
here  had  any  other  significance  than  that  of  renewing  his 
acquaintance   with   Mr.   Wharton,  who  is   an  oldtime   friend. 


"Buster  Brown  and  Tige"  (Essanay). 

Now  a  pleasant  surprise  has  been  sprung  in  the  world  of 
films;  for  Mr.  Outcault,  under  Mr.  Wharton's  direction,  has 
filled  a  full  reel  film  in  which  he  appears  at  work  on  the 
canvas,  while  his  delightful  creations,  Buster  and  Tige,  are 
seen  seated  in  a  box  of  a  theater  watching,  with  amusing 
facial  expressions,  the  unerring  traces  of  the  carbon  in  his 
magic  and  nimble  fingers. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


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Mr.  Outcault's  features  are  unfamiliar  to  the  many  mill- 
ions, young  and  old,  who  have  smiled,  or  laughed  uproari- 
ously, at  his  pictorial  stories  of  the  twin  friends;  but  with 
the  advent  of  this  film,  which  will  be  released  May  20,  he 
will  be  seen  not  only  as  he  appears  in.  life,  but  also  in  the 
very  act  of  delineating  the  gambols  and  mirthful  deviltries 
of  his  pets.  If  this  first  appearance  of  Mr.  Outcault  before 
the  camera  has  been  made  as  a  test  of  the  popularity  of  such 
a  series,  I  believe  it  is  a  foregone  conclusion,  after  seeing 
the  pictures,  that  the  demand  for  a  continuation  will  be  pro- 
nounced. One  might  think,  at  first  thought,  that  interest 
cannot  be  sustained  throughout  1,000  feet  of  film  by  Buster 
and  Tige;  but,  for  myself,  I  must  acknowledge  that  when  the 
artist  penciled  the  words  "Good  Night"  on  his  final  sketch,  I 
was  still  desirous  of  seeing  more.  If  1,000  feet  will  prove 
too  long,  it  will  be  easy  to  confine  the  sketches  to  500  feet 
or  thereabouts. 

These  sketches  in  moving  pictures  will  furnish  clean, 
wholesome  and  delightful  entertainment  for  the  young  folks, 
and  they  will  also  have  their  attractive  side  for  adults.  I 
can  recall  the  interest  taken  in  Buster  Brown  and  Tige  by 
myself  when  the  series  was  running  in  the  Sunday  issues  of 
the  Herald  years  ago,  and  their  popularity  with  young  and 
old.  The  reproductions  in  moving  pictures,  I  believe,  will 
be  equally  popular. 

Producer  Wharton  was  very  happy  in  his  selection  of 
little  Miss  Ruth  Henderson  as  Buster,  and  he  was  equally 
happy  in  his  choice  of  tiny  Tommy  Shirly  as  the  faithful 
and  devoted  Tige.  To  watch  the  expressive,  childish  face  of 
Ruth,  as  she  shows  her  pleasure,  displeasure  or  mortifica- 
tion while  the  pictures  are  being  drawn  on  the  canvas,  is 
always  a  treat.  And  Tommy  Shirly  will  convince  everybody 
that  he  is  a  most  amusing  and  intelligent  dog. 


Considerable  talk  is  heard  these  days  of  companies  that  are 
looking  more  for  types  and  less  for  the  younger  and  conse- 
quently under-experienced  persons,  albeit  handsome  or  beautiful 
as  the  sex  mav  be. 


ESSANAY'S  NEW  SUN  PARLOR  OFFICES. 

The  office  force  of  the  Essanay  Film  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany are  more  than  delighted  with  their  new  quarters  in  the 
new  building,  just  erected  above  their  old  offices.  Each 
office  has  from  four  to  seven  windows,  running  seven  feet 
high  and  four  feet  wide.  When  in  town,  drop  in  and  see 
them. 


NEW  POSTERS  FOR  AMERICAN  LEADS. 

The  success  which  greeted  the  appearance  of  the  hand- 
some lithographs  of  popular  American  players  has  induced 
the  American  Film  Manufacturing  Company  to  issue  a  new 
batch.  These  will  include  a  splendid  lithograph  of  Louise 
Lester  in  her  famous  role  of  "Calamity  Anne." 


GAUMONT'S  PARIS  PICTURE  THEATER. 

The  Gaumont  Palace  in  Paris  is  the  largest  building  in 
the  world  devoted  to  the  exhibition  of  motion  pictures.  It 
is  more  spacious  than  the  New  York  Hippodrome.  The 
building  was  formerly  used  as  a  sheltering  place  for  Bostock's 
animal  show.  It  was  later  used  as  a  skating  rink  and  then 
as  a  picture  palace.  Both  proved  failures  until  Gaumont  took  it, 
more  as  a  gigantic  showroom  than  as  a  permanent  picture 
theater.  Since  the  opening  night  it  has  been  a  great  success. 
Every  night  it  is  packed  with  five  thousand  people.  The 
seats  run  in  prices  from  12c  up  to  $5.00  for  a  box.  The  show 
continues  from  8.30  until  midnight.  Only  Gaumont  sub- 
jects are  shown. 

There  is  an  orchestra  of  forty  musicians,  also  vocalists. 
The  interior  of  the  Hippodrome  is  65  feet  high,  148  feet  wide 
and  164  feet  long  and  has  a  volume  of  1,577,680  cubic  feet. 
It  is  surrounded  by  a  huge  retiring  room  where  various  side 
shows  are  given  during  entr'acts.  There  are  125  employees, 
such  as  attendants,  money-takers,  etc.  The  thirty  policemen 
are  more  or  less  superfluous,  as  a  more  orderly  assembly 
would  be  difficult  to  find.  Many  persons  attend  regularly 
and  reserve  their  seats  from  night  to  night. 


View  of  the  Gaumont  Palace  Picture  Theater,  Paris,  France. 


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OBSERVATIONS 

BY  OUR  MAN  ABOUT  TOWN 


THE  censorship  bugbear  continues  to  survive  in  and 
about  this  city,  as  well  as  many  other  parts  of  the 
country,  notwithstanding  that  the  more  it  is  dis- 
cussed the  better  intrenched  becomes  the  position  of  those 
who  contend  that  official  censorship  is  favored  by  a  com- 
paratively small  percentage  of  the  people;  that  it  is  a  poli- 
tical joker  unwittingly  nursed  by  over-zealous  moralists; 
and  that  such  censorship  applied  to  motion  pictures  alone 
cannot  stand  a  constitutional  test.  The  latter  is  true  de- 
spite anything  to  the  contrary  that  has,  or  may  be,  de- 
veloped in  Canada.  The  constitutional  rights  and  privileges 
in  the  United  States  differ  very  materially  fiom  those  exist- 
ing on  the  other  side  of  the  border  line  in  many  respects, 
so  that  an  argument  that  the  Canadian  government  has 
solved  the  official  censorship  problem  carries  no  weight  on 
this  side  of  the  line.  No  law  of  discrimination  against  the 
motion  picture  form  of  entertainment,  whether  it  be  that  of 
official  censorship,  or  any  other  form,  can  withstand  a  court 
test.  An  argument  that  some  manufacturers  and  importers 
of  films  refuse  to  even  make  a  pretense  of  censorship  will 
not  hold  water  when  offered  as  a  reason  for  advocating 
the  proposed  laws.  The  authorities  have  ample  laws 
through  which  remedies  may  be  applied  if  occasions  arise 
for  action. 

*  *     * 

A  vaudeville  act  in  one  of  the  theaters  of  this  city  was 
recently  reached  by  the  application  of  one  of  the  existing 
laws.  It  does  not  matter  what  the  result  of  the  case  was. 
If  the  prosecution  failed  in  its  efforts  on  account  of  in- 
ability to  show  the  act  was  a  violation  of  the  law  that  does 
not  alter  the  fact  that  there  is  a  law  that  can  be  enforced 
when  a  case  can  be  made  out,  and  that  that  law  is  applicable 
to  motion  pictures.  If  motion  pictures  are  to  be  subjected 
to  an  official  test  before  their  exhibition,  then  vaudeville 
acts  and  all  other  theatrical  productions  must  be  treated 
likewise.  If  not,  why  not?  If  motion  pictures  are  to  be 
given  an  official  bath  before  their  public  projection  upon 
the  screen  why  not  put  newspaper  and  magazine  illustra- 
tions under  similar  treatment. 

*  *     * 

It  is  alleged  that  the  stories  told  by  some  motion  pictures 
tend  to  lead  to  the  commission  of  crimes.  Grant,  for  the 
sake  of  argument,  that  this  is  true  and  then  apply  it  to  the 
public  press.  Take  an  issue  of  the  New  York  World  of  the 
past  week  and  read  how  robbers  attacked  a  woman  in  her 
home.  Note  the  details  of  the  crime  given  in  the  article; 
how  the  robbers  approached  the  victim;  the  materials  used 
to  gag,  bind  and  blindfold  her,  and  the  manner  in  which  they 
were  applied.  It  is  extremely  doubtful  that  the  authorities 
can  point  to  a  motion  picture  now  on  the  market  that  is 
more  faithful  to  the  details  of  a  criminal  operation  than 
was  given  in  the  article  referred  to.  Of  course  the  com- 
parison would  not  justify  the  exhibition  of  the  picture,  but 
it  goes  a  long  way  in  support  of  the  contention  that  if 
there  is  to  be  official  censorship  it  must  take  a  general 
form  to  be  consistent. 

*  *     * 

Now  take  the  newspaper  version  of  the  question  as 
reflected  by  consideration,  of  the  bill  of  Senator  Works  at 
Washington  to  censor  the  press  of  the  District  of  Colum- 
bia, which  was  returned  with  an  unfavorable  recommenda- 
tion. The  Commissioners  of  the  district  reported  that  "the 
publicity  given  by  the  press  generally  tends  to  lessen  evil 
conditions  and  thus  renders  a  useful  service  to  the  public. 
That  the  dread  of  publicity  has  a  deterrent  influence  upon 
those  disposed  or  tempted  to  the  committing  of  crime  may 
reasonably  be  inferred  from  the  fact  that  most  offenders 
against  law  earnestly  seek  to  avoid  exposure  of  the  circum- 
stances of  their  misbehavior  in  newspaper  reports  of  their 
trial.  The  Commissioners  do  not  believe  that  the  enact- 
ment of   the   radical   legislation  contemplated   by  the   bill   is 

advisable." 

*  *     * 

The  report  does  not  justify  publication  of  details  of  crimes 
as  referred  to  in  one  of  the  paragraphs  above,  but  it  does 
uphold  for  the  newspapers  what  is  claimed  for  motion  pic- 
tures.    If  the  publication   of   the  details  of  trials  has  a  de- 


terrent influence  on  the  criminally  disposed  or  tempted, 
surely  the  operation  of  a  motion  picture  story  that  leads 
up  to  a  moral  and  a  warning  must  have  the  same  effect. 
In  this  respect  the  newspapers  and  motion  pictures  are  so 
cjosely  allied  that  a  distinction  cannot  be  seriously  or  con- 
sistently drawn,  and  on  a  proposition  of  official  censorship 
both  must  be  considered. 

*  *    * 

Our  friend  Marcus  Loew  has  adopted  the  cigarette  coupon 
scheme  in  connection  with  one  of  his  houses.  In  doing 
so  he  has  fortified  himself  against  the  main  objection  to 
such  schemes  by  providing  that  the  tickets  are  good  only 
"for  wife,  sister  or  sweetheart."  Children  are  barred,  so 
that  it  cannot  be  claimed  that  they  are  tempted  to  purchase 
cigarettes  to  secure  the  coupons.  You  can't  keep  the  re- 
sourceful theatrical  manager  down. .  The  result  of  the  scheme 
will  be  watched  with  interest.  When  the  proposition  was 
up  before  it  was  contended  that  schemes  of  that  character 
have  a  tendency  to  affect  the  character  of  the  patronage 
of  houses;  that  they  bring  to  the  theaters  an  element  that 
eventually  drives  away  the  better  class  of  people.  As  Mr. 
Loew  announces  that  the  scheme  is  to  remain  in  operation 
for  but  a  limited  period  it  may  not  be  possible  to  determine 
the  stability  of  the  contention. 

*  *     * 

Well,  the  motion  picture  ordinance  advocated  by  Alder- 
man Folks,  according  to  last  reports,  is  not  dead,  but  sleep- 
ing. Mayor  Gaynor  woke  it  up  one  day  last  week,  but  the 
Borad  of  Aldermen  put  it  to  sleep  again  for  a  few  days. 
The  indications  are  that  by  the  time  we  make  our  next  tour 
of  observation  it  will  bob  up  again.  It  is  stated  that  the 
Mayor  summoned  several  of  the  Aldermen  to  his  office  and 
discussed  the  proposed  ordinance  with  them.  He  feels  hurt 
that  they  do  not  act  decisively  upon  it.  To  be  more  ex- 
plicit, the  Mayor  feels  that  it  should  be  passed.  The  op- 
position to  it  is  strong  in  the  Board.  Several  of  the  Alder- 
men who  are  interested  in  the  larger  picture  houses  will 
fight  to  the  last  against  any  measure  that  will  place  the 
smaller  exhibitors  in  competition  with  them  by  allowing  in- 
creased seating  capacity  in  the  small  houses.  One  of  the 
Aldermen  is  credited  with  having  said  to  a  smaller  exhibitor 
recently,  "Do  you  think  we  are  fools?  We  invest  fifty,  or  a 
hundred,  or  more,  thousands  of  dollars  in  houses  and  then 
you  expect  us  to  give  you  an  opportunity  to  come  next  dooT 
to  us  with  your  600  seating  capacity  place."  That  is  the 
fight  in  a  nutshell.  The  big  men  in  the  business  have  thus 
far  held  a  political  influence  that  the  little  men,  numerous 
as  they  are,  have  not  been  able  to  counteract,  and  there  really 
seems  to  be  no  change  in  their  favor  so  far  as  this  aspect 
of  the  situation  is  concerned,  with  the  exception  that  Mayor 
Gaynor  appears  to  have  advanced  a  step  towards  helping 
them.  Heretofore  he  has  rested  upon  his  endorsement  of 
the  measure  without  the  censorship  clause.  Now  he  seems 
to  be  pressing  the  passage  of  the  ordinance. 

*  *     * 

A  discussion  of  censorship  extended  the  other  day  to 
comments  on  the  action  of  the  committee  on  paintings 
connected  with  the  Brooklyn  Institute.  Mr.  Charles  A. 
Schieren,  a  former  Mayor  of  Brooklyn,  offered  to  donate  a 
painting  entitled,  "To  the  Highest  Bidder."  It  shows  a 
negress  slave  and  her  child  under  auction.  It  is  a  valuable 
work  to  which  gold  medals  have  been  awarded.  The  com- 
mittee rejected  it  "in  the  belief  that  the  subject  brings  up 
unpleasant  recollections."  A  day  or  two  later  Senator  Borah 
at  Washington  told  Congress  that  slavery  of  the  most  de- 
grading type  is  now  effective  in  the  Philippines  and  this  an- 
nouncement has  been  seized  upon  for  argument  that  the  re- 
jected painting  should  be  given  the  most  prominent  place 
of  public  exhibition  possible  to  keep  before  the  eyes  of  the 
rising  generation  the  repulsive  features  of  slavery,  and  have 
them  prepared  at  all  times  to  co-operate  in  fighting  any 
attempt  to  revive  it.  And  so  we  again  find  that,  although 
many  people  are  trying  to  confine  attention  to  it  within  the 
lines  of  the  motion  picture  field,  censorship  is  of  wide  scope, 
and  the  greater  the  scope  the  stronger  becomes  the  argu- 
ment on  constitutionality  on  the  part  of  the  motion  pic- 
ture people. 


AMERICAN  "HER  BIG  STORY"  NOT   A  TWO-REEL. 

Some  time  ago  the  American  Film  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany announced  "Her  Big  Story,"  by  Richard  Washburn 
Child,  as  a  two-reel  subject.  This  was  in  error.  The  pic- 
ture is  an  exceptionally  splendid  single  reel  for  release  May 
31.  This  is  about  the  date  that  the  popular  magazine  will 
first  publish  the  story. 


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Made  Good. 

READERS  will  remember  a  question  raised  lately  by  A.  G.  Wunderle. 
of  the  Pastime,  Brooklyn,  as  to  whether  it  was  better  to  lay  low 
circus  week  or  make  a  special  fight.  Mr.  Wunderle  fought  with  a 
two-reel  special  every  day  and  the  "What  Happened  to  Mary"  as  the  added 
attraction.  Some  of  his  friends  declared  that  he  was  throwing  away  money 
on  top  of  that  he  naturally  stood  to  lose  through  the  presence  of  the 
superior  attraction.  Mr.  Wunderle  was  good  enough  to  comply  with  our 
request  for  information  as  to  how  he  made  out.     This  is  his  letter: 

The  results  showed  an  increased  profit  of  fifty  dollars  above  the 
best  week  of  the  past  year,  discounting  the  extra  expense.  The 
circus,  as  you  said,  tended  lo  persuade  the  people  to  be  more 
liberal.  It  seemed  to  increase  their  desire  for  amusement,  ac- 
cording to  several  remarks  I  heard.  The  "Mary"  reels  were  the 
biggest  attraction. 

That's  the  answer  to  all  the  men  who  this  summer  are  going  to  confront 
the  invasion  of  some  circus.  Most  amusement  men  dread  the  coming  of 
the  tent  attractions  and  too  many  show  an  inclination  to  hedge.  Where 
the  show  is  in  town  for  a  single  day  they  may  cut  expenses  for  a  week. 
Naturally  they  are  right  when  they  say  the  circus  costs  them  money.  And 
yet,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  the  circus  brings  new  business  to  them.  All  they 
hare  to  do  is  to  reach  for  it. 

The  circus  performance  runs  about  two  hours  and  a  half,  twice  a  day. 
It  brings  into  the  city  hundreds  of  people  from  other  places,  in  some  in- 
stances it  brings  thousands  into  town.  Even  with  some  shopping  to  do 
there  is  some  spare  time  and  the  photoplay  theater  is  the  most  natural 
place  to  turn  to. 

Coax  them  into  your  house  by  offering  special  attractions.  Get  a  big  two 
or  three-reel  feature  and  a  couple  of  comedies  and  get  out  after  them. 
Don't  lie  down. 

The  One  Reel  Feature. 

The  Mary  series  seems  to  have  found  a  field  all  its  own.  The  series 
story  is  familiar  enough,  but  the  series  story  that  has  a  continuation  of  the 
same  story  is  another  matter.  Predictions  were  freely  made  when  this  series 
was  announced,  that  the  fact  that  the  stories  were  best  shown  in  series  would 
seriously  militate  against  it.  That  the  stories  would  be  released  about  a 
month  apart  was  supposed  further  to  act  against  success,  yet  the  Mary  pic- 
tures have  been  run  singly,  the  first  five  or  seven  have  been  brought  back 
for  successive  nights,  the  first  ten  have  been  played  back  later  and  they  will 
be  running  almost  as  strongly  a  year  from  now.  This  being  the  fact,  it  is 
to  be  regretted  that  other  stories  are  not  also  made  in  series  instead  of 
individual  releases.  Twelve  Broncho  Billy  stories  in  which  the  same  Broncho 
Billy  appeared  in  all  would  be  a  winner  and  we  can  imagine  what  would 
happen  to  the  magazine  that  ran  the  fiction  end  of  it  with  photographs  of 
Mr.  Anderson  and  his  company  for  illustrations.  In  the  rush  for  the  two 
and  three-part  features  the  connected  series  seems  to  have  been  overlooked. 

More  Portrait  Posters. 

The  Kraus  Company  has  just  published  an  edition  of  Mutual  Players, 
uniform  with  the  11  x  14  posters  of  Licensed  and  Universal  players.  The 
new  list  includes  Irving  Cummings,  Harry  Benham,  Warren  Kerrigan,  Fred 
Mace,  Jack  Richardson,  J.  B.  Sherry,  Edgena  de  Lespine,  Marguerite  Snow, 
Pauline  Bush,  Mabel  Normand,  The  Thanhouser  Kid  and  Anna  Little.  The 
price  is  two  dollars  the  set  of  twelve.  They  work  out  excellently  well  for 
lobby  display. 

Doing  Something. 

Frank  Montgomery,  "The*'  Moving  picture  Man,  is*  stirring  things  up  in 
the  southern  states  for  which  he  has  the  rights  to  "From  the  Manger  to 
the  Cross."  William  Wright,  of  the  Kalem  Company,  sends  us  a  page  of 
the  Memphis  Press,  in  which  Tennessee  publication  an  entire  page  is  sur- 
charged with  a  red  ink  advertisement  of  this  impressive  subject.  A  partof 
the  text  on  this  page  is  a  well  'written  account  of-  the  film,  the  rest  being 
news  and  other  advertising,  but  these  twelve-line  crimson  letters  go  clear 
across  and  down  the  page.  It's  a  trifle  vivid  for  a  sacred  subject,  but  it  is 
not  offensive  and  it  assuredly  will  get  the  business.  The  very  fact  of  the 
red  ink  advertisement  will  make  talk. 

We  have  seen  several  pages  run  in  two  colors  for  the  Kalem  Irish  sub- 
jects, when  a  green  border  was  run  in,  but  this  is  the  first  instance  of 
a  surcharged  advertisement  that  we  have  seen.  The  ink  is  of  a  sufficiently 
light  body   to  permit   the  black   print   to   be  read  through  it. 

It  is  easily  one  of  the  most  remarkable  pieces  of  advertising  yet  received 
by  this  department. 

An  Educational  Department. 

The  Pearce  Weekly  Bulletin,  New  Orleans,  has  a  department  devoted  to 
industrials  to  be  shown  the  coming  week.  This  is  a  good  idea  from  several 
points  of  view.  It  gives  the  reader  an  increased  respect  for  the  once 
despised  "scenics"  and  impresses  the  thoughtful.  It  has  a  surprisingly  large 
allowance  of  general  gossip  and  a  little  more  care  in  the  make-up  would 
result   in   a   real  magazine   that  would  be   eagerly   watched   for. 


The  d3y  is  passing  when  the  educational  subject  on  the  end  of  a  short 
reel  can  be  regarded  as  an  imposition  on  the  managers.  New  there  is  a 
demand  for  the  educational  subject  and  many  managers  make  adroit  use 
of  these  short  lengths.  In  some  houses  there  is  an  actual  demand  for 
them  and  the  demand  can  be  created  anywhere  by  giving  Jihem  the  promin- 
ence that  is  their   due. 

Real  Exchanges. 

Lately  we  jokingly  referred  to  these  house  bulletins  as  our  own  "ex- 
change" list,  but  that  is  precisely  what  they  are  getting  to  be.  and  these 
little  sheets  are  as  eagerly  watched  for  as  some  of  the  national  magazines. 
We  clip  this  from  the  Idle  Hour  Educator,  Aberdeen,  S.  D. 

One  of  the  latest  requests  to  be  placed  upon   our   exchange  list 
comes  from  the  manager  of  one  of  Brooklyn's  most  popular  theal 
We  are  pleased  to  mail  him  a  copy  of  "The  Educator"  each  week. 
Our  little   publication   now  goes  into  twelve  different  states  of  the 
Union,  ranging  from  Maine  to  California. 
Jack  Nash,  of  the  Isis  News,  Trinidad,  Colorado,  writes  that  he  has  placed 
35    theaters  on  his  exchange  list,   as  the  result  of  the  mention   in   this  de- 
partment.    It  will  be  36  presently  for  we  have  suggested  to  Emil  Kerhlein, 
Jr.,  that  he  ask  Mr.   Nash  for  some  samples. 

The  Isis  News  will  have  to  go  up  to  eight  pages  pretty  soon,  for  the 
advertising  grows  apace  and  we  think  that  some  of  the  advertisers  get 
better  results  than   from  the  local  paper. 

If  we  hear  any  sounds  of  encouragement  we'll  start  a  Press  Club  for 
the  Photoplay  Theater  Papers.     How  about  it? 

Another  Ozone  Machine. 

Quite  a  number  of  houses  now  use  Ozone  machines  to  purify  the  air  in 
their  auditoriums  instead  of  "killing  the  smell"  with  disinfectants.  A 
new  Ozone  machine  has  come  on  the  market  at  a  lower  price  than  those 
now  offered.  The  machine  was  developed  by  a  physician  who  intended  it  for 
use  in  sick  rooms,  but  its  success  has  resulted  in  the  making  of  sizes  suit- 
able for  larger  spaces.    We  can  supply  the  address  to  anyone  interested. 

Another  One-Sheet  Weekly. 

The  Martz  is  the  latest  one-sheet  weekly.  It  is  issued  by  the  Martz 
Theater  Company,  Tipton,  Ind.  They  state  that  if  the  experiment  is  a 
success  they  will  raise  it  to  a  larger  size.  It  will  not  be  the  success  in 
any  form  that  it  would  be  as  a  four  page  paper  right  off  the  reel.  The 
added  cost  of  composition  and  printing  would  be  carried  by  outside 
advertising  and  still  they  would  have  room  for  plenty  of  chat  with  the 
reader.  The  first  issue  carries  a  readable  chat  about  the  house  and  its 
advantages,  not  in  a  braggart  vein  but  sincere  and  convincing.  There 
is  an  announcement  of  a  coming  vaudeville  act  and  the  details  of  a  new 
guessing  contest.  This  will  interest  many  managers,  particularly  those  in 
the  better  residential  districts.  The  second  page  is  given  to  more  general 
chat.  We  note  that  they  run  advertising  slides  for  one  dollar  a  month. 
They  will  find  that  it  will  pay  them  better  to  cut  out  the  advertising  slides 
and  put  the  advertisements  in  the  paper.     This  is  the  guessing  contest. 

The  Martz  will  soon  present  another  contest  somewhat  similar  to 
the  "Who  Are  You"  pictures  shown  by  them  some  weeks  ago.  This 
time  it  will  be  a  test  as  to  your  acquaintanceship  with  the  city  in 
which  you  live.  Pictures  will  be  taken  of  thirty  of  the  residences  in 
Tipton,  those  to  be  photographed  to  be  taken  at  random  from  the 
different  parts  of  town.  Five  of  these  will  be  thrown  upon  the 
screen  each  night  until  all  thirty  have  been  displayed.  To  the  one 
guessing  near ■ 

Gossipy  Announcements. 

The  Alpha  Theater,  Belleville,  N.  J.,  has  a  weekly  program  differing 
from  many  in  that  the  man  who  gets  it  up  writes  the  paragraphs  in- 
telligently. Several  of  their  programs  are  at  hand  and  each  gives  either 
a  hint  of  the  story  or  some  bright  comment.  Quite  a  number  of  recent 
programs  from  other  sources  suggest  that  the  manager  takes  the  printed 
synopsis  and  cuts  off  what  he  needs  without  regard  to  whether  this  is 
the  end  of  a  sentence  or  not.  We  have  actually  seen  programs  where 
the  paragraphs  ended  in  the  middle  of  sentences  because  the  man  who 
got  out  the  copy  was  too  lazy  or  too  stupid  to  fix  it  up.  It  takes  money 
to  print  programs  and  it  is  worth  a  little  time  to  ge  the^  sheet  out  right. 
To  start  off  from  somewhere  and  end  nowhere  does  not  interest,  and  yet 
the  object  of  adding  a  line  or  two  to  the  title  of  the  story  is  to  catch  the 
interest  and  make  the  reader  want  to  see  the  performance.  The  Alpha 
does  not  copy.     It  prepares  original  stuff.     It's  worth  while. 

Didn't  Then   Did. 

Harry  C.  Waldron,  of  the  Langdon  and  Electric  Theaters,  Langdon.  North 
Dakota,  writes  that  he  has  cut  the  advertising  and  projection  departments 
from  this  paper  and  has  had  them  bound.  He  indexed  the  projection  matters 
but  did  not  index  the  Advertising  for  Exhibitors.  Right  on  top  of  that 
comes   a   second    letter,    six   days   later,   in    which   he    says: 

I  wrote  you  recently  that  I  had  made  a  file  of  your  department 
but  had  not  indexed  it.  Have  found  a  simple  method  and  suggest 
it   for   the   benefit    of  others. 

Clipped  out  all  pages,  in  order,  and  with  mucilage  pasted  their 
edges  into  book  form,  each  little  volume  containing,  roughly,  about 


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20  or  30  leaves.  Numbered  these  from  1  up.  Have  taken  a 
note  book  and  headed  the  pages  with  the  different  subjects  that 
interest  me  in  this  particular  house,  such  as,  "Matinee  schemes," 
"Coupon,  souvenir  and  premium  schemes,"  "Good  copy,"  "Novel- 
ties, innovations,  etc,"  "Mailing  list,  requests,  etc,"  "Special  in- 
vitations, etc,"  "Programs,"  etc,  etc.  By  indexing  the  different 
subjects,  using  my  little  booklet  number  and  the  page  number, 
I  have  a  dandy  reference  list  to  the  entire  contents  of  the  depart* 
ment  which  can  actively  help  me  here.  Of  course,  I  have  not 
listed  the  general  comment,  nor  anything  not  going  into  detail. 

This  is  my  poor  season  here  and  now  is  the  time  I  get  busy 
on  these  stunts.  When  the  fall  comes,  tho,  with  its  better  business, 
I   am  going  to  keep  right  on  hustling. 

I  have  two  other  little  files  which  might  interest  some  of  the 
others.  Have  clipped  every  single  ad  in  the  World  as  far  back 
as  my  file  goes,  and  pasted  them  in  a  scrap  book.  I  mean,  of 
course,  just  one  ad  of  each  firm  or  each  article  offered.  As  new 
equipment  comes  on  the  market  through  the  World  columns, 
I  clip  it,  thus  having  a  complete  file  of  dealers,  manufacturers,  theater 
equipment,  accessories,  etc.  Of  course,  I  do  not  clip  film  ads,  feature 
ads,  or  the  like,  but  only  those  of  dealers  and  equipment,  etc.,  I  am 
likely  to  refer  to.  It  is  convenient  for  consulting  when  ordering  and 
contains  a  lot  of  information. 

The  other  file  is  one  of  general  ad  copy  and  chatty  motion  pic- 
ture news,  for  use  in  my  house  leaflet  and  in  special  advertising. 
The  clippings  are  gleaned  from  the  different  bulletins,  Eclair, 
Kalem,  Edison,  Vitagraph,  etc.,  from  The  World,  the  Universal 
Weekly,  The  N.  Y.  Telegraph,  and  the  M.  P.  Story  Magazine. 

No,  I  don't  spend  all  my  time  at  my  desk,  but  I  like  to  have 
this  stuff  handy.  Right  now  I  am  putting  in  a  motor  drive  and  two 
electric  signs,  doing  all  the  work  myself. 

Captions. 

We  are  going  to  follow  much  the  same  scheme  for  our  own  bound  pages. 
When  we  have  fully  decided  on  the  classifications  we'll  give  them  for  the 
benefit  of  others  whj  may  want  to  keep  the  index  going.  It  is  handy  to  be 
able  to  turn  to  an  item  without  laborious  search.  We  think  that  Mr. 
Waldron  will  find  a  card  index  better  than  a  note  book  and  these  are  in- 
expensive. 

Has  a  Paper. 

Being  a  live  wire,  Mr.  Waldron  also  has  his  weekly  paper,  The  Tattler, 
described  as  a  frivolous  publication  with  a  serious  purpose.  We  would  like 
to  suggest  to  Mr.  Waldron  that  even  house  papers  should  carry  a  date.  The 
first  issue  was  a  very  small  four  page,  but  it  grew  to  a  little  larger  size 
with  the  second  issue  and  stays  a  five  by  seven  inch  four  pages.  It  is  in- 
teresting to  note  Mr.  Waldron's  adaptation  of  the  hen  and  the  duck  story. 
Most  of  our  readers  will  remember  the  original.  Here  is  the  expurgated 
version. 

SOMETHING  TO  CROW  ABOUT 
FOWL  TALK 
liver  notice  when  a  duck  lays  an  egg?     It  just  waddles  off  and 
never  says  a  word.     Ever  notice  when  a  hen  lays  an  egg?     TALK 
ABOUT  A  CACKLE  AND  NOISE!     Everyone  can  hear  it.     Go  to 
a  grocery  store — 100  people  will  ask  for  a  hen's  egg  and  only  one 
will  ever  buy  a  duck's  egg. 
Moral:     It  Pays  to  Advertise. 
How  will  this  do  to  rouse  the  interest  of  your  feminine  patrons: 

A  man  in  a  Pittsburg  theater  last  week  aroused  feminine  curiosity 
when  he  borrowed  a  pencil  from  a  neighbor  and  excitedly  sketched 
on  the  back  of  an  envelope  the  costume  of  one  of  the  screen  artists. 
"I  suppose  you  wonder  why  I  drew  that  picture,"  he  explained. 
"You  see  I  am  a  ladies'  tailor  and  have  to  know  the  latest  style.  That 
heroine's  dress  was  something  new,  and  the  women  here  want  what 
is  new  in  styles.  I  often  get  ideas  from  the  dress  of  the  picture 
actresses.     1  will  have  this  latest  model  for  my  customers  in  a  week." 

Some  Humorist. 
We    hope   that  some   time   Mr.    Langdon   will  write  his  experiences  in 
book  form.      Under  the  general    heading  of  News  from  the   Front  he  tells 
th^  people  back  in  Langdon  what  he  is  doing  with  a  road  show  that  makes 
six  towns  each  week.     Here  is  a  characteristic  paragraph: 

We  left  a  vest  at  Pisek  last  week,  a  pair  of  gloves  at  Milton  this 
week,  and  also  some  mail  and  a  rod  from  the  machines  at  Inkster. 
We  are  generally  wearing  our  trousers  when  leaving  a  town,  so  we 
still  have  them. 

A  Shell  Game. 

Perhaps  your  trouble  is  not  peanuts,  but  have  you  ever  tried  fighting  some 
nuisance  with  slides.  If  we  are  not  wrong  it  was  a  Canadian  exhibitor  who 
first  called  attention  in  this  department  to  the  slide  crusade  idea,  but  here 
comes  a  letter  from  Ralph  R.  Ruffner,  of  the  Comet  Theater,  Vancouver, 
Washington.  Answering  his  question  before  we  print  it  we  would  say  that 
Mr.  Ruffner  is  justified  in  his  pride  in  his  letter  heads.  They  are  done  in 
blue  on  blue  paper  with  a  silver  comet  possessed  of  a  most  luxuriant  tail. 
The  type  display  is  neat,  the  wording  good  and  the  whole  thing  is  big  time. 
Here  is  the  letter: 

My  first  offering  to  this  department,  while  not  dealing  with  adver- 
tising is  sent  for  what  it  is  worth,  the  thought  in  my  mind  being  that 
while  an  exhibitor  may  spend  lots  of  time  and  money  to  get  the 
crowds,  is  his  "house  in  order"  to  receive  them?    Whereas,  be  it 

Resolved,  That  after  a  man  has  taken  advantage  of  the  many 
fine  points  of  the  game,  appearing  as  they  do  in  your  capably 
edited  department  each  week,  when  he  has  anything  to  talk  about 
that  might  be  of  use  to  some  other  exhibitor  who  may  have  a  simi- 
lar problem  to  solve,  I  think  he  is  obligated  to  make  a  donation. 
That's  me. 

"Peanuts,  Their  Virtues  and  Their  Muss,"  is  my  subject. 
Small-town  exhibitors  have  to  rely  upon  regular  patrons  for  their 
"livelihood,"  and  it  is  to  these  that  this  "nutty"  subject  will  perhaps 
appeal.     To  cultivate  and  hold  the  friendship  and  interest  of  one's 


best  boosters — and  every  manager  has  a  few — is  one  of  the  fine 
points  of  success.  With  me,  my  best  outside  booster  is  a  peanut 
and  popcorn  man  whose  stand  is  opposite  the  theater. 

I  wanted  to  clean  up  my  house,  make  it  more  presentable — tidy 
and  with  some  air  of  refinement;  visible  indications  that  there  was  a 
live-wire  with  a  detail-eye  on  the  job,  and  not  a  mere  figurehead, 
and  as  my  patrons  for  two  years  past  have  been  in  the  habit  of 
throwing  their  peanut  shells  on  the  floor,  I  began  with  that  feature. 

How  to  stop  the  muss  without  hurting  my  friend's  business — for 
he  passes  up  and  down  the  aisle  with  his  basket  each  intermission — 
was  the  problem.  (Of  course  I  had  the  feelings  of  my  peanut- 
eating  patrons  to  consider  as  well.)  I  adopted  jocularly  worded 
slides,  changing  the  copy  about  every  two  days,  made  them  laugh 
and  at  the  same  time  got  over  my  point. 

My  first  was,  "To  Eat  Plenty  of  Peanuts  is  Healthy;  To  Keep  the 
Shells  Off  the  Floor,  Orderly.  Be  Both."  A  little  improvement 
noted.  Then,  "Did  You  Know  Peanuts  Will  Give  You  the  Back- 
ache? Try  Sweeping  Up  the  Shells  and  See."  Followed  by  "Pea- 
nuts Make  Some  People  Have  Fits.  If  You  Don't  Believe  It  Come 
Around  To-Morrow  Morning  At  7  O'clock  and  Watch  the  Janitor." 
More  improvement.  "A  noted  German  Scientist  says:  'Peanuts  stimu- 
late the  heart  action.*  You  ought  to  hear  what  our  Janitor  says 
about  the  Shells,  and  he  is  not  Noted  either."  "Cast  your  Bread 
upon  the  Waters  but  keep  the  Peanut  Shells  off  the  floor — Janitor." 
And  the  latest,  "We  are  starting  a  Crusade  against  Profanity. 
Help  us  save  our  Janitor  by  keeping  the  Peanut  Shells  off  the  floor. 
Amen  for  that." 

Result:  My  friend's  sales  have  increased  (he  says)  and  the  muss 
has  almost  disappeared.  To  take  care  of  the  shells,  each  purchaser 
of  a  bag  of  nuts  is  given  an  empty  paper  sack. 

Now  to  take  snap  judgment  at  an  article  like  this,  a  reader  might 
wonder  "what"  kind  of  an  element  I've  got  to  contend  with,  and 
the  only  reasonable  answer  to  that  is,  competition  is  so  strong  (there 
are  three  houses  here)  and  the  shows  all  so  long,  that  if  ray  "cus- 
tomers" didn't  eat  something  to  tide  them  over,  they'd  starve  to 
death  before  the  program  is  finished. 

You  said  something  about  letter-heads  one  time.  This  is  mine; 
I'm  proud  of  it;  adopted  it  when  I  first  went  into  the  business  and 
have  never  altered  it  in  any  way.  I  didn't  name  the  house,  just  made 
the  best  of  an  old  name  for  business  reasons,  and  there  you  have  it. 
Will  my  stationery  pass? 

Checks  on  the  Box  Office. 

The  Novelty  Theater.  Sealy,  Texas,  is  issuing  checks  on  its  box  office 
instead  of  passes.  W.  N.  Saunders,  the  manager,  writes  that  while  he  uses 
it  for  his  own  passes  he  thinks  that  this  form  could  be  used  good  when 
countersigned  by  some  local  merchant  in  favor  of  some  customers  who  have 
purchased  goods  to  a  stated  value.  We  think  the  same  way  he  does  about 
it.  It  is  more  novel  than  the  old  style  pass,  will  be  talked  about  and 
shown  and  it  will  make  money  for  the  house  and  the  merchants.  We  suggest 
the  form  for  the  benefit  of  those  who  may  want  to  accept  Mr.  Saunders* 
suggestion.  If  he  has  any  more  ideas  as  good  as  this,  we  hope  that  he 
comes  in  often. 


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Good  and  Bad. 

Bank  and  Ryan  send  an  invitation  to  the  opening  of  their  new  theater, 
The  Hippodrome,  at  Williamson,  West  Virginia.  They  have  the  proper 
idea  of  display  for  their  name,  the  name  of  the  house  and  the  city  are  in 
red  with  the  rest  in  black.  The  remainder  of  the  text  is  in  Old  English,  so 
small  that  ycu  have  to  look  at  it  about  three  times  to  see  just  what  the 
opening  date  is.  It  is  a  twelve  point  body,  but  cut  so  small  that  it  has  a 
six  point  effect.  As  they  had  plenty  of  space,  a  larger  size  should  have 
been  insisted  upon.  Old  English  is  a  poor  type  for  anything  that  the  adver- 
tiser wants  read,  and  with  a  whole  book  full  of  good  type  specimens,  we 
wonder  why  this  awkward  type  is  used  so  often.  With  red  and  black  it  is 
impossible  to  suggest  copper  plate  work.  The  announcement  is  on  excellent 
stock  with  envelopes  to  match  and  must  have  cost  something  to  produce. 
Next  time  try  a  combination  of  copperplate  gothic  and  engravers*  shaded. 
It  works  much  better  in  solid  color  or  two  printings. 

The  house  will  run  eight  reels  in  the  afternoon  and  the  best  four  of 
those  and  vaudeville  in  the  evening.  The  worst  of  the  eight  reels  is  apt  to 
be  better  than  the  sort  of  vaudeville  that  gets  into  West  Virginia. 

A  Half  Page  Goat. 

Lately  the  Reliance  released  "The  Bawler  Out,"  a  three-reel  feature. 
It  was  shown  at  the  Princess  Theater,  Evansville,  Indiana,  and  to  offset 
the  effect  the  four  local  loan  companies  united  in  taking  a  half  page  adver- 
tisement in  the  daily  paper,  which  was  a  great  deal  more  than  a  half  page 
advertisement  for  the  Princess.  Sometimes  it  is  just  as  easy  to  make  some- 
one else  do  your  advertising  for  you  and  then  you  do  not  have  to  pay 
the  bills. 


THE  MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


805 


1&  PHOTOPLAYWRIGHT         ■ 


Conducted  by  Epes  Wbtheop  Sargekjt   /-jJlH 


The  Dinner. 

ACCEPTANCES  are  coming  in  for  the  dinner  of  the  photoplay  writers 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Inquest  Club.  If  you  have  not  made 
up  your  mind  to  attend  make  up  your  mind  now,  for  there  is  not 
much  time  left  in  which  to  decide  and  you'll  be  sorry  and  we'll  be  sorry 
if  you  miss  it.  To  recapitulate,  the  dinner  will  be  held  in  Keene's  Chop 
House,  Saturday  evening,  May  31st.  Tickets  are  two  dollars  each  and 
may  be  had"  of  the  club  members  or  by  addressing  the  Dinner  Committee, 
Box  -0  Madison  Square  Station. 


MacNamara    Goes    Abroad. 

Walter  MacNamara  has  severed  his  rather  brief  connection  with  the  Uni- 
versal script  department  as  a  special  writer  to  go  to  England  on  a  matter 
of  film  importance.  Since  his  connection  with  the  Universal  on  January  1st, 
he  has  written  practically  all  of  the  comedies  produced  by  T.  Hayes  Hunter 
and  a  number  of  dramatic  plays,  the  most  notable  of  which  are  "The  Re- 
generation of  John  Storm,"  "King  Danforth  Retires,"  "Officer  174"  and 
"The  Comedian's  Mask."  He  is  equally  at  home  in  stage  dramas  and 
has  five  productions  now  running  in  London  counting  his  music  hall  work, 
and  has  made  a  reputation  for  himself  as  a  comedian.  More  than  that 
Pop  Hoadley  (no  quotation  marks  on  the  Pop,  please,  Mr.  Printer.  That's 
his  given  name — we  all  gave  it  to  him)  says  he's  one  of  the  best  fellows 
on  earth — and  Pop  knows  him  well. 


Mr.  Curwood  Once  More. 

James  Oliver  Curwood  seems  to  be  a  bit  peeved  because  we  said  not  long 
ago  that  there  is  no  reason  why  a  butcher's  boy  should  not  write  as  good  a 
photoplay  as  the  trained  fiction  writer.  He  points  to  the  fact  that  he  gets 
a  hundred  dollars  apiece  for  all  he  writes,  and  also  seeks  to  traverse  our 
statement  that  the  fiction  writer  does  not  have  to  see  his  story  as  does  the 
photoplay  writer.  He,  two  editors  and  three  other  fiction  writers  all  stood 
aghast  at  the  statement  that  the  fiction  writer  did  not  have  to  see  the  story 
he  writes. 

Nevertheless  we  stand  on  our  original  statement  that  there  is  no  reason 
why  an  intelligent  butcher  boy  cannot  write  better  stories  than  Mr.  Cur- 
wood, who  has  a  novel  in  process  of  publication.  We  did  not  state  that 
the  butcher's  boy  would  get  as  much  money  as  some  of  the  fiction  writers 
such  as  Mr.  Curwood.  We  said  he  might  write  better  stories,  stronger 
plots,  better  situations,  more  natural  development,  because  he  sees  the  story 
with  the  eyes  of  the  photoplay  writer  and  not  with  the  vision  of  the  fiction 
writer. 

Mr.  Curwood  does  not  seem  to  be  a  practical  photoplay  man.  He  is  an 
author  with  a  literary  reputation  and  he  is  getting  $80  for  his  reputation 
nnd  $20  for  his  stories.  Because  he  is  a  fiction  writer  he  believes  that  the 
fiction  writer  must  be  the  best  writer  of  photoplay  stories,  and  he  doesn't 
know  that  for  every  fiction  writer  who  gets  $100  apiece  for  scripts  there 
are  a  hundred  who  have  turned  out  scripts  not  worth  a  dollar  each.  Some 
of  the  worst  piffle  turned  out  by  a  person  able  to  read  and  write  has  come 
from  men  with  national  reputations,  while  many  men  who  could  not  write 
a  thousand  word  fiction  story  that  would  pass  muster  in  a  country  weekly 
will  turn  out  a  photo  story  that  has  all  the  punch  and  action  that  might 
be  expected  from  the  novelist. 

We  have  never  said  that  any  unlettered  person  could  turn  out  acceptable 
photoplay  material.  On  the  contrary  it  takes  a  high  degree  of  intelligence. 
It  requires  imagination,  a  sense  of  the  dramatic,  the  ability  to  express  one- 
self tersely  and  clearly.  It  is,  in  some  ways,  a  more  difficult  art  than 
the  writing  of  the  short  story,  but  it  does  not  require  the  refinements  of 
literary  style  which  is  what  the  fiction  writer  is  selling  to  the  manufacturer, 
and  so  the  way  is  opened  to  the  butcher  boy  who  may  not  have  style, 
yet  who  does  possess  all  the  other  requirements.  The  man  who  writes  for 
a  hundred  dollars  a  script  may  turn  out  a  photoplay  that  makes  infinitely 
more  work  for  the  editor  and  producer  than  the  script  of  the  writer  who  is 
paid  a  quarter  of  that  sum  and  yet  who  turns  out  a  story  clean  cut,  practi- 
cable and  intelligle — utterly  lacking  in  style — but  a  photoplay. 


Off  Weeks. 

May  and  June  are  the  months  when  "off  days"  and  "off  weeks"  come 
most  frequently,  .and  some  writers  find  the  spring  fever  discouraging. 
You  cannot  run  a  locomotive  any  further  on  a  ton  of  coal  than  a  ton 
of  coal  will  carry  it  and  it's  pretty  much  the  same  way  with  writing 
scripts. 

You  have  a  streak  of  inspiration  and  do  two  or  three  times  the  amount  of 
work  that  represents  your  usual  output,  you  work  hard  and  fast,  because 
genius  burns  and  then  you  sit  and  make  faces  at  the  type  mill  for  a 
couple  of  days  and  wonder  what's  the  matter  when  you  were  doing  so 
much  better  than  usual.  That's  just  the  answer.  You've  done  two  weeks 
work  in  one  and  you've  run  as  far  as  two  weeks,  energy  will  carry  you. 
Don't  force  yourself  for  you'll  only  force  yourself  to   write  rot.      Rest  up. 

As  you  progress  you'll  gradually  increase  your  productive  capacity,  but 
you'll  not  improve  a  hundred  per  cent,  in  a  couple  of  weeks  and  be  able 
to  keep  it  up.  Go  to  the  ball  game  or  anything  else  you  want,  but  don't 
try  to  force  things. 

This  doesn't  mean  to  fall  into  lazy  habits,  but  when  through  impulse 
or  circumstance,  you  work  harder  than  usual,  take  a  rest  and  get  back  to 
normal.  Don't  think  your  creative  ability  has  fled.  Just  give  it  a  chance 
to  take  a  nap  and  you'll  be  all   right  again. 


Keeping  Carbons. 

This   from  Arthur  Leeds: 

I  was  one  of  the  "lucky"  ones  who  lost  a  script  in  the  Universal 
fire.     Willis  said  that  they  were  just  about  to  pass  on  it  when  it 
went  up  in  smoke.     Of  course,  I  have  a  carbon;  but  I  won't  send 
that,    and   I   won't   recopy  it,    either — as    it    stands   now.     Looking 
it  over,   I  see  room  for  improvement;   so  I'll   send  it   again  after 
it  has  been  rebuilt.     He  must  surely  be  a  foolish  photoplay  writer 
who  fails  to  keep  a  carbon  of  his  script,  though. 
It   just   drives    home    the    argument    that    it    pays    to   keep    carbons.      It 
may  seem  an  excess  of  caution,  but  we  keep  one  carbon  at  the  house  and 
one  at  our  office.    If  both  places  burn  down  we'll  be  helpless,  but  it  will  take 
more  than  one  fire  to  do  it. 

Taking  it  from  another  angle  LaVerne  Allen,  of  Oneida,  N.  Y.,  kept  his 
carbons,    but    about   the   time    the    Universal    had   its    fire    he    also    was    in 
"  a  burnout  and  lost  all  his  carbons,  not  to  mention  a  new  typewriter.     Twice 
in  the  same  place  is  too  much.     Perhaps  he'll   follow   our  scheme. 


We  Cannot  See  It. 

A  correspondent  weeps  a  whole  page  of  single  spaced  matter  because 
the  Lubin  company  has  an  arrangement  whereby  it  can  use  such  Munsey 
stories  as  it  desires.  Possibly  there  will  come  another  page  of  tears 
when  she  learns  that  the  American  Company  has  a  similar  arrangement 
with  Street  and  Smith  and  that  Quo  Vadis,  Ben  Hur,  Les  Miserables, 
and  some  scores  of  other  novels  have  been  visualized  in  from  one  to  twehre 
reels.  She  thinks — or  says  she  thinks — that  it  is  going  to  kill  the  business 
but  in  spite  of  her  effort  to  write  an  anonymous  letter,  we  have  a  signed 
communication  on  another  matter  and  know  her  for  a  photoplay  writer. 
Possibly  she  blames  the  story  arrangement  for  her  failure  to  sell. 

Now  only  a  small  proportion  of  fiction  can  be  made  into  photoplay;  not 
enough  to  materially  hurt  the  market,  and  we  think  that  the  visualized 
story  will  be  welcomed  as  a  sort  of  glorified  illustration  of  the  tale  admired 
in   fiction   form. 

We  said  not  long  ago  that  we  were  not  in  the'  axe  grinding  business. 
We  repeat  that  statement. 


One  of  Those  Human  Documents. 

The  craze  for  human  documents  is  fading,  or  rather  passing  to  other 
names,  but  here  comes  a  real  writer  to  tell  us  what  he  thinks,  and  we  are 
giving  him  plenty  of  room  because  he  writes  much  .that  is  sensible  and 
helpful. 

There  are  two  broad  classes  of  writers,  those  who  do  their  best  work 
under  pressure  and  those  who  arrive  at  their  best  only  through  careful  la- 
bor.    This  one  represents  the  former  class  and  he  says: 

I  have  reached  a  stage  where  "over-trying"  has  reduced  my  mind  to 
chaos.  Probably  that  phase*  has  been  threshed  out  a  thousand  times  but  if 
you  haven't  discussed  it  lately  I  believe  a  lot  of  your  younger  generation 
will  find  it  helpful.    Here's  what  I  mean: 

When  I  began  writing,  a  couple  years  ago  or  more,  I  really  didn't  know 
there  was  such  a  word  as  technique.  I  had  something  I  wanted  to  write 
and  I  wrote  it  as  best  I  could  and  sent  it  on  its  way.  And  it  sold — the 
first  eight  or  ten  without  any  trouble.  Then  the  Saturday  Evening  Post 
grabbed  one  and  that  was  my  undoing.  I  began  to  get  the  idea  that  I  could 
do  better  work;  that  I  wasn't  doing  the  best  that  was  in  me.  Then  I  began 
to  study  and  to  read  up  and  to  "try."  And  I  haven't  done  a  decent  thing 
since.  In  the  old  days,  in  revising,  if  I  saw  anything  that  could  be  bettered 
and  the  betterment  came  to  me  at  the  same  time,  I  made  the  substitution. 
If  not  I  let  it  stand  and  worried  no  more  about  it — being  in  a  state  of  bliss- 
ful ignorance.  Now  I  am  never  satisfied.  Even  if  the  better  thing  doesn't 
come  to  me  I  am  obsessed  by  a  haunting  idea  that  the  thing  as  I've  done  it 
is  all  wrong  and  I  labor  and  mull  over  it  until  I've  smeared  all  the 
spontaniety  out  of  it.  In  other  words  I'm  trying,  not  to  write  the  best 
story  I  can,  but  to  write  a  perfect  story.  I'm  fretting  so  much  about  how 
it's  going  to  read  that  the  blessed  freshness  is  all  squeezed  out  of  it. 


The  Form  and  the  Plot. 

Here's  an  illuminating  letter: 

I  am  a  constant  reader  of  your  photoplay wright  department  and 
am  a  writer  of  scenarios.  I  have  written  about  thirty  scripts, 
(none  were  accepted  as  yet,  though  I  have  many  out  at  present). 
I  know  that  I  have  the  right  scenario  form,  as  I  have  seen  sample 
scripts  in  books  on  the  technique  of  the  photoplay.  I  have  also 
read  the  book  that  you  have  written.  Now',  that  I  have  the  cor- 
rect form,  the  plot  enters   into  the  question. 

Most  of  my  plots.  I  think,  are  original.  A  friend  of  mine, 
one  who  writes  photoplays  himself  and  one  who  has  had  about 
ten  scripts  accepted,  says  that  he  wishes,  that  he  were  able  to 
write  plots  as  good  as  mine.  Now,  here  comes  a  queer  turn  of 
affairs.  Why  are  his  accepted  and  mine  rejected?  Why  is  it  that 
I  am  so  unsuccessful?  There  must  be  a  reason  somewhere.  And 
I  am  trying  quite  hard  to  find  that  elusive  reason. 

The  Universal  in  passing  judgment  on  five  of  my  scripts,  said 
that  similar  themes  had  been  used  before.  That,  to  my  under- 
standing, implies  that  I  had  actually  sat  down  and  plagiarized  an- 
others  thoughts.  Yet  I  am  positive  that  I  have  never  seen  a  theme 
like  the  ones  •that  the  Universal  marked  "similar  theme  used  before." 
And  then  again,  it's  against  my  principle  to  sit  down  and  just 
plagiarize.  ...  1 

"Similar  theme  used  before"  no  more  means  that  the  plot  has  been  stolen 

than  "Not  available"   means   that  the   story  is  too  poor  to  produce.     It  is 

simply  a  word  of  advice  to  the  author  that  he  is  treading  upon  another  plot. 

It    does    not    suggest   that    he    has    done    so    knowingly.      It    merely    states 

that  a  similar  play  has  been  done. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


We  do  not  always  regard  with  venerating  awe  the  checked  reason. 
Lots  of  times  the  reason  is  worthless  because  the  person  who  does  the 
checking  knows  nothing.  We  saw  a  Ramo  slip  the  other  day  with  half  a 
dozen  reasons  checked,  none  of  which  seemed  to  apply  to  the  story.  It's 
the  man  behind  the  pencil  that  counts,  but  the  Universal  has  been  checking 
close  to  the  line  of  late  and  we  think  that  the  editor  has  diagnosed  this 
writer's  case.  He  is  writing  good  plots,  but  they  are  plots  that  he  re- 
members. He  does  not  remember  that  he  remembers  them,  and  that  is 
where  the  trouble  lies.  He  is  not  a  creator.  He  has  a  well  founded 
technique,  but  he  lacks  imagination  and  in  straining  for  plots  he  digs 
deep  into  his  brain  and  brings  up  the  plots  he  has  read  without  recognizing 
them  as  old  acquaintances.  The  plots  are  better  than  those  of  the  man 
who  sells  one  in  ten,  but  the  man  who  sells  can  originate  and  the  man 
who  does  not,  copies  the  work  of  others.  That  he  does  not  know  that 
he  does  this,  makes  his  position  all  the  worse.  If  he  knew  that  he  stole 
some  of  his  plots  he  would  be  able  to  distinguish  between  those  he  creates 
and  those  he  remembers,  but  they  all  seem  new  to  him  and  so  he  cannot  know 
which    really  are   his. 

There  doesn't  seem  to  be  much  help  for  a  writer  like  that.  If  he  keeps 
on  writing  he  will  get  into  trouble  some  day.  The  only  thing  to  be  done, 
if  it  can  be  done,  is  to  train  the  memory  to  a  point  where  the  source  of 
the  plot  can  be  traced. 


If  there  was  someone  like  that  to  stand  at  the  elbow  of  every  foolish 
person  who  believes  the  lying  statements  about  the  income  to  be  gained 
and  the  ease  with  which  scripts  are  written,  some  schools  would  close  and 
hundreds  of  dollars  would  be  saved  to  people  who  can  ill  afford  to  waste 
the  four  dollars  that  now  marks  the  "school's"  lowest  extra  special  dis- 
count. At  least  one  girl  can  thank  Mr.  Harris  for  saving  her  four 
dollars  in  money,  an  indefinite' sum  in  postage  stamps  and  many  a  heartache. 


Getting  Wise. 

Another  of  our  correspondents  has  gained  wisdom.  He  has  a  vivid 
imagination  and  he's  been  writing  a  lot  of  plays,  but  they  have  not  sold  be- 
cause imagination  alone  never  sold  much  stuff.  Lately  he  has  been  look- 
ing around  for  reasons  and  now  he  has  found  the  answer.     He  writes: 

I  am  taking  a  course  of  study  in  our  local  university.  For  a 
long  while  now  you  have  been  advising  us  ivory-domed  beginners 
to  patronize  this  university.  At  last  the  idea  has  penetrated  the 
dense  osseous  tissue  of  my  think  tank  and  I  have  evolved  a  system 
of  study  of  the  best  of  the  films  which  I  see.  My  system  might  not 
be  the  best  for  everybody   for  it   requires  a  mighty  good   memory. 

Formerly,  when  I  went  to  the  picture  show,  I  sat  in  a  tense 
attitude  watching  for  pointers.  Now,  I  abandon  myself  to  a 
thorough  enjoyment  of  the  films.  I  see  two  or  three  shows  and  then 
go  home  and — go  to  bed.  Next  morning.  I  try  to  decide  which 
picture  has  made  the  most  impression  on  me.  Then  I  write  that 
story  just  as  it  was  produced,  scene  for  scene,  leader  for  leader, 
everything  just  as  it  came  onto  the  screen.  Then  I  begin  to -fire 
questions  at  my  story — Where  was  the  punch?  What  was  the 
conflict?  How  was  my  sympathy  enlisted?  How  did  the  author 
arrange  his  scenes?  etc,  etc.  When  I  am  through  I  hare  gained 
all  that  the  picture  in  question  can  teach  me. 

No  one  who  has  never  tried  the  scheme  can  realize  the  value 
of  this  simple  proceeding.  For  example,  the  biggest  idea  that  I 
have  yet  obtained  is  that  these  better  stories  all  have  a  characteristic 
which  I  can  find  no  word  to  express.  The  nearest  I  can  come  to 
it  is  to  say  that  they  are  "balanced."  I  couldn't  tell  you  in  six 
pages  what  I  mean  by  that  word  but  you  will  know.  Another  big 
idea  that  I  have  gained  is  that  the  authors  of  these  stories  have 
taken  infinite  pains  with  them.  They  have  put  power  into  their 
scenes,  they  have  given  dignity  to  their  characters,  they  have 
avoided  trivialities.  As  a  simple  corollary  to  this  discovery  I  have 
about  decided  that  it  is  not  so  much  your  story  as  the  way  you  write 
it  that  really  counts. 

The  next  one  I  send  you  is  going  to  be  balanced.  It  is  going  to 
bear  the  marks  of  infinite  pains  and  it  will  be  arranged  to  strike 
with  all  the  power  it  has.  This  is  going  to  cut  down  the  facility 
and  ease  with  which  I  can  originate  plots  but  when  I  have  origin- 
ated one  it  is  going  to  be  worth  something.  I  never  felt  more  con- 
fident that  I  was  going  to  succeed  than  I  do  now.  I  never  felt 
the  power  that  confidence  gives  until  I  took  your  advice  and  went 
to  the  University. 

This  correspondent's  memory,  as  appears  from  other  parts  of  his  letter, 
is  developed,  through  training,  to  an  unusual  degree.  In  his  work  he  is 
required  to  keep  constantly  in  mind  thousands  of  details  and  so  it  happens 
that  he  can  see  three  picture  shows  and  remember  them  the  next  morning 
with  almost  photographic  accuracy.  Most  students  of  the  Home  University 
■will  find  it  better  to  see  one  show  three  times  than  three  shows  once 
each,  but  the  idea  is  the  same.  Remember  the  photoplays.  Look  back 
and  see  what  it  was  that  made  the  impression  and  why.  Then  write  it 
down  as  briefly  as  you  can  and  look  it  over  again  and  study  it.  After 
a  time  you'll  be  able  to  put  your  finger  on  the  "punch"  almost  instinctively. 
You  will  be  able  to  take  it  out  of  the  story  and  study  it,  and  after  you've 
studied  enough  you'll  be  able  to  put  the  punch  in  your  own  scripts. 

You'll  find,  in  a  word,  that  a  photoplay  is  written  with  care  and  in- 
telligence and  not  just  dashed  off.  After  that  happens  you  are  a  graduate 
and  manufacturers  will  give  you  diplomas  that  will  be  recognized  by  the 
local  banks  if  not  by  other  institutions  of  learning. 


Saved. 

Hugh  King  Harris  has  been  doing  Missionary  work.     He  writes: 

I  learned,  by  accident  the  other  day,  one  of  the  girls  in  the  mailing 
room  had  the  photoplay  writing  bee  in  her  bonnet.  She  cannot  op- 
erate, or  utilize  a  typewriter,  and  her  ideas  of  plot  would  amuse  one, 
if  she  were  not  so  painfully  serious.  She  was  about  to  invest  $4 
for  a  course  in  a  New  York  "School" — they  had  started  at  $25  and 
came  on  down  the  line,  and  finally  made  an  offer  to  take  $4  and  the 
balance  of  the  $25  from  her  first  sale.  Generous  souls.  An  inspec- 
tion of  Technique  of  the  Photoplay,  made  her  sit  up  and  take  notice. 
She  doesn't  want  those  "lessons"  now.  Probably  she  will  never  sub- 
mit any  plays — but  I  believe  I  have  saved  some  editors  the  trouble  of 
returning  scripts,  and  at  least  one  girl  real  disappointment. 


The  Comedy  Relief. 

In  melodrama  and  even  drama  of  a  more  polite  sort,  the  comedy  relief 
is  a  strong  feature.  To  lighten  the  tone  of  the  plot  a  pair  of  young 
lovers  are  dragged  in  now  and  then  -or-  perhaps,  while  the  chambermaid  is 
waiting  for  her  bell  boy  sweetheart  she  does  a  song  and  dance.  Some 
writers  try  this  in  photoplay  and  the  idea  seems  to  be  growing. 

The  comedy  relief  is  all  right  in  a  three  act  melodrama  with  forty-five 
minutes  to  an  act,  but  you  have  none  too  much  time  in  eighteen  minutes 
in  which  to  tell  your  story  without  any  side  issues.  Stick  to  the  thread 
of  your  story  and  leave  comedy  out  of  drama  and  drama  out  of  comedy. 


Inquiries. 


NOTE. — Replies  cannot  be  sent  by  mail.  State  name  of  character.  Do  not 
ask  for  "leads"  or  'that  man."  Addresses  cannot  be  given  here,  but  a  list 
of  studio  addresses  will  be  sent  for  a  stamped  and  self- addressed  envelope. 
Only  questions  of  general  interest  will  be  answered.     Replies  cannot  be  repeated. 

S.  H.  F. — Selig  and  Vitagraph  make  most  of  the  animal  pictures,  but 
they  work  largely  on  scripts  written  to  order.  Better  stick  to  the  regular 
stuff  unless  you  know  just   what  is  wanted. 

M.  P.  M. — You  will  not  get  a  receipt  for  yonr  script,  and  you'll  not  get 
it  even  if  you  write  for  It  a  second  lime.  I  be  companies  cannot  hire  a 
couple  of  clerks  just  to  send  out  receipts.  Rend  In  your  story,  wait  elgbt 
weeks,  and  then  send  a  polite  note  of  Inquiry.  To  ask  for  a  recei] 
write  feverish  letters  is  to  emphasize  the  fact  thnt  you  are  new  at  the 
game.     Don't  do  it. 

D.  G.  W. — We  cannot  tell  what  is  the  matter  with  your  scripts,  but  it  Is 
evident  that  you  have  not  quite  hit  the  idea,  tbougb  you  seem  to  be  working 
along  the  right  lines.  No  company  has  the  right  to  mark  your  script.  A 
courteous  letter  to  the  home  office  should  bring  you  the  cost  of  copying,  and 
may  prevent  future  markings.  Several  companies  have  made  "The  Scarlet 
Letter,"  either  under  that  title  or  modified.  They  always  seem  to  go  well. 
Why  not  another? 

RTTBENA — Lillian  Glsh  was  the  girl  In  "The  Left  Handed  Man."  She  is 
not  any  relation  to  Miss  Sweet  that  anyone  seems  to  know  of,  but  we  under- 
stand she  was  a  child  playmate  of  Miss  Pickford's.  It  is  Sydney  Ayres,  not 
Acres. 

B.  J.  M. — You  have  found  your  own  solution.  Yon  are  told  not  to  write 
certain  lines  of  stories,  for  these  are  cared  for  by  contract,  while  the 
company  is  in  the  market  for  a  very  limited  number  of  other  scripts.  Just 
at  present  Essanay  is  not  in  the  market  for  scripts  of  any  description. 

RUBENA — Miss  Gertrude  Bambrick  was  the  bride  in  "A  Ragtime  Romance." 
Joseph  Holland  was  Brave  Eagle  in  "Back  to  the  Primitive." 

C.  W.  B. — We  have  queried  Mr.  Delaney,  but  have  not  yet  received  the 
reply. 

X.  Y.  Z.— Give  your  name  next  time.  There  isn't  any  place  we  know  of 
where  you  can  break  into  a  studio  unless  you're  a  sheriff  or  a  burglar. 

R.  E.  A.— We  have  no  recent  information  as  to  the  company  you  mention. 
If  it  were  alive  we  should  hear  something.  Keep  away  from  those  companies 
not   having  an  outlet   for   their  releases.     That  K-B  name  is  not  yet   known. 

K.  N,  W. — In  "The  Wanderer,"  Henry  Walthall  was  the  Wanderer.  Miss 
Mae  Marsh  the  girl,  and  Miss  Claire  McDowell  and  Lionel  Barrymore  the 
sweethearts  who  later  married.     No  dope  on  the  Thanhouser  section. 

A.  L.  J. — Thanks  for  the  music.  You  write  on  your  script  either  the  price 
you  want  or  "At  usnal  rates."  The  latter  is  the  more  general  and  the  better 
way.  If  you  mark  a  price,  the  company  sends  you  the  money  or  sends  back 
the  script.  If  yon  leave  It  usual  rates,  they  pay  what  they  generally  pay. 
In  no  case  should  a  script  be  sent  with  the  price  subject  to  correspondence. 
No  editor  will  spend  time  dickering  about  the  price.  The  company  may  make 
the  script  and  then  send  you  a  check,  which  is  one  reason  why  you  should 
not  send  a  script  to  more  than  one  company  at  a  time.  You  need  a  copy  of 
"Technique  of  the  Photoplay" — if  there  are  any  left. 

MOTHER  G. — We  cannot  identify  Pathe  players.  Ed  Coxen  was  Tom  in 
"The  Chaperon  Gets  a  Ducking."  R.  H.  Grey  is  the  other  player  you  ask 
about. 

COUNTRY  BOY — The  two  players  are  not  related.  We  do  not  Identify 
Patbe  players. 

G.  M.— Look  in  recent  issues  for  the  reply  to  your  first  question.  The 
second  name  we  do  not  know. 

L.  G.  C. — It  looks  as  though  you  did  not  study  the  screened  product  closely 
enough  to  see  what  the  company  really  wants.  We  cannot  tell  more  than 
this  without  reading  the  script,  and  we  do  not  read    scripts. 

D.  F.  F. — It  is  "fearfully  hard"  to  get  questions  answered  unless  you 
follow  the  rules  and  sign  your  name.     And.  don't  ask  if  they  are  married. 

G.  A.  P. — Kalem  buys  only  in  New  York.  You  can  submit  to  the  eastern 
and  western  Btudios  of  the  others  mentioned.  There  is  a  very  slight  market" 
for  tragedies,  because  the  happy  ending  is  preferred,  but  do  not  distort  a 
tragedy  Into  a  happy  ending.  Write  a  story  that  naturally  leads  to  a 
pleasant  climax.  Write  aeain  about  that  five-month  script,  but  be  nice.  We 
have  not  the  slightest  Idea  that  the  individuals  you  mention  would  steal 
a  play.  If  they  say  it  was  sent  back  it  probably  was.  It's  not  the  punch 
that  makes  a  melodrama,  it  is  the  way  the  incidents  are  bandied.  Most  com- 
panies find  that  the  contract  system  works  well  because  they  make  contracts 
with  those  who  can  keep  on  delivering  the  goodB: 

L.  H.  V. — You'll  have  to  keep  on  writing  to  forget  some  of  the  school 
stuff,  and  get  the  benefit  of  practice.  The  rejections  seem  to  be  encouraging. 
We  cannot  tell,  without  seeing  your  scripts,  what  sort  of  a  chance  you  have, 
and  this  department  cannot  read  scripts.  The  average  good  writer  should  sell 
at  least  fifty  per  cent  of  his  work,  though  not  necessarily  at  the  first  place 
to  which  it  is  sent.  Study  the  stuff  on  the  sr-reen  and  the  synopses  in  this 
paper,   to  get  an  idea  of  what  each  company  wants. 

J.  F.  F.— Kinemacolor  film  is  precisely  the  same  color  as  the  regular  black 
and  white  stuff,  and  can  be  run  as  a  black  and  white  if  desired.  The  colors 
are  obtained  through  the  use  of  red  and  green  screens  alternating  In  front 
of  the  lens  of  the  projection  machine.  Each  alternate  pholograpb  is  made 
with  a  red  screen,  and  the  others  with  the  green.     These  pi'  h  with 

the  color  values  accentuated.  There  is  no  blue  though  a  violet  dicker  shutter 
gives  a  suggestion  of  blue.  It  is  rather  too  Involved  B  matter  fur  a  short 
explanation,  but  that  is  the  basis  of  the  idea.  Up  to  the  present  time  It  Is 
not   possible   to   take   pictures    In   natural   colors   for  projection   purposes. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


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Projection  Department 


Edited  by   F.   H.   RICHARDSON 


New  York  Operators*  Notice. 

THE  Editor  of  this  department   has  given    Local  tJnion    35   one   hour's 
time    each    week;    from    eleven    to    twelve.    Thursday.     During    that 
hour   he  is  delivering  a   series   of   lectures    on    projection   and   what 
goes  with  it.     Ail  members   of  Local  Union  35   are  welcome.     There  is  no 
charge  of  any  kind. 


Rheostat  Delivery. 

Mr,  John  Condon,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  writes,  wanting  to  know  the  am- 
perage delivery  of  Power's  circular  wire  coil,  220  volt  rheostat,  on  no 
and  220  volt,  d.  c.  A  test  of  this  rheostat  shows  the  following  delivery, 
no  volt,  d.  c.  With  the  lever  on  contact  14,  10  amperes;  contact  13,  12 
amperes;  contact  12,  14  amperes;  contact  11,  15  amperes;  contact  10,  17 
amperes;  contact  9,  20  amperes;  contact  8,  20  amperes;  contact  7,  25 
amperes;  contact  6,  30  amperes;  contact  5,  34  amperes;  contact  4,  34 
amperes;  contact  3,  45  amperes;  contact  2,  48  amperes,  with  the  two  coils 
remaining  red  hot.  Or.  240  volt  current,  contact  1 4  gives  33  amperes ; 
contact  13,  3S;  contact  12,  41;  contacts  11  and  10,  45;  contacts  9  and  8, 
48;    contact    7.    60;    contact   (5,    68,    with    the    remaining   coils    red    hot.      On 


1 10  volt,  a.  c,  beginning  with  contact  14,  the  delivery  in  amperes  is  as 
follows:  14..  16,  18,  20,  22,  24.  24,  26,  33,  36,  36,  47,  52,  with  the  two  coils 
remaining  red  hot.  I  have  no  test  of  this  instrument  with  220  volts,  d.  C, 
but  the  delivery  would  be  a  little  less  than  with  240  volts.  It  will,  of 
course,  be  understood  that  these  figures  are  not  absolutely  reliable,  since 
the  voltage  may  vary  a  little;  also  the  test  was  not  made  with  the  light 
adjusted  exactly  to  the  best  projection  standard,  and  that  would  make  a 
difference. 


Outside  Shutter  and  Definition. 

Mr.  A.  R.  Thomas,  Atchison,  Kansas,  writes: 

This  is  my  first  offering  to  the  department.     In  April   12th  issue, 
Springfield,    Mo.,   under  the  head  "Injuring   Definition,"  asks  with, 
regard  to  effect  of  outside  shutter  on  the  definition  of  the  picture. 
I    have   experimented   somewhat  on    this   question   in    the   past   and 
find  that  if  the   shutter  is  set  to  cut  one-third,   or  one-half  of  the 
lens  opening,  the  effect  on  the  screen  is  a  very  hazy  appearance  of 
the    light.      Flashing    the    light    through    the    stationary    film,    with 
shutter  set  at  S3me  position,  I  find  a  blurred  image  on  the  screen. 
Now,  looking  at  the  matter  in  the  light  of  that  experiment,   would 
it  make  any  perceptible   difference   in   the  definition   of   the   picture 
when   running   the    machine    at   normal    speed?      Another   question:   • 
In   projecting  one   film    the   picture   will    be    sharp,    and   in   perfect 
focus,   but   the   next,   succeeding   reel   of  a   different   make   will   be 
slightly    out-of- focus,    and    the    lens    has    to    be    readjusted    before 
the  definition  is  sharp.     Now   is  there  a  difference  in  thickness  of 
film  put  out  by  different  manufacturers,  and  if  so,  would  -it  be  so         % 
pronounced  as  to  cause  this  effect?     My  own  idea  is  that  it  would. 
We  all  know  the  emulsion  is  next  the  light  and  furthest  from   the 
lens.      If    one    film    is    thicker    than    the    other,    the    thicker    film 
would  keep   the  emulsion   further   from   the   lens   than  the  thinner; 
but  is  that  the  cause  of  the  trouble? 
As   to   the   shutter,    what    Brother    Thomas   means   is    that    if   you   set   the 
shutter,  with  the  machine  standing  still,  so   that  it  covers  half  or   third  of 
the  lens,  and  flash  the  light  through  the  film,  the  image  on  the  screen  will 
be  blurred.     This  is  quite  true  and  is.  I   presume,  due  to  the  fact  that  half 
of  the  rays  are  cut  off.  thus   injuring  the  definition.     Kays  of  light  pass  in 


every  direction  from  every  portion  of  the  picture  in  the  aperture,  hence 
pass  through  every  portion  of  the  lens,  and  if  you  Cut  half  of  them  off 
you  would  only  be  using  the  rays  through  one-half  of  the  lens  which  causes 
the  blurred  effect,  though  just  precisely  why  it  does  this.  I  am  fiat  myself 
prepared  to  say.  I  do  not  think  this  would  have  any  effect  as  t'6'  injuring^ 
definition  when  running  the  machine  at  normal  speed,  since  'the  faction 
would,  I  believe,  be  too  rapid  to  be  perceived  by  the  eye.  Iri'  t&ct,  I  do 
not  see  that  the  outside  shutter  would  have  any  effect  at  all  as  to"nijuring 
definition,  unless  there  be  a  slight  travel  ghost,  and  that,  I  think,  was  really 
Springfield's  trouble.  As  to  the  other  matter,  it  is  very  probable '  that  dif- 
ferent thickness  of  film  has  something  to  do  with  the  matter,  but  inasmuch 
as  there  is  only  a  variation  of  about  two  one-thousandths  of  an  inch  in  .film 
thickness,  I  do  not  think  the  whole  trouble  can  be  accounted  fof  iri  that 
way.  If  any  of  the  brothers  have  had  experience  with  moving  pic'ture 
cameras  and  know  the  whole  answer  to  this  proposition,  let  them1  set'  it 
forth.  The  effect  is  not  only  there  as  between  different  films,  but  it  is'  also 
frequently  present  in  different  sections  of  the  same  film. 


Getting  Wise. 

Mr.   Setti  E.   Barnes,  Wichita,   Kansas,   writes: 

Just  a  few  Unes  to  let  you  know  Wichita  is  still  on  the  map.  I 
am  running  two  Power's  Six  machines,  projecting  a  15  foot  picture 
at  97  feet  on  a  canvas  screen,  coated  with  alabastine.  The  current 
is  d.  c,  from  a  motor  generator  set:  using  about  32  amperes.  I 
try  to  govern  the  speed  of  my  machine  to  fit  the  action  of  the 
picture  and  to  have  a  clear,  evenly  illuminated  field  at  all  times. 
I  have  been  operating  more  than  five  years  and  am  just  beginning 
to  find  out  how  little  I  really  do  know.  The  house,  the  Mar  pie 
Theater,  is  a  very  nice  one,  seating  over  560.  We  show  three 
reels  of  Licensed  pictures.  Our  manager  is  a  prince.  He  allows 
the  operator  full  charge  of  the  operating  roo'm  and  gets  anything 
wanted,  but,  of  course,  expects  good  projection  in  return.  He- 
never  butts  ill,  telling  you  to  do  this  or  that,  but  believes  in  the  axiom 

PERFECT 
ROJECTION 
LEASES 
EOPLE. 

Would   like   to   say   that   I   tried   out   Brother  Worthen's   scheme 
of  putting  a  brace  on  his  shutter  bracket,   April  5th   issue.      I  was 
troubled  with  travel   ghost.      Yesterday   I   put   on  brace  and  now — 
well,    the    travel    ghost    is   gone.      It    certainly   is    a   good    stunt.      I 
noticed    sometime    ago    several    letters    about    green    glass    eye-pro- 
tectors to  be  used  on  the  machine.     I  have  one  of  my  own  design 
which  serves  all  purposes.      It   fastens  to  the  lower  film  shield  and 
is  just  heavy  enough  to  hold  the  same  down   while  threading.     All 
I  have  to  do  is  give  it  a  touch  and  the  guard  is  up  with  the  glass 
in  position  to  protect  the  eyes  from  the  glare  of  the  spot.     As  to  the 
complaint   of    a   Wichita   operator    who   had   trouble   at   the    Marple 
Theater  and  wrote  you  concerning  it  sometime  ago,  in  my  opinion, 
he  was  the  one  at  fault.     He  claimed  to  set  fire  to  a  film  through 
its  proximity  to  an  incandescent  globe — I  doubt  it.     He  claims  the 
fire  was  started  by  a  4  c.  p.  incandescent  lamp.     I  laid  a  piece  of 
film  on  a  16  c.  p.  lamp  for  an  hour  and  then  took  if  off  because  I 
got  tired  of  looking  at  it.     It  was  only  just  curled  a  little  bit. 
I    guess    there    is    no    question    about    Wichita    still    being    on    the    map. 
Brother    Barnes,   because    it    bears    the    reputation    of   being   a   pretty   lively 
little  village.      I   note   what   you   say   concerning   the   operator   who   sent   in 
the    complaint    from    Wichita.       I    am    sorry    that    ever    got    into    print.      I 
intend    in    the    future    to   keep    such    semi-personal    matters   out   of    the    de- 
partment,  unless   there    seems    to   be    some   extraordinarily  good    reason    for 
their  publication.     Your  glass  protector  stunt  is  all  right,  and  I  can  recom- 
mend   it   for  that   type   of   machine,    if  the    weight   of  the   glass  be   not   too 
great,  but  just  barely  enough  to  hold  the  shield  down  while  threading. 

That  Soldering  Torch. 

Mr.  A.  De  Gregory,  Tampa,  Florida,  writes: 

I  received  the  handbook  and  am  perfectly  satisfied.  It  is  worth 
double  its  price.  Would  like  to  knW  if  you  handle  soldering 
torches  and  what  the  price  is. 

A  short  time  ago  I  ran  across  a  little  soldering  torch  which  I  thought 
would  be  of  use  to  the  operator,  and,  merely  as  a  matter  of  accommodation, 
offered  to  send  one.  bv  parcel  post,  to  all  those  remitting  the  sum  of  $1.00. 
I  supposed  I  would  have  a  dozen  or  so  to  send  out,  but  it  has  become  a  first- 
class  nuisance.  I  want  tc  accommodate  you  boys  as  far  as  I  can,  but  it 
consumes  a  lot  of  valuable  tin^e  to  go  down  and  buy  those  torches,  write 
additional  directions  to  go  with  them,  examine  each  torch  and  see  that  it  is 
all  right,  wrap  them  up  and  address  them,  take  them  over  and  have  each 
cue  weighed  and  affix  th<  postag.  I  in  n  I  \u  ii  any  more  of  you  that  want 
that  torch  can  just  add  twenty-five  cents  more  to  the  dollar,  remitting  a  total 
of  $1.25- 


8o8 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


Brooklyn  Answered. 

Mr.  A.  W.  Ballenger,  York,  Nebraska,  writes: 

This   is  rather   late  to   answer  Brooklyn,   N.   Y.,   issue  of  March 
ist,    in    regard   to   the   Simplex  troubles,   but   I   have  been  experi- 
menting on  that  fire  shutter  trouble,  t.  e.,   the  fire  shutters  getting 
hot,  expanding  and  sticking.     Mine  has  never  troubled  me   until  I 
used  some  things  to  make  it  stick.     First  I  tried  lubrication,  both 
oil  and  graphite,  and  that  made  it  stick.     I  also  found  out  that  if 
the   guides   were  kept  clean    with   kerosene   or   gasoline,   no   matter 
how  intense  the  heat,  there  would  be  no  sticking.     It  may  possibly  be 
that  the  brother  has  not  taken  into  consideration  the  rust   (that  is 
what  I  call  it),  which  gathers  on  iron  or  steel  when  it  is  exposed 
to  an  intense  heat.     This  must  be  removed.     This  trouble  can   be 
avoided  by  using  kerosene  or  gasoline  once  a  week.     In  regard  to 
the  framing  device,  I  wish  to  say  that  the  one  I  have  worked  hard 
when  I  first  got  it,  but  before  I  installed  the  machine  for  operation, 
I  worked  a  solution  of  good,  rather  light  lubricating  oil  and  flake 
graphite  into  all  the  places  I  could  find  when  there  was  a  bind,  or  a 
chance   for  excessive    wear.     Now,  I   wash  the  machine  out  at  in- 
tervals and  give  it  a  fresh  dose  of  graphite.     No  trouble  where  you 
keep  things  well  oiled.     It  is  much  cheaper  to  buy  good  oil  than  to 
replace  even  one  little   part.     To  keep   the  motor    from   squeaking 
when  starting,  wash  the  commutator  with  rag  moistened  in  kerosene, 
also  clean  the  brushes  where  they  rub  on  the  commutator  and  use 
only  a  good  grade  of  vaseline  in  the  oil  cups.     Motor  troubles  are 
thus  eliminated. 
As    to    the    Simplex   fire   shutter,    I    think   the    makers   would   do   well    to 
leave  a  little  more  play.     There  is  no  particular  reason,  so  far  as  I  can  see, 
for  fitting  the  shutter  so  closely,  and  the  close  fit  evidently  has  serious  ob- 
jections.    Graphite  is  a  most  excellent  lubricating   medium.     The  only  ob- 
jection  to  its  use  on  the  machine  is  the  fact  that  it   is  black  and  hence  a 
dirty  thing  to  use.     I  cannot  agree  with  you  as  to  the  use  of  vaseline  in  the 
oil    cups  of   the   motor.     Vaseline   is   not   a   very   high    grade   lubricant.     I 
would   myself  much  perfer  automobile  cylinder  oil,  if  the  motor  cups  were 
adapted  to  its  use;  but  most  motor  bearings  have  an  oil  well  that  requires 
the  use  of  a  not  very  heavy  oil. 


Toledo,  Ohio,  Answered. 

Mr.   H.   W.   Snodgrass,  Holton,   Kansas,   writes: 

In  this,  my  first  literary  offense,  I  will  enter  the  brotherhood 
circle  with  a  few  words  of  possible  help  to  Toledo  Ohio,  who  com- 
plains that  his  picture  is  out  of  focus  on  one  side.  A  remedy  for 
this  may  be  found  in  loosening  the  thumb-screws  holding  the  mechan- 
ism to  its  stand  and  straightening  the  head,  which  possibly  has  got- 
ten slightly  out  of  line.  I  have  had  this  occur  with  the  new  model 
as  well  as  with  the  old.  Possibly  Lloyd  G.  Balkam,  Washington,  D. 
C,  can  find  relief  by  adjusting  his  machine  head. 

To  all  and  sundry  of  which  Toledo  and  Washington  will  kindly  give  due 
heed.     You  are  welcome  to  .the  department,  brother  Snodgrass.     Call  again. 

Still  in  the  Ring. 

Mr.  J.    P.    Mcany,    Empire  Theater,  Sunnyvale,   California,  wishes  a  cor- 
rection made  as  follows: 

I  wish  to  correct  an  impression  which  has  gone  out  that  the  Em- 
pire Theater  has  changed  hands  or  gone  out  of  business.  Nothing  of 
the  sort.  We  are  mer-ly  awaiting  the  completion  of  an  up-to-date 
cement  theater  building.  It  will  be  ready  about  the  middle  of 
May.  We  find  your  advice  to  be  excellent  and  are  using  it  to  good 
advantage  in  construction,  equipment,  etc.  The  building  will  be  ioo 
feet  in  length.  Will  have  a  nicely  fitted  stage  to  take  care  of  travel- 
ing shows.  The  World  is  an  indispensable  adjunct  to  our  business. 
Let  the  good  work  go  on.  Larger  and  better  buildings  for  moving  picture 
theaters  arc  the  rule.    Wish  you  all  kinds  of  success  in  the  new  home. 


From  Racine. 
Mr.    R.    J.    Groenke,    Racine,    Wisconsin,    converses    after   the    following 
fashion: 

Just  a  few  lines  to  let  you  know  that  Racine  has  a  new  moving 
picture  theater,  the  White  House,  which  opened  two  weeks  ago  and 
has,  so  far,  been  enjoying  good  business.     The  building  was  erected 
by  the  union  men  of  Racine,  who  have  their  meeting  rooms  on  its 
upper  floor.     Our  picture  is  15  feet  at  90  feet.  The   present  equip- 
ment consists  of  a   1913    Monograph  and  spotlight,  but  I  expect  to 
add  a  Power's  6-A  soon.    The  only  thing  I  have  to  kick  about  is  the 
fact  that  the  film  service  is  not  as  good  as  it  should  be.     There  are 
too  many  "rainy  days"  on  our  screen.     Two  of  the  Milwaukee  boys 
came  to  our  city  last  Friday  and  tried  to  organize  a  local.     I,  of 
course  signed  up  and  was  given  a  working  permit  lobby  card,  to  be 
hung  in  the  box  office.     Cut  the   manager  preferred  not  to  have   it 
displayed.     Do  you  think  that  was  wise?     I  have  both  of  your  hand- 
books.    Could   not  get  along  without   them  £.ny  more  than  I   could 
without  The  Moving  Picture   World.      I  enclose  $3.00  for   another 
year's  subscription. 
You   have   about  a   six   inch    e.    f.,  objective  lens,    friend    Groenke,  and   I 
would  recommend  that  you  read  my  reply  to  Lodi,  California,  so  that  when 
you  get  your  Power's  Six,  you  can  do  a  little  experimenting  with  the  shut- 
ter, since  I  think  you  will  not  need  quite  as  wide  a  main  blade  as  that  sup- 
plied with  the  machine.     If  you  have  an  outside  shutter  on  your  Motiograph, 
you  might  try  the  same  experiment  with  that.     As  to  the  union  card  in  the 
lobby,  I  think  your  manager  is  in  error.     I  wonder  if  he  has  the  exhibitors' 
league  card    (the   exhibitors'   union)    hanging  up  anywhere.      The  display  of 
the  union  card  cannot  possibly  do  him  any  harm  and  may  do  him  some  good. 
At  any  rate,  there  isn't  much  use  in  a  man  being  dissatisfied  with  organiza- 
tion in  this  day  and  age.     Organization  is  the  rule  of  the  day  and  it  is  a 
good  rule  too.     I  have  said  before,  and  I  say  again,  that  I  want  to  see  both 
the  exhibitors   and   the  operators   thoroughly   and  completely   organized,   so 
that  they  can  deal  with  each  other  as  organizations,  instead  of  as  individuals. 
It  will  be  far  better  for  all  concerned. 


Neither  Engine  or  Dynamo  Large  Enough. 

Mr.  A.  R.  Bishop,  Bridgetown,  N.  S.,  encloses  $2.50  for  a  handbook  and 
writes  as  follows: 

Will  you  give  us  your  advice  as  regards  an  electric  light  outfit? 
We  want  to  project  a  12  foot  picture  and  would  want  to  use  10, 
12  or  16  c.  p.  lights  in  addition  to  our  arc.     Might  have  to  set  the 
engine  about  300  yards  from  the  theater.     Would  you  consider  a 
4  H.  P.  engine  and  a  2%  kow.,  60  volt  generator  large  enough  for 
this  size  picture,  or  would  you   advise   the  purchase  of  a  heavier 
outfit?     We  want  to  show  a  good,  clear  picture.     It  costs  us  $2.00 
per  night  for  our  Bridgetown  theater,  using  about  35  amperes  about 
two  and  a  half  hours. 
Assuming  your  city  current  to  be,  no  volts,  35  amperes  would  be  almost 
4  k.  w.,  which  at  twelve  cents  per  k.  w.,  a  very  high  price  indeed,  would  be 
approximately  fifty  cents  per  hour.     At  $2.00  for  two  hours  and  a  half,  you 
are   paying  a   very   high    price   indeed.     Possibly  you    are   using   220   volts 
through  a  rheostat,  in  which  case  the  price  per  k.w.  is  not  excessive.     No,  I 
would  install  a  6  h.p.  engine  and  a  zlA  k.w.,  70  volt  generator.     The  outfit 
you  speak  of  will  probably  give  you  good  service  within  its  limitations,  but  I 
personally  would  prefer  more  engine  and  more  dynamo,  as  well  as  a  little 
higher  voltage. 


More  Careless  Printing. 

Mr.  Phillip  C.  Stillwell,  Erie,  Pennsylvania,  contributes  the  following: 
Enclosed  are   pieces  of   101    Bison   film;   also   I   have   had  some 
trouble  with  other  makes  lately.     Now  how  in  thunder  can  we  be  ex- 
pected to  put  up  a  good  picture  when  they  print  them  out  of  frame 
and  incorporate  other  faults,  as  per  the  samples?     I  have  a  ghost. 
Have  tried  two  7^  and  one  6J4  and  7#,  with  the  first  named  next 
the  light     Have  set  them  close  together  and  far  apart,  have  moved 
lamp  backward   and  forward,  have  tried   different   carbon  settings. 
Am  using   $4   cored   above   and  below.     Direct  current  through    a 
rheostat     My  picture  is  14  feet  at  115  feet,  using  a  half  size  lens. 
My  Power's  Six  intermittent  casing  leaked  oil  out  of  the  main  shaft 
bearing.     To  remedy  this,  I  am  using  a  .good  grade  of  heavy  cylin- 
der oil.     I  use  the  best  grade  of  cream  separator  oil  for  the  other 
bearings,  and  find  it  to  be  cheapest  in  the  long  run.     Will  send  de- 
scription of  my  motor-drive.     Have  not  seen  or  read  of  any  like  it 
in  the  department    Am  driving  from  three  gears  instead  of  one. 
Send  on  the  picture  and  the  description,  Brother  Stillwell.     Glad  to  have 
it     If  valuable,  will  publish  it.     Separator  oil  ought  to  be  a  good  lubricant 
for  machine  bearings.     Cylinder  oil  I  have  often  recommended  for  the  in- 
termittent casing.     As  to  the  films,   such  rank   work  is  an  outrage.     It  has 
been   spoken   of  before  in   this   department   and  is  due   to   raw,    rank,   un- 
adulterated carelessness.     In  the  first  place,  part  of  the  faults,  such  as  the 
occasional  dark  picture,  are  committed  in  the  printing  department  and  then 
the  inspection  department   fails  to  find  and  eliminate  them.     In  our  sample 
shown,   the   printing  machine   was  not  registered  properly  and   one    picture 
overlaps  into  the  next.     In  another  a  patch  is  not  properly  made,  causing  a 
nuisance.     If  film  exchanges  would  inspect  new  reels  thoroughly   and  ship 
back   defective  ones,    accompanied  by  a  good  stout  kick,  this  sort  of  work 
would  soon  be  a  thing  of  the  past    The  Bison-101   Company  is  not  the  only 
one  guilty. 


The  Power's  Six  Lens  Ring. 
Let  me  caution  all  users  of  Power's  Six  machines  to  be  sure  not  only  to 
center  the  lens  ring  with  the  aperture  but  to  be  very  sure  that  the  screws, 
holding  the  ring,  are  all  tightened  the  same,  so  that  the  lens  ring  sets  square 
with  the  faceplate  of  the  machine.  If  this  is  not  done,  there  may  be  some 
trouble  with  out-of-focus  or  ghost,  or  both. 

An  Open  Letter. 

Kansas  City.  Mo.,  Moving  Picture  Operators'  Union.  No.  170,  I.  A.  T.  S. 
£.,  sends  in  the  following  letter,  which  they  are  sending  to  all  locals: 
Having  beon  organized  and  affiliated  with  the  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.,  I 
wish  to  call  your  attention  to  a  few  points  in  which  we,  as  a  whole, 
are  interested,  viz.:  (1)  That  operators  pay  the  same  per  capita  tax 
as  sister  locals  composed  of  stage  men,  etc.  (2)  While  our  per 
capita  tax  is  the  same,  we  have  not  the  same  rights  as  locals  35  and 
37.  (3)  That  we  are  granted  charters  to  operate  moving  picture- 
machines,  and  spot  lights  where  located  inside  the  operating  room. 
(4)  That  some  moving  picture  locals  have  the  word  projector  on 
their  charters,  while  all  charters  granted  since  the  Springfield  Con- 
vention have  this  word  stricken  off.  An  order  was  issued  by  the  last 
convention  to  take  the  word  projecting  off  all  charters.  (5)  That 
grips,  flymen,  electricians,  stage  carpenters  are  not  operators.  (6) 
That  the  granting  of  auxiliary  ML  P.  M.  O.  charters  is  ruinous. 
And  now  a  word  of  explanation:  My  intention  is  to  obtain  the 
signature  of  every  member  of  the  various  operators'  locals  to  the 
enclosed  petition,  to  be  presented  to  the  Seattle  Convention  in  July. 
The  petition  reads  as  follows,  omitting  its  preamble  for  sake  of 
brevity: 

"We,  the  undersigned  moving  picture  and  projecting  machine  operators 
of  the  U.  S.  and  C..  do  petition  this  assembly  to  grant  the  following  to 
the  moving  picture  operators  of  the  U.  S.  &  O. :  that  we  be  granted  juris- 
diction over  all  spots,  floods,  picture  machines,  stereo pticons,  etc..  from 
the  front  of  all  theaters  back  to  the  curtain  line,  and  further,  that  no 
auxiliary  M.  P.  M.  0.  charter  be  granted  to  any  stage  local.  All  existing 
auxiliary  unions  at  this  time  be  given  a  direct  charter,  or  jurisdiction  be 
given  to  nearest  moving  picture  local,  and  further  that  the  word  project* 
Ing  be  added  to  all  M.   P.  M.  O.  charters." 

I  have  printed  this  because  it  is  a  matter  to  be  brought  before  the  conven- 
tion, and  it  is  one  which  should  be  fully  and  freely  discussed,  since  it 
presents  a  great  many  angles  and  is  not  as  easy  of  solution  as  it  looks.  I 
refrain  from  commenting  at  this  time  until  others  have  had  their  sayl.  The 
letter  itself  I  have  abbreviated  somewhat,  but  have  carefully  refrained  from 
altering  any  of  its   meaning. 

Brother  Hadden  asked  me  to  call  the  attention  of  all  operators'  locals  to 
thr  importance  of  having  delegates  at  the  convention,  but  this  has  already 
been    done. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


809 


Power's  Six  Motor  Drive. 

Mr.  John  Hart  Cobalt,  Chicago,  Illinois,  writes  as  follows: 

Will  you  kindly  tell  me  what  kind  of  a  motor-drive  attachment  the 
Power's  Company  furnishes  for  their  No.  Six  machine;  also  whether 
you  consider  it  as  good  as  any  other  drive  for  this  mechanism? 


The  Power's  Six  motor-drive  is  a  simple  little  device,  as  shown  in  ac- 
companying picture.  The  attachment  is  fastened  to  the  base  of  the  ma- 
chine right  under  gear  640,  plate  4,  page  278  of  the  handbook,  with  which 
gear  6  of  the  attachment  meshes.  The  power  is  thus  applied  in  practically 
the  same  way  it  would  be  applied  by  the  crank  itself.  Holes  are  provided  in 
the  base  of  the  machine  for  the  motor  attachment.  Yes,  I  consider  this  at- 
tachment as  being  as  good  as  any  for  this  particular  mechanism;  in  fact, 
it  has  some  points  of  excellence  as  against  any  other  motor  attachment  for 
the  Power's  machine,  in  that  it  is  simple  and  places  the  motor,  belt,  etc.,  on 
the  offside  of  the  machine  where  they  are  entirely  out  of  the  way.  The 
attachment  can  be  adjusted  to  the  machine  by  any  competent  machinist,  or 


Action  Too  Fast. 

Nutley,  N.  J.,  sends  in  the  following  complaint: 

We  run  several  Biograph  films  each  week,  and  for  a  long  time  I 
have  noticed  the  players'  actions,  both  in  drama  and  comedy,  ap- 
pear to   be    unnaturally   fast,    although,    I    seldom    vary    from   the 
normal  speed  of  20  minutes  for  1,000  feet  of  film.     Recently,  at  the 
direction  of  the  manager,  this  speed  was  reduced  25%,  which  was  the 
cause  of  a  continuous  dropping  of  the  automatic  fire  shutter,  with- 
out much  improvement  in  the  film  action.    The  machine  is  a  Power's 
Six   A,   and   in  perfect   condition.     The    picture    is    14   feet  at  70. 
Using   the   above    speed,    the   pictures    are    simply    great   until    we 
strike  the  Biograph,  then  the  action  is  so  swift  as  to  become  be- 
wildering.   1  have  had  five  years'  experience  on  the  crank  and  have 
always  had  good,  clear,  steady  pictures,   but   these  Biographs  have 
me  lashed  to  the  mast.     What  is  the  trouble?     Cameramen,  directors, 
actors  or  operator?     If  the  fault  is  my  own,  I  want  to  know  it;  but 
this  seems  incredible,  since  other  pictures  show  up  perfectly  at  the 
normal  speed  of  projection. 
I  do  not  know,  brother,  but  under-speed   of  the   camera  would  account 
for  the  rapid  action,   but  it  seems   strange   since,   according  to   your  own 
figures  you  are  only  running  50  feet  of  film  per  minute,  and  that  is  ten  feet 
under  normal  speed.     I  do  not  agree  with  you  so  far  as  not  changing  speed 
is  concerned.     Speed  should  be  changed  very  frequently,  to  fit  the  action  of 
each  individual  scene,  or  film.     The  Biograph  Company  informs  me  that  the 
trouble  complained  of  did  exist  temporarily,  but  has  been   found  out  and 
remedied. 


The  Bunch  of  Grapes. 

I  suppose,  after  reading  the  following  letter,  the  Cincinnati  Operators' 
Union  will  send  their  best  gun-man  to  New  York  to  camp  on  my  trail. 
I  am  indeed  sorry  for  the  disappointment  awaiting  our  Cincinnati  brothers, 
tut  here  is  the  letter.  The  joke  is  on  the  Editor.  Mrs.  Muriel  RohJe, 
31   Cincinnati  Avenue,  St.  Augustine,  Fla.,  writes: 

I  see  in  the  April  12th  issue,  there  is  a  dark,  deep,  dense  mys- 
tery concerning  poor  me.  When  you  published  my  letter  in  the 
February  15th  issue,  you  made  the  mistake  of  reading  my  street 
address  for  the  name  of  the  city.  To  defend  my  husband  and 
partner,  I  would  like  to  say  he  is  not  t-i-r-e-d,  nor  is  he  hunting  for 
an  easy  way  out.  We  are  in  the  real  estate  business  and  the 
M.  P.  theater  is  our  extra'  work,  as  we  only  run  it  at  night. 
I  must  confess  I  am  one  of  the  "new  women"  and  have  always 
liked  to  build  houses  and  fool  with  machinery,  while  my  husband 
prefers  music  and  business;  so  you  see  we  each  have  the  part  we 
really  love,  and  yet  we  are  altogether  chums,  partners,  husband 
and  wife.  I  am  hugely  grateful  to  Mr.  Lacy  for  his  sympathy, 
however,  even  though  I  d-o-n-t  require  it.  You  have  no  idea  how 
much  your  department  has  meant  to  me,  for  I  have  needed  help 
to  get  along,  and  a  woman  engaged  in  this  work  has  a  harder  time 
to  get  at  things  than  you  men  have.  But  I  have  enjoyed  every 
minute  of  my  time.  Now  one  more  word  and  I  am  through. 
St.  Augustine,  Fla.,  has  two  (2)  lady  operators.  I  have  laughed 
over  this  dark,  deep,  dense  mystery  until  tears  have  come  to  my 
eyes.  I  am  paid  the  same  as  any  other  operator,  and  get  the  same 
wages  as  the  best  in  this  city  get — so  there  1 
Slap,  bingl — just  like  that.  And  mw  we'll  all  stand  hitched.  And  now, 
I'll  tell  you  what  I  want  you  to  do,  Mrs.  Rohde;  I  want  you  and  the  other 
lady  operator  to  get  your'  phogetraps  tuck  together  on  a  postal  card,  and 
send  them  in  for  publication;  also  I  would  suggest  that  you  send  one  to 
Mr.   Henry  Lacy,  Local    165,   M.   P.  and   P.    M.    Operators,    131    West   5th 


Street,  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  You  might  also  put  the  skin  of  a  couple  of  grapes 
in  the  letter.  I  very  much  like  one  phrase  of  your  letter,  viz.:  "partners, 
chums,  husband  and  wife."  There  is  some  class  to  that  kind  of  a  proposi- 
tion. But  I  am  sure  your  definition  of  the  "new  woman"  and  the  accepted 
New  York  version  is  not  the  same.  "New  woman"  here  in  New  York  City 
means  a  freak  hat,  a  face  plastered  with  powder,  a  skin-tight  hobble  skirt, 
slit  up  to  the  knee,  and  all  that  goes  along  with  that  kind  of  a  make-up, 
including  wine  suppers  at  2  A.  M.,  with  some  other  woman's  husband, 
usually.  But  I  must  apologize,  Mrs.  Rohde,  for,  of  course,  your  definition 
and  the  New  York  definition  are  at  wide  variance.  The  term  "new  woman" 
immediately  called  to  mind  the  New  York  point  of  view  on  that  phrase, 
however,  I  am  well  aware  of  the  fact  that  the  woman  who  is  a  chum  and 
partner  of  her  husband  is  not  that  kind  of  a  freak,  for  the  New  York  "new 
woman"  is  a  freak,  pure  and  simple.  I  am  indeed  glad  that  you  have  found 
enjoyment  and  benefit  in  the  department.  I,  too,  and  I  presume  thousands 
of  readers  of  the  department  have  had  a  good  broad  smile  over  Cin- 
cinnati's dark  lantern  search  after  the  bunch  of  grapes.  But  all's  well  that 
ends  well,  and  we  now  await  the  photograph.  If  you  cannot  get  the 
other  lady  to  come  in  on  that,  send  one  of  yourself  anyhow. 


Cleveland  Boys  Have  Banquet. 

The  Editor  is  in  receipt  of  the  very  neatly  gotten  up  souvenir  program, 
issued  by  the  Cleveland  Moving  Picture  Machine  Operators'  Union,  No.  170, 
I.  A.  T.  S.  E.,  on  the  occasion  of  their  first  annual  banquet  and  entertain- 
ment, given  at  Elks'  banquet  hall,  Cleveland.  The  program  was  accompanied 
by  the  following  letter,  from  S.  M.  Hulbert,  of  the  Cleveland  Local: 

A  large  number  of  our  members  and  friends  enjoyed  the  good 
things  to  eat  while  watching  the  vaudeville,  including  the  Than- 
houser  Kid  and  her  sister,  which  was  a  treat  especially  for  those 
who  have  so  often  seen  their  work  in  moving  pictures.  They  re- 
ceived a  hearty  reception  which  proved  their  popularity  among 
those  who  see  them  on  the  screen.  After  several  of  the  guests  had 
responded  to  the  requests  of  the  toastmaster,  including  labor  men 
of  the  local  and  state  federations,  the  banquet  was  adjourned  at 
2:10  A.  M.  Those  present  expressed  themselves  as  having  a  good 
time.  We  hope  to  have  again  the  opportunity  of  entertaining  our 
friends   in   the  near   future. 


Above  is  a  picture  of  the  officers  of  Local  170,  which  gave  the  entertain- 
ment. From  left  to  right,  top  row:  Harland  Holmden,  Secretary-Treasurer; 
Sam  Shaw,  Vice-President;  L.  J.  Shafrank,  Recording  Secretary.  Center: 
S.  M.  Hulbert,  President.  Lower  row:  Lewis  von  H.  J.  Des  Chambeault, 
Sergeant-at-Arms;  Benjamin  Brown,  Business  Agent;  and  Oliver  Kurr, 
Junior  Guard.  We  are  glad  to  know  that  the  affair  was  a  success,  and 
trust  that  Local  170  will  live  to  enjoy  many  similar,  successful  occasions. 


Applies  Heat  to  the  Patch. 

Mr.  Glenn  Bossard,  Avon,  New  York,  contributes  the  following  idea  and 
says: 

That  new  handbook  certainly  is  a  fine  thing  and  something  every 
operator  should  own.     I  find  by  having  a  small  electric  light,  which 
furnishes  a  little  heat,  under   the  film   patching  plate,   the  patch  is 
dried  and  welded  much  better.     That  brother  with    one   arm   must 
have   his   hands   full  keeping  his  arc  and   everything  else   running 
smoothly;  particularly  if  he  uses  a.  c. 
The  htat  idea  may  or  may  not  be  all  right.     I  could  not  say,  but  film  ce- 
ment sets  so  very  quickly  that  I  would  not  suppose  it  would  be  of  any  par- 
ticular value.     How  can  a  one-armed  man  have  his  hands  full? 


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Information  Wanted. 

Lakeland,  Florida,  makes  the  following  inqviiries: 

I    now   have  a    115    foot   throw   but   wish    to    move  the   projector 
forward  to  within  66  feet  of  the  screen.      (1)   What  focal  length  con- 
densers ought  I  have,  the  picture  being  15  feet  in   width.      (2)   Will 
my  General  Electric  transformer  be  large  enough?  Am  using  a  barrel 
of  water  now,  but  it  consumes  too  much  current.     My  picture  now 
has  a  far-away  look,  but  otherwise  is  great.     (3)   Is  this  angle  too 
great  for  a  good  picture? 
(1)   You  should  have  either  two  7H   or  one  7H  and  one  6%,  whichever 
give   best   results.      (2)   If    you    mean    the   transformer    out  on   the   pole,   or 
wherever  it  is  located,  which   supplies  the  building,  it  will  be  necessary  to 
have    cither    a    rheostat    or   low-voltage    transformer    (Inductor    Economizer, 
in  addition  thereto.    If,  on  the  other  hand,  you  mean  that  you  have  a 
30-40-50  ampere  operating  room  transformer  then   it  will  be  all    right,  pro- 
vided it  be  one  built  for  the  voltage  of  the  house  supply.     Water  resistance 
is  a  nuisance;  also  it  is  more  or  less  variable  and  unreliable.     A  rheostat  is 
much  better  and  an  inductor  or  economizer  is  a  still  greater  improvement.      For 
information  as  to  action  of  rheostats,  economizers,  etc.,  see  pages  107  to  170 
of  the  Operators'  and  Managers'  Handbook,  a  450  page  book  of  instruction  by 
the  editor  of  this  department,  tor  sale  by  The  Moving  Picture  World,  price 
postpaid  $2.50.      (3)  The  angle  shown  is  1-4  feet  in  60,  side  throw,  which  is 
much  more  than  I  would  advise.     You  will  have  keystone  effect,  some  distor- 
tion and  out  of  focus  effect.    Possibly  you  may  be  able  to  overcome  the  latter, 
but  I  would  not  tackle  a  proposition  of  that  kind  in  a  house  of  mine  unless 
it  were  absolutely  necessary.     What  do  you  mean  by  "far-away  look"? 

Fernia,  B.  C,  Canada,  Answered. 

Mr.  A.  W.  Ballenger,  York,  Nebraska,  answers  Fernie,  B.  C,  as  follows: 
In  answer  to  D.  A.  McDonald,  F"ernie,  B.  C,  he  should  have  no 
trouble  with  his  no  v.  d.  c,  giving  a  yellow  light  if  his  clamps  and 
wire  terminals  are  perfectly  clean,  and  if  his  condensers  are  of  the 
best  grade.  In  regard  to  the  condensers,  I  have  tried  the  cheap,  $1.00 
kind  and  never  was  able  to  get  even  a  reasonably  good  light,  but 
when  I  got  my  new  machine  the  condensers  which  came  with  the 
machine  are  much  thicker  and  a  better  quality  of  lens.  Since  then 
I  have  had  no  trouble.  Of  course  I  focused  the  condensers.  That 
has  much  to  do  with  the  yellow  light.  Get  them  focused  to  where 
they  belong  and  note  the  difference.  With  regard  to  carbons:  the 
H  cored  above  and  '/•  solid  below  will  give  very  good  light  if  set 
according  to  the  handbook.  There  will  be  a  minimum  of  needling 
if  the  carbons  are  not  run  closer  together  than  an.  eighth  inch,  and 
not  farther  apart  than  %  of  an  inch;  also  they  should  not  be  brought 
together  after  starling,  as  continued  touching  together  will  tend  to 
form  a  hard  spot,  and  then  the  needling  begins.  There  should  not 
be  too  great  an  angle  to  the  set  of  the  carbons.  Just  place  lower 
carbon,  if  a  half  inch  one,  with  the  front  side  barely  even  with,  or 
a  trifle  in  advance  of  the  upper. 

Relative  to  trouble  with  the  lower   loop,   beg  to  say  that  I  took 
time  to  try  to  make  my  machine,  a  Simplex,  lose  the  lower  loop,  and 
could  not.     This  I  am  convinced,  however,  will   cause  the  trouble, 
viz.:  If  lower  sprocket  teeth  are  worn,  or  full  of  dirt.     Same  with 
the  intermittent  sprocket.     Also  if  screw  36,  plate  2,  page  294  of  the 
Handbook,  which  holds  roller  in  position,  becomes  loose  or  worn  the 
trouble  is  liable  to  happen.     The  same  is  true  regarding  breakage  or 
looseness    of    the    lower    arm    roller    spring    No.    43,    plate    5.    page 
300.     Lower   loop-losing   is  a    thing   I    have    never    had   to    contend 
with  on  the  Simplex,  except  one  instance,  a  patch  where  the  sprocket 
holes  did  tot  match.     This  I  fixed  before  running  it  again. 
As  to  losing  the  lower  loop,  no  machine  should  do  that  if  it  be  kept  in 
proper  adjustment  and   the   films    themselves   be   in   good   condition.     But  if 
the  films  have  badly  made  patches  or  the  machine  be  out   of  adjustment  as 
to  its  lower  magazine,  take  up  tension  or  the  lower  sprocket  idler,  then  the 
fault    may    occur    mi    any    machine,    though    with    the    Power's  Six  the   loop 
is  automatically  re-formed  ;f  it  be  equipped  with  the  loop  setter. 

Operator  Flood  Sufferers  Benefit. 

Mr.  T.  Everett  Wagner,  Thomasville,  N.  C.  writes  asking  if  any  of  the 
money  taken  in  at  the  New  York  Exhibitor's. Flood  Sufferers  Benefit  will  go 
to  operators  who  were  losers  in  the  flood.  He  also  suggests  that  every 
operator  should  send  me  the  sum  of  one  dollar,  same  to  be  forwarded  by  me 
to  operator  flood  victims.  The  suggestion  does  credit  to  Brother  Wagner, 
but  it  is  impractical  for  several  reasons,  not  the  least  of  which  would  be  the 
fact  that  I  would  have  no  means  of  knowing  what  operators  would  be  de- 
serving of  the  benefit.  As  to  who  will  receive  the  exhibitors  benefit  money, 
I  cannot  say.     It  will  doubtless  go  to  exhibitors  exclusively. 

Possible  Exception. 
Raymond  C.  O'Quinn,  Petersburg,  Florida,  writes: 

I  note  you  do  not   like  to  receive  letters  from   a  boy,  but  I  am 
going  to  write  anyhow.     I  have  been  operating  for  three  years,  and 

e   yo.ii    little  handbook;   also  the   $1.5 e,   as   well   as  the  two 

volumes  put  out  by  the  American  School  of  Correspondence.     Pro- 
jection is  very  good  in   this  town,  but  could,   of   course,  be  better. 
April    12th  issue,   friend    Balkan    reports   out-of-focus   trouble.      We 
had  the  same  difficulty  and  if  your  own  suggestions  do  not  remedy 
the  fault,  let  him  try  twisting  the  barrel   of  his  lens  around.     This 
is  my  first  trip  to  the  department,  hut   I  would  like  to  write  you  of 
the  conditions  in  the  theaters  here.      \l>    age   is  sixteen.    I  put  that 
at  the  bottom  for  I  knew  if  it  was  placed  at  the  beginning  you  would 
not  go  any  farther. 
You    do    me    an    injustice    friend    O'Quinn.      Strange   as    it    may    seem     I 
was  a  sixteen  year  old  boy  myself,   just  a  few   years  ago — at  least  it  seems 
just  a  few  years  ago,  and  I  can  assure  you  I  am  not  over  sixteen  and  a  half 
in   spirit    right   now.     According  to   yjur  letter,   which    is  very  well   written 
indeed,    you    .seem    to   be    one   of  the   exceptions.      I    have    met   boys   sixteen 
years  old  who  were,  so  far  as  poise  and  mentality  went,  far  ahead  of  men 
twice  their  age.  but,  as  a  general  proposition  I  do  seriously  object  to  sixteen 
year  old  boys  in  an  operating  room,   because  they  lack  experience  and  judg- 


ment.    I  shall  be  glad  to  have  the  letter  you  speak  of.     Send  it  in  whenever 
the  spirit  moves  and  the  ink  bottle  is  handy. 


Some  New  Scheme. 

Mr.   Louis  N.   Sorensen,   Fort  Clinton,  Ohio,  writes: 

Your  columns  are  certainly  interesting  and  I  will  now  contribute 
my  mite  in  the  shape  of  a  description  of  our  method  of  handling 
reels.     My  manager  is  the  inventor  and  the  manufacturer  of  a  re- 
winder,  which  is  not  a  rewinder  In  the  ordinary  sense  of  the  term. 
I  just  arrange  my  films   in  the   rotation   I  want   them   to  run,  and 
then  start  the  nachine.     There  is  a  picture  on  the  screen  all  the 
time.     We  have  no  stops  or  intermissions,  and  find   the  people  like 
it    much    better   than    waiting    for   reel    changing,    while    looking   at 
advertising  slides.     I  think  the  same  as    Mr.    Hendry   that   the  pic- 
ture show  is  no  place  for  advertising,  except  in  so  far  as  it  applies 
to  your  own  program.     I  have  some  operating  room,  not  a  "booth.-' 
It  is  7  x  12  x  9  feet,  cement  floor,  steel  sides  and  ceiling,  large  vent 
flue  which  opens  through  the  roof,  as  well  as  another  opening  which 
brings   fresh    air  directly    from  outside   of   the   building.     Flicker' 
No,  we  are  not  bothered  with  it  at  all,  and  we  do  not  have  to  make  a 
foot  race  out  of  a  funeral  march  either.     I  do  not  know  it  all  yet    . 
but   if   you   continue   the   Projection    Department    I    certainly   will 
know  as  much  as  the  other  fellow,  in  course  of  time  at  least  ' 
I   wish    I   were   where   I   could  slap  you  on    the   wrist    for    ..rinsing  our 
curiosity  by  telling  us  what  you  have  got,  and  then  not  showing  it  to  us 
either  by  picture  or  description.     You  tell  your  manager  to  come  across  with 
a  description  of  that  whatever-it-is.     You  say  it  is  not  a  rewinder,  and  that 
is  about  all  you  do  say.     Suppose  you  get  busy  and  converse  just  a  little 
more  about  the  flicker  business  also. 


An  Error. 

In  March  12th  issue,  in  quoting  a  letter  from  the  General  Electric  Com- 
pany I  seem  to  have  misconstrued  something  that  was  said.  That  company 
now  calls  my  attention  to  the  fact  that,  while  all  the  rest  of  it  was  correct 
the  statement  that  their  prices  for  mercury  arc  rectifiers  have  been  reduced 
was  an  error.  According  to  the  present  letter  these  prices  have  really  been 
s  ightly  advanced,  but  they  now  cover  the  cost  of  the  rectifiers  delivered  to 
the   customer. 


Trouble  Galore. 

Mr.  George  Ebruine,  Marblehead,  Ohio,  orders  a  handbook  and  sets  forth 
his  trouble  as  follows: 

I  am  up  against  it.     I  built  an  addition  of  24  feet  to  my  theater 
making  the  throw  76  instead  of   50.     Before  this  we  always  had  a 
very  good,  steady  clear  picture,  but  now  in  spite  of  all  we  can  do 
our  picture   is  dull  and  flickers  very  much.     The  flicker  is  so   bad 
that  I  cannot  use  my  silver  screen.     We  have  tried  everything  we 
know  of,  or  ever  read  of  in  your  department,  without  avail,  and  I 
am  losing   patronage.     I    use   two-pin    Edison   machines.     Would    I 
get    better   pictures    by    having    the    machine    remodeled    into    one- 
pin? 
You  most  emphatically  would.     No  wonder  you  cannot  use  a  silver  screen 
I  thought  the  old  two-pin  machines  were  dead  and  buried.     My  recommenda- 
tion would  be,  however,  that  you  get  a  new  up-to-date,  three  wing  outside 
shutter  mechanism.     The  only  thing  I  do   not  understand  about  this  matter 
is  why  you  have  trouble  through  increasing  the  distance,  unless  you    at  the 
same   time,    increased    the   size   of  your   picture.     If  you    placed   your   ma- 
chines  bark  25   feet  further,  and  use  the   same   lenses,  that  would  account 
tor  the  dullness  of  the  picture  and  for  the  added  flicker  also.     Your  second 
sentence  is  a  neat  little  problem  in  higher  mathematics. 


Show  Me  the  Place. 

Mr.    John    Matthews,    Nicholasville,    Kentucky,    slaps    the   Editor    on   the 
wrist  in  the  following  letter: 

As  regards  belting  a  motor  to  the  Edison  machine,  I  noticed  in 
one  issue  of  the  department  you  tell  an  operator  it  is  a  very  bad 
idea   to   belt  to   the  fly-wheel   of   a  machine,   then   you   turn  right 
around   and   tell   another   operator   that   the    fly-wheel   is   the   right 
place  to  belt  to.     Now.   I  would  like  to  know  which  is  really  the 
proper  place   to  belt   the  motor   to,   the  same  being  a   Kimble,    H 
h.   p.,   variable  speed.      I   may   be   green,   but   I  am   not  afraid   to 
show  my  lack  of  knowledge  when  I  can  learn  by  asking  questions. 
Show   me  the  place  where  I  ever  said  it  was  correct  to   belt  to  the  fly- 
wheel  of   a   projection    machine,   and   I    will    read   it   with    pain.      Most   cer- 
tainly if  I  did  I  was  day-dreaming  when  I  wrote  that  particular  paragraph 
For  the  Edison  machine,  I  would  suggest  the  Chambless  motor-drive      This 
1    was  described  and  illustrated  in  the  department  last  week   and  is  ex- 
cellent for  the  purpose  for  which  it  is  intended.     You  are  perfectly  right 
in  not  being  ashamed  to  ask  questions.      Only  the  fool   fears  to   show  lack 
of  knowledge  when  he  can  obtain  it  by  asking  questions. 


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Comments  on  the  Films 


Licensed 

"A  MOCK  MARRIAGE"  (Lubirt),  May  9.— A  sordid  story  with  a  cheap 
ending,  but  little  value  as  entertainment.  Audiences  will  take  even  trashy 
stories,  when  they  are  pleasant  or  romantic;  but  this  is  neither.  Monte 
Katterjohn  is  the  author  and  George  Nicholls  produced  it.  Irving  White 
plays  in  interesting  role,  but  spectators  will  have  little  sympathy  for  the 
others.     The   photography  is  clear,   but   without  quality. 

"CUPID'S  HIRED  MAN"  (Vitagraph),  May  9.— A  new  story  and  a 
cleverly  imagined  one.  But  it  is  too  stony  cold  through  the  first  two-thirds 
to  make  the  best  entertainment.  The  old-maid  is  ridiculed  by  her  fellow- 
townsfolk  (a  state  of  affairs  that  isn't  subtlely  enough  suggested,  and  who, 
when  she  finds  a  burglar  in  her  house,  hires  him  to  play  her  sweetheart  from 
the  West.  He  likes  his  job  until  Mr.  Bunny  comes  from  the  city,  but  what 
happens  then  pleases  the  old-maid.  Flora  Finch,  John  Bunny,  and  Charles 
Edwards  play  the  three  leading  roles.     The  camera  work  is  clear. 

"MONTREAL,  QUEBEC,  AND  HALIFAX"  (Patheplay),  May  9.— A 
travel  picture  of  interest  and  merit  showing  the  most  famous  buildings  and 
points  of  interest  in  and  near  the  three  chief  cities  of  Canada.  It  is 
clearly  photographed.  Such  travel  offerings  are  not  wholly  satisfying,  be- 
cause there  is  not  enough  personality  in  them;  they  are  too  much  like  the 
collections  of  postcard  pictures  that  one  sees. 

"IN  THE  VALLEY  OF  VESUBLE"  (Patheplay),  May  9.— With  the 
foregoing  is  this  offering  of  entirely  different  quality.  It  is  a  well-colored 
travel  picture,  a  trae  motion  picture  of  a  mountain  valley,  full  of  interest. 
grandeur  and  beauty.  It  stands  for  a  day's  outing  and  has  a  personality  of 
its  own.     A  tip-top  offering. 

"THE  CHEYENNE  MASSACRE"  (Kalem),  May  9.— A  two-part  special 
offering  dealing  with  pioneer  times  in  the  far  West.  We  have  already 
noticed  it.     See  page  283  issue  of  April  19,  1913. 

"IN  THE  DAYS  OF  WITCHCRAFT"  (Selig),  May  9.— On  the  whole, 
a  dignified  and  graceful  offering,  telling  a  story  of  early  days  in  New  Eng- 
land. In  the  story  there  is  nothing  new,  but  the  producer,  F.  W.  Huntley, 
has  managed  to  get  a  picturesque  atmosphere  and  has  made  several  charm- 
ing scenes.  The  players  are  acceptable  at  nearly  all  times,  but  there  is 
nothing  especially  to  commend  in  their  work;  it  has  no  brilliant  moments. 
The  camera  man  deserves  credit.     It  makes  a  very  fair  offering. 

"A  WOMAN'S  WAY"  (Essanay),  May  9. — Some  prettily  photographed 
scenes  with  good,  natural  acting  make  this  trashy  story  fairly  entertaining 
in  its  picture  form.  It  seems  a  pity  that  producers  use  such  material  as  this 
to  work  with;  it  hampers  them  grievously.  The  players,  among  whom 
are  E.  H.  Calvert,  Ruth  Stonehonse  and  Gertrude  Scott,  deserve  credit  as 
do  the  producer  and  especially  the  camera  man,  but  no  one  else  connected 
with  this  offering  does.     Those  sets  and  the  natural  playing  will  please. 

"THE  GOLDEN  WEDDING"  (Edison),  May  9.— A  reverie  story  that 
has  been  done  in  pictures  time  and  again.  An  old  couple,  after  their  golden 
wedding,  dream  of  their  vouth,  through  war  times  to  the  present.  With 
good,  old.  tunes  to  help  out  the  suggestion,  it  might  make  a  very  acceptable 
offering  indeed.  But  in  this  case  it  must  hold  by  its  theme  alone,  as  it  has 
not  been  done  artistically  nor  expensively;  yet  it  will  surely  make  the  tunes 
go  well.  The  author,  Herbert  Prior,  deserves  no  credit  for  anything  new. 
It  is  naturally  acted  by  Harry  Beaumont  and  Mabel  Trunnelle,  who  are 
well  supported  by  William  West,  Adetl  Clark,  Kathleen  Coughlin  and  W. 
Porter.     The  photography  is  fair. 

"THE  HASH  HOUSE  COUNT"  (Kalem),  May  9.— The  count  referred 
to  is  not  numerical.  The  offering  made  a  good  deal  of  laughter,  but  it 
has  only  the  rou^h  horse-play  in  it  that  brought  this  forth.  John  Brennan 
made  a  hit  with  the  audience.  Ruth  Roland  and  Marshal  Neilan  support 
him.     It  is  very  clearly  photographed. 

"TOOTHACHE"  (Kalem),  May  9.— This  on  the  reel  with  the  foregoing 
has  more  freshness.  Its  chief  asset  is  Marshal  Nielan's  tramp,  which  is 
really  very  amusing.  The  misery  of  the  toothache  makes  John  Brennan 
and  this  l-obo  companions  in  arms  with  a  hot-water  bottle  between  them. 
The  two  together  on  this  reel  make  an  acceptable  program  lightener.  Both 
are  clearly  photographed. 

"THE  WRATH  OP  OSAKA"  (Vitagrajft),  May  8.— A  story  by  Gene 
Mullin,  taken  in  Japan  by  the  traveling  Vitagraph  company.  It  is  in- 
tended to  be  a  tragedy,  but,  at  least  in  the  early  scenes,  it  fails  of  being 
tragic,  because  of  its  players  who.  as  Japanese,  are  comical.  Maurice 
Costello  looks  anything  but  Japanese  in  his  costume,  and  there  was  some 
laughter.  The  women  are  passable  Japs,  but  none  of  the  men  get  by.  The 
backgrounds  are  ns  interesting  as  could  be,  but  the  picture,  as  a  dramatic 
offering,   is   weak. 

"HER  MOTHER'S  AMBITION"  (Patheplay),  May  8.— "Paid  in  Full" 
is  the  drama  from  which  this  picture  comes.  Marian  Leonard  did  one 
almost  exactly  like  it  for  the  Gem  last  summer.  It  is  a  fair  offering,  not  a 
great  picture. 

"A  TRIP  THROUGH  THE  'NORTH  ISLAND*  OF  NEW  ZEALAND, 
FROM  AUCKLAND  TO  WELLINGTON"  (Melies),  May  S.— A  worthy 
travel  picture  showing  much  that  is  deeply  interesting  in   the  world's  small- 


est continent.  There  are  four  sections  of  it.  The  first  deals  with  Auckland 
and  gives  good  views  of  that  important  city;  then  come  sections  dealing 
with  Maori  people  of  the  present  day  and  finally  fine  glimpses  of  Well- 
ington.    A   good   offering. 

"SHE  MUST  BE  UGLY"  (Lubin),  May  8.— A  picture  that  made  plenty 
of  laughter  arrd  seemed  to  be  well  liked.  The  idea  it  uses — the  pretty 
typist  getting  married  and  making  her  discouraged  boss  advertise  for  an 
ugly  one — has  been  used  a  number  of  times,  but  there  is  freshness  enough 
in  the  picture  to  justify  it.  One  would  say  that  its  author,  E.  W.  Sargent, 
had  seen  the  others  and  then  shown  how  they  might  have  been  made  so  as 
to  approach  possibility.  It  is  funnier  than  any  of  the  others  that  we 
remember.  Of  course,  it  isn't  high  art.  D.  A.  Hotaling  produced  it  with 
Mae  Hotely   in   the  lead. 

"HATTIE'S  NEW  HAT"  (Lubin),  May  8.— With  the  foregoing  this  farce 
by  the  same  author,  producer  and  company,  also  made  laughter.  Like  the 
other,  it  pleased  many,  but  there  was  no  time  when  it  made  the  whole 
house  laugh.  Its  quality  comes  from  its  unexpected  things.  We  see,  for 
instance,  a  man  cutting  a  hole  in  big,  empty  hat  box  and  wonder  what  he  is 
going  to  do  with  it.  We  are  not  permitted  to  know  for  some  time  and  then 
when  we  find  it  on  his  head  and  connected  with  the  gas,  it  is  in  this  case, 
very  amusing. 

"FRAPPE  LOVE"  (Biograph).  May  8.— This  picture  made  laughter,  es- 
pecially in  the  gallery,  but  it  is  vulgar. 

"THE  COVETED  PRIZE"  (Biograph).  May  8.— With  the  foregoing,  this 
farcical  picture  made  but  little  laughter;  it  is  dull. 

"TWO  WESTERN  PATHS"  (Essanay),  May  8.— A  middle-aged  west- 
erner falls  in  love  with  a  vaudeville  singer  and,  after  an  incident  that  makes 
it  seem  natural,  marries  her.  She  loves  him,  but  the  old  life  calls  and  she 
can't  stand  the  lonely  cabin,  so  she  leaves  him.  This  is  quite  sufficient  to 
make  tragedy  enough  for  one  little  household  and  it  is  enough  to  make  a. 
very  acceptable  picture  of  human  life.  Arthur  Mackley  and  his  company 
produced  it.  It  is  well  acted,  clearly  photographed  and  has  distinct  charm. 
An  offering  that  will  be  liked. 

"HER  GUARDIAN"  (Selig),  May  8.— The  author  and  producer  of  this 
picture  is  Lem  Parker.  He  deserves  credit  for  it  as  a  producer,  but  very 
little  as  author.  In  sets,  acting  and  all  that  goes  to  make  a  scenario  ef- 
fective it  is  fine,  but  what  is  the  use  in  telling  the  same  old  story  so  often? 
Of  course,  there  will  be  many  who  will  see  it  for  the  first  time  and  to  them 
it  will  be  a  good  offering.  Hobart  Bosworth  plays  a  guardian  of  a  girl 
(Amy  Trask),  with  whom  he  has  fallen  in  love.  There's  another  man 
(Wheeler  Oakman).  But  Amy  thinks  it  her  duty  to  marry  her  guardian. 
He  finds  how  the  wind  is  setting  and  wisely  withdraws. 

"THE  PROPHECY"  (Essanay),  May  7. — In  the  first  scene,  a  gypsy  gives 
an  enigma  poem  to  a  girl,  Dorothy  Phillips,  and  the  picture  shows  how  it 
comes  true.  This  is  the  right  way  to  start  such  a  picture,  but,  in  its  de- 
velopment, it  is  needlessly  obscure.  This  comes  about  chiefly  through  the 
awkward  way  the  characters  are  introduced.  The  baker,  the  cobbler,  and 
the  farmer  don't  seem  like  natural  members  of  a  community.  Then,  when 
the  lover,  Allen  Holuber,  comes,  the  girl's  father  has  just  been  accused  of 
murdering  the  cobbler  and  it  is  not  a  time  for  her  to  begin  a  love  affair 
with  a  stranger,  who  is  not  really  in  the  story  yet.  The  photography  is  fair 
and  the   offering  has   considerable   merit. 

"BELLE  BOYDE,  A  CONFEDERATE  SPY"  (Selig),  May  7.— Pretty 
girls,  men  in  uniform,  troops  in  motion  and  very  exciting  battle  scenes  are 
found  in  this  as  in  every  perfect  girl-spy  story.  As  for  the  story  itself, 
there  is  not  much  difference  between  one  and  the  next.  The  photography  is 
only  so  so.  Oscar  Eagle  produced  it  from  the  script  of  C.  Nixon.  Winni- 
fred  Greenwood  and  Charles  Clary  play  the  romantic  leads.  H.  Lounsdale 
is  General  Jackson. 

"THE  CROOKED  BANKERS"  (Patheplay),  May  7—  A  melodrama  that 
is  not  convincing,  but  almost  all  the  old  accepted  qualities  are  found  in  it 
and  it  will  find  plenty  to  take  pleasure  in  it.     The  photography  is  good. 

"THE  DEER  SLAYER"  (Vitagraph),  May  7.— This  two-part  feature 
offering  has  been  reviewed  at  length  in  The  Moving  Picture  World.  See 
page  31,  issue  of  April  5,  1913. 

"THE  ALIEN"  (Kalem),  May  7. — A  patriotic  picture  in  very  truth. 
It*s  a  pleasure  to  commend  it,  not  only  because  it's  a  better  offering  than 
most,  but  because  it  has  a  sincerer  kind  of  patriotism  than  usual  with  so- 
called  patriotic  pictures.  We  have  seen  no  other  picture  that  was  like  it. 
and  if  the  audience  doesn't  applaud  at  the  end.  it  will  be  because  it  js  a  very 
cold  kind  of  audience.  The  story  is  simple,  but  it  contrasts  the  quality  of 
justice  in  a  republic  with  that  in  a  kingdom  and  ends  with  a  couple  of 
scenes  showing  the  alien  convinced  of  the  value  of  this  country's  ideals, 
raising  the  flag  and  repeating  the  oath  of  allegience  such  as  is  taught  in 
schools.  This  is  flashed  on  the  screen.  It  makes  a  bully  kind  of  end.  The 
alien  is  played  by  R.  Vignola,  his  wife  by  Alice  Hollister,  their  children, 
by  Doris  and  George  Hollister.     James  Rose  plays  the  friend. 

"DISCIPLINING  DAISY"   (Vitagraph),  May  7.— A  breezy,  almost 
picture    that   doesn't    transgress    the    rules    of    good    taste.     It    was    popular 
with  the  audience,  there  is  no  doubt  of  that.     The  story  is  clear,   fresh  and 
may  instruct.     Cutie  has  a  role  in  it,  but  it  deals  chiefly  with  Daisy,  a  girl 


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at  college  and  shows  how  she  is  cured  of  borrowing  clothes  from  girl  friends. 
It  is  the  better  for  being  a  bit  daring,  because  it  has  been  carefully  pro- 
duced and  doesn't  offend.  Wilfred  North  produced  it  from  the  script  of 
Winifred  Warner.     Dorothy  Kelly  and  Wallie  Van  have  the  leads. 

"'AUNTY  AND  THE  GIRLS"  (Edison),  May  7.— A  very  slight  picture 
whose  comic  feature  is  Alice  Washburn  in  the  rig  of  a  cowboy.  It  is 
clearly  photographed  and  amused. 

"WITH  THE  ASSISTANCE  OF  'SHEP  "  (Edison),  May  7— On  the 
same  reel,  is  this  comedy  which  made  a  hit.  It  is  by  Nolan  Gane,  and 
features  a  shepherd  dog  that  is  truly  the  best  animal  we  have  ever  seen  in 
pictures  except,  perhaps,  "Rowdy."  The  natural  way  that  Shep  helps  the 
lovers  and  the  seemingly  logical,  but  wholly  unexpected  things  that  he  does 
makes  true  comedy  and  a  very  laughable  offering.  Alice  Washburn  is 
aunty  who  won't  let  Elsie  MacLeod,  her  niece,  and  Raymond  McK<:e  get 
married.  The  photography  is  clear  and  it  makes  a  pretty  pictuie  is  well 
as  a  good  comedy. 

"THE  HEART  OF  VALESKA"  (Edison),  May  12.— An  interesting, 
romantic  tale  of  Russia  pictured  in  simple  backgrounds  that  serve  very  well 
although  not  truly  Russian.  It  is  not  tensely  dramatic,  but  is  clear  at  all 
times  and  flows  convincingly  enough  to  hold  the  attention  from  the  first. 
Marion  Nesbitt  plays  Valeska  with  dignity  and  charm,  but  without  real  fire. 
Marc  MacDermott  plays  a  count  who  falls  in  love  with  her.  He  is  the  most 
interesting  figure  in  the  picture.  Bigelow  Cooper  as  a  tax  gatherer,  makes  a 
distinct,  convincing  impression  as  do  Valeska's  parents,  Mrs.  Bechtel  and 
J.  Sturgeon.  Richard  Ridgley  plays  Valeska's  first  sweetheart.  The 
photography  is  clear  enough,  but  might  have  been  much  improved  upon. 
The  author,  M.  M.  Katterjohn,  deserves  credit  for  an  entertaining  story 
which  has  been  well  produced. 

"THE  ADVENTURE  OF  AN  HEIRESS"  (Kalem),  May  ra.— A  pretty 
picture  with  a  good  deal  in  its  atmosphere  that  is  well-bred,  even  dis- 
tinguished; the  acting  of  one  of  the  lesser  characters  made  it  fall  from 
this  peculiar  grace  at  one  or  two  points.  The  story  is  freshly  conceived, 
new  and  interesting.  The  leading  role,  the  heiress,  is  a  fortunate  one  for 
Alice  Joyce  and  she  fills  it  very  pleasingly.  Tom  Moore,  as  her  father's 
secretary,  plays  the  other  romantic  role  which  the  story  makes  secondary 
and  conventional.  Isabel  Vernon,  as  the  girl's  mother  is  not  always  sure 
in  her  drawing  and  Richard  Purdon,  the  father,  though  natural,  is  also 
conventional  at  most  times.  The  offering  stands  on  its  story,  its  pretty 
scenes  and  its  fine  photography  and  will  be  much  liked  by  all  kinds. 

"PATHE'S  WEEKLY  No.  20,"  May  12.— A  very  full  number  with  good 
items  covering  a  wide  range  of  subjects.  One  could  wish  that  the  photog- 
raphy were  as  clear  in  all  the  items  as  in  the  best. 

"THE  KING  AND  THE  COPPER"  (Biograph),  May  12.— An  amusing 
extravaganza  which  gives  the  Biograph  players  a  chance  to  do  clever  act- 
ing. It  seemed  to  take  with  the  audience  and  we  heard  a  good  deal  of 
laughter.  A  South  Sea  Island  sketch,  it  has  a  cannibal  king  and  his  chief 
officer  of  state  whose  robe  of  dignity  is  a  copper's  coat  with  badge  and 
helmet 

"A  RAINY  DAY"  (Biograph),  May  12.— A  farce  with  a  touch  of 
vulgarity  to  it,  but  that  took  very  strongly  with  the  audience,  there  being 
much  laughter  from  beginning  to  end.  Edward  Dillon  plays  a  clubman  who 
dresses  up  in  woman's  clothes  and  goes  out  for  a  walk  in  the  rain.  He  has 
white  stockings  and  even  the  blind  man  follows  to  "rubber."  It  was  taken  on 
a  real  rainy  day. 

"THE  POST-IMPRESSIONISTS"  (Selig),  May  12.— Maibelle  Hekes 
Justice  has  written  a  clever  satire  on  the  new  forms  of  art  and  Hardee 
Kirkland  has  produced  it  in  a  very  creditable  way  so  that  it  makes  an 
amusing  offering  that  seemed  to  make  a  hit  with  the  audience.  Cubism 
has  been  well  advertised  and  widely  made  fun  of  and  this  picture  comes  to 
an  audience  ready  to  understand  and  appreciate  it.  Such  a  picture  makes 
the  average  spectator  feel  that  he  is  particularly  clever;  for  it  is  a  high- 
brow subject  that  all  can  enjoy.  Jack  Nelson  and  Winifred  Greenwood 
pl?y  the  romantic  leads  ably  supported  by  Frank  Weed  and  Lafayette 
McKee  as  the  fathers.  There  are  some  very  good  scenes;  well  thought  out 
and  showing  good  composition. 

"LUCKY  COHEN"  (Lubin),  May  12.— A  laughable  little  farce  by  Mae 
Hotely.  It  is  not  wholly  new,  but  has  enough  freshness  to  make  it  en- 
tertaining.    The  audience  seemed  to  like   it 

"A  TEN  ACRE  GOLD  BRICK"  (Lubin),  May  12.— A  farce  that  made 
laughter  and  seemed  to  be  liked.  It  deals  with  a  rural  pair  who  are 
swindled  by  being  persuaded  to  buy  a  few  acres  of  sand  in  Florida,  but 
who  are  too  crafty  to  stay  swindled.  It  is  amusingly  acted.  The  author 
is  E.  W.  Sargent  Both  offerings  on  the  split  reel  were  produced  by  A. 
Hotaling. 

"THE  WRONG  PAIR"  (Vitagraph),  May  12.— We  have  had  this  situa- 
tion a  good  many  times  and  in  a  good  many  ways.  For  instance,  we  have 
had  the  picture  where  a  horse  was  lost  and  advertised  for  with  the  result 
that  the  yard  was  full  of  horses;  we  have  had  two  in  which  it  was  um- 
brellas, several  in  which  it  was  dogs;  one  Vitagraph  in  which  it  was  "the 
wrong  couple,"  etc.     Nevertheless,  it  made  laughter. 

"THE  GRAND  CANYON"  (Vitagraph),  May  12.— A  picture  of  the 
mountains  with  a  few  views  of  the  great  canyon.  The  photography  lacks 
quality  and  it  is  not  very  picturesque. 

"MR.  HORATIO  SPARKINS"  (Vitagraph),  May  13— A  clever,  amusing 
comedy  picture  from  Dickens.  In  quality,  its  humor  is  first-class  and  the 
players  have  not  failed  in  "putting  it  over"  to  us  or  making  us  see  all  the 
fun.  Perhaps  the  film  is  too  long,  but  the  good  parts  of  it  make  up  for  the 
dry  parts.  Courtenay  Foote  plays  Sparkins,  a  dandy  by  night,  a  clerk  by 
day,  and  makes  a  true  and  fresh  character  of  him.  He  deserves  credit. 
The  other  leading  character,  the  spinster  daughter  of  Squire  Malderton, 
whom  her  parents  have  found  it  hard  to  marry  off,  is  played  by  Flora 
Finch,  a  good  actress,  but  hardly  fitted  to  get  all  there  was  of  fun  from 
her  part  of  the  situation,  except  perhaps  in  the  last  scene  where  she  and 
her  mother  find  Horatio  waiting  at  the  counter  of  the  linen  draper's  shop. 
Van  Dyke  Brooke  produced  it  and  much  credit  is  due  him.  Seen  later  with 
proper  music,  it  was  a  hundred  per  cent,  better. 

"A  WOMAN  OF   IMPULSE"   (Patheplay),  May  13.— A  picture  made  in 


France  that,  from  the  viewpoint  of  art,  is  the  most  commendable,  of  today's 
releases.  Its  feature,  from  the  popular  point  of  view,  is  a  stag  hunt  over 
the  meadows  of  France  and  in  which  we  see  the  stag  in  the  water  being 
followed  by  the  pack  and  then  the  stag  with  his  big  antlers,  at  bay.  It  has 
some  of  the  best  chosen  backgrounds  that  we  have  seen  in  days.  Its  char- 
acters are  true  and  full  of  atmosphere.  Some  of  its  photography  is  glori- 
ous, most  of  it  is  pretty.  The  story  is  made  clear,  is  simple,  has  a  pleasant 
sentiment  and  holds  the  attention  well. 

"THE  JAPANESE  DAGGER"  (Eclipse),  May  12.— A  two-part  picture 
that  seems  to  justify  its  length,  though  it  is  not  a  true  masterpiece  but  an  en- 
tertaining offering.  The  situation  creates  at  once  a  feeling  of  mystery  and 
dread.  The  producer  has  cleverly  hightened  this  'by  bringing  in  one  of 
Italy's  biggest  battleships  as  the  ship  of  the  hero,  a  naval  lieutenant 
The  sets  are  carefully  made  and  fit  the  story,  though  the  photography,  while 
clear,  is  not,  on  the  whole,  as  picturesque  as  might  be.  The  hero  has 
brought  home  from  Japan  a  dagger  with  a  queer  inscription  warning  every- 
one against  taking  the  weapon  out  of  Japan  lest  evil  come  of  it.  He 
doesn't  believe  there  is  any  need  to  worry,  but  when  he  is  at  home,  a  very 
tragic  misfortune  befalls  him;  he  kills  his  sweetheart,  thinking  her  a 
burglar — the  dagger  is  at  his  hand  and  he  stabs  her  with  it  The  story 
doesn't  hold  equally  well  all  through,  but  it  holds. 

"THE  PADRE'S  STRATEGY"  (Lubin),  May  13.— A  romantic  melo- 
drama that  is  good  entertainment,  because  of  its  situation  which  is  full  of 
adventure.  It  might  have  been  much  more  effectively  written.  It  is  a  good 
offering  from  what  it  has,  but  it  might  have  had  much  more.  That  padre 
is  a  true  character;  the  others  are  commendable  figures,  although  part  of 
the  bandit's  crowd  looks  like  the  real  thing.  The  padre's  strategy  helps 
a  girl's  lover  rescue  her  from  the  cabin  of  a  bandit  who  has  carried  her  off. 
His  method  seems  new.  W.  Melville  is  author  and  producer.  E,  Nevius 
plays  the  padre;  Dolly  Larkin,  the  girl;  C.  Von  Schiller,  her  lover;  J. 
Holland,  the  bandit;  and  Henry  King,  his  lieutenant  The  photography  is 
clear.     The  picture  is  not  artistic. 

"THE  RANCH  GIRL'S  PARTNER"  (Essanay),  May  13.— A  romantic 
picture  by  Arthur  Mackley's  company  that  will  furnish  entertainment  It 
has  an  acceptable  heroine  (she  ought  to  watch  her  facial  expression  a  bit 
mere  cloosely;  she  can  improve  a  bit  in  that);  it  has  some  perfect  moonlight 
scenes;  the  old,  artificial,  but  acceptable,  situations,  and  a  touch  of  real 
romance.     The  photography,  in  the  day  scenes,  could  have  been  clearer. 

"THE  PROPHECY"  (Edison),  May  13. — A  melodramatic  picture  that  en- 
tertains mostly  because  it  is  full  of  pleasant  reminiscences.  These  are  not 
so  clearly  of  any  definite,  good  play  as  of  good  times  in  general  at  the 
show.  It  reminds  one  of  plays  not  of  life,  but  in  spite  of  its  artificiality,  is 
pleasing.  The  people  (in  English  high  life),  have  very  queer  manners, 
but  interest  Mary  Fuller,  authoress  and  leading  woman,  plays  a  con- 
ventional, but  attractive  coquette  who  nearly  breaks  a  little  love  affair  be- 
tween twp  juveniles,  pretty  Marion  Weeks  and  R.  Ridgley.  The  photog- 
raphy is  commendable. 

"LIEUTENANT  JONES"  (Selig),  May  13.— The  heroine's  father  is  a 
paymaster  at  an  army  post  and  had  lost  at  cards  beyond  his  means  to 
a  captain  (A.  E.  Garcia).  This  officer  is  jealous  of  the  girl's  (Kathlyn 
Williams),  affection  for  the  lieutenant  (Harold  Lockwood).  This  situation 
is  worked  up  into  a  melodrama  in  which  we  find  the  lieutenant  over- 
hearing the  officer  ask  the  paymaster  to  steal  from  the  pay-roll.  In  the  next 
act,  the  officer  overhears  the  hero  persuading  the  paymaster  not  to  take 
the  money  and  he,  at  once,  brings  the  colonel  who  catches  the  hero  re- 
placing the  box  of  bills  in  the  safe.  So  the  hero  is  compelled  to  pretend 
he  is  guilty  to  save  the  girl's  father.  The  Indians  help  the  hero  to  re- 
habilitate himself  and  then  we  have  the  ending  full  of  justice  rather  than  of 
law.  This  sort  of  thing  takes  well  still,  a  good  many  like  it.  The  photog- 
raphy is  very  acceptable. 

"THE  PAYMASTER"  (Lubin).  May  10.— The  well-used  situation,  in 
which  burglars  force  a  mother  to  tell  where  her  absent  husband  has  hidden 
the  pay-roll  pouch,  will  be  found  again  in  this  melodrama.  There  is  al- 
ways a  large  part  of  the  audience  that  enjoys  these  melodramas,  and  it 
liked  this,  although  it  is  not  especially  artistic.  Clara  Williams  plays  the 
woman  with  her  usual  intelligent  understanding  of  what  is  wanted  in  such 
cases.     The  photographs  are  clear.     A  good  offering  for  the  right  audience. 

"PUTTIN'  IT  OVER  ON  PAPA"  (Patheplay),  May  10.— There  were 
several  hearty  laughs  in  this  rural  farce-burlesque;  but,  between  them,  there 
were  some  very  sleepy  places  in  which  were  heard  rattling  of  newspapers. 
Paul  Panzer  plays  Papa,  a  farmer  who  forbids  his  daughter  (Pearl 
Sendelar),  to  marry  a  "dude."  We  don't  remember  seeing  any  elopement 
like  this  one  in  any  picture  before  and  found  it  amusing.  Rose  Gore,  as 
Mother,  adds  something  to  the  fun.  The  offering  would  have  been  a 
hundred  per  cent  better  in  half  the  length. 

"THE  HOUSE  OF  DARKNESS"  (Biograph),  May  10.— The  "house" 
referred  to  in  the  title  is  lunacy  which  metaphorically  is  considered  as  a 
dwelling.  There  is  some  story,  but  it  is  slight  and,  as  for  ourselves,  it 
left  us  absolutely  cold.  Because  from  the  arrangements,  stage  setting,  and 
the  action  that  went  before,  it  was  too  plainly  shown,  at  the  climax,  what 
the  outcome  was  going  to  be.  There  is  but  little  suspense.  The  photog- 
raphy is  without  much  quality.  The  players  had  no  real  chance,  but  fur- 
nish the  offering's  sole  interest 

"AN  ACCIDENTAL  ALIBI"  (Edison),  May  10.— That  this  old  style, 
amateurish  script  is  pretty  well  acted  keeps  the  offering  from  dragging  too 
much,  but  we  don't  see  how  it  can  possibly  interest  any  one  very  deeply. 
For  a  moment,  it  gets  a  bit  of  added  interest  from  its  showing  of  a  motion 
picture  company  at  work.  John  Adair,  the  author,  should  have  credit  for 
thinking  up  the  scheme  of  having  Joe's  face  seen  in  the  motion  picture  and 
so  getting  his  alibi  and  Augustus  Phillips,  Bessie  Learn  and  Robert  Brower, 
the  actors,  should  have  credit  The  photography  is  without  quality.  If 
producers  of  pictures  could  only  hear  what  is  said  about  them!  Not  about 
this  one  in  particular,  but  about  most  of  them.     There  is  something  wrong. 

"THE  SEA  MAIDEN"  (Vitagraph),  May  10. — The  situation  used  in 
this  offering  is  old  and  not  convincing.  As  it  is  worked  out  here,  it  offers 
some  views  of  Santa  Catalina  Island  and  adds  a  little  tnat  is  salacious  and 
much  that  is  vulgar. 


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"THE  RIVER  PIRATES"  (Kalem),  May  10.— That  nest  of  the  river 
pirates,  in  which  most  of  this  picture  is  set,  is  romantic  and  well  worth 
while.  The  picture  also  has  some  dandy  river  views,  among  which,  one 
of  those  old,  back-kicking  steamers,  loaded  with  cotton,  is  attacked  by  the 
pirates  in  a  big  rowboat.  The  action  doesn't  .drag  and  develops  a  con- 
ventional, but  acceptable  love  story  effectively.  It  makes,  un  the  whole,  a 
pretty  good  offering  for  all  kinds  of  tastes. 

"ALKALI  IKE'S  MOTHER-IN-LAW"  (Essanay),  May  10.— In  the  early 
scenes,  Alkali  needs  a  mother-in-law  who  can  trounce  him  well  and  soon,  to 
the  spectator's  contentment,  she  comes.  We  like  her  discipline  of  the  brute, 
but  he  turns,  gets  hold  of  a  book  on  hypnotism  and  she  is  powerless.  As 
soon  as  the  book  comes  intd  the  picture,  its  quality  changes  and  the  fun 
almost  drops  out  of  it;  it  becomes  burlesque.  Yet  the  audienc  eseemed  to 
like  all  of  it,  liked  the  way  mother  "comes  back."  The  camera  work  is  clear. 


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"THE  SERGEANT'S  DAUGHTER"  (Dragon),  May  :o.— A  two-part 
story  of  West  Point  and  of  army  post  life,  but  mostly  of  life  at  the  Point. 
It's  a  melodrama  of  the  older  kind,  but  has  a  quality  that  will  make  it 
popular  with  the  many  and  it  is  fortunate  in  the  two  leading  men  who, 
when  the  story  opens,  are  cadets  at  the  Academy.  One  of  these  is  played 
by  Earl  Foxe  and  the  other  by  Charles  Chester.  The  girl  is  the  sergeant's 
daughter,  with  whom  the  boys  are  in  love.  Fay  Perry  takes  the  role  and 
is  personally  a  perfect  heroine.  The  sergeant,  Frank  Purdon,  is  acceptable 
in  that  role.  There  is  a  fine  atmosphere  of  real  life  at  the  Point  in  the  pic- 
ture due  to  its  having  been  taken  at  the  place  and  produced  to  be  con- 
vincingly military.  The  backgrounds  are  the  Academy  buildings  and  one 
scene  shows  the  cadets  at  drill. 

"THE  OUTCAST"  (Dragon),  May  12. — This  offering  makes  an  appeal 
that  is  not  strong,  chiefly  because  it  is  not  all  convincing.  There  is  clear 
photography  with  interesting  backgrounds  and  the  acting  is  fair,  but  the 
scenario  is  weak.  The  plot  is  conventional  and  gives  us  a  heroine  and  hero 
who  contrive  to  get  into  difficulties  that  are  artificial  enough. 

"DAD'S  ORDERS"  (Solax),  M.iy  14. — A  farcical  love  story  in  which  the 
hero,  played  by  Fronie  Fronholtz,  disguised  as  his  uncle,  marries  the  heroine, 
played  by  Marian  Swayne.  The  father  wants  her  to  marry  the  older  man, 
but  even  the  girl  •doesn't  see  through  the  disguise.  The  photography  is  clear. 
"THE  PAST  FORGIVEN"  (Solax),  May  9.— The  heroine  of  this  pic- 
ture has  been  a  white  slave,  but  has  been  rescued  by  a  Salvation  lassie 
and  sent  to  a  ranch  where  a  cowboy  has  married  her.  The  man  who  once 
owned  her  appears  and  her  hubsand  learns  the  truth.  He  sends  her  out  of 
the  house  and  the  picture  shows  us  how  the  reconciliation  is  brought  about. 
Marian  Swayne  and  Darwin  Karr  play  the  leads  pleasingly.  The  photog- 
raphy is  clear,  though  the  subject  can  not  be  called  fresh. 

"THE  PERIL  OF  THE  PAST"  (Gaumont),  Special.— Taking  its  de- 
parture from  a  situation  that  has  been  used  very  often,  this  picture,  a 
three-part  offering,  contains  much  first-class  dramatic  material  that  is  both 
human  and  new.  The  story  is  very  effectively  developed,  and  being  strongly 
acted,  makes  a  serviceable  feature,  one  that  justifies  its  length.  The  aver- 
age -spectator  will  find  in  it  situations  with  which  he  is  familiar  along  with 
the  new  parts,  but  he  will  also  find  some  of  the  delightfully  interesting 
backgrounds  for  which  the  Gaumont  Company  is  famous.  It  was  taken,  in 
part,  near  Biarritz  and  shows  some  views  along  the  docks  that  are  full  of 
merit.  One  series  of  scenes  is  worthy  of  special  notice.  This  gives  us  a 
fresh  and  very  dramatic  development  of  the  "third-degree"  picture  and  in 
it  jealousy  is  deliberately  fostered  in  a  woman  who  has  been  her  husband's 
accomplice  in  a  murder,  so  that  she  will  "give  away"  the  secret  in  her  wrath 
where  hidden  detectives  will  overhear.  All  these  scenes  are  finely  artistic 
and    very    effective. 

"THE  RANCH  STENOGRAPHER"  (Frontier),  May  17.— A  brisk 
comedy  offering,  with  some  hearty  laughs  in  it.  It  is  full  of  Western 
ginger  and  has  some  original  ideas  in  it.  The  scene  in  which  the  girl 
stenographer  collides  with  a  barbed  wire  fence  and  has  to  be  rescued  by 
two  men  is  very  funny.     A  good  offering. 

"THE  TOURIST  AND  THE  FLOWER  GIRL"  (Imp),  May  29.— A 
plot  with  rather  greater  possibilities  than  were  realized  here.  The  girl 
discovers  that  the  interesting  young  man  loves  flowers.  She  poses  as  a 
flower  girl  and  sells  him  posies.  The  love  affair  was  so  badly  rushed 
that  it  spoiled  the  effect  somewhat,  giving  too  much  of  a  farcical  turn  for 
comedy  of  this  sort.  The  young  man  later  poses  as  a  butler  in  order  to 
see  the  girl. 

"THE  HONOR  OF  THE  REGIMENT"  (Bison),  May  31.  A  very  en- 
tertaining two-reel  production,  with  war  in  the  Philippines  as  the  leading 
feature.  The  first  scenes  are  taken  at  the  Presidio  in  San  Francisco, 
where  the  love  story  develops.  The  plot  is  a  good  one  and  the  observer 
is  led  along  with  close  attention  as  the  two  captains  fight  to  win  the  hand 
of  the  colonel's  daughter.  There  is  treachery  and  under  handed  dealing 
on  the  part  of  the  unworthy  aspirant.  The  part  of  Molly,  the  girl  he 
has  wronged,  is  well  played.  The  natives,  in  skirmish  fights  with  the 
soldiers,  furnish  some  good  entertainment;  the  ambush  of  the  soldiers  was 
well   devised.     A   strong   release. 

"THE  UNKNOWN"  (Victor),  May  9.— Though  old  as  a  dramatic 
conception,  this  film  is  so  admirably  acted  and  directed  that  it  will  rank 
high  among  the  week's  productions.  The  scenes  in  which  the  convict 
becomes  reunited  with  his  daughter,  now  grown  and  a  mother,  bring  tears 
to  the  eyes.  There  is  a  sincere  note  throughout  the  whole  production 
which  makes  a  strong  demand  on  the  sympathies  of  the  observer.  James 
Kirkwood  is  both  director  and  leading  man,  with  Gertrude  Robinson  as 
the  daughter.     A   fine   offering. 

"ANIMATED  WEEKLY,  No.  61"  (Universal),  May  7. — An  entertaining 
number  with  many  interesting  scenes,  among  the  best  of  which  were  the 
prize  babies  in  the  Denver  show,  sand-yachting  in  England,  hydroplane 
tests  at  Monaca,  racing  at  Aldershot  and  President  Wilson  turning  on  the 
80,000  lights  of  the  new  Woolworta  building.  King  Baggot  is  featured  at 
the  close. 


"HAWAIIAN  LOVE"  (Champion),  May  12.— A  story  located  in  the 
Hawaiian  Islands,  with  some  good  scenic  effects  to  help  along  its  none 
too  strong  plot.  The  captain  of  a  trading  vessel  takes  a  native  girl  away 
from  her  Island  lover.  Their  vessel  is  wrecked  and  they  swim  to  shore. 
Later  he  sells  the  girl  to  a  Chinaman.  But  a  just  fate  awaits  him,  as  he 
falls  from  a  cliff  at  the  end.  The  photography  in  this  might  have  been 
better    in    places. 

"THE  MODERN  SNARE"  (American).  May  24.— This  reel  contains  a 
good  example  of  psychological  drama.  The  man  who  shot  another  is  told 
to  answer  the  telephone.  A  voice  says,  "Gus,  this  is  your  dead  man." 
The  would-be  assassin  flees  in  terror,  but  later  is  recaptured.  This  situa- 
tion gives  interest  to  the  film,  but  no  reason  was  given  to  show  why  Gus 
was  suspected  of  being  the  criminal. 

"HER  INNOCENT  MARRIAGE"  (American).  May  19.— This  film  shows 
us  the  manner  in  which  a  young  wife  who  has  left  her  husband,  after  a 
quarrel,  is  befriended  by  a  stranger  and  taken  to  the  home  of  his  parents. 
They  like  her  and  the  young  man  learns  to  love  her.  She  thinks  her  hus- 
band is  killed  in  a  railroad  wreck  and  marries  her  lover.  But  the  first  hus- 
band returns  and  shoots  the  second  husband.  The  acting  and  photographic 
effects  in  this  are  good,  but  we  could  not  see  much  point  to  the  story. 

"THE  SEA  DOG"  (Broncho),  May  21. — A  pretty  two-reel  story  of  the 
seashore,  revolving  about  the  love  of  an  old  salt  for  his  grandchild.  The  boy 
comes  to  play  with  his  grandfather  in  his  old  ship  house  until  the  parents 
forbid  it  because  of  the  seaman's  rough  companions.  Some  good  char- 
acter work  and  pleasing  comedy  are  introduced.  Later  the  child  pines 
and  becomes  ill  because  he  cannot  see  his  grandfather.  When  the  old  man 
learns  of  this  he  rushes  to  the  child  and  everything  winds  up  well.  An  en- 
tertaining number. 

"THE  MARBLE  HEART"  (Thanhouser),  May  13.— This  two-reel  offering 
tells  a  story  of  a_  sculptor  who  loved  the  woman  who  posed  for  his  master- 
piece. The  opening  part  is  given  a  modern  setting,  with  James  Cruze  as 
the  sculptor,  Raphael.  Flo  La  Badie  appearing  as  a  homeless  girl  he  has 
befriended,  loves  him  devotedly,  but  he  cares  only  for  the  model,  played 
by  Marguerite  Snow.  He  has  a  dream,  in  which  he  sees  himself  and  all 
the  other  characters  in  a  previous  incarnation, 'the  scenes  being  laid  in 
Rome.  Through  this  dream-  he  finally  understands  that  his  model  has  a 
marble  heart.  This  so  affects  him  that  he  smashes  his  statue  of  her  and 
dies  broken  hearted.  This  is  well  played,  the  costumes  are  attractive  and 
it  has,  altogether,  considerable  appeal. 

"CALAMITY  ANNE'S  PARCEL  POST"  (American),  May  22.— The 
woman  with  the  burro  here  appears  as  distributor  and  collector  of  parcel 
post  packages.  She  manages  to  capture  an  outlaw,  having  discovered  him 
while  chasing  a  parcel  post  rooster.  There  are  some  amusing  moments 
in  this. 

"AFTER  THE  MASSACRE"  (Reliance),  May  17.— Another  very  fair 
offering  of  life  on  the  plains.  The  girl  is  taken  captive  by  Indians  after 
the  massacre  of  the  wagon  train  occupants.  The  hero  escapes  and  later 
learns  her  whereabouts  from  a  locket  dropped  by  an  Indian,  which  he  had 
given  her.  The  Indian  girl  helps  her  away  from  the  camp  of  the  tribe 
and  there  is  an  interesting  fight  between  cowboys  and  Indians  on  the 
broad  plains  and  in  a  shallow  river  bed.     Conventional  but  full  of  action. 

"EARLY  OKLAHOMA"  (Reliance),  May  21.— This  picture  has  decided 
merit  as  a  picture  of  the  uncertain  life  led  by  early  settlers  on  the  plains. 
It  has  been  done  before  in  different  ways,  but  there  is  an  honest  thrill 
in  this  when  the  savages  divide  the  little  family  and  set  the  prairie  grass  on 
fire.  The  children  hide  safely  in  a  well  and  at  the  end  the  family  is  re- 
united.    A   convincing  picture  of  frontier  life. 

"THE  ETERNAL  SACRIFICE"  (Reliance),  May  12.— A  girl  who  lives 
in  a  basement  with  a  tough  gang,  rebels  against  her  environment  and  leaves 
the  place  on  foot.  She  is  hired  as  a  domestic  at  a  fine  country  estate. 
All  goes  well  till  the  gang  shows  up  and  plans  to  rob  the  place.  The  girl 
brings  the  police,  but  is  accidentally  killed  by  one  of  the  gang  at  the  close. 
Not  a  very  fresh  type  of  a  story,  though  well  sustained. 

"A  TEXAS  FEUD"  (Reliance),  May  28. — A  story  of  sweethearts  whose 
parents  are  at  war.  The  minister  patches  up  the  warfare  temporarily,  but 
it  almost  breaks  out  again  when  the  hero  is  accidentally  shot  by  one  of  the 
opposite  clan.  The  wood  scenes  and  general  out-door  effects  are  good,  but 
the  photography  is  a  little  dim  in  places. 

"THE  BIG  BOSS"  (Reliance),  May  14. — A  two-reel  offering,  dealing 
with  graft.  The  big  boss  wants  to  marry  the  contractor's  daughter,  but  she 
loves  a  handsome  young  newspaper  reporter.  The  story  unfolds  in  a  rather 
obvious  manner.  The  hero  sets  a  dictograph  and  catches  the  boss  in  an 
incriminating  conversation.  The  excitement  comes  in  when  the  boss  sud- 
denly discovers  the  dictograph  and  rushes  up  the  fire  escape  to  where  the 
hero  is  located  and  engages  him  in  a  hand  to  hand  struggle.  This  scene 
is  very  interesting.  Muriel  Ostriche  and  Irving  Cummings  play  the  young 
couple  and  George  Siegman  appears  as  the  boss.     The  photography  is  clear. 

"THE  RIVALS  OUTWITTED"  (Majestic),  May  18.— A  slight  story 
without  much  general  appeal  in  it.  The  scenes  are  laid  in  a  gymnasium. 
Several  lady  athletes'fall  in  love  with  the  professor  in  charge,  but  another 
wins  him. 

"THE  OYSTER"  (Majestic),  May  18.— This,  on  same  reel  with  above, 
gives  us  a  scientific  insight  into  the  life  and  habits  of  the  succulent  bivalve. 
Very  interesting  and  instructive. 

"SHF.P,  THE  HERO"  (Majestic),  May  20.— A  good  film  story  with  a 
shepherd  dog  acting  as  hero.  The  dog  does  his  part  well  and  the  picture  is 
sure  to  please  an  audience.  The  photography  is  clear  and  smooth  and  there 
is  quite  a  little  thrill  in  the  situation  where  the  dog  stops  a  train  by  bark- 
ing and  saves  the  little  girl's  life.     A  good  offering. 

"HY  MAYER'S  MAGIC  HAND"  (Imp),  May  24.— A  short  reel,  in 
which  Hy  Mayer,  the  New  York  Time's  comic  man.  does  some  rapid  fire 
illustrations.     Each  of  the  comic  drawings  has  a  good  point  to  it. 

"A  MINE  AND  A  MARATHON"  (Nestor),  May  23.— Melodrama  of  a 
pronounced  sort.  A  runner  has  to  reach  a  telegraph  office  ahead  of  two 
men  pursuing  on  horseback.  The  men  are  but  a  hundred  yards  behind 
him  as  he  reaches  the  operator.     Exhausted,  he  dictates  twenty  words  and 


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tlie  operator  writes  them  before  the  pursuers  enter.     The  picture  cannot  be 
said  to  be  strong. 

"A  CRY  FROM  THE  DUMB"  drop),  May  i5.— Good  drama.  The  theme 
is  of  a  girl's  power  of  speech  lost  through  fright  restored  when  under  great 
excitement  and  anguish.  Jane  Gail  plays  the  role  of  the  older  girl  and  plays 
it  charmingly.  The  scene  of  the  struggle  between  the  burglars  and  the 
lover  who  has  come  to  the  rescue  might  have  been  shortened  a  bit  to  ad- 
vantage. There  is  quite  a  lot  of  knife.  The  direction  of  the  picture  is 
finished,  craftsmanlike. 


A  BIT  OF  THE  "YELLOW." 

To  the  Editor  Moving  Picture  World,  17  Madison  Ave.,  N.  Y. 

Dear  Sir:  I  want  to  bring  your  attention  to  an  instance  of 
yellow  journalism  by  a  Chicago  "yellow.''  The  story  is 
attached. 

The  moving  picture  was  taken  at  the  steel  works,  is  a 
so-called  industrial  film,  and  illustrates  the  operation  of  the 
various  safety  devices.  There  is  a  very  slight  story  in  it 
to  keep  the  spectator's  interest  strong.  In  the  first  place, 
the  correct  title  was  "An  American  in  the  Making."  Of 
course,  the  "yellow"  did  not  care  to  get  the  title  of  the  pic- 
ture  correct.      Neither    Mr.    Gleason   nor    his    daughter    "in- 


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Mill  Chiefs  Daughter  Is  Won  BY 


Superintendent    Gleason    Angry 

When  Men  Think  His  Child 

Is  film  Story  Heroine. 


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romance*  In  toeir  dreams  as  the  result 
<rf  a  aerie*  of  moving  pictures  which  were 
on  display  la  Gary  'yesterday,  b'aumel 
W.  Gleason,  superintendent  of  the  Vary 
steel  mills,  la  wondering  what  bis  daugh- 
ter, Mary  Louis*,  will  *ay  when  she  sets 
back  froffl  -California  and  rinds  that  * 
majority  of  the-  workmen  .believe  she  Is 
(be  heroine  of  ths  strong  arm,  true  heart, 
bound  to  sis*  courtship.  < 

The  moving  picture,  entitled  "A  ilan 
la  the  Mating,"  Is  rapidly  making  Mr.. 
Gleason  angry.  Ills  friends  believe  tbat 
he  wis*  Insist  upon,  changes  la  tbe  an- 
nouncements made  in  connection  w-ltb  'b* 
roll  of  flbns. 

The  movies  tell  the  story  of  "the  ewper- 
lotendeat  of  the  Gary  mills."  and  Mr. 
Ufaasoo  happens  to  l<e  tbe  superintendent. 
They  show  31st  the  superintendent  has 
a  beautiful  daughter  of  marriageable  age.. 
Mi  o  lea  son  hu-  1  diugbtpr  who  Just  mis 
ths  Jill.  Then  the'  movies  portray  tbe 
>vliinlnic  Of  this  daughter  by  a  mail  who 
rises  from  tbe  ranks  of  factory  llle. 

This  Hr.  Gleason  thinks  Is  a  little 
too  much,  especially*  as  tbe  steel  work- 
ers who  see  tbe  pictures  are  Inclined  to 
accept  tbe  plciuie*  as  recording  actual 
efents.  Meanwhile  Miss  Gteason  and 
ber  mother  ore  on  tbe  coast  la  complete 
Ignorance  of  the  thrilling  ecenvs  through 
which  the  steel  worker*  think  the,  youog 
woman    baa    passed. 

Tbe  mill  sreoes,  the  office  scenes  dis- 
played la  tbe  movies  being  real.  It  Is 
pun] log  tbe  superintendent  hew  to  sup- 
press tbe  belief  swung  the  workmen 
tbat  tfce  r* m toiler  of  tbe  scenes  are 
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ter of  Gary  mill  superintendent, 
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sisted  on  changes  in  the  announcements  made  in  connection 
with"  this  film,  and  the  film  does  not  tell  "the  story  of  the 
superintendent  of  the  Gary  Mills,"  and  it  does  not  "show 
that  the  superintendent  has  a  beautiful  daughter  of  marriage- 
able age"  and  "portray  the  winning  of  this  daughter  by  a  man 
who  rises  from  the  ranks  of  factory  life." 

As  a  matter  of  fact  the  film  merely  tells. the  story  of  an 
immigrant  who  gets  a  job  In  the  steel  works  and  is  enabled 
in  time  to  buy  a  little  house  and  marry  a  young  school 
teacher.  The  whole  attached  article  is  an  injustice  to  Mr. 
Gleason  and  his  daughter,  who  were  n<  >t  mentioned  even 
remotely  in  the  film.     Very  truly  yours, 

Thanhouser  Film  Corporation,    C.  J.  Hite,  Pres. 


BIG  DEMAND   FOR  "ALKALI"  IKE   DOLLS. 

The  department  stores  all  over  the  country  have  been 
writing  letters  to  the  Essanay  Film  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany, requesting  them  to  ship  dolls  on  hobby  horses  of 
'iAlkali"  Ike  at  once.  Exhibitors  cannot  wait,  according  to 
the  surplus  mail  the  Essanay  people  have  been  receiving. 
Send  in  your  letters  and  place  your  orders  early.  Ex- 
hibitors may  buy  these  wonderful  novelties  for  $13.50  a 
dozen.    Dolls  are  an  exact  reproduction  of  Augustus  Carney. 


"COMPACT  MARVEL"   CAMERA   MAKING   GOOD. 

The  scheme  of  taking  motion  pictures  of  local  events 
received  quite  an  impetus  with  the  advent  of  the  "Compact 
Marvel,"  a  little  camera  designed  especially  for  use  by 
exhibitors  who  were  desirous  of  injecting  local  interest  into 
their  exhibitions.  This  camera  was  made  by  the  Williamson 
Company  of  London,  upon  the  suggestion  of  Mr.  Arthur 
G.  Whyte  of  the  Whyte-Whitman  Company,  New  York. 
Mr.  Whyte's  idea  was  a  camera  of  reasonable  price  that 
would  be  as  efficient  for  all  practical  .purposes  as  the  larger 
sized  professional  camera,  and  yet  not  be  considered  an 
amateur  affair,  or  a  toy.  The  Williamson  Company  set  to 
work  and  devised  a  fine  little  instrument  that  is  the  equal 
of  their  regular  professional  camera  in  every  way  except 
in  size.  The  workmanship  on  it  is  of  the  most  superior 
kind  and  the  results  are  identical  to  those  of  the  profes- 
sional machine,  the  only  difference'  being  that  the  "Compact 
Marvel"  will  not  hold  quite  as  much  film.  It  will  take  200 
feet  as  against  350  feet  taken  by  the  professional  camera. 
The  "Compact  Marvel"  sells  at  $150.,  which  places  it  within 
reach  of  every  enterprising  exhibitor  who  is  looking  for 
live  stuff  for  his  theater.  There  is  no  end  of  local  interest 
that  can  be  worked  up  in  this  way  and  any  theater  that 
makes  a  specialty  of  local  pictures  is  sure  to  become  a  very 
popular  house  in  short  order. 

Since  the  first  appearance  of  this  instrument,  last  January, 
many  exhibitors  have  bought  them,  and  the  Whyte-Whitman 
Co.  is  in  receipt  of  many  testimonial  letters  as  to  its 
efficiency.  Mr.  W.  H.  C.  Dudley  an  exhibitor  of  Americus, 
Ga.,  is  very  enthusiastic  in  his  praise  of  it;  also  Mr.  Fred 
P.   Dean,  an  exhibitor  of  Hartford,   Connecticut. 


UNIVERSAL  CITY  NOTES. 

Grace  Cunard,  leading  woman  with  Francis  Ford  in  his 
pictures  of  Spanish-American  life,  is  candidate  for  City  As- 
sessor in  the  forthcoming  election  in  Universal  City  on 
May  20.  Miss  Cunard  has  even  surprised  her  friends,  who 
are  appreciative  o"f  her  versatility,  by  the  vigor  with  which 
she  has  entered  upon  her  campaign.  The  electors  with 
sporting  proclivities  are  freely  laying  bets  that  she  will  be 
successful  in  her  quest  for  office.  Miss  Cunard  spent  a  num- 
ber of  years  on  the  stage,  and  has  been  in  important  roles  in 
Dora  Thome,  East  Lynne,  Princess  of  Patches,  and  other 
productions. 

*  *     * 

Gwendolen  Brooks,  who  recently  made  her  debut  in  mov- 
ing pictures  as  a  member  of  Lincoln  J.  Carter's  company,  has 
for  the  past  few  years  been  playing  ingenue  parts  with 
Douglas  Fairbanks,  and  under  the  Savage,  Harris  and  Brady 
managements.  Miss  Brooks  is  a  daring  rider,  a  skillful 
swimmer,  and  all-round  athletic  girl. 

*  *     * 

"Love,  Life  and  Liberty"  and  "The  Grand  Old  Flag"  are 
two  of  the  new  series  of  Cuban  pictures  that  the  Universal 
forces  have  just  completed.  Both  were  directed  by  Henry 
McRae  and  enlist  the  talents  of  Phyllis  Gordon,  Charles 
Bartlett,  Roy  Watson,  Sherman  Bainbridge,  Ralph  Cum- 
mings  and  Harry  Edmondson.  Several  hundred  extra  peo- 
ple were  also  used. 

*  *     * 

Gardner  Clifford,  the  young  heir  of  William  Clifford,  and 
the  youngest  moving  picture  actor  in  the  world,  was  the  re- 
cipient of  a  cradle  from  the  boys  of  Troop  A  the  other  day 
at  Universal  City.  Upon  the  birth  of  Master  Clifford  on 
March  17,  J.  A.  Morante,  of  the  military  company,  started  a 
subscription  to  get  the  baby  a  suitable  present,  and  the  gift 
finally  took  the  form  of  a  cradle,  which  was  accepted  for  the 
little  fellow  by  his  parents  in  a  clever  little  poem. 

Little  Gardner  Clifford  made  his  first  appearance  as  a 
picture-actor  in  "The  Last  Roll  Call,"  and  like  his  daddy 
before  him,  under  the  direction  of  Milton  J.  Fahrney. 


VERMONT  HEALTH  BOARD  FEATURES  PICTURES. 

The  Board  of  Health  of  the  State  of  Vermont,  in  its 
quarterly  bulletin  .issued  March  1,  1913,  calls  particular  at- 
tention to  its  use  of  motion  picture  apparatus  and  films 
in  its  fight  against  tuberculosis.  It  owns  a  Power's  No.  6A 
projector  and  a  Brush  electric  lighting  set,  the  latter  for 
use  in  towns  where  there  is  no  high  voltage  electric  current. 
which  outfit  is  taken  from  town  to  town.  Exhibitions  are 
given  with  such  pictures  as  "The  Awakening  of  Jolm  Bond." 
^  Curable  Disease,"  "Hope,"  "The  Man  Who  Learned,"  and 
"The  Capture  of  Fort  Ticonderoga."  Vermont  is  probably 
the  first  state  to  send  the  educational  picture  to  every  moun- 
tain hamlet  within  its  borders. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


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"The  Dead  Secret" 

Three-Reel  Monopol  Release. 
By  George   Blaisdell. 

THE  illusion's  the  thing!  It  is  the  best  test,  the  last  test, 
in  the  determination  of  the  depth  of  the  spell  under 
the  clutch  of  which  a  beholder  follows  the  unfolding 
of  a  story.  When  one  is  aware  that  one  woman  is  portraying 
the  dual  role  of  mother  and  daughter,  and  the  appearance  of 
each  on  the  screen  is  so  skillfully,  so  realistically,  ordered 
that  at  the  supreme  moment  of  the  confrontation  of  one  with 
the  other  you  are  from  a  firm  belief  in  the  single  identity  of 
each  abruptly  brought  to  earth  by  "How's  that  for  double 
exposure?"   from   a  phlegmatic   operator   the   break   is   more 


aplenty,  yet  at  no  time  is  it  overdone.  There  is  pathos,  but 
never  a  trace  of  bathos. 

"The  Dead  Secret"  is  not  what  may  be  described  as 
straight  drama,  though  it  would  easily  hold  on  its  dramatic 
merit,  entirely  apart  from  the  weird  phases  lent  to  the  story 
by  the  machinations  of  the  physician-hypnotist  and  the  un- 
canny manifestations  of  his  occult  powers,  aided  by  the 
Hindu  girl  and  the  crystal  globe.  There  are  many  strong 
situations.  The  best  of  all  are  those  where  the  mother  and 
daughter  meet  and  converse,  especially  at  the  conclusion. 
Others  are  where  the  mother  with  babe  in  arms  is  forced 
from  home  in  the  driving  rain;  where  she  meets  by  the  church 
walls  the  delirious  mother  who  has  just  lost  her  infant;  where 
she  determines  to  leave  her  child  with  the  motherless  one; 
the  discovery  by  the  daughter  of  the  remarkable  resemblance 
to  herself  of  the  aid  to  the  hypnotist  at  the  church  exhibi- 
tion; and  the  many  scenes  showing  the  attempts  of  the 
blackmailer  to  secure  possession  of  the  fortune  left  to  the 
daughter  in  the  belief  she  is  the  rightful  inheritor. 

The  cast  is  not  a  large  one.  It  gives  good  support.  Espe- 
cially worthy  of  mention  are  the  physician  and  the  mother 
who  in  delirium  claims  the  child  of  the  outcast  woman  and 
later  denies  kinship  with  it.  The  photography  is  a  feature 
of  this  picture.  It  is  excellent.  One  of  the  feats,  wherein 
the  hypnotist  is  shown  with  a  miniature  figure  of  the  mother 
in  one  hand  and  the  daughter  in  the  other,  is  said  to  be  the 
first  accomplishment  of  its  kind  in  this  country. 


Scene  from  "The  Dead  Secret"  (Monopol). 

than  a  shock.     To  a  more  or  less  seasoned  reviewer  there  is 
in  the  dispelling  of  the  illusion  a  measure  of  humiliation. 

Such  was  the  experience  of  the  writer  in  following  the  fine 
work  of  Marion  Leonard  in  the  adaptation  of  Wilkie  Collins' 
"Dead  Secret" — not  at  one  point  alone,  but  at  two.  The 
story  is  one  which  for  high  results  depends  much  on  the 
care  with  which  the  camera  is  directed.  Surely  there  has 
been  able  direction  here.  We  have  double,  triple  and  even 
quadruple  exposures.  This  seems  to  be  one  department  of 
picture-making  which  many  directors  prefer  to  avoid,  as 
extra  exposures  entail  time  and  calculation  and,  of  course, 
expense. 


"HIAWATHA"  IN  THE  OPEN  AIR. 

Mr.  F.  E.  Moore,  the  producer  of  the  all-Indian  motion 
picture  masque  "Hiawatha,"  has  arranged  to  bring  the 
Indian  players  to  New  York  this  summer,  to  give  the  play  at 
Fieldston,  near  Van  Cortlandt  Park,  tinder  the  auspices  of 
the  Women's  Municipal  League.  Fieldston  is  a  short  walk 
from  the  242nd  Street  Station  of  the  Subway,  and  Mr. 
Moore  says  it  offers  greater  possibilities  than  any  place  he 
has  ever  had.  There  is  a  beautiful  little  lake,  with  tall  trees 
shading  the  seats,  and  when  the  Indians'  wigwams  are  put 
up,  the  rocks  will  form  a  perfect  background.  This  is  the 
ninth  season  for  the  play,  and  following  the  run  of  the  pic- 
tures at  the  Berkeley  Theater,  which  has  advertised  the 
Indian  Players,  aided  by  the  enthusiasm  of  the  women  who 
have  it  in  charge,  the  engagement,  which  is  indefinite,  should 
prove  the  most  successful  "Hiawatha"  has  known.  Those 
who  have  seen  the  pictures  will  be  glad  of  an  opportunity  to 
see  the  actors  in  their  parts  and  hear  their  songs. 
.  June  9th  has  been  chosen  for  the  opening,  and  two  per- 
formances will  be  given  daily  except  Sunday,  one  at  four 
and  the  other  at  8:30.  Special  performances  for  children 
will  also  be  arranged,  at  which  Indian-made  souvenirs  will 
be  distributed. 

BOSTON  POSTER  BRANCH  OPENED. 

W.  P.  Allen,  formerly  of  Cleveland  and  recently  manager  of 
the  General  Film  Company's  poster  department  at  71  West 
Twenty-third  street,  New  York  City,  has  this  week  opened 
a  Boston  branch  of  the  poster  department  at  218  Commercial 
street.  The  quarters  comprise  3,400  square  feet  of  floor 
space.  Business  was  begun  with  a  complete  stock  of  theater 
advertising.  Mr.  Allen,  who  is  well  and  favorably  known 
to  the  exhibitors  of  New  York  and  Ohio,  has  had  a  wide 
business  experience,  makes  friends  quickly,  and  holds  them. 

General  Manager  Balsdon  announces  that  another  branch  of 
the  poster  department  will  be  opened  in  two  weeks  at  122 
Pearl  street,  Buffalo. 

The  World  desires  to  state  that  through  a  most  regrettable 
error  in  our  last  issue  the  price  of  the  artistically  colored 
multiple-reel  slides  now  being  sold  by  the  poster  department 
was  made  to  read  25  cents.  It  should,  of  course,  have  been 
35  cents. 


Scene  from  "The  Dead  Secret"  (Monopol). 

Miss  Leonard  shows  in  her  interpretation  of  these  two 
roles  that  there  has  been  no  lessening  in  the  quality  of  her 
art — that  there  is  an  increasing  depth  of  appeal.  As  the 
carefree  daughter  she  is.  charming;  but  as  the  mother,  in  the 
beginning  with  the  fatherless  infant  and  later  struggling  to 
protect  the  child  grown  to  womanhood  from  the  clutches  of 
the  blackmailer,   she  is  at  the  best.     There  is  serious  work 


INDIANS    ENTERTAIN    AT    KAY-BEE    OFFICES. 

On  Thursday,  May  8,  fifteen  full-blooded  Indians  in  blankets, 
headdress  and  war  paint  were  entertained  at  the  offices  of 
the  New  York  Motion  Picture  Company,  at  Broadway  and 
Forty-second  street.  The  original  Americans,  who  were 
appearing  in  the  Buffalo  Bill  show,  were  entertained  with 
coffee  and  cake  and  shown  many  photographs  of  the  Indians 
working  in  the  Kay-Bee  and  Broncho  companies  on  the 
coast.  Before  their  departure  they  were  prevailed  upon  to  do 
an  impromptu  war  dance  around  the  large  library  table  in 
the  office  of  Kessel  &  Baumann,  to  the  immense  entertain- 
ment of  the  office  staff.  The  red  men  expressed  their  pleasure 
over  the  visit  and  extended  an  invitation  to  all  present  to  come 
and  see  them  in  return. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


"The  Female  Raffles" 

Thrilling    Detective    Story    Released    by    the    United    States 
Film  Company. 

PROBABLY  the  quickest  finish  ever  given  any  division  of 
stage  production  was  the  solar  plexus  delivered  the 
popular  priced  melodrama  by  the  moving  picture.  In 
two  seasons  thirty  firms  of  producers  went  to  the  wall  and 
this  class  of  show  was  completely  wiped  from  the  boards. 

Why?  because  the  essence  of  drama  is  the  punch.  A  dra- 
matic punch  is  a  blow  on  the  intellect  that  makes  the  brain 
wake  up  and  get  busy.  Light  travels  faster  than  sound:  the 
eyes  read  faster  than  the  ears;  cut  out  the  ears  and  smash  in 
your  punch  through  the  eyes  and  the  action  is  quicker. 
Quicker  action  caused  the  moving  pictures  to  beat  the  melo- 


Scene  from  "The  Female  Raffles"  (U.  S.). 


drama,  and  there  is  more  action,  direct,  jamming,  gripping 
action  in  one  foot  of  the  film.  "The  Female  Raffles."  than  in 
all  the  acts  of  all  the  "crook"  dramas  now  running  in  the  two 
dollar  theaters  of  New  York  City. 

Ever  since  Cain  beat  up  Abel,  the  man  who  puts  over  the 
first  blow  cops  the  belt  in  his  division,  and  the  picture  which 
lands  from  the  verv  start  is  bound  to  come  out  a  winner. 
"The  Female  Raffles"  lands  right  off  the  reel.  It  is  the  life- 
story  of  the  Countess  de  Havez. 


Scene  from  "The  Female  Raffles"  (U.  S.). 


The  secret  service  of  the  Russian  government  is  the  most 
effective  in  the  world.  Its  best  servants  are  beautiful  women. 
Schooled  from  girlhood  in  the  political  service  of  the  Czar, 
they  travel  about  the  capitals  of  the  world  enslaving  diplo- 
mats and  other  government  agents  and  wresting  their  se- 
crets from  them.  But  one  of  the  greatest  Russian  beauties, 
the  Countess  de  Havez.  turned  against  her  native  land,  and 
instead  of  joining  the  ranks  of  the  beautiful  detectives,  pro- 
ceeded to  use  the  same  methods  in  preying  upon  the  wealthy 
Russians  of  noble  birth. 

Her  sad   story  is   fact,  written   imperishably  on  the  pages 


of  the  Bertillion  records;  the  tale  of  one  of  the  most  talented 
and  lovely  of  women,  who,  through  a  spirit  of  adventure  and 
revenge,  baffled  the  experts  of  the  European  detective 
agencies,  and  was  only  brought  to  justice  through  the  su- 
perior skill  of  an  American  detective. 


BUSHMAN  RETURNS  TO  ESSANAY. 

At  a  recent  meeting  in  New  York  with  George  K.  Spoor, 
president  of  the  Essanay  Mfg.  Company  of  Chicago,  Mr. 
Francis  X.  Bushman  signed  a  new  contract  for  a  very  large 
figure  and  will  return  to  permanent  stock  work  as  leading 
man  of  the  Essanay  Eastern  forces.  After  several  success- 
ful seasons  with  the  Essanay  company,  Mr.  Bushman  re- 
signed last  November  to  make  a  lecture  tour  of  the  principal 
eastern  states  and  cities,  appearing  at  the  leading  photoplay 
houses.  His  trip  was  a  huge  success  both  for  himself  and 
for  the  theaters  in  which  he  appeared.  Mr.  Bushman's  lecture 
consisted   of  a   general   preliminary   talk   about   moving   pic- 


Mr.  Francis  X.  Bushman. 

tares  in  the  making,  after  which  he  elucidated  a  number  of 
Essanay  pictures  in  which  he  had  played  the  leading  part. 
His  work  was  a  decided  success  and  besides  packing  the 
theaters  where  he  was  booked,  the  effects  of  his  drawing 
power  lasted  for  many  days  after  he  had  gone,  and  gave 
a  new  life  to  some  houses  whose  popularity  had  been 
divided. 

Mr.  Bushman's  trip  covered  New  York  State.  Pennsyl- 
vania, Ohio,  Tennessee,  Arkansas,  Louisiana.  Mississippi, 
Alabama,  Georgia,  the  Carolinas  and  Virginia.  He  still 
had  many  more  dates  to  fill,  but  owing  to  his  new  arrange- 
ment with  the  Essanay  Company  these  dates  have  been 
canceled.  For  the  summer  the  Essanay  acting  company  in 
which  Mr.  Bushman  will  play  leads  is  to  be  located  at 
Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  and  it  will  be  directed  by  Mr.  "Pop"  Wharton. 


KING  BAGGOT  GOING  TO  EUROPE. 

King  Baggot,  leading  man  of  the  Imp  Films  Company, 
informs  us  that  himself  and  a  number  of  other  Universal 
players  are  booked  to  leave  New  York  on  the  steamship 
Mauretania  at  i  a.  m.,  Wednesday,  May  21,  bound  for  London. 
It  is  said  that  these  players  are  making  the  trip  to  take  a 
special  production  and  that  they  will  be  back  in  New  York 
in  about  a  month.  The  Screen  Club  is  preparing  a  little 
send-off  for  Mr.  Baggot,  which  will  take  place  Tuesday 
night,  May  20. 


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MINNESOTA  BEATS  CENSOR  BILL. 

President  Raths  Says  Legislators  Are  Fair  and  Inclined  to 

Favor  Existing  National  Board  of  Censorship. 

A  letter  from  Mr.  Otto  N.  Raths,  President  of  the  Minne- 
sota Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League,  to  the  Moving  Pic- 
ture World,  from  which  extracts  are  herewith  printed,  gives 
further  evidence  that  there  is  a  strong  sentiment  through- 
out the  country  in  favor  of  the  method  of  censoring  pictures 
as  now  exercised  by  the  National  Board  of  Censorship. 
President  Raths  also  commends  the  Moving  Picture  World 
for  its  stand  on  the  censorship  question.  Here  is  what  he 
says: 

We  exhibitors  in  Minnesota  are  particularly  happy  at  this  time,  because 
our  State  legislature  has  adjourned  without  passing  a  single  law  affecting  the 
motion  picture  industry.  We  did  have  a  royal  battle  on  the  censorship 
question,  but  as  Minnesota  has  some  very  fair-minded  men  in  both  branches 
of  its  legislature  we  succeeded  in  sidetracking  the  measure. 

We  made  determined  effort  to  have  the  National  Board  of  Censorship 
legalized  in  Minnesota,  but  this  naturally  was  a  very  difficult  matter.  The 
members  of  the  Committee  on  General  Legislation  of  the  Senate,  however, 
to  whom  this  censorship  matter  was  referred,  were  satisfied  beyond  any  rea- 
sonable doubt  that  the  censorship  question  as  administered  by  the  National 
Board  of  Censorship  was  adequate.  The  League  in  Minnesota,  agreed  with 
them  that  wc  would  keep  tab  and  watch  for  any  films  not  censored  that 
might  be  brought  into  the  State,  and  that  we  would  assist  in  prosecuting 
the  theater  owners,  or  the  exchanges  handling  film  that  was  not  censored, 
and  that  might  be  offensive  to  the  community  in  which  it  would  be  shown. 

This  will  have  a  tendency  to  guarantee  that  every  film  that  is  displayed 
in  this  State  will  be  censored  by  the  National  Board  of  Censorship. 

I  want  to  congratulate  the  editor  of  The  Moving  Picture  World  for  his 
decided  stand  on  the  censorship  question.  It  seems  to  me  that  we  might  be 
able  eventually  to  legalize  a  board  of  censorship  that  would  be  national 
in  scope  and  yet  not  be  a  compulsory  matter  with  the  manufacturers.  The 
result  that  might  be  gained  by  an  organization  of  this  kind  is  satisfactorily 
manifest  as  every  manufacturer  in  the  United  States  or  in  foreign  countries 
whose  films  are  exhibited  in  the  United  States,  will  naturally  want  to  have 
that  guarantee  which  we  are  now  getting  from  the  National  Board  of 
Censorship,  and  which  in  my  judgment  is  impartial,  fair  and  equitable  and 
•long  the  proper  lines. 


CALL  FOR  MINNESOTA  CONVENTION. 

The  Second  Annual  Convention  of  the  Motion  Picture 
Exhibitors  League  of  Minnesota  will  be  held  at  the  Radisson 
Hotel,  7th  and  Nicollet  Ave.,  in  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  on 
Tuesday  and  Wednesday,  June   10th  and  nth,  1913,. 

The  session  will  open  promptly*  at  ten  o'clock  A.  M. 

The  Minneapolis  exhibitors  who  have  this  convention 
in  charge  assure  us  that  every  visiting  exhibitor  will  be 
treated  royally  while  in  their  city.  They  also  aim  to  have 
exhibits  by  the  film  exchanges  and  manufacturers,  and  this 
fact  alone  should  induce  every  exhibitor  to  attend  this  con- 
vention. 

It  seems  a  pity  that  there  are  exhibitors  in  this  state 
who  don't  realize  the  value  and  importance  oi  this  organi- 
zation. The  work  accomplished  during  the  last  session 
of  the  State  Legislature  in  preventing  regulation,  drastic 
and  prohibitive,  against  our  industry  should  be  evidence 
to  you  that  this  is  a  matter  of  business  and  not  child's  play 

If  you  are  already  a  member  of  this  organization  see  to 
it  that  your  quarterly  dues  of  $2.50  for  the  quarter  ending 
July  1st,  1913,  are  in  the  hands  of  the  Secretary,  Mr.  E.  F. 
Purdy  of  Minneapolis.  In  spite  of  the  fact  that  so  much 
was  accomplished  for  the  League,  and  necessarily  a  great 
deal  of  money  spent,  yet  some  of  the  exhibitors  are  slow 
in  looking  after  this  small  matter.  If  you  are  not  a  member 
make  out  a  check  payable  to  H.  A.  Sherman,  Treasurer,  for 
$7.50.  which  will  include  initiation  fee  of  S5.00  and  quarterly 
jues  of  $2.50  for  your  first  quarter,  then  make  up  your  mind 
10  attend  this  convention.  I  am  sure  it  will  be  a  surprise  to 
you,  and  a  source  of  a  great  deal  of  information. 

The  ladies  are  especially  invited,  and  a  proper  form  of 
entertainment  will  be  provided  for  them. 

The  State  Legislature  adjourned  without  passing  a  single 
bill  effecting  the  motion  picture  business.  You  are  now  in 
a  position,  without  fear  or  favor,  to  continue  your  business 
■  along  the  same  lines  as  you  have  in  the  past,  only  that  I 
assure  you  the  League  will  do  everything  in  its  nower  to 
suppress  uncensored  films  that  might  offend  the  community 
in  which   they  are  shown. 


Mr.  D.  W.  Chamberlain,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on 
Legislation,  was  untiring  in  his  efforts  to  prevent  any  drastic 
laws  being  passed,  and  I  want  to  take  this  opportunity  to 
thank  him,  and  also  all  the  exhibitors  throughout  the  state 
who  so  promptly  responded  to  my  previous  letter  in  writing 
to  their  Senator  and  Representative. 

Don't  delay  in  becoming  a  member.  Delay  is  fatal  to  you, 
and  fatal'  to  all  the  exhibitors.  Don't  be  a  laggard,  and 
let  the  other  fellow  do  all  the  work,  and  think  you  can  rest 
secure  in  the  fact  that  he  is  doing  it.  Be  alive  and  wide 
awake,  and  do  your  share  toward  protecting  the  business 
in   which   you  are  engaged. 

We  are  going  to  insist  upon  every  theater  in  this  State 
becoming  a  member  of  this  League,  so  don't  delay  but  write 
me  at  once,  and  above  all,  send  me  that  check  for  $7.50. 

With  highest  personal  regards.  I  remain, 
Yours  very  truly, 

OTTO  N.  RATHS. 
Pres.  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  Minn., 

Gaiety  Theater,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 


MICHIGAN  CONVENTION. 

President  Carl  Ray  of  the  Michigan  State  League,  has 
issued  a  call  for  a  convention  of  that  organization  to  be 
held  at  Saginaw,  Mich.,  on  Tuesday  and  Wednesday,  June 
10  and  11.  Headquarters  will  be  at  the  Vincent  Hotel  and 
the  meetings  of  the  convention  will  be  held  in  the  Audi- 
torium. Every  exhibitor  in  Michigan  has  been  invited  to 
attend,  regardless  of  membership.  Railroad  fare  is  offered 
to  those  who  haven't  got  it. 

Important  legislative  matters  will  come  before  the  con- 
vention, also,  there  will  be  election  of  officers  and  delegates 
chosen  to  the  National  Convention  at  New  York  City.  Be- 
sides the  business  meeting  there  will  be  other  things  to 
take  up  the  dull  hours  in  the  way  of  amusements.  There  has 
been  a  committee  working  in  Saginaw  making  plans  for 
the  amusement  of  the  exhibitors  at  the  convention  and  a 
jolly  good  time  is  guaranteed,  with  plenty  of  music  and 
plenty  of  good  things  to  eat. 


LAST  CALL  FOR  PENNSYLVANIA   CONVENTION. 

The  second  annual  state  convention  of  the  Motion  Picture 
Exhibitors'  League  of  Pennsylvania  will  be  held  in  the 
Continental  Hotel  in  Philadelphia,  on  May  27th  and  28th. 
Through  the  influence  of  Mr.  Neff  the  Pennsylvania  ex- 
hibitors have  been  able  to  secure  the  services  of  Mr.  Clem 
Kerr,  who  will  act  as  manager  of  the  arrangements  in 
general.  Mr.  Kerr  has  already  achieved  much  prominence 
among  the  various  branches  of  the  Motion  Picture  Ex- 
hibitors' Leagues  throughout  the  country  for  his  adapt- 
ability in  organization  as  well  as  his  managerial  ability  in 
handling  these  conventions.  The  phenomenal  success  of 
the  convention  at  Dayton,  Ohio,  together  with  that  of  Colum- 
bus, Ohio  and  other  states  have  secured  for  Mr.  Kerr  the 
plaudits  of  all  who  have  seen  his  work.  The  National  Con- 
vention held  in  Chicago,  last  year,  also  owes  much  of  its 
phenomenal  success  to  his  unceasing  efforts  and  careful 
guidance. 

The  Pennsylvania  Convention  points  to  be  a  most  in- 
teresting one,  owing  to  the.  fact  that  in  this  part  of  the 
United  States  the  exhibitors  have  been  contending,  for 
some  time,  with  many  laws  and  orders  enacted  by  Civic 
authorities  through  their  ignorance  of  conditions,  that  has 
done  much   to  stay   the   onward   progress   of  this   industry. 

The  Continental  Hotel  is  one  of  the  most  ideally  arranged 
hotels  in  the  East  to  hold  an  affair  of  this  kind,  owing  to 
its  ample  auditorium  facilities.  To  one  side  of  the  room, 
whicli  will  be  used  for  the  Convention,  and  adjoining  the 
same  will  be  a  still  larger  room  which  will  be  artistically 
decorated  and  divided  into  booths  for  the  display  of  the  oy 
products  of  the  motion  picture  industry. 

The  detail  arrangements  are  in  the  hands  of  Mr.  Clem' 
Kerr,   who   will   act   as  manager,   Mr.    E.   A.     Jefferies,  who 


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will  be  the  General  Chairman  and  Mr.  J.  Hesser  Walraven, 
who  will  act  as  secretary  of  the  convention.  The  comforts 
•of  the  many  out  of  town  guests  who  will  wish  to  attend 
will  be  attended  to  by  a  carefully  selected  entertainment 
•committee  headed  by  Mr.  J.  Weinrich  and  assisted  by  Mr. 
A.  R.  Cavanaugh  and  others,  while  the  exhibits  will  be  in 
•charge  of  Messrs  Walter  Steumpfig  and  John  Greenbaum. 

That  the  convention  will  be  a  royal  success  is  already 
well  evidenced  by  the  many  inquiries  from  photoplay  ex- 
hibitors, manufacturers,  and  also  by  the  keen  interest  dis- 
played by  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  Civic  Authorities 
of  Philadelphia. 

Every  exhibitor  owes  it  to  himself  and  to  this  business  to 
arrange  his  affairs  so  that  he  can  spend  both  days  at  this 
convention,  May  27th  and  28th.  You'll  learn  many  things 
of  great  interest  to  your  business,  and  incidentally  meet 
the  finest  and  livest  wire  crowd  of  high  class  cinematography 
exponents  you  ever  heard  of.  There  will  be  no  dull  moments, 
every  second  of  both  days  will  be  one  grand  affair  after 
another — So  Mr.  and  Miss  Exhibitor  arrange  to  be  there, 
even  if  you  have  to  close  up  your  theater  to  do  so.  You 
will  never  regret  the  trip  and  the  good  time  that  will  be 
accorded  you  and  yours. 

WASHINGTON  EXHIBITORS  ENDORSE  NATIONAL 
BOARD. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Exhibitors'  League  of  the  District  of 
Coumbia,  held  at  Washington,  D.  C,  on  May  I,  the  follow- 
ing resolution  endorsing  the  National  Board  of  Censorship 
was  endorsed: 

Resolved,  that  this  organization  goes  on  record 
as  being  opposed  to  the  exhibition  of  motion  pic- 
tures not  censored  by  the  National  Board  of  Censor- 
ship. 

Resolved,  further,  that  this  matter  be  taken  up  at 
the  annual  convention  of  the  Motion  Picture  Ex- 
hibitors' League  of  America  to  be  held  in  New  York 
City. 

Resolved,  further,  that  a  copy  of  these  resolutions 
be  transmitted  to  the  press. 
A  regulation  promulgated  by  the  Commissioners  of  the 
District  forbidding  the  placing  of  easels,  sign  boards  and 
posters  in  theater  lobbies  Was  discussed.  It  was  decided 
that  the  regulation  was  a  reasonable  one  as  it  tended  to 
make  the  theater  lobbies  more  sightly  and  lessened  the  fire 
risk. 

A  resolution  putting  the  League  on  record  as  opposed 
to  any  contest,  gift,  lottery  or  advertising  scheme  in  con- 
nection with  picture  theaters  was  adopted. 

On  the  subject  of  the  attendance  of  children  several  com- 
munications were  presented  from  Mr.  Mertz,  Supervisor  of 
Schools  of  the  District  and  the  following  resolutions  were 
adopted: 

Whereas,  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors  League  of 
the  District  of  Columbia  disapprove  of  the  attend- 
ance of  unaccompanied  young  children  to  public 
places  of  amusement  in  the  evenings; 

Resolved,  that  no  children  under  the  age  of  four- 
teen years,  unaccompanied  by  an  adult,  be  admitted 
to  any  moving  picture  show  after  the  hour  of  eight 
o'clock  P.  M. 

Resolved,    further,   that   suitable   cards   be   printed 
to   this   effect  and   placed   in   the   box-offices   of  the 
theaters. 
A.    C.   Joy,   chairman   of   the   committee    on   the   relief   of 
flood  sufferers  reported  a  balance  of  $105.00  on  hand.     On 
motion   this   sum  was   sent  to  President   Neff   for  the  relief 
of  picture  men  in  Indiana  and  Ohio  affected  by  the  floods. 
A  motion  was  adopted  naming  the  President  and  National 
Vice-President,    yet   to   be   elected,   as   delegates    to   the    na- 
tional   convention    in    New   York   and   the    sum   of   $50  was 
appropriated  for  their  expenses. 


READING  EXHIBITORS   ORGANIZE. 

The  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  Reading,  Pa., 
was  organized,  with  the  election  of  the  following  officers: 
Ben  H.  Zerr,  president;  A.  W.  McKently,  first  vice-president; 
Charles  S.  Graul,  second  vice-president;  Julius  G.  Hansen, 
secretary;  Harry  J.  Schad,  treasurer;  Frank  A.  Gould,  pub- 
licity agent. 

The  object  of  the  organization  was  declared  to  be  "For 
mutual  protection  and  the  uplift  of  cinematography."  The 
majority  of  Reading  exhibitors  will  attend  the  State  con- 
vention in  Philadelphia  this  month. 

The  list  of  charter  members  includes:  Carr  &  Schad,  of 
the  Victor  and  Empire;  Ben  H.  Zerr,  Schuylkill  Avenue  pic- 
ture house;  Julius  G.  Hansen,  Gem;  Charles  S.  Graul,  Star; 
Edward  S.  Leightham,  Mecca;  McKently  and  Drexel,  Savoy; 
Frank  A.  Gould,  publicity  agent. 


Question  of  Entertainment 

New   York  Exhibitors  Have  Tackled   the  Task  of   Taking 
Care  of  Convention  Visitors. 

Making  things  pleasant  for  the  several  thousand  visitors 
expected  at  the  Convention  and  Exposition  of  the  Motion 
Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  America,  to  be  held  during  the, 
week  of  July  7  to  12,  at  Grand  Central  Palace,  New  York 
City  will  be  a  man's  job  and  no  small  one  at  that  Un- 
doubtedly there  will  be  a  number  of  women  and  children 
present,  the  wives,  daughters,  sons  and  sweethearts  of  dele- 
gates, who  will  not  be  interested  in  the  proceedings  of  the 
convention  and  who  will  have  to  be  taken  care  of  at  times 
when  their  protectors  are  engaged.  The  New  York  Ex- 
hibitors realize  that  they  must  make  things  pleasant  for  the 
ladies  and  much  of  the  plans  for  entertaining  will  be  framed 
to  that  end. 

President  Trigger  has  made  a  happy  choice  in  the  person 
of  William   Hilkemeier   for   chairman   of   the   Committee   on 


MR.  WILLIAM  HILKEMEIER, 
Chairman  Entertainment  Committee. 

Entertainment.  He  is  proving  himself  to  be  a  live  wire.  A 
careful  canvass  of  every  phase  of  the  entertainment  problem 
is  being  made  by  him  and  it  is  almost  safe  to  say  now  that 
he  will  arrange  a  program  that  will  satisfy  the  most  critical. 
Already  Chairman  Hilkemeier  has  secured  the  use  of  the  two 
palatial  steam  yachts  owned  by  C.  O.  Baumann  and  Ad 
Kessell  and  they  will  be  under  his  direction  during  the  entire 
convention.  Other  good  things  in  the  way  of  boat  and 
motor  joy  rides  are  promised.     Here's  to  Hilkemeier. 

Mr.  Richard  G.  Hollaman,  the  vice-president  of  the  In- 
ternational Exposition,  has  gone  to  Bermuda  for  a  pleasure 
trip.  Mr.  Hollaman  is  taking  a  very  active  interest  in  this 
Exposition  in  an  advisory  capacity  to  the  committee.  When 
he  returns  from  his  trip  he  will  devote  a  great  deal  of  his 
time  to  the  perfecting  of  all  the  plans. 

Two  of  the  feature  play  manufacturers  are  arranging  to 
theatake  quarter  time  in  the  open  theater  so  half  of  this  is  all 
that  remains  not  contracted  for.  The  work  of  building  the 
theaters  is  progressing.  Special  arrangements  have  been 
made  by  the  committee  with  the  International  Exposition 
Co.,  so  that  these  theaters  may  be  installed  in  the  Grand 
Central  Palace  by  the  first  of  July. 

Returns  are  coming  in  nicely  for  the  $25.00  prize  scenario 


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competition,  this  does  not  close  till  the  first  of  June  so  those 
who  are  thinking  of  competing  may  yet  send  their  offering 
to  the  secretary  Mr.  F.  E.  Samuels,  second  floor  of  the 
German  Bank  Building,  14th  St.  &  4th  Ave.,  N.  Y.  City. 


Flickers. 


MISSISSIPPI  MEETING  SUCCESSFUL. 
A  very  successful  meeting  of  exhibitors  of  the  Mississippi 
League  at  Jackson,  Miss.,  is  reported  by  President  H.  A. 
Carleton.  The  convention  was  held  in  the  Board  of  Trade 
assembly  hall  on  May  8,  and  20  new  members  were  added 
to  the  rolls.  After  the  business  meeting  there  was  an  au- 
tomobile tour  of  the  city.  In  the  evening  the  various  the- 
aters were  visited  and  the  day  concluded  with  a  dutch 
lunch  at  the  Bon  Ton  cafe.  A  number  of  exchange  men  were 
present. 


VIRGINIA  CONVENTION  CALLED. 
Mr.  C.  E.  Tandy,  chairman  of  the  convention  committee 
of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  Virginia,  an- 
nounces that  the  first  annual  convention  of  the  Virginia 
State  League  will  be  held  at  the  Jefferson  Hotel,  Richmond, 
Va.,  on  May  23.  L.  R.  Thomas  of  the  West  Virginia  League 
has  been  working  among  the  exhibitors  of  Virginia  for 
several  days  arousing  interest  in  the  meeting.  For  in- 
formation regarding  the  convention  address  C.  E.  Tandy, 
711   East  Broad  street,  Richmond,  Va. 


CONVENTIONS  SCHEDULED. 

Kansas  State  Convention — At  the  National  Hotel,  Topeka, 
June  2nd  and  3rd. 

Missouri  State  Convention — At  Springfield,  June  10th  and 
nth. 

Pennsvlvania  State  Convention — At  Philadelphia,  May  27th 
and  28th. 

Maryland  State  Convention — At  Baltimore,  Emerson  Ho- 
tel. June  3rd  and  4th. 

Delaware  State  Convention — At  DuPont  Hotel,  Wilming- 
ton. May  26th. 

Texas  State  Convention — At  Dallas.  May  28  and  29. 

Michigan  State  Convention — At  Vincent  Hotel,  Saginaw, 
June  10th  and  nth. 

Minnesota  State  Convention — At  Radisson  Hotel,  Min- 
neapolis, June  10th  and  nth. 

Virginia  State  Convention — At  Hotel  Jefferson,  Richmond, 
May  23rd. 


HUNGRY    REALISM    IN    "ROBESPIERRE." 

A  hungry  mob  scene  that  needed  no  rehearsal  to  make  it 
realistic  was  enacted  during  the  production  of  the  Imp 
three-reel  feature,  "Robespierre,''  under  the  direction  of 
Herbert  Brenon.  A  morning  of  strenuous  mob  scenes  was 
followed  by  a  call  for  luncheon.  The  delicatessen  that  fur- 
nishes lunches  for  the  Imp  studio  had  supplied  the  three  Imp 
companies  O.  K.,  but  the  mob  of  200  men,  women  and  chil- 
dren had  been  overlooked.  They  are  becoming  peevish. 
Director  Brenon,  to  save  time,  decided  to  go  on  with  the 
mob  scenes.  The  particular  scene  to  follow  was  the  mob's 
attack  on  the  bakeshop,  which  was  elaborately  stocked  with 
loaves  of  bread,  rolls,  cakes,  pies  and  all  kinds  of  pastry. 
When  the  mob  got  a  peep  at  the  foodstuffs — well,  you  can 
imagine  what  happened. 

The  whistle  blew;  the  scene  was  on;  the  hungry  mob  made 
one  grand  onslaught.  All  well-armed  with  axes,  clubs  and 
stones,  they  smashed  down  the  doors  and  crushed  in  the 
show-  window,  climbed  through  and  helped  themselves  in  true 
mob  fashion  to  everything  edible  in  sight.  Then  picking  up 
the  provender,  they  scurried  to  all  parts  of  the  studio  to 
lunch  sumptuously. 


HYDRO-AEROPLANE   PICTURES   OF  PANAMA 
CANAL. 

R.  A.  Duhem,  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Duhem  &  Harter 
of  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  called  at  the  New  York  office  of 
the  Moving  Picture  World  on  Tuesday,  May  13  and  related 
an  interesting  -story  of  his  experiences  on  a  recent  trip 
across  the  Isthmus  of  Panama  on  R.  G.  Fowler's  hydro- 
aeroplane. Mr.  Duhem  in  company  with  Aviator  Fowler 
arrived  in  New  York  on  May  11,  and  shared  the  distinction 
of  being  on  the  first  airship  to  cross  the  Isthmus.  The  trip 
was  made  on  Sunday,  April  27.  Some  time  was  consumed  in 
sparring  for  a  good  wind  before  the  flight  across  was  made, 
but  once  started  Mr.  Fowler  was  just  55  minutes  flying 
from  Panama  to  Colon.  Mr.  Duhem  operated  the  camera 
?nr\  is  confident  that  he  secured  some  excellent  views  of  the 
Canal  and  the  surrounding  country. 


OUR  little  mascot  has  been  lost.  I  took  it  over  to  be 
photographed  the  other  day,  and  on  the  way  back  it 
got  away  from  me.  If  any  of  you  fellows  get  a 
glimpse  of  it,  let  us  know  where  and  when,  please.  It  is  a 
real  film  hound,  and  answers  to  the  name  of  Sprockets.  For 
those  who  are  desirous  of  winning  the  offered  reward  for  its 
return,    we    are    publishing    the    following    description:      Of 


Watso's   Film   Hound   "Woof. 


course,  only  those  thoroughly  accustomed  and  acquainted 
with  the  action  and  manners  of  dumb  animals  would  be  able 
to  distinguish  mine  from  the  regular  every-day  hound.  In 
the  first  place,  like  every  other  dog,  it  has  a  reel  body,  and, 
on  account  of  its  unnatural  birth,  it  needs  an  occasional 
rewind,  and  then  proceeds  to  eat  a  hearty  meal  of  celluloid, 
with  a  bowl  of  film  cement  on  the  side.  After  thoroughly 
digesting  the  eats,  it  stretches  its  cameragraph  legs,  wags 
its  subtitled  tail,  and  moves  off  with  the  precision  of  a  regu- 
lar mutt. 

*  *     * 

Messrs.  T.  D.  Sloat  and  M.  M.  Watson,  president  and  sec- 
retary of  the  Apollo  Amusement  Co.,  Washington,  D.  C, 
while  visiting  in  New  York  last  week  called  at  the  offices 
of  the  World.  They  claim  that  their  chain  of  theaters  is 
second  to  none  in  any  part  of  the  country. 

*  *     * 

Young  Levine,  the  hustling  sales  manager  of  the  Solax 
Co.,  has  become  "some  entertainer"  since  his  company  moved 
to  their  new  home  on  Fort  Lee  hill.  Go  over  and  see  him, 
and  tell  him  to  give  you  the  same  thing  that  he  gave  me. 

*  *     * 

Charlie  Feature  Abrams  is  leaving  for  an  extended  trip 
among  the  feature  exchanges  this  week.  Leave  it  to  him  to 
come  back  with  an  arm  full  of  new  orders. 

*  *     * 

I  don't  know  what  has  happened  to  our  Chicago  friends, 
but  they  must  be  either  doing  a  tremendous  business,  and 
haven't  time  to  write,  or  they  are  studying  the  business 
methods  of  their  new  National  League  baseball  manager. 

*  *     * 

Alvin  B.  Giles,  advertising  director  of  the  Advance  Motion 
Picture  Company,  Chicago,  while  in  New-  York  last  week, 
called  in  to  see  us,  and  we  enjoyed  a  pleasant  talk  on  the 
future  of  the  motion  picture  for  advertising  purposes. 

*  *     * 

F.  E.  Moore,  owner  of  the  "Hiawatha"  pictures,  is  very- 
pleased  with  the  sales  he  has  made  within  the  past  week. 
New  York,  Western  Pennsylvania.  Ohio,  Illinois,  Missouri, 
California,  Washington,  Oregon,  Kansas,  Oklahoma,  Colo- 
rado, New  Mexico  and  Arizona  are  amongst  those  sold. 

*  *     * 

P.  P.  Craft,  president  of  the  Apex  Film  Company,  claims 
to  have  released  one  of  the  best  sellers  that  have  been  "put 
over"  in  some  time  in  "At  the  Risk  of  Her  Lite."  After  a 
six  days'  trip,  his  salesman.  Mr.  L.  Geisenberg.  returned  with 
six  sales  to  his  credit.     Some  record,  What? 

*  *     * 

Mr.  S.  Van  Ronkel,  sponsor  for  the  American  Slide  & 
Poster  Company,  Chicago,  and  one  of  the  best  fellows  ever, 
hit  the  big  town  this  week  and  will  be  with  us  for  a  few 
days.  The  "World"  office  was  the  first  call  he  made  and,  it  is 
needless  to  say,  we  were  all  glad  to  see  him  again. 

MAC. 


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At  the  Sign  of  the  Flaming  Arcs. 

By  George  Blaisdell. 

T  following  has  been  received  and  is  printed  in  modified 

form:  "Have  you  seen  the  Patheplay  of  Saturday,  May 
3_,  called  'General  Scott's  Ward'?  The  treatment  that  a 
dumb  creature  gets  in  that  picture  is  enough  to  make  boil  the 
blood  of  any  human  being.  I  have  been  around  horses  pretty 
much  all  my  life  and  have  been  with  men  who  often  had  to  de- 
pend upon  their  horses,  and  maybe  I  have  more  affection  for  these 
animals  than  others.  But  believe  me,  if  there'd  been  any  real 
men  around  when  the  bunch  who  took  that  picture  chucked  that 
horse  into  the  coulee  there  would  have  been  some  real  shooting." 
The  writer  of  this  department  has  not  seen  this  particular  film, 
but  has  heard  discussion  of  it.  The  incident  complained  of  is 
undoubtedly  that  for  which  three  men,  Jim  Kid,  Milton  Brown 
and  George  Champion,  were  arrested  in  Los  Angeles  and  fined 
$60.  The  fault  unquestionably  lay  at  the  door  of  the  director. 
The  World  has  already  commented  at  length  on  the  brutality 
complained  of.  The  fact  that  the  objectionable  scene  is  in- 
corporated in  the  film  as  released  makes  the  company  responsible. 
It  is  incomprehensible  that  it  should  be  released.  It  is  regret- 
able  that  such  cause  should  be  given  for  public  criticism. 

*  *    * 

Within  a  half  dozen  blocks  on  Broadway  now  a  picture  seeker 
may  look  at  Licensed,  Mutual  or  Universal  films.  Weber's 
Theater,  at  Twenty-ninth  Street,  is  showing  Mutual  and  the 
Bijou,  at  Thirtieth,  is  putting  on  Universal. 

*  *    * 

Romaine  Fielding,  who  has  been  directing  Lubin  pictures  down 
on  the  Mexican  border,  was  a  recent  caller  at  the  Screen  Club. 

*  *    * 

Announcement  conies  from  the  other  side  of  the  water  that 
Theodore  Burgarth,  the  director  of  the  Irving  Place  Theater,  of 
New  York  City,  has  been  exclusively  engaged  by  the  Continental 
Film  Company,  of  Berlin,  to  play  the  leading  roles  in  their 
forthcoming  productions. 

*  *    * 

At  6 130  on  Saturday  evening,  May  10,  the  temperature  accord- 
ing to  the  Weather  Bureau  report  stood  at  45  degrees.  In  the 
lobby  of  a  Brooklyn  picture  house  was  promiently  displayed  an 
icicle-bordered,  shivery  looking  poster  bearing  this  strange  in- 
scription :     "Twenty  degrees  cooler  inside." 

Let's  see.  Twenty-five  above?  No,  no!  Rather  remain  at 
home. 

*  *    * 

Frank  Smith  is  directing  Herbert  Brenon's  Imp  company  in 
the  absence  of  Mr.  Brenon  in  Europe.  Mr.  Smith,  who  is  as- 
sistant director  of  the  company,  has  had  wide  dramatic  experi- 
ence. 

*  *    * 

Chatting  with  Harry  Harvey,  one  time  director  of  Solax,  later 
with  Kay-Bee  and  Frontier,  who  is  now  in  New  York  looking 
over  the  situation,  he  showed  me  a  letter  from  that  prince  of  good 
fellows  George  P.  Hamilton,  general  manager  of  the  St.  Louis 
Motion  Picture  Company.  Mr.  Hamilton  was  writing  from 
Albuquerque,  and  his  letter  bears  eloquent  testimony  to  the  long- 
ing that  persists  in  the  breasts  of  picture  people  who  for  the 
time  are  expatriated  from  old  New  York.     Here's  an  extract: 

"It  makes  me  rather  lonesome,  and  a  longing  comes  into  my 
heart  to  see  once  again  that  marvelous  country.  The  contrast  is 
surely  wonderful,  Harry,  between  the  rugged  country  that  you 
were  working  in  here  in  the  Tijeras  and  the  smooth,  beautiful 
Broadway  with  its  many  alluring  attractions  both  day  and  night 
that  surely  make  one  feel  it  is  great  and  glorious  to  live  in  its 

tumult." 

•*    *    * 

Another  case  of  recovering  a  long-lost  is  reported  from 
Milwaukee.  Two  years  ago  George  Conway,  living  with  his  wife 
and  daughter  at  584  One  Hundred  and  Eighty-first  street,  New 
York  City,  went  to  Mexico  on  a  business  trip.  The  only  word 
ever  received  from  him  afterward  was  in  a  letter  from  Texas. 
As  a  revolution  was  in  progress  in  Mexico,  it  was  believed  that 
Conway  had  met  his  death.  Mrs.  Conway  died  from  worry  and 
grief.  The  daughter  went  to  Milwaukee  to  live  with  friends.  A 
few  weeks  ago  while  looking  at  a  picture  oi  the  Boardwalk  in 
Atlantic  City,  she  was  startled  to  see  on  the  screen  her  father. 
She  saw  him  enter  the  Savoy  Hotel.  A  message  sent  to  the 
hotel  was  unanswered.  Then  the  daughter  wired  various  per- 
sons who  had  known  her  father.     In  a  few  days  she  found  him. 

Mr.  Conway  started  for  Milwaukee. 

*  *    * 

A  local  chapter  of  Denver  Pythians  has  appeared  before  the 

camera  in  the  story  of  Damon  and  Pythias. 

*  *    * 

Popular  Mechanics  says  it  is  a  safe  prediction  that  in  the  future 
projection   rooms   will   be   provided   for   in   the  construction   of 


homes  costing,  say,  $25,000.  "Another  industry  which  will  soon 
come  into  existence  in  all  the  larger  cities  will  be  film  photog- 
raphy," continues  the  same  article.  "Children's  garden  parties 
and  other  functions  which  in  later  days  or  years  recall  pleasant 
memories  will  be  thus  perpetuated  by  the  film  photographer. 
He  will  eventually  be  considered  as  much  a  necessity  as  the 
orchestra." 

*  *    * 

The  Progressive  Party  plans  to  use  moving  pictures  in  its 
campaign  throughout  the  country.  The  executive  committee 
recommends  that  portrayals  of  social  injustice  be  displayed  in  as 
many  social  centers  as  it  may  be  possible  to  establish.  The  com- 
mittee suggests  that  the  commercial  film  companies  be  engaged 
to  make  as  many  of  the  films  as  they  can  handle,  but  that  the 
Progressives  themselves  undertake  the  making  of  such  pictures 
as  they  cannot  secure  otherwise  and  which  may  be  deemed  neces- 
sary for  campaign  purposes.  But  the  Progressives  should  have 
to  depend  on  themselves  and  not  on  exhibitors  for  the  dissemina- 
tion of  their  political  doctrines.  If  there  is  one  thing  more  than 
another  a  male  picture  follower  wants  left  off  the  screen  it  is 
anything  which  smells  of  politics. 

*  *     * 

Cines'  two-reel  special  of  May  2,  "The  Broken  Vow,"  entirely 
aside  from  its  splendid  dramatic  quality,  is  a  delight  to  the  eye. 
Throughout  the  first  reel,  scene  follows  scene  of  marvelous  rural 
pictorial  beauty. 

*  #    * 

The  prevailing  belief  that  picture  shows  have  lessened  the 
receipts  of  the  regular  theaters  is  not  justified  by  the  official 
returns  for  1912  in  Paris.  The  receipts  of  the  theaters  was 
$6,800,000,  an  increase  over  the  previous  year  of  3  per  cent. ;  of 
concerts  and  cafe  concerts,  $1,892,000,  an  increase  of  40  per 
cent.;  of  moving  pictures,  $1,360,000,  an  increase  of  143  per  cent. 
The  latter  figures  hardly  bear  analysis.  They  would  indicate 
that  on  an  estimate  of  an  average  admission  charge  of  5  cents 
American  money  but  approximately  70,000  persons  enter  picture 
shows  each  day.  Of  course,  there  are  many  houses  charging  less, 
as  also  there  are  many  charging  a  great  deal  more.  If  the 
figures  be  accurate  there  is  far  less  public  interest  in  motion  pic- 
tures in  the  French  capital  than  in  American  communities. 

*  *    * 

The  Congregational  Church,  of  Alpena,  Mich.,  has  suspended 
its  Sunday  evening  services.  This  is  the  first  time  that  this 
condition  has  prevailed  in  the  fifty  years  of  the  life  of  the  church. 
The  pastor  declares  that  the  inclination  of  the  people  to  stroll 
about  the  streets  or  patronize  the  picture  theaters  has  made  the 
vesper  devotions  a  service  in  name  only.  He  says  that  the  meet- 
ing will  not  be  resumed  until  100  men  members  so  petition  and 
pledge  their  attendance.  Why  not  try  a  kinematographic  pro- 
gram— of  a  semi-religious  nature  if  necessary — and  lure  back  to 
the  fold  the  stray  sheep? 

*  *    * 

On  the  morning  of  May  2  a  dispatch  was  printed  in  a  New 
York  paper  describing  experiments  at  Johns  Hopkins  LTniversity 
with  liquid  air.  It  had  been  discovered  that,  by  means  of  massage, 
life  could  be  restored  to  an  animal  which  for  a  month  had  been 
immersed  in  liquid  air — in  a  temperature  nearly  400  degrees  be- 
low zero.  In  the  Patheplay  split  film  of  the  same  date  entitled 
"Liquid  Air,"  the  demonstrator  takes  from  a  jar  two  eels.  One 
he  breaks  with  a  hammer  as  he  would  so  much  ice.  The  other 
he  puts  into  water,  and  almost  immediately  life  returns.  Thus 
we  see  on  the  screen  a  demonstration  of  the  truth  of  an  article 
the  veracity  of  which  one  might  have  been  pardoned  for  doubt- 
ing. 

*  *    * 

The  Savoy  Theater,  in  Thirty-fourth  street,  has  installed  a 
large  organ.  It  was  used  for  the  first  time  during  the  projection 
of  Arthur. Johnson's  "Power  of  the  Cross."  It  materially  added 
to  the  effectiveness  and  impressiveness  of  this  highly  dramatic 
production.  If  Arthur  Johnson  ever  put  over  its  equal  this 
writer  is  sorry  to  say  he  missed  it. 


A  WARNING  TO  OUR  READERS. 

A  few  weeks  ago  an  advertisement  of  the  Beck  Feature 
Company,  Petersburg,  Va..  was  inserted  in  our  Classified 
advertisements.  They  required  a  $10  deposit  on  all  orders. 
We  desire  to  warn  all  our  readers  against  sending  any  re- 
mittances to  this  concern  under  any  pretext  whatever.  We 
are  asking  the  Postal  Authorities  to  investigate  their  busi- 
ness methods  and  will  be  pleased  to  hear  from  anyone  that 
can  give  information  in  regard  to  them.  Readers  will  favor 
us  and  protect  themselves  by  making  it  a  rule  to  send  no  re- 
mittances in  advance  to  any  party  unknown  to  them.  We  are 
as  careful  as  possible  in  guarding  our  advertising  columns, 
but  occasionally  we  are  imposed  upon.  Send  no  money  in 
advance,  except  to  well-known  business  firms,  is  a  safe 
rule. 


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Manufacturers  Advance  Notes 


"HER  BIG  STORY"   (American). 

Lovers  of  good  fiction  the  nation  over  are  well  acquainted 
with  the  name  of  Richard  Washburn  Child.  One  of  his  best 
stories,  "Her  Big  Story,"  will  be  released  by  The  American 
on  Saturday,  May  31,  synonymous  with  its  appearance  in  the 
Popular  Magazine. 

The  story  centers  about  the  efforts  of  a  young  newspaper 
woman  to  land  a  big  story.  She  hears  much  from  the  staff 
of  the  "invisible  boss"  and  starts  out  to  locate  him.  Unfor- 
tunately for  her,  she  and  the  managing  editor  are  much  in 
love  and  this  proves  a  hindrance  to  both.  Slipping  into  the 
Mayor's  private  library,  she  is  caught  red-handed,  with  valu- 
able papers  in  her  hand,  by  the  Mayor  and  the  famous  "in- 


"THE  DISTRICT  ATTORNEY'S  CONSCIENCE"  (Lubin). 

This  story  is  a  wonderful  problem — a  cross  between  the 
good  and  bad  in  three  men.  It  is  not  wonderful  that  the 
District  Attorney  tries  to  shield  his  wife,  but  when  he  hears 
that  he  has  sacrificed  a  life,  his  agony  is  intense  because 
there  is  a  doubt.  Intuition,  however,  had  led  him  to  the 
right  path  and  the  reaction  brought  relief  that  was  fear- 
fully unexpected. 

Will  and  May  Mason,  seeing  indication  of  a  strike,  go  to 
the  factory  office  to  inform  Fred  Jackson.  The  men  become 
friendly  and  Mason  invites  the  factory  owner  to  take  dinner 
at  their  home  that  evening.  A  little  later  Jackson  has  an 
altercation    with    Tony    Gazeco,    one   of   the    leaders    of    the 


Scene  from  "Her  Big  Story"  (American). 

visible  boss,"  who  is  none  other  than  the  owner  of  the  news- 
paper on  which  she  works.  The  employer  undertakes  to 
discharge  her  and  so  orders  the  managing  editor.  This  pre- 
cipitates trouble  as  the  managing  editor,  long  accustomed 
to  "killing''  stories,  wants  to  compromise  the  matter  by  not 
publishing  the  article.  Cupid  then  gets  busy  for  the  young 
woman  promptly  spurns  his  love  and  takes  her  story  to  the 
opposition  paper.  The  managing  editor,  however,  finds  the 
call  of  love  of  more  consequence  than  his  job  and  the  pair 
are  reconciled. 

There  are  some  exciting  moments  in  the  picture  as  when 
the  young  woman,  wrestling  with  the  Mayor  and  publisher  in 
the  former's  library,  breaks  a  statuette  over  the  Mayor's 
head  and  in  the  confusion  makes  her  escape  as  she  came  in 
through  the  window  head  first. 


NICHOLAS   POWER  COMPANY   NOTES. 

Mr.  Will  C.  Smith,  Assistant  General  Manager,  has  returned 
from  a  trip  through  Central  Xew  York  and  Pennsylvania, 
during  which  he  attended  the  Moving  Picture  Exhibitors' 
Convention  at  Wheeling,  W.  Va.  While  in  Pittsburgh,  Mr. 
Smith  secured  the  approval  of  Power's  6A  with  motor  drive 
by  the  Bureau  of  Electricity  of  Greater  Pittsburgh. 

"The    Walturdaw    Co.,   Ltd.,    of   London,    England,   has  re- 
cently installed  eighteen  Power's  6's  in  London  and  suburbs. 

Through  the  Picture  Theater  Equipment  Company  of 
New  York  there  has  been  installed  one  Power's  6A  and  In- 
ductor in  Karl  Stromberg's  theater,  Hempstead,  L.  I. 

Two  Power's  No.  6A  with  motor  and  mechanical  speed 
control  have  been  installed  in  the  Colonnade  Theater,  542 
Nostrand  Avenue,  Brooklyn. 

Two  Power's  6A  have  been  installed  at  the  Harris  Theater, 
Pittsburgh,  and  one  No.  6A  at  the  Lyric  Theater,  Pittsburgh, 
through  J.   G.  Foley,  Johnstown. 


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Scene  from  "The   District  Attorney's   Conscience"    (Lubin). 

trouble.  Tony  is  drunk  and  draws  a  revolver  which  Jackson 
takes  from  him  and  puts  it  in  his  pocket.  As  per  invitation 
he  goes  to  the  Masons  to  dinner.  Mason,  who  is  the  dis- 
trict attorney,  is  however,  summond  to  his  office.  Kissing 
his  wife  goodbve  he  departs  telling  Jackson  to  make  himself 
at  home.  Jackson  is  infatuated  and  quickly  proceeds  to  make 
love  to  the  attorney's  wife;  for  a  while  she  seems  to  enjoy 
it,  and  Mason  returns  just  in  time  to  see  her  in  Jackson's 
arms.  Much  agitated  he  goes  to  his  room  when  presently 
he  hears  a  shot  fired  and  rushing  in  sees  Jackson  at  his 
wife's  feet  dead.  The  revolver  taken  away  from  Tony  is 
lying  on  the  table.  Gazeco  is  caught  rushing  from  the 
grounds  and  Mason  seeing  a  chance  to  clear  his  wife  of 
the  crime,  accuses  the  Italian.  He  is  tried,  convicted  and 
sent  to  the  chair.  The  morning  of  the  execution  Mason 
is  crazed  at  the  thought  that  he  had  convicted  an  innocent 
man  to  save  his  wile.  Presently  a  messenger  arrives  with 
a  letter  for'  Mrs.  Mason,  which  proved  to  be  a  confession 
from  the  Italian  that  he  had  fired  the  shot  through  the 
window. 


HAROLD  SHAW  TO  DIRECT  IN  LONDON. 

A  contract  was  closed  this  week  by  Mr.  W.  A.  Northam, 
representing  the  London  Film  Company  of  London,  Eng- 
land, with  Harold  Shaw,  formerly  a  director  at  the  Edison 
studio  and  until  this  week  a  director  at  the  Imp  studio, 
whereby  Mr.  Shaw  will  at  once  proceed  to  London  to  assume 
the  position  of  general  director  of  the  London  Film  Company. 
He  is  known  well  and  favorably  to  the  New  York  motion  pic- 
ture fraternity  and  enters  upon  his  new  duties  with  the  hearty 
good  wishes  of  the  trade  in  general  and  of  his  fellow  mem- 
bers of  the  Screen   Club  in  particular.    • 


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"THE  HUMAN  VULTURE"  (Patheplay). 
The  fact  that  the  greatest  successes  of  the  present  the- 
atrical season  are  criminal  plays,  or  at  least  plays  dealing 
with  criminals,  or  with  a  near-criminal  as  a  leading  char- 
acter, proves  pretty  positively  that  the  public  is  interested 
in  the  stories  of  persons  who  are  the  enemies  of  society. 
They  seem  to  wonder  by  what  process  of  reasoning  anyone 
will  decide  to  disregard  the  set  conventions  and  laws  of 
present  day  civilization.  The  public  will  listen  attentively 
and  study  with  zest  the  character  of  known  criminals  pro- 


Scene  from  "The  Human  Vulture"  (Patheplay). 

vided  they  do  not  have  to  make  their  acquaintance  per- 
sonally. 

This  fact,  then,  guarantees  the  success  of  "The  Human 
Vulture,"  a  Patheplay  in  two  reels,  dealing  with  a  criminal  who 
is  caught  attempting  a  crime,  and  a  woman,  innocent  enough, 
who  is  convicted  as  his  accomplice,  although  .she  has  only 
accepted  his  hospitality  in  a  time  of  great  distress.  (See 
synopsis  in  this  issue). 

The  acting  is  so  perfected  that  it  equals  a  legitimate  stage 
production  and  this  exceptionally  fine  playing  brings  the 
production  out  of  the  ordinary  and  until  after  the  last  of 
the  two  thousand  feet  have  been  reeled  off  the  audience 
will  not  realize  that  they  have  been  watching  a  film,  so 
finely  are  the  characters  portrayed. 

This  feature  Patheplay  is  booked  for  release  May  30th. 


HALLBERG  "ECONOMIZER"  INSTALLATIONS. 

As  a  fair  sample  of  his  ability  to  furnish  current  saving  and 
controlling  devices  for  all  circuits,  Mr.  J.  H.  Hallberg, 
"The  Economizer  Man,"  reports  that  in  one  mail  during 
the  past  week  he  received  orders  from  F.  M.  Taylor,  Academy 
of  Music,  Newburgh,  X.  Y.,  for  Hallberg  A.  C.  to  D.C. 
Economizer,  60  amp  outfit;  W.  N.  McConnell,  Bijou  Theater, 
Quincy,  111..  550  volt,  D.  C.  Economizer;  Albert  Kauffman, 
Rome,  N.  Y.,  Mercury  Rectifier  and  Edison  Model  B  M.  P. 
Machine;  M.  Schneiderman,  Bath  Beach,  Brooklyn.  1  No.  6A 
Power's  with  motor  drive  and  Inductor  Current  Saver.  In 
preparation  for  the  summer  season  of  open-air  shows, 
Mr.  Hallberg  also  reports  the  customary  large  demand  for 
Hallberg  Standard  A.  C.  Economizers.  These  well-known 
current  savers  are  carried  in  stock  for  either  no  or  220 
volts  A.  C.  Circuits,  ready  for  immediate  shipment. 


A  ST.  PAUL  PICTURE  STUDIO. 
Otto  N.  Raths,  owner  of  the  Gaiety  Theater,  St.  Paul, 
Minn.,  has  established  a  motion  picture  studio  in  his  city 
and  is  prepared  to  take  or  develop  motion  picture  film  on 
short  notice.  This  enterprise  should  be  of  considerable 
utility  in  taking  pictures  of  local  events  not  likely  to  be 
reached  by  the  regular  picture  makers.  The  equipment  is 
complete  and  can  turn  out  anything  in  the  way  of  negative 
development,  positive  printing  or  leaders  and  titles. 


GENE  GAUNTIER  PLAYERS  BACK. 
The  Gene  Gauntier  Players'  company  returned  from  Jack- 
sonville,  Fla.,  Sunday,  May  n,  and  are  now  busy  under  the 
direction  of  Jack  Clark  finishing  up  a  few  scenes  of  some 
subjects  started  in  the  South.  Sid  Olcott,  the  director  of 
the  company,  did  not  return  with  them,  as  he  has  not  fully 
recovered  from  the  effects  of  a  recent  operation.  He  will 
remain  in  Jacksonville,  with  friends  for  a  few  weeks  to 
recuperate. 


"LONDON  ASSURANCE"  (Reliance). 

This  old  and  well-known  play  of  Dion  Boucicault's,  first 
performed  in  New  York  in  1841,  at  the  Park  Theater,  lends 
itself  charmingly  to  pictures. 

The  famous  character  of  Lady  Gay  Spanker,  as  portrayed 
by  Edgena  De  Lespine,  is  as  much  a  success  on  the  screen 
as  it  has  always  been  on  the  stage.  E.  P.  Sullivan  plays 
Max  Harkaway  and  pretty  Ethel  Phillips  is  his  daughter, 
Grace,  whom  he  engages  to  the  old  beau,  Sir  Harcourt 
Courtly's   (Henry  Walton),  when  she  has  already  given  her 


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Scene  from  "London  Assurance"  (Reliance). 

heart  to  Sir  Courtly's  handsome  son,  Charles,  played  by 
Stanley  Walpole.  How  Lady  Gay  makes  her  meek  little 
husband  jealous  and  aids  the  despairing  lovers  successfully; 
how  old  Max  is  made  to  see  that  Charles  is  a  fitting  husband 
for  his  young  ward;  how  Sir  Courtly  realizes  his  folly  in 
trying  to  captivate  a  woman  of  Lady  Gay's  wit,  are  all  inci- 
dents that  help  to  make  a  very  interesting  film. 

Lawrence    McGill,   who   has    often    directed   this   piece    on 
the  stage,  produced  the  picture. 


DIRECTOR  DAWLEY  JOINS  FAMOUS  PLAYERS. 
General  Director  of  Productions  Edwin  S.  Porter,  of 
the  Famous  Pla3rers  Company,  confirms  the  report  that 
his  company  has  secured  the  services  of  Mr.  J.  Searle  Dawley, 
for  the  past  six  years  a  director  of  the  Thomas  A.  Edison, 
Inc.  Mr.  Dawley  will  have  charge  of  some  large  produc- 
tions. 


MIRACLE  INJUNCTION  VACATED. 

On  account  of  the  failure  of  the  Miracle  Company  to 
give  a  bond  of  $20,000  required  by  Justice  Lehman  in  the 
injunction  proceedings  of  that  company  against  Isaac  T. 
Danziger  and  the  New  York  Film  Company,  said  injunction 
has  been  vacated.  This  leaves  the  New  York  Film  Company 
free  to  sell  or  lease  "The  Miracle"  without  question. 


ANOTHER  SPECIAL  BY  ESSANAY. 
During  the  present  month  or  the  early  part  of  June,  the 
Essanay  Film  Manufacturing  Company  will  release  a  multi- 
ple reel  feature,  entitled  "The  Final  Judgment."  This  sub- 
ject is  gripping  in  portrayal  and  excellent  in  theme.  The 
above  mentioned  company  is  having  special  one,  three  and 
six  sheet  posters  made  of  this  feature.  Money  has  not  been 
spared  in  their  making.  E.  H.  Calvert  and  Dorothy  Phillips 
play  the  leads.  Keep  your  eye  on  all  Essanay's  Eastern  pro- 
ductions. 


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NEW  ENGLAND. 

ON  April  IT,  the  Committee  on  Mercantile  Af- 
fairs, to  whom  was  recommitted  the  Senate 
Bill,  relative  to  the  use  of  moving  picture  machines 
In  Massachusetts  (Senate.  No.  65),  reported  that 
the  same  ought  to  pass  in  a  new  draft,  submitted 
by  the  committee.  The  bill  in  question  is  the 
famous  "hour  bill,'*  asking  that  pictures  be  allowed 
to  be  projected  continuously  for  that  length  of  time 
instead  of  for  20  minutes,  as  the  present  law  calls 
for.  When  the  new  draft  was  made,  on  April  1", 
Messrs.  McGonagle,  of  the  Senate,  and  E.  F.  Har- 
rington, of  the  House,  dissented.  In  simple  lan- 
guage, the  bill  as  changed  at  that  time,  stated 
that  Kinemacolor  pictures  shall  be  run  continuously 
for  only  20  minutes,  while  every  other  kind  of 
cinematograph  may  run  the  full  hour.  On  May  1, 
the  bill  again  came  up,  and  a  motion  was  made 
that  the  Senate  reconsider  the  vote  by  which  it 
refused  to  order  to  a  third  reading  this  bill. 
The  bill  was  postponed  on  a  motion  of  Mr.  Blancb- 
ard,  Senator  from  Boston.  On  Monday,  May  5, 
the  bill  comes  up  again  for  final  consideration. 
After  progressing  so  favorably,  it  was  a  disappoint- 
ment to  exhibitors  to  learn  that  their  pet  bill  had 
hit  a  snag,  as  the  bill  was  nearly  thrown  out  on 
May  1.  Of  course,  if  the  bill  passes  in  its  present 
form,  Kinemacolor  is  hard  hit,  and  the  theaters 
using  this  form  of  moving  pictures,  will  be  at  a 
most    distinct    disadvantage. 

The  Massachusetts  Branch  of  the  Exhibitors' 
League  is  making  great  progress,  and  increasing 
its  list  of  members  almost  daily.  Already  plans 
are  being  made  for  the  big  convention  at  New  York 
this  July,  and  a  representative  delegation  from 
New  England  is  sure  to  be  on  the  job.  President 
Joseph  Mack  is  simply  working  night  and  day  to 
further  the  interests  of  the  Branch,  and,  best  of 
all,  he  is  showing  good  results. 

Moving  Picture  Operators'  Union  representatives 
called  last  week  upon  the  owners  of  theaters  in 
and  around  Boston,  for  signatures  to  a  renewal  of 
the  agreement  secured  a  year  ago.  No  trouble 
was  found  at  any  of  the  theaters.  President  James 
F.  Burke  and  Business  Agent  Franke,  of  the  local, 
were  elected  the  delegates  to  the  State  Convention 
of  the  Unions  of  the  big  A.  F.  of  L.  Theatrical 
Stage  Employees'  Alliance,  which  was  held  at  Fitch- 
burg,  Mass.,  cm  Sunday,  May  4.  This  local  is  in  a 
most  flourishing  condition,  and  things  are  going 
particularly    smoothly    with   it. 

"Moving  Pictures,"  was  the  subject  of  an  open 
meeting  conducted  this  week  by  the  recreation  com- 
mittee of  the  Children's  Welfare  League,  at  the 
ward-room  in  the  Roxbury,  Mass.,  District  Court 
House.  Remarks  of  an  Interesting  and  instructive 
nature  were  made  by  the  members  of  the  League, 
Parents  Associations  of  the  schools,  and  moving 
picture  theaters.  It  surely  is  most  interesting  to 
note  the  change  of  attitude  of  this  and  similar 
organizations  towards  motion  pictures.  The  Cine- 
matograph, but  a  short  while  ago,  was  the  pet 
aversion  of  these  societies,  while  now,  a  great 
amount  of  good  is  said  of  it.  At  the  meeting  just 
referred  to,  motion  pictures  came  in  for  a  eulogy 
instead  of  the  former  bitter  attack  that  used  to 
be  the  regulation  thing. 

On  May  1,  members  and  friends  of  the  Arab 
Patrol  Club  of  Aleppo  Temple,  secured  the  Globe 
Theater,  Boston,  all  to  themselves,  and  enjoyed 
a  long  entertainment  of  vaudeville  and  moving 
pictures.  The  Globe  Theater  is  doing  a  very  satis- 
factory business  under  its  present  policy,  which 
is  a  great  deal  more  than  could  be  said  of  it  when 
it  offered  legitimate  attractions. 

The  Tremont  Theater,  Boston,  a  regular  $2  house, 
will  have  a  genuine  novelty  for  its  patrons  for  the 
next  few  weeks,  as  Buffalo  Jones  is  coming  to  this 
theater  to  present  his  entertainment,  "Lassoing 
Wild  Animals  In  Africa."  Moving  pictures  of 
Colonel  Jones'  African  expedition,  described  in 
graphic  fashion  by  Buffalo  Jones,  are  expected  to 
pull  in  the  business.  Mr.  Jones  is  a  great  favorite 
in  Boston,  where  he  appears  regularly  each  year, 
with  his  exciting  moving  pictures,  and  will  give 
matinees  dally  at  the*  Tremont  Theater,  at  popular 
prices. 

Louise  M.  Marion's  illustrated  poems  were  a 
feature  at  the  Comique  Theater,  Boston,  this  week, 
and  the  management  declare  that  Miss  Marion's 
net  was  one  of  the  best  they  have  used  in  many 
months,  as  the  audience  seemed  to  take  unusual 
interest  in  the  novelty. 

A  recent  Incorporation  is  the  E.  J.  Caron  Amuse- 
ment Company,  of  Boston,  that  filed  papers  this 
week  as  a  $50,000  concern,  with  Eugene  F.  0"Neill, 
Alfred  E.  Woodward  and  Edward  J.  Caron  as  the 
promoters. 

Another  incorporation  this  week  is  the  Boston 
Mutual  Film  Corporation.  This  is  a  $5,000  con- 
cern, and  Edwin  D.  Twombly,  A.  W.  Philbrick 
and   Pexley   D.    Smith,    are   named   as    the    officers. 


On  Monday,  April  28.  fully  1,000  persons  wit- 
nessed the  first  exhibition,  at  Tremont  Temple, 
Boston,  of  the  moving  pictures  of  the  production 
of  the  "Pilgrim's  Progress,"  in  natural  coloring, 
the  invention  of  F.  W.  Hochstetter,  of  Munich, 
Germany.  The  natural  and  harmonious  coloring 
of  the  pictures  as  seen  by  this  writer,  was  so 
realistic  that  one  could  hardly  reconcile  himself 
to  the  fact  that  he  was  watching  moving  pictures. 
The  life  of  John  Banyan,  author  of  "Pilgrim's 
Progress,"  was  graphically  depicted  from  bis  youth, 
when  he  was  deemed  the  worst  boy  in  town,  to 
manhood,  when  he  became  leader  of  the  people. 
Miss  Katherine  Eggleston  delivered  an  exceedingly 
able  and  interesting  lecture  on  the  reels,  which 
made  a  most  acceptable  entertainment. 

S.  Z.  Poll  is  steadily  making  plans  to  increase 
the  number  of  his  New  England  theaters  devoted  to 
vaudeville  and  pictures.  The  commissioner's  office 
at  Springfield,  Mass.,  shows  that  Mr.  Poli  took  out 
a  permit  to  build  a  theater  in  that  city  this  week. 
The  location  is  between  Taylor  and  Worthington 
streets,  just  off  of  Main  street.  Mr.  Poli  intends 
to  erect  a  theater  to  cost  approximately  $100,000, 
and  one  that  will  be  of  brick,  steel  and  concrete 
construction.  The  entrance  is  planned  from  the 
Worthington  street  side,  opposite  the  Worthy  Hotel, 
and  from  the  door  the  patrons  will  pass  through 
a  long  lobby  to  the  body  of  the  theater.  The  di- 
mensions of  the  building  will  be  138  by  102  feet, 
and  It  will  be  60  feet  high.  The  plans  were  drawn 
up  by  Messrs.  Brown  and  Ban  Beren,  of  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  wfio  have  planned  several  of  the 
Poll  theaters  in  other  cities.  The  contractors  will 
be  the  T.  J.  Pardie  Construction  Company,  of 
Bridgeport,  Conn.  The  new  Poli  Theater  will  seat 
at  least  3,000  people,  and  Mr.  Poli's  representatives 
state  that  the  new  theater  will  distinctly  out-class 
every  house  in  Springfield  playing  vaudeville  and 
picture  programs. 

The  New  Haven  Lodge,  No.  110,  Theatrical  Me- 
chanical Association,  held  a  benefit  performance  at 
Poli's  Theater,   New  Haven,   Conn,,  on  April  27. 

The  Casino  Theater,  on  Mathewson  street,  Provi- 
dence, R.  I.,  a  moving  picture  theater,  was  the 
scene  of  great  excitement  on  Saturday  evening, 
May  3,  when  fire  attacked  the  roof  of  the  audito- 
rium. Two  hundred  people,  mostly  girls  and  wo- 
men, reached  safety  through  the  fire  escapes,  while 
400  others  made  for  the  regular  exits.  Henry  Sul- 
livan, the  piano  player,  was  the  hero  of  the  occa- 
sion, as  he  stuck  to  his  post,  playing  lively  music, 
which  helped  to  keep  the  audience  calm.  The 
Casino  is  built  over  a  bowling  alley,  and  the 
auditorium  is  25  feet  above  the  street  level,  which 
explains  the  necessity  of  fire  escapes.  No  damage 
to  life,  and  not  very  much  to  the  theater,  resulted. 
For  the  most  part,  the  audience  kept  cool,  and 
while  there  was  a  great  rush,  there  was  no  panic. 
The  cause  of  the  fire  is  unknown. 

The  city  authorities  of  Boston  are  all  devoted 
photoplay  fans.  City  Counsellor  Walter  Ballantyne, 
who  is  a  grandfather,  takes  great  enjoyment  in 
watching  the  moving  pictures  regularly  each  week. 
Hardly  a  week  goes  by  that  the  councillor  fails  to 
find  time  to  visit  a  certain  moving  picture  house 
in  the  vicinity  of  City  Hall,  and  he  ia  generally 
accompanied  by  his  colleague,  City  Councellor 
Thomas  J.  Kenny,  the  sedate  president  of  the  body. 
A  Sunday  Concert  was  given  on  Sunday  night, 
May  4,  at  the  Gem  Theater,  East  Boston,  Mass., 
by  the  East  Boston  Young  Men's  Hebrew  Associa- 
tion, for  the  benefit  of  their  Sunday  School.  A 
large  program  of  vaudeville  and  pictures  pleased 
the  large  audience.  The  Gem  Theater  is  steadily 
gaining  in  popularity  with  East  Boston  people,  as 
it  shows  excellent  photoplay  programs,  and  is 
managed  most  ably. 

The  Broadway  Theater,  Springfield,  Mass.,  has 
installed  2  Power's  Cameragraph  machines,  No. 
6-A.  Although  this  house  is  now  playing  stock 
company  attractions,  the  policy  will  be  changed 
before  long,  to  vaudeville  and  pictures. 

Connecticut  exhibitors  are  overjoyed  by  the  news 
that  the  Senate  has  adopted  a  bill  providing  for 
a  more  liberal  observance  of  Sunday.  Under  its 
provisions,  sports,  musical  entertainments  and 
moving  picture  shows  will  be  allowed,  during  pre- 
scribed hours.  This  means  much  to  the  moving 
picture  exhibitors  of  this  state,  as  the  theaters  in- 
variably do  a  capacity  business  on  Sundays,  wher- 
ever the  law  allows  them  to  operate  on  that  day. 

The  old  Day  Street  Congregational  Church,  Somer- 
vllle,  Mass.,  Is  to  be  converted  into  a  moving 
picture  theater,  by  Ex- Alderman  J.  F.  Mixer,  who 
has  been  granted  a  license.  The  location  Is  a  good 
one,  and  a  paying  theater  should  be  developed 
under  the  right  management. 

The  Casino  Theater,  Elm  street,  Hartford,  Conn., 
is  finding  business  very  good  since  it  reopened. 
This  bouse  is  showing  Kinemacolor  subjects  ex- 
clusively, and  the  natural  color  films  are  becoming 
very  popular  at  Hartford. 

The  Boston  Theatrical  Stage  Employes'  Union, 
at  its  meeting  on  Sunday,  April  27,  nominated 
the  following  officers:  President,  E.  T.  Reynolds; 
Vice-president,  W.  N.  Meagher;  Recording  Secre- 
tary, M.  P.  Pickering;  Financial  Secretary,  J.  J. 
Barry;  Business  Agent,  J.  J.  Barry.  Executive 
Board,  F.  J.  Dempsey,  W.  F.  Gaul,  M.  P.  Picker- 
ing, J.  F.  Haley,  T.  J.  Callaghan,  Thomas  Keenan, 
W.  M.  Gallagher,  J.  H.  Duffy  and  James  O'Rourke. 
Patrick  Maloney,  M.  Gallagher,  T.  J.  Callaghan, 
George  Ingersoll,  J.  J.  Barry  and  James  Murphy 
were  nominated  as  the  delegates  to  the  Boston 
C.  L.  U. 

Mayor  J.  F.  Hurley,  of  Salem,   the  executive  who 


always  wears  the  high  silk  bat,  has  signed  a 
contract  with  the  United  States  Moving  Picture 
Company,  to  appear  as  leading  man  in  a  photoplay 
or  two.  The  mayor  is  to  be  the  central  figure  in 
the  burning  of  his  dwelling  at  Salem,  and  is  to  be 
a  noble  rescuer  of  the  inmates  of  his  house.  Since 
Mayor  Hurley  is  such  a  devoted  admirer  of  moving 
pictures  as  to  personally  act  before  the  camera, 
his  action  In  issuing  an  edict  that  all  photoplay 
theaters  must  be  shut  down  tight  on  Sundays  is 
quite  strange.  However,  Mr.  Hurley  is  known  as 
a  rather  peculiar  man. 

Messrs.  Pindar  and  Rndloff,  managers  and  own- 
ers of  the  Crystal  Theater,  Meriden,  Conn.,  swear 
by  Mutual  films,  as  they  state  that  the  Mutual 
program  has  been  the  means  of  building  up  a 
most  satisfactory  business  for  the  theater.  The 
Crystal  does  not  use  vaudeville  in  its  programs,  but 
offers  a  large  bill  of  pictures. 

Business  took  a  decided  turn  for  the  better  at 
the  Opera  House,  Lawrence,  Mass.,  starting  on 
April  14,  at  which  date  Mr.  William  White  took 
over  the  management  of  this  theater.  Mr.  White 
is  offering  programs  of  vaudeville  and  pictures  that 
are  the  talk  of  Lawrence.  The  result  is  capacity 
business.  Mr.  White  also  manages  the  Victoria 
Theater,  of  Lawrence,  where  he  gives  programs 
of  motion   pictures  and  illustrated  songs. 

Messrs.  Donovan  &  Walker,  who  recently  took 
over  the  new'Boylen  Theater,  Taunton,  Mass.,  state 
that  they  are  well  pleased  with  their  bargain,  and 
expect  to  do  a  nice  business  at  the  Boylen,  with 
programs  of  vaudeville  and   moving  pictures. 

The  Columbia  Theater,  Bath,  Me.,  Is  now  man- 
aged by  F.  H.  Burt,  who  recently  secured  a  lease 
on  this  house.  Mr.  Burt  made  some  needed  im- 
provements in  the  Columbia,  and  among  other 
things,  installed  a  Power's  No.  6-A  machine.  The 
Columbia  has  a  prominent  location  in  the  business 
district,  and  should  do  well  with  programs  of 
moving  pictures  and  illustrated  songs. 

Walter  T.  Murphy,  manager  of  the  Lyceum  The- 
ater, New  London,  Conn.,  has  made  arrangements 
whereby  his  house  will  show  Kinemacolor  subjects, 
on  and  after  May  1.  Manager  Murphy  is  a  live 
wire,  and  is  always  ready  to  give  his  patrons  any- 
thing that  he  thinks  may  please  them. 

On  Tuesday,  May  6,  the  regular  monthly  meeting 
of  the  Massachusetts  Branch  of  the  Motion  Picture 
Exhibitors'  League,  will  be  held  at  its  Boston 
headquarters  on  La  Grange   street. 

Jacob  Lurie,  president  and  general  manager  of 
the  Beacon  Theater,  Boston,  stated  this  week  that 
his  business  was  not  up  to  the  mark,  and  the 
great  majority  of  Boston  exhibitors  are  saying  the 
very  same  thing.  The  warm  weather  is  playing 
havoc  with  the  theatrical  business  in  this  section, 
if  we  are  to  believe  the  wails  of  the  managers. 

The  Victor  Amusement  Company,  of  Worcester, 
Mass.,  was  incorporated  recently.  This  is  a 
$10,000  concern,  with  Albert  V.  Pickering,  Richard 
Pickering,  Albert  Fisk,  George  Walts  and  Frank  W. 
Wellis,   as  the  promoters.  HENRY. 

BUFFALO. 

T  A.  PFERD,  treasurer  of  the  Motion  Picture  Ex- 
J  •  hibitors'  League  of  Buffalo,  has  secured  from 
Dr.  W.  H.  Heath,  of  the  Buffalo  Health  Department, 
a  film  showing  how  files  spread  contagion.  At  the 
request  of  Dr.  Heath,  these  pictures  will  be  shown 
in  various  Buffalo  theaters.  Similar  films  will  be 
distributed  with  a  view  to  teaching  citizens  how 
the  spread  of  disease  may  be  checked  and  the  ad- 
vantages of  sanitation. 

The  Chippewa  Amusement  Co.,  of  Buffalo,  which 
will  engage  in  the  moving  picture  business,  has 
heen  incorporated,  with  a  capital  of  $10,000.  The 
directors  are  Paul  Sheehan,  A.  J.  Adler  and  William 
H.  Gorman. 

A  moving  picture  concern,  whose  name  has  not 
heen  announced,  has  made  a  contract  by  which 
John  Place,  23  years  old,  of  153  Fletcher  street, 
Tonawanda,  N.  T.,  has  agreed  to  take  a  leap  from 
the  brink  of  the  American  Falls,  with  the  aid  of  a 
parachute.  The  date  for  the  daring  deed  is  being 
kept  a  secret  In  order  that  the  authorities  at  the 
Falls  may  not  be  given  an  opportunity  to  prevent 
the  attempt.  The  plan  of  Place  and  the  motion 
picture  company,  according  to  a  report  from  Niagara 
Falls,  is  to  have  the  Tonawanda  man  board  a 
staunchly-built  raft  a  short  distance  from  the  brink 
of  the  American  Falls  and  leave  the  raft  with  the 
aid  of  the  parachute  as  the  edge  of  the  brink  Is 
reached.  Several  boats  will  be  in  waiting  in  the 
river  below  the  Falls  to  pick  Place  up  in  case  he 
falls  into  the  river,  and  the  moving  picture  ma- 
chines to  be  employed  will  be  focused  on  the  Tona- 
wanda man  from  the  time  he  boards  the  raft  until 
he  lands.  In  order  that  there  may  be  no  danger 
of  the  raft  going  to  pieces  by  coming  in  contact 
with  boulders  in  the  stream,  timbers  have  been  used 
for  the  sides  and  ends.  The  parachute  to  be  used  is 
of  special  construction.  Both  raft  and  parachute  are 
now  ready  at  the  home  of  Place. 

Moving  pictures  of  many  Buffalo  school  children 
have  been  taken  to  advertise  the  coming  Hygienic 
Congress  in  this  city.  These  pictures  are  being 
shown  In  Buffalo. 

Peter  Hofmeister,  manager  of  the  Majestic  The- 
ater, at  150  East  Ferry  street,  met  with  success  In 
the  piano  trade  before  going  Into  the  moving  picture 
business.  He  Is  an  active  worker '  in  the  Motion 
Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  this  city. 

The  Columbia  Amusement  Co.  has  given  up  the 
Garden,  a  burlesque  theater  here.  The  last  per- 
formance   was   held   Sunday,    April    25,    when    Man- 


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ager  Middleton  featured  the  picture  play  "Satan." 
He  will  open  the  Gaiety  Theater,  Buffalo,  a  bur- 
lesque house,  in  the  Fall. 

several  moving  picture  companies,  it  is  ex- 
ed,  will  photograph  the  various  events  of  the 
Perry  Centennial  Celebration  in  Buffalo  in  Sep- 
tember. New  York  State  has  appropriated  $150,000, 
which  will  cover  a  part  of  the  cost  of  the  program. 
Military  parades,  sham  battles  and  aquatic  games 
will  be  featured.  Moving  picture  men  are  interested 
in  the  recent  announcement  of  W.  J.  Conners,  a 
Buffalo  newspaper  proprietor,  who  is  a  leading 
spirit  in  the  celebration.  He  says  Buffalo  will  have 
one  of  the  greatest  tournaments  of  airmen  in  the 
country  during  the  week.  Mr.  Conners,  while  in 
Germany,  arranged  with  leading  aviators  and 
balloonists   to  give  exhibitions  here. 

The  Buffalo  aldermanic  fire  committee  has  beld 
up,  for  a  time,  the  application  of  Daniel  E.  Knowl- 
ton,  to  build  a  moving  picture  theater  on  West 
Utica  street,  near  Elmwood  avenue.  The  committee 
has  also  deferred  action  on  the  application  of 
Charles  Farrell  to  build  a  similar  theater  on  Ken- 
more  avenue,  near  Delaware.  Mr.  Farrell,  who 
attended  a  meeting  of  the  committee,  claimed  that 
the  Buffalo  moving  picture  ordinance,  which  prac- 
tically requires  the  petitioner  to  obtain  the  con- 
sent of  residents  within  a  radius  of  200  feet  of  the 
site  before  he  can  build  a  moving  picture  theater, 
was  prepared  by  Alderman  Fisher  of  this  city,  as 
a  piece  of  spite  work.  At  a  meeting  of  residents 
living  near  the  proposed  site  of  the  Farrell  house, 
their  views  as  to  whether  they  are  in  favor  of  the 
theater  will  be  heard.  One  minister  is  opposed  to 
granting  the  application.  At  the  aldermanic  meet- 
ing he  expressed  the  opinion  that  the  theater  would 
keep  many  away   from  Sunday  services. 

Judge  G'eorge  E.  Judge,  of  the  Children's  Court 
of  Buffalo,  is  in  favor  of  proposed  legislation  that 
children  under  16  be  allowed  to  attend  the  picture 
theaters  after  the  school  hours  and  before  sunset, 
etc.  In  this  connection,  Judge  Judge  is  credited 
with  the  following  statement:  "The  child  is  going 
to  see  these  shows,  even  if  he  has  to  break  the 
law.  All  sorts  of  subterfuges  are  resorted  to  by 
these  children  in  order  to  satisfy  their  natural 
craving  for  knowledge  and  harmless  amusement. 
The  children  should  be  allowed  to  see  these  shows 
after  school  hours,  provided  there  is  a  reputable 
matron  in  charge.  In  all  my  experience  in  the 
Juvenile  Court,  I  have  never  had  a  case  where  a 
young  girl  was  insulted  at  one  of  these  shows.  I 
am  glad,  however,  that  the  melodramatic  photoplays 
are  being  stamped  out." 

The  daily  organ  recital  at  Keith's  moving  picture 
theater  is  proving  very  popular.  Manager  Charles 
Bowe,  who  has  had  some  choir  experience,  has  re- 
ceived from  a  patron  an  ancient  copy  of  Handel's 
Me-siah,  published  in  England  more  than  100  years 
ago.  This  masterpiece  will  be  heard  at  this  house 
at  an  early  date. 

"Dick  Whittington  and  His  Cat,"  was  the  feature 
at  the  opening  of  the  Globe  moving  picture  theater 
at  Main  and  Ferry  streets,  Monday  night.  This  is 
Buffalo's  newest  playhouse.  It  was  built  at  a  heavy 
expense  by  the  Sherman  Amusement  Co.  "The  Black 
Chancellor"  was  another  popular  film  for  the  opening 
week.  A  general  admission  of  ten  cents  is  charged 
for  this  show,  with  reserved  seats  at  fifteen  and 
twenty-five  cents. 

It  is  expected  that  many  moving  pictures  will 
be  taken  of  the  parades  and  other  features  of  the 
Elks'  national  reunion  in  Rochester  early  in  July. 
Buffalo's  delegation  and  visitors  will  include  pro- 
prietors of  moving  picture  theaters. 

A  contract  for  the  construction  of  Buffalo's  largest 
theater,  on  Main,  near  Chippewa  street,  and  run- 
ning back  to  Pearl  street,  will  be  let  in  a  few  days 
by  the  Shea  Amusement  Co.  It  is  expected  that 
moving  pictures  will  be  added  to  the  regular  pro- 
gramme of  vaudeville  of  the  house.  The  site  was 
bought  by  Mr.  Shea  and  his  associates  a  number  of 
years  ago  from  the  Keith  interests  when  the  Keith 
vaudeville  circuit  threatened  to  invade  the  city. 
Mr.  Shea  at  that  time  realized  that  the  pur-hase 
not  only  eliminated  a  rival,  but  was  a  good  in- 
vestment as  well.  He  then  believed  that  in  a  few 
years  Buffalo's  population  would  increase  to  the 
extent  that  a  fine  theater  could  be  profitablv  built 
on   the  site. 

BILLY    BISON. 

IOWA. 

'T'HE  Amuz-u  Moving  Picture  Theater  has  been 
x  opened  at  515  East  Locust  street,  in  Des 
Moines.  Souvenirs  were  given  to  ladies  at  the 
opening  performance.  The  bouse  will  use  Mutual 
6ervice. 

Carl  Smith,  manager  of  the  Pastime,  at  Mt. 
Pleasant,  is  building  a  thirty-foot  addition  to  bis 
theater,  so  that  he  can  put  in  a  vaudeville  stage, 
to  be  used  In  connection  with  bis  moving  picture 
show. 

The  mulct  plan  of  operating  moving  picture  the- 
aters in  Mason  City,  has  attracted  state-wide  at- 
tention. It  is  reported  that  following  bis  Sunday 
operations,  Manager  Heffner,  of  the  Bijou,  was  ar- 
rested on  Monday  morning,  and  fined  $2.50  and 
costs.  Recently  his  operator  was  taken  with  him. 
and  the  fines  and  costs  totalled  $13,  but  it  is  said 
the   receipts  justified   the  expenditure. 

Thomas  Horrisb,.  a  moving  picture  operator  at 
Knoxville,  fell  from  a  ladder  on  which  he  was 
standing  while  taking  down  some  advertising  ban- 
ners and  his  skull  was  crushed  against  a  corner  of 
a  cement  building,   causing  bis  death. 


The  Scott  County  Medical  Society,  at  Davenport, 
exhibited  a  swat-the-fly  film  to  the  school  children 
of  that  city  and  made  them  write  an  essay  of 
their   impressions. 

Joseph  Brown  has  taken  a  permit  in  Davenport 
to  erect  a  brick  addition  at  1716  West  Fourth 
street,  in  that  city,  to  be  used  as  a  moving  picture 
theater.     The  improvement  will  cost  $1,200. 

P.  E.  Sauerwein,  of  Keokuk,  la.,  has  purchased 
the  Grand  Opera  House  at  Fort  Madison,  from 
Edward  Edinger. 

Citizens  of  Keota  are  raising  a  fund  of  $15,000 
for  a  new  opera  house.  Early  in  the  game  the  sum 
of  $12,<nm  was  pledged,  so  there  Is  little  doubt  but 
that   the  new  house  is  a  go. 

Moving  pictures  of  the  Panama  Canal  were  an 
important  part  of  the  program  of  the  meeting  of 
Iowa   Bankers.   Group  Eight,  at  Muscatine,  recently. 

Manager  Victor  Hugo,  of  the  Majestic,  at  Cedar 
Rapids,  has  made  arrangements  to  have  a  series  of 
local    views   taken   in    that  city. 

National  Cash  Register  Company's  Kinema- 
color  pictures  are  proving  very  popular  in  Iowa 
in  which  they  are  showing.  They  were  re- 
cently exhibited  at  the  Burtis,  in  Davenport,  under 
the  auspices  of  the  "Help  Beautify  Davenport 
Committee."  MIDWEST  SPECIAl/SERVICE. 


that  Oregon  and   the  Northwest  will  get  from   It  Is 
scarcely   to  lit*   estimate!. 

The  new  Princess  Theater  being  constructed  at 
6th  and  Stark  streets,  by  Foster  &  Kleiser,  is 
rapidly  being  rushed  to  completion.  The  building 
is  being  built  of  steel  and  concrete,  and  is  to  be 
one  of  the  finest  theafe'rs  west  of  Chicago,  where 
exclusive  features  of  three  and  four-reel  subjects 
will   be  exhibited. 

Manager  C.  J.  Kerr,  of  the  Circle  Theater,  is 
busy  these  days  booking  advance  films  for  the  sum- 
mer months  of  the  most  entertaining  and  excep- 
tional classy  subjects,  that  are  of  educational 
value  to  both  the  young  and  old. 

E.     N.    WB1NBA1M. 


OREGON. 

A  NEGOTIATIONS  are  under  way  for  the  purchase 
■LVX  by  the  Peoples  Amusement  Company,  of  Port- 
land, of  a  lot  in  the  business  district  of  St.  Johns, 
on  which  to  erect  a  modern  theater.  C.  A.  Metz- 
ger,  of  the  company,  states  that  if  the  deal  Is 
closed  it  will  be  within  ten  days,  and  a  theater 
will  be  erected  as  soon  thereafter  as  possible.  Al- 
though an  architect  has  not  been  chosen,  the  build- 
ing will  be.  If  erected,  50  by  100  feet,  2%  stories 
high,  of  concrete  construction,  with  a  tile  front, 
and  will  be  elaborately  finished  throughout.  It  will 
cost  about  $30,000. 

Negotiations  are  pending  for  the  erection  of  a 
$100,000  picture  and  vaudeville  theater  at  Eleventh 
and  Washington  Streets.  They  are  being  conducted 
through  Walter  Wolfe,  representing  a  syndicate  of 
theatrical  people.  The  plan  is  to  build  a  large  pic- 
ture theater  and  give  a  program  of  pictures  with 
four  vaudeville  acts,  on  the  order  of  the  Portola 
Theater,  in  San  Francisco. 

One  hundred  and  fifty  employes  of  the  Peoples 
Amusement  Company  have  formed  a  permanent  or- 
ganization, known  as  .the  Screen  Club.  The  object 
of  the  club  is  to  hold  entertainments  once  a  month, 
at  which  all  matters  will  be  discussed  pertaining 
to  the  motion  picture  Industry.  The  following  of- 
ficers were  elected:  President,  W.  D.  Armstrong; 
vice-president,  J.  S.  Houghey;  secretary -treasurer, 
Ted  Henckle;  trustees,  Harry  M.  Thome,  F.  B. 
Scholl  and  Dr.  R.  M.  Emerson;  relief  committee, 
Melvin  G.  Winstock,  Arthur  Philips  and  Mr.  Haze- 
lett;  advertising  committee,  J.  S.  Houghey,  Stephen 
Downey  and  Frank  Gumm ;  entertainment  commit- 
tee, Ted  Henckle,  Tom  Smith  and  V.   Coppe. 

Julius  Goldsmith,  of  the  Folly  Theater,  Eugene 
and  J.  J.  Bryan,  of  the  Savoy,  Eugene,  were  visit- 
ors   in    Portland,    recently. 

Films  of  the  most  classical  subjects  are  being 
exhibited  throughout  the  theaters  of  the  Peoples 
Amusement  Company's  circuit.  Manager  Winstock 
has  booked  a  number  of  interesting  subjects  that 
will  he  shown  in  a  very  short  time,  all  being  of 
two  and   three-reel  lengths. 

"Saved  in  Mid-Air,"  recently  shown  at  the  Arcade 
Theater,  in  Portland,  created  much  talk  in  the 
way  the  picture  of  the  daring  rescue  was  taken  and 
complimented  the  management  of  the  company  for 
the  fine  subjects  that  are  being  gotten  to  cater  to 
the  patrons  of  this  theater.  The  Arcade  Is  the 
home  of  the  Kay-Bee  Films. 

The  Globe  Theater,  of  Portland,  under  the  man- 
agement of  I.  Leeses  Cohen,  is  being  patronized  to 
full   capacity  seatings.     Licensed   service   is  used. 

Within  one  hour  after  the  filming  of  the  ball 
game  between  Portland  and  Los  Angeles,  the  Peoples 
Amusement  had  the  film,  exhibited  at  the  P. 
Theater,  to  a  house  that  was  packed  to  the  fullest 
capacity.  General  Manager  Winstock  should  be  cmn- 
nted  on  the  way  he  bad  arranged  for  this  film 
to  be  taken  and  exhibited  at  the  same  day. 

George  Blight,  of  Salem,  is  building  motion  picture 
houses  at  Albany,  Corvallis,  and  Roseburg.  He  has 
an  excellent  one  at  Salem. 

C.  P.  Merwin,  assistant  manager  of  the  General 
Film  Company,  with  headquarters  at  Seattle,  Wash- 
ington,  was  a  visitor  in  this  city  recently. 

The  first  minister  to  install  a  standard  motion 
picture  outfit  in  a  church  in  this  city,  is  the  Rev. 
Oswald  Taylor,  Rector  of  Grace  Memorial  Epis- 
copalian Church.  This  outfit  Is  used  in  the  Sun- 
day School.  He  testifies  to  the  wonderful  results 
to  be  obtained  by  the  use  of  the  films  in  this  clnss 
of  work,  and  says  that  It  has  proved  so  eu*e<-*ivo 
that  he  can  get  along  without  teachers,  if  neces- 
sary. He  has  operated  the  equipment  for  more 
than  a  year,  and  would  not  think  of  running  a 
Smulay  School  without  it.  he  says.  Other  chun-hes 
of  the  city  have  had  the  use  of  it,  but  the  owner 
insists  noon  it  being  kept   in   his  own  church. 

The  Edison  Company  Is  to  film  the  Columbia 
River  scenery  with  the  Edison  players,  and  Miss 
Laura'   Sawyer.     This     work     will     mean     inn 

"!.  and  the  Northwest  will  be  undertaken  by 
the  Edison  players,  now  quartered  at  Del  Monte. 
<'aL.  about  .Tune  1.  The  object  Of  the  Edison  play- 
ers in  coming  here  Is  two-fold,   and  the  advertising 


LOUISVILLE. 

A  N   airdome  for  the  exclusive  use  of  negroes   has 
- x      been    opened    at    Burnett    and    Bland    St:. 
Louisville.     The    new    theater    is    styled    the 
Hill."     It    has    a    seating    capacity    of    about    600. 
The  initial  performances  were  composed  of  feat  a 
Regular  service   will   be   utilized   later.     It   is   prob- 
able  that  other  alrdomes  catering  exclusively  to  the 
negro   population  of  Louisville   will   be   started    dur- 
ing   the    near    future.     The    colored    folk    are    good 
spenders  where  five  or   ten  cents  is  concerned,    ami 
there  are  enough  of   them  to  support  a   half   dozen 
airdomes  at  that  price. 

Fred.  Dolle  and  Joseph  L.  Steurle.  of  the  Broad- 
way Amusement  Company,  are  incorporators  of  the 
Billy  Smythe  Music  Company,  which  will  publish 
songs  and  handle  sheet  music  and  similar  merchan- 
dise. William  P.  Scbmitt,  a  well-known  local  com- 
poser, is  the  third  Incorporator.  The  company  is 
capitalized  at  $1,000.  Mr.  Schmitt  will  have  charge 
of  the  company's  business.  His  new  songs  will  be 
started  in  the  Broadway  theaters  and  will  be  made 
popular  by  rendition  In  the  five  theaters  conducted 
by  that  company. 

The  Hungarian  orchestra,  which  has  been  a  fea- 
ture at  the  Majestic  Theater  for  the  past  year,  no 
longer  plays  from  one  of  the  boxes,  as  in  the  past. 
The  musicians  now  are  stationed  in  the  pit,  the 
orthodox  location.  Scbarf  &  Ramsey,  the  vocalists 
at  the  Majestic,  continue  to  sing  from  the  box. 
Manager  Louis  J.  Dittmar  believes  that  singers  do 
better  work  when  separated  from  the  orchestra  by 
some  iittle  distance.  The  strains  of  the  music  are 
confusing  to  the  vocalists  when  too  close  accord- 
ing to  Mr.  Dittmar  and  others  who  have  had  experi- 
ence along  this  line. 

The  top  floor  o  ftbe  new  Starks  building  at  Fourth 
and  Walnut  Streets  is  the  only  one  on  which  film 
exchanges  will  be  allowed.  Several  Louisville  ex- 
change men  sought  quarters  in  the  new  skyscraper, 
but  were  informed  that  they  must  take  the  rooms 
immediately  below  the  roof.  The  owners  of  the 
building  are  afraid  of  fire  as  well  as  the  moral  ef- 
fect on  other  tenants,  it  is  said.  None  of  the  ex- 
change men  would  consider  the  offer,  and  will  prob- 
ably retain  their  present  places  of  business. 

The  Crescent  Hill  Civic  League,  of  Louisville, 
has  adopted  resolutions  against  the  erection  of  a 
theater  in  that  section  of  the  Kentucky  metropolis, 
sending  copies  of  the  resolutions  to  the  city  authori- 
ties. The  meeting  followed  an  announcement  by 
the  National  Moving  Picture  Company  that  a  mov- 
ing picture  house  would  be  erected  there.  While  the 
Civic  League  expressed  Itself  as  in  favor  of  ani- 
mated picture  houses  as  amusement  resorts,  it  be- 
lieved that  the  theaters  should  be  confined  to  busi- 
ness sections  of  the  city.  Whether  the  National 
will  be  forced  to  abandon  its  plans  is  problematical. 
Thomas  F.  Reilly,  a  well-known  shoe  man.  of  Louis- 
ville, is  a  new  employe  of  the  National.  Mr.  Reilly 
will  sell,  stock  for  the  company.  He  formerly  was 
head  of  the  shoe  department  of  one  of  the  big  de- 
partment stores  in  the  city. 

A  new  radium  gold  fibre  screen  has  been  installed 
in  the  quarters  of  the  Central  Film  Service  Com- 
pany, of  Louisville.  The  screen  will  be  used  in  the 
private  showings  of  films  to  exhibitors.  Its  in- 
stallation has  completed  the  Central's  arrangements 
for  the  exhibition  of  films,  and  performances  will  be 
given  every  morning  for  the  benefit  of  the  patrons 
of  the  exchange.  The  screen  is  regarded  as  fire- 
proof. 

The  formation  of  the  American  Theater  Company 
was  completed  at  a  recent  meeting  in  Louisville. 
J.  H.  Small  was  elected  president  and  treasurer  of 
the  company.  Other  officers  are  John  T.  May,  vice- 
president:  E.  B.  Miller,  secretary:  and  H.  A.  Moore, 
general  manager.  Shield  <&  Campbell,  Louisville  at- 
torneys, were  retained  as  counsel  for  the  Ameri- 
can. The  company  intends  to  establish  a  chain  of 
moving  picture  theaters  in  Kentucky  and  adjoining 
States.  It  now  controls  the  Express  Theater,  of 
Ontral  City,  Ky.  Improvements. are  to  be  made  in 
this  bouse,  which  was  recently  taken  over  from  the 
Consolidated  Theaters  Company.  A  balcony  is  to  be 
installed  for  the  use  of  colored  patrons,  while  the 
house  is  to  be  enlarged  in  other  ways.  The  screen 
will  be  modernized  and  a  new  ventilating  system  in- 
stalled. 

Work  has  begun  on  the  erection  of  an  addition  to 
the  Crystal  Theater,  of  New  Albany.  Ind.,  owned 
by  Michael  Switow.  A  couple  of  hundred  additional 
Beats  will  be  placed  in  the  annex.  Mr.  Swirow  will 
shortly  extend  the  seating  capacity  of  the  Grand 
r.   also  in   New  Albany. 

The     Majestic     theater     is    finding     its    screen     a 

v. making  proposition  from   the  use  of  advertis- 

'ides.     In  fa<-t.   so  many  advertisers  are  km 

to  utilize  the  bouse  as  a  method  of  reaching  the  pub- 

lie   that   Manager  Dittmar  will  either  be  compelled 


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to  raise  the  rates  or  fix  a  limit  on  the  number  to  be 
shown.  Ue  has  held  the  number  to  a  minimum  in 
the  past,  being  among  the  exhibitors  who  believe 
that  advertisements  detract  in  a  measure  from  the 
prestige  of  a  theater. 

B.  F.  Keith's  Louisville  house  closed  its  regular 
season  on  May  10,  but  will  continue  a  few  vaudeville 
acts  and  moving  pictures  as  an  experiment.  If  the 
public  takes  to  summer  vaudeville,  the  house  will 
be  operated  during  the  entire  hot  weather  period. 
The  last  week  of  the  regular  season  was  made  a  sort 
of  celebration,  twelve  acts  forming  an  unusually 
long  and  attractive   program. 

A.  T.  Campbell,  a  cameraman  for  a  moving  pic- 
ture company,  was  seriously  injured  in  Owensboro, 
Ky.,  recently.  Mr.  Campbell  attempted  to  stop  a 
runaway  horse,  but  misjudged  the  distance.  He 
was  knocked  to  the  street  and  trampled  by  the  mad- 
dened animal.  Mr.  Campbell's  injuries  are  not  be- 
lieved to  be  dangerous.  They  consisted  of  numer- 
ous bruises  and  a  bad  gash  on  his  head. 

J.  H.  Hoben  and  J.  C.  Sills  have  converted  the 
opera  house  at  Hardinsburg,  Ky.,  into  a  moviug  pic- 
ture theater  and  will  stage  two  performances  a 
week.  Tuesday  and  Friday  nights  have  been  se- 
lected as  the  days  for  shows. 

Ilarqua  &  Allenburg  bare  definitely  decided  to 
erect  an  airdome  at  Colerain  Avenue  and  Dayton 
Street,  Cincinnati.  The  contract  has  been  awarded 
to  the  Grimm  Iron  Works  and  work  will  begin  Im- 
mediately.    The  airdome  will  seat  1,000  persons. 

B.  G.  Morrman,  who  will  erect  a  motion  picture 
theater  on  Madison  Road,  North  Hyde  Park,  Cin- 
cinnati, has  made  minor  changes  in  the  plans,  and 
work  has  been  resumed.  Besides  containing  a  thea- 
ter, the  structure  will  include  several  lodge  rooms. 
Several  orders  have   leased   quarters   for  five   years. 

G.    D.    CBA1X,   JR. 

SPRINGFIELD,  ILL. 

THE  blue  law  cases  are  on  again  in  Springfield. 
It  was  thought  the  decision  of  Police  Magis- 
trate Clark  B.  Shipp  that  the  people  bad  decided  it 
by  a  referendum  vote  was  to  end  the  battle.  But 
the  original  eleven,  which  number,  included  Adolph 
Kunz.  proprietor  of  the  Grand  Moving  Picture 
Theater,  have  been  re-arrested  on  warrants  sworn 
out  by  E.  R.  Ulrich,  Jr.,  secretary  of  tbe  Law  En- 
forcement League  before  Justice  Robert  Connelly. 
In  addition  two  more  warrants,  one  of  which  was 
for  the  Casino  moving  picture  theater,  621  East 
Washington  Street,  were  sworn  out.  An  appeal  was 
made  of  the  original  cases  to  the  county  court  and 
until  that  is  decided  nothing  can  be  done  with  the 
new  cases. 

Tbe  Springfield  News  which  was  one  of  the  first 
papers  in  the  country  to  see  the  possibilities  in 
moving  picture  advertising  is  receiving  requests 
from  all  over  the  United  States  for  specimen  copies. 
The  Fourth  Estate,  a  New  Tork  publication  devoted 
to  the  newspaper  field,  mentioned  this  departure  at 
some  length.  The  Springfield,  Ohio,  News  also  has 
been  catering  to  the  picture  advertising  for  some 
time:  the  business  managers  of  the  local  paper  and 
the  Ohio  paper  were  schoolmates  and  exchanged 
ideas.  Tbe  local  paper  gives  a  page  each  Saturday 
night  to  the  picture  houses. 

Herbert  Woods  announces  that  he  is  not  interested 
in  a  proposed  Airdome  on  South  Fourth  Street,  be- 
tween Adams  and  Monroe. 

P.  McAvoy  now  has  a  clear  field  with  his  picture 
show  at  Chatham  and  has  moved  to  a  larger  bulld: 
Ing. 

George  Parlow  -who  has  been  manager  of  the  Lyric 
Theater  on  Sonth  Fifth  Street  has  gone  to  Superior, 
Wis.,  to  manage  the  Broadway  Theater.,  one  of  the 
Allardt  houses.  Harry  T.  Loper,  Jr.,  son  of  the 
owner  of  llie   Lyric  will  act  as  manager. 

Charles  Kizer  who  has  been  with  the  Vaudette 
Theater  in  this  city,  has  gone  to  Chicago,  where  he 
■will  manage  the  Vaudette  in  that  city  as  soon  as 
the  new  house  is  open.  W.  W.  Watts,  head  of  the 
company,  is  busy  with  tie  state  right  picture, 
"From  the  Manager  to  the  Cross,"  at  the  Corf 
Theater.  It  has  been  decided  to  give  two  shows  a 
day  at  25  and  50  cents  at  the  Cort. 

Announcement  has  been  made  that  the  Chatterton, 
the  only  bouse  in  the  city  playing  big  shows,  will 
remain  dark  this  summer.  This  house  has  made 
periodical  summer  excursions  in  the  picture  field. 
Tbe  Springfield  OJrpheum  Company,  which  controls 
the  Majestic,  lias  increased  its  capital  stock  from 
JIS.OOO  to  148,000  which  makes  it  likely  that  there 
will  be  no  photoplay  competition  from  that  source. 
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will  be  glad  to  give  the  churches  full  command  of 
the  Sabbath  evening  as  it  has  had  from  time  im- 
memorial. If  I  rightly  read  tbe  spirit  of  our  times, 
however,  we  must  rightly  use  the  hour  or  it  will 
be  handed  over  to  those  who  will  use  it.  It's  up 
to  us." 

A  similar  suggestiou  came  up  in  Galesburg,  111., 
at  a  meeting  of  the  Federated  Brotherhoods  in  that 
city.  Tbe  theme  of  all  the  speakers  at  a  banquet 
was  taking  care  of  the  young  boy.  One  sociologi- ■ 
cal  worker  reported  that  two  months'  observation  in 
Galesburg  showed  between  2,000  and  3,000  persons 
went  to  the  theaters  every  evening  and  that  about 
40  per  cent,  were  young  people.  Rev.  Albert  Fiske 
showed  that  the  religious«atmosphere  of  today  is  not 
of  tbe  sort  to  attract  the  boy  and  that  we  must  de- 
velop his  ethical  and  moral  nature  through  his 
amusements.  He  suggested  that  t lie  church  should 
provide  good  wholesome  amusement  for  the  boys. 
Mr.  Fiske  has  successfully  used  the  moving  picture 
machine  both  among  the  young  boys  and  among  tbe 
young  men. 

J.  H.  Martin  will  run  picture  shows  in  the  Air- 
dome at  Red  Bud,   III.,  again  this  summer. 

L.    D.    Gillette   is   having   an   airdome   constructed 
on   North   Main  Street  in  Woodhull,   111.     The   i 
will   ruu    pictures. 

F.  F.  Pool  has  sold  tbe  Magic  Theater  at  Rockwell 
City,  la.,  to  R.  W.  Owens,  of  Columbus  Junction, 
la.,  aud  O.  M.  Himmeldeich,  of  Washington,  la. 

Wallace  J.  Emery  has  opened  the  Star  Theater  at 
Galva  111.,  as  a  picture  house.  The  place  will  seat 
200   persons.     Miss   Horence   Weaver  is   pianist. 

Construction  work  on  Vernon  C.  Seaver's  new  Hip- 
podrome at  Peoria,  111.,  was  baited  by  a  strike  of 
2,000  building  tradesmen. 

The  Meridian  Amusement  Company,  of  Fort 
Wayne,  Ind.,  has  been  incorporated  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $10,000  to  operate  amusement  grounds.  The 
incorporators  are  G.  H.  Heine,  Arthur  Beuke,  C.  J. 
Scheiman,  and  F.  C.  Heine. 

The    Gaiety   Theater,    Springfield,    III.,    closed    its 
vaudeville  season  and  went  over  to  pictures  May  5. 
The  Majestic,   at  Peoria,   111.,   Is  now  playing  pic- 
tures   from   II    A.    M.    to   11    P.    ML,    giving    four-reel 
shows.     A  Bix-piece  orchestra  is  featured. 

The  Kozy  Theater,  at  Eldorado,  111.,  has  been 
purchased  by  The  Colonial  Aiuusemeut  Company. 
Ray  Webber  will  be  manager.  It  is  reported  that 
a  $12,000  theater  w-ill  be  built  on  the  site  of  the 
Casino  in   Eldorado. 

The  Airdome  has  been  opened  for  the  summer 
season,  at  Cuba,  111.,  by  Manager  Wilson. 

George  Sbof  has  opened  a  new  picture  show  at 
Sidell,  111.  The  Airdome  there  was  recently  closed. 
It  is  reported  that  a  St.  Louis  producing  company 
recently  made  a  trip  to  Chester,  111.,  and  chartered 
an  Illinois  Central  train  there  for  a  portion  of  a 
train    robbery   picture. 

Manager  Hyatt,  of  the  Orpheum  Theater  at  Web- 
ster City  la.,  is  having  an  Airdome  built  on  Second 
Street  in  that  city.  He  may  name  it  tbe  Airdome 
or   the  Orpheum  Annex. 

It  is  reported  that  Canton,  111.,  will  have  a  new 
house  which  will  play  vaudeville,  road  attractions 
and   high-class   pictures. 

The  Reno  Moving  Picture  Company  is  playing  a 
number  of  Central  Illinois  towns  under  canvas,  mak- 
ing week  and  half-week  stands  in  the  villages  which 
do  not  support  a  regular  photoplay  house. 

Manager  S.  T.  Herman,  of  tbe  Globe  Theater  at 
Monticello,  111.,  has  added  Saturday  matinees.  As 
a  bid  for  tbe  patronage  of  the  women  he  gives 
souvenirs  of  their  favorite  actors.  The  opening 
matinee  was  Costello   day. 

Dr.  Fred.  Rogers  has  opened  his  Grand  Central 
Airdome  at  Hillsboro,  111.  Hillsboro  with  six  shows 
is  in  a  fair  way  to  have  an  amusement  war.  Rog- 
ers is  advertising  three  reels  in  addition  to  a  comedy 
company  of  twelve  persons,  and  Ed.  Fellis,  manager 
of  the  Hillsboro  Opera  House,  is  offering  six  reels 
on  the  nights  that  he  has  no  vaudeville. 

Manager  L.  J.  B.  Ulger,  of  the  Lyric,  at  Green- 
ville. 111.,  made  up  a  good  educational  program  the 
night  of  May  6  and  turned  over  the  bouse  to  the 
Domestic  Science  Club  which  wished  to  raise  funds 
for  a  new  piano.  _  ^ 

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come  was  made  by  Mayor  Kirk,  of  Wheeling.  It 
goes  without  saying  that  what  he  had  to  tell  the  as- 
sembly was  received  with  much  enthusiasm.  The 
address  was  a  high  tribute  to  the  einematographers. 
"No  business  men  can  do  a  community  the  service, 
tbe  motion  picture  men  can.  They  are  the  genuine 
commissioners  of  progress  and  are  fast  breaking 
down  prejudices  and  scattering  the  germ  of  progress 
wherever  they  go."  The  foregoing  is  a  synopsis  of 
the  address  of  Mr.  Kirk.  President  Netf's  reply 
was  received  with  great  enthusiasm.  He  compli- 
mented the  people  of  Wheeling  on  being  so  fortunate 
in  having  such  a  broad  minded  and  able  man  at  the 
head  of  their  city  administration.  He  said  that  the 
activities  of  the  mayor  would  in  the  near  future  be- 
come statewide.  The  convention  came  to  a  close 
late   Wednesday  evening,  April  30. 

JACK    STARK. 


IN  THE  MISSISSIPPI  VALLEY. 

By  way  of  compensating  the  picture  theater  man- 
agers for  the  loss  of  business  caused  by  rutting 
out  tbe  Sunday  shows,  the  City  Council,  of  Sterling, 
111.,  has  reduced  the  license  from  $25  to  $.i.  The 
'  managers  -were  given  two  weeks  of  grace  inasmuch 
as  they  had  Sunday  films  booked  ahead.  Rev.  w. 
W.  Aylesworth,  pastor  of  Fourth  Street  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  has  come  out  with  a  timely  warn- 
ing to  the  churches  advocating  that  they  use  the 
pli  tore  to  attract  the  young  people.  "The  moving 
picture  is  as  much  the  agent  of  the  church  as  of 
the  private  investor,"  he  said.  "We  have  not  vised 
it  to  aoy  extent.  Why  not  put  it  into  our  churches 
upon  Sunday  night?  With  good  music,  a  spicy  dis- 
course, a  changed  program  from  time  to  tiui- 
tures,  etc.,  I  believe  the  young  people  will  find  in 
the  church  a  place  to  go  upon  a  Sunday  night.  In 
this   way,   and  1   fear  in  this  way  only,  the  people 


CINCINNATI. 

MR.  MARZLOFF,  who  for  many  years  was  Iden- 
tified with  tbe  moving  picture  industry  in 
this  city,  closed  a  deal  on  May  1,  with  Edward 
Ryan,  manager  of  the  Century  Theater  near  Peebles 
Corner  on  Walnut  Hills,  whereby  he  becomes  sole 
owner  of  the  house  for  a  period  of  one  year.  The 
lease-  was  sold  to  Mr.  Marzloff  for  that  period  for 
$2,700.  Some  time  ago  a  story  gained  currency  that 
the  Century  Theater  was  to  lie  converted  into  a  roof 
garden,  with  moving  pictures  and  a  cabaret  show- 
as  the  attractions.  This  was  aflirined  by  Manager 
Ryan.  The  new  leaseholder  today  announced  that 
the  theater  would  be  continued  as  a  moving  picture 
house.  The  Century  is  a  handsome  showhouse,  seat- 
ing about  2,500  people.  Mr.  Ryan,  who  negotiated 
the  deal,  left  for  Chicago,  where  be  will  operate  a 
moving   picture  theater  in  the   hea.rt   of   the    Windy 

President  M.  A.  Neft,  of  the  Motion  Picture  Ex- 
hibitors' League  of  America,  returned  late  on  tbe 
.  afternoon  of  May  1  from  Wheeling,  W.  Vs.,  where 
he  presided  at  a  meeting  of  the  League  of  that 
slate.  The  gathering  of  this  group  or  cinemato- 
graphers  was  tbe  most  enthusiastic  ever  held  in  the 
West  Virginia  State.  The  meeting  was  called  to 
order   on   Tuesdav,    April   29.     The   address  of    wel- 


IN   THE   MIDDLE  WEST. 

IT  is  reported  that  one  of  the  eastern  producers 
has  in  mind  a  series  of  railroad  pictures,  and 
has  been  negotiating  for  the  right  to  use  the  old 
Crooked  Creek  road  near  Webster  City,  Iowa.  The 
line  is  a  coal  road  seventeen  miles  long,  and  runs 
through  a  rugged  country  which  would  be  ideal  for 
some   artistic    "mountain    division"    films. 

The  Universal  Film  &  Supply  Company,  of  St. 
Louis,  Mo.,  has  been  incorporated  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $100,000,  to  buy,  sell  and  deal  in  moviug 
picture  machines  and  films.  The  lncor|H>rators  are: 
A.  F.  Black,  A.  T.   Porter,   and  R.  B.   Dickson. 

Mayor  Phillips,  of  Dayton,  Ohio,  has  received 
$02.42  from  the  moving  picture  men  of  Skaguay, 
Alaska,  to  be  used  for  the  benefit  of  flood  sufferers. 
The  property  at  Dubuque,  Iowa,  occupied  by 
Dreamland  Theater,  has  been  sold  to  W.  J.  Burns 
and  Maurice  Brown. 

Warrants  were  issued  at  Beloit,  Wis.,  for  the 
arrest  of  seventy  persons,  proprietors  and  employes 
of  picture  shows  and  members  of  the  audience, 
because  they  violated  the  Sunday  closing  laws.  Twb 
theaters  escaped — the  Lyric,  because  its  lease 
stipulates  there  shall  be  no  Sunday  shows,  and  the 
Wilson,  because  the  manager  is  opposed  to  the 
Sabbath  performance.  It  was  declared  that  the 
programs  were  made  up  of  sacred  and  educitknal 
pictures  and  sacred  music. 

Wens  &  Cole  have  sold  the  Star  Theater,  at  f28 
South  Main  street,  Elkhart.  Ind.,  to  the  Star  The- 
ater Company,  which  has  assumed  its  management. 
The  New  Albany  Amusement  Company,  of  New 
"Albany  Ind.,  has  been  incorporated  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $15,000,  to  do  a  theater  business.  The  in- 
corporators are:  H.  H.  Legg,  P.  N.  Curl,  E.  V 
Knight,  Charles  Miller,  Frank  Beaucond,  James 
Deatrick  and  Joseph  Burns. 

The  Commercial  Club,  of  Lincoln.  Neb.,  is  ne- 
gotiating with  a  Denver  cameraman  for  a  series 
of  pictures  of  Lincoln. 

The  Forman  Opera  House  Association  of  ror- 
man,  Sargent  County,  S.  D.,  has  been  Incorporated 
with  a  capital  stock  of  $2,000.  The  incorporators 
are:  C.  A.  Walloeh,  E.  M.  Fjelstad  and  A.  Glor- 
vick 

Among  the  North  Dakota  cities  which  will  have 
new  opera  houses  this  summer,  are  Sheyenne  and 
Crosby 

F  S.  Timmins,  manager  of  the  Bucklen  t.  • 
at  Elkhart.  Ind.,  will  open  an  airdome,  60 
at  Main  and  Marion  Streets,  in  that  city.  Vaude- 
ville and  pictures  will  be  used.  On  rainy  nights 
the  shows  will  be  switched  to  the  Bucklen.  A  five- 
cent  admission  will  be  charged.  It  is  reported  that 
Mr.  Timmins  contemplates  putting  a  theater  on  the 
same  site  later.  ,      mL 

H  C.  Coulson  has  sold  the  Scenic  Theater  at 
Ames,    la.,   to  Fred  Gerbracht,   of  Carroll,   la. 

B.  H.  Jones,  a  negro,  has  brought  action  against 
H  C  Jergensen,  proprietor  of  tbe  Columbia,  a 
moving  picture  house  in  Waterloo,  la.,  alleging  that 
he  was  discriminated  against  in  being  denied  the 
privilege  of  purchasing  an  admission  ticket.  He 
declares  a  sign  displayed  stating  "colored  patronage 
not  solicited"  was  not  in  conformity  with  the 
Iowa  laws.  _       ^      - 

Films  are  being  used  by  St.  John  s  Church  ot 
Boyle  Memorial  Center,  S16  North  Eleventh  Street, 
St  Louis,  Mo.,  to  attract  the  church  persons 
who  are  not  in  the  habit  of  attending,  it  was  an- 
nounced that  it  was  not  necessary  for  persons 
coming   to  wear  fine  clothes. 

Quite  a  number  of  changes  in  Minnesota  theaters 
have  been  reported.  Paul  Perkins  has  disposed  of 
his  Interest  in  tbe  Grand,  at  Bralnerd,  to  Clyde 
Parker  and  Eugene  McCarthy,  N.  G.  Nelson  of 
Tvler  sold  the  Theatorium  in  that  city  to  H.  Moars 
and  Harry  Johnson  of  Brookings,  S.  D. ;  F.  F.  Latta 
of  tbe  Cozy  at  Austin  has  added  to  bis  holdings  by 
purchasing"  the  Idle  Hour  in  that  city  from  Dunning 
&  Panabaker;  Dr.  F.  E.  Dalgne.iu  sold  his  interest 
in  tbe  Pastime  at  Red  Wing  to  H.  L.  Grady  of 
Mason  Citv,  la.,  and  the  Majestic  in  St.  Paul  has 
been  leased  by  C.  H.  Miles,  of  Minneapolis  to  Fin- 
.-in  &  Ruben  who  also  own  the  new  Princess. 
Moving  pictures  will  be  a  part  of  the  entertain- 
ment aboard  the  special  train  which  will  bring  200  . 
Michiganders  now  residing  in  Southern  California 
to  their  old  homes,   leaving  Los  Angeles  June  27. 

The  Grand,  the  new  picture  house  in  Carrington, 
N.    D.,    has  been  opened. 

Carl  Holtz  and  Al  Nelson  of  Wadena,  Minn.,  have 
purchased  a  picture  show  in  Grand  Forks,    N.  D. 
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THE  MOVING  PICTURE  WORLD 


Calendar  of  Licensed  Releases. 


Current  Releases 

MONDAY,   MAY    19th,    1913. 

BIOGRAPH— Olaf—  An  Atom  (Drama) 

EDISON — By  Mutual  Agreement   (Comedy)    1000 

ESSANAY — Into  the  North  (Special  2-part  Drama) 2000 

KALEM — The  Artist's  Sacrifice  (Drama)   1000 

LUBIN — Margaret's  Painting  (Drama)    1000 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's  Weekly  No.  21    (News) 

SELIG — His  Father's  Deputy  (Drama)  1000 

VITAGRAPH— Bunny's   Birthday  Surprise   (Comedy).. 
VITAGRAPH— Vitagraphers  at  Kama  Kura  (Topical)  . . 

TUESDAY,  MAY  20th,  1913. 

CINES— Red   Wins    (Drama)    1000 

EDISON— The  Good  in  the  Worst  of  Us  (Drama} 1000 

ESSANAY — Buster    Brown,    Tige    and    Their    Creator, 

R.    F.    Outcault    (Comedy)    1000 

LUBIN — Kidnapping  Father  (Drama)    1000 

PATHEPLAY— A  Jocky  for  Love  (Comedy)   

PATHEPLAY— The  City  of  Rouen,  France  (Scenic)... 

SELIG— The   Tattle    Battle    (Comedy)    

SELIG — The  Leopard  Tamer   (Comedy)    

VITAGRAPH— The  Amateur  Lion  Tamer   (Comedy)  ..  1000 

WEDNESDAY,   MAY    21st,   1913. 

ECLIPSE— In  the  Tyrolese  Alps   (Travel)    17S 

ECLIPSE— The  Chicken  Industry   (Industrial)    400 

ECLIPSE— Big    Game    (Zoological)     425 

EDISON — Glimpses  of  Colorado  in  Winter  (Scenic) 315 

EDISON— Bragg's  New  Suit  (Comedy)   685 

ESSANAY — The  Letter's  Mission   (Comedy)    1000 

KALEM— The  Circle  of  Fate  (Drama)    1000 

LUBIN — The  District  Attorney's  Conscience  (Special  2- 

part  Drama)    2000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Price  of  Silence  (Drama)   

SELIG — The   Stolen   Melody   (Drama)    1000 

VITAGRAPH— Counsellor  Bobby  (Comedy)    1000 

THURSDAY,  MAY  22nd,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Kicksville   Epicure   (Comedy)    

BIOGRAPH— Cinderella  and  the  Boob   (Comedy)    

ESSANAY — A  Widow  of  Nevada  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — A  Perilous  Ride  (Drama)   1000 

MELIES— Gold  and  the  Gilded  Way  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Right  of  Way  (Drama) 

SELIG — Indian    Summer    (Drama)    1000 

VITAGRAPH— A   Lady   and   Her   Maid    (No.   4   of   the 
Belinda   Series — Comedy-Drama)    

FRIDAY,  MAY   23rd,   1913. 
EDISON — A   race   to    New   York    (Being   the    Eleventh 

Story  of  "What  Happened  to  Mary"  Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY — Jealousy  (Drama)    1000 

KALEM— The  Black  Hand   (Comedy)    

KALEM — The   Egyptian  Mummy   (Comedy)    

LUBIN — Detective   Dot   (Comedy)    400 

LUBIN — His  First  Experience  (Comedy)   600 

PATHEPLAY— Night    Birds    (Zoology)     

PATHEPLAY— The    Ailanthus    Silkworm    (Useful    In- 
sects)     ' 

PATHEPLAY— The  Open  Secret  (Special  2-part  Drama) 

SELIG — The    Noisy    Six    (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— The  Midget's  Revenge   

VITAGRAPH— Going  to  Meet  Papa  (Comedy)  

SATURDAY,  MAY  24th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— Just   Gold    (Drama)    

CINES — Exceeding  the  Time  Limit  (Comedy)    300 

CINES— The  Maid  and  the  Yarn   (Comedy)    300 

CINES — Curing  a  Would-Be  Aviator   (Comedy)    400 

EDISON — The  Translation  of  a  Savage  (Drama)   1000 

ESSANAY — Broncho     Billy     and     the     Express     Driver 

(Drama)    1000 

KALEM — The  Infamous  Don  Miguel  (Drama)    1000 

LUBIN — Brightened  Sunsets   (Drama)    1000 

PATHEPLAY— A  Woman  Scorned  (Drama)   

VITAGRAPH— Cupid  Through   the   Keyhole   (Comedy)  1000 
VITAGRAPH— The  Still  Voice  (Special  2-part  Drama)2ooo 


ADVANCE  RELEASES. 

MONDAY,  MAY  26th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— Highbrow   Love    (Comedy)    

EDISON — Dances  of  the  Ages  (Novelty) 975 

KALEM — A  Victim   of   Heredity   (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — The  Reward  of  Service  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's  Weekly  No.  22  (News) 

SELIG — Wamba:    A    Child    of    the    Jungle    (2    parts — 

Special — Drama)    2000 

SELIG — Religion  and   Gun   Practice   (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— Up  and  Down  the  Ladder  (Comedy) ...  1000 

TUESDAY,  MAY  27th,  1913. 

CINES — Borrowed   Plumage    (Comedy)    

CINES — The  Champion  Fixer   (Comedy) 

CINES — In   Somaliland    (Scenic)    

EDISON — An    Unwilling    Separation    (Drama)    1000 

ESSANAY— The  New  Sheriff  (Drama)   1000 

LUBIN— Doing  Like  Daisy   (Comedy)    

LUBIN— The  Yarn  of  the  Nancy  Bell  (Comedy)   

PATHEPLAY— Bullfight  in  France   (Sporting)   

PATHEPLAY— In   the  Forest  of  Cochin,  China   (Lum- 
bering)      

SELIG — The  Girl  and  the  Judge   (Drama)    1000 

VITAGRAPH— Tricks  of  the  Trade  (Comedy-Drama)  .  .1000 

WEDNESDAY,   MAY  28th,   1913. 

ECLIPSE — The    Indelible    Stain    (Drama)    1000 

EDISON — Newcomb's  Necktie  (Comedy)  1000 

ESSANAY— On  the  Job  (Comedy)   1000 

KALEM — Captured   by   Strategy    (Drama)    1000 

LUBIN — Love    and    War    in    Mexico    (Special    2-part 

Drama) 2000 

PATHEPLAY— The    Fugitive    (Drama)     

SELIG — The   Wordless   Message    (Drama)    1000 

VITAGRAPH— Cutey   Plays   Detective    (Comedy) 1000 

THURSDAY,  MAY   29th,   igI3. 

BIOGRAPH— A  Dangerous   Foe    (Drama)    

ESSANAY— Their    Baby    (Comedy)     1000 

LUBIN — The  Romance  of  the  Ozarks  (Drama) 1000 

MELIES— The    Foster   Brothers    (Drama)    

MELIES — Tandjong  Priok,  the  Harbor  of  Java's  Capital, 

Batavia   (Scenic)    

PATHEPLAY— White    Lies    (Drama)    

SELIG — The  Ex-Convict's  Plunge   (Drama) 

SELIG — Scenes    in    Manila    (Travel)    

VITAGRAPH— The  Only  Veteran  in  Town   (Drama) ..  1000 

FRIDAY,   MAY   30th,    1913. 

EDISON — The  Honor  of  a  Soldier  (Drama)    1000 

ESSANAY— Their   Baby   (Comedy)    1000 

KALEM — The  Widow  From  Winnipeg  (Comedy)   

KALEM — The  Comedy  Team's  Strategy  (Comedy)   .... 

LUBIN— Faith  of  a  Girl   (Drama)    1000 

PATHEPLAY— The    Spider   Which    Lives    in   a   Bubble 

(Zoology)    

PATHEPLAY   —   Transportation      Methods      in     Java 

(Transportation)     

PATHEPLAY— The     Human    Vulture     (Special    2-part 

Drama)    

SELIG — The  Woodfire  at  Martins  (Comedy)... 1000 

VITAL.RAPH— A   Husband's  Trick   (Comedy)    1000 

SATURDAY,  MAY  31st,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— His   Mother's   Son    (Drama)    

CINES — Interesting  Scenes  Abroad  (Travel)    1000 

EDISON — An  Almond   Eyed   Maid   (Drama)    1000 

ESSANAY— Alkali  Ike's  Misfortune  (Drama)   

KALEM — John  Burns  of  Gettysburg   (Drama)    1000 

LUBIN— Lone  Dog  the  Faithful   (Drama)    1000 

PATHEPLAY — The  Squawman's  Awakening  (Drama).. 
VITAGRAPH— One  Can't  Always  Tell  (Comedy)  .... 
VITAGRAPH— If  Dreams  Came  True  or  Who'd  Thunk 

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Universal  Film  Mfg.  Co.  Current  Releases 

SUNDAY,  MAY   18th,  1913. 

CRYSTAL — Homlock  Shermes  (Comedy)    

CRYSTAL— Our   Willie   (Comedy)    

ECLAIR— He    Loves    to    Watch    the    Flight    of    Time 

(Comedy)   ■ 

ECLAIR— Cuttlefish  (Zoology)   

REX— Gold  and  Two  Men  (Drama) 

MONDAY,    MAY    19th,    1913. 

IMP — The  Twins   (Comedy) 

NESTOR — Her  Hero's  Predicament  (Comedy) 

CHAMPION— The  Leper  (Drama)   

TUESDAY,  MAY  20th,  igi3. 

GEM— Billy   Plays   Poker   (Comedy)    

101   BISON — Stars  and  Stripes  Forever   (3-part  Drama) 

WEDNESDAY,   MAY   2rst,   1913. 
NESTOR — The  Boy  Scouts  to  the  Rescue   (Drama).... 

POWERS— The  Curate's  Outing  (Comedy) 

ECLAIR — Thus  Saith  the  Lord   (2-part  Drama) 

UNIVERSAL— Animated  Weekly  No.  63  (News) 

THURSDAY,  MAY  22nd,  1913. 

REX — In  Slavery  Days  (2-part  Drama)  

IMP — She  Never  Knew  (Drama)   

FRONTIER— The  Stage  Driver's  Chivalry  (Drama).... 
FRIDAY,  MAY  23rd,   1913. 

NESTOR — A  Mine  and  a  Marathon  (Drama)   

POWERS — Black  Jack's  Atonement  (Drama)   

VICTOR— Good  For  Evil  (Drama)  

SATURDAY,  MAY  24th,  1913. 

IMP — Just    for    Luck    (Comedy)    

IMP — Hy  Mayer — His  Magic  Hand  (Novelty) 

BISON— Under  Fire  (2-part  Drama)    

FRONTIER— Where  Wits  Win  (Comedy)   

ADVANCE  RELEASES. 
SUNDAY,  MAY  25th,  1913. 

CRYSTAL— Toodleums   (Comedy)    

CRYSTAL — Supper   for   Three    (Comedy) 

ECLAIR — Hearts  and  Crosses  (Drama) 

ECLAIR — Anaradhapura    

REX— The  Trifler   ( Drama)    

MONDAY,  MAY  26th,  1913. 

IMP — Secret   Service   Sam    (2  parts — Drama) 

NESTOR— On   Cupid's   Highway   (Comedy) 

CHAMPION— Title  not  reported. 

TUESDAY,  MAY  27th,  1913. 

GEM — Billy's    Honeymoon    (Comedy)    

101   BISON— Love,  Life  and  Liberty  (2  parts — Drama). 

CRYSTAL— Where  Charity  Begins   (Drama) 

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  28th,  1913. 

NESTOR— A  Double  Sacrifice  (Drama) 

POWERS— Cheating   (  Comedy)    

ECLAIR— The  Faith  Healer  (2  parts— Drama) 

UNIVERSAL— Animated   Weeklv  No.  64  (News) 

THURSDAY,  MAY  29th,  1913. 

IMP— The  Heart  That  Sees   (Drama) 

REX — The  Tourist  and  the  Flower  Girl  (Drama) 

FRONTIER— A  Romance  of  the  Rails   (Drama) 

FRIDAY,  MAY  30th,   1913. 

NESTOR— Be  It  Ever  So  Humble   (Drama) 

POWERS— The  End  of  the  Trail  (2  parts— Drama) 

VICTOR— The  Plaything  (Drama)   

SATURDAY,  MAY  31st,  1913. 

IMP — The   Magnetic   Maid    (Comedy)    

IMP — Hy.   Mayer,  His   Magic  Hand   (Novelty) 

101   BISON — The  Honor  of  the  Regiment   (2  part — Dr.) 
FRONTIER— Flossie  Visits  Bar  U  Ranch  (Comedy)... 


Mutual  Film  Corporation  Current  Releases 

SUNDAY,  MAY   18th,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— The  Rivals  Outwitted   (Comedy)    

MAJESTIC— Oysters    (Zoology)    

THANHOUSER— Why    Baby   Left   Home    (Comedy).. 
MONDAY,   MAY    19th,    1913. 

AMERICAN— Her  Innocent  Marriage   (Drama) 1000 

KEYSTONE— Hubby's  Job   (Comedy)    

KEYSTONE— 'Twixt  Love  and  Fire  (Comedy) 

RELIANCE — London  Assurance   (Comedy)    


TUESDAY,  MAY  20th,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— Shep,  the  Hero  (Drama)    

THANHOUSER— A   Business   Woman    (Drama) 

WEDNESDAY,    MAY    21st,    1913. 

BRONCHO— The  Sea  Dog  (2-parts  Drama) 

MUTUAL— Mutual   Weekly  No.  21   (News) 

RELIANCE— Early   Oklahoma   (Drama)    

THURSDAY,  MAY  22nd,  1913. 
AMERICAN — Calamity  Anne  Parcel  Post  (Comedy) ....  1000 
KEYSTONE— The  Foreman  of  the  Jury   (Comedy).... 

MUTUAL— (Title    Not    Reported)    

FRIDAY,  MAY  23rd,   1913. 

KAYBEE— The    Miser    (2-parts   Drama)    

THANHOUSER— In  Their  Hour  of  Need  (Drama).... 

SATURDAY,  MAY  24th,  1913. 

AMERICAN — The  Modern  Snare  (Drama)    1000 

RELIANCE— Runa  and  the  Black  Hand  (Drama) 


ADVANCE  RELEASES. 
SUNDAY,  MAY  25th,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— Title  not  reported. 
THANHOUSER— Title  not  reported. 

MONDAY,  MAY  26th,  1913. 

AMERICAN — Ashes  of  Three   (2  parts — Drama) 

KEYSTONE— Toplitsky  &  Company  (Comedv) 

RELIANCE— Heart    Lights    (Drama)     

TUESDAY,  MAY  127th,  1913. 
MAJESTIC— Title  not  reported. 
THANHOUSER— Title  not  reported. 

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  28th,  1913. 
BRONCHO— The  Drummer  of  the  Eighth  (2  parts— Dr.) 

MUTUAL— Mutual  Weekly  No.  22   (News) 

RELIANCE— A  Texas   Feud    (Drama) 

THURSDAY,  MAY  29th,  1913. 

AMERICAN— On   the    Border   (Drama) 1000 

KEYSTONE— The  Gangsters   (Comedy)    

MUTUAL— Title  not  reported. 

FRIDAY,  MAY  30th,  1913. 

KAY-BEE— A   Child   of  War   (2  parts— Drama) 

THANHOUSER— Title  not  reported. 

SATURDAY,  MAY  31st,  1913. 

AMERICAN— Her   Big   Story    (Drama) 1000 

RELIANCE — The   Master   Cracksman    (Drama) 


Exclusive  Supply  Corporation  Current  Releases 

MONDAY,  MAY  19th,   1913. 

DRAGON- — The   Sergeant's   Daughter   (2-part   Drama)... 

TUESDAY,  MAY  20th,  1913. 
GAUMONT— The  Eyes  that  Could  Not  Close   (Drama) 
WEDNESDAY,  MAY  21st,  1913. 

SOLAX — The   Amateur   Highwayman    (Comedy)    

GAUMONT— Gaumont's  Weekly  No.  63   (News)    

THURSDAY,   MAY   22nd,   1913. 

GAUMONT— For  Two   Pins    (Drama)    

FRIDAY,   MAY   23rd,   1913. 

SOLAX— The    Man   Who   Failed    (Drama)    

LUX— Playing    With    Fire    (Drama)     

SATURDAY,   MAY   24th,    1913. 
GREAT  NORTHERN— The  Professor's  Traveling  Ad- 
ventures    (Comedy)     


ADVANCE  RELEASES. 
MONDAY,  MAY  26th,  1913. 

DRAGON — Love's  Monogram   (Drama)    

TUESDAY,  MAY  27th,  1913. 

GAUMONT— The  Light  that  Kills   (Drama)    

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  28th,  1913. 

SOLAX— The    Henpecked    Burglar    (Comedy)     

GAUMONT— Gaumont's  Weekly  No.  64   (News)    

THURSDAY,  MAY  29th,  1913. 
GAUMONT— A   Problem   In   Reduction   (Comedy)    .... 
FRIDAY,   MAY   30th,   1913. 

SOLAX— The   King's   Messenger   (Drama)    

LUX— The   Dog  and   the   Goat    (Drama)    641 

LUX — Pat,    the    Electrician    (Comedy)    355 

SATURDAY,  MAY   31st,  1913. 
GREAT  NORTHERN— (Title   Not  Reported)    


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CONN,     Bridgeport — Park  Film  Exchange.  15  Fairfield  Arena*. 

New  Haren — Tale  Motion  Picture  Co.,  M  Church  8treet. 
DIBT.    OF    COLUMBIA.      Washington—  llutoal    Film    Corporation,    428    Ninth 

8treet,    R.    W. 
Tampa,    Mutual    Film    Corporation,    405    Curry    Bldg. 

Atlanta— Mutual   Film  Corporation,    81    Marietta  Street. 
Chicago — H.    &    H.    Film   Serrlce   Co.,    883    Monadnock    Bldg. 

Majeatlc  Film    Serrice   Co.,    218   N.    Fifth  Arenue. 

Mutual   Film   Corporation,   164   W.   Washington  St. 
□IS.       Indianapolis — Mutual    Film    Corporation.     217    N.     Illinois    Street. 
IOWA.      Dee    Moines — Mutual    Film    Corporation,    Fourth    A    Locust   Street 
KAN.      Wichita— Mutual    Film    Corporation,    417-419    Barnes    Bldg. 
LA.     New  Orleans — Mutual  Film  Corporation,   Maison   Blanche  Bldg. 
MARYLAND.       Baltimore — Continental    Film    Exchange,    28    W.     Lexington 

Street. 
MASS.      Boston — Mutual   Film    Corporation,    32   Boylston    Street. 

Springfield— Mutual    Film    Exchange.    318   Fuller    Building. 
MICH.      Detroit — Mutual    Film    Corporation,    97    Woodward    Arenue. 
Grand    Rapids — Mutual    Film    Corporation,    7-8    Hawkins    Building. 
MINN.     Minneapolis — Mutual   Film  Corporation,   440-445  Temple  Court. 
MISSOURI.     Kansas  City— Mutual  Film  Corporation,  214  E.  Twelfth  Street. 
MONTANA.      Butte — Mutual   Film    Corporation,    Illinois    Building. 
NEB.     Omaha— Mutual  Film  Corporation  1417  Farnam  Street 
NEW    JEBBET,      Newark— Boj-al    Film    Exchange,    288    Market    Street. 
NEW  YORK.     Buffalo — Mutual  Film  Corporation,  272  Washington  Street. 
New  York  City — Empire  Film  Company,   150  B.   Fourteenth  Street. 

Great  Eastern  Film   Exchsnge,  21   E.  Fourteenth  Street 

Metropolitan  Film    Exchange,    122   University   Place. 

Western   Film   Exchange  of  New  York.   145  W.  45th  Street 


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Charlotte — Mutual    Film    Corporation. 


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OHIO.      Cincinnati— Mutual    Film    Corporation,    17    Opera    Place. 
Cleveland—  Lake    Shore    Film    A    Supply    Co.,    108    Prospect    Street. 
Columbus— Buckeye   Lake  Shore  Film    Co..   422   N.    High  8t 
Toledo — Superior   Film   Supply    Co.,    410-412   Superior   Street 

OKLA.     Oklahoma  City — Mutual   Film   Corporation. 
PENN.      Philadelphia— Union    Film    Service.    142    N.    8th    Street. 
Continental    Film    Exchange,    902    Filbert    Street. 

Wllkesbarre — Mutual    Film     Exchange,     61     S.     Pennsylvania     Arenas). 
B0.    DAKOTA.      Sioux    Falls — Mutual    Film    Corporation,    Emerson    Bulldlnsr. 
TENN.      Memphis — Mutual   Film   Corporation,    Kallaher   Building,   5th    laee. 
TEXAS    Dallas — Mutual  Film-  Corporation,  1807  Main  Street. 
UTAH.     Salt   Lake  City— Mutual   Film   Corporation,   15   Mclntyre  Bulldlaej. 
W.  VTR.     Wheeling — Mntual  Film  Corporation,  34  18tn  St. 
WIS.      Milwaukee — Western    Film    Exchange,    307    Enterprise    Bulldlna. 
CANADA.      Montreal,    Ganmont    Co.,    154    St.    Catherine    St 

St.    Johns,    N.    B.,    Ganmont   Co.,    Waterloo   St. 

Toronto,    Gaumont  Co.,   5-6  Queen  St 

Vancouver,  B.  C,   Gaumont  Co.,  Loo  Building,   Hastings  St 

Winnipeg,    Gaumont    Co.,    Atkins    Block,    McDermott    Are. 

Regina,  Sask.,    Gaumont  Co. 
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San    Francisco — Golden   Gate   Film   Exchange,    234   Eddy   Street. 
MISSOURI.     St.    Louis — Swanson-Crawford    Film    Exchange,    Century    Bid*. 
OREGON.     Portland— Film  Supply  Co.,   385    1/2  Alder  8treet 
FENN.     Pittsburg— Pittsburg   Photoplay  Co.,   412  Ferry   Street 
WASH.      Seattle — Film    Supply    Co.,    1301    5th    Arena*. 


BANNER       FEATURE       WEEK 

MAy    26    to    JUNE    I 


Saturday,   May   31 :     A   great   Reliance   drama   in   two 

reels,  "The  Master  Cracksman." 
Friday,  May  30:     Thrilling  war  story  by  the  Kay-Bee 

Company,  in  two  reels,  "A  Child  of  War." 
Wednesday,  May  28:     Sensational  story  of  battle  and 

heroism  by  the  Broncho  Company,  "Drummer  of  the 

8th,"  in  two  reels. 


Tuesday,  May  27:  "Carmen,",  in  three  reels,  staged 
and  costumed  and  acted  in  the  world-famous  Than- 
houser  way. 

Monday,  May  26:  An  absorbing  tale  of  the  West, 
"Ashes  of  Three,"  by  the  American  Film  Manufac- 
turing Company,  in  two  reels,  from  the  story  by 
Stewart  Edward  White. 


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"The   Master   Cracksman" May  31 

"A   Child  of  War" May  30 

"Drummer  of  the  8th" May  28 

"Carmen"    (3)    May  27 

"Ashes  of  Three" May  26 

"The  Miser"   May  23 

"The  Sea  Dog" May  21 

"For  Love  of  the  Flag" May  16 

"A  Slave's  Devotion" May  14 

"The   Big   Boss" May  14 

"The  Marble  Heart" May  13 

"Children  of  St.  Anne" May     6 

"A  Black  Conspiracy" May    2 

"The  Bawler  Out"  (3) Apr.  30 

"Bread  Cast  Upon  the  Waters".  .Apr.  30 

"Oil  Upon  Troubled  Waters" Apr.  28 

"Will  o'  the  Wisp" Apr.  25 


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"Retrogression"    Apr.  23 

"A  Southern  Cinderella"  (3) Apr.  16 

"Held  for  Ransom" Apr.  16 

"On  Fortune's  Wheel" Apr.  1 1 

"The  Grey  Sentinel" Apr.    9 

"With  Lee  in  Virginia" Apr.     4 

"The  Sinews  of  War" Apr.     a 

"The  Judge's  Vindication" , .  Apr.    a 

"Cymbeline"    Mar.  2% 

"The  Icon  jclast"  (3) Mar.  *6 

"The  Pride  of  the  South"  (3)... Mar.  19 

"The  Vengeance  of  Heaven" Mar.  19 

"The  Sergeant's  Secret" Mar.  14 

"The  Sins  of  the  Father" Mar.  ia 

"The  Lost  Despatch" Mar.     7 

"The  Barrier"    Mar.    3 

"The  Man  from  the  Outside"  (3)  Mar.    5 


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The  Use  of  a  Rectifier 
Makes  Pictures  More  Brilliant 

It  is  well  recognized  that  for  the  projection  of 
pictures,  the  direct  current  arc  lamp  is  far  superior 
to  the  lamp  using  alternating  current.  The  light  is 
more  steady  and  intense,  and  a  far  greater  propor- 
tion of  the  light  is  directed  toward  the  lens.       ^ 

The  ordinary  lighting  circuit  furnishes  alternat- 
—    ing  current  only,  but  by  using  a  G-E 
Mercury  Arc  Rectifier,  this  alternating 
current  is  changed  into  direct  current. 

The  use  of  the  rectifier  makes  possi- 
ble much  more  brilliant  pictures  than 
can  be  obtained  when  alternating  cur- 
rent is  used  in  the  lamp. 

The  operation  of  the  rectifier  is  easy  and  its  use 
decreases  the  cost  of  the  electricity  consumed  at  the 
same  time  that  it  improves  the  quality  of  the  pictures. 

Write  our  nearest  office  for  Booklet  B -3 107  giving 
the  results  of  comparative  tests  on  projection  lamps 
using  alternating  and  direct  current,  and  explaining 
the  operation  of  the  rectifier. 


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General  Electric  Company 


LARGEST  ELECTRICAL  MANUFACTURER   IN  THE  WORLD 


Atlanta,  Ga. 
Baltimore  Md. 
Birmingham,  Ala, 
Boise,  Idaho. 
Boston,  Mass. 
Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Butte,  Mont 
Charleston.  W.  Va. 
Charlotte,  N.  C. 
Chattanooga,  Tenn. 
Chicago,  111. 


Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Cleveland,  Ohio 
Columbus,  Ohio 
Davenport,  Iowa 
Dayton,  Ohio 
Denver,  Colo. 
Detroit,  Mich. 
(Office  of  Agent) 
Elmira,  N.  Y. 
Erie,  Pa. 
Indianapolis,  Ind. 


General  Office:    Schenectady,  N.  Y. 
ADDRESS  NEAREST  OFFICE 


Jacksonville,  Fla. 
Toplin,  Mo. 
Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Keokuk,  Iowa 
Knoxville,  Tenn. 
Los  Angeles,  Cal. 


Louisville,  Ky. 
Mattoon,  III. 
Memphis,  Tenn. 
Milwaukee,  Wis. 
Minneapolis,  Minn. 
Nashville,  Tenn. 


New  Haven,  Conn. 
New  Orleans,  La. 
New  York,  N.  Y. 
Omaha,  Neb. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Pittsburgh.  Pa. 
Portland,  Ore. 
Providence,  R.  I. 
Richmond,  Va. 
Rochester,  N.  Y. 
Salt  Lake  City,  Utah 


San  Francisco,  Cal. 
St.  Louis.  Mo. 
Schenectady,  N.  Y. 
Seattle,  Wash. 
Spokane,  Wash. 
Springfield,  Mass. 
Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Toledo,  Ohio 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Youngstown,  Ohio 


For  Texas  and  Oklahoma  business  refer  to  Southwest  General  Electric  Co.,  (formerly  Hobson  Electric  Co.) — Dallas,  El  Paso,  Houston  and  Oklahoma  City. 
For  Canadian  business  refer  to  Canadian  General  Electric  Company,  Lt'd,  Toronto,  Ont.  4041 


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The  Attraction  of  Good  Light 

Good  brilliant  illumination  has  an 
immense  "pulling"  power.  To  have  two 
or  three  flaming  arcs  outside  your  theatre 
attracts  the  crowd. 

Good  light  also  shows  up  the  signs 
and  gives  your  place  a  cheery,  inviting 
appearance. 

A  well  lighted  exterior  is  one  of  your 
most  telling  advertisements. 

The  Long  Life  Flame  Arc 
Lamp  Type  W 

is  one  of  the  most  powerful  lighting  units 
known.  It  is  especially  adapted  to  illu- 
minating the  exteriors  of  theatres.  This  efficient  lamp 
is  economical  to  install  and  maintain — one  set  of  carbons 
burns  for  100-120  hours  without  attention:  and  only 
one  of  these  carbons  needs  renewing  at  each  trim. 

The  lamp  is  thoroughly  reliable  and  substantially 
constructed. 

Write  to  our  local  office  nearest  you  for  further 
information. 

General  Electric  Company 


LARGEST  ELECTRICAL  MANUFACTURER  IN  THE   WORLD 


Atlanta,  Ga. 
Baltimore  Md. 
Birmingham,  Ala- 
Boise,  Idaho. 
Boston,  Mass. 
Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Butte,  Mont. 
Charleston,  W.  Va. 
Charlotte,  N.  C. 
Chattanooga,  Tenn. 
Chicago,  111. 


Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Cleveland,  Ohio 
Columbus,  Ohio 
Davenport.  Iowa 
Dayton,  Ohio 
Denver,  Colo. 
Detroit,  Mich. 
(Office  of  Agent) 
Elmira,  N?  V. 
Erie.  Pa. 
Indianapolis,  Ind. 


General  Office:    Schenectady,  N.  Y. 
ADDRESS  NEAREST  OFFICE 


Jacksonville,  Fla. 
Joplin,  Mo. 
Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Keokuk,  Iowa 
Knoxville,  Tenn. 
Los  Angeles,  Cal. 


Louisville,  Ky. 
Mattoon,  111. 
Memi'his,  Tenn. 
Milwaukee,  Wis. 
Minneapolis,  Minn. 
Nashville,  Tenn. 


New  Haven,  Conn. 
New  Orleans,  La. 
New  York,  X.  Y. 
Omaha,  Neb. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Pittsburg,  Pa. 
Portland,  Ore. 
Providence,  R.  I. 
Richmond,  Ya. 
Rochester,  N.  Y. 
Salt  Lake  City.  Utah 


San  "rancisco,  Cal 
St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Schenectady,  N.  Y. 
Seattle,  Wash. 
Spokane,  Wash. 
Springfield,  Mass. 
Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Toledo,  Ohio 
Washington,  D.  C 
Youngstown,  Ohio 


For  Texas  and  Oklahoma  business  refer  to  Southwest  General  Electric  Co.,  (formerly  Hobson  Electric  Co.) — Dallas,  El  Paso,  Houston  and  Oklahoma  Gty. 
For  Canadian  business  refer  to  Canadian  General  Electric  Company,  Lt*d,  Toronto,  Ont  4317 


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A  VICTIM  OF  HEREDITY  (May  26).— A  gang  of 
thieves  is  captured  and  brought  to  Justice.  Some 
weeks  later  the  woman  of  the  party  dies  in  prison 
and  her  baby,  Jane,  is  adopted.  Twenty  years  pass 
and  Jane,  grown  to  yonng  womanhood,  has  an  in- 
herited propensity  for  stealing  which  she  is  unable 
to  resist.  One  day,  while  attempting  to  rob  her 
employer,  she  is  detected  and  discharged. 

The  poor  girl  decides  to  end  it  all  and  visits  a 
drug  store.  Dr.  Van  Buren,  a  noted  specialist  hap- 
pens to  be  behind  the  prescription  counter  and  sus- 
pecting the  girl's  purpose,  substitutes  a  harmless 
sleeping  potion. 

Some  time  later  Jane  answers  an  advertisement 
for  a  housemaid  and  secures  a  position  with  the 
wealthy  Mrs.  Dexter.  Dr.  Van  Buren,  who  calls 
one  afternoon,  prevents  Jane  from  robbing  her  mis- 
tress and,  keeping  his  own  counsel,  becomes  greatly 
interested  in  the  girl's  case.  He  gives  her  his  card 
and  invites  her  to  call. 

The  specialist  then  calls  in  a  number  of  his  col- 
leagues and  determines  upon  an  experiment.  That 
night  when  Jane  calls  and  is  about  to  appropriate 
some  valuables  which  the  doctor  has  intentionally 
left  exposed,  a  flashlight  is  set  off  by  the  secreted 
physicians.     The  girl  faints  from  the  shock. 

Van  Buren  contends  that  the  sudden  shock  will 
permanently  cure  Jane  of  her  kleptomania  and  his 
theory  proves  correct  when,  later,  he  puts  her  to 
the  test. 

CAPTURED     BY    STRATEGY     (May    28) Tom 

Marvin  befriends  Bill,  a  tramp,  and  gains  his  ever- 
lasting friendship.  Later  Tom  is  refused  the  hand  of 
Gladys  Richmond  by  the  doty  old  Colonel.  The  lovers 
are  heartbroken.  Richmond  sells  his  timber  land 
and  resolves  to  make  a  trip  to  the  city  by  boat, 
that  he  may  deposit  the  money.  The  transaction  is 
witnessed  by  several  tramps  who  plot  to  waylay 
Richmond.  Tom,  who  has  overheard  the  plans,  is 
made  a  prisoner.  Bill,  one  of  the  tramps  becomes 
conscience-stricken  and  liberates  the  young  man. 
By  a  strange  turn  of  fate  the  crooks  are  temporarily 
frustrated  but  follow  Richmond  and  board  the  ves- 
sel. 

After  a  hard  ride  Tom  arrives  at  the  landing,  only 
to  find  that  the  boat  has  gone.  He  rides  along  the 
bank  until  he  reaches  a  long  pier  where  a  dredge 
is  working  and  Induces  the  foreman  to  assist  him 
In  his  desperate  effort  to  board  the  boat.  Tom  is 
lifted  up  on  the  dredge  and  as  the  boat  passes  down 
stream  he  leaps  aboard.  He  bursts  into  the  Colonel's 
stateroom  in  time  to  foil  the  crooks  aid  assist  in 
their  capture.  Richmond  concludes  that  such  a  re- 
sourceful young  man  will  make  a  very  desirable 
son-in-law. 

THE  WIDOW  FROM  WOTNIPEG  (May  30). 
— Johnson,  a  lonely  ranchman,  advertises  for  a  wife 
and  stipulates  that  she  must  have  black  eyes,  weigh 
180  pounds  and  be  able  to  play  the  organ.  The 
Widow  from  Winnipeg  answers  that  she  meets  all 
requirements.  Finally  the  great  day  arrives  and 
Johnson  escorts  the  bride  to  his  cabin.  But  the 
Widow  has  ideas  of  her  own  which  she  proceeds  to 
execute.  Johnson,  in  desperation,  arranges  to  have 
the  Sheriff  arrest  him,  but  the  Widow  puts  up  a 
strenuous  defense  and  prevents  the  officer  from  ar- 
resting Johnson.  The  ranchman  baa  another  great 
idea.  He  disguises  himself  and  returns  to  the  cabin 
with  the  information  that  he  is  Bad  Bill  the  wife- 
beater,  who  has  bought  the  Johnson  outfit.  The 
Widow  penetrates  the  disguise  and  makes  things 
lively  for  the  pretender.  Finally  Johnson  Joins  a 
band  of  outlaws  and  the  Widow,  searching  for  her 
heart's  desire  succeeds  In  rounding  up  the  whole 
gang. 

THE  COMEDY  TEAM'S  STRATEGY  (May  30).— 
Helndal,  the  theatrical  agent,  awakes  in  a  very  bad 
humor  and  goes  to  his  office  with  a  decided  grouch. 
The  comedy  team  arrives  in  town  and  applies  for 
booking.  They  are  told  that  there  are  too  many 
"hams"  in  the  business  already.  Jack  and  Jane 
propose  to  teach  the  agent  a  lesson.  Jane  disguises 
as  a  man  and  Jack  as  a  woman.  Jack  pretends  to 
meet  with  an  accident  and  Is  assisted  home  by  the 


gallant.  Helndal.  Then  Jane,  in  masculine  attire 
confronts  the  agent,  declaring  that  he  is  trying  to 
break  up  the  home  and  producing  a  huge  bomb,  she 
states  that  they  will  all  die  together.  She  secret- 
ly strikes  a  base-drum  and  the  terrified  agent  thinks 
that  the  bomb  has  exploded.  "Can  we  act?"  ask 
Jane  and  Jack  removing  their  disguises.  They  are 
booked  for  Heindal's  entire  circuit. 

JOHN    BURNS    OF     GETTYSBURG     (May    31) 

John  Burns,  having  lost  his  son  in  the  early  part 
of  the  Uvil  War,  becomes  inflamed  with  a  desire 
to  avenge  the  boy's  death,  but  his  wife  restrains 
him.  ibe  mother  finds  the  great  loss  unbearable  and 
tollows   the  son. 

John  Burns  neighbors  become  panic-stricken 
when  the  terrific  cannonading  at  Gettysburg  is 
heard,  but  the  old  man  stoically  refuses  to  be 
driven  from  his  home.  Finallv  the  retreating 
troops  fire  Burns'  patriotism  and  he  resolves  to 
wreak  his  vengeance.  Dressing  in  his  best  Buit 
and  high  hat,  he  becomes  the  butt  of  the  soldiers' 
jests,  but  his  calm  determination  and  seeming  im- 
munity inspire  the  regulars.  He  declines  to  take 
the  shelter  of  the  trenches,  but  stands  before  the 
enemy,  quietly  ramming  bis  musket  and  firing 
shot   after  shot  at    the   Confederates. 

Unconcernedly  he  leads  a  charge  that  turns  the 
tide  in  favor  of  the  Federal  forces. 


THE  REWARD  OF  SERVICE  (May  26).— Old 
John  Horris,  past  earning  bis  living,  finds  himself 
slighted  and  unweleonied  in  his  son's  home.  Wear- 
ing his  faded  blue  uniform,  and  carrying  his  old 
musket,  he  steals  away  and  trudges  the  long  road 
to  Washington,  confident  that  he  will  find  welcome 
and  rest  at  the  Soldiers'  Home.  At  the  Capital, 
he  finds  that  long  formalities  stand  between  him 
and  the  rest  he  craves.  Little  Ethel  Seymour, 
daughter  of  the  Governor,  is  filled  with  sorrow 
and  indignation  that  the  old  man  should  be  sent 
away  with  ouly  a  blank  form  of  application  and 
follows  him.  She  knows  vaguely  that  there  are  high 
authorities  with  power  to  remove  obstacles  with  a 
word  and  determines  to  seek  them.  The  old  man 
readily  follows  his  determined  little  guide.  They 
wander  about  the  city,  refused  admission  to  the 
War  Department,  the  White  House,  and  at  the 
Capitol.  The  child  is  in  despair,  the  old  man  ex- 
hausted, when  they  attract  the  attention  of  a 
kind-hearted  senator.  The  senator  quickly  unwinds 
the  official  red  tape,  and  Ethel  and  her  old  charge 
return   to   the  Home  in   triumph. 

THE  YARN  OF  THE  NANCY  BELLE  (May  27). 
— On  Deal  Beach,  Jim  Bolt,  an  old  sailor,  now  a 
fisherman,  is  mending  his  net  when  a  crowd  of 
children  urge  him  to  tell  them  a  story  of  the  sea. 
He  takes  them  into  his  hut  and  proceeds  to  tell 
bis  "Yarn  of  the  Nancy  Belle."  As  he  tells  the 
tale,  the  scenes  are  illustrated  by  visions  that  ap- 
pear to  the  children's  minds.  First  he  pictures 
the  good  brig,  "Nancy  Belle,"  sailing  the  Indian 
Sea,  when  a  storm  comes  up  and  the  vessel  is 
wrecked.  Many  of  the  seamen  go  to  the  bottom, 
but  ten  of  the  crew  take  to  the  life-boat  and  are 
<-ast  on  a  barren  island.  For  a  month  they  nearly 
starve,  and  finally  their  hunger  becomes  so  great 
that  they  resolve  to  cast  lots  to  select  one  who 
may  be  killed  and  eaten  to  save  the  lives  of  the 
others.  The  first  victim  is  the  captain,  and  Bolt 
shoots  him,  thus  furnishing  food  for  a  few  days. 
The  next  one  to  draw  the  unlucky  number  Is  the 
bo'suni.  Six  others  share  the  fate  of  the  captain 
and  bo'sum,  until  but  two  are  left,  the  cook  and 
Jim  Bolt.  They  are  now  man  to  man  and  it  is  a 
serious  question  as  to  which  one  should  be  the  sur- 
vivor. The  cook,  being  the  cook,  endeavors  to 
persuade  Bolt  that  he  (Bolt),  could  not  cook  the 
cook,  while  he,  being  the  cook,  could  make  a  savory 
meal  of  Bolt  as  he  had  of  the  others.  To  prove 
his  claim  he  concocts  a  broth  of  herbs,  salt  and 
pepper,  and  taking  Bolt  to  the  edge  of  the  kettle, 
tells  him  to  smell  it.  Jim  sees  his  opportunity,  and 
seizing  the  cook  throws  him  into  the  foaming 
soup  and  enjoys  a  delicious  meal.  Next  day  Bolt 
is  chewing  one  of  the  cook's  bones  when  he  sights 
a  battle  ship.  He  signals,  a  boat  is  put  off  and 
the  sailors  take  the  only  survivor  of  the  "Nancy 
Belle"  from  the  Island. 

DOING  LIKE  DAISY  (May  27).— Auntie,  who  is 
almost,  but  not  quite,  ready  to  enter  the  old  maids' 
class,  seems  to  have  trouble  in  attracting  young 
men's  attentions.  Daisy,  in  her  trim  sailor  suit, 
seems  to  be  the  attraction  for  all  the  young  men. 
Auntie  has  an  idea — it  is  her  dress  that  keeps  the 
men  away.  So  auntie  decides  to  dress  up  in  short 
skirts  and  a  middy  blouse,  and  when  she  appears 
on  the  lawn  in  a  costume  like  Daisy's  she  offers 
a  good   laugh  for   the  young  folks.     She  is  always 


trailing  around  after  Will,  Jack  and  Daisr,  and  in 
order  to  get  away  from  her  they  jump  in  a  boat 
and  put  out  into  the  stream.  Auntie  rushes  to  the 
dock  Just  in  time  to  be  too  late.  When  she  leans 
heavily  against  the  railing  It  breaks  and  auntie 
is  treated  to  a  good  ducking. 

M^0^-41?  WA*  IN  MEXICO  (Special,  2  parts, 
May  28).-— James  Hudson,  a  young  civil  engineer 
is  engaged  in  surveying  land  In  Southern  California 
when  he  meets  and  falls  in  love  with  Pequita  the 
daughter  of  Don  Jose  Alvarado,  a  Mexican  farmer 
Pequita  learns  to  love  Hudson  and  they  are  eventu- 
ally married.  Two  years  pass  and  Hudson  has 
become  addicted  to  the  use  of  liquor,  and  has  grown 
tired  of  Pequita.  One  day,  while  in  a  drunken 
rage,  he  strikes  ber,  and  as  she  falls  unconscious, 
and  he,  being  unable  to  revive  her,  believes  her 
dead.  He  runs  from  the  house,  and,  after  a  long 
journey,  falls  exhausted  at  the  door  of  a  mission 
The  padre  finds  him  and  takes  him  Inside,  where  be 
is  nursed  back  to  health  and  eventually  becomes  a 
monk.  In  the  meantime,  Peqnlta  has  been  found  by 
her  father  and  taken  to  his  home,  where  her  little 
son  is  born. 

Twenty  years  elapse  and  the  eon,  grown  to  man- 
hood, has  Joined  the  insurgent  Mexican  armv  and  Is 
selected  to  do  duty  as  a  spy.  He  enlists  in  the 
Federal  forces  and  In  the  execution  of  his  duties 
as  a  spy,  he  is  discovered  and  tried  by  court- 
martial.  He  is  condemned  to  death,  but  when  the 
commanding  officer  visits  him  In  his  cell,  the  boy 
overpowers  him  and  escapes  by  donning  the  officer's 
cloak  and  hat.  A  detachment  of  soldiers  give  chase 
and  overtake  him  at  the  door  of  the  mission.  The 
padre  protects  the  boy  and  requests  that  he  be 
allowed  one  hour  for  confession,  after  which  the 
padre  promises  to  deliver  the  prisoner  to  them 
The  officer  consents  and  the  boy  is  led  inside.  He 
requests  that  his  mother  be  sent  for  and  a  monk 
goes  to  bring  her.  When  she  arrives  she  imme- 
diately recognizes  the  monk  as  her  husband,  and 
tells  him  that  the  boy  is  his  son.  At  the  expiration 
of  the  hour  the  officer  demands  his  prisoner,  and 
the  men  are  waiting  ontside  the  mission  gate  to 
carry  out  the  execution.  As  the  boy  and  mother 
are  kneeling  in  prayer,  the  father  dons  the  cloak 
and  cap  in  which  the  boy  escaped  and  goes  out.  Ab 
he  opens  the  gate  and  steps  forth,  he  is  met  by 
a  volley  of  bnllets  from  the  guns  of  the  soldiers, 
who  march  away,  believing  they  have  done  their 
duty.  The  mother  and  son  rush  from  the  mission 
and  fall  weeping  across  the  body  of  the  father  who, 
with  his  life,  atoned  for  the  suffering  he  had  caused 
them. 

A  ROMANCE  OF  THE  OZARKS  (May  29).— 
Harry  Flatbers,  a  revenue  officer,  arrives  at  Darcy 
and  presents  a  note  of  introduction  to  the  sheriff, 
informing  him  lhat  illicit  whiskey  is  being  made 
in  the  mountains  near  the  town  and  that  Flathers 
lias  been  sent  to  capture  the  moonshiner.  Attired 
as  a  fisherman,  Flathers  sets  out  on  a  tour  of  in- 
vestigation. In  the  heart  of  the  mountains  lives 
Ned  Thaneous  with  his  step-daughter,  Dollie.  Their 
nearest  neighbor,  Zeb,  operates  an  Illicit  still  and 
keeps  old  man  Thaneous  supplied  with  his  favorite 
beverage.  Zeb  is  in  love  with  Dollie  and  with  the 
aid  of  the  old  man,  tries  to  persuade  her  to  marry 
him.  Dollie  refuses  and  the  poor  girl's  life  is 
made  a  burden  by  the  importunate  lover  and  her 
step-father. 

While  Flathers  is  fishing  one  day,  he  and  Dollie 
meet.  It  is  a  case  of  love  at  first  sight.  Several 
weeks  later,  Flathers,  who  has  not  succeeded  in 
locating  the  still,  comes  across  Zeb  annoying  Dollie. 
He  Interferes  and  starts  to  take  her  home.  Zeb 
sees  the  officer's  badge,  and  recognizing  the  danger, 
follows  the  conple.  They  approach  Thaneous'  home- 
stead, where  Flathers  leaves  her.  He  seeks  further 
for  the  still  ard  finds  It.  Zeb,  who  has  been  trail- 
ing him,  comes  np  behind  and  strikes  him  a  blow 
on  the  head.  He  then  locks  the  nnconsclons  man 
In  the  cellar  and  departs.  He  hurries  to  Thaneous' 
house  and  tells  the  old  man  of  Dome's  treachery. 
They  lock  Dollie  in  her  room  and  Zeb  makes  prepa- 
rations to  skip.  Dollie  has  stolen  the  key  of  the 
cellar  in  which  Flathers  is  confined,  rushes  to  the 
still  and  liberates  him.  She  then  tells  him  of  Zeb's 
intention  to  flee,  and  the  two  plan,  not  only  to 
elope,  but  to  capture  Zeb  and  deliver  him  to  the 
sheriff.  Their  plan  is  carried  out  successfully  and 
they  are  married  by  the  sheriff. 

FAITH  OF  A  GIRL  (May  30).— The  story 
opens  with  the  wedding  of  Laura  Mills  to  Jim 
Farley.  Jim  had  a  story  that  he  had  tried  to  bury. 
He  had  done  things  in  the  past  that  were  against 
the  law.  The  young  couple  made  haste  to  the 
depot.  They  had  scarcely  left  the  door-step  when 
two  detectives  presented  themselves  at  the  Mills 
home  and  informed  the  family  that  they  wanted 
Jim.  The  bridal  couple  had  Just  been  shown  to  their 
room  at  the  big  city  hotel  when  the  officers  entered. 


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Jim    was    arraigned    for    s    '      I    ici     Job*-    pulled 

off  six  months  before.  Laura  bad  to  return  to  her 
parents'  bome  and  was  there  confronted  with  the 
newspaper  account  of  the  crime.  The  parents  reuoune-  " 
ed  Parley,  and  Laura,  refusing  to  bear  a  word  against  ■ 
her  husband,  left  the  house  and  sought  emp 
menc.  She  found  a  position  in  the  office  of  Richard 
Starley.  The  work  was  enjoyable  and  Laura  paid 
weekly  visits  to  her  husband  in  the  jail.  One  even 
Ing,  as  she  was  about  to  leave  the  office,  Starley 
attempted  to  embrace  ber.  She  recoiled  with  hor- 
ror, but  the  nest  day  reported  as  usual.  Starley 
declared  his  love  for  her,  and  proposed  to  secure  a 
divorce  for  her  if  she  would  marry  him.  For  reply 
Laura  produced  a  locket  containing  Jim's  picture 
and  her  own  and  reiterated  ber  love  for  her  un- 
fortunate husband.  From  that  moment  Starley  be- 
■  came  ber  friend.  It  was  visiting  day  at  the  prison 
'and  Laura  was  there;  a  fire  broke  out  iu  the  jail 
-and  a  panic  ensued.  Convicts,  guards  and  visitors 
were  rushing  for  safety.  Among  those  in  danger 
was  the  warden's  son.  Jim  seized  the  boy,  and  try- 
ing to  battle  with  the  dames,  was  overcome.  The 
guards  rescued  them  both  unconscious  and  they  were 
taken  to  the  hospital,  where  they  lay  in  twin  beds 
«atil  convalescent.  The  warden  and  Starley  inter- 
-e»ted  themselves  in  Jim  and  for  his  bravery  secured 
"his  release.  Laura  took  her  husband  back  to  the 
-family   and  all   was  forgiven. 

H4XNED0G  THE  FAITHFUL  (May  31).— Lonedog, 
"kn  old  Indian,  is  found  by  a  number  of  tourists, 
guarding  three  graves.  Being  asked  to  relate  the 
atory  connected  with  them,  be  tells  of  the  death 
of  his  beloved  squaw  on  the  desert  and  of  the 
infant  papoose  left  in  his  care.  He  tells  of  the  long 
journey  with  the  child  in  his  arms  to  the  nearest 
cabin,  where  he  finds  a  settler  and  his  wife,  who 
hare  just  buried  their  new-born  babe,  and  when 
Lonedog  asks  them  to  care  for  his  papoose  until  he 
can  return,  the  woman's  heart  goes  out  to  the 
child  and  she  consents  to  nurse  and  care  for  it. 

Years  pass  and  Lonedog  returns  with  gifts  to  bia 
friends.     In   the  meantime,   the   Indians  of  his  tribe 
ask     for    more    rations     from     the     government.     A 
zjfcmine  Is   imminent.     They   are  refused   and   revolt. 
'LawftSog  "hears  of   the   uprising    and    rides   to   warn 
r  the   eettiers   and   his   friends.     The   Indians   are    re- 
)   poised    by    the    settlers,    and    riding   over    the    hills, 
-wreak     vengenace    on    Lonedog's     benefactors.     He, 
Id  Vne  meantime,  has  Tidden  back  to  the  little  town 
'    to   ask    for  help  for  his   friends.     The   townspeople, 
1  mistaking   him  for  an  enemy,    fire   and   wound   him. 
I  Hart  as  be  is,  be  manages  to  make  himself  under- 
^S&rvxJA&nd  the  townspeople  bind  his  wounds  and  rush 
to  ^Iffc  ti&scue.     He  follows  on   horseback.     The   set- 
tlers  reach    the   cabin,    followed   by   Lonedog.     They 
ted  the  dead  bodies  of  the  man,  woman  and  child, 
who  have  been  slaughtered  while  waving  the  flag  of 
trace.     The    Indians    take    flight    and    two    of    the 
settlers   help   Lonedog    bury   his   dead.      Faithful   in 
death,  as  be  was  in  life,  be  watches  and  waits  for 
the   time   when   he    too   will   find   peace   and    forget- 
Xolness. 


ESS  A  KAY. 

"•THE  NEW  SHERIFF  (May  27).— Three  thousand 
■"dollars  Is  offered  for  the  capture  of  the  desperate 
^Sheppard  gang.  Volunteers  would  not  have  been  so 
scarce  had  not  the  sheriff  been  killed  the  day  before, 
hy  one  of  the  Sbeppards.  Judge  Boyd  implores  the 
men  to  come  forward  and  assist  in  capturing  the 
desperadoes.  Blenton  steps  forward  and  says  he 
will  try.  His  trial  proved  to  be  a  huge  success, 
when  before  the  astonished  villagers  he  marches  the 
three  men  of  the  gang  to  jail.  The  secret  of  his 
success  was  the  outlaw's  undoing,  and  it  all  hap- 
pened because  Jack  Sbeppard  bad  placed  too  much 
confidence   In   bis   dog. 

ON  THE  JOB    (May   28).— They   say   a    traveling 

man    has    a    girl    in    every    town.      Jack    Gardener, 

thought    he    had    one    in    Indianapolis,    but    he    was 

muchly    mistaken.      James    Rlckert,    also    a    knight 

of  the  grip,   made  an  appointment  with   two  benu- 

'  tlful    young    ladies,    one    for    his    friend,    Gardener. 

The    girls    didn't    care    much    for    their    escorts,     so 

«ave    them    the    slip.      At    the    hotel    that    evening. 

"  *Gardener    discovers    that    he    has    a    pair    of    ladies' 

gloves   in    his   pocket.     Miss   Busybody,    in   the   nest 

■room,     with    Irer    eye    glued    to    the    keyhole,     dis- 

«eovers  Gardener   with    the   gloves.     She   is   not  long 

'  2ta  notifying  Gardener's  wife.     Rlckert.    while   writ- 

ting    a   letter   to   bis   home,    finds   the   blotter    which 

kaad  blotted  the  letter  that  Miss  Busybody  had  writ 

"  tten    to     Mrs.    Gardener.       Holding     the    blotter     to 

•the    mirror,     the    writing    told    the    terrible    story. 

When     Mrs.     Gardner    arrived     and     her     husband's 

'  traveling  bag  Is  searched  at  the  suggestion  of  Miss 

'  .Busybody,    they   discover   B    new   suit    for   Gardener's 

*  *oy,    and    the    gloves    missing.     Mrs.    Gardener    or- 

'   iters    Miss    Busybody    from    the    room.      Hubby    for- 

jClves  his  wife  for  thinking  he  was  any  other  than 

'  &e    should   have   been. 

THEIR   BABY    (May  29). — Jack   and    May    Geary 

'  leave  their  ten   months  old  son  with  the  nurse  and 

-  *o    to    the    St.    Clair's    for    supper.       May    becomes 

Jettons  of  Jack,    and   leaves   the   party    telling    Mrs. 

■  Stl  'Clair  she  is  going   to   get    the   baby    and   return 

,Wm«    to    mother.      In    the    meant! the    Geary's 

maid  holds  a  convention  of  nursemaids  In  the 
Geary  household.  When  Mrs.  Geary  returns  for 
her  child,  she  picks  up  an  infant,  unaware  that 
•  tfeece  are  several  others  Jo  the  room.  Mr.  Geary 
r  fclso  returns  and  he  takes  a  baby.  Thus  the  trials 
■  «nd  tribulations  of  ehe  Gearys  are  straightened  out 
WW 'the  police   court. 


THE  GOOD  IN  THE  WORST  OF  US  (May  30).— 
Joan  proves  her  sisterly  love  by  saving  Mary  from 
the  penitentiary.  The  life  that  .loan  led  bad  often 
placed  her  behind  the  liars,  but  she  could  not  bear 
to  see  ber  youjkger  sister.  Mary,  travel  the  same 
route.       Mary     married     a     man,     presumably     lu    good 

circumstances,    but    after    the    wedding    tows    had 

been  taken,  Mary  discovered  that  her  husband  was 
making  counterfeit  money.  The  two  were  arrest- 
ed. Joan  proved  conclusively  to  the  judge  that  hex 
sister  was  not  guilty,  that  she  herself  bad  boon 
making  and  passing  the  fictitious  bills.  Joan  sac- 
rificed  her   freedom   for   the  love  of   her  sister. 

"ALKALI"  IKE'S  MISFORTUNES  (May  31).— 
Sofie  Clntts,  the  belle  of  Llzardville,  returns  from 
her  visit  -to  the  East,  and  the  men  clamor  to  see 
ber.  Alkali  Ike  is  robbed  of  his  suspenders,  his 
bat  and  coat,  so  that  three  of  the  men  could  look 
presentable.  Sofie  tries  to  entertain  ber  three 
suitors,  one  In  the  parlor,  another  In  the  dining 
room,  and  the  last  in  the  kitchen.  Alkali  Ike  calls 
to  see  the  fair  Sofie,  and  is  shoved  by  suitor  num- 
ber one  from  the  parlor  into  the  dining  room,  his 
nest  trip  from  the  dining  room  into  the  kitchen, 
and  the  last  trip,  the  one  that  hurt  the  most,  was 
from  the  kitchen  through  the  window  Into  some 
shrubbery.  Alkali  Ike's  revenge  is  sweet.  He 
purchases  four  electric  belts,  and  when  the  wires 
become  short-circuited,  you  just  ought  to  see  what 
happens    to    the   suitors. 


VITAGRAPH. 

UP  AND  DOWN  THE  LADDER  (May  26).— Ab- 
sorbed in  his  books,  Mr.  Stoddard,  a  bachelor 
book-lover,  is  interrupted  by  his  servant,  who  brings 
him  a  small  package.  Opening  it,  Stoddard  finds 
that  it  is  a  rare  edition  sent  him  by  one  of  his 
nephews.  The  man-servant  turns  to  dust  the  room 
but  in  doing  so  knocks  down  a  valuable  bust  of 
Shakespeare,  breaking  it  in  pieces.  Indignant  at 
his  carelessness,  his  master  picks  up  the  paper 
and  looks  through  the  "Want  Ads,"  determined 
to  get  a  housekeeper  whom  he  can  trust.  He  an- 
swers the  advertisement  of  Luella  Pears,  saying 
however,  that  she  need  not  come  unless  she  is 
forty  five  years  old.  When  she  gets  his  letter. 
I.ueila,  who  is  only  eighteen  and  who  is  desper- 
ately in  need  of  a  situation,  decides  to  make  up 
as  an  older  woman  and  take  the  job.  She  arrives 
at  the  house  the  next  morning  Just  as  the  Pro- 
fessor is  trying  to  glue  the  pieces  of  the  broken 
statue  together.  He  gets  his  hands  all  covered 
with  the  glue  and  makes  an  awful  mess  In  the 
room.  When  she  shakes  hands  with  him  their 
hands  stick  together  and  after  they  have  broken 
apart,  much  to  his  disgust,  she  begins  to  tidy  up 
his  den.  Stoddard  does  not  wish  to  be  in  the 
dust  of  the  tidying  process  and  leaves  the  house 
to  spend  a  week  in  Washington.  As  soon  as  he 
has  gone,  she  lets  down  her  hair  and  he  sees  her 
as  a  young  girl,  when  he  returns  In  search  of  a 
forgotten  umbrella.  He  immediately  falls  in  love 
with  her  and  she  makes  him  help  ber  In  putting 
things  stranght,  making  him  get  down  the  books 
from  the  upper  shelves.  Forgetting  his  customary 
reserve,  Stoddard  lets  convention  fly  to  the  winds 
and  takes  her  in  his  arms  while  they  are  up  the 
ladder.  After  a  lingering  kiss,  he  proposes  to  her 
and  she  accepts  blm.  Stoddard  makes  an  admirable 
husband  and  an  adoring  father  to  the  group  of 
children  that  soon  spring  up  to  fill  the  home  of 
this    happily    mated    couple. 


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THICKS     OF     THE     TRADE      (May     27).Wack 

Breen     and         bia     wife,     Lizzie,     are     professional 

crooks,    who  live  in  a  line  house  and  set  themselves 

belonging     to  the  best.        Breen     gets     his 

living    by     v|rloua     means,     including     begging.     He 

dresses    In    ringed    clothes    and    picks    up    crusts    In 

■    be   pretends    to  eat,    thereby   ex- 

bbe    sympathy    of    passers-by.    Jennie    Cor- 

"in       thinking    his    case    one    of    genuine    misery, 

gives   him   some   money. 

He  returns  to  ins  n  Ife  with  his  ill-gotten  gains 
and  changes  his  clothes.  He  manages  to  steal 
an  overcoat  from  a  pour  actor  who.  is  trying  to 
sell  it  and  then  steals  a  box  of  handsome  shirt 
waists  from  a  department  store.  Returning  to  bis 
wife  with  these  various  tilings,  he  gives  her  the 
waists,  one  of  which  she  put  on,  and  changing  into 
evening  clothes,  he  goes  out  with  her  to  dinner. 
At  a  swell  restaurant,  where  they  dine,  Lizzie 
meets  Jack  Williams,  a  young  fool,  and  starts  to 
flirt  with  him.  In  the  course  of  the  evening  she 
manages  to  get  his  diamond  ring,  adding  another 
item   to   the  spoils  of  the  day. 

tfeme'sffl  is  on  their  track.  Jennie  comes  to  the 
restaurant  and  recognizes  the  beggar  of  the  morn- 
ing. She  reports  him  to  a  police  officer,  who 
shadows  blm.  He  is  seen  to  try  the  beggar  gag 
again  and  is  arrested.  Detectives  are  put  on  the 
case  and  the  whole  sordid  career  of  Breen  and  bis 
wife  exposed.  Both  are  given  a  heavy  sentence 
in  jail,  a  punishment  which  is  well  merited  by 
their  career  of  crime. 

CUTEY  PLAYS  DETECTIVE  {May  28).— Seeing 
Cutey  play  the  part  of  a  maid  of  all  work  at  a 
college  play,  Alys  Trevor  seeks  an  Introduction 
to  him  and  they  soon  become  good  friends.  She 
takes  him  with  ber  to  present  liim  to  her  mother, 
whom  she  buds  talking  to  a  stranger.  Lord  Good- 
bluff.  Mama  does  nut  seem  very  pleased  to  meet 
Cutey. 

Later,  Outey  calls  at  the  Trevor  house  to  see 
Alys  and  meets  Goodblnfl  there,  who  soon  quarrels 
with  him.  Mrs.  Trevor,  entering  in  the  midst  of 
the  dispute,  requests  Cutey  to  leave  the  house 
and  apologizes  to  Goodbluff  for  the  young  man's 
behavior.  Then  she  sends  a  note  to  Cutey,  telling 
him  that  her  daughter  Is  no  longer  free  to  receive 
his  calls. 

By  a  strange  occurrence,  Cutey 's  suspicions  of 
Goodbluff  are  aroused  and  he  determines  to  watch 
him.  Noticing  an  advertisement  In  the  paper  for 
a  maid  of  all  work,  inserted  by  Mrs.  Trevor,  he 
obtains  the  necessary  disguise  and  applies  for  the 
position,  which  he  gets.  On  two  occasions  he  I* 
able  to  interrupt  Goodbluff  just  as  he  Is  on  Us 
knees  proposing  to  Alys,  who  has  recognized 
Cutey  and  is  enjoying  the  joke  immensely. 

Mrs.  Trevor  gives  a  ball,  to  which  many  guests 
are  invited,  Including  a  Miss  Wbitehouse  and  her 
admirer.  Cutey,  who  Is  watching  In  the  conserva- 
tory from  behind  the  portieres,  sees  Goodbluff  steal 
a  pearl  necklace  from  Miss  Whitehouse,  who  is 
sitting  behind  the  palms  with  her  beau,  and  then 
sees  him  hand  the  necklace  to  a  confederate. 
Drawing  a  revolver  from  under  bis  skirts,  he  holds 
up  the  two  men  and  exposes  the  thief.  The  "maid 
of  all  work"  receives  the  plaudits  of  all  the 
gviests  and  then  takes  off  "her"  wig,  disclosing 
the  fact  that  "she"  is  a  man.  Mrs.  Trevor  Is  at 
first  inclined  to  be  angry  when  she  recognizes 
Cutey,  but  forgives  him  and  offers  no  further  ob- 
jections to  his  attentions  to  Alys,  who  is  over- 
joyed at  having  got  rid  of  an  objectionable  suitor. 
THE  ONLY  VETERAN  IN  TOWN  (May  29).— 
More  Interested  In  automobiling  than  in  anything 
else,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Arnold  are  inclined  to  be  neg- 
lectful of  their  little  daughter,  Dora,  and  are 
almost  entirely  unmindful  of  ber  grandfather, 
Jaines  Arnold,  a  one-armed  G.  A.  R.  veteran  living 
with  them.  Dora  makes  up  as  well  as  she  can 
to  her  grandfather  for  his  loneliness  and  the  two 
spend   the   greater   part    of   their   time   together. 

On  Decoration  Day,  Dora's  parents  want  her  to 
go  with  them  to  see  the  parade,  but  as  they  do 
not  wish  to  take  her  grandad  with  them,  she  re- 
fuses to  go  and  stays  at  home  with  him.  After  a 
while  she  coaxes  the  old  gentleman  with  her  Into 
a  field  of  daisies,  where  she  wreathes  a  crown 
of  flowers  and  places  It  on  his  head.  Seated  thus 
in  state,  he  Is  found  by  a  delegation  of  citizens, 
who,  having  learned  that  he  Is  a  war  veteran, 
bring  a  message  that  the  town  desires  to  honor 
him.  Taking  the  old  man,  who  will  not  be  sepa- 
rated from  his  granddaughter,  to  a  gaily  decorated 
automobile,  they  conduct  him  to  the  grandstand 
in  town,  where  a  dias  has  been  prepared  for  him. 
All  along  the  route  the  old  veteran  is  greeted  with 
rousing  cheers,  and  on  arriving  at  the  stand  be  is 
asked  to  speak.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Arnold  see  the  pass- 
ing of  the  decorated  automobile  and  the  honors 
paid  to  the  veteran  by  the  townspeople  and  are 
filled  with  remorse  at  the  manner  in  which  they 
have  treated  him  in  the  past.  They  make  the  best 
amends  possible  and  the  whole  party  returns  hap- 
pily homeward  to  finish  the  celebration  of  the  day 
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so  much  of  her  time  that  she  becomes  neglectful 
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Penfield's  sisier,  Beatrice,  whom  Edna  has  never 
•een,  comes  unexpectedly  t-..  visit  biin  and  is  seen 
•iribraeing  him  by  Lucretia,  who  has  come  to  fetch 
s»me  forgotten  papers.  Denouncing  Penfield  as  a 
base  deceiver,  Lucre tia  rushes  away  to  tell  Edna 
what  she  has  seen.  Penfield,  quickly  grasping  the 
■ltuation,  determines  to  teach  his  wife  a  lesson, 
and  to  that  end  he  suggests  to  his  sister  that  she 
shall  pose  as  his  affinity.  She  agrees  and  is  found 
In  Penfield's  arms  when  Edna  reaches  the  house, 
which  she  at  once  leaves  in   indignation. 

That  evening,  while  she  is  addressing  a  large 
audience  at  the  theater,  she  observes  her  husband 
and  Beatrice  in  a  box  and  is  almost  overcome  by 
her  emotions.  She  manages  to  finish  her  speech  and 
after  the  meeting  accompanies  the  other  suffragettes 
to  a  fashionable  restaurant  where  she  is  showered 
with  congratulations.  Not  being  able  to  bear  the 
thought  of  separation  from  her  husband,  she  sud- 
denly announces  that  she  has  finished  with  the 
Club  and  rushes  to  her  home,  where  the  true  state 
of  affairs  is  explained.  Aunt  Lucretia,  who  fol- 
lows her,  finds  Penfield,  much  to  her  indignation, 
sitting  with  bis  arms  around  both  Edna  and 
Beatrice,  who  have  become  the  best  of  friends. 
Her  surprise  is  even  greater  when  Edna  abruptly 
dismisses  her,  blaming  her  as  the  cause  of  all  her 
troubles. 

ONE  CAN'T  ALWAYS  TELL  (May  31).— Why 
will  visitors  always  give  short  notice,  think  the 
three  Misses  Bardell,  when  one  morning  they  re- 
ceive a  letter  announcing  the  arrival  of  their 
Aunt  Lydia  in  the  afternoon.  All  is  bustle  and 
"bustle,  for,  although  they  have  never  seen  the  old 
lady,  they  know  she  is  a  particular  housekeeper 
and  their  own  house  is  upside  down.  The  maid 
declines  to  he  hustled  about  by  three  people  at 
•once  and  leaves  in  a  huff.  In  despair  the  sisters 
'phone  to  an  employment  agency  for  a  maid  and 
anxiously  await  her  arrival.  It  "does  not  occur  to 
:theni    to   tidy   the   house   them.-- 

Aunt  Lydia,  dressed  very  simply  and  plainly, 
arrives  at  the  house  and  is  mistaken  for  the  ex- 
pected maid.  She  is  given  a  countless  number  of 
tasks  to  do  all  at  once  and  starts  cleaning  up. 
While  she  is  sweeping  the  steps,  the  real  maid 
arrives  and  is  coaxed  by  Aunt  Lydia  to  impersonate 
The  maid,  as  Aunt  Lydia.  is  received  right 
ivcll  by  the  girls,  who  shower  her  with  kindnesses 
Sn  spite  of  the  fact  that  she  drinks  out  of  a  saucer 
■and  makes  other  similar  mistakes.  Behind  her 
\>aek,  the  girls  make  fun  of  her.  disgusting  the 
real  aunt,  who  is  waiting  on  them  as  maid.  The 
manner  of  the  girls  becomes  so  overbearing  tha  t 
the  real  aunt  discloses  her  identity,  telling  the 
girls  that  her  money  will  be  left  to  charity,  she 
departs,    taking   the  maid   with   her. 

IF  DREAMS  CAME  TRUE,  or  WHO'D  HAVE 
THTJNX  IT?  (May  31). — A  fat  man's  jealousy  is 
aroused  by  the  arrival  of  an  old  chum  of  his 
sweetheart's  brother.  To  soothe  his  feelings  he 
gulches  himself  with  food  and  wine,  after  which 
he  falls  asleep  and  dreams  that  the  young  lady 
is  eloping  with  the  man  in  question.  He  wakes 
up  to  find  that  it  is  only  a  nightmare. 

THE  WHITE  SLAVE  (2  parts.  May  31).— Part 
One, — The  estate  of  Terrebonne,  in  Louisiana,  had 
been  heavily  mortgaged  by  the  owner,  Judge  Payton, 
who.  when  he  died,  left  the  estate  to  his  brother's 
widow  and  her  son  George,  making  Mrs.  Peyton 
the  guardian  of  Zoe,  his  natural  daughter  by  a 
quadroon.  Zoe  is  a  very  attractive  girl  and  wins 
the  heart  of  George  Peyton,  who  has  been  pledged 
to  marry  his  cousin,  Dora  Sunnyside.  Zoe  captures 
other  hearts  as  well.  Scudder,  a  Terrebonne  over- 
■seer,  and  AfeClosky,  a  slave  trader,  both  fall  vic- 
tims to  her  charms  and  rivalry  between  them  be- 
comes   intense. 

The  mortgage  on  Terrebonne  is  suddenly  fore- 
closed. McClosky  discovers  that  the  Free  Papers 
of  Zoe  were  taken  out  by  Judge  Peyton  after  the 
date  of  the  mortgage,  an  illegal  proceeding.  Zoe 
is  therefore  an  octoroon  and  still  a  slave  of  the 
estate.  McClosky  determines  to  obtain  Zoe  for 
himself.  Mrs.  Peyton  is  expecting  a  check  that 
will  redeem  the  mortgage.  If  McClosky  can  delay 
the  chock,  the  estate  will  be  sold  and  he  will  then 
be   able   to   buy   Zoe. 

Mrs.  Peyton  sends  Paul,  a  little  slave  boy,  to 
fetch  the  mail,  expecting  the  check  with  it.  On 
his  way  back  Paul  notices  the  tin-type  camera  of 
Scudder,  the  overseer.  He  tells  Wah-Xo-Tee,  an 
Indian  and  his  protector,  to  remove  the  cap  from 
the    camera. 

McClosky  approaches  the  boy  from  behind  and 
strikes  bim  with  a  heavy  club.  McClosky*  opens  the 
mail  bag  and  extracts  the  letter  and  check,  which 
he  places  in  his  bosom.  The  Indian  thinking  that 
the  camera  is  a  sort  of  gun  that  has  killed  Paul, 
smashes  it  with  bis  club.  Then  be  buries  Paul  in  a 
near-by    cane-brake. 


Part  Two.— Zoe  is  put  up  for  sale.  McCQosky 
bids  highest.  Paul  is  called  and  found  cissing*. 
A  search  is  made  and  the  rifled  mail  bag  found 
and  close  to  it  the  club  with  which  the  boy  bad 
been  killed.  McClosky  points  out  that  the  club  is 
the  property  of  the  Indian  Wah-No-Tee  and  accuses 
him    of    the   murder. 

When  the  Indian  is  brought  he  describes  with 
gestures  how  he  had  found  the  body,  of  the  burial, 
and  of  smashing  the  camera.  Scudder  picks  up 
his  camera  and  finds  that  in  its  fail  the  dark  slide 
had  automatically  closed.  He  takes  the  plate  and 
develops  it.  The  photograph  shows  McCloskv  kneel- 
ing by  the  body  and  opening  the  mail  bag.  The 
sheriff  takes  the  murderer,  and  the  check  is  found 
on    bim. 

George  Peyton  confesses  to  his  mother  that  he 
still  loves  Zoe.  She  overhears  his  declaration  and 
knows  that  as  a  slave,  George  cannot  marrv  her. 
She  goes  to  the  slave  quarters  and  gets  some  tooth- 
ache cure,  which  is  poisonous.  Meanwhile,  Wah- 
No-Tee  is  on  the  trail  of  McClosky,  who  has  es- 
caped. Scudder  and  the  others  allow  the  Indian  to 
wreak  his  vengeance,  return  to  the  house,  bearing 
the  check  that  will  redeem  the  estate  and  free  Zoe. 

Zoe  comes  into  the  house  and  seeks  out  Dora 
Sunnyside  whose  forgiveness  she  asks,  having  won 
the  love  of  George  Peyton,  placing  Dora's  hand  in 
his.  Zoe  swoons  and  is  brought  back  to  conscious- 
ness by  Dora  and  George.  She  tells  George  to  fill 
a  glass  with  water  and  empty  the  headache  medi- 
cine into  it.  Thus,  she  dies  by  the  hand  of  the 
man  she  loves,  just  as  Scudder  enters  with  the 
check    that   would   have  obtained   her   freedom. 


SELIG. 

WAMBA,  A  CHILD  OF  THE  JUNGLE  (Special— 
2  parts — May  26). — Wamba,  a  half-breed  woman, 
and  her  Portuguese  husband,  Pete,  live  near  a  jun- 
gle in  British  East  Africa.  One  day  Wamba's 
child  falls  sick  and  she  asks  her  inebriated  hus- 
band to  get  Dr.  Rice,  the  surgeon  at  the  British 
Trading  Post,  some  miles  distant.  Pete  turns  a 
deaf  ear  to  his  wife's  pleadings  and  finally  when 
he  is  in  a  drunken  stupor  the  sympathetic  mother 
love  of  Wamba  asserts  itself  and  she  deserts  him. 
She  reaches  the  doctor's  home  where  she  is  kindlr 
received,  and  after  hearing  of  the  brutality  inflicted 
upon  her  by  her  husband.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Rice  decide 
to  protect  her  by  retaining  her  in  their  household. 
Tlie  doctor  is  unable  to  save  Wamba's  child  and  it 
passes  away. 

Pete,  in  the  meantime,  discovers  that  his  wife 
and  child  have  disappeared  and  tracks  them  through 
the  jungle  to  the  doctor's  home.  He  attempts  to 
drag  Wamba  away,  but  the  doctor  intercedes,  thus 
incurring  the  everlasting  enmity  of  the  treacherous 
drunkard.  Pete  leaves  the  house,  vowing  ven- 
geance, but  lingers  in  its  vicinity  and  one  day  when 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Rice  visit  a  neighboring  settlement 
he  crawls  behind  the  unsuspecting  Wamba,  hits 
her  on  the  head,  knocking  her  unconscious,  and  ab- 
ducts the  doctor's  child,  Lillian.  But  the  little 
girl  manages  to  escape  through  the  jungles,  follow- 
ed closely  by  Pete,  After  escaping  many  tortous 
deaths  by  the  ferocious  lions,  she  arrives  at  the  edge 


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of  a  high  precipice.  She  turns  and  aeec  I'ete  close 
behind  with  a  lion  following  him.  The  nest  mo- 
ment she  throws  herself  over  the  precipice  into 
the  waters  below  and  Bwima  to  the  other  shore. 
Pete  follows,  but  Instead  of  swimming  to  the  other 
side,  bides  himself  DDdei  an  overhanging  rock. 

Meanwhile  Wamba  has  regained  consciousness  and 
takes  the  trail  of  the  missing  Lillian,  whom  she 
finds  about  to  take  refuge  in  a  hollow  log  from  the 
carniverous  lions.  Wamba  seizes  her  rifle  and  be- 
gins shooting  and  soon  the  little  girl  is  clutched  to 
the  bosom  of  the  mulatto  woman,  The  Rices  re- 
turn, and  discovering  that  their  daughter  and  Wam- 
ba are  missing,  form  a  posse  and  start  in  pursuit. 
Lillian  and  Wamba  are  found  and  the  posse  then 
takes  the  trail  to  Pete's  shack,  where  they  find  all 
that  remaius  of  him  after  a  conflict  with  the  lions. 

RELIGION  AND  GTJN  PRACTICE  (May  26).— 
Wesley  Judell,  as  a  missionary,  finds  a  futile  but 
puzzling  field  for  work  in  the  far,  wild.  West.  In 
the  temporal  rush  and  struggle  for  existence,  spirit- 
ual affairs  are  not  as  deeply  pondered  as  he  would 
wish,  and  life  seems  cheap  and  feverish.  He  has 
a  wide  territory  to  cover  In  his  parish  rounds,  and 
in  his  absence  his  comely  daughter,  Winona,  looks 
after  the  shack  which  serves  for  a  parsonage.  She 
converts  Kill  Kullen,  who  has  wandered  from  the 
straight  and  narrow  path,  but  despite  this  derelic- 
tion, he  Is  the  straigbtest  shot  in  that  section.  The 
young  people  fall  in  love  with  each  other,  and  the 
firm,  fearless,  yet  gentle  Winona  succeeds  In 
thoroughly  reforming  the  redoubtable  Kill  Kullen. 
The  missionary  objects  to  this  marriage,  but  she 
persists.  She  gives  him  spiritual  advice,  while  he, 
in  return,  instructs  her  in  riding  and  shooting.  By 
following  the  up-llft  plan,  he  secures  a  good  posi- 
tion, and  is  a  useful  member  of  the  community. 
Her  good  old  father  in  time  relents  and  consents, 
so  all  ends  well,  through  the  interchange  of  re- 
ligion and  gun  practice. 

THE  GIRL  AND  THE  JUDGE  (May  27).— George 
Goff,  the  son  of  a  wealthy  city  judge,  goes  to  the 
country  for  a  summer  spell.  He  conceals  his 
identity,  bnt  woos  and  wins  Grace  Green,  the  daugh- 
ter of  a  stern  and  honest  old  farmer,  who  takes  in 
summer  boarders.  He  begs  her  to  elope  with  bim 
and  she  finally  consents.  He  installs  her  in  a 
rich  apartment  in  the  city,  and  then  she  awakens 
to  find  a  letter  that  his  allowance  will  be  cut  off 
unless  he  returns  home  at  once,  only  telling  her 
further  that  she  has  never  known  his  right  name 
and  advising  her  to  return  home,  broken-hearted. 
She  follows  this  advice  In  all  contrlteness:  but  her 
irate  father  will  not  receive  her,  so  she  is  driven 
back  to  the  great  city.  She  is  eventually  brought 
before  Judge  Goff  in  the  nigbt  court,  who  fines  her 
for  being  alone  on  the  streets.  She  spends  her  last 
penny  to  buy  a  paper  and  immediately  responds  to 
the  advertisement  for  a  home  maid.  She  finds  her- 
self in  service  in  the  palatial  home  of  Judge  Goff, 
and  the  moment  that  worthy  sees  and  recognizes 
her,  he  denounces  her  in  round  set  terms  as  one  un- 
worthy of  such  a  situation.  The  shock  throws  her 
Into  hysterics.  When  the  judge,  enraged  and  be- 
wildered, gives  her  money,  she  throws  it  back  at 
him  in  scorn.  As  she  is  about  to  leave  the  house, 
Grace  meets  George  Goff.  Se  is  at  once  in  great 
consternation,  wanting  to  know  what  she  is  doing 
there  and  pleads  desperately  for  her  to  leave  without 
betraying  him.  This  was  farthest  from  her  inten- 
tion and  she  runs  from  the  hated  place,  out  into 
the  street.  Judge  Goff  overhears  this  last  colloquy. 
It  breaks  his  iron  will  and  his  stern  sense  of  justice 
reasserts  itself.  He  sends  his  butler  after  the  girl 
and  she  is  finally  persuaded  to  return.  Then  he 
sends  for  his  son  and  tells  him  that  if  he  does  not 
consent  to  immediate  marriage  to  right  her  wrong, 
he  will  cut  him  off  without  a  penny.  This  brings 
the  young  man  to  a  realizing  sense  of  her  true  worth 
and  the  fact  that  he  loves  her  truly. 

THE  WORDLESS  MESSAGE  (May  28).— Captain 
Porter,  a  veteran  of  the  G.  A.  R.,  is  gathering 
flowers  for  Decoration  Day.  He  is  accompanied  by 
his  daughter,  Bessie,  and  her  fiance,  Tom,  a  custom 
that  has  been  hallowed  by  tender  memories  ever 
since  her  babyhood. 

The  scene  shifts  to  the  next  recurrence  of  the 
anniversary.  Bessie,  in  the  interim,  has  eloped, 
while  under  the  malign  influence  of  a  quick  in- 
fatuation. She  is  too  ashamed  and  too  proud  to 
write  a  word  of  explanation  to  the  captain  and 
Tom,  in  their  grief  and  loneliness.  The  poor,  lonely 
old  soldier  tries  hard  to  forget,  but  his  grief  is  too 
poignant.  He  cannot  even  gather  flowers  again. 
His  sole  comfort  is  considerate  Tom,  who  continues 
as   his   faithful    friend. 

Five  years  passed.  Life  has  been  growing  harder 
for  Bessie,  although  she  has  been  deserted  by  her 
worthless  husband.  One  day  she  happens  to  see  a 
motion  picture  called  "Memorial  Day  in  a  Country 
Town."     On   the   screen   before   her,    she   sees  again    > 


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her  old  home,  the  town  poet,  her  brave,  faithful, 
first  sweetheart  Tom,  and  then  her  dear  old  father, 
too  feeble  to  keep  step  with  the  other  soldiers, 
staggering  in  bis  weakness  and  falling  from  the 
ranks.  This  wordless  message  from  the  past,  breaks 
her  selfish  pride  and  sends  her  back  to  the  old  borne 
in  meekness  and  happiness.  There,  in  the  old 
garden,  she  finds  once  more  love  and  happiness, 
after  the  flight  o  f years. 

THE  EX-CONVICT'S  PLUNGE  (May  29).— Elton 
Gates,  having  served  seven  years  for  submitting 
to  temptation  with  a  bank's  funds,  is  released. 
His  uncle  John  sends  him  $500.00,  with  which  to 
start  life  anew.  He  has  hardly  rested  in  a  cheap 
lodging  house  when  Detective  Doolittle  spies  him 
and  commences  to  make  him  an  object  of  special 
scrutiny.  The  detective  begins  to  trail  him,  hope- 
fully awaiting  his  fall  from  grace.  Gates  watches 
a  great  house  as  the  detective  watches  him.  When 
the  occupants,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kugly,  leave,  be  goes 
to  the  door,  rings,  chats  with  Marie,  the  maid,  and 
Is  admitted.  He  goes  to  the  boudoir  of  Helen 
Bugly,  bis  old  sweetheart,  and  takes  a  photograph 
of  her  that  he  finds  there.  Going  out  be  gives  Marie 
a  bill  that  he  strips  from  bis  roll.  The  ex-convict 
It  followed  at  every  turn  by  the  detective,  who  is 
now  newly  disguised.  Guided  by  the  photograph, 
he  rents  Bronson's  Gallery  for  a  week,  paying  for 
it  in  advance.  These  negotiations  are  puzzling  to 
the  detective,  who  now  finds  Gates  quite  alone  in 
his  new,  short-leased  home.  When  Helen,  Kugly 
finds  her  photo  gone,  she  summons  her  maid  and  tells 
her  they  must  get  a  copy.  They  visit  the  photo- 
graph gallery,  where  she  meets  and  recognizes 
Gates.  He  tells  her  that  he  committed  a  crime  for 
her  sake  and  served  seven  years  on  expiation.  The 
old  love  flames  anew,  and  she  rushes  into  his  arms. 
The  future  looks  good  for  tbem  and  the  sneaking 
detective  pockets  his  discomfiture  and  suspicions 
and  allows  them  to  go  on  their  way  to  happiness 
without    bind  era  nee, 

SCENES  IN  MANILA  (May  29).— Another  of  the 
ever   interesting   Selig  Travelogues. 

THE  WOOD  ELBE  AT  MARTIN'S  (May  SO).— 
An  aged  composer  named  Richmond,  oppressed  by 
poverty,  is  still  striving  to  write  the  great  opera 
that  tortures  him  in  sleep.  One  bitter  cold  night 
he  befriends  Reita,  a  poor  Irish  girl,  that  he  finds 
Btarring  almost  in  the  shadow  of  Martin's  cafe, 
where  Bohemians  congregate.  After  her  first  pangs 
of  hunger  are  alleviated  she  hears  an  old  Irish  air 
played  upon  the  piano  there,  and  sings  out  in  joy, 
with  such  sweet  quality  of  tone  that  Martin  at 
once  engages  her  to  sing  regularly.  Richmond  seeks 
an  audience  with  Delano,  the  producer,  who  turns 
him  down  in  bitter  fashion:  Delano  then  bears  of 
the  failure  of  an  opera  he  bad  selected  open-eyed, 
and  banked  on  as  a  winner.  In  disgust  be  event- 
ually drops  into  Martin's  to  drown  his  chagrin  In 
liquid  refreshment.  At  a  nearby  table  is  old  Rich- 
mond, the  picture  of  despair,  with  his  well  thumbed 
manuscript  on  the  floor  beside  him.  Reita  comes, 
picks  it  up  and  the  musician  begin  to  play  as  she 
.  sings  the  big  airs  of  the  unpublished  work.  All 
present  are  stirred  by  the  wonderful  music,  but 
none  are  more  deeply  moved  than  the  disgruntled 
Delano  himself.  He  puts  business  immediately  in 
train,  secures  Reita  and  the  rights  of  the  opera. 
She  makes  an  enormous  bit.  likewise  the  opera. 
Reita  becomes  the  toast  of  the  town,  and  old  Rich- 
mond's discarded  music  commands  a  prince's  ran- 
som; and  thereafter  they  all  meet  in  Joy  for  many 
happy  days  and  nights  about  the  wood  fire  at  Mar- 
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BIOGRAPH. 

HIGHBROW  LOVE  (May  26)  .—Fred  was  no 
highbrow,  but  In  snite  of  all  her  primness  and 
learning,  he  fell  for  Mary's  undoubted  charm. 
One  day  he  was  banded  this  communication:  "Dear 
Freddie:  I  am  going  to  Box  Springs  to  be  quiet 
and  alone  with  by  beloved  Qamuel  Johnson.  Lov- 
ingly, Mary  Highbrow. "  Jealous  rage  stirred 
Fred's  bosom  for  bis  new  found  rival.  He  follow- 
ed, blood  in  his  eye.  Mary,  the  highbrow,  bow- 
ever,  explained  matters  to  both  Fred  and  Black- 
smith Johnson,  but  Fred  at  the  time  was  a  little 
worse  off  for  his  experience, 

THE  TRIMMERS  TRIMMED  (May  26).— The 
trimmers  were  three  hoboeB  until  very  properly 
the  sheriff  and  those  whom  they  had  trimmed  ap- 
peared and  proceeded  to  be  the  trimmers  them- 
selves. The  tramp,  who  was  somewhat  of  a  "wise 
guy"  found  the  sheriff's  coat  on  an  airing.  That 
gave  him  an  Idea  for  "big  eats"  in  the*  future. 
He  proceeded  to  hold  up  speeders  In  the  country. 
The  fines  brought  the  necessary  "eats"  but  un- 
fortunately  for  the   tramp   the   sheriff   "got  wise." 

A  DANGEROUS  FOE  (May  29).— The  judge's 
young  daughter  championed  the  cause  of  Ohing 
Pow  against  "The  Bull."  Kindness  begot  kindness 
again  in  a  manner  unlooked  for  and  unusual.  Ohing 
Fow  proved  himself  an  unconscious  humorist,  but 
his  very  practical  Joke  eared  a  life,  making  as 
well  an  exceptionally   thrilling  story. 

HIS  MOTHER'S  SOH  (Hay  31).— The  hardship 
of  earning  an  existence  for  the  family  made  It 
impossible  for  the  mother  to  approve  the  little  pretty 
things  which  her  daughter  liked.  Lack  of  atten- 
tion made  ber  son  dissolute,  but  later  the  sturdy 
stock  of  his  mother  showed  in  htm  and  the  coxy 
home  he  provided  for  dad  and  sister  made  them 
forget   the  past. 


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THE  FOSTER  BROTHERS  (May  89) Sir  George 

Waterbury,  accompanied  by  his  wife  and  foster 
brother,  Robert,  is  on  a  shooting  expedition  in  a 
wild  part  of  Australia.  The  two  men,  although 
occupying  different  stations  in  life,  are  deeply  at- 
tached to  each  other.  Inadvertently,  mistaking  the 
victim  for  a  tiger,  they  shoot  a  native,  and  as 
they  both  fired  at  the  same  Instant,  it  cannot  be 
told  which  was  the  one  actually  responsible  for 
the  fatal  shot.  The  native's  father,  according  to 
the  savage  doctrine  "an  eye  lvr  an  eye,  a  tooth 
for  a  tooth,"  demands  the  death  of  the  slaver. 
Robert  would  gladly  yield  himself  up.  but  the 
nobleman  will  not  assent  to  this.  They  resolve 
to  decide  the  Issue  by  cutting  the  cards.  Bv  a 
trick  the  heroic  Robert  cuts  the  low  card,  and 
goes  cheerfully  to  his  doom.  But  his  act  of  self- 
sacrifice  Is  discovered,  and  by  the  prompt  actlOD 
of  Sir  George,  death  is  averted  and  the  matter 
settled  in  a  more  amicable  way. 

TANDJONG   PRIOK,    THE  HARBOR   OF  JAVA'S 

CAPITAL,   BATAVIA    (May  29) Interesting   views 

of  the  Great  Outlet  of  this  Dutch  East-Indian 
colony,  whose  populatiou  numbers  more  than  thirty 
millions. 


CINES. 

BORROWED  PLUMAGE  (May  27).— Dudley  is 
completely  on  his  uppers  when  he  calla  on  his  old 
friend,  Jones.  Jones,  a  photographer,  is  abopt  to 
start  on  a  short  trip,  and  at  Dudley's  suggestion, 
hires  him  to  handle  his  business  until  his  return. 
Dudley  starts  well  and  business  improves  rapidly, 
but  specimens  of  the  photos  are  returned  and  Dudley 
Is  the  victim  of  a  pitiful  ordeal. 

THE  CHAMPION  FIXER  (May  27).— Judson  Is 
forbidden  the  pleasure  of  calling  and  resorts  to 
serenading  his  sweetheart.  When  Mabel's  father 
ejects  blm  from  the  premises,  Judson  decides  to 
outwit  blm. 

The  next  day  the  father  receives  an  anonymous 
letter  from  the  desperate  lover,  warning  him  that 
the  secret  society,  The  Friends  of  Humanity,  are 
after  him.  Judson  advertises  himself  as  a  detective 
and  is  hired  to  defeat  their  purpose.  Judson  ac- 
quires the  confidence  of  the  father  and  regardless  of 
what  happens,  his  slogan  is,  "Leave  it  to  him." 
Using  this  ruse  as  a  means  to  an  end,  eventually 
results  In  Judson's  marriage  to  Mabel. 

IN  SOMAT.TT.AND  (May  27).— These  pictures,  in 
colors,  display  the  beautiful  scenery  along  the  River 
Gluba,  in  the  Italian  Colony  of  SomalilanJ.  East 
Africa. 


EDISON. 

JOHN  MANLY' S  AWAKENING  (May  16)  .— 
John  Manly  one  day  learns  to  his  great  sorrow  that 
Caroline  Hastings,  whom  he  was  going  to  ask  to  be 
his  wife,  is  already  betrothed  to  another.  Five 
years  later  he  is  summoned  to  the  bedside  of  a 
dying  friend,  who  asks  him  to  take  care  of  his 
daughter.  He  promises,  takes  her  to  bis  home  and 
places  her  In  the  care  of  his  housekeeper.  The 
girl  awakens  Manly  from  his-  moody  state,  and, 
one  night  as  she  is  playing  and  singing  at  the 
piano,  he  impulsively  kisses  her,  but  retreats,  em- 
barrassed for  what  he  has  done.  One  day  Caroline 
returns  to  his  home  and  tries  to  awaken  his  old 
love  for  her,  but  is  met  by  coldness.  As  she  is 
pleading  with  him.  Ethel,  Manly's  protege,  comes 
upon  them.  Thinking  that  she  has  stumbled  upon 
a  love  scene,  she  goes  to  her  room  and  Is  caught  by 
Manly  writing  a  note  of  her  leave-taking.  As  he 
Is  reading  the  letter  she  notices  the  photo  of  Caro- 
line lying  torn  to  pieces  on  the  floor,  and  Manly 
tells  her  what  she  has  already  guessed. 

A  CONCERTO  FOR  THE  VIOLIN  (May  17).— 
John  Carroll,  a  young  composer,  has  just  completed 
a  concerto  for  the  violin,  and  brings  It  to  Nada 
Mallnsky.  a  famous  Russian  violinist,  who  is  visit- 
ing the  country,  and  Induces  ber  to  play  the  piece. 
She  is  so  enraptured  by  it  that  she  promises  to  play 
it  at  her  great  concert  at  the  Carnegie  Hall.  Car 
roll  has  fallen  in  love  with  Nada  and  neglects  his 
devoted  wife,  who  Is  also  a  talented  violinist.  One 
day,  while  at  the  apartments  of  Nada,  he  kisses  her 
and  in  the  reaction  of  bis  deed  rushes  from  her 
home,  with  Nada  following  him.  When  he  reaches 
home  his  wife,  Sylvia,  in  a  last  effort  to  win  him 
back,  begins  to  play  the  concerto  on  her  violin. 
Just  then  Nada  comes  in.  and,  hearing  the  wonder- 
ful playing  of  Sylvia,  suddenly  devises  a  plan.  On 
the  night  of  the  concert,  when  Carroll  goes  to  the 
piano  to  play  the  accompaniment  for  the  concerto, 
Nada  leads  Sylvia  on  the  stage  and  announces  that 
the  composer's  wife  will  play  the  concerto.  The 
result  is  a  happy  reunion  between  husband  and  wife. 

BY  MUTUAL  AGREEMENT  (May  19).— The  bus 
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after  that  he  finds  the  great  metropolis  no  place 
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THE  GOOD  IN  THE  WORST  OF  US  (May  20).— 
Bill  Brace  and  Sam  McClure,  «.  -used  of  theft,  are 
caught  and  imprisoned  by  the  Northwest  Mounted 
Police.  A  short  while  after  they  break  jail  and 
In  making  their  escape  they  come  upon  the  daugh- 
ter of  their  erstwhile  captor,  Sergeant  Williams. 
Fearing  that  the  child  might  furnish  some  clue  as 
to  their  whereabouts,  they  take  her  with  them  to 
an  old  barn,  where  they  seek  refuge.  Hunger  over- 
takes them  and  Brace  goes  out,  obtains  food,  but  is 
shot  Just  as  he  is  about  to  enter  the  hiding-place. 
Through  the  vigilance  of  the  police  they  are  unable 
to  escape  from  the  barn  and  they  then  decide  that 
it  Is  best  to  take  the  little  girl  home.  McClure 
brings  her  to  uer  home  just  as  Sergeant  Williams 
comes  in.  The  thieves  are  again  sentenced  to  a 
term  in  prison. 

GLIMPSES  OF  COLORADO  IN  WINTER  (May 
21). — In  this  film  we  get  some  fine  views  of  Colo- 
rado Springs  and  the  mode  of  living  there.  We 
then  take  an  auto  trip  around  a  winding  mountain 
until  we  come  to  the  picturesque  ruins  of  the  an- 
cient CHIT  Dwellers,  where  real  Pueblo  Indians 
show  us  through  the  ruins  of  their  ancestors.  We 
then  go  to  the  sacred  spring  of  the  Indians  called 
Manitou  Spring.  Other  Interesting  views  of  Colo- 
rado and  its  vicinity  are  shown,  and  the  film  ends 
with   a   view  of  Pike"s  Peak. 

BRAGG'S  NEW  SUIT  (May  21).— Mr.  Bragg  is 
pushed  into  a  pile  of  mud  by  the  foreman  of  a 
gang  of  laborers  for  Interfering  with  his  admonitions 
to  his  workmen.  The  foreman,  realizing  that  he 
was  to  blame,  gives  Bragg  his  best  suit  of  clothes. 
At  the  club  that  night  Bragg  creates  quite  a  sen- 
sation with  the  new  suit,  and  springs  a  marvelous 
yarn  of  bravery,  of  course,  bringing  a  lady 
Into  it.  Just  as  he  is  about  to  finish  his  narrative, 
the  foreman,  who  has  been  seeking  Bragg,  comes 
upon  the  scene  and  tells  the  true  story.  Bragg  is 
given  the  laugh  and  the  club  members  help  the 
foreman  get  back   his   clothes. 

A   RACE    TO    NEW   YORK    (Being    the    eleventh 

story    of    "What    Happened   to   Mary" — May   23) 

After  being  rescued  in  an  unconscious  condition  by 
the  llghtkeeper  of  Martha's  Vineyard,  Mary's  next 
concern  is  how  to  get  off  the  island  and  back  to 
New  York.  She  knows  now  that  Mr.  Craig  must 
have  a  powerful  motive  for  trying  to  keep  her  out 
Of  the  way. 

The  next  day  brings  the  supply  boat  to  the  Island 
and  Mary,  after  much  intercession  with  the  captain 
Is  allowed  to  get  aboard  and  sail  for  the  mainland. 
Meantime  r0hn  Craig  and  his  son,  still  aboard  the 
schooner  from  which  Mary  had  previously  escaped, 
are  consumed  with  Impatience. 

Suddenly  a  cry  of  fire  runs  through  the  ship  and 
great  volumes  of  smoke  pour  through  the  hatchway 
The  boat  is  a  furnace.  They  lower  the  small  boats 
and  John  Craig  suddenly  finds  himself  In  an  open 
boat  on  the  bosom  of  the  Atlantic.  Several  hours 
afterward  th-jy  reach  Martha's  Vineyard  greatlv 
exhausted,  only  to  discover  that  Mary  had  departed 
an  hour  before  they  arrived. 

Craig  hires  a  launch  and  gives  chase.  Mary 
reaches  the  mainland  first  and  is  conducted  to  the 
railway  station,  where  she  boards  a  train  for  New 
York.  Then  Craig  reaches  the  mainland,  and,  ar- 
riving at  the  station,  learns  that  the  train  has  just 
left.  In  desperation  he  hires  an  automobile  and 
again  a  chase  is  on. 

At  Easton  Junction,  where  Mary  has  to  change 
cars,  Craig  manages  to  catch  up  with  her,  but 
Mary  being  in  a  crowd,  he  dares  not  molest  her. 
He  boards  the  same  train  and  takes  np  a  position 
several  seats  behind  her.  Now  there  flashes  across 
Mary  s  mind  a  daring  scheme.  It  is  her  only 
chance;  she  will  try  it.  The  train  pulls  into  the 
station.  She  suddenly  jumps  up.  leaves  the  car. 
and  Craig  tries  to  follow,  but  there  are  several 
passengers  who  have  risen  In  the  meantime,  also  to 
leave  the  car.  While  he  is  trying  to  push  his  wav 
out  to  the  platform,  Mary  manages  to  run  the 
length  of  the  car,  board  the  other  platform  and  dis- 
appear into  the  train  she  has  just  left.  Craig,  of 
course,  thinks  she  is  leaving  the  station  with  the 
other  passengers  and  only  discovers  his  mistake 
when  the  train  is  pulling  out  and  he  realizes  that 
he  has  been  outwitted  by  a  slip  of  a  girl  called 
Mary. 

THE  TRANSLATION  OF  A  SAVAGE  (May  24).— 
Frank,  the  son  of  General  Armour,  leaves  his  home 
at  Grevhope,  Staffordshire,  for  America  to  attend 
to  his  Hudson  Bay  interests  in  Canada.  Shortly 
after  his  departure  his  fiancee,  Julia,  Sherwood, 
writes  him  cancelling  her  engagement  with  him' 
and  soon  becomes  the  betrothed  of  Lord  Haldwell. 
Frank  Is  heartbroken  and  marries  Lali,  the  daugh- 
ter of  a  primitive  trapper.  Frank  sends  her  to 
his  palatial  home  In  England.  Consternation  reigns 
when  the  unconth  girl  arrives  wrapped  in  a  buck- 
ekln  blanket  and  furs.  The  tedium  of  table  eti- 
quette and  the  wearing  of  beautiful  clothes  by  the 
people,  play  upon  the  untutored  soul  of  Lali,  and 
for  many  a  day  she  runs  and  hides  herself  in  the 
hedges,  clad  In  her  buckskin  raiment.  But  as  time 
goes  on  she  becomes  accustomed  to  these  different 
things  and  when  Frank  returns  after  a  year's  ab- 
sence he  Is  surprised  to  find  his  wife  completely 
regenerated,  and  looking  beautiful  In  the  dress  of 
the  woman  of  to-day. 

DANCES  OF  THE  AGES  (May  26).— With  the 
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to  the  old  fashioned  dances  of  grace  and  movement. 
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MARY'S  ROMANCE 

See  page  793 


to  the  table  and  In  dreamland  ue  oecomes  the  danc- 
ing master  of  renown  once  again.  At  a  great  ban- 
quet table  he  meets  hl8  old  cronies  who  have  come 
together  to  discuss  the  progress  of  their  art  and 
thus,  before  these  gray-haired  men,  we  are  shown 
the  Dances  of  the  Ages. 

On  the  table  before  them  appear  dainty,  tiny 
figures  who  flit  before  their  gaze;  a  corps  of  won- 
derful miniature  dancers.  They  dip  back  In  the 
annals  of  time  to  the  pre-historic  dance  of  primi- 
tive man,  who  creeps  from  his  cave  and  delights 
his  mate  with  his  barbaric  movements  to  the  sound 
of  her   turn-turn. 

Now  we  have  the  slow,  crawling  incense  and 
weird,  snakelike  movements  of  the  Dance  of  the 
Priest  of  Ra,  before  an  Egytlan  temple,  1200  B.  C. 
This  fades  away  and  time  creeps  down  to  400  B.  C. 
to  the  Gr3?ian  Bacchanalia,  where  garland  maidens 
give  forth  their  Joy  in  the  abandaninent  of  youth 
and  gladness.  Then  the  ancient  Orient  of  200  A.  D. 
comes  before  us  with  all  the  voluptuousness  of  that 
period  of  veiled  maidens  and  Oriental  splendor. 
Theu  the  stately  Minuet  of  1760  is  shown,  quickly 
followed  with  the  wild  frolic  of  the  Carnival  period 
of  France;  then  the  Cakewalk  in  America  and  back 
again  ro  France,  where  we  see  the  Apache  Dance, 
and  now  he  dreamy  waltz  of  all  nations  and  finally 
we  step  upon  the  ladder  of  today  and  see  the  mod- 
ern   Rag. 

This  delightful  picture  closes  showing  the  old 
broken  down  dancing  master  trying  to  keep  pace 
with  the  limes  and  squirming  himself  into  the  In- 
artistic movements  and  hops  of  modern  Ragtime 
dances. 

AN  UNWILLING  SEPARATION  (May  27).— 
,  Abner  Brown,  a  veteran  of  the  M.  A.  R.,  and  his 
wife,  Sarah,  have  never  missed  going  on  Decoration 
Day  to  the  grave  of  their  son  who  was  killed  In 
the  war.  Abner's  legs  become  paralyzed  as  the 
result  of  a  fall  and  as  the  old  folks  are  unable 
to  do  their  work,  their  married  daughter  and  eon 
take  them  to  the  city,  the  father  living  with  the 
son,  the  mother  with  the  daughter.  This  is  their 
first  separation  and  it  nearly  breaks  their  hearts. 
On  Decoration  Day  Mrs.  Brown  calls  upon  her  hus- 
band and  wheels  him  to  the  graveyard,  where  be 
again  meets  his  old  chums.  The  children,  having 
missed  their  parents,  go  to  the  cemetery,  where 
they  find  the  old  folks  and  realize  their  mistake 
ia  separating  them.  The  old  couple  are  brought 
back  to  their  ho-ne,  a  man  is  hired  to  do  the  work, 
and  Abner  begins  to  recover  the  use  of  his  legs. 

NEWCOMB'S  NECKTIE  (May  28).— Mrs.  New- 
comb,  who  !s  rather  color-blind,  buys  her  husband 
a  v.'ry  "loud*'  necktie,  which  creates  much  laughter 
in  the  office.  He  tries  many  times  to  get  rid  of  it, 
but  each  *ime  some  good-natured  person  returns  it 
to  hi:n.  At  last  he  tears  the  tie  into  bits,  and 
bribes  a  romer  loafer  Into  having  a  fight  with  him 
outside  of  his  hone.  Just  as  Mrs.  Newcomb  ap- 
pears, the  loafer  disappears.  She  notices  that  her 
husband  Is  unhurt,  but  that  his  "beautiful"  necktie 
is  torn  to  shreds.  She  is  heartbroken  and  he  pro- 
fesses great  sorrow.  But  the  grief  of  Mrs.  New- 
comb  is  not  long  lived,  for  the  janitor's  daughter 
presents  him  with  a  duplicate  of  the  "beautiful" 
necktie. 

THE  HONOR  OF  A  SOLDIER  (May  30).— Pri- 
vate Stanley  Is  saying  good-bye  to  his  wife  and 
daughter  whpn  his  tent-mate  calls  him  to  join  the 
regiment,  whl?h  is  about  to  go  Into  action.  Just 
before  the  advance,  Stanley  notices  that  the  heavy 
firing  Is  In  the  direction  of  his  home  and  he  leaves 
the  firing  line,  going  to  his  home  in  order  to  save 
his  family.  A  shell  hits  and  bursts  in  his  home  and 
sets  it  on  fire.  He  carries  his  little  daughter  to 
his  mother,  who  lives  In  the  same  town.  When  the  roll 
Is  called  Stanley  is  missed  and  the  Sergeant's  squad 
start  out  to  learn  his  whereabouts.  Stanley,  from 
his  mother's  window,  sees  the  soldiers  coming  and 
his  old  mother  tells  him  to  exchange  clothes  with 
a  civilian  who  has  Just  died.  He  does  and  thereby 
effects  his  escape,  but  is  caught  in  the  woods  and 
brought  before  the  Sergeant.  As  they  are  unable 
to  learn  bis  identity,  they  send  for  his  daughter; 
but  the  child  intuitively  realizes  that  something  is 
wrong  and  savs  that  the  dead  man  in  that  house  is 
her  father.  The  Sergeant  departs  with  his  men 
and  Stanley  goes  to  the  general's  headquarters, 
tells  the  true  story  and  Is  restored  to  his  place  in 
the   company. 

AN  ALMOND-EYED  MAID  (May  31).— Toko  was 
counting  the  gold  in  the  claws  of  the  avaricious 
father  of  Peter  San  when  that  young  lady  came 
running  into  the  room  where  these  two  men  were 
sitting,  in  answer  to  her  father's  call.  She  noticed 
the  marriage  contract  on  the  table,  and  wondered 
If  her  father  could  be  selling  her.  She  snatched 
the  document  and  tore  It  into  shreds.  The  father 
handed  Toko  a  whip  with  which  to  beat  Peter  San, 
and  would  have  done  so  If  it  were  not  for  the 
appearance  of  Frank  Grant,  who  had  watched  the 
proceedings  from  the  outside.  Frank  applied  the 
whip  plentifully  to  both  men  and  then  took  Peter 
San  to  the  home  of  his  fiancee,  Alice,  where  she 
was  employed  as  a  maid.  Peter  San  tried  to  make 
love  to  Frank,  but  could  not  succeed  and  at  length 
resolved  to  kill  Alice.  Frank  and  Alice  were 
strolling  arm  In  arm  In  the  garden  and  saw  neither 
Peter  San  creeping  behind  with  a  dagger  in  her 
hand  nor  Toko  and  the  father  behind  the  wall, 
intent  upon  killing  Frank.  Peter  San  saw  It  all, 
however,  and  as  Toko  was  about  to  run  the  knife 
Into  the  breast  of  Frank,  she  Jumped  between  and 
received   her  death   blow. 


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flit  Original  Romance  of  m  Primal 

In  Chrce  Parts 

Written  and  Directed  by  eiwles  E.  Gaskill 

Ready  for  Delivery 
not  later  than  June  10 


(Excerpt  from  Genesis,  Chap.  IV.) 

13  And  Own  said  unto  the  Lord, 
My  punishment  is  greater  than  I 
can  hear. 

14  Behold,  thou  hast  driven  me 
out  this  day  from  the  face  of  the 
earth :  and  from  thy  face  shall  I 
be  hid ;  and  I  shall  be  a  fugitive 
and  a  vagabond  in  the  earth  ;  and 
it  shall  come  to  pass,  that  every 
one  that  lindeth  me  shall  slay  me. 

15  And  the  Lord  said  unto  him, 
Therefore  whosoever  slayeth  Cain, 
vengeance  shall  be  taken  on  him 
sevenfold.  And  the  Lord  set  a 
mark  upon  Cain,  lest  any  finding 
him  should  kill  him. 

16  If  And  Cain  went  out  from  the 
presence  of  the  Lord,  and  dwelt  in 
the  land  of  Nod.  on  the  east  of  Eden. 

17  And  Cain  knew  his  wife;  and 
she  conceived,  and  bare  Enoch: 
and  he  builded  a  city,  and  called 
the  name  of  the  city,  after  the 
name  of  his  son,  Enoch. 


The  story  is  saturated  with  beauty  and  is 
highly  dramatic;  and,  although  full  of  pro- 
found meaning,  it  is  easily  comprehended.  It 
deals  freely  with  the  terrible  crime  of  Cain, 
his  terrible  punishment  and  final  regeneration 
through  the  wondrous  love  of  a  wonderful 
woman.  It  pictures  the  elemental  passions  as 
they  were  in  the  beginning,  now  and  forever — 
love,  hatred,  jealousy,  anger,  greed  and  un- 
selfishness. 


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PATHEPLAY. 

PATHE'S  WEEKLY,  NO.  21  (May  19).—  New 
York,  N.  Y.— Thirty  thousand  women  march  here 
In  the  suffrage  parade,  led  by  Miss  Inez  Mllholland. 
Berck  Plage,  France. — The  residents  here  have 
developed  a  fine  sport  in  sailing  "aero-autos"  on 
the  beach. 

St.   Louis,  Mo. — Robert  S.   Brookings,  of  Washing- 
ton   University    Corporation,    Andrew    Carnegie    and 
Dr.   Richard  Bartbold,   President  of  the   Peace 
greas,  arrive  here  for  the  fourth  American  meeting 
of  the  Congress. 

Bio  de  Janeiro,  Brazil. — An  enormous  tide  sweeps 
In  from  the  sea  doing  a  great  amount  of  damage 
along   the   shore. 

Hew  York,  N.  Y. — A  special  performance  at  a 
theater  here  of  "Within  the  Law"  is  given  before 
an  audience  made  up  entirely  of  blind  people. 

Naples,  Italy.— The  King  and  Queen  attend  the 
launching  of  the  dreadnaught  "Andrea  Doria,"  at 
the  navy  yard. 

Chicago,  HI. — Chicago  has  decided  to  welcome 
Frank  Chance,  the  manager  of  the  "Yankees,"  with 
a  big  reception. 

Madrid,     Spain. — Prince    Charoon,     minister     from 
Slam   to  the  Spanish  Court,   presents  his  credent 
to  the   King. 

Washington,  D.  C. — A  group  of  scientists  ir:ith<-r 
at  the  Smithsonian  Institute  to  unveil  a  tablet  to 
the  memory  of  Prof.  Samuel  P.  Langley,  pioneer 
'  la  aviation,  who  seventeen  years  ago,  launche.l  the 
Brat  heavier-than-air  machine  in  the  history  of  the 
world. 

Montpelier.  France. — President  Poincare  attends 
'  the  Congress  of  Mayors  and  is  enthusiastically  re- 
•  ceived. 

Comic    Section. — Jeff    wins    five    dollars    and    gets 
paid — but  not  in  cash. 
And  Many  Others. 

BULLFIGHT  IN  FRANCE  (May  27).— This  is 
vthe  most  thrilling  film  ever  offered  to  exhibitors. 
With  It  an  exhibitor  has  an  opportunity  to  present 
a  bullfight  tliat  has  more  thrills  than  a  Spanish 
bullfight,  without  the  distasteful  spectacle  of  a 
wounded  bull.  The  French  bullfighters  use  no 
weapons,  depending  solely  on  their  nerve  and  agility 
to  avoid   his  w.ld   rushes. 

IN  THE  FOREST  OF  COCHIN-CHINA  (May  27). 
— A  very  interesting  study  of  the  gathering  of 
lumber  :n  Cochin-China,  showing  the  antiquated 
methods  bv   which   the  work  is  carried  on. 

THE  FUGITIVE  (May  28)  .—Harold  Hammond 
aees  a  young  gin  accosted  by  a  masher  and  Im- 
•med lately  goes  to  her  defense.  Instantly  a  fight. 
rhe  masher  draws  his  gun  but  Hammond  is  quicker 
and  the  masher  drops.  Hammond  flees  and  no  trace 
at  him  is  found.  Years  afterward  a  girl  visiting  an 
Indian  settlement  in  the  wilds  of  Arizona  is  sur- 
prised to  meet  a  white  man  living  with  the  savages 
and  becomes  Interested  in  his  story.  The  story  he 
tells  proves  him  to  be  Harold  Hammond,  the  man 
who  so  gallantly  defended  the  girl  to  whom  he  is 
talking.  She  tells  him  that  the  man  he  shot  re- 
covered later  and  received  the  penalty  of  the  law 
for  his  offense.  Hammond  has  long  dreamed  of 
the  girl  and  she.  having  long  longed  to  reward  him, 
•gives  him  her  heart  when  he  asks  it. 

WHITE  LIES  (May  29).— Lillian  Sinclair  is  the 
'belle  of  a  little  country  town  and  the  birthday 
party  at  her  home  Is  well  attended.  Her  most 
-ardent  suitors  are  two  brothers.  Bill  and  Dan 
"Douglas.  In  the  course  of  the  evening.  Bill  dis- 
covers that  Lillian  is  in  love  with  his  younger 
*brotber,  Dan.  He  mentions  this  to  Dan  and  Dan 
laughs  It  off,  telling  him.  Bill,  that  he  Ls  . 
out  West  the  next  day.  After  the  guests  Invr  _ 
a  sudden  tempest  arises  and  Lillian  watches  the 
pouting  rain  through  the  window.  A  bolt  of  light- 
ning flashes  before  her  and  the  girl  is  blind.  The 
flash  of  lightning  is  the  most  realistic  thing  you 
ever  saw.  Under  the  doctor's  care,  the  blind  girl 
-now  spends  her  time  dreaming  of  Dan.  No  word  Is 
received  from  him,  but  Lillian's  broken-hearted 
mother  lies  artfully  to  her  that  Dan  ha1*  written  In 
a  letter  that  he  loves  her.  Waiting  for  Dan.  the 
girl  Is  gradually  failing  in  health  and  the  doctor 
decides  that  nothing  but  Dan's  love  will  save  her 
life.  But  the  first  news  of  Dan  is  a  notice  to  his 
brother  of  his  death.  Bill  still  loves  the  blind  girl 
and  with  her  parent's  consent  he  proposes  to  her  as 
Dan.  She  accepts  and  is  soon  happy  and  well,  al- 
though she  never  discovers   the  white  lies. 

THE  SPIDER  WHICH  LIVES  IN  A  BUBBLE 
(May  80). — The  spider  studied  in  this  film  Lt 
only  member  of  the  spider  family  that  takes  to  the 
water,  its  favorite  haunts  being  stagnant  pools  or 
sluggish  streams  overgrown  with  repds.  The  most 
remarkable  thing  about  the  water  spider  is  its  home, 
as  it  lives  in  an  air  bubble.  By  gathering  the  tiny 
air  bubbles  that  are  constantly  rising  to  the  sur- 
face of  the  water,  the  spider,  by  slow  degi 
builds  a  bubble  large  enough  for  himself  to  live  in 
and  enlov  the  manv  insects  on  which  it  preys. 

TRANSPORTATION  METHODS  IN  JAVA  (May 
tO).— An  educational  film  that  tnk.s  as  to  far-off 
Java,  there  to  witness  the  difficulties  with  which 
the  Javanese  have  to  contend  in  embarking  and 
disembarking  fmm  the  steamers;  also  the  dangers 
of  unloading  cattle,  as  there  are  no  steamship 
docks  In  Java. 

THE  SaUAWMAN'S  AWAKENING  (May  31.— 
Paleface  Magee,  who  has  married  a  squaw  and  al- 
most forgotten  civilization  me.-ts.  on-*  flay,  a  white 
woman  being  made  captive  by  two  Indians.  He 
forces  the  Redmen  to  release  her  and  a«  she  thanks 
Ulm.  all  hia  old  dreams  and  memories  return,  bring- 


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lng  with  them  a  yearning  to  return  to  his  own 
people.  Matr.-p's  s-o *.iaw  discovers  his  affection  for 
the  white  woman  and  attempts  a  summary  ven- 
geance. Thwarted  in  her  plan,  she  gathers  her 
papoose  In  her  arms,  returns  to  her  tribe,  leaving 
Magee  with  his  new  love  to  answer  the  call  of 
civilization. 

THE  HUMAN  VULTURE  (Special— 2  parts- 
May  30). — Louis  Fox,  a  master  criminal  and  head 
of  a  baud  of  kidnappers,  has  befriended  Sarah  Cul- 
ver, a  widow,  who,  Just  leaving  a  hospital.  Is  be- 
ing dunned  by  a  Mrs.  Thomas  to  pay  for  her 
daQg*ht  -i-'s  care  while  she  i  Mrs.  Culver)  was  111. 
Loots  baa  a  plan  to  kidnap  the  baby  daughter  of 
Arthur  Lee.  The  child  is  heiress  to  a  million  dol- 
lars which  will  revert  to  the  donor's  relatives 
should  anything  happen  to  the  child.  Fox  requires 
an  accomplice  and  after  he  paints  in  glowing  terms 
the  luxury  for  her  and  her  child  Ifshe  Joins  him, 
Sarah  agrees.  Louis  is  watching  the  home  of  Lee. 
when  he  sees  the  latter  leaving  the  house  with  a 
bundle  in  his  arms.  Lee  goes  to  the  garden  and 
I.- nils  follows.  Lee  buries  the  bundle  beneath  a 
tree  and  Louis  marks  the  tree.  The  next  day  Lee 
visits  the  rendezvous  of  the  the  kidnappers  and  ex- 
plains to  Louis  that  his  daughter  has  died  and  that 
be  wants  another  child  to  take  her  place  so  that  be 
won't   lose  the  money.     Louis  agrees  to  serve  him. 

Sarah  has  promised  Mrs.  Thomas  to  pay  her,  but 
is  unable  to  do  so.  consequently  Mrs.  Thomas  brings 
Sarah's  baby  to  Louis'  house  and  as  Sarah  is  away 
sh<-  l.-av  -s  a  note  of  explanation.  Louis,  in  at- 
tempting to  kidmp  n  child  is  caugbt  by  the  police. 
Sarah  retirns  to  Louis'  house  and  almost  immedi- 
ately Lee  calls,  asking  for  the  child  Louis  has 
promised  him.  Sarah  sees,  the  Infltnt  and,  not 
knowing  it  is  her  own  daughter,  she  turns  the  baby 
over  to  Lee.  After  Lee  has  gone  Sarah  finds  the 
note  fron  Mrs.  Thomas.  She  rushes  to  the  door  to 
overtake  Lee.  The  door  opens  and  the  police,  with 
-  in  hanl,  block  her  path  and  arrest  her  as  an 
accomplice. 

Twenty  years  later  Sarah  has  been  released  from 
prison  and"  finds  work  in  the  home  of  Arthur  Lee. 
where  she  is  taking  orders  from  her  own  daughter, 
who  believes  that  Lee  is  her  father  and  that  her 
mother  is  dead.  About  this  time  Louis  escapes 
from  prison  and  straightaway  calls  on  Lee — object 
blackmail.  Seeing  young  Helen  Lee,  however,  Louis 
demands  her  hand  in  marriage  as  the  price  of  his 
silence.  Lee  refuses.  Helen's  fiance  and  his  father 
are  guests  at  the  house  and  Louis  tells  them  they 
will  find  something  of  Interest  If  they  will  accom- 
panr  him  to  the  garden.  They  go  out,  but  in  the 
meantime  Sarah  has  removed  the  evidence  and 
when  the  Investigators  reach  the  tree  Louis'  case 
fails.  Sarah  confronts  Louis  and  threatens,  If  he 
does  not  leave  the  house  immediately,  to  Inform 
police  where  they  can  arrest  an  escaped  con- 
vict. Louis  makes  a  hurried  departure,  leaving 
ll.-len  in  happy  Ignorance  of  her  origin  and  with 
her  lover's  confidence  unshaken  by  the  charges  of 
"The  Human  Vulture." 


Among  the  Exhibitors 

Omaha,  Neb. — The  Diamond  theater  will  be  re- 
built.     Cost   $7,000. 

Rome,  Ga. — Ed.  Peters  Is  having  plans  pre- 
pared   for    a    moving    picture    theater. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.— The  Lam  Building  Co..  will 
make  alterations  to  the  Plaza  Theater  at  Broad 
and    Porter    Streets. 

Philadelphia.  Pa. — Rahn  &  Greenberg  have  pur- 
chased property  at  1.2Q0  Girard  Avenue  and  will 
erect  a   moving   picture   theater. 

Racine,  Wis. — Dr.  Evans,  well-known  Danville 
physician  and  owner  of  moving  picture  houses 
throughout  Illinois,  will  erect  a  moving  picture 
theater  here. 

Visalia,  Calif. — The  Visalia  Opera  House  will  be 
rebuilt.       Cost    530,000. 

Keota,  la.— This  city  will  have  a  $15,000  opera 
house.     J.    M.    White  and   C.    A.    Lacey,   proprietors. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Stuckert  &  Sloan  are  pre- 
paring plans   for  a   moving   picture   theater  here. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — A  contract  has  been  let  for 
the  erection  of  moving  picture  theater  by  Enos 
R.   Headman   for   Frank   Hess  at  a  cost  of  $11,000. 

Bloomfield,  Ind. — Homer  Knox  is  remodeling  his 
picture    theater. 

Tyler,  Minn. — The  Theatorlum  picture  shew 
changed  hands  recently.  N.  G.  Nelson  sold  to  H. 
Mears  and   Harry  Johnson  of  Brookings,   S.   D. 

Smithville,  Tex. — The  new  Airdome  Theater  on 
Main  Street,  under  the  management  of  R.  P. 
Mitchell,  opened. 

Louisville,  Ky. — The  North  Side  Amusement  Co., 
ef  New  Albany  has  taken  over  the  large  brick 
building  on  High  Street,  hetween  Pearl  and  State 
Streets,  and  will  remodel  it  Into  a  motion  picture 
theater. 

Marinette,  Wis.— This  city  is  to  have  a  new  thea- 
ter building.  Jno.  K.  Setrlght,  W.  P.  Setright 
and    H.    R.   Goldman,    Incorporators. 

Davenport,  la. — C.  A.  Ficke.  owner  of  the  Amer- 
ican Theater  building  is  considering  the  remodel- 
ing   and    enlarging    of    the    vaudeville    house. 

Paxton,  Ills. — Fred  and  Willis  Davidson  have  as- 
sumed   the   management   of   the   Neil    theater. 

Baltimore,  Md. — The  Red  Moon  Theater,  a  mov- 
ing picture  house  on  Baltimore  Street,  near  Han- 
over,  was  sold  to  Wm.    Fait. 

Eaxlington,  Ky. — J.  E.  Wawcett  bought  the 
Princess  theater. 


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THE  TOURIST  AND  THE  FLOWER  GIRL  (May 
29). — Harry  and  Lee  are  college  chums.  Lee  pro- 
paaes  to  his  cousin,  Lois,  but  she  puts  him  off. 
Harry,  who  is  spending  some  time  in  California  as 
a  tourist,  one  day  takes  a  walk.  Lois  sees  him, 
and  la  taken  with  the  handsome  stranger,  and 
throws  him  a  rose.  He  wonders  where  it  came 
from.  Later  be  buys  some  flowers.  Lois  is  de- 
termined to  know  Harry,  and  pays  a  flower  girl 
to  let  her  wear  her  coat,   hat  and  sell  her  flowers. 

Lois  sees  Harry  and  offers  him  her  roses.  He 
Is  vastly  attracted  to  her.  Lois  induces  the  flower 
girl  to  let  her  take  her  place  for  several  days, 
and  Harry  and  Lois  get  quite  chummy.  Harry 
discovers  the  deception,  and  bribes  the  real  flower 
girl   to  show  him   where   Lois   lives. 

Bribing  the  butler,  he  dons  his  uniform,  telling 
the  maid  that  he  has  taken  the  regular  butler's 
place  as  the  latter  is  sick.  Lois  and  the  pseudo 
butler  meet  in  the  garden,  and  observing  that 
Lee  is  jealous,  Lois  asks  Lee  to  go  shopping  for 
her. 

Harry's  awkwardness  at  serving  tea  causes  Lois 
mother  to  scold  him.  The  demands  of  the  real 
butler  for  money  to  get  drink  causes  a  delay,  and 
Harry  is  scolded  again.  Lee  comes  back  and  rec- 
ognizes Harry  through  his  disguise.  The  two  college 
youths  then  set  upon  the  tipsy  butler  and  trounce 
him.  Explanations  clear  the  way  for  Harry's 
formal  introduction  to  Mamma,  who  looks  amiably 
upon  Harry's  suit. 

THE  BOOB  (June  1). — Mrs.  Jackson  and  her 
■daughter  Bertha,  of  the  "400,"  receive  a  letter 
from  their  country  relative,  Seth  Harklns,  stating 
that  he  is  sending  Ms  son,  Bill,  to  the  city.  Mrs. 
Jackson,  horrified  at  the  idea  of  entertaining  such 
a  person,  decides  to  have  her  maid,  Felice,  mas- 
querade   as    her    daughter. 

Bill  arrives.  He  is  the  typical  country  boob. 
He  Is  met  by  Felice,  who  proceeds  to  entertain 
Bill  by  taking  him  to  the  melodrama  and  other 
places  of  amusement  most  suitable  to  him.  Bill 
finally  falls  in  love  with  Felice,  but  is  called  home 
by  a  telegram.     Felice  realizes  that  she  loves  him. 

Several  months  pass.  Bertha  receives  a  letter 
■unburdening  his  heart.  He  tells  her  that  they 
have  sold  their  farm  for  $50,000.  Mrs.  Jackson 
and   Bertha    keep    his   coming   a   secret   from   Felice. 

Bill  finally  arrives.  The  change  in  him  is  mar- 
velous. He  is  now  a  howling  swell.  Mrs.  Jack- 
son and  Bertha  are  terribly  surprised.  They  try 
to  persuade  Bill  of  the  "joke"  they  played  on  him. 
"but  he  pays  no  attention  to  them  and  rushes  Felice 
to  the  minister, 


ECLAIR. 

THE  FAITH  HEALER  (2  parts— May  28).— 
Robert  and  Louise  marry  and  are  very  happy,  but 
the  finding  of  a  bible  In  their  room  at  the  hotel 
while  on  their  honeymoon,  develops  the  fact  that 
Robert  "does  not  believe."  His  wife  expresses 
her  regret  at  this,  but  it  does  not  lessen  her  love. 
Two  years  later  the  panic  catches  Robert  and  he 
is  suddenly  ruined.  His  brave  little  wife  offers 
to  seek  employment,  but  Robert  is  manly  enough 
to  go   ahead   as   a   laborer. 

Dissolute,  careless  Helmar  Is  married  to  a  sweet 
little  woman  who  can  abide  him  no  longer.  Be- 
•eoming  desperate  she  writes  to  a  friend  asking 
him  to  take  her  away,  saying  otherwise  she  will 
kill  herself.  Helmar  surprises  his  wife  writing 
this  letter.  She  attempts  to  conceal  the  note,  but 
he    forces   her   to   show   it. 

Helmar  offers  his  wife  a  revolver  to  carry  out 
her  threat,  but  her  nerve  fails.  Picking  it  up, 
Helmar  leaves  the  house,  intent  on  suicide.  He 
goes  to  the  river  when  the  thought  comes  of  a 
better  way  to  drop  out  of  his  wife's  life.  He 
leaves  his  coat  and  bat  on  the  bank  and  buries 
himself   in   the    army. 

Helmar's  wife,  believing  him  dead,  welcomes 
the  attentions  of  her  friend.  Helmar  sees  her  in 
an  automobile  with  him.  Helmar  exclaims  "I 
wish  to  God  I  were  blind,  so  I  might  never  again 
see  the  fare  of  a  woman."  A  few  weeks  later 
in  battle,  Helmar  is  blinded  by  the  explosion  of 
a  shell.  This  terible  visitation  of  the  wrath  of 
God  makes  of  Helmar  a  strong  believer  and  he  de- 
votes his  life  to  the  poor,  opening  a  small  mission, 
to    heal    the    feeble    and    sickly    by    prayer. 

Meanwhile  Robert  and  Louise  have  been  strug- 
gling through  the  years,  unable  to  regain  their 
position.  Then  en  me  sickness  to  their  little 
On  her  way  to  the  drug  store  to  have  a 
prescription  filled,  Louise  slipped  quietly  into  the 
meeting  house  and  stood   for  a   moment   until 


the  gathering  began  to  disperse — then — when  the 
Faith  turned  toward  her1 — she  recognized — Helmar 
their  former  friend.  Rushing  forward,  she  made 
herself  known  to  the  blind  man  and  then  led  him 
away  to  their  little  home,  where  her  child  was 
lying  ill.  Taking  the  beautiful  little  girl  by  the 
hand,  Helmar  prayed  fervently  and  his  message 
was  heard.  Clara  regained  her  strength.  One 
of  Robert's  former  business  competitors  died  and 
his  will  had  bequeathed  his  entire  fortune  to  Rob- 
bert.  Helmar  now  went  to  live  with  Robert  and 
Louise  and  Clara.  One  joyous  day,  the  unfortu- 
nate man  regained  his  sight.  When  wealth  came 
again  to  Robert  and  Louise  they  began  a  search 
for  Helmar's  wife.  They  found  her  repentant  and 
unhappy.  The  day  Helmar  regained  his  sight,  his 
wife  was  brought  to  the  home  and  there  was  a 
happy    reunion. 

A  ROMANCE  OF  THE  RALLS  (May  29). — 
Charles  Blake,  a  young  engineer,  passes  on  his 
dally  run  the  home  of  Kitty  Burke,  and  flirts  with 
her.  At  last  Charley  stops  his  engine  in  front 
of  Kitty's  home  and  speaks  to  Kitty  while  she  is 
arranging  flowers  in  the  yard. 

Charley  wears  Kitty's  picture  in  his  watch  fob. 
Lingering  over  it  he  hesitates  too  long  and  rushes 
to  the  round  house.  The  superintendent,  finding 
him  late,  places  another  engineer  on  his  engine. 
Charley  is  discharged   for  back   talk. 

Meeting  the  engineer  who  took  his  engine,  he 
quarrels  with  him  and  throws  him  from  the  cab. 
Thinking  the  engineer  dead  he  rushes  into  hiding. 
Evening  comes;  he  starts  for  Kitty's  home  by  a 
circuitous  route  and  comes  upon  a  burglar.  The 
police  had  been  watching  and  come  upon  the 
scene,  thinking  Charley  one  of  the  burglars.  A 
fight  ensues ;  Charley  gets  away.  The  policeman 
falls  and  the  thief  gets  away.  Charley  comes  to 
Kitty's  home  and  he  explains  aU.  A  detective 
opens  the  locket  and  recognizing  Kitty's  picture 
start  on  the  trail.  They  find  Charley  at  Kitty's 
house,  but  he  breaks  away.  The  thief,  who  has 
been  wounded  by  the  policeman,  crawls  along  the 
fence  by  Kitty's  home  and  she  sees  him.  Later 
the   thief  exonerates  Charley. 

Time  passes.  Kitty  received  a  letter  from  Char- 
ley, who  has  secured  work  on  a  stock  ranch  In 
California.  In  her  Joy  she  rushes  to  telegraph 
him  to  come  back,  that  he  is  vindicated.  One 
week  later  Charley's  old  engine,  decorated  with 
ribbons,  forms  a  background  for  a  wedding  party 
of  which  Charley  and  Kitty  are  the  principals. 

A  WISE  JUDGE  (May  11).— Mr.  and  Mrs.  Snap 
quarrel,  as  married  folks  sometimes  do,  and  when 
the  threat  of  a  separation  conies,  each  Is  too  angry 
to  take  back  the  words  spoken  in  haste.  They  feel 
too  proud  to  retract  later,  The  result  is  that  an 
order  is  requested  from  the  court,  legalizing  their 
separation. 

But  Judge  Lynx  thinks  that  he  knows  enough  of 
human  nature  to  be  sure  that  this  couple  really  does 
not  desire  a  divorce.  He  tries  a  little  plan  of  his 
own.  Mrs.  Snap  Is  distressed  for  a  moment  by  a 
terrible  coughing  spell,  caused  by  the  Judge,  who 
has  thrown  some  powder  into  the  Are.  Immediately 
Mr.  Snap  rushes  to  the  rescue  and  before  they  real- 
ize how  it  all  happens,  there  has  been  a  reconcilia- 
tion. 

Husband  and  wife  return  to  their  little  home  and 
agree  to  live  in  peace  with  their  charming  little 
daughter. 

Will  Sheerer,  Julia  Stuart  and  Clara  Horton  make 
some  excellent  comedy  out  of  the  laughable  situa- 
tions in  this  half  reel. 

THE  MAirrjFACTTJRE  OF  STEEL  (May  11).— 
On  the  same  reel  with  this  little  comedy  Is  found 
a  splendid  scientific  subject,  the  various  processes 
in  the  manufacture  of  steel  being  very  clearly  and 
entertainingly  shown.  The  scenes  In  the  steel  mills 
here  shown  are  not  only  instructive,  but  very 
beautiful.  These  scientific  subjects  have  been 
proving  very  popular,  and  this  is  one  of  the  best 
in    the   series. 

HE  LOVES  TO  "WATCH  THE  FLIGHT  OF  TIME 
(May  18). — Watching  the  dial  of  a  taxi-cab  Is  like 
a  fall  on  a  slippery  pavement.  It  is  funny,  only 
when  the  other  fellow  suffers.  But  Dada  Newly- 
wed  is  a  game  little  rather,  and  when  he  found 
that  it  tickled  Snookums  to  see  the  numbers  flash 
— well,  he  just  wouldn't  let  his  little  darling  howl 
and  so  he  and  that  beautiful  wife  Just  rode  around 
:ill    the   afternoon   with   the    precious  one. 

Once  or  twice  they  thought  they  would  quit, 
but  Snookums  set  up  a  howl,  and  so  back  they 
climbed  for  another  little  ride.  Finally  Dada  had 
a  brilliant  thought,  and  so  he  told  Mr.  Chauffeur 
to  drive  into  the  country.  And  what  do  you  think  ? 
— when  they  were  out  about  five  miles—^Snookums, 
the  little  bunch  of  sweetness,   went  to  sleep. 

And  was-  Dada  going  to  take  chances  on  his 
waking  up  again — not  on  your  life!  He  might 
want  to  see  those  numbers  flash  some  more — and 
so  Dada  planked  down  forty  odd  simoleons  for 
their  "joy  ride,"  and  he  carried  "Snookums"  back 
to   his  little   trnndel  bed. 

THE  CUTTLEFISH  (May  18),— This  very  inter- 
Dg  scientific  study  is  found  on  the  same  reel 
witli  the  latest  Newlywed.  This  subject  is  quite 
instructive,  since  it  Is  from  the  cuttlefish  that  In- 
dia ink  is  made  by  natives  in  certain  sections. 
Some  very  unusual  scenes  are  shown,  in  which 
iish  defends  itself  from  enemies  by  throwing 
out  this  thick,  inky  substance.  This  makes  a  reel 
wblch    Is    certain    to    prove    very,    very    popular. 


GEM. 

BILLY'S  HONEYMOON  (May  27),— BTTTy  Quirt 
and  bis  sweetheart,  Dolly,  plan  to  elope.  However, 
troubles  follow  fast  and  furious.  Dolly  refuses  to 
leave  her  pet  dog  behind.  This  causes  a  number 
of  complications  that  sorely  taxes  the  groom's  de- 
votion. They  are  put  off  street  care,  out  of  hotels, 
and  forced  to  climb  trees  and  fences,  while  Billy's 
friends,  who  have  got  wind  of  the  affair,  track 
them   in  hot   pursuit. 

While  the  young  couple  are  trying  to  elude  their 
friends,  the  bottom  falls  out  of  the  box  In  which 
the  dog  is  concealed,  and  the  pup  runs  away. 
Finally,  after  many  ludicrous  happenings,  the  bag- 
gage is  collected,  the  dog  returned,  and  amid  a 
shower  of  rice  and  old  shoes,  the  Quirks  start  on 
a  real   quiet   trip. 


CRYSTAL. 

WHERE  CHARITY  BEGINS  (May  27).— Helen, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  Morris  a  wealthy  widow,  devoted 
her  time  to  teaching  at  St.  James  Settlement  House 
helping  the  sick  and  needy  In  the  tenement  dis- 
trict. Helen's  mother  at  home  alone,  longs  for 
companionship  while  her  daughter  Is  in  the  Set- 
tlement. Mrs.  Morris  becomes  seriously  ill  and 
is  attended  by  Dr.  Gerald,  Helen's  ardent  admirer. 
Helen  neglects  her  mother  and  lover  to  devote  her- 
self to  the  care  of  Mrs.  Dawson  whose  daughter 
Is  entertaining  her  beau,  another  of  Helen's  pro- 
teges. 

The  trained  nurse  neglects  Mrs.  Morris  while  her 
patient  cries  in  vain  for  a  driik  of  water.  Helen 
returns  home  to  find  her  mother  unconscious  on  the 
floor  while  the  nurse  is  flirting  with  the  butler. 
Fully  awakened  by  the  incident,  Helen  resigns  from 
the  Settlement  Club  and  vows  to  devote  her  time 
and  companionship  to  her  own  mother  and  lover. 

CLANCY  THE  MODEL  (June  1).— An  artist  en- 
gages Clancey,  the  laborer,  for  a  model  for  a  paint- 
ing. He  is  made  to  pose  in  a  Indian  suit.  Clancy 
finds  a  bottle,  aid  drinks  freely,  soon  showing  signs 
of  an  Indian  uprising.  The  artist  flees  and  Clancy 
climbs  the  fire-escape  and  enters  the  flat  of  Capt. 
Smythe  of  th  etown  militia,  who  is  boasting  of  his 
bravery.  Clancy  chases  him  down  stairs  and  makes 
him  change  clothes  with  him,  and  do  a  war  dance 
to  the  consternation  of  a  lady  caller,  who  faints. 
He  finally  runs  Into  the  arms  of  the  law,  and  is 
taken  to  jail,  where  he  has  a  chance  to  reflect 
on  his   boisterous   conduct. 

HOOKED  (June  1). — Mr.  and  Mrs.  Short  invite 
'  'Frenehy ' '  home  to  dinner.  A  telephone  message 
rails  the  husband  to  his  office,  leaving  the  guest 
to  entertain  the  good  looking  wife,  who  looks  good 
to  Frenehy.  The  next  day  Short  buys  two  boxes 
of  candy  one  for  his  typist,  the  other  for  his  wife. 
He  encloses  a  card  in  the  latter  box,  thanking  the 
girl  for  working  hard  for  him  the  previous  night. 
Frenehy,  who  has  called,  switches  the  boxes.  When 
wifey  finds  the  candy  and  note,  she  becomes  very 
cool  to  Mr.  Short.  Next  day,  when  she  sees  the 
stenographer  and  discovers  her  to  be  a  plain  girl, 
she  knows  her  suspicions  are  groundless,  and  she 
plans  with  her  husband  to  get  even  with  Frenehy. 

When  the  latter  calls  again,  Mrs.  Short  tells 
him  that  her  husband  plans  to  kill  him.  Frenehy 
hears  bim  coming,  and  hides  in  a  closet.  Short 
fires  off  his  revolver,  nearly  scaring  the  hidden  man 
to  death.  He  bolts  for  the  street,  and  a  policeman 
gathers    him    in. 


NESTOR. 

ON  CUPID'S  HIGHWAY  (May  26).— Eddy  and 
his  chauffeur  come  to  the  rescue  of  Louise  and  her 
maid,  Corinne,  whose  automobile  breaks  down.  Lee 
soon  puts  matters  right,  and  Oorinne  gets  her  fuzzy 
hair  all  mixed  up  with  his  as  he  tinkers  about. 
Eddy  naturally  keeps  Louise  company  and  cards 
are  exchanged.  Arriving  home  papa  puts  a  veto 
on  the  prospective  call  of  the  impecunious  young 
lawyers,  as  he  wants  a  titled  man  for  a  son-in- 
law. 

One  evening  papa  goes  to  the  club,  and  is  intro- 
duced to  Lord  Chester,  and  asks  his  lordship  to 
call.  While  papa  is  thus  being  entertained,  Eddy 
has  called  and  is  enjoying  a  tete-a-tete  with  Louise. 
Corinne  spies  Lee  and  introduces  him  to  the  butler 
and  the  cook  and  they  all  have  a  good  time. 

The  following  day  his  lordship  calls.  Louise  how- 
ever, has  no  use  for  titled  personages  with  Eddy 
outside  honking  his  auto  horn.  She  excuses  her- 
self and  escapes,  taking  Corinne  with  her.  Papa 
agrees  to  pay  the  lord  $100,000  the  day  he  marries 
Louise. 

His  lordship,  receives  a  letter  from  his  mother, 
telling  him  to  try  and  pay  the  mortgage  on  their 
estate.  He  follows  up  his  suit  with  determination 
and   Louise  is   forced   to  accept  his  offer. 

The  invitations  are  sent  out  and  Louise's  little 
sister,  Lois,  Is  summoned  home.  She  meets  the 
lord,  and  they  are  mutually  attracted.  Eddy  gets 
desperate,   and  persuades  Louise  to  elope  with  him. 

His  lordship  can  stand  his  false  position  no 
longer.     He   tells  Louise  to  elope  with   him. 

The  parties  all  meet  at  the  marriage  bureau  and 
again  tumble  upon  each  other  at  the  parsonage. 
Explanations  ensue  and  eventually  all  the  couples 
appear  before  a  puzzled  and  angry  papa  and  mam- 
ma. Lord  Chester  gets  his  check  and  saves  the 
family    estates,    and    everybody    is   happy. 


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A  DOUBLE  SACRIFICE  (May  28).— Jim  and  John 
Marsh,  twin  brothers,  are  totally  unlike  Id  nature 
and  appearance.  Jim  is  healthy,  while  John  is 
sickly.  Their  father  is  a  ranchman.  May,  the 
daughter  of  Ranchman  Holt,  has  grown  up  with 
them.  May  Is  much  attached  to  Jim  and  pays  a 
good  deal  of  attention  to  John  from  sympathy.  He 
is  hopelessly  In  love  with  her,  but  refrains  from 
showing  it. 

On  their  birthday,  Mr.  Marsh  gives  the  boys  each 
one  thousand  dollars.  John  banks  his,  but  Jim 
embraces  the  chance  to  see  the  outside  world.  Two 
years  pass  and  Jim  has  had  a  good  time,  but  no 
money.  He  receives  a  letter  from  May  telling  him 
that  his  brother  John  is  failing  fast  and  asks  for 
him.  Jim  returns  and  his  father  berates  him  for 
squandering  his  money.  Jim  Is  astonished  at  the 
change  In  his  boyhood  sweetheart.  May;  It  is  not 
long  before  they  are  deeply  In  love  with  each  other. 
Jim  proposes  and  is  accepted  and.  asks  Mr.  Holt 
for  hia  daughter.  Mr.  Holt  tells  him  that  when  he 
can  show  him  one  thousand  dollars  that  he  has 
earned   he  can   have   May. 

Upon  his  return  home  John  notes  his  downcast 
demeanor;  he  persuades  Jim  to  tell  him  what  Is  the 
matter  and  upon  learning  the  truth  he  persuades 
Jim  to  take  his  thousand  dollars.  Mr.  Holt  is 
puzzled,  but  is  a  man  of  his  word  and  Jim  rides 
away  to  buy  the  ring. 

Marsh  has  bought  a  bunch  of  cattle  from  Holt 
and  has  to  deliver  bis  thousand  dollars  the  same 
day.  During  the  night  one  of  the  cowboys  steals 
the  money.  Marsh  comes  to  the  hasty  conclusion 
that  Jim  has  taken  it.  He  goes  to  Holt  to  ex- 
plain the  delay  and  learns  that  Jim  had  one  thou- 
sand dollars  and  their  suspicions  become  certainties. 
They  ride  off  for  the  sheriff  for  Marsh  intends  to 
punish  Jim.  May  overhears  them  and  runs  to  John 
for  advice.  He  tells  her  of  the  money  he  gave 
Jim  and  bands  her  the  check  stub.  She  gives 
him  a  good  kiss  and  hurries  off  and  Intercepts  the 
sheriff.  They  return  to  thank  the  sick  man,  but 
find  that   be   has  peacefully   passed    away. 

BE  IT  EVER  SO  HUMBLE  (May  30).— Joe,  a 
stage  driver,  is  engaged  to  marry  Ruth,  a  beauti- 
ful singer  and  the  pride  of  the  town.  Mr.  Mor- 
ton, an  operatic  impressarlo,  attends  a  concert  at 
which  Ruth  sings.  He  knows  he  has  found  a  gen- 
ius. He  calls  and  makes  her  a  direct  offer  that 
staggers  ber.  Not  knowing  what  to  do  she  asks 
for  time  to  give  her  decision.  He  and  the  horri- 
fied Joe  drive  off.  A  little  way  out  Joe  asks  Mor- 
ton to  get  down  and  see  something.  He  accedes. 
Joe  takes  him  up  a  path  to  a  pretty  little  new  cot- 
tage. He  tells  him  that  it  Is  his  gift  to  Ruth.  It 
does  not  make  much  impression  on  the  bard  busi- 
ness man.  A  sudden  rage  comes  upon  Joe  and  he 
strides  out  after  Morton  and  chokes  him.  He 
might  kill  him  but  for  a  gentle  touch  on  the  arm. 
He  looks  around  and  sees  Ruth  with  her  hat  and 
her  grip— she  has  decided  to  go.  She  would  kiss 
him,  but  he  says,  "No,  not  till  you  return  to  me." 
Ruth  makes  a  success  but  does  not  find  happi- 
ness. One  night  she  has  her  triumph,  and  flowers 
and  costly  presents  are  sent  to  her  dressing  room, 
bnt  one  little  box  containing  half  withered  violets 
appeals  to  her  most.  They  are  from  the  home  that 
was  to  have  been  hers.  The  revulsion  comes  and 
Rath  throws  up  the  fame  for  love  and  returns  to  the 
little   cottage. 


POWERS. 

THE  END  OF  THE  TRAIL  (2  parts— May  30).— 
Bruce,  a  cowboy,  loves  Dolores,  the  elder  daughter 
of  Ranchman  Hicks,  Hicks'  foreman  would  like 
to  claim  Dolores,  but  she  does  not  fancy  him.  He 
awaits  his  chance  to  get  even  with  both  of  them, 
Dolores  goes  to  town  to  study  singing.  Hicks  is 
worried  because  the  drought  has  decreased  his  bank- 
roll and  Ridgeway,  the  money  lender,  takes  the  ranch 
aa  security.  Hicks  tells  Ridgeway  to  call  upon 
his  daughter  in  the  city  and  this  he  does,  finally 
taking   advantage   of  her. 

Time  goes  on  and  Dolores  returns  to  find  her 
father  very  worried  over  money  conditions.  She 
hears  that  the  man  who  loaned  the  money  will  come 
to  claim  the  ranch.  She  surprises  Ridgeway  and 
her  young  sister  together  and  sending  the  girl 
away  she  confronts  Ridgeway.  Their  talk  is  over- 
heard by  Carlos,  a  half-breed,  who  owes  a  debt  of 
gratitude  to  Dolores  and  the  foreman.  Bruce  would 
kill  Ridgeway,  but  Dolores  begs  him  not  to  for 
her  sake  and  her  father's.  Carlos  goea  secretly 
after  Ridgeway  after  picking  up  Bruce's  gun. 
Bruce  whips  the  foreman  who  sneers  at  Dolores 
and  the  foreman  arrives  at  the  ranch  bouse  at 
the  same  time  that  Ridgeway  does.  Ridgeway  sees 
the  half-breed  after  him  with  a  gun  and  hastily 
persuades  the  whipped  and  tattered  foreman  to  put 
hit  coat  on.  The  half-breed  kills  the  foreman 
thinking  it  is  Ridgeway,  and  Bruce  arrives  in  time 
to  pick  up  the  gun  and  be  suspected  of  the  crime. 
He   is    i 

The  half-breed  rescues  Bruce,  and  a  providential 
happening  enables  Hicks  to  pay  Ridgeway  eff.  The 
latter  goes  to  some  Mexicans  and  persuades  them  to 
help  him  try  and  get  Paquita,  the  young  girl.  They 
sneered  In  this,  hut  circumstances  cause  the  sheriff, 
Bruce  and  Carlos  to  arrive  In  time  to  save  her 
and  to  arrest  the  Mexicans.  Ridgeway  leaves  the 
others  to  their  fate,  but  is  tracked  by  Carlos  and 
meets  bis   deserts. 


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SECRET    SERVICE    SAM     (2    parts— May    26).— 
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teetives  to  watch  for  Mme.  TrebilHe  and  two  noted 
spies,  suspected  of  shadowing  diplomatic  atacbea. 
Secret  Service  Sam  was  given  charge,  a  congenial 
assignment  as  it  enabled  him  to  see  Mayre,  the 
girl  he  loved. 

Secret  Service  Sam  had  a  non-commissioned  aide 
In  a  boy  who  looked  upon  Sam  as  a  composite  of 
all  the  great  detectives.  The  lad  determined  to- 
do  a  little  shadowing.  One  night  he  saw  a  scrub- 
woman enter  the  diplomatic  building.  The  Bash  of 
diamonds  on  her  white  fingers  convinced  him  she 
was  a  spy. 

The  head  scrubwoman  suspected  the  new  comer, 
but  a  large  bribe  silenced  her  and  a*  the  watchman 
locked  the  doors,  the  spy  got  busy  with  the  safe. 
The  boy  climbed  the  Are  escape  to  better  watch 
the  spy.  Suddenly  looking  up  from  ber  work,  the 
woman  saw  the  boy  through  the  windows.  Cov- 
ering Mm  with  a  revolver,  she  dragged  him  into 
the  room.  She  bound  and  gagged  him  and  thrust 
him  into  the  wardrobe.  Something  was  wrong, 
however,  with  the  combination  so  she  waited  until 
morning  to  overpower  the  girl  who  opened  the  safe. 

In  the  morning  Mayre  arrived,  and  opened  the 
safe.  The  spy  silently  stole  away  with  the  port- 
folio. When  the  chief  arrived  he  accused  Mayre  of 
the  theft.  She  protested  her  innocence.  Sam  the 
first  to  arrive  was  shocked  to  learn  that  bis  prom- 
ised wife  was  suspected.  Mayre  was  taken  away 
to  await  action  of  the  grand  jury.  Sam  remained 
behind  to  gather  clues.  He  summoned  the  scrub- 
woman and  noticed  the  diamond  ring  of  the  female 
spy  upon  the  rough  finger  of  the  head  scrubwoman. 
He  at  once  put  ber  through  the  third  degree,  but 
could    learn   nothing. 

The  female  spy  telephoned  her  success  to  her 
comradies,  and  tickets  were  engaged  for  a  European 
steamer,  but  their  auto  broke  down  almost  on  the 
sailing    hour. 

Sam  heard  the  bound  boy  writhing  in  the  ward- 
robe. Locking  the  door  upon  her  he  liberated  the 
boy  who  fainted  before  he  conld  tell  of  Mayre's  in- 
nocence. The  spies  reached  the  wharf,  but  the 
steamer  was  gone.  They  hurriedly  hired  a  motor 
boat  to  overtake  it,  and  hastened  full  speed  down 
the   bay. 

When  the  boy  regained  consciousness,  he  told  of 
the  disguised  spy,  and  the  scrubwoman  was  put 
under  arrest.  Then  Sam  who  had  obtained  a  line 
on  the  spies,  set  off  with  the  boy  in  a  taxi.  Hiring 
a  tug  the  detectives  set  out  in  pursuit  of  the  fast 
disappearing  motor  boat.  One  of  the  spies  jumped 
overboard  with  the  papers.  Secret  Service  Sam 
leaped  after  him.  There  was  a  rough  struggle  in 
which  Sam  was  victorious  and  he  arrested  the  spies. 
Returning  to  the  city,  Sam  reported  to  his  chief 
who  gave  orders  for  Mayre's  release.  Sam  got  a 
promotion  and  the  boy  promised  a  great  future  as 
a    secret   service   man. 


UNIVERSAL 

ANIMATED  WEEKLY,  NO.  62  (May  14).— 
Harvard- Pennsylvania- Princeton  —  The  triangular 
'Varsity  Race  Is  attended  by  large  crowds  at 
Cambridge,    Mass. 

President  Wilson  is  greeted  by  Governor  Fielder 
and  other  prominent  citizens  upon  his  visit  to 
Jersey   City,    N.   J.     Governor   Fielder  on   the   right. 

United  States  Army  Practice — The  new  machine 
guns   in   action    at   Fort   Slocum,    New    York. 

Votes  for  Women. — The  Suffragettes  have  tlicir 
annua]  parade  In  New  York  City. 

Who's  Who  in  the  Cabinet — Secretary  of  the 
Navy,   Josephus   Daniels. 

Carnival  at  Basel — A  grotesque  parade  Is  one  of 
the  features  of  tbe  annual  festival  at  Basel, 
Switzerland. 

The  Fire  Laddies  are  reviewed  by  Chief  Kenloo 
at    Van   Cortlandt   Park,    New   York    City. 

Wheels  of  Commerce — The  art  of  sculpture.  Life 
size  bust  of  the  late  Vice-president  Sherman,  and) 
other    features   of   fine    arts. 

Opening  of  the  Polo  Season  at  the  Essex  Countr 
Club,    West   Orange,    New  Jersey. 

The  Trust  Busters,  Darling  and  Grosvenor — 
Leaden  in  the  case  against  the  Motion  Picture 
Patents   Company    at    Minneapolis,    Minn. 

General  Leonard  Wood  inspects  the  Mexii 
prisoners  held  by  tbe  military  authorities  at  ' 
P.llss.    Texas. 

What's    What     in     New     York— Tbe     Bridge 
Sighs. 

The  Unveiling  of  Schurz  Monument  Is  attended 
by  many  prominent  citizens  at  Morningside  Park, 
New     York    City. 

Who's   Who   in   Pictures — Violet    Horner. 


BISON. 

LOVE,  LIFE  AND  LIBERTY  (2  parts,  May  27).- 
('apt.  Mario  of  the  Spanish  Army  rescues  Anlti 
Ametza  from  insult.  The  beautiful  Cuban  girl, 
finds  iter  admiration  deepened  to  love  when  Mario 
Bavea  her  life  in  a  military  attack.  Anita  is 
corted  home  by  her  uncle,  Major  Ametza,  and  one 
of  his  men,  Oflpt.  Zertuchia.  Zertuchia  asks  the 
major's  permission  to  remain  at  his  home,  and  at- 
tempts to  make  love  to  reluctant  Anita.  Afte: 
Zertuchia  has  departed,  Anita's  old  father  send 
her  with  Ids  uniform  to  his  brother.  On  her  way 
she  meets  Mario,  who  has  just  had  a  thrilling 
cape  from  two  Cuban  soldiers,  and  the  beautifu 
girls  heps  Mario  for  love  of  her  to  don  the  Cuban 
uniform.      Mario    sadly    refuses    and    Anita    departs, 

Zetuchla    repulsed   us   suitor  by   Anita   insults   tbe 
girl.     Anita's   father  orders  him   from   the  grounds. 


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Anita  rides  away  to  Inform  her  uncle  of  Zetuchia's 
conduct.  Meanwhile  Zetuchia  goes  to  the  Spanish 
headquarters  and  convinces  the  SpanUh  major  that 
Anita's  home  is  the  headquarters  of  the  lnsurrectos. 
Receiving  permission  to  destroy  the  home  he  leaves 
with  a  detachment.  They  kill  the  poor  old  father 
and  mother  and  set  fire  to  the  lovely  borne.  The 
faithful  servant,  Pedro,  puts  np  a  desperate  flght 
with    Zetuchia,    stabbing   him   in   the    hand. 

Changing  his  uniform  again,  Zetuchia  learns  that 
Oapt.  Mario  has  received  a  wound  In  one  hand  and 
is  pursued  to  Major  Ametza's  garden.  Anita  has 
received  a  letter  from  Gen.  Gomez,  In  answer  to 
her  uncle's  request  giving  Mario  a  captain's  com- 
mission if  he  will  fight  for  the  Cuban  cause.  Anita 
gives  the  pursued  Mario  a  Cuban  uniform  and  tells 
tim  to  don  it,  binding  up  his  wounded  hand.  When 
the  Cuban  cavalry,  led  by  Zetuchia,  enter  the  gar- 
den Anita  denies  all  knowledge  of  Mario's  where- 
abouts. Zetuchia  orders  the  house  searched;  Anita 
is  frightened  as  Mario,  refused  to  accept  the  Cuban 
commission  saying  that  he  must  first  resign  his 
captaincy    in   the    Spanish    Army. 

Zetuchla's  men  find  Mario  and  lead  him  forth. 
Anita  slips  the  commission  in  her  lover's  hand  and 
he,  realizing  his  predicament,  hands  tbe  commission 
to  the  Major  who  orders  his  release.  Mario  writes 
his  resignation  to  Gen.  Weyler  and  rides  away  to 
deliver  the  letter.  Pedro  and  Anita's  sister  have 
made  their  way  to  Major  Ametza's  home,  where  they 
tell  the  heart-broken  Anita  and  tbe  major,  of  the 
murder  and  outrage.  Pedro  describes  the  man 
who  led  the  attack  as  one  wearing  a  Spanish  uni- 
form, who  received  a  wound  in  the  hand.  Anita 
believe  Mario  guilty.  Mario  is  ambushed  by  Zet- 
tuchia  and  tied  to  a  tree.  Anita,  in  a  frenzy, 
swears  on  the  crucifix  that  if  he  wil  ldeliver  Capt. 
Mario  to  her  she  will  marry  Zetuchia.  The  latter 
shows  her  the  prisoner.  As  the  Cubans  are  about 
to  take  Mario's  life,  Pedro  saves  him  by  recognizing 
Zetuchia  and  denounces  him  as  the  murderer.  Ze- 
tuchia is  taken  away  to  prison  and  Mario  is  left 
with   bis   love. 

Mario  and  Anita  are  being  married,  when  Ze- 
tuchia, having  escaped  from  his  keepers,  confronts 
the  bridal  party,  and  holding  the  crucifix  before 
the    frightened   girl,    reminds   her   of   her   oath. 

The  priest  tells  them  that  Anita  must  keep  her 
oath  made  on  the  cross.  Anita  bows  her  head,  but 
Pedro,  slips  behind  the  convict  and  stabs  him  to 
death.     Thus   Anita    and  Mario   are   united. 

THE  HONOK  OF  THE  KEGTMENT  (Two  parts, 
May  31). — Jack  and  Frank,  both  captains,  love 
Jane,  the  daughter  of  an  American  general.  Jane 
favors  Jack.  Jack  is  a  dissolute  character,  who 
has  compromised  Mollie.  the  sister  of  a  sergeant 
in  the  regiment.  She  firmly  believes  that  Frank 
will  wed  her.  Her  brother  discovers  Frank's  per- 
fidy and  would  kill  him,  but  is  prevented  by  Jack, 
who  persuades  all  parties  to  keep  silence  for  the 
honor  of  the  regiment.  The  contretemps  are  re- 
sponsible for  Jack's  missing  an  appointment  with 
Jane.  She  is  very  angry  at  his  tardiness,  and 
going  out,  passes  near  the  spot  where  Jack  is  com- 
forting the  miserable  Mollie.  Frank  takes  ad- 
vantage to  point  out  the  compromising  scene  to 
Jane,  who  Is  convinced  that  Jack  is  false,  and  re- 
fuses to  even  say  good-bye.  Mollie  accompanies  her 
brother  to  the  islands  as  a  nurse.  Jack  believes 
Frank's  assertion  that  he  is  engaged  to  Mollie. 
Nlta,  a  native  girl,  Is  rescued  from  insults  by  Mollie 
and  Jack.  The  American  soldiers  are  ambushed  by 
Filipinos.  Jack  prevents  Frank  from  running  away 
and  is  hit  on  the  head  by  the  coward.  Frank  com- 
mands the  troops  to  retreat  in'disorder.  He  escapes 
the  general  slaughter.  He  is  court-martialed,  but 
says  that  Jack  gave  the  odrer  and  is  exonerated, 
while  Jack's  name  1b  dishonored.  Jack  is  found  by 
Mollie,  and  later  Nlta  saves  them.  Jack  is  taken 
to  their  cabin  and  tenderly  nursed  by  Mollie.  His 
mind  is  a  blank.     Her  pity  turns  to  love. 

Jane  hears  of  Jack's  disappearance  and.  heart- 
broken, goes  to  the  Philippines  to  act  as  nurse. 
She  is  told  that  Jack  is  dead,  and  will  have  nothing 
to  do  with  Frank,  who  tries  to  court  her.  The 
sergeant,  Mollie's  brother,  escapes,  and  knowing 
that  he  will  inform  American  headquarters  of  their 
whereabouts,  the  Filipinos  surround  the  Americans. 
Jack  wanders  off,  and  seeing  a  cave  enters  it.  It 
leads  him  through  the  hill  to  the  basin  beyond. 
The  excitement  clears  his  brain  and  memory  re- 
turns. He  reaches  the  troops,  and  leading  them 
through  the  secret  passage,  they  turn  defeat  into 
victory. 

Jack,  wounded,  is  found  unconscious  by  Jane. 
Mollie  finds  them  and  overhearing  Jane's  impas- 
sioned words,  knows  the  truth.  The  sergeant  finds 
them  all  there  and  Frank,  knowing  his  end  is  near, 
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would  have  been  tbere  to  this  day  bad  It  not  been 
tbat  one  of  tbe  waiter  girls  flirted  with  aim.  sue 
led  poor  "Babe"  on,  finally  agreeing  to  meet  him 
at  the  church,  which  be  took  to  be  an  acceptance 
of  bis  matrimonial  proposal.  He  found,  however, 
that  another  man  went  with  ber  to  the  church 
and  was  married  to  her,  It  broke  poor  "Babe's" 
heart  and  he  went  back  to  the  farm  expecting  to 
die.  Hie  father,  however,  forgave  him,  and  set 
him  to  work  which  made  him  very  unhappy. 

"Babe"  was  a  good  hearted  fellow,  and  he  liked 
tbe  restaurant  keeper.  He  was  not  one  of  tbose 
men  who  would  leave  an  employer  In  tbe  lurch, 
and  although  his  heart  was  broken  be  secured  a 
substitute  sandwich  man,  before  he  hit  the  trail 
for  the  farm.  "Babe's"  intentions  were  good,  but 
the  new  living  testimonial  only  held  the  Job  a  few 
minutes.  The  reason  was  that  he  was  a  better 
"before  taking"  ad.  than  as  an  example  of  the 
after  effects  of  food. 

"Babe"  never  left  the  farm  again,  so  he  does  not 
know  how  much  the  restaurant  keeper  bates  him, 
and  he  probably  never  will  know,  for  the  restaurant 
keeper  is  unaware  of  his  address,  although  he  has 
tried  frequently   to  find  him. 

A  BUSINESS  WOMAN  (May  20).— When  a 
wealthy  manufacturer  died,  be  left  all  his  prop- 
erty unreservedly  to  his  widow  and  his  choice  was  a 
good  one.  The  woman  bad  excellent  business  abil- 
ity, ran  her  late  husband's  factory  herself,  and 
year  by   year  made  it  a  better  paying  proposition. 

She  had  two  children,  a  boy  and  a  girl,  and 
they  had  all  the  luxuries  that  they  could  desire. 
Both  graduated  from  college,  returned  home,  and 
calmly  permitted  their  mother  to  struggle  with 
life's  burdens  alone.  More  than  that,  they  were 
not  grateful,  and  were  constantly  lamenting  be- 
cause they  were  "wasting  time"  in  tie  dreary  llttl» 
town  when  they  might  be  leaders  of  business  and 
fashion  In  New  York.  On  numerous  occasions  they 
urged  their  mother  to  let  them  go  out  into  the 
great  world  and  Anally  she  consented,  making  each 
a  liberal  allowance.  The  boy  secured  a  position  In 
Wall  Street,  and  dreamed  of  the  time  when  he 
would  call  J.  P.  Morgan  by  his  first  name.  The 
girl  had  talent  as  an  artist,  engaged  high  priced 
instructors,  and  made  many  friends  of  whom  sbs 
was  extremely  proud. 

Some  months  later,  the  window,  who  bad  been 
engrossed  in  business  awoke  to  realize  that  her 
children  needed  attention.  The  girl  had  a  suitor, 
a  foreign  noblema.i,  «ho,  as  she  said  was„wlllin! 
to  overlook"  the  lack  of  social  position,  The  boy 
bad  become  the  favorite  of  his  employer  and  was 
offered   a   partnership   for   the    trifling   sum  of  *5U.- 

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The  business  woman  was  a  real  business  woman, 
and  her  suspicions  were  aroused.  She  hired  de- 
tectives and  made  investigations.  The  count  was  a 
plebian  barber  and  a  fortune  hunter;  the  busi- 
ness man"  was  a  crook.  The  widow  carefully  col- 
lected evidence,  unmasked  the  barber  and  drove  him 
away  then  communicated  with  the  postal  authori- 
ties and  had  the  satisfaction  of  furnishing  con- 
clusive evidence  of  the  crookedness  of  her  sou  s 
"friend  and  employer,"  after  which  Bhe  told  her 
children  she  was  tired  of  their  foolishness  com- 
pelled them  to  return  to  their  home  town  and  become 
her  aids  at  the  factory.  ,„„„„>, 

If  these  two  young  people  had  had  a  foolish 
mother  they  probably  would  have  been  penniless  be- 
fore many  years.  But  as  she  was  a  business  woman 
she  showed  them  their  errors  and  they  grew  up  to 
be  good  members  of  society. 

IN  THEIK  HOTJK  OF  NEED  (May  23) — Some  of 
the  influential  members  of  a  little  country  church 
were  dissatisfied  with  their  minister.  They  pointed 
out  that  he  was  old  fashioned,  and  growing  more 
and  more  feeble,  forgetting  the  fact  that  he  had 
spent  all  his  life  in  their  service.  The  leaders  got 
the  rest  of  the  congregation  into  line  and  finally  a 
committee  broke  the  news  to  tbe  old  pastor  that 
his  service  was  to  terminate,  "a  young,  active  min- 
ister" having  been  secured  to  replace  blm.  Ibe 
old  man  grieved  bitterly,  but  was  of  too  kind  a 
nature  to  hold  resentment  against  any  man.  He 
greeted  bis  successor  courteously,  admonished  him 
to  take  good  care  of  his  flock,  and  then  wearily 
departed.  A  relative  offered  the  minister  and  his 
daughter  shelter,  but  forced  them  to  work  like 
laborers  on  his  farm,  while  all  the  time  he  took 
credit  to  himself  for  his  self-styled  charity.  Tbe 
minister's  daughter  had  been  engaged  to  the  young 
village  doctor,  but  returned  bis  ring,  telling  him 
that  ber  father  needed  her  undivided  attention. 

The  new  minister  was  a  great  success  in  the  vil- 
lage His  sermons  were  bright  and  snappy,  he 
took  an  active  part  in  the  social  side  of  the  church, 
and  for  a  time  the  general  opinion  was  that  the 
change  made  was  most  successful.  Then  trouble 
came.  The  village  was  smitten  with  cholera,  quar- 
antined, and  practically  became  a  detention  camp. 
The  doctor  stuck  to  his  post  loyally,  the  young 
minister,  in  cowardly  fear,  vanished  during  the 
night.  And  thus  was  the  flock  left  without  a 
shepherd.  It  was  not  for  long,  however,  for  the 
old  minister  in  his  place  of  exile  heard  the  sad 
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pulpit,  and  told  him  that  his  place  was  with  them, 
ngw  and  always.  Tbns  were  bis  latter  days  as 
peaceful  and  happy  as  they  deseired  to  be. 


RELIANCE. 

ATTEE  THE  MASSACRE  (May  17).— Dick  Mnr- 
tln  and  Sue  Brown  are  sweethearts.  With  many 
others  they  start  for  the  Golden  West  In  a  wagon 
train.  Before  leaving,  Dick  presents  Sue  with  a 
locket  with  his  picture  in  it.  He  puts  it  around 
her  neck.  Later  the  wagon  train  is  chased  by 
a  band  of  Indians  and  the  wbole  party  massacred 
except  Dick,  who  Is  left  for  dead,  and  Sue,  who 
is  carried  away  by  Red  Arrow,  the  son  of  the  tribal 
chief.  Dick  rises  from  the  ruins  of  the  wagon 
train.  He  has  been  struck  on  the  head  and  all 
memory  of  the  past  is  gone.  He  wanders  away 
on  the  prairie  and  finally  falls  unconscinus.  He  is 
picked  up  by  a  couple  of  cowboys  who  take  bim 
to  a  round-up  camp  where  he  Is  treated  kindlv. 

Meanwhile.  Sue  has  been  taken  to  the  Indian 
village.  Red  Arrow,  her  captor,  is  beloved  bv  the 
Indian  maid.  White  Fawn,  but  be  has  no  further 
use  for  her  now  that  be  has  seen  Sue.  He  demands 
of  the  chief  that  Sue  become  his  squaw.  The  old 
chief  consents.  Sue  is  indignant.  Red  Arrow  sees 
the  locket  Dick  has  given  her  banging  from 
Sne's  neck.  He  appropriates  it  to  himself  and 
lianss  It  around  his  neck.  He  then  tells  White 
Fawn  to  keep  Sue  a  prisoner  until  she  consents  to 
be  bis  squaw.  Boti  girls  are  indignant,  but  White 
Fawn    dare    not    refuse. 

A  few  days  pass.  The  girls  have  become  great 
friends.  One  day,  the  Indiana  learn  that  a  large 
party  of  pale-faces  are  within  a  few  miles.  Red 
Arrow  is  sent  in  the  guise  of  a  friendlv  Indian  to 
learn  how  strong  they  are.  He  goes  to  the  round- 
up camp  and  begs  for  food,  which  is  given  bim. 
Meanwhile,  be  Is  sizing  up  the  camp  and  sees 
there  are  too  many  whites  for  the  Indians  to  safely 
attack. 

As  he  is  leaving,  the  chain  of  the  locket  be- 
comes broken  and  it  falls  to  the  ground.  Dick,  still 
mentally  unsound.  Is  standing  near  and  sees  it 
fall  as  Red  Arrow  strides  away.  He  picks  it  up 
and  recognizes  It.  Unknown  to  the  cowboys,  he 
follows  Red  Arrow  to  the  Indian  village.  As  he 
is  gazing  down  at  It  from  a  near  bluff,  he  sees 
Sue  among  the  tepees.  His  memorv  comes  back. 
He   realizes    that   he   cannot   rescue   her  alone. 

Wnlle  crouching  there.  White  Fawn,  who  has 
been  catching  a  stray  pony,  almost  stumbles  over 
him.  He  fears  she  will  betray  him,  but  she  re- 
assures him.  She  sees  the  locket  In  his  hand  and 
recognizes  it  as  the  one  Red  Arrow  has  taken  from 
Sue. 

She  offers  her  horse  and  tells  Dick  to  ride  to 
the  round-up  camp  and  bring  help  to  rescue  his 
Bweetheart.  He  hastily  writes  a  note  to  Sue. 
gives  It  to  White  Fawn  and  rides  awav.  White 
Fawn  takes  the  note  to  Sue,  who  is  overjoyed. 
Bed  Arrow  becomes  suspicious  of  the  two  girls' 
actions,  and  says  that  the  next  day  he  will  take 
them  far  away  where  no  one  can  find  them  At 
dawn  the  next  morning,  White  Fawn  and  Sue 
steal  from  the  tepees  and  ride  away.  Tbev  are 
seen  by  the  Indians  who  Immediately  give  chase 
Meanwhile,  Dick  has  reached  the  round  up  camp 
and  notified  the  cowboys.  They  start  out  to  res- 
cue Sue.  They  soon  sight  the  girls  pursued  by 
the  Indians  and  there  Is  soon  a  running  fight. 
Red  Arrow  is  slain  and  Dick  goes  after  the  girls 
who  have  veered  to  one  side.  The  Indians  are 
put  to  Bight  and  the  triumphant  cowboys  return 
to  shore  where  they  are  met  by  Dick  and  the  girls 
and    all    safely    return   to    the   round-up   camp. 

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marry  Sir  Hsrcourt  Courtly,  an  elderlv  fop.  She 
meets  and  falls  in  love  with  this  gentleman's  son 
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combined   thanks   of    the    happy    pair. 

EARLY  OKLAHOMA  May  21).—  In  the  early 
days  of  Oklahoma,  Joe  Turner,  his  wife  and  two 
children  settled  on  a  little  farm  in  the  southern 
part  of  the  state.  The  hardships  were  many  as 
the  ground  was  new  aud  the  Indians  still  aggres- 
sive and  heartily  detested  the  white  man.  Joe 
Turner's  wife  was  a  particularly  attractive  wonun 
and  one  day,  while  Joe  was  away  plowing,  Crazy 
Bear  came  to  the  house  and  tried  to  make  lore  to 
her.  Joe  suddenly  arrived  upon  the  scene  and 
promptly  kicked  Crazy  Bear  off  the  place.  The 
half-breed's  enmity  was  aroused  and  going  to  an 
Indian  village  a  few  miles  distant  he  Incited  the 
Indians  towards  the  whites  by  giving  them  hfs  cwja 
version  of  the  affair  and  filling  them  with  wjlsk.-y. 

The  following  morning,  when  Joe  was  in  the 
fields,  Emma  sent  the  children  out  into  the  fields 
to  play,  A  few  hours  later  a  rancher  rode  frantic- 
ally up  to  Joe  and  told  him  the  Indians  wore  min- 
ing. Joe  hurried  to  the  house  and  ordered  E'r.ma 
to  get  the  children  and  jump  Into  the  wagon  to  ride 
to  safety.  Emma  searched  for  the  little  ones,  but 
they  could  not  be  found.  The  Indians  came  in 
sight  of  the  house  and  Joe  was  forced  to  put 
Emma  into  the  wagon,  and,  giving  the  horses  a 
cut  with  the  whip,  shouted  to  her  to  "ride  for  her 
life  and  find  the  rangers — that  he  would  stay  end 
try  to  protect  the  children."  Emma  rode  desper- 
ately out  upon  the  prairie.  Crazy  Bear  and  his 
Indians  came  along.  They  saw  the  galloping  team, 
so  Crazy  sent  part  of  the  Indians  after  the  wagon 
while  the  rest  went  to  Turner's  house.  Joe  hid 
In  a  nearby  woods,  but  the  Indians  caught  sight  of 
him.  He  took  refuge  in  a  big  tree.  For  hours  he 
held  them  at  bay.  Meanwhile  the  children  neiird 
the  firing  and  ran  to  the  house.  When  they  came 
near  it  they  saw  the  Indians  and  bid  in  the  prairie 
grass.  Crazy  Bear  also  saw  them  and  in  his 
frenzy  had  the  Indians  set  fire  to  the  prairie.  The 
children  were  panic  stricken  and  started  to  run. 
Crazy  Bear  started  after  them.  In  his  path  was  a 
bear  trap  which  Joe  had  set  the  night  before. 
Stepping  into  it.  Crazy  Bear  was  consumed  by  the 
flames.  To  escape  the  fire  and  the  Indians,  the 
children  hid  in  an  old  well  which  was  hidden  by 
the    tall  grass. 

Meanwhile,  Emma  was  making  a  desperate  ride 
to  find  the  rangers.  At  last  ehe  came  upon  them. 
She  told  her  story  and  they  started  on  the  hack 
trail.  When  they  arrived  at  the  house,  they  found 
the  prairie  a  mass  of  flames.  The  rangers  put  the 
Indians  to  Sight  and  rescued  Joe.  Together  he  and 
Emma  watched  the  devastating  fire  feeling  sure 
that  the  children  had  either  been  killed  by  the 
Indians  or  burnt  in  the  fire.  After  the  fire,  tl-ey 
searched  the  smoking  stubble  for  what  they  feared 
to  find.  They  stumbled  over  the  charred  remains 
of  Crazy  Bear  and  as  they  hopelessly  reached  the 
old  well  the  two  little  girls  glanced  cautiously  out 
and  were  at  once  seized  in  the  embrace  of  their 
anxious    parents. 


MAJESTIC. 

THE  RIVALS  OUTWITTED  (May  18).— A  very 
stout  lady  and  a  very  thin  one,  living  in  the  same 
boarding  house,  are  both  very  much  in  love  with 
Jim,  the  star  boarder.  He  Is  secretly  engaged  to 
Ethel  Phillips,  who  keeps  a  physical  culture  school. 
In  order  to  create  more  business  for  Ethel,  Jim 
hands  the  two  ladles  her  card.  The  fat  woman  de- 
cides to  take  lessons  at  once,  thinking  Jim  would 
love  her  if  she  were  thin;  and  the  slim  lady  also 
decides  to  take  lessons  that  she  may  become  plump 
and  thus  win  Jim's  love.  In  the  school  many 
amusing  incidents  happen — for  the  rivals  always 
manage  to  get  in  each  other's  way.  Ethel  thor- 
oughly enjoys  It  all  having  been  let  into  the  joke 
by  Jim.  On  exhibition  day,  the  star  performance 
Is  a  fencing  bout  between  the  rivals  in  which  each 
tries  to  kill  the  other.  Later,  they  hurry  to  dress 
so  as  to  be  the  one  escorted  home  by  Jim,  but 
when  they  get  downstairs  they  see  him  walking 
off  with  Ethel.  Realizing  the  hopelessness  of  their 
love  they  fall  Into  each  other's  arms  In  despair. 

OYSTERS  (May  18).— On  the  same  reel  is  an 
interesting  and  instructive  subject  dealing  with  the 
succulent    bl -valve. 

SHEP,  THE  HERO  (May  20). — Lass  and  her  six 
little  puppies  are  lying  near  the  kennel  upon  the 
suburban  estate  of  Mr.  Jameson,  the  wealthy  New 
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about  the  estate  accompanied  by  her  six  months' 
old  baby  and  its  nurse.  She  stops  aud  speaks  kindly 
to  Lass  and  her  little  family.  Picking  up  one  of 
the  little  dogs,  she  playfully  puts  It  in  the  carriage 
with  the  baby  and  petting  the  little  animal,  re- 
turns it  to  its  mother.  She  continues  upon  her 
walk.  This  same  little  puppy  strays  away  from 
its  little  brothers  anl  sisters  and  reaching  the  rail- 
road tracks,  It  wanders  into  the  next  village, 
where  it  is  met  by  a  crowd  of  youngsters  that  are 
gathered  about  the  station.  They  playfully  abuse 
the  little  animal. 

Old  Mr.  Gladwin,  who  has  a  one  horse  cab  and 
who  depends  upon  the  commuter  for  his  livelihood, 
sees  the  boys  Ill-treating  the  dog  and  quickly  res- 
cues it.  Finding  that  it  belongs  to  po  one,  he 
takes  it  home,  first  consulting  bis  horse  which 
shows  that  be  approves  of  the  dog's  intrusion  into 
their  home.  The  dog,  now  known  as  Step,  soon 
becomes  fast  friends  with  Mr.  Criadwin  a-il  Ms 
horse,  John,  and  the  three  are  inseparable  com- 
panions. 

Three  years  pass  and  a  change  has  taken  place 
in  the  hacking  business,  owing  to  the  -Icmand  for 
automobiles.  Gladwin  finds  it  almost  impossible  to 
get  a  fare.  He  is  soon  reduced  in  circumstances 
and  at  times  deprives  himself  of  food.  Before  long 
he  breaks  down.  One  evening,  while  waiting  for 
a  train  he  faints  while  sitting  on  the  box  of  his 
hack.  During  his  following  illness  Shep  is 
constantly  at  bis  bedside.  He  runs  to  the  drug 
store  and  brings  medicine  for  the  man.  On  one 
of  these  trips  be  comes  upon  a  child  who  has 
falles  on  the  track  and  Is  stunned.  Unable  to 
move  her  body  and  seeing  the  train  in  the  distance, 
he  runs  madly  towards  It  barking,  causing  the  train 
to  stop  and  the  trainmen  and  passengers  to  alight 
to  ascertain  the  reason  of  the  barking.  They  fol- 
low him  to  the  child.  Mr.  Jameson  recognizes  the 
little  girl  as  his  own  and  takes  her  home  after 
inquiring  about  the  dog  and  its  master.  The  train- 
man knowing  Shep  gives  him  the  information.  He 
visits  the  old  man  and  offers  him  medical  aid  and 
a  position  on  the  estate  in  reward  for  the  dog's 
act.  Gladwin  accepts  on  condition  that  he  may 
take  both  dog  and  horse  with  him.  Jameson  con- 
sents to  this  and  the  three  move  upon  the  estate, 
where  Shep,  unknown  to  the  household,  meets  his 
mother  and  the  old  horse  is  given  a  place  in  one 
of  the  best  stalls  of  the  barn.  Mr.  Gladwin  Is 
soon  well  and  happy  in  his  new  position  with  his 
two  animal   friends. 


Paris,  France. — "Bayonnala"  beats  "UnlYenltalrea" 
by    the   score   of   31    to   s  at   rugby   football. 

New   York    City. — Great    Woman    Suffrage    Parade 
up    Fifth    Avenue. 

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MUTUAL      WEEKLY,       NO.       19       (May       17).— 
New  York  City. — The  anual  French  Bulldog  Show, 
at  the  Hotel  Astor. 

Granada,  Spain. — King  Alfonso  viewing  the  mar- 
vels of  Arabian  architecture. 

Leavenworth,  Kan. — The  burning  of  the  Lansing 
prison   workshops  and   storehouses. 

Haokensack.  N.  J — 3.000  Boy  Scouts  take  part 
in  a  sham  battle  under  Majors  Wurtz  and  Sticht. 

San  Francisco,  Cal — All  that  remains  of  the 
man-of-war  "Pensacola"  after  being  raided  by 
junk  dealers  in   the  Bay  of  San   Francisco. 

The    Fashion    in    New    York    and    Paris. 

New  York  City — 3,000  carriers  attend  the  ser- 
vice at  the  Cathedral,  to  honor  dead  postmen. 

Washington,  D.  0.— Mr.  E.  Reid  trying  out  a 
new  gyro  aero-boat. 

Athens,  Greece. — Funeral  of  King  George  of 
Greece,  who  was  murdered  after  his  triumphant 
entry   into  Salonica. 

Baltimore.  Md. — Miss  Wilson,  daughter  of  the 
President,  attends  the  federation  of  the  Women's 
Clubs. 

Luneville,  France.— The  German  war  dirigible 
"Zeppelin  IV"  lands  by  mistake  amid  French  sol- 
diers maneuvering.  Owing  to  the  courtesy  of  the 
French  authorities,  the  Zeppelin  is  allowed  to  re- 
turn to  Germany. 

Los    Angeles,    Cal. — Feeding    young    alligators. 

Canton,  Ohio — J100.000  fire  destrovs  three  large 
buildings,  and  threatens  the  oil  tanks  of  the  Stand- 
ard   Oil    Company. 

Horley,    England. — A   new    way   of   ploughing. 

New  Orleans,  La. — Anxious  citizens  rush  the 
building  of  a  jetty  in  fear  of  impending  floods. 

Paris,  France.— His  Majesty,  Gustave  V.  King  of 
Sweden,    dedicating   the  Swedish   Church. 

Lawrenceburg,  Ind. — The  wreck  of  the  B.  &  O. 
bridge  across  the  Miami   River. 

Chicago,  111.— H.  H.  Doxstater  and  C.  M.  Kron. 
who  are  hiking  from  Santa  Cruz,  Cal.,  to  Atlantic 
City,    X.   J.,  passing  through  Chicago. 

Hamburg,  Germany. — Launching  of  the  Trans- 
Atlantic  steamer   "Vaterland." 

Honolulu. — Pearl     Harbor    and     gigantic    drydock 
before   Its   destruction.      After    the    catastrophe. 
The.    Fashion    in    New    York    and    Paris. 

New  York  City. — The  bicycle  team  which  will 
make  the  trip  from   New   York  to  San   Francisco. 

Russia.— The  first  Russian  lady  aviator  going  to 
the  aviatlo:i    grounds. 

Belmont  Park,  L.  I. — The  Meadow  Brook  Steeple- 
chase. 


KAY-BEE. 

A    CHILD    OF    WAR    (2    parts— May    30) John 

Judson,  a  blacksmith,  lias  a  tearful  parting  with  his 
wife  and  daughter.  Mary,  before  he  leaves  to  en- 
list in  a  regiment  of  the  Union  cavalry.  During 
the  battle  Mrs.  Judson.  Mary  and  their  servant. 
Black,  put  their  goods  Into  a  wagon  and  ride  away 
from  the  scene  of  action.  Unknown  to  the  mother 
or  the  servant,  Mary,  who  has  been  riding  on  the 
tailboard  of  the  wagon,  jumps  off  and  runs  after 
the  doll  she  has  dropped,  and  is  lost.  Nightfall 
brings  a  cessation  of  the  hostilities  between  the 
Unions  and  Confederates,  aud  Judson  is  placed  on 
guard.  He  hears  a  noise,  and  receiving  no  an- 
swer to  his  challenge,  fires.  A  cry  of  pain  rents 
the  air,  and,  going  in  the  direction  from  whence 
it  comes,  finds  that  he  has  shot  his  child,  who  has 
wandered  into  the  bushes.  He  deserts  his  post 
and  brings  the  child  to  his  wife,  who,  like  the 
other  residents,  has  returned  to  the  village,  their 
confidence  having  been  restored  by  the  strength  of 
the  Union  troops.  The  child's  wound  is  dressed 
and  upon  Judson's  reappearance  at  his  post,  he  is 
court-martialed  and  sentenced  to  be  shot  in  the 
morning. 

Mrs.  Judson,  accompanied  by  Mary,  goes  to  the 
Colonel  to  plead  for  the  life  of  her  husband.  The 
orderly  will  not  admit  her,  and  while  he  is  trying 
to  calm  the  distracted  woman  Mary  passes  him  and 
enters  the  room  where  the  officers  are  in  consulta- 
tion. The  eloquence  of  the  lisping  voice  is  more 
powerful  than  the  tears  of  a  frantic  wife,  and  the 
Colonel's  heart  melts,  and  he  lays  aside  the  ques- 
tions of  tomorrow's  battle  to  listen  to  the  child. 
Judson  is  pardoned  and  restored  to  the  ranks. 


AMERICAN. 

OK  THE  BORDER  (May  29).— Chiquita  danced 
merrily  to  the  sound  of  her  tamboureen  and  the 
soft  twanging  of  guitars.  The  dance  finished,  a 
rippling  clapping  of  hands  greeted  the  perform- 
ance. 

Bill  Reeves,  a  handsome  cowboy,  fresh  from  the 
range,  applauded  with  extraordinary  fervor  and  then 
called  the  matron.  An  introduction  followed  and 
between  Intermissions,  the  young  couple  chatted 
gaily. 

But  tragedy  hovered  over  them.  Pedro,  the 
dark-skinned  Mexican  waiter,  nursed  a  hatred  of 
all  "gringoes"  and  a  deep  love  for  the  gentle 
Ohiquita.  As  he  passed  to  and  fro  beside  the  table, 
his  eyes  glittered  with  hatred  and  he  swore  an 
oath  that  handsome  ranger  should  not  have  his 
Chiquita. 

In  the  days  that  followed,  Reeves  was  a  daily 
visitor  at  the  Mexican  cafe.  Love  sprang  up  be- 
tween them  and  blossomed  rapidly.  One  night 
Pedro  traced  them  home  and  witnessed  the  good- 
night kiss.  The  next  day  Pedro  plotted.  A  bottle 
of  poison,  carefully  tucked  into  his  sash,  was  poured 
into  Reeves's  drink.  Then,  panlc-strickei  he  sneak- 
ed down  an  alley,  chattering  with  fear.  The  hand 
of  fate  held  Reeves  in  its  grasp.  Only  the  con- 
tinued dancing  of  Ohiquita  prevented  the  draining 
of  his  glass.  And  then  she  came  and  sat  beside 
him,  and  he,  forgetful  of  everything,  even  forgot 
to  drink. 

The  keen-eyed  sheriff,  strolling  leisurely  about, 
spied  the  slinking  Pedro.  On  his  knees  fell  the 
craven  wretch  until  the  sheriff  jerked  him  to  his 
feet  and  rushed  him  to  the  cafe.  And  then 
Reeves,  with  cup  raised  to  drink  Chiquita's  health, 
was  stunned  into  speechlessness  by  having  the  cop 
dashed   from   his   hand. 

HER  BIG  STORY  (May  31).— Beatrice  Nevln. 
the  "Union's"  utility  woman,  did  "space"  writing 
for  a  living  which  is  another  way  of  saying  that 
Beatrice  was  very  poor. 

Joel  Hammond,  the  business  managing  editor. 
grew  very  fond  of  Beatrice  for  he  was  a  bachelor 
and  a  much  abused  newspaper  man.  The  owner 
of  the  "Union"  was  a  mysterious  personage  whom 
the  staff  discussed  in  whispers.  Beatrice  then  was 
seized  with  a  mania  to  pry  into  the  city  affairs, 
of  the*  "boss"  and  see  what  story  she  might  un- 
cover. 

From  then  on  she  shadowed  the  mayor  and  neg- 
lected her  regular  work,  and  one  day  when  Joel 
could  no  longer  stand  her  charming  beauty,  he 
kissed  her  and  they  plighted  their  troth  then  and 
there,  although  Joel,  as  managing  editor  warned 
her  not   to  go   too   far  on   the   Big   Story. 

One  day  the  mysterious  boss,  George  Huestiss. 
owner  of  the  "Union"  motored  to  the  mayor's 
home.  Later,  with  Beatrice  hot  on  the  trail,  the 
mayor  came  out  with  Huestiss  and  they  dismissed 
the  chauffeur.  This  aroused  Beatrice's  suspicions 
and  climbing  through  a  window,  found  herself  in 
the  deserted  library  of  the  mayor's  home.  There 
she  found  the  papers  which  revealed  the  big  story 
and  there  she  heard  foot  steps  which  sent  her 
scurrying  behind  the  curtains.  A  moment  later 
Huestiss  and  the  mayor  entered.  Not  finding  the 
papers  they  grew  excited  and  in  the  search  dis- 
covered Beatrice.  Then  she  made  her  mistake, 
telling  them  that  she  had  the  story  and  that  the 
Union  that  night  would  print  it.  They  laughed  at 
her  and  Huestiss  discharged  her  on  the  spot.  The 
mayor  attempted  to  grab  her,  but,  emdlng  him,  she 


bowled  him  over  with  a  statuette  and  fled  through 
the   window. 

Back  she  raced  to  the  office  and  hammered  out 
her  story.  Then  she  took  it  in  to  her  sweetheart, 
Joel  and  he  read  it  with  a  frown  and  tried  to  tear 
it  up.  Then  Huestiss  entered  and  ordered  Joel  to 
destroy  the  story.  But  Joel,  seeing  his  sweetheart's 
waning  faith  in  him,  threw  all  to  the  winds  and 
resigned.  The  opposition  paper  that  night  carried 
the  "Big  Story"  and  Joel  crept  through  dark 
alleyways  to  the  dreary  rooms  of  Beatrice.  Love 
settled    the    editorial    difference    of    opinion. 

ASHES  OF  THREE  (2  parts,  May  26).— Bud  Hal- 
worth  was  a  stupid,  sullen  and  brainless  man,  de- 
spised by  the  villagers.  He  knew  no  father  and 
had  an  indifferent  mother.  A  short  distance  from 
the  cabin  where  lived  this  youth,  resided  an  in- 
telligent, manly  boy  named  Ed,  with  his  mother. 
On  the  breast  of  this  youth  was  pinned  the  star  of 
a  sheriff,  and  away  he  went  into  the  woods  to  hunt 
a  "terror"  who  had  been  killing  people  and  de- 
stroying property  for  weeks  past.  But  not  long 
after  his  departure  he  was  brought  back  with  a 
bullet  hole  through  his  heart.  That  afternoon  the 
mother  of  Bud  Halworth  died,  but  the  boy  was 
too  dull  to  realize  the  significance  of  her  death. 
The  death  of  Ed  had  played  so  much  upon  the  mind 
of  his  mother  that  she  was  just  about  to  throw 
herself  over  a  precipice  when  she  was  caught  by 
Bud,  who  had  followed.  In  the  following  days  she 
began  to  love  Bud  with  a  mother's  love,  which 
brought  a  perceptible  change  in  him.  One  day  he 
rose  quickly  from  the  door-step  on  which  he  was 
sitting  and  ran  into  town,  where  he  heard  news  of 
the  "terror."  Seizing  the  guns  from  the  sheriff's 
belt,  he  bolted  into  the  woods,  pounced  down  with 
terrific  force  upon  the  "terror,"  bound  him  and 
brought  him  into  town.  The  sheriff  pinned  the 
star  upon  his  breast  and  he  ran  home  to  show  it 
to  his  "mother."  This  brought  vagne  memories  to 
the  shattered  woman's  mind  of  her  dead  son,  and 
she  fell  dead.  When  they  had  buried  her,  the  vil- 
lagers saw,  silhouetted  against  the  setting  sun  the 
beautiful  form  of  Bud  Halworth,  despised  among 
men,  standing  at  the  brow  of  the  dangerous  preci- 
pice. The  stoop  of  his  shoulders  was  gone — fire 
had  come  into  the  big,  handsome  eyes — a  new 
being  had  been  born — from  the  ashes  of  three — a 
man  was  made. 


KEYSTONE. 

TOPLITSKY  4  CO.  (May  26).— Oi!  Oi.'  Such  a 
business  I  Toplitsky  has  a  wife.  He  also  has  a 
partner,  and  he  believes  tbat  the  partner  is  casting 
glances  at  his  wife,  not  consistent  with  the  terms 
of  a  business  partnership.  The  jealous  husband 
snoops  around  and  finally  convinces  himself  that 
he  has  grounds  for  a  divorce.  He  sends  for  his 
lawyers,  and  a  conference  Is  held.  The  partner, 
while  out  walking,  comes  face  to  face  with  a  bear. 
Evidently  recognizing  tie  fact  tbat  the  man  is 
hungering  for  affection,  the  bear  makes  a  lunge 
for  him.  The  man  runs  for  his  "life,  with  the  bear 
in  hot  pursuit.  Hard  pressed,  he  sees  a  window 
open,  and  jumps  through  it,  finding  himself  In  a 
bedroom,  and  he  dives  nnder  the  bed.  where  he  lies, 
exhausted  and  trembling  with  fear.  The  lawyers 
have  been  acting  as  peace-makers  with  their  client, 
and  they  have  finally  convinced  him  that  he  should 
forgive  his  wife.  With  his  heart  overflowing  with 
forgiveness  and  love.  Toplitsky.  followed  by  his 
legal  advisers,  goes  to  his  wife's  room  to  apprise 
her  of  the  change  in  his  mind,  and  there  finds  the 
object  of  all  his  woe — under  his  wife's  bed.  After 
the  battle  has  subsided,  the  partnership  is  dissolved. 

THE  GANGSTERS  (Hay  89).— An  amusing  bur- 
lesque of  gang  fighters.  The  police  go  after  them, 
one  hy  one.  and  each  guardian  of  the  peace  Is  caught 
and  despoiled  of  his  clothing  and  compelled  to  re- 
turn to  the  station.  The  police  put  a  dummy  officer 
on  a  plank  extending  out  Into  the  water,  and  when 
the  gangsters  go  after  him  the  live  police  close 
In  on  them  and  a  battle  royal  takes  place  In  the 
water. 


BRONCHO. 

THE  DRUMMER  OF  THE  EIGHTH  (2  Parts- 
May  28). — The  Durands  and  Browns  are  neighbors. 
Jack  Dnrand  at -i  Hetty  Brown  are  sweethearts,  and 
Billy  Dnrand  and  Mildred  Brown,  the  voung  brother 
and  sister  of  the  lovers,  enjoy  the  romance.  In  the 
spring  of  1S61  the  war  clouds  are  sathering.  Jack 
enlists  in  the  Northern  army,  and  Billy  is  broken- 
hearted  because  he  cannot  fcccomnany  his  big 
brother.  lie  has  become  quite  an  expert  drummer, 
and  when  the  troops  leave  town  he  runs  away  and 
Joins  them  as  a  drummer  boy,  under  an  assinn -d 
name.  .Tack  receives  word  of  his  brother's  enlist 
ment.  and  endeavors  to  find  him.  but  two  years 
elapse,  and  he  gets  no  trace  of  Billy,  a  terrlti.- 
battle  takes  place.  Billy  is  captured  by  the  Con- 
fed,  rates,  and  the  setting  sun  brings  about  a  ces- 
sation of  hostilities.  Billy  makes  his  escape  from 
the  guards,  and  dashes  away  with  bullets  whistling 
about  his  head.  He  is  slightly  wounded,  and  Is 
forced  to  take  refuge  In  the  house  where  the  Con- 
federate officers  are  discussing  th?  plans  for  the 
following  day's  battle,  and,  concealed  In  a  trunk, 
he  keeps  both  ears  open.  At  midnight  the  con- 
ference ends,  and  Blllv,  after  many  narrow  es- 
capes,   makes  his  way  back   to   the   Union   quarters. 

Billy  reports  to  the  Colonel  that  the  Confederates 
would  attack  the  Union  right  wing  in  full  force 
at  dawn.  The  Confederate  guards  had  reported  to 
the  Colonel,  however,  the  sturv  of  th.-  elusive 
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spy  bad  overheard  their  plans,  It  is  decided  to  at- 
tack the  left  wing  Instead  of  the  right,  as  originally 
outlined.  The  right  wing  of  the  Union  army  is 
strengthened,  and  at  dawn  the  left  wiug  Is  sur- 
prised by  a  sharp  attack  and  half  the  Northern 
soldiers  are  killed  in  a  terrible  battle.  Jack  si- 
cures  a  leave  of  absence  and  goes  home.  Billy  Is 
taken  sick,  and  writes  to  his  mother  that  his  regi- 
ment la  leaving  for  his  home  town,  and  asking  her 
to  watch  for  him.  Tho  family  are  overjoyed  to  hear 
from  Billy,  and  anxiously  awaits  the  arrival  of  the 
regiment.  Great  preparations  are  made  to  receive 
tbe  little'  hero,  and  mother  cooks  Billy's  favorite 
cakes.  Tiie  regiment  arrives,  and  Billy  is  carried 
to  bis  mother's  home  by  a  squad  of  soldiers,  who 
reverently  lay  the  casket  In  which  the  l>oy  lies, 
and  force  back  the  lumps  in  their  throats  at  the 
grief  of  ;he  mother — for  Billy  has  died. 


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GAUMONT. 

GAUMONT  WEEKLY,  NO.  62  (May  14),— Motor 
Boats  vs.  Aeroplanes. — Exciting  contest  at  Monte 
Carlo  results  in  disaster  to  air  machines. 

Secretary  Bryan  in  San  Francisco. — Famous  Amer- 
ican statesman  breaks  ground  for  Agricultural 
Building   at   Panama-Pacific    Exposition. 

The  Fall  of  Adxiianople. — Turkish  city,  after 
months  of  siege,   capitulates  to  Servians. 

International  Bicycle  Bace. — One  hundred  mile 
contest  at  Berlin  Is  won  by  Belgian.  Vanderstuyft. 

A  Duel  in  Chicago. — Windy  City  firemen  have  ex- 
citing fire  hose  contest. 

Hata  from  Paris. — Malson  Royale  sends  as  Inter- 
esting pictures  of  the  latest  in  headgear. 

New  Cruiser  Launched. — The  latest  addition  to 
the  French  navy  is  a  marvel  of  rapid  construction. 

Civic  Pride  in  the  West. — San  Francisco  holds 
enthusiastic  meeting,  and  decided  to  beautify  all 
her  parks. 

What  a  Watermain  Did. — Over  pressure  In  San 
Francisco  causes  explosion  which  does  great  damage. 

Famous  Roumanian  Dies. — Prince  Cantacuzene, 
President  of  the  Senate,  Is  burled  at  Bucarest. 

North  Yakima  Blossom  Festival. — Washington 
fruit  city  celebrates  with  its  annual  flower  carnival. 

Carl  Schurz. — Splendid  bronze  statue  of  famous 
German-American  is  unveiled. 

IN  THE  WAKE  OF  THE  BRAIN  8T0BM  (May 
13). — The  Marquis  of  Dartmouth,  spending  an  idle 
hour  in  a  motion  picture  treater,  is  startled  to  see 
on  the  screen,  walking  with  a  man,  a  woman  who 
amazingly  resembles  his  wife.  Their  attitude  is 
affectionate,   to  say  the  least. 

Wild  with  jealousy,  he  purchases  a  copy  of  the 
film  to  reassure  himself  that  it  cannot  be  she.  The 
film,   however,   shows  what  he  did  not  want  to  see. 

Returning  to  his  country  estate,  he  watches  his 
wife  closely.  There  is  nothing  to  confirm  his  sus- 
picions. 

Obsessed  with  Jealousy,  the  marquis  waits  for 
something  to  substantiate  the  evidence  of  the  film. 
His  wife  one  day  happens  to  leave  on  her  desk  this 
■  note:  "My  dear  Helen: — I  have  paid  bitterly  for  the 
past.  I  beg  you  not  to  refuse  to  see  the  'exile,' 
who  Is  doe  to  arrive  at  Bedda  Station  at  4:30.  You 
know  I  love  you.     Roger." 

The  marquis,  Infuriated,  restrains  himself  with 
difficulty. 

The  Jealous  man  had  heard  his  wife  give  the  order 
for  the  carriage  to  be  brought.  Quickly  the  marquis 
goes  outside,  where  the  horses  are  standing  im- 
patiently. Under  the  harness  of  one  animal  he 
allps  several  matches,  which  he  calculates  at  a  later 
moment  will  explode  and  cause  him  to  run  amuck. 
After  bis  wife  had  gone,  the  marquis  Is  stricken 
with  remorse.  As  he  Is  trying  to  still  his  con- 
science, he  is  visited  by  the  man  whom  he  had 
seen  with  her  on  the  film.  It  was  her  brother,  who, 
because  of  some  boyish  indiscretion,  had  been  re- 
nounced by  his  family,  excepting  only  his  sister, 
who  had  retained  her  kindness  and  affection  for  him. 

Realizing  the  enormity  of  his  crime  the  dis- 
tracted marquis  dashes  off  on  his  horse  in  pursuit 
of  his  wife. 

Meanwhile,  the  horse,  frightened,  had  dashed  off 
madly.  Despite  the  efforts  to  control  him  and  his 
mate,  they  plunge  on  toward  a  high  precipice.  The 
coachman  is  thrown  out.  The  carriage  overturns, 
the  marchioness  thrown  under  the  wheels.  Here, 
with  but  a  faint  spark  of  life  remaining,  she  is 
found  by  her  conscience-stricken  husband.  She  re- 
covers to  forgive  him   for  his  act  of  Insanity. 


the  lustfulness  of  the  Oriental.  It  Is  part  of 
Hadji's  duties  to  take  care  of  the  lion  which 
Kever  uses  in  his  picture. 

Rever  and  Lady  Wilson  are  happy  in  the  posses- 
sion of  each  other's  love,  and  finally  Rever  asks 
Lord  Wilson's  consent  to  his  marriage  with  his 
daughter.  Tbe  proud  old  nobleman  refuses  his 
consent,   and  the  lovers  are  parted. 

In  the  meantime  Hadji  becomes  more  and  more 
Jealous  of  his  master.  At  last  he  decides  to  put 
into  execution  tbe  wild  plan  that  has  frequently 
occurred  to  him.  He  lets  tbe  lion  loose  upon  bis 
master,  and  then  listens  with  Joy  to  the  sounds 
of  the  dreadful  struggle  which  follows.  Having 
felled  its  prey,  the  lion  is  attracted  by  the  Blight 
noise  which  Hadji  makes,  and  It  turns  upon  him. 
Hadjl  has  played  with  the  fire,  and  Is  now  power- 
less to  defend  himself  against  the  onslaughts  of 
the  Infuriated  beast.  Thus  he  pays  the  penalty 
of  his  jealous  crime  with  bis  life.  In  due  course 
Revere's  picture  secures  for  him  great  fame.  He 
gradually  recovers  from  his  injuries,  and  now 
that  he  is  a  famous  man,  Lord  Wilson  consents  to 
his  marriage  with  his  daughter. 


comes  to  the  steps  of  a  church  and  there  accosts 
an  acquaintance.  As  she  stands  there,  with  the 
Bible  in  her  hands,  there  pass  in,  one  at  a  time 
into  the  chursh,  Bill  Briggs,  Tom  Rainey,  John 
Ferguson,  Mary  demons  and  her  child,  Charles 
Michael  Brown,  who  pauses  on  the  steps,  then  re- 
moves his  helmet  and  enters.  Miss  Handy  wishes 
her  friend  farewell  and  with  a  bright  smile,  follows 
them. 


LUX. 

PLAYING  WITH  THE  FLUE  (May  23).— Harry 
Rever,  a  young  artist,  searches  In  vain  for  a 
suitable  model  for  a  picture  which  be  is  painting. 
He  meets  Lady  Wilson,  and  she  consents  to  sit 
as  a  model.  Two  months  pass  happily,  and  the 
picture  nears  completion.  Meanwhile  a  great  love 
has  been  awakened  In  the  hearts  of  the  young 
artist  and  his  fair  young  model.  Hadji,  Rever's 
Hindoo  servant,  has  also  conceived  a  wild  passion 
for  the   white   woman — a    passion    tainted   with    all 


SOLAX. 

THE  HENPECKED  BTTRGLAK  (May  28).— Hen- 
pecked, an  undersized  man,  decides  to  take  his  big 
strong  wife  to  the  theater.  So  he  buys  two  tickets 
from  tbe  pretty  ticket  seller  and  gets  Into  an  alter- 
cation with  the  burly  manager.  Brave  everywhere 
except  in  his  wife's  presence,  he  easily  vanquishes 
his   opponent. 

As  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henpecked  are  leaving  the  res- 
taurant in  the  hotel  that  evening,  Henpecked  la 
possessed  of  a  sudden  peremptory  thirst.  He  makes 
an  excuse  to  get  away  from  his  wife,  telling  her 
to  wait  a  few  minutes.  The  minutes  lengthen  into 
hours  and  at  last  the  irate  wife  goes  home  to  pre- 
pare a  warm  reception  for  her  tardy  spouse's  ar- 
rival. Meanwhile  Henpecked  has  bad  a  hilarious 
time. 

While  he  is  away,  a  burglar  enters  his  home  and 
ransacks  the  living-room.  Henpecked  is  sneaking 
in  on  all  fours  at  4  a.  m.  and  is  covered  by  a  des- 
perate housebreaker.  Seeing  that  his  victim  is  in 
a  dress  suit,  the  burglar  surmises  that  it  is  "Raf- 
fles, the  gentleman  burglar,"  and  forces  Henpecked 
to  rob  his  own  house. 

Finally  Mrs.  Henpecked  hears  the  racket  and  Is 
investigating,  when  the  burglar  pounces  upon  her. 
Henpecked  is  forced  to  gag  and  bind  his  own  wife — 
he  is  torn  between  delight  at  her  silence  and  the 
gnawing  fear  of  her  release. 

The  burglar  decided  that  they  have  enough  booty 
and  calling  nn  the  man  he  thinks  is  "Raffles"  to  fol- 
low, he  exits.  While  he  is  gone,  Henpecked  re- 
leases his  wife  who  pounces  upon  him  just  as  a  po- 
liceman enters  with  the  burglar  In  his  grip.  The 
burglar  has  told  him  that  his  pal  was  "Raffles." 
Mrs.  Henpecked  Interferes  and  drags  her  husband 
away  from  the  bluecoat.  Henpecked  would  rather 
take  his  chance  on  the  clemency  of  the  bench  than 
with  his  maddened  wife,  so  he  declares  that  he  Is 
Raffles  and  demands  that  be  be  arrested.  So  tbe 
officer  drags  him  off  and  saves  him  from  Mrs.  Hen- 
pecked's  vengeance. 

"THE  KING'S  MESSENGER"  (May  30).— Miss 
Prlscilla  Handy,  an  elderly  maiden  lady,  sits  read- 
ing her  Bible  In  her  room.  She  closes  the  book,  re- 
moves her  Jewelry  and  prepares  for  bed.  She  places 
the  Bible  upon  the  table  at  ber  bedside,  blows  out 
the  candle  and  drops  asleep.  Bill  Briggs,  a  burglar, 
enters  the  room,  finds  the  things  upon  the  table,  and 
wrapping  them  in  a  handkerchief,  escapes  with 
them.  He  takes  them  to  a  bench  in  the  park  near 
a  stone  wall  and  there  proceeds  to  examine  his  loot. 
Finding  the  Bible,  he  opens  It  at  a  place  marked 
the  twentieth  chapter  of  Exodus,  and  the  firjt 
thing  his  eyes  alight  upon  Is  the  commandment, 
"Thoa  shirt  not  steal."  To  him  comes  a  vision  of 
himself  as  a  child  at  his  mother's  knee,  and  he 
drops  the  Bible  on  the  bench.  Hastily  gathering 
up  the  Jewelry,  he  returns  It  to  the  owner,  closes 
down  the  window  and  vanishes. 

Tom  Rainey,  a  workman,  is  being  evicted  by  John 
Ferguson,  his  landlord,  and  swears  vengeance. 
Arming  hlms?lf  he  repairs  to  the  park  to  He  In  wait 
and  with  drawn  revolver  he  hides  near  the  bench. 
His  ey*>  falls  on  the  Bible  and  he  picks  It  up  to 
read  the  Commandment,  "Thou  shalt  not  kill." 
Into  his  mind  flashes  a  vision  of  a  gallows  with 
himself  standing  beneath  It,  and  an  Angel  of  the 
Lord  pointing  to  the  mark  of  Cain  on  his  forehead, 
while  the  wife  and  child  kneel  weeping.  Throwing 
away  the  gun,  he  flees  from  the  spot,  just  as  Fer- 
guson comes  by,  unharmed.  Ferguson  sees  the 
Bible  and  examines  it  out  of  curiosity.  His  eyes 
alight  upon  the  passage,  "Thou  shalt  have  no 
other  Gods  before  me,"  and  he  sees  a  vision  of 
himself  hoarding  gold  and  feverishly  counting  it 
while  the  wan  figures  of  women  and  children  plead 
with  him  for  bread.  With  a  shudder,  he  drops  the 
book  and  covering  his  face  with  his  hands,  staggers 
away. 

Other    telling    Incidents    illustrate: 

"Thou   shalt   not  covet  thy  neighbor's  wife." 

"Thou  shalt  not  commit  adultery." 

"Honor  thy  father  and  thy  mother  that  thy 
days  may  be  long  In  the  land,"   etc. 

"Thou  shalt  not  bear  false  witness  against  thy 
neighbor.'* 

This  morality  play  ends  with: 

Miss  Handy  going  by.  prim  and  precise,  but  wor- 
ried. She  finds  the  book,  recognizes  it  and  clasping 
it    in    hi?    hands,    with    delight,    moves    off.      She 


MISCELLANEOUS 

KINEMACOLOR. 

THE  BETTER  SUCCESS.— A  story  dealing  with 
the  lives  of  two  farmer  boys.  At  the  beginning, 
Wallace  Is  tired  of  the  drudgery  of  farm  life  and 
determines  to  go  to  the  city.  There  he  meets  with 
success  and  marries  the  cold,  heartless  daughter  of 
a  rich  man. 

Meanwhile,  John,  the  other  brother,  has  married 
a  sweet  little  country  girl,  and  we  see  them  In 
their  happy  home  life  with  their  children  about 
them.  No  children  have  blessed  the  loveless  union 
of  Wallace,  who  has  become  a  power  in  New  York. 
Husband  and  wife  drift  apart,  Wallace  is  finally 
caught  in  the  whirlpool  of  Wall  Street,  and  in 
order  to  save  himself,  uses  funds  intrusted  to  his 
care. 

In  a  panic  on  the  Stock  Exchange,  Wallace  Is 
not  only  ruined  himself,  but  brings  ruin  on  others. 
He  rushes  home,  tells  his  wife  his  story,  and  begs 
her  help  in  replacing  the  funds  he  took.  She  re- 
fuses, and  the  desperate  man  goes  to  bis  brother, 
whom  he  has  long  neglected,  but  he  is  followed, 
and  shortly  after  he  rushes  Into  the  quiet  country 
home,  begging  for  protection,  the  officers  of  the 
law  enter.  Before  they  can  arrest  him  his  over- 
taxed heart  gives  out,  and  he  falls  dead  at  the 
feet  of  the  brother  who  represents  "The  Better 
Success," 

TOO  MANY  MAIDS.— Father's  fad  is  fishing:  so 
to  ingratiate  himself  before  asking  for  Victoria's 
hand,  Dick  takes  dad  on  a  fishing  excursion,  but 
by  his  awkwardness  manages  to  spill  the  old  man 
into  the  water.  Thereafter  be  Is  forbidden  the 
house,  and  in  order  to  facilitate  courtship,  Victoria 
exchanges  costumes  with  her  maid  and  thus  man- 
ages to  meet  Dick  outside.  While  recovering  from 
the  cold,  which  Is  the  only  thing  he  caught  on  the 
fishing  expedition,  dad  takes  a  stroll  In  the  park, 
where  he  spies  Dick  making  love  to  a  lady's  maid. 
With  his  kodak  be  takes  a  snapshot,  but  on  show- 
ing it  to  Victoria  as  proof  of  Dick's  perfidy  all  he 
gets  is  the  laugh.  A  little  later  he  sees  apparently 
the  same  maid  sweetheart  with  a  chauffeur.  The 
next  moment  he  sees  the  maid  and  Dick  in  another 
direction. 

Convinced  that  the  "bait"  and  water  he  swal- 
lowed on  the  fishing  excursion,  combined  with  the 
"cold  cure"  have  made  him  see  double,  dad  re- 
turns home,  where  he  sees  a  rapid  succession  of 
mysteriously  appearing  and  disappearing  "maids." 
He  is  so  grateful  for  an  explanation  that  he  gives 
his  blessing. 


ITALA. 
THE  DREAD  OF  DOOM. — Doctor  Guido,  on  the 
eve  of  marrying  the  woman  he  loves,  discovers 
that  into  his  body  there  has  been  introduced  ac- 
cldently  the  germs  of  a  deadly  disease.  He  can- 
not manfully  go  on  with  his  marriage  knowing  the 
physical  price  of  such  a  predestinely  woeful  al- 
liance. It  is  for  him  to  disappear  and  wait  for 
the  death  soon  to  come.  His  lot  would  be  alle- 
viated If  he  could  but  tell  his  fiance  why  be  could 
not  marry  her.  But  there  is  one  reason  why  he 
must  leave  her  unknowing  that  bis  reason  for 
breaking  off  the  match  was  because  he  loved  her 
more  than  love  Itself.  That  reason  Is  that  his 
sister  Is  fcetrothed  to  the  brother  of  the  doctor's 
bride-elect.  If  Doctor  Guido  lets  It  be  known  that 
be  is  consumptive,  his  sister's  fiance  may  suspect 
that  the  too  has  tubercular  tendencies,  which  sus- 
picion might  separate  them.  It  is,  therefore, 
necessary  for  him  to  seal  his  lips  and  go  away  un- 
der a  cloud,  leaving  it  to  be  thought  that  he  had 
backed    out   of   his    pre-nuptlal    agreement. 

WARNER'S   FEATURES. 

HIS  LIFE  FOB  THE  CAUSE  (Feature  Release, 
3  parts). —Representatives  of  the  big  European 
nations  meet  and  draw  np  a  secret  treaty  affecting 
the  Far  Eastern  countries.  In  order  to  safeguard 
the  document,  the  Minister  of  Foreign  Affairs  places 
it  in  a  safe  guarded  by  ten  automatic  pistols,  so  ar- 
ranged that  anyone  tampering  with  the  combina- 
tion will  receive  the  full  discharge  of  the  pistols. 
If  this  secret  treaty  is  adopted  it  will  seriously 
Interfere  with  the  careers  of  the  Mongolian  resi- 
dents of  the  capital  city.  Accordingly,  Prince 
Frederick  poses  as  a  nobleman  in  order  to  steal  the 
treaty  and  destroy  it. 

At  a  reception,  the  spy  meets  Banker  Newell "s 
daughter,  whom  he  learns  is  engaged  to  Minister 
Carr,  the  custodian  of  the  treaty.  While  at  the 
card  table,  Banker  Newell  receives  a  letter  of 
blackmail,  which  he  drops  in  his  excitement.  The 
spy  secures  this  letter  and  finds  evidence  of  a 
crime  committed  by  Banker  Newell  years  before. 
With  this  proof,  he  forces  the  banker's  daughter  to 
pledge  her  aid  to  his  cause,  and  arranges  with  her 
to  enter  Minister  Carr's  home  and  inveigle  him  Into 


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SITUATIONS  WANTED. 
OPERATOR— Desires  position  June  first.  Ex- 
perienced, Power's  6.  Medium  sized  city  In  Middle 
States  preferred.  References.  State  all  In  first 
letter.  Write  at  once  to  HAYNES  G'ORMLEY,  234 
Racine   St.,    Delavan,    Wisconsin. 

OPERATOR — Expert,  desires  position  anywhere. 
Eight  years'  experience.  Reference.  I  deliver  the 
goods.     Adress    C.     NEWMAN,     331     Pleasant    St., 

Ionia,   Mich. 

LICENSED  OPERATOR — Would  like  position  in 
Jersey  City,  Hoboken,  or  thereabouts.  Address  A. 
B.,  236  Lee  Ave.,   Brooklyn,  N.   Y. 

OPERATOR— At  liberty.  Experienced  on  Powers 
and  Edison  machines.  Best  of  references.  Ad- 
dress   OPERATOR,    Slater   Theatre,    Pottsville,    Pa. 

AT  LIBERTY — Moving  picture  operator  with  ten 
years'  experience.  Furnish  references.  Out  of  city 
preferred.  Address  BOEHR,  420  E.  140th  St.,  New 
York   City. 

MANAGER — Of  long  experience,  picture  and 
vaudeville  business,  open  for  engagement.  Any  New 
England  city  or  town.  Address  MANAGER,  77a 
Revere  St.,   Suite  4,  Boston,  Mass. 

COMBINATION  SINGER— (Lyric  Tenor),  and 
Trap  Drummer.  Carry  all  sound  effects.  Long  ex- 
perience. References.  Now  employed,  but  wish  to 
make  a  change.  Write  or  wire.  R.  FOURNIER, 
Saul's  Theatre,   Englewood,   N.   J. 

AT  LIBERTY — Stage  carpenter,  10  years'  experi- 
ence with  some  of  the  best  stock  companies  in 
New  York.  Would  like  to  connect  with  manu- 
facturer or  studio  who  is  looking  for  a  man  who 
can  and  will  deliver  the  goods.  Also  a  first-class 
property  maker.  Best  of  references.  Address 
P.    G.    SCHAEFFER,    Ridgefield   Park,    New   Jersey. 

HELP    WANTED. 

WANTED — Experienced  operators  on  slitting  and 
perforating  machines  for  motion  picture  film.  Refer- 
ences required.  Address  FIREPROOF  FILM  CO., 
Rochester.   N.  Y, 

WANTED — Violinist  and  pianist  for  moving  pic- 
tures. Steady  employment.  Six  hours*  work.  Don't 
wait.  wire.  R.  J.  TINDBLL,  Mgr.  Grand  Theatre, 
Valdosta,   Ga. 

WAOTED— Complete  outfit  for  Airdome.  Would 
take  operator  with  machine  as  partner.  Address 
GEM  THEATRE,   New  Berlki,   N.   Y. 

CAMERA-MAN — Your  address  in  the  Camera- 
Man's  Directory  means  dollars  for  you.  Contains 
valuable  information.  Your  address  inserted  and  a 
copy  postpaid,  25  cents.  Address  LEROY  MILLER, 
16  West  14th  St.,  Oklahoma  City,  Okla. 

EQUIPMENT  FOR  SALE. 
GREAT  BARGAIN—  Underwriters'  automatic 
Moving  Picture  Machine,  black  top,  22  by  70. 
Chairs,  screens  and  16  reels  of  films.  Cheap  quick 
sale.  Address  MORTGAGEE,  Box  58  Yadkiaville, 
N.  O. 

ONE  EDISON  MACHINE— Complete  with  Rheo- 
Btat  and  Lens,  $75.  Two  hundred  folding  chairs, 
25c  each.     B.    &   D..    Kane,    Pa. 

POWERS  MOVING  PICTURE  MACHINE— Guar- 
anteed  absolutely  perfect  condition,  with  brand  new. 
New  York  equipment  approved,  $75.  Powers 
mechanism,  type  A.  five  shutter,  $40.  Address 
MARTIN  L.  FREDERICKS,  2017  North  Twelfth 
St.,   Philadelphia,  Pa. 

FOR  SALE — Airdome,  complete  outfit,  machines, 
screen,  400  seats.  Price  $250,  loaded  on  car.  Also 
one  complete  lighting  outfit,  gas  or  gasoline  en- 
gine, 128  amperes  direct  current  dynamo  in  A-l 
condition,  $350.  Address  F.  J.  REMBUSCH,  Shelbv- 
vllle,    Ind.,   THE   "MIRROR  SCREEN"    MAN. 

FOR  SALE — Complete  stage  outfit,  drops,  wings, 
borders,  cottage  and  parlor  sets,  bunch  lights,  spot 
lights,  etc.  Like  new.  Will  sell  cheap  for  cash. 
Address  HAMILTON  AMUSEMENT  CO.,  Main  St., 
Yonkers,   N.  Y. 


FOR  SALE — 200  opera  chairs,  18-inch  iron  frame, 
one  picture  machine,  Edison;  one  picture  machine, 
Powers  No.  5;  one  compensarc,  Fort  Wayne;  two 
ceiling  fans,  5  ft.  3  in.  by  12  In.  fans;  one  piano, 
one  picture  booth,  6  by  S.  Will  sell  cheap  if  taken 
at  once.  Address  MANUFACTURING,  care  of  Mov- 
ing  Picture   World,    New   York   City. 

EQUIPMENT  WANTED. 

WANTED — Second-hand  moving  picture  camera. 
Must  be  a  bargain.  Give  full  description  and  lowest 
price.     Address  BOX  6S3,  Tampa,  Fla. 

WAOT  TO  BUT — One  pair  Excello  Arc  Lamps 
for  A.  0.  17-hour  Lamps  preferred.  Must  be  in 
good  condition.  State  price  and  full  particulars. 
Address  A.  M.  C..  care  of  Moving  Picture  World, 
167  W.   Washington  St.,  Chicago,   111. 

WANTED— 160  S.  H.  opera  chairs,  cheap.  State 
make  and  condition  first  letter.  Address  REX  THE- 
ATRE,  St.  Louis,  Mich. 

WANTED — About  250  cheap  used  opera  chairs 
and  moving  picture  machine  in  good  condition. 
Adrress  WAYSIDE  AMUSEMENT  CO.,  Wavside, 
Wis. 

FILMS  FOR  SALE. 

FOR  SALE — 500  reels  of  film  with  posters  to 
match,  all  in  good  condition.  Many  subjects  prac- 
tically new.  Address  McINTIRE  &  RICHTER,  23 
E.  14th  St.,   New  York  City. 

FOR  SALE — Or  will  book  moving  picture  pro- 
duction of  Blanche  Walsh  in  Resurrection,  4  parts. 
In  the  state  of  Ohio.  Write  or  wire  for  dates. 
B1jr  lobby  display.  Will  sell  this  feature  at  a 
hargaln.  Address  JULES  LEVEY.  1418  Cherry  St., 
Toledo,    Ohio. 

FOR  SALE  FEATURE— Two  full  reels  "Sherlock 
Holmes"  in  The  Mystery  of  Boscomhe  Yale.  Rights 
for  Oregon,  Washington,  Idaho,  Montana  and  west 
era  Canada.  Shown  in  six  towns.  $250  takes  it. 
Address  P.  O.   BOX  561,   Vancouver,   B.   C.   Canada. 

FIVE  ONE-REEL  FEATURES  —  The  Path  of 
Genius,  Her  Heart's  Depth,  Wrongly  Accused,  Me- 
phistopheles  Returns  to  Earth,  and  The  Football 
Warrior.  The  two  latter  with  photos  and  mounted 
paper.  All  in  first  class  condition.  The  first  fifty 
dollars  buys  them.  Address  A.  N.  WEIFF, 
Manager,    Colonial  Theatre,   Rochester,    N.    Y. 

FILMS  WAUTED. 

WANTED — A  few  reels  of  the  cameraphone  talk- 
ing pictures.  Film  and  records  mnRt  be  In  good  con- 
dition. Address  FRANK  D.  GREENE,  Grand  Is- 
land, Nebr. 

CAMERAS   FOR   SALE. 
BEFORE  BUYING  don't   fall   to  get  information 
on    our    cameras,    tripods,    tilts,    etc.     We    ship    for 
Inspection.     Address   PHOTO  RECORDS  CO..   11  W. 
112th   St.,    New    York    City. 

THEATRE    FOR    RENT. 
TO    RENT — A    first-class    moving    picture    bouse, 
fully     equipped,     capacity     500.      Rent     reasonable. 
Address  GOLDBERG  BROS.,  Glen  Cove.  N.   Y. 

THEATRES  FOR  SALE. 

FOR  SALE,  THEATRE — Moving  picture  theatre  in 
live  mining  town  in  Michigan.  13,000  population. 
Two  other  theatres  in  town.  Seats  250,  fully  equip- 
ped, two  Edison  machines.  Owner  unable  to  give 
business  bis  attention.  Address  JOHN  LAMMI, 
Marquette,  Michigan. 

FOR  SALE — Moving  picture  theatre  at  Harris- 
burg,  Pa.,  seating  700,  equipped  with  stage,  best 
location  in  city.  Other  business  compels  me  to  sell. 
Will  sacrifice  to  quick  buyer.  For  particulars  ad- 
dress P.  O.  NO.  8,  Carlisle,  Pa. 


THEATRE  BEAUTIFUL— An  honest  house  In  a 
good  Chicago  growing  neighborhood  with  established 
family  patronage.  Clearing  $75  per  week.  300  S. 
Good  lease,  $4,000,  no  bookers.  Address  P.  S.,  428 
S.   Harvey  Ave.,   Oak  Park,   111. 

FOR  SALE — Up-to-date  Photoplay  Theatre  situ- 
ated in  heart  of  city  of  25,000  inhabitants.  Only 
one  other  in  town.  Seats  342.  Will  sell  cheap  to 
quick  buyer.  Address  THE  WIZARD  THEATRE, 
South   Norwalk,   Conn. 

FOR  SALE — Airdome  in  best  manufacturing  town 
of  15,000  in  Indiana.  Opens  middle  of  May.  A 
live  wire.  Owner  has  other  interest.  A  No.  1 
Powers  machine,  H.  and  H.  compensarc.  Cost 
$2,400  to  build.  $500  cash,  If  sold  in  next  30  days. 
Address  H.   F.    MOSIMAN,    Elwood,    Ind. 

FOR  SALE — One  theatre  with  complete  equip- 
ment. Low  rent.  Lease  good  for  four  years.  Best 
location  in  town.  Drawing  from  6,000,  clearing 
$35  to  $50  weekly.  $1,300  takes  It.  Half  cash 
needed.  Address  MANUFACTURING,  care  of  Mov- 
ing Picture  World,   New  York  City. 

PICTURE  THEATRE — In  town  of  6,000.  Best 
location  and  only  picture  house.  Other  vaudeville. 
Good  proposition.  Selling  on  account  of  other  busi- 
ness. $1,800  cash  if  quick  sale.  Address  FAMILY 
THEATRE,  Ionia,  Mich. 

FOR  SALE. — New  picture  theatre  located  in  city 
of  40.000  population.  Seating  capacity  300.  Run 
seven  days  a  week.  Dry  town.  Other  business. 
Address   ROYAL   SLIDE  CO.,    Flint,    Mich. 

BEST  MOVING  PICTURE  THEATRE  In  New 
Jersey,  seats  294,  town  population  about  20,000.  7 
miles  from  New  York  City.  No  agents.  Inquire. 
Address  A.  C.  B.,  care  of  Moving  Picture  World, 
New  York  City. 

FOR  SALE — Moving  picture  theatre,  located  in 
the  best  town  in  the  Black  Hills,  population  1,800. 
Only  show  in  town.  Cattle  and  irrigated  farming 
country.  Admission  ten  and  fifteen  cents.  Night 
shows  only,  except  Saturday  matinee.  Seats  300. 
Fully  equipped,  good  lease,  excellent  opportunity. 
Show  earning  $50  to  $75  net  per  week.  Owner  got 
the  California  fever.  Owner  owns  Theatre  build- 
ing, proprietor.  W.  T.  SHOCKLY,  Belle  Fourcbe, 
S.  D. 

MUSICAL   INSTRUMENTS    FOR    SALE. 

FOR  SALE — 20  Electric  Pianos,  65-note  with  key- 
board for  band  playing,  $100,  $125,  $165.  44-note 
pianos  $50  and  $60.  Orchestrian  pianos  with  pipes, 
$275  to  $300.  Practically  new  and  all  In  first  class 
playing  condition.  Also  10  D.C.  motors,  %  horse- 
power, $8  to  $10.  We  allow  Inspection  at  depot. 
Write  for  list.  Address  J.  F.  HERMAN,  1420  Pm. 
Ave.  N.  W.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

BUSINESS  OPPORTUNITY. 
A    FEATURE    FILM   EXCHANGE    in    New    York 
City.      For  sale   a   full   stock   of   features  and  short 
film,   low  cash  price.     Address  524  TEMPLE  COURT 
BLDG.,    New   York  City. 

I  WILL  BUY  anything  from  a  second-band  roll  of 
tickets  to  a  theater.  I  sell  machines,  chairs, 
pianos,  etc.,  of  long  ago,  or  up-to-date.  Have  also 
a  few  picture  theatres  for  sale.  Address  TRIGGER. 
212  Third  Ave.,  near  ISth  St.,  New  York  City. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

IMPORTANT — To  all  who  want  to  Increase  their 
receipts  and  get  7c  instead  of  5c  for  tickets.  Every 
Exhibitor  should  investigate  this,  as  It  is  worth 
while.  Full  information,  sample,  etc.,  for  two  2c 
stamps.  Address  F.  M.  SCHULTZ,  1047  West  Lan- 
vale  St.,   Baltimore.   Md. 

SCENARIO  WRITERS — Your  manuscripts  type- 
written, corrected  and  where  to  sell  them,  50e. 
Address  A.  H.  TANGUAY,  513  Delamore  Place. 
Wilmington,  Del. 

SCENARIO  WRITERS  —  Manuscripts  rewritten 
and  made  snlable:  where  to  sell  them,  $1.  Ad- 
dress E.  T.  WALLS,  1020  Tatnall  St.,  Wilmington, 
Del. 


opening  the  safe.  That  night  the  spy  struggles 
with  Carr's  fiancee,  who  has  repented  of  her  promise 
to  betray  her  intended  husband,  in  Minister  Carr's 
room.  As  he  tampers  with  the  combination  of  the 
safe,  the  door  swings  open,  the  ten  automatic 
pistols  discharge  their  contents.  Although  fatally 
wounded,  the  spy  seizes  the  treaty,  and  dying, 
reaches  the  Mongolic  Club,  where  his  death  occurs. 
In  Minister  Carr's  home,  the  banker's  daughter  is 
dead — a  victim  of  political  Intrigues. 


PILOT. 

SCHOOL-DAYS  (May  22").— Louise,  a  country 
girl,  studious  and  very  ambitious  to  go  through 
college,  finds  the  heat  too  oppressi  ve  to  remain 
Indoors,  so  seeks  the  shade  of  a  large  cherry  tree. 
Being  endowed  with  the  usual  vigor  of  a  country 
girl,  she  climbs  the  tree  and  leisurely  settles  down 
to  read.  Professor  Mooney  finds  chasing  butter- 
flies too  Irksome  and  goes  to  rest  under  the  same 
tree.  Occasionally  a  cherry  drops  on  the  Pro- 
fessor's   head.      He    pays    but    little    attention    to 


them.  A  shoe  falls  by  his  side  unnoticed,  thei 
a  stocking  drops  upon  the  book  he  is  reading.  He 
absent-mindedly  picks  up  the  stocking,  wipes  his 
face  with  it,  and  then  places  It  In  his  trousers 
pocket.      Soon    he    falls    asleep. 

In  the  meantime,  Louise  tries  to  climb  higher  in 
the  tree,  but  her  foot  slips  and  her  books  fall, 
one  of  them  dropping  on  the  professor,  followed  by 
Louise,   who  lands  plump  on  the  professor's  bead. 

Later  Louise  receives  a  communication  from  the 
professor,  saying  his  board  is  willing  to  offer  her 
tuition  at  half  price,  provided  she  is  willing  to  as- 
sist in  the  chores.  Louise  Is  grieved  to  think  she 
is  unable  to  accept  this  kind  offer,  but  her  mother 
cheers  her  up  by  giving  her  some  money  she  has 
saved,  which  is  enough  to  carry  her  through  at 
the  half  price  rate.  At  school,  Louise  is  the  vic- 
tim of  all  the  practical  jokes  of  the  girls.  She 
finally  gathers  sufficient  courage  to  take  revenge. 
In  the  dead  of  night,  the  night  before  commence- 
ment, she  steals  their  corsets,  ties  them  with  the 
string  and  suspends  them  from  the  college  chim- 
ney.    This  causes  much  dismay  and  distress  among 


the  girls,  as  well  as  lots  of  fun  for  the  guests. 
No  one  suspects  Louise  is  the  culprit,  but  she  con- 
fesses to  the  principal,  who  declares  his  love  for 
her.  afterwards  disclosing  who  the  culprit  is,  and 
announcing   bis   engagement   to   her. 


Among  the  Exhibitors 

Aberdeen,  S.  D. — Harry  Loffingwell  and  Peter 
Hogan,  of  Waubay,  contemplate  starting  a  picture 
show    here. 

Newark,  N.  J. — Plans  for  a  new  theater  to  be 
erected  at  99  Springfield  Avenue,  at  a  cost  of 
$45,000,  were  filed.  Jos.  Okin,  of  115  Spruce  St., 
will    erect   same. 

Buffalo,  N.  Y. — York  &  Lockhart,  832  Tonawanda 
are  to  build  a  moving  picture  theater.  Cost  $18,- 
000. 

Peoria,  His. — Hewitt  &  Emerson  have  completed 
plans  for  a  new  moving  picture  theater.  Cost 
$15,000. 


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ADVERTISING'    FOR    EXHIBITORS 

ALKALI    IKE'S    MISFORTUNE    (Essana>  ..>■"■' 

AMERICAN'S     WIN     ON     QUALITY  788 

AT  THE  SIGN   OF  THE   FLAMING    ARCS S20 

BUFFALO      

"BUSTER    BROWN    AND    TIGE"    lEssnnayi 800 

CALENDAR     OF     LICENSED    RELEASES 
CALENDAR    OF    INDEPENDENT    RELEASES ...  82S 
'       FOR     MINNESOTA     CONVENTION... 

CHICAGO     LETTER "96 

IXNATI     B2S 

COMMENTS  ON  THE  FILMS   (Licensed) BU 

COMMENTS    ON    THE    FILM-  But  I.... 813 

RESPOXDENCE      S23 

-DEAD    SECRET.    THE'     iMcnopoli 815 

DOINGS   AT   LOS  ANGELES 798 

EDUCATED    INSECTS 796 

CARBON   IMPORTERS. 

FHORUP,   L.   E 865 

KIEWERT.    CHARLES    L 853 

REISINGER,     HUGO SJT 

ELECTRICAL  4  MECHANICAL   EQUIPMENT, 

AMUSEMENT    SUPPLY    CO 842 

BELL   &    HOWELL 866 

BENDER,   GEORGE 

CALEHUFF    SUPPLY    CO 

CUSHMAN    MOTOR   WORKS '.782 

DBARBORN    NOVELTY   CO 848 

DETROIT  MOTOR  CAR  CO .842 

FORT   WAYNE    ELECTRIC   CO 870 

■  ,'ENERAL    ELECTRIC    CO S30-31 

HALLBERG,    J.    H 867 

HOKE,    GEORGE    M 870 

LA  VEZZI     B6« 

MOORE    HUBBLE    CO 866 

PICTURE   THEATRE   EQUIPMENT   CO 

SCHNEIDER,    E 

SMITH,   L.   C.   &  CO 868 

STERN    MFG.    CO 853 

FEATURE  FILMS. 

ADVANCE   M.    P.    CO BM 

ALLARDT   FEATURE    FILM  CO 850 

AMERICA'S    FEATURE    FILM    CO 870 

FEATURE    FILM    CO 851 

FULLER'S,   OHAS.   L.,  DISTRIBUTING  CO 841 

FT.    DEFIANCE   F.    F.    CO 865 

GENERAL    FILM    CO 780-1 

'.T.   NORTHERN  SPECIAL  FEATURE  FILM  CO.S35 

1TALA    FILM   CO 865 

MONOPOL   FILM   CO 777 

MOORB    FEATURE    FILMS 869 

MOORE,    R.    E 848-866 

NEW    YORK    FILM   CO 864 

ROYAL   F.    F.    CO 

SPECIAL   EVENT   FILM   CO 

STATE  RIGHTS   FILM  CO 7T4-5 

SUPREME    FEATURE    FILM    CO B50 

TRUE   FEATURES 

VITA    FILM   SALES   CO 

WARNERS    FEATURES B*6 

IMPORTERS  &  DEALERS. 

WESTERN    FILM    BROKERS 838 

FIREPROOF  APPARATUS. 

H.    W.    JOHNS- MANVILLE 

S.    B.    LELAND 

TRAINER,    C.    W 850 

FILM   EXCHANGES. 

BRADENBURG.    G.    W 863 

CONSOLIDATED   M.    P.   SUPPLY  CO '...859 

c.UNBY     BROTHERS 864 

HETZ.    L 838 

INTERSTATE   FILM   CO 


TO  CONTENTS. 

FACTS    AND    COMMENTS 787 

"FEMALE    KAKH-LS.    THE"    .1  .    s   | 816 

FLICKERS siu 

HOW     NATURAL    HISTORY     PICTURES    ARE 

TAKEN     795 

IOWA    S24 

INDEPENDENT    FILM    STORIES 844 

INDEPENDENT    RELEASE    DATES 860 

IN    THE    MISSISSIPPI    VALLEY 

1    THE    MIDDLEWEST    S25 

INQUIRIES     806 

LAST    CALL    FOR     PENNSYLVANIA    CONVEN- 
TION       817 

LICENSED    FILM    STORIES  

LICENSED    RELEASE    DATES 862 

LOUISVILLE    S24 

MANUFACTURERS    ADVANCE    NOTES 821 

— '■ TO  ADVERTISERS. 

KINETO    FILM    TRADERS 866 

I.AF.MMLE    FILM    00 869 

MelNTIRE   &    RICHTER 846 

M.    &    F.    FILM   SERVICE 865 

MAGNET    FILM    00 -4" 

MUTUAL    FILM   CORPORATION 829 

NORTHERN    FEATURE    FILM    EXCHANGE 865 

UNIVERSAL    FILM    EX 864 

INDEPENDENT  FILM  MANUFACTURERS. 

AMBROSIO   AMERICAN   FILM   CO 889 

'       l''l<  772 

BRONCHO   FILM   CO 776 

il.ciAi     FILM    CO 838-840 

GAUMONT    CO ". 837 

KAY-BEE     776 

KEYSTONE     776 

KINEMACOLOR    CO.    OF    AMERICA 845-842 

MAJESTIC    849 

N.    Y.    MOTION   PICTURE  CO 833 

PILOT    849 

RELIANCE      851 

SOLAX     773 

THANHOUSER    776 

UNIVERSAL  FILM   MANUFACTURERS 770-1 

LICENSED  FILM  MANUFACTURERS. 

EDISON    T8S 

ESSANAY      767-8 

KALEM     778-786 

LUBIN    784 

MEI.IES    871 

PATHE    FRERES 782 

SELIG     77!" 

VITAGRAPH    785 

LENS  MANUFACTURERS. 

BAUSCH    &    LOMB 843 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

A.    B.    C.    CO 

AMERICAN    CINEMATOGRAPH    CO 838 

BECKER,    R.    E 866 

BELDEN    &    ENGELKE 840 

CHALMERS   PUBLISHING   CO 866 

CLASSIFIED     ADVERTISEMENTS 856 

CLEVELAND.    W.    S 864 

COMMERCIAL   M.    P.    CO 865 

CORCORAN.    A.    J 838 

EASTMAN   KODAK    CO 685 

FILMO    CHEMICAL   CO 870 

GOLDEN,    J.    E 866 

HAPPY    HOUR    THEATRE 840 

HOTEL    IMPERIAL 853 

KEYSTONE     PRESS 836 

KRAUSE    MFG.    CO 834 

I.UMIERE    JOUGLA    CO 865 

M   KENNA    BROS.    BRASS    CO 888 

M.    P.    SALES    CO S4S 


•MARYS    ROMANCE''     (Crystal) 

"MERCY    MERRICK"    i  Edison. T'U 

MICHIGAN     CONVENTION  .817 

MOTION    PICTURE    EXHIBITORS'    LEA' 

MOVING     PICTURE    EDUCATOR T!'4 

NEW    ENGLAND 823 

OBSERVATIONS  BY  MAN  ABOUT  TOWN.... 

OREGON    824 

PHOTOPLAYWRIGHT,     THE 

PICTURES    IN    LEARNED   SOCIETY 

PROJECTION     DEPARTMENT 9)7 

REAL  SUPPLY  HOUSE,    A T:'7 

SPRINGFIELD,    ILL     825 

STORIES  OF  THE  films   (Licensed) 332 

STORIES  OF  THE   FILMS    (Independent) M4 

triangle   of   filmdom,    the 

motion  picture  camera  co 

national  ticket  co 866-860 

national  waterproof  film  co s40 

national  x-ray  reflector   co 

newman    co 

ozone  pure  airifier m7 

RAW   FILM  SUPPLY   CO 853 

REYNOLDS  &  CO.,  B.  F SW 

SARG1JNT,    E.    W 

STANCE,    A.    K 

STAR    A   SHOP 

THEATRE    BROKERAGE    CO 

TICKET    PREMIUM    CO 

TRADE   CIRCULAR   ADDRESSING   CO 850 

VAN    HORNE    &    SON <40 

VIVAPHONE    CO 855 

VONNEGUT    HDW.    Co    355 

WHYTE   WHITMAN   CO 357 

ZENITH    MFG.    CO M0 

MOVING  PICTURE  MACHINE  MANUFACTURERS. 

EDISON 783 

ENTERPRISE    OPTICAL    CO ^47 

POWERS     CAMERAGR APH ■*:'-' 

SIMPLEX     827 

MUSICAL  INSTRUMENTS. 

AMERICAN   PHOTOPLAYER   SALES  CO 

DEAGAN.    J.    C 

SINN,    C.    E 

WURLITZER.     RUDOLrH 

OPERA  CHAIR  MANUFACTURERS. 

AMERICAN    SEATING    CO 370 

ANDREWS.    A.    H *7" 

BENNETT.    GEO.    W 

HARDESTY      

STEEL    FURNITURE    CO 

POSTERS. 

AM.    SLIDE    &    POSTER    CO »42 

BRADY,    A 832 

EXHIBITORS'    ADV.    A-   SPECIALTY    CO S26 

GENERAL    FILM    CO r863 

HEXNEGAN    &    CO S36 

PROJECTION  SCREENS. 

AMERICAN   THEATRE    CURTAIN    CO 

GENTER.    J.    H 

MIRROR    SCREEN    CO 866 

A.     SIMPSON 

SONG    &   ADVERTISING   SLIDES. 

ERKER      BROS 889 

MIDLAND    TRANSPARENCY 840 

THOMAS.   A.    G 868 

UTILITY   TRANSPARENCY   CO S68 

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TOE1  ATRI7Q      Do  You   Kn©w  You   Can  Get    Three-Sheet   Posters  for 
I  I1LA  1  IXCJ      Practicaliy  A11  Releases  of  LUBIN,  KALEM  and  BIOGRAPH? 


The  Following  are  ready  now  for  the  week  of  May  26th: 
BIOGRAPH  LUBIN  KALEM 

The  Trimmers  Trimmed. 
A  Dangerous   Foe. 
His  Mother's  Son. 


The  Reward  of  Service. 
Yarn  of  the  Nancy  Belle. 
Romance  of  the   Ozarks. 
Faith   of   a   Girl. 
Lone  Dog,  the  Faithful. 


Three  sheets   for 

A   Victim   of   Heredity 

and    three    and    six    sheets 

John  Burns    of  Gettysburg. 


Also  Three  and  Six  Sheets  for  the 
Lubin  Two  Reel  Special 

"Love    and   War    In    Mexico" 


Released  May  28th 


REMEMBER:    If  you  are   going  to  show  EDISON'S  Decoration  Day  subject,    "THE    SUNSET   GUN,"    we    have   beautiful    One    and    Three   sheets 
for  it.     Order  them  at  once. 

A.  B.  C.  COMPANY,  CLEVELAND,  OHIO 


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EXHIBITORS 


OF  THE 

SOUTH! 

We  have  just  signed  a  contract  with 
the  Universal  Film  Manufacturing 
Co.  whereby  we  have  become  ex- 
clusive agents  for 

The  Entire  Universal  Program 
For  the  Next  Five  Years 

We  are  also  granted  the  right  to  open 
new  exchanges  in  those  parts  of  the 
South  not  at  present  served  with  Uni- 
versal films.  Exhibitors  who  want 
to  build  up  their  business  with  the 
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AMERICAN. 

May  12— Angel   of    the   Canyons    (Drama) 1000 

May  15 — The     Kiss     (Drama) 1000 

May  17— The    Great   Harmony    (Drama) 1000 

May  19 — Her    Innocent    Marriage     (Drama) 1000 

May  22 — Calamity  Anne  Parcel  Post    (Comedy).lOOO 

May  24 — The   Modern   Snare    (Drama) 1000 

May  26— Ashes  of  Three    (2  parts— Drama) 2000 

May  28 — on    the    Border     (Drama) 1000 

May  31— Her    Big     Story     (Drama) 1000 

AMBEOSIO. 

Apr.     B— For    BU«    Sake    (2   reel*— Drama) 

Apr.  13 — Anto  Suggestion:  or  the  Crime  of  An- 
other    (2    reels — Drama) 

Apr.  19 — Child  Labor  Traffic  (2  parts.  Drama).. 

Apr.  W — Golden   Rain    (2  reels.    Drama) 

May    3— The    Spider    (2    parts — Drama) 

May  10 — Tempest  and  Sunshine  (2  parts — 
Drama )      

May  17 — A   Maid    of   Honor    (2   parts — Drama).. 

May  24 — The  Yellow  Man    (2  parts — Drama) . . . 

BISON. 

Apr.  22 — Bred  In  the  Bone  (3  parts,  Drama) . . 
Apr.  28 — The  Black  Chancellor  (3  parts.  Dr.) 
Apr.  28 — The  Last  Roll  Call  (2  parts,  Drama) . . 
May    3 — The    Vengeance    of    the    Skystone     (2 

parts,   Drama) 

May  8 — The  Indian's  Secret  (2  parts,  Drama) 
May  10 — The  Northern  Spy  (2  parts.  Drama) 
May  13 — The  Toll  of  War  (3  parts — Drama) . . 
May  17 — In  the  Secret  Service  (2  parts — Drama) 
May  20 — The    Stars     and    Stripes     Forever     (3 

parts — Drama)     

May  24 — Under    Fire    (2    parts— Drama) 

May  27 — Love,   Life  and   Liberty    (2   parts — Dr.) 

May  31 — The  Honor  of  the  Regiment   (2  parts — 

Drama)     

BRONCHO. 

Apr.  23 — Retrogression    (2   parts.    Drama) 

Apr.  30 — Bread  Cast  Upon  the  Waters  (2  parts, 

Drama) 

May    7 — The   Way  of  a  Mother   (2  parts,   Dr.) 

May  14 — A   Slave's   Devotion    (2   parts — Drama) 

May  21 — The    Sea    Dog     (2    parts — Drama).... 

28    -The  rirunimer  of  the  Eighth  (2  parts — ■ 

liraina)      

CHAMPION. 

Apr.  14 — Lena's  Flirtation   (Comedy) 

Apr.  21— When    Strong   Men    Meet    (Drama) 

Apr.  28— The  Clown    Hero    (Comedy) 

Apr.  28 — Life  in  Sondan    (Sociology) 

May     6 — The    Shark    God    (Drama) 1000 

May  12 — Hawaiian  Love   (Drama) 

May  18 — The     Leper     (Drama ) 

CRYSTAL. 

May  18 — Homlock  Shermes  (Comedy) 

May  18 — Oor    Willie     (Comedy) 

May  25 — Toodleums     (Comedy) 

May  25 — Supper    for    Three     (Comedy) 

May  -7 — Where   Jharity  Begins  (Drama) 

Jane  1 — Clancy,    the    Model    (Comedy) 

June  1 — Hooked    (Comedy)    

DRAGON. 

May  12 — The    Outcast    (Drama)     1000 

May  18 — The    Sergeant's    Daughter     (2    parts — 

Drama)     2000 

May  20 — Love's  Monogram   (Drama) 1000 

June  - — Comrades    <  Drama)    1000 

June  8 — Memories    of   Long   Ago    (Drama) 1000 

ECLAIR. 

May  18 — He  Loves  to  Watch  the  Flight  of  Time 

(Comedy)     

May  18 — Cuttlefish    (Zoology)    

May  21— Tins     Saith     the     Lord      (2     parts- 
Drama)  

May  2.1 — Hearts  and   Crosses    I  Drama) 

May  25 — Anaradhapura     

May  28 — The   Faith   ncaler    (2   parts— Drama) . . 


EXCELSIOR, 

Apr.     7 — Temperamental   Alice    (Comedy-Drama) 

Apr.  14 — The  Moving   Picture  Girl   (Drama) 

Apr.  21 — The  Man  from  the  City  rDrama) 

Apr.     28 — The  Surveyors  (Drama) 

May    5 — Brothers    All     (Drama) 

FRONTIER. 

May     8 — The    Sheriff's    Rival     (Drama) 

May  10— The  Tenderfoot's   Ghost    (Comedy).... 

May  17— Betty's    Bandit     (Comedy) 

May  22 — The  Stage  Driver's  Chivalry   (Drama) . 

May  24 — Where    Wits    Win    (Comedy) 

May  29 — A    Romance    of    the     Kails     tDrama).. 
May  31 — Flossie  Visits  Bar   0  Ranch    (Comedy) 


GAUMONT. 

May    3 — (An    Educational    &   Topical    Subject). 

May     6 — An    Eye   for   an   Eye    (Drama) 

May  7 — Gaumont's  Weekly,  No.  61  News).. 
May     8 — It's   Great   to  be  Great    (Comedy).... 

May    8— A    Man    of    Letters    (Comedy) 

May  10 — (An  Educational  and  Topical  Subject). 
May  13 — In  the  Wake  of  the  Brainstorm  (Dr.) 
May  13 — Through  Mountains  Majestic  (Scenic).. 
May  14 — Gau'nont's    Weekly    No.    62     (News).. 

May  15 — Sweeta    to    the    Sweet    (Comedy) 

May  17 — (Au    Educational   and   Topical  Subject) 


GEM. 

Apr.  28 — Views   of  Cape  Hatteras    (Scenic) 

May    6— Billy's    Firat    Quarrel    (Comedy) 

May    6 — Call    Him    Whiskers    (Comedy) 

May  13 — Billy's    Adventure    (Comedy) 

May  20 — Billy  Plays  Poker   (Comedy) 

May  27 — Billy's     Honeymoon     (Comedy) 

GREAT     NORTHERN. 

Apr.  19— The  Two  Convicts    (Drama) 

Apr.  26 — Told   In   Confidence    (Drama) 

May  3 — Who  la  Most  to  Blame  (Com. -Dr.).. 
May  10 — Her     First     Love     Affair     (Comedy — 

Drama)     

May  10 — The  Hartz   (Science) 

May   17 — The    Three    Comrades    (Drama) 

May  24 — The    Professor's    Traveling    Adventures 
(Comedy)    

IMP. 

May  22 — She    Never    Knew    (Drama) 

May  24 — Just   for    Lack    (Comedy) 

May  24 — Hy  Mayer — His  Magic  Hand  (Novelty) 
May  20 — Secret  Service  Sam    (2  parts — Drama). 

May  29 — The   Heart   that   Sees    (Drama) 

May  31 — The  Magnetic  Maid    (Comedy) 

May  31— Hy   Mayer,    His  Magic  Hand    (Novelty) 

KAY-BEE. 

Apr.  18 — The   Runaways    (Comedy) 

Apr.  25 — Will  O'  tne  Wisp  (2  parts,  Drama).. 
May.  2 — A  Black  Conspiracy  (2  parts,  Drama) 
May  9 — -Past  Redemption  (2  parts.  Drama)... 
May  16 — For  Love  of  the  Flag  (2  parts — Drama) 

May  23 — The    Miser    (2    parta — Drama) 

May  iiO — A  Child  of  War  (2  parts — Drama) 

KEYSTONE. 

May  15 — Their    First    Execution     (Comedy) 

May  19 — Hubby's   Job    (Comedy) 

May  19 — Twlxt   Love   and  Fire    (Comedy) 

May  22 — The   Foreman  of   the   Jury    (Comedy). 

.May  20—  Toplitsky   &    Company    (Comedy) 

May  j'.t — The   Gangsters    (Comedy) 

LUX. 

May    2— The    Miller's  Daughter    (Drama) 760 

May    2 — The   Invincible  Hands    (Comedy) 235 

May    8 — Saved     from     the     Grip     of     Alcohol 

(Drama)     885 

May  16— A   Mighty  Hunter   (Comedy) 485 

May  16 — Pat      Moves      to      Diplomatic     Circles 

(Comedy)     499 

May  23— Playing    with    the    Fire    (Drama) 987 

MAJESTIC. 

May  11— Billy's    New   Watch    (Comedy) 

May  11— Liquid   Air    (Physics) 

May  13 — My    Lady's    Boot    (Drama) 

May  18 — The    Bivals    Outwitted    (Comedy) 

May   IS— Oysters    i  Zoology)     

May  20 — Shop,   the  Hero   (Drama) 


MUTUAL  WEEKLY. 

Apr.     9—  Mutual   Weekly,    No.  15    (News) 

Apr.  16— Mutual   Weekly,   No.   16   (News) 

Apr.  23— Mutual   Weekly,    No.    17   (News) 

Apr.  30 — Mutual    Weekly,    No.    18    (News) 

May    7— Mutual    Weekly,    No.    19     (Newe) 


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MUTUAL  EDUCATIONAL 

24 — Funnleua  Is  Tired  of  Life   (Comedy) . . 

24 — Electrical   Phenomenon    (Physics) 

1— The  Old  InvaUd    (Drama) 

1— Tachkent,      Asiatic      Russia      (Political 

Geography ) 

8— The    Old    Clock    (Drama) 

8 — Mosques    and    Tombs    of    Caliphs    and 

Mamelukes  (Architectural)    

15 — His     Master's     Rival     (Comedy) 

15 — The     Valley     of    Albula,     Swltxerland 
(Scenic)     

NESTOR. 

8 — Miss    Nobody     (Drama) 

12 — The    Squa8hvlUe    Ladles    Fire    Brigade 

(Comedy)     

14 — The     Clean     Dp     (Drama) 

16 — An    Eye   for  an   Eye    (Drama) 

19 — Her  Hero's  Predicament  (Comedy) . . 
21 — The  Boy  Scouts  to  tne  Rescue  (Drama) 
23 — A    Mine    and    a    Marathon    (Drama).. 

26 — On    Cupid's    Highway     (Comedy) 

28 — A  Double  Sacrifice   l  Drama ) 

30 — Be   It  Ever  So  Humble    (Drama) 


POWERS. 

May    7 — The  Black   Small   Pox  Scare    (Com.).. 

May    8 — Bozo    Arrives     (Comedy) 

May  14 — The    Violet    Bride     (Drama) 

May  16 — The    Tarantula     (Drama) 

May  21— The    Curate's    Outing     (Comedy) 

May  23 — Black   Jack's   Atonement    (Drama) ... . . 

May  28 — (heating     (Comedy)     

May  30— The  End  of  the  Trail  (2  parts — Drama) 

PILOT. 

Apr.     3 — In  the  Battle's  Smoke  (Drama) 

Apr.  10 — Across   the   Border    (Drama) 

Apr.  17 — The    Promoter     (Drama) 

Apr.  24 — The   Hypnotic    Collector    (Comedy) 

May     1 — The    Song   of   Songs    (Drama) 

May    8— The    Crucible    of   Love    (Drama) 

May  15 — Tony,    the    Tenor    (Drama) 

May  22— School  Days   (Comedy) 

RELIANCE. 

May    7 — A     Cruel     Suspicion     (Drama) 

May  10— The   Sheriff    (Drama) 

May  12 — The    Eternal    Sacrifice    (Drama) 

May  14 — The    Big   Boss    (2   parte — Drama) 

May  17 — After    the    Massacre    (Drama) 

May  1!» — London    Assurance    (Comedy) 

May  21 — Early  Oklahoma    (Drama) 

REX. 

May  11 — The  Poverty  of  Riches    (Drama) 

May  18 — Gold    and   Two    Men    (Drama) 

May  22 — In  Slavery   Days   <2  parta — Drama)... 

May  25 — The  Trlfier   (Drama) 

May  29— The     Tourist     and     the     Flower     Girl 

(Drama)    

June  1 — The    Boob     (Comedy-Drama  ( 

i  S0LAX. 

May  14— Dad's    Orders     (Comedy) 

May  16 — The  Man  In  the  Sick  Room  (Drama).. 
May  21 — The  Amateur  Highwayman    (Comedy) . 

May  23 — The    Man    Who    Failed    (Drama) 

May  28 — The    Henpecked    Burglar    (Comedy  I  ... . 
May  30 — The    King's    Messenger    (Draiuat 

THANHOUSER. 

May    9 — The    Other    Girl    (Drama) 

May  11 — Barred    from   tne    Malls    (Comedy).... 
May  13 — The   Marble   Heart   (2   parts — Drama). 

May  16— (No  Release  tnis  date) 

May  IS — Why  Babe  Left  Home   (Comedy) 

May  JO — A    Business    Woman    (Drama) 

May  i'3 — In  Their  Hour  of  Need   (Drama) 

VICTOR. 

Apr.  25 — Loneliness  and   Love    (Drama) 

May    2 — The  Unseen  Influence  (Drama) 

May    8 — The    Unknown    (Drama) 

May  16 — A  Fair   Exchange    (2  parta — Drama) . . 

May  23 — Good    for   Evil    (Drama) 

May  30 — The  Plaything  (Drama) 


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Tuesday — Bdlson,    Essauay,    Patheplay,   Clues,   Lu 
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BIOGRAPH. 

May  10 — The  House  of  Darkness  (Drama) 

May  12— The  King  and   the  Copper   (Comedy).. 

May  12— A     Rainy     Day     (Comedy) 

May  15 — The     Stolen     Loaf     (Drama) 

May  17— The    Yaqul    Cur     (2parts— Drains) 

May  19 — Olat— An  Atom   (Drama) 

May  22— The     Hlcksville    Epicure     (Comedv)... 

May  22— Cinderella  and  the  Boob  (Comedy)'. 

May  24-^Just    Gold     (Drama) 

May  -'! — Highbrow  Love   ((,'oinedy) 

May  26 — The  Trimmers  Trimmed  i  Comedy) 

May  29 — A   Dangerous   Foe   (Drama) 

May  31 — His  Mother's  Son  (Drama) t 

USES. 

(G.  Heine.) 
May    2— The  Broken   Vow     (Speelal,     2     parts, 

Drama)  2000 

May    3 — The  Rival  Lovers   (Comedy) 600 

May    3 — Jerry's  Rebellion  (Comedy) 500 

May    6— A   Mixed   Affair    (Drama) 1000 

May  10— The  People  of  Somallland,  Bast  Africa 

(Manners   and    Customs) 300 

May  10 — Excess  Baggage    (Comedy) 400 

May  10— Beautiful   Lake   Como,    Italy   (Physical 

Geography  | 300 

May  13 — Willie's    Alarm    Clock     (Comedy) 780 

May  13 — Relics    of    Ancient    Rome    (Travel)...  220 

Hay  17 — A  Woman's  Influence  (Drama) 820 

May  17— Gulf     of      Togullo,      Northern      Italy 

(Scenic) 180 

May  20— Red    Wins    (Drama)     1000 

May  24— Exceeding  the  Time  Limit  (Comedy).  300 
May  24— The  Maid  and  the  Yarn  (Comedy)..  300 
May  24— Curing  a   Would-Be  Aviator    (Comedy)  400 

May  27 — Borrowed    Plumage    (Comedy) 

May  27 — The    Champion    Fixer    (Comedy) 

May  27— In    Somallland     (Scenic) 

May  31 — Interesting    Sceues    Abroad    (Travel) .  .1000 

EDISON. 

May    2 — Groundless  Suspicion  (Drama) 1000 

May    3 — Billy's  Sweetheart  (Drama) 1000 

May     5 — The    One    Hundred    Dollar    Elopement 

(Comedy  ~  rama)    1000 

May    6 — When  Greek  Meets  Greek  (Drama) 1000 

May     7 — Annty  and   the  Girls    (Comedy) 400 

May    7 — With  the  Assistance  of  "Shep"  (Com.)  600 

May    9 — The  Golden  Wedding   (Drama) 1000 

May  10— An  Accidental   Alibi    (Drama) 1000 

May  12 — The  Heart  of  Valeska   (Drama) 1000 

May  13 — The    Prophecy     (Drama) 1000 

May  14 — The   Two   Merchants    (Drama) 1O00 

May  16 — John  Stanley's  Awakening  (Drama).  .1000 
May  17— A  Concerto   for   the   Violin    (Drama).  .1000 

May  19 — By    Mutual    Agreement    (Comedy) 1000 

May  20— The  Good  In  the  Worst  of  Ds  (Drama).lOOO 
May  21 — Glimpses      of      Colorado      in      Winter 

(Scenic)     315 

May  21— Brigg's    New    Suit     (Comedy) 685 

•May  23 — A     Race     to    New    York     (Being    the 
Eleventh   Story   of    "What    Happened 

to    Mary"    (Drama)     1000 

May  24 — The  Translation  of  a  Savage   (Drama). 1000 

26— Dances   of   the   Ages    (Novelty) 975 

May  27 — An   Unwilling  Separation    (Drama) 1000 

May  28— Newcomb's    Necktie    (Comedy) 1000 

::u— The  Honor  of  a  Soldier  (Drama) 1000 

May  31— An  Almond  Eyed  Maid   (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY. 
May  13 — The    Ranch    Girl's    Partner    (Drama) .  .1000 

May  14 — Tue    Same    Old    Story    (Comedy) 1000 

May  15 — Boosting     Business     (Comedy) 1000 

May  16— Two  Social  Calls   (Drama) 1000 


May  17— Broncho   Billy's   Grit    (Drama) 1000 

May  10— Into     the     North     (Special— 2     parts — 

Drama)     2000 

May  20 — Buster  Brown,  Tige  and  Their  Creator, 

R.    F.    Outcault    (Comedy)    1000 

May  21— The  Letter's  Mission    (Comedy)    1000 

May  22 — A   Widow   of    Nevada    (Drama) 1000 

May  23 — Jealousy     (Drama)     1000 

May  24 — Broncho  Billy   and   the  Express   Driver 

(Drama)      1000 

May  27— The    New    Sheriff     (Drama) 1000 

May  28 — ')n    the  Job    (Comedy) 1000 

May  29 — Their   Baby    (Comedy) 1000 

May  30 — The  Good  in  the  Worst  of  Us   (Dra 
May  31— Alkali    Ike's    Misfortunes    (Drama).... 

KAEEM. 

May  10— The    River   Pirates    (Drama) 1000 

May  12 — The  Adventure  of  an  Heiress  (Drama). 1000 

May  14 — Mftn'8    Greed    for    G'old    (Drama) 1000 

May  16 — Pat,    the    Cowboy    (Comedy) 

May  16 — Food    Inspection    (Topical) 

May  17— The  Poet  and  the  Soldier  (Drama) 1000 

May  17— The    Battle    fer    Freedom     (Special— 2 

parts — Drama)     2000 

May  19 — The     Artist's     SacrUce     (Drama) 1000 

May  21— The    Circle    of    Fate    (Drama) 1000 

May  23 — The    Black    Hand    (Comedy) 

May  23 — The    Egyptian    Mummy     (Comedy) 

May  24 — The   Infamous  Don   Miguel    (Drama) .  .1000 

May  26 — A    Victim  of  Heredity    (Drama) 1000 

May  28 — Captured  by  Strategy   (Drama) 1000 

May  30 — The  Widow  from  Winnipeg  (Comedy) 
May  30 — The  Comedy  Team's  Strategy  (Corned;  I 
May  31 — John   Burns   of    Gettysburg    (Drama) ..  1000 

LUBIN. 

May     2— The  Girl  Back  East  (Drama) 1000 

May    3 — Clarence  at  the  Theater   (Comedy) 400 

May    3 — Fixing  Auntie  Up  (Comedy) 600 

May    5 — Pedro's    Treachery    (Drama) luOO 

May     6 — The  Judgment  of  the  Deep   (Drama) .  .1000 

May    S — She   Must  be  Ugly    (Comedy) 400 

'  May    8— Hattle's    New    Hat    (Comedy) 600 

May    9 — A   Mock   Marriage    (Drama) 1000 

May  10 — The   Paymaster    (Drama) 1000 

May  10 — A  Girl  Spy  in  Mexico  (Special,  2  parts, 

Drama) 2000 

May  12 — Lucky    Cohen     (Comedy) 400 

May  12— A  Ten  Acre  Gold  Brick    (Comedy) 1000 

May  13— The    Padre's    Strategy     (Drama) 1000 

May  15— Longing    for   a    Mother    (Drama) 1000 

May  16 — Breed  of  the  West   (Drama) 1000 

May  17— Retribution   (Drama) 1000 

May  19 — Margaret's     Painting     (Drama) 1000 

May  20 — Kidnapping    Father     (Drama) 1000 

May  21 — The     District    Attorney's     Conscience 

(Special— 2    parts— Drama)    2000 

May  22— A   Perilous    Ride    (Drama) 1000 

May  23— Detective   Dot    (Comedy) 400 

May  23 — His   First    Experience    (Comedy) 600 

May  24 — Brightened    Sunsets    (Drama) 1000 

May  26 — The  Reward  of  Service  (Drama) 1000 

May  27— Doing   Like   Daisy    (Comedy) 1000 

May  27 — The  Yarn  of  the  "Nancy Belle"  (Com.) 
May  28 — Love    and    War    In    Mexico    (Special — 

2    parts — Drama) 2000 

May  29 — The  Romance  of  the  Ozarks  (Drama).. 1000 

May  30 — Faith  of  a  Girl   (Drama) 1000 

May  31— Lone  Dog  the  Faithful    (Drama) 1000 

MELIES. 
Apr.  24 — How  Chief  Te   Ponga   Won  Hla  Bride 

(Drama) '. 

Apr.  24 — A  Trip  to  the  Waitoma  Oaves  of  New 

Zealand    (Geology) 

May     1— A  Buried  Treasure  (Drama) 

May     1 — The  Home  of  Terns   (Zoology) 

May    8 — A    Trip   Through    the    "North    Island" 

of  New  Zealand,   from  Auckland  to 

Wellington     (Travel) 1000 

May  15 — The  Black  Trackers  (Drama) 

May  22— Gold  and   the   Glided    Way    (Drama).  .1000 

May  29 — The    Foster    Brothers    (Drama) 

May  29 — Tandjong   Prlok,    the  Harbor  of  Java's 

Capital,    Batavla    (Scenic) 

ECLIPSE. 
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May    7 — The  Dividing  Wall    (Comedy-Drama).  .1000 
May  12 — The  Japanese  Dagger  (Special — 2  parts 

—Drama)    2000 

May  14— The    Will    of    Fate    (Drama) 1000 

May  21 — In    the    Tyrolese    Alps    (Travel) 175 

Mav  21— The  Chicken   Industry    (Industrial) 400 

May  21— Big    Game    (Zoological) 425 

May  23— The    Indelible    stain    (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY. 

May    7 — The  Crooked   Bankers    (Drama) 

May    8 — Her  Mother's  Ambition   (Drama) 

May  9 — Montreal,  Quebec  and  Halifax  (Travel) 
May  9 — In  the  Valley  of  Vesubie,  France  (Sc.) 
May  10 — Puttin'  it  Over  on  Papa  (Comedy) .... 

May  12— Pathe'B    Weekly,    No.    20    (News) 

May  13 — A    Woman    of     Impulse     (Drama).... 

May  14 — A    Redskin's    Mercy     (Drama) 

May  14 — Her  Masked   Beauty    (Special — 2   parts 

—Comedy)    

May  15 — An  rtinerant  Wedding  (Comedy).... 
May  16— The    Jelly     Fish     (Zoology) 


May  16 — Along  the  Banks  of  the  River  Bore 
(Travel)     

May  16 — Saragossa     (Scenic) 

May  17— A     Wrecked     Life     (Drama) 

May  19 — Pathe's    Weekly,    No.    21     (News) 

May  20 — A   Jockey    For    Love    (Comedy) 

May  20 — The   City   of   Rouen,    France    (Scenic). 

May  21 — The  Price  of  Silence  (Drama) 

May  22— The   Right  of  Way   (Drama) 

May  23— Night     Birds     (Zoology) 

May  23 — The  Allanthus  Silkworm  (Nat.  Hist.).. 

May  23 — The  Open  Secret  (Special— 2  parts — 
Comedy-Drama)     

May  24 — A   Woman   Scorned    (Drama) 

May  26— Pathe's    Weekly   No.    22    (News) 

:i       27 — Bull   Fight  in  Fiance    (Sporting) 

May  27— In  the  Forest  of  Cochli  China  (Lum- 
bering)  

May   28— The    Fugitive    (Drama) 

May  29 — White    Lies    (Drama) 

May  30— The  Spider  which  Lives  In  a  Bubble 
(Zoology) 

May  30 — Transportation  Methods  lu  Java 
(Transportation) 

May  30 — The  Human  Vulture  (Special  -2  parts 
— Dra  ina ) 

May  31 — The   Squawman's    Awakening    (Dr.)... 

SELIG. 

May    6— A  Welded  Friendship   (Drama) 

May     6 — Hatching    Chickens    (Zootechnlc) 

May    7— Belle  Boyd— A  Confederate  Spy   (Dr.). 1000 

May    8 — Her    Guardian     (Drama) 1000 

May     9— In    the   Days  of   Witchcraft    (Drama) .  .1000 

May  12 — The    Post-Impresslonlsts    (Comedy) 1000 

May  13— Lieutenant     Jones     (Drama) 1000 

May  14— Buck    Richard's    Bride    (Comedy) 1000 

May  15 — In    the    Long    Ago     (Comedy) 1000 

May  16 — A      Daughter      of      the      Confederacy 

(Drama)     

May  16— With  the  Students  of  the  North  Da- 
kota  Agricultural   College    (Topical).. 

May  19— His   Father's   Deputy    (Drama) 1000 

May  20 — The   Tattle   Battle    (Comedy) 

May  20 — The  Leopard  Tamer   (Comedy) 

May  21— The     Stolen    Melody     (Drama) 1000 

May  22 — Indian     Summer     (Drama) 1000 

May  23— The  Noisy   Six    (Drama) 1000 

May  26— Wanba.  a  Child  of  the  Jungle  (Special 

—2    parts— Drama)     1000 

May  26— Religion    and   Gun   Practice    (Drama) .  .1000 

May  27 — The    Girl    and    the   Judge    (Drama) 1000 

May  28 — The     'Wordless     Message      ((Drama) ..  .1000 
May  29 — The   Ex-Convict's    Plunge    (Drama).... 

Mav  29 — Scenes    in    Manila    (Travel) 

May  30 — The    Woodllre    at    Martin's    (Drama) .  .1000 

VITAGRAPH. 

May  10 — The  Sea   Maiden    (Drama) 1000 

May  12 — The    Wrong    Pair    (Comedy) 

May  12 — The     Grand     Canyon     (Scenic) 

May  13—  Horatio    Sparklns     (Comedy) 1000 

May  14 — Two  Souls  With  But  a  Single  Thought 

(Comedy)     1000 

May  15 — A    Soul    In    Bondage    (Drama) 1000 

May  16— His   Life   for   Hto   Emperor    (Drama) .  .1000 
May  16— The  Vampire  of'the  Desert   (Special — 

2   parts — Drama)    2000 

May  17 — Bunny  and  the  Bunny  Hug   (Comedy).  1000 
May  19 — Bunny's    Birthday    Surprise    (Comedy) 
May  19 — Vltagraphs    at    Kama    Kura    (Topical) 
May  20 — The   Amateur    Lion   Tamer    (Comedy)  .1000 

May  21 — Counsellor    Bobby     (Comedy) 1000 

May  22— A  Lady  and  Her  Maid    (No.  4  of  the 

Belinda    Series — Comedy-Drama)     1000 

May  23 — Midget's  Revenge    (Comedy) 

May  23 — Going  to  Meet  Papa  (Comedy) 

May  24 — Cupid  Through  the  Keyhole   (Comedy). 1000 
May  24 — The    Still     Voice     (Special— 2    parts — 

Drama)     2000 

Mav  26 — Up  and   Down   the   Ladder    (Comedy) .  .1000 
May  27— Tricks  of   the  Trade    (Comedy-Drama)  .1000 

Mav  28 — Cutey  Plays  Detective  (Comedy) 1000 

May  29 — The  Only  Veteran  in  Town   (Drama).. 1000 

May  30— A    Husband's    Trick    (Comedy) 1000 

May  31— One  Can't   Always   Tell    (Comedy) 

May  31 — If  Dreams  Came  True:  or  Who'd  Have 

Thuok    It    (Comedy) 

Mav  31 — The  White  Slave  (Special— 2  parts- 
Drama)    2000 

GENERAL    FILM    CO.    FEATURE    RELEASES. 

May  3— The  Diamond  Miniature  (2  -parts),  Pathe- 
play. 

May    5— A    Midnight    Bell    (2    parts),    Sellg. 

May    7 — The   Deerslayer    (2   parts),    Vltagraph. 

May    9 — The  Cheyenne  Massacre   (2  parts),  Kalem. 

May  10 — A    Girl    Spy    In    Mexico    (2   parts),    Lubln. 

May  12— The  Japanese  Dagger  (2  parts),  Ecllpse- 
Klelne. 

May  14 — Her  Masked  Beauty    (2  parts),    Patheplay. 

May  16— The  Vampire  of  the  Desert  (2  part*), 
Vltagraph. 

May  17 — The  Battle  for  Freedom   (2  parts),  Kalem. 

May  19 — Into  the  North   (2  parts),  Essanay. 

May  21— The  District  Attorney's  Conscience  (3 
parts),  Lubln. 

Mav  23— The  Open  Secret    (2  psrts),    Patheplay. 

May  24— The  Still  Voice    (2  parts),    VlUgraph. 


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Friday,  May  23d — 3  Reels — Monopol 

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PARTED  AT  THE  ALTAR   . 

Sunday,  May  25th — 2  Reels — Milano 

Remember  we  have  from  five  to  seven  features  every 
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ice with  1,  3  and  6  sheets  and  photos. 

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The    Dawn    of    a    To-Morrow    (Vitascope),    3    Reels 

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Dftgmar    (Messter),    8    Reels — Illinois. 
Penalty     of     Folly     (Vitascope),     8     Reels — Illinois. 
At   the   Risk   of   Eei   Life    (Cosmo.),    3   Reela — 111. 
Witchcraft   (Continental),  3  Reels — Illinois. 
The     Gangsters     (Continental),     3     Reels — 111. 
Shadow   of   Evil    (Itala),    2   Reels—Illinois. 
The    Union    Eternal     (Gaumont),     3    Reels — 111. 
The    Balkan    Traitors    (Continental),    3    Reels — 111. 
The  Race  for  the  Millions   (Gaumont),  3  Reels — 111. 
The    Great    Aerial    Disaster    (Itala),    3    Reels — 111. 
The    Human    Vulture    (Gaumont),    2    Reels — 111. 
Bridge     of    Sorrow     (Gaumont).     2     Reels — 111. 
The  International  Conspiracy   (Gaumont),   3  Reels — 

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The  Vengeance  of  Egypt  (Gaumont),  3  Reels — 111. 
The  White  Glove  Band  (Gaumont),  8  Reels — 111. 
In  the  Clawa  of  the  Leopard    (Gaumont),    3  Reels 

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The  Theft  of  the  Secret  Code  (Vitascope),  3  Reels — 

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The    Palace    of    Flames    (Itala),    3    Reels — Illinois. 
Shipwrecked    in    Icebergs    (Continental),    3    Reels — 

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In  the  Grip  of  the  Vampire  (Gaumont),  3  Reels — HI. 
Manon    Lescaut    (Fathe — Hand    Col.),    3    Reels. 
Passion   Flay    (Pathe— Hand  Col.),    3   Reels. 
The  Rose  of   Thebes   (Cines),   2   Reels. 
The  Siege  of  Calais    (Pathe— Hand   Col.),    2   Reels 
Two  Orphans    (Selig),   8  Reels. 
The  Spectre  of  the  Sea  (Messter),   2  Reels — HI. 
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Ring   that    Binds 

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This  card  contains  16  numbers,  running  from  lc  to  16c,  and  pays 
$1.36  to  the  Theatre  using  same.  We  furnish  two  books,  containing  12 
tickets  each,  with  each  card,  one  book  goes  to  the  person  holding  the 
lucky  number  under  seal,  and  the  other  12  tickets  go  to  the  person 
who  bustles  the  card,  and  If  card  is  sold  at  the  Theatre,  24  tickets 
may  be  given  the  winner. 

We  print  name  of  Theatre  on   card   and   tickets   with  each   other. 

50  cards  and  100  books  containing  12  tickets  each,  $5.50 

100  cards  and  200  books  containing  12  tickets  each,  $8.00 

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We  make  special  cards  to  suit  your  requirements  and  all  styles  of 
tickets. 

NATIONAL    TICKET    CO. 

Shamokin,    Pa. 


CULTURED    MUSICIAN,    ORGANIST 
AND  PIANIST, 

with  thorough  musical  training  and  moving  picture  ex- 
perience, good  orchestra  player,  improvises  well,  knows 
how  to  play  the  pictures. 

Address    Organist- Pianist,   c/o    Moving   Picture   World, 
Box  226,  Madison  Square  P.  O.,  New  York  City. 


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terrible  flood  In  Indiana  and  Ohio  covered  two  "Mirror  Screens'* 
ater  for  several  days.     Here  is  what  happened: 

Mr.    Earl  Rife,   of   Logansport,    Ind.,   says:     '*I   washed 
the  mud  off  and  the  Screen  is  like  new." 

Mr.    Geo.    Laws,   of   Portsmouth,    Ohio,   says:     "Cleaned 
and  washed  my  'Mirror  Screen'  and  it  is  fine  again." 
No  other  Screen  in  the  world  would  or  will  stand  a  flood. 
No  other  Screen  or  surface  In  the  world  but  a   "Mirror 
Screen"    will    produce   such    BEAUTY    IN    MOTION    PIC- 
TURES,   such   talk    in    your    town,    such    money    in    your 
pocket,    such    satisfaction  and   such    clear,    soft.    Pictures 
that   are   a    delight   and   an   absolute    preventive   of   eye- 
strain.     Write  for  our  new   catalogue. 
G'et  our  new  Snow-white  finish. 

MIRROR   SCREEN  CO. 
F.    J.    Rembusch,    Pres.       Shelbyville,    Ind. 
New    York     orflce,     928    6th    Ave.,     'Phone    401    Plaza. 


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217  WEST  ILLINOIS  STREET    CHICAGO,  ILL. 

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A  Directory  of  the 
Leading  Film  Ex- 
changes and  Manu- 
facturers and  Firms 
in  every  branch  of  the 
Moving  Picture  In- 
dustry is  only  one 
of  the  contents  of  the 

Motion  Picture 

Annual  and 

Yearbook  for 

1912 

Complete  alphabet- 
ical list  of  all  Films 
released  during  the 
year  is  another  handy 
reference. 

140  Pages,  Paper  Covers 
$1.25    Postage  Free 

Moving'    Picture 
World 

Box  2  2 6, Madison  Square  P.O. 
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DESERVE  YOUR  CONFIDENCE 
AND  BUSINESS  BECAUSE 

I  have  equipped  more  complete  motion  picture 
theatres  in  the  United  States  than  any  other  indi- 
vidual— Exhibitors  have  paid  me  retainers  to  act  as 
their  consulting  and  advisory  Engineer  to  prepare 
plans  and  specifications  for  new  theatres  and  for  re- 
construction and  improvement  of  projection,  light- 
ing, ventilation,  seating,  etc.,  in  old  theatres.  Why 
do  exhibitors  pay  me  for  advice?  Why  do  exhib- 
itors place  their  orders  with  me  for  complete  equip- 
ments? Because  I  have  had  more  experience  than 
anyone  else  in  working  out  the  intricate  problems 
of  projection  with  special  reference  to  perfect  illu- 
mination. You  know  that  your  picture  is  your 
whole  show.  I  •  know  how  to  make  that  picture 
stand  out  on  your  screen  clear,  bold,  brilliant  and 
lifelike.  It  requires  experience  to  do  this.  I  am  at 
your  service.    I  have  hundreds  of  letters  like  these : 

Dear  Sir:  Union  City,  Tenn.,  May  1,  1013. 

•  *  *  I  have  given  you  several  orders  and  have  found  you 
perfectly  square  and  I  am  inclined  to  take  your  word  for  anything 
in  the  projection  line  and  want  you  to  tell  me  just  what  you  think  is 
the  best     *     *     • 

Gem  Theatre,  W.  C.  Morris,  Mgr. 

Dear  Sir:  Heuvelton,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  10,  1912. 

■  You  arc  all  right  and  know  your  business  down  "pat.'*  I  will 
recommend  you  whenever  opportunity  affords  and  will  purchase  sup- 
plies from  you.  I  have  a  dandy  nice  picture.  With  best  wishes  from 
one  of  your  satisfied  customers. 

Claude  L.  Preston. 

143  Academy  Ave.,  Providence,  R.  I.,  Feb.  17,  1913. 
Dear  Sir: 

Everything  worked  beautifully  and  we  would  here  express  our  ap- 
preciation of  the  prompt  and  efficient  manner  in  which  you  serve 
your  customers. 

J.  F.  Cavanagh,  Mech.  Engr. 

I  want  to  help  you,  Mr.  Exhibitor,  to  improve  your 
picture  or  to  equip  your  new  theatre.  My  price  is 
no  more  than  that  of  any  other  reliable  distributor,  and. 
I  am  sure  that  my  experience  and  advice  which  is 
free  to  my  customers,  is  worth  many  dollars  and  is 
of  more  value  than  confidential,  special,  would-be  dis- 
counts, cut  prices,  etc.,  used  by  some  of  my  competi- 
tors in  pulling  unwary  exhibitors  into  their  fold. 

Everybody  Is  Putting  in  the 

"HALLBERG"  A.  C.  to 
D.  C.  ECONOMIZER 

It  gives  the  best  light  in  the  world  for  picture  projec- 
tion. Is  made  in  all  sizes  for  all  conditions — ASK 
ABOUT  IT. 

Factory  Selling  Headquarters  for 

POWERS,  SIMPLEX,  MOTIOGRAPH  and  EDISON 

MACHINES 

"HALLBERG"  STANDARD  A.  C.  ECONOMIZERS 

"HALLBERG"  D.  C.  ECONOMIZERS 

MERCURY  ARC  RECTIFIERS 

MOVING  PICTURE  MACHINE  and  FLAME  ARC 

CARBONS 


I    EQUIP  THEATRES 
COMPLETELY 

Free  Circulars  on  all  makes  of  M.  P. 
Machines,  but  Hallberg's  Big  Cata- 
logue, 100  Pages,  costs  you  25c.  by 
mail. 


J.  H.  HALLBERG 

36  E.  23rd  Street       New  York 


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Silver  Your  Curtain  with  SILVER  IT 

Increase  your  business  by  showing  a  clean,  clear  white  picture. 
SILVERIT  can  be  applied  on  your  curtain,  smooth  and  even._  Makes 
a  day-light  screen  at  a  low  cost.  Reduces  your  light  bill  and  gives  you 
a  perfect  picture.  One  pound  will  cover  a  curtain  9  x  12,  if  applied 
over  aluminum  or  paint.  If  applied  over  alabastine,  double  the  amount, 
i-lb.  Can $3.00  2-lb.  Can $5.00 

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Write    for    32-page     booklet,    showing 

Wurlitzer  Automatic  Musical  Instruments 

in  the  leading  picture  theatres  of  the  country. 
The  Wurlitzer  Instruments  furnish  better  music  than  musicians  and 
reduce  expenses.    SO  different  styles;  time  payments;  big  catakaf  free. 
If  you  can't  call,  write  to  our  nearest  branch. 

The  Rudolph  Wurlitzer  Company 

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MAKE  'EM  YOUR- 
SELF SLIDES 

Make  them  yourself.  Written  with  pen  and  ink 
or  typewriter.  Three  minutes  to  make  a  slide.  Used 
for  advertising  slides,  to  announce  future  or  feature 
programmes,  for  chorus  slides  when  chorus  slide  is 
missing.  We  send  four  colors  of  gelatin.  The  slides 
look  well  and  anyone  can  make  them.  They  are 
handy  also  for  announcing  vaudeville  acts.  In  fact, 
they  may  be  readily  used  for  anything  you  may  wish 
to  say  to  your  audience. 

For  the  sum  of  $3.50  we  will  send,  by  parcel  post, 
prepaid  and  insured,  the  following: 

24  cover  glass,  1  package  binder  strips,  I  dozen 
mats,  1  instruction  sheet,  1  form  sheet  and  50  strips 
assorted  colors  gelatin — enough  for  from  300  to  400 
slides.     Order   now.     Address: 

UTILITY  TRANSPARENCY  CO. 


1733  West  9th  St. 


Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


EASTMAN 

motion  picture 
film — the  acknowl- 
edged standard  the 
world  over. 


Manufactured   by 

EASTMAN   KODAK   CO., 
ROCHESTER,  N.  Y. 


WE  have  spent  years  and  years  of 
experience  and  many  thousands 
of  dollars  to  make  the  Radium 
Gold  Fibre  Screen  perfection. 

Do  Not  Speculate 
But  Investigate 

Exhibitors  who  know  the  facts 
never  hesitate  to  pay  the  price.  If  there 
is  a  difference  in  price  there  is  a  differ- 
ence in  quality.  There  is  no  occasion 
for  you  to  make  a  mistake  if  you  do 
your  own  thinking. 

American  Theatre  Curtain  &  Supply  Co. 

Sole  Manufacturers, 
1»5  N.  Main  Street  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Pitzer  &  Smith,  33  Union  Square,  New  York  City. 

George  Breck,  70  Turk  Street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Distributors. 


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Double 

Your 

Earnings 


NOTICE:     Our    System    is    regis- 
tered with  the  U.   S.  Government. 


\OU  Know  that  a  Boy  or  Girl  can  sell  twenty  tickets  to  YOUR  Theatre  in  the 
same  time  that  it  would  take  them  to  sell  one  newspaper  or  magazine,  yet  YOU  de- 
pend entirely  on  Your  ticket  window.  Had  the  newspapers  and  magazines  over  the 
country  depended  on  the  voluntary  subscriptions,  their  circulation  would  be  very 
small  indeed. 

May  we  send  you  full  particulars  of  a  NEW,  UP-TO-DATE  AND  ORIGINAL 
WAY  TO  DOUBLE  THE  EARNINGS  OF  YOUR  THEATRE? 

Our  system  has  really  proven  more  than  we  have  claimed.  Moving  Picture  Men 
over  the  country  are  using  it  with  great  success.      WRITE  TODAY. 

TICKET  PREMIUM  CO.,  Inc.,  Ft.  Wayne,  Ind. 


WE  BUY,  SELL  and  RENT 

Moving    Picture    Machines    and    Films. 

Theatre  Brokerage  Exchange, 
440  S.  Dearborn  St.  Chicago,  111. 

WE  CONTROL  BOOKINGS 

In  Ohio,   Indiana,   Kentucky,  Wisconsin 
and  Michigan  for  "Tigris"  (Itala),  "Dick 
Whittington  and  His  Cat"  (Solax),  "The 
Shadow  of  Evil"  (Itala). 
MOORE  FEATURE  FILMS   (Inc.) 
loto  Straus  Building  Chicago 

W.  W.  Willis,  Mgr.    Phone,  Franklin  1357 


I  INVITE  YOU 

to  call  or  send  a  representative  of  your 
theatre  to  the  nearest  Laemmle  Film 
Service  office  to  witness  a  demonstration 
of  the  latest  Universal  films.  The  im- 
provement in  the  Universal  program  is 
the  marvel  of  the  trade.  If  you  haven't 
seen  any  Universal  films  during  the  past 
few  weeks,  accept  this  invitation  imme- 
diately. You  are  overlooking  the  best 
program  in  the  whole  wide  world! 
CARL  LAEMMLE,  President 

The   Laemmle   Film 
Service 

204  West  Lake  Street,  Chicago,  111. 

Sykes  Block,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

1312  Farnum  Street,  Omaha  Neb. 
421  Walnut  Street,  Des  Moines,  Iowa. 

Agents  for  All  Makes  of  Machines 
and  Accessories 

"The    Biggest  and  Best  Film  Renter  in  the  World" 


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Ornamental 
Theatres 

PLASTER  RELIEF   DECORATIONS 

Theatres  Designed  Everywhere 

Write  for  Illustrated  Theatre  Catalog.    Send  us  Sizes  of 
Theatre  for  Special  Designs 


THE  DECORATORS  SUPPLY  CO. 

2549  Archer  Avenue,  ::  CHICAGO,  ILL. 


ALWAYS  A  COMPLETE  STOCK 

of  motion  picture  machines,  spot  lamps,  carbons,  tickets, 
and  all  supplies  for  the  picture  man.  Write  for  com- 
plete catalogue.  SLIDES  made  to  ORDER,  also  stock 
announcement  and  advertising  slides,  40c.  postpaid. 

ERKER'S  608  Olive  St.      St.  Louis,  Mo. 


Just  a  jKoment ! 

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BENNETT  SEATING  CO. 

36  EAST  3rd  ST.  CINCINNATI,  O. 


America's  Feature  Film  Co. 

406-7-8  Schiller  Building,  Chicago,  111. 


TRADE  MARK 


REGISTERED 


FILMO  CEMENT 

For  repairing  all   makes 
of   moving   picture    films 
at  all  exchanges  or 
FILMO  CHEMICAL  CO. 
55-57-59   Chrystie  St. 
New  York 


CHEAP 

STEEL  FRAME 
THEATRE   CHAIRS 

ABSOLU  ELY 
NON-BREAKABLE 

if  for  small 
Theaters  and  Mov- 
ing Picture  Shows. 
We  carry  these 
Chairs  in  stock  and 
can  ship  imme- 
diately. 
Second   Hand 

Chair  9 
Also  Beating 

for  Out-of-door 
us.-.  Address 
Dent,    w. 

STEEL  FURNITURE   CO.,    Grand   Rapids.    Mich. 

New  York:   150  5th  Ave.     Pittsburgh:   318  Bissel 

Blk.     Philadelphia:    1943    Market    St.     Nashville, 

Tcnn.:    315  No.   4th  Ave. 


Steel  standards 
will  not  break 


Steel  or  Cast 
Iron  Standards 
in  many  styles 

Southern  California  rep- 
resentative, California 
Seating  Co..  1109  Van 
Nuys  Bid?.,  Los  An- 
geles,  Cal. 

N.  W.  representative. 
H.  A.  Johnson  Seating 
Co.,  911  Western  Ave., 
Seattle,  Wash. 

The  Wisconsin 
Seating  Company 

NEW  LONDON 
WISCONSIN,  U.  S.  A. 


OH!    MR.   EXHIBITOR!! 

Think  of  the  motherless,  the  fatherless,  and  the 
childless  homes  as  the  result  of  the- 
ater panics.    Protect  the  Uvea  of  yoar 
patrons     by     installing    onr     "ANTI- 
PANIO"      THEATER     CHAIR.         28 
Dead  at  Oannonsburg,  176  at  Boyer- 
town,    575   at   Iroqaoia  Theater,    Chi- 
cago.   Make  these  horrors  Impos- 
sible.    Onr  chair  la  a  friend  to 
the  Pnbllc. 
It     adrertlses     yonr     theater  •  and 
makes  yoar  business  grow. 

It  la  a  space-saver,  life-Bayer, 
money-saver.  Gives  25%  more  Beat- 
ing. 

It  will  make  yonr  theater  all  aisles.  It  Is  the 
only  sanitary  chair.  It  ia  the  world's  greatest 
theater  chair,  perfected  to  the  highest  degree, 
Write   today   for  circular  A. 

THE  HARDESTY  MFG.  CO.,  Canal  Dover,  Ohio, 
V.  B.  A. 


It  pays  to  discriminate  when  you  buy 

THEATRE  SEATING 


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nnl  I  L     IUUAI     and    Cat.     V.;    i  Ipholstcrcd    Chairs) 

Send  Floor  Sketch  for  Free  Seating  Plan. 

Widest  range  of  styles  and  prices.     Largs  stocks. 

American   Seating    Company 

218  S.  Wabash  Ave..   CHICAGO.     15  E.  32nd  St.,  NEW  YORK 


WHEN  YOUR  PICTURE  MACHINE  NEEDS  REPAIRING 
Why  don't  you  send  It  to  us? 

We  have  the  best  equipped  machine  shop  in  the  country  and  can 
repair  any  make  of  machine.     Write  us  and  get  acquainted. 
We  Buy  Second-hand  Machines* 

GEO.  M.  HOKE  SUPPLY  CO.,  176  N.  State  St.,  %££,*  Chicago,  IIL 


COMPENSARC 

This  Machine  cuts 

2}  j/ronvybur 
ft  Light/ 

Bills 


Mr. 
Manager 


If  you  are  on  a  1 10  or  220 
volt  circuit  and  you  are  using  a 
rheostat  to  reduce  the  voltage  to  35 
at  the  arc  in  your  lamp,  you  are  pay- 
ing for  »/a  more  "juice"  than  you  are ' 
actually  using.     Can  jou  afford  to  waste 
ill  this  energy  supplied  from  the  line,  over 
and  above  what  you  really  need? 

The  Fort  Wa^ne  Compensarc 

i    saves  all  this  waste  by  reducing  the  voltage  without  losing  any:   makes    a    clearer 
whiter,  steadier  light,  and  eliminates  all  danger   of    fires   caused    by    overheated^ 

■    rheostats.  1# 

I  We  have  a  little  22  page  booklet  "Compensarc  vs.  Rheostat  that  we  .  »0fjipenMrt .i 
lwant  to  send  you.  It  will  tell  you  plainly  how  you  can  make  a_big  /^y^g// 
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FORT  WAYNE  ELECTRIC  WORKS 

of  GENERAL  ELECTRIC.COMPANY, 
1408  Broadway 

,Fort  Wayne,  Indiana 


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and  following  the  gilded  path  of  dissipation. 

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See  article  in  this  issue. 


Scoop  your  competitor  with  a  novelty. 


Released  Tuesday,  May  27th 

"The  New  Sheriff" 

A  thrilling:  drama  of  the  West,  in  which  a  raw  recruit  tarns  sheriff,  and  captures  the  desperate  Sheppard  gang1. 


Released  Wednesday,  May  28th 

"On  the  Job" 


A  screamingly  funny  comedy  that  will  keep  your  audiences  in  a  continual  uproar.     Book  this, 


Released  Thursday,  May  29th 

"Their  Baby" 


Another  excellent  comedy  with  unique  and  clever  situations.     A  box  office  attraction, 


Released  Friday,  May  30th 

"The  Good  in  The  Worst  of  Us' 

An  unusual  dramatic  subject  of  unparalleled  interest.     A  drama  with  a  punch. 


Released  Saturday,  May  31st 


Released  Saturday,  May  31st 


"ALKALI"  IKE'S  MISFORTUNES 

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RELEASED  MONDAY,  JUNE  9th 

"THE  FINAL  JUDGMENT" 

(In  TWO  PARTS.) 
AN  UNPRECEDENTED  DRAMATIC  SUBJECT  OF  THE  KLONDIKE.    BOOK  TODAY. 

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"We  Put  the 'Calamity  Anne' 
Poster  in  the  Street—But  We 
Had  to  Let  the  Crowds  In!"— 

Says  the   Vaudette Theatre,  Atlanta,   Ga. 


NOTHING  out  of  the  ordinary  about  this — just  an  everyday  affair 
with  theatres  advertising  "Flying  A"  subjects.    If  you  are  losing 
profit    steadily    through    mistaken    notions    of    red-hot    business 
attractors — let  this  picture  and  the  lesson  it  teaches  sink  in.    You  can  do  what 
Vaudette  does.     Write  Vaudette.     Their  answer  will  convince  you! 

"When  Luck  Changes" 

(Release  Monday,  Jane  2,  1913) 

A  remarkably  powerful  Western  of  splendid  situations,  that  will  h  >ld  and 
appeal.    A  subject  certain  of  an  enthusiastic  reception. 

"The  Wishing  Seat" 

(Release  Thursday,  June  S,  1913) 

She  was  romanceful,  and  longed  for  a  lover — so  she  sat  in  the  "Wishing  Seat"  and  wished! 
When  Lo !  Her  wish  was  answered.  Down  to  h  er  feet  rolled  an  artist  from  a  neighboring  bluff, 
feet  over  head  and  badly  besmeared  with  his  pain  t  and  the  dirt  of  the  mountain-side.  But  she  didn't 
care  how  Cupid  came,  so  long  as  he  came ! 


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(Release  Saturday,  June  7,  1913) 

He  loved  the  pretty  cabaret  singer,  and  when  papa  objected,  he  married  her  anyhow,  just  as 
you  would  do!  And  papa  swore  never  to  relent—  and  he  didn't  until  a  false  friend  entered  the  tan- 
gled skeins  of  the  story  and  papa  saw  things  rightly  at  last.    A  charming  story. 


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"A  Dixie  Mother" 

Two  Reels,  June  4 

A  Wonderful  Story  of  a  Mother's 

Devotion,  Which  Saves  Her  Son 

From  a  Dishonored   Grave, 

Restores  His  Courage  and 

Causes  Him  to  Die 

Like  a  Hero 

Stung  by  the  scorn  of  his  warrior 
father,  and  lashed  by  the  scarcasm  of 
his  sweetheart,  Dick,  a  weakling  and 
his  mother's  darling,  enlists  in  the 
army.  The  exploding  shells  and  the 
scenes  of  death  all  around  him  com- 
pletely unnerve  him,  and  he  runs 
away,  shot  in  the  back  by  an  officer 
who  witnesses  his  cowardice.  A  squad 
is  sent  to  his  home,  and  the  brave 
mother  hurriedly  writes  a  note  which 
she  places  in  the  boy's  pocket,  wrecks 
the  household  furniture,  and  shoots 
herself  through  the  arm.  The  note  is 
an  anguished  call  for  help,  affording 
extenuating  circumstances  for  the  de- 
sertion. With  his  manhood  aroused 
by  his  brave  mother,  Dick  proves  him- 
self a  hero  when  guerillas  really  ar- 
rive, but  is  shot  by  mistake  by  his  own 
father,  who  at  first  spurns  the  dying 
boy,  thinking  him  a  coward. 

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"Barney  Oldfield's 
Race  for  a  Life" 

One  Reel,  June  2 

A  unique  film,  a  combination  of  sen- 
sational, thrilling  and  humorous  melo- 
drama. The  villain  ties  Mabel  to  the 
railroad  track  and  steals  an  engine  to 
ride  over  her  prostrate  form.  The 
Hero  enlists  the  aid  of  Barney  Old- 
field,  the  famous  automobilist,  and  a 
sensational  race  takes  place,  in  which 
the  Villain  tries  to  destroy  his  rival  by 
throwing  bombs  at  the  car. 
The  greatest  one  reel  feature  ever  made 
One  and  three  sheet  posters 

"The  Gangsters" 

Released  May  29 

A  burlesque  on  gang  fighters,  with 
comical  encounters  with  the  police. 

"  Passions,  He  Had 
Three"  and  "Help, 
Help,  Hydrophobia!" 

A  Split  Reel  Released  June  5 

In  the  first  subject,  a  farmer  boy  is 
shown,  who  gets  into  trouble  because 
he  likes  raw  eggs,  milk  and  the  girls. 
In  the  second,  laughable  scenes  are 
presented  of  a  dog  who  has  swallowed 
the  professor's  germ  culture,  and  who 
runs  after  the  people,  who  flee  in 
terror. 


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"A  True  Believer" 

Two  Reels,  June  6 

A  War  Story  of  Dramatic  Worth, 

Presenting  Scenes  of  Sensation 

and  Pathos 

The  grizzled  old  pastor  is  succeeded 
by  a  younger  man,  who  has  a  brother 
in  the  North.  When  war  breaks  out, 
the  young  minister  acts  as  a  spy  for 
his  brother,  resulting  in  a  crushing 
defeat  for  the  Confederates.  On  ac- 
count of  his  anti-slavery  sentiments 
and  other  circumstantial  evidence,  the 
old  pastor  is  tried,  and  condemned  to 
die.  The  tearful  prayers  of  a  little 
girl  for  the  preservation  of  the  old 
man  so  affect  the  conscience-stricken 
spy  that  he  confesses  his  guilt,  and 
saves  the  old  man  from  the  firing 
squad. 

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to  subjects,  synchronism  and  rates.  We  claim  our 
subjects  to  be  live  and  up-to-date.  The  songs  range 
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HE  JUNGLE,  with  its  silence 
and  mystery,  its  movement 
and  color  and  its  fascinating 

are  realistically  mirrored 


Enthusiastic 


Endorsement    from    Ex-President     Theodore 
Roosevelt 

"  In  moving  pictures  of  wild  life  there  is  a  great  temptation  to  fake,  and  the 
sharpest  discrimination  must  be  employed  in  order  to  tell  the  genuine  from 
the  spurious.  My  attention  was  particularly  directed  toward  Mr.  Kearton's 
work  because  of  its  absolute  honesty.  If  he  takes  a  picture  it  may  be  guar- 
anteed as  straight.  With  regard  to  his  pictures  of  the  Masai  warriors  I  can 
personally  vouch  for  their  fidelity  to  the  actuality.  His  views  of  the  charging 
lion,  in  which  several  natives  are  trampled  and  torn  by  the  infuriated  beasts, 

are  wonderful — really  wonderful!  It  is  a 
really  phenomenal  record  of  a  really  phenom- 
enal feat,  and  I  congratulate  Mr.  Kearton 
with  all  mv  heart  on  what  he  has  done." 


Capt.  Kearton  secured  these  pictures  after  years  of 
tained  the  most  natural  reproductions  possible  of 
thentic  moving  picture  ever  taken  of  this  interesting 
Continent.     The  series  comprise  a  complete  zoological 

defini 

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Capt.  Cherry  Kearton'sWild 
Life  and  Big  Game  in  the 
Jungles  of  India  and  Africa 


Native  Lion   Hunt 


(Presented  by  Adolf  Zukor) 
Featuring 

in   the  Heart  of  the 
African     Jungle 

The  World's  Most  Daring  Animal  Photographer  Face  to  Face  with  Savage  Animals 

in  Borneo,  India  and  Africa. 
PRESS   "COMMENDS" 

"Exceptional 


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patience  and  courage." — N.   Y.  Telegraph. 
"The    films    hold    the    onlookers    spell- 
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"Theodore  Roosevelt  complimented  Mr. 
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subjects." — .V.  Y.  Journal. 

"Extraordinary  motion  picture." — Ar.  Y. 
World. 

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cinating  pictures.    They  must  be  seen  to  be  believed." — London 
Morning  Post. 

"The   most   thrilling  pictures   you  can  possibly   imagine." 
— London  Telegraph. 


unremitting  labor,  at  obvious  peril  of  life  and  limb,  and  thus  ob- 
prowling  lion,  the  stealthy  tiger,  the  ourang-outang  (the  first  au- 
citizen  of  the  jungle)  and  scores  of  other  beasts  of  the  Dark 
review,  from  an  ant  to  an  elephant,  and  embodies  a  graphic 
tion  of 

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A  ROMANCE  OF  THE  WEST  IN  TWO  THRILLING  REELS 

THIS  production  marks  an  epoch  in  drama  of  Western  life.    Unquestionably  the 
most  sensational  feature  of  its  kind  that  will  be  produced  for  many  a  day. 
Featuring  Tom  Mix,  the  world's  most  daring  cowboy,  in  a  series  of  astounding 
feats  of  death-defying  skill  —  incidents  in   an    exceptionally   strong   dramatic   story. 

RELEASED    AS    A    TWO    REEL    SPECIAL    ON     JUNE     FOURTH 


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"ALONE  IN  THE  JUNGLE" 


TWO  REEL 
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Selig  has  made  many  great  animal  pictures  in  the 
past  and  will  continue  to  produce  great  animal  features 
in  the  future,  but  none  of  these  will  ever  surpass  the 
present  subject.  This  picture  will  live  forever  as  the 
greatest  of  its  kind. 

Released  as  a  two  reel  special  on  June  14th 


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childhood's     happy     days. 


"A   FLAG    OF  TWO    WARS" 
"WOMAN— PAST   AND   PRESENT" 


An  incident  in  the  military 
life    of    his    father's    son. 


A  comparison  in 
feminine    types. 


"THE    SUWANEE    RIVER" 


A  picturesque  story 
of  the   southland. 


A  comedy  of 
the  west. 


"AN   EMBARRASSED    BRIDEGROOM" 
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Saturday,  May  31st,  1913 

"The  White  Slave". 

A  beautiful  story  of  the  days  before  the  War.  A 
series  of  thrilling  scenes,  following  one  after  the  other  in 
rapid  succession,  with  a  love  story  running  all  through. 

Produced  by  the  talented  VITAGRAPH  players, 
headed  by  Clara  Kimball  Young,  Lillian  Walker  and 
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Monday,  June  2nd,  1913 

"When  a  Woman  Loves" 

The  story  involves  two  political  factions,  one  of  which 
is  led  by  the  Duchess  Charlotte.  She  becomes  fascinated 
with  Marco  Flamma,  a  young  enthusiast,  but  he  does  not 
reciprocate  her  affection.  The  revenge  she  plans  forces 
her  suicide,  and  results  in  Flamma  winning  the  lady  of 
his  choice.     CINES-KLEINE,  three  reels. 


AND  JUST  AHEAD  ARE  THESE  FEATURES : 


"THE  TRAGEDY  OF  BIG  EAGLE  MINE"  **».  Two  reeis 


JUNE     7th,  1913 

Monday,  june  9th  w   'THE  FINAL  JUDGMENT" 

WEDNESDAY,  xxth.  :93     "A   REGIMENT   OF  TWO" 

friday,  I3h  93  "THE  GOVERNOR'S  DOUBLE" 

Saturday,  Mth.  ,9x3  "ALONE  IN  THE  JUNGLE" 

monday  l6th,x9x3    "THE  RIVAL  ENGINEERS" 

WEDNESDAY,  x8th,  ,9,3         "THE  WEAKER  MIND" 


Essanay.  Two  reels. 

Vitagraph.  Two  reels. 

Patheplay.  Two  reels. 

Selig.  Two  reels. 

Cines-Kleine.  Two  reels. 

Lubin.  Two  reels. 


See  "Calendar  of  Licensed  Releases"  on  another  page  of  this  issue 
for  complete  list  of  single  reels  available  in  General  Film  Service 


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The  Lew  and  the  Outlaw. 


The   Accusing   Hand. 


Wednesday,  June  4th,  1913 


Friday,  June  6th,  1913 


"The  Law  and  the  Outlaw"  "The  Accusing  Hand" 


One  of  the  two  most  sensational  "Westerns"  ever  re- 
leased. Bucking  bronchos  and  dare-devil  cowboys  in 
death-defying  stunts.  The  outlaw  (Tom  Mix)  chases 
a  maddened  steer,  leaps  on  his  back  and  actually  throws 
and  ties  him  without  assistance.  Sounds  like  pure  fiction, 
doesn't  it?  Well,  wait  till  you  see  the  picture.  SELIG, 
two  reels. 


A  novel  story  told  in  a  novel  manner.  Written  by  and 
acted  under  the  direction  of  LUBIN'S  popular  producer- 
actor,  Romaine  Fielding. 

"The  accusing  hand"  greets  the  criminal  at  every  turn 
of  the  road,  and  eventually  draws  a  confession  from  him, 
"The  silent  third  degree"  in  practise.    Two  reels. 


THIS  SOUNDS  ALMOST  TOO  GOOD  TO  BE  TRUE 


On  May  10th,  our  Dallas  office  received  notice  from  an  exhibitor  in  Pecos,  Texas, 
to  discontiue  service.  He  stated  as  his  excuse  for  giving  up  General  Film  Service 
that  his  patrons  were  "clamoring  for  new  faces  and  new  actors."  We  discontinued 
his  service,  with  regret,  of  course.     On  May  14th  he  wired  our  office  as  follows : 

"My  patrons  don't  like stuff.     Ship  me  show  at  once  and  continue  shipping 

every  day."  The  only  part  of  this  transaction  we  cannot  understand  is  the  ability  of 
the  exhibitor  to  get  along  without  General  Film  Service  for  even  so  short  a  period  as 
four  days  ! 


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A  Two=Reel  Patheplay 

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THE  STRANGE  ADVENTURES  OF  GOVERNOR 
GARLAND,  WHO  BECAME  A  CONVICT  TO  GET 
A  TRUE  REPORT  OF  PRISON  CONDITIONS;  HOW 
ANOTHER  MAN,  THE  GOVERNOR'S  DUPLICATE 
IN  EVERY  WAY,  TOOK  GARLAND'S  PLACE; 
HOW  THE  JUDGE  WHO  WAS  TO  FREE  THE 
REAL  GOVERNOR  DIED,  AND  HOW  GARLAND 
FOUGHT  HIS  WAY  OUT  OF  PRISON  JUST  IN 
TIME  TO  PREVENT  HIS  FIANCEE  FROM  MAR= 
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AN  ALMOND  EYED  MAID 

Drama  (1000)  Released  Saturday,  Kay  31. 

Rescued  from  a  hated  suitor  by  an  American,  a  Japanese 
girl  becomes  jealous  of  the  latter's  fiancee  and  determines 
to  kill  her.  When  she  sees  her  old  suitor  waiting  to  kill 
her  protector,  love  conquers  jealousy,  she  rushes  forward 
and  receives  the  blow  intended  for  him. 

PROFESSOR  WILLIAM   NUTT 

Comedy  (1000)  Released  Monday,  Tone  2. 

Professor  Nutt,  the  vegetarian,  goes  to  the  house  of  an 
old  friend  for  dinner.  It  is  wash  day  and  the  pantry  is 
emptier  than  usual,  so  they  scurry  around  and  borrow  a 
big  dinner  from  the  neighbors.  But  the  professor  carries 
his  dinner  in  his  vest  pocket. 

RIGHT  FOR  RIGHT'S  SAKE 

Drama   (1000)    Released  Tuesday,   June  S. 

The  district  attorney  prosecutes  one  of  the  opposition 
for  graft  to  help  his  own  election.  He  knows  the  man  is 
innocent  and  his  wife,  learning  the  truth,  leaves  him, 
broken-hearted,  when  he  refuses  to  stop  the  trial.  But  he 
makes  atonement  later  and  they  are  reconciled. 

SOME  SPOTS   IN   AND   AROUND 
LOS  ANGELES,  CALIFORNIA 

Scenic   (350)   Released  Wednesday,   June  4. 

DON'T  WORRY 

Comedy   (640)    Released  Wednesday,   June  4. 

Hubby  is  detained  at  the  office  and  his  silly,  worried  wife 
sees  bandits  rob  him  at  the  office,  an  automobile  mangle 
him  in  the  street  and  then  he  is  taken  to  the  hospital,  where 
he  suffers  all  sorts  of  tortures.   Then  he  strolls  in  unharmed. 


MERCY  MERRICK 

Drama  (1000)   Released  Friday,  June  6. 

Having  been  rescued  by  a  London  refuge,  Mercy 
goes  to  South  Africa  as  a  nurse.  A  stray  shell  gives 
her  the  opportunity  to  masquerade  as  the  daughter  of 
General  Rosebury,  but  she  is  discovered  and  her  new 
friends  desert  her — all  but  the  pastor  of  the  refuge. 

WHILE  JOHN  BOLT  SLEPT 

Drama   (1050)   Released  Saturday,  June  7. 

A  visitant  appears  before  a  wealthy  paralytic  and 
summons  him  to  review  the  misdeeds  of  his  past  life. 
He  sees  himself  rob  a  poor  inventor,  wrong  a  young 
clergyman,  and  drive  his  wife  from  home.  As  he  makes 
amends  for  his  wrongs,  a  miracle  occurs. 

OTHELLO  IN  JONESVILLE 

Comedy   (1000)   Released  Monday,   June   9. 

After  being  ejected  by  his  landlady,  a  near-actor 
coaches  a  budding  young  genius  in  theatricals  in  return 
for  his  board.  They  decide  to  do  "Othello,"  but  Tillie's 
acting  proves  disastrous  and  her  hopes  are  dashed  to 
earth  and  the  actor  earns  his  board  by  sawing  wood. 

TWO  LITTLE  KITTENS 

Drama  (1000)   Released  Tuesday,  June  10. 

Two  little  kittens  provide  a  means  of  reconciliation 
between  a  widowed  young  seamstress  and  her  wealthy 
mother-in-law,  but  not  until  the  former  has  undergone 
many  humiliations,  even  to  the  extent  of  being  accused 
of  theft  in  the  hotel  where  she  was  forced  to  seek 
employment. 


In  Three  Reels 


MARY  STUART 


Released  Jane  21 


The  EDISON  KINETOSCOPE 

UNDERWRITERS'  TYPE  "B" 

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and  the  moving  picture  machine  that  will  make  yours 
the  best  show  is  the  Edison  Kinetoscope.  With  it  you 
show  the  sharp,  flickerless  pictures  which  do  not  strain 
the  eyes. 

The  Edison  Kinetoscope  is  easy  to  operate  and  it  is 
built  to  stand  the  grind.  There  are  no  "intermissions  for 
repairs"  to  provoke  the  crowd.  Take  the  first  step  toward 
bettering  your  show  by  sending  today  for  full  particulars 
and  a  copy  of  the  Edison  Kinetogram. 

Price,  with  Rheostat,  110  volts,  24-40  amperes,  $225.00 
Price,  with  1 10  volt,  60  Cycle  Transformer,      .    245.00 

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Are  acknowledged  the  world  over  for  superiority  in  photography, 
originality  in  plot  and  exacting  detail  in  stage  setting 

LUBIN  TWO-REEL  PICTURES  ARE  FEATURES 

"The  ACCUSING  HAND" 

In  Two  Reels  Released  Friday,  June  6th 


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A  very  clever  demonstration  of  the  value  of  applying  the 
silent  third  degree.  A  man  who  has  committed  a  crime,  is 
hounded  by  the  "pointing  finger"  and  driven  to  complete 
confession  without  one  single  word  of  accusation,  showing 
that  a  guilty  conscience  needs  no  accuser. 


"THE  WEAKER  MIND" 

Two  Reels  Wednesday,  June  18th 


Scene  from  "The  Accusing  Hand." 


FIVE    RELEASES    EACH    WEEK 
SPLIT  COMEDY  REEL,  TUESDAY,  MAY  27th 

"DOING     LIKE     DAISY"  400  feet  Tuesday,  May  27th 

Auntie  dresses  like  a  young  girl  and  all  the  men  run  away. 

"THE    YARN     OF    THE    NANCY    BELL"         600  feet         Tuesday,  May  27th 

The  kiddies  enjoy  the  old,  familiar  story. 

"A     ROMANCE    OF    THE    OZARKS"  lOOOfeet  Thursday,  May  29th 

The  moonshiner's  daughter  is  too  clever  for  the  moonshiner's  gang. 

"  FAITH     OF    A    GIRL"  1000  feet  Friday,  May  30th 

A  convict's  bravery  and  his  wife's  faith  restore  him  to  liberty. 

"LONE    DOG     THE     FAITHFUL"  lOOOfeet  Saturday,  May  31st 

The  faithful  old  Indian  guards  the  graves  of  his  friends  at  any  cost. 


"A    WOMAN'S     HEART"  lOOOfeet  Monday,  June  2nd 

The  true  sweetheart  believes  in  her  lover  despite  his  many  waverings. 


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From  jour  Exchange  or  A.  B.  C.  Co.,  Cleveland,  0. 


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"  UP  AND  DOWN  THE  LADDER "    c-*    mo-**.  ***y  **h 

His  hired  man  smashes  Shakespeare's  head.    Stoddard  engages  a  housekeeper  and  be- 
comes attached  to  her.    He  finds  her  a  very  desirable  young  help-meet 

"TRICKS  OF  THE  TRADE"    0™***™    Tuesday,  May  27* 

He  and  his  wife  are  a  clever  pair.    They  overreach  themselves  and  get  caught  in  the 
clutches  of  the  law.    A  warning  to  crooks  and  their  prey. 

"CUTEY  PLAYS  DETECTIVE"     (^    Wednesday,  M.y  28th 

He  makes  a  very  attractive  housemaid,  enabling  him  to  catch  a  slick  thief  and  bogus 
lord.    He  is  the  hero  and  favorite  of  the  hour. 

"THE   ONLY  VETERAN  IN  TOWN"     Drama     Thursday,!May29th 

Almost  forgotten  by  all  but  his  grandchild.     She  brings  to  him  the  honors  withheld. 
The  whole  town  do  him  homage,  giving  honor  to  whom  honor  is  due. 


"A  HUSBAND'S  TRICK" 


Comedy 


Friday  AMay  30th 


It  is  a  good  one;  changing  the  views  of  an  ardent  suffragette.     She   quits  making 
speeches  and  stays  close  at  home  with  her  husband. 


1.  "ONE  CAN'T  ALWAYS  TELL 

2.  "IF  DREAMS  CAME  TRUE" 
or  "Who'd  Have  Thunk  It" 


Comedies    Saturday,  May  31st 


i.  Three  young  girls  spoil  their  chances  of  an  inheritance  by  their  disrespect.    2.  It  was 
all  a  dream,  full  of  fun  and  action. 


NEW  YORK, 
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NEXT    WEEK 
SIX-A-WEEK 

"WHAT    GOD    HATH    JOINED 
TOGETHER"— Drama 

Monday,  June  2nd 

"BUNNY  AS  A  REPORTER" 
"THREE  TO  ONE" 

Comedies        Tuesday,  June  3rd 

"A  MODERN  PSYCHE"— Pretty 
Comedy      Wednesday,  June  4th 

"THE  HEART  OF  MRS.  ROBINS"— Attractive       Thursday,  June  5th 

"THE  BUTLER'S  SECRET"— Full  of  Dramatic  Depth     Friday,  June  6th 

"THE  FORGOTTEN  LATCHKEY"— Comedy-Surprise 

Saturday,  June  7th 

SPECIAL  FEATURE,  "THE  WHITE  SLAVE,"  IN  TWO  PARTS; 
RELEASED  SATURDAY,  MAY  31st. 

SPECIAL  FEATURE  COMEDY,  "A  REGIMENT  OF 
TWO,"  IN  TWO  PARTS,  BY  ANTHONY  E.  WILLS; 
RELEASED  WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  nth. 

ONE,  THREE  AND  SIX  SHEET  POSTERS  OF  ALL 
VITAGRAPH  SPECIAL  FEATURE  RELEASES. 


THE  VITAGRAPH  COMPANY  OF  AMERICA,  East  15th  Street  and  Locust  Avenue,  BROOKLYN,  N.  Y. 


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The  Rube  takes  his  girl  to  the  circus  and  has  the  time  of  his  life  when  she  is  captivated  by  the 

Uoob.  (On   the  same  Reel) 

The  Scheme  of  Shiftless  Sam  Smith 

Sam  is  too  lazy  to  hoe  his  garden  and  hits  upon  a  labor-saving  idea  which  results  disastrously. 

Released  Monday,  June  9th 


The  Pawnbroker's  Daughter 

The  daughter  of  a  generous,  orthodox  Hebrew 
falls  in  love  with  a  wealthy  Gentile.  A  singular 
experience  teaches  her  a  lesson  and  she  remains 
true  to  her  religion. 

Special  1  and  3-Sheet  Posters 
Released    Wednesdc.y,    June    11th 


Brought  to  Bay 

In  the  West,  Jim  falls  into  bad  company  and  is 
induced  to  join  a  party  of  cattle-rustlers.  Through 
a  startling  incident  his  eyes  are  opened  and  he 
begins  life  anew. 

Released  Friday,  June  13th 


The   Gipsy's    Brand 

A  Powerful  Drama  of  Nomadic  Life 

The  gipsy  girl  is  branded  on  the  forehead  in  a  spirit  of  vengeance.    Later  she  marries  a  young 
doctor,  who  saves  her  from  impending  peril,  and  removes  the  brand. 

Released  Saturday,  June  14th  Special  1,  3  and  6  Sheet  Posters 

The  Tragedy  of  Big  Eagle  Mine 

Feature  Indian  Classic  in  Two  Parts  Special  Release  Saturday,  June  7th 

SPECIAL  PIANO  MUSIC  by  Walter  C.  Simon,  IS  CENTS,  postage  prepaid 

Special  1,  3  and  6  Sheet  Posters 

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Facts  and  Comments 

OX  another  page  of  this  number  will  be  found  a  dis- 
cussion of  certain  phases  of  the  censorship  ques- 
tion. We  did  not  enter  upon  this  discussion  with 
a  desire  to  force  the  issue,  but  merely  to  reply  to  a  state- 
ment from  President  Xeff,  which  is  also  printed  in  this 
number,  together  with  the  text  of  the  censorship  law  re- 
cently passed  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of 
Ohio.  In  calling  attention  to  the  article  mentioned,  which 
we  hope  will  be  read  carefully  by  all  interested  in  the  sub- 
ject of  censorship,  we  desire  to  make  it  clear  that  the  only 
point  of  difference  between  The  Moving  Picture 
World  and  the  worthy  President  of  the  National  League 
is  upon  the  question  of  censoring  of  motion  picture  films. 
As  a  leader  of  the  movement  to  organize  the  motion  pic- 
ture exhibitor  and  to  teach  him  the  responsibilities  of  his 
calling.  President  Neff  has  proved  himself  to  be  the  one 
man  for  the  task.  His  success  has  been  unprecedented 
and  he  has  earned  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  the  trade. 
The  Moving  Picture  World  hopes  to  see  him  continue 
to  lead  the  exhibitors  for  some  years  to  come.  As  the 
organization  grows,  changes  in  its  methods  of  doing  busi- 
ness may  be  necessary,  but  the  continuance  of  Mr.  Neff 
as  its  president  will  be  a  cause  for  congratulation.  Yet, 
we  do  hope  that  he  will  come  to  accept  the  belief  of  The 


Moving  Picture  World,  that  it  is  best  to  "Iyeep  the  Pic- 
ture Out  of  Politics!-' 

*  *     * 

FROM  our  British  correspondent  it  is  learned  that  at 
a  recent  gathering  of  motion  picture  men  in  England, 
"Tay  Pay"  O'Connor  congratulated  the  men  of  the 
trade  assembled  upon  the  pre-eminence  of  the  British 
picture  maker  among  his  fellows  of  other  lands.  Our 
correspondent  hints  that  this  statement  may  cause  a  laugh 
on  this  side  of  the  water.  In  his  surmise,  he  is  correct, 
especially  since  the  representative  of  a  large  British  com- 
panv  is  now  in  this  country  engaging  American  directors 
and  actors  for  the  purpqse  of  making  British  motion  pic- 
tures. With  the  nucleus  thus  assembled  we  may  hope  to 
see  some  good  British  pictures  before  long. 

UNDER  the  title  "The  Opening  of  a  Chestnut  Burr," 
Louis  Reeves  Harrison  gives  utterance  in  this  is- 
sue of  The  Moving  Picture  World  to  some 
strong  truths  concerning  the  tendency  of  present-day  pro- 
ducers of  pictures  to  resort  to  the  literature  and  the  drama 
of  the  "Dark  Ages"  for  their  inspiration.  The  point  Mr. 
Harrison  seeks  "to  drive  home  is  that  the  picture-maker 
should  derive  his  inspiration  from  present-day  problems 
and  not  be  forever  rattling  the  skeleton  of  the  past.  He 
is  right.  What  would  happen  to  the  literature  and  the 
drama  of  the  day  if  it  did  not  progress  ?  Do  our  writers 
of  the  "best  sellers"  or  the  "dramatic  hits"  get  their 
themes  from  dry  and  dusty  tomes  of  forgotten  lore?  Then 
why  should  the  picture-maker  continue  to  delve  in  the 
dust  heap !  There  are  a  lot  of  cheap,  worn-out  theatrical 
tricks  working  overtime  in  present-day  pictures. 

This  brings  to  mind  an  interesting  announcement  made 
in  The  Moving  Picture  World  of  May  24,  to  the  effect 
that  one  of  the  principal  producing  companies  was  about 
to  try  out  a  new  plan  for  the  development  of  scenarios. 
The  plan  most  in  vogue  is  to  let  a  "director"  pick  a 
scenario  that  "appeals"  to  him  and  then  trust  to  luck  that 
he  will  make  a  picture  out  of  it.  No  one  expects  him  to 
follow  the  written  script  and  few  are  able  to  recognize 
the  original  script  in  the  finished  picture.  This  is  to  be 
changed;  the  script  is  to  be  developed  by  a  competent 
writer,  as  is  the  case  with  scripts  for  legitimate  dramatic 
productions,  and  the  "director"  is  to  be  instructed  to  do 
it  that  way.  If  this  plan  succeeds  it  will  simplify  the 
task  of  obtaining  or  educating  directors  and  will  put  a 
premium  upon  intelligent  authorship. 

*  *     * 

THERE  are  yet  a  few  "old  showmen"  dabbling  in 
the  picture  business  who  have  not  learned  the  differ- 
ence between  "grabbing  some  easy  money"  and 
building  a  lasting  reputation  for  a  moving  picture  thea- 
ter. The  remark  is  frequently  heard :  "Give  me  the  sen- 
sational thriller  with  strong  paper  and  I'll  get  the  money." 
A  lurid  poster  in  front  entices  the  unwary,  who  is  tricked 
into  witnessing  some  preposterous  and  impossible  feat — 
a  photographic  trick — and  is  led  to  conclude  that  big 
feature  pictures  are  fakes  and  to  register  a  promise  not 
to  be  caught  again.  Better  the  high-class  picture  that, 
though  it  fails  to  "pack  'em  in  and  stand  'em  up."  will 
make  fast  friends  for  the  house  where  it  is  shown.  The 
latter  is  the  sort  of  patron  who  will  come  again  and  bring 
his  friends. 


TOLEDO   CAN'T   HAVE  MUNICIPAL  "PICKSHOW." 

Plans  made  by  Mayor  Brand  Whitlock  of  Toledo,  Ohio, 
to  open  a  municipal  picture  show  has  been  knocked  out  by 
the  Ohio  Supreme  Court,  which  has  ruled  that  there  is  no 
authority  under  the  laws  of  the  state  which  permits  a  city 
to  enter  into  any  private  enterprise.  It  is  claimed  that  this 
decision  seriously  affects  the  validity  of  the  "home  rule" 
amendment  to  the   Ohio   state   constitution. 


896 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


The  Opening  of  a  Chestnut  Burr 


By  Louis  Reeves  Harrison. 


THE  critic  who  knows  his  trade  must  be  able  to  dis- 
cover the  elements  of  success  in  a  screen  produc- 
tion before  it  is  submitted  to  the  public — he  does 
not  enjoy  the  advantage  of  noting  the  effect  on  an  audi- 
ence because  the  release  is  shown  him  in  private  ex- 
hibition— and  to  do  this  requires  not  only  a  knowledge  of 
the  essential  conventions  but  ability  to  eliminate  what- 
ever in  dramatic  performance  has  become  unessential  be- 
cause of  swift  progress  in  general  intelligence.  That 
progress  is  so  dazzling  to  old  timers  that  many  of  them 
do  not  believe  their  eyes — it  is  really  alarming  that  the 
boy  of  today  knows  more  than  the  man  of  yesterday — it 
is  alarming  to  that  man. 

Grandma  Drama  is  a  conservative  old  lady  whose 
thoughts  linger  fondly  on  the  past,  and  she  is  very  much 
exercised  over  the  antics  of  her  sportive  descendent.  Miss 
Photy  Drama,  already  a  general  favorite,  though  she  is 
just  beginning  to  talk,  who  is  so  alluring  in  those  actions 
that  speak  louder  than  words  that  oral  language  has 
proven  superfluous.  One  secret  of  Miss  Photy 's  tre- 
mendous popularity  lies  in  the  bright  promise  of  her  per- 
formance. She  does  not  always  people  her  strong  scenes 
and  situations  with  puppets  arrayed  in  the  frayed  old 
garments  of  the  wardrobe  room  but  occasionally  with 
fresh  and  living  human  characters. 

Miss  Photy 's  progressive  spirit  has  made  her  a  gen- 
eral favorite,  but  there  are  reactionaries  in  the  family, 
directors  who  "have  been"  actor-gentlemen  on  the  real 
stage  and  acquired  tastes  and  habits  of  the  theater  that 
have  become  deeply  impressed  among  the  convolutions  of 
their  respective  cerebrums  and  cerebellums,  so,  odds  bod- 
kins. Miss  Photy  must  perforce  stupefy  herself  with  the 
half  a  crown's  worth  of  sack  that  impaired  Falstaff's  di- 
gestion. 

I  am  fond  of  Grandma  Drama's  family,  actor-gentle- 
men-of -other-days  and  all,  but  the  critic  of  today  has  to 
consider  the  audience  of  today  and  a  large  proportion  of 
that  audience  has  had  classics  rammed  down  its  throat  to 
the  verge  of  nausea.  A  Great  Humorist,  now  gone  to 
join  the  Immortals,  voiced  the  American  spirit  in  his 
scorn  of  hypocrisy  and  his  detestation  of  such  humbug- 
gery  as  that  of  speaking  of  past  masterpieces  with  bated 
breath.  People  of  the  modern  audience  are  easily  bored 
by  what  Mark  Twain  characterized  as  the  "goody-goody 
puerilities  and  dreary  moralities"  of  old-time  dramatic 
and  literary  favorites.  They  were  mighty  in  a  scope  that 
was  small. 

As  one  of  those  who  have  tried  to  ward  off  influences 
tending  to  make  the  screen  presentation  a  second-rate 
affair,  the  emptiest  and  shallowest  form  of  entertainment 
provided  for  the  people,  I  have  bitterly  attacked  the  ex- 
ploitation of  what  is  degrading,  and  I  can  not  help  re- 
garding as  next  to  that  in  injurious  effect  upon  the  popu- 
larity of  moving  pictures  the  indifference  to  present  de- 
mand manifested  in  the  continuous  repetition  of  dull 
classic  under  the  childish  pretense  of  educating  the  peo- 
ple. When  the  public  comes  to  be  educated  in  this  way 
it  will  be  through  the  agency  of  those  especially  equipped 
by  knowledge  and  training  to  give  instruction. 

Before  presenting  what  may  have  once  done  good  ser- 
vice, the  producer  should  consider  the  present  tendency 
towards  a  new  and  broader  freedom  of  thought  and  action 
which  is  not  at  all  in  accord  with  past  ideals.  The  en- 
dorsement of  last  century  carries  little  weight  in  this  one. 
The  people  of  then  were  given  no  power  to  determine 
■what  should  govern  public  taste  in  the  NOW.  We  are 
becoming  more  and  more  inclined  to  exercise  the  right  of 


private  judgment;  we  are  a  century  further  along  in  ex- 
perience, and  it  looks  as  though  we  will  soon  be  several 
centuries  further  along  in  enlightenment. 

Themes  of  conversation  among  the  cultured  few  of 
only  a  generation  ago,  the  various  political,  social  and  re- 
ligious systems,  are  subjects  of  general  discussion  today. 
They  are  taken  up  by  magazines  circulating  among  tens 
of  millions;  they  appear  in  the  editorial  columns  and  even 
the  news  pages  of  the  daily  press ;  there  is  on  all  sides 
and  at  all  hands  the  rousing  of  a  new  world  to  life  and 
problems  of  common  happiness.  The  pictures  may  re- 
main mute,  but  is  that  any  reason  why  they  should  not 
become  eloquent  in  their  way?  Is  their  special  mission  to 
be  that  of  digging  up  what  has  long  been  so  uninteresting 
that  it  has  been  shelved  and  its  inherited  merit  unexplored 
except  by  those  incapable  of  understanding  what  is  going 
on  in  our  midst? 

No  American  writer  has  even  been  so  dearly  loved  at 
home  and  so  generally  admired  abroad  as  the  one  who 
dared  flash  the  light  of  sane  truth  upon  those  "puerilities 
and  dreary  moralities"  whose  mouldy  caskets  are  now  be- 
ing reopened  for  photodramatic  material.  Mummies  of 
the  past  might  be  forever  honored  if  left  undisturbed — 
they  cease  to  command  respect  when  they  are  unwrapped. 
Comparatively  modern  works  like  "Ben  Hur"  and  "Quo 
Vadis,"  one  a  Tale  of  the  Christ,  the  other  contrasting 
material  decadence  with  spiritual  beauty,  are  among  the 
few  immortals.  As  they  survive,  so  may  all  works  of  mo- 
tive so  great  as  to  stir  the  universal  heart.  They  are  ever 
new  and  help  to  prove  that  ancient  setting  must  have 
themes  appealing  to  modern  interest. 

Any  setting,  historical  or  romantic*  may  be  used — it 
may  even  enhance  a  modern  motive — but  it  takes  a  skilled 
dramatist  to  pour  new  wine  into  old  bottles  even  when 
they  are  not  cracked.  The  wardrobe-room  costume  pho- 
togavotte  is  the  most  hopelessly  artificial  and  stilted  of 
all.  Inasmuch  as  it  portrays  no  phase  of  life  recognizable 
by  sane  people  in  front  it  might  be  the  very  thing  for  a 
lunatic  asylum,  where  it  would  possibly  be  swallowed 
with  the  sweet  and  confiding  faith  of  one-syllabled  in- 
fants listening  to  hallowed  melodies  of  Mother  Goose. 

The  only  redeeming  feature  of  some  of  these  ancient 
inanities  is  the  attractive  personality  of  leading  players, 
many  of  whom  are  liked  by  the  public  for  themselves 
quite  as  much  as  for  their  characterizations  on  the  screen. 
Most  of  their  opportunities  are  pitifully  shallow — such 
must  always  be  the  case  when  the  audience  is  less  in- 
terested in  what  they  are  doing  than  in  how  they  are  do- 
ing it — but  they  have  performed  so  well  under  distressing 
circumstances  that  we  have  come  to  regard  them  with  the 
interest  and  sympathy  we  feel  for  badly-used  friends. 
Their  success,  however,  is  the  more  enduring  than  it  is 
"in  the  silences." 

Enduring  success  is  not  possible  for  stories  set  amid 
conditions  of  no  present  interest  and  devoid  of  concept 
applying  to  present  conditions.  Without  a  modern  idea, 
without  a  modern  abstraction,  without  even  a  modern 
principle,  they  lack  both  illusion  and  those  human  factors 
which  communicate  throught,  feeling  and  emotion  to  the 
audience.  There  is  nothing  "educational"  about  irrespon- 
sible adaptations ;  there  is  very  little  in  them  to  stir  the 
imagination ;  nothing  in  them  relates  to  our  most  cher- 
ished fields  of  endeavor;  nothing  in  them  enables  us  to 
pass  an  evening  of  forgetfulness ;  they  are  devoid  of 
vivid,  direct  and  passionate  appeal ;  they  impress  none  but 
the  ignorant  and  those  who  humorously  regard  motion  pic- 
tures as  The  Opening  of  a  Chestnut  Burr. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE  WORLD 


897 


That  Censorship  Controversy. 

President  Neff  Endeavors  to  Justify  His  Position  Favoring 

Official   Censors — Copy   of   the   Ohio   Censor   Bill — 

Editor's   Comment. 

FROM  the  first  time  that  the  proposition  to  establish  a 
system  of  censoring  motion  pictures  by  act  of  legis- 
lature was  broached,  the  Moving  Picture  World  has 
been  arrayed  on  the  side  of  the  opposition.  It  has  stated  its 
reasons  for  that  opposition  at  different  times  and,  we  be- 
lieve, there  is  little  more  to  be  said  on  the  subject.  That  its 
advice  has  been  understood  and  followed,  one  has  only  to 
note  the  numerous  "censor  bills'*  that  have  failed  of  passage 
in  the  several  state  legislatures  which  have  considered  such 
bills  during  the  past  few  months.  Bearing  this  fact  in 
mind  the  Moving  Picture  World  believes  that  its  stand  on 
the  question  of  "official  state  censorship"  has  been  approved 
by  the  public  in  general  and  the  trade  in  particular. 

Notwithstanding  these  facts  there  seems  still  to  be  a  small 
faction  which  affects  to  believe  in  the  efficacy  of  "state 
censorship"  and  persists  in  urging  that  measure  of  regula- 
tion upon  the  trade.  Of  this  faction  President  M.  A.  Neff  of 
the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  America  is  the 
active  agent  and  spokesman.  As  the  Moving  Picture  World 
has  always  given  both  sides  to  every  controversy  a  chance  to 
be  hSard,  it  takes  pleasure  in  giving  space  to  a  defense  of  the 
"state  censorship"  plan  written  by  President  Neff,  in  the 
following  terms: 

PRESIDENT  NEFF'S  STATEMENT. 
Owing  to  the  many  editorials  and  misleading  statements  made  from  time 
to  time  in  regards  to  the  censor  bill  passed  in  Ohio,  and  the  reasons  for  the 
same,  I  desire  to  make  a  statement:  First,  it  is  absolutely  necessary  to 
have  either  anational  or  a  state  censor  board  with  legal  authority  to  censor 
the  pictures  in  the  State  of  Ohio,  otherwise,  by  reason  of  the  parsing  of 
constitutional  amendments  in  the  State  of  Ohio,  each  city  and  town  in  Ohio 
would  have  the  right  to  establish  a  censor  board.  If  we  had  not  passed  a 
State  censor  bill  in  the  State  of  Ohio,  the  moving  picture  exhibitors  of  Ohio 
might  just  as  well  close  up  their  theaters,  as  possibly  every  town  would  have 
established  a  censor  board  and  any  one  acquainted  with  the  situation  can 
well  imagine  what  this  would  mean.  Every  film  would  not  only  be  censored 
once  in  the  State  of  Ohio,  but  possibly  one  hundred  times,  and  each  censor 
board  would  become  a  political  asset  controlled  by  little,  narrow-minded 
politicians  that  would  destroy  the  moving  picture  business  in  our  state. 

The  Ohio  censor  bill  passed  provides  that  the  members  of  the  Ohio  censor 
board  may  act  with  any  t  other  legally  constituted  board  and  establish  a 
national  censor  board  which  would  censor  the  pictures  for  every  state  in 
the  Union,  but  would  not  be  supnorted  by  donations  from  those  directly 
interested  in  having  pictures  passed. 

In  the  various  reports  that  have  been  made  by  the  various  writers  op- 
posed to  the  censoring  of  pictures,  they  have  never  yet  explained  the  posi- 
tion in  Ohio  thoroughly,  but  have  condemned  all  censor  boards  unless  they 
were  supoorted#  by  contributions,  such  as  the  National  Censorship  Board  in 
New  York,  which  has  no  legal  standing  and  is  supported  practically  by  the 
New  York  manufacturers.  Now,  what  the  exhibitors  want  are  facts,  and 
here  are  a  few  of  them:  We  first  tried  in  every  way  possible  to  secure  a  legal 
national  censor  board,  but  found  it  impossible  to  do  so  by  reason  of  the  fact 
that  the  national  government  has  no  authority,  whatsoever,  to  establish  a 
censor  board  to  censor  pictures  for  the  individual  states.  We  then  turned 
to  the  state  for  relief  arid  after  more  than  a  year's  hard  work  and  planning 
and  asking  for  advice  from  manufacturers,  newspapers  and  others,  no  one 
could  suggest  a  plan  whereby  the  emergency  might  be  met.  It  was  then 
that  I  proposed  •'hat  a  few  states  pass  a  censor  bill  creating  a  censor  board 
and  that  these  few  censor  boards  get  together  and  form  a  national  censor 
congress  and  censor  the  pictures  for  every  state  in  the  Union  by  securing 
the  endorsement  of  all  the  states  to  accept  the  censoring  of  the  pictures  by 
the  censor  congress,  which  would  be  a  very  easy  matter. 

Ohio  has  passed  such  a  bill  and  it  will  soon  become  a  law  and  we  are 
ready  to  work  with  other  states  in  forming  a  national  censor  board  and  are 
ready  to  do  our  best  to  secure  the  endorsement  of  the  censor  board  so 
established  and  which  will  be  legal  in  every  respect  and  once  a  picture  is 
censored  by  the  censor  board  so  credited,  every  state  that  endorses  this 
board  will  not  have  to  pay  a  cent  and  the  exhibitor  and  manufacturer  will 
know  that  there  will  be  no  interference  whatsoever  with  the  pictures  when 
they  are  sent  into  the  various  cities  to  be  exhibited. 

There  is  a  vast  difference  between  a  self-constituted  censor  board  with  no 
authority  and  a  national  censorship  board  created  as  heretofore  stated,  with 
absolute  legal  authority.  The  pictures  now  being  censored  by  the  national 
censorship  board  are,  in  many  places,  being  re-censored,  whereas  if  cen- 
soied  by  a  censor  board,  as  provided  by  the  Ohio  state  censor  bill,  no  one 
would  dare  to  interfere  with  the  exhibition  of  pictures  that  were  so  cen- 
sored. It  is  not  proposed  to  have  forty-eight  states  represented  on  this  cen- 
sor board  because  it  is  not  necessary.  The  other  states  would  not  wish  it. 
I  believe  that  all  the  people  and  the  states  want  is  to  be  secure  and  pro- 
tected from  suggestive  and  immoral  pictures,  and  this  would  increase  the 
picture  business  from  15  per  cent,  to  30  per  cent,  in  every  state.  It  is  a 
step  upwards  and  in  the  right  direction,  for  we  must  have  supervision  for 
pictures  that  are  manufactured,  not  so  much  for  those  made  in  this  country 
as  those  from  foreign  countries  that  are  shipped  to  us. 

The  censor  bill  proposed  in  Michigan  was  outrageous;  it  provided  that 
one  man  and  one  woman  should  constitute  the  board  and  that  $2.50  should 
be  paid,  not  only  for  each  film  censored,  but  for  slides.  I  did  all  I  could 
to  kill  that  bill.  The  bill  in  Kansas  was  almost  as  bad  and  I  did  what  I 
could  to  kill  that  bill.  The  bill  in  Wisconsin  I  have  not  read.  I  was  op- 
posed to  the  bill  in  Iowa  because  it  was  not  properly  drawn  and  did  not 
make  the  proper  provision;  it  was  vicious,  misleading,  unconstitutional  and  a 
detriment  to  all  concerned.  The  bill  in  California  I  am  Gpposed  to  most 
bitterly,  also  I  was  opposed  to  the  bill  offered  in  the  State  or  Indiana.  In 
fact,  I  have  been  opposed  to  every  bill  I  have  seen  so  far,  with  the  exception 
of  the  one  in   Ohio. 

I  am  in  favor  of  a  national  censor  congress  composed  of  broad-minded, 
honest  citizens  who  are  paid  a  stipulated  salary  and  are  under  the  jurisdic- 
tion of  some  authority  who  has  the  right  to  ask  for  their  resignation  if 
the    pictures    get  by   that    should    not,    or   if   pictures    are   condemned   that 


should  have  passed.  I  fail  to  see  where  any  conscientious  person  can  ob- 
ject to  the  exhibitor  having  representation  upon  this  board  and  I  am  sure 
that  the  exhibitors  are  willing  to  have  the  manufacturers  and  the  press 
represented. 

What  we  want  is  a  censor  board  that  means  something  and  that  will  last 
and  will  uplift  the  business;  that  will  not  be  too  exacting  or  too  liberal: 
that  will  not  have  the  least  taint  of  politics  connected  with  it  and  that  will 
not  be  for  any  class  or  classes,  but  that  will  discharge  its  duty  fear- 
lessly, honestly  and  to  the  best  interest  of  everybody.  We  are  forced  in  a 
position  that  we  must  meet  and,  up  to  date,  there  is  not  one  of  those  who 
are  opposed  to  a  censor  board  who  has  offered,  in  my  opinion,  any  relief  to 
the  exhibitor  or  the  manufacturer  and  I,  in  my  opinion,  believe  that  if 
there  is  not  some  kind  of  supervision  for  the  picture  manufacturer,  that  the 
business  will  deteriorate  instead  of  advance,  and  I  believe  that  everybody 
will  concede  that  the  National  Censorship  Board,  up  to  the  time  it  was  dis- 
covered that  it  had  no  legal  authority,  was  doing  good  work,  and  if  it  had 
bten  possible,  I,  for  one,  would  have  endorsed  the  National  Censorship 
Board  and  let  it  go  on  with  the  good  work  it  was  doing,  but  it  had  no 
legal  standing  and  could  not  enforce  the  law.  When  this  fact  became 
known,  the  various  cities  took  advantage  of  the  situation  until  it  has  be- 
come such  a  danger  to  the  exhibitors  that  we  are  forced  to  do  something, 
and  the  only  thing  possible  to  do  under  our  form  of  government,  is  to 
establish  the  national  censor  congress,  created  from  a  few  of  the  states 
and  to  show  the  other  states  the  wisdom  of  endorsing  the  congress. 

I  am  open  for  conviction  and  any  one  that  can  show  me  a  better  plan,  I 
assure  them  that  it  will  be  hailed  with  satisfaction  and  relief.  My  first  con- 
sideration is  for  the  exhibitor,  but  to  be  for  the  exhibitor,  one  must  of  ne- 
cessity be  for  the  people  and  look  to  the  interest  of  the  people  that  the 
exhibitor  may  continue  to  do  business  and  prosper. 

There  is  one  thing  that  impresses  me  in  all  of  the  writings  that  I  have 
read  and  that  is  that  the  National  Censorship  Board,  established  in  New 
York,  seems  to  be  endorsed  by  the  various  writers.  If  some  one  will  kindly 
explain  how  the  censoring  of  pictures  by  the  National  Censorship  Board 
will  assist  exhibitors  and  cause  other  boards  to  discontinue,  we  will  then 
agree  that  the  National  Censorship  Board  can  handle  the  situation,  but  so 
long  as  pictures  must  be  re-censored  after  the  National  Censorship  Board, 
of  New  York,  has  censored  them,  why  waste  the  time  censoring  the  pic- 
tures in  New  York?  If  the  State  of  New  York  will  pass  a  law  legalizing 
the  National  Censorship  Board,  Ohio  will  be  only  too  nappy  to  either  work 
with  them  or  to  accept  the  pictures  they  censor  without  further  question. 

I  have  just  read  the  bill  introduced  in  Illinois.  I  am  absolutely  opposed 
to  the  bill  because  it  does  not  provide  that  the  Illinois  censor  board  may 
co-operate  with  other  states  in  forming  a  national  censor  congress  and  there 
are  other  parts  of  it  I  object  to  that  are  too  numerous  to  mention. 

M.  A.  Neff,  President. 


The   Ohio   Censor  Law. 

For  the  information  of  the  trade  the  full  text  of  the  Ohio 
censor  law  is  published  herewith: 

(House  Bill  No.   322.) 

AN     ACT 

Providing   a    Board    to    Censor   Motion    Picture    Films    and    Prescribing    the 

Duties  and  Powers  of  the   Same. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Ohio:  ^ 

Section  1.  There  is  created  under  the  authority  and  supervision  of  the 
industrial  commission  of  Ohio,  a  board  of  censors  of  motion  picture  films. 
Upon  the  taking  effect  of  this  act,  the  industrial  commission  shall  appoint, 
with  the  approval  of  the  governor,  three  persons,  one  for  one  year,  one  for 
two  years  and  one  for  three  years,  who  shall  constitute  such  board.  Upon 
the  expiration  of  the  term  of  each  member  so  appointed,  a  successor  shall 
be  appointed  in  like  manner  for  a  term  of  three  years. 

Section  2.  The  industrial  commission  shall  furnish  the  board  of  censors 
with  suitable  office  rooms  and  with  sufficient  equipment  to  properly  carry- 
out  the  provisions  of  this  act.  The  board  of  censors  may  organize  by  elect- 
ing one  of  its  members  as  president.  The  secretary  of  the  industrial  com- 
mission shall  act  as  secretary  of  the  board.  Each  member  of  the  board  of 
censors  shall  receive  an  annual  salary  of  one  thousand  five  hundred  dollars 
per  year.  Such  salary  and  expenses  shall  in  no  case  exceed  the  fees  paid 
to  the  Ohio  board  of  censors  for  examination  and  approval  of  motion  picture 
films. 

The  members  of  the  board  shall  be  considered  as  employees  of  the  indus- 
trial commission   and   shall  be  paid  as  other  employees  of  such   commission 
are  paid.     The  industrial   commission  shall  appoint   such   other  assistants  as  t 
may  be  necessary  to  carry  on  the  work  of  the  board. 

Section  3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  board  of  censors  to  examine  and 
censor  as  hereinbefore  provided,  all  motion  picture  films  to  be  publicly  ex- 
hibited and  displayed  in  the  State  of  Ohio.  Such  films  shall  be  submitted  to 
the  board  before  they  shall  be  delivered  to  the  exhibitor  for  exhibition.  The 
board  shall  charge  a  fee  of  one  ($1.00)  dollar  for  each  reel  of  film  to  be  cen- 
sored which  does  not  exceed  one  thousand  (1,000)  lineal  feet;  for  any  reel 
of  film  exceeding  one  thousand  (1,000)  lineal  feet,  the  sum  of  two  ($2.00) 
dollars  shall  be  charged.  All  monies  so  received  shall  be  paid  each  week  into 
the  state  treasury  to  the  credit  of  the  general  revenue  fund. 

Section  4.  Only  such  films  as  are  in  the  judgment  and  discretion  of  the 
board  of  censors  of  a  moral,  educational  or  amusing  and  harmless  character 
shall  be  passed  and  approved  by  such  board.  They  shall  be  stamped  or 
designated  in  an  appropriate  manner  and  consecutively  numbered.  Before 
any  motion  picture  film  shall  be  publicly  exhibited,  there  shall  be  projected 
upon  the  screen  the  words  "Approved  by  the  Ohio  Board  of  Censors,"  and 
the  number  of  the  film. 

Section  5.  The  board  of  censors  may  work  in  conjunction  with  any  censor 
board  or  boards  of  legal  status  of  other  states  as  a  censor  congress  and  the 
action  of  such  congress  in  approving  or  rejecting  films  shall  be  considered 
as  the  action  of  the  board  and  all  films  passed,  stamped  and  numbered  by 
such  congress,  when  the  fees  have  been  paid  to  the  Ohio  board,  shall  be 
considered  approved  by  such  board. 

Section  6.  Ninety  days  after  this  act  shall  take  effect,  no  films  may  be 
publicly  shown  or  exhibited  within  the  State  of  Ohio,  unless  they  have  been 
passed  and  approved  by  the  board  or  the  censor  congress  and  stamped  and 
numbered  by  such  board,  or  congress,  as  provided  for  herein.  _ 

Section  7.  Any  person,  firm  or  corporation  who  shall  publicly  exhibit  or 
show  any  motion  picture  within  the  State  of  Ohio  unless  it  shall  have  been 
passed,  approved  and  stamped  by  the  Ohio  board  of  censors  or  the  congress 
of  censors  shall,  upon  conviction  thereof,  be  fined  not  less  than  twenty-five 
($25.00)  dollars  nor  more  than  three  hundred  ($300.00)  dollars,  or  im- 
prisoned not  less  than  thirty  days  nor  more  than  one  year,  or  both,  for 
each  offense. 

Section  8.  Any  person  in  interest  being  dissatisfied  with  any  order  of  such 
board  shall  have  the   same  rights  and   remedies  as   to  filing  a  petition   for 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


hearing  on  the  reasonableness  and  lawfulness  of  any  order  of  such  board  or 
to  set  aside,  vacate  or  amend  any  order  of  such  board  as  is  provided  in  the 
case  of  persons  dissatisfied  with  the  orders  of  the  Industrial  Commission. 

President  Neff's  statement  calls  for  a.  reply.  We  regret 
that  he  has  not  brought  forward  more  definite  reasons  foi 
his  statement  that  a  measure  such  as  he  proposes  is  needed 
to  save  the  motion  picture  exhibitor  from  elimination.  He 
has  said  that  such  is  the  case,  but  no  proof  that  his  state- 
ments are  borne  out  by  conditions  has  been  produced; 
neither  does  he  advance  a  single  argument  or  proof  in  his 
statement,   foregoing. 

Take,  for  example,  the  statement  that  possibly  every 
town  in  the  state  of  Ohio  would  have  established  a  censor 
board  if  the  Ohio  law  had  not  been  passed;  where  is  the 
proof  that  such  action  was  imminent  and,. what  is  more  to 
the  point,  what  prohibition  is  there  in  the  Ohio  law  that 
will  prevent  such  action  being  taken  in  the  future? 

We  have  read  the  Ohio  law  several  times  and  fail  to 
discover  a  word  that  prohibits  the  municipal  government  of 
any  city  or  town  in  that  state  from  establishing  a  local 
censor.  All  that  the  law  provides  is  the  appointment  of 
a  State  Board  of  Censors  which  shall  inspect  motion  picture 
film  and  stereopticon  slides  to  be  shown  in  that  state  and 
receive  a  salary  for  its  services;  also,  that  any  exhibitor 
showing  a  picture  not  bearing  the  stamp  of  approval  of  the 
board  shall  be  penalized. 

As  for  conditions  in  Ohio  it  has  not  been  clearly  stated 
that  it  was  not  possible  for  municipalities  to  establish  cen- 
sor boards  before  the  passage  of  this  new  censor  law.  That 
it  was  possible  for  them  so  to  do  is  proved  by  the  fact  that 
Cleveland  did  establish  such  a  censor  board  before  the 
law  was  passed.  What  Cleveland  did,  other  cities  might 
have  done  had  there  been  a  definite  demand  for  such  action 
on  the  part  of  the  citizens  of  those  other  cities.  That  they 
did  not  so  establish  censor  boards  is  sufficient  refutation  of 
the  statement  that  there  was  great  danger  of  the  exhibitor 
being  put   out   of  business  by  local   censor   boards. 

We  are  safe  in  declaring  that,  at  no  time,  has  there  been 
the  least  danger  that  exhibitors  in  the  state  of  Ohio  would 
be  even  inconvenienced,  much  less  put  out  of  business,  by 
local  censor  boards. 

We  further  declare  that  there  is  nothing  in  the  Ohio 
censor  law,  published  herewith,  that  prevents  the  establish- 
ment of  local  censor  boards  in  any  city  in  the  state  of  Ohio 
if  the  authorities  of  the  cities  so  decide. 

"The  Censor  Congress." 

President  Neff  says  that  the  ultimate  end  sought  by  the 
enactment  of  state  censorship  laws  is  what  he  terms  a 
"censor  congress,"  which  is  to  be  composed  of  delegated 
members  of  the  censor  boards  of  other  states.  The  censor 
congress  thus  formed  is  to  censor  pictures  for  all  other  states 
without  cost.    This,  he  declares,  will  be  "a  very  easy  matter." 

Will  it? 

In  the  first  place  every  censor  bill  that  has  been  offered 
in  other  states  has  provided  that  its  board  of  censors  shall 
be  paid  for  its  services  out  of  the  fees  charged  for  censoring. 
If  no  fees  are  charged  no  salaries  will  be  paid.  The  Ohio 
law  provides  that  its  censor  board  may  work  in  conjunction 
'with  any  other  censor  board  legally  constituted  as  a  censor 
congress  (See  section  5),  and  the  action  of  the  congress 
shall  be  considered  as  the  action  of  the  Ohio  board,  when 
the  fees  have  been  paid  to  the  Ohio  board. 

If  the  Ohio  board's  fees  must  be  paid  what  about  the  fees 
of  the  boards  of  the  other  states  that  join  in  the  censor  con- 
gress; will  they  not  have  to  be  paid,  too?  In  that  emergency 
what  becomes  of  President  Xeff's  claim  that  films  will  be  cen- 
sored without  cost? 

Suppose  that  not  more  than  ten  states  should  join  Ohio 
in  the  "censor  congress"  idea;  at  the  rate  charged  as  pro- 
vided by  the  Ohio  law  the  cost  of  censoring  a  single  thou- 
sand foot  reel  of  film  would  be  ten  dollars.  But  if  the  state 
censor  idea  became  popular  is  it  not  probable  that  twenty, 
or  even  forty-eight  states  might  join  Ohio  in  its  "censor 
congress"  and  then  the  cost  would  run  up  to  forty-eight 
dollars  per  reel. 

There  is  no  telling  where  this  thing  would  stop.  Politi- 
cians are  quick  to  accept  suggestions  that  give  jobs  and  pay 
salaries.  We  have  sufficient  examples  of  that  already.for 
in  every  state  where  the  censor  idea  has  been  proposed,  jobs 
have  been  created  and  salaries  ranging  as  high  as  $3,500 
per  year  and  expenses  have  been  provided  for  the  censors. 
Is  it  to  be  supposed  that  the  politicians  of  other  states  will 
waive  all  these  possibilities  of  jobs  and  salaries  when  Ohio 
especially  provides  that  its  fees  must  be  paid  to  make  the 
action  of  a  "censor  congress"  legal  in   that  state? 

But  upon  what  does  President  Neff  base  his  claim  that 
there  would  be  no  cost?  Unfortunately  he  does  not  say. 
We  confess  that  we  do  not  know.     There   is  not  the  least 


SOCIETY  GIRL  IN  FILMS? 

Count  Mourik  de  Beaufort,  a  society  writer  on  the  New 
York  American,  gave  Manhattan  picture  fans  a  scare  last 
Sunday  when  he  printed  an  interview  with  Adele  Ray,  a 
Thanhouser  player,  in  which  he  claimed  that  she  was  none 
other  than  Evelyn  Prevost,  cousin  to  Mrs.  John  Jacob  Astor 
and  a  society  bud  of  the  first  water.  Miss  Rev's  (or  Pre- 
vost's)  latest  Thanhouser  picture  is  "His  Sacrifice,"  a  drama 
released  in  June.  The  newspaperman  stated  that  the  young 
woman  had  gone  into  the  photoplay  field  "to  be  useful  as 
well  as  ornamental." 


assurance  given  that  any  state  or  states  would  agree  to 
recognize  the  "censor  congress."  The  likelihood  of  their 
doing  anything  of  the  kind  is  remote.  For  years  efforts 
have  been  made  to  secure  a  uniform  divorce  law  in  the 
United  States,  but,  up  to  this  day  the  matter  is  as  far 
from  solution  as  it  was  in  the  beginning.  If  the  individual 
states  will  not  come  together  on  a  matter  of  so  great  im- 
portance what  chance  is  there  that  they  would  ever  agree 
on  the  censorship  question? 

We  are  bound  to  conclude  that  the  "national  iensor  con- 
gress" is  an  iridescent  dream. 

But  what  about  the  Ohio  censor  law?  As  before  noted 
it  guarantees  nothing  to  the  exhibitor  in  the  way  of  im- 
munity from  the  activities  of  local  boards  of  censorship, 
if  established,  and  it  does  not  prevent  their  establishment. 
It  is  empowered  to  inspect  every  reel  of  film  that  comes  into 
the  state  for  exhibition — approximately  150  per  week.  There 
are  four  points  in  Ohio  where  reels  are  received  daily  for 
distribution  to  exhibitors.  The  members  of  the  board  will 
have  to  distribute  themselves  among  these  points  in  order 
to  prevent  delay  in  the  exchange  service  to  exhibitors  or 
that  service  will  be  seriously  deranged.  This  is  a  matter 
that  can  be  adjusted.  But  when  the  film  reaches  Ohio 
it  is  a  finished  product  and  any  eliminations  will  have  the  • 
effect  of  mutilating  the  picture,  as  is  the  case  in  Chicago 
and  other  towns  that  have  censor  boards. 

Then  there  is  the  item  of  cost,  not  great,  to  be  sure,  but 
it's  there  and  must  be  paid  by  someone.  As  the  manufac- 
turers are  not  interested  they  will  not  pay  it.  It  will  be 
collected  from  the  exchange,  and  the  exchanges,  operated 
by  practical  men,  will  shift  it  over  to  the  exhibitor  in  an 
increased  cost  of  service,  and  there  you  are.  The  exhibitor 
pays.  . 

If  there  is  an  exhibitor,  or  group  of  exhibitors,  in  Ohio 
unable  to  cope  with  local  situations  and  who  fear  that 
they  are  going  to  lose  their  business  through  the  activities 
of  local  censors  and  who  further  believe  that  this  Ohio 
bill  will  prevent  all  these  calamities,  they  ought  now  to 
be  able  to  sleep  o'  nights,  for  the  bill  has  been  passed.  But, 
if  they  believe  all  these  things,  their  faith  passeth  under- 
standing, for  it  is  not  so  written  in  the  law. 

If  editorial  writers  and  others  disagreeing  with  President 
Neff  on  this  question  of  censorship  have  been  unable  to 
offer  a  solution  other  than  that  provided  by  the  very  effi- 
cient and  capable  National  Board  of  Censorship,  it  is  be- 
cause they  have  failed  to  discover  the  emergency  of  which  he 
speaks.  Also,  they  are  cognizant  of  the  legal  questions 
involved  and  the  political  dangers  which  would  threaten 
the  trade  through  the  invocation  of  the  law. 

In  the  world's  product  of  motion  pictures,  that  of'  the 
United  States  is  of  the  highest  quality — it  is  the  world's 
standard.  That  such  is  true,  are  not  the  honest  honorable 
and  competent  men  and  women  of  the  National  Board  of 
Censorship,  who  have  labored  earnestly  for  the  past  three 
years,  entitled  to  our  highest  commendations?  We  are  told 
that  American  pictures  pass  foreign  censors  almost  with- 
out question;  ought  they  not  receive  like  consideration  at 
home?  If,  as  President  Neff  claims,  it  is  the  foreign  picture 
that  causes  trouble  here,  are  we  not  capable  of  doing  the 
necessary  house  cleaning  without  an  act  of  legislature? 
Also,  remember: 
KEEP  THE  PICTURE  OUT  OF  POLITICS!!! 


OUTDOOR  PRESENTATION  OF  "HIAWATHA." 

Following  the  close  of  the  "Hiawatha"  engagement  at 
the  Berkeley  Theater,  F.  E.  Moore,  owner  of  the  produc- 
tion, left  Saturday  night  for  his  home  in  Middletown,  Ohio. 
Before  returning  here  Mr.  Moore  will  visit  the  Indian 
out-of-door  play,  "Hiawatha,"  which  opens  in  New  York, 
June  9th,  under  the  auspices  of  the  Woman's  Municipal 
League.  The  presentation  will  be  at  Fieldston,  opposite  Van 
Cortlandt  Park. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


899 


Conditions  in  Germany. 

The  Horrors  of  Government  Supervision  of  Picture  Theaters 

Described — American  Pictures  Favored. 

By  W.  Stephen  Bush. 

Berlin,  May  4,  1913. 

NO  just  estimate  of  the  conditions  in  the  German  film 
industry  is  possible  without  taking  into  account  the 
attitude  of  the  German  government  toward  the  maker 
and  exhibitor  of  motion  pictures.  The  great  amusement  trust 
in  Germany  is  the  government.  Practically  two-thirds  of  all 
the  theaters,  and  actually  all  the  theaters  in  the  big  cities, 
are  managed  by  financial  agents  of  the  government.  Within 
recent  years  just  about  the  time  motion  pictures  began  to  be 
popular  in  our  own  country,  there  was  a  sharp  advance  in 
theatrical  prices.  From  popular  prices,  averaging  about  60 
cents,  the  scale  was  raised  to  an  average  well  exceeding  a 
dollar.  A  good  seat  in  any  of  the  first-class  theaters  of 
Berlin  is  not  to  be  had  to-day  for  less  than  two  dollars  and 
fifty  cents  and  there  are  plenty  for  three  dollars  and  more. 

At  this  moment  appeared  the  motion  picture.  The  thrifty 
Germans  gave  it  an  enthusiastic  welcome.  The  exhibitors 
were  wise  enough  not  to  go  too  far  below  theatrical  prices, 
but  just  far  enough  to  become  formidable  competitors. 
Prices  ranged  from  25  cents  to  one  dollar,  with  a  few  seats 
at  a  dollar  and  a  half.  At  once  a  very  desirable  patronage 
was  transferred  from  the  high-priced  theater  to  the  moving 
picture  house.  Small  theaters  started  up  all  over  the  city, 
but  the  government  treated  them  with  contempt. 

It  was  not  long,  however,  before  one  after  another  of  the 
old  legitimate  theaters  changed  from  the  drama  to  moving 
pictures.  Presently  new  theaters  were  built  rivalling  in 
comfort  and  luxury  the  best  of  the  legitimate  houses  and 
showing  ''straight"  pictures  to  crowded  houses.  Xow  the 
government  took  the  alarm.  It  was  estimated  that  one  big 
theater  had  taken  in  over  $120,000  in  one  year.  Perhaps  the 
estimate  was  too  high;  but,  at  any  rate,  it  was  large  enough 
to  excite  both  the  envy  and  the  greed  of  the  government. 
The  latter  had  two  ways  of  coping  with  the  situation — its 
weapons  were  censorship  and  taxation.  We  need  not  be 
any  too  proud  of  the  position  which  the  showman  occupies 
in  the  eyes'  of  our  own  law,  but  he  is  a  pampered  individual 
indeed  when  compared  with  the  German  showman.  The 
government  issues  its  edict  and  fixes  a  rate  of  taxation 
strictly  to  suit  itself  and  with  no  thought  of  the  probable 
fate  of  the  exhibitor.  I  questioned  a  number  of  exhibitors 
and  moving  picture  experts  here  and  they  agree  that  the 
government  takes  about  twenty  per  cent,  of  the  gross  re- 
ceipts of  the  exhibitor.  The  taxation  begins  with  every 
ticket  which  is  sold  at  10  cents  and  the  ratio  increases  rapidly 
as  the  tickets  increase  in  value.  I  do  not  think  there  are  half 
a  dozen  moving  picture  theaters  here  charging  as  low  as 
five  cents,  but  many  have  now  gone  to  9  cents  just  to  avoid 
the  tax. 

Even  the  tax,  however  unjust  and  arbitrary  as  it  seems  to 
be,  has  failed  utterly  to  hurt  the  popularity  of  the  pictures. 
The  government  therefore  used  the  bludgeon  of  censorship. 
The  principles  and  methods  of  German  censorship  baffle 
description.  They  violate  every  rule  of  fair  play  and  ignore 
the  plainest  mandates  of  equity.  Prussia  is  a  semi-despotic 
country;  there  is  supposed  to  be  a  representative  govern- 
ment, but  it  never  goes  any  further  than  the  police  allow. 
From  infancy  the  Prussian  is  taught  that  the  serious  busi- 
ness of  life  is  to  drill  and  to  be  drilled.  Implicit  and  un- 
reasoning obedience  to  whatever  the  paternal  government  is 
pleased  to  ordain  is  second  nature  with  the  average  subject 
of  the  Kaiser. 

I  asked  an  editor  here:  "If  the  police  censor  the  pictures, 
who  censors  the  police?"  and  he  could  not  understand.  The 
''divine  right"  business  is  paying  big  dividends  in  Germany. 

Censorship  is  not  only  severe,  but  hopelessly  stupid.  The 
producer  takes  his  film  to  a  police  official  who  orders  a  couple 
of  hundred  feet  cut  out.  No  reasoning  is  possible.  The 
producer  who  would  contumaciously  argue  the  point  with 
the  police  official  might  be  arrested  and  dragged  off  to  jail 
for  insulting  a  representative  of  the  government.  I  under- 
stand that  an  appeal  is  technically  possible,  but  it  is  attended 
with  so  much  red  tape  and  so  great  an  expense  that  the 
remedy  is  about  as  bad  as  the  disease.  There  is  no  system 
in  this  censorship.  The  whims  and  the  temperament  "of  an 
individual  decide. 

One  of  the  most  notorious  enemies  of  the  motion  picture 
is  a  man  known  as  Professor  Brunner.  He  calls  the  motion 
picture  a  "national  peril"  and  arranges  public  meetings  in 
which  the  motion  picture,  the  producer  and  the  exhibitor  are 
denounced   as   public   enemies.     This   is   the   very  man   who 


has  been  asked  by  the  police  to  assist  in  censoring  the 
pictures.  He  does  not  want  to  compromise  with  the  pic- 
tures; he  wants  to  destroy  them. 

To  mention  just  one  example  of  the  depths  of  stupidity 
of  German  censorship.  The  Gaumonts  have  released  a  series 
of  "comics"  showing  the  adventures  of  a  little  boy.  The 
government  censored  these  pictures  and  suppressed  several 
of  them  because  "they  seemed  to  encourage  rebellion  against 
parental  authority."  Pictures  showing  the  most  sordid  and 
revolting  conditions  of  the  underworld  and  others  chiefly 
dealing  with  the  seduction  of  poor  working  girls  by  dread- 
ful employers  are  passed  without  question. 

It  is  little  short  of  marvelous  that,  despite  all  these  handi- 
caps, the  picture  thrives  here  better  even  than  in  England. 
The  chain  of  first-class  moving  pictures  with  large  capacity 
and  every  possible  improvement  and  convenience  is  constant 
food  for  wonder.  The  Cines  Company  and  "Al"  Woods,  the 
American  theatrical  manager,  own  most  of  these  theaters 
and  are  making  them  pay.  All  this  is  due  to  the  American- 
made  picture,  without  which  no  program  is  deemed  com- 
plete. Almost  all  American  manufacturers  are  represented 
in  Berlin  and  if  comparatively  few  of  their  products  are  ad- 
vertised in  the  trade  journals  the  cause  must  be  sought  in 
a  well  established  market  which  takes  care  of  itself. 

American  pictures  suffer  comparatively  little  from  the 
censor.  For  the  audiences  here  the  screened  description  of 
American  life,  American  customs  and  manners,  American 
men,  women  and  children  seem  to  be  specially  attractive. 
While  we  often  discriminate  against  the  foreign  pictures,  the 
foreigners  seem  to  be  prejudiced  in  favor  of  our  pictures. 
American  comedies  are  in  great  demand. 

This  demand  for  American  pictures  has  set  the  German 
manufacturers  thinking.  They  are  looking  for  the  secret  of 
our  success.  They  realize  that  their  product  must,  in  quality 
and  from  a  moral  point  of  view,  seek  to  approach  American 
standards.  Some  have  hired  directors  with  American  ex- 
perience and  others  are  looking  for  American  directors  and 
willing  to  pay  the  price.  At  present  not  one  of  them  has 
a  studio  of  his  own.  Studios  are  hired  by  the  day  or  week 
and  the  expense  is  often  shared  by  a  combination  of  two  or 
three  producers.  Only  one  or  two  of  the  manufacturers 
have  permanent  staffs  of  actors.  As  a  rule,  their  product  is 
good  in  photography;  some  of  their  artists  are  capable,  but 
the  differences  in  the  taste  and  the  demands  of  German  audi- 
ences make  very  many  of  the  German  pictures  ineligible  for 
the  American  market.  The  German  audience  revels  in  detail. 
A  death  scene  is  reckoned  a  great  sentimental  luxury,  which 
may  be  prolonged  ad  libitum.  All  "weepy  stuff"  is  relished 
and  must  not  be  cut.  Action  is  not  deemed  as  important 
as  sentiment.  The  German  is  cosmopolitan  enough  to  find  a 
source  of  wonder  and  delight  in  the  foreign,  especially  the 
American  picture,  but  he  does  like  the  native  product  best 
when  it  seems  "to  the  manner  born."  It  must  also  be  re- 
membered that  in  spite  of  the  effective  educational  system 
which  prevails,  in  all  Germany  the  people  outside  of  the 
cities  are  like  most  people  in  Europe — well  contented  to 
move  in  old  conventional  grooves.  They  have  simple  tastes 
and  very  little  pleases  them.  They  are  the  very  opposite  of 
critical.  With  these  audiences  almost  any  picture  will  make 
a  hit.  This  accounts  for  an  awful  lot  of  trashy  things, 
wretched  in  photography  and  simply  impossible  in  all  other 
respects. 

There  are  two  things  which  are  done  much  better  here 
than  on  our  side.  I  refer  to  music  and  to  methods  of  pre- 
sentation generally.  Berlin  has  motion  picture  theaters  in 
the  finest  parts  of  the  city,  which  are  wonders  of  artistic  ar- 
chitecture and  scientific  management.  When  you  enter  one 
of  these  theaters,  like  Mozart  Hall  or  the  Cines  Palace  or 
the  Kammer  Spiele,  you  feel  at  once  that  you  are  a  guest 
and  the  object  of  pleasing  attention.  The  corps  of  ushers  is 
well  distributed  and  well  trained.  The  visitor  gets  the  idea 
that  he  is  receiving  individual  attention.  He  is  guided  to  a 
spacious  and  comfortable  chair  or  a  box;  he  gets  a  pro- 
gram for  2  cents  and  the  usher  either  marks  his  program  or 
tells  him  what  picture  is  on  the  screen  and  how  far  it  has 
run.  If  he  wishes  any  kind  of  refreshment  special  waiters 
bring  it  at  once  and  the  price  is  very  reasonable.  There  is  a 
receptacle  for  glass  or  cup  convenient  to  every  seat.  Your 
hat  and  coat  are  taken  care  of  for  a  nominal  sum.  There  are 
no  swift  or  sudden  changes  from  darkness  to  light  or  vice 
versa.  The  lights  come  on  gradually  and  go  out  gradually. 
No  noise  from  the  operator's  booth  ever  gets  to  the  ears  of 
the  audience.  All  seats  are  reserved  and  numbered,  the 
higher  the  price  of  admission  the  further  away  from  the 
curtain.  The  attendants  are  courteous  to  a  fault.  The  in- 
terior of  Mozart  Hall  reminds  one  of  an  opera  house  (not 
"opr'y  house"),  in  its  comfort  and  luxury. 

The   crowi.ing  achievement   of   the   German   theater,   how- 


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ever,  is  the  music.  Orchestras  of  fifteen  and  twenty  pieces 
are  not  uncommon.  The  musicians  are  artists  led  by  capable 
and  experienced  directors.  The  slightest  detail  is  looked 
after.  Every  important  psychological  moment  in  the  drama 
is  effectively  elaborated  by  the  music  and  when  a  climax 
comes  music  aids  motion  in  a  most  acceptable,  manner.  I 
admired  their  music  for  comedies;  it  always  fitted  like  a 
glove.  No  subject  puzzles  the  musical  director.  I  should 
imagine  that  music  for  a  subject  like  the  Ohio  flood  was  not 
easy  to  select,  but  the  accompaniment  in  the  Cines  Palace 
was  strikingly  adapted  to  the  scenes  on  the  screen.  Awk- 
ward pauses  are  unknown.  Nor  are  the  show  places  the  only 
ones  exhibiting  this  fine  regard  for  musical  possibilities. 
The  thing  is  typical  of  all  moving  picture  theaters — large 
and  small.  Of  course,  the  weekly  change  of  program  favors 
a  proper  selection  and  rendition  of  music,  but  I  found  that 
the  music  was  just  as  good  the  first  day  of  the  program.  I 
am  firmly  persuaded  that  the  musical  feature  of  the  enter- 
tainment goes  a  long  way  toward  reconciling  the  public  to 
the  big  prices. 

I  cannot  say  much  for  the  projection,  which  is  on  the 
whole  little  better  than  ordinary.  All  European  pictures 
seem  to  be  printed  on  poor  stock  and  often  reminded  me  of 
those  terrible  non-inflammable  films  which  we  saw  in  the 
latter  part  of  1009.  Few  films  I  saw  were  in  perfect  condi- 
tion.   The  only  exceptions  were  some  of  the  feature  films. 

The  film  market  in  Germany  is  in  a  most  bewildering  con- 
dition— confusion  worse  confounded.  Pathe  and  Gaumont 
are  dealing  with  exhibitors  directly,  releases  are  by  no 
means  regular  and  then  there  is  the  exclusive  film,  generally 
a  feature  of  three,  four  and  five  reels  and  sold  on  the  State 
rights  or  world's  rights  plan.  I  was  told  that  "Quo  Vadis" 
was  rented  at  10,000  marks  ($2,500),  for  two  weeks;  another 
sensational  film  fetched  a  rental  of  17,000  marks  (over 
$4,000),  in  Leipzig,  for  a  period  of  one  month.  There  are  a 
number  of  independent  directors  who  form  temporary  al- 
liances with  distinguished  artists  of  the  big  legitimate  thea- 
ters and  sell  negatives  to  certain  syndicates.  This,  too, 
helps  to  bedevil  the  market. 

The  exhibitors  are  well  organized  in  Berlin  and  other  large 
cities  of  the  empire,  but  the  national  union  is  not  strong  and 
has  but  little  influence.  They  are,  as  far  as  I  have  been  able 
to  observe,  an  intelligent  body  of  men,  with  a  proper  realiza- 
tion of  their  responsibilities.  They  are  greatly  alarmed  just 
now  at  the  threatened  action  of  the  government,  which  in 
addition  to  levying  an  exorbitant  tax,  intends  in  October  to 
take  up  the  question  of  exacting  a  special  yearly  license.  If 
this  plan  is  carried  out  many  places  will  have  to  close.  The 
government  will  treat  the  theaters  like  we  treated  the  saloons 
under  the  old  high  license  system.  If  no  proof  of  their  ne- 
cessity is-  forthcoming  no  license  will  be  issued  and  of  the 
necessity  the  government  will  be  the  sole  judge. 

In  spite  of  all  present  troubles  and  allowing  for  further 
displays  of  hostility  on  the  part  of  the  government,  I  pre- 
dict a  great  progress  in  Germany.  There  are  only  about 
3,000  houses  in  the  empire  now,  but  I  would  not  be  surprised 
to  see  this  number  trebled  in  a  year  or  so.  There  is  no  rea- 
son why  this  market  cannot  yield  as  fine  returns  to  the 
American  producer  as  the  British  market.  Nothing  more  is 
needed  than  ordinary  American  energy  and  a  proper  under- 
standing of  conditions. 

For  the  benefit  of  other  American  moving  picture  men 
who  may  hereafter  be  tempted  to  visit  here,  I  venture  to  set 
down  a  few  observations  which  will,  I  trust,  help  them  to 
understand  some  of  the  strange  native  customs.  I  must 
take  special  notice  of  the  German  elevator.  In  its  normal 
state  the  German  elevator  dwells  in  sacred  seclusion.  It  is 
strongly  and  safely  locked  up  and  the  possession  of  the  key 
to  the  elevator  is  the  last  and  crowning  emblem  of  janitorial 
dignity.  When  uncouth  foreigners  like  myself  wish  to  use 
the  elevator — natives  refrain  from  it  out  of  regard  for  its 
sacred  character — notice  is  given  to  the  janitor,  who  in  the 
exercise  of  a  sound  discretion  may  or  may  not  admit  the 
applicant.  In  any  event,  the  news  that  the  elevator  is  about 
to  be  used  travels  rapidly  through  the  neighborhood  and 
soon  crowds  of  small  boys  and  girls  assemble  and  witness 
the  unlocking  and  ascending  of  the  elevator.  The  elevator 
ascends  with  imposing  dignity  and  often  attains  a  speed  of 
a  floor  a  minute.  When  you  get  out,  the  elevator  immedi- 
ately descends  and  is  again  locked  up.  If  you  fancy  that 
upon  your  tipping  the  bell  the  elevator  will  re-ascend  and 
bring  you  back  to  the  ground  floor  you  have  a  great  lesson 
to  learn.  In  the  first  place  there  is  no  bell.  In  the  second 
place  the  elevator  is  not  to  be  lightly  molested.  It  has  taken 
you  up — please  expect  no  more,  walk  down.  What  a  sub- 
lime example  of  patience  our  German  friends  are  setting 
us  here.     In  the  mad  rush  of  elevators  "up  and  down"  we 


often  are  betrayed  into  violent  comment  on  the  slowness  of 
the  elevator  service  and  are  prone  to  speak  rudely  to  the  ele- 
vator man  or  the  starter.  We  thus  frequently  compromise 
our  dignity.  Our  German  cousins  would  much  rather  walk 
down  than  imperil  their  philosophic  calm. 

I  would  also  warn  you  away  from  what  the  Berliners  call 
their  circular  system  of  suburban  transit.  It  is  fair,  but 
false.  Apparently  it  costs  three  and  a  half  cents  to  ride  in 
any  direction  for  a  distance  of  four  stations.  In  the  cheaper 
cars  it  is  only  2\/2  cents.  Naturally  you  feel  elated.  At  this 
rate  you  can  ride  continuously  for  a  year  and  never  touch 
your  savings  bank.  You  ride,  say  a  distance  from  Grand 
Street  to  14th  and  blithely  walk  off,  giving  the  ticket  taker 
your  ticket  and  a  look  of  hauteur.  He  sternly  orders  you  to 
halt  and  explains  that  you  have  gone  one  station  beyond 
the  limit  of  your  ticket.  Things  begin  to  look  black.  Pas- 
sengers gather  and  view  you  with  ill-concealed  suspicion. 
Nobody  has  a  kind  word  for  you.  You  really  begin  to  lose 
sympathy  for  yourself,  when  another  uniformed  railway  em- 
ploye leads  you  to  a  ticket  office  where  you  have  to  pay  an 
additional  7J^  cents.  You  mentally  retract  all  you  ever 
said  about  the  Interborough  and  thereafter  trust  yourself 
to  taxis,  which  are  quite  cheap.  Marvels  of  cheapness  are 
the  electric  stages.  For  two  cents  you  can  ride  indefinitely. 
I  gave  a  conductor  three  cents,  for  which  I  was  rewarded 
with  about  a  dozen  rapid  military  salutes.  I  then  tried  him 
with  four  cents  and  he  ignored  every  other  passenger  on  the 
car  for  the  rest  of  the  journey.  No  doubt  I  could  have 
bought  the  car  for  a  dollar,  but  the  cost  of  transportation 
might  have  killed  my  profit.  The  conductor  gazed  after  me 
with  wondering  eyes  and  a  last  salute.  I  am  only  a  poor 
film  man,  but  I  am  always  willing  to  do  my  share  in  sustain- 
ing our  reputation  as  a  nation  of  reckless  spenders. 


SUPERVISION  OF  PICTURES  IN  BAVARIA. 

In  the  Kingdom  of  Bavaria,  which  is  a  part  of  the  German 
Empire,  all  motion  picture  films  are  under  the  control  of  the 
Royal  Police  Commission  of  the  city  of  Munich,  and  an  ap- 
plication for  approval  stating  all  particulars  regarding  the 
picture  must  be  made  to  that  commission  before  it  may  be 
shown  in  any  house  in  Bavaria.  Under  this  provision  the 
Police  Senate  of  the  city  of  Nuremberg  has  adopted  an 
elaborate  set  of  rules  providing  for  the  examination  of  pic- 
tures and  other  forms  of  entertainment  to  be  offered  to  the 
public.  Children  under  sixteen  years  of  age  are  forbidden 
to  enter  picture  shows  under  any  circumstance,  but  to  pro- 
vide for  children,  special  exhibitions  are  permitted,  the  pro- 
gram of  which  must  first  obtain  the  approval  of  the  City 
Magistrate.  Exhibitions  for  the  young  may  be  given  only 
on  the  afternoons  of  Wednesday,  Saturday,  Sunday  and  holi- 
days, and  in  the  winter  from  October  1  to  May  31,  between 
the  hours  of  2  and  5  o'clock,  and  from  April  1  to  September 
30,  from  2  until  6  p.  m.,  and  must  not  exceed  an  hour  and  a 
half  in  length. 


BRITISH  NOTES. 

The  fifth  annual  trade  dinner  has  been  held  this  week  at 
the  Hotel  Cecil.  Mr.  T.  P.  O'Connor,  M.  P.,  a  well-known 
and  popular  journalist,  was  the  principal  guest  and  nearly  500 
town  and  provincial  trade  representatives  attended.  The 
observation  which  accompanied  the  toasts  and  speeches  were 
most  social  and  of  general  interest  and  a  commendable  fact 
was  that  no  one  attempted  to  analyse  the  recent  trade  crisis. 
The  suggestion  was  made  in  the  course  of  the  proceedings 
by  different  speakers  that  Mr.  O'Conner  was  an  eminently 
suitable  person  to  represent  the  Industry  in  Parliament. 
Unfortunately  Mr.  O'Conner's  reply  to  the  principal  toast  was 
slightly  misrepresentative;  one  of  his  remarks  which  stuck  in 
the  throats  of  the  few  Americans  present  being  "today  the 
Industry  in  England  is  at  a  point  far  in  front  of  the  Industry 
in  other  parts  of  the  world." 

*    *    .* 

A  custom  growing  in  favor  in  this  country  seems  to  be 
the  sending  out  by  film  manufacturers  of  artists  of  repute 
as  exhibition  turns.  Only  the  other  day  Signor  Castellain, 
the  Italian  giant  who  plays  Ursus  in  "Quo  Vadis"  appeared 
as  an  additional  attraction  at  the  Albert  Hall  in  London, 
where  this  film  was  first  exhibited  in  the  metropolis.  He 
gave  an  address  in  latin.  The  precocious  youngster  known 
as  "Willie,"  who  figures  conspicuously  in  Eclair  films,  is 
also  visiting  various  picture  theaters  in  London  and  the 
provinces,  while  from  another  source  I  hear  that  Mr.  Maurice 
Costello  is  to  be  substantially  induced  to  face  the  music  by 
the  management  of  a  picture  theater  in  London  which  special- 
izes in  Vitagraph  subjects.  The  Vitagraph  globe  trotters  are 
due  in  London  shortly,  but  the  probability  of  their  appearing 


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on   a  public  stage   either   collectively   or  individually,    seemsing  copies  of  the  films  to  the  various  pathological  institutes 


somewhat  remote  as  I  am  informed  that  similar  offers  were 
made  in  New  York  some  time  ago  without  success. 

*  *     * 

In  connection  with  the  International  Exhibition  at  Liver- 
pool a  Kinematograph  section  has  been  organized  and  several 
American  and  English  concerns  are  being  represented.  Later 
in  the  year  smaller  trade  exhibitions  are  to  be  held  in  Leeds, 
Manchester  and  Glasgow.  In  fact  the  recent  London  dis- 
play has  aroused  in  provincial  centers  a  keen  determination 
against  being  relegated  into  the  background  of  trade  en- 
terprise. From  present  arrangements  I  should  think  that 
some  of  the  country  exhibitions  will  be  able  to  give  a  few 
points  to  the  town  show.  But  then  this  should  not  be  any 
occasion  for  surprise  as  it  is  often  acknowledged  by  mem- 
bers of  the  London  trade  that  some  of  the  best  novelties 
emanate  from  the  provinces.  Even  "Quo  Vadis"  was  shown 
in  the  country  a  month  before  in   London. 

*  *     * 

A  camera  lens  at  £215  is  attracting  some  attention  at 
the  establishment  of  a  London  dealer. 

*  *     * 

Ragtime,  which  is  just  now  an  obsession  in  London  is  to 
affect  the  moving  pictures,  here  at  last.  For  months  it  has 
invaded  picture  theater  orchestras,  but  so  far  had  not  yet 
reached  the  screen.  One  of  the  first  observations  of  Mr.  W. 
Stephen  Bush,  the  well-known  writer  of  the  Moving  Picture 
World,  when  he  reached  London  a  few  days  ago  was  ''Good 
heavens!  I  thought  I  had  escaped  it  when  I  left  New  York, 
but  I  seem  to  be  in  for  it  worse  than  ever."  Its  newest  guise, 
however,  is  the  ragtime  kinema  revue  consisting  of  a  long 
compendium  of  screen  representations  of  the  American 
freak   dances.     Three   different   ones   will   shortly   appear   in 

London. 

*  *     * 

The  moving  picture  is  being  employed  by  certain  societies 
in  this  country  as  an  argument  against  animal  vivisection. 
It  is  claimed  that  much  of  the  multiplication  of  experiments 
could  be  obviated  by  filming  first  experiments  and  circulat- 


where  the  experiments  are  actually  performed. 

*  *  * 
"Kinoplastikon,"  described  on  the  program  and  by  the 
press  as  moving  pictures  without  a  screen  was  first  shown 
in  Britain  last  Friday,  at  Mr.  Chas.  Urban's  Kinemacolor 
theater,  the  Scala.  It  is  an  imported  novelty  from  Vienna 
and  has  enormous  possibilities.  To  term  it  screenless,  how- 
ever, is  not  accurate  as  the  films,  carefully  vignetted,  are 
projected  in  the  ordinary  way  by  an  ordinary  machine  on 
to  a  semi-transparant  screen  of  fine  mesh  work.  Behind  the 
screen  is  an  illuminated  stage  scene  with  stage  furniture  in 
relief.  The  illusion  produced  resembles — but  for  a  deceptive 
intermittent  flicker — that  of  real  people  on  a  real  stage.  The 
Scala  Theater  has  secured  sole  rights  of  the  novelty  so  that 
Mr.  Urban  may  be  the  person  to  introduce  it  to  America. 


TOM   MIX  "THROWS  THE  BULL." 

On  June  4th,  the  Selig  Polyscope  Company  will  release, 
as  a  special,  a  two-part  film  which  promises  to  go  down  in 
picture  history  as  a  triumph  unequalled  in  Western  realism. 
The  picture  in  question  is  entitled  "The  Law  and  the  Out- 
law." It  is  melodramatic  in  both  theme  and  construction, 
and  serves  to  introduce  several  extremely  sensational  inci- 
dents, the  like  of  which  have  never  before  been  recorded  in 
pictures.  Tom  Mix,  the  daring  and  resourceful  cowboy  actor 
of  the  Selig  organization,  plays  the  role  of  "Dakota"  Wilson, 
an  outlaw.  One  scene  shows  "Dakota."  while  handcuffed, 
make  his  escape  from  a  posse  of  sheriffs  by  jumping  from 
his  horse  and  tumbling  down  an  almost  perpendicular  cliff. 
Another  scene  shows  the  rescue  of  Ruth  Watson  (Myrtle 
Stedman),  from  almost  certain  death,  by  "Dakota."  She  is 
about  to  be  tossed  on  the  horns  of  a  maddened  steer  when 
"Dakota"  on  horseback  overtakes  the  bull  and,  leaping  from 
his  horse  to  the  horns  of  the  steer,  "bulldogs"  and  throws 
the  frenzied  beast.  Still  another  scene  shows  "Dakota"  fall 
from  his  horse  and  undergo  a  severe  dragging  when  one  of 
his  feet  becomes  entangled  in  a  stirrup. 


Scene  from  Selig's  Two-Reel,  Western  Dramatic  Feature  to  be  Released  as  a  Special  on  June  4th.    Circle  shows  Tom  Mix 

in  the  Role  of  "  'Dakota"  Wilson,'  the  Outlaw." 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


Changes  in  Universal  Directors 

At  the  First  Annual  Meeting  of  Stockholders  David  Horsley 
Retires — Robert  Cochrane  Becomes  Secretary-Treasurer. 

THE  first  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the 
Universal  Film  Manufacturing  Company  was  held 
last  week  at  the  offices  of  the  company  at  1,600  Broad- 
way. The  following  directors  were  elected:  Carl  Laemmle, 
William  H.  Swanson,  Robert  H.  Cochrane,  Waldo  G.  Morse, 
G.  E.  Kann,  S.  S.  Steiner  and  Leo  Hirschfeld.  Later  Mr. 
Laemmle  was  elected  president,  Mr.  Swanson  vice-president 
and  Mr.  Cochrane  secretary-treasurer.  David  Horsley,  who 
retires  from  the  board  of  directors,  will,  it  is  understood, 
remain  in  the  service  of  the  company  as  superintendent  of 
factories. 

J.  C.  Graham  is  to  be  the  general  manager  of  the  company. 
Mr.    Graham    has    been    in    charge    of    the    New    York    City 


tinned  endeavor  to  make  better  pictures,  that  there  is  abso- 
lute harmony  among  those  who  control  the  company,  and 
that  he  never  had  been  so  enthusiastic  as  to  the  prospects  of 
the  company  as  he  is  right  now. 

"Our  sales  in  Europe  are  increasing  steadily,"  said  Mr. 
Laemmle.  "This  is  the  true  barometer  as  to  our  progress 
and  as  to  the  regard  in  which  our  work  is  held,  as  you  know 
on  the  other  side  we  are  in  competition  with  the  whole 
world.  I  have  just  received  a  report  on  'Sheridan's  Ride,' 
written  two  weeks  before  that  picture  was  to  be  released  on 
the  other  side,  which  shows  that  in  England  alone  five  more 
prints  had  already  been  sold  than  were  disposed  of  in  the 
United  States  and   Canada." 

Mr.  Laemmle  was  asked  as  to  the  relations  between  the 
Universal  and  Mr.  Powers.  He  replied  that  so  far  as  he 
knew  they  were  friendly.  "At  the  time  Mr.  Powers  sold 
his  stock  in  the  Universal  to  Mr.  Swanson  and  myself,  he 
made  a  contract  for  all  of  his  exchanges  to  buy  the  Universal 


Carl  Laemmle. 


William  H.  Swanson. 


exchanges  of  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation.  He  entered 
the  moving  picture  business  about  six  years  ago  as  a 
partner  of  H.  E.  Aitken  in  the  Western  Film  Exchange  of 
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  has  been  associated  with  Mr.  Aitken  in 
all  of  the  latter's  enterprises  since  that  time,  joining  him  in 
the  organization  of  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation.  He  was  an 
equal  partner  with  J.  V.  Ritchie  in  the  purchase  of  the 
Reliance  Company  from  the  New  York  Film  Manufac- 
turing Company  about  a  year  and  a  half  ago.  Mr.  Ritchie, 
so  far  as  we  are  able  to  ascertain,  still  retains  his  interest  in 
the  Reliance  Company  and  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation. 
Mr.  Graham  leaves  the  Mutual  with  the  best  wishes  of  all 
his  former  associates  for  his  success  in  his  new  field. 

Mr.  Laemmle,  Mr.  Swanson  and  Mr.  Cochrane  left  New 
York  at  the  end  of  the  week  to  attend  a  meeting  in  Chicago 
of  the  Independent  Exchange  Company. 

As  announced  in  the  advertising  columns  of  The  World 
last  week,  the  Universal  Company  has  signed  five-year  con- 
tracts with  the  Consolidated  Film  and  Supply  Company,  of 
which  William  Oldknow  is  the  general  manager  and  con- 
trolling five  exchanges,  and  the  Interstate  Films  Company, 
which  operates  six  exchanges  and  which  will  open  a  seventh 
on  June  I.  Mr.  Oldknow  was  the  president  of  the  Inde- 
pendent Company.  As  our  Chicago  dispatch  points  out,  he 
failed  to  attend  the  meeting  of  the  organization  in  Chicago. 

President  Laemmle  returned  to  New  York  Wednesday 
morning.  When  seen  by  a  World  man  he  said  that  the 
change  in  the  board  of  directors  of  the  company  did  not  indi- 
cate any  alteration  .    He  said  there  would  be  a  con- 


product   for  three   years,   and   he   is  to-day   one  of   our  best 
customers,"  said  Mr.  Laemmle. 

Mr.  Laemmle  received  a  dispatch  on  Thursday  morning 
stating  that  the  negotiations  between  the  Universal  and  the 
Independent  Exchange  Company  were  approaching  a  climax 
and  that  there  was  every  indication  of  the  signing  of  a 
contract  eminently  satisfactory  to  both  parties. 


NEGOTIATIONS  IN  CHICAGO. 

By  Jas.  S.  McQuade. 

The  opening  session  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Inde- 
pendent Exchange  Company  was  held  in  the  Hotel  Sher- 
man, Monday,  May  19,  from  2:30  p.  m.  to  5:30  p.  m.  This 
meeting,  like  that  held  from  9:00  p.  m.  to  9:30  p.  m.,  the 
same  day,  was  held  behind  closed  doors. 

Both  sessions  were  practically  devoted  to  routine  busi- 
ness. Frank  T.  Bailey,  vice-president  of  the  company,  oc- 
cupied the  chair.  On  reading  the  roll  call  it  was  found  that 
William  Oldknow,  of  Atlanta,  and  connected  with  the  Con- 
solidated Film  ami  Supply  Company,  was  not  present.  It 
was  then  moved  and  carried  that  a  wire  be  sent  Air.  Oldknow 
requesting  his  resignation  as  director  and  president  of  the 
company.  Mr.  Oldknow's  absence,  it  is  understood,  created 
considerable  surprise,  as  he  is  represented  as  having  formerly 
been  one  of  the  most  ardent  and  radical  supporters  of  the 
Independent  Exchange  Company's  policies. 

On  learning  of  the  presence  in  the  hotel  of  William  H. 
Swanson,    Carl    Laemmle    and    Robert    H.    Cochrane    of    the 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


903 


Universal  Film  Manufacturing  Company.,  a  committee  was 
appointed  to  invite  these  gentlemen  to  the  meeting  to  be 
held  Tuesday  forenoon,  at  11  o'clock,  to  discuss  the  contract 
issue  between  the  two  parties.  The  other  business  of  the 
ion  was  strictly  routine.  Judge  George  H.  Trude,  general 
counsel  for  the  Independent  Exchange  Company,  was  present 
to  see  that  the  proceedings  were  conducted  in  a  strictly 
legal  manner.  The  company  being  an  incorporation  of  the 
state  of  Maine,  all  proceedings  outside  that  state  must  after- 
ward be  duly  ratified  by  proxies  in  that  state. 

William  H.  Swanson  was  seen  in  the  hotel  late  in  the 
evening  and,  in  a  conversation,  showed  a  disposition  to 
minimize  the  importance  of  the  policy  of  the  members  of 
the  Independent  Exchange  Company.  He  claims  that  the 
Universal  has  practically  gotten  control  of  the  entire  country 
with  the  exception  of  some  unimportant  districts,  and  that 
business  can  be  carried  on  by  that  company  successfully, 
should  a  break  occur.  He  maintains  that  exchange  men 
dealing  with  the  Universal  have  made  more  money  than  they 
ever  did  before,  for  any  stated  period.  He  holds  that  to 
permit  exchanges  which  use  the  Universal  product  to  stop 
at  a  certain  maximum  number  of  reels  weekly  would  prac- 
tically make  it  impossible  for  the  Universal  to  conduct  busi- 
ness with  a  profit.  Indeed,  he  goes  so  far  as  to  say  that  it 
would  mean  bankruptcy  to'  the  manufacturers  associated 
in  the  Universal.  He  referred  to  the  liberal  policy  of  the 
Universal  in  originating  the  supplying  of  feature  films,  with- 
out extra  cost,  for  exhibitors.  This  policy,  Mr.  Swanson  be- 
lieves, has  not  only  greatly  benefited  the  exhibitors,  but 
also  the  exchanges. 

The  New  Yorkers  present  at  the  Hotel  Sherman  were: 
Carl  Laemmle.  William  H.  Swanson,  R.  H.  Cochrane,  Pat 
Powers,  Ingvald  E.  Oes,  C.  Lang  Cobb,  Jr.,  and  John 
Tippett  of  Union  Features. 

The  members  of  the  Independent  Exchange  Company 
present  were:  P.  A.  Powers,  Frank  T.  Bailey,  Portland, 
Oregon;  M.  Markovitch,  San  Francisco;  B.  V.  Powell,  Okla- 
homa City;  J.  \V.  Morgan,  Kansas  City,  Mo.;  E.  Fitzgerald 
and  J.  Blankmeyer,  Detroit;  D.  Chatkin,  Toledo;  I.  McMahon 
and  Jerome  Jackson,  Cincinnati;  C.  Olson  and  J.  Schnitzer, 
Indianapolis;  A.  S.  Davis,  Pittsburg:  \Y.  Allen,  Calgary;  J. 
Allen,  Toronto,  and  C.  R.  Plough  and  Joseph  Hopp,  Chicago. 
Carl  Laemmle  left  for  New  York  on  the  20th  Century, 
Tuesday,  May  20.  It  was  a  promising  sign  of  reconciliation 
between  the  contending  parties  that  Mr.  Swanson  and  Mr. 
Cochrane  remained  to  discuss  the  points  at  difference  with 
the  members  of  the  Independent  Exchange  Company. 

The  conference  lasted  throughout  the  morning,  and  an 
evening  session  was  held  at  9  o'clock.  While  the  exact 
wording  of  certain  clauses  of  the  contract  had  not  been 
agreed  upon,  owing  to  the  varying  conditions  in  the  several 
exchange  districts,  a  closer  understanding  had  been  reached 
than  ever  before  since  the  present  difficulties  arose,  and  it 
looked  with  regard  to  the  wording  of  the  contract  as  if  all 
ihe  points  under  discussion  will  be  amicably  adjusted  before 
the  end  of  the  month. 

Another  session  will  be  held  between  the  members  of  the 
Independent  Exchange  Company,  Wednesday  morning. 
Joseph  Hopp.  secretary  of  the  Independent  Exchange  Com- 
pany, stated  at  this  writing  that  if  the  spirit  now  prevailing 
is  continued  and  is  acted  upon,  that  it  will  put  an  end  to 
further  politics  and  discussion  of  the  matters  at  issue  be- 
tween the  contending  factions. 


THE  HOLY  CITIES  OF  JAPAN. 

An  entirely  new  class  of  subject  is  this  showing  the  holy 
cities  of  a  land  from  which  this  class  of  picture  has  never 
before  been  prepared.  Besides  filling  the  title  of  the  film, 
the  pictures,  which  are  tinted,  give  a  more  than  usual  in- 
sight into  the  inland  beauties  of  the  land  of  flowers,  as 
also  of  the  customs  of  the  people  free  from  foreign  taint 
or  suggestion,  so  often  found  in  such  pictures. 

Xikko  or  Halsittio,  The  City  of  Temples — This  is  not  an 
.extraordinary  picture  of  noble  buildings,  but  a  typical  well 
built  Japanese  locality,  probably  above  that  which  distin- 
guishes a  village.  The  Buddhas  of  Gammagofugi  are  a 
peculiar  array  of  deities;  a  long  line  of  them  are  arranged 
in  a  manner  similar  to  so  many  "Billikens"  and  about  as 
intelligent  looking.  The  Temple  of  Nara,  the  cradle  of 
the  Japanese  monarchy,  is  an  exceedingly  pretty  piece  of 
landscape,  as  a  religious  resort,  natural  simplicity  seems  to 
be  its  leading  feature. 

The  Temple  of  Lanterns  and  the  Sanctuary,  serves  at  least 
the  purpose  of  showing  why  Japan  is  the  land  of  lanterns; 
the  stone  pillar  kind  are  placed  side  by  side  like  a  balustrade; 
while  the  hanging  iron-work  variety  are  suspended  in  un- 
limited numbers.  The  nature  of  worship  and  the  types  of 
pilgrims  are  very  realistic.     Prayer  Vendors  give  an  idea  of 


the  fact  that  the  poor  pilgrims  buy  the  prayers  they  cannot 
make,  and  merchandise  is  made  of  the  very  essence  of  re- 
ligious service.  Types  of  pilgrims  gives  "the  impressions 
that  they  are  not  of  the  wandering,  weary,  footsore  variety; 
pitiable  in  their  heathen  ideas,  yet  very  picturesque  in  their 
native  colored  dress.  The  educational  value  of  this  film 
lies  in  the  fact  that  this  Eclair  production  is  illustrative  of 
the  scenic  beauty  of  Japan,  and  descriptive  of  the  Religious 
Habits   and   Customs   of  the  People.  W.   H.  J. 

GRAND  THEATER,  VALDOSTA,  GA. 

A  very  nice  little  moving  picture  theater  in  a  little  town  is 
the  Grand  theater  at  Valdosta,  Ga.  The  house  is  90  feet 
long  and  36  feet  wide.  Its  seating  capacity  is  three  hundred. 
The  music  is  furnished  by  a  five-piece  orchestra.  As  will  be 
seen    by    the    accompanying    photograph,    there    are    hand- 


Grand  Theater. 

painted  designs  over  the  box  office  windows  and  over  the 
doors,  which  give  the  front  a  very  pleasing  and  elegant  ap- 
pearance. Hand  painted  pictures^and  designs  also  decorate 
the  interior.     The  admission  prices  are  five  and  ten  cents. 


THE  DEAN,  YORK,  NEB. 
We  publish  herewith  a  photograph  of  the  Dean  theater  at 
York,  Neb.  It  can  seat  430  persons,  and  has  a  stage  big 
enough  to  accommodate  a  company  of  fifteen  to  twenty. 
The  basement  under  the  stage  contains  the  heating  plant. 
The  house  is  nicely  decorated,  and  it  has  one  box  on  each 


Dean  Theater. 

side.  The  decorations  are  in  plaster  of  Paris.  When  the 
managers,  Messrs.  Ballenger  &  Ballenger,  ran  the  tornado 
and  flood  pictures  they  did  a  tremendous  business,  the  people 
being  packed  outside  for  the  width  of  the  sidewalk  and  for 
about  twenty  or  thirty  feet  on  each  side  of  the  house.  Busi- 
ness generally,  however,  is  good,  and  the  proprietors  are  very 
well  satisfied  with  their  house  in  a  city  with  only  8,000 
population. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


"Mary  Stuart" 

Three-Reel  Edison  Adaptation  from  the  Drama  by  Frederick 

Schiller. 
Reviewed   by   Louis    Reeves    Harrison. 

A  BEAUTIFUL  spectacle,  characterized  by  exhaustive 
attention  to  detail  and  splendid  acting,  this  photo- 
drama  ranks  with  the  best  of  its  kind.  The  settings 
are  admirably  chosen;  the  Throne  Room  interior  crowns 
the  designer  with  glory,  and  the  handling  of  those  taking 
part  in  the  large  ensembles  reflects  great  credit  on  the  direc- 
tor. The  costumes  are  among  the  most  elaborate  and  be- 
coming of  any  ever  shown  on  the  screen. 

All  the  members  of  the  Edison  Company  seem  to  be  at 
their  best,  but  the  opportunity  goes  to  the  principals.  Marc 
MacDermott's  interpretation  of  the  Earl  of  Leicester  and 
Bigelow  Cooper's  of  Sir  Edward  Mortimer  are  beyond  com- 
pare, but  the  Mary  Queen  of  Scots  of  Mary  Fuller  and  the 
Queen  Elizabeth  of  Miriam  Nesbitt  stand  out  like  two  ex- 
quisite cameos.  Miss  Nesbitt  is  almost  too  beautiful  in  this 
part.  She  gives  the  great  Queen  too  much  grace  and  charm 
for  the  expected  role  and  not  enough  severe  intellectuality — 
the  patron  saint  of  England's  period  of  intellectual  activity 
made  illustrious  by  Shakespeare,  Bacon,  Ben  Jonson,  Spencer 
and  Sidney  was  a  commanding  spirit  of  high  mental  attain- 
ments rather  than  pleasing  in  appearance,  but  I  suppose 
Miriam   N.  cannot  help   being  what  she  is. 

Mary  Fuller  has  never  appeared  to  better  advantage.  Her 
natural  loveliness  is  adequately  framed  and  her  acting  will 
surprise  her  best  friends.  When  she  was  a  slip  of  a  girl, 
her  principal  asset  was  a  pair  of  dark  eyes  that  could  send 
a  wireless  thrill,  but  she  has  developed  along  safe  and  sane 
lines,  preserving  her  natural  endowment,  gaining  grace  of 
movement  with  increased  strength,  and  her  recent  work 
shows  what  is  very  rare  in  motion  picture  performance — pure 
spirituality  of. character  interpretation.  There  has  been  some 
character-building  going  on  within  herself  during  her  years 
of  steady  work. 

The  story  of  Mary  Stuart  is  one  of  the  few  of  its  kind 
that  might  engage  the  sympathy  of  a  modern  audience, 
especially  where   the  eyes   of  those  in   front   receive   all  the 


appeal,  and  this  telling  of  it  is  as  good  as  any  I  have  ever 
seen — it  is  superior  in  the  above  enumerated  effects — but 
today's  world  of  restless  activity  is  peering  into  depths  un- 
dreamed of  by  a  majority  of  those  engaged  in  producing 
moving  pictures,  into  the  nature  of  true  political  freedom, 
into  new  systems  of  living  that  transcend  those  of  days  gone 
by,  into  the  emergence  of  a  new  type  of  human  life,  and 
the  stage  is  struggling  to  give  these  expression.  I  hope 
that  moving  pictures  are  soon  to  lead  and  not  to  follow  the 
stage  in  the  relief  of  privations,  the  organization  of  happiness 
and  the  increase  of  social  welfare. 

The  Edison  Company  is  such  a  fine  one,  is  capable  of  doing 
such  good  work  as  the  public  is  ready  and  ripe  to  appreciate 
that  I  have  high  hopes  for  them — their  trend  is  all  right. 
What  I  have  said  all  along  about  adaptations  applies  to  this 
case  as  to  nearly  all  others.  A  vast  amount  of  pains  and 
good  taste  have  been  applied  to  showing  us  a  jealous  woman 
making  vile  use  of  her  power  in  killing  another  from  motives 
of  private  vengeance.  The  same  exhibition  of  splendid  settings 
and  splendid  acting  could  be  used  to  enforce  a  powerful 
motive  affecting  people  of  today  to  the  greater  advantage  of 
all  concerned,  and  it  will  be  only  a  question  of  time  when 
this  will  be  done.  Whatever  the  setting  the  photodrama 
of  grand  modern  motive  is  bound,  to  come. 

PICTURES  IN  MALAYSIA. 

There  are  fourteen  picture  shows  in  Malaysia  using  almost 
every  European  and  American  make,  which  are  ordered 
from  London  or  the  manufacturers.  Some  of  the  com- 
panies buy  the  films  outright,  but  most  pictures  are  leased. 
Picture  shows  are  exceedingly  popular  with  all  classes. 

SELIG'S  "CHANCE  DAY"  PICTURE. 

Selig's  topical  special,  entitled  "Baseball's  Greatest  Spec- 
tacle— Frank  Chance  Day,"  which  will  be  released  during 
the  present  week,  will  show,  in  addition  to  the  incidents  and 
events  of  the  Chance  Day  celebration,  close  up,  specially 
posed  views  of  all  famous  American  League  players,  owners 
and  managers.  A  battery  of  five  Selig  cameramen  were 
on  hand  Saturday,  May  17th,  securing  views  of  the  principal 
events. 


Mary  Fuller,  as  Mary  Queen  of  Scots,  in  an  Interesting  Sc  ene  from  the  Edison  Feature,  "Mary  Stuart." 


THE  MOVING  PICTURE  WORLD 


90S 


"The  Governor's  Double" 

Two-Reel  Patheplay. 

Reviewed  by  Louis  Reeves  Harrison. 

OF  conspicuous  merit  in  this  production  are  some  ex- 
quisite settings — they  are  all  of  a  high  order,  both 
interiors  and  studio  scenes— and  the  remarkable  acting 
of  Paul  W.  Panzer  in  the  title  role.  The  needful  relation 
between  drama  and  performer  has  never  been  better  illus- 
trated than  in  this  case,  where  there  is  a  startling  dispro- 
portion between  the  exciting  cause  and  the  ultimate  result. 
Panzer  pulls  the  story  through  by  sheer  force  of  his  native 
endowment.  He  is  a  capable  actor  who  has  lacked  oppor- 
tunity.    He  has  probably  demanded  action  and  character  in 


picture,  something  that  almost  defies  analysis.  It  is  difficult 
for  any  of  us  to  define  the  pleasurable  sensations  aroused 
by  what  conforms  to  our  standard  of  excellence.  I  suppose 
one  of  the  greatest  charms  of  beauty  lies  hidden  in  its 
rare  expression,  another  in  the  insistent  demand  for  perfection 
that  impels  us  all  towards  improvement  of  ourselves  and 
'  others — especially  others.  Beauty  in  the  picture  plays  is 
especially  attractive  to  those  who  have  little  of  it  in  their 
daily  grind,  who  go  to  the  exhibitions  for  rest  and  for 
relief  from  strain.  Mr.  Fred  Wright  has  exquisitely  adorned 
all  he  was  given  to  work  upon. 

The  play  itself  is  too  much  of  a  strain  upon  credulity 
to  deserve  the  intelligent  pains  taken  with  it.  We  are  asked 
to  swallow  too  much.  The  governor  has  himself  arrested 
for  burglary  in  order  to  investigate  prison  conditions  and 
finds  himself,  after  being  sentenced  for  five  years,  in  a  cell 
with  a  man  whom  he  has  just  pardoned,  who  looks  exactly 
like  him,  and  he  fails  to  notice  the  remarkable  resemblance. 
When  the  pardoned  convict  visits  the  Capitol,  he  is  mis- 
taken for  the  Governor  and  assumes  the  latter's  place.  In 
addition  to  these  severe  strains,  we  are  compelled  to  gulp 
hard  when  the  girl  about  to  marry  him  fall's  on  the  neck  of 
the  ex-convict.  How  the  latter  manages  the  thousand  and 
one  details  of  his  position  and  affixes  his  signature  to  im- 
portant documents  is  left  entirely  to  the  imagination. 

There  are  some  high  moments  in  the  play,  notably  that 
of  the  sudden  death  of  the  judge,  who  was  in  the  secret  of 
the  imprisonment,  at  the  very  instant  he  was  drawing  up  a 
release,  but  screen  stories  do  not  go  over  that  are  seriously 
at  fault  in  logic  of  construction.  The  ordinary  spectator  may 
not  be  able  to  give  a  reason  for  his  disappointment  in  them, 
but  he  realizes  that  something  is  wrong.  The  play  was 
aimed  higher  than  it  hit. 


Scene  from  "The  Governor's  Double"  (Patheplay). 


the  parts  he  takes — that  is  pretty  nearly  what  the  audience 
demands  in  the  visualized  play — but  has  had  to  content  him- 
self very  largely  with  action  alone. 

As  Governor  of  the  State  of  New  York — the  capitol  build- 
ing at  Albany  is  shown  to  be  the  scene  of  his  activities — he  is 
both  dignified  and  intellectual,  radiating  force  in  the  difficult 
impersonation.  As  the  "double  who  undid"  the  governor,  a 
convict  pardoned  by  the  executive,  he  is  equally  at  home.  He 
faces  himself  under  artful  double  exposure  and  depends  upon 


Scene  from  "The  Governor's  Double"  (Patheplay). 


his  skill  rather  than  his  makeup  to  indicate  the  character 
contrasts.  He  makes  it  plain  in  the  last  scene,  when  the 
Governor's  fiance  is  about  to  wed  the  ex-convict  that  clothes 
do  not  make  the  man,  however  much  they  may  have  to  do 
with  the  gentler  sex.  When  face  to  face,  the  intellectual  force 
of  the  real  governor  in  the  stripes  and  the  low  bluff  of  the 
pretender  are  set  forth  in  masterly  style. 

The  settings  for  the  church  wedding  in  the  last  scenes 
reflect  high  credit  upon  their  designer.  There  is  something 
very  inspiring  in  the  delightful  proportions  of  such  a  beautiful 


MISS*  MAY  ABBEY. 

The  above  picture  serves  to  introduce  a  new  and  most 
pleasing  personality,  Miss  May  Abbey,  who  is  now  playing 
leads  in  Edison  pictures,  the  particular  scene  portrait  being 
from  "The  Evil  Thereof,"  one  of  the  soon-to-be-released 
Edison  productions.  Miss  Abbey  has  made  a  decided  hit. 
She  has  had  wide  experience  as  an  actress  in  the  legitimate, 
and  brings  to  the  pictures  not  only  the  result  of  that  training, 
but  also  a  natural  bent  toward  expressive  pantomime. 


REJOINS  THANHOUSER  AFTER  -RECORD  TRIP. 

Photographer  Carl  Gregory,  who  made  a  9-500-mile  trip 
through  the  Western  States  for  scenic  subjects  for  the  Ma- 
jestic Company,  is  back  at  New  Rochelle  in  his  position  as 
senior  cameraman  of  Thanhouser  Film  Corporation.  Due 
to  his  success  in  commissions  of  a  similar  nature,  Gregory 
was  "loaned"  for  the  trip,  which  brought  his  camera  into 
action  in  the  States  of  Montana,  Wyoming,  Oregon,  Cali- 
fornia, Arizona,  New  Mexico  and  Colorado.  His  views  of 
"Life  Among  the  Navajos,"  said  to  be  intimate  and  unusual, 
are  issued  Tuesday,  May  27th,  by  Majestic. 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


CHICAGO   LETTER 

By  J  AS.  S.  McQUADE 


FO.  NIELSON,  proprietor  of  the  Parkway  Theater.  N. 
Clark  and  Diversey  Blvd.,  this  city,  had  a  pleasant 
•  surprise  Thursday  evening,  May  16th.  Unknown  to 
him  the  first  anniversary  day  of  the  opening  of  the  Parkway 
had  come  around;  but  although  he  had  overlooked  the 
fact,  his  loyal  employees  had  not.  Two  magnificent  bouquets, 
each  containing  200  red  roses  and  200  white  carnations,  were 
presented  Mrs.  Nielsen  and  himself,  just  before  the  curtain 
rose  on  the  first  picture  presented.  A  printed  letter,  con- 
taining the  following  expressions  of  good  will,  accompanied 
the  flowers: 

"Here's  to  the  Parkway  Theater!  May  the  succeeding 
years  be  as  prosperous  as  the  past  one  has  been  under  the 
excellent  management  of  Mr.  Nielsen.  We,  the  employees 
of  the  Parkway  Theater,  of  which  we  are  justly  proud,  wish 
to  present  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Nielson  with  a  little  token  as  a 
reminder  of  the  first  anniversary  of  the  opening  of  the 
Parkway  Theater,  and,  to  show  our  appreciation  of  your 
courtesy  and  kindness  extended  to  us  during  the  year,  we 
have  selected  what  we  thought  were  the  most  beautiful 
symbols  of  love  and  esteem — carnations  and  roses." 

The  note  was  signed  by:  Monte  A.  Gloss,  operator;  Mrs. 
Inez  L.  Slusser,  organist;  Miss  Olive  Bergeron,  Pianiste; 
Mrs.  M.  Gloss,  cashier,  Stevens  Theater  (also  owned  by 
Mr.  Nielsen);  Jos.  J.  Steffen,  head  usher,  and  Chas.  McKiel, 
fire  guard. 

After  the  closing  of  the  theater,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Nielsen 
were  escorted  by  the  above  named  to  the  Winona  restaurant, 
where  an  elaborate  supper  had  already  been  arranged  in 
their  honor.  It  was  no  tame  affair,  as  the  viands  were  most 
appetizing,  and  Mumm's  extra  dry,  sparkling  Burgundy  and 
liqueurs  were  added  to  aid  digestion. 

Rothapfel's  Presentations  Commended. 

S.  L.  Rothapfel,  director  of  presentations  at  Saxe's  Lyric, 
Minneapolis,  is  held  in  high  esteem  by  all  classes  of  theater 
goers  for  the  art  and  consistent  treatment  bestowed  on 
every  subject  of  his  programs.  All  the  professions  are  well 
represented  at  every  offering  made  by  the  Lyric.  The 
governor  is  a  regular  attendant  and  he  is  always  accom- 
panied by  members  of  his  family.  University  professors  are 
frequent  visitors  at  the  Lyric  and  have  always  a  kind  word- 
to  signify  their  appreciation.  The  following  letter  from  the 
Rev.  Ulysses  S.  Villars,  pastor  of  the  Prospect  Park  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Church,  will  serve  to  show  the  esteem  in 
which  Mr.  Rothapfel  is  held  by  the  clergy: 

"1  must  ask  your  pardon  for  tardiness  in  acknowledging 
your  courtesy  in  giving  me  the  opportunity  of  seeing  'From 
the  Manger  to  the  Cross,'  at  the  private  presentation  last 
Tuesday.  As  you  know,  we  were  enthusiastic  over  the 
'Passion  Play,'  but  to  my  mind  there  is  no  comparison  to 
be  made  betwe'en  the  two.  I  have  great  confidence  in  your 
judgment  and  'good  taste,'  but  I  confess  I  was  not  prepared 
for  such  a  reverent,  sympathetic  and  appreciative  presen- 
tation of  the  life  of  Our  Savior  as  is  shown  in  these  pictures. 
I  wish  I  could  be  as  sure  of  the  good  effect  of  the  sermons 
we  preach  as  I  am  of  this  remarkable  production.  As  I  have 
opportunity  I  am  urging  my  friends  to  attend,  for  all,  clergy 
or  laity,  must  be  impressed  and  inspired  by  it.  It  is  the 
most  remarkable  production  of  the  kind  I  have  ever  seen. 

"You  know  my  opinion  of  the  Lyric  and  your  ideals  in 
its  management,  and  I  feel  that  you  have  added  greatly  to 
the  debt  the  people  of  this  city  owe  you  in  presenting 
'From  the  Manger  to  the  Cross.'  I  only  hope  their  appre- 
ciation will  be  substantially  expressed. 

"Please  accept  this  expression,  utterly  inadequate,  of  my 
cordial  sympathy  with  your  methods  and  the  sincere  hope 
for  success  of  your  enterprise." 

Chicago  Film  Brevities. 
Arthur  Mackley,  one  of  Essanay's  Western  producers, 
stopped  over  in  this  city  last  week  on  his  way  to  visit  his 
old  home  in  Scotland.  Mr.  Mackley  attended  the  regular 
private  exhibition  for  exhibitors,  at  the  Essanay  exhibition 
room,  First  National  Bank  Building,  Monday,  May  19th, 
and  received  a  big  hand  from  those  present.  He  will  spend 
several  weeks  at  the  old  home  in  Scotland. 


*  *     * 

On  the  week  of  May  12th,  the  Studebaker  Theater  was 
added  to  the  list  of  those  of  the  large  houses  showing  moving 
pictures.  During  that  week  the  Sarah  Bernhardt  film, 
"Adrienne  Lecouvreur,"  and  M.  Mounet-Sully  in  the  Greek 
tragedy,  "Oedipus  Rex,"  formed  the  program. 

*  *     * 

R.  C.  MacMullen,  formerly  owner  of  the  Colonial  Theater. 
Joliet,  111.,  was  in  the  city  last  week.  That  theater  is  now 
owned  by  the  Colonial  Photoplay  Theater  Co.,  of  which 
Mr.  MacMullen  is  president  and  manager,  and  F.  L.  Scheidt, 
secretary  and  manager.  The  Colonial  was  remodeled  re- 
cently, and  now  seats  500  people  instead  of  275  as  formerly. 
"The  Prisoner  of  Zenda"  was  shown  at  this  house,  May  14th 
and   15th  to  the  largest  and  most  fashionable  audiences  yet 

seen  there. 

*  *     * 

Julius  Bernheim,  of  the  Laemmle  Film  Service,  this  city, 
is  evidently  quite  a  baseball  fan.  He  advises  me  that  the 
first  game  between  the  Laemmle  Film  Service  and  the 
General  Film  Co.,  took  place  recently  at  47th  and  Bryant 
Ave.,  south.  Both  teams  were  in  good  form,  and  each 
were  certain  of  beating  the  other.  After  the  first  two  innings, 
however,  it  could  be  easily  seen  that  the  Independents  had 
the  best  of  it.  The  game  ended  with  a  score  of  14  to  6,  in 
favor  of  the  Lake  street  boys.  Fred  S.  Meyer,  manager 
of  the  Laemmle  Film  Service,  and  H.  W.  Stubbins,  of  the 
General  Film  Co.,  are  now  negotiating  for  a  return  match, 
which  will  take  place  in  the  near  future.  Mr.  Bernheim  also 
sends  me  the  score  of  the  last  match,  but  there  is  no  space  for 
it.    This  is  not  a  sporting  journal. 

Last  November  the  Iliad  Amusement  Co.,  of  Kansas 
City,  Mo.,  showed  an  Independent  film  at  their  theater, 
Linwood  Blvd.,  and  Troost  Ave.  For  this  its  license  was 
cancelled  by  the  Motion  Picture  Patents  Co.  Recently  an 
agreement  was  reached  by  which  the  theater  has  resumed 
the  service  of  the  General  Film  Co.,  in  the  Broadmour, 
Iliad  and  the  open  air  theaters  at  31st  St.,  and  Troost  Ave. 


RITCHEY  ON  THE  POSTER  PROBLEM. 

In  an  effort  to  help  the  moving  picture  exhibitor  compete 
successfully  with  the  local  theater  in  the  attractiveness  of 
his  lobby  display,  Manager  J.  V.  Ritchey,  of  the  Reliance,  is 
paying  particular  attention  to  the  quality  and  artistic  value 
of  the  "paper"  bearing  the  Reliance  oval.  Manager  Ritchey, 
who  was  an  exhibitor  on  a  large  scale  before  he  entered  the 
producing  field,  is  particularly  anxious  to  obtain  posters  that 
are  as  far  removed  from  the  old  "ten,  twent,  thirt"  style  of 
melodrama  paper  as  Lillian.  Russell  is  from  "The  Cherry 
Sisters."  "The  idea  of  advertising  a  high-class  picture  pro- 
duction equal  to  'Ben  Hur,'  with  posters  smacking  of  'Nellie, 
the  Beautiful  Subway  Guard,'  is  all  wrong,"  says  Manager 
Ritchey.  "If  the  lobby  display  of  the  average  picture  theater 
was  equal  to  the  class  of  picture  productions  presented  on 
its  screen,  there  would  be  no  ground  for  argument.  The 
Reliance  puts  itself  on  record  as  a  believer  in  high-class, 
artistic  posters,  worthy  of  the  films  they  advertise  and  in- 
vites criticism  and  suggestions  from  the  men  who  use  them. 
No  trouble  or  expense  will  be  spared  to  obtain  posters  equal 
to  those  used  by  the  greatest  Broadway  stars  and  I  firmly 
believe  that  any  effort  in  this  line  will  benefit  the  moving 
picture  art  as  a  whole  to  a  greater  extent  than  most  people 
seem  to  realize." 


CORRECTIONS. 

On  page  844  of  last  week's  issue  the  synopsis  of  "A  Ro- 
mance of  the  Rails"  was  given  as  an  Eclair.  This  is  an  error, 
as  the  subject  is  a  Frontier  production.  There  was  also  an 
error  in  the  Mutual  Weekly  synopses,  which  are  to  be  found 
on  page  852  of  last  issue.  The  line  bearing  the  name  "Mu- 
tual Weekly  No.  20."  which  should  have  read  right  after  the 
last  item  in  "Mutual  Weekly  No.  19,"  reading — "Los  Angeles, 
Cal.,  Feeding  Young  Alligators,"  was  erroneously  omitted. 
A  synopsis  of  "Mutual  Weekly  No.  20"  is  printed  elsewhere 
in  this  issue. 


AMERICAN  MAKES  TWO-REEL  FRENCH   COSTUME 

PLAY. 

Something  distinctly  out  of  the  ordinary  is  promised  by 
The  American  Film  Mfg.  Co.,  in  a  two-reel  French  costume 
play  soon  to  be  released.  Jack  Kerrigan  in  the  costume  of 
a  French  cavalier  is  quite  the  Jack  Kerrigan  of  the  sombrero 
and  chaps,  yet  quite  another  person,  too.  Admirers  of  the 
handsome  picture  idol  will  be  delighted  with  the  new  Kerri- 
gan. 


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907 


The  Man  in  the  White  Cloak 

Great  Northern  Feature. 

Reviewed  by  Louis  Reeves  Harrison. 

MOVING  pictures  afford  the  most  effective  medium  of 
presenting  a  visualized  story  in  which  a  ghost  plays 
one  of  the  leading  roles.  When  "The  Man  in  the 
White  Cloak"  steps  from  the  ancestral  portrait  of  an  old 
castle  to  relieve  the  sharp  necessities  of  his  descendents  in 
the  flesh,  Lady  Hamilton  and  her  only  daughter  Mabel,  last 
of  a  noble  race,  he  reveals  a  secret  that  he  created  long 
generations  before,  and  he  does  it  in  a  way  that  will  make 
most  of  the  spectators  in  the  little  shows  wish  that  their 
.ancestors  had  been  as  wise  in  their  generations. 


Scene  from  "The  Man  In  the  White  Cloak." 

The  two  helpless  ladies  find  themselves  in  sore  straits  at  a 
time  when  creditor's  are  pressing  them  hard,  and  the  younger 
sends  for  her  fiance,  an  intelligent  young  physician.  He 
applies  himself  to  the  restoration  of  the  mother's  health — 
she  is  prostrated  over  the  prospect  of  having  the  ancestral 
castle  sold  over  head  to  satisfy  clamorous  money-lenders — 


Scene  from  "The  Man  In  the  White  Cloak." 

but  he  is  unable  to  do  more  than  this — the  people  of  the 
neighborhood  have  been  so  abnormally  healthy  that  his 
practice  is  far  from  lucrative.  A  young  lawyer  forming  the 
third  side  of  the  triangle,  of  which  the  doctor  is  one  and  the 
young  lady  an  attractive  hypotenuse,  proposes  to  relieve 
the  situation  if  Mabel  will  be  his  wife,  but  she  refuses  to 
be  bought  and  paid  for. 

This  plot  is  appropriately  set  amid  venerable  surroundings 
and  is  made  interesting  when  the  ghost,  "The  Man  in  the 
White  Cloak,"  his  shadow,  not  his  substance,  "of  ashy 
semblance,    meagre,    rale,    and    bloodless,"    begins    to    play 


his  part.  When  the  creditors  of  Lady  Hamilton  and  her 
daughter  Mabel  are  led  by  the  latter's  rejected  suitor  to  fore- 
close and  sell  the  art  accumulations  of  ages,  ancestral  por- 
traits included,  the  young  physician  is  visited  by  the  dis- 
embodied spirit  of  one  illustrious  progenitor  of  the  noble 
line,  none  other  than  "The  Man  in  the  White  Cloak,"  and 
guided  to  a  secluded  spot.  He  is  there  instructed  to  un- 
earth a  hidden  treasure.  The  young  doctor  digs  down  as 
never  before.  He  uncovers  a  secret  passageway  and  descends 
into  the  bowels  of  the  earth.  He  has.  however,  been  seen 
by  the  rejected  suitor,  the  attorney,  and  it  becomes  plain 
that  his  subterranean  pathway  is  not  to  be  one  of  roses. 

Hero  and  villain  descend  a  mouldy  staircase  to  gloomy 
depths  below,  hero  carrying  a  lantern  and  villain  following 
stealthily.  Hero  pushes  in  a  spring  door,  fastens  it  open 
and  passes  on  to  a  vaulted  chamber  containing  a  casket  of 
jewels.  Villain  stumbles  over  the  fastening,  and  the  door 
closes,  imprisoning  both.  The  two  men  enter  upon  a  fierce 
struggle.  Over  their  heads  an  auction  sale  of  the  fine  old 
property  is  going  on,  and  Mabel  is  wandering  in  search  of 
her  lover.  The  fight  between  the  doctor  and  the  lawyer — 
admirable  choice  of  profession  for  hero  and  villain — carries 
them  to  a  party-wall  between  romance  and  reality — a  mere 
structure  of  brick  and  stone  separates  them  from  a  throng 
assembled  in  the  Hall  of  Portraits. 

Mabel  grows  weary  in  her  search,  leans  her  head  against 
the  wall  and  hears  the  sounds  of  struggle.  She  halts  t  e 
sale  and  sets  the  crowd  to  opening  sufficient  space  in  the 
wall  for  the  contestants  to  crawl  through.  High  point  of 
truth  in  the  story  is  where  the  lawyer  hangs  on  to  the  treasure 
box,  but  he  is  beaten  in  the  end,  and  a  happy  conclusion  puts 
an  end  to  the  tremendous  suspense. 


JACK    KERRIGAN    AND    VIVIAN    RICH     IN    AERO- 
PLANE FLIGHT. 

Jack  Kerrigan  and  Miss  Vivian  Rich  had  a  novel  ride  in 
an  aeroplane  at  Ventura,  Cal.,  last  week.  The  flight 
occured  in  connection  with  the  making  of  a  single  reel  sub- 
ject. The  famous  Gilpatrick  exhibition  of  flying  at  Ventura 
was  utilized.     This  was  Kerrigan's  first  flight. 


THOMAS  COMERFORD  JOINS  ESSANAY  COMPANY. 

Thomas  Comerford,  well  known  in  motion  pictures  for 
his  ability  to  handle  the  different  characters  assigned  him,  has 
joined  the  Essanay  Eastern  Stock  Company.  Mr.  Comer- 
ford,  prior  to  his  engagement  with  another  film  manufac- 
turing company,  played  in  Lincoln  J.  Carter  productions 
for  over  a  quarter  of  a  century. 


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MISS  ETHEL  CLAYTON, 
One  of  Lubin's  Leading  Players. 


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THROUGH  courtesy  of  Mr.  E.  C.  Zane,  of  the  Bijou 
Dream  Theater,  Chicago,  I  offer  the  following  musical 
suggestions  for  the  two-reel  Ambrosio  feature  film: 

CHILD  LABOR  TRAFFIC. 
Part  One. 
i.  "Sympathy    Waltz"    (by    Mezzacappo)    until    title:    "The 
Wicked  Guardian,  etc." 

2.  Waltz  Lento  until:  "The  Plot." 

3.  Short  waltz   or  allegretto    (one   scene);   an   accordeon   is 

being  played  in  this  scene  by  street  musician.  Sound 
effect  can  be  introduced  ad  lib.     At  change  of  scene: 

4.  "Dream  of  the   Flowers"   (Chas.   Cohen-Sam   Fox),  until 

she  writes  letter. 

5.  "Chiffon"  (From  suite  "My  Lady's  Boudoir" — Witmark), 

until  Andrea  meets  her. 

6.  "In   the   Shadows"    (Finck)   until   title:   "Under   the    Pre- 

tense of  Seeking  Employment." 

7.  Semi-mysterious  until:  "On  the  Track." 

8.  "La  Rose"   (Emil  Ascher)   until  end  of  reel. 

Part  Two. 

1.  "Dream  of  the  Flowers"  until:  "A  Lesson  in  Misery." 

2.  Plaintive  till  Andrea  enters  supper  room. 

3.  Agitato;    pp.    at    first    and    crescendo    for    struggle    until 

change  of  scene. 

4.  Short  waltz  until  child  is  seen  a  prisoner. 

5.  Long    "hurry"   music.      I    used   "Narcissus   Overture."   by 

Schleppegrel,  beginning  at  the  Allegro  moderate  and 
repeating  this  movement  until  she  receives  telegram; 
then: 

6.  "Dawn  of  Love"   (by  Theo.  Bendix)   until  last  scene. 

7.  Four  bars  of  Wedding  March  to  finish. 


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12. 


THE  LADY  AND  THE   MOUSE   (Biograph). 
"Lilacs"   (Feist)    until   title:   "Boredom   and   Inefficiency." 
"Bees"  Novelette   (Remick)   until:  "On  the  Road." 
Any  slow  Reverie  until  title:  "More  Readjusting." 
"The   Mouse  and   the   Clock"    (Whitney-Witmark)    until: 

"A  Change  in  Climate." 
Pathetic  music  (long)  until:  "Later." 
"Pansies"  (Bendix)  or  any  waltz  lento  until:  "The' Change 

In  Climate." 
Waltz  until  end  of  reel. 

*     *     * 

AN   EXCITING  HONEYMOON    (Pathe). 
Part  One. 
"Wedding  Glide"  until  title:  "We  Want  You  To  Put  On 

Lady  Rowley's  Robe." 
"Malinda"   (Remick)   until  drinking  scene. 
Agitato  pp.  and  mf.  until:  "An   Inveterate  Gambler." 
"Apple    Blossoms"    (Kathleen    Roberts)    until:    "We'uhs 

Want  to  be  Quality  Folks." 
"Kiss-Me-Quick"   (Novelette),  by  Emil  Isenman,  pub.  by 

Fischer,  until  title:  "Fleeced." 
Semi-mysterious  until  he  drops  his  head  on  table. 
"Simple  Aveu"  until:  "Goree  Remembers  Too  Late,  etc." 
Semi-mysterious  until:  "Let  Me  Ride  Ahead." 
Agitato  until  shot. 
Plaintive  until:  "Epilogue." 
Religioso  until  finish. 


THE  COURAGE  OF  A  SOLDIER   (Bison). 
Part  One. 

1.  Indian    characteristic   music   until:   "The   Peaceful    Hopis 

Appeal." 

2.  March  until  change  of  scene. 

3.  "Love's    Dream    After    the    Ball"    (Czibulka)    after   intro- 

duction.    For  one  scene. 

4.  Same  march  as  No.  2,  until  Indians  go  out  of  gate. 

5.  "Spring  Dreams"   (pub.   by   Feist)   until  council   scene. 

6.  "Oy-an-ee-tah"     (Indian     song     from     "It     Happened     in 

Nordland,"  by  V.   Herbert)   until  all  in  fort. 

7.  March   until  treaty  is  shown. 


I.  "I'd   Like   To   Go   On   a   Honeymoon"    (from   "The    Red 

Rose,"    by    Bowers)    until    title:    "At    Last   We    Are 

Alone." 
"All  Alone"  until:  "Go  'way  Man,  etc." 
"One    Drink    More"    (one    scene),   when   colored   woman 

powders  her  face. 
"Oh,  You  Beautiful   Doll"   (Chorus)   once  through. 
"Honeymoon    Song    from     Honeymoon    Trail."      When 

Lord  Rowley  gets  into  auto. 
"Goodbye,  Everybody,"  until  second  auto  drives  on. 
Galop   or  lively  march   until   they  walk  up  gang-way  to 

boat. 
"Goodbye,   Everybody,"  until  boat  is  seen  moving  out. 
"On  the  Mississippi"  until  end  of  reel   (lively). 

Part  Two. 
Chorus    of    "Which    He    Didn't    Expect    from    a    Lady" 

(from  "Peggy,"  by  Stuart). 
"Is    There    Anything    Else    That    I    Can    Do    for    You" 

(Remick). 
Lively  music   throughout  the  picture. 
This  picture  is  a  bright,  rollicking  comedy,   and   the  more 
lively   and   "snappy"   your   music,   the   better.     Popular   stuff 
preferred. 

*     *     * 

A   SPLENDID    SCAPEGRACE    (Edison). 

1.  Allegro  (4th  movement)   of  "Morning,   Noon  and  Night" 

overture   by  Suppe.     Subdued  agitato  for  one  scene. 

2.  Any   popular   intermezzo   until    title:    "Selling   the    House 

of  His  Forefathers." 

3.  "Old  Kentucky  Home" — paraphrase   (or  any  Novelette — 
scenes  are  neutral);   until   they   enter  barroom. 

Indian  music  again  until  change. 

Agitato  p.  and  f.  until  end  of  struggle. 

"Starlight  Sioux"   (or  any  popular  intermezzo  of  similar 

character)     until:     "The     Money     Arrives     for     the 

Indians." 
"Indian   Summer"   (Moret)   until  he  puts   money  in   desk. 
Semi-mystertous   until:    "Chaplain    Decides    to    Leave   the 

Fort." 
"Twilight"   (Reverie  by  Nat   D.  Ayer)   until  end  of  reel. 

Part  Two. 

March  until  change. 

Indian  until  change. 

Sentimental,  two  scenes. 

Agitato  pp.  until  saloon  scene. 

Mysterious,  one  scene. 

"Sun  Dance"  (Freidman)  until:  "The  Lieutenant  Ac- 
cuses the  Chaplain." 

Intermezzo  until  Indians. 

Indian  music,  one  scene. 

Agitato,  one  scene;  back  to  Indian  music,  one  scene. 

Sentimental  until:  "The  Chief  Divides  His  Forces." 

Several  scenes  of  hurry  and  agitato  music;  when  Chap- 
lain lays  powder  train,  softly  till  explosion — ff.  un- 
til:  "Seeing  the  Fort  Attacked." 

March,  one  scene. 

Hurry  p.  and  f.  Can  alternate  marches  with  agitato 
when  cavalrymen  seen  riding.  When  army  rides 
into  fort. 

March.     When  Lieutenant  enters. 

Pathetic  until  end  of  reel. 


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DANCING   ON   THE   SKY-LINE   OF   NEW   YORK. 

While  photographing  a  cabaret  show  in  Kinemacolor  on  the 
roof  of  a  ten-story  building,  the  Samarin  troupe  of  Russian 
ddncers  were  posed  on  the  three-foot  parapet,  175  feet  above 
Seventh  Avenue,  with  only  the  spires  of  the  Cathedral  and 
the  blue  sky  as  a  background.  After  the  dancers  had  been 
taken  in  such  steps  and  poses  as  were  suitable  to  their  pre- 
carious footing,  Frantz,  the  acrobat  of  the  troupe,  volun- 
teered to  "do  some  stunts."  There,  on  the  celebrated  "Sky- 
line of  New  York,"  he  did  back-somersaults,  hand-springs  and 
hair-raising  pirouettes. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


909 


"Her   Big   Story"  (American) 

Reviewed  by  James  S.  McQuade. 

ADAPTED  from  Richard  Washburn  Child's  magazine 
story.  "Her  Big  Story"  has  been  cleverly  produced  by 
the  No.  1  company  of  the  American.  In  this  effort  the 
American  photoplayers  have  invaded  the  sacred  precincts  of 
the  "Fourth  Estate"  without  a  tremor,  and,  to  their  credit, 
it  must  be  said  that  they  have  succeeded  in  portraying  the 
scenes  in  a  country  city  editor's  office,  during  rush  hours, 
with  considerable  fidelity.  That  city  editor  chap,  as  drawn 
by  W.  T.  Tedmarsh,  is  no  slouch.  He  is  a  martinet,  and 
he  must  be,  whether  dealing  with  a  fair  utility  girl,  whose 
coffee  and  sinkers  depend  on  space  writing,  or  with  the  cub 
reporters  who  pound  out  copy  with  the  regularity  of  stone 
breakers.  The  fair  space  writer,  of  about  nineteen  summers, 
has  the  willful  tendency  at  times  to  go  over  the  city  editor's 
head  to  the  managing  editor;  and  the  latter — sadly  must 
he  be  credited  with  the  weakness — breaks  occasionally  all 
the  canons  of  his  caste  by  indulgence  in  calf-like  looks  and 
in  undisciplined  osculations.  All  of  which  shortcomings  were 
unknown  to  the  city  editor  and  contributed  much  to  the 
sum  of  his  tribulations. 


Scene  from  "Her  Big  Story"  (American). 

NVarren  Kerrigan  carries  the  part  of  this  particular  man- 
aging editor  with  natural  grace  and  aptitude.  His  work 
affords  another  example  of  his  ability  to  figure  prominently 
in  a  story  of  dramatic  merit  and  requirements.  Miss 
Charlotte  Burton,  who  has  been  allotted  the  character  of 
Beatrice  Nevin,  the  space  writer  on  the  Union,  is  a  young 
lady  of  promise  in  the  photodramatic  field.  From  what  I 
learn  she  sinks  her  personality  most  realistically  in  her 
characterization  of  a  part;  for  Jack  Richardson  nursed  a 
badly  bruised  forehead  for  several  days,  as  the  result  of 
the  impact  of  that  statuette,  thrown  in  his  face,  point-blank, 
when  he  posed  as  the  mayor  of  the  country  city  and  had 
just  been  bribed  by  the  "invisible  boss,"  whom  the  space 
girl  was  tracking  for  her  big  scoop.  Jack  Richardson  im- 
personates the  mayor  well;  but  his  non-observance  of  good 
manners,  by  using  a  tooth  pick  while  conversing  with  the 
banker,  or  invisible  boss,  shows  a  lapse  for  which  there  can 
be  no  excuse.  George  Periolat,  always  consistent  in  his 
multiform  character  parts,  impersonates  the  "invisible  boss" 
and  banker  with  fine  conception. 

One  cannot  fail  to  notice  the  good  quality  photography 
of  the  interior  scenes  throughout  this  film,  as  well  as  the  clear 
well  defined  exterior  views.  The  American's  photography, 
while  praiseworthy  heretofore,  shows  a  distinct  advance  of 
late. 

Beatrice  Nevin  is  a  space  writer  on  the  Union.  This 
paper  is  owned  by  a  banker  who  pulls  all  the  political  strings 
in  the  country  town.  Beatrice  is  anxious  to  get  an  assign- 
ment covering  the  exposure  of  this  "invisible  boss,"  whom 
only  a  few  can  identify.  She'  shadows  the  mayor  of  the 
city  and  traces  him  to  the  home  of  George  Huestis,  the  rich 
banker.  Learning  that  the  mayor  will  make  another  call 
on  the  banker  the  day  following,  Beatrice  gains  admission  to 


the  house  a  short  time  before  the  mayor  arrives  and  hides 
behind  a  curtain  in  the  room  where  the  hanker  and  the 
mayor  meet.  There  she  witnesses  the  bribery  of  the  mayor 
by  the  banker.  A  slight  noise  made  by  Beatrice  leads  to 
her  discovery;  but  she  succeeds  in  fleeing  from  the  room 
with  proofs  of  the  mayor's  duplicity  and  of  the  banker's 
bribe-giving. 

She  writes  the  story  and  gives  it  to  the  city  editor,  who 
immediately  takes  it  to  the  managing  editor.  The  latter  is 
the  only  one  on  the  Union's  staff  who  knows  that  the  owner 
of  the  paper  and  the  rich  banker  are  one  and  the  same. 
"The  story  must  be  killed,"  he  says  to  the  city  editor.  That 
worthy  thinks  it  a  crime.  Remembering  the  blow  that  such 
a  step  will'mean  to  Beatrice,  whom  he  loves,  the  managing 
editor  instructs  his  subordinate  to  give  the  story  to  the 
rival  newspaper.  Then  he  resigns  his  position  and  calls 
on   Beatrice  to  plead  his  love  case. 

"Her    Big   Story"  will   be   released   May   31, 


"THE    WISHING    SEAT"    (American). 

Reviewed    by   James    S.    McQuade. 

AN    engaging   little    comedy,    very   prettily    told,    will   be 
released    by    the    American,    June    5.    under    the    title 
"The  Wishing  Seat."    Miss  Pauline  Bush  and  Warren 
Kerrigan   take   the   leading  parts   most  acceptably,   and   that 
clever  actress,  Miss  Louise  Lester,  and  the  reliable  George 
Periolat  appear  in  the  character  parts. 

There  are  several  beautiful  exterior  views  in  this  film 
and  the  photography  is  of  fine  quality. 

A  young  lady  author  entertains  at  her  charming  country 
residence.  She  invites,  in  pairs,  a  long  list  of  love  sick  young 
people,  and  to  appease  Mother  Grundy  she  has  also  on  her 
list  of  guests  an  elderly  couple,  who  serve  in  the  capacity 
of   chaperones.     The  young  people  have   the   time   of  their 


Scene  from  "The  Wishing  Seat"  (American). 

lives,  and  every  nook  and  arbor  of  the  delightful  country  seat 
has  its  pair  of  spooning  lovers.  But  the  hostess  is  not 
among  these  happy  ones.  She  chances  to  be  loverless,  and 
she  seeks  the  wishing  seat,  hewn  out  of  the  solid  rock,  where 
she  wishes  for  "a  nice  man." 

Now  fate  had  ordered  that  a  young  artist,  handsome  and 
stalwart,  at  this  very  time,  was  busy  at  work  on  the  hill 
top  overlooking  this  wishing  seat.  And  it  also  happened  that 
he  accidentally  lost  his  balance  and  plowed  down  the  as- 
cent head  foremost,  crashing  through  the  brush  that  concealed 
the  wishing  seat  and  landing  beside  the  startled  young  ladv. 
Henceforth,  during  the  stay  of  the  visitors,  another  pair  of 
spooning  lovers  was  added  to  the  former  list.  The  dis- 
covery of  the  secret  of  the  hostess  is  very  amusingly  shown 
in  the  pictures,  and  the  smiles  reflected  there  will  doubtless 
be  seen  on  many  thousands  of  faces  as  the  scene  is  thrown 
on  the  screen. 


S.  S.  HUTCHINSON  RETURNS  TO  COAST  STUDIO. 

S.  S.  Hutchinson,  president  of  The  American  Film  Mfg.  Co., 
returned  to  the  Santa  Barbara  producing  headquarters  after 
a  brief  stay  in  Chicago.  Mr.  Hutchinson  expects  to  spend 
considerable  time  in  California  this  summer,  directing  the 
production  of  some'coming  two  and  three  reel  features. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


■  BE. 


OBSERVATIONS 

BY  OUR  MAN  ABOUT  TOWN 


THE  airdome  managers  have  their  men  at  work  prepar- 
ing for  the  summer  season.  The  few  warm  days  we 
had  recently,  on  one  of  which  the  thermometer  indi- 
cated 87  in  the  shade,  caused  a  belief  that  there  would  be  an 
early  opening  for  these  places,  but  the  hopes  have  been  dis- 
pelled and  it  is  doubtful  that  open-air  business  can  be  done 
in  less  than  three  or  four  weeks  hence,  excepting,  of  course, 
places  that  can  be  converted  by  the  manipulation  of  roofs 
and  sides,  and  there  are  not  many  of  them.  It  is  a  certainty 
that  should  provisions  be  made  by  the  grace  of  the  Board 
of  Aldermen  for  the  increased  seating  capacity  of  the 
smaller  houses  the  managers  will  include  in  their  altera- 
tions arrangements  whereby  the  houses  may  be  converted  to 
meet  the  freaks  of  the  weather.  It  is  figured  that  they  will 
be  better  able  to  hold  business  than  they  can  with  artificial 
means  of  ventilation  and  the  "squatters"  on  lots  who  pick 
up  the  dimes  during  the  summer  and  flit  away  in  the  fall 
will  be  reduced  considerably  in  number.  Complaint  is  not 
made  against  the  regular  airdomes  that  are  operated  by 
men  who  understand  the  business  and  are  obliged  to  close 
their  winter  houses.  The  opposition  is  aimed  at  the  specu- 
lators who  spend  little  in  converting  lots  and  injure  the  busi- 
ness by  giving  the  people  inferior  pictures. 

*  *     * 

A  case  in  point  is  that  of  three  young  men  employed  in 
broKers'  offices.  A  relative  of  one  owns  a  lot  situated  in  a 
locality  where  several  picture  houses  are  doing  good  busi- 
ness and  some  of  them  are  equipped  with  artificial  ventila- 
tion for  the  summer  season.  The  combined  capital  of  the 
trio  will  provide  for  the  fencing,  flooring,  etc.,  of  the  place 
and  give  a  seating  capacity  of  over  2.200.  The  seats  and 
projecting  outfit  have  been  arranged  for  on  a  cheap  rental 
basis  and  the  film  service  is  to  be  secured  as  near  the  mini- 
mum as  possible.  The  only  person  having  any  knowledge 
of  the  business  will  be  the  operator.  As  the  clerks  hold 
positions  that  enable  them  to  leave  their  offices  early  every 
day  during  the  summer,  particularly  on  Saturdays,  they  will 
assume  charge  of  the  place,  even  to  the  box  office  and  the 
piano.  Relatives  will  substitute  for  them  in  case  of  delayed 
arrival.  "You  see,"  said  one  of  them,  "we  fit  in  nicely.  All 
of  us  have  a  business  training  and  can  handle  the  box  office 
to  a  nicety,  and  Jim,  here,  is  a  terror  at  the  piano.  I  am  a 
good  baritone  and  occasionally  can  run  in  some  good  stuff. 
We  have  watched  all  these  picture  houses  closely  and  know 
they  are  making  money,  and  we  can  get  a  good  piece  of 
that  with  a  place  where  people  can  sit  comfortably  in  the 
open  air  and  be  entertained  at  a  small  price.  Xo,  we  will 
not  build  a  theater  on  the  lot.  Apartment  houses  are  going 
up  in  the  fall  and  we  are  going  to  make  what  we  can  while 

the  lot  is  vacant." 

*  *     * 

Well,  aside  from  the  regulations  governing  the  establish- 
ment and  management  of  the  place,  there  is  no  law  to  pre- 
vent them  from  doing  so,  but  it  is  a  bitter  pill  for  the  regu- 
lars in  the  neighborhood — the  men  who  depend  upon  their 
places  as  a  means  of  livelihood.  And  yet  exhibitors  are 
charged  with  being  dogs  in  mangers  when  they  cry  out 
against  such  undertakings. 

*  *     * 

What  a  change  there  is  in  the  line  of  gossip  along  the 
White  Way  these  days!  Heretofore  the  professional  peo- 
ple, when  discussing  the  closing  of  the  regular  theaters  and 
the  outlook  for  the  next  season,  have  taken  delight  in  telling 
their  fellow  thespians  of  the  gilt-edged  contracts  in  hand. 
or  at  their  option.  Little  of  that  now.  An  actor  was  heard 
remarking:  "This  picture  game  has  my  goat.  It  has  put  a 
crimp  in  all  my  calculations.  I  don't  know  whether  next 
season   is   to   be   the   stage   or   the   studio   for   me.     When   I 

asked  Mr.  about  the  prospects  for  next  season  he  told 

me  to  be  patient;  that  the  policy  of  the  house  had  not  been 
decided  upon." 

*  *    * 

That  is  quite  true.  It  was  learned  last  week  that  one  of 
the  largest  theatrical  syndicates  in  the  city  will  quote  rental 
on  any  house  it  owns  for  a  bonafide  motion  picture  under- 
taking and,  with  but  one  or  two  exceptions,  all  the  houses 


may  be  leased.  This  was  supplemented  by  a  well  authenti- 
cated statement  that  if  the  people  who  have  been  sounding 
the  situation  do  not  take  definite  action  soon  it  is  more  than 
probable  that  the  syndicate  will  convert  some  of  its  places 
into  photoplay  houses.  One  member  of  the  syndicate  said 
less  than  two  weeks  ago,  "I  have  been  convinced  for  some 
time  that  the  motion  pictures  are  steadily  making  inroads 
on  our  territory.  I  combatted  the  idea  for  quite  a  while, 
but  you  cannot  get  away  from  the  fact.  Why,  the  higher 
class  of  people  are  becoming  almost  picture  crazy.  Look 
at  the  Astor  Theater!  Actually  packing  them  in  with  a 
continuous  run  of  a  feature  picture.  True,  it  is  exceptional 
in  respect  to  magnitude  of  production  and  length,  but  other 
big  picture  theaters  are  filling  the  seats  when  we  cannot 
drag  the  people  in.  Xo,  we  have  not  decided  to  become  di- 
rectly identified  with  the  photoplay,  but  we  have  the  project 
under  serious  consideration.  Much  depends  upon  pending 
overtures." 

*  *     * 

Another  member  of  the  syndicate  said:  "A  critic  stated 
editorially  the  other  day  that  one  of  the  greatest  dangers  to 
dramatic  art  in  Xew  York  is  the  city's  over-supply  of  thea- 
ters, which  is  constantly  increasing.  It  debases  the  standard 
of  the  stage  and  tempts  managers  to  become  merely  gam- 
blers with  public  whim.  That  is  what  we  all  say.  There  is 
but  one  outlet,  and  that  is  to  convert  some  of  the  houses 
to  the  picture  scheme  and  retain  others  for  the  preservation 
of  dramatic  art  in  its  old  time  form.  It  is  bound  to  come. 
The  indications  are  that  many  changes  will  take  place  next 
fall,  perhaps  earlier.  Stick  a  pin  in  this.  When  the  larger 
theaters  are  transformed  they  will  not  become  houses  like 
those  generally  known  as  picture  theaters.  The  managers 
will  conduct  them  on  a  show-man  basis.  By  that  I  mean 
pictures  will  not  be  changed  every  day,  or  three  days,  or 
even  every  week.  Strong  features  will  be  selected  for  a 
continuous  run.  I  feel  satisfied  that  motion  picture  studios 
can  turn  out  subjects  that  will  run  as  long  as  six  months  if 
properly  handled.  I  have  in  mind  a  number  of  plays  that 
had  runs  of  a  year,  and  even  two  years,  in  this  city,  and  I 
cannot  see  why  they  could  not  be  made  attractions  for 
months  in  picture  form.  My  confidence  in  this  is  strength- 
ened by  a  comparison  of  the  expense  entailed  in  stage  pro- 
ductions with  the  cost  of  the  picture  productions." 

*  *     * 

Continuous  exhibition  of  feature  films  as  outlined  by  the 
latter  manager  was  taken  up  with  a  film  manufacturer  with 
a  view  to  ascertaining  his  impressions  on  the  effect  such  a 
policy  would  have  upon  his  end  of  the  business.  He  was 
optimistic.  "I  think  the  idea  a  good  one,"  said  he.  "We 
film  manufacturers  have  been  doing  missionary  work  against 
great  odds  for  years  and  it  is  very  gratifying  to  find  it  bear- 
ing fruit.  All  such  ventures  tend  to  popularize  the  photo- 
plays and  we  certainly  cannot  object  to  that.  The  greater 
the  hits  by  photoplays  on  Broadway  the  more  extensive  and 
impressive  becomes  the  advertising  of  photoplays  through- 
out the  country.  And  this  does  not  stop  at  any  particular 
line  of  plays.  It  benefits  the  business  as  a  whole.  There 
are  still  many  people  in  all  cities  and  towns  who  have  not 
yet  become  settled  in  the  opinion  that  the  photoplay  is  a 
real,  legitimate  form  of  entertainment.  They  go  to  see 
them,  but  have  a  feeling  that  something  is  lacking.  When 
it  becomes  heralded  through  the  States  that  the  people  are 
flocking  to  see  photoplays  in  the  great  Xew  York  theaters 
this — well.  I  might  call  it.  feeling  of  dignity  will  relax,  and 
the  skeptics  will  become  regular  patrons." 

"But  will  not  the  productions  be  curtailed  and  your  source 
of   revenue   correspondingly   decreased?" 

"Xo.  The  scheme  proposed  will  bring  into  the  field  addi- 
tional outlets  that  will  be  in  a  class  hjy  themselves.  They 
will  not  be  competitors  of  the  regular  photoplay  houses.  To 
the  contrary,  they  will  bring  them  new  patrons  and  there- 
fore justify  the  output.  I  would  qualify  my  answer  as  to  the 
effect  upon  production,  however,  by  saying  that  the  new 
scheme  will  be  a  most  important  step  towards  putting  in- 
ferior films  off  the  market  and  leaving  it  to  the  much  talked- 
of  'survival  of  the  fittest.'  The  advancement  of  photoplay  art 
required  for  the  big  houses  will  necessitate  a  corresponding 
advancement  for  the  benefit  of  the  smaller  houses.  Quality 
and  character  must  follow  to  retain  the  newcomers." 


"HIAWATHA"  IN  OHIO. 

The  Fort  Defiance  Feature  Film  Company,  of  Defiance, 
Ohio,  have  procured  the  exclusive  Ohio  rights  for  exhibiting 
"Hiawatha."  Already  a  heavy  demand  for  bookings  has 
been  received  and  the  success  of  the  out-of-door  play  in  this 
State  promises  to  be  repeated  in  the  picture  production. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


911 


cyldvertising  for  Exhibitors 

Conducted  by   EPES  WINTHROP  SARGENT 


««» 


Things  We   Like. 

THERE    are    several    things    that    we    like    about    the    programs    of    the 
Princess   Theater,    Henderson,    N.    C.      As    Manager    S.    S.    Henderson 
says,   there   is   room    for  improvement — there   always    is — but   he   has   a  ■ 
way  of  talking  that  carries  conviction.     For  example,  lake   this: 
MR.   PARTICULAR  MAN: 

We   want    your    confidence.      We   cannot   get   it   unless    we   show 
you.  and  that  is  what  we  will  illustrate  every  day  you   visit  the 
PRINCESS.     We  will  give  a  private  performance  any  time  dur- 
ing   the    day    for    the  particular   man    or   woman    who    has   never 
visited    a    photoplay. 
We  do  not  imagine  that  many  persons  will  ask  for  a  special  performance, 
but  we  do  believe   that   many  who  might  not  otherwise  be   attracted   would 
regard    that   offer  as   convincing   without    asking   its    fulfillment.      Were   we 
running  a  house  we  should  be  glad  did  someone  take  us  up  on  this  proposi- 
tion, for  every  time  it  happened  we  should  have  the  best  sort  of  a  booster. 
Another  good  line   is: 

IF  "STEVENSON   SAYS   SO" 

and   you   find  it  different 
GET  YOUR   MOXEY  BACK. 
We  constantly  preach  time,   place  and  cost.     Possibly  the  place  does  not 
matter  here,  but  the  program  carries  this  definite  information: 

PRINCESS  PERFECT  PICTURES 
THE  TIME   WE  ARE   SHOWING: 

Matinee 2  to   5:30   P.   M. 

Night 7^30  to   10:30 

THE   ADMISSION    WE    CHARGE: 

Adults 10  cents 

Children  under  12 5  cents 

THE  PICTURES  WE  SHOW 

are  the  best  in  the  w^rld.     We  use  "Licensed"  films,  the  best, 
.  rise  it  takes  monev  to  produce  the  best. 
THE  PATRONAGE  WE  WANT: 

Ladies,   Gentlemen   and   Children.      Others   must  conduct  them- 
selves  as   such   or   the   price   of  admission   will   be   returned   to 
them  and  they  will  be  asked  to  vacate. 
That  last  may  seem  a  bit  strenuous  to  some  exhibitors,  but  the  Southern 
manager  knows  that   it   is   not  easy   to  get  the  better  people  without  assur- 
ing  order  and   the  people   most   likely   to  have   their   feelings   hurt   are   the 
ones  least  desired — since  a  choice  must  be  made. 

Now  for  the  Faults. 

The  program  is  long  and  narrow,  four  inches  by  nine,  and  has  plenty 
of  space  for  the  advertising — of  which  there  is  plenty — as  well  as  the 
program.  But  the  program  space  is  not  always  used  to  the  best  advantage. 
Some  stories  are  fully  described  and  others  passed  over  with  bare  mention. 
"The  Belle  of  North  Wales"  is  merely  "A  story  produced  in  North  Wales 
by  the  Kalem  Company. "•  Surely  the  fact  that  the  story  was  produced  in 
North  Wales  is  worthy  of  more  than  passing  mention  when  there  is  all 
sorts  of  white  space  in  the  program  division.  On  the  other  hand  "The 
Minister's  Temptation"  gets  nine  lines  of  descriptive  matter,  though  from 
an  advertising  viewpoint  the  Kalem  story  is  more  important.  Unless  all 
subjects  are  treated  alike  and  given  a  certain  number  of  lines,  the  greater 
attention  should  be  given  the  stories  best  worth  bragging  about.  It  will 
pay  Mr.  Stevenson  and  any  other  manager,  to  get  some  sort  of  temporary 
index  tha:  will  last  until  the  quarterly  index  is  published  in  the  last  issue 
for  March,  June,  September  and  December.  Primarily,  the  purpose  of  the 
program  is  tc  advertise  the  comine  attractions  and  too  much  care  cannot 
be  given  to  making  the  announcement  attractive.  Mr.  Stevenson  cuts  the 
program  off  top  and  bottom  with  three  point  rule.  Now,  if  he  will  run  the 
same  for  the  side  rule,  he  will  have  an  even  better  arrangement,  keeping 
the  2ds  in  the  one  point  rule  he  now  u~e>. 

But  three  issues  have  been  published  and  they  are* excellent  for  starters. 
The  whole  issue  suggests  a  desire  to  cater  to  the  comfort  of  the  patrons 
and  it  is  convincingly  stated.  Mr.  Stevenson  does  so  well  in  this  direction 
that  we  would  like  to  see  him  give  more  time  in  preparing  the  program 
proper.  He  has  promised  to  send  more  of  the  issues  and  we  hope  that 
he  does. 

We  Welcome  Mr.  Arnold. 

S.  A.  Arnold,  of  the  Lyric  Theater  and  Airdome,  Mtna,  Arkansas,  was 
just  dozing.     Mr.  Arnold  writes: 

Inclosed  you  will  find  small  throw-away  that  I  have  used  which 
is  a  copy  of  an  item  that  I  ran  as  news  :n  cur  daily. 

Personally,  I  am  opposed  to  the  giving  away  of  prizes  and 
never  make  use  of  them,  but  sometimes  in  order  to  get  new  busi- 
ness it  is  necessary  to  offer  some  inducement  and  this  scheme  is 
starting  off  O.  K.  and  promises  to  pay  for  the  car  with  the  new 
business  I  am  getting. 

In  giving  this  prize  I  am  advised  by  my  attorney  that  it  is  not 
a  violation  of  the  iaws,  as  there  is  110  drawing  so  it  can't  be  con- 
sidered  a    lottery. 

I  expect  to  open  my  airdome  within  the  next  few  weeks  and  will 
send  you  then  some  of  l.ie  ways  [  expect  to  advertise  it.     One  thing 


I  can  promise  you  in  advance  in  my  airdome,  there  will  be  no  cry 
of  "peanuts,  candy,  five  a  bag,"  etc.  My  theater  is  a  place  of 
amusement  and  will  be  conducted  as  such,  where  I  will  see  that 
the  people  are  entertained  and  not  annoyed. 

Mr.  Arnold's  house  seats  600  and  the  airdome  1,000  and  he  is  less  in 
need  of  outside  revenue  than  the  man  with  the  300  house,  but  he  is  right 
in  his  stand  against  vending  through  the  audience.  It  is  a  nuisance  even 
when  it  is  permitted  only  between  films.  The  auto  scheme  is  entirely  out  of 
the  lottery  class,  being  one  of  those  voting  contest  schemes.  We  show  the 
copy  and  the  coupon. 

LYRIC  WILL  GIVE  AWAY  $1,000  AUTO. 


Coupons   Will   Be   Issvfd   Beginning   Monday   Night,    April   28, 
and    Final   Award   Will   Be   Made  June   4 — The  Rules. 


The  Lyric  Theater  has  arranged  to  give  away,  on  June  4,  a 
$1,000  Flanders  automobile,  this  fine  gift  to  go  to  the  one  who  holds 
on  the  latter  date  the  largest  number  of  coLpons. 

Beginning  Monday  night,  April  28,  with  each  adult  ticket  bought 
there  will  be  given  one  coupon,  and  to  the  individual  who  on 
June  4  has  the  largest  number  of  these  coupons  will  be  given  the 
automobile.  These  coupons  will  be  in  different  colors  for  each 
week,  and  those  secured  by  the  contestants  each  week  must  be 
turned  in  at  the  box  office  on  the  Monday  night  following,  other- 
wise they  will  not  be  counted.  These  coupons  must  be  tied  in  neat 
package  or  placed  in  a  sealed  envelope,  the  package  or  envelope 
bearing  the  name  of  contestant  and  number  of  coupons  'enclosed. 
These  will  be  turned  over  to  a  committee  of  three  business  men, 
who  will  verify  the  count  and  credit  each  contestant  with  the 
correct  number  turned  in. 

Positively  no  announcements  will  be  made  of  the  number  to  the 
credit  of  any  contestant   until   the   day  of  award,  and  no   one   will 
be  allowed  to  solicit  coupons  in  it  near  the  theater. 
CONTEST  STARTS  TONIGHT! 


LYRIC  AUTOMOBILE  COUPON 

Must    Be    Turned    in    at    Box 
Office     Xext     Monday     Night 

CONTEST  CLOSES  JUNE  4,  1913 


"Visit  New  York." 

A  lr.te  Cameraphone  Bulletin  has  a  capital  catchline  for  the  series  of 
New  York  City  pictures  the  Kalem  Company  is  now  using  on  the  ends  of 
its  comedy  reels.  To  the  man  out  of  town  '"New  York"  has  a  magic  sound 
and  this  headline  attracts  attention  to  good  copy: 

VISIT  NEW  YORK  WITH  US  ON  MONDAY. 
The  Kalem  Company  has  a  man  who  enjoys  prowling  around 
New  York  City  with  a  camera  and  making  pictures  of  anything 
or  anyone  that  is  a  little  bit  out  of  the  ordinary.  Two  of  these 
films  have  been  marked  up  for  us  on  Monday.  You  may  be  quite 
well  acquainted  with  your  New  York,  but  we  really  think  you 
will  see  something  new  in  these  pictures. 


Just  for  that  matter  the 
people. 


And   talking  of  programs, 
It   is   contributed   by    Melv 
Princess,   Ashland.    Ohio. 
pictures  tc  the  performanc 
theater   the   novice  turned 
Ashland  over  night,  or  will 

It  taxes  the  imagination 


Kalem  New  York  stuff  is  new  to  most  New  York 

Program  Stuff. 

here's  a  rather  good  one  for  the  theater  papers. 
ille  M.  Ross,  of  Newark,  but  happened  at  the 
A  fan  had  taken  a  friend  who  had  never  seen 
e  at  the  Princess,  and  as  they  were  leaving  the 
to  her  friend:  "Do  all  these  players  remain  in 
they  have  to  take  a  night  train?" 
a  trifle  but  Mr.   Ross  says  it's  a  true   story. 

Display  Might  be  Better. 

John  B.  Ashton,  of  the  Princess  and  Ellen  Theaters.  Provo.  Utah,  sends 
in  the  joint  program  used  for  the  two  houses,  the  Princess  programs  being 
on  the  left  hand  pages  and  the  Ellen  on  the  right.  It  is  eight  pages  and 
colored  cover  with  two  red  and  black  inks.  The  front  is  attractively 
done,  though  a  stronger  and  brighter  red  might  have  been  used,  but  the 
advertising  in  the  white  pages  shows  up  better  than  the  programs.  We 
think  tha;  as  a  rule  the  across  page  make  up,  with  the  advertisements 
heavily  ruled  off  from  the  program,  is  a  better  arrangement  than  the  up 
and  down  column.  Better  still,  would  have  been  the  two  programs  on  the 
right  hand  pages  and  the  advertising  on  the  left,  though  this  last  is  open  to 


912 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


the  objection  that  there  is  nothing  to  carry  the  eye  over  to  the  left  hand 
pages.  If  we  had  to  use  the  straight  column  make  up  we  would  box  in  each 
title  with  three  point  rule  to  make  it  stand  out  A  little  talk  with  the 
printer  will  bring  better  results  with  very  little  additional  cost  or  none  at  alk 

It  is  not  enough  to  send  your  copy  to  the  printer.  You'll  have  to  follow 
it  up  and  keep  after  him  until  so?ne  good  make-up  is  evolved.  Mr.  Ashton 
knows  what's  wnat,  as  his  cover  page  shows.  The  rest  is  a  matter  of  time 
and  experiment.  We  should  like  to  see  at  least  one  page  devoted  to  chat 
of  films  and  film  players.  This  should  be  in  eight  point  or  seven  point  on 
an  eigltt  point  slug  or  body. 

The  great  trouble  with  the  program  as  it  stands  is  that  the  titles  of  the 
releases  are  too  small  to  fight  the  larger  type  used  in  the  advertisements. 
An  immediate  improvement  can  be  made  by  throwing  the  Princess  programs 
to  the  left,  to  the  outer  column,  or  bringing  the  Ellen  programs  in  so  that 
tbey  stand  beside  those  of  the  Princess. 

Real  Slides. 

Rex  W.  Midgley,  of  the  Liberty  Theater.  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  sends  in. 
a  wrinkle  that  should  appeal  to  those  who  want  the  best.  This  takes  a 
little  time  and  trouble,  but  the  result  is  so  far  superior  to  the  usual  let- 
tered slide  that  it's  worth  the  trouble  and  more  to  the  man  who  doesn't 
like  the  makeshift  and  who  can  afford  better,  not  that  this  idea  is  so 
tremendously  expensive,  at  that.     We  show  a  cut  that  does  not  do  justice 


.  Thursday,  Friday  and  Saturday 

A  Biograph  Drama 

IF  WE  ONLY  KNEW 


A  STORY  OP  A  CHILD'S 
IMPORTANCE  IN  THE  HOME 


The  Castlncludcs 


greater  prestige  with  seats  at  from  ten  to  twenty -five  cents.  The  day  of  the 
rive  cent  show  is  passing  and  with  a  splendid  production  and  a  nationally 
known  star  this  would  have  been  the  time  to  educate  the  patrons  to  the 
higher  prices  with  the  assurance  that  a  return  would  be  given  for  the  in- 
citased  price.  Mr.  Blanchard  took  half-pages  in  the  paper  for  the  special 
and  then  did  not  feel  called  upon  to  use  every  square  inch  of  it  for  type. 
Instead  there  was  a  dignified  announcement  of  the  subject  in  the  center 
and  four  small  boxes  in  the  corners.  As  a  result  he  does  in  a  balf-page  what 
a  full  page  of  type  would  not  have  done.  He  drives  home  the  big  points  - 
a,nd  lets  them  do  the  work. "  It  takes  nerve  sometimes  to  pay  for  white 
paper  at  so  much  an  inch,  but  if  space  is  better  than  type,  it  pays  better  to 
use  the  space. 

Postals,  Too. 

He  also  sent  out  postals  to  a  select  list.  These  carry  the  name  of  the 
theater  at  the  top,   followed  by  a  cut  and  this  text: 

We  take  pleasure  in  presenting 

Mr.  James  K.  Hackett  in  the 

PRISONER   OF  ZENDA 

at  The   Peoples'   Theater 

Wednesday,   April   gth 

BOTH     MATINEE    AND     EVENING 

A  feature  will  be  made  of  the  music.  An  eight-piece 
orchestra  under  the  direction  of  Mr,  Kissinger  is  at  work 
on  this  music  and  it  promises  to  be  a  real  feature. 

The  picture  is  not  equaled,  the  story  is  one  of  Romance  and  Ad- 
venture. A  limited  number  of  seats  have  been  reserved  and  are 
on  sale  at  Smith's  Eook  Store.  The  number  is  limited  as  only 
half  of  the   house   is   reserved. 

The  lines  are  so  displayed  that  the  name  of  the  attraction  stands  out. 
ft  is  one  of  the  most  intelligently  balanced  advertisements  we  have  seen 
in    some   :ime. 

Another  attractive  advertisement  carries  the  titles  of  the  big  releases 
in  white  against  a  black  ground.  This  necessitates  the  making  of  a  cut, 
but  there  is  a  return  in  prominence  that  pays  for  the  trouble.  Another 
effective  device  is  to  double  lead  in  a  hairline  rule  under  each  line  of  an 
eight  point  story  of  the  film.  For  a  change  it  is  better  than  full-faced  type 
because  it  is  unusual.     We  reproduce  a  few  lines: 


"Three  Wise  Men" 


to  the  original  which  is  a  photographic  print  from  a  slide  made  from  the 
recent  Biograph  player  poster,  with  some  type  lines  and  a  trade  mark  from 
the   bulletin  and  a   few  original   type  lines. 

Mr.  Midgley  is  fortunate  in  having  his  printer  and  slide  man  in  the 
same  person,  and  this  helps  much  in  making  up  effective  combinations,  but 
even  where  the  printer  and  the  slide  maker  are  in  different  establishments 
effective  results  can  be  had.  Mr.  Midgley's  slides  cost  him  but  sixty  cents 
each — plus   brains. 

The   Stencils. 

An  operator  in  New  York,  who  is  also  a  sign  painter,  offers  to  solve  the 
stencil   pr«  blems  for  the   Haynic  theaters  and  others.     He  writes: 

I  do  not  make  a  business  of  cutting  stencils,  hut  I  -vill  — ' 
sets  it"  dtsired  of  heavy  paper  cojted  with  shellac  that,  if  properly 
handled,  will  last  a  lifetime.  I  can  make  them  in  any  size  letter 
desired  at  one  and  a  half  cents  an  upright  inch,  that  is  to  say 
an  eighteen  irch  letter  will  cost  seven  dollars  a  set,  plus  the  cost 
of  parcel   post. 

I  am  an  operator  as  well  as  a  si'jjn  painter  and  the  man'  I  am 
now  working  for  will  not  buy  the  material  for  signs  though  I  am 
willing  to   paint  them   for  nothing. 

I    will    furnish   a  sample  to  any   manager   desiring  a  set   for   his 
own  use. 
We  think   that   a  sign    painting  operator   should   have  no   trouble  in  find- 
ing a  manager  who  would  appreciate  his  double  talents.     Anyone  interested 
in  the  stencil  proposition  can  have  the  address  for  a  stamped  envelope. 

Still  on  Earth. 

J.  M.  Blanchard,  of  the  People's  Theater.  Sunbury,  Pa.,  is  another  to 
rise  from  a  supposed  grave  and  show  that  he  is  still  on  earth.  We  are 
beginning  to  believe  that  in  time  even  Wesley  will  bob  up  again.  Mr 
Blanchard  had  "The  Prisoner  of  Zenda"  the  other  day  and  announces: 

Daniel    Frohman 

James    K.    Hackett 

— in — 

The    Prisoner   of   Zenda. 

We  think  the  printer  must  have  left  out  the  word  "presents."  for  Mr. 
Frohman  does  not  appear  in  the  picture.  Mr.  Blanchard  put  in  an '  eight- 
piece  orchestra  to  play  the  special  music  =  upnlied,  and  he  sold  reserved 
seals,  wisely  realizing  that  the  subject  would  attract  many  people  who 
would  gladly  pay  an  increased  price  for  increased  comfort.  At  that  there 
were  seats  at  five  cents,  which  is  too  little  for  a  five-reel  special.  We  think 
he  would  have  made  more  money  and  at  the  same   time  would  have  gained 


A  curious  and  exceptional  miracle  picture, 
with,  among  others,  two  wonderfully  beauti- 
ful -califs  after  famous  paintings;  first  "The 
First  Christmas"  and  the  other  even  mure 
widely  known,   "Behold  I  Stard  at  the    DoOl   " 


Don't  Irritate. 

Now  that  the  hot  weather  is  here  and  you've  got  to  keep  people  interested 
to  get  them  into  your  house,  do  not  irritate  them  with  supposedly  catchy 
lir.es  as  "Is  it  hot  enough  for  you?"  Don't  mention  the  heat,  talk  about 
Jhc  cool  interior  of  your  house.  The  time-worn  question  adds  to  the  ag- 
u  :\\  ation  of  the  sweltering  passer-by  and  doesn't  help  you  any.  Do  some- 
thing different. 

Get  a  big  packing  box  and  build  a  false  bottom  a  couple  of  inches  from 
the  top.  Fill  this  lid  with  cheap  palm  leaf  fans,  cover  it  with  wire  netting 
and  turn  it  on  its  side  in  the  lobby.     Then  put  out  a  sign. 

We   don't  need   these   inside — that's  why    they're   here. 

That's  far  more  likely  to  get  you  business  than  some  heat-inducing  line, 
and  it  will  send  your  patrons  into  the  house  with  the  feeling  that  they  are 
going  to  be  cooled  off. 


Cool  off  here  or  inside. 


will  appeal  to  the  feminine  trade  and  a  thermometer  with  the  mercury 
faked  to  stay  at  freezing  would  look  mighty  good  on  a  hot  day.  Get  one 
of  these  large  spirit  thermometers  such  as  are  given  out  with  advertising 
on  them.  Break  off  the  lower  end  of  the  bulb  and  let  the  fluid  run  out 
then  run  a  fine  silver  wire  or  even  a  colored  broom  straw  up  the  tube  to 
the  proper  point.  Replace  the  bulb  guard  and  below  the  outfit  put  up  a 
sign 

//  you  don't  believe  it,  go  inside  and  see. 

Most  people  will  stop  to  see  how  hot  it  is  and  have  it  impressed  upon  them 
that  the  house  is  cool.  The  sign  should  not  be  so  large  as  to  give  the  sell 
away. 

An  electric  fan  with  ribbons  tied  to  the  frame  work  will  catch  the  eye. 
A    sign    that    reads 

Cooler  than  an  Ice  Cream  Soda. 

vill   do  the  rest. 

There  are  a  lot  of  catchy  ideas  that  will  suggest  themselves  to  you  if 
you  think  along  those  lines,  but  think  for  cool  signs,  not  warming  ones. 


THE    MOVING   PICTURE    WORLD 


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We  PHOTOPLAY  WRIGHT  t 

Conducted  by  Epes  Wditheop  Sargbshf 


The  Dinner 


THIS   is   about  your  last  chance   to   get   a   ticket  for   the   dinner.      The 
dinner    list    will   close    Thursday,    May    29th.,    and    reservations    can- 
not be  made  after  that. 
The  dinner  will  be  held  at  Keene's  Chop  House,  West  36th    Street,   Sat- 
urday evening,  May  31st.     Tickets  are  two  dollars  each  and  may  be  had  of 
the    members    of   the    Inquest   Club    or   of   the    Dinner  Committee,    Box    70, 
Madison  Square  Station.     Write  for  your  ticket  now. 

Got  a  Real  One. 

The  Inquest  Club  has  another  honorary  member.  He  is  John  Edmund 
DeHoff,  who  is  a  real  coroner  down  in  York,  Pa.  With  a  Coffin,  a 
coioner.  a  minister,  two  physicians  and  several  reporters,  the  Inquest 
Club  is  pretty  well  provided,  except  that  John  W.  Kellette  suggests  thai 
we  need  an  undertaker.  If  Hughie  Mack  will  make  proper  application 
he  will   be  declared  in. 


Now  It's  Johnston. 

Calder  Johnston,  lately  of  the  Morning  Telegraph,  has  been  appointed 
editor  for  the  Universal  company.  This  is  a  statement  of  news,  not  a 
tip  to  address  all  your  scripts  to  Mr.  Johnston  personally.  That  will 
not  help   any. 


That  Lubin  Change. 

Thinking  writers  will  see  in  the  announcement  of  the  new  system  in 
vogue  at  the  Lubin  studio  something  more  than  a  belated  recognition 
of  the  Editor.  It  is  good  news  to  every  man  who  writes  good  stories 
to  know  that  his  matter  will  be  passed  upon  by  persons  competent  to 
judge  literary  work,  but  there  is  another  side  to  the  matter.  It  is  a 
recognition  by  one  of  the  leading  licensed  firms  that  literary  merit  does 
count  for  something,  that  the  well  written  story  counts  for  more  than 
the  poorly  prepared  plot  with  one  or  two  big  scenes  designed  to  appeal 
to  the  dramatic  instinct  of  the  producer.  Now  the  story  must  still  have 
its  big  moments,  its  strongly  dramatic  situations,  but  it  must  be  a  story, 
as  wrell,  a  complete  and  comprehensive  narrative  that  can  be  sent  to  the 
director  in  proper  form  and  so  well  balanced  that  production  cannot  throw 
it  out  of  proportion.  There  is  still  the  danger  that  working  from  the 
script  the  director  may  make  fifteen  hundred  feet  for  a  one  part  story, 
a  third  or  more  of  which  must  bs  eliminated  in  the  cutting  room,  but  this 
is  no  more  than  is  done  now  and  at  least  the  director  will  not  be  left  free 
to  make  all  sorts  of  changes  and  "improvements"  as  his  fancy  may  dictate. 

Still  more  important  is  the  emphasis  the  move  gives  to  the  conditions  in 
other  studios.  It  is  not  altogether  guess  work  to  predict  that  other 
studios  will  fall  in  line  in  a  short  time.  The  close  observer  can  tell 
from  the  pictures  on  the  screen  just  what  studios  give  the  director  ab- 
solutely free  choice  in  the  selection  and  handling  of  his  stories  and  those 
in   which  the   Editor  and   production  manager  have  more  to   say. 

In  his  efforts  to  bring  about  the  more  rational  condition,  Mr.  McCloskey 
deserves  the  thanks  of  every  thinking  photoplay  writer. 


in  the  country  who  .will  read  stuff  written  on  sleazy  sheets  or  onion  skin. 
With  some  paper  stock  it  is  possible  to  use  a  paper  lighter  than  twenty 
pounds  to  the  ream,  but  it  better  not  to  make  the  experiment. 

Twenty  pound  paper  means  paper  that  weighs  twenty  pounds  per  ream, 
17  by  22  inches.  It  may  be  linen  or  bond,  but  it  should  be  tough,  opaque 
and  of  a  good  finish.  It  should  be  all  paper  and  not  loaded  down  with 
clay  or  other  filling  that  permits  it  to  crack  across  the  moment  it  is  folded. 
As  a  rule,  bond  paper  is  the  best  and  as  a  general  thing  it  should  cost  not 
less  than  sixty  cents.  We  use  a  twenty  pound  bond  that  costs  $1.25  a 
box  or  S4.40  for  two  thousand  sheets  at  one  time.  The  paper  we  use  for 
carbon  copies  is  of  the  same  weight  and  value  but  of  a  different  color. 

White  paper  is  preferred,  but  a  buff,  light  yellow,  light  blue  or  light 
green  may  be  used.  As  a  rule,  if  color  is  wanted,  it  is  better  to  purchase 
a  whole  ream  and  have  it  cut,  but  specify  that  all  sheets  shall  be  %Vi  by  1  t 
when  cut  or  half  is  likely  to  be  1 1  %  and  the  rest  10 Jj.  A  black  record 
ribbon  should  be  employed. 

Envelopes  should  be  No.  10  for  the  returns  and  the  larger  No.  11  for  the 
going  envelopes;  those  in  which  the  script  is  mailed  to  the  studio.  The 
smaller  No.  9  can  be  made  to  do,  if  the  script  is  properly  brief,  but  it  re- 
quires very  exact  folding  and  is  clumsy.  To  send  an  8J/2  by  11  manuscript 
in  a  photomailer  requires  the  10  by  12  size.  It  is  a  torment  to  postmen,  is 
liable  to  be  subject  to  second  class  handling,  no  matter  how  much  the 
postage  paid,  and  is  bulky  and  unwieldy  in  the  studio.  If  you  follow  a 
trade  use  the  tools  of  that  trade.  You  would  not  start  out  to  be  a  car- 
penter with  a  stone  for  a  hammer  and  a  penknife  for  a  saw.  Do  not  break 
from  usage  when  you  write.  Do  as  the  other  writers  do.  Use  the  good 
enough  but  not  the  too  good  or  the  unusual.  The  editor  respects  the  work- 
manlike script.     He  derides  the  fancy  and  condemns  the  flimsy. 

And  by  the  way,  we  know  where  there  is  a  bargain  in  large  envelopes. 
We'll  pass  on  the  tip  to  anyone  in  New  Y'ork  who  wants  it.  Send  a 
stamped  and  addressed  envelope  for  the  address. 


Last  Excuse. 

The  April  Photoplay  Author  came  along  a  little  late  for  Mayday  parties 
but  still  not  more  than  a  week  after  April  had  passed.  We  had  grown 
accustomed  to  looking  for  a  late  issue  and  an  excuse,  but  it  appears  that 
the  May  issue  will  be  published  in  May,  and  the  June  issue  much  earlier 
i:t  June  than  the  middle  of  the  month.  Certain  arrangements  have  been 
made  looking  toward  greater  permanancy — and  promptness. 

The  April  issue  lacks  the  continuation  of  the  Pop  Hoadley  series  be- 
cause the  copy  tor  that  issue  was  among  the  stuff  burned  when  Pop  lost 
his  Hoboken  home  by  fire,  but  Arthur  Leeds,  William  Lord  Wright  and 
others  \.-ell  known,  contribute  readable  articles  and  a  new  writer,  Bailey 
Bartholdy,    argues    cleverly    but    unco.lvincingly    for    the    crime      tory. 


Envelopes  Once  More. 

Two  letters  came  in  during  the  past  week  on  the  everlasting  subject  of 
envelopes.  One  writer  wants  to  know  why  we  say  ten  and  eleven  envelopes 
when  a  nine  and  ten  will  do.  The  other  writer  stated  that  she  had  been 
sending  out  her  stuff  in  photomailers  but  that  an  editor  told  her  to  use  No. 
10  envelopes.     She  adds: 

Will  you   also  let  me  have  your  opinion   as  to  the  proper  weight 
of   paper   to   use.      The   paper    on    which    this   is    written   is  what   I 
regularly    use.      One    editor,    of    whose   views    I    fortunately    heard 
before  I  submitted  any  work  to  her,  has  poor  vision,  and  therefore 
gets  very  much   peeved  if  a   photoplay  submitted  to  her  is  written 
on  paper  thin  enough  for  the  clear  type  of  the  sheet  on  top  to  be 
blurred   by   the   typing  on   the  sheets  below.     What   weight   do   you 
recommend? 
That's  a  bit  "catty."    Very  possibly  the  editor  lost  her  clearness  of  vision 
trying  to  read  stuff  written   on   paper   so   thin  that  the  work  below  showed 
through,    and    her    nearsightedness    should    not   be    thrown    up   to    her.      No 
practised  writer  c-  cr  uses  a  paper  so  thin  that  the  type  matter  on  the  sec- 
ond   sheet    shows   through    the    first.     It    saves    two    or    even    four   cents    in 
postage,  tut  it  spoils  temper   and  eyesight  alike  and  there  is  not  an   editor 


Pointers  from  Boston. 

Dick    Cotton,    one   of    the    Boston    Circle,    contributes    these    pointers    for 
the  benefit  of  others: 

A  good  story  goes  in  any  form,  but  it  has  to  be  darned  good. 
Still  I  have  known  a  synopsis  to  be  rejected  and  the  developed 
photoplay  accepted   by  the   same   editor. 

If  you  want  to  get  in  with  one  of  the  companies  that  seems 
a  trifle  skeptical,  keep  after  them.  Show  them  that  your  good 
script  is  not  a  flash  in  the  pan.  but  that  you  can  keep  on  delivering 
that  quality  of  goods.  After  a  while  they  will  sit  up  and  take 
notice  and   then  begin    to-  buy. 

It  helps  to  use  a  front  sheet  on  which  appears  a  list  of  your 
releases  stating  titles  and  companies.  It  shows  that  your  work  has 
been    considered   good   by   others. 

Don't    bother    editors,    but    if    one    returns    your    script    with    a 
hint  as  to  the  trouble,  write  him  a  brief  note  of  thanks.     He's  only 
human   and  he  appreciates   courtesy  as  much   as  you   do. 
To   the   latter   we   would  add  that   when   you   write  and   thank  the  editor 
don't    ask    him    about    three    or    four    more    scripts    you    are    sending    him. 
That  sort  of  spoils  the  thanks. 

It  is  put  up  to  the  tyro  that  genius  is  merely  an  infinite  capacity  for 
pains,  or  for  hard  work.  It  is  preached  to  him  that  he  must  work,  work, 
work,  everlastingly  work.  And  so  he  must.  But  he  gets  the  wrong  idea. 
He  thinks  if  he  hasn't  slaved  about  so  many  days  over  a  story  it  can't  be 
good  for  anything.  So  he  goes  to  work  to  see  why  it  came  to  him  so 
easy,  to  instill  the  genius  of  hard  work  into  it.  He  can't  see  anything  very 
wrong  with  it  but  it  must  be  wrong  because  it  came  easy.  So  he  mulls 
and  sweats  and  presently  he  has  turned  a  perfectly  good  little  yarn  into  a 
mess  of  punk.  The  trouble  is  he  doesn't  know  when  he's  worked  enough. 
Your  note  has  made  me  cheerful  as  a  cricket  whereas  it  ought  to  have 
dumped  me  into  the  depths  I  suppose.  But  it  has  given  me  the  light. 
Here's  what  I'm  going  to  do  with  stories,  and  with  modifications  it  will  fit 
scripts.  I'm  going  to  write  it  as  I  see  it.  I  never  consciously  do  sloppy 
work  on  a  first  draft.  If  I  strike  a  snag  and  things  ahead  look  clearer  I 
sometimes  make  a  clean  jump;  but  what  I  do  write  is  the  best  I  have  in  me 
at  the  moment.  Having  written,  I'm  going  to  lay  it  aside  for  a  spell. 
Then  I'll  read  it,  not  with  the  idea  that  it's  all  punk  but  with  a  firm  con- 
viction that  it's  the  best  I  can  do.  If  I  see  a  change  that  seems  to  better  it 
I'll  make  it.  If  the  change  doesn't  jump  at  me  I'll  assume  the  thing  is  the 
best  I  can  do  and  shoot  it  ahead,  always  with  the  determination  to  make 
the  next  one  better. 

I  think  the  lessons  learned  can  be  better  applied  to  the  itcrl  story  or 
script  than  to  the  one  which  happens  to  be  in  the  works  at  the  moment. 
Put  your  work  on  that  one  instead  of  hammering  all  the  goodness  out  of  a 
thing  for  the  pure  sake  of  "working"  on  it. 

I  am  not  trying  to  make  an  opening  for  the  lazy  man  to  shyster  and 
salve  his  conscience.  Simply,  I  say,  don't  mull  over  a  story.  Let  it  stay 
on  ice  as  long  and  as  often  as  you  please.  But  when  you  take  it  off,  read 
it  fast  and  with  a  feeling  that  it's  good;  if  you  see  a  change,  make  it — but 
don't  hunt  trouble.  When  you  no  longer  see  the  change,  even  if  you're  not 
satisfied,  either  send  it  out  or  lay  it  away  and  try  again.  But  don't  fuss 
with  it. 

We  think  that  our  confessor  overlooked  one  statement.  He  doesn't  say 
that  he  has  his  story  reasonably  clear  in  his  mind  before  he  goes  to  work. 
We  do  not  believe  that  he  starts  to  write  until  he  has  something  to  write, 
then  he  writes  under  pressure  and  turns  out  matter  that  is  spirited  because 
it  is  worked  hard  and  fast.  Such  a  writer — and  there  are  many — cannot 
give  the  patient  revise  to  the  work  that  others  can.  It  must  be  good  in  the 
clean  copy  or  it  must  be  laid  aside  for  a  fresh  start. 

It  is  not  possible  to  lay  down  writing  rules  for  all,  since  there  are  so 
many  differing  temperaments,  but  if  you  are  constituted  as  is  this  writer, 
don't  try  to  revise.  You'll  find  it  easier  to  put  the  energy  into  a  new  story 
and  you'll  find  the  new  story  better  worth  while.  If  you  are  a  newcomer 
find  out  which  way  works  best  with  you,  but  do  not  use  this  letter  as  an 
excuse  if  you  happen  to  be  one  of  those  who  arrive  at  success  only  throujh 
patient  labor.  If  you  can't  improve  through  revision,  make  it  a  rule  to  try 
three  times.  If  the  story  is  not  right  by  the  third  time  set  it  aside  for  a 
few  months  and  try  again. 


9M 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


More  than  one  "natural"  writer  has  been  utterly  spoiled  through  the  dis- 
covery of  technique.  II  nscious  technique,  but  when  he 
started  to  learn  the  rules  he  became  engrossed  in  technique  to  the  exclusion 
of  inspiration. 


The  "Leaderless"  Script. 

We  saw  one  of  those  "leaderless"  scripts  the  other  day.  We  see  them 
most  days,  for  that  matter,  but  we  have  yet  to  see  a  script  that  would  not 
be  the  better  for  one  or  two  leaders  and  we  have  seen  leaderless  scripts 
that  needed  a  dozen  or  even  more.  If  you  need  a  leader  and  have  not  writ- 
ten it  in.  you  arc  worFe  off  than  if  you  had  written  a  script  with  one  or 
eaders  in  excess  of  those  actually  required. 

It  is  a  poor  trick  to  throw  your  leader  into  the  action  and  leave  it  for  the 
editor  to  dig  out  again,  but  it  is  done  daily,  even  hourly.  A  part  of  the 
action  reads  like  this: 

is  comes  into  the  room.  Tom  does  not  speak  to  her  because 
he  thinks  it  was  she  he  saw  kissing  Ned.  Bess  is  hurt  by  bis* atti- 
tude,  hut  is  too  proud  to  ask   an   explanation. 

That  might  be  all  very  well  if  there  was  a  scene  where  we  saw  that  Ned 
sees  a  girl  who  looks  like  Bess  kissing  a  man,  but  where  there  is  no  such 
scene  the  action  will  disclose  nothing.  It  will  be  apparent  that  there  is  a 
quarrel  of  some  sort,  but  the  action  will  not  tell  what  it  is.  A  scene  should 
have  been  written  and  preceeded  by  a  leader,  "Ned  mistakes  another  for 
ftess."  Then  in  front  of  th?  scene  as  above  another  leader  should  tell 
"Bess  is  too  proud  to  ask  an  explanation  of  Ned."  Now  the  leaderless 
scene  has  developed  into  two  scenes  and  two  leaders,  but  if  that's  the  only 
way  to  tell  the  story  it  is  the  way  the  story  should  be  told. 

Another  script  told  that  the  hero  sought  the  villains  and  demanded  cer- 
tain explanations,  Kit  in  the  manner  in  which  the  story  was  developed  the 
scene  gave  no  hint  whatever  as  to  the  subject  of  the  conversation  and  the 
action  became  merely  the  spectacle  of  a  man  talking  to  some  other  men 
about  something  not  made  clear.  There  were  three  equally  reasonable  ex- 
planations of  the  scene,  but  the  correct  explanation  was  found  in  a  fourth 
subject. 

This  is  not  always  duo  to  a  desire  to  avoid  leader.  Sometimes  it  is  to 
be  explained  by  the  intimate  knowledge  of  the  author  in  his  subject.  He 
knows  that  the  talk  concerns  a  certain  matter,  and  because  it  is  patent  to 
him  he  thinks  that  it  must  be  cle^r  to  all.  It  is  one  of  the  most  common 
failings  of  the  beginner  that  he  does  not  stop  to  think  how  the  action  will 
look  on  the  screen,  yet  unless  the  action  is  perfectly  visualized  imperfect 
action  will  be  the  result  nine  times  out  of  ten. 

See  it  on  the  screen  with  your  mental  vision  both  before  and  after  you 
have  written  it  down.  You'll  use  more  leader,  but  on  the  other  hand  you'll 
sell  more  scripts. 

Fitting   Individuals. 

Even  if  you  are  a  beginner,  don't  write  to  suit  the  personality  of  your 
favorite  player.  Don't  write  a  script  for  Warren  Kerrigan  or  John  Bunny. 
\\  rite  a  photoplay.  Don't  write  a  photoplay  for  a  fat  man  or  a  thin  man  or 
a  medium  sized  man.  Write  a  script  that  a  fat  or  thin  man  can  play,  then  if 
the  company'  with  a  fat  man  turns  it  down  you  can  send  it  to  a  company 
with  lightweight  comedians  and  stand  some  show  of  acceptance.  But  if  the 
script  is  based  on  the  reduction  of  weight,  for  example,  then  only  a  fat 
man  can  play  it  and  once  you've  exhausted  your  fat  men  you  are  at  the 
end   of  your   rope. 

And  if  you  just  simply  have  to  write  a  script  about  John  Bunny  or  Peter 
Lang  or  Billy  Quirk,  do  not  call  your  hero  John  Bunny  or  Peter  Lang 
!y  Quirk,  becai'Se  if  'Ik-  scriot  comes  back  you  must  recopy  it  betore 
you  send  it  out  again.  Write  stories  for  comedians  somewhere  between 
100  and  400  pounds  and  you'll  catch  all  weights.  And  above  all  things, 
don'1  write  a  reduction  story  for  Bunny.  Others  have  done  it  before 
you — many  others. 


Perhaps  An  "Awful  Reason." 

!    :p    Hadley,   who    edits   for   the   various  brands   of   the   Carlton    Motion 
Picture  Laboratories,  sends  us  a  gem  of  a  letter  from  a  Norfolk  genius  who 
n't    even   know   that    Majestic    has   moved    from    145    West    45th    Street, 
lie    writes: 

I  have  sent  your  firm  a  few  photoplays  since  last  week,  and  have 
had  them   returned.      Before  I  sent  them  to  you,  I  was   praised   by 
my  friends  for  them  liking  them,  so  I  do  not  Bee  why  you  returned 
them    unless   you   had   some   awful    reason.      I   was   sure   to    receive 
check   for  them.     Is  it  possible  that  any  firm  would  copy  a  photo- 
.    then    return    it. 
Hoping  to  hear  from  you  soon  by  explaining  me  all. 
That's  the  trouble  about  half  the  time.     The  friends  of  the  author  praise 
up   his   puny   efforts   and    the    only    answer   to    the    rejection    is    that    the   plots 
were    stolen    ami    the    scripts    returned.      The    Carlton    has    been    fortunate 
in   having  men   like   Terwilliger   and   Hadley  at   the   head  of  their  script   de- 
partment;   both    men    of    knowledge    and    integrity,    yet    they    get   up   against 
tin-    inevitable  question  and   probably  '.hi*  gifted  Xorfolkian  is  telling  all  his 
friends  what  thieves  the  Map  are. 

That  Little   List. 

Here   arc   gome   more  threadbare   plots   for   our   little   list.     Arthur   Leeds 
suggests  thi 

The  sheriff   who   is   rescued  by  the  outlaw  and   who   later   allows 
him  to  escape  to   prevent   his  being   lynched, 

The    revenue    officer    who    falls    in    love    with    the    moonshiner's 
daughter  and  who  is  forced  to  choose  between  love  and  duty. 

The    Southern   boy   who   enlists   in    the    Federal   army   and   is   dis- 
ned   by    his    family    and    the   young   Union    spy    who    falls    in    love 
with  the  daughter  of  a  Confederate  officer. 
We    might    suggest    that    the     I'nion    soldier    who    falls    in    love    with    a 


Southern    girl    who    is    not    the    daughter    of    a    Confederate    officer    would 
be  a  distinct  novelty. 

Ashton    Crawford    brings   these   to   the    dump   heap. 

The  man  waiting  to  escort  a  girl  to  the  theater  and  who  reached 
old  age  before  she  came. 

The  war  play  in  which  the  heroine   (generally   dressed   as  a  boy) 
brings  the   reprive  after  a  ride  of  not   less  than   rive  scenes. 
Any  old  "it  was  a  dream." 
Mind    you,    good    plays    can    be    done    from    almost    any    of    these    taboo 
subjects,    but    unless   you    can    startle    even    yourself    with    the    result,    keep 
off  for  the  good  of  the  community. 

{To  be  continued) 


Has  a  Level  Head. 

We  cannot  imagine  many  writers  having  two  scripts  apparently  stolen 
by  the  same  company  and  keeping  cool  enough  to  investigate,  but  that  is 
V.  I.  Gilliam's  attitude.  Mr.  Gilliam,  who  is  a  St.  Louis  man,  sent  a 
story  to  Crystal.  It  came  back  and  a  second  was  sent.  Then  the  first 
story  was  practically  duplicated  and  later  a  second  came  out,  the  second 
script  being  returned.  Investigation  showed  that  both  stories  had  been 
started  by  the  studio  before  the  scripts  had  been  mailed,  but  it  would 
have  been  almost  impossible  to  have  convinced  some  writers  that  theft 
had   not  been   committed. 

On  the  other  hand  a  New  Orleans  writer  describes  how  one  of  her 
ideas  was  taken.  She  doesn't  know  that  we  turned  down  a  practically 
similar  story  nearly  four  years  ago.  We  think  that  of  the  two  Mr.  Gilliam 
is  far  more  likely  to  succeed  in  the  long  run,  yet  the  woman  calmly 
writes  "Now  this  last  was  an  idea  original  with  me."  It  is  not  original 
with  her  unless  she  is  older  than  she  is  probably  willing  to  confess.  We 
used  that  particular  idea  fifteen  years  ago  in  a  fiction  story  and  we  didn'i 
feel  certain  it  was  brand  new  even  then.  She  pleads  not  guilty  in  her  last 
paragraph,  admitting  that  the  same  idea  may  occur  to  two  or  more 
persons,  and  yet  all  through  the  letter  the  cry  of  "Thief"  sounds,  and  it 
is  going  to  hurt  her  in  her  work  if  she  does  not  get  it  out  of  her  system. 


Inquiries. 

NOTE — Replies  cannot  be  sent  by  mail.  State  name  of  character.  Do  not 
ask  for  "leads"  or  "that  man,"  Addresses  cannot  be  given  here,  but  a  list 
of  studio  addresses  will  be  sent  for  a  stamped  and  self-addressed  envelope. 
Only  questions  of  general  interest  will  be  answered.     Replies  cannot  be  repeated. 

H.  W. — We  fail  to  see  where  you  should  be  offended.  Thanhouser  did 
not  ask  for  scripts.  To  the  contrary  they  lay  emphasis  on  the  fact  that  they 
do  not  accept  them.  Why  should  they  hire  a  man  to  put  rejection  slips  In 
envelopes  merely  because  you  want  to  offer  scripts  when  they  are  trying  to 
tell  you  they  do  not  want  them?  Refusing  to  accept  the  letter  in  the  first 
place  and  returning  the  envelope  to  you  unopened  also  serves  to  free  them 
from  the  senseless  charges  of  stealing  scripts  that  might  otherwise  be  an  1 
Send  scripts  where  they  are  wanted,  and  if  you  are  a  writer  it  is  your  busi- 
ness to  find  out  where  they  are  wanted  before   they  are  sent. 

T,  de  V.  H. — Thanks  for  your  interesting  letter,  hut  if  we  started  talking 
about  producers  breaks  we  would  have  to  run  three  or  four  extra  sixteen 
page    forms. 

R,  A.  D. — Sorry,  but  the  Identifier  has  not  yet  caught  that  east.  Thanks 
for  your  tips.     Come  in  any   time.     We're   used    to  it. 

W.  W. — It  would  seem  that  yon  have  reference  t"  Sellg's  "When  Women 
Rule,"  which  was  produced  February  26th.  The  World  did  not  criticize 
the   production. 

A.  R. — Miss  Haekett  has  been  with  the  Lnhin  company  nearly  two  years. 
We  cannot  give  rathe  Identifications.  Miss  Lawrence  has  given  no  signs 
of  emerging  from  her  retirement.  She  has  money  and  a  handsome  country 
home.      She    should    worry : 

A.  L. — Write  again,  registering  your  letter  and  enclosing  a  stamped 
reply  cover.  If  no  reply  is  had  you  might  place  the  matter  in  the  hands 
of   a   collection   agency. 

RICHARD  ROE. — Miss  Marie  Wierman  was  the  sweetheart  in  "Memories 
of  His  Youth."  G'ive  the  correct  Kalem  title,  please.  We  do  not  plan- 
it.  Charles  Murray  was  the  rejected  suitor  in  "A  Delivery  Package." 
Robert    Burns   was    the    husband    in    "The    Fixer." 

C.  A,  C. — We  cannot  answer  the  first  two  questions.  Miss  Basel  Buckham 
was    Kllnore    in    "A    Southern    Cinderella," 

C.     B.     C. — The     mile     ra<v     vras     not     til  mod .      The     Intercollegiate     meet     was 

not    tinned   in    iin2    but    was    filmed    by    Lubln    in    i;n  1    1    released    June 

12th,  as  "The  Athletic  Carnival."  The  Ponghkeepsle  race  was  shown  In 
Pa  the*  B    Weekly     No,     29,     released    July     15,     1912.       The    Olympic    Games    were 

released  as  a  three  reel  ipeclal,  "The  Olympic  Games  a1  Stockholm,*' 
Pathe,  October  -l,  1912  and  "American  Olympic  Victors,"  Powers,  July 
24.     1912. 

M.  C. — The  Kay-Bee  Shorty  has  not  yet  been  identified,  but  we  have 
hopes.  We  do  not  place  Joe  in  "The  Lost  Dispatch."  We  have  DO  late 
Thanhouser    casts. 

ANXIOUS. — We  do  not  decide  hets.  Roy  in  "The  Sharpshooter"  was 
Charle-s    Kay.      We    lack    the    Eel  air    cast, 

RUBENA. — Halftones  arc  cuts  in  which  the  half  tones,  the  preys,  are 
given  as  well  as  the  blacks  and  whites.  They  are  the  cuts  usually  used. 
C.    T,    Travera   was    the  artist   in    "Through    Many   Trials." 

H,  S.  M. — Make  a  courteous  inquiry.  It  may  be  that  the  script  is  being 
held   for  consideration,   so  don't    spoil   it,    but    we   would    ask   In   your    plao 

C.  w.  B. — Mr.  Delasey  replies  that  the  nearest  be  ever  came  to  lWing  In 
Nebraska    City,    was   when    he   played    there   one   night. 

J,  A.  M, — William  Bowman  is  with  the  western  Vltagraph  section  as 
director.      See    reply    tO    Anxious.      The    hoy    was    Cyril    Gottleib, 

B.  S, — Sign    your    name    after    this.       Miss    Anna    Little    «ras    Judge    Blfl 
daughter    in    "With    Lee    In    Virginia." 

N.  M. — That  American  is  Incorrectly  named.  Ford  Sterling  was  Sambo  In 
"At  the  Elite  Ball."  Walter  Miller  was  Rose's  sweetheart  In  "The  Perfidy 
ii  Mary."  The  Blograpb  Identifier  does  not  place  Lothario.  We've  an- 
swered   that    las!    question, 

MARIE. — Sorry  we  run  not  reply  to  your  Questions,  but  the  companies 
do  not  give  out  names.  Harry  Bennam  was  Miss  Anderson's  opposite  In 
"The  Mystery  of  Wall  street."  Never  mind  typewriting  your  questions, 
Vnur    hand    is    easily    read. 

D.  D. — Elmer  U  Morrow,  was  the  bogus  priest  In  "When  Life  Fades." 
Miss  Grace  Dunard  had  the  woman  lead  in   "The  Sharpshooter." 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


915 


Projection  Department 


Edited  by  F.  H.  RICHARDSON 


Operators'   Union  Directory,  I.  A.  T.  S.  E. 

NOTICE:    Each  union  is  entitled  to  have  its  roster  of  officers,  meeting 
nights,  etc.,  listed  here  once  per  year,  free  of  cost.    Preserve  this  list 
as    it   will    not    be    republished.     The    mail    address   of    the   secretary- 
should  be  included,  as  well  as  time  and  place  of  meeting. 


Moving  Picture  Operators'  Protective  Union,  Local  No.  181, 
I.  A.  T.  S.  E.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

G.  Kingston  Howard,  president;  Thos.  P.  Finn,  1st  vice-president;  Wm. 
George,  2nd  vice-president;  Harry  Cluster,  3rd  vice-president;  Wm.  Evans, 
business  agent;  Sam  Isaacson,  financial  secretary-treasurer;  John  Winn, 
sergeant-at-arms.  and  N.  Basil  Morgan,  recording  secretary.  Meets  first  and 
third  Monday  of  each  month  at  11:30  P.  M.,  Federation  of  Labor  Hall,  502 
East  Fayette  Street.  President,  secretary  and  business  agent's  office,  Room 
204,  Lobe  Bldg.,  15-17  South  Gay  Street. 


Sherman  and  Denison  Texas  Local  Union  No.  280, 
I.  A.  T.  S.  E. 

Howard  Weihs.  president;  Alex.  Mergel,  Jr.,  vice-president;   Ed.   Bonham, 
corresponding    secretary;    James    Shipton, 
Schied,  treasurer. 


financial    secretary,    and    O.    B. 


Power's  Six  Shutter. 

Mr.  AlHe  Baron,  Lodi,  California,  writes: 

I  have  received  my  handbook  and  find  it  very  instructive.  Shall 
heartily  recommend'  it  to  all  my  friends.  I  have  been  operating 
twelve  years  and  for  two  years  have  been  one  of  the  department 
fans.  Enclosed  find  drawing  of  three  wing  shutter  blade  for  Pow- 
er's Six  n.achine.  This  shutter  will  kill  the  tf*avel  ghost  and  is 
easy  to  set.  On  a.  c,  running  55  feet  of  film  per  minute,  it  will 
give  you  a  flickerless  picture.  On  d.  c,  with  the  same  shutter,  you 
can  ran  fast  or  slow,  if  you  so  desire,  and  will  not  see  any  flicker 
at  all.  I  trust  I  am  not  bothering  you  after  a  silence  of  two  years, 
bu:  1  want  to  see  the  good  work  go  on. 


Clad  to  hear  from  you,  Brother  Baron,  and  that  you  like  the  department 
and  the  bonk.  As  to  the  shutter,  its  wide  blade  is  the  same  as  that  now  being 
senl  nit  with  the  Power's  Six.  I  publish  this  picture  for  the  reason  that 
operators  can  readily  make  a  shutter  of  a  piece  of  pasteboard,  removing  the 
blade  of  their  present  shutier  and  clamping  the  paper  one  into  the  hub  in- 
slead  for  a  trial.  If  they  like  it,  all  right.  If  they  do  not,  why  no  particular 
h;>rm   is  done. 

In  this  connection, ■!  want  to  call  attention  to  the  advisibility  of  operators 

!  .1  little  judgment  as  to  the  Power's  Six  shutter — or  the  outside  shutter 

of  any  machine  for  that  matter.     In  the  first  pjece,  always  set  your  outside 


shutter  just  as  close  up  to  the  lens  as  you  can  get  it.  That  is  important, 
since  the  light  rays  begins  to  spread  after  leaving  the  lens  and  the  far- 
ther away  the  shutter  is  from  the  lens,  the  wider  must  be  the  main  blade, 
in  order  to  eliminate  travel  ghost.  It  therefore  follows  that  with  very  short 
focal  length  lenses  the  main  blade  of  outside  shutters  must  be  wider  than 
where  the  lens*  focal  length  is  long.  Operators  having  long  focal  lenses, 
say  .more  than  5  inches  e.f.,  might,  therefore,  make  a  pasteboard  shutter, 
using  the  shutter  blade  on  their  machine  for  a  pattern.  Install  the  paste- 
board shutter  on  the  machine  and  carefully  try  it  out,  trimming  off  1/16 
of  an  inch  at  a  time  from  the  main  blade  until  you  have  developed  just  a 
little  travel  ghost,  after  which,  take  it  off  and  cut  the  main  blade  of  your 
shutter  down  until  it  is  from  1/16  to  %  of  an  inch  wider  than  the 
pasteboard  pattern,  remembering  that  I  am  speaking  only  of  the  main  blade  of 
the  shutter.  Care  must  be  had.  however,  not  to  get  the  blade  of  your  metal 
shutter  down  until  it  is  from  1/10  to  J-s  of  an  inch  wider  than  the  paste- 
board pattern,  remembering  that  I  am  speaking  only  of  the  main  blade  of 
throw  the  shutter  out  of  balance.  Do  your  experimenting  with  a  pasteboard 
pattern  and  determine  just  what  you  want  before  you  do  anything  to  the  main 
blade  of  the  metal  shutter.  The  main  blade  of  the  shutter  pattern  submitted 
by  neighbor  Baron  would  be  wider  than  is  necessary  for  a  long  focal  length 
lens. 

Obtaining  a  License. 

New  York  City  speaks  tbusly; 

Although    I    am    one    of   the   constant    readers    of    The   World,    it 
never  dawned  upon  me  until   to-day  that   I   could  ask  a   few  ques- 
tions.     I    can    and    have    operated    almost    all    makes    of    projectors 
at  private  parties.     I  am  now  told  that  an  operator  needs  a  license 
in  order  to  be  within   the  law.     I   would  like  to  obtain  one  and  to 
know  the  requirements  for  same.     Any   information   will  be  gladly 
received. 
I    am    afraid,    brother,    your   knowledge    will    lack   several    long   jumps    of 
enabling  you  to  obtain  a  license.     Go  down  to  the  Bureau  of 'Water   Supply, 
Gas   and  Electricity.   Park   Row    Building,   opposite   main    postoffice,   and  put 
in   an   application.     The  examiners   will   do  the   rest. 


Machine   Changes. 

One  of  the  legitimate  functions  of  this  department,  and  a  very  important 
one  too,  has  been  neglected,  viz:  the  describing  of  the  various  changes  ma- 
chine manufacturers  make  from  time  to  time  in  their  equipment.  This  de- 
partment ought  of  right  to  keep  the  manager  and  operator  in  touch  with 
thirgs  of  this  kind,  and  I  intend  to  make  an  effort  to  see  that  this  is  done 
in   the   future. 

During  the  past  year  many  changes  have  been  made  in  existing  models  of 
machines.  The  X.  Power  Company  has  added  a  most  excellent  mechanical 
motor-drive,  or  speed  controlling  arrangement,  by  means  of  which  the  speed 
of  the  machine  is  entirely  within  the  control  of  the  operator,  this  same  be- 
ing accomplished  by  means  of  a  fibre  friction  wheel  bearing  against  a  cast 
iron  disc,  the  same  being  controlled  by  a  lever,  with  speed  notches  the  same 
as  the  notches  on  the  quadrant  of  a  locomotive  throttle.  The  N.  Power 
Company  should  have  furnished  this  department  with  photographs  and  a 
complete  description  of  this  device,  in  order  that  users,  as  well  as  non-users 
ol  Power's  machines  may  know  of  th~  improvement  and  its  details.  This 
company  has  also  made  other  changes  in  its  equipment  and  has  put  out  a 
dissolving  stereopticon,  which  is  most  excellent  in  its  design,  but  this  de- 
partment has,  to  date,  not  been  favored  with  a  line  of  description,  though 
the  space  is  offered   without  price. 

The  manufacturers  of  the  Simplex  machine  also  have  made  many  im- 
provements and  many  changes  in  their  mechanism.  For  instance:  a  plate 
glass  window  has  been  added  to  the  casing  door  and  a  slot  made  in  the  lens 
tube  inside  the  mechanism,  so  that,  when  running,  the  operator  has  a  full 
view  of  the  interior  of  the  machine.  Why  have  not  the  Simplex  people  set 
forth  such  an  important  improvement,  as  well  as  other  changes  they  have 
made,  in  the  department,  to  the  end  that  operators  of  this  and  other  coun- 
tries may  be  made  acquainted  with  the  matter?  The  Enterprise  Optical 
Company,  manufacturers  of  the  Monograph,  have  also  made  various  changes 
and  improvements  in  their  machine,  not  one  of  wlfich  has  been  described  in 
this  department,  with  the  single  exception  of  their  new  lamp,  and,  that  mat- 
ter I  myself  took  up  with  them. 

The  Standard  machine  has  adopted  a  number  of  improvements  and  made 
several  changes,  but,  like  all  the  other  manufacturers,  the  silence  concern- 
ing them  has  been  profound.  So  far  as  I  am  aware,  the  Edison  people  have 
made  no  important  changes,  and  certainly  if  they  have,  they  have  not  sup- 
plied a  single  line  of  description  thereof  to  this  department. 

It  will  pay  manufacturers  to  experience  a  change  of  heart  in  this  mat- 
ter. I  want  you  to  wake  up  and  take  advantage  of  the  columns  of  this  de- 
partment to  set  forth  the  various  changes  you  make  from  time  to  time,  so 
that  the  operators  and  managers,  not  only  of  this,  but  of  other  countries, 
may  keep  in  touch  with  such  affairs  and  be  up  to  date  in  their  knowledge 
of  projection  machinery.  It  is  to  your  advantage  and  it  does  not  cost  you 
anything  except  the  labor  of  preparing  a  description,  illustrated  where  pos- 
-ii.le,  of  the  improvement  ->r  chanr1.  This  is  a  duty  you  owe  to  the  man- 
agers and  operators,  who  look  in  this  department  for  such  information. 


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THE    MOVING   PICTURE    WORLD 


As   To   Lubrication. 

Mr.    D.   \V.    Murphy.    Washington,    I).    (_.,    has   two    or   three   suggestions  to 
offer  as  foil" 

Instead  of  ordinary  flake  graphite  for  lubrication  of  heated  lamp 
parts,  use  graphite  ground  in  oil,  same  as  is  used  by  linotype  men. 
I  also  use  this  in  small  quantities,  mixed  with  a  thinner  oil,  for  the 
Power's   Six    intermittent.      A    long   nosed    typewriter   oil    can    is    the 
best  I  can  find  for  oiling  my  machine.      I  put  in  longer  top  magazine 
supporting  rods.  604.  plate  4,  page  278  of  the  handbook,  so  I  could 
get  my  fingers  in  between  the  top  sprocket  and  the  valve  in  thread- 
ing up.      1    find   it    to   be   an    improvement.      I    have   notched   out   the 
front  plate  opposite  screws  744.  plate  7,   page  284  of  the  handbook, 
so  as  to  be   able   to  get  screwdriver  to   them.     Also  drilled  a  small 
hole   just    above,    so    I   can    oil    driving  gear   spindle   while   running 
the    machine.     If    you    have    to    patch    films    while    running,    eight 
graphaplioiu    needles   driven    into  an  end   of  a  piece  of  wood,  in  two 
groups  of  four  each,  to  match  the  sprocket  holes  in  films,  will  hold 
the  film  while  it  is  being  cut.  scraped  and  patched.     But  it  is  darned 
(I    do  not   -wear,  thank  you),   poor   business  for  the  operator  to  run 
and  patch  at  tht  same  time.     Will  be  up  in  your  burg  this  summer 
sometime,  and  will  try  to  drop  in  and  renew  acquaintance. 
Flake  graphite  is  not  the  thing  to  use  on  a  lamp.     It  should  be  pulverized 
graphite.      I  prefer  to  wet  the  parts  with  a  very  thin  oil,  like  kerosene,  and 
dip   them   in   graphite,   or  sprinkle   the   graphite   on.     The   only   trouble   with 
the  linotype  lubricant  is  that  the  oil  might   (and  might  not,  I  do  not  know), 
leave  a  residtu  when  it  burns  off,  and  thus  tend  to  bind  the  lamp.  Your  notch- 
ing-the-fronl  plate  idea  is  O.  K.     The  Power's  Six  front  plates  are  made  that 
way  now,  and  have  been  for  some  time.     Maybe  you  do  not  swear,  but  if  a 
manager   asked   me   to   patch    films   while   running   the   machine    I   am   afraid 
the  third  commandment  would  look  like  a  collinder  when  I  got  through  talk- 
ing to  him.     Glad  to  see  you  when  you  come  to  New  York,  brother  Murphy. 
Drop   in   by   all   means. 


A  Clever  Stunt. 

What  Happened  to  Mary  in  Dundee,  Michigan,  it  is  a  shame  to  tell. 
However,  it  iv  very  well  illustrated  in  the  accompanying  photograph.  The 
local  electric  light  plant  broke  down,  but  the  enterprising  theater  manager 
borrowed  a  small  dynamo  which  the  light  company  used  to  excite  its  alterna- 
tor,  backed   a    Regal.    1913    Model,   underslung   automobile  up  in    front  of  the 


house,  swiped  a  belt  somewhere,  nailed  the  dynamo  down  to  the  ground  and 
belted  it  to  the  car,  as  shown,  turned  on  the  power  and  proceeded  to  show 
bis  Saturday  night  audiences  "What  Happened  to  Mary."  He  not  only 
saved  the  Saturday  night  business,  but  received  a  lot  of  advertising  and  had 
people  in  the  house  who  never  ha  1  visited  it  before.  All  of  which  shows 
what  an  enterprising  manager  and  operator  can  accomplish,  provided  they 
have  the  necessary    hustling  ability  and  the  brains  to  evolve  ideas. 


That  Clicking  Noise. 

Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania,   speaks  thusly: 

Will  you  kindly  tell  me  the  cause  of  the  clicking  noise  in  the 
intermittent  movement  at  every  revolution  of  the  same.  I  have  two 
Power's  Six  A  machines  and  the  one  which  has  this  trouble  run- 
harder  than  the  other.  I  use  No,  5  asbestos  covered  cable  to  my 
lamp,  and  have  been  running  six  months,  nights  only,  without 
changing  the  wire  inside  the  lamphou^e.  I  get  a  good  light,  using 
40  amperes  through  a  Port  Wayne  cumpensarc.  My  carbons 
not  flame.  In  view  of  this,  would  you  recommend  new  wire  inside 
the  lamphouse,  or  wt»ild  you  suggest  that  I  wait  until  I  get  some 
evidence  that  the  wire  is  too  old  to  perform  its  service?  My  take-up 
does  not  seem  to  work  smoothly.  Have  taken  it  apart  several  times, 
cleaned  and  adjusted  it,  but  that  did  not  seem  to  do  any  good. 
The  belt  seems  a  little  too  loose.  If  I  chorten  it  do  you  think  it 
lid    remedy  the   trouble?    R  -1;    some   time  ago 

and    feel    thai    the    close    study    I    have    given    it  d    my 

ability  as  an  operator  at  least  two-fold. 
As  to  the  clicking  sound  in  the  intermittent  of  one  of  your  machines, 
it  probabl)  does  nol  an'ount  to  anything,  except  insofar  that  i*  i<  an  annoy- 
ance. Peel  of  your  intermittent  sprocket  when  it  is  on  the  lock  and  if  there 
is  considerable  circumferential  lost  mo'ion,  follow  instruction  Xo.  39.  page 
281  of  the  handbook,  movirg  the  hushirg  only  just  a  little  bit  at  a  time, 
meanwhile  turning  the  crank  of  the  machine.  Very  likely  you  can  ma- 
terially reduce  the  noise  by  this  adjustment.  I'ower.  .1  I  -  id,  it  is 
not  doing  the  machine  any  harm.  As  to  the  mecharism  running  hard,  be 
sure  that   it   is  not  binding  anywhere.     Try  each   one  of  the  gears  with  your 


fingers  and  see  that  they  rock  freely.  Turn  the  machine  very  slowly,  with 
film  in,  and  see  if  the  tension  springs  are  not  set  too  tight.  To  judge 
this  see  general  instruction  Xo.  9.  page  216  of  the  handbook.  As  to  your 
take-up,  see  general  instruction,  No.  2,  page  214  of  the  handbook.  Possi- 
bly your  machftie  runs  hard  because  your  take-up  tension  is  too  tight. 
If  so,  loosen  it  up  until  it  just  barely  takes  up  a  complete  reel  of  film.  The 
fact  that  the  belt  is  slack  does  not  necessarily  mean  any;hing,  since  a  slack 
belt  does  not  always  slip  readily.  As  to  what  tightening  the  belt  will  do,  I 
would  suggest  that  you  tighten  it  and  try,  being  careful,  however,  not  to  cut 
off  too  much  and  overdo  matters.  That  would  be  the  simplest  way  out  of 
that  particular  proposition.  As  to  the  wires.  I  certainly  would  amputate  them 
back  as  far  as  the  copper  is  discolored.  Strip  off  the  insulation  until  you 
find  clean,  bright  copper  and  cut  off  tha  wires  at  that  point. 


Various   Things. 

Mr.    Fred.    Bannister,   Mission   City,   British    Columbia,   writes  as    follows: 
Our  throw  is  56  feet.     Can   you  give  me  a  measurement  so  that 
I  can  put  in  an  order?     We  use  the  General  Film  Company  service 
and  it  is  O.  K.  in  every  respect.     Population   here   1,000.     Receipts 
started  at  $74.00  last  October  and  are  up  to  $125  now.     Can  we  put 
on  the  Power's  loop  setter  ourselves  if  we  get  one?     Your  lighting 
system  is  a  great  success — the  cone  system   described  on  page   401 
of  the  handbook  I  mean. 
As   to   lens   measurements,    you   will   find  that   matter   fully   dealt   with    on 
page  356  of  the  handbook.     You  can  figure  it  out  for  yoursetf,  and,  if  you 
calliper   the   aperture   accurately,    the   results   will    be   approximately   correct. 
If   I    were   you,    I   would  get   a   half -size   stereo   lens,    since   I    assume    from 
what  you   have  said,  they  have  sent  you  a  one-quarter  size.     I  suppose  the 
figures  you  give  refer  to  weekly  receipts,  and  $125  certainly  is  pretty  good 
for  a  town   of   1,000.     The  General   Film  Company  service  seems  to  be   giv- 
ing very  general  satisfaction  so  far  as  my  reports  go. 


Shutter  for  A.   C. 

Mr.    Felix  Larocque,    Soo,   St.    Marie,   Michigan,   writes: 

We  are  using    124  volt,   60-cycle,   a.  c,   projecting  a   14   foot  pic- 
ture at  63   feet.     The  machine  is  a  Power's  Six.     We  are  just   in- 
stalling a  radium  gold   fibre  screen,   but   exnect   to    have  too  bright 
a    picture,    using    our    present    Hallberg    economizer    at    its    lowest 
ampereage,    which    is   40.     We   have   used    50   amperes   on    ordinary 
dead   white   screens   with  excellent   results.      What    amperage   would 
you  advise  with   the  new  curtain?     Also   would  thu*   use   of  a  three- 
wing  shutter,  run  at  proper  speed,   be  an  advantage?     What   speed 
would   you    deem    correct,    using   three-wing   shutters? 
I  do  not  think  40  amperes  will  give  you  too  much  light.     If  you  use  less 
than  40  amperes,  a.  c.  you  will   not  get  much   if  any  crater  at  all  on  your 
carbons.     If  it  were  myself,  I  think  I  would  continue  right  along  with. that 
50  amperes.   1  am  a  believer  in  a  picture  with   brilliant  whites,  still,  with  the 
semi-reflecting  type  of  screen,  you  may  possibly  find  that  40  amperes  will  be 
better.     The  three-wing  shutter   is  all   right,   provided  you  do  not  exceed  65 
turns    of   the    crank    per    minute   and    provided    the    cycles    are    actually    60. 
Sometimes    "60-cycle"    current    is    really    nearer    65    or    55.     The    only    way 
you  can  decide  this  particular  matter  is  to  try  it  out.     Put  on  a  three-wing 
shutter    and    see   what    speed    you    can    run    the    machine    without    the    light 
flashing — that  is  to  say,  dying  down  and  coming  up  suddenly. 


Canton,  Pa.,  Answered. 

Mr.  Charlie  Andrews,  Atchison,  Kansas,  answers  Canton,  Pennsylvania,  as 
follows: 

If  you  get  a  good  steady  picture,  my  advice     is  do  not  move  your 

intermittent  at  all,  since  the  trouble   does  not   He  there.     First  see 

that    Xo.    660,    Fig.    116,    page    274    of    the    handbook,    clears    your 

sprocket,  when  there  is  no  film   in.     Then  loosen  tension  adjusting 

screw   734,  Fig.   115,  page  272.     Next  take  off  apro:\  No.     669,  Fig. 

115,   page  272,  ard   put  rubber  tubing  on   the  roller,  and  put  it  back. 

after  which  I  think  you  will  find  everything  will  be  O.  K.     Business 

here  in   Atchison   is  good,  as  also  is  projection.      I   have  been   here 

four  years  and  intend   to   stay   four   more,  because   it   is  a   fine   old 

burg.     As    to    Mr.    Glenn    Bossard,    of    New    York,    he   can    fix    his 

mercury  arc  rectifier  as  follows:      Loosen  set  screw  on  top  of  magnet 

arm   and   hold   bulb   still    while    he   moves   the   a>'m   up  just   a   little. 

after   which  tighten   the   set   screw.      Then   try   his  arc  and   if   it  does 

not  start  at  once,  move  the  arm  up  just  a  little  more. 

All     of    which    is    submitted    without    comment,    except    that    I     suppose 

Brother  Andrews  means  to  remove  the  roller  spindle  from  the  apron  and  put 

a  section  of  small  rubber  tubing  over  the  rollers  between  their  flanges,  letting 

it  extend  from  one  roller  flange  to  the  other.     I  do  not  see  why  he  loosens 

his  tension,  however,  supposing  it  is  only  light  enough  a?  it  is.  which  quite 

possibly   is   the   case.     Better   proceed   a   little   cautiously    on   that    particular 

part  of  the  advice,  I  think. 


That  Collar  on  the  Power's  Six  Cam-Shaft. 

In  April  5th  issue.  Brother  Blaine  Day,  Sherman.  Texas,  s~nt  a  photograph 
of  a  collar  he  had  put  on  the  cam-shaft  of  his  Power's  Six  A  machine  to 
eliminate  end  motion.  I  criticised  it  by  saying  this  would  have  the  effect 
of  moving  the  cam  to  the  left,  thus  decreasing  the  bearing  of  the  geneva 
pins.  Brother  Day  now  says  that  he  sets  the  collar  up  against  the  boxing, 
as  shown  in  the  illustration,  page  45.  April  ;th  issue,  and  then,  as  wear 
occurs,  he  puts  in  a  new  thin  washer,  or  an  additional  thin  washer,  between 
the  hub  of  the  flywheel  in  the  boxing. 

Well,  Brother  Day,  if  you  do  that,  I  do  not  see  what  you  gain  by  put- 
ting the  collar  on,  since  the  hub  of  the  cam  is  against  the  boxing  at  the 
other  end,  and  you  simply  remove  the  wear  from  that  end  and  place  it  on 
the  collar.  What  is  the  advantage,  old  man?  In  the  parlance  of  the 
street:     "I   don't  get  you  Steve." 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


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A  New  Device. 

Mr.  Dan  C.  Stearns,  Jr.,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  contributes  the  following: 
Feeling  that  I  owe  the  department  considerable,  I  enclose  drawing 
of  a  device,  the  same  being  an  emergency  line  to  use  when  a  wire 
terminal  burns  off,  thus  permitting  the  reel  to  be  run  off  without 
delaying  the  show.  You  are  at  liberty  to  publish  it  for  the  benefit 
of  the  boys,  if  you  care  to  do  so.     This  device  is  patented  and  made 


by  Mr.  Ted  Price.     I  think  he  intends  to  manufacture  it  and  put  it 
on  the  market  for  $1.00  each.     I  am  using  one  of  them  myself  and 
find    them    very    satisfactory     in     case     of     emergency.     The     con- 
trivance is  quite   simple  and  forms   a  perfect  contact  with  the  car- 
bon.    The  other  end   clamps   on    the   blade  of  the   switch.     Its  ad- 
justment requires  about  forty  seconds. 
Unquestionably,  such  a   device  would  be  of  decided  value.     It  is  so  very 
simple  that  it  is  a  wonder  nobody  thought  of  it  before.     In  fact,  it  seems  to 
me    something    of    the   kind    was    sprung    on    us    two    or    three    years    ago, 
though  as  to  this  I  am   not  certain.     As  a  matter  of  fact,  however,  if   the 
operator   gives  his   equipment   the  closest,   careful   attention   he   should   give 
it,  his  terminals  will  rarely,  if  ever,  burn  off.     If  the  directions  on  page  200 
of    the    handbook   are    followed,    no    trouble   of   this   kind    will    ever   be   ex- 
perienced.    However,  brother  Stearns,    I    thank  you   for  taking  the   trouble 
to  describe   this  little  device  through  the   department. 


For  Discussion. 

Mr.  Joseph  B.  Basson,  New  York  City,  contributes  the  following  letter, 
which  I  shall  lay  before  our  readers  without  comment,  since  I  would  much 
rather  see  these  things  discussed  by  the  brothers  in  general,  before  giving 
my  own  ideas,  except  to  say  that  brother  Basson  seems  to  make  no  pro- 
vision in  his  proposed  amendment  for  a  mixed  local  in  a  town  where 
there  are  not  stage  employees,  spot-light  men  or  moving  picture  operators 
enough  to  form  a  union,  "but  there  are  perhaps  enough  to  form  a  joint  local: 
Your  article  on  the  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  convention,  May  3rd  issue, 
is  just  what  is  needed,  since  it  gives  operators  a  chance  to  lay 
their  views  before  the  brothers  for  general  discussion.  I  therefore 
congratulate  you  on  the  step  you  have  taken.  I  am  going  to  offer 
a  few  suggestions  which  I  would  like  to  see  discussed  in  the  de- 
partment. Owing  to  the  fact  that  the  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  was  organized 
in  1893,  there  was  good  reason  for  their  failure  to  make  pro- 
visions for  the  moving  picture  machine  operators,  as  there  were 
very  few,  it  any,  at  that  time.  When  moving  pictures  were  intro- 
duced, people  thought  them  a  novelty  which  would  soon  run  their 
course  and  die.  Evidently  the  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  thought  the  same 
thing,  so  they  simply  put  the  picture  machine  operators  under 
the  jurisdiction  of  the  spot-light  operators  (an  entirely  different 
trade)  as  auxiliaries.  Some  time  later,  when  they  found  moving 
pictures  were  no  longer  a  novelty,  but,  probably  still  not  sure  they 
were  here  to  stay,  the  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  started  to  call  these  auxiliaries 
"branches  of  the  spot-light  unions  "  This  course  was  only  taken, 
however,  in  a  few  places  where  the  M.  P.  operator  auxiliaries 
rebelled.  In  Philadelphia,  they  still  have  an  auxiliary  with  over 
one  hundred  members,  in  spite  of  Article  8,  Section  2  of  the 
I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  constitution,  which  reads:  "The  moving  picture 
operators'  locals  to  be  organized  and  given  a  number,  and  no 
auxiliaries  to  be  allowed  where  there  are  a  sufficient  number  of 
men  to  form  a  local."  So  you  see  two  upward  steps,  or  what  are 
supposed  to  be  upward  steps,  have  been  taken.  Now,  it  is  time 
for  another  move  forward  and  it  is  also  time  to  make  sure  it  is 
a  move  forward.  Nu  sane  man  will  longer  doubt  that  moving 
pictures  are  here  to  say.  They  are  growing  more  popular  every 
day.  Picture  machine  operators  are  no  longer  uncertain  factors. 
We  are  a  full  grown  body  of  men,  therefore  it  is  time  we  were 
recognized  as  such  and  put  on  an  equal  basis  with  the  rest  of  the 
I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  members.  The  taxes  are  the  same  for  all.  Why  not 
the  rights?  And  now  I  am  going  to  suggest  a  way  out  of  the 
present  tangle.  First,  I  want  to  call  your  attention  to  Article  6, 
Section  2,  of  the  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  constitution,  which  reads: 
"Charters  shall  only  be  granted  to  fifteen  or  more  competent 
theatrical  stage  employees  in  any  city  where  two  or  more  recog- 
nized and  regularly  operated  theaters  exist."  Picture  machine 
operators  are  not  stage  employees,  so  can  never  get  a  charter  ac- 
cording to  this  section.  Therefore,  I  would  suggest  this  section 
be  amended,  to  read:  Article  6,  Section  2  (AS  AMENDED), 
«  "Charters    shall    only    be    granted    to    fifteen    or    more    competent 

theatrical   stage   employees   in   any   city   where   two   or   more   recog- 


nized and  regularly  operated  theaters  exist,  or  to  fifteen  or  more 
competent  moving  picture  machine  operators  in  any  city  where  an 
operator  must  have  a  license,  and  where  fifteen  or  more  operators 
are  regularly  employed."  Article  8,  Section  1,  reads:  "In  cities 
where  regularly  chartered  local  unions  of  electric,  calcium  lamp 
and  moving  picture  machine  operators  exist,  that  all  operators 
shall  be  members  of  these  •regularly  chartered  local  unions,  and 
known  as  Locals  35  and  37  of  the  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.,  and  these  sep- 
arate, distinct  charter  unions  shall  be  hereafter  known  as 
Theatrical  Electric  Calcium  Lamp,  Moving  Picture  Machine  Pro- 
tective Local  Unions  Nos.  35  and  37,  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  (Notice 
length  of  name)  and  with  full  rights  to  go  on  tour  with  traveling 
theatrical  attractions."  Article  8,  Section  10,  reads:  (contradicts 
Section  11)  "That  Local  35  and  37  shall  continue  to  look  after 
moving  picture  machine  operators  as  before  in  the  cities  of  Greater 
New  York  and  Philadelphia."  The  two  sections  should  be  repealed 
as  they  give  Locals  3s  and  37  a  privilege  which  none  of  the  248 
other  locals  of  the  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  enjoy.  The  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  con- 
sists of  250  locals,  not  counting  auxiliaries  and  provisional  locals. 
Why  should  two  locals  hold  a  privilege  which  was  taken  away  from 
all  other  locals?  The  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  must  either  form  separate 
locals  for  spot-light  operators  in  all  cities  where  picture  machine 
operators  are  licensed  or  one  local  for  both  in  each  city.  If  two 
separate  locals  are  formed,  which  I  believe  will  be  the  case,  a  by- 
law ?hould  be  passed:  That  where  one  man  is  compelled  to  operate 
a  spot-light  and  a  picture  machine,  he  must  be  a  member  of  both 
locals.  This  would  settle  for  all  time  the  question  of  working  a 
job  where  one  man  is  compelled  to  operate  both  a  spot-light  and 
picture  machine.  Knowing  the  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  is  inclined  to  be 
just  and  fair,  the  above  is  written  to  call  their  attention  to  some- 
thing that  ought  to  be  remedied.  It  is  not  my  intention  to  be 
abusive  in  any   way. 


A  New  Union, 

Sherman  and  Denison,  Texas,  Local  Union  No.  280  has  just  received  its 
charter.  Vice-President,  L.  W.  Burk,  of  Fort  Worth,  Texas,  Local  160, 
visited  Sherman  and  installed  the  officers,  whose  names  will  be  found  in  the 
directory  at  the  head  of  the  department.  After  the  installation,  the  mem- 
bers adjourned  to  the  residence  of  Secretary  Ed.  Boham,  where  refresh- 
ments were  served  and  a  most  enjoyable  evening  was  spent.  The  new  local, 
as  well  as  its  individual  members,  has  the  best  wishes  of  this  department 
for  success.  In  the  words  of  the  immortal  Rip  Van  Winkle  "May  you  live 
long  and  prosper." 


Ventilation. 

Mr.  \V.  H.  Plaisted,  Bryn  Mawr,  Pennsylvania,  sends  in  a  ground  plan  of 
the  theater  and  wants  our  advice  as  to  the  best  scheme  for  ventilating  same. 
There  are  four  ceiling  ventilators,  six  feet  in  diameter,  over  the  center 
aisle.  The  theater  seems  to  be  a  pretty  wide  one,  though  the  dimensions  are 
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I  think  if  it  were  myself,  I  would  place  my  fans  in  the  walls  of  the  rooms, 
marked  1  and  2,  at  the  point  marked  X,  X.  I  would  put  a  wall  in  these* 
rooms,  as  indicated  by  dotted  lines,  these  walls  to  extend  from  the  ceiting  to 
within  about  two  feet  of  the  floor.  In  the  inner  portion  of  each  room, 
I  would  install  a  water  spray  at  the  ceiling  and  then  run  a  flat  pipe  about 
six  inches  thick  by  possibly  12  inches  wide  along  the  wall,  as  indicated  by 
dotted  lines,  with  openings  at  suitable  intervals.-  The  water  spray  would 
cool  the  air  and  remove  all  dust  and  impurities.  The  rooms  would,  of 
course,  have  to  be  lined  with  cement  and  have  a  drain  pipe  attached.  The 
coo!  air  would  sink  to  the  floor  and  then  arise  and  pass  out  through  the  ceil- 
ing ventilators.  And  now,  Brother  Plaisted,  this  ventilation  proposition  is 
a  big  one  and  I  am  not  going  to  say  positively  that  this  would  be  the  best 
system,  but  it  is  a  system  recently  described  in  the  department  as  being  a 
successful  operation  in  Tucson,  Arizona,  one  of  the  hottest  cities  in  the 
United  States,  and  it  looks  good  to  me.  The  only  question  arising  would  be 
the  cost  of  the  water,  but,  if  the  spray  be  a  fine  one  it  seems  to  me  this  need 
not  be  at  all  prohibitive.  Brother  Plaisted  says  he  is  working  on  a  scheme  to 
quickly  stretch  a  cloth  curtain  or  screen  of  any  kind,  and  would  like  to 
send  me  plans  of  the  scheme  for  examination  and  criticism.  Send  them 
along,  brother.  We  will  give  our  opinion  and  willingly  do  anything  else  we 
can  to  assist  you. 


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THE    MOVING   PICTURE    WORLD 


He  Never  Broke  One. 
Mr.  W.  P.  Pierce,  Greenville,  South  Carolina,  orders  one  of  the  books  and 
remarks: 

I   am   to  be  chief  operator  at  the   Bijou  Theater,  Anderson,   S.    C, 
where  two  1913  model  Monographs  are  being  installed.     I  have  my 
first    condenser  to  break,   although   I'  have  been  operating  for  four 
years.     The  only  reason   for  this  is,   I  think,  that  I  give  the  lenses 
plenty  of  room  for  expansion,  as  well  as  lots  of  ventilation.     Any- 
how, I  think  it  is  a  feather  in  my  cap  and  a  considerable  saving  too. 
All  of  which  is  perfectly  true,  Brother  Pierce,  though  judging  by  my  own 
experience,  there  is  considerable  good  luck  mixed  up  in  the  proposition   as 
well. 


Film   Rattles. 
Mr.  J.  E.  Custer,  Hooversville,  Pa.,  says: 

I  am  annoyed  by  a  rattle  in  my  new  machine.  This  occurs  only 
when  the  film  is  in.  I  am  unable  to  locate  the  trouble. 
I  would  not  say  positively  what  the  trouble  is,  but  it  is  probably  due  to  the 
rollers  at  the  bottom  of  the  apron  being  too  close  together,  thus  holding 
the  film  out  and  causing  it  to  slap  against  the  apron.  If  you  find  this  to  be 
the  case,  you  may  spread  the  rollers  somewhat  by  a  careful  use  of  a  hard- 
wood punch  and  hammer. 


From   Hawaii. 

Mr.  George  F.  Renton,  Jr.,  Ewa,  Hawaii,  sends  in  the  following: 
Through  your  first  handbook,  I  became  acquainted  with  the 
Moving  Picture  World,  and  through  that  paper  and  the  handbook, 
I  have  been  one  of  your  unknown  scholars.  I  have  become  in- 
terested in  China,  having  read  several  letters  from  the  Arcade 
Amusement  Company,  in  Tientsin.  I  notice  they  say  they  get 
their  films  from  London.  I  find  no  o:her  exchanges  or  theater 
mentioned.  Can  you  tell  me  whether  or  not  there  are  any  film  ex- 
changes in  China,  and,  if  so,  their  location;  also  any  other  moving 
picture  theaters  and  their  location?  If  you  do  not  know  of  any, 
can  you  tell  me  where  I  can  get  the  information?  I  know  I  am 
nearer  to  China  than  are  you,  but  I  cannot  get  the  desired  data 
here.  If  China  is  practically  a  new  country  for  the  silent  drama 
time  is  valuable,  and  I  will  cheerfully  remit  for  any  service 
rendered. 

I  would  not  advise  you  to  embark  in  the  business  of  amusing  John  China- 
man without  first  making  a  careful,  personal  investigation.  The  Variety 
Film  Exchange  right  there  in  Hawaii  has  branches  in  Japan.  Siberia,  China, 
Manila  and  Singapore.  If  it  is  not  too  far  I  would  suggest  that  you  make 
a  trip  to  Honolulu  and  consult  them.  If  they  cannot  tell  you  what  you 
want  to  know,  or  if  you  cannot  go  to  Honolulu,  write  to  Mr.  B.  Brodsky, 
the  traveling  manager  of  all  their  branches  and  have  them  forward  it. 
We  received  a  letter  from  the  Arcade  Amusement  Company  not  long  ago, 
asking  us  to  warn  men  from  the  states  against  rushing  blindly  into  China. 
They  say  that  strangers  nearly  all  fail,  and  they  have  to  buy  up  their  outfits, 
not  because  they  want  them,  but  out  of  charity  to  help  the  poor  devils  get 
back   home. 


Discovered. 

Mr.   F.   G.    Kittredge,  Washington,  D.  C,  writes: 

In  the  May  3rd  issue,  you  ask  us  to  find  the  error  in  the  sketch 
accompanying  letter  from  Hays,  Kan.     I  have  found  three,  besides 
the  one  pointed  out  by  yourself.     Assuming  operating  room  switches 
to  be  O.  K.,  the  faults  are:      (1)   The  word  economizer  is  wrongly 
spelled.      (2)   Most,   and   I    think   all,   a.   c,   economizers  are   really 
transformers,  and  a  transformer  has  at  least  four  binding  posts,  two 
for  the  primary  and  two  for  the  secondary  current.   In  the  diagram, 
only  two  are  shown  and  the  economizer  looks  like  a  rheostat,  there 
being  no  secondary  circuit.   (3)  The  brother  says  he  gets  60  amperes 
at   100  volts.   I   have  not  heard  of  an  incandescent   lamp  which   will 
consume  that  amount  of  current.  In  the  last  issue  you  speak  with 
ridicule  uf  the  fifteen-dollar-a-week  operator,  but  there  are  operators 
in  town   working  from  seven  dollars  up  to  twenty-five,   which   I  be- 
lieve is  the  highest  salary  paid. 
You    are   right    about   the   economizer,    except    that    Hays   certainly   never 
meant  that  his  incandescent  lamp  would  take  60  amperes.     That  would,   of 
course,    be    ridiculous.     He    meant   the   arc.     The   incandescent    lamp   would 
only    consume    his    ordinary   wattage,    but    it    must    be    a    60    volt    lamp.      I 
have  not  spoken  "with  ridicule,"  of  the  fifteen-dollar-a-week  operator.     You 
are    not   the   only   one    who    is   stirred   up   over    that    particular   proposition. 
What  I  meant  was  that  we  needed  men  of  superior  ability  in  the  operating 
room,  and  that  the  kind  of  men  we  need  cannot  be  secured  at  low  salaries; 
also  that  a  low  salary  is  but  little  incentive  for  a  man  to  put  forth  his  best 
efforts.     Of  course,  it  must  be  considered  that  fifteen  dollars  a  week  in  the 
smaller  towns  is  equal  to  almost,  if  not  quite,  double  that  sum  in  the  large 
cities.     I  remember  years  ago,  I  lived  in  a  little  town,  Brookfield,  Mo.     One 
could  rent   a   house  there,  .at  that  time  at  least,    which  would  cost  not  less 
than  forty  to  fifty  dollars  in  New  York  City,  for  from  six  to  eight  dollars. 
Vegetables  could  be  had  almost  for   a  song,  and  other   provisions   were,   by 
comparison  with  the  city  prices,  low  in  price.     Fifteen  dollars  at  that  time, 
in    Brookfield,    Mo.,    would    have   been    equal    to    fully    forty    in    New    York 
City.     In  the  article  complained  of,  I  should  not  have  mentioned  the  specific 
sum  of  fifteen   dollars.     That  has  caused  me  to  be   misunderstood.     I   think 
you  all  want  more  money,  and  I  think  you  all  would  have  greater  incentive 
to    put    forth    your*  best    efforts    if    you    got    more    money — wouldn't    you? 
Therefore,  increased  salaries  would  not  only  benefit  the  operator,  but  would 
benefit  the  manager  as  well.     I  make  this  as  a  statement,  not  as  a  surmise, 
for  the  reason  that  if  the  operator  got  any  considerable  increase  in  salary,  he 
would  have   to   improve   his   work   or   the    manager  would   fire   him   and  get 
somebody  else  who  would  deliver  the  goods  in  return  for  the  money.     That  is 
logical,   is  it  not?     Sounds  like  plain,  common    sense,   doesn't  it?     I   assure 
you  that  such  a  thing  as  ridicule  never  entered  my  mind 


Testing  for  Polarity. 

Mr.   Frank  Hurley,   Cumberland,   Md.,  comments  on  Mr.   Boden's  polarity 

test,  as  follows: 

In  the  May  3rd  issue  of  the  World,  I  notice  description  of  a 
polarity  indicator  contributed  by  Mr.  Boden  of  this  town.  I  have 
used  Joe's  method,  but  find  the  following  to  be  a  more  reliable; 
clean  the  ends  of  both  wires  and  place  them  in  a  glass  of  water. 
Close  the  switch.  As  the  ends  of  the  wires  are  brought  near  each 
other,  bubbles  will  form  freely  at  the  end  of  the  negative  wire,  and 
few,  if  any.  at  the  positive  wire.  Joe  will  admit  that  this  method  is 
cheaper  than  his,  as  the  cost  of  potatoes  in  Cumberland,  at  the 
present  time,  is  a  way  up.  In  fact,  they  are  not  very  plentiful  at 
the  place  where  I  board.  I  have  used  the  above  scheme  for  the 
past  few  years  and  I  have  never  yet  had  it  to  fail  me.  Remember 
it  is  the  negative  and  not  the  positive  that  bubbles. 
The  water  test.  Neighbor  Hurley,  is  old;  also  it  is  reliable,  but  I  regard  the 

potato  test  as  simpler  and  better   if  it  works  out  all   right,  due  to  the   fact 

that,   with   the  water  there   is  always  the  danger  of  bringing  the   two  wires 

together  and  blowing  a  fuse. 


Fifteen-Dollar-a-Week   Operator. 

Mr.   Charles  Nissen,  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  misunderstands  the  editor,  as 
follows: 

From  the  reading  of  many  articles  in  the  department,  I  have  come 
to    the    conclusion    that    the    fifteen-dollar-a-week    operator    is    your 
worst  enemy,  or  at  least  the  one  you  have  least  respect  for.     How 
do  you  know  that  the  operators  you  think  get  fifteen  dollars  really 
get  it,  or  how  do  you  know  that  the  operators  who  do  get  fifteen  a 
week  are  not  worth  more?     In  your  article  to   film  producers,   you 
again    embarrass    many    good    operators.     You    are    telling    the    film 
producer  that  the  fifteen-dollar  operators  spoil  his  reputation.     How 
do  you  know?     You    are  in   New   York,   and   I  understand  do   not 
travel  very  far  from  there.     If  it  is  from  your  city  that  you  get  the 
idea  about  the  fifteen-dollar  operator,   I  may  agree  with  you.     But 
take  for  example  the  New  York  operator  who  gets  from  $22.50  to 
$25  a  week..  What  about  them?     By  this  time  you  naturally  think  I 
am  one  of  the  fifteen-dollar  men,  but  it  is  not  quite  that  bad,  for 
I  get  a  little  more  than  that  for  six  days,  working  nine  hours  a  day, 
with  an  hour  for  supper.     Now  take  the  New  York  man   who  gets 
from   $22.50  to  $25  a  week:   he  works  seven   days  and   often   from 
10  A.  M.  to  12  P.  M.     Do  you  think  because  he  is  working  that  way 
and  gets  that  money  he  is  a  better  operator  than  the  one  who  gets 
from  fifteen  to  eighteen,  with  his  Sunday  off.  and  eight  to  ten  hours 
work  on  week  days?     Which  do  you  think  is  the  healthier  and  has 
the   clearer   mind   and   stronger  nerve?     Isn't  a   Sunday   off  worth 
from   five  to  ten   dollars   to  any  operator  who  loves   his  home  and 
family?     To  my   way  of  thinking,   the   Sunday  worker   is  after  the 
money  and  the  other  after  health  and  happiness.     The  $15  to   $18 
operators   I   speak   of  are  in   the   small   cities  and   towns,   and   you 
can   take   it   from   me,   the  good,  smart  and   sensible  operators  hide 
themselves  there  and  are  satisfied  with  life.     I  am  a  member  of  the 
I.  A.  T.   S.  E.  Local   543,  and  the  boys  here  average   from  sixteen 
to  eighteen  dollars  a  week,  and  I  can  assure  you  that  none  of  them 
are  ashamed  of  their  projection.     This  is  my  first  appearance  in  the 
department,    but    will    probably   not    be    the   last.     I    trust   you    will 
think  this  matter  over  and  realize  that  you  are  unjust  in  issuing  a 
flat  condemnation  of  so  many  operators  by  using  the  term  "fifteen- 
dollar-operators." 
I  have  given  this  letter  space  although  I  have  already  answered  one  to  the 
same  effect.     The  brother  is   right   in   his   remarks,   but  he  has   totally   mis- 
understood  my  meaning.     On   the  other  hand,   I   was  wrong   in   naming  the 
fifteen-dollar   operator.     I  used  bad   judgment   there,   for   which    I   must   ask 
forgiveness.     The    whole    meat    of    this    matter    lies    in    the     fact    that    in- 
creased salaries  have  the  inevitable  effect  of  attracting  higher  class  men  or, 
what    amounts    to    the   same    thing,    inducing    the    man    receiving    the    lower 
salary,    to    study    and    raise    the    standard    of    his    own    ability.     I    had    the 
pleasure  of  visiting  the  Paterson  union  on  the  occasion  of  their  ball  two  or 
three   months   ago,    and    I    certainly   would   not   willingly   issue    any    blanket 
condemnation   covering  such  a  bright   energetic  looking  bunch   of  men   as  I 
saw  there  that  night.     I  am  trying  to  help  to  get  operators  better  salaries,  not 
only  because  the  operators  ought  to  have  better  salaries  from  their  own  point 
of  view,  but  because  those  better  salaries  will,  in  the  end,  be  more  than  worth 
the  increase  to  the  managers  themselves.     I   trust  you  now  understand  my 
position   and,   with,  a   final   apology   for  the  unintentional  error,  I  will  close 
the   subject. 


Local  35,  Branch  2,  Prospering. 

The  last  meeting  of  Branch  2,  Local  35,  New  York  City,  was  well  at- 
tended and  the  gathering  was  composed  of  a  representative  body  of  men. 
The  meetings  are  orderly  and  well  conducted.  The  business  of  the  local  is 
now  done  in  a  business-like  manner.  Brother  Tom  Costello  resigned  as 
business  agent,  having  accepted  a  position  with  the  Paul  J.  Rairtey  people. 
The  union  unanimously  thanked  him  for  his  efficient  work  during  the  past 
year.  The  matter  of  a  delegate  *.o  the  convention  was  discussed  and  the 
consensus  of  opinion  seemed  to  be  that  it  was  advisable  to  send  one,  al- 
though the  expense  is  heavy.  This  thing  of  holding  conventions  in  the 
extreme  East  or  the  extreme  West  ought  to  be  done  away  with  and.  as.  I 
have  before  said,  there  is  neither  rhyme,  reason  nor  common  sense  in  hold- 
ing an  annual  convention,  at  a  cost  of  between  thirty-five  and  forty  thou- 
sand dollars.  Bi-annually  is  often  enough,  and  there  are  those  who  favor 
tri-annually.  using  the  mon?y  thus  saved  to  defray  the  expenses  of  general 
organizers. 


Not  Guilty. 

Bradentown,  Florida  orders  a  handbook  and  wants  to  know  could  the 
F.  H.  Richardson  of  the  Projection  Department  be  the  same  F.  H.  Richard- 
son who  has  been  spending  the  winter  in  St.  Petersburg,  Florida,  where  he 
is  known  as  "The  Electrical  Man." 


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"INTO  THE  NORTH1'  (Essanay),  May  19.— A  two-part  special  offering 
containing  much  that  is  commendable  as  entertainment  for  the  people; 
tl-ere  is,  much  in  it  they  will  like.  But  part  of  it  will  seem  trite  to  even 
the  casual  photoplay  patron.  The  situation  with  which  the  picture  opens 
is  not  only  stale,  but  painfully  unconvincing.  It  is  the  circumstantial  evi- 
dence situation  showing  how  an  impossible  bank  was  robbed  after  its 
cashier  had  been  killed  in  a  most  improbable  way.  Bui  this  gives  be- 
ginning to  a  story  of  the  north  woods  with  the  action  and  the  atmos- 
phere that  still  interests,  In  the  general  conduct  of  the  story  of  the 
rough  life  there  is  an  earnestness  and  a  vim  that  makes  almost  all  of 
it  seem  real.  Spectators  like  to  see  a  fisticuff  struggle  when  it  is  as  well 
done  as  ar.  the  climax  of  this.  On  the  whole,  it  makes  a  very  fair  of- 
fering and  justifies  itself  as  a  feature.  The  photograph}  is  only  fair; 
the  interiors  are  clear. 

"BY  MUTUAL  AGREEMENT"  (Edison),  May  19.— A  picture  in  true 
ccmedy  vein  that  gave  Lhe  audience  amusement,  subdued  but  real.  It 
seemed  to  please.  The  situation  has  been  developed  in  a  number  of  ways 
in  other  pictures;  but  the  director,  Charles  Seayt  has  given  to  this  version 
a  truthful  homeliness  that  keeps  most  of,  it  emotionally  convincing.  We 
do  not  think  the  leading  woman  got  just  the  effect  she  wanted  at  the 
climax;  she  failed  to  make  it  tell  strongly,  though  she  won  a  laugh  from 
the  audience.  The  camera  work  seems  better  than  the  lighting.  The 
script  was  written  by  Lillian  E.  Swreetser.  Frank  Lyon  plays  a  not  very 
energetic  farmer,  whose  wife.  May  Abbey,  forbids  him  to  smoke.  There 
is  rebellion  and  a  temporary  separation  which  leads  to  a  heart-interest 
reconciliation.  The  role  of  the  hired  man  didn't  help  the  picture  at  all; 
it  would  have  been  better  without  any  hired  man. 

"HIS  LIFE  FOR  HIS  EMPEROR"  (Vitagraph),  May  16.— Here  is  a 
powerful  picture.  Leo  Delaney,  playing  a  dissolute  and  discharged  gov- 
ernment clerk,  overhears  a  conspiracy  against  the  life  of  the  Emperor. 
He  goes  to  Napoleon  and  asks  that  he  be  sent  to  meet  the  conspirators 
'  in  response  to  the  forged  note.  The  clerk  is  dressed  in  the  Emperor's 
uniform.  The  transition  from  the  humble  clerk  to  the  man  who  rules 
is  splendidly  carried  out.  The  decoy  is  killed.  The  Emperor  follows  with 
a  number  of  soldiers  and  the  conspirators  are  arrested.  There  are  many 
strong  situations.  William  Humphrey  plays  the  Emperor  and  Harry 
Morey  the  chief  of  the  conspirators.  Dallas  Welford  is  the  keeper  of  the 
wine  shop.  William  Shea,  Harry  North rup  and  Earle  Williams  are  the 
other  chief  actors.     "His  Life  for  His  Emperor"  is  a  true  one-reel  feature. 

"THE  YAQUI  CUR"  (Biograph),  May  17.— There  are  battle  scenes 
i'i  these  two  reels  that  are  unusual.  In  fact,  the  picture  may  best  be 
described  as  a  big  Biogiaph.  The  theme  is  of  a  young  Indian  who  meets 
white  men  and  likes  their  ways.  He  is  taught  to  smoke  cigarettes.  He 
is  given  a  Bible.  He  is  told  that  the  ways  of  peace  are  the  right  ways. 
When  war  breaks  out  between  his  tribe  and  another  he  refuses  to  fight 
and  is  cast  out.  Later  he  smilingly  sacrifices  his  life  to  save  that  of  the 
lover  of  the  woman  he  loved  and  lost.  He  puts  into  practice  a  precept 
he  found  in  the  Book — "Greater  love  than  this."  There  are  many 
dramatic  situations,  relieved  at  times  by  those  lighter  touches  so  char- 
acteristic of  the  direction  of  Mr.  Griffith.  Robert  Herron  plays  the 
Yaqui  cur,  and  plays  it  well.  Victoria  Forde,  well  known  to  Universal 
followers,  has  the  role  of  the  Indian  girl  who  rejects  him.  There  are 
many  fine  photographic  effects. 

"THE  VITAGRAPHERS  AT  KAMA  KURA"  (Vitagraph),  May  19.— 
Some  good  photographs  of  Japanese  scenes  are  on  the  same  reel  with  the 
foregoing.  We  find  the  travelers  at  Kama  Kura  before  the  statue  of 
Buddah,   and  also    feeding   the    pigeons   at   the   temple   of   Hachiman. 

"OLAF— AN  ATOM"  (Biograph),  May  19.— A  picture  that  is  wholly 
conventional;  but  makes  good  use  of  all  its  material  after  the  rather  dull 
opening.  It  is  the  picture  of  the  race  to  the  office  of  the  land  claims  agent. 
Olaf,  a  tramp,  is  fed  by  the  settler's  wife  and  later  finds  that  certain  evil 
men  have  discovered  a  flaw  in  the  papers  of  his  benefactress'  husband. 
He  sends  the  man  riding  on  his  horse  to  save  his  claim  and  himself  rides 
on  the  trunk-rack  behind  their  automobile,  cutting  the  tires  with  a  knife. 
I:  lacks  the  sentimental  ending',  which  is  one  thing  to  be  thankful  for. 
The  camera  work  is  fair.  The  players,  Claire  McDowell,  Charles  Mailes 
and  Harry  Carey  (Olaf)  do  pretty  well;  the  picture  gave  them  small  chance 
to   act. 

"PATHE'S  WEEKLY,  NO.  21"  May  19.— There  is  very  little  news  in- 
terest in  this  week's  topical.  The  best  items  are  a  good  portrait  of 
President  Poincare  of  France,  one  of  Andrew  Carnegie,  one  of  Alexander 
Graham   Bell,   one  of  the    Papal   Nuncio  of   Spain. 

"MARGARET'S  PAINTING"  (Lubin).  May  19.— The  story  of  this 
picture  is  conventional;  but  it  is  dry  chiefly  because  it  has  been  very 
poorly  acted  in  most  of  its  scenes.  The  producer  has  not  been  careful 
of  details  and  has  failed  to  give  that  illusion  of  reality  that  interests. 
For  instance,  there  were  two  exhibitions  of  paintings  shown  in  the  pic- 
ture. In  the  first  there  were  five  works  of  art  and  the  husband's  paint- 
ing;  in   the   second,   the   same   five  but   with   the   wife's   painting   instead  of 


her  husband's.  The  offering  lacks  all  edge  to  cut  with.  The  camera  work 
is  fair.  Elinor  O'Keefe  is  the  authoress  and  the  script  was  produced  by 
L.    B.   Carlton. 

"HIS  FATHER'S  DEPUTY"  (Selig),  May  19.— A  picture  written  and 
produced  by  William  Duncan.  It  is  not,  in  its  idea  and  general  scheme, 
different  from  most  of  his  stories;  but  the  good  qualities  are  also  in  evi- 
dence and  one  of  these  is  freshness  in  the  incidents,  and  another  is  speedy 
action.  As  often,  when  pistols  prove  unable  to  land  the  young  deputy 
his  criminals,  his  fists  come  to  the  rescue;  he  knocks  both  of  them  un- 
conscious. Lester  Cunio  and  Tom  Mix  play  the  criminals.  Rex  De  Rosselli 
p!ays  the  sheriff,  father  of  the  deputy.  The  photography  is  clear  and 
serviceable.     A  fair  offering. 

"THE  ARTISTS  SACRIFICE"  (Kalem),  May  19.— A  very  convert 
tional  story  of  the  big-hearted  man  who  is  worthy,  but  who  seems  fated' 
to  choose  the  burnt  cookie.  In  this  case,  he  is  an  older  brother  who  has 
sent  his  younger  brother  through  college  and  who  then  finds  that  the 
younger  man  has  fallen  in  love  with  his  sweetheart.  The  producer  let 
many  small  things  make  his  picture  inartistic  and  very  unreal.  That 
college  scene  is  as  untruthful  as  it  is  trite.  It  would  be  a  poor  college 
where  seniors  could  live  that  kind  of  life;  freshmen  who  try  usually 
get  dropped.  Another  scene  showed  a  shop  girl's  poor  friend  lending 
her  an  expensive  looking  dress.  Alice  Joyce  plays  the  girl  who  is  fired 
from  the  dry  goods  store  and  who  gets  a  job  from  the  artist  (Edgar  L. 
Davenport).  The  younger  brother  is  played  by  Tom  Moore.  The  photog- 
raphy is  good. 

"BUNNY'S  BIRTHDAY  SURPRISE"  (Yiragraph),  May  19.— A  farce 
with  a  few  good  situations;  but  that  lacks  snap  at  the  end.  The  guests 
should  not  have  got  mad  when  poor,  unsuspecting  Bunny  comes  into  the 
parlor,  after  his  hard  day,  in  his  pajamas;  the  fun  lost  more  than  it  gained 
by  this.  Then  the  fiancee  should  have  come  in  more  naturally  with  the 
other  guests.  The  offering  made  a  few  good  laughs.  The  script  is  by 
John  B.  Black  and  was  produced  by  Wilfred  North.  Flora  Finch  sup- 
ports John  Bunny  in  it.     It  is  clearly  photographed. 

"THE  BATTLE  FOR  FREEDOM"  (Kalem),  May  17.— This  special  re- 
lease has  been  reviewed  at  length  in  a  former  issue — see  page  360,  April 
2G,    1913. 

"BRONCHO  BILLY'S  GRIT"  (Essanay),  May  17— A  Broncho  Billy 
picture  that  clearly  pleased  a  large  audience.  It  is  well  put  together,  nat- 
urally  acted,    has   action    and   is   clearly   photographed. 

"A  WRECKED  LIFE"  (Patheplay),  May  17.— A  wretched  old  woman 
is  shown  and  then  a  man  tells  her  story,  a  narrative  that  is  not  without 
dramatic  effectiveness;  but  the  picture  is  artificial  and  does  not  convince 
strongly.  There  are  no  real  characters  and  little  deep  interest.  The  pho- 
tography is   fair. 

"BUNNY  DIPS  INTO  SOCIETY"  (Vitagraph),  May  17.— A  good  na- 
tured  farce  that  a  large  audience  found  very  amusing.  It  affords  enter- 
tainment throughout.  Bunny  has  a  role  with  much  freshness  and  is  in  good 
form  in  it.  Ther.e  was  a  good  deal  of  laughter.  The  clever  script  is  by 
K.   W.    Wood   and  it   was   produced   by   Wilfred   North. 

"RETRIBUTION"  (Lubin),  May  17.— The  banker  accomplishes  the 
cashier's  ruin  because  he  has  fallen  in  love  with  the  younger  man's  wife. 
This,  of  course,  is  not  an  original  situation.  There  was  laughter  in  the 
audience  at  the  innocent  showing  of  the  man  in  stripes;  audiences  are 
making  fun  of  sentimentality.  The  situation  is  not  worked  up  in  the  most 
effective  way  and  is  not  carried  forward  speedily.  It  does  not  convince 
and  is  full  of  painfully  constrained  and  drawnout  scenes.  The  author  and 
producer  is  George  Nicholls.  Edwin  Carewe  and  Ernestine  Morley  play 
the  romantic  leads  with  John  Ince  as  the  villian.  The  photography  is 
fine. 

"A  CONCERTO  FOR  THE  VIOLIN"  (Edison),  May  17.— A  picture 
of  musicians  which,  if  followed  by  the  right  music,  will  be  very  accept- 
able; it  is  not  strong  enough  to  stand  effectively  without  it.  The  weakness 
is  almost  wholly  in  the  story,  which  is  neither  new  nor  convincing.  It  is 
in  fact  a  conventional  offering  made  to  give  emphasis  to  good  music  to 
be  supplied  by  the  exhibitor.  Anne  Story  Allen  is  the  authoress  and  it 
was  produced  by  Charles  J.  Brabin.  The  acting  is  graceful  and  fairly 
pleasing;  but  a  conventional  situation  makes  conventional  acting.  Marc 
MacDermott,  Mabel  Trunnelle  and  Miriam  Nesbitt  play  the  triangle  story. 
The  sets  and  photography  are  all  that  could  be  desired. 

"THE  POET  AND  THE  SOLDIER"  (Kalem),  May  17.— A  picture  sug- 
gested by  a  lyric  poem  of  Trench's,  which  was  used  by  permission.  Hattie 
Gray  Baker  is  the  authoress  and  had  pictured  the  soldier  as  wounded  and 
dying.  He  tell?  his  story  to  a  poet,  who  comforts  his  last  moments.  This 
story  is  disconnected  and  not  dramatic  in  any  real  sense  of  the  term  and 
does  not  deeply  interest,  although  one  or  two  incidents  did  "capture" 
two  foreigners  behind  us.  The  producer  has  shown  a  common  soldier  as 
living  with  his  wife  in  a  way  that  only  one  with  the  income  of  an  officer 
could  afford.  Carlyle  Blackwell  plays  the  soldier;  Lucile  Young,  the  wife; 
and  William  H.  West,  the  poet.  The  battle  scenes  are  fair;  we  have  had 
better.     The  photography  is  clesr. 


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"TWO  SOCIAL  CALLS"  (Essanay),  May  16.— A  drama  with  nothing 
to  recommend  it.  There  is  an  attempt  at  suspense  when  a  child  wanders 
into  a  house  and  is  well  taken  care  of,  its  parents  in  the  meantime  hunting 
for  it     The  picture  lacks  grip. 

"PAT,  THE  COWBOY"  (Kalem),  May  16. — John  Brennan  portrays  an 
Irishman  who  goes  to  the  west  and  gets  work  on  a  ranch.  His  unfamili- 
arity  with  the  ways  of  the  country  causes  amusement  on  the  part  of  his 
associates  and  may  make  some  for  the  audience. 

"FOOD  INSPECTION"  (Kalem),  May  16.— On  the  same  reel  as  the 
foregoing  is  this  illustrated  news  film  produced  in  co-operation  with  the 
Commissioner  of  Health,  of  New'  York  City.  There  is  much  statistical 
matter  bearing  on  New  York's  food  supply,  and  it  is  interesting. 

"WITH  THE  STUDENTS  OF  THE  NORTH  DAKOTA  AGRICUL- 
TURAL COLLEGE"  (Selig),  May  16. — Showing  the  close-up  faces  of 
some  of  the  girl  pupils,  all  of  them  laughing.  Why  this  institution  should 
be  selected  for  this  honor  is  not  apparent.  Also  there  are  pictures  show- 
ing the  girls  making  candy. 

"A  DAUGHTER  OF  THE  CONFEDERACY"  (Selig),  May  16.— On  the 
same  reel  is  this  short  drama.  There  are  shown  a  couple  of  fine  southern 
groves. 

"A  VAMPIRE  OF  THE  DESERT"  (Vitagraph),  May  1 6. —This  two- 
reel  special  is  well  staged  and  there  are  good  people  in  the  cast — Helen 
Gardner,  Harry  Morey,  Tefft  Johnson,  Flora  Finch  and  Leah  Baird.  The 
picture  is  described  as  an  allegory;  certainly  it  is  too  strong  on  the  "high- 
brow" stuff  to  serve  as  entertainment.  The  first  reel  is  not  coherent;  the 
second  reel  is  more  understandable,  but   establishes  no  particular   interest. 

"JOHN  MANLEY'S  AWAKENING"  (Edison),  May  16.— There  is 
nothing  new  in  this  picture,  but  it  is  well  put  on  and  will  interest  and 
certainly  has  a  pleasant  ending.  Augustus  Phillips  and  Bessie  Learn  carry 
well  the  leads. 

"THE  JELLY  FISH"  (Patheplay),  May  :6. — Short  scientific  film, 
showing  varieties  of  this  fish. 

"ALONG  THE  BANKS  OF  THE  RIVER  EURE"  (Patheplay).  May 
j  6. — On  the  same  reel  are  these  beautiful  hand-colored  views  of  castles 
and   chateaus.      The  photography   is    unusual. 

"SARAGOSSA"  (Patheplay).  May  16. — Also  on  the  same  reel  is  this 
"reminder  of  the  golden  age  of  Spain."     A  good  travelogue. 

"A  SOUL  IN  BONDAGE"  (Vitagraph),  May  15.— A  picture  by  Leah 
Baird  that  gives  her  a  splendid  chance  to  portray  the  heart  of  a  woman; 
but  trie  portrayal  lacks  the  real  objectivity  of  art  and  therefore  makes 
a  narrow  appeal.  It  was  necessary  to  have  this  character  grip  the  hearts 
of  the  audience  in  order  to  make  the  story  truly  dramatic,  and  it  fails  to 
do  this.  All  others  in  the  picture  are  kept  in  the  background,  are  mere 
figures.  We  have  first  the  fast  club  man  whom  the  woman  loves,  or  thinks 
she  does  and  with  whom  she  is  going  to  the  devil.  Then,  most  pleasingly 
suggested,  comes  the  woman's  awakening.  In  this  touch  there  is  a  sincerity 
that  does  the  authoress  much  credit  and  shows  that  she  knows  how  to 
write  for  the  people,  even  if  she  doesn't  always.  Then  we  have  the  other, 
the  good  man,  who  is  quite  flat,  and  then  the  unimaginative  ending.  Van 
Dyke  Brooke   produced  it.     The   scenes   and  the  photography  are  good. 

"THE  BLACK  TRAILERS"  (Melies),  May  15. — A  very  entertaining  as 
well  as  instructive  offering  telling  a  story  of  friendship  between  a  white 
trader  and  his  black  customers  in  North  Queensland,  Australia.  It  is 
something  quite  new;  no  other  picture,  even  those  of  the  Melies  Com- 
pany, has  'been  'like  it  and  it  held  the  audience  strongly.  The  photography 
is  clear  in  most  of  the  scenes  and  the  story  is  simple  and  straightforward. 
The  trader  is  robbed  by  another  white  man  and  the  blacks  help  bring 
the  culprit  to  justice;  but  in  the  meanwhile,  are  themselves  suspected  by 
other  white  men. 

"AT  CAIRN.  NORTH  QUEENSLAND"  (Melies),  May  15.— A  good 
travel  picture  with  some  glorious  scenes  taken  at  sea,  pictures  of  the 
ocean's  waves.  Why  do  we  see  so  many  views  of  loading  ships  at  wharves? 
We  have  seen,  in  pictures,  how  ships  are  loaded  in  nearly  every  first 
rate  port  in  the  globe,  it  seems. 

"AN  ITINERANT  WEDDING"  (Patheplay),  May  15.— This  farcical 
offering  might  have  been  made  much  more  funny  if  it  had  been  acted  and 
pioduced  for  what  comedy  there  was  in  it;  but  (we  are  sorry  to  say  it), 
the  audience  we  saw  it  with  wouldn't  have  liked  it  so  well;  at  least  we 
fear  it  wouldn't  have.  It  is  a  roughhouse  picture  that  made  more  laugh- 
ter than  any  other  offering  this  week.  It  isn't  worthy  of  a  serious  review. 
The  players  are  pleasing  even  in  such  a  picture  and  the  photography  is 
very   good. 

"THE  STOLEN  LOAF"  (Biograph),  May  15.— To  the  audience  this 
morning,  this  picture  proved  an  unintentional  comedy;  they  laughed  and 
shouted  mock  comments  at  its  sentimental  scenes.  Such  an  audience  will 
stand  for'  coarseness  it  seems,  but  is  death  on  sentimentality.  That  the 
second  part  of  this  is  true  is  most  encouraging;  folks  who  know  life  hate 
sentimentality.  We  have  seen  many  worse  pictures  than  this  applauded. 
It  has  been  written  to  get  all  there  was  in  the  situation  and  it  was  pretty 
well  acted  by  the  best  Biograph  players.  Of  course,  it  is  far  from  con- 
vincing; such  pictures  always  are. 

"IN  THE  LONG  AGO"  (Selig),  May  15.— A  picture  which  illustrates 
an  Indian  myth,  a  poetic  love  story  of  the  long  ago,  in  which  a  despised 
musician  is  refused  the  privilege  of  marrying  the  belle  of  the  tribe.  He 
proves  himself  not  only  strong  enough  to  kill  his  rival,  the  tribe's  stalwart 
warrior,  in  a  struggle  for  the  girl,  but  is  able  to  make  a  magic  flute 
which  can  and  does  restore  the  girl,  now  lying  dead.  In  the  closing 
scenes,  the  picture  shows  a  short  glimpse  of  modern  life  which  suggests 
that  the  old  myth  is  being  played,  in  part,  again.  This  kind  of  picture 
doesn't  give  the  same  punch  that  it  did  when  newer;  but.  in  this  case,  it 
is  poetic  and  interests.  The  photography  is  clear  enough  to  tell  the  story, 
but  lacks  the  quality  of  liveliness,  isn't  artistic.  It  was  written  by  Lanier 
Bartlet  and  produced  by  Colin  Campbell.  Wheeler  Oakman  and  Bessie 
Eyton  play  tie   romantic  leads. 

"BOOSTING  BUSINESS"  (Essanay).  May  15.— A  lively  farce  that 
made  a  reasonable  amount   of  hearty  laughter.      The   situation   is   such   that 


whenever  action  ceases  for  a  moment,  as  when  one  or  another  of  the 
players  stops  to  laugh  long  and  loud,  the  unconvincing  barrenness  of  it 
becomes  too  apparent  even  for  a  farce.  It  wasn't  laughed  over  as  a 
whole;  but  a  good  deal  of  it  made  laughter.  John  Steppling  plays  a 
drummer  who  finds  no  demand  for  his  baking  powder  and  contrives  to 
make  the  people  think  that  a  hundred  dollar  bill  is  hidden  in  one  of  the 
cans  in  stock  at  either  Joseph  Allen's  or  Charles  Hitchcock's  store.  Elean- 
or Blanchard  is  the  woman  who  spreads  the  news  of  the  big  bill  to  be 
found  by  some  lucky  purchaser.  At  the  end  the  disillusioned  women  chase 
him  out  of  town  with  his  baking  powder. 

"LONGING  FOR  A  MOTHER"  (Lubin),  May  15.— A  very  pretty  story 
of  an  imaginative  boy  whose  mother  died  when  he  was  born.  His  father 
is  a  man  of  wealth  and  the  lad  has  everything  that  a  boy  could  enjoy  ex- 
cept a  mother.  In  front  of  his  mother's  picture  he  dreams — the  painting 
seems  to  come  to  life  and  to  tell  him  stories,  but  then,  of  course,  he 
mnst  always  find  that  it  is  only  a  dream.  But  his  father  has  fallen  in 
love  with  a  woman  who  can  also  love  the  son  and  what  was  only  a  dream 
becomes  real.  Perfect  photography  adds  much  to  the  beauty  and  the  art 
of  the  picture  and  it  makes  a  very  acceptable  offering.  Mrs.  Owen  Bron- 
son  is  the  authoress  and  it  was  produced  by  L.  B.  Carlton.  Isabella  Lamon 
is  the  dream-mother;  Mabel  Harris,  the  new  mother;  Jack  Standing,  the 
father  and   Raymond  Hackett,  the  boy. 

"HER  MASKED  BEAUTY"  (Patheplay),  May  14.— A  two-part  special 
offering  made  in  Europe  and  giving  us  a  picture  of  Italian  life.  It  has 
little  of  the  quality  that  has  proved  attractive  to  American  audiences;  its 
appeal  will  be  more  to  the  intellect  than  to  the  heart;  it  does  not  convince, 
and  it  deals  with  things  not  at  once  understood  by  spectators  on  this  side, 
with  things  typically  Continental.  The  situation  is  not  new,  it  having  been 
used  in  at  least  one  other  picture  that  has  come  to  America  from  France. 
The  heroine,  who  finds  it  necessary  to  make  herself  seem  homely  to  gel 
a  position  as  governess  in  the  house  of  a  woman  of  wealth  and  who  falls 
in  love  with  her  employer's  brother,  and  so  forth,  is  not  in  this  picture 
a  great  beauty.  The  leaders  refer  to  her  as  such  and  this  made  a  little 
laughter  near  us.  The  picture  is  fairly  well  acted,  has  been  very  clearly 
produced  and  acceptably  photographed. 

"THE  REDSKIN'S  MERCY"  (Patheplay),  May  14.— A  typical  frontier 
picture  with  an  Indian  attack  on  a  stockade  as  its  feature.  The  whites 
are  driven  out  of  their  log  cabin  within  the  stockade  when  the  reds  man- 
age to  set  it  on  fire.  The  two  survivors  are  saved  by  the  heroic  redskin 
who,  it  seems,  had  fallen  in  love  with  the  white  girl  and  is  willing  to  give 
his  life  to  save  her.     The  photography  is  pretty  good. 

"BUCK  RICHARD'S  BRIDE"  (Selig),  May  14.— A  very  charming 
picture,  giving  a  little  romance,  not  new  at  all;  but  perfectly  fresh  by  rea- 
son of  its  acting  and  general  conduct.  Unusually  good  acting  (among 
every  make  of  picture),  is  apparent  from  the  very  opening.  Hobart  Bos- 
worth  plays  Buck,  an  elderly  foreman  on  a  cattle  ranch,  who  falls  in  love 
with  a  pretty  waitress  in  an  Omaha  lunch  house  and  takes  her  home  with 
him.  He  is  busy  and  the  young  bride  feels  herself  neglected.  Mr.  Bos- 
worth's  virile  acting  is  extremely  well  supported  by  Margarita  Loveridge,  ■ 
in  the  role  of  Annie,  the  bride.  Miss  Loveridge  makes  a  decided  hit  and 
has  drawn  the  girl  as  engagingly  as  possible,  so  it  seems.  We  hope  for 
many  pictures  of  this  quality;  it  would  be  profitable  to  push  Miss  Lover- 
idge to  the  front  more.  Hobart  Bosworth  is  the  author  and  Frederick 
Huntly,  the  producer.  There  is  credit  due  all  around.  It  is  easily  the 
most  desirable  offering  today. 

•THE  SAME  OLD  STORY"  (Essanay).  May  14.— A  farce  that  made 
a  good  deal  of  laughter,  but  never  captured  the  whole  house  for  one  big 
laugh.  It  is  not  wholly  free  from  vulgarity.  And,  while  it  justifies  itself 
as  entertainment,  it  is  one  of  that  large  group  of  pictures  that  makes  one 
wish  he  could  overhear  in  it  the  conversation.  No  real  motion  picture, 
none  that  really  justified  itself  as  one.  would  leave  us  thus  unsatisfied. 
Augustus  Carney,  Eleanor  Blanchard,  Beverly  Bayne,  Billy  Mason,  Ruth 
Hennessy  and  Whitney  Raymond  play  in  it.  The  photography  is  accept- 
able. 

"THE  TWO  MERCHANTS"  (Edison),  May  14.— A  rural  farce  by 
Charles  M.  Seay  that  kept  the  attention  interested,  but  made  not  a  great 
deal  of  laughter.  It  is  played  by  a  large  cast,  but  no  one  in  it  is  especially 
worthy  of  mention;  it  gave  no  one  a  chance  to  be  truly  funny.  The 
photography  is  fair.  As  an  offering,  it  goes  well  with  the  majority  of  pic- 
tures   today. 

"TWO  HEARTS  THAT  BEAT  AS  ONE"  (Vitagraph),  May  14.— The 
two  hearts  beat  in  the  breasts  of  Jam;s  Lackaye  and  Hughie  Mack,  who  both 
love  Lillian  Walker,  a  society  girl  with  an  absent  sweetheart  of  her  own. 
There  were  one  or  two  times  when  the  laughter  was  at  least  loud.  The 
whole  idea  is  not  one  to  appeal  to  cultivated  people  and  there  is  a  touch 
or  two,  as  when  the  two  fat  men  sit  down  with  the  girl  in  a  hammock  and 
break  it  down,  that  were  made  expressly  for  the  gallery.  The  photography 
is  fair.  It  is  a  commercial  picture  made  rather  than  written  by  Mrs. 
Breuil  and  produced  by  Bert  Angeles.     The  photography  is  fair. 

"MAN'S  GREED  FOR  GOLD"  (Kalem),  May  14- — A  commonplace  of- 
fering that  was  not  very  skillfully  written,  nor  very  cleverly  acted.  It  is 
somewhat  dull,  but  as  usual  with  pictures  of  this  make,  it  has  some  pretty 
scenes. 


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"TONY,  THE  TENOR"  (Pilot),  May  15. — The  story  is  of  an  iron- 
worker with  a  tenor  voice.  An  impresario  hearing  him  gives  him  a  tryout 
and  offers  him  $200  a  week.  Tony  is  prevailed  upon  to  give  up  the 
prospects  of  a  musical  career  and  go  back  to  Italy.  A  woman  fears  she 
may  lose  him  should  he  be  successful.     The  story  is  hardly  convincing. 

"THE  THREE  COMRADES"  (Great  Northern),  May  17- — Fine  military- 
domestic  drama,  embellished  by  Great  Northern  photography.  There  is 
cne  feature  of  Great  Northern  military  stories  is  marked.  The 
actors  who  portray  soldier  life  do  it  convincingly.  Beyond  question  they 
have  had  military  training.      It  is  demonstrated  in   the  snap,  the  ginger,  in 


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every  move.  There  is  a  bit  showing  cavalry  maneuvers,  of  horses  plungJ 
ing  into  and  swimming  a  stream,  which  will  be  of  great  interest.  The 
story  easily  carries  on  its  dramatic  worth  aside  from  the  spectacular. 

"BILLY  PLAYS  POKER"  (Gem),  May  20.— This  is  a  full  reel  of  Billy 
Quirk.  Billy  gets  tangled  up  in  a  poker  game  on  a  train;  before  he  gets 
through  he  has  left  nothing  but  his  shoes  and  underwear.  He  has  several 
adventures  in  a  barrel,  which,  by  the  way,  is  a  little  too  much  in  evi- 
dence.    The  picture  is  not  strong  comedy. 

"HE  LOVES  -TO  WATCH  THE  FLIGHT  OF  TIME"  (Eclair).  May 
«8. — Another  of  the  Newlywed  series,  not  quite  so  interesting '  to  a  film 
man  as  some  of  its  predecessors.  It  is  plain  that  the  caricaturist  is  "getting 
wise."  No  longer  does  he  always  draw  each  picture.  The  scene  does 
not  always  "move."  Some  views  are  of  groups  which  are  stationary. 
However,   the   novelty   is  there. 

"THE  CUTTLEFISH"  (Eclair),  May  18.— On  the  same  reel  as  the 
foregoing  is  this  very  interesting  scientific. 

"LOVE'S  MONOGRAM"  (Ryno),  May  26.— In  this  drama  of  the  sea 
coast  we  have  the  old  familiar  lapse  of  memory,  in  this  case  due  to  a  near 
drowning.     The  story  is  not  strong. 

"GOOD  FOR  EVIL"  (Victor),  May  23.— The  Reliance  Company  once 
sent  out  a  picture  called  "The  Angel,"  it  was  released  July  15,  1910, 
that  was  very  much  like  this,  which  has  the  same  leading  woman,  Ger- 
trude Robinson.  Yet  this  offering  is  commendable,  it  will  be  liked  by 
most  and  very  few  will  remember  the  former  one,  which  was  not  a  suc- 
cess. It  was  produced  by  James  Kirkwood,  who  plays  the  role  of  a  miserly 
storekeeper,  who  Employs  Miss  Robinson  as  his  servant.  In  the  former 
picture,  she  came  from  an  institution;  in  this,  her  sister  brings  her.  In 
the  former  picture  there  were  several  children,  in  this  but  one.  The  out- 
come of  the  situation  is  very  much  the  same  in  both  cases.  Bennet 
Musson  is  the  author;  the  similarity  might  perhaps  have  been  purely  acci- 
dental;  but  it  is  very  striking. 

"THE  TRIFLER"  (Rex),  May  25.— A  rather  weak  offering  for  the  Rex 
people;  perhaps  the  weakest  by  them  we  have  ever  seen.  It  is  most 
unconvincingly  written,  the  letters  that  pass  in  it  are  without  any  realism; 
it   doesn't   excite   the    spectator's   sympathy. 

"SHE  NEVER  KNEW"  (Imp),  May  22.— Perhaps  the  theme  is  old; 
but  the  picture  is  full  of  freshness  nevertheless.  The  story,  telling  of  a 
mother  who  was  kept  from  knowing  that  her  son  had  been  condemned 
to  die.  and  who  died  just  before  he  was  hanged,  has  been  so  carefully 
and  intelligently  produced  and  is  so  full  of  suggestions  of  real  humanity 
that  it  touches  the  heart.  It  is  solemn;  but  it  is  edifying.  There  is  noth- 
ing rough  or  the  least  bit  vulgar  in  it;  it  appeals  to  intelligence  by  ils 
truth,  while  it  touches  human  feelings  tenderly.  The  producer,  Herbert 
Brenon,  probably  deserves  more  credit  than  the  author,  W.  H.  Swan- 
son,  though  both  have  done  well.  William  Shea,  as  the  condemned  son. 
and  Jane  Fearnly,  as  his  sister,  play  the  leads.  The  mother  is  very  well 
drawn  too.  The  last  fifty  feet  is  anti-climax.  The  picture  builds  up  to  the 
end  so  strongly  that,  to  show  coldly  what  happens,  is  by  comparison, 
crude;  it  should  have  ended  where  the  son  is  told  that  his  mother  is  dead. 
It  makes  a  very  desirable  offering  for  any  occasion  wnhere  a  solemn  picture 
would   be    liked. 

"WHERE  WITS  WIN"  (Frontier),  May  24.— A  farce  picture  set  in 
interesting  backgrounds  in  New  Mexico  and  giving  us  burlesque  pictures 
of  some  European  aristocrats  and  American-  newly  rich  folks.  It  will 
make  laughter  for  it  is  brisk  and  full  of  rough  and  tumble  action.  It 
makes  much   of  what   may  be  calhd   "funny  faces."      Photography  is  clear. 

"BE  IT  EVER  SO  HUMBLE"  (Nestor),  May  30.— A  dull  offering, 
giving  old  stuff  with  little  of  true  humanity  to  make  it  engage  us  freshly. 
The   photography  is  clear  enough,  but  lacks  quality. 

"JUST  FOR  LUCK"  (Imp),  May  24.— There  are  laughs  in  this  ex- 
travagant farce  which  was  made  in  Europe.  There  is  a  superstition  that 
if  one  rubs  the  hump  of  a  hunchback  he  will  get  luck.  The  dwarf  found 
it  worth  money  and  for  a  consideration  let  several  rub  his  back;  but  he 
had  a  "phoney"  hump  and  it  worked  backward.  The  offering  is  light  and 
will  give  entertainment. 

"HY  MAYER,  HIS  MAGIC  HAND"  (Imp),  May  24.— On  the  same 
reel  is  this,  in  the  well  known  cartoon  series,  and  it  is  surely  funny.  A 
good    offering. 

"HEARTS  AND  CROSSES"  (Eclair),  May  25.— This  story,  by  O. 
Henry,  makes  a  good  offering  in  pictures.  It  is  a  love  story  of  the 
cattle  country  and  has  a  certain  amount  of  freshness.  It  is  smoothly 
produced  and  naturally  acted.  The  photography  is  clear.  It  will  make  an 
acceptable  offering. 

"ANARADHAPURA.  THE  BIRTHPLACE  OF  BUDDHISM"  (Eclair), 
May  24. — A  beartiful.  hand-colored  film  showing  the  old  temples  of  that 
part  of  India  where  the  great  religious  teacher,  Buddah,  meditated  his 
formulas  and  maxims.  It  is  an  offering  of  exceptional  merit.  The  two 
on  this  film  go  very  well  together.  The  first  is  a  simple  love  story,  at 
which  no  one  could  take  offense,  and  this  one  is  full  of  instruction. 

"UNDER  FIRE"  (Bison-101),  May  24.---A  Civil  War  story  with  two  boys 
in  the  leads.  It  has  some  good,  effective  situations  and  it  is  well  acted; 
also  there  are  some  pretty  scenes.  In  the  first  reel,  it  gains  a  situation 
at  the  expense  of  truth.  It  makes  its  own  code  of  military  ethics  and 
law  and  asks  our  sympathy  for  a  man  who  leaves  a  field  of  battle  on  the 
score  of  his  purpose,  to  save  a  dear  friend  who  has  -become  panic 
stricken  and  run  away.  The  ending  episode  is  surely  effective,  at  least 
when  we  forget  its  basis.  Many  of  the  characters  are  attractive;  many 
of    its    scenes   are    very    beautiful. 

"BILLY'S  ADVENTURE"  (Gem).  May  13.— A  farcical  love  story  fea- 
turing Billy  as  a  lover  not  acceptable  to  Dad.  He  does  a  clever  female 
impersonation. 

"CHEATING"  (Powers),  May  28. — A  farcical  love  story  of  four  girls. 
They  make  a  compact  not  to  look  at  a  man  and  then  break  it.  It  is 
pretty  well  photographed.     The  players  are  in   themselves  pleasing. 


';THE  STARS  AND  STRIPES  FOKEVER"  (Bison-101).  May  20.— 
This  the  first  of  the  Philippine  se.ies  and  it  will  bring  a  fresh  atmosphere, 
although  it  tells  not  a  strictly  new  story,  being  a  version  of  the  girl 
spy  tale.  But  this  girl  spy  is  exceptional;  she  is  a  Cleopatra  like  creature, 
piayed  extremely  well  by  Victoria  Forde.  She  has  given  to  this  wom- 
an a  conventional  character,  but  has  made  her  truly  alive.  The  story 
turns  on  her  failure  to  get  information  to  the  Filipinos  at  a  critical 
moment.  The  hero,  a  captain  of  the  United  States  array,  is  not  doped, 
because  a  woman  whom  he  had  once  saved  from  a  brute  manages  to  warn 
him.  Then  comes  the  battle  scenes  which  are  surely  good.  The  creeping 
up  of  the  Philippine  advance  guard  on  the  American  sentries  was  typical, 
but  was  spoiled  a  bit  by  the  unusual  carelessness  of  the  Americans;  it 
wasn't  true  of  American  soldiers  in  an  enemy's  country.  The  picture  was 
not  take  in  the  Philippines,  but  gets  along  very  well  notwithstanding.  It 
interests  through  both  of  its  two  reels  and  makes  a  good  offering,  one 
that  will  be  liked.     The  photography  is  good. 

"THE  CAP  OF  DESTINY"  (Rex),  May  15.— Here  is  good  drama 
made  by  the  Smalleys.  The  "cap"  is  a  distinctive  style  of  headgear  used 
by  a  band  of  crooks  to  identify  the  members  and  to  enable  a  thief  to 
pass  his  booty  on  to  a  fellow  member.  There  is  some  excellent  gang  stuff 
and  good  acting.  Also  there  is  an  infant  who  materially  contributes  to 
the   success  of   the  picture. 

"TOPLITSKY  &  COMPANY"  (Keystone),  May  26.— This  is  a  knock- 
about  comedy,  in  which  one  Jew  clothing  merchant  falls  in  love  with  his 
partner's  wife.  A  live  bear  appears  in  the  latter  part  of  the  film  and 
some  scenes  are  taken  in  a  bath  house.  The  humor,  however,  does  net 
come    up   very   strongly. 

"THE  CURATE'S  OUTING"  (Powers),  May  2i._There  are  a  "bunch-* 
of  kids  in  this  picture  that  was  produced  by  H.  C.  Mathews;  but  there 
is  very  little  of  the  poetry  usually  found  in  pictures  by  that  clever  director. 
The  curate  is  a  clown  and  is  not  truly  funny.     The  photography  is  clear. 

"RUNA  AND  THE  BLACK  HAND"  (Reliance),  May  24.— A  story  of 
a  little  girl  whose  nose  was  "out  of  joint"  when  the  new  baby  came.  She 
got  her  hand  in  some  black  paint  on  a  park  bench  ani  unconsciously 
left  a  black  imprint  on  the  nurse's  dress.  When  the  baby  disappeared 
it  was  thought  the  black  hand  had  made  away  with  it.  Well  pictured  and  a 
pretty   little    story. 

"LONDON  ASSURANCE"  (Reliance).  May  19.— A  reproduction  of  the 
famous  old  English  comedy  of  1841,  with  E  P.  Sullivan  as  Sir  Roger  de 
Coverley;  Irving  Cummings  as  Dazzle;  Miss  De  Lespine  as  Lady  Gay.  and 
Ethel  Phillips  as  the  young  heiress.  Full  of  pretty  scenes,  including  a  fox 
hunt;  the  costuming  is  also  good.  The  plot  in  this  is  rather  hurried  and 
we  think  this  might  have  been  offered  to  better  advantage  in  two  reels. 
However,  it  is  very  attractive  as  it  is. 

"THE  MASTER  CRACKSMAN"  (Reliance),  May  28.— This  two-reel 
film  story,  written  by  Stephen  Allen  Reynolds,  concerns  an  old  inventor 
and  his  son,  the  latter  represented  by  Irving  Cummings.  The  inventor 
is  robbed  by  the  man  who  bought  his  burglar  alarm.  The  son,  for  pur- 
poses of  revenge,  hires  out  to  the  safe  manufacturer  under  an  assumed 
r.ame  and  drills  open  the  vaults,  to  force  him  to  give  his  father  justice. 
The  detective,  who  finally  apprehends  him  and  his  sweetheart  in  their 
safe  breaking,  makes  the  manufacturer  give  both  father  and  son  a  square 
deal.  The  whole  story  is  rather  improbable  and  rather  doubtful  from  ai. 
ethical  standpoint.      It  is  well  acted   and   the   photography   is  good. 

•ASHES  OF  THREE"  (American),  May  26. — A  new  and  pleasing  two- 
reel  production.  The  conception  shows  imagination  and  good  direction. 
Warren  K-rrigan  appears  as  the  outcast,  whose  manhood  has  as  yet  been 
unawakened.  The  story  centers  about  the  "Terror  of  the  Mountains,' 
a  well-assumed  character,  who  has  taken  many  lives  and  always  eludes 
capture.  The  outcast  comes  upon  the  grieving  mother,  whose* son  has 
been  shot.  She  shows  the  outcast  the  first  kindness  he  has  ever  known 
and  this  makes  a  man  of  him.  He  goes  out  after  the  terror,  unassisted, 
and  brings  him  in  after  a  hard  battle.  Strong  and  original  in  motive  ar.u 
excellently   acted. 

"THE  BOOMERANG"  (Kay-Bee),  June  13.— A  strong  three-reel  wai 
subject.  In  the  first  reel  we  see  the  young  officer  wooing  the  Colonel's 
daughter  in  order  to  gain  promotion.  They  are  married,  without  the 
father's  knowledge,  but  the  husband  is  promoted.  He  deserts  his  wife  be- 
fore their  child  is  born.  Twenty  years  elapse  and  the  son  becomes  a  sol- 
dier and  a  spy.  Father  and  son  meet  in  the  midst  of  warfare,  the  son 
being  the  "boomerang"  sent  to  punish  his  father  for  his  early  sins.  Thr 
war  scenes  are  vivid  andt  picturesque,  particularly  the  one  where  the 
bridge  is  blown  up.  Later  the  father  and  grandfather  meet  in  a  fatal 
duel.     A  strong  war  offering. 

"CARMEN"  (Thanhouser),  May  27. — A  three-reel  version  of  the  fam- 
ous stage  production.  Marguerite  Snow  appears  as  Carmen.  William 
Garwood  as  Jose  and  William  Russell  as  the  toreador.  All  of  the  usual 
scenes  are  given,  including  the  gypsy  camp,  smuggling,  retreat,  cigar  fac- 
te ry.  bull  fight,  etc.  The  costuming  is  carefully  attended  to  and  on  the 
whole  the  production  is  a  very  creditable  one.  There  is  perhaps  not  quite 
so  much  of  the  true  Spanish  fire  as  might  be  expected  in  the  charac- 
terizations, but,  accompanied  by  the  operatic  score  of  Carmen,  this  ought 
to  prove  very  pleasing. 

"HER  BIG  STORY"  (American),  May  31. — A  newspaper  story  by 
Richard  Washburn  Child.  This  is  not  a  powerful  photoplay,  but  clean-cut 
and  holds  the  interest  well.  Warren  Kerrigan  and  Jack  Richardson  ap- 
pear and  the  part  of  the  girl  reporter  is  well  assumed.  Graft  is  the  key- 
note   of   the    story,    which   is    quite    entertaining. 

"ON  THE  BORDER"  (American),  May  29— The  scenes  in  this  are 
taken  for  the  most  part  in  a  Mexican  dance  hall.  Two  men  strive  for  a 
woman's  love  and  one  of  them  puts  poison  in  his  rival's  liquor.  The 
photography  and  setting  are  good,   but  the   story  is  not  very  strong. 

"THE  SPIRIT  OF  THE  FLAG"  (Bison),  June  3.— This  is  a  lively 
two-reel  story  of  the  Philippines.  Though  taken  in  California  the  setting 
carries  a  strong  atmosphere  of  the  islands.  Pauline  Bush  and  Jessalyn 
Van  Trump  make  their  first  appearance  with  the  Bison  company,  the 
former   as   the    American    school   teacher   and  the   latter   as    Boni'.a,   a   nati-.  *-. 


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girl.  The  hero  is  a  tall  young  fellow  of  prepossessing  appearance,  who 
looks  the  part  of  a  soldier  of  fortune  acceptably.  Historically  this  offer- 
ing is  probably  at  fault,  as  there  were  no  American  school  teachers  in  the 
Philippines  at  the  time  there  was  fighting  between  the  Spanish  and  Ameri- 
can troops.     The   photograph)    in   this   is  good  and  the  action  stirring. 

"A  DOUBLE  SACRIFICE"  (Nestor),  May  28.— Good  photography  makes 
the  first  and  strongest  appeal  in  this  story  of  twin  brothers.  The  story 
moves  along  in  a  very  natural,  though  somewhat  conventional  way.  Jim 
leaves  home  and  returns  later  out  of  funds.  His  invalid  brother  gives 
heart  and  his  money  to  Jim.  The  latter  is  suspected  of 
theft,    but  ten    Ins    brother's    sacrifice    is    made    known.      Nicely 

acted  and   quite  satisfactory  as  an  offering. 

"TOODLEUMS"  (Crystal),  May  25. — A  love  affair  in  which  a  dog  be- 
comes laughably  entangled.  Natural  and  contains  several  good  humorous 
situatii 

"SUPPKR  FOR  THREE"  (Crystal),  May  25. — Quite  an  amusing  series 
of  event;  follow  the  loss  of  Wilkins'  pocketbook.  To  procure  a  meal  he  and 
his  friend  dress  a  man  up  in  woman's  clothes,  but  Wilkins'  wife  appears 
at  the  restaurant  and  creates  trouble.  This,  with  the  above  rounds  out  a 
very  creditable  reel. 

"ON  CUPID'S  HIGHWAY"  (Nestor),  May  26.— One  loses  count  of  the 
eloping  couples  in  this  pleasing  little  comedy.  It  is  well  handled  and  has 
considerable  tone  to  it.  The  action  centers  about  an  English  lord,  who 
agrees  to  marry  a  girl  for  her  money.  Not  very  new,  but  a  theme  of 
perennial   interest  when  well  handled,  as  in   this  instance. 

"THE  STAGE  DRIVER'S  CHIVALRY"  (Frontier),  May  22.— The  pho- 
tography  in  this  varies  considerably;  some  of -it  is  quite  dim.  The  dis- 
charged stage  driver  agrees  to  help  rob  his  own  stage  coach,  but  later  has 
a  change  of  heart,  because  of  a  girl  passenger.  The  scenes  taken  inside 
the  jolting  vehicle  are  novel,  and  the  latter  part  of  the  story  quite  enter- 
taining. 

"AMM  \TF.I)  WEEKLY.  NO.  62"  (Universal),  May  14.— A  number  of 
average  interest,  showing  President  Wilson  in  New  jersey,  and  practice 
at  Fort  Slocurri,  the  annual  Suffragette  parade,  carnival  at  Basel,  Switzer- 
land, unveiling  of  the   Carl   Schurz  monument,   etc. 

"THE  TWINS  (Imp],  May  19. — Bud  Ross  appears  in  a  dual  role  in 
this  offering,  representing  at  the  same  time  two  married  men  living  on 
opposite  sides  of  the  hall,  being  twin  brothers.  The  situations  are  farcical 
and  only  passably  amusing.  Some  good  double  exposure  photography  is 
shown,  lint  the  complications  are  not  sufficiently  new  to  be  very  notable. 

"THUS  SAITIT  THE  LORD"  (Eclair),  May  21.— This  biblical  two-reel 
story,  heginning  with  the  parable  of  the  wise  and  foolish  virgins,  and 
closing  with  scenes  illustrating  the  Lord's  Prayer,  is  an  attractive  offering. 
The  scenes  are  all  in  good  taste  and  convey  a  certain  spiritual  message, 
without  flagrant  attempts  at  sensation.  We  see  the  Savior  talking  with  His 
disriples  in  a  rocky  vale,  and  the  production  begins  and  ends  with  this  sit- 
uation. The  artistic  features  of  the  offering  are  many,  particularly  the 
woodland  dances  of  the  foolish  virgins.  Altogether,  while  this  is  in  no 
way  powerful,  it  is  new  enough  in  theme  and  treatment  to  make  a  very 
good   feature   offering.      A   pleasing   number. 

"THE  BOOB"  (Rex),  June  1. — This  sort  of  a  film  will  make  good  just 
as  long  as  there  are  live  actors  like  Robert  Leonard  to  come  along  and 
"put  the  punch  in  it."  He  enacts  for  us  here,  in  a  most  enjoyable  way, 
the  part  of  the  country  bumpkin  who  comes  to  the  city  and  makes  aunty 
very  much  ashamed  of  him  by  falling  in  love  with  the  maid  and  in  various 
other  ways.  Later  he  goes  home  and  helps  his  father  unload  their  farm  on 
a  "city  jay."  When  he  returns  he  marries  the  maid  and  makes  aunty  very 
miserable.      Good   comedy,   well   acted. 

"THE  GANGSTERS"  (Keystone),  May  29.— Fred  Mace  appears  as  the 
leader  of  a  gang  of  toughs,  who  make  things  lively  for  the  police  force. 
A  favorite  pastime  of  the  gang  is  stripping  trousers  from  the  members  of 
the  force.  This  renders  the  film  a  little  rough  for  presentation  in  some 
houses.  There  are  humorous  moments,  but  the  film  does  not  show  the 
company    at    its   best. 

"WHY  'BABE'  LEFT  HOME"  (Thanhouser),  .May  18.— The  leading 
character  in  this  is  a  big,  overgrown  boy,  who  leaves  home  and  goes  to  the 
city  for  work.  He  is  employed  by  a  restaurant  to  carry  a  sign  advertising 
the  place  as  the  best  one  at  whieh  to  eat.  He  has  an  enormous  appetite 
and  attracts  much  trade  to  the  restaurant,  but  is  broken  hearted  when 
the  waitress  he  loves  marries  another.      Fairly  amusing. 

"IN  THEIR  HOUR  OF  NEED"  (Thanhouser),  May  23. — Here  is  a  new 
turn  in  the  story  of  the|  old  minister,  whose  place  has  been  taken  by  a 
ypunger  man.  Yellow  fever  enters  the  town  and  the  young  minister  de- 
serts. But  the  old  pastor,  learning  of  the  situation,  returns  and  faces 
the  plague.  The  young  doctor,  in  love  with  the  minister's  daughter,  shares 
in  the  honors.     This  makes  an   absorbing  story  and  one  well   worth   seeing. 

"A  BUSINESS  WOMAN"  (Thanhouser),  May  20.— Mrs.  Marsden  here 
gives  us  a  very  good  characterization  as  a  capable  woman  in  charge  of 
her  own  factory.  Her  children,  a  boy  and  girl,  leave  her  to  go  to  the 
city,  but  they  ate  glad  to  return  when  she  goes  to  the  city  to  help  them 
out  of  their  troubles.     A  light  idea,   nicely   treated. 


PICTURES  IN  INDIA. 

In  Bombay,  India,  there  are  five  picture  and  vaudeville 
theaters  and  four  exclusive  picture  houses.  The  shows  begin 
at  6:30  p.  m.  and  run  until  midnight.  Admissions  range 
from  95  cents  in  the  picture  and  vaudeville  houses,  down  as 
low  as  4  cents  in  the  straight  picture  house.  All  theaters 
advertise  heavily,  both  in  the  newspapers  and  on  billboards. 
The  pictures  principally  used  come  from  Pathe  Freres,  with 
an  occasional  Edison.  At  Rangoon,  the  Alhambra  and  Star 
theaters  show  Edison,  Pathe,  Gaumont  and  a  few  others. 
The  shows  run  from  9:30  until  12,  and  from  16  cents  to  $1.00 
is  charged  for  admission.  Films  are  obtained  from  the  Singa- 
pore agency  of  Pathe  Freres. 


Letters  to  the  Editor. 

Wants  More  Educationals. 

Editor  Moving   Picture   World,   New   York  City. 

Dear  Sir: — I  wish  to  suggest  that  you  give  us  more  dope  on  the  educa- 
tional value  of  pictures,  in  the  educational  department  of  The  World.  I 
use  every  line  you  publish,  in  the  daily  paper  here  and  have  been  doing  it 
for  the  past  six  months. 

The  only  way  in  the  world  tn  reach  a  lot  of  the  people  is  by  driving  home 
the  educational  value  of  the  picture.  Nearly  everybody  likes  moving  pic- 
tures. Some  have  never  realized  their  possibilities  because  they  think  you 
cannot  get  anything  that  is  good  for  the  low  price  of  admission. 

We  cater   to   the   best   people   in   this   town   and  we  get  them,   too.     They 
pay  us  ten  cents  every  day  in  the  week,  but  we  give  them  a  perfectly  ven- 
tilated house,  we  keep  it  absolutely  clean  and  sanitary,  and  if  any  one  else 
can  get  a  better  picture  on  the  curtain,  I  would  go  miles  to  see  it. 
Very   truly   yours, 

H.  H.  Johnson.. 
Lyric  Amusement  Co.,  Champaign,  III. 


Educate   the   Public   on   Censorship. 

Editor  Moving  Picture  World,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Dear  Sir: — Since  my  experience  with  carrying  on  a  city  election  in  this 
city  and  successfully  opening  Sunday  shows,  I  find  that  most  of  the  opposi- 
tion to  any  part  of  the  motion  picture  business  comes  front  people  who  are 
not  well  informed.  It  has  occurred  to  me  that  one  of  the  best  means  of 
combating  opposition  would  be  for  the  picture  theaters  over  the  country 
generally  to  start  an  educational  campaign  whereby  Che  public  could  be 
informed  as  to  how  moving  pictures  were  censored  and  who  composed  the 
National  Board  of  Censorship.  I  believe  that  if  every  moving  picture  theater 
in  the  country  would  run  a  slide  during  every  show  on  which  was  displayed 
the  names  of  the  ten  societies  composing  the  National  Board  of  Censorship, 
it  would  be  one  of  the  greatest  helps  to  the  business  generally.  I  know  from 
experience^  that  this  information  should  be  in  the  hands  of  every  lawmaker 
beiore  he  is  swayed  by  some  narrow-minded  fault  finder. 
Respectfully  yours, 

J.    E.    HlPPLE, 

National  V.-P.  S.  D.  M.  P.  E.  League,  Pierre,  S.  D. 


Where  Are  the  Manufacturers  and  Exchangemen  ? 

Editor  Moving  Picture  World. 

Dear  Sir:— Despite  the  fact  that  there  are  numerous  important  bills  af- 
fecting motion  picture  business  throughout  before  the  legislature  of  this 
State,  it  is  nothing  short  of  wonderful,  not  to  say  surprising,  at  the  con- 
tinued apathy  of  the  manufacturers  and  exchange  men  with  regard  to  same. 

At  a  recent  public  hearing  of  the  Senate  Codes  Committee  at  Albany, 
with  reference  to  the  Sunday  closing  bill,  not  a  single  member  or  representa- 
tive of  any  manufacturer,  exchange  or  feature  film  company  appeared  to 
protest  against  the  same  becoming  a  law. 

The  churches  and  reformers  in  favor  of  having  this  bill  become  a  law 
were  very  ably  represented  and  were  it  not  for  a  mere  handful  of  ex- 
hibitors, this  Senatorial  Committee  must  surely  have  been  under  the  im- 
pression that  the  motion  picture  business  of  the  State  had  no  protest  to 
make  against  the  bill. 

At  a  recent  hearing  of  the  Aldermanic  Committee  in  this  city,  with  ref- 
erence to  several  motion  picture  bills,  including  one  on  public  censorship, 
again  not  a  soul  appeared  to  represent  the  motion  picture  manufacturers  or 
exchanges. 

On  the  other  hand,  Canon  Chase  and  a  retinue  of  lesser  church  digni- 
taries and  reformers  presented  argument  after  argument  why  these  bills 
should  be  enacted  into  ordinances.  In  view  of  the  fact  that  public  censor- 
ship would  hit  directly  at  the  manufacturers,  it  seems  to  me  that  they,  by 
virtue  of  their  non-interest,  might  advocate  such  a  course.  At  this  hearing 
it  was  the  exhibitors  again  who  appeared  to  defend  the  business. 

But  how  long  will  the  exhibitor  assume  the  entire  burden.  What  a 
splendid  showing  the  motion  picture  industry  would  make  if  aligned  with 
each  other,  shoulder  to  shoulder,  were  the  manufacturer,  exchangemen,  fea- 
ture film  people  and  exhibitors.  What  chance  would  adverse  legislation 
have  in  the  face  of  such  odds?  What  a  detriment  to  wildcat  reformers 
and  legislators  who  constantly  frame  bills  that  affect  a  business  they  are 
thoroughly  unfamiliar  with.  What  a  splendid  thing  for  the  industry  on  the 
whole. 

On  the  other  hand,  with  the  continued  apathy  to  attacks,  without  resent- 
ment, with  the  defamation  of  the  business  by  certain  sensational  newspapers 
without  refutation,  the  m.tton  picture  business  will  never  rise  above  the 
level  of  these  unjust  criticisms  and  attacks. 

Wake  up!  manufacturers,  wake  up!  exchanges,  wake  upl  feature  film  men, 
and  help  the  exhibitor,  and  then  altogether  a  veritable  Gibraltar  for  the 
good  of  the  most  educating  business  in  the  world,  put  some  of  these  would 
the  sponsors  for  the  public  morals  out  of  business.  Let  one  for  all,  and  all 
for  one,  be  the  slogan. 

Very    truly    yours, 

William   Brandt, 
Clinton  Court  Theater,  New  York.  • 


Far  Above  the  Others. 

Edito.-  Moving  Picture  World,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Dear  Sir: — I  would  not  be  without  The  World  as  I  consider  it  far  above 
any  trade  paper  on  the  market.  It  is  a  few  years  since  I  have  sent  you 
any  dope  on  the  exhibiting  and  advertising  subject,  but  believe  me,  I  never 
fail  to  read  the  section  on  Advertising  for  Exhibitors.  I  am  enclosing  a 
folder  that  I  got  out  some  time  ago  which  more  than  paid  for  itself  as  I 
mailed  out  close  to  a  thousand  and  handed  out  another  thousand  to  my 
patrons  as  they  left  the  theater  after  each  performance.  I  am  now^  trying 
out  a  new  scheme  in  the  daily  newspaper  which  I  have  entitled  "Who's  Who 
in  Bilmdom?"  giving  a  short  write-up  on  the  players'  personalities,  these 
write-ups  are  changed  daily,  and  at  the  end  of  each  article  I  put  the  fol- 
lowing questions:  "Do  you  know  where  to  see  'so-and-so'?"  etc.;  now  I  only 
started  this  last  week  and  so  far  my  patrons  say  it's  very  interesting  matter 
and  they  feel  as  if  they  were  reading  some  news  about  one  of  their  friends 
and  I  feel  that  it  is  going  to  be  a  success  as  it  will  get  the  public  more 
familiar  with  the  actors  and  film  makers  than  anything  I  have  done  in  the 
past,  and  later.  I  am  going  to  get  up  about  twenty-five  cuts  of  the  players 
and  have  a  guessing  contest  as  to  who  the  cut  in  the  newspaper  represents. 

Wishing  you  continued  success  with  The  World,  I  am,  with  best  wishes 
Yours  very  truly, 

S.  A.  Lambert, 
Fayetteville,   N.    C. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


923 


"Why?" 


The   Latest  Eclair  Special  Is  One  of  the  Most  Sensational 
of  Pictures. 

By  H.   CJudson. 

IT  is  not  within  the  province  of  a  picture  reviewer  to  dis- 
cuss politics  from  his  own  viewpoint;  yet  it  is  very  im- 
portant for  the  exhibitor  to  take  such  things  very  care- 
fully into  consideration;  for  religion  and  politics  mean  much 
to  his  patrons.  An  offering  that  one  neighborhood  would 
like,  on  account  of  its  political  color,  might  irritate  another 
neighborhood.  In  this  case,  we  have  a  picture  that  we  dare 
not  wholly  commend  as  a  good  offering  for  all  kinds  of 
audiences;  but  we  shall  give  as  far  as  possible  a  colorless 
description  of  what  there  is  in  it  and  let  the  exhibitor  judge 
for  himself.  One  thing  we  can  say,  is  that  it  was  not  made 
cheaply  and,  while  not  entirely  perfect  in  composition  nor 
wholly  clear,  in  its  scenes  it  is  very  skillfully  made. 

It  asks  the  question  "Why? — Why  are  these  things?" 
Why  do  we  have  children  at  hard  labor?  Why  do  we  have 
men  who  gamble  at  the  race  track?  Why  are  trains  run  so 
fast  that  fatal  accidents  occur?     Why  does  capital  sit  ruth- 


Scene  from  "Why"  (Eclair). 

lessly  at  dinner  with  the  Church  (in  the  person  of  a  priest) 
and  Justice  (in  the  person  of  a  judge),  and  with  the  army, 
while  labor  is  outside  starving?  Before  we  go  further,  it 
must  be  pointed  out  that  the  scenes  that  symbolically  ask 
these  questions  of  the  picture's  hero  are  only  dreams.  He 
has  been  living  a  drunken,  careless  life  and  makes,  in  a 
dream,  a  journey  through  the  world.  The  object  of  his  ex- 
periences is  to  convert  him  and  make  him  willing  to  work 
for  others  unselfishly. 

He  carries  a  revolver  and  when  he  finds  children  at  work 
on  the  treadmill  he  shoots  the  taskmaster  who,  at  once,  turns 
into  a  bag  of  gold  to  show  that  it  is  impossible  to  kill 
capital,  for  gold  is  a  senseless  thing.  He,  too,  is  invited  to 
come  with  capital  to  dinner  and,  while  they  are  feasting,  the 
laboring  men  begin  to  throw  stones  in  through  the  window 
and  finally  break  in  and  demand  a  seat  at  the  table.  The 
capitalists  are  at  first  frightened;  but,  rallied  by  the  generals, 
they  shoot  the  people  down,  who  fall  beside  the  table. 

Following  this  comes  the  most  sensational  picture  we  have 
ever  seen;  it  is  nothing  else  than  the  burning  of  the  Wool- 
worth  building  and  all  the  other  buildings  in  the  lower  part 
of  Manhattan  Island.  They  are  shown  all  as  going  up  in  red 
fire  and  it  is,  indeed,  a  tremendous  spectacle.  It  is  such  as 
will  excite  all  who  see  it;  it  will  get  into  their  blood,  espe- 
cially if  they  are  sensitive,  and  they  will  remember  it.  If 
they  forget  the  story  of  the  film,  they  will  surely  remember 
this  scene. 

Yet  we  can  not  say  that  the  picture  teaches  anarchy.  In 
the  first  place  it  is  only  a  dream.  There  are  three  reels  and 
three  times  the  dreamer  is  shown  as  sitting  in  his  room  and, 
by  a  fading  away  process,  as  going  forth  in  his  dream.  Yet 
the  story  is  far  from  being  sharply  defined;  most  spectators 
will  only  see  its  scenes — they  are  so  much  stronger  than  the 
story.  Some  spectators  may  lose  the  meaning  of  the  story 
altogether  and  take  the  scenes  for  what  they  stand  for  by 
themselves,  take  them  as  pictures  of  life  as  it  is.  Now  they 
are  not  true.     There  is  nothing  deep   in   the  picture;   every 


thing  has  been  superficially  seen  and  pictured  in  a  cursory 
way.  It  is  far  from  being  a  philosophical  study;  yet  it  is 
all  as  tremendous  as  passion  can  make  it  and  it  will  call  to 
passion  rather  than  to  thought.  Things  are  bad  enough,  but 
they  are  not  as  this  picture  shows  them.  There  is  much 
that  is  charming  in  the  great  majority  of  the  scenes.  The 
photography  is  full  of  merit.  Where  such  an  offering  as 
this  would  go  at  all  it  will  go  strongly. 


FULLER  SELLING  GARDNER  PICTURES. 

Charles  L.  Fuller,  of  the  Fuller  Company,  is  elated  over 
the  fact  that  the  Helen  Gardner  Picture  Players  have  signed 
a  contract  with  his  company  to  distribute  their  product.  Mr. 
Fuller  was  associated  intimately  with  Miss  Gardner's  com- 
pany when  it  was  first  organized,  and  now  that  he  is  to 
have  the  whole  product  and  the  whole  field  of  the  world 
in  which  to  exploit  it,  he  is  delighted.  "I  beleive,"  said 
Mr.  Fuller,  "that  the  work  that  is  now  being  done  by 
Miss  Gardner  and  Mr.  Gaskill  in  their  new  studio  at  Tappan 
will   not   only   eoual    the    artistry   and    beauty    of   Cleopatra, 


Charles  L.  Fuller. 

but  will  be  superior  to  that  wonderful  production.  With 
only  two  page  advertisements  in  the  Moving  Picture  World, 
I  have  already  sold  over  a  third  of  the  good  territory  in 
the  United  States,  as  that  too,  at  advanced  prices.  After 
"The  Wife  of  Cain,"  we  shall  have  a  big  production — like 
Cleopatra.  Hamlet  will  be  done  in  five  thousand  feet,  but 
it  will  be  preceded  by  several  hundred  feet  of  intimate 
pictures  of  Miss  Gardner  and  the  life  about  the  studio  at 
Tappan.  "This  studio,  by  the  way."  added  Mr.  Fuller,  "is 
the  most  picturesque  place  devoted  to  pictures  in  all  the 
world." 

Mr.  Fuller  is  planning  a  trip  to  Europe  within  a  few 
weeks  to  look  after  the  affairs  of  his  company  across  the 
pond. 


WILL   HICKEY   HOME    FOR    A   SPELL. 

The  auburn  haired,  rosy  cheeked,  200  pound  general  man- 
ager of  the  London  Kinemacolor  business.  Mr.  Wm.  H. 
Hickey,  arrived  in  New  York  on  the  S.  S.  Adriatic,  May 
17.  He  is  supposed  to  have  returned  on  a  business  trip  but 
he  confessed  that  ten  months  awa3r  from  God's  country  was 
about  as  much  as  he  could  stand  at  one  sitting.  After 
six  weeks  of  Broadway  and  home  cooking  he  thinks  that 
he  can  return  to  London  with  sufficient  fortitude  to  last 
another  ten  months. 


924 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


"In  the  Claws  of  the  Vulture." 

A    Three-Reel    Ambrosio    Feature    that    Gets    Better    in    the 

Third  Reel. 

Reviewed  by  Hugh  Hoffman. 

THERE  is  a  reserve  force  in  this  story  that  is  carefully 
economized  until  the  "cycological"  moment.  In  a 
way  it  reminds  one  of  a  three-round  prize  fight, 
wherein  the  principals  "stall"  for  the  first  two  rounds  and 
then  mix  it  up  in  the  third  round  with  fireworks  and  a 
knockout,  and  everybody  satisfied.  In  this  picture  the 
punches  and  thrills  are  saved  until  the  last  reel,  when  they 
break  forth  in  all  their  fury.  The  air  is  filled  with  vulture 
feathers,  figuratively  speaking,  and  when  they  blow  away 
the  "Vulture"  is  a  dead  bird. 

There  are  probably  good  reasons  why  a  picture  should 
have  all  of  its  strength  at  the  end.  Maybe  that  is  one  of 
the  fine  points  of  motion  picture  playwrighting,  but  in  that 
case  it  wouldn't  be  safe  to  expend  much  more  than  two 
reels  in  preparation  for  a  finishing  reel  which  contains  the 
kernel  of  the  nut.  "In  the  Claws  of  the  Vulture,"  though 
admirably  done  in  many  respects,  is  a  little  slow  in  getting 


Scene  from  "In  the  Claws  of  the  Vulture"  (Ambrosio). 

down  to  business,  but  when  it  does,  there  is  enough  of  the 
good  old  melodramatic  action  to  make  up  for  any  previous 
lack  of  it.  Perhaps  that  is  the  better  way.  Who  is  to  be 
the  judge?  The  well  known  public,  of  course.  Therefore  we 
pause  for  judgment. 

There  is  a  good  idea  underlying  the  story;  that  of  a  crook 
bringing  about  a  marriage  of  convenience  for  a  commission 
and  then  having  to  resort  to  crooked  means  to  collect  his 
fee.  The  "Vulture"  is  a  gentleman  burglar  with  a  rendez- 
vous equipped  for  his  work  like  a  well  regulated  business 
establishment.  A  kind  of  clearing  house  or  brokerage  for 
negotiable  incriminating  papers.  There  are  telephone  con- 
nections, telegraphing  facilities,  clipping  bureau  service, 
signal  system,  panel  doors  and  motor  cars.  The  Vulture 
is  a  thorough  business  man  in  his  particular  line.  He  reads 
a  clipping  of  the  bankruptcy  of  a  young  nobleman.  An- 
other clipping  tells  him  of  the  social  aspirations  of  a  parvenu 
heiress.  These  two  clippings  form  the  basis  for  one  of  his 
deals.  He  sends  for  the  young  nobleman  and  agrees  to 
bring  about  his  marriage  to  the  heiress  for  a  stipulated  sum. 
The  proposition  is  accepted  and  the  Vulture  arranges  matters 
so  well  that  the  nobleman  and  the  heiress  are  finally  married. 

After  the  marriage  the  young  nobleman  does  not  see 
why  he  should  pay  the  Vulture  his  fee,  and  ignores  his 
demands.  This  enrages  the  latter  and  he  sets  his  crew  of 
bandits  and  highbinders  on  the  track  of  the  nobleman,  and 
brings  into  play  every  crooked  means  at  his  disposal  to  ruin 
the  ungrateful  bridegroom.  The  plan  is  to  capture  the  heiress 
and  hold  her  for  ransom.  While  the  crooks  are  closing 
about  the  country  retreat  of  the  wife,  her  husband  in  the 
city  hears  of  it.  In  desperation  he  gets  an  aviator  to  take 
him  to  the  scene  of  the  intended  abduction.  This  is  a  very 
exciting  part  of  the  picture.  It  is  well  done  and  entirely 
logical.  The  aeroplane  passes  the  Vulture's  automobile  on 
the  road  and  the  husband  barricades  the  house  and  puts 
up  a  great  fight  when  the  gang  arrives.  We  felt  rather 
sorry  that  the  playwright  should  have  made  the  nobleman 
"croak"  the  Vulture,  because  the  deal  was  perfectly  legiti- 
mate. The  Vulture  had  more  of  a  right  to  "croak"  the 
nobleman  than  the  nobleman  had  to  "croak"  him.  The 
acting  of  the  leads  is  somewhat  stereotyped,  but  in  spite 
of  this  the  picture  has  the  punch  and  will  make  a  good 
feature. 


An  American  in  Berlin. 

J.  J.  Rosenthal  Tells  of  A.  H.  Wood's  Picture  Plans  for  Ger- 
many.    Fourteen  houses  in  August. 

J.  J.  Rosenthal,  one  of  the  shrewdest  theatrical  men  in 
America,  went  over  to  Berlin  recently  on  a  hurry  call  from 
Al.  H.  Woods,  and  returned  last  week  to  tell  of  the  American 
manager's  plans  for  Germany. 

"Two  of  the  six  Berlin  houses  Mr.  Woods  has  on  lease  are 
already  open,"  he  announced,  "and  in  August,  when  the 
regular  theatrical  season  commences  there  will  be  six  houses 
in  Berlin  and  others  in  Hamburg,  Dresden,  Leipzig,  Bremen, 
Hanover,  Frankfort  and  Cologne. 

"All  of  these  houses  will  be  regular  theaters,  mostly 
those  formerly  given  over  to  dramatic  performances.  This, 
in  itself,  is  something  unusual  in  Germany  where  most  of 
the  picture  theaters  are  up  on  the  third  or  fourth  floors. 
The  Grosse  Berlin,  renamed  the  Cines  Palast,  will  seat  2500 
and  at  present  is  playing  to  about  4500  marks  a  night  with 
'Quo  Vadis,'  giving  two  performances  nightly  but  no 
matinees.  The  Cines  Nollendorf,  the  former  Nollendorf 
theater,  is  doing  about  as  well  with  the  same  attraction.  In 
each  house  there  is  an  orchestra  of  about  twenty-five  men 
and  a  full  line  of  effects. 

"  'Quo  Vadis'  is  creating  a  furore  in  Berlin  though  it 
has  been  very  badly  mutilated  by  the  Censor,  who  doesn't 
seem  to  offer  much  objection  to  the  risque  or  even  the  im- 
moral, but  who  strenuously  objects  to  fights  or  violence. 
You  can  imagine  what  happened  to  'Quo  Vadis.' 

"These  are  the  only  houses  yet  open,  but  the  others  will 
swing  into  line  in  August  with  a  five  act  program  of  vaudeville 
and  the  best  feature  pictures  of  American  and  European  pro- 
duction. The  features  will  be  largely  those  produced  by 
the  Cines  company,  but  not  all,  by  any  means. 

"The  vaudeville  will  be  a  big  attraction,  for  in  spite  of 
its  size  Berlin  boasts  only  one  real  vaudeville  theater,  the 
world-famous  Wintergarden  where  only  'dumb'  acts  can 
be  shown,  since  the  vast  auditorium  does  not  permit  the  use 
of  talking  acts. 

"In  addition  to  the  theaters  mentioned  above  there  are  the 
Cines  Apollo,  the  Rose,  the  Pottsdam  and  the  Wilhelmstat. 

"At  all  the  houses  the  prices  will  range  from  50  pfennig 
(about  twelve  cents)  to  two  marks,  or  forty-eight  cents, 
exclusive  of  the  Berlin  tax  on  tickets  which  is  collected  by 
the  police.  All  tickets  in  Berlin  are  supplied  by  the  police 
and  the  unsold  reserved  seats  are  counted  precisly  as  the 
theater  treasurer  here  counts  the  'deadwood.'  This  tax 
applies  only  in  Berlin.  The  Palast  has  its  lobby  in  Charlotten- 
berg,  a  suburb,  but  the  auditorium  is  in  Berlin  proper,  so 
the  tax  must  be  collected,  though  a  house  directly  across 
the  street  pays  no  tax  because  it  is  wholly  across  the  line. 

"The  police  also  control  the  posting  of  bills.  There  are 
no  bill-posters  in  Berlin  as  we  understand  the  term,  and 
when  I  wanted  to  make  use  of  some  eight  sheets  I  had  I 
could  find  no  boards.  I  had  some  made  and  hired  a  couple  of 
paper  hangers  to  put  the  paper  up,  but  before  they  were 
displayed  someone  advised  me  that  I  see  the  President  of  the 
Police.  I  went  to  him  and  had  a  hard  time  convincing  him 
that  it  was  all  right,  but  in  the  end  I  secured  his  permission 
to  show  the  bills  for  six  days,  three  days  before  the  opening 
and  three  days  immediately  after.  Then  the  bills  had  to 
be  taken  in.  The  small  announcements  on  the  kiosks  are 
the  popular  form  of  advertising. 

"It  looks  to  me  as  though  Mr.  Woods  had  opened  a  gold 
mine.  From  the  patronage  already  enjoyed  and  from  the 
looks  of  the  field,  pictures  and  vaudeville  on  the  ground 
floor  instead  of  some  upstairs  theater  or  narrow  shop  (and 
I  only  saw  one  store  theater  in  Berlin),  will  make  a  sen- 
sation and  bring  to  the  houses  the  biggest  sort  of  business. 
After  the  formal  opening,  runs  probably  will  be  abandoned 
and  a  weekly  change  of  the  picture  will  be  made  the  same 
as  the   acts. 

"There  is  no  apparent  opposition  on  the  part  of  the  German 
managers,  though  the  Union  company  proposed  a  partner- 
ship. That  is  about  the  only  large  company  handling  pic- 
tures in  Germany  and  they  have  only  store  shows  and  kilos, 
as   the  upstairs   houses  are   called. 

"I  might  add  that  Mr.  Woods  controls  the  Life  Target 
for  America.  This  is  the  device  shown  at  the  recent  ex- 
position in  London  in  which  a  moving  figure  is  shot  at.  A 
demonstration  will  be  given  very  shortly. 

"Strange  as  it  may  seem,  I  think  that  the  American  rag- 
time is  going  to  help  greatly  in  assuring  a  welcome  to  the 
American  amusement  caterer.  They  are  ragtime  mad  in 
England  and  on  the  continent,  and  the  ragtime  craze  has 
caused  a  change  of  feeling  toward  all  forms  of  amusement." 


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"  Kelly  From  the  Emerald  Isle" 

Barney  Gilmore  Plays  His  Well-known  Role,  "Kelly,"  for 

the  Solax  Camera. 

H.   C.  Judson. 

A  TOUCH  of  Erin  has  saved  many  a  show  in  all  kinds 
of  places.  This  well  known  melodrama,  by  Mrs. 
Barney  Gilmore,  in  which  Barney  Gilmore,  himself, 
plays  the  titular  role,  ably  supported  by  Blanche  Cornwall, 
as  Sheilah  McGuire  and  others  of  the  Solax  stock  company, 
will  surely  furnish  the  touch  desired.  The  play,  as  to  its 
plot  and  qualities,  has  been  seen  too  often  to  need  a  re- 
telling of  the  story  by  us.  We  believe  that  all  who  have 
enjoyed  it  on  the  stage  will  like  this  picture  of  it  very  much; 
for  Madame  Blache,  producing  it  out  of  doors,  has  been 
able  to  give  convincing  touches  of  realism,  impossible  be- 
fore the  footlights  and  has  also  given  several  sensational 
things,  like  the  escape  of  Kelly  and  Sheilah  over  the  cliff, 
a  feat  that  will  make  the  audience  wonder  how  the  players 
dared  so  risk  their  lives. 

One  scene  is  sure  to  capture  everybody;  it  is  the  wake  of 


Scene  from  "Kelly  from  the  Emerald  Isle"  (Solax). 

old  man  McGuire  who  had  been  shot  by  the  villain,  Doolin, 
played  Dy  Joseph  Levering.  Doolin,  it  will  be  remembered, 
jealous  of  Sheilah's  love  for  Kelly,  has  stolen  his  gun  and 
with  it  succeeds  in  getting  him  arrested  for  murder.  With 
the  wake  in  full  swing  and  even-body  on  the  border  land 
between  sorrow  and  joy,  McGuire  comes  out  of  his  stooper. 
The  wake  now  turns  into  a  dance  with  the  piper  there  and 
everybody's  feet  in  tune  for  a  spirited  hornpipe.  The  old 
man  wasn't  really  dead  and  there  had  been  no  murder 
after  all,  but  Kelly  had  by  that  time  escaped  with  Sheilah's 
aid,  and  was  on  his  way  to  America,  towed  away  on  the 
same  ship  with  Doolin  and  both  on  the  same  errand,  each 
going  to  prove  himself  Kelly  and  so  get  the  fortune  left  in 
Serino,  Nevada,  by  Kelly's  uncle.  The  villain  has  the  papers, 
but  the  hero  finds  this  and  manages  to  secure  them  from 
him,  for  a  time.  But  the  villain  would  have  ended  safely  had 
it  not  been  for  the  brave  heroine  who  follows. 

We  find  glimpses  of  the  underworld  in  America;  find  the 
hero  tied  to  the  rails  and  all  but  run  over  by  a  fast  train; 
see  him  captured  by  Doolin  and  his  two  thugs  and  left 
tied  near  a  keg  of  dynamite  toward  which  the  fire  in  a  fuse 
is  quickly  creeping.  But,  in  the  end,  all  the  resources  of 
the  villains  and  all  their  desperate  expedients  are  frustrated 
and  brought  to  nought  by  the  heroine  who  always  has  her 
wits  about  her  and  never  hesitates  when  there  is  work  to  do. 

All  the  characters  (always  excepting  the  villains)  will 
make  a  strong  appeal.  The  bluff,  good  natured  bigness  of 
Barney  Gilmore,  himself,  is  full  of  suggestion  of  an  honest, 
true  heart  in  his  brawny  chest.  It  is  just  the  big  arms  of 
him  that  will  fit  around  the  neck  of  a  pretty  colleen,  like 
Sheilah.  And  Sheilah,  too,  with  her  black  curls  and  pretty 
coy  ways,  fits  into  the  story  with  distinct  charm.  The  gallery 
will  be  attracted  by  her.  The  photography  is  excellent 
throughout. 


RELIANCE  STUDIO  NOTES. 

Irving  Cummings  has  made  his  debut  as  an  author,  having 
written  "Italian  Love,"  the  Reliance  release  of  June  2nd 
in  which  he  also  played  the  lead. 

Rosemary  Theby,  who  has  been  playing  leading  roles 
with  the  Vitagraph  for  the  past  two  years,  has  signed  a 
contract  with  J.  V.  Ritchey  whereby  she  will  appear  in 
Reliance  films  beginning  at  an  early  date. 

Irene  Howley  will  be  seen  playing  opposite  Irving  Cum- 
mings in  "The  Master  Cracksman,"  released  in  two  reels  on 
May  31st.  Stephen  Allen  Reynolds  is  the  author  of  the 
drama  which  appeared  as  a  magazine  story  before  it  was 
"picturized"  under  Oscar  C.  Apfel's  direction. 

Allen  Hale  has  been  engaged  to  appear  exclusively  in 
Reliance  films,  having  recently  returned  from  Jacksonville, 
Florida,  where  he  was  playing  leading  roles  for  the  Majestic. 
Ethel  Phillips,  Runa  Hodges,  Clifford  Saums  and  Harry 
Spingler  have  also  been  signed  under  the   Reliance  banner. 

The  first  Reliance  picture  that  will  introduce  Fritizi  Bru- 
nette under  her  new  management  will  be  released  on  June 
nth  under  the  title  of  "Annie  Laurie."  Miss  Brunette  fol- 
lowed Florence  Lawrence  at  the  Victor  studio  before  join- 
ing the  Reliance  Stock  Company. 

Another  new  acquisition  by  Manager  J.  V.  Ritchey  is  the 
well-known  leading  man,  Crane  Wilbur,  who  has  been  fea- 
tured in  Pathe  releases,  probably  best  remembered  by  his 
work  in  "The  Compact."  Crane  Wilbur  starts  work  at  the 
Reliance  studio  at  an  early  date,  as  also  does  Rosemary 
Thebj-,  the  new  Reliance  leading  lady.  Miss  Theby  at- 
tracted Mr.  Ritchey's  attention  by  her  interpretation  of 
"The  Snake"  in  the  Vitagraph  production  of  "The  Rein- 
carnation of  Karma." 

At  Lenox  Oval,  New  York  City,  on  Saturday  afternoon, 
the  Reliance  Baseball  Team  crossed  bats  with  the  Crystal 
Film  Company's  team  for  nine  exciting  innings.  Miss 
Edgena  De  Lespine,  stood  in  the  pitcher's  box  and  threw  the 
first  ball  square  across  the  plate.  She  was  cheered  to  the 
echo.  Irving  Cummings  who  is  the  captain  of  the  Reliance 
team  scored  the  first  run  and  piloted  his  men  to  victory 
by  a  score  of  ten  to  four. 

The  baseball  grounds  at  the  Subway  entrance  of  145th 
St.,  and  Lenox  Ave.,  known  as  Lenox  Oval,  has  been  leased 
for  the  season  by  the  Reliance  Baseball  Team.  Hopp  Hadley, 
advertising  manager  for  the  Reliance,  is  manager  of  the 
team  and  has  booked  the  following  games:  May  24th, 
Powers.  May  31st,  open.  June  7th,  Kinemacolor.  June  14th, 
Eclair.  June  21st,  Pathe.  June  20th,  Solax — all  at  Lenox 
Oval. 


VACATION  FOR  KINEMACOLOR  PLAYERS. 

As  a  reward  for  one  year's  solid  work,  and  also  because 
they  have  piled  up  more  negatives  than  the  factory  can  print 
in  that  time,  the  Kinemacolor  stock  companies  are  to  be 
given  a  month's  vacation.  "Our  factory  facilities  are  en- 
tirely inadequate  to  keep  up  with  the  demand  from  our 
newly  opened  offices,  and  foreign  business,"  said  President 
Brock,  of  the  Kinemacolor  Company  of  America.  We  have 
decided  to  close  down  our  dramatic  companies  for  a  period 
of  four  weeks  to  give  the  factory  a  chance  to  catch  up  with 
their  output. 

"Our  business  has  been  growing  literally  by  leaps  and 
bounds.  When  we  established  our  factory  at  Whitestone, 
L.  I.,  we  thought  it  would  be  at  least  two  years  before 
business  reached  a  point  where  we  now  find  it.  We  have  a 
day  and  a  night  shift  working,  and  hope  to  relieve  the 
congestion  in  a  few  weeks.  At  the  same  time  we  are  figuring 
on  a  new  factory.  We  have  several  very  fine  sites  under 
consideration,  and  before  fall  hope  to  have  in  operation  a 
commodious,  fireproof  factory  that  will  take  care  of  our 
output  for  a  long  time  to  come.  Meanwhile,  we  have  a  fine 
series  of  subjects  selected  to  be  produced  as  soon  as  our 
dramatic  companies  are  reassembled." 


Kilburn,  London,  is  shortly  to  possess  the  largest  moving  pic- 
ture theater  in  Great  Britain,  if  not  in  the  world.  Accommoda- 
tion will  be  provided  for  8,000  people. 


COBB   MOTION  PICTURE  BUREAU. 

C.  Lang  Cobb,  Jr.,  and  Agnes  Egan  Cobb,  have  formed 
the  Cobb  Motion  Picture  Bureau,  which  will  conduct  a 
general  film  brokerage  business  and  handle  feature  films. 
Mr.  Cobb  is  president  of  the  new  concern  and  Agnes  Egan 
Cobb  is  treasurer  and  manager,  and  the  practical  head  of 
the  business.  Mr.  Cobb  will  retain  his  connection  with  the 
Ramo  Film  Company,  of  which  he  is  publicity  and  sales 
manager.  Offices  have  been  taken  on  the  seventh  floor  of 
the  Columbia  Theater  building. 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


Gene  Gauntier  Players  Return 

After  Twenty  Weeks  in  the  Sunny  South  the  Company  Pre- 
pares to  Take  Up  Work  in  New  York. 

MISS  GENE  GAUNTIER  and  her  company  of  players 
arrived   in   New  York   from  Jacksonville  on    May   II. 
Director    Sidney    Olcott,    who   was    operated    on    for 
appendicitis  on   May  4,  remained  behind  for  a  few  weeks  in 
order  to  fully  regain  his  strength.     Mr.  Olcott  is  being  en- 
tertained  at   the   home  of  one  of  the  many  friends  made  by 
the   members   of  the  company  in  their  sojourns  in  Jackson- 
ville.     In  a  great  mansion  of  the  famous  Colonial   style,  sur- 
rounded by  broad  piazzas,  the  well-known  director  is  taking 
lite  easy  and  enjoying  his  first  vacation  in  years.     During  his 
incapacity    Jack   J.    Clark   assumed    charge    of    the    company. 
For  a  few  days  there  was  plenty  to  do.     While  the  members 
of  the  Gauntier  players  were  under  the  impression  that  prac- 
•  tically  all   the  work  had  been   cleared  up  and   that   there  re- 
ied    only    a    few    scenes    to   make,    a    dispatch    from    New 
5  ork  undeceived  them.     It  was  discovered  that  it  was  neces- 


Copyrigbt,    1913.  by  Gene  Gauntier  I'iayers. 
Scene  from  "On  the  Firing  Line." 
sary  to  retake  fourteen  scenes.     There  was  no  script  nearer 
than  New  York,  and  the  scenes  had  to  be  made  from  mem- 
ory.     A    running  of   the   completed   film   in    New   York    this 
week  proved  that  no  mistake  had  been  made. 

A  World  man  had  a  chat  a  few  days  ago  with  Miss  Gaun- 
tier and  Mr.  Clark.  At  present  they  are  negotiating  for  a 
studio  in  which  there  will  be  sufficient  capacity  for  the  stag- 
ing of  the  class  of  pictures  they  desire  to  make.  "We  have 
had  twenty  weeks  in  Jacksonville,"  said  Mr.  Clark,  "and 
have  had  a  very  successful  season.  Among  the  pictures  we 
have  made  were  'A  Daughter  of  the  Confederacy,'  in  three 
reels,  and  'The  Mystery  of  Pine  Tree  Camp,'  also  in  three 
reels,  both  of  which  have  been  released;  'In  the  Power  of  the 
Ku-Klux  Klan,'  a  strong  story  of  reconstruction  days  in  the 
South,  which  is  in  three  reels;  'The  Little  Rebel,'  a  tale  of 
the  North  and  South  in  two  reels,  and  'When  Men  Hate,'  a 
Southern  feud  story.  I  think  this  story,  which  touches 'on 
the  psychological,  is  one  of  the  best  things  the  company  has 
It  is  filled  with  strong  situations— situations  of  real 
heart  interest.  There  is  plenty  of  the  spectacular,  also,  for 
those  who  bank  strongly  on  this  factor  in  entertainment.      \s 


to  the  latter,  one  of  the  scenes  is  a  running  street  fight 
which  I  think  will  be  considered  stirring.  Another  three- 
reel  subject  which  we  have  finished  is  'On  the  Fighting 
Line.'  " 

Mr.   Clark  told  of  many  incidents  in  connection   with   the 
making  of  the  season's  pictures,  most  of  them  amusing  and 
a  few  of  them  at  the  time  of  the  happening  really  serious, 
but  which  may  be  laughed  at  now.   In  making  "In  the  Power 
of  the  Ku-KIux  Klan,"  Mr.  Clark  had  to  undergo  a  hanging 
or  near  hanging.     One  of  the  members  of  the  company  said 
that  he  knew  how  to  tie  a  hangman's  knot.     He   tied  it  so 
carefully  and  with  such  skill  that  at  the  crucial  moment  the 
check  which  had  been  interposed   to  save   the  tightening  of 
the   rope   slipped   and   Mr.   Clark   was   nearly   strangled.     Of 
his  experience  with  the  bloodhounds  of  the  sheriff  of  Duval 
County  the  subscribers  of  the  World  have  read.     Mr.  Clark 
told  of  the  difficulties  experienced  when  it  was  found  neces- 
sary to  find  a  prey  for  the  hounds  after  he  and  Mr.  Olcott  had 
established    with    them    friendly    relations.      The    sheriff   sug- 
gested that  a  colored  man  would  be  the  tiling,  but  it  was  al- 
most impossible  to  discover  a  gentleman  of  color  who  could 
be  induced  to  earn  good  money  in  that  way.     They   finally 
succeeded.     The  negro  was  given  a  safe  start.     The  hounds 
jumped  at  the  scent,  and  in  full  cry  were  away  like  the  wind. 
"But   they   had   nothing   on   the   negro,   though,"   added    Mr. 
Clark.     "You  could  have  played   checkers  on  his   coattails." 
Miss   Gauntier  is  looking  her  best,  in   spite   of  the  severe 
strain  of  the  winter.     "Yes,"  she  said,  "we  have  had  plenty 
to  do.     Between  making  pictures  in  the  daytime  and  in   the 
evening   reading   scripts   and   answering   correspondence,   we 
have  had  little  time  in  which  to  accept  the  many  invitations 
of  the  splendid  friends  we  have  made  in  Jacksonville.     We 
are  all  ready  for  work  right  here  in  New  York  as  soon  as  we 
close  on  a  studio,  and  have  a  story  on  which  to  start." 


WORLD   NOTICE   BRINGS   STARDOM. 

World  critic  Louis  Reeves  Harrison,  who  gave  the  "Bio- 
graph  Girl"  limelight,  has  another  "discovery"  to  his  credit. 
In  a  review  of  the  Thanhouser  "Carmen"  in  a  recent  issue 
of  this  paper,  Mr.  Harrison  said: 

"I  should  have  given  a  part  to  a  girl  who  flashed  on  the 
scene  for  a  brief  instant  and  filled  the  screen  while  she  was 
there,  although  she  was  only  one  of  a  group.  I  took  the 
trouble  to  inquire  about  this  member  of  the  company  who 
only  came  into  view  for  a  second  and  learned  that  her  name 
was,  and  still  is,  'Billings.'  She  will  probably  remedy  that 
fault  before  she  cuts  all  of  her  teeth,  for  she  has  what  I  am 
compelled  to  designate,  for  the  lack  of  a  better  expression, 
'Picture   Persconality,'   a   valuable   asset   for   a   photoplayer." 

C.  J.  Hite,  the  new  producing  manager  of  .the  Majestic 
Company,  happened  to  read  the  critique,  learned  that  the 
critic  was  wrong  on  the  girl's  name  (which  was  Francelia 
Billington),  but  right  on  her  merits,  and  immediately  en- 
gaged her  for  star  parts  in  the  Majestic  California  pro- 
ductions. 


WANT  AN  "ALKALI"  IKE  DOLL? 

Practically  every  j'oungster  in  the  United  States  during 
the  "Teddy  Bear"  craze  insisted  upon  having  one  of  the 
fuzzy  little  "bears."  What  promises  to  be  an  even  more 
popular  successor  to  the  "Teddy  Bear"  will  soon  be  put 
upon  the  market  by  the  Essanay  Film  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany, and  will  probably  serve  to  make  not  only  one  of  it's 
players  but  also  that  brand  of  films,  the  best  known  in  the 
world — it's  an   "Alkali"   Ike   doll. 

The  doll,  which  is  a  perfect  miniature  representation  of 
ever-popular  Augustus  Carney  in  the  role  of  "Alkali"  Ike, 
will  stand  some  eleven  and  a  half  inches  high  when  astride 
the  little  hobby-horse.  It  will  be  jointed  so  that  it  can 
be  made  to  perform  all  sorts  of  stunts.  The  doll  can  be 
removed  from  the  horse  and  made  to  assume  countless 
other  poses.  The  blue  shirt,  sheepskin  "chaps,"  sombrero, 
bright  colored  neckerchief,  and  even  the  leather  holster  con- 
taining a  miniature  revolver  will  all  be  reproduced  in  a 
lifelike  manner.  The  exact  resemblance  is  assured  of  the 
well-known  character  of  the  motion  picture  screen  by  the 
fact  that  the  Essanay  people  are  going  to  pay  the  doll  manu- 
facturer five  hundred  dollars  for  the  mould  alone  from  which 
the  face  of  the  doll  is  to  be  cast.  The  Essanay  Company 
will  shortly  announce  the  method  by  which  the  doll  can  be 
obtained,  and  the  moment  the  plan  is  known,  will  undoubtedly 
be  flooded  with  orders.  Not  only  will  exhibitors  be  certain 
to  want  a  supply  to  sell  their  patrons  or  give  away  as 
souvenirs,  but  every  lad  will  want  one  and  will  travel  miles 
to  reach  the  theater  at  which  they  can  be  obtained.  Plans 
are  also  under  way  for  placing  them  on  sale  in  toy  em- 
poriums and  department  stores  all  over  the  country.  Dolls 
will  sell  for  $1.50  apiece.     Exhibitors,  $13.50  a  dozen. 


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Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League 


IOWA  CONVENTION. 

Picture    Men    Hold    Successful    Meeting    at    Des    Moines — 

Membership    Increased   by   Thirty-five. 

The  second  semi-annual  convention  of  the  Motion  Pic- 
ture Exhibitors'  League  of  Iowa  was  held  at  the  Auditorium 
at  Des  Moines,  Tuesday  and  Wednesday,  May  13th  and  14th. 
The  convention  was  a  successful  one  in  that  over  one  hun- 
dred members  attended.  Deputy  National  Organizer,  W.  G. 
Wylie,  of  Kansas  City,  was  one  of  the  early  arrivals,  was 
met  by  Fred   vV.  Young,  Secretary  of  the  Iowa  State  branch. 

The  convention  was  called  to  order  at  2:00  P.  M.  by  Pres. 
J.  L.  O'Brien,  and  everybody  was  welcome,  as  an  open 
meeting  was  called.  Many  exchange  men  were  present  from 
Omaha,  Minneapolis,  and  Des  Moines,  and  all  attended  the 
open  session.  National  Organizer  W.  G.  Wylie  made  an 
excellent  address  and  congratulated  the  Iowa  exhibitors  on 
the  large  attendance.  He  also  spoke  on  the  system  of  cen- 
sorship, and  considered  it  wrong.  There  is  a  National  Board, 
said  Mr.  Wylie,  which  is  vested  with  little  authority  but  is 
doing  creditable  work.  He  claimed  mothers  of  children  are 
the  best  censors  for  moving  pictures.  Mr.  Wylie  made 
several  addresses  at  the  different  meetings,  and  gave  some 
excellent  advice  to  the  exhibitors  from  knowledge  he  has 
gained  from  visits  to  different  state  conventions. 

A  telegram  was  read  from  National  President  M.  A.  Neff, 
stating:  "Although  I  cannot  be  with  you,  Brother  Wylie 
will  fill  my  place.  Tell  the  boys,  to  them  I  send  greetings 
in  behalf  of  thirty-eight  states.  May  harmony  and  wise 
council  prevail  and  your  league  prosper.  Best  wishes  to 
each  and  every  member  of  the  league." 

On  Wednesday  afternoon  a  motion  picture  was  taken 
by  Julius  Singer  of  the  Capital  City  Film  Manufacturing 
Company,  and  was  shown  on  the  screen  at  10:00  o'clock 
that  night.  At  night  a  vaudeville  entertainment  was  given 
and  advance  feature  films  were  shown  by  the  various  film 
exchanges,  over  four  hundred  exhibitors  and  friends  at- 
tending. Evening's  entertainment  wound  up  with  a  lunch 
and  a  general  good  time,  and  everybody  seemed  to  be  imbued 
with  the  spirit  of  the  occasion.  Secretary  Fred  Young  of 
Des  Moines  again  demonstrated  his  ability  in  conducting 
a  convention  and  arranging  for  entertainments.  Everything 
went  off  smoothly  and  everyone  departed  with  words  of 
praise  as  this  being  one  of  the  best  conventions  they  ever 
attended. 

The  officers  for  the  ensuing  year  are:  E.  G.  Fargo  of 
Algona,  President;  J.  S.  Bassett  of  Independence,  First 
Vice-President;  W.  H.  Dewey,  Chariton,  Second  Vice-Presi- 
dent; W.  G.  Eddy,  Marengo,  Secretary;  J.  E.  Tierney,  Sioux 
City,  Treasurer;  Thomas  A.  Brown,  Iowa  City,  National 
Vice-President. 

The  following  delegates  were  elected  to  represent  Iowa  at 
the  New  York  Convention:  M.  Ingledue,  A.  J.  Diebold,  E. 
G.  Fargo,  H.  E.  Baumgartner,  A.  W.  Mcintosh,  J.  S.  Shortley, 
and  J.  M.  Heffner.  Alternates:  F.  P.  Lemen,  H.  A.  Wolf- 
gram,  T.  A.  Bryan,  W.  G.  Eddy,  M.  Lince,  and  L.  J.  Tower. 

The  next  convention  will  be  held  at  Marshalltown  in 
December.  Definite  dates  as  yet  not  having  been  decided 
upon. 

Thirty-five  new  members  joined  at  the  convention,  bring- 
ing the  total  membership  up  to  one  hundred  and  fifty.  This 
for  an  organization  only  six  months  old,  is  doing  very  nicely. 

The  following  members  attended:  Fred  Young,  Des 
Moines;  J.  L.  O'Brien,  Oelwein;  Thos.  A.  Brown,  Iowa  City; 
W.  H.  Mart,  Grinnell;  M.  Lince,  Ottumwa;  J.  M.  Heffner, 
Mason  City;  A.  J.  Diebold,  Cedar  Rapids;  L.  J.  Tower,  Cedar 
Rapids;  H.  E.  Wolfgram,  Decorah;  Fred  Keyes,  Des  Moines; 
C.  H.  Johnston,  Grundy  Center;  J.  E.  Craven,  Kellogg;  T. 
J.  Henrehan,  Nevada;  Paul  Porter,  Lehigh;  F.  R.  Bandy, 
Britt;  Harry  DeBaggio.  Colfax;  F.  P.  Lemen,  Colfax;  M. 
Joffe,  Manning;  R.  G.  Hatcher,  Chariton:  Chas.  C.  Menden- 
hall,  Stuart;  E.  G.  Fargo,  Algonia;  Ray  E.  Jacobson,  Colfax; 
Chas.  Pewther,  Indianola;  M.  E.  Chance,  Redfield;  W.  C. 
Treloar,  Ogden;  F.  M.  Childs,  Villisca;  J.  M.  Anderson, 
Boone;  W.  C.  .Eddy,  Marengo;  A.  W.  Walton,  Perry;  H.  C. 
Juergenson,  Waterloo;  A.  W.  Mcintosh.  Waterloo;  M.  Luke, 
Des  Moines;  A.  H.  Blank,  Des  Moines;  W.  D.  Ingeldue,  Mar- 


shalltown; H.  E.  Baumgartner,  Osage;  Ben  B.  Burns,  Jr., 
Lake  City;  W.  F.  Smith,  Clarion;  C.  R.  Garrett,  Lake  Mills; 
Oval  Anderson,  Jefferson;  T.  A.  Hanlon,  Iowa  City;  T.  A. 
Bryan,  Oelwein;  C.  F.  Hulburt,  Madrid;  N.  P.  Hyatt,  Webster 
City;  N.  Ligutti,  Adel;  W.  H.  Bowman,  Oskaloosa;  J.  Ger- 
bracht,  Ames;  G.  C.  Bentley,  Clearfield;  P.  E.  Johannsen, 
Mason  City;  B.  Wertz,  Sigourney;  P.  V.  Meyers,  West 
Branch;  D.  B.  Herrington,  Paullina;  W.  R.  Hiller,  Keota;  F. 
Bilderback,  Earlham;  H.  C.  Watkins,  Centerville;  H.  O. 
Beardsley,  Red  Oak;  M.  O.  Smith,  Clarinda;  J.  S.  Shortley, 
Sioux  City;  G.  F.  Crawford,  Des  Moines;  B.  I.  Van  Dyke, 
Des  Moines;  R.  E.  Pratt.  Winfield;  C.  T.  Sears,  Ames;  W.  J. 
Bishop,  Parkersburg;  H.  J.  Agnew,  A.  Bessman,  O.  Bailey 
and  H.  E.  Case. 

The  following  exchange  men  were  also  present:  S.  J. 
Berman,  Omaha;  Philip  Goldstone,  Des  Moines,  Mutual; 
Wm.  Preller,  Minneapolis;  E.  H.  Pearson,  Omaha;  C.  F. 
Calvert,  General;  J.  Van  Husan,  Omaha;  Dan  Lederman, 
Des  Moines;  W.  Bryson,  Minneapolis,  Universal;  Wm.  Hopp, 
Chicago,  Standard;  Julius  Singer,  Des  Moines,  Union  Fea- 
tures; and  I.  Kizerstein,  New  York. 

Representatives  of  machines:  J.  E.  Robin,  Simplex  ma- 
chine; Sidney  Blakeley,  Motiograph,  Chicago,  and  W.  Hart- 
man,  Standard,  Omaha. 

Secretary  Young  was  highly  complimented  on  the  con- 
vention badges.  Each  exhibitor,  on  arrival,  was  presented 
with  a  badge  with  his  name  and  city  printed  on  same. 


KANSAS   CENSOR   LAW  IN   COURT. 
Mutual    Case   Argued    and   Judge   Pollock   Recognizes    Con- 
stitutional Aspect  of  the  Question. 

The  suit  brought  by  Mutual  Film  Corporation  of  Missouri, 
the  Kansas  City  branch  of  Mutual  Film  Corporation,  against 
the  Governor,  Attorney  General,  Secretary  of  State  and 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  of  the  State  of  Kansas, 
to  procure  an  injunction  restraining  them  from  enforcing 
the  Kansas  film  censorship  law  on  the  ground"  that  it  was 
unconstitutional,  came  up  for  trial  before  Judge  John  C. 
Pollock,  Kansas  City,  Kansas,  on  May  14,  1913.  Eugene 
Batavia  and  Major  Thomas  F.  Gatts  of  Kansas  City,  the 
local  attorneys  for  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation,  and  Walter 
X.  Seligsberg  of  New  York,  its  general  counsel,  argued 
the  case  in  support  of  the  injunction,  and  Attorney  General 
John  S.  Dawson  of  Kansas,  argued  against  the  injunction. 
Briefs  are  to  be  submitted  and  the  case  may  be  decided  in 
about  thirty  days. 

Judge  Pollock  intimated  during  the  argument  that  he  was 
very  much  impressed  with  the  plaintiff's  case  and  counsel 
are  hopeful  for  a  favorable  outcome.  The  Judge  said  that 
he  could  not  see  by  what  authority  under  the  Constitution 
of  the  State  of  Kansas,  which  guarantees  to  every  person 
the  right  freely  to  publish  his  sentiments,  any  law  could 
be  made  punishing  in  advance  or  censoring  in  advance  pub- 
lications such  as  moving  picture  films.  He  also  stated 
that  he  could  not  see  how,  under  the  Constitution  of  the 
United  States,  the  State  of  Kansas  had  any  right  to  inter- 
fere with  interstate  commerce  in  motion  picture  films  by 
imposing  a  censorship  tax.  In  view  of  the  importance  of 
the  case,  the  judge  stated  that  he  would  like  printed  briefs 
and  that  he  would  decide  the  case  promptly  when  he  received 
the  briefs.  In  the  meanwhile,  no  action  is  being  taken  by  the 
Kansas  officials  under  the  law. 


MASSACHUSETTS  "HOUR  BILL"  LOST. 

On  May  14,  Massachusetts  exhibitors  saw  their  pet  "hour 
bill"  go  down  to  defeat  at  the  hands  of  the  Senate.  This 
bill  was  drawn  to  amend  a  law  passed  at  a  previous  session 
of  the  Massachusetts  Legislature,  which  prohibited  the  pro- 
jection of  pictures  for  more  than  twenty  minutes  without 
intermission  and  prescribed  that  an  interim  of  five  minutes 
must  elapse  between  reels.  The  theory  upon  which  the 
existing  law  is  based  is  that  the  continuous  projection  of 
pictures  is  hurtful  to  the  eye.  A  wait  of  five  minutes  be- 
tween reels  is  calculated  to  detract  from  the  interest  in  mul- 
tiple-reel subjects. 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


ILLINOIS  CENSOR  BILL  KILLED. 
By  F.  H.  Madison. 

The  Igoe  bill  providing  for  a  board  of  censorship  in 
Illinois  and  a  fee  from  all  exhibitors,  film  exchange  or  pro- 
ducer has  been  killed  in  the  Illinois  Legislature.  It  was 
given  a  very  brief  hearing  before  the  judiciary  committee 
of  the  House  of  Representatives. 

The  news  will  be  welcomed  by  all  Illinois  exhibitors.  Al- 
though the  fee  exacted  from  each  exhibitor  would  have  been 
small,  there  is  no  doubt  but  that  the  operation  of  the  censor- 
ship would  have  proved  an  annoyance.  In  fact,  the  munici- 
pal or  civic  censorship  in  Illinois  has  always  been  somewhat 
ludicrous  and  some  of  the  Springfield  exhibitors,  who  have 
been  in  the  service  of  the  State  and  have  seen  the  workings 
of  the  Illinois  government,  were  very  skeptical  that  a  com- 
petent board  of  censorship  could  be  secured. 

That  the  bill  met  its  defeat  was  not  due  to  any  apparent 
opposition  of  the  moving  picture  interests.  The  fact  is  that 
the  bill  itself  called  for  the  creation  of  a  new  board,  which 
is  directly  in  opposition  to  the  policy  of  Governor  Dunne. 
The  present  administration  made  its  campaign  on  an 
economy  platform  and  is  having  a  great  deal  of  difficulty  in 
keeping  the  appropriation  within  a  reasonable  distance  of 
those  of  Governor  Deneen's  regime.  The  Igoe  bill  would 
have  resulted  in  salaries  of  $8,200  a  year  and  expenses.  It 
was  proposed  to  secure  this  sum  from  the  revenues  of  the 
office,  which  was  hardly  possible. 


MISSOURI  STATE  BRANCH  CONVENTION.       - 

Missouri  State  Branch  of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors' 
League  of  America  will  hold  their  convention  at  Moberly, 
Mo.,  instead  of  Springfield,  on  June  10-11.  The  location  of 
Moberly  is  such  that  it  will  be  easily  accessible  for  the  ex- 
hibitor and  the  officers  of  the  State  branch  to  the  largest 
attendance  at  the  coming  convention  in  the  history  of  the 
organization. 

There  will  be  a  large  amount  of  business  to  transact,  in- 
cluding the  election  of  the  State  officers,  delegates  and 
alternates  to  the  National  convention  and  the  adoption  of  a 
new  constitution  and  by-laws.  For  full  information  in  regard 
to  the  convention,  address:  Secretary,  State  Branch,  World 
Theater,  8th  and  Highland,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 


MARYLAND  CONVENTION  PLANS. 

A  committee  consisting  of  J.  Howard  Bennett,  Marion  S. 
Pearce,  W.  C.  Bohannan,  Alexander  Anderson,  G.  S.  Ben- 
jamin, Jr.,  and  G.  C.  Parsons,  has  been  busy  for  some  weeks 
arranging  for  the  convention  of  motion  picture  exhibitors 
of  Maryland,  which  will  be  held  at  the  Emerson  Hotel, 
Baltimore,  on  June  3  and  4.  The  entire  top  floor  and  the 
exhibition  hall  of  the  Emerson  Hotel  has  been  secured  for 
the  purposes  of  the  convention  and  manufacturers  have  been 
invited  to  make  exhibits.  There  has  been  a  general  response 
from  exhibitors  in  all  parts  of  the  state  and  a  large  attendance 
is  assured. 


FOR  MANITOBA  EXHIBITORS. 

Secretary  L.  Freeman  of  the  Manitoba  Motion  Picture 
Exhibitors'  Association  is  anxious  to  get  in  communication 
with  all  exhibitors  in  that  province.  The  Manitoba  Associa- 
tion has  been  in  existence  for  the  past  six  months,  but 
difficulty  has  been  experienced  in  getting  in  touch  with  the 
exhibitors  in  the  smaller  towns.  The  office  of  the  secretary 
is  in  the  Starland  Building,  Winnipeg.  Mr.  Freeman  would 
be  pleased  to  hear  from  all  interested. 


CONVENTIONS   SCHEDULED. 

Kansas  State  Convention — At  the  National  Hotel,  Topeka, 
June  2nd  and  3rd. 

Missouri  State  Convention — At  Springfield,  June  10th  and 
nth. 

Pennsylvania  State  Convention — At  Philadelphia,  May  27th 
and  28th. 

Maryland  State  Convention — At  Baltimore,  Emerson  Ho- 
tel, June  3rd  and  4th. 

Delaware  State  Convention — At  DuPont  Hotel,  Wilming- 
ton, May  26th. 

Texas  State  Convention — At  Dallas,  May  28th  and  29th. 

Michigan  State  Convention — At  Vincent  Hotel,  Saginaw, 
June  10th  and  nth. 

Minnesota  State  Convention — At  Radisson  Hotel,  Min- 
neapolis, June  10th  and  nth. 

Washington  State  Convention — At  Seattle,  June   17th. 


EXPOSITION  NOTES. 

The  ever  increasing  enthusiasm  shown  by  manufacturers, 
exchange  men,  exhibitors,  and  all  who  are  in  any  way  in- 
terested in  the  coming  Exposition  of  the  Motion  Picture 
Trades,  is  very  encouraging  to  the  committee  who  have 
.  worked  tirelessly  for  six  months  in  the  interests  of  the 
motion  picture  business  throughout  the  world.  Now  that 
the  exposition  is  a  little  over  a  month  away  it  seems  that 
everybody  is  taking  an  active  interest  in  it. 

From  the  manufacturers'  standpoint  this  First  Interna- 
tional Exposition  of  the  Motion  Picture  Art,  held  as  it  is 
in  conjunction  with  the  Third  Annual  Convention  of  the 
Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  America,  under  its 
sole  direction  and  under  the  same  roof,  will  be  a  wonderful 
opportunity  for  demonstration,  and  demonstration  is  what 
the  exhibitors  want. 

For  just  this  reason  thousands  of  them  from  all  parts 
of  the  world  are  coming  to  New  York  to  see  how  they  can 
better  their  theaters.  A  great  many  of  these  exhibitors 
have  never  had  an  opportunity  of  looking  over  the  talking 
pictures  or  the  colored  pictures.  Several  letters  have  been 
received  at  the  exposition  headquarters  in  the  German  Bank 
Bldg.,  asking  if  exhibits  of  certain  kinds  of  articles  were  to 
be  made  at  the  Grand  Central  Palace.  In  all  instances  but 
one,  the  committee  were  able  to  answer  in  the  affirmative. 

The  ten  thousand  prospectuses  and  other  literature  have 
by  this  time  been  received  all  over  the  country,  and  from  now 
until  July  the  main  thing  irr  the  minds  of  all  will  be  how  to 
arrange  their  business,  so  that  they  may  get  to  the  con- 
vention. 

The  Committee  on  Transportation  and  Arrangements  have 
been  busily  employed  in  making  arrangements  to  look  after 
the  families  of  the  delegates  and  others  who  will  be  here. 

The  Hotel  Imperial  will  be  the  headquarters  of  the  differ- 
ent committees  during  the  convention,  the  management 
having  placed  at  the  disposal  of  the  Ladies  Reception  Com- 
mittee a  suite  of  reception  rooms,  and  an  assembly  room 
for  meetings  of  committees. 

During  the  last  ten  days  several  makers  of  musical  in- 
struments have   made  plans  to  make  an   exhibit. 


"BAD  DAY'S  WORK,"  SAID  GAYNOR. 

The  New  York  Board  of  Aldermen,  galvanized  into  action 
probably  by  the  recent  disclosures  in  connection  with  pro- 
posed taxicab  legislation,  attempted  to  pass  a  motion  picture 
theater  ordinance  on  Tuesday,  May  20.  They  did  pass  one. 
but  it  prohibited  galleries  in  picture  theaters.  In  all  other 
respects  it  was  like  the  Folks  ordinance,  which  the  Mayor 
desired  passed.  The  effect  of  the  anti-gallery  ordinance  will 
be  to  seriously  handicap  picture  theater  managers  in  the  de- 
velopment of  the  exhibition  business.  When  the  ordinance 
reached  Mayor  Gaynor  he  took  occasion  to  remark  that  he 
"was  disgusted  with  the  Board  of  Aldermen,"  and  that  they 
had  done  a  "bad  day's  work."  It  is  probable  that  the  Mayor 
will  veto  the  ordinance  passed  on  Tuesday. 


The  Vitagraph  dopester  sends  out  an  item  telling  how 
strong  Mrs.  Maurice,  the  sweet-faced,  motherly  player,  is  on 
spelling.  He  missed  the  best  point  of  all,  however.  He 
didn't  tell,  as  in  perfect  truth  he  might  have,  how  she  puts 
us  all  under  a  spell. 


Scene  from  "The  Governor's  Romance"  (Pilot). 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE    WORLD 


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At  the  Sign  of  the  Flaming  Arcs 

By  George   Blaisdell. 

TALKING  on  Monday  afternoon  at  Broadway  and 
Forty-second  street  with  King  Baggot  and  "Jim" 
Gordon  who  should  we  meet  up  with  but  the  Prisoner 
of-  Zenda!  The  president  of  the  Screeners  invited  Mr. 
Hackett  to  drop  up  at  Forty-fifth  street  and  look  over  the 
Screen  Club.  A  matter  of  business  prevented  an  immediate 
acceptance,  but  an  hour  later  the  name  of  Mr.  Hackett  was 
inscribed  on  the  register.  "Surely  you  have  a  comfortable 
place  here,"  he  said,  as  he  glanced  around.  "As  our  English 
friends  would  say,  it's  very  'club-beh.' " 

Mr.  Hackett  was  asked  many  questions  as  to  his  experi- 
ences in  the  making  of  "The  Prisoner  of  Zenda."  There 
were  many  of  these  and  the  portrayer  of  Rudolph  Rassendyl 
has  a  lively  recollection  of  them.  Nor  did  the  incidents  in 
connection  with  the  picture  cease  with  the  completion  of  the 
film.  A  week  or  two  ago  when  the  play  was  being  shown 
at  the  Savoy  in  Thirty-fourth  street,  Mr.  Hackett,  at  the 
solicitation  of  a  friend,  accompanied  him  to  the  theater. 
The  only  available  seats  were  at  the  rear  of  the  balcony. 
At  the  end  of  the  picture  the  star  was  amazed  to  see  thrown 
on  the  screen:  "Mr.  Hackett,  who  is  starred  in  this  picture, 
is  now  sitting  in  the  balcony.  If  you  appreciate  his  work 
applaud  him." 

"Well,  the  house  applauded,  didn't  it?"    was  asked, 

"To  tell  the  truth,  I  don't  know,"  was  the  response.  "I 
was  in  such  a  hurry  to  get  down  the  stairs  I  couldn't  say. 
I  suggested  to  the  manager  it  was  hardly  fair.  He  remarked 
that  he  wouldn't  do  it  again.  I  told  him  he  wouldn't  get 
the  chance." 

"Wouldn't  believe  an  old-time  star  would  get  a  case  of 
stage-fright  or  something  akin  to  it  in  a  picture  theater,  would 
you?"    commented  a  member. 

President  Baggot  escorted  his  distinguished  visitor  over 
the  house  and  extended  a  cordial  invitation  to  call  again. 

By  the  way,  Mr.  Hackett  is  much  interested  in  a  camera 
of  which  at  present  there  are  but  two  in  the  United  States. 
It  is  the  same  as  that  which  Cherry  Kearton  is  now  taking 
into  the  heart  of  Africa.  Its  weight  is  fourteen  pounds,  it 
runs  noiselessly  at  gauged  speed  on  compressed  air,  the  use 
of  the  crank  being  obviated  if  desired,  and  is  controlled 
by  a  gyroscopic  arrangement. 

*     *     * 

Pierce  Kingsley  is  back  in  New  York  after  filming  the 
Greek  pageant  in  Nashville,  Tenn.  He  says  he  has  four 
thousand  feet  of  fine  stuff. 


It  is  to  be  regretted  that  the  re-issue  of  "A  Tale  of  Two 
Cities"  by  the  Vitagraph  company  is  to  be  for  the  English 
public  alone.  The  official  statement  of  the  company  that  the 
play  "appeals  in  the  main  to  the  patriotic  instincts  of  the 
English  people"  is  correct  only  as  far  as  it  goes.  Entirely 
apart  from  its  national  side,  there  is  in  this  book  a  love 
story  that  will  make  as  deep  appeal  in  a  mountain  hamlet  as 
it  will  in  a  center  of  culture — the  Greater  Love  exemplified 
by  Sydney  Carton.  It  is  a  stronger  story  than  that  of  the 
man  who  lays  down  his  life  for  another  man;  it  is  a  story 
of  the  man  who  lays  down  his  life  that  the  husband  of  the 
woman  he  loved  might  be  preserved  to  her.  Let  us  have 
this  story  right  here  at  home.  We  need  it,  for  great  pictures 
are  rare.  Then,  again,  the  Vitagraph  does  these  things  so 
well,  as  we  had  a  chance  to  see  in  "His  Life  for  His 
Emperor,"  a  recent  single  reel.  Who,  that  two  years  ago 
saw  "A  Tale  of  Two  Cities,"  would  not  gladly  see  it  again? 

Here's  your  answer. 

*     *     * 

The  Screen  Club  was  unusually  gay  Saturday  afternoon 
and  evening.  It  was  on  the  day  before  that  John  Steppling, 
the  well  known  and  also  favorably  known  comedian  of  the 
Essanay  company,  just  dropped  in.  He  was  given  the 
glad  hand  all  around.  Mr.  Steppling  is  a  Screener.  It  was 
not  a  case  of  getting  acquainted.  When  you  set  eyes  on 
him  you  felt  that  you  had  personally  known  him  from  the 
first  time  you  saw  him  on  the  screen.  It's  the  Steppling 
manner — cordiality  itself.  Mr.  Steppling  has  severed  his 
connections  with  the  Chicago  company  and  is  in  New  York 
looking  over  the  situation.  The  parting  was  in  the  friend- 
liest spirit  on  the  side  of  Mr.  Spoor  and  of  the  comedian. 
Present  at  the  club  Saturday  afternoon  and  evening  were 
among  others  Messrs.  Baggot,  Lewis,  Willat,  Spedon, 
Welch,  Gordon,  Shaw,  Tefft  Johnson,  Karr,  Bill  Blaisdell, 
Daly,  Williams,  John  Johnson,  Farnham,  Craig,  Wall,  Dion, 
Haddock,  Scardon,  Frazer,  Quirk,  Crampton,  Kirkwood, 
Tichenor,  Ennis,  Gerhardt.  and  Mayo.  A  silver  dollar  which 
John  Steppling  brought  into  town  furnished  a  bunch  of  fun. 
King  Baggot  wanted  and  got  it  for  a  souvenir.  Somehow 
he  couldn't  keep  it.  After  each  disappearance  it  would  be 
located  in  the  clothes  of  some  new-comer.  There  was 
comedy  galore  perpetrated  by  men  who  know  how  to  make 
it.  Mr.  Steppling  had  to  leave  at  9  o'clock  to  see  Essanay's 
"Two  Social  Calls,"  in  which  his  little  daughter  Margaret 
is  cast  in  an  important  role  and  in  which  the  four-year-old 
gives  a  charmingly  natural  portrayal.  As  Mr.  Steppling  said 
good  night,  he  glanced  over  the  throng  of  new-old  friends 
and  remarked:  "You  can't  buy  this  stuff  with  all  the  money 
in  the  world.     I  have  laughed  until  my  face  aches." 


A  man  entered  the  poster  department  at  the  General  Film 
Company's  Twenty-third  Street  branch  last  week  and  in- 
quired for  a  "cooler  inside"  poster.  It  was  a  hot  day.  "Got 
a  nice  cool  house,  eh?"  asked  a  perspiring  clerk. 

"Me?  Oh,  no,  not  necessarily,  But  I'm  opening  up  an 
airdome  and  I  want  a  full  line  of  publicity  stuff!" 

*  *     * 

King  Baggot  has  left  us.  Accompanied  by  Mrs.  Baggot,  he 
sailed  on  Tuesday  morning  on  the  Kaiser  Wilhelm  der 
Grosse.  There  -was  an  informal  gathering  of  Screeners  at 
the  clubrooms  on  Monday  evening  to  wish  him  a  good 
voyage  and  safe  return.  Some  of  these  as  well  as  many 
others  were  at  the  pier  before  the  big  ship  sailed  away. 
They  brought  baskets  containing  good  things  which,  when 
at  sea,  will  remind  the  beloved  president  of  the  Screeners 
of  the  regard  in  which  he  is  held  by  his  confreres.  There 
were  also  many  floral  remembrances.  Mr.  Baggot,  while 
away,  intends  to  make  pictures.  He  will  join  Herbert  Brenon 
in  London.  While  the  plans  of  the  two  are  not  definite 
as  yet,  it  is  safe  to  say  that  we  will  see  the  Imp  star  under 
Mr.  Brenon's  direction  in  films  which  will  have  for  back- 
grounds some  of  the  picturesque  spots  of  old  Ireland  as 
well  as  of  England.  The  working  together  of  the  two  men 
is  a  realization  of  a  desire  that  they  have  for  a  long  time 
held.  There  is  more  than  mutual  respect  for  the  other's 
ability;  the  two  are  old  friends. 

One  of  Mr.  Baggot's  fellow  passengers  is  "Dave"  Mont- 
gomery of  Montgomery  &  Stone.  The  two  met  at  the  pier 
just  before  sailing  time. 

*  *     * 

Saw  Howard  Missimer,  the  former  Essanay  comedian,  on 
Broadway  the  other  day  and  said  "hullo."  The  man  from 
Chicago  is  wise.  He  looked  around,  saw  someone  he  never 
set  eyes  on  before,  and — kept  right  on.  Never  mind,  the 
next  time  he'll  be  stopped,  even  if  the  use  of  an  axe  be 
necessary. 


ANDREW   CARNEGIE  IN   MOTION   PICTURES. 

The  very  difficult  feat  of  getting  Andrew  Carnegie  to 
pose  for  moving  pictures  has  been  accomplished.  Just  what 
influence  prompted  the  ironmaster  to  overcome  his  aver- 
sion to  the  motion  picture  camera  is  unknown,  but 
it  is  believed  that  he  tired  of  dodging  the  persistent  staff 
photographers  of  Pathe's  Weekly.  The  Laird  of  Skibo 
was  cornered  in  St.  Louis  when  he  attended  a  meeting  of 
the  "Universal  Peace"  advocates  and  after  the  ordeal  was 
over  Mr.  Carnegie  remarked,  laughingly:  "And  it  didn't 
hurt  a  bit." 
•  Later,  in  New  York,  the  multi-millionaire  was  filmed  at 
the  unveiling  of  the  Carl  Schurz  monument  and  expressed  a 
desire  to  see  his  picture.  He  was  informed  that  it  would 
be  on  exhibition  at  all  theaters  showing  Pathe's  Weekly 
No.  32. 


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THE    MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


The  House  of  Hallberg. 

A  Recollection  of  How  the  First  Article  It  Ever  Sold  Was 

Guaranteed.     A  Business  Built  From  the  Ground  Up. 

By  Hugh  Hoffman. 

T'S  about  six  years  now  since  I  first  met 
J.  H.  Hallberg.  He  used  to  be  con- 
sulting engineer  for  the  Beck  Flaming 
Arc  Lamp  Company,  down  on  Green- 
wich Street.  I  bought  some  of  the 
lamps  for  a  theater  I  was  running  at 
the  time.  I  used  to  drop  in  there  regu- 
larly to  buy  more  carbons.  On  one  of 
these  occasions  I  was  a  little  bit  down- 
in-the-month  and  Hallberg  asked  me 
how  business  was.  I  told  him  it  was 
fair,  but  that  the  high-cost-of-'*juice" 
was  eating  up  a  lot  of  the  profits.  I 
informed  him  that  I  had  been  around 
from  one  electrician  to  another  trying 
to  get  some  kind  of  a  device  that  would 
,  save  current,  but  they  all  told  me  that 

V  \  \      /  there  wasn't  any  such  animal.    "It  sim- 

ply can't  be  done,"  was  the  answer  I 
got  from  one  and  all  of  the  dozen  men 
I  had  consulted.  Imagine  my  joy  then 
I  can  do  it."    We  made  a  bargain  then 


J.  H.  Hallberg. 


when  Hallberg  said 

and  there.  He  was  to  build  me  an  apparatus  that  would  in 
crease  my  light  and  at  the  same  time  reduce  my  light  bill. 
If  it  worked  I  was  to  pay  him  so  much.  If  it  didn't,  I  didn't 
have  to  pay  him  anything.  That  was  his  own  proposition, 
and  as  I  didn't  see  how  it  could  be  any  fairer,  I  told  him  to 
go  ahead.  Two  weeks  later  he  appeared  at  my  theater  with 
a  queer  looking  object  that  resembled  a  pruned  plant  pre- 
pared for  shipment.  He  fussed  around  a  couple  of  hours 
making  tests,  and  so  forth,  before  he  struck  an  arc.  But 
when  he  turned  on  the  light  my  troubles  vanished.  And 
not  only  my  troubles,  but  the  troubles  of  thousands  of  ex- 
hibitors everywhere. 

That  was  the  beginning  of  the  Hallberg  Economizer.  He 
began  to  market  this  device,  and  exhibitors  were  so  anxious 
to  get  one  that  he  was  swamped  with  orders  in  no  time. 
What  the  business  needed  at  that  time  was  a  real  electrical 
engineer  to  figure  out  vexatious  problems,  and  J.  H.  Hallberg 
was  the  man.  Immediately  following  the  introduction  of 
his  device  the  market  was  flooded  with  choke-coils  that 
were  called  "economizers. ''  These  have  all  faded  away  and 
Mr.  Hallberg's  article  still  stands  on  its  merits,  with  a  great 
business  establishment  built  around  it  as  an  indication  of  its 
value  to  the  exhibitor. 

Men  of  high  electrical  training,  in  connection  with  the 
motion  picture  trade  five  years  ago,  were  almost  as  rare  as 
the  dodo  bird.  There  are  not  many  in  it  now,  but  then  the 
need  of  them  was  awful.  Hallberg  at  that  time  was  fairly 
well  content  with  drawing  a  fat  salary  and  with  the  letters 
"I.A.E.E."  tacked  onto  his  name.  He  was  an  electrical 
graduate  of  the  Latin-Laroverket  college  in  Halmstad, 
Sweden.  He  had  served  his  apprenticeship  in  mechanics  at 
the  Ottumwa  Iron  Works,  in  Ottumwa,  Iowa.  Since  1893  he 
had  been  filling  such  positions  as  electrical  engineer,  de- 
signer, inventor,  inspector,  consultant,  municipal  commis- 
sioner, manager  or  writer  for  such  well-known  concerns  as 
Kohler  Bros.,  Chicago;  Electric  Appliance  Co.,  Chicago; 
Standard  Thermometer  &  Electric  Co.,  Peabody,  Mass.; 
General  Incandescent  Arc  Light  Co.,  New  York;  Cincinnati 
Gas  &  Electric  Co.;  National  Carbon  Co.,  Cleveland,  Ohio; 
The  Electrical  World,  and  other  important  institutions.  He 
was  enjoying  the  distinction  of  membership  in  the  Inter- 
national Association  of  Electrical  Engineers,  the  National 
Electric  Light  Association,  and  the  Swedish  Engineers'  Club 
of  America.  He  was  not  aware,  however,  that  the  moving 
picture  business  was  calling  him.  He  did  not  know  it  until 
he  began  to  advertise  the  Hallberg  Economizer. 

The  success  of  the  economizer  was  so  emphatic  that  Hall- 
berg became  a  sort  of  Moses  to  theater  managers.  They 
wrote  and  flocked  to  him  in  numbers.  They  sought  his  ad- 
vice on  all  subjects  pertaining  to  their  business.  His  advice 
on  opera  chairs,  for  instance,  became  as  important  as  his 
opinions  on  electrical  matters.  Exhibitors  came  to  him  for 
projection  machines,  carbons,  and  all  sorts  of  things,  until  he 
was  practically  forced  to  take  a  loft  and  put  in  a  line  of  sup- 
plies. In  this  way  the  house  of  Hallberg  came  into  being. 
Mr.  Hallberg,  being  thorough  in  everything  he  does,  de- 
termined to  do  the  thing  right  or  not  at  all.  He  accordingly 
took  a  floor  at  No.  36  East  23rd  Street.  New  York,  and  put 
in  the  most  complete  line  of  supplies  that  could  be  had.  At 
the  present  time  he  handles  all  projection  appurtenances, 
such  as  all  standard  makes  of  projectors,  carbons,  spotlights, 


dissolving  stereopticons,  current  savers,  rectifiers,  slides, 
lenses,  seats,  cameras,  machine  parts,  ticket  choppers,  ticket 
venders,  tickets,  wire,  voltmeters,  ammeters,  reel  cases,  exit 
signs,  flaming  arcs,  rewinders,  fire  extinguishers,  motor  drives, 
rheostats,  brass  frames  and  lobby  goods,  and  about  every- 
thing else  that  can  be  thought  of  that  applies  to  a  motion 
picture  theater.  The  Hallberg  direct-current  economizer  du- 
plicated the  success  of  the  original  alternating  current  econo- 
mizer. 

Mr.  Hallberg's  place  of  business  is  an  interesting  establish- 
ment. Every  recognized  make  of  projection  machine  and 
current  saver  is  standing  on  the  floor  in  plain  sight.  The 
show  cases  are  filled  with  smaller  articles  ready  for  the  buyer. 
There  is  one  feature  about  the  Hallberg  establishment  that 
cannot  be  found  in  any  other  supply  store  that  we  know  of. 
It  is  wired  for  every  current  known  to  projection,  from  500 
volts  down.  There  is  a  full  set  of  testing  instruments,  so 
that  in  a  jiffy  Mr.  Hallberg  can  make  a  test  of  any  device  on 
any  current  for  the  waiting  customer.  He  does  not  insist 
upon  anyone  buying  his  own  economizer  in  perference  to 
others.  Side  by  side  with  the  Hallberg  device  sit  those  of 
other  makers.  In  a  way  he  is  the  daddy  of  them  all  and  they 
are  all  his  children.  If  he  sells  another  maker's  current 
saver  he  guarantees  it  the  same  as  he  did  his  first  one  to  me 
five  years  ago.  If  it  isn't  right  he  will  make  it  right;  that's 
the  policy  of  the  house. 

The  house  of  Hallberg  is  a  safe  place  for  an  exhibitor  to 
go.  There  he  will  get  the  right  advice.  For  those  who  favor 
him  with  their  business  he  takes  the  pains  to  figure  out 
their  electrical  and  mechanical  needs  and  helps  them  along 
to  a  successful  opening  without  any  cost  to  them.  Here 
is  part  of  a  letter  to  Mr.  Hallberg,  touching  on  this  point, 
from  an   exhibitor  in   Massena,   N.  Y.,   dated  April   5. 

Dear  Sir: 

Permit  me  first  to  acknowledge  your  fine,  satisfactory  letter 
of  the  3rd  inst. ;  also  sketch  Xo.  258  and  tracing  received  under 
separate  cover.  Much  correspondence  would  be  eliminated  if 
everyone  were   as  concise  and  comprehensive   as   you.     *     *     * 

(Signed)     V.  A.   Warrew 

And  so  this  business  has  grown,  because  most  exhibitors 
prefer  to  deal  with  a  house  that  is  efficient,  reputable  and 
reliable. 


HALLBERG  EQUIPS  MANY  THEATERS. 

J.  H.  Hallberg,  "The  Economizer  Man."  submits  the  fol- 
lowing partial  list  of  installations  for  the  past  week: 

Hallberg  Standard  A.  C.  economizers  at  Congress  Theater, 
Greenwich,  Conn.;  Bijou  Hill  Theater,  New  York;  Savoy 
Theater,  Asbury  Park,  N.  J.,  and  Nestor  Film  Laboratory, 
Bayonne,  N.  J. 

Power's  No.  6  to  Treon  &  Co.,  Scranton,  Pa.;  Power's 
No.  6-A.  with  motor  drive  and  Hallberg  A.  C.  economizer,  to 
W.  F.  Kertscher,  Grand  Theater,  Brooklyn.  N.  Y.;  Power's 
X".  6-A,  with  Hallberg  A.  C.  economizer  and  complete 
moving  picture  equipment,  to  the  Oasis  Theater,  165th 
Street  and  St.  Nicholas  Avenue,  New  York.  The  Castle 
Theater,  Rock  Rapids,  Iowa,  has  placed  order  for  220-volt, 
direct-current  economizer,  guaranteed  to  save  over  70  per 
cent,  on  electric  bill  over  use  of  rheostat. 


SELIG  SECURES  KENTUCKY  DERBY. 

The  Selig  Pol3rscope  Company  were  in  evidence  at  the  fa- 
mous Kentucky  Derby  this  year.  The  derby  took  place  on 
May  10th.  in  Louisville.  Mr.  Tom  Persons,  superintendent 
of  the  Selig  Chicago  plant,  accompanied  by  five  cameramen, 
spent  two  days  in  Louisville  securing  official  pictures  of  the 
various  races.  The  pictures,  thus  secured,  have  turned  out 
excellently  and  will  be  released  some  time  within  the  near 
future. 


NICHOLAS  POWER  COMPANY  NOTES. 

The  recognition  of  Power's  Cameragraph  by  the  'Service" 
still  continues.  One  No.  6  has  been  installed  at  Fort  Morgan, 
Alabama,  through  W.  H.  Peck,  Atlanta.  Ga..  and  one  No.  6 
complete  to  U.  S.  S.  "Rhode  Island"  through  New  England 
Universal  Film  Exchange,  Boston. 

The  following  installations  have  been  made:  One  No.  6A 
in  the  New  Sullivan  and  Considine  Orpheum  Theater  at 
Vancouver,  B.  C,  and  in  the  Empire  Theater  of  Vancouver, 
by  the  Pacific  Film  Exchange.  One  No.  6A  to  Henry  Zahn, 
646  East  Division  Street,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  through  Auburn 
Film  Company,  Auburn.  One  No.  6A  to  Smallwood  and 
Cazie,  Oolitic,  Ind.,  through  Lyric  Film  and  Supply  Com- 
pany, Terra  Haute,  Ind..  One  No.  6A  with  Inductor  to 
H.  R.  Tinkham.  Grantwood,  N.  J.  One  No.  6A  to  New 
York  Motion  Picture  Studio,  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  through 
Mutual  Film  Corporation,   New  York. 


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HAND  THEATRE.   MILLYILLE.   N.  J. 

I   only  wish  I  had  a  CRYSTAL  every  day. 
THEATORIUM.   LEROi".   N.    Y. 

We  are  delighted  with  the  comedy  productions  you  put  out. 
ELTON  THEATRE.  LAGRANGE.  GA. 

CRYSTAL  FILMS  are  O.  K.,  and  I  want  every  one  that  is 

put  out.  

MAINES  .Nc  COOPER.   MAYFTELD.  PA. 

We  run  all  your  alms  and  find  them  great  drawing  cards. 
MAJESTIC  PALACE.  213  KENSINGTON  AYE.,  PHILA.,  PA. 

Our  patrons  are  well  pleased  with  CRYSTAL  FILMS. 
THE  BERT  THEATRE,  405  BRADY  ST.,  DAVENPORT,   IA. 

Your  comedies  are  just  what  our  patrons  want. 
CRYSTAL   THEATRE.    LITTLE   ROCK,    ARK. 

We  lite  to  see  your  "twinkling  little  star"  PEARL  WHITE. 
STAR   THEATRE.   ORANGEBURG,   S.   C. 

Our  "patrons  go  wild  over  PEARL  WHITE. 
PRINCESS  THEATRE.   MIDDLETOWN.  OHIO. 

Our  patrons  are  always  anxious  to  see  PEARL  WHITE. 
LOG  CABIN  THEATRE.  YONKERS.   N.    Y 

Our  natrons  enjoy  the  CRYSTAL  COMEDIES  very  much. 
C.  S.  CREWS.  WALLA  WALLA.  WASH. 

I  am  tickled  to  death  whenever  I  receive  a  CRYSTAL  FILM. 
THE  LYRIC,  COLUMBIA,  SO.   CAROLINA. 

CRYSTAL  FILMS   are  very  popular  with  our  patrons  and 
ne.er  fail  to  please. 
PRINCESS  THEATRE,  STAPLES,    MINN. 

We  are  well  pleased  with  CRYTAL  COMEDIES. 
LUTTRELL'S  MAJESTIC  THEATRE.  JACKSONVILLE.  ILL. 

We  receive  many  favorable  comments  on  CRYSTAL  FILMS 
from  our  patrons. 
THE  PASTIME.  JACKSON,  OHIO. 

PEARL  WHITE  is  a  favorite  with  the  patrons  of  our  theatre. 
BIJOU  THEATRE.  NORWICH.   N.   Y. 

PEARL   WHITE  is  a  great   favorite  here. 
BIJOU  THEATRE.   BRANDON,  MAN..   CANADA. 

PEARL  WHITE  is  the  most  popular  fun-maker  we  have. 
OZARK   THEATRE.   EUREKA  SPRINGS.  ARK. 

CRYSTAL  FILMS  are  very  fine. 
THE  BIJOU  THEATRE.   KENARA.   ONT..  CANADA. 

Our  patrons  like  CRY'STAL  FILMS  very  much. 
THE  GEM  PICTURE  PALACE,   PALESTINE.  TEXAS. 

We    ran    a    CRYSTAL   last    night;    our    patrons   were   well 

JOY  THEATRE.  CRAWFORDSYILLE.  1ND. 

CRYSTAL  FILMS  and  MISS  WHITE  are  business  getters, 
I  feature  them  right  along. 
THE  MIRROR.  FLORENCE,  S.  C. 

I   dnd  whenever  1   urn  a   CRYSTAL  with  MISS   WHITE.   I 
see  an  improvement  in  my  receipts. 
NATIONAL  BIOGRAPH  THEATRE.  HALL,  P.  Q.,  CANADA. 

I  find  CRYSTAL  FILMS  very  good. 
NEW   BIJOU   THEATRE.   HIBBING.   MINN. 

CRYSTAL  FILMS  are  good  comedies. 
THE   STAR    THEATRE.    CHISHOLM.    MINN. 

The  photography  of  CRYSTAL  FILMS  is  great. 
CRYSTAL  THEATRE,   DALLAS.   TEXAS 

CRYSTAL  FILMS  are  great  favorites  at  our  theater. 
REX  THEATRE,  VALLEY  CITY.  N.  D. 

Our  patrons  are  well  pleased   with   CRYSTAL   FILMS   and 
often  ask  when  the  next  CRYSTAL  will  be  shown. 
OLYMPIA  THEATRE.   NEW  ORLEANS,  LA. 

We  make  special  features  of  CRYSTAL  comedies. 
THE  ELECTRIC  THEATRE.  CLAREMARE,  OKLAHOMA. 
Your   clean-cut    CRYSTAL    FILMS    with    PEARL    WHITE 
and  your  strong  supporting  company  are  a  combination  hard 
to  beat. 
PASTIME  THEATRE.   MANKATO,    MINN. 

CRYSTAL    comedies    are    of    a    bright    quality    and    bring 
business. 
CANADIAN   FILM  EXCH..   VANCOUVER.   B.   C,   CANADA. 

CRYSTAL  FILMS   are  one  great  success. 
DIXIE  THEATRE.  TEXARKANA.  ARK. 

CRYSTAL  FILMS  sure  do  take. 
THE   EMPIRE,  LTD..  219  BANK  ST..   OTTAWA.   ONT. 

All  we  can  say  about  CRYSTAL  FILMS  is  that  we  do  not 
get  enough  of  them. 
MAJESTIC  THEATRE,  612  THIRD  ST..   WAUSAU.  WIS. 
We  always  close  our  show  with  a  CRYSTAL  when  we  have 
it,  thereby  sending  our  patrons  home  happy. 
IDLE  HOUR  THEATRE.  SHEBOYGAN.  WIS. 

We  wish  to  compliment  you  on  your  CRYSTAL  FILMS. 
IMPERIAL  THEATRE.  GREAT  FALL.  MONTANA. 

CRY'STAL  comedies  are  always  a  pronounced  success  with  my 
patrons. 


DREAMLAND  THEATRE.  BROWNSVILLE.  TEXAS. 

CRYSTAL   FILMS  are  f.i. writes  with  nut   pitrous. 
THE   LYRIC.    COLUMBIA,    s.    Q 

PEARL  WHITE  is  a  big  favorite  with  nur  patrons. 
ALCAZAR  &  SAVOY  THEATRE,  AMERICUS    GA 

Miss    PEARL    WHITE   is    the   cleverest    little   actress   before 
the  camera. 
RIVERSIDE  THEATRE.   CASCADE.   IOWA 

As     regards    photography,     setting    and     action,     CRYSTAL 
FILMS,   are  undoubtedly  popular. 
EMPIRE  THEATRE.  TONKAWA,  OKLA. 

To  say  I  am  pleased  with   CRYSTAL  FILMS   would  be  a 
mild  expression. 
MAY'S  THEATRE.  JAMESTOWN.  X.  Y. 

CRY'STAL  FILMS  are  great;  good  action,  clear  and  clean. 
ARCADE  THEATRE.  AKRON.  OHIO. 

CRYSTAL  FILMS  are  all  right  and  I  am  always  glad  when 
the  exchange  books  a  CRYSTAL  for  me. 
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JACK  ROSE— SAM  SCH 


JACK  ROSE 

"/  have  tried  in  'The  Wages  of  Sin'  to 
make  plain  the  risks  to  which  young  men 
are  subjected  in  their  daily  business  lives, 
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"My  work  in  the  production  of  'The  Wages 
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"/  demurred  when  asked  to  appear  in  'Th\ 
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woven  from  experiences  in  the  Underwork 
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Current  Releases 

MONDAY,  MAY  a6th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— Highbrow  Love   (Comedy)' 

EDISON — Dances  of  the  Ages  (Novelty) 975 

KALEM — A  Victim  of  Heredity  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — The  Reward  of  Service  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's  Weekly  No.  22  (News) 

SELIG — Wamba:    A    Child    of    the    Jungle    (2    parts — 

Special — Drama)    2000 

SELIG — Religion  and  Gun  Practice   (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— Up  and  Down  the  Ladder  (Comedy) ..  .1000 

TUESDAY,  MAY  27th,  1913. 

CINES — Borrowed   Plumage   (Comedy)    

CINES — The  Champion  Fixer  (Comedy) 

CINES — In   Somaliland    (Scenic)    

EDISON — An  Unwilling   Separation   (Drama)    1000 

ESSANAY— The  New  Sheriff  (Drama)  1000 

LUBIN — Doing  Like  Daisy   (Comedy)    

LUBIN— The  Yarn  of  the  Nancy  Bell  (Comedy)   

PATHEPLAY— Bullfight  in  France  (Sporting)  

PATHEPLAY— In  the  Forest  of  Cochin   China   (Lum- 
bering)     

SELIG — The  Girl  and  the  Judge   (Drama)    1000 

VITAGRAPH— Tricks  of  the  Trade  (Comedy-Drama)  . .  1000 

WEDNESDAY,   MAY  28th,   1913. 

ECLIPSE — The   Indelible    Stain    (Drama)    1000 

EDISON — Newcomb's  Necktie  (Comedy)  1000 

ESSANAY— On  the  Job  (Comedy)  1000 

KALEM — Captured   by  Strategy   (Drama)    1000 

LUBIN — Love    and    War    in    Mexico    (Special    2-part 

Drama)     2000 

PATHEPLAY— The    Fugitive    (Drama)    

SELIG — The  Wordless  Message   (Drama)    1000 

VITAGRAPH— Cutey  Plays  Detective   (Comedy) 1000 

THURSDAY,   MAY  29th,   1913. 

BIOGRAPH— A  Dangerous  Foe   (Drama)    

ESSANAY— Their    Baby    (Comedy)    1000 

LUBIN — The  Romance  of  the  Ozarks  (Drama) 1000 

MELIES— The    Foster   Brothers    (Drama)    

MELIES — Tandjong  Priok,  the  Harbor  of  Java's  Capital, 

Batavia   (Scenic)    

PATHEPLAY— White    Lies    (Drama)    

SELIG — The  Ex-Convict's  Plunge  (Drama) 

SELIG — Scenes   in    Manila    (Travel)    

VITAGRAPH— The  Only  Veteran  in  Town  (Drama) . .  1000 

FRIDAY,  MAY  30th,   1913. 

EDISON— The  Honor  of  a  Soldier  (Drama)   1000 

ESSANAY— The  Good  in  the  Worst  of  Us  (Drama) ...  .1000 

KALEM — The  Widow  From  Winnipeg  (Comedy)  

KALEM — The  Comedy  Team's  Strategy  (Comedy)  .... 

LUBIN— Faith  of  a  Girl   (Drama)    1000 

PATHEPLAY— The   Spider  Which   Lives   in  a   Bubble 

(Zoology)    

PATHEPLAY  —  Transportation     Methods     in     Java 

(Transportation)     

PATHEPLAY— The    Human    Vulture    (Special    2-part 

Drama)    

SELIG — The  Woodfire  at  Martins  (Comedy) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— A   Husband's   Trick    (Comedy) 1000 

SATURDAY,  MAY  31st,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— His   Mother's   Son    (Drama)    

CINES — Interesting  Scenes  Abroad  (Travel)   ..1000 

EDISON— An  Almond   Eyed  Maid   (Drama)    1000 

ESSANAY— Alkali  Ike's  Misfortune  (Drama)   

KALEM — John  Burns  of  Gettysburg   (Drama)    1000 

LUBIN — Lone  Dog  the  Faithful  (Drama)    1000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Squawman's  Awakening  (Drama).. 
VITAGRAPH— One  Can't  Always  Tell  (Comedy)  .... 
VITAGRAPH— If  Dreams  Came  True  or  Who'd  Thunk 

It  (Comedy)    

VITAGRAPH— The  White  Slave  (Special  2-part  Drama)2ooo 


Advance  Releases 

MONDAY,  JUNE  2nd,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Ranchero's  Revenge  (Drama)    

EDISON — Professor    William    Nutt    (Comedy)    1000 

KALEM— The  Bandit's  Child  (Drama)   1000 

LUBIN — A  Woman's  Heart   (Drama)    1000 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's  Weekly  No.  23  (News)    

SELIG — When  the  Circus  Came  to  Town  (Com. -Drama)  1000 
VITAGRAPH— What  God  Hath  Joined  Together  (Dr.).  1000 
CINES — When  a  Woman  Loves  (Special  2-part  Drama)2000 

TUESDAY,  JUNE  3rd,  1913. 

CINES — The   Irony  of  Fate   (Drama) 1000 

EDISON— Right  for  Right's  Sake   (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY — Let  No  Man  Put  Asunder   (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN— A  Jealous  Husband   (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY — Dredges   and   Farm   Implements   in   the 

West    (Industrial)    '.  • 

PATHEPLAY— A  Market  in  Kabylia,  Algeria  (Manners 

and  Customs)    

SELIG — The  Flag  of  Two  Wars  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— Bunny  as  a  Reporter  (Comedy) 

VITAGRAPH— Three  to  One   (Comedy) 

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  4th,  1913. 

ECLIPSE — The  Armadillo   (Zoological) 500 

ECLIPSE — Delivering   the   Goods    (Comedy) 500 

EDISON — Some    Spots    In    and    Around    Los    Angeles, 

Cal.    (Scenic)     350 

EDISON— Don't  Worry  (Comedy)    640 

ESSANAY — The  Value  of  Mothers-in-Law   (Comedy)  ..  1000 

KALEM — When   Fate   Decrees    (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— The    Saving    Lie    (Drama) 

SELIG — The   Law   and   the   Outlaw    (Special — 2  parts — 

Drama)    2000 

SELIG — Woman — Past  and  Present  (Educational)..  ..1000 
VITAGRAPH— A  Modern  Psyche   (Drama) 1000 

THURSDAY,  JUNE  5th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— Slippery  Slim  Repents   (Comedy) 

BIOGRAPH— Just  Kids  (Comedy)    

ESSANAY— The  Last  Shot  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN— Bob  Builds  a  Chicken  House   (Comedy) 

LUBIN— Kate,  the  Cop   (Comedy) 

MELIES— Native  Industries  of  Java  (Industrial) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— What  the  Good  Book  Taught  (Drama) 

SELIG — The  Suwanee  River  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— The  Heart  of  Mrs.  Robins   (Com.-Dr.)  .1000 

FRIDAY,  JUNE  6th,  1913. 

EDISON— Mercy  Merrick  (Drama)    1000 

ESSANAY — Phillip  March's  Engagement  (Comedy) ....  1000 

KALEM — The  Terror  of  Conscience  (Drama) 1060 

LUBIN — The  Penalty  of  Jealousy  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — The  Accusing  Hand  (Special — 2  parts — Dr.).. 2000 
PATHEPLAY— Birds  and  Animals  of  Brazil  (Nat.  Hist.) 

PATHEPLAY — Tananarive,  Madagascar  (Travel) 

SELIG — An  Embarrassed  Bridegroom   (Comedy) 

SELIG — Manila  Normal  and  Public  Schools   (Edu.).... 
VITAGRAPH— The  Butler's  Secret   (Drama) 1000 

SATURDAY,  JUNE  7th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— A    Timely    Interception    (Drama) 

CINES — Orbetello  and  Environs  (Travel) 250 

CINES— The   Ring   (Drama)    750 

EDISON— While  John   Bolt  Slept   (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY — Broncho   Billy's  Capture   (Drama) 1000 

KALEM — When  Women  Are  Police   (Comedy) 

KALEM — Percy's  Wooing   (Comedy) 

KALEM — -The   Tragedy   of   Big   Eagle   Mine    (Special — 

2  parts — Drama)    2000 

LUBIN— The  Great  Pearl   (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— Get-Rich-Quick  Billington   (Comedy)... 
VITAGRAPH— The  Forgotten  Latchkey   (Comedy). ...  1000 


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Calendar  of  Independent  Releases 


Universal  Film  Mfg.  Co.  Current  Releases 

SUNDAY,  MAY  25th,  1913., 

CRYSTAL — Toodleums   (Comedy)    

CRYSTAL — Supper   for  Three    (Comedy) 

ECLAIR — Hearts  and  Crosses  (Drama) 

ECLAIR — Anaradhapura    

REX— The  Trifler  (Drama)    

MONDAY,  MAY  26th,  1913. 

IMP — Secret   Service   Sam    (2  parts — Drama) 

NESTOR — On   Cupid's   Highway   (Comedy) 

TUESDAY,  MAY  27th,  1913. 

GEM — Billy's   Honeymoon    (Comedy)    

101   BISON — Love,  Life  and  Liberty  (2  parts — Drama). 

CRYSTAL— Where  Charity  Begins  (Drama) 

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  28th,  1913. 

NESTOR— A  Double  Sacrifice  (Drama) 

POWERS— Cheating  (Comedy)    

ECLAIR— The  Faith  Healer  (2  parts— Drama) 

UNIVERSAL— Animated  Weekly  No.  64  (News) 

THURSDAY,  MAY  29th,  1913. 

IMP— The  Heart  That  Sees   (Drama) 

REX— The  Tourist  and  the  Flower  Girl   (Drama) 

FRONTIER— A  Romance  of  the  Rails   (Drama) 

FRIDAY,  MAY  30th,  1913. 

NESTOR— Be  It  Ever  So  Humble   (Drama) 

POWERS— The  End  of  the  Trail  (2  parts— Drama) 

VICTOR— The  Plaything  (Drama)   

SATURDAY,  MAY  31st,  1913. 

IMP — The   Magnetic   Maid    (Comedy)    

IMP — Hy.  Mayer,   His  Magic  Hand   (Novelty) 

101   BISON — The  Honor  of  the  Regiment  (2  part — Dr.) 
FRONTIER— Flossie  Visits  Bar  U  Ranch  (Comedy)... 


ADVANCE  RELEASES. 


SUNDAY,  JUNE   ist,   1913. 

CRYSTAL— Clancy,   the   Model    (Comedy)    

CRYSTAL— Hooked    (Comedy)     

ECLAIR — He  Ruins  His  Family's  Reputation  (Comedy) 

ECLAIR — All  On  Account  of  an  Egg  (Comedy)   

REX — The  Boob   (Comedy-Drama)    

MONDAY,  JUNE  2nd,  1913. 

IMP — Just  A  Fire  Fighter   (Comedy-Drama)    

NESTOR — A  Mixup  in  Bandit's  (Comedy)   

GEM — Billy  in  Armor  (Comedy)    

TUESDAY,  JUNE  3rd,  1913. 
BISON— The  Battle  of  San  Juan  Hill  (3-part  Drama).. 
CRYSTAL — Mary's    Romance    (Drama)     

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  4th,  1913. 

NESTOR — The  Idol  of  Bonanza  Camp  (Drama)    

POWERS— Dolly  and  the   Burglar   (Comedy) 

ECLAIR— Why?  (3-reel  Drama)    

UNIVERSAL— Animated   Weekly   No.   65    (News)    .... 

THURSDAY,  JUNE  5th,  1913. 

IMP — Self  Accused  (Drama)    

REX— The  World  at  Large  (Drama)   

FRONTIER— The  Pillar  of  Peril  (Drama)  

FRIDAY,  JUNE  6th,   1913. 

NESTOR— Owana.  The  Devil-Woman   (Drama) 

POWERS— Why  Grand-Daddy  Went  To  Sea  (Com.-Dr.) 
VICTOR— The  Kidnapped  Train   (Drama)    

SATURDAY,  JUNE  7th,  1913. 

IMP— Pen  Talks  by  Hy.  Mayer  (Comedy) 

IMP — The   Count   Retires   (Comedy)    

BISON— The  Spirit  of  the  Flag  (2-part  Drama)    

FRONTIER— The  Ranch  Girl  and  The  Sky  Pilot  (Com.) 


Mutual  Film  Corporation  Current  Releases 

SUNDAY,  MAY  25th,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— Legally    Right    (Drama) 

THANHOUSER— A  Pullman   Nightmare   (Comedy).... 

MONDAY,  MAY  26th,  1913. 

AMERICAN— Ashes  of  Three   (2  parts— Drama) 

KEYSTONE— Toplitsky  &  Company  (Comedy) 

RELIANCE— Hearth   Lights    (Drama)    


TUESDAY,  MAY  27th,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— Her  Fairy  Godfather   (Drama) 

THANHOUSER — Carmen   (3  parts — Drama)    

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  28th,  1913. 
BRONCHO— The  Drummer  of  the  Eighth  (2  parts— Dr.) 

MUTUAL— Mutual  Weekly  No.  22   (News) 

RELIANCE— A  Texas   Feud    (Drama) 

THURSDAY,  MAY  29th,  1913. 

AMERICAN— On   the    Border   (Drama) 1000 

KEYSTONE— The  Gangsters   (Comedy)    

MUTUAL— Title  not  reported. 

FRIDAY,  MAY  30th,  1913. 

KAY-BEE— A  Child  of  War   (2  parts— Drama) 

THANHOUSER— No  release  this  date. 

SATURDAY,  MAY  31st,  1913. 

AMERICAN— Her   Big   Story    (Drama) 1000 

RELIANCE — The   Master   Cracksman    (Drama) 


ADVANCE  RELEASES. 


SUNDAY,  JUNE   ist,   1913. 

MAJESTIC— The  Fraternity  Pin   (Drama)    

THANHOUSER— A  Victim  of  Circumstances  (Comedy) 

MONDAY,  JUNE  2nd,  1913. 

AMERICAN— When   Luck   Changes   (Drama)    1000 

KEYSTONE— Barney  Oldfield's  Race  for  a  Life  (Com.) 
RELIANCE— Italian   Love    (Drama)    

TUESDAY,  JUNE  3rd,  1913. 
MATESTIC — The  Queen  of  the  Sea  Nymphs  (Drama).. 

THANHOUSER— (Title   Not   Reported)    

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  4th,  1913. 

BRONCHO— A  Dixie  Mother   (2-part   Drama)    

MUTUAL— Mutual  Weekly  No.  23  (News)   

RELIANCE— Faithful  Shep   (Drama)    

THURSDAY,  JUNE  5th,  1913. 

AMERICAN— The  Wishing  Seat   (Drama) 1000 

KEYSTONE— Passions— He  Had  Three  (Comedy) 

KEYSTONE— Help!   Help!   Hydrophobia!   (Comedy)... 

MUTUAL— (Title    Not    Reported)    

FRIDAY,   JUNE  6th,    1913. 

KAY-BEE— A  True   Believer    (2-part   Drama) 

THANHOUSER— (Title  Not  Reported)    

SATURDAY,  JUNE  7th,  1913. 

AMERICAN— Via   Cabaret   (Drama)    1000 

RELIANCE— The  Mad  Cap  of  the  Hills  (Drama) 


Exclusive  Supply  Corporation  Current  Releases 

MONDAY,  MAY  26th,  1913. 
DRAGON — Love's  Monogram  (Drama)   

TUESDAY,  MAY  27th,  1913. 

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THURSDAY,  MAY  29th,  1913. 
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8th,"  in  two  reels. 


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and  costumed  and  acted  in  the  world-famous  Than- 
houser  way. 

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"The   Boomerang"    (3) June  13 

"A  True  Believer" June     6 

"A   Dixie  Mother" June     4 

"The   Master  Cracksman" May  31 

"A  Child  of  War" May  30 

"Drummer  of  the  8th" May  28 

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"Ashes  of  Three" May  26 

"The  Miser"   May  23 

"The  Sea  Dog" May  21 

"For  Love  of  the  Flag" May  16 

"A  Slave's  Devotion" May  14 

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KALEM. 

THE  THAOEDT  OF  BIO  EAGLE  MINE  (Special, 
*  parts,  May  7) — In  qnest  of  game  for  the  srab- 
eletence  of  the  expedition,  goes  Mr.  Thomas  Mor- 
ton. He  discovers  bear  tracks  and  follows  them 
Into  a  forest  nnHI  nightfall  overtakes  him.  He 
loses  his  way  and  the  next  day  as  he  is  trying  to 
get  out,  falls  Into  a  bear  trap  set  by  Big  Eagle 
and  his  sister,  Laughing  Water.  His  cries  are 
heard  by  them;  he  is  rescued  and  brought  back  to 
health  through  the  care  of  Laughing  Water.  Morton 
ha»  won  the  friendship  of  Big  Eagle  and  he  shows 
him  a  vein  of  gold  which  he  has  discovered.  Not 
long  afterward  Laughing  Water  and  Morton  are 
married. 

Five  happy  years  have  now  passed  and  a  little 
,  boy  has  come  to  bless  their  union.  Morton,  who  has 
been  communicating  with  his  aged  mother,  manages 
to  keep  secret  his  marriage  and  the  presence  of 
gold,  which  he  has  planned  to  mine  for  himself.  At 
length  he  receives  a  letter  from  bis  mother  asking 
him  to  come  and  stay  with  her  in  her  declining 
years.  When  Laughing  Water  is  at  the  spring,  he 
quickly  packs  his  belongings,  and,  taking  his  little 
Bon,  runs  away.  Laughing  Water,  broken  in  spirit 
returns  to  her  tribe,  but  is  renounced  by  them  She 
becomes  a  wanderer  and  Big  Eagle  silently  con- 
templates vengeance. 

Twenty  years  have  now  passed  and  Morton's  son, 
John,  announces  his  wedding  day.  Morton,  who  has 
always  been  afraid  to  visit  his  western  gold  mine 
suggests  that  his  son  go  there  and  look  over  things 
on  his  honeymoon.  When  John  reaches  the  mine  he 
finds  that  the  situation  is  too  difficult  for  him  to 
handle  and  telegraphs  for  his  father.  On  one  of 
their  many  trips  to  the  mine,  John  and  his  wife 
meet  an  old  Indian  squaw  selling  beadwork,  and  his 
wife  makes  purchases.  While  serving  them  the  old 
Indian  squaw  notices  the  counterpart  of  her  hus- 
band In  the  young  man.  Old  Morton  arrives  at  the 
mine  and  is  seen  by  Big  Eagle,  who,  recognizing 
him,  lights  the  fuse  of  a  dynamite  stick  and  places 
it  near  him.  Before  Laughing  Water,  who  has 
been  watching,  can  do  anything,  the  explosion  takes 
place  and  old  Morton  and  John's  wife  are  killed, 
John  alone  surviving.  He  Is  taken  to  the  forest 
home  of  his  Indian  mother  and  tenderly  cared  for. 

8KLIG. 

WHEN  THE  CIECTJS  CAME  TO  TOWN  (June 
Z). — unfortunately  Culre's  masterpiece,  "The  Heart 
of  »  Bo?"  was  evolved  in  Italy  and  not  America, 
still  Its  humanities  are  so  wide  and  deep  that  it 
outserves  any  merely  sectional  patriotic  purpose; 
however,  there  is  a  peculiar  thrill  and  afflatus  in  the 
coming  of  the  circus,  as  a  sensation  for  young 
America  that  is  worth  recording  as  distinctive. 
Jimmy,  the  newsboy,  moved  by  the  mighty  magic 
of  the  show-bills  is  crazy  to  go  to  the  circus  a 
sentiment  that  is  shared  by  his  little  sister  Bess. 
They  pool  their  scant  savings  and  find  there  is 
only  money  enough  to  buy  one  ticket.  Jimmy 
bravely  gives  way  to  his  sister  and  hopes  to  work 
his  way  in  by  "watering  the  animals."  This 
hope,  however,  is  dashed  and  he  is  somewhat  de- 
jected, when  he  happily  picks  up  an  envelope  con- 
taining circus  tickets.  They  have  recently  been 
purchased  by  a  lady,  who  drops  them  as  she 
enters  her  automobile.  Jimmy  chases  the  machine, 
but  cannot  catch  it.  This  seems  providential  and 
it  looks  as  though  Jimmy  was  to  proudly  lead  his 
Bister  into  the  big  show.  They  could  thus  save 
their  precious  pennies.  At  the  ticket  office,  how- 
ever, he  finds  the  lady  complaining  of  her  loss 
and  he  promptly  surrenders  the  tickets  to  her.  She 
is  so  moved  by  this  frank  honesty  that  she  not 
only  makes  the  little  folks  her  guests,  but  they 
have  a  sufficient  filling  of  popcorn  and  peanuts,  and 
the   privilege   of   the   side-show   to   boot. 

A  FLAG  OF  TWO  WARS  (June  3).— John  Reed, 
a  confederate  veteran,  gathered  to  his  fathers. 
leaves  no  property  to  his  faithful  old  wife  and 
dashing  son,  John,  Jr.,  except  his  battered  sword 
and  the  tattered  flag  he  fought  for,  with  admoni- 
tion to  his  son  to  live  up  to  their  record  for 
valor    and    honor.      When    the    war    breaks   out    be- 


tween Spain  and  the  United  States,  John  insists 
upon  enlisting  and  his  mother  finally  consents 
giving  him  his  father's  sword,  while  he  tucks  the 
confederate  flag  in  the  bosom  of  his  blouse.  He 
is  detailed  for  dangerous  duty  as  a  scout  along 
the  line  that  Weylers  wire  entanglements  and 
block-bouses  made  so  deadly.  The  little  band  of 
American  soldiers  is  attacked  by  a  superior  force 
of  Spaniards  and  they  take  refuge  in  a  tobacco 
store-house.  Their  troop  flag  is  swept  away  on  the 
flame  of  a  shell.  John,  who  raised  it  on  the  little 
pole  on  the  roof,  received  at  the  same  rime  a 
nasty  wound  in  the  shoulder.  When  his  comradeB 
attempting  to  administer  "first  aid"  to  the  In- 
jured, And  the  confederate  flag,  in  lieu  of  the  lost 
colors,  they  raise  the  old  stars  and  bars  to  guide 
their  comrades  to  their  rescue.  The  men  return 
to  the  fight  so  desperately  under  the  faded  old 
colors  that  the  Spaniards  are  driven  back,  and 
the  flag  is  never  lowered  until  the  Btars  and  stripes 
come  fluttering  in  at  the  head  of  a  relief  party. 
After  the  battle  the  Americans  gather  about  the 
frayed  old  confederate  flag,  nestling  in  the  shadow 
of  the  fluttering  stars  and  stripes,  and  salute  the 
two    flags   with    equal   reverence. 

WOMEN— PAST  AND  PRESENT  (June  4).— 
Miss  America  is  a  mannish,  presumably  advanced 
type  of  womanhood,  who  refuses  to  surrender  her 
rights  by  marrying  the  young  man  Bhe  loves,  be- 
cause he  has  what  she  considers  "too  old-fashioned 
ideas  concerning  the  femininity  of  women  She 
gives  out  her  ideas  In  a  hale-fellow-well-met-way  to 
the  modeBt  man  and  he  retires  to  sadly  think  it 
over  as  Bhe  goes  joyously  on  to  "whoop-it  up"  at 
a  suffrage  meeting.  Returning  from  a  day  of 
strenuous  service  in  disorder  add  window  smash- 
ing, she  casts  herself  in  exhaustion  upon  the 
couch  in  her  study  and  falls  asleep.  Then  comes 
to  her  in  dreams  a  picture  of  the  quiet,  delight- 
ful days  of  old,  so  well  remembered  from  the  tales 
told  by  her  grandmother.  Old  Father  Time  makes 
bold  to  intrude  and  conduct  her  back  along  the 
path  of  the  storied  past,  decade  by  decade  until 
she  arrives  at  the  age  of  gallantry,  when  Great- 
grandmother  was  a  girl.  It  shows  the  courtly  old 
days  in  the  quaint,  colonial  mansion  where  grand 
dames,  powdered  beauties,  periwigged  old  gallants 
and  lively  beaux  danced  to  stately  and  dignified 
minuet.  This  is  all  In  striking  contrast  to  the 
syncopated  ragtime  and  "animal  dances"  that  hold 
cheap  and  unworthy  possession  in  current  esteem. 
She  awakens  in  shame  at  the  present  conditions 
tears  the  banner  calling  "votes  for  women"  from 
the  wall  of  her  room,  and  again  surrenders  herself 
to  the  gentle  surroundings  of  her  true  sphere.  The 
disappointed  lover  having  gained  in  manhood  cor- 
respondingly comes  to  claim  his  own,  In  view 
of  the  fact  that  the  right  to  love  and  be  happy  is 
absolutely    constitutional. 

THE    SUWANEE    RIVER    (June   6) The    poetic 

and  sentimental  theme  of  the  old  Southland  song 
Is  the  moving  crux  investing  an  Interesting  story 
of  love  and  comedy  during  the  reconstruction  period, 
south  of  Mason  and  Dixon's  Line.  The  hero,  Bob 
Lucas,  a  fiery  Southerner  and  the  heroine,  Nell 
Burke,  a  young  Northern  girl,  live  on  adjoining 
plantations.  They  follow  nature's  line  of  least 
resistance,  and  fall  In  love.  Colonel  Lucas,  of 
the  old  school  of  Southerners,  has  a  deepset  hatred 
for  the  Northerners.  The  aged  negro,  Uncle  Abe, 
good-naturedly  assists  the  clandestine  meetings  of 
the  youngsters  and  does  his  best  to  keep  them  from 
the  knowledge  of  his  Massa',  the  old  Colonel.  When 
that  redoubtable  old  fire  eater  discovers  the  situa- 
tion and  what  he  considers  a  misalliance,  he  dis- 
owns his  son,  and  orders  him  to  leave  the  plan- 
tation at  once  and  forever.  Bob  Lucas,  dutifully 
accepts  snap  Judgement,  follows  orders,  goes  to 
the  North  and,  in  an  Eastern  city,  eventually 
amasses  a  fortune  by  selling  cotton  abort  when 
the  market  is  falling.  Strangely  enough,  this 
drop  in  cotton  prices  ruins  old  Colonel  Lucas.  His 
creditors  grow  more  and  more  importunate,  so  that 
finally  the  Sheriff  is  compelled  to  advertise  the  old 
plantation  and  house  at  a  sacrifice  sale.  All 
through  this  lowering  cloud  of  trouble  old  Uncle 
Abe  notices  that  the  Imperious  spirit  is  softening; 
the  iron  will  is  breaking  and  there  is  a  deep  settled 
longing  to  see  the  boy  again.  The  old  negro 
starts  North  with  his  banjo,  and  as  a  modest 
Berenader  attracts  the  attention  of  the  now  affluent 
young  Lucas  at  a  banquet.  He  tells  the  young 
man  the  story  of  his  father's  predicament  and 
this,  as  an  echo  of  the  song,  stirs  him  to  instant 
and  vigorous  action.  He  arrives  back  at  the  old 
plantation  just  in  the  nick  of  time,  as  the  deadly 
hammer  Is  about  to  strike  the  auction-block,  and 
saves  the  stubborn  colonel  in  spite  of  himself.  The 
father  and  son  become  reconciled  and  the  former 
buries  his  ancient  prejudices  and  finds  the  North- 
ern   girl    as    fair    as    any    flower    of    the    aromatic 


South.  So  all  ends  well  to  the  haunting  melody 
of   "Way  Down  Upon  the  Suwanee  River." 

AN  EMBARRASSED  BRIDEGROOM  (June  6).— 
Tom  Martin,  a  ranchman,  busy  until  his  wedding- 
day,  finds  that  his  clothes  are  rather  shabby  for 
such  a  showing,  so  he  hikes  to  town  and  purchases 
a  full  supply  of  new  duds.  As  he  is  about  to 
start  home,  he  meets  congenial  friends  who  insist 
upon  drinking  to  the  bride.  One  thing  leads  to 
another  and  Tom  Is  presented  with  a  full  bottle 
to  keep  him  company  on  his  way  home.  He  de- 
cides, when  part  way  home,  to  pnt  on  bis  new 
clothes  and  save  time,  and  he  is  somewhat  un- 
steadily engaged  in  this  occupation,  when  his  horses 
get  tired  and  run  away.  He  chases  them  In  airy 
attire,  but  just  as  be  catches  them,  he  Is  forced 
to  desert  and  hide.  A  couple  of  plains  girls  ride 
Into  the  picture.  They  think  that  the  team  has 
wandered  away,  so  they  drive  the  horses  back  to 
the  ranch,  where  the  wedding  party  Is  anxiously 
waiting.  The  prospective  bride  is  furious  and  in 
caprice  Is  about  to  marry  Tom's  rival.  Tom,  still 
shy  on  clothes,  but  thoroughly  sobered  arrives  just 
in  the  nick  of  time,  is  forgiven  and  the  wedding 
event  comes  off  as  scheduled. 

MANILA.  NORMAL  AND  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS 
(June  6). — An  educational  picture  showing  the 
good  work  of  our  educational  army  of  Invasion. 


LUBIN. 

A  WOMAN'S  HEART  (June  2).— Nell  Logan  is  In 
love  with  Lon  Hardman,  the  foreman  of  her  father's 
ranch.  Their  love  runs  smoothly  until  the  day  when 
Lon  meets  a  pretty  gypsy  girl.  The  gypsy  is  im- 
pressed by  the  handsome  cowboy  and  feigns  a 
sprained  ankle  when  he  is  about  to  ride  away  from 
their  chance  meeting  at  the  old  well.  He  gallantly 
carries  her  in  his  arms  into  the  gypsy  camp,  much 
to  the  discomfiture  of  her  lover.  The  girl,  however, 
assures  her  lover  that  she  is  to  only  make  a  victim 
of  the  cowboy,   through  which  he  will  profit. 

As  the  days  go  by  the  cowboy  becomes  more  and 
more  infatuated  with  the  gypsy,  forgetting  his  little 
sweetheart.  There  comes  a  day  when  the  tryst  at 
the  old  well  is  Interrupted  by  the  ranchman  sending 
Lon  to  the  bank  for  the  ranch  payroll.  Lon  leaves 
a  note  at  the  old  well,  telling  the  gypsy  girl  he  has 
gone  to  the  bank  and  will  meet  her  upon  bis  re- 
turn. She  finds  the  note  and  hurries  to  her  father 
and  lover,  explaining  that  the  opportunity  for 
which  she  has  been  waiting  has  arrived.  The  lover 
is.  only  too  eager  to  end  the  flirtation  between  his 
sweetheart  and  the  cowboy,  and  suggests  a  plan  to 
rob  Lon  and  put  him  out  of  the  way. 

In  the  meantime,  Nell,  who  has  become  very  dis- 
consolate, hits  upon  the  plan  of  having  the  fortune 
teller  look  into  the  future  for  her.  The  old  gypsy 
crone  advises  her  to  look  into  the  old  spring  at  high 
noon  and  she  will  see  depicted  In  its  depths  some- 
thing of  interest.  Nell,  at  the  spring,  gees  mir- 
rored in  the  water  her  sweetheart  in  a  loverlike 
pose  with  the  gypsy  girl.  Grieved  by  this  she  is 
horrified  to  see  reflected  further  the  gypsy  lover's 
evil  intentions  toward  Lon.  At  the  well  the  gypsies 
conceal  themselves  and  when  the  girl  has  cajoled 
Lon  Into  showing  her  the  bankroll,  her  lover  strikes 
Lon  from  behind,  and  he  falls  into  the  old  well. 
The  gypsies  make  quick  preparation  to  leave  the 
neighborhood,  but  Nell,  troubled  by  ber  vision,  is 
suspicious  when  Lou's  horse  arrives  at  the  ranch 
riderless.  She  explains  the  things  she  saw  in  the 
pool  to  her  father,  and  with  the  cowboys  they  inter- 
cept and  capture  the  gypsies,  finally  rescuing  Lon 
from  the  well.  Later  the  sweetness  of  Nell's  for- 
giveness causes  Lon  to  repent  and  marvel  at  a  good 
woman's  love. 

A  JEALOUS  HUSBAND  (June  3). — In  comparative 
poverty,  Miles  Kenneth  and  his  wife,  Mary  are 
happy  with  their  young  child,  but  face  the  situation 
bravely.  Mary's  one  distress  is  that  she  Is  unable 
to  materially  assist  her  husband,  who  is  In  des- 
perate need  of  additional  money  to  complete  a 
contract.  A  newspaper  offers  a  prize  of  $1,000  for 
the  best  short  story  submitted,  and  Mary  determines 
to  compete,  but,  fearing  her  husband's  teasing,  con- 
ceals her  efforts. 

Mary  is  subjected  to  the  unwelcome  attention  of 
a  wealthy  man.  In  ber  efforts  to  save  her  husband 
from  pain  and  to  prevent  his  taking  some  hasty 
vengeance,  Mary  allows  herself  to  be  placed  in  a 
false  light,  and  Miles'  jealousy  is  aroused.  His 
suspicions  are  apparently  confirmed  when  be  finds  a 
note  that  seems  to  fatally  compromise  his  wife. 
In  a  mad  fury  he  plans  to  kill  his  wife  and  then 
himself,  but  is  diverted  from  this  course  by  Mvm, 
a  girl  of  the  city,  who  was  a  boyhood  sweetheart, 
before  she  became  what  she  now  is.  Myra,  who 
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life.  Myra  chances  to  meet  with  the  child,  who 
has  wandered  out  into  the  streets,  seeking  her 
father,  to  tell  him  to  come  home,  that  her  mother 
Is  111.  With  the  child  asleep  tn  her  arms,  many 
emotions  are  awakened  In  Myra's  breast.  She 
knows  of  the  note  that  caused  Miles  to  leave  his 
home,  and  chance  now  places  in  her  hands  a  copy 
of  the  prise  story,  just  published,  and  which  bears 
Mary's  name.  In  it  Myra  finds  embodied  the  text 
of  the  fstal  note,  that  which  Miles  found  having 
been  merely  a  sheet  of  Mary's  manuscript.  Myra 
sends  Miles,  with  the  child,  back  to  his  home.  In 
bitter  remorse  he  appeals  for  forgiveness,  which  Is 
granted  him. 

THE  PENALTY  OF  JEALOUSY  (June  6).— Bob 
Adams,  returning  from  a  visit  to  the  East,  brings 
his  sister  out  to  the  Mexican  border  to  bis  ranch. 
Mae  is  Inclined  to  flirt.  Bob  Is  Inclined  to  be  jealous 
and  discbarges  one  of  bis  hands  for  taking  ad- 
vantage of  one  of  his  sister's  flirtatious  moods. 
Miss  Mae,  In  attempting  to  chop  some  wood,  strains 
her  shoulder.  The  old  foreman  of  the  ranch  tries 
to  quiet  her,  but  Is  discovered  by  Adams,  who,  in 
a  flt  of  jealous  rage,  struggles  over  a  revolver  and 
accidentally  shoots  the  foreman.  He  knows  the 
penalty  and  decides  to  ride  across  the  border  into 
Mexico,  where  he  becomes  acquainted  with  Carme- 
11  ta,  Ramon's  sweetheart,  and  afterwards  marries 
her.  Ramon,  with  a  broken  heart,  goes  into  the 
States  and  by  one  of  those  queer  turns  of  nature, 
goes  to  the  Adams'  ranch  and  applies  for  work. 
He  becomes  Infatuated  with  Mae,  Adams'  sister. 
After  many  months  have  passed,  Carmelita  find* 
Adams  flirting  with  another  Spanish  girl,  Innocently 
enough,  but  jealousy  overpowers  reason  and  she 
takes  her  own  life.  Adams,  being  thoroughly 
frightened,  re-crosses  into  the  States  to  seek  pro- 
tection against  the  just  anger  of  the  Mexicans,  and 
there  meets  with  Ramon,  in  his  own  home.  Ramon, 
thinking  that  he  is  trying  to  steal  Miss  Adams, 
tells  her  that  this  is  the  man  who  took  from  him 
his  love  and  defies  him  to  attempt  to  use  his  art 
on  Mae.  A  struggle  ensues  and  Ramon  mortally 
wounds  Adams  and  takes  to  flight.  The  cowmen  follow 
and  drive  him  into  an  old  hut,  where  they  try  to 
dislodge  him  by  bullets,  eventually  using  dynamite. 
Adams,  in  the  meantime,  regains  consciousness 
sufficiently  to  get  onto  a  horse  and  ride  to  Ramon's 
rescue,  but  arrives  only  in  time  to  shake  his  hand, 
and  both  men  die  as  they  lived — victims  of  that 
grim    monster — jealousy. 

BOB  BUILDS  A  CHICKEN  HOUSE  (June  5)  .—Bob 
Thompson  is  a  poultry  fan,  and  with  the  assistance 
of  his  family  and  friends,  proceeds  to  build  a 
chicken  house.  They  all  skirmish  for  lumber,  and, 
having  secured  the  plans  from  a  poultry  book,  suc- 
ceed fairly  well  In  constructing  the  building.  John 
Smiley,  who  is  always  doubtful  of  the  success  of 
Bob's  engineering  schemes — and  Thompson  being  on 
the  inside  of  the  coop — John  calls  for  Bob  to  come 
out  and  take  a  look  at  the  bouse.  The  master 
builder  weighs  three  hundred  pounds  and  finds  that 
the  windows  and  door  are  all  too  small  to  permit 
him  to  make  an  exit.  There  is  only  one  thing  to 
do,  and  that  is  to  chop  his  way  out.  This  he  does, 
with  much  show  of  temper,  That  night  the  party 
goes  to  Bob's  house  and  tells  Vivian,  Bob's  daugh- 
ter, to  tell  her  father  that  his  friends  have  come  to 
congratulate  him.  Bob  sends  word  out  that  he 
wants  nothing  more  to  do  with  them,  and  the  bunch 
retire,  disappointed,  but  realizing  that  there  is 
nothing  doing. 

KATE,  THE  COP  (June  B). — Casey  is  not  much 
of  a  policeman,  but  he  and  the  old  Chief  of  Police 
are  ail  the  force  Beckville  boasts.  Casey  is  like 
a  big-town  cop  and  Is  popular  with  the  servant 
girls.  Kate  Is  his  favorite.  Kate's  mistress  catches 
a  burglar  in  her  bedroom  and  'phones  for  the  chief. 
Then  she  finds  Oasey  In  the  kitchen  and  Kate  makes 
Casey  go  after  the  burglar.  Casey  is  scared  by  a 
noise  and  rushes  back  to  the  kitchen.  Kate  goes 
after  the  intruder  herself  and  makes  the  arrest, 
and  the  disgusted  chief  appoints  Kate  the  cop  and 
makes  Casey  turn  cook.  A  week  later  the  cop  is 
Invited  in  for  lunch,  but  this  time  Casey  does  the 
inviting  and  Kate  is  the  uniformed  guest. 

THE  GREAT  PEARL  (June  7). — Walter  Trask,  a 
young  college  man,  receives  news  of  his  father's 
death  and  the  loss  of  his  fortune.  He  resolves  to 
go  to  work  and  try  to  retrieve  his  loss.  With  the 
aid  of  the  family  lawyer,  he  secures  a  position  as 
bookkeeper  with  a  large  lumber  firm  In  the  South, 
and,  bidding  bis  fiancee  farewell,  departs.  On  his 
arrival  he  finds  favor  in  the  eyes  of  the  superin- 
tendent, who  takes  him  to  his  boarding  bouse  anil 
introduces  him  to  his  landlady  and  her  daughter. 
a  pretty,  frivolous,  village  coquette.  The  young 
lady  immediately  begins  a  conquest  of  the  new 
boarder's  heart  and  plays  off  one  young  man  against 
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a  wonderful  pearl.  Balk  and  Myrtle  follow  him,  a 
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Balk  picks  it  up  and  Myrtle  greedily  demands  it. 
Trask  comes  up  and  asks  for  the  pearl.  Balk  and 
he  have  words  and  Myrtle  slyly  runs  away  with 
the  pearl.  She  jumps  into  a  buggy  and  drives  to 
the  village  jewelers.  Balk  and  Trask  discover  her 
absence  and  follow  her.  They  find  her  trying  to 
sell  the  pearl.  Balk  insists  she  return  the  pearl 
to  Trask;  be,  much  disgusted  with  ber,  refuses  to 
receive  It  and  tells  Balk  to  keep  It.  Balk  refuses 
also,  ■  and  Myrtle  retains  the  gem.  On  Trask's  re- 
turn to  the  boarding  house  be  receives  a  telegram 
from  his  betrothed  telling  him  to  return  at  once, 
as  much  of  bis  fortune  has  been  discovered.  He 
ili-l'-rmines  to  do  so,  and,  reconciled  to  Balk,  leaves 
for  the  North.  Some  weeks  later  Myrtle,  anxious 
to  regain  her  influence  with  Balk,  makes  overtures 
of  peace,  but  he  gently  repulses  ber,  having  dis- 
covered her  unworthiness.  She  accepts  Balk's  re- 
buff calmly  and  goes  to  her  room  to  gloat  over  her 
great  pearl.  While  admiring  it,  it  suddenly  ex- 
plodes— thus  exemplifying,  "All  is  vanity  and  shall 
crumble  to  dust." 

THE  ACCUSING  HAND  (Special,  2  parts,  June 
6). — Three  school  chums,  two  boys  and  a  girl,  go 
merrily  on  their  way  as  boys  and  girls  usually  do. 
Jack  Sneder,  the  favorite  one,  asks  the  girl's  hand 
in  marriage.  Her  father  tells  him  when  be  can 
produce  ten  thousand  dollars  he  can  have  her. 
Five  years  later  we  find  Jack  a  detective.  He  is 
stationed  In  the  West  along  the  Mexican  border. 
Bob  O'Connor,  the  other  schoolmate,  is  still  friendly 
with  the  girl,  until  his  father  receives  a  communi- 
cation from  the  West  that  Beulah  (the  girl)  has 
Inherited  some  two  millions  of  dollars.  Bob's  father, 
being  the  attorney  for  Beulab's  father,  receives  this 
communication  and  immediately  temptation  seizes 
him  and  he  confides  In  his  son,  Bob,  his  scheme 
to  have  him  (Bob),  marry  the  girl  before  he  notifies 
her  of  her  inheritance.  Buelah's  father,  however, 
objects,  and  Bob,  not  stopping  at  anything,  hires 
two  thugs  to  do  away  with  him,  The  girl  suspects 
Bob,  and  induces  the  Tholl  Detective  Service  to 
take  the  case.  Jack  is  employed  by  that  firm  and 
receives  communication  from  the  general  manager 
of  the  detective  service  that  young  O'Connor  is 
coming  West,  and  Jack  receives  instructions  to 
give  him  the  "silent  third  degree."  Jack  meets 
him  at  the  train  when  be  arrives  on  the  Mexican 
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Jack  starts  back  East  with  his  prisoner.  The 
prisoner,  seeing  an  opportunity  to  escape,  and  be- 
ing mentally  unbalanced,  jumps  from  a  moving 
train  and  meets  with  a  .just  end.  Jack  returns  to 
New  York,  and  secures  the  girl. 


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its  skilled  artisans,  reared  from  boyhood  in  the  one 
trade,  and  sometimes  passing  it  down  from  gene- 
ration to  generation.  All  stages  of  the  work  are 
shown,  from  moulding  to  the  finished  article  for  sale. 

Last,  and  perhaps  the  most  Interesting  to  Ameri- 
cans, Is  the  Pottery  Industry,  Java  pottery  Is 
known  throughout  the  world,  but  to  see  it  rounded 
Into  shape  from  the  getting  of  clay  at  the  bottom 
of  the  lake  to  the  baking  of  it  In  kilns,  la  a  sight 
which  few  have  witnessed. 


PATHEPLAY. 

PATHE'S  WEEKLY,  NO.  22,  1913  (May  26).— 
New  York,  N.  Y. — The  monument  to  the  memory  of 
Carl  Schurz.  soldier,  statesman  and  scholar,  is  un- 
veiled on  Riverside  Drive  here. 

Naples,  Italy. — The  King  and  Queen  attend  the 
launching  of  the  new  dreadnaught,  "Andrea  Doria," 
at  the  navy  yard. 

St.  Louis,  Mo. — The  St.  Louis  and  Chicago  teams 
of  the  new  Federal  League,  line  up  for  the  opening 
game  of  the  baseball  season  here. 

New  York,  N.  Y. — Fifteen  hundred  athletes  toe 
the  mark  in  the  Evening  Mall's  twelve-mile  race, 
and  Kolehmalnen  wins.  Time,  1  hour,  5  minutes 
and   15  3-5  seconds. 

St,  Louis,  Mo. — Judge  Henry  S.  Caulfleld  addresses 
the  Civil  War  Veterans  assembled  to  honor  the 
memory  of  Gen.  Lyon,  hero  of  the  battle  of  Camp 
Jackson,   fought  52  years  ago. 

New  York,  N.  Y. — Andrew  Carnegie  is  among  the 
"Universal  Peace'*  advocates  who  meet  to  arrange 
for  fittingly  celebrating  the  one  hundredth  anni- 
versary of  the  signing  of  the  Treaty  of  Ghent. 

New  York,  N.  Y. — Seven  thousand  little  girls 
swarm  over  Central  Park  pasture  In  their  sixth  an- 
nual  festival. 

Comic    Section.— 'Mutt    attempts    to   silence    Pack- 
aninnl's  G  string. 
And  Many  Others. 

DEEDGES  AND  FARM  IMPLEMENTS  IN  THE 
WEST  (June  3).— The  problem  of  settling  the  arid 
wastes  of  the  Far  West  was  solved  with  the  success 
of  the  first  irrigation  project,  but  then  arose  a 
demand  for  machinery  that  would  lessen  the  under- 
taking of  irrigating  immense  tracts  of  land  which 
could  be  made  available  for  farming  purposes.  The 
result  was  the  elimination  of  the  horse  entirely  and 
io  this  film  we  see  canals  being  dug  by  traveling 
dredges  and  engines.  Also  there  Is  a  dredge,  con- 
ceived by  a  genius,  which  digs  up  the  beds  of  dried 
up  creeks,  extracts  whatever  gold  the  dirt  contains, 
and  drops  the  refuse  behind  it. 

A  MARKET  IN  KABYTJA,  ALGERIA  (June  3).— 
A  film  that  is  a  personally  conducted  tour  through 
a  far-off  land,  showing  everything  of  interest  there- 
in. 

THE  SAVING  LIE  (June  4).— Cyril  Jackson,  an 
author,  is  so  Intensely  occupied  with  his  art  that 
he  takes  his  wife's  love  as  a  matter-of-course,  pay- 
ing her  none  of  the  little  attentions  which  make  a 
woman  happy.  Wlllard  Martin,  a  friend  of  Jack- 
son, becomes  infatuated  with  Mrs.  Jackson  and 
Jilts  Mabel  Wallace,  whom  he  Is  engaged  to  marry, 
because  of  his  new  fancy.  Mrs.  Jackson  repulses 
Martin,  but  the  latter  persists  in  his  attentions 
until  finally  Jackson  learns  of  his  friend's  double 
dealing.  Armed  with  a  revolver,  and  a  desire  for 
revenge,  Jackson  calls  on  Martin  for  an  explana- 
tion. Martin  is  at  a  loss  for  an  answer,  but  his 
Jilted  sweetheart  tells  a  He  that  saves  his  life, 
and,  after  Jackson  and  his  wife  are  reconciled, 
Mabel  tells  Martin  how  glad  she  is  to  be  rid  of  him. 
WHAT  THE  GOOD  BOOK  TAUGHT  (June  6).— 
A  girl,  journeying  to  a  more  suitable  climate  with 
her  sick  mother,  is  seized  by  a  band  of  badmen. 
While  held  captive  by  them  she  finds  a  dusty 
copy  of  the  Bible,  which  was  given  to  Joe,  the 
leader  of  the  band,  by  his  mother.  In  a  par- 
ticularly affecting  scene,  Marlon  shows  Joe  the 
inscription  in  the  Good  Book,  and  pleads  with  him 
to  help  her  and  her  mother.  Joe  is  so  deeply 
touched  that,  although  It  Is  a  difficult  task,  he 
forces  his  companions  to  feel  as  he  does,  and  not 
only  renders  every  assistance  possible  until  Marion's 
mother  is  well  again,  but  when  they  depart  for  the 
next  town,  Joe  is  driving  the  horses  and  Marlon 
has  agreed  to  pay  a  visit  with  him  to  the  first 
parson   they  can   find. 

BIRDS  AND  ANIMALS  OF  BRAZIL  (June  6).— 
The  strange  birds  and  animals  that  inhabit  Brazil 
are  the  subject  of  this  interesting  film.  Red  and 
blue  parrots  are  shown,  and  then  follow  crocodiles, 
half  a  dozen  of  them  in  characteristic  attitudes,  a 
forty-foot  boa  constructor,  the  largest  and  moat 
powerful  of  the  snake  family,  and  specimens  of 
the  various  monkeys  that  comprise  the  Cebu  species. 
The  antics  of  these  monkeys  are  very  amusing  and 
they  supply  any  number  of  laughs  in  addition  to 
being  of  keen  Interest  to  every  student  of  the 
Darwin  theory  of  evolution. 

TANANARIVE,  MADAGASCAR  (June  6).— An 
old,  old  town  In  Madagascar,  showing  the  customs 
of  the  natives,  their  principal  industries,  and  some 
very  exciting  horse  races  held  on  a  feast  day. 

GET-RICH-atHCK  BJLLTNGTON  (June  7).— Bil- 
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which  to  maintain  it.    At  his  club  a  flood  of  unpaid 


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bills  caused  liirn  to  confide  in  Jake  Cohen,  a  mine  pro 
moter,  who  has  cash,  but  no  social  position.  Cohen 
offers  Billington  a  half  interest  in  Ills  business  if 
the  latter  will  sell  some  stock  to  his  rich  friends. 
At  a  dance  In  the  home  of  the  Blllingtons,  Cohen 
delights  the  fancy  of  Billington's  rich  aunt,  Nancy, 
a  spinster.  The  next  day  the  authorities  haul 
Cohen  and  Billington  out  of  bed  and  off  to  a  cell 
on  a  charge  of  swindling.  Aunt  Nancy,  when  she 
learns  that  Cohen  is  in  trouble,  writes  a  check  to 
cover  the  claims  against  him.  When  Billington 
and  Cohen  are  free,  Aunt  Nancy  holds  out  her  arms 
to  Cohen.  Cohen  looks  at  her,  then  at  a  passing 
train,    and   takes  the   train. 


BIOORAPH. 

THE  RANCHERO'S  REVENGE  (Junt  2).— The 
heartless  woman  with  her  partner  answered  the 
ranchero's  call  for  a  wife.  Then  the  adventuress 
soon  discovered  she  was  not  as  heartless  as  she  at 
first  imagined.  She  learned  to  love  and  when  the 
other  man  appeared  to  perpetrate  the  Infamous 
design,  true  woman  nature  came  Into  the  struggle, 
saving  both  herself  and  the  ranchero.  That  was 
his  revenge. 

A  TIMELY  INTERCEPTION  (June  7).— Often- 
times the  seeming  adversity  proves  the  ultimate 
blessing.  To  help  the  unfortunate  uncle  who  slept 
when  he  should  have  been  watching,  the  great 
event  in  the  lives  of  the  boy  and  girl  must  needs 
be  postponed.  Yet  in  spite  of  a  crafty  oil  syndi- 
cate the  great  event  occurred  with  far  more  pomp 
than    it   otherwise    might. 

SLIPPERY  SLIM  REPENTS  (June  6).— When 
the  evangelist  came  to  town  Slippery  Slim,  being 
in  a  particularly  sentimental  mood,  swore  off  and 
left  his  bad  past  behind  him.  The  parson  was  in 
for  painting  the  town  wtiite.  That  Is  why  he  fol- 
lowed up  Rattlesnake  Joe,  the  whiskey  smuggler, 
and  brought  him  over  to  conversion.  But  the  par- 
son made  a  slip  that  spoiled  it  all.  When  a  spring 
apparently  gushes  forth  forbidden  liquid,  what 
can   a   poor   parson    do? 

JXSST  KIDS  (June  6). — Half-back  Harold  loved 
the  professor's  daughter,  but  such  a  procedure  was 
strictly  against  the  rules  of  the  girls*  academy. 
Half-back  Harold,  however,  became  the  lion  of 
the  day  in  the  eyes  of  the  fair  feminine  pupils 
while  they  bathed  In  the  forbidden  mill  stream. 
One  gallant  touch-down  followed  another  and  the 
professor,  saved  from   the  deep,  broke  a  precedent. 


VITAGRAPH. 

WHAT  GOD  HATH  JOINED  TOGETHER  (June 
2). — Jim  Kennedy  is  an  all-around  good  fellow 
and  one  of  the  best  liked  men  in  the  mining  camp. 
One  day  he  sees  Spanish  Dan  ill-treating  his  wife, 
Kate,  and  interferes  In  ber  behalf.  Dan  at  once 
draws  a  gun  on  him  and  Kennedy  falls  to  the 
ground  severely  wounded.  The  gunman  Is  obliged 
to   dee    for   bis   life. 

Kennedy  is  carried  home  by  the  boys  and  a  doc- 
tor sent  for.  While  they  are  waiting  for  his 
arrival,  Kate  enters  the  house  and  announces  her 
Intention  of  looking  after  the  sick  man  until  his 
recovery.  The  man  has  been  severely  wounded 
and  it  is  a  long  time  before  he  Is  able  to  go  out 
again.  When  he  Is  better  he  asks  Kate  to  stay 
and  keep  house  for  him  as  news  has  arrived  that 
her  husband  has  been  killed  in  Mexico  and  she 
has  now  no  home   to  go  to. 

After  a  time  Jim  is  able  to  go  prospecting  again, 
but  meets  with  a  run  of  bad  luck  and  Is  not  able 
to  get  even  a  small  quantity  of  gold,  The  luck 
runs  Just  the  other  way  with  some  of  the  other 
men,  who  strike  a  regular  Klondike  and  bring  back 
some  large  nuggets  to  the  camp.  Kennedy  is  such 
a  popular  fellow  that  they  ask  him  to  go  along 
with  them  and  share  In  their  good  fortune,  an 
offer  that  they  would  not  have  made  to  any  other 
man  in  the   place. 

Kennedy  goes  home  and  commences  to  get  ready 
his  kit  for  the  trip.  While  he  Is  packing  he  finds 
some  baby  clothes  that  have  been  carelessly  left 
in  the  cupboard  by  Kate.  He  Is  at  once  filled  with 
pity  for  the  poor  woman,  who,  now  that  her  hus- 
band is  dead,  will  have  no  means  of  supporting  toe 
little  one.  He  feels  that  he  owes  his  life  to  her 
careful  nursing  and,  In  graUtude  for  what  she  has 
done  for  him,  he  decides  to  marry  her  and  bring 
up  the  child  as  If  It  were  his  own.  He  gives  up 
the  idea  of  going  out  with  the  gold  diggers  and  rides 
off  to  fetch  the  parson  instead,  with  whom  he  shortly 
returns.  They  are  quickly  united  in  holy  wed- 
lock, the  woman  being  overjoyed  at  the  prospect 
of  a  bright  future  wltu  the  man  she  has  come  to 
love. 

BUNNY  AS  A  BEPOBTEB,  (June  8).— After  hav- 
ing done  a  little  newspaper  work  on  the  side,  John 
Bunny  applies  to  the  editor  of  a  provincial  paper 
for  a  regular  position  on  his  staff.  The  editor,  as 
a  try-out,  gives  him  a  somewhat  difficult  assign- 
ment. Bunny  is  told  to  "cover"  the  secret  suf- 
frage meeting.  Figuring  that  It  would  be  impos- 
sible for  a  man  to  get  In,  Bunny  disguises  him- 
self as  a  woman  and  arrives  at  the  hall,  an- 
nounces that  he  brings  greetings  from  a  distant 
organization.  He  is  enthusiastically  received,  be- 
ing embraced  by  almost  everyone  present.  After 
the  principal  has  finished  her  oration,  the  visitor 
is  called  on  to  speak.  Bnnny  rises  and  his  re- 
marks  are  greeteil  with  cheers,  All  goes  well  un- 
til lie  notices  the  doorkeeper  turning  the  key. 
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tils  hand  bag.  His  manner  of  picking  It  up  dis- 
closes his  sex  and  Immediately  the  meeting  is  In 
an  uproar.  The  door  being  locked,  the  reporter  Is 
unable  to  escape  that  way,  but  after  considerable 
difficulty,  be  manages  to  get  out  of  the  window. 
An  exciting  chase  follows  across  the  lots,  Bunny 
shedding  various  garments  on  the  way.  He  eludes 
bis  pursuers  by  climbing  a  tree,  but  after  a  time 
they  locate  him  and  none  of  the  women  has  the 
courage  to  climb  after  him.  Their  leader,  bow- 
ever,  is  seized  by  a  brilliant  Idea.  Rushing  to  a 
nearby  house  she  gets  an  axe  and  with  the  help 
of  the  others,  hews  down  the  tree.  Bunny's  pleas 
for  mercy  are  of  no  avail.  At  the  point  of  a  hat- 
pin he  is  obliged  to  confess  bis  penitence  and  make 
a  vow  of  silence.  He  Is  retained  as  a  prisoner 
of  war,  and  still  wearing  his  borrowed  cosage, 
forms  a  highly  decorative  exhibit  on  a  float 
in   the   triumphant   militant    suffragettes'    parade. 

A  MODERN  PSYCHE  (June  4).— Carter  Weston, 
a  novelist,  notices  a  pretty  young  girl  on  the  train 
reading  his  latest  book,  "A  Modern  Psyche."  He 
Is  greatly  struck  by  her  beauty  and  sweetness,  but 
does  not  speak  with  her  as  be  has  to  get  off  at  the 
next  station.  The  girl  is  June  Harmon,  the  daugh- 
ter of  John  Harmon,  the  book  and  curio  collector. 
She  Is  returning  from  college  and  is  going  to  help 
her  father  in  cataloging  bis  somewhat  extensive 
library. 

The  next  door  neighbors  of  the  Harmons  are 
Mrs.  Bradley  and  her  daughter  Nell,  a  college 
friend  of  June.  Just  after  the  girl's  return  from 
college,  Mrs.  Bradley  sends  out  invitations  for  a 
fancy  dress  ball,  to  which  she  invites  June.  Mr. 
Harmon  refuses  permission  to  his  daughter,  but  she 
makes  up  ber  mind  to  do  Just  as  she  pleases  and 
sets  about  designing  a  suitable  costume.  Looking 
over  her  new  novel  she  sees  a  picture  of  Psyche 
and  determines  to  go  in  that  character. 

Among  the  other  guests  invited  to  the  house  Is 
Carter  Weston,  who  happens  to  be  a  cousin  of 
Nell  Bradley.  He  was  on  his  way  there  when  be 
saw  June  on  the  train  and  since  his  arrival,  has 
been  looking  after  the  preparations  for  the  cele- 
bration. On  the  night  of  the  ball,  after  most  of 
the  guests  are  assembled.  Mrs.  Bradley  is  sud- 
denly taken  very  sick  and  the  festivities  have  to 
be  stopped.  This  happens  before  June's  arrival 
at  the  house  and  when  she  arrives,  she  finds  noth- 
ing but  a  deserted  ballroom.  It  is  there  that  she 
again  meets  Weston,  and  both  at  once  recognize 
each  other.  .Weston  introduces  himself  and  greatly 
admires  June's  costume,  so  plainly  modeled  after 
the  illustration  in  his  novel.  June,  on  the  other 
hand,  Is  equally  delighted  to  find  that  this  enter- 
taining young  man  is  her  best  friend's  cousin.  He 
takes  ber  home  and  leaves  her  at  the  gate,  asking 
her  permission  to  call  upon  her  on  the  morrow. 

The  next  day,  Weston  calls  at  the  house  with  a 
letter  of  introduction  to  the  elder  Harmon,  and 
gains  further  acquaintance  with  June  through  the 
pretence  of  consulting  books  in  the  library.  He 
does  not  bother  much  about  the  books  after  Mr. 
Harmon  has  left  the  room,  bat  taking  June  to 
his  arms  he  tells  her  that  she  Is  the  real  object 
of  his  search,  that  he  has  come  to  bring  ber  the 
love  -so  long  Bought  by  the  real  Psyche. 

THE  HEART  OF  MRS.  ROBINS  (June  6).— A 
rather  selfish  and  frivolous  widow,  Mrs.  Robins, 
goes  away  to  spend  the  summer  with  a  gay  party 
of  tourists,  leaving  her  little  son,  Bobby,  in  the 
care  of  a  nurse.  One  day,  while  out  for  a  walk, 
Bobby  becomes  acquainted  with  Dick  Bronson,  a 
scientist,  who  gets  locked  In  bis  room  and  is  help- 
ed out  by  Bobby,  who  climbs  over  the  transom  of 
the  door  and  gets  the  key  for  him.  After  this 
Bobby  meets  Dick  several  times  and  a  strong 
friendship  is  formed  between  them. 

In  one  of  his  letters  to  his  mother,  Bobby  tells 
about  Dick  and  gets  him  to  add  a  postscript,  which 
he  does  saying  that  he  Is  hoping  soon  to  meet  the 
mother  of  his  little  companion.  Mrs.  Robins  is 
amused  when  she  gets  the  letter,  but  at  the  same 
time  angry  at  Dick's  remark,  which  seems  some- 
how to  Imply  that  she  should  be  at  home  with  her 
boy.  By  the  advice  of  George  French,  ber  latest 
suitor,  she  writes  to  the  nurse,  saying  that  she 
must  not  allow  Bobby  to  meet  Mr.  Bronson  again 
and  to  Bronson  asking  him  not  to  see  the  boy. 

Bobby  misses  his  new  friend  very  much,  for  both 
the  nurse  and  Dick  obey  orders,  and  worries  over 
the  enforced  separation,  so  much  so  that  he  be- 
comes very  111.  He  seems  to  be  pining  away  and 
eo  the  doctor  writes  to  Mrs.  Robins  telling  her 
that  be  will  not  answer  for  the  consequences  if 
she  does  not  return.  When  she  goes  to  the  bedside, 
Bobby  turns  from  her  and  will  not  recognize  her. 
She  cannot  understand  this  until  the  nurse  explains 
that  the  illness  began  soon  after  he  had  been  for- 
bidden to  see  his  friend  Dick.  Mrs.  Robins,  much 
against  ber  Inclination,  decides  to  send  for  Dick, 
who  hnrrles  to  the  bedside  of  the  sick  child.  As 
soon  as  be  sees  Dick,  Bobby  brightens  up  and 
takes  a  turn  for  the  better,  going  peacefully  to 
sleep  in  his  friend's  arms.  Dick  remains  quite 
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boy  wakes  again.  Bobby  wakes  up  and  fondly 
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Wallace  Dixon  leaves  the  bouse  In  anger,  declaring 
that  he  will  live  his  life  as  best  pleases  him. 
That  night,  Alfred  Dixon,  the  father,  bears  a  noise 
by  the  safe  In  his  bedroom,  where  be  Is  sleeping, 
and  shoots  at  the  intruder  who  escapes  unharmed. 
Dixon  rushes  downstairs  and  almost  falls  over  bis 
son,  who  has  tripped  while  passing  through  the 
portieres  of  the  hall.  Wallace  indignantly  denies 
the  attempted  robbery,  but  his  father  will  not  be* 
lleve  him.  The  young  man  leaves  the  bouse,  vow- 
ing that  be  will  never  enter  it  again. 

Late  one  night,  Wallace,  after  Dixon  has  re- 
tired to  bed,  creeps  to  the  house,  almost  starving, 
and  seeing  his  old  friend,  Barrow,  the  butler, 
sitting  before  the  open  fire,  he  taps  the  window 
and  is  let  into  the  house.  Barrow,  first  making 
sure  that  the  servants  are  all  out  of  the  way, 
takes  Wallace  to  the  kitchen  and  gives  blm  a 
hearty  meal,  Wallace  declares  that  he  must  leave 
immediately,  but  asks  Barrow  to  take  him  to  his 
father's  bedroom  that  he  may  look  upon  him  once 
again.  Barrow  takes  the  young  man  to  the  room, 
but  has  considerable  difficulty  In  preventing  him 
from  waking  Dixon.  Indeed,  just  as  they  are 
leaving  the  room,  be  does  wake.  Dixon  pulls  a 
revolver  from  lnder  his  pillow  and  fires  at  the  fig- 
ures he  sees  In  the  dark.  The  butler  falls  wound* 
ed. 

Dixon  blames  his  son  for  the  occurrence  and  is 
about  to  order  him  again  from  the  bouse,  when 
Barrow  interrupts  them.  He  tells  them  that  Wal- 
lace was  innocently  blamed  for  the  robbery  of  the 
safe.  The  real  thief  was  Barrow's  own  eon,  who 
had  knocked  Wallace  down  as  be  passed  out  through 
the  hallway  and  so  drawn  his  father's  attention 
to  him.  Dixon  warmly  embraces  his  son  and  agrees 
to  forget  bis  previous  erratic  behavior.  The  but- 
ler passes  away,  happy  that  be  has  at  last  un- 
burdened bis  heart  of  the  secret  that  had  so  long 
oppressed  blm. 

THE  FORGOTTEN  LATCHKEY  (June  7).— 
While  staying  at  the  house  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Moore, 
some  old  friends,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Burton  receive 
invitations  to  a  dance.  The  evening  of  the  dance, 
Mrs.  Moore  tells  them  that  she  and  her  husband 
will  be  away  for  the  night,  staying  at  her  mother's, 
and  gives  the  key  to  Mrs.  Burton  so  that  she  and 
her  husband  will  have  no  trouble  getting  Into  the 
bouse    when    they    return. 

As  soon  as  the  Moores  and  Burtons  have  driven 
away  to  keep  tbeir  respective  engagements,  Mag* 
gle,  the  cook,  also  leaves  the  house;  she  is  going 
to  a  wedding  celebration  and  expects  to  be  away 
all  night  and  to  return  in  the  morning  before  her 
master  and  mistress  get  back.  She  tells  the  sleepy 
housemaid,  Bridget,  that  she  has  the  key  in  her 
pocket-book. 

When  the  Burtons  get  back  from  the  dance  they 
find  that  they  have  left  the  key  behind.  They 
ring  and  ring,  but  Bridget,  who  is  a  fat,  sleepy 
individual,  does  not  hear  them.  An  attempt  to 
enter  the  bouse  by  means  of  the  cellar  is  futile. 
Burton  does  not  have  much  trouble  getting  in 
tbrough  the  cellar  window  but  Is  unable  to  get 
through  the  door  that  leads  Into  the  kitchen,  as  It 
is  locked.  He  succeeds,  however,  in  knocking  over 
an  ash  barrel  and  getting  his  clothes  badly  messed. 

The  Burtons  then  attempt  to  rouse  the  maid  by 
telephoning  to  the  house,  but  she  still  sleeps  sound- 
ly and  does  not  hear  them.  Incidentally  It  costs 
two  dollars  to  appease  the  sleepy  druggist  for  bring- 
ing blm  out  of  bed.  They  next  decide  to  go  to  a 
hotel,  but  the  clerk  will  not  admit  them  as  they 
have  no  baggage.  The  rest  of  the  night  they  spend 
in  a  taxi-cab  as  it  Is  too  chilly  to  walk  about  the 
streets. 

About  eight  o'clock  in  the  morning,  Maggie  re- 
turns from  the  wedding  party  and  sees  the  taxi  In 
front  of  the  house.  Maggie  looks  Inside,  and  seeing 
the  sleepers,  becomes  alarmed  and  shrieks  out  that 
they  are  dead.  Her  screams  awake  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Burton,  who  joyfully  recognize  her  and  get  the 
key  at  last.  Not  the  least  of  their  troubles  Is  that 
the  taximeter  has  been  piling  up  the  bill  steadily 
and  Burton  finds  that  he  has  about  seventeen  dol- 
lars to  pay  for  what  has  been,  at  the  best,  an  un- 
comfortable  lodging   bouse. 


BSSANAY. 

LET  NO  MAN  PUT  ASUNDER  (June  3).— Arthur 
Winn,  a  prominent  clubman  and  social  favorite, 
Is  divorced  by  his  wife.  Disgusted  with  himself 
and  suroundlngs,  be  goes  out  west.  His  love  for 
Helen,  his  ex-wlfe  could  not  be  taken  from  blm  by 
the  divorce  courts,  so  be  lived  in  hopes  that  be 
would  some  day  be  able  to  claim  ber  again.  Fate 
brings  the  two  together  in  a  small  mining  town 
in  the  west,  where  Arthur  rescues  bis  wife  from 
a  drunken  miner.  Her  love  returns  to  the  man 
that   loved  ber   better  than   his  life. 

THE  VALUE  OF  MOTHERS-IN-LAW  (June  4).— 
Mr.  Newly  Hitched  becomes  Jealous  when  he  dis- 
covers his  wife  Is  wearing  a  gentleman's  ring. 
Mrs.  Newly  Hitched  returns  the  same  compliments 
to  her  husband,  when  she  discovers  be  has  a  ladles' 
fan  in  his  possession.  Wlfey  locks  her  husband 
out.  Both  send  telegrams  to  their  mothers.  The 
mothers  arrive.  The  value  of  mothers-in-law  was 
when  they  brought  the  two  jealous  "children" 
together. 

THE  LAST  SHOT  (June  5).— -Lee  Clay  is  con- 
victed by  the  jury  and  sent  to  prison  for  ten  years. 
Tom,    the    son,    swears   revenge    and    determines   to 


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ups as  much  as  it  will  the  youngsters.  One  of  those  pictures  where 
the  dolls  come  to  life  and  do  all  sorts  of  funny  and  wonderful 
things  for  a  poor  little  girl. 

394  feet— THE  BRICKLAYERS'  JOKE— $39.40 

This  is  one  of  those  strenuous  boisterous  comedies  that  puts  the  whole 
house  in  a  roar  the  moment  it  begins,  and  the  fun  never  stops  until 
the  last  foot  of  film  is  run.  There  is  action  in  every  inch  of  it.  The 
picture  is  entirely  within  the  bounds  of  good  taste  and  one  of  the 
kind  that  drives  dull  care  away. 

321  feet  — GIVING    HIM    FITS  — $32.10 

This  is  a  crazy  thing  but  awfully  funny.  A  thief  gets  into  one  of 
those  haunted  houses  and  is  very  glad  to  get  out  again.  The  house 
is  bewitched  and  all  kinds  of  things  happen  to  him.  Inanimate 
objects  chastise  the  intruder  and  put  him  through  a  course  of  sprouts 
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Mil  his  brother-in-law  for  testifying  against  his 
father.  Helen,  the  wife  of  Tom,  goes  to  warn 
her  brother.  In  trying  to  save  him  from  her  now 
maddened  husband,  she  is  killed.  Clay  and  his 
brother-in-law  end  the  feud  over  the  lifeleBs  form 
of   Helen. 

PHILLIP  MARCH'S  ENGAGEMENT  (June  6).— 
Phillip  March  becomes  annoyed  at  tie  announce- 
ment of  his  engagement  to  Mary  Adams.  The  so- 
ciety debutante  had  never  met  March,  and  she  her- 
self becomes  very  much  annoyed.  March  Anally 
decides  to  spend  a  few  weeks  with  some  friends 
of  bis  In  the  country.  Mary  tries  the  same  medi- 
cine. The  Intoxicated  baggage  man  at  the  depot  in 
the  small  town  gets  the  trunks  mixed  and  sends 
Phillip's  trunk  to  Mary,  and  Mary's  trunk  to  Phil- 
lip. 

BRONCHO  BILLY'S  CAPTURE  (June  7) — Jnan 
Tukas,  a  greaser,  schemes  with  his  sweetheart, 
Evelyn,  to  bold  up  the  stage  and  rob  the  driver 
of  the  express  box.  Broncho  Billy  Is  infatuated 
with  Evciyn.  The  coacr.  is  held  op.  Broncho 
Billy  captures  Juan  and  takes  him  to  Evelyn's 
shack,  to  get  a  drink  of  water.  Evelyn  betrays 
herself.  Although  he  loves  her,  his  duty  compels 
Broncho   Billy    to  take    Evelyn    prisoner. 


Among  the  Exhibitors 

Los  Angeles,  Calif.— Robt.  W.  Woodley,  mana- 
ger of  the  Optic  theater,  1b  haying  plans  drawn  for 
a  moving  picture  theater  to  be  erected  on  Broad- 
way, between  8th  and  Oth  Streets. 

Oconto  Falls,  Wla.— Harry  Cohodas,  proprietor  of 
the  Grand  theater,  has  completed  a  deal  for  a  three 
year  lease  on  a  spacious  business  building  here  and 
will  open  a  photoplay  house. 

Wilmington,  Del. — The  Avenue  Theater  has  been 
sold  by  the  David  M.  Hess  estate  of  Philadelphia 
to    Mrs.    Patterson. 

Oregon,  Mo. — R.  S.  Reeves  has  completed  the 
plans  for  the  conversion  of  bla  business  bouse  Into 
an  amusement  bouse.  Work  will  commence  the 
latter  part  of  May. 

Boons,  Iowa.— H.  A.  Watklns,  former  proprietor 
of  the  Lyric  theater,  purchased  two  moving  pic- 
ture shows   In   Centervllle. 

Creadon,  Wis. — The  Princess  Theater  Co.,  will 
install  a  new  motion  picture  outfit  In  Sargent'a 
Opera  House  and  will  operate  a  picture  show  here 
each  Tuesday  evening  in  conjunction  with  their 
theater  in   Orandon. 

Linneus,  Mo. — The  Woscatow  Motion  Picture  Co., 
the  new  company  of  Carlos  Western  and  Todd  Or- 
miston  is  completing  details  for  the  opening  of  an 
alrdome. 

SaxtU  Barbara,  Calif.— O.  W.  Northrop  was 
awarded  the  contract  for  the  erection  of  a  moving 
picture  theater  at  650  State  Street,  for  H.  K. 
Marble.      Cost    $22,000. 

Sioux  Falls,  S.  D. — Solari  Brothers  will  erect 
a  new  theater— The  Orpheum.     Cost  $60,000. 

Griswold,  la. — Brown  &  Carlton  have  closed  a 
deal  with  F.  W.  Pouder  for  the  lease  of  the  new 
opera  house  now  In  course  of  construction  in  this 
city. 

Shrsveport,  La. — C.  A.  Demerls,  manager  of 
Dreamland  Theater,  will  remodel  the  building  at 
224  Texas  Street  for  a  moving  picture  theater. 

Austin,  Minn. — Frank  F.  Latta,  owner  of  the 
Cozy  theater  here,  bought  the  Idle  Hour,  also  of 
this  city.     Mr.   Latta  will  manage  both  houses. 

Rome,  Ga. — Ed.  Peters,  a  locsl  capitalist,  has 
announced  that  plans  are  being  drawn  for  the 
erection  at  the  old  Lyric  theater  site  of  a  new 
theater. 

Buffalo,    N.    Y Jas.    A.    Lbckhart   will    build    a 

moving  picture  theater  at  the  southwest  corner  of 
Brlgga  Avenue   and  Tonawanda   Street. 

Boone,  la. — H.  A.  Watklns,  formerly  proprietor 
ef  the  Lyric  theater,  has  purchased  two  moving 
picture  theaters  at  Centerrille,  la.  He  and  bis 
son,  Ralph,  will  take  charge  of  them  at  once. 

Philadelphia,  Fa. — M.  Shore  has  the  contract 
for  the  moving  picture  theater  on  Woodland  Avenue, 
west  of  B8th  Street,  to  cost  $27,000,  for  Wolf 
Bodek.     B.  A.   Rehill  Is  the  architect. 

Philadelphia,  Fs. — J.  P.  Cassldy  of  Cape  May, 
bis  been  awarded  the  contract  for  an  open  air 
moving  picture  theater,  for  the  Marine  Park 
Amnsement  Co.,  of  Cape  May. 

St.  Cloud,  Minn,— Manager  Davidson  announced 
that  he  will  erect  a  theater  on  the  Bite  occupied 
by  the  Davldaon,    which  was  destroyed   by   Are. 

Eagle  Grove,  Is, — Mr.  Botgar  opened  the  Eagle 
theater   here. 

Cincinnati,  0. — Dr.  Bdw.  Behymer  expects  to  re- 
ceive estimates  In  about  two  weeks  for  the  motion 
picture  house  at  S737  Eastern  Avenue,  planned  by 
Ouster  Brothers. 

Elmira  Heights,  N.  Y.— The  Heights  Is  to  have 
a  motion  picture  show.  Van  Allen  bas  secured  the 
Troxel    buildings    and    same    will    be    remodeled. 

St.  Johnsvills,  N.  Y. — The  contract  to  erect  a 
motion  picture  theater  on  East  Main  Street,  bas 
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Madisonville,  Tex. — Messrs.  Carter  &  Glover  have 
leased  the  Detroit  building  and  are  fixing  it  up 
for  a  moving  picture  show. 

Hennosa,  Beach.— J.  E.  Walker  bas  taken  out 
a  permit  for  the  erection  of  a  $3,000  theater  to 
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Fairmont,  Minn. — Nicholas  &  Hay  will  erect  a 
moving  picture   theater. 

Clinton,  la. — W.  J.  West  is  erecting  a  large  play- 
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Beaumont,  Tex. — A  moving  picture  theater  win 
be  erected  here.  Headed  by  J.  K.  Grist.  OoBt 
$20,000. 

Hampton,  la. — The  new  picture  theater  here,  the 

Windsor,   will  be  opened  April  24th.     Cost  $35,000. 

Mount    City,    Mo. — R.    S.    Reeves    is    completing 

plans    for    converting    his    business    house    into    an 

opera  house. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — J.  A.  Bader  has  been  awarded 
the  contract  for  the  theater  to  he  built  at  2924 
Richmond   Street,    for  Wm.    E.   Bntler. 

Philadelphia,  Fa. — Mablon  H.  Dickinson  Is  pre- 
paring   plans    for    a    vaudeville    theater. 

Henry,  Ills. — H.  C.  Hatcher  Is  assisting  Milo 
Phares  in  starting  bis  new  picture  theater  here. 

Nashville,  Tenn. —  The  Empress  will  be  the  name 
of  the  new  picture  show  which  will  be  opened  at 
the  corner  of  Woodland  and  12th  Streets,  In  East 
Nashville.  C.  W.  Beasley  and  F.  E.  Draper,  man- 
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Williston,  M.  D,— A  new  theater  is  being  con- 
sidered by  Manager  McGlnnla. 

Hopkinlton,  La. — H.  A.  Phillipp,  proprietor  of  the 
will  be  erected  at  a  cost  of  $50,000  by  the  Bruss- 
opera   house  here. 

Milwaukee,  Wis. — Architect  Louis  Easer  is  draw- 
ing plans  for  the  remodeling  of  the  Davidson  thea- 
ter annex  to  be  made  Into  a  moving  picture  bouse 
to  cost  $40,000. 

Philadelphia,  Fa, — Tbos.  W.  Lamb  la  preparing 
plans  for  the  remodeling  of  the  Broad  Street  and 
Chestnut  Street  theaters  and  the  Grand  Opera 
House. 

Duluth,  Minn. — A  new  moving  picture  theater 
will  be  erected  at  a  cost  of  $50,000  by  the  Buns- 
wick  Co.,  an  amusement  concern,  backed  by  Tbos. 
Furnlss  and  associates. 

Altos,  la. — W.  L.  Hester  has  leased  the  Grand 
Opera  House  at  Ida  Grove  and  will  open  a  moving 
picture    show   there. 

Dee  Koines,  la. — Elbert  &  Getchell  will  erect  a 
moving    picture    theater    here. 

Duluth,  Minn. — A  $50,000  moving  picture  theater 
building  wll  be  erected  by  the  Bowe-Burke  Co., 
contractors,  on  2nd  Ave.,  West  and  First  Alley. 
Cost   $70,000. 

Bt.  Louis,  Ho. — Harry  and  E.  Freund  wll  erect 
a  moving  picture  theater  on  the  south  side  of  Broad- 
way, between  Geyer  and  Allen  Avenues.  Cost 
$40,000. 

Philadelphia,  Fa. — Jacob  Weinrelch  will  erect  a 
moving  picture  theater  at  1126  Fairmont  Avenue 
to   cost   about  $15,000. 

Springfield,  Mass. — Plana  were  Sled  tor  the  erec- 
tion of  Manager  S.  Z.  Poll's  new  theater  In 
Worthlngton   Street,    by   Mr.    Poll  personally. 

Fresno,  Calif. — A  new  $150,000  theater  will  be 
erected  here  on  J  Street,  where  the  Roedllng 
nursery  Is  now  situated,  within  a  very  short  time. 
Eniil  Eehrleln,  has  secured  a  lease  on  the  thea- 
ter. 

Milwaukee,  Wis. — The  Miramar  Theater  Co.,  has 
announced  that  a  theater  to  cost  $25,000  will  be 
built  on  Oakland  Avenue,  south  of  Folsom  place. 
Dea  Moines,  la. — P.  E.  Coffee  and  Laura  Cof- 
fee were  granted  a  permit  for  the  erection  of  the 
Empress  theater  on  8th  Street  to  cost  $75,000. 
Chas.   Weltz  &  Sons,  contractors. 

Earlington,  Ky. — J.  E.  Wawcett,  manager  of  the 
Earllngton  Bee,  has  bought  the  Princess  moving 
picture  show  and  will  run  that  In  connection  with 
his  duties  as  publisher  of  the  Bee. 

Birdsboro,  Pa. — Blaine  Sllpp,  Nelson  Gelger  and 
Ed.  Albright  have  sold  their  Interests  in  the  Hip- 
podrome moving  picture  house  to  Geo.  Kline,  Jr. 

Rockford,  His. — A  new  theater  will  be  erected 
here  to  cost  $100,000,  for  the  Orpheum  Amusement 
Company. 

Evanston,  His. — The  new  motion  picture  theater. 
The  Grand,  Is  now  open  for  business. 

St.  Louis,  Mo. — Frank  L.  Talbot  will  erect  a 
picture  theater  at  the  corner  of  7th  and  Market 
Streets. 

El  Centro,  Calif,— Plans  and  specifications  have 
been  completed  for  a  new  theater  building  to  be 
erected  on  6th  between  the  Masonic  temple  and 
Rnmsey  department  store,  by  J.  L.  Travers  and  to 
be  leased  to  Chas.  Applestlll  for  a  moving  picture 
house. 

Springfield,  0. — Walter  A.  Snodgrass  has  pur- 
chased the  lease  and  Interests  of  Larry  Ryan  In 
the  Lyric   theater  and   baa  assumed   full  control. 

Warsaw,  Ind. — P.  Kikley  of  Ft.  Wayne  haa  pur- 
chased the  Bell  theater  on  North  Buffalo  Street, 
and   assumed   the   management   of  same. 

Bed  Wing,  Minn. — H.  L.  Grady,  of  Mason  City, 
la.,  has  purchased  the  Interest  of  Dr.  F.  E.  Dalg- 
neau  In  the  Pastime  theater  at  Red  Wing. 

Florenoi,    Wis T.     O.    Tully,     manager    of    the 

Opera    House,    has    gone    into    the    moving    picture 
business. 

Huntington,  Ind.— Northern  Indian  Motion  Pic- 
ture Co.  to  operate  theaters:  Incorporated,  capital 
$5,000:  Incorporators,  R.  &'.  Mitchell,  M.  W. 
Strauss,  I.  E.  Clark. 

Brainerd,  Minn. — Paul  Perkins  sold  his  Interest 
In  the  Grand  Theater  to"  Clyde  Parker  and  Eugene 
McCarthy. 

Eagle  Lake,  Tex. — W.  A.  Moore  bought  the  New 
Grand  theater. 

Riohland  Center,  Wis. — Mr.  Mlnett  sold  the  Or- 
pheum theater  to  Erlckson  o;  Gelger. 

Washburn,  Wis. — Wm.  Burns  will  open  a  theater 
here. 

San  Francisco,  Calif. — Oliver  MorOBco,  a  former 
San  Franciscan,  will  erect  a  new  theater  here  to 
cost  not  less  than  $400,000. 


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POWERS. 

DOLLY  AND  THE  BURGLAR  (June  4).— Because 
tiny  Baxter  is  left  by  his  sister,  Early,  and  her 
girl  friend,  to  rare  for  sister's  best-loved  doll, 
little  Baxter  rebels  and  displays  a  decidedly  mascu- 
line streak  of  temper.  He  proceeds  to  vent  his  spite 
on  the  doll,  poking  .its  eyes  out  and  then  smashing 
Its  head. 

The  new  doll  that  takes  rhe  old  one's  place 
proves  so  attractive  that  night  to  little  Early,  that 
when  she  la  supposed  to  be  safely  tucked  In  bed, 
she  creeps  into  the  library  to  see  that  her  beautiful 
doll  is  asleep.  Her  advent  frightens  off  a  burglar 
Intent  on  robbing  the  safe  of  a  package  of  bonds 
atid  securities  that  Mr.  Baxter  had  brought  home 
with  him  for  safekeeping. 

Parley  steals  into  the  library  in  time  to  see  the 
burglar  leaving  by  the  window,  having  been  inter- 
rupted before  he  could  complete  the  robbery. 
Early,  fearing  for  the  safety  of  her  loved  dolly  with 
a  strange  man  about  the  place,  removes  the  pack- 
age of  bonds  from  the  opened  safe,  substituting 
the  box  in  which  she  has  placed  her  dolly.  The 
burglar  returns  and  takes  the  wrong  package,  opens 
it.  sees  the  doll,  dashes  it  to  the  floor  la  anger  and 
es  apes  by    the   window. 

When  Baxter  and  his  wife  find  the  safe  open, 
they  are  distracted,  until  Early,  in  a  temper  at 
the  sight  of  her  broken  doll,  dashed  the  second 
package  to  the  floor  spilling  the  bonds  and  securi- 
ties. When  Early  tells  of  the  man  at  the  window, 
Baxter  realizes  how  close  an  escape  she  has  had. 
He  phones  the  police,  who  capture  the  robber,  and 
Early  is  rewarded  by  the  most  beautiful  doll  she 
has  ever  possessed. 


IMP. 

JUST  A  FIRE-FIGHTER  (June  2).— Jane  is  ter- 
ribly stage  struck,  and,  possessed  of  an  ambition 
"  to  play  the  heroines  of  Shakespeare,  especially 
Ophelia,  her  ambition  causes  her  to  scorn  Moore, 
an  honest  young  fireman,  who  has  been  appointed 
to  duty  in  a  vaudeville  theater.  Thinking  to  give 
her  a  lesson  he  secures  her  an  opportunity  on 
amateur  night,  and  grimly  watches  her  reception 
by  the  hooting,  yelling  gallery,  and  scornful  occu- 
pants  of  the  orchestra  and  boxes. 

But  when  Jane's  Ophelia  causes  the  gallery  to  pelt 
her  with  vegetables,  and  draws  insulting  remarks 
from  the  young  rowdies  below,  Moore  dashes  to  the 
stage,  and  by  descending  Into  the  orchestra  and 
beating  one  young  rowdy,  and  threatening  the  rest 
of  the  house  with  a  similar  fate,  and  throwing  the 
stage  man  with  the  '"hook"  into  the  alley,  be  gives 
Jane  an  opportunity  to  proceed  with  her  try-out. 
Humiliated,  Jane  leaves  the  stage  and  hides  in  her 
dressing-room  in  tears. 

Later,  during  the  regular  performance.  Are  breaks 
out  on  the  stage,  and  a  panic  is  averted  by  the 
fireman,  who  gets  the  audience  safely  out  of  the 
theater  before  leaving  the  burning  stage  to  seek 
his  girl.  He  finds  her  the  last  to  attempt  to  leave, 
all  the  actresses  and  stage  crew  have  escaped.  All 
means  of  escape  by  stairs,  elevator  or  fire-escape 
is  cut  off  by  walls  of  flame.  Wrapping  the  girl 
up  in  wet  sheets  he  manages  to  reach  the  roof,  and 
Just  In  time  is  able  to  get  her  to  another  roof, 
where  the  firemen  are  playing  on  the  flames  and 
thus  make  their  escape.  Cured  by  a  double  lesson, 
Jane  renounces  the  stage  and  Its  role  for  the  better 
part  of  "just  a  wife." 


BISON. 

'  THE  BATTLE  OF  SAN  JUAN  HILL  (3  parts, 
June  3), — In  rendering  assistance  to  a  wounded 
Cuban,  Inez  Lopez,  wife  of  Dr.  Lopez,  a  loyal 
Spaniard,  learns  the  secret  of  the  source  of  Cuban 
ammunition.  Gen.  Simmons,  a  soldier  of  fortune, 
fighting  for  Couba  Libre,  hears  the  confession,  and 
knowing  Inez  will  make  use  of  the  knowledge.  Sim- 
mons summons  several  of  his  men  and  makes  Inez  a 
prisoner.  She  is  taken  to  Simmons*  luxurious  quar- 
ters at  the  outskirts  of  the  city. 

Dr.  Lopez,  who  has  for  some  time  been  very 
abusive  to  his  wife,  is,  at  this  time,  absent  from 
home,  having  gone  on  one  of  his  periodical  visits, 
presumably  to  confer  with  Gen.  Linares,  but  in 
reality  his  journey  is  actuated  by  a  desire  to  see 
"the  other  woman,"   Dolores,   a  sensuous  Cuban. 

Simmons  visits  Inez's  prison  nightly,  and  on  each 
call  be  attempts  to  make  love  to  the  beautiful 
girl.  She  scorns  his  advances,  much  to  his  amuse- 
ment. On  one  of  his  visits  he  comes  to  the  assist- 
ance of  an  old  Cuban  woman  who  is  being  robbed 
by  a  band  of  Spaniards,  aid  in  the  melee  Simmons 
receives  a   wound   In  bis  arm.     When  Inez   realizes 


that  he  is  wounded  she  betrays  for  the  first  time 
that  the  handsome,  reckless  soldier  of  fortune  has 
attracted  her.  She  dresses  his  wound  and  at  her 
gentle  touch  Simmons*  first  real  interest  in  the 
woman  is  aroused.  He  feigns  faintness  and  as  Inez 
bathes  his  forehead  her  fingers  linger  In  his  thick, 
dark  hair.  He  opens  his  eyes  suddenly,  and  they 
hold  each  other's  gaze  with  awakened  understand- 
ing,   to  the  imprisoned  woman's  aid. 

Simmons  has,  In  the  meantime,  received  orders  to 
nnmunition  to  the  front,  and  pays  Inez  a 
visit,  telling  'her  she  is  now  free  to  leave  her 
prison.  As  they  are  about  to  part  the  American 
troops  arrive  and  after  battering  down  the  door, 
rush  in  and  seize  Simmons.  Inez  in  agony,  realiz- 
ing that  her  note  has  brought  about  Simmons'  dis- 
grace among  the  Americans,  suddenly  decides  to 
defend  the  soldier  of  fortune.  She  steps  laughingly 
forward  and  declares  that  there  must  be  some  mis- 
take, as  she  Is  a  willing  prisoner.  The  American 
otticer,  with  a  covert  sneer,  leaves  and  Inez  and 
Simmons  say  farewell.  Simmons  wished  Inez  to 
stay  at  the  quarters,  but  telling  him  she  can  re- 
turn home,  sadly  takes  her  departure,  while  Sim- 
mons rides  away  to  the  front. 

Slowly  returning  to  her  home,  Inez  sees  her  hus- 
band and  the  Cuban  girl  in  an  affectionate  embrace. 
She  realizes  his  duplicity  and  exits  sorrowfully. 

Simmons,  who  has  reported  to  the  American 
general,  Is  ordered  to  learn  the  movements  of  the 
Spanish  forces.  He  visits  a  native  drinking  place, 
and  finding  the  doctor  and  several  of  bis  cronies 
in  a  state  of  intoxication,  Simmons  plies  the  doctor 
with  drinks  and  learns  of  the  defense  of  San  Juan 
Hill.  He  is  about  to  depart,  when  a  number  of 
Spanish  soldiers  ride  up  to  quench  their  thirst. 
They  find  that  the  intoxicated  doctor  believes  Sim- 
mons to  be  one  of  their  men  and  has  told  Spanish 
secrets.  Simmons  escapes  and  the  Spaniards  re- 
turn just  as  Dr.  Lopez,  resenting  his  interference, 
has  shot  and  killed  Andreas,  a  lover  of  Dolores, 
who  objects  to  the  doctor's  rough  treatment  of  the 
Cuban  girl. 

Dr.  Lopez  retreats  through  a  rear  door,  holding 
the  Spaniards  at  bay,  and  after  a  running  fight 
with  them,  succeeds  in  making  his  way  to  his  own 
home,  where  Inez,  realizing  the  seriousness  of  his 
wounds,  with  gentle  sympathy  administers  to  him. 
She  goes  for  assistance,  and  while  away  the 
Spaniards  find  him,  and  after  locking  him  in  the 
room,  they  plant  dynamite  to  blow  the  beautiful 
home  to  atoms.  Inez,  who  has  returned,  pleads  for 
her  husband's  life,  but  is  led  away  just  before  the 
-  explosion.  Dr.  Lopez  sees  the  preparation  for 
dynamiting  from  the  window,  and  the  agony  of  fear 
mingles  with  the  extreme  agony  he  is  suffering  from 
his  wounds.  He  falls  praying  across  the  couch  as 
the  explosion   takes  place. 

Simmons  shows  wonderful  courage  during  the 
battle  of  San  Juan  Hill.  The  wavering  columns  of 
men  fight  their  way  up  the  side  of  the  hill  toward 
the  San  Juan  Block  House,  steadily  advancing  under 
the  burning  sun.  They  reach  the  top  at  last  and 
the  Spanish  flag  gives  way  to  the  Stars  and  Stripes. 

Simmons,  who  is  wounded  In  the  engagement,  Is 
assisted  home  by  two  of  his  men.  He  finds  no  com- 
fort in  the  luxurious  quarters,  for  he  misses  the 
presence  of  the  girl  who  shouldered  dishonor  to  save 
him.  He  does  not  know  that  even  while  be  Is  long- 
ing for  her,  Inez,  finding  her  home  a  smoking  ruin 
and  her  husband  dead,  has  turned  Instinctively  to 
him.  She  slips  in  as  he  mourns  for  her,  and  with 
a  great  love  shining  in  her  eyes,  drops  to  her  knees 
by  his  side.  With  wonder  and  love,  Simmons,  the 
soldier  of  fortune,  claims  his  mate. 

THE  SPIRIT  OF  THE  FLAG  (2  parts,  June  7),— 
Dr.  Reid,  a  young  American  physician  in  the  Philip- 
pines, risks  his  life  in  the  cause  of  patriotism,  and 
eventually  wins  the  love  of  the  girl  of  his  choice. 
With  the  idea  of  developing  li  the  natives  in  his 
community  the  spirit  of  manly  citizenship.  Dr.  Reid 
requests  the  War  Department  to  furnish  him  with  a 
number  of  discarded  Winchesters  with  which  to 
drill  the  natives.  His  request  is  granted  and  be 
succeeds  in  getting  together  quite  an  enthusiastic 
company.  Dr.  Reid  Is  not  the  only  instructor  in 
patriotism.  Young  Pauline  Bush,  a  teacher  in  the 
Islands,  has  for  some  time  been  Instructing  her 
pupils  in  all  that  the  American  flag  means  to  her. 
When  she  finds  that  Dr.  Reld  is  also  patriotically 
inclined,  a  bond  of  friendship  is  cemented  between 
the  two  Americans. 

Bonlta,  one  of  Pauline's  pupils,  has  for  some 
time  been  deeply  but  hopelessly  in  love  with  the 
young  doctor,  and  is  very  despondent  when  she 
sees  the  growing  attraction  between  the  young 
Americans.  Her  father  wishes  to  join  Dr.  Reid's 
company,  but  because  of  his  age  is  not  allowed 
to  do  so.  Dr.  Reld,  however,  gives  him  a  gun, 
which  the  old  man  becomes  very  fond  of. 

Camped  close  to  the  settlement  is  a  company  of 
Spaniards,  one  of  whom,  through  disorderly  conduct, 
is  stripped  of  his  uniform  and  driven  from  camp. 
This  renegade  makes  his  way  to  the  settlement  and 
there  encounters  Bonita,  the  young  native  girl. 
Bonlta's  beauty  attracts  the  renegade,  who  makes 
insulting  advances  to  her.  Doctor  Reld  witnesses 
the  encounter  and  after  a  short,  sharp  fight  with 
the  renegade,  he  Is  sent  about  his  business.  The 
renegade,  smarting  under  the  drubbing  he  has  re- 
ceived, vows  revenge  on  the  American,  and  when 
he  discovers  him  drilling  the  natives,  he  hastens 
to  the  Spanish  camp  and  informs  the  officer  in 
charge  that  the  American  doctor  is  teaching  the 
Filippinos  war.  The  Spaniards  hasten  to  the  settle- 
ment and  finding  Bonlta's   father  fondling  the  gun 


given  him  by  the  doctor,  they  decide  to  make  an 
example  of  him. 

They  seize  the  old  man  and  drag  him  to  a  nearby 
wall,  where  they  proceed  to  execute  him.  Bonita, 
who  witnesses  the  shooting  of  her  father,  is  wild 
with  grief,  and  runs  to  her  beluved  teacher  and 
tells  her  what  has  occurred.  Pauline  fearlessly 
rushes  to  the  place  of  the  execution,  and  furiously 
reprimands  the  two  Spaniards  who  are  standing  by 
the  body.  They  debate  for  a  moment,  then  grab 
the  teacher  and  attempt  to  drag  her  away.  Dr. 
Reid,  who  is  hunting  nearby,  sees  the  struggle  and 
swiftly  dispatches  both  soldiers.  He  hastens  to 
Pauline's   side   and    leads  both   girls   away. 

Dr.  Reld  realizes  the  significance  of  the  shooting 
of  the  old  man  and  quickly  gathers  his  little  com- 
pany together.  They  are  not  a  moment  too  soon, 
for  the  Spaniards  charge  the  settlement.  The  wo- 
men and  children  hide  at  the  school  house,  where 
they  are  at  last  joined  by  the  men,  fighting  each 
inch  of  the  way.  A  desperate  battle  is  waged 
around  the  tiny  school  house  and  the  doctor  and  his 
little  band  are  more  than  outnumbered. 

Bonita  sees  the  battle  from  a  distance  and  hastens 
swiftly  to  the  American  camp  and  informs  the 
officer  what  she  has  seen.  The  American  troops 
hurry  to  the  scene  of  the  conflict  and  reach  the 
schoolhouse  just  as  the  doctor,  who  has  fired  his 
last  round  of  ammunition,  is  about  to  surrender. 
The  Americans  quickly  drive  the  Spaniards  from  the 
field,  but  Bouita,  who  has  followed,  is  shot.  She 
falls,  clutching  the  American  flag  which  she  has 
learned  to  love.  Dr.  Reid  and  Pauline  find  the  young 
native  girl  and  feelingly  drape  her  remains  with  the 
silken  folds  of  "Old  Glory." 


NESTOR. 

A  MIXUP  IN  BANDITS  (June  2).— Eddie  and  Lee 
leave  the  ranch  bouse  to  visit  their  cousins  in  the 
city.  The  girls  have  never  been  West  and  after 
supper  persuade  the  boys  to  recount  some  of  their 
adventures.  The  boys  exchange  a  meaning  wink 
and  Eddie,  the  more  fertile  liar  of  the  two,  tells 
how  he  and  Lee  rescued  a  settler  and  his  family 
from  the  Indians  while  they  were  penned  up  In 
their  cabin.  The  girls  shiver  as  Eddie  tells  the 
tale  of  their  terrific  deeds  of  daring  and  of  how 
the  two  of  them  exterminated  a  whole  tribe  of 
Indians. 

Eddie  gets  through  and  the  girls'  eyes  glow  with 
pride  at  possessing  two  such  brave  cousins.  Lee 
tells  the  tale  of  the  girl  abducted  by  a  fierce  and 
bloodthirsty  band  of  bandits,  who  took  her  to  their 
rocky  cave  in  the  wilds  of  the  forest  and  tied  her 
to  a  stake  while  they  heartlessly  played  "seven  up" 
on  the  top  of  a  barrel.  Eddie  and  Lee  smiled  at 
the  offer  of  assistance  and  sallied  forth,  shot  the 
leader  and  captured  the  rest  of  the  bandits  and 
returned  the  girl  to  the  bosom  of  her  sorrowing 
family.  The  cousins,  whose  breath  has  been  coming 
in  gasps,  give  a  deep,  united  sigh  and  fall  in  love 
with  the  heroic  defenders  of  the  helpless  and  the 
innocent. 

The  boys  return  home,  and  in  due  course  the  two 
girl  cousins  are  invited  to  the  ranch.  Soon  after 
they  arrive  the  news  comes  that  Peevish  Pete,  the 
notorious  desperado,  is  at  large.  The  sheriff,  cow- 
boys and  the  boys*  father  start  in  pursuit,  but  Lddie 
and  Lee  politely  but  firmly  refuse  to  go.  The 
cousins  are  astonished  and  twit  the  boys  with  want 
of  bravery.  They  say  they  will  go  to  show  the 
girls  and  getting  to  a  safe  distance  they  Bit  down 
and  smoke,  but  take  to  a  tree  when  they  hear  a 
roar.  It  is  ouly  a  burro!  The  girls  see  them  and 
tell  the  boys'  sisters  and  they  determine  to  punish 
the  boys  for  their  cowardice.  They  dress  up  as 
bandits,  and  with  guns  and  masks,  steal  upon  the 
boys  and  take  them  off  trembling,  begging  for 
mercy.  They  tie  them  to  a  tree  and  shoot  at  their 
feet,  and  slipping  a  note  in  Eddie's  pocket,  they 
release  them  and  tell  them  to  go.  The  boys  flee, 
panic-stricken,  as  the  bullets  fly  around  them.  The 
boys  read  the  note,  which  is  from  the  girls,  and 
which  says.   "You  are  some  brave  heroes— NOT. 

They  meet  the  sheriff  and  posse  returning  with  the 
bandit  and  tell  of  their  humiliation  and  the  sheriff 
raughlngly  agrees  to  help  them.  The  party  hides 
in  the  bushes,  and,  emptying  the  bandit  s  gun,  tell 
him  to  accost  the  girls.  He  does  this  as  the  party 
cover  him  from  the  bushes,  and  reduces  the  girls  to 
abiect  terror.  Eddie  and  Lee  fly  to  the  rescue  and 
retake  the  tame  bandit,  and  are  reinstated  as  heroes, 
for  the  girls  take  off  their  masks  and  capitulate. 

THE  IDOL  OF  BONANZA  CAMP  (June  4).— 
Nan  is  one  of  those  unfortunate  young  women  who 
have  lot  into  that  groove  where  things  look .hope- 
less Nan  is  employed  at  the  saloon  In  an  old-time 
m^lng  camp,  and  has  gradually  become  accustomed 
to  being  the  accomplice  of  a  gambler  and  adventurer, 

KThinegsaUar'e  very  slow,  and  when  news  comes  of 
the  prosperous  promise  of  the  new  camp  at  Bononza^ 
ne  KW  decides  to  go,  and  persuades  the  none  too 
willing  Nan  to  join  him,  with  the  idea  of  making 
some  adventurous  clean-up.  In  order  to  fit  their 
ends,    the   two  arrange   to  be  strangers   in   the  new 

°aThe  Kid  arrives  on  horseback  and  is  made  the 
butt  of  the  jokes  of  the  miners,  giving  him  the 
desire  to  get  even  with  his  tormentors  Nan  to 
delayed  somewhat  on  the  way.  and  is  seen  by  Sandy 
a  miner  who  spurs  ahead  and  tells  the  boys  that 
there  is  a  woman  coming.  They  all  spruce  up  and 
await  her  arrival.  She  comes  and  the  men  see  a 
bashful,    pretty    woman    and    are    abashed;    all    but 


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Gentleman  George,  who,  doffing  his  hat,  helps  her 
•down  and  gets  her  a  chair.  "Where  can  I  get  a 
room?"  The  question  is  a  facer;  but  George  acts 
decisively,  and  taking  some  of  the  boy-  to  his 
ehaek  hard  by,  he  sets  tbein  to  work  removing  the 
debris  from  the  outside  and  furnishing  up  tiie  in- 
eide.  Several  miners  add  bits  of  furniture  and  very 
soon  George  escorts  Nan  to  her  new  quarters,  where 
they  leave  her,  her  mind  in  an  upheaval,  for  this 
gallantry  and  kindness  are  new  to  her.  The  Kid 
has  watched  it  all  with  contempt  aud  amusement. 

Time  goes  on  and  George's  attention  to  Nan  and 
his  unvarying  thought  and  kindness  raise  the  new 
woman  in  her,  and  the  hold  of  the  Kid  loses  its 
grip.  Nan  endears  herself  to  the  miners  by  singing 
to  them  in  the  evenings,  and  they  make  her  presents 
Of  gold  dust,  which  is  promptly  appropriated  by 
the  Kid  on  his  secret  calls. 

One  day  the  miners  deposit  their  dust  in  a  chest 
in  Montana's  cabin,  where  G'eorge  also  occupies  a 
blanket  and  concocts  dishes  out  of  tins  and  things. 
The  Kid  watches  them  and  he  decides  that  the  time 
for  ft  clean-up  has  arrived.  The  men  see  him  and 
mistrusting  him,  take  the  chest  over  to  Nan's,  and 
despite  her  appeals,  they  insist  upon  leaving  it 
there. 

At  night  the  Kid  brings  two  horses  and  sur- 
prises Nan,  who  has  just  left  George  wondering 
disconsolately  why  she  will  not  marry  him.  The 
Kid  demands  the  key,  and  Nan,  now  resolved  to 
turn  the  leaf  for  good,  refuses.  He  prepares  to 
break  the  chest  open,  when  Nan  runs  to  the  window 
end  fires  three  times.  George  hears  the  shots  and 
runs  to  the  door.  The  Kid  tells  her  he  will  kill 
anyone  coming  in,  and  she,  in  terror,  tells  George 
through  the  door  she  is  all  right.  He  goes  to  the 
window,  sees  what  Is  happening,  and  smashing  the 
glass,  covers  the  Kid. 

Nan  intercedes  for  the  Kid  and  he  is  run  out  of 
the  camp.  She  tells  George  of  her  past  life,  and  he 
shows  her  a  haven  of  refuge  and  forgetfulne**  by 
opening  his  arms  to  her. 

OWANA,  THE  DEVIL  WOMAN  (June  6).— The 
old  chief  desires  to  see  bis  son  provided  with  a 
squaw,  but  she  must  be  good  and  beautiful.  He 
summons  many  braves  and  sends  them  to  distant 
camps  and  villages,  calling  for  an  Indian  maiden, 
one  who  will  be  a  fit  mate  for  Ortega,  the  son  of 
the  powerful  chief.  From  the  villages  come  many 
maidens,  including  the  beautiful  and  modest  Mona. 
In  one  of  the  villages  the  old  hag,  the  "Devil 
Woman,"  hears  the  message  and  decides  that  her 
daughter,    Kulvish,   shall  be  chosen. 

The  day  of  the  choosing  arrives  and  the  maidens 
file  by  the  expectant  Ortega.  He  gazes  at  them 
with  indifference  until  Mona  slowly  raises  her  eyes 
to  his,  when  he  smiles.  Knlush  is  led  to  Ortega  by 
her  mother,  who  watches  him  closely.  Ortega  does 
not  smile.  The  maidens  form  a  circle  around  Or- 
tega and  smile.  They  dance  and  Ortega  impulsively 
pulls  Mona  from  the  circle  and  his  choice  is  made. 
The  maidens  shower  the  couple  with  the  corn  and 
flowers  they  have  brought  and  depart  as  the  "Devil 
Woman"   forms  her  horrid  schemes. 

One  day  the  hag  discovers  the  weeds  she  is 
searching  for,  and  with  a  triumphant  and  malicious 
grin  she  throws  -them  on  the  fire,  incanting  the 
while.  She  throws  the  ashes  in  the  air  and  lo! 
Mona  sees  the  beloved  form  of  Ortega  slowly  change 
into  a  beautiful  pinto  pony.  The  "Devil  Woman" 
croons  her  Joy  and  Mona  runs  in  fear,  the  pony 
always  at  her  shoulder.  Arriving  at  the  village, 
Mona  tells  the  story,  and  Comanche,  the  pony,  nods 
an  affirmative.  Darkface,  who  himself  admires 
Mona,  is  secretly  pleased,  while  the  rest  of  the 
tribe  show  their  sorrow  and  pet  the  pony.  Dark- 
face  tries  to  persuade  Mona  to  go  with  him,  but 
she  points  sadly  to  Comanche.  He  determines  to 
get  the  pinto  out  of  the  way  In  order  to  compel 
Mona  to  listen  to  him.  He  takes  Comanche  away 
Into  the  woods,  hobbles  him,  and  jeering  at  him,  re- 
turns. He  surprises  Mona  at  the  waterhole,  puts 
his  hand  over  her  mouth,  and  carrying  ber  off, 
ties  ber  to  a  tree  until  she  will  obey  his  will. 

Comanche  undoes  the  hobbles  and  starts  in  search 
of  Mona.  He  finds  her  and  loosening  her  bonds 
with  his  teeth,  he  frees  her;  but  she,  weakened 
with  long  standing,  falls,  whereupon  Comanche 
lies  beside  her  and  helping  Mona  gets  her  on  his 
back,  rises  and  gallops  away.  They  meet  the  re- 
vengful  Darkface  and  Comanche  edges  him  over  a 
cliff.  The  Devil  Woman  finds  him  so  and  goes  for 
herbs.  Comanche  looks  over  the  cliff  and  starts  a 
big  rock  over  the  edge.  It  crushes  the  inhuman 
couple  as  Manitou,  the  gild  fairy  of  the  Indians, 
rides  on  and  flourishes  a  spear.  The  spell  Is  broken 
and  Comanche  gradually  fades  away  and  Ortega 
stands  again  before  his  beloved  Mona. 


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and  release  the  girl.  The  owner,  learning  that  be 
has  Keen  cheated  and  robbed,  brings  the  strike  to 
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VICTOR. 

THE  KIDNAPPED  TRAIN  (June  6).— As  the  re- 
sult of  a  strike,  a  foundry  Hes  Idle  and  the  men 
become  ugly.  The  owner  upholds  the  superintendent, 
who  has  been  cheating  both  blm  and  the  men  by 
falsifying  the  payrolls.  The  superintendent's  ste- 
nographer, a  young  girl,  learns  of  his  duplicity,  and 
telegraphs  the  owner.  The  superintendent  decides 
to  take  more  of  the  owner's  money  and  securities, 
and,  to  prevent  exposure,  locks  the  stenographer  in 
the  office  vault.  He  then  takes  a  train  for  New 
York. 

The  girl's  lover,  a  railroad  fireman,  knows  that 
she  Is  in  the  office.  He  comes  for  her  and  discovers 
that  she  Is  In  the  vault.  As  the  superintendent  is 
the  only  one  who  knows  the  combination,   the  fire- 


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BILLY  IN  ARMOR  (June  2.'.— Billy  Quirk  and 
Count  Gastrome  are  rivals  for  Violet  Horner's 
heart.  Vi's  dad  wishes  her  to  marry  into  nobility, 
hut  VI  loves  Billy.  Dad  has  forbidden  Billy  en- 
trance to  bis  house,  but  by  a  clever  ruse  Billy  gets 
in. 

The  Count  tries  to  steal  some  of  Vi's  birthday 
presents,  but  Billy  catches  blm  in  the  act.  Billy, 
who  is  in  a  suit  of  armor,  steals  them. 

Later,  by  dropping  the  presents  into  the  pockets 
of  the  different  guests,  Billy  makes  each  tblnk  that 
they  are  kleptomaniacs.  Dad,  worried,  telephones 
to  the  police.  A  diamond  brooch  Is  lost.  Billy  finds 
this  and  drops  It  Into  the  Count's  pocket.  When 
ifie  police  arrive  the  Count  (not  knowing  the  brooch 
is  in  his  pocket),  suggests  that  everyone  be  searched. 
The  brooch  Is  found  on  him  and  be  is  arrested. 
Billy  then  succeeds  in  getting  all  the  jewels  into 
dad's  pocket.  Dad  discovers  this  while  standing 
in  front  of  the  armor.  Billy  raises  the  visor  of  the 
armor  and  catches  dad  looking  at  the  jewels,  and 
threatens  to  tell  the  guests  that  dad  has  done  the 
stealing.  T1iub  he  succeeds  in  getting  dad's  con- 
sent to  marry  Violet. 


crystal. 

MARY'S  ROMANCE  (June  8). — Mary  is  a  country 
girl,  and  lives  on  a  farm  with  her  parents.  How- 
ever, she  Is  very  romantic  and  her  head  is  full  of 
ideals,  gained  by  reading  numerous  romantic  books. 
John,  the  farm  hand,  has  induced  Mary  to  promise 
to  marry  him.  Mary  is  out  reading  one  day,  when 
Donald  Belmar,  on  a  hunting  trip  from  the  city, 
comes  across  her.  He  flirts  with  her  and  she  sees 
In  him  her  ideal  of  the  books,  she  listens  to  his 
flatteries  and  is  very  much  smitten  with  him. 
Arthur,  a  small  boy,  sees  the  flirtation  and  Informs 
John.  John  arrives  on  the  scene  Just  as  Belmar  Is 
kissing  Mary.  John  assaults  Belmar,  nearly  chokes 
him  to  death.  Belmar  goes  away  and  John  takes 
Mary  home,  Mary  refusing  to  speak  to  him.  The 
next  day  Mary  received  a  letter  from  Belmar  telling 
her  how  happy  he  was  while  with  her  and  Inviting 
her  to  come  to  the  city  to  visit  him.  This  she  de- 
cides to  do,  and  in  the  night  leaves  home.  She  ar- 
rives in  the  city  and  the  next  day  goes  to  Belmar's 
home.  To  her  surprise,  she  discovers  that  Belmar 
is  married,  and  that  she  has  been  deceived.  She 
returns  home,  but  her  father  orders  her  from  the 
house.  There  being  nothing  left  to  do  but  commit 
suicide,  she  journeys  to  the  river  and  decides  to 
end  her  life.  John  calls  at  her  home  and  Mary's 
mother  informs  him  of  Mary'B  return  and  of  how 
she  was  treated  by  her  father.  John  runs  to  the 
river  and  is  Just  In  time  to  save  Mary  from  a  watery 
grave.  Mary  realizes  the  true  depth  of  John's  love 
and  they  make  up  their  quarrel.  They  go  to  the 
minister  and  are  married,  Mary  vowing  to  always 
look  upon  John  as  her  only  ideal.  They  return 
home  and  upon  explanation  ere  reconciled  to  her 
mother  and   father. 

THE  NEW  TYPIST  (June  8). — The  clerk  and  the 
stenographer  are  in  love.  The  boss,  who  Is  married, 
never  suspects  it.  The  stenographer  goes  out  to 
lunch  and  loses  her  pocketbook.  She  returns  to  the 
office  crying.  The  boss  comforts  her  and  makes  good 
the  amount  she  lost.  She  continnes  to  cry  and  the 
boss  kindly  pats  her  on  the '  back.  The  clerk  sees 
this,  and  imagining  that  he  is  about  to  lose  his 
girl,  becomes  insanely  Jealous.  He  writes  a  letter 
to  the  boss'  wife,  telling  her  to  watch  him  and  the 
-t.  That  afternoon  the  typist  and  the  **lerk 
make  up  and  the  clerk  takes  her  In  his  arms  and 
kisses  her.  At  this  moment  the  boss  enters  and 
kicks  the  clerk  out.  The  typist  attacks  the  boss 
and  she  also  is  discharged.  The  boss  then  phones 
an  employment  agency  for  the  homeliest  typist  they 
have,  hoping  thus  to  do  away  with  all  lovemaking 
in  his  office.  They  send  a  very,  very,  homely  wo- 
man, and  she  Is  Installed  as  typist.  Meanwhile  the 
boss'  wife  determines  to  find  out  about  her  hus- 
band's doings  with  the  typist,  and  getting  a  re- 
volver, goes  to  the  office.  After  first  bavin?  written 
the  typist  that  she  would  kill  her.  The  old  typist 
returns  for  her  bag  and  the  new  typist  chases 
l>pr  out.  She  tells  the  clerk  and  he  goes  back. 
Meanwhile  the  boss'  wife  has  arrived,  and  upon 
seeing  the  typist,  reallies  that  her  suspicions  have 
been  false,  as  her  husband  could  never  leave  her 
for  one  so  homely.  The  clerk  arrives  and  is  chased 
out.  The  typist,  scared  by  the  revolver,  also  runs 
out  and  seeks  a  policeman.  However,  hubby  re- 
turns and  embracing  his  wife,  she  tears  up  the  note 
that  aroused  her  Jealousy. 

BLACK  AND  WHITE  (June  8).— Harold  calls  on 
Mabel.  While  he  is  there  her  friend  Lily  calls. 
Harold  seems  to  be  smitten  with  her  and  Ignores 
Mabel.  When  she  leaves  he  escorts  her  home.  The 
next  day,  he  again  calls  on  Mabel.  He  leaves  and 
she  follows  him.  He  goes  to  Lily's  house  and  Mabel 
is  insanely  jealous.  She  returns  home.  She  having 
ordered  a  bottle  of  toilet  water  from  the  dnii: 
gists,   upon  her  return  home  the  package  is  waiting 


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953 


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for  her.  She  opens  tbe  package  and  notices  that 
there  has  been  a  mistake.  The  druggist,  besides 
the  toilet  water,  has  Bent  a  bottle  of  nitrate  of 
silver.  On  this  bottle  is  a  caution  label,  warning 
one  that  to  apply  it  to  one's  akin  would  turn  the 
skin  black.  Mabel  decides  to  send  It  to  Lily  as 
toilet  water,  and  changes  the  contents  of  the  bottles. 
She  sends  the  bottle  op  to  Lily  with  a  letter  that 
It  is  great  for  the  complexion.  She  opens  the 
package  and  places  same  on  the  mantel.  Harold 
calls  and  they  go  into  the  next  room.  Then  Mabel 
calls  to  see  how  her  game  works,  and  is  surprised 
by  the  entrance  of  a  sneak  thief.  She  faints. 
Harold  and  Lily  hear  her  scream  and  rush  in. 
Lily  says  that  the  toilet  water  will  revive  her  and 
she  applies  the  supposed  water  to  her  face.  She 
awakens,  and  when  she  sees  the  bottle  in  Lily's 
hands  she  realizes  that  she  has  been  caught  in 
her  own  trap.  She  returns  home  and  her  colored 
bntler  imagines  she  is  one  of  his  own  tribe  and 
attempts  to  make  love  to  her.  She  makes  known 
who  she  Is  and  is  left  to  her  own  remorse. 


UNIVERSAL. 

ANIMATED  "WEEKLY,  NO.  63  (May  81).—  Har- 
vard •  Pennsylvania  -  Princeton,  —  Tbe  triangular 
•varsity  boat  race  on  the  Charles,  is  won  by  the 
crew   from    Princeton.     The    winning   crew. 

"Woo' s  Who  in  the  Cabinet. — Secretary  of  the 
Treasury  McAdoo. 

May  Pole  Dance. — Eight  thousand  school  children 
participate  in  the  annual  May  Day  fete  in  Central 
Park,   New  York. 

Wheels  of  Commerce — Steel  Industry. — Cutting 
through'  a  case-hardened  steel  shaft  4  inches  in  di- 
ameter, in  one  minute  and  fifty  seconds,  Sheffield, 
England. 

The  Bluecoats  Reviewed  and  presented  with  new 
flags  by  Mayor  Alexander,  of  Los  Angeles. 

What's  What  in  New  York. — Columbia  University. 

International  Peaoe  Committee  meet  at  the 
Capitol,   Washington,   D.   C. 

Disastrous  Fire. — A  million  gallons  of  oil  are 
destroyed  when  lightning  strikes  the  oil  tanks  at 
Amesville,  La. 

Government  Tests  of  army  hydroplanes  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  C. 

France. — CrowdB  in  Paris  trying  to  get  a  glimpse 
of  King  Alfonso  of  Spain. 

Civic  Parade. — Mayor  G'aynor  reviews  the  differ- 
ent departments  of   New   York   City. 

Destroying  Wooden  Cars  to  make  way  for  all 
Bteel  cars,   at  Seattle,   Washington. 

Zouave  Drill.— Executed  by  students  of  physical 
culture,  at  Chicago,   111. 

Automobile  Races,  near  Melbourne,   Australia. 

Who's  Who  in  Pictures— Billy  Shay. 


FRONTIER. 

THE  PILLAR  OF  PERIL  (June  6),— May  Rodg- 
ers  and  Bay  Sterling  are  classmates  at  an  uni- 
versity. A  mutual  attraction  ends  in  their  en- 
gagement on  graduation  day.  May  goes  home  to 
tbe  ranch  house  of  her  father,  while  Ray  enters 
the  forest  service.  After  receiving  his  outfit,  Ray 
rides  into  the  mountains  to  the  Cedro  station, 
where  he  reports  to  the  chief  ranger  and  is  put  on 
fire  patrol.  Meanwhile,  May  has  visited  her  fa- 
ther's different  cattle  camps  and  is  becoming  famil- 
iar once  more  with  riding. 

While  riding  one  day  she  meets  Ray  and  takes 
him  home  to  introduce  him  to  her  father.  When 
Rodgers,  St.,  learns  that  Ray  is  a  forest  service 
man,  be  displays  a  good  deal  of  resentment  and 
orders  him  from  the  place,  because  of  the  natural 
enmity  of  a  certain  class  of  stockmen  for  the 
service. 

In  the  forest  there  are  two  half-breed  trappers 
whose  carelessness  in  the  handling  of  brush  and 
slashings  has  caused  them  trouble  from  the  serv- 
ice more  than  once.  Notwithstanding  this,  how- 
ever, these  men  continue  to  pile  brush  near  their 
cabin.  To  their  place  comes  May  on  one  of  her 
trips.  Fearless  she  asks  for  a  drink  and  they  in- 
vite her  into  the  cabin  to  get  it  Once  in  their 
habitation  one  of  them  attempts  to  kiss  her.  His 
companion  interferes  and  It  looks  for  a  moment 
like  a  first-class  fight,  but  the  trappers  end  their 
difficulty  by  determining  to  play  a  game  of  cards 
for  May.  They  bind  her  and  begin  playing.  May's 
quick  wits  assure  her  that  a  fire  cannot  long  pass 
unsuspected  in  that  country  and  at  that  season 
when  there  were  many  fire  patrolmen  about,  and 
she  cautiously  steals  a  brand  from  the  fire-place 
of  the  trappers'  house.  She  throws  this  through 
the  window  into  the  brush-heap,  which  speedily 
breaks   into  flames. 

Far  off  in  the  hills  Ray  sees  the  column  of  as- 
cending smoke.  The  flames  spread  and  the  house 
Is  Ignited  and  beginning  to  burn  through  as  the 
trappers  start  for  May,  their  game  of  cards 
ended.  Tbe  winner  of  the  game  is  opposed  by  the 
loser  and  while  they  fight  Ray  gets  to  the  cabin. 
He  carries  May  through  the  flames  and  to  safety, 
while  tbe  trappers,  awakening  to  their  danger  by 
the  growing  heat,  forget  their  own  troubles  in  a 
desire  for  life  and  rush  outside.  May  takes  Ray 
home  with  her  and  as  soon  as  she  tells  the  story  of 
his  bravery  In  saving  her,  her  father's  anger  turns 
to  something  more  charitable  and  he  makes  Ray 
welcome.  The  story  ends  with  the  approval  of  the 
father   extended    to   the  young    folks  plans. 


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WHEN  LUCK  CHANGES  (June  2).— Young  Cal 
Jim  had  often  called  upon  Betty  but  never  found 
the  courage  to  propose.  His  pal,  Mark  Halwortby 
did,    however,    and   Betty   accepted. 

Disappointed,  Cal  asked  and  received  a  grub- 
stake from  Mark  and  went  away  into  the  hills 
to  seek  gold  and  heart  balm.  Two  years  later 
Mark  took  to  gambling.  He  neglected  Betty  and, 
one  day,  Intoxicated,  struck  her.  Then  Cal  re- 
turned and  tbe  pair  bad  a  joyous  meeting,  a  meet- 
ing witnessed  by  the  drunken  Mark.  He  assulted 
her  on  her  way  home  and  with  what  remained  in 
her  pocket-book  went  back  to  the  saloon  to  gamble. 
He  quickly  lost  tbe  little  change  and  In  coming 
from  the  saloon,  roughly  knocked  down  a  bad- 
looking  Mexican  who  carelessly  blocked  his  way. 
This  same  Mexican,  Mark  had  irritated  persistently 
on  each  occassion  of  his  periodical  drunks  and 
gambling  losses.  This  time  the  Mexican,  nursing 
a  fiendish  hatred  toward  Mark,  slipped  behind 
tbe  barn  and  shot  bim  dead.  No  one  could  be 
found  on  whom  to  fix  suspicion  and  the  matter 
gradually  dropped  for  Mark  was  never  popular. 

A  short  time  after  the  shooting,  Oal,  having  at- 
tended to  some  small  business  matter  wended  his 
way  to  Mark's  home  to  divide  his  bag  of  gold,  ac- 
cording to  the  law  of  the  West,  for  Mark,  be  it 
remembered  had  grub-staked  him.  There  be  found 
the  widow  crying  softly.  But  in  the  days  that  fol- 
lowed, Cal  found  little  difficulty  In  wiping  away 
those  tears  and  leading  her  to  a  happiness  that 
should   have   been   their's   from  the   first. 

THE  WISHING  SEAT  (June  5). — Some  fashion- 
able mansions  have  "wishing  seats"  hewn  from 
the  living  rock.  These  wishing  seats  have  wondrous 
powers  for  old  maids  and  romanceful  girls.  Thus. 
it  was  not  unusual  that  pretty  Clarice  should 
desert  the  crowd  about  the  tennis  court  and  make 
her  solitary  way  to  the  old  stone  bench.  There 
she  wishes  devoutly  for  a  lover— not  such  a  lover 
as  little  Jimmy  Randolph  who  was  then  paying 
assldious  attention  to  Jenny  Grey,  nor  tbe  Count 
Rudolph,  nor  Billy  Hasbrouck  or  any  of  the  refit 
of  those  butterflies  of  fashion. 

High  up  on  a  hill  commanding  a  beautiful  view, 
Charlie  Benton  placed  his  easel  and  got  out  bis 
paint  and  brushes.  In  adjusting  the  easel,  the 
ground  gave  way  and  down  went  Charlie,  easel, 
brushes  and  all.  Over  and  over  he  rolled  on  the 
soft  turf,  come  up  with  an  unexpected  hump  and 
at -the  very  foot  of  the  wishing  seat  to  the  horror 
and  surprise  of  pretty  Clarice.  Such  an  answer  to 
a  wish! 

Later  Clarice's  mother  grew  worried  over  the 
long  absence  of  tbe  younger  folks.  So  she  and 
papa  started  on  a  round  of  tbe  estate.  One  by 
one  they  came  upon  loving  couples.  Billy  Has- 
brouck and  his  Mabel,  the  Count  Rudolph  and  his 
fiancee,  Jimmy  Randolph  and  his  pretty  Jenny  Gray 
and  a  half  dozen  others.  Each  couple  fell  in  line 
in  the  search  and  at  last  they  came  upon  the 
wishing  seat— and  discreetly  turned  their  backs, 
for  there  was  Clarice  being  shamelessly  kissed 
by  the  artist  chap. 

VIA  CABARET  (June  7). — Harry  Reeder  was  a 
steady  visitor  at  tbe  cabaret  and  he  visited  with 
a   single   thought  in   mind — pretty  Vail,    the  einger. 

Harry  discussed  marriage  with  his  father  but 
the  aristocratic  Reeder  emphatically  said  "No." 
So  Harry  did  what  every  other  American  young 
man  does  under  the  circumstances — marries  the 
girl.  They  tried  to  keep  it  secret,  but  Harry's 
dear  friend,  Bert,  who  in  secret  loved  the  girl,  took 
pains  to  let   Reeder  know  of  It. 

Thus  the  young  couple  were  driven  from  the 
parental  roof  and  took  a  email,  cheap  bungalow. 
After  that  Bob  wouldn't  let  her  work — he  took  tbe 
violin  and  secured  her  place  at  the  cabaret.  Bert 
often  went  there  and  exulted  in  secret.  Bnt  if 
Bert  had  done  nothing  more  serious  than  exult  in 
secret,  everything  would  have  gone  well,  but  Bert 
insisted  in  seeing  Vail  and  times  his  visits  so  as 
to  be  found  there  by  Harry.  One  day  Bert,  re- 
fused admission  by  Vail,  pinned  a  note  to  the 
door-post,  intimating  that  she  intended  to  elope 
with  him  that  afternoon.  At  the  same  time  the 
heart  of  old  man  Reeder  relented  and  he  started 
toward  the  little  bungalow.  Thus  Harry  coming 
home  found  the  note  a  minute  after,  captured  Bert 
and  trounced  him  soundly.  The  father,  witnessing 
the  incident,  found  no  further  enmity  in  his  heart 
toward  the  young  couple  and  took  them  home  with 
him    to    better    things. 


THANHOUSER. 

A  PULLMAN  NIGHTMARE  (May  25).— The  small 
boy  was  very  happy  when  be  took  his  first  journey 
in  a  Pullman  car,  and  be  would  have  been  much 
happier  had  he  been  able  to  win  the  attention  of 
tbe  little  girl  across  the  aisle.  She  treated  him 
with  disdain,  however,  and  the  small  boy  brooded 
ovt-r  it. 

Perhaps  it  was  bis  unusual  bed.  maybe  his  mental 
commotion  was  to  blame,  or  perhaps  he  ate  too 
heartily  in  the  dining  car.  Anyway  he  had  some 
exciting  dream  experiences,  and  when  he  told  his 
father  about  them  later,  the  man  patted  him  on  the 
bead  and  simply  said,  "That  was  some  dream, 
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Of  coarse,  you  could  hardly  be  surprised  that  the 
boy  dreamt  the  car  was  on  flre  and  he  was  a  hero, 
for  Pullman  cars  get  mighty  hot  at  times.  The 
only  thing  that  worries  me,"  said  the  father,  while 
talking  the  matter  over  later  with  his  wife,  "is 
how  Willie  ever  dreamed  that  a  man  on  horseback 
kidnapped  a  child  in  a  moving  Pullman  car.  It 
shows  the  lad  has  imagination,  but  It  is  impossible 
for  me  to  determine  whether  he  is  headed  for 
Washington  or  llattewan." 

The  mother  sighed,  too,  bnt  she  hoped  for  the 
best. 

CARMEN  (3  parts,  May  27). — Don  Jose,  the  hero 
of  the  famous  book  by  Prosper  Merlmec,  and 
Blxet's  celebrated  opera,  was  born  In  the  Basque 
Provinces  of  Spain.  He  was  a  young,  good-looking 
peasant,  devoted  to  his  old  mother,  and  greatly  in 
love  with  bis  pretty  sweetheart,    Mercedes. 

The  plans  of  Jose  and  Mercedes  for  an  early 
marriage  were  rudely  dissipated  by  the  news  that 
the  young  man  had  been  drafted  for  service  In  the 
Spanish  army.  Jose  comforted  his  mother  and 
Mercedes,  telling  them  that  be  would  soon  return 
and   they   would   never  be  separated   again. 

The  young  man  proved  to  be  a  good  soldier,  and  In 
a  short  time  was  made  a  corporal.  Bis  commanding 
officer,  who  had  great  confidence  in  the  new  cor- 
poral's ability  and  trustworthiness,  sent  him  with 
a  detachment  of  soldiers  to  preserve  order  in  a 
certain  unruly  quarter  of  the  town. 

Jose  was  strolling  by  a  cigar  factory  one  day, 
when  some  of  the  girls  employed  in  the  establish- 
ment came  oat.  One  of  them,  a  beautiful  brunette 
called  Carmen,  held  a  red  rose  between  her  teeth, 
and  as  she  passed  the  young  officer,  she  cast  a 
coquettish  glance  at  him,  and  then,  taking  the  rose, 
tossed  It  to  him.  He  let  it  fall  to  the  ground  un- 
heeded. Furious,  she  ran  off,  followed  by  the 
mocking  laughter  of  her  companions. 

Bat  Jose  was  more  attracted  by  the  girl  than 
bis  manner  had  Indicated.  When  he  thought  him- 
self unobserved,  he  picked  up  the  rose  and  pressed 
It  to  his  lips.  Carmen,  from  a  distance,  saw  the 
action  and  smiled.  * 

Almost  before  the  soldier  realized  it.  he  was 
completely  infatuated  with  the  fascinating  cigar- 
maker.  Gradually,  though  his  better  nature  strug- 
gled against  it,  he  forgot  his  mother  and  Mercedes, 
his  faithful  sweetheart.  Then  the  moment  came 
when  he  bad  to  choose  between  his  loyalty  as  a 
soldier  and  his  devotion  to  Carmen. 

A  dispute  arose  in  the  factory  between  Carmen 
and  Michele,  another  cigar  girl.  They  fought,  but 
the  struggle  was  of  short  duration,  and  soon 
Michele  lay  on  the  ground,  a  dagger  wound  in  her 
side.  The  soldiers  rushed  into  the  factory,  and 
Jose,  much  against  his  Inclinations,  made  the  girl 
a  prisoner  and  took  her  before  his  commanding 
officer. 

Carmen  was  committed  to  Jose's  charge  until 
she  could  be  turned  over  to  the  proper  authorities. 
And  then,  the  girl,  confident  of  her  power,  exerted 
all  her  wiles  to  make  the  young  man  forget  his 
oath  to  his  country.  She  succeeded  and  Jose  let 
her  escape,   but  at  the  cost  of  dishonor  to  himself. 

Then  Jose  was  cast  into  prison,  but  Carmen 
tricked  his  Jailers  and  Jose  escaped.  They  fled 
together  to  the  mountains,  where  they  were  wel- 
comed by  the  gypsies.  Carmen's  people.  There  Jose 
led  a  life  that  was  far  different  from  the  peaceful, 
religious  atmosphere  of  his  native  village,  and  the 
stirring  martial  days  when  he  was  a  soldier.  The 
gypsies  were  smugglers  and  he  became  one  of  their 
band.  The  uniform  of  a  soldier,  which  had  been 
a  familiar  and  welcome  sight  to  him  In  former 
days,  was  an  object  of  fear  and  hate,  now  that  he 
was  a  violator  of  the  laws,    not   Its  defender. 

Jose's  mother.  In  her  quiet  home  in  the  moun- 
tains, was  dying,  mercifully  unaware  of  her  son's 
disgrace.  Just  before  she  passed  away  she  gave 
the  cross  she  had  worn  all  her  life  to  the  weeping 
Mercedes,  Jose's  former  sweetheart,  who  still  loved 
him,  and  told  her  to  give  it  to  Jose  with  her  bless- 
ing. 

Mercedes  set  out  en  her  quest,  but  to  her  sur- 
prise and  grief,  found  that  Jose  was  no  longer  an 
honored  soldier  of  the  Spanish  king,  but  a  fugitive 
from  justice.  Her  search  seemed  hopeless./  for  none 
knew  where  be  had  gone. 

Although  an  outlaw,  Jose  was  not  unhappy,  for 
Carmen  made  him  think  be  stood  first  in  her  affec- 
tions, but  when  she  met  Bscamlllo,  the  noted  torea- 
dor, her  attitude  changed.  The  Idol  of  the  Spanish 
populace  was  a  far  more  attractive  figure  to  the 
beautiful  gypsy  than  the  fugitive  soldier,  and  Jose 
soon  found  himself  supplanted  by  the  toreador. 
Frantic,  he  reproached  Carmen,  but  she  laughed 
at  blm. 

Escamlllo,  desirous  of  exhibiting  his  professional 
skill  to  Carmen,  invited  her  to  be  present  at  a  boll- 
fight.  The  girl,  sneering  scornfully  at  the  jealous 
protestations  of  Jose,  accompanied  the  toreador  to 
the  arena,  where  the  bullfight  was  to  take  place. 
Mad  with  rage  Jose  followed  them.  Carmen  watched 
the  bullfight  with  absorbed  Interest,  and  blew  kisses 
to  Escamillo  as  be  bowed  low  to  the  plaudits  of 
the  crowd.  It  was  her  farewell  to  the  toreador, 
for  at  that  moment,  Jose,  leaping  forward,  buried 
his  knife  in  her  bosom. 

The  soldiers  crowded  around  Jose  and  made  him 
their  prisoner.  He  gazed  in  a  dazed  manner  at  the 
dying  Carmen:  then  feeling  a  gentle  touch  on  his 
arm,  he  turned  and  looked  into  the  eyes  of  Mer- 
cedes, his  faithful  sweetheart.  Pitlngly  she  told 
bim  of  his  mother's  death,  and  gave  him  the  cross 
and   her  message.    Jose  bowed   his   head  in   sorrow 


and  remorse.  He  bad  forsaken  the  ones  who  had 
loved  him  for  a  woman  who  brought  him  to  dis- 
grace and  death.  Silently  he  turned,  surrounded 
by  his  captors,  and  made  bis  way  toward  the  prison. 


MUTUAL  WEEKLY 

MUTUAL  WEEKLY,  NO.  20  (May  14).— Canton, 
Ohio. — $100,000  fire  destroys  three  large  buildings, 
and  threatens  the  oil  tanks  of  the  Standard  Oil 
Company. 

Horley,    England. — A  new  way   of  ploughing. 

New  Orleans,  La. — Anxious  citizens  rush  the 
building  of  a  Jetty  In  fear  of  impending  floods. 

Paris,  France. — His  Majesty,  Gustave  V,  King  of 
Sweden,   dedicating  the  Swedish  Church. 

Lawrenceburg,  Ind. — The  wreck  of  the  B.  &  O. 
bridge  across  the  Miami  River. 

Chicago,  HI. — H.  H.  Doxstater  and  C.  M.  Kron, 
who  are  hiking  from  Santa  Cruz,  Cal.,  to  Atlantic 
City,  N.  J.,  passing  through  Chicago. 

Hamburg,  Germany. — Launching  of  the  Trans- 
Atlantic  stesmer  "Vaterland." 

Honolulu. — Pearl  Harbor  and  gigantic  drydock 
before  its   destruction.     After  the  catastrophe. 

The  Fashion  in  New  York  and  Paris. 

New  York  City. — The  bicycle  team  which  will 
make  the  trip  from  New  York  to  San  Francisco. 

Russia. — The  first  Russian  lady  aviator  going  to 
the  aviation  grounds. 

Belmont  Park,  L.  I. — The  Meadow  Brook  Steeple- 
chase. 

Paris,  France. — "Bayonnals"  beata  "TJniversitai- 
res"  by  the  score  of  31  to  8  at  rugby  football. 

New  York  City. — Great  Woman  Suffrage  Parade 
up   Fifth   Avenue. 

How  It's  Done  in  England  and  in  America. 


KEYSTONE. 

BARNEY  OLDFIELD'B  RACE  FOR  A  LIFE 
(June  2). — The  girl  Is  loved  by  the  hero  and  the 
villain.  The  hero  wins  the  consent  of  the  girl  to 
marry  him.  The  villain  refuses  to  accept  the 
girl's  decision,  and  his  advances  are  resented  by 
the  hero,  resulting  In  a  personal  encounter  between 
the  two  men  In  which  the  villain  is  thrashed. 
Burning  with  rage,  he  secures  the  assistance  of 
two  other  villains,  and  the  girl  is  captured  and 
carried  to  the  railroad  track.  She  is  fastened  to 
the   rails. 

Taking  a  handcar,  the  villains  race  down  the 
track.  A  train  Is  not  due  for  a  long  time,  and 
the  intense  hatred  of  the  villain  will  not  permit 
Mm  to  wait.  He  determines  to  steal  an  engine 
and  drive  the  Iron  monster  over  the  girl.  In  the 
railroad  yard  the  train  crew  is  on  board  a  train 
about  ready  to  depart.  The  villains  overpower  the 
crew,  and  the  engine  starts  on  its  mission  of  death. 

But  hold!  the  villain  may  yet  be  frustrated  in 
his  Tile  work!  The  hero  has  been  apprised  of  the 
dastardly  deed  about  to  be  committed.  He  must 
beat  the  villain  to  the  scene.  Bnt  howT  Barney 
Oldfleld  and  his  racing  car!  The  famous  speed 
marvel  listens  with  sympathetic  ear  to  the  story 
gasped  in  his  ear  by  the  hero,  who  seats  himself  in 
the  car.  The  auto  leaps  forward  and  the  race  is 
on. 

Hanging  from  the  cab  window  the  villain  sees 
the  racer  coming  like  a  lightning  streak  along  the 
road.  He  throws  the  throttle  wide  open  and  the 
engine  fairly  leaps  on  its  way.  Sixty  miles  an 
boor — seventy — eighty.  The  villain  realizes  that 
something  must  be  done  quickly  and  brings  forth 
his  dynamite  bombs.  These  are  lighted  with  the 
big  black  cigar  which  he  Is  smoking.  One  by  one 
they  are  hurled  at  the  automobile  racing  madly 
along  the  railroad  track.  Bat  Oldfleld  and  the 
hero  escape  unharmed,  beat  the  train  and  rescue 
the  girl — Just  as  the  engine  rushes  by.  The  hero 
is  pursued  by  the  police  and  kills  five  of  them. 
Having  no  bullets  left  In  his  gun  he  chokes  him- 
self. 

PASSIONS— HE  HAD  THREE  (June  6). — Henry 
Is  a  big,  fat  country  boy  with  three  passions.  He 
likes  eggs,  milk  and  girls.  He  steals  the  eggs 
from  the  nests,  sucks  their  contents,  and  refills  the 
shells  with  water.  When  the  family  sit  down  to 
breakfast  and  the  shells  are  broken  the  crime  la 
discovered  and  Farmer  Jones  places  a  big  bear  trap, 
covered  with  straw,  In  front  of  the  nests.  Henry 
sees  this   done,    however,    and  says  nothing. 

Henry  weighs  about  200  pounds.  The  Jones  cow, 
Loretta,  seems  suddenly  to  have  gone  dry.  Of 
course  Henry  does  not  tell  them  that  he  has  been 
making  secret  visits  to  Loretta  with  a  cap. 

Henry  Is  in  love  with  Jenny  Brown.  Si  Black 
Is  also  enamored  of  the  fair  Jenny.  SI  only 
weighs  about  102  pounds,  and  when  the  rivals  be- 
come engaged  in  a  physical  conflict  it  looks  dark 
for  Si  until  be  practices  a  new  kind  of  Jnl-Jltsu 
on  the  stomach  of  his  foe.  For  the  nonce.  Henry 
accepts  defeat,  but  turns  the  tables  on  Si  when 
he  lures  him  to  the  concealed  bear  trap  and  pushes 
him  onto  It.  The  Jaws  close  upon  poor  Si's  legs, 
and  Henry  cells  every  one  to  come  and  see  the 
captured  egg  thief. 

HELP!  HELP!  HYDROPHOBIA!  (June  6).— The 
professor  does  not  approve  of  his  daughter's  suitor. 
His  disapproval  Is  so  marked  that  It  Is  finally 
noticed  by  said  Bwain — Jim  Brown— when  he  is 
kicked  out  of  the  house  by  the  father  of  his  lady 
love,  and  he  resolves  to  be  careful  in  the  future 
and    not   be    subjected    to    further   indignities. 

The  Professor  has  been  experimenting  with  germs, 


and  discovers  some  new  and  deadly  ones  which  he 
exhibits  to  some  of  his  medical  friends.  The 
germs  have  been  raised  in  a  culture  of  milk,  and 
when  the  professor  escorts  his  guests  to  the  door 
the  milk  bottle  and  the  cnp  are  left  on  the  table. 
Unfortunately,  Jim  Brown  seized  this  particular 
moment  to  make  a  call  on  his  lady  love,  accom- 
panied by  his  dog,  making  his  entrance  through  an 
open  window.  The  dog  is  thirsty,  so  he  innocent- 
ly pours  more  milk  Into  the  cup  and  gives  it  to 
the  animal.  The  professor,  returning,  seeB  what 
Is  taking  place,  and  crying:  "The  dog  is  full  of 
deadly  germs,"  runs  away.  The  dog,  attracted 
by  the  queerly  acting,  screaming  man,  runs  after 
him,  and  soon  there  is  tremendous  excitement, 
half  the  town  running  with  the  Professor,  and  the 
others  running  after  him  and  the  dog.  After  many 
narrow  escapes  from  the  deadly  teeth  of  the  dog, 
the   professor   finally   reaches   a    place   of   safety. 


RELIANCE. 

BUNA  AMD  THE  BLACK  HANS  (May  24).— 
Runa,  a  spoiled  little  girl,  resents  the  arrival  of 
a  baby  brother,  who  takes  attention  from  her. 
She  and  the  nurse  and  baby  go  to  the  parg  and 
while  there  she  sees  a  stork,  and  is  told  by  the 
nurse  that  the  bird  brought  her  little  brother. 
She  decides  to  make  it  take  back  tbe  intruder. 
While  the  attention  of  the  nurse  is  attracted, 
she  removes  the  baby  and  leaves  him  by  tbe  stork 
pond.  Some  time  before  this,  Runa  bad  investi- 
gated tbe  pail  of  a  workman  who  is  tarring  a 
tree.  When  tbe  nurse  returns  she  finds  the  print 
of  a  black  hand  on  the  bench  where  the  baby  was. 
It  is  quite  clear  to  tbe  police  that  the  child  has 
been    taken   by    the    Black    Hand. 

Angela  has  had  a  quarrel  with  her  lover,  An- 
gelo,  owing  to  the  fact  that  she  has  no  dowry 
and  therefore  cannot  marry  him.  She  Is  weeping 
in  the  park  when  she  hears  the  baby's  cries  and 
goes  to  it.  Her  pity  overcomes  her  and  she  takes 
it  home.  Angelo  returning  once  more  to  beg  her 
pardon,  finds  the  child  and  is  suspicions.  The 
girl  then  explains  the  finding  of  the  baby.  He 
discovers  the  print  of  a  black  hand  on  its  clothes. 
They  are  terrified  and  decide  to  return  the  child 
where  they  found  it.  Before  they  can  do  so,  they 
are  arrested  and  brought  to  the  station  house 
where  they  meet  the  unhappy  parents.  Runa, 
now  repentant,  confesses  and  when  the  baby  Is  re- 
stored, the  father  and  mother  embrace  her.  She 
leaves  the  print  of  her  little  black  hands  on  her 
mother's  dress.  All  is  then  discovered.  She  ex- 
plains that  she  returned  the  baby  to  the  stork 
because  since  it  came  nobody  loves  her  any  more. 
Father  and  mother,  realizing  how  they  have  hurt 
the  child,  forgive  her.  Angela  gets  her  dowry 
through  the  reward  offered  by  the  father  for  the 
one  who  finds  his  child. 

HEARTH  LIGHTS  (May  26).— Paul  Norton,  a 
young  artist,  dwells  with  his  mother  in  a  country 
estate  of  fading  grandeur.  Learning  that  Kent 
Rankin,  a  wealthy  young  art  student,  is  stopping 
at  Marvin  Mansion,  a  nearby  summer  estate,  Paul 
hopes  to  Interest  blm  In  his  paintings.  Kent  and 
the  Marvlns  are  leaving  in  the  late  autumn  for 
their  city  home,  when  Paul  calls  with  a  speci- 
men of  his  work.  TJla  Marvin  admires  his  work 
but  Kent,  who  loves  her,  has  only  sneers  for  it 
and  Paul  Is  left  alone  in  humiliation  as  the 
Marvin  auto  departs.  A  white  rose  lies  in  his 
hand,  a  token  of  sympathy  from  I'la,  covertly 
given.  Kent  opens  his  studio  in  the  city  and  fails 
miserably.  Tbe  critics  condemn  his  work.  He 
asks  Marvin  for  Ula's  band,  but  Is  told  to  prove 
his   worth. 

Desperate,  he  sends  for  some  of  Paul's  pictures 
and  exhibits  them  as  his  own  work.  The  pictures 
create  a  sensation  and  renown  comes  to  Kent. 
He  pays  court  to  TJla  more  successfully.  Far 
away,  Paul  sits  by  his  mother's  hearth  caressing 
a  withered  rose.  He  has  Kent's  check  for  $75 
in  pavment  of  his  pictures.  On  a  cold  winter 
day,  Ula  sets  out  on  an  errand  to  the.  country 
mansion  in  an  auto.  The  gasoline  gives  out  and 
the  chauffeur  departs  in  quest  of  more.  At  a 
village  store  he  gets  drunk.  Paul  discovers  Ula 
nearly  frozen  and  takes  her  borne.  She  is  made 
comfortable  and  as  she  sleeps  in  the  glow  of  the 
fire,  Paul  is  inspired  to  paint  his  great  picture 
"Hearth  Lights."  TJla  is  enthusiastic  and  poses 
for  him.  Love  deepens  between  the  two  and  she 
yleld3  to  his  embrace.  But  he  regrets  his  pre- 
sumption and  vows  that  they  must  not  meet  again. 
Kent  learns  that  a  prize  of  *5,000  will  be  given 
for  the  best  painting  entered  in  a  certain  club 
gallery.  He  secures  "Hearth  Lights"  owing  to 
Paul's  poverty.  Ula  sends  a  clipping  of  the  of- 
fering to  Paul  who  hastily  paints  a  picture.  Paul's 
entrv  is  his  poorest  work  and  at  the  exhibition 
he  finds  it  in  an  obscure  corner.  Paul  hides  him- 
self In  a  corner  in  the  main  gallery:  Kent  re- 
ceives the  prize  for  "Hearth  Lights."  Ula  arrives 
late  and  discovers  Paul's  entry.  Her  disappoint- 
ment hurts  PanL  Kent  enters,  triumphant,  and 
admonished  by  ber  father.  Ula  yields  to  hie  love- 
making.  Kent  shows  her  his  prize  winning 
"Hearth  Lights."  Hie  perfidy  dawns  upon  her  and 
she  denounces  him  before  all.  Paul  is  uttracted 
to  the  spot,  and  Kent,  hopelessly  cornered,  returns 
the  check,  which  is  transferred  to  Paul  together 
with  fame.  Paul  la  urged  to  stop  with  the  Mar- 
vlns. Within  the  magnificent  walls  of  ber  home, 
Paul  clasps  Ula  in  his  arms,  while  far  away  his 
mother  dreams,    alone   in   the   light  of   the   hearth. 


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THE  MASTER  CRACKSMAN  (2  parti— May  31). 
—Robert  Thatcher  Invents  a  device  to  protect 
banks  from  tbleves.  This  is  bought  up  for  a  few 
thousands  by  Thomas  who  later  makes  a  million 
out  of  Thatcher's  Invention.  Thatcher  discover- 
ing a  weakness  in  his  system,  perfects  this,  and 
when  be  offers  the  perfect  Invention  to  Thomas 
for  $;>0,000,  his  offer  is  refused  and  he  Is  ordered 
out  of  the  office.  This  breaks  his  heart  and  he 
(lies  in  poverty.  His  young  son,  Robert,  about 
to  finish  his  course  at  an  institute  of  technology 
discovers  the  truth  about  the  Thomas  patent  and 
how  his  father  was  cheated.  He  gets  work  in  the 
Thomas  shops  and  deliberately  sets  about  to  prove 
the  weakness  of  tlie  "Safe  Protective"  system. 
\\ hen  he  has  gained  all  the  knowledge  he  needs 
— he  sets  out  to  break  every  bank  carrying  the 
as  system.  His  little  sweetheart,  Madge, 
afraid  to  let  him  go  alone,  accompanies  him,  at- 
tired  in   boy's   suit  and   cap. 

The  Thomas  people  receive  reports  from  all  their 
protected  banks,  telling  of  a  mysterious  cracksman, 
who,  with  master  hand,  opens  every  safe,  prov- 
ing  that  the  Thomas  System  has  a  flaw.  But 
strange    to    relate,    the    bank    breaker   steals    not    a 

•-lit. 

A  detective  is  put  on  the  case  and  one  night  he 

•  bends   Robert  and   his   little   "pal"   in   the  act 

of    breaking     into    the    Shoe    and     Leather    Bank. 

The  girl   breaks  down   and  Robert   tells  their  story 

to     the     detective     whose    sympathy    is     awakened. 

He  goes  to  Thomas  and  tells  him  that  unless  Rob- 

crt    is    given    $50,000   and    a    share    in    the    business 

bis    father's    invention,    he    will    spread 

»tory    broadcast    through    the    medium    of    the 

is   forced    to   agree  to   this  demand 

Robert  comes  into  his  own  at   last. 


MAJESTIC. 

LEGALLY  RIGHT  (May  25).— A  wealthy  man 
left  bis  estate  to  his  daughter,  intending  that  his 
only  brother  should  be  her  guardian.  The  docu- 
ment was  awkwardly  constructed,  one  of  the  sec- 
'.ions  reading  "My  daughter  must  live  under  the 
same  roof  with  her  uncle  until  she  Is  of  age;  and  be 
married  under  that  same  roof  before  her  twenty- 
first  birthday  or  else  her  fortune  goes  to  the 
aforesaid    uncle." 

What  the  man  really  meant  was  that  his  daugh- 
eould  not  wed  without  her  uncle's  consent 
before  she  was  twenty-one.  What  he  really  did 
mis  that  she  had  to  marry  under  bis  roof  he- 
reaching  her  majority. 
The  fortune  "as  fairly  large  and  the  uncle  was 
tricky.  He  determined  not  to  let  the  girl  many 
any  one  and  thereby  secure  the  money  himself. 
For  a  time  it  looked  as  though  his  scheme  would 
ho  successful,  but  a  shrewd  man  found  a  way 
to  circumvent  him.  This  resourceful  individual 
was  a  justice  of  the  peace,  and  a  great  friend  of 
the  girl's  father,  and  the  sheriff  of  the  county  with 
whom  she  was  in  love.  He  put  a  job  on  the 
crooked  uncle  just  five  days  before  the  girl's  twenty- 
first  birthday.  The  uncle  was  arrested  for  fight- 
ing and  sent  to  the  county  jail  for  five  days.  The 
jail  Is  the  sheriff's  home,  and  under  these  circum- 
stances It  was  also  the  uncle's  roof,  so  the  justice 
of  the  peace  married  the  girl  and  the  sheriff  un- 
der "the  uncle's  root"  (the  prison  corridor  out- 
side his  cell).  It  was  still  the  uncle's  roof  when 
the  girl  reached  her  majority,  for  the  uncle  bad 
to  serve  out  his  term,  while  his  nelce  and  her  hus- 
band naturally  set  up  housekeeping  in  the  sheriff's 
quarters. 

Thus  did  a  crook  find  that  there  is  more  than 
one  way   to   interpret   a   will. 

HER   TATRY   GODFATHER    (May   27) She  was 

a  good  enough  cook,  as  cooks  go,  but  the  trouble 
was  that  her  heart  was  not  in  her  work.  The 
master  of  the  bouse  complained  bitterly  that  when 
she  should  have  been  studying  how  to  make  chicken 
a  la  Maryland,  she  was  wasting  her  time  reading 
sensational    novels    or    flirting    with    a   policeman. 

Under  the  circumstances  her  employers  felt  Justi- 
fied in  refusing  to  grant  her  favors,  so  when  she 
asked  permission  to  attend  a  picnic  nearby  they  did 
not  hem  and  haw  about  the  matter,  but  told  her 
frankly  that  she  could  not  go,  then  to  make  her 
perfectly  happy,  they  went  themselves.  The  girl 
had  her  revenge,  however,  for  she  found  that  al- 
though she  could  not  attend  In  person,  she  could 
attend  in  spirit.  For  she  had  a  delightful  dream 
in  which,  as  she  explained  afterwards  she  made 
"the  i|ueen  of  the  May  look  like  the  second  cook 
in  a  poor  house."  It  was  all  the  work  of  her 
fairy  godfather,  whom  she  found  to  be  a  spirit 
every  bit  as  effective  as  a  fairy  godmother.  He 
wore  a  blue  uniform,  it  is  true,  and  instead  of 
a  wand  used  a  club  for  his  incantations,  but  he 
got  results,    and    what   more   could   be   asked? 

Yes.  the  girl  is  very  fond  of  her  fairly  godfather, 
and  she  hopes  the  civil  service  board  will  make  him 
a  police  captain   some  day. 


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uniform  When  Jim  leaves.  Betty  and  Dick  have 
a  quarrel,  and,  while  sbe  confesses  that  she  loves 
,i  '  S„e  rePrlmaDaa  W"  severely  for  bis  coward- 
Ice.  Burning  under  the  vitriolic  criticism  of  his 
sweetheart,  Dick  musters  up  courage  to  enlist 
which  pleases  his  old  father.  He  is  placed  in  the 
company  which  is  in  charge  of  Captain  jfm  &>bly 
It  is  not  long  before  the  men  know  what  actual 
T  fdi.  m  '8;  *Di  the  Confederate  losses  are  heavy 
Judge  Morton  is  appointed  a  colonel  by  General  lie 
with  Instructions  to  recruit  a  regiment,  and  hi 
!  8  »?VU»  '<">"  wit"  enthusiasm.  A  bomb  bursts 
Sf.~.  a  aDd  m??y  men  are  killed  <">°-  Mown  to 
no™  ,tftarm  hlts  Wck  ln  ae  fa«  and  he  be- 
comes stricken  with  fear  and  finally  deserts  bis 
company.  He  is  shot  at  and  wounded  by  his  com- 
foMot,™  >1e  ad™nclne  «»«»>»  prevents  them  from 
following  him.  He  reaches  home  and  tells  his 
mother  why  he  deserted.  His  mother  later  learns 
that  a  squad  of  soldiers  are  tracing  her  son  and 
knowing  the  fate  that  would  befall  him  if  tbev 
were  to  catch  him,  orders  that  the  old  negro  serv- 
ant break  the  windows  and  smash  the  furniture 
to  make  It  appear  as  if  they  were  attacked  by 
Unions,  and  to  make  it  look  more  realistic  she 
shoots  herself  in  the  arm.  The  soldiers  arrive  and 
Dick  tells  them  that  be  fought  a  number  of  Unions 
single  handed.  The  sergeant  believes  him  and 
declares  that  he  will  make  a  favorable  report  for 
him. 

A  troop  of  raiding  Northern  soldiers  Is  on  its 
way,  however,  and  Col.  Trent  receives  word  of  it 
and  finding  that  they  are  headed  toward  Charlton! 
his  home,  orders  a  troop  of  cavalry  and  rushes 
toward  Charlton.  Two  Confederate  scouts  take 
refuge  in  the  Morton  home,  and  when  the  North- 
ern soldiers  reach  there  they  find  the  house  barri- 
caded. The  scouts,  firing  from  the  windows,  hold 
them  off,  but  the  house  is  riddled  with  bullets. 
There  seems  to  be  no  hope,  and  Dick,  suddenly 
fired  with  courage  by  the  pitiable  condition  of  his 
mother,  determines  to  break  through  the  Union 
lines  and  secure  help.  A  dead  soldier  lies  near 
the  house,  and  he  leaps  from  the  window  into  a 
tree,  cautiously  climbs  down,  and,  unseen  by  the 
Union  soldiers,  manages  to  change  uniforms  with 
the  dead  man.  Rushing  out  to  the  front,  where 
the  doors  are  being  battered  down,  he  cries  out: 
"A  large  force  of  Confederates  Is  coming!"  Dick 
is  quickly  questioned,  and  deludes  the  Northern 
officer,  who  decides  to  retreat.  Dick  has  no  chance 
to  escape,  and  is  compelled  to  go  away  with  them. 
Around  a  bend  in  the  road  Col.  Morton  and  his 
troops  madly  gallop.  The  Union  soldiers  wheel 
their  horses  and  try  to  escape.  Col.  Morton  takes 
careful  aim  at  Dick  and  fires,  and  Dick  falls 
heavily  from  his  horse.  His  father  is  horrified 
when  he  recognizes  Dick,  thinking  that  Dick — in 
his  blue  uniform — is  a  traitor.  The  old  negro  finds 
Dick,  and  carries  his  lifeless  body  in  the  house. 
Mrs.  Morton  rushes  toward  her  son,  but  is  stopped 
by  the  Colonel  who  says:  "Don't  touch  him — he  is 
a  traitor!"  With  breaking  heart,  the  mother 
springs  to  the  defense  of  her  son,  and  the  Col- 
onel learns  that  Dick  was  indeed  a  hero. 


BRONCHO. 

A  DIXIE  MOTHER  (2  parts— June  4).— Jeffer- 
son Davis  refuses  to  permit  the  enlistment  of  old 
Judge  Morton  ln  the  Confederate  Armv,  and  his 
enthusiasm  is  slightly  wounded.  Judge  Morton's 
son.  lib  k.  Is  not  of  the  same  calibre  as  his  father, 
but  is  the  petted  darling  of  bis  mother.  When 
Dick  calls  upon  bis  sweetheart,  Betty  Reed,  he 
learns  that  she  is  very  much  Interested  ln  Jim 
Cobly,    who    is   dressed    in    a    fine    new    Confederate 


KAY-BEE. 

A  TRUE  BELIEVER  (2  parts— June  6),— The 
Rev.  Joshua  Trent,  through  old  age,  was  supplanted 
by  the  Rev.  John  Gunn.  Mrs.  Brand,  the  wife  of 
Colonel  Brand,  the  leading  man  of  the  city,  headed 
a  delegation  of  women  to  receive  the  new  minister 
and  introduce  him  to  the  retiring  one.  Trent  re- 
ceived him  with  a  cordiality  that  was  not  returned. 
One  day  as  Gunn  was  dining  with  the  Brands  a 
small  girl,  having  finally  located  the  whereabouts 
of  the  new  minister,  asked  him  to  come  and  ad- 
minister the  last  rites  of  the  church  to  her  father 
who  was  dying  of  small  pox.  Gunn  recoiled  and 
quickly  slammed  the  door  in  the  girl's  face.  Col. 
Brand  was  greatly  surprised  but  made  no  com- 
ment. As  the  girl  was  running  down  the  street 
she  met  Trent,  who,  learning  of  her  mission,  went 
with  her  to  her  squalid  home,  administered  the 
last  rites,  and  adopted  her,  fulfilling  his  promise 
to    the    dying    man. 

When  war  broke  out  Colonel  Brand  received  a 
commission  ln  the  Southern  army.  Gunn  spied 
for  his  brother,  who  was  captain  in  the  northern 
secret  service,  and  by  attending  an  afternoon  tea 
at  the  home  of  the  Brands,  learned  of  General 
Lee's  plans.  He  sent  this  news  to  his  brother  and 
thereby  brought  about  heavy  losses  to  the  Confed- 
erates. General  Lee,  In  a  conversation  with  Brand, 
told  him  that  his  losses  were  no  doubt  caused 
by  the  work  of  spies,  and  started  an  investigation. 
The  spy,  working  in  conjunction  with  Gunn  was 
apprehended,  but  managed  to  escape.  He  was  pur- 
sued,  however,  and  killed.  Old  Trent  was  ar- 
rested, suspected  of  complicity  with  the  spy.  A 
note  was  found  on  the  dead  spy  signed  "The  Min- 
ister" which  thanked  him  for  the  money  and  the 
information.  The  note  was  shown  to  the  old 
minister  and  when  asked  if  he  had  written  It,  re- 
plied ln  the  negative.  When  he  was  searched  a 
note  was  found  on  his  person,  much  to  his  sur- 
prise and  horror,  expressing  thanks  for  the  money 
forwarded  and  for  the  information  given,  which 
was  of  great  value  to  the  north,  and  signed  by 
the  chief  of  the  U.  S.  Secret  Service.  The  note 
was  slipped  Into  the  old  minister's  pocket  by  Gunn 
who  feared  for  bis  own  safety  when  a  search  was 
being  made.  Trent  pleaded  his  innocence,  but 
Colonel    Brand    ordered    him    imprisoned. 

Nellie,  the  name  of  the  girl  adopted  by  Trent, 
visited  him  and  the  old  man  tried  to  cheer  up  the 


girl.  At  the  trial  Trent  was  sentenced  to  death 
and  taken  away  to  await  his  execution.  Just  as 
the  sergeant  was  to  give  the  command  of  "Fire  " 
a  distracted,  dishevelled  man  rushed  In  upon  the 
scene.  It  was  Gunn  whose  conscience  had  troubled 
him.  A  week  later  a  freshly  made  grave  bore 
the  inscription  "To  the  Memory  of  John  Gunn"  on 
the  tombstone.  Hand  in  hand,  Trent  and  little 
Nellie  laid  flowers  upon  the  mound,  kneel  and  prav- 
fervently    for   the  soul   of   the   dead   man 


EXCLUSIVE  FILM  COR- 
PORATION 

GAUMONT. 

GATIMONT     WEEKLY,     NO.     63     (May     21) A 

Wreck  on  the  B.  &  0.— 16  freight  cars  pile  up  at 
Tridelphia.    W.   Va.,   and  delay  trafllc  for  24  hours. 

Paris  to  Berlin  by  Aeroplane. — French  aviator, 
Daucourt,  competing  for  Pommery  Cnp,  makes  trip 
in  7  hours,  40  minutes. 

Intercollegiate  Games  at  Harvard  Stadium.— 
Harvard  competes  with  Cornell  athletes  at  Cam- 
bridge, Mass. 

May  Day  in  America.— Wolcott  School  for  Girls 
celebrates  spring's  arrival  with  field  day  ln  Denver. 

French    Cavalry    Test Soldiers    make    horseback 

trip  from  Biarritz  to  Paris  in  record  time. 

The  Peace  Conference. — Delegates  from  various 
nations  pose  with  Secretary  Bryan,  Andrew  Carnegie 
and   Ex-Senator  Chauncey  Depew. 

Maryland's  5th  Beg.  Reviewed. — Governor  in- 
spects state  troops  In  Baltimore. 

Central  Park  in  the  Springtime. — Warm  weather 
brings  thousands  to  New  York's  recreation  ground. 

Aviation  at  War  College. — New  hydroaeroplane  is 
demonstrated  before  distinguished  audieuce  at  Wash- 
ington. 

New  York  Civic  Parade. — The  police  force,  as  well 
as  other  city  departments,   make  splendid   showing. 

FOR  TWO  PINS  (May  22) Mrs.  Doodledum  has 

the  sobriquet  of  "The  Old  Scratch,"  because  sbe 
wears  hatpins  which  protrude  beyond  the  edge  of 
her  hat  and  stick  into  persons'  faces,  leaving  marks 
of  disrespect.  A  law  Is  passed  forbidding  the  wear- 
ing of  hatpins  unprotected  by  guards.  Mr.  Doodle- 
dum, thinking  to  please  his  wife,  buys  two  guards 
for  her. 

A  stubborn  wife  is  Mrs.  Doodledum,  and  sbe 
swears  that  she  will  not  wear  the  shields.  While 
maneuvering  and  arguing  the  point  with  her  bus- 
band,  a  hatpin  point  grazes  his  eye.  He  pretends 
that  he  has  been  punctured  and  makes  a  great  ado, 
putting  a  large  cloth  over  his  head.  Mrs.  Doodle- 
dum, regretting  her  obstinacy,  waits  on  him  hand 
and  foot  and  then  some.  She  finally  discovers  that 
he  Is  fooling  her.  She  pretends  that  she  has  injured 
her  knee.  Accordingly  both  are  laid  up,  although 
they  really  are  in  perfectly  good  running  order. 
The  doctor  is  summoned  and  prescribes  an  eyeshield 
to  be  put  on  the  injured  knee,  a  kneecap  put  on 
the  wounded  eye.  Mrs.  Doodledum  tires  of  the 
masquerade,  and  pulling  the  bandage  from  her  bus- 
band's  face,  denounces  his  deception.  It  is  then 
discovered  that  ki-isses  and  em-bra-cea  are  the  best 
little  remedies  for  marital  illnesses. 


SOLAX. 

THE  HOPES  OF  BELINDA  (June  41.— How 
would  you  feel  If  you  walked  Into  a  village  hotel, 
saw  a  traveling  man  showing  a  picture  of  your 
wife  to  his  friend,  calling  her  a  peach  and  telling 
about  writing  to  her?  And  then  suppose  you  coldly 
decided  to  trail  this  man  and  followed  him  to  the 
depot.  There  you  should  see  a  typical  villape 
dandy  also  showing  a  picture  of  your  wife  to  his 
friends  and  telling  them  that  he  was  going  to  the 
city  to  see  her. 

Jones  was  frantic.  He  decided  on  a  cold  heart- 
less revenge.  He  followed  them.  He  bought  rope, 
plenty  of  It,  he  imprisoned  them,  tied  them  ln 
chairs,  when  they  called  at  the  house.  He  floor' 
ished  a  gun  ln  their  faces  and  told  them  be  was 
going  to  kill  them  when  his  wife  returned  from 
downtown. 

Sbe  returned.  Murder  was  about  to  be  com- 
mitted when  Belinda,  the  hired  girl,  ran  into  the 
room  and  saved  three  lives.  Belinda  was  an  old 
maid.  Belinda  advertised.  A  traveling  man  and 
a  village  dandy  answered  the  ads  and  sent  photos. 
Belinda  was  intoxicated  with  Joy.  She  was  afraid 
to  send  her  own  picture  for  fear  they  would  quit 
writing,  so  she  sent  pictures  of  her  mistress  and 
this  is  what  caused  the  trouble.  Jones  and  his 
wife    saw    the   ludicrous    side    and    were    reconciled. 

GREGORY'S  SHADOW  (Juno  6).— Old  Joe 
Gregory  hates  both  his  nephews  and  loves  his  young1 
ward.  Esther.  Of  the  two  boys,  Rick  is  the  more 
detested,  because  Rick  and  Esther  are  sweethearts 
and  Gregory  is  Jealous  of  him.  The  second  brother, 
Jim,  is  a  weak  character,  a  spendthrift  and  in- 
dulges in  gambling.  Jim  asks  Rick  for  a  loan. 
Rick  has  repeatedly  helped  Jim  out  of  holes,  and 
this  time  refuses  to  do  more.  Jim,  desperate  on 
account  of  an  impending  note,  decides  that  he  will 
appeal    to    Uncle    Joe    Gregory. 

The  two  brothers  occupy  adjoining  rooms.  Rick 
is  asleep  in  bed,  when  Jim  asks  Gregory  to  come 
to  his  room  a  moment.  Reaching  Jim's  room,  the 
two  men  talk.  Jim  begs  ln  vain  for  a  loan  from 
Uncle  Joe.     The  old  man  denounces  him  as  a  spend- 


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thrift.  A  bitter  quarrel  follows.  Jim  goaded  by 
the  old  man's  taunts,  grapples  with  him,  demand- 
ing the  loan.  Gregory,  in  a  high  rage,  whips  out 
a  revolver  and  shoots  him.  Jim  staggers  and  falls 
over  a  chair,  his  bead  hanging  down  one  side,  and 
bis  legs  the  other.  The  old  fellow  creeps  ont, 
keeping  his  eyes  fastened  on  the  horrible  sight,  fas- 
cinated. 

Rick  is  awakened  by  the  shot  and  springing 
from  bed,  rushes  Into  Jim's  room.  Reaching  the 
side  of  bis  brother,  he  half  lifts  the  limp  body, 
then  gently  lowers  it,  and  picks  the  revolver  up 
from  the  floor.  Standing  thns  over  his  brother, 
revolver  in  hand,  he  is  surprised  by  Gregory  and 
the  servants  who  burst  Into  the  room.  Immediate- 
ly, Gregory  points  to  Rick  as  the  murderer.  Evi- 
dence Is  black  against  Rick.  Although  stoutly 
declaring  his  Innocence,  an  officer  Is  summoned  and 
he  Is  placed  under   arrest. 

Gregory  now  begins  to  chuckle.  The  two  broth- 
ers are  disposed  of  and  the  coast  Is  clear.  He 
continues  bis  attentions  to  brokenhearted  Esther, 
and  tells  her  he  will  spend  a  large  sum  to  try 
and  clear  Rick,  if  In  return  Esther  will  promise  to 
marry  him.  Esther,  harried  thus,  consents.  How- 
ever, old  Gregory  feels  pretty  sure  that  Rick  is 
doomed.  But  Nemesis  Is  on  Gregory's  trail.  The 
old  man  discovers  that  whenever  be  Is  alone,  a 
shadow  pursues  him  (not  a  vision),  but  a  shadow, 
black  and  awful,  which  springs  upon  the  wall 
and  the  shadow  Is  Jim's  limp  figure  over  the  chair. 
Gregory  at  first  believes  the  shadow  Is  caused  by 
objects  about  the  room,  cast  by  the  firelight  on 
the  wall.  In  moving  everything  he  discovers  the 
shadow  remains  fixed,  and  be  becomes  gradually 
palsied  with  fear.  This  terror  grows  upon  him 
until  he  takes  to  bis  bed  and  suspicion  turns  to 
him.  Yet,  he  will  not  confess,  although  Esther 
and,  in  fact,  all  are  convinced  of  bis  guilt.  At 
last  Gregory  dies,  and  as  he  dies,  the  shadow  ap- 
pears to  all  present  only  now,  instead  of  the  figure 
of  Jim  across  the  chair  alone,  two  figures  are 
seen,  Jim  and  old  Gregory,  who  has  just  shot  him. 
Rick  is  thereby  cleared. 


PILOT. 

THE  GOVERNORS  ROMANCE  (Kay  89).— 
Governor  Madden  resolves  to  personally  Investi- 
gate the  reports  of  anarchistic  activities  In  his 
state.  He  shaves  his  beard,  which  greatly  alters 
his  appearance,  and  donning  rough  clothes,  goes 
sleuthing  in  the  slums.  He  rescues  Blanca,  an 
Italian  girl,  from  toughs,  and  accepts  an  Invi- 
tation to  her  home,  where  he  meets  Norvelil,  her 
uncle.  He  falls  in  love  with  Blanca,  and  for- 
getting bis  mission,  spends  most  of  bis  time  with 
ber.  She  reciprocates  bis  love.  Norvelil  sounds 
him  upon  his  politics  and  it  developes  that  be, 
Norvelil,  is  the  head  of  the  anarchist  organization 
In  question,  and  of  which  Bianca  is  one  of  the 
leading  spirits.  They  urge  him  to  join,  and  hop- 
ing  to  win  Blanca  from   them,   he  does  so. 

At  the  first  meeting  in  which  he  participates,  It 
is  decided  that  the  governor  must  die,  and  Bianca, 
Insisting  upon  assuming  the  full  responsibility  of 
membership,  draws  the  black  bean.  Vainly  Mad- 
den tries  to  persuade  her  to  leave  the  work  to  other 
hands,   but  the  girl  is  adamant. 

She  will  keep  her  oath.  She  breaks  her  en- 
gagement with  him,  and  sends  blm  away.  If 
she  escapes  the  consequences  of  the  act  he  may 
return  to  her  If  be  wishes  to.  He  returns  to  the 
capital,  and  awaits  developments.  A  week  later, 
Blanca  eteals  Into  the  gubernatorial  mansion  on 
murder  bent,  and  In  a  smoking-room,  awaits  her 
opportunity.  The  governor's  spies  who  have  had 
ber  constantly  under  espionage  since  their  sep- 
aration, apprises  him  of  her  presence,  and  be  re- 
solves to  put  her  love   to  the  supreme  test. 

With  his  secretary,  he  walks  to  the  door  of  the 
smoking  room,  and  there  Instructs  him  in  a  changed 
voice:  "If  the  mayor  calls,  show  blm  into  this 
room.  I  am  going  to  smoke."  "Yes,  your  ex- 
cellency,"   replies    the   secretary. 

Bianca  hears  and  raises  ber  revolver  to  be 
ready.  Madden  enters  the  room.  She  recognises 
him.  A  tense  moment,  during  which  the  nerveless 
band  holds  the  weapon  to  his  heart,  then  recover- 
ing from  her  stupefaction,  the  girl  realizes  that 
she  haa  been  duped,  and  staggers  back  all  but 
overcome. 

Again  she  raises  the  weapon,  fury- maddened,  but 
again  her  finger  falters  on  the  trigger.  She  can- 
not do  it.  He  steps  toward  her  with  outstretched 
arms,  but  with  a  stricken  cry,  she  waves  him 
back  and  err  he  can  prevent  it,  turns  the  gun 
apon  herself  and  fires.  The  wound  does  not  prove 
fatal  and  she  recovers.  Norvelil  and  his  brethren 
come  to  her  bed-side,  and  voluntarily  release  ber 
from  her  oath,  and  promising  to  plot  no  more 
against  the  government,   are  pardoned  by  the  gov- 


takes  a  fancy  to  the  goat,  and  thus  they  all  be- 
come inseparable  chums.  When  Lily  is  well  enough 
to  go  out,  she  takes  the  goat  Into  the  forest,  where 
a  gamekeeper  sees  ber,  and  not  knowing  that  it  is 
a  gift  from  the  Chatelaine,  thinks  that  it  has  been 
stolen.  Despite  Lily's  tears,  he  takes  it  from  her 
and  locks  it  up  In  a  but.  Lily  tells  her  mother, 
but  before  they  have  time  to  tell  the  Chatelaine, 
Rover,  the  dog,  misses  his  old  playmate  and  goes 
to  find  It.  In  an  amusing  manner,  a  true  demon- 
stration of  the  fact  that  animals  can  think,  and  are 
not  entirely  guided  by  Instinct  as  many  people  be- 
lieve, extricates  the  goat  from  its  temporary  prison 
and  leads  It  home.  Explanations  follow,  and  all 
goes  merrily. 

FAT,  THE  ELECTRICIAN  (Hay  30).— Pat  is  an 
electrician,  and  in  this  capacity  Is  called  in  to 
attend  to  some  defective  wiring  in  a  large  bouse. 
There  he  has  a  most  alarming  time,  and  succeeds 
In  wrecking  the  establishment  in  a  wonderfully  short 
space  of  time.  A  fire  is  only  just  averted  by  the 
mistress,  who  has  the  presence  of  mind  to  cut  off 
an  operation  which  the  would-be  electrician  quite 
overlooks. 


LUX. 

THE  DOG  AND  THE  GOAT  (May  80).— A  little 
peasant  girl  is  very  ill,  and  the  doctor  tells  her 
mother  that  she  must  have  goat's  milk.  It  Is  not 
very  easy  to  procure,  and  little  Lily's  mother  fears 
that  her  child  will  die.  Fortunately,  this  deserving 
case  comes  to  the  notice  of  a  wealthy  lady,  who 
Is  the  owner  of  the  property  upon  which  Lily  and 
her  mother  live.  The  Chatelaine  makes  Lily  a 
present  of  a  real  live  goat,  so  that  she  may  have 
the    necessary    milk.     Lily    has   also   a    dog,    which 


GREAT  NORTHERN. 

THE  PROFESSOR'S  TRAVELING  ADVENTURES 
(May  24).— A  synopsis  of  this  subject  was  published 
on  page  742  of  the  issue  dated  May  17.  It  was 
scheduled  for  release  on  May  17,  but  has  been 
postponed  until  May  24,  the  film  "The  Three  Com- 
rades," being  released  on  the  17th. 

MISCELLANEOUS 

UNION  FEATURES. 

ZIGOMAR— III  (Feature  Release  —  3  parts).— 
Paulin  Broquet,  the  great '  Parisian  detective,  has 
brought  the  notorious  bandit,  Zigomar,  to  Justice. 
Determined  not  to  let  the  law  punish  him,  he  had 
taken  poison  in  the  Hall  of  Justice.  Then  be 
was  brought  to  a  hospital  where  be  lay  motion- 
less and  was  visited  by  hundreds  of  persons. 
Among  the  visitors  was  a  slender  woman,  dressed 
In  black,  who  secreted  herself  in  the  hospital,  and, 
when  all  the  others  had  gone,  went  to  the  bedside 
of  Zigomar  and  administered  an  antidote  for  poi- 
soning. She  was  none  other  than  La  Rosarlo, 
the  accomplice  of  Zigomar.  Almost  instantaneous 
with  the  administering  of  the  antidote,  Zigomar 
opened  his  eyes  and  sprang  from  the  bier.  They 
were  about  to  leave  the  room  when  the  surgeon 
entered  to  take  a  portion  of  the  skin  from  the 
bandit's  arm,  which  was  all  the  great  detective 
desired  as  a  recompense  for  the  capture  of  Zigomar. 
But  he  was  quickly  pounced  upon,  gagged  and 
placed  upon  the  bier  where  he  was  found  the  next 
morning  by  the  detective. 

Later  the  bandit  set  a  trap  for  the  infuriated 
Broquet  into  which  he  unsuspectingly  fell.  When 
the  detective  waB  in  this  predicament,  Zigomar 
offered  him  $250,000  If  he  would  let  him  alone. 
Not  acquiescing  In  this,  Zigomar  then  thrust  his 
captive  into  an  iron  cage  where  he  would  have 
starved  to  death  had  It  not  been  for  the  timely 
rescue   by    his   lieutenant. 

The  next  dastardly  trick  of  Zigomar  was  to  se- 
cure the  safe  which  carried  $50,000  belonging  to 
the  owner  of  the  Grand  African  Circus,  which  he 
had  won  as  a  prize.  He  and  La  Rosarlo,  dis- 
guised as  servants,  joined  the  circus  and  by  the 
aid  of  a  powerful  elephant  managed  to  get  the 
safe  to  a  manhole  Into  which  is  was  lowered  to 
Zigomar  and  La  Rosarlo.  But  It  slipped  from  the 
ledge  and  soon  sank  out  of  sight  In  the  mud.  The 
case  for  the  apprehension  of  the  thief  was  placed 
in  the  hands  of  Paulin  Broquet,  and,  disguised, 
be  started  to  Investigate.  In  the  circus  parade  the 
next  day  he  saw  Zigomar  and  made  a  grab  for 
him.  La  Rosarlo  saw  this,  and,  obedient  to  her 
cocmand,  her  trained  elephant  took  Broquet  around 
the  waist  and  hurled  him  to  the  ground.  In  the 
confusion    Zigomar  and   La    Rosarlo   escaped. 

After  a  time  of  suspended  activities,  Zigomar 
attempted  to  rob  the  biggest  bank  in  Paris;  but 
in  this  he  was  frustrated  by  the  detective.  Swear- 
ing vengeance  he  tried  to  wreck  the  train  upon 
which  the  detective  was  traveling,  but  one  of  the 
detective's  spies  got  wind  of  It  and  warned  him. 
Ascertaining  that  the  detective  was  to  make  his 
journey  by  motorboat  instead  of  by  rail,  Zigomar 
and  La  Rosarlo,  at  the  point  of  revolvers,  forced 
an  aviator  to  carry  them  high  up  in  the  air,  and, 
when  rirectly  above  the  motorboat,  Zigomar  dropped 
several  explosive  bombs  upon  the  frail  craft,  blow- 
ing it  Into  pieces  and  injuring  the  detective  bo 
seriously   that  he   was  placed   In   a  hospital. 

When  he  was  convalescent,  Broquet  received  a 
letter  of  invitation  from  the  banker,  whom  be  bad 
warned  against  the  diabolical  machinations  of 
Zigomar,  to  come  to  his  house  and  see  how  he 
entertained  his  guests.  While  there,  the  banker 
showed  Broquet  bow  be,  by  an  ingenious  arrange- 
ment of  mirrors,  was  able  to  see  the  strong  room 
of  the  bank.  While  they  were  looking  Zigomar  and 
his  band  broke  into  the  strong  room  and  began 
to  loot  the  safes.  By  pressing  a  button,  the  strong 
room  was  soon  flooded  and  the  bandits  captured. 


KINEMACOLOR. 
LOVE  IN  THE  DABK  (2  parts). — The  heroine  Is 
deprived    of    sight    by    a    peculiar   accident — a    pre- 
mature   blast   just   as    she   Is   passing   a    big    exca- 
vation,  and  she  Is  saved  from  worse  Injury  by  the 


young  engineer  in  charge.  During  her  convalescence 
the  young  engineer  is  very  devoted,  and  although 
she  has  never  really  seen  him,  Bertha  consents  to 
become  his  wife  when  she  recovers  her  sight.  Be- 
fore this  occurs  the  engineer  is  called  away  on 
another  contract,  but  leaves  his  photograph  where 
Bertha  can  see  it  as  soon  as  the  doctor  will  permit 
the  bandages  to  be  removed  from  her  eyes. 

Another  admirer,  whom  she  has  never  seen,  sub- 
stitutes his  photograph  for  that  of  the  absent  en- 
gineer, and  endeavors  to  hoodwink  the  heroine  Into 
the  idea  that  be  Is  ber  nance.  By  intercepting 
letters  from  the  engineer,  the  schemer  almost  per- 
suades her  to  fulfill  ber  promise  of  marriage,  when 
the  real  fiancS  returns  to  confront  his  wily  rival. 

Face  to  face  with  two  suitors,  neither  of  whom 
she  has  ever  seen,  the  girl  is  puzzled  to  pick  her 
real  sweetheart — when  she  has  an  inspiration  to 
blindfold  herself,  and  make  her  choice  literally  "in 
tbe  dark."  That  sixth  sense  which  the  blind  seem 
to  develop,  guides  her  aright,  and  the  young  en- 
gineer is  made  happy,  while  the  wily  rival  is  hoist 
with  his  own  petard. 

PAYING  THE  PENALTY  (2  parts).— When  a 
young  man  Jilts  bis  fiancee,  and  on  the  very  eve 
of  his  wedding  day  runs  away  with  a  wicked 
widow,  there  is  bound  to  be  retribution  in  tome 
form  or   another. 

It  happens  that  tbe  deserted  bride  falls  among 
good  Samaritans,  and  In  the  hospital  where  she  re- 
covers from  the  shock  of  her  desertion,  she  meet* 
her  real  mate  In  tbe  person  of  a  young  surgeon- 
She  takes  up  nursing  as  a  profession,  and  shortly 
after  tbelr  marriage  her  husband  is  appointed  Field 
Surgeon  of  a  California  oil  company. 

Almost  tbe  first  case  he  has  to  attend  is  that  of 
the  false  fiance,  who  has  suffered  a  severe  accident 
in  tbe  oil  fields.  A  trained  nurse  is  required,  and 
the  doctor's  bride  volunteers.  The  situation  when 
she  finds  herself  at  the  bedside  of  ber  faithless 
lover  of  long  ago  is  developed  in  the  picture, 
better  than  it  can  be  told  In  print. 

Suffice  it  to  say  that  she  "heaps  coals  of  fire" 
upon  the  faithless  one's  head  while  nursing  him  back 
to  health,  and  the  finish  enforces  the  moral  that  It 
1b  better  to  forgive  than  to  receive  forgiveness. 

PEARLS  OF  THE  MADONNA  (2  parts).— A  pil- 
grimage is  on  its  way  across  the  desert;  among 
those  going  to  the  shrine  are  Jaquita,  a  young  girl, 
and  a  rich  woman,  who  is  crippled  and  who  has 
vowed  to  give  the  wonderful  pearls  about  her  neck 
to  the  Madonna,  should  she  be  healed.  Jaquita 
covets  these  pearls.  At  the  shrine  tbe  miracle 
takes  place,  and  the  lame  woman  walks.  The  pearls 
are  hung  about  the  neck  of  the  statue.  Jaquita 
tries  to  steal  them,    but  Is  not  successful. 

At  home  the  girl  thinks  of  nothing  but  the  pearla 
and  vows  to  marry  the  man  who  gets  them  for  her. 
Horrified,  all  but  one  of  her  lovers  leave  her.  Jose, 
however,  struggles  with  his  love  for  tbe  girl  and 
his  religion.  Love  conquers,  and  he  starts  across 
the  desert  to  the  shrine.  He  gets  the  pearls.  Later 
the  theft  Is  discovered,  and  the  guilty  pair  are 
stoned  out  Into  the  desert. 

Out  on  the  desert  the  desperate  pair  determine 
to  commit  suicide,  but  In  the  sky  a  vision  of  the 
Madonna  appears,  they  kneel  in  prayer  and  Journey 
to  the  Bbrlne,  replacing  the  pearls  on  the  neck  of 
the  statue.  So  they  repent.  Jaquita  as  a  nun  pray- 
ing at  the  shrine,  and  Jose  as  a  monk  working  In 
the  gardens  of  the  cloister,  make  a  very  beautiful 
finish  to  a  notable  picture. 

BEYOND  REPROACH.— Albert  is  a  ••Raffles"— a 
social  highwayman,  who,  while  mingling  with  high 
society,  takes  toll  of  their  Jewels  and  pocketbooks 
so  cleverly  that  bis  pllferlngs  are  unsuspected  even 
by  his  big  brother,  Jim.  Both  love  the  same  girl, 
but  Albert  has  the  luck  to  steal  her  heart,  on  the 
very  evening  when  detectives  have  been  detailed  to 
Bhadow  and  arrest  him  at  a  grand  reception.  It 
happens  that  suspicion  Is  shifted  to  Jim,  and  on 
being  searched,  a  diamond  brooch  and  an  engage- 
ment ring  are  found  In  his  pockets.  Having  Just 
witnessed  his  brother's  acceptance  by  his  lady  love, 
Jim  does  not  explain  that  he  purchased  this  Jewelry 
In  hopes  of  winning  her  himself:  and  when  the 
knowledge  of  Albert's  guilt  is  forced  upon  him,  he 
decides  to  pay  the  penalty  rather  than  spoil  the 
girl's  romance. 

Albert  reforms  after  his  marriage,  but  the  knowl- 
edge that  his  brother  Is  paying  the  penalty  of  his 
crimes  In  the  penitentiary,  weighs  upon  him,  and 
his  health  falls.  Feeling  that  bis  end  is  neer, 
Albert  writeB  a  full  confession,  but  when  this  docu- 
ment Is  delivered  to  Jim  he  tears  It  up,  refusing 
to  secure  his  release  at  the  price  of  disgracing  hl» 
brother's  widow  and  child.  So  Albert's  memory  la 
left  without  reproach. 


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Mew  York  City. — Felix  Isman  contemplates  build- 
ing a  two-story  moving  picture  theater  to  seat  800 
and  to  cost  about  $3,600. 

Hew  York  City. — Joseph  J.  White,  1199  Boston 
Road,  has  let  the  contract  for  a  two-story  moving 
picture  theater  to  cost  $30,000.  The  first  story 
of  the  building  Is  partly  constructed.  The  theater 
has  been  leased  to  Goldner  Brothers,  7th  avenue  and 
1.131b  street. 

Schenectady,  N.  Y. — A.  G.  Davis,  313  Congress 
street',  has  started  work  on  tbe  one-story  moving 
picture  theater  to  cost  $5,000.  Same  has  been 
lessed  to  W.  C.  Gtoodale,  417  Rugby  road. 

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SITUATIONS    WANTED. 

MANAGER — Of  long  experience,  picture  and 
vaudeville  business,  open  for  engagement.  Any  New 
England  city  or  town.  Address  MANAGER,  77a 
Revere  St.,  Suite  4,  Boston,  Mass. 

OPERATOR— At  liberty.  Experienced  on  Powers 
and  Edison  machines.  Best  of  references.  Ad- 
dress  OPERATOR,    Slater  Theatre,    Pottsvllle,    Pa. 

HELP   WANTED. 

WANTED— An  experienced  Cameraman.  Must  be 
familiar  In  all  branches  of  Moving  Picture  Photoo- 
graphic  Work.  Address  W.  B.  PAPE,  8  North 
Hamilton  St.,   Mobile,  Ala. 

WANTED — A  long  established  producing  concern 
desires  a  reliable  cameraman.  Good  salary.  All 
communications  treated  with  confidence.  Address 
X.  Y.  Z.,  care  of  Moving  Picture  World,  New  York 
City. 

EQUIPMENT   FOR.   SALE. 
FOR  SALE— 9-6  x  12-8   "Mirror  Screen."     Address 
WM.  SAVAGE  AMUSE.  CO..  Alton,  111.     Reason  for 
selling,  am  installing  larger  "Mirror  Screen."     This 
one  Is  as  good  as  the  day  it  left  the  factory. 

WANTED — Williamson  Camera  in  good  condition. 
Write  particulars.  COLUMBIA  COMPANY,  Hannan- 
Mills  Bldg.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

FOR  SALE — 357  second-hand  Opera  Chairs  now  in 
use  in  a  picture  show,  Easton,  Pa.  Delivery  can  be 
made  within  30  days.  Price  35c  on  the  floor.  Ad- 
dress JEWEL  THEATER,  Easton  Pa,,  or  IMPERIAL 
FEATURE   FILM    COMPANY,    Pittsburgh,    Pa. 

WANT  TO  SELL  OR  EXCHANGE— New  sectional 
Asbestos  Booth,  for  chimes,  compensarc,  or  what 
have  you?  Address  HAROLD  E.  BRADY,  Crandon, 
Wis. 

FOR  SALE — Mirrorolde  curtain,  10  by  12,  $20; 
Pathe  Machine,  used  about  3  months,  good  condition, 
1012  model,  $125.  Shipped  receipt  20%  deposit,  bal- 
ance  C.  O.  D.,  subject  examination.  Address  M.  M. 
OSBORN,   Kingsville,  Texas. 


EQUIPMENT   WANTED. 

WANTED— 160  S.  H.  opera  chairs,  cheap.  State 
make  and  condition  first  letter.  Address  REX  THE- 
ATRE,  St.   Louis,   Mich. 

THEATRES    FOR    RENT. 

FOR  SALE — 20  Electric  Pianos.  65-oote  with  key- 
board for  hand  playing,  $100,  $125,  $165.  44-note 
pianos  $50  and  $60.  Orchestrian  planoa  with  plpea, 
$275  to  $300.  Practically  new  and  all  In  first  class 
playing  condition.  Also  10  D.C.  motors,  %  horse- 
power, $8  to  $10.  We  allow  Inspection  at  depot. 
Write  for  list.  Address  J.  F.  HERMAN,  1420  Pa. 
Ave.  N.   W.,  Washington,  D.  O. 

FOR  RENT — Fully  furnished  picture  vaudeville 
theatre,  capacity  1,000.  An  opportunity.  Address 
OANTES,   Box  66,   Pleasantville,   N.  J. 

FILMS  FOR  SALE, 

FOR  SALE — 500  reels  of  film  with  posters  to 
match,  all  in  good  condition.  Many  subjects  prac- 
tically new.  Address  McINTIRB  A  RICHTBR,  23 
E.  14th  St.,  New  York  City. 

I  HAVE  FOB  SALE  the  feature  films  with  Texas 
state  rights,  "Salome"  and  "Restitution,"  or  will 
book  either  one  for  prices.  Address  FRED  SOHOEF- 
FLER.   P.  O.  Galveston,  Texas. 

FOR  SALE — "Quo  Vadis,"  Talking  Picture,  in  one 
reel,  with  records.  Also  Alice  Lloyd  "On  the  Old 
See-Saw."  Tough  character  Sketch,  and  many  others. 
Address  G.  E.  EMERSON,  537  Central  Ave.,  New- 
ark, N.  J. 


THEATRES  FOR  SALE. 

FOR  SALE — Alrdome,  complete  outfit,  machines, 
screen,  400  seats.  Price  $250,  loaded  on  car.  Also 
one  complete  lighting  outfit,  gas  or  gasoline  en- 
gine, 128  amperes  direct  current  dynamo  In  A-l 
condition,  $350.  Address  F.  J.  BBMBUSCH,  Shelby- 
ville,   Ind.,   THH  "MIRROR  SCREEN"   MAN. 

MOVING  PICTURE  THEATRE— For  sale,  In  town 
of  5,000,  centrally  located,  320  seats,  room  for  more. 


mit  avenue,  will  break  ground  in  a  short  time  for 
a  one-story  moving  picture  theater  to  cost  $12,000. 

McKeesport,  Pa. — The  McKeesport  Amusement' 
Company  has  been  Incorporated  with  a  capital  of 
$15,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — The  property  at  the  northwest 
corner  of  Broad  and  Diamond  street,  lot  25  x  136 
feet,  which  was  purchased  at  Sheriff's  sale  on 
March  3  by  Louis  H.  Cahan  tyr  $7,150,  on  a  Judg- 
ment of  $7,113.17  and  subject  to  a  mortgage  of 
$17,500,  will  be  demolished  by  the  purchaser,  and 
a  moving  picture  theater  built  on  the  site. 

Syracuse,  N.  Y.— W.  J.  Hamilton,  461  South 
Salina  street,  will  soon  take  bids  for  a  one-story 
moving  picture  theater  to  cost  $10,000.  It  will  have 
a  seating  capacity  for  600. 

Pittsburgh,  Pa. — EaBt  End  Amusement  Company 
has  been  Incorporated  with  a  capital  of  $10,000. 

Newark,  N.  J. — H.  Rosenthal  Is  having  plans 
prepared  for  a  one-story  moving  picture  theater  to 
cost  about  $12,000.  It  will  have  a  seating  ca- 
pacity for  600. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Plans  have  been  filed  for  a 
one-story  moving  picture  theater  to  be  bnllt  by 
H.  N.  Kerst.  at  the  northwest  corner  of  Twenty- 
fourth  and  Vine  streets. 

West  End,  N.  J— L.  Ochs,  600  Amsterdam  ave- 
nue. New  York  City,  will  soon  Invite  bids  for  a 
two-story  moving  picture  theater  and  store  building 
to  cost  $10,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — The  purchase  of  2775  Kensing- 
ton avenue,  and  2763  to  76  Ruth  street,  in  the  rear, 
occupying  a  lot  77.7  x  112.9  feet,  by  Clarence  P. 
Wynne  recently,  Is  a  preliminary  step  to  the  con- 
struction of  a  moving  picture  and  vaudeville  theater 
to  cost  abont  $25,000,  exclusive  of  the  $20,000  paid 
for  the  ground. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — F.  C.  Mlchaelson  has  filed 
plans  with  the  building  inspectors  for  a  moving 
picture  theater  to.be  built  at  Kensington  avenue 
and  Somerset  street,  to  cost  about  $25,000. 

Bloomfield,  N.  J. — Joseph  Green,  35  Day  street, 
has  received  bids  for  a  one-story  moving  picture 
theater  to  be  built  In  this  town. 

Wilmington,  Del. — Roscoe  C.  Tlndall,  Equitable 
Building,  is  preparing  plans  for  the  owner  of  a 
four-story  moving  picture  theater  and  office  build- 
ing to  cost  $40,000. 

Newark,  N.  J.— Herman  Schleslnger,  174  South 
7th  street,  has  let  the  contract  for  a  one-story 
moving  picture  theater  to  cost  $20,000,  to  Oswald 
Brothers,  845  Broad  street. 

Camden,   N.   J John  A.   Fleck  of  the  Broadway 

Amusement  Company,  214  Market  street,  has  let 
the  contract  for  a  one-story  moving  picture  theater 
to  cost  $15,000. 

Columbus,  0. — Ross  &  McCafferty,  69  South  High 
street,  will  build  a  four-story  moving  picture  theater 
with  a  seating  capacity  for  1,200.  and  to  cost 
$100,000.  The  theater  has  been  leased  to  Max 
Steam.     The    general    superintendence    of    the    con- 


struction of  the  building  has  been  placed  in  the 
hands  of  George  Lewis. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Plans  are  in  preparation  for 
a  moving  picture  theater  at  the  intersection  of 
York,  Hope  and  Howard  street's,  from  designs  by 
0.  P.  Berger,  for  Zorn  &  Spaulding. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — A  large  moving  picture  and 
vaudeville  theater  is  contemplated  at  4032  to  4040 
Market  street,  where  a  western  syndicate,  which 
operates  a  chain  of  houses,  has  bought  the  lot, 
which  measures  100  x  214  feet.  The  cost'  of  this 
building  is  estimated  at  $150,000.  This  is  said  to 
be  the  first  of  several  houses  of  the  kind  which  this 
syndicate  intends  establishing  in  this  city.  It  has 
also  been  announced  that  several  other  sites  are 
now  under  consideration. 

Lakewood,  O. — James  Gormsen,  1852  Detroit  ave- 
nue, has  invited  bids  for  the  remodeling  and  change 
of  the  front  of  the  three-story  Commercial  building 
into  a  moving  picture  theater  to  seat'  295. 

Willoughby,  0. — O.  E.  Crawford  has  invited  bids 
for  the  erection  of  a  one-story  moving  picture  the- 
ater to  seat  350. 

Indianapolis,  Ind. — 0.  W.  C.  Teasdale,  who  was 
having  plans  prepared  for  one-story  moving  picture 
theater  and  store  building  has  abandoned  the  pro- 
ject  for  the  present. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Jacob  Rubin  has  conveyed  to 
Rose  Tinkelman  the  properties  3235-37-39-41  Ridge 
avenne,  at  the  corner  of  Natrona  street  and  ex- 
tending to  Dakota  street.  The  buildings  are  used 
for  manufacturing  purposes,  but  will  be  remodeled 
Into  a  handsome  and  commodious  moving  picture 
theater. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — 3941  and  3943  Market  street, 
has  been  purchased  by  the  Eureka  Amusement  Com- 
pany. The  company  intends  to  erect  a  moving 
picture  theater  having  a  seating  capacity  of  about 
800,   and  costing  in  the  neighborhood  of  $25,000. 

New  Albany,  Ind. — O.  M.  Switow,  of  Jefferson- 
ville.  Is  having  plans  revised  for  a  one-story  moving 
picture  theater  to  cost  $25,000,  and  having  a  seat- 
ing capacity  for  about  1.200. 

Grand  Island,  Neb. — Woolstenholm  &  Sterne  have 
let  the  contract  fer  a  two-story  moving  picture 
theater  and  apartment  building,  to  cost  about  $20,- 
000.  The  theater  will  have  a  seating  capacity  for 
700.  The  upper  floors  of  tie  building  will  be  di- 
vided into  six  apartments. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Maennechor  Garden,  at  the 
northeast  corner  of  Franklin  street  and  Fairmount 
avenue,  one  of  the  few  remaining  of  the  old-time 
summer  gardens,  is  to  give  way  to  a  moving  pic- 
ture theater.  A  permit  has  been  granted  to 
Solomon  Greenstlne.  The  improvement  will  con- 
sist of  a  one-story  terra-cotta  front  structure,  with 
a  seating  capacity  of  600.  The  building  will  cost 
$10,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.— The  Plaza  Theater,  on  the  east 
side  of  Broad  street,  between  Ritner  and  Porter 
streets,  lot  180  feet  on  Broad  street,  by  80  feet  in 
depth,  has  been  sold  by  the  Plaza  Realty  Company, 


Monograph  with  two  heads  all  equipped.  Other 
business.  For  full  particulars  address  W.  R.  SUT- 
TON,  Bath,   N.   Y. 

FOR  RENT  OR  FOR  SALE — Moving  picture  house, 
over  600  seats,  within  60  miles  of  N.  Y.  Ten-cent 
admission.  Everything  new.  Fine  exits,  two  ma- 
chines, finest  of  equipment.  Not  much  money  re- 
quired. Address  ROOM  401,  Broad-State  Building, 
Trenton,   N.  J. 

LEASE,  GOOD  WILL,  INTEREST— Picture  and 
vaudeville  theatre,  capacity  600,  fully  equipped,  now 
running.  Only  place  In  town,  main  thoroughfare, 
20  minutes  to  New  York  City,  location,  Jersev. 
Particulars.  Address  JERSEY',  care  of  Moving  Pic- 
ture World,  17  Madison  Ave.,  N.  Y.  City. 

BUSINESS  OPPORTUNITY. 

I  WILL  BUY  anything  from  a  second-hand  roll  of 
tickets  to  a  theater.  I  sell  machines,  chairs, 
pianos,  etc.,  of  long  ago,  or  up-to-date.  Have  also 
a  few  picture  theatres  for  sale.  Address  TRIGGER, 
212  Third  Ave.,  near  18th  St.,  New  York  City. 

GOOD  OPPORTUNITY  of  Investing  small  sum. 
foreign  films  proposition.  Profitable.  Address 
SANSEVERIN,  63  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York  City. 

FOR  SALE — A  fully  equipped  Feature  Film  Ex- 
change In  Indianapolis.  Ind.  Six  first-class  features 
and  25  single  reels.  Two  hundred  dollars'  worth  of 
mounted  paper,  safe,  office  equipment,  re-wlnds, 
Bhipping  cases,  heralds,  posters  and  all  necessary 
equipment  to  run  a  first  class  exchange.  Owners 
live  In  Pittsburgh.  This  proposition  can  be  had  at 
one-half  Its  real  value.  Address  ROTHLEDER  & 
SOHWALM  616  Lyceum  Bldg.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 


MISCELLANEOUS. 

FOR  SALE  OR  HIRE— Evening  Gowns,  party 
dresses,  theatrical  drummer  suit,  opera  dresses 
slippers.  Address  McDOCGALL,  252  W.  22nd  St. 
New  York  City. 


to  a  syndicate  headed  by  James  J.  Springer,  for 
about  $75,000.  The  theater  was  built  about  six 
years  ago,  and  has  a  seating  capacity  of  1,700.  It 
was  proposed  to  enlarge  It  extensively  last  year, 
but  the  plans  for  improvement  were  not  carried 
out.  The  new  owners  will  considerably  enlarge 
the  building. 

Philadelphia,  Pa — Plans  have  been  filed  with 
the  Bureau  of  Building  Inspection  by  John  D.  Allen, 
architect,  for  a  moving  picture  and  vaudeville  the- 
ater to  be  built  at  Frankford  avenue  and  Margaret 
street,  for  William  Freihofer,  president  of  the 
Frelhofer  Vienna  Baking  Company.  The  structure, 
which  will  be  known  as  the  Frankford  Theater,  will 
be  the  first  really  modern  playhouse  to  be  built  in 
the  northeastern  part  of  the  city,  and  will  have 
a  seating  capacity  of  1,800.  It  will  be  built  mainly 
of  terra  cotta,  and  In  It's  general  construction  will 
have  marked  departures  from  tie  architecture  of 
other  playhouses.  One  of  these  will  be  a  ballroom 
on  the  balcony  floor  40  by  90  feet. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.— The  Lam  Building  Company 
is  estimating  on  a  moving  picture  theater,  66  by  63 
feet,  with  a  wing  59  by  50  feet,  at  23rd  and  South 
streets,  for  C.  Christiansen. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.— The  Joseph  Levin  Company  is 
taking  estimates  for  a  one-story  moving  picture 
theater,  36  by  140  feet,  at  1426-28  South  Fourth 
street,   for  Jacob  Kaplan,  to  cost  $10,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Charles  J.  Stengle  &  Company 
have  awarded  the  contract  for  the  erection  of  a 
$5,000  moving  picture  theater,  32  by  112  feet,  to 
Joseph  Stein  &  Co.  The  theater  will  be  located  at 
835  and  837  Morris  street. 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich. — Charles  Dlckerman,  134 
Lyon  street,  will  soon  start'  work  on  bis  two-story 
movlBg  picture  theater.  The  building  has  been 
leased  t'o  Dennis  McCarthy. 

Indianapolis,  Ind. — F.  W.  Sanders,  1104  Prospect 
street,  has  let  the  contract  for  a  one-story  moving 
picture  theater  and  store  building  to  Henry  Dall- 
man,  1302  Merchant's  National  Bank  Building. 
Besides  the  theater  there  will  be  two  stores. 

8alt  Lake  City,  Utah.— The  Liberty  Theater  Com- 
pany baa  let  the  contract  for  a  moving  picture 
theater.  It  wll  consist  of  one  story  and  balcony. 
The  contract  was  let  for  $22,950. 

Anaheim,  Cal. — Masonic  Temple  Association  has 
plans  In  progress  for  a  two-story  moving  picture 
theater,  lodge  rooms,  store  and  an  apartment. 

Santa  Anna,  Cal.— W.  Fowler  contemplates  build- 
ing a  one-story  moving  picture  theater  here. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Berman  Brothers  have  been 
granted  a  permit  to  erect  a  $50,000  moving  picture 
and  vaudeville  theater  on  the  east  side  of  52nd 
street,  north  of  Stiles.  It  will  be  a  one-story  brick 
structure,  with  a  seating  capacity  of  1,000. 

Baltimore,  Md.— John  Faul,  president  of  the  Ed- 
mondson  Amusement  Company,  Lee  and  Warner 
streets,  has  let  the  contract  for  a  one-story  moving 
picture  and  vaudeville  theater. 


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vidual— Exhibitors  have  paid  me  retainers  to  act  as 
their  consulting  and  advisory  Engineer  to  prepare 
plans  and  specifications  for  new  theatres  and  for  re- 
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I  want  to  help  you,  Mr.  Exhibitor,  to  improve  your 
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FACTS  AND   COMMENTS   895 

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CARBON  IMPORTERS. 

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INDEPENDENT  FILM  MANUFACTURERS. 

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RAMO   957 

RELIANCE    957 

SOLAX    881 

THANHOUSER    874 

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THAT   CENSORSHIP   CONTROVERSY    897 

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AMERICAN. 

May  19 — Her    Innocent    Marriage     (Drama)....  1000 
May  22— Calamity  Anne  Parcel  Post   (Oomedy).lOOO 

May  24 — The    Modern    Snare    (Drama) 1000 

May  26 — Ashes  of  Three    (2  parte — Drama) 2000 

May  29 — On    the    Border    (Drama) 1000 

May  81— Her    Big    Story    (Drama) 1000 

Jnne    2— When    Luck     Changes     (Drama) 1000 

Jane    5 — The     Wishing    Seat     (Drama) 1000 

June    7 — Via   Cabaret    (Drama) 1000 

AMBB06I0. 

Apr.     6— Tor    Hla    Sake    (2    reels— Drama) 

Apr.  IS — Aoto  Suggestion;  or  the  Crime  of  An- 
other   (2    reels— Drama) 

Apr.  »— Call*  Labor  Traffic  (2  parts,   Drama).. 

Apr.  la— Golden  Bala   (2  reels.   Drama) 

May    S — The    Spider    (2    parts — Drama) 

May  10 — Tempest  and  Sunshine  (2  parts — 
Drama)     

May  17 — A  Maid  of  Honor   (2  parts — Drama).. 

May  24 — The  Yellow  Man   (2  parts — Drama)... 

BISON. 

Apr.  2D— The  Last  Boll  Call  (2  parts.  Drama).. 
May    3— The    Vengeance    of    the    Skyatone     (2 

parts.  Drama) 

May  6 — The  Indian's  Secret  (2  parts,  Drama) 
May  10 — The  Northern  Spy  (2  parts.  Drama) 
May  18 — The  Toll  of  War  (3  parts — Drama) . . 
May  17 — In  the  Secret  Service  (2  parts — Drama) 
May  20 — The     Stars     and    Stripes     Forever     (3 

parts — Drama)     

May  24 — Under   Fire    (2   parts — Drama) 

May  27 — Love,  Life  and  Liberty  (2  parts — Dr.) 
May  31 — The  Honor  of  the  Regiment    (2  parts — 

Drama)     

Jnne    3— The  Battle  of  San  Juan  Hill   (2  parts 

— Drama )      I 

Jnne  7— The  Spirit  of  the  Flag  (2  parts- 
Drama) 

BB0NCK0. 

Apr.  SO — Bread  Cast  Dpon  the  Waters  (2  parts, 

Drama) 

May  7 — The  Way  of  a  Mother  (2  parts,  Dr.) 
May  14 — A  Slave's  Devotion  (2  parts — Drama) 
May  21 — The  Sea  Dog  (2  parts — Drama)..., 
May  28 — The  Drummer  of  the  Eighth  (2  parts — 

Drama)     

June    4 — A    Dixie    Mother    (2    parts — Drama).. 

CHAMPION. 

Apr.  14 — Lena's  Flirtation   (Comedy) 

Apr.  21 — Whea    Strong    Men    Meet    (Drama) 

Apr.  28 — The  Clown  Hero    (Comedy) 

Apr.  28 — Life  In  Soudan    (Sociology) 

May    6— The   Shark    God    (Drama) 1000 

May  12— Hawaiian  Love   (Drama) 

May  19 — The    Leper     (Drama) 

CRYSTAL. 

May  27 — Where  Charity  Begins  (Drama) 

June  1 — Clancy,   the  Model    (Comedy) 

June  1 — Hooked    (Comedy)    

June    3 — Mary's     Romance     (Drama) 

June    8— The    New    Typist    (Comedy ) 

June    S— Black  and  White  (Comedy)   

DBAOON. 

May  12— The    Outcast    (Drama)     1000 

May  19 — The    Sergeant'a    Daughter     (2    parts — 

Drama)     2000 

May  26 — Love's  Monogram   (Drama) 1000 

June  2 — Comrades   (Drama)    1000 

JuneS — Memories  of  Long  Ago    (Drama) 1000 

ECLAIR. 
May  21— Thus     Salth     the     Lord      (2     parts- 
Drama) 

May  2." — Hearts  and  Crosses  (Drama) 

May  25 — Anaradhapura     

May  2K — The  Faith  Healer  12  narts — Drama).. 
June     1 — He    Ruins    His    Family's     Reputation 

(Comedy )     

June  1 — All  On  Account  of  An  Egg  (Comedy).. 
June     4 — Why?     (3     parts — Drama) 


EXCELSIOR. 

Apr.  T— Temperamental  Alice  (eomedy -Drama) 
Apr.  14 — The  Moving  Picture  Girl   (Drama).... 

Apr.  21 — The  Man  from  the  City  (Drama) 

Apr.     28 — The  Surveyors  (Drama) 

May    6— Brothers    All     (Drama) 

FRONTIER. 

May  17— Betty's    Bandit     (Comedy) 

May  22— The  Stage  Driver's  Chivalry   (Drama). 

May  24 — Where   Wits   Win    (Comedy) 

May  29 — A  Romance  of  the  Rails  (Drama).. 
May  31— Flossie  Visits  Bar  U  Ranch   (Comedy) 

June    6 — The  Pillar  of  Peril  (Drama) 

June    8— The    Ranch    Girl    and    the    Sky    Pilot 
(Comedy)     

GAUM0NT. 

May  10 — (An  Educational  and  Topical  Subject). 
May  13 — In  the  Wake  of  the  Bralnetorm  (Dr.) 
May  13 — Through  Mountains  Majestic  (Scenic).. 
May  14 — Gaunont's    Weekly    No.    62     (News).. 

May  IS — Sweets    to   the   Sweet    (Comedy) 

May  17 — (An  Educational  and  Topical  Subject) 
May  20— The     Eyes     that     Could     Not     Close 

(Drama)     

May  21 — Gaumont's  Weekly,   No.   63    (News) . . . 

May  22 — For   Two    Pins    (Drama) 

May  24 — (An  Educational  and  Topical  Subject) 

GEM. 

May    6— BlUy'a    First    Quarrel    (Comedy) 

May    6— Call    Him    Whiskers    (Comedy) 

May  13 — Billy's   Adventure    (Comedy) 

May  20 — Billy  Plays  Poker   (Comedy) 

May  27 — Billy's     Honeymoon     (Comedy) 

June    2 — Billy   In  Armor    (Comedy) 


GREAT     NORTHERN. 

May  10 — Her     First     Love     Affair      (Comedy- 
Drama)     

May  10— The  Harta  (Science) 

May  17 — The  Three  Comrades    (Drama) 

May  24 — The    Professor's    Traveling    Adventures 

(Comedy)    

May  31 — Where    is    Doggie?     (Comedy) 

May  31 — Lock    Lomond    (Scenic) 

June    7 — An    Unwelcome    Wedding    Gift    (Com- 
edy-Drama)      

IMF. 

May  26 — Secret  Service  Sam   (2  parts — Drama) . 

May  29 — The  Heart  that  Sees   (Drama) 

May  31 — The  Magnetic  Maid  (Comedy) 

May  31 — Hy  Mayer.  His  Magic  Hand  (Novelty) 
June    2 — Just    a    Fire-Fighter    (Comedy-Drama) 

June    5 — Self-Accused    (Drama)     

June  7 — Pen  Talks  hy  Hy  Mayer  (Comedy).. 
June    7 — The    Count    Retires    (Comedy) 

KAY-BEE. 

Apr.  25— Will  O'  the  Wisp  (2  parta,  Drama).. 
May.  2 — A  Black  Conspiracy  (2  parts.  Drama) 
May  9 — Past  Redemption  (2  parta.  Drama)... 
May  16 — For  Love  of  the  Flag  (2  parts — Drama) 

May  23 — The    Miser    (2    parts — Drama) 

May  30— A  Child  of  War  (2  parts— Drama) 

June    6 — A  True   Believer    (2   parts — Drama).. 

KEYSTONE. 

May  22— The   Foreman  of   the  Jury    (Comedy). 

May  26 — Toplltsky  &  Company    (Comedy) 

May  29 — The    Gangsters    (Comedy) 

June    2 — Barney    Oldfleld's     Race    for    a    Life 

(Comedy)      . . .  .| 

June  5 — Passions!  He  Had  Three  (Comedy). 
June    S — Help!    Help!    Hydrophobia    (Comedy). 

LUX. 

May    9— Saved     from     the     Grip     of     Alcohol 

(Drama)     696 

May  16— A  Mighty  Hunter   (Cemedy ) 499 

May  16 — Pat     Moves     to      Diplomatic      Circles 

(Comedy) 4991 

May  23 — Playing    with    the    Fire    (Drama) SOT 

May  30— The  Dog  and  the  Goat   (DTama) 641 

May  30— Pat,     the    Electrician     (Comedy) 355 

MAJESTIC. 

May  13 — My    Lady's    Boot    (Drama) 

May  18 — The  Rivals  Outwitted    (Comedy) 

May  18 — Oysters    (Zoology)    

May  20 — Shop,   the  Hero   (Drama) 

May    25 — Legally    Right    (Drama)    

May   27 — The   Fairy  Godfather    (Drama)    


Mutual  WEEKLY , 

Apr.     B— Mutual  Weekly,   No.  IB   (News) 

Apr.  16— Mutual  Weekly,  No.   M  (News) 

Apr.  23— Mutual  Weakly,   No.   IT  (New*) „ 

Apr.  30—  Mutual  Weekly,    No.    18    (New*).... 

May    7— Mutual  Weekly,    No.    19     (News) 

MUTUAL  EDUCATIONAL. 

Apr.  24— Funnlcus  U  Tired  of  Life  (Comedy).. 
Apr.  24— Electrical  Phenomenon   (Paysles).  .. ... 

May    1— The  Old  Invalid   (Drama) 

May    1— Tschkent,     Asiatic     Russia     (PeUtleaJ 

Geography) 

May    8— The    Old    Clock    (Drama) 

May    8 — Mosques    and    Tombs    of    Caliphs    and 

Mamelnkes  (Architectural) 

May  15— His     Master's     Blval     (Comedy) 

May  15— The     Valley     of     Albula,     Swltaerland 

(Scenic)      

NEST0B. 

May  21— The  Boy  Scouts  to  the  Rescue  (Drama) 
May  23 — A    Mine    and    a    Marathon    (Drama).. 

May  26 — On   Cupid's  Highway    (Comedy) 

May  28 — A  Double  Sacrifice    (Drama) 

May  30 — Be  It  Ever  So  Humble  (Drama) 

June  2— A  Mix-Up  In  Bandits  (Comedy).... 
June  4 — The  Idol  of  Bononza  Camp  (Drama) . . . 
June    6 — Owana,    the   Devil   Woman    (Drama).. 

POWERS. 

May  16— The    Tarantula     (Drama) 

May  21— The    Curate's    Omtlng     (Comedy) . ..... 

May  23— Slack   Jack's   Atonement    (Dram*.).... 

May  28 — Cheating    (Comedy)     

May  30 — The  End  of  the  Trail  (2  parts — Drama) 

June    4 — Dolly    and    the    Burglar    (Drama).... 

June    6 — Why  Grand-Daddy  Went  to  Sea  (Com* 

edy  -Drama)     

PILOT. 

May     1 — The  Song   of  Songs    (Drama) 

May    8— The   Crucible   of   Love    (Drama)...... 

May  15 — Tony,    the    Tenor    (Drams) •<*•• 

May  22— School  Days   (Comedy) —  _ . 

May  29 — The  Governor's  Romance  (Drama).... 
June  5 — The  Power  of  the  Sea  (Drama).... 
June  12 — For  Old  Time's  Sake  (Drama) 

RELIANCE. 

May  14 — The  Big  Boss  (2  partB — Drama).. M. 
May  17 — After    the    Massacre    (Drama)......-. 

May  IS — London  Assurance    (Comedy) 

May  21 — Early  Oklahoma   (Drama) 

May  24 — Runa  and  the  Black   Hand   (Drama).. 

May  26 — Hearth     Lights     (Drama) »• 

May  28 — A     Texas     Feud     (Drama) 

May  31 — The     Master     Cracksman     (2     reels- 
Drama)      . .... ) 

Jnne    2 — Italian   Love   (Drama) 

June    4 — Faithful     Shep     (Drama ) 

June    7— The  Mad  Cap  of  the  Hills   (Drama).. 

REX. 

May  22—  In  Slavery  Days    (2  parts — Drams)  ^. 

May  25 — The  Trlfler   (Drama) ..»«m. 

May  28 — The     Tourist     and     the     Flower     Girl 

(Drama)   

June  1 — The    Boob    (Comedy-Drama) 

June    6 — The    World    at    Large    (Drama) 

June    8 — The    Shadow     (Drama) 

SOLAS. 

May  21 — The  Amateur  Highwayman  (Comedy). 
May  23 — The    Man    Who    Failed    (Drama).-... 

May  28 — The  Henpecked  Burglar    (Comedy) 

May  30 — The    King's    Messenger    (Drama) 

June    4 — The    Hopes    of    Belinda    (Comedy) 

June    6 — Gregory's     Shadow     (Drama) 

THANH0USEB. 

May  16—  (No  Release  this  date) 

May  18 — Why  Babe  Left  Home  (Comedy) 

May  20 — A   Business  Woman    (Drama) 

May  23 — In  Their  Hour  of  Need  (Drama) 

May  25 — A    Pullman    Nightmare    (Comedy).... 

May  27 — Carmen    (3    parts — Drama)     

May  30— (No   release    this   date.) 

VICTOR. 

May    2 — The  Unseen  Influence  (Drama) • 

May    9 — The    Unknown    (Drama) 

May  16 — A  Fair   Exchange    (2  parts — Drama).. 

May  23 — Good    for   Evil    (Drama) „.. 

May  30 — The  Plaything   (Drama) 

June    6— The    Kidnapped    Train    (Drama) 


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nish direct  current  for  a  projector  not 
only  greatly  improves  the  quality  of  the 
pictures,  but  in  addition  it  materially 
reduces  the  current  consumption. 

Even  with  the  best  economizers,  the 
alternating  current  lamp  is  so  much  less 
efficient  for  projecting  pictures  than  the 
direct  current  lamp,  that  the  use  of  the 
rectifier  will  make  a  substantial  saving 
in  the  cost  of  electricity. 

When  no  economizer  is  used,  to  produce  the  same  amount 
of  light  the  alternating  current  lamp  requires  four  times  as  much 
current  as  the  direct  current  lamp  and  rectifier. 

Write  our  nearest  office  for  Booklet  B-3107  giving  results  of 
tests  of  comparative  current  consumption  of  alternating  current 
lamps  with  and  without  economizers,  direct  current  lamp  with 
rheostats  and  direct  current  lamp  with  a  rectifier  taking  current 
from  an  alternating  current  circuit. 

General  Electric  Company 


Atlanta,  Ga. 

Baltimore,   Md. 
Birmingham,    Ala. 
Boise,    Idaho 
Boston,  Mass. 
Buffalo,   N.   Y. 
Butte,    Mont. 
Charleston,    W.   Va. 
Charlotte,  N.  C. 
Chattanooga,  Tenn. 
Chicago,  111. 

For  Texas  and 
Houston 


Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Clereland,    Ohio 
Columbus,   Ohio 
Davenport,  Iowa 
Dayton,   Ohio 
Denver,  Colo. 
Detroit,    Mich., 

(Office  of  Agent) 
Elmira,  N.  Y. 
Erie,   Pa. 
Indianapolis,    Ind. 

Oklahoma  business 
and  Oklahoma  City 


Largest  Electrical  Manufacturer  in  the  World 
General  Office:      Schenectady,  N.  Y. 
ADDRESS   NEAREST  OFFICE 


Jacksonville,  Fla. 
Joplin,  Ho. 
Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Keokuk,  Iowa 
Knoxville,  Tenn. 
Los  Angeles,  Cal. 


Louisville,  Ky. 
Mattoon,    IU. 
Memphis,   Tenn. 
Milwaukee,   Wis. 
Minneapolis,    Minn. 
Nashville,   Tenn. 


New  Haven,  Conn. 
New  Orleans,  La. 
New  York,  N.  Y. 
Omaha,   Neb. 
Philadelphia,    Fa. 
Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Portland,   Ore. 
Providence,    R.    L 
Richmond,    Va. 
Rochester,   N.  T. 
Salt  Lake  City,  Utah 


San  Francisco,  OaL 
St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Schenectady,  N.  Y. 

Seattle,  Wash. 
Spokane,   Wash. 
Springfield,  Mass. 
Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Toledo,  Ohio 
Washington,  D.  O. 
Xoongstown,  Ohio 


refer  to  Southwest  General  Electric   Company    (formerly   Hobson   Electric   Co.) — Dallas,    EH 
.     For  Canadian  business  refer  to  rhn.*i.-  General  Electric  Company,   Ltd.,  Toronto,   Ont. 


Paso, 


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Monday— Blograph,  Edison,  Kalem,  Labia,  Pathe- 
play.   Ssllg,    Vltagraph    (Special). 

Tuesday— Edison,  Essanay,  Patbeplay,  Clues.  Lu- 
Ma,  Sellg,  Vltagraph. 

Wedaesday  —  Edison,  Eclipse,  Bssauay,  Kalem, 
■ellg,    Patneplay.    vita  graph    (Special). 

ThorvUy  —  Blograph,  B-  anay.  Labia,  Melles 
ratheplay,    Sellg,    Vltagraph. 

Friday— Edlaon,  Essanay,  Kalem,  Sella-,  Patbeplay 
Lobln.    Vltagraph   (8peclal). 

Saturday— Blograph,  Edison,  Essanay,  Cines,  Ka- 
lem,   Labia,    Patneplay,    Vltagraph    (Special). 

BIOGBAFH. 
May  17— The    Taqul    Car     (2parts—  Drama). .. . 
May  19— Olaf— An  Atom  (Drama)... 
%*7  IS* Pe    Hicksvllle    Epicure     (Comedy)! !! 

May  22—  Cinderella  and  the  Boob  (Comedy) 

May  24— Just    Gold     (Drama) 

May  26 — Highbrow  Love   (Comedy) 

May  26— The  Trimmers  Trimmed  (Comedy) ! 

May  29— A  Dangerous  Foe  (Drama) 

May  31 — His  Mother's  Son   (Drama) 

June    2— The   Ranchero's   Revenge   (Drama) 
June     5— Slippery    Slim    Repents    (Comedy) 

June    5— Just    Kids    (Comedy) 

June    7— A  Timely   Interception    (Drama)].!!!! 

CINES. 
(G.  Heine.) 
May  10 — The  People  of  Somallland,  Bait  Africa 

(Mannera   and   Coatoma) 800 

May  10— Excess  Baggage    (Comedy) 400 

May  10— Beautiful  Lake  Como,    Italy    (Phyalcal 

Geography) 300 

May  13 — Willie's    Alarm    Clock     (Comedy) 780 

May  13— Relics    of    Ancient    Rome    (Travel)...  220 

May  17 — A  Woman's  Influence   (Drama) 820 

May  17— Gulf     of      Togullo,      Northern      Italy 

.,      „„         (Scenic) 189 

May  20— Red    Wins    (Drama)     1000 

May  24— Exceeding  the  Time  Limit  (Comedy).  300 
May  24— The  Maid  and  the  Tarn  (Comedy)..  300 
May  24— Curing  a   Would-Be  Aviator    (Comedy)  400 

May  27— Borrowed    Plumage    (Comedy) 

May  27 — The    Champion    Fixer    (Comedy) 

May  27 — In    Somallland     (Scenic) 

May  81 — Interesting  Scenes  Abroad  (Travel) .  .1000 
June    2 — When    A     Woman     Loves     (Special — 3 

parts — Drama)     2500 

June    3 — The    Irony   of   Fate    (Drama) 1000 

June    7 — Orbetelo     and     Environs     (Travel) 250 

June     7 — The    Ring     (Drama) 750 

EDISON. 

May  10— An  Accidental  Alibi   (Drama) 1000 

May  12— The  Heart  of  Valeska   (Drama) 1000 

May  13— The    Prophecy     (Drama) 1000 

May  14— The   Two    Merchants    (Drama) 1000 

May  16— John  Mauley's  Awakening  (Drama)..  1000 
May  17 — A  Concerto   for   the    Violin    (Drama) .  .1000 

May  19— By    Mutual   Agreement    (Comedy) 1000 

May  20— The  Good  In  the  Worat  of  Us  (Drama).lOOO 
May  21 — Glimpses      of      Colorado      ln      Winter 

(Scenic)     315 

May  21— Brigg'8    New    8uit    (Comedy) 685 

May  23— A     Race    to    New    Tork     (Being    the 
Eleventh   Story   of    "What    Happened 

to    Mary"    (Drama)    1000 

May  24— The  Translation  of  a  Savage  (Drama). 1000 

May  26 — Dances  of   the  Ages    (Novelty) 975 

May  27 — An   Unwilling  Separation    (Drama) 1000 

May  28 — Newcomb's    Necktie    (Comedy) 1000 

May  30 — The  Honor  of  a  Soldier  (Drama) 1000 

May  31 — An  Almond    Eyed   Maid    (Drama) 1000 

June    2-i-Professor   William   Nutt    (Comedy) 1000 

June    3— Right  for  Right's  Sake  (Drama) 1000 

June    4 — Some   Spots    In    and    Around    Los    An- 
geles,   California    (Scenic)     350 

June  4 — Don't     Worry     (Comedy) 640 

June    6 — Mercy  Merrick    (Drama) 1000 

June    7— While    John    Bolt    Slept    (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY. 
May  19 — Into     tbe     North     (Special — 2     parts — 

Drama)     2000 

May  20 — Buster  Brown,  Tige  and  Their  Creator, 

R.   F.    Outcault    (Comedy)    ....1000 

May  21— Tbe  Letter's  Mission   (Comedy)    1000 

May  22 — A    Widow   of   Nevada    (Drama) 1000 

May  23 — Jealousy     (Drama)     1000 

May  24 — Broncho  Billy  and  the  Express  Driver 

(Drama)      1000 


May  27— The    New    Sheriff     (Drama) 1000 

May  28 — On    the   Job    (Comedy) 1000 

May  29— Their   Baby    (Comedy) looo 

May  30— The  Good  ln  the  Worst  of  Us  (Drama) 

May  31 — Alkali    Ike's   Misfortunes    (Drama) 

JuDe     3 — Let   No    Man    Put   Asunder    (Drama).  .1000 
June    4 — The    Value    of    Mothers-in-Law    (Com- 
edy)      iooo 

June     5 — The     Last     Shot     (Drama) 1000 

June     6 — Phillip  March's  Engagement   (Comedy). 1000 
June    7 — Broncho    Billy's   Capture    (Drama) 1000 

KAEEM. 

May  17— The  Poet  and  tbe  Soldier  (Drama) 1000 

May  17— The    Battle    for    Freedom     (Special— 2 

parts — Drama)     2000 

May  19— The     Artist's    Sacrifice     (Drama) 1000 

May  21— The    Circle    of    Fate    (Drama) 1000 

May  23— The    Black    Hand    (Comedy) 

May  23 — The  Egyptian  Mummy  (Comedy).... 
May  24 — The   Infamous  Don   Miguel    (Drama) .  .1000 

May  26 — A  Victim  of  Heredity   (Drama) 1000 

May  28 — Captured  by  Strategy  (Drama) 1000 

May  30 — The  Widow  from  Winnipeg  (Comedy) 
May  30 — The  Comedy  Team's  Strategy  (Comedy) 
May  31 — John    Burns    of    Gettysburg    (Drama) .  .1000 

June     2 — The  Bandit's  Child    (Drama) 1000 

June    4 — When    Fate    Decrees    (Drama) 1000 

June     6 — The   Terror   of    Conscience    (Drama) .  .1000 
June    7 — When    Women   are   Police    (Comedy).. 

June    7 — Percy's     Wooing     (Comedy) 

June  7— The  Tragedy  of  Big  Eagle  Mine  (Spe- 
cial— -2   parts — Drama)    2000 

LUBIN. 

May    9 — A  Mock   Marriage    (Drama) 1000 

May  10 — Tbe  Paymaster   (Drama) 1000 

May  10— A  Girl  Spy  in  Mexico  (Special,  2  parts, 

Drama) 2000 

May  12 — Lucky    Cohen     (Comedy) 400 

May  12— A  Ten  Acre  Gold  Brick    (Comedy) 1000 

May  13— The    Padre's    Strategy    (Drama) 1000 

May  15 — Longing   for   a    Mother    (Drama) 1000 

May  16 — Breed  of  the  West  (Drama) 1000 

May  17 — Retribution   (Drama) 1000 

May  19 — Margaret's     Painting     (Drama) 1000 

May  20— Kidnapping    Father     ( Drama ) 1000 

May  21 — Tbe     District    Attorney's     Conscience 

(Special — 2    parts— Drama)    2000 

May  22— A    Perilous    Ride    (Drama) 1000 

May  23— Detective   Dot    (Comedy) 400 

May  23— His    First    Experience    (Comedy) 600 

May  24 — Brightened    Sunsets    (Drama) 1000 

May  26 — The  Reward  of  Service  (Drama) 1000 

May  27— Doing  Like   Daisy    (Comedy) 1000 

May  27— The  Tarn  of  the  "Nancy  Belle"  (Com.) 
May  28 — Love    and    War   in    Mexico    (Special — 

2    parts — Drama) 2000 

May  29 — The  Romance  of  the  Ozarka  (Drama). .1000 

May  30— Faith  of  a  Girl   (Drama) 1000 

May  31 — Lone  Dog  the  Faithful    (Drama) 1000 

June    2 — A    Woman's    Heart     (Drama) 1000 

June    3 — A    Jealous    Husband    (Drama) 1000 

June  5 — Bob  Builds  a  Chicken  House  (Com- 
edy)       

June    5 — Kate    the    Cop     (Comedy) 

June    6 — The  Accusing   Hand   (Special — 2   parts 

— Drama)      20B0 

June    6 — The  Penalty  of  Jealousy   (Drama) 1000 

June    7 — The    Great    Pearl     (Drama) 1000 

MELIES. 

May    1 — A  Burled  Treasure  (Drama) 

May     1 — The  Home  of  Terna   (Zoology) 

May  8 — A  Trip  Through  tbe  "North  Island" 
of  New  Zealand,  from  Auckland  to 
Wellington     (Travel) 1000 

May  15 — The  Black  Trackers  (Drama) 

May  22— Gold  and   tbe  Gilded   Way    (Drama)  ..1000 

May  29 — The    Foster    Brothers    (Drama) 

May  29 — Tandjong  Prlok,  the  Harbor  of  Java's 
Capl'al.    Batavla    (Scenic) 

June    5 — Native  Industries  of  Java   (Industrial)  1000 

ECLIPSE. 
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May  21— In    the    Tyrelese    Alps    (Travel) 175 

May  21— The    Chicken   Industry    (Industrial) 400 

May  21— Big   Game    (Zoological) 426 

May  28— The    Indelible    Stain    (Drama) 1000 

June    4 — The    Armadillo    (Zoological) 500 

June    4 — Delivering    the    Goods    (Comedy) 500 

June  11 — Behind    a    Mask    (Drama) 1000 

FATHEPLAT. 
May  15 — An    Itinerant    Wedding    (Comedy).... 

May  18— Tbe    Jelly     Fiah     (Zoology) 

May  16 — Along    the   Banks   of    tbe    River    Ban 

(Travel) 

May  16 — Saragossa     (Scenic) 

May  17— A    Wrecked     Life     (Drama) 

May  19 — Pathe's    Weekly,    No.    21     (News) 

May  20 — A   Jockey    For   Love    (Comedy) 

May  20 — The   City   of   Rouen,   France    (Scenic). 

May  21 — The  Price  of  Silence  (Drama) 

May  22— The  Right  of  Way   (Drama) 

May  23— Night     Blrda     (Zoology) 

May  23— The  Allanthus  Silkworm   (Nat.  Hist.).. 
May  23 — The    Open    Secret    (Special — 2    parts — 

Comedy-Drama)     

May  24 — A   Woman   Scorned    (Drama) 


May  26— Pathe's    Weekly    No.    22    (News) 

May  27— Bull  Fight  In  France   (Sporting).. 

May  27— In  the  Forest  of  Cochil  China  (Lum- 
bering)  

May  28— The  Fugitive   (Drama) 

May  29 — White   Lies    (Drama) 

May  30— The  Spider  which  Lives  in  a  Bubble 
(Zoology) 

May  30— Transportation  Methods  ln  Java 
(Transportation) 

May  30— The  Human  Vulture  (Special— 2  parts 
— Drama)     

May  31 — The    Squawman's    Awakening    (Dr  j 

Jnne    2— Pathe's    Weekly,    No.    23    (News) 

June  3 — Dredges  and  Farm  Implements  In  the 
West    (Industrial)    

June  3 — A  Market  In  Kaloylia,  Algeria  (Man- 
ners   and    Customs)     

June    4— The    Saving   Lie    (Drama) !!.!! 

June    5 — What  the  Good  Book  Taught  (Drama) 

June  6 — Birds  and  Animals  of  Brazil  (Nat 
Hist.) 

June    6 — Tananarive.   Madagascar   (Travel) 

June    7 — Get-Rich-Quick   Blllington    (Comedy) ! . 

SELIG. 

May  14 — Back    Richard's    Bride    (Comedy) 1000 

May  15— In    the    Long    Ago     (Comedy) 1000 

May  16— A      Daughter      of      the      Confederacy 

(Drama)     

May  16— With  the  Stodenta  of  the  North  Da- 
kota Agricultural  College    (Topical).. 

May  19— His   Father's  Deputy    (Drama) 1000 

May  20— The   Tattle   Battle    (Comedy) 

May  20 — The  Leopard  Tamer   (Comedy) 

May  21— The     Stolen    Melody     (Drama) 1000 

May  22 — Indian    Summer     (Drama) 1000 

May  23— The   Noisy  Six    (Drama) 1000 

May  26 — Wanba,  a  Child  of  the  Jungle  (Special 

— 2   parts— Drama)    1000 

May  26 — Religion   and  Gun  Practice    (Drama).  .1000 

May  27— The  Girl  and   the  Judge    (Drama) 1000 

May  28 — The     Wordless     Message     (Drama) ..  .1000 
May  29 — The    Ex-Convict's    Plunge    (Drama) .... 

May  29 — Scones   in   Manila    (Travel) 

May  30 — The    Woodflre    at    Martin's    (Drama) .  .1000 
June    2 — When     the     Circus     Came     to     Town 

(Comedy-Drama)     1000 

June    3 — A  Flag  of  Two   Wars    (Drama) 1000 

June    4 — The    Law   and    the   Outlaw    (Special — 

2     reels — Drama)      2000 

June    4 — Woman— Past    and    Present     (Edu.)..1000 

June    5 — The   Snwanee    River    (Drama) 1000 

June    6 — An     Embarrassed     Bridegroom     (Com- 
edy)      

Jane  6 — Manila  Normal  and  Public  Schools 
(Education)      ,. 

VITAGRAPH. 
May  18 — His   Life  for  His  Emperor    (Drama).  .1000 
May  16 — The  Vampire  of  the  Desert   (Special — 

2   parte — Drama)    2000 

May  17 — Bunny  and  the  Bunny  Hug   (Comedy). 1000 
May  19 — Bunny's    Birthday    Surprise    (Comedy) 
May  19 — Vitagraphs    at    Kama    Kura    (Topical) 
May  20 — The   Amateur    Lion   Tamer    (Comedy).  1000 

May  21 — Counsellor    Bobby    (Comedy) 1000 

May  22— A  Lady  and  Her  Maid   (No.  4  of  the 

Belinda    Series — Comedy-Drama)     ....1000 

May  23 — Midget's  Revenge  (Comedy) 

May  23 — Going  to  Meet  Papa   (Comedy) 

May  24 — Cupid  Through  the  Keyhole   (Comedy).  1000 
May  24— Tbe    Still     Voice     (Special— 2    parts- 
Drama)     2000 

May  26 — Up  and  Down  the  Ladder   (Comedy)..  1000 
May  27 — Tricks  of  the  Trade  (Comedy-Drama)  .1000 

May  28 — Cutey  Plays  Detective   (Comedy) 1000 

May  29 — The  Only  Veteran  ln  Town   (Drama)..  1000 

May  30 — A    Husband's   Trick    (Comedy) 1000 

May  31 — One   Can't    Always    Tell    (Comedy) 

May  31 — If  Dreams  Came  True;  or  Who'd  Have 

Thunk    It    (Comedy) 

May  31 — The  White  Slave  (Special— 2  parts- 
Drama)    2000 

June    2 — What     God     Hath     Joined     Together 

(Drama) 1000 

June     3 — Bunny     as    a     Reporter     (Comedy) 

June     3 — Three    to    One    (Comedy) 

.Tune     4 — A    Modern    Psyche     (Drama) 1000 

June    5 — The    Heart   of    Mrs.    Robins    (Comedy- 

Drama)     1000 

June     6— The     Butlers     Secret     (Drama)     1000 

June    7 — The    Forgotten    Latchkey     (Comedy) .  .1000 

GENERAL    FILM    CO.    FEATURE    RFT.FABBB. 
May    3 — Tbe  Diamond   Miniature    (2  parts),   Pathe- 

play. 
May    6— A    Midnight    Bell    (2    parts),    Sellg. 
May    7 — Tbe  Deerslayer    (2  parts),    Vltagraph. 
May    9 — The  Cheyenne  Massacre   (2  parts),  Kalem. 
May  ID— A    Girl   Spy   ln    Mexico    (2   parts),    Lubln. 
May  12 — The   Japanese   Dagger    (2   parts),    Bcllpse- 

Klelne. 
May  141 — Her  Masked  Beauty   (2  parts),   Patneplay. 
May  16— The    Vampire    of    the    Desert     (2    parts), 

Vltagraph. 
May  17 — The  Battle  for  Freedom  (2  parts),  Kalem. 
May  19 — Into  the  North   (2  parts),  Essanay. 
May  21 — Tbe     District     Attorney's     Conscience     (S 

parts),  Labia. 
May  23 — The  Open  Secret    (2  parts),   Patbeplay. 
May  24— The  Still  Voice    (2  parte),   Vltagraph. 


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Burlington,   Vt.,    May   16,    191 3. 
The  J.  H.  Genter  Co., 
Newburgh,  N.  Y. 
Gentlemen: 

I  have  visited  nearly  every  theatre  in  New  York, 
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Bert  M.    Moran, 

57  North  St. 

HERE'S   ANOTHER! 

Perry,  N.   Y.(   May   15,    1913. 
The  T.  II.  Genter  Co., 
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Gentlemen: 

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'Mirror  Screens" 


"I   washed 


The  terrible  flood  in  Indiana  and  Ohio  covered  two  ' 
with  water  (or  several  days.     Here  is  what  happened: 

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These  are  Imported  and  sold  under 
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All  12"  Carbons  are  double-pointed. 


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Vengeance  of  Vira   2000 

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Mystery  of  Notre  Dame -2500 

Vengeance   of  Fate 2000 

Golden   Wedding    1800 

Lieutenant's  Last  Fight 2000 

'  The    Iron    Hand 2500 

A  Soldier's  Honor 2000 

The  Flooded  Mine 2000 

Builders   of    the   Empire 2300 

Bottom  of  the  Sea 2000 

Lieut.     Rose — Stolen    Battleship 1500 

The    Gypsy   Girl 2000 

Dick    Turpin,    No.    1 1250 

Dick   Turpin,    No.    2 1200 

Capt.    Kate    1000 

A    Rajah's    Revenge 1200 

Muriel's   Double    1100 

Vengeance   of  Edgar   Poe 1800 

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of  Posters     Price 

K-B 

50-3  sizes  $75.00 

Milano 

50-2     • 

76.00 

Pilot 

50-2     ' 

80.00 

Bison 

50-2     ' 

75.00 

Clarendon 

30-2     ' 

40.00 

Eclair 

50-3     ' 

76.00 

Eclair 

50-3     ' 

60.00 

Bison 

30-2     ' 

60.00 

Ambrosio 

10-2     ' 

30.00 

Bison 

24-1     ' 

40.00 

Gaumont 

10-2     • 

60.00 

Bison 

24-2     ' 

60.00 

Clarendon 

30-1     ' 

60.00 

K-B 

50-3     ' 

80.00 

Imp 

20-2     ' 

80.00 

Clarendon 

20-2     ' 

60.00 

Eiko 

50-3     ' 

60.00 

B.    &   C. 

80-2     ' 

40.00 

B.    &   C. 

30-2     ' 

40.00 

Selig 

20-1     ' 

16.00 

C.  &  M. 

24-1     < 

25.00 

Barker 

20-1     ' 

26.00 

Lux 

30-1     ' 

60.00 

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A    DAUGHTER'S    SACRIFICE '•        2 

CROSSES    SWORDS     "        2 

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CLOWN'S     REVENGE     "        2        " 

THREE    COMRADES     "        3        " 

DR.    GAR  EL  HAMA "         3 

A     NOBLEMAN'S     TRIUMPH "        3 

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GREAT    OCEAN    DISASTER "        2 

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LIFE    OF    DANTE "         3 

IN   THE    CLAWS   OF   THE   VULTURE "         3 

TIGRIS     Itala   4 

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900  S.  Wabash  Avenue 


Chicago,  111. 


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Universally  recognized  as  the  best  light  producing 
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"Phillip  March's  Engagement" 


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"THE  COMEDIAN'S  MASK"  (2-Reel  Drama). 
Released  Monday,  June  9. 
King  Baggot  excels  himself  in  a  masterpiece  of 
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"THE  HIGHER  LAW"  (Drama). 
Released  Thursday,  June  12. 
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"THE     WAR     OF     BEETLES"     AND     "HY. 

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"THE  SPRING  IN  THE  DESERT"   (Drama). 
Released  Monday,  June  9. 
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"THE  MAN  WHO  TRIED  TO  FORGET" 

(Drama). 

Released  Wednesday,  June  II. 

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"THE  KNIGHT  OF  HER  DREAMS"   (Com.). 
Released  Friday,  June  13. 

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"HEARTS  AND  FLOWERS"  (Drama). 
Released  Monday,  June  9. 

A  splendid  one-reel  picture  of  the  difficulties 
of  a  young  American  beset  with  adversity.  His 
ultimate  success  is  achieved  in  a  typical  Universal 
way — after  many  hard  struggles  against  heavy 
competition. 

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"THE   GRAND  OLD   FLAG"   (2-Reel  Drama). 
Released  Tuesday,  June  10. 

One  of  the  first  of  the  new  series  of  Cuban 
war  pictures.  Two  Americans  become  involved 
in  an  insurrection.  Their  thrilling  experiences 
combine  in  a  realistic  and  highly  educational 
feature. 

"THE  CAPTURE  OF  AGUINALDO" 
(2-Reel  Drama). 

Released  Saturday,  June  14. 

A  great  big,  dashing  Universal  feature  that  will 
pack  your  theater  to  the  doors.  Action  in  every 
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forgotten  thrill  in  each  reel.     Don't  miss  it! 


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"FALSE  LOVE  AND  TRUE"  (Drama). 
Released  Tuesday,  June  10. 

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production.  They  have  surpassed  themselves  in 
a  reel  of  heart  interest  and  fact  that  will  give 
vour  patrons  something  to  remember  for  weeks 
after. 

"AN  EXPENSIVE  DRINK"  and  "HER  JOKE 

ON  BELMONT"  (Split  Comedy). 

Released  Sunday,  June  15. 

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"MRS.  LACY'S   LEGACY"   (Comedy). 
Released  Wednesday,  June  n. 

We've  all  had  a  legacy  at  some  time  or  another, 
or  we  expect  one.  Here's  a  chance  to  have  a 
whole  lot  of  fun,  and  learn  of  a  new  way  to  dis- 
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"THE  STRENGTH  OF  THE  WEAK"  (Drama). 
Released  Friday,  June  13. 

The  title  almost  tells  the  story.  You  can't  beat 
it  for  business  getting  purposes.  It  teaches  a 
moral,  and  illustrates  life  as  it  is  lived  by  those 
of  whom  you  hear  but  little. 

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"THE  KING  CAN  DO  NO  WRONG" 

(3-Reel  Drama). 

Released  Thursday,  June  12. 

The  story  of  a  soldier  of  fortune  of  no  time  or 
place.  It  is  up  to  date,  and  yet  is  historical.  A 
marvelous  co-mingling  of  happenings  that  will 
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"THE  PRETENDER"  (Comedy  Drama). 
Released  Sunday,  June  15. 

Bluffing  was  his  conception  of  a  life  of  ease. 
His  friends  teach  him  a  lesson  that  is  both  hu- 
morous and  dramatic. 


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"WHEN  LIGHT  CAME  BACK"   (2-Reel 
Released  Wednesday,  June  11. 

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strong  story,  fraught  with  attention  compelling 
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"HE   SLEPT  WELL"  and  "SCORPIONS" 

(Split  Comedy  and  Scientific). 

Released  Sunday,  June  15. 

You  can't  beat  the  antics  of  Snookums,  the 
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goes  himself  one  better  in  this  release.  A  splen- 
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"SINCERITY"  (Drama). 
Released  Friday,  June  13. 

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tendance. This  picture  depicts  a  new  form  of  sin- 
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"THE   CALL  OF  THE  ANGELUS"   (Drama). 
Released  Thursday,  June  12. 

A  semi-religious  subject  that  will  win  hundreds 
of  church-goers  to  your  policy  of  instructive  pic- 
tures. Don't  miss  the  chance  to  give  them  a 
truly  good  picture. 

"THE  TWINS  OF  DOUBLE  X  RANCH" 

(Comedy). 

Released  Saturday,  June  14. 

Rip-roaring  fun  from  beginning  to  end.  Twins 
in  life  or  in  pictures  are  always  productive  of 
humor.  "The  Twins  of  Double  X  Ranch"  have 
gone  all  others  one  better  in  a  breezy  thousand 
feet  of  mirth. 

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Moving  Picture  World  says: 

All  the  sensational  feats  will  make  the  audience  wonder 
how  the  players  dared  risk  their  lives.  All  the  characters 
(always  excepting  the  villains)  will  make  a  strong  appeal. 
The  bluff,  good  natured  bigness  of  Barney  Gilmore,  him- 
self, is  full  of  suggestion  of  an  honest,  true  heart  in  his 
brawny  chest.  It  is  just  the  big  arms  of  him  that  will  fit 
around  the  neck  of  a  pretty  colleen,  like  Sheilah.  And 
Sheilah,  too,  with  her  black  curls  and  pretty,  coy  ways,  fits 
into  the  story  with  distinct  charm.  The  gallery  will  be 
attracted  by  her.  The  photography  is  excellent  throughout. 

The  Morning  Telegraph  says: 

Barney  Gilmore,  with  his  pleasing  personality  as  Gerald 
Kelly,  a  rollicking,  care-free  Irish  lad,  dominates  this  film 
completely  and  the  result  is  very  pleasing.  Film  personality 
is  far  rarer  than  stage  personality,  but  Mr.  Gilmore's 
buoyant  self  fairly  radiates  from  the  screen.  Blanche 
Cornwall  makes  a  very  entrancing  little  Sheilah  MacGuire, 
Kelly's  sweetheart,  while  Joseph  Levering  is  the  villainous 
Doolin,  Kelly's  would-be  Nemesis. 

Good  "bits"  are  frequent.  A  balky  donkey  is  made  to 
drag  a  go-cart  in  the  right  direction  by  hitching  him  in  the 
shafts  wrong-end-to.  Then  Kelly  goes  down  a  rope  over 
precipitous  cliffs,  about  80  feet  high,  with  his  sweetheart 
hanging  on  his  neck. 

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bound  to  a  railroad  track  in  front  of  an  oncoming  train. 
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on  the  cowcatcher  as  it  hangs  over  him  and  lies  there  kick- 
ing, but  safe,  as  the  train  rushes  past.  Either  this  is  a 
great  piece  of  cutting,  back-away  stuff,  or  Barney  took  an 
awful  chance  with  his  life.  Whatever  it  is,  it  is  scary 
enough  on  the  screen  to  suit  anybody. 


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"CALIFORNIA  POULTRY" 

(Release  Monday,  June  9,  1913) 

Made  under  the  personal  direction  of  S.  S.  Hutchinson,  president.  Many  miles 
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"HEARTS  AND  HORSES" 

(Release  Thursday,  June  12,  1913) 

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"REWARD  OF  COURAGE" 

(Release  Saturday,  June  14,  1913) 

A  game  leg  prevented  him  from  swimming,  golfing  and  dancing.  An  envious  rival  plugged  his 
auto  and  went  off  with  his  girl.  Then,  chance  threw  opportunity  in  his  way — how  he  hauled  her 
from  the  raging  sea  and  made  her  his  wife  make  a  charming  social  story.  Magnificent  settings, 
and  superb  photography.    Jack  Kerrigan  at  his  best. 

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Fu//  of  Suspense  and  Thrills 

The  mate  of  a  river  steamboat,  made  the  victim  of  a  nefarious  plot,  is  rescued  by  an  intrepid 

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Governor  Johnson  of  California 

Interesting  views  of  the  famous  executive  who  has  signed  the  much  discussed  anti-alien  bill. 

Released  Monday,  June  16th 


The  Attorney  for  the  Defense 

Miss  Alice  Joyce  in  a  superb  characterization.  A 
young  lawyer,  estranged  from  his  sweetheart,  meets 
her  in  later  years  as  the  opposing  counsel  in  an 
important  case.1 

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Cupid's  Lariat 

A  Western  wooer   employs   a  novel   stratagem   to 
outwit  an  adverse  parent. 

(On  the  same  Reel) 

Smoked  to  a  Finish 

Brown  and  his  friends  try  to  slip  one  over  on  the 
Anti-Xicotine  League,  but  meet  with  dismal  failure. 
Released  Friday,  June  20th 


On  the  Brink  of  Ruin 


The  husband,  determined  to  live  down  an  unfortunate  past,  has   a  thrilling  experience  which 
forbodes  disaster.     His  courageous  wife  saves  him  in  a  time  of  peril  and  thwarts  his  enemies. 
Released  Saturday,  June  21st  Special  1,  3  and  6-Sheet  Posters 


The  Struggle 


A  Powerful  Drama  of  Capital  and  Labor  in   Two  Parts 
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"stunts." 

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" — a  two-part  film  which  promises  to  go  down  in  picture  history  as  a  triumph  unequaled  in  Western  realism. 
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"Sensations  galore — introducing  several  extremely  sensational  incidents,  unlike  any  previously  recorded  in 
pictures."— From  DRAMATIC  MIRROR. 


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June  9th— SWEENY  AND  THE  FAIRY.     Another  ludicrous  comedy  in  the  Sweeny  series. 

June  10th— DAD'S  LITTLE  GIRL.     Powerful  domestic  drama. 

June  11th— A  ROSE  OF  MAY.     Poetic  Southern  Romance. 

June  12th— THE  FATE  OF  ELIZABETH.     Farce  comedy  of  exceptional  merit,  on  same  reel  with 

THE  BIRTH  OF  A  BUTTERFLY.     Educational. 
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"Alone  in  the  Jungle" 

A  Two-Reel  Special  Feature  That  Will  Stand  Abso- 
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Mary  Stuart 

Adapted  from  the  drama  by  Frederick  Schiller 


To  be  released  June  21,  1913 

Wise  exhibitors  are  already  placing  their  orders  for  this  magnificent  three-reel 
production.  It  is  a  business  builder  which  will  attract  new  patrons  to  every 
theatre  in  which  it  is  shown.  It  will  hold  them  in  the  spell  of  its  intrigues,  its 
pathos,  and  its  tragedy. 

The  plots  and  counter-plots;  the  attempted  assassination  of  Elizabeth; 
the  killing  of  Rizzio,  Mary's  favorite;  the  disastrous  meeting  of  the  two  queens; 
loyal  Mortimer's  futile  efforts  in  Mary's  behalf — all  lead  with  increasing 
intensity  to  the  great  execution  scene. 

It  is  a  masterly  theme  handled  in  masterly  fashion.  Photographically 
it  is  a  work  of  art. 

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The    Twin    Brothers 

Drama  (1000  ft.)— Released  Tuesday,  June  17,  1913 

Both   Brothers  Played  by  One  Man   at   the   Same    Time 

There  have  been  other  films  in  which  the  same  person  appeared  on  the  screen  in  two 
roles  at  the  same  time,  but  never  before  has  a  man  been  seen  to  snatch  a  picture  from 
himself  and  shake  hands  With  himself. 

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every  picture  patron.  The  story  itself  is  one  of  brotherly  love  and  self-sacrifice,  told  in  a 
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A  powerful  two  reel  story  of  the  terror  induced  by  the  Silent  Third  Degree,  causing 
a  confession  without  a  word  of  accusation. 


Friday,  June  6th 


"THE  WEAKER  MIND" 

SPECIAL— TWO  REEL 
WEDNESDAY,   JUNE   18th 

Bracey,  an  engineer  and  widower,  succeeds  in  reinstating 
Bob  Glpre,  who  had  been  discharged  for  drinking.  Bob 
behaves  well  until  one  day  he  was  enticed  into  a  resort  by 
Reina  Loeb,  a  reckless  girl.  Mary,  Bob's  sister,  and  Curtis 
rescued  him  and  worked  a  lasting  reformation.  Reina 
Loeb's  father,  who  was  a  drunkard,  fell  and  broke  his  neck, 
and  the  girl  was  taken  into  the  Curtis'  home.  When  Mary, 
Bob's  sister,  later  gave  her  hand  to  Bracey,  it  made  a  very 
happy  home. 


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A  strong  problem  play  featuring  Arthur  Johnson. 

"BOB    BUILDS    A    CHICKEN    HOUSE"  ~^Zt  Thursday,  June  5th 

A  screaming  farce. 

"KATE    THE     COP  600feet  Thursday,  June  5th 

The  real  cop  gets  cold  feet,  but  Kate  is  on  the  job. 


"THE  GREAT  PEARL" 


"THE  PENALTY  OF  JEALOUSY" 


lOOOifeet 


Friday,  June  6th 


A  strong  melodrama  with  a  powerful  lesson. 


1000  feet 


Saturday,  June  7th 


The  terrible  reward  of  covetousness. 


"THE    LEGEND    OF  LOVER'S     LEAP"  IOOO  feet  Monday,  June  9th 

An  intense  Indian  Legend. 


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From  your  Exchange  or  A.  B.  C.  Co.,  Cleveland,  0. 


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"WHAT  GOD  HATH  JOINED  TOGETHER" 

t    a  c  c     i   i  i  Drama—  Monday,  June  2nd 

In  defense  of  a  helpless  woman,  a  noble  fellow  is  severely  wounded.     She  nurses  him 
back  to  health  and  he  makes  her  his  wife. 

BUNNY  AS  A  REPORTER"! 
THREE  TO  ONE"  | 

posBeUansnyongeeoSf  £  °"  ^0lST^lLZ\ SWfi  ^t^  SSSSS^t 
Hughie  Mack,  James  Lackaye  and  Lillian  Walter  are^r i  the  running       disappo.ntment. 

Comedy  de  luxe—  Wednesday,  June  4th 


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Comedy— Tuesday,  June  3d 


"A  MODERN  PSYCHE" 


^about3  '^SM^I^^S^^f^^  "  *  ""*     The  ^  ™ 

"THE  HEART  OF  MRS.  ROBINS"  ^-/w- 

n.-iA  i         •  j         t  u  ~  Thursday,  June  5th 

Children  are  keen  judges  of  human  nature.    That's  the  reason  Bobby  recommends  Leo 
Delaney  to  his  mama,  Leah  Baird,  as  his  new  papa.  menus  «o 

THE    BUTLER  S    SECRET  '  Dramatic— Friday,  June  6th 

He  retains  it  to  the  end,  and  then  confesses  it  was  his  own  son  who  committed  the 
deed,  of  which  his  employer  s  son  had  been  accused. 

"THE  FORGOTTEN  LATCHKEY"    cw,-Saturday,'june  7th 

It  happens  in  the  usual  way,  with  some  unusually  funny  experiences.     Riding  around 
all  night  in  a  taxi  is  not  the  least  of  the  troubles  that  make  lots  of  fun. 


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exclusively. 

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dramas  which  will  completely  eclipse  the  splendid  business- 
getters  of  the  past. 

Because  Kalem  has  in  preparation  a  series  of  novelties  never 
before  equalled  in  motion  picture  history. 

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Facts  and  Comments 

FOR  some  time  past  the  Moving  Picture  World 
has  published  a  classified  list  of  educational  sub- 
jects for  the  convenience  of  readers  interested  in 
that  class  of  motion  picture.  The  purpose  of  this  list  is 
to  encourage  the  use  of  the  educational  subject,  not  so 
much  by  schools  and  churches  as  by  the  motion  picture 
theaters.  Indications  are  that  many  theater  managers 
are  finding  an  increased  demand  for  the  picture  that  in- 
structs as  against  those  that  merely  amuse,  and  managers 
will  find  the  list  of  great  help  to  them  in  selecting  proper 
subjects.  The  range  is  wide,  covering  almost  every 
topic,  the  greater  part  of  which  will  be  found  to  be  of 
interest  to  the  average  motion  picture  audience. 


On  obstacle  to  the  more  general  use  of  educational  pic- 
tures has  been  the  difficulty  in  getting  "what  you  want 
when  you  want  it,"  but  this  is  an  obstacle  that  will  be 
gradually  overcome  as  the  demand  for  the  educational 
picture  increases.  During  the  past  year  there  have  been 
made  by  the  licensed  manufacturers  alone  more  than 
double  the  number  of  educational  pictures  made  in  the 
year  previous,  which  would  indicate  that  the  demand 
had  reached  the  manufacturer.    There  is  still  lacking  the 


element  of  availability,  or  to  be  more  definite,  the  co- 
operation on  the  part  of  the  distributing  exchange  that 
is  necessary  to  enable  the  theater  manager  to  get  edu- 
cationals  when  he  wants  them  and  of  the  character  he 
requires.  This  will  be  remedied  when  the  theater  mana- 
ger succeeds  in  impressing  the  exchange  manager  that 
the  public  wants  instruction  as  well  as  entertainment. 

* 

It  is  largely  up  to  the  theater  manager  to  improve  his 
daily  program  by  the  use  of  the  educational  picture.  If 
not  possible  to  show  an  educational  picture  every  day, 
and  it  is  not  always  possible  where  the  program  is  short, 
as  many  as  three  might  be  used  during  a  week  without 
materially  affecting  the  receipts.  Then  there  is  always, 
the  possibility  of  making  a  hit  with  an  all  educational 
program  on  an  otherwise  dull  day  of  the  week.  We  are 
in  receipt  of  word  from  several  small  town  exhibitors 
who  have  found  this  plan  to  be  a  good  one.  They  have 
also  discovered  that  the  frequent  use  of  educational  pic- 
tures has  placed  them  on  a  better  footing  with  the 
thoughtful  people  of  the  community.     It  is  a  plan  worth 


OUR  observation  last  week  regarding  the  proneness 
of  the  "old  showman"  to  cheapen  and  sensation- 
alize the  picture  theater  touched  a  responsive 
chord  in  the  heart  of  a  reader  of  the  Moving  Picture 
World.  "I  am  convinced,"  writes  this  reader,  "that 
the  real  future  of  the  motion  picture  business  lies  in  the 
direction  to  which  the  paragraph  in  question  points." 
Our  correspondent  is  a  business  organizer  and  has  had 
a  good  deal  to  do  with  the  motion  picture  business  during^ 
the  past  year.  His  point  of  view  has  enabled  him  to 
get  a  truer  perspective  of  actual  conditions  than  those 
who  are  engaged  in  the  business  daily  possibly  could  ob- 
tain. To  him  there  seems  to  be  as  great  possibilities  ir« 
the  showing  of  clean,  wholesome  educational  pictures 
as  there  is  in  the  exhibition  of  pictures  of  the  ultra-sen- 
sational character,  and  he  is  certain  that  the  best  business 
men  in  the  game  today  have  the  same  belief. 


It  is  gratifying  to  know  that  the  efforts  of  the  Moving 
Picture  World  to  point  out  the  path  that  leads  to  the 
permanency  of  the  picture  as  a  form  of  amusement  are 
not  cast  entirely  upon  barren  ground.  Undoubtedly  there 
are  others  who  have  the  same  opinion  as  our  correspond- 
ent; in  fact,  we  are  coming  rapidly  to  believe  that  the 
movement  for  good  pictures  has  outstripped  the  craze 
for  those  that  are  sensational. 


WHILE  the  advocate  of  the  educational  picture  is 
urging  its  merits,  it  is  not  unusual  for  some  care- 
less manufacturer  to  issue  a  so-called  historical 
subject  so  full  of  errors  of  fact  that  one  is  tempted  to 
use  strong  language.  An  example  of  this  disregard  for 
historical  truths  is  called  to  our  attention  by  a  corre- 
spondent. The  picture  in  question  is  a  recent  one  deal- 
ing with  the  assassination  of  Abraham  Lincoln.  Reciting 
the  scenes  which  give  a  grossly  distorted  conception  of 
that  tragic  event,  our  correspondent  ejaculates  "Punk," 
and  further  observes  that  it  is  "an  insult  to  American 
intelligence  to  exhibit  such  rot."  Other  instances  are 
quoted  by  our  correspondent  in  which  historical  facts, 
too  well  known  to  be  trifled  with,  are  twisted  and  dis- 
torted to  fit  the  requirements  of  the  director  who  was 
intrusted  with  the  production  of  the  picture.  As  a 
remedy  the  suggestion  is  made  that  a  school  of  history 
for  aspiring  motion  picture  writers  be  established. 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 

Economy  of  Attention 

By  Louis  Reeves  Harrison 


IF  you  have  ever  been  to  a  three-ringed  circus,  where 
there  was  a  spangled  lady  of  abbreviated  garments 
jumping  through  paper-covered  hoops  in  one  place, 
a  death-defying  loop-the-loop  in  another,  and  a  clown 
trying  to  ride  an  obstreperous  burro  in  still  another,  and 
you  have  tried  to  see  all  three  at  once,  you  were  in  very 
much  the  same  situation  of  a  spectator  at  a  moving  pic- 
ture show  attempting  to  become  acquainted  with  the 
leading  characters  in  a  screen  play,  to  follow  the  story 
amid  a  maze  of  swiftly-presented  scenes,  and  to  dis- 
cover where  the  line  of  sympathetic  interest  lies  concealed 
from  view. 

In  the  thousand-foot  reel  very  little  time  is  allotted  to 
approaching  a  dramatic  crisis  as  we  do  in  a  novel,  to 
introducing  those  participating  so  that  we  become  inter- 
ested in  their  distinguishing  characteristics,  but  the 
multiple  reel  production  affords  opportunity  to  make 
people  in  the  visualized  portrayal  breathe  the  breath  of 
life  that  they  may  become  unforgettable  figures  when  the 
main  incidents  are  set  in  motion.  A  neglected  portion  of 
the  art  is  that  of  making  those  characters  known  as 
''the  leads"  so  vital  and  significant  as  to  require  no  strain- 
ing of  attention  to  ascertain  what  their  relations  are  to 
€ach  other  and  what  each  of  them  is  likely,  apt  and  liable 
to  do,  in  the  sequence  of  events  to  follow. 

It  is  all  very  clear  to  the  director.  He  has  the  details 
of  the  creation  impressed  on  his  mind  in  the  course  of  his 
work ;  actors  grasp  the  idea  during  rehearsals ;  even  the 
critic  senses  the  meaning  without  trouble — that  is  his 
line  of  business — but  the  spectator  has  barely  time  to 
disentangle  his  thoughts  from  one  presentation  before 
another  makes  a  bid  for  his  consideration.  He  must 
be  given  a  sharp,  swift  and  clarifying  view  of  the  minds 
and  hearts  of  principals  if  he  is  to  follow  their  careers 
with  lively  and  intelligent  interest. 

If  you  were  walking  along  a  crowded  street  and  ob- 
served two  or  more  people  driving  by  and  so  engrossed  in 
a  dispute  that  the  horse  was  given  free  rein,  you  misjht 
speculate  upon  the  issue  of  their  quarrel,  wonder  if  they 
would  injure  each  other  or  run  over  some  innocent  passer- 
by, and  your  concern  about  them  would  be  on  a  par  with 
that  of  a  spectator  watching  the  average  screen  presenta- 
tion, with  a  slight  difference.  The  picture  show  spectator 
might  languidly  forecast  both  action  and  results.  He 
might  easily  assume  that  the  man  of  compressed  lips  who 
looked  out  of  the  corner  6f  his  eyes  to  note  if  he  was 
observed  would  probably  come  to  no  good  end.  while  the 
young  man  of  frank  smile  and  hair  brushed  off  his  brow 
would  eventually  draw  the  heroine  tenderly  into  a  linger- 
ing embrace  and  press  his  lips  fondly  on  hers. 

In  either  case  you  would  not  care  very  much  what 
happened,  because  the  parties  in  Question  might  be  marion- 
ettes so  far  as  your  interest  in  them  was  concerned,  and 
there  is  the  weak  spot  in  nine  photodramas  out  of  ten. 

The  power  to  evoke  men  and  women  so  interesting  that 
we  want  to  know  more  about  them  and  follow  their  ad- 
ventures with  keen  solicitude  is  not  given  to  all  who  think 
they  know  how  to  put  over  a  picture  play,  and  it  is  a  fine 
art  to  present,  even  these,  so  that  we  can  readily  anticipate 
their  emotions  if  not  their  thoughts  at  the  high  moments 
of  stress  and  storm.  Then,  vital  as  they  are,  their  especial 
attributes  and  aspects  must  be  in  conformity  to  the  story 
in  which  they  are  to  figure.  In  most  cases  they  make 
the  plot  or  are  what  the'plot  permits  them  to  be.  There 
can  be  no  guesswork  about  the  conjunction  of  char- 
acter and  action  if  the  play  is  to  succeed. 


If  it  is  impossible  to  give  strong  characterization  to 
more  than  one,  it  is  possible  to  intensify  one  so  that 
the  audience  can  follow  a  single  line  of  consistent  action 
without  effort  and  with  deep  interest  in  what  befalls  the 
sympathetic  center  of  all  that  is  going  on,  but  that  action 
must  be  logical  beyond  question.  There  need  be  no  at- 
tempt to  make  the  photodrama  respond  to  amateurish 
criticism,  be  "true  to  nature,"  but  in  dealing  with  a  single 
human  creature  taken  from  a  group  and  set  apart  for 
the  purpose  of  compelling  interest,  a  playwright  must  not 
obtrude  the  arbitrary.  If  falsity  of  conduct  is  now 
paraded  it  will  destroy  interest  and  become  so  disappoint- 
ing that  the  whole  structure  may  fall  and  become  ridicu- 
lous. 

The  old  saying,  that  it  is  only  a  step  from  the  sublime 
to  the  ludicrous,  rose  out  of  inconsistency  of  characteriza- 
tion, or  of  action,  more  generally  the  latter.  A  sure  way 
of  dispersing  all  the  interest  that  has  been  aroused  is 
to  have  the  hero  or  heroine  do  what  is  not  reasonable.  A 
surer  way  is  to  have  them  do  what  is  manifestly  impos- 
sible in  the  natural  course  of  events.  The  fondness  of 
studio  directors  for  something  striking  and  unusual— 
this  does  not  mean  original — too  often  results  in  an 
artificiality  that  is  as  obvious  as  it  is  depressing.  Nothing 
is  so  fatiguing  to  attention  when  it  has  once  been  en- 
gaged as  a  situation  highly  improbable  if  not  manifestly 
impossible. 

If  an  arbitrary  supposition  is  essential  to  the  develop- 
ment of  an  otherwise  attractive  play,  let  it  be  something 
that  has  occured  before  the  main  and  present  action  has 
been  set  up,  preferably  in  an  announcement  on  the  screen. 
It  can  be  tolerated  under  such  circumstances  for  the 
sake  of  what  is  to  follow.  The  audience  will  put  up  with 
an  unlikely  state  of  affairs  in  the  past — any  old  thing  may 
have  happened — in  order  to  see  what  is  to  result  from 
an  extraordinary  condition,  but  there  must  be  no  strain- 
ing of  credulity  or  attention  in  what  follows. 

A  perpetual  exception  is  pure  farce,  and  occasionally 
pure  romance.  For  the  sake  of  a  little  fun,  we  may 
accord  that  two  men  who  have  never  met  look  so  much 
alike  that  their  nearest  friends  and  relatives  cannot 
tell  them  apart,  as  in  the  "Comedy  of  Errors"  done  over 
and  over  again,  but  that  is  a  supposition  difficult  for  most 
of  us  to  entertain  seriously  and  not  one  calculated  to 
hold  us  enthralled  in  any  phase  of  life  with  which  we 
are  familiar.  Double  exposure  offers  a  strong  temptation 
to  use  this  purely  arbitrary  situation  in  screen  productions 
in  spite  of  the  fact  that  it  is  a  legend  so  long  familiar  as  to 
have  become  absolutely  moldy. 

Any  careful  student  of  audiences  soon  learns  that 
plays  fatigue  general  attention  that  are  forced  by  the 
arbitrary  will  of  those  who  produce  them  and  are  not  in 
accord  with  the  logic  of  character  and  circumstances. 
People  in  front  are  there  to  be  entertained  and  do  not 
concern  themselves  with  the  structural  defects  of  what  is 
shown  on  the  screen,  but  when  they  become  vaguely  con- 
scious that  all  is  not  as  it  should  be,  that  they  are  wasting 
their  attention  upon  what  is  false  to  common  ideals, 
they  feel  that  they  have  been  defrauded. 

It  is  the  critic's  business  to  point  out  r/here  interest 
falls  away  and  point  out  defects  to  be  remedied.  If  he 
has  no  native  gift  of  playmaking,  he  learns  by  study  and 
observation  where  the  weakness  lies  that  causes  both  the 
photodrama  and  the  audience  to  suffer,  so  that  worn  out 
devices  may  be  sent  to  the  dump  heap  and  a  standard  of 
common  sense  set  up  in  their  place. 


THE  MOVING  PICTURE  WORLD 


1005 


How  Our  Pictures  Educate  Abroad 


By  W.  Stephen  Bush 


Innsbruck,  Austrian  Tyrol,  May  16,  19 13. 

IN  Austria  the  motion  picture  has  become  an  issue  in 
politics.  Across  the  border  in  Germany,  the  motion 
picture  will,  before  long,  be  a  most  important  issue 
in  politics.  The  medieval  Toryism  and  the  more  modern 
bureaucracy  pursue  the  motion  picture  with  all  the  in- 
stinctive and  eternal  hatred  which  the  lovers  of  darkness 
have  always  felt  for  the  light.  The  reactionary  forces, 
which  even  at  this  day  are  very  strong  in  both  countries, 
detest  and  persecute  the  motion  picture  chiefly  because  it 
is  either  French  or  American.  Even  the  most  liberal  use 
of  the  censorial  scissors  cannot  cut  away  the  spirit  and 
the  atmosphere  in  the  French  and  American  screen  plays. 
They  exercise  a  subtle  but  a  very  certain  influence  on  the 
German  and  Austrian  mind,  and  it  is  this  influence  which 
the  ultra-conservative  rulers  fear  and  resent. 

Both  here  and  in  the  land  of  the  Kaiser  a  most  curious 
state  of  affairs  prevails ;  it  is  difficult  of  analysis,  but  it  is 
most  instructive  to  Americans.  Everywhere  the  motion 
picture  is  regarded  as  a  distinctly  American  invention, 
but  just  what  this  new  American  idea  is  like  is  a  mystery 
to  legions  of  people  even  in  the  principal  cities.  I  have 
met  a  large  number  of  cultured  people  whose  notions  on 
the  subject  were  quite  hazy.  Some  seemed  inclined  to 
regard  it  as  a  form  of  spiritualism,  while  others  thought 
it  was  some  sort  of  a  "base  imitation  of  the  dramatic  art." 
With  the  possible  exception  of  the  very  large  cities,  the 
rich  and  the  powerful  hold  themselves  aloof  from  the 
motion  picture  and  "all  its  works,"  its  theaters  and  its 
audiences.  On  the  other  hand,  the  masses  crave  for  the 
motion  picture. 

On  the  basis  of  careful  observations,  and  relying  on 
the  best  possible  sources  of  information,  I  am  inclined  to 
believe  that  the  number  of  motion  picture  theaters  in  the 
countries  mentioned  will  within  the  next  three  years  be 
trebled.  This  will  happen  in  spite  of  the  many  trashy 
films  and  in  spite  of  all  the  government  can  do,  simply 
because  of  the  educational  value  of  the  motion  picture. 
It  may  be  quite  true  that  such  education  as  may  be  had 
from  books  is  quite  abundantly  provided,  but  of  the 
larger  and  broader  education,  of  that  mental  training  and 
that  freedom  of  vision  which  leads  to  initiative  and  to 
enterprise,  there  are  but  weak  traces.  Education  here 
moves  in  very  old  grooves;  it  is  unprogressive  and 
stereotyped.  To  a  great  extent  it  is  little  better  than  a 
drill  of  the  memory ;  there  is -too  much  litter  and  too  little 
spirit.  Add  to  this  the  natural  tendency  of  the  people  to 
divide  themselves  into  three  or  four  classes,  whether  they 
get  on  a  railroad  train  or  enter  a  school  or  patronize  a 
restaurant,  and  you  have  a  condition  extremely  favorable 
to  mental  stock  and  to  top-heavy  conservatism.  In  this 
state  of  affairs  the  motion  picture  acts  like  a  solvent — it 
brings  a  new  and  much-needed  light.  It  is  today  the 
greatest  missionary  of  Americanism  where  Americanism 
would  do  an  incalculable  lot  of  good. 

From  frequent  views  of  American  life  the  people  of 
Germany  and  Austria  learn  with  growing  pleasure  that 
there  is  a  big  country  far  to  the  west  of  them  where  man- 
hood counts  for  more  than  rank  or  even  money,  where 
women  are  always  and  everywhere  treated  with  courtesy 
and  consideration,  where  the  policeman  is  not  the  final 
arbiter  of  things  and  where  men  know  how  to  think  and 
how  to  dare.  They  begin  to  feel  how  cramped  their  own 
position  is.  They  begin  to  feel  how  restraining  and 
choking  are  the  influences  of  caste  and  tradition,  and 
their  desire  to  see  American  pictures  grows  apace.    All 


the  popular  parties  of  Austria  and  Germany  now  realize 
what  a  splendid  ally  they  have  in  the  motion  picture,  and 
it  is  a  fact  that  every  time  the  motion  pictures  needed 
political  friends  the  leaders  of  the  progressive  parties 
came  forward  in  their  defense.  Even  the  officials  of  the 
government  are  now  beginning  to  realize  that  a  policy  of 
arbitrary  and  tyrannical  suppression  will  lead  them  no- 
where, and  as  a  result  they  seek  to  regulate  rather  than 
suppress. 

A  curious  phase  of  this  coming  greater  conflict  be- 
tween the  friends  and  the  enemies  of  the  motion  picture 
in  Germany  developed  but  yesterday.  Under  the  constitu- 
tion of  the  empire  every  citizen  is  free  to  pursue  any  call- 
ing he  chooses  without  any  special  grant  or  license  from 
the  government.  Acting  under  this  constitutional  guar- 
antee, enterprising  citizens  opened  moving  pictures  in  a 
small  town  after  complying  with  the  regulations  of  the 
building  and  fire  departments.  The  authorities  interfered 
on  the  ground  that  there  were  more  moving  picture  thea- 
ters than  the  people  had  any  use  for— at  least  such  was 
the  view  of  the  authorities.  The  exhibitors  at  once  took 
an  appeal,  and  it  was  decided  that  the  city  magistrates 
had  exceeded  their  authority  and  that  the  constitutional 
guarantee  protected  the  exhibitors.  Other  courts,  how- 
ever, in  different  jurisdictions,  have  decided  differently. 
The  country  stands  on  the  eve  of  one  of  the  biggest 
struggles  ever  made  on  behalf  of  the  motion  picture,  and 
I  believe  that  the  friends  of  the  picture  have  every  rea- 
son to  be  hopeful  as  to  the  outcome. 

Unprejudiced  observers  are  free  to  admit  that  what- 
ever progress  in  standards  of  living  and  in  industrial  de- 
velopment have  been  made  in  these  countries  have  been 
made  in  imitation,  conscious  or  unconscious,  of  American 
models.  The  field  for  further  development  and  improve- 
ment is  past,  and  I  only  voice  the  fervent  wish  of  thou- 
sands of  English  and  American  travelers  when  I  say  that 
pictures  of  American  hotels  and  especially  of  American 
railway  travel  are  very  much  in  order  not  alone  in  Aus- 
tria and  Germany,  but  everywhere  in  Europe.  A  course 
of,  say,  fifty  reels  or  more  showing  American  methods  of 
transportation  is  bound  to  do  much  good.  Pictures  deal- 
ing with  the  social,  commercial  and  political  life  of  our 
country  would,  I  am  sure,  be  very  welcome  here  and 
very  useful.  What  Europe  needs  is  a  demonstration  of 
the  possibilities  of  American  travel  and  the  motion  pic- 
ture is  undoubtedly  the  best  medium  for  such  demonstra- 
tion. 

Nothing  can  be  more  promising  than  the  start  of  an 
express  train  here.  The  crew  of  the  train  is  in  a  wild 
state  of  excitement.  Uniformed  officials  rush  about  giv- 
ing orders  in  frenzied  haste,  bells  are  ringing,  women 
and  children  are  hysterical  and  strong  men  weep  and  some 
even  swear.  Half  a  dozen  underlings  urge  the  people  to 
get  aboard  quickly  "because  this  is  the  fast  express"  to 
Berlin  or  Vienna.  Whistles  blow  furiously,  anguished 
relatives  are  driven  away  from  the  platform  and  every- 
thing indicates  the  starting  of  a  transcontinental  train 
with  no  stops  between  the  Atlantic  and  the  Pacific.  I 
forget  my  previous  sad  experiences  and  my  hopes  rise 
high.  After  all  this  may  be  the  express  for  which  we 
have  all  been  waiting  so  anxiously.  More  clanging  of 
bells,  more  shouts  and  whistles,  and  the  supposed  trans- 
continental starts  on  its  journey.  Five  miles  out  it  shame- 
lessly stops  at  an  old  shanty  and  waits  for  three  minutes 
because  the  farmers  are  late  with  their  milk. 

Today  I  cross  the  Alps  into  the  land  of  Dante. 


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THE  MOVING  PICTURE  WORLD 


"Alone  in  the  Jungle"  (Selig) 

Reviewed  by  James  S.  McQuade. 

THE  name  of  Wm.  N.  Selig  stands  alone  in  the  field 
where  wild  animals  play  their  parts  with  amazing 
fidelity,  in  conjunction  with  men  and  women,  in  mov- 
ing pictures  which  unravel  thrilling  stories  of  jungle  and 
tropical  wilds.  These  wild  animal  productions  have  a  novelty 
and  realism  all  their  own.  To  those  untutored  in  the  manner 
of  their  making,  these  films  thrill  and  puzzle  as  no  other  type 
of  pictured  story  can  be  expected  to  do.  These  stories  are 
necessarily  elemental;  but  the  wild  animal  side  of  them  con- 
jures up  in  the  mind  the  loneliness  and  perils  of  untraversed 
forest  shades,  where  in  every  thicket  there  may  lurk  a  raven- 
ous or  a  savage  foe. 

Having  seen  all,  or  nearly  all,  of  the  Selig  wild  animal 
series,  I  am  inclined  to  the  opinion  that  "Alone  in  the  Jungle," 
a  two-reel  special  that  will  be  released  June  14,  surpasses  all 
its  predecessors  in  thrilling  encounters  with  wild  animals  of 
the  tropics.  In  these  films  one  is  treated  to  a  lion  hunt 
where  the  killing  is  clearly  pictured.  The  fearful  struggle 
between  a  leopard  and  a  man  in  the  thick  undergrowth  is 
also  shown.  But  the  most  astounding  of  all  the  sights  is  the 
chasing  of  the  heroine  of  the  story  by  an  enormous  black- 
maned  African  lion.  We  watch  him  stalking  her  stealthily 
through  the  undergrowth,  until  she  is  cornered  on  a  shelving 
precipice,  overlooking  a  lake.  In  her  great  nervous  trepida- 
tion we  see  her  losing  her  hold  and  falling  headlong  into  the 
water  beneath,  and  then  swimming  for  dear  life  to  the  farther 
shore.  Close  in  her  wake  the  great  lion  is  seen  to  plunge 
into  the  water  and  making  headway  with  a  speed  approach- 
ing that  of  a  dolphin. 

The  girl  reaches  the  bank  and,  with  difficulty  climbing  the 
slippery  slope,  rushes  off  into  a  sheltering  thicket.  The  lion 
also  gains  the  shore  and  charges  in  pursuit.  Then  the  res- 
cuers follow  immediately  afterwards,  and  one  of  the  marks- 
men is  seen  taking  careful  aim  at  a  point  in  the  thicket,  where 
the  tossing  branches  show  signs  of  a  struggle.  They  rush  to 
the  spot  and  find  the  girl  lying  motionless  under  the  dead 
lion,  one  of  her  arms  encircled  by  his  mighty  jaws.  In  a 
short  time  she  is  revived,  and  it  is  seen  that  she  has  escaped 
injury,  excepting  a  few  scratches. 

How  is  it  all  done?  It  certainly  looks  like  the  real  thing; 
but  the  live  girl  and  one's  knowledge  of  the  rending  powers 
of  the  jaws  and   claws   of   that   ferocious   animal   makes  the 


brain  whirl.  There  must  be  a  secret  behind  it.  There  is; 
but  it  is  one  of  the  secrets  of  the  making  of  wild  animal  pic- 
tures which,  if  known,  would  deprive  the  spectator  of  the 
gripping  thrill  that  seizes  him. 

These  films  were  produced  by  Colin  Campbell,  on  the 
Selig  animal  farm  in  California.  They  tell  the  story  con- 
nectedly, and  the  backgrounds  create  the  impression  of  sur- 


KHSB 

Scene  from  "Alone  in  the  Jungle"  (Selig). 

roundings  in  tropical  South  Africa.  Great  care  has  been 
taken  to  heighten  this  impression  by  the  costumes  worn,  the 
glimpses  of  home  life  in  the  jungle,  by  the  improvised  rafts 
for  crossing  streams  and  lakes,  and  by  the  sight  of  native 
carriers.  The  animals,  of  course,  contribute  most  to  the  na- 
ture of  their  habitat. 

Thomas  Santschi  and  Miss  Bessie  Eyton  carry  the  leading 
characters  with  ease  and  strength.  As  Helen  Brown,  Miss 
Eyton  shows  great  nerve.  It  takes  quite  a  lot  of  it  to  dodge 
behind  the  trunk  of  a  tree  and  abide  the  passing  of  a  monster 
lion,  which  shows  that  he  is  undecided  whether  or  not  he 
will  make  a  jump  for  you.     The  scene  showing  her  capture 


Scene  from  "Alone  in  the  Jungle"  (Selig). 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE  WORLD 


1007 


of  a  young  cub  lion  is  both  wild  and  appealing.  Frank 
Clarke,  Miss  Lillian  Hayward  and  Wheeler  Oakman  are  ef- 
fective in  the  roles  of  John  S.  Brown,  Mrs.  Brown  and 
Concho  (a  half  breed  negro  overseer),  respectively. 

The  Hon.  John  S.  Brown  and  family,  refined  English  peo- 
ple, have  settled  on  a  plantation  in  tropical  South  Africa. 
Jack  Arden,  also  of  English  gentle  blood,  who  lives  on  the 
adjoining  plantation,  is  in  love  with  Helen  Brown.  She 
loves  him  in  return,  and  is  overjoyed  to  learn  that  he  is  about 
to  visit  her  home  to  engage  in  a  lion  hunt  with  her  father 
and  brothers.  During  his  stay  he  asks  Mr.  Brown  for  Helen's 
hand  in  marriage,  but  his  suit  is  prolonged  because  of  her 
tender  years.  Jack  bows  to  the  wishes  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Brown  and  sets  out  on  his  return  trip,  accompanied  by  his 
retinue  of  natives.  Helen  is  permitted  to  accompany  him  as 
far  as  the  landing. 

During  his  visit  to  the  Browns,  Jack  had  incurred  the 
hatred  of  their  halfbreed  foreman,  who  secretly  admired 
Helen.  The  halfbreed  follows  the  lovers  stealthily,  and  at- 
tempts to  force  his  attentions  on  Helen  as  she  is  on  her  way 
home.  She  trounces  him  soundly  with  a  black-snake.  As 
she  leaves  him  writing  on  the  ground,  to  remount  her  horse, 
the  overseer  is  attacked  by  a  leopard  and  escapes  at  the  ex- 
pense of  severe  lacerations. 

Just  before  meeting  the  halfbreed,  Helen  had  captured  a 
cub  lion.  The  male  lion  was  on  her  scent  to  recover  his 
offspring,  and,  just  as  she  was  about  to  mount  her  horse,  she 
spied  him  in  the  brush.  Terrified,  she  tied  her  horse  to  a 
tree  and  sped  through  the  forest. 

In  the  meantime  the  halfbreed  overseer  made  all  haste  to 
the  Browns'  home  and  reported  that  Helen  had  eloped  with 
Jack  Arden.  Mr.  Brown  and  his  sons  armed  themselves  im- 
mediately and  set  out  in  pursuit  of  the  fugitives.  They  found 
Jack  near  the  landing,  where  he  had  made  his  camp  for  the 
night,  and  learned  of  the  treachery  of  the  overseer. 

In  anguish  over  the  dangers  to  which  Helen  was  exposed. 
Jack  and  the  party  set  out  to  find  her.  As  has  already  been 
told,  they  arrived  just  in  the  nick  of  time  to  rescue  her  from 
the  lion. 


A  SEVEN-PART  "EAST  LYNNE"  COMING. 

"East  Lynne,"  famous  in  story  and  drama,  has  been  done 
in  seven  parts  by  the  Barker  Motion  Photography  Company, 
of  London,  and  has  been  secured  for  American  exhibition  by 
the  Apex  Film  Company,  of  which  Mr.  P.  P.  Craft  is  presi- 
dent. This  picture  is  an  adaptation  from  Mrs.  Henry  Wood's 
book  of  the  same  title,  written  about  1840,  and  is  given  in  117 
scenes  covering  about  7,000  feet.  Careful  attention  to  the 
details  of  production  is  one  of  the  principal  claims  of  the 
producers  for  consideration.  Britain's  premier  emotional 
actress,  Miss  Blanche  Forsythe,  enacted  the  part  of  "Lady 
Isable,"  supported  by  a  strong  cast.  Commenting  briefly  upon 
this  picture,  The  Kinematograph  Weekly,  of  London,  says: 
"The  staging,  photography  and  acting  of  the  film  are  all  per- 
fect, and  on  every  hand  the  film  is  being  spoken  of  as  the 
best  yet  turned  out  by  an  English  firm." 


BUFFALO  HAS  G.  F.  POSTER  DEPARTMENT. 

George  Balsdon.  manager  of  the  poster  department  of  the 
General  Film  Company,  writes  from  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  to  the 
effect  that  the  Buffalo  branch  of  the  General  Film  poster 
department  will  be  ready  for  business  on  June  2.  It  will  oc- 
cupy the  fourth  floor  of  the  building  at  122  Pearl  Street, 
having  a  floor  space  of ^  3,000  square  feet,  and  will  carry  a 
complete  line  of  advertising  and  supplies.  Mr.  Friedman, 
formerly  in  charge  of  the  Detroit  office,  will  be  the  manager. 


PUBLIC    MEN   HAVE   NO    "PICTURE   RIGHTS." 

The  other  day  application  was  made  to  Magistrate  Arthur 
C.  Butts,  of  New  York,  by  the  National  Baseball  Commis- 
sion and  Israel  Ludlow  to  summon  to  court  the  Universal 
Film  Manufacturing  Company  and  the  Commercial  Motion 
Picture  Company  to  answer  for  the  offense  of  taking  pic- 
tures of  the  World's  Championship  series  of  1912.  between  the 
New  York  Giants  and  the  Boston  Reds,  for  which  games  the 
privilege  had  been  sold  to  Pathe  Freres.  In  the  application 
the  "right  of  privacy"  was  pleaded  by  J.  J.  McGraw  and 
others. 

Judge  Butts  denied  the  application  and  handed  down  a  de- 
cision to  the  effect  that  McGraw  was  a  public  character  and 
as  such  did  not  have  any  rights  that  had  been  violated  in 
the  case.     An  appeal  will  be  taken  from  this  decision. 


Philadelphia  Convention  Opens 

A   Great   Gathering   of   Enthusiastic   Exhibitors   and   a   Fine 
Trade  Exposition  With  Many  New  Ideas. 

THE  second  annual  convention  of  the  Pennsylvania  State 
Branch  No.  3,  of  the  M.  P.  E.  L.  of  A.,  opened  at  the 
Continental  Hotel,  Philadelphia,  on  Tuesday,  May  27, 
scheduled  to  last  two  days.  Delegates  began  to  arrive  on 
Monday  night  and  at  the  beginning  of  the  first  session  on 
Tuesday  morning  there  was  a  very  large  gathering  of  mov- 
ing picture  men  representing  all  branches  of  the  trade.  The 
Philadelphia  daily  papers  were  quick  to  realize  the  import- 
ance of  the  convention  and  as  a  consequence  all  of  them 
came  out  in  their  Tuesday  issues  with  front  page  articles  and 
illustrations.  Representatives  of  all  papers  were  on  the  job 
at  all  times,  and  the  population  of  Eastern  Pennsylvania  was 
made  to  realize  that  there  was  something  doing  in  Philly. 

The  convention  went  into  session  for  a  short  while  Tues- 
day afternoon.  The  meeting  was  called  to  order  by  Walter 
Steumpfig,  president  of  the  Pennsylvania  State  League.  The 
first  speaker  introduced  was  Mr.  Herman  Lowe,  Commis- 
sioner of  Supplies  of  the  City  of  Philadelphia,  acting  for 
Mayor  Blankenburg,  who  was  unable  to  attend.  Mr.  Lowe 
welcomed  the  moving  picture  men  to  the  city  and  officially 
recognized  the  motion  picture  as  an  educational  institution 
and  a  great  power  for  good.  Answering  Mr.  Lowe's  address, 
President  Neff,  of  the  National  Exhibitors'  League,  made  a 
very  able  speech  informing  the  previous  speaker  that  the 
aim  of  the  Exhibitors'  League  has  always  been  for  the  bet- 
terment of  the  business,  but  that  in  many  instances  law- 
makers and  city  fathers  have  not  always  done  what  they 
might  have  done  to  help  the  motion  picture  become  an  edu- 
cational institution.  For  that  reason,  as  well  as  for  others, 
the  exhibitors  were  there  assembled;  not  in  a  spirit  of  pessi- 
mism, but  in  a  spirit  of  courage  and  belief  in  the  great  future 
in  store  for  the  moving  picture,  confident  that  the  day  is  not 
far  off  when  there  will  be  no  question  in  the  mind  of  any- 
body in  regard  to  the  great  worth  of  kinematography. 

After  these  two  addresses  the  convention  adjourned  to  ac- 
cept the  invitation  of  Mr.  Siegmund  Lubin  to  visit  the  plant 
of  the  Lubin  Manufacturing  Company,  at  20th  Street  and 
Indiana  Avenue.  A  large  fleet  of  automobiles  left  the  hotel, 
with  pennants  flying,  and  formed  a  long  procession  to  the 
studio.  "Pop"  Lubin  was  in  one  of  his  best  moods  and  enter- 
tained his  guests  like  a  Chesterfield,  ably  assisted  by  Arthur 
Johnson  (li'l  Artha),  and  others  of  the  Lubin  staff.  In  the 
evening  there  was  a  fine  showing  of  unreleased  photoplays, 
both  licensed  and  independent,  at  the  Continental  Hotel. 
Music  for  the  occasion  was  provided  by  the  Rudolph  Wur- 
litzer  Company,  using  one  of  its  latest  models  of  motion  pic- 
ture orchestrions.  Following  the  exhibition  a  lively  cabaret 
entertainment  was  enjoyed  to  the  limit,  which  ended  the 
doings  for  the  day. 

The  program  for  Wednesday,  the  second  day  of  the  con- 
vention, was  very  interesting  and  was  laid  out  as  follows: 
9  a.  m.,  parade  up  Market  Street  and  around  City  Hall;  visit 
to  the  plant  of  the  Curtis  Publishing  Company,  with  motion 
picture  record  of  same;  10:30,  convention  called  to  order; 
executive  session  and  election  of  State  officers  and  national 
vice-president;  1:30,  afternoon  session  of  convention;  7:30. 
banquet  for  exhibitors  and  ladies  and  the  trade  in  general. 

In  conjunction  with  the  convention  was  a  very  interesting 
trade  exhibition  by  firms  that  cater  to  the  needs  of  ex- 
hibitors. The  Rudolph  Wurlitzer  Company  made  its  pres- 
ence especially  felt  by  reason  of  the  excellent  music  con- 
tinuously furnished  from  the  high-class  instruments,  for 
which  it  is  justly  famed.  Motion  picture  machines  repre- 
sented were:  the  Edison,  Power's,  Simplex,  Standard  and 
Motiograph.  Other  exhibits  were  the  Sanozone  spray,  Keas- 
bey  &  Mattison  Company,  Swartout  Ventilator,  Westing- 
house  Electric  Company,  Calehuff  Company,  Electro  Vapor- 
izer, Famous  Players'  Film  Company,  Globe  Ticket  Com- 
pany, Newman  Manufacturing  Company. 


JUDGE  SCORES  PLAINTIFF. 

In  the  case  of  Harstn  against  the  General  Film  Company, 
an  action  to  recover  $2,000  damages  for  assault  said  to  have 
been  made  by  employees  of  the  General  Film  Company  when 
the  plaintiff  was  ejected  from  the  premises  at  219  Sixth 
Avenue,  Judge  Schmuck,  at  a  hearing  before  him  in  a  special 
term  of  the  City  Court,  ordered  several  paragraphs  of  the 
plaintiff's  complaint  stricken  out  as  scandalous  and  assessed 
the  plaintiff  $10  costs. 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


'  When   the  Circus   Menagerie  Broke 
Loose" 

A  Two-Reel  Vitagraph  Scream. 
Reviewed  by  Louis  Reeves  Harrison. 

OF  ALL  the  farce-comedies  ever  thrown  on  the  screen 
this  is  probably  one  of  the  most  amusing,  and  it  is 
certainly  one  of  the  most  remarkable  in  many  other  in- 
teresting respects.  I  was  prepared  as  soon  as  I  saw  the 
title  for  the  utilization  of  material  that  has  already  been  em- 
ployed with  doubtful  success — nearly  all  circus  stories  ad- 
here to  stale  and  conventional  lines — but  I  had  another  guess 
coming.  I  began  to  shake  with  laughter  before  the  first 
reel  was  half  through,  and  I  think  that  the  hard-worked 
critics  who  review  all  the  releases  and  become,  in  conse- 
quence, plunged  into  the  dark  pessimism  of  those  who  know 


Scene  from  "When  the  Circus  Menagerie  Broke  Loose." 

that  the  worst  is  now  and  not  yet  to  come  would  have 
laughed  for  the  first  time  this  year  and  echoed  the  mar- 
velously-expressed  sentiment  of  Owen  Hatteras,  "I  never 
seen  nothing  I  would  of  rather  saw." 

A  train-load  of  wild  animals  is  wrecked  in  a  cutting,  near 
the  village  where  they  were  to  be  exhibited  in  cages — the 
wreck  is  shown — and  a  miscellaneous  assortment  of  lions, 
tigers,  leopards,  bears,  elephants,  kangeroos,  monkeys  and 
snakes  enjoy  an  animated  vacation  in  the  homes  and  shops 


to  crowd  a  month's  supply  of  food  into  one  grand  feast  is 
funny  enough  from  in  front,  but  it  is  a  safe  bet  that  more 
than  one  of  them  soon  after  suffers  from  colic,  acute  indi- 
gestion or  other  ailment  of  the  alimentary  tract  to  which 
the  little  replicas  of  human  vanity  and  greed  are  subject. 
Quite  another  matter  is  the  invasion  of  houses  and  shops 
by  the  larger  animals. 

A  tremendous  lion  leaps  into  the  window  of  a  house — a 
veritable  exterior  is  this  remarkable  picture — two  great  tigers 
invade  another  home;  leopards  enter  a  barber  shop,  and 
huge  black  bears  destroy  the  interior  of  a  grocery.  Two  of 
the  most  ferocious  of  all  enter  the  butcher  shop,  and  Hugh 
Mack,  the  butcher  escapes  by  shutting  himself  up  in  the  ice 
box,  but  his  cashier,  a  girl,  is  imprisoned  in  her  cage  unable 
to  escape  while  the  hungry  animals  tear  the  place  to  pieces. 
The  courage  of  the  girl  and  the  antics  of  the  fat  butcher 
form  one  of  the  many  nerve-thrilling  episodes  which  follow 
one  another  in  swift  succession  throughout  the  presentation 
after  it  is  well  under  way. 

Possibly  the  rarest  view  is  one  which  has  all  the  marks 
of  an  accidental  meeting  between  two  of  the  enormous  cats. 
One  of  them  has  been  engaged  jn  tearing  a  library  to  pieces 
when  a  bookcase  falls  on  him.  He  emerges  from  the  debris 
in  a  rage  and  to  prove  that  he  can  lick  a  dozen  like  the 
fellow  who  hit  him,  he  tackles  his  running  mate  and  they 
have  it  out  on  the  spot  before  the  camera  man  fully  realizes 
that  he  is  taking  a  big  chance  of  spending  his  vacation 
where  it  is  hotter  than  Luna  Park.  One  leopard  empties 
the  barber  shop.  After  ripping  down"  the  fixtures,  including 
the  shaving-cup  rack,  he  yawns  and  gets  into  the  barber's 
chair.  From  this  throne  he  surveys  the  wreck  he  has  made 
with  an  Alexandrian  sadness  that  there  are  no  more  worlds 
to   conquer. 

What  the  black  bears  do  to  the  interior  of  the  grocery 
store  is  a  whole  comedy  in  itself.  They  smash  things  gen- 
erally, the  clown  upsetting  a  bag  of  flour  over  himself,  and 
the  biggest  exhibiting  superhuman  intelligence  in  trying 
to  destroy  the  grocer's  scales.  One  would  almost  believe 
he  had  been  running  a  charge  account  at  the  place.  Every 
conceivable  situation  in  which  there  is  a  comedy  element 
seems  to  have  been  covered  in  this  play  by  the  animals 
themselves,  while  the  scared  humans  are  merely  supers. 
The  cast  is  so  large  that  I  can  only  mention  Harry  Morey. 
He  utilizes  his  splendid  comedy  opportunities  to  the  limit 
and  scores  a  decided  success.  He  is  the  central  figure  among 
those  nearly  frightened  to  death  and,  when  it  is  all  over, 
when  the  menagerie  men  have  gathered  in  all  the  big  beasts, 
he  braces  his  shattered  nerves  at  a  friendly  bar  with  a  num- 
ber of  others  gathered  for  mutual  congratulations  upon  their 
narrow  escapes. 

Morey  is  badly  used  up,  but  he  gathers  confidence  as  his 
numerous  libations  begin  to  take  effect  and  sets  them  up 
until  he  and  his  friends  get  as  drunk  as  chauffeurs.  Their 
merriment  is  at  its  height,  when  two  or  three  forgotten  and 
thirsty  anacondas  squirm  in  along  the  floor  and  prove  that 
what  men  see  under  certain  trying  circumstances  is  no  ir- 
relevant and  incoherent  glimpsing  of  the  unsubstantial. 
Some  of  the  small  scope  views  of  the  tremendous  beasts 
are  almost  terrifying — in  fact,  it  is  the  swift  transition  from 
the  appalling  to  the  ludricous  that  will  set  almost  any  audi- 
ence going — and  it  is  plain  to  see  that  the  entire  production 
has  cost  a  lot  of  trying  effort.  Much  credit  is  due  those  re- 
sponsible for  this  novel  and  varied  creation.  It  strikes  a 
high  note  in  an  era  of  very  low  farce  comedy,  and  the  ani- 
mals are  as  funny  as  a  motion-picture  idol  who  takes  him- 
self seriously. 


Scene  from  "When  the  Circus  Menagerie  Broke  Loose 


of  townspeople.  The  animals  are  far  from  being  a  sluggish 
lot.  They  are  on  edge.  A  vast  amount  of  courage  and  pains 
must  have  been  expended  in  handling  vicious  beasts 
that  are  not  stupid  from  over-feeding — there  is  really  more 
savage  action  than  can  be  seen  in  a  dozen  "thrillers"  where 
wild  beasts  play  important  roles. 

The  way  that  the  four-footed  creatures  perform  their  roles 
is  so  excitingly  realistic  that  the  spectator  marvels  if  he 
does  not  shudder  over  the  unswerving  veracity  of  what  is 
shown  in  their  attempts  to  gratify  their  indiscriminate  ap- 
petites. The  monkeys  obtain  undisputed  possession  of  a 
well-stocked  fruit  stall,  and  their  antics  when  they  start  in 


PERFECTS  DEVELOPING  DEVICE. 

Charles  A.  Ziebarth,  factory  superintendent  of  the  Ameri- 
can Film  Manufacturing  Company,  has  perfected  a  device 
to  automatically  time  development  of  positive  prints  so  as  to 
obtain  perfect  prints.  Under  the  old  system,  the  developer 
was  compelled  to  gauge  his  own  time.  The  device  in  ques- 
tion, however,  does  away  with  any  possibility  of  error  and 
invariably  results  in  a  perfect  print,  timing  the  development 
to  the  fraction  of  a  second.  The  American  has  ever  been 
in  the  vanguard  of  manufacturers  seeking  to  place  on  the 
market  clear,  stereoscopic  photography  and  its  reputation 
will  be  further  enhanced  by  the  automatic  timer.  Mr.  Zie- 
barth is  himself  the  inventor. 


NEW  GAUMONT  AGENT  AT  PITTSBURGH. 

Announcement  is  made  by  the  Gaumont  Company,  Flush- 
ing, N.  Y.,  that  the  Ideal  Feature  Film  Company,  402  Ferry 
Street,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  has  been  appointed  exclusive  agent 
for  all  Gaumont  features  for  the  State  of  Pennsylvania. 


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"The  Struggle"  (Kaiem) 

By  George  Blaisdell. 

HERE  is  a  picture  that  will  hold  men.  It  is  a  story  of 
the  evils  of  absenteeism  on  the  part  of  owners  of 
industrial  property;  men  who  are  contented  to  take 
the  profits  that  may  accrue  to  them  by  reason  of  the  opera- 
tion of  an  enterprise,  but  whose  concern  ends  there.  The 
welfare  of  the  employees,  without  the  walls  of  their  em- 
ployment and  more  especially  within,  is  a  matter  which  is 
taken  for  granted.  It  is  not  necessarily  an  indication  of 
hardness  of  heart  on  the  owner's  side,  but  at  least  it  is  of 
indifference  or  thoughtlessness.  Author  Henry  Albert 
Phillips  here  tells  us  of  an  employer  who  had  left  all  matters 
of  management  to  his  superintendent,  a  man  unworthy  of 
trust  and  incapable  of  handling  men.  Mr.  Melford  has 
staged  the  story  in  a  most  convincing  way.  He  has  gone 
into  a  great  rolling  mill.  In  the  first  scenes  he  establishes  his 
atmosphere  and  sustains  it  throughout.  He  has  successfully 
drawn  upon  the  employees  of  the  mill  for  many  of  his  char- 
acters; and  so  skilfully  has  he  kindled  in  them  the  feeling  of 
the  reality  of  the  scenes  in  which  they  are  participants  that 
the  beholder  will  be  unable  to  determine  which  are  and 
which  are  not  regularly  of  the  screen.  The  picture  will  hold 
men  because  it  is  a  representation  of  circumstances  that 
many  of  them  have  faced  in  life— the  resort  to  a  strike  as 
the  only  alternative  to  continued  ill-treatment  by  a  man  un- 
worthy of  holding  in  his  hand  authority  over  others.  To 
such  men  there  will  be  a  steady  thrill  throughout  the  two 
reels.  To  such  women  as  have  undergone  the  experiences 
portrayed  by  Miss  Sais  there  will  come  a  response,  too. 

There  is  a  fine  cast.  William  H.  West  is  the  mill  owner 
Paul  C.  Hurst  is  the  foreman.  Carlyle  Blackwell  is  Bat. 
To  these   three  and   Miss   Marin   Sais   falls   the  most  of  the 


work.  Mr.  West  is  most  convincing  in  his  portrayal.  Mr. 
Hurst  in  depicting  the  brutal  foreman  gives  a  characteriza- 
tion that  reaches  the  point  for  which  he  must  have  striven— 
surely  he  will  get  the  ill-will  of  others  than  those  working 
under  him.  It  is  fine  work  in  an  unpopular  part.  Mr.  Black- 
well  as  the  leader  of  the  strikers  will  add  to  his  reputation. 
Miss  Sais  contributes  to  one  of  the  best  scenes  in  the  pic- 
ture— where  she  tells  the  employer  of  the  character  of  his 
representative  and  denounces  him  for  permitting  it.  In  the 
struggle  between  the  foreman  and  her  sweetheart  she  is  a 
true  child  of  the  people.  Instead  of  standing  aloof,  as  we 
almost  always  note  in  similar  scenes  on  the  screen  or  on  the 
stage,  she  takes  a  hand.  "The  Struggle"  is  a  picture  that 
should  go  well  in  any  community,  and  especially  well  in 
manufacturing  centers;  it  is  in  the  latter  that  the  feelings  of 
the  men  on  the  screen  will  be  thoroughly  understood. 


LUBIN  WILL  PLAY  RELIANCE  AND  PATHE. 

Billy  Hallman,  captain  of  the  Lubin  baseball  team,  has  his 
boys  using  up  every  available  moment  to  practice  for  the 
Reliance  and  Pathe  Freres  games,  which  will  take  place  on 
the  7th  and  8th  of  June  respectively,  at  the  Reliance  grounds 
at  Lenox  Oval  Park,  145th  Street  and  Lexington  Avenue, 
and  Pathe  Freres  grounds  in  Jersey  City.  A  special  car 
will  leave  Philadelphia  on  Saturday  with  about  200  Lubin 
fans,  among  which  will  be  found  Pop  Lubin,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
I.  M.  Lowry,  Lottie  Bricoe,  Daisy  Evans,  Florence  Hackett, 
Howard  M.  Mitchell,  Jennie  Nelson,  Harry  C.  Myers,  Pete 
Volkman,  Arthur  V.  Johnson,  R.  J.  MacFarland,  Tom  Coch- 
rane, Jos.  Smiley,  Barry  O'Neill,  Clara  Lambert,  Lloyd  B. 
Carleton,  Geo.  Terwilliger,  John  Ince,  Robert  Drouet,  Lionel 
Adams,  Harrington  Reynolds,  James  Humphreys,  H.  A. 
D'Arcy,  Robert  Fischer,  Tom  Kerry  and  Bennie  from  Lubin- 
ville. 


Scene  from  "The  Struggle"  (Kalem). 


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Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League 


Big 


SAN    FRANCISCO    EXHIBITORS'    BALL. 
The    Grand    March    Led    by    Mayor    and    Mrs.    Rolph. 
Street  Parade  Led  by  Chief  of  Police  White. 

By   W.    A.    Cory,   Secretary. 

THERE  was  something  doing  every  moment  on  Photo 
Players'  Day  in  San  Francisco.  The  Motion  Picture 
Exhibitors'  League  worked  hard  to  make  May  2nd, 
a  day  worthy  of  remembrance,  and  they  were  paid  for  their 
efforts  by  a  grand  turn-out  all  along  the  line  of  the  parade. 
A  fact  worthy  of  note  in  passing  was  the  general  comment 
by  everyone  that  there  were  three  times  as  many  people 
lining  the  curbs  to  watch  the  parade  as  there  were  the  pre- 
vious day  to  see  the  big  circus  parade. 

The  excitement  began  at  9:30  in  the  morning,  with  the 
arrival  of  Mabel  Norman  of  the  Keystone  Company,  Carlyle 
Blackwell  of  the  Kalem  Company,  and  Miss  Anne  Schaeffer 
and  George  C.  Stanley  of  the  Western  Vitagraph  Company. 
The  players  were  met  by  State  Secretary,  W.  A.  Cory,  and 
representatives  of  the  Golden  Gate  and  General  Film  Ex- 
change, who  took  the  players  to  their  hotel,  where  they  made 
ready  for  the  pageant,  which  started  at  noon  at  Van  Ness 
Avenue  and  Market  Street. 

Mabel  Norman  having  been  voted  the  most  popular  player 
in  California  was  chosen  queen  of  the  occasion,  and  occupied 
the  first  automobile  with  Carlyle  Blackwell  and  W.  A.  Cory 
and  wife.  Then  came  the  two  Vitagraphers,  and  following 
them,  Mr.  Gilbert  M.  Anderson,  the  popular  "Broncho 
Billy"  of  the  Essanay  Company,  followed  by  twenty-four 
of  Anderson's  daring  cowboys  and  cowgirls  in  picture  cos- 
tume and  mounted  on  their  cow-ponies.  The  famous  old 
stage  coach  which  we  have  seen  "Broncho  Billy"  hold  up 
countless  times,  was  also  there  in  all  its  glory.  Several 
beautiful  floats,  representing  miniature  picture  shows,  and 
other  spectacular  features  followed.  Next  came  the  mem- 
bers of  the  San  Francisco  and  Oakland  Exhibitors'  Leagues 
in  gaily  decorated  automobiles,  headed  by  a  band  of  twenty 


pieces.  The  parade  made  a  beautiful  spectacle,  and  proved 
the  best  sort  of  advertising  for  the  ball  which  opened  at 
9:30  that  night,  with  Mayor  and  Mrs.  Rolph  leading  the 
grand  march.  Following  Mayor  and  Mrs.  Rolph,  came  the 
visiting  actors  and  actresses,  the  committee  in  charge  of 
arrangement  and  their  ladies,  with  Anderson's  cowboys  and 
cowgirls  dressed  in  Wild  West  costume,  followed  by  the 
different  members  of  the  league  and  the  dancers. 

The  actors  and  actresses  were  introduced  by  Chairman 
Cory,  and  made  happy  little  speeches,  which  were  greatly 
appreciated  by  the  great  throngs  present.  The  only  one  to 
avoid  making  a  speech  was  "Alkali  Ike"  who,  owing  to  his 
diminutive  stature  was  enabled  to  hide  behind  the  skirts 
of  some  kind  lady  and  could  not  be  found  until  the  dancing 
was  well  under  way. 

Motion  pictures  of  the  parade,  which  were  taken  by  Miles 
Brothers,  and  were  exhibited  on  a  screen,  caused  a  great 
deal  of  merriment  among  the  spectators  as  they  recognized 
themselves  in   the   photographs. 

No  expense  was  spared  in  the  management  of  the  affair;  the 
aim  of  the  committee  being  to  boost  the  business  in  general, 
rather  than  make  money  out  of  this  particular  occasion.  The 
entire  Scottish  Rite  Temple,  which  is  the  most  beautiful 
building  of  its  kind  in  San  Francisco,  was  rented  for  the 
occasion,  one  floor  being  reserved  for  society  dances,  an- 
other for  those  who  wanted  to  rag,  large  orchestras  being 
provided  in  each  hall.  This  arrangement  left  everybody 
happy,  and  the  crowd  divided  up  according  to  individual 
taste.  The  ball  broke  up  about  two  o'clock  Saturday  morn- 
ing, with  everybody  voting  it  a  grand  success,  and  eagerly 
awaiting  next  year's  second  annual  grand  ball. 

FLOOD    SUFFERERS*   FUND    DISTRIBUTED. 

The  committee  to  distribute  the  fund  contributed  to  relieve 
the  motion  picture  men  who  suffered'  loss  by  the  floods  in 
Ohio  and  Indiana  met  at  the  Phillips  House,  Dayton,  Ohio, 
last  week  and  apportioned  the  sum  of  $553. 


SCENE  AT  SAN  FRANCISCO  EXHIBITORS*  BALL— First  row,  left  to  right,  Anne  Schaefer,  Vitagraph  Co  ;  W.  A. 
Cory,  State  Sec'y  M.  P.  E.  L.  of  Cal.;  Mrs.  James  Rolph;  Mayor  James  Rolph;  Mabel  Normand,  Keystone  Co.;  deo. 
C.  Stanley,  Vitagraph  Co.;  Mrs.  W.  A.  Cory;  Carlyle  Blackwell,  Kalem  Co. 


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VICIOUS   BILLS   KILLED. 
California  Exhibitors  Clean  the  Slate  at  the  State  Legisla- 
ture— Censor  Bill  Also. 

By   W.   A.   Cory,   Secretary. 

California  has  just  had  its  share  of  freak  measures  in- 
troduced in  the  State  Legislature  directed  against  the  motion 
picture.  One  measure  introduced  by  Senator  Strowbridge, 
if  passed,  would  have  completely  put  every  motion  picture 
theater  in  California  out  of  business.  Among  the  most 
drastic  provisions  were  penalities  for  exhibiting  any  picture 
depicting  a  death  scene,  discharging  of  a  firearm,  any  robbery, 
hold-up  fight — in  fact  there  is  nothing  that  is  not  taboo 
except  a  straight  scenic.  The  bill  also  provided  that  no 
minor  under  sixteen  years  of  age  would  be  permitted  to 
enter  and  remain  in  the  theater  after  eight  o'clock  P.  M. 
unless  accompanied  by  the  parent  or  guardian. 

In  discussing  this  phase  of  the  bill  before  the  public  morals 
committee,  the  committee  made  it  quite  plain  that  it  would 
expect  that  in  enforcing  this  provision  of  the  proposed  law, 
that  the  owner  of  the  picture  theater  would  make  a  round 
of  inspection  at  eight  o'clock  and  eject  all  of  the  children 
who  could  not  find  a  grown  person  to  claim  them.  He  was 
also  to  be  held  responsible  for  being  a  good  judge  as  to 
whether  they  were  sixteen  years  of  age  or  not. 

Another  bill  which  was  fathered  by  .Assemblyman  Wood- 
ley  of  Los  Angeles,  provided  for  the  establishment  of  a 
State  Censorship  Board,  to  be  established  and  maintained 
at  Sacramento,  the  State  Capitol.  There  were  to  be  three 
commissioners,  who  were  to  receive  fat  salaries  of  $3600.00 
a  year,  with  Secretaries,  office  expenses,  traveling  expenses, 
and  other  luxuries  which  were  to  be  paid  for  by  the  motion 
picture  people;  all  films  before  release  would  have  to  be 
shipped  to  Sacramento,  censored  by  the  Board  and  returned 
to  San  Francisco  or  Los  Angeles,  the  two  points  of  dis- 
tribution. This  latter  feature  of  the  bill  will  immediately 
be  seen  to  be  impracticable  by  everyone  who  has  even  a 
meagre  idea  of  the  motion  picture  business. 

A  joint  committee  of  the  California  State  League  No.  12, 
San  Francisco  Local  No.  1,  and  the  Los  Angeles  Local 
No.  5,  went  to  Sacramento  and  remained  almost  continuously 
while  the  Legislature  was  in  session.  A  desperate  attempt 
to  put  these  bills  over  was  made  during  the  closing  hours 
of  the  Legislature,  and  by  consolidating  the  two,  the  ad- 
vocates were  able  to  slip'  them  through  the  Senate,  but  the 
Committee  was  successful  in  killing  the  bills  in  the  Assembly 
after  staying  in  the  assembly  hall  for  32  hours  without  sleep. 
We  are  therefore  safe  for  two  years  more. 

To  show  the  unfair  attitude  of  certain  persons  toward 
the  motion  picture,  the  exhibitors'  committee  agreed  to 
submit  to  censorship  if  justly  applied.  That  is,  that  all  other 
■places  of  amusement  and  vaudeville  theaters,  be  censored 
as  well  as  motion  pictures,  the  contention  being  made  that 
it  was  the  immoral  vaudeville  acts  and  not  the  pictures  which 
•needed  the  most  attention  from  those  interested  in  our  na- 
tional welfare,  and  the  proper  upbringing  of  youth. 

Of  course,  the  legislators  would  not  agree  to  this,  and 
-also  refused  to  amend  the  bill  permitting  a  representative 
of  the  motion  picture  exhibitors  to  be  a  member  of  the 
proposed  censorship  board.  This  was  expected;  in  fact 
the  offer  was  made  with  the  idea  that  the  proposal  would 
"be  rejected  and  furnish  the  committee  with  good  fighting 
material. 


VIRGINIA  EXHIBITORS  ORGANIZE. 

A  successful  convention  of  the  motion  picture  exhibitors 
of  Virginia  was  held  at  the  Hotel  Jefferson,  Richmond,  Va., 
on  Friday,  May  23.  President  Neff  of  the  National  League 
was  present.  An  open  meeting  was  held  in  the  morning  at 
which  there  was  a  large  attendance.  An  address  of  welcome 
was  delivered  by  D.  C.  Flaherty,  city  attorney. 

The  work  of  organization  was  taken  up  in  earnest  at  the 
afternoon  session.  Officers  were  elected  as  follows:  Presi- 
dent, C.  E.  Tandy,  Richmond;  first  vice-president,  C.  A. 
Turner,  Portsmouth;  second  vice-president,  A.  H.  Campbell; 
treasurer,  D.  P.  Wine,  Harrisonburg;  secretary,  E.  J.  Sparks, 
Richmond;  sergeant-at-arms,  A.  F.  Parrish,  Richmond;  na- 
tional vice-president,  H.  C.  Stradford. 

These  exhibitors  were  elected  delegates  to  the  National 
Convention  in  New  York:  Mrs.  A.  E.  Thorp,  Richmond; 
C  E.  Tandy,  Richmond;  J.  W.  Myrtle,  Staunton;  J.  C.  Boss, 
Norfolk;  W.  T.  Crall,  Norfolk.  Alternates:  M.  L.  Hofheimer, 
Richmond;  J.  Weinberg,  Lexington;  D.  P.  Wine,  Harrison- 
burg; J.  T.  Hill  and  R.  B.  Holstein,  Petersburg. 

A  grievance  committee  consisting  of  J.  T.  Hill,  C.  A. 
Turner,  Mrs.  A.  E.  Thorp,  M.  L  Hofheimer  and  J.  W. 
Myrtle  were  elected. 

A  constitution  and  by-laws  were  adopted  and  Norfolk  was 
-chosen  as  the  place  for  the  next  meeting. 


PREPARATIONS  FOR  THE  MARYLAND 
CONVENTION. 

A  general  meeting  of  the  members  of  the  Maryland  League, 
to  complete  the  preparations  for  the  Maryland  State  Con- 
vention, was  held  at  the  Grand  theater,  Baltimore,  Md.,  on 
Tuesday,  May  20.  There  was  a  large  attendance  and  the 
interest  in  the  coming  convention  was  great.  The  following 
committees  were  appointed: 

Finance:  Messrs.  Bennett,  Brodie  and  Benjamin;  banquet: 
Messrs.  Alexander,  Hartlove  and  Durkee;  committees  on 
decoration,  the  press  and  exhibitors  reported  progress. 

Everything  points  to  a  large  and  enthusiastic  gathering  of 
Maryland  exhibitors  on  the  date  named. 


MASSACHUSETTS  EXHIBITORS  MEET. 

A  meeting  of  the  members  of  the  Massachusetts  Branch 
of  the  Exhibitors'  League  was  held  at  the  league's  head- 
quarters in  Boston  on  Tuesday,  May  20.  No  business  was 
transacted  owing  to  the  lack  of  a  quorum,  and  another  meet- 
ing was  called  for  May  27.  It  is  expected  that  delegates  to 
the  New  York  convention  of  the  National  League  will  be 
chosen  at  that  meeting  and  that  action  on  the  resignation  of 
the  president,  Joseph  Mack,  will  be  taken. 


CINCINNATI  LOCAL  OUTING  IN  AUGUST. 

At  a  meeting  of  Cincinnati  Local,  held  at  the  Hotel  Sinton, 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  on  Tuesday,  May  20,  arrangements  were 
made  for  a  big  outing  in  August.  A  committee  of  arrange- 
ments was  appointed  and  a  big  time  is  expected. 


CONVENTIONS  SCHEDULED. 

Kansas  State  Convention — At  the  National  Hotel,  Topeka, 
June  2nd  and  3rd. 

Missouri  State  Convention — At  Springfield,  June  10th  and 
nth. 

Maryland  State  Convention — At  Baltimore,  Emerson,  Ho- 
tel, June  3rd  and  4th. 

Delaware  State  Convention — At  DuPont  Hotel,  Wilming- 
ton, May  26th. 

Michigan  State  Convention — At  Vincent  Hotel,  Saginaw, 
June  10th  and  nth. 

Minnesota  State  Convention — At  Radisson  Hotel,  Min- 
neapolis, June  10th  and  nth. 

Washington  State  Convention— At  Seattle,  June   17th. 


LESTER   L.    KAHN   DEAD. 

Lester  L.  Kahn,  vice-president  of  the  Golden  Gate  Film 
Exchange  of  San  Francisco  and  Los  Angeles,  and  manager 
of  the  Los  Angeles  office,  died  on  May  13  after  an  illness  of 
four  days.  The  deceased  was  twenty-four  years  old,  but 
had  established  a  splendid  business  reputation  and  had  a 
wide  circle  of  friends  in  the  motion  picture  business  on  the 
coast.  His  death  was  a  great  shock  to  his  friends  and  busi- 
ness associates. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Southern  Cali- 
fornia Motion  Picture  Men's  Association,  the  following 
preamble  and  resolutions  were  unanimously  adopted: 

WHEREAS,  It  has  pleased  Almighty  God  to  remove  from  our  midst  our 
late  Brother  and  friend  LESTER  L.  KAHN;  and 

WHEREAS,  It  is  but  just  that  a  fitting  recognition  of  his  many  virtues 
should  be  had;  therefore  be  it 

RESOLVED,  by  this  Association,  That  while  we  bow  with  humble  sub- 
mission to  the  will  of  Him  who  doeth  all  things  well,  we  do  not  the  less 
mourn  for  our  Brother  who  has  been  taken  from  us  in  his  youth. 

RESOLVED,  That  in  the  death  of  LESTER  L.  KAHN,  this  Association 
laments  the  loss  of  a  member  who  was  every_  ready  to  proffer  the  hand  of 
aid  and  the  voice  of  sympathy  to  those  calling  on  him  for  aid;  an  active 
member  of  this  organization  whose  utmost  endeavors  were  extended  for  its 
welfare  and  prosperity;  a  friend  and  companion  who  was  dear  to  us  all;  a 
citizen  whose  upright  and  noble  life  was  a  standard  of  emulation  to  his 
fellows. 

RESOLVED,  That  the  heartfelt  sympathy  of  this  Association  be  extended 
to  his  family,  in  this  their  great  affliction. 

RESOLVED,  That  these  resolutions  be  spread  upon  the  records  of  this 
Association,  and  a  copy  thereof  be  transmitted  to  the  family  of  our  de- 
ceased member  and  friends.  Also  a  copy  forwarded  to  The  Moving  Picture 
World  for  publication. 

M.   Stutz, 

R.     W.     WoODLEY, 

C  E.   Halsell, 
G.  H.  McLain, 
E  J.  Tally. 
We   hereby   certify  that  the  above  and  foregoing  is  a   true  and   correct 
copy  of  resolutions  adopted  May  14,  101 3. 

(Seal)     A.  P.  Tucwell,  President 
(Attest)     O.  V.  Traggardh,   Secretary. 


R.  D.  ARMSTRONG  NOW  AMERICAN  SCENARIO 
EDITOR. 

R.  D.  Armstrong,  the  American's  first  scenario  editor,  is 
again,  after  a  lapse  of  almost  two  years,  back  on  the  old  job. 
Mr.  Armstrong  is  one  of  the  best  known  scenario  editors  in 
the  business  and  is  the  author  of  a  book  soon  from  the  press 
entitled,  "The  Making  of  a  Negative."  Mr.  Armstrong  is 
sending  out  a  call  for  one,  two  and  three  reel  stories. 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


The  Veritas  "Quo  Vadis?" 

A  Three-Reel  Production  by  the  Quo  Vadis  Film  Company. 

WHAT  more  noble  subject  to  test  the  advanced  excel- 
lence of  motion  photography  than  this  story  which 
deals  with  the  life  of  St.  Paul  from  the  time  he  par- 
ticipated in  the  stoning  of  St.  Stephen  until  he  was  beheaded 
by  Nero,  and  on  the  same  day  that  the  venerable  St.  Peter 
was  crucified  and  burned  in  the  Roman  arena  with  other 
Christian  martyrs?  This  story  portrays  the  grandeur  of 
Pagan  Rome,  the  Rome  of  the  Caesars,  when  Christianity 
was  in  the  throes  of  early  persecutions,  and  the  martyrs 
were  burned,  crucified  and  moistening  the  amphitheatres 
with  their  blood. 

Two  scenes  in  this  remarkable  three-reel  production  alone 
require  the  services  of  more  people  than  have  ever  been 
used  at  one  time  in  motion  pictures.     The  vast  arena  scene 


Scene  from  "Quo  Vadis"  (Quo  Vadis  Film  Company). 

showing  the  Roman  populace  hysterical  in  the  gluttony  of 
blood;  the  tremendous  burning  of  Rome  motion-panorama, 
covering  in  quick  succession  various  sections  of  the  imperial 
city  and  showing  with  vivid,  fascinating  realism  the  flight 
of  the  mobs  of  refugees  from  their  burning  homes;  these 
scenes  alone  stir  the  soul  to  the  utmost.  More  than  three 
thousand  people  participated  in  the  production  of  "Quo 
Vadis,"  and  the  wonderful  subject,  replete  with  the  inspira- 
tion of  divine  love,  has  at  last  been  given  an  interpretation 
impossible  to  the  dramatic  stage. 


Scene  from  "Quo  Vadis"  (Quo  Vadis  Film  Company). 

The  story  of  "Quo  Vadis"  is  that  of  civilization.  Rome 
was  the  richest,  most  luxurious,  most  cultured,  and  yet  the 
most  degenerate  city  of  the  world.  The  dawning  of  Chris- 
tianity found  Rome  unconsciously  tottering.  The  bestiality 
of  the  Emperor  Nero  and  his  court  fastened  its  morbid  ap- 
petites on  the  persecutions  of  the  Christians. 

To  represent  the  golden  profligacy  of  the  Rome  of  that 
day  is  an  almost  forbidding  undertaking  for  a  modern  mov- 
ing  picture   producer;   but   in    this   film   there   are   scenes   of 


pomp  and  pageantry  which  exceed  in  magnificence  the 
dreams  of  the  most  optimistic  stage  director.  Discarding 
all  the  postery  lack  of  detail  common  to  the  modern  spec- 
tacle, the  producers  of  the  film  have  gone  into  every  phase 
of  the  luxurious  life  of  that  time  and  have  placed  on  the  reel 
a  most  wonderful  reproduction  of  superfluous  affluence,  and 
satisfaction  of  whimsical  passions.  As  extreme  as  Rome 
once  was  in  the  hour  of  physical  prowess  and  intellectual 
advancement,  as  strong  as  was  her  morality  and  healthful- 
ness  when  Rome  ruled  the  world,  so  in  proportion  did  she 
sink  to  the  very  depths  of  dissipation  and  excesses,  just 
prior  to  her  destruction. 

In  depicting  the  sufferings  of  the  Christian  martyrs  there 
is  a  scene  in  this  three-reel  film  which  would  make  a  sensa- 
tion of  any  motion  picture.  It  is  the  stoning  of  St.  Stephen. 
We  have  heard  of  this  ancient  punishment  frequently,  but 
its  violence,  the  intense  agony  of  the  victim,  have  never  be- 
fore been  realized. 

"Quo  Vadis"  is  a  film  which  sets  a  new  pace  in  motion 
photography.  Not  only  has  it  displayed  the  remarkable  vi- 
tality of  the  action  picture,  but  it  has  demonstrated  that 
photodrama  production  has  so  far  surpassed  even  the  dreams 
of  its  greatest  champions  that  nothing  now  seems  impossible 
for  its  ultimate  accomplishment.  It  is  the  people's  greatest 
possession. 


"THANHOUSER"— IT'S  A  DOG! 

The  Thanhouser  Kid  isn't  a  new  story,  or  the  Kidlet,  or 
theaters  so  christened — but  isn't  it  unusual  to  learn  that  a 
dog  is  called  "Thanhouser"!  Well,  that's  what  the  kid 
owners  of  a  Toledo,  O.,  English  bull  have  gone  and  did! 
The  dog,  of  course,  being  British,  didn't  like  being  named 
after  a  Yankee  film,  but  had  no  appeal  from  the  decision  of 
the  Ashbrook  Supreme  Court.  The  Ashbrook  "supremers" 
are  Dorothy  and  Virginia,  daughters  of  H.  R.  Ashbrook,  boss 
of  the  Superior  Film  and  Supply  Company,  of  Toledo,  and 
they  say  that  the  best  announcement  slide  they  know  is 
"Thanhouser's"  bark. 


MR.  CALLAGHAN  IN  NEW  YORK. 

Mr.  G.  H.  Callaghan,  who  has  represented  the  American 
Theater  Curtain  &  Supply  Company  in  territory  adjacent  to 
Baltimore,  Md.,  has  been  transferred  to  New  York,  where 
he  will  take  charge  of  their  booth  and  exhibit  in  the  Heidel- 
berg Building,  Broadway  and  42nd  Street. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


1013 


"The  Boomerang" 

Broncho  Multiple  Release. 

Reviewed  by  Louis  Reeves  Harrison. 

CHARACTERIZED  by  stirring  scenes  of  battle  that  have 
made  Tom  Ince  famous  as  a  producer  and  by  some 
fine  acting,  this  photodrama  has  grave  defects,  some 
of  which  could  have  been  avoided  by  a  more  careful  choice  of 
title.  In  these  days  of  aggressive  Japanese  demands  and 
American  apologetic  attitude,  there  is  a  purpose  in  pictures 
of  warfare.  No  one  wants  war,  and  we  are  not  disposed  to 
court  it,  but  it  looks  as  though  some  reminder  of  the  way 
we    acquired    independence    and    maintained    our    unity    was 


Scene  from  "The  Boomerang"  (Broncho). 

necessary  to  keep  alive  the  splendid  spirit  of  those  who  died 
in  defense  of  country  and  high  principle. 

The  fighting  impulse  is  stirred  by  the  exceptionally  fine 
battle  scenes  of  this  producing  company,  and  they  deserve 
great  credit  for  their  accuracy  and  consistency  of  portrayal, 
but  they  lose  in  effect  when  grafted  upon  a  story  that  is  not 
strong  enough  to  carry  them.  The  producer  can  not  rely 
on  a  selection  of  spirited  scenes  of  battle  to  hang  a  story  on; 
he  can  only  use  them  to  enhance  interest  in  a  structure  that 
would  stand  without  them  by  itself.     Stripped  of  its  military 


Scene  from  "The  Boomerang"  (Broncho) 


vesture,  "The  Boomrang"  placards  its  own  plot  in  advance. 
The  leading  figure  in  the  story  is  to  commit  an  act  which  will 
react,  the  consequences  of  his  project  will  recoil  upon  the 
projector  in  a  way  that  he  did  not  intend  or  expect. 

This  photoplay  was  shown  to  me  with  the  subtitles  out, 
and  beside  me  was  seated  an  individual  whose  knowledge  of 
moving  pictures  was  very  limited,  yet  the  plot  was  so  obvious 
that  he  forecast  it  in  a  few  words.     Thus  one  of  the  most 


important  elements  in  the  success  of  a  production,  tension, 
was  marred  by  the  title,  if  it  was  not  entirely  eliminated.  I 
speak  of  this  weakness  because  an  audience  will  stand  for 
a  great  many  minor  faults  if  there  is  aroused  a  keen  desire 
to  see  how  a  story  is  to  turn  out,  where  attention  is  directed 
in  mental  doubt  and  speculation  as  to  the  issue,  and  because 
there  might  have  been  considerable  suspense  in  this  case  if 
the  title  had  kindled  rather  than  destroyed  it.  The  audience 
soon  grows  weary  if  not  intent  on  what  is  to  come. 

Lieutenant  Calhoun  is  beloved  by  two  women  some 
twenty  years  before  the  war.  The  natural  choice  of  his  hear* 
is  Virginia,  daughter  of  a  Southern  gentleman.  The  other 
is  Helen,  daughter  of  Calhoun's  superior  officer.  Calhoun  is 
ambitious — the  role  is  admirably  depicted — but  he  listens  to 
the  calling  of  his  heart  and  effects  a  compromise  to  attain 
his  ambition — he  secretly  weds  Virginia.  Duty  calls  him 
away;  Virginia  seeks  refuge  with  "Aunt  Betty" — another  fine 
impersonation — and  gives  birth  to  a  male  child.  Calhoun  is 
guilty  of  cruelty  in  writing  to  his  wife  at  this  time,  but  he  is 
not  informed  that  his  wife  has  given  birth  to  a  child,  and 
the  latter  is  spirited  away  by  Aunt  Betty. 

Aunt  Betty  seems  to  be  the  guilty  party.  She  conceals 
Virginia's  marriage  from  the  latter's  father  in  the  first  place, 
then  she  leaves  Calhoun  in  ignorance  that  he  has  a  child, 
an  injustice  to  both  father  and  son.  Calhoun  marries  Helen 
and  is  seen'twenty  years  after  in  a  situation  of  entire  satis- 
faction with  his  second  choice.  War  is  declared.  Who  is  to 
enlist  our  sympathetic  interest  now  that  we  have  swallowed 
and  assimilated  more  than  one  forced  situation?  Enter 
Calhoun's  son,  a  fine  manly  fellow.  We  readjust  our  at- 
tention and  try  again.  The  boy  enlists  in  the  Union  Army, 
that  of  his  father,  and  he  will  certainly  do  something  noble. 
Not  he.  He  betrays  the  service  he  has  entered,  proves  false 
to  his  oath  and  becomes  a  voluntary  spy. 

The  upshot  of  it  all  is  that  Calhoun  is  betrayed  into  the 
hands  of  the  enemy  by  a  son  whose  existence  is  unknown 
to  him  and  is  there  forced  into  a  fatal  duel — good  old  prop 
of  the  theatrical  playwright — which  leaves  a  fatherless  boy 
in  the  South  and  an  unhappy  widow  in  the  North  and  affords 
the  spectator  no  high  degree  of  satisfaction.  The  public 
prefers  the  working  out  of  a  single  and  logical  idea  where 
tragedy  is  contemplated  and  will  never  give  approval  to  the 
ignominious  death  of  a  character  where  there  are  extenuating 
circumstances  affecting  his   misdeeds. 


DAVID  BELASCO  EARNS  $5.00. 

When  the  check  teller  of  the  Broadway  Trust  Company 
cancels  check  number  3273,  for  $5.00  signed  by  the  President, 
Adolph  Zukor,  of  the  Famous  Players  Film  Company,  and 
drawn  to  the  order  of  David  Belasco,  he  need  not  feel  called 
upon  to  question  the  marginal  notation  ''on  account  of 
talent."  It  may  occur  to  him  that  a  clerical  error  must 
have  made  it  five  dollars  instead  of  five  thousand.  But, 
take  it  from  Daniel  Frohman,  who  hires  the  "talent,"  five 
dollars  is   right. 

Not  even  Mr.  Belasco  himself  is  disposed  to  question 
this  valuation.  Indeed,  he  is  highly  elated  that  as  a  picture 
actor  he  was  able  to  earn  the  regulation  day's  stipend  on 
his  very  first  appearance.  He  has  accepted  the  five  spot, 
if  only  for  the  satisfaction  of  reducing  Daniel  Frohman's 
sinking  fund  by  that  amount,  but  he  has  also  insisted  on 
indirectly  forcing  Daniel  Frohman  to  practice  what  he 
preaches,  by  sending  the  five  to  the  Actors'  Fund,  of  which 
Mr.  Frohman  is  president. 

It  all  came  about,  when,  one  day  last  week,  David  Belasco 
visited  the  studio  of  the  Famous  Players  Film  Co.,  where 
motion  pictures  were  being  produced  of  "A  Good  Little 
Devil."  He  became  so  interested  that,  after  watching  the 
rehearsal  for  a  few  minutes,  he  found  himself  running  up 
to  William  Norris,  Mary  Pickford,  Ernest  Truex  and  the 
other  actors,  correcting  or  polishing  some  bit  of  stage  busi- 
ness. Though  Belasco  was  unmindful  of  his  surroundings, 
Director  Ed.  Porter  was  not.  The  reel  continued  to  wind, 
the  rapid  click  of  the  machine  went  on,  and  when  Mr. 
Belasco  and  the  others  were  ready  to  stop  for  luncheon  he 
was  courteously  informed  that  a  motion  picture  had  been 
made  that  would  be  called,  "David  Belasco  conducting  a 
rehearsal  of  one  of  his  companies.'' 


AMERICAN   OFFERS   COMPLETE   ADVERTISING 
SERVICE. 

The  American  Film  Manufacturing  Company  is  now  in  a 
position  to  offer  to  exhibitors  cuts  of  popular  players,  glass 
slides  containing  pictures  of  Kerrigan,  Richardson  and  Miss 
Lester,  handsome  lithos  of  all  players,  a  matrix  where  de- 
sired, weekly  press  sheets,  etc.  Exhibitors  are  invited  to 
take  advantage  of  the  service. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


CHICAGO   LETTER 

By  J  AS.  S.  McQDADE 


THE  far  Pacific  West  is  rising  nobly  to  the  call  of  mov- 
ing pictures.  Not  long  ago  attention  was  drawn  in 
these  columns  to  the  fine  type  of  structures  in  Van- 
couyer,  B.  C,  Seattle,  Portland  and  Los  Angeles,  devoted 
solely  to  the  presentation  of  moving  pictures.  Now  word 
comes  that  Seattle  is  about  to  break  all  records  in  this 
country,  if  not  in  the  world,  by  building  two  palatial  homes 
for  pictures,  each  of  them  to  cost,  when  ready  for  opening, 
$500,000.  One  of  these  will  be  erected  in  the  Metropolitan 
district,  the  other  at  the  corner  of  Fourth  and  University 
streets.  The  Seattle  Times  has  the  following  article  about 
the  latter: 

"From  a  standpoint  of  the  advertising  which  it  will  bring 
to  Seattle,  the  King  Theater,  to  be  constructed  by  the  Metro- 
politan Building  Company  for  the  King  Amusement  Com- 
pany, is  perhaps  the  most  important  of  all.  Not  only  will 
this  building  convert  the  locality  in  which  it  is  to  be  erected 
into  Seattle's  'Forty-second  and  Broadway,'  but  there  will 
be  no  other  theater  like  it  in  the  world.  The  structure  will 
be  steel  and  concrete,  with  finishings  in  Alaskan  marble,  and 
furnishings  of  Alaskan  cedar.  It  will  be  two  stories  high,  but 
there  will  be  no  stairs.  Ascent  from  the  one  to  the  other  will 
be  made  by  gradients.  It  will  be  not  only  the  most  ornate 
and  costly  moving  picture  house  in  the  United  States,  or 
in  the  world,  perhaps,  but  it  will  be  the  only  moving  picture 
house  that  is  designed  especially  for  the  accommodation  of 
women.  Architect  William  Houghton  has  provided  not 
only  restrooms,  but  the  upper  story  is  to  be  fitted  up  as  a 
roof  garden,  enclosed  with  glass,  and  so  arranged  that  it 
will  be  possible  to  decorate  it  to  represent  almost  any  scene 
that  is  desired.  This  part  of  the  building  will  be  used  for 
lectures,  receptions  and  similar  purposes. 

"Apart  from  the  furnishing,  the  structure  will  cost  at 
least  $250,000.     The  organ  alone  will  cost  about  $20,000. 

"  'Don't  skimp  anything  on  this  structure,'  was  the  order 
that  went  out  when  the  building  was  decided  upon  yesterday. 
'We  want  to  make  this  the  best  thing  we  have,  and  something 
of  which  Seattle  can  be  proud.' 

"Mr.  King,  the  lessee  of  the  new  theater,  was  formerly 
connected  with  Hoyt  &  Thomas,  in  New  York,  and  later 
with  John  H.  Russell.  The  lease  runs  for  a  term  of  twenty 
years,  during  which  time  the  rentals  will  amount  to  ap- 
proximately $420,000.  It  was  financed  largely  by  Alaskans. 
Manager  King  has  made  special  arrangements  for  pictures." 

Unknown  Far  North  to  be  Pictured  by  Essanay. 

George  K.  Spoor,  president  of  the  Essanay  Film  Manu- 
facturing Company,  has  had  in  mind  for  some  time  past  the 
exploiting  of  the  Mackenzie  River  and  other  unknown  far 
northern  tracts  by  the  camera.  He  has  waited  until  the  most 
favorable  opportunity  presented  itself.  This  has  been  offered 
recently,  when  a  party,  composed  of  James  K.  Cornwall,  B. 
K.  Miller,  Emerson  Hough  and  G.  B.  Fraser,  set  out  on  an 
Arctic  trip,  which  will  cover  a  route  of  8000  miles,  by  the 
time  they  return,  4000  of  which  passes  through  practically 
unknown   territory. 

James  K.  Cornwall,  widely  known  as  "The  Prophet  of 
the  North,"  is  the  member  of  parliament  at  Ottawa  for 
Alberta.  Mr.  Cornwall  had  been  a  resident  of  the  North- 
western wilds  long  before  a  railroad  was  dreamed  of  in  that 
section.  He  started  out  as  a  pilot  on  the  rapids  of  the 
Mackenzie  many  years  ago,  and  from  that  lowly  occupation 
rose  to  be  the  controlling  figure  in  several  great  trading 
posts  that  were  established  by  him  to  compete  with  the  old 
Hudson  Bay  Company.  He  was  the  pioneer  of  several  great 
railroad  enterprises  in  the  Northwest  and  had  much  to  do 
with  the  extension  of  the  Canadian  Northern  Railroad,  into 
the  unknown  Northwest.  The  leg  of  that  railroad  from 
Edmonton  to  Athabasca  Landing  has  just  been  opened, 
and  it  is  intended  to  continue  it  through  to  Fort  McPherson 
near  the  mouth  of  the  Mackenzie  River. 

B.  K.  Miller  is  the  millionaire  sportsman  and  big  game 
hunter,  of  Milwaukee.  Mr.  Miller  is  also  noted  for  his  re- 
searches as  a  naturalist.  He  has  just  returned  from  a  trip 
through  central  Africa,  where  he  has  been  hunting  big  game 
for  the  past  year. 


Emerson  Hough  is,  probably,  better  known  than  either 
of  the  gentlemen  mentioned.  He  is  the  author  of  several 
works  of  fiction,  among  them  "Mississippi  Bubble,"  "Heart's 
Desire,"  "54°-40'  or  Fight,"  "Purchase  Price"  and  "John 
Rawn,"  the  last  named  being  his  most  recent  work.  Mr. 
Hough  is,  perhaps,  better  known  by  his  famous  series  of 
short  stories,  fourteen  in  number,  known  as  the  "Curly" 
series,  which  have  appeared  in  various  eastern  magazines. 
Mr.  Hough  and  the  other  members  of  the  party  have  been 
friends  for  years,  and  he  will  write  several  magazine  stories 
from  the  material  obtained  on  the  trip.  It  is  expected,  too, 
that  he  will  be  able  to  secure  material  for  a  series  of  sce- 
narios for  moving  picture  use. 

G.  B.  Fraser  is  a  halfbreed  Indian  and  a  favored  protege 
of  Mr.  Cornwall.  He  is  being  prepared  to  become  Mr.  Corn- 
wall's successor  at  Ottawa  from  the  Peace  River  district. 
His  knowledge  of  the  far  North  and  his  familiarity  with  the 
language  of  the  natives  will  make  him  a  valuable  member  of 
the  party.  Essanay  is  represented  in  the  group  by  C.  A. 
Luperti,  an  expert  camera  man,  who  will  take  moving  pictures 
of  every  incident  and  scene  of  importance  during  the  entire 
route.  Mr.  Luperti  took  with  him,  out  of  Chicago,  15,000 
feet  of  negative,  and  an  outfit,  in  the  shape  of  tents  and  other 
impedimenta,  that  would  come  well  nigh  to  filling  half  of 
a  baggage  car.  This  is  positively  the  first  time  that  a  camera 
man  for  moving  pictures  has  ever  gone  down  the  Mackenzie 
River  or  ever  visited  other  unknown'  tracts  that  will  be 
traversed  by  the  party. 

Once  a  year  the  Hudson  Bay  Company  sends  supplies 
to  their  outposts  in  the  far  Northwest  and  North,  and  the 
party  will  avail  themselves  of  the  Company's  boats  down 
the  Mackenzie.  The  party  will  leave  Edmonton  in  about 
a  week  from  the  date  of  the  writing  of  this  article  (May 
24).  On  arriving  at  the  mouth  of  the  Mackenzie  they  will 
portage  across  the  watershed  to  the  Bell  River,  thence  down 
the  Bell  to  the  Porcupine  River,  pursuing  its  course  until 
the  Yukon  River  is  reached.  Very  little  is  known  of  the  Bell 
and  Porcupine  Rivers  and  4he  members  of  the  party  ex- 
pect to  meet  and  overcome  several  difficulties,  in  the  way  of 
falls  and  rapids,  before  the  Yukon  is  reached.  They  will 
go  up  the  Yukon  from  the  confluence  of  the  Porcupine  to 
Dawson  City,  and  thence  will  make  the  overland  trip,  via 
the  White  Horse  Rapids,  to  Skaguay.  The  steamer  will  then 
be  taken  to  Seattle.  The  members  of  the  party  expect  to  ar- 
rive in  Seattle  about  September  1st. 

In  the  meantime,  those  interested  in  moving  pictures  will 
await  with  great  interest  the  results  of  this  8000  mile  trip. 

Opening  of  the  New  Isis,  Denver. 

The  opening  of  the  New  Isis,  Denver,  recently,  marked  an 
epoch  for  moving  pictures  in  the  Rocky  Mountain  city.  The 
New  Isis  is  owned  by  S.  L.  Baxter,  who  has  already  been 
a  consistent  supporter  of  moving  picture  programs. 

The  New  Isis  is  a  work  of  art.  Its  designer  is  M.  J. 
Kenney,  and  no  theater  in  Denver  is  in  more  perfect  taste 
from  gallery  to  doors.  The  building  is  concrete  reinforced, 
and  fireproof  even  to  the  doors.  It  is  finished  in  buff,  green 
and  gold.  The  buff  and  green  are  in  their  most  delicate 
shades.  The  lamps  are  Egyptian,  to  carry  out  the  design  of 
the  not  too  decorative  walls.  The  building  seats  2,200,  and 
the  lower  auditorium,  with  arched  sides,  has  the  appearance 
of  great  immensity.  Retiring  rooms  for  men  and  for  women 
are  located  in  the  basement,  and  the  general  retiring  room 
is  walled  with  mirrors.  A  ventilating  plant  worth  $15,000  is  a 
feature. 

Chicago  Film  Brevities. 

I  am  in  receipt  of  a  letter  from  Miss  Martha  Russell  (Mrs. 
Charles  C.  Pyle)  stating  that  Mr.  Pyle  and  herself  are 
motoring  to  Chicago  from  Austin,  Texas,  in  their  new 
Haynes  touring  car.  Miss  Russell,  in  all  probability,  will 
make  New  York  her  headquarters  for  some  time  to  come.  As 
was  stated  in  these  columns  some  time  ago,  Miss  Russell 
has  been  leading  woman  for  the  Satex  Company  for  some 

time. 

*  *     * 

J.  E.  Robin,  general  traveling  representative  for  the  Sim- 
plex machine,  stopped  over  in  Chicago  May  24th  and  25th,  on 
his  way  from  the  West  to  attend  the  exhibitors'  convention 
in    Philadelphia.      Mr.    Robin    reported    prosperous    business 

in  every  city  visited. 

♦  *     * 

Alvin  B.  Giles,  advertising  director  of  the  Advance  Motion 
Picture  Co.,  this  city,  advises  me  that  his  company  is  making 
an  industrial  four  reel  moving  picture  of  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
This  work  is  being  done  under  the  auspices  of  the  Com- 
mercial Club  of  that  city. 


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Among  the  Picture  Theaters 

News  and  Views  of  Houses  Here  and  There. 


EMPRESS  THEATER,  OMAHA,  NEB. 

THE  Empress  theater,  located  at  16th  and  Douglas 
Sts.,  Omaha,  Neb.,  was  opened  January  20,  1913.  This 
theater  is  unique  as  to  general  planning,  and  it  has 
very  artistic  exterior  and  interior  designs,  as  the  photograph 
of  the  interior  attests.  The  house  is  owned  by  the  Starland 
Company,  of  which  Mr.  Paul  LeMarquand  is  president.  The 
theater  contains  many  innovations  that  are  entirely  new, 
such  as  elevator  service  to  balconies,  inside  exit  inclines  and 
interior  emergency  fire  escapes.  It  is  built  on  a  lot  66  feet 
wide  by  132  feet  deep  and  has  a  seating  capacity  of  1,749. 
The  house  played  to  43,792  paid  admissions  during  the  open- 
ing week.  The  entire  basement  of  the  theater  is  taken  up 
with  a  two-story  in  height  cafe  and  restaurant,  with  a  bal- 
cony extending  around  the  four  sides.  There  are  seventeen 
exits,  all  so  arranged  that  the  auditorium  can  be  emptied  in 
less  than  three  minutes. 

_  At  present  the  policy  of  the  theater  is  vaudeville  and  mov- 
ing pictures,  and  the  admission  price  is  ten  cents.  The 
ticket  office  is  located  at  the  main  entrance  doors  that  lead 
to  a  large  vestibule  and  the  main  lobby.  From  the  main 
lobby  one  enters  the  main  floor  auditorium  at  the  center; 
two  wide  marble  stairways  lead  from  this  lobby  to  the  upper 
balconies  and  foyers.    These  upper  foyers  are  for  the  incom- 


Empress  Theater. 

«ng  patrons  to  wait  when  the  auditorium  has  full  capacity. 
From  the  main  lobby  on  the  first  floor  one  can  also  take  an 
■elevator  to  either  balconies  and  foyers.  The  exits  are  built 
inside  the  buildings  and  are  so  arranged  and  separated  from 
the  entrances  to  all  floors  of  the  auditorium  that  the  public 
can  exit  without  seeing  or  interfering  in  any  way  with  the 
incoming  entrances.  The  emergency  fire  escapes  are  sepa- 
rate iron  stairways  from  exit  stairways  and  are  built  on  the 
inside  of  the  building  so  as  not  to  harm  the  architectural 
treatment  of  the  front. 

The  theater  is  complete  in  every  way,  containing  man- 
agers office,  mezzanine  and  balcony  foyers,  women  and 
men's  retiring  rooms,  commodious  dressing  rooms  with  bath 
connections  and  ventilating  and  vacuum  cleaning  systems. 
The  interior  is  designed  in  modern  French  style.  The  gen- 
eral  arrangement,   the   beautiful   decorations,   the   stage,   the 


auditorium  draperies,  the  upholstered  opera  chairs,  all  har- 
monize and  give  the  entire  interior  of  the  theater  one  of  the 
most  artistic  effects.  The  acoustic  qualities  are  perfect  and  a 
delight  to  the  patrons. 

The  theater  building  is  of  reinforced  concrete  construction, 
the  two  balconies  are  supported  by  cantilevered  beams, 
thereby  eliminating  all  columns  in  the  auditorium;  the  bal- 
conies cantilevenng  about  25  feet  and  extending  back  over 
the  first  floor  foyer  and  lobby  to  balcony  foyers,  which  are 
directly  back  of  the  front  wall,  giving  the  balconies  spacious- 
ness and  greater  seating  capacity.     Across  the  front  of  the 


Interior  View  of  Empress  Theater. 

first  balcony  are  ten  loggia  boxes  and  back  of  these  boxes 
are  twenty  rows  of  seats  extending  to  balcony  foyer.  The 
second  balcony  contains  seventeen  rows  of  seats  which  ex- 
tend back  to  foyer. 

The  exterior  facade  is  of  terra  cotta.  The  mansard  roof 
is  of  terra  cotta  tile.  There  are  four  exterior  balconies  on 
facade  which  are  accessible  from  balcony  foyers  and  emer- 
gency fire  escapes.  Over  the  theater  entrance  is  a  beautiful 
marquise  with  crystal  pendants  studded  with  electric  lights. 
The  metal  work  of  the  roof  and  marquis  are  finished  in 
yerde  antique.  The  entire  building  has  an  illuminated  ef- 
fect at  night,  which  brings  out  very  distinctly  every  archi- 
tectural feature  of  the  facade,  as  the  accompanying  illustra- 
tion of  that  view  will  show. 


GORDON  PHOTOPLAY  THEATER,  ROCHESTER,  N.  Y. 

The  Gordon  Photoplay  House  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  which 
opened  its  doors  on  February  17th,  is  believed  to  be  one  of 
the  most  modern  and  pretentious  motion  picture  theaters  in 
the  country.  It  is  located  at  71-77  Clinton  Avenue  South, 
is  built  of  brick  and  seats  1,800  people,  about  equally  divided 
between  the  first  floor  and  the  balcony.  It  is  modeled  after 
the  plan  of  the  New  York  Hippodrome,  being  very  wide  and 
having  six  aisles. 

Perhaps  the  most  strictly  modern  feature  of  this  theater  is 
a  moving  stairway  running  from  the  first  floor  to  the  bal- 
cony. This  escalator  is  located  in  the  rear  of  the  house  close 
to  the  main  entrance,  so  that  holders  of  balcony  tickets  have 
but  to  take  a  few  steps  and  then  be  whisked  to  the  upper 
floor.  There  are  side  stairways  at  either  side  of  the  house 
and  21  exits. 

The  interior  decorations  of  the  house  are  old  rose  and  gold 
with  here  and  there  a  touch  of  blue.  The  seats  are  air- 
cushioned,  with  leather  coverings.  There  is  a  commodious 
ladies'  waiting  room  with  plenty  of  rockers  and  equipped 
with  12  large  mirrors,  a  convenience  that  is  much  appreci- 
ated by  the  fair  ones. 

A  pipe  organ  was  installed  in  this  theater  at  a  cost  of 
$25,000,  and  Richard  Henry  Warren,  of  the  Church  of  the 
Ascension,  New  York,  was  persuaded  to  come  to  Rochester 
at  a  high  figure  and  play  it.  In  addition  to  this  organ,  which 
is  equipped  with  chimes  ranged  around  the  front  of  the  bal- 


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cony,  there  is  an  orchestra  of  eight  pieces,  it  being  the  aim 
of  the  management  to  make  the  house  as  well  known  as  the 
home  of  fine  music  as  a  place  to  see  good  photoplays. 

The  Gordon  was  built  at  a  cost  $250,000  and  is  owned  by 
the  Gordon  Brothers  Amusement  Company,  of  which  N.  H. 
Gordon,  of  Boston,  is  the  moving  spirit.  Thomas  S.  Powers, 
formerly  owner  of  four  Xew  England  houses,  is  the  resident 
manager. 


THE  SAVOY  THEATER,  McKEESPORT,  PA. 

The  illustrations  accompanying  this  article  are  views  of 
the  Savoy  theater,  McKeesport,  Pa.,  of  which  Mr.  H.  A. 
Victor  is  the  proprietor  and  manager.  The  Savoy,  which  is 
the  oldest  picture  theater  in  that  city,  originally  had  a  seat- 
ing capacity  of  420,  but  a  few  weeks  ago  Mr.  Victor  began 
increasing  the  capacity  to  about  700.  Mr.  Victor,  by  the  way, 
is  the  oldest  exhibitor  in  McKeesport  in  point  of  service. 


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Gordon  Photoplay  Theater. 


The  policy  at  the  Gordon  so  far  has  been  to  change  pic- 
tures twice  each  week,  on  Mondays  and  Thursdays,  although 
during  Holy  Week,  one  film,  "Satan,"  was  continued  for  the 
entire  seven  days  and  did  the  biggest  week's  business  since 
the  house  was  opened.  Again,  the  week  of  April  14th,  it  pre- 
sented "The  Prisoner  of  Zenda"  for  seven  days. 

The  scale  of  prices  at  the  Gordon  is  five  cents  for  women 
and  children  in  the  afternoons  and  ten  cents  for  men.  In  the 
evening  all  seats  downstairs  are  15  cents,  and  all  balcony 
seats  10  cents.  The  Gordon  is  a  steady  advertiser  in  the 
newspapers  and  finds  this  an  extremely  profitable  method  of 
getting  business. 

GRAND  THEATER,  BANDON,  OREGON. 

The  accompanying  photograph  is  a  view  of  the  Grand 
Theater,  Bandon,  Oregon.  The  manager,  W.  C.  Sellmer, 
says  that  it  is  the  farthest  west  photoplay  house  in  the  United 
States.  The  seating  capacity  of  the  Grand  is  450,  all  the 
seats  being  upholstered  opera  chairs.  It  is  steam  heated  and 
has  all  appointments  that  go  to  make  a  moving  picture 
theater  nice  and  cozy.  A  five-piece  orchestra  furnishes  the 
music. 


Grand  Theater. 

Although  the  house  is  fitted  with  a  stage  measuring  22 
feet  by  40  feet,  no  vaudeville  has  been  used  for  a  long  time. 
The  manager  says  that  it  didn't  pay,  and  he  gives  emphasis 
to  the  words  "didn't  pay."  He  gives  a  good  program  of 
licensed  pictures  for  which  he  charges  a  general  admission 
price  of  ten  cents.  When  features  are  shown  he  raises  the 
price  to  fifteen  cents  and  finds  that  his  patrons  are  willing 
to  pay  the  extra  charge  to  see  features. 

The  operating  room  of  the  Grand  is  constructed  of  fireproof 
material,  has  a  Power's  No.  6  projecting  machine  and  a 
mercury  arc  rectifier. 


Savoy  Theater. 

The  interior  photograph  shows  a  section  of  the  inside  of 
the  Savoy  on  the  night  of  Mr.  Francis  X.  Bushman's  ap- 
pearance there  several  months  ago.  A  souvenir  photograph 
of  Mr.  Bushman  was  given  to  every  patron  that  night,  and 
many  of  the  McKeesport  girls,  it  is  said,  still  have  them 
where  they  can   see   them   first  on  arising  for  the  day,  and 


Interior   View  of   Savoy  Theater,   Showing   F.   X.   Bushman 
Standing  on  Left. 

last  on  retiring  for  the  night.  Mr.  Bushman  made  a  very 
interesting  address  and  shook  hands  with  a  large  number  of 
the  audience. 


PALACE  THEATER,  VANCOUVER,  WASH. 

We  publish  herewith  an  engraving  of  the  front  elevation 
of   the    Palace  theater,  605   Main    Street,   Vancouver,   Wash. 


Palace  Theater. 


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Mr.  C.  Engleman  opened  the  house  February  10,  1909,  and 
has  made  quite  extensive  improvements  since  that  time, 
costing  in  the  neighborhood  of  $3,000.  Electrical  wiring  is 
through  conduits.  Six  reels  of  film  constitute  the  show  for 
which  an  admission  price  of  ten  cents  is  charged.  The 
music  is  furnished  by  a  Wurlitzer  piano-orchestra  costing 
$2,285,  a  $1,050  flute-electric  piano,  in  addition  to  the  regular 
pianist  and  trap  drummer.  A  Power's  No.  6  machine  pro- 
jects the  pictures.  The  seating  capacity  of  the  house  is  381. 
Mr.  Engleman  is  also  the  manager  and  has  been  doing  well 
since  he  opened  the  place. 


REX  THEATER,  OLYMPIA,  WASHINGTON. 

The  Rex  theater  of  Olympia,  Washington,  is  known  as 
"Olympia's  Leading  Motion  Picture  House."  As  will  be 
seen  by  the  photograph  published  herewith  it  is  a  very  pretty 
place  of  amusement,  and  we  have  no  doubt,  judging  by  its 
exterior  appearance,  it  is  the  leading  picture  house  in  that 
city.  In  other  words  it  is  a  capital  house  in  the  Capitol  of 
the  State  of  Washington.  It  was  erected  two  years  ago  by 
Messrs.  J.  K.  and  L.  B.  Xave  at  the  corner  of  Fourth  and 
Washington  streets.     The  building  is  built  entirely  of  cement 


Rex  Theater. 

and  its  dimensions  are  35  feet  by  80  feet.  Its  seating  capacity 
is  around  400  persons.  The  house  is  fitted  with  opera  chairs, 
a  Weber  baby  grand  piano,  a  stage  and  scenery.  Vaudeville 
is  very  seldom  used,  the  house  being  a  strictly  picture  theater. 
There  are  two  aisles,  each  two  feet  ten  inches  in  width. 
The  operating  room  is  of  fireproof  construction  with  motor- 
driven  Power's  Xo.  6  machine  in  almost  constant  operation. 
The  size  of  the  picture  is  11  feet  by  14  feet  from  a  sixty-five 
foot  throw.  Among  the  many  up-to-the-minute  apparatus 
in  the  operating  room  there  is  a  dissolving  steropticon,  a  spot 
light  and  a  mercury  arc  rectifier.  The  theater  represents  an 
investment  of  $6,000.     Business  is  very  good. 


CRYSTAL  THEATER,  CEDAR  RAPIDS,  IOWA. 

The  accompanying  illustration  is  a  view  of  the  Crvstal 
theater.  Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa.  It  is  situated  in  First  Avenue 
East,  between  Third  and  Fourth  Streets.  Its  seating  capac- 
ity is  708.  It  has  cement  floors,  nicely  carpeted.  The  indi- 
rect lighting  system  is  used.  The  seats  are  so  arranged  that 
those  seated  are  not  disturbed  by  those  coming  in  or  going 
out.  It  has  a  stage  measuring  11  feet  by  18  feet.  There  are 
five  five-foot  exits,  four  exhaust  fans  and  a  fireproof  oper- 
ating room.  The  cost  of  the  building  is  in  the  neighborhood 
of  $15,000. 


Crystal  Theater. 

The  manager  and  proprietor,  Mr.  William  Hemsky.  has 
taken  a  ten-year  lease  on  the  premises.  Mr.  Hemskv  has 
recently  changed  the  name  of  the  place  from  the  "A  Muse  U" 
to  the  "Crystal."  The  entertainment  consists  of  three  reels, 
and  a  four-piece  orchestra  furnishes  the  music.  A  $900  Wur- 
litzer self-player  piano  is   in   the  lobby. 


ROSE  THEATER,  HIGH  POINT,  N.  C. 

The  Rose  theater  at  High  Point,  N.  C,  is  situated  midway 
between  Raleigh,  N.  C,  and  Chattanooga,  Tenn.,  and  bears  the 
distinction  of  being  the  finest  moving  picture  house  between 
those  points.  This  statement  of  the  proprietor  seems  to  be 
proved  by  the  accompanying  illustration  of  the  Rose.  In  the 
hr<t  place  the  lobby  is  not  vitiated  by  any  unsightly  display 
of  posters,  there  being  but  two  neat  posters  and  these  are 
nicely  framed.     The  glass  panels  in   the   entrance   doors  are 


Rose  Theater. 

decorated  with  landscape  designs  and  the  box  office  win- 
dows bear  the  emblem  of  a  knight  with  the  painting  of  a 
rose  in  the  middle  panel.  Directly  above  the  entrance  doors 
are  framed  photographs  of  prominent  photoplayers.  The 
walls  of  the  lobby  for  a  height  of  eight  or  ten  feet  are  of 
white  tile  brick,  with  plastic  relief  work  and  landscape 
paintings  near  the  ceiling.  The  flooring  of  the  lobby  is  of 
mosaic,  with  the  name  "Rose  Theater"  worked  therein.  The 
interior  is  equally  as  pretty.  A  mirror  screen  9  feet  by  13 
feet  is  used.  The  music  is  furnished  by  a  Welte  Brisgovia 
orchestrion.  The  seating  capacity  is  350.  P.  C.  Mclntire  is 
the  proprietor  and  manager. 


An  English  company  is  shortly  to  film  "Hamlet,"  with  Mr. 
Forbes  Robertson  in  the  leading  role.  This  should  be  par- 
ticularly popular  in  America,  as  the  great  actor  commences, 
his  farewell  tour  of  the  States  next  autumn. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


THE  ADVANCE  OF  SOME,  AN  EXAMPLE  TO 
OTHERS. 
Rev.  W.  H.  Jackson. 
Boards  of  Education  everywhere  seem  convinced  as  to  the 
value  of  the  kinematograph  as  an  aid  to  instruction,  the 
majority  of  them,  however,  are  holding  back  on  account  of 
the  first  cost  of  installing  the  necessary  apparatus.  This  great 
care  in  spending  public  money  is  always  commendable,  al- 
though it  is  not  so  frequently  exercised.  In  the  present  in- 
stance, however,  it  does  seem  that  no  reason  can  be  advanced 
which  can  justify  any  delay.  The  cost  of  a  moving  picture 
outfit  is  not  large  and  is  limited  to  the  first  outlay;  it  is  not 
one  of  those  things  which  is  constantly  requiring  additional 
expenditures,  its  first  cost  is  the  last,  and  covers  an  ordinary 
life  time.  Again  it  is  perhaps  one  of  the  cheapest  additions 
to  a  school  outfit  that  has  ever  been  found  necessary.  The 
cost  of  either  a  manual  training  equipment,  or  of  a  gymnas- 
ium, is  ten  times  greater  than  that  of  the  kinematograph; 
and  yet  every  up  to  date  school  is  trying  to  get  these  other 
advantages.  A  particular  thing  in  favor  of  the  picture  ma- 
chine is  that  unlike  many  other  additions,  it  does  not  re- 
quire an  extra  building,  or  any  additional  room  or  enlarge- 
ment; it  can  be  used  in  any  ordinary  sized  auditorium  or 
large  class-room. 

The  Greek  Government  in  Advance. 

That  the  Grecians,  as  a  people,  should  be  the  first  nation 
to  make  an  official  move  looking  to  the  universal  uses  of 
the  moving  pictures  in  the  schools  of  the  country  is  most 
commendable  to  them,  and  a  reflection  to  such  countries  as 
England  and  America.  Identical  with  this  welcome  news 
of  Grecian  advance  comes  the  melancholy  information  that  in 
England,  the  London  Educational  Authorities  have  decided 
that  "on  account  of  the  cost"  they  cannot  yet  see  their 'way 
clear  to  the  adoption  of  the  kinematograph.  As  the  "cost" 
is  the  only  thing  in  the  way  this  is  another  endorsement  of 
the  value  of  the  picture,  even  if  it  is  weak  evasion  of  a 
paramount  duty  on  a  flimsy  basis;  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  the 
example  of  the  Greeks  will  prevail  over  that  of  the  Londoners. 

By  a  strange  process  of  reasoning  these  same  London 
authorities  met  the  "cost"  of  sending  one  hundred  scholars 
to  Paris  for  the  purpose  of  seeing  that  which  all  the  thousands 
of  school  children  could  have  seen  by  aid  of  the  picture, 
if  Paris  had  been  kinematographically  taken  to  London; 
really  this  seems  a  lame  and  halting  method  of  procedure 
entirely  unworthy  the  wisdom  of  so  important  a  body  of 
rulers.  In  justice  to  America  it  is  only  fair  to  state  that 
while  no  governmental  action  has  been  taken  in  either  nation 
or  state,  there  is  a  great  and  wide-spread  growth  of  the  work 
of  the  moving  picture  in  educationalism,  colleges  and  private 
institutions  are  all  being  gradually  equipped,  indeed  the  work 
is  so  thorough  that  the  appropriation  of  public  will  only  be 
necessary  to  make  complete  and  universal  the  general  adop- 
tion of  the  moving  picture  in  general  education. 

Emphasizing  the  Colored  Picture. 

In  taking  up  the  question  of  picture  teaching,  the  Greek 
government  has  ordered  special  attention  to  be  given  to 
the  colored  pictures,  the  reason  advanced  is  that  natural- 
history,  science  and  chemistry  subjects  are  increased  in 
pedagogical  value  thereby;  this  is  no  doubt  true,  and  the 
nearer  every  picture  can  come  to  nature  the  better  for  the 
scholar,  it  should,  however,  be  kept  in  mind  that  to  ask  all 
perfections  from  the  beginning  may  be  asking  too  much,  the 
picture  first  by  all  means,  and  then  afterwards  as  much  de- 
tail and  thoroughness  as  possible. 

Although  the  time  has  not  arrived  for  the  American  govern- 
ment to  make  any  special  move  towards  the  adoption  of 
the  moving  picture  in  general  education,  partly  because  the 
matter  is  one  for  local  or  home  authorities;  they  have  always 
shown  that  they  are  alive  to  the  value  of  the  picture,  and 
are  using  the  kinematograph  in  many  departments;  the 
latest  governmental  move  is  that  of 

Recruiting  the  Army  by  Pictures. 
The  plan  proposed  is  to  show  pictures  of  "army  life"  in  the 


picture  theaters  throughout  the  country.  This  seems  almost 
like  subsidizing  the  picture  houses,  but  where  is  the  ex- 
hibitor who  will  not  be  glad  to  help  the  government  in  its 
laudable  desires?  When  it  is  known  that  30,000  young  men 
are  required  every  year  to  equip  the  military  establishments 
of  this  country,  it  will  readily  be  seen  that  a  large  number 
of  recruiting  stations  have  to  be  maintained  at  great  cost, 
this  new  plan  will  prove  it  is  hoped  both  economical  and 
superior;  it  is  certain  that  the  power  of  attraction  will  be 
more  effectual  in  its  appeal  to  young  men  than  conscription; 
again  we  have  the  advantage. 

Teaching  Safety. 

Further  advance  in  the  campaign  of  "safety  teaching" 
which  the  moving  picture  has  introduced  is  marked  by  the 
adoption  by  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  company  of  a  series 
of  lectures  designed  to  show  how  tasks  at  which  men  have 
been  injured  may  be  performed  safely;  also  with  a  view  to 
increasing  the  safety  of  passenger  traffic  by  reducing  pos- 
sible dangers  to  a  minimum.  Perhaps  a  description  of  some 
of  the  films  may  be  of  service  in  suggesting  to  readers  the 
value  of  this  "safety"  plan  now  being  so  generally  adopted, 
making  the  moving  picture  a  "life  preserver"  in  addition  to 
its  other  well-known  advantages.  One  of  the  films  showed 
an  employee  being  taught  how  to  handle  tools;  another  an 
employee  learning  how  to  operate  safety  appliances.  In 
another  picture,  a  mechanic  was  shown  at  work  under  a 
freight  car,  courting  injury,  and  a  foreman  who  illustrated 
the  manner  in  which  the  work  might  be  performed  without 
danger.  Still  another  view  showed  how  a  car  is  thrown 
off  the  track  through  the  neglect  of  the  engineers  to  observe 
signals.  "Regular  subjects" — photo  dramas,  and  comedies — 
were  thrown  on  the  screen  between  the  instructive  ones,  thus 
making  an  attractive  exhibition  relieved  of  the  monotony 
of  one  subject.  Other  films  are  contemplated  .for  the  general 
public,  teaching  safety  in  travel  with  useful  hints  in  times 
of  danger. 

Oxygen — Its  Valuable  Uses  Simply  Taught. 

Oxygen  is  life.  Without  this  well-known  gas  no  living 
being,  or  even  plant  life,  could  exist.  This  fact  is  splendidly 
taught  by  this  excellent  set  of  Eclair  pictures.  No  scientific 
picture  has  been  issued  which  teaches  so  great  and  valuable 
a  lesson,  in  such  a  thorough  manner,  and  in  so  short  a  time 
as  this  one.  A  young  scholar  without  any  knowledge  of 
oxygen  whatever  may  go  into  the  class-room  and  in  the 
course  of  fifteen  minutes  receive  a  never  to  be  forgotten 
lesson,  which  shall  be  of  increasing  value  in  the  future.  In- 
teresting experiments  are  pictured  as  they  take  place  in  the 
laboratory  with  a  greater  power  of  explanatory  detail,  be- 
cause of  the  enlarged  pictures.  Oxygen  is  shown  mixed 
with  Azote  which  modifies  its  strength,  and  composes  the 
atmosphere    of   the   air. 

How  oxygen  is  made,  or  obtained,  is  very  interestingly 
shown  by  the  heating  of  bioxyde  of  manganese  in  a  retort. 
It  is  then  shown  that  the  gas  has  been  obtained  by  the 
plunging  of  a  piece  of  burning  wood  into  a  test  tube  filled 
with  gas,  and  which  now  bursts  into  flame.  The  great  value 
of  oxygen  as  a  life  saver,  is  illustrated  by  the  way  in  which 
an  apparatus  filled  with  the  gas  is  carried  like  a  knapsack 
on  the  back,  with  a  breathing  attachment  so  that  the  wearer 
can  safely  go  anywhere,  where  otherwise  breathing  would 
be  impossible.  The  rescuing  of  miners  in  a  mine  in  which 
there  has  been  a  fire-damp  explosion,  or  the  working  beneath 
in  deep  waters  in  now  readily  and  thoroughly  understood 
by  the  beholder.  The  brilliant  effects  of  this  all  important 
gas  are  shown  when  a  piece  of  burning  coal  becomes  in- 
tensely bright  and  sparkling.  A  piece  of  steel  spring,  when 
brought  to  a  white  heat  and  placed  in  oxygen,  burns  more 
brilliant  and   sparkling. 

The  combined  uses  of  oxygen  and  acetylene  are  explained 
by  means  of  the  oxy-acetylene  pipes.  The  great  strength 
of  oxygen  is  found  when  a  jet  of  the  gas  is  projected  on  red 
burning  steel  upon  which  it  leaves  a  white  mark  or  line. 
A  block  of  steel  over  two  feet  thick,  cannot  resist  its  pene- 


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trating  powers  when  a  steady  stream  of  this  gas  is  poured 
upon  it,  and  which  it  finally  cuts  in  two  parts.  As  a  primary 
lesson  in  the  science  room  this  film  will  prove  invaluable 
as  it  lays  the  foundation  of  that  sort  of  knowledge  upon 
which  higher  subjects  can  be  built. 


THE  EDUCATIONAL  PICTURE. 

By  the  Rev.  E.  Boudinot  Stockton,  S.  T.  B. 

Vitagraph's  "A   Soul  in  Bondage." 

This  release  of  May  15th,  is  one  of  the  best  pictures  that 
has  been  produced  by  any  manufacturer  so  far  this  year.  It  is 
not  only  a  real  story,  well  acted  and  properly  produced,  it  is 
also  one  of  the  few  that  measures  up  to  the  standard  of  a 
good  ethical  and  educational  photoplay.  It  is  the  story  of  the 
penitent  sinner  who  reaps  both  the  whirlwind  of  her  former 
vicious  life  and  the  reward  of  her  later  virtuous  one;  yet 
there  is  nothing  overdrawn  or  morbid,  it  is  true  to  the  facts 
of  life  and  American  social  conditions,  and  while  the  treat- 
ment is  comprehensive  and  definite  it  is  delicate  and  artistic 
and  avoids  all  offensive  elements,  and  the  action  itself,  without 
any  preaching  whatever,  points  up  and  emphasizes  the  moral, 
"Be  sure  your  sin  will  find  you  out,"  and  although  "the 
wages  of  sin  is  death,"  "the  gift  of  God  is  eternal  life."  It 
is  not  a  story  for  children,  but  it  is  an  excellent  story  to 
make  men  and  women  think,  and  to  make  them  think  in  the 
right  way. 

Pathe's   "An   Itinerant   Wedding." 

We  regret  deeply  that  we  must  call  attention  to  this 
release,  also  of  May  15th,  but  the  interests  of  the  manufac- 
turer and  the  exhibitor  as  well  as  morality  compel  us  to  make 
a  protest.  The  story  is  that  of  a  wedding-  surreptitiously 
begun,  continually  interrupted,  and  finally  completed.  We 
have  no  objection  to  such  a  story  and  can  even  see  a  good 
fantastic  farce  comedy  in  it  when  properly  handled;  but 
when  it  comes  to  enacting  the  marriage  service  itself,  which 
is  not  only  revered  and  loved,  but  held  holy  and  sacred 
by  thousands  of  persons,  in  a  travesty  of  this  kind,  it  evi- 
dences something  more  than  merely  bad  taste  on  the  part  of 
the  producers  who  made  the  picture  and  the  members  of 
the  censor  board  that  passed  it.  When  in  addition  the  bur- 
lesque is  emphasized  by  actual  quotations  from  the  marriage 
service  so  thinly  veiled  that  the  only  changes  made  are 
"do  you  take"  for  "wilt  thou  take"  and  "I  do"  for  "I  will," 
and  by  using  as  the  officiating  minister  a  church  clergyman 
properly  dressed,  who  performs  the  regulation  ceremonial 
acts  of  the  service,  the  offense  more  than  borders  on  the 
profane  and  sacrilegious.  This  class  of  picture  does  more 
harm  than  anything  else  to  the  business;  it  is  responsible 
for  a  large  part  of  the  troubles  of  the  exhibitor  to-day,  and 
for  almost  all  of  the  antagonism  on  the  part  of  educators 
and  other  civic,  social  and  religious  workers.  It  is  a  great 
pity  that  a  company  that  has  so  often  and  ably  demonstrated 
its  ability  to  produce  and  stand  for  all  that  is  best  and  high- 
est in-  the  picture  art  should  have  allowed  such  an  example 
of  the  worst  to  be  released  under  its  trade  mark. 

Pathe's  "The  Spider  That  Lives  in  a  Bubble." 

On  the  other  hand,  as  an  example  of  what  Pathes  can  do 
when  they  choose,  there  are  no  better  illustrations  than  their 
release  of  April  10th,  "God  is  Love,"  which  is  a  photo- 
dramatization  of  one  of  Tolstoi's  stories,  and  their  forth- 
coming release  for  May  30th,  "The  Spider  That  Lives  in  a 
Bubble."  This  last  is  one  of  their  "Nature  and  Science" 
series  and  portrays  the  life  and  habits  of  the  water  spider 
which  dwells  in  pools  of  stagnant  water,  or  in  streams  in 
which  the  current  is  sluggish  and  filled  with  reeds  and 
water  plants.  Here  the  spider  builds  its  nest  of  the  air  bub- 
bles floating  on  the  top  of  the  water,  fastens  it  to  the  reeds 
and  grasses  by  the  thread  which  it  spins,  catches  its  prey 
and  watches  over  its  eggs  unceasingly  until  they  are  hatched. 
To  indicate  the  value  of  this  picture,  it  is  only  necessary  to 
say  that  the  above  description  is  merely  an  abstract  of  the 
actual  sub-titles  or  leaders,  and  to  call  attention  to  the  fact 
that  it  belongs  to  the  same  series  as  those  which  brought 
forth  the  encomiums  of  the  American  Philosophical  Society  a 
short  while  ago. 

Releases  April  20  to  26. 

Following  each  title  are  given  the  volume  and  page  of 
the  Moving  Picture  World  where  the  synopsis  and  comment 
on  that  particular  picture  is  to  be  found,  the  volume  number 
before,  the  page  number  after  the  colon.  The  notes  after 
certain  of  the  titles  are  not  intended  as  synopses,  but  merely 
as   hints  on   the  uses  for  which   the   picture  is   or  has  been 


found    available.      The    following    abbreviations    are    use    in 
the  catalog: 

2T,   31-,  etc means two-reel,   three-reel,   etc. 

n.s.p "      no  synopsis  published  to  date 

n.c.p "      ....  no  comment  published  to  date 

sp.  rev "      special    review 

mfg "      manufacturer's  advance  note 

adv "     advertisement 

Newspapers. 

Animated  Weekly.     Universal  23.     (16:512.) 
Gaumont  Weekly.    Gaumont  23.     (16:520.) 
Mutual  Weekly.     Mutual  23.     (16:630.) 
Pathe's  Weekly.     Pathe  ai.     (16:412.) 

Children's  Stories. 

Loneliness  and  Love.  Victor  25.  (n.s.p.;  16:489.)  The  story  of  the  friend- 
ship for  a  servant  of  a  neglected  little  girl,  and  the  arousing  of  her 
parents'  iove. 

Religion. 

The  Unburied  Past.  Essanay  22.  (16:300;  487.)  Illustrates  the  precept 
of  the  Ninth  Commandment  that  "of  the  dead  we  must  speak  nothing 
but  the  good." 

For  Another's  Sin.  Thanhouser  2r  25.  (16:418;  489;  mfg.  382.)  Illus- 
trates the  duty  of  self-sacrifice  and  St.  John  15:13. 

The  Dragon's  Breath.     Rex  2r  24.     (16:308;  381.)     On  the  opium  habit. 

Crowd  Attending  Gods  in  Temple,  Tokyo,  Japan.  Vitagraph  23.  (n.s. 
or  c.p.) 

Sociology. 

An  American   in   the  Making.      Thanhouser  22.      (16:418;   489;   sp.   mfg. 

814.)     See  note  under  Applied  Science. 
Nathan  Hale.     Kinemacolor.     (16:420;  381.) 

Gala  Day  Parade,  Yokohama,  Japan.     Vitagraph  21.     (16:302;  487.) 
How   Chief   Te   Bonga  Won   His   Bride.      Melies  24.      (16:304;    595.)      A 

Maori  folk  tale. 

Science. 

Fire.    Eclair  20.     (16:514;  381;  sp.  rev.  16:36.) 

Electrical  Phenomena.     Mutual  educational  24.      (16:312;  n.c.p.) 

A  Trip  to  the  Waitoma  Caves  of  New  Zealand.      Melies  24.      (16:304; 

595) 
Water  Babies.     Kinemacolor.     (16:420;  381.)     Animals  in  the  water. 
Our  Feathered  Friends.     Pathe  25.     (16:304;  595.) 


Applied   Science. 

Japan    the  Industrious.    Kalem  25.     (16:304;  n.c.p.) 

The  Pottery  Industry.     Imp  26.     (n.s.  or  c.p.) 

An   American    in   the  Making.      Thanhouser   22.      (16:418;  489;  sp.   mfg. 

814.)     The  operations  of  the  Gary  steel  plant,  and  made  in  co-operation 

with  the  National  Association  of  Manufacturers. 

Fine   Arts. 

Winter  Sports  at  Bodele,  Austria.     Kinemacolor.     (16:304;  487.) 

Literature. 

A  Splendid  Scapegrace.     Edison  26.     (16:300;  596.)     Based  on  O.  Henry's 

"A  Blackjack  Bargainer." 
Mathilde.      Eclair  2r  23.     (16:514;  n.c.p.)     Photodramatization  of  Eugene 

Sue's  "Mathilde." 

History. 

For  American  Revolution  see  "Nathan  Hale"  under  Sociology. 

Archeology. 

Ancient  Greece.     Pathe  22.     (16:304;  487.) 

Geography. 

The  Bernese  Oberland,  Switzerland.     Kinemacolor.      (16:420;   381.) 

A  Trip  to  the  Waitoma  Caves  of  New  Zealand.      Melies  24.      (16:304; 

595.) 
A  Trip  on  the  Seine,  France.    Pathe  25.     (16:304;  595.) 
For  Bodele,  Austria,  see  under  Fine  Arts. 
Views  in  Liege,  Belgium.    Cines  26.     (16:408;  n.c.p.) 
Canton.  China.     Selig  21.     (16:298;  487.) 

For  Japan  see  under  Religion,  Sociology  and  Applied  Science. 
The  City  of  Mexico.     Essanay  24.     (16:300;  595.) 
For  Indiana  see  under  Applied  Science. 
For  New  Zealand  see  under  Sociology  and  Science. 

Biography. 

Hale,  Nathan.     See  under  Sociology. 

Memorial  Day  Releases. 

The  following  comedies  and  dramas  to  be  released  this 
year  as  Memorial  Day  subjects  came  to  us  too  late  for  inser- 
tion in  the  list  last  week,  and  the  three  Lincoln  stories  were 
overlooked. 

Comedies  and  Dramas. 

The  Reward  of  Service.     Lubin   26.      (16:832.) 

The  Wordless  Message.     Selig  2S.      (16:836.) 

The  Only  Veteran   in  Town.     Vitagraph  29.     (16:834.) 

The  Honor  of  a  Soldier.     Edison  30.     (16:840.) 


Lincolniana. 

When  Lincoln  Paid.     Kay-Bee  2r  3ijai9i3. 

nse.     Pilot 
When  Lincoln  Was  President. 


(15:398 


Lincoln  for  the  Defense.     Pilot  isMrisia.     (15:1138 

Pilot  27Mri9i3 


365-) 

1221.) 
(15:1366-) 


1020 


THE    MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


cTWusic  for  the  Picture 


BY    CLARENCE     E.    SINN 


AVERY  important  adjunct  to  the  orchestra — especially 
the  moving  picture  orchestra — and  one  which  is  grow- 
ing in  favor  every  day  is  to  be  found  in  the  musical 
bells,  chimes,  marimbaphones  and  instruments  of  like  charac- 
ter, as  well  as  xylophones  and  orchestra  steel  bells.  To 
J.  C.  Deagan  more  than  any  other  one  man  is  due  this  grow- 
ing popularity  of  these  instruments.  Mr.  Deagan  has  done 
two  very  important  things  toward  this  end;  first,  he  has 
evolved  a  very  superior  bell.  Second,  by  means  of  his  clever 
electric  appliances  any  ordinary  pianist  or  drummer  can  play 
them.  Also,  being  of  so  simple  construction,  a  boy  of  aver- 
age intelligence  can  install  them.  Of  course,  he  has  long 
made  a  feature  of  bells  and  xylophones,  etc.,  for  artists'  use, 
but  undoubtedly  the  impetus  given  to  the  demand  for  these 
instruments  in  late  years  is  due  principally  to  J.  C.  Deagan's 
electric  inventions  which  make  their  playing  an  easy  matter. 
It  takes  long  practice  to  acquire  the  even  "roll"  necessary  in 
playing  the  xylophone  or  steel  bells;  it  takes  none  to  manipu- 
late a  Deagan  key-board  and  get  the  same  result. 

A  favorite  manner  of  installing  the  bells  is  to  string  them 
around  the  auditorium  high  above  the  heads  of  the  audience. 
Some  years  ago  as  perhaps  you  remember,  when  any  one  of 
the  bells  thus  installed  got  out  of  order,  you  had  to  place  a 
ladder  under  the  bell  in  question  and  climb  up  to  fix  it.  Mr. 
Deagan  has  eliminated  all  this.  By  his  "no  contact"  mech- 
anism he  has  reduced  their  chances  of  getting  out  of  order 
to  a  minimum;  and  if  they  should  need  regulating  (which  is 
seldom)  it  can  be  done  by  the  performer  without  leaving  his 
seat.  They  can  be  played  loud  or  soft  at  will;  single  stroke 
or  roll'  as  desired.  A  shut-off  key  is  provided;  drummers 
will  appreciate  this  feature  who  remember  the  discordant 
jangle  resulting  from  accidentally  touching  the  key-board 
when  reaching  over  for  some  "trap." 

I  visited  the  factor)'  of  J.  C.  Deagan  the  other  day  and 
was  much  impressed  by  what  I  saw  there.  He  occupies 
three  floors  of  the  pretentious  Deagan  Building  in  Chicago — 
25,000  feet  of  space  on  each  floor — 75,000  feet  of  floor  space 
in  all,  in  addition  to  the  out  buildings,  dry-rooms,  etc.  Every 
thing  but  the  wood  and  metal  is  made  in  the  factory.  The 
wood  (for  xylophones)  is  cut  especially  for  J.  C.  Deagan  in 
Australia;  the  metal  for  bells,  chimes,  etc.,  is  made  to  order 
by  a  special  process.  These  raw  materials  are  received  at  the 
Deagan  factory  and  are  cut,  shaped,  polished,  tuned,  plated 
and  a  lot  of  other  things  by  expert  artisans  to  become  the 
things  of  beauty  which  you  finally  see  and  hear  in  the  ex- 
hibiting department.  There  were  orchestra  bells  to  be 
played  by  hand  and  by  the  electric  key-board.  Other  elec- 
tric bells  in  such  profusion  that  space  forbids  naming  them. 
Electric  cathedral  chimes;  these  are  the  same  shape  as  the 
usual  chimes;  long  tubes  of  a  beautiful  tonal  quality  with  a 
hammer  fixed  to  strike  in  exactly  the  right  place  and  oper- 
ated from  a  key-board.  The  chimes  may  be  placed  in  the 
orchestra,  lobby  or  any  part  of  the  house.  (The  same  is 
true  of  all  the  J.  C.  Deagan  electrical  instruments.) 

An  electrical  marimbaphone  was  shown,  It  is  impossible 
to  convey  a  definite  idea  of  this  instrument.  Though  made 
of  steel  bars  with  resonators  and  is  the  same  shape  as  a 
xylophone,  its  tone  especially  on  the  low  and  medium  notes 
is  something  like  that  of  an  organ.  The  illusion  was  more 
pronounced  when  heard  at  a  little  distance.  Mr.  Deagan 
describes  its  tone  quality  as  "like  that  of  musical  glasses," 
but  he  is  too  modest;  the  tone  is  bigger  and  fuller  than  any 
musical  glasses  I  ever  heard.  I  saw  a  large  xylophone  which 
is  played  from  an  electric  key-board  also.  The  hammers 
are  of  the  regular  type — hard  wood  heads  and  rattan  handles, 
thus  insuring  the  correct  tone — and  any  piano  player  can 
play  a  xylophone  solo  upon  it  that  would  be  the  envy  of  an 
expert  xylophonist.  This  can  be  hung  in  the  lobby  of  your 
theater  if  desired.  I  haven't  got  room  here  to  tell  all  the 
interesting  things  I  saw,  but  the  J.  C.  Deagan  catalogues 
may  be  had  for  the  asking  and  they  will  tell  you  more  things 
than  I  can  and  tell  them  better.  We  visited  the  plating- 
.room,  where  each  article  to  be  plated  receives  at  least  three 
coats;  some  of  them  more.  They  are  just  completing  a  new 
instrument  called  the  "Nabimba."  This  will  probably  be  on 
the   market   by   the  time  you   read   this   article,   otherwise    I 


would  be  chary  of  mentioning  it  at  all.  It  looked  like  a 
xylophone — bars  of  wood  with  resonators  suspended  beneath. 
When  struck  with  the  hammer  two  tones  were  produced, 
one  the  regular  xylophone  tone,  the  other  a  sustained  reedy 
tone  something  like  the  low  notes  of  a  clarinet.  Impulsively 
I  looked  to  see  where  "the  wind  came  from"  to  make  such 
an  effect.  Of  course,  I  couldn't  find  anything  of  that  sort, 
but  it  had  me  guessing  and  I  said  so.  "You  keep  right  on 
guessing,"  said  J.  C,  "and  come  away  before  you  see  too 
much.  I  only  wanted  you  to  hear  it,  not  examine  it."  That's 
all  I  can  say  about  it,  only  that  it  is  a  wonder.  And  I  am 
still  guessing. 

*     *     * 

From  the  "Crown  Theater,"  Hartford,  Conn.:  "I  am  en- 
closing my  musical  program  to  Kalem's  'The  Cheyenne 
Massacre.'  Though  they  had  a  special  piano  score  for  this 
picture,  I  did  not  use  it,  as  I  would  have  had  to  make  an  or- 
chestration. My  orchestra  consists  of  five  men  in  the  winter 
months  and  four  in  the  summer.  At  present  I  am  using 
violin,  cello  and  flute,  which  can't  be  beat  for  playing  pic- 
tures and  for  good  music.  People  want  good  music  and  not 
noise.  I  have  a  large  library  of  nearly  all  the  standard  over- 
tures, selections,  waltzes,  etc.,  and  keep  a  record  of  all  I 
play,  so  my  audience  don't  hear  the  same  music  all  the  time. 
I  change  programs  three  times  a  week;  every  number  is 
changed  and  not  played  for  months  again,  except  when  some 
number  is  repeated  by  request.  I  have  trained  my  men  so 
they  have  all  the  cue-music  at  their  finger  tips — the  whole 
orchestra — so  it  is  as  easy  for  me  to  play  a  picture  with 
them  at  it  is  alone  on  the  piano.  Every  leader  should  have 
his  men  learn  all  the  National  airs,  a  galop,  a  march,  a 
waltz  and  dramatic  music,  so  they  can  play  it  the  moment 
he  wants  it.  In  that  way  a  picture  can  be  played  at  sight, 
then  at  the  end  of  that  picture  he  can  arrange  a  program 
for  it.  The  following  picture  went  pretty  good  the  first 
time  and  fine  the  second,  so  I  had  the  whole  program  made 
up  of  pretty  good  music." 

"THE  CHEYENNE  MASSACRE"   (Kalem). 
Part  First. 

1.  "Brides  and  Butterflies  Waltz."     Play  introduction  while 

title  is  on;  as  the  first  scene  appears  (dancing)  segue  to 
the  waltz.  Until  title:  "Next  Morning,  Chief  Swift, 
etc." 

2.  "Indian   Summer   Intermezzo"   until   title:   "That   Night." 

3.  "Garden  of  Dreams  Serenade"  until  Indians  are  seen. 

4.  "Tom-Tom  Intermezzo"  until  fight  starts. 

5.  Agitato  until  boy  is  seen  standing  alone  near  ruins. 

6.  "Alpine   Rose — a   Flower   Song"   until   scene   exterior   of 

post  appears;  watch  for  bugle  call,  then  segue: 
7.°  "The  Twelfth  Regiment  March"  until  end  of  reel. 
Part  Second. 

1.  Introduction  of  "Danube  Waves"  waltz  until  title  is  on. 

2.  Agitato  until  title:  "Vengeance  of  the  Red  Men." 

3.  "Big    Chief    Battle    Axe"    (Indian    Novelty)    until    title: 

Lieutenant   Ellis   Volunteers,   etc." 

4.  "Venetian  Water  Waltz"  until  Indians  are  seen. 

5.  Agitato   until   man   with   shawl   meets   Indian   girl,   then: 

6.  Chorus  of  "Silver  Bell"  or  "Red  Wing"  until  he  jumps  on 

horse. 

7.  "Petersburgh  Sleighride   Galop"  until  title:  "The  Attack 

of  Fort  Bryson." 

8.  Agitato  until  bugler  blows  bugle. 

9.  Bugle  call,  Siegel  march,  "Weinblut  Wein"  until  soldiers 

are  seen  on  hill  with  American  flag. 

10.  "Red,  White  and  Blue"  until  fight  starts,  then: 

11.  Agitato  until  title:  "After  the  Battle." 

12.  "Boy  Scout   March."     Lieutenant   puts   his   arms   around 

the  girl. 

13.  "Star  Spangle  Banner." 

Read  this  over  a  couple  of  times  and  arrange  your  music 
in  this  order.  You  don't  have  to  use  the  same  waltzes  or 
marches.  Play  any  you  have  and  you  will  find  this  program 
O.  K.     Let  me  hear  from  those  who  use  it.    Yours, 

R.  J.   Bessette,  Musical  Director  "Crown  Theater," 

Hartford,   Conn. 


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I  am  afraid  I  have  not  got  your  name  correctly,  Brother 
B.,  as  you  did  not  write  it  distinctly.  However,  your  method 
of  playing  to  the  pictures  with  an  orchestra  is  correct  all 
right.  The  only  way  to  get  results  is  to  have  a  lot  of  music 
"at  your  finger  tips" — as  you  say:  "every  man  in  the  orches- 
tra." This  applies  particularly  to  the  dramatic  music,  as  it 
enables  all  to  watch  the  picture.  Will  be  glad  to  hear  from 
you  again. 

*  *     * 

"WAMBA:   A  CHILD  OF  THE  JUNGLE"   (Selig). 
Part  One. 
[.  "Daisies"    (Bendix;   pub.   by   Witmark).      First   part   only 
until  title:  "Dr.  Rice  of  the  Settlement."    Then  second 
movement  through  two  scenes. 

2.  "Mystic   Shrine"   (Earl   Cameron;   pub.  by  Carl  Fischer). 

Until  YVamba  arrives  at  Dr.  Rice's  home. 

3.  "Idle  Thoughts"   ^Harry  Von  Tilzer).     Until  after  title: 

"Wamba's  Baby   Dies."     Continue  No.  3  until   Doctor 
breaks  the  news  to  Wamba;  then: 

4.  Plaintive  until  end  of  scene. 

5.  Agitato  p.  and  f.  until  Doctor  R.  orders  Pete  away. 

6.  Short  sentimental  until  end  of  scene. 

7.  "Flight   of  the   Birds"    (or   any   pretty   caprice   or   novel- 

ette) until  end  of  Part  One. 
Part  Two. 

1.  Agitato;    through   first   scene.     Then    subdue   for   second 

scene  or  short  neutral.     At  end  of  second  scene: 

2.  Long  agitato   p.   and   f.   for   flight   and   pursuit  by   lions; 

continue  until  child   climbs  up   the  river  bank. 

3.  Short   Intermezzo   ("In   Cupid's  Garden" — -pub.   by  T.   B. 

Harms'),  until  Dr.  Rice  and  wife  enter  house. 

4.  Agitato  until  child  seen  crossing  glade. 

5.  "Mozembique"   (Oriental  intermezzo  by  Gruenwall;  pub. 

by  O.  Ditson),  until  lion  comes  to  child's  hiding  place 
in  log. 

6.  Agitato  until  Dr.  Rice  and  party  leaves  Pete's  shack. 

7.  "Amina"    (Paul    Lincke;    pub.    by    Stern),    until    end    of 

picture. 

*  *     * 

A  FIGHTING  CHANCE  (Vitagraph). 

1.  Novelette  until  girl  is  seen  at  piano. 

2.  "That's  How  I  Love  You"   (follow  pianist  in  picture). 

3.  At  change,  back  to  No.   1   until:  "Not  Knowing  Wynne 

Is  Married." 

4.  Waltz  until  they  enter  restaurant. 

5.  "If  You  Talk  In  Your  Sleep,  Don't  Mention  My  Name." 

When  at  piano. 

6.  "That's  How  I  Love  You"  (short),  then: 

7.  Waltz  lento  until:  "The  Firm  Sends  Wynne  on  a  Four 

Months'  Tour." 

8.  "Pearls"  (Moret)  until:  "A  Stranger  to  the  Wife,  etc." 

9.  Waltz  lento  until:  "Preparations  to  Leave  for  the  City." 

10.  "Dimples"    (Bratton)    until:    "Learning    the    Charm    of 

Grace." 

11.  Waltz   (for  dancing)  until  change  of  scene. 

12.  Restaurant  scene.     Popular  cabaret  music,  "Home  From 

His  Trip." 

13.  Waltz  (Neutral)  until:  "The  Appointment." 

14.  "You're  a  Great  Big  Blue-Eyed  Baby"  until  he  sees  his 

wife  in  box. 

15.  "If  You  Talk  In  Your  Sleep,  etc.,"  very  softly,  crescendo 

at  change  of  scene.     Wrhen  he  meets  wife. 

16.  Sentimental  until  she  plays  piano;   then: 

17.  "That's   How  I   Love  You,"   until  end,   dying  away  with 

picture. 


Conditions  in  New  Zealand 

The  cinematograph  business  in  New  Zealand  is  in  a  fairly 
prosperous  condition,  but  its  progress  is  being  somewhat  re- 
tarded by  the  combined  influences  of  overcrowding  and  film 
combines.  The  film  distribution  is  now  controlled  practically 
by  Jno.  Fuller  &  Sons  and  the  Haywards.  There  is  a  small 
amount  coming  in  from  outside  sources,  but  this  will  prob- 
ably soon  cease  in  favor  of  the  larger  control.  The  great 
majority  of  films  shown  here,  in  Wellington,  is  licensed 
stuff  (first  run),  with  occasional  foreign  feature  films,  gen- 
erally of  the  type  which  is  not  particularly  suited  to  our  own 
special  views  or  tastes.  There  being  no  censorship  in  force 
here,  some  managers  often  sail  very  close  to  the  wind  in 
relation  to  questionable  film,  but,  for  the  most  part,  the  pro- 
grams put  on  are  clean  and  free  from  suggestiveness,  which 
speaks  well  for  the  wholesome  management  shown  by  the 
different  picture   theaters.     These   places   are   generally  well 


conducted,  well  ventilated   and   comfortable,  though   heating 
arrangements  for  the  winter  months  are  mostly  absent. 

The  indirect  lighting  system,  which  should  be  everywhere 
compulsory,  is  very  little  availed  of  so  far. 

Projection  is  fair.  There  are  no  restrictions  placed  upon 
the  amount  of  current  used  for  projection  purposes,  so  there 
should  be  no  excuse  in  this  respect.  The  current  used  is 
D.  C,  500  volts,  from  the  tramway  power  supply  converted 
to  the  required  amperage  through  motor  generator  sets. 
Current  is  charged  for  at  the  following  rates: 

Power,  4d.  per  unit,  net;  lighting,  3d.  per  unit,  net.  Of 
course,  these  prices  apply  to  Wellington  only,  other  places 
varying  according  to  local  conditions. 

In  comparison  with  America  our  screens  must  be  generally 
much  larger,  our  projection  current  varying  from  45  to  75 
amperes,  mostly  about  the  higher  figure.  There  are  no  regu- 
lations relating  to  the  fitting  out  of  operating  rooms,  some 
of  which  are  highly  dangerous  and  far  from  being  in  any 
way  fireproof.  Again,  an  operator  may  obtain  a  position 
without  having  passed  any  test  or  examination.  More  by 
good  fortune  than  good  management  there  have  been,  so 
far,  no  serious  accidents  resulting  from  the  burning  of  film. 
The  following  projectors  find  favor:  Powers,  Gaumont, 
Pathe,  and  Imperator. 

In  Wellington,  the  capital  city  of  New  Zealand,  with  a 
city  population  of  about  70,000,  there  are  five  picture  theaters, 
three  of  which  are  continuous  shows,  running  from  11  a.  m. 
to  11  p.  m.  Admissions:  Continuous,  3d.  and  6d.,  while 
some  have  a  row  of  reserved  seats  at  1/-.  The  evening 
shows,  running  from  8  to  10:15  p.  m.,  charge  6d.,  1/-,  and 
1/6,  reserving  6d.  extra. 

In  the  larger  theaters  there  is  usually  a  10-piece  orchestra, 
the  continuous  shows  varying  from  3  to  6  pieces  for  the 
evening  sessions,  with  a  piano  or  pianola  in  the  daytime. 
The  music  is,  and  has  always  been,  of  a  high  standard, 
though  no  special  attempt  is  made  to  play  to  the  pictures. 
Sound  effects  have  been  deservedly  dropped  some  time  back. 

Advertising  is  restricted  entirely  to  the  newspapers,  lobby 
displays  and  posters  on  the  boardings.  Newspaper  rates 
are  about  5/-  per  inch,  single  column,  and  15/-  per  inch, 
double.'  Little  or  no  originality  is  sought  after  in  the  adver- 
tisements, which  contain  simply  the  name  of  the  theater, 
prices  of  admission  and  names  of  films.  No  attempt  is  made 
by  those  interested  in  the  business  to  try  and  elevate  the 
entertainment   to  a  higher  educational  level. 

Most  managers,  looking  ruefully  upon  the  smallness  of 
box  office  receipts,  would  do  well  to  subscribe  to  your  paper 
and  study  closely  the  page  "Advertising  for  Exhibitors"  each 
week.  None  of  the  local  picture  theaters  are  doing  capacity 
business,  for  the  simple  season  that  they  stick  to  the  one 
routine  and  show  no  originality  whatever  either  in  that  or 
outside  it.  The  managers  seem  persistently  dull  of  vision 
that  they  see  nothing  of  the  vast  possibilities  behind  this 
great  industry  or,  seeing  them,  are  careless  of  any  desire  to 
move  from  the  one  groove. 

The  shows  all  advertising  in  the  newspapers,  there  is,  un- 
fortunately, no  criticism  of  films  possible  and  good,  honest 
criticism  is,  in  my  opinion,  one  of  the  first  essentials  to  ef- 
fecting a  higher  degree  of  perfection  in  the  business.  Our 
papers  would  do  well  to  follow  the  somewhat  belated  lead  of 
the  American  press  and  devote  regularly  some  space  to  the 
reviewing  of  films  and  other  matters  of  interest. 

There  seems  to  be  little  demand  for  scenic  or  educational 
film,  the  taste  being  for  good  drama  and  clean  comedy.  The 
cinematograph  has,  as  yet,  made  no  appearance  in  the 
schools,  the  chief  drawbacks  being  the  expense  of  running 
and  the  impossibility  of  obtaining  a  regular  supply  of  suit- 
able pictures.  Its  introduction  to  the  schools,  however,  is 
merely  a  matter  of  time. 

We  will  shortly  have  the  good  fortune  of  seeing  Pathe's 
"Les  Miserables"  and  the  Cines  Companv's  masterpiece, 
"Quo  Vadis?" 

Several  of  the  films  now  coming  to  hand  from  London 
bear  the  leader  of  the  British  Board  of  Film  Censors. 

Having  doubtless  encroached  too  much  already  upon  your 
space,  I  will  continue  my  notes  in  my  next  letter. 

E.  MILES  SAMUEL. 


A  heated  controversy  is  being  waged  in  Nottingham.  Eng. 
Rev.  H.  G.  Dockerell,  a  New  York  gentleman  who  has  re- 
cently taken  over  the  pastorate  of  the  Tabernacle,  has  let 
out  his  church  on  weekdays  to  a  picture  show  syndicate.  His 
congregation  is  up  in  arms  against  the  action,  but  Mr. 
Dockerell  has  announced  his  intention  of  continuing  until 
the  debts  on  the  building  have- been  cleared. 


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We  Are  Not  "August." 

HERE'S  an  experience  letter  from  Ernest  E.  Sprague,  of  the  Crystal 
Theater,  Goodland,  Kansas.  Defore  we  give  up  the  floor  to  him  we 
want  to  deny  that  "august  presence"  thing.  The  nearest  we  come  to 
august  is  that  our  birthday  falls  on  the  last  day  of  that  month,  but  we 
don't  put  any  frills  on  and  anyone  is  welcome  to  come  to  our  office  except 
book  agents  and  peddlers.  Don't  be  afraid  to  come  in.  Now  for  Mr. 
Sprague,   who   writes: 

Ever  sine 2  my  advent  into  the  moving  picture  game,  seven 
months  ago,  I  have  had  a  hankering  to  write  you,  but  always  felt 
a  certain  shyness  in  approaching  your  august  editorial  presence  and 
classing  myself  with  the  clever  and  experienced  exhibitors  who  con- 
tribute to  your  department. 

I  have  received  so  many  valuable  hints  from  your  advice,  how- 
ever, that  I  am  sending  you  some  of  my  advertising  for  your 
criticism. 

I  bought  my  theater  from  an  "old  showman"  type  of  exhibitor 
whose  parting  warning  was  not  to  spend  any  money  trying  to  get 
the  patronage  of  the  better  class  of  people  because  they  would  not 
go  to  a  picture  show.  Judging  from  the  class  of  pictures  he  used 
and  his  manner  of  conducting  the  theater,  I  did  not  blame  the 
"better  class"  of  people  in  the  least. 

My  theater  is  located  in  a  town  of  2,500  inhabitants,  with  no 
advertising  medium  except  a  weekly  newspaper,  and,  by  putting  on 
a  special  feature  every  week  I  soon  built  up  a  good  Friday  and 
Saturday  business,  but  the  other  nights  in  the  week  were  very 
poor.  As  two-thirds  of  the  population  of  the  town  is  railroad  peo- 
ple, I  hit  upon  the  idea  of  giving  them  a  railroad  picture  Wed- 
nesday night  of  each  week,  when  possible,  designating  this  evening 
"Railroad  Night."  The  plan  was  a  success  from  the  start,  and  in 
two  weeks'  time  Wednesday  night  was  the  biggest  night  of  the 
week,  and  my  house,  with  a  seating  capacity  of  four  hundred,  was 
jammed  to  the  doors.  I  also  advertised  Monday  night  as  "Educa- 
tional Evening,"  and  provided  one  or  two  reels  of  scientific, 
educational,  scenic,  or  travel  pictures  which  have  increased  my 
attendance  seventy-five  per  cent,  and  has  made  regular  patrons  of 
the  very  best  people  in  the  town.  I  sometimes  substitute  a  re- 
ligious picture  for  the  educationals  and  they  always  fill  the  house. 
When  a  railroad  picture  is  not  available  I  put  on  a  concert  or 
amateur  .night,  made  up  entirely  of  local  talent;  nearly  every  one 
participating  in  these  events  are  choir  singers  from  the  churches, 
so  that  1  have  learned  that  the  better  class  of  people  will  attend  a 
picture  show. 

I  suppose  most  of  these  stunts  are  ancient  history  to  you  except, 
possibly,  the  "Railroad  Night,"  and  it  may  have  been  used  some- 
where else  for  all  I  know.  For  the  manager  in  a  railroad  town  up 
to  fifteen  thousand  it  will  outdraw  any  three-reel  feature  if  properly 
advertised. 

I  am  just  one  of  the  "little  fellows"  in  a  small  country  town 
and  realize  that  none  of  these  ideas  would  be  of  use  to  the  man- 
ager in  the  cities,  but  thought  some  of  the  other  little  fellows  might 
find  the  germ  of  an  idea  in  them.  The  dodgers  I  enclose  you  are 
hung  up  twice  a  week  in  every  place  of  business  and  I  make  a 
house  to  house  distribution  of  them  and  give  one  of  them  per- 
sonally to  some  one  in  each  home  in  town;  I  know  they  pull  be- 
cause I  can  fill  my  house  any  night  I  choose  by  advertising  some- 
thing special. 

Just  a  word  about  .•ervice.  I  see  the  statement  so  often  that 
the  exhibitor  is  allowed  no  choice  in  selecting  his  programs.  If 
every  exhibitor  dealt  with  an  exchange  manager  like  Mr.  Drum,  of 
the  Denver  branch  of  the  General  Film  Company,  there  would  be 
no  cause  for  complaint.  He  has  allowed  me  to  select  all  my  rail- 
road and  educational  pictures  and  I  have  even  selected  my  entire 
program  for  a  week,  including  the  feature. 
Now  we  know  why  Kalem  has  made  so  many  railroad  pictures;  they 
knew  Mr.  Sprague  could  use  them. 

Any  appeal  along  local  lines  is  a  good  one.  Some  day  we'll  see  special 
programs  of  farm  pictures  and  special  night  for  trades.  That  would  not  be 
such  a  poor  idea  for  an  anniversary  week;  Monday  night,  shop  night; 
Tuesday,  factory  night;  Wednesday,  railroad  night;  Thursday,  housekeeper's 
night;    Friday,   athlete's  night,   and  any   old   thing  for    Saturday. 

The   Posters. 

Mr.  Sprague's  posters  are  pretty  much  alike,  the  majority  of  them  giving 
the  Monday  and  Tuesday  and  Wednesday  bills  with  perhaps  the  Thursday 
and  Friday  feature.  No  straining  is  made  for  effect  and  there  is  no 
artistic  lying,  just  a  plain,  straightforward  announcement,  interestingly 
phrased  but  not  so  extravagant  that  the  picture  will  not  make  good  for 
what  is  said.  We  think  that  Mr.  Spr3gue  builds  a  loyal  clientele  and  holds 
their  loyalty  through  their  confidence.  That  much  is  apparent  when  he  says 
he  can  p:ill  them  in  with  a  special  bill.  They  have  come  to  know  that  a 
special  bill  means  a  special  show.  In  a  town  of  2,500  persons  you  must  use 
the  same  audience  over  and  over  again  and  it  doesn't  pay  to  abuse  their 
confidence.  Mr.  Sprague  holds  his  people  because  he  plays  fair  and  he 
got  them  in  because  he  went  after  them  in  the  right  way. 


Why  the  Songs. 

The  Savoy  Theater,  New  Orleans,  issues  an  eight-page  program  with  a 
misspelled  word  in  the  advertisements.  Merely  the  titles  and  brands  are 
listed  and  the  rest  of  the  space  allowed  the  house  is  used  up  in  advertising 
the  musical  program,  one  house  being  advertised  each  day.  We  think  the 
advertisement  of  the  film  should  be  worth  more  to  the  theater  than  gratu- 
itous advertising  of  some  one  else's  business.  There  are  twenty-seven  lines 
of  announcement  and  thirty-three  lines  for  the  publishers.  A  couple  of 
lines  of  comment  on  each  reel  would  mean  more  to  the  house  than  the 
fact  that  Joe  Stern's  songs  are  sung  or  played  on  Monday,  and  Daly's  songs 
on  Tuesday.     The  Savoy  program  is  a  wasted  opportunity. 

Plenty  of  Poster  Space. 

George  C.  Cacum,  of  the  Airdome.  Clarksdale,  Miss.,  sends  two  photo- 
graphs of  his  new  airdome  which  seats  1,100  persons.  We  regret  that  the 
better  of  the  two  pictures  is  not  sharp  enough  for  reproduction  as  the  bare 
spaces  in  the  cut  shown  are  filled  up,  mostly  with  pictorial  paper. 


There  are  86  feet  of  fence  available  for  poster  use,  so  we  cannot  blame 
Mr.  Cacum  for  renting  some  of  the  space  to  local  merchants,  but  we  think 
that  the  space  nearest  the  entrance  should  be  held  for  the  house  to  the 
extent  of  the  width  of  six  sheets  on  each  side. 

We  do  not  like  those  "Tonight"  and  "Coming"  boards  because  they  waste 
paper  unless  it  is  merely  tacked  up,  and  if  it  is  tacked  up  it  is  liable  to 
get  torn  and  mussed.  A  better  scheme  would  be  to  have  the  poster  space 
so  arranged  that  separate  three-sheet  boards  can  be  fitted  under  the  signs. 
If  you  have  three  coming  features  run  one  on  each  of  the  boards.  The 
day  the  feature  shows,  take  last  night's  boards  out  of  the  "Tonight"  space 
and  move  the  feature  over.  In  that  way  the  same  three  sheet  can  be  made 
to  serve   for  coming  and  tonight  and  can  be  taken  in  overnight,  if  desired. 

Mr.  Cacum  writes  tint  he  provides  for  both  blacks  and  whites,  which  is 
necessary  in  a  rown  where  the  colored  population  outnumbers  the  whites 
four  to  one.  Garden  benches  are  provided  for  the  whites  and  the  negroes 
sit  on  bleachers,  though  we  don't  think  they  will  bleach  much. 

Four  reels  of  Licensed  films  and  a  seven-piece  orchestra  are  the  at- 
traction except  on  Friday,  when  two  features  and  two  regular  reels  are 
run. 

To  Be  Expected. 

Frank  Montgomery  did  not  disappoint  us  in  doing  some  unusually  bril- 
liant advertising  work  for  "From  the  Manger  to  the  Cross"  and  equally  we 
looked  for  an  unusual  production  from  the  Lyric,  Minneapolis,  where  Mr. 
Rothapfel  made  the  production.  We  object  to  his  being  called  "the  Belascn 
of  Motion  Pictures, "  for  his  work  is  too  original  to  be  termed  the  copy 
of  another.  The  Lyric  had  the  remarkable  production  three  days  the  latter 
part  of  April,  and  Manager  Rothapfel  made  special  productions  at  two 
afternoon  and  three  evening  performances  with  the  pipe  organ,  concert 
orchestra  and  choir,  and  three  other  presentations  with  the  pipe  organ 
alone  in  the  quiet  hours  at  noon,  at  a  quarter  past  one  and  at  six  fifteen. 
All  of  the  advertising  carried  the  hours  of  commencement  and  stated  when 
the  organ  alcne  would  be  employed.  When  the  full  production  was  shown 
the  doors  were  closed  and  no  one  admitted  until  the  next  performance. 

It  seems  to  us  that  this  plan  should  be  followed  everywhere.  Do  not 
spoil  the  most  remarkable  picture  yet  produced  by  letting  the  late  comers 
utterly  ruin  the  religious  atmosphere  created  by  trampling  over  those  al- 
ready seated.  It  is  not  probable  that  even  New  York  will  see  a  production 
such  as  the  patrons  of  the  Saxe  Brotheis'  house  had  unless  Mr.  Rothapfel 
is  brought  to  town,  but  you  can  do  as  well  as  you  can  with  it  as  your 
means  permit. 

The  advertising  was  in  keeping  with  the  dignity  of  the  occasion.  There 
was  no  display,  just  the  dignified  announcement  of  the  hours  of  perform- 
ance  and  a   few    words  about  the  film   itself.     The  wording  of  the   warning 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


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is   given    for    the   possible   use   of   others   who   may    wish   to   bar   the   doors. 
During  the   presentation   immediately   upon    commencing   the   per- 
formance, the  doors  will  be  closed  and  no  one  will  be  allowed  to 
enter   until    the    following  performance.      This   is   imperative   to   the 
success   of  the  presentation   and   it   is   hoped   that  our   patrons  will 
assist  us  in  this  effort. 
It  may  cost  you  a  couple   of  dollars  on  the  turnaway,  but  it  will  come 
back  to  you  and  more  in  the  long  run.     Paste  tbis  up  somewhere  until  the 
film  does  reach  you. 

No  Nice  Way. 

A  Denver  fan  writes  in  a  protest  against  the  advertising  reel  and  states 
that  a  first-class  Denver  house  ran  a  three-reel  "special"  advertising  a  fur- 
niture company  and  telling  where  the  furniture  might  be  seen.  He  adds: 
"They  ran  this  on  the  same  day  that  they  ran  'The  Black  Conspiracy, 
and  this  forced  many  of  us  to  see  the  former  when  we  only  wanted  to  see 
the   latter/' 

•To  run  three  thousand  fee*  of  advertising  picture  is  an  outrage  on  the 
good  nature  of  any  audience,  and  no  matter  how  attractive  the  stuff  may 
be,  the  use  of  the  film  will  be  resented.  No  intelligent  exhibitor  will  con- 
sider the  momentary  profit  sufficient  to  offset  the  damage  done  the  house's 
permanent  clientele,  and  the  manager  who  indulges  in  such  short-sighted 
money-making  schemes  hurts  not  only  himself  but  the  entire  business.  The 
moment  the  advertising  reel  invades  the  business  to  any  extent,  that  mo- 
ment will  mark  the  commencement  of  the  downfall  of  the  photoplay,  for 
presently  the  picture  lover  will  be  afraid  to  enter  the  theaters  not  knowing 
whether  or  not  h;  will  be  forced  to  sit  through  an  hour  of  advertising  for 
the  sake  of  the  picture  he  wants. 

Here  is  a  matter  that  the  Exhibitors'  League  should  take  up  promptly. 
Advertising  slides  are  bad  enough,  but  the  advertising  reel  is  an  imposition 
and  a  swindle. 

The  writer  of  this  letter  also  comments  on  the  use  of  a  reel  of  "Camille," 
"the  play  that  Sarah  Bern  hart  made  famous,"  only  the  name  of  the  play 
and  player  being  sufficiently  prominent  to  be  noticed  though  it  was  not  the 
Bernhart  "Camille." 

Such  stuff  will  automatically  put  the  manager  out  of  business,  but  the 
trouble  is  that  such  actions  do  not  alone  affect  the  house  giving  the  of- 
fense,  but  the  entire  photoplay  business  of  the  town. 

Something  Different. 

Mr.  Blanchard  offers  something  different  in  advertising  for  "The  Battle 
of  Bloody  Ford,"  at  the  People's  Theater,  Sunbury,  Pa.  He  uses  the  mid- 
dle column  of  a  three-column  space  with  the  Kalem  trade  mark  in  the 
center.  Above  is  the  title  in  eighteen  and  twenty-four  point  and  below 
these  "reading"  notices: 

THE  BATTLE  OF  BLOODY  FORD  is  of  the  best,  ay,  the  very 
best,  not  as  so  many  of  the  Moving  Picture  Battles  are,  merely  a 
large  amount  of  men,  horses  and  gun  powder.  This  Battle  takes 
the  troops  participating,  into  the  woodr.  and  over  the  mountains,  and 
■  the  effect  upon  the  spectator  is  in  the  best  sense  of  the  word, 
thrilling. 

MISS    MARION    COOPER,    who    is    still    in .  her    teens,    is    a 
splendid  athlete,  a  good  runner,  a  graceful  and  skilled  rider,  and  a 
perfect   swimmer,   and   gives  most  delightful   exhibitions   of  her   ac- 
complishments in  this  great  WAR  DRAMA  to-night. 
That  tells  just   as   much    as    a    wild    display   and    attracts    more    attention 
because  it  is  unusual. 

Coming  Up. 

The  last  Cameraphone  Bulletin  came  in  with  six  issues  instead  of  five, 
the  Oakland  Theater  using  the  service.  We  do  not  know  whether  the  Oak- 
land is  a  Cameraphone  house  or  not,  but  the  Cameraphone  service  fits  it 
equally  well  and  gives  a  better  program  than  they  could  afford  as  an  in- 
dependent venture.     We  are  glad  to  see  the  Bulletin  growing. 

A  recent  contest  was,  "Why  I  Like  Pathe's  Weekly,"  answered  by  the 
children.  This  naturally  means  that  the  elders  were  interested  in  the  ef- 
forts of  the  children  and  so  the  weekly  feature  was  advertised  all  the  way 
around.  That's  the  idea  of  giving  contests  for  children.  They  take  it  into 
the  home  and  tell  the  whole  family  and  the  neighbors  as  well. 

One  paragraph  in  the  East  End  Bulletin  opens  a  subject  that  is  worthy  of 
discussion.     Here  it  is: 

Recently  we  have  been  advertising  and  showing  a  number  of  two 
or  three-reel  feature  pictures.  But,  during  the  rush  hours  of  the 
early  evening,  we  have  been  compelled  to  cut  these  off  and  substi- 
tute several  new  one-reel  pictures,  in  order  to  take  care  of  the 
crowds.  During  the  afternoon  and  later  in  the  evening  we  fol- 
low the  advertised  program.  Our  plan  has  been  the  cause  of  our 
receiving  several  letters  of  complaint.  We  reproduce  one  which 
shows  that  one  patron  is  much  displeased.  It  is  absolutely  impos- 
sible for  us  to  run  features  of  two  and  three-reel  lengths  during 
the  busy  hour.  Try  and  come  in  the  afternoon  and  see  a  BIG 
show.  May   7,    1913. 

Does  the  Cameraphone  management  think  it  is  conductive  of 
good  business  to  advertise  a  program  as  enclosed,  and  after  at- 
tracting a  fair  sized  crowd,  to  show  pictures  of  an  inferior  quality? 
I  have  attended  the  Cameraphone  Theater  (East  End)  since  it 
opened — but  never  again.  Three  times  lately  I  have  been  "stung" 
after  going  there — and  fortunately  there  are  other  "Movies"  in 
East  Liberty. 

Don't  you  think  it  would  pay  to  show  what  you  advertise? 

"A  Movie  Pan." 
It  is  our  own  belief  that  if  you  leave  out  the  advertised  feature  "to  take 
care  of  the  crowd,"  there  will  be  no  crowd  to  take  care  of  after  a  time. 
It  would  be  better  to  announce  the  hours  at  which  the  feature  will  be 
ehown  and  explain  when  it  will  not  be  shown.  The  man  who  pays  ten 
cents  at  seven  o'clock  should  be  entitled  to  precisely  what  is  given  the 
man  who  comes  at  two  or  three  o'clock  in  the  afternoon.  If  it  is  im- 
possible to  run  a  feature  at  certain  hours,  that  fact — and  not  the  feature — 
should  be  advertised. 


A  Stinger. 

Bert   S.   Johnson,   of  the   Elite  Theater,   Weeping   Water,    Neb.,   sends  ft 
folder   that   reads: 

IMPORTANT! 

Everyone  should  read  this  pamphlet. 

Reasons   why   you   should   not  attend   the 

ELITE 

Photoplays. 

It  is  folded  as  a  four-page  leaflet  but   the   other   three  pages  are  blank.  ■ 
It   is   an   adaptation   of  an   old   idea,   but  it   was   well  applied   to   local   Con- 
ditions.    We  are  giving  his  letter  considerable  space  because  it  shows  that 
the    man    who    hustles    and    gives   a    clean    show    can    win    out    almost    any- 
where.     He  writes: 

I  have  never  sent  in  any  ideas  to  this  department  but  have 
gleaned  a  good  many  from  these  pages.  Am  in  a  town  of  1,200 
and  a  church  town  at  that.  When  I  opened  the  theater  here 
fourteen  months  ago  it  was  freely  prophesied  I  wouldn't  stay  two 
weeks,  as  the  people  would  not  patronize  a  picture  show.  One 
of  the  first  things  I  did  after  opening  was  to  have  a  number  of 
pamphlets  printed  and  circulated  (sample  enclosed).  These  fold- 
ers gave  the  impression  at  first  glance  that  some  one  was  out  with 
a  hammer.  It  made  a  hit  and  set  people  to  thinking.  I  guess.  It 
wasn't  long  until  Sunday  school  teachers  were  giving  theater 
parties  to  their  pupils.  I  freely  advertised  that  I  intended  to  ex- 
hibit only  clean,  moral  pictures.  And  while  some  have  slipped  by 
that  I  didn't  approve  of,  I  have  refused  to  run  some  of  both 
Licensed  and  Independent  makes.  The  Congregational  minister, 
during  a  sermon  against  dancing  and  theater  going  announced  in 
the  pulpit  that  he  had  no  objections  to  his  congregation  attending 
"Mr.  Johnson's  picture  show  as  he  had  a  good,  clean  show." 
Stick  to  the  clean  stuff,  boys,  it  pays  better  in  the  long  run  and 
you  will  have  the  satisfaction  of  knowing  you  are  helping  a  good 
cause. 

The  junior  class  of  the  high  school  were  to  give  a  class  play 
in  the  opera  house.  The  night  before  the  play  they  had  a  mis- 
understanding with  the  manager  and  decided  to  have  it  in  the 
schoolhouse.  As  they  had  sold  300  tickets  they  had  to  give  the 
play  two  nights  to  accommodate  the  crowd.  With  a  stamping 
outfit  I  have  I  made  the  following  notice  and  put  it  up  in  the 
post    office: 

NOTICE. 
The    JUNIOR    CLASS    PLAY    will    be    held    at    the 
HIGH  SCHOOL  to-night  and  Thursday,  as  there  are  more 
tickets  sold  than  the  room  will  accommodate.     Those  who 
cannot  gain  admittance  will   find  a  good  program   at  the 
ELITE,  as  usual. 
In   spite  of   the   fact  that   300  tickets  had  been  sold,   we  had  a 
better   house   than   we   did   the   Wednesday   before    with   other   con- 
ditions the  same.      I    agree   with  you  that  the  small-town   manager 
has  to  hustle  and  advertise  to  get  the  business.     Don't  over-adver- 
tise   a    feature.      Work    off    the    surplus    steam    in    advertising    the 
house.     Above   all,   don't  put   on   anything  extra   to  buck   a  school 
entertainment   or  anything  of  that  sort. 

The  tornado  Easter  Sunday  almost  wiped  out  the  small -town  of 
Berlin,  ten  miles  from  here.  I  drove  down  with  the  local  photog- 
rapher and  we  took  some  views  and  made  a  dozen  slides.  Had 
them  on  exhibition  the  second  night  after  the  storm,  would  have 
had  -them  Monday  night  but  the  roads  were  too  muddy  for  a 
car  and  we  bad  to  drive. 

I  don't  expect  to  see  this  in  print,  but  I  will  feel  better  for 
having  offered  my  mite.  If  "Advertising  for  Exhibitors"  was 
edited  as  a  separate  magazine  I  would  pay  my  $3.00  a  year  for  it 
rather  than  go  without. 

How  It  Works. 

With  this,  the  ticket  and  three  pieces  of  advertising  matter.  One  of  these 
is  a  plea  to  the  reader  to  make  use  of  the  parcels  post.  We  don't  know  who 
wrote  this  stuff,  but  if  he  keeps  on  staying  in  Lamar  it  will  be  because  he's  in 
jail.  He  can  get  a  job  in  some  advertising  agency.  It  is  all  covered  in  an 
envelope    which  says: 

Will  you  please  open  this  letter  and  read  out  earnest  and  hearty 
invitation  to  be  our  guests  at  the  pretty  little  Lyric  Theater  next 
Saturday  afternoon.     We  enclose  complimentary  ticket. 
Mr.  Pinch  writes: 

The  wife  and  I  just  dropped  in  here  to  fill  a  Lyceum  date  and 
bought  the  Lyric.  In  sixteen  months  my  four  predecessors  kissed 
hundreds  of  dollars  good  bye  and  it  was  costing  the  boys  we  bought 
it  from  about  $60  to  $8c  a  month  to  keep  open.  We  got  it  at  a  small 
price  and  then  changed  the  service  from  junk  to  good  Mutual  service 
and  soon  had  the  other  houses  calling  for  help.  They  turned  to 
vaudeville  and  that  made  some  trouble  for  us.  This  is  a  town  of 
about  3,000  people  and  my  niatiness  ran  from  $2.80  to  $4.  I  tried 
the  farmer  ticket  scheme  on  contract  with  the  stores,  the  contracts 
running  to  August  first.  I  charge  them  seventy-five  cents  a  week  or 
three  dollars  a  month.  I  had  eight  the  first  week,  now  have  twelve 
and  expect  more.  As  it  also  helps  the  cash  business  I  look  on  it 
as  velvet  I  have  a  fine  little  house  and  am  letting  the  other  fellows 
do  the  crying. 

Photo  Wanted. 

Will  the  Crystal  Theater,  Texarkana,  Texas,  please  send  us  another 
postcard  of  the  front  posted  for  From  the  Manager  to  the  Cross,  and  send 
it  in  such  a  shape  that  it  will  come  uncreased.  We  would  like  to  use  the 
picture  of  this  display,  but  it  came  in  badly  creased.  A  photomailer  should 
be   used. 


1024 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


We  PHOTOPLAYWRIGHT        \^ 


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A  Fifteen   Dollar  Pull. 

WE    are    rather    surprised    to    see    Henry    Albert    Phillips,    for    whose 
book,    "The   Plot   of  the   Short    Story"   we   have  great   regard,   em- 
bark on  a  correspondence   school  scheme   with  a  booklet  that  is  as 
lurid  and  as  misleading  as  the  advertising  of  the  older  schools.     One  state- 
ment for  example  says: 

This  is  the  sort  of  thing  I  learned.  That  one  popular  company 
which  may  be  holding  a  script  of  yours  today — possibly  will  have 
it  next  year — is  behind  in  its  reading  just  5000  scripts!  Yet 
if  your  name  and  work  were  numbered  among  a  certain  few  it 
would  receive  consideration  the  day  of  its  receipt,  and  mind  you, 
not  merely  a  reading,  out  an  eager  consideration  with  more  than 
half  a  desire  to   buy. 

We  would  like  to  know  where  Mr.  Phillips  obtained  this  interesting) 
information.  We  thought  we  knew  a  lot  about  studios,  but  we  never 
heard  of  one  that  ran  behind  to  the  extent  of  holding  5000  scripts.  All 
of   this,    of  course,    leads    to    his    last    proposition    that: 

My  affiliations  mean  a  steady  market  for  my  student's  productions. 
I  mean  to  make   "discoveries"'   both   among  my  students   and   their 
photoplays.     Already  with  this  in  mind   I  have  made  arrangements 
that  will  bring  meritorious  scripts  and  promising  students  in  direct 
touch   with   the   powers   that  be. 
And    all    of    this    is    offered    for    only    fifteen    dollars.      In    view    of    Mr. 
Phillips  affiliation   with   the   Motion  Picture   Story   Magazine,   we  would  not 
be    surprised    to    learn    that    the    "powers    that    be,"    in    this    case,    was    the 
Clearing    House,    conducted    by    that    magazine,    but    whether    the    clearing 
house  or  not,  we  fail  to  see  how  Mr.  Phillips  can  deliver  the  goods  promised 
in  the  following  paragraph: 

This  means  that  I  shall  have  on  my  desk  a  weekly  report  of  the 
^         particular    needs    of    good    paying    producing    companies    and    shall 
daily  receive  inquiries  for  special  needs  that  arise  in  every  studio 
for  certain  types  of  photoplays. 
This    statement   seems   to    be   no    more   correct    than    the    other    statement 
that   "More   than  twenty-five   new  photoplays   are  put   on   every   day."      We 
are  open  to  conviction  but  the  Licensed  end  releases  six  or  seven  each  day, 
while  the  Independent  releases  seldom  exceed  six  a  day  and  sometimes  run 
but   four.      This  at  best  gives   thirteen    releases   and   perhaps  fifteen   titles. 
Mr.    Phillips   is   too   optimistic,    but   what   can    be    expected    of   a    man    vho 
declares    that   he    is    confident    to    state    from    his    personal    knowledge    that 
scarcely  a  hundred  authors  are  doing  iheir  work  in  the  right  way  and  adds: 
"There  is   room  for  ten  thousand,  yes,  and  more." 

Ten  thousand  writers,  twenty-five  scripts  a  day!  Does  the  line  form 
on  the  right  or  left?     Take  your  turn,  please,  and  no  crowding. 

We  have  a  high  regard  for  Mr.  Phillips  as  a  plot  analyst,  but  as  a 
photoplay  teacher  we  think  he  claims  far  too  much  in  offering  a  personal 
pull   for  fifteen  dollars. 


We  Will   Try   and   Explain. 

A  brutally  frank  person  down  in  Texas  wants  to  know  what  we  think  of 
a  couple  of  our  stories.  He  states  that  he  has  had  stories  returned  by  com- 
panies with  the  statement  that  the  plot  was  too  slight  or  that  it  lacked  com- 
edy. He  says  they  were  written  "as  tersely  as  was  wise."  He  adds:  "The 
author  has  about  four  pages  on  which  to  write  the  action  of  a  thirty-five 
scene  scenario  and  to  hit  even  the  high  points  he  has  a  lot  of  figuring  to 
do  and  cannot  possibly  include  all  of  the  details  of  comedy."  Then  comes 
the  cruel  blow.     He  says: 

I   might  mention  one  or   two   of  your  own   stories   to   show   you 
that   I  am   partly  right,  at  least.     I  .do  not  mean  to  discredit  your 
ability    when    I    call    your    attention   to   your    "Sunshine    Sue"    and 
"Collecting   the    Bill,"    but    to   ask   you    if    you    really    believe    that 
there  is  much  of  a  plot  in  either  of  them.     These  two  stories  could 
have    been    almost   turned    into    almost   a   tragedy  and    without    the 
slightest   trace  of  comedy  if  the  director  had  have   wanted  to  pro- 
duce it  that  way,  or  if  the  company  had  not  have  beer,  capable  of 
handling  comedies.     Do  you  think  that  I  am  right? 
The   correspondent   mentions   two   stories  that   have   been    pleasantly   com- 
mented  upon  by  the  critics  and  which  seem  to  have   made  a  laughing  hit. 
Neither  story  had  much  plot.     "Sunshine  Sue"  was  the  story  of  a  grouchy 
office that  began  to  smile  when   Sue  came   into   the   place.      "Col- 
lecting the    Bill"   was   the  story   of   a  girl   typist   who   collected   an    accoun*. 
from  a  grouch  through   feminine  wiles  when  masculine   force  had  failed   to 
accomplish    the   purpose.      We  are   willing  to   admit   that   the  stories   lacked 
strong   plots,    indeed    "Sunshine   Sue"    can   boast   of  little    or   not   plot,    but 
we'll  be  hanged  if  we  will  admit  that  either  story  would  have  made  a  good 
tragedy  without  alteration. 

It  is  not  possible  to  put  a  finger  on  any  specific  line  in  the  long  letter 
that  distinctly  asks  how  it  was  we  came  to  sell  such  stuff  when  his  own 
superior  product  doesn't  sell,  but  the  whole  tenor  of  the  letter  is  one  of 
inquiry  and  we  are  going  to  answer  the  unasked  question. 

In  the  first  place  we  did  not  even  write  four  pages  of  script  for  either 
of  these  stories.  We  have  not  the  carbons  at  hand  and  cannot  give  exact 
lengths,  but  it  is  seldom  indeed  that  we  turn  the  third  page  on  a  half-reel 
story  and  we  did  not  even  do  any  figuring  to  get  the  high  points  into  such 
narrow  compass.  We  sat  down  and  wrote  them  off  and  mailed  them  and 
in  the  course  of  time  they  were  made  and  released.  We  gave  the  director 
all  he  needed  to  have  in  the  way  of  comedy  business  and  let  it  go  at  that. 


That  w  did  our  share  of  the  work  seems  to  be  shown  by  the  fact  that  stick- 
ing to  these  scripts,  the  director,  who  is  Arthur  D.  Hotaling,  by  the  way, 
made  successful  stories. 

But  the  reason  these  scripts  sold  is  not  that  they  were  so  infinitely  su- 
perior to  all  other  comedy  scripts.  They  sold  because  the  full  story  was 
presented  in  such  a  form  that  Mr.  Hotaling  could  take  the  script  and 
make  it.  He  did  not  have  to  lay  his  company  off  for  a  couple  of  days 
while  he  wrestled  with  some  good  idea  poorly  displayed.  All  that  there 
was  to  the  script  was  right  there  on  the  paper  ready  to  be  made  from  that 
script. 

"His.  Widow"  seems  to  hive  been  pleasantly  received  by  the  papers  and 
the  public.  It  was  put  in  work  the  day  we  left  Jacksonville,  last  winter, 
after  a  brief  visit  to  the  studio.  The  night  before,  Mr.  Hotaling  came  into 
the  room  after  we  had  turned  in  and  wanted  to  know  if  the  widow  required 
real  widow's  weeds.  We  waked  up  sufficiently  to  explain  that  in  our  opinion 
a  maiden  lady,  widowed  on  the  spur  of  the  moment,  would  not  have  crepe 
in  the  house.  Then  we  went  to  sleep  again.  The  next  morning  the  picture 
was  started,  the  outside  scenes  being  made  while  the  stage  settings  were 
being  preoared.  Had  it  been  necessary  to  get  the  crepe,  some  other  story 
would   have  been  taken  up  in  the  wait. 

That's  why  we  can  sell  scripts.  We  offer  a  reasonably  sufficient  idea 
displayed  in  such  a  form  that  the  director  can  make  it  from  our  script.  We 
do  not  try  to  get  a  two-reel  idea  into  a  half-reel  script,  but  we  do  try  to 
make  it  possible  for  the  director  to  put  in  plenty  of  comedy  and  we  write 
two  to  four  line  scenes  so  tersely  that  the  director  can  get  the  idea  and 
work  it  out  as  his  surroundings  and  his  people  best  permit. 

Many  writers  on  photoplay  subjects  profess  a  fine  indifference  to  the 
form  in  which  a  story  is  written.  They  argue  that  the  idea  is  the  thing 
and  that  the  technical  form  is  unimportant,  but  we  have  found  that  the 
good  idea  properly  displayed  is  ten  times  as  likely  to  sell  as  the  splendid 
idea  that  may  require  a  day  to  straighten  out.  That's  why  "Collecting  the 
Biil"  sold  and  our  correspondent's  stories  didn't.  We  are  sending  out  the 
same  sort  of  script  that  an  editor  or  director  would  write.  We  are  writing 
stuff  that  sells  and  not  the  sort  of  stuff  we  think  ought  to  sell.  It  is 
practical,  complete,  comprehensive  and  not  too  costly. 

That's  why  we  preach  tech^-ue  of  form  and  technique  of  plot  develop- 
ment.    It  sells  scripts. 


Just  Think. 

We  are  indebted  to  a  correspondent  for  a  clipping  from  the  Mattoon, 
(111.)  Commercial-Star  which  writes  up  a  local  genius  who  six  month9 
ago  knew  nothing  of  photoplay  writing  but  who  now  writes  a  story  a  day 
and  has  put  in  a  stenographer  that  she  may  write  two  or  three  a  day. 
Just  read  this  extract: 

Encouraged  by  her  first  successes,  Mrs.  Moore  has  kept  a  steady 
stream  of  copy  on  the  way  to  various  managers.  They  have  been 
accepted,  more  than  forty  going  to  one  company.  Mrs.  Moore 
has  been  forced  to  employ  a  stenographer  because  the  increasing 
volume  of  work.  She  says  she  means  to  make  Mattoon  the  home 
of  "Motion   Picture  Script  That  Takes." 

"I  am  writing  a  play  a  day,"  Mrs.  Moore  said,  when  seen  last 
night  in  the  library  of  her  home,  "and  now  that  I  have  aid  I  hope 
to  be  able  to  increase  my  output  to  two  or  three. 

"How  did  I  begin  writing  script?"  Mrs.  Moore  smiled,  "Well 
I  just  started,  that's  all  I  am  able  to  say.  I  take  an  idea  and 
develop  it  until  I  have  worked  out  a  scenario.  I  find  the  work 
easy  and  enjoy  it.  The  field  is  unlimited  and  the  companies  are 
demanding  material.  Persons  able  to  furnish  first  class  copy  have 
the  opportunity  of  their  lives  for  the  producers  are  unable  to 
keep  pace  with  the  demand  of  the  public  for  new  plays." 

We  don't  happen  to  have  that  much  money,  but  we  would  like  to  con- 
tribute to  form  a  syndicate  to  bet  a  million  dollars  that  either  the  reporter 
or  the  gifted  authoress  is  not  holding  strictly  to  the  truth.  We  might  ven- 
ture half  a  million  on  a  side  bet  that  the  article  was  more  or  less  inspired 
by  the  correspondence  schools.  Most  assuredly  the  statements  in  the  para- 
graphs noted  are  as  unreliable  as  the  announcements  of  these  schools. 


Holds  a  Record. 

Mattoon,  111.,  seems  to  be  out  for  the  photoplay  record.  A  Mrs.  Lulu 
E.  Moore  announces  in  a  local  paper  that  she  has  been  writing  and 
selling  a  story  a  day  and  has  put  on  a  stenographer  so  that  she  can  write 
two  or  three  a  day.     Another  author  sends  in  this  inquiry: 

Will  you   please  tell  me  why  it  is  I  bought  Technique  of  Photo 
Play    look    it    through   and    studyed   it   throughly    have    written    175 
plays  started   6   months   ago   some   of   the   scripts  are  keep  as  long 
as  6  and  7  weeks  and  returned  some  say  the  ideas  are  excellent,  but 
unavablc    to    them    some    say    they    are    made    up    in    proper    form 
but  cant  use  them  now  what  do  you  think  is  trouble?     Please  advise 
me  who  is  buying  Westerns.  And  where  I  Join  a  script  circle?  niabe 
I  could  learn  there  the  trouble  with  scripts  I   am  a  reader  of  your 
Moving  Picture  World  every  week  Thanking  you  in  advance  for  ans. 
In  the  first  place  the  letter  is  so  badly  written  and  spelled  as  to  suggest 
a   lack   of   education    that   does   not   argue    for    the    trained   intellect    that   is 
necessary  to   the   invention    of  original   ideas  and  their  proper   transcription 
on    paper.      In   the    second    place    175    scripts    in    six    months    is    too    much. 
Not  even  the  trained  writer  can  work  at  that  speed.     We  thought  we  were 
doing   very   nicely   when   we   wrote   from   three   to    five   a   week   after  long 
training,  but  it  stands  to  reason  that  the  novice  cannot  turn  out,  in  present- 
able  form,    what   is   practically   a  script  a   day.     It   is   better   to   write  one 
good    script    a    month    and    sell    it    than    to    turn    out    thirty    that    are    not 
salable  because  of  hasty  and  careless  development. 

Writing  photoplays  is  not  a  thing  to  be  learned  overnight.  It  is  a 
thing  to  be  studied  carefully  and  painstakingly  and  a  copy  of  Technique 
of  the  Photoplay  is  helpful  only  where  the  student  can  study  it  under- 
standing^. 

The  probabilities  are  that  this  correspondent  is  turning  everything  she 
can  think  of  into  a  protoplay  and  sending  them  around.       She  is  sending  them 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


102  = 


out  in  proper  form  as  far  as  the  bare  arrangement  of  the  idea  into  scenes 
is  concerned,  but  this  is  the  smallest  part  of  the  matter.  The  scenes  must 
be  properly  arranged  to  tell  the  story  properly  and  forcefully,  and  this 
can  be  properly  done  only  after  study  and  deliberation.  We  think  our 
inquirer  would  do  well  to  abandon  the  work  for  which  she  seems  to  be 
so  little  suited,  but  if  she  does  want  to  continue,  we  would  advise  taking 
the  bes:  of  those  175  plays — say  five  of  them — and  working  over  them 
until  they  have  something  more  than  the  semblance  of  photoplays.  Ten 
hours  work  on  one  script  at  the  start  will  do  more  good  than  an  hour's 
work  on   each   of  ten   hurriedly  written   scripts. 


Numbering  the  Scenes. 

Someone  asked  the  other  day  why  we  advise  numbering  the  scenes  at 
the  side  of  the  theet  instead  of  in  the  center.  He  contended  that  many 
crack  writers  number  the  scenes  in  the  center  of  the  page  and  in  Roman 
instead  of  Arabic  numerals.  We  explained  that  we  did  it  to  make  it 
easier  for  the  director.  Most  directors  know  what  XVIII  is,  but  iS  is 
the  more  common  form  and  more  quickly  grasped.  The  Roman  numera- 
tion is  all  right  in  marking  the  chapters  of  books,  but  the  director  wants 
to  pick  up  the  number  quickly  when  he  is  working,  and  if  the  numerals 
are  at  the  left  hand  side  in  the  margin  he  can  catch  them  much  more 
quickly  and  at  the  same  time  in  Arabic  he  does  not  have  to  pause  a  moment 
to  get  the  difference  between  XVII  and  XVIII.  There  are  several  ways  of 
starting  and  numbering  a  scene,  all  of  which  are  good  and  largely  a 
matter  of  choice.      We  give  several  styles: 

1.  John's  home — John  sits  smoking — Mary  enters — John  tries  to 
conceal  cigar — puts  it  in  pocket — Mary  Smells  smoke — takes  cigar 
from  John- — throws  out  of  window. 

Leader — Unable  to  smoke  in  the  house,  John  seeks  the  park. 

2.  Park — bench  close  to  camera — John  enters — lights  cigar — smokes. 
This   is  the  scheme  we   follow,  allowing  an   indentation  of  five   spaces  at 

the    left    in    addition    to    the    natural    margin    and    keeping    this    clear    for 
6cene  numbers,  leaders  and  inserts.     Another  style  gives  this: 

1.  John's  home. 

John  sits  smoking — Mary  enters — John  tries  to  conceal  his  cigar 
— puts  in  pocket — Mary  smells  smoke — takes  cigar  from  John — 
throws  out  of  window. 

Leader — L'nable  to  smoke  in  the  house,  John  seeks  the  park. 

2.  Park — bench   close   to  camera. 
John  enters — lights  cigar — smokes. 

This  gives  slightly  more  prominence  to  the  scene,  but  it  also  adds  as 
many  lines  to  the  script  as  there  are  scenes.  Lawrence  S.  McCloskey 
uses  this  form. 

1  John's    home — John    sits    smoking — Mary    enters — John    tries    to 

conceal   the   cigar — Puts   in   pocket — Mary  smells  smoke — takes 
cigar   from  John — throws  from  window. 
Leader — L'nable  to  smoke  in   the  house,  John  seeks  the  park. 
2.  Park — bench    close    to    camera — John    enters — lights    cigar — smokes. 

In  Mr.  McCIoskey's  form  the  scene  is  underlined,  the  underline  starting 
from  the  number.  Leaders  and  inserts  start  at  the  five  indentation,  the 
rest  being  indented  ten  spaces.  We  think  that  our  own  form  with  the 
scene  underlined  gives  sufficient  prominence  to  the  scene.  Any  of  these 
ways  is  to  be  preferred  for  clearness  to. 

I 
John's  home. 

John  smoking — Mary  enters — he  tries  to  conceal  his  cigar — puts  in 
pocket — Mary  smells  smoke — takes  cigar  from  John — throws  out  of  window. 
LEADER — Unable  to  smoke  in  the  house,  John  seeks  the  park. 

II 
Park — bench  near  camera. 

John  enters — lights  cigar — smokes. 
Practically    all    studio    writers    number    at    the    side    because    they    know 
that    the    directors    like    the    side    numbers.      Since    it    is    no    more    difficult 
than   the   middle   numbering,   why    not   do   it    right? 


Plain  Silly. 

We  hare  said  that  you  can  get  in  touch  with  the  photoplay  editor  if  he 
likes  your  stuff  and  your  letters  are  the  right  sort,  but  we  are  indebted  to 
William  Wright,  of  the  Kalem  company,  for  a  splendid  example  of  how 
not  to  do  it.  It  was  addressed  to  the  manager  of  the  Kalem  company,  and 
so  went  to  Mr.  Wright,  instead  of  to  the  photoplay  department.  It  is  hand 
written  in  ink  on  a  sheet  of  paper  from  which  the  business  head  has  been 
cut,  leaving  a  bob-tailed  sheet  which  is  of  no  regulation  size.  The  top  is 
ornamented  with  a  picture  of  a  daschund-dragon  on  whose  curved  back 
several  tiny  automobiles  disport  themselves.  Under  the  letter  is  a  sketch 
of  a  demijohn  with  a  snake  in  the  neck,  and  a  comic  paper  Irishman,  with 
a  doggerel  verse  that  the  writer  probably  thought  was  appropriate  to  St. 
Patrick's  Day.     The  text  runs: 

I  asked  you  once  in  plain  French  and  once  on  my  bended 
knuckles  if  you  would  please  be  so  kind  as  to  crack  the  ice  and 
let  me  be  the  biggest  star  in  de  woild  for  the  Kalem  company,  and 
you  didn't  even  "let  me  know  if  the  wind  was  blowing  west  or  south. 
If  you  don't  add  this  freak  you  will  never  keep  the  kale  in  Kalem, 
so  get  busy  and  let  me  know  if  Easter  Sunday  falls  on  Monday 
or  not. 

P.  S. — What  kind  of  tobacco  does  Alice  Joyce  chew? 
The  way  to  get  next  a  company  is  to  make  good.     It  cannot  be  done  by 
showing  how  crazy  you  are,  nor  yet  through  impertinence. 


Like   the   Hornet. 

Make  your  scripts  like  the  hornet.  Put  the  stinger  in  the  tail.  Do  not 
use  up  your  climax  before  you  are  half  way  through  the  action.  Hold  it 
tack  for  the  finish  of  the  story  where  it  belongs.  We  saw  today  a  story 
that  read  first  rate  up  to  the  last  seventy-five  feet  and  then  it  dropped  from 
fast  comedy  into  a  cute  little  love  scene  that,  coming  after  the  faster  action. 
was  deadly  dull.  Pattern  after  the  hornet  style  of  script  and  put  the 
stinger  in  the  tail.  Don't  write  a  snake  story  and  have  all  the  trouble  in 
the  front. 


The  Visual  Fact. 

If  you  read  in  the  paper  that  a  man  was  kilted  at  the  corner  of  Main 
and  Broad  streets,  it  Joes  not  make  one  tenth  the  impression  upon  you 
that  witnessing  the  fact  would  have  done.  The  one  you  have  seen,  the 
other  you  have  merely  read  about.  Bear  this  in  mind  when  you  write 
your  script  and  make  your  facts  visual  that  they  may  impress  more  strongly. 

Even  where  you  have  something  that  must  be  told  in  a  leader,  you 
will  do  well  to  emphasize  that  with  a  short  scene,  though  the  scene  itself 
may  be  absolutely  meaningless  without  the  leader. 

Suppose  that  you  write  that  '"Ten  years  later.  Elsie  has  married  Jim," 
and  start  right  in,  with  this  fact  established,  to  show  that  Tom  comes  to 
tempt  her.  The  audience  may  know  that  this  is  Tom  and  that  she  is 
married  to  Jim,  but  a  five  or  ten  foot  scene  showing  Jim  kissing  Elsie 
good  bye  before  he  starts  to  work,  will  drive  home  the  fact  in  the  leader 
far  better  than  "Ten  years  later.  Elsie  is  married  to  Jim.  Tom  seeks 
to  tempt  her  to  elope,"  and  the  latter  part  of  the  leader  will  take  as  much 
film  as  a  short  scene. 

Too  many  writers  trust  to  the  scene  without  leader,  but  the  man  who 
uses  leader  and  then  drives  home  the  fact  with  a  scene  is  getting  the 
story  over  in  the  best  possible  way. 


Inquiries. 


NOTE — No  questions  can  bo  replied  to  by  mail.  Look  for  your  answers 
here.  A  list  of  addresses  to  which  photoplays  may  be  sent  will  te  mailed 
on  receipt  of  a  STAMPED   AND   ADDRESSED   ENVELOPE. 

D,  f,  F. — It  is  not  a  crime  to  ask.  if  a  certain  actor  is  married,  but  it  Is 
an  impertinence  we  do  not  practise  to  ask  ages.  In  "Private  Smith,"  Sergt. 
Ross  was  Edwin  Carewe,  and  Miss  Edna  Payne  the  girl. 

RTTBENA. — Miss  Gertrude  Bamhrick  was  Bessie  in  "Frappe  Love."  You 
can  search  us  for  Eureka.     Not  guilty,  honest. 

P.   L.  W. — Frank   Dayton  was  Daddy  Welch  in  "The   Return   of  Becky." 

H.  M. — Yale  Boss  appears  in  "Xewcombe's  Necktie."  released  May  2S. 
He  does  not  appear  in  the  Decoration  Day  release,  which  is  the  release  of 
May  27.  Write  the  advertising  department  of  Thomas  A.  Edison,  Inc., 
Orange,  X.  J-,  for  photograph.  We  do  not  know  about  Miss  Buckley.  Mr. 
Cruze  is  with  Thanliouser. 

COPE — in  "The  Bred  of  the  West."  Tom  was  Carl  von  Schiller,  Helen, 
Miss  Dolly  Larkin,  and  Jim  was  Joseph  Holland.  Crane  Wilbur  is  a  charter 
member  of  the  Screen  Club. 

E.  V.  P. — Send  a  stamped  and  addressed  envelope  and  we  will  give  you 
the  first  address.     We  cannot  supply  tue  second. 

W.  B..  B. — A  curse  lie  upon  the  parcels  post!  You  are  wrong.  A  blue 
pencil  is  not  a  copying  pencil.     Shoot  over  the  questions. 

CORRECTION — Elmer  L.  Morrow,  and  not  S.  Clifford  Smith,  played  Lane 
in  "The  Lure  of  the  Violin,"  and  Bob  Worth  in  "The  Struggle."  The  K.  B. 
Identifier  will  please  take  notice. 

J.  S.  N. — In  "Human  Kindness."  Miss  Pauline  Bush  was  the  girl  next  door 
and  Miss  Jessalyn  van  Trump  the  other  one. 

R.  L.  M. — Both  Mutual  and  General  Film,  and  probably  Universal,  ex- 
changes have  stories  played  in  blackface,  or  by  real  negroes.  If  you  are 
interested,  wait  for  some  coming  Lubins.  There  are  four  or  five  comedies 
coming  along  played   largely  or  entirely  by   neg; 

MRS.  G.  V. — Your  stories  would  not  interest  any  film  company.  They  do 
not  purchase  foreign  costume  plays,  and  the  second  wonld  be  more  costly 
than  the  sketch  seems  to  warrant.  Better  save  your  stamps.  If  you  want 
to  sell  scripts,  write  what  the  manufacturers  want,  and  not  what  you  want 
to  write.  We  know  of  no  company,  other  than  Keystone,  that  considers 
synopses  alone. 

E.  H.  0. — Miss  Cassinelll  has  been  with  Essanay  two  or  three  years.  We 
do  not  recall  the  paragraph  you  mention. 

C.  H.  M. — There  is  only  one  real  answer  to  your  question.  Do  not  write 
a  script  with  six  successive  scenes  in  the  same  set.  If  you  do  you  will  not 
be  likely  to  sell  it.  But  you  have  not  six  scenes  in  one  set.  You  have  six 
scenes  along  different  parts  of  the  same  trail.  You  mark  these,  first: 
6 — Trail;  7 — Another  part  of  trail:  S — Another  part  of  trail,  etc.  But  re- 
member that  you  do  not  have  to  show  every  foot  of  the  trail.  A  couple  of 
trail  scenes  should  be  sufficient.  One  scene  is  one  particular  part.  It  would 
not  include  the  entire  trail,  but  only  so  much  of  the  trail  as  the  camera 
can  take  in  at  one  time. 

L,  J.  M. — We  have  no  line  on  Pilot  regarding  the  time  they  hold  a  script, 
but  they  are  good  business  otherwise.  Better  drop  them  a  line  and  ask 
if  they  ever  received  the  script.  We  have  been  advised  that  the  rubber 
stamp  has  been  abolished.  It  was  due  to  the  newness  of  the  department. 
You  are  apt  to  learn  more  from  rejections  than  from  acceptances.  If  your 
stuff  barely  scraped  through,  you  would  keep  on  writing  mediocre  stuff,  but 
rejection  spurs  you  to  further  and  more  painstaking  effort.  Try  to  make 
your  stories  more  original  without  getting  so  original  that  they  are  unbe- 
lievable. 

M.  F.  M. — There  seems  to  be  no  rule  as  to  the  number  of  words  it  is 
permissible  to  use  in  the  synopsis  of  a  two  or  three  part  story,  but  you  can 
get  a  three-part  story  into  250  words  as  easily  as  you  can  the  one  part. 
Remember  you  do  not  have  to  describe  every  minute  detail  in  the  synopses. 
It  is  sufficient  to  give  a  general  idea  of  the  story.  If  you'll  keep  that  fact 
in  mind,  you  may  not  even  need  the  full  250  words,  let  alone  more.  At  the 
same  time,  if  you  need  three  or  four  hundred  words  to  get  the  story  over,  it 
would  be  better  to  use  them  until  you  learn  to  condense. 

LOIS — There's  no  use  making  rules  and  then  breaking  them.  Glad  you 
understand.  The  Biograph  Identifier  has  not  located  the  player  you  want, 
but  is  trying.  It  could  not  have  been  Miss  Handwortu,  who  was  four  thou- 
sand miles  from  the  Biograph  studio  this  winter. 

J.  O'B,— We  do  not  know  of  any  company  that  will  accept  a  half-reel 
Indian  drama.  Selig  does  not  make  Indian  dramas  of  any  sort.  Send  your 
story  to  some  company  that  does  make  them,  and  it  is  probable  that  your 
supposed  half-reel  drama  is  a  full  reel. 

Technique  of  the  Photoplay 

First  edition  is  completely 

SOLD     OUT 

Kindly  send  no  more  orders  or  remittances  for  above. 

Second   edition   in   course    of    preparation.     For   publication 

date  and  price,  see  future  notices. 

CHALMERS   PUBLISHING  COMPANY, 

17  Madison  Avenue,  New  York  City. 


1026 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


Projection  Department 


Edited   by   F.    H.   RICHARDSON 


President  Shay's  Address. 

IT  seems  that  in  setting  forth  the  letter  from  International  President 
Shay,  page  375,  April  26th  issue,  brother  Shay's  address  was  not  given 
for  which  several  corresponden.ts  have  roasted  me.  Apologies,  brothers. 
The  address  is  Charles  E.  Shay,  Room  605,  Gaiety  Theater  Building,  1547 
Broadway,  Xew  York  City. 


That  Sunlight  Projector. 
On  page  276,  April  19th  issue,  Mr.  C.  R.  Stewart  gave  a  partial  descrip- 
tion  of  his  method   of  projecting  moving  pictures  by  means  of  sunlight.     I 
asked  for  further  information  and  it  is  at  hand  as  follows: 

The  cross  bar  is  held  in  place  with  bolt  and  wing  nut  passing 
through  an  upright  IX,  i-inch  piece  of  brass,  which  is  slotted  part 
way  to  receive  it.  This  brass  piece  has  a  swivel  joint  at  the  bottom 
where  it  connects  with  the  base  plate,  and  is  worked  by  cords  at- 
tached to  a  cross  piece,  as  shown.  By  turning  the  drum,  the  mirror 
is  adjusted  as  indicated  in  the  sketch — that  is,  its  support  is  given 
circular  motion;  while  by  turning  the  pinion  gears,  it  is  tilted  either 
way.  When  I  first  tried  it  out.  I  had  a  10  x  14  mirror,  instead  of  a 
round  one.  This  gave  an  oblong  spot  and  cut  the  corners  on  the 
aperture.  I  have  four  adjustments,  but  only  use  two.  With  them, 
however,  I  can  follow  Mr.   Sun  any   place  unless  he  is  gone  to  his 


SB*1* 


Bolted  on  the  back  of  machine  table  and  sets  out  of  window 
from  pivot  bolt.    Center  of  mirror  in  line  with  reading  lamp. 

southern  home  for  the  winter  and  gets  directly  back  of  the  looking 
glass.     I  then  put  another  mirror  on  upright  rods  on  the  back  of  the 
machine  table,  a  little  higher  than  the  round  mirror,  and  reflect  the 
rays  from  that  to  the  round  glass  and  thence  to   the  machine.     I 
hope   this   will   make    everything  clear.     Before   closing,    I    want   to 
compliment  you  on  the   new  handbook.     It  is  gTeat,  as  to  its  con- 
tents; also  the  bookbinder  certainly  knew  his  buisness  since  you  do 
not  have  to  look  for  the  place  you  left  off  if  you  happen  to  lay  it 
down. 
This.    Brother   Stewart,   is   all   plain   enough,   but   that   mirror   would    have 
to  be  slightly  concave  it  strikes  me,   since  you  certainly,  could  not  do  any- 
thing with  a  flat  mirror.     Given  a  concave  mirror,  with  an  accurately,  evenly 
ground  surface,  I  see  no  reason   why   your  scheme  would   not  work  out  all 
right,  though  the  machine  would  have  to  face  the  east  or  south  for  morning 
projection  and  the  west  or  south  for  evening  projection,  unless  you  use  an 
auxiliary   mirror  which  would  mean  a  considerable  weakening  of  the   light. 
When   I  say  that  the  thing  would  work,  I  do  not  wish  to  be  understood  as 
saying   it   is  practical    for  practical   projection   in   a   moving   picture   theater, 
though  I  do  believe  possibly  even  that  might  be  done  by  means  of  some  such 
apparatus  as  this  in  states  like  Arizona,   Colorado  and   New  Mexico,   where 
the  sunshine  is  practically  constant  every  day. 


device,  I  would  think  twice  if  I  were  you  before  going  to  the  expense  of 
a  patent.  It  might  pay  you,  but  I  doubt  it.  By  the  time  you  figure  up 
the  expense  of  advertising  and  introducing  such  a  device;  particularly  if  it 
is  only  adapted  for  use  on  one  make  of  machine,  I  am  afraid  you  will  come 
out  at  the  little  end  of  the  horn.  As  to  the  films,  I  have  sent  your  letter 
to  the  General  Film  Company,  with  a  suggestion  that  they  look  into  the 
matter  and  see  what  can  be  done,  at  least  as  to  the  oil  and  dirt  on  the  films 
of  their  Kansas  City  Exchange.  I  think  it  must  be  the  oil  that  is  causing 
the  out-of-focus  effect,  as  no  other  complaint  of  this  kind  have  reached  me 
lately   concerning  licensed   films. 


Friend  May  Is  Here  Again. 

Mr.  J,  T.  May,   Atchinson,  Kansas,  writes: 

I  have  perfected  a  motor-drive  attachment  for  the  Edison  ma- 
chine. It  applies  the  power  to  large  crank  gear  19,068,  Fig.  102, 
page  230  of  the  handbook.  It  drives  directly  on  the  gear  and  the 
belt  pulley  does  not  frame  with  the  machine.  All  wearing  parts  are 
standard  Edison  gears,  which  can  be  bought  at  any  exchange.  I 
shall  apply  for  a  patent  and  then  send  a  working  model  for  your 
examination  and  approval  or  disapproval.  Now  for  my  customary 
kick:  Why  are  nearly  all  licensed  films  badly  blurred?  This 
trouble  has  been  noticed  in  nearly  every  film  received  from  the 
Kansas  City  exchange  during  the  1  ast  two  weeks.  We  run  twenty- 
day  service  and  the  same  old  complaints  which  were  so  noticeable  at 
Oklahoma  City  are  to  be  found  here,  too.  I  know  the  out-of-focus 
effect  is  not  in  the  machine,  since  the  Pathe.  and  one  or  two  other 
films  were  perfect.  My  boss  is  getting  red-headed  about  it  and 
blames  it  on  me.  I  have  joined  Kansas  City  Local  170.  All  the 
boys  are  first  rate  fellows  and  we  have  a  good  union. 

As  to   the  motor-drive,    Brother    May,    while   you   may   have   an    excellent 


Edison  Titles  and  Other  Things. 

Mr.  M.  B.  Watson,  Sedalia,  Missouri,  bs 

I  see  you  ask  for  information  regarding  the  sub-titles  of  Edison 
films  making  more  noise  than  the  body  of  the  film.  I  have  noticed 
this  several  times  myself,    and    so   has  my  manager.     I   would  like  • 

also  to  say  that  the  photography  of  some  of  the  Essanay  and  Edison 
films    is    so    dense    that    there    is    difficulty    in    getting    good    light 
through   it. 
I  have  referred  this  matter  to  the  Edison  Company  for  investigation.    As 
to  the  photography,  possibly  you  are  trying  to  get  light  through  these  films 
without  using  light  of  sufficient  strength.     Some  of  the  Edison  and  Essanay 
photography  is  rather  dense,  but  some  of  it  is  intended  to  be  that  way  and 
produces  a  highly  artistic  effect.     You  will   probably  notice  that  the  whites 
in   these    films   are   clear,   brilliant   and   white — just   as   they    should  be.     As 
to  your  complaint  concerning  non-receipt  of  handbook,  I  will  look  into  the 
matter  immediately.    The  Edison  Co.  says  same  stock  and  perforator  is  used 
for  sub-titles  and  body  of  film,  therefore  there  ought  to  be  no  difference  in 
their  running. 


Charles   E.   Schneider's   Supply   House. 

Above  is  a  picture  of  the  showroom  of  Charles  E.  Schneider's  Supply 
House,  Springfield,  Mass.  Mr.  Schneider  requests  me  to  say  that  he  is 
the  distributor  for  Power's  Cameragraph  for  that  section  of  the  country. 
Friend  Schneider  began  the  supply  business  in  a  very  small  way.  He 
saw  an  opening  in  Springfield,  and,  while  holding  down  a  position  as  op- 
erator, took  up  the  supply  business  a=  a  side  line.  Through  careful  atten- 
tion   to    business,    coupled   with    square   dealing,   he   finally    reached   a   point 


where  the  operating  end  of  it  could  be  dispensed  with.  He  has  now  moved 
into  new,  commodious  quarters  at  No.  257  Main  Street,  and  devotes  his 
entire  attention  to  the  sales  of  moving  picture  supplies  and  to  the  repairing 
of  projection  mechanisms.  Brother  Schneider  is  a  member  of  Springfield 
Operators'  Union  No.  186,  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  He  is  to  be  seen  seated  at  the 
second  desk,  apparently  reading  a  letter  from  a  customer.  From  the 
pleased  expression  on  his  countenance,  we  should  say  the  aforesaid  cus- 
tomer is  ordering  at  least  $2,964.95  worth  of  goods,  cash  with  the  order. 


Globe  Coloring. 

Mr.  M.  Osborn,  Kingsville,  Texas.,  wants  a  formula  for  coloring  in- 
candescent globes  that  will  not  wash  off.  Brother  Osborn  will  find  this 
formula  set  forth  on  page  416  of  the  Handbook.  If  he  has  not  a  copy 
of  that  book.  I  would  advise  him  to  remit  $2.50  to  The  Moving  Picture 
World  and  obtain  one. 


THE    MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


1027 


Pre-Convention  Discussion. 

Brother  \V.  G.  Woods,  President  San  Francisco  Theatrical  Federation, 
and  for  five  years  President  of  San  Francisco  Local  Union  162  (M.  P. 
Operators),  sends  the  following: 

I  note  your  suggestion,  May  3rd  issue,  that  locals  sending  dele- 
gates to  the  coming  convention  and  proposing  to  introduce  legis- 
lation for  their  own  benefit  and  ihe  benefit  of  the  craft  in  general, 
should  submit  same  for  publication  and  discussion,  in  order  that 
other  locals  might  be  in  a  position  to  indorse  understandingly  or 
reject  these  proposed  laws,  and  so  instruct  their  delegates.  I  heart- 
ily approve  ef  your  suggestion,  believing  such  a  course  to  be  not 
only  advisable,  but  necessary,  if  any  concerted  action  is  to  be  had. 
It  may  be  difficult  to  thus  secure  unity  of  action  on  many  of  the 
proposed  laws,  as  each  local's  opinion  will  no  doubt  be,  to  some 
extent,  swayed  by  conditions  in  its  own  locality,  while  other  proposi- 
tions may  meet  with  the  approval  of  the  operators  and  the  disap- 
proval of  the  Stage  Mechanics,  or  vice-versa.  But  I  believe  there 
is  at  least  one  common  cause  upon  which  ALL  must  unite,  the 
building  up  of  a  more  perfect  organisation.  Without  going  into  de- 
tails concerning  the  mass  of  figures  I  have  before  me,  I  believe 
the  operators  to  be  not  more  than  20  per  cent,  organized,  if  they  are 
that.  As  regards  stage  mechanics,  I  am  not  in  a  position  to  speak 
authoritatively,  but  was  much  surprised  to  learn  that  their  per- 
centage was  not  larger  than  it  is.  I  believe  the  appeal  President 
Shay  made  at  the  last  convention  for  better  organization,  was 
largely  brought  about  by  his  great  New  Orleans  fight,  which  ended 
in  glorious  victory,  where  one  of  the  hardest  things  he  had  to 
contend  with  was  the  supply  of  more  or  less  experienced  non-union 
stage  mechanics  from  adjacent,  unorganized  cities. 
President   Shay  said   in   part: 

"The  experience  met  with  by  your  general  executive  officers 
during  the  past  year — particularly  my  own — has  proven  to  me,  with- 
out any  question  of  a  doubt,  that  if  we  wish  to  protect  the  inter- 
ests of  the  locals  we  now  have  in  affiliation,  and  increase  the  power 
we  possess,  we  must  put  competent,  active  organizers  in  the  field. 
—We  must  break  away  from  the  idea  of  expecting  those  cities  to 
come  to  us — and  I  warn  you  now  that  those  cities  we  allow  to 
remain  unorganized  are  nothing  more  or  less  than  schools  for  the 
education  of  men  to  take  our  places  in  time  of  trouble,  and  if 
we  neglect  them  we  are  simply  inviting  our  own  ultimate  destruc- 
tion," etc.,  etc. 

With  such  words,  coming  from  one  who  knew  whereof  he  spoke, 
ringing  in  their  ears,  what  did  the  convention  do?  Answer: 
Raised  the  per  capita  tax  and — promptly  forgot  the  whole  matter;  a 
mistake  amounting  to  a  crime,  and  one  which  must  not  be  again 
committed,  if  we  expect  to  preserve  our  organization.  I  say  this 
for  the  reason  that  if  we  continue  to  neglect  the  organization 
of  our  own  craft,  other  internationals  are  likely  to  be  more  wide 
awake  and  do  it  for  us  (for  themselves,  more  likely.  Ed.),  to  our 
everlasting  sorrow  and  disgrace.  How  best  to  accomplish  this  work 
of  organization  should  be  at  once  taken  up  by  every  local  in  the 
orginization,  and  some  plan  be  discussed  and  settled  upon,  so 
that  concerted  action  may  be  had  at  the  convention,  and  thus  real 
progress  be  made.  And,  believing  this  discussion  to  be  vital  to 
the  interests  of  the  organization;  also  that  we  have  nothing  to  be 
ashamed  of,  or  any  dark,  deadly  secrets  to  hide,  why  should  we 
not  avail  ourselves  of  the  medium  offered,  the  Projection  Depart- 
ment, and  therein  set  forth  our  various  views?  Thus  every  local 
in  the  entire  organization  will  have  the  opportunity,  without  one 
cent  of  expense  to  either  the  international  or  the  union,  to  acquaint 
itself  with  the  various  plans,  discuss  them  and,  sqjecting  that  which 
seems  to  offer  most  promise,  instruct  its  delegate  to  the  convention 
to    vote    and    work    for    it. 

And  now  permit  mc  to  offer  a  few  suggestions  which  may  be 
found  worthy  of  discussion  by  the  brothers:  (A)  Eliminate  the 
1914  convention,  thus  saving  more  than  $35,000  to  the  locals  and 
international,  and,  in  its  place,  call  a  meeting  of  the  General 
Executive  Board,  which  can  settle  small  matters,  while  large  ones 
<an  be  submitted  to  the  membership  for  referendum  vote.  The 
adoption  of  this  plan  would  call  for  the  election  of  our  officers 
for  a  two-year  term,  or  else  an  election  by  referendum  in  the 
off  year.  (B)  Dispense  with  four  or  five  of  our  present  nine 
Vice-Presidents,  not  that  they  have  not  been  necessary  in  the  past, 
Or  that  their  work  has  not  been  faithfully  performed,  nor  yet  that 
they  have  not  done  more  than  they  were  paid  for,  but  solely  for 
the  reason  that  the  money  can  better  be  expended  in  helping  to 
place  active  organizers  constantly  in  the  field,  at  full  pay.  Organiz- 
ers will  not  only  bring  better  results  in  the  way  of  increased 
numerical  strength,  but  also  more  than  return  their  cost  in  added 
Tevenue.  These  organizers  should  be  four  or  five  in  number  and 
should  be  paid  not  less  than  Si.Soo  per  year,  with  reasonably 
ample  expense  money,  and  should  be  appointed  by  President  Shay 
(I  say  Shay,  believing  that  his  work  during  the  past  two  years  has 
been  of  such  value  to  us  that  we  would  be  worse  than  foolish 
to  retire  him — provided  he  will  consent  to  serve  again)  rather  than 
elected.  I  name  $1,800  as  salary  because  men  competent  to  suc- 
cessfully perform  such  work  can  readily  command  that  salary, 
without  experiencing  the  discomforts  of  road  work.  I  say  they 
■should  be  appointed,  rather  than  elected,  because,  if  the  latter, 
the  positions  are  apt  to  be  filled  with  "good  fellows,"  whose  only 
qualification  for  the  job  is  the  fact  that  they  are  personally  popu- 
lar enough  to  scratch  up  enough  votes  from  unthinking  men  to 
secure    the    job. 

A   debit  and  credit  account   should   be  kept  with  each   organizer 
and  his  work  should  be  closely  checked,  both  as  to  financial  returns 
and  the  general   effect   of  his  work. 
Brother  Woods  then  goes  on  to  explain,   at  length,  his  views  as  to  how 
the  organizers  ought  to  be  handled,   and  to   give  figures   and  facts  proving 
that  they  would  actually  not  cost  the   organization   a   single   penny,  in   that 
revenues   would  be   increased  as   a   direct  result   of  their   work,   more   than 


the  entire  expense  would  amount  to.  But  inasmuch  as  to  set  forth  his 
argument,  excellent  as  it  is,  in  full,  would  occupy  much  space,  and  inas- 
much as  I  do  not  believe  any  thinking  man  will  seriously  dispute  the 
proposition  that  organizers  are  sadly  needed,  or  that  their  work  would  re- 
turn full  value  lo  the  organization,  I  think  I  will  ask  Brother  Woods  to 
pardon  me  If  I  do  not  print  the  entire  letter.  He  says,  however,  that 
"four  organizers  in  the  field  for  an  entire  year  would  cost,  in  round  num- 
bers, $14,000,  from  which  should  be  deducted  $4,000  saved  in  salary  of 
the  four  Vice-Presidents  dispensed  with,  whose  places  would  be  filled  by 
the  organizers."  He  further  says:  "I  find  from  the  quarterly  reports  of 
the  Secretary,  without  going  into  details,  that  the  end  of  the  present  year 
should  see  an  increase  of  about  1.600  members,  with  an  increase  in  in- 
come, counting  charter  fees,  of  about  $4,200  for  the  year.  This  is  a  vol- 
untary, practically  unassisted  increase,  and  it  is  inconceivable  to  think 
that  it  would  not  be  many  times  greater  with  the  aid  of  competent  or- 
ganizers in  tbe  field." 

Right,  brother,  but  in  your  calculations  you  fail  to  take  into  account 
the  saving  of  approximately  $40,000  if  the.  next  convention  be  dispensed 
with.  By  substituting  the  bi-annual  fcr  the  annual  convention  we  will 
lose  absolutely  nothing  in  effectiveness,  and  need  not  worry  over  revenue 
with  which  to  keep  four,  or  even  five  organizers  in  the  field.  I  heartily 
indorse  brother  Woods'  views  and  would  like  to  see  this  matter  discussed 
freely.  It  is  of  paramount  importance,  but  in  order  to  handle  so  large 
a  matter  the  delegates  simply  must  study  and  discuss  the  ins  and  outs  of 
it   beforehand. 


From  Hagerstown,  Maryland. 

Mr.  Norman  Taschmare,  Hagerstown,  Maryland,  gives  news  of  his  city  as 
follows: 

We  have  three  show  houses  here,  two  picture  and  one  picture  and 
vaudeville.     One  house  employs  anybody  who  can  thread  a  machine 
and  feed   the  lamp,   to  operate.      I  presume  you  can  imagine   what 
kind  of  a  show  they  have.     We  run   four  eleven-day  reels,  and   I 
think   the   brother   in   Harrisburg   uses   them   next.     Guess   he   finds 
them  in  good  condition,  which  is  more  than  I  do  when  they  reach 
me.     Sometimes  they  are  torn  in  two  places  but  not  patched,  which 
requires  stopping  the  machine  to  thread  again.     Brother  Dalrymple's 
idea,  published  recently,  is  good.     I  want,  before  closing,  to  say  a 
good  word   for  the  Power's  Six  A,  as  well  as  for   its  simple  little 
motor-drive  attachment.     If  Brother  Fowler,   of  Ohio,   will  explain 
more  definitely  as  to  his  Six  A  jump,  perhaps  I  can  help  him. 
It  is  a  strange  thing  that  your  manager  will  stand  for  the  exchange  sending 
you    reels   in   such   condition,   and   it   is  queer   that   an   exchange   will    think 
little  enough  of  its  own  reputation  to  send   out  reels  which  evidently  have 
not  been   inspected   at   all.     That   particular   exchange    evidently   needs    stir- 
ring up  with  a  prod-pole.     I  wish  I  knew  what  one  it  is  so  I  could  name  it. 


As  to   the  Handbook. 

Mr.  Joe  Sher,  Hibbing,  Minnesota,  writes: 

I  believe  your  handbook  is  beyond  praise,  therefore  will  not  try 
to  tell  you  how  good  it  is.     I  not  only  read  it  through  once  when  I 
got  it,  but  keep  on  reading  it,  for  I  could  not  get  along  without  it. 
In  my  opinion,  an  operator  without  the  handbook  and  the  Moving 
Picture  World,  is  like  a  steam-engine  without  steam.     Also,  if  all 
managers    would    wake    up    for    once    and    get   themselves    a    hand- 
book,  there  would  soon  be  better   projection   all   over. the   country, 
and  no  more  ushers   cutting  good  men  out  of  jobs;  for  the  simple 
reason  that  they,  the  managers,  would  know  what  constitutes  a  good 
picture  and  want  nothing  but  the  best.     And  now  for  a  question: 
would   a    half -size   lens    give   a    better   and    clearer    picture    than   a 
quarter  ^ize?     We  project  a  r  4 -foot  picture  at  84  feet.     Is  there  any 
way  by  which  the  picture  could  be  reduced  by  about  two  feet,  with- 
out   getting    a    new    lens? 
We    appreciate    your    kind    words    as    regards    the    book,    Neighbor    Sher. 
Naturally   we   are  not  going  to  fight  with   you   on   that  subject.     As   to  the 
lens,   you  could    reduce  the   size   of  the   picture   two   feet  by   having   a   ring 
made   to   move  the   lens  combinations   farther  apart,   but  the  chances   are  a 
hundred  to  one  that  you  would  not  get  a  sharp  picture  with  the  lens  thus 
remodeled.     The  best  and  only  scheme  is  to  get  a  new  lens.     Probably  your 
exchange  would  swap  lenses  with  you  on  a  payment  of  a  small  bonus.     As 
to  the  half-size,  I  do  not  think  you  would  find  much  of  any  improvement,  and 
if  you  are   using  an   outside  shutter   machine   you   might   have  trouble   with 
travel  ghost  with  the  half-size  lens. 


Stereopticon  Flood. 

Mr.   H.   K.   Nowlan,   Hinton,  West  Virginia,   says: 

In  April   26th  issue  you   say  you  cannot  use   the   stereopticon  as 
a  flood.      However,   I  use   it  to   cover  an   extra  large^  stage   with   a 
very  short   throw    as   follows:    I   remove    the    objective,    and    run 
the  crater  back  as  far  as  possible.      What  is  the  joke  on  us  all   in 
May  3rd  issue?     I  have  a  peculiar  little  trouble  of  my  own.    About 
every  four  revolutions  of  the  crank  there  is  a  come-and-go  effect, 
which    only   acts   on    distant    objects.      I    have    asked    a   number   of 
persons   if    they    can    notice    it    and    they    say    they    cannot.      But 
just  the  same  it  worries  me. 
As    to    the    stereopticon    proposition,    I    have    expressed    my   views.      You 
get  a  flood  on   the  back  focus  of  the   condenser   that   way,    but   it  certainly 
cannot  be  a  very  good  one.     The  joke  consists  in  the  fact  that  not  only  is 
the   lamp  connected   in  the  wrong  place,  but   the   economizer  is  connected 
the  same   as  a  rheostat.     With  an  economizer,   neither  line  connects  direct 
to  the  lamp,  but  both  pass  through  the  economizer.     As  to  the  come-and-go 
effect,    I   cannot  say   what  it   is,   unless  your  film   is  buckling  slightly   as  it 
Pisces  over  the  aperture.     But  that  ought  to  affect  all  objects  in  the  center 
of  the  picture. 


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THE    MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


Handbook  Errors. 
Mr.   Chauncey  Coleman,  »f  Local  150,  I.  A.  T.   S.   E.,  Long  Beach,  Cali- 
fornia, says: 

The  second  edition  of  your  Handbook  is  a  work  of  great  merit. 
I  wish  to  thank  you  personally  for  the  information  I  have  secured 
therefrom. 

Brother  Coleman  then  points  out  a  number  of  minor  errors  in  the  book, 
some  of  which  have  already  been  noted  in  the  department. 

We  wish  to  thank  him  for  his  kindness,  as  well  as  for  his  appreciation  of 
our  work,  and  to  assure  him  that  the  errors  have  been  made  note  of. 


Setting  the  Shutter. 

Alfred   Fowler.  Alliance,   Ohio,  writes: 

I  had  a  little  trouble  a  month  or  two  ago  and  I  want  you  to  tell 
me  how  a  machine  will  cut  a  film  like  attached  sample.     I  examined 
the  machine  thoroughly  and  cannot  find  out  what  did  it.     My  idlers 
are  not  riding  on  the  sprockets  at  all.     I  have  a  method  of  setting 
the   shutter   which    is   very   satisfactory-      Thread    the    machine    and 
frame  the  picture,  then  turn  the  fly-wheel  until  the  dividing  line  of 
the  picture  is  exactly  half  way  across  the  aperture.      Now,  set  the 
shutter   so   that  the   center   of  its  main  blade   is   exactly  half  way 
across  the  lens. 
As   to   the   film   cutting,    it   is   hard   to    say    what    would   do   it.      The    cut 
occurs  a  little  inside  the  center  of  the  sprocket  holes.      Some  of  the  uncut 
sprocket  holes  show  a  sharp  scratch  mark  across  and  some  do  not.     It  looks 
as    if    there    was    a   very    thin    knife-edge    somewhere,    slitting   the    sprocket 
holes.      The    first    place    I    would    look    would    be    in    the    fire    traps    of   the 
magazines.     Such  things  are  sometimes  very  difficult  to  locate.     Your  shut- 
ter setting  scheme  is   O.    K.    with   an    inside   shutter.      It   can   be  used  with 
outside  shatter  also,   of  course,   but  the  method  given   in   the   Handbook   is 
better. 


His  Medicine  and  Food. 
Samuel  McBride,  New  York  City,  writes; 

I    am    not   a   moving   picture   operator,    but    I    am    nevertheless   a 
constant  reader  of  the   department,   which   forms  j.art  of  my   medi- 
cine and  food  every  week.     When  in   trouble,   we  all   deem   it  wise 
to  consult   the   editor    of   the   department.      Now   my   whole   trouble 
is  I  want  to  make  a  transparent  screen  for  a  street  Cinematograph 
show  and  I  do  not  know  how  to  accomplish  it.     Can  you  make  any 
suggestions,   or   inform    me    where    I    can    purchase   such    a    screen? 
I    have    everything    else    planned    out    for    a    street    motion    picture 
peep-show.      The   transparent  screen   is   my   only   difficulty.      I   have 
the   new  Handbook  and  have  had  it  ever   since   it  came   out. 
Then,    my   dear   boy,  what   are   you   asking   these   questions   for?      If  you 
will  turn  to  page  342  you  will  see  how   a  transparent  screen  can  be  made. 
You    will    also    see    that    the    mirror    screen    people  can    supply    you    with    a 
transparent  ground-glass  screen.     The  ground  glass  screen  is  the  best  there 
is  in   transparent   screens.     Address   the   Mirror   Screen  Company,   Frank  J. 
Rembush   President,    Shelbyville,   Indiana. 


Wants  to  Join. 

Pennsylvania  asks  for  instructions  how  to  join  the  operators'  union.  I 
would  advise  Pennsylvania  to  communicate  with  Mr.  Charles  Shay,  whose 
address  is  at  the  head  of  this  week's  department. 


From  New  Zealand. 

Mr.  E.  Miles  Lamuel,  Wellington.  New  Zealand    writes: 

I  am  not  an  operator,  nor  am  I  connected  in  any  way  with  the 
picture  business,  but  I   trust   I   will   not  prove   the   less  welcome   to 
the  department,  every  word  of  which  I  read  each  week.     I  have  a 
question  to  ask:     Why  is  it  that  an  ordinary  black  and  white  film 
projected  upon  the  screen  will  often  show  a  colored  rainbow  in  spray 
or   falling   water?      Projection   in   Xew   Zealand   is    fair,   but   condi- 
tions in  most  of  the  operating  rooms  would  shock   you.      I    was  in 
one    the     other     evening     in     which    there     were     no     spool     boxes 
(magazines — Ed. )    in    u£e    on    the   pro'ection    machine,    the    take-up, 
motor   Jriven.   being    on   the   floor    underneath    the    operating   table, 
the  film  therefore  being  exposed  for  its  whole  length  to  any  chance 
spark    or    other    means    of    ignition.      This    was    in    an    up-to-date 
theater.     Upon  my  speaking  to  the  manager  about  it.  he  said:     "Oh, 
the   operators  like   it  that   way."      Nothing   doing    for    them    in    the 
States  I   guess.      In   New   Zealand   there   is  no   test   or  examination 
to   pass   in   order   to   become   an    operator,    with   the  result   that,   in 
many  cases,  an  operator  knows  next   to  nothing  about  his  business. 
Have  a  copy  of  your  new  Handbook  which  I  am  greatly  enjoying. 
Vim   are  to  be   congratulated  in   the  avoidance  of  too  technical   writ- 
ing, thereby  making  the  book  of  as  great  interest  to  the  outsider  as 
to  the  manager  or  operator,   for  whom   the   work  is  intended. 
You  are  welcome  to  the  department,  neighbor  I.amuel,  and  I  am  sure  the 
description  of  operating  room  conditions  in   New  Zealand  will  be  interesting 
to  our  readers.     There  can  be  no  colored   rainbow   effect  shown    in  a  black 
and    white    film.      The   colors   you    see   mint    be   due    to    fault    in    the   carbon 
setting.      Where   alternating  current    is    used    there    is   frequently   a    rainbow 
effect  on   the  screen,  but  this  ought  to  show  in   any  light  scene  as  well  as 
on   a  spray   or  waterfall.     Of  course,   it  is  always   quite   possible    that   there 
will  be  a  rainbow  effect  in  a  water  fall,  or  anywhere  else  that  there  is  sun- 
light and  a  spray  of  water,  but  this  would  not  he  reproduced  on   screen  in 
color.     The  conditions  your  describe  are  very,  very  bad   indeed.      No  doubt 
the  New  Zealand  managers  will  continue  this  kind  of  foolish  procedure  un- 
til there  is  a  bad  fire,  and  a  lot  of  people  are  hurt  in  the   resultant  panic. 
Then  the  authorities  will  jump  in   and   enact  a  lot   of  stringent  laws,  goine 
to  the  other  extreme,  and  causing  the  managers  much  useless  expense.    The 
managers  will  then  put  up  a  tremendous  howl,  but,  the  fact  of  the  matter  is. 
they  are   simply  inviting  that  sort   of  thing,  and  sooner  or  later  they  will 
get  it,  too. 


Correct. 

Mr.  Travas  Ranch.  Xew  Orleans,  Louisiana,  sends  the  correct  solution  of 
the  "Joke  On  Us  All."  I  would  like  to  have  a  letter  from  him,  or  some 
one  else,  setting  forth  conditions  in  New  Orleans,  as  well  as  any  other  mat- 
ters of  general  interest. 


Some  Kickers. 

Mr.   Frank  B.  Payne.  Adrian,  Michigan,  writes: 

This    is    my    first    attempt    to    butt    in    on    you.      What   is   your 
opinion  of  the  enclosed  ad?     This  is  a  village  of  10,000  people  and 
has   four   shows.     We  all   open   from    1:30  to  4:30,   and   from   6:30 
to  9:30.     One  house  runs  three  reels  and  two  single  acts  of  vaude- 
ville  (vaudeville    ?*?*   you  know  the  type).      My  manager  says  he 
would  not  book  an  act  of  such  brush-lot  burlesque  if  he  were  paid 
twenty  dollars  a   night   to   do   it.     I,   myself,   think  that   such   stuff 
certainly   ruins  the   dignity  of  the  house  showing  it.     This   is  one 
of  those  towns   where   they   want  grand   opera   for   five   cents,   and 
then    kick   if  the  added  attraction   is  not  a   three-ring  circus.      We 
have  a  six  day,  three  reel  service,  which  insures  a  good,  clean-cut 
show  at  all  times.     Inspectors  were  through  here  recently  and  told 
me  that  I  had  one  of  the  finest  equipped  and  safest  operating  rooms 
they  had  seen  in  a  long  time,  which  was,   I  thought.  quite  a  com- 
pliment.     Some    of    those    who    claim    the    best   projection    for    the 
larger  cities  will  do  well  to  look  around  a  little.      I  am  in  a  com- 
paratively   small    tewn,    but    if   I   could    not    put   on    my    work   any 
better  than   some  I   have  seen  in  large  cities,   I   would  get  a  long- 
handled   shovel  and  apply  to  the   street   commissioner  for  work.      I 
know    that    some   crank  artists   are   only   looking   for   quitting   time 
and  pay  day,  instead  of  for  results  on  the  screen.     Yes,  unfortunate- 
ly,  that  is  a   fact  which  cannot  be  disputed.      But   here  the  people 
are  educated  to  real   pictures  and   we  cannot  hand   them  junk  and 
rotten   projection  and  get  away  with  it.     They  go  where  good  pro- 
jection   and   rainless  films   rule,   and   the   place   that   has   neither  of 
these,    stands   about   as   much   show   as   the   proverbial    snow-ball    in 
Gehenna.    I  project  a  12  foot  picture  at  54  feet,  using  40  amperes, 
*  10    volt,    a.    c,    through    an    old    style    Fort    Wayne    compensarc, 
which,   however,  delivers  the  goods.      I   have  not  had  to  touch  my 
machine    with    a    tool    of    any    description,    since   setting    it    up    last 
Septenrber.     I  just  use  the  oil  can  and  a  clean  rag,  as  is  required, 
but  my   oil   can  does  not  proJuce  a  shower  bath.      I  have   been   in 
the  game  since  the  two-bushel-sack-take-up  days,   which,   I  presume* 
you   will   remember;   but   I   am   still   learning  something  every   day. 
What  do  you  think  of  a  certain  place  here  who  paid  a  real  sweet, 
young  boy-child   two    dollars   and   fifty    cents    ($2.50!    per   zt-eek   all 
winter,  for  operating  a  picture  machine?     I  know  this  sounds  fishy, 
but    nevertheless   it   is  true.      What   would   be    the   penalty   for   this 
were  you  the  judge? 
I  dunno,  brother  Payne,  just  what  I  would  do  to  that  gink,  but  I  beiieve' 
I  would  condemn  him  to  work  tweJve  hours  a  day  for  one  year  on  a  salary 
or  bread  and  water,  but  I  would  limit  the  water.     Maybe  he  would  starve  to 
death  before  the  year  was  jp,  which  would  be  well  for  all  concerned.     The 
advertisement   you   enclose  is  excellent.      I   thoroughly  agree   with   you   with 
regard  to  cheap  vaudeville.     I  have  often  said  that  it  is  worse  than  nothing 
at  all.      The   manager  who  cannot  succeed  without  incorporating  such  junk 
in  his  bill  is  not  likely  to  succeed  to  any  large  extent  anyhow.     No,  brother 
Payne,  that  kind  of  stuff  does  not  lower  the  dignity  of  the  house.     It  kicks 
it  out  the  alley  door.     Very  likely,  the  people  of  Adrian   demand  excessive 
values    in    their    amusement,    for    rhe    very    simple    reason    that    the    Adrian 
managers  haze  educated  tliem  to  do  so  and — there  you   are.      No,  the  good 
projection  is  not  all  in  the  large  cities — far  from  it. 


Joining  the  Union. 

Georgia  writes  as  follows: 

Will   you   kindly   publish   the   correct   address   of   Mr.    Charles  C. 
Shay.  International  President  of  the  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.?     I  am  anxious 
to  join  a  union  but.  as  I  am  the  only  operator  in  this  city,  popu- 
lation 6,000,  I  am  barred  out,  because  I  cannot  overcome  such  rules 
as  that  requiring  that   I   have  three   union  men  vouch   for  me  and 
work  the  required  time   in   another  city,  so  that  I   can  join.     If  I 
were    in,    say    Atlanta,    and    had    worked    there    a    required    time,    I 
could  join  with  absolutely  no   trouble,   since,  even   though   I   say  it 
myself.    I   am  capable   in   every   way.  but   am   unfortunate   in  being 
situated  ;;s   I   am.      Read  up  the  rules  and   regulations  of  the  I.  A. 
T.    S.    E.    and    you    will    understand   my   position.      It   seems   to   me 
something  could  be  done  for  operators  thus  situated,  but  we  can  do 
absolutely    nothing   to   help    ourselves.      I    gave    it   a   thorough    trial 
and,  of  course,  failed.     Can  you  not  take  our  side  in  this  matter  and 
give  the  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  a  blowing-up  for  such  foolishness?  Of  course, 
such  Jaws  could  be  made  to  cover  our  cases.     I  am  sure  you  would 
have    the    thanks   of   very   many    small    town    operators    if,    through 
your  valuable   department,   you   could  help  the   cause  of   the   "lame 
operator."     I  am  sure  you  could  help  us  in  this  matter.     As  to  your 
Handbook — veil.  I   simply  could  not  do  without  it. 
This  matter  has  been  dealt  with  in  the  department  and  I  would  prefer  not 
to  take  it  up  apain  just  now,  since  I  think  it  would  be  taken  care  of  by  the 
coming    convention.      M:>st    emphatically,    if    you   are   a   competent  operator, 
U    claim   to  be,   and   are   able   to   prove  yourself  to   be   a  man  of  good 
character,   the  organization   ought  to  be   able  to  take   you   in.      There   is  no 
leason   why  you  should  be   barred.     There  are,   however,  things   to  be   said 
on  both   sides  of  questions  of  this  kind,  but  inasmuch  as  both  sides  of  the 
matter    were    pretty   thoroughly  discussed   in  this  department    (and  by  some 
they   were  cussed,  without  the  dis),  something  like  a  year  ago,  I   would  not 
feel   justified    in    taking   it    up   again  just   now,   particularly   in   view   of   the 
fact  that  I  understand  the  convention  will  take  action  which  will  cover  this 
matter   in   a   satisfactory    way.      I   have   forwarded   your   letter   to   President 
Shay,   whose  address  is  at  the  head  of  the  department  this  week. 


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Quo  Vadis — Magnificent. 

Por  the  first  time  in  all  my  connection  with  the  moving  picture  business 
I  have  been  able  to  sit  through  a  lengthy  moving  picture  production  without 
finding  anything  to  criticise,  or  at  least  the  criticisms  possible  were  of  such 
trivial  nature  as  to  be  practically  of  no  value.  Last  week  I  attended  the 
production  of  "Quo  Vadis,"  at  the  Astor  Theater,  on  Broadway,  from  8:30 
until  11  o'clock,  with  two  short  intermissions,  corresponding  to  the  usual 
waits  between  acts  in  a  regular  dramatic  performance.  I  viewed  the  pio- 
duction,  which  did  much  to  encourage  my  faith  in  the  future  of  the  moving 
picture  as  the  permanent  form  of  amusement.  The  production  was  put  on 
by  operators  Thomas  Walker  and  Charles  H.  Hathaway,  both  members  of 
Branch  No.  2,  of  Local  Union  35,  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  I  take  great  pleasure  in 
complimenting  these  gentlemen  upon  their  performance.  The  light  was 
white,  brilliant  and  magnificently  handled.  The  films  were  run  at  the 
proper  speed  and  there  was  little  or  nothing  to  criticise  in  the  projection. 
This  is  indeed  a  remarkable  performance  when  one  considers  that  it  covers 
a  space  of  two  hours  and  a  half,  or  more  than  two  hours  actual  running. 
In    all    that    time   there    was    scarcely   a    perceptible    flaw   in    the    projection. 


A  Good  Idea. 

In  many  instances  much  trouble  has  been  caused  managers  in  inducing 
women  to  remove  their  hats.  You  will  observe  I  said  women.  I  use  the 
term  advisedly,  because  a  lady  would  not  think  of  doing  anything  else. 
Recently  a  ticket  of  the  Astor  Theater  of  New  York  City,  came  into  my 
possession  and  I  note  on  the  back  of  it  the  following:  "This  ticket  is  sold 
with  the  understanding  and  agreement  that  if  a  lady  uses  same,  she  will 
remove  her  bat  upon  the  request  of  any  employee  of  the  management."  I 
see  no  reason  why  moving  picture  theater  tickets  should  not  be  printed 
with  this  clause  on  the  back.  It  ought  not  to  cost  much,  if  anything 
extra  and  certainly  would  be  of  value  when  a  dispute  arose,  as  they  too 
often  do.  But  I  think  it  would  tend  to  induce  women  to  remove  their 
headgear  and  thus  eliminate  the  disputes.  The  idea  seems  to  me  to  be  a 
good  one. 


Changing  the  Edison  Framer. 

Brother  Bertram  Williams,  Ponca  City,  Oklahoma,  whom  I  called  down. 
May  3rd  issue,  for  sending  in  drawings  done  in  colored  ink,  now  submits 
sketches,  in  black,  of  the  way  he  changed  the  framing  lever  of  his  Edison 
Exhibition  Model.  In  May  3rd  issue  letter,  my  honorable  stenographer 
mvst  bear  the  blame  for  an  error.     Inasmuch  as  the  framing  lever  is  never 


14  inches  long,  it  could  hardly  be  "reduced  to  14  inches  long.''  It  should 
have  read  four  inches,  instead  of  fourteen.  Apologies,  brother  Williams. 
The  accompanying  sketcn  is  self-explanatory,  and  a  framing  lever  thus  placed 
would  undoubtedly  be  convenient  to  the  operator.  We  therefore  thank 
brother  Williams  for  contributing  the  idea. 


He  Lives  to  Learn. 

Mr.   H.   F.   Hawley,  Yincennes,   Indiana,  writes: 

Have  been  studying  the  Handbook  ever  since  it  was  received. 
Had  a  chance  to  sell  it  three  or  four  times,  but  nothing  doing. 
Thought  I  knew  considerable  about  the  moving  picture  business, 
but  after  studying  that  book  I  came  to  the  conclusion  I  still  have 
something  to  learn.  I  do  not  see  how  any  operator  can  get  along 
•without  it.  I  know  if  I  were  manager  of  a  theater  I  would 
certainly  see  that  my  operator  was  supplied  with  one.  We  have 
just  taken  over  another  house  here  and  are  trying  to  put  it  in 
first  class  condition.  Have  installed  a  gold  fibre  screen  and  a 
new  Power's  Six-A  machine.  The  operating  room  is  10  x  12, 
with  a  12  foot  ceiling,  and  has  four  24  inch  windows,  opening  to 
the  air  at  the  ceiling.  It  is  lined  with  asbestos,  but  we  intend  to 
finish  it  off  with  iron  and  automatic  shutters.  Project  a  i6J4  foot 
picture,  with  60  amperes  of  60  cycle  current.  Have  had  a  lot  of 
trouble  here  in  the  past  three  months.  There  is  a  comparatively 
small  number  of  people  who  think  we  ought  not  to  run  on  Sunday. 
We  have  had  two  trials  but  with  no  verdict.  I  have  a  charge 
against  me  for  Sunday  operating.  Think  my  case  will  come  up  in 
the  May  term.  And  the  funny  part  of  it  is,  one  of  the,  ministers 
who  is  fighting  us  has  had  me  run  his  machine  for  him  on  Sunday. 
One  Sunday  night,  in  particular,  they  had  a  break-down  and  sent 
for  me.  I  toft  my  show  and  went  over  and  fixed  their  machine 
so  they  could  run.     Oh — well  this  is  a  funny  world.     We  had  quite 


a  time  here  during  the  flood.     Did  not  get  a  shipment  from  our  ex- 
change  for  over  a   week,   but   we   ran   some  old  junk  there  was  in 
town    and   only   lost   one   night,   and  that   was  on   account    of   there 
being  so  much  water  in  the   boiler  room  that  it  put  the   fires   out. 
I  think  we  will  all  have  to  remove  our  chapeaux  and  make  a  courtly  bow 
to  that  preacher  who  is  going  to  try  to  have  you  put  in  jail  for  operating  a 
machine  on  Sunday  evening,  but  who  sends  for  you  to  operate  his  machine 
on   Sunday  and  to  make  repairs  on  it  so  that  he  can   run   his  show.      Yep, 
brother  Hawley,  it  is  some  queer  world,  all  right.     Please  present  my  com- 
pliments to  the  gentleman  and  tell  him,  from  me,  to  squat  down  in  his  arm- 
chair   for   one   hour  and   fifteen   minutes,   just  keep   saving   over  and   over 
"Consistency,  thou  art  indeed  a  jewel."     I  have  turned  the  newspapers  you 
sent,  over  to  the   editoral   department. 


A  Substitute  for  Limes. 

Mr.    C.    E.    Lindall,    Norfolk,    Yirginia,    contributes    the    following    inter- 
esting letter: 

I  am  mailing  you  sample  of  Guil  Pastil,  the  new  substitute  for 
limes  when  using  oxy-hydrogen  light.  I  have  given  it  a  thorough 
trial  and  find  I  can  get  fully  one-third  better  light  than  with  the 
old-fashioned  limes,  and  my  gas  tanks,  which  used  to  serve  for  six 
nights,  now  serve  for  nine,  or  even  more  than  that.  Guil  Pastil 
is  not  affected  by  dampness,  and  one  will  last  as  long  as  a  whole 
box  of  limes.  I  have  had  two  picture  shows  on  the  road  for  a 
long  time,  playing  week  stands.  We  have  good  music  but  no 
vaudeville.  With  the  class  of  projection  and  feature  films  we 
give,  we  have  no  difficulty  in  getting  fifteen  and  twenty-five  cents 
admission  in  the  small  cities  and  towns  we  visit  annually.  In  a 
town  where  we  have  never  been  before,  we  may  encounter  a  little 
kicking  about  the  price  on  Monday,  our  opening  day,  and  that 
night  the  house  might  be  light,  but  from  then  on  there  is  no  dis- 
satisfaction about  the  admission  fee,  and  Tuesday  night's  receipts 
show  that  they  have  the  habit,  which  they  keep  for  the  entire 
week.  With  one  company  I  used  a  dynamo,  described  in  the  de- 
partment a  little  more  than  a  year  ago,  and  gas  with  the  other  in 
towns  where  we  cannot  get  electricity.  The  dynamo  gave  great 
satisfaction  but  was  a  tremendous  bother  and  expense  in  transpor- 
tation. I  find  Guil  Pastil  to  be  such  an  excellent  substitute  for 
electricity  that  I  am  now  using  gas  with  both  companies.  This 
first  lot  which  I  imported  I'  have  already  advertised  in  The  Mov- 
ing Picture  World  to  sell  at  exact  cost,  viz.,  $1.00  each.  I  have, 
however,  a  larger  consignment  due  early  in  June,  on  which  I  will 
get  a  discount,  and  in  that  way  hope  to  be  repaid  for  my  trouble. 
The  Pastil  should  be  laid  down  flat  instead  of  set  upright,  with 
the  ends  squarely  facing  the  condenser.  Use  about  two-thirds  as 
much  gas  as  usual,  and  turn  it  on  very,  very  slowly,  especially  the 
oxygen;  if  not,  small  pieces  of  the  pastil  are  liable  to  snap  off.  I 
have  holders  coming  also.  To  use  the  ordinary  lime  cup,  fill  the 
cup  about  half  full  of  iron  washers  in  order  to  bring  the  Pastil 
near  the  top.  and  bend  in  two  of  the  lips  of  the  cup  to  form  a 
holder  for  the  Pastil.  Just  a  little  ingenuity  is  essential  to  turn 
these  tricks.  No  turning  or  adjustment  of  any  kind  is  necessary 
during  the  show,  but  rub  the  end  of  the  Pastil  lightly  with  sand- 
paper before  using  again. 
I  have  not  received  the  Pastil  yet,  brother  Lindall,  but  when  I  do  I  in- 
tend to  put  it  in  the  hands  of  some  of  our  gas-using  contributors  for  test, 
if  they  will  kindly  send  me  their  present  addresses.  If  the  Pastil  is  all 
you  claim  for  it,  it  most  emphatically  is  a  very  valuable  adjunct  to  the 
gas  users*  outfit.  Moreover,  it  will  have  a  large  field  with  traveling  ex- 
hibitors who  are  now  using  generators,  which  are  both  costly  and  unwieldy. 
You  will,  however,  forgive  me.  my  dear  sir,  if  I  am  just  a  little  bit 
skeptical  until  I  have  been  shown.  Your  claims  are  very  large.  I  hope 
they  will  be  borne  out  by  the  facts.     But  we  shall  see  what  we  shall  see. 


Wasted  Money. 

Columbus,  Ohio,  sends  sample  of  a  wire  terminal,  upon  which  he  is 
applying  for  a  patent.  Now  I  am  going  to  do  a  little  plain  talking  in  this 
connection,  although  I  am  well  aware  that  plain  talking  in  matters  of  this 
kind  is  by  no  means  popular,  and  that  what  I  say  will  probably  not  convince 
either  Columbus,  or  others,  that  )  am  correct.  However,  during  the  past 
thiee  weeks  there  have  been  three  wire  terminals  submitted,  upon  each  of 
which  a  patent  has  been  applied  for,  and  none  of  which,  in  my  judgment, 
will  ever  make  any  money  tor  the  inventor.  I  say  this,  notwithstanding  the 
fact  that  each  and  every  one  of  these  terminals  is  both  from  a  mechanical 
and  electrical  standpoint,  good.  The  fact  of  the  matter  is,  however,  there 
have  been  a  number  of  excellent  terminals  on  the  market  for  two  or  three 
years,  some  of  them,  in  my  judgment,  better  than  any  of  the  recent  sam- 
ples submitted,  yet  none  of  them  have  returned  to  their  inventor  a  profit 
on  his  investment.  Why?  Because,  in  the  first  place,  it  is  hardly  within 
the  range  of  possibility  that  the  inventor  can  make  and  profitably  market  a 
device  of  this  kind  by  itself.  Such  things  are  only  handled  at  a  profit 
where  a  number  of  things  are  combined  into  a  supply  business  which  is  large 
enough  to  stand  the  cost  of  advertising.  But  this  is  not  all.  Most  of  the 
late  moving  picture  lamps  have  fairly  good  terminals,  and  at  least  one  will 
soon  be  on  the  market  which  will  have  a  terminal  that,  I  think,  cannot  be 
improved  upon.  The  whole  thing  as  I  see  it,  lies  right  here:  Columbus, 
for  instance,  may  sell  some  of  his  terminals — granted,  but  I  do  not  think 
he  will  ever  sell  enough  to  make  it  pay,  with  at  least  some  chances  of 
his  not  selling  enough  to  even  pay  the  cost  of  the  patent.  Therefore  why 
take  the  chances,  since  in  no  event,  I  think,  will  he,  or  the  other  patentees 
of  wire  terminals  make  enough  to  pay  for  the  bother? 

Now  gentlemen,  please  accept  this  in  the  spirit  in  which  it  is  meant.  I 
am  speaking  to  you  frankly,  simply  because  I  do  not  like  to  see  you 
spending  money  on  something  that  will  not  pay  you  in  the  end,  or  at  least 
which  1  am  very  thoroughly  convinced  will  not  pay  you.  My  advice  to  you 
is,  so   far  as  the  wire  terminals  are  concerned,   drop  it. 


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"A  PERILOUS  RIDE"  (Lubin),  May  22.— A  melodrama  by  Wilbeit 
Melville  like  many  others  that  he  has  directed,  but  with  the  good  points 
that  also  are  usually  found  in  his  work.  The  good  parts  are  fine  and, 
though  we  cannot  sincerely  commend  the  rest  of  it,  the  spectators  seemed 
to  like  it  as  a  whole.  Dolly  Larkin,  the  heroine,  certainly  earned  all  her 
salary.  Henry  King  plays  the  hero  and  Joseph  Hollan  the  villain.  The 
photography  is   fair. 

"A  WIDOW  OF  NEVADA"  (Essanay),  May  22. — A  good  story  produced 
by  Arthur  Macklcy's  company.  It  is  clean  and  effective,  naturally  acted 
and  fairly  well  photographed.  The  chief  weakness  of  this  company  is  in 
its  sets — we  have  seen  that  door  with  the  corn  stalks  for  its  trellis  and 
opening  into  a  room  of  a  sheriff's  home,  and  again  into  the  cabin  of  a 
railroad  workman,  several  times;  in  this"  case  it  leads  into  the  dining-room 
of  a  boarding-house.  When  that  door  is  pictured  from  the  outside,  it  is 
shown  without  any  trellis  at  all.  The  story  is  good  and  seemed  to  please. 
"INDIAN  SUMMER"  (Selig),  May  22. — A  pathetic  story  of  war  times 
by  Emmet  C.  Hall  and  produced  by  Lem  B.  Parker.  The  hero's  memory 
is  temporarily  lost  after  a  wound  in  the  head  in  a  battle,  and  when  he  is 
released  from  the  Union  prison  he  doesn't  know  who  he  is.  His  case  is 
quite  possible  and  very  sad.  He  wanders  through  the  South  as  a  tinker 
and  it  is  not  till  1891  that  a  second  knock  on  the  head  gives  inm  back 
his  identity  and  he  finds  his  long-lost  sweetheart.  It  might  have  been  more 
carefully  written  and  more  dramatically  worked  up;  but  will  go  as  it  is. 
Herbert  Rawlinson,  in  the  leading  role,  deserves  special  commendation  for 
his  character  work  and  for  the  stages  through  which  he  carries  the  poor 
soldier.  Eugenie  Besserer,  in  the  role  opposite  to  him,  also  shows  the 
passing  years  skillfully.     The  photography  is   only   fair. 

MA  LA/JY  AND  HER  MAID"  (Vitagraph),  May  22.— This  is  No.  4 
in  the  Belinda  Series  and,  in  the  first  half,  it  shows  only  the  same  quali- 
ties that  are  found  in  the  former  pictures;  but  even  this  part  made  laughter. 
In  the  middle,  it  changes  and  begins  to  show  a  real  idea.  It  seemed  a  pity 
to  us  that  this  should  have  been  treated  in  just  this  way;  it  was  worthy 
of  better  handling  and  a  comedy  was  spoiled  to  make  a  farce.  We  find 
the  same  players  as  in  the  former  pictures.  Mrs.  Breuil  is  the  authoress 
and  Bert  Angeles  the  director. 

"THE  KICKSVILLE  EPICURE"  (Biograph),  May  22.— A  brand  new 
idea  with  which  a  lot  of  good  fun  might  have  been  made;  we  got  a  good 
many  laughs  as  it  was.  It  shows  us  a  village  cop  who  likes  good  cooking 
and  a  shiftless  bum  who  is  a  good  cook.  The  cop  conspires  against  the 
poor  man's  good  intentions  with  whiskey  bottles  for  the  sake  of  his  com- 
pany   in    the    village   caboose. 

"CINDERELLA  AND  THE  BOOB"  (Biograph),  May  22.— We  didn't 
want  to  laugh  at  this;  we  had  to.  It  is  a  very  extravagant  burlesque  and 
the  fun  of  it  "gets  over,"  will  be  acceptable,  especially  where  the  audience 
is  a  little   rough. 

".GOLD  AND  THE  GILDED  WAY"  (Melies),  May  22.— A  picture  taken 
at  Gympie  in  North  Queensland.  It  tells  a  story  that  has  enough  freshness 
to  be  welcome,  and  in  new  backgrounds  that  add  much  to  its  value  as  en- 
tertainment. The  moral  is  very  plainly  pointed  out  when  it  ends  with  a 
scene  showing  the  fruits  of  dissipation  and  then  a  scene  showing  the  fruits 
of  thrift  and  hard  work.  We  feel  that  it  would  have  been  better  with 
the  last  two  sub-titles  left  out.  The  players  are  all  that  could  be  desired, 
being  natural,  intelligent  and  clear-cut  in  their  drawing  of  character.  It 
makes  a  pleasing  offering  that  will  be  widely  acceptable,  especially  in 
Sunday  schools,  where  the  fact  that  it  tells  a  good  story  will  make  it 
appreciated.     The  photography  is,   on   the   whole,   of  good  quality. 

"THE  RIGHT  OF  WAY"  (Patheplay),  May  22.— A  good  situation  that 
wasn't  really  given  a  fair  chance  by  the  director.  Its  characters  are  quite 
conventional  and  it  is  acted  in  a  way  that  keeps  it  from  getting  hold 
of  the  emotions,  from  convincing.  T-ie  photography  is  very  clear,  but  the 
backgrounds   have    nothing   artistic    in    their    quality. 

"THE  DISTRICT  ATTORNEY'S  CONSCIENCE"  (Lubin),  May  22.— 
This  two-part  special  offering  does  Director  Arthur  Johnson  credit,  so 
that  it  is  a  good  picture,  is  certainly  implied.  It  grips  strongly,  keeps  the 
attention  hammered  to  the  screen.  The  situation  is,  in  the  main,  con- 
ventional; but  much  more  is  got  out  of  it  than  the  usual  run  of  pictures 
would  lead  one  to  expect.  Then  it  has  been  acted  with  truth  and  natural* 
ness,  but  also  with  abandon.  We  have  never  seen  Lottie  Briscoe  to  better 
advantage  and,  for  that  matter,  seldom  even  Arthur  Johnson.  All  the 
supporting  characters,  Howard  Mitchell  as  the  the  man  who  attempts  to 
seduce  the  attorney's  wife  and  who  is  shot  by  Carl  Brandt,  a  working 
man,  and  Florence  Hackett,  his  wife,  all  stand  out  with  real  life  in  their 
veins.  The  ftory  turns  on  whether  the  man  was  killed  by  the  attorney's 
wife,  as  the  attorney  fears  and  as  the  working-man  claims,  or  by  the  man, 
as  according  to  the  wife's  story.  There's  a  hole  in  the  net  here,  if  one 
stops  to  analyze  it;  but  the  passion  of  the  action  tends  to  keep  him  from 
stopping.  On  the  showing,  the  man  ought  to  have  been  shot.  Then,  as  it 
approaches  the  climax,  it  is  not  absolutely  clear  until  later.  This  is  the 
one  noticeable  fault.  It  should  have  had  another  leader,  saying,  "The 
prisoner  claims  that  he  saw  the  wife  of  the  attorney  shoot  the  murdered 
man."      The    photography,    sets   and    backgrounds    are    perfect. 

"GLIMPSES  OF  COLORADO  IN  WINTER"   (Edison),  May  21.— The 


best  travel  pictures  give  something  of  the  feeling  of  a  holiday  outing  even 
to  the  spectator;  their  value  comes  chiefly  from  the  fact  that  too  few  of 
us  can  travel  or  get  a  chance  to  see  the  world,  except  in  this  way,  which 
is  a  good  substitute.  We  find  in  this  some  fine  pictures  of  Indians  and 
^of  cliff  homes;  but  we  might  find  others  like  them,  not  so  vivid,  but  still 
like   them,    in    magazines.      The   photography   in  part    is  clear. 

"BRAGG'S  NEW  SUIT"  (Edison),  May  21.— Another  of  Charles  M. 
Seay's  comedies,  with  William  Bechtel  as  Bragg,  a  teller  of  long  stories 
who  is  shown  up  at  his  club.  The  spectators  seemed  to  enjoy  it  and  there 
was  a  good  deal  cf  quiet  laughter.  This  picture  is  made  along  the  same 
general  lines  as  the  last  of  the  series,  but  we  have  not  had  too  many  of 
them  as  yet  and  they  still  go  well.  Edward  O'Connor  has  the  other 
important  role  and  furnishes  a  good  part  of  the  comedy.  Clara  Adams 
and  Yale  Benner  have  roles.     The  photography  is  clear. 

"THE  STOLEN  MELODY"  (Selig),  May  21.— Among  the  regular  re- 
leases,  not  counting  comedies,  this  offering  seemed  to  take  best  with  the 
audience.  It  is  conventional  in  outline;  but  is  pleasingly  acted,  fairly 
well  set  and  photographed,  and  dramatic.  At  two  or  three  points,  and  these 
the  pivotal  places  from  which  the  story  gets  its  interest,  it  very  closely 
resembles  "The  Stolen  Symphony,"  produced  for  the  Lubin  people  by 
Arthur  Johnson,  a  picture  which  was  much  better  in  every  way.  If  the 
author,  Malcolm  Douglas,  has  not  seen  the  former  offering,  he  deserves 
credit,  otherwise  not  much.  Lem  Parker  produced  it  with  Al  Filson  in 
the  cast  as  an  old  composer  whose  beautiful  melody  is  overheard  by  Al 
Ernest  Garcia,  a  fraudulent  musician,  who  writes  it  out  and  sells  it  for 
an  original  composition.  The  heroine  and  daughter  of  the  composer, 
Kathlyn  Williams,  is  the  means  of  bringing  him  to  justice  with  the  help 
of    Harold    Lockwood,    a    publisher.      The   photography    is  very    good. 

"THE  CIRCLE  OF  FATE"  (Kalem),  May  21.— An  old  style  picture 
that  is  decidedly  dull.  It  was  plain  that  the  audience  took  little  interest 
in  it.  There  were  newspapers  out  and  there  was  much  talking  among  the 
spectators.      The    backgrounds    are    fine. 

"THE  LETTER'S  MISSION"  (Essanay),  May  21.— There  is  too  little 
freshness  in  this  picture  to  make  a  sure  or  wide  appeal.  The  same  play- 
ers, in  the  same  doorways  and  very  much  the  same'  sets,  and  even  in  very 
much  the  same  business,  have  been  seen  too  often.  We  found  it  uninter- 
esting. It  was  watched  by  the  majority;  but  there  were  newspapers  out 
and  some  talking.     The   photography   is   fair. 

"COUNSELOR  BOBBY"  (Vitagraph),  May  21.-— A  very  amusing  com- 
edy-offering that  is  sure  to  please  every  one  who  sees  it,  every  normal 
person.  The  story  is  full  of  freshness  and  full  of  humorous  situations; 
but  its  chief  mainstay  is  the  part  of  Courtenay  Foote  as  played  by  him. 
Mr.  Foote  is  indeed  an  accomplished  actor  and  in  this  picture  he  is  truly 
laugh  compelling.  Florence  Turner  and  Tom  Powers  play  two  lovers  who 
are  satisfied  with  each  other.  Mr.  Foote  plays  the  man  whom  Father 
(Tames  Lackaye)  w*nts  Florence  to  marry.  Paul  Kelley  plays  her  small 
bmther.  He  has  a  good  role  too  and  is  convincing  and  natural  in  it. 
He  is  retained  by  Tom  to  aid  in  his  suit  to  Florence  as  against  Courtenay, 
who  now  proves  to  have  a  very  weak  case.  Frank  Thomas,  the  ai'hor, 
can  take  credit  with  Larry  Trimble,  the  director.  The  photography  is 
good.      A   tip-top   offering. 

"THE  PRICE  OF  SILENCE"  (Patheplay).  May  21.— A  most  melo- 
dramatic picture  that  seems  unusually  strained  and  unreal.  The  audience 
seemed  not  to  take  it  very  seriously. 

"THE  NOISY  SIX"  (Selig),  May  23.— A  picture  of  sentiment  with  a 
child  who  has  a  perfect  trust  in  the  fatherly  care  of  God  for  its  central 
character.  Such  offerings  usually  find  a  wide  and  appreciative  following 
and  we  think  that  this  one  will.  The  same  script  might  have  been  made 
more  convincing  if  it  had  been  acted  and  conducted  with  a  bit  less  con- 
straint. There  is  that  in  many  of  its  scenes  that  rather  suggests  song 
slides  than  motion  pictures,  a  tendency  either  to  open  with  a  fixed  pose 
ct  to  work  to  one  and  hold  it.  No  one  in  it  acted  better  than  fair.  The 
photography  is  clear.  It  was  written  by  O.  A.  Nelson  and  directed  by 
Colin    Campbell. 

"THE  MIDGET'S  REVENGE"  (Vitagraph),  May  23.— A  pleasingly 
comical  picture  made  to  utilize  a  number  of  theatrical  "freaks"  in  a 
story  of  a  players'  boarding-house.  It  made  a  lot  of  laughter  and  seemed 
to  please.  Lord  Robert,  the  midget,  plays  a  woman  dwarf  perfectly.  It 
was  written  by  Marguerita  Bertsch  and  produced  by  Bert  Angeles.  The 
photography  is  good. 

"GOING  TO  MEET  PAPA"  (Vitagraph),  May  23.— A  rainy  day  farce 
with  a  few  scenes  that  had  to  be  taken  in  sunshine.  It  is  a  rough  and 
tumble  offering,  but  has  a  comic  situation  at  the  end. 

"NIGHT  BIRDS"  (Patheplay),  May  23.— A  clearly  photographed  se- 
r',es  of  owls.  It  will  interest;  but  we  are  not  told  where  the  specimens 
came  from.     We  find  none  that  we  ourselves  have  seen  in  our  own  native 

woods. 

"THE  AILANTHUS  SILKWORM"  (Patheplay),  May  23.— On  the  same 
reel  with  the  foregoing  is  this,  illustrating  the  Ailanthus  silkworm,  found 
in  the  East.  We  are  not  told  whether  this  worm  can  provide  silk  for 
manufacture  or  sot.  We  are  left  to  assume  that  it  can.  That  picture  of 
it   at   its   weaving   is   valuable. 


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"THE  BLACK  HAND"  (Kalem),  May  23.—  A  farce  by  the  Kalem  com- 
pany on  the  Coast  that  is,  in  substance,  like  others  put  out  by  it.  There 
were  a  number  of  laughs  and  it  seemed  to  "go"  with  the  audience.  The 
photography    is   very   clear. 

"THE  EGYPTIAN  MUMMY"  (Kalem),  May  23.— On  the  same  reel  is 
this,  which  is  also  a  love  story  farce,  and  made  laughter.  The  same  play- 
ers  have  the  characters  and   it  is  lively. 

"DETECTIVE  DOT"  (Lubin),  May  23"— Frances  NeMoyer  plays  a 
would-be  girl  detective  who  fails  until  she  has  forgotten  that  she  is  a  de- 
tective and.  as  an  indignant  woman,  "gets"  a  man  "wanted"  and  so  pulls 
down  a  big  reward.  The  picture  made  a  good  deal  of  laughter  and  seemed 
to  please  the  audience.  It  is  a  slight  piece  written  by  E.  W.  Sargent  and 
produced   by   A.    D.    Hotaling. 

"HIS  FIRST  EXPERIENCE"  (Lubin),  May  23.— On  the  same  reel  is 
this  comedy  love  story,  which  also  pleased  the  audience.  The  bachelor 
(Leon  Brooks)  falls  in  love  with  the  widow  in  the  next  house,  played  by 
Mae  Hotely.  Her  little  boy  (Buster  Johnson)  plays  the  part  of  a  human 
ci-pid.  The  script  is  by  W.  H.  Kitchell  and  was  produced  by  Arthur 
Hotaling. 

"A  RACE  TO  NEW  YORK"  (Edison),  May  23.— This  is  the  last  but 
one  of  the  series  showing  us  what  happened  to  Mary.  This  number  is 
a'ntcst  meaningless  except  to  those  who  have  seen  the  others  or  read  the 
Story  and  around  us  in  the  theater  there  was  some  feeling  of  discontent 
at  continued  or  part  pictures  in  general.  To  us,  it  seemed  better  than 
the  others  in  that  it  gave  us  more  feeling  of  suspense;  it  is  more  com- 
mendably  written  as  a  melodrama  than  either  of  the  latest  preceding  num- 
Edna  Flugrath  and  Herbert  Prior  come  into  it  as  new  characters 
and.  of  course,  the  leads  are  the  same.  The  photography  is  inferior  in 
most   scenes.      C.   J.   Brabin  is  the  director". 

"JEALOUSY"  (Essanay),  May  23. — In  this  dramatic  study,  the  Essanay 
company  presents  and  features  Doris  Mitchell.  It  is  practically  a  one-part 
picture,    but    it   is   very    well    played    and    will    appeal    strongly   to    the   dis- 

iminating  and  hardly  at  all  to  the  gallery.  We  have  not  noticed  Doris 
Mitchell  before  and  are  glad  to  welcome  her  to  the  screen.  Without 
Striking  beauty  of  feature,  she  is  human,  imaginative,  full  of  a  graceful 
naturalness  and  personally  pleasing.  The  Essanay  people  are  to  be  con- 
gratulated on  this  new  addition  to  their  forces,  the  more  because  audiences 
are  expressing  weariness  at  seeing  the  same  faces  in  the  same  combinations 
m  often.  Photographically,  it  is  a  very  pretty  picture  and  will  make 
a  tip-tcp  offering  in  the  right  houses.     Fine  camera  work  deserves  notice. 

"CUPTD  THROUGH  THE  KEYHOLE"   (Vitagraph).  Mav  24.— A  farce 
in   which   a  tramp,   more   cleverly  than    convincingly,    manages   to    feast    un- 
ited at  the  table  set  for  a  party.     The  garret  door  has  an  outside  catch 
and   serves  as  a  trap  for  most   of  the   family.      The   picture  was  to   us,   for 
the  most   part,   dull;   but   we  heard  a  good  deal   of  laughter  from  the   audi- 
The    script    was    written    by  L.    Reidel    and   produced   by   Van    Dyke 
Brooke.     William   Shea  makes  a  first  rate  tramp.     The  photography  is  clear 
BOUgh 

"THE  OPEN  SECRET"  (Patheplay),  May  23. — A  special  two-part  offer- 
ing made  in  France  and  telling  a  story  of  sentiment  that  is  quite  Gallic  in 
complexion;  but  that  will  be  understood  by  educated  Americans  and  thor- 
oughly enjoyed.  We  remember  a  one- reel  picture,  also  made  in  France, 
that  developed  the  same  situation  in  much  the  same  way.  yet  we  were 
entertained  by  it  the  second  time.  It  is  a  well  acted  picture  and  full  of 
humorous  character  touches  that  brought  out  a  good  deal  of  laughter. 
The    photography    is   clear   and   artistic. 

"JUST  GOLD"  (Biograph),  May  24. — The  photography  of  this  offering 
is  far  below  the  Biograph  standard  and,  perhaps  in  consequence,  our  in- 
terest suffers.  The  picture  is  rather  dull  from  whatever  way  one  looks 
at  it;  yet  it  has  the  typical  Biograph  atmosphere  and  characters.  We  find 
the  three  brothers  who  leave  the  ranch  to  seek  gold,  which  they  find,  and 
die;  are  killed  accidentally  yet  because  of  their  greed.  The  tender-hearted 
son,  who  remains,  gets  married  and  is  happy,  though  poor.  Most  of  what 
takes  place  around  the  gold  hole  doesn't  convince  strongly.  The  weakness 
of  the  picture  is  that  it  stands  for  something  rather  than  is  something  and 
the  mind  denies  the  harsh  side  of  it,  because,  since'  the  author  is  seen 
consistently  building  up  a  statement  of  opinion,  we,  on  our  part,  are  led 
to   be  critical. 

"BRIGHTENED  SUNSETS"  (Lubin),  May  24.— A  story  of  sentiment 
dealing  with  two  elderly  people  in  a  country  town  and  showing  us  how  the 
sunset  of  their  lives  is  brightened  by  a  love  story.  This  offering  has  the 
kind  of  feeling  that  makes  a  lively  appeal  to  the  majority  of  spectators  and 
we,  ourselves,  found  it  interesting;  but  it  cannot  be  called  an  artistic  picture. 
In  the  first  place,  it  would  have  been  better  to  have  had  fewer  of  the 
neighbors  in  the  opening  and  in  the  closing  scenes;  as  it  was,  its  end 
suggested  the  last  act  of  "The  Little  Minister,"  and  seemed  old.  There 
also  no  need  to  have  the  widow  (Mrs.  George  W.  Walters),  disliked 
by  her  neighbors,  in  fact,  this  worked  against  our  sympathy  for  her;  it 
asked  for  an  explanation.  The  doctor,  who  always  knows  more  about  his 
neighborhood  than  most  in  it,  was  wisely  chosen  as  her  sweetheart;  he  is  well 
played  by  Bartly  McCullum.  The  author  is  Shannon  Fife.  The  photography 
is  below  the  usual  quality  of  the  Lubin   Company.     A  very  fair  offering. 

"A  WOMAN  SCORNED"  (Patheplay),  May  24. — A  sensational  situation. 
is  found  in  this  picture.  It  is  well  written  in  that  the  material  has  been 
worked  up  to  be  as  effective  as  was  possible  and  since  it  does  not  convince 
us,  this  material  is  not  unpleasant  as  would  have  been  the  case  otherwise. 
As  an  offering,  it  is  fair  for  it  has  action;  it  isn't  dull. 

"THE'  TRANSLATION  OF  A  SAVAGE"  (Edison),  May  24.— Real  sar- 
casm is  not  common  in  pictures  and  this  offering  is  commendable  as  having 
a  new  atmosphere.  It  is  not  intended  to  convince  except  just  enough  to 
make  the  spectator  gasp  at  the  gall  of  an  English  cockscomb  of  an  elder 
son.  who  marries  a  rough  woman  of  the  Canadian  woods,  a  trapper's 
daughter,  and  sends  her  home  to  the  castle  to  spite  his  parents  and  the  class 
of  society  he  belongs  to.  He  had  been  jilted  and  thought  that  his  parents 
had  played  a  part  against  him.  Sir  Gilbert  Parker  is  the  author  and  it  was 
produced  by  Walter  Edwin.  Mary  Fuller  plays  the  savage  young  woman 
to  Richard  Tucker's  aristocratic  young  man.  Gertrude  McCoy.  Betty 
Emerson,  Richard  Ridg'ley,  Barry  O'Moore,  Bigelow  Cooper  and  Mrs.  Wal- 


lace Erskinc  are  aristocrats  in  England.  Robert  Brower  plays  the  trapper. 
The  sets  are  commendable  and  the  photography  is  clear. 

"THE  INFAMOUS  DON  MIGUEL"  (Kalem),  May  24.— Here  is  a  bat- 
tle picture  with  a  very  fair  story  too.  It  gives  some  feeling  of  suspense 
and  is  clear.  The  battle  is  the  attack  of  the  American  forces  on  San  Juan 
Hill.  There  have  been  several  pictures  of  this  and  of  all  we  have  seen, 
this  picture  is  the  best.  Where  battle  pictures  are  wanted,  this  will  be  a 
fine  offering.  The  photography  is  clear.  Marian  Cooper  is  the  heroine,  an 
American  girl  on  a  visit  to  a  schoolgirl  friend  in  Cuba  at  the  time  of  the 
occupation.  She  and  her  friends  are  captured  by  the  infamous  Don  (Harry 
Milarde).  The  American  officer  is  Guy  Coombs,  brother  of  the  heroine.  It 
is  very  well  photographed. 

"BRONCHO   BILLY   AND   THE   EXPRESS   RIDER"    (Essanay),   May 

24. — Like  other  Broncho  Billy  pictures.  The  first  part  seemed  tiresome  to 
us.  but  there  were  many  in  the  audience  who  watched  it  closely.  Photo- 
graphically,  it   is  below  the  best  by  this  company. 

"BUSTER  BROWN.  TIGE  AND  THEIR  CREATOR,  R.  F.  OUT- 
CAU'LT"  (Essanay),  May  20. — A  whole  reel  is  devoted  to  this  subject, 
which,  while  a  novelty  and  interesting,  has  a  tendency  to  flag  after  a  half 
reel.  Mr.  Outcault  carried  his  part  well.  The  girl  who  portrayed  Buster 
was  clever;  Tige  was  well  represented.  The  picture  will  be  popular  in  a 
matinee    audience. 

"THE  LEOPARD  TAMER"  (Selig),  May  20.— A  very  short  comedy 
showing  how  a  brave  leopard  trainer  was  transferred  into  a  timid  husband. 
Rather  weak. 

"THE  TATTLE  BATTLE"  (Selig).  May  20.— On  the  same  reel  is  this 
story  of  a  riot  started  by  two  quarreling  children  and  quelled  only  when 
a  hose  was  turned  on  to  all  the  people  in  the  neighborhood. 

"THE  GOOD  IN  THE  WORST  OF  US"  (Edison),  May  20.— There  are 
good  situations  in  this  drama  produced  by  the  company  which  recently  was 
in  the  West.  Betty  Harte  has  the  role  of  the  mother  of  a  child  which 
falls  into  the  hands  of  two  fugitives  from  justice,  who  are  being  hunted 
by  a  posse  of  which  her  husband  is  one. 

"IN  THE  TYROLESE  ALPS"  (Eclipse),  May  21.— A  very  short  pic- 
ture. 

"THE  CHICKEN  INDUSTRY,  CAUTANCES.  FRANCE"  (Eclipse), 
May  21. — Besides  showing  pictures  of  the  raising  of  chickens  and  how  poul- 
try is  packed  for  market  there  are  other  views  of  barnyard  animals.  On 
the  same  reel. 

"BIG  GAME  AT  THE  LONDON  ZOO"  (Eclipse),  May  21.— The  third 
subject  on  this  reel.     It  will  interest. 

"KIDNAPPING  FATHER"  (Lubin),  May  20.— The  best  part  of  this 
picture  is  the  ending,  which  is  well  worked  out.  The  story  is  not  logical 
at  all  times.  Edwin  Carewe  has  the  role  of  a  son  who  marries  in  spite 
of  his  father's  prohibition,  and  when  compelled  to  go  to  work  obtains  a  job 
as  chauffeur.  Later,  when  his  father  is  his  fare,  he  kidnaps  him  and  holds 
him  a  prisoner  until  the  bride  releases  him,  wins  his  gratitude  and  also  his 
blessing. 

"THE  AMATEUR  LION  TAMER"  (Vitagraph),  May  20.— Hughie 
Mack  has  a  part  in  this  comedy  which  should  be  conducive  to  reduction  of 
weight.  He  is  made  a  goat,  but  he  makes  many  laughs.  There  are  some 
sure-enough  lions  and  they  have  a  lean  and  hungry  look  as  well  as  a  de- 
cidedly ferocious  aspect.  The  escape  of  the  lions  from  their  cage  is  con- 
vincingly carried  out.  The  recapture  of  one  of  the  lions  is  a  rare  bit  of 
realism  in  which  there  is  no  trace  of  comedy.     A  good  picture. 

"A  JOCKEY  FOR  LOVE"  (Patheplay),  May  20.— Max  Linder  in  this 
picture  has  an  experience  in  training  down  to  arrive  at  a  proper  weight 
for  a  race.  He  substitutes  for  a  jockey.  He  has  an  experience  in  a  bath, 
in  which  the  temperature  seems  to  be  what  it  is  said  to  be — 180  degrees.  He 
is  stripped  to  the  waist  and  you  can  see  the  perspiration.  He  wins  the 
race,  though,   and  the   girl.      Fair   comedy. 

"THE  CITY  OF  RAUEN,  FRANCE"  (Patheplay),  May  20.— On  the 
same  reel  is  this  fine  scenic. 

"THE  STILL  VOICE"  (Vitagraph),  May  24.— The  title  refers  to  con- 
science and  is  a  good  introduction  to  this  strong  picture  of  the  conflict  in 
a  man's  soul  between  a  long-cherished  desire  for  revenge  and  the  memory 
of  his  wife's  dying  plea  to  forgive.  Sidney  Drew  plays  the  leading  char- 
acter with  forceful  truth  ably  supported  by  Tefft  Johnson,  as  the  man  whom 
he  hates.  Rose  Taply  plays  the  wife;  Edith  Story,  the  daughter,  and  on  the 
other  side,  is  S.  Rankin,  as  the  son  of  the  man's  enemy  and  the  lover  of 
Edith.  Dorothy  Kilgour  and  Rogers  Lytton  have  good  parts.  All  do  good 
work.  The  photography  is  of  high  quality;  the  story  is  clear  enough  to  be 
effective  and  the  offering  commendable  as  a  worth-while  show. 

"RELIGION  AND  GUN  PRACTICE  "(Selig),  May  26.— There  was  some 
reading  of  newspapers  while  this  offering  was  on  the  screen.  It  tells  a 
conventional  Western  story  in  backgrounds  that  have  been  used  often  and 
has  no  new  characters  or  new  players.  There  is  little  convinging  action  and 
the  photography  is  wretched.  The  author  is  A.  W.  Corey  and  producer, 
William   Duncan. 

"A  VICTIM  OF  HEREDITY"  (Kalem).  May  26.— A  so-called  scientific 
picture,  based  on  a  misapprehension,  viz..  that  the  daughter  of  thieves  will 
inherit  a  propensity  to  steal.  The  picture  -eems  to  us  to  have  verv  Ijttle 
that  can  entertain  a  normal  spectator;  it  is  rather  repellant.  The  sub-titles 
are  poor  and  keep  it  from  being  clear.  The  photography  is  fair  and  some 
of  the  sets  very  pretty;  but  the  story  is  not  strong.  Alice  Hollister  plays 
the  heroine,  daughter  of  a  thief,  herself  a  thieving  housemaid  whom  a  doc- 
tor, played  by  James  Vincent,  cures  by  a  sudden  shock  and  then  seems  to 
fall   in   live   with. 

"UP  AND  DOWN  THE  LADDER"  (Vitagraph),  May  26.— A  farcical 
love  story  that  is  not  new  nor  very  convincing.  In  fact  it  is  one  of  the 
weakest  of  Larry  Trimble's  productions  that  we  remember  seeing.  Florence 
Turner  and  Courtenay  Foote  have  the  leads,  but  even  they  haven't  been  able 
to  put  life  into  it.  The  scene-making  and  photography  are  good;  but  the 
script,  by  Mrs.  Breuil,  is  merely  of  the  commercial,  routine  kind,  far  from 
equal   to  her  really  good  work.     Miss  Turner   applies  for  the  job  of  house- 


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keeper  to  Courtenay  Foote,  a  book  worm,  and  in  disguise  so  that  he  will 
think  her  gray-haired.     It  turns  into  a  love  story,  of  course. 

"DANCES  OF  THE  AGES"  (Edison),  May  26.— We  can  not  forbear  de- 
ploring the  needless  spoiling  of  this  beautiful  picture.  It  gives  us  a  baker's 
dozen  dancesby  thoroughly  competent  artists  whose  grace^filled  motions  are 
like  nothing  *so  much  as  music.  They  are  presented  as  in  a  dream  by 
double  exposure,  and  are  in  themselves  a  joy  forever.  But,  along  the  table 
on  which  their  feet  keep  tune,  a  dozen  men,  called  dancing  masters,  but 
who  know  nothing  of  harmony  or  motion,  interrupt  continually  with  jarring 
discord.  It  is  too  bad.  Yet,  for  the  shards  of  poetry  that  remain  in  it 
■till,  it  is  a  commendable  offering;  and  perhaps,  as  teaching  a  needed  lesson, 
the  contrast  of  beauty  and  ugliness,  will  make  it  more  effective.  J.  S. 
Dawley  produced  it. 

"THE  REWARD  OF  SERVICE"  (Lubin),  May  26.— From  the  way  this 
picture  started  out,  we  expected  a  fine  offering;  but  it  soon  fell  into  in- 
sincerity and  became  so  unconvincing  that  it  was  tiresome.  There  is  hardly 
any  truth  in  it;  it  is  one  of  the  weakest  Lubins  that  we  have  seen  in  a  long 
time.  Even  the  photography  of  those  scenes  that  were  taken  in  Washington 
is  not  up  to  standard.-  A  part  of  it  gives  a  chance  to  show  glimpses  of  the 
White  House,  the  Army  Building,  etc. 

"HIGHBROW  LOVE"  (Biograph),  May  26.— A  very  rough  farce-comedy 
that  is  entertaining  and  made  laughter.  In  it,  a  young  swain  gets  a  letter 
from  his  sweetheart,  in  which  she  refers  to  her  "beloved  Samuel  John- 
son." It  would  have  been  all  right  if  big  Sam  Johnson,  the  blacksmith, 
hadn't  lived  in  the  neighborhood. 

"THE  TRIMMERS  TRIMMED"  (Biograph),  May  26.— On  the  same  reel 
with  "Highbrow  Love,"  is  this  tramp  farce,  full  of  comical  action  such  as  we 
often  find  in  the  pictures  Dell  Henderson  makes.  It  is  longer  than  the 
former  and  made  more  laughter  per  foot.  The  characters,  their  make-up, 
facial  expression,  and  other  eccentricities  are  what  make  it  go. 

"PATHE'S  WEEKLY"  May  26.— The  photography  of  the  weekly  topical 
is  not  so  clear  of  late  as  might  be.  The  items  this  week  are  worth  better 
camera  work.  We  have  some  views  of  Adrianople  soon  after  the  taking  of 
the  city  and  some  views  of  Janina,  the  Albanian  city  captured  by  the  Greeks. 
The  portraits  include  the  distinguished  men  who  recently  met  to  discuss 
"universal  peace,"  and  a  picture  of  the  Siamese  prince,  accredited  to  the 
Court  of  Spain.  The  view  of  the  fifteen  hundred  athletes  as  they  started 
in  the  twelve  mile  foot  race,  held  recently  in  New  York  City  by  the  New 
York  Mail,  is  perhaps  the  best  thing  in  the  number.  The  Chicago  and  the 
St.  Louis  baseball  teams  are  also  included. 


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"AN  EXE  FOR  AN  EYE"  (Gaumont),  May  6.— A  story  of  a  pretty 
stenographer  in  a  big  store  in  France.  She  is  loved  by  both  the  manager 
and  the  assistant  manager,  who  betrays  his  superior  in  order  to  win  the 
girl.  She  loves  the  former  and  systematically  leads  on  the  latter  until  he 
has  ruined  himself  to  buy  her  the  gems  she  demands,  and  in  the  end,  she 
betrays  him  to  the  police.  The  main  thread  of  the  story  is  clear,  but  there 
is  much  in  it  that  is  obscure.  It  is  well  acted  and  beautifully  set;  but  the 
story  leaves  an  unpleasant  taste  in  the  mouth. 

"THE  EYES  THAT  COULD  NOT  CLOSE"  (Gaumont),  May  20.— A 
hand-colored  film.  There  are  beautiful  scenes  and  costumes  of  the  Middle 
Ages.     The  story  is  none  loo  clear;  to  many  it  will  be  incoherent. 

"FOR  TWO  PINS"  (Gaumont),  May  22.— An  amusing  comedy.  The 
husband,  insisting  that  his  wife  conform  to  the  new  law  and  wear  a  guard 
on  her  hatpin,  meets  refusal.  He  pretends  the  uncovered  pin  hits  him  in 
the  eye.     His  wife  pretends  to  sprain  her  ankle. 

"THE  IDOL  OF  BONANZA  CAMP"  (Nestor),  June  4.— A  melodra- 
matic story  in  which  the  leads  are  taken  by  Alexander  Gaden,  Edna  Maison 
and  Harry  Von   Mater. 

"THE  HELPING  HAND"  (Ramo),  June  11.— This  is  a  good  story.  It 
is  about  an  ex-convict  who  is  taken  into  the  house  of  a  minister.  The 
minister  has  a  son  who  falls  into  bad  company  and  loses  money  gambling. 
Banknotes  the  son  abstracts  from  a  drawer  are  taken  from  him  by  the  ex- 
convict,  and  in  his  possession  before  he  can  replace  them  they  are  found 
by  the  minister.  There  are  some  good  situations  as  the  truth  is  revealed. 
Jack  Hopkins  has  the  role  of  the  ex-convict.  Will  Davis  that  of  the  son. 
The  part  of  the  minister  is  well  taken. 

"I'M  NO  COUNTERFEITER"  (Ramo),  July  9.— Here  is  a  right  good 
comedy.  It  is  of  the  rural  sort,  and  by  no  means  is  this  the  easiest  to  put 
over.  Will  Davis  directs  the  picture  and  plays  the  lead.  Miss  Guion,  as 
the  sheriff's  daughter,  contributes  to  the  fun.  Jack  Hopkins  is  the  rube  who 
is  rejected  by  the  girl  and  tries  to  make  trouble  for  the  city  fellow  who  is 
his  successful  rival.  A  flirtation  starts  in  the  city,  but  is  shortly  transferred 
to  the  country.  The  best  of  the  comedy  is  in  the  "business","  which  is  un- 
hackneyed and  fresh.  The  picture  will  go  over  good,  both  in  the  city  and 
the  country. 

"THE  WORTH  OF  MAN"  (Ramo),  June  23.— This  is  a  rapid-fire  drama 
or  rather  -melodrama,  and  it  covers  considerable  ground.  Some  of  the 
scenes  are  well  photographed.     The  picture  is  ordinary. 

"BATTLE  OF  SAN  JUAN  HILL"  (Bison),  June  3— A  two-part  feature 
offering,  givirg  scenes  often  full  of  action  that  suggest  very  well  the  land- 
ing of  the  United  States  forces  on  the  Island  of  Cuba  in  1898,  and  the 
charge  up  to  the  block  house  at  San  Juan.  The  story  is  desultory  and  not 
perfectly  clear.  Perhaps  it  even  drags  against  the  battle  scenes  which  might 
have  been  better  without  it.  There  are  places  where  the  picture  shows  a  lack 
of  care  that  is  not  wholly  excusable.  This  is  noticeable  in  the  costumes  of 
both  soldiers  and  civilians.  The  offering  stands  well  on  its  action  in  the 
battle  and  in  all  the  last  scenes.     The  photography  is  clear  enough. 

"SECRET  SERVICE  SAM"  (Imp),  May  26.— A  two-reel  subject  by 
Edward  Hall.  The  photography  in  this  is  generally  good,  but  there  is  just 
a  touch  of  burlesque  about  the  acting  in  places  which  robs  the  production  of 
suspense.  International  intrigue  is  the  main  motive  and  toward  the  close 
there  are  some  brisk,  exciting  scenes.  Jane  Fearnley  appears  as  the  for- 
eign  spy,  who  assumes  the  part  of  a  scrub  woman  in  order  to  steal  the 


treaties  in  manuscript  form.  Wm.  E.  Shay  is  the  secret  service  man  whe- 
follows  up  the  crime.  In  the  matter  of  clues  and  general  detective  work,, 
the  plot  is  a  little  weak.  As  a  whole,  it  ranks  as  an  average  two-reef 
offering. 

"BILLY'S  HONEYMOON"  (Gem),  May  27.— The  young  married  couple, 
played  by  Billy  Quirk  and  Violet  Horner,  are  pursued  by  the  mischievous 
friends  from  one  hotel  to  another.  Their  efforts  to  escape  observation, 
carrying  a  dog  and  numerous  band-boxes,  afford  considerable  amusement  to- 
the  observer. 

"THE  FAITH  HEALER"  (Eclair),  May  28.— This  two-reel  offering 
will  appeal  particularly  to  thoughtful  observers  of  a  religious  temperament. 
It  shows  how  time  and  circumstance  conspire  to  bring  a  thoughtless  man 
and  an  infidel  to  belief  in  the  Bible.  Two  love  stories  are  interwoven  with 
the  plot  J.  W.  Johnston  appears  to  advantage  in  the  role  of  the  faith) 
healer,  and  Guy  Hedlund  as  the  unbeliever.  Barbara  Tennant  has  the 
leading  feminine  part.  The  photography  is  very  attractive  throughout; 
there  is  plenty  of  action  of  a  sincere,  convincing  nature  and  the  closing 
scenes  are  quite  impressive. 

"THE  HEART  THAT  SEES"  (Imp),  May  29.— In  this.  King  Baggot  as- 
sumes the  part  of  a  great  oculist,  with  a  hunch  back.  He  wins  the  love  of 
a  blind  girl,  but  does  not  tell  her  of  his  affliction.  Later  it  develops  she 
can  be  cured  and  he  performs  the  operation.  She  still  retains  her  love 
for  him  in  spite  of  his  deformity.  A  story  of  simple  plot,  none  too  new, 
but  nicely  acted  and  well  pictured. 

"ANIMATED    WEEKLY,    NO.    63."    May    21—  The  Harvard-Princeton 
rowing  crews,  Secretary  McAdoo,  eight  thousand  children  at  play  in  Central'- 
Park,    Mayor   Alexander   reviewing   the   police    force    of    Los    Angeles,    the 
Peace  Congress  at  Washington,  auto  taces  at  Melbourne — these  are  among 
the  leading  views  in  this  week's  number  of  the  weekly. 

"HOOKED"  (Crystal),  June  1. — Frenchy  changed  the  candy  boxes  on 
hubby  in  order  to  create  trouble  with  the  latter's  wife,  but  the  wife,  dis- 
covering this,  turns  the  joke  on  Frenchy.  A  half-reel  comedy  of  average 
merit. 

"CLANCY,  THE  MODEL"  (Crystal),  June  1.— The  Irish  model,  dressed 
up  as  an  Indian,  becomes  intoxicated  and  goes  on  a  rampage,  creating 
considerable  amusement  of  the  slapstick  order.     On  same  reel  with  above. 

"A  ROMANCE  OF  THE  RAILS"  (Frontier),  May  29.— A  clean,  lively 
railroad  story,  in  which  the  young  fireman  gets  into  many  troubles  in  his  : 
love  affair,  but  comes  out  all  right  in  the  end.     The  photography  is  very 
good,  as  a  rule,  but  there  were  traces  of  static  trouble  in  a  few  places.    An  • 
entertaining  release. 

"MARY'S  ROMANCE"  (Crystal),  June  3.— One  of  the  best  comedies 
we  have  seen  for  some  time,  with  Pearl  and  Chester  in  the  leads.  The 
scenes  are  laid  on  a  farm  and  the  rural  effects  are  attractive.  The  plot  is 
not  new,  as  it  is  the  old  story  of  the  girl  being  attracted  by  a  stranger 
from  the  city,  but  it  holds  the  interest  nicely  through  an  entire  reel. 

"FLOSSIE  VISITS  BAR  U  RANCH"  (Frontier),  May  31.— Good,  clear 
photography  and  an  entertaining  little  comedy  throughout.  The  daughter 
of  the  ranchman  coquettes  with  the  men  to  her  heart's  content  till  Flossie 
arrives  and  starts  competition.  The  two  pretty  girls  had  on  entirely  too 
much  makeup.     A  good  comedy  reel. 

"THE  MAN  WHO  TRIED  TO  FORGET"  (Nestor),  June  it.— A  film 
story  of  compelling  interest.  The  hero  falls  in  love  with  a  lady  vampire, 
who  is  already  married  to  a  gambler.  She  tries  to  bleed  the  hero,  but  after 
writing  her  a  check  he  discovers  the  truth  and  gets  his  money  back.  He 
goes  West  and  later  saves  his  partner  from  a  similar  fate  at  the  hands  of 
the  same  pair.  The  two  leading  men  were  good  and  the  girl  siren  gave  a 
very  creditable  performance  indeed.     A  fine  offering  of  its  type. 

"FAITHFUL  SHEP"  (Reliance),  June  4. — Another  dog  story  of  a  rather 
conventional  sort,  but  which  nevertheless  gets  over  nicely.  The  dog  is  a 
smart  Shepherd  and  he  brings  little  Runa  home  in  her  wagon  when  the 
search  party  is  looking  for  her.     A  pleasing  number. 

"HEARTH  LIGHTS"  (Reliance),  May  26. — This  film  story  runs  along 
in  an  entertaining  manner.  The  artist  in  the  city  exhibits  the  paintings  of 
an  acquaintance  in  the  country  and  claims  ciedit  for  the  latter's  work. 
The  girl  in  the  case  meets  the  country  artist  and  reveals  the  truth  in  a 
dramatic  manner  at  the  art  exhibit.  Pleasing,  without  being  particularly 
strong. 

"ITALIAN  LOVE"  (Reliance),  June  2. — A  typical  lower  West  Side 
story  of  the  New  York  Italian  section.  Irving  Cummings  appears  as  Luigi, 
who  marries  the  daughter  of  the  fruit  dealer.  Antonio's  appearance  on 
the  scene  brings  about  jealousy  and  the  exciting  duel  with  knives  is  stopped 
just  in  time  to  avoid  fatal  results.  The  characterizations  are  fair  and  the 
direction   very  good. 

"WHEN  LUCK  CHANGES"  (American),  June  2.— This  film  story  has 
gcod  Western  atmosphere,  but  the  scenes  are  a  little  jerky.  The  plot  con- 
cerns a  young  prospector,  who  has  been  grub-staked  by  a  gambler's  wife. 
Later,  the  gambler  is  killed  and  Jim  meets  with  good  fortune,  which  leads 
him  to  marry  the  young  widow.     Fairly  strong. 

"THE  WISHING  SEAT"  (American),  June  5— A  very  pretty  and  at- 
tractive comedy.  The  young  authoress  gives  a  house  party,  inviting  half  a 
dozen  couples.  They  pair  off  and  desert  her  every  evening.  But  she  sits 
in  the  "Wishing  Seat"  and  wishes  for  a  nice  young  man.  A  moment  later 
a  young  artist  falls  from  the  rocks  above,  at  her  feet.  The  ending  might 
have  been  a  little  stronger,  but  the  film  is  original  and  well  worth  while. 

"A  DIXIE  MOTHER"  (Broncho),  June  4— This  two-reel  film  tells  a 
graphic  story  of  warfare.  The  leading  characters  are  a  mother  and  son. 
Dick  proves  a  coward  in  his  first  battle  and  runs  to  his  nearby  home.  The 
mother,  to  save  him,  shoots  herself  in  the  arm  and  pretends  the  house  was 
attacked  by  guerillas.  Dick  is  later  shot  accidentally  by  his  own  father 
during  an  engagement.  The  fighting  is  sharp  and  spirited  and  the  interest 
is  not  allowed  to  lag  anywhere  in  this  double  number. 

"A  TRUE  BELIEVER"  (Kay-Bee),  June  6.— Another  two-reel  war 
story.     The  old  minister  is  deposed   and   a  younger  man  put  in  his  place. 


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The  new  minister  acts  as  a  spy.  Both  of  these  parts  are  very  well  taken. 
There  is  also  an  interesting  little  girl  character  and  it  is  through  her  that 
the  old  minister  is  saved  from  death  when  he  is  suspected  of  betraying  his 
friends.  The  younger  minister  confesses,  as  a  result  of  seeing  the  little 
girl  pray  for  her  aged  friend.  The  war  scenes  in  this  are  of  typical  ex- 
cellence and  it  is  a  successful  offering  of  the  kind. 

"VIA  CABARET"  (American),  June  7.— Vivian  Rich  and  Wallace  Reid 
are  the  principal  players  in  this  film  story.  The  girl  is  violinist  in  a 
cabaret  and  he  marries  her  against  his  father's  wishes.  Later,  he  himself 
plays  for  the  cabaret  and  another  man  attempts  to  invade  his  home.  The 
story  is  not  very  strongly  developed  and  has  a  hurried  ending. 

"HER  FAIRY  GODFATHER"  (Majestic),  May  27.— The  hired  girl  is 
refused  permission  to  go  on  a  picnic.  She  has  a  dream  in  which  she  sees 
herself  driving  away  in  a  chariot,  dressed  in  silks,  with  the  policeman  on 
the  beat  acting  as  her  godfather.     A  very  slight  plot. 

"LIFE  AMONG  THE  NAVAJOS"  (Majestic),  May  27.— These  views  of 
life  among  the  Navajo  Indians  are  very  interesting.  We  see  them  dancing, 
and  the  storm  effect  is  very  pretty.  The  blanket  making  is  also  worth 
while.      On  same   reel  with  above. 

"LEGALLY  RIGHT"  (Majestic),  May  25— Here  is  a  rather  novel  work- 
ing out  of  the  old  situation  in  which  the  girl  must  live  with  her  uncle  and 
be  married  under  the  same  roof  with  him  in  order  to  inherit  her  father's 
property.  Her  uncle  is  put  in  jail  and  she  and  her  lover  are  married  in 
the  jail  and  live  there  till  the  legal  time  has  expired.  Rather  interesting, 
but  the  story  is  a  little  confusing  in  places. 

"A  VICTIM  OF  CIRCUMSTANCES"  (Thanhouser),  June  1.— This  is 
a  very  good  comedy  offering.  The  prominent  man  finds  out  how  easy  it  is 
to  be  wrongly  suspected  of  crime.  He  is  thrown  in  jail  and  his  photographs 
and  Bertillion  measurements  taken.  The  young  reporter  who  loves  his 
daughter  saves  him.     An  amusing  offering. 

"A  PULLMAN  NIGHTMARE"  (Thanhouser),  May  25.— A  comedy  reel, 
showing  a  father  and  son  and  mother  and  daughter  traveling  on  a  Pull- 
man car.  The  children  are  very  young  and  hold  a  juvenile  flirtation.  *The 
boy  dines  on  welsh  rarebit  and  ice  cream  and  later  has  a  terrific  nightmare, 
in  which  lie  is  seen  saving  the  passengers  from  six  train  robbers  and  other 
heroic  deeds.  A  delightful  little  comedy,  though  the  ending  was  a  trifle 
overworked. 

"HELP!  HELP!  HYDROPHOBIA"  (Keystone),  June  5.— Some  mad 
dogs  and  a  scared  fat  boy  combine  to  bring  about  a  series  of  wild  happen- 
ings in  this  half  reel.  Trained  Boston  bulldogs  are  employed  to  good  ad- 
vantage in  this. 

"HE  HAD  THREE  PASSIONS"  (Keystone),  June  5.— The  fat  boy 
again  appears  in"  this.  The  milking  scene  will  not  appeal  to  refined  audi- 
ences. There  is  not  much  motive  to  ihe  story,  which  appears  on  same  reel 
with  above. 

"BARNEY  OLDFIELD'S  RACE  FOR  LIFE"  (Keystone),  June  2.— 
This  company  of  funsters  again  comes  under  the  wire  a  winner  in  this 
hilarious  burlesque.  Ford  Sterling,  the  villain  in  the  piece,  ties  Mabel  to 
a  railroad  track  and  steals  a  locomotive  from  the  train  with  which  to  run 
over  her.  Six  policemen  on  a  handcar  and  Mack  Sennett  and  Barney  Old- 
field,  in  a  racing  auto,  go  to  the  rescue,  arriving,  of  course,  in  time  to  save 
Mabel.  The  villain,  in  rage,  chokes  his  fireman  to  death  and  shoots  the 
six   policemen.      Good  burlesque,    without   objectionable  features. 

"OWANA,  THE  DEVIL  WOMAN"  (Nestor),  June  6.— A  pleasing  varia- 
tion of  the  usual  Indian  tale,  in  which  the  "Devil  woman"  converts  the 
hero  into  a  beautiful  spotted  pony.  The  Indian  girl  remains  true  to  her 
lover.  The  pony  unties  a  rope  from  his  own  feet  and  later  rescues  the  girl 
in  a  manner  that  will  please  children  in  the  audience  in  particular.  Later, 
the  villainous  Indnn  and  the  Devil  woman  are  killed,  which  breaks  the 
spell  and  restores  Mona  her  lover  in  his  natural  form.  An  attractive 
change  in  Indian  pictures. 

"DOLLY  AND  THE  BURGLAR"  (Powers),  June  4.— This  is  a  nice 
little  story  with  which  to  freshen  up  a  heavy  programme.  The  child  loves 
her  dolly  so  much  that  she  takes  papa's  money  box  out  of  the  safe  and 
lucks  dolly  in.  When  the  burglar  opens  the  safe  and  finds  nothing  but  a 
doll  he  is  disgusted  and  smashes  it  on  the  floor.  But  of  course  father  is  so 
pleased  over  the  situation  that  he  buys  the  girl  another  doll.     A  clever  plot. 

"MEN  WERE  DECEIVERS  EVER"  (Gaumont),  June  12.— Good  comedy 
finely  photographed.  There  are  many  fine  scenes  of  ocean  shore.  The 
story  is  of  a  wife  who  is  jealous,  apparently  with  sound  reason  and  de- 
termines to  leave  her  husband.  He  pursues  her  and  owing  to  an  accident 
to  her  automobile  overtakes  her.  The  comedy  comes  in  when  it  is  learned 
that  the  only  inn  in  the  neighborhood  has  but  one  available  room,  to  which 
the  estranged  couple  are  forthwith  escorted.  The  reconciliation  is  slow, 
but  apparently  sure.  The  husband  puts  about  the  couch  where  the  wife  is 
to  sleep  a  large  screen.  After  the  couple  have  kissed  and  made  up  the 
two  are  shown  waving  their  hands  good-night  to  the  camera.  The  clock  in 
the  inn  office  points  to  the  "hour  of  12  when  they  make  their  first  appearance 
the  following  day.  Before  the  reconciliation  takes  place  there  are  several 
happenings  which  by  many  will  be  construed  as  suggestive. 

"THE  MAN  IN  THE  SICK  ROOM"  (Solax),  May  16.— There  are  in 
this  picture  several  good  situations.  The  story  is  of  a  doctor,  unsuccessful 
in  love,  who  goes  down  and  out.  As  a  burglar  he  enters  with  intention  to 
rob  the  home  of  the  husband  of  his  old  sweetheart.  The  husband  is  away. 
When  the  wife  is  unable  to  get  a  doctor  on  the  telephone  for  her  sick  child 
she  discovers  the  burglar,  who  ministers  to  the  sick  little  one.  He  is  found 
by  the  returning  husband.  At  the  end  of  the  picture  there  is  a  scene 
where  the  little  one  is  shown  at  one  end  of  a  wire,  in  her  home,  talking  with 
the  rehabilitated  doctor,  shown  in  his  office  at  the  other  side  of  the  screen. 
Between  the  two  scenes  are  flashed  the  messages  that  pass  between  the  two. 
It  is  very  pretty. 

"THE  PROFESSOR'S  TRAVELING  ADVENTURES"  (Great  North- 
ern), May  24. — This  is  doubtless  intended  for  a  comedy;  it  would  be  dif- 
ficult to  understand  how  it  could  interest  a  child  or  adult. 

"THE  KNIGHT  OF  HER  DREADS"  (Nestor),  June  13.— An  old  situ- 
ation  furnishes  the  basis  of  a  delightful  picture  contrasting  the  days   when 


knighthood  was  in  flower  with  reality  as  wc  find  it.  The  courtly  scenes  are 
a  dream  of  a  romantic  girl  and  in  thorn  she  and  her  friends  play  the  same 
her  real  love  story,  only  better.  All  this  has  been  done  before,  but  never 
more  successfully  or  amusingly.  The  offering  is  full  of  entertain- 
ment and  will  be  liked  by  all  kinds  of  spectators.  -  The  photography  is 
clear  and  the  scenes  have  often  much  beauty. 

"THE  SPRING  IN  THE  DESERT"  (Nestor),  June  9-— There  is  some 
good  photography  in  this  Indian  picture  and  the  forepart  of  it  is  strongly 
presented.  Ortega  has  visions  of  the  civilization  described  to  him  by  the 
white  man  and  leaves  Mona  to  go  to  college.  The  pale  face  boys  put  up  a 
theft  on  him  and  he  starts  to  walk  home  in  disgust.  The  weak  part  of  the 
story  is  its  ending.  Mona,  for  some  unknown  reason,  poisons  the  water  in 
the  spring  and  her  lover  dies.  Seeing  this,  she  and  her  pony  also  drink 
and  die;  but  the  pony  did  not  lie  still  and  rather  spoiled  the  effect. 

"THE  KING  CAN  DO  NO  WRONG"  (Rex),  June  12.— A  three-reel 
romantic  drama,  written  by  Lois  Weber  and  with  herself  and  Phillips  Smal- 
ley  in  tiie  leading  roles.  As  a  rule,  the  settings  are  adequate,  though  not 
sumptuous.  The  acting  is  very  intelligent,  and  while  some  of  the  char- 
acterizations might  have  been  improved  upon,  the  story  is  one  which  holds 
the  attention  strongly.  Herrick,  the  faithful  soldier,  sees  both  his  wife  and 
daughter  fall  a  prey  to  the  king  and  his  son.  Many  observers  will  fee) 
that  be  should  have  sacrificed  his  regard  for  king  and  country  to-  maintain 
his  personal  honor.  The  story  is  consistent  and  retains  its  hold  upon  the 
observer  till  its  tragic  close. 

"THE  PLAYTHING"  (Victor),  May  30.— Mae  Gordon  plays  well  in 
this  picture  the  role  of  a  confidential  secretary  determined  to  rob  her  em- 
ployer, through  winning  his  love  if  possible;  that  failing,  she  with  the  aid 
of  the  man  she  really  loves  takes  the  money  from  the  safe.  James  Kirk- 
wood,  who  produces  the  picture,  also  plays  the  employer.  The  story  is  wel)1 
told.  Most  of  the  incidents  occur  at  a  ball  and  reception  given  at  the 
home  of  the  employer,  and  the  scenes  are  well  staged. 

"HE  RUINS  HIS  FAMILY'S  REPUTATION"  (Eclair),  June  1.— This. 
is  one  of  "Their  Only  Child"  series  of  cartoons.     It  will  make  a  lot  of  fun. 

"ALL  ON  ACCOUNT  OF  AN  EGG"  (Eclair),  June  1.— On  the  same- 
reel  as  the  foregoing  is  this  comedy  staged  in  Pawnee  City,  Oklahoma.  It 
goes  over. 

"HIS  MAGIC  HAND— HY  MAYER"  (Imp),  May  31.— Some  laughable- 
subjects  drawn  on  the  screen.     Good  stuff. 

"THE  MAGNETIC  MAID"  (Imp),  May  31.— French  farce  which  will- 
make  much   amusement  in   some  houses. 

"THE  SHADOW"  (Rex),  June  8.— Otis  Turner  produces  a  pronounced- 
melodrama.  It  will  strike  some  observers  as  if  too  much  stress  is  laid  on 
the  fact  that  the  business  man  had  in  former  years  been  a  gambler — in 
other  words,  that  there  is  hardly  sufficient  justification  for  the  blackmailer 
holding  up  the  man  he  had  known  in  other  days.  The  picture  is  well  staged 
and  will  hold  throughout.  Bob  Leonard  and  Margarita  Fischer  have  the. 
leads. 


LEON  GAUMONT  IN  NEW  YORK. 

Mr.  Leon  Gaumont,  head  of  the  Societe  des  Etablissements. 
Gaumont,  and  one  of  the  two  leading  film  manufacturers  of 
Europe,  is  at  present  in  New  York.  Mr.  Gaumont  has- 
brought  with  him  his  talking  pictures,  which  have  been  so 
long  popular  at  the  Gaumont  Palace  in  Paris,  and  also  the 
Gaumont  natural  color  motion  pictures,  which  have  been, 
making  such  a  hit  at  the  Coliseum  in  London  and  at  the 
Gaumontcolor  in  Paris.  A  private  demonstration  for  the 
benefit  of  the  trade  is  being  arranged. 


ART  THEATER,  STAUNTON,  VA. 

J.  W.  Myrtle,  manager  of  the  Art  theater,  119  East  Main- 
Street,  Staunton,  Va.,  was  the  first  man  to  build  a  picture 
theater  in  this  city — the  President's  birthplace.  The  Art  is 
the  most  up-to-date  moving  picture  and  vaudeville  house  in 
the  city.  The  pictures  are  changed  daily.  Mr.  Myrtle*  has 
two  Edison  projection  machines  in  his  operating  room.  He 
says  that  business  with  him  could  not  be  better  and  that  he 
could  not  get  along  without  the  Moving  Picture  World. 


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"FAITH    OF    A    GIRL"    (Lubin). 

The  loyalty  and  love  of  a  woman  for  a  man,  no  matter 
what  he  has  been,  is  beautifully  demonstrated  in  this  ex- 
cellent Lubin  photoplay,  and  the  reward  that  follows  is 
richly  merited.  The  shadow  of  a  past  crime  may  darken 
a  man's  life,  but  nothing  stimulates  the  resolve  to  do  right  in 
the  future  as  the  faith  of  a  woman.  The  picture  employs  the 
pick  of  the  best  players  in  the  Lubin  Studio. 

When  Jim  Farley  took  Laura  Mills  away  amid  showers 
of  rice  on  the  honeymoon,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mills  were  proud 
of  their  handsome  son-in-law  but  he  had  had  a  past  that 
he  tried  to  bury.  He  had  done  things  against  the  law  and 
the  happy  couple  had  hardly  left  the  door  steps,  when  two 
detectives    appeared    and    told    the    family    that    they    wanted 


Scene  from  "The  Faith  of  the  World"   (Lubin). 

Jim  Farley.  The  officers  followed  the  couple  to  the  hotel  in 
the  big  city  and  there  told  Jim  he  was  wanted  for  ''a  job" 
which  took  place  six  months  ago.  Farley  kissed  his  beautiful 
wife  and  she  went  back  to  her  parents,  who  denounced  her 
husband,  and  Laura  refusing  to  hear  words  against  him  left 
the  home  to. find  employment.  She  secured  an  engagement  in 
the  office  of  Richard  Starley,  but  her  employer  was  at- 
tracted and  one  evening  tried  to  embrace  her.  She  was 
horrified  and  showed  a  locket  with  the  picture  of  herself 
and  her  husband.  Starley  ashamed,  then  became  her  friend. 
One  day  visiting  the  jail  to  see  Jim  a  tire  broke  out,  there 
was  a  panic,  Jim  battled  with  the  flames  and  rescued  the 
warden's  little  son,  both  were  badly  burned  and  taken  to 
the  hospital.  When  convalescent,  the  warden  and  Starley 
set  to  work  to  get  Jim's  freedom  for  bravery,  and  they 
succeeded  restoring   Farley   to  the  arms  of  his  faithful  wife. 


PICTURES  IN  CHINA. 

Pathe  Freres  seems  to  have  the  run  of  the  business  in  the 
three  moving  picture  houses  in  Shanghai,  China.  The  pic- 
tures arc  rented  to  the  exhibitors  on  weekly  rates,  which 
vary  from  $62.50  for  Class  A  pictures,  per  week,  down  as  low 
as  5/ioths  of  a  cent  per  meter  for  Class  C.  In  addition  to  the 
three  regular  theaters  there  are  a  number  of  outdoor  shows 
in  operation  during  the  summer  when  the  weather  permits. 


Harold  Shaw  received  many  congratulations  on  his 
new  alliance  as  managing  director  of  the  London  Film 
Company.  Harold  has  a  host  of  friends.  Their  regret  at 
his  severance  of  intimate  associations  is  mitigated  by  the 
feeling  that  he  is  tackling  a  man's  job  and  that  he  is  the 
man  for  the  job.     He  sailed  May  31. 


"THE  MASTER  CRACKSMAN"  (Reliance). 

The  scenario  of  this  two  reel  feature  was  taken  from 
the  magazine  story  of  the  same  name  by  Stephen  Allen 
Reynolds. 

Robert  Thatcher  invents  a  device  for  the  protection  of 
safis  and  vaults.  Needing  money  to  educate  his  son,  he 
sells  his  patent  for  a  few  thousands  to  the  Thomas  Cor- 
poration. Later,  he  discovers  a  flaw  in  the  invention  and  sets 
about  to  perfect  it.  When  he  attains  this,  he  offers  it  to  the 
Thomas  people  for  its  full  value,  $50,000.  This  is  refused 
and  he  dies  alone  and  in  poverty.  His  boy  returns  from 
college,  learns  the  truth  and  swears  to  avenge  his  father. 
He  learns  the  weakness  of  the  Thomas  System  and  with 
his   sweetheart's   help   manages   to   break   into   every   sate   so 


Scene  from  "The  Master  Cracksman"  (Reliance). 

protected.  The  papers  are  filled  with  stories  of  the  myster- 
ious cracksman  who  steals  nothing.  Parr,  the  detective,  gets 
Robert. one  night  as  he  is  breaking  into  a  bank.  He  listens 
to  the  boy's  story  and  his  sympathy  is  enlisted  to  such  an 
extent  that  he  brings  Thomas  to  terms  and  sees  that  the 
boy  gets  an  interest  in  the  business  created  by  his  father's 
invention. 

Pretty  Irene  Howley,  playing  Madge,  the  girl  who  dresses 
as  a  boy  to  become  her  sweetheart's  assistant,  is  very  pleas- 
ing. Irving  Cummings  as  the  son,  and  Ralph  Lewis  as  the 
father,  do  good  work.  Others  in  the  cast  are  Alan  Hale, 
E.  P.  Sullivan,  George  de  Carlton,  George  Siegman  and 
others 

Oscar  C.  Apfel  directed  this  exceptionally  clever  picture 
which  was  released  May  31st. 


MENSTRUM  GETS  C.  B.  KLEINE'S  OPTICAL 
BUSINESS. 

C.  B.  Kleine,  the  veteran  optician  and  moving  picture  supply 
man,  has  .transferred  his  business  to  Henry  Menstrum,  who 
has  been  foreman  of  the  business  for  many  .years.  Until 
recently  the  business  was  located  at  19  East  21st  Street, 
New  York,  but  it  has  been  removed  to  385  Sixth  Avenue, 
between  23rd  and  24th  Streets.  A  full  supply  of  moving 
picture  accessories,  stereopticons,  projecting  machines,  etc., 
will  be  carried. 


DIRECTOR  EDWARD   WARREN   MADE   IT. 

In  a  review  of  the  Solax  feature  picture.  "Kelly  From  the 
Emerald  Isle,"  published  in  last  week's  issue  of  the  Moving 
Picture  World,  our  reviewer  credited  the  production  of  the 
picture  to  Madame  Blache.  Advice  from  the  Solax  studio  is 
received  to  the  effect  that  Madame  Blache  did  not  direct  the 
production  of  this  excellent  picture,  but  that  the  credit  is  due 
to  Edward  Warren,  who  produced  "Beasts  of  the  Jungle," 
"Dublin  Dan"  and  several  other  Solax  features. 


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"SHEP,  THE  HERO"  (Majestic). 

Shep,  the  handsome  and  well-known  acting  ciog,  proves, 
in  this  film,  that  he  possesses  almost  human  intelligence. 
His  work  with  beautiful  little  Runa  Hodges  is  wonderful. 

When  only  a  puppy,  Shep  runs  away  and  is  found  by  an 
old  cab  driver,  who  cares  for  him.  Later,  in  poverty  and  ill- 
ness, Shep  remains  the  old  man's  only  friend.  One  day,  on 
his  way  to  the  village  to  get  medicine  for  his  master,  the  dog 
comes  upon   Baby   Runa,  who  has   been   caught  in   the   rail- 


Scene  from  "Shep,  the  Hero"  (Majestic). 

road  tracks  and  cannot  free  herself.  Seeing  her  danger,  he 
runs  up  the  track  and  stops  the  oncoming  train  by  barking. 
The  child  is  saved  and  Shep  and  his  master,  with  their  old 
horse,  given  a  comfortable  home  in  the  country  for  the  rest 
of  their  happy  days. 

tliarles  Hoskins  makes  an  unusually  effective  character 
study  of  the  old  cab  driver.  Other  players  are  Ethel  Phillips, 
Paul  Scardon  and  Thomas  R.  Mills.  This  picture  was  di- 
rected by  Lawrence  McGill  and  was  released  on  May  20. 


OLDEST  SHIP  IN  A  RELIANCE  PICTURE. 

While  making  a  picture  dramatization  of  "Half  a  Chance." 
the  well-known  novel  by  Frederick  Isham,  Producing  Man- 
ager J.  V.  Ritchey  of  the  Reliance  found  himself  face  to  face 
with  a  difficulty  that  seemed  impossible  to  overcome.  The 
story  deals  with  events  that  took  place  during  the  era  when 
Great  Britain  was  exiling  prisoners  to  Australia  and  part  of 
the  action  is  on  board  one  of  the  old  convict  ships  of  that 
period. 

Manager  Ritchey  was  just  about  despairing  of  finding  a 
ship  that  could  be  made  to  look  like  the  genuine  article  when 
he  located  a  real  "hell-ship"  at  his  very  door. 

The  Success,  .which  lies  moored  in  the  Hudson  River,  is 
an  old  convict  ship  which  carried  thousands  of  the  one  hun- 
dred and  sixty-five  thousand  convicts  that  left  English  ports 
while  that  disgraceful  system  of  transportation  lasted — a 
ship  which  in  the  days  of  her  activity  carried  eighty  pairs  of 
handcuffs  and  three  hundred  basils  with  chains  to  torture  the 
miserable  convicts  who  were  forced  to  make  the  entire  voy- 
age in  irons. 

The  convict  ship  Success  is  said  to  be  one  of  the  oldest 
boats  afloat,  as  her  timbers  were  laid  down  in  Moulmain, 
British  India,  in  1790.  She  is  built  of  teak  wood  throughout 
and,  in  spite  of  her  123  years  of  active  service,  made  the  voy- 
age across  the  Atlantic  last  year — under  her  own  canvas — a 
trip  which  took  ninety-six  days. 

The  weird  old  hulk  with  its  rows  of  gloomy  dungeons  and 

ks  paraphernalia  of  punishment   and   torture   fitted   into   the 

Reliance   dramatization   of  "Half  a   Chance,"  as  if  the  book 

had  been  written  with  this  very  ship  as  a  background. 

1     The  picture   will   be  presented   in   two  reels  on   Saturday, 

June  14th. 

"THE  FATAL  GROTTO"  (Itala).   ■ 

Gun-powder  smuggled  and  gun-powder  exploded  plus  the 
gamut  of  human  emotions  are  the  stirring  motives  of  the 
Itala  "Big  Film,"  "The  Fatal  Grotto."  Good  old  filibuster 
days  on  the  coast  of  Italy  when  plot  and  counterplot  shook 
the  Roman  throne  is  the  time  and  place  of  the  drama.  The 
story,  however,  does  not  deal  with  the  intrigues  of  dynasty, 
but  with  the  kingdom  of  the  human  heart. 

It  is  a  well-adapted  version  of  the  old  dramatic  theme  of  a 
father  coerced  by  a  villain  who  "knows  too  much"  into  ac- 
ceding to  the  villain's  demands  for  a  daughter's  hand.  Of 
course,  like  all  well  regulated  villains,  his  plots  and  plans 
a  la  the  way  of  mice  and  men,  "gang  aft  aglee." 


The  villainous  one  makes  his  demands  upon  the  father  of 
the  beautiful  daughter  so  offensively  brutal  that  the  father, 
to  destroy  forever  the  smuggling  evidence  holding  him  in  the 
bad  man's  power,  determines  to  blow  up  the  cavern  and  with 
it  the  "goods"  the  sinister  person  has  "on"  him.  The  father, 
however,  does  not  reckon  upon  the  curiosity  of  y  iung  folks 
who,  when  they  see  a  mysterious  opening  into  the  bowels  of 
the  earth,  are  bound  to  explore  it.  It  happens,  therefore, 
that  when  the  father  has  ignited  the  fuse  which  leads  to  a 
powder  keg  in  the  cave,  he  doesn't  know  that  his  daughter 
and  her  well  beloved  are  going  to  be  buried  in  the  rocky 
wreckage,  neither  does  he  realize  that  in  destroying  the  cave 
he  is  also  destroying  the  formid?ble  enemy  who  would  be- 
come his  son-in-law. 

Trouble  is  imminent  between  the  had  man  and  the  ac- 
cepted lover  in  the  sombre  grotto  when  the  powder  ignites 
and  all  goes  up  in  smoke  and  all  comes  down  in  real  hard 
rocks.  The  cave  is  inundated  by  the  force  of  the  explosion 
which  diverts  the  course  of  a  creek,  and  the  daughter  and  her 
sweetheart  have  the  time  of  their  lives,  and  almost  of  their 
deaths,  in  keeping  from  under  the  rising  flood. 

A  healthy  drama  is  this  and  one  that  will  satisfy  the  crav- 
ing of  the  mind  for  good,  clean  excitement.  There  is  a 
thrill  in  almost  every  flicker  of  film,  though  there  will  be  no 
need  of  the  censor's  ruthless  hand.  It  is  two  good  lively 
reels  of  action,  acted  well  and  photographed  consummately. 
If  you  have  nothing  to  do  see  it.  If  you  have  something  to 
do  see  it  anyhow. 


"THE  GOVERNOR'S  DOUBLE"  (Patheplay). 
The  film  featuring  a  double  exposure  provokes  no  end  of 
comment  and  speculation  among  the  witnessing  audiences 
as  to  just  how  the  peculiar  effect  is  obtained.  This  discus- 
sion is  a  good  thing  for  the  exhibitor,  as  it  starts  tongues 
wagging  about  the  film  and  then  about  the  theater  in  which 
the  film  was  shown.  The  spectators  at  the  first  exhibition 
of  the  film  tell  their  friends  to  see  it  and  soon  the  ex- 
hibitor is  displaying  the  S.  R.  O.  sign.  The  exhibitors 
who  booked  "The  Compact,"  the  story  in  which  Crane 
Wilbur  played  two  parts,  will  testify  to  the  truth  of  this 
statement,  as  the  requests  to  decide  bets  as  to  whether  or  not 
Crane  Wilbur,  had  a  brother,  were  voluminous. 


Scene  from  "The  Governor's  Double"  (Patheplay). 

"The  Governor's  Double,"  a  two  reel  Patheplay  which 
will  be  released  Tune  13th,  is  another  of  these  much  dis- 
cussed features  and  for  the  information  of  exhibitors,  (they 
may  tell  their  audiences  or  not  as  they  wish),  Paul  Panzer 
plays  both  Governor  Garland  and  his  double,  the  convict  who 
found  himself  welcomed  to  the  Governor's  office  while  the 
Governor  was  secretly  in  prison  getting  an  idea  of  prison 
conditions,  and  who  decided  to  keep  up  the  deception,, 
even  going  so  far  as  to  attempt  to  marry  the  Governor's, 
fiancee. 

The  double  exposures,  which  are,  of  course.  pcifeCTy 
accomplished,  are  not  the  only  features  of  this  feature  film. 
The  settings  are  truly  a  work  of  art  and  for  the  proper 
atmosphere  the  state  capitol  at  Albany,  New  York,  has. 
been  used.  The  story  is  a  strong  one  made  very  plausible 
and  it  has  a  punch  that  is  entirely  unexpected.  The  acting 
of  the  leading  characters.  Paul  Panzer  and  Pearl  Sindelar, 
as  well  as  the  company  supporting  them,  is  worthy  of  special 
mention.    The  film  will  be  released  June  13th. 


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NEW  ENGLAND. 

G-EORGE  W.  ALLEN,  an  exhibitor  of  New  Bed- 
ford, Mass.,  Is  ill  at  St.  Luke-s  Hospital  of  that 
city.  Mr.  Allen  Is  suffering  from  appendicitis.  A 
ounch  of  exhibitors,  using  General  Film  Service, 
collected  a  Dice  sum  of  money,  and  sent  a  very 
beautiful  bouquet  of  flowers  to  Mr.  Allen,  with  a 
•card  readJng:  "From  the  Bunch."  all  of  which 
goes  to  show  that  exhibitors  in  this  section  have 
a  real  brotherly  spirit  to  one  another. 

Moving  Picture  "fans"  who  seek  wholesome 
amusement,  and  wish  to  see  exciting  incidents 
portrayed  In  the  hunt  of  wild  animals  of  the 
African  Jungle,  as  well  as  to  gain  a  lesson  In 
natural  history,  welcomed  the  return  of  the  Paul 
J.  Ralney  African  hunt  reels,  which  returned  to 
Tremont  Temple,  Boston,  a  week  ago.  These  pic- 
tures had  a  long  run  at  Tremont  Temple  last  sum- 
mer.    Prices  are  up  to  75  cents. 

The  late  theater  trains  which  were  put  on  the 
Boston  &  Maine,  New  Haven,  and  Boston  &  Albany 
railroads  last  February,  may  be  discontinued  be- 
cause of  lack  of  patronage.  Whether  this  will 
effect  the  business  of  Boston  photoplay  theaters  Is 
»n  open  question.  The  Railroad  Commission  has 
Tthe  matter  of  continuance  under  advisement,  and 
it  Is  probable  It  will  discontinue  the  service  al- 
though nothing  definite  has  been  decided  upon 

A  recent  Incorporation  is  Cubberly,  Inc.,  of  Mai- 
den. Mass.  Messrs.  Carle  P.  Cubberly,  J.  Frank 
Williams  and  Frank  E,  Drew,  are  the  officers  of 
the  concern,  which  filed  papers,  with  $5,000  paid  in. 
A  first  class,  modern  theater  will  be  built  by  Cub- 
berly, Inc.,  to  be  devoted  to  vaudeville  and  photo- 
plays. 

The  Star  Picture  Company,  of  Eastport,  Me., 
filed  its  certificate  of  incorporation  last  week  with 
a  capital  of  $10,000.  The  promoters  are:  William 
Hicks,  of  East  Machals;  William  E.  Buck,  of  East- 
port,  and  A.  D.  McFaul,  of  Machals. 

Plana  were  submitted  to  the  Inspector  of  build- 
ings In  Maiden,  Mass.,  last  week,  for  a  new  the- 
ater, to  cost  approximately  $55,000,  and  to  be  lo- 
cated on  Main  street,  just  north  of  City  Hall.  The 
T>lans  have  been  carefully  gone  over  by  Mayor  Schu- 
■makers  and  others.  The  building  la  to  be  of  brick 
•construction,  and  will  be  fireproof,  and  thoroughly 
modern  in  every  respect.  The  cost  of  the  building 
■will  be  $4O,(iO0,  In  addition  to  the  cost  of  the  thea- 
ter. Maiden  theatergoers  usually  avail  themselves  of 
the  Maiden  Auditorium,  which  Is  one  of  the  finest 
theaters  in  Massachusetts.  Indeed  the  Auditorium 
was  built  too  extravagantly  for  the  size  of  Maiden. 
The  proposed  theater  will  have  to  be  particularly 
One  If  it  is  to  compete  with  the  Auditorium. 

The  first  motion  pictures  of  the  Boston  Chamber 
of  Commerce  party  sailing  for  South  America  were 
exhibited  at  B.  F.  Keith's  Theater,  Boston,  last 
week.  Many  members,'  prominent  Boston  business 
men,  are  easily  recognized  in  the  reel,  which  made 
It  of  much  local  Interest. 

James  "E.  Moore,  who  formerly  managed  B.  F. 
Keith's  Theater.  Portland,  Me.,  is  no  longer  ope- 
rating his  moving  picture  theater  at  Blddeford, 
Me.  Mr.  Moore  was  anxions  to  leave  Blddeford, 
and  availed  himself  of  an  opportunity  to  give  up 
the  lease  on  the  theater. 

B.  F.  Keith's  Hippodrome  Theater.  Portland,  Me., 
now  playing  programs  of  vaudeville  and  pictures, 
will  start  on  its  summer  policy  of  stock-company 
attractions  on  June  2.  The  Hippodrome  will  re- 
turn  to  the  regular  policy  in  the  fall. 

Messrs.  Gray  and  MacDonald,  of  Lewiston,  Me., 
beve  secured  a  lease  on  the  Cape  Theater,  and 
will  start  to  give  programs  of  vaudeville  and  pic- 
tures, on  June  23.  The  Cape  Theater  had  formerly 
•been  devoted  to  dramatic  and  stock  company  at- 
tractions, but  there  is  no  reason  why  a  success 
cannot  be  made  with  photoplay  programs,  as  the 
•Cape  Is  well  located  and  of  modern  construction. 

There's  romance  In  the  Salem,  Mass.,  moving 
/picture  theaters!  The  local  dallies  told  this  week 
■how  D.  F.  Healy,  of  277  West  12Sth  Street.  New 
"York,  and  Grace  F.  Hartnett,  of  Salem,  became 
acquainted  while  the  latter  was  singing  in  a  Salem 
-photoplay  house,  and  were  married  In  New  York 
last   week. 

Matt  Saunders,  formerly  In  charge  of  S.  Z.  Poll's 
'Wllkesbarre.  Pa.,  theater,  and  also  of  the  Poll 
Theater,  New  Haven,  Conn.,  is  now  in  charge  of 
'Poll's  new  theater  at  Bridgeport.  Conn.  This  is 
•somewhat  in  the  nature  of  an  honor  for  Mr.  Saun- 
ders, as  Mr.  Poll's  Bridgeport  theater  is  considered 
the  finest  and  most  modern  house  on  this  circuit, 
with  a  seating  capacity  of  3.300.  The  new  Poll  Is 
doing  a  capacity  business  with  vaudeville  and  pic- 
ture programs.  The  Plaxa  Theater,  of  Bridgeport, 
Is  now  managed  by  Mr.  H.  Rcichenbacb,  as  Mr. 
Saunders  cared  *or  this  house   until   recently. 


Salem,  Mass.,  Is  getting  loada  of  free  publicity, 
and  Mayor  John  F.  Hurley  (plus  moving  pictures), 
Is  the  cause.  The  Mayor  claims  he  put  the  "Sale" 
In  Salem,  and  asserts  he  played  before  the  moving 
picture  camera  for  the  purpose  of  boosting  Salem 
and  at  the  request  and  suggestion  of  the  Board  of 
Trade.  There  ia  some  talk  of  "recall"  for  the  mayor 
and  whether  an  attempt  will  be  made  to  recall  Mr 
Hurley  or  not,  his  action  in  rescuing  his  high  silk 
hat  from  his  own  "burning  house,"  for  the  edifica- 
tion of  moving  picture  patrons,  has  made  staid, 
old.  Puritanical  Salem  sit  up  and  take  notice. 

The  Columbia  Theater,  Bath,  Maine,  has  been 
leased  by  the  Burt  &  Burt  Company.  Some  needed 
alterations  and  Improvements  are  contemplated  by 
the  new  owners,  after  which  the  Columbia  will  be 
operated  as  a  photoplay  house,  no  vaudeville  being 
used  according  to  present  plans. 

Adams,  Mass.,  Is  not  a  particularly  large  city, 
but  it  is  assured  of  havlDg  a  large  and  up-to-date 
theater  In  the  near  future,  to  be  devoted  to  vaude- 
ville and  photoplays.  E.  K.  Peck,  a  local  attorney, 
and  Mr.  William  B.  Plunkett,  a  prominent  manu- 
facturer of  cotton  goods,  are  behind  this  new  pro- 
ject. Plans  are  now  being  made  by  E.  S.  Osteyee, 
of  Pittsfleld,  Mass.,  calling  for  a  theater  to  seat 
800  persons.  The  new  theater  will  be  along  the 
same  general  lines  as  the  Union  Sqnare  Theater, 
Pittsfleld,  Mass.,  which  was  designed  by  Mr. 
Osteyee.  The  new  theater  should  do  very  well, 
provided  the  right  sort  of  programs  are  given.  The 
honse  will  probably  be  ready  for  its  opening  by 
early  fall. 

Richard  E.  Henderson,  of  Wells  River,  Vermont, 
has  just  purchased  the  Pavilion  Theater  at  Barre 
Vt.  Mr.  Henderson  now  owns  five  theaters,  and 
operates  three  others  under  lease.  The  Pavilion 
Theater  is  a  first  class,  modern  house,  In  every 
way,  and  is  counted  as  about  the  best  playhouse 
at  Barre.  Mr.  Henderson  will  give  vaudeville  and 
picture  programs,  and  it  is  safe  to  predict  will  do 
a  paying  business,  as  all  the  Henderson  bouses  are 
winners,   due  to  efficient  management. 

Manager  H.  A.  Chenoweth.  of  the  Sbawmut  The- 
ater, Blue  Hill  avenue,  near  Grove  Hall,  Boston, 
ia  making  a  distinct  success  of  bis  work.  The 
Shawmut  is  doing  a  capacity  business,  due  to  the 
able  direction  of  "Chene."  Feature  pictures,  such 
as  Sarah  Bernhardt  in  "Queen  Elizabeth."  and  un- 
usually good  vaudeville  acts,  are  turning  the  trick. 
Manager  Chenoweth  has  inaugurated  song  demon- 
strators' contests,  which  are  proving  very  inter- 
esting to  the  audiences.  One  would  have  to  go  far 
before  finding  a  better  conducted  bouse  than  the 
Sbawmut. 

Gordon's  Olympla  Theater,  Boston,  has  finished 
its  first  year,  and  It  was  a  mighty  successful  one, 
without  any  question.  Vaudeville  and  licensed  pic- 
tures have  done  very  well  by  tbe  beautiful  Washing- 
ton street  theater,  which  Is  one  of  the  finest  and 
most  luxurious  theaters  In  the  country.  On  anni- 
versary week  an  unusually  large  program  waa  of- 
fered, and,  as  a  special  attraction,  the  unique 
lecturer,  Geoffrey  L.  WhaleD,  gave  a  most  Interest- 
ing discourse  on  the  feature  picture,  "A  Tale  of 
Two  Cities."  Manager  Commerford  Is  greatly 
pleased  with  tbe  Olympla's  showing  in  its  first 
year,  and  remarks  that  be  Intends  to  keep  things 
up  to  their  present  high  standing  at  his  house. 

William  H.  Stevens,  manager  of  Keith's  Theater, 
Lowell,  Mass.,  for  the  last  two  seasons,  has  re- 
signed to  -accept  a  position  as  manager  of  the 
Thnrston-McCormlck  Company,  which  is  playing  in 
New  England.  Manager  Stevens  is  a  great  favor- 
ite with  the  trade  In  this  section,  and  carries  with 
him  the  best  wishes  of  bis  many  friends  in  his  new 
venture. 

S.  Z.  Poll,  the  bead  of  tbe  large  string  of  New 
England  theaters,  playing  vaudeville  and  picture 
programs,  together  with  Mrs.  Poll,  has  started 
on  a  pleasure  trip  to  Mt.  Clements,  Michigan,  mak- 
ing the  journey  by  automobile. 

William  Rohan  will  again  be  seen  as  manager  of 
Forrest  Lake  at  Palmer,  Mass.,  which  will  open 
on  May  30,  after  which  the  theater  will  remain 
closed  until  June  16,  the  start  of  the  regular  sum- 
mer season. 

The  New  Broadway  Theater,  which  opened  last 
week  at  Springfield,  Mass.,  Is  playing  stock  company 
attractions,  but  it  is  expected  that  vaudeville  and 
picture  programs  will  be  in  order  by  early  fall. 
H.  I.  Dlllenback  Is  general  manager  of  the  Broad- 
way, and  Daniel  D.  Scullen  is  manager.  The 
Broadway  is  a  large,  modern  and  thoroughly  fire- 
proof theater,  and  is  in  opposition  to  tbe  local 
Poli  Theater,  at  Springfield. 

Ralph  Ward,  manager  of  the  Opera  House,  Low- 
ell, Mass..  reports  that  the  Klnemacolor  pictures 
of  the  Panama  Canal,  and  Balkan  War,  did  a  very 
satisfactory  business  for  him  tbe  week  of  May  5. 
On  May  1,  Manager  L.  V.  Colby  opened  the  Co- 
lumbia Theater,  Taunton.  Mass..  to  the  public 
with  a  program  of  vaudeville  and  pictures.  The 
Columbia  has  been  very  carefully  altered  and  re- 
decorated. No  expense  has  been  spared  to  put  the 
Columbia  In  the  class  of  modern  theaters.  A  stage 
and  balcony  were  added.  Manager  Colby  reports 
that  business  has  picked  np  greatly,  and  he  feels 
that  the  new  Columbia  will  easily  be  able  to  secure 
its  share  of  the  trade. 

New  Hampshire  and  Vermont  exhibitors,  atten- 
tion! President  Netf,  of  the  Motion  Picture  Ex- 
hibitors' League  of  America,  would  like  to  hear 
from  you  if  you  are  a  live-wire,  progressive  moving 
picture   exhibitor. 


The  Scenic  Temple,  Boston,  continues  to  do  Its 
share  of  the  business,  month  in  and  month  oat 
Just  now.  the  Scenic  presents  an  appearance  of 
general  attractiveness,  with  Its  potted  plants  and 
Terns,  and  Springtime  decorations.  With  competi- 
tion very  keen,  the  Scenic  does  as  well  as  ever, 
and  Its  high  class  appearance  unquestionably  ac- 
counts in  good  measure  for  its  well  sustained 
patronage. 

The  Globe  Theater,  Boston,  playing  vaudeville 
and  picture  programs,  has  inaugurated  its  regular 
summer  season  prices  of  10  and  15  cents.  The 
Globe  does  a  very  nice  business. 

On  May  14,  Massachusetts  exhibitors  saw  their 
pet  "hour  bill"  go  down  to  defeat  at  the  hands  of 
the  Senate.  This  body  spent  tbe  last  part  of  the 
day  on  the  bill  to  extend  the  time  of  exhibiting 
films  from  20  minutes  to  one  hour,  and  to  limit 
the  projection  of  klnemacolor  films  to  20  minutes, 
which  was  defeated  two  weeks  ago.  By  a  vote  of 
14  to  7,  reconsideration  prevailed.  Senator  Blan- 
chard,  of  Somerville,  Mass.,  moved  the  reconsid- 
eration of  the  vote,  whereby  the  Senate  on  April 
24,  amended  the  bill  to  substitute  45  minutes  for 
one  hour.  A  spirited  debate  ensued,  with  the  re- 
sult that  the  "hour  bill"  championed  by  the  Massa- 
chusetts branch  of  the  Exhibitors'  League,  was 
again  rejected  by  voice  vote.  The  Senate  claims 
that  it  is  against  public  health  as  well,  perhaps,  as 
public  morals,  for  the  films  to  run  longer  than 
20  minntes,  without  five  minutes  of  some  other 
form  of  amusement  being  given.  This  law  prac- 
tically kills  the  multiple  reel  for  the  State,  and, 
of  course,  the  possibility  of  feature  pictures  is 
greatly  lessened  by  the  enforced  five  minute  wait. 
between  reels.  The  exhibitors  have  Senator  Hor- 
gan,  of  Boston,  to  thank,  in  great  measure  for  the 
death  of  the  bill.  Tbe  Senator  waxed  unusually 
eloquent,  and  made  an  impassioned  (and  absurd) 
plea  for  the  retention  of  the  present  20  minute 
law.  The  Senator's  arguments  fell  on  favorable 
ears,    which    tells    the    story    in    a    nut    shell. 

Manager  Frank,  of  Marcos  Loew's  latest  Boston 
theater,  the  St.  James,  states  that  he  now  has 
the  trade  coming  bis  way,  and  that  good  programs 
of  vaudeville  and  photoplays  are  all  that  Is  needed 
to  make  this  bouse  a  money-maker. 

F.  &'.  Spencer,  an  amusement  promoter  of  Cana- 
da, and  controlling  a  string  of  thirteen  theaters 
devoted  to  vaudeville  and  motion  pictures,  is  about 
to  renovate  his  St.  John  theater.  Mr.  Spencer  is 
to  build  an  entirely  new  front  for  this  house,  and 
expects  to  get  his  plans  made  by  a  Boston,  Mass., 
concern.  B.  F.  Keith  Is  soon  to  open  a  theater, 
nearby  to  Mr.  Spencer's  house,  and  the  latter  is 
now  preparing  for  the  new  competition. 

It  is  rumored  that  the  Globe  theater,  Boston, 
is  on  the  market,  but  the  report  has  not  been 
verified,  although  It  came  from  a  reliable  source. 
The  Globe  formerly  was  a  "legitimate"  theater, 
but  for  many  months  has  been  offering  vaudeville 
and  photoplay  programs.  It  is  considered  to  be 
doing  a  satisfactory  business,  but  trade  is  not  as 
brisk  there  as  It  was  before  the  Olympla  opened 
nearby. 

A  license  for  a  moving  picture  theater  has  again 
been  granted  at  Woburn,  Mass.  Mr.  John  Finn 
managed  to  have  the  license  granted,  but  not 
until  he  had  worked  on  it  for  some  time.  Lyceum 
Hall  has  been  secured  by  Mr.  Fini.  Woburn  has 
had  no  photoplay  theaters  recently,  owing  to  the 
action  of  the  mayor,  who  suddenly  cancelled  the 
licenses,  which  the  theater  owners  could  not  get 
re-instated  although  they  went  to  court  over  the 
matter. 

A  recent  Incorporation  is  Koen  Brothers,  Inc., 
of  Salem,  Mass.,  of  which  John  E.  Koen,  William 
H.  Koen  and  Joshua  B.  Merrill,  are  the  officers. 
Koen  Brothers  are  very  widely  known  in  this 
territory,  and  operate  the  new  Federal  Theater 
at  Salem.  The  concern  Is  incorporated  for  165,- 
000. 

Presbyterian  churches  in  New  England  have  an- 
nounced that  the  Presbyterian  Board  of  Publica- 
tion and  Sunday  School  Work  is  prepared  to  in- 
troduce moving  picture  machine  Into  Sunday 
schools.  This  is  a  very  pleasing  piece  of  news, 
and  shows  that  the  Board  realizes  the  moving  pic- 
tures can  become  a  powerful  ally  in  teaching  the 
story  of  the  Bible. 

with  the  opening  of  the  Broadway  theater,  In 
Springfield,  Mass.,  the  Goldstein  Brothers'  Amuse- 
ment Company,  added  another  theater  to  their 
long  chain  of  houses  In  this  territory.  Besides 
tbe  new  Broadway  theater,  this  enterprising  con- 
cern controls  and  operates  the  Plaza  theater, 
Springfield.  Bijou  theater.  North  Adams,  Mass.. 
the  Plaza  theater.  Northampton,  Mass.  New  Opera 
House  Westfleld  Mass..  New  Opera  House,  Exeter, 
N.  H..  and  the  Bijou  theater  Hampton  Beach. 
The  firm  also  runs  park  resorts  at  Monntain  Park, 
Holyoke,  Mass.,  and  Hampton  Beach,  Hampton, 
N.  H.  In  addition  to  all  these  houses,  Goldstein 
Brothers  own  a  number  of  small  theaters,  de- 
voted to  programs  of  photoplays  and  songs.  At 
the  head  of  the  entire  circuit.  Is  H.  I.  Dillenbeck, 
a  very  capable  and  energetic  executive,  who  knows 
his    business    thoroughly. 

The  Pastime  theater,  Lawrence,  Mass.,  Is  closed 
aud  will  not  reopen  until  the  middle  of  August, 
This  Is  a  picture  house  managed  by  William  White. 
Manager  White  Intends  to  keep  his  opera  bouse, 
of  that  city  open  the  entire  summer,   as   this  thea- 


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Cer  usually  does  a  capacity  business,  with  large 
programs   of   vaudeville   and    pictures. 

Keith's  theater,  Lowell,  Mass.,  has  a  new  mana- 
ger, in  the  person  of  Benjamin  Pickett,  who  should 
make  a  good  showing  In  his  new  position  as  he 
has  been  connected  with  Keith's  for  the  past  two 
seasons. 

Manager  Mosher  of  Keith's  Hippodrome  theater. 
Portland.  Me.,  has  made  arrangements  to  offer 
•took  company  attractions  starting  June  2.  The 
Hippodrome  will  continue  to  play  vaudeville  and 
pictures,   as  soon  as  the  hot  weather  Is  over. 

The  Gaiety  theater,  Springfield,  Mass.,  reopened 
to  the  public  on  May  5,  after  having  been  closed, 
while  it  was  thoroughly  overhauled  and  generally 
Improved.  Reports  state  that  business  baa  Im- 
proved greatly  since  its  opening.  The  Gaiety  now 
presents  a  modern  appearance  and  should  get  its 
■hare   of   the    trade. 

Messrs.  Fisher  &  Reed,  proprietors  of  the  Opera 
House,  Newton,  Mass.,  celebrated  the  anniversary 
of  the  opening  of  their  theater  on  May  14,  In  a 
highly  fitting  manner.  The  Newton  Hospital  was 
given  the  entire  receipts  on  that  day  and  this  ac- 
tion of  Fisher  &  Reed  created  any  amount  of 
favorable  comment.  The  mayor  of  Newton, 
Charles  E.  Hatfield,  publicly  thanked  the  concern 
for  Its  generosity.  The  Newton  Opera  House,  as 
a  general  thing,  plays  to  capacity  business,  with 
vaudeville  and  picture  programs  and  this  anniver- 
sary week  was  no  exception  to  the  general  rule. 
The  house  is  well  managed,  and  is  conducted  along 
op-to-date  lines.  It  Is  always  a  mighty  good  plan 
to  give  a  day's  receipts  to  some  charitable  in- 
stitution, on  a  special  occasion,  like  this  one,  as 
the  results  in  the  good  will  secured  are  of  great 
value  to  a  moving  picture  theater,  especially  if 
situated   in    the    smaller    towns, 

It  looks  very  much  as  if  Springfield,  Mass.,  is 
to  have  another  theater,  in  the  near  future.  The 
Hampden  Realty  Company  has  about  decided  to 
erect  a  large  theater  at  the  corner  of  Bliss  and 
Main  Streets,  and  plans  are  now  being  made  which 
fall  for  a  modern  and  thoroughly  fireprof  theater 
to  ieat  1,500  persons.  The  new  house  will  be  de- 
voted to  the  exploitation  of  vaudeville  and  pic- 
tures. Although  Springfield  has  a  number  of 
photoplay  houses,  yet  the  proposed  theater  has 
an  unusually  good  location,  and  should  get  its 
share   of   the    available    trade. 

S.  Z.  Poll  has  leased  the  new  theater  which  P. 
D'Esopo  Is  about  to  build  on  the  old  City  Hotel 
property,  In  Hartford,  Conn.  The  theater  will  be 
a  vaudeville  and  photoplay  house,  and  will  be  one 
•f  the  finest  theaters  in  Connecticut.  Mr.  Poli's 
chain  of  New  England  theaters  is  growing  stead- 
ily,   with    a    new    addition    almost    each    month. 

The  Globe  theater,  Boston,  playing  vaudeville 
and  picture  programs,  has  inaugurated  Its  "sum- 
mer prices,"  which  are:  10  cents  for  all  seats 
from  10  in  the  morning,  until  6  at  night,  and  10 
and  15  cents  for  all  seats  after  6. 

The  National  theater,  Boston,  a  Keith  bouse, 
playing  vaudeville  and  pictures,  has  started  on 
Ha  summer  schedule,  which  calls  for  three  shows 
dally.  The  National  expects  to  remain  open  dur- 
ing the  entire  summer,  as  business  Is  holding  up 
la  good   shape. 

The  regular  monthly  meeting  of  the  Massachu- 
setts branch  of  the  Exhibitors'  League,  which  was 
postponed  twice,  is  now  definitely  called  for  Tues- 
day, May  20,  at  Lagrange  Street  "Headquarters" 
It  Is  believed  that  some  Important  matters  will 
be  given  attention  at  this  meeting,  which  will 
be  reported    in    these   columns,    next   week. 

The  Mutual  Film  Corporation's  Boston  ounces  sent 
exhibitors  in  this  section  a  special  invitation  to  an 
advance  showing  of  the  New  York  Motion  Picture 
Company's  "Battle  of  Gettysburg."  at  the  Back 
Bay  theater,  Dartmouth  and  Columbus  Avenue, 
Boston,  on  May  20,  at  2  p.m.  The  Mutual  folks 
confidently  expect  that  the  "great  $75,000  pro- 
duction" will  create  a  real  sensation  among  ex- 
hibitors. 

Starting  Monday,  May  19,  the  Gaiety  Theater, 
Washington  Street,  Boston,  a  burlesque  house,  in- 
augurated a  supplementary  season  of  moving  pic- 
tares.  The  Gaiety  plans  to  show  only  exclusive 
feature  subjects  and  a  real  "thriller"  was  secured 
fjsff  opening  week,  "The  Gunmen  of  New  York." 
Four  shows  will  be  given  daily,  two  shows  each 
afternoon  from  1  o'clock  till  5,  and  2  in  the  even- 
lag  from  7  o'clock  till  10.30.  The  Gaiety  has 
played  picture  programs  during  several  summer 
seasons,  and  usualy  did  well,  as  the  theater  is 
one  of  the  best  appointed  houses  in  Boston  and 
has  a  good  location.  "Capturing  Wild  Animals" 
was   another  feature   for  opening  week. 

Theatrical  employes  from  all  over  New  England 
convened  at  Lincoln  Hall,  Fltchburg,  last  week  to 
attend  the  semi-annual  convention  of  the  New 
England  district  of  the  International  Theatrical 
Employes.  F.  H.  Abbott,  president  of  the  Fitch- 
burg  organization,  extended  the  address  pf  wel- 
come. Charles  T.  Shea,  of  New  York,  internation- 
al president.  George  E.  Rock,  of  Worcester,  Mass., 
International  vice-president;  John  J.  Barry,  of  Bos- 
ton, state  president,  all  made  addresses.  In- 
ternational President  Shea  presided,  and  W.  W. 
Dillon  of  Fall  River  acted  as  secretary.  The  con- 
vention was  attended  by  47  delegates,  represent- 
ing 31  lodges.  On  the  second  day  of  the  conven- 
tion, managers  of  theaters  were  admitted  at  a 
smoke-talk. 

James  P.  Bas:er,  of  Portland,  Me.,  has  returned 
to  that  city,    after   a    trip    through   Japan,    and   de- 


nies that  he  intends  to  erect  a  new  theater  to  be 
devoted  to  vaudeville  and  plcores,  on  the  corner 
of  Congress  and  High  Streets.  The  rumor  still 
persists,    however. 

Manager  George  A.  Wardwell,  of  the  KIncalde 
Theater,  Quincy,  Mass.,  reports  excellent  business, 
with  programs  of  Mutual  films.  Mr.  Wardwell 
intends  to  keep  his  theater  open  all  summer,  un- 
less trade  should  take  an  unexpected  slump,  which 
is  unlikely,    to  judge  from  present   business. 

Moving  picture  theaters  are  open  on  Sundavs  at 
Lawrence,  Mass.,  in  spite  of  the  efforts  of  a  num- 
ber of  local  clergymen,  who  did  their  level  best 
to  have  the  theaters  closed.  The  "Lawrance 
Critic,"  in  an  extremely  able  article  does  not  mince 
words  and  remarked  that  the  clergymen  did  not 
give  the  matter  thorough  consideration.  It  Is 
certainly  going  beyond  the  line  of  religious  duty 
to.  deprive  the  public  of  its  Sunday  relaxation  and 
amusement.  The  "Critic"  also  remarks  that  the 
moving  picture  films  and  theaters  are  amply  regu- 
lated by  strict  State  law.  "The  liberty  of  the 
residents  of  Lawrence  to  go  where  they  will  on 
any  day  within  the  law,  may  be  placed  in  Jeop- 
ardy, if  the  clergymen  persevere  in  their  efforts," 
says  the  "Critic."  The  moving  picture  interests  of 
Lawrence  recently  held  an  important  conference 
with  Mayor  Scanlon,  when  the  latter  outlined  the 
situation  regarding  Sunday  shows,  and  urged  the 
moving  picture  exhibitors  to  co-operate  with  him, 
and  the  ministers'  association  in  elevating  the  in- 
dustry to  the  highest  possible  plane  In  Lawrence. 
The  mayor  suggested  at  this  meeting,  that  the  large 
signs  outside  the  theaters  be  taken  in  on  Sundays, 
and  also  put  it  up  to  the  managers  to  be  un- 
usually careful  in  the  selection  of  subjects  for 
Sunday  exhibition.  To  all  this,  Lawrence  moving 
picture  exhibitors  heartily  agreed,  and  now  every- 
thing is  going  smoothly  In  Lawrence,  as  far  as 
motion  pictures  are  concerned.  Mayor  Scanlon  de- 
serves the  sincere  respect  of  moving  picture  in- 
terests for  his  manly  and  sensible  stand  on  this 
question  of  Sunday  shows,  as  the  clergy  were  par- 
ticularly active,  using  every  means  at  their  com- 
mand, to  force  His  Honor  to  close  the  photoplay 
houses  on  the  Sabbath.  The  "Lawrence  Critic" 
also  did  much  to  help  the  exhibitors  gain  their 
point. 

The  G\  W.  Trainer  Manufacturing  Company, 
with  offices  at  39  Pearl  Street,  Boston,  reports 
that  they  have  installed  a  number  of  asbestos 
curtains  and  operators'  booths,  In  the  New  Eng- 
land territory  during  the  last  month.  The  con- 
cern, has  issued  a  very  instructive  booklet  for  any 
house  thinking  of  having  any  work  done,  re- 
quiring  asbestos. 

The  R.  D.  Marson  Moving  Picture  Company, 
Boston,  reports  that  it  has  installed  a  Power's 
Cameragraph  No.  6A,  in  the  Casino  theater,  New 
Bedford,    Mass. 

Manager  Eslow,  of  the  Boston  offices  of  the 
Mutual  Film  Corporation,  opened  headquarters  at 
Waterville,  Me.,  to  take  care  of  his  growing  trade 
in  that  section,  only  to  be  closely  followed  by  the 
General  Film  Company,  which  is  now  opening  an 
office  at  Bangor,  Me.,  as  a  distributing  depot  for 
licensed  exhibitors  in  that  state.  Suitable  quar- 
ters have  been  secured  at  123  Franklin  Street, 
from  John  R.  Graham.  G.  N.  Sporcey,  of  Boston, 
has  been  delegated  to  take  charge  of  the  Bangor 
office.  The  writer  understands  that  the  building 
Is  fireproof  and  well  adpated  to  the  needs  of  a 
film   exchange. 

HENBY. 


LOUISVILLE. 

nr  HE  National  Picture  Company,  of  Louisville. 
•*■  has  begun  work  on  ita  new  moving  picture 
house  In  Crescent  Hill,  residents  of  that  section 
having  withdrawn  their  objections.  The  "Cres- 
cent," as  the  new  house  is  to  be  known,  will 
contain  600  seats.  A  feature  of  the  theater  will 
be  a  pipe  organ.  The  Novelty  Theater,  of  Louis- 
ville, is  the  only  one  now  in  existence  in  the 
Kentucky  metropolis  which  uses  a  pipe  organ,  and 
this  feature  has  been  largely  responsible  for  the 
success  of  that  house.  Daniel  L.  Martin,  who  is 
well  known  in  theatrical  circles  through  his  con- 
nection with  the  National  Association  of  Theatri- 
cal Producing  Managers,  has  been  secured  as 
manager  of  the  National  Moving  Picture  Company, 
and  will  make  his  headquarters  In  Louisville,  after 
June  1.  Mr.  Martin  is  credited  with  the  first 
production  of  "Parsifal"  in  English.  The  National 
is  now  negotiating  with  a  property-owner  for  a 
new  motion  picture  house  on  Fourth  avenue.  The 
National  will  probably  either  build  the  house  it- 
self or  secure  a  long  lease  on  the  structure.  Plans 
are  tinder  way  for  securing  a  theater  in  Owens- 
boro,  Ky.  A  theater  now  in  operation  will  be 
taken  over,  or  a  new  house  erected,  according  to 
officers    of    the    National. 

Several  representatives  of  film-producing  com- 
panies were  In  Louisville  on  Derby  Day,  May  10, 
and  took  motion  pictures  of  the  thirty-ninth  run- 
ning of  that   turf  classic. 

H.  S.  Gilbert,  who  will  manage  the  new  air- 
dome  at  Shelbyville.  Ky.,  was  a  recent  visitor  In 
LoniSTiUe.  Mr.  Gilbert  announced  that  the  air- 
dome,  located  at  Seventh  and  Washington  streets, 
would  be  In  operation  about  June  1.  The  Shelby- 
ville Alrdome  Company  recently  was  Incorporated 
to  operate  the  house.  A  seating  capacity  of  500 
will   be   had   by   the  amusement  men.     Moving  pic- 


tures will  form  the  program.  Only  six  days  of  the 
week  are  to  be  used,  the  company  having  decided 
to  remain  closed  on  Sundays. 

The  palace  theater,  owned  by  Simon  Switow,  la 
to  be  sold  by  that  exhibitor,  who  shortly  will 
leave  for  Richmond  and  French  Lick,  Imi  where 
his  uncle,  M.  Switow,  now  Is  erecting  '  house*. 
Each  of  the  new  theaters  will  have  a  seating 
capacity  of  about  500.  Simon  Switow  will  have 
the  management  of  both.  The  palace,  located 
at  Shelby  and  Hupp  streets,  was  purchased  by 
Mr.  Switow  only  about  three  months  ago.  It  has 
a   seating   capacity   of  320. 

Miss  Ophelia  Cummins,  the  popular  cashier  at 
the  Majestic  theater,  is  back  at  the  window  afte* 
spending  a  couple  of  weeks  on  her  vacation. 

A  presentation  of  "Cleopatra,"  at  the  Novelty 
theater,  attracted  big  crowds  recently,  tie  reg- 
ular admission  price  of  ten  cents  being  in  fore* 
for    the    five-reel    Vltagraph    feature. 

Fred  Dolle,  of  the  Broadway  Amusement  Com- 
pany, of  Louisville,  has  been  besieged  bv  In- 
quiries since  the  appearance  of  the  picture  of  the 
Ideal  theater  in  the  Moving  Picture  World.  Many 
exhibitors  throughout  the  country  are  considering 
the  erection  of  new  houses,  and  the  Ideal  made 
such  a  favorable  Impression  that  the  prospective 
builders  are  seeking  inquiries  from  associates  with 
experience.  The  Louisville  man  was  deeply  Im- 
pressed with  the  results  of  the  description  and 
photograph  of  the  Ideal,  which  indicated  that  the 
World  goes  into  the  hands  of  exhibitors  every- 
where. 

Caufield  &  Shook,  Louisville  photographers,  who 
recently  entered  the  motion  picture  field,  recently 
have  taken  a  number  of  pictures  of  interest.  All 
of  the  productions  of  Caufield  &  Shook  are  incor- 
porated in  the  Mutual  weekly.  The  sinking  of 
the  steamer  "Sam  Brown,"  in  the  Ohio  river, 
near  Louisville,  was  recorded  by  Canfield  &  Shook, 
as  were  flood  scenes  around  Louisville  in  April. 
The  photographers,  however,  were  unable  to  get 
views  of  the  Derby,  another  company  having  that 
privilege  tied  up. 

The  opening  of  Fontaine  Ferry,  Louisville,  a 
summer  park,  on  May  11,  produced  no  visible 
decrease  in  attendance  at  moving  picture  theaters. 
With  thousands  of  visitors  in  the  Kentucky  metrop- 
olis for  the  races,  business  was  rather  better  than 
otherwise,  and  exhibitors  are  not  alarmed  over 
the   advent   of   the   park   season. 

Arch  Smith  will  open  his  airdome  in  Owensboro, 
Ky.,  in  a  few  days,  being  engaged  In  reconstruct- 
ing the  theater.  Independent  service  is  to  be 
used,  four  reels  a  day  being  the  program.  Mr. . 
Smith  will  close  the  Novelty  theater,  which  he 
also  owns,  as  soon  as  the  airdome  is  ready  for 
business.  A  new  front  and  other  changes  have 
been  made   In   the  house. 

George  A.  Bleich,  a  well  known  Kentucky  ex- 
hibitor and  one  of  the  officers  of  the  Kentucky 
Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League,  will  shortly 
open  a  new  house,  the  "Princess."  at  Owensboro, 
Ky.  Mr.  Bleich  has  leased  a  room  hitherto  used 
as  a  pool  hall  and  has  begun  Improvements.  The 
Princess  will  be  ready  for  business  early  In  June, 
according  to  present  plans.  It  will  seat  about  400 
people  and  cater  especially  to  shoppers,  being 
located  in  the  business  district. 

The  Bex  theater,  of  Princeton,  Ky.,  has  bee» 
moved  several  doors  south.  Owner  R.  M.  Dunn 
secured  a  lease  on  a  larger  building  and  has  trans- 
ferred all  equipment.  The  change  was  made  with- 
out loss  of  time,  continuous  performances  being 
given. 

The  South  Broadway  Amusement  Company  has 
been  incorporated  at  Lexington,  Ky.,  with  a  capitali- 
zation of  $2,000.  The  incorporators  are  B.  P. 
Anderson,  W.  E.  Bass,  L.  M.  Land,  and  others. 
The  company  will  operate  a  moving  picture  house. 

Joseph  &  Joseph,  Louisville  architects,  are  now 
receiving  bids  for  a  new  ventilating  system  to  be 
installed  in  the  Majestic  theater.  Work  will  begin 
as  soon  as  the  contract  is  awarded.  The  Majestic 
will  operate  without  cessation   during    the   work. 

The  old  project  of  erecting  a  moving  picture  or 
vaudeville  theater  In  the  rear  of  the  Atherton 
building,  at  Fourth  and  Chestnut  Streets.  Louis- 
ville, has  bobbed  up  again,  and  those  interested 
are  trying  to  sell  stock  for  the  purpose.  The 
venture  is  not  looked  on  with  favor  by  many  amuse- 
ment men  because  of  the  big  price  asked  for  the 
property  by  the  present  owners.  It  is  planned 
to  buy  the  site  outright  and  erect  a  theater,  with 
the  entrance  through  a  Fourth  Avenue  store,  now 
vacant.  The  same  proposition  has  been  put  for- 
ward several  times  in  the  past  by  various  persons, 
but   bas   never  gained  any   great  impetus. 

The  Avenue  theater  will  be  closed  shortly  to 
make  way  for  a  new  five-and-ten-cent  store.  Mor- 
ton Shaw,  who  has  operated  the  Avenue  as  a 
moving  picture  theater,  is  now  contemplating  the 
i.iug  of  another  house.  He  is  looking  over  a 
number  of  sites  and  will  probably  open  another 
tleater  shortly  after  the  Avenue  is  turned  over 
to    the    new    lessees. 

The  opening  Of  B.  F.  Keith's  Louisville  theater 
as  a  summer  house,  with  an  admission  price  of 
ten  cents,  has  been'  so  successful  that  the  policy 
will  probably  be  maintained  for  the  remainder  of 
the  summer.  Three  performances  are  given  daily, 
including  one  matinee  and  two  evening  perform- 
ances Moving  pictures  and  vaudeville  form  the 
program,  and  the  Keith  theater  bas  played  to 
good   crowds.  a   d_   craiN]  JR_ 


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HE  inspiring  achievements  of  a  man  who 

does  not  hunt   in  a   desire   to   slay,   but 

rather  to  preserve;  who  enters  the  jungle 

armed  not  with  weapons  for  slaughter, 

but  with  science's  greatest  weapon  for  education, 

the  motion  picture  camera,  are  recorded 

EX-PRES.   THEODORE   ROOSEVELT 

America's  most  distinguished 
hunter   of   big   game,   says: 

"  In  moving  pictures  of  wild  life  there 
is  a  great  temptation  to  fake,  and  the 
sharpest  discrimination  must  be  employed 
in  order  to  tell  the  genuine  from  the 
spurious.  My  attention  was  particularly 
directed  toward  Mr.  Kearton's  work,  be- 
cause of  its  absolute  honesty.  His  views 
of  the  charging  lion,  in  which  several 
natives  are  trampled  and  torn  by  the 
infuriated  beasts,  are  wonderful— reallv 
wonderful."  g*' 


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The  World's  Most  Daring  Animal  Photographer  Face 

Capt.  Cherry  Kearton  is  world-famed  as  the  greatest  living  explorer  of  the  jungle  and] 
Capt.  Kearton  secured  these  pictures  after  years  of  patient  and  courageous  labor, 

STATE  RIGHTS  NOW  SELLING!    (AND  THEY  ■ 


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_    ADOLPH    ZUKOR'S 

THRILLING    ANIMAL    SERIES 

"Capt.  Cherry  Kearton's  Wild  Life  and 
Big  Game  the  Jungles  of  India  and  Africa" 


RING 


LION      HUNT 

THE  AFRICAN  JUNGLE 


Press   Comments     that     Should     IM- 
PRESS 

"  No  description  suffices  to  give  any 
real  idea  of  these  fascinating  pictures. 
They  must  be  seen  to  be  believed." — 
London  Morning  Post. 

"  The  most  thrilling  pictures  you  can 
possibly  imagine." — London  Telegraph. 

"  Exceptional  moving  pictures  of  big 
game,  obtained  as  the  result  of  remark- 
able patience  and  courage."  —  N.  Y. 
Telegraph. 


Face  with  Savage  Animals  in  Borneo,   India  and  Africa 


most  responsible  authority  of  the  life  and  habits  of  the  monarchs  of  the  animal  kingdom, 
risked  his  life  to  bring  these  thrilling  scenes  before  the  eyes  of  the  civilized  world! 


A    COMPELLING    VARIETY    OF    MAGNETIC    LITHOGRAPHS, 
AND    DETAILED    AUTHORITATIVE    LECTURE   TO      - 

A    LIVE    WIRE! 


INSURE  SUCCESS ! 


Times  Building  NEW   YORK   CITY 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


"A  REGIMENT  OF  TWO"       "THE  FINAL  JUDGMENT" 


TWO  gay  husbands  enlist  in  the  13th  Regiment  to  be  sure  of  "a 
night  off"  once  a  week.  Two  or  three  people  are  let  into  the 
secret,  the  daughter  of  one  and  her  fiance.  Jack  Brent,  the  latter 
being  a  genuine  member  of  the  13th.  All  goes  well  until  the  regiment 
is  ordered  to  the  front.  Although  they  march  away  with  the  others, 
the  husbands  go  on  a  fishing  tour.  Later,  they  learn  through  a  news- 
paper report  that  the  regiment  has  been  wiped  out  in  battle.  The  plot 
thickens.  Home  they  go,  changing  their  fishing  clothes  for  regimentals, 
and  before  their  respective  wives,  pose  as  the  sole  survivors.  The 
report  proves  to  be  false,  and  there  are  further  complications  when 
Brent  and  the  cook's  sweetheart,  Conrad,  also  a  member  of  the  13th, 
return  from  the  front.  Quick  wit  on  the  part  of  the  husbands  saves 
the  day. 

Vitagraph.  Two  Reels.    Released  June  nth,  1913. 


THE  story  opens  in  the  Klondike.     Two  young  men  from  the  East 
are  in  love  with  Edna  Wallace.    She  accepts  Brandon.    A  few 
years  go  by  and  we   see   McCormack,  the   friend  and   rejected 
suitor,    attempting    to    rescue    Brandon    from    drink    and    ruin.      They 
quarrel  and  McCormick  is  wounded  in  a  pistol  fight.     Brandon  escapes 
to  New  York  with  his  child.     His  wife  follows. 

The  scene  then  shifts  to  the  Metropolis.  McCormack  is  now  a 
newspaper  editor.  One  morning  he  confronts  Brandon  robbing  his 
apartment.  The  latter  dies  of  heart  failure  from  shock.  He  leaves 
behind  a  letter  which  enables  McCormack  to  ltfcate  the  missing  son. 
In  the  role  of  a  "Cub"  reporter  he  covers  a  big  fire  and  rescues  his 
mother  from  the  burning'  building.  The  reunion  in  the  hospital 
later,  with  McCormack  present,  is  as  touching  as  it  is  beautiful.  * 
Essanay,   Two  parts.     Released  June  gth,   1913. 


SPEAKING  ABOUT  MULTIPLE-REEL  FEATURES 

rT^HERE  is  a  special  reason  why  every  multiple-reel  feature  in  General 
-*■  Film  Service  is  released  as  such.  Some  so-called  features  are  merely 
single  reel  stories  "padded"  to  fill  more  than  a  thousand  feet  of  film.  Not 
so,  however,  with  General  Film  features.  In  every  case  the  story  must  require 
more  than  a  thousand  feet  to  tell  clearly  or  it  is  not  accepted  in  the  form  of  a 
multiple-reel.  A  favorite  trick  with  some  producers  of  features  ?  is  to. use 
certain  big  scenes,  as  for  example,  a  battle  in  a  war  drama,  in  several  different 
pictures.  Such  films  don't  appear  in  General  Film  Service.  Every  scene  is 
made  especially  for  the  feature  of  which  it  is  a  part  and  is  used  for  that 
feature  alone. 

Making  superior  features  takes  time,  patience,  hard  work  and  money.  At  present 
the  manufacturers  represented  in  General  Film  Service  are  producing  all  they  can  handle 
without  bringing  down  their  standard  of  quality,  and  this  they  are  not  willing  to  do  nor  are 
we  anxious  that  they  should.  Patience  and  care  are  the  watch  words  in  their  studios.  To 
produce  a  certain  film  which  will  be  released  soon  over  23,000  feet  of  negative  stock  were 
consumed,  and  yet  the  finished  product  is  just  under  2,000  feet  in  length  !  The  features 
illustrated  on  this  and  the  opposite  page  represent  an  average  General  Film  Service  multiple- 
reel  program  for  a  week.     Every  one  of  the  four  is  a  sure  enough  "hit" — easily  worth  twice 


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"THE   GOVERNOR'S   DOUBLE"  "The  Tragedy  of  Big  Eagle  Mine" 


GOVERNOR  Walter  Garland  derides  to  investigate  the  report  that 
the  convicts  in  the  Stale  prison  are  subjected  to  inhuman  treat- 
ment. His  friend,  Judge  Howe,  arranges  to  sentence  him  to 
prison  with  the  understanding-  that  he  is  to  be  released  in  thirty  days. 
The  judge  is  stricken  with  apoplexy  and  dies.  Meanwhile  Pete  Brown, 
a  convict,  the  governor's  double,  who  has  been  pardoned,  takes  his  place 
in  the  executive  office.  The  deception  is  continued  right  up  to  the  eve 
of  the  day  when  Garland  was  to  marry.  The  latter,  learning  of  the 
judge's  death,  tries  to  convince  the  warden  that  he  is  the  governor. 
railing,  he  manages  to  escape. 

Making  his  way  to  the  church,  he  halts  the  ceremony  that  would 
have  united  his  sweetheart  and  Pete  Brown.  Explanations  are  hastily 
made  and  the  true  loves?  are  made  man  and  wife. 

Pathcplay,  Two  Reels.    Released  June  13th,  1913. 


MORTON,  a  lone  settler,   meets    with    an   accident    and   is    nursed 
back  to  life  by  Laughing  Water,  an  Indian  girl,  whom  he  later 
marries.      Five  years  pass  and  a  child  comes  to  brighten   the 
primitive    home.      Morton     forsakes    his    wife,    taking    the    child    East 
with  him.     Laughing  Water  is  ostracized  by  her  tribe  and  becomes  a 
wandcrei. 

Twenty  vears  later,  Morton  and  his  son,  now  a  successful  engineer, 
are  in  the  West.  Laughing  Water'sfather,  Big  Eagle,  thirsting  through 
the  years  for  revenge,  dynamites  the  mine  which  the  Morton  party  is 
exploring  and  all  lose  their  lives.  Laughing  Water  begs  for  the  body 
of  her  son,  which  she  carries  to  the  rude  cabin  where  he  was  born. 

Kalem,  Two  Parts.     Released  June  yth,  1913. 


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for  it  that  General  Film  features  are  better —  make  your  own  comparisons,  bearing  in  mind 
while  doing  so  that  you  can  get  them  in  regular  service  with  single  reels  of  the  same  age  — 
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June  14— "Alone  in  the  Jungle"— Selig— 2  reels 
June  16— "The  Rival  Engineers"— Cines-Kleine— 2  reels 
June  18-"The  Weaker  Mind"-Lubin-2  reels 
June  20— "A  Brother's  Loyalty"— Essanay— 2  reels 
June  21— "Mary  Stuart"— Edison— 3  reels 

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condition  which  has  contributed  so  largely  to  the  success  of  the  General  Film  Company.  A  complete  list 
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CURRENT  RELEASES. 

MONDAY,  JUNE  2nd,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH — The  Ranchero's  Revenge  (Drama)    

EDISON — Professor   William    Nutt    (Comedy)    1000 

KALEM— The  Bandit's  Child  (Drama)    1000 

LUBIN — A  Woman's  Heart   (Drama)    1000 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's  Weekly  No.  23  (News)   

SELIG — When  the  Circus  Came  to  Town  (Com.-Drama)iooo 
VITAGRAPH— What  God  Hath  Joined  Together  (Dr.).  1000 
CINES — When  a  Woman  Loves  (Special  2-part  Drama)2ooo 

TUESDAY,  JUNE  3rd,  1913. 

CINES — The   Irony  of  Fate   (Drama) 1000 

EDISON— Right  for  Right's  Sake   (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY— Let  No  Man  Put  Asunder   (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — A  Jealous  Husband   (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— Dredges   and   Farm   Implements   in   the 

West    (Agriculture)    

PATHEPLAY— A  Market  in  Kabylia,  Algeria  (Com- 
merce)     

SELIG— The  Flag  of  Two  Wars  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— Bunny  as  a  Reporter  (Comedy) 

VITAGRAPH— Three  to  One  (Comedy) 

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  4th,  1913. 

ECLIPSE— The  Armadillo   (Zoological)    

ECLIPSE— Delivering   the   Goods    (Comedy) 

EDISON — Some  Spots  In  and  Around  Los  Angeles, 
Cal.    (Scenic)    

EDISON— Don't  Worry  (Comedy)    

ESSANAY— The  Value  of  Mothers-in-Law   (Comedy).. 

KALEM— When    Fate   Decrees    (Drama) 

PATHEPLAY— The    Saving    Lie    (Drama) 

SELIG — The  Law  and  the  Outlaw  (Special — 2  parts- 
Drama)    

SELIG — Woman — Past  and  Present  (Comedy-Drama).. 

VITAGRAPH— A  Modern  Psyche   (Drama) 

THURSDAY,  JUNE  5th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— Slippery  Slim  Repents   (Comedy) . 

BIOGRAPH— Just  Kids  (Comedy)    

ESSANAY— The  Last  Shot  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN— Bob  Builds  a  Chicken  House   (Comedy) 

LUBIN— Kate,  the  Cop   (Comedy) 

MELIES — Native  Industries  of  Java  (Industrial) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— What  the  Good  Book  Taught   (Drama) 

SELIG — The  Suwanee  River  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— The  Heart  of  Mrs.  Robins   (Com.-Dr.)  .1000 

FRIDAY,  JUNE  6th,  1913. 

EDISON — Mercy  Merrick  (Drama)    1000 

ESSANAY— Phillip  March's  Engagement  (Comedy) 1000 

KALEM — The  Terror  of  Conscience  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — The  Penalty  of  Jealousy  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — The  Accusing  Hand   (Special — 2  parts — Dr.).. 2000 
PATHEPLAY— Birds  and  Animals  of  Brazil  (Zoology) 

PATHEPLAY— Tananarive,  Madagascar  (Travel) 

SELIC- — An  Embarrassed  Bridegroom  (Comedy) 

SELIC- — Manila  Normal  and  Public  Schools   (Edu.) 

VITAGRAPH— The   Butler's   Secret   (Drama) .....1000 

SATURDAY,  JUNE  7th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— A    Timely    Interception    (Drama) 

CINES — Orbetello  and  Environs  (Travel) 250 

CINES — The   Ring   (Drama)    750 

EDISON— While  John   Bolt  Slept  (Drama).. .......... "iooo 

ESSANAY — Broncho   Billy's   Capture   (Drama) 1000 

KALEM— When  Women  Are  Police   (Comedy) 

KALEM — Percy's   Wooing   (Comedy)    

KALEM— The   Tragedy   of   Big.  Eagle   Mine    (Special— 

2  parts — Drama)    2000 

LUBIN— The  Great  Pearl   (Drama) "  "  1000 

PATHEPLAY— Get-Rich-Quick  Billington   (Comedy)... 
VITAGRAPH— The  Forgotten   Latchkey   (Comedy). ...  1000 


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ADVANCE    RELEASES. 
MONDAY,  JUNE  9th,  1913- 

BIOGRAPH — Jenks     Becomes    a    Desperate    Character 

(Comedy)    

BIOGRAPH— Red  Hicks  Defies  the  World  (Comedy).. 

EDISON— Othello  in  Jonesville   (Comedy)    iooo 

ESSANAY— The  Final  Judgment   (Special  2-part  Dr.).. 2000 

KALEM— The   Rube  and   the  Boob   (Comedy)    

KALEM— The   Scheme   of  Shiftless   Sam   Smith   (Com.) 

LUBIN — The  Legend  of  Lovers  Leap  (Drama)   iooo 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's  Weekly  No.   24   (News)    

SELIG — Sweeney  and  the  Fairy  (Comedy)    iooo 

VITAGRAPH— The    Bachelor's    Baby;    or    How    It    All 

Happened   (Drama)    iooo 

TUESDAY,  JUNE  10th,  1913. 

CINES— (Title   Not  Reported)    ' 

EDISON— Two   Little   Kittens    (Drama)    iooo 

ESSANAY — The  Shadowgraph  Message  (Drama)    iooo 

LUBIN — Violet    Dare.    Detective    (Drama)    IOOO 

PATHEPLAY— Max's  First  Job  (Comedy)   

PATHEPLAY— The    Chateau    of    Chenonceau,    France 

(Architecture )     

SELIG— Dad's  Little  Girl  ( Drama)    1000 

VITAGRAPH— Cutty  Tries   Reporting   (Comedy)    1000 

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  nth,  1913. 

ECLIPSE   (Title   Not   Reported)    

EDISON — Beau  Crummel  and  His  Bride   (Comedv) 1000 

ESSANAY— The  Star  (Comedy)    iooo 

KALEM — The  Pawnbroker's  Daughter  (Drama) iooo 

PATHEPLAY— His  Lordship's  Romance  (Comedy) 

SELIG— The  Rose  of  May  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— His   House   in   Order;   or  The  Widow's 

Quest    (Drama)    iooo 

VITAGRAPH— A  Regiment  of  Two  (Special— 2  parts- 
Drama)    2000 

THURSDAY,  JUNE  12th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Well   (Drama) 

ESSANAY— Cinderella's   Gloves   (Comedy) iooo 

LUBIN — Nearly  in   Mourning   (Comedy) 

LUBIN — The  Professor's  Predicament  (Comedy) 

MELIES— The  Stolen  Claim  (Drama) 

MELIES — Views  of  Samarang  (Scenic) 

PATHEPLAY— The  Artist's  Dream  (Comedy) 

SELIG— The  Fate  of  Elizabeth  (Comedy) 

SELIG— The  Birth  of  a  Butterfly  (Zoology) 

VITAGRAPH— His  Tired  Uncle   (Comedy) 

VITAGRAPH— Capers  of  Cupid  (Comedy) 

FRIDAY,  JUNE  13th,  1913. 

EDISON— Along   the   Nile   (Scenic) iooo 

ESSANAY — The  Mysterious  Stranger  (Comedy-Drama)  iooo 

KALEM— Brought  to  Bay  (Drama) iooo 

LUBIN — Papita's  Destiny  (Drama)   iooo 

PATHEPLAY— Athletics  in  France  (Sports) 

PATHEPLAY— Places  of  Interest  in  Colorado  (Travel) 
PATHEPLAY— The     Governor's     Double      (Special— 2 

parts — Drama)   

SELIG — The  Jealousy  of  Miguel  and  Isabella  (Drama) ..  iooo 
VITAGRAPH— An   Infernal   Tangle    (Drama) iooo 

SATURDAY,  JUNE  14th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— Death's  Marathon   (Drama) 

CINES— (Title  not  reported). 

EDISON— Apples  of  Sodom  (Drama) iooo 

ESSANAY— The   Ranch   Feud    (Drama) iooo 

KALEM — The  Gypsy's   Brand   (Drama) iooo 

LUBIN — The  Wine  of  Madness  (Drama) iooo 

PATHEPLAY— For  Mayor— Bess  Smith   (Comedy).... 
SELIG — Alone   In  the  Jungle   (Special — 2  parts — Dr.)..  iooo 
VITAGRAPH — Does  Advertising  Pay  (Comedy) iooo 


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Universal  Film  Mfg.  Co.  Current  Releases 

SUNDAY,  JUNE   ist,  1913- 

CRYSTAL— Clancy,   the   Model    (Cohiedy)    

CRYSTAL— Hooked    (Comedy)     

ECLAIR — He  Ruins  His  Family's  Reputation  (Comedy) 

ECLAIR — All  On  Account  of  an  Egg  (Comedy)    

REX— The  Boob   (Comedy-Drama)    

MONDAY,  JUNE  2nd,   1913. 

IMP — Just  A  Fire  Fighter  (Comedy-Drama)    

NESTOR— A  Mixup  in  Bandits   (Comedy) 

GEM — Billy  in  Armor  (Comedy)    

TUESDAY,  JUNE  3rd,  1913. 
101  BISON— The  Battle  of  San  Juan  Hill  (3-part  Drama) 

CRYSTAL— Mary's    Romance    (Drama)     

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  4th,  1913. 

NESTOR— The  Idol  of  Bonanza  Camp  (Drama)    

POWERS— Dolly  and  the   Burglar   (Comedy) 

ECLAIR— Why?  (3-part  Drama)    

UNIVERSAL— Animated    Weekly   No.   65    (News)    

THURSDAY,  JUNE  5th,  1913. 

IMP — Self  Accused  (Drama)   

REX— The  World  at  Large  (Drama)    

FRONTIER— The  Pillar  of  Peril  (Drama)   

FRIDAY,   JUNE  6th,    1913. 

NESTOR— Owana,  The  Devil-Woman   (Drama) 

POWERS— Why  Grand-Daddy  Went  To  Sea  (Com.-Dr.) 
VICTOR— The  Kidnapped  Train   (Drama)    

SATURDAY,  JUNE  7th,  1913. 

IMP— Pen  Talks  by  Hy.  Mayer   (Novelty) 

IMP— The  Count   Retires   (Comedy)    

101  BISON— The  Spirit  of  the  Flag  (2-part  Drama) 

FRONTIER— The  Ranch  Girl  and  The  Sky  Pilot  (Com.) 


ADVANCE    RELEASES. 
SUNDAY,  JUNE  8th,  1913. 

CRYSTAL— The   New  Tvpist   (Comedy)    

CRYSTAL— Black    and    White    (Comedy)     

ECLAIR— The   Spider    (Zoology)    

ECLAIR— He  Could  Not  Lose  Her  (Comedy)   

REX— The   Shadow    (Drama)    

MONDAY,  JUNE  9th,   1913. 

IMP — The  Comedian's  Mask  (2-part  Drama) 

NESTOR— The  Spring  in  the  Desert  (Drama)   

GEM — Hearts  and  Flowers  (Drama)    

TUESDAY,  JUNE  10th,  1913. 

101  BISON— The  Grand  Old  Flag  (2-part  Drama)   

CRYSTAL— False   Love  and   True    (Drama)    

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  nth,  1913. 
NESTOR— The  Man  Who  Tried  to  Forget  (Drama) .... 

POWERS — Mrs.  Lacey's  Legacy  (Comedy-Drama) 

ECLAIR— When  Light  Came  Back  (2-part  Drama)    

UNIVERSAL— Animated   Weekly   No.   66   (News)    

THURSDAY,  JUNE  12th,  1913. 

IMP— The  Higher  Law  (Drama)   

REX — The  King  Can  Do  No  Wrong  (3-part  Drama) 

FRONTIER— The  Call  of  the  Angelus  (Drama)   

FRIDAY,  JUNE  13th,  1913. 

NESTOR— The  Knight  of  Her  Dreams  (Comedy)  

POW'ERS— The  Strength  of  the  Weak  (Drama)   

VICTOR— Sincerity   (Drama)    

SATURDAY,  JUNE  14th,  1913. 

IMP— The  War  of  the  Beetles   (Novelty) 

IMP — Hy   Mayer's   Cartoons    (Novelty)    

101  BISON — The  Capture  of  Aguinaldo  (2-part  Drama) 
FRONTIER— The  Twins  of  "Double  X"  Ranch  (Com.) 


Mutual  Film  Corporation  Current  Releases 

SUNDAY,  JUNE  ist,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— The  Fraternity  Pin   (Drama)    

THANHOUSER— A  Victim  of  Circumstances  (Comedy) 

MONDAY,  JUNE  2nd,  1913. 

AMERICAN— When  Luck  Changes  (Drama)   1000 

KEYSTONE— Barney  Oldfield's  Race  for  a  Life  (Com.) 
RELIANCE— Italian  Love   (Drama)    

TUESDAY,  JUNE  3rd,  1913. 
MAJESTIC— The  Queen  of  the  Sea  Nymphs  (Drama).. 
THANHOUSER— The  Runaway  (Drama) 


WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  4th,  1913. 

BRONCHO— A   Dixie   Mother   (2-part   Drama)    

MUTUAL— Mutual  Weekly  No.  23  (News)    

RELIANCE— Faithful  Shep   (Drama)    

THURSDAY,  JUNE  5th,  1913- 

AMERICAN— The  Wishing  Seat   (Drama) 1000 

KEYSTONE— Passions— He  Had  Three  (Comedy) 

KEYSTONE— Help!   Help!   Hydrophobia!   (Comedy)... 
MUTUAL — Willy  and  the  Captain's  Horse  (Comedv)... 

MUTUAL— A  Child's  Day  (Child  Science) 

PILOT— For  Old  Time's  Sake   (Drama) 

FRIDAY,   JUNE  6th,    1913. 

KAY-BEE— A  True   Believer   (2-part  Drama) 

THANHOUSER— The   Caged  Bird   (Drama) 

SATURDAY,  JUNE  7th,  1913. 

AMERICAN— Via   Cabaret   (Drama)    1000 

RELIANCE— The  Mad  Cap  of  the  Hills  (Drama) 


ADVANCE    RELEASES. 
SUNDAY,  JUNE  8th,   1913. 

MAJESTIC— (Title  Not  Reported)    

THANHOUSER— Miss  Mischief  (Comedv)   

MONDAY,  JUNE  9th,  1913. 
AMERICAN — California  Poultry   (Domestic  Animals).. 

KEYSTONE— The  Hansom  Driver  (Comedy) 

RELIANCE— His  Uncle's  Heir  (Drama)   

TUESDAY,  JUNE  10th,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— (Title   Not   Reported)    

THANHOUSER— The  Snare  of  Fate  (2-part  Drama).. 
WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  nth,  1913. 

BRONCHO— An   Indian's   Gratitude    (Drama) 

MUTUAL— Mutual    Weekly   No.   24   (News)    

RELIANCE— Annie    Laurie    (Drama)     

THURSDAY,  JUNE  12th,  1913- 

AMERICAN— Hearts  and  Horses   (Drama) 1000 

KEYSTONE— The   Speed   Queen    (Comedy)    

MUTUAL — Gontran,  A  Snake  Charmer   (Comedy)    

MUTUAL — Gathering  and  Preparation  of  Tea  in  Indo- 

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PILOT— When  a  Girl  Loves   (Drama) 

FRIDAY,  JUNE  13th,  1913. 

KAYBEE— The   Boomerang   (3-part   Drama)    

THANHOUSER— (No  Release   this  Date)    

SATURDAY,  JUNE  14th,  1913- 

AMERICAN— Reward  of  Courage  (Drama)    1000 

RELIANCE— Half  a  Chance   (Drama)    

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MONDAY,  JUNE  2nd,  1913. 
DRAGON— Comrades    (Drama)     

TUESDAY,  JUNE  3rd,  1913. 

GAUMONT— The   Heart   Humane    (Drama)    

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  4th,  1913. 

SOLAX— The  Hopes  of  Belinda  (Comedy)   

GAUMONT— Gaumont's  Weekly  No.  64  (News)    

THURSDAY,  JUNE  5th,  1913- 

GAUMONT— A  Passing  Cloud  (Drama)    

FRIDAY,   JUNE  6th,    1913. 

SOLAX— Gregory's   Shadow    (Drama)    

LUX— By  the  Aid  of  Wireless   (Drama)    

SATURDAY,  JUNE  7th,  1913. 
GREAT  NORTHERN— Where  Is  Doggie?  (Comedy).. 
GREAT  NORTHERN— Loch  Lomond   (Scenic) 


ADVANCE    RELEASES. 
MONDAY,  JUNE  9th,   1913. 

DRAGON— The  Ace  of  Hearts  (Drama) ickx> 

TUESDAY,  JUNE  10th,  1913. 

GAUMONT— The  Honor  of  Lucrece  (Drama)    

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  nth,  1913. 

SOLAX — Matrimony's  Speed   Limit   (Comedy)    

GAUMONT— Gaumont's  Weekly  No.  65   (News)    

THURSDAY,  JUNE  12th,  1913. 

GAUMONT— (Title  Not  Reported)  

FRIDAY,  JUNE   13th,   1913. 

SOLAX— Her    Mother's    Picture    (Drama)    

LUX— Engulfed   (Drama)    

SATURDAY,  JUNE   14th,   1913. 
GREAT    NORTHERN— An    Unwelcome   Wedding   Gift 
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"The  Master  Cracksman" May  31 

"A  Child  of  War" May  30 

"Drummer  of  the  8th" May  28 

"Carmen"   (3)    May  27 

"Ashes  of  Three" May  26 

"The  Miser"  May  23 

"The  Sea  Dog" May  21 

"For  Love  of  the  Flag" May  16 

"A  Slave's  Devotion" May  14 

"The   Big   Boss" May  14 

"The  Marble  Heart" May  13 

"Children  of  St  Anne" May    6 

"A  Black  Conspiracy" May    a 

"The  Bawler  Out"  (3) Apr.  30 

"Bread  Cast  Upon  the  Waters".. Apr.  30 


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"Retrogression"   Apr.  »3 

"A  Southern  Cinderella"  (3) Apr.  16 

"Held  for  Ransom" Apr.  if 

"On  Fortune's  Wheel" Apr. 

"The  Grey  Sentinel" Apr. 

"With  Lee  in  Virginia" Apr. 

"The  Sinews  of  War" Apr. 

"The  Judge's  Vindication" Apr. 

"Cymbeline"   Mar. 

"The  Iconoclast"   (3) Ms*. 

"The  Pride  of  the  Sooth"  (t)...M«r. 
"The  Vengeance  of  Heaven*.... Mar. 

"The  Sergeant's  Secret" ". . .Mar. 

"The  Sins  of  the  Father" Mar. 

"The  Lost  Despatch" Mar.    7 

"The  Barrier"   Mar.    9 

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CINES. 

INTERESTING  SCENES  ABROAD— L  a  r  a  r  e  1  1  0 
(Boric  Acid  Works)— (May  31).— First  a  panoramic 
Hew  of  the  works  is  displayed  showing  the  per- 
foration of  the  ground  in  order  that  vapor  eonto 
ing  boric  acid  may  escape.  To  illustrate  the  force 
by  which  the  vapor  escapes  a  basket  placed  at  tin- 
mouth  of  one  of  the  pipes  is  thrown  to  a  height  of 
200    yards.      The    process    of    evaporation    and    cou- 

iiori   follows  and  is  concluded  by  dls   I 
method  of  measuring  its  pressure  under  various  con- 
ditions. 

Volterra. — Many    views    of    this    picturesque     lit- 
tle town  are  displayed.  The  ancient  Etruscan  walls 
1   surround  the  town  are  first  shown.  The  Gate 
la  Porte  de  l'Arc  which  is  the  most  ancient  folio 
Monuments    and    edifices    of    the    Medieava)     Period 
including   the  Cathedral   consecrated   by 
Pope  CalUstee  11,  in  A.  D.  1120.  This  town  is  noted 
for    its    industry    of    working    alabaster    which    pro- 
fully    Illustrated. 

The  River  Giuba. — This  river  whose  beauty 
has  made  it  famous  has  again  been  chosen  for  a 
series  of  beautiful  views  along  its  banks.  They  are 
In  colors  and  as  you  travel  along  you  are  enchanted 
by  the  beauties  of  nature  which  meet  your  eye. 

WHEN  A  WOMAN  LOVES  (Special— 3  parts- 
June  2). — This  story  involves  two  political  factions, 
one  of  which  is  led  by  the  Duchess  Charlotte.  She 
i  b  g  reatly  beloved  by  Count  Hubert,  one  of  the 
constituents  of  her  party. 

Marco  Flamraa,  also  a  young  enthusiast  of  the 
cause,  while  publicly  addressing  a  street  crowd, 
is  arrested.  Shortly  afterwards,  Flamma  is  placed 
on  trial  and  among  sympathetic  spectators  the 
Duchess  is  found  conspicuously  interested  in  his  case. 
As  Flamma  makes  his  impassioned  plea  from  his 
cell  inside  the  court  room,  Charlotte  becomes  so 
enraptured  with  his  speech  and  personality  that  she 
falls  in  love  with  him  and  determines  to  secure  his 
release.  In  this  she  Is  successful  and  later  requests 
him  by  letter  to  call  upon  her.  Marco  complies  and 
during  his  visit,  she  proclaims  her  love  for  him 
and  is  very  demonstrative  In  her  explanation.  He 
resents  her  advances,  whereupon  she  dismisses  him 
from  the  house. 

In  the  meantime  the  Duchess  scorns  Hubert's  love. 
Through  a  clever  ruse  she  obtains  a  letter  from 
Hubert  showing  Flamma  had  sworn  to  put  to  death 
the  Prime  Minister.  Immediately  the  Duchess  enlists 
the  services  of  one  of  her  male  attendants,  who, 
about  the  hour  when  the  murder  is  to  take  place, 
approaches  Flamma  from  behind,  and  kidnapping 
him.  brings  him  to  the  palace  of  the  Duchess,  where 
he  is  confronted  with  the  Duchess  and  Luciana,  his 
charming   fiancee. 

The  story  ends  by  the  Duchess  committing  suicide 
with  the  dagger  with  which  Marco  Flamma  had  in- 
tended to  put  to  death  the  Prime  Minister  and  the 
uniting  of  the  hands  of  Marco  Flamma  and  Luciana. 

THE  IRONY  OF  FATE  (June  3). — Hubert  loves 
Blanche,  the  daughter  of  the  Duke  of  Monterbo,  and 
for  sometime  their  wedding  has  been  looked  for- 
ward to  by  intimate  friends.  But  Hubert  meets 
Helen,  a  beautiful  sister  of  one  of  his  friends,  and 
she  immediately  supplants  Blanche  in  Hubert's  af- 
fection. Reluctantly  he  writes  a  letter  to  Blanche, 
telling  her  that  it  is  best  that  they  break  their  en- 
gagement. Blanche  receives  the  letter  and  is 
heartbroken. 

About  this  time  Jules  Card,  an  artist,  arrives  at 
the  villa  of  the  Duke  for  a  visit.  He  and  Blanche 
are  often  seen  together  and  she  confides  her  story 
to  him.  Their  continued  friendship  ripens  into  love 
on  Jule's  part  and  he  asks  her  to  be  his  wife. 
Sending  him  a  note,  Blanche  explains  that  she  has 
for  him  nothing  more  than  the  highest  respect,  but 
if  he  Is  satisfied  with  that,  she  would  accept  him. 
They  are  married,  and  although  apparently  happy, 
Blanche   cannot   forget   her  former   love. 

Hubert  now  married  to  Helen,  is  out  for  a  climb 
in  the  Alps  when  he  becomes  afflicted  with  moun- 
tain sickness  and  falls  over  the  cliff.  Blanche  and 
Jules  passing  in  that  vicinity  hear  his  cry  and  rush 
to  his  aid.  He  is  found  in  a  critical  condition  and 
at  her  request  is  brought  to  their  home.     Here  fig- 


uratively speaking,  Hubert  is  cast  at  the  feet  of 
the  girl  be  cast  off.  Helen,  anxious  about  her  hus- 
band's absence,  goes  in  search  of  him  aud  is  met 
by  lilanche  who  brings  her  to  Hubert's  bedside. 
Jules  dues  not  learn  of  Hubert's  identity  and 
Blanche  promises  Hubert  that  she  will  say  nothing 
of  their  former  love  affair  for  the  sake  of  Helen. 
However,  Helen  tells  Blanche  how  happy  she  is 
with  Hubert  and  the  picture  closes  as  we  see  the 
supreme  happiness  of  one  girl  and  the  dejection  of 
the  other. 

THE  RING. — (June  7). — Gaston,  bidding  good-bye 
and  pledging  eternal  fidelity  to  his  wife,  le&Tefl  ber 
and  his  child  for  another  country  of  greater  oppor- 
tunities. Gaston  almost  immediately  succeeds  to 
the  road  of  fortune.  Back  home  his  daughter  is 
seriously  ill  aud  bis  poor  wife,  reduced  to  meager 
circumstances,  is  obliged  to  toil  hard  for  a  liveli- 
hood. 

After  some  years  Gaston  returns  to  his  native 
land,  but  cannot  find  any  trace  of  bis  wife,  poverty 
having  driven  them  out  of  the  old  home.  Estab- 
lished in  business,  he  employs  a  secretary  who  is 
engaged  to  a  poor,  but  charming  young  girl.  Gas- 
ton, one  day,  sees  this  girl  leaving  a  pawnshop,  and 
compelled  by  curiosity  he  stops  and  inquires  what 
she  has  disposed  of.  To  his  great  surprise  he  finds 
it  la  the  ring  he  had  given  to  his  wife  as  a  parting 
gift.  He  escorts  her  to  her  home  where  he  is  once 
more  with  bis  wife  and  daughter,  and  where  supreme 
happiness   thereafter  reigns. 

ORBETELLO  AND  ENVIRONS  (June  7).— Here 
you  are  shown  panoramic  views  of  the  towns  and 
embankments,  the  ancient  walls  which  surround 
them,  and  the  Port  of  Ercole  with  Mount  Afgan- 
taria  in  the  background.  It  is  altogether  a  most 
interesting    series    of    landscapes. 


ECLIPSE. 

THE  INDELIBLE  STAIN  (May  28)— Florence  is 
a  charming  young  girl,  who,  through  her  own  dis- 
cretion, falls  under  the  influence  of  a  gang  of 
marauders  and  thieves.  While  she  is  sitting  at  a 
table  with  a  friend  in  the  Imperial  Hotel,  she  be- 
comes involved  in  a  discussion  and  is  requested  by 
the  proprietor  to  leave.  Lord  Ellis  comes  to  her 
assistance  and  afterwards  escorts  her   to  her  hotel. 

That  night  Florence  receives  a  letter  from 
Sharpe,  one  of  the  gang,  instructing  her  to  join 
them  at  the  Four  Oaks,  as  she  is  wanted  to  assist 
In  a  new  scheme.  Creeping  down  the  stairs  about 
one  o'clock,  she  is  detected  by  a  bellboy  who  de- 
mands the  payment  of  her  bill.  Lord  Ellis  coming 
in  at  that  hour  agrees  to  pay  it  for  her  and  she 
leaves.  She  meets  the  gang  and  at  first  opposed  to 
their  plans,  is  finally  persuaded  to  take  part  in  it. 

Lord  Ellis  next  day  proceeds  to  his  country  home. 
TJnbeknowlng  to  her,  the  residence  which  they  are 
about  to  rob  is  that  of  Lord  Ellis',  and  as  he  sits 
and  thinks  of  the  beautiful  young  girl  he  is  greatly 
surprised  at  finding  her  in  bis  garden.  Mistaking  her 
object  In  coming  for  that  of  thanking  him  for 
his  assistance  or  perhaps  for  a  love  adventure, 
he  asks  her  in.  Florence  does  not  dare  to  tell  him 
the  truth  and  while  they  are  talking  a  noise  Is 
heard  and  Ellis  drawing  a  revolver  goes  to  in- 
vestigate. The  robbers  are  frightened  by  the  shots 
and    take   flight. 

Falling  in  love  with  each  other,  Lord  Ellis  and 
Florence  are  happily  married.  However,  their 
honeymoon  Is  short-lived,  for  again  the  grim  spector 
of  the  past  appears,  when  one  of  the  gang  threat- 
ens her  with  exposure  providing  she  does  not 
leave.  Bather  than  return  to  the  other  life  again 
she  prefers  death,  and  throws  herself  over  the 
cliff  where  ber  heartbroken  Lord  finds  her  lifeless. 

DELIVERING  THE  GOODS  (June  4).— Percy  vol- 
nnteers  his  services  to  an  aged  couple  to  deliver 
a  piano,  which  they  had  purchased,  to  their  home. 
He  enlists  the  aid  of  a  helper  and  they  set  them- 
selves to  the  task.  The  piano  experiences  many 
mishaps  before  its  arrival,  and  ludicrously  falls 
apart  from  its  rough  treatment  as  the  picture 
closes. 

THE  ARMADILLO  (June  4).— The  armadillo  is 
a  queer  little  animal  in  South  America.  Its  body 
is  covered  with  a  bony  flexible  shell,  and  in  many 
respects  resemble  animals  of  other  species.  Its 
nose  resembles  that  of  a  rhinoceros,  and  its  mouth 
that  of  a  pig;  its  claws  are  long  and  powerful 
and  by  their  aid  It  can  bury  itself  in  a  few  min- 
utes. Being  a  nocturnal  animal,  the  Armadillo 
searches  for  food  at  twilight  and  feeds  principally 
on  worms,  insects  and  roots.  Sometimes  digging 
its  home  in  an  anthill,  it  does  not  stop  until  the 
ant  hill  is  completely  destroyed.  Some  species  are 
more  carnivorous  than  others  and  devour  the  semi- 
putrid  carcasses  of  wild  animals.  It  is  naturally 
a    timid    animal,    but    it    is    not    difficult    to    catch. 


and  although  becoming  accustomed  to  captivity 
very  quickly  it  takes  advantage  of  the  first  op- 
portunity   to    gain    its    liberty. 

BEHIND  A  MASK  (June  11).— Jack  North,  a 
young  artist,  while  touring  South  America,  meets 
with  a  queer  experienee  while  out  sketching.  An 
apparition  appears  to  him  of  a  beautiful  young 
girl  in  a  reclining  position,  and  be  is  about  t« 
sketch  her  when  a  man  emerges  and  draws  her 
away.  He  is  Don  Ramon  Valdez,  her  guardian 
and  tutor,  who  afterwards  reproaches  the  Indian 
servant  for  allowing  Lola  to  leave  the  villa.  Jack 
having  become  curious,  returns  the  next  day  and 
he  and  Lola  are  about  to  engage  in  a  conversa- 
tion when  Valdez  again  appears  and  removing 
Lola's  veil  shows  Jack  a  horrible  face  disfigured 
with  black  marks. 

Disappointed  the  artist  goes  back  to  his  hotel 
and  soon  afterwards  received  a  mysterious  letter, 
asking  him  to  save  a  woman  from  distraction  by 
being  present  at  the  Governor's  Ball.  Attracted 
by  the  mystery  of  the  "adventure,  Jack  accepts 
the  invitation  and  disguised  under  a  domino  meets 
Lola,  who  to  his  surprise  is  now  a  beautiful  woman. 
In  fact,  to  avenge  herself  from  her  master's 
brutal  treatments,  the  Indian  girl  who  had  dis- 
figured Lola  on  Don  Ramon's  orders  years  before, 
had  used  artifices  only  known  to  her  to  restore  the 
girl's    beauty. 

Valdez  infuriated  at  not  finding  Lola  at  home 
rushes  to  the  ball,  but  during  the  while,  Jack  has 
wrapped  himself  in  Lola's  domino,  and  when  the 
tutor  arrives  he  mistakes  the  painter  for  his  pupil 
and  drags  him  home.  There  the  tables  are  turned. 
Valdez  asks  the  supposed  Lola  to  sign  a  schedule 
bequeathing  all  her  fortune  to  him  and  Jack 
signs  the  paper.  Seeing  the  young  man's  name, 
Valdez  unmasks  him,  but  Jack  draws  a  revolver 
and  keeps  the  scoundrel  at  bay  until  Lola  and 
friends  of  the  artist  arrive  and  overpower  Valdez. 
Thus  saved  by  Jack's  courage,  Lola  warmly  thanks 
him    with   a   kiss. 


LUBIN. 

THE  LEGEND  OF  LOVERS  LEAP  (June  9).— 
Fleet  Wing,  the  flower  of  the  Huacbos,  is  loved 
by  Wambau,  a  warrior  of  the  same  tribe.  Al- 
though a  mighty  warrior,  Wambau  is  rejected  by 
the  chief  when  he  asks  for  the  hand  of  his  daugh- 
ter, Pakeau's  reason  for  refusing  being  that  Warn- 
baa  is  poor  and  the  chief  wishes  to  marry  bis 
daughter  to  a  rich  suitor.  In  the  meantime  Wolf 
Fang,  the  wealthy  chief  of  the  Crow  Tribe,  comes 
into  the  neighborhood  to  visit  Wickuama,  the 
great  medicine  man,  to  have  him  make  medicine 
to  bring  the  game  back  which  has  disappeared 
from  his  tribal  hunting  grounds.  Wolf  Fang,  while 
at  the  medicine  man's  lodge,  meets  and  is  infat- 
uated with  Fleet  Wing;  he  determines  to  possess 
her.  and,  going  to  the  village  of  the  Huacho  chief, 
induces  him  to  accept  ponies  and  blankets  in  ex- 
change for  the  hand  of  his  daughter.  Wambau 
and  Fleet  Wing  call  on  the  medicine  man  to  aid 
them :  he  proposes  a  horse  race,  the  winner  to 
possess  Fleet  Wing.  Wolf  Fang  wins  the  race 
and  takes  Fleet  Wing  away  to  his  tribe.  Finding 
that  her  heart  is  still  with  Wambau,  Wolf  Fang 
visits  the  medicine  man  for  medicine  to  make  him 
invincible.  Wambau  influences  the  medicine  man 
and  Wolf  Fang  is  given  a  sleeping  draught.  Wam- 
bau accepting  this  opportunity  and  tying  the  love 
token  of  Fleet  Wing  on  his  arrow,  shoots  It  into 
the  tepee  where  she  is  held  prisoner.  While  the 
spell  still  holds  Wolf  Fang,  Fleet  Wing  escapes 
with  Wambau  and  when  recovering  from  the  drug 
Wolf  Fang  finds  her  gone.  He  declares  war  on 
the  peaceful  Huachos,  exterminating  the  tribe, 
driving  Wambau  and  Fleet  Wing  before  him  to  the 
brink  of  a  precipice  where  rather  than  fall  into 
the  hands  of  Wolf  Fang,  Fleet  Wing  and  Wambau 
cheat  him  by  leaping  to  their  death. 

VIOLET  DARE.  DETECTIVE  (June  10)  .—The 
local  police  and  detective  forces  are  completely 
baffled  by  a  daring  cracksman,  who,  seeming  to 
possess  accurate  knowledge  of  the  officer's  plans, 
evades  with  ease  all  traps  set  for  him.  The 
chief  of  police  enlists  the  aid  of  Violet  Dare,  an 
expert  amateur,  who  will  take  up  interesting 
cases  for  love  of  the  game.  She  decides  that  the 
cracksman  is  too  clever  to  be  caught  by  any  ordi- 
nary means,  as  he  leaves  no  clue  whatever.  It 
is  therefore  necessary  to  invent  some  novel  method 
against  which  he  will  not  be  on  guard.  It  hap- 
pens that  Violet's  sweetheart,  a  secret  service 
officer,  captures  a  lot  of  excellent  counterfeit  dol- 
lar bills.  Violet  Induces  him  to  loan  her  the 
bills  and  to  keep  secret  the  news  of  the  capture. 
She  says  nothing  to  the  police  of  her  plans.  She 
arranges  with  a  merchant,  her  uncle,  to  make  a 
window   display  of  the  $5,000  in  counterfeit  money. 


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EDISON  KINETOSCOPE 

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All  metal  baseboards. 

Extra  heavy  Mitre  Gears  on  Revolving  Shutter,  Cam  and  Automatic 
Shutter  Shafts. 

Heavier  Balance  Wheel. 

Hardened  Steel  Runners,  instead  of  tension 
springs,  actuated  by  pivotally  mounted  springs 
giving  tension  equally  on  both  sides  of  the  film. 

Aperture  Plate  (Picture  Gauge)  provided  with 
steel  runners  which  can  be  replaced.  No  wear 
on  the  plate  itself. 

Swivel  Tension  Roller  Bracket  on  the  Take- 
up  Sprocket,  preventing  the  film  from  jumping 
off  the  sprocket. 

Oiling  System  consisting  of  a  series  of  tubes 
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and  this  display  attracts  much  attention.  The 
counterfeit  bills,  and  no  other  money,  are  placed 
In  the  safe  at  night  and  no  watch  is  kept  on  the 
place.  As  Violet  calculated,  the  safe  is  robbed 
that  night.  The  robbery  is  reported  to  the  police, 
but  the  fact  that  the  bills  were  counterfeit  is  not 
disclosed.  The  counterfeit  bills  are  deposited  In  a 
bank  by  the  thief.  The  cracksman,  not  suspecting 
the  genuineness  of  the  bills  and  not  dreaming  that 
they  could  form  a  clue,  makes  no  efforts  to  cover 
his  tracks.  Violet  soon  has  the  man  "wanted" 
for  burglary.  The  finding  in  his  possession  of  all 
the  remaining  counterfeit  bills  proves  his  guilt. 
The  thief's  success  In  evading  the  regular  police 
traps  Is  explained  by  the  fact  that  he  is  a  civilian 
clerk  at  police  headquarters,  and  has  been  familiar 
with  all  the  police  plans  to  catch  him.  Violet  is 
duly  congratulated  and  rewarded.  The  following 
day  all  the  credit  Is  given  the  police  department 
much    to   Violet's   amazement. 

MEABLY  IN  MOURNING  (June  12).— Clarence 
Kelly,  a  young  business  man,  arrives  home  one 
night  with  a  terrible  jag  on.  His  wife  scolds  him 
severely  and  Clarence  leaves  in  a  huff  and  resolves 
to  go  to  a  Turkish  bath  to  spend  the  night.  He 
gathers  a  bunch  of  his  chums  and  they  all  agree 
to  the  proposition  and  figure  out  a  good  time. 
During  the  night  Kelly's  office  building  is  burned 
down  and  Mollle,  reading  of  the  fire  in  the  morning 
paper,  hurries  to  the  scene,  where  she  hears  that 
Clarence  has  probably  perished.  Her  agony-  Is  awful 
and  returning  home,  she  immediately  proceeds  to 
adopt  mourning.  She  drapes  her  beloved  husband's 
picture  with  black  ribbon,  and  digging  out  all  the 
black  articles  of  dress  she  can  find,  proceeds  to 
make  herself  up  as  near  like  a  widow  as  possible. 
Clarence,  having  spent  a  glorious  night  with  his 
friends  at  the  bath,  pulls  himself  together  and  goes 
borne  to  make  up  with  wlfey.  The  evidence  of 
mourning  startles  him,  and  when  Mollie  sees  him 
enter  she  thinks  that 'it  is  a  ghost.  Explanations 
follow  and  the  cloud  of  mourning  passes  away  and 
gives  place  to  the  sunshine  of  a  happy  future,  as 
Clarence    resolves    "Never   again." 

THE  PROFESSORS  PREDICAMENT  (June  12).— 
Professor  Silas  Blngle,  a  staunch  temperance  advo- 
cate, starts  out  on  a  crusade  against  the  demon 
"drink."  He  stops  in  front  of  a  saloon  and  the  first 
to  emerge  therefrom  is  a  son  of  Erin,  Pat  Lafferty, 
with  a  kettle  of  beer.  Bingle  follows' him  and  takes 
the  can  of  foaming  beverage  away  from  him  and 
dumps  it  over  the  fence,  where  it  falls  accidentally 
In  the  hat  of  Dusty  Dawkins.  Dusty  is  about  to 
drink  when  the  temperance  lecturer  reaches  over 
the  fence  with  his  cane  and  upsets  the  beer  all 
over  him.  He  again  stations  himself  in  front  of 
the  saloon,  where  a  young  fellow  coming  out  bumps 
against  him  and  knocks  bim  down.  He  loses  his 
eye  glasses  in  the  altercation  which  follows,  and, 
being  very  nearsighted,  meets  with  several  un- 
pleasant happenings.  But  in  the  end  virtue 
triumphs  and  receives  Its  reward. 

PAPITA'S  DESTINY  (June  13).— About  the  year 
1830,  there  lived  in  a  small  village  in  Southern 
California,  Papita,  daughter  of  the  widow  Fran- 
ceses. They  were  very  poor  and  when  Papita  fell 
In  love  with  Pedro,  a  handsome  but  equally  poor 
young  man,  Francesca  took  matters  into  her  own 
bands,  and,  without  even  consulting  Papita.  gave 
ber  consent  to  a  marriage  contract  between  her 
daughter  and  Alvarez,  the  wealthiest  man  In  the 
village.  Manuel,  a  crippled  saddler,  also  loved 
Papita.  He  had  loved  her  since  she  was  a  child 
when  he  had  danced  her  on  his  knee.  His  love 
was  that  of  an  elder  brother,  and  Papita,  still 
scarcely  more  than  a  child,  confided  everything  to 
him.  To  pacify  her  mother,  Papita  married  Alvarez, 
and.  before  very  long,  his  cruel  nature  asserted 
Itself.  Despairing  for  her  child's  future,  Francesca 
realized,  too  late,  the  mistake  she  had  made,  and 
one  night,  after  Alvarez  had  been  particularly  cruel 
to  Papita,'  both  Pedro  and  Manuel  visited  Francesca; 
and,  as  Papita  entered  her  mother's  house,  she 
said,  in  a  burst  of  passion,  "Oh,  1  wish  he  were 
dead."  Both  Pedro  and  Manuel  decided  that  one 
of  them  must  relieve  Papita  from  the  cruelty  of 
Alvarez,  but  Pedro's  strength  of  will  was  not  equal 
to  the  task.  Manuel,  however,  with  the  almost 
fanatical  love  for  Papita  burning  within  him,  de- 
cided to  secure  her  freedom,  and  later  that  night, 
be  accomplished  his  purpose.  "When  Papita  re- 
turned to  her  home,  she  found  Alvarez  dead.  Be- 
lieving Pedro  had  committed  the  act,  she  took  the 
blame  upon  herself  and  was  taken  to  prison. 
Manuel  learned  of  her  arrest  and  sent  word  to  the 
padre,  declaring  himself  guilty  of  the  crime.  On 
the  strength  of  his  confession,  Papita  was  set  free 
and  a  search  made  for  Manuel,  who,  in  the  mean- 
time, bad  attempted  to  cross  the  desert  without 
water.  His  weak  body  could  not  stand  the  strain, 
and  he  passed  on  to  a  higher  judge  to  answer  for 
bis  earthly  sins. 

THE  WINE  OF  MADNESS  (June  14).— Failing  to 
find  a  position,  Walter  Darrell  complainB  to  his 
wife  about  the  condition  of  affairs.  In  looking 
over  a  newspaper  he  reads  an  advertisement  of 
cheap  farm  land  in  the  South,  and  decides  to  In- 
vestigate. The  following  morning  he  bids  his  wife 
good-bye  and  upon  his  arrival  at  the  oftlce  of  the 
real  estate,  the  agent  meets  him,  and  a  lease  is 
signed  for  a  farm. 

Some  time  later,  in  clearing  the  place,  he  is 
hurt  by  a  tree  stump  which  he  had  Just  set  off  by 
a  blast.  Juan  and  Corella,  two  wandering  folks 
of  a  tribe  of  the  Spanish  type,  are  nearby.  Corella 
is  rejecting  Juan's  love  as   they   witness  the  acci- 


dent. Leaving  Juan  hurriedly,  Corella  rushes  to 
the  stranger.  Helping  Walter  to  bis  feet  she 
brings  bim  to  her  mother's  shack,  where  the  two 
women  treat  him  kindly.  Juan  Is  aroused  to  a 
fit  of  Jealousy  and  confronts  Corella  with  re- 
proaches for  the  kindness  shown  Walter.  Turning 
a  deaf  ear  upon  bim,  she  enters  the  shack  again 
and  resumes  her  talk  with  Walter.  Leading  him 
out,  they  sit  on  a  bench  where  Corella  pours  forth 
her  love  for  him,  which  Walter  repulses;  but  he  Is 
yet  helpless  and  unable  to  communicate  with  his 
wife.  In  the  interval,  the  chief  of  police  receives 
a  letter  from  Walter's  wife  asking  Information. 
Calling  an  officer,  be  goes  to  bunt  up  the  man.  The 
officer  happens  on  Corella's  shack  and  she  informs 
the  officer  that  Walter  Is  somewhere  about  work- 
ing. Corella,  feeling  she  is  about  to  lose  Walter, 
returns  to  the  shack  and  once  again  pleads  her 
love.  Turning  her  away  gently,  he  tells  her  of 
his  intention  to  leave  shortly  and  go  to  his  wife. 
Shortly  afterward  she  is  talking  to  her  mother 
and  sends  her  off  to  gather  some  loco  weed.  Mrs. 
Darrell  calls  on  the  chief,  and,  with  the  officer,  is 
sent  to  the  shack.  The  old  motber,  having  gathered 
the  weeds,  is  brewing  them  as  Juan  rushes  in  and 
notifies  Corella  of  Walter's  wife  and  the  officer's 
approach.  This  inspires  her  to  give  Walter  the 
loco  in  a  glass  of  wine,  and  she  begs  bim  to  take 
it  as  a  last  farewell.  As  he  finishes  drinking, 
Walter  dashes  out  of  the  shack  and  rushing  wildly 
down  the  road,  sees  the  officer  and  his  wife.  He 
lunges  forward  to  grab  his  wife  as  the  officer,  re- 
ceiving a  blow  from  Walter,  is  thrown  to  the 
ground,  stunned.  Juan  Is  attacked,  and  in  the 
scuffle  Walter  extracts  the  dagger  from  Juan's 
belt.  He  once  more  makes  an  attack  upon  hie 
wife,  but  weakening,  as  the  effect  of  the  weed  is 
now  losing  its  influence,  and  dropping  the  dagger, 
he  stands  bewildered.  Juan,  who  has  recovered, 
picks  up  the  dagger  and  in  rage  is  about  to  strike 
at  Walter,  when  Corella,  who  had  followed,  rushes 
in,  and  in  warding  off  the  blow  Juan  intends  for 
Walter,  receives  it  herself,  falling  dead.  Juan 
rushes  off,  crazed  with  grief.  Walter,  who  has 
aimlessly  wandered  away,  is  brought  back  by  his 
wife.  Mrs.  Darrell  having  witnessed  the  scene, 
directs  the  officer  after  Juan.  That  night  Juan, 
who  is  frightened  and  crazed,  is  finally  rounded  up 
In  front  of  Corella's  shack  where  he  is  begging 
admittance  and  crouching  in  the  doorway  in  prayer. 


8SLIG. 

SWEENEY  AND  THE  FAIRY  (June  9)  .— 
Sweeney,  the  hod-carrier,  having  disposed  of  the 
contents  of  his  dinner  pail,  sits  down  in  the  shade 
to  doze  away  the  remainder  of  the  noon-hour.  When 
he  sleeps,  a  fairy  appears  and  touches  him  with  ber 
wand.  In  a  transformation  he  awakens  in  affluence, 
and  in  a  dress-suit  as  he  appears  in  "Sweeney 
and  the  Million."  The  fairy  disappears  and  Sweeney 
swaggers  down  to  his  swell  residence  and  is  met 
by  the  letter-carrier,  who  gives  him  a  large  bundle 
of  Important-looking  letters.  The  first  one  he  opens 
informs  him  that  the  million  dollars  lost  in  the 
poker-game  is  coming  back  to  him  by  parcel  post. 
It  requires  a  strong  man  to  deliver  this  package. 
Mrs.  Sweeney,  "all  dolled-up,"  meets  him  at  the 
door.  He  fires  out  the  footman  and  the  other 
servants.  They  open  the  package  and  are  flooded 
with  bank  notes  of  large  denominations,  and  they 
proceed  to  bide  it  in  bundles  all  over  the  place. 
Their  next  appearance  is  at  the  function  in  Mrs. 
Gandergllt's  palatial  drawing-rooms.  The  guests 
are  playing  bridge,  and  when  Sweeney  comes  in  on 
the  arm  of  his  friend  patrolman  McGlone,  it  raises 
a  commotion,  as  they  fear  a  "pull."  Sweeney 
calms  their  fears  by  giving  his  guardian  a  large 
roll  and  sends  him  on  his  way.  Mrs.  Sweeney 
takes  a  hand  in  "bridge,"  and  her  consort  invites 
all  the  non-playing  men  to  the  buffet.  Sweeney  gets 
drinks  on  a  table  and  falls  off.  Whereat  he  is 
exceedingly  angry  and  swashes  everything  In  range, 
including  a  waiter  carrying  a  large  tray  of  glasses. 
In  the  Interim  Mrs.  Sweeney  has  an  altercation 
with  the  hostess  and  upsets  a  card  table.  The 
Sweeneys  Indignantly  take  to  their  automobile, 
visit  flower  shops  and  purchase  millinery.  In  the 
latter  place  she  buys  a  $250  hat  that  looks  like  a 
floating  island,  and  shuts  out  all  the  lines  of  sight 
In  the  cabaret.  Sweeney  goes  to  sleep  In  spite 
of  the  commotion,  and  then  is  awakened  from  his 
dream  by  the  cry  for  "mortar,  mortar" — with  the 
blowing   of   the  whistle. 

DAD'S  LITTLE  GIBL  (June  10).— The  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Raymond,  against  the  wishes  of  her 
parents,  marries  John  Morton.  They  disown  her 
and  she  drops  out  of  their  lives.  The  Mortons  do 
not  prosper  in  a  worldly  way,  but  a  daughter  is 
born  to  them  and  they  are  happy  until  death  Invades 
the  home  and  takes  the  mother.  John  Morten  con- 
tinues the  struggle  alone,  caring  for  his  daughter. 
The  wealthy  Raymonds  finally  learn  of  the  existence 
of  the  child,  and  become  obsessed  with  a  desire  to 
possess  her,  and  bring  her  up  as  a  lady.  They 
advertise  to  learn  of  her  whereabouts,  and  this 
comes  to  the  attention  of  Morton.  In  the  depths  of 
despondency  he  consents  to  the  sacrifice,  as  an 
opportunity  for  the  girl.  Their  lawyer  prevails 
upon  him  to  make  the  change.  Rose  Morton,  when 
in  ber  new  and  luxurious  surroundings,  pines  for 
ber  dear  old  dad.  Good  luck  favors  Morton  and  an 
Invention  "suddenly  brings  him  a  fortune.  His  first 
thought  is  to  get  possession  of  his  beloved  child. 
At  this  time  he  receives  a  telegram  announcing 
her  illness.    The  attendant  physician  announces  the 


only  thing  that  will  save  her  life  to  be  the  presencs 
The  sight  of  him  restores  the  ailing  girl  and  the 
of  her  father.  John  Morton  arrives  just  in  time. 
Raymonds  are  reconciled  to  him. 

THE  ROSE  OF  MAY  (June  11).— A  romantic 
yonng  author,  wearied  with  the  rush  of  a  prosaic 
age,  who  loves  the  open,  accompanied  only  by  his 
flute,  starts  on  a  spring  tour  through  the  rural 
regions.  In  bis  wanderings,  disguised  as  a  gypsy 
fortune  teller,  he  sees  a  lovely  girl  and 
makes  her  acquaintance.  In  reading  her 
happiness,  he  mentions  the  rover  with  the  magic 
flute,  to  quicken  ber  interest.  Having  inspired  the 
thought,  he  goes  on  his  way,  discarding  his  dis- 
guise. The  next  day  the  fair  one  hears  the  luring 
love  note  of  the  flute,  and  follows  it  to  the  forest. 
There  she  finds  a  dark,  handsome  young  stranger 
sleeping.  She  gazes  a  moment,  spell-bound,  then 
flees.  The  sleeper  is  awakened  and  follows  her. 
Eventually  they  become  lovers;  but  the  maid's 
father  will  have  nothing  to  do  with  a  flute  player. 
Strangely  enough  this  newspaper  man  is  a  pub- 
lisher, and  In  financial  trouble.  A  wealthy  friend 
comes  to  bis  relief,  who  seeks  in  marriage  the  hand 
of  bis  daughter.  The  young  author  betakes  him  to 
his  desk  and  writes  a  romance  entitled,  "The  Rose 
of  May."  He  offers  it  anonymously  to  the  pub- 
lisher, and  it  becomes  top-listed  as  "a  best  seller." 
A  year  passes,  the  girl,  stung  by  his  seeming  for- 
getfulness,  is  about  to  accept  the  elderly  suitor, 
when  she  hears  the  sound  of  a  distant  flute.  Again 
the  lovers  meet,  but  this  time  to  part  no  more,  for 
the  proud  parent,  now  made  wealthy  by  the  man 
who  plays  with  a  pen  as  potentially  as  he  doea 
skillfully  with  a  flute.    Is   very   desirable. 

THE  FATE  OF  ELIZABETH  (June  12).— Amy 
Tucker  Is  discovered  by  her  parents  reading  an  ad- 
vertised novel  called  "The  Fate  of  Elizabeth."  Her 
father  appropriates  it,  and  a  few  days  later,  when 
detained  at  home  by  a  cold,  he  picks  up  the  book 
and  finds  it  so  interesting  he  hides  it  under  bis 
pillow  for  further  reference.  His  wife  finds  it 
there,  Is  duly  shocked  and  conceals  it  in  another 
place.  Bridget,  the  cook,  observing  her  mistress' 
interest  in  the  book,  takes  it  up  and  hides  it  in  a 
place  she  knows  about.  She  Is  so  interested  that 
she  tears  out  pages  and  conceals  them  in  her  dress. 
Indeed  she  becomes  so  absorbed  that  she  breaks 
a  lot  of  crockery,  and  finally  drops  the  book  on  the 
head  of  a  passing  tramp  to  escape  discovery  by  her 
mistress.  The  various  members  of  the  Tucker 
family,  observing  that  a  dramatization  of  the 
novel*  is  to  be  presented  at  a  neighboring  theater, 
all  prepare  to  take  in  the  opening  night,  each  trying 
to  keep  it  secret  from  the  other.  The  various 
parties  are  horrified  and  astonished  in  turn  to  see 
the  others  while  trying  to  conceal  their  own 
identity.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tucker  make  such  a  com- 
motion at  meeting  that  the  policeman  takes  them 
to  the  station  to  explain  before  they  are  allowed 
to  return  home.  Amy,  the  daughter,  who  saw  the 
play,    is   at  home    asleep   when   her   parents    arrive. 

THE  BIRTH  OF  A  BUTTERFLY  (June  12).— A 
fascinating,  instructive  picture. 

THE  JEALOUSY  OF  MIGUEL  AND  ISABELLA 
(June  13). — Husky  Jack  Walters  loves  Vira  Green- 
ley,  but  she  has  a  secret  admirer  in  the  fiery  Mexi- 
can, Miguel.  She,  Vira,  has  not  encouraged  this 
dark  and  passionate  gallant,  but  he  seems  to  be 
keeping  constant  company  with  the  green-eyed 
monster.  His  sweetheart,  Isabella,  is  so  vexed  over 
bis  Infatuation  that  she,  being  equally  Jealous,  ar- 
ranges with  her  father,  Pedro,  a  Mexican  outlaw, 
to  get  Vira  out  of  the  way.  This  redoubtable  terror 
never  does  things  by  halves,  and  gets  both  Jack  and 
Vira  In  his  power,  locks  them  in  a  hut  and  sets  it 
on  Are.  Miguel  puts  in  an  appearance  and  rescues 
Vira,  leaving  Jack  to  the  mercy  of  the  flames,  and, 
with  a  woman's  change  of  heart,  Isabella  drags  the 
unconscious  Jack  out  of  the  burning  hut  to  spite 
Miguel.  Jack  finally  captures  the  outlaw  and  wins 
a  large  reward. 


VITAGRAPH. 

THE  BACHELOR'S  BABY;  or  HOW  IT  ALL 
HAPPENED  (June  9).— Left  destitute  by  the  death 
of  her  young  husband,  Ethel  Wynne  lives  with  her 
old  nurse,  Hester  O'Brien,  a  laundress.  During  the 
day  Etbel  works  as  a  clerk  in  a  toy  store,  leaving 
her  babies  in  the  care  of  Hester,  and  In  the  even- 
ings, helps  out  by  doing  Ironing  and  housework . 
One  day,  while  she  is  at  the  store,  Harley  Clarke, 
a  wealthy  bachelor,  comes  in  with  a  group  of  boys 
and  lets  them  select  whatever  toys  they  fancy.  It 
is  his  birthday,  and.  seeing  the  children  hungrily 
eyeing  the  window  display,  he  has  decided  to  cele- 
brate the  day  by  treating  them.  Ethel  is  very 
much  impressed  by  Mr.  Clarke's  evident  kindliness, 
and  after  he  has  left  the  shop,  she  gets  his  name 
and  address  from  Mayme,  the  girl  who  waits  on 
him.  When  she  arrives  home,  Bhe  finds  Heater  very 
sick  and  is  obliged  to  call  a  doctor,  who  has  her 
taken  to  the  hospital.  Ethel  is  now  in  a  sorry 
plight.  She  has  no  one  to  take  care  of  the  baby 
while  she  is  away  at  work,  and  no  means  of  sup- 
porting herself  at  home.  Having  just  paid  Hester 
her  week's  board,  she  has  no  money  whatever,  and 
is  in  despair. 

Noticing  a  batch  of  curtains  addressed  to  Harley 
Clarke,  who  is  one  of  Hester's  customers.  Ethel 
decides  to  place  the  baby  in  with  them,  thinking 
that  such  a  kind-hearted  man  will  surely  look  after 
the  little  child.  She  does  this  and  the  bundle  is 
accepted  at  the  house  without  question. 


Broncho 

Headliners 


Scene  from  "A  Dixie  Mother' 
Two  reel  feature,  June  4 


AN  INDIAN'S 
GRATITUDE 

One  reel,  June  11 

A  One-Reel  Subject  Which  Could  Eas- 
ily Have  Been  Made  a  Two-Reel 
Feature.    A  Thrilling  Indian 
Drama,  with  Big  Battle 
Scenes   and   Sensa- 
tional and  Dra- 
matic Inci- 
dents. 

Through  trickery  and  cunning,  the 
Sioux  chief  gets  a  herd  of  ponies  from 
the  Cheyenne  brave,  on  promise  of  his 
daughter's  hand.  Protesting,  the 
Cheyenne  is  attacked,  and  is  saved 
from  death  by  Lieut.  Randall,  after  he 
has  been  thrown  over  a  cliff.  The  In- 
dian is  deeply  grateful,  and  later,  after 
his  tribe  have  wiped  out  the  Sioux  in 
a  sensational  battle,  he  saves  the  life 
of  the  Lieutenant's  sweetheart  when 
her  stage  coach  is  attacked,  and  is  shot 
by  mistake  by  the  Lieutenant  as  he  is 
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THE  HANSOM  DRIVER 

June  9 

Mabel's  husband  is  a  hansom-cab 
driver.  She  imagines  herself  neg- 
lected, and  listens  to  the  honeyed 
words  of  a  tempter,  and  finally  agrees 
to  elope  with  him.  A  boy  is  sent  for 
a  cab,  and  innocently  gets  the  husband. 
The  elopers  rush  into  the  cab  without 
noticing  the  driver,  and  he  is  unaware 
of  the  identity  of  the  passengers  until 
he  glances  in  the  mirror  and  sees  what 
is  going  on.  The  tempter  receives  a 
good  beating,  and  Mabel  repents  of 
her  action. 

On  the  same  reel  is  a  short  educa- 
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time  of  alligators. 


THE  SPEED  QUEEN 

One  reel,  June  12 

Nellie's  father  is  a  judge,  afflicted 
with  a  sort  of  St.  Vitus  dance.  He 
forgets  his  medicine,  and  feels  an  at- 
tack coming.  Nellie  drives  to  the  far- 
off  country  home  in  her  auto  to  get  the 
medicine,  pursued  by  her  two  lovers 
— bicycle  cops — one,  a  vengeful  suitor, 
and  the  other  hoping  to  save  her.  Ter- 
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Three  reels,  June  13 

A  Wonderful  War  Drama,  with  Awe- 
inspiring  and  Sensational  Scenes 
of  Battle,  Showing  How  a 
Man's    Perfidy    Caused 
His     Undoing    at 
the    Crisis    of 
H  i  s  Life. 

Lieut.  Calhoun  wins  the  love  of  Vir- 
ginia Chester,  and  persuades  her  to 
marry  him  secretly.  His  command  is 
sent  to  a  distant  post,  and  the  Colonel's 
daughter  falls  in  love  with  him.  He 
sacrifices  Virginia  on  the  altar  of  his 
ambition,  and  advises  her  to  get  a 
divorce.  This  letter  reaches  her  as 
she  has  given  birth  to  a  boy,  and  the 
shock  kills  her.  The  boy  grows  up 
and  is  sent  to  a  military  academy. 
During  the  Civil  War  Calhoun  has  be- 
come a  General,  and  the  boy  remains 
in  the  Northern  army  awaiting  an  op- 
portunity to  wreak  his  vengeance  upon 
the  man  who  so  cruelly  treated  his 
mother.  The  opportunity  comes  on 
the  eve  of  a  great  battle,  and  the  boy 
keeps  the  Confederate  army  advised 
of  every  move  the  Northern  officers 
make,  with  the  result  that  the  Confed- 
erates win  a  great  victory.  Calhoun 
is  captured,  but  his  release  is  secured 
by  Colonel  Chester,  Virginia's  father, 
who  then  compels  Calhoun  to  fight  a 
duel,  in  which  the  latter  is  killed. 

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next  day.  while  looking  through  the  paper, 
Btbel    notices    an  neat    for    a    nurse,    in- 

serted by  Clarke.  She  answers  it  and  gets  the 
thus  becoming  foster-mother  to  her  own  baby, 
All  goes  smoothly  In  the  Clarke  household  until  the 
ileiona  of  Sarah,  Clarke's  housekeeper,  are 
aroused,  and  she  goes  with  the  tale  to  her  master. 
-Clarke  does  not  believe  the  story,  but  goes  straight 
to  Ethel  and  asks  her  for  the  truth.  Ethel,  who 
has  fallen  deeply  in  love  with  Clarke,  fears  that 
her  disclosure  will  separate  her  from  her  baby,  but 
none  the  less  she   tells  him  everything. 

Uer  pitiful  tale  touches  the  heart  of  Clarke, 
already  strongly  drawn  to  her,  and  he  will  not  let 
her  go  away.  He  insists  that  the  baby  now  be- 
longs to  him,  she  shall  belong  to  bim  also,  and  be- 
come his  wife  and  mistress  of  bis  household. 

CUTEY  TRIES  REPORTING  (June  10).— Small 
brothers  are  the  bane  of  love  affairs.  The  inimit- 
able Cutey.  reporter  on  a  country  paper,  is  courting 
■■■>  riarU,  the  daughter  of  the  editor.  He  has  a 
lively  time  with  her  small  brother.  Tommy,  who 
Insists  on  queering  him.  The  editor  declares  that 
unless  Cutey  brings  in  some  live  news  he  will  be 
fired,  and,  furthermore,  will  not  be  allowed  to  call 
on  Ethel.  Cutey  is  at  first  despondent,  but  eventu- 
ally decides  that  it  Is  up  to  him  to  manufacture 
some  live  stuff.  One  night  he  robs  a  country  bank, 
and  nest  day.  when  a  reward  is  offered  for  the 
recovery  of  the  money,  be  announces  his  Intention 
of  winning  it.  He  goes  out  Into  the  country  and 
daubs  bis  clothes  with  dirt.  Then  be  returns  and 
tells  a  tale  of  terrific  conflict  with  a  burly  burglar 
in  a  cave,  and  how  he  forced  the  thi«f  to  give  up 
the  money.     Cutey  is  given  the  reward. 

Tommy,  who  had  seen  the  little  performanee  in 
the  fields,  comes  along  and  claims  a  share  in  the 
proceeds.  He  is  given  25c  on  condition  that  be  holds 
his  tongue.  Cutey  is  fearfully  disgusted  when  Mr. 
Clark  declares  that  the  affair  was  a  mattev  of  luck, 
and  tells  him  to  do  something  better.  This  time 
Cutey  decides  on  a  bomb  outrage.  He  manufactures 
a  dummy  bomb  from  a  basket  ball,  and  throws  it 
Into  a  grocery  store.  Then  he  rushes  in,  bravely 
seizes  the  flaming  bomb  and  bears  it  off  to  a  place 
of  safety.  Tommy,  however,  is  watching  bim  and 
follows  him.  He  sees  Cutey  cut  and  burn  his  coat. 
fire  a  gun  to  simulate  the  supposed  explosion  of  the 
bomb,  and  return  limping  to  the  store,  where  he  is 
greeted  as  a  hero.  Mr.  Clark  greets  Cutey  kindly 
and  takes  him  in  tu  Ethel,  who  clasps  her  brave  boy 
to  her  heart. 

Tommy  comes  along  presently,  and  demands  hush 
money.  Cutey.  believing  that  he  is  now  quite  safe, 
declines  to  give  anything  to  the  boy,  so  he  rushes 
off  jto  his  father.  He  promises  to  expose  Cutey's 
bluff  for  a  consideration  of  fifty  cents,  which  he 
gets,  and  then  tells  the  whole  story.  Mr.  Clark  is 
at  first  furiously  angry  with  Cutey,  but  at  last 
decides  that,  anyway,  the  young  man  has  an  in- 
ventive turn  of  mind  and  so  offers  him  another 
chance.  Tommy,  who  thinks  he  has  landed  a  nice 
little   graft,   beats  it   to   the  nearest  soda-fountain. 

HIS  HOUSE  IN"  ORDER;  or  THE  WIDOWER' S 
QUEST  (June  11), — The  bouse  of  Charles  Duckworth, 
a  widower,  has  long  been  kept  by  his  sister,  Flor- 
ence, who  comes  to  him  one  day  and  tells  of  her 
engagement  to  Jack  Manning,  an  old  friend  of  her 
brother's.  Florence  advises  him  to  marry  again. 
and,  after  giving  him  excellent  reasons  why  he 
should  do  so,  tells  bim  of  several  girls  that  might 
make  him  a  suitable  wife. 

When  his  little  daughter,  Nell,  is  brought  in  later 
by  her  governess,  Alice  Harding,  he  asks  her  how 
she  would  like  a  new  mother.  Nell  Is  enthusiastic 
and  leads  forward  the  governess,  suggesting  that 
she  would  make  the  best  mother  In  the  world. 
Alice  is  very  much  embarrassed,  but  laughs  off  the 
affair.  The  widower  goes  out  to  make  a  series  of 
calls  upon  various  young  ladies,  looking  for  one 
that  would  make  a  suitable  mother  for  little  Nell. 
As  he  passes  out  he  notices  Alice  sitting  by  the 
fire  with  Nell,  telling  her  some  pretty  bed-time 
stories.  As  soon  as  he  has  gone,  the  servants  pre- 
pare to  spend  a  jolly  evening,  dressing  up  in  the 
clothes  of  their  master  and  his  sister,  and  organiz- 
ing an  impromptu  dance  In  the  hallway. 

Duckworth  calls  first  upon  Kate  Barnes,  but  does 
not  stay  long  at  that  bouse;  the  young  lady  is 
altogether  too  lively  and  skittish  to  suit  his  taste. 
Then  he  calls  on  May  Holmes,  but  finds  her  far  too 
languid.  Gladys  Phillips,  another  girl,  is  bookishly 
inclined,  and  lacks  an  affectionate  nature,  while 
Margaret  Cummins,  upon  whom  he  calls  last,  ab- 
solutely lacks  culture,  smokes  cigarettes  and  gener- 
ally shows  that  all  she  wants  is  a  good  time. 
Duckworth  thinks  of  little  Nell  by  the  fireside  with 
her  governess  and  hurries  away  home. 

The  servants  are  enjoying  a  regular  carousal,  and 
make  so  much  noise  that  they  wake  Nell  and  her 
governess,  who  is  sleeping  In  a  chair  beside  her. 
Alice  goes  downstairs  and  attempts  to  stop  the 
racket,  hut  they  tell  her  to  mind  her  own  business. 
In    the   midst   of   It   all,    Duckworth   enters. 

The  servants  all  rush  downstairs,  leaving  the 
widower  with  his  daughter  and  her  little  governess. 
Duckworth  sees  how  Nell  and  Alice  love  one  another, 
and  takes  them  both  in  his  arms.  He  has  found 
the  right  mother  for  bis  child.     His  quest  1b  ended. 

HIS  TIRED  UNCLE  (June  12).— Hearing  that  his 
nephew,  Fred  Nolan,  is  engaged  to  marry  a  widow, 
I'ncle  John  Bunny  sends  for  him  and  declares  that 
if  he  does  not  give  her  up  he  will  not  get  a  cent  of 
his  uncle's  money.  Bunny's  prejudice  is  simply 
against  widows  in  general,  as  he  has  not  met  the 
lady  in  question,  but  none'the  less,  he  quite  means 
what    he    says.     Fred    confides    with    his    chum,    Joe 


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Tripp,  aad  together  they  plan  to  put  one  over  on 
the  obstinate  old  gentleman.  Tripp  invites  a  crowd 
of  people  to  a  week-end  party,  among  them,  John 
Bunny,  and,  unknown  to  him,  also  the  widow. 
Bunny  and  the  widow  are  thrown  together,  but  he 
does  not  seem  very  susceptible  to  her  charms.  He 
Is  tired  and  sleepy  and  would  much  prefer  taking 
a  nap  to  talking  with  the  most  charming  lady  In 
existence.  After  a  while,  he  gets  away  from  her 
and  tries  to  snatch  forty  winks  in  the  conservatory. 
It  Is  no  use,  the  young  folks  soon  drive  him  out  of 
there.  He  tries  the  drawing-room  and  la  again 
obliged  to  decamp.  At  last,  in  desperation,  he  goes 
upstairs,  and  entering  the  first  bedroom  he  reaches, 
which  happens  to  be  the  widow's,  he  throws  himself 
down  and  at  once  enters  the  land  of  nod. 

Seeing  him  when  she  enters  the  room,  the  widow 
rushes  off  in  consternation  and  calls  to  Fred  and 
Joe  to  turn  him  out.  An  Idea  strikes  them.  Waking 
Uncle  John  they  tell  him  that  he  has  compromised 
himself  and  must  at  once  marry  the  lody.  Bunny 
is  very  much  disturbed,  but  cheers  up  considerably 
when  bis  nephew  offers  to  take  his  place  and  so 
save  him  from  a  disagreeable  situation.  Hastily 
giving  Fred  and  the  widow  bis  heartfelt  blessings, 
he  rushes  away,  to  everyone's  amusement,  and  re- 
sumes once  more  his  interrupted  slumbers. 

THE  GAPERS  OF  CUPID  (June  12).— The  short- 
sightedness of  two  swains  and  the  coyness  of  their 
lady  partners  is  the  means  of  bringing  them  all 
into  trouble.  The  four  people,  two  of  whom  are 
black  and  two  white,  get  mixed  up  and  In  the  re- 
sultant trouble,  all  are  hauled  to  the  police  station. 
Their  amusing  adventure  binds  their  hearts  closely 
together  and  the  maids  become  quite  willing  to 
accept  the  kisses  they  had  refused. 

AN  INTERNAL  TANGLE  (June  13).— Coming 
home  to  supper  one  evening,  Luigi  tells  his  wife 
that  a  new  couple  is  moving  into  the  same  tene- 
ment honse  that  they  live  in.  Vlncenza  greatly 
admires  the  moustache  of  her  new  neighbor  and 
speaks  of  this  to  her  husband,  who  laughs  at  her 
scornfully,  but  becomes  very  jealous  of  the  man, 
Blaggio.  Later  in  the  day,  when  Vincenza  is  coming 
home  with  the  groceries,  she  meets  Blaggio  on  the 
steps  of  the  house,  and  speaks  to  him  for  a  few 
moments.  Angelica,  the  wife  of  Blaggio,  la  looking 
out  of  the  window  and  sees  her  husband  talking 
with  this  strange  woman,  and  she,  In  turn,  also 
becomes  jealous.  The  talk  is  rudely  Interrupted  by 
Luigi,  who  returns  home  and  angrily  orders  his  wife 
into  the  house.  There  is  quite  a  lively  time  in  both 
apartments,  as  a  result  of  the  little  meeting  on  the 
doorstep. 

Owing  to  his  hasty  temper,  Luigi  loses  his  job 
and  is  unable  to  find  another.  He  and  his  wife  are 
almost  on  the  point  of  starvation  when  Mrs.  Thomas, 
a  wealthy  district  visitor,  comes  to  the  house.  She 
finds  Vincenza  alone,  and,  after  hearing  her  story, 
leaves  her  some  money,  which  is  placed  on  the 
table.  A  sneak-thief,  passing  up  the  stairway,  sees 
the  money  through  the  open  door,  and  steals  it  after 
Mrs.  Thomas  leaves.  Vincenza  screams  for  help 
and  is  heard  by  Blaggio,  who  Is  coming  up  the 
stairs.  He  rushes  to  her  aid.  He  struggles  with 
the  thief  and  obtains  the  money,  which  he  returns 
to  Vincenza.  As  he  leaves  the  room  he  Is  seen  by 
Luigi,  who  follows  him  upstairs  and  accuses  him 
of  an  intrigue  with  his  wife.  Angelica  overhears 
the  accusation  and  rushes  down  to  the  room  of  Vin- 
cenza, of  whom  she  is  insanely  jealous.  In  each 
apartment  a  terrific  struggle  takes  place,  In  the 
one  between  the  two  men,  and  In  the  other  between 
the  tw^o  women. 

In  the  midst  of  it  all,  Mrs.  Thomas  enters.  She 
has  lost  a  ring  and  has  returned  to  see  if  she  had 
dropped  it  there.  She  soon  explains  the  true  state 
of  affairs  and  the  two  families  agree  to  forget 
their  disputes  and  become  the  best  of  neighbors. 

DOES  ADVERTISING  PAY1  (June  14).— Finan- 
cially, the  firm  of  Montague  &  Pipps,  lawyers,  is 
not  a  success.  The  two  young  men  have  but  three 
dollars  between  them  and  are  in  despair.  Suddenly 
Montague  gets  an  idea.  "What  the  firm  needs," 
he  declares,  "is  advertising."  He  goes  out  and 
returns  later  with  a  huge  wad  of  bills,  which  he 
shows  to  his  astounded  partner.  Most  of  It,  he  ex- 
plains, Is  stage  money.  There  is  only  eight  real 
dollars  In  the  lot,  the  three  that  he  started  out 
with  and  a  five-spot  that  he  has  borrowed.  They 
go  out  and  commence  to  flash  their  roll  in  restau- 
rants and  cigar  stores.  The  business  men  who  see 
it  are  convinced  that  the  two  young  lawyers  must 
be  doing  well  and  consequently  are  worthy  of  their 
business.  In  this  way,  Montague  &  Pipps  become 
the  legal  agents  of  two  real  estate  brokers  and  a 
member  of  the  stock  exchange,  Mr.  Silas  Whipple, 
whose  daughters  the  two  young  fellows  have  long 
admired  from  a  distance.  Later,  they  meet  the  two 
girls  in  the  park  and  a  miracle  Is  again  performed 
by  the  roll.  The  girls  change  their  haughty  attitude 
to  one  of  extreme  affability  and  the  two  boys  have  a 
great  time  with  them. 

On  one  occasion,  when  Montague  is  out  collecting 
money  for  one  of  the  firms  for  whom  he  is  doing 
business,  he  is  set  upon  by  an  indignant  man  who 
gives  him  the  credit  of  a  foolish  prank  really  played 
by  a  mischievous  schoolboy.  He  has  his  bat  smashed 
in,  his  eyes  blackened  and  looks  a  dreadful  sight. 
Instead  of  mourning  his  misfortune,  however,  he  sees 
the  chance  for  getting  some  more  free  advertising.  He 
claims  that  he  has  been  set  upon  by  thugs  and  robbed 
of  three  thousand  dollars  and  some  loose  change  that 
he  was  carrying  to  the  bank.  The  newspapers  are  full 
of  the  case,  and  seeing  the  account,  the  Whipple 
girls  visit  bim  at  the  hospital  and  bring  him  flowers. 


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The  net  result  is  that  Montague  &  Pipps  each  marry 
one  of  the  girls,  and  having  got  so  much  advertis- 
ing, the  firm  becomes  one  of  the  most  prosperous 
in  the  citj. 

A  SEGMENT  OF  TWO  (Special,  2  parts,  June 
11). — Ira  Wilton  and  his  son-in-law,  Harry  Bennet. 
resort  to  the  subterfuge  of  telling  their  wives  that 
they  are  members  of  the  Thirteenth  Regiment  in 
order  to  be  sure  of  having  a  night  off  each  week, 
that  night  being  Friday  night,  for  then  the  regiment 
drills.  They  substantiate  their  deception  by  bring- 
ing into  their  little  game  Laura,  Ira's  daughter,  and 
her  fiance,  Jack  Brent,  a  genuine  member  of  the 
Thirteenth.  Their  deception  runs  along  nicely 
until  one  Friday  night,  when  the  men  have  gone  to 
the  club,  their  wives  find  the  invitation,  and  are 
Just  about  to  start  out  when  they  discover  that  the 
water  pipe  has  burst.  Laura  Informs  the  men  by 
telephone  what  Is  discovered,  and  warns  them  to 
come  home.  They  arrive  and  find  that  the  kitchen 
and  dining  room  are  flooded,  and,  after  all  has 
been  given  a  good  soaking,  Lord  Dudley,  an  admirer 
of  Laura,  manages  to  stop  the  flow  of  water.  Just 
as  the  trouble  concerning  the  flood  has  subsided, 
Jack  Brent  arrives  home  and  tells  the  men  that  the 
Thirteenth  has  been  ordered  to  the  front.  The  hus- 
bands, seeing  a  good  chance  to  take  a  little  vaca- 
tion, purchase  soldiers'  clothing  and  fall  in  be- 
hind the  Thirteenth  Regiment  aa  It  passes  their 
wiTes,  but  slip  out  as  soon  as  It  is  out  of  sight. 
They  then  go  to  the  barn,  where  they  substitute 
their  soldiers'  habilaments  for  civilian  clothes  and 
then  make  all  possible  haste  to  the  lake,  where  they 
Intend  to  spend  a  little  vacation.  But  their  vaca- 
tion ia  short-lived,  for  one  day  they  see  in  the 
newspapers  that  the  entire  Thirteenth  regiment  has 
been  wiped  out.  They  hurry  home  to  the  old  barn, 
where  they  get  into  their  regimentals  as  quickly  as 
possible,  not  forgetting,  however,  to  add  a  few- 
rents  here  and  there,  to  make  it  appear  as  if  they 
have  had  a  terrible  struggle  at  the  front  and  in 
escaping.  When  they  arrive  home  they  observe 
that  Mrs.  Wllton*s  brother  has  returned  from  the 
West  and  had  promised  to  take  care  of  the 
"widows."  In  reply  to  Lena's  (the  fat  cook's), 
Question  concerning  her  lover,  Conrad,  they  were 
just  about  to  tell  her  that  be  died  with  her  name 
on  his  lips,  when  in  come  Conrad  and  Harry  Brent, 
with  the  news  that  the  newspaper  report  was  all 
wrong.  Ira  and  Harry  fix  it  up  with  Conrad,  and 
Jack,  desiring  to  keep  on  the  right  side  of  the  old 
man,  tells  the  women  that  the  men  had  a  terrible 
fight,  and  brother  Tom  forgets  about  asking  ques- 
tions when  a  couple  of  good  cigars  are  shoved  into 
his  mit. 


KALEM. 

THE  BANDIT'S  CHILD  (June  2).— Bob  North 
spends  his  last  cent  to  reach  the  Bar  X  ranch,  where 
he  expects  to  find  work  and  when  he  learns  it  is 
impossible  to  secure  employment  he  becomes  des- 
perate. One  misfortune  follows  another  and  Bob 
becomes  an  outlaw,  while  his  wife,  in  a  distant 
city,   struggles  to  earn  a  living  by  sewing. 

Mrs.  North,  unable  to  learn  anything  concerning 
her  husband,  suffers  many  vicissitudes  and  finally 
answers  an  advertisement  for  a  school  teacher  in 
the  West.  By  strange  fate  she,  makes  her  home  at 
the  same  ranch  where  her  husband  applied  for  work. 

A  series  of  lawless  acts  attributed  to  the  bandit, 
cause  the  authorities  to  become  particularly  vigilant 
and  at  length  Bob's  trail  is  discovered. 

Mrs.  North's  little  girl  wanders  away  from  the 
ranch  and  Is  lost  In  the  mountains.  In  his  flight 
Bob  discovers  the  little  one  and  carries  her  to  his 
retreat.  The  child  becomes  1)1  and  Bob  determines 
to  take  her  to  a  doctor  at  all  hazards.  He  shaves 
off  his  beard,  places  the  child  in  a  sack  and  starts 
for  the  village.  A  deputy  encountering  Bob  on  the 
highway  is  suspicions  and  gives  chase.  Jnst  as  he 
Is  about  to  capture  the  outlaw,  the  wife,  who  has 
been  searching  for  her  child,  sees  the  affair  and 
through  a  subterfuge  effects  Bob's  rescue. 

Establishing  a  new  home.  Bob  sets  to  work  with 
a  will  and  makes  ample  restitution  for  his  un- 
fortunate past. 

WHEN  FATE  DECREES  (June  4). — Dick  Lowell, 
a  young  millionaire,  proposes  to  Jane  Hallowell,  only 
to  learn  that  she  has  given  her  promise  to  James 
Donglas.  Unknown  to  Jane,  Douglas  is  an  ad- 
venturer and  lives  by  his  wits. 

Brokenhearted,  Lowell  goes  on  a  hunting  trip 
and  meets  with  a  serious  accident.  He  Is  brought 
home  and  the  doctor  Informs  him  he  has  but  a  few 
days  to  live.  Lowell  sends  for  Jane  and  asks  her  to 
make  bis  dying  hours  happy  by  becoming  his  wife. 
He  explains  that  It  is  his  last  request  and  will  en- 
able her  to  enjoy  his  fortune  when  he  has  gone. 

Jane,  in  perplexity,  seeks  the  advice  of  Douglas, 
who,  to  her  amazement,  heartily  agrees.  The  girl 
Is  blinded  by  the  love  she  bears  the  adventurer  and 
consents  to  the  marriage,  which  takes  place  at  the 
Injured  man's  bedside. 

In  the  meantime  Lucy  Randall,  who  has  assisted 
Douglas  In  various  enterprises,  demands  money. 
Donglas  puts  her  off  by  assuring  her  that  she  shall 
want  for  nothing,  once  he  gains  control  of  Lowell's 
fortune. 

Through  Jane's  tender  care  Lowell  begins  to  Im- 
prove and  bis  recovery  is  assured.  Instead  of  being 
glad,  he  Is  in  despair.  Jane  appreciates  his  pre- 
dicament and  realizes  the  depth  of  his  love.  Finally 
she  determines  to  renounce  any  allegiance  to  Douglas 
and  her  course  Is  made  easier  when  she  sees  further 
indications  of  his  intimacy   with  Lncy. 

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piano,  Carmela,  a  beautiful  Italian  girl,  attracts 
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day  he  befriends  her  when  the  domineering  Pietro 
becomes  vicious,  and  takes  her  In  his  automobile  to 
a  sanitarium,  where  she  is  tenderly  cared  for.  The 
actor's  frequent  visits  result  In  a  romance  and 
Carmela   becomes  bis  wife. 

The  next  year  Baron  plays  an  engagement  in  the 
town  where  Pietro  makes  bis  home.  The  old  Italian, 
abandoning  the  street  piano  after  the  loss  of  Car- 
mela, has  become  a  street  peddler  and  when  he 
discovers  his  niece  with  her  husband,  his  crafty 
mind  conceives  a  scheme  to  rob  her  of  the  Jewels 
which  Bbe  wears.  He  writes  a  pitiful  note,  stating 
that  he  is  in  ill  health  and  wishes  her  forgiveness 
before  he  dies. 

Carmela,  suspecting  nothing,  falls  Into  the  trap 
and  Is  decoyed  to  Pietro's  cabin.  When  she  dis- 
covers his  plot  a  struggle  ensues  and  she  falls  to 
the  floor,  unconscious.  Thinking  he  has  killed  the 
girl,  Pietro  is  conscience-stricken  and  wanders  about 
the  street. 

It  is  a  hot  day  and  Baron,  appearing  In  a  matinee 
performance  of  Richelieu,  steps  to  the  stage  door. 
The  Ignorant  Italian  passes  the  theater,  and  mis- 
taking Baron  for  a  priest,  pours  ont  his  confession. 
The  actor  hastily  changes  his  clothing,  while  an 
understudy  prepares  to  take  up  the  role  of  Riche- 
lieu. A  police  officer  is  summoned  and  Pietro 
conducts  the  party  to  his  cottage,  where  it  is  dis- 
covered that  Carmela  has  not  been'  seriously  Injured. 

WHEN  WOMEN  ABE  POLICE  (June  7).— Hig- 
gins,  a  young  police  officer,  is  suspended  for  sleep- 
ing while  on  duty,  and  Jennie  Lee  is  sent  to  cover 
his  beat.  Jennie  determines  to  make  good  and  has 
a  series  of  adventures  which  test  her  courage,  but 
she  comes  out  with  flying  colors.  Fatty  Jones,  who 
has  been  celebrating  with  some  friends,  spies  the 
young  officer  and  asks  her  to  assist  him  home. 
Jennie  is  inclined  to  protest,  but  Jones  Insists  that 
It  is  her  duty.  Complications  arise  when  Mrs.  Jones 
eees  the  pretty  young  woman  helping  her  husband 
to  bis  residence. 

Officer  Hlggins,  plotting  vengeance,  is  the  means 
of  Jennie's  undoing  by  placing  a  mouse  In  her 
pathway.  She  blows  her  whistle  and  Higglns,  who 
has  been  reinstated,  hastens  to  her  rescue.  That 
evening,  when  both  are  off  duty,  Higglns  proposes 
and  Jennie  decides  to  resign  from  the  force. 

PERCY'S  WOOING  (June  7).— Percy  Rosebud,  a 
dainty  yonng  creature,  is  an  ardent  suitor  for  the 
hand  of  Nellie  Gray.  In  a  very  curt  note  Nellie  in- 
forms him  that  she  can  only  marry  a  "manly  man," 
and  Percy  sets  forth  to  establish  a  reputation  for 
bravery.  He  notices  a  statement  In  the  newspaper 
that  a  noted  wrestler,  "The  Terrible  Swede,"  la 
training  for  his  match  with  Tabasco.  For  a  liberal 
consideration  the  wrestler  consents  to  a  private 
exhibition  in  which  Percy  Is  to  become  the  victor. 
The  performance  is  given  and  Percy  is  acclaimed  a 
hero.  The  scheming  Swede  decides  to  extort  money 
from  Percy  by  threatening  to  expose  him,  but  Percy 
turns  the  tables  and  makes  good  bis  new  reputation. 

THE  RUBE  AND  THE  BOOB  (June  9).— Bill,  a 
stake-band  with  a  circus.  Is  called  upon  to  lead  the 
parade  when  the  drum-major  Is  suddenly  taken  HI. 
He  Is  equal  to  the  task  and  as  he  stmts  down  the 
street  he  fascinates  Jennie,  a  country  girl,  who  has 
come  to  town  with  her  sweetheart,  Bob,  to  see  the 
■how.  Jennie  insists  upon  following  the  parade  to 
the  show  grounds,  where  Bill  tells  her  be  will  meet 
her  after  the  performance. 

Jennie  returns  to  her  disconsolate  lover,  who  states 
that  he  will  secure  some  lemonade  for  their  lunch. 
In  making  the  purchase,  Bob  sees  Bill  carrying 
water  for  the  elephants.  He  bastens  back  for  Jen- 
nie, that  she  may  see  the  roustabout  In  his  true 
vocation.  Bill  flees  in  terror  when  the  couple  ap- 
proaches, but  he  cannot  escape  the  vengeance  of  the 
rube,  who  demonstrates  that  the  boob  makes  a  fine 
target  at  the  "three- throws-for-flve"  stand. 

THE  SCHEME  OF  SHIFTLESS  SAM  SMITH 
(June  9). — Shiftless  Sam  Smith  receives  a  shipment 
of  potatoes,  but  is  too  laey  to  plant  them.  A 
brilliant  idea  occurs  to  him  and  be  scatters  about 
the  village,  notes  which  read  that  a  treasure  Is 
buried  on  bis  lot.  Several  husky  individuals,  full  of 
greed  for  gold,  visit  Sam's  place  and  dig  np  the 
ground. 

Three  months  later  the  potatoes  are  flourishing. 
It  happens  that  a  gang  of  street  laborers  discover 
one  of  Sam's  old  notes,  which  has  been  burled,  and 
a  second  party  of  the  avaricious  wreck  the  shiftless 
one's  crop  before  he  can  drive  them  away. 

THE  PAWNBROKER'S  DAUGHTER  (June  11).— 
Manuel  Dreyfus,  a  dignified  old  pawnbroker,  sends 
his  daughter  to  college,  where  she  meets  Edward 
Marshall,  a  wealthy  young  Gentile.  They  become 
very  fond  of  each  other  and  Dreyfus  la  HI  at  ease 
when  he  sees  that  Aaron  Stern,  the  young  man 
whom  he  hopes  will  become  Esther's  husband,  la 
disregarded. 

Edward's  mother  loses  heavily  at  the  whist  club 
and  ber  husband  refuses  to  pay  her  debts.  She 
pawns  ber  necklace  with  Dreyfus.  Later  Dreyfus 
receives  a  note  from  Edward,  asking  him  to  bring 
Esther  and  meet  the  family.  He  does  not  Inform 
his  daughter  of  the  visit  which  Mrs.  Marshall  baa 
paid  his  place,  heavily  veiled,  but  he  recalls  the 
address  on  the  pawn  ticket. 

Dreyfus  and  Esther  make  the  call  and  find  the 
Marsballs  rude  and  indifferent  hosts.  To  relieve  the 
embarrassment,  Edward  takes  Esther  tor  a  walk. 
The  girl  realizes  that  she  can  never  marry  a  Gentile 
and  so  informing  Edward,  she  goes  home  to  meet 
Aaron,  to  whom  she  has  promised  to  give  an  an- 
swer. 

Mrs.  Marshall  becomes  so  Insulting  that  the  old 
pawnbroker  takes  the  necklace  from  his  pocket  and 
returns  It  to  her.  He  then  goes  home  and  finds  a 
note   from   his  daughter,   stating  that   sbe   baa  gone 


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to  be  marrif.l.  Thinking  thai  Esther  has  eloped 
with  the  (lentile,  Dreyfus  dies  into  a  passion.  His 
rage  subsides  when  the  happy  girl  returns  with  her 
husband — Aaron. 

BROUGHT  TO  BAY  (June  13). — Jim  Madden,  a 
young  ranch  owner,  Is  sorely  in  need  of  funds. 
He  attends  a  dance  with  his  sister,  May,  and  Steve 
Bonner  their  manly  young  foreman,  who  is  in  love 
with  May.  Although  Steve  warns  him  against  Pete 
Frawley  and  Joe  Temple,  horse  rustlers.  Jim  Insists 
upon  associating  with  them,  stating  that  he  is  old 
enough  to  take  care  of  himself.  The  horse  rustlers 
parsnade  him  to  assist  them  in  stealing  some 
horses  from  the  Bar  X  ranch.  He  accepts  a  sum 
of  money  from  the  unscrupulous  men  and  induces 
May  and  Steve  to  remain  at  the  dance, 

Jim  and  the  rustlers  steal  five  colts  and  brand 
them  in  bis  corral.  They  are  forced  to  leave 
hastily  and  one  of  the  horses  is  left  behind.  Steve 
returns  from  the  dance  and  sees  the  freshly  branded 
colt.  He  immediately  suspects  Jim,  but  determines 
to  save  him  for  bis  sister's  sake.  He  heats  a  brand- 
ing iron,  and  is  changing  the  brand  when  the  owner 
of  the  Bar  X  and  his  cowboys  come  upon  him.  They 
are  about  to  deal  roughly  with  him  when  Jim, 
stricken  by  remorse,  confesses  his  part  in  the  crime. 
During  the  excitement  caused  by  this  announce- 
ment Jim  Is  shot  and  seriously  wounded.  May  is 
attracted  by  the  shot  and  bears  him  home  on  her 
horse,  while  the  cowboys  ride  after  the  rustlers. 
After'  an  exciting  chase  they  overtake  the  two  men 
and  bring  them  to  justice. 

Later  we  see  Jim  well  on  the  road  to  recovery  and 
determined  never  again  to  wander  from  the  straight 
and  narrow  path. 

THE  GYPSY'S  BRAND  (June  14).— Dr.  Allen, 
spending  his  vacation  at  a  summer  hotel,  wanders 
Into  the  woods  and  meets  Robar,  a  gypsy  girl. 
They  become  very  friendly  and  the  Intimacy  which 
arises  incurs  the  jealousy  of  Romaine,  a  gypsy,  who 
hastens  to  inform  the  chief  of  the  band.  The  chief 
spies  upon  the  couple  and  later  punishes  Robar  by 
branding  her  on  the  forehead.  By  the  brand,  Robar 
will  always  be  held  in  disgrace  and  must  be  the 
servant  of  the  band. 

The  doctor  has  arranged  to  elope  with  Robar  and 
when  she  fails  to  appear,  he  steals  to  the  camp 
and  finds  her  sitting  in  the  moonlight,  suffering  from 
the  torture  of  the  brand.  He  secretly  conducts  her 
to  the  hotel,  where  lie  discovers  that  he  can  remove 
the  mark. 

Allen  and  Robar  are  married  and  go  to  tbe  city. 
Romaine  follows,  and  forcing  his  way  into  the 
doctor's  house,  demands  the  young  woman  by  right 
of  the  brand.  When  Robar  appears,  Ramaine  finds 
to  his  amazement  that   the  mark  has   disappeared. 

Several  years  later  the  doctor  and  his  wife,  with 
their  little  boy,  visit  the  country.  It  happens  that 
the  same  band  of  gypsies  is  camping  nearby.  The 
mother  and  child  walk  through  the  woods  and  stop 
at  a  spring,  where  the  boy  plays  in  the  mud.  In 
his  play  he  makes  upon  his  mother's  brow  a  mark 
similar  to  the  old  brand.  Two  gypsies  pass  and 
discover  the  apparently  branded  woman.  They  force 
Robar  to  accompany  them  to  the  camp  and  she  is 
about  to  be  dealt  with  severely,  when  the  husband 
arrives  on  the  scene  and  convinces  the  gypsies  of 
their  mistake. 


ESSANAY. 

THE  FINAL  JUDGMENT  (Special — 2  parts — 
June  9). — The  first  part  of  this  photoplay  opens 
in  Klondike  country,  two  years  after  the  great 
gold  rush  of  1897.  In  one  of  the  many  little 
mining  camps,  which  have  sprung  up,  we  find 
Frank  McCormack,  an  ex-newspaper  man,  and  his 
friend,  Carl  Brandon,  a  prospector.  Knowing  that 
Brandon  has  caught  the  gambling  fever  and  fearing 
for  the  .future  of  his  friend,  McCormack  suggests 
that  they  Invest  their  money  in  a  small  restaurant 
and  lunch  room,  which  they  subsequently  purchase 
from  Edna  Wallace.  Ascertaining  that  tbe  girl 
wants  to  return  East,  and  knowing  that  McCormack 
loves  the  girl  as  much  as  he  does,  Brandon  pro- 
poses and  is  accepted.  Five  years  later  we  see 
that  the  demon,  "Drink,"  has  a  firm  grip  on 
Brandon  and  be  neglects  his  wife  and  business. 
McCormack  endeavors  to  rescue  him.  Some  time 
later  Brandon  has  a  serious  quarrel  with  his  wife 
and  accuses  her  of  trying  to  elope  with  McCor- 
mack. That  night  he  steals  his  four-year-old 
son,  William,  but  is  overtaken  in  the  wilderness 
the  next  day  by  McCormack,  who  had  promised 
the  hysterical  wife  that  he  would  go  and  try  to 
bring  back  the  boy.  The  two  men  meet,  and,  in 
the  struggle  that  follows,  Brandon  shoots  Mc- 
Cormack. Believing  that  he  has  killed  his  friend, 
Brandon,  with  his  son,  makes  all  haste  to  Daw  ■ 
son.  The  wounded  man  is  found  by  two  pros- 
pectors, Is  cared  for  and  two  weeks  later  returns 
to  the  mining  village  only  to  learn  that  Mrs. 
Brandon  has  left  for  the  United  States  in  hopes 
of   findiag   her   husband   and   son. 

Fifteen  years  later,  McCormack,  returning  from 
his  office  in  a  large  New  York  daily,  of  which  he 
is  the  night  city  editor,  has  no  sooner  seated 
himself  in  the  parlor  of  his  home,  when  he  hears 
a  noise  in  the  library.  He  investigates,  armed  with 
a  revolver,  and  discovers  Brandon,  unkempt  and 
ragged,  who  drops  dead  almost  immediately,  think- 
ing that  he  bad  seen  an  apparition  of  McCormack. 
Through  a  letter  in  the  dead  man's  pockets,  Mc- 
Cormack learns  that  William  Brandon  Is  well  cared 
for  at  a  military  academy.  A  month  later  William 
is   apprised   of  his   father's   tragic   death   and   given 


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a  place  on  the  editorial  staff  as  a  reporter,  lie, 
however,  fails  to  make  good  and  is  advised  by 
McCormack  to  try  some  other  means  of  livlinood. 
Just  then  the  telephone  bell  rings  and  a  reporter 
asks  for  assistance  in  order  to  get  a  good  factory 
fire  story  where  hundreds  of  women  are  imperiled. 
William  Is  assigned  and  at  the  scene  of  the  con- 
flagration, he  forgets  his  duty  as  a  reporter  and 
hurries  to  rescue  a  woman  who  baa  fainted  on  a 
fire-escape.  Seeing  that  escape  down  the  staircase 
and  tbe  elevator  Is  impossible,  they  again  resort 
to  the  fire-escape,  which  Is  now  being  licked  by 
great  tongues  of  flame.  They  are  finally  rescued 
by  the  firemen  and  rushed  to  a  hospital. .  Several 
hours  later  McCormack  comes  to  the  hospital  to 
see  tbe  young  man  and  the  woman  he  bad  rescued. 
When  be  sees  tbe  woman  lying  on  tbe  opposite 
cot,  he  draws  back  in  bewilderment.  It  is  Edna 
Brandon.  Tbe  boy  bad  rescued  his  mother  and  he 
did  not  know  it.  The  story  comes  to  an  end  with 
McCormack  apprising  the  two  of  their  relation- 
ship. 

THE  SHADOWGRAPH  MESSAGE  (June  10).— 
Yuma,  a  deaf  aid  dumb  Mexican,  teaches  Dan 
Morgan,  a  cowpuueber,  the  sign  language.  That 
night,  Morgan  wins  several  hundred  dollars  in  a 
game.  Hugh  Haines  follows  Morgan  to  bis  borne 
to  secure  the  money.  Yuma  watcbes  Haines. 
Haines  enters  Morgan's  shack  and  hides  behind  tbe 
curtain.  Morgan  discovers  the  shadowgraph  mes- 
sage on  the  window  shade,  which  tells  him  that 
a  man  is  hiding  in  tbe  room.  Morgan  captures 
him,  and  takes  blm  to  tbe  sheriff.  Yuma  is  re- 
warded   by    Dan's    gratitude. 

THE  STAR  (June  11). — Pauline  Deverau.  a  prem- 
ier danseuse,  gives  her  last  performance  in  tbe 
ballet  at  the  theater  De  Luxe.  Clarence  Inbad, 
a  hall  room  type,  thinks  he  is  in  love  with  her, 
and  tries  to  the  best  of  bis  ability  to  meet  her. 
Tbe  doorman  at  the  stage  entrance  ousts  him. 
Pauline  later  goes  to  work  in  a  restaurant  to  get 
local  color  for  a  dramatic  part  she  is  to  play  tbe 
following  season.  Clarence  Inbad  frequents  the 
restaurant,  and  finally  persuades  Pauline  to  keep 
an  engagement  with  him.  Tbe  funny  and  em- 
barrassing situations  that  Clarence  goes  through, 
are   exceedingly   interesting.     Just   see   it. 

CINDERELLA'S  GLOVES  (Juno  12).— Millie 
Wilson,  a  simple  country  girl,  comes  to  New  York. 
with  a  valise,  bird  cage  and  a  note  for  her  aunt, 
asking  her  to  take  care  of  her.  her  mother  having 
died.  She  reluctantly  takes  in  the  daughter  of 
her  sister,  Installing  her  in  the  kitchen.  One 
night,  Millie  is  hurriedly  sent  to  the  residence  of 
a  society  woman  with  a  Cinderella  costume.  Tbe 
lady  scolds  Millie  and  sends  her  back  with  the 
dress.  Tbe  girl  sits  on  the  adjoining  stoop,  afraid 
to  go  home.  The  husband  of  the  society  lady, 
sees  Millie  and  pities  her  in  her  plight.  He  gives 
her  the  money  for  the  dress,  and  tells  her  to  go  to 
the  mask  ball  herself.  Millie  has  a  great  time  at 
the  ball,  where  she  meets  her  Prince  Charming. 
At  twelve  o'clock  Cinderella  (Millie)  flies  from 
her  lover.  Prince  Charming  tries  to  find  his  Cin- 
derella.    The  rest  is  too  good  to  tell.    Just  see  it. 

THE  MYSTERIOUS  STRANGER  (June  13).— Too 
much  business  worry  makes  Ralph  Jones  brutal  to 
his  wife.  Dr.  Frederick  Chillbrook,  a  hypnotist, 
is  called  into  consultation  by  Mrs.  Jones.  Chill- 
brook  later  hypnotizes  Jones  into  thinking  that 
his  wife  Is  fond  of  another  man.  Jones  sees  the 
vision  of  the  man  embracing  his  wifp.  Every  place 
Jones  goes,  he  sees  this  man,  whether  it  Is  in  bis 
oflice,  his  home,  in  a  taxicab,  or  elevator,  this ' 
man  haunts  him.  The  mysterious  stranger  finally 
makes  Jones  promise  to  pay  more  attention  to  his 
wife  and  treat  her  civilly.  The  novel  experiment 
proved  to  develop  into  happiness  for  Mrs.   Jones. 

THE  RANCH  FETTD  (June  14V — Desperate  tac- 
tics are  usually  used  in  a  feud.  Broncho  Billy's 
father  determined  to  soothe  his  passion  with  re- 
venge, starts  out  after  John  Mackley.  Broncho 
Billy  persuades  his  father  to  keep  cool.  Mackley, 
however,  gets  his  revenge  by  shooting  his  daugh- 
ter's sweetheart,  Broncho  Billy.  On  his  knees 
Broncho  Billy  crawls  to  bis  home,  where  his  father 
takes  him  in,  and  sends  for  a  doctor.  The  doctor 
informs  the  father  that  the  only  thing  that  will 
save  his  son  is  a  reconciliation.  Mackley  Is  finally 
persuaded  to  allow  bis  daughter  to  see  Broncho 
Billy.  Broncho  Billy  recognizes  her.  Both  fathers 
agree  to  end  the  feud. 


EDISON 

PROFESSOR  WILLIAM  NTJTT  (June  2).— Pro- 
fessor William  Nutt,  a  vegetarian,  while  lectur- 
ing on  the  evils  of  eating  animal  food,  meets  Mr. 
Hastings,  an  old  schoolmate,  who  invites  him  home 
to  dinner.  It  happens  to  be  on  a  Monday,  and 
Mrs.  Hastings  Is  obliged  to  do  her  own  washing. 
the  washerwoman  having  left  in  a  huff.  She  is 
horrified  when  she  sees  her  husband  and  the  pro- 
fessor coming,  and  an  accident  happens  which 
renders  the  little  food  she  has  left  in  the  bouse 
unfit  to  eat.  Not  wanting  to  disappoint  the  pro- 
fessor at  not  having  a  good  meal,  the  wife  ad- 
vises her  husband  of  tbe  accident  and  both,  un- 
known to  the  professor,  hurry  from  neighbor  to 
neighbor  getting  eatables.  They  succeed  in  ob- 
taining quite  a  nice  menu,  consisting  of  roast 
chicken,  etc.,  but  when  the  professor  is  escorted 
to  the  table  he  refuses  everything  and  takes  from 
his  pockets  his  meal,  which  consists  of  six  peanuts, 


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Greek  Tragedy  and  Sarah  Bernhardt 
in  the  Movies. 
The  Detroit  Opera  House  gave  it- 
self over  to  the  "movies'"  Monday, 
presenting  an  elaborate  picture  ver- 
sion of  ''Oedipus  Rex,"  the  Greek 
tragedy,  and  Mme.  Sarah  Bernhardt 
in  "The  Romance  of  an  Actress,"  a 
convenient  name  for  the  longer  trag- 
edy, "Adrienne  Lecouvreur,"  one  of 
her  favorite  vehicles.  M.  Mounet 
Sully  appeared  as  Oedipus,  so  that  the 
histrionic  treat  was  a  double  one. 
How  peculiarly  fitted  for  camera  act- 
ing is  the  work  of  the  French  school 
is  forcefully  impressed  by  these  films. 
So  accurate  and  careful  is  the  panto- 
mime that  never  does  there  seem  to 
be  any  obscurity.  The  Greek  tragedy 
is  given  on  a  scale  impossible  on  the 
regular  stage  and  for  that  reason  is, 
perhaps,  more  effective  visually  than 
the  stage  revivals  it  has  recently  had. 
The  films  for  these  productions  are 
particularly  clear  and  do  not  annoy 
the  eye  with  the  cloudiness  which  is 
too  often  a  characteristic  of  a  "movie" 
drama.  

Excerpt  Detroit  Free  Press,  May  20th 
Detroit — Bernhardt  and  M.  Mounet 
Sully  in  Movies. 
Detroiters  are  this  week  afforded  an 
opportunity  to  enjoy  the  work  of  two 
of  the  foremost  artists  of  the  French 
etage.  The  assertion  that  the  oppor- 
tunity will  prove  a  source  of  enjoy- 
ment is  made  unequivocally,  for  it  is 
doubtful  if  ever  in  the  history  of 
photoplays  has  anything  superior  to 
the  pictures  being  shown  at  the  De- 
troit Opera  House  this  week  been 
seen   locally.     The   films   are   remark- 


ably clear,  and  in  their  presentation 
there  is  an  agreeable  absence  of  the 
blurring  that  so  frequently  mars  at- 
tempts of  this  sort. 

A  double  bill  is  the  offering,  with 
Mme.  Sarah  Bernhardt,  foremost 
tragedienne  of  her  race  of  whom 
America  has  knowledge,  and  M. 
Mounet  Sully,  the  great  French  tra- 
gedian, dividing  the  honors.  Mme. 
Bernhardt  presents,  via  the  camera, 
an  adaptation  in  abbreviated  form  of 
"Adrienne  Lecouvreur,"  for  conveni- 
ence sake  during  the  present  tour  en- 
titled "The  Romance  of  An  Actress." 
Right  here  it  may  prove  of  passing 
interest  to  turn  aside  long  enough  to 
record  the  fact  that  it  was  this  same 
play  which  Mme.  Bernhardt  chose  to 
open  her  first  American  tour,  which 
occurred  at  Booth's  Theater,  New 
York,  in  November,  1880. 


Excerpt  Chicago  Tribune,  May  12th 
Greek  Tragedy  in  Fine  Moving 
Pictures. 
By  Percy  Hammond. 
These  moving  pictures  at  the  Stude- 
baker  are  proud  and  patrician,  repre- 
senting the  film  aristocracy.  Their 
dignified  reels  show  Madame  Sarah  as 
Adrienne  Lecouvreur  in  a  drama  of 
her  own  making,  and  M.  Mounet 
Sully  in  "Oedipus  Rex,"  both  of  them 
unusual  subjects  for  the  photographer. 
Nowadays  at  the  theater  one  speaks 
of  Essanay  or  Selig  in  discussing  the 
production,  instead  of  Belasco  or 
Frohman,  and,  perhaps,  comments 
critically  about  the  steadiness,  the 
sharpness,  and  the  clarity  of  the  rep- 
resentation. The  Studebaker  exhibit 
thus  is  a  Hecla  show,  if  that  trade- 
mark signifies  anything  to  the  moving 


picture  public,  and  it  is  wonderfully 
steady  and  clear.  In  fact,  it  is  the 
best  photography  the  drama  can 
boast,  so  vivid  and  so  substantial  is 
its  reproduction  ot  the  incidents  in- 
volved.   

Excerpt  Detroit  Times,  May  20lh 
Detroit  Opera  House. 

The  proverbial  ability  of  the  French 
people  to  use  the  motions  of  bodily 
activity  as  a  secondary  means  of  ex- 
pression is  developed  to  a  high  degree 
in  their  stage  folk,  making  them  ideal 
actors  for  photoplays  of  the  best 
drama.  Representations  of  the  best 
that  they  can  offer  are  being  shown 
this  week  in  the  Detroit  Opera  House. 

The  first  of  two  numbers  on  the 
program  is  a  presentation  of  Mme 
Sarah  Bernhardt's  company  in  the  un- 
happy romance  of  the  famous  actress, 
"Adrienne  Lecouvreur,"  and  the  other 
is  taken  from  the  Comedie  Francaise 
with  M.  Mounet  Sully,  the  great 
French  tragedian,  taking  the  leading 
role  in  "Oedipus  Rex." 

Adrienne  Lecouvreur,  played  by 
Mme  Bernhardt,  is  the  favored  rival 
of  the  powerful  Duchess  de  Bouillon 
for  the  love  of  Maurice  de  Saxe,  and 
her  struggles  to  escape  the  machina- 
tions of  the  duchess  are  graphically 
portrayed. 

The  death  scene  is  the  one  which 
has  made  the  play  one  of  the  most 
famous  of  the  Bernhardt  repertoire. 
It  is  said  to  be  her  favorite.  From  it 
she  chose  the  fable  of  the  two  pigeons 
to  speak  when  as  a  young  and  ambi- 
tious actress  without  backing  except 
her  ability  she  made  application  for 
admission  to  the  conservatoire  of  the 
Comedie  Francaise. 


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three  walnuts,  four  prunes  ana  a  raw  carrot. 
Husband  and  wire  look  at  each  other,  unable  to 
know  whether  they  should  awear  or  laugh. 

RIGHT  FOR  BIGHT'S  SAKE   (June  3) District 

Attorney  Stanton  la  In  serious  danger  of  defeat  In 
the  impending  election  unless  something  happens  to 
:  change  the  tide  of  public  opinion.  When  things 
look  blackest,  his  political  manager,  Boss  O'Grady, 
dlacovers  bribery  In  the  ranks  of   the  opposition. 

Stanton  devotes  all  his  energies  to  the  prose- 
cution of  the  supposedly  guilty  Morton,  who  has 
been  picked  out  as  a  scapegoat  for  his  party.  On 
the  last  day  of  the  trial,  evidence  is  placed  in 
Stanton's  hands  absolutely  proving  Morton's  Inno- 
cence. Urged  by  ambition  and  the  entreaties  of 
Boss   O'Grady,    Stanton   suppresses   this   evidence. 

Nora,  Morton's  daughter,  appeals  to  Stanton's 
wife,  who  Is  sympathetic  but  unmoved,  until  she 
accidentally  stumbles  on  the  suppressed  evidence. 
Immediately  she  realizes  that  the  whole  fabric  of 
her  life's  love  has  been  shattered.  The  man  she 
honored  and  respected  has  become  degraded  in 
her  eyes,  and  when  huaband  and  wife  confront  each 
other  with  the  truth,  he  tries  to  win  back  her 
respect  and  honor  by  paying  Morton's  fine  out  of 
his  own   pocket. 

But  how  little  he  realizes  that  this  makes  no 
difference  in  the  eyes  of  the  woman  who  loves 
him.  A  great  gulf  looms  between  them.  He  tries 
to  explain  to  her  that  it  is  only  a  part  of  the 
great  political  game,  but  it  is  something  finer  and 
bigger  than  that  that  stands  between  husband 
and  wife. 

The  next  morning  they  part,  she  to  wait  until 
(  the  man  she  loves  understands  that  respect  is  part 
of  a  true  woman's  love.  Not  until  some  time 
later  do  they  meet  again;  the  husband  has  made 
complete  restitution  and  once  again  Alice  stretches 
out  her  arms  to  the  man  she  loves. 

SOME  SPOTS  IN  AND  AROUND  LOS  ANGELES, 
OAL.  (June  4). — In  this  picture  we  get  some  beau- 
tiful views  of  Los  Angeles  and  its  environs,  prin- 
cipally among  which  is  Pasadena,  known  as  the 
city  of  flowers.  Unique  statues  that  represent 
familiar  scenes  In  the  old  fairy  tales,  such  as 
"Hansel  and  Gretel,"  and  others,  in  Busch's  Gar- 
dens at  Pasadena,  also  come  under  the  eve  of  the 
camera.  We  also  get  glimpses  of  natural  history 
life. 

DON'T  WORRY  (Juno  4).— Mr.  Mortimer  is  de- 
tained at  his  office  one  evening,  and  his  wife,  one 
of  the  worrying  kind,  imagines  that  he  has  been 
set  upon  by  desperadoes,  struck  down  by  an  auto- 
mobile and  badly  mangled  and  brought  to  a  hos- 
pital, where  they  mistreat  him.  She  again  vainly 
tries  to  get  him  on  the  telephone,  but  as  the 
repairman  has  the  wires  disconnected,  she  cannot 
reach  him.  She  is  about  to  let  her  mind  launch 
off  Into  another  phantasy  when  her  husband  comes 
home  safe  and   sound  and  tells  her  everything. 

HERCY  MERRICK  (June  6) When  Mercy   Mer- 
rick   left    the    refuge    in    London,    where    she    had 
heard   words  of  comfort  that  put  her  again  on   the 
right   path,    she   thought   she    had    turned   her   back 
forever  on   the  old  life  and  all   that   might  remind 
her  of  it. 
From    the   refuge  she  had  gone   to  South   Africa 
- !  as   a    nurse   during   the   war   and    while    there    met 
Grace    Rosebury,    the    daughter    of    General    Rose- 
bury,    who  had  come   for  temporary   shelter  to  one 
of    the     field     hospitals.    The     general's     daughter 
was    wet    and    cold.     Mercy    loaned    her    a    nurse's 
uniform.     The    two    girls,     during     their    brief    ac- 
quaintance,   became  good   friends,    and   Grace   Rose- 
bury    told    Mercy    that   she    was    going    to    England 
to  stay  with  friends  of  her  father,    whom  she  had 
never    seen,    and    that    it    had    been    arranged    that 
she  was  to  marry  one  of  the  nephews  of  the  house. 
Suddenly    a    shell    hit    the    hospital    and    a    flying 
■    splinter    struck    Grace    Rosebury    on    the    head.    In 
i  the    confusion    that    followed,    the    surgeon,    seeing 
*  her  in  a  nurse's  uniform,  mistook  her  for  a  nurse, 
and    after    a    rapid    evamination,    pronounced    her 
dead.     An  opportunity  had  arisen  and  Mercy  could 
not   resist    the    temptation.     She    had   never   known 
happiness  >and  Grace  had  never  known  misery. 

She  took  Grace  Rosebury's  effects,  and  declared 
herself  to  be  the  general's  daughter.  She  arrived 
safely  In  England,  and  was  received  with  open 
arms  by  Lady  Janet  Roy  and  her  nephew.  She 
soon  won  her  way  into  the  hearts  of  all  the  family, 
but  her  happiness  could  not  last.  She  must  be 
found  out  sooner  or  later. 

One  of  the  first  people  she  met  at  the  house  of 
Lady  Janet  Roy  was  Julian  Grey,  the  pastor  of 
the  refuge.  He  remembered  her  at  once,  but  she 
denied  all  knowledge  of  him.  To  make  matters 
worse,  she  fell  In  love  with  him  and  he  with  her, 
despite  her  nominal  engagement  to  Lady  Janet's 
nephew.  The  crisis  came  when  the  real  Grace 
Rosebury,  who  was  not  dead,  arrived  on  the  scene 
and  denounced  Mercy  as  an  lmposter. 

Everyone  Immediately  turned  against  Mercy  ex- 
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his  care  and  protection. 

WHILE    JOHN    BOLT    SLEPT    (June    7) John 

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sends  for  the  workman  from  whom  be  acquired 
the  Invention,  and,  by  making  restitution  by  a 
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right    arm.    The    second    time    the    visitant    comes. 


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Bolt  Is  drawn  Into  another  vision  where  he  seea 
nZ,  1*  Ui\teKna?ts  live  ,n  a  disease-breeding 
ft'..  h  »  had  the  clerwn«n.  who  appealed 
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Sse  of  M7.  ,c°"cctlnS  thi*  evil  he  regains  th* 
use  of  bis.  left  arm  and  the  upper  part  of  bt. 
body.  In  the  third  vision  the  visitant  shows  Bolt 
how  mean  he  had  been  to  his  wife  and  when  he 
awakens  from  this  vision  he  yearns  for  her 
wiS?S  fromJhe  ^'"itant  of  her  husband's  n- 
tenting   ways,    Mrs.    Bolt   goes    to    him    to   see   him 

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OTHELLO  IN  JONESVLLLE  (June  9). -Barnes 
Reginald  Whitestone,  an  actor  of  the  barn-slmnTng 
order,  being  unable  to  pay  the  rent,  is  throwi 
out  on  the  street.  He  goes  to  a  country  town  and 
succeeds  In  getting  board  with  the  Jones  family 
In  exchange  for  giving  their  daughter,  Tillie  dra- 
matic  lessons.  Seeing  that  Tillie  yearns  to 'be  a 
great  actress,  the  family  decides  to  give  a  mt- 
lor.mamM„ot  0thel,°  at  the  Tlllage  opera  house, 
with  Tillie  and  Whitestone  as  the  leading  char- 
acters and  the  rest  of  the  family  In  minor  parts. 
Tillie  s  acting  is  so  unusual  that  she  is  ordered  to 
stop  by  Whitestone.  His  sctions  are  misjudged 
by  the  audience,  who  begin  to  throw  vegetables 
at  him.  Time's  career  is  thus  nipped  In  the 
bud  and  Whitestone  is  obliged  to  pay  for  his 
board  bill  with  manual  labor. 

TWO  LITTLE  KITTENS  (June  10).— Arnold 
Graves  falls  in  love  and  marries  Lettle,  his 
mother's  seamstress.  For  marrying  beneath  his 
station  he  is  told  to  leave  the  bouse.  Five  years 
later,  Lettle,  now  a  widow,  returns  to  her  mother- 
in-law's  house  for  aid,  but  is  refused.  Just  about 
this  time  Mrs.  Graves  is  going  to  Europe,  and, 
while  riding  in  her  automobile  to  the  station, 
she  sees  a  little  boy  with  two  kittens  which  he  Is 
going  to  drown.  The  note  that  she  sends  by  her 
chauffeur  to  the  housekeeper  to  care  for  the  little 
kittens,  proves  an  opportunity  for  him  to  sub- 
stitute the  little  children  in  place  of  the  kittens. 
Some  time  later  the  housekeeper  sends  a  letter 
with  a  photograph  of  the  children,  saying  that 
"the  kittens"  are  getting  along  nicely.  In  the 
meantime,  Lettle  manages  to  get  a  position  as 
chambermaid  in  the  same  hotel  that  Mrs.  Graves 
is  stopping  after  her  return  from  abroad,  and,  In 
cleaning  out  the  room,  sees  the  photograph  of  her 
children.  The  loss  of  a  brooch  In  Mrs.  Graves' 
room  throws  suspicion  upon  Lettle,  and,  after  a 
trying  experience,  it  leads  to  a  reconciliation 
with  her  mother-in-law. 

BEAU  CRTJMMEL  AND  HIS  BRIDE  (June  11).— 
Kitty  Perkins  is  married  to  Beau  Crummel,  the 
village  dude,  by  the  Justice  of  the  Peace.  As 
they  are  coming  out  of  the  office  of  the  Justice, 
they  see  Kitty's  father  approaching,  and,  surmis- 
ing that  be  is  going  to  punish  them,  run  away 
and  finally  seek  shelter  in  a  hotel,  where  they 
register  under  an  assumed  name,  in  order  to  throw 
the  old  man  off  the  scent.  Kitty  goes  shopping 
and  upon  returning,  finds  tbat  she  has  forgotten 
the  number  of  the  room  and  the  fake  name.  In 
order  to  locate  the  room,  she  tries  first  one  and 
then  the  other.  The  disturbed  guests  are  resenting 
the  intrusion,  when  the  situation  is  relieved  by  the 
appearance  of  Beau.  The  climax  is  reached  when 
Kitty's  father  appears.  They  slam  the  door  in 
his  face  and  climb  down  the  fire  escape,  only  to  be 
arrested  for  sneak  thieves  at  the  bottom  of  the 
ladder  and  taken  into  the  office  of  the  hotel.  There 
they  nearly  collapse  when  they  are  confronted  by 
Kitty's  father,  who,  to  their  surprise,  is  not  at 
all  displeased,  but  on  the  contrary,  gives  tbem  his 
blessing.  Beau  and  Kitty  look  very  foolish  and 
are  thoroughly  disgusted  with  themselves  for  all 
their  manufactured  trouble. 

ALONG  THE  NILE  (June  13).— Ungainly  water- 
wheels  and  pumps  that  may  have  been  startling 
and  new  In  Moses'  day,  queer,  ineffective  plows, 
drawn  by  camels  and  oxen,  white-sailed  fishing 
craft  clustered  together  on  the  river  like  a  flock 
of  great  gulls,  huge  pyramids  and  the  ruins  of 
royal  temples,  impress  us  forcibly  with  the  strange, 
half  oriental,  half  barbaric  civilization  which  was 
the  mother  of  our  modern   attainment. 

Best  of  all  are  the  people,  tall  Mohammedans, 
with  white  hats  and  flowing  robes,  on  their  way 
to  the  Hammam  Baths,  Copts,  or  Native  Christians, 
splendid  looking  Bedouins  from  the  desert,  and 
tall,  supple  native  women  filling  their  water  jars 
at  the  river  bank. 

All  this  is  typical  of  the  Egypt  of  old.  We  are 
no  less  struck  with  the  evidence  these  pictures 
give  us  that  Egypt  is  something  else  than  a 
mummified  museum  of  antiquity.  Automobiles  and 
street  cars  are  greatly  in  evidence  and  palatial 
tourist  steamers  plough  their  way  through  the 
muddy  waters  of  the  Nile.  Typical  of  modern 
progress  is  the  great  dam  at  Assouan,  a  marvel 
of  engineering  ingenuity  of  which  exceptionally 
interesting  views  are  shown.  The  strange  medley 
of  barbarism  and  civilisation  shown  on  this  reel 
gives  it  an  unusual  interest  that  can  hardly  fail 
to  make  it  popular. 

APPLES  OF  SODOM  (June  14).— George  Law- 
rence and  bis  mother  live  In  a  nearby  town  in  a 
modest  sort  of  way,  George  earning  money  by 
writing.  His  chum,  Philip  Crane,  comes  down  on 
week-ends  to  call  and  it  Is  on  one  of  these  trips 
our  story  starts. 
Unknown    to   his    mother,    George    has    written    a 


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play,  "The  Apples  of  Sodom,"  and  on  this  occasion 
when  Crane  comes  to  visit,  he  reads  the  play  and 
Crane,  more  than  pleased  with  it,  promises  to  take 
It  to  the  city  and  try  to  sell  it  to  a  manager. 

Poor  George  ia  allliig  with  a  severe  cough,  which 
causes  his  mother  many  an  unhappy  moment  of 
worry.  On  the  day  Crane  returns  to  the  city, 
George  Is  overcome  and  dies,  trying  with  his  last 
breath  to  tell  his  mother  of  the  play. 

Crane  returns  to  the  city,  reads  the  play,  sees 
its  worth  and  just  as  he  plans  what  to  do,  re- 
ceives a  message  of  George's  death.  Sending  a 
wire  of  condolence,  he  returns  to  the  play.  Why 
not  claim  it  and  change  the  author's  name?  This 
he  does. 

The  play  turns  out  to  be  a  big  hit,  and  royalties 
flow  into  Crane's  pocket.  We  see  Crane  in  the 
box  at  the  opening  made  to  say  a  few  words,  and 
in  his  home  receiving  the  checks  from  his  manager. 
Guilty  at  heart,  he  tries  to  ease  his  conscience  by 
sending  a  check  to  Mrs.  Lawrence,  not  speaking 
of  the  play. 

More  than  surprised  at  receiving  a  letter  and  the 
check  from  Crane,  Mrs.  Lawrence  decides  she 
must  go  at  once  and  return  it.  She  arrives  in  the 
city  the  night  Crane  ia  giving  a  dinner  party. 
She  goes  to  his  home,  but  finding  him  out,  makes 
up  ber  mind  to  go  and  see  him  at  the  dinner.  Just 
as  the  dinner  is  at  its  highest,  Mrs.  Lawrence's 
card  in  banded  to  Crane.  He  can  hold  out  no 
longer.     He   must  tell   the   truth. 

Meeting  ber  in  the  hall,  he  begs  her,  as  she  is 
trying  to  speak  of  the  check,  to  come  to  the 
dinner.  For  his  sake  she  goes,  and  he  confesses. 
The  guests  slowly  go  and  Mrs.  Lawrence  forgives, 
as  only  mothers  can. 


MELIES. 

THE  STOLEN  CLAIM  (June  12).— (Produced  in 
Australia) . — Rhodda,  an  old  prospector,  has  been 
nursed  through  an  attack  of  fever  by  Harry  Murray, 
a  young  miner.  In  gratitude,  he  shows  him  a  bag 
of  rich  specimens  and  marks  on  a  map  directions 
to  find  the  reef  from  which  they  came.  While 
Harry  is  absent  getting  food  for  the  old  man,  the 
specimen  bag,  with  the  paper  in  It  is  stolen,  also 
■Rhodda's  watch.  The  thief  is  a  working  miner 
named  Hurley.  When  Harry  returns  to  the  cottage, 
Rhodda  is  overcome  by  the  shock  of  the  robbery 
and  dies.     He  bequeaths  the  claim  to  Harry. 

A  few  days  later,  Jack  Murray,  the  young  miner's 
brother,  arrives  by  train  on  the  goldflelds.  By  the 
same  train  comes  a  capitalist  named  Cuthbert,  with 
his  wife  and  their  daughter,  Hilda.  Jack 
Murray  has  become  friends  with  them  on  their  way 
up.  Also  on  tbe  train  is  Colonel  Baylor,  a  gentle- 
man miner,  who  proves  to  be  an  associate  of  the 
working  miner,   Hurley. 

Hurley  tells  the  colonel  of  a  rich  discovery  he 
has  made — really  the  dead  prospector's  claim.  The 
colonel  takes  in  Cuthbert  as  an  associate  to  provide 
money  for  operations. 

Meanwhile,  young  Harry  has  told  his  brother 
-Jack  of  the  rich  find,  and  of  the  robbery,  and  de- 
clares he  remembers  Rhodda's  directions  well  enough 
to  locate  tbe  claim.  The  two  parties  start  almost 
at  tbe  same  time  for  tbe  same  goal,  nobody  but 
Hurley  knowing  the  fact.  They  camp  near  each 
other  on  the  night  before  the  place  will  be  reached. 
and  in  the  evening  the  Murrays  visit  the  other 
camp,  during  which  time  Hurley  steals  off  to  their 
camp  and  drugs  their  coffee  in  the  billy  can. 

The  two  brothers  do  not  awake  until  midday,  to 
find  the  others  gone  ahead.  They  follow,  only  to 
And  the  colonel  and  Hurley  in  possession  of  the 
claim.  Jack  Murray,  however,  tackles  them  in  a 
fight,  and  Rhodda's  stolen  watch  is  found  in  Hur- 
ley's belt  pouch.  The  colonel  disclaims  all  knowl- 
edge of  the  theft  and  voluntarily  renounces  his 
rights  to  the  claim,  and  Hurley  is  allowed  to  go 
free  by  similarly  surrendering  the  property.  The 
Murrays  are  congratulated  by  Cuthbert  and  his 
daughter. 

VIEWS  OF  SAMARANG  (June  12).— An  interest- 
ing scenic  of  one  of  the  three  great  commercia  1 
centers  of  the  island  of  Java,  showing  daily  scenes 
In  the  Chinese  quarter  of  the  city;  a  Malayan 
funeral,  with  all  Its  pomp,  ceremony,  and  oddity: 
and  the  teak  wood  industry. 


BIOGRAPH. 

JENKS  BECOMES  A  DESPERATE  CHARACTER 
(June  9). — Peter  Jenkins  is  the  meek  and  servile 
husband  of  bis  better  half.  He  lurks  at  borne  with 
her,  tying  the  ribbon  on  the  family  cat.  These 
fireside  propensities  are  too  much  for  Mrs.  Jenkins. 
She  gives  him  a  dollar  and  tells  him  to  go  and  be 
a  regular  man.  She  wants  real  paint.  Jenks  sur- 
prises her  fondest  hopes,  but  she  decides  that  after 
.all.  the  family  cat  acts  as  a  good  leverage. 

RET)  HICKS  DEFIES  THE  WORLD — (June  9). — 

Tl&rd  as  nails  and  as  strong  winded  as  a  gale  in 
March,  Red  Hicks  may  have  been  a  bit  "chesty." 
but  he  was  In  perfect  trim.  The  town  depended  on 
the  champion,  O'Shea,  the  fighting  Irishman,  to 
make  soft  putty  of  the  world  famous  pugilist,  but 
on  the  day  of  the  fight  there  was  no  O'Shea.     The 

-supposition  was  he  did  not  have  tbe  price;  and  other 
domestic     difficulties     Interfered.     O'Shea's     trainer, 

*  however,   solved  the  problem  and  Red  Hicks   found 

ibis  Waterloo. 


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THE  WELL  (June  12). — Success  is  often  coveted 
instead  of  honestly  earned.  Through  honest  effort 
the  farmer  was  enjoying  the  fruits  of  bis  labor. 
A  large  Irrigation  well  was  among  his  new  acquisi- 
tions. Therein  his  designing  helpers  held  him 
prisoner  while  they  left  with  bis  wealth  and  bis 
daughter.  There  is  an  old  saying,  however,  that 
an  evil  purpose  always  defeats  ita  own  end  by 
some  committing  act. 

DEATH'S  MARATHON  (June  14).— The  self- 
centered  man,  ever  confident  of  bis  success,  wins 
in  love  over  the  more  sensitive  friend.  Assurance 
and  success  come  naturally.  Overwhelmed  by  the 
game  of  chance,  it  is  significant  that  he  takes  bis 
defeat  with  less  philosophy  than  most  men.  To 
him  it  is  utter  failure — the  end  of  all. 

His  incompatible  nature  causes  him  to  carry  his 
rash  act  to  the  climax,   nor  can  others  prevent. 


PATHEPLAY. 

PATHE'S  WEEKLY,  NO.  23,  1913  (June  2).— 
New  York,  N.  Y. — The  New  York  Civic  Parade  is 
composed  of  30,000  men,  representing  all  the  ac- 
tivities of  tbe  great  municipality,  and  in  march- 
ing order  forms  a  line  six  and  a  half  miles  long. 

Mecklenburg-Schwerin,  Germany.— The  King  and 
Queen   of   Denmark    visit    the   Court   of  Schwerin. 

Dallas,  Texas.  — The  caravan  having  been  formed, 
tbe  Imperial  Council  of  tbe  Arabic  Order  of 
Nobles  of  tbe  Mystic  Shrine  make  a  pilgrimage 
to  the  Oasis  of  Dallas  in  the  Texas  desert,  where 
there  is  much  feasting  on  dates,  figs  and  the  milk 
of  goats. 

San  Leandro,  Cal. — The  bicycle  race  for  the 
Pierce   Cup   Is   won   by   the   New  Century   Team. 

Seward,  Neb. — The  second  tornado  to  visit  Ne- 
braska sweeps  through  this  city,  killing  nine  peo- 
ple  and   causing   $200,000   property   damage. 

St.  Louis,  Mo. — Rev.  Dr.  Lansing  Burrows,  Rev. 
Dr.  Edward  C.  Dargan  and  Rev.  Dr.  Oliver  Fuller 
are  among  the  six  thousand  delegates  attending 
the  National  Convention  of  Southern  Baptists  held 
here. 

Paris,  France. — The  pannier  is  still  much  in 
vogue  in  the  midsummer  dresses.  Hats  show  no 
sign  of  change   from   the  present  modes. 

Comic  Section. — Jeff  finds  a  purse  and  falls  far 
an   old   gag. 

And   Many    Others. 

MAX'S  FIRST  JOB  (June  10).— Max  Linder's  be- 
havior when  he  applied  for  a  Job  as  a  Pathe  Freres 
moving  picture  actor,  was  such  a  good  joke  on  him 
that  it  was  decided  to  make  a  film  of  the  event,  and 
accordingly.  Max  was  called  upon  to  play  tbe  lead. 
He  was  serious  for  once  in  his  life,  when  he  offered 
his  services,  and  to  see  Max  serious  is  really  amus- 
ing. The  first  film  for  which  he  posed  was  "Mr. 
Henpeck,"  and  the  rough  deal  he  received,  caused 
Max  to  forget  that  he  was  acting,  and  he  turned 
suddenly  upon  one  of  his  co-workers,  whose  duty  It 
was  to  abuse  him,  and  a  rough  and  tumble  tight 
ensued.  The  belligerents  could  not  be  parted  u 
a  stream  of  water  was  turned  on  them,  and  as  soon 
as  be  could  speak  through  anger  and  water,  Max 
resigned,  but  reconsidered  his  decision  later  on,  as 
his  many  admirers  well  know. 

THE  CHATEAU  OF  CHENONCEAU,  FRANCE 
(June  10). — A  fine  specimen  of  Renaissance  archi- 
tecture which  has  the  added  attraction  of  being 
built  on  stone  piers  across  the  river  Cher. 

HIS  LORDSHIP'S  ROMANCE  (June  11).— Percy 
Fitznoodle,  in  charge  of  Murphy's  glove  counter, 
one  day  saw,  at  a  distance,  the  girl  of  his  dreams. 
He  dreamed  of  her  instead  of  attending  to  the 
customers,  and  a  floorwalker  fined  him  $6.00.  Percy 
was  feeling  rather  blue  when  he  went  to  lunch,  but 
be  met  Tom  Burke,  a  stout  Lothario,  who  was 
feeling  rather  blue  himself,  because  he  was  not 
progressing  very  well  with  a  love  affair.  Burke 
offered  to  pay  Percy  liberally  if  he  would  pose  as 
Lord  Fitznoodle  and  put  in  a  good  word  for  Burke 
with  the  latter's  girl.  Percy  agreed  and  accom- 
panied Burke  to  a  lawn  party  where  he  learned 
that  the  girl  Burke  was  anxious  to  win  was  the  girl 
of  his  own  dreams.  Instantly  he  forgot  his  contract 
with  Burke.  After  tbe  party  was  over  the  girl 
found  out  that  Percy  was  a  gay  deceiver,  and  to 
teach  him  his  place,  she  went  to  Murphy's  osten- 
sibly to  buy  a  pair  of  gloves.  She  succeeded  in 
hurting  Percy's  feelings,  but  as  he  fitted  the  gloves 
their  hands  met,  and  In  a  short  time  their  lips 
met  too. 

THE  ARTIST'S  DREAM  (June  12)  .—Charley 
Heckler,  the  artist,  was  called  away  from  a  party 
to  furnish  a  drawing  which  he  had  agreed  to  supply. 
He  finished  bis  drawing,  partly,  and  to  stimulate  his 
Imagination,  he  laid  down.  He  soon  fell  fast  asleep. 
and  while  Charley  slept,  the  dog  in  tbe  drawing 
came  to  life  with  an  appetite  that  just  had  to 
be  appeased.  A  string  of  frankfurters,  also  in  the 
drawing,  attracted  him.  A  mouse  appeared  and  en- 
deavored to  share  tbe  meal  with  the  dog.  After  a 
lively  chase  the  mouse  disappeared  and  then  a  flea 
called  the  dog's  attention  to  the  fact  that  he  had 
a  tall.  The  antics  of  the  dog  in  pursuit  of  the 
flea  are  the  biggest  laugh  ever. 

ATHLETICS  IN  FRANCE  (June  13).— The  Inter- 
national Congress  of  Gymnastic  Sports,  recently 
held  in  France,  provided  an  opportunity  to  make 
an  unusually  fine  film.  We  have  taken  advantage 
of  this  opportunity,  and  as  a  consequence,  are  able 
to  show  the  sensational   drill  of  the  Paris   fire  de- 


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An  absorbing  story  leads  up  to  the  great  struggle,  which  lasted  three  days — July  1-2-3 — and  in  which 
the  loss  of  life  was  appalling.  Gen.  Lee  hurled  himself  upon  the  north,  and  the  Union  forces  were  hur- 
riedly marshaled  and  met  him  at  Gettysburg.  The  Union  army  numbered  more  than  77,000,  and  the 
Confederate  forces  59,000.  The  charge  of  Gen.  Pickett,  with  4,900  men,  following  a  fierce  cannonading, 
into  the  center  of  the  Union  army,  is  the  most  sensational,  heroic  and  thrilling  incident  in  the  war  his- 
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partment,  featuring  a  race  up  the  side  of  a  house, 
without  any  assistance  from  ladders  or  ropes,  or 
anything  of  the  kind.  Then,  In  the  women's  class, 
upwards  of  a  thousand  of  the  expert  gymnasts  go 
through  their  various  exercises  In  perfect  unison. 
In  the  men's  gymnasium  class  the  feats  are  more 
difficult  and  more  daring.  There  are  other  scenes 
too  numerous  to  mention,  but  which,  combined  with 
those  already  recorded,  make  as  interesting  a  picture 
as  one  would  wish  to  see,  not  to  mention  Its  edu- 
cational ralue. 

PLACES  OF  INTEREST  IN  COLORADO  (June 
18). — A  travelogue  of  Colorado,  showing  the  most 
Interesting  features  of  the  city  of  Denver,  and  con- 
cluding with  a  short  and  delightful  trip  through 
the  royal  gorge,  a  beautiful  specimen  of  Nature's 
handiwork. 

FOR  MAYOR— BESS  SMITH  (June  14).— Mrs. 
Bess  Smith  wag  a  widow,  and  a  suffragette.  When 
election  time  drew  near  the  "Votes  for  Women" 
advocates  nominated  her  for  mayor  against  Joe 
Jones,  the  machine  candidate.  Alter  one  encounter 
with  the  suffragists,  Jonea  was  treated  so  roughly 
that  be  decided  to  pay  Mrs.  Smith  to  withdraw. 
When  he  called,  the  ladles  fixed  up  a  scheme  on 
him  by  which  he  made  his  proposition  to  a  phono- 
graph record,  as  well  as  to  the  nominee;  then  they 
told  him  what  had  happened.  Joe,  a  widower,  told 
his  son,  Joe,  Junior,  of  what  had  happened  and 
Joe  offered  to  help  him.  Joe,  Junior,  was  In  love 
with  Bess  Smith,  Junior,  and  when  Mrs.  Smith  was 
coming  home  from  a  mass  meeting,  she  met  Joe, 
Senior,  and  invited  him  Into  her  home.  When  they 
entered  they  found  their  respective  son  and  daughter 
in  each  other's  arms.  Mrs.  Smith  stormed  and 
raged  at  this  new  complication,  but  finally  gave  the 
children  her  blessing.  Joe  Jones,  the  elder,  there- 
upon proposed  to  Mrs.  Smith,  and  she  decided  that 
in  case  she  lost  the  office  it  might  be  a  good  thing 
to  be  the  wife  of  the  mayor. 

THE  GOVERNOR'S  DOUBLE  (Special,  2  parts, 
June  18). — Governor  Walter  Garland,  a  conscientious 
executive,  receives  a  complaint  from  a  committee 
of  reformers  that  the  convicts  in  the  state  prison 
are  subjected  to  Inhuman  treatment  The  governor 
decides  to  Investigate,  and  accordingly  goes  to  his 
friend,  Judge  Howe,  requesting  the  latter  to  have 
him  arrested  under  a  fictitious  name,  and  sentenced 
to  five  years*  imprisonment,  then,  after  thirty  days 


have  passed,  release  him  on  a  writ  of  habeas  corpus 
thus  permitting  the  governor  to  investigate  the 
prisons  without  the  oificials  being  aware  of  his 
presence. 

The  governor's  last  executive  act  Is  the  pardon- 
ing of  Pete  Brown,  a  lifer,  whose  attorney,  James 
McDonald,  is  the  governor's  personal  friend.  The 
plan  works  well,  no  one  knowing  of  the  arrange- 
ment except  the  judge  and  the  governor  himself. 
Within  a  short  time,  the  absence  of  Governor  Gar- 
land creates  a  sensation.  No  one  knows  his  where- 
abouts and  the  papers  feature  the  fact  that  the 
twenty-fifth  of  June  is  the  date  set  for  Governor 
Garland's  wedding  with  Miss  King,  who  is  also 
ignorant  of  her  lover's  whereabouts.  After  the 
thirty  days  have  elapsed,  Judge  Howe  prepares  to 
issue  a  writ  that  will  free  the  governor,  but  a 
sudden  stroke  of  apoplexy  paralyzes  his  heart  and 
he  dies  almost  instantly.  The  governor,  in  his  cell, 
cannot  understand  the  judge's  silence  after  the 
thirty  days  have  elapsed.  Brown,  the  ex-convict, 
visits  Albany  to  thank  the  governor  for  pardoning 
him.  His  facial  characteristics  are  such  that  he  is 
immediately  shown  into  the  governor's  chamber  and 
asked  to  explain  his  disappearance.  Brown  is  mysti- 
fied, but  soon  decides  that  if  people  believe  him  to 
be  the  governor,  he  will  not  tell  them  the  truth. 
He  satisfactorily  explains  his  absence  and  the 
papers  are  again  full  of  news  of  the  Garland-King 
wedding. 

On  the  eve  of  the  wedding,  Garland,  In  his  cell. 
Is  almost  frantic  when  he  receives  a  newspaper 
that  Informs  him  of  Judge  Howe's  death.  He  tells 
the  warden  that  he  is  the  governor.  The  warden 
smiles  and  orders  him  back  to  work  with  the  gang. 
Desperate,  Garland  breaks  for  the  open.  He  com- 
pels a  passing  chauffeur  to  hurry  him  to  the  city 
and  storms  into  the  church  in  his  convict  garb, 
where,  with  a  wild  "I  forbid,"  be  halts  the  cere- 
mony. When  Garland  tells  bis  story,  the  best  man, 
who  Is  Attorney  McDonald  for  the  first  time  recog- 
nizes his  client,  Pete  Brown,  and  the  bride,  with 
the  two  men  before  her,  quickly  decides  which  man 
is  her  lover. 

PICTURE  THEATERS  PROJECTED. 

Philadelphia,  Fa. — Joseph  Judovlch  Is  about  to 
build  a  moving  picture  theater,  60  by  120  feet,  on  a 
lot  100  x  120  feet,  at  the  southeast  corner  of  Second 


and  Oxford  streets,  recently  purchased  by  him.  The 
remainder  of  the  lot,  40  by  120  feet.  Is  to  be  re- 
served for  an  open-air  exhibition  of  moving  pictures 

Pittsburgh,  Pa — W.  F.  Hammel,  Jenkins  Arcade 
Building  has  invited  bids  for  a  one-story  moving 
picture  theater  to  cost  $8,000. 

Dayton,  O. — Samuel  Gedman  and  Jacob  Breman 
have  let  the  contract  to  F.  T.  G.  Weaver  &  Son 
for  a  moving  picture  theater  and  store  building. 
The   brick   work  Is  under  way. 

Philadelphia.  Pa — John  D.  Allen  Is  designing  a 
large  moving  picture  theater  at  the  intersection  of 
Fifty-fourth  and  Parrish  street  and  Havertord  ave- 
nue, for  C.  White  and  Brother. 

Aurora,  HI. — J.  Sberer,  255  Downer  place,  Is  to 
build  a  moving  picture  theater  here  during  the 
summer.  When  completed,  the  building  will  be 
leased  to  W.  J.  Mullen,  289  Lake  street. 

New  York  City,  N.  T. — Aaron  Rosenstein,  4  East 
107th  street,  has  received  bids  for  a  two-story  mov- 
ing picture  theater  to  cost  $35,000. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y.— Taffelistein  A  Walsaner,  621 
Sutter  avenue,  have  plans  In  progress  for  a  moving 
picture  theater  to  cost  $2,500. 

Springeld,  Mass. — John  A.  Hudson,  381  Main 
street,  has  started  plans  for  a  one-story  moving 
picture  theater  to  have  a  seating  capacity  for  1,600. 

Newark,  N.  J. — Mrs.  Julia  A.  Schnltz  has  re- 
ceived bids  for  a  one-story  moving  picture  theater 
to  be  bnilt  In  this  city  during  the  coming  summer. 

Pittsburgh,  Pa.— J.  P.  Clark,  Empire  Building, 
has  received  bids  for  an  addition  to  his  theater,  to 
cost  $S. 000. 

Homestead,  Pa. — Homestead  Amusement  Company 
have  plans  In  progress  for  a  one-story  moving  pic- 
ture theater  to  cost  $9,000. 


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full  Una  of  Moving  Ptetvra 

Machine  repair   parts  ready 

to  put  In  roar  machine  as 

reduced    prices.      We    make 

them,    ana  for   that   reaeea 

can  sell  them  very  law.    We 

_etoo    sell    Stereoptloons    for 

Catena  Jets,  ».»;  100  Carbons,  COS;  Oen- 

-    ~e.j  Are  Lamps,  tf.25;  Stersoptieoo  Lenses, 

6— -,  -~,.»  Carriers,  25c. ;  Moving  Picture  Objectives. 
«;  Jackets    Ctf;  Ttaiat  Holders,  Too.;  Rheostat* 
■>;  K  Candle  Power  StereopUoon  Lamps,  fee, 
L.  HTEZ.  3M  Best  Mrd  Street,  New  York  City 


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SITUATIONS    WANTED. 

ATTENTION.— Who  wants  thlB  live  wire  mana- 
ger. Twelve  years'  experience  as  manager  and 
expert  operator,  on  all  machines,  also  first  class 
electrician.  Record  for  three  months.  "Opened 
new  house,  six  competitors.  Three  now  closed 
my  house  doing  70%  of  business."  At  present  hold- 
ing responsible  position.  Personal  reason  for  want- 
ing to  change.  Prefer  Middle  West,  any  size  city. 
Reference,  the  best.  Salary  or  percentage  or  both. 
If  I  don't  produce  results  and  give  the  best  show 
you  ever  saw,  I  don't  went  your  money.  Address 
HUSTLER,   c/o  M.  P.  World,   New  York  City. 

AT  LIBERTY— Thorough  moving  picture  theater 
manager  and  licensed  operator.  Wife,  expert  pro- 
fessional pianist,  A.  F.  of  M.  no  better  in  the 
business.  Both  competent,  experienced  and  relia- 
ble. Capable  of  building  up  "dead  theaters  " 
Would  consider  buying  theater  or  interest  therein; 
Southern  city  locstlon  preferred.  Address  H  S 
BDLKLEY,   Box  86,  Clinton,   Ind. 

OPERATOR — Expert  desires  position.  A-No.-l 
recommendation.  Eight  years  experience.  Ad- 
dress PAUL  HUMMEL,   Iron  St.,  Bloomsburg,   Pa. 

OPERATOR — Expert,  desires  position  anywhere. 
Eight  years  experience.  Reference.  I  deliver  the 
goods.  Address  C.  NEWMAN,  331  Pleasant  St. 
Ionia,   Mich. 

GOOD  MAN  AT  LIBERTY— Ten  years  in  the 
business,  knows  It  from  manufacture  to  projection, 
wide  acquaintance  among  the  trade,  seeks  con- 
nection with  reliable  concern,  executive  or  repre- 
sentative. Address  PERMANENT,  care  of  Moving 
Picture  World,   New  York  City. 

HELP    WANTED. 

WANTED — An  all  round  man  picture  theater. 
Speller,  ad  writer,  sign  painter  and  general  utility 
man.  Long  engagement.  Address  JIM  B.  WIL- 
SON,  Jewel  Theater,    Sherman,  Texas. 

EaTJTPMENT   FOE   SALE. 

FOR  SALE — 93  Hardesty  chairs  In  good  condi- 
tion: first  money  order  for  $50  takes  them.  Ad- 
dress Star  Theater,   Rulevllle,   Miss. 

FOR  SALE — 178  mahogany  opera  chairs,  75  cents 
each.      Address   FRANK    DOWNS,    Belvidere,    111. 


FOB  BALE — 357  second-hsnd  Opera  Chairs  now  In 
use  In  a  picture  show,  Easton,  Pa.  Delivery  can  be 
made  within  30  days.  Price  35c  on  the  floor.  Ad- 
dress JEWEL  THEATER,  Easton  Pa,,  or  IMPERIAL 
FEATURE    FILM    COMPANY,    Pittsburgh,    Pa. 

WANT  TO  SELL  OR  EXCHANGE— New  sectional 
Asbestos  Booth,  for  chimes,  compensate,  or  what 
have  you?  Address  HAROLD  E.  BRADY,  Crandon, 
Wis. 


FILMS   FOR   SALE. 

FOR  SALE— 1000  ft.  reels  film,  $2.50  and  $5,  not 
junk.  Hiawatha,  $50;  Cinderella,  $35;  Ten  Nights 
in  a  Barroom,  $35;  Song  sets,  $1.00;  Odd  slides, 
5c;  Light  reducers,  $15;  Edison  used  mschlne,  $35; 
Model  B  G'as  outfits,  $15;  General  Electric  Mercury 
Arc  Rectifier.  $75.  Address  H.  DAVIS  FILM  EX- 
CHANGE, Watertown,  Wis. 

FOR  SALE — One  copy  Old  Wyoming  Days  In  two 
reels  with  state  rights  for  Kansas;  cheap.  MOD- 
ERN FEATURE  FILM  CO.,  119  Genesee  St.,  Cin- 
cinnati,  Ohio. 

FOR  SALE — 500  reels  of  film  with  posters  to 
match,  all  in  good  condition.  Many  subjects  prac- 
tically new.  Address  McINTLRE  &  RICHTER,  2» 
E.  14th  St.,  New  York  City. 


CAMERAS    FOR   SALE. 

CAMERAS — All  standard  makes:  Urban,  Warwick, 
American,  Gaumont,  Ernemann,  etc.,  Tripods.  De- 
veloping aparatus.  Lumlere  Film.  Address  MOR- 
TON H.  POWERS,  Firs*  National  Bank  Bldg., 
Chicago,    111. 

FOR  SALE — A  good  Camera  cheap.  Apply 
UNITED  FEATURE  FILM  CO.,  14  Locust  St.,  St. 
Louis,  Mo. 


THEATERS  FOR  SALE. 

MOVING  PICTURE  THEATER  for  sale  or  rent. 
Other  business  compels  to  make  disposition.  Ad- 
dress   Herbert    Schulenberg,    New    Bremen,    Ohio. 

THEATER — Moving  pictures  only,  300  seats.  In 
growing  Chicago  neighborhood.  Clearing  $75  week. 
Box  office  trial:  $4,000:  no  agents.  Address 
OWNER  P.  S.,  428  S.  Harvey  Ave.,  Oak  Park,  HI. 


MOVING  PICTURE  THEATER  fully  equipped, 
Mt.  Joy,  Pa.  Stage,  foot  lights,  dressing  room,  no 
opposition;  $500  cash.  Address  P.  O.  BOX  M, 
Ellzabetbtown,    Pa. 

FOR  SALE — Alrdome,  complete  outfit,  machines, 
screen,  400  seats.  Price  $250,  loaded  on  car.  Also 
one  complete  lighting  outfit,  gas  or  gasoline  en- 
gine, 128  amperes  direct  current  dynamo  In  A-l 
condition,  $350.  Address  F.  J.  REMBUSOH,  Shelby- 
vllle,   Ind.,  THB  "MIRROR  SCREEN"  MAN. 


THEATRES    FOR   RENT. 

FOR  RENT— Fully  furnished  picture  vaudeville 
theatre,  capacity  1,000.  An  opportunity.  Address 
OANTES,  Box  66,   Pleasantvllle,   N.  J. 

THEATERS   WANTED. 

WANTED  to  rent  a  good  picture  house,  If  you 
haven't  any  thing  good  to  offer  ssve  stamps.  State 
full  particulars  in  first  letter.  Address  BELWYN, 
c/o  M.  P.  WORLD,   New  York  City. 

MOTION  PICTURE,  want  to  rent  with  option  to 
buy,  motion  picture  show  or  alrdome  In  or  near 
New  York  City.  Address  W.  J.  D.,  250  East  48th 
St.,    New    York    City. 


BUSLNE8S  OPPORTUNITY. 

I  WILL  BUY  anything  from  a  second-hand  roll  of 
tickets  to  a  theater.  I  sell  machines,  chain, 
pianos,  etc.,  of  long  ago,  or  up-to-date.  Have  also 
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BISON. 

THE  GEANB  OLD  FLAG  (2  parts— June  10).— 
Don  Lopez  had  tried  to  remain  faithful  to  the 
Spanish  King  and  crown,  until  the  cruelty  of 
Weyler  had  driven  him  to  side  with  the  down- 
trodden insorrectos  and  with  money  and  influence 
furnish  them  with  arms.  Ametza,  his  dark-eyed 
beautiful  daughter,  is  courted  by  El  Donza,  who] 
by  courtly  manner  and  courtesy,  has  covered  his 
identity  as  a  Spanish  agent  from  the  father  and 
won  liking  from  Ametza.  About  this  time  a  ter- 
rific storm  on  the  sea  throws  two  American  sol- 
diers of  fortune  on  the  beach  of  Cuba  near  the 
home  of  the  Lopez.  Ametza  by  chance  sees  them 
and  getting  aid  rescues  them.  Ametza's  atten- 
tions to  the  Americans  causes  El  Donza  to  swear 
vengeance  against  them,  and  bis  anger  is  added 
to  by  a  good  American  thrashing  from  Harold 
Logan. 

Going  back  to  the  Spanish  camp  he  gets  his 
henchmen  and  determines  on  an  attack  of  the! 
Lopez  home.  A  skirmish  occurs  and  the  timely 
action  of  Ametza  saves  Harold  from  death,  but 
her  father  and  sister  fall  victims  of  Donza's  ven- 
geance. Ametza  and  the  two  soldiers  of  fortun,- 
escape  from  the  Spanish  and  reaching  the  roekr 
shore,  see  the  grand  old  flag  fluttering  from  an 
American  gun  boat.  The  officers  see  the  signal  of 
distress  made  by  them  and  send  a  small  di- 
luent  ashore. 

Meanwhile  El  Donza  has  reached  the  shore,  be- 
ing told  of  the  Americans'  escape  by  a  Spanish 
spy  and  pursues  the  Americans.  The  marines 
land,  but  are  insufficient  to  cope  with  the  Span- 
ish. The  battle  results  in  the  capture  of  Har- 
old, Sherman  and  Ametza,  who  are  taken  to  pri- 
son. 

In  prison  the  Americans  are  offered  the  choice 
of  being  branded  with  a  hot  iron,  or  allegiance 
to  the  Spanish  flag.  Sherman  is  branded,  but 
ere  the  iron  reaches  Harold,  Ametza  sets  the  pri- 
son on  fire  and  the  guards  'rushing  to  subdue  the 
Barnes,  the  Americans  escape.  Reaching  the  Ameri- 
can scouts,  they  are  conveyed  to  the  American 
camp.  A  battle  is  imminent  and  a  Spanish  scout 
reports  to  El  Donza,  who  has  escaped  the  flaming 
prison,  their  line  of  march.  The  Spanish  dig  pit- 
falls: but  the,  Americans,  by  chance,  change  their 
route  and  attacking  the  Spanish  from  an  unlooked 
for  quarter,  rout  them  and  El  Donza  falls  a  victim 
to  his  own  pitfalls.  Harold  raises  Old  Glory  to 
the  accompaniment  of  American  cheers,  over  the 
Spanish  block  house,  and  Ametza  and  victory  are 
his. 


IMP. 


THE  COMEDIANS  MASK  (2  parts— June  9).— 
King  Baggot  is  a  comedian  out  of  work.  He  finds 
it  very  difficult  to  get  a  Job,  but  finally  secures  a 
position  as  principal  comedian  with  "The  Girl 
from  Wayback"  company.  King  Is  devotedly  at- 
tached to  his  wife  and  child,  but  his  wife  is  verr 
vain  and  shallow,  and  accepts  the  attentions  of 
Basil  Graham,  the  foppish  tenor  of  the  company, 
who.  while  professing  friendship  for  Klnc,  takes 
every  opportunity  of  flirting  with  King's  wife. 
This  is  done  to  such  an  extent  that  it  arouses  the 
attention  of  the  stage-hands,  with  whom  KIne  is 
a  great  favorite.  On  the  opening  night  King 
scores  a  great  triumph.  He  has  left  his  child 
in  the  dressing  room  and  she  is  playing  with  some 
poison  King  had  been  using  for  a  burn  on  his  arm. 
King  finds  it  in  her  possession  and  hurriedly  takes 
it  from  her,  showing  her  the  danger  of  plaving 
with  it. 

King  is  very  much  hurt  by  the  coldness  of  his 
wife's  manner  His  child  strays  from  the  dress- 
ing room  to  tlie  side  of  the  stage,  and,  whilst  her 
father  is  on  the  stage,  she  plays  with  the  button 
on  the  door  of  the  wing,  making  It  necessary  for 
King  to  exit  behind  the  other  wing,  where  he 
discovers  bis  wife  in  the  arms  of  his  false  friend. 
They  do  not  see  him,  and,  brokenhearted  he  goes 
to  his  dressing  room  and  takes  the  poison,  deter- 
mining to  end  it  all.  He  rushes  back  to  the  stage 
for  his  last  scene  and  his  wife  and  the  tenor  de- 
termine to  elope.  They  are  hastily  leaving  the 
theater  when  King,  at  the  finish  of  his  scene,  as 
the  curtain  falls,  drops  with  agony  to  the  stage. 
The  manager  frantically  goes  before  the  curtain 
and  asks  if  there  is  a  doctor  in  the  house  and  one 
comes  forward,  and  King's  child  shows  the  doctor 
the  poison  bottle.  The  doctor  calls  for  an  antidote, 
which  is  instantly  produced  by  one  of  the  property 
men.  The  doctor  gives  it  to  King  who  is  anxiously 
watched  by  the  crowd  in  their  stage  garb  and  mot- 
ley, for  the  sign  of  life.  The  child  in  the  mean- 
while has  strayed  outside  and  shown  her  mother 
the    poison,    and,    when    she    realties    the    terrible 


truth,  she  runs  from  her  would-be  lover  and  goes  to 
her  husband's  aid.  Somewhat  disgusted  the  tenor 
follows  her,  and  when  she  finds  that  King  is  re- 
covering she  begs  him  to  forgive  her,  realizing  that 
it  is  the  comedian  she  has  loved  after  all.  The 
husband    and    wife    are    united. 

THE  HIGHER  LAW  (June  12).— Violet  Horner, 
arriving  at  a  little  mining  village  to  take  charge 
of  the  school,  is  insulted  by  a  drunken  miner.  The 
mine  superintendent  comes  to  ber  rescue  and  knocks 
the  drunkard  down.  A  year  later,  VI  and  the 
superintendent  are  married  and  living  happily. 
Calvin  (the  drunken  miner;,  has  never  forgotten 
the  punch  in  the  face,  and  one  day  while  slouching 
around  the  mine  he  sees  the  paymaster  arrive  and 
enter  the  office  with  the  superintendent.  Calvin 
plans  to  get  the  money.  He  makes  a  few  futile 
attempts  to  shoot  the  superintendent,  but  is  always 
thwarted. 

The  superintendent  starts  home  with  the  money. 
Calvin  follows  him  deciding  to  shoot  him  and  get 
the  money  at  the  first  chance.  As  the  superin- 
tendent is  about  to  enter  his  house  he  is  shot  in 
the  back.  He  calls  to  his  wife;  she  drags  him 
into  the  house  and  slams  the  door  in  Calvin's  face. 
Furious,  Calvin  starts  to  shoot  through  the  door. 
Unable  to  get  in,  he  starts  to  pry  open  the  shut- 
ters. 

Inside  the  house.  Violet,  while  trying  to  stauucli 
the  blood  from  her  husband's  wound,  turns  and 
sees  Calvin  attempting  to  break  in  the  shutters. 
She  runs  to  the  kitchen  and  returns  with  a  kettle 
of  boiling  water  which  she  pours  through  the  bot- 
tom of  the  shutters  and  scalds  Calvin's  hands. 
Furious.  Calvin  decides  to  try  another  entry  and 
mounting  the  steps  leading  to  an  upper  floor,  he 
starts    to    smash    the   window. 

Violet  hears   the  smashing  glass,    she  thinks,   and 

ailing    their    dog    (whom    they    have    been    sending 

to    the    grocery    store),    she    writes    a    note    calling 

for   help,    and   giving   it  to   the   dog  she   sends   him 

out  the  back   door   and   to    the  store. 

The  dog  arrives  at  the  store,  the  miners,  who 
are  hanging  around,  read  the  note  and  jumping 
in  an  open  wagon  which  comes  on  at  this  time, 
they   dash  off. 

Calvin  after  smashing  down  a  couple  of  doors, 
sets  into  the  room  where  Violet  is  with  her  hus- 
band. He  gets  the  cash  box  containing  the  money 
and  is  about  to  get  out  of  the  window  when  he  is 
-.truck  by  a  flash  of  lightning.  The  house  takes 
fire;     Violet    drags    her    husband    out    of    danger. 

Outside  the  miners  rush  on  in  time  to  see  Vi 
drag  her  husband  out  of  the  flames.  One  of  the 
boys  goes  inside  and  returns  with  the  cash  box, 
and  tells  them  that  Calvin  is  dead.  All  bare  their 
heads  and  offer  up  a  prayer  for  thankfulness  to 
God. 


REX. 

THE  KING  CAN  DO  NO  WRONG  (3  parts— June 
12). — In  one  of  the  smaller  European  kinooms  there 
dwells  a  man  who  is  dominated  by  and  imbued 
with  the  idea  that  the  King  can  do  no  wrong. 
The  man  is  a  trusted  and  faithful  commander  in 
the  King's  army,  and  he  has  a  young  wife  and  a 
I'aby  girl.  The  monarch  sees  the  wife  and  takes 
her  away  from  his  subject,  and  the  man  sees  but 
the  wrong  in  his  helpmate  and  not  in  his  king. 
He  takes  the  baby  girl  and  a  trusted  serving 
woman  away  into  the  fastness  of  the  mountains 
and  the  girl  grows  to  young  womanhood  entirely 
ignorant  of  the  world  and  its  ways.  In  time  the 
king's  son  hears  of  the  ravishing  beauty  of  the 
maiden  and  does  not  rest  content  until  he  has  her 
hiding  place  spied  upon  and  seeks  her  in  person. 
The  girl  sees  a  man  for  the  first  time  and  a  hand- 
some youth  at  that.  She  is  an  easy  victim  and 
returns  with  him  to  the  court,  where  she  rails 
at  her  father  for  shutting  her  off  from  the  Joys 
and  pleasures  she  is  having.  He.  heartbroken. 
the  Berving  woman  and  Anally  forces  her  to 
make  a  "loving  cake"  the  same  as  she  had  done 
to  reward  the  girl  when  forgiven  for  her  little 
faults.  The  father  doctors  the  cake  and  the  serving 
woman  takes  it  to  the  girl  and  Induces  her  to 
eat  it  in  order  to  show  that  she  is  forgiven.  The 
daughter  dies  at  the  feet  of  the  prince,  but  the 
king  and  the  prince  live  and  forget— for  "The 
King  Can  Do  No  Wrong!" 

THE  PRETENDER  (June  IS).— Occupying  a 
menial  position  as  maid  to  the  Warrentons  an 
ostentatious  family  whose  chief  ambition  is  social 
recognition  and  the  marrying  of  their  daughter  to 
a  man  of  money,  Betty  cherishes  a  secret  am- 
bition to  be  a  lady  Just  once.  This  opportunity 
Is  granted  her  unexpectedly  when  the  Warren- 
tons close  their  summer  home  and  leave  for  two 
months  visit  to  the  seashore.  The  servants  are 
given  a  vacation  for  that  period.  Bowing  to  the 
temptation,  Betty  draws  her  savings — amounting 
to  $500,  and  decides  to  make  one  supreme  effort 
to  realize  her  dream.  She  slips  away  in  secret, 
renews  her  wardrobe,  and  registers  at  a  renowned 
beach  resort  hotel.  Blessed  with  physical  beauty 
and  carriage,  liberally  enhanced  by  her  carefully 
selected  wardrobe,  her  dainty  appearance  captivates 
the  guests  at  the  hotel,  likewise  engendering  an  air 
of  romantic  mystery.  Bert  Royal,  considered  In 
social  circles  the  catch  of  the  season,  becomes  in- 
terested in  Betty,  particularly  so  when  she  de- 
liberately snubs  him,  which  is  in  direct  contrast 
to  the  snobbish  attention  displayed  by  other  mar- 
riageables.  It  is  only  after  marked  persistency 
that  friendship  is  permitted  which  unconsciously 
merges   into    the    romantic.     The    Warrentons    mean 


while  have  received  a  social  tip  that  Bert  Royal 
is  at  this  hotel  and  all  engagements  are  cancelled 
in  order  to  likewise  register,  they  believing  their 
daughter  eligible  to  a  possible  engagement.  Betty, 
with  Bert  at  the  time,  sees  the  approach  of  h-r 
employers  and  hastily  leaves,  packing  her  !»•- 
longings  and  slipping  away  before  Bert  discovers 
the  fact.  He  promptly  packs  and  follows  in  a 
wild,  but  persistent  attempt  to  locate  her.  Con- 
sternation reigns  at  this  unexpected  change  on 
the  part  of  the  guests.  A  few  months  later  the 
Warrentons  are  entertaining  and  Betty  occn 
the  same  position  as  maid.  At  a  dinner  it  la 
covered  that  there  are  thirteen  guests  at  the  table, 
and,  in  order  to  pacify  the  superstitious.  Sirs. 
Warrenton,  unable  to  resort  to  other  method, 
pels  Betty  to  don  her  daughter's  gown  and  dine 
to  offset  the  fateful  number.  An  envious  im- 
pression is  created  as  she  enters,  but  as  they  pre- 
pare to  dine  she  is  stricken  dumb  with  amazement 
to  discover  among  the  guests  her  seaside  friend, 
Bert  Royal,  he  at  the  same  time  calling  her  by 
name  in  unfeigned  surprise  and  pleasure.  Ca. 
aside  dignity,  Betty  dashes  in  mad  flight  from  the 
dining  room,  followed  by  the  persistent  Bert 
Royal,  who  at  length  captures  her.  listens  in  amuse- 
ment to  her  tearful  confession  and — well,  the  story 
ends   as   all   would    have   it. 


CRYSTAL. 

FALSE  LOVE  AND  TBTJE  (June  10).— Prut 
Tuscan!,  an  instructor  of  music,  has  as  one  of  tiU 
pupils  Miss  Grace  Roberts,  a  very  wealthy  heiress. 
He  plots  to  get  some  of  her  money  and  writes  to 
an  Italian  friend  of  his  to  come  to  his  home. 
There  they  play  that  the  professor  shall  introduce 
Tony  as  an  Italian  count  and  have  him  win 
Grace's  heart  and  money,  dividing  the  spoil- 
tween  them.  The  plan  works  out  and  the  hand- 
some Italian  engages  himself  to  Grace.  Some 
later.  Grace  receives  a  letter  that  a  new  will  of 
her  uncle  has  been  found,  in  which  she  has  been 
disinherited  and  leaving  his  entire  estate  to  a 
missionary  fund.  The  poor  girl  is  nearly  heart- 
broken over  the  loss  of  her  home  and  property. 
She  seeks  comfort  in  the  professor.  He  tells 
and  Tony  compels  the  professor  to  give  him  money. 
He  goes  away.  The  professor  writes  a  note,  pur- 
porting to  come  from  Tony  telling  Grace  that  he 
has  been  compelled  to  go  back  to  Italy  and  prom- 
isiiitr  to  return  for  her.  The  poor  girl  goes 
town  and  seeks  and  finds  employment.  She  rooms 
at  a  boarding  house.  There  she  meets  Fred  K 
a  detective.  Fred  falls  In  love  with  her  and  pro- 
poses marriage  to  her.  She  tells  him  she  is  en- 
gaged to  another  man.  One  day,  a  package  is  left 
for  Grace  in  Fred's  room.  He  takes  it  up  to  her 
but  she  is  not  there.  He  notices  the  picture  of 
the  bogus  count  and  recognizes  in  him  a  crook  fur 
whom  he  has  been  looking.  Grace  returns  and  in- 
forms Fred  that  the  original  of  the  photograph 
he  is  looking  at  is  the  man  she  is  engaged  to.  Fred 
decides  to  look  him  up.  Tony,  meanwhile  has 
sought  his  old  haunts,  and  during  an  altercation 
at  cards,  shoots  a  man.  Fred  hearing  the  shot, 
rushes  to  the  saloon  from  whence  the  noise  ema- 
nated and  finds  Tony  struggling  to  get  away.  Fred 
arrests  Mm.  He  is  taking  him  to  the  station 
house    when    they    meet    Grace    on    the    street. 

nts  him  and  he  admits  that  he  is- ah  old 
time  crook  and  that  his  pretentions  of  royalty  and 
protestations  of  love  were  sham.  He  is  dragged 
off  to  jail.  Later.  Fred  renews  his  suit,  and  Grace, 
awakeniug  to  the  depths  of  his  pure,  true  love. 
after  experiencing  the  shock  of  her  'affair 
the    bogus    count,    accepts    him. 

AN   EXPENSIVE    DHINK    (June    15).— Hub!. 
addicted    to   the   use   of  liquor  and    refuses    to 
drinking  same   despite   his    wife's  pleadings.      After 
business    he    invariably   visits   the   saloon   and   keeps 
his   wife  waiting  for  him  for  supper.     One  day  she 
buys  a   bottle   of  Cura-Lusher,    which  is  guaranteed 
to  cure  all  craving  for  liquor.     That  evening,  hubby 
brings  home  a  new  bottle  of  whiskey  and  wine  im- 
mediately   doctors    it    with    the   Cura-Lusher.    Hi 
drinks    some    and    immediately    detects    that    there 
is   something    wrong.      He    thinks   the   saloon   keeper 
swindled    him    and    immediately    goes   over   and    has 
the   bottle    changed    for    real    whiskey.      Wifie    | 
some    of    the    cure    into    the    coffee,    thinking    that 
the  best   war  to  cure  hubby  of  the  habit.     Hut- 
boss    calls    that   afternoon    on    a    friendly    visit 
unsuspectingly   wifie   invites   him   to   have  a   cup 
ioffee.     They   all  drink  and  the  real  liquor  has  the 
usual    effect.      The    boss    makes    love    to    his    em- 
ploye's wife  and  tries  to  kiss  her  and  hubby  throws 
him   out   the  window.     The   result  is  that   he    l 
his    job,    but    when    wifie    explains    her    reason    for 
doping   the  coffee   It   is   the  means   for  making   him 
swear  off  and   he  vows  never  to  drink  again. 

HER  JOKE  ON  BELMONT  (June  15).— Belmont 
is  a  dirt.  He  is  riding  aronnd  town  on  a  bicycle. 
A  doctor  who  has  forgotten  his  bag,  telephones  hla 
sister  to  bring  it  to  him.  This  she  does  and  Bel- 
mont seeing  her  and  being  smitten  with  her  beauty, 
follows  her.  She  notices  him  following  her  and 
Is  angry,  but  pays  no  attention  to  him.  After  de- 
livering the  bag  to  the  doctor,  she  returns  home. 
Belmont  still  following  her  and  while  looking  ad- 
miringly at  her  Is  thrown  from  the  bicycle  and 
hurt.  She  enters  the  house  and  Belmout  mis- 
taking her  for  the  doctor,  goes  Id  after  her.  She 
decided  to  play  a  joke  on  him  and  treats  him. 
She  tells  him  that  he  has  a  hole  in  Ma  head  and 
uses    some    red    ink    to   prove    it.      9h©   theu   ahaves 


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his  hair  off  leaving  It  totally  bald.  She  then 
pastes  court  plaster  on  his  head  in  such  a  way 
that  it  spells  the  word  "FOOL."  She  then  chases 
him  out  and  he  goes  home.  Taking  off  his  hat 
he  sees  the  Joke  that  has  been  played  on  him  and 
he  rushes  back.  There  he  is  met  by  the  young 
lady  who  laughs  at  him  and  by  the  doctor  himself 
who  haying  arrived  home,  also  enjoys  the  Joke. 
Belmont  seeing  that  he  can  get  no  satisfaction, 
runs  wildly  from  the  house,  bemoaning  the  loss 
of  his  hair  and  determining  never  to  flirt  again. 


FRONTIER. 

THE  CALL  OF  THE  ANGELUS  (June  12).— 
Rafael  and  Pablo  are  so  strongly  attracted  to  Car- 
melita  that  each  desires  her  to  be  his  wife.  Car- 
melita  does  not  care  to  choose  between  them  for, 
while  she  likes  each  and  has  coquetted  with  'each 
■he  is  not  in  love  with  either.  The  young  men  are 
prosperous  ranchers  and  call  frequently  upon  Car- 
melita,  ber  mother  being  present  at  the  calls  to 
preserve  the  quaint  southwestern  proprieties.  One 
day  as  Pablo  comes  from  the  house  of  Carmelita 
he  meets  Kafael  at  the  gate  and  their  Jealousies 
burst  forth  in  a  quarrel.  Nothing  serious  comes 
of  it  at  that  time,  but  the  seed  has  been  Implanted 
•nd    later    it    bursts    and    grows. 

The  bitterest  break  comes  when  Rafael  interferes 
with  the  laborers  who  art  at  work  irrigating  Pablo's 
fields.  He  holds  that  the  water  is  his,  not  Pablo's, 
while  the  laborers  believe  Just  the  opposite.  Un- 
der the  leadership  of  their  majordomo  they  put 
op  quite  a  pretty  flght,  In  which  Rafael  Is  aided 
by  a  party  of  his  own  ranch  laborers.  Pablo  learns 
of  the  fight  and  presses  home  a  quarrel  with  Ra- 
fael, who  to  tell  the  truth,  hardly  needs  to  have 
It   pressed    home. 

The  young  men  agree  to  fight  a  duel  and  go 
to  an  open  field  behind  a  church  for  the  purpose 
There  Rafael  wounds  Pablo;  he  is  overcome  with 
remorse  and  makes  efforts  to  help  the  stricken  man 
but  is  met  with  curses.  Pablo  tells  him  that  the 
angelus,  which  at  that  moment  rings  forth  from 
the  church,  can  never  afterwards  be  heard  with- 
out his  thinking  of  the  dying  man  on  the  field 
behind  the  church.  Rafael  Is  convinced  that  he 
has  killed  Pablo,  and  feels  that  he  must  flee  the 
country  to  escape   the  penalty  of  his  crime. 

He  is  not  content  to  leave  Pablo  alone,  how- 
ever, and  stops  at  the  church  to  leave  a  note 
summoning  the  priest  to  aid  Pablo.  The  priest 
gets  this  and  shortly  starts  for  the  field  of  honor 
Before  he  gets  there,  however,  Pablo  has  sufficiently 
recovered  from  the  wound,  which  Is  not  so  serious 
as  he  had  thought,  to  crawl  away.  He  crawls  to 
Oarmelita's  home  and  there  the  girl  and  mother 
take  him  in  and  the  girl  nurses  him  back  to 
health. 

While  Pablo  convalesces  Rafael  Is  far  away 
working  on  a  cattle  ranch.  Daily  he  hears  the 
angelus  and  daily  the  curse  of  the  supposedly 
dying  Pablo  rings  in  his  ears.  Finally  as  he 
passes  a  roadside  shrine  one  day  he  hears  the  call 
again.  He  stops  and  prays  before  the  little  shrine. 
As  he  prays  there  comes  to  him  the  solution  of 
his  troubles;  he  determines  to  return  and  confess 
his  crime,  standing  the  punishment  and  attaining 
forgiveness,    if   possible. 

Along  the  weary  road  back  to  his  home  he  walks 
and  late  that  afternoon  he  stands  again  outside 
the  church  door  where  he  left  the  note  to  the 
priest.  He  calls  the  padre  and  begins  a  confession 
The  good  priest  lets  him  tell  the  whole  story,  then 
he  tells  him  that  Pablo  did  not  die  from  the  wound 
inflicted  in  the  duel,  but  that  he  Is  recovering  at 
Carmelita's. 

Thither  go  priest  and  repentant.  There  they  And 
Pablo  and  Carmelita,  whose  feeling  has  ripened 
Into  love.  Rafael  asks  and  receives  the  forgiveness 
of  Pablo,  and  as  the  angelus  rings  out  again  he 
Joins  the  hands  of  the  girl  he  loves  with  those 
of  the  man  she  loves  and  who  also  loves  her,  as 
behind    them    the    priest    recites    a    benlson. 


VICTOR. 

SINCERITY  (June  13).— Jim,  who  thinks  that  bis 
associates  care  for  him  only  for  his  wealth,  re- 
solves to  assume  the  appearance  of  poverty,  and 
go  into  the  country  to  search  for  sincerity.  A 
poor  girl,  Gertrude,  on  the  death  of  her  mother.  A 
confided  to  the  care  of  an  aunt,  who  treats  her 
harshly  and  makes  a  menial  of  her.  Jim  goes 
to  the  aunt's  farm  and  secures  employment.  He 
Is  deeply  impressed  by  the  beaoty  of  Gertrude's 
character,  and  thinking  he  has  found  his  Ideal 
proposes  to  her.  The  aunt  forces  Gertrude  to  re- 
ject Jim  and  discharges  him.  On  leaving  the  farm 
Jim  encounters  a  band  of  tramps,  and,  unob- 
served by  them,  overhears  them  plan  to  rob  the 
aunt's  house.  He  reaches  the  house  in  time  to 
prevent  the  robbery.  Touched  by  the  bravery  and 
devotion  the  aunt  consents  to  Jim's  marriage  to 
Gertrude.  So  Jim  finds  his  ideal  Gertrude  Is 
happy,  and  the  aunt  is  astonished  on  learning  that 
her  niece  is   to  many   a   rich   man. 

NESTOR 

THE    SPRING    IN     THE    DESERT     (June    9) 

Mona,  a  beautiful  Indian  girl,  and  daughter  of 
the  Chief,  had  given  all  her  passionate  love  to 
Ortega,  a  brave.  The  old  chief  takes  the  attach- 
ment   with    stole     indifference.     The    young     Indian 


couple  are  wrapped  up  in  each  other  until  the 
white  man  comes.  Ortega  and  two  warriors  are 
hunting.  They  see  the  prairie  schooner  without 
the  sign  of  life.  They  approach  with  Indian  cau- 
tion and  find  a  man,  a  woman  and  a  child  lying 
within.  The  woman  and  child  had  gone  to  Join 
their  maker.  The  man  has  a  spark  of  life  left. 
They  work  over  him  and  Ortega  fetches  water 
from  the  life  saving  spring.  They  tske  the  man 
back  to  the  Indian  camp  and  nurse  him  back  to 
life.  Mona  flnds  two  books  in  the  wagon  and  the 
man  surprises  Ortega  and  Mona  pouring  over  them. 
Ortega  Is  fascinated.  The  pictures  of  Eastern 
activity  and  invention  fill  his  brain,  and  Mona's 
heart  sinks  and  she  tries  to  get  rid  of  the  man 
and  the  books.  The  man  goes,  grateful  and  some- 
what amused,  and  the  spirit  of  civilization  having 
entered  Ortega's  soul,  he  follows  and  enters  a 
college.  Mona,  even  with  his  promise  to  return 
constantly  in  her  mind,  broods  and  her  primitive 
hatred  for  the  whites  takes  possession  of  her. 

Ortega  does  well.  His  brain  is  abnormal,  and 
In  due  time  he  writes  a  brilliant  thesis.  His 
roommate  sees  It  and  determines  to  make  it  his 
own.  He  and  another  youth  plot  and  so  arrange 
matters  that  Ortega  is  accused  of  theft.  He  hotly 
denies  the  charge,  but  seeing  he  Is  not  believed, 
shakes  off  the  white  man's  shackles  and  starts 
back  to  his  tribe  and  Mona. 

In  the  meantime,  the  girl's  character  has  under- 
gone a  change  and  believing  Ortega  baa  gone  from 
her  life,  awaits  a  chance  to  wreak  her  vengeance 
upon  the  whites.  The  squaws  avoid  her  and  even 
the  medicine  man  is  afraid  of  her.  She  often  rides 
out  alone  with  her  faithful  horse,  and  one  day 
sees  two  prospectors  taking  a  drink  In  the  spring 
where  the  hated  white  man  waB  revived.  She 
gets  her  quiver  of  arrows  and  dips  the  arrowheads 
in  rattlesnake  poison,  and  going  to  the  spring, 
contaminates  the  water  with  the  arrowheads.  She 
awaits  some  definite  result  and  sees,  with  flendlsh 
satisfaction,  a  man  approach  the  spring  garbed  In 
the  white  man's  apparel.  He  drinks,  staggers  and 
falls.  She  goes  to  gloat  over  her  work  and  flnds 
her  lover,  Ortega,  dying.  Turning,  she  sees  her 
horse  drinking  from  the  fatal  spring.  The  faithful 
animal  falls  beside  her  and  bereft  of  friends  and 
reason,  the  wretched  girl  leans  down,  and  smiling 
at  the  green  water — drinks. 

THE  MAN  WHO  TRIED  TO  FORGET  (June  11). 
— Richard,  a  young  man  of  moderate  means,  Is 
infatuated  with  the  adventuress,  Stella.  The  wo- 
man Is  the  wife  of  Robert  Kelton,  a  gambler,  but 
Richard  believes  her  to  be  a  woman  of  beautiful, 
unsullied  nature.  He  takes  her  home  and  Intro- 
duces her  to  his  mother,  and  eventually  gives  her 
a  ring  and  other  handsome  pieces  of  Jewelry,  and 
proposing  to  her,  Is  accepted. 

Kelton  is  In  hard  luck.  The  cards  will  not  run 
right  for  him,  and  he  and  Stella  are  up  against  it. 
He  persuades  her  to  call  Richard  up  and  get  him 
to  come  to  her  and  then  to  get  all  the  money  she 
can  from  him.  She  does  this  and  he  promises  to 
come  at  once.  Stella  and  Kelton  clear  the  room 
of  cigarettes  and  carda  and  put  them  quickly  in 
the  inner  room. 

Richard  arrives  and  Kelton  hides  behind  the 
curtains.  Richard  listens  to  Stella's  tale  of  woe 
and  makes  out  a  check  to  her  for  a  large  amount. 
He  kisses  her  impulsively  and  starts  off.  He  re- 
members that  he  has  forgotten  his  check  book  and 
goes  back  for  It.  He  hears  and  sees  Kelton  and 
the  woman  he  thought  so  much  of  gloating  over 
his  simplicity,  and  in  mortification  and  anger  he 
tears  the  check  up  and  goes. 

Thoroughly  disillusioned,  he  goes  West  and  en- 
gages in  mining.  Years  pass  and  things  are  ad- 
Justing  themselves,  when  a  young  fellow,  Jim 
stumbles  upon  Richard's  cabin.  He  is  all  in! 
Richard  takes  him  In  and  attends  to  his  wants 
and  persuades  him  to  stay  with  him.  They  be- 
come great  friends  and  Richard  makes  him  a 
partner.  Some  months  go  by  and  Jim  continues 
to  write  to  that  little  girl  he  left  behind  him  and 
to  enjoy  the  society  of  his  friend. 

They  take  turns  in  going  to  town  for  provisions, 
and  one  day  Jim's  turn  comes  and  be  starts  off. 
Arriving  In  town,  he  Is  attracted  to  a  new 
gambling  house.  He  enters  and  sees  Stella  and 
Kelton,  who  are  running  It.  Stella  quickly  gets 
him  in  her  toils  and  her  new  victim  is  well  bled 
and  takes  the  opportunity  to  take  her  for  a  ride 
and   proposes  to  her. 

Richard,  who  Is  worried  about  the  lad,  follows 
him  to  town  and  sees  him  with  Stella.  He  follows 
them  to  the  gambling  house  and  when  the  game 
is  In  progress,  steps  In  and  denounces  the  couple 
Jim  goes  with  him.  thoroughly  broken  up  but 
youth-like,  he  soon  recovers.  Richard  persuades 
Jim  to  go  back  home  to  the  girl,  who  receives 
him  with  open'  arms.  The  gamblers  depart  for 
fields  anew  and  Robert  lights  his  pipe  and  takes 
it  all  like  a  philosopher— even  if  a  rather  sad 
philosopher. 

THE    KNIGHT    OF    HEH    DREAMS    (June    13) 

Evelyn  and  Eddie  are  lovers,  but  her  parents  have 
other  plans  for  her  and  refuse  to  consider  Eddie 
who  is  only  a  clerk  In  a  hardware  store  as  a 
possible  son-in-law.  They  make  all  arrangements 
for  Evelyn  to  wed  Si  Quibs.  a  prosperous  farmer 
Finding  Evelyn  obdurate,  her  parents  lock  her  in 
her  room  until  the  day  of  the  wedding.  Reading 
her  favorite  book,  Evelyn  falls  asleep  and  dreams 
she  is  back,  living  In  the  days  of  knights  and 
armor  and  such  things.  Eddie  Is,  of  course,  in 
her    dreams— a    gallant    kulgbt,     who    hews    down 


without   hesitation   all    the   guards  and  others   who 
attempt   to  stop  the  rescue  of  his  sweetheart. 

Evelyn  Is  awakened  by  being  called  to  make 
ready  for  her  wedding.  Eddie  tells  his  tale  of 
woe  to  a  sympathizing  friend,  and  together  they 
succeed  In  eloping  with  Evelyn.  Eddie  and  his 
sweetheart  find  the  minister  out,  but  his  wife 
hides  the  elopers  until  the  Irate  parent  and  SI 
drive  up  In  a  buggy.  When  Father  Brown  and  81 
drive  up  to  the  minister's  house  searching  for 
Evelyn,  she  and  Eddie  slip  from  the  side  of  the 
house  and  climb  hurriedly  into  the  buggy  and  are 
away  before  their  pursuers  can  overtake  them. 
They  meet  the  minister  returning  from  the  prayer 
meeting  and  a  hurried  but  nevertheless  very  bind- 
ing ceremony  is  performed. 


UNIVERSAL. 

ANIMATED  WEEKLY,  NO.  64  (May  28).— Bass- 
ball,  St.  Louis  vs.  Brooklyn,— The  Cardinals  and 
Dodgers  play  an  exciting  game  at  Ebbets  Field. 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.     "On  the  Outside  looking  In." 

The  Mystic  Shxiners  parade  at  Dallas,  Texas. 

Who' a  Who  in  the  Cabinet — Secretary  of  the  In- 
terior Lane,  receives  a  delegation  from  Congress. 
Speaker  Champ  Clark. 

Queen  Mary  of  England  receives  a  bouquet  from 
the  Lady  Mayoress  of  Woolwich. 

Rosillo's  World-Famed  Flight  from  Key  West, 
Florida,  to  Havana,  Cuba,  is  made  in  two  hours 
and    twenty-five  mlnntes. 

The  Wheels  of  Commerce,  A  non-Explosive  Can 

A  remarkable  demonstration — pouring  gasoline  Into 
lire  around  tanks  filled  with  gasoline. 

Corn  Belt  Athletic  Meet — A  number  of  events 
take  place  at  Springfield,   111. 

The  "Province" — The  greatest  French  super-dread- 
nought  is  launched  at  Lorient,   France. 

Races  at  Melbourne— This  classic  Australian  event 
is  won  by  "Balxac." 

Scotland  vs.  Walea — The  Lacrosse  Championship 
is  won  by  the  Scots  at  Corseth,  Scotland. 

A  Non-Sinkable  Lifeboat — Tests  msde  of  a  new 
life-saving  craft  under  government  Inspection — near 
Washington,  D.  C. 

What's  What  in  New  York,  The  Stock  Exchango, 
Broad  and  Wall  Streets. 

Lord  Mayor  of  London  opens  the  Half-Million 
Dollar  Groveland  Park. 

Who's  Who  in  Pictures — Jean  Acker. 

ECLAIR. 

WHEN  LIGHT  CAME  BACK  (2  parts,  June  11). 
— Sam  Scribner  is  caught  making  love  to  Muriel 
Hale,  by  her  father,  who  is  also  Sam's  employer. 
Sam  is  discharged.  The  lovera  prepare  to  elope, 
but  are  discovered  leaving  Muriel's  home  by  her 
father.  Mr.  Hale,  thinking  them  to  be  burglars, 
draws  his  pistol.  When  he  learns  that  it  is  Sam 
and  Muriel  he  throws  the  pistol  aside  and  grapples 
with  Sam.  The  pistol,  striking  the  floor,  dis- 
charges and  wounds  Mr.  Hale.  He  then  demands 
Muriel's  letters.  Sam  turns  over  his  wallet  and 
leaves.  In  the  wallet  is  some  money,  and  Mr. 
Hale  throws  the  wallet  and  the  money  after  him, 
but  Sam  does  not  stop  for  it. 

Two  tramps  And  the  money  and  flght  over  It. 
One  throws  the  other  over  an  embankment  to  his 
death.  Sam  boards  a  train,  determined  to  leave 
the  city.  The  train  Is  wrecked,  Sam  Is  injured 
and  loses  his  memory.  He  is  taken  to  a  hospital 
and  regarded  as  Insane.  Meanwhile,  Mr.  Hale  dis- 
charges one  of  his  servants.  The  body  of  the 
dead  tramp  is  found  and  identified  by  the  wallet 
found  on  him  as  Sam  Scribner.  The  discharged 
servant  informs  the  police  that  Scrlbner's  suit-case 
can  be  found  bidden  under  a  couch  in  Hale's  home. 
Hale  Is  tried  and  sentenced  to  die  for  the  murder 
of  Scribner.  Sam,  In  the  hospital,  reads  a  news 
account  of  Mr.  Hale's  approaching  execution.  His 
memory  returns  and  he  endeavors  to  leave  the 
hospital  on  the  Instant.  The  guards  Interrupt 
him  and  he  gives  them  a  desperate  battle.  With- 
out money  be  has  a  difficult  Journey,  begging  and 
stealing  rides  on  motor  cars.  He  arrives  at  the 
governor's  office  and  flnds  Muriel  there  pleading 
for  her  father.  The  governor  tries  to  get  the 
death-house  by  telephone,  but  falls.  The  con- 
demned  man  is  about  to  be  placed  lu  the  electric 
chair.  The  governor  calls  a  motor  and  the  three 
hasten  to  the  prison,  arriving  Just  In  time  to  save 
Mr.  Hale's  life.  Mr.  Hale,  In  gratitude,  places  his 
daughter's  hand  in  Sam's  and  takes  the  young  man 
back   into  bis  employ. 


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TION. 

AMERICAN. 

CALIFORNIA  POULTRY  (June  9).— fThe  picture 
opens  with  some  views  of  model  housing,  shows 
Incubator  eggs  three  days  from  hatching,  chickens 
one  day  old  with  some  splendid  views  of  California's 
largest  hatchery,  having  a  capacity  of  165,000 
chickens.  The  process  of  feeding  and  a  group  of 
2,000  expensive  white  leghorns  make  interesting  dl. 


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Saturday,  May  31st 


"THE  MASTER  CRACKSMAN" 


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A  Thrilling  Picture  Dramatization  of  the  Sensational 
Story  by  Stephen  Allen  Reynolds. 

HIGH    CLASS   ARTISTIC   ONE,   THREE   AND 
SIX-SHEET    POSTERS 


Monday,  June  2nd 
IRVING    CUMMINGS    IN    HIS    OWN    DRAMA 

"ITALIAN    LOVE" 

A   POWERFUL   PORTRAYAL   OF    LIFE    IN    NEW   YORK'S  "LITTLE  ITALY" 

Wednesday,  June  4th 

"FAITHFUL   SHEP" 

WITH    LITTLE   RUNA    HODGES    AND    THE   BEAUTIFUL   ACTING    DOG 

Saturday,  June  7th 

"THE    MADCAP    OF   THE    HILLS" 

A  FASCINATING  LOVE  DRAMA  OF  THE  BLUE  RIDGE  MOUNTAINS  OF  VIRGINIA 

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RELIANCE. 


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This  Week 


3  REELS 


The  KENTUCKY  FEUD 


With 


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MARTHA   RUSSELL 

A  Dramatic  Story  of  Family  Warfare 

Next  Week 


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versions.  A  number  of  leghorns  all  of  winch  have 
have  world  prises  are  included.  All  this  occurs 
in  the  famous  Petaluma  district. 

The  scene  of  action  now  switches  to  the  Pasadena 
district,  long  noted  for  its  tremendous  chicken  facili- 
ties. This  district  caters  to  Los  Angeles  and  vi- 
cinity and  makes  enormous  shipments  eastward. 
The  Anthony  poultry  plant  is  a  model  of  its  kind. 
Here  we  find  the  finest  specimens  extant,  including 
barred  Plymouth  rocks,  buff  orphingtons,  partridge 
wyandottes,  white  wyandottes,  buff  wyandottes, 
white  Plymouth  rocks,  black  minorcas,  Rhode  Is- 
land Reds,  Light  Brabmas,  black  Langsbans,  and 
many  others.  Other  fowl  comes  in  for  consideration, 
too,  and  some  delightful  pictures  were  obtained  of 
White  Muscovy  ducks,  Burt's  White  Mammoth  Pekin 
ducks,  Mammoth  Bronze  turkeys,  a  prise-winning 
Golden  pheasant,  Chinese,  Golden  and  Ring  Neck 
pheasants,  some  varieties  of  Brahma  cockerels  and 
a  numberless  variety  of  other  fowl.  The  picture 
winds  up  with  "The  Uultimate  Consumer,"  two 
very  happy  darkies  making  the  most  of  a  fried 
chicken. 

HEARTS  AND  HORSES  (June  12).— Bessie  re- 
ceived a  note  from  Uncle  Dan  along  with  a  pony 
and  was  more  than  delighted  with  the  handsome 
gift.  Her  sweetheart,  Bill  Walters,  grew  quite 
peeved  at  the  way  in  which  Bessie  forgot  him  for 
her  horse. 

Some  days  later  Bessie's  father,  the  sheriff,  re- 
ceived a  note  that  horse  thieves  were  operating 
in  his  vicinity.  He  notified  Bessie  ro  watch  care- 
fully over  her  new  pony  and  Bessie  alert  to  the 
possibility,  promptly  rode  to  town  to  obtain  a  strong 
lock  for  the  barn.  She  returned  and  handed  it  to 
Bill,  asking  him  to  attach  it.  But  Bessie  had  been 
overseen  by  the  horse  thieves,  who  promptly  laid 
plans  to  capture  the  horse.  Bill,  receiving  the  lock 
from  Bessie,  tucked  it  in  his  pocket  and  went  into 
the  corral  to  brood  over  her  lack  of  interest  in 
him.  That  night  Bessie's  horse  was  stolen.  Bill, 
conscience-stricken,  went  to  her  father  the  sheriff 
and  at  his  request  was  made  a  deputy.  Then  Bill 
started  for  the  border. 

The  following  day  he  crossed  into  Mexico  and 
was  present  at  a  horse  sale.  He  recognized  Bessie's 
horse  and  bought  it,  tendering  a  check  in  payment. 
This  the  bandit  refused  to  cash.  Then  Bill,  having 
arranged  with  the  local  sheriff  to  have  a  strong  posse 
on  the  American  side  of  the  border,  asked  him 
(the  bandit)  to  come  across  to  the  American  bank 
where  he  would  cash  the  check.  This  the  bandit 
agreed  to  do.  On  the  American  side,  Bill  pulled 
bis  gun  and  a  bandit  was  caught — but  only  for  Just 
one  moment.  The  secret  band  of  thieves,  lying 
close  by,  rushed  upon  the  American.  A  fast  fight 
and  a  long  chase  followed  before  the  thieves  were 
finally  rounded  up. 

THE  REWARD  OF  COURAGE  (June  14).— Henry 
sat  about  the  country  club  golf  grounds  and  mooned 
with  himself  over  a  bad  ankle.  When  Grace  Wallace 
and  her  mother  arrived,  he  was  chagrined  to  note 
that  Grace  readily  went  off  with  Jim  Wilde,  whom 
Henry  detested.  Henry  couldn't  dance,  but  could 
Bit  so  as  to  see  Jim  dance  with  her.  In  despera- 
tion, he  finally  asked  her  to  go  motoring  with  him. 
Grace  gladly  consented,  Jim  overheard  and  going 
ahead  to  the  garage,  destroyed  Henry's  carbureter. 
Henry  caught  him,  just  as  he  was  leaving  and  a 
wrangle  occurred.  Later,  Jim  asked  Grace  to  go  canoe- 
ing with  him  and  Grace,  peeved  at  Henry's  delay, 
consented.  Just  as  they  were  stepping  in  the  canoe,  a 
messenger  arrived  with  a  telegram.  Jim  read  it, 
frowned  and  tore  it  in  half,  tossing  the  pieces  aside. 
It  read  '  'Come  home  or  send  money  immediately. 
Tour  wife  and  child  both  very  ill.     Dr.  Debblns." 

An  hour  later,  Henry  hobbled  down  to  the  beach 
and  found  a  portion  of  the  telegram.  He  carefully 
tucked  it  away  and  after  a  hunt,  found  the  other 
piece.  Some  time  after  that,  moodily  strolling  along 
the  beach,  he  saw  Jim  attempt  to  kiss  Grace.  Over 
went  the  canoe  and  in  the  struggle  that  followed, 
Jim  repeatedly  pushed  Grace  under  the  water  that 
he  might  be  saved.  Forgetting  his  ankle,  Henry 
sprang  into  the  surf,  rescued  Grace  and  brought  her 
safely  to  shore.  He  put  her  into  Jim's  car  and  at 
once  they  motored  away,  leaving  a  shivering  and 
disconsolate  would-be  lover  howling  after  them  on 
the  beach  and  threatening  suit  for  running  away 
with  hie  car. 

Two  days  later  Henry  called.  Leaving  Grace  for 
a  moment  she  affectionately  put  his  coat  to  her  lips 
when  out  fell  a  part  of  the  telegram  reading  "your 
wife  and  child  very  ill,  etc."  Bessie  cried  for  an 
hour.  When  Henry  returned,  he  learned  the  cause 
and  quickly  discovered  the  other  part  of  the  en- 
velope  containing   the   address   of  James   Wilde. 


MUTUAL   WEEKLY 

MUTUAL  WEERXY,  NO.  21  (May  21).— New 
York  City. — 8,000  girls  dance  in  Central  Park. 

Amesville,  La. — Big  oil  tanks  afire.  The  town 
threatened. 

Chicago,  111. — Effect  of  the  new  ordinance  compell- 
ing the  automobiles  to  park  In  the  center  of  Michi- 
gan Boulevard. 

Rio  de  Janeiro. — Entire  pier  submerged  by  a 
giant  tidal  wave. 

Williamsport,  Pa. — Egg  rolling  party  organized  by 
Boy  Scouts. 

Fraunstein,  Bavaria. — The  annual  spring  parade  is 
held  despite  a  heavy  snow  storm. 

Brenham,  Texas. — Capt.  J.  H.  Warden,  the  only 
American    aviator    who    has    ever    participated    in 


actual  warfare,  makes  a  sensational  flight  at  the 
May  festival. 

Washington,  D.  C. — Secretary  of  War  Garrison  re- 
viewing the  High  School  Cadets. 

The  Fashion  in  Berlin  and  New  York. 

New  York  City. — The  Evening  Mail  modified  mara- 
thon race. 

Champoeg'  Ore. — Old  settlers  and  their  children 
celebrating  the  70th  anniversary  of  civil  government 
of  the  Pacific  Northwest. 

Bartlesville,  Okla. — The  Eagles  parade. 

Washington,  D.  C. — Opening  day  of  the  Horse 
Show. 

Baltimore,  Md. — Three  big  buildings  completely 
destroyed  by  fire. 

New  York  City, — Mayor  Gaynor  is  present  at  the 
unveiling  of  the  monument  to  Carl   Schurz. 

Capt.   Mosquito — The   spring  muskekeer. 


MUTUAL   EDUCATIONAL. 

PETRONILLA  WINS  THE  GREAT  STEEPLE- 
CHASE (May  22).— When  Petronllla  finds  her  hus- 
band has  been  thrown  in  the  great  race,  she  refuses 
to  give  up  and  mounts  the  "favorite"  herself,  de- 
spite her  rotund  build,  which  allows  her  to  tip  the 
beam  at  well  over  two  hundred  pounds.  It  Is  a 
great  race,  with  many  obstacles,  and  there  are 
dozens  of  screamingly  fanny  situations.  Petronilla 
sticks  to  the  saddle,  however,  and  finally  she  does 
come  through  a  winner. 

RIVERS  OF  INDO-CHINA  (May  22).— In  this 
travelogue  subject,  we  have  glimpses  of  the  Far 
Orient.  The  very  peculiar  boats  of  China  are  shown, 
as  well  as  the  methods  of  handling  freight,  to  and 
from  the  shore. 

GONTRAN,  APOSTLE  OF  PEACE  (May  29).— 
Gontran  believed  in  peace.  In  fact,  he  so  strongly 
believed  in  it  that  he  wanted  to  go  out  and  make 
public  speeches  on  the  subject.  When  he  made  his 
first  appearance  as  the  "friend  of  man,"  he  proved 
his  sincerity  by  giving  most  of  his  belongings,  such 
as  watch,  shoes,  etc.,  to  the  various  members  of 
the  crowd  about.  But  before  the  meeting  was  over, 
there  was  a  small  riot,  and  the  result  was  that  our 
friend,  Gontran,  found  himself  buried  under  the 
debris  of  the  broken  platform,  chairs,  etc.  It  was 
a  great  mixup  and  a  decided  proof  that  all  the 
people  do  not  believe  in  peace.  When  Gontran 
finally  reached  his  home,  he  decided  that  after  all, 
what  he  would  enjoy  more  than  anything  else,  would 
-be  the  peace  and  quiet  of  his  own  fireside.  He  made 
up  his  mind  to  allow  the  rest  of  the  world  to  take 
care  of  itself. 

GLIMPSES  OF  HAWAII  (May  29).— This  very  In- 
teresting travelogue  gives  us  some  unusual  and 
entertaining  views  in  this  island  possession  of  Uncle 
Sam.  We  are  shown  through  the  city,  glimpses  are 
given  of  the  big  plantations  which  make  the  islands 
very  valuable  and  various  native  types  are  studied 
at  close  range. 

WILLY  AND  THE  CAPTAIN'S  HORSE  (June  6). 
—Laura  is  pretty.  She  is  also  impatient.  At  her 
window^  she  glanced  up  and  down  the  street  to 
see  if  her  handsome  captain  who  was  to  take  her 
for  a  horse-back  ride  could  be  seen.  The  chil- 
dren, playing  in  the  street,  noticed  her  impatience, 
and  being  well  aware  of  the  cause  of  it,  they  de- 
cided to  play  a  good  joke  on  her.  The  captain 
finally  arrrived  with  the  horses,  and  leaving  a  boy 
In  charge  of  them,  entered  the  house.  While  the 
captain  was  busy  loving  and  caressing  the  young 
lady  within,  the  boys  on  the  outside  were  not  idle, 
and  Willy,  the  leader  of  the  mischievous  band, 
dog  tup  a  very  clever  idea.  Seeing  that  the  boy 
left  to  mind  the  horses  had  fallen  asleep,  Willy 
proceeded  to  replace  the  captain's  horses  with 
two  wooden  ones.  Soon  the  young  lady  came  out 
in  her  riding  habit  prepared  to  take  a  nice  ride. 
Picture  her  amazement  at  seeing  two  dummy  horses 
instead  of  the  thoroughbreds  she  expected.  She 
turned  furiously  upon  the  captain,  suspecting  him 
of  playing  the  trick  on  her,  and  administered  a 
good  beating,  driving  him  from  her  presence.  Willy 
and  the  other  children  had  a  good  laugh  on  the 
side. 

A  CHILD'S  DAY  (June  5). — When  Lily  was 
three  she  was  certainly  a  sweet  baby.  She  plainly 
showed  her  appreciation  for  the  Innocent  joys 
which  have  been  afforded  her  since  her  sojourn 
Into  this  world.  Awaking,  there  was  an  angelical 
smile  on  her  pretty  little  face.  Leaving  her  bed 
the  lovely  child,  happily  took  her  morning  bath, 
and  never  losing  an  opportunity  for  amusement 
proceeded  to  organize  a  bunting  and  fishing  party 
in  her  tub.  It  was  now  time  to  dress,  so  Lily 
donned  her  Immaculate  little  garments,  and  went 
into  the  garden  and  gathered  some  of  the  beautiful 
flowers  that  grew  there,  afterwards  arranging  them 
artistically  in  beautiful  vases.  Having  been  oc- 
cupied all  day,  our  dainty  little  lady  decided  to 
prepare  a  copious  lunch  with  which  to  build  that 
hearty  little  body  and  prepare  for  more  of  her 
varied  labors.  At  twilight,  Lily,  like  the  little 
birds,  returned  to  her  nest,  and  having  prayed  to 
Him,  imploring  His  guardianship  over  her,  she  fell 
asleep. 

GONTRAN,  A  SNAKE  CHARMER  (June  12).— 
Poor  Gontran!  Maltreated  by  his  wife  and  worried 
sick  by  an  Irascible  mother-in-law,  he  led  a  very 
miserable  existence.  Happening  to  see  a  yonng 
lady  charming   a  serpent  by   the  aid  of  the   sweet 


strains  of  a  flute,  a  bright  idea  entered  his  mind. 
If  "music"  charms  serpents,  why  wouldn't  it  tame 
his  mother-in-law?  Inquiring  of  the  young  snake- 
charmer  what  method  she  employed  to  tame  her 
serpent,  and  what  melody  she  used,  he  went  forth 
and  purchased  an  enormous  musical  instrument. 
The  experiment  proved  a  grand  success  and  at  the 
conclusion  of  our  story,  the  former  nagging  wife 
and  the  ferocious  mother-in-law  were  completely 
subdued  and  Gontran  reigned  once  more  as  master 
of  his  home. 

GATHERING  AND  PREPARATION  OF  TEA  IN 
INDO-CHINA  (June  12). — The  leaves  are  gathered 
four  times  a  year,  the  tea  prepared  from  the  first 
or  Spring  gathering  being  the  most  delicate  In 
color  and  flavor.  The  leaves  are  heated  in  drying 
pans,  then  rolled  by  hand  on  a  wooden  table,  and 
at  the  end  of  three  or  four  hours  they  are  tossed 
about  and  beaten  by  the  hand  until  they  become 
soft.  The  two  classes  of  tea.  green  and  black, 
are  each  subdivided  into  a  variety  of  kinds,  known 
in   commerce   by    particular   names. 


MAJESTIC. 

THE  FRATERNITY  PIN  (June  1).— The  presi- 
dent of  the  fraternity  in  the  girls'  college  was 
very  pretty,  and  her  family  was  rich,  but  the 
reason  why  she  was  the  most  popular  girl  in  col- 
lege was  not  the  possession  of  wealth  or  good  looks, 
but  because  she  was  instinctively  the  protector  of 
the  friendless. 

There  was  one  shy  little  country  girl  who  re- 
garded the  college  Idol  with  mingled  awe  and  ad- 
miration. She  was  timid  and  retiring,  and  her  lot 
in  college  would  have  been  a  very  lonely  one  if  the 
fraternity's  president  had  not  taken  pity  on  her. 
A  firm  friendship  sprang  up  between  the  two.  The 
college  leader  helped  her  protege  with  her  studies 
and  even  was  instrumental  in  securing  the  girl's 
election   to  the  fraternity. 

The  country  girl  left  college  ami  married  a 
rich  man,  who  died  a  few  years  later,  leaving  her 
independently  wealthy.  The  widow  had  many  hand- 
some jewels,  but  the  one  she  prized  most  was  a 
little  gold  pin,  the  emblem  of  her  membership  in 
the  college  fraternity.  The  pin  was  missing  one 
day  and  the  widow,  thinking  that  she  might  have 
lost  it  In  the  street,  telephoned  to  the  police.  Soon 
word  came  that  the  pin  had  been  found  and  she 
hastened  to  the  police  station  to  claim  It. 

The  lost  pin  was  not  hers,  but  it  was  the  emblem 
of  the  same  college  fraternity.  The  woman  who 
had  been  arrested  when  she  attempted  to  pawn  It, 
stood  nearby  In  the  custody  of  a  policeman,  ber 
face  averted.  The  widow,  anxious  to  know  who 
the  owner  of  the  pin  could  be,  stepped  forward  and 
gazed  into  the  prisoner's  face.  Their  eyes  met 
and  the  wealthy  woman  recognized  in  the  unfortu- 
nate the  college  favorite  of  years  gone  by,  the 
fraternity  president  who  had  been  her  friend.  Mis- 
fortune had  come  upon  her,  her  parents  and  fortune 
had  been  swept  away,  and  she  had  failed  in  the 
battle  of  life. 

The  ragged  woman  and  the  lady  of  fashion  left 
the  station  together,  and  the  "most  popular  girl  in 
college"  found  a  home  and  loving  care  with  her 
former  protege.  She  was  proud  and  did  not  want 
to  accept  any  favors,  but  her  protests  were  silenced 
by  a  loving  kiss  from  her  benefactress  and  a  re- 
minder that  they  were  both  sisters  of  the  same 
fraternity  and  sworn  to  aid  one  another.  And  so 
the  friendship  which  had  begun  in  college  ripened 
In  after  years  into  lasting  love. 

THE  QUEEN  OF  THE  SEA  NYMPHS  (June  3>.— 
The  young  guest  of  the  summer  hotel  decided  that 
it  would  be  easy  to  acquire  a  reputation  as  a  hero. 
He  did  it  through  the  aid  of  a  poverty-stricken 
newspaper  man  who  agreed  to  act  as  bis  press 
agent.  In  this  way  he  became  famous  as  a  life- 
saver  when  the  fact  was,  that  he  could  hardly 
swim  at  all. 

His  ruse  was  so  successful  that  all  the  young 
women  admired  him.  Among  them  was  a  girl 
admired  by  a  young  college  boy,  who  resented  bis 
boastful  rival.  And  be  vanquished  him,  too,  through 
the  aid  of  "The  Queen  of  the  Sea  Nymphs." 

Did  you  ever  hear  of  this  fairy  creature?  She 
demonstrated  that  the  "hero"  was  very  much  over- 
rated, as  a  life-saver,  and  made  blm  such  an  object 
of  mirth  that  he  was  driven  from  the  hotel,  leaving 
the  field  clear  to  the  college  boy. 

When  you  see  "The  Queen  of  the  Sea  Hympbs, 
you  will  at  once  realize  why  it  Is  a  laughable  dis- 
grace to  be  beaten  in   a  water  race  with  her,  even 
though  one  is  not  a  life-saver. 


THANHOUSER. 

A  VICTIM  OF  CTXCUMSTANCES  (Jons  1).— He 
was  a  model  of  correctness  and  propriety,  and  when 
Ills  daughter  told  him  that  she  wanted  to  marry  a 
young  reporter,  he  at  first  refused  his  consent. 
Later  he  relented,  but  it  must  be  admitted  that  he 
still  had  forebodings.  They  were  fulfilled  one  day, 
for  his  son-in-law-to-be  became,  as  he  regarded  it, 
notorious.  The  young  man  endeavored  to  lnter- 
Tiow  one  of  the  city's  financial  lights,  was  arrested 
for  attempting  to  take  the  great  man's  portrait, 
and  rlyal  reporters  wrote  it  up  as  a  great  joke. 
His  explanations  that  he  bad  been  immediately  set 
free  were  lost  upon  the  prim  old  man,  who  de- 
clared that  technically  he  was  a  Jail  bird,  and  that 
there  was  absolutely  no  excuse  for  any  person  to 
fall  Into  the  hands  of  the  police. 


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One  morning  a  few  days  later,  tbe  stern  parent 
went  ont  for  a  stroll.  Around  tbe  corner  galloped 
an  excited  individual,  who  throat  a  watcb  and  chain 
In  his  band  and  then  rushed  off.  Tbe  recipient  start- 
I  ed  after  him,  and  the  next  moment  was  pounced 
upon  by  several  men  who  declared  he  was  a  daring 
pickpocket,  who  bad  been  plying  his  trade  on  the 
streetcar.  Explanations  were  laughed  at,  and  the 
respected  householder  was  marched  to  the  station. 
There  he  was  photographed  for  the  Rogues'  Gallery, 
Inspected  by  masked  detectives,  and  underwent  all 
the  trials  and  privations  of  tbe  tblrd  degree.  Fortu- 
nately for  him  the  reporter  dropped  into  the  station, 
and  curiosity  lead  him  to  request  an  interview  with 
"the  daring  pickpocket.*'  The  meeting  was  a  shock 
to  both  of  them,  but  the  prisoner  speedily  found 
the  advantage  of  having  a  newspaper  man  in  his 
family.  His  explanations  were  listened  to,  the 
real  criminal  was  speedily  captured  and  the  respect- 
able citizen  set  at  liberty  with  profuse  apologies. 
He  bad  learned  bis  lesson,  however,  and  withdrew 
all  opposition  to  his  daughter's  marriage,  telling 
the  young  couple  that  he  now  knew  that  even  the 
most  Innocent  man  may  be  a  victim  of  circum- 
stances. 

THE  RUNAWAY  (June  3). — The  average  young- 
ster, who  lives  In  a  comfortable  borne  with  a 
father  and  mother  ready  to  gratify  every  wish, 
is  far  differently  situated  from  little  boys  whose 
home  Is  an  orphan  asylum,  where  they  are  cared 
for  with  scores  of  others,  and  are  promptly  dis- 
ciplined for  any  infraction  of  the  rules. 

The  authorities  of  some  institutions  are  very 
kind  to  their  yonng  charges,  but  tbe  superintend- 
ent of  a  certain  little  country  orphanage  was  a 
very  penurious  man,  and  the  children  confided  to 
bis  care  were  badly  cared  for  and  frequently  pun- 
ished when  they  did  not  deserve  it.  One  of  the 
children,  a  manly  little  boy,  resented  tbe  barsb 
treatment  he  received  and  escaped  from  tbe  asy- 
lum. A  traveling  peddler  took  a  liking  to  the 
child  and  the  boy  became  his  companion  on  bis 
wanderings. 

The  boy  was  the  grandson  of  a  wealthy  farmer, 
his  mother  having  made  an  unfortunate  marriage 
and  left  her  parents'  roof  many  years  before.  Soon 
after  the  child  disappeared  from  the  asylum,  tbe 
grandparents  received  word  that  their  daughter, 
from  whom  they  had  never  heard,  had  died  and 
that  her  little  son  was  In  the  country  asylum.  The 
grandparents  hastened  to  the  asylum,  warmly 
thanked  the  superintendent  for  bis  care  of  tbe 
child  and  told  him  tbat  they  Intended  to  reward 
him  handsomely  for  the  care  of  their  grandson. 
The  superintendent  was  avaricious.  He  knew  that 
the  old  couple  bad  never  seen  the  boy,  so  he 
brought  another  of  his  little  charges  to  them  and 
persuaded  the  grandparents  that  be  was  their 
daughter's  son.  The  rejoicing  couple  took  the 
hoy  to  their  home. 

One  day,  the  little  "grandson"  strayed  away 
from  the  farmhouse  and  started  to  investigate  the 
well.  He  leaned  over  too  far  and  fell  in.  The 
child  undoubtedly  would  have  been  drowned  If  a 
boy  who  was  driving  by  on  a  peddler's  wagon  had 
not  come  to  the  rescue.  He  dropped  down  the 
well,  lifted  the  dripping  little  boy  from  the  water, 
and  tbe  farmer,  wbo  had  arrived  on  the  scene, 
turned  the  windlass  until  both  children  were  drawn 
up  to  safety.  The  amaxement  and  the  Joy  of  the 
grandparents  was  great  when  they  found  tbat  the 
manly  little  stranger  was  their  own  grandchild. 
As  for  the  other  little  fellow,  they  had  learned 
to  care  for  him  so  much  that  he  became  the  other 
boy's  little  brother.  Both  boys  lived  happily  on 
the  farm  and  soon  forgot  tbat  tbey  had  ever  been 
Inmates  of  an  asylum. 

TEE  CAGED  BIRD  (June  6) . — The  beautiful 
young  princess  was  weary  of  the  formality  and 
ceremony  that  encompassed  her.  She  had  read 
many  books  and  from  tbem  bad  gained  the  idea 
that  she  would  be  far  happier  as  a  simple  peasant 
than  as  the  daughter  of  a  king.  Even  when  it 
came  to  her  marriage,  she  sadly  reflected,  there 
waa  no  romance,  for  her  father  had  arbitrarily 
contracted  an  alliance  for  her  with  a  neighboring 
prince. 

The  princess  was  taking  her  drive  one  day  and 
waa  sadder  than  ever.  She  saw  a  wedding  pro- 
cession issue  from  a  neighboring  cottage,  and  pity- 
ingly watched  the  mother  of  the  bride,  as  she 
turned  Into  her  lonely  bouse.  In  a  field  the  prin- 
cess noticed  a  young  farmer,  and  she  thought 
that  tbe  romance  which  had  been  denied  her  might 
come  Into  her  life.  By  the  time  she  had  re- 
turned to  the  castle  she  was  pitying  herself  ex- 
ceedingly, and  bad  decided  to  be  a  caged  bird 
no  longer. 

The  princess  secured  a  peasant's  gown,  and, 
well  supplied  with  money,  stole  away  from  the  pal- 
ace, as  she  thought,  forever.  Before  going  she 
opened  tbe  cage  of  her  pet  canary  and  watched 
him   fly  away  happy  at  bis  new   found  liberty. 

In  tbe  life  outside  the  castle  tbe  princess  found 
she  was  handicapped  by  her  Ignorance.  She  gave 
alms  to  a  crippled  man,  and  he  scandalized  tbe 
community  by  spending  It  In  riotous  living.  She 
met  the  young  farmer  and  he  horrified  her  by 
roughly  kissing  her.  (She  procured  a  home  with  the 
mother  of  tbe  bride  and  her  money  was  stolen  by 
tbat  depraved  old  woman.  Disillusioned,  the  princess 
returned  to  her  castle.  Just  outside  Its  gates  she 
came  upon  tbe  little  bird  she  bad  set  at  liberty. 
It,  too,  had  found  Itself  unfitted  for  an  adven- 
turous life.  Strange,  fierce  birds  bod  attacked  It, 
and  the  little  canary  was  feebly  trying  to  return 
to   the  castle,    when   Its  mistress  came   along. 


The  bird  was  glad  to  be  placed  in  Its  gilded 
cage  again.  The  princess  was  glad  to  return  to 
her  old  life,  marry  the  prince,  wbo  was  really  a 
very  decent  young  chap,  and  retain  the  place  which 
her  birth  and  breeding  entitled  her  to  fill. 


clares    bis    love    for   her.     And   Tess    now    willingly 
accepts  the  man  who  has  so  truly  loved  her. 


RELIANCE. 

ITALIAN  LOVE  (June  2).— Rosa,  tbe  belle  of 
Little  Italy,  is  beloved  by  Luigl,  a  bootblack.  But 
her  heart  Is  with  Antonio,  in  Italy,  to  whom  she 
sends  enough  money  to  bring:  him  to  America. 
When  Antonio  comes,  Instead  of  being  faithful 
to  Rosa,  he  spends  most  of  his  time  in  the  wine 
shops  of  tbe  quarter.  One  day  Rosa  finds  him 
flirting  with  another  girl.  This  so  angers  her  that 
she  turns  on  him  and  refuses  to  have  anything 
more  to  do  with  him. 

He  comes  to  explain,  but  she  will  not  relent. 
Seeing  Lulgi's  faithfulness,  she  accepts  him.  They 
ere  married  and  live  happily  for  a  time.  Then 
one  day,  Rosa  loses  a  locket  bearing  her  picture, 
and  Antonio  finds  It.  In  a  wine  shop  he  shows  it 
to  Luigl,  claiming  Rosa  gave  It  to  him.  There  Is 
a  quarrel  and  arrangements  are  made  for  a  duel. 
Rosa  hears  of  this,  and,  with  her  father  and  a 
policeman,  arrives  In  time  to  prevent  the  fight. 
As  Luigl  turns  to  Rosa,  Antonio  makes  a  lunge 
at  him,  but  Rosa  throws  herself  in  front  of  her 
husband,  receiving  the  knife  thrust  Into  her  arm. 
Antonio  Is  taken  into  custody  and  Luigl  attends  to 
his  wife,  who  isn't  so  very  badly  hurt.  Her  ex- 
planation about  tbe  locket  wipes  out  the  faintest 
suspicion  from  his  heart  and  all  Is  peace  again. 

FAITHFUL  SHEP  (June  4). — When  Runa's  big 
sister  marries,  she  takes  the  little  girl  with  her 
to  tbe  new  borne.  Things  go  on  smoothly  for  a 
time,  bnt  later,  big  sister  and  her  husband  are 
entertaining  a  great  deal,  and  give  a  great  many 
parties,  and  so,  In  consequence,  haven't  much  time 
for  Runa,  who,  left  to  the  maid's  care,  feels 
rather   neglected. 

One  day  she  runs  away  and  is  lost  in  the 
woods.  Sbep  her  faithful  pet,  follows  and  finds 
her  unable  to  get  up,  as  she  has  sprained  her 
ankle.  He  hurries  home,  and  although  he  barks 
loudly,  no  one  heeds  him — for  all  are  out  searching 
for  the  lost  child.  He  manages  to  get  into  tbe 
harness  of  his  little  cart  and  drags  It  out  to  tbe 
child.  She  lifts  herself  Into  It  and  Shep  takes 
her   home. 

That  night,  when  dog  and  child  kneel  down  to 
say  their  prayers,  big  sister  is  there  to  hear  them 
and  to  assure  the  little  girl  that  she  Is  not  in  the 
way,  but  a  very  necessary  part  of  the  little  house- 
hold. 

THE  MADCAP  OF  THE  HILLS  (June  7).— Tess 
and  Nell  live  with  their  father  in  a  little  cabin  In 
the  hllla.  Phil  Carey,  a  mountaineer,  is  in  love 
with  Tess,  who  returns  his  affection,  but  delights 
In  teasing  him.  Kingston  Ford,  a  handsome 
stranger,  comes  to  the  hills  to  bunt,  and  over- 
taken by  a  storm  in  the  woods,  asks  shelter  at  the 
cabin.  Tess  immediately  loses  her  heart  to  the 
stranger,  and  he,  tempted  with  the  chance  of 
flirtation  with  a  pretty  girl,  makes  ardent  love  to 
her.  She  believes  bis  intentions  to  be  honest  and 
neglects  Phil,  her  true  sweetheart.  But  the  sweet, 
serious  face  of  Nell,  the  elder  sister,  attracts  his 
fickle  fancy  also,  and,  one  day,  finding  her  asleep 
in  a  leafy  bower,  he  plays  the  part  of  Prince 
Charming  and  stoops  over  and  kisses  her.  Nell 
is  fascinated  by  bis  manner,  and  allows  him  to 
caress  her.  Tess  happens  upon  the  tryst  and  la 
heart-broken  at  his  perfidy.  Tbe  lover,  happening 
along,  also  sees  tbe  two  together,  and  In  a  rage, 
confronts  the  stranger,  accusing  him  of  abusing 
the  girl's  hospitality  in  a  despicable  way.  He 
raises  his  gun  to  shoot,  but  tbe  agile  young  East- 
erner quickly  disarms  him  and  he  is  hurled  to  the 
ground,  his  head  hitting  a  sharp  rock.  He  Is 
unconscious.  Believing  him  dead,  Ford  becomes 
terrified,  and  while  Nell  goes  for  help,  he  flees  to 
the  woods.  At  the  cabin  he  comes  upon  Tess  weep- 
ing. Terrified  at  his  own  danger,  he  gives  no 
thought  to  her  tears,  tout  gives  her  an  account  of 
the  quarrel  and  then  asks  her  to  save  him.  In  the 
meantime,  Nell  finds  the  sheriff  and  her  father  and 
they  start  out  to  find  Ford.  They  first  restore  Phil 
to  consciousness  and  then  in  rage  go  after  the 
stranger.  Tess  at  first  refuses  to  help  him,  bnt  the 
sight  of  the  approaching  posse  and  her  lover's  plight 
soften  her  and  she  hides  him.  When  the  men  arrive 
she  acts  In  an  unconcerned  manner,  and  feigns  sur- 
prise at  the  news  of  Phil's  being  wounded.  They 
ask  her  whether  she  has  seen  Ford  and  she  says  no. 
Tbey  depart.  Tess  then  liberates  her  lover,  and 
when  he  tries  to  embrace  her,  she  bids  blm  go, 
having  given  him  some  of  her  father's  clothes  In 
which  to  escape.  He  changes  them  under  a  tree  in 
the  woods.  A  few  weeks  later,  Tess  comes  upon 
them,  and  taking  them  up,  she  accidentally  drops 
a  letter  out  from  his  coat  and  her  curiosity  over- 
coming her,  she  picks  it  up  and  reads  It.  It  Is  a 
letter  from  another  girl,  begging  him  to  return  to 
her.  She  then  realizes  the  baseness  of  the  man, 
and,  thoroughly  disgusted  at  the  thought  of  him, 
she  takes  tbe  clothes  and  walks  to  tbe  stream  to 
throw  them  Into  tbe  water.  Phil,  now  entirely  re- 
covered from  his  wound,  bad  followed  her  and  has 
seen  all  that  has  happened.  He  thinks  she  has 
gone  to  the  water  to  end  it  all,  and  rushes  after 
her  to  save  her.  He  begs  her  not  to  take  her  life, 
and  she  laughingly  reassures  him  that  she  hadn't 
Intended  to  do  anything  of  the  sort.  Phil's  love 
overcoming    htm,    be    cannot    resist,    and    again    de- 


BRONCHO. 

AN  INDIAN'S  GRATITUDE  (June  11).— J The 
Sioux  Indian  chief  and  bis  daughter,  Starlight, 
trick  the  Cheyenne  brave  Into  believing  tbat  Star- 
light will  marry  blm,  and  her  father  gets  a  herd 
of  ponies.  Protesting  against  the  Injustice,  Swift- 
wind  is  attacked  by  the  Sioux,  and  thrown  over 
a  precipice,  but  Is  saved  from  death  by  the  ar- 
rival of  Lieut.  Randall,  wbo  carries  the  Indian  to 
the   fort  and   sees  that  he  is  restored  to  health. 

Swlf twind  is  very  grateful.  Later,  his  tribe  at- 
tacks the  Sioux,  and  annihilate  them  in  a  thrill- 
ing band  to  hand  fight.  Intoxicated  with  their 
success,  the  Indians  attack  a  stage  coach,  in  which 
is  Lieut.  Randall's  fiancee,  coming  from  the  east 
to  marry  him.  A  sharp  battle  takes  place,  In 
which  the  stage  escort  is  killed  or  driven  away, 
and  Martha  becomes  a  prisoner.  Swiftwind  rec- 
ognizes a  picture  of  Lieut.  Randall  In  a  locket  she 
Is  wearing,  and  tries  to  save  her,  carrying  her 
in  his  arms  to  a  place  of  safety.  Randall,  who 
has  been  knocked  unconscious,  recovers  his  senses 
and  sees  the  redskin  with  Martha  In  his  arms. 
Taking  careful  aim  with  bis  revolver  he  brings  tbe 
Indian  down,  and  is  horrified  when  he  learns  the 
true  situation.  The  soldiers  arrive  and  Swiftwind 
is  taken  to  tbe  fort,  where  he  dies  in  an  affecting 
scene,  freely  forgiving  Lieut.  Randall. 


KAY-BEE. 

THE  BOOMERANG  (8  parts— June  13).— Virginia 
Chester  visits  her  Aunt  Betty,  who  resides  near  an 
army  post.  Lieut.  Calhoun  falls  In  love  with  Vir- 
ginia, and  atter  a  whirlwind  courtship  persuade* 
her  to  marry  him  secretly.  Helen  Brassey,  the 
daughter  of  the  Colonel,  is  in  love  with  Calhoun, 
and  gets  her  father  to  help  her  win  the  Hen- 
tenant's    affections. 

The  Colonel  holds  out  glowing  pictures  of  promo- 
tion and  a  great  future,  and  regrets  hi» 
manage  to  Virginia.  She  has  managed  to  conceal 
her  marriage  from  her  father,  extending  her  visit 
upon  various  excuses,  and  Aunt  Betty  aids  her  In 
the  concealment.  The  birth  of  a  boy  makes  her 
secret  marriage  a  serious  consideration,  and  she 
telegraphs  Calhoun  to  come  to  her,  he  having  beem 
removed  to  a  distant  post.  He  wires  back  ad- 
vising her  to  get  a  divorce,  and  the  shock  kill* 
her. 

Aunt  Betty  raises  the  child  and  sends  it  to  a 
military  school,  giving  it  her  name.  Twenty  years 
elapse,  and  the  youth  is  a  graduate  of  a  military 
academy.  On  her  death-bed  Aunt  Betty  tells  him 
tbe  story  of  his  birth,  and  John  burns  with  a  de- 
Bire  to  avenge  his  mother.  The  war  breaks  ont  and 
he  secures  a  lieutenancy  under  Calhoun,  now  a 
general.  On  the  eve  of  a  great  battle,  John  keepa 
the  southern  army  advised  of  every  move  made  by 
the  northern  officers,  by  means  of  a  telegraph  wire 
he  has  tapped,  and  the  northern  army  la  com- 
pletely outwitted  and  ambushed.  The  confederate* 
win  a  glorious  victory,  and  capture  General  Cal- 
houn. Colonel  Chester,  Virginia's  father,  release; 
Calhoun,  and  forces  him  to  flght  a  duel,  In  which 
Calhoun  Is  killed.  The  meeting  between  General 
Calhoun,  his  son  and  Colonel  Chester  Is  one  of  the 
most  dramatic  situations  ever  seen  in  moving  pic- 
tures. 

KEYSTONE. 

THE  HANSOM  DRIVER  (June  9).— Mabel's  hus- 
band Is  a  hansom  cab  driver.  After  a  "J0*™?; 
Mabel  Imagines  herself  neglected,  and  1  stensto 
the  honeyed  words  of  a  tempter,  and  finally  a*™** 
to  elope  with  him.  A  boy  is  sent  'or  a  cab,  and 
the  innocent  youth  calls  the  husband.  The  jehlcU 
drives  up  and  the  couple  run  into  it,  their  Identity 
unnoticed  by  the  driver,  and  they  absorbed  In  each 
other,  not  noting  the  man  on  the  seat.  Hubby 
glances  into  the  Silrror  reflecting  tbe  Interior  of  the 
fab?  and  the  fnn  starts.  A  comical  fight  take. 
place  between  the  two  men,  and  the  would-he  home 
breaker  is  soundly  thrashed,  and  penitent  Mabel 
is  taken  back   to  her  husband's  arms. 

THE  SPEED  QUEEN  (June  12)  .—Nellie's  father 
is  a  judge,  afflicted  with  a  species  of  St.  Vitus 
dance  When  he  feels  an  attack  coming  on  he 
?a\e,  a  dose  of  medicine  which  always  bring.  re- 
lief  One  day  be  forgets  the  medicine,  and  feeling 
the  attack  coming  on  he  sends  Mabel  home  tor 
tte  medicine  She*  Jumps  into  her  auto  and  drives 
like  the  wind,  pursued  by  two  bicycle  cops.  One 
of  the  cops  is  a  rejected  suitor,  and  "eh  opes  to 
catch  her  and  arrest  her,  for  spite.  The  other 
copis  the  accepted  lover,  and  he  rides  to  save ,h* 
Amusing  situations  are  shown  ^'l^la^'u 
rldlne  at  terrific  speed.  Mabel  Is  arresreu,  u.>  — 
released    upon   the   plea   of   her   sweetheart. 

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the  men  in  the  district  is  stricken  with  cholera. 
He  is  brought  into  the  hospital,  which  is  then 
isolated.  There  Is  a  wireless  installation  in  the 
building,  and  the  doctor  soon  learns  that  the  dis- 
ease 1b  rapidly  spreading.  Naturally  auxiout 
to  the  safety  of  hie  daughters  be  willing  accepts 
the  offer  of  two  officers,  who  are  abovit  to  pr» 
into  the  interior  to  experiment  with  wireless  i 
raphy,  to  take  charge  of  the  girls,  who  will  thus 
he  removed  from  chance  of  infection.  The  cara- 
van starts  on  its  journey  and  reaches  its  destina- 
tion in  safety,  and  the  doctor  is  glad  to  receive  a 
message  that  every  one  is  in  good  health.  But 
alas!  the  germ  of  the  disease  was  lying  dormant, 
and  the  younger  of  the  officers  la  soon  dangerously 
ill.  Captain  Dancy,  the  leader  of  the  expedition, 
res  the  girls  to  leave  for  home,  in  charge  of 
his  solitary  white  man  servant,  but  they  refuse, 
preferring  to  stop  and  nurse  the  sick  man.  Verj 
soon  Captain  Dancy  is  also  stricken,  and  the  two 
girls  have  their  hands  fully  occupied  in  nursing 
the  sufferers.  Mary,  the  elder  of  the  two  girls, 
has  learned  the  Morse  Code,  and  communicates 
the  sad  new*  that  both  the  officers  are  at  death's 
door.  This  terrible  news,  is,  however,  destined  to 
be  followed  by  still  graver.  A  man-eater,  at- 
tracted by  the  signs  of  human  beings  in  the  neigh- 
borhood, makes  an  assault  on  the  little  party. 
The  girls  and  the  devoted  man-servant  fire  upon 
the  beast  repeatedly,  but  do  not  succeed  in  seri- 
ously Injuring  him.  '  Whilst  the  man-servant  is 
keeping  the  ferocious  animals  at  bay,  Mary  wires 
to  the  hospital  that  death  is  staring  them  In  the 
face,  for  soon  their  last  cartridge  will  be  spent. 
A  messenger  ia  dispatched  by  the  agonized  father. 
But  alas!  he  falls  Into  the  hands  of  the  bandits, 
and  it  is  only  after  passing  through  a  terrible  ex- 
perience, that  he  is  able  to  free  himself  from 
their  clutches.  He  arrives  on  the  scene  just  as 
the  lion  is  springing  on  his  defenseless  prey,  and 
with  unerring  aim  he  is  able  to  stretch  the  savage 
beast  in  the  dust.  Turning  his  attention  to  the 
suffering  men  in  the  tent,  he  injects  a  life  giving 
serum  in  their  forearms,  and  we  have  little  doubt 
that  they  will  thus  be  snatched  from  the  jaws 
•f  death. 


of  his  ample  dimensions.  Whereupon  jealousy 
vanishes  and  75  per  cent,  of  Leander  returns  to  his 
100   per   cent,   of  Lulu. 


GAUMONT. 

THE  LIGHT  THAT  KILLS  (May  87).— Mrs. 
Smithson,  a  widow,  takes  a  strong  interest  in  I>r. 
Louis  Jordan,  whose  application  of  electric  rays 
>.ered  by  him  have  been  successful.  Though 
Jor.lan  has  achieved  many  cures  by  his  "A*'  rays. 
he  has  been  attacked  by  the  powerful  penetration 
and  his  left  hand  has  already  begun  to  wither. 
As  no  one  else  can  apply  the  treatment  with  the 
same  safety  that  his  own  expert  knowledge  com- 
mands, the  scientist  continues  his  labors  with 
heroic    sacrifice. 

Mrs.  Smithson  acknowledges  her  love  for  the 
scieutisr  She  suggests  that  others  should  con- 
tinue his  practice,  that  he  should  spend  the  rest 
of  his  life  in  health  and  happiness.  Feeling  that 
life  holds  something  sweeter  for  him,  Louis  Jor- 
dan makes  over  the  plan  of  his  work  to  his  pupils, 
ratory    to  his   departure   to   a   wanner   climate. 

As  he  is  about  to  join  Mrs.  Smithson,  a  poor 
woman  implores  him  to  treat  her  son,  who  has 
been  given  up  as  a  hopeless  case.  Failing  to 
persuade  her  that  his  pupil  can  effect  the  great 
cure,  the  master  undertakes  the  operation  him- 
self, knowing  well  that  the  rays  which  saved  in  one 
rase  are  fatal  to  himself.  He  realizes  that  to 
abandon  bis  work  for  the  sake  of  his  own  per- 
sonal happiness  is  to  be  false  to  science,  and  Is 
an    indication    of    weakness. 

When  the  operation  is  over,  he  writes  to  Mrs. 
Smithson,  asking  her  to  forgive  him  for  not  seeing 
her  again.  The  professor  expresses  that  it  will 
BO  ample  reward,  if,  when  she  returns  next 
summer,  she  will  drop  flowers  in  the  places  he 
used   to  love. 

Within  the  year  the  professor  has  gone  the  way 
of  the  heroes  who  sacrifice  their  lives  in  saving 
their  fellow-creatures.  When  the  woman  he  loved 
returns  to  the  scene  of  bis  labors,  she  learns 
his  noble  spirit  has  been  inherited  by  his  favi 
pupil,  who  takes  the  blooms  she  brings  and  puts 
them    in    the    "places    he    used    to    love." 

A  PROBLEM  IN  REDUCTION  (May  29).— Lean- 
tier  is  worried  about  his  appearance.  He  fears 
that  if  he  continues  to  grow  east  and  west  and 
back  and  forth,  that  he  will  resemble  a  crowd. 
When  he  has  his  picture  taken,  be  Is  charged  for 
a  group.  He  hears  of  an  institute  where  they 
guarantee  to  triumph  over  triple  chins,  bay  win- 
dows and  slipped  chests.  One  can  lose  almost 
any  part  of  yourself  here,  Including  part  of  your 
bank    roll. 

Leander's  mysterious  absences  caused  his  wife. 
Lulu,  to  become  jealous.  She  searches  for  evi- 
dence. She  receives  a  telegram  from  him,  saying 
n't  come  home  for  dinner  that  night  as 
lie  will  have  a  business  engagement.  She  finds 
in  his  desk  a  letter,  signed  "Madame  Oamille." 
It  reads  that  she  will  be  delighted  to  see  him 
and    that    she    is    always    home    at   dinner    time. 

Lulu  goes  to  the  address  marked  on  the  letter. 
being  admitted,  she  sees  her  husband's  hat, 
cane  and  overcoat  on  the  rack.  She  is  told  by 
the  maid  that  Madame  Camille  is  now  attending 
to  a  "gentleman"  and  Is  asked  that  she  wait  her 
turn.  Lulu  persuades  the  maid  to  show  her  into 
the  finishing  room,  wherein  Leander  is  losing  part 
of  his  personality.  She  is  convulsed  with  laughter 
be   watches  the  masseur  reduce  the  avoirdupois 


GREAT  NORTHERN. 

WHERE  IS  DOGGIE?  (June  7).— Sam  is  a  stout, 
jolly  old  soul  and  his  friend  Billy  is  equally  good 
naturcd.  Sam's  wife  is  the  proud  possessor  of  a 
bull  pup,  which,  by  way  of  variety  she  has  christ- 
ened Doggie.  A  crayou  portrait  of  the  latter  adorns 
the  wall  of  the  dining  room  and  Doggie  is  per- 
mitted, against  Sam's  protest  to  partake  of  his 
meals  at  the  family  table.  Doggie,  however,  tires 
of  the  attentions  that  are  being  showered  upon  him 
by  his  mistress  and  takes  advantage  of  the  first 
opportunity  to  go  out  on  a  tour  of  exploration.  Sam 
and  Billy  are  commissioned  to  find  him  and  return 
him  to  the  family  fold  and  much  against  their  will 
they  set  forth.  They  meet  several  friends  and  for 
the  time  being,  the  dog  is  forgotten  and  when  they 
resume  their  quest,  they  are  jollier  than  ever  under 
the  influence  of  the  good  things  of  which  they  have 
partaken.  They  encounter  dogs  of  all  sorts  and 
breeds  and  attempt  to  capture  them  and,  of  course, 
get  themselves  into  trouble  with  the  owners  of  the 
animals.  There  are  many  encounters  and  in  the 
end  the  friends  become  separated,  each  chasing  a 
different  dog.  Sam  returns  to  his  home  with  a 
blackened  eye  and  badly  ruffled.  He  finds  his  good 
wife  asleep  in  a  chair  and  removes  his  shoes  in 
order  to  make  his  way  unheard  to  his  bedroom. 
This,  he  succeeds  in  doing,  and  he  falls  asleep  and 
dreams  of  dogs  galore.  In  the  meantime,  his  friend 
Billv  has  captured  Doggie  and  the  last  we  see  of 
him"  is  when  Sam's  wife  and  Billy  carefully  place 
the  pup  on  the  bed  with  the  slumbering  dog  hunter. 
It  is  left  to  the  imagination  what  his  feelings  are 
when   he  awakes. 


SOLAX. 

JIATRIMOKY'S  SPEED  LIMIT  (June  111.— Billy 
Brown  is  a  broker.  He  has  lost  his  fortune  and 
is  ruined.  He  decides  to  break  off  his  coming  mar- 
riage to  his  wealthy  sweetheart.  She  offers  him 
money;  he  refuses;  she  returns  him  his  engage- 
ment ring.  Billy  leaves;  she  is  heart-broken.  Sud- 
denly she  thinks  of  an  idea  to  make  Billy  marry 
her  and  recuperate  his  fortune.  She  sends  him  the 
following  telegram: 

"Your  aunt  died  out  West,  leaving  you  a  fortune, 
providing  vou  are  married  by  12  o'clock  on  Wednes- 
day.    June    18th.  OLAY     LAMBERT. 

Attorney-at-law." 

Billy  turns  to  look  at  the  large  clock  and  finds 
it  is  15  minutes  to  12.  It  is  Wednesday,  June  IS. 
He  has  only  15  minutes  to  marry  or  lose  a  fortune. 
He  dashes  away  after  looking  at  his  watch.  In  the 
meantime,  his  sweetheart  has  gone  to  a  clergyman's 
house,  and  they  get  into  an  auto  and  speed  away  to 
Billy's  office,  only  to  find,  when  arriving  there,  he 
has  left.  Billy,  in  the  meantime,  meets  a  lady 
acquaintance,  drops  on  his  knees  and  starts  pro- 
posing to  her.  She  runs  away.  He  has  five  minutes 
to  get  married.  He  rushes  down  the  street,  looking 
for  a  woman.  Billy's  sweetheart  is  shown  after 
coming  from  his  office  in  her  auto  jumping  up  and 
down,  urging  the  chauffeur  to  speed  faster  to  find 
Billv.  Billy  sees  a  veiled  woman  on  the  street  and 
starts  to  propose.  She  lifts  her  veil,  showing  her  to 
he  a  negro.  He  decides  he  can't  get  married  by  12 
and  win  the  fortune,  and  so  will  commit  suicide. 
He  gets  in  middle  of  street,  and  auto  Is  coming  in 
bis  path,  he  turns  his  back  and  waits.  The  auto 
stops  against  him,  he  turns,  and  his  sweetheart  and 
gyman  are  in  it.  He  dashes  to  auto,  gets  In. 
shows  telegram.  They  are  married,  one  minute  to 
12.  His  sweetheart  confesses  she  sent  the  tele- 
gram. Billy  at  first  is  angry,  but  finally  gives  in  to 
a   happy  ending. 

HER  MOTHER'S  PICTURE  (June  13).— Joseph 
Bleeker,  a  hardy,  honest,  rural  type,  lives  with  his 
daughter  in  a  home  made  rather  unhappy  by  the 
absence  of  a  mother.  Tbe  death  of  Mrs.  Bleeker 
has  made  her  husband  downcast  In  spirit  and  all  his 
daughter's  attempts  to  liven  him  up  are  unavailing. 
About  the  picture  of  his  wife,  which  is  prominently 
hung  in  the  centre  of  the  living  room  wall,  crys- 
tallize all  his  thoughts  and  dreams.  In  some  in- 
tangible way.  this  picture  guides  the  destiny  of  the 
familv.  This  is  forcibly  Illustrated  by  a  little 
love  affair  of  bis  daughter,  Marian,  who  el 
a  metropolitan  actor.  She  comes  back  after  -i 
deserted,  and  only  the  spirit  of  the  picture  of  her 
mother,  prevents  her  unforgiving  father  from  turn 
ing   her  away. 


KINEMACOLOR. 

PARSON  JEM'S  BABY  (2  parts).— When  Parson 
Jim  invaded  Hoot  Owl,  Ariz.,  he  found  the  saloon 
and  dance  hall  the  principal  industries.  Start  Ing 
a  revival  In  tbe  latter  place,  he  rouses  a  spark  of 
religion  lying  dormant  in  the  breast  of  Molly 
Brandon,  wife  of  tbe  "bad  man"  of  tbe  c 
When  be  Is  driven  ont  and  Molly  follows  him  like 
a  dutiful  wife;  she  leaves  her  little  daughter  in 
the   care   of   one   good    Parson   Jim. 

With  the  little  girl,  the  Parson  starts  prose- 
lyting until  finally,  after  fifteen  years,  he  has 
driven   out   his    bitterest    rival,    the    rum-seller,    and 


the   dance  hall   into  a  church.     There   the 
whole    reclaimed   community    of    Hoot    Owls   gathers 
rorshlp — not  noting  the  worn  and  weary  woman 
who    slips   into  a  rear   pew. 

But  after  benediction,  while  Parson  Jim  is  bid- 
ding "goodnight"  to  his  happy  parlsbooers,  the 
organ  in  the  suposedly  empty  church  begins  play- 
'Lead,  Kindly  Light."  Recoiling  that 
terson  iu  camp  knew  that  hymn  when  he  started 
his  revival  fifteen  years  before,  Parson  Jim  re- 
turns to  find  that  his  "lost  sheep  lias  returned  to 
the   fold." 

Judge  of  the  rejoicing  when  the  long-lost  moth- 
er clasps  "Parson  Jim's  Baby"  In  her  arms,  and 
the  concluding  picture  shows  her  final  resting  pla<  >• 
in  the  "God's  Acre"  which  has  replaced  the  "Bad 
Man's    burying    ground." 

ICE  SKATING  AT  MURREN,  SWITZERLAND.— 
Skaters  will  be  especially  interested  In  this  film 
which  shows  society  assembled  at  Murren  for  the 
winter  sports,  including  Mrs.  Asqulth,  the  wife 
of  the  prime  minister  of  the  United  Kingdom, 
and  her  children.  In  the  opening  picture  a  snow 
plough  is  seen  clearing  the  ice  ready  for  tin 
Bkaters.  The  skaters  adjust  their  skates  and  an 
exhibition  of  the  art  is  given.  Mrs.  Asquith  and 
her  son  take  a  ride  in  a  chair,  titted  with  runners, 
and  then  we  see  the  two  children  skating.  Curi- 
dlsplays  of  fancy  skating  are  then  given.  A 
long  line  of  people  skate  band  in  hand,  two  people 
waltz,  and  two  children  in  Cancj  customea  give 
a  sprightly    display. 

TOBOGGANING  IN  SWITZERLAND.— This  la 
an  ex  liila  rating  pie  tun-  of  the  sport  of  toboggan- 
ing as  practiced  on  the  mountain  slopes  in  Switz- 
erland. In  the  opening  scenes  those  taking  part 
in  the  sport  are  journeying  by  funicular  railway 
as  far  as  that  curious  means  will  take  them:  the 
rest  of  the  journey  is  made  on  foot.  One  of  tbe 
fust  parties  to  make  the  descent  has  labelled  it- 
self "Rug -Time,"  a  concession  to  the  mountain 
craze.  The  toboggans  dash  past  the  camera  at 
high  speed,  being  kept  to  the  track  by  the  banks 
of    snow    which    line    the    course. 


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RELEASE    DATES 


AMERICAN. 

May  26 — Ashes  of  Three    (2  parts— Drama) 2000 

May  29 — On    the    Border    (Drama) 1000 

May  SI — Her    Big    Story    (Drama) 1000 

Jane    2 — When    Luck    Changes     (Drama) 1000 

June    S — The    Wishing    Seat     (Drama) 1000 

June    7 — Via  Cabaret    (Drama) 1000 

.Tune    0 — California  Poultry  (Domestic  Animals). 1000 

June  12 — Hearts    and    Horses    (Drama) 1000 

June  14 — Reward    of    Courage     (Drama) 1000 

AMBR08I0. 

Apr.     6— For    His    Sake    (2    reels — Drama) 

Apr.  13 — Auto  Suggestion;  or  the  Crime  of  An- 
other   (2    reels — Drama) 

Apr.  19 — Child  Labor  Traffic  (2  parts.  Drama).. 

Apr.  M — Golden   Bala   (2  reels.   Drama) 

May    8 — The    Spider    (2    parts — Drama) 

May  10 — Tempest  and  Sunshine  (2  parts — 
Drama)     

May  IT — A  Maid  of  Honor   (2  parts — Drama).. 

May  24 — The  Yellow  Man    (2  parts — Drama) . . . 

BISON. 

May  6 — The  Indian's  Secret  (2  parts,  Drama) 
May  10 — The  Northern  Spy  (2  parts.  Drama) 
May  13— The  Toll  of  War  (S  parts — Drama).. 
May  17 — In  the  Secret  SerTice  (2  parts — Drama) 
May  20— The    Stars     and    Stripes     Forever     (S 

parts — Drama)     

May  24 — Under   Fire    (2   parts — Drama) 

May  27 — Love,  Life  and  Liberty  (2  parts — Dr.) 
May  31 — The  Honor  of  the  Regiment  (2  parts — 

Drama)     

June    3 — The  Battle  of  San  Juan  Hill   (2  parts 

— Drama)      I 

June    7— The    Spirit    of    the    Flag    (2    parts — 

Drama) . ..  J. .. . 

June  10 — The  Grand  Old  Flag  (2  parts — Drama) 
June  14 — The  Capture  of   Aguinaldo    (2  parts- 
Drama)     

BE0NCH0. 

May  7 — The  Way  of  a  Mother  (2  parts,  Dr.) 
May  14 — A   Slave's   Devotion    (2   parts — Drama) 

May  21 — The    Sea    Dog     (2    parts — Drama) 

May  28 — The  Drummer  of  the  Eighth  (2  parts — 

Drama)     

June  4 — A  Dixie  Mother  (2  parts — Drama).. 
June  11 — An    Indian's    Gratitude     (Drama) 

CHAMPION. 

Apr.  14 — Lena's  Flirtation   (Comedy) 

Apr.  21— When   Strong   Men   Meet    (Drama).... 

Apr.  28 — The  Clown  Hero    (Comedy) 

Apr.  28 — Life  In  Soudan   (Sociology) 

May    6— The  Shark   God    (Drama) 1000 

May  12 — Hawaiian  Love   (Drama) 

May  18 — The    Leper     (Drama) 

CRYSTAL. 

June    3 — Mary's     Romance     (Drama) 

June    8 — The    New    Typist    (Comedy) 

June    8 — Black  and  White  (Comedy)   

June  10 — False    Love    and    True    (Drama) 

June  15 — An    Expensive    Drink     (Comedy) 

June  15 — Her    Joke    on    Belmont    (Comedy) 

DEACON. 

May  12— The    Outcast    (Drama)     1000 

May  19 — The    Sergeant's    Daughter     (2    parts — 

Drama)     2000 

May  26— Love's  Monogram   (Drama) 1000 

June  2— Comrades   (Drama)    1000 

June    9— The  Ace  of  Hearts  (Drama) 1000 

ECLAIR. 
May  28 — The  Faith  Healer   (2  parts— Drama) . . 
June    1 — He    Ruins    His    Family's    Reputation 

(Comedy )     

June    1 — All  On  Account  of  An  Egg  (Comedy).. 

June    4 — Why?     (3     parts — Drama) 

June     8 — The    Spider    (Zoology) 

June  8 — He  Could  Not  Lose  Her  (Comedy) . . 
June  11 — When    Light    Came    Back     (2    parts — 

Drama)     


EXCELSIOR. 

Apr.     7 — Temperamental  Alice    (Comedy-Drama) 

Apr.  14 — The  Moving  picture  Girl   (Drama) 

Apr.  21 — The  Man  from  the  City  (Drama) 

Apr.     28 — The  Surveyors  (Drams) 

May    6 — Brothers    All     (Drama) 

FRONTIER. 

May  22 — The  Stage  Driver's  Chivalry   (Drama). 

May  24— Where   Wits   Win    (Comedy) 

May  29 — A  Romance  of  the  Ralls  (Drama) . . 
May  31  —Flossie  Visits  Bar  C  Ranch   (Comedy) 

June    6 — The  Pillar  of  Peril  (Drama) 

June    8— The    Ranch    Girl    and    the    Sky    Pilot 

(Comedy)     

June  12 — The  Call  of  the  Angelus  (Drama) . . 
June  14 — The    Twins    of     "Double     X"     Ranch 

(Comedy)     

GATJM0NT. 

May  14 — Gaunont's    Weekly    No.    62    (News) . . 

May  15 — Sweets    to   the   Sweet    (Comedy) 

May  17 — (An  Educational  and  Topical  Subject) 
Hay  20— The     Eyes     that     Could     Not     Close 

(Drama)     

May  21 — Gaumont's  Weekly,   No.   63    (News) . . . 

May  22 — For  Two    Pins    (Drama) 

May  24 — (An  Educational  and  Topical  Subject) 

May  27— The    Light    that    Kills    (Drama) 

May  28 — Gaumont's  Weekly,  No.  64  (News)... 
May  29 — A  Problem  in  Reduction   (Comedy) 

GEM. 

May  18 — Billy's   Adventure    (Comedy) 

May  20 — Billy  Plays  Poker  (Comedy) 

May  27 — Billy's    Honeymoon     (Comedy) 

June    2 — Billy   In   Armor    (Comedy) 

June    9— Hearts    and    Flowers    (Drama) 


GREAT  NORTHERN. 

May  10 — Her     First     Lore     Affair     (Comedy — 

Drama)     

May  10 — The  Hartz  (Science) 

May  17 — The   Three   Comrades    (Drama) 

May  24 — The    Professor's   Traveling   Adventures 

(Comedy)    

May    31 — The  Suffragettes  (Comedy) 

June    7 — Where   is   Doggie?    (Comedy) 

June    7 — Lock    Lomond    (Scenic) 

IMF. 

June    2— Just    a    Fire-Fighter    (Comedy-Drama) 

June    5 — Self-Accused    (Drama)     

June    7 — Yen  Talks  by  Hy  Mayer  (Novelty) 

June    7 — The    Count    Retires    lOomedy) 

June    9— The     Comedian's     Mask      (2     parts — 

Drama)      

June  12 — The    Higher    Law    (Drama) 

June  14 — The    War    of    the    Beetles 

June  14— Hy    Mayer's   Cartoons    (Novelty) 

KAY-BEE. 

May.  *— A  Black  Conspiracy  (2  parta.  Drama) 
May  9 — Past  Redemption  (2  parta.  Drama) . . . 
May  16— For  Love  of  the  Flag  (2  parta — Drama) 

May  23— The    Miser    (2    parts— Drama) 

May  30 — A  Child  of  War  (2  parts— Drama) 

June  6— A  True  Believer  (2  parts— Drama).. 
June  13— The    Boomerang     (3    parts — Drama) . . 

KEYSTONE. 

May  29 — The   Gangsters    (Comedy) 

June    2 — Barney    Oldfleld's    Race     for    a     Life 

(Comedy)      . . .  -i 

June  6 — Passions!  He  Had  Three  (Comedy). 
June    5 — Help!    Help!    Hydrophobia    (Comedy). 

June    9 — The  Hansom  Driver    (Comedy) 

June  12— -The    Speed    Queen    (Comedy) 

LUX. 

May  16— A   Mighty  Hunter   (Comedy) 496 

May  16— Pat      Moves      to      Diplomatic     Circles 

(Comedy)     *M 

May  23 — Playing    with    the    Fire    (Drama) 987 

May  30 — The  Dog  and  the  Goat   (Drama) 641 

May  30 — Pat,     the    Electrician     (Comedy) 3S5 

June     6 — By    the  Aid   of   Wireless    (Drama) 1000 

June  13 — Engulfed    (Drama)    

MAJESTIC. 

May  20 — Shop,  the  Hero  (Drama) 

May    25 — Legally    Right    (Drama)     

May    27 — The   Fairy   Godfather    (Drama)    

June    1— The    Fraternity    Pin    (Drama) 

June    3— The   Queen  of  the  Sea  Nymphs    (Dr.) 


MUTUAL   WEEKLY. 

Apr.  80 — Mutual    Weekly,     No.    18    (News) 

May     7— Mutual     Weekly,     No.     19     (News) 

May  14 — Mutual   Weekly,    No.   20    (News) 

Mav  21— Mutual   Weeklv,    No.   21    (News) 

May  28— Mutual   Weekly,    No.    22   (News) 

MUTUAL  EDUCATIONAL. 

May  22— Petronllla  Wins  the  Great  Steeple- 
chase    (Comedy)     

May  22 — Rivers    ot    Indo-China    (Geographical). 

May  29 — Gontran,    Apostle    of    Peace    (Comedy) 

May  29 — Glimpses    of    Hawaii    (Scenic) 

June  0 — Willy  and  the  Captain's  Horse  (Com- 
edy)      

June    5— A    Child's    Day     (Child    Science) 

June  12 — Gontrnn,    a   Snake   Charmer    (Comedy) 

June  12 — G'atherlng  and  Preparation  of  Tea 
In     Indo-China      (Agriculture) 

NESTOR. 

May  28 — A  Double  SacrlBce  (Drama ) 

May  30 — He  It  Ever  So  Humble   (Drama) 

June    2— A    Mix-Up    In    Bandits    (Comedy) 

June  4 — The  Idol  of  Bononza  Camp  (Drama)... 
June  6 — Owana,  the  Devil  Woman  (Drama).. 
June  9— The  Spring  in  the  Desert  (Drama) . . 
June  11— The      Man     Who     Tried     to     Forget 

I  Drama)     

June  13— The  Knight  of  Her  Dreams   (Comedy) 

POWERS. 

May  28 — Cheating     (Comedy)     

May  30— The  End  of  the  Trail  (2  parts— Drama) 

Juno    4 — Dolly    and    the    Burglar    (Drama) 

june    s — Why  Grand-Daddy  Went  to  Sea  (Com- 
edy-Drama)      

June  11 — Mrs.  Lacey's  Legacy  (Comedy -Drama) 
June  13— The  Strength  of   the   Weak    (Drama). 

PILOT. 

May     1— The   Song   of   Songs    (Drama) 

May    8— The   Crucible    of    Love    (Drama)...  „. 

May  18 — Tony,    the    Tenor    (Drama) »w 

May  22— School  Days   (Comedy) _»*..». 

May  29 — The   Governor's  Romance    (Drama).... 

June    5 — The    Power   of    the   Sea    (Drama) 

June  12— For  Old  Time's  Sake  (Drama) 

RELIANCE. 

May  24 — Runa  and   the  Black   Hand   (Drama).. 

May  26— Heartn     Lights     (Drama) 

May  28 — A    Texas    Feud     (Drama) 

May  31— The     Master     Cracksman     (2     reels — 

Drama)      ) 

June    2— Italian   Love    (Drama) 

Tnne    4 — Faithful     Shep     (Drama) 

June    7— The  Mad  Cap  of  the  HlUs   (Drama).. 

June    9-  His     Uncle's    Heir     (Drama) 

June  11 — Annie    Laurie     (Drama) 

june  14 — Half   a    Chance    (2  parts— Drama) 

REX. 

May  29 — The     Tourist     and     the     Flower     Girl 

(Drama)   

June  1 — The    Boob    (Comedy-Drama ) 

June    6— The    World    at    Large    (Drama) 

June    8 — The    6hadow     (Drama) 

June  12— The  King  Can  Do  No  Wrong  (3  parts 

— Drama)     

June  15 — The    Pretender     (Comedy-Drama) 

S0LAX. 

May  28— The  Henpecked  Burglar    (Comedy).... 

May  30 — The    King's   Messenger    (Drama) 

June    4 — The    Hopes    of    Belinda    (Comedy) 

June    6 — Gregory's     Shadow     (Drama) 

June  11 — Matrimony's  Speed  Limit  (Comedy). 
June  13— Her    Mother's    Picture     (Drama) 

THANH0USER. 

May  23 — In  Their  Hour  of  Need   (Drama) 

May  25 — A    Pullman    Nightmare     (Comedy).... 

May  27 — Carmen    (3    parts — Drama)     

May  30 — (No    release    this   date.) 

June    1 — A  Victim  of  Circumstances    (Comedy) 

June    3 — The    Runaway     (Drama)     

June    6 — The    Caged   Bird    (Drama) 

VICTOR. 

May    9 — The    Unknown    (Drama) 

May  16— A   Fair  Exchange    (2  parte— Drama) . . 

May  23 — Good    for   Evil    (Drama) 

May  30 — The  Plaything   (Drama) 

June    6 — The    Kidnapped    Train    (Drama) 

June  13— Sincerity     (Drama ) 


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LARGEST  ELECTRICAL  MANUFACTURER  IN  THE  WORLD 


Atlanta,  Ga. 
Baltimore  Md. 
Birmingham,  Ala. 
Boise,  Idaho. 
Boston,  Mass. 
Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Butte,  Mont. 
Charleston,  W.  Va. 
Charlotte,  N.  C. 
Chattanooga,  Tenn. 
Chicago,  111. 


Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Cleveland,  Ohio 
Columbus,  Ohio 
Davenport,  Iowa 
Dayton,  Ohio 
Denver,  Colo. 
Detroit,  Mich. 
(Office  of  Agent) 
Elmira,  N.  Y. 
Erie.  Pa. 
Indianapolis,  Ind. 


General  Office:    Schenectady,  N.  Y. 
ADDRESS  NEAREST  OFFICE 


Jacksonville,  Fla- 
Joplin,  Mo. 
Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Keokuk,  Iowa 
Knoxville,  Tenn. 
Los  Angeles,  Cal. 


Louisville,  Ky. 
Mattoon,  111. 
Memphis,  Tenn. 
Milwaukee,  Wis. 
Minneapolis,  Minn. 
Nashville,  Tenn. 


New  Haven,  Conn. 
New  Orleans,  La. 
New  York,  N.  Y. 
Omaha,  Neb. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Pittsburg,  Pa. 
Portland.  Ore. 
Providence,  R.  I. 
Richmond,  Va. 
Rochester,  N.  Y. 
Salt  Lake  City.  Utah 


San  rrancisco,  C*L 
St  Louis,  Mo. 
Schenectady.  N.  Y. 
Seattle,  Wash. 
Spokane,  Wash. 
Springneld,  Mas*. 
Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Toledo.  Ohio 
Washington,  D.  C 
Youngstown,  Ohio 


For  Texas  and  Oklahoma  business  refer  to  Southwest  General  Electric  Co.,  (formerly  Hohson  Electric  Co.)— Dallas,  El  Paso,  Houston  and  Oklahoma  Qty. 
For  Canadian  business  refer  to  Canadian  General  Electric  Company,  Lt'd,  Toronto,  Ont 


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Tuesday — Edison,  Bssanay,  Patheplay,  Olnes,  La 
Mb,  Sellg,   Vltagrapb. 

Wednesday  —  Edison,  Eclipse,  Bssanay,  Kalem 
■ells,    Patheplay,    Vltagrapb    (Special). 

Thursday  —  Blograph,  E  anay,  Lubln,  Melies 
ratheplay,    Sellg.    Vitagraph. 

Friday — Edison,  Bssanay,  Kalem,  Sellg,  Patheplay 
Lnbin,    Vltagrapb    (Special). 

Saturday — Blograph,  Edison,  Esaanay,  Olnes,  Ka- 
lem,   Lubln,    Patbeplay,    Vltagrapb    (Special). 

BIOGRAPH. 
May  24— Just    Gold     (Drama) 

May  26 — Highbrow  Love   (Comedy) 

May  26 — The  Trimmers  Trimmed  (Comedy) 

May  29— A  Dangerous  Foe  (Drama) 

May  31 — His  Mother's  Son  (Drama) 

June    2 — The   Rancbero's   Revenge   (Drama) 

June    5 — Slippery  Slim   Repents    (Comedy) 

June    6— Just    Kids    (Comedy) 

June    7 — A  Timely   Interception    (Drama) 

June    9 — Jenks  Becomes  a  Desperate  Character 

(Comedy)       

June    9 — Red  Hicks  Defies  the  World  (Comedy) 

June  12 — The  Well  (Drama)    

June  14 — Death's  Marathon    (Drama) 

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(O.  Kleins.) 

May  10 — The  People  of  Somallland,  East  Africa 

(Manners    and    Customs) ,. .  800 

May  10 — Excess  Baggage   (Comedy) 400 

May  10 — Beautiful  Lake  Como,    Italy    (Physical 

Geography) 800 

May  18— Willie's    Alarm    Clock     (Comedy) 780 

May  13 — Relics    of    Ancient    Rome    (Travel)...  220 

May  17 — A  Woman's  Influence   (Drama) 820 

May  17 — Gulf     of      Togullo,      Northern      Italy 

(Scenic) 180 

Kay  20— Red    Wins    (Drama)     1000 

May  24 — Exceeding  the  Time  Limit  (Comedy).  300 
May  24— The  Maid  and  the  Yarn  (Comedy)..  300 
May  24 — Curing  a   Would-Be  Aviator    (Comedy)  400 

May  27 — Borrowed   Plumage    (Comedy) 

May  27 — The    Champion    Fixer    (Comedy) 

May  27— In    Somallland     (Scenic) 

May  31 — Interesting  Scenes  Abroad  ( Travel) ..  1000 
June    2 — When    A    Woman    Loves     (Special — 3 

parts— Drama)     2500 

June    3— The    Irony   of  Fate    (Drama).. 1000 

June    7 — Orbetelo     and     Environs     (Travel) 250 

June    7 — The    Ring    (Drama) 750 

ECLIPSE. 
(G    Klelne. ) 

May  21 — In    the    Tyrolese    Alps    (Travel) 175 

May  21 — The  Chicken  Industry    (Industrial) 400 

May  21— Big   Game    (Zoological) 425 

May  28 — The  Indelible   Stain    (Drama) 1000 

June    4 — The    Armadillo     (Zoological) 500 

June    4 — Delivering   the   Goods    (Comedy) 500 

June  11— Behind    a    Mask    (Drama) 1000 

EDISON. 
May  17— A  Concerto   for  the   Violin    (Drama).  .1000 

May  19 — By    Mutual    Agreement    (Comedy) 1000 

May  20— The  Good  In  the  Worst  of  Us  (Drama).lOOO 
May  21 — Glimpses      of      Colorado      in      Winter 

(Scenic)     815 

May  21— Brigg's    New    Salt    (Comedy) 685 

May  23 — A     Race    to    New     York     (Being    the 
Eleventh   Story   of    "What    Happened 

to    Mary"    (Drama)    1000 

May  24 — The  Translation  of  a  Savage  (Drama).  1000 

May  26 — Dances  of   the  Ages    (Novelty) 975 

May  27— An  Unwilling  Separation    (Drama) 1000 

May  28 — Newoomb's    Necktie    (Comedy) 1000 

May  30— The  Honor  of  a  Soldier  (Drama) 1600 

May  81 — An  Almond   Eyed  Maid    (Drama) 1000 

June    2— Professor  William  Nutt    (Comedy) 1000 

June    3— Right  for  Right's  Sake  (Drama) 1000 

June    4 — Some   Spots    In   and    Around    Los   An- 
geles,   California    (Scenic)    350 

June  4 — Don't     Worry     (Comedy) 640 

June    6 — Mercy  Merrick    (Drama) 1000 

June    7— While    John    Bolt    Slept    (Drama) 1000 

June    9 — Othello    In   Jonesvllle    (Comedy) 1000 

June  10 — Two    Little    Kittens    (Drama) 1000 

June  11 — Beau  Crummel   and  His   Bride    (Com- 
edy)      1000 

June  13— Along    the    Nile     iScenlc) 1000 

June  14 — Apples    of    Sodom     (Drama) 1000 


ESSANAY. 
May  24 — Broncho  Billy  and  the  Expreaa   Driver 

(Drama)      1000 

May  27— The    New    Sheriff     (Drama) 1000 

May  28 — On    the  Job   (Comedy) 1000 

May  29— Their  Baby    (Comedy) 1000 

May  30 — The  Good  in  the  Worst  of  Us  (Drama) 

May  31 — Alkali   Ike's   Misfortunes    (Drama) 

June    3 — Let  No   Man   Put  Asunder   (Drama).. 1000 
June    4 — The    Value    of    Mothers-in-Law    (Com- 
edy)      1000 

June    5— The    Last    Shot     (Drama) 1000 

June    6— Phillip  March's  Engagement  (Comedy).  1000 

June    7 — Broncho    Billy's  Capture    (Drama) 1000 

June    9 — The  Final  Judgment   (Special — 2  parts 

—Drama)         2000 

June  10 — The  Shadowgraph    Message   (Drama).. 1000 

June  11— The    Star     (Comedy) 1000 

June  12 — Cinderella's    Gloves    (Comedy) 1000 

June  13 — The     Mysterious     Stranger     (Oomedy- 

IDrama)     1000 

June  14— The    Ranch    Feud    (Drama) 1000 

.     KALEM, 
May  24 — The    Infamous   Don   Miguel    (Drama)  ..1000 

May  26— A  Victim  of  Heredity   (Drama) 1800 

May  28 — Captured  by  Strategy  (Drama) 1000 

May  30 — The  Widow  from  Winnipeg  (Comedy) 
May  30 — The  Comedy  Team's  Strategy  (Comedy) 
May  31 — John  Burns  of   Gettysburg    (Drama)  ..1000 

June    2-^The  Bandit's  Child   (Drama) 1000 

June    4 — When    Fate    Decrees    (Drama) 1000 

June    6 — The   Terror   of   Conscience    (Drama) .  .1000 
June    7— When   Women  are   Police    (Comedy) . . 

June    7 — Percy's     Wooing     (Comedy) 

June    7 — The  Tragedy  of  Big  Eagle  Mine  (Spe- 
cial— 2  parts — Drama)    2000 

June  9 — The  Rube  and  the  Boob  (Comedy) . . 
June     9 — The    Scheme   of    Shiftless   Sam    Smith 

(Comedy)      i 

June  11 — The   Pawnbroker's  Daughter   (Drama). 1000 

Jane  13 — Brought    to    Bay     (Drama) 1000 

June  14 — The    Gypsy's    Brand    (Drama) 1000 

Lunar. 

May  13 — The    Padre's    Strategy    (Drama) 1000 

May  15 — Longing    for   a   Mother    (Drama) 1000 

May  16 — Breed  of  the  West  (Drama) 1000 

May  17— Retribution    (Drama) 1000 

May  19 — Margaret's     Painting     (Drama) 1000 

May  20 — Kidnapping    Father     (Drama) 1000 

May  21 — The     District     Attorney's     Conscience 

(Special — 2    parts — Drama)    2000 

May  22— A    Perilous   Ride    (Drama) 1000 

May  23 — Detective   Dot    (Comedy) 400 

May  23 — His   First    Experience    (Comedy) 600 

May  24— Brightened    Sunsets     (Drama) 1000 

May  26 — The  Reward  of  Service  (Drama) 1000 

May  27— Doing  Like   Daisy    (Comedy) 1000 

May  27 — The  Yarn  of  the  "Nancy  Belle"  (Com.) 
May  28—  Love    and    War    in    Mexico    (Special— 

2    parts— Drama ) 2000 

May  29 — The  Romance  of  the  Ozarks  (Drama).. 1000 

May  30— Faith  of  a  Girl  (Drama) 1000 

May  31 — Lone  Dog  the  Faithful   (Drama) 1000 

Jane    2 — A    Woman's    Heart     (Drama) 1000 

June    3 — A    Jealous    Husband    (Drama) 1000 

June    5 — Bob    Builds    a    Chicken    House    (Com- 
edy)   .i. ... . 

Jane    ri — Kate    the    Cop     (Comedy) 

Jane    6 — The  Accusing   Hand    (Special — 2   parts 

—Drama) 2OO0 

June    6 — The  Penalty  of  Jealousy   (Drama) 1000 

June    7— The    Great    Pearl     (Drama) 1000 

June    9 — The  Legend  of  Lovers  Leap  (Drama) .  .1000 

June  10 — Violet     Dare,     Detective     (Drama) 1000 

June  12 — Nearly    In    Mourning    (Comedy) 

June  12 — The  Professor's  Predicament  (Comedy) 

June  13 — Paj>ita'8     Destiny     (Drama) 1000 

June  14 — The    Wine    of    Madness     (Drama) 1000 

ME  LIES. 

May  8 — A  Trip  Through  the  "North  Island" 
of  New  Zealand,  from  Auckland  to 
Wellington     (Travel) 1000 

May  15 — The  Black  Trackers  (Drama) 

May  22 — Gold   and   the  Gilded   Way    (Drama).  .1000 

May  29 — The    Foster   Brothers    (Drama) 

May  29 — Tandjong  Prlok,  the  Harbor  of  Java's 
Oapfal.    Batavla    (Scenic) 

June    5 — Native  Industries  of  Java   (Industrial)  1000 

June  12 — The  Stolen  Claim    (Drama) 

June  12 — Views    of    Samarang    (Scenic) 

PATHEPLAY. 

May  22— The  Right  of  Way   (Drama) 

May  23— Night     Birds     (Zoology) 

May  23— The  Ailanthus  Silkworm  (Nat.  Hist.).. 
May  23 — The    Open    Secret    (Special— 2    parte — 

Comedy-Drama)     

May  24 — A   Woman    Scorned    (Drama) 

May  26— Pathe's    Weekly    No.    22    (News) 

May  27 — Bull   Fight   in   France    (Sporting) 

May  27— In  the  Forest  of  Cochll  China  (Lum- 
bering)   

May  28 — The  Fugitive   (Drama) 

May  29 — White   Lies    (Drama) 

May  30 — The   Spider   which   Lives   in   a    Bubble 

(Zoology) 

May  30 — Transportation  Methods  In  Java 
(Transportation) 


May  30 — The  Human   Vulture   (Special — 2  parts 
— Drama)     

May  31 — The    Squaw-man's    Awakening    (Dr.)... 

June    2— Pa  the' b    Weekly,    No.    23    (News).... 

June    3 — Dredges  and  Farm  Implements  In  toe 
West    (Industrial)    

June    3 — A  Market  In  Kaloylia,   Algeria    (Man- 
ners   and    Customs)     

June    4 — The    Saving   Lie    (Drama) 

June    5 — What  tbe  Good  Book  Taught  (Drama) 

Jane    6 — Birds    and    Animals    of    Brazil    (Nat. 
Hist.)    

June    6 — Tananarive,   Madagascar   (Travel) 

Jane    7 — Get-Rlcb-Qulck    Bllllngton    (Comedy) . . 

June    9— Pathe's   Weekly,    No.   21    (News) 

June  10 — Max's    First    Job    (Comedy) 

June  10 — Tbe    Chateau    of    Cbenonceau,    Franc* 
(Architecture)      

June  11 — "His   Lordship's"    Romance    (Comedy) 

June  12 — The    Artist's    Dream     (Comedy) 

June  13 — Athletics    In    France    (Sports) 

June  13— Places  of  Interest  in  Colorado  (Travel) 

June  13 — Tbe    Governor's    Double      (Special  —  2 
parts — Drama)       

June  14 — For    Mayor — Bess    Smith     (Comedy) . . 

SELIG. 

May  20— The   Tattle   Battle    (Comedy) 

May  20 — Tbe  Leopard  Tamer   (Comedy) 

May  21— The    Stolen    Melody     (Drama) 1000 

May  22 — Indian    Summer     (Drama) 1000 

May  23— The  Noisy  Six    (Drama) 1000 

May  26 — Wanba,  a  Child  of  the  Jungle  (Special 

— 2   parts — Drama)    1000 

May  26 — Religion   and  Gun  Practice    (Drama) . .  1000 

May  27— The  Girl  and   the  Judge   (Drama) 1000 

May  28 — The    Wordless    Message     (Drama) ..  .1000 

May  29 — The  Ex-Convict's  Plunge   (Drama) 

May  29 — Scones  In  Manila   (Travel) 

May  30 — The    Woodflre   at   Martin's    (Drama).  .1000 
June    2 — When     the     Circus     Came     to     Town 

(Comedy-Drama)     1080 

June    3 — A   Flag  of  Two  Wars    (Drama) 1000 

June    4 — The    Law   and   the   Outlaw    (Special — 

2     reels — Drama)      2000 

June    4 — Woman — Past    and    Present     (Etdu. ) .  .1000 

June    6 — Tbe   Suwanee    River    (Drama) 1000 

June    6 — An     Embarrassed     Bridegroom     (Com- 
edy)      

June  6 — Manila     Normal     and     Public     Schools 

(Education)       .<• 

June    9— Sweeney    and    the    Fairy     (Comedy).  .1000 

June  10— Dad's     Little     Girl     (Drama) 1000 

June  11 — The   Rose  of   May    (Drama) 1000 

June  12— The   Fate    of   Elizabeth    (Comedy) 

June  12— The    Birth   of    a    Butterfly    (Zoology) . 
June  13 — The   Jealousy   of   Miguel   and    Isabella 

(Drama)      1000J 

June  14 — Alone  in  the  Jungle   (Special — 2  parts 

—Drama)     2000 

VITAGRAPH. 
May  24— Cnpid  Through  the  Keyhole  (Comedy). 1000 
May  21 — The    Still     Voice     (Special— 2    parti — 

Drama)     2000 

May  26 — Up  and  Down  the  Ladder   (Comedy).  .1000 
May  27 — Tricks  of  the  Trade   (Comedy-Drama)  .1000 

May  28— Cutey  Plays  Detective  (Comedy) 1000 

May  29 — The  Only  Veteran  In  Town  (Drama) ..  1000 

May  30 — A    Husband's   Trick    (Comedy) 1000 

May  31 — One  Can't   Always   Tell    (Comedy).... 
May  31 — If  Dreams  Came  True;  or  Who'd  Have 

Thunk    It    (Comedy) 

May  31 — The    White   Slave  -(Special— 2    parts — 

Drama )   2000 

June    2 — What     God     Hath     Joined     Together 

CDrama) 1000 

June    3 — Bunny    as    a    Reporter    (Comedy) 

June     3— Three    to    One    (Comedy) 

June    4 — A    Modern    Psyche    (Drama) 1080 

June    5 — Tbe   Heart  of    Mrs.    Robins    (Comedy- 
Drama)     1000 

June     6— The    Butler's    Secret    (Drama)    1000 

June    7 — The    Forgotten    Latchkey    (Comedy) .  .1000 
June    9 — Tbe  Bachelor's  Baby:   or  How   It  All 

Happened     (Drama)     1000 

June  10 — Cutey    Tries    Reporting    (Comedy) 1000 

June  11 — His    House    in    Order;    or   the    Widow's 

Quest     (Drama)     1000 

June  11— A  Regiment  of  Two   (Special— 2  parts^^^ 

—Drama)     - 3000 

June  12— His    Tired    Uncle     (Comedy) 

June  12— Capers  of  Cupid    (Comedy) 

June  13— An    Infernal    Tangle    (Drama) 1000 

June  14 — Does    Advertising    Pay?    (Comedy) 1000 

GENERAL    FILM    CO.    FEATURE    RELEASES. 
May    3 — The  Diamond   Miniature    (2  parta),   Patha- 

play. 
May    5 — A    Midnight    Bell    (2    parts),    Sellg. 
May    7— The   Deerslayer    (2  parts),    Vltagraph. 
May    9 — The  Chevenne  Massacre   (2  parts),  Kalem. 
May  10— A    Girl   Spy    In    Mexico    (2   parts),    Lubln. 
May  12— The   Japanese   Dagger    (2   parts),    BcUpee- 

Klelne.  .       ■   „     , 

May  14 — Her  Masked  Beauty    (2  parts),    Patheplay. 
May  16 — Tbe     Vampire    of     tbe     Desert     (2    parts), 

Vltagrapb. 
May  17— Tbe  Battle  for  Freedom   (2  parts),  Kalem. 
May  19— Into  the  North   (2  parts),   Essanay. 
May  21— Tbe     District     AttorneV.     Conscience      (1 

parts),  Lubln. 
May  23 — The  Open  Secret    (2  pansi,    Pntheplay. 
May  24— The  Still  Voice    (2  parts),    Vltagrapb. 


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Good  piano  players  command  big  salaries  and  pack 
the  house.  Complete  course  with  special  music  for 
Fights,  Indian,  Chinese  and  Fire  Scenes,  etc.,  for  only 
$i.oo.  Can't  be  beat  for  the  price.  Send  money  order 
only.     Write  at  once  to 

DILL    MUSIC    COMPANY 
629  Main  Street  Peoria,  111. 


SIEMENS  &  CO.  manufacture  but 
One  Grade  of  Picture  Carbons. 

These  are  Imported  and  sold  under 
our  mark  as 

"Biograph  Brand " 

All  12"  Carbons  are  double-pointed. 


Packed  only  in  Cartons,  as  shown. 
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CALEHUFF  SUPPLY  COMPANY 

(Incorporated) 
SO  North  Eighth  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Jobbers  in  Edison,  Powers  and 
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Chairs  Edison   Transformers 

Tickets  Ft.  Wayne  Compensarcs 

Pianos  AshestOB  State  Booths 

Bio  Sc  Electra  Carbons  Asbestos  Wire 

Special  Gundlach  Switches 

Lenses  Plugs  Spotlights 


Gsa  Making  Outfits 
Limes  Film-Cement 

Branch     General    Disin- 
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Scenery,  Stage  Effects 
Theaters    Bought,    Sold, 
Rented 


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FOR  SALE  —  FEATURES ! 

NOTE  REDUCED  PRICES  FOR  QUICK  BALE. 

Blazing  the   Trail 2  reels 

Post    Telegrapher 2     " 

The    Crisis 2     " 

Dead  Man's  Child 3     ** 

Wreck  of  the  Aurora 3     " 

Last  of  the  Frontignacs 3     " 

Florodora    3     " 

Lured    from   Home 3     " 

Bt.  George  and  the  Dragon 3     " 

Paul    Revere 3     " 

Dalton    Boys 3     " 

Dalton    Boys 3     " 

Wage  Earners ..." 3     M 

Secret  Service  Steve 3     ' 

Midnight   Express 3     '* 

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Plenty  of  paper  at  7c  per  sheet,  heralds,  $1.00  per  thousand.  Herald 
plates  for  last  four  subjects,  $10.00  each.  Discount  of  10%  on  three 
or   more   subjects   taken   at   one   time.     Terms,   10%    with   order    (draft) 

balance   C.  O.  D.,   subject   to  inspection.  Above  features  also   for  rent. 

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"Mode  On  Honor." 

Absolutely  Sellable 
Safeguard        Against 
Panic  Disasters. 
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writers.  City  of  New 
York     Bureau    of 
Buildings. 

Applied    on     thoo 
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more  than  BOO  Cltleo 
In  tbe  U.  8.  A.  and 
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#_ New  York —  Boston — Philadelphia  and   other  large  cities,   and  by 
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closed motor,  is  far  ahead  of  the  old  variable  speed  type.  Our  speed 
control  is  continuous.  No  sudden  jerks  to  damage  film.  Our  switch 
is  approved  and  the  various  parts  of  the  motor  equipment  assembled 
into  one  compact  unit. 


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Notice — Missouri  Exhibitors 

F.  E.  Moore's  "Hiawatha,"  4,000  feet. 
Wire  or  write  for  open  dates.     We 
advertise  like  a  circus.     Address, 

BELDEN  &  ENGELKE,. 
107  St.  John  St.,  San  Antonio,  Texas. 


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WITHOUT  AID  OF  PHOTOGRAPHY 

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colored  picture  is  used,  color*  will  appear  on  slide  same  a* 
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MIDLAND  TRANSPARENCY  CO. 

313  Ramf  Bldg.         Dept.  W         Omaha,  Neb. 


WE  BUY,  SELL  and  RENT 

Moving    Picture    Machines    and    Films. 

Theatre  Brokerage  Exchange, 
440  S.  Dearborn  St.  Chicago,  111. 

Moving  Pictures 

M.  P.  Camera,  new,  J90;  120-foot  mag.  M.  P. 
Camera,  new,  punch,  direct  focusing  tube,  Indicator, 
registering  150  foot,  $155.  M.  P.  Professional 
camera  300-foot  mag.,  $210.  Write  for  particulars. 
Second-band    cameras   on   band. 

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Motion     Picture     Center,     Heidelberg     Building, 

Broadway  and  42nd  Street,   K,   Y, 

For  Sale— FILM— For  Rent 

THE   MAGNET  FILM   COMPANY 

Room   702,    167    W.    Washington    St.,    Chicago 
Single   reel   features,   $1.00  per  day;   two  or   three- 
reel    features,    $2.50   per    reel,    with   lobby    display. 


Costumes  for  Photo  Plays 

VAN  HORN  ®  SON 

manufacturers    of   theatrical    anil    historical   cos- 
tumes. 
PHILADELPHIA,    PENNA. 
Established  1852. 


We  buy  and  sell  Second  Hand  Films 
and  Moving  Picture  Machines 

WESTERN  FILM  BROKERS 

538  S.  Dearborn  Street  Chicago,  III. 


Junior  Professional  Camera 

and  Film  Making  Outfit,  simplest  method,  none 
better.  World's  greatest  productions  made  witu 
this  camera.  Expert  advice  and  guarantee. 
Tripods,  Tilts,  Printers,  Perforators,  Raw  Film, 
Lenses,  developing  done,  whole  building  to  the 
business       Write    for    catalogue. 

Eperhard    Schneider,     219    Second    Ave.,    N.     Y. 


Westerns,  Comedies, 


Dramas,  scenic 
and  topical 
films  for  sale  with  original  posters.  Tip- 
top condition.  Send  today  for  list,  as  these 
will  sell  quickly. 

GORDON    COMPANY 
Court   Block.    80   Congress   East,  Detroit,  Mich. 


KLIEGLIGHT  lamp 

Universally  recognized  as  the  best  light  pro- 
ducing apparatus  for  taking  motion  pictures. 

Universal  Electric  Stage  Lighting  Co. 


Kliegl  Bros.,  Props. 
240  West  50th  Street 


New  York 


J-M  ASBESTOS  BOOTHS 
AND   CURTAINS 


Made  in  styles  to  meet  all  re- 
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every  city.  Write  for  Booklet. 
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Hew  York  and  Every  Large  City. 


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THE   SIMPSON   SOLAR  SCREEN 

The  only  Metallic  Screen  without 

seams,    patented.      Buy    the    real 

thing.     Beware   of  imitations 

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No.  113  W.  132nd  St.,  N.  Y.  City 


Headquarters  for 

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CURTAINS  and  PICTURE  BOOTHS 

send     c#  w#  Trainer  Mfg.  Co. 

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WHEN  YOUR  PICTURE  MACHINE 
NEEDS  REPAIRING 

WHY  DON'T  YOU   SEND  IT   TO  U8! 

We    hare    the    best   equipped   machine   shop    lo    the 

country  and  can  repair  any  make  of  machine.    Write 

us  and  get  acquainted. 

WE  BUY  SECOND-HAND  MACHINES. 

GEO.  M.  HOKE  SUPPLY  CO. 

176  N.  State  St.  (bet.  Lake  and  Randolph)  Chicago,  III. 


DEVELOPING  and  PRINTING 

The  Gaumont  Company,  Flushing,  N.  Y.,  solicits  the  commercial  work  of 
other  film  companies,  individuals  and  amatems.  The  Gaumont  plant  is  one 
of  the  most  complete  in  America,  and  has  every  facility  for  turning  out  the 
usual  Gaumont  perfect  work  at  the  most  reasonable  prices. 

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The  Wurlitzer  Instruments  furnish  better  music  than  musicians  and 
reduce  expenses.    50  different  styles;  time  payments;  big  catalog  free. 
If  you  can't  call,  write  to  our  nearest  branch. 


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That's  What  They  All  Say 

Mr.  J.  H.  Hallberg,  Newburgh,  May  22,  1913. 

36  East  23rd  St.,  New  York. 
Dear  Sir: 

I  thought  it  might  interest  you  to  know  that  we  did  not  get  your 
A.C.  to  D.C.  Economizer  connected  until  5:00  P.  M.  yesterday  and, 
therefore,  did  not  have  any  opportunity  of  testing  it  out  before  the 
performance,  but  when  the  current  was  turned  on  everything  worked 
to  perfection,  and  the  results  were  more  than  satisfactory.  It  made 
the  Kinemacolor  pictures  remarkably  clear  and  steady. 

Yours  very  truly, 
(Signed)  F.  M.  TAYLOR,  Mgr.  Academy  of  Music. 

I  have  equipped  more  complete  motion  picture  thea- 
tres in  the  United  States  than  any  other  individual — Ex- 
hibitors have  paid  me  retainers  to  act  as  their  consulting 
and  advisory  Engineer  to  prepare  plans  and  specifica- 
tions for  new  theatres  and  for  reconstruction  and 
improvement  of  projection,  lighting,  ventilation,  seating, 
etc.,  in  old  theatres.  Why  do  exhibitors  pay  me  for 
advice?  Why  do  exhibitors  place  their  orders  with  me 
for  complete  equipments?  Because  I  have  had  more 
experience  than  anyone  else  in  working  out  the  intricate 
problems  of  projection  with  special  reference  to  perfect 
illumination.  You  know  that  your  picture  is  your  whole 
show.  I  know  how  to  make  that  picture  stand  out  on 
your  screen  clear,  bold,  brilliant  and  lifelike.  It  re- 
quires experience  to  do  this.  I  am  at  your  service.  I 
have  hundreds  of  letters  like  this: 

J.  H.  Hallberg,  Oakland,  Cal.,  May  16,  1013. 

36  East  23rd  St.,  New  York. 
Dear  Sir: 

We  are  about  to  open  our  own  circuit  of  houses  and  want  the 
latest  and  best  of  everything  in  each  one  of  them. 

Hallberg's  name  attached  to  anything  is  an  approval  amounting 
to  almost  a  guarantee,  hence  our  interest  in  your  output. 

Yours  very  truly, 
(Signed)    KEHRLEIN   KINEMA   CIRCUIT, 

Per  Oliver  Kehrlein. 

They  Have  Confidence  in  HALLBERG 

I  want  to  help  you,  Mr.  Exhibitor,  to  improve  your  picture  or  to 
equip  your  new  theatre.  My  price  is  no  more  than  that  of  any  other 
reliable  distributor,  and  I  am  sure  that  my  experience  and  advice, 
which  is  free  to  my  customers,  is  worth  many  dollars  and  is  of  more 
value  than  confidential,  special,  would-be  discounts,  cut  prices,  etc., 
used  by  some  of  my  competitors  in  pulling  unwary  exhibitors  into 
their  fold. 

Everybody  Is  Putting  in  the 

"HALLBERG"  A.  C.  to 
D.  C.  ECONOMIZER 

It  gives  the  best  light  in  the  world  for  picture  projec- 
tion. Is  made  in  all  sizes  for  all  conditions — ASK 
ABOUT  IT. 

Factory  Selling  Headquarters  for 
POWERS,  SIMPLEX.  MOTIOGRAPH  and  EDISON 

MACHINES 

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"HALLBERG"  D.  C  ECONOMIZERS 

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CARBONS 


I    EQUIP  THEATRES 
COMPLETELY 

Free  Circulars  on  all  makes  of  M.  P. 
Machines,  but  Hallberg's  Big  Cata- 
logue, 100  Pages,  costs  you  35c  by 
mail, 

!  J.  H.  HALLBERG 

36  E.  23rd  Street       New  York 


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STEEL  FURNITURE   CO 

New  York:   150  5th  Ave. 

Blk.     Philadelphia:    1943    Market    St.     Nashville 

Tenn. :  315  No.  4th  Ave. 


CHEAP 

STEEL  FRAME 
THEATRE   CHAIRS 

ABSOLU  ELY 
NON-BREAKABLE 

Suitable  foi 
Theaters  and  Mov- 
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We  carry  these 
Chairs  in  stock  and 
ship  Imme- 
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Also  seating 
for  Out-of-door 
use.  Address 
Dept  W. 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 
Pittsburgh:  318  Bissel 


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sible.    Our  chair  Is  a  friend  to 
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It     advertises    your     theater     and 
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It  is  ft  space-saver,  life-saver, 
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It  will  make  your  theater  all  aisles.  It  Is  the 
only  sanitary  chair.  It  is  the  world's  greatest 
theater  chair,  perfected  to  the  highest  degree, 
Write  today  for  circular  A. 
THE  HABDE8TY  MEG.  CO.,  Cftnal  Dover,  Ohio, 
U.  B.  A. 


SHERLOCK    HOLMES   SERIES 

Elplit  subjects  to  choose  from — two  reels  each. 
Territory  in  Indiana,  Kentucky,  Wisconsin 
(south  of  Green  Bay),  Illinois  (north  of  Spring- 
field. 

Allardt  Feature  Films,  Inc. 

D.  W.  McKinney,  Mgi. 

810  Straus  Bide.,  Chicago 

Phone,   Franklin  1474 


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Twenty-four-inch  $80.  Thirty-inch,  $110. 
Also  some  oscillating  twelve-inch  fans,  $13.75 
each.  All  General  Electric  make  and  for  alter- 
nating   current,     1    phase,    60    cycle,     110    volt. 

GEORGE  BENDER 
82  C  entre  Street  New  York  Cit 


REAL 


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ELECTRICITT5  NEAREST  RELATIVE 


No  more  trouble  with  gat- 
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NO  NOISE -STEADY 
LIGHT -COMPACT 

The  Leader,  having  the  sat- 

'    ■  ■■  urator  inside 

of  the  tank,  requires  25%  less 
oxygen  toevaporize  the  ether 
and  owing  to  its  simplicity, 
lightness  and  compactness*  it 
is  claimed  by  all  large  travel- 
ing- companies,  small  town 
theatres,  first-class  dealers 
and  all  other  users  as  the  onlv 
and  best  calcium  light  for  moving- 
picture  and  stereopticon  work 
The  Leader  is  3S  inches  high. 
7  inches  in  diameter  and 
weighs  only  15  pounds  and 
■will  burn  two  and  three  hours 
on  one  charge 

Complete  with  high  00  C  flfi 
grade  burner M>Z  J  i  UU 

Write  for  full  particulars 

DEARBORN  NOVELTY  COMPANY 


It  pays  to  discriminate  when  you  bay 

THEATRE  SEATING 

UfDITC   THHAV  *or  Cat.  V2  (Moving  Picture  Chairs, 

■Fill  I  C    IUUHI    and    Cat.    V3    (Upholstered    Chairs) 

Send  Floor  Sketch  for  Free  Seating  Plan. 

Widest  range  of  styles  and  prices.     Large  Btocl 

American   Seating   Company 

218  S.  Wabash  Ave.,  CHICAGO.      15  E.  32nd  St..  NEW  YORK 


Send  for  our   prices    before    buying 


BENNETT  SEATING  CO. 

36  EAST  3rd  ST.  CINCINNATI,  O. 


Steel  standards 
will  not  break 


Steel  or  Cast 
Iron  Standards 
in  many  styles 

Southern  California,  rep* 
resentative,  California 
Boating  Co.,  1109  Van 
Nuya      Bide.,      Lo»     An- 

Selea,   Cal. 
\      W.      representative, 
H.    A.    Johnson   Seating: 
Co.,    811    Wei  tern    Ave., 
Seattle.  Waah. 


The^  Wisconsin 
Seating  Company 

NEW  LONDON 
WISCONSIN,  U.  S.  A. 


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Chicago.  111.                i  ne  a.  ri.  Andrews  i_o.  Leading  cities 

New  York  Office,  1165  Broadway.                                                 Seattle  Office,  508-1*12  First  Ave.,  So. 

San  Francisco  Office,   723   Mission  St. 


Ellsworth    Illdg. 


CHICAGO,  ILL. 


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MOTION  PICTURE  FILM 

Used  by  Makers  of  Quality  Films 
WRITE  FOR   PRICES 

Sole  American  Agents 

Raw  Film  Supply  Company 

15  East  26th  Street  New  York,  N.  Y. 


STEADIEST  POWER 
LIGHTEST  WEIGHT 
CUSHMAN    ENGINES 

FOR  PICTURE  SHOWS 

High  grade  engines  with  automatic 
throttle  governors  and  Schebler 
carburetors  giving  a  reliable  and 
steady  power  for  electric  light 
service.  Get  our  40-page  catalog 
and  special  picture  show  engine 
folder.  Complete  dynamo  and 
plant  ready  to  connect  to  picture 
machines.  Ask  for  proof  of  their 
unequalled  success. 

CUSHMAN  MOTOR  WORKS 

2115  N  Street  Lincoln,  Neb. 


a    cylinder,    6-8    H.    P. 
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You   can   make   beautiful   colored   slides   in   one   minute. 
The  quickest,  easiest  and  best  way  to  make  announce- 
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Price,  $1.00  per  can. 
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to  say  to  your  audience. 

For  the  sum  of  $3.50  we  will  send,  by  parcel  post, 
prepaid  and  insured,  the  following: 

24  cover  glass,  1  package  binder  strips,  1  dozen 
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Till   Death  Do   Us  Part" 2000  Pilot  50-2     "  80.00 

The  Crisis    2000  Bison  50-2     "  75.00 

Lieut.   Rose  &  Train  Wreckers 960  Clarendon  30-2     "  40.00 

Zigomar   vs.    Nick   Carter 3000  Eclair  50-3     "  75.00 

Mystery  of  Notre  Dame 2500  Eclair  50-3  "  60.00 

Vengeance  of  Fate 2000  Bison  30-2     "  60.00 

Golden   Wedding    1800  Ambrosio  10-2     "  30.00 

Lieutenant's  Last  Fight 2000  Bison  24-1     "  40.00 

The   Iron   Hand 2500  Gaumont  10-2  "  60.00 

A  Soldier's  Honor 2000  Bison  24-2     "  50.00 

The  Flooded  Mine 2000  Clarendon  30-1  "  60.00 

Builders  of   the  Empire 2300  K-B  50-3     "  80.00 

Bottom  of  the  Sea 2000  Imp  20-2     "  80.00 

Lieut.    Rose — Stolen    Battleship 1600  Clarendon  20-2     "  50.00 

The   Gypsy  Girl 2000  Eiko  60-8     "  80.00 

Dick   Turpin,    No.    1 1250  B.    &    C.  80-2     "  40.00 

Dick  Turpin,   No.   2 1200  B.    &   C.  80-2  "  40.00 

Capt.    Kale    1000  Selig  20-1  "  16.00 

A   Rajah's    Rerenge 1200  C.  &  M.  54-1  "  25.00 

Muriel's  Double    1100  Barker  20-1     "  25.00 

Vengeance   of  Edgar  Poe 1800  Lux  80-1  "  60.00 

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covered for  New  Majestic! 

Louis  Reeves  Harrison,  who  gave  limelight  to  the 
"Biograph  Girl"  and  other  film  notables  before  all 
Other  critics,  spoke  so  glowingly  of  FRANCELIA  BILLINGTON  that 
we  signed  her  quick  for  New  Majestic.  See  her  in  "THE  FRATERNITY 

PIN"  (date  below)  and  see  what  a  ten-strike  we  made.      See  ANN 
DREW  in  that  picture,  too.    You'll  just  adore  the  Majestic  Girls! 

It's  Two  Mighty  flood  New-Majesties  We're  Handing  Yon! 

The  first  story  we  caU  "  THE  FRATER- 
NITY PIN,"  and  release  Sunday,  June  1. 
The  second  is  "THE  QUEEN  OF  THE 
SEA  NYMPHS,"  released  Tuesday,  June 
3.    You'll  get  BOTH,  of  course  f 

We  meant  every  word  we  said  in  last  week's  big 
bold  ad.  We  DO  want  y.our  opinions!  If  "FRA- 
TERNITY PIN"  isn't  as  good  as  we  think  it  is, 
"KICK"  TO  US.  Or,  if  you  like  it,  TELL  US 
WHY.  If  you  don't  like  "QUEEN  OF  THE  SEA 
NYMPHS,"  kick  on  THAT.  If  it  appeals,  give  us 
the  reasons.  We  are  doing  our  mightiest  to  make  the 
very  best  pictures  in  the  entire  Mutual  list.  We  can 
only  succeed  by  KNOWING  FROM  YOU  how  our 
work  is  progressing.  There  is  no  use  for  us  to  strike 
a  "right  line"  of  subject,  UNLESS  YOU  TELL  US 
WE'VE  STRUCK  IT.  And  by  the  same  method  of 
KNOWING  FROM  YOU  we  can  keep  dead  away 
from  the  "wrong  line"  of  subject — the  subject  that 
doesn't  tend  to  INCREASE  the  attendance  at  your 
house. 


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WHAT  IS  OUR  LOOP  SETTER? 

It   is   an   important   exclusive   feature   found  only  in 

POWER'S 

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HIS  exclusive  patented  device  places  POWER'S  in  a  class  by  itself.  By  its 
means,  the  machine  becomes  automatic  in  its  adjustment  and  maintenance  of 
the    lower   loop,    which    instantly    reforms    itself   without   stopping   machine. 

Q  It  prevents  film  breakage,  keeps  film  always  in  motion,  and  does  away  with  inter- 
rupted pictures  and  a  dark  screen. 

Q  All  this  at  very  slight  additional  cost. 

Q  In  ordering,  please  state  if  loop  setter  is  desired. 

Q  If  motor  drive  is  desired,  we  have  IT.  No  more  trouble  with  variable  speed  motors. 
Our  motors  are  constant  speed  ;  control  is  mechanical  and  of  wide  range  ;  operation  is 
simple,  effective.    THIS  DESERVES  SPECIAL  ATTENTION. 

Our  sales  represent  over  sixty-five  per  cent,  of  the  entire 
moving  picture  machine  output  of  the  Western  Hemisphere 
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When  the  posters  don't  come  in  with  the  "show,"  it's  some  pickle  your 
in,  isn't  it  ?  F'rinstance,  there's  that  Thanhouser  reel  you  naturally 
wanted  to  play  up.  NOW,  IF  YOU  HAD  THE  PLAYERPOSTERS 
YOU  COULD  STICK  UP  THE  ONES  OF  THE  "LEADS"  IN 
THE  REEL  YOU'RE  SHOWING  and  know  the  reel  was  advertised. 
Order  a  bunch  of  your  exchange  TODAY  and  stop  poster-worrying. 

The  Thanhouser  3 -a -Week 


SUNDAY.  JUNE  8 

MISS  MISCHIEF 

A  corking  comedy  of  the  countryside,  fea- 
turing Muriel  Ostriche.  Watch  her  play 
side-splitting  tricks  on  EVERYBODY. 


TUESDAY.  JUNE  10 

WHILE  BABY  SLEPT 

How  a  snake  escaped  from  a  circus  wagon 
and  invaded  a  peaceful  home.  See  Riley 
Chamberlin  in  his  portrayal  of  the  helpless 
"grandpa." 


FRIDAY. 
JUNE   13 


HIS    SACRIFICE 


A   tense   drama    of    the    best   Thanhouser    heart-interest    type,    with    Harry    Benham    in 
the  leading  role.     Observe  closely  the  sacrifice  and  the  reason  for  it. 

THANHOUSER    FILM    CORPORATION 

NEW  ROCHELLE,  NEW  YORK 

Coming!  Sunday,  June  15:  "The  Head  of  the  Ribbon  Counter,"  a  story  of  the  modern 
department  store,  and  Tuesday,  June  17:  "The  Snare  of  Fate, '  a  Lonergan  heart-interest 
drama  in  two  reels. 


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They're  Going  Fast!  Write  To  Us  Today! 


Released  Tuesday,  June  17th. 

"ANONYMOUS  LOVE" 

A   clever   comedy    with    nnique    and    hllarlons    sitnatlons.     If    you    want   to  please   your  audiences,   wiali   this  one  on  them. 


Released  Wednesday,  June  18th. 

"HILDA  WAKES" 

One  of  those  screamingly  funny  comedies  that  puts  your  audiences  in  convulsions.     It's  a  dandy. 


Released  Thursday,  June  19th. 

"THE  RUSTLER'S  SPUR" 

A    novel    and    sensational    Western    drama    in    which    a    sheriff    sacrifices  his  love  for  his  duty.     He  gets  her  in  the  end,  however. 


Released  Friday,  June  20th. 

"FEAR" 

A  powerful  drama  that  holds  your  interest  throughout  the  entire  play.     Demand   this. 


Released  Saturday,  June  21st. 

"  'ALKALI  *  IKE  AND  THE  HYPNOTIST" 

(With  Augustus  Carney,  the  "Gibraltar  of  Fun.") 
For  a  laugh-getting,   side-splitting  Western  comedy,    this  one  is   superb.     You  know  the  drawing  quality  of  "Alkali"   Ike  pictures? 
Then  book  this  one.     Your  audiences  will  be  sure  to  like  it. 


Special!!!  Released  June  20th  Special!!! 

"A  BROTHER'S  LOYALTY" 

(In  TWO  PARTS.) 
FEATURING   FRANCIS  X.  BUSHMAN 

"A  BROTHER'S  LOYALTY"  TELLS  THE  STORY  OF  FRATERNAL  CONSTANCY,  DEVOTION 
AND  SACRIFICE  THAT  QUIVERS  WITH  HUMAN  APPEAL  FROM  START  TO  FINISH.  ITS 
POWERFUL  PORTRAYAL  OF  CHARACTER  AND  ITS  MASTERLY  PRESENTATION  OF  SCENES 
FROM  THE  CRIMINAL  HAUNTS  OF  A  GREAT  CITY  PLAY  UPON  THE  HEART  STRINGS  OF 
HUMAN  EMOTIONS  WITH  AN  ELOQUENCE  OF  APPEAL  THAT  RENDS  THE  VERY  SOUL.  "A 
BROTHER'S  LOYALTY"  IS  A  GENUINE  MOTION  PICTURE  MASTERPIECE— A  THRILLING 
PHOTOPLAY  THAT  THROBS  WITH  STRONG  SENTIMENT  AND  POWERFUL  PATHOS  IN 
EVERY  VIRILE  AND  VIVID  SCENE.  ORDER  YOUR  SPECIAL  NOVELTY  DESCRIPTIVE 
PHOTO-CARDS  TODAY.  THEY  WILL  INCREASE  YOUR  BOX-OFFICE  RECEIPTS.  $3  A  THOU- 
SAND.    SPECIAL  ONE,  THREE  AND  SIX  SHEET  POSTERS  NOW  READY.    WRITE  US. 

THE  MOST  ARTISTIC  POSTERS  MADE  are  distributed  by  us.  Three  sheet  posters  of  all  our  Saturday 
releases  will  boom  your  business.  Posters  are  lithographed  in  full  four  colors,  35c.  each.  You  can  order 
these  from  your  exchange  or  direct  from  Essanay  Film  Mfg.  Co.,  521  First  National  Bank  Bldg.,  Chicago.  THE 
PUBLIC  ARE  WISE.  DEMAND  NEW,  CLEAN  POSTERS.  Your  lobby  display  will  look  attractive  if 
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1600  Broadway,  New  York  City 

"The  Largest  Film  Manufacturing  Concern  in  the  Universe" 

"Fair  Play"                           2R. 
"Morgan's  Treasures"        2R. 
"Two  Little  Waifs"             2R. 
"Robespierre"                      3R. 
"The  Capture  of  Aguinaldo"  2  R. 
"The  King  Can  Da  Na  Wrang"           2R. 
"The  Grand  Old  Flag"        2R. 
"The  Comedian's  Mask"    2R. 
"The  Spirit  of  the  Flag"    2R. 
"The  Battle  af  San  Juan  Hill"           3R. 
"The  Head  Hunter"             2R. 
"The  Menace"                      2R. 
"The  Law  Breakers"          2R. 
"The  Grit  of  a  Gringo"      2R. 
"The  Great  Circus  Catastraphe"         3R. 
"The  Governor's  Daughter"               2R, 
"Captain  Kidd"                    2R, 
"The  Buccaneer"                 3R 
"Under  the  Black  Flag"     2R 
"When  Mob  Was  King"     2R 

"The  Eye  of  Buddha"           3R. 
"Fortune's  Pet"                   2R. 
"The  Fallen  Angel"             2R. 
"The  Occupation  af  Manila"              2R. 
"The  Pawder  Flash  af  Death"            2R. 
"The  Sorrows  of  Israel"      3R. 
"The  Fakir"                          2R. 
"In  Love  and  War"             2R. 
"The  Battle  of  Manila"      2R. 
"Below  Decks"                    2R. 
"Women  and  War"             2R. 
"Nihilist  Vengeance"          2R. 
"Marriage  for  Money"       2R. 
"Uncle  Tom's  Cabin"          3R. 
"Robinson  Crusoe"             3R. 
"Annie  Laurie"                     2R. 
"The  American  Spirit"       2R. 
"Beauty  and  the  Beast"    3R. 
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The  California 
Film  Exchange 
Announces  Its 
Universal  Contract! 

Statement  by  M.  L.  Markowitz  to  Exhibitors  of 
the  Far  West:--"  After  making  seven  special  trips 
from  California  to  New  York,  I  have  at  last  got 
what  I  was  after— a  two  year  contract  with  the 
Universal  Film  Mfg.  Co.,  giving  me  exclusive 
right  to  the  famous  Universal  Program  in  CAL- 
IFORNIA and  NEVADA  and  also  the  right 

to  furnish  theatres  with  this  splendid  program  in  ARIZONA. 
I  am  going  to-  give  western  exhibitors  the  greatest  film 
service  in  America.  I  have  had  an  advance  view  of  the  big 
features  and  single  reels  to  be  released  by  the  Universal 
during  the  next  few  weeks  and  I  say,  without  the  danger  of 
contradiction,  they  are  the  finest  pictures  in  the  history  of 
the  business.  Remember,  the  California  Film  Exchange 
now  has  an  EXCLUSIVE  contract  with  the  Universal  and 
it  is  a  case  of  FIRST  COME,  FIRST  SERVED !  I  will  buy 
enough  reels  to  handle  all  the  business  you  see  fit  to  give  me  1 

California  Film  Exchange 

M.  L.  Markowitz,  Pres.  and  Gen.  Mgr. 

Offices    in    San     Francisco    and    Los    Angeles 


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with  the  Popular  BARNEY  CILMORE  is  full  of  thrill  and  punch 

Moving  Picture  World  says: 

All  the  sensational  feats  will  make  the  audience  wonder 
how  the  players  dared  risk  their  lives.  All  the  characters 
(always  excepting  the  villains)  will  make  a  strong  appeal. 
The  bluff,  good  natured  bigness  of  Barney  Gilmore,  him- 
self, is  full  of  suggestion  of  an  honest,  true  heart  in  his 
brawny  chest.  It  is  just  the  big  arms  of  him  that  will  fit 
around  the  neck  of  a  pretty  colleen,  like  Sheilah.  And 
Sheilah,  too,  with  her  black  curls  and  pretty,  coy  ways,  fits 
into  the  story  with  distinct  charm.  The  gallery  will  be 
attracted  by  her.  The  photography  is  excellent  throughout. 

The  Morning  Telegraph  says: 

Barney  Gilmore,  with  his  pleasing  personality  as  Gerald 
Kelly,  a  rollicking,  care-free  Irish  lad,  dominates  this  film 
completely  and  the  result  is  very  pleasing.  Film  personality 
is  far  rarer  than  stage  personality,  but  Mr.  Gilmore's 
buoyant  self  fairly  radiates  from  the  screen.  Blanche 
Cornwall  makes  a  very  entrancing  little  Sheilah  MacGuire, 
Kelly's  sweetheart,  while  Joseph  Levering  is  the  villainous 
Doolin,  Kelly's  would-be  Nemesis. 

Good  "bits"  are  frequent.  A  balky  donkey  is  made  to 
drag  a  go-cart  in  the  right  direction  by  hitching  him  in  the 
shafts  wrong-end-to.  Then  Kelly  goes  down  a  rope  over 
precipitous  cliffs,  about  80  feet  high,  with  his  sweetheart 
hanging  on  his  neck. 

The  biggest  "punch"  comes  in  the  scene  where  Kelly  is 
bound  to  a  railroad  track  in  front  of  an  oncoming  train. 
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on  the  cowcatcher  as  it  hangs  over  him  and  lies  there  kick- 
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great  piece  of  cutting,  back-away  stuff,  or  Barney  took  an 
awful  chance  with  his  life.  Whatever  it  is,  it  is  scary 
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"MARINE  LAW" 

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Selig  drama  in  two  reels — Released  Saturday,  June  14,  1913. 

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hunt  is  an  incident  of  the  story,  second  only  as  a  thrill  to  the  attack  on  a  young  girl  by  a  beast 
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"THE  WEAKER  MIND" 

Lubin  drama  in  two  reels — Released  Wednesday,  June  18,  1913. 
Another  story  involving  two  engineers,  but  this  time  in  a  different  way.  One  is  addicted  to 
drink.  The  other  attempts  to  save  him  from  ruin,  and  eventually  is  successful.  Bob  Glore,  "the 
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"A  BROTHER'S  LOYALTY" 

Essanay  drama  in  two  reels — Released  Friday,  June  20,  1913. 
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Paul's  work,  Hal  strikes  a  clue  that  leads  to  the  arrest  of  the  counterfeiters,  and,  in  the  fight  that 
follows  the  discovery,  is  mortally  wounded.  He  dears  his  brother  and  all  ends  well.  Photo- 
graphically and   dramatically,   one  of  the   best   films  ever  released. 

"MARY    STUART"— Edison,     three    reels.       Released  June  21,  1913. 

"THE    SNARE    OF    FATE"— VitagTaph,    three   reels.      Released  June  23,    1913. 

"THE    STRUGGLE"— Kalem,     two    reels.      Released  June   25,   1913. 

"A     VILLAIN     UNMA8KED"—  Eclipse-Kleine,     two    reels.      Released    June    27,    1913. 

"THE     TRAPPER'S     MISTAKE'—  Patheplay,     two  reels.      Released  June  28,    1913. 

"THE    PENALTY    OF    CRIME"— Luhin,    two    reels.      Released   June    30,    1918. 

"THE    TIGER    LILY"— VitagTaph,    two  reels,     Released  July  2,    1913. 

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"ALONE  in 
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SELIG'S    SUPREME  WILD  ANIMAL  TRIUMPH 

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daring  and  gripping  role  ever  enacted  by  a  motion  picture  actress. 
Absolutely  without  a  parallel.  See 
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June  16th-WHEN  LILLIAN  WAS  LITTLE  REDIRIDING  HOOD.  Fairy  story  vitalized.  On 
reel  with  SHOOTING  THE  RAPIDS  OF  THE  PAGSANJAN  RIVER  IN  THE 
PHILIPPINE  ISLANDS.     Educational. 

June  17th— TAMING  A  TENDERFOOT.  Comedy  of  western  life,  in  which  the  eastern  fop 
gets  his. 

June  18th — MRS.  HILTON'S  JEWELS.  A  drama  showing  how  a  woman's  vanity  came  near 
proving  fatal. 

June  19th— THE  GOLD  BRICK.     A  comedy  of  the  country.     An  ambitious  reporter  attempts 

to  get  a  feature  story  by  selling  a  genuine  gold  brick. 
June  20th-THE  FIGHTING  LIEUTENANT.    A  romance  of    Mexican  warfare.     On  reel  with 

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MARY  STUART 


In  THREE    REELS 


Released  June  21, 1913 


Is  as  different  from  the  average  multiple  reel  production 
as  daylight  is  from  darkness.  It  represents  a  tremendous 
amount  of  study  and  research,  a  painstaking  attention  to  little 
details  of  costumes  and  settings.  The  result  is  a  finished  product. 
The  love,  self-sacrifice,  pathos,  bitter  hatred,  intrigue  and 
tragedy  which  sway  the  emotions  of  the  great  characters  in  this 
famous  struggle,  afford  a  magnificent  opportunity  for  intense 
dramatic  action.  The  suspense  is  sustained  until  the  execu- 
tioner poises  his  gleaming  axe  above  the  fair  white  neck  of 
Mary  Stuart. 

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HER   ROYAL   HIGHNESS 

Comedy-Drama  (1,000).    Released  Monday,  June  16. 

The  little  Princess,  being  but  eleven  years  of  age,  is 
bored  by  the  attentions  of  many  servants  and  tired  of 
her  luxurious  toys.  She  runs  away,  to  the  consternation 
of  the  royal  household,  but  is  found  making  mud  pies 
with  two  ragamuffins. 

THE  TWIN  BROTHERS 

Both  Brothers  Played  by  One  Man. 
Drama  (1,000).  Released  Tuesday,  June  17. 
The  twins  love  the  same  girl,  but  she  marries  the  more 
sober  of  the  two,  who  assaults  a  blackmailer.  The  re- 
jected drunkard  nobly  submits  to  arrest  in  his  brother's 
place,  they  both  appear  in  court  pleading  guilty,  but  the 
man  is  not  injured  as  they  supposed  and  they  are 
released. 


CIVIC    PARADE,    NEW   YORK  CITY 

Descriptive  (350).    Released  Wednesday,  June  18. 

HE  WOULD  FIX  THINGS 

Comedy  (650).     Released  Wednesday,  June  18. 

He  simply  cannot  mind  his  own  business  and  is  always 
"butting-in."  But  the  climax  comes  when  he  volunteers 
to  stop  a  leak  in  the  kitchen.  While  he  is  clinging  to 
the  burst  pipe  and  deluging  himself  with  water,  the 
plumber  enjoys  a  smoke  down  cellar.  Then  he  simply 
turns  the  water  off. 

THE  EVIL  THEREOF 

Drama  (1,000).  Released  Friday,  June  20. 
The  son  of  a  department  storfe  owner,  by  his  attention 
to  one  of  the  girls,  who  is  ill  and  very  poor,  forces  his 
father  to  realize  that  low  wages  open  his  employees  to 
temptations.  His  fears  in  this  case  are  groundless,  but 
the  lesson  is  well  learned. 


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A  powerful  melodrama  in  which  an  attractive 
girl,  influenced  by  a  couple  of  crooks,  engages  in 
a  job  to  rob  a  jewelry  trunk  on  the  train,  but  falls 
in  love  with  the  victim.  She,  however,  is  forced 
by  her  companions  to  continue  the  plot,  but  it  turns 
out  to  be  a  failure.  The  robbers'  auto  is  pursued 
by  the  jeweler  and  others,  and  chased  down  the 
embankment  of  a  river.  Fielding,  the  jeweler, 
rescues  the  girl,  one  of  the  crooks  is  instantly 
killed,  and  the  other  confesses  the  whole  plot,  also 
tells  of  the  girl's  opposition  to  the  job  and  her  love 
for  the  jeweler,  who  in  turn  forgives  her  and 
makes  her  happy. 


"A    HERO    AMONG    MEN"  Special-Two  Reel  Wednesday,  July  9th 

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"VIOLET    DARE,    DETECTIVE "  1000  feet  Tuesday,  June  10th 

Clever  work  of  a  female  amateur  detective. 


"NEARLY  IN  MOURNING" 


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A  funny  farce  that  will  be  a  hit. 


Thursday,  June  12th 


"THE    PROFESSOR'S    PREDICAMENT"        600  feet        Thursday,  June  12th 

A  wonderful  prohibition  farce. 


"PAPITA'S  DESTINY"  1000  feet 

A  very  dramatic  story  of  the  Mexican  border  line. 


Friday,  June  13th 


"THE  WINE  OF  MADNESS"  1000  feet 

The  effect  of  the  deadly  drug  Loco. 


Saturday,  June  14th 


"BOB  BUILDS  A  BOAT"  4oofeet 

Another  of  Bob  Thompson's  blunders. 


Monday,  June  16th 


"SILENCE  FOR  SILENCE" 


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Clever  farce  on  Sunday  morality. 


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"THE  BACHELOR'S  BABY" 

Or  "HOW  IT  ALL  HAPPENED" 


Comedy-Drama        Monday,  June  9th 


It  happened  to  be  somebody  else's  baby.     He  adopts  it,  marries  its  mother  and  makes 
it  his  own.    Strange  how  it  happened. 


"CUTEY  TRIES  REPORTING" 


Comedy 


Wednesday,  June  11th 


Comedy  Tuesday,  June  10th 

He  manufactures  his  own  news,  and  wins  the  prize  against  the  opposition  of  the  girl's 
father  and  the  interference  of  her  little  brother. 

"HIS  HOUSE  IN  ORDER"! 

Or  "THE  WIDOWER'S  QUEST  "J 

He  meets  all  kinds,  gives  up  in  despair  and  finds  the  right  kind  of  a  wife  awaiting  him 
at  his  own  house.    Her  little  girl  knew  it  all  the  time. 

"HIS  TIRED  UNCLE"         1 

"THF    TAPFR^    OF    r\]p'\T\»\APaiTOfComaiies     Thursday,  June  12th 

1.  Women  have  lost  their  charms.    Bunny's  nephew  comes  to  his  rescue  and  everybody 
wakes  up.    2.  Cupid  plays  odd  pranks  on  two  spoony  couples. 

"AN    INFERNAL    TANGLE"  Comedy-Drama  Friday,  June  13th 

Foolish  suspicions  lead  to  a  serious  quarrel  between  two  families.    The  outcome  it  a 
laughable  one,  although  it  comes  near  being  a  tragedy. 

"DOES    ADVERTISING    PAY"         Comedy         Saturday,  June  14th 

Two  young  fellows  make  it  profitable  with  three  lonesome  dollars  and  a  lot  of  nerve.. 
They  marry  a  couple  of  wealthy  girls  and  start  on  the  high  road  to  success. 


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"THE    SILVER    CIGARETTE 
CASE"— Brilliant  Drama 

Monday,  June  16th 


"THE    COMING    OF    GRET- 
CHEN"— The  Only  One 

Tuesday,  June  17th 


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'TJUNNY'S  DILEMMA"— Comedy 

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"  'ARRIET'S  BABY"— Drama 


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Thursday,  June  19th 

Comedy  and  Topical 
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Saturday,  June  21st 


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TWO,"  IN  TWO  PARTS,  BY  ANTHONY  E.  WILLS; 
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The  Detective's  Trap 


Stolen  jewels  are  found  in  a  satchel  purchased 
detective  succeeds  in  tracing  and  apprehending  the 
Released  Monday,  June  23rd 

The   Knight   of   Cyclone   Gulch 

A  timid  sheriff  effects  the  capture  of  a  bad  man  in 
a  most  unusual  manner. 

(On  the  Same  Reel) 

Curing  Her  Extravagance 

The    husband    tries    many    ingenious    schemes    to 
curb  his  extravagant  wife's  expenditures. 

Released  Wednesday,  June  25th 


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thieves. 

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The  Cloak  of  Guilt 

Miss  Alice  Joyce  in  a  novel  drama 

A  young  woman  is  unjustly  suspected  of  rob- 
bing her  employer.  Later  a  broken  perfume 
bottle  is  the  means  of  exposing  the  guilty  party. 

Released  Friday,  June  27th 


Out  of  the  Jaws  of  Death 

The  rascally  overseer  makes  a  daring  attempt  to  secure  possession  of  the  plantation,  and  im- 
prisons his  rival  in  an  old  steamboat,  which  takes  fire.  His  victim  is  about  to  despair  when  a  thrill- 
ing rescue  is  effected. 

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Facts  and  Comments 

NOTE  in  a  recent  issue  of  the  Moving  Picture 
World  regarding  the  activities  of  the  Vermont 
State  Board  of  Health  elicits  the  information 
that  the  Board  of  Health  of  the  State  of  New  Jersey  is 
a  close  second  in  the  work  of  educating  the  public  by  the 
use  of  the  motion  picture.  Under  the  direction  of  Dr. 
Millard  Knowlton  a  series  of  lectures  with  motion  pic- 
ture illustration  have  been  held  in  the  cities  and  towns 
of  four  counties.  As  New  Jersey  towns  are  well  pro- 
vided with  electric  "juice"  a  portable  lighting  outfit,  as 
was  used  in  Vermont,  was  not  required,  but  the  work 
done  and  the  territory  covered  were  equally  as  compre- 
hensive and  thorough.  The  subjects  being  used  are 
"The  Red  Cross  Seal,"  "The  Awakening  of  John  Bond," 
"The  Man  Who  Learned,"  "Hope."  "The  Trail  of  the 
Germs,"  "Boil  Your  Water"  and  "The  Fly  Pest."  Spe- 
cial afternoon  lectures  are  held  for  school  children  and 
evening  exhibitions  for  the  general  public.  More  than 
100,000  persons  have  attended  these  lectures  and  Dr. 
Knowlton  is  greatly  pleased  with  the  interest  that  has 
been  aroused.     The  latest  exhibitions  of  the  series  con- 


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sisted  of  nine  days  of  lectures  at  Hoboken,  N.  J.,  ending 
June  6. 

*     *     * 

PRESIDENT  NEFF  adds  another  chapter  to  the 
censorship  controversy  this  week,  in  which  he  en- 
deavors to  give  some  proof  for  his  belief  that  the 
motion  picture  business  will  go  to  the  "demnition  bow- 
wows" if  legislative  censorship  is  not  enacted.  It  will  be 
noticed  that  the  little  word  "if"  still  plays  a  star  part  in 
his  argument.  If  other  states  will  join  Ohio  then  we 
shall  have  a  "censor  congress."  Mr.  Neff  is  taking  too 
much  for  granted;  he  says  such  and  such  things  will 
happen  if  a  legal  censorship  is  not  exercised  over  pic- 
tures. But  up  to  the  present  time  none  of  these  dire 
calamities  have  occurred  and  motion  pictures  have  been 
doing  business  for  some  years.  Censorship  has  been  a 
favorite  subject  with  certain  agitators  for  years,  but 
newspapers  and  legitimate  theaters,  which  have  been 
threatened  with  censors  from  time  to  time,  are  still  im- 
mune from  their  activities.  The  idea  is  abhorrent  to  the 
great  mass  of  Americans ;  we  have  combated  it  success- 
fully all  these  years  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  a  way  may 
be  found  to  put  an  effectual  stop  to  the  application  of  the 
plan  to  pictures. 


FOREIGN  manufacturers  of  motion  pictures  are 
warned  against  making  contracts  with  so-called 
agents  for  American  companies  claiming  to  con- 
trol a  market  here,  unless  such  agents  can  show  creden- 
tials from  established  American  distributors  of  pictures. 
The  American  market  for  foreign  pictures  is  precarious, 
for  the  reason  that  there  are  few  foreign  manufacturers 
who  have  measured  the  American  taste  sufficiently  ac- 
curate to  enable  them  to  produce  pictures  that  will  meet 
with  approval.  Those  who  have  succeeded  have  still  to 
compete  in  a  market  already  glutted  with  the  home  prod- 
uct, so  that  the  representation  by  American  agents  that 
an  unlimited  sale  can  be  secured  must  be  taken  with  a 
grain  of  salt.  The  best  that  the  foreign  manufacturer 
can  expect  of  the  American  market  is  that  it  will  take  a 
limited  number  of  copies  of  the  very  best  subjects  he  can 
produce.  Under  this  condition  it  is  folly  for  him  to  make 
exclusive  contracts  to  place  his  entire  product  in  the 
hands  of  any  one  distributing  company.  The  foreign 
company  that  can  afford  to  maintain  its  own  agent  in 
New  York  is  in  position  to  obtain  the  best  results. 


SATISFACTORY  progress  is  reported  by  the  com- 
mittee in  charge  of  the  arrangements  for  the  Mo- 
tion Picture  Exposition  to  be  held  at  Grand  Central 
Palace,  New  York  City,  July  7  to  12.  About  all  of  the 
space  available  for  exhibition  purposes  has  been  dis- 
posed of,  insuring  the  greatest  kinematograph  exposition 
the  world  has  ever  witnessed.  Many  special  and  highly 
entertaining  features  will  be  installed  in  the  exposition 
hall  which  will,  together  with  the  continuous  exhibition 
of  pictures  in  the  four  model  theaters,  afford  ample  at- 
traction for  the  visiting  public.  There  is  added  interest 
in  this  exposition  to  the  American  exhibitor  in  the  fact 
that  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  America 
will  hold  its  annual  convention  at  the  same  time  and  in 
the  same  hall.  Thousands  of  exhibitors  will  come  to 
New  York  for  that  occasion  who  might  not  deem  a  trade 
exhibit  sufficiently  interesting  to  induce  them  to  leave 
their  homes  at  any  other  time.  Altogether  the  outlook 
for  the  biggest  turnout  the  motion  picture  trade  has  ever 
witnessed  is  most  encouraging.  Enterprising  picture 
men,  of  whatever  branch  of  the  business,  cannot  afford 
to   miss   it. 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


Where  There's  Life 

By  Louis  Reeves  Harrison 


"  A  VAUNT,  I  will  write  a  photoplay,"  asserts  every 
f~\  man  with  pen,  ink,  paper  and  two  arms,  and 
looks  about  him  for  a  theme  leading  up  to  that 
triumph  of  feminine  lure  over  masculine  vanity  known 
as  "marriage."  This  method  of  procedure  has  its  charms 
— it  has  the  delight  of  uncertainty  from  start  to  finish 
and  leaves  the  audience  in  that  bewildered  state  of  mind 
which  causes  the  average  spectator  to  ask  "Why  is  a 
moving  picture?"  Unpleasant  truth  it  may  be,  but  the 
once-in-a-while  scenario  writer  has  something  of  the  same 
equipment  for  his  undertaking  that  the  lady  had  who 
went  down  town  to  buy  her  husband  a  suit  of  clothes 
with  no  other  idea  of  his  dimensions  than  that  he  wore  a 
"fifteen"  collar. 

Interesting  theme  that  deserves  attention  because  it  is 
ever  new,  relates  to  the  crossing  and  clashing  of  the  two 
great  factors  determining  the  lives  of  those  who  earn  all 
they  get,  the  series  of  events  that  happen  to  a  man  and 
stand  in  opposition  to  his  will,  and  the  way  his  determina- 
tion affects  them  or  is  affected  by  them.  Whether  cir- 
cumstances tragically  overpower  the  man  or  he  skillfully 
converts  them  to  his  purposes — his  consciousness  involves 
a  sense  of  opposition  to  his  wishes. — -the  ensuing  struggle, 
bringing  about  his  triumph  or  his  fall,  constitutes  a  theme 
replete  with  fine  dramatic  material.  Life  is  a  battle  be- 
tween the  individual  and  antagonistic  influences  in  his 
environment — these  two  are  nearly  always  at  odds, — and 
the  varying  results  furnish  ideas  for  some  of  the  most 
fascinating  stories  thrown  on  the  screen. 

Such  a  motive,  when  skillfully  applied  to  present-day 
conditions,  has  some  resemblance  to  a  keenly-contested 
game  of  chess.  The  central  figure  starts  out  with  a  well- 
defined  plan — he  is  instinctively  anxious  to  succeed — but 
he  is  compelled  to  modify  both  his  schemes  and  his  tactics 
according  to  unforeseen  changes  that  take  place  on  the 
board.  He  finds  that  he  is  not  as  wise  as  he  deemed  him- 
self to  be,  and  has  to  think  hard  at  an  important  crisis. 
There  is  where  he  conquers  or  surrenders.  To  be  or  not 
to  be  is  his  problem  at  the  acute  stage  of  the  game. 

Double  exposure  affords  picturesque  opportunity  to  un- 
cover the  workings  of  his  mind.  He  reverts  to  the  past 
as  a  guide.  Some  similar  experience  has  occurred  in  days 
gone  by.  He  reflects.  An  error  may  mean  calamity.  He 
struggles  and  flounders.  He  makes  a  false  move.  Dis- 
aster. Now  for  characterization,  a  picturing  of  his 
thoughts  and  feelings.  He  rouses  and  rallies  to  a  new 
standard.  He  is  a  man  of  courage.  Hurrah!  He  begins 
a  new  attack  with  vicious  determination.  A  slap  in  the 
face  merely  stirs  his  fighting  instincts.  He  delivers  blow 
after  blow  and  succeeds  by  turning  defeat  into  victorv. 

There  is  life  in  such  a  story  if  it  be  clearly  and  logicallv 
told.  If  the  conditions  are  those  most  of  us  are  forced  to 
meet,  his  struggle  will  awaken  strong  sympathetic  appre- 
ciation. People  watch  with  tense  interest  vital  incidents 
such  as  appear  in  the  secret  dramas  of  their  own  lives. 
There  is  a  stirring  of  the  heart  when  the  screen  portrayal 
lays  bare  an  assertion  of  the  human  will  against  resisting 
circumstances.  Most  workers  are  pounding  away  on  one 
or  another  predetermined  course,  encountering  unfore- 
seen difficulties  at  unexpected  moments,  and  they  enjov 
seeing  one  of  their  number  deliver  a  master  stroke  to 
some  purpose. 

Keen  sympathy  and  suspense  are  aroused  if  the  battle 
is  a  single-handed  one  against  undesirable  conditions 
known  to  all,  evils  in  economic  surroundings,  social  en- 


vironment, unjust  laws,  any  factor  destroying  happiness 
or  interfering  with  common  welfare.  It  may  rest  on  the 
solid  basis  of  a  simple  entertainment  or  rise  to  the  en- 
lightenment of  people  who  mournfully  regard  the  errors 
of  our  times  as  constituting  an  inevitable  if  not  necessary 
state  of  affairs.  The  only  trouble  about  such  stories  is 
that  they  may  not  appeal  to  those  authorized  to  select  a 
photodrama  because  of  their  inability  to  produce  any 
worth  mentioning. 

Comedy  might  be  made  as  full  of  life  as  serious  drama 
should  it  indicate  an  amusing  phase  of  human  weakness, 
such  as  that  of  attaching  too  much  importance  to  what 
others  think,  or  that  of  purring  vanity  when  flattery 
strokes  its  back  the  right  way.  How  deeply  annoyed,  yea, 
even  pained,  we  become  if  our  self-importance  is  at- 
tacked! We  may  have  our  faults,  but  a  fire-escape  will 
be  needed  for  the  individual  who  points  them  out.  Why 
doesn't  some  producer  take  off  the  foreclosure  of  mort- 
gage that  will  turn  mother  out  of  home  unless  the  boy 
hero  arrives  in  time  with  money  to  foil  the  villain  ?  And 
isn't  it  about  time  to  get  some  fun  out  of  the  one  obtuse 
and  two  acute  angles  of  the  eternal  triangle  theatrical 
men  have  been  playing  on  ever  since  a  drop  curtain  rose 
for  the  first  time? 

The  "infernal  feminine"  is  not  without  comedy  ma- 
terial. Contrasting  her  treatment  of  a  man  with  a  past 
and  a  woman  with  a  similar  background  might  quicken  a 
smile.  Why  she  is  less  interesting  in  pure  white  than  in 
scarlet  trimmings  might  lead  to  a  better  knowledge  of 
human  peculiarities.  Fascinating  problems  lie  deep  in 
her  propensity  to  spend  four  hours  twisting  her  hair  in 
front  of  a  mirror,  six  more  shopping  for  something 
marked  up  from  fifty  cents  to  three  dollars  and  down 
again  to  one  ninety-nine,  and  then  spread  a  delicatessen 
dinner  in  seven  minutes,  kick  about  household  drudgery, 
have  a  headache  and  expect  a  player-piano,  an  auto  and 
a  front  pew  in  church  as  her  just  reward. 

Rather  pathetic  are  those  stories  which  discover  our 
limitations  as  individuals,  those  which  show  that  no  one 
of  us  really  amounts  to  very  much.  They  are  sad  but 
sane.  They  might  keep  certain  unhappy  ones,  the  un- 
appreciated, who  are  carrying  too  heavy  a  burden  of  self- 
consciousness,  out  of  the  bughouse.  There  would  be 
something  salubrious  if  not  cheering  in  a  screen  portrayal 
of  the  fun  of  trying  as  opposed  to  the  less  humorous 
result  of  achieving  results.  Nearly  a  million  scenario 
writers  would  sit  up  and  take  notice.  There  is  a  delightful 
speculative  element  in  attempting  what  we  are  not  quali- 
fied in  any  way  to  perform,  and  the  disillusion  might 
bring  wholesome  realization  to  more  than  one  individual 
of  where  he  is  at. 

The  fidgety  man  offers  a  rattling  good  subject  for  farce, 
and  the  tannic-acid  woman  who  attempts  to  mother  half 
creation  with  "shoulds"  and  "shouldn'ts"  furnishes  an- 
other. How  to  make  love  at  Atlantic  City  placed  in  con- 
trast with  the  Asbury  Park  style  might  inject  life  into 
the  veins  of  a  photocomedy.  How  to  be  happy  though 
exiled  to  Los  Angeles  leads  back  to  the  tragic  and  high 
motives  that  deal  with  moral  improvement.  I  would  like 
to  see  a  photoplay  showing  that  a  man's  best' investment  is 
that  of  acquiring  knowledge,  or,  better  still,  one  showing 
how  the  weak,  the  faulty,  the  unfortunate  may  be  trans- 
formed into  useful  citizens  without  the  viciously  cruel 
methods  practiced  in  some  of  our  corrective  institutions. 
Instead  of  attempting  to  raise  the  dead,  give  us  plays  that 
throb  with  the  warm  currents  of  actual  life. 


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1 1 1 3 


"The  Snare  of  Fate" 

Three-Reel  Vitagraph  by  Eliza  G.  Harral. 
Reviewed  by  Louis  Reeves  Harrison. 

THIS  strong  protest  against  the  happiness-destroying 
power  of  money  when  it  delivers  men  and  women  up 
to  the  misery  of  having  nothing  to  do  might  well  be 
called  "The  Golden  Snare.''  particularly  as  it  is  one  of  many- 
similar  plays  demonstrating — in  this  case  with  force — that 
the  way  of  selfish  wealth  is  a  ruinous  one.  It  also  drives  at 
those  match-making  mothers  whose  idea  of  success  is  to  lead 
a  life  of  pleasure  calculated  to  dazzle  the  neighbors.  The 
story  is  of  a  kind  worn  threadbare — it  is  an  infernal  tri- 
angle with  a  girl-who-marries-wealth-to-save-a-ruined-father 
thrown  in — but  it  is  redeemed  by  tine  acting  and  beautiful 
settings.  It  is  so  admirably  done  that  William  Humphrey 
must  be  accorded  his  long-deferred  laurel  wreath.  He  pro- 
duced it  and  did  the  finest  acting  where  there  was  a  notable 
cast. 
.  Humphrey  portrays  a  wicked  character,  that  of  a  father 
who  steals  his  son's  fiancee,  as  it  should  be.  He  is  a  gentle- 
manly villain  rather  than  a  villainous  gentleman.  Wearing 
no  makeup,  resorting  to  no  trickery,  he  interprets  the  part 
with  such  fidelity  that  one  might  well  believe,  not  knowing 
him  personally,  that  nature  had  especially  equipped  him  for 
just  such  a  role.  Charles  Kent  presents  the  ruined  father 
with  feeling  and  S.  Rankin  Drew  lives  up  spiritedly  to  his 
implied  ancestry.  The  ladies,  Dorothy  Kelly  and  Louise 
Beaudet  round  out  the  strong  cast  with  beauty  and  acting 
that  deserves  superior  opportunity.  To  this  exceptional  list 
is  added  a  general  support  in  social  functions  from  some  of 
the  best  known  members  of  the  Vitagraph  Company. 

Barring  all  that  is  delightful  in  the  acting.I  should  ascribe 
the  charm  of  this  presentation  very  iargely  to  the  settings, 
to  the  equipment  and  arrangement  of  scenery,  costumes 
and  properties.    The  art  of  the  photodrama  is,  of  course,  com- 


posite.  The  theme  is  the  soul  of  the  play;  action  and  de- 
velopment make  that  soul  visible  to  those  in  front,  and  the 
settings  are  its  vesture.  Each  is  all-important  in  its  way, 
but  there  is  a  great  deal  in  having  the  eyes  of  the  audience 
satisfied  in  a  production  that  appeals  to  the  sense  of  vision 
alone.  A  creative  genius  may  compose  beautiful  music,  but 
it  is  the  artistic  rendering-  that  causes  that  composition  to 
afford  delight  to  others. 

In  each  one  of  the  social  functions  which  brighten  "The 
Snare  of  Fate,"  there  is  a  picture  of  symmetry  and  nice  bal- 
ance that  indicates  craftsmanship  on  the  part  of  the  director. 
The  stage  manager  who  interprets  skilfully  does  so  faith- 
to  the  equipment  and  arrangement  of  scenery,  costumes  and 
properties.  The  art  of  the  photodrama  is,  of  course,  com- 
posite. The  theme  is  the  soul  of  the  play;  action  and  de- 
fully  in  essential  elements  and  artistically  wherever  he  can 
give  the  author's  ideas  added  force  and  loveliness,  ami  so  the 
motion-picture  director  operates  to  visualize  a  scenario,  se- 
lecting what  is  in  harmony  with  the  trend,  sentiment  and 
purposes  of  the  photodrama.  adding  or  eliminating,  until  he 
reaches  a  harmonious  whole.  When  he  has  finished  all  this, 
when  his  scenes  are  set  and  his  characters  clothed,  there  are 
schemes  of  lighting  to  consider  and  he  must  preserve  the  sort 
of  action  that  is  in  harmony  with  his  subject. 

The  selfish  purposes  of  the  father  who  robs  his  son  of  a 
natural  choice  to  gratify  his  temporary  desires  and  the 
mother  who  makes  a  sacrificial  victim  of  her  daughter  to 
keep  up  appearances  in  her  set,  lead  straight  to  tragedy,  so 
the  play  is  logical  in  itself,  but  it  would  fail  and_  fall  if 
staged  without  unusual  taste  and  skill.     C'est  bien  fait. 


"The  Punch  Club,"  an  organization  of  assistant  directors, 
property  men,  stage  carpenters  and  scenic  artists  connected 
with  the  various  motion  picture  companies  of  Southern  Cali- 
fornia, has  elected  Joseph  Murphy  president,  Horace  Davey 
vice-president,  Al  Young  secretary,  and  Jack  White  treasurer. 


Interesting  Scene  from  "The  Snare  of  Fate,"  a  Vitagraph  Three-Reel  Feature. 


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Picture  Shows  for  Children 

Children's  Motion  Picture  League  Has  Comprehensive  Plan 

for  Greater  New  York — Asks  City  to  Contribute. 

By  J.  P.  McNeill. 

COMPREHENSIVE  indeed  are  the  plans  formulated  by 
the  newly  organized  Children's  Moving  Picture  League 
of  Greater  New  York,  which  a  few  days  ago  sent  a 
communication  to  the  Board  of  Aldermen  in  which,  among 
other  things,  was  this  paragraph: 

"The  league  is  urged  and  convinced  that  it  is  quite  proper 
to  ask  the  city  of  New  York,  through  the  Board  of  Estimate, 
to  contribute  $1,000  per  month,  or  $12,000  per  year,  towards 
the  cost  of  maintenance  of  this  work." 

The  letter  received  from  the  league  bears  the  signature  of 
Mrs.  Laura  Cogswell,  president  and  founder,  and  the  pur- 
poses of  the  league  as  set  forth  are  as  follows: 

First — To  make  possible  in  certain  theaters,  auditoriums  and  motion  pic- 
ture theaters  in  Greater  New  York  a  program  specially  adapted  to  children 
every  Saturday  from  9  a.  m.  to  1  p.  m.  and  every  week  day  during  public 
school  vacation  from  9  a.  m.  to  1  p.  m. 

That  the  unaccompanied  children  be  segregated  from  the  adults  and  a 
matron  salaried  by  the  proprietor,  and  approved  of  by  this  League,  be  in 
constant  attendance. 

Second — That  the  League's  Committee  of  Inspection  and  Selection  of 
Films  confer  with  proprietors  or  managers  of  these  theaters  in  the  making 
up  of  the  program,  having  in  mind  the  needs  and  the  pleasure  of  the  chil- 
dren relative  to  age  and  environment. 

That  _  these  entertaining  educational  films  shall  illustrate  history,  geog- 
raphy, industry,  commerce  and  science,  plant  and  animal  life,  and  thus  re- 
veal the  virtues  of  patriotism,  honesty,  loyalty,  humaneness,  courage  and  the 
purity  of  the  home.  Some  music  and  recitations,  and,  when  necessary, 
descriptive  lectures. 

Third — That  the  League  will,  through  the  Benefactor's  Fund,  arrange  for 
the  free  entertainment  of  groups  of  children  from  various  schools  and 
institutions. 

Fourth — It  is  the  intent  of  this  League  to  maintain  its  headquarters  in  a 
very  accessible  part  of  Greater  New  York,  and  where  its  members  will  be 
welcome,  and  plans  for  best  possible  results  discussed,  and  to  hold  public 
meetings  from  time  to  time  to  create  and  foster  moral  and  phvsical  safe- 
guards for  our  children  of  to-day  that  are  citizens  of  to-morrow." 

Fifth — That  this  League  will  publish  and  distribute  to  its  members  and 
the  public  certain  reports  of  the  League's  work  and  other  interesting  data 
of  this  wonderful  educational  factor  of  the  age. 

Sixth — The  League  will  ever  exert  itself  in  favor  of  any  legislation  tint 
will  tend  to  improve  existing  conditions  of  motion  pictures  and  motion 
picture  theaters. 

Membership,  $2  per  year;  sustaining  membership,  $5  per  year:  patron, 
$10;  benefactor,  $100  or  more;  life  membership,  $500  or  more;  memorials, 
your  pleasure. 

The  office  of  the  league  is  located  in  the  Heidelberg  Build- 
ing and  the  honorary  presidents  will  be:  Hon.  Woodrow 
Wilson,  President  of  the  United  States;  Hon.  Wm.  Sulzer, 
Governor  of  New  York  State;  Hon.  William  J.  Gaynor,  Mayor 
of  New  York  City. 

The  honorary  vice-president  will  be  the  Aldermen  of  the 
City  of  New  York,  the  Borough  Presidents  and  the  City  Clerk. 

After  telling  the  aldermen  that:  "You  do  not  discriminate 
in  favor  of  one  citizen  over  another  in  matters  of  civic  wel- 
fare, and  therefore  this  league  respectfully  solicits  your 
cooperation  in  its  plans  and  purposes  for  the  stimulation 
of  purity  of  the  home,  civic  pride  and  patriotism."  The  letter 
goes  on  to  describe  the  motion  picture  problem  in  the 
following  terms:  "The  motion  picture  problem  is  a  factor 
of  almost  incomprehensible  magnitude  in  our  civic  life. 
Whereas  formerly  a  decade  at  least  was  supposed  to  elapse 
in  order  to  truthfully  portray  history.  Behold,  the  his 
of  yesterday  is  with  us  today  (a  day  of  twenty-four  hours)  by 
means  of  these  wonderful  motion  films;  and  no  one  questions 
the  truthful  portrayal  of  the  process  as  we  gasp  and  grasp. 
There  is  an  ordinance  prohibiting  children  under  sixteen 
years  of  age  attending  motion  picture  shows  unless  accom- 
panied by  parent  or  guardian  (Dent  Ordinance).  We  en- 
dorse this  law,  but  we  wish  to  be  made  the  guardian  ad 
libitum  of  the  unaccompanied  children  during  the  hours 
specified  in  prospectus  submitted  to  each  of  the  members  of 
this  board..  The  league's  -committee  being  suppremtnted  by 
men  and  women  of  the  immediate  neighborhoods  of  the 
auditoriums  selected  for  the  children's  program." 

Some  of  the  members  have  volunteered  to  stay  in  the 
city  all  summer  in  order  to  assist  in  the  uplifting  situation 
and  the  league  states:  "The  Children's  Motion  Picture 
League  will  be  responsible  for  the  moral  and  physical  wel- 
fare of  air  children  from  the  age  of  six  to  sixteen  years. 
without  regard  to  race,  creed  or  color,  unaccompanied  by 
parent  or  guardian  while  in  these  selected  auditoriums.  The 
program  will  be  of  interest  to  adults,  and  they  will  be  wel- 
come. Babies  in  arms  will  be  urged  to  bring  their  mothers 
and  their  grandmothers — for  it  is  said  that  'the  education  of 
a  child  begins  with  its  grandparents,'  and  it  behooves  us  to 
assist  in  making  Greater  New  York's  million  of  young 
citizens  into  these  trusty  desirable  grandparents." 

The  league  will  secure,  according  to  present  plans,  33 
auditoriums  as  follows:  Borough  of  Manhattan.  10,  east 
and    west    side.      Borough    of    Brooklyn,    10,    including   2   at 


Coney  Island.  Borough  of  Queens,  5,  including  2  at  resorts. 
Borough  of  Richmond,  5.  including  2  at  resorts.  Borough 
of  the  Bronx,  3,  including  1  at  park  entrance. 

The  league  Mates  that  their  plan  is  endorsed  by  the 
clergy  of  all  denominations,  many  of  whom  have  consented 
to  act  upon  various  committees,  and  magistrates  and  judges 
of  the  children's  courts,  and  they  say  that  the  motion  film 
manufacturers  welcome  the  league  and  have  signified  their 
desire  to  further  the  work  in  every  possible  way,  even  to 
the  making  of  special  films. 

In  asking  for  the  monthly  contribution  of  $1,000  from  the 
city  the  league  says  it  will  enable  100,000  children  of  the 
Greater  New  York  public  schools,  parochial  schools,  private 
schools,  institutional  schools,  orphan  asylums,  deaf  and 
dumb  asylums,  blind  asylums,  cripple  asylums  per  month  to 
attend  these  entertainments  in  safe  and  sanitary  places  at 
the  rate  of  one  cent  per  capita. 

The  league  estimates  their  yearly  expense  at  $52,000  which 
they  hope  to  get  by  subscriptions  and  membership  dues. 

Besides  Mr*.  Cogswell,  the  other  names  mentioned  as 
being  connected  with  the  league  are:  Counsel:  Hon.  James 
L.  Bennett.  Ex-United  States  District  Attorney,  and  Hon. 
John  W.  H.  Crim,  Ex-Assistant  United  States  District  At- 
torney, 30  Broad  St. 

The  request  for  the  $1,000  a  month  from  the  city  was  re- 
ferred to  the  Finance  Committee  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen. 


LIONEL  ADAMS. 

Lionel  Adams,  a  recent  acquisition  to  the  Lubin  picture 
players  was  born  in  the  late  70's  in  New  Orleans,  where  he 
had  the  advantage  of  training  at  the  Tulane  University.  He 
early  acquired  the  desirje  for  the  stage,  and  his  career  has 
been  a  success  covering  a  wide  range  of  endeavor  in 
America  and  London,  England.  He  has  been  at  various 
times  a  member  of  Julia  Marlowe's,  Annie  Russell's,  Wm. 
Gillette's  and  Mrs.  Leslie  Carter's  companies.  But  he  will 
be  best  remembered  throughout  the  United  States  for  his 
rendition  of  Hall  Caine's  John  Storm  in  "The  Christian." 
His  later  successes  were  the  Mayor  in  "The  Man  of  the 
Hour,"  Joe  Brooks  in  "Paid  in  Full"  and  Richard  Ward  in 
"The  Spendthrift."  Mr.  Adams  has  always  been  a  student 
of  pantomimic  art  in  connection  with  his  stage  work  and  he 
feels  that  the  field  afforded  him  by  the  Lubin  studio  will  en- 
able him  to  continue  an  uninterrupted  artistic  career. 


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"The  Final  Judgment"  (Essanay) 

Reviewed  bj'  James  S.  McQuade. 
"rpHE  FINAL  JUDGMENT,"  written  and  produced  by 
I  Archer  McMackin,  is  the  strongest  two-reel  subject 
yet  turned  out  by  the  Essanay  Company.  It  will  be 
released  June  9.  "Into  the  North,"  reviewed  in  these  columns 
some  time  ago,  was  commended  because  of  the  change  of 
atmosphere  it  introduced,  forming,  as  it  did,  a  pleasing  con- 
trast to  the  tiresome  monotony  of  a  plethora  of  Western 
subjects.  "The  Final  Judgment"  is  welcomed  for  the  same 
reason,  and  it  is  commended  more  highly,  because  the  story 
— especially  in  the  second  reel— holds  one  with  a  firmer  grip 
and  stirs  one  more  deeply  by  its  heart  interest. 

This  is  the  first  photoplay,  as  well  as  I  can  remember,  in 
which  it  has  been  attempted  to  give  the  spectator  impres- 
sions of  life  in  the  Klondike,  around  the  later  'ao's,  when  the 
great  overland  rush,  by  way  of  Skaguay,  was  made  to  Daw- 
son City.     The  first  reel  has  to  do  with  the  lives  of  the  prin- 


civilization  at  its  best  and  civilization  at  its  worst,  as  revealed 
in  the  first  reel.  The  realism  of  this  fire  scene  reflects  much 
credit  on  the  producer.  Many  streams  are  turned  on  the 
burning  factory,  where  helpless  women  are  in  panic  and  rush 
madly  through  the  suffocating  smoke  in  a  vain  search  for 
safety.  The  closing  scene  in  the  hospital  is  affecting,  more 
especially  because  it  brings  to  a  happy  ending  the  troublous 
incidents  which  marred  the  earlier  lives  of  some  of  the  prin- 
cipals in  the  story. 

E.  H.  Calvert  does  fine  work  in  the  part  of  Frank  McCor- 
mack,  New  York  newspaper  man  and  prospector.  William 
Bailey  simulates  realistically  the  character  of  Carl  Brandon, 
prospector  and  false  friend  of  McCormack,  and  Edna  Wal- 
lace, the  woman  of  the  story,  is  capably  presented  by  Miss 
Dorothy  Phillips. 

Frank  McCormack  and  Carl  Brandon,  both  young  men 
from  the  East,  seek  their  fortunes  in  the  Klondike.  Brandon 
is  seized  by  the  gambling  fever  on  his  arrival,  and  his  friend 
McCormack  persuades  him  to  become  his  partner  in  a  res- 


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Scenes  from  "The  Final  Judgment,"  an  Essanay  Two-Part  Feature. 


cipal  characters  in  that  rude,  forbidding  mining  camp.  Mr. 
McMackin  has  succeeded  in  giving  us  very  probable  glimpses 
of  life  in  the  primitive  city.  An  interior  which  shows  a  scene 
in  a  combined  dance  hall  and  saloon,  and  another  which 
gives  a  view  of  the  humble  restaurant  owned  by  the  partners 
are  little  splashes  of  color  that  fit  in  well  with  the  locals. 
One  would  like  to  see,  in  addition  to  these,  a  few  Eskimo 
dogs  once  in  a  while — not  necessarily  on  the  trail  in  harness 
— just  to  heighten  this  local  coloring. 

The  struggle  between  the  two  partners,  amid  the  snow 
wastes,  affords  a  convincing  illustration  of  the  proneness  of 
man  to  revert  to  elemental  instincts  when  uncontrolled  by 
law.  It  is  fierce,  and  merciless,  too,  at  least  so  far  as  one  of 
the  combatants  is  concerned.  There  is  no  use  of  firearms  in 
the  final  test.  It  is  just  brute  strength  against  brute  strength; 
and  the  victor,  doggedly  pulling  his  sled,  leaves  his  partner 
and  friend  to  die  in  the  snow  drifts. 

The  second  reel  reintroduces  us  to  the  characters  in  New 
York  City.  In  it  there  is  a  thrilling  fire  scene,  with  a  display 
of  heroism  that  defies  death  itself,  in  the  effort  to  save  the 
lives  of  others.     And  here  we  have  a  fine  contrast  between 


taurant.  Each  falls  in  love  with  Edna  Wallace,  daughter  of 
the.  former  proprietor.  She  marries  Brandon.  Five  years 
later,  Brandon  has  become  addicted  to  strong  drink  and  pays 
much  attention  to  a  dancing  girl.  McCormack  beseeches  him 
to  reform;  but  he  quarrels  with  his  wife  and  his  friend.  Soon 
afterward  he  leaves  the  camp  secretly,  taking  with  him  his 
only  son,  then  about  four  years  old.  The  mother  is  dis- 
tracted over  the  loss  of  her  child,  and  McCormack  sets  out  to 
overtake  Brandon  and  bring  back  the  boy. 

The  men  fight  in  the  snowy  wilderness,  and  McCormack 
is  worsted.  Brandon  leaves  him,  as  he  thinks,  dead;  but  he 
is  discovered  by  two  prospectors  and  nursed  back  to  health. 
When  he  returns  to  Mrs.  Brandon's  home,  he  finds  that  she 
has  returned  to  New  York,  in  a  search  for  her  husband  and 
child. 

Fifteen  years  later,  McCormack  is  the  night  city  editor  of 
a  New  York  daily.  Returning  home  to  his  apartments,  in 
the  early  morning,  one  day,  he  hears  a  burglar  there.  Seiz- 
ing a  revolver  he  flashes  on  the  light,  and  discovers  in  the 
night  prowler  his  old  partner,  Brandon.  The  latter,  believing 
that  he  had  killed   McCormack,  falls   dead  of  heart  disease. 


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at  sight  of  him.  A  letter  in  his  pocket  reveals  the  where- 
abouts of  his  son,  and  McCormack  communicates  with  the 
young  man,  telling  him  of  the  tragic  death  of  his  father,  but 
suppressing  the  facts. 

Young  Brandon  is  given  a  position  as  reporter  on  Mc- 
Cormack's  paper.  One  day  a  "4-11"  fire  alarm  rang  out.  and 
William  Brandon  was  assigned  to  assist  in  reporting  it.  On 
his  arrival  at  the  burning  factory,  he  forgot  all  about  his  as- 
signment and  devoted  all  his  energies  to  the  saving  of  the 
women  and  girls.  One  woman,  especially,  he  would  not 
leave,  even  when  there  seemed  no  hope  to  rescue  her.  He 
succeeded,  however,  in  attracting  the  attention  of  the  firemen, 
and  she  and  himself  were  carried  out  badly  burned. 

McCormack  called  later  at  the  hospital  to  see  his  brave 
reporter.  The  young  man  pointed  to  the  woman  on  a  cot 
near  his  own  as  the  one  he  had  saved.  McCormack  took  a 
long  look  at  the  unconscious  patient.  It  was  Edna  Wallace, 
afterwards  Mrs.  Carl  Brandon,  on  whose  face  he  looked  with 
astonishment  and  awe.  William  Brandon  had  unwittingly 
saved  the  life  of  his  own  mother,  whom  he  had  never  seen 
in  his  years  of  remembrance. 


"The  Wages  of  Sin" 

By  George  Blaisdell. 

THE  sub-title  of  this  picture  is  "A  Drama  Portrayed 
From  Life."  There  is  nothing  in  the  three  reels  to  in- 
dicate that  it  is  not.  Of  course,  the  motive  behind  the 
making  of  this  melodrama  is  simply  to  exploit  three  men 
whose  names — and  photographs,  likewise — during  the  past 
year  have  been  much  in  the  public  prints.  No  one,  least 
of  all  those  who  financed  and  who  will  sell  the  picture  will 
deny  this.  The  three  men  under  discussion  are  at  liberty. 
Their  friends  will  say  they  served  the  state.  Their  enemies 
and  the  friends  of  the  five  men  under  sentence  of  death  at 
Sing  Sing  partly  by  reason  of  their  testimony  will  use  other 
language.  As  there  is  certain  to  be  a  deal  of  discussion, 
perhaps  some  con  as  well  as  much  pro,  as  to  the  unwisdom 
of  bringing  these  men  in  front  of  the  arc  light  of  screen  pub- 
licity it  is  fair  to  exhibitors  of  motion  pictures  to  give  them 
the  facts  and  let  them  draw  their  own  conclusions  unin- 
fluenced by  any  private  opinions  of  a  reyiew'er.  It  is  known 
to  readers  of  the  Moving  Picture  World,  however,  that  the 
use  on  the  screen  of  the  services  of  men  or  women  who  have 
had  unpleasant  notoriety  and  who  also  have  not  been  trained 
to  acting  is  to  be  deplored;  more  than  this,  it  arms  with  a 
club  the  diminishing  enemies   of  the  motion  picture. 

In  the  first  place,  as  to  the  Board  of  Censorship:  The 
writer  has  seen  the  names  of  the  eleven  persons  who  viewed 
the  picture  and  gave  their  official  opinion.  They  are  repre- 
sentative of  the  best  and  the  most  influential  civic  organiza- 
tions in  the  city  of  New  York.  The  vote  to  pass  was  unani- 
mous. From  one  of  the  members  who  was  reluctant  to  be 
quoted  it  was  learned  that  the  board,  after  full  and  free  dis- 
cussion, decided  that,  as  the  three  men  are  at  liberty,  that 
they  have  been  convicted  of  no  crime  and  consequently — 
even  admitting  their  associations  in  the  past — are  not 
criminals,  and  as  there  is  in  the  story  nothing  which  aside 
from  the  presence  of  the  trio  in  question  would  be  cen- 
surable, there  were  insufficient  moral  grounds  to  reject 
the  picture. 

Jack  Rose,  Sam  Schepps  and  Harry  Vallon  are  each  in- 
dividually introduced  at  the  opening  of  the  story.  The  three 
are  clerical  employes  of  a  firm  with  a  government  contract. 
The  time  for  the  deposit  of  $120,000  expires  in  a  week. 
Mason  conspires  against  his  fellow-partner.  Sebastian.  The 
former  is  under  the  impression  that  the  latter  cannot  make 
good.  He  influences  Malachi.  an  Italian,  to  precipitate  a 
strike  in  order  to  insure  Sebastian's  downfall.  There  is  a  flash 
showing  the  home  life  of  Rose— filling  the  two  children's 
stockings  at  Christmas.  The  three  clerks  make  up  their 
minds  to  play  the  races.  There  is  thrown  on  the  screen  a 
racing  chart  as  printed  in  a  New  York  morning  sporting 
paper.  "Why,  mother.''  says  one  of  the  clerks,  "what's  the 
use  of  working  when  I  can  make  a  year's  wages  in  a  day 
on  the  races?"  "Beware  of  gambling,  my  son,"  is  the  reply, 
"because  the  wages  of  sin  is  death." 

Jack  overhears  Mason  and  Malachi  conspiring.  He  tells 
Sebastian.  Mason  enters  the  office  a  moment  later  followed 
by  Malachi  and  the  workmen.  Jack  draws  a  pistol  and  the 
invaders  retire.  Malachi  gives  the  sign  of  the  Mafia — his 
forefinger  held  between  his  teeth.  At  luncheon  time  the 
three  clerks  leave  the  office  in  their  shirtsleeves.  "Say;  fel- 
lows," says  one,  as  he  takes  out  a  newspaper,  "come  and 
look  at  the  dope  on  the  ponies."  "Not  for  me,  my  boy,"  an- 
swers  Rose,   "the   races   have   sent   more   men   up   the   river 


than  all  the  pistols  in  the  world."  While  the  three  are  dis- 
cussing horse  racing  the  two  conspirators  enter  the  office. 
Mason  opens  the  safe,  takes  out  bonds  belonging  to  his 
partner,  puts  them  in  the  pockets  of  the  three  clerks,  and 
sends  Malachi  for  the  police.  Sebastian  comes  in  later,  tells 
his  clerks  he  now  has  the  amount  required  and  that  the  fac- 
tory is  saved.  As  he  goes  to  the  safe  he  discovers  his  loss. 
Mason  tells  of  seeing  the  clerks  take  the  bonds.  The  police 
enter  and  the  three  tire  taken  away.  As  the  workmen  refuse 
to  strike,  Malachi  determines  to  cripple  the  works  by  blowing 
up  the  great  smokestack,  which  he  according  does,  furnish- 
ing a  real  spectacle.  It  is  plainly  a  bit  taken  perhaps  from 
some  "weekly,"  but  it  effectually  serves.  The  clerks  are 
sent  to  prison. 

Three  years  later  the  convicts  return.  Then  comes  the 
struggle  not  to  obtain  employment,  but  to  keep  it.  As  Rose 
tells  his  wife.  "When  once  the  stripes  of  a  convict  go  across 
a  man's  back  the  world  is  against  him."  Scheops  has  the 
same  story  for  his  mother.  Vallon  in  desperation  says  he 
is  going  into  gambling.  Jack  in  a  new  job  is  seen  by  Mason 
and  again  is  discharged.  The  closing  of  the  factory  has 
ruined  Sebastian,  now  blind.  On  his  daughter  Lucille,  Mason 
forces  his  attentions.  In  a  lively  mix-up  Jack  knocks  him 
down. 

There  is  a  realistic  scene  showing  a  table  in  a  gambling 
house.  It  is  said  to  be  authentic  as  to  detail.  Certainly  it 
should  be.  Jack  begs  Sam  to  quit.  He  tells  him  it  will  pay 
him  in  the  long  run.  Sam's  mother,  ill,  pleads  for  the  re- 
turn of  her  son.  Lucille,  visiting  her,  goes  to  bring  him. 
\\  hile  he  is  on  his  way  Malachi  tries  to  backmail  Mason, 
threatening  to  tell  of  the  "frame-up"  that  sent  the  three  clerks 
to  prison.  In  a  fight  Mason  is  killed.  There  is  a  vivid  il- 
lustration of  the  "third  degree"  following  the  Italian's  ar- 
rest. The  shade  is  raised  revealing  the  body  of  Mason  just 
outside  the  window.  Malachi  confesses.  Later  he  is  sen- 
tenced to  death.  Schepps  in  the  meantime  has  reached  home 
too  late  to  see  his  mother  alive.  "I  wish  I  had  taken  her 
advice  when  she  told  me  the  wages  of  sin  is  death,"  he  says. 

There  is  the  story.  It  is  not  so  much  of  a  tale,  as  may  be 
seen,  yet  in  some  indefinable  way  it  holds.  There  are  evi- 
dences of  haste  at  times  in  the  making.  The  failure  to  do 
the  obvious  thing  at  the  end — by  having  the  Italian  confess 
that  three  innocent  men  were  sent  to  prison  and  thereby  re- 
habilitate them — will  strike  many  as  a  serious  oversight.  The 
photography  is  good.  Plainly  efforts  were  made  at  times 
to  hold  in  the  background  the  inexperienced  actors  and  pro- 
fessional gamblers,  but  it  must  be  admitted  that  as  actors 
they  have  done  much  better  than  might  have  been  expected. 
The  remainder  of  the  cast  is  professional. 


ONE  ON  KERRIGAN. 


They  are  telling  a  good  one  on  Kerrigan  in  Santa  Barbara 
and  picture  circles  in  Los  Angeles.  Jack  went  to  the  local 
picture  theater  in  Santa  Barbara  with  his  brother  Wallace, 
the  Western  business  manager,  the  other  night  and  watched 
a  reel  of  Mutual  Weekly  in  which  the  devastation  caused  by 
the  Dayton  flood  was  shown.  Some  views  of  bodies  being 
carried  from  the  debris  hushed  the  audience-  when  a  small 
boy  suddenly  piped  up:  "Gee!  there  wouldn't  have  been  so 
many  dead  ones  if  Jack  Kerrigan  'ad  a  been  there.' "  The 
audience  burst  into  sudden  laughter  and  before  the  reel  was 
finished  Jack  was  spotted  and  called  upon  for  a  speech.  As 
Jack  has  never  made  a  public  address  in  his  life,  he  grabbed 
his  cane  in  panic  and  fled. 


WELL  KNOWN  DRAMATIC  WOMAN  JOINS  ES- 
SANAY  EASTERN  STOCK  COMPANY. 
Mrs.  Clara  Reynolds  Smith  began  her  public  career  as  a 
dramatic  reader,  being  well  known  on  the  Lyceum  platform 
twenty  years  ago.  She  held  the  chair  of  oratory  in  Deland 
College,  now  Stetson  University.  Deland,  Fla.  She  began 
her  stage  career  in  the  Broadhurst  forces,  her  first  part  being 
Mrs.  Goodly  in  "What  Happened  to  Jones."  Since  that  time 
she  has  played  a  wide  range  of  Grande  Dame  and  character 
parts,  thus  Droving  her  versatility.  Her  stock .  experience 
has  been  wide,  she  having  played  stock  engagements  in  New 
York,  Buffalo.  Cleveland,  Indianapolis,  Minneapolis,  St.  Paul, 
Duluth  and  Denver.  She  has  supported  such  stars  are 
Amelia  Bingham,  William  Collier,  Victor  Moore  and  others. 
For  the  past  few  years  she  has  been  identified  with  new  pro- 
ductions in  Xew  York,  her  last  part  being  the  German 
mother  in  Augustus  Thomas'  "When  It  Comes  Home."  At 
the  close  of  the  engagement  of  the  last-named  play  she  de- 
cided to  enter  the  moving  picture  ranks,  and  has  joined  the 
forces  of  the  Essanay  Eastern  stock  company  at  Chicago. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


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PENNSYLVANIA  STATE  CONVENTION. 
Assembles  at  Philadelphia — State  Officers  Elected — Big  Dele- 
gation for  New  York  in  July — Fine  Trade  Exhibit. 
By  Hugh  Hoffman. 

IT  was  a  pretty  fine  looking  crowd  of  ladies  and  gentlemen 
that  gathered  last  week  in  Philadelphia  for  the  second 
annual  convention  of  the  Pennsylvania  State  Branch  of 
the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  America.  The 
historic  Continental  Hotel  was  selected  as  the  cradle  of  a 
new  Declaration  of  Independence  that  was  beautifully  voiced 
by  Fred  J.  Herrington,  of  Pittsburgh,  at  the  banquet  that 
terminated  the  official  proceedings.  The  convention  was 
called  to  order  on  the  afternoon  of  Tuesday,  May  27th,  by 
Walter  Stuempfig,  manager  of  the  Germantown  Theater, 
Philadelphia,  and  president  of  the  Pennsylvania  League. 
There  were  sixt3r  members  present  from  various  parts  of  the 
State,  and  not  a  piker  in  the  bunch.  There  were  a  few 
scrappers,  however,  but  they  were  honest  about  it  and  came 
right  out  in  the  open  with  their  grievances.  They  locked  the 
doors  at  the  Wednesday  session,  threw  the  key  out  of  the 
window,  and  had  a  fine  old  wrangle  about  dues,  elegibility 
and  all  that  sort  of  thing,  for  four  hours  and  a  half,  after 
which  they  emerged  flushed  and  happy  and  sauntered  arm  in 
arm  to  the  banquet  hall. 

President  Neff  of  the  national  body  made  an  inspiring  ad- 
dress at  the  opening  meeting  on  Tuesday  in  answer  to  the 
Hon.  Herman  Lowe,  Commissioner  of  Supplies  of  the  City 
of  Philadelphia,  who  made  the  address  of  welcome  for  Mayor 
Blankenburg,  who  was  unable  to  attend.  Mr.  Lowe  recog- 
nized the  merits  of  the  moving  picture  officially  and  made 
the  usual  remarks  that  every  official  makes  about  the  great 
danger  of  immoral  pictures,  etc.  Mr.  Neff,  for  the  enlight- 
enment of  Mr.  Lowe,  stated  that  he  did  not  remember  a  con- 
vention of  exhibitors  anywhere  that  did  not  advocate  clean 
pictures  or  the  uplift  of  the  business  in  general.  He  pointed 
out  that  financial  matters  had  played  very  little  part  in  tl»e 
deliberations  of  exhibitors  at  their  meetings.  "All  that  the 
exhibitor  wants  is  fair  play,"  said  he;   "we  do  not  ask  our 


lawmakers  for  any  favors,  but  we  do  ask  that  laws  shall  not 
be  passed  to  our  detriment  by  men  who  have  no  first-hand 
knowledge  of  our  business  or  the  conditions  surrounding  it. 
We  do  not  want  censorship  of  motion  pictures  to  be  placed 
in  the  hands  of  a  political  party  to  become  a  vote-getting 
asset  of  a  party  boss,  but  we  do  want  more  clean  comedies, 
more  scenic  and  Biblical  pictures.  We  are  in  favor  of  cen- 
sorship, but  not  where  it  is  biased  or  narrow,  and  when 
irresponsible  or  fanatical  people  undertake  to  destroy  such 
a  great  institution  as  the  motion  picture,  we  consider  that  we 
have  a  right  to  organize  and  demand  our  rights,  legally  and 
otherwise.  Mr.  Neff  criticised  the  schools  and  churches  for 
not  doing  their  duty  toward  cinematography,  in  refusing  to 
recognize  it  as  a  power  for  good  instead  of  evil. 

The  convention  adjourned  after  this  brief  session  to  allow 
the  visitors  to  make  a  trip  to  the  Lubin  studio.  An  automo- 
bile procession  was  formed  and  an  interesting  afternoon  was 
spent  at  Mr.  Lubin's  model  factory.  "Pop"  Lubin  is  one  of 
Nature's  noblemen;  unfettered  by  conventionalities,  un- 
changed by  material  success,  he  is  the  most  charming  of 
hosts.  There  is  no  aloofness  about  Mr.  Lubin;  he  gave  his 
entire  attention  to  the  visiting  exhibitors  during  the  time 
they  were  in  town.  In  the  evening  the  picture  folk  enjoyed 
an  entertainment  of  unreleased  photoplays  in  the  large  ban- 
quet hall  of  the  Continental  Hotel.  The  following  pictures 
were  exhibited:  "Only  a  Veteran"  (Vitagraph),  "A  Danger- 
ous Foe"  (Biograph),  "The  Honor  of  a  Soldier"  (Edison), 
"Bull  Fight  in  France"  and  "In  the  Forests  of  Cochin,  China" 
(Pathe),  "Doing  Like  Daisy"  and  "Yarn  of  the  Nancy  Bell" 
(Lubin),  "I'm  No  Counterfeiter"  (Ramo).  "Beauty  and  the 
Beast"  (Universal),  "Wild  Life  and  Big  Game  in  the  Jungles 
of  Africa  and  India"  (Arab  Amus.  Co.).  The  motion  picture 
exhibition  lasted  from  8  p.m.  until  1  a.m.,  after  which  many 
of  the  visitors  enjoyed  a  fine  cabaret  performance  upstairs 
on  the  roof  garden. 

Second  Day's  Events. 

A  heavy  and  steady  rain  put  the  kibosh  on  the  parade  that 
was  scheduled  to  pass  down  Market  Street  and  around  the 


PENNSYLVANIA  CONVENTION  COMMITTEE. 

Bottom  Row,  Sitting— M.  J.  Walsh;  Geo.  H.  Roth,  Treas.;  Walter  Steumpfig.  Pres.;  E.  A.  Jefferies,   Chairman;   Clc-n  Kerr,  Convention  Manager;  J. 

Hesser  Walraven,  Sec,  and  A.   R.  Cavanaugh. 
Too  Row,  Standing— George  Chapman;  J.   R.  Greenbaum;   Ben   Zerr;  Walter  Jacobs,  Press  Agent;  J.  Weinrich,  Chairman  Entertainment  Committee; 

John  Conners;  J.  W.  Pierce;  Harry  Schroeder  and  Chas.  Segall. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


City  Hall.  At  noon  President  Stuempfig  called  a  meeting  of 
the  league  members.  Mr.  Nefif  took  up  the  question  of  State 
and  local  dues  in  regards  to  their  distribution  among  local, 
State  and  national  treasuries.  He  then  made  an  address  on 
the  rights  and  responsibilities  of  exhibitors.  He  told  them 
it  was  the  duty  of  every  man  to  aspire  for  and  demand  only 
that  which  will  elevate  and  reflect  credit  on  their  business. 
Anticipating  a  spat  between  the  Pittsburgh  delegation  and 
the  Philadelphia  men,  Mr.  Xeff  abjured  them  not  to  lose 
sight  of  the  higher  and  better  things  for  which  their  organi- 
zation stands.  Local  differences,  he  said,  should  be  viewed 
and  treated  as  of  minor  importance  in  proportion  to  the 
loftier  purpose  for  which  they  were  assembled.  He  called 
attention  to  the  smallness  of  local  feeling  against  other  cities 
in  matters  of  legislation,  and  urged  the  men  to  work  side  by 
side  for  the  good  of  all.  By  his  well-spoken  address,  Mr. 
Neff  persuaded  the  members  to  look  upon  their  differences 
as  merely  incidental  to  the  bigger  business  in  hand.  Presi- 
dent Stuempfig  then  appointed  as  credential  committee, 
Messrs.  Jay  Emanuel  and  Walter  Jacobs,  of  Philadelphia, 
and  Henry  Poke,  of  Pittsburgh.  As  constitution  committee 
he  appointed  Messrs.  G.  W.  Pierce,  A.  R.  Cavanaugh  and  J. 
Hesser  Walraven,  of  Philadelphia;  Thos.  J.  Barbin,  Pitts- 
burgh, and  H.  A.  Victor,  McKeesport.  The  meeting  was 
then  adjourned  to  allow  the  visitors  and  their  wives  to  ac- 
cept the  invitation  of  the  Curtis  Publishing  Company  to  in- 
spect the  plant  of  that  remarkable  institution.  It  was  still 
raining,  but  a  large  procession  started  out  under  umbrellas, 
on  the  hoof,  for  the  $50,000,000  hut  recently  erected  for  the 
business  of  getting  out  the  Laaies'  Home  Journal,  the  Satur- 
day Evening  Post  and  The  Country  Gentleman.  One  does 
not  have  to  be  a  printer  to  be  impressed  with  the  greatness 
of  this  concern.  The  principal  impression  a  visitor  gets  and 
retains  is  that  there  are  some  great  invisible  minds  about 
this  place  somewhere  that  never  make  a  mistake.  It  is  one 
of  the  sights  of  Philadelphia  that  should  not  be  overlooked 
by  the  visitor. 

The  last  session  of  the  convention  was  called  to  order  at 
3  p.m.  and  continued  until  7.30.  For  some  unexplained  rea- 
son the  only  trade  paper  that  was  on  the  job  was  barred, 
both  from  the  preliminaries  and  the  elections.  It  seems  that 
in  cases  like  this  there  is  room  for  the  use  of  discretionary 
power.  Naturally  no  organization  in  closed  session  would 
wish  to  have  present  a  cub  reporter  from  a  local  daily,  who 
would  rush  out  with  what  he  might  consider  a  "scoop." 
Neither  would  such  an  organization  desire  to  have  present  a 
trade  journalist  who  would  be  apt  to  do  the  same  thing.  But 
where  a  publication's  past  record  and  performances  have 
always  been  for  the  welfare  of  the  organization  and  never 
against  it,  there  should  be  some  member  present  to  vouch 
for  the  safety  and  friendship  of  its  representative.  It  isn't 
what  he  prints  that  makes  a  good  journalist;  it's  what  he 
doesn't  print.  There  is  no  haunting  desire  among  newspaper 
men  to  listen  to  or  report  disputes,  but  there  is  a  point 
where  disputes  end  and  business  begins,  and  the  reporter  is 
there  to  make  an  intelligent  report  in  his  own  way,  and 
which  is  usually  a  better. way  than  the  average  recording 
secretary  does  it  for  him. 

At  this  meeting  the  Reading  local  was  accepted  into  mem- 
bership in  the  State  and  National  organizations.     The  Pitts- 


burgh and  Philadelphia  factions  then  had  their  little  squabble 
about  dues  which  ended  satisfactorily  to  themselves.  Elec- 
tions were  then  held  with  the  following  results:  President, 
Edward  A.  Jeffries,  Philadelphia;  first  vice-president,  Harry 
C.  Kliehm,  Pittsburgh;  second  vice-president,  Gilbert  C. 
Miller,  Plymouth;  treasurer,  Ben  H.  Zerr,  Reading;  secretary, 
Harry  E.  Reiff,  Lyric  Theater,  21  Boggs  Avenue,  Pittsburgh; 
national  vice-president,  Walter  Stuempfig,  Germantown 
Theater,  Philadelphia;  sergeant-at-arms,  Albert  J.  Fischer, 
Philadelphia;  publicity  representative,  Frank  A.  Gould, 
Reading,  Pa. 

Delegates  to  National  Convention:  H.  A.  Victor,  F.  J. 
Herrington  and  Harry  Poke,  of  Pittsburgh;  J.  Weinreich, 
Geo.  H.  Roth,  Morris  Spiers  and  Chas.  Segall,  of  Philadelphia, 
and  J.  G.  Hansen,  of  Reading.  Alternates:  E.  J.  Kuhn,  Lan- 
caster; J.  Hesser  Walraven  and  M.  A.  Benn,  of  Philadelphia. 
The  next  State  convention  place  will  be  selected  by  the 
State  officers. 

The  members  upon  adjournment  stepped  directly  into  the 
banquet  hall,  where  the  feast  and  the  ladies  were  waiting. 
The  large  room  was  fully  occupied  and  was  a  pleasing  sight. 
The  music  for  the  occasion,  as  well  as  for  the  two  days  of 
the  gathering,  was  furnished  by  the  Rudolph  Wurlitzer  Com- 
pany, using  their  new  style  "H"  orchestrion.  The  speech  of 
the  evening  was  delivered  by  Fred  J.  Herrington,  of  Pitts- 
burgh. He  reminded  the  members  that  they  were  sitting  in  a 
room  where  the  voice  of  liberty  had  often  been  heard.  A 
little  further  up  the  street  the  Declaration  of  Independence 
had  been  signed  by  men  who  had  the  courage  of  their  con- 
victions. He  went  back  and  traced  our  present  day  enlight- 
enment, our  institutions  and  our  national  liberty  to  men  and 
women  who  could  see  into  the  future  and  persisted  in  fol- 
lowing their  ideals  even  at  the  sacrifice  of  life  itself.  They 
were  fighting  for  an  institution  the  same  as  the  motion  pic- 
ture men  are  fighting  for  an  institution  that  they  know  will 
bring  about  the  brotherhood  of  man  throughout  the  earth, 
and  will  be  the  means  of  eliminating  international  prejudices 
born  of  ignorance,  which  could  never  be  wholly  eradicated 
by  the  printed  word,  but  which  will  be  dissolved  through  the 
medium  of  motion  pictures.  For  that  reason  every  ex- 
hibitor should  consider  himself  a  soldier  in  the  army  of  edu- 
cation ready  to  defend  and  advance  their  magnificent  institu- 
tion in  the  face  of  prejudice  and  oppression. 

Addresses  were  also  made  by  Mr.  Clem  Kerr,  Walter 
Stuempfig,  Hugh  Hoffman.  Clay  M.  Greene,  Arthur  Johnson 
and  M.  A.  Neff.  The  banquet  closed  with  an  exhibition  of 
motion  pictures  as  follows:  "Robinson  Crusoe"  (Rex),  "The 
District  Attorney's  Conscience"  (Lubin),  "The  Prisoner  of 
Zenda"  (Famous  Players),  "John  Burns  of  Gettysburg" 
(Kalem).  and  "The  Helping  Hand"   (Ramo). 


Trade  Exhibit  at  Philadelphia  Convention." 
If  it  were  not  for  the  trade  exhibits,  conventions  would 
be  tame  affairs  indeed.  To  be  sure  there  could  be  conven- 
tions without  them,  but  how  we  would  miss  those  gallant 
knights  of  the  road  who  gather  there  and  open  their  little 
stores  and  spend  more  money  than  they  take  in.  For  good 
nature  they  are  without  equal,  for  patience  they  are  in  a 
class  by  themselves,  and  for  njaking  the  well  known  welkin 


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ring,  you  ought  to  listen  to  the  cash  register  bells  when 
they're  around.  Yes,  they're  the  life  of  the  party  all  right, 
and  they  can  still  bat  an  eye  when  the  rest  of  the  party  is 
down  and  out. 

Take  that  Wurlitzer  crew,  for  instance.  Of  course,  on  ac- 
count of  the  nature  of  their  business  they  would  not  like 
us  to  say  that  they  were  the  big  noise,  but  their  activities 
helped  greatly  to  make  the  convention  a  success.  In  three 
separate  places  were  sample  copies  of  their  new  Style  "H" 
orchestrion,  built  especially  for  rendering  music  for  motion 
pictures.  Beside  being  a  regular  piano  it  is  an  organ,  an 
orchestra  and  a  sound-box,  both  automatic  and  hand  played. 
Among  the  effects  are  chimes,  bells,  drums,  castanets,  tam- 
bourine, cymbal,  violin,  flute,  'cello,  cornet,  bagpipe,  oboe, 
clarinet  and  various  sound  effects.  The  Wurlitzer  delegation 
were  Messrs.  Henry  Von  Steinert,  manager  of  the  Phila- 
delphia store:  M.  H.  Lawrence,  manager  theater  orchestrion 
department,  and  George  Leatherby.  The  operators  were 
Carl  A.  Bonawitz,  and  Mr.  Boyd  of  the  Nixon-Zimmerman 
forces.  For  two  solid  days  and  nights  they  purveyed  the 
sweetest  music  ever  heard  by  mortal  man.  They  were  all 
regular  fellows,  too. 

Fred  A.  Clark,  the  Eastern  scout  for  the  Motiograph  Ma- 
chine was  on  hand,  demonstrating  the  new  approved  Chicago 
Motor  Drive.  This  means  that  if  it  will  satisfy  those  Chicago 
authorities  it  ought  to  satisfy  anybody  in  the  world.  It 
has  been  officially  blessed  by  the  Chicago  Board  of  Fire 
Underwriters,  which  is  some  blessing  indeed.  After  midnight 
Fred  had  nothing  to  do  till  the  morrow,  so  he  put  in  his 
spare  time  on  the  roof  garden  until  it  was  time  to  go  to 
work  again. 

"Sanzone"  is  a  sort  of  perfumed  disinfectant  spray  that 
ought  to  be  very  good  for  keeping  theaters  sweet  and  clean. 
It  is  sold  in  bottles  of' quart  size  and  in  tins  of  larger  capacity. 

The  Swartwout  ventilator  is  a  perfume  box  with  a  tiny  elec- 
tric fan  at  one  end.  The  fan  draws  the  air  in  through  the 
perfume  compartment  and  sends  it  out  like  a  sweet  meadow 
breeze. 

Big  Eric  Morrison,  ambassador  plenipotentiary  for  the 
Standard  Machine,  is  a  survivor  of  more  conventions  than 
any  other  man.  Nature  endowed  him  with  a  physique  that 
was  made  for  wear  and  tear,  which  is  one  of  the  necessary 
qualifications  of  a  machine  salesman.  He  loves  his  little 
iron  horse  and  never  tires  of  making  it  do  tricks  for  one 
or  more  persons  assembled.  He  is  also  sporting  a  yellow 
-cane,  stolen  from  the  author  of  these  words. 

The  Globe  Ticket  Company  was  on  hand  with  57  varieties 
of  ducats,  each  one  for  some  different  kind  of  an  occasion. 
Samples  could  not  be  refused,  as  they  were  distributed  by 
one  of  Philadelphias  fairest  maidens. 

Charles  Calehuff,  the  dispenser  of  little  iron  wheels,  was 
there  with  several  kinds  of  intermittent  movements.  Chawles 
used  to  be  a  film  man,  but  has  reformed  and  now  he  has  a 
•fine  big  supply  house  that  sells  everything  for  the  exhibitor 
•except  "fillums." 

Will   C.   Smith   represented    the   Power's   machine   on   this 


occasion.      After    12    p.    m.    he    represented    Will    C.    Smith, 
Wurlitzer    automatic    virtuoso    and    spotlight    orator. 

Joe  Brandt  of  the  Universal  highbrow  department  edited 
a  daily  dope  sheet.  The  beauty  about  Joe  is  that  if  there  is 
no  news  he  can  make  news.  It  reads  just  like  regular  news 
too,  albeit  he  puts  one  over  quite  frequently  that  arouses 
some  envv  among  the  journalistic  profesh. 

One  could  almost  coin  a  wheeze  by  remarking  that  J.  E. 
Robin,  representing  the  Simplex  machine,  is  a  bird.  Which 
he  is.  It  doesn't  feaze  him  in  the  least  when  you  ask  for 
the  guy  that  sold  the  simp  a  Simplex.  He  was  among  those 
present.  Also  Mrs.  Robin,  a  delightful  little  lady.  We 
don't  know  but  what  it  would  be  a  good  idea  for  all  machine 
companies  to  send  the  wife  along. 

George  M.  Krupa,  of  Lancaster,  who  bought  the  Pennsyl- 
vania rights  for  the  Prisoner  of  Zenda,  showed  the  proper 
enterprise  b>'  having  a  space  to  display  his  advertising  mat- 
ter. He  showed  the  fillum  at  the  banquet  too,  which  of 
course,  helps   some. 

The  Westinghouse  people  are  evidently  just  getting  wise 
that  moving  picture  business  is  worth  bidding  for.  They 
were  on  hand  with  a  variety  of  contraptions  calculated  to 
make  the  exhibitor  cease  repining,  including  a  mercury  arc 
rectifier,  et  cetera. 

The  Keasbey  &  Mattison  Co.,  exhibited  fractions  of  an 
operating  cabinet  that  won't  burn  up.  We  felt  of  it  and  smelt 
of  it  and  tasted  it  and  put  it  to  every  other  known  test, 
and  we  opine  that  it  oughtn't  to  burn  up  if  it  is  the  kind  of 
a  booth   they  say  it  is. 

The  Newman  Company,  who  double  entirely  in  brass. 
were  in  evidence  immediately  upon  entering  the  "rotunda." 
This  was  one  exhibit  that  was  framed  up  right,  that  is,  y'un- 
derstand,  they  make  a  business  of  selling  brass  lobby  frames 
and  consequently  they  would  have  to  be  framed  up  right. 
We  appreciate  Mr.  Newman's  frame  of  mind  while  fighting 
for  his  honor  at  5  a.  m.  in  the  hotel  corridor. 

The  Radium  Vellum  Screen,  exhibited  by  Williams,  Brown 
&  Earle,  had  25  reels  projected  on  it  and  nary  a  scratch  to. 
show  for  it.     Not  even  a  finger  mark,  being  set  very  high. 


PRESIDENT  NEFF  REPLIES. 
Advances  Some  Further  Arguments  In  Support  of  His  Con- 
tentions for  Censorship  by  Act  of  Legislature. 

Cincinnati,  O.,   May  27,    1913. 
Editor  Moving  Picture  World. 

Dear  Sir:  I  have  read  with  .nuch  interest  your  article  on  censorship  in  the 
last  issue. of  The  Moving  Picture  World  (May  31),  and  wish  to  assure  you 
of  my  friendship  and  good  will  and  to  thank  you  for  the  kind  expr 
of  friendship  on  your  part.  I  assure  you  that  I  appreciate  the  work  you 
have  done  in  the  past  in  assisting  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  and 
the  industry  in  general.  It  is  plainly  to  be  seen  that  we  do  not  agree  upon 
the  subject  of  supervision  or  the  censoring  of  pictures.  I  desire  to  9ay  that, 
after  reading  your  editorial  and  duly  considering  it,  I  am  still  of  the  same 
opinion  that  I  have  always  been — that  there  must  be  some  supervision;  that 
the  manufacturer  of  imported  pictures  and  the  many  who  will  from  now  on 
join  the  army  of  camera  men  working  on  independent  lines,  should  be 
under  supervision.  If  one  manufacturer  is  placed  under  supervision  na- 
turally all  should  be  under  the  same  supervision.  . 

I  believe  that  you  are  honest  in  your  statement  and  that  you  thoroughly 


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believe  that  you  are  right.  My  reason  for  saying  this  is  because  I  believe 
that    I    am    equally    right. 

The  moving  picture  business  of  the  world  is  growing  so  rapidly  and  the 

naturally  attractive  t<>  the  politician 
and   he   wiil  ne   of   the   officials    in    Virginia   stated   at 

cur  open  meeting  in  Richmond;  the  time  has  arrived  when  state  laws 
should  regulate  the  industry.     If  v  by  and  allow  the  politician   to 

pass  laws  we  can  rest  assured  that  it  will  become  a  political  asset.  Every- 
one^ interested  in  Kinematography  should  use  their  best  efforts  to  keep  the 
mrtion  picture  clear  from  all  politics. 

I  wish  to  say  that  I  am  perfectly  willing  to  leave  the  question  of  cen- 
sorship to  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors  convention,  which  will  meet  in 
New  York  in  July,  and  to  abide  by  the  decision  of  that  convention,  but 
1  desire  exhibitors  throughout  the  country  to  fully  understand  the  censor 
board  question.  You  ask  for  proof  that  the  Ohio  municipalities  will  establish 
local  censor  boards;   here  it  is: 

Cleveland  has  a  local  censor  board  which  is  almost  as  expensive  to  the 
manufacturers  for  that  city  alone  as  it  would  be  to  censor  the  pictures 
for  the  whole  state.  This  statement  has  been  made  before  witnesses  by  a 
direct  representative  of  one  of  the  largest  film  manufacturing  companies 
in  the  world. 

Dayton,  Ohio,  is  now  forming  a  new  charter. 

Canton,  Ohio,  passed  upon  a  new  charter. 

Cincinnati  is  circulating  a  petition  for  a  new  charter. 

If  the  Ohio  censor  board  bill  had  not  been  passed  .everyone  of  these 
places,  and  still  more,  would  have  inserted  in  their  new  charters  a  clause 
providing  for  a  censor  board.  But,  as  we  now  have  a  state  censor  law  there 
will  be  no  reason  why  the  municipalities  should  insert  the  censorship  clause 
in  their  new  charters. 

It  is  true  that  the  Cleveland  censor  board  was  asked  for  by  the  film 
exchanges  and  some  of  the  exhibitors.  Cleveland  has  what  is  called  a 
'*lry-out"  board  and  the  trial  has  been  exceedingly  disappointing  to  the  manu- 
facturers and  exchanges.  When  the  State  Censor  bill  of  Ohio  becomes 
operative  the  Cleveland  board  will  have  no  authority. 

Senator  Foraker's  decision  on  the  censor  bill  passed  in  Ohio,  is  that  it 
covers  the  state  and  when  the  pictures  are  censored  by  the  State  Censor 
board,  municipalities  cannot  prevent  them  being  shown.  This  decision 
rs  another  objection  to  the  Ohio  law.  As  Senator  Foraker  has  been 
governor  of  the  state  of  Ohio  twice  and  was  in  the  United  States  senate 
for  several  years,  we  naturally  feel  that  his  legal  opinion  is  worth  something. 

In  regard  to  the  censor  congress  the  Ohio  bill  provides  that  the  Ohio 
board  can  co-operate  with  other  states  in  forming  a  censor  congress  to 
legally  censor  pictures,  and  that  the  action  of  the  censor  congress  composed 
ot  the  Ohio  board  and  other  state  censor  boards  shall  be  legal,  and  that 
all  pictures  censored  by  the  National  censor  congress  shall  oe  shown  in 
the  state  of  Ohio,  as  though  they  were  censored  in  the  state.  In  other 
words,  if  two  or  three  other  states  will  pass  the  same  kind  of  a  law 
that  Ohio  has  passed  and  join  Ohio  in  creating  a  censor  congress,  and  will 
establish  a  congress  at  the  most  available  places  and  will  then  secure  the 
co-operation  of  all  of  the  states  by  asking  them  to  pass  a  state  law  permitting 
all  pictures  censored  by  the  censor  congress  to  go  into  their  state  without 
interference,  then  we  will  have  a  legally  constituted  censor  board  which 
will  have  authority,  when  an  appeal  is  made,  to  eliminate  certain  objectional 
pictures.  At  the  present  time  there  is  no  board  that  can  legally  stop  a 
picture.  Chicago,  Cleveland,  Detroit  and  a  few  other  cities  have  boards 
that  can  stop  a  picture. 

\s  ;o  the  politician  possibly  th?  argument  might  apply  to  some,  but  I 
believe  that  the  governors  of  the  variots  states  of  this  Union  are  conscien- 
tious, honest  men  and  that  with  the  appointive  power  in  their  hands,  I 
feel  perfectly  secure  that  they  will  do  their  duty  fairly,  honestly  and 
efficiently. 

If  there  is  any  discord  among  :he  exnibitors  in  regard  to  the  establishment 
of  a  legal  censorship  board  only  an  extremely  limited  few  have  expressed 
it  so  far.  On  the  other  hand  many  states  are  positively  in  favor  of  a  censor 
congress.  As  they  could  not  get  a  bill  through  that  provided  for  a  censor 
congress,  the  bills  offered  were  killed.  Not  because  they  were  censor  bills 
but  because  they  did  not  provide  for  the  censor  congress. 

Evjryone  has  a  right  to  his  own  opinion,  which  I  cheerfully  grant.  All 
I  ask  is  that  each  one  should  be  given  a  chance  to  be  heard  before  the 
public  and,  as  stated  before,  if  the  members  of  the_  league  do  not  want 
a  censor  board  I  will  be  found  sustaining  and  working  for  what  they  do 
want;  but  I  must  first  have  an  expression  at  our  National  convention  to 
see  what  the  league  desires.  Very  truly  yours. 

M.    A.    NEFF,    President. 


TEXAS  CONVENTION. 


Successful   Meeting   of   Texas   Exhibitors   Held   at    Dallas — 
Officers  and  Delegates  Elected. 

The  second  annual  convention  of  the  Texas  State  Branch 
of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  America  was 
held  at  the  Oriental  Hotel,  Dallas.  Texas,  on  May  28-29, 
1913.  The  convention  was  attended  by  nearly  a  hundred  ex- 
hibitors. Deputy  National  Organizer  G.  H.  Wiley,  of  Kan- 
sas City,  Mo.,  was  chairman  of  the  convention. 

The  opening  meeting  on  Wednesday  morning  was  called 
to  order  by  Chairman  Wiley  at  10  o'clock,  a.m.  It  was  an 
open  meeting,  and  film  exchanges  and  machine  men  were 
well  represented.  There  was  a  general  discussion  of  the 
welfare  of  the  league.  The  following  officers  were  elected 
for  a  term  of  one  year: 

National  Vice-President,  T.  P.  Finnegan,  Dallas. 

President,  J.  S.  Phillips,  Ft.  Worth. 

First  Vice-President,  Theo.   Clemmens,  Beaumont. 

Second  Vice-President,  John   C.   Penn,  McKinney. 

Secretary,  Harry  J.  Gould,  Dallas. 

Treasurer,  P.  G.  Cameron,  Dallas. 

The  following  delegates  and  alternates  were  elected  to  rep- 
resent the  State  Branch  at  the  National  Convention  at  New 
York  City,  July  7-12,  1913:  Delegates — Moye  Wicks,  Hous- 
ton; W.  C.  Witchie,  Dublin;  E.  J.  Lampkin,  Greenville;  P.  G. 
Cameron.  Dallas;  A.  J.  Xydias.  Houston;  J.  S.  Phillips.  Ft. 
Worth:  W.  E.  Crow.  Electra.  Alternates — J.  C.  Penn,  Mc- 
Kinney; Jos.   Clemmens,  Beaumont;   L.   M.   Ridout,   Denison; 


M.  L.  Levine.  Corsicana;  N.  Lewis,  Tyler;  Thos.  D.  Gardner, 
Corsicana;  H.  Mulkey,  Clarendon. 

It  was  unanimously  voted  to  hold  the  next  convention  at 
Ft.  Worth,  Texas. 

All  credit  is  due  National  Vice-President  T.  P.  Finnegan  for 
the  excellent  manner  in  which  he  handled  the  arrangements 
of  the  convention,  and  Mr.  Wiley  left  no  stone  unturned  to 
see  that  the  business  end  of  the  meeting  was  well  taken 
care  of. 


DELWARE  CONVENTION. 

Motion  picture  exhibitors  of  Delaware  held  a  metting  at 
the  Du  Pont  Hote'l,  Wilmington,  Del.,  on  May  26.  and 
organized  a  State  League  affiliated  with  the  Motion  Picture 
Exhibitors'  League  of  America.  These  officers  were  elected 
for  the  ensuing  year:  National  Vice-president,  James  N. 
Ginns  of  Wilmington;  President,  Charles  I.  Beckett;  vice- 
president,  David  R.  Sablasky;  secretary,  Harry  E.  Klume; 
treasurer,  Nicholas  A.  Jones. 

A  motion  to  adapt  the  Ohio  constitution  to  the  needs  of 
the  Delaware  league  was  adopted  and  it  was  decided  to  hold 
another  convention  on  Friday  June  20,  at  the  Du  Pont 
Hotel.    President  Neff  was  there. 


NEW  YORK  STATE  CONVENTION  JULY  5. 
President  Samuel  H.  Trigger  of  the  New  York  State 
Exhibitors'  League,  has  advised  the  members  of  that  or- 
ganization that  the  annual  convention  will  be  held  at  the 
Imperial  Hotel,  New  York  City,  on  Saturday,  July  5,  1913. 
Officers  atid  delegates  to  the  National  Convention  will  be 
elected  at  that  time.     A  full  attendance  is  requested. 


MISSOURI  CONVENTION  DATES  CHANGED. 

Advice  has  been  received  from  Secretary  Welch,  of  the 
Missouri  Exhibitors'  League,  that  the  Missouri  convention 
dates  have  been  changed  from  June  10  and  11  to  June  23  and 
24.  The  meeting  will  be  held  at  Moberly,  Mo.  All  motion 
picture  exhibitors  in  the  State  are  urged  to  attend.  Particu- 
lars can  be  obtained  from  Secretary  Welch,  World  Theater, 
8th  and  Highland  Streets,  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  or  from  F.  A. 
Selby,  White  Way  Theater,  Moberly. 


CONVENTIONS  SCHEDULED. 

Missouri  State  Convention — At  Springfield,  June  23rd  and 
24th. 

Michigan  State  Convention — At  Vincent  Hotel,  Saginaw, 
June  10th  and  nth. 

Minnesota  State  Convention — At  Radisson  Hotel,  Min- 
neapolis, June  10th  and  nth. 

Washington   State   Convention — At  Seattle,  June   17th. 

New  York  State  Convention — Imperial,  New  York.  July  5. 


MANUFACTURERS  TAKING  SPACE  AT  EXPOSITION. 

Ernest  Boecker  has  taken  space  to  boost  his  mechanical 
musical  instruments. 

The  Famous  Players  Film  Company  have  taken  a  recep- 
tion booth  where  noted  players  will  be  assembled.  Mr. 
Adolph  Zukor  thinks  this  exposition  will  prove  of  immense 
benefit  to  the  entire  industry. 

Aschenbach  &  Miller,  Inc.,  manufacturing  chemists,  will 
exhibit  and  demonstrate  their  Sanozone  Disseminator  and 
Perfume.    This  article  is  said  to  possess  real  merit. 

The  National  Educational  Film  Company  are  planning  to 
show  the  trade  some  new  ideas. 

The  United  Ticket  Supply  Company  have  a  new  idea  they 
are  anxious  to  bring  to  the  exhibitors'  notice. 

There  are  now  over  fifty  concerns  represented  on  the  ex- 
position floor,  and  about  fifteen  others  have  declared  their 
intention  of  getting  in.  No  exposition  in  the  history  of  the 
trade  promises  so  great  a  success  as  the  First  International 
Exposition  of  the  Motion  Picture  Art. 


RISING  WITH   RAMO. 

Will  J.  Rising,  well  known  through  his  connection  with 
various  motion  picture  producing  companies,  is  now  doing 
some  excellent  work  with  the  Ramo  Company.  He  has 
several  two-reel  pictures  under  way. 


LEVINE  TRAVELING  FOR  SOLAX. 

H.  Z.  Levine,  the  genial  publicity  man  of  the  Solax 
Company,  is  on  a  business  trip  west  for  his  company.  Mr. 
Levine  is  a  very  capable  young  man  and  his  charming  per- 
sonality will  make   friends  for  Solax  wherever  he  goes. 


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CHICAGO   LETTER 

By  J  AS.  S.  McQDADE 


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UNINFORMED  and  misguided  people  in  this  country 
have  sought,  and  are  yet  seeking,  to  have  a  censorship 
of  moving  pictures  in  every  important  city  and  also 
in  some  cities  that  are  not  important.  The  danger  to  moving 
pictures  in  such  censorship  lies  in  the  fact  that  it  requires 
a  special  natural  aptitude  as  well  as  a  nice  sense  of  dis- 
crimination to  judge  them  rightly,  and  these  requisites  most 
of  our  would-be  local  censors  do  not  possess. 

In  a  recent  article  by  the  Turin  correspondent  of  Kine- 
matograph,  it  is  shown  that  the  system  of  censorship  adopted 
in  Italy  for  each  individual  town  has  resulted  in  complete 
failure.  Now  the  Home  Secretary  has  issued  a  new  order, 
by  which  central  censorship  will  be  adopted  in  that  country, 
and  a  special  department  has  been  established  in  Rome 
to  meet  the  arrangement. 

All  Italian  and  foreign  films  intended  for  exhibition  to 
the  public  must  first  be  shown  to  the  department,  and  the 
posters  and  advertising  matter  must  be  provided  with  a 
special  stamp  and  official  license.  Six  censors  are  employed, 
and  in  order  to  meet  the  expenses  it  is  said  that  the  govern- 
ment will  put  a  new  tax  on  production. 

The  new  departure  in  Italy  is  framed  somewhat  after  the 
English  plan  of  censorship,  which  has  been   fully   described 
by  W.  Stephen  Bush,  in  the  issue  of  May  17,  of  this  paper,  on 
page  683. 
Exorbitant  Rate  Charged  Chicago  Exhibitors  for  Electricity. 

The  secretary  of  the  Illinois  State  Branch  No.  2,  of  the 
M.  P.  E.  L.  of  America,  sent  out  the  following  letter,  on 
May  27,  to  every  member  of  the  league  in  Chicago,  with 
the  request  that  it  be  signed  by  the  league  member  or  mem- 
bers, giving  the  address  and  name  of  the  theater;  and  mailed 
to  the  alderman  of  the  ward  in  which  the  theater  is  situated: 
_  "The  Moving  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  America  con- 
sists of  about  six  hundred  members  engaged  in  exhibiting 
moving  pictures  as  a  business,  in  Chicago.  We  are  all  users 
of  electricity,  both  for  lighting  and  power,  to  a  greater 
amount  proportionately  than  any  other  line  of  business;  and, 
under  the  method  in  use  for  charging  for  the  consumption  of 
electricity  by  the  Commonwealth  Edison  Company,  we  pay 
an  excessive  and  exorbitant  rate  as  compared  to  other  users. 

"We  would  like  you  to  use  your  best  effort  and  endeavor 
to  see  that  the  rates  are  so  adjusted  that  we  may  have 
an  equitable  and  just  rate  as  compared  with  that  charged 
other  consumers. 

"We  would  suggest  that  the  maximum  demand  rate  as 
applied  to  moving  picture  exhibitors  should  be  eliminated, 
as  under  its  use  we  pay  proportionately  three  times  as  much 
as  any  other  consumers  in  Chicago. 

"Thanking  you  kindly  in  advance  for  the  efforts  that  you 
will  take  to  remedy  this  defect,  as  it  affects  the  moving 
picture  exhibitors,  we  remain,  etc." 

This  matter  should  be  attended  to  with  unremitting  dili- 
gence until  the  discrimination  against  moving  picture  theaters, 
as  now  practised  in  the  rate  charged  for  electric  service  in 
Chicago,  shall  be  equitably  adjusted.  There  is  no  doubt 
that  the  matter  can  and  will  be  so  adjusted. 

Death  to  Smut  Songs  in  Berlin. 

A  special  cable  to  the  Chicago  news  from  Berlin,  dated 
May  28,  states  that  two  effective  organizations  are  on  the  trail 
of  the  smut  song  in  that  city. 

One  organization  is  composed  of  young  people,  who  take 
long  walks  and  camping  trips  and  sing  together,  not  only 
keeping  alive  the  German  love  for  singing,  but  also  instilling 
in  the  minds  of  future  citizens  a  taste  for  clean  songs.  The 
other  association  works  with  the  police,  and  through  its 
large  membership  is  able  to  detect  the  first  appearance  of 
objectionable   songs. 

Pastor  Bohn,  secretary  of  this  association,  says:  "Germany 
has  been  visited  in  the  last  ten  years  by  a  scourge  of 
immoral  books,  pictures  and  songs,  which,  through  the 
efforts  of  the  association,  have  practically  disappeared.  But 
victory  is  far  slower  in  the  matter  of  changing  the  deep- 
seated  desire  of  the  public  for  questionable  things.  We 
believe  that  greatly  improved  cinematograph  shows,  strictly 
censored  cabarets  and  numerous  clean  burlesques,  coupled 
with  greater  facilities  for  coming  in  touch  with  the  finer 
things  of  life,  will  finally  win  the  fight." 


Chicago  Film  Brevities. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Kleine,  accompanied  by  their  daughter 
Helen,  sailed  from  New  York  for  Paris,  on  the  French  steam- 
ship line,  Thursday,  June  5.     Their  tour  will  last  six  weeks. 

*  *     * 

The  return  of  F.  C.  Aiken  and  I.  Van  Ronk^l  to  this  city 
last  week  was  marked  by  expressions  of  more  than  ordinary 
fervor  and  good  will.  The  offices  of  the  General  Film 
Co.,  on  Wabash  Ave.,  were  fairly  banked  with  riowers,  the 
gifts  of  employees  and  exhibitors.  Phones  were  kept  busy, 
echoing  the  general  sentiment  "Welcome  home,"  and  num- 
erous calls  were  made  by  men  in  film  circles,  who  accentuated 
their  regards  by  appearing  in  person.  Mr.  Van  Ronkel  has 
settled  down  to  hard  work  at  his  old  desk,  but  it  is  under- 
stood that  Mr.  Aiken  is  here  to  spend  a  week's  holiday 
rather  than  to  resume  his  former  duties  at  the  present  time, 
although  he  has  been  at  work  up  to  l}is  elbows  since  his 
arrival. 

*  *     * 

W.  R.  Scates,  manager  of  the  City  Hall  Square  Bldg., 
branch  of  the  G.  F.  Co.,  left  for  New  York,  by  the  20th 
Century,  Sunday,  June  1.  It  is  rumored  that  Mr.  Scates- 
will  be  appointed  manager  of  an  important  eastern  branch 
in  the  near  future.  He  is  expected  to  return  in  a  few  days, 
and  proceed   to  his  new   headquarters   soon   afterwards. 

*  *     * 

Harry  J.  Cohen  has  been  appointed  manager  of  the  City 
Hall  Square  Bldg.,  branch  of  the  G.  F.  Co.,  this  city.  Many 
of  his  old  friends  in  the  exhibiting  and  other  branches  of  the 
film  industry  have  been  offering  their  felicitations  during 
the  week. 

*  *     * 

Chas  J.  Sandrock,  the  genial  assistant  manager  of  the 
Union  Hotel  and  Restaurant,  who  has  a  host  of  friends 
among  prominent  film  men  throughout  the  country,  left 
for  New  York,  Monday,  June  2,  on  a  two  months'  trip  to 
Europe.  He  was  given  a  hearty  send  off  at  the  Union 
before  leaving,  by  a  throng  of  admirers  and  well  wishers.  He 
is  accompanied  by  his  grown  up  son,  and  they  sailed  from 
New  York,  for  Rotterdam,  on  the  Uranium,  June  5. 

*  *     * 

The  Royal  Albert  Hall,  London,  which  seats  many  thou- 
sands of  people,  has  been  secured  for  the  presentation  of 
Cines'  "Quo  Vadis?"  The  crowning  mark  of  favor  was 
bestowed  on  the  production  recently  when  King  George, 
Queen  Mary  and  the  Princess  Mary  witnessed  an  after- 
noon presentation  throughout.  The  moving  picture  is  com- 
ing into  its  own. 

*  *     * 

In  his  presentation  of  "The  Prisoner  of  Zenda,"  S.  L. 
Rothapfel,  of  the  Lyric,  Minneapolis,  in  order  to  create  atmos- 
phere, had  his  entire  orchestra,  the  soloists  and  the  staff  in 
front  of  the  theater  uniformed  in  costumes  exactly  like 
those  worn  by  the  actors  in  the  photodrama.  Governor 
Eberhart,  of  Minnesota,  his  staff  and  a  notable  gathering  of 
people  prominent  in  social,  business  and  educational  circles 
attended   the  opening  presentation  of  this   fine  photodrama. 

*  *     * 

F.  W.  Young,  secretary  and  state  organizer  of  the  Iowa 
state  branch  of  the  M.  P.  E.  L.  of  America,  was  in  the  city 
Monday,  June  2.  Mr.  Young  has  headquarters  in  Des 
Moines.  '  He  reported  the  affairs  of  the  league  and  business 
with  exhibitors  prosperous  throughout  the  state. 

*  *     * 

W.  W.  Watts,  president  of  the  Vaudette  Amusement  Co., 
and  manager  of  the  Vaudette  Theater,  Springfield,  111.,  paid 
a  call  at  the  World  office  last  week.  He  is  very  well  pleased 
with  the  condition  of  business  in  his  home  city. 

*  *     * 

Hunter  Bennett,  manager  of  the  Evanston  Theater,  Evan- 
ston,  111.,  paid  a  visit  to  the  World  office  last  week.  The 
Evanston,  which  had  been  running  dramatic  stock  shows,  has 
been  presenting  exclusive  picture  programs  since  May  26. 
The  Evanston  is  owned  by  the  Evanston  Amusement  Co. 
An  admission  of  10  cents  is  charged  for  the  pictures,  and 
licensed  service  is  used. 

*  *     * 

E.  H.  Duffy,  traveling  representative  of  the  Mutual  Film 
Corporation,  called  at  this  office  last  week  on  his  return 
from  a  prolonged  trip  through  the  South.  Mr.  Duffy  re- 
ported prosperous  business  for  his  firm,  and  excellent  busi- 
ness, generally,  in  the  exhibiting  business. 

*  *     * 

According  to  Ernest  Shipman,  of  the  "Stellar"  Motion 
Picture  Co.,  James  K.  Hackett  will  soon  be  seen  in  other 
successes,  on  the  screen.  At  the  present  writing  Mr.  Ship- 
man  is  waiting  over  in  Chicago  for  Mr.  Hackett's  return 
from    Milwaukee,    where    he    is    appearing    in    "The    Bishop's 


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Candlesticks."  Mr.  Shipman  and  other  moving  picture  men 
of  Los  Angeles  made  a  contract  with  Mr.  Hackett  for 
a  picture  based  on  this  drama  some  time  ago.  It  is  rumored 
that  further  negotiations  with  Mr.  Hackett,  which  may 
necessitate  a  hurried  trip  abroad,  are  being  entered  into.- 

*  *     * 

C.  A.  G.  Kuipers,  manager  of  the  New  Devon  Theater, 
Clark  &  Devon  Sts.,  called  at  this  office  last  week.  The 
New  Devon  was  opened  April  23rd  last.  The  house  is 
equipped  with  a  fine  mechanical  ventilating  system,  similar 
to  that  installed  in  many  of  the  largest  theaters  in  this  city. 
The  indirect  lighting  system  is  used.  Service  is  furnished 
by  the  G.  F.  Co.'s  branch  City  Hall  Square  Bldg.,  programs 
of  three  reels  being  offered  at  5  cents.  The  capacity  of  the 
New  Devon  is  600.     Mr.   Kuipers   is  very  well  pleased  with 

the  box  office  returns  thus  far. 

*  *     * 

Hugh  D.  Mcintosh,  the  Australian  fight  promoter,  is 
expected  to  arrive  in  Chicago  near  the  close  of  the  week 
ending  June  7.  He  has  wired  from  Frisco  to  H.  M.  Russell, 
manager  of  the  Golden  State  Moving  Picture  Co.,  regarding 
an  option  on  the  Australian  rights  for  "100  Years  of  Mor- 
monism,"  which  has  been  produced  by  the  company  men- 
tioned.   Manager  Russell  is  putting  up  at  the  Hotel  Sherman. 

*  *     * 

Geo.  H.  Hines,  owner  of  the  Lyda  Theater,  Chicago,  has 
made  arrangements,  it  is  understood,  for  the  opening  of  the 
Auditorium  in  South  Bend,  Ind.,  for  the  presentation  of 
moving  pictures  exclusively,  at  10  cents  admission.  The 
Auditorium  is  controlled  by  Harry  G.  Somers,  manager 
of  the  Knickerbocker  Theater,  New  York  City.  It  is  said 
that  Messrs.  Somers  and  Hines  will  present  picture  pro- 
grams on  a  percentage  basis.  If  this  venture  is  successful, 
it  is  the  intention  to  continue  moving  pictures  indefinitely 
at  this  house.  The  Auditorium  seats  1000  peoole  and  both 
it  and  the  Oliver  have  been  the  legitimate  houses  for  years 
in  South  Bend.  The  first  picture  program  (furnished  by  the 
G.  F.  C),  will  be  presented  about  the  middle  of  June. 

George  Connell,  one  of  the  oldest  employees  of  George  K. 
Spoor,  and  at  present  in  charge  of  the  shipping  department 
of  the  Essanay  factory,  this  city,  was  united  in  matrimony 
to  Miss  Bernice  Fuller,  of  St.  Louis,  Saturday,  May  24. 
The  bride  is  a  native  of  St.  Louis  and  prior  to  the  wedding 
had  just  returned  from  a  two  year's  trip  through  Europe,  on 
which  she  was  accompanied  by  her  mother.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Connell  were  presented  with  a  handsome  silver  tea  service 
recently  by  the  employees  of  the  Essanay  studio,  factory 
and  city  office.  Harry  McRae  Webster  made  the  presenta- 
tion speech  in  a  very  happy  manner.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Connell 
will  make  their  home  at  5137  Kenmore  Ave. 


ALASKAN  EXHIBITOR  VISITS  THE  WORLD. 

Among  the  visitors  at  the  offices  of  the  Moving  Picture 
World,  Tuesday,  June  3,  was  W.  D.  Gross,  of  Juneau, 
Alaska.  He  is  an  exhibitor  in  the  little  town  of  Juneau, 
which  is  something  like  4,000  miles  from  New  York  City  and 
has  2,000  population.  Two  shows  a  night  are  given  in  Mr. 
Gross'  house,  each  consisting  of  four  reels  of  pictures  for 
which  he  charges  an  admission  price  of  twenty-five  cents. 
Only  one  matinee  is  given  during  the  week  and  that  is  on 
Saturday,  when  the  admission  prices  are  five  and  ten  cents. 
Mr.  Gross'  house  has  a  seating  capacity  of  221  persons,  and 
if  he  has  an  audience  of  70  or  80  persons  at  each  show  he  feels 
that  his  house  is  "packed."  It  is  very  seldom  that  he  has 
over  a  hundred  persons  in  his  theater.  Even  at  this  price 
and  his  "large"  audience,  Mr.  Gross  says  that  he  is  making 
just  as  much  money  as  some  other  exhibitors,  who  are  play- 
ing to  an  average  of  400  persons  a  night  at  the  five  and  ten 
cent  admission  price.  Even  though  the  town  is  small,  Mr. 
Gross  is  not  without  a  competitor,  there  being  one  other 
picture  house  in  Juneau. 


BALSAM   AMUSEMENT   COMPANY   BUILDING   NEW 
THEATER. 

The  Balsam  Amusement  Company,  of  Bath,  Me.,  owning 
and  operating  the  New  Columbia  Theater  in  that  city,  is 
building  another  picture  house  at  Biddeford,  Me.  The  Bal- 
sam Company  opened  its  house  at  Bath  on  Monday,  May  26, 
and  the  receipts  taken  in  on  that  night's  business  were  sur- 
prisingly large.  No  doubt  much  of  the  success  of  this  house 
can  be  attributed  to  the  energy  of  Mr.  F.  H.  Burt,  president 
of  the  company.  Mr.  Burt  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
firm  of  Jerome  H.  Remick,  music  publishers,  in  the  capacity 
of  chief  salesman,  and  is  well  known  in  the  music  publishing 
business.  W.  M.  Burt  is  vice-president  of  the  company.  We 
feel  confident  that  any  house  opened  by  Messrs.  Burt  &  Burt 
will  thrive  under  their  management,  judging  from  the  suc- 
cess of  their  first  theater. 


REMARKABLE  SUCCESS  OF  "QUO  VADIS." 
George  Kleine's  Production  Doing  Record  Business  in  Sev- 
eral Cities — Imitators  Getting  Busy. 

George  Kleine,  with  his  marvelous  photo-drama  production 
of  "Quo  Vadis,"  has  started  a  "Quo  Vadis"  craze  all  over  the 
country.  Many  leading  stock  companies  are  producing  the 
play  in  dramatic  form,  there  is  a  heavy  demand  from  all  the 
booksellers  for  Sienkiewicz's  romantic  novel,  from  which 
both  play  and  photo-drama  were  adapted,  and  hosts  of  lec- 
turers and  public  speakers  are  taking  up  the  subject  for 
platform  work.  Mr.  Kleine's  success  has  been  wonderful, 
both  artistically  and  financially,  and,  as  is  always  the  case, 
there  is  the  usual  horde  of  imitators  who  cannot  conceive  an 
original  idea  themselves,  but  when  another  man  does,  they 
immediately  copy  it  and  trade  on  his  brains  and  ingenuity. 
In  the  present  case,  however,  Mr.  George  Kleine  has  the  ad- 
vantage because  the  whole  world  knows  the  Cines  creation 
which  Mr.  Kleine  controls  exclusively  for  this  country  is  a 
stupendous  affair,  which  no  other  company  over  here  could 
attempt  to  approach. 

As  an  illustration,  however,  of  the  lengths  to  which  these 
modern  pirates  will  go,  an  effort  was  made  last  week  to  steal 
the  seventh  reel  of  the  picture  now  being  exhibited  in  Chi- 
cago at  McVicker's  Theater.  A  stranger  called  upon  the 
operator  in  the  booth  and  said  that  the  main  office  of  George 
Kleine,  which  happens  also  to  be  in  Chicago,  had  sent  him 
for  Reel  No.  7.  Fortunately  the  operator  was  a  wise  young 
man  and  suspecting  some  trick,  refused  to  deliver  the  reel 
without  an  order  and  until  he  had  confirmed  it.  Conse- 
quently the  trick  failed. 

The  seventh  reel  is  one  of  the  biggest  features  in  a  spec- 
tacular form  of  the  production.  It  shows  the  great  arena 
scenes  where  the  thousands  of  Roman  citizens  see  the  chariot 
races,  the  gladiatorial  combats,  the  Christians  being  thrust 
to  the  lions  and  the  conquest  of  the  wild  bull  by  the  giant 
slave  Ursus.  It  is  a  reel  that  cannot  be  made  in  this  coun- 
try and  is  one  of  the  big  stumbling  blocks  to  all  imitators, 
pirates  or  thieves. 

All  the  George  Kleine  "Quo  Vadis"  companies  now  estab- 
lished in  New  York,  Chicago,  Brooklyn,  Philadelphia  and 
Baltimore  are  doing  enormous  business,  outclassing  the  re- 
ceipts of  the  big  dramatic  attractions  even  in  season.  A 
Southern  company  opened  on  June  2nd  at  Norfolk,  Va.,  and 
the  following  week  companies  will  be  established  in  half  a 
dozen  of  the  other  important  cities  of  the  country. 


PHOTOPLAYWRIGHTS    LAST    DINNER. 

A  Merry  Gathering  at  Keen's  Chop  House  Enjoy  Sumptuous 

Repast  and  Compare  Notes  on  Photoplaywrighting. 

Closing  the  season  of  its  activities  the  Inquest  Club, 
which  is  composed  of  a  number  of  motion  picture  playwriters 
of  New  York  and  vicinity,  gave  the  final  photoplaywrights 
dinner  of  the  year  at  Keen's  Chop  House,  in  West  36th 
street,  New  York  City,  on  Saturday  evening,  May  31.  There 
was  a  goodly  number  of  photoplaywriters  and  their  friends 
present  and  a  pleasant  evening  was  enjoyed  by  all. 

When  the  party  sat  down  at  the  well  laden  tables  "Pop" 
Hoadley,  scenario  editor  of  the  Universal  Film  Company, 
was  introduced  as  master  of  ceremonies  and,  in  a  few  well 
chosen  and  spirited  words,  invited  the'  members  and  guests 
to  "go  to  it." 

During  the  course  of  the  proceedings  remarks  were  made 
by  Carl  C.  Gregory  of  the  Thanhouser  Company,  Marc  E. 
Jones,  George  Hennessy,  Harry  Hoyt,  Rev.  Dr.  Stockton, 
Mrs.  Bronson  and  Epes  W.  Sargent,  photoplaywrights;  Ben. 
P.  Schulberg,  of  the  Famous  Players  Company;  Jack  Byrnes 
of  the  Universal  and  others. 

Mr.  Byrnes  gave  the  assembled  playwrighters  some  very 
good  tips  upon  the  relation  of  the  camera  to  their  work. 
Others  spoke  interestingly  of  some  of  their  experiences  in 
writing  and  marketing  photoplays. 

Mr.  Schulberg  made  the  announcement  for  the  first  time 
that  the  Famous  Players  would  feature  Mary  Pickford 
(Little  Mary),  in  a  series  of  two  and  three  reel  features. 

Among  those  present  were:  Rev.  E.  Boudinot  Stockton, 
Miss  Evelyn  Stark,  Carl  C.  Gregory,  (Thanhouser),  Mrs. 
Owen  Bronson,  of  San  Francisco,  Jack  Byrne,  (Universal), 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  B.  Black,  Miss  Grace  Moray  Lease.  Ben-Hur 
Lease,  Herman  E.  L.  Beyer,  of  Newark  Town  Talk,  Joe  Roach, 
(Pathe),  Elmer  W.  Romine,  John  S.  Thorp  and  Dr.  R. 
Ralston  Reed,  of  Morristown,  George  Hennessy,  E.  M. 
Wickes,  of  The  Writer's  Magazine,  Benjamin  Barondess, 
Edward  J.  Montagne,  Brooklyn  Citizen,  R.  O.  Runnels, 
Miss  Reba  L.  Van  Hook,  Marc  Edmund  Jones,  of  Chicago, 
Miss  Ethel  Van  de  Veer,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harry  O.  Hoyt,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  John  W.  Kellette,  of  New  Rochelle,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
James  L.  Hoff,  B.  P.  Shulberg,  Pop  Hoadley,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Epes  W.  Sargent. 


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THE  EDUCATIONAL  PICTURE. 

By  the  Rev.  E.  Boudinot  Stockton,  S.  T.  B. 
"Clean  Comedy." 

SINCE  the  publication  of  the  letter  of  Brother  Gerald  in 
the  issue  of  April  26th,  we  have  received  numerous  re- 
quests for  the  list  of  the  "cleanest  kind  of  comedy"  and 
as  the  requests  have  come  from  various  and  widely  separated 
parts  of  the  country  as  well  as  many  different  kinds  of 
workers,  we  give  below  a  list  of  some  of  the  good  comedies 
released  during  the  months  of  January  and  February,  1913. 
We  have  seen  most,  but  not  all  of  them  and  it  is  quite  possi- 
ble that  others  as  good  or  even  better  have  escaped  our  no- 
tice, consequently  we  shall  be  very  glad  to  receive  additions 
and  corrections  to  the  list  and  to  publish  them  in  these 
columns,  giving  due  credit  to  the  senders  except  in  cases 
where  we  are  asked  to  withhold  it.  If  this  plan  meets  with 
approval  we  will  follow  up  the  present  list  with  supplements, 
which  can  be  clipped  out  and  kept  for  reference  by  those 
who  need  "clean  comedy"  for  their  entertainments.  Please 
tell  us  frankly  what  you  wish. 

JANUARY. 

How  They  Got  the  Vote.     Edison  1.     (14:1328;    15:263.) 
Casey  at  the  Bat.     Vitagraph   1.      (14:1324:    15:263.) 
A  Tammany  Boarder.     Eclair  2.     (15:86;   159.) 
The  "Heiress/'    Essanay  7.     (15:82;  264.) 


(15:200;   159.) 
Edison  8.      (15:80; 
15:364-) 

Edison  13.    (15:182; 
(15:182;  465.) 
(15:186;  464.) 


363.) 
n.c.p.) 


The  $100  Bill.     Majestic  7. 

Interrupted  Wedding  Bells. 

Jimmy.     Essanay  10.     (n.s.p.; 

The  Office  Boy's  Birthday. 

The  Title  Cure.     Edison  15. 

A  Hero's  Reward.     Kalem  17. 

For  Lizzie's  Sake.     Keystone  20.     (n.s.p.;   15:159.) 

Ma's  Apron  Strings.     Vitagraph  21.     (15:284;  571.) 

The  Power  of  Sleep.     Edison  22.     (15:292;   571.) 

One  on  Willie.     Kalem  24.     (15:286;  572.) 

Her  Nephews  from  Labrador.     Thanhouser  26.      (15:506;   573.) 

The  Voice  of  Giuseppe.     Essanay  28.     (15:386;  779.) 

When  Mary  Grew  Up.     Vitagraph  28.     (15:380;   572.) 

A  Serenade  by  Proxy.    Edison  29.    (15:382;  678.) 

Hypnotism   in  Hicksville.     Essanay  31.      (15:386;  680.) 

The  Horse  that  Wouldn't  Stay  Hitched.    Kalem  31.    (15:388;  679.) 

FEBRUARY. 
Jed  Holcomb's  Prize  Box.     Nestor  3.     (15:500;  680.) 
How  They  Outwitted  Father.     Edison   5.      (15:496;   780.) 
Stenographer  Troubles.      Vitagraph  6.      (15:402;    780.) 
The  Love  Chase.     Eclair  2r,  6.      (15:502;  680.) 
Keeping   Up   Appearances.     Lubin   6.      (15:494;   780.) 
Odd  Knotts.     Essanay  11.     (15:602;  888.) 
An  Heroic  Rescue.    "Edison  12.     (15:600;  887.) 
Trixie  and  the  Press  Agent.    Kalem  14.    (15:704;  n.c.p.) 
The  Man   Higher  Up.     Vitagraph    14.      (15:598:  888.) 
The  Mayor's  Waterloo.     Lubin   15.     (15:602;  888.) 
From  Pen  to  Pick.     Pathe  15.     (15:606;  888.) 
A  Corner  in  Crooks.     Vitagraph  17.     (15:698:  887.) 
An  Up-to-date  Lochinvar.    Biograph  20.    (15:706;  995.) 
Teaching  Hicksville  to  Sing.     Essanay  20.     (15:698;  995.) 
Cinderella's   Slipper.      Vitagraph   21.      (15:698;   995.) 
The  Locket.     Vitagraph  22.     (15:698;  996.) 
The  Ghost  in  Uniform.     Thanhouser  23.      (15:930;  997) 


A  Fool  for  Luck.     Nesior  24.     (15:810:  890) 
All  on  Account  of  a  Transfer.     Edison  26. 


1 103.) 


(15:920; 
Yankee  Doodle,  Dixie.    Selig  26.    (15:802;   1103.) 
Lady  Audley's  Jewels.     Essanay  27.     (15:806;    1103.) 

Edison  June  Releases. 
We  wish  to  call  attention  to  the  following  list  of  releases 
put  out  by  the  Edison  company  in  June,  which  has  just  been 
sent  to  us  by  Mr.  John  Hardin,  the  company's  assistant 
manager  of  negative  production.  "Some  Sports  In  and 
Around  Los  Angeles,  California"  (Je4> :  "Along  the  Nile" 
(Jei3);  "The  Grand  Canyon,  Arizona"  OeiS);  Pyramids  and 
Sphinxes"  (Te23):  "The  Fly"  (Je28);  "While  John  Bolt 
Slept"  (Te;);  "The  Evil  Thereof"  (Jeao),  and  "Mary 
Stuart"  (Te2i).  The  second  and  fourth  are  the  first  in  the 
series  of  Egyptian  and  Palestine  pictures  that  were  made 
last  winter  by  the  Edison  cameraman,  who  is  now  in  Aus- 
tralia or  the  Philippines,  and  the  fourth  is  one  of  the  com- 
pany's excellent  series  on  public  hygiene.  The  third  will  be 
very  acceptable,  as  the  only  other  picture  made  of  the  Grand 
Canyon  is  a  short  split  reel  released  by  the  Nestor  company 
over  a  year  ago.  "While  John  Bolt  Slept"  is  the  story  of  a 
man  who  has  been  grinding  the  poor  all  his  life  and  whose 
conscience  is  awakened  in  such  a  way  that  he  makes  proper 


reparation.  "The  Evil  Thereof"  deals  with  the  prevalent 
conditions  in  department  stores  and  shows  how  changes  for 
the  better  were  brought  about.  "Mary  Stuart"  is  a  three- 
reel  special  and  is  a  photo-dramatization  of  Schiller's  fa- 
mous play  on  the  well-known  history  of  Mary  Queen  of 
Scots. 

Selig's  "Their  Stepmother." 

This  is  a  child  story  comedy-drama  and  is  one  of  the  best 
things  that  Selig  has  done.  It  goes  away  ahead  of  his  "Love 
Before  Ten"  in  story,  in  photography,  and  in  acting.  The 
children  read  in  their  story  book,  "And  she  was  a  step- 
mother, and  she  beat  them,  and  made  them  work  hard,  and 
did  not  give  them  enough  to  eat";  so  when  papa  told  them 
of  his  coming  re-marriage,  they  run  away,  and  are  found  by 
father's  fiancee,  who  plays  "fairy  godmother"  till  the  chil- 
dren telephone  papa  to  come  and  marry  her  and  keep  the  bad 
stepmother  away.  It  is  dainty,  quaint,  charming,  and  Kath- 
lyn  Williams  at  her  best. 

Releases  April  27  to  May  3. 
This  list  includes,  in  addition  to  the  list  of  regular  releases 
for  the  week  ending  May  3rd,  the  list  of  feature  releases  for 
the  month   of  April.     For  the   explanation  of  abbreviations, 
etc.,  see  volume  16,  page  691. 

General  Topics. 

NEWSPAPERS. 
Animated  Weekly.     Universal  3oAp.     (16:626.) 

iont.     Gaumont  3oAp.     (16:634.1 
Mutual  Weekly.    Mutual  2oAp.    (16:632.) 
I'.vjhe's  Weekly.     Pathe  2SAp.     (16:508.) 

CHILDREN'S  STORIES. 
Their  Stepmother.     Selig,  May  2.     (16:406;   704.) 

Religion. 

The  Bawler  Out.      Reliance  3r,   3oAp.      (16:519;   489;   sp.   rev.   46S.)      A 

loan  shark  story. 
An  Accursed  Inheritance.     Eclair-Union  Features,     (sp.  rev.   16:364.)     A 

sequel  to  "Alcohol,"  released  :oMti9X2. 

Sociology. 
The  Battle  op  the  Long   Sault.    Briam  2r  feature,     (com.    16:81.)    The 

story  of  how  Le  Sieur  Daulac  and  his  fifteen  companions  checked  the 

Iroquois  invasion  of  Canada  in   1660. 
Uses  of   Dynamite   by   the    U.    S.   Engineering  Corps.      Vitagraph    iMy. 

(16:410;  704.) 
German   Cavalry  Manoeuvres.      Eclipse  3oAp.     (16:408;  n.c.p.) 
The  Battle  of  Flowers  and  the   Fiesta   of   San   Jacinto.      Advance   M. 

P.  Co.'s  feature,     (adv.  16:520  and  631.) 
Life  in  the  Soudan.     Champion  2SAp.     (n.s.p.;   16:597.)' 
Street  Scenes,  Yokohama,  Japan.     Vitagraph  29AP.     (16:410;  597.) 
Old  Women  of  the  Streets  of  New  York.    Kalem  2My.    (16:403;  704.) 
Dick   Wittington    and   His   Cat.      Solax    *r   feature,      (adv.    15:1065    and 

1304;    sp.    rev.    15:873    and    16:145.)      Part    1 — The    Lure    of    London. 

Part  2 — The  Kitchen  and  the  Cat.     Part  3 — Fame  and  Fortune. 

Science. 

The  OfYTON,  Ohio,  Flood.     American  Feature  Film  Co.     (sp.  rev.  16:142.) 
The  Dayton  Flood  Horror.     Dayton  Flood  Film  Co.     (adv.  16:189.) 
Hidden  Life  in   Seaweed.     Pathe  29AP.      (16:412;   597.) 
The  Home  of  Terns.     Melies  iMy.     (16:410;  704.) 

Applied  Science. 

The  Panama  Canal  Today.     Pathe  3oAp.     (16:412;  704.) 

The  Pendleton,  Oregon,   Round  Up.    Oregon   M.  P.   Mfg.    Co.  4r.     (adv. 

16:423.) 
Some  Chickens.     Selig  iMy.     (16:406;  704.) 
The  Cormorant.     Pathe  29AP.     (16:412;  596.) 
Liquid  Air.     Pathe  2My.      (16:412:704.) 
Uses   of   Dynamite  by   the   U.    S.    Engineering    Corps.      Vitagraph    iMy. 

16:410.) 
Oil   On    Troubled    Waters.      American    2r    28Ap.      (16:416;    n.c.p.;    mfg. 

16:27;   opinion   of  Chicago  mining  engineers  on   16:361.)      Made  at  the 

Summerland  oil  wells,  Santa  Barbnra,   California. 

Fine  Arts. 
The  Opening  of  the  1913  Baseball  Season.     Imp  3My.     (adv.  16:338.) 

Literature. 

The  Tempest.  Union  Features.  (syn.  16:208.)  Photodramatization  of 
Shakespeare's  plav  of  same  title. 

Richard  III.  Shakespeare  Film  Co.  4r.  (adv.  16:188  and  526.)  Photo- 
dramatization  of  Shakespeare's  plav  of  same  title. 

Dorian  Grey.  N.  Y.  Film  Co.  jr.  1  adv.  16:297-)  Photodramatization  of 
Oscar  Wilde's  novel  of  sarrw 


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Les   Miserables.      Eclectic  or.      (syn.   16:42.2;   sp.   rev.  362.)      Photodrama- 

tization  of  Victor  Hugo's  novel  of  same  title. 
Quo  Vaois?     Cines-Kleine  8r.     (sp.  rev.:  '^6:467:  681.)     Photodramatization 

of  Henry  Sienkiewicz'  novel  of  same  title. 

History:  Archaeology. 
Scenes  and  Ruins  Near  Roue.     Cines  aoAp.     (16:408.) 
Geography. 

Winter   in   the   Upper   Engadine,    Switzerland.      Pathe    2My.      (16:412; 

704.) 
Views  of  Cape  Hatteras.     Gem  2oAp.     (adv.  16:338.) 
Along  the  River  Eure,  France.     Pathe  2oAp.     (16:412.) 
For  Germany  see  under  Sociology. 

A  Picturesque  Journev  in  Western  France.     Eclipse  3oAp.     (16:408.) 
Chinese  Scenes.     Selig  2oAp.     (n.s.p.;   i6:S97.) 
For  Japan  see  under  Sociology. 

Tashkent,  Asiatic  Russia.     Mutual  educational  iMy.     (16:418.) 
For  the  Soudan  see  under  Sociology. 
For  New  York  City  see  under  Sociology. 
For  Ohio  see  under  Science. 
For  Oregon  see  under  Applied  Science. 
For  Panama  see  under  Applied  Science. 

Biography. 

King  George  I.  of  Greece.    True   Feature  Film   Co.     (adv.    16:503.)     Sec- 
ond in  their  "Crowned  Heads  of  Europe"  series. 


MORE   ABOUT   THE   VALUABLE   PICTURES. 
By  Rev.  W.  H.  Jackson. 

A  correspondent  from  Illinois  writes  asking  for  more  arti- 
cles on  this  page  emphasizing  "the  educational  value  of  the 
pictures."  While  it  is  possible  that  almost  every  phase  of 
the  usefulness  of  the  pictures  has  been  touched  upon  from 
time  to  time,  it  is  possible  that  certain  emphasis  or  even  a 
wise  repetition  may  at  times  be  valuable.  Our  correspondent 
also  writes,  that  he  has  "The  "Moving  Picture  Educator's 
articles  reprinted  in  his  local  papers";  this  is  very  encourag- 
ing, and,  inasmuch  as  we  have  from  time  to  time  suggested 
this  very  plan,  we  cannot  but  believe  that  many  others  are 
doing  the  same.  To  further  encourage  such  of  our  friends 
it  is  a  pleasure  to  help  them  in  their  endeavors  to  make  more 
widespread  the  knowledge  that  there  is  more  than  passing 
value  in  the  average  picture.  It  is  perhaps  wise  to  make  a 
distinction  between  "The  educational  value  of  the  pictures" 
than  of  "The  value  of  the  educational  pictures";  this  latter 
is  always  conceded,  while  the  former  is  sometimes  ques- 
tioned. If  we  begin  by  eliminating  the  abuses  of  the  picture 
for  which  individuals  of  a  doubtful  nature  and  with  a  more 
than  doubtful  purpose  are  responsible,  we  find  that  the  aver- 
age picture  and  the  well-conducted  picture  house  possess 
positive  educational  value. 

A  recent  New  York  police  commissioner  (than  whom  no 
one  else  is  better  able  to  speak)  in  speaking  of  the  fact  that 
the  great  majority  of  crimes  were  committed  by  young  men; 
advocated  the  use  of  well-conducted  picture  places,  espe- 
cially on  the  Sabbath  days,  for  the  purpose  of  providing  an 
attraction  for  those  to  whom  the  churches  were  not  attrac- 
tive and  who  could  not  be  reached  by  the  ordinary  means. 
The  attractive  power  of  the  picture  has  always  been  one  of 
its  strongest  features,  in  this  sense  therefore  it  is  an  imme- 
diate success;  and  the  long  sought  for  answer  to  the  ques- 
tion— "how  to  attract"  certain  classes  is  solved  and  educators 
admit  the  same;  here  then  is  the  first  great  victory  to  the 
credit  of  the  educational  value  of  the  picture,  for  it  has  suc- 
ceeded in  one  of  the  most  trying  problems  in  sociology. 

The  next  step  is  the  class  of  exhibition,  and  the  nature  of 
the  picture.  Again  a  distinct  advantage  must  be  recorded, 
the  whole  scope  of  picture  possibilities  is  on  the  screen. 
The  time  has  passed  for  unhealthy  pictures,  the  pictures  of 
the  future  will  be  increasingly  of  a  higher  order,  everybody, 
in  the  world  of  moving  pictures  is  educated,  or  being  edu- 
cated to  the  production  to  that  which  will  edify  and  not 
debase;  as  a  result,  the  common  standard  is  one  which  a  few 
years  ago  would  have  been  considered  a  very  high  standard. 

Superior  to  the  vaudeville  and  kindred  "shows"  where 
ribald  songs  and  suggestive  evil  ideas  are  common,  and 
where  it  is  boasted  that  everything  "has  a  meaning  all  its 
own,"  the  moving  picture  is  prepared  with  a  view  to  the 
fact  that  it  is  expected  to  give  pleasure  that  will  profitably 
entertain,  and  that  it  is  subject  to  criticism,  and  possibly 
censure  if  it  does  not.  Because  of  this,  the  present-day  ex- 
hibition tends  more  and  more  towards  an  elevated  taste. 
The  Exhibitors'  League  also  has  imparted  a  spirit  of  honor 
among  its  members  which,  spreading  through  the  rank  and 
file,  has  a  tendency  to  secure  that  "esprit  du  corps"  which  is 
always  so  valuable  in  any  organization  which  values  true 
honor.  The  various  conventions  are  of  additional  educa- 
tional power,  so  that  the  moving  picture  people  themselves 
are  becoming  jealous  of  their  own  interests.  Under  such 
•conditions  the  foundations  are  being  generally  laid  for  the 
educational  value  of  the  moving  picture  as  an  entertainer 
apart  and  distinct  from  the  separate  value  of  the  educational 
picture  itself.    The  recent  development  of  the  "feature  film" 


has  given  impetus  to  the  better  order  of  things,  in  almost 
every  instance  the  subjects  are  of  a  superior  order;  the  cost 
of  production  is  too  great  to  admit  of  anything  but  the  best 
subjects  and  work,  so  that  which  is  of  a  positive  immediate, 
as  well  of  a  permanent  future  value  is  alone  produced.  The 
educational  value  of  moving  pictures  is  now  more  of  fact 
than  argument;  as  by  shunning  sensationalism,  every  ex- 
hibitor need  only  have  that  which  it  attractive  and  good. 

An  Appropriate  and  Timely  Endorsement. 

In  timely  substantiation  of  the  above  article  an  Indiana 
newspaper  publishes  the  following:  "A  Western  clergyman 
recently  expressed  himself  as  envious  of  the  opportunity  of 
the  moving  picture  exhibitor  in  his  powers  of  usefulness 
and  constant  occasions  for  doing  good.  Without  doubt 
hundreds  of  exhibitors  are  unconscious  of  both  their  powers 
as  well  as  the  attendant  opportunities."  This  page  has  many 
times  pointed  out  to  the  exhibitor  how  he  has  the  first  chance 
in  his  own  hands  to  influence  those  about  him  for  mutual 
profit;  many  have  responded  even  to  the  extent  of  writing 
for  advice  and  help  how  best  to  further  their  interests  in 
these  ways.  Another  clergyman  finds  that  while  the  picture 
house  does  not  hurt  the  church,  it  does  possess  the  greater 
"drawing  power"  and  he  is  compelled  to  study  the  question 
on  its  merits,  another  occasion  for  an  alliance  between  the 
exhibitor  and  the  minister. 


A  Vocational  School. 

In  these  days  when  the  broad  desires  of  s.ocial-educational 
workers  are  being  directed  to  the  ideas  of  vocational  schools, 
the  industrial  picture  will  occupy  an  important  place,  not 
only  in  bringing  all  forms  of  industrialism  to  the  knowledge 
of  the  youth,  but  in  the  building  of  character. 

Building  is  constructive,  robbing  is  destructive,  the  boy 
chose  the  building;  it  appealed  to  his  educational  aspirations, 
it  was  congenial  to  his  ambitions,  it  fed  his  hungry  desires, 
it  filled  him  with  future  hopes. 

The  writer  does  not  recall  any  incident  so  pregnant  with 
valuable  evidence  of  the  combined  influences  of  the  educa- 
tional picture  as  the  record  of  this  boy's  answer,  it  is  one  of 
the  most  positive  arguments  in  favor  of  the  class  of  picture 
the  young  world  is  hungry  for;  and  negatively,  it  is  one.  of 
the  most  searching  arraignments  of  the  class  of  picture  the 
world  is  not  looking  for,  and  which  is  only  tolerated  be- 
cause they  are  forced  upon  it,  and  is  only  approved  by 
those  who  are  just  the  ones  who  should  not  see  them.  This 
incident  certainly  cannot  appeal  to  the  writer  more  than  to 
any  other  thinking  person,  it  is  therefore  not  necessary  to 
enlarge  upon  its  merits  and  deserts,  anyone  can  see  the  value 
of  its  application  to  educational  cinematography  in  particular, 
as  also  to  the  whole  realm  of  moving  pictures  in  general;  we 
are  living  in  wonderfully  enlightening  times,  and  the  moving 
picture  is  proving  the  greatest  enlightener,  and  servant  of  en- 
lightenment, the  world  has  ever  been  favored  with. 


AEROPLANE  PICTURES  IN  KINEMACOLOR. 

The  latest  addition  to  the  Kinemacolor  library  is  a  series 
of  films  showing  aeroplane  flights  at  Hendon  and  elsewhere. 
The  pictures  are  remarkable  because  of  the  skill  that  is  mani- 
fested in  taking  them,  aeroplanes  in  flight  being  about  as 
difficult  a  subject  as  the  cameraman  has  to  photograph  in  the 
ordinary  course  of  things.  The  speed  of  the  aerial  craft 
is  so  great  that  it  is  always  a  matter  of  difficulty  to  keep  the 
eye  of  the  camera  on  the  object.  These  pictures  are  also 
remarkable,  however,  on  account  of  some  wonderful  views- 
in  which  an  aeroplane  swoops  over  the  head  of  the  camera- 
man, some  thrilling  scenes  being  the  result.  The  airman 
who  was  so  skilled  as  to  direct  his  craft  in  this  manner  was 
Marcel  Desoutter,  and  the  photographer  whose  nerve  en- 
abled him  to  operate  the  Kinemacolor  camera  under  such 
trying  circumstances  was  A.  Mariner,  who  recently  returned 
from  the  Balkans,  where  he  was  engaged  in  reproducing 
war  scenes  during  the  recent  struggle.  M.  Desoutter,  by 
the  way,  relates  with  a  smile  *that  another  cameraman  for 
whom  he  gave  a  similar  demonstration  of  aeroplane  steering, 
took  fright  when  he  saw  the  aeroplane  apparently  descending 
upon  his  head  and  bolted.  The  film  concludes  with  some 
beautiful  views  of  a  daring  evening  flight  over  Lake  Geneva. 


AMERICAN  MOVES  INTO  ITS  NEW  STUDIO. 

Last  week  was  characterized  by  a  lot  of  hustle  not  con- 
nected with  the  making  of  negatives,  for  the  American 
forces  at  Santa  Barbara  moved  into  their  handsome  new 
studio  quarters  in  the  Mission  city.  $50,000  has  been  spent 
in  the  erection  of  an  edifice  which  is  not  only  a  distinct  ad- 
dition to  the  architectural  possessions  of  the  town,  but  an 
ideal  studio  as  well 


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112: 


Notes  from  the  Studios 

MISS    BILLIE    WEST,    whose    photograph    is    herewith 
printed,  is  now  the  leading  woman  with  the  second  com- 
pany of  the  American  Film  Company  at  its  studios  in  Santa 
Barbara,  Cal.     Miss  West,  as  may  well  be  seen  by  her  picture, 

has  a  pleasing  screen 
personality.  She  has 
had  considerable  stage 
experience,  before  going 
into  pictures  having 
been  in  musical  comedy 
and  as  an  ingenue  in 
stock  in  St.  Louis.  Her 
best  characterization  with 
the  Vitagraph  company 
was  in  the  lead  in  "Three 
Girls  and  a  Man";  with 
Pathe  Freres  she  played 
leads,  her  best  there  be- 
ing "The  White  Rose"; 
with  the  Broncho  com- 
pany one  of  her  best 
pieces  was  a  recent  re- 
lease, "The  Child  of 
War."  Miss  West  is  a 
lover  of  horses  and  en- 
joys the  Western  type 
of  chases.  Of  sports  she 
also  is  fond;  it  is  said 
that  last  summer  at  New 
Rochelle  she  bested  in  a 
swimming  match  one  of 
the  young  women  ex= 
perts  of  the  Thanhouser 
company.  Miss  West, 
who,  by  the  way,  admits 
to  twenty-one  summers 
and  winters,  likes  espe- 
cially well  to  play  with 
children;  to  be  cast  in 
a  picture  with  a  baby 
for  a  fellow-player  is  to 
give  her  a  favorite  part. 
Her  apartment  at  the 
Arlington  Hotel,  in 
Santa  Barbara,  is  furn- 
ished with  her  own  an- 
tique furniture,  care- 
fully selected  by  Miss 
West  in  New  York  and 
the    position    with    the 


Miss  Billie  West. 


forwarded    to    her    since    accepting 
American   company.  *     *     * 

William  X.  Selig  recently  returned  to  his  home  office  in 
Chicago  from  a  prolonged  visit  to  his  studio  and  animal  farm 
at  Los  Angeles.  While  away  he  completed  plans  for  the  ac- 
quisition of  extensive  tracts  of  land,  for  an  enlargement  of 
studio  facilities,  for  extending  his  already  large  zoo,  and  for 
the  importation  of  rare  plants  and  foreign  vegetation.  The 
animal  farm  at  Los  Angeles  comprised  320  acres.  The  ad- 
ditions will  more  than  double  this  area.  To  a  collection  of  ani- 
mals valued  at  $65,000  will  be  added  others  now  en  rout?  val- 
ued at  $50,000.  The  company  has  agents  abroad  instructed  to 
add  to  this  already  large  menagerie.  Mr.  Selig  intends  to  send 
to  the  Los  Angeles  studios  additional  companies  of  actors.  He 
also  has  arranged  to  buy  a  home  in  the  California  city  and  to 
stay  there  four  to  six  months  each  year.  It  is  estimated  that 
the  holdings  of  the  Selig  Company  in  Los  Angeles  alone,  will 
total  nearly  a  million  dolars. 

*  *    * 

Thomas  H.  Ince,  vice-president  and  producer  of  the  Broncho 
Motion  Picture  Company,  writes  the  World,  asking  it  to  deny 
the  statement  recently  printed  in  a  Western  paper  that  Miller 
Brothers  and  Brooks  have  -acquired  the  plant  of  the  Broncho 
Company  at  Santa  Ynez  Canyon,  in  Santa  Monica.  The  com- 
pany named.  Mr.  Ince  says,  has  no  interest  in  the  New  York 
Motion  Picture  Company,  or  the   Broncho  Company. 

*  *    * 

Miss  Maude  Fealy  is  to  be  a  member  of  the  Thanhouser  stock, 
company.    Miss  Fealy  has  had  an  extensive  stage  career,  having 
played  in  the  support  of  Sir  Henry  Irving,  E.  S.  Willard,  Will- 
iam Gillette,  Richard  Mansfield,  William  Collier,  Nat  Goodwin 
and  Robert  Hilliard.  *    *    * 

Miss  Pearl  White  has  returned  to  the  Crystal  studio  after 
a  trip  through  the  east,  in  which  she  played  a  three  days'  en- 
gagement at  the  Olympic  Theater  in  Leominster.  Mass.,  and  at 
the  Wizard  Theater  in  South  Norwalk,  Conn.  She  enjoyed  the 
experience  so  much  that  she  contemplates  another  trip  in  the 
near  future. 


Albert  W.  Hale  is  hard  at  work  in  Santa  Barbara,  Cat,  as 
the  producer  for  the  premier  company  at  the  American's 
studios.  Mr.  Hale,  who  is  thirty-two  years  old,  came  to  the 
United  States  a  dozen  years  ago  from  his  home  in  Bordeaux, 
France.  The  fact  that  he  knew  no  word  of  English  did  not 
deter  him  from  going  ahead.  His  first  work  here  was  the  pro- 
duction of  the  spectacular  "Crusade  of  Jerusalem."  After  an 
extended  experience  in  musical  shows  he  turned  to  pictures, 
which  he  says  he  likes  best  of  all.  He  was  with  Pathe  Freres 
and  with  the  Vitagraph  Company  as  producer  and  later  with 
the  Thanhouser  Company.  His  last  work  in  New  York  was 
with  Edwin  S.  Porter  of  the  Famous  Players  in  the  produc- 
tion of  "The  Prisoner  of  Zenda." 

*  *     * 

Marc  MacDermott's  first  message  after  arriving  in  England 
is  one  of  despair.  Wonderful  actor  though  he  undoubtedly  is, 
he  is  a  rank  failure  as  a  sailor,  for  he  was  deathly  sick.  All 
went  well  the  first  day  out,  but  then  he  "ate  something  that  did 
not  agree  with  him."  and  prayed  for  sudden  death  all  the  rest 
of  the  way  over.  MacDermott  wrote  that  he  had  always  loved 
his  native  England,  but  that  it  had  never  looked  so  good  to 

him  before. 

*  *    * 

Charles  M.  Seay  has  left  the  Edison  studio  for  an  extended 
trip  through  the  south,  where  he  will  make  his  headquarters  in 
Rome.  Ga.  With  the  director  are  Mabel  Trunnelle.  Bliss  Mil- 
ford,  Herbert  Prior.  Harry  Beaumont  and  Arthur  Housman. 
They  will  make  a  number  of  films,  using  places  of  historical  in- 
terest as  settir- 

*  *     * 

Miss  Louise  Glaum,  clever  leading  woman  with  Nestor's 
comedy  company,  will  work  in  Kay-Bee  and  Broncho  films,  un- 
der the  dfrection  of  Thomas  H.  Ince. 

*  *    * 

Adam  Kessel,  Jr.,  president  of  the  New  York  Motion  Picture 
Corporation,  has  become  a  yachting  devotee.  He  has  purchased 
a  veritable  floating  palace  named  Orson,  and  intends  cruising 
in  it  to  his  summer  home  on  Lake  Champlain  this  summer. 


LOTTIE   PICKFORD   WITH   THE   PILOT    COMPANY. 

Thirteen  years  ago  Miss  Pickford  joined  the  Valentine 
Stock  Company  in  Toronto.  Canada,  where  she  was  born,  and 
continued  in  the  theatrical  profession  up  to  about  three  or 
four  years  ago,  when  she  gave  up  the  legitimate  stage  for 
the  moving  picture  profession.  Miss  Pickford  was  with 
Chauncey  Olcott  for  three  years.  In  the  moving  picture 
field  she'  lias  been  with  the  Biograph,  Kalem  and  Imp  com- 
panies. Although  only  nineteen  years  of  age.  Miss  Pickford 
has  had  a  wonderful  experience,  and  is  well  fitted  for  her 
new  field.  Miss  Pickford  says  she  thinks  her  engagement 
with  the  Pilot  company  will  be  permanent. 

Everyone  will  look  for  Pilot  with  a  new  interest.  The 
first  Pilot  picture  in  which  Miss  Pickford  appears  will  be 
released  June  5th,  "For  Old  Times'  Sake." 


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THE    MOVING   PICTURE    WORLD 


OBSERVATIONS 

BY  OUR  MAN  ABOUT  TOWN 


THE  Board  of  Aldermen  have  passed  the  motion  pic- 
ture ordinance  at  last.  The  class  in  aldermanics  will 
now  answer:  (a)  What  have  yellow  taxi  cabs  to  do  with 
motion  pictures?  (b)  Or  the  Grand  Jury?  (c)  Who  woke 
up  the  Board  of  Aldermen?  One  at  a  time,  please,  (d) 
How  many  Nebuchadnezzars  are  on  the  Board  of  Aldermen? 
In  plain  English,  how  many  of  the  Board  saw  the  hand- 
writing upon  the  wall  and  almost  crippled  themselves  to 
get  on  the  majority  side  of  the  question  as  to  whether  or  not 
there  should  be  a  six  hundred?  Verily,  a  Grand  Jury  dose 
is  good  for  all  classes  at  times. 

*  *     * 

A  daily  newspaper  of  this  city  last  week  published  on  its 
first  page  a  telegraphic  item  stating  that  a  Mr.  Maguire, 
Lieutenant  of  Police  of  Providence,  R.  I.,  the  police  censor 
of  the  city,  had  ordered  the  discontinuance  of  motion  pic- 
tures of  Hawthorne's  "Scarlet  Letter."  The  item  stated 
"Maquire  says  his  reason  for  taking  this  action  was  that,  in 
his  opinion,  the  story  and  pictures  are  obnoxious  and  dis- 
respectful to  clergymen." 

*  *     * 

In  the  same  paper,  and  on  the  same  day,  appeared  a  com- 
munication bearing  upon  a  subject  entirely  foreign  to  motion 
pictures  in  which  the  writer  said:  "We  raise  monuments  to 
our  famous  dead.  Can  we  not  offer  instead  to  the  memory 
of  Nathaniel  Hawthorne  this  testimony  of  our  loving  thanks 
for  "The   Scarlet   Letter,"  "Twice   Told   Tales,"   etc. 

Can  you  beat  it?  No  better  evidence  of  the  divergency  of 
opinions  on  the  question  of  censorship  is  required;  and  it 
is  quite  certain  that  the  personal  opinion  of  a  petty  official 
should  not  be  accepted  as  final. 

*  *     * 

Walking  into  a  scenario  department  the  other  day  an  editor 
was  found  in  a  questionable  state.  Not  intoxication,  but  mid- 
way of  hysterical  laughter  and  wrath.  "Read  this,"  said 
lie,  as  he  handed  me  a  short  manuscript,  prefaced  by  the 
wing:  "If  you  put  this  in  moving  pictures  send  me  the 
money  by  express  money  order."  The  manuscript,  in 
brief,  read:  "It  was  all  April  Fool.  One  day  a  girl 
was  walking  along  a  country  lane  and  met  a  young  man, 
she  told  him  a  mad  bull  was  tossing  a  man  on  the  other  side 
'of  the  barn.  The  young  man  hurried  to  the  place,  but  saw 
ii-  It  was  April  Fool  Day.  A  few  years  later  the 
[(  Became  married.  One  moonlight  night,  while  they 
were  sitting  on  the  front  porch,  the  wife  told  the  young  man 
that  dogs  wire  tearing  up  the  lettuce  patch.  The  young 
man  went  to  see  and  met  a  bull  that  chased  him  and  caught 
him  on  the  rear  porch,  and  hurt  him.  The  young  man  re- 
turned to  his  wife  and  told  her  never  to  do  that  again,  and 
she   didn't.     And  they  lived  happy  ever  after. 

*  *     * 

"Now,"  exclaimed  the  scenario  editor,  "that  is  the  kind 
■-if  sU1ff  that  chumps  send  in  to  us  to  absorb  our  valuable 
time  and  rush  to  anarchistic  friends  to  have  us  roasted  be- 
cause  we  fail  to  pay  them,  or  return  their  manuscripts,  al- 
though they  fail  to  enclose  return  postage.  Plot?  Why  cer- 
tainly that  manuscript  contains  a  plot.  I've  been  watching 
the  papers  to  see  if  the  author  has  laid  claim  to  "A  Fool 
There   Was." 

*  *     * 

tew  moil tli s  ago  a  young  man  took  hold  of  a  motion 
picture  theater  that  had  run  down  to  a  point  that  the  orig- 
inal owner  almost  abandoned  it.  The  new  proprietor  started 
in  with  a  pretty  good  service  and  inaugurated  a  policy  of 
starring  certain  makes  of  pictures.  On  Mondays  and  Wed- 
nesdays, he  presented  programmes  made  up  solely  of  the 
best  pictures  of  one  manufacturer,  the  lists  on  other  nights 
being  mixed.  He  got  the  people  coming  and  the  house  is 
now  on  easy  street.  The  young  proprietor  contends  that 
ol  motion  pictures  have  their  favorites  in  the  line 
of  productions  and  when  they  have  a  chance  to  see  a  variety 
of  their  choice  they  consider  it  "their  night"  and  become 
steady  patrons.  Some  people  favor  the  productions  of  one 
company  and  others  those  of  another  and  when  you  get  the 
pulse  and  give  them  their  choice  you  have  a  steady  patronage. 


The  mixed  programmes  get  them,  too,  because  they  "get 
going"  and  will  go,  although  they  like  the  other  night  the 
best.  He's  right.  The  successful  picture  house  manager  is 
the  one  who  gets  acquainted  with  his  patrons,  like  men  in  the 
mercantile  business.  He  must  use  good  judgment  and  get 
the  pulse.  As  soon  as  the  people  find  he  knows  what  they 
want  and  gives  it  to  them  more  than  half  the  battle  is  won 
by    the    manager. 

*  *     * 

Did  you  ever  see  such  beastly  weather?  Scores  of  air- 
domes  that  were  to  open  last  week  display  the  postpone- 
ment signs.  Many  looked  for  an  early  season,  but  the  chill 
and  wet  sandwich  weather  has  checked  their  expectations. 

*  *     * 

By  the  way,  a  very  good  plan  has  been  put  in  operation 
by  two  well-known  exhibitors  in  this  city.  Perhaps  others 
may  profit  by  the  example  set.  One  owns  an  in-door  place, 
the  other  has  an  airdome.  A  few  weeks  ago  the  latter  start- 
ed preparations^  for  his  season.  The  weather  indications 
were  quite  promising  at  the  time  and  the  in-door  man  scented 
serious  competition.  The  two  got  together  and  entered  into  a 
written  agreement  providing  that  when  the  weather  is  un- 
favorable, the  in-door  house  is  used,  and  vice  versa.  Each 
owner  retains  full  control  of  his  place.  The  expenses  of 
each  night  are  deducted  and  the  net  profits  divided  equally. 
One  of  the  parties  to  the  agreement  said:  "This  is  an  ex- 
periment,  and   I   believe   it  will  pan   to   the   good.     When   I 

opened  the  airdome  last  season,  Mr. closed  his  house. 

Some  weeks  I  had  as  many  as  three  rainy,  or  threatening 
nights  and  remained  closed,  so  both  of  us  were  shut  up  and 
neither  of  us  got  any  money.  So  far  this  season  I  have  been 
sharing  in  his  receipts,  but  there  will  be  a  string  of  nights 
when  he  will  look  upon  me  as  the  good  Samaritan." 

*  *     * 

The  new  picture  house  now  being  erected  on  Park  Row- 
will  be  one  of  the  smallest  in  the  city  and  stand  upon  one  of 
the  most  valuable  pieces  of  ground  in  Greater  New  York. 
Yet  the  owner  is  confident  that  he  will  make  money,  and 
many  acquainted  with  the  picture  business  agree  with  him. 
The  house  is  to  seat  but  273  people.  The  admission  is  to  be 
ten  cents.  Less  than  half  a  block  distant  is  a  ten-cent  house 
of  299  capacity  that  has  be'en  making  money  for  vears,  not- 
withstanding the  annual  rental  is  said  to  be  $15,000,  a  frac- 
tion less  than  $300  per  week.  There  are  some  pretty  gritty 
people  in  the  motion  picture  business. 

*  *     * 

All  sensible  people  will  agree  with  District  Attorney  Whit- 
man of  New  York  County,  when  he  says  there  are  plentv 
laws  at  the  present  time.  All  that  is  necessary  is  to  elect 
people  to  enforce  the  laws.  If  some  people  could  absorb 
this  idea  there  would  be  no  need. for  the  censorship  discus- 
sions. No  film  manufacturer  or  exhibitor  can  do  anything 
that  cannot  be  reached  by  some  arm  of  the  law.  In  fact 
there  are  so  many  remedies  that  at  times  there  is  danger  of 
confliction.  It  is  pleasing  to  note  that  many  of  the  radicals 
have  at  last  awakened  to  the  true  duty  of  censors,  which 
is  to  intelligently  view  for  the  purpose  of  eliminating  vice 
and  immorality,  and  not  to  find  fault. 

*  *     * 

It  is  said  that  many  wealthy  people  of  the  nation  are 
keepisg  moving  picture  camera  men  busy  taking  views  about 
their  estates  and  other  holdings,  so  that  the  scenes  may  be 
perpetrated  fo/  the  benefit  of  their  descendants.  No  less 
than  eight  contracts  were  made  with  film  manufacturers 
for  pictures  of  this  character  within  a  recent  period.  This 
line  of  the  business  has  assumed  such  proportions  that  sev- 
eral men  in  this  city  have  abandoned  newspaper  work  and 
devote  their  entire  time  to  bringing  the  wealthy  in  touch 
with  the  film  makers. 


ANOTHER  RUMOR  IS  "SQUASHED." 

The  World  may  place  its  fist  flat  on  another  rumor  in  denv- 
ing  that  it  is  the  intention  of  C.  J.  Hite,  president  of  Than- 
houser, to  make  general  transfers  of  Thanhouser  players  to 
the  Majestic,  of  which  he  is  the  new  producing  manager.  The 
report  entered  into  being  through  the  recent  engagement  of 
"Billy"  Garwood  by  Majestic.  Garwood  had  been  three 
years  with  Thanhouser.  Excepting  Garwood,  states  Mr. 
Hite,  there  was  one  solitary  other  Thanhouserite  to  join 
Majestic.  Ann  Drew  was  this  solitary  one,  and  as  she  had 
been  engaged  in  Los  Angeles  last  winter  for  the  Thanhouser 
"stock"  then  there,  and  this  company  was  later  ordered  back 
to  New  Rochelle,  Miss  Drew  received  Mr.  Hite's  permission 
to  change  to  the  Majestic  forces,  who  continue  to  operate 
in  Los  Angeles.  Miss  Drew's  first  Majestic  work  is  as  the 
favorite-girl-at-college  in  "The  Fraternity  Pin,"  release  of 
Sunday,  June   1. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


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cAivertising  for  Exhibitors 


Conducted  by  EPES  WINTHROP  SARGENT 


A  Little  Late. 

SOMEONE  very  properly  suggests  that  we  tell  what  that  Wunderle  para- 
graph   in   a    recent   issue    was   all    about.     Reference   was   made    to   an 
earlier  matter,  but  a  diligent  search  shows  that  the  original  paragraph 
is  still  unpn'nted. 

Since  it  is  still  useful  to  the  out  of  town  man,  it  is  here  given,  though  the 
answer  was  supplied  before  the  question  was  propounded  in  print. 

Wants  a  Decision. 

A.  G.  Wunderle,  of  the  Pastime  theater,  Brooklyn,  sends  us  an  An- 
niversary   Week    program    of   special    features.      He   writes: 

The  enclosed   program  is  submitted  to  you   for  a  decision.      Bar* 

num  and  Bailey  will  entertain  in  Ridgewood  next  week.     I  decided 

that    it   w  ould  be  to  my   advantage  to  spend   a   few   extra  dollars. 

ighboring    managers    claim    that    the    extra   money    spent 

1  program  at  this  time  shows  poor  judgment.     We  refer 

the  matter  to  you  and  will  appreciate  your  opinion. 

There  are  two  ways  of  looking  at  this.  The  first,  and  more  general 
way  is  to  regard  the  visit  of  the  circus  as  akin  to  "strikes,  floods  and  the 
Visitations  of  Providence,"  as  the  shipping  receipts  put  it.  In  other 
words  you  curl  up  your  toes  and  play  dead  until  the  circus  gets  out  of 
town  with  all  the  money.  That's  what  some  of  the  big  New  York 
dramatic    houses    have   been    doing. 

The  other   way  is  to  fight. 

We  don't  think  that  if  we  had  a  house  we  would  go  off  and  die.  We 
have  not  the  slightest  idea  that  we  could  put  Barnum  and  Bailey  out 
of  business  and  we  wouldn't  try  to,  but  we  would  figure  that  Barnum  and 
Uailey  could  not  take  all  the  amusement  money  in  Brooklyn  along  with 
them,  when  they  left  town  and  we'd  make  a  Tight  for  some  of  it.  We 
would  make  a  fight  on  just  the  lines  that  Mr.  Wunderle  has.  We  would 
make  our  show  so  much  better  than  usual  that  even  the  people  who  spend 
their  half  dollars  for  the  big  show  would  squeeze  out  a  couple  of  extra 
nickels  for  the  pictures.  Instead  of  arranging  for  a  temporary  burial, 
Mr.  Wunderle  (you'll  remember  he  invented  the  Telephonographical  lec- 
ture), put  in  a  two  part  special  every  day  and  ran  one  of  the  "What 
Happened  to  Mary"  series  in  regular  order,  one  a  night.  That  makes 
practically  three  reels  of  specials.  It  costs  him  a  lot  of  extra  money, 
but  we  think  he  got  his  back  on  better  than  an  even  break  and  he  had 
the  satisfaction  of  staying  on  earth  when  the  others  were  in  a  trance. 
We  hope    that    Mr.   Wunderle   will   let  us  know  how  he  made   out. 

He  was  by  no  means  alone  in  his  "Anniversary"  last  week.  We  noticed 
a  couple  of  other  houses  doing  the  same  thing.  Perhaps  the  Marathon, 
facing   Prospect   Park,   will   send   in   a   report,   too. 

Snookums  Says. 

W.    L.    Jennings,    of    the    Lyceum    Theater,    Monroe,    La.,   offered    prizes 
to  call  attention  to  the  new  Newlywed's  series,  which  he  announces  as 
A    Marvelous    Eclair  Pictorial   Triumph, 
Grimming    with    Giggles.    Laughs,    Shouts   and    Roars. 
SNOOKUMS     SAYS: 
He   will   give   fourteen    10c   tickets   to    the  first   person    who    forms 
the     largest     number     of     words     from      "THE     NEWLY  WEDS' 
BABY."     Seven  tickets  to  the  person  sending  in  the  second  largest 
number  of  words  and  one  admission  on  "Snookum   Night"   for  the 
next    xen.      Now    is    the    time   to    get   busy    and    form    your    words. 
EVERYBODY  IS   ELIGIBLE. 

That  Back  View  Contest. 

J.  A.  Snider,  of  the  Grand  Theater.  Bessemer,  Ala.,  tried  the  back  view 
identification  contest  and  gives  a  word  of  warning  that  twelve  pictures  will 
outrun  the  interest  in  the  contest.  He  thinks  that  the  best  results  will  be 
had  by  holding  the  contest  to  a  week. 

He  uses  the  drawing  feature,  which  is  more  or  less  under  the  lottery  law, 
but  otherwise  his  scheme  is  well  planned.  He  writes  that  most  ot  the 
winners  promptly  gave  theater  parties  and  used  the  tickets  all  up.  Here  is 
his  printed  matter: 

FOR  OUR  Patrons'  Amusement  we  will  conduct  a  Head  Guessing 
Contest.  We  Have  Made  Slides  of  Twelve  Prominent  Bessemer 
Men*'  Heads — back  view— one  with  hat  on  and  one  bare  headed. 
These  slides  will  be  shown  on  screen,  one  man  each  day. 

RULES  OF  CONTEST. 
EACH  CONTESTANT  will  be  furnished  with  a  guessing  blank 
with  each  admission,  on  which  to  write  their  guess,  their  name 
and  address,  which  will  be  deposited  in  box  in  lobby.  Each  night 
all  cards  which  have  correct  name  will  be  taken  from  the  box 
and  the  following  night  at  8:30  o'clock,  the  first  drawn  from  the 
box  of  correct  answers,  will  entitle  holder,  if  present  in  the 
house,  to  25  Admission  Tickets;  tbr  2nd  card  to  15  Admission 
Tickets;  the  3rd  card  to  10  Admission  Tickets. 

Mr.  Snider's  son  is  a  clever  amateur  photographer  and  made  the  slides  at 
the  cost  of  about  a  quarter  each,  but  any  local  photographer  will  make  the 
slides  at  ?mall  cost  or  perhaps  for  nothing  if  you  carry  "Slides  by  Blank" 
in  your  advertising. 


Rich  Words. 

We   are    lost    in    admiration    of   the    man    who    runs    the    Up-to-Date   Drug 
Store,  Lamar,  Colorado.      His  opulent   language  is  soft  to  the  ear.      I 
not  said  in  joke,  either,  we  mean  it.      F.  C.  Pinch,  of  the  Lyric,  took  up  the 
country-people   matinee   scheme,    and   this   is   the    advertising   that  the    drug 
store  man  sent  out  with  his  allotment  of  free  tickets: 

BE  OUR  GUESTS  AT  THE  LYRIC  THEATER 
Saturday  Afternoon,    April    26,    1913. 

Take  the  complimentary  ticket  attached  to  the  head  of  this  invitation  and 
use  it.  It  will  give  you  free  admission  to  a  two  hours'  photoplay  that  oughl 
to  please  you. 

NOW  WE  WANT  Y< EE  SURE  AND  COME. 

This  is  our  effort  to  show  you  that  w-  want  to  merit  your  friendship. 

If  you  do  not  come  we  shill  a:  least  fee!  a  little  hurt  about  it,  for  this  is 
effered  to  you  with  a  hearty  good  will  and  no  strings  to  it  whatever. 

Bring  every  member  of  your  family,  the  more  the  merrier. 

There  is  only  one  ticket  enclosed  but  we  have  hundreds  more  and  we  will 
gladly  give  you  all  you  can  possibly  use  if  you  will  only  let  us  known  how 
many  you  want. 

The  UP-TO-DATE  DRUG  CO.  never  was  known  to  be  stingy  at  any  time, 
to  any  one.  Bring  all  the  familv  and  if  we  have  happened  to  miss  anyone 
with  this  letter  just  get  them  too  and  bring  them  all  in. 

Let's  Just  Fill  That  Pretty  Little  Theater  to  the  Brim. 

Now  here  is  another  point:  We  are  offering  these  tickets  to  ONLY 
COUNTRY  PEOPLE. 

This  is   the  day  for  Rural  friends  and  customers  only. 

You  will  not  be  bothered  or  crowded  by  a  bunch  of  town  people. 

Now  once  more,  we  ask  you.  won't  yon  please  accept  this   invitation. 
Your   friends, 

The   UP-TO-DATE  DRUG  CO. 

There  are  two  questions  as  to  the  value  of  the  line  about  not  being 
bothered  by  the  town  people.  We  think  that  this  might  get  more  than  one 
rural  goat,  but  for  the  greater  part  this  plea  is  so  glitteringly  generous  that 
v.e  are  passing  it  on  that  other  managers  who  now  make  use  of  the  scheme 
can  show  it   to  their  advertisers. 

Rose  to  the  Occasion. 

C.  A.  Riffe,  of  the  Victory  Theater,  San  Rafael,  Cal.,  sends  a  photograph 
of  his  house  decorated  with  red  and  white  roses  and  weeping-willow 
branches,  carrying  out  the  idea  of  the  Yitagraph  story  "Red  and  White 
Roses."      To   help   out    the   scheme.    Mr.    Riffe.    who    is   seen   in    the   picture. 


is  dressed  in  white,  with  a  white  rose  on  one  lapel  of  his  coat  and  a  red 
one  on  the  other.  Mr.  Riffe,  who  is  known  as  the  Moving  Picture  King, 
was  first  in  the  field  in  California  with  a  straight  motion  picture  show, 
opening  the  Victory,  Santa  Barbara,  in  November.  1905.  Other  houses 
bearing  the  auspicious  name  of  Victory,  were  opened  in  Monterey,  in  1907; 
Ukiah,  1908;  San  Rafael  and  Marysville.  1910,  and  Redding.  191 1.  He 
has  stuck  to  Licensed  releases  in  all  that  time.  This  is  quite  in  contrast 
to   New   York,    where   some   managers  change   every  second   week. 

Wesley  and  the  Chickens. 

Wesley,  the  man  who  '"says  so."  has  been  getting  mixed  up  with  the 
chickens — been  giving  them  out  as  souvenirs,  in  fact,  but  one  man  would 
not  take  his  home  so  Wesley  wrote  we  could  have  it  if  we  wanted — and  us 
with  an  office  on  Broadway!  Anyhow,  Wesley  gave  out  the  chicken  dinners 
and  not  only  made  a  lot  of  fun  for  the  audience  but  got  a  big  advertisement 
through  exhibiting  them  in  a  *tore  window  first.  Here  is  what  he  said 
about  it: 


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THE    MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


CHICK-CHICK-CHICK 

There  are  t\vo  kinds  of  Chickens,  one  crosses  the  street  because 
1      there   is  a   millinery   store   on    the   other   side,    and   the   other,    well 
cheer   up   anyway   and   come   to   the    Gardner   Theater   to-night   and 
get    your    chicken    supper,    it    may    be    a    Chick-Clucker-or    Crower. 
Whoever  gets  the  coveted  wishbone  will  be  glad  to  carry  the  bird 
home.      Now  don't   ask  any   questions  how   we  got  them,    they  are 
good  and  fat  and  can  be  seen  in  Hager  &  Houghton's  window. 
He  adds  that  he  just  added  the  Colle  Opera  House,  Turners  Falls,  Mass., 
to  his  circuit,  and  contributes  this  chatter: 

As  my  stenographer  is  on  her  vacation  (honeymoon),  I  am  writ- 
ing this  myself,  so  excuse  errors,  as  sometimes  I  hit  the  wrong  let- 
ter. Most  managers  marry  their  stenographers,  but  I  think  it 
cheaper  to  hire  one.  I  played  Primrose  &  Dockstader  last  Satur- 
day. Dockstader  came  in  just  as  I  got  to  the  theater  and  was  ask- 
ing about  the  hotels.  My  treasurer  says  "The  Windsor  is  the  hotel, 
three  fifty  a  day."  Lew  says:  "Do  they  give  you  a  bath,"  and  me 
foolishly  says  no,  you  have  to  take  it  yourself.  He  looked  me  over 
and  says,  "You  take  one  it  will  do  you  good,"  but  afterwards  we  put 
our  foot  on  the  brass  rail  and  everything  was  lovely. 

It  Can  Be  Done. 

Ed.  T.  Caldwell.  The  Royal  Theater,  Danville,  Ind.,  sends  a  puzzle  card. 
It  must  he  interesting,  because  by  the  time  it  got  to  us  it  had  been  cut 
apart  and  solved  by  the  boss.  It  is  printed  on  stiff  card  and  shows  six 
boxes,  each  z%  inches  square.  Five  of  these  carry  the  names  of  five  fea- 
tures and  the  sixth  explains  the  conditions,  which  are  that  the  other  fiv.e 
roust  be  put  together  to  form  a  perfect  square.  It  is  a  geometrical  im- 
possibility, but    can   be   done  by  arranging  the  squares  in  this   fashion: 


Tickets  good  for  one  week's  admissions  are  offered  as  prizes  to  the  first 
five  presenting  the  solution.  Perhaps  not  many  will  catch  the  trick,  but 
almost  everyone  will  puzzle  over  it  and  in  doing  so  will  get  the  titles  of 
the  features. 

Glad  To  See  It. 

We  don't  know  just  how  it  happened,  but  Josiah  Pearce  and  Sons  issued 
a  special  announcement  for  "From  the  Manger  to  the  Cross,"  at  the  Arcade 
Theater,  Lake  Charles,  La.,  and  didn't  use  a  single  line  of  Old  English. 
They  use,  instead,  what  seems  to  be  the  old  Tiffany  Upright,  and  get  a 
handsome  and  distinctive  invitation  that  looks  much  more  like  copper  plate 
than  the  old  standby  of  the  unprogressive  printer.  Good  ink  and  a  fine 
paper  help  the  appearance,  but  the  type  is  the  main  point.  It  is  an  an- 
nouncement in  keeping  with  the  dignity  of  the  subject  and  a  credit  to  the 
house,  which  is  a  branch  of  the  New  Orleans  firm. 

J.  W.  Nichols,  of  the  Gem  Theater,  Somerset,  Ohio,  sends  in  a  six-page 
folder  with  the  explanation  that  the  pictures  have  suffered  some  hard  knocks 
in  the  past  out  his  way  and  that  he  is  trying  to  win  for  them  the  respect  to 
which  they  are  entitled. 

There  are  five  pages  of  reprint  of  some  article  on  the  pictures,  sane,  tem- 
perate and  yet  clearly  setting  forth  the  usefulness  of  the  film.  The  sixth 
page  follows  on  with  a  brief  talk  about  (he  house  in  the  same  vein.  It  is 
just  the  sort  of  thing  that  will  reach  those  aimed  at  and  Mr.  Nichols  is 
doing  missionary  work  for  the  entire  business  when  he  takes  up  his  own 
little  end  of  the  fight.  Each  folder  was  accompanied  by  this  slip,  showing 
that  Mr.  Nichols  stands  ready  to  prove  his  point  at  his  own  cost: 


3    u  *c    W 

tc  «    u    -J 
U  J3    3   O 


■gui  2 


no*. 


AS  AN  INDUCEMENT  FOR  YOU  TO  BE- 
COME  ACQUAINTED  WITH  THE  CLASS  OF 
PICTURES  SHOWN  AT  THE  GEM  THEATER, 
I  TAKE  THE  LIBERTY  OF  ENCLOSING  YOU 
THIS  COMPLIMENTARY  COUPON  AND 
TRUST  YOU  WILL  USE  IT  IN  THE  NEAR 
FUTURE. 


Men  like  this  are  a  credit  to  the  business  and  they  afe  the  ones  who  still 
will  run  houses  when  the  wildcat  manager  has  given  up  in  disgust  and 
passed  on  to  something  else,  declaring  that  there   is  no  money  in  pictures. 

We  regret  that  the  folder  runs  rather  too  long  for  this  space;  but  per- 
haps Mr.  Nichols  will  be  good  enough  to  send  one  to  those  sending  a  return 
cover. 

If  every  manager  in  the  country  would  do  his  own  personal  shave  toward 
uplifting  the  business,  it  would  be  no  time  at  all  before  the  stigma  was 
lifted  from  the  pictures  where  it  still  exists. 

And  the  Other  Fellow. 

A  Canadian  exhibitor  wants  us  to  comment  upon  his  own  and  the  op- 
position newspaper  advertising,  adding  that  the  space  rate  is  rather  high  and 
the  newspaper  bills  something  of  a  drain.  He  wants  particularly  to  know 
whether  the  advertising  for  his  house  or  the  other  is  better.  He  uses  more 
detail. 

Just  the  title  of  a  picture  conveys  little: 

RETROGRESSION. 

An   absorbing    two-part    drama. 
Cannot  possibly  mean  as  much  to  a   reader   as: 

THE  GENIUS  OF  FORT  LAPAWAL 

The  attacking  Indians  are  blown  up  by  electric  mine?. 

And   while    the   latter  title   is   in   smaller   type,   it  conveys   some   argument 

where  the  thirty-six  point  "Retrogression"  might  mean  almost  anything,  but 

means  nothing  much. 

Granted  that  the  advertisement  is  large  enough  to  be  caught,  it  is  not  so 
much  the  space  taken,  but  the  way  that  s^ace  is  made  to  work  that  counts. 
Without  going  into  details,  we  think  that  our  correspondent  has  the  best  of 
it  with  his  smaller  advertisements  because  he  makes  more  intelligent  use 
of  his  space. 

Write  your  advertisements  to  coax  in  the  man  who  knows  nothing  of 
pictures  and  you'll  be  pretty  certain  to  get  the  man  who  does,  as  well,  but 
direct  your  advertising  so  that  only  the  initiated  know  what  it  means,  and 
the  real  purpose  of  the  advertisement  is  lost. 

Getting  Notices. 

The  Oklahoman,  of  Oklahoma  City,  was  moved  to  take  notice  of  Bertram 
I.  Williams,  of  Ponca  City,  three  hundred  miles  away.  The  clipping  tells 
most  of  the  story: 

The  manager  of  a  Ponca  City  motion  picture  house  certainly  must 
have  passed  the  free  duckets  to  the  editor  of  the  Ponca  City  Demo- 
crat to  be  treated  in  such  royal  manner  as  to  secure  a  double-column 
head  over  a  three-column,  front-page  story  of  a  feature  picture 
shown  in  the  theater.  And  the  double-column  head  was  of  the  real 
sensational  sort,  too,  the  first  two  decks  of  which  were: 
"SAVES  HIM  FROM  MURDER 


"Young  Girl  Seizes  Gun  From  Hand  op  Lover 
at  Risk  of  Own  Life," 

All  of  which  was  part  of  a  first  page,  first  column  and  the  next  reading 
:otice  for  the  Thanhouser  "Lucile."  That's  going  some,  but  then,  the 
Democrat  looks  as  though  any  free  copy  might  be  welcome. 

Liked   the  Check. 

The  Brunswig  Brothers,  who  run  the  Classic  Theater,  Asheville,  N.  C, 
have  taken  up  Taylor  and  Ford's  idea  of  mailing  out  two  cent  checks  for 
the  purpose  of  attracting  attention  to  their  announcement.  They  use  regular 
bank  checks  instead  of  a  special  check,  but  fill  in  with  a  typewriter,  which 
is  the  bad  feature  of  both  of  these  checks.  We  think  the  scheme  would  be 
better  were  the  checks  pen  written  even  in  "another  hand  than  that  of  the 
signer.  They  wisely  make  their  appeal  with  the  program  for  a  single  night 
and  then  add  the  program  for  the  remainder  of  the  week,  killing  two  birds 
with  one  two  cent  check.  They  are  pretty  certain  to  interest  with  the  spe- 
cial bill  and  then,  having  gained  that  interest,  curiosity  will  lead  the  reader 
to  finish  off.  They  have  worked  the  idea  very  well,  better  than  the  telegram 
noted  not  long  ago. 

A  Good  Comparison. 

Sid  S.  Levy,  of  the  Roseland  Theater,  New  Orleans,  sends  a  couple  of 
bills  for  Bernhardt  in  Queen  Elizabeth  that  starts  off: 

Seyeral  years  ago   the  prices   for 
SARAH  BERNHARDT 

in 
QUEEN  ELIZABETH 

WERE 

Boxes    $io. ou 

Orchestra    (Front)     7.50 

Orchestra  (Rear)    5.00 

Balcony     3.00 

Gallery    1.50 

It  goes  on  to  explain  that  now,  through  the  presentation  of  the  subject 
by  the  Famous  Players  Company,  the  great  actress  can  be  seen  in  the  play 
for  ten  cents.  It  is  a  good  argument,  though  the  price  of  the  boxes  were 
higher  than  ten  dollars  and  the  price  for  the  entire  box  could  have  been 
quoted  to  better  advantage. 

We  like  the  bill  much  better  than  Mr.  Levy's  letterhead,  which  is  the 
cut  of  a  rose  two  and  a  half  inches  wide  with  "Land"  across  the  petals.  It 
looks  more  like  the  letterhead   of  a  country   florist  than   a  theater. 

We  think,  too,  that  Mr.  Levy  would  not  only  have  made  more  money, 
but  would  have  caused  the  film  to  be  more  greatly  appreciated  had  he  raised 
the  price  slightly.     He  should  have  taken  a  leaf  from  the  Bernhardt  herself. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE*  WORLD 


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W.         We  PHOTOPLAYWRIGHT 

Conducted  by  Epes  Wijcthrof  Sasoems 


son  of  courtesy,  or  otherwise,  why  they  should  hire  even  a  small  boy  to 
open    the   envelopes,   slip   in   the   rejection   slip   and   send   them   back. 

There  is  another  angle  to  this.  By  refusing  to  accept  and  open  script 
envelopes,  the  company  wholly  escapes  any  chaige  of  stealing  stories,  and 
even    if   these   scripts   were   not   read  the  charge  would  inevitably  arise. 

We  believe  that  the  home  office  does  open  and  return  scripts,  but  where 
they  are  careful  to  give  publicity  to  the  fact  ihat  they  do  not  want  outside 
contributions,  they  cannot  be  expected  to  show  any  "courtesies"  of  this 
sort  to  persons  who  have  not  the  courtesy  to  first  inform  themselves  of 
the  facts. 


Sold  Out. 

LAST  week  an  advertisement  at  the  end  of  this  department  stated  that 
the  first  edition  of  The  Technique  of  the  Photoplay  was  com- 
pletely sold  out.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  the  first  money  was  turned 
back  to  would-be  purchasers  on  May  27th.  It  was  purely  coincidence  that 
o-i  that  date  there  was  turned  over  to  the  publishers  a  new  manuscript  for 
a  book  to  be  published  under  the  same  title;  the  last  copy  being  sold  about 
ten  minutes  after  the  new  manuscript  was  turned   in. 

It  is  probable  that  July  will  see  the  publication  of  the  new  book,  which 
will  be  a  very  great  improvement  over  the  old.  It  will  be  not  only  a 
larger  book,  but  better  in  every  way.  The  first  publication  of  Technique 
was  made  in  the  columns  of  this  paper  and  there  was  a  certain  necessity 
for  having  each  installment  about  the  same  length.  This  restriction  did 
not  exist  in  the  case  of  the  new  book.  A  chapter  in  the  new  work  will 
run  from  two  and  a  half  to  twelve  pages  as  required  and  there  will  be 
twenty-four  chapters  of  original  work  and  an  additional  chapter  giving 
sample  scripts  of  other  writers.  In  the  body  of  the  text  there  is  one  com- 
plete script  fully  explained  and  scores  of  illustrations  presented  in  a 
graphic  and  original  fashion. 

The  first  Technique  was  complete  in  that  it  laid  down  the  rules  of  photo- 
play writing,  but  the  new  work  will  teach  in  the  simplest  and  most  com- 
piehensive  style.     It  will  be  an  improvement  in  every  way. 

It  was  intended  that  the  new  issue  should  follow  close  on  the  retirement 
of  the  old,  but  a  sudden  increase  in  the  demand  and  the  impracticability  of 
doing  hurried  work  on  the  manuscript  of  the  new  will  necessitate  a  gap 
of  several  weeks.     Please  excuse  us  and  wait.     It  will  be  worth  waiting  for. 


What  Essanay  Wants. 
Mrs.   Louella  O.  Parsons,  the  Essanay  editor,  is  not  always  very  careful 
of  what  she  writes  and  she  wrote  someone  that  she  was  not  using  outside 
staff.      We  printed  the  fact.      Now  she  offers  correction.      She  says: 

Essanay    is    in    the    market    for    split    reel    comedies,    for    strong 
dramatic   stories,   both    one  and   two    reels,   and   for   original    melo- 
dramas.    We  will   also  consider  a  few   Western  stories. 
Thus  Mrs.   Parsons.     At  the  same  time   there  is  not  a  brisk   market   at 
E=sanay  at  present. 


Take  a  Text. 

We  are  indebted  *o  Miss  Marian  Lee  Patterson,  a  regular  writer,  for  a 
Tennyson  couplet  that  seems  worthy  of  a  place  over  every  desk.  It  is 
from  Morituri   Salutamis  and   runs: 

The  unwritten    only   still    belongs   to  thee. 
Take  heed  and  ponder  well  what  that  shall  be. 
Think   that  over  well   when   you   see  the  copyright  story  that  you   know 
would  make  a  good  play — and   write  only  the  unwritten. 


If  You  Sent  to  American. 

If  you  sent  stories  to  the  American  and  got  them  back  with  a  passionate 
purple  rubber  stamp  across  the  front  page,  don't  let  that  stop  you  from 
sending  other  scripts  in.  There  seems  to  be  a  brisk  market  there  and  the 
use  of  the  rubber  stamp  has  been  discontinued.  It  was  not  due  to  cussed- 
ne=s,  but  to  a  failure  to  realize  that  the  script  was  the  author's  until  it 
was  purchased.  The  matter  has  been  brought  to  the  attention  of  the  Ameri- 
can company,  which  at  once   took  measures  to   stop  the  use  of  the  stamp. 

American  is  not  only  buying,  but  it  is  paying  decent  prices.  The  latter 
information  comes  from  authors  who  *have  sold  and  not  from  the  com- 
pany itself. 


The  Punch. 

An  author  could  not  sell  his  comedy.  He  put  in  a  punch  and  then  it 
sold,  but  most  of  the  papers  objected  to  the  punch  as  being  out  of  harmony 
with  the  rest  of  the  story.  Even  the  author  admits  that  the  punch  inci- 
dent did  not  belong,  but  seems  to  think  that  it  was  necessary  to  put  in 
some  such  thing. 

The  author  makes  the  same  mistake  that  hundreds  of  others  make.  The 
punch  is  not  a  scene.  He  put  in  something  that  appealed  to  some  one 
producer,  but  he  did  not  add  the  punch.  We  think  that  the  punch,  in 
spite  of  all  that  has  been  said,  is. still  the  thing  least  understood.  It  will 
be  fully  dissected  in  the  new  Technique,  but  meantime  take  this  fact  to 
heart.     The  punch  is  not  visual.     It  is  mental. 

Sounds  Silly. 

A  Los  Angeles  correspondent  writes  to  complain  that  he  sent  script  to 
the  local  branch  of  the  Thanhouser  company  and  that  the  company  had 
refused  to  receive  the  script.     He  adds: 

It  strikes  me  that  the  small  courtesy  of  a  rejection  slip  or  brief 
note    cf    rejection    would    do    away    with    this    insulting   fashion    of 
returning  a  script  scribbled  "refused"  and  unopened. 
Having  had   one   strike  called  on   him,   we  are  going  to  call  the  second 
strike.      The  third   means   out. 

In  the  first  place  who  asked  him  to  send  scripts  to  the  Los  Angeles 
branch  of  the  Thanhouser  company?  If  he  wants  to  go  and  butt  in  where 
he  is  not  invited,  he  cannot  complain  if  the  door  is  shut  in  his  face,  and 
since  the  company  has  never  asked  for  scripts  there  is  no  particular  rea- 


A  New  Orleans  Circle. 

Julian  Louis  Lamothe,  of  841  Alexander  street,  New  Orleans,  writes: 
The  Xew  Orleans  branch  of  the  Inquest  Club  has  been  organized, 
and  at  present  consists  of  four  members,  with  more  to  come  in 
later.  Two  enthusiastic  meetings  have  been  held  to  date,  and  we 
will  soon  choose  the  location  for  our  Morgue.  Already  we  have 
a  most  lovely  coffin  plate  wi*h  our  motto,  "Never  at  Rest,"  en- 
graved thereon,  and  it  seems  that  the  photoplay  world  will  soon 
know   that   New   Orleans   is   on   th*   map. 

I  read  with  great  interest  in  the  issue  of  May  17,  the  letter  from 
the  author  of  "Susie  to  Susanne."  I  have  had  some  experience 
with  that  school  myself.  Nearly  two  years  ago  I  enrolled  for  the 
course,  but  finding  the  first  two  lessons  worthless,  I  dropped  out.  I 
sent  the  school  as  an  exercise  a  scenario  entiled  "The  Seal  Skin 
Coat."  It  was  highly  praised  by  the  director.  Later  Biograph  re- 
leased the  same  idea  under  the  title  "The  Furs."  I  wrote  re- 
garding the  coincidence  to  the  "Dramatic  Mirror,"  and  another 
coincidence  developed,  for  Marc  Edmund  Jones  had  written  a  simi- 
lar piay,  and  he  passed  on  his  scenario  for  me  to  read,  all  of  which 
has  led  to  2  delightful  correspondence  between  us.  But  the  interest- 
ing part  was  yet  to  come.  The  Associated  Motion  Picture  Schools 
advertised  "The  Furs"  as  the  product  of  one  of  their  pupils,  and 
offered  to  give  the  name  of  the  author  upon  request.  I  wrote 
for  it.  "How  strange,"  replied  the  director,  "that  you  should 
choose  the  very  story  about  which  there  was  some  doubt."  It 
seemed  that  a  young  lady  pupil  (perhaps  it  was  I,  for  some  of 
my  letters  were  addressed  "Miss")  had  submitted  the  story  as 
an  exercise,  and  when  it  was  produced,  the  director  naturally 
thought  the  young  lady  was  the  author.  But  while  discussing  the 
picture  with  some  one  else,  he  had  discovered  that  the  idea  had 
been  used  in  a  vaudeville  sketch,  and  as  it  was  therefore  not  orig- 
inal with  the  young  lady,  he  could  not  possibly  give  me  her  name. 


Why? 

Here  is  a  line  or  two  from  a  letter: 

Now  if  o.ie*s  script  has  enough  merit  to  be  held  for  considera- 
tion, as  one  or  two  of  mine  have  been,  and  if  the  film  companies 
are  so  very  eager  for  new  id;as,  why  do  they  not  give  a  sincere 
and  helpful  criticism  to  a  play  good  enough  to  be  held,  that  it 
may  be  made  saleable? 
And  the  reply  is  why? 

The  photoplay  editor  is  hired  to  read  manuscripts  and  select  for  the 
use  of  his  company  such  as  will  give  photoplays  when  produced.  He  is 
under  no  obligation  to  conduct  a  school  for  the  benefit  of  the  uninstructed. 
He  is  there  to  buy  plays  for  his  company  from  those  who  are  able  to 
write.  He  may  hold  a  play  in  the  hope  that  an  editor  will  be  suffi- 
ciently interested  to  reconstruct  it,  but  if  the  editor  declines,  he  is  under* 
no  obligation  to  the  author.  He  has  tried  to  pass  it  through.  He  should 
no  be  expected  to  waste  an  additional  hour  in  educating  a  stranger  in 
the  things  that  stranger  should  have  known  before  submitting  the  script. 
There  are  too  many  writers  who  sit  flat  in  the  road  and  wait  for  someone 
to  come  and  push  them  along  instead  of  seeking  to  make  progress  for 
themselves. 


Add  These  to  the  List. 

Clarence  August  Frambers,  head  of  the  Chicago  Circle  now  that  Mare 
F..  Jones  has  come  to  New  York  to  be  the  comedian  of  the  Inquest  Club,. 
adds  these  to  the  list  of  forbidden  plots: 

The  man  who  goes  in  bathing  and  has  his  clothing  stolen  by  a 
tramp   who  proceeds   to   masquerade. 

The  pretty  country  girl  who  comes  to  the  city,  had  her  eyes  open- 
ed and  returns  to  the  country  with  tears  in  the  aforesaid  eyes. 

Cowboy    wants    a    wife.      He    advertises.      The    other    boys    see 
the  ad,  and  dress  one  of  their  number  up. 

The   father  who   refuses  to  let  his  daughter  marry  the  man  of 
her  choice  and  who   is   tricked   into  giving  consent  by  being  com- 
promised  in   some    fashion.  ^ 
Mr.    Frambers    wants   to   enlarge   the    Chicago  circle.      Applicants   should 
address  Clarence  August  Frambers,  3^23  West  Polk  Street,  Chicago. 


The  Better  Way. 

One  of  the  climbers  told  us  the  other  day  that  he  was  going  to  send  his 
stuff  only  to  those  studios  that  made  the  best  production  as  he  was  out 
for  a  reoutation.  His  argument  was  that  it  would  profit  him  more  to  sell 
a  script  for  $20  to  the  Lion  Company  than  to  sell  it  for  $35  to  the  Tiger 
Company  and  not  get  so  good  a  production.  In  other  words,  he  would 
sacrifice,  for  the  moment,  a  better  price  for  a  production  that  would  en- 
hance his  reputation  and  enable  him  to  get  perhaps  $50  from  the  Elephant 
and  the  Mongoose  Companies. 

We  don't  believe  much  in  that  sort  of  reputation.  We  would  rather  have 
the  reputation  with  two  or  three  editors- directors  of  giving  them  just  what 
they  wanted  than  accept  a  smaller  check  and  have  it  known  that  we  wrote 
that  great  story  for  the  Lion  Company.  Lots  of  people  will  admire  the 
splendid  work  of  the  players,  and  perhaps  a  few  will  remember  the  name 


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of  the  author,  but  we  arc  coldly  commercial  and  we  want  to  make  our 
reputation  where  it  will  do  us  some  good. 

It  is  barely  possible  that  after  we  had  "put  over"  a  dozen  or  so  great 
Lion  scripts,  the  Elephant  Company's  editor  might  be  impressed  by  the  fact 
and  add  ten  dollars  to  our  check  or  pay  special  attention  to  our  story, 
but  if  we  had  been  "sending  the  Elephant  editor  really  good  stuff  right 
along,  if  we  had  shown  him  that  it  was  the  script  as  well  as  the  produc- 
tion that  was  good,  wc  would  stand  a  better  chance  of  making  a  hit  than 
on  the  strength  of  the  fact  that  we  were  the  author  of  the  Lion's  great 
drama  "She  Fell  Down  Stairs." 

When  the  time  comes  that  the  name  of  the  photoplay  author  means  as 
much  to  an  audience  as  the  author  of  a  fiction  story,  we  think  that  to 
sacrifice,  for  the  better  production  may  help  a  little,  but  even  then  it  will 
take  a  long  time  to  get  a  reputation  that  will  really  be  an  asset.  Photoplay 
differs  from  fiction  in  that  the  production  represents  the  combination  of 
the  author,  the  editor,  the  director  and  the  players.  The  author  is  not 
properly  entitled  to  the  fid!  credit  any  more  than  he  is  deserving  of  all  the 
Dlame  and  it  would  be  a  difficult  matter  in  indeed  properly  to  apportion  the 
ciedit. 

A  reputation  in  the  studio  means  something.  A  reputation  on  the  screen 
is  as  fleeting  as  the  picture  itself.  X-;ver  mind  what  the  audience  thinks. 
Send  really  good  scripts  into  the  studios,  no  matter  which,  and  you'll  build 
a  reputation  that  is  better  worth  while. 


Try  This. 

Are  you  looking  for  a  new  game?  Try  this.  Take  any  situation  that 
may  please  you  and  see  how  many  plots  you  may  build  around  this  one 
idea.  Take,  for  example,  the  mother  who,  a  widow,  meets  the  man  whom 
she  loved  in  her  girlhood.  The  old  affection  revives,  but  it  appears  that 
the  man  prefers  the  daughter  to  the  mother.  See  if  you  can't  make  thirty  or 
forty  plots  out  of  this.  Don't  try  to  sell  any  because  there  will  be  some  who 
will  try  to  sell  and  the  market  will  be  glutted,  but  work  out  the  ideas  as 
a  pleasant  form  of  mental  gymnastics.  You  may  not  be  able  to  reach  forty 
plots,  but  do  not  be  satisfied  with  less  than  a  dozen  distinct  variations. 


Selling  Talk. 

With  the  courteous  permission  of  The  Editor,  we  publish  a  part  of  a 
ie<ent  article  by  Barr  Moses  in  that  publication.  At  the  outset  it  should 
be  understood  that  this  article  (Some  Figures,  The  Editor,  April  25)  re- 
lates to  fiction  and  not  to  photoplay,  but  the  figures  seem  to  represent 
photoplay  scripts  as  well  as  fiction  so  far  as  the  data  is  concerned.  This 
is.  in  part,   what   Mr.    Moses  writes: 

Taking  into  consideration,  then,  all  the  manuscripts  which  I 
have  had  published  and  paid  for,  I  divided  them  up  into  seven 
groups,  accordingly  as  they  had  been  offered  three,  six,  nine, 
twelve,  fifteen,  eighteen  or  twenty-one  times,  or  less.  That  is  the 
first  group  containing  all  manuscripts  sold  at  the  first,  second,  or 
third  offering,  the  second  group  all  that  have  been  sold  at  the 
fourth,  fifth  or  sixth  offering,  the  last  group  all  that  have  been 
sold  at  the  nineteenth,  twentieth,  or  twenty-first  offering,  and  so  on. 
I  made  another  division,  which  my  figures  seemed  to  warrant,  be- 
tween the  first  three  groups  and  the  last  four.  The  results  were 
as   follows: 

A  little  more  than  sixty-one  per  cent,  of  the  manuscripts  sold 
belong  to  the  first  group,  that  is,  were  not  offered  more  than  three 
times,  and  seventy-five  per  cent,  of  the  total  sum  of  money  received 
came  from   this  first  group. 

A  little  more  than  fifteen  per  cent,  of  the  manuscripts  sold  be- 
long to  the  second  group  and  were  not  offered  more  than  six  times, 
and  this  group  contributed  fourteen  per  c;nt.  plus  of  the  total 
amount   of  money   received. 

A  little  more  than  nine  per  cent,  of  the  manuscripts  sold  belong 
to  the  third  group  and  were  not  offered  more  than  nine  times, 
and  from  this  third  group  came  fivs  per  cent,  plus  of  the  money 
received. 

Just  eighty-seven  and  one-half  per  cent,  of  the  manuscripts  sold 
belong  to  the  first  three  groups  and  only  twelve  and  one-half  per 
cent,  to  the  remaining  four  groups.  Approximately  95.38  per  cent, 
of  the  money  received  came  from  the  first  three  groups,  that  is  from 
manuscripts  offered  not  more  than  nine  times  and  only  some  4.62 
per  cent,  of  the  money  came  from  those  manuscripts  offered  be- 
yond nine  times  ar.d  up  to  twenty-one  times. 

1  found,  too,  that  the  price  per  manuscript  of  those  offered  not 
more  than  nine  times  averaged  somewhat  more  than  three  and  one- 
fourth  times  as  much  as  that  received  per  manuscript  sold  bevond 
the  ninth  offering. 

From  these  figures  I  have  concluded  that  it  pays  best  not  to  sub- 
mit manuscripts  as  a  rule  more  than  nine  times. 

This  is  the  first  time  we  have  seen  an  apparently  accurate  tabulation  of 
celling  prices,  and  we  do  not  believe  that  some  of  the  figures  as  to  results 
will  apply  to  equal  force  to  photoplays,  because,  as  yet,  the  difference  in 
payment  between  top  and  the  low  photoplay  price  is  by  no  means  as  marked 
at  the  tenth  of  a  cent  a  word  that  might  be  paid  for  the  story  rejected 
•twenty  times  and  the  five  cents  paid  on  the  first  acceptance,  but  apart  from 
these  figures  the  matter  of  acceptance  is  as  accurate  for  photoplay  as  for 
fiction.  Sixty-one  per  cent,  of  good  photoplay  scripts  should  sell  the  first 
three  times  out,  if  they  are  sent  to  the  proper  markets. 

You  never  can  tell  when  or  where  you  can  sell  your  photoplays  or  how- 
much  you  will  receive,  but  a  study  of  Mr.  Moses'  figures  will  give  you  a 
pretty  good  line  on  your  chances  with  plays  if  only  you  do  not  send  lion 
stories  to  Fdison  or  John  Bunny  jtories  to  a  company  with  thin  comedians. 
Study  the  figures. 

If  you  have  the  Editor  for  the  date  mentioned,  do  not  fail  to  read  also 
"Waiting  for  Inspiration."  It  is  a  sermon  to  photoplay  writers,  and  this 
is  the  text: 

The  secret  of  inspiration  is  wotk — and  then  more  work.  Ruskin 
tias  told  of  how  he  studied  the  lives  of  the  world's  greatest 
artists  in  order  to  learn,  if  he  might,  the  fundamental  elements  of 
their  success.  By  one  thing  only  was  he  impressed:  the  immense 
amount  of  work  that  each  one  produced.  Among  them  all  there 
was  not  one  who  waited  for  inspiration  to  come  before  he  took  up 
his  brush.  Each  one  possessed  the  capacity  for  hard  and  unre- 
mitting tt.il.  and  out  of  this  toil  were  born  the  masterpieces  upon 
which  their  fame  rests  today. 


Inquiries. 


NOTE — No  questions  can  bo  replied  to  by  mail.  Look  for  your  answers 
here.  A  list  of  addresses  to  which  photoplays  may  be  sent  will  be  mailed 
on  receipt  of  a  STAMPED  AND   ADDRESSED   ENVELOPE. 

B,  L.  D. — Charles  Ray  was  Lieutenant  Stone  In  "Bread  Cast  Upon  the 
Waters."     Cyril  Gottleib  was  the  boy. 

A.  M. — The  author  writes  lu  the  leaders,  since  without  these  many  scripts 
would  be  unintelligible.  Of  course  the  director  and  the  cutting  editor  will 
change  these,  but  you  are  supposed  to  send  the  script  complete,  with  all 
leaders  and  other  inserted  matter,  since  these  are  supposed  to  be  necessary 
to  the  explanation  of  the  story,  or  they  would  not  be  used.  No  company 
will  take  suffragette  stuff  because  the  foreign  market  will  not  absorb  this 
stuff  (it's  no  joke  over  there),  and  that  is  where  the  real  "velvet"  profit 
comes  from. 

THE  PEST — The  Vitagraph  names  are  as  follows,  using  your  numeration: 
1,  Charles  Edwards;  2,  Dick  Leslie;  3,  Frank  Mason;  4,  Joseph  Baker;  5, 
William  V.  Ranous;  6,  Robert  Burns;  7,  Richard  Morrison.  These  identifica- 
tions are  courteously  contributed  by  Mr.  Spedon,  of  the  Vitagapb,  and  are 
authentic.  Mr.  Irving,  in  "Tamandra."  was  Irving  White.  We  like  Lois 
better,  and  you  are  not  a  pest,  because  you  ask  questions  intelligently.  If 
they  were  all  like  you ! 

JEEF — We'll  be  the  goat.  What's  the  answer?  We  do  not  list  the  re- 
leases of  that  company  because  we  never  heard  of  them.  Don't  thank  us  for 
our   "earliest  reply."     That's  what  we  get  paid  for. 

RICHARD  ROE — Miss  Isabelle  Lamon  was  the  wife  in  "For  His  Child's 
Sake."  Miss  Marguerite  Loveridge  was  the  title  in  "The  Woodsman's  Daugh- 
ter." 

C.  L.  H. — The  Answers  Man  would  be  tickled  to  death  to  be  able  to  answer 
your   questions,    but    why   don't    you    use    the   same    title   the    company 
Maybe  you  can  think  of  better  ones,  but  use  theirs,  please. 

H.  W. — Send  one  dollar  for  the  book  you  ask  about.  Send  a  stamped  and 
^Addressed     envelope    for    the     address    you     require. 

J.  A.  D. — The  Biograph  Identifier  is  still  working  on  some  of  your  questions. 
but  here  are  some  answers.  The-  central  figure  in  The  Dance  of  Death  in 
"Two  Daughters  of  Eve."  was  Miss  Marion  Kerby.  She  is  now  with  Majestic. 
and  was  in  the  legitimate  with  William  H.  Crane.  Miss  Gertrude  Bambrick 
was  the  girl  dancer  in  "All  Hail  to  the  King,"  and  the  favorite  In  "The  King 
and     the     Copper."       You'll    get     the    rest     in     due     course. 

E.  L.  S. — Put  a  courteous  inquiry  to  the  company.  If  this  is  not  B&tiS- 
factory,  write  again,  addressing  this  department. 

RTJBENA — Miss  Lamon  is  In  Philadelphia,  not  Jacksonville.  Mr.  Bush- 
man is  back  with  Eesanay.  Miss  Bernard  is  not  with  A.  B.  We  are  not 
troubled  with  heart  disease,  but  we  had  a  couple  of  teeth  pulled  this 
morning.  If  that  will  help  any. 

LOIS — The  A.  B.  question  had  to  go  to  the  Identifier.  It  was  not  Miss 
Handworth.  but  Miss  Pearl  Slndelar,  now  with  Pathe.  Perhaps  that  oc- 
casioned your  error. 

J.  A.  M. — In  "Retrogression,"  Hardy  was  Mr.  Taylor,  Miss  Hazel  Buckham 
was  the  daughter,  and  Frank  Brady.  Rusty.  In  "The  Pride  of  the  South." 
Dianna  was  Miss  Mildred  Bracken.  In  "The  Frontier  Mystery,"  Miss  Victoria 
Forde.  was  the  lead  and  her  own  daughter,  while  Mrs.  Eugenie  Ford  took  up 
the  part  of  the  mother,  as  the  Wild  Woman.  Miss  Mona  Darkfeather  was 
the  lead  in  "The  Return  of  Thunder  Cloud's  Spirit."  She  is  a  real  Indian. 
The  while  girl  was  Miss  Helen  Case.  Edgar  Keller  was  the  Blacksmith's 
father  in  "The  Sharpshooter." 

MARIE — In   "The   Professor's   Daughter,"   Ford  Sterling  was  the  pro: 
and  Miss  Evelyn  Quick  the  daughter. 

£.  G.  M. — Miss  Mildred.  Bracken  was  Grace  White  in  'The  Black  Con- 
spiracy." 

VARIOUS  INQUIRERS — The  Broncho  "Shorty"  is  Jack  Hamilton. 

M.  B. — We  cannot  recite  Miss  Ha^kett's  stage  career. 

J.  P.  F. — If  you  will  read  your  answer  with  care  and  understanding,  you 
will  perceive  that  there  was  no  blue  because  there  is  no  blue.  If  you  cannot 
grasp  the  fact  that  there  is  no  blue  in  red  and  green,  we'll  regretfully  pass 
you  up.  You  may  have  thought  you  saw  blue,  but  you  did  not.  The  only 
blue  in  a  Klnemacolor  is  in  the  flicker  shutter. 

R.  W.  S.— When  you  want  questions  answered  by  mail,  send  the  Answers 
Man  eighteen  dollars  and  not  just  a  two-cent  stamp.  Your  first  title  is  not 
correctly  given.  All  of  this  information  is  given  in  the  Year  Book  for  1912. 
Send  for  a  copy.    That's  what  we  publish  It  for. 

E.  G.  M. — State  titles  correctly.  It  was  not  "A  Colored  Conspiracy."  It 
was  "A  Black  Conspiracy."  Ask  for  "A  Black  Conspiracy"  and  your  question 
will  be  answered.  In  "With  Lee  in  Virginia,"  Joe  King  was  Billy,  and  Miss 
Anna  Little,  Miss  Blair. 

L,  V. — Frank  Dayton  was  the  sheriff  in  "The  Prophecy."  Is  that  what  you 
mean  by  secret  service  man?     Wallace  Reid  is  with  the  Universal. 

F.  H.  S. — If  you  would  read  the  paper  every  week,  you  would  know  that 
Miss  Bush  has  left  American. 

Technique  of  the  Photoplay 

First  edition  is  completely 

SOLD     OUT 

Kindly  send  no  more  orders  or  remittances  for  above. 

Second   edition   in   course    of    preparation.      For   publication 

date  and  price,  see  future  notices. 

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Officers  of  Local  No.  189,  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.,  Alliance,  Ohio. 

Harry     Lalleraent,     President;     Frank     McCort,     Vice-President;     Edson 
Stevens  ia1    Secretary;    Alfred    Fowler,    American    Theater.    Corre- 

sponding Secretary;  Joe  Martin,  Sergeant  at  Arms;  Frank  Reardon,  Con- 
ductor; Toe  Fitzgerald,  Business  Agent.  Meeting  3rd  Sunday  in  each 
month. 


Another  Chirp. 

Brother  A.  T.  Moran,  Grand  Forks,  North  Dakota,  orders  a  handbook  and 
writes: 

In  April  26th  number,  Canton,  Pa.,  speaks  of  a  "chirp"  in  his 
Powers  Six  A.  I  have  the  same  thing  in  the  one  I  am  running. 
The  machine  is  in  perfect  running  order,  except  a  chirping  sound, 
emanating  apparently  from  the  intermittent  movement.  I  have  ad- 
justed the  movement,  but  it  has  no  effect  on  the  sound,  which  oc- 
curs four  times  every  turn  of  the  crank.  It  is  not  present  all  the 
time,  but  comes  and  goes,  and  for  no  apparent  reason.  I  will 
hear  ;t  for  two  reels,  then  it  will  go  away  and  not  come  back  again 
for  perhaps  a  day.  I  will  leave  the  matter  for  you  to  solve,  not 
that  1  have  given  up  by  any  means,  but,  as  this  is  my  first  offense, 
I  am  a  little  bit  scared.  I  am  a  member  of  the  I.  A.  T.  S.  E., 
Local  Union,  No.  23K  We  are  getting  along  fine — 100%  strong. 
If  I  am  as  good  running  a  machine  as  I  am  a  typewriter,  I  am  a 
regular  rot— don't  you  think  so?  I  hope  to  see  you  at  the  com- 
ing convention. 

Another  brother  has  suggested  that  the  chirping  sound  is  in  the  governor. 
Evident'.;,*  :t  is  not  in  the  intermittent,  since  adjustment  makes  no  dif- 
ference. I  note  it  only  occurs  four  times  to  each  turn  of  the  crank,  which 
only  adds  to  the  puzzle.  Plainly,  whatever  it  is,  it  is  not  doing  any  harm 
beyond  the  annoyance  to  the  operator,  but  I  would  very  much  like  to 
have  it  k cared  nevertheless.  As  to  the  convention,  quite  possibly  you 
may  see  me  there,  as  I  presume,  from  what  you  say,  you  are  a  delegate, 
and  it  is  entirely  within  the  range  of  possibility  that  I  may  go.  You 
run  a  mechanical  typewriter  all  right,  judging  by  the  letter,  but  whether 
you  could  run  one  having  blonde  hair  3nd  blue  eyes  is  quite  another  mat- 
ter. Better  marry  one  and  find  out.  reporting  results  after  one  year.  Pos- 
sibly, however,  you  refer  only  to  the  machine. 


To  the  Inventor. 

It  :>  ~e  inventions,  or  to  induce  anyone 

to  abandon  the  working  out  of  what  he  believes  to  be  a  good  idea. 
Nevertheless  I  feel  called  upon  to  utter,  not  only  a  word,  but  several 
words  of  warning  to  inventors.  Every  little  while  there  arises  some 
Moses  with  an  ingrowing  idea  that  he  can  lead  the  children  of  picture- 
dom  out  0:  the  wilderness  by  moulding  some  idea  of  his  own  into  cold  brass 
and  iron.  All  too  often  his  ambition  reaches  the  height  of  a  complete 
projecting  machine,  the  making  of  which  into  the  form  of  a  working  model 
will  not  only  consume  months  of  time,  but  a  lot  of  money  as  well.  Let 
me  say  that  the  individual  who  thinks  he  can  invent  a  projection  machine 
modeled  -along  present  lines,  and  have  a  world  beater  which  will  imme- 
diately be  crabbed  by  the  exhibitor  to  such  an  extent  that  his  fortune 
will  be  made,  is  most  likely  entitled  to  at  least  twenty-six  more   guesses. 

The  troub'e  with  the  embryo  Moses  usually  lies  in  the  fact  that  he  does 
not  know,  and  does  not  take  the  trjuble  to  find  out,  what  things  have 
a!  ready  been  tried  and  discarded.  He  does  not  know  or  realize  the  fact, 
for  it  is  a  fact,  that  some  of  the  brightest  minds  in  the  world  have  been 
concentrated  on  the  improvement  of  projection  machines  for  years.  He 
Is  not  aware  of  the  fact,  for  it  is  a  fact,  that  ideas  are  presented  to  ma- 
chine manufacturers  literally  by  the  hundreds,  and  that  nine  times  out  of 
ten  of  them,  yes,  I  might  say  ninety-nine  times  of  a  hundred,  they  are 
discarded  as  having  already  been  tried  out  and  found  to  be  of  no  value, 
or  that  some  of  the  la-ger  machine  manufacturers  have  a  corps  of  high 
priced  expert  machinists  who  do  nothing  from  one  year  to  another  but 
build  experimental  models  and  test  out  the  comparatively  few  ideas  pre- 
sented, which  seem  to  have  originality,  and  that  nine  out  of  ten  of  these 
ideas  they  do  test  are  fouad  to  be  in  some  way  defective. 


In  othc-r  words,  the  ambitious  inventor  who  starts  out  to  evolve  and  im- 
prove projectors,  usually  blunders  ahead  without  first  taking  the  lime  to 
ascertain  what  has  already  been  tried  and  discarded  and  what  has  not.  He 
spends  lime  and  money,  in  large  sums,  only  to  discover  that  he  has 
evolved  a  machine  which  he  cannot  fiad  a  market  for,  because  there  are  al- 
ready half  a  dozen  others  on  the  market  which  are  as  good  or  better  than 
his  own,  or  at  least  everybody  but  himself  thinks  so.  And  even  allowing  that 
he  does  succeed  in  evolving  a  superior  machine,  he  will  discover  that,  in 
order  to  prepare  for  its  manufacture  on  a  commercial  basis,  he  must  have 
a  machine  shop  and  thousands  of  dollars'  worth  of  special  tools,  jigs,  dies, 
etc.,  and  that  after  he  has  these,  he  must,  with  an  untried,  unknown 
article,  buck  the  established  reputation  of  other  manufacturers. 

In  the  parlance  of  the  street,  my  friend,  it  cannot  be  done  without  a 
make-up,  and  the  make-up  in  this  particular  instance  consists  of  practi- 
cally unlimited  money,  combined  with  an  idea  or  series  of  ideas  materially 
better  thin  any  of  those  now  incorporated  in  projection  machinery.  But 
wc  also  have  the  inventor  who  gets  an  idea  for  some  small  article;  say  a 
wire  terminal.  He  rushes  into  the  patent  office,  spends  anywhere  from 
fifty  to  a  hundred  dollars  for  a  patent  and,  nine  times  out  of  ten.  even 
though  the  device  has  real  merit,  never  gets  his  money  back,  because  there 
are  so  many  articles  of  a  similar  nature,  also  having  merit,  perhaps  equal 
or  superior  to  his  own. 

And  now,  lest  I  be  misunderstood,  let  me  clearly  state  the  purpose  of 
this  talk:  Do  not  rush  into  the  inventive  field  until  you  have  first  ascer- 
tained what  has  already  been  do.ie  along  the  lines  upon  which  you  pro- 
pose to  work.  I  cannot  emphasize  this  point  too  strongly.  If  you  follow 
my  advice  in  this  you  will  be  the  gainer.  If  you  do  not,  you  are  more 
than  likely  to  be  the  loser. 


From  Indian  Head. 

From  Indian  Head,  Saskatchewan,  Canada,  comes  a  letter  in  which  a  cor- 
rect solution  of  the  "Joke  On  Us  All"  is  given,  and  in  which  the  writer 
says:  "Your  Handbook  received  some  time  ago  and  I  consider  it  the 
greatest  work  ever  published."  We  presume,  however,  he  merely  refers  to 
works  pertaining  to  projection,  since,  to  take  his  remark  literally,  we 
would  swell  up  like  a  toy  balloon,  and  possibly,  in  the  end,  explode. 


Another  Slide  Coating. 

Mr.  C.  L.  SnifTen,  Spring  Valley,  New  York,  comes  in  with  the  following: 

Recently  I  read  in  the  department  a  suggestion  for  the  use  of 
Bon-Ami  for  slide  coating.  I  tried  this  with  more  or  less  success, 
but  think  I  have  improved  on  it  a  little,  and  if  the  idea  is  good, 
perhaps  it  would  be  well  if  you  passed  it  along.  After  having 
covered  the  slide  with  Sapolio  or  Bon-Ami,  I  take  a  piece  of 
ordinary  carbon  paper  and  spread  it  carefully  over  the  Bon-Ami. 
Next,  I  cut  from  the  newspapers,  any  funny  picture,  such  as  a 
"Mutt  and  Jeff"  cartoon,  which  I  lay  face  up  on  the  carbon  paper 
and  outline  it  with  a  sharp  lead  pencil.  On  the  dark  parts  of  the 
picture  I  make  a  cross,  and  when  the  entire  picture  has  been  out- 
lined, I  remove  both  the  cartoon  and  carbon  paper  and  erase, 
either  with  a  sharp  rubber  or  a  piece  of  cloth,  the  white  from  the 
slide,  leaving  this  part  clear.  In  this  way  I  have  a  comic  subject 
well  drawn  on  the  glass  slide.  For  example:  I  made  a  slide  a 
week  ago  where  Mutt  was  kicking  Jeff  out  of  the  room.  The 
room  part  of  the  drawing  I  omitted.  Mutt  and  Jeff  showed  very 
plainly  and,  with  a  sharp  pencil,  I  wrote  on  the  slide:  "Don't 
kick  if  the  show  is  too  long.  Come  when  you  like — go  when  you 
like — stay  as  long  as  you  like."  This  caused  considerable  laughter 
and  a  general  feeling  of  good  nature  prevailed.  In  closing,  let  me 
thank  The  Moving  Picture  World  and  Projection  Department  for 
its  many  excellent  suggestions,  among  which  I  hope  this  one  may 
be  classed. 

I  think,  friend  SnifTen,  there  is  no  doubt  but  what  your  idea  can  be 
classed  among  those  styled  "excellent."  I  think  here  is  something  of 
which  lots  of  use  can  be  made  by  the  careful  man.  I  find,  by  experiment, 
that  the  same  thing  can  be  worked  on  gelatine;  so  that  those  having  gelatine 
slide  outfits  can  also  do  some  experimenting. 


Wrong. 

Manchester,  New  Hampshire,  sends  in  a  solution  of  the  "Joke  On  T_  s 
All,"  in  which  he  says  that,  inasmuch  as  Hays  was  using  60  amperes  on 
the  arc  and  */2  to  $i  of  an  ampere  in  the  incandescent  lamp,  the  main  fuse 
block  should  be  equipped  with  90  ampere  fuses,  the  operating  switch  pro- 
tected by  fuses  of  75  ampere  capacity,  and  the  incandescent  lamp  by  a 
branch-block  carrying  6  ampere  fuses.  For  the  main  circuit  he  say?  No. 
4  wires  should  be  used,  and  for  the  incandescent  lamp  circuits.  No.  13 
and  14.  I  would  suggest  to  Manchester  that  he  get  a  Handbook  and  study 
up  on  the  action  of  the  transformer  (economizers,  inductors,  etc.).  For 
his  information  let  me  say  that  an  economizer  delivering  60  amperesat  the 
arc  would  only  take  somewhere  in  the  neighborhood  of  20  amperes  from  a 
1 10  volt   line. 


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THE    MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


Ventilation. 

Mr.  A.  C.  Evins,  Secretary-Treasurer  Vaudette  Amusement  Co.,  Atlanta. 
Georgia,  sends  in  photograph  and  accompanying  letter,  as  follows: 

This  flashlight  picture  might  be  of  interest  now  that  the  warm 
weather  is  coming  on.  The  fan  is  situated  underneath  our  stage, 
and  there  are  two  openings,  one  on  either  side  of  the  orchestra 
pit,  4x6  feet  in  size  (presumably  into  the  auditorium — Ed.).  We 
also  have  two  30  inch  openings  in  the  ceiling  (presumably  of  the 
auditorium — Ed.)    where    we     can     put    additional     exhaust     fans, 


though  we  have  never  bad  occasion  to  do  so.  Possibly  this  photo 
will  be  of  value  to  some  moving  picture  man  who  is  now  being 
called  upon  to  solve  the  perplexing  question  of  ventilation  in  hot 
weather.  We  got  the  idea  of  taking  the  air  right  off  the  floor, 
from  The  Moving  Picture  World.  The  fan  has  been  in  use  for 
twenty-one  months,  therefore,  we  know  that  the  idea  is  good. 

Many  thanks  for  your  kindness  in  submitting  the  excellent  photograph, 
brother  Evins.  We  agree  with  you  that  it  will  no  doubt  be  of  value,  though 
you  have  failed  to  be  as  definite  as  I  would  have  wished,  and  have  not 
given  the  size,  diameter  and  speed  of  the  fan. 


Why  It  Shows  In  One  and  Not  the  Other. 

Seattle,  Washington,  writes: 

What  is  the  reason  a  broken  condenser  shows  in  the  stereopticon 
and    not    in    the    moving    picture?      As    there    is    a    difference    of 
opinion  in  regard  to  this,  we  would  like  to  have  your  explanation. 
Because,   in  the  case   of  the  stereopticon,   the   focal   plane    (object  being 
projected,  a  slide  in  this  case)   is  right  up  against  the  condenser;  whereas 
in  the  other  instance  the  focal  plane   (the  film)   is  removed  a  considerable 
c:stance  away. 


Friend  Cook  Wanted. 

Mr.  C.  A.  Penn,  Bijou  Dream  Theater,  Dayton,  Ohio,  says  that  during 
the  recent  flood,  he  was  trapped  in  the  upper  floor  of  the  theater  building, 
where  he  works,  and  than  a  man  from  New  York  City  got  caught  by  the 
water  and  ran  into  the  same  building.  During  the  enforced  imprisonment, 
be  and  the  stranger  had  several  long  talks.  He  has  forgotten  the  man's 
name  and  address,  but  says  he  owns  a  large  airdome  in  New  York  City,  of 
which  his  brother  has  active  charge.  He  showed  a  cut  taken  from  The 
Moving  Picture  World,  which  claimed  he  had  the  finest  airdome  in  New 
York.    Wants  to  know  if  he  can  get  track  of  him  from  this  faint  description. 

I  would  suggest,  Dayton,  that  you  address  a  letter  to  Frank  G.  Cook, 
care  Airdome,  at  Manhattan  Avenue  and  109th  Street,  New  York.  I  guess 
friend  Cook  is  the  got-caught-in-the-water  party,  though  I  never  before 
ksew  that  he  took  that  article  in  such  quantities. 


as  a  great  many  other  operators,  are  not  familiar  with  the  actijn  of  econo- 
mizers— a  device  you  may  be  called  upon  to  handle  at  any  time.  If  you 
were,  you  would  know  that  both  line*  of  a  circuit  pass  through  the  econo- 
mizer, instead  of  only  one,  as  shown  in  the  sketch.  I  published  this 
"Joke  On  Us  All"  just  to  see  how  many  errors  there  would  be  in  the 
replies  sent  in.  So  far,  for  every  correct  reply  there  has  been  at  least 
ten  incorrect  ones,  in  which  the  main  blunder  in  the  sketch  was  not  caught 
at  all. 

It  is  positively  astounding  how  indifferent  operators  are  in  the  matter 
of  training  themselves  in  the  technical  side  of  their  work.  The  new  Hand- 
book has  been  going  out  at  the  rate  of  from  300  to  500  a  month,  but,  were 
the  operators  and  managers  alive  to  their  own  interest  th*  first  edition  of 
10,000  would  have  been  exhausted  in  sixty  days'  time.  Please  do  not  mis- 
understand me.  So  far  as  I  am  individually  concerned,  I  am  pleased  at 
the  reception  the  book  has  meet  with  and  am  gratified  at  the  sales  already 
made,  but  when  I  look  at  the  other  side  of  it  and  consider  the  thousands 
of  operators  and  managers  who  need  this  book  and  need  it  badly,  I  am 
amazed  at  the  comparative  indifference  shown. 

Nor  is  that  all.  On  page  484,  May  3rd  issue,  I  offered,  provided  there 
be  an  adequate  response  from  the  unions,  to  propound,  without  any  cost 
whatever,  a  series  of  questions  which,  if  properly  taken  hold  of  by  the 
operators'  organizations,  would  be  of  vast  benefit.  This  offer  has  been  out 
three  weeks  and,  to  date,  there  has  been  but  one  response.  It  is  sur- 
prising. I  had  supposed  that  at  least  such  apparently  live  organiza- 
tions as  Salt  Lake  City,  San  Francisco,  Baltimore,  and  a  few  Canadian 
unions,  who  have  evinced  a  decided  disposition  to  acquire  knowledge  of 
their  business,  would  promptly  respond;  but  they  have  not. 

I  am  willing  to  do  my  share  in  these  matters,  but  if  you  gentlemen  are  too 
dead  to  your  own  interest — too  indifferent  to  the  improvement  of  your 
own  knowledge  to  take  up  such  matters  as  this — why,  in  the  parlance  of 
the  street:  "I  should  worry  and  get  a  wrinkle." 


What  a  Shock  It  Would  Be. 

Kansas  sends  in  check  for  subscription  renewal  and  says: 

In  the  May  3rd  issue  you  ask  what  is  wrong  with  the  sketch, 
heading  the  article  "A  Joke  On  Us  All.*'  You  are  connected 
on  the  wrong  side  of  the  switch.  I  noticed  this  the  time  it  was 
first  run,  but  did  not  suppose  correcting  it  was  worth  while.  I 
am  using  an  exhibition  model,  which  has  seen  about  five  years  of 
actual  service.  Maybe  you  think  I  do  not  get  mine.  I  do  not 
believe  I  would  survive  the  shock  should  the  management  get  a  new 
machine,  or  expend  sufficient  money  to  put  this  one  in  first-class 
condition. 

Possibly,  Kansas,  your  audiences  might  die  of  shock  also,  if  your  em* 
ployer  should  install  an  up-to-date  projector.  The  exhibition  model  was  a 
good  machine  in  its  day.  Evidently,  however,  your  manager  is  not  aware 
of  the  fact  that  the  world  moves  and  that  improvements  in  projection  ma- 
chinery are  constantly  being  made.  As  to  your  reply  to  the  "Joke  On  Us 
All,"  you,  like  many,  many  others,  have  missed  the  main  point,  all  of  which 
shows  the  need  for  study  on  the  part  of  operators.     Plainly,  you,  as  well 


A  Wall  Fire  Shutter. 

Mr.    C.    J.    Kaho,   Trinidad,    Colo.,    writes,    praising    the    '.-.ar.ibook,    and 
winds   up   his   letter  with: 

The  book  is  fine.  There  is  only  on?  thing  I  dislike  about  ;t,  and 
that  is,  your  idea  of  the  fire  shutters.  I  think  I  have  one  that 
beats  it.  I  enclose  a  sketch  showing  my  idea.  I  am  sending  you, 
under  separate  cover,  a  star  and  shaft  which  I  took  off  my  Sim- 
plex machine.  It  is  minus  four  points.  Do  you  know  what 
causes   this? 

The  brother's   wall   shutter   idea   I    do   not  consider 

§[7]     as  being  superior  to  my  own,  for  the  reason  that  the 
]     shutter    would    not    fit    up    very    snugly    against    the 
opening.      This,   however,    could   be    overcome   as   fol- 
Jw  Ml      lows:   brother  Kaho's  idea  is  to  use  rods   and  pulleys 

Cubit***  f°r   guides,   instead   of   the  sliding  ways   as   set   forth 

om  Htm^i  on    page    72    of    the    handbook.      That    much    of    his 

scheme  is  entirely  practical,  and  is,  in  tact,  I  believe, 
an  improvement  over  my  own,  but  this  would  only 
hold  good  provided  the  rods  be  set  on  an  angle  to 
the  wall  or  to  the  opening,  and  the  opening  be  brought 
out  so  that  the  shutter  in  falling  would,  by  the  slope 
of  the  rods,  be  pulled  in  toward  the  wall  or  opening, 
and  thus  wedge  itself  down  against  the  opening 
tightly.  If  any  of  you  do  not  understand  ray  mean- 
ing, let  me  know  and  I  will  make  a  sketch  to  make 
it  more  clear.  As  to  the  star,  I  cannot  say  certainly, 
but  I  believe,  inasmuch  as  the  same  four  points  are 
broken,  that  is,  the  points  in  the  same  relation  to  the 
slots,  it  is  due  to  some  wrong  adjustment  of  the  in- 
termittent movement.  It  roust  be  remembered  that 
these  stars  are  very  hard,  consequently  if  the  ad- 
justment be  so  made  that  the  pin  would  strike  heavily  against  one  of  the 
pants,  it,  the  point,  might  snap  off.  I  do  not  say  positively  that  this  is 
the   answer,    but   it    is   the   solution   which    appeals   to    me. 


A 


tilt 

c«  L  Mtirfl-  - 


Wants  Information. 

Mr.  S.  V.  Ayer,  Houston,  Texas,  after  expressing  his  appreciation  of  the 
department,  and  explaining  his  view  of  the  "Joke  on  us  all,"  sirs: 

We   have  just   organized   a   local   here   with    about   30   members. 
Would  be  very  grateful  for  any  information  you  can  give  us  with 
regard  to  union  affairs. 
What  is  it  you  want  to  know,  brother  Aver?     Ask  your  questions  and  1 
will  do  my  best  to  answer.     Your  reply  to  the  joke,  brother,  is  correct,  ae 
far  as  it  goes.     I  trust  the  new  union  will  meet  with  success.     It  has  the 
best  wishes  of  this  department. 


Problem  in  Optics. 

H.  M.  Smith,  Fort  Worth,  Texas,  sends  in  an  explanation  of  why  the 
outside  shutter  need  not  cover  all  of  the  lens  opening.  Brother  Smith  is, 
for  the  most  part,  correct,  but  the  matter  is  too  highly  technical,  I  think, 
to  be  understood  by  very  many  if  I  were  to  give  it  space.  He  winds  up 
bis  letter  as  follows: 

Projection  is  A-i    in  fort  Worth,  and  do  not  think  that  any  of 
the  houses  elsewhere  have  anything  on  us.     Every  operator  in  this 
city  is  a  live  wire,  eager  to  learn  and  produce  results.     By  the  way, 
can    you    give    us    a    little    information    on    that    new    Kinetoscope, 
United    States   patent    1,007,962,   by  Thaddeus  A.   Nolan;    also   the 
new  vapor  arc  rectifier  (the  two  and  four  arm  tube),   U.    5.  patent 
1,009,494,  by  S.  Ferguson,  Schenectady,  New  York? 
Glad  to  hear  these  good  words  about  the  Fort  Worth  boys.     If  the  manu- 
facturers or  patentees  of  the  apparatus  in  question  will  forward  a  descrip- 
tion  of  same   to  this  department,   we  will   be  glad  to  set  it  forth   for  the 
benefit  of  our  readers. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


"33 


He  Is  Going  To  Get  a  Big  One  Now. 

Mr.  Roy  A.  Goggin,  Estherville,  Iowa,  sends  a  correct  solution  of  the 
"Joke  On  Us  All."  together  with  a  picture  of  the  theater,  taken  during  a 
matinee.     He  says: 

Like  Park  Falls.  I  have  a  "booth."  It  is  5  x  6,  with  a  6  foot 
4  inch  ceiling.  We  have  as  nice  a  theater  as  you  will  find  in 
towns  several  times  the  size  of  Estherville  (population  4.300).  but 
like  many  another,  they  neglected  the  operating  room.  I  do 
not  blame  the  manager,  as  he  was  new  at  the  business  then,  but 
the  architect  ought  to  have  known  better.  His  plan  called  for  a 
room  4  feet  6  inches  by  4  feet  6  inches.  I  told  Ihem  they  could 
not  get  the  machine  in   that   kind   of  a  "room,"   so  they   stretched 


A 

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it    out   a   little.      However,    as    Blaine    Day,    Sherman,    Texas,    says, 
"Everything    comes    to    him    who    waits,"    and   brother    Stanco,    of 
Waterbury,  Conn.,  says,   "He  got  his."     Well,  I  am  going  to  have 
mine,  for,  in  the  near  future,  the  theater  will  be  remodeled,   as  it 
is  now  too  small  and,  in  the  shuffle  I  will  have  an  operating  room 
10  x  10  feet,  with  a  10  foot  ceiling.     I  have  not  gotten  one  of  the 
new  books  yet,  but  intend  to  in  the  near  future. 
It  is   a   wonder  that   the  architect    thought   of   an  operating   room   at  all. 
Such  a   shameful   waste  of  space — 4   feet  6  by  4  feet  6.     Huh!   that  is  the 
worst    I    ever   heard   of.      Glad    to   know    you    are   going   to   have   a    decent 
operating  room  at  last,  but,  for  the  love  of  Mike,  do  not  let  that  particular 
architect  draw   the   plans.      Yes,   I  would   by  all   means  invest  $2.50   in   the 
Handbook,  also,  I  would  "do  it  now"  if  I  were  you. 


Test  for  Ground. 

Xew  York  City  makes  the  following  inquiry: 

Recently,  at  an  examination.  I  was  asked  the  following  ques- 
tion:  Suppose  I  close  my  operating  switch  and  fuse  blows.  All 
connections  are  O.  K.,  and  n?  short  of  any  kind,  but  every  time 
the  operating  switch  is  closed,  the  fuse  blows.  How  would  I 
locate  the  trouble? 

In  the  first  place,  Xew  York,  I  think  you  were  not  asked  that  question 
at  all.  Such  a  question  would  be  confusing;  in  fact,  it  would  be  an  im- 
possible condition,  since  there  would  have  to  be  either  a  short,  or  a  ground 
amounting  to  a  short,  somewhere  on  your  lines  or  in  your  rheostats.  I 
therefore,  without  using  your  name,  went  up  to  the  examining  board  rooms 
and  asked  about  this  matter.  They  said  the  question  as  stated  was  not  used 
at  all.  I  do  not,  of  course,  care  to  say  what  the  question  is,  since  that 
would  not  be  fair  to  the  board,  but  if  it  is  put  the  way  they  told  me,  it  is 
a  perfectly  legitimate  question  and  its  answer  is  simple.  The  trouble  is, 
there  are  too  many  of  you  who  go  up  for  examination  and,  instead  of 
keeping  cool  and  using  your  brains,  get  so  excited  and  scared  that  you  do 
not  really  understand  the  question  put  lo  you.  Many  a  man  has  failed 
just  on  that  account — because  he  became  frightened  and  excited,  whereas, 
had  he  remained  cool,  he  could  have  answered  every  question  correctly.  Do 
rot  imagine  that  the  examiners  are  trying  .to  "get  your  goat."  Nothing  of 
the  sort.  They  simply  wish  to  determine  your  actual,  practical  knowledge, 
that  is  all.  The  fact  of  the  matter  is,  they  often  ask  a  perfectly  simple 
question,  which  the  applicant,  being  in  an  excited  frame  of  mind,  translates 
ir.to  something  extremely  complicated  and  difficult,  and  I  think  that  is 
exactly  what  happened  in  this  case.  Xew  York.  I  think  I  may  say,*  without 
violating  tny  confidence,  that  what  the  examiners  were  after  was  to  find 
out  what  you  would  do  if  you  were  running  a  show  and  your  fuses  blew. 
I  believe  you  will  agree  with  me  that  if  you  have  not  knowledge  enough 
to  get  by  on  so  simple  a  proposition,  you  have  no  business  in  an  operating 
room. 


From  Friend   Spraker. 

Mr.  R.  E.  Spraker,  Rich  Hill,  Missouri,  is  with  us  again,  as  follows: 
Inclosed  find  draft  for  $2.50  for  which  please  send  me  one  of 
the  new  Handbooks.  I  have  quite  a  budget  of  suggestions  that  I 
am  going  to  send  in  to  the  department  some  of  these  days  when 
I  find  more  time.  I  will  take  time  today,  however,  to  tell  the 
brother  who  wants  a  peep-hole  in  the  front  of  his  lamphouse  to 
drill  a  small  hole  in  the  front  wall  of  the  lamphouse  under  the 
condenser  mount,  as  high  up  and  as  near  the  center  as  possible. 
Then  there  will  be  an  image  of  the  crater  cast  on  the  machine 
table  from  which  he  can  easily  align  his  carbons.  With  d.  c,  I 
get  an  image  as  illustrated  in  sketch,  when  carbons  are  properly 
aligned.  The  image  is  not  round  because  of  the  shadow  of  the  , 
lower  carbon.  The  two  points  appear  uneven  because  my  pinhole 
is  a  little  to  the  left  (facing  the  screen)  of  the  lamp,  in  order  that 
the    light   rays    may    pass    the    condenser    mount    support.      With    a 


similar  pinhole  projector   in   the  left  side   of  the  lamp  house,  and 
the  proper  position  of  the  images  on  wall  and  machine  table  marked, 
I    can    set    my    carbons    and    locate    the    lamp    perfectly,    without 
opening  the  dowser   until    ready  to  start  the  picture.      I   am   sorry 
that    more   of  the   boys   did   not   respond   on   the  question   of   tail- 
pieces between   subjects  of  split  reels.     There   is  one  operator   in 
this    neck    of    the    woods,    however,    who    occasionally    splices    in    a 
piece   of  blank   leader   or  Censorship   film.      Much    obliged,    friend 
of  mine.      Do   it   some  more.      In   closing,   I   will   say  that  60  volt 
current    is   entirely   satisfactory    for    picture   show    work    when    the 
voltage  is   steady.      But   I    don't   want  to   undertake   to   put   on   a 
decent  picture  when  the  pressure  fluctuates.     Our  Brush  outfit  regu- 
lates within   J/3    volt   with  the  arc  burning.     With  this   I   put  on   a 
picture    I    am    proud    of.      The    other    day,    however,    one    of    the 
spark  plugs   short   circuited,   whereupon   the   voltage   began    to   play 
hop-scotch  all  over  the  meter  dial,  and  I  sure  had  troubles  of  my 
own.     On  60  volts,  one  uses  so  little  resistance  in  series  with  the 
arc    that    a    slight    variation    in    the    line    voltage    makes    the    arc 
sputter,   and  you  know  a  sputtering  arc  puts  the  kibosh   on   a  pic- 
ture.     Your  idea  of  a  list  of  questions  is  good.     Put  them   to   us. 
Your  front  pinhole  -suggestion   is  all   right,    friend   Spraker,   since   it  will 
give  you  the  side  line  of  the  carbons,  while  the  hole  in  the  left  side  of  the 
lamphouse  will  give  you  the  other  angle  of  the  crater.     We  trust  those  other 
suggestions   will    materialize    in    the    near    future.      There    was    considerable 
response   to   the  tail    piece  business,  but   not  enough.      There   should   have 
been  at  least  5,000  postal  cards;  whereas,  there  was  not  anything  near  that 
number.      I   will  not  go  before  the  manufacturers  on   a  proposition   of  that 
kind  unless  I  am  able  to  show  there  is  a  general  demand,  and  the  response 
was    not    sufficient   to   prove   that.     Personally,    I    am   inclined    to    favor    70 
volts,    for  the  very  reason   you   name.     A   60  volt  arc  is   a   rather   delicate 
thing  to  handle.    As  to  the  questions,  they  will  commence  soon. 


One  Wide-Awake  Union. 

The  following  letter  comes  from  Toronto,  Canada: 

Local  173,  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.,  of  this  city,  has  decided  to  take  advan- 
tage of  your  offer,  May  3rd  issue,  and  to  co-operate  with  you  in 
any  way  you  would  suggest.  To  this  end,  I  have  been  instructed  to 
write  you.  The  next  regular  meeting  will  be  held  May  18th.  .  If 
there  are  any  suggestions,  outside  of  those  appearing  in  the  depart- 
ment, would  be  pleased  to  hear  from  you  before  then.  The  follow- 
ing committee  has  been  appointed  to  handle  the  matter:  W.  D. 
Shank,  Art  Kerna,  George  Robertson  and  William  Taylor. 
Fraternally   yours,    William    Taylor. 

And  now,  aren't, you  U.  S.  boys  ashamed  of  yourselves  to  let  a  Cana- 
dian union  get  ahead  of  you  on  a  proposition  of  this  kind?  I  congratu- 
late Toronto  on  its  enterprise  and,  rather  than  disappoint  even  one  union 
which  has  shown  sufficient  hustle  and  sufficient  desire  to  improve  its 
knowledge,  to  take  this  kind  of  action,  I  am  going  ahead  with  the  prop- 
osition. I  would  suggest  to  Toronto  the  following  action:  (1)  that  the 
union  offer  a  gold  medal,  suitably  engraved,  as  first  prize,  and  one  of 
the  pillows,  described  on  page  700,  May  17th  issue,  as  second  prize,  to 
those  answering  the  largest  number  of  questions  correctly.  (2)  I  would 
then  suggest  that  a  series  of  numbers,  from  one  to  as  many  members  as 
there  are  in  the  union,  be  made  on  slips  of  paper,  and  that  the  signature 
of  the  various  members  of  the  committee,  or  of  its  chairman,  appear  on 
each  slip,  as  a  means  of  positively  identifying  the  slip,  that  these  num- 
bers be  placed  in  blank  envelopes  and  sealed  so  that  the  committee  will 
not  know  which  number  is  in  which  envelope,  and  that  one  number  be 
given  to  each  member  of  the  union,  he  to  retain  that  number  until  the 
end  of  the  contest,  and  to  file  his  answers  to  the  various  questions  with 
the  committee  with  his  number  appearing  on  each  answer.  (3)  That  a 
box,  similar  to  a  ballot  box,  be  made,  .so  that  the  members  can  at  each 
meeting,  deposit  their  answers  without  anyone  seeing  the  number  and 
seeing  whose  it  is,  and  that  these  answers  then  be  taken  out  of  the  box 
and  posted  on  the  wall  of  the  meeting  room,  or  the  business  agent's 
office,  there  to  remain  until  the  answers  appear  in  the  department,  after 
which  the  committee  can  figure  out  the  rating  and  mark  the  papers, 
keeping   a    record   of  the   standing   of   the   members   in    a   suitable   book. 

The  idea  in  all  this  is  that  many  members  will  not  consent  to  have  their 
answers  posted,  for  fear  of  ridicule  if  they  should  make  a  mistake.  In 
this  way,  however,  the  answers  can  be  posted  without  any  one  knowing, 
at  least  until  long  afterward,  whose  it  is,  and  the  posting  of  these  various 
answers  will  be  of  immense  benefit  in  stirring  up  discussion  among  the 
members. 

Xow  here  is  something  that  the  other  unions  can  take  up  and  get  an 
immense  amount  of  benefit  out  of,  if  it  is  carried  out  along  these  lines. 
The  large,  powerful  unions,  such  -as  Boston,  San  Francisco.  Chicago  and 
others,  can  offer,  if  they  wish,  three  or  more  prizes  of  very  substantial 
value.  For  that  matter,  so  can  Toronto,  if  it  wishes,  but  I  should  imagine 
that  for  the  smaller  organizations,  a  medal  and  one  of  those  pillows  would 
make  sufficient  and  very  desirable  prizes.  Another  reason  for  keeping 
the  names  of  the  contestants  secret,  even  from  the  committee,  is  that  it 
will  shut  out,  at  least  in  a  large  measure,  any  charge  of  favoritism.  Mem- 
bers should  be  cautioned  not  to  divulge  their  number  to  any  one,  and  the 
members  of  the  committee,  if  they  themselves  take  part  in  the  contest 
(and  it  would  be  hardly  fair  to  bar  them),  absolutely  must  not  tell  their 
own  numbers  to  their  fellow  committeemen.  If  this  plan  is  adhered  to 
closely,  the  enly  possible  clue  wo-ild  be  the  hand-writing.  This,  however, 
probably  cannot  be  avoided,  except  by  those  operators  fortunate  to  have 
access  to  a  typewriter  and  possessing  the  ability  to  run  it.  The  questions 
will  be  started  some  time  in  June,  meanwhile  let  me  hear  from  all  unions 
.desiring  to  go  into  the  contest. 


Correct. 

Mr.  E.  A.  Beyer,  Elizabeth,  Xew  Jersey,  sends  in  correct  solution  of  the 
"Joke  on  us  all."  It  is  surprising  how  many  have  written,  saying  that  the 
incandescent  lamp  was  connected  wrong,  but  have  entirely  overlooked  the 
really  bad  error,  viz.:  the  fact  that  the  economizer  is  connected  the  same 
as  one  would  connect  a  rheostat.  I  do  not  publish  these  wrong  answers 
because  I  do  not  wish  to  embarrass  those  who  have  answered  carelessly— 
for  surely  they  knoiv  better. 


"34 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


Makes   It  Plainer. 

Mr.  William  Hoffman,  Kewanee,  Illinois,  writes: 

With  reference  to  the  "Motor  Cut  Out"  article,  page  701,  May 
17th  issue,  I  will  try  to  make  things  plainer.  The  rectangles  to 
the  left  represent  the  fuse  block.  My  rheostat  is  a  Power's  240 
volt  circular  one.  With  the  two  halves  connected  in  multiple  it 
gave  too  much  current,  so  I  cut  one  of  the  operating  room  arc  cir- 
cuit vires  in  the  basement,  and  inserted  two  coils  from  another 
rheostat.  From  the  end  of  these  coils  I  ran  two  wires  to  the  fuse 
blocks  shown  in  the  drawing.  The  test  of  these  wires  show 
volts  and  19  amperes.  I  cannot  remember  having  marked  any  line 
X,  or  find  any  place  where  you  have  either,  so  will  have  to  let 
that  go;  but  Z  is  only  a  support  for  the  magnet  and  has  no  elec- 
trical  connections;   also   B,   being   made   of   fibre,    has   none    either, 


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I  think  the  line  you  refer  to  must  be  the  edge  of  the  fibre 
block  between  B  and  Z,  and  there  is  also  one  between  T:  ami  A. 
The  circuit  line  is  held  under  the  screw-head  of  screw  passing 
igb  A,  and  there  makes  contact  with  A,  the  silver  contact 
which,  the  one  on  the  nearest  side,  makes  contact  with 
the  piece  of  silver  on  the  nearest  side  to  B,  to  which  one  of  the 
relay  coil  wires  is  fastened,  while  the  other,,  on  the  farther  side, 
makes  contact  with  the  piece  of  silver  on  the  farther  side  of  B, 
to  which  the  wire,  coming  down  from  the  motor,  is  fastened. 
Possibly  you  cannot  get  the  idea  from  this  rather  lengthy  sentence, 
but  it  is  the  best  I  can  do.  Permit  me  to  compliment  you  on  the 
most  excellent  copy  of  my  sketch.  I  am  rather  glad  I  used  purple 
ink  on   my  drawing,   fcr  now  it  looks  like  something. 

Huh!  Well  you  need  not  bother  with  any  more  purple  ink  stunts, 
neighbor  Hoffman,  because  if  you  do  I  am  liable  to  let  them  go  that  way 
some  time  and  then  they  will  look  like  h-eaven.  I  have  printed  vour  letter 
practically  as  it  is  written,  leaving  it  up  to  the  department  fans  to  dope  the 
matter  out  for  themselves.  I  guess  it  is  plain  enough  now,  though  I  don't 
quite  understa»d  your  "5  volt,  19  ampere"  test. 


A  Suggestion. 

Mr.    C.    F.    Lubine,   Odanah,   Wisconsin,    contributes    the    following   inter- 
esting letter: 

_  I  hardly  expected  to  see  the  letter  in  print  that  I  wrote  some 
time  ago,  and  will  say  that  there  are  some  pretty  live  wires  among 
the  "profesh."  Only  answered  162  letters  on  the  "Dandy  Town" 
proposition.  Only  one  of  the  lot  did  not  comply  with  stamp. 
and  I  must  say  that  I  think  him  a  dead  one,  for  if  he  isn't  dead 
he  ought  to  be.  The  letter  was  pretty  good  after  it  had  been  worked 
"trt — "E  v°d  lake  do  nuevar  yu  get  dem  tonon  dem  meven  picer 
plas    avant    to    noby    mal    i    send    it    me    ret    sone    be    dem    mal." 

Huh  I      What    the    ??      Will    offer    a    little    suggestion    to    the 

fellows  who  want  to  get  in  the  game  of  "movies."  There  is  any 
amount  of  places  that  have  picture  shows  located  in  old  store 
buildings.  A  new  theater  built  for  the  purpose  of  showing  pictures 
the  way  they  ought  to  be  shown,  and  to  take  away  the  sting  of 
"any  old  place  is  good  enough  for  the  pictures"  dump,  will  wipe 
the  boards  clean  of  the  old  "store"  shows.  After  you  find  such  a 
place,  don't  be  afraid  to  buy  ground  and  build.  If  you  haven't 
the  ready  cash  to  build,  look  up  some  building  and  loan  association 
and  get  them  to  put  up  the  house  for  you.  In  nearly  all  states 
the  interest  charged    will    be    only   8%    per   month    on    each   $1,000 

or  $8  rent  a  month   on   each  thousand.      (80  you  mean Ed.)      A 

good  live  hustler  can  do  this  and  more  too.  And  now  just  a  word 
about  posters.  I  have  taken  special  notice  of  the  posters  I  put 
out  and  will  say  that  the  Vitagraph  are  absolutely  the  best  of  the 
entire  bunch.  Why?  Because  each  poster  contains  a  short  synop- 
sis of  the  play  advertised  on  the  poster.  It  is  a  clean  break-away 
from  the  run  of  the  advertisemenls  that  are  put  out  'by  the  other 
film  manufacturers.  The  only  criticism  I  have  to  offer  to  the 
Vitagraph  people  is  that  they  do  not  use  any  colors  for  the  lithos, 
when  color  would  help  greatly.  People  stop  to  read  these  posters, 
and  merely  glance  at  the  otheis.  This  is  proof  conclusive  that  the 
public  takes  an  interest  in  the  theater  program,  and  the  interest 
could  be  increased  by  the  film  producers  if  they  would  adopt 
the  Vitagraph  plan,  plus  color.  To  the  operator  who  is  troubled 
with  a  "chirping"  noise  in  his  Power's  Six  A.  examine  the  gov- 
ernor, and  I  think  you  will  find  after  you  remove  the  casing  cover 
that  the  brass  contacts  are  not  true.  After  you  have  trued  them 
up,  put  a  little  fine  graphite  in  the  oil.   ■  This  is  what  I  did  to  the 


Power's    Six    A,    I    am    op     a!    ig.      f    w  isti    to    join    the 

>o  ne   kind   broths  r   ii\  ing    in    \\  i  ■   ■  tte   me  and 

how  it  is  done?     I   uant  to  become  a  member  of  the 
I,    A.    T.    S.    E.,   fully   realizing  that   organization   is  the   only  way 
1      secure   good  conditions   for  moving  picture   operators.      Can   we, 
as    reliable   men,    get   the    wages   due    us? 
As    to    your    suggestion    that    there    are    many    places    where    store    room 
theaters    could    be    profitably    supplanted   by    ap,   up-to-date    moving    picture 
theater    building,    I    am    of   the    opinion    that   you    are    correct,   though    the 
matter   of   possible   revenue   would  have   to   be  very  carefullv  gone   into   In 
each    case,    since  the   erection   of  a    theater   building  calls   for   considerable 
capital,  and  the  interest  of  that  capital  would  have  to  be  figured  in  as  ex- 
pense.      Whether    this    item    would    more    than    offset    the    rental    paid    by 
the    store-room    man    is    another    question.      Quite    likely    in    many   cas 
would    not.      Vour    ideas    are.    however,    in    the    main,    correct.      I    believe 
there   are   many  openings  of   this  kind.      Wisconsin   union   operators  might 
communicate    with    friend    Lubine,    and    see    if    there    is    any    way    where- 
by he  can  be  taken  in.     Your  comment  as  to  colors  in  the  Vitagraph  posters 
lectfully  referred  to  the  attention  of  that  companv. 


From  Texarkana. 

Mr.   S.  A.  Kerr,  Texarkana,  Texas,  writes: 

With  regard  to  your  answer  to  my  letter.  May  10th  issue,  I  had 
my  carbons  already  set  as  per  your  Handbook  directions.  How- 
ever. I  agree  with  you  that  the  lamp  should  be  angled  a  little 
more,  but  this  cannot  be  done  with  a  standard  lamp.  The  trouble 
is  not  exactly  a  double  spot,  however,  but  a  light-yellow  streak 
above  the  aperture.  This,  nevertheless,  should  not  be  there.  And 
now,  I  must  mention  a  certain  operator  who  dropped  in  the  other 
evening  while  I  was  showing  two  other  operators  how  to  set  their 
carbons.  I  being  the  only  owner  of  a  Handbook  in  Texarkana. 
This  man  proceeded  to.  dispute  me  and  say  that  the  Handbook  was 
wrong  and  that  the  carbon  set  should  be  what  is  known  as  the 
"jack-knife  set."  as  per  B.  Fig.  98,  page  209  of  the  Handbook. 
However.  I  wish  you  could  see  the  picture  projected  by  this 
would-be-instructor,  who  is  operator  at  a  suburban  theater.  That. 
I  think,  would  be  the  answer. 

Yes,  brother  Kerr,  the  result  on  the  screen  is  always  the  "answer."  The 
old  jack-knife  set  has  long  since  been  discarded  bv  real  operators,  but  it 
is  hardly  worth  while  arguing  with  a  man  who  is' far  enough  behind  the 
times  to  be  still  using  it.  He  corresponds  to  the  farmer  who  still  plants 
his  corn  with  a  hoe,  while  other  farmers  are  using  the  modern  check-row 
corn  planter.  He  is  his  own  worst  enemy.  As  to  the  streak  of  yellow 
light,  if  the  field  of  your  screen  is  clear  I  think  you  need  not  pay  much 
attention  to  the  discoloration  of  the  light  on  the  cooling  plate,  though;  not 
knowing  precisely  what  the  condition  is.  I  may  be  in  error  as  to  this.  My 
regards  to  the  Texarkana  boys.  Isn't  there  but  one  operator  in  that  city 
who  has  enterprise  enough  to  .invest  $2.50  in  something  to  improve  his 
knowledge  of  his  business?  Probably  some  of  them  would  not  think  so 
very  much  of  blowing  in  that  sum  in  one  evening,  on  something  that  would 
do  no  particular  good— but  invest  two  whole  dollars  and  a  half  in  a  thing 
like  the  Handbook — monstrous! 


Regarding  Picture  and  Size  of  Curtain. 
Mr.  I.  Wilt,  New  York  City,  writes: 

I  shall  be  called  upon  to  operate  a  machine  in  an  auditorium 
S3  x  48  feet.  The  height  is  11  feet  at  the  back  and  17  feet  6 
inches  at  the  curtain.  Current  no  volt,  60  cycle,  a.  c.  Can  you 
advise  me  what  would  be  the  best  size  picture;  also  what  curtain 
it  would  be  best  to  use? 

A  picture  anywhere  from  12  to  15  feet  wide  will  be  all  right,  brother 
Wilt.  Personally,  I  would  prefer  one  about  l^'/i  feet  wide,  since  the 
auditorium  is  not  deep  and  the  person  farthest  away  would  not  be  more 
than  50  feet  away  from  the  screen.  As  to  the  curtain,  I  cannot  advise  you 
as  to  any  particular  make  without  causing  all  the  other  manufacturers  to 
cail  me  naughty  names. 


A  Reliable  Concern. 

The  editor  of  this  department  has  from  time  to  time  had  considerable 
correspondence  with  the  J.  IT.  Center  Company,  manufacturers  of  the 
Mirroroide  Screen,  Newburgh,  New  Y'ork;  particularly  with  Mr.  I.  H. 
Center  himself,  who  is  not  only  the  president  of  that  corporation,  but  also 
its  moving  spirit.  We  have  been  particularly  pleased  with  one  thing,  viz.: 
the  stress  that  Mr.  Center  has  always  laid  on  the  desire  of  his  company  to 
deal  squarely  with  every  one,  and  to  make  right  anything  that  is  wrong- 
in  other  words,  to  thoroughly  and  completely  satisfy  the  customer.  In  every 
letter,  Mr.  Genter  has  emphasized  this  point,  and  it  speaks  exceedingly  well 
for  both  him  and  his  corooany. 


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results  you  get  on  the  screen? 


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"A  DANGEROUS  FOE"  (Biograph),  May  29.— A  real  Chinaman  has 
a  role  in  this  picture;  he  is  "the  dangerous  foe,"  a  laundryman  whom  a 
thug  had  illtreated.  By  chance  he  is  the  means,  not  only  of  bringing  the 
thug  to  justice,  but  of  preventing  him  from  doing  harm  to  the  child 
of  a  judfre.  These  climax  scenes  lake  place  in  the  rich  home  of  the 
judge  and  in  them  the  two  men.  thug  and  chink,  are  pitted  against  each 
other,  essentially  as  in  other  Biograph  burglar  pictures.  It  is  not  a 
convincing  story  nor  is  there  much  strong  acting  in  it.  The  photography 
is  not  up  to  Biograph  standard. 

"THEIR  BABY"  (Essanay),  May  20. — If  the  situation  pictured  in  this 
offering  had  been  made  convincing,  it  would  have  been  very  amusing. 
It  is  not  convincing  enough  for  a  comedy  and  it  seems  not  quite  lively 
enough  for  a  first-class  farce.  There  was  a  little  laughter  and  the  audience 
seemed  to  be  talcing  interest  in  it  which  was  due,  in  part,  to  the  intelligent 
way  in  which  it  was  acted  and  to  its  pretty  scenes,  though  the  photography 
didn't  do  it  full  justice. 

"THE  ONLY  VETERAN  IX  TOWN"  (Vitagraph),  May  29.— This  is  the 
best  Decoration  Day  picture  we  have  seen  this  year  up  to  date;  but  it  is  only 
a  commercial  offering  made  to  fill  the  demand  this  week  for  such  pictures. 
Built  along  conventional  lines,  and  with  effects  plainly  contrived,  it  deals 
v.  ith  things  that  are,  in  themselves,  emotional  (there  is  nothing  more  so  to 
Americans)  and  so  it  stirs  us  deeply,  in  spi'e  of  its  lack  of  logic.  With  good 
music,  it  is  sure  to  impress  any  not  critical  audience.  The  insincerity  of 
that  part  of  the  picture  in  which  the  old  soldier  is  neglected  and  "thought 
toe  old  to  enjoy  the  parade"  by  his  son  and  daughter-in-law  (how  palpably 
as  shown)  is  hidden  by  the  deep  feeling  that  we  all  have  for  such  a 
grand  old  veteran  (Charles  Kent)  with  an  armless  sleeve.  Neither  producer 
nor  author  deserve  credit  since  both  worked  in  a  hurry;  but  Charles  Kent 
in  the  title  role  and  Adele  De  Garde  deserve  high  commendation.  The 
photography   didn't   do   the  picture  justice. 

'THE  EX-CONVICT'S  PLUNGE"  (Selig),  May  29.— A  slight  and  short 
offering  that  is,  atvl  was  intended  to  be,  a  sort  of  conundrum  picture.  A 
ct  i?  set  free  and  a  detective  rees  him  acting  as  though  he  were 
about  to  do  something  and  he  wo  iders  and  we  wonder.  We  are  interested 
watching  the  detective  get  down  to  the  fact  that  the  man  is  in  love 
and  then  the  picture  ends.  It  is  commendably  acted  by  William  Stowell 
as  the  convict;  Harry  Lonsdale,  the  detective;  Adrienne  Kroel,  the  girl,  and 
.Toe  Hazelton.  as  the  warden.  There  is  a  poor  policeman  in  it.  The  photog- 
raphy is  clear. 

•SCENES  IX  MANILA"  (Selis).  May  29. — On  the  same  reel  are  some 
reasonably  instructive  views  taken  in  the  chief  city  of  the  Philippines,  and 
they  include  some  impressive  sunset  pictures,  perhaps  the  most  impressive 
e^er  made.  It  is  too  short  and  wastes  time  showing  us  an  old  fort  that 
can  be  seen  on  postal  cards.  The  photography  is  fair,  but  is  inclined  to  be 
a  bit  misty. 

'THE  ROMANCE  OF  THE  OZARKS"  (Lubin),  May  29. — A  melodrama 
along  conventional  Hnes  and  very  poorly  acted.  It  is  the  moonshiner,  hill- 
girl  and  revenue-man  story.  The  scenes  are  rather  uninteresting  and  the 
photography,    though    clear,    larks    art. 

"WHITE  LIES"  (Patheplay),  May  29. — A  thunderstorm  has  been  most 
realistically  pictured  in  this  offering.  It  has  been  wonderfully  contrived 
and  is  a  true  thrill,  although  if  it  were  possible  to  have  had  a  ripple  flash 
of  levin  rather  than  the  romantic  forked  bolt,  it  would  have  been  better 
still.  The  story  is  not  worthy  the  storm  scene  and,  for  the  most  part,  it 
was  very  poorly  acted.     The  photography  is  commendable. 

•TH>:  FOSTER  BROTHERS"  (Melies),  May  29.— A  picture  dealing  with 
bush  life  ami  with  white  men  and  natives.  It  was  made  near  Yarabah  in 
alia  and  in  extremely  interesting  backgrounds.  It  tells  a  good  story 
that  has  been  acted  in  a  dignified,  convincing  way  and  has  been  clearly 
photographed.  As  an  offering,  it  ranks  high,  for  it  not  only  interests  but 
gives  valuable  instruction,  as  showing  the  bush  men  in  their  native  lands. 
'  "TAXDJONG  FRIOK,  THE  HARBOR  OF  JAVA'S  CAPITAL,  BATA- 
VIA"  (Melies),  May  29. — On  the  same  reel  is  this  film,  an  eye-opener  in 
its  way.  as  showing  how  busy  a  port  Java's  capital  has.  The  photography 
is  clear  and  the  views  full  of  atmosphere  and  well  chosen  so  that  they  are 
instructive.     It  is  worth  while  seeing. 

"LOVE  AXD  WAR  IN  MEXICO"  (Lubin),  May  2S.— A  melodramatic 
picture  of  revolutionary  times  in  Mexico.  It  is  in  two  parts;  but  would 
have  b.^en  better  in  one.  The  scenario  was  worthy  of  artistic  treatment,  but 
is  very  poorly  acted.  The  scenes  too,  are  poorly  composed  and.  with  dull 
photography,  are  more  of  a  hindrance  in  that  they  give  the  mind  something 
to  be  dissatisfied  with,  when  it  would  prefer  to  think  of  nothing  but  the 
story.  The  opening  is  particularly  dull  and  without  the  snap  that  it  ought 
to  have  and,  in  these  early  scenes,  the  "degenerate  husband's"  brutalities 
are  annoying-  Some  people  left  the  theater,  others  laughed  and  made 
fun  of  them.  In  the  end.  this  man  has  become  a  very  devout  priest,  thinking 
his  wife  dead.  Twenty  years  later,  his  son,  whom  he  has  never  seen  or 
heard  of.  is  to  be  shot  by  the  Federals  and  runs  to  the  church.  The 
priest  promises  the  captain  to  bring  the  fugitive  in  an  hour  and  sends  for 
the  boy's  mother,  a  woman  of  the  village,  whom  he  doesn't  know  is  his 
wife,  until  they  meet. 


"BORROWED  PLUMAGE"  (Cines).  May  27.— A  farce  depending  on 
the  tun  in  freak  photographs  taken  by  a  man  who  is  pretending  to  be  a 
photographer  in  his  friend's  studio.     It  made  laughter  now  and  then. 

"THE  CHAMPION  FIXER"  (Cines),  May  27.— A  farce  depending  on  the 
preposterousness  of  the  things  it  shows,  beginning  with  a  serenade  on  a 
drum.  This  is  a  well-made,  light  offering  and  is  really  amusing,  since 
everything  in  it  is  near  the  height  of  the  ridiculous.  There  are  some  people 
who  see  nothing  in  this  sort  of  stuff  at  all,  and  some  in  the  audience  didn't. 

"IN  SOMALILAXD"  (Cines).  May  27. — A  double  tinted  picture  of 
Italian  middle  Africa.  It  is  short,  but  has  a  glimpse  of  a  Somali  school 
which  is  truly  worth  seeing. 

"THE  WORDLESS  MESSAGE"  (Selig),  May  28.-— A  Decoration  Day 
love  story  that  makes  no  appeal  to  patriotism  and  that,  showing  men  in 
blue  coats  with  the  G.  A.  R.  badges  on.  has  little  to  do  with  them  as  such. 
The  young  people,  or  rather  the  girl,  is  the  center  of  interest.  The  opening 
of  the  picture's  love  story  is  very  poor;  a  city  man  comes  prowling  around 
the  porch  and  the  girl  runs  away  with  him  to  be  deserted.  On  Decoration 
Day  she  goes  to  a  picture  show  and  sees  her  father  faint  during  a  parade 
while  it  was  being  filmed — that  is  the  wordless  message.  Colin  Campbell 
produced  it  from  Hettie  Gray  Baker's  script.  The  photography  has  little 
art  except  now  and  then.  There  is  one  lovely  picture  of  Bessie  Eyton  at 
her  sewing  machine  after  she  has  been  deserted.  Thomas  Santschi  plays 
a  village  blacksmith  and  Wheeler  Oakman  is  the  city  youth  with  whom  the 
heroine  runs  away. 

"ON  THE  JOB"  (Essanay),  May  28.— It  might  have  been  called  the 
predicament  of  a  flirtatious  drummer,  and  when  it  gets  down  to  its  real 
situation,  to  its  joke,  it  brings  a  good,  deep  laugh  out  of  everybody  in  the 
house.  This  funny  part  is  toward  the  end,  we  must  admit,  but  the  whole 
is  never  reall>  dry  although  a  bit  old.  The  best  of  it  depends  on  John 
Steppling,  a  drummer;  on  Eleanor  Blanchard,  his  wife,  and  on  Margaret 
Spooner,  Miss  Busybody  who  had  tried  to  get  him  into  trouble  with 
his  wife.  She  was  right;  but  John's  friend,  Howard  Missimer,  was  too 
cute  and  between  them  they  get  Miss  Busy  in  wrong.  The  photography 
i;   clear  enough.      A   very    fair   offering. 

"THE  FUGITIVE"  (Patheplay),  May  28. — The  realistic  way  in  which 
it  was  produced  is  the  chief  merit  of  this  offering.  The  story  is  far  from 
being  fresh,  but  it  is  played  in  a  very  lively  way  and  this  makes  us 
think  that  it  is  real,  it  convinces  us  by  its  snap.  Its  thrilling  scene  is  when, 
near  the  end  of  a  man  chase,  in  which  the  innocent  man  makes  his  escape, 
his  horse  and  he  take  a  terrible  fall  together.  Only  a  bit  of  this  is  shown 
so  that  the  mind  is  kept  from  seeing  its  brutality.  There  is  very  fair 
photography  and  clearly  pictured  scenes. 

"MR.  XEWCOMB'S  NECKTIE"  (Edison),  May  28.— A  clever  farce 
comedy  that  brought  out  a  good  deal  of  hearty  laughter;  it  seems  to  be 
a  fair  hit.  Mrs.  C.  J.  Williams  as  Mrs.  Xewcomb  gives  a  tie  to  her 
husband  (William  Wadsworth)  and  even  the  black  and  white  picture 
of  it  is  a  stunner.  Newcomb,  do  what  he  will,  can  not  get  rid  of  it 
and  there's  fun  in  the  office  of  which  he  is  boss.  Perhaps  Yale  Boss,  as 
office  boy,  adds  most  fun  of  all  the  lesser  characters.  Margaret  Weston's 
scrubwoman  deserves  mention,  as  does  Andrew  Clark,  the  boy  who  picks 
it  up  on  the  sidewalk  after  Newcomb  has  thrown  it  out  of  the  window. 
Elsie  McLeod  and  Edward  Boulden  make  up  the  rest  of  the  office  force. 
The  script  is  by  Alice  Williams  and  was  produced  by  C.  J.  Williams.  The 
photography  is  clear. 

"CUTIE  PLAYS  DETECTIVE"  (Vitagraph),  May  28.— Some  extremely 
able  acting  gives  much  quality  to  this  picture  of  which  the  story,  though 
fair  and  effectively  handled,  is  along  well  trodden  lines.  Courtenay  Foote, 
as  Lord  Goodbluff,  an  aristocratic  scoundrel  who  is  making  a  social  splurge 
in  the  town,  gives  one  of  his  characterizations  that  hide  his  personality, 
his  age,  his  natural  walk  and  demeanor  completely.  Mr.  Foote  is  a  very 
finished  player.  Wallie  Van,  as  Cutie,  does  a  good  female  impersonation. 
As  serving  maid  at  the  Trevor's  where  he  had  been  asked  not  to  call  any 
more,  because  Mrs.  Trevors  (Louise  Beaudet)  wanted  her  daughter  (Zena 
Kcefe)  to  marry  the  lord,  he  does  some  detective  work  and  gets  the  noble 
lord  arrested.  As  a  picture,  it  held  the  audience  and  will  go  well  every- 
where. The  photography  is  a  bit  harsh  and  doesn't  do  justice  to  the  faces, 
but  the  scenes  are  very  pretty.  The  script  is  by  J.  V.  Hurley,  and  Larry 
Trimble  produced  it. 

"CAPTURED  BY  STRATEGY"  (Kalem),  May  28.— A  melodramatic  pic- 
ture that  is  very  unconvincing  and  full  of  improbabilities.  The  hero  (Boyd 
Ciark)  saves  the  man  who  didn't  want  to  be  his  father-in-law  from  being 
robbed  by  tramps  and  wins  the  heroine  (Marian  Cooper.)  About  half  of 
the  photography  is  very  good.  There  is  nothing  in  it  that  is  not  old  except 
one  incident,  by  way  of  sensation,  that  is  plainly  not  probable  and  surely 
not  exciting — it  is  the  way  the  hero  is  let  down  on  the  deck  of  a  passing 
steamboat  from  a  derrick  on   a  dock. 

"JOHN  BURNS  OF  GETTYSBURG"  (Kalem).  May  31.— The  story  of 
Tohn  Burns  is  widely  known  from  many  accounts  of  it  that  have  been 
printed,  and  for  this  pictuie,  Bret  Harte's  poem  furnishes  the  scenario. 
Quotations  from  it  serve  as  subtitles.  The  picture  is  not  a  great  success. 
It  was  taken  is  some  sandy  place  not  at  all  like  the  country  about  Gettys- 
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great  battle.  The  story,  such  as  it  is,  is  clearly  told  and  the  picture 
has  some  good  scenes.  The  photography  is  not  perfect,  but  fair  in  much 
of  the  picture.  Kenean  Bud's  Burns  is  a  striking,  interesting  figure 
and  he  deserves  commendation  for  it.  Guy  Coombs  plays  the  old  man's 
son  who  enlists  and  is  brought  home  dead  with  a  sharpshooter's  bullet 
through  his  heart.  Mrs.  Courtot  plays  Burns'  wife  and  Anna  Nilson,  his 
daughter-in-law. 

"THE  BANDIT'S  CHILD"  (Kalem),  June  2.— There  is  very  little  in  this 
picture  that  we  haven't  seen  before  several  times,  though  not  in  just  this 
order  and  arrangement.  The  climax  and  ending  scene  has  been  used  so 
often  that  we  fear  it  will  not  impress  many.  One  doesn't  get  truly  interested 
in  such  a  story  as  this.  The  producer  shows  a  faculty,  selecting  good  back- 
grounds and  of  making  interesting  scenes;  but  the  camera  man  didn't 
follow  him  very  effectively;  the  print  seems  too  misty  for  real  life. 

"AN  ALMOND  EYED  MAID"  (Edison),  May  31.— This  offering  stands 
in  its  grace  and  the  prettiness  of  its  backgrounds  rather  than  on  its  dramatic 
strength;  for  the  story  is  commonplace.  The  producer  was  fortunate  in 
being  able  to  get  a  great  deal  of  Japanese  material  in  his  backgrounds  and 
has  made  a  delicately  exotic  picture.  The  almond-eyed  maid  is  played 
by  Mary  Fuller  with  a  good  deal  of  grace,  but  little  fire.  Richard  Tucker, 
a  while  man  saves  her  from  slavery  and  his  fiancee,  Gertrude  McCoy,  takes 
her  into  her  employ  as  a  maid.  The  Japanese  girl  is  in  love  with  her 
protector  and  jealous  of  his  fiancee.  But  when  she  sees  some  of  her  own 
people  about  to  murder  the  man,  she  forgets  her  desire  for  revenge  to 
save  his  life,  getting  (as  usual  in  such  stories)  the  knife  in  her  own  breast. 
The  photography  is  very  fair. 

"ONE  CAN'T  ALWAYS  TELL"  (Vitagraph),  May  31.— The  rich  aunt 
(whom  the  three  girls  have  never  seen)  is  coming  to  choose  an  heiress.  So 
the  slavey  is  discharged  and  an  efficient;  woman  is  sent  for.  The  aunt 
comes  first,  is  taken  for  the  new  servant  and  decides  to  keep  up  the  de- 
ception, even  making  the  maid,  when  she  arrives,  play  that  she  is  the 
aunt.  None  of  the  three  girls  proves  to  have  the  kind  of  temperament  aunty 
is  locking  for  (this  is  unusual  in  this  story)  so  she  apparantly  adopts  the 
new  cook.  Mrs.  Maurice,  as  the  aunt,  gives  to  the  offering  its  best  fun; 
but  Kate  Price,  as  the  new  cook,  does  her  share.  It  is  pretty  well  photo- 
graphed. 

"IF  DREAMS  CAME  TRUE"  (Vitagraph),  May  31. — On  the  same  reel 
is  this  which  has  no  story  in  the  real  sense,  and  yet,  by  the  work  and 
personality  of  the  players,  made  a  fe*v  laughs.  Hughey  Mack  and  James 
Lackaye  have  roles. 

"WHAT  GOD  HATH  JOINED  TOGETHER"  (Vitagraph),  June  2.— 
A  good  story  of  humanity  in  the  rough;  it  has  been  originally  thought-out, 
effectively  pictured,  and  seemed  to  make  an  impression  on  the  audience. 
It  deals  with  life  in  a  hovel  village  in  the  West,  showing  us  the  slatternly 
street,  the  bar-room  and  one  of  the  poor  cabins;  but  by  its  convincing 
showing  of  human  fates  that  arc  not  sensational  nor  abnormal,  it  has 
assured  itself  of  our  interest  all  through.  We  wouldn't  like  to  live  in 
that  village,  nor  be  those  people,  but  circumstances  might  compel  it,  anyway, 
we  can  understand  it  all.  Anne  Schaefer,  as  the  woman,  carries  the  im- 
portant role  with  well  sustained  truth  and  naturalness.  She  is  ably 
supported  by  George  Stanley.  Robert  Thornby  and  Major  J.  A.  McGuire 
have  parts.     The  camera  work  is  fair. 

"ALKALI  IKE'S  MISFORTUNE"  (Essanay),  May  31.— A  lively  farce 
in  which  eccentric  camera  work  furnishes  a  very  laughable  climax.  Much 
of  it  is  old,  but  all  of  it  is  full  of  good  farcical  spirit  and  it  will  amuse; 
indeed,  the  a*idience  seemed  to  like  it  a  good  deal. 

"PATHE'S  WEEKLY  NO.  23,"  June  2.— There  is  nothing  this  week  that 
is  of  very  especial  note;  but  we  find  the  usual  items,  such  as  a  glimpse  of 
kings  and  queens  (this  week  it  is  the  rulers  of  Denmark  and  of  Sweeden), 
a  tornado  in  the  West,  some  Baptist  ministers,  and  the  best  item  of  all,  a 
good  view  of  Dr.  Sun  Yat  Sen,  the  eminent  Chinese  revolutionist,  as  he 
is   on    his    way    to   vote. 

"THE  RANCHERO'S  REVENGE"  (Biograph),  June  2.— An  ordinary 
story,  very  fairly  acted,  but  not  perfectly  photographed.  Lionel  Barry- 
more  plays  a  ranchero  who  advertises  for  a  wife.  Claire  McDowell  and 
Harry  Carey  play  a  pair  of  crooks  who  scheme  to  get  his  money.  The  woman 
goes-  West,  marries  the  man  and  while  she  is  planning  to  rob  her  husband, 
begins  to  fall  in  love  with  him.  The  other  man  comes  out  to  demand  that 
she  keep  her  bargain  with  him  and  it  is  made  to  look  as  though  he  were 
going  to  make  trouble.  All  tie  wants  is  the  cash  in  the  safe  which  he 
makes  the  woman  open  for  him.  There  is  a  struggle  scene  and  then  a 
chase  scene  with  the  husband  coming  in  at  the  climax  to  save  both  the 
woman  and  the  money.  It  fails  now  and  then  to  hit  the  bullseye  squarely; 
but  it  makes  an  interesting  offering,  speedy  and  exciting. 

"HIS  MOTHER'S  SON"  (Biograph),  May  31.— This  is  an  imaginative 
picture  of  unusual  characters  which  are  convincing  enough  to  awaken 
sympathy,  partly  because  they  are  played  carefully  and  consistently,  and 
partly  because  the  plot  has  been  cleverly  planned  to  hide  the  artificiality  of 
one  or  two  of  its  speedy  incidents,  such  as  that  in  which  "his  mother's 
son"  kicks  the  lunch  room  proprieler  about  his  kitchen.  That  vigorous- 
minded  mother  is  a  new  character  and,  out  of  her,  the  situation  is  made 
to  spring  very  convincingly.  In  the  development  of  this  we  find  the  same 
traits  appearing  in  her  son;  but  now  they  are  used  not  tyranously,  but 
valiantly  to  save  the  weak  old  father,  the  sister  and  the  poor  boy  (a 
favorite  character  with  Biograph)  and  this  gives  the  offering  a  very  pleasing 
ending.  Walter  Miller  plays  the  son;  W.  Christie  Miller,  the  old  father; 
Mae  Marsh,  the  sister  and  Robert  Herron,  the  poor  boy.  All  the  players 
do  clear  cut,  commendable  work.  The  photography  is  not  as  clear  as  in 
the  best  Biographs;  but  is  very  fair. 

"LONE  DOG,  THE  FAITHFUL"  (Lubin),  May  31.— An  Indian  story 
with  the  usual  action  expected  in  such.  It  aims  at  pathetic  sentiment,  like 
the  classic  Indian  offering,  "The  Broken  Doll";  but  in  a  somewhat  different 
way.  It  is  not  so  effective  a  picture.  We  have  the  Indian  attack  on 
the  white  man's  cabin  and  Lone  Dog  goes  to  bring  help  from  the  village, 
but  arrives  too  late. 

"THE  SQUAWMAN'S  AWAKENING"  (Patheplay),  May  31.— This 
story,   with   much   that  is   old,   has   unquestionable   freshness   and  has   been 


convincingly  made,  except  that  its  climax  seems  doubtful.  The  squawman 
has  lived  long  with  the  red  men  and  has  almost  forgotten  civilization  when 
two  of  his  companions  capture  two  white  women  and  he  rescues  them.  For 
this,  he  is  condemned  to  die;  but  with  the  help  of  his  half-breed  child, 
escapes  taking  the  child  with  him.  He  warns  the  caravan  of  the  impending 
attack  and  la:er  helps  some  of  the  women  to  escape.  His  Indian  wife  sees 
him  with  one  of  these  white  girls  and  shoots  him.  While  he  is  wounded  and 
helpless  there  is  a  struggle  between  the  squaw  and  the  woman  in  which 
the  woman  is  easily  victor,  when  the  half-breed  child  comes  to  its  mother's 
help,  so  the  man  gives  the  child  to  her  and  sends  her  back  to  her  people. 

"WHEN  THE  CIRCUS  CAME  TO  TOWN"  (Selig).  June  2.— A  little 
story  of  sentiment  built, on  an  impossible  situation;  but  with  a  wholesome, 
human  quality  that  will  charm  many  spectators,  especially  in  small  com- 
munities. It  deals  with  the  natural  desire  of  children  to  see  the  circus 
and  shows  how  three  raggedy  kids,  as  a  reward  of  honesty  in  returning 
tickets  that  they  found,  were  given  seats  and  peanuts.  The  small  boys 
helping  to  water  the  elephants  makes  a  good  bit  to  go  with  such  a  picture. 
Roy  Clark,  "Smoke"  Ferguson  and  "Baby"  Lillian  Wade  are  the  kiddies. 
Written  by  Edward  Hungerford,  it  was  produced  by  Colin  Campbell, 
and  will  make  an  acceptable  offering  in  most  places.  The  photography  is 
-  ]  so. 

"A  WOMAN'S  HEART"  (Lubin),  June  2. — A  melodramatic  picture  by 
Wilbert  Melville.  It  is  set  against  a  background  of  ranch  life  and  in 
one  scene  a  part  of  the  action  consists  of  reflections  in  the  quiet  waters 
of  a  pool.  The  story  is  too  improbable  to  be  interesting.  The  photog- 
raphy is  not  always  clear. 

"PROFESSOR  WILLIAM  NUTT"  (Edison),  June  2.— A  very  enjoyable 
comedy  picture  by  Alice  Williams,  with,  as  its  chief  character,  a  vegetarian 
who  practices  what  he  preaches  though  his  wife  is  fond  of  all  kinds  of 
good  things.  The  best  fun  comes  when  Nutt,  after  a  lecture,  is  invited 
home  to  dinner  by  an  old  friend  who  had  forgotten  that  he  is  living  up 
to  his  name.  There  is  a  good  comedy  in  the  getting  ready  of  that  dinner. 
It  is  wash-day  and  catastrophy  day  too  and  these  scenes  are  full  of  humor- 
ous house-keeping  lore  with  a  touch  of  reality  that  will  tickle  old  memories 
in  many  a  spectator.  Dan  Mason  plays  Nutt  like  a  lover  of  Dickens,  making 
much  fun.  Mrs.  C.  J.  Williams,  as  the  wife  who  has  to  get  a  dinner 
ready  on  short  notice,  keeps  on  human  ground  right  through.  Maggie 
Weston  is  a  washerwoman;  William  Wadsworth  is  the  young  husband,  and 
Madeline  Adair,  is  Nutt's  wife.  This  is  the  most  worthy  offering  today  in 
our  estimation;  it  is  clearly  photographed  and  cleverly  produced  by  C  J. 
Williams. 

"WHEN  A  WOMAN  LOVES"  (Cines),  June  2.— A  three-part  romance, 
pictured  in  some  indefinite  kingdom  in  modern  times  and  on  the  brink 
of  popular  revolution.  In  the  opening  scene,  which  is  a  reception  at  the 
royal  palace  and  in  which  is  shown  the  stately  entrance  of  the  queen,  wj 
find  that  the  story's  leading  character,  a  duchess  and  one  of  the  queen's 
attendants,  is  in  league  with  the  conspiritors.  We  soon  find  her  falling 
in  love  with  a  fervent  youth  who  is  arrested  for  preaching  "the  cause"; 
the  duchess  is  able  to  get  him  out  of  prison.  There  is  another  woman  in 
the  case  and  jealousy,  revenge  and  remorse,  enrry  it  to  its  end.  The  leading 
woman  is  not  a  perfect  choice  for  her  role;  there  is  little  in  her  of 
either  the  great  dame  or  the  conspirator.  The  acting,  as  a  whole,  is  what 
was  wanted,  yet  at  times  it  is  not  sure  of  its  intention.  The  ending  is 
luridly  sensational  and.  as  an  offering,  the  whole  will  appeal  strongly  to 
the  uninstructed.  There  is  much  of  grace  in  posing,  sets  and  the  photog 
laphy. 

'•LET  NO  MAN  PUT  ASUNDER"  (Essanay),  June  3.— A  good  oflk--- 
ing  that  was  clearly  pleasing  to  the  audience.  Francis  X.  Bushman  plays 
the  lead  "n  it  ably  supported  by  Ruth  Stonehouse.  One  will  also  find 
many  fine  things  in  the  lesser  characters  as  acted  by  John  Steppling, 
Joseph  Allen,  Bryant  Washburn  and  nthers.  The  story  is  clear  and  chooses 
a  significant  situation,  so  truthfully  human  and  worth  while  that  a  plain, 
simple  development  of  it  would  have  stood  up  well.  In  fact,  the  picture 
had  a  better  "punch"  up  to  the  time  the  foreman  was  conventionally 
shown  to  be  a  coward,  than  it  dil  at  any  time  after.  A  man  and  woman 
bad  been  divorced,  because  the  man  couldn't  control  his  temper.  The  man 
had  left  the  city  and,  to  make  a  man  of  himself,  had  got  a  job  in  a  mine 
which,  later,  through  a  legacy,  becomes  the  property  of  his  former  wife. 
The  man,  at  the  works,  has  to  see  the  foreman  making  love  to  her.  What 
a  chance  to  show  that  the  man  had  now  learned  to  govern  his  temper! 
The  pictme  fails  to  do  it  very  clearly,  and  loses  its  golden  crown  to  rake 
among  the  dry  straw  of  conventional  melodrama.  It  is  pretty  well  photo- 
graphed, on  the  whole. 

"A  JEALOUS  HUSBAND"  (Lubin),  June  3.— Emmet  C.  Hall,  the  author 
of  this  picture,  took  a  situation  that  has  been  used  before  and  has  made 
a  very  melodramatic  offering  of  it,  wholly  conventional  in  characters,  sit- 
uations and  general  business.  It  has  been  produced  by  Arthur  Johnson 
and  we  enjoyed  it  all  the  way  through,  because  of  its  lovely  photography,  its 
pretty  sets  and  the  work  of  its  competant  players:  Lottie  Briscoe,  Florence 
Hackett,  Howard  Mitchell  and  the  producer. 

"RIGHT  FOR  RIGHT'S  SAKE"  (Edison),  June  3— A  poor  picture, 
carelessly  made,  indirect  and  somewhat  confused.  The  players  deserve 
credit,  especially  Laura  Sawyer  and  some  of  the  lesser  figures.  Then  the 
sets  are  very  fair  and  the  camera  man  (an  important  personage  in  pic- 
ture making,  if  counted  with  the  laboratory  force)  has  done  his  part 
acceptably.     Something  much  better  might  have  been  done  with  this  story. 

"THE  IRONY  OF  FATE"  (Cines),  June  3.— This  story  is  fairly  inter- 
esting, because  it  has  been  sincerely  acted  and  the  players  (they  are  not  too 
well  known)  are  personally  pleasing.  But  it  is  discursive  and  not  concise 
enough;  it  lacks  the  piercing  power  of  an  arrow  that  is  logically  straight, 
has  a  baro  of  reality  and  has  been  flung  out  with  some  will  power.  The 
backgrounds  are  fine,  some  of  them  show  grotesque,  lava-covered  hflts 
with  rocks  twisted  and  bent  or  lying  like  torpid  snakes;  but  we  could  wish 
for  clearer  photography  in  many  of  the  early   scenes. 


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"DREDGES  AND  FARM  IMPLEMENTS  IN  THE  WEST"  (Patheplay;, 
June  3. — A  picture  of  big  things  doing;  it  shows  how  machinery  helps  in 
carrying  en  great  labors.  The  photography  is  clear.  Such  offerings  are 
primarily  for  the  men,  men  who  do  things,  and  they  seem  to  drink  them 
up,  so  interested  that  they  don't  know  it.     It  is  like  a  fairy  tale,  anyway. 

"A  MARKET  IN  KABYLIA"  (Patheplay),  June  3.— On  the  same  reel 
is  this  travel  picture  taken  in  North  Africa.  There  is  a  good,  clear  map 
shewn,  so  that  all  may  know  where  Kabylia  is.  The  photography  is  only 
fair. 

"AX  UNWILLING  SEPARATION"  (Edison),  May  27.— A  Decoration 
Day  story  that  is  not  effective,  because  we  are  kept  from  believing  in  it  by 
the  palpable  improbabilities  in  it,  plain  to  all.  There  are  too  many  things 
that  deny  the  possibility  of  the  situations  arising  under  just  these  circum- 
stances, such  things  as  the  wealth  of  both  the  children,  as  the  fact  that  the 
old  woman  could  walk,  while  the  automobiles  owned  by  both  children 
couldn't  carry  the  father  and  mother  together.  Then  it  is  plain  that  the 
Decoration  Day  sentiment  is  dragged  in;  it  didn*t  convince  in  itself  nor  did 
it  belong  inherently  with  the  story.  The  acting  is  not  impressive  even  at 
its  best  and  there  is  no  art  in  the  photography. 

"THE  GIRL  AXD  THE  JUDGE"  (Selig),  May  27.— It  would  be  hard 
to  think  up  a  human  situation  more  effective  dramatically  than  this  and 
it  has  been  well  developed  by  Lem  Parker  as  author  and  director.  It  is 
one  of  the  best  stories  in  some  time,  just  as  it  is;  but  if  he  had  made 
it  into  two  reels  and  explained  it  more  in  detail,  it  might  have  been  even 
better.  Vet  perhaps  the  fact  that  we  are  left  to  wonder  as  to  many  things 
rather  than  being  told  in  so  many  gestures  or  subtitles,  is  the  thing  that 
hojds  us.  In  quality,  it  is  a  feature  offering,  a  strong,  substantial  picture, 
well  acted  for  the  most  part,  clearly  photographed  and  gripping;  there  is 
a  vital  glimpse  of  life  underneath  it  that  all  will  recognize.  Kathlyn  Williams 
plays  a  girl  who  has  been  deceived  by  a  judge's  son  (Herbert  Rawlinson) 
and  has  been  deserted  by  him.  In  poverty,  she  is  taken  up  on  the  street 
(for  what,  isr.'t  made  clear)  and  arranged  before  the  boy's  father  (Hobart 
Bosworth).  who  reprimands  her  and  sets  her  free.  The  boy  has  escaped; 
she  doesn't  even  know  his  right  name;  but,  by  chance,  asks  for  employ- 
ment in  the  judge's  home.  Xext  morning  she  is  waiting  on  the  table; 
but  before  the  boy  comes  down,  the  judge  recognizes  her,  and  this  leads  to 
two  strong  scenes,  one  in  the  library,  one  in  the  hall,  where  the  boy  meets 
her.  Eugenie  Besserer  and  Gertrude  Arnold  play  the  boy's  mother  and 
sister. 

"DOIXG  LIKE  DAISY"  (Lubin),  May  27.— A  short  and  very  slight 
farce  with  one  good  laugh.  It  is  used  as  a  filler  with  the  other  number 
on    the   same    reel. 

"THE  YARN  OF  THE  NANCY  BELLE"  (Lubin),  May  27.— A  burlesque 
sea  yarn  as  told  by  "the  ancient  mariner"  to  three  children.  The  best  of  it 
is  its  burlesque  characters,  they  are  fine  and  will  amuse  old  and  young; 
but  the  yarn,  a  well  known  ballad,  is  only  for  children.  The  photography 
is  fair. 

"THE  NEW  SHERIFF"  (Essanay),  May  27.— A  very  good  story  with 
a  fine  comedy  punch  at  the  end.  The  central  character  is  a  simple  mem- 
ber of  a  Western  town  whom  the  cowboys  think  weak-minded.  Three  des- 
peradoes are  making  things  unpleasant  for  the  community  and  have  just 
killed  the  old  sheriff.  The  new  man  is  the  only  one  who  has  the  spunk 
to  take  the  job,  and  the  way  he  makes  good  will  tickle  the  average  spectator 
very  much.  It  begins  in  a  leisurely  fashion,  and  takes  its  own  gate  all 
through;  but  never  fails  to  interest.  One  drawback,  its  poor  photography, 
is  noticeable;  but  the  story  is  clear  and  that  is  the  chief  point  in  this  offer- 
ing.     Arthur   Mackley's  company   produced  it 

"TRICKS  OF  THE  TRADE"  (Vitagraph),  May  27.— This  a  neat,  nifty 
Httle  offering  that  might  have  been  called  "Human  Foxes."  It  introduces  us 
(we  remain  at  a  safe  distance)  to  two  of  the  cleverest  ever,  a  couple  of 
crooks  that  are  making  an  easy  fortune  out  of  the  carelessness  and  the 
charity  of  their  kind..  It  is  well  to  see  for  ourselves  the  "tricks  of  the 
trade"  of  such  as  these  and  the  picture  provides  something  of  an  education. 
It  is  entertaining  in  marked  degree  and  can  be  recommended  highly  as  an 
offering  to  the  people.  \V.  A.  Tremayne,  the  author,  must  have  some  friends 
"who  are  detectives.  The  producer  has  made  it  convincing  and  clear.  The 
crooks  are  played  by  Harry  T.  Morey  and  Julia  Swayne  Gordon.  Robert 
Gaillord  and  Dorothy  Kelly  are  the  detectives  who  bring  them  to  justice. 
The  photography  is  clear. 

"BULL  FIGHT  IX  FRANCE"  (Patheplay),  May  27.— A  picture  of  a 
bull  ring  with  the  bulls  charging  unarmed  men.  The  horns  are  covered 
and  they  are  roped  to  keep  them  from  doing  any  great  harm  to  the  players. 
It  is  a  picture  of  wonderful  feats  of  agility.  One  player  is  hurt;  but  no 
blood  is  shed.  The  crowds  attending  make  an  interesting  picture.  The 
photography  is   clear  enough. 

•IX  THE  FORESTS  OF  COCHIN'  CHINA"  (Patheplay),  May  27.— On 
the  same  icel  with  the  foregoing  is  this  industrial,  showing  us  how  big  trees 
are  felled  and  how  lumber  is  handled  in  the  southern  provinces  of  China. 
It  is  a  vei  ".g  offering,  clearly  photographed  and  instructive. 

"EXCEEDING  THE  TIME  LIMIT"  (Ones),  May  24.— A  rough  farce 
in  which  trick  camera  work  has  a  part.  It  made  laughs,  particularly  among 
the  children. 

"THE  MAID  AXD  THE  YARN"  (Cines),  May  24.— A  rough  farce  in 
which  a  player,  who  is  something  of  an  acrobat,  hunts  for  a  lost  ball  of 
yarn  and  breaks  all  the  vases  and  furniture  in  the  house.  This,  too,  made 
the  children  laugh.  There  are  parts  now  and  then  that  are  laughable  even 
to  older  folks. 

"CURING  A  WOULD-BE  AVIATOR"  (Cines),  May  24.— The  three  on 
the  same  film  are  alike  in  this  that  they  are  all  rough  farces  and  depend 
upon  clown  work.  This  is  of  like  quality  as  the  others.  Such  pictures 
often  prove  acceptable  to  tired  spectators,  but,  to  review  one  of  them 
seriously,   is   quite  impossible. 

"WAMBA.  A  CHILD  OF  THE  JUNGLE"  (Selig),  May  26.— A  two-part 
special  offering  with  live  lions  playing  an  important  part  at  the  climax. 
In  quality,  i:  is  interesting  and  does  not  lack  dramatic  suspense;   indeed,  it 


is  a  very  fair  offering  as  a  feature.  Its  worst  defect  is  rather  misty  pho- 
tography which  keeps  the  scenes  from  having  art  effects,  they  don't  seem 
to  be  in  themselves  alive,  are  even,  in  places,  artificial.  It  is  not  the  best 
wild  animal  offering  the  Selig  Company  has  produced,  but  will  go  very 
"well.     We  have  already  reviewed  it  at  length  in  a  former  issue. 


Independent 

"A  HEX-PECKED  BURGLAR"  (Solax)',  May  28.— A  farce  (with  Fronie 
Fronholjz  ^and  Blanche  Cornwell)  that  is  new  to  us  and  that  certainly 
"got  over."  It  is  the  acting  that  makes  it  go;  but  it  is  well-written.  The 
photograph  is  clear. 

"SCHOOL  DAYS"  (Pilot),  May  22.— Many  will  think  this  a  rather 
suggestive  picture  and  there  is  a  good  deal  that  is  vulgar  in  it.  We  know 
from  experience  that  there  are  some  audiences  that  will  like  it  the  more 
for  these  things.  There  are  some  perfect  sets  in  it  and  some  extremely  well 
chosen  backgrounds.  Also  it  is  well  acted  and  clearly  photographed.  The 
story,  in  main,  is  conventional,  but  is  not  dull. 

"LOVE  AND  WAR"  (Bison).  June  17. — A  story  of  a. one-armed  mar. 
wanted  to  enlist  with  the  others,  when  "Old  Abe"  called  for  volunteers 
to  put  down  the  rebellion.  The  fact  that  he  seemed  to  be  of  no  great  use 
in  time  of  war  is  shown  as  telling  against  him  in  his  love  story.  Respect, 
honor  and  love  are  falling  to  his  rival  who,  at  the  front,  has  been  promoted 
to  a  lieutenancy  and  seems  to  be  a  very  gallant  man.  The  one-armed  rival 
goes  to  the  front  as  a  reporter  and,  at  a  time  of  fierce  fighting,  rallies  his 
rival's  company  and  leads  them  to  victory  and  then  writes  the  story  up 
giving  the  other  man  the  credit.  After  the  war  the  lieutenant  is  conscience- 
stricken  and  confesses  to  his  own  cowardice,  so  that  the  one-armed  man  a: 
length  wins  the  girl.  There  are  battle  scenes  that  are  full  of  action  and  the 
story  is  told  clearly,  and  although  it  is  a  bit  too  romantic  to  be  convincing — 
it  isn't  dull.  In  the  acting  there  are  some  pleasing  things  and  there  are 
many  very  good  scenes.     The  photography  is  clear  enough. 

"SILVER  THREADS"  (Gem),  June  16. — This  is  not  a  lyric  photoplay 
in  the  sense  that  a  former  offering,  "Silver  Threads  Among  the  Gold." 
was;  but  it  does  make  use  of  the  well-known  tune  to  inforce  its  meaning.  It 
is  a  picture  of  sentiment  with  some  fine  scenes  and  some  engaging  characters, 
especially  so  are  the  three  friends,  three  Beaux  of  before-the-war  days! 
The  picture  opens  a  few  years  before  the  war  breaks,  and  then  there  is  a 
lapse  of  thirty  years  and  we  find  the  lovers,  whom  the  war  had  separated, 
meeting  again.  The  quality  of  the  picture  is  poetic  and  there  is  what  may 
be  termed  delicacy  of  fancy  in  the  scene-making  that  pleases.  The  photog- 
raphy is  very  fair.  • 

THE  SPIDER"  (Eclair),  June  8. — A  tragedy  enacted  by  members  of 
the  Imperial  Theater  of  Tokio  at  Yeddo.  It  is  a  hand-colored  film.  The 
villain  mixes  in  the  drink  of  the  lovers  the  poison  of  a  spider.  The 
rival  drinks  it.  The  girl  escapes.  When  the  poisoner  and  the  poisoned 
fight,  the  girl  takes  a  dagger  from  the  murderer  and  kills  him.  Then 
she  kills   herself. 

"HE  COULD  NOT  LOSE  IT"  (Eclair),  June  8.— On  the  same  reel 
as  the  foregoing  is  this  bit  of  Oklahoma  comedy. 

"THE  GHOST  OF  SEAVIEW  MANOR"  (Dragon),  June  16.— This  pic- 
ture  is  a   bit   spooky  at   times   by    reason   of  a   shadow   thrown    through   a 
hole  in  a  wall.     The  shadow  is  the. reflection  of  a  figure  of  a  doll  dress 
to   simulate   a   ghost.      The    object    is    to    frighten    two    women    dwellers    in 
the  effort  to  induce  them  to  leave  the  premises. 

"THE  MAN  IN  THE  WHITE  CLOAK"  (Great  Northern).— Here  are 
three  reels  of  fine  stuff.  One  exhibitor  who  saw  it  said  in  his  opinion 
it  was  better  than  "The  Black  Chancellor."  It  is  at  least  as  big  a  picture. 
The  picture  stands  out  by  reason  of  its  photography;  scenes  taken  in 
snowstorms  are  marvelously  clear — it  is  real  snow.  too.  There  is  a  bit  of 
double  printing,  where  a  man  follows  a  shadow  through  two  opened  doors 
and  out  into  the  grounds,  which,  is  finely  done.  There  is  suspense 
aplenty,  especially  in  the  scenes  where  the  man  imprisoned  underground 
tries  to  escape,  and  to  escape  in  time  to  attend  the  sale  at  auction  o: 
his  sweetheart's  estate.     "The  Man  in  the  White  Cloak"  holds  all  the  way. 

"HOPES  OF  BELINDA"  (Solax),  June  4.— A  French  style  farce,  in 
which  appear  Darwin  Karr,  Blanche  Cornwall  and  Marian  Swayne.  The 
picture  depicts  the  trouble  that  follows  the  efforts  of  a  maid  to  win  several 
men,  using  the  photograph  of  her  mistress  as  a  lure.  The  rage  of  the 
husband  will  cause  amusement. 

"THE  GOVERNOR'S  ROMANCE"  (Pilot),  May  29.— Good  drama.  The 
Governor,  in  an  effort  to  break  up  a  band  of  anarchists,  falls  into  the 
hands  of  the  men  he  is  pursuing  and,  as  he  has  also  .fallen  in  love 
with  the  daughter  of  the  chief,  he  joins  the  band.  When  lots  are  drawn 
to  determine  the  assassin  of  the  Governor,  it  falls  to  his  sweetheart  to  do 
the  deed.  At  a  reception,  into  which  she  has  forced  her  way.  she 
the  Governor;  she  recognizes  him  and  turns  her  weapon  upon  herself. 

"FOR  OLD  TIMES'  SAKE"  (Pilot),  June  5.— A  drama  featuring  Lottie 
Pickford;  she  does  some  good  work.  There  are  excellent  photographs  of 
rural  scens  and  effective  double  printing.     The  picture  will  entertain. 

"THE  KIDNAPPED  TRAIN"  (Victor),  June  6— James  Kirkwood  and 
Gertrude  Robinson  have  the  leads  in  this  melodrama  that  at  times  is  thrilling, 
especially  so  in  the  scenes  showing  the  locomotive  in  pursuit  of  the  train. 
There  is  an  unusual  number  of  men  in  the  picture;  these,  together  with 
the  factory  backgrounds,  contribute  to  the  effectiveness  of  a  well-produced 
and  interesting  picture. 

"THE  RANCH  GIRL  AND  THE  SKY  PILOT"  (Frontier),  June  3  — 
This  picture  is  commendable  for  the  good  views  of  New  Mexico,  out  on 
the  range.  The  drama  is  not  especially  strong;  but  there  are  one  or  two 
good  bits  of  comedy  which  lighten  it. 

"THE  RUNAWAY"  (Thanhouser),  June  3. — A  very  successful  offering 
indeed  is  this  story  of  two  children  from  the  orphan  asylum.  It  is  full  of 
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ress.  The  struggle  in  the  well  was  exceedingly  well  done,  considering  the 
age  of  the  participants.     A  good  number. 

-THE  STRENGTH  OF  THE  WEAK"  (Powers),  June  13.— In  this  film 
the  doctor  saves  a  man  from  drink  for  the  wife's  sake  and  then  falls  a 
victim  to  liquor  himself,  dying  on  his  own  front  steps.  This  is  a  story  of 
good  moral  intention,  but  rather  sordid  as  it  works  out.  The  photography 
is  not  very  clear  in  places. 

"BILLY  IN  ARMOR"  (Gem).  June  2.— A  comedy  reel  featuring  Billy 
Quirk  and  Violet  Horner.  Billy  gets  considerable  humor  out  of  the  main 
situation,  where  he  masquerades  in  a  suit  of  armor  and  detects  the  count 
stealing  jewels.-    Fairly  entertaining. 

"THE  SCAR"  (Rex),  June  22. — The  heroine,  whose  face  is  scarred,  be- 
comes envious  of  her  more  attractive  girl  chum.  She  chloroforms  her  and 
cuts  her  face  with  a  knife.  Later,  filled  with  remorse,  she  allows  her  own 
blood  to  be  transfused  into  the  body  of  her  victim.  As  depicted,  this  none 
too  attractive  plot  was  only  fairly  convincing. 

"FRIENDLY  XE1GH30RS"  (Powers),  June  18.— A  knockabout  comedy 
number,  in  which  an  Irishman  and  a  German  do  rough  character  work.  This 
appears  on  the  screen  like  the  reproduction  of  an  ordinary  burlesque  act. 
The  fun  is  of  a  low  comedy  sort  and  winds  up  with  a  burlesque  prize  fight. 

"THE  .sTOLEX  IDOL"  (Rex).  June  19.— Although  we  have  seen  pic- 
of  this  mystic,  Oriental  type  before,  this  one  is  very  well  handled  and 
holds  the  interest  fairly  well.  Robert  Leonard  appears  as  the  young  hero 
with  a  liking  for  detective  work;  Margarita  Fisher  is  the  Indian  high 
priestess.  The  action  centers  about  a  stolen  idol,  the  scene  being  trans- 
ferred from  India  to  New  York  City. 

"ANIMATED  WEEKLY,  NO.  64"  (Universal),  May  28.— This  contains 
several  features  of  interest,  including  views  of  the  Shriners  at  Dallas, 
Texas,  pictures  of  Secretary  Lane  and  Speaker  Champ  Clark,  Rosillo's 
flight  from  Key  West  to  Havana,  athletics  at  Springfield,  111.,  and  others. 
_  "TH^  GRAND  OLD  FLAG"  (Bison).  June  10.— A  two-part  story  of  the 
Spanish- American  War.  The  Cuban  atmosphere  is  nicely  suggested  and 
there  is  plenty  of  action.  The  adventures  of  two  young  Americans,  picked 
up  from  floating  wreckage,  hold  the  interest  till  the  last  half  of  the  second 
reel,  when  a  good  reproduction  of  the  capture  of  San  Juan  Hill  is  given. 
The  American  battleship  shown  in  one  scene  was  of  too  modern  a  type  to 
fit  the  picture.  The  views  of  the  rugged  coast  were  picturesque,  and  as  a 
whole,  the  number  succeeds  very  well. 

5ED"  (Imp),  June  5.— A  well  acted  and  gripping  film  is 
this.  It  has  to  do  almost  entirely  with  the  seamy  side  of  life.  There  is  a 
dramatic  scene  at  the  opening,  wherein  an  escaping  criminal  forces  a  dying 
man  to  sign  a  confession  of  a  murder  committed  by  himself.  William  E. 
Shay  appears  ss  the  police  commissioner  and  Frank  Smith  as  the  old  man. 
The  suspense  is  well  sustained. 

"THE  NEW  TYPIST"  (Crystal),  June  8.— A  pleasing  half-reel  comedy 
with  Chester  and  Pear!  as  the  lovers.  The  woman  playing  the  homely 
stenographer  has  a  good  comedy  face  and  we  should  like  to  see  more  of 
her  work. 

"BLACK  AND  WHITE"  (Crystal),  June  8.— This,  on  same  reel  with 
above,  shows  how  a  revengeful  girl  "doctors"  her  friend's  toilet  water,  but 
later  it  is  used  on  her  own  face.     As  a  whole,  this  is  a  good  comedy  reel. 

"JUST  A  FIRE  FIGHTER"  (Imp),  June  2.— Jane  Gail  appears  in  this 
comedy  film  as  a  stage-struck  girl,  and  Matt  Moore  as  her  fireman  lover. 
She  refuses  him,  owing  to  her  histrionic  ambitions,  but  after  her  experiences 
on  amateur  night,  and  his  heroic  rescue  of  her  from  fire,  changes  her  mind. 
Matt  Moore  was  a  trifle  stiff  in  his  acting,  but  has  a  good  personality  for 
such  a  part  as  this.     An  entertaining  film. 

"FALSE  LOVE  AND  TRUE"  (Crystal),  June  10.— This  is  a  full  reel 
comedy  drama.  Prof.  Toscani,  desiring  to  get  hold  of  his  pupil's  fortune, 
v  rites  to  a  supposed  Italian  count,  who  comes  and  makes  love  to  her.  Grace 
is  quite  enamoured  of  him,  but  he  disappears  when  she  loses  her  fortune. 
The  young  detective  locates  him  and  shows  him  up  as  a  well-known  crook. 
A  consistent  story  of  average  interest. 

"THE  PILLAR  OP  PERIL"  (Frontier),  June  5.— The  hero  of  this  pic- 
ture is  a  young  university  graduate  who  enters  the  U.  S.  Forestry  Service. 
The  scenes  are  out  of  doors  and  quite  picturesque,  though  the  photography 
is  not  of  the  best.  The  scene  in  the  cabin,  where  he  rescues  her  from  the 
drunken  trappers  is  the  strongest  in  the  film. 

"WHY?"  (Eclair),  June  4. — This  is  a  three  part  film,  containing  some 
striking  scenes  and  some  fine  photography.  The  motive  of  the  story  is  to 
show  the  manner  in  which  capital  and  labor  clash.  Much  of  it  is  socialistic 
doctrine,  strongly  presented.  The  hero  in  his  dream  sees  children  working 
on  a  factory  treadmill,  horses  being  killed  because  their  owners  would  not 
insure  them,  women  working  at  half  pay  and  using  blood  to  make  red 
thread,  a  board  of  railway  directors  depicted  as  pirates  and  last  of  all  the 
City  of  New  York  in  flames.  Many  exhibitors  will  look  upon  this  as  too 
suggestive  in  certain  parts.  It  is  very  strongly  worked  up  and  perhaps  too 
strongly  for  many  audiences. 

'THE  MADCAP  OF  THE  HILLS"  (Reliance),  June  7.— A  romantic 
story  of  the  mountains  which  would  have  been  stronger  if  the  heroine  had 
not  carried  her  heart  on  her  sleeve  quite  so  much.  Her  fickleness  is  too 
apparent  to  keep  the  reader's  sympathy.  The  action  is  brisk,  and  the  plot, 
such  as  it  is,  well  carried  out.  Irving  Cummings  appears  as  the  hero  and 
Virginia  Westbrook  as  the  madcap  mountain  girl. 

I  IFORNIA  POULTRY"  (American),  June  9.— An  industrial  film, 
going  quite  thoroughly  into  the  subject  of  chicken  raising  in  California. 
Many  varieties  of  the  birds  are  shown,  from  babyhood  up.  Ducks,  geese. 
turkeys  and  pheasants  are  also  shown;  quite  interesting. 

"THE  REWARD  OF  COURAGE"  (American),  June  14— This  is  an 
attractive  film  story  with  Warren  Kerrigan  as  the  hero.  In  spite  of 
a  sprained  ankle  he  manages  to  foil  the  married  man  who  is  making  ad- 
vances to  his  sweetheart.  The  fall  from  the  canoe  and  subsequent  rescue 
was  very  realistic.     A  pleasing  number. 

"FROM  THE  SHADOW"  (Broncho),  June  18.— A  two-reel  offering  com- 
bining Western  Indian  fighting  and  the  old  theme  of  a  mother  sorrowing 
for  her  lost  child.  The  Western  scenes  are  of  characteristic  interest.  After 
the  Indian  massacre,  the  young  officer  finds  a  baby  still  alive  in  its  cradle. 


LMer  in  the  film,  this  child  is  placed  beside  his  demented  wife  in  the 
bed  and  its  presence  restores  her  reason.  This  story  has  been  done  before 
in  various  ways,  but  as  it  appears  here  it  is  well  pictured  and  effective. 

"HEARTS  AND  HORSES"  (American),  June  12.— The  pony  which 
Uncle  Dan  sent  to  his  niece  was  stolen  by  a  band  of  horse  thieves.  The 
young  hero  gets  it  back  across  the  Mexican  line  by  strategy  and  brings  in 
one  of  the  thieves  after  an  exciting  chase  across  country.  The  others  are 
then  rounded  up.     A  lively  story  of  the  border  type. 

"THE  FAILURE  OF  SUCCESS"  (Kay-Bee),  June  20.— This  is  a  two- 
leel  story  of  a  man  who  deserts  his  wife  and  child  to  search-  for  gold  in 
the  West.  He  marries  again  after  divorcing  his  first  wife.  When  he  has 
become  rich  many  things  conspire  to  show  him  that  money  :?  not  the 
greatest  thing  in  life.  Remorse  overcomes  him  and  he  bequeaths  every- 
thing to  his  first  wife  and  child,  having  separated  from  the  second,  and  be- 
comes a  wanderer.  There  are  characteristic  Indian  pictures  in  this  and 
spirited  fighting.  The  photography  is  good  and  the  plot  unfolds  in  a  natural, 
convincing  manner. 

"THE  FRATERNITY  PIN"  (Majestic),  June  1.— This  is  a  very  at- 
tractive little  photoplay,  with  a  large  body  of  pretty  college  girls  dominating 
the  first  part  of  it.  The  president  of  the  class  befriends  the  poor  girl.  In 
later  years,  when  their  fortunes  have  changed,  the  girl  returns  the  friend- 
ship in  an  appealing  way.  The  picture  is  a  good  one  as  it  stands,  but  the 
close  was  hurried  and  could  have  been  much  more  effective.  A  pleasing 
number. 

"THE  QUEEN  OF  THE  SEA  NYMPHS"  (Majestic),  June  3.— Some- 
thing that  appeals  because  it  is  new  and  different.  It  shows  one  of  those 
wonderful  little  child  swimmers  at  the  California  resorts,  winning  a  swim- 
ming race  against  a  grown  man.  The  story  built  around  this  is  rather 
slight,  but  holds  the  interest.     A  good  offering. 

"MISS  MISCHIEF"  < Thanho  iser).  Jrne  S.— There  is  no  plot  to  this 
picture,  but  it  contains  a  good  deal  of  amusement.  It  is  a  series  of  mis- 
chievous pranks  played  by  a  girl  sent  home  in  disgrace  from  college.  She 
flirts  with  two  brothers  and  they  fight  a  burlesque  duel,  which  she  watches 
11  om  a  nearby  tree.  Later,  she  gets  up  a  rooster  fight  and  indulges  in  fur- 
ther exploits  of  the  kind.     The  girl  is  attractive  and  the  pictures  good^ 

"THE  WORLD  AT  LARGE"  (Rex).  Tune  5.— One  of  the  most  graphic 
pictures  of  the  underworld  recently  produced.  The  part  of  the  erring  hus- 
band, the  sorrowing  wife  and  the  woman  of  the  streets  were  admirably 
handled.  The  husband  is  lured  from  his  wife  and  family  and  finally  murders 
a  man  in  a  saloon  row,  for  which  he  is  sentenced  to  Sing  Sing  for  life.  A 
strong  offering  of  its  type. 

•AN  INDIAN'S  GRATITUDE"  (Broncho),  Tune  11.— This  single  reel 
number  tells  a  story  of  an  Indian  athlete  who  wins  the  daughter  of  a 
neighboring  chief  by  his  prowess.  The  squaw  deserts  him  later  and  this 
brings  about  warfare  between  the  tribes  and  later  with  the  regulars.  At  the 
end  there  is  a  dramatic  moment  when  the  man  whom  the  unfortunate  Swift- 
wind  was  befriending  shoots  him  by  mistake.  A  pleasing  storv  of  Indian 
life. 

"A  HANSOM  DRIVER"  (Keystone),  June  9.— Mack  Sennet  as  the 
cabbie  and  Ford  Sterling  as  his  hated  rival,  have  quite  a  conflict  over  the 
fair  Mabel.  There  is  a  wild  chase  and  Sterling  takes  refuge  in  a  tree. 
Fairly  amusing. 

"FEEDING  TIME"  (Keystone),  June  9. — This,  on  same  reel  with  above, 
gives  an  interesting  view  of  the  way  alligators  are  fed. 

"A  CAGED  BIRD"  (Tiianhouser),  June  6. — This  is  the  story  of  a 
princess  who  pines  to  go  out  and  live  among  the  people.  She  releases  her 
bird  from  its  cage  and  runs  away.  Her  experiences  are  unpleasant  and  later 
she  returns.  Marguerite  Snow  appears  as  the  princess  and  William  Gar- 
wood as  the  prince  who  eventually  marries  her.  Entertaining  and  effectively 
pictured. 

"THE  SPEED  QUEEN"  (Keystone),  June  12. — A  comedy  reel  in  which 
Mabel  Normand  goes  bounding  over  hill  and  dale  in  a  racing  automobile. 
Fcrd  Sterling  appears  as  the  motor  cop  who  attempts  to  overtake  her.  She 
gets  off  because  her  father  is  the  judge  and  she  is  carrying  medicine  to  him. 
A  rather  entertaining  number. 

"AN  EXPENSIVE  DRINK"  (Crystal),  June  15.— Handled  somewhat 
differently,  this  might  have  been  rather  amusing,  but  there  is  too  much 
drunkenness  in  it  as  it  stands.  For  some  reason  it  is  hard  for  a  "jag" 
to  get  a  laugh  in  a  picture,  when  he  would  perhaps  get  many  in  real  life. 
The  part  in  which  the  wife  and  host  get  tipsy  ( on  what  she  thought  was  a 
liquor  cure,  has  a  certain  element  of  humor  in  it. 

■MRS.  LACEY'S  LEGACY"  (Powers),  June  11. — A  good  character 
comedy,  with  a  man  posing  in  the  part  of  Mrs.  Lacey.  The  disappearance 
of  the  chair  containing  the  hidden  fortune  and  subsequent  events  were  very 
funny,  though  similar  situations  have  been  used  before.  A  sure  laugh 
producer. 

"THE  FLYING  CIRCUS"  (Great  Northern).— A  three-reel  offering 
of  one  of  those  fly-by-night  circuses  which  here  serves  as  the  back- 
ground for  a  romantic  story,  extremely  well  put  on  and  effective.  The 
players  are  capable  and  one  especially,  a  gypsy  girl  and  snake  charmer,  is 
all  that  her  role  demands.  She  suggests  the  right  type  of  woman,  one  of 
the  passionate  kind,  who  are  good  villainesses  and  good  losers,  too.  A 
woman  with  whom  one  can  easily  sympathize  and  we  are  made  to  feel 
strongly  for  her,  consoling  herself  with  the  smoke  of  a  whacking  big  cigar. 
I:  is  a  good  offering  for  any  place  where  this  Bohemian  kind  of  picture  is 
acceptable.     The  camera  work  is  of  high  order. 


TIPPETT  LEAVES  UNION  FEATURES. 
John  D.  Tippett,  for  some  time  manager  of  the  Union 
Features  department  of  the  Eclair  Film  Company,  has  re- 
signed to  engage  in  other  business.  Union  Features  was 
organized  as  a  department  of  the  Eclair  Co.,  for  the  purpose 
of  handling  state  right  subject?  for  that  concern.  It  will 
continue  to  be  operated  along  the  same  lines  at  the  Eclair 
offices,  225  West  4^d  Street.  New  York. 


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THE   CALEHUFF    SUPPLY    COMPANY. 

A   Thriving   Philadelphia   Motion   Picture   Store   That    Sells 

Everything    With    a    Solid    Guarantee. 

By  Hugh  Hoffman. 

RIGHT  in  the  heart  of  the  busiest  business  section  of 
Philadelphia  is  a  store  that  is  the  only  one  of  its  kind 
in  the  city.  It  is  a  store  that  caters  exclusively  to  the 
needs  of  motion  picture  exhibitors.  There  are  enough  sup- 
plies needed  in  a  picture  theater  to  justify  the  existence  of 
such  a  store  in  every  large  city,  and  Charles  Calehuff  was 
the  first  motion  picture  man  in  Philadelphia  to  realize  that 
such  an  institution  was  necessary  in  that  city.  Mr.  Calehuff's 
association  with  the  business  goes  way  back  into  the  earliest 
days  of  the  film  exchange  business.  He  entered  the  exchange 
business  in  1906  in  Philadelphia  and  for  five  years  was  the 
leading  film  renter  there.  He  was  the  first  to  introduce  the 
automobile  delivery  service  to  and  from  theaters;  a  bit  of  en- 
terprise that  brought  him  the  biggest  trade  of  any  exchange- 
man  in  Philadelphia. 

However,  in  Mr.  Calehuff's  opinion,  it  is  one  thing  to  get 
a  customer,  and  another  thing  to  hold  him.  With  all  his 
up-to-date  methods  of  attracting  business  he  never  lost 
sight  of  the  fact  that  a  good  business  must  be  conducted  on 
the  level.  He  knew  that  his  fine  automobile  service  would 
avail  him  nothing  if  he  did  not  treat  his  customers  on  the 
square.  Consequently  there  grew  up  a  flourishing  business 
under  his  name,  and  that  name  stood  for  reliability.  There 
never  was  an  exhibitor  in  Philadelphia  who  distrusted 
Charley  Calehuff  and  those  who  dealt  with  him  banked  upon 
his  word,  in  the  full  knowledge  that  he  could  always  be 
relied  upon. 

In  the  spring  of  1911,  Mr.  Calehuff  turned  his  business 
over  to  the  General  Film  Company,  when  that  concern 
bought  all  the  licensed  exchanges  and  declined  the  offer  of 
resident  managership,  much  to  the  regret  of  his  former 
patrons.  It  was  generally  supposed  that  he  would  re-enter 
the  renting  field  on  the  independent  side,  but  the  wide-awake 
young  man  knew  of  something  that  was  more  needed  in 
Philadelphia  than  another  film  exchange,  and  that  was  a 
first-class  supply  house.  While  in  the  renting  business,  he 
had  carried  a  small  stock  of  supplies  as  a  side  line  for  the 
accommodation  of  his  customers,  but  the  heavy  demand  for 
supplies  convinced  him  that  selling  supplies  is  a  business  in 
itself,  and  he  resolved  to  take  up  that  neglected  branch  of 
the  trade. 

Leasing  the  store  at  50  North  Eighth  Street,  he  began 
his  new  business  under  the  name  of  the  Calehuff  Supply 
Company.  It  was  practically  a  transplantation  of  the  former 
Calehuff  organization.  All  of  his  former  trusted  employees 
would  not  consider  working  for  another  man  as  long  as 
Charley  Calehuff  was  doing  business  in  Philadelphia,  so  they 
went  along  with  him.  The  well-known  Arthur  Hyman  is 
now  the  road  man,  covering  Eastern  Pennsylvania,  Xew 
Jersey  and  the  South.  F.  William  Knapp  became  the  store 
manager,  and  Miss  Kathryn  Burd  is  still  Mr.  Calehuff's 
financial  secretary,  as  she  has  been  for  some  years.  With 
this  trustworthy  organization  the  Calehuff  Supply  Company 
began  business  and  is  now  entering  upon  its  third  year. 
From  the  beginning  it  has  had  the  full  confidence  of  local 
and  out-of-town  exhibitors  who  consider  Philadelphia  their 
base  of  supplies.  From  a  stock  that  is  complete  at  all  times, 
these  exhibitors  know  that  they  can  get  immediate  delivery 
of  anything  in  the  line  of  supplies  they  want,  such  as:  all 
standard  makes  of  projectors,  carbons,  spotlights,  dissolving 
stereopticons.  current  saving  devices,  rectifiers,  slides,  lenses, 
theater  seating,  cameras,  machine  parts,  ticket  choppers, 
tickets,  wire,  reel  cases,  exit  signs,  rewinders,  fire  extin- 
guishers, motor  drives,  rheostats,  etc.,  and  what  is  more, 
these  exhibitors  know  that  if  they  buy  anything  from  Cale- 
huff and  it  isn't  right,  he  will  see  that  it  is  right.  "If  we 
can't  guarantee  it  we  won't  sell  it."  That's  the  Calehuff 
motto. 

There  is  one  other  fine  feature  about  the  Calehuff  Supply 
Company,  and  that  feature  is  Frank  H.  Stewart.  Mr. 
Stewart  is  one  of  the  highest  consulting  engineers  and  elec- 
trical experts  in  America.  He  came  to  the  Calehuff  Com- 
pany direct  from  the  Edison  laboratories  at  Orange,  N.  J., 
where  he  was  engaged  for  a  number  of  years  in  designing 
and  perfecting  kinetographic  devices  of  all  kinds.  Any  ex- 
hibitor who  is  in  doubt  as  to  the  proper  installation  of  elec- 
trical and  mechanical  equipment  for  his  theater  will  find  a 
wonderful  help  in  this  big,  broad-shouldered,  sunny-faced 
gentleman  who  knows  every  inch  of  the  piojection  business, 
and  then  some.  Mr.  Stewart  is  there  for  the  purpose  of  ad- 
vising and  helping  exhibitors  who  favor  the  concern  with 
their  patronage,  and  one  would  have  a  long  search  to  find  a 
better  man  than  he. 


WOULD-BE  ACTORS'  COMPETITION  AT 
EXPOSITION. 

\\  ith  the  sole  idea  of  discovering  unknown  talent,  a  com- 
petition has  been  arranged  whereby  any  man,  woman,  girl, 
or  boy  who  has  an  idea  that  he  or  she  has  a  talent  for  acting 
will  be  afforded  an  opportunity  of  showing  how  good  they 
may  be  before  competent  judges  at  the  First  International 
Exposition  of  the  Motion  Picture  Art,  to  be  held  at  the  Xew 
Grand  Central  Palace,  July  7th  to  12th.  Two  sessions  will 
be  held  daily  during  the  week.  The  lady  and  gentleman 
who  win  at  each  performance  will  take  part  in  the  semi-final 
Saturday  afternoon,  and  from  these,  twelve  will  be  selected 
for  the  final  trial  on  Saturday  evening  at  9  p.m.  To  the 
winners  will  be  given  a  cash  prize  and  an  engagement  with 
one  of  the  reputable  film  manufacturers. 

The  scenario  to  be  used  is  as  follows:  A  man  or  a  woman 
enters  a  room  in  a  state  of  deep  despair,  sits  at  a  table,  then 
hearing  a  knock  at  the  floor  rises  to  receive  a  letter.  The 
letter  is  opened  and  announces  the  fact  that  he  or  she  has 
inherited  $50,000  from  an  unexpected  source,  which  naturally 
causes  the  actor  to  show  surprise,  joy,  and  excitement.  The 
envelope  which  has  been  lying  face  downward  on  the  table 
is  then  turned  over,  and  is  found  to  be  addressed  to  a  totally 
different  person.  Surprise  and  disappointment  are  shown, 
then  the  funny  side  is  noted,  and  the  scene  ends  with  a  hearty 
laugh.  This  story  is  simple,  but  there  is  plenty  of  oppor- 
tunity for  action. 


GREAT  NORTHERN  FEATURES  WITH  UNI- 
VERSAL. 

The  Great  Northern  Special  Feature  Film  Co.,  of  42 
East  Fourteeth  Street,  has  entered  into  an  arrangement 
with  the  Universal  Film  Manufacturing  Co.,  whereby  the 
latter  concern  will  until  further  notice  handle  all  the  feature 
subjects  manufactured  by  the  Great  Northern  Company. 
For  some  time  past  these  features  have  been  supplied  for 
lower  Xew  York  and  New  Jersey  by  the  Improved  Feature 
Film  Co.,  but  under  the  new  arrangement  it  is  expected 
that  the  service  will  be  greatly  accelerated  by  the  Universal 
Company  in  the  territory  designated.  It  has  definitely  been 
decided  by  the  officers  of  the  Universal,  that  the  Great 
Northern  features  will  be  released  as  part  of  the  regular 
program  and  in  this  manner  it  is  expected,  greater  vogue 
than  ever  will  be  given  to  these  sterling  multiple  reel  pro- 
ductions. 

Charles  (Feature)  Abrams,  manager  of  the  Great  North- 
ern Special  Feature  Film  Co.,  explains  that  the  shift  from 
the  Improved  to  the  Universal  Co.,  was  made  simply  "for 
the  good  of  the  service." 

"We  have  genuine  features  to  deliver."  said  Mr.  Abrams, 
"and  our  object  is  to  have  the  lower  New  York  and  New 
Jersey  territory  covered  adequately.  With  its  methodical 
system  and  its  chain  of  exchanges,  we  feel  certain  that  the 
Universal  Company  will  give  the  service  that  our  feature 
productions  merit.  Our  other  territories  are  being  looked 
after   with   equal   care." 


WOODS  BACK  ON  BROADWAY. 

Frank  E.  Woods,  formerly  "Spec"  of  the  Dramatic  Mirror, 
who  resigned  that  position  to  join  the  producing  forces 
of  Kinemacolor  last  August  and  passed  the  recent  season  in 
Los  Angeles,  has  returned  to  Broadway.  "Spec"  is  looking 
fine,  but  is  undecided  as  to  just  which  of  several  forms  of 
future  activity  he  will  take  up.  He  had  several  tempting 
offers  to  remain  in  the  west,  but  personal  business  compelled 
him  to  come  east  for  a  time. 


COPENHAGEN  FILMS  COMING  TO  NEW  YORK. 

Richard  E.  E.  Nathansohn,  sole  representative  for  the 
Copenhagen  Film.  Ltd.,  announces  that  he  will  shortly  open 
an  office  in  New  York  for  the  sale  of  his  company's  product. 
Mr.  Nathansohn  sailed  last  week  for  Copenhagen  to  make 
final  arrangements  for  the  New  York  office  and  will  return 
immediately  to  offer  a  fine  line  of  motion  pictures  to  Ameri- 
can exhibitors. 


NO  DEARTH  OF  FEATURES. 
The  Thanhouser  offices  report  that  they  are  feature-busier 
than  ever:  that  there  is  absolutely  no  dearth  in  their  own 
feature  output.  Ouida  story  is  one  of  new  multiple  reelers' 
— which  will  be  welcome  news  to  admirers  of  this  firm's 
"Under  Two  Flags."  A  Lonergan  story  written  especially 
for  them  will  feature  Flo  La  Badie  and  James  Cruze — "The 
Snare  of  Fate."  Thanhouser  will  offer  "Tannhauser,"  too, 
in  two  reels.  Maude  Fealy,  the  legitimate  star,  appears  in 
"King  Renee's  Daughter,"  which  marks  her  photoplay  debut. 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


"The  Fatal  Grotto"  (itaia). 

THIS  is  a  good  picture.  It  is  well  acted  and  splendidly 
photographed.  ■  The  story  is  above  the  average.  It  is 
of  a  count  who  has  failed  in  a  conspiracy;  the  fact  that 
the  failure  was  to  his  country's  injury  as  a  success  would 
have  been  to  its  welfare  is  in  the  view  of  those  in  authority 
no  mitigation  of  his  offense  or  rather  it  would  not  be  if  his 
connection  with  the  disturbance  should  be  discovered.  In 
his  effort  to  hide  his  arms  and  ammunition  he  discovers  in 
the  grotto  which  he  determines  to  use  the  presence  of  a 
smuggler,  one  Vargas.  The  violator  of  the  customs  laws  im- 
poses silence  on  the  disappointed  patriot.  Vargas  later  tells 
Count  Marquez  that  lie  has  decided  to  marry  Nerina,  the 
count's  only  daughter,  and  hopes  he  "will  make  no  difficulty 
about  it."  Xerina  and  Andrew  de  Sarigny  are  already  in 
love.  Marquez  pleads  with  his  daughter  to  marry  Vargas. 
Finally  she  consents;  she  ~ends  for  Andrew  to  tell  him  why 
her  father  has  already  rejected  his  suit. 


Scene  from  "The  Fatal  Grotto"  (Itala). 

The  lovers  meet  at  night  in  the  garden  to  say  farewell. 
They  discover  the  smugglers  carrying  away  their  goods. 
Andrew  seeks  an  entrance  to  the  cave  whence  the  men  have 
come.  He  learns  the  truth  and  makes  preparations  to  trap 
the  smugglers  the  following  night.  Marquez  has  determined 
at  the  same  time  to  destroy  the  grotto  by  an  explosion.  He 
enters  the  cave  from  the  sea.  He  places  his  powder  and  ar- 
ranges the  fuse,  and  to  the  latter  he  attaches  a  clock.  After 
his  departure  the  smuggler  enters,  also  from  the  sea,  and  is 
soon  followed  by  Andrew,  from  the  garden.  The  father  goes 
to  the  garden  to  tell  his  daughter  about  the  coming  explosion 
which  will  destroy  the  evidence  against  him.  The  girl  tells 
him  that  Andrew  is  already  in  the  cave  seeking  the  smuggler. 
Then  conies  the  attempt  to  save  the  lover.  The  girl  enters 
the  cave  as  the  father  hurries  around  to  the  entrance  from 
the  water. 

In  the  cave  the  two  men  are  shooting  at  each  other.  When 
the  smuggler  discovers  the  thin  trail  of  smoke  from  the  fuse 
he  tries  to  extinguish  it,  but  fails.  There  is  an  explosion. 
Two  large  pieces  of  rock  fall  on  Vargas,  killing  him.  Andrew 
and  the  girl  are  at  the  same  time  imprisoned  in  the  cave, 
both  exits  being  closed,  A  stream  of  water  steadily  fills  the 
narrow  space  in  which  they  are  confined.  Outside  the  father 
and  a  force  of  men  are  frantically  working  to  release  the  im- 
prisoned lovers.  They  succeed  when  the  water  is  danger- 
ously high.     There  is  a  pretty  ending. 

There  are  many  tine  settings,  both  of  gardens  and  in- 
teriors. The  suspense  at  times  is  marked,  especially  when 
the  father  is  trying  to  save  the  lover  of  the  girl  from  the 
dangers  of  the  explosive  he  himself  has  planted.  Also  there 
are  tense  moments  when  the  rising  waters  appear  about  to 
overwhelm  the  imprisoned  couple.  The  picture  is  well  worth 
seeing. 


PICTURES  TO  ATTRACT  LUMBERMEN. 

D.  J.  Norton,  head  of  the  Ontonagon  Lumber  Company, 
operating  in  Michigan,  announces  that  he  believes  that  it 
will  be  necessary  t'>  install  a  motion  picture  theater  within 
easy  reach  of  the  lumber  camps  in  order  to  get  lumbermen 
to  stick  to  their  jobs.  Just  now  lumbermen  are  needed  in 
the  woods  to  peel  bark,  but  the  operators  are  having  a  hard 
time  getting  the  requisite  number  of  hands. 


Cherry  Kearton  Animal  Pictures. 

An  Educational  Sensation  Now  Being  Placed  on  State  Right 
Plan  by   Adolph   Zukor. 

An  unusual  series  of  animal  pictures,  with  many  startling 
educational  and  sensational  features,  are  now  being  pre- 
sented on  the  state  right  basis  by  Adolph  Zukor,  who  has 
organized  the  Arab  Amusement  Company  to  exploit  these 
rare  films.  The  pictures  were  secured  by  Capt.  Cherry 
Kearton.  who  stands  pre-eminent  as  the  greatest  living  ex- 
plorer of  the  jungle  and  the  world's  most  daring  animal 
photographer,  after  years  of  unremitting  labor,  severe  hard- 
ship and  privation.  Capt.  Kearton  has  devoted  his  life  to 
a  diligent  study  of  the  beasts  of  the  universe,  and  the 
results  of  this  vast  knowledge  and  experience  are  recorded  in 
these  motion  pictures. 

The  series  comprise  a  wide  range,  covering  a  complete 
review  of  zoological  life,  from  an  ant  to  an  elephant.  Capt. 
Kearton  secured  these  views  from  opportune  vantage  points, 
at  obvious  peril  of  life  and  limb,  thus  obtaining  the  most 
natural  reproductions  possible  of  the  lion,  the  tiger,  the 
ourang-outang,  and  many  other  beasts  of  the  jungle,  not  a 
few  of  the  pictures  being  the  first  ever  taken  with  a  motion 
picture  camera. 

But  perhaps  the  most  thrilling  reel  of  the  whole  set  is  that 
me  devoted  to  the  native  lion  hunt  in  the  heart  of  the 
African  jungle.  On  the  screen  are  seen  Capt.  Kearton 
and  a  little  band  of  naked  savages  attacking  at  top  speed 
the  so-called  king  of  beasts,  unaided  by  the  white  hunter's 
modern  resources  or  the  high-powered  rifle,  in  native  fashion 
subduing  and  spearing  the  infuriated  beast.  Capt.  Kearton 
evidently  risked  his  life  to  bring  these  thrilling  scenes,  with 
all  their  movement  and  dramatic  value,  before  the  eyes  of  the 
civilized  world,  and  incidentally  secured  the  most  remarkable 
animated  photographs  of  the  noted  warrior  race  of  Africa, 
the  Masai,  hunting  and  spearing  lions  as  their  ancestors  have 
done  before  them  for  a  thousand  years,  armed  only  with 
spear  and  shield. 

But  Africa  alone  has  not  been  his  field.  In  Borneo  he 
has  penetrated  the  jungle  and  taken  moving  pictures  of  the 
ourang-outang,  the  nearest  approach  to  man,  swinging 
seventy  feet  high  amid  the  trailing  rotan  vines — the  first 
motion  picture  ever  taken  of  this  interesting  cousin  of  the 
human  family.  In  India  he  has  made  a  twenty-days'  trip 
on  an  elephant's  back,  bringing  away  with  him  films  of 
surpassing  interest,  obtaining  a  wonderfully  close  view  of 
a  tiger  from  behind  a  screen  of  leaves,  as  well  as  a  remark- 
able picture  of  a  python,  the  largest  reptile  in  the  world, 
measuring  thirty  feet  in  length. 

But  it  is  not  always  the  big  game  that  has  attracted  him 
while  in  the  wilds  of  the  jungle.  The  intimate  life  of  birds 
and  reptiles,  and  even  insects,  he  has  caught;  chameleons 
of  new  species,  ants  and  bees,  and  even  a  caterpillar  during 
its  metamorphosis  into  a  chrysalis,  an  evolution  which  is 
consummated  in  exactly  forty  seconds,  and  which  required 
six  years  of  constant  vigilance  to  record  in  motion  pictures. 

These  films  were  enthusiastically  endorsed  by  Ex-Pres. 
Theodore  Roosevelt,  America's  most  distinguished  hunter 
of  big  game,  who  personally  appeared  at  the  Playhouse  in 
X'ew  York  City  several  months  ago  to  introduce  Capt.  Kear- 
ton to  his  first  American  audience.  Col.  Roosevelt  met  Capt. 
Kearton  in  the  jungle  on  his  last  hunting  expedition,  and 
became  greatly  interested  in  Capt.  Kearton's  work. 


BROMHEAD  SUCCEEDS  BLACHE. 
Herbert  Blache.  for  several  years  the  American  represen- 
tative of  the  Gaumont  Company,  has  resigned  his  position 
as  manager  and  severed  all  connection  with  that  concern. 
A.  C.  Bromhead.  who  has  been  the  managing  director  of 
the  Gaumont  Company  of  London  since  that  concern  was 
formed,  has  been  appointed  vice-president  and  general  man- 
ager of  the  American  Company  in  Mr.  Blache's  stead  and  is 
now  in  charge  of  the  Gaumont  interests  here.  Mr.  Leon 
Gaumont,  of  Paris,  is  now  in  Xew  York  perfecting  plans  for 
the  extension  of  the  business  of  the  firm. 


TRADE  OPPORTUNITY  IN  MALTA. 
Advices  from  the  American  Consul  at  Malta  (Island  of 
Malta),  have  been  received  to  the  effect  that  S.  L.  ('assar, 
a  professional  photographer  of  Valletta.  Malta,  desires  to 
represent  an  American  picture  house  for  the  taking  of  motion 
pictures.  There  is  a  large  military  garrison  stationed  at 
Malta  and  it  is  one  of  the  chief  naval  stations  of  the  world. 
Naval  reviews,  picturesque  religious  ceremonies,  local  feasts 
and  other  interesting  subjects  are  frequently  obtainable. 
Corrspondence  may  be  in  English. 


THE  MOVING  PICTURE  WORLD 


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Doings  at  Los  Angeles 

Universal  City  Elects  Officers — Suffragettes  Get  a  Look-in — 
Other  News  Items  of  Interest. 

THE  suffragettes  of  Universal  City,  Cal.,  captured  ten 
of  the  twenty-eight  offices  at  the  first  annual  election 
of  the  municipality  held  this  week.  Universal  City  is 
the  new  town  which  has  been  organized  on  the  Oak  Crest 
ranch  of  the  Universal  Film  Company  near  Los  Angeles. 
The  number  of  permanent  inhabitants  may  be  judged  by  the 
fact  that,  despite  certain  restrictions  as  to  length  of  residence 
imposed  upon  the  voters,  there  were  nearly  700  votes  cast. 

Aubrey  M.  Kennedy,  general  manager  of  the  company, 
was  elected  Mayor.  The  full  ticket  elected  on  the  results  of 
the  official  count  is  as  follows: 

City  Attorney — James  Dayton. 

City  Auditor — Belle  Bennett. 

City  Assessor — Grace  Cunard. 

Tax  Collector — Grace  Skinner. 

Police  Judge — Jeanie  Macpherson. 

Chief  of  Police — Laura  Oakley. 

City  Council — Edna  Maison  and  Jessalyn  Van  Trump. 

City  Treasurer — Phyllis  Gordon. 

Board  of  Health— J.  E.  Singleton,  M.  H.  Fahrney,  Phillip 
Smalley. 

Street  Commissioners — Lincoln  J.  Carter,  Wallace  Reid, 
Harry  Pollard. 

Park  Commissioners — A.  E.  Christie,  Jack  O'Brien,  Will- 
iam Clifford. 

Fire  Commissioners — Donald  MacDonald,  Eddie  Lyons, 
Bob  Leonard. 

Board  of  Public  Works — Mae  Costello,  Ed  Wortham, 
Frank  Ormston. 

Board  of  Censors — Margaret  Fisher,  Allan  Dwan,  Otis 
Turner. 

*  *     * 

Every  member  of  the  Kinemacolor  company  employed  at 
the  Pacific  Coast  branch  in  this  city  was  given  his  two 
weeks'  notice  this  week  except  the  chauffeur  and  one  of  the 
employees  in  the  developing  department.  Even  David  Miles 
and  L.  E.  Dougherty,  who  recently  left  the  Biograph  com- 
pany to  take  charge  of  the  scenario  department,  were  in- 
cluded in  the  list.  The  explanation  of  the  wholesale  dis- 
missals which  is  current  here  is  that  it  does  not  mean  that 
the  company  is  to  close,  but  that  there  is  to  be  a  general  re- 
organization. The  expedient  of  letting  all  the  members  of 
the  company  out  in  order  that  a  part  of  them  may  be  taken 
back  immediately  under  new  contracts  is  one  of  the  time- 
honored  expedients  of  the  theatrical  business.  It  is  the  sim- 
plest and  easiest  way  of  cutting  out  the  dead  timber,  and  it 
seems  likely  that  this  may  prove  to  be  the  case  with  the 
Kinemacolor  company. 

*  *     * 

After  four  futile  efforts  to  adopt  a  new  constitution  and 
by-laws  at  a  general  meeting  of  the  club  members,  the 
Photoplayers  have  decided  to  hold  a  two  weeks'  election  to 
decide  whether  the  new  regulations  shall  be  adopted  or  re- 
jected. The  constitution  was  proposed  by  the  board  of  con- 
trol at  a  regular  meeting,  but  action  was  deferred  until  a 
larger  attentance  could  be  obtained.  Three  times  thereafter 
meetings  were  held,  but  at  each  succeeding  meeting  the  at- 
tendance shrank  and  the  board  of  control  was  unwilling  to 
have  a  matter  of  such  importance  acted  upon  unless  the 
action  could  be  taken  as  the  general  sentiment  of  the  mem- 
bers. Accordingly  it  has  now  been  decided  to  place  a  ballot 
box  in  the  club  rooms  for  a  period  of  two  weeks,  during 
which  most  of  the  members  will  have  an  opportunity  to  ex- 
press themselves. 

*  *    * 

Announcement  has  been  made  that  the  management  of  the 
Lyceum  theater,  one  of  the  second-class  legitimate  theaters 
of  this  city,  has  signed  a  contract  with  a  local  independent 
motion  picture  company  whereby  in  the  near  future  a  com- 
plete expose  of  the  mysteries  and  tricks  of  the  motion  pic- 
ture business  will  be  revealed  to  the  public  at  a  small  admis- 
sion fee.  Mercury  lights  have  been  ordered  and  all  the  other 
necessary  equipment  is  on  hand  for  regular  studio  work. 
Pictures  will  be  made  on  the  stage  at  all  the  matinees  and 
evening  performances  and  persons  in  the  audience  will  be 
invited  to  ascend  to  the  stage  and  be  photographed  in  the 
scenes.  Later  these  same  individuals  by  paying  another  ad- 
mission fee  will  be  able  to  see  themselves  on  the  screen  at  a 
run  of  the  pictures  in  the  same  theater. 

George  Melford,  Kalem  producer,  is  continuing  to  make 
two-reel  pictures  of  the  kind  which  has  been  earning  him  a 
reputation  extending  outside  trade  circles  within  the  last  six 


months.  He  has  just  completed  and  sent  East  an  Indian  and 
military  drama  in  two  reels  called  "No  Home,  No  People," 
which  promises  to  be  fully  the  equal  of  his  "Last  Blockhouse" 
picture,  and  he  is  now  working  on  another  double-reel  pro- 
duction dealing  with  the  underworld. 

After  an  existence  of  about  a  month,  the  Graphic  Motion 
Picture  Company  is  no  more.  The  studio  on  East  Avenue  55 
is  vacant  and  a  formidable  legal  document  tacked  on  the 
front  door  of  the  office  announces  that  pending  the  settle- 
ment of  a  claim  of  $74  against  the  company  the  property  is 
in  the  custody  of  the  sheriff.  Anyone  who  can  scrape  to- 
gether enough  money  to  buy  a  camera  and  a  few  feet  of  film 
can  start  a  motion  picture  company  nowadays.  The  problem 
is  to  keep  it  going  afterwards. 

*  *     * 

.Tsuru  Aoki,  an  exceptionally  clever  Japanese  actress,  has 
been  working  with  the  Majestic  company,  under  Fred  Mace's 
direction  this  week,  in  a  comedy  called  "Mimosa's  Sweet- 
heart." The  members  of  the  company  who  worked  with  her 
predict  that  the  film  will  present  a  very  interesting  new  per- 
sonality to  the  picture  fans. 

*  *     * 

Wilbert  Melville's  Lubin  company,  which  is  being  enlarged 
as  a  preparation  of  the  making  of  a  series  of  spectacular  and 
intensely  dramatic  productions,  now  comprises  two  leading 
women  instead  of  one.  Velma  Whitman,  a  comparatively  new- 
comer in  the  picture  art,  but  a  well-known  leading  woman  in 
stock  and  road  companies,  has  joined  the  company.  The 
other  leading  woman  is  Carmen  Sobranes,  formerly  leading 
woman  with  the  American  company  at  Santa  Barbara.  Del- 
bert  L.  Davis,  crack  photographer  of  the  Lubin  Philadelphia 
studios,  who  accompanied  Mr.  Melville  back  from  the  main 
factory  when  he  made  a  recent  trip  East,  is  to  have  charge 
of  the  technical  department  of  the  Western  branch  it  is  said. 

*  *     * 

There  has  been  a  reorganization  of  the  Seltagraph  Motion 
Picture  Company,  which  is  now  a  closed  corporation.  The 
company  was  organized  by  P.  W.  Home  and  F.  R.  Eldredge. 
Now  "Billy"  Home,  father  of  P.  W.,  has  bought  Eldredge's 

interest. 

*  *     * 

There  will  be  no  State  censorship  of  motion  pictures  in 
California  for  another  two  years.  The  bill  proposing  to  es- 
tablish a  commission,  which  was  considered  by  the  legisla- 
ture during  the  session  which  has  just  closed,  failed  to  pass. 
The  reason  was  that  at  the  last  moment,  when  the  State 
Printer's  office  was  paralyzed  bv  the  rush  of  last  hour  bills, 
the  discovery  was  made  that  someone  had  added  a  cipher 
to  the  salaries  of  $2,400  each  provided  in  the  bill.  It  was  too 
late  to  have  the  bill  reprinted  and  the  legislature  was  not 
willing  to  authorize  three  salaries  of  $24,000  and  so  it  was 
allowed  to  die. 

*  *     * 

Friends  of  Arthur  Mackley,  Essanay  director,  have  had 
letters  and  postcards  announcing  that  he  is  now  visiting  on 
the  Mackley  ranch  in  Michigan,  and  during  the  latter  part  of 
June  will  go' to  Montreal,  sailing  from  there  for  Scotland, 
where  he  will  visit  his  birthplace  for  the  first  time  in  twenty- 
five  years. 

*  *     * 

George  Cooper,  one  of  the  Vitagraph  stars,  reached  Lfis 
Angeles  this  week  to  join  the  Western  company,  under 
Director  Sturgeon,  at  Santa  Monica.    The  Photoplayers  ma$e 

Cooper  a  member  before  he  had  been  in  town  three  hours. 

*  *     * 

Oliver  Morosco  and  Charles  Eyton,  two  local  theatrical 
magnates,  are  among  the  principal  stockholders  in  a  com- 
pany which  has  been  organized  to  manufacture  and  exploit 
a  motion  picture  camera  for  which  they  hold  the  patents. 
The  feature  of  the  new  machine  is  that  it  is  so  small  that  one 
may  take  it  with  him  in  a  suit  case  on  a  vacation  trip,  and 
so  inexpensive  as  to  be  within  the  means  of  anyone  who  can 
afford  to  buy  an  ordinary  camera  of  the  better  grade.  An- 
other advantage  is  that  with  an  attachment  it  is  possible  for 
the  amateur  to  use  the  same  machine  for  projecting  his  pic- 
tures in  his  own  home. 

*  *     * 

Griffith's  Cafeteria,  located  opposite  the  Universal  Holly- 
wood studios,  has  become  a  famous  gathering  place  for  mo- 
tion picture  people.  The  proprietor  was  associated  for  a 
long  time  with  Harry  Matthews,  now  a  director  with  the 
Evan's  Powers  Company,  but  formerly  one  of  the  Universal 
directors.  Griffith  claims  to  be  the  only  man  who  ever  had 
the  courage  to  retire  from  the  motion  picture  business,  and 
on  busy  days,  when  everyone  orders  the  things  that  are  short 
and  refuses  the  things  that  were  provided  in  plenty,  he 
wishes  he  hadn't.  P.  M.  POWELL. 


11 4- 


THE    MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


Flickers. 


There  is  no  need  of  formally  introducing  the  individual 
of  whom  the  accompanying  cut  is  a  likeness.  He  is  known 
throughout  the  trade  as  Charlie  "Feature"  Abrams.  The 
smile  on  his  face  was  not  coaxed  out  by  any  photographer; 

it  is  natural,  and  I 
doubt  very  much  if 
anybody  in  or  out  of 
the  trade  ever  saw  him 
when  he  wasn't  in  the 
same  mood.  He  swears 
that  he  is  not  an  Irish- 
man, and  we  haven't 
the  time  to  investigate; 
but  I  do  know  that  "he 
is  there"  when  it  comes 
to  talking  about  films 
and  film  values,  especi- 
ally features.  Abrams 
is  one  of  the  pioneers 
of  the  industry,  and 
was  one  of  the  first  to 
recognize  the  com- 
mercial value  of  the 
multiple  reel  feature 
subjects.  The  Great 
Northern  Special  Fea- 
ture Film  Co.,  of  which 
he  is  general  manager, 
was  launched  about 
three  years  ago,  and 
since  its  inception  has 
always  been  a  paying 
investment  to  its  own- 
ers and  will  continue 
as  such  as  long  as 
Charlie  "Feature"  is  at 
the  helm. 


Charles   "Feature"   Abrams. 


Harry  Harvey,  one  of  the  best  known  directors  in  the 
business,  at  present  under  salary  to  the  St.  Louis  M.  P.  Co., 
has  submitted  his  resignation  as  a  member  of  the  National 
Association  of  Batchelors  to  take  effect  Tune  15th.,  at  which 
date  he  will  become  a  benedict.  The  cause  of  this  change, 
is  Miss  Vinie   Burns,   leading  ingenue  of  the   Solax  Co. 

*  *     * 

Frank  Carroll,  the  gentleman  cowboy  and  vice-president 
of  the  Cheyenne  Feature  Film  outfit,  is  back  in  town  and 
looking  great. 

*  #     # 

Albert  Blinkhorn,  the  Yivaphone  Talking  picture  man, 
better  known  as  "Blinkie,"  has  shaken  the  weights  out 
of  his  shoes,  and  is  getting  around  like  the  mischief  now 
-with  his  ever  present  smile.  I  guess  there  is  money  in  this 
latest   novelty   of   talking   pictures. 

*  *     * 

Manager  Fitzgerald  of  the  Solax  baseball  team  is  desirous 

of   hearing   from    every    film  company   that   supports    a   ball 
team. 

*  *     * 

The  Solax  Co.  has  unearthed  an  original  Millionaire-Kid, 
who  drives  to  the  studio  every  day  in  his  automobile  although 
he  is  only  "filling  in,"  at  "so  much"  per  day.  He  is  none 
other  than  Dick  Lembeck,  a  member  of  the  Jersey  family 
of  brewers  bearing  that  name. 

*  *     * 

After  being  absent  from  his  office  for  about  six  weeks, 
attending  the  several  conventions  that  have  been  taking  place 
of  late,  Joe  Brandt  is  back  on  the  job  again. 

*  *     * 

Jack  Warner  has  been  taken  off  the  road  as  district  man- 
ager for  Warner's  Features  and  is  now  holding  down  a 
position  in  the  home  office.  His  title,  as  per  the  inscription 
on  his  office  door,  is  Assistant  Auditor. 

*  *     * 

If  the  "turkey  trot"  becomes  overpopular  in  Chicago  it 
can  be  partly  blamed  on  Sam  Van  Ronkel  who,  while  in 
New  York  recently,  became  quite  enthusiastic  over  the 
"every  little  movement"  part  of  the  dance,  and  after  trying 
out  his  feet  a  couple  of  times,  refused  to  leave  the  floor 
until  the  music  stopped  (for  the  night). 

*  *     * 

We  had  a  visit  from  Mr.  J.  F.  Garcia,  of  the  Imperial 
Film  Co.,  manufacturers  and  dealers  in  educational  films, 
last  week.  MAC. 


MAYOR  VETOES  PICTURE  BILL. 

Says   Dowling   Measure   Is   Against   Public    Interest — Hopes 

Proper  Bill  Will  Be  Passed. 

'By  J.   P.   McNeill. 

Mayor  W.  J.  Gaynor,  of  New  York,  returned  with  his  veto 
the  Dowling  ordinance  regulating  moving  picture  shows  in 
Greater  New  York  and  accompanied  his  veto  with  a  charac- 
teristic statement,  saying  among  other  things  that  selfish  in- 
terests were  responsible  for  the  measure  in  its  present  form. 
The  Mayor  urged  the  Board  of  Aldermen  to  enact  equitable 
lation  to  regulate  moving  picture  houses  before  the  ex- 
piration of  the  year. 

The  Mayor's  statement  to  the  Board  of  Aldermen  gives 
among  other  reasons  for  vetoing  the  measure,  that  if  the 
Dowling  ordinance  went  into  effect  it  would  do  great  injus- 
tice to  proprietors  of  moving  picture  houses  by  forcing  cer- 
tain building  regulations  upon  them,  but  restrict  them  by 
the  elimination  of  galleries. 

The  ordinance  known  as  the  Folks  measure  permitted  a 
seating  capacity  of  600,  and  in  order  to  give  the  benefit  of 
this  larger  attendance  to  the  exhibitors  where  the  audi- 
toriums were  small,  galleries  were  to  be  erected. 

The  Dowling  measure  was  identical  in  verbiage,  etc.,  with 
Folks  measure,  with  the  exception  of  the  galleries,  which 
were  not  to  be  allowed  to  be  constructed  under  the  ordin- 
ance. The  measure  will  come  up  again  for  consideration 
by  the  Aldermen,  but  it  is  not  likely  to  receive  enough 
votes  to   carry  it  over  the   mayor's  veto. 

Mayor  Gaynor  said  that  the  provision,  in  the  Dowling 
Ordinance,  prohibiting  the  erection  of  galleries  in  moving 
picture  houses  was  a  vital  defect  since  it  would  discourage 
the  construction  of  large  movjng  picture  buildings  and 
encourage  the  unsafe,  little  structures  which  flourish  at  the 
present  time.  Incidentally  Mr.  Gaynor  again  went  on  record 
as  to  censorship  of  the  films  by  stating  that  the  criminal 
law  could  deal  with  immoral  pictures,  although  he  said 
none  had  been  exhibited  in  New  York. 

"The  cheap  theaters  of  the  city,"  said  the  Mayor,  "have 
no  limit  put  on  them  as  to  audiences.  They  early  banded 
together  to  oppose  this  motion  picture  ordinance  unless  the 
provision  for  an  audience  of  600  was  cut  out  of  it  and  the 
audience  kept  down  to  the  old  number  (300).  Their  purpose 
was  purely  selfish.  I  trust  they  shall  not  be  able,  in  the 
end,  to  defeat  it.  It  is  time  they  were  told  they  are  not 
to  rule  in  this  matter." 

Taking  up  another  phase  of  the  question  and  answering 
the  argument  that  the  Dowling  ordinance  was  a  "party" 
measure,   Mr.   Gaynor  says: 

"Others  of  your  honorable  body,  whom  I  spoke  to  about 
the  matter,  told  me  that  the  measure  was  a  party  measure 
and   they  had   to  vote   with   their   party. 

"I  asked  them  who  made  it  a  party  measure  and  I  ask 
you  who  made  it  a  party  measure?  Are  these  owners  of 
cheap  theaters  able  to  make  it  a  party  measure  simply 
because  most  of  them  are  petty  politicians  and  petty  dis- 
trict leaders  of  this  party  or  of  that?  Did  any  party  con- 
vention ever  have  a  plank  in  its  platform  that  this  matter 
of  safeguarding  moving  picture  shows  was  a  party  measure? 
Did  any  head  of  any  party  here  stand  forth  and  make  it 
a  party  measure?     And  if  so  by  what  right? 

"This  matter  of  party  measures  and  political  partisanship 
in  the  city  government  has  been  a  curse.  It  is  time  to  be  rid 
of  it.  I  have  done  all  I  can  to  rid  the  government  of  it. 
This  measure  is  no  party  measure." 

The  mayor  attacked  certain  members  of  the  Board  who 
own  vaudeville  theaters  for  blocking  his  plans  and  finally 
made  this  appeal  to  the  City  Fathers  for  help: 

"The  deplorable  condition  of  these  moving  picture  shows 
should  not  be  permitted  to  continue  and  I  appeal  to  every 
man  among  you,  who  is  not  financially  and  personally  in- 
terested or  under  the  temptation  or  control  or  leadership 
of  some  one  who  is,  to  dispose  of  this  matter  without  regard 
to  politicians  or  to  parties,  and  pass  the  ordinance  which 
the  commission  reported   (Folks  Ordinance.)" 


GAUNTIER  PLAYERS  GO  OVER  TO  JERSEY. 

The  Gene  Gauntier  players  have  erected  and  are  now  at 
work  in  an  open-air  studio  at  Coytesville,  N.  J.  The  leasing 
of  the  land,  the  purchasing  of  the  lumber  and  the  erection 
of  the  structure  was  accomplished  in  a  few  days  under  the 
direction  of  Jack  J.  Clark,  who  during  the  convalescence  o'f 
Sidney  Olcott  from  a  recent  operation  for  appendicitis  had 
charge  of  the  company.  Mr.  Olcott  arrived  in  New  York 
this  week  from  Jacksonville.  He  is  not  yet  quite  his  old 
self,  but  expects  to  take  up  work  very  shortly,  possibly 
next  week. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


"43 


MISS  LEAH  BAIRD  WITH  IMP  ENGLISH  COMPANY. 

With  the  acquisition  two  weeks  ago  of  Miss  Leah  Baird,  a 
former  leading  woman  of  the  Vitagraph  Company,  who  joins 
King  Baggot  of  the  Imp  Company,  another  well-known  and 
highly  popular  star  has  been  added  to  the  list  of  those  now 
appearing  regularly  in  productions  of  the  Universal  Film 
Manufacturing  Company.  Miss  Baird  sailed  last  week  for 
Europe,  where  she  will  join  Mr.  Baggot  and  Mr.  Brenon 
and  appear  in  a  series  of  pictures  which  will  be  produced  in 
England.  This  series  will  take  up  important  incidents  in  the 
history  of  the  British  Empire,  and  will  be  staged  in  localities 
where  the  many  events  of  the  English  dynasty  of  the  last 
two  hundred  years  actually  occurred.  Mr.  Brenon,  who  went 
to  England  several  weeks  ago,  has  made  all  arrangements 
for  the  taking  of  the  pictures,  and  together  with  Mr..  Baggot 
is  now  awaiting  the  arrival  of  Miss  Baird  before  the  actual 
work  is  begun. 


Miss  Leah  Baird. 

Previous  to  entering  the  picture  field.  Miss  Baird  was  fea- 
tured for  three  years  with  William  A.  Brady  productions,  one 
of  the  biggest  of  w-hich  was  "The  Gentleman  From  Missis- 
sippi." Prior  to  that  time  she  was  a  member  of  stock  com- 
panies wilh  Arthur  Byron  and  Mortimer  Snow.  Her  theatri- 
cal experience  began  eight  years  ago  at  a  salary  which  man- 
agers alleged  to  be  $25  a  week.  "But  I  only  received  $20," 
declared  Miss  Baird.  "which  was  a  good  percentage  of  the 
original  sum  promised,  considering  the  uncertainty  of  pay 
days  as  far  back  as  eight  years  ago 

"I  have  always  been  an  admirer  of  the  work  of  Mr.  Baggot, 
and  it  has  been  my  ambition  to  appear  in  pictures  with  him. 
When  the  Universal  Film  Manufacturing  Company  offered 
me  the  opportunity  to  go  to  Europe  and  taking  a  leading 
part  in  so  ne  of  the  biggest  feature  productions  the  concern 
has  ever  made,  I  simply  could  not  resist  the  temptation  to 
accept.  From  what  I  have  been  told  of  the  intentions  of  the 
Universal  Film  Manufacturing  Company  in  regard  to  the  pic- 
tures which  will  be  made  abroad,  they  will  be  something  en- 
tirely new,  and  are  bound  to  create  a  world-wide  sensation. 
At  any  rate,  I  am  going  to  do  the  best  I  possibly  can  to 
help  do  it." 


PILOT   NOTES. 

Geo.  A.  Magie,  salesman  for  the  Pilot  Co.,  left  on  Tuesday 
night  for  a  trip  to  the  exchanges  throughout  Pennsylvania 
and  District  of  Columbia  to  boast  the  Pilot  brand. 

The  Pilot  Co.,  has  just  opened  a  New  York  City  office  in 
the  Candler  Bldg.,  220  W.  42nd  Street.  The  head  office 
and  plant  are  at  Yonkers,  N    Y. 


Scene  from  "Why,"  Eclair  Subject  Erroneously  Published  in 
Issue  of  May  31. 


DISTINGUISHED   VISITORS. 

The  Moving  Picture  World  desires  to  acknowledge  a 
call  from  Mr.  T.  J.  West.  Baron  P.  A.  De  Robbiate  and 
Mr.  E.  Seville  Williams.  Mr.  West  is  from  London  and  is 
on  his  way  to  Australia;  he  is  widely  known  as  the  founder 
of  "West's  Pictures."  He  left  New  York  last  Tuesday,  for 
Vancouver,  B.  C,  from  which  point  he  will  sail  for  Australia 
to  look  after  his  business  interests  there.  Baron  De  Robbiate- 
is  the  head  of  the  Milano  Film  Company,  Milan,  Italy,  and: 
will  remain  in  New  York  for  a  few  weeks  to  arrange  for 
a  better  market  for  Milano  film  in  America.  Mr.  Williams 
is  the  managing  director  of  the  General  Film  Agency  of 
London,  and  is  in  New  York  for  the  purpose  of  securing 
the   foreign  agency   for  American   manufacturers. 


GREAT  NORTHERN  HAS  NEW  OFFICES. 

The  Great  Northern  Film  Co.,  of  which  Ingvald  C.  Oes- 
is  general  manager  has  leased  spacious  quarters  on  the 
nintth  fioor  of  the  World's  Tower  Building,  110-112  West 
Fortieth  street  and  will  take  possession  about  June  15.  Mr. 
Oes  was  reluctant  to  leave  the  old  offices  at  7  East  Four- 
teenth street,  where  he  has  enjoyed  prosperity  for  five 
year*  or  more,  but  the  quarters  became  somewhat  cramped, 
he  decided  to  join  the  field  of  film  industry  to  the  north- 
ward. The  new  offices  are  modern  in  every  respect  and 
will  facilitate  the  handling  of  the  company's  increasing 
business. 


CRANE    WILBUR    NOT    WITH    RELIANCE. 

Pathe  Headquarters,'  Lake  Placid,  N.  Y.,  May  26th.,  1913. 
Mr.  L.  J.  Gasnier., 

Pathe    Frere's   Studio, 

Jersey  City   Heights,  N.  J. 

Dear  Mr.  Gasnier:  I  note  with  surprise  the  report  pub- 
lished in  this  week's  issue  of  the  Moving  Picture  World. 
1  refer  to  the  article  in  that  paper  which  states  that  I  am 
going  with   the   Reliance   Company. 

They  are  quite  mistaken,  1  assure  you,  as  I  have  no  such 
intention. 

I  wish  to  authorize  you  and  request  you  to  make  a  full 
denial  of  this  statement  through  the  columns  of  that  paper. 
With  best  wishes,  I  remain,  very  trulv  yours. 

CRANE  WILBUR. 


INDEPENDENT    EXCHANGE    COMPANY    MEETING. 

A  meeting  of  the  Independent  Exchange  Company  was 
held  in  Chicago,  on  June  2.  The  meeting  was  held  at  the 
offices  of  the  General  Counsel  of  the  Company  in  the  City 
Hall  Square  Building  and  P.  A.  Powers  was  elected  to 
fill  a  vacancy  on  the  Board  'of  directors.  William  Old- 
know  was  ejected  from  the  office  of  president  and  from 
membership  on  the  executive  committee.  Vice-president 
Frank  T.  Bailey  was  authorized  to  act  as  president  pro 
tempore  until  an  election  for  president  of  the  company 
could  be  held,  and  Mr.  Powers  was  elected  to  fill  the  place 
of  Mr.  Oldknow  on  the  executive  committee. 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


Manufacturers  Advance  Notes 


"PHILLIP  MARCH'S  ENGAGEMENT"  (Essanay). 
Phillip  March  becomes  annoyed  at  the  announcement  of 
his  engagement  to  Mary  Adams.  The  society  debutant,  hav- 
ing never  met  March,  becomes  rather  peeved  herself  at  the 
outrageous  announcement.  March  decides  to  absent  himself 
from  the  scene  of  embarrassment.  Mary  concludes  that  she 
will  visit  a  friend  of  hers  in  the  country  until  the  affair  blows 
over.  The  funny  part  of  the  story  is  that  both  go  to  the 
same  town.  The  intoxicated  baggage  man  at  the  depot  gets 
the  trunks  mixed  and  sends  Phillip's  trunk  to  Mary,  and 
Mary's  trunk  to  Phillip.  When  Mary  discovers  the  mistake, 
she  takes  it  with  a  grain  of  salt  and  dons  Phillip's  new  dress 
suit,   just    for    the    fun    of   it.      When    Phillip    opens    Mary's 


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trunk  he  is  more  than  surprised  to  discover  the  contents  are 
nothing  but  ladies'  wearing  apparel.  Phillip's  brother,  whom 
he  is  visiting,  suggests  that  the  former  put  on  one  of  the 
dresses  and  call  on  a  friend.  Both  Phillip  and  Mary  are  as- 
tonished when  they  meet,  and  discover  that  they  are  wearing 
each  other's  clothes.  Phillip  makes  a  hit  with  Mary  and  pro- 
poses to  her.  The  closing  scene  shows  a  telegram  addressed 
to  their  friends  in  the  city  stating  that  the  engagement  an- 
nouncement was  perfectly  legitimate.  "Smiling  Billy"  Mason 
as  Phillip  March  keeps  his  audiences  in  a  continual  uproar 
with  his  excruciatingly  funny  facial  expressions.  Beverly 
Bayne  as  Mary  Adams  more  than  grasps  the  situations  which 
she  has  portrayed  excellently.  The  comedy  is  a  dandy  from 
start  to  finish. 
This  production  is  booked  for  release  Friday,  June  6th. 


NICHOLAS  POWER   COMPANY   NOTES. 

Mr.  Will  C.  Smith,  Assistant  General  Manager,  has  been 
on  a  short  business  trip,  attending  conventions  at  Rich- 
mond, Va.,  Wilmington,  Del.,  and  Philadelphia,  Pa.  The 
following  installations  have  been  made:  One  No.  6  Camera- 
graph  to  Weiting  Opera  House,  Worchester,  N.  Y.,  through 
Rex  Film  Exchange,  Albany.  One  No.  6A  complete  to 
Frank  Horton,  Arcadia,  Florida,  through  Consolidation  Film 
and  Supply  Company,  Atlanta,  Ga.  Two  No.  6A  to  John 
Beella,  Trenton,  N.  J.,  through  Calehuff  Supply  Company, 
Philadelphia.  Two  No.  6A  complete  to  H.  S.  Slagle,  Sixth 
Street  Theater,  Coshocton,  Ohio,  through  Oliver  Moving 
Picture  Supply  Company,  Cleveland,  Ohio.  One  No.  6A 
complete  with  motor  and  mechanical  speed  control  to  Jones 
Theater,  Fulton  Street  and  Grand  Avenue,  Brooklyn,  through 
S.  Rosenbaum.  One  No.  6A  complete  with  motor  and  me- 
chanical speed  control  to  T.  J.  Henreham,  Nevada,  Iowa, 
through  Laemmle  Film  Service,  Chicago. 


"HER  FAIRY  GODFATHER"  (Majestic). 

She  was  a  good  enough  cook,  as  cooks  go,  but  the  trouble 
was  that  her  heart  was  not  in  her  work.  The  master  of 
the  house  complained  bitterly  that  when  she  should  have  been 
studying  how  to  make  chicken  a  la  Maryland,  she  was  wast- 
ing her  time  reading  sensational  novels  or  flirting  with  a 
policeman. 

Under  the  circumstances  her  employers  felt  justified  in 
refusing  to  grant  her  favors,  so  when  she  asked  permis- 
sion to  attend  a  picnic  nearby  they  did  not  hem  and  haw 
about  the  matter,  but  told  her  frankly  that  she  could  not  go, 
then  to  make  her  perfectly  happy,  they  went  themselves. 
The  girl  had  her  revenge,  however,  for  she  found  that  al- 
though she  could  not  attend  in  person,  she  could  attend  in 
spirit.  For  she  had  a  delightful  dream  in  which,  as  she  ex- 
plained afterwards  she  made  "the  queen  of  the  May  look 
like  the  second  cook  in  a  poor  house."  It  was  all  the  work 
of  her  fairy  godfather  whom  she  found  to  be  a  spirit  every 
bit  as  effective  as  a  fair  godmother.  He  wore  a  blue  uniform, 
it  is  true,  and  instead  of  a  wand  used  a  club  for  his  incan- 
tations, but  he  got  results,  and  what  more   could  be  asked. 

Yes,  the  girl  is  very  fond  of  her  fairy  godfather,  and  she 
hopes  the  civil  service  board  will  make  him  a  police  captain 
some  day.    This  subject  was  released  May  27. 


"LEGALLY    RIGHT"    (Thanhouser). 

A  wealthy  man  left  his  estate  to  his  daughter,  intending 
that  his  only  brother  should  be  her  guardian.  The  docu- 
ment was  awkwardly  constructed,  one  of  the. sections  reading 
"My  daughter  must  live  under  the  same  roof  with  her  uncle 
until  she  is  of  age;  and  be  married  under  that  same  roof 
before  her  twenty-first  birthday  or  else  her  fortune  goes  to 
the  aforesaid  uncle." 

What  the  man  really  meant  was  that  his  daughter  could 
not  wed  without  her  uncle's  consent  before  she  was  twenty- 
one.  What  he  really  did  say  was  that  she  had  to  marry  under 
his   roof  before   reaching   her   majority. 

The  fortune  was  fairly  large  and  the  uncle  was  tricky. 
He  determined  not  to  let  the  girl  marry  any  one  and  there- 
by secure  the  money  himself.  For  a  time  it  looked  as 
though  his  scheme  would  be  successful,  but  a  shrewd  man 
found  a  way  to  circumvent  him.  This  resourceful  individual 
was  a  justice  of  the  peace,  and  a  great  friend  of  the  girl's 
father,  and  the  sheriff  of  the  county  with  whom  she  was  in 
love.  He  put  a  job  on  the  crooked  uncle  just  five  days 
before  the  girl's  twenty-first  birthday.  The  uncle  was  ar- 
rested for  fighting  and  sent  to  the  county  jail  for  five 
days.  The  jail  is  the  sheriff's  home,  and  under  these  cir- 
cumstances it  was  also  the  uncle's  roof,  so  the  justice  of  the 
peace  married  the  girl  and  the  sheriff  under  "tie  uncle's 
roof,"  (the  prison  corridor  outside  his  cell).  It  was  still  the 
uncle's  roof  when  the  girl  reached  her  majority,  for  the  uncle 
had  to  serve  out  his  term,  while  his  niece  and  hei  husband 
naturally  set  up   housekeeping  in   the   sheriff's   quarters. 

Thus  did  a  crook  find  that  there  is  more  than  one  way  to 
interpret  a  will.     This  subject  was  released  May  25. 


NEW  FEATURE  FILM  COMPANY  OPENS. 

Cleveland  has  a  new  feature  film  exchange — TI  e  Liberty 
Feature  Film  Company,  a  branch  of  the  Liberty  Film  Rent- 
ing Company,  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  and  has  opened  an  office 
at  224  Columbia  Building,  and  already  has  an  excellent  list  of 
features  ready  for  booking.  E.  A.  Wheeler  is  manager  of  the 
exchange. 

Among  the  films  now  ready  for  service  are  "Tom  Butler." 
an  Eclair;  "Maritza."  an  Ambrosio;  "The  Marconi  Operator, " 
"Unlucky  Horseshoe,"  the  entire  "Lieut.  Rose"  series,  and 
many  others.  It  is  Manager  Wheeler's  plan  to  releise  a  new 
feature  every  two  weeks. 

"Hunting  the  Game  of  a  Large  City"  is  a  feature  soon  to 
be  offered  in  three  reels,  and  this  is  a  Kinograph  froduction 
composed  and  staged  by  EInar  Zangenberg.  "Maritza"  is 
by  the  makers  of  "Satan"  and  is  a  strong  story  in  two  reels. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


"45 


"THE  KENTUCKY  FEUD"  (Satex). 

A  real  treat  is  in  store  for  all  those  who  love  picturesque 
mountain  scenery  in  the  latest  three-reel  feature  just  re- 
leased by  Warner's  Feature  Film  Company.  Miss  Martha 
Russell,  who  has  starred  in  two  noteworthy  features  since 
February,  plays  a  dual  role  in  "The  Kentucky  Feud."  As 
the  story  opens,  she  takes  the  part  of  the  mother;  as  the 
story  unfolds,  the  settings  change  to  the  mountains  of  Ken- 


Scene  from  "The  Kentucky  Feud"   (Satex). 

tucky  and  Miss  Russell  plays  the  part  of  the  nameless  girl. 
Men's  passions  and  their  hatred  for  one  another  are  graphi- 
cally told  in  this  stirring  production.  As  the  adopted  daugh- 
ter of  the  Cains,  who  are  engaged  in  a  feud  with  the  Aftons, 
she  falls  in  love  with  the  son  of  her  foster  father's  enemy; 
but  when  the  clash  comes,  she  takes  up  arms  against  him. 
Events  follow  one  another  in  rapid  succession  and  the  story 
ends  dramatically  when  the  mountain  girl  discovers  that  she 
is  the  daughter  of  Jim  Afton  and  is  free  to  marry  Paul,  whose 
real  name  is  Browning,  and  who  is  only  an  adopted  son. 


AT  THE  RELIANCE  STUDIO. 

Director  Lawrence  McGill  is  making  a  specialty  of  chil- 
dren and  dog  stories.  "The  Dream  Home,"  released  on 
June  16th,  has  the  following  interesting  juvenile  cast:  Runa 
Hodges,  Rosanna  Logan,  Clifford  Perry.  Viola  Siddons, 
Helen  Conelly,  Gladys  Eagan  and  Hazel  and  Alberta  Perry, 
all  well  under  the  ten-year  mark,  with  the  two  rival  dog 
actors,  Peggy  Apfel  (Rowdy),  and  Gypsy  McGill  well  in  the 
foreground. 

Oscar  C.  Apfel  has  the  ground  plans  completed  for  a 
three-reel  starring  vehicle  to  introduce  Rosemary  Theby  as 
a  Reliance  standard  bearer.  "The  Tangled  Web"  is  the 
name  of  the  drama  which  will  be  released  on  June  28th. 

Thomas  Mills  and  Irene  Hunt  will  be  seen  as  the  two 
crooks  in  "Wallingford's  Wallet,"  which  will  be  presented 
on  June  21st.  Edgar  Lewis  is  responsible  for  the  stage  direc- 
tion of  the  drama. 

Rodman  Law  is  on  his  way  to  St.  Johns,  Xew  Brunswick, 
where  he  will  find  the  highest  spot,  above  the  St.  Johns  Falls 
from  which  he  can  slide  down  a  rope  and  plunge  into  the 
raging  waters  as  the  hero  of  a  coming  Reliance  drama. 
Edgar  Lewis,  with  a  company  of  Reliance  players  and  four 
camera  men,  will  join  him  there  in  the  near  future. 

The  convict  ship  scenes  for  the  two-reel  dramatization  of 
"Half  a  Chance,"  the  well-known  novel  by  Frederick  Isham, 
were  taken  on  the  old  convict  ship  Success,  built  in  1790, 
which  is  now  moored  in  the  Hudson  River.  The  result  lends 
a  particularly  happy  realism  to  the  drama  which  would  have 
been  impossible  under  ordinary  circumstances. 


"THE  MADCAP   OF  THE   HILLS"   (Reliance). 

The  beautiful  outdoors  scenes  of  this  picture  appeal  to 
the  'eyes,  long  used  to  studio  settings — and  its  sweet  story 
makes  just  as  strong  an  appeal  to  the  heart. 

Virginia  Westbrook  presents  a  very  pretty  picture  as  Tess, 
the  madcap,  and  has  >>>nic  exceptionally  fine  business.  Miss 
Claire  Kroll  plays  her  sister,  and   Paul  Scardon.  her  father. 

Irving   Cummings,   as    Phil,   Tess'   faithful    lover,   does    the 


Scene  from  "The  Madcap  of  the  Hills"  (Reliance). 

usual  good  work  that  we  have  come  to  expect  of  him,  and 
Alan  Hale  makes  the  role  of  Ford,  the  city  chap,  stand  out 
noticeably. 

Tess  falls  in  love  with  Ford,  who  after  amusing  himself 
with  her,  for  a  time,  returns  to  the  city.  And  in  the  days  that 
follow  Phil's  real  worth  is  realized  by  her  and  she  finds  her 
happiness  in  his  arms. 


HERBERT  BLACHS  JOINS  SOLAX. 
Herbert  Blache  has  joined  forces  with  his  wife,  Madame 
Alice  Blache,  and  together  they  will  guide  the  destiny  of  the 
Solax  Company.  The  Solax  Company's  feature  policy,  which 
includes  the  plan  to  increase  the  feature  output  from  one  a 
month  to  one  a  week,  has  made  it  imperative  that  Mr.  Blache, 
who  has  a  particular  aptitude  for  feature  production  and 
executive  direction  in  these  matters,  take  up  the  work  with 
his  wife.  Mr.  Blache,  besides  devoting  the  greater  part  of 
his  time  to  the  producing  department,  the  department  of  the 
industry  for  which  he  has  a  preference,  will  also  assist 
wherever  he  can  be  useful.  Madame  Blache  has  painstak- 
ingly developed  an  effective  producing  force,  besides  having 
built  up  a  smoothly  working  organization  and  general  result- 
getting  equipment.  Xow  with  Mr.  Blache  to  co-operate,  the 
Solax  Company  will  lie  doubly  strengthened.  The  business 
is  increasing  steadily  and  the  Solax  feature  department  has 
grown  to  be  as  large  as  the  regular  release  department, 
which  produces  regularly  two  a  week,  a  comedy  and  a 
drama.  The  Solax  foreign  office,  conducted  by  J.  Frank 
Brockliss,  it  is  reported,  is  doing  big  business,  and  it  is  said 
that  Solax  is  one  of  the  most  popular  American  brands 
abroad.  With  their  interests  so  rapidly  developing,  the 
Blaches  felt  that  it  was  imperative  that  they  work  together 
and  that  Mr.  Blache  disassociate  himself  from  his  other 
interests. 


"TOM  BLAKE'S  REDEMPTION"  A  NOTABLE 
AMERICAN. 
In  "Tom  Blake's  Redemption,"  scheduled  for  early  release 
by  the  American  Film  Manufacturing  Company,  a  big  loco- 
motive of  the  Southern  Pacific  Railroad  was  used.  The  pic- 
ture carries  plenty  of  action  and  a  stirring  fight  occurs  in  the 
cab  of  the  fast-moving  locomotive  between  Jack  Kerrigan 
and  Jack  Richardson.  Some  novel  effects  were  obtained 
with  some  new  lens  attachments  enabling  the  cameramen 
to  photograph  from  the  interior  of  the  parlor  car  some  action 
occurring  on  the  observation  platform.  Altogether  the  film 
will  make  a  remarkable  impression  for  its  strong  story  and 
interesting  camera  effects. 


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THE    MOVING   PICTURE    WORLD 


"THE  SUFFRAGETTES"  (Great  Northern). 
This  is  a  pleasing  and  harmless  little  comedy  dealing  with 
a  timely  subject.  Miss  Hampton  is  not  only  a  nardent  advo- 
cate of  equal  suffrage,  but  in  capacity  as  president  of  the 
society,  she  advocates  the  denunciation  of  men  and  classes 
them  as  a  luxury.  Miss  Nancy  Lander  is  one  of  her  fol- 
lowers, but  Nancy  in  the  course  of  time  becomes  engaged  to 
William  Hawtree,  a  promising  young  architect.  One  may 
well  imagine  the  chagrin  which  overtakes  Miss  Hampton 
when  she  hears  this  news  and  she  at  once  makes  plans  to 
teach  the  Hawtrees  a  lesson.  During  the  absence  of  the 
young  husband,  the  militant  leader  invades  the  home  and 
causes  all  the  furnishings  that  appear  to  her  to  be  too  elabo- 
rate to  be  removed  to  the  basement.  Rugs,  portieres  and 
upholstered  chairs  are  carried  into  the  depths  below  and  in 


Scene  from  "The  Suffragettes"   (Great  Northern). 

their  place  are  substituted  plain,  ordinary  furniture  of  the 
sort  that  was  considered  fashionable  in  other  generations. 
'  When  Hawtree  returns  from  his  office  he  is  dumbfounded, 
but  he  decides  upon  a  novel  plan  of  action  and  leads  Miss 
Hampton  to  believe  that  he  is  a  believer  in  the  principles  of 
the  society  of  which  she  is  the  head.  Incidentally  he  makes 
love  to  her  and  during  an  embrace  she  carries  on  her 
cheek  a  smudge  of  ink  which  Hawtree  had  prepared.  Wifey 
enters  and  there  is  a  scene,  but  Miss  Hampton  is  unaware 
of  the  fact  that  she  wears  an  ink  stain  on  her  fair  cheek. 

Hawtree  tells  his  wife  of  the  plot  that  he  has  concocted 
and  when  Miss  Hampton  again  calls  at  the  family  home  she 
receives  a  chilly  reception  and  departs  in  anger  after  she 
sees  that  the  original  furnishings  of  the  house  have  been  re- 
stored to  their  proper  places.  The  comedy  pleasingly  acted 
by  the  Great  Northern  players  and  the  element  of  fun  is 
kept  prominently  in  the  foreground. 


CLEVELAND'S  JUDGMENT   WINS. 

W.  S.  Cleveland,  founder  and  manager  of  the  Cleveland 
circuit  of  vaudeville  theaters,  is  called  by  many  the  "King  of 
popular-price  vaudeville  brokers,"  on  account  of  his  many 
unique  and  strikingly  original  methods  of  holding  and  de- 
veloping business  for  the  theaters  he  represents.  That  the 
managers  have  implicit  confidence  in  his  judgment  and  are 
willing  to  go  to  almost  any  lengths  to  carry  out  his  ideas 
was  very  forcefully  demonstrated  last  week  in  two  instances. 

Theaters  in  two  different  cities  on  the  Cleveland  circuit 
complained  that  their  business  was  not  all  that  they  thought 
it  should  be,  so  Cleveland  decided  to  look  them  over.  In 
both  places  he  found  that  the  gradual  growth  of  the  cities 
had  carried  the  business  center  away  from  the  theaters  in 
question,  and  also  that  the  architecture  of  the  houses  was 
old  fashioned.  In  other  words,  the  managers  had  not  kept 
abreast  of  the  times.  In  each  case  he  told  them  that  the 
proper  remedy  was  to  build  a  new  and  up-to-date  theater, 
and  to  do  it  immediately.  He  picked  out  new  locations  and 
telegraphed  his  New  York  architect  to  send  a  representative 
to  both  towns  at  once.  Before  the  end  of  the  week  the  real 
estate  transfer  had  been  made,  and  in  one  town  the  work  of 
wrecking  the  standing  buildings  had  been  commenced.  Both 
new  theaters  will  be  ready  for  occupancy  by  the  first  of  next 
September. 


PILOT  PREPARED  FOR  BIG  BUSINESS. 

For  the  past  several  days  a  number  of  carpenters  have 
been  at  work  on  a  piece  of  land  back  of  the  Pilot  plant, 
which  they  have  recently  leased,  erecting  a  large  stage,  for 
summer  use. 

Owing  to  the  fact  that  Pilot  is  turning  out  only  one  release 
a  week,  they  found  they  did  not  need  the  studio  every  day,  so 
started  renting  it  to  feature  film  makers  for  about  two  or 
three  days  of  each  week.  Then  they  found  such  a  demand 
for  the  studio,  which  is  exceptionally  equipped,  that  they 
decided  to  rush  the  outdoor  stage.  As  soon  as  this  stage  is 
completed  it  is  believed  both  stages  will  be  worked  to  full 
capacity  every  day,  and  probably  nights  as  well. 


"A  WOMAN'S  HEART"  (Lubin). 

A  very  romantic  Lubin  picture  taken  in  California.  The 
story  is  full  of  adventure  and  typical  of  the  ranch  and 
"Romany"  life.  It  admits  of  picturesque  scenery  and  atmos- 
phere and  will  doubtless  enjoy  a  popular  vogue. 

Nell  Logan,  the  ranchmen's  daughter,  is  in  love  with  Lon 
Hardman,  the  foreman.  All  goes  well  until  Lon  meets  Roma, 
a  pretty  gypsy  girl,  who  is  one  of  a  band  of  fortune  tellers. 
The  girl  pretends  that  she  has  sprained  her  ankle  and  Lon 
carries  her  into  the  camp.    He  is  temporarily  smitten  and  has 


Scene  from  "A  Woman's  Heart"  (Lubin). 


many  meetings  with  Roma,  much  to  the  annoyance  of  her 
tribe  lover.  One  day  Lon  has  to  go  to  the  bank  to  get  the 
payroll  and  he  leaves  a  note  on  the  well,  telling  where  he  has 
gone  and  for  her  to  wait.  Roma  tells  her  sweetheart  and 
they  plan  to  rob  the  foreman  and  kill  him.  Nell  has  inter- 
views with  the  gypsies  and  they  tell  her  to  look  into  the  old 
spring  and  she  will  see  Roma  in  Lon's  arms.  Lon  goes  back 
to  the  well  and  as  the  gypsy  girl  induces  him  to  show  the  roll 
of  money,  her  lover  strikes  him  from  behind  and  he  falls 
into  the  well.  Lon's  horse  arrives  at  the  ranch  riderless.  A 
posse  is  formed,  they  catch  up  with  the  gypsies  and  capture 
them.  Lon  is  rescued  from  the  well  and  Nell  in  her  sweet- 
ness forgives  all. 


ECONOMIZER    AT    NEWBURGH,    N.    Y.,    SATISFAC- 
TORY. 

J.  H.  Hallberg  "The  Economizer  Man"  has  just  received 
from  F.  M.  Taylor,  Prop.,  Academy  of  Music,  Newburgh, 
N.  Y.,  a  letter  under  date  of  May  22nd,  1913,  reading  as 
follows:  "I  thought  it  might  interest  you  to  know  that  we 
did  not  get  your  A.  C.  to  D.  C.  Economizer  connected 
until  5  P.  M.  yesterday,  and  therefore  did  not  have  any  op- 
portunity of  testing  it  out  before  the  performance;  but  when 
the  current  was  turned  on  everything  worked  to  perfec- 
tion, and  the  results  were  more  than  satisfactory.  It  made 
the  Kinemacolor  pictures  remarkably  clear  and  steady." 
This  letter  speaks  for  itself.  Mr.  Hallberg  reports  that  he 
has  just  booked  an  order  from  The  Scenario  Co.,  Newark, 
N.  J.,  for  a  special  100  amp  A.  C.  to  D.  C.  Economizer  for 
the  operation  of  two  M.  P.  machine  arcs  at  the  same  time, 
and  he  has  also  sold  this  company  2  Simplex  machines. 
To  W.  C.  Brainard,  Auditorium,  Greenport,  N.  Y  one 
Powers  No.  6A  with  Current  Saver;  to  Thompson  &  Schmidt, 
Elizabethport,  N.  Y,  Powers  No.  5,  with  Hallberg  Econo- 
mizer and  Flame  Arc  Lamps;  to  E.  Lee  Schrum,  Newton,  N. 
C,  a  Powers  No.  5.  An  unusually  large  number  of  Econo- 
mizers are  being  installed  in  open  air  shows  all  over  the 
country. 


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"THE  GREAT  PEARL"   (Lubin). 

This  picture  while  being  fascinating  is  also  an  excellent 
lesson  on  the  failing  of  covetousness  which,  though  not 
exactly  a  crime,  causes  repulsion  by"  fair-minded  people. 
The  idea  is  taken  from  an  Arabic  legend  and  will  doubtless 
leave  a  strong  impression  on  the  minds  of  those  who  see  the 
photoplay. 

Walter  Trask  receives  news  of  his  father's  death  and  the 
loss  of  his  fortune.  He  takes  a  position  in  a  lumber  firm  and 
making  friends  with  Balk,  the  superintendent,  boards  at  the 
same  house.  Myrtle  Green,  the  landlady's  daughter,  is  a 
flirt   and   encouraging  both  men   plays  one   man   against   the 


Scene  from  "The  Great  Pearl"  (Lubin). 

other.  The  rivals  become  piqued.  One  day  Trask  strolling 
along  by  an  old  oyster  bed  unearths  a  wonderful  pearl.  The 
superintendent  and  Myrtle  have  followed  and  coming  up  at 
the  moment,  a  quarrel  ensues  in  which  Trask  drops  the 
pearl.  Myrtle  quickly  picks  it  up  and  rushes  to  the  village 
jeweler.  Trask  and  Balk  follow  and  find  her  trying  'to  sell 
the  gem.  Balk  insists  that  she  shall  return  the  pearl  to 
Trask,  but  he  being  disgusted  with  her  refuses  to  take  it 
and  tells  her  to  give  it  to  Balk,  who  also  refuses  it.  Myrtle 
still  flirts  with  the  two  men,  who  discovering  her  worthless- 
ness  repulse  her.  One  night  in  her  room  she  is  gloating  over 
the  pearl  when  it  suddenly  explodes.  Thus  exemplifying  that 
"All  is  vanity  and  shall  crumble  to  dust." 


PURCHASERS  OF  STATE  RIGHTS  FOR  "FROM  THE 
MANGER  TO   THE  CROSS." 

The  General  Film  Company  announces  the  following  list 
of  purchasers  of  state  rights  for  Kalem's  Biblical  master- 
piece, "From  the  Manger  to  the  Cross"  in  five  reels: 

Arizona  and  California — W.  H.  Clune,  829  Van  Nuys  Bldg., 
Los  Angeles,   Cal. 

Colorado,  Idaho,  Iowa,  Kansas,  Missouri,  Montana,  Ne- 
braska, Nevada,  New  Mexico,  Oklahoma.  North  Dakota, 
South  Dakota,  Utah  and  Wyoming — A.  D.  Flintom,  205  Com- 
merce Bldg.,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

Florida  and  Georgia — Montgomery  Amusement  Company, 
Jacksonville,    Fla. 

Illinois— W.  W.   Watts,  216  S.   5th   St..   Springfield,   111. 

Indiana  and  Michigan — Indiana  &  Michigan  Amusement 
Company,  114  S.  Michigan  Street,  South  Bend,  Ind. 

Wisconsin— Hall  &  Lynch  (E.  R.  Lynch),  112  N.  LaSalle 
Street,  Chicago,  111. 

Maine.  New  Hampshire  and  Vermont — S.  B.  Leland,  Mont- 
pelier,  Vt. 

Oregon- — Globe  Theater  Company.  Portland.  Ore. 

Texas— E.   T.   Peter,    1709  Main   Street.   Dallas.   Texas. 

Washington — Clemmer  Theater  Company,  Seattle.  Wash. 

Minnesota — Paul  Brown,  c/o  Rogers  Hotel,  Minneapolis, 
Minn. 

North  Carolina,  Tennessee  and  Virginia — S.  A.  Lynch, 
Atlanta,  Ga. 

Alabama  and  South  Carolina — Montgomery  Feature  Film 
Company,  Jacksonville,  Fla. 

District  of  Columbia — A.  Brylawski,  Cosmos  Theater  Bldg., 
Washington,  D.   C. 

Kentucky — Gem  Theater  Comapny  (Mr.  Sherman  Arn 
&   T.   D.   Buckley),   Maysville,  Ky. 

Louisiana — General  Film  Company,  840  Union  Street,  New 
Orleans,  La. 


ERNEST  SHIPMAN'S  WORLD  PLANS. 

Within  the  next  two  weeks  a  syndicate  of  men  will  meet 
in  New  York  with  a  view  to  arranging  plans  whereby  they 
will  make  a  cruise  of  the  world  in  their  own  vessel,  making 
moving  pictures  in  all  foreign  waters. 

Ernest  Shipman,  identified  with  some  of  the  recent  moves 
in  the  picture  game,  is  back  of  the  movement,  and  a  market 
for  7,000  feet  of  film  per  week  is  already  contracted  for. 

A  picked  company  of  twenty  players,  three  directors,  four 
camera  men,  two  scenario  writers,  etc.,  will  be  carried,  it  is 
said,  and  the  best  mechanical  equipment  that  money  can  buy. 

It  is  expected  that  one  or  two  newspaper  men  and  magazine 
writers  will  accompany  the  expedition,  also  that  a  noted  pro- 
fessor will  be  one  of  the  party.  It  is  expected  that  some 
very  valuable  scientific  and  natural  history  films  will  be  se- 
cured by  this  means. 

In  addition  to  dramatic  and  humorous  subjects  describing 
the  customs  of  the  peoples  of  foreign  countries,  travel  pic- 
tures, and  films  depicting  the  military,  civil,  and  industrial 
customs  of  the  various  countries  visited  will  be  made. 

It  is  stated  that  data  is  now  in  hand  for  nearly  every  craft 
that  is  available  in  American  and' British  waters,  including 
the  Nourmahal,  the  yacht  of  the  late  John  Jacob  Astor,  which 
is  now  riding  in  the  harbor  of  Rio  de  Janeiro. 

Mr.  Shipman  is  optimistic  as  to  the  great  possibilities  of 
this  foreign  trade.  He  has  piloted  theatrical  companies  round 
the  world  several  times,  and  exploited  "The  Kilties  Band" 
in  a  25,000-mile  jaunt. 

His  handling  of  the  Burns-Johnson  championship  fight  pic- 
tures netted  over  $200,000  for  Hugh  D.  Mcintosh,  the  Aus- 
tralian promoter,  during  which  time  he  exhibited  the  films  in 
almost  every  corner  of  the  world. 

It  is  estimated  that  by  the  first  of  November,  these  for- 
eign-made films,  manufactured  aboard  the  first  floating  studio 
in  the  history  of  moving  pictures,  will  be  ready  for  the  public 
of  all  countries. 


"100  YEARS  OF  MORMONISM." 

H.  M.  Russell,  manager  of  the  Golden  State  Moving  Pic- 
ture Company,  is  en  route  for  New  York  and  London  for  the 
purpose  of  selling  the  State  and  foreign  rights  to  the  six- 
reel  feature  film  entitled,  "One  Hundred  Years  of  Mormon- 
ism."  Three  companies  operating  in  the  States  of  California, 
Utah  and  Nevada  are  said  to  have  played  to  large  receipts 
at  the  fifty  cent  scale  of  prices. 

Contracts  have  been  let  with  an  Eastern  lithograph  firm 
for  a  big  edition  of  four-color  work,  and  arrangements  are 
under  way  for  opening  up  a  foreign  office  to  exploit  the 
European,  Asiatic,  and  Australian  fields. 

Mr.  Russell  has  closed  contracts  at  Chicago  for  a  number 
of  the  Western  States,  operating  from  the  Sherman  Hotel, 
and  will  be  registered  at  the  Waldorf  Astoria  in  New  York 
City. 


"HALF  A  CHANCE"  (Reliance). 

This  two-reel  production  was  made  from  the  book  of  the 
same  name  by  Frederic  Isham,  by  special  arrangement  with 
the  publishers,  Bobbs,  Merrill  &  Co.  Oscar  C.  Apfel,  who 
staged  the  picture,  has  made  an  exceptionally  good  thing 
of  it.  Some  of  the  scenes  of  the  story  are  laid  aboard  a 
convict  ship,  and  to  get  a  better  effect,  Mr.  Apfel  arranged 
to  take  these  scenes  on  the  old  convict  ship.  Success. 

The  spectacular  storm  at  sea  and  the  sinking  of  the  vessel 
as  Frisco  Pet,  the  convict,  jumps  overboard  and  swims  to 
the  life  boat  with  the  little  girl  who  had  been  forgotten,  his 
own  coming  ashore  on  a  raft  and  his  later  life  alone  on  the 
desert  island  makes  the  first  reel  of  this  film  intensely 
interesting.  Years  later  Frisco  Pet  returns  to  London 
and  becomes  a  criminal  lawyer  by  reason  of  the  knowl- 
edge gained  on  the  island  from  an  old  box  of  law  books 
washed  ashore  from  the  wreck.  He  meets  the  child  he 
saved  and  they  fall  in  love.  But  it  is  not  until,  through  some 
clever  detective  work  he  clears  his  name,  tarnished  years 
before  by  a  degenerate  nobleman  who  was  willing  to  let 
another  suffer  rather  than  expose  his  name  to  scandal,  that 
he  speaks  to  the  girl  of  his  love.  Then  he  shows  her  the 
locket  given  by  her  years  before  to  the  poor  convict  for 
whom  her  tender  child  heart  ached.  When  she  sees  this  she 
knows  that  the  man  before  her  is  the  same  who  jumped 
from  a  sinking  vessel  and  saved  her  life  almost  at  the  risk  of 
his  own.     A  pretty  love  story  is  the  result. 

George  Siegmann  makes  a  fine  characterization  of  Frisco 
Pet,  the  brute  who  later  regenerates.  Irene  Howley  plays 
the  girl,  and  little  Rosanna  Logan  is  the  child.  Others  in 
the  cast  are  Eugena  de  Lespine,  Stanley  Walpole,  George  de 
Carlton,  Sue  Balfour  and  Ralph  Lewis.  This  film  will  be 
released  on  June  14th. 


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THE    MOVING   PICTURE    WORLD 


ILLINOIS. 

VfUXICIPAL  interest  In  the  picture  snow  in 
*»*  Illinois  continues  very  keen.  The  City  coun- 
cil at  Rock  Falls,  which  by  the  way  Is  the  sister 
city  of  Sterling  ol  the  six-day  shows,  has  voted 
down  the  Sunday  shows.  A  petition  to  show  the  best 
class  or  pictures  and  in  addition  some  clean  vaude- 
ville was  refused  by  four  of  the  six  aldermen  It 
is  only  a  year  ago  that  the  seven-day  show  came 
to  Decatur,  but  steps  have  been  taken  to  oust  it. 
A.  laymen's  movement  is  responsible  but  the  plan 
has  been  given  impetus  through  the  Ministerial 
Association.  A  committee  of  Ave  persons  from 
each  evangelical  church  was  called  to  a  meeting 
and  a  central  committee  to  work  out  the  plan  is 
contemplated.  A  decision  was  given  a  year  ago 
In  the  case  of  the  City  of  Decatur  against  Thomas 
P.  Ronan,  which  showed  that  an  ordinance  will 
have  to  be  passed  before  the  Sunday  show  can  be 
abolished.  It  is  hoped  by  the  agitators  to  secure 
a  referendum  vote  of  the  citizens  which  will  cause 
the  council  to  pass  such  a  measure.  'Wilmington 
wants  to  protect  and  encourage  home  industry  so 
the  council  is  discussing  the  advisability  of  chang- 
ing the  $50  a  year  license  ordinance  so  that  na- 
tives who  run  picture  shows  will  be  exempt.  The 
matter  of  charging  a  license  Is  up  at  Woodstock,  but 
Mayor  Olson  is  inclined  to  be  fair  and  named  a 
committee    from    the    council    to    confer    with    the 

picture    show    men.      Ottawa    has    a    policewoman 

Miss  Viola  Miller— and,  as  every  move  she  makes  Is 
watched  by  the  public,  attention  has  been  drawn 
to  some  picture  houses  which,  to  a  certain  extent 
have  been  aiding  in  violating  the  curfew  law.  Miss 
Miller  is  declared  to  have  entered  the  houses  and 
taken  home  some  youngsters  who  should  have  been 
in  bed. 

Mayor  Latham  of  Hillsboro  has  delivered  himself 
or  a  few  sentiments  npon  the  matter  of  fights 
for  business  between  picture  show  managers  and 
where  It  leads  to.  The  Opera  House  had  advertised 
a  program  containing  the  Thaw-White  episode  It 
la  said  a  protest  against  it  was  started  by  Albert 
Anthony,  superintendent  of  missions  of  the  Baptist 
church  and  the  Methodist  and  Baptist  church  made 
formal  protests  to  the  city  council  and  Rev  Mr 
Keller  of  the  Lutheran  church  scored  the  picture 
a     r  Ed"F°ni«  ThQ   plctare   was  canceled   by   Man- 

"I  don"  t  want  to  be  considered  too  nice  or  too 
n^f;  #hdeclare,d,  th«  mayor,  "nor  do  I  want  to 
limit  the  people's  pleasures  too  much,  but  as  long 
Hiii.wA,BK?1,  l  h°Pe,t0  maintain  a  reputation  for 
Hillsboro  being  a  clean,  orderly,  decent  town 
where  decent  respectable  people  will  want  to 
"Te  and  raise  their  children.  The  present  fight 
being  waged  between  our  local  picture  shows  tempts 
the   managers   of    these   shows   to    put    on   pictures 

^r1>LCai7eTtalk  and  briD*  the  crowd-  to  their 
Places,  but  if  I  can  prevent,  and  I  believe  I  can, 
there  will  be  no  questionable  pictures  shown  here 
and   no   rough   stuff   permitted   by   traveling   vaude- 

L^f^Tll  Wh°  .have  no  B€nse  0l*  decency  and 
who  think  they  can't  be  funny  without  being  nasty." 

The  newly  incorporated  Ideal  Amusement  Com- 
pany, of  Canton,  has  taken  over  the  leases  of  the 
Princess  and  Varletie  in  that  city.  E.  R  Miller 
S .  *:  B\, Woo<l™ff  who  have  had  charge  of  the 
Varletie  will  manage  both  houses.  William  Duffleld 
stepping  out  at  the  Princess.  The  Varletie  will 
be  an  exclusive  picture  house  while  the  Princess 
wjll  play  pictures  the  first  half  of  the  week  and 
vaudeville  the  last  half.  The  new  concern,  which 
^«ifen  IncorPorated  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$20,000,  has  elected  officers  as  follows— president 
L.  B.  Woodruff:  vice-president,  E.  R.  Miller  and 
secretary-treasurer,  E.  R.  Beam.  The  company  has 
opened  a  business  office  at  24  West  Elm  Street. 

J.  C.  Kendall  has  decided  not  to  make  room  for 
a  picture  show  in  the  new  building  which  he  Is 
erecting    in    Hillsboro. 

Miss  Maxlne  Swan,  the  little  daughter  of  Burr 
Swan,  manager  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  Opera 
House  at  PIttsneld  recently  celebrated  her  sixth 
birthday  anniversary  with  a  "picture  party."  A 
regular  program  of  films  was  given  to  her  little 
schoolmates  and  a  four  piece  Italian  orchestra 
furnished    music. 

Manager  Alger  of  the  Crystal  at  Paxton  is 
bringing  the  Boy  Scouts  of  that  city  into  deserved 
prominence  by  having  their  band  play  in  front  of 
his  place.     The  boys  are  admitted  to  the  show  free. 

Falrview  la  now  without  a  picture  show. 

The  picture  show,  which  has  been  operating  in 
the  village  ball  at  East  Alton,  has  closed.  It  is 
rumored  that  a  new  house  may  be  constructed" 
there  before  next  fall. 


Rev.  W.  W.  Aylesworth,  pastor  of  the  Fourth 
Street  Methodist  Church  in  Sterling,  mentioned  in  a 
recent  issue  of  the  World  as  advocating  the  use 
of  moving  pictures  in  the  church  Is  going  just  a 
little  bit  stronger.  He  has  announced  his  inten- 
tion of  going  before  the  church  board  and  asking 
them  to  purchase  a  machine  which  can  be  used  in 
the  services  and  hold  the  young  people  now  attend- 
ing and    to   attract   more. 

C.  L.  Gordon  of  Arcadia,  Mo.,  has  opened  a 
picture  show  in  the  building  at  Greenview  which 
has  been  occupied  by  a  skating  rink. 

The  Lee  County  Fair  Association  believes  that 
moving  pictures  will  be  a  paying  attraction  at  the 
next  exposition  and  the  Green  River  Amusement 
Company   has   been   awarded   the  concession. 

Business  changes  at  Pawnee  have  crowded  the 
Royal   theater  out   of   a   location. 

The  Gulf  Educational  Film  Service  Company,  of 
Chicago,  has  been  incorporated  with  a  capital  stock 
of  $50,000  to  manufacture  moving  picture  supplies. 
The  Incorporators  are  Arthur  E.  Nelson,  William 
W.    Mackay    and    Roy    F.    Mitchell. 

The  Rex  Theater  at  Petersburg!!  now  is  without 
opposition,    the   Crown    having   closed   its   doors. 

Business  in  Roberts  Is  so  good  that  Seng  Brothers 
will  operate  their  show  two  nights  a  week  in- 
stead  of    one. 

After  eighty  souvenir  spoon  nights.  Manager 
Swan  at  Pittsfield  has  discontinued  the  practice. 
In  that  time,  he  estimates,  souvenirs  have  been 
given    to    12,000    women. 

The  Grand  Theater  at  Kewanee  has  changed 
its  policy  and  is  playing  two  acts  and  three  reels 
of  vaudeville  for  the  summer.  Three  shows  daily 
are  given.  George  Bowley  of  Chicago,  has  accepted 
a    position    as  pianist   with    the   honse. 

The  Family  Theater  at  St.  Joseph  has  gone  out 
of  business  leaving  the  field  to  Frank  Rice  who  Is 
running  a  show  In  Woodman  Hall.  It  is  reported 
that  James  Reese,  owner  of  the  building  in  which 
the   Family   was   conducted  may    re-open   the    place. 

R.  C.  Schroeder,  the  new  manager  of  the  Colonial 
at  Galesburg,  was  host  recently,  to  about  200 
newsboys  of  the  city. 

Louis  Frick,  Jr.,  has  sold  his  lease  on  the  new 
opera  house  being  constructed  at  Albion  to  the 
Majestic  Theater  Company,  which  will  install  Ben 
S.    Mayne  as   manager. 

Miller  &  Woodruff  have  opened  the  Alrdome  at 
Canton  for  the  summer  with  a  program  of  pictures. 

The  Engineers'  Club  of  James  Millikln  University, 
Decatur,  recently  gave  a  moving  picture  show 
at  the  high  school  showing  the  manufacture  of 
steel.  The  Decatur  high  school  has  purchased  a 
machine  and  this  shows  one  of  the  purposes  it  may 
serve   in    any   educational    community. 

According  to  newspaper  reports  Pekin  is  to 
have  another  picture  house.  It  wilj  be  located  at 
Fifth  and  Court  Streets  In  the  old  Post-Tribune 
building  and  will  be  operated  by  a  Mr.  Meyers  of 
Peoria,   who  has  been  in  the  dry  cleaning  business. 

The  Morse  Theater  Company,  of  Chicago,  has 
been  Incorporated  with  a  capital  stock  of  $3,000 
to  operate  theaters.  The  incorporators  are  Israel 
Slavin,    Abe   Jacobs   and   Eugene   Qugby. 

Freeport  has  been  having  some  competition  over 
the  local  film  question.  The  Orphenm  and  the  Lyric 
had  on  exhibition  at  the  same  time  some  reels 
of  Freeport.  The  Orpheum  had  the  pictures  taken 
but  Manager  Hopper  of  the  Lyric  used  his  own 
taking  machine.  Hopper  contemplates  doing  con- 
siderable  work   In  and  around    that  city. 

The  Gaiety  Theater  in  Galesburg  may  be  rebuilt. 

The  Profitt  Building  at  Saybrook  has  been  re- 
modeled for  the  Woolley  Brothers  moving  picture 
show. 

Cy  de  Vry,  animal  trainer  at  Lincoln  Park  Zoo, 
gave  his  picture  show  before  the  Elks  Club  of 
Rockford  recently  at  a  twenty-five  cent  admis- 
sion. In  the  afternoon  the  trustees  gave  a  free 
show    for  the  children   of  the  city. 

The  city  of  Alton  has  been  acting  as  host  to  a 
good  many  conventions  recently,  and  it  Is  notice- 
able that*  many  programs  include  a  visit  to  the 
Princess. 

W.  W.  Fields  opened  the  Grand  Theater  at 
Eighth  and  Lind  Streets,   Qulncy,   May  3. 

The  protestant  churches  of  Litchfield,  have  circu- 
lated petitions  asking  for  the  closing  of  moving 
picture  houses  and  pool  rooms  on  Sunday,  and  It 
is  likely  that  the  new  city  council  may  take  action 
upon  the  proposition.  There  are  but  two  houses  in 
Litchfield,  but  as  Sunday  is  their  banner  day,  they 
are  anxions  to  find  some  way  of  preventing  the 
closing.  The  pool  room  owners  have  already  begun 
a  movement  to  fight  the  change. 

P.  W.  Barclay,  of  Oak  Park,  has  suggested  to 
the  citizens  of  that  city  that  the  moving  picture 
theaters  be  allowed  to  open  on  Sunday.  He  de- 
clares that  young  people  often  go  to  other  cities 
and  towns  in  which  the  moving  picture  theaters 
are  not  as  well  regulated  and  conducted  as  In  Oak 
Park,  and  that  provision  should  be  made  for  their 
entertainment  and  education  at  home.  He  cites 
many  towns  in  the  West  where  this  plan  has  been 
satisfactorily   worked  out. 

The  Illinois  Congress  of  Mothers,  in  its  annual 
convention  in  Jacksonville,  passed  a  resolution  in 
which  it  placed  its  own  record  as  taking  a  definite 
stand  for  the  uplift  of  the  social  life  of  the  young 
people  of  today,  and  to  this  end  protested  against 
the  ultra-modern  forms  of  dancing,  uncensored  pic- 
ture shows  and  uninvestigated  plays  of  local  stock 
compan  fes.  A  committee  from  the  Rock  Island 
Woman's   Club,    of    Rock    Island,    met   the  members 


of  the  city  commission  of  that  city  and  a  general 
discussion  was  held  upon  the  subject  of  moving 
picture  shows  and  pool  halls.  The  idea  was  to 
better  conditions,  but  nothing  definite  came  of  the 
conference,  although  it  was  announced  that  plans 
woufd  be  outlined  at  a  later  meeting.  The  Village 
Improvement  Association,  a  woman's  club  of  Upper 
Alton,  is  co-operating  with  J.  J.  Rellly.  of  the 
Ouatoga  Theater,  and  lends  ir«  indorsement  to  the 
of  show*  put  on  at  the  Princess,  by  acting  as 
an  agent  of  the  house.  Manager  Reilly  furnishes 
them  with  rolls  of  tickets  which  are  sold  at  the 
regular  price,  and  the  club  is  allowed  a  commission 
on  ali  sales. 

An  unusual  advance  in  esteem  for  the  educational 
motion  picture  shows  recently  was  witnessed  at 
Dixon,  where  six  reels,  showing  the  process  of  cotton 
textile  manufacture  were  shown,  under  the  auspices 
of  ■  number  of  dry  goods  merchants  of  that  city. 
Not  only  were  the  public  schools  of  Dixon  dis- 
missed for  the  performance,  but  a  delegation  of 
young  folk  from  all  over  Lee  county,  some  of  them 
from   the  rural   schools,    were  present. 

The  Seaver  Amusement  Company,  of  Peoria,  is 
to  build  another  new  bouse  in  that  city  to  be  known 
as  the  Duchess.  A  lease  has  been  taken  on  the 
Com  stock  property  on  South  Adams  Street  and  a 
new  three-story  building  to  cost  $75,000  will  be 
erected  before  October  1.  The  upper  stories  will  be 
used  for  office  purposes.  The  place  will  seat  eight 
hundred  persons  and  will  be  an  exclusive  motion  pic- 
ture house.  It  will  be  equipped  with  pipe  organ, 
chimes,    orchestra   pit,    etc. 

Henry  King  has  suspended  business  at  the  Comedy 
Theater  in  Murphysboro. 

Because  of  an  epidemic  of  scarlet  fever  at  Granite 
City  the  moving  picture  theaters  were  instructed  by 
the  mayor  not  to  permit  children  under  16  years  to 
attend. 

Lemon  &  Mann  are  giving  nightly  picture  shows 
at    Burns'    hall   in   Huntington. 

The  American  Cinematograph  Company,  of  Chicago, 
has  increased  Its  capital  stock  from  $3,000  to  $100,- 
000. 

The  Majestic  at  Peoria  called  off  Its  picture  show 
until  5:30  p.  m.,  the  week  of  May  l!»-26,  to  give 
way  to  a  cooking  school,  conducted  by  the  Peoria 
Star. 

The  moving  picture  theaters  in  Sterling  gave  extra 
programs  the  last  Sunday  night  they  were  permitted 
to  run. 

The  Madison  Theater  Company,  of  Chicago,  has 
been  Incorporated  with  a  capital  stock  of  $5,000, 
to  operate  places  of  amusement.  The  incorporators 
are  Aaron  J.  Jones,  Adolph  Linick.  Peter  J. 
Scbaefer. 

The  Star  Theater  at  Lincoln  has  reduced  its  price 
for  matinees  to  five  cents  for  all  except  the  Sat- 
urday matinee  which  is  five  and  ten  cents. 

Rev.  James  Potter,  of  Rock  Falls,  delivered  a 
sermon  against  the  Sunday  picture  shows  declaring 
that  the  pleas  for  opening  ignored  the  real  issue 
which  was  the  money  there  was  in  it. 

J.  B.  Stine  has  decided  to  open  a  moving  picture 
show  at  Hoopeston.  Nelson  Petry,  who  is  in  the 
moving  picture  business  at  Watseka  and  other 
Central  Illinois  towns,  also  contemplates  invading 
the  Hoopeston  field.  He  may  build  a  house  which 
can  be  used  for  road  shows  as  well  as  for  photoplays. 

E.  L.  Hammer  and  F.  Ackerson  have  built  and 
opened  the  Starlight  Alrdome  on  Sixth-  Avenue  near 
Fifteenth  Street,  in  Moline.  The  place  has  accom- 
modation  for  six   hundred   persons. 

The  Illinois  State  Medical  Society  used  a  great 
many  motion  pictures  at  Its  sixty-third  annual  meet- 
ing at  Peoria,  May  20,  21  and  22.  Eight  reels 
treated  with  various  nervous  and  mental  diseases 
were  shown  by  Dr.  Theodore  W.  Weisenberg,  of 
Philadelphia,  Pa.  One  reel  was  devoted  to  the  care 
of  the  baby.  The  Edison  Company  had  a  man  pres- 
ent to  demonstrate  to  the  physicians  the  making 
of  motion  pictures  of  clinics  and  the  value,  to 
medical  science,  of  these  clinics. 

The  Grand  Opera  House  at  Piano  is  closed  on 
Monday  and  Tuesday  nights.  Pictures  are  shown 
on  Wednesday*  nights  and  vaudeville  and  pictures 
Thursday,    Friday   and   Saturday   nights. 

The  Plaza  theater  at  Mt.  Vernon  has  purchased  a 
new  pipe  organ. 

The  Star  theater  at  Elgin  has  switched  to  the 
Mutual  service. 

Petey  Wales  who  has  been  operating  moving  pic- 
tures in  a  number  of  northern  Illinois  towns,  has 
decided  to  construct  an  opera  house  at  Lanark.  He 
is  asking  the  public  to  assist  by  the  purchase  of 
tickets   for   the  opening  performance. 

William  Duffield,  who  was  manager  of  the  Prin- 
cess theater  in  Canton,  prior  to  Its  absorption  by 
the  Ideal  Amusement  Company,  will  remain  upon 
the  staff  of  the  Princess  theater. 

An  airdome  has  been  opened  by  the  management 
of  the  Daley  theater  at  Carlinville.  A  picture  policy 
similar  to  that  of  the  theater  will  be  conducted 
and  vaudeville  will  be  run  when  good  acts  can  be 
secured. 

Harry  H.  Hofer,  manager  of  the  Highland  Park, 
at  Quincy,  has  been  In  Chicago,  arranging  for  mov- 
ing pictures  and  vaudeville  programs  for  his  resort. 

The  city  council  at  LaSalle  ordered  an  Investiga- 
tion made  of  charges  that  managers  of  moving  pic- 
ture theaters  were  charging  ten  cents  when  their 
licenses  specified  five  cents. 

Harry  Blosten,  who  has  been  managing  the  Wlldey 
theater  in   Edwardsvllle   for  a  year,    has  announced 


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that  bis  lease  expires  June  ot».  lie  will  manage  the 
place  for  another  year. 

R.  0.  Schroeder,  manager  of  the  Colonial  theaters 
— one  of  which  was  known  as  the  Colonade — gave 
carnations  to  all  ladies  who  attended  the  re-opening 
of  the  Colonial. 

The  Valley  theater  at  Moline  has  ended  its  vaude- 
ville and  musical  comedy  season  and  will  re-open 
with  a  picture  program.  Manager  Rosenfleld  of  the 
Family  has  opened  an  airdome  at  Fifth  Avenue  and 
Fourteenth  Street  which  will  play  stock. 

Moving  pictures  will  be  used  for  teaching  geog- 
raphy and  history  in  the  schools  on  the  east  side 
of  Aurora,  if  the  plans  of  the  Board  of  Educa- 
tion of  Aurora  are  carried  out.  Investigation  of 
results  in  other  cities  has  begun  its  plan  to  run  a 
number  of   industrial   films. 

Vandals  who  defaced  a  large  number  of  windows 
In  Galesburg  with  a  diamond  or  a  glass  cutter,  left 
an  indelible  '•5"  upon  the  box  ofiice  of  the  Colonial 
theater. 

Theodore  Holly.  Peru,  is  at  the  head  of  an 
enterprise  which  will  conduct  an  airdome  in  Cedar 
Point,    tbis   summer. 

Gardiner  &  Leonard's  airdome  at  Virden  was 
visited  by  fire,  May  V2,   suffering  a  loss  of  $200. 

C.  A.  Keller  has  moved  his  moving  picture  show 
into   the    Dalrymple   building   at   Chrisman. 

The  summer  season  of  moving  pictures  at  the 
Warrington  theater  in  Oak  Park  commenced  May  19. 

Mrs.  Ella  Rose  was  granted  a  jndgmeut  against 
Mrs.  Eimia  Ream  and  others  tot  $200.  an  action 
in  a  distress  warrant  for  rent  for  the  Iris  moving 
picture  theater  in  South  Main  Steet,  Rockfdrd. 
The  Iris  has  been  closed  since  the  suit  was  filed. 

Cameramen  were  numerous  at  Quincy  when  the 
state  convention  of  the  Travelers  Protective  As- 
sociation was  in  session.  G.  W.  Helrarich  of  the 
Motograph  Company,  of  S:.  Louis,  took  some  films 
of  the  delegates  and  of  the  points  of  interest  of 
the  city  for  the  Bijou,  anil  B.  E.  Newman  of  the 
American  Motion  Picture  Company  made  some  reels 
for  the  Gem  and  Savoy  theaters.  Later  Schwindeler 
&  Nelson,  proprietors  of  the  Colonade,  had  Os- 
good, tbe  Galesburg.  111.,  cameraman  take  a  num- 
ber of  pictures  to  be  shown  at  their  house. 
•  William  Tifft  of  the  Vaudette.  at  Sterling,  closed 
a  contract  with  tbe  Advance  Motion  Picture  Com- 
pany, of  Chicago,  to  take  a  set  of  pictures  In  that 
city.   May   22, 

The  Lyric  theater  at  East  St.  Louis,  featured 
for  a  week  two  reels  of  local  pictures,  including 
inauguration  of  Mayor  John  M.  Chamberlin,  the 
inaugural  parade,  a  baseball  game  between  the 
newspaper  men  and  the  city  officials  and  other 
local   events. 

Owing  to  opposition,  moving  picture  shows  in 
Homer  Park  on  the  Illinois  Traction  System,  near 
Homer,  will  not  be  operated  on  Sunday. 

The  Randolph  Theater  Company,  of  Chicago, 
has  been  incorporated  with  a  capital  stock  of  $5,- 
000  to  operate  a  theater.  The  incorporators  are 
Aaron  J.  Jones,  Adolph  Linick  and  Peter  J. 
Schaefer. 

J.  H.  McClelland,  chairman  of  the  committee 
in  Decatur,  which  is  fighting  the  Sunday  picture 
shows,  has  named  five  men  to  investigate  condi- 
tions. 

An  unusual  campaign  is  being  conducted  in 
Joliet  by  two  of  the  largest  corporations  of  that 
city — tbe    Illinois    Steel    company    and    the    Chicago 

6  Joliet  Electric  Railway  Company.  The  traction 
company  takes  three  hundred  to  four  hundred  sebool 
children  daily  in  special  cars  to  tbe  steel  works 
club,  where  the  safety  expert  of  the  steel  com- 
pany entertains  them  with  a  lecture  upon  the  ac- 
cidents common  to  children.  These  lectures  are 
illustrated    by    moving    pictures. 

The  New  City  Theater  Company,  of  Chicago, 
has  been  incorporated  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$10,000,  to  conduct  amusement  enterprises.  The 
incorporators  are,  Arthur  Rosenthal,  John  A.  Bus- 
sian    and  Joseph    Strauss. 

The  ordinance  providing  for  the  opening  of  mov- 
ing picture  shows  on  Sundays  in  Rockford,  has 
been  adopted  by  a  vote  of  ten  to  three.  There 
was  much  discussion  over  tbe  measure.  Alderman 
Wilson  made  a  plea  against  allowing  them  to  open 
on  Sunday  evenings.  He  declared  the  owners  and 
managers  advertised  that  no  performances  would 
conflict  "with  religious  services-  An  amendment 
specifying  tbe  hours  from  2  to  5:30  p.  m.  and  from 

7  to  2:30  p.  m.  was  adopted.  When  a  substitute 
ordinance  proposed  that  all  show  houses  be  placed 
on  an  even  footing  at  $100  a  year  license.  Alder- 
man Wilson  moved  to  strike  out  the  license  fees 
for  moving  picture  bouses,  vaudeville  and  the  grand 
opera  bouses.  He  contended  that  if  places  are  as 
elevating  in  their  character  as  was  portrayed  they 
ought  not  to  be  licensed  any  more  than  the  council 
would  seek  to  license  a  printer  or  a  baker  or  a 
candlestick  maker.  The  photoplay  managers,  how- 
ever, are  willing  to  pay  tbe  license  fee  and  that 
section  went  through.  The  ordinance  places  amuse- 
ments under  two  sections  instead  of  four.  The 
first  includes  moving  pictures  and  theatrical  at- 
tractions and  the  second  class  Includes  circuses 
and  similar  attractions.  Provision  is  made  that 
children  under  fourteen  years  will  not  be  permitted 
to  attend  before  four  o'clock  in  tbe  afternoon  of 
school  days  unless  accompanied  by  an  adult.  A 
hoard  of  censorship  consisting  of  the  mayor,  chief 
of  police  and  a  council  member  will  see  that  im- 
moral, obscene,  indecent,  vulgar  films,  or  films  of 
a  suggestive,  vulgar,  or  indecent  nature,  or  posture 
position,    or    pose,    or    any    film    representing,    por- 


traying, or  describing  any  prize  fight,  murder,  rob- 
bery, boldup,  hanging  or  execution,  is  not  shown. 
A  local  photoplay  manager  present  at  tbe  meeting 
wished  an  explanation  of  this,  declaring  that  the 
day  before  In  Chicago,  he  had  seen  a  murder  film 
which  had  a  strong  moral.  The  explanation  was 
not  .forthcoming  and  a  change  was  not  made.  At 
an  earlier  meeting  Alderman  Johnson,  socialist, 
wanted  a  provision  made  for  the  regulation  of 
prices  on  Sundays. 

The  new  Drexel  theater  at  Joliet  is  giving  two 
box  seats  for  every  home  run  made  by  a  city 
league   player   during    the    local    baseball    season. 

Lightning  recently  struck  a  wire  running  into 
the  Colonial  theater  at  Galesburg  and  threw  John 
(later,  an  operator,  against  tbe  wall  of  the  operat- 
ing room  and  stunned  him,  Fred  Gerloff,  the  other 
operator  was  hurt  by  flying  glass.  The  piano 
players,  Miss  Hattie  Pearson  and  Miss  Fay  Randall. 
helped  to  quiet  the  audience,  Raymond  Schroeder. 
proprietor  of  the  Colonial,  writes  to  friends  in 
Joliet  that  he  has  a  plan  to  use  handsome  calen- 
dars to   advertise  his  house. 

The  moving  pictures  made  for  the  Bijou  a  t 
Quincy,  included  a  picture  of  "Albert  D.  Cashier." 
the  only  woman  who  went  through  the  entire  Civil 
War.  She  has  for  years  been  an  Inmate  of  the 
Illinois  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  home  at  Quincy,  pos- 
ing  as  a  man.    The  officials  kept  her  sex  a  secret. 

"The  value  of  this  new  form  of  recording  cases 
is  that  they  remain  accessible  to  the  profession 
long  after  the  abnormal  parent  has  disappeared," 
declares  Dr.  T.  H.  Welsenbnrg,  professor  at  tbe 
medico -chirurgical  college  of  Philadelphia,  iu  show- 
ing delegates  to  the  Illinois  Medical  Society  at 
Peoria  moving  pictures  of  micro-organisms.  The 
professional  men  present  declared  the  films  were 
miraculous.  "The  beating  of  a  living  heart  will 
be  reproduced  by  the  cinematograph  within  a 
short    time' '    announces    the    professor. 

The  Reliance  three-reel  feature,  "The  Bawler- 
out."  has  proved  'a  very  popular  attraction  in  Illi- 
nois. There  has  been  a  great  many  local  crusades 
against  the  loan  sharks,  and  all  opposition  to  the 
film    has    been    profitable   to   exhibitors. 

Moving  pictures  are  one  of  the  evening  attrac- 
tions* at   Al   Fresco   Park  at  Peoria. 

Walter  McKillop  who  has  been  conducting  mov- 
ing picture  shows  at  Hamilton,  Ohio.,  will  open 
a  picture  show  in  the  Brown  building  on  Galena 
Street    In    Freeport. 

The  Colonade  theater  at  Quincy  is  conducting  a 
voting  contest  in  which  three  women  will  be  given 
free  trips  to  California.  Five  votes  are  given  with 
each     admission. 

Especial  attention  will  be  given  children  in  the 
Saturday  afternoon  programs  of  the  new  Star  thea- 
ter at  Evanston,  which  has  been  opened  by  Bodkin 
and   Kean. 

J.  W.  Royer,  Urbana  architect,  has  been  ordered 
to  draw  plans  for  a  new  moving  picture  theater 
which  will  be  erected  for  E.  C.  Bleaue  of  Kankakee. 
It  is  hoped  to  open  the  place  the  first  week  in 
July. 

It  is  reported  that  a  third  picture  show  will  he 
opened  at  Havana.  The  two  theaters,  the  Varsity 
and  the  Havana,  are  now  conducted  by  the  volun- 
teer fire  department.  '  Havana  has  a  population 
of   but    3,500. 

Ned  Alvord,  who  operates  theaters  at  Hammond. 
Ind.,  and  Waukegan.  111.,  is  contemplating  building 
an   opera   house   In   Freeport. 

The  Layor  Amusement  Company,  of  Chicago,  has 
been  incorporated  with  a  capital  stock  of  $5,000, 
to  conduct  amusement  enterprises.  The  incorpora- 
tors are  Sam  Kahl,  Marcus  Helman  and  Frank 
Meyer. 

The  request  of  the  managers  of  moving  picture 
theaters  in  Mattoon  to  operate  on  Sundays  has 
been  refused  by  Mayor  Johnson,  it  is  reported. 

A  correspondent  at  St.  Augustine,  makes  tbe  fol- 
lowing wail:  'What  this  place  neds  is  an  up-to- 
date  moving  picture  show.  Every  night,  when  the 
sun  goes  down  here,  everybody  puts  on  bis  best 
bib  and  tucker  and  lights  off  over  to  Abingdon, 
where  the  pictures  are  all  the  go  now.  I  say,  for 
St.  Augustine,  if  we  wish  to  make  good,  we've  got 
to  keep   up  with  the  march  of  civilization." 

Clarence  Sbaw  has  sold  Dreamland  theater  in 
Canton  to  Miss  Dora  Kelley,   who  has  taken  charge. 

The  Gem  theater,  at  Hillsboro.  played  the  "Pas- 
sion Play"  for  the  benefit  of  the  Ladies"  Aid  Society 
at  a  Saturday   matinee. 

Isaac  Wright  of  Peoria  may  erect  a  new  build- 
ing in  Minonk  to  be  occupied  by  J.  A.  Williams, 
of  Walworth.   Wis.,   with  a  moving  picture  show. 

The  tension  in  Hillsboro's  little  amusement  war 
has  loosened  a  bit.  Dr.  Fred  Rogers  who  recently 
opened  tbe  Grand  Central  Airdome  has  leased  the 
place  to  S.  E.  Hurst,  manager  of  the  Gem  thea- 
ter. Hurst  announces  that  he  will  give  an  ex- 
clusive picture  show  at  the  Gem.  and  pictures  and 
vaudeville    at   the   Grand   Central. 

MIDWEST    SPECIAL    SERVICE. 


SPRINGFIELD,  ILL. 

MANY  athletic  meets  in  the  United  States  have 
beea  filmed  but  none  In  the  novel  manner  In 
which  the  Industrial  Moving  Picture  Company,  of 
Chicago,  and  the  Springfield  High  School,  took  the 
Corn  Belt  meet  In  this  city.  A  scenario  was 
written  after  the  fashion  of  one  of  the  popular 
boys'  stories.  One  of  tbe  stars  of  the  Springfield 
track  team  was  kidnapped  by  envious  rivals  and 
locked  In  an  abandoned   tool-house   at  a   local  park. 


Through  the  eavesdropping  of  a  fair  high  school 
girl  the  plot  was  learned  and  by  tbe  assistance  of 
a  speeding  automobile  he  was  rescued  and  arrived 
at  the  field  just  in  time  to  go  in  a  race  and  snatch 
victory  from  defeat  for  his  beloved  school.  A 
few  other  films  have  been  secured  and  the  picture 
will  be  shown  at  the  local  high  school  auditorium 
at  2.">  cents  admission,  after  which  it  will  be  sent 
to  other  cities  where  the  young  folk  are 
interested  in  tbe  doings  of  tbe  Springfield  high 
school. 

Just  where  tbe  Sunday  closing  war  in  Spring- 
field is  going  to  end  is  hard  to  tell.  When  tbe 
time  came  for  hearing  the  latest  batch  of  warrants 
against  men  charged  with  violating  the  Sunday 
closing  ordinance  the  prosecution  was  not  on  hand 
and  the  cases  were  continued  until  May  1"  with 
the  understanding  that  at  time  they  would  again 
be  continued  until  May  27.  The  defendant  picture 
show  proprietors  and  the  other  photoplay  men 
who  are  naturally  interested  were  on  hand.  The 
butchers,  who  caused  the  whole  mess,  declare 
they  are  going  to  keep  their  shops  open  if  the 
other  businesses  continue  to  operate  on  Sunday 
and  nobody  will  conjecture  what  kind  of  a  tangle 
this  action  will  beget.  Mayor  John  S.  Schnepp 
says  he  does  not  see  any  chance  for  having  the 
ordinance    repealed. 

All  the  Interest  Incidental  to  the  appearance 
of  a  local  actress  Is  being  exploited  in  connec- 
tion with  some  recent  Selig  releases  in  which 
Mrs.  Walter  Winhelm,  formerly  Miss  Marie  Des- 
noyers,  daughter  of  a  wealthy  shoe  manufacturer 
of    Springfield,    takes    part. 

The  Vaudette  Amusement  Company  of  this  city 
has  closed  its  engagement  of  "From  the  Manger 
to  the  Cross,"  at  the  Cort  theater  In  Chicago.  Other 
metropolitan  engagements  will  be  played. 

The  Beall  bill  requiring  a  seat  with  every  ticket 
has  passed  the  State  Senate  by  a  vote  of  26  to  11. 
Senator  Beall  of  Alton,  Is  securing  revenge  for 
not  being  properly  treated  in  a  Chicago  ball  park, 
but  if  the  measure  Is  approved  by  the  House  of 
Representatives  some  manager  of  a  picture  house 
is  going  to  sell  standing  room  some  time  and  then 
be   hailed   into  court  for  it. 

Women  in  places  of  amusement  may  not  work 
longer  than  ten  hours  a  day  if  a  bill  introduced 
into  the  Senate  by  Senator  Bailey  passes.  ibe 
measure    will    hardly    affect    many    downstate    pie- 

^opes^for  maintaining  a  ten-cent  admission  in 
Springfield  have  gone  glimmering  The  Lyric  and 
the  Vaudette.  which  have  been  gettmg  a  dame  tot 
three  reels  of  late  run  Licensed  service,  have  goue 
back  to  the  five-cent  show.  One  house  gives  as  a 
reason  tbe  lack  of  business  while  the  other  declares 
it  was  satisfied.  The  three  reel  shows  will  con- 
tinue at  the  new  price  aud  the  same  class  of  serv- 
ice will  be  given.  The  move  will  have  consider- 
able effect  upon  the  independent  houses  in  the 
city  and  those  which  have  been  showing  older 
Licensed  service,  for  five  cents,  as  it  is  bound  to 
divert  some  of  the  patronage.  Photoplay  men  now 
sav  that  it  will  be  useless  to  attempt  to  again 
taik  "qualitV  show.  A  representative  of  the 
Moving  Picture  World  talked  to  a  good  many  pat- 
rons of  the  two  houses  and  they  seemed  about 
euuallv  divided,  some  of  them  preferring  a  longer 
and  better  show  at  ten  cents  while  others  who 
sought  chieflv  amusement,  attended  picture  shows 
as   a   pastime,    were   in   favor  of   tbe   popular   price. 

The  Enos  Feature  Film  Company.  Room  o.  Gaiety 
Building,  is  a  new  film  exchange  in  Springfield. 
The  concern  will  deal  principally  with  the  houses 
which  have  direct  express  connections  with  Spring- 
field and  can  be  reached  quickly  from  this  center. 
Tbis  opens  up  a  large  territory  as  Springfield  Is 
the  center  of  a  network  of  electric  and  gasoline- 
electric  interurban  lines  aud  in  addition  is  well 
^iljplied  with  steam  transportation.  Earl  F.ims 
has  been  connected  with  local  theatrical  houses  for 
several  vnars  and  also  was  with  tbe  Wortham- 
Allen  Carnival  Company  in  an  executive  capacity 
for  some  time.  C.  H.  Rumsey.  tbe  other  partner, 
has  been  in  the  show  business  for  years  and  for  a 
long  time  was  manager  of  the  Majestic,  Spring- 
field's  most   attractive   show  house. 

The  film  "Toothache. ' '  which  is  backed  by  the 
National  Dental  Society,  was  shown  at  the  Grand 
Theater  iu  this  city.  The  school  board  gave  its 
approval  to  the  film  and  to  stimulate  tbe  interest 
of  tbe  youngsters,  half  price  was  given  for  all 
children  "attending  in  groups  of  not  less  than  six 
and  accompanied  by  their  teacher.  The  Chatter- 
ton,  the  local  legitimate  bouse,  has  been  taken 
over  by  Allardt  Brothers,  who  also  control  the 
Majestic.  The  Chatterton  has  played  a  good  many 
feature  pictures  and  at  times  has  gone  into  the 
five-cent  show  business.  It  is  Impossible  to  say 
just  what   the   policy  will  be   this  winter. 

The  Automatic  Electric  Sign  Company,  which  has 
a  prominent  downtown  location  for  one  of  its 
changing  slide  projectors,  has  been  carrying  an  ad- 
vertisement   for    tbe    Vaudette    theater. 

H.  S.  Moss  of  the  Industrial  Moving  Picture  Com- 
pany,  of  Chicago,  was  iu  the  city  May  23.  to  at- 
tend the  production  of  the  commercial  story 
"Springfield  Wins."  taken  for  tbe  Springfield  High 
School  at  the  Corn-Belt  Athletic  Meet.  This  picture 
has  attracted  a  good  '  deal  of  attention  all  over 
the  country  because  a  scenario  was  written  around 
what  is  generally  a  common  place  event.  In  con- 
nection with  this  film  the  Bfograph  "Oil  and 
Water"  was  shown  making  the  third  time  this  re- 
lease  has   been    shown    in    Springfield. 

Manager   Fred   Whitmer  of   the    Vaudette    theater 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


is  taking  an  active  part  in  the  preparation  for 
the  annual  encampment  of  tbe  United  Spanish  War 
Veterans  which  will  be  held  in  this  city  the  latter 
part  of  June.  He  is  a  member  of  the  committee 
which  is  arranging  the  program  and  entertainment. 
Whitmer  served  during  the  Spanish-American  War 
and  was  for  many  years  connected  with  the  Illi- 
nois National  (Vuard.  He  holds  a  high  rank  as  a 
marksman  with  nearly  every  kind  of  rifle  that  has 
been  used  in  military  affairs  in  the  last  decade 
or    so    and   is    the    possessor  of   several   medals. 

Attorney  Clarence  A.  Jones,  representing  Adolpb 
Knnz,  proprietor  of  the  Grand  Moving  picture  thea- 
ter, and  other  business  men  who  were  arrested 
charged  with  keeping  their  places  of  business  open 
on  Sunday,  appeared  before  tbe  City  Commission 
and  asked  tbe  repeal  of  the  "blue  law"  ordinance 
under   which   the   prosecutions   were   made. 

Tbe  General  Feature  Film  Company  is  tbe  name 
of  a  new  concern  which  has  been  formed  in  Spring- 
field with  offices  in  tbe  handsome  new  Reiscb  of- 
fice building.  The  members  are  Charles  Rocchuc- 
ciolo,  until  recently  proprietor  of  the  Casino  thea- 
rer.  Frank  Palmisan,  manager  of  the  Casino  and 
Joe  Wintrup  of  St.  Louis.  The  company  will  do 
a  general  brokerage  business  in  films  and  will  rent 
feature    films    to   Central    Illinois    theaters. 

A.  0.  Anderson,  of  Springfield,  bas  sold  the  Gem 
Theater  at  Lincoln,  which  be  bas  been  operating 
for  a  year  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Meier,  of 
Springfield.  It  is  reported  tbat  Anderson  contem- 
plates  purchasing   the   Airdome   in   Lincoln. 

W.  W.  Watts,  president  of  the  Vandette  Amuse- 
ment Company,  of  this  city,  writes  from  Obi" 
that  immediately  following  the  closing  of 
Kalem  feature  "From  the  Manger  to  the  Cross,"  at 
the  theater,  five  weeks  bookings  for  other  theaters 
in  tbat  city  were  made  and  more  are  under  con- 
sideration. The  other  set  of  pictures  under  tbe 
direction  of  Arthur  Simons  is  playing  solid  time 
in  the  Southern  part  of  Illinois.  Tbe  local  office 
of  the  Vandette  Company  has  received  requests 
for  bookings  from  Burlington,  Iowa,  and  from  a 
Presbyterian  minister  in  Ohio,  who  wished  to  play" 
it  in  his  church.  Inasmuch  as  they  have  only  the 
Illinois   right  they   could   not   handle   it. 

Acting  State  Fire  Marshall  Frank  R.  Morgaridge. 
of  this  city,  recently  paid  a  visit  to  his  borne 
town  of  Sterling  and  while  there  in  company  with 
the  chief  of  police  made  an  inspection  of  the  mov- 
ing picture  houses.  No  adverse  report  as  to  safety 
conditions  was  made. 

The  French  &  Sons  Piano  Comnany,  of  Spring- 
field has  snipped  a  two-manual  Ferren  &  Votey  pipe 
organ  to  tbe  Katz  moving  picture  theater  in  Mat- 
toon. 

Roy  Sturgell.  a  student  of  the  New  Berlin  high 
school,  took  for  his  theme  in  tbe  oratorical  contest 
•f  Sangamon  County  High  schools,  recently  held 
in  this  city  "The  Motion  Picture  Show."  Unfortu- 
nately for  tbis  champion  of  tbe  photoplay  in  edu- 
cation he  did  not  receive  a  place  in  the  awards. 
MIDWEST    SPECIAL    SERVICE. 


IOWA. 

pTHB  Iowa  State  Highway  Commission  is  eontem- 
A  plating  taking  pictures  of  tbe  road6  made  in 
Ringgold  County,  near  Mt.  Ayr.  Tbis  will  be 
used   to   further    the    work   of   the   commission. 

Martin  &  Gilbert,  of  Chicago,  made  arrangements 
to  take  a  series  of  pictures  in  Muscatine. 

The  Palm  Theater  at  Fifth  and  Brady  Streets, 
Davenport  bas  been  sold  to  Louis  Bornemann, 
formerly  connected  with  tbe  Economy  Rug  Com 
pany,    of   that   city. 

L.  B.  Seymour,  of  Glenwood,  has  purchased  a 
picture  show   at   Malvern  which   he  will  operate. 

Colonel   Allen    of   Des    Moines   has   made    arrange- 
ments   to   have    pictures   taken   of    the   encampment 
of    tbe    Fifty-Third    Regiment    survivors   at    Ct 
City    in    August. 

Manager  Pabst  of  the  Mirror  at  Davenport  In* 
been  conducting  a  prize  contest  for  tbe  most  suit- 
able name  for  his  house  which  be  wishes  to  re- 
christen. 

Mayor  A.  O.  Hayes,  of  New  London,  recently 
ordered  a  moving  picture  house  in  that  city. 
had  been  advertising  religious  pictures  for  Sunday. 
not  to  open  and  threatened  the  ticket  seller  with 
arrest  if  any  attempt  was  made.  Furthermore  an 
injunction  against  the  operation  of  tbe  place 
promised. 

W.  M.  Wever  and  George  W.  Sanders,  of  Vinton 
have  purchased  the  Olympic.  Pastime  and  i 
theaters  in  Maquoketa  and  will  operate  them.  The 
Olympic  will  be  a  vaudeville  bouse  while  the  other 
two  will  fill  the  photoplay  field.  The  new  pro- 
prietors are  interested  in  picture  houses  in  Vinton 
and  Waverly. 

J.  D.  Banning,  of  Chariton  has  sold  the  Grand 
theater  in   that  city   to   B.   P.   Shipley  of  Corrdon. 

The  Lyric  at  Muscatine  is  now  using  Universal 
service. 

A  new  picture  show  will  be  opened  in  tlie  Everu- 
han  block   at  Glenwood,    it  is  reported. 

Charles  Hugo  and  Don  Cook  announced  the  open- 
ing of  the  season  of  Hippodrome  Perfect  Pictures, 
May  25.  at  Greene's  Opera  House  in  Cedar  Rapids. 
Jacob  Schmidt's  orchestra  was  engaged  to  furnish 
music. 

Russell  &  Fife  have  leased  the  Soleman  Opera 
House  at  Tama. 

Charles  Rider  has  sold  bis  half  interest  in  the 
Bijon   at    Sheldon    to   his  partner.    D.    E.    Harvey. 

W.  E.  Wichen  is  erecting  a  new  concrete  building 


at  Center  Point  which  will  be  used  as  a  theater. 
Excursion  steamers  on  tbe  Mississippi  River  out 
of  Iowa  towns  are  playing  vaudevile  and  it  is  be- 
lieved that  it  will  be  but  a  matter  of  time  until 
moving  pictures  will  be  provided  for  those  who 
do  not  care  to  dance  and  who  soon  tire  of  tbe 
scenery. 

Charles  Berkell  bas  sold  the  lease  of  the  Ameri- 
can vaudeville  theater  in  Davenport,  which  bas 
been  playing  pictures,  to  W.  S.  Butterfield,  of 
Battle  Oreek,  Mich.,  and  Marcns  Heiman  of  Chi- 
cago, who  have  a  string  of  houses  in  Wisconsin, 
Northern   Illinois   and   Iowa. 

The  American  Amusement  Company  of  Davenport, 
contemplates  opening  a  talking  motion  picture  ex- 
change In  Minneapolis,  having  secured  the  rights 
for  Iowa  and   Minnesota, 

Friendly  House,  Davenport  has  already  begun  a 
search  for  a  supply  of  suitable  educational  pictures 
to  be  shown,  before  the  children  that  visit  that  in- 
stitution    next    winter. 

Tbe  extension  department  of  Iowa  State  College 
at  Ames,  will  use  motion  pictures  more  exclusively 
this  winter  than  ever  before.  The  lecturer,  who 
goes  to  tbe  various  farmers  meetiugs,  will  carry 
reels  showing  the  work  done  at  the  college  lab- 
oratories, the  work  in  the  experiment  station  fields 
and  students  at  work  in  forge  and  carpenter  shops 
or  busy  on  lathes  or  planers  in  tbe  machine  shop. 
Other  reels  will  give  instruction  in  the  operation  of 
gas  eng'jics  or  gas  tractors  and  others  will  demon- 
strate how  veterinarians  care  for  diseased  and  in- 
jured   animals. 

A  leaolution  was  passed  at  tbe  meeting  ai  tie 
Iowa  state  Dental  Society  at  Davenport,  recom- 
mending the  purchase  of  motion  picture  films  on  the 
care  of  the  teeth  to  be  shown  to  children  through- 
out   the    state. 

J.  H.  Wallis  bas  purchased  tbe  propertv  of  11. « 
Amuseu   theater  at  Dubuque,    from  J.    J.    Nag;]. 

Mrs.  H.  B.  Storm  has  been  managing  the  jjyrle 
theater  at  Grinnell,  her  husband  having  returned 
to    the    drug    business. 

A.    Mereurio  bas  been  remoieling   the   building   at 

1^.    Bridge    Street.    Waterloo,    preparatory    to   ot 

ing    a    moving    picture    show. 

The  remodeled  Columbia  theater  at  Waterloo 
has  been  re-opened  as  a  picture  bouse.  New 
have  been  installed,  tbe  place  has  been  re-decorated 
a  new  air  cooling  and  ventilating  system  baa  been 
installed  and  a  more  satisfactory  floor  put  in  place. 
The  equipment  also  includes  a  new  mirror  screen 
and  a  Power's  6-A  machine.  Women  were  given 
favors  at  the  re-openlng. 

The  Civic  Improvement  Society  of  Cedar  Rapids 
was  sponsor  for  the  appearance  of  the  "Lady  of 
the  Lake"  and  "Enoch  Arden,"  at  the  Electric 
theater  May  16.  Manager  Diebold.  of  tbe  Princess 
and  Palace  who  recently  had  a  series  of  local  views 
taken,  was  host  to  tbe  newsboys  of  the  citv  when 
the  pictures  were  shown. 

Manager  Vic  Hugo  of  tbe  Majestic  also  had  a 
series  of  Cedar  Rapids  pictures  taken. 

Mr.  Stoecker,  of  Lowden,  will  give  moving  pic- 
ture  shows   at   Toronto,    each   Sunday   night. 

J.  H.  Pabst.  formerly  of  Anderson,  Ind  ,  has 
purchased  the  Mirror  theater  at  Third  and  Perrv 
Streets,  in  Davenport,  and  has  remodeled  and  re- 
opened  it  as  a   picture  house. 

Mrs.  Alma  Timothy,  who  manages  the  Majestic 
moving  picture  theater  at  317  Brady  Street,  is 
said  to  be  the  only  woman  in  Iowa,  managing  a 
photoplay   bouse. 

MIDWEST    SPECIAL   SERVICE. 

ST.  LOUIS. 

p   W      DUSTIN,     manager    of     the     Grand     Opera 
■"•     House    and    well    known   in    theatrical    c*r 
resigned   his   position   recently   to  become   Identified 
with     the    New     Grand    Central,     the    new     picture 

Mr1Snn°,,vinGrh,",d,ATenUe'  P0r  ,he  ?•«  few"  years 
„„„  „ , .  8S  been  assocl>»tel  with  the  making  of 
motion  pictures  and  the  knowledge  acquired  will 
come  well  in  hand  with  tbe  taking  up  of  his  new 
pos.t.on.  Mr.  Dustin  has  the  honor  of  being  the 
first  man  in  the  country  to  open  a  large  theater 
showing    motion    pictures    exclusively.      This    house 

ZiLf,.,L^isvA"e  Kv  Mr  Dustin  will  »*  suc- 
ceeded at  the  Grand  Opera  House  by  Mr.    Wallace. 

The  New  Grand  Central  pronounced  the  hand- 
somest picture  house  in  the  city,  is  under  tbe  direct 
supervision  of  Mr.  Seavers  who  also  super 
the  downtown  bouse  now  called  the  Old  Grand 
Central  to  distinguish  It  from  the  new  house  of 
the    same   name. 

The  Empress  at  Grand  and  Olive,  has  inaugu- 
rated a  series  of  complimentary  matinees  for  the 
benefit  of  tbe  various  local  charitable  and  indus- 
trial institutions.  Tbe  first  to  benefit  being  about 
C.>  children  from  tbe  Masonic  Orphans  Home. 
Child  pictures  were  shown  exclusively.  At  a 
benefit  to  the  Mount  St.  Rose  Hospital  9100  South 
Broadw-ay,  under  tbe  supervision  of  Rev.  J.  T. 
Tuohy,  motion  pictures  of  "Joan  of  Arc"  were 
shown  in  addition  to  various  films  depicting  famous 
historical   events   of   the    world. 

Passion  play  pictures  were  featured  at  the 
McKinley  Theater,  Jefferson  and  Ann  Avenues,  for 
the  benefit  of  tbe  Ladles  of  the  Missouri  G.  A. 
R.   Society. 

The  coming  theatrical  season  in  St.  Louis  next 
fall  will  see  the  passing  away  of  the  Garrick, 
Century,  Colombia  and  Gayety  theaters,  all  promi- 
nent houses  devoted  to  the  "legitimate."  Tbe 
Garrick    will     be    operated    as    a    moving    picture 


house   under   an    agreement   reached    with   the  Sbu- 
bert,    Klaw    and    Erlanger    forces. 

The  Century  closed  its  doors  about  a  month 
ago  with  Julian  Eltinge  having  the  honor  of 
playing  the  last  engagement.  The  theater  has 
to—.  re->odo'«d  by  the  Scruggs,  Vendevoort  & 
Barney    Dry    Goods    Company. 

The  Gayety  will  no  longer  be  operated  as  a 
burlesque  house,  and  it  is  understood  will  be 
turneu  over  tor  the  exhibition  of  exclusive  feature 
films. 

Tbe  Columbia,  long  known  as  the  home  of  vaude- 
ville, will  be  idle,  and  if  rumors  are  ripe  the 
building  and  theater  will  be  replaced  by  a  business 
structure.  The  changes  in  these  erstwhile  popular 
playhouses  have  come  about  through  the  insistence 
of  the  public  for  good  pictures,  no  vaudeville  and 
a  gradual  evolution  in  the  show  business  which 
had  Its  inception  with  the  birth  of  the  moving 
pictures. 

That  there  is  no  limit  to  the  capabilities  of 
the  modern  picture  man,  was  the  sentiment  ex- 
pressed by  tbe  many  people  who  visited  the  Garrick 
Theater  recently  to  witness  the  silent  yet  pathetic 
drama  woven  around  tie  efforts  of  that  Intrepid 
artic  explorer.  Capt.  Robert  Falcon  Scott,  who  lost 
his  life  in  an  effort  to  reach  the  South  pole.  That 
actual  scenes  of  the  surroundings  of  that  hereto- 
fore vast  impenetrable  forest  of  Ice,  a  hundred 
miles  or  so  from  tbe  extreme  ends  of  tbe  world, 
could  be  witnessed  by  passive  spectators  for  a 
sum  so  Insignificant  in  comparison  with  the  won- 
ders enrolled  before  their  eyes  as  to  make  it  al- 
most nothing,  marks  a  crowning  achievement  in  the 
annals    of    the    motion    picture    industry. 

The  films  depict  very  plainly,  life  in  the  Antartic 
with  whales,  penguins,  seals,  Siberian  ponies  and 
other  exhibits  of  the  region  seldom,  if  ever,  gazed 
upon  by  the  average  American,  all  brought  out 
very  vividly  by  tbe  cameraman.  The  volcano, 
Mt.   Erebus,  is  also  shown  and  furnished  a  thriller. 

The  lectures  for  the  pictures,  gotten  up  by 
Robert  C.  Ponting,  war  correspondent,  lecturer, 
artist  and  autbor,  were  highly  instructive,  making 
the  exhibition  of  the  Scott  expedition,  one  of  the 
greatest  successes  of  its  kind  ever  shown  in  St. 
Louis. 

The  Hamilton  Amusement  Company,  5900  Easton 
avenue,  seating  4500  people  and  said  to  be  tbe 
largest  open  air  airdome  in  tbe  world,  opened  under 
very  unfavorable  weather  conditions  April  26th. 
In  addition  to  licensed  releases,  western  vaudeville 
is  booked.  Last  season  the  Hamilton  had  a  record- 
breaking  business,  topping  with  5,200  paid  admis- 
sions in  one  night. 

The  Hippodrome,  on  6th  street,  closed  for  the 
summer  months  May  24th.  Announcement  has  been 
made  tbat  Frank  L.  Talbot,  the  local  "vaudeville 
and  picture  impressario,"  is  contemplating  the 
erection  of  a  sixteen-story  building  combining  a 
■  theater  and  hotel  at  the  southeast  corner  of  7th  and 
Market  streets,  in  addition  to  a  seven-story  build- 
ing at  the  southwest  corner  of  9th  and  Walnut 
streets,  the  estimated  cost  of  the  proposed  sites  be- 
ing nearly  $2,000,000.  To  Mr.  Talbot  Is  due  a 
great  deal  of  credit  for  the  livening  of  6th  street 
as  an  amusement  center,  and  for  the  enhancing  of 
real  estate  values  in  that    vicinity. 

The  present  theatrical  season  just  closed  here, 
has  been  the  most  disastrous  ever  known  for  tbe 
operators  of  the  playhouses  and  producers  of  high 
class  productions,  with  tbe  possible  exception  of 
Julia  Marlowe  and  E.  N.  Sothern.  Old-time  favor- 
ites like  John  Drew,  Mrs.  Fiske,  BUlie  Burke,  Wm. 
Faversham  and  others  drew  very  little  money  and 
it  is  conceded  tbat  the  day  of  the  $1.50  and  $2.00 
production,  insofar  as  attracting  tbe  masses  at  St. 
Louis,    is  a   thing  of   the   past.  F.  J.  FEGAN. 

CINCINNATI. 

LOCAL  exhibitors  have  done  much  toward  the 
relief  of  the  Ohio  flood  sufferers.  Various  mov- 
ing picture  houses  have  turned,  in  their  gross  re- 
ceipts for  one  day  towards  a  fund  for  these  un- 
fortunates. A  movement  is  now  on  foot  among 
the  members  of  Local  Number  Two  of  the  Motion 
Picture  Exhibitors'  League  to  create  a  fund  for  the 
relief  of  the  sufferers  and  already  several  hundred 
dollars  bas  been  raised. 

Activity  in  the  building  lines  as  concerns  the  mo- 
tion pictures  in  this  city  is  on  tbe  increase.  Sev- 
eral new  houses  are  being  constructed  and  will  be 
ready  in  a  short  time.  Among  these  is  the  Nord- 
land Theater,  situated  on  Vine  Street  in  CorryviUe. 
About  a  year  ago,  tbe  Nordland  was  closed  for  ex- 
tensive repairs,  following  the  opening  of  tbe  hand- 
some new  Columbia  Theater  a  square  away.  Im- 
mediately following  the  closing  of  tbe  Nordland, 
the  management  incorporated  a  new  company  and 
work  of  razing  the  old  theater  was  begun.  Work 
on  a  new  structure  to  cost  in  tbe  neighborhood  of 
$50,000  is  being  pushed  rapidly.  The  new  honse 
will    probably  open   late    in   the   summer. 

Tbe  Empire  Amusement  Company,  which  for 
several  weeks,  gave  an  exhibition  of  high  class 
motion  pictures  at  Music  Hall,  the  largest  audi- 
torium in  tbe  city,  closed  its  exhibitions  Saturday 
night.  May  3rd.  Music  Hall  is  situated  many 
squares  out  of  the  theater  district  proper  and 
this  in  part  is  attributed  to  tbe  failure  of -the 
concern. 

Recently  the  Commercial  Tribune  published  a 
two  column  story  giving  an  insight  of  the  work- 
ings of  a  moving  picture  machine.  This  article  was 
written  by  a  one-time  operator  and  was  very 
interesting. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


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Redland  Field,  the  home  of  the  Cincinnati  Na- 
tional League  Baseball  Club,  was  thrown  open  to 
motion  pictures  Sunday,  May  4.  That  portion 
of  the  grandstand  set  aside  for  the  accommoda- 
tion of  the  motion  picture  loving  public,  was  lit- 
erally jammed  at  all  performances.  The  pictures 
will  be  continued  until  late  in  the  fall.  Last  sum- 
mer and  the  summer  preceding,  motion  pictures  were 
giTen  at  the  home  of  the  United  States  League  team 
in  the  West  End.  The  movement  was  a  big  success. 
That  the  management  of  Redland  Field  will  make  a 
financial  success  of  the  venture,  goes  without  saying. 
Baying, 

With  the  closing  of  the  regular  theatrical  sea- 
son in  Cincinnati,  the  play  houses  are  being  given 
over  to  motion  pictures.  During  the  past  week 
at  the  Grand  Opera  House,  Sarah  Bernhardt  in 
'Queen  Elizabeth'*  is  being  shown,  along  with  other 
productions.  Several  singers  complete  the  pro- 
gram.     The   admission    price   is    ten   cents. 

McMahon  and  Jackson  opened  the  Lyric  Thea- 
ter Sunday  afternoon  of  last  week  to  moving  pic- 
tures   to    continue    all    summer. 

This  is  the  last  week  of  the  regular  season  at 
B.  P.  Keiths.  The  house  will  be  reopened  next 
Sunday    with    summer    vaudeville    and    pictures. 

Recently  the  Supreme  Court  at  Columbus,  Ohio, 
banded  the  City  of  Toledo  a  black  eye  in  that 
city's  attempt  to  run  a  moving  picture  show.  This 
was  the  first  decision  under  the  new  home  rule 
amendment  to  the  state  constitution.  The  City  of 
Toledo  wanted  to  start  its  own  municipal  moving 
picture  theater.  The  court  rules  the  city  has  no 
authority  to  embark  in  the  moving  picture  busi- 
ness, even  if  it  had  adopted  a  new  charter  under 
the  home  rule  amendment.  There  are  several  pro- 
visions to  be  observed  by  cities  before  the  home 
rule  charter  becomes  effective  in  Ohio. 

The  city  council  of  Cincinnati,  recently  passed 
the  ordinance  favored  by  the  moving  picture  in- 
terests graduating  the  license  of  all  theaters  ac- 
cording to  their  seating  capacity.  Under  the  law 
regulation  the  fees  will  range  from  $100  to  $300 
a  year.  Sixty -seven  theaters  will  be  given  a  re- 
duction, five  will  be  increased  and  twelve  will  re- 
main as  they  are.  The  latter  are  mainly  the  larger 
theaters,  the  Grand,  Lyric  and  others  of  similar 
use. 

On  Friday,  May  2,  Judge  Wanamaker  of  the 
Ohio  Supreme  Court  at  Columbus,  announced  the 
remarkable  doctrine  that  a  municipality  under  the 
home  rule  amendment  can  do  anything  it  pleases 
in  the  way  of  business.  According  to  the  dissent- 
ing judge,  in  the  case  of  the  attempt  of  tbe  City 
of  Toledo,  to  maintain  a  moving  picture  show,  a 
municipality,  if  it  wishes,  can  go  into  the  theater 
business,  the  saloon  business,  the  barber  business, 
etc.  Judge  Shauck,  however,  had  sufficient  mem- 
bers of  the  bench  on  bis  side  and  their  decision 
that  a  city  has  no  right  to  engage  in  the  moving 
picture  business  was  carried.  Picture  show  pro- 
prietors  are   jubilant  over  the   decision. 

There  will  be  no  more  giving  away  of 
cases  of  beer  as  prizes  to  patrons  of  moving 
picture  theaters  in  this  city.  A  dozen  or  more 
proprietors  of  these  places  have  been  resorting  to 
the  prize  device  as  a  means  of  luring  more  of  the 
public  to  their  shows,  and  have  been  putting  op 
rings,  alleged  diamonds,  watches,  pecks  of  pota- 
toes, and  cases  of  beer  as  inducements  and  tempta- 
tions. But  Uncle  Sam  promptly  drew  the  line  on 
the  beer.  Every  one  of  the  theater  men  indulging 
in  it  as  a  prize  has  received  a  call  to  appear  at 
the  internal  revenue  office  at  once  and  pay  license 
as  a  retail  liquor  dealer.  Collector  Bettman  re- 
ceived orders  from  Washington  that  that  was  the 
proper  course.  Those  caught  at  It  must  pay  up. 
The  others,  Mr.  Bettman  says,  can  save  themselves 
by  dropping  the  beer  prizes  at  once.  Persisting 
In  it  they  must  pay  or  be  prosecuted.  The  officials 
regard    the   arrangement   as   a   lottery   scheme. 

That  ground  will  not  be  broken  until  late  In  the 
summer  for  the  proposed  $75,000  combination  mov- 
ing picture  theater,  dance  hall  and  roof  garden  in 
Norwood,  ten  miles  north  of  Cincinnati,  was  the 
announcement  recently  made  in  realty  and  theatri- 
cal circles.  The  site  on  which  the  builders  pro- 
pose to  erect  the  new  structure  is  now  occupied 
by  an  airdome,  which  was  leased  a  few  weeks 
ago.  The  lease  does  not  expire  until  September 
1st.  At  the  expiration  of  the  contract.  It  is  pro- 
posed to  begin  work  on  tbe  new  structure.  The 
airdome  Is  situated  on  a  plot  of  ground  sufficient 
In  size  to  allow  the  erection  of  a  handsome  build- 
ing along  the  lines  of  the  theaters  In  the  larger 
cities.  Sometime  ago  a  company  was  incorporated. 
which  had  as  its  view,  the  erection  of  this  struc- 
ture, provided  a  suitable  site  could  be  obtained. 
As  proposed  there  will  be  a  rathskeller  in  the  base- 
ment, a  moving  picture  theater  on  the  main  floor. 
a  dance  hall  on  the  second  floor,  and  then  the 
roof  garden.  The  proposed  improvement  is  to  be 
made  by  the  owners  of  the  present  Plaza  Theater 
In   Norwood. 

JACK    STARK. 


NEW  ENGLAND. 

AFTER  Senator  Allen's  amendments  had  been  re- 
jected, the  Massachusetts  Senate,  on  May  21, 
passed  the  bill,  providing  that  only  persons  21 
years  of  age  or  over  may  be  granted  first-class 
licenses  for  the  operation  of  moving  picture  ma- 
chines. This  bill,  which  is  considered  one  of  the 
most  important  of  the  measures  to  guard  against 
Incompetency  in  the  operation  of  moving  picture 
machines,    was    strongly   championed   by    the    Boston 


Local  of  the  Moving  Picture  Operators'  Union.  The 
bill  also  provided  that  no  person  under  the  age 
of  18  may  be  employed  in  the  booth  as  an  assist 
ant.  It  is  the  general  opinion  of  the  trade  in  this 
section  that  the  passing  of  this  bill  is  distinctly 
"as  it  should  be,"  as  it  makes  for  greater  effi- 
ciency and  safety  in  the  operators'  room.  It  should 
also  result,  at  least  in  the  cases  of  some  photoplay 
theaters,  in  better  projection,  which  is  greatly 
to  be  desired,  even  though  the  theaters  are  forced 
to  pay  a  little  higher  salaries  than  before. 

The  Novelty  Feature  Films,  Incorporated,  was 
formed  this  week  in  Boston.  This  concern  Incor- 
porated for  $5,000,  and  was  promoted  by  Samuel  H. 
Steinfeld,  Anna  A.  Heuke  and  Frank  H.  Baer. 

The  people  of  Middleboro,  Mass.,  intend  to  watch 
the  photoplays  in  peace  and  quiet.  The  moving 
picture  fans  who  convened  at  the  Town  Hall  nightly 
were  disturbed  while  watching  the  pictures  by  tbe 
Middleboro  Fire  Department,  and  created  such  a 
fuss  over  the  disturbance  that  said  Fire  Department 
has  been  ordered  to  avoid  testing  the  fire  alarm 
system  of  the  town  between  7  and  10  o'clock  at 
night,  and  so  all  testing  work,  which  was  formerly 
done  in  the  evening,  is  now  finished  before  6  p.  m. 
Middleboro  is  evidently  a  town  in  which  moving 
pictures  are  of  supreme  importance,  before  which 
all  other  things  must  give  way. 

A  recent  incorporation  is  the  Majestic  Theater 
Company,  of  Rumford,  Me.  This  is  a  $10,000  con- 
cern, with  the  following  officers:  J.  Abbot  Nile, 
Daniel  D.  Leader  and  Albert  J.  Pine,  all  of  Rum- 
ford.  The  new  corporation  intends  to  erect  a  first- 
class  theater  in  this  city,  to  be  devoted  to  vaude- 
ville and  picture  programs.  The  house  will  be 
up-to-date    and    thoroughly    fireproof   in    every    way. 

"Silk  Hat"  John  Hurley,  mayor  of  Salem,  Mass., 
who  recently  posed  before  the  moving  picture 
camera,  is  again  getting  free  publicity,  via  motion 
pictures.  It  seems  that  Mayor  Hurley  recently 
attended  a  performance  of  photoplays  at  the  Salem 
Theater,  at  which  an  oil  company  offered  a  gift 
of  a  lot  of  land  in  Texas  to  be  given  to  the  most 
beautiful  and  popular  man  in  the  audience.  His 
Honor  won  the  prize,  although  his  friends  claim 
that  popularity  counted  75  per  cent,  and  beauty 
only  25  per  cent.  The  mayor's  peculiarities  are 
gaining  much  free  publicity  for  the  Salem  photo- 
play theaters,  which  Is  resulting  in  increased  busi- 
ness for  them. 

It  was  a  great  game  of  baseball  that  was  waged 
last  Sunday  between  the  married  and  single  men 
of  the  Beacon  Theater,  Boston.  And  would  yon 
believe  it,  the  married  men  put  their  rivals  to 
shame  by  a  score  of  14  to  10,  after  nine  innings 
of  fast  ball  ?  Pitcher  Turner  and  Catcher  Abell 
did  the  slab  work  for  the  married  men,  while 
Messrs.  Kiley  and  Rubin  did  the  pitching  for  the 
single  men,  both  throwing  the  ball  to  Catcher 
McLoughlin.  Jacob  Lourie,  president  and  general 
manager  of  the  Beacon  Theater,  was  right  on  the 
ion  as  short  stop  for  the  benedicts.  Jake  declares 
he  played  a  good  game!    And  we  believe  him — "nit." 

A  well-earned  promotion  was  tendered  George  I. 
Appleby,  of  the  Boston  offices  of  the  Mutual  Film 
Corporation  this  week.  George,  as  he  is  commonly 
known  to  over  95  per  cent  of  the  New  England 
trade,  is  now  assistant  manager  of  the  exchange, 
where  he  has  a  smile  and  a  good  word  for  every- 
one. William  Murphy,  who  formerly  was  assist- 
ant to  General  Manager  Eslow,  is  now  in  charge  of 
a  Mutual  office  at  Waterville,  Me.  Mr.  Appleby  will 
no  longer  travel  in  the  interests  of  Mutual  service. 
as  be  will  be  busy  from  morning  till  night  at  1106 
Bnvlston    street. 

The  Marcus  Loew  Boston  Booking  Agency  was 
incorporated  thl*  week,  for  $5,000.  with  Victor  J. 
Morris,  Edward  Small  and  William  H.  Lovey, 
named  as  the  promoters. 

Edward  M.  Barry,  connected  with  the  Shawmnt 
Theater,  Roxbury,  Mass..  is  telling  his  friends  about 
his  son.  Edward  L.  Barry,  who  won  the  relay  at 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  representing  the  Boston  English 
High  School.  Mr.  Barry,  senior.  Is  justly  proud 
of  his  son's  ability  as  a  track  athlete,  which  has 
attracted  considerably  notice  hereabouts. 

J.  C.  Cushing,  formerly  associated  with  the 
Empire  Theater.  Holyoke,  Mass..  has  severed  his 
connection  with  that  house,  in  order  to  go  with  the 
Broadwar  Theater.  Springfield,  Mass. 

A.  A.  Kellmann.  manager  of  the  Park  Theater. 
Taunton,  Mass..  reports  that  business  has  in- 
creased remarkably  well  since  he  acquired  control 
of  the  house.  Feature  pictures,  and  a  good  grade 
of  vaudeville  acts  have  filled  the  Park  to  its  ca- 
pacity,  as  a  general  thing,  the  last  few  weeks. 

Joseph  A.  McConville,  manager  of  the  New 
Portland  Theater.  Portland,  Me.,  states  that  the 
Kinemacolor  pictures  he  is  exhibiting  are  more 
than  pleasing,  both  to  his  audiences  and  to  him- 
self. On  this  account,  Mr.  McConville  expects  to 
feature  the  natural  color  pictures  indefinitely. 

Manager  Fred  P.  Dean,  of  the  Hartford  Theater. 
Hartford.  Conn.,  gives  programs  that  are  mostly 
composed  of  high-grade  vaudeville  acts,  but  swears 
by  the  Pathe  Weekly,  which  is  a  regular  attraction 
at  this  house. 

A  new  theater  is  now  being  erected  at  Hamilton. 
Canada,  by  the  Dominion  Theaters.  Ltd.,  which  will 
be  devoted  to  programs  of  vaudeville  and  photo- 
plays. A  competition  was  recently  held  for  the 
naming  of  the  house,  and  the  committee  in  charge 
selected  the  name  "Lyric"  as  being  tbe  most  fre- 
quentlv  chosen.  The  new  house  is  to  be  strictly 
up-to-date  and  fireproof,  according  to  the  plans 
and  specifications. 


The  theaters  at  Keene,  N.  H..  devoted  to  vaude- 
ville and  motion  pictures,  are  all  enjoying  good 
business.  Ray  Snow,  manager  of  the  Majestic  The- 
ater, reports  very  brisk  trade,  with  vaudeville  and 
pictures,  while  Manager  R.  W.  Worsley,  of  the 
Dreamland,  remarks  that  he  is  doing  a  capacity 
business  with  programs  of  photoplays,  no  vaude- 
ville being  given. 

The  Back  Bay  Theater,  Columbus  avenue  and 
Darthmouth  street,  Boston,  was  the  scene  of  great 
activity  on  Tuesday.  May  20.  at  2  o'clock,  when 
the  Boston  offices  of  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation 
entertained  about  300  New  England  exhibitors  with 
the  five-reel  feature  production  of  the  New  York 
Motion  Picture  Company.  "The  Battle  of  Gettys- 
burg." The  picture,  made  under  the  supervision 
of  Thomas  Ince,  managing  director  of  the  Kay-Bee 
and  Broncho  films,  won  the  unstinted  praise  of  the 
very  critical  and  somewhat  balse  audience. 
Several  war  veterans  were  also  present,  by  special 
invitation,  and  pronounced  "The  Battle  of  Gettys- 
burg" to  be  the  most  realistic  representation  ever 
produced.  During  the  exhibition  of  the  reels,  Mr. 
Pelton  enlarged  upon  and  explained  the  action  of 
the  story.  As  a  massive  production,  this  picture 
was  voted  unique  of  its  kind,  and  made  a  profound 
impression  on  the  trade.  "The  Rag  Time  Band," 
a  Keystone  comedy,  preceeded  the  five-reel  feature. 
The  projection  was  unusually  clear  and  distinct,  a 
Power's  No.  6-A  being  used.  Music  and  "traps" 
were  also  furnished  by  Manager  Eslow,  of  the 
Mutual's  Boston  offices,  to  whom  is  due  much  credit 
for  the  way  In  which  he  handled  this  special 
entertainment.  Manager  Eslow,  together  with  As- 
sistant Manager  Appleby,  were  on  the  receiving 
line,  with  a  handshake  and  word  of  welcome  to  all 
those  present.  We  noticed  Chief  Licensing  Clerk 
Casey  watching  the  program  with  much  interest. 

Ralph  Ward,  manager  of  the  Opera  House,  Lowell, 
Mass.,  has  been  engaged  by  the  Bay  State  Street 
Railway,  to  superintend  its  string  of  summer  parks. 
Mr.  Ward  will  have  full  charge,  and  will  select 
the  picture  programs,  as  well  as  care  for  all  the 
general  details.  The  various  Boston  exchanges  are 
bidding  for  this  business,  but  Mr.  Ward  has  not 
yet  decided  which  one  will  supply  the  films  for  him. 

J.  E.  Mapplebeck  is  well  satisfied  with  the  busi- 
ness his  Rochester,  N.  H.,  theater  is  doing,  and 
expects  to  remain  open  right  through  the  summer, 
unless    business    should    take    an    unexpected    slump. 

Business  at  the  Scenic  Theater,  Westbrooke,  Me., 
evidently  needs  a  stimulant,  and  Manager  Reford 
has  prescribed  a  rather  peculiar  medicine.  Trading 
stamps  are  given  away  to  every  Scenic  patron,  and, 
although  Mr.  Reford  finds  that  business  has  in- 
creased, the  plan  is  of  doubtful  merit.  It  is  most 
reasonable  to  suppose  that  the  Scenic  customers 
desire  entertainment  and  instruction  by  means  of 
photoplays.  This  being  the  case,  why  not  try  the 
idea  of  strengthening  the  show,  by  offering  more 
and  better  photoplays?  We  would  back  a  good 
photoplay  program  to  bring  In  the  dimes  against 
a  trading  stamp   show,   every   time. 

A  most  persistent  rumor  from  Hartford,  Conn., 
is  to  the  effect  that  S.  Z.  Poli  has  secured  a  lease 
on  property  at  tbe  corner  of  Main  and  Mulberry 
streets,  for  a  long  term  of  years,  upon  which  he 
is  to  erect  another  theater.  The  location  Is  an 
excellent  one,  only  a  block  from  Mr.  Poll's  large 
theater.  If  this  rumor  proves  reliable,  Mr.  Poll 
will  have  three  theaters  in  Hartford,  which  is  not 
at  all  unreasonable,  as  he  has  two  and  three 
theaters  in  several  of  the  larger  New  England 
cities. 

T!  e  Palms  Theater,  Hough's  Neck,  Mass.,  has 
again  opened  its  doors  for  the  summer  season,  and 
Manager  Levey  finds  that  business  is  opening  up 
in  first-class  style.  Mutual  films  are  used,  and 
this  cosy  little  theater  should  be  busy  for  the  next 
few   months. 

Joe  Monahan,  general  manager  of  Whalom  Park, 
Fitchburg,  Mass.,  is  to  open  the  summer  season  on 
June  23.  with  a  stock  company.  If  this  policy 
is  not  up  to  expectations,  vaudeville  and  photoplay 
programs  will   be  inaugurated. 

The  Lyric  Theater,  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  will  offer 
stock  company  attractions  for  the  summer  season, 
starting  June  2.  This  William  Fox  theater  will 
revert  to  vaudeville  and  picture  programs  again  in 
the  early  fall. 

M.  Bearing,  manager  of  the  Empire  Theater, 
Providence,  R.  I.,  finds  that  the  Kinemacolor  service 
he  is  using  has  found  immediate  favor  with  his 
audiences,  and  will  continue  with  the  natural  color 
service  Indefinitely. 

The  State  Board  of  Health  of  Vermont  is  using 
moving  pictures  to  aid  in  Us  fight  against  tubercu- 
losis. A  complete  moving  picture  outfit,  and  a 
portable  lighting  plant,  has  been  purchased  by  the 
Board  of  Health,  which  tours  all  the  smallest 
towns  and  villages  of  the  State.  The  prevention 
of  tuberculosis,  and  the  supreme  importance  of  a 
pure  milk  supply  is  taught  the  public  by  such  in- 
structive pictures  as  "The  Awakening  of  John 
Bond."  The  Vermont  Board  of  Health  has  con- 
ceived and,  what  is  more  to  the  point,  is  executing, 
a  mightv  brilliant  idea,  and  one  that  could  be 
copied"  by  every  state  in  the  Union  with  excellent 
results. 

Two  hundred  eighteen  Commercial  street,  Boston, 
is  the  address  of  the  new  poster  department  of 
the  General  Film  Company,  opened  by  W.  P.  Allen. 
The  Poster  Department  has  adequate  quarters  here, 
with  well  over  3.000  square  feet  of  floor  space. 
and  has  a  complete  stock  of  nearly  everything 
with    which    to    advertise    moving    picture    theaters. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


Lire  exhibitors  111  this  section  should  get  acquainted 
with  Mr.  Allen,  whose  chief  business  it  is  to 
"Make  your  business  better." 

Manager  William  Murphy,  of  the  Waterville,  Me., 
branch  of  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation,  is  now 
accusi  his    new    location,    and    sends    word 

that  he  is  to  have  a  gigantic  "run-off"  of  all 
Mutual  releases  for  the  last  30  days,  in  order  to 
show  Maine  exhibitors  just  what  kind  of  films 
he  has  to  offer. 

The  Victor  Amusement  Co.,  of  Worcester,  Mass., 
was  incorporated  recently.  Albert  V.  Pickering, 
Richard  Pickering,  Albert  Flsk,  George  Walts  and 
Frank  W.  Wellis  are  the  promoters  of  the  com- 
pany,   which  is  a  $10,000  concern. 

"Reddy"  Wolffe,  manager  of  the  Scenic  Temple, 
Paragon  Park,  Mass.,  opened  his  house  for  the 
summer  season  on  May  18.  "Reddy"  claims  bis 
business  is  just  as  good  as  ever,  and  expects  to 
"clean  up"  for  the  next  few  months,  with  moving 
picture  programs  of  Mutual  films.  Mr.  Wolffe  has 
been  in  this  business  for  years,  and  knows  how 
to  conduct  a  theater  from  A  to  Z, 

The  new  theater,  to  be  devoted  to  vaudeville  and 
moving  picture  programs,  now  being  built  at  Win- 
throp,  Mass.,  should  be  ready  by  June  15,  unless 
unexpected  delays  occur.  The  house  is  modern  and 
of    fireproof    construction,    and    should    prosper. 

On  Wednesday.  May  28,  the  New  Crescent  Gardens 
Theater,  Revere  Beach,  Mass.,  opened.  This  bouse 
has  a  most  prominent  location  on  the  beach,  being 
directly  opposite  the  Crescent  Beach  railroad  sta- 
tion, on  Ocean  avenue.  The  policy  of  the  theater 
is  vaudeville  and  moving  picture  programs,  and, 
to  judge  from  the  opening  attendance,  capacity 
houses  will  be  the  general  rule.  The  United  States 
Amusement  Company,  composed  of  Frank  R.  Cauley, 
George  Daly,  Frank  E.  Wilder  and  Joseph  A.  Di 
Pesa,  own  the  Crescent  Gardens  Theater.  Frank 
R.  Cauley  will  manage  the  house,  a  well  known 
Boston  photoplay  exhibitor.  The  Cauley  Opera 
House,  of  Charleston,  and  the  Star  Theater,  of 
Somerville,  were  both  managed  by  Mr.  Cauley,  who 
built  up  a  large  patronage  in  both  theaters  by  his 
efficient  work.  The  Crescent  Gardens  is  the  most 
up-to-date  and  modern  vaudeville  and  picture  theater 
at  Revere  Beach,  being  of  brick  and  steel  con- 
struction, and  thoroughly  fireproof  in  every  way. 
The  bouse  represents  an  outlay  of  about  $75,000, 
and  has  a  seating  capacity  of  800.  An  unusually 
expensive  air-cooling  system  has  been  installed,  and 
is  one  of  the  features  of  the  theater.  The  .system 
allows  the  management  to  cool  the  theater  to  any 
desired  temperature.  ,The  Crescent  Gardens  should 
have  no  difficulty  in  making  good,  and  it  will,  if  a 
good  quality  of  vaudeville  and  pictures  is  persist- 
ently offered. 

Manager  "Nate"  Brown,  of  the  Broadway  Theater, 
Everett,  Mass.,  has  discontinued  his  vaudeville  acts 
from  his  programs  for  the  rest  of  the  season.  The 
Broadway  is  now  offering  six  reels  of  photoplays 
from  the  New  England  Universal  Film  Exchange, 
Boston.  Manager  Brown  finds  business  to  be  holding 
out  fairly  well,  and  will  keep  his  theater  open  for 
some  time  yet. 

The  Boston  office  of  the  New  England  Universal 
Film  Exchange  have  distributed  among  its  customers' 
a  very  useful  leather-covered  folder,  which  will 
come  in  handy  to  mauagers  who  keep  lists  of  all 
Universal  releases  for  ready  reference. 

A  recent  incorporation  is  the  United  Motion 
Picture  Corporation,  of  Boston.  The  firm  filed  pa- 
pers of  incorporation  for  $5,000,  and  the  promoters 
are:  Edward  E.  Cosman,  Warren  C.  Brown  and  Ed- 
ward A.   Rafter. 

Another  new  corporation  is  the  United  Motion 
Picture  Theater  Corporation,  with  $250,000  capital. 
Frank  H.  Baer  and  Samuel  H.  Steinfeld  are  named 
as  the  officers. 

It  Is  not  generally  known  that  there  is  a  moving 
picture  show  in  the  State  House  at  Boston.  Down 
in  the  basement,  in  the  offices  of  the  district  police 
inspector's  department,  there  goes  on,  three  times 
each  week,  a  long,  "continuous,"  four-hour  show. 
And  there  are  no  intermissions,  either.  From  0 
o'clock  in  the  morning,  until  after  one,  reel  upon 
reel  of  films  are  flashed  upon  the  screen.  The 
facts  of  the  case  are  that  it  falls  upon  the  district 
police  to  inspect  all  moving  pictures  used  within 
their  jurisdiction.  As  a  result  of  this  free  show, 
many  employees  of  the  State  House  are  able  to 
slip  away  from  their  work  for  an  hour  and, enjoy 
a  quiet  rest  and  recreation  at  the  "theater. " 
Chief  of  Police  Whitney,  has  become  an  expert 
judge  of  photoplay  productions,  and  Is  unusually 
adept  in  picking  out  any  flaws  that  may  appear  in 
any  of  them. 

Edward  Renton  is  general  manager  of  the  string 
of  theaters  owned  and  operated  by  S.  Z.  Poli,  but 
he  also  is  a  farmer — and  a  good  one  at  that,  Mr. 
Renton  owns  a  large  farm,  eight  miles  from  Bridge- 
port, Conn.,  and  has  over  70  acres'  of  land  under 
cultivation,  besides  raising  cows,  horses,  pigs, 
chickens  and  other  animals.  Mr.  Renton  states 
that  it  is  at  "The  Ranch,"  as  the  farm  is  called, 
that  he  conceives  many  of  the  novel  ideas  that  are 
characteristic  of  the  Poll  theaters.  Being  in  direct 
touch  with  all  his  houses  by  telephone  and  telegraph, 
Mr.  Renton  spends  considerable  time  each  week  at 
"The  Ranch,"  and  delights  in  his  life  as  farmer, 
fully  as  much  as  he  does  as  theatrical  manager. 

On  May  2S,  Winchester,  Mass.,  was  duly  proud, 
as  its  first  theater  opened  to  the  public  at  that 
time.  The  theater  has  a  seating  capacity  of  over 
700,  and  is  fireproof  and  up-to-date  in  every  detail. 
A.   W.  Quinn,   manager  of  the  Opera   House,  Keene, 


N.  H.,  will  take  care  of  the  Winchester  Theater. 
Stock-company  attractions  and  vaudeville  and  pic- 
ture bills  will  be  given.  The  theater  has  a  good 
location,  and  there  is  every  reason  to  believe  that 
it  will  prosper,  under  the  right  management,  which 
Mr.  Quinn  is  sure  to  give  it,  as  he  is  thoroughly 
acquainted  with  all  branches  of  the  theatrical  busi- 
ness. 

The  Bijou  Theater,  Fall  River,  Moss.,  has  taken 
a  new  lease  on  life  since  it  reopened  under  the  new 
management.  Charles  E.  Oook,  well-known  to  all 
the  New  England  trade,  is  now  in  charge  of  the 
Bijou,  and  is  offering  unusually  good  programs  of 
va  udeville  and  pictures.  There  is  no  reason  why 
this  show  house  should  not  do  very  nicely,  and 
business  has  been  very  nearly  capacity  of  late. 
There  is  but  little  of  this  business  that  Mr.  Oook 
ihas  not  mastered,  and  he  is  putting  bis  best  efforts 
into  the  Bijou  Theater. 

Louis  M.  Boas,  of  the  Premier  Theater,  playing 
picture  programs,  Manager  Walter  Bigelow's  Palace 
Theater,  Manager  Michelfelder's  Lyric,  and  Star 
theaters,  all  of  Fall  River,  report  good  business. 
Fall  River  is  a  big  mill  town,  and  supports  the 
photoplay  houses  in  good  shape. 

The  Municipal  Stock  Company,  which  has  been 
playing  at  the  Academy  of  Music,  Northampton, 
Mass.,  this  season,  has  closed.  Business  has  not 
been  up  to  expectations,  although  the  stock  com- 
pany was  financed  by  Northampton  citizens,  and 
vaudeville  and  moving  picture  programs  are  a  pos- 
sibility for  the  Academy  of  Music,  when  the  new 
season  opens. 

The  Star  Theater,  Taunton,  Mass.,  has  reopened, 
after  being  closed  for  a  short  time,  while  some 
needed  alterations  were  made.  The  Star  had  been 
playing  straight  picture  programs,  but  alterations 
have  'been  made  to  make  it  possible  to  use  vaude- 
ville acts  also.  The  house  reopened  on  May  26, 
and  Leonard  Brothers,  the  managers,  state  that 
business  has  improved  considerably.  HENRY. 


BUFFALO. 

THE  Rev.  C.  G.  Farr  and  the  Rev.  M.  J.  Win- 
i-  Chester,  pastors  of  the  Methodist  and  Baptist 
churches  of  Fredonia,  N.  Y.,  have  entered  com- 
plaint against  the  opening  of  the  picture  show 
houses  on  Sunday  in  that  town,  and  the  village 
trustees  have  referred  the  matter  to  F.  W.  Chase, 
president  of  the  village,  with  power  to  act.  The 
owners  of  the  theater  have  retained  Attorney 
William  S.  Stearns,  of  Fredonia,  to  look  after 
their  interests. 

The  Buffalo  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  is 
opposed  to  the  exhibition  of  more  than  four 
reels  of  film  for  five  cents.  The  league  members 
claim  that  those  who  show  more  than  four  for 
this  amount  are  able  to  do  this  because  they  rent 
films  that  are  several  months  old  and  that  have 
run  out  their  usefulness.  The  use  of  such  pictures, 
according  to  the  league,  is  an  imposition  on  the 
public  and  hurts  the  industry. 

Scraboro  Beach  Park  of  Toronto,  Ont.,  was 
opened  for  the  season  on  Saturday,  May  17th. 
Moving  pictures  and  vaudeville  are  among  the 
attractions. 

A  new  moving  picture  law  is  now  In  operation 
In  Ontario,  Can.  Among  the  features  is,  that 
hereafter,  the  examination  of  moving  picture  ma- 
chine operators  is  to  be  made  more  rigid.  In 
addition  to  being  able  to  manipulate  the  machine 
the  operator  will  be  required  to  have  a  thorough 
knowledge  of  the  wiring  and  other  equipment 
necessary.  Apprentice  operators  will  lie  examined 
in  Toronto,  but  arrangements  will  also  be  made 
to  have  demonstration  lectures  in  booths  through- 
out the  country,  where  It  is  not  possible  for  the 
applicant  to  attend  personally  in  Toronto. 

Harry  Marsey,  manager  of  the  Happy  Hour 
moving  picture  theater  in  Main  street,  Buffalo, 
is  using-  to  advantage  in  his  advertisement  a 
verse  in  which  he  advises  his  patrons  to  be  op- 
timistic and  happy.  He  also  tells  them  to  see  his 
show.  An  interesting  feature  of  the  rhyme  is 
that  the  first  letters  of  the  lines  spell  the  name 
of  his  theater. 

Crystal  Beach,  a  Canadian  summer  resort  which 
has  many  attractions  on  its  midway,  including 
a  moving  picture  show,  opened  for  the  season, 
Thursday,  May  20th.  Henry  S.  Fisher  is  general 
manager. 

The  new  Lyric  theater,  which  will  feature  vaude- 
ville and  Kinemacolor  pictures,  has  a  capacity  of 
1800.  Mitchell  H.  Mark  is  owner  and  A.  R.  Sherry, 
manager. 

Manager  Harold  Eldel  of  The  Strand,  a  10  cent 
moving  picture  theater,  is  making  a  successful 
effort  to  cater  to  women  and  children.  For  their 
benefit  he  will  give  daily  matinees  from  10  A.  M. 
to  G  P.  M.,  and  will  sell  balcony  seats  at  five 
cents.  The  Strand  is  cool,  comfortable  and  abso- 
lutely fireproof  and  has  a  seating  capacity  of 
1200.  The  house  is  luxuriously  fitted  out  and  oc- 
cupies a  valuable  location  ou  Main  Street. 

Judge  George  E.  Judge,  recently  imposed  fines 
of  $25  each  on  a  ticket  seller  and  a  ticket  taker 
of  a  local  moving  picture  theater.  They  were 
charged  with  violating  the  penal  law  in  allowing 
the  entry  of  a  boy  under  16  years  to  their  house. 
Their  defense  was  that  the  boy  had  passed  into  the 
theater  in  a  crowd.  "The  practice  of  allowing 
young  children  to  enter  moving  picture  theaters 
unaccompanied  by  parents  or  guardians  must  come 
to  a  stop  In  this  city,"  said  the  court. 


The  film  "Satan"  has  just  been  featured  at  the 
Grand  moving  picture  theater  in  Welland.  a  Cana- 
dian town  near  Buffalo. 

Tbe  Como  theater,  a  new  moving  picture  house 
at  South  Park  avenue  and  Triangle  street,  was 
opened  recently.  J.  S.  Savage,  former  owner  and 
manager  of  tbe  Park  theater  on  South  Park  avenue, 
is  manager.  The  new  house  is  fireproof  and  up-to- 
date. 

The  Edison  talking  pictures  are  being  used  to 
close  the  bill  at  Shea's  Theater.  The  Shea  Amuse- 
ment Co..  will  build  a  fireproof  theater  at  345 
Peart    street    at    a    cost    of    $130,000. 

Celeron,  a  Lake  Chautauqua  summer  resort,  which. 
has  many  attractions,  including  moving  pictures, 
will  be  closed  this  season.  The  place  is  located 
near  Jamestown,  N.  Y.  A  strike  of  the  James- 
town street  car  men  has  caused  the  place  to  close. 
In  connection  with  this  feature,  a  recent  report 
from  Jamestown  says:  "It  has  been  announced 
by  the  Celeron  Amusement  Co.,  a  subsidiary  cor- 
poration to  tbe  Jamestown  Street  Railroad  Company, 
that  it  bad  cancelled  all  contracts  for  amusements 
at  this  resort,  and  would  not  open  Celeron  this 
season.  This  means  that  the  theater  there,  and 
the  band  concerts,  together  with  other  attractions, 
arrangements  for  which  had  already  been  made, 
will  be  cancelled,  and  the  little  'Coney  Island,* 
will  see  its  first  dead  season  since  it  was  opened 
in  1894." 

The  Buffalo  Aldermanie  committee  on  fire  has 
voted  against  granting  permission  for  the  erection 
of  a  moving  picture  house  at  Delaware  and  Kenmore 
avenues.  Charles  Farrell,  a  promoter  of  moving 
picture  houses,  declared  he  would  apply  to  the  courts 
for  an  order  compelling  the  Buffalo  Common  council 
to  grant  his  application.  The  committee  has  also 
turned  down  the  application  of  Daniel  E.  Knowlton 
to  build  a  picture  theater  at  262  West  Utica 
street,   Buffalo. 

The  Star  moving  picture  theater,  Middleport, 
N.  Y..  will  be  remodeled  by  Mallison  and  Root 
of   Medina,    N.    Y..    the    new    proprietors. 

Saturday,  May  24.  was  the  opening  day  of 
Carnival  Court,  a  Buffalo  amusement  resort  which 
includes  moving  pictures  among  its  many  attrac- 
tions. Harry  G.  Johnson  is  president  and  general 
manager  and  Wesley  McGrew,   active  manager. 

The  Nassoy  Amnsepient  Company,  is  seaking  per- 
mission from  the  Buffalo  Common  Council  to  build 
a  moving  picture  theater  at  Pennsylvania  street  and 
Prospect  avenue,  this  city.  Tbe  petition  was  pre- 
sented to  tbe  councilmen  by  C.  S.  Weill.  The 
company  plnns  to  convert  a  three-story  brick 
building    into   a    theater. 

Much  regret  was  expressed  over  the  recent  suicide 
of  Henry  Land,  proprietor  of  the  Savoy  moving 
picture  theater  at  Lackawanna,  a  suburb  of  Buffalo. 
Mr.  Land  was  a  popular  member  of  tbe  Buffalo 
Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  and  was  num- 
bered among  tbe  jolliest  members  who  attended 
a  banquet  of  that  organization  last  winter.  Mr. 
Land  shot  himself  through  the  right  temple  and 
his  body  was  found  by  his  young  sou.  Although 
business  reverses  were  given  in  the  Buffalo  news- 
paper reports  as  the  cause  for  his  act,  the  opinion 
has  been  expressed  that  if  such  was  the  case, 
Mr.  Land's  many  friends  would  have  given  him 
plenty  of  financial  assistance,  had  he  only  made 
his  wants  known.  Several  local  motion  picture 
men  attended  the  funeral, 

F.  S.  Hopkins  lias  been  manager  of  the  Buffalo 
branch  of  the  Victor  Film  Service  for  three  years 
and  judging  from  tbe  heavy  demand  for  the 
product  of  that  concern  in  this  territory  bis  man- 
agement is  a  marked  success.  The  branch  is  at 
35  Church  street  where  the  facilities  are  much 
better  than  at  the  former  location,  21  West  Seneca 
street. 

The  Warner  Feature  Film  Co.,  has  a  new  home  at 
45  Erie  street,  where  it  occupies  an  entire  building 
consisting  of  two  floors  and  a  basement.  This 
new  lqcation  was  necessary  on  account  of  in- 
creasing  business. 

The  Star  moving  picture  theater  of  Welland,  Ont., 
has  been  sold  and  will'  be  converted  into  a  busi- 
ness   block. 

Vaudeville  and  photoplays  are  featured  at  the 
New  Lyric  theater  which  bad  its  formal  opening 
May  26*.  The  house  was  built  at  a  cost  of  $100,000, 
and  the  furnishings  are  luxurious.  The  theater 
is  owned  and  operated  by  the  Citizens'  Theater 
Co.,  of  New  York  and  Buffalo.  Mitchell  H.  Mark 
is  president:  Henry  HoiTeld.  vice-president;  John 
Burke,  treasurer:  Eugene  L.  Falk,  secretary.  Presi- 
dent Mark  of  tbe  Mark-Brock  Theatrical  Enter- 
prises, which  owns  ami  operates  several  vaude- 
ville and  moving'  picture  theaters  throughout  the 
United  States,  is  the  official  manager  of  the  New 
Lyric.  A.  R.  Sherry  is  resident  manager  of  that 
theater  as  well  as  of  the  Family  theater  of  this 
city.  Mr.  Sherry  is  a  Buffalonian.  His  suc- 
cessful management  of  the  Family  for  the  past 
t)i ice  years  has  helped  to  make  it  one  of  tbe 
greatest  money-making  bouses  in  tbe  country.  His 
assistant  is  Isadore  Moses.  The  Family  no  longer 
presents  vaudeville  but  features  Kinemacolor  and 
other  high  class  photoplays.  Pictures  showing 
the  latest  millim  rv  creations  and  other  fashions 
will  be  among  the  attractions. 

A  Buffalo  newspaper  recently  used  a  picture  of 
A.  C.  Behling,  manager  of  the  Fillmore  Palace 
moving  picture  theater  of  this  city.  A  write-up 
in  connection  with  the  photograph  says  that  Mr. 
Behling  is  "extremely  popular  and  is  ably  assisted 
by  his  charming  wife.*' 

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(Comedy)   

BIOGRAPH— Red  Hicks  Defies  the  World  (Comedy).. 

EDISON — Othello  in  Jonesville   (Comedy) 1000 

ESSANAY — The  Final  Judgment   (Special  2-part  Dr.).. 2000 

KALEM— The   Rube   and   the   Boob    (Comedy)    

KALEM— The   Scheme  of  Shiftless   Sam   Smith   (Com.) 

LUBIN — The  Legend  of  Lovers  Leap  (Drama)   1000 

LUBIN — A  Hero  Among  Men  (Special  2-part  Drama).. 2000 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's  Weekly  No.   24   (News)    

SELIG — Sweeney  and  the  Fairy  (Comedy)    1000 

VITAGRAPH— The    Bachelor's    Baby;    or    How    It   All 

Happened    (Drama)    1000 

TUESDAY,  JUNE  ioth,  1913. 

EDISON— Two   Little   Kittens    (Drama)    1000 

ESSANAY — The  Shadowgraph  Message   (Drama)    1000 

LUBIN— Violet    Dare,    Detective    (Drama)    1000 

PATHEPLAY— Max's  First  Job  (Comedy)   

PATHEPLAY— The    Chateau    of    Chenonceau,    France 

(Architecture)     

SELIG— Dad's  Little  Girl  (Drama)    1000 

VITAGRAPH— Cutey  Tries  Reporting  (Comedy)    1000 

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  nth,  1913. 

ECLIPSE — Behind  a  Mask  (Drama)    1000 

EDISON — Beau  Crummel  and  His  Bride  (Comedy) ...  .1000 

ESSANAY— The  Star  (Comedy)    1000 

KALEM — The  Pawnbroker's  Daughter  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— His  Lordship's  Romance  (Comedy).... 

SELIG — The  Rose  of  May  (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— His   House   in   Order;   or  The   Widow's 

Quest    (Drama)    1000 

VITAGRAPH— A  Regiment  of  Two  (Special— 2  parts- 
Drama)    2000 

THURSDAY,  JUNE  12th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Well   (Drama) 

ESSANAY — Cinderella's   Gloves   (Comedy) 1000 

LUBIN — Nearly  in  Mourning   (Comedy) 

LUBIN — The  Professor's  Predicament  (Comedy) 

MELIES— The  Stolen  Claim  (Drama) 

MELIES — Views  of  Samarang  (Scenic) 

PATHEPLAY— The  Artist's  Dream  (Comedy) 

SELIG— The  Fate  of  Elizabeth  (Comedy) 

SELIG— The  Birth  of  a  Butterfly  (Zoology) 

VITAGRAPH— His  Tired   Uncle   (Comedy) 

VITAGRAPH— Capers  of  Cupid  (Comedy) 

FRIDAY,  JUNE  13th,  1913. 

EDISON— Along   the   Nile   (Scenic) 1000 

ESSANAY — The  Mysterious  Stranger  (Comedy-Drama)  1000 

KALEM— Brought  to  Bay  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN— Papita's  Destiny  (Drama)   1000 

PATHEPLAY— Athletics  in  France  (Sports) 

PATHEPLAY— Places  of  Interest  in  Colorado  (Travel) 
PATHEPLAY— The     Governor's      Double      (Special— 2 

parts — Drama)   

SELIG — The  Jealousy  of  Miguel  and  Isabella  (Drama). .  1000 
VITAGRAPH— An   Infernal   Tangle    (Drama) ...1000 

SATURDAY,  JUNE  14th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— Death's  Marathon  (Drama) 

EDISON— Apples  of  Sodom  (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY— The   Ranch   Feud   (Drama) 1000 

KALEM — The  Gypsy's   Brand   (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — The  Wine  of  Madness  (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— For  Mayor— Bess  Smith   (Comedy).... 
SELIG — Alone   In  the  Jungle   (Special — 2  parts — Dr.).- 1000 
.VITAGRAPH— Does   Advertising   Pay?    (Comedy) 1000 


ADVANCE    RELEASES. 

MONDAY,  JUNE  16th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Switch  Tower  (Drama)    

EDISON — Her   Royal    Highness    (Comedy-Drama)    ....1000 
ONES — The  Rival  Engineers  (Special  2-part   Drama).. 2000 

KALEM— The  Wheel  of  Death   (Drama)    

KALEM — Governor  Johnson  of  California  (Topical).... 

LUBIN— Bob  Builds  a  Boat  (Comedy) 400 

LUBIN — Silence  for  Silence  (Comedy)    600 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's  Weekly   No.   25    (News)    

SELIG— When    Lillian    Was    Little    Red    Riding    Hood 

(  Fair}'  Story)    

SELIG — Shooting  the  Rapids  of  the  Pagsanjan  River  in 

Philippine   Islands   ( Sports)    

VITAGRAPH— The  Silver  Cigarette  Case   (Drama) ....  1000 

TUESDAY,  JUNE  17th,  1913. 

EDISON — The  Twin   Brothers   (Drama)    1000 

ESSANAY — Anonymous   Love    (Comedy)    1000 

LUBIN — Out  of  the  Beast  a  Man  Was  Born  (Drama) ..  1000 
PATHEPLAY— A  Tour  Through  Touraine    (Travel)... 

PATHEPLAY— Rhodes,  Asiatic  Turkey  (Scenic) 

SELIG — Taming  a  Tenderfoot  (Comedy)    1000 

VITAGRAPH— The     Coming     of     Gretchen     (Comedy- 
Drama)    rooo 

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  18th,  1913. 

EDISON— Civic  Parade,  New  York  City  (Topical)    ....   350 

EDISON— He  Would  Fix  Things   (Comedy)    650 

ESSANAY— Hilda  Wakes  (Comedy)    1000 

KALEM — The  Attorney  for  the  Defense  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — The  Weaker  Mind  (Special  2-part  Drama)   ....2000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Sacrifice  (Drama)    

SELIG — Mrs.   Hilton's  Jewels    (Drama)    1000 

VITAGRAPH— The  Drop  of  Blood  (Drama)   1000 

THURSDAY,  JUNE  igth,  I9i3. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Rise  and  Fall  of  McDoo  (Comedy) . . 

BIOGRAPH— Almost  a  Wild  Man  (Comedy)   

ESSANAY— The    Rustler's    Spur    (Drama)    1000 

LUBIN — A   Father's   Love    (Drama)    1000 

MELIES— The  Lure  of  the  Sacred  Pearl  (Drama) 

MELIES — Diving    for    Pearl    Oysters    at    Thursday    Is- 
land   (Edu.) 

PATHEPLAY— The  Outlaw's   Love   (Drama)    

SELIG — The  Gold  Brick   (Comedy)    1000 

VITAGRAPH — Bunny's   Dilemma   (Comedy)    1000 

FRIDAY,  JUNE  20th,  1913. 

EDISON— The   Evil  Thereof   (Drama)    1000 

ESSANAY — A  Brother's  Loyalty  (Special  2-part  Dr.).. 2000 

ESSANAY — Fear  (Drama)    1000 

KALEM — Cupid's  Lariat   (Comedy)    

KALEM — Smoked  to  a  Finish   (Comedy)    

LUBIN — His  Redemption  (Drama)   1000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Burial  of  a  Rich  Chinaman   (Man- 
ners and  Customs)    

PATHEPLAY— Antibes,  France,  and  Its  Environs  (Sc.) 
PATHEPLAY— Monuments  and  Cascades  of  Rome  (Tr.) 

SELIG — The  Fighting  Lieutenant  (Drama)   

SELIG — Fancy  Poultry   (Zoology)    

VITAGRAPH— Delayed   Proposal   (Comedy)    

VITAGRAPH— Yokohama  Fire  Dept.  (Public  Safety).. 

SATURDAY,  JUNE  21st,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Mothering  Heart  (Drama)  

EDISON — Mary  Stuart   (Special  3-part   Drama)    3000 

EDISON — Love's   Old  Sweet  Song   (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY— Alkali   Ike   and  the   Hypnotist   (Comedy) . .  1000 

KALEM — On  the  Brink  of  Ruin   (Drama)    1000 

LUBIN — From  Ignorance  to  Light  (Drama)    

PATHEPLAY— The  Jury's  Verdict  (Drama)    

VITAGRAPH— 'Arriet's  Baby   (Drama)    1000 


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Calendar  of  Independent  Releases 


Universal  Film  Mfg.  Co.  Current  Releases 

SUNDAY,  JUNE  8th,   1913. 

CRYSTAL— The  New  Typist  (Comedy)    

CRYSTAL— Black    and    White    (Comedy)     

ECLAIR— The  Spider   (Zoology)    

ECLAIR— He  Could  Not  Lose  Her  (Comedy)   

REX— The   Shadow    (Drama)    

MONDAY,  JUNE  9th,  1913. 

IMP — The  Comedian's  Mask  (2-part  Drama)    

NESTOR— The  Spring  in  the  Desert  (Drama)  

GEM — Hearts  and  Flowers   (Drama)    

TUESDAY,  JUNE  10th,  1913. 

101  BISON— The  Grand  Old  Flag  (2-part  Drama)   

CRYSTAL— False   Love  and  True   (Drama)    

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  nth,  1913. 
NESTOR— The  Man  Who  Tried  to  Forget  (Drama) .... 

POWERS — Mrs.  Lacey's  Legacy  (Comedy-Drama) 

ECLAIR— When  Light  Came  Back  (2-part  Drama)    

UNIVERSAL— Animated   Weekly   No.   66   (News)    .... 
THURSDAY,  JUNE  12th,  1913. 

IMP— The  Higher  Law  (Drama)   

REX— The  King  Can  Do  No  Wrong  (3-part  Drama) 

FRONTIER— The  Call  of  the  Angelus  (Drama)   

FRIDAY,  JUNE   13th,   1913. 

NESTOR— The  Knight  of  Her  Dreams  (Comedy)  

POWERS— The  Strength  of  the  Weak  (Drama)   

VICTOR— Sincerity   (Drama)    

SATURDAY,  JUNE  14th,  1913. 

IMP— The  War  of  the  Beetles   (Novelty) 

IMP — Hy   Mayer's   Cartoons    (Novelty)    

101  BISON — The  Capture  of  Aguinaldo  (2-part  Drama) 
FRONTIER— The  Twins  of  "Double  X"  Ranch  (Com.) 


ADVANCE    RELEASES. 
SUNDAY,  JUNE  15th,  1913- 

CRYSTAL — An   Expensive   Drink   (Comedy)    

CRYSTAL— Her  Joke  On   Belmont   (Comedv)    

ECLAIR— He  Slept  Well   (Comedy)    

ECLAIR — Scorpions  (Zoology)  

REX — The    Pretender    (Comedy-Drama)    

MONDAY,  JUNE  16th,  1913.  . .    . 

IMP — The  Jealousy  of  Jane   (Comedy) 

NESTOR— Without   Reward    (Drama)    

GEM — Silver   Threads    (Drama)    

TUESDAY,  JUNE  17th,  1913. 

101  BISON — In  Love  and  War  (2-part  Drama)    

CRYSTAL— A  Call  From   Home   (Drama)    

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  18th,  X9I3. 

NESTOR — Apache   Love   (Drama)    

POWERS— Friendly   Neighbors    (Comedy)    

ECLAIR — Fortunes  Pet   (2-part  Drama)    

UNIVERSAL— Animated  Weekly  No.  67  (News)   

THURSDAY,  JUNE  19th,  1913. 

IMP — The  Sorrows  of  Israel  (3-part  Drama)    

REX— The   Scar    (Drama)    

FRONTIER— A  Story  of  the  Mexican  Border   (Drama) 
FRIDAY,  JUNE  20th,  1913. 

NESTOR — Aladdin's    Awakening    (Comedy)     

NESTOR — Dad's  Surprise  (Comedy)    

POWERS— Behind  the  Times  (Drama)   

VICTOR— His   Daughter   (Drama)    

SATURDAY,  JUNE  21st,  1913. 

IMP — Filmographic  Cartoons  Hy.  Mayer  (Novelty) 

101  BISON — Women  and  War  (2-part  Drama)    

FRONTIER— When   Lena  Struck   New   Mexico    (Com.) 


Mutual  Film  Corporation  Current  Releases 

SUNDAY,  JUNE  8th,   1913. 

MAJESTIC— Mimosa's    Sweetheart    (Comedy)     

THANHOUSER— Miss  Mischief   (Comedy)    

MONDAY,  JUNE  9th,  1913. 
AMERICAN — California  Poultry   (Domestic  Animals).. 

KEYSTONE— The  Hansom  Driver  (Comedy) 

RELIANCE— His  Uncle's  Heir  (Drama)    

TUESDAY,  JUNE  10th,  1913- 

MAJESTIC— The  Message  of  the  Flowers  (Drama)   

THANHOUSER— While   Baby  Slept   (Drama)    


WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  nth,  1913. 

BRONCHO— An   Indian's   Gratitude    (Drama) 

MUTUAL— Mutual   Weekly   No.  24  (News)    

RELIANCE— (No  Release  This  Date.)   

THURSDAY,  JUNE  12th,  1913. 

AMERICAN — Hearts  and  Horses   (Drama) 100a 

KEYSTONE— The   Speed   Queen    (Comedy)    

MUTUAL — Gontran,  A  Snake  Charmer   (Comedy)    .... 
MUTUAL — Gathering  and  Preparation  of  Tea  in  Indo- 

China    (Agriculture)     

PILOT— When  a  Girl  Loves   (Drama) 

FRIDAY,  JUNE   13th,   1913. 

KAYBEE — The   Boomerang   (3-part   Drama)    

THANHOUSER— His  Sacrifice  (Drama)   

SATURDAY,  JUNE  14th,  1913. 

AMERICAN — Reward  of  Courage  (Drama)    1000 

RELIANCE— Half  a  Chance  (3-part  Drama)    


ADVANCE    RELEASES. 
SUNDAY,  JUNE   15th,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— (Title  Not  Reported)   

THANHOUSER— The    Head    of    the    Ribbon    Counter 

(Drama) 

MONDAY,  JUNE  16th,  1913. 

AMERICAN— Soul  of  a  Thief  (2-part  Drama)  2000 

KEYSTONE— The   Waiters'   Picnic   (Comedy)    

RELIANCE — Annie    Laurie    (Drama)     

TUESDAY,  JUNE  17th,  1913. 

MAJESTIC— (Title  Not  Reported)   

THANHOUSER— The  Snare  of  Fate   (2-part  Drama).. 
WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  18th,  1913. 

BRONCHO— From  the  Shadows  (2-part  Drama)    

MUTUAL— Mutual  Weekly  No.  25  (News)   

RELIANCE— The    Rosary    (Drama)    

THURSDAY,  JUNE  19th,  1913. 
AMERICAN — Unwritten  Law  of  the  West   (Drama) ...  1000 
KEYSTONE— The  Tale  of  a  Black  Eye  (Comedy)   .... 

KEYSTONE— Out  and  In  (Comedy)   

MUTUAL— (Title    Not    Reported) 

PILOT— A   Child   of  the   Hills    (Drama)    

FRIDAY,  JUNE  20th,  1913. 
KAYBEE — The  Failure  of  Success  (2-part  Drama)   .... 

THANHOUSER— (Title   Not   Reported)    

SATURDAY,  JUNE  21st,  1913. 

AMERICAN — Marine    Law    (Drama)     1000 

RELIANCE— Wallingford's   Wallet    (Comedy)    

Exclusive  Supply  Corporation  Current  Releases 

MONDAY,  JUNE  9th,   1913. 

DRAGON— The  Ace  of  Hearts   (Drama) 1000 

TUESDAY,  JUNE  10th,  1913. 

GAUMONT— The  Honor  of  Lucrece  (Drama)    

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  nth,  1913- 

SOLAX — Matrimony's  Speed   Limit   (Comedy)    

GAUMONT— Gaumont's  Weekly  No.  65  (News)    

THURSDAY,  JUNE  12th,  1913. 
GAUMONT — Men  Were  Deceivers  Ever  (Comedy)   .... 
FRIDAY,  JUNE  13th,  1913. 

SOLAX— Her    Mother's    Picture    (Drama)    

LUX— Engulfed   (Drama)    

SATURDAY,  JUNE  14th,  1913. 
GREAT   NORTHERN— An   Unwelcome   Wedding   Gift 
(Comedy-Drama)     - 


ADVANCE    RELEASES. 
MONDAY,  JUNE  16th,  1913. 
DRAGON— The  Ghost  of  Sea  View  Manor  (Drama). 
TUESDAY,  JUNE  17th,  1913. 

GAUMONT— Mixed  Pickles  (Comedy)    

GAUMONT— By  the  Sad  Sea  Waves   

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  18th,  1913. 

SOLAX — Romeo  In  Pajamas  (Comedy) 

GAUMONT— Gaumont's  Weekly  No.  66  (News)    ... 
THURSDAY,  JUNE  19th,  1913. 

GAUMONT— The  Great  Unwashed  (Drama)    

FRIDAY,  JUNE  20th,  1913. 

SOLAX — Strangers  From  Nowhere  (Drama)    

LUX— (Title  Not  Reported)    

SATURDAY,  JUNE  21st,  1913. 
GREAT  NORTHERN— (Title  Not  Reported) 


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"The  Failure  of  Success" June  so 

"From  the  Shadows" June  18 

"The  Snare  of  Fate" June  17 

"The  Soul  of  a  Thief June  16 

"Half  a  Chance"  (3) June  14 

"The  Boomerang"   (3) June  13 

"A  True  Believer" June    6 

"A  Dixie  Mother" June    4 

"The  Master  Cracksman" May  31 

"A  Child  of  War" May  30 

"Drummer  of  the  8th" May  28 

"Carmen"   (3)    May  27 

"Ashes  of  Three" May  26 

"The  Miser"  May  23 

"The  Sea  Dog" May  21 

"For  Love  of  the  Flag" May  16 

"A  Slave's  Devotion" May  14 

"The   Big   Boss" May  14 

"The  Marble  Heart" May  13 

"Children  of  St  Anne" May    6 

"A  Black  Conspiracy" May    2 


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"The  Bawler  Out"  (3) Apr. 

"Bread  Cast  Upon  the  Waters".. Apr. 
"Oil  Upon  Troubled  Waters" ...  Apr. 

"Will  o'  the  Wisp" Apr. 

"Retrogression"   Apr. 

"A  Southern  Cinderella"  (3) Apr. 

"Held  for  Ransom" Apr. 

"On  Fortune's  Wheel" Apr. 

"The  Grey  Sentinel" Apr. 

"With  Lee  in  Virginia" Ape. 

"The  Sinews  of  War" Apr. 

"The  Judge's  Vindication" Apr. 

"Cymbeline"   Mir. 

"The  Iconoclast**   (3) Mar. 

"The  Pride  of  the  South**  («)... Mar. 

"The  Vengeance  of  Heaven" Mar. 

"The  Sergeant's  Secret" Mar. 

"The  Sins  of  the  Father" Mar. 

"The  Lost  Despatch" Mar. 

"The  Barrier"   Mar. 

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WE  HAVE  CHANGED  OUR  POLICY  REGARDING 

THE  WAGES  OF  SIN 

The  Three-Reel  Moral  Picture  Enacted  by 
Jack  Rose,  Sam  Schepps  and  Harry  Vallon 

It  was  intended  originally  to  release  "THE  WAGES  OF 
SIN"  to  state  right  buyers.  Inquiries  by  mail  and  wire 
from  exhibitors  within  the  last  week  have  determined  us 
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THE  NATIONAL  BOARD  OF  CENSORSHIP 

has  placed  its  seal  of  approval  upon  this  wonderful  production.  They 
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HAVE  BEEN  ABSOLUTELY  WITHOUT  MERCY 

in  their  comments  upon  it  as  a  three-reel  feature  which  contains  a 
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We  ere  now  ready  to  receive  bookings  from 

EVERY  EXHIBITOR  WHO  WANTS  TO  SHOW  A  MORAL  FEATORE 

The  work  of  Jack  Rose,  Sam  Schepps  and  Harry  Vallon,  who  have 
personally  enacted  the  three  leading  roles  in  "THE  WAGES  OF  SIN," 
has  been  endorsed  by  all  who  have  attended  the  two  private  exhibitions. 

All  styles  of  posters,  heralds,  lobby  photographs,  newspaper  cuts  and 

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THE    HUNDREDTH    PERFORMANCE 

At  the    ASTOR   THEATRE,  New   York,   Monday,   Jane   9,    1913 

STUPENDOUS  KLEINE-CINES  PHOTO-DRAMA 

QUO  VADIS 

(COPYRIGHT,  1913,  BY  GEORGE  KLEINE) 

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MAKING  RECORD  RUNS  WHEREVER  SHOWN 

iooth  Consecutive    performance    at  the    Astor  Theatre,  New  York  City 

71st  "  McVickers  Theatre,  Chicago 

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57th                                                              •'      Academy  of  Music,  Baltimore 

28th  "                      "              "  Teller's  Broadway  Theatre,  Brooklyn 

The  critics  have  taxed  the  English  language  in  expressing  their  admiration  for 
this  photo-drama.    We  quote  two  from  each  city : 


Monday 

June  9th 

1913 


At  ASTOR  THEATRE,  New 
York — "Superbly  shown  at  the 
Astor— 'QUO  VADIS'  —  superior 
to  play." 

NEW  YORK  SUN. 

"The  most  pretentious  motion  pic- 
ture play  seen  here." 

NEW  YORK  HERALD. 

At     BROADWAY     THEATRE, 
Brooklyn — "Held  a  large  audience 
enthralled  for  over  two  hours  and 
a  half." 
BROOKLYN  STAND.  UNION. 


At  McVICKERS  THEATRE, 
Chicago — "Astounding — they  make 
stage  endeavors  of  the  kind  seem 
pitifully  futile."  Percy  Hammond, 
in  CHICAGO  TRIBUNE 

"Terrifying  and  inspiring — exqui- 
sitely religious — stupendous."  Amy- 
Leslie,  in 

CHICAGO  DAILY  NEWS. 

"The  photoplay  created  a  tremen- 
dous impression  on  the  Broadway 
audience." 

BROOKLYN  TIMES. 


At  GARRICK  THEATRE,  Phil- 
adelphia— "Of  superlative  merit — 
thrilling  and  spectacular." 

PHILADELPHIA  LEDGER. 

"Probably  the  most  ambitious  set 
of  motion  pictures  ever  shown   in 
this  city." 
PHILADELPHIA   BULLETIN. 

At  ACADEMY  OF  MUSIC, 
Baltimore — "Exciting  —  holds  the 
audience  spellbound." 

BALTIMORE  AMERICAN. 

'Audience  expressed  its  admira- 
tion of  an  extraordinary  exhibi- 
tion." BALTIMORE  NEWS. 


QUO  VADIS  is  the  first  photo-drama  considered  worthy  of  exhibition  in  the  Astor  Theatre,  New  York  City. 

TQUO  VADIS  is  the  first  photo-drama  that  has  had  100  consecutive  performances  in  one  theatre  in  the 
United  States,  and  still  going. 

QUO  VADIS  is  the  first  photo-drama  that  has  ever  had  a  "first  night"  and  has  ever  received  such  un- 
precedented recognition  from  the  Press  in  the  large  cities. 

This  photo-drama  is  being  booked  as  a  theatrical  attraction  throughout  the 
United  States  and  Canada,  by  Cohen  &  Harris  exclusively 

NO    STATE    RIGHTS    ARE    BEING    OFFERED    OR    SOLD 

Quo  Vadis  cannot  be  rented 

GEORGE  KLEINE,  No.  166  No.  State  St.,  CHICAGO,  ILL. 

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SYNOPSIS  OF  THE  STORY 

Author's  Note:  Being  simply  a  romance  inspired  by  the 
statement  in  Genesis  that  Cain  went  out  of  the  presence  of  the 
Lord  and  dwelt  in  the  land  of  Nod,  where  he  knew  his  wife, 
this  picture  does  not  aim  to  accomplish  more  than  your  enter- 
tainment and  amusement.  It  is  neither  historical  nor  theological : 
it  is  fanciful. 

It  is  to  be  remembered  that  there  are  two  accounts  of  the 
beginning  of  man:  one,  the  Mosaic  account,  is  inspired  history; 
the  other  is  the  evolutionary  theory  based  upon  the  deductions 
of  Darwin  and  other  reasoners.  The  first  account  conveys  the 
information  that  man  was  created  fresh  and  perfect  by  God,  who 
blew  the  breath  of  life  into  his  body.  It  would  seem  absurd  to 
assume  that  such  a  being,  possessed  of  all  the  attributes  of  man 
fresh  from  the  hands  of  his  Creator,  were  so  dull  of  mind  and 
stupid  that  he  would  fail  to  take  advantage  of  the  simple  prin- 
ciples of  material  existence.  Surely,  he  must  have  been  as  wise 
as  Robinson  Crusoe.  If  an  inventor  today  can  invent  a  wonder- 
ful machine  before  he  is  thirty  years  old,  is  it  reasonable  to 
assume  that  A'dam,  the  very  mighty  product  of  God,  and  his 
progeny,  continued  to  live  naked,  and  in  the  dirt,  nine  hundred 
and  twenty  years? 


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Copyrighted,  1913,  by  Helen 

Written  and  Directed  by 

PRODUCED  BY  THE  HELEN  GARDNER 
STUDIO  AT  TAPPAN-ON-THE- 


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It  has  been  assumed  in  this  story,  simply,  that  Adam  and  his 
wife  and  children  were  possessed  of  ordinary  common  sense, 
and  that  the  almost  obvious  necessities  and  graces  of  human  life 
were  within  their  knowledge. 

Respecting  the  people  of  the  land  of  Nod,  who  are  introduced 
in  this  story,  and,  more  particularly,  their  origin,  it  is  enough  to 
say  they  are  purely  imaginative.  Nevertheless,  it  is  not  impos- 
sible to  deduce  from  the  Biblical  context  a  sufficient  premise 
upon  which  to  contend  the  existence  of  other  men  than  Adam 
and  his  descendants.  It  is  a  matter  about  which  anyone  may 
think  as  he  will,  and  as  thinking  persons  do. 

As  stated  above,  this  story  does  not  aim  to  teach  any  principle, 
nor  does  it  pretend  historical  accuracy  even  approximately.  Its 
design  is  to  interest  and  amuse  through  its  poetic  beauty  and 
dramatic  order.  It  is  merely  a  fanciful  story  of  the  regeneration 
of  the  first  crime  — committed  through  the  charming  philosophy 
of  a  wonderful  woman. 

Part  I. 

This  section  of  the  story  deals  intimately  with  the  first 
crime — the  destruction  of  Abel  by  his  brother  Cain,  the  sor- 
row of  Adam  and  Eve,  the  cursing,  branding  and  driving 
away  of  Cain,  his  heavy  sorrow  and  terror,  his  wanderings — 
and  finally  his  meeting  with  Save,  the  daughter  of  Omar,  the 
hunter,  in  the  land  of  Nod.  He  is  about  to  destroy  himself 
when  Save  meets  him  and  says: 

"It  is  no  sacrifice  to  lose  thy  life  which  thou  lovest  not: 

It  would  be  unfair  to  judge  of  the  picture  merits  of  a  picture  story  by  a 
picture  drama  is  within  itself — not  an  account  of  its  story.  "The  Wife  of 
poetic  nature,  but  of  high  dramatic  force.  It  is  tragic,  and,  at  moments, 
borne  in  mind  that  Miss  Helen  Gardner  plays  the  role  of  the  woman,  that  she 
play  itself  is  written  and  directed  by  the  same  man  who  wrote  and  directed 
duce  something  not  only  out  of  the  beaten  run  of  productions,  but  a  work  of 

NOT 

"Hamlet"  will  follow  immediately.  This  noble  play  by  Shakespeare  will  be 
film,  preceded  by  some  wonderfully  beautiful  views  of  Miss  Gardner's  studio 
scenes,  as  she  may  be  found  doing  on  any  fair  day. 

CHARLES  L.  FULLER 

HELEN  GARDNER  PIC 

472  FULTON  STREET,  BROOKLYN,?!*.  Y., 


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THE    PRIMAL 

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PICTURE  PLAYERS  IN  MISS  GARDNER'S 
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but  find  that  which  thou  lovest  above  thy  life,  and  part  thy- 
self from  that  forever — that  is  expiation!" 

Cain  tells  her  that  he  loves  nothing  more  than  his  life, 
and  that  he  hates  that.  But  the  woman's  wisdom  is  plain 
enough  to  him,  and  he  starts  out  to  find  that  which  he  will 
love  more  than  his  life,  so  that  by  parting  himself  from  it 
forever  he  may  expiate  his  terrible  crime.  Zeeban,  a  worker 
of  magic,  whom  all  people  fear  and  obey  because  of  that  fear, 
announces  that  he  will  take  Save  for  his  wife,  notwithstand- 
ing he  already  has  one  wife,  a  jealous  woman  named  Januh. 
When  Zeeban  declares  that  Save  shall  become  his  wife  Cain 
sees  as  by  a  flash  of  lightning  that  the  thing  which  he  loves 
above  his  life  is — Save  herself. 

Part  II. 

It  is  shown  clearly  that  Januh,  the  wife  of  Zeeban,  means 
to  murder  Save.  Zeeban  discovers  her  intention,  and  has  her 
put  into  the  Pit  of  Death,  a  cave  in  which  those  condemned 
to  die  are  made  to  starve  to  death.  Cain,  unacquainted  with 
the  customs  and  laws  of  Nod,  and  equally  unacquainted  with 
the  intention  of  Januh,  releases  Januh  by  a  trick.  After  the 
bridal  ceremony  in  which  according  to  the  rites  of  the  land 
Save  becomes  the  possession  of  Zeeban,  Januh  sneaks  into 
the  nuptual  chamber  and  stabs  Zeeban  to  death.  Save,  not 
knowing  how  Zeeban  came  to  his  death,  runs  out  of  the 
chamber,  her  shriek  bringing  Cain,  who  has  been  in  hiding, 
into  the  place.  He  is  seized  as  the  murderer,  and,  believing 
indeed  that  Save  herself  has  committed  the  crime,  he  suffers 
himself  to  be  led  away  and  put  into  the  Pit  of  Death.     Save 


{Excerpt  from  Genesis,  Chap.  II'.) 

lj$  And  Cain  said  unto  the  Lord, 
My  punishment  is  greater  than  I 
can  hear. 

14  Behold,  thou  hast  driven  me 
out  this  day  from  the  face  of  the 
earth ;  and  from  thy  face  shall  I 
be  hid;  and  I  shall  be- "a  fugitive 
and  a  vagabond  in  the  earth ;  and 
it  shall  come  to  pass,  that  every 
one  that  findeth  me  shall  slay  me. 

15  And  the  Lord  said  unto  him, 
Therefore  whosoever  slayeth  Cain, 
vengeance  shall  be  taken  on  him 
sevenfold.  And  the  Lord  set  a 
mark  upon  Cain,  lest  any  finding 
him  should  kill  him. 

16  IT  And  Cain  went  out  from  the 
presence  of  the  Lord,  and  dwelt  in 
the  land  of  Nod,  on  the  east  of  Eden. 

17  And  Cain  knew  his  wifej  and 
she  conceived,  and  bare  Enoch: 
and  he  builded  a  city,  and  called 
the  name  of  the  city,  after  the 
name  of  his  son,  Enoch. 


searches  for  Cain  in  the  wilderness  where  she  first  met  him. 
She  meets  Januh,  who  tells  her  that  Cain  is  in  the  pit,  and 
hastens  there.  She  herself  is  believed  to  be  an  accomplice, 
and  is  thrown  into  the  pit.  There  she  finds  Cain  almost  dead 
of  starvation. 

Part  III. 
Loving  her  with  a  great  passion,  Cain  steadfastly  refuses 
to  take  Save  as  his  wife,  convinced  as  he  is  that  only  by 
sacrificing  some  thing  which  he  loves  more  than  his  life  can 
he  condone  his  great  crime.  Save  herself  is  satisfied  that  he 
is  right,  and  they  resign  themselves  to  death.  Januh,  unable 
to  keep  from  them,  climbs  out  upon  a  tree  branch  over  the 
mouth  of  the  pit,  so  that  she  can  taunt  them  and  watch  them 
die.  At  a  very  dramatic  moment  the  branch  breaks,  and, 
clutching  the  leaves  to  save  herself,  Januh's  hair  becomes 
entangled  so  that«she  is  caught  up,  and  her  neck  is  broken  in 
mid-air.  Over  her  body  Cain  reaches  the  limb,  and  thence 
he  reaches  the  outside.  It  is  only  a  few  moments  before  he 
has  rescued  Save.  She  discovers  that  the  brand,  put  on  his 
forehead  by  God,  has  vanished,  and,  taking  it  for  a  token  of 
Cain's  full  forgivenness,  Save  and  Cain  leave  the  land  as  man 
and  wife.  Years  after,  and  in  accordance  with  the  account 
by  Moses,  Cain  builds  a  great  city,  and  calls  it  Enoch,  after 
'  his  first-born  son. 


tersely  written  synopsis  of  its  main  motives  and  action.  The  merit  of  a  motion 
Cain,"  as  a  picture  story,  is  highly  unique,  possessing  values  not  only  of  a 
sublime  in  its  message  straight  to  the  human  heart  and  mind.  It  should  be 
is  splendidly  supported  by  players  who  are  to  the  man  real  artists,  that  the 
"Cleopatra,"  and  that  neither  expense,  time  nor  study  has  been  spared  to  pro- 
surpassing  interest  and  intrinsic  beauty  both  in  thought  and  action. 

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100  YEARS  OF 
MORMONISM 

In  6  Reels  of  Realism 

DEPICTING  the  start,  early 
struggles,  loves,  tortures,  and 
assasinations  of  the  Mormon  people 
from  New  York  State  in  1813  to  the 
Salt  Lake  City  of  the  present  day. 

Its    sensational    features    fully    con- 
Brigham  Young  and  Party  Entering  Salt  Lake  Valley  1847.  firmed   by  American   history. 

Despite  the  large  amount  of  unusual  press  comment  which  this  subject  aroused,  there  was  not  one  adverse 
criticism  on  the  picture.  ^_^__ .^ _ 

Made  at  a  cost  of  nearly  $50,000.  Half  a  year  consumed  in  the  making  and  over  1,000  people  employed,  includ- 
ing noted  Mormon  descendants.  ^^^^^^^_^^^^______ 

Of  universal  interest  to  the  peoples  of  every  nation,  and  by  reason  of  exclusive  contracts,  impossible  to  dupli- 
cate inside  of  59  years.  ^ ^ __  I 

Three  companies  toured  the  $2.00  houses  of  California,  Utah  and  Nevada  at  the  fifty-cent  scale  of  prices,  to  a 
gross  intake  of  over  $22,000,  and  are  still  going.  In  some  instances  the  gross  exceeded  $1,000  on  the  day. 
Facts  which  can  be  readily  verified.         ^^^^____^^^^______ 

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will  review  it  frequently.  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^__^^^_ 

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VITAGRAPH. 

THE  SILVER  CIGARETTE  CASE  (June  16).— 
Thinking  to  retrieve  his  fallen  fortunes.  Leslie 
Torrence  makes  love  to  Rita  Patten,  the  daughter 
of  Graham  Patten,  millionaire.  When  Rita  tells 
her  old  friend  Dr.  Hawley  of  her  engagement,  he 
Is  very  much  aggrieved,  as  be  loves  her  himself  and 
knows  well  the  bad  reputation  of  Torrence  at  the 
club. 

Torrence  has  been  carrying  on  an  affair  with  Lola 
di  Paoli,  a  beautiful  opera  singer,  and  has  promised 
her  marriage.  When  she  sees  the  report  of  the 
engagement  In  the  papers  she  is  furious  and  de- 
termines to  be  revenged  upon  the  girl  who  has  taken 
Torrence  from  her.  To  this  end  she  gets,  through 
her  manager,  Herbert  Corey,  an  invitation  to  a 
hal-masque  being  given  by  Patten  in  celebatjon  of 
her  engagement,  the  invitation  being  for  a  supposed 
friend,  Count  Rostrand.  Disguised  as  a  man,  in 
evening  clothes,  Lola  attends  the  ball. 

Daring  the  evening,  Bhe  chances  to  meet  Dr. 
Hawley,  who,  like  her,  is  masked,  and  offers  him  a 
cigarette  from  her  case.  Hawley  greatly  admires 
the  case,  which  is  of  unusual  pattern,  and  at  the 
same  time,  comments  on  a  beautiful  ring,  which  the 
supposed  count  is  wearing. 

A  little  later  on,  while  Rita  is  left  for  a  few 
moments  by  her  partner,  Lola  approaches  her  quietly 
and  then  suddenly  plunges  a  dagger  into  her  breast. 
During  the  confusion  she  is  able  to  escape,  and  by 
the  time  that  a  search  is  made  for  the  assassin, 
she  is  far  away.  Hawley  looks  after  the  wounded 
girl,  who,  after  a  few  weeks,  recovers  from  the 
wound. 

Some  time  later,  Lola,  now  stricken  with  re- 
morse, Is  prostrated  by  a  nervous  attack  and  her 
maid  sends  for  a  physician.  Dr.  Hawley  answers 
the  call  and  while  attending  the  patient,  recognises 
the  cigarette  case  and  the  ring  on  her  finger.  Ac- 
cused by  him,  Lola  admits  the  crime  and  agrees 
to  go  with  him  to  see  Rita  and  tell  her  the  truth 
of  the  affair.  On  hearing  of  the  double-dealing  of 
Torrence,  Rita  sends  for  him  and  hands  him  back 
his  ring.  Two  years  later,  Dr.  Hawley  reaps  the 
reward  of  his  patience  and  devotion  and  marries 
his  beloved  Rita,   whom  be  has  loved  so  long. 

THE  COMING  OF  GRTECHEN  (June  17).— 
When  a  letter  arrives  from  Gretchen's  sister,  Anna, 
who  is  in  America,  inviting  her  to  come  and  offering 
her  a  Job  in  the  store,  Gretchen  Is  overjoyed  and 
decides  to  pack  at  once.  Arrived  in  New  Xork, 
Gretchen  obtains  work  in  the  delicatessen  store 
kept  by  Emll,  her  sister's  husband.  She  is  greatly 
surprised  one  day,  when  Hans,  her  sweetheart,  who 
has  been  lonesome  without  her,  suddenly  presents 
himself  at  the  Btore.  Gretchen  Is  none  too  well 
pleased  with  bis  arrival,  as  she  'has  been  able  to 
make  a  decided  impression  on  an  American,  George. 
Anna  and  Emil  look  after  him  and  soon  get  him  a 
job. 

Hans  invites  Gretchen  to  go  with  him  to  the 
annual  picnic  of  the  G'erman  colony  where  they 
live,  but  she  turns  him  down  and  asks  George  to 
he  her  escort  instead.  Her  German  lover  realizes 
that  she  does  not  like  his  old-country  clothes,  and 
gets  himself  a  brand  new  American  outfit. 

At  the  picnic  Gretchen  is  suddenly  deserted  by 
George,  who  sees  a  pretty  girl  in  the  crowd  and 
thinks  that  he  would  like  a  change  of  partner, 
leaving  her  to  her  own  devices.  George  gets  badly 
left,  as  he  well  deserves,  when  the  girl  he  follows 
Is  claimed  by  her  beau,  a  pugilist,  who  soon  sends 
George  about  bis  business.  He  goes  to  look  for 
•retchen,  hut  finds  her  In  the  arms  of  Hans. 

THE  DROP  OF  BLOOD  (June  18).— When  Slick, 
a  pickpocket,  hears  that  Carmina  is  to  marry  Albert 
Johnson,  the  detective,  he  swears  to  be  avenged 
upon  him.  One  day  Johnson  is  followed  by  Slick, 
who  plunges  a  stiletto  Into  his  back  and  leaves  him 
dead  on  the  ground.  Carmina,  who  feels  sure  that 
Slick  Is  guilty,  falls  to  prove  her  case  in  court  as 
Slick  brings  forward  a  strong  alibi.  She  determines 
to  take  the  Investigation  Into  her  own  hands  and 
goes,  disguised  as  a  maid,  to  work  at  the  house 
where  Slick  boards.  It  Ib  not  long  before  she  dis- 
covers that  Slick  has  a  strange  fear  of  blood  stains 


and  that  he  Is  much  worried  because  of  a  stain  on 
a  coat  sleeve.  Slick  removes  the  Btain  by  means  of 
acid,  but  Carmina,  who  finds  this  out,  stains  his 
sleeve  again  with  red  ink.  When  Slick  sees  the 
stain  he  is  terrified,  and  begins  to  think  that  he 
is  haunted.  First  in  one  place  and  then  in  another, 
Carmina  smears  the  red  ink,  on  the  table-cloth  under 
bis  plate,  on  his  towel  and  on  other  clothes. 

One  night,  Carmina  pours  a  stream  of  red  Ink 
over  Slick's  pillow,  awakening  him.  In  the  moon- 
light he  sees  the  speadiug  Btain  and  then  sees  a 
ghostly  hand  reaching  in  the  window,  holding  a 
stiletto,  apparently  dripping  with  blood.  Crazy  with 
fear,  he  rushes  shrieking  from  the  room  and  meets 
Carmina,  who  discloses  herself  to  him.  Confronted 
again  by  the  bloodstained  coat,  he  confesses  to  the 
crime  and  begs  for  mercy.  Carmina  sneers  at  him 
and  hotly  denounces  him,  handing  him  at  once  over 
to  the  police.  When  he  finds  himself  arrested  and 
compelled  to  face  the  consequences  of  his  deed,  his 
mind  gives  way  and  be  is  carried  off,  a  violent 
lunatic.  Carmina  has  succeeded;  her  husband  Is 
avenged. 

BTJNOT'S  DILEMMA  (June  19) — John  Bunny 
gets  into  an  awful  stew  when  he  hears  from  his 
Aunt  Eliza  that  she  is  coming  to  visit  him  and  that 
Bhe  Is  bringing  along  her  cousin,  Jean,  whom  she 
wishes  him  to  marry.  He  doesn't  at  all  like  the 
Idea  of  abandoning  his  bachelor  life  and  appeals  to 
his  friend,  Jack  Holmes,  for  aid.  Jack  Is  persuaded 
to  masquerade  as  Bunny,  whom  his  aunt  has  never 
seen,  while  Bunny  himself  gets  into  feminine  garb 
and  poses  as  the  cook. 

As  soon  as  he  sees  Jean,  Bunny  wishes  to  disclose 
his  identity  but  cannot  very  well  see  his  way  clear 
to  doing  it.  He  is  racked  by  all  the  fires  of  Jealousy 
whenever  he  sees  Jack  flirting  with  her,  which 
happens  frequently.  Having  himself  very  much 
fallen  In  love  with  the  lady,  he  decides  to  tell  her 
of  the  little  deception,  and  writes  a  letter  to  her, 
pushing  it  under  the  door  of  her  room.  In  the  letter 
he  asks  her  to  meet  him  in  the  arbor  at  the  foot 
of  the  garden  early  next  morning. 

Aunt  Eliza  hears  Joan  as  she  passes  down  the 
stairs,  and  rushing  out  upon  her,  catches  her  and 
brings  her  Into  the  room.  Then  she  sees  the  letter 
in  the  girl's  hand  and  grabs  it.  Aunty  declares 
that  Joan  shall  not  keep  the  appointment  in  the 
garden,  but  that  she  will  go  in  her  place.  This  she 
does,  her  face  covered  with  a  heavy  veil  bo  that 
it  cannot  be 'seen. 

Bunny  is  delighted  when  be  sees  the  lady  coming 
down  the  path  towards  the  arbor,  and  soon  begins 
to  flirt  with  her.  He  gets  the  surprise  of  his  life, 
however,  when  he  raises  her  veil  to  kiss  her,  and 
finds  that  he  has  been  making  love  to  his  aunt  In- 
stead of  to  his  pretty  second-cousin.  Still  more 
agony  is  piled  upon  him  when  he  finds  that  Jean  and 
Jack  have  been  hidden  behind  the  bushes,  watching 
the  whole  of  the  proceedings.  The  sight  of  Bunny's 
crest-fallen  face  makes  even  the  stern  visage  of 
Aunt  Eliza  relax  a  little,  and  she  allows  the  tri- 
umphant Jack  to  bear  off  Jean,  who  goes  as  a 
willing  captive.  Bunny,  after  meditating  on  his 
sins  for  a  while,  makes  up  his  mind  that  it  is  all 
right  after  all.     No  wedding  bells  for  him. 

DELATED  PROPOSALS  (June  20). — It  is  some- 
times decidedly  difficult  to  get  a  little  privacy  on 
shipboard.  Several  times  Jack  Hardy  almost  reaches 
the  proposal  point  with  Marion  Van  Sfcklen,  but 
each  time  the  fates  are  against  him.  Marion  and 
her  mother  are  on  their  way  home  from  a  vacation 
in  Europe  and  board  the  boat  at  Liverpool  at  the 
same  time  as  Jack,  who  is  very  much  struck  by 
Marlon's  appearance.  After  a  little  flirtation  on 
the  boat,  he  believes  that  his  feelings  are  returned 
and  is  about  to  propose.  Just  then  mama  comes 
along  with  Count  Brainlesse,  whom  she  wishes  to 
marry   Marlon.     The   proposal  is  postponed. 

Again  and  again  Jack  tries  to  come  to  the  point, 
being  constantly  interrupted  by  someone,  either  the 
count  or  mama,  or  the  grouchy  owner  of  the  deck 
chair  be  has  taken.  First  the  grouch,  then  mama, 
and  then  the  count,  get  sea-sick  and  at  last  Jack 
has  Marion  alone.  Alas,  the  time  has  not  yet  come. 
Jack  himself  is  suddenly  seized  with  sickness  and 
has  to  rush  away  Just  as  the  words  tremble  on  his 
lips.  The  remainder  of  the  voyage  Is  spent  by  Jack 
in  his  bunk,  from  which  he  is  too  ill  to  rise.  The 
steamer  docks  early  in  the  morning  before  the 
steward  has  visited  him  and  he  does  not  wake  him- 
self until  everyone  Is  ready  to  leave  the  ship's  side. 
He  rushes  to  the  deck,  clad  in  nothing  bat  his 
pajamas.  Marlon  1b  with  the  count  and  her  mother 
is  nearby.  It  Is  obvious  that  the  count  is  pro- 
posing marriage,  but  before  he  can  place  the  ring 
on  Marion's  finger.  Jack  pushes  In  front  of  him,  and 
falling  on  his  knees,  proposes  to  her  in  full  view  of 
everyone  on  deck.  Marion  Joyfully  goes  to  his  arms 
and  together  they  turn  to  pacify  her  scandalized 
mother  and  make  the  necessary  explanations  to  the 
onlookers. 


YOKOHAMA  FLUE  DEPARTMENT  (June  20).— 
An  interesting  travel  picture  showing  how  the 
Japanese  fight  the  Are  devil.  Their  fire-fighting  ap- 
paratus contrasts  strangely  with  that  of  other 
nations,  but  shows  a  great  advance  over  that  used 
In  Japan  fifty  years  ago,  before  European  and 
American  civilization  made  Itself  felt. 

'  ARRIET'8  BABY  (June  21 ) .— '  Arriet  Rogers, 
the  daughter  of  a  retired  costermonger,  Tom 
Rogers,  has  two  very  ardent  suitors.  Bill  Larkin 
and  Bob  'Armon.  Bill  Is  a  sailor  at  the  London 
docks  and  is  a  very  steady  young  fellow.  Bob,  on 
the  other  hand,  is  not  nearly  so  steady,  but  makes 
a  lot  of  money  betting  on  horses.  In  this  way, 
by  helping  him  rake  in  several  good  pots,  Bob 
curries  favor  with  old  man  Rogers,  who  promises 
him  that  he  shall  wed  bis  daughter,  'Arriet.  They 
are  married  in  great  style  and  look  regular  toffs 
on  their  wedding  day,  driving  down  Wbitecbapel 
in  grand  style.  Bill  Is  abroad  in  his  ship 
and  does  not  hear  of  the  wedding  until  long  after- 
wards. 

Luck  Is  fickle  and  soon  turns  against  Bob  'Armon, 
who  loses  not  only  all  his  own  money,  but  all  the 
savings  of  his  father-in-law.  Then  he  takes  to 
drinking  heavily  and  badly  Ill-treats  his  wife,  who 
is  about  to  present  him  with  an  heir.  His  drunken 
and  thriftless  habits  are  such  that  old  man  Rogers 
soon  dies  of  a  broken  heart,  leaving  'Arriet  in  the 
sole  care  of  her  now  utterly  brutal  husband.  Even 
after  the  birth  of  'Arriet's  baby,  Bob  continues  his 
downward  career.  After  a  drunken  row  In  a  public- 
house,  in  which  he  severely  wounds  a  pot  com- 
panion, he  is  obliged  to  flee  the  country  and  leaves 
his  wife   utterly  penniless. 

'Arriet  has  now  no  means  of  supporting  herself 
and  the  baby  and  Is  reduced  to  such  straits  that 
she  Is  obliged  to  beg  in  the  streets,  to  save  herself 
from  starvation.  One  day,  when  soliciting  alms  In 
a  public  house,  she  meets  Bill  Larkin,  who  has 
Just  returned  from  a  long  voyage.  She  recognizes 
him,  but  so  weak  has  she  become  from  lack  of 
food,  that  she  Is  unable  to  bear  the  shock  and  sinks 
to  the  floor  In  a  swoon.  Bill  has  her  carried  to  her 
home  and  sends  for  a  doctor.  It  Is  too  late,  how- 
ever, for  starvation  has  so  shattered  her  health 
that  she  dies  the  next  day,  after  receiving  Bill's 
promise  that  he  will  care  for  her  child  as  If  she 
were  his  own.  BUI  faithfully  fulfills  his  vow  for 
the  sake  of  the  little  woman  be  so  dearly  loved. 

ess  AN  AY 

ANONYMOUS    LOVE    (June    17) John    BlnkB,    a 

post-office  clerk,  falls  desperately  in  love  with  Mrs. 
Wilson,  a  society  lady,  who  purchases  a  money 
order  from  the  former.  Blnks  reads  the  name 
signed  on  the  money  order,  and  that  evening  sends 
the  lady  a  beautiful  bouquet.  The  following  day, 
Blnks  sends  her  a  locket  and  chain.  After  having 
spent  a  few  ef  his  bard-earned  dollars  Blnks  dis- 
covers that  he  had  sent  the  luxuries  to  Mrs.  Wil- 
son's colored  maid,  whose  name  Mrs.  Wilson  had 
used  on  the  money  order,  having  sent  the  money 
to  the  maid's  mother.     Binks  collapses. 

HILDA  WAKES  (June  18). — John  Woods  is  In- 
structed by  his  wife  to  engage  a  cook.  John  gets 
Into  a  matrimonial  agency  by  mistake.  Hilda, 
whom  John  has  taken  for  a  cook,  thinks  she  is 
going  to  be  married  to  the  handsome  gentleman. 
Business  takes  John  to  the  church.  Hilda,  follows 
him  in.  Mrs.  Woods  becomes  very  much  aggra- 
vated when  she  discovers  Hilda  sitting  at  the 
table  with  her  husband  at  the  supper  hour.  Just 
see  how  John  gets  out  of  the  scrape. 

THE  RUSTLER'S  SPUR  (June  10). — Sheriff 
Bradley,  of  Golden  Streak,  proposes  to  the  fair 
Bessie  Hargon.  The  following  morning,  the  sheriff 
is  notified  that  Harry  Todd's  horses  have  been 
stolen.  The  clue  that  the  thief  left,  leads  Bradley 
to  Bessie's  home.  Bessie  confesses  that  her  brother 
Is  the  horse  thief.  The  thief  escapes.  Bessie's 
brother  later  sends  a  letter  to  the  sheriff,  stating 
that  the  horses  were  left  at  a  nearby  ranch. 
Bradley  claims  Bessie  for  his  own. 

FEAR  (June  20) . — Colonel  Louis  Jordan  at  a 
banquet  given  to  a  few  of  his  friends,  tells  a 
story  of  James  Hollander's  bravery,  during  the 
war.  Hollander  Is  toasted  by  his  friends.  Later, 
one  of  the  men  determines  to  test  Hollander's 
bravery.  That  night,  when  Hollander  returns  to 
bis  apartment,  he  discovers  a  note  on  his  table, 
which  tells  him  that  at  twelve  that  night,  he  dies. 
The  nervous  strain  that  Hollander  is  placed  under 
gives  a  splendid  foundation  on  this  subject. 

ALKALI  IKE  AND  THE  HYPNOTIST  (June  81). 
—Alkali  Ike  eludes  his  wife  and  attends  a  per- 
formance at  the  Snakeville  Opera  House,  where 
Prof.  Hippy  Is  demonstrating  his  wonderful  hyp- 
notic art.  Alkali  Ike  is  finally  persuaded  to  go 
up    on    the    stage.    The    professor   hypnotizes    aim. 


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Alkali  being  hypnotized,  are  excruciatingly  funny. 
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THE  LAW  AND  THE  OUTLAW  (Special,  2  parts, 
Tune  4). — Dakota  Wilson  escapes  from  the  Deer 
Lodge  Penitentiary,  and,  after  a  period  of  quietness, 
res  a  position  on  the  Diamond  S  ranch,  owned 
imffalo  Watson.  Ruth,  the  daughter  of  the 
owner,  one  day  sees  Dakota's  display  of  bi 
mtnsblp,  and  the  admiration  thus  aroused  soon 
ripens  into  love,  much  against  the  protest  of  the 
family.  Ruth's  love  for  Dakota  Is  Increased  by  his 
heroic  deed  when  be  rescues  her  from  the  malignant 
attentions  of  a  rushing  steer  whose  anger  Is  aroused 
by  the  flowing  red  handkerchief  about  her  neck. 
Dakota,  who  is  ridinn  ahead  of  the  cowboys  on  a 
round-up  expedition,  catches  sight  of  the  steer  head- 
ing for  Ruth,  and,  spurring  bis  broncho  into  a 
breakneck  speed,  reaches  the  side  of  the  steer. 
leaps  upon  its  hack,  and,  fastening  his  muscular 
anus  on  the  frenzied  beast's  horns,  brings  him  to 
the  ground.  In  the  midst  of  the  ovation  given  him 
by  the  cowboys,  Dakota  is  nabbed  by  Sheriff  Math- 
ers, who  begins  to  march  him  hack  to  the  Deer 
Lodge  Penitentiary.  As  the  sheriff,  his  deputies 
and  his  captive  arc  riding  along  a  narrow  mountain 
roadway.  Dakota  makes  a  daring  leap  down  the 
precipitous  incline,  rolling  down  until  he  reaches 
the  bottom,  where  he  hides  behind  a  projecting 
rock.  The  sheriff,  in  the  meantime,  has  taken  the 
long  way  down  and  follows  for  a  distance,  until  he 
ivers  tli.  -till  form  of  Dakota  behind  the  shelter- 
ing  ruck.    and.    thinking  him  dead,   rides  away. 

Though     free,     Dakota     Is     handicapped     by     the 

manacles      He   manages   to  steal   the  gun   and   horse 

_-ing    to    a    sleeping    shepherd,    and    by    holding 

-un    between    bis    knees,    and    placing    the    con- 

iin  of  the  manacles  in  front  of  the  gun. 

he    pulls    with    his    teeth    the    strap    which    he    has 

o  the  trigger  of  the  gun,  thereby  severing 

ting  links.     As  he  starts  to  ride  away  he 

distant   rifleman,    who.   by   the   aid 

of     binoculars,     sees     the    dangling     steel     wristlets. 

proving  that  lie  is  an  outlaw.     He  fires  and  Dakota 

falls    from    his    horse    with    a    head    wound.      But    his 

left  foot   gets  caught  in   the   stirrup  and   he  is  drac 

ged    for   a    long    distance    with    bullets   flying    around 

him.     His    foot  eventually   gets  loose   and  he  is  left 

unconscious   on   the   ground.     When   he  regains  con- 

ie    finds    himself   again    in    the    hands   of 

Mid    just    before    he    is    about    to    be    in- 

rated     lie    marries    Ruth    Watson,    who    bravely 

is  led   away:   "Good  bye,   my  man,   when 

you  i  ome  back,   I'll  be  waiting." 

WHEN  LILLIAN  WAS  LITTLE  BED  RIDING 
HOOD  (June  16). — Lillian  Brown  takes  the  story  of 
"Little  Red  Riding  Hood"  to  bed  with  her,  intent 
upon  reading  it.  but  her  mother  finds  her  and  turns 
out  the  light.  When  all  is  quiet,  she  takes  out  the 
book,  turns  on  the  light  and  reads  the  story  to  the 
end.  She  falls  asleep  and,  impressed  with  her 
reading,  dreams  that  she  herself  is  the  little 
heroine.  Then  all  the  Incidents  of  the  story  are 
vividly  revealed,  including  the  adventures  with  the 
crafty  and  hungry  wolf.  Recoiling  in  terror  from 
the  dangerous  situation,  she  rolls  out  of  bed.  Half 
awake,  with  the  spell  of  the  dream  upon  her,  she 
imagines  the  wolf  is  still  in  her  room.  As  she 
comes  to  herself  she  realizes  that  she  has  paid  the 
penaltv  for  naughtiness  in  disobeying  her  mother, 
and  crawling  back  to  bed,  hides  herself  under  the 
covers  in  childish  contrition,  and  falls  into  peaceful 
slumber. 

TAMING  A  TENDERFOOT  (Juno  17).— Willie 
Clever,  city  horn  and  bred,  having  been  spoiled  with 
plenty  of  money,  thinks  he  knows  it  all,  or  nearly 
all.  His  father  buys  a  ranch  in  Arizona  and  sends 
Willie  out  to  run  the  business.  He  comes  with 
"all  the  fixin's,"  and  has  not  been  on  the  place  an 
hour  before  he  tries  to  run,  or  reform  the  outfit. 
The  cowboys  decide  he  needs  some  experience  and 
proceed  to  put  him  through  "the  third  degree."  He 
is  persuaded  to  mount  an  outlaw  and  he  is  bucked 
higher  than  the  price  of  wheat,  then  colliding  with 
the  uprising  earth  with  emphasis.  They  put  a  bear- 
skin on  a  burro  to  complete  his  scare.  As  soon  as 
he  recovers  be  discharges  all  of  them;  bnt,  as  he 
cannot  run  the  ranch  without  them,  he  hires  them 
back  at  advanced  wages.  They  pretend  to  fall  in 
with  his  plans,  and  urge  him  to  show  them  how  to 
handle  a  bunch  of  wild  steers.  He  has  a  run  for 
bis  life  In  this  adventure,  and  faints  from  fear.  As 
a  result,  he  concludes  that  he  knows  nothing  about 
the  cattle  business,  and  would  rather  brave  the 
risks  of  the  boulevards  than  the  broad  plains.  He 
leaves  for  the  far  East  amid  rejoicing  of  all  con- 
cerned. 

MRS.  HILTON'S  JEWELS  (Juno  18) .—Frederick 
Hilton,  a  stock  broker,  la  on  the  verge  of  failure, 
but  he  keeps  his  sad  secret  to  himself,  bnt  his  wife, 
a  lover  of  all  the  gleam  and  glitter  of  life,  further 
imperils  blm  by  her  extravagance.  She  has  a 
gorgeous  set  of  Jewels  she  desires  to  have  ex- 
pensively reset.  He  asks  her  to  defer  this  for  the 
present.  She  is  perverse  and  impetuous,  and  does 
not  understand  such  delay.  He  leaves  the  door  of 
the  private  vault  In  their  palatial  residence  open. 
She  has  just  taken  out  the  jewels  and  steps  back 
into  the  vault  to  escape  him,  when  he  returns  and 
closes  the  door  with  a  bang,  unwittingly  imprison- 
ing her.  During  the  day  the  market  swings  in  his 
favor,    and   he  recovers   from   the  cowardly   thought 


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of  desperate  suicide,  to  And  his  fortune  safe.  When 
he  comes  home,  elated  with  the  good  news,  he 
cannot  And  bis  wife,  and  at  once  jumps  to  the  con- 
clusion that  the  butler  has  made  away  with  her  in 
order  to  get  the  Jewels.  As  they  are  struggling 
at  the  door  of  the  vault,  he  hears  a  faint  tapping  on 
the  inside.  During  the  rush  of  the  day  he  has  lost  his 
memorandum  of  the  vault  combination.  Spurred 
by  desperation,  he  secures  the  aid  of  two  safe- 
blowers,  who  finally  open  the  iron-room  and  the 
Imprisoned  woman  la  released,  bringing  new  hope 
and  happiness  to  his  arms. 

THE  GOLD  BRICK  (June  19). — Reporter  Jones,  a 
hustler,  discovers  a  gold-brick  displayed  In  a 
jeweler's  window  and  sees  a  fine  "feature  story"  in 
trying  to  sell  this  real  gold-brick  to  farmer?  at 
$2.00  per.  The  feature  editor  literally  eats  the  idea, 
gives  the  reporter  a  requisition  to  buy  the  real  brick 
and  a  duo  of  other  reporters,  heavily  armed,  to  pro- 
tect him  on  his  way  in  some  choice  rural  districts. 
After  a  number  of  unsuccessful  attempts  to  sell 
their  good  gold  brick,  the  reporter  sends  a  letter 
back  to  the  home  office  detailing  their  plans.  The 
contents  of  this  letter  become  known  to  an  in- 
quisitive person  named  Till,  whose  wife  keeps  a 
restaurant.  He  observes  a  good  chance  to  make 
easy  money,  and  gets  a  loan  from  bis  wife  for  that 
purpose.  While  the  reporter  and  one  of  his  assist- 
ants are  dining,  the  other  reporter  of  the  party  sells 
the  real  gold  brick  to  a  local  jeweler  and  obtains  an 
imitation  brass  brick,  which  be  delivers  to  bis 
comrades.  He  then  leaves  suddenly,  called  by  a 
faked  telegram.  Till  gets  away  with  the  brass 
brick,  his  wife  gets  after  him  with  the  sheriff. 
Cold,  the  Jeweler,  comes  to  the  front,  claiming  the 
real  goods.  The  sheriff  arrests  tbe  reporter  and 
his  guard.  They  wire  their  predicament  to  the  home 
office.  The  office  boy,  who  has  a  grudge  against 
the  reporter,  wires  back,  "They  are  fakers;  lock 
them  up."  The  reporter  gets  the  long-distance 
telephone  in  the  Jail  office,  so  that  matters  are 
finally  straightened  out  and  the  prisoners  released, 
but  the  paper  has  paid  for  a  big  sensation  which 
they  are  ashamed  to  print. 

THE  FIGHTING  LIEUTENANT  (June  80).— Don 
Arguello,  in  order  to  get  the  fortune  of  his  ward. 
Princess  Irma,  Insists  that  she  marry  him.  The 
high-spirited  girl  repulses  bim  as  equally  unworthy 
of  love  or  respect,  but  temporizes  with  him.  About 
this  time  Captain  Falconbridge,  of  tbe  V.  S. 
Cavalry,  who  is  stationed  at  the  Mexican  border,  Is 
introduced  to  Irma  at  Don  Arguello's  home  by  Don 
Carlos,  a  high-grade  young  Mexican,  who  consorts 
with  Americans.  At  a  later  visit  Don  Arguello 
happens  on  the  scene  and  shows  bis  immediate  dis- 
approval by  insulting  the  American  flag  which 
Falconbridge  has  presented  to  Irma.  This  60  in- 
censes the  soldier  that  he  requests  tbe  ladies  to 
leave  the  room  while  he  gives  the  old  roue  a  sound 
trouncing.  He  has  completed  this  in  satisfactory 
fashion,  the  furniture  being  wrecked  in  the  struggle, 
when  a  detachment  of  Mexican  soldiers  arrive. 
Falconbridge  escapes  the  vengeance  of  the  reinforce- 
ments by  leaping  through  a  window.  Irma,  who  is 
waiting  tbe  outcome  of  tbe  fight  in  the  garden, 
decides  to  fly  over  the  border  with  tbe  American  and 
escape  her  vengeful  and  despised  guardian.  Don 
Carlos  admires  Irma,  but  unselfishly  gives  aid  in  this 
good  cause.  Close  to  the  border  the  fleeing  pair  are 
forced  to  take  refuge  In  an  adobe.  There  they 
"stand  off"  the  pursuing  greasers  until  the  boys  of 
Falconbridge's  command,  hearing  the  firing,  and 
scenting  trouble,  ride  over  the  border  and  make  a 
daring  rescue. 

LTJBIN. 

SILENCE  FOE  SILENCE  (June  16).— Ray  Hamil- 
ton, a  young  farmer,  performs  some  necessary  labor 
on  Sunday;  he  is  censured  by  Deacon  Bentley.  Ray 
endeavor  to  explain,  bnt  their  words  only  bring 
on  a  quarrel  that  threatens  for  a  time  to  break 
their  friendship.  Ray  and  Bess,  the  deacon's 
daughter,  have  long  been  sweethearts  and  have  no 
intention  of  letting  tbe  quarrel  separate  them. 
While  Ray  is  out  taking  pictures  with  his  camera 
on  a  Sunday  afternoon,  be  secures  a  few  that  are 
not  very  interesting  to  the  deacon.  As  he  has 
caught  some  snaps  of  the  deacon  which,  if  shown 
to  the  congregation,  would  show  that  be  was  quite 
a  sportsman,  even  on  Sunday.  They  come  to  an 
agreement  of  silence  for  silence  and  everything 
ends  happily. 

BOB  BUILDS  A  BOAT  (June  16).— Bob  Thomp- 
son wanted  a  boat,  and  he  and  his  son,  Tom,  and 
Clarence  Dickson,  a  friend,  start  in  to  make  the 
craft  in  tbe  cellar.  Many  days  and  much  hard 
work  is  cheerfully  consumed  on  the  Job,  which, 
when  completed,  is  a  vision  of  much  enjoymeuc. 
But  the  engineering  and  surveying  was  at  fault  — 
they  had  not  measured  the  boat  and  ths  exit  of 
the  cellar.  These  important  qualities  did  not  match 
and  the  question  at  point  was,  how  to  get  the 
craft  out.  The  idea  of  sawing  the  boat  In  halves 
was  impossible,  the  only  thing  to  be  done  was  to 
knock  In  the  wall  of  the  cellar  and  dig  an  --it- 
This'  was  done  and  finally  the  tub  was  carried  down 
to  the  river.  The  proud  shlp-bullders  got  in  and 
pulled  out,  when  it  was  discovered  that  It  had  not 
been  well  calked.  It  took  water  and  was  rapidly 
filling.  Vivian,  Bob's  daughter,  and  the  nlred 
man  saw  tbe  peril  and  Vivian  really  did  love 
Clarence.  John,  tbe  hired  man,  quickly  got  a 
motorboat  and  motored  to  tbe  rescue.  All  Uvea 
were  saved,  and,  as  the  three  men  at  home  soaked 
their  feet  in  mustard  and  water,  they  declared, 
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OUT  OF  THE  BEAST  A  MAN  WAS  BORN  (June 
17). — Joe,  toe  tramp,  known  as  the  beast,  com- 
menced teasing  the  Saint,  known  to  all  as  tbe  Kid, 
and  would  not  permit  bim  to  eat  any  of  their  food. 
Tbe  glutton  and  tbe  Indifferent  one  objected,  ruling 
the  beast  oat  of  camp.  Toe  beast  goes  to  the  end 
of  a  division,  and,  knowing  the  good-beartedness  of 
railroad  men,  asks  for  money.  His  appearance  is 
against  bim  and  be  is  refused.  He  strikes  the  man 
•down  and  takes  what  Is  not  bis  own.  The  in- 
different one,  the  glutton  and  the  kiddie  have  gone 
on  their  way  and  arrive  in  the  railroad  yards  in 
time  to  see  the  beast  struck  down  while  attempting 
to  get  away  with  his  ill-gotten  gains.  Tbe  little 
Saint  Induces  his  pals  to  give  succor  to  tbe  beast. 
He  is  taken  to  an  old  but  and  there  nursed  back 
to  health  by  tbe  child  tramp,  after  being  deserted 
by  the  others.  The  child  later  reveals  to  the  beast 
the  man  within  and  secures  from  bim  a  sacred 
promise  through  which  the  beast  Is  regenerated 
4tnd  cansed  to  torn  to  the  love  of  God. 

THE  WEAKER  MIND  (Special — 8  parts — June 
18). — Bracey  Curtis,  an  engineer,  took  Bob  Glore 
*t»  the  superintendent  after  he  had  been  discharged 
Tor  'drinking,  and  promised  to  be  responsible  for 
lulm.  Bob,  glad  of  the  chance,  sobered  up  and  was 
beginning  to  make  a  man  of  himself,  when,  one 
day,  returning  home  after  a  trip,  he  met  his  sister 
enronte  to  their  cottage,  and  Reina  Loeb,  a  drunk- 
■ard's  daughter,  who  tempted  him  to  enter  a  well- 
Iknown  resort.  By  her  fascinating  ways  she  induced 
"Dim  to  touch  that  which  bad  cansed  bis  old  father 
-and  sister  the  one  sorrow  in  their  lives.  Mary,  bis 
-sister,  snspicloned  where  he  had  gone,  went  to 
"Bracey  and  requested  that  he  assist  her  in  getting 
■Bob  home.  He  did  so,  and  found  tbe  young  man 
■very  much  under  the  Influence  of  liquor.  Later  on 
"Bob  met  Beth,  the  engineer's  daughter,  and  her 
.goodness  and  purity  struck  bim  to  such  an  extent 
that  be  returned  from  his  evil  associations  to  tbe 
path  of  rectitude.  The  chief  offender  is  a  drunk- 
ard, who,  la  one  of  his  drunken  frenzies  fell  and 
broke  bis  neck  and  died.  His  daughter  is  taken 
Into  the  engineer's  home  and  there  treated  as  one 
of  the  family.  Tbe  truth,  charity  and  environ- 
ments of  this  ideal  household  soon  has  its  effect 
noon  the  former  temptress,  and  she  bows  low  be- 
fore the  God  that  represents  the  home  of  Curtis, 
the  engineer.  Bob's  reformation  brings  with  It  tbe 
reward  of  Beth's  love,  and  Mary,  who  bad  always 
recognized  the  true  worth  of  Bracey,  gave  him  her 
hand  in  faith,  hope  and  love.  Then  to  the  child, 
.Reina,  tbe  adventuress,  turned  with  a  heart  over- 
sowing with  thankfulness  and  appreciation. 

A  FATHER'S  LOVE  (June  19).— While  telling  his 
Tvife  about   the   loss  of   bis   position  on   account  of 
reduction    of    force,     John    Brown,     machinist,     dis- 
covers his  little  daughter  in  high  fever.     The  doctor 
is  sent  for.    The  child  grows  worse.     Lack  of  funds 
•cause    medical    attention    hard    to    find.     Unable    to 
pay    the   rent,    John   Is   notified   to    vacate.     G>azlng 
•upon    the    little    sufferer,     John    takes    the    empty 
medicine   bottle   and  goes  In   search   of  a    druggist 
who    will    trust    bim.     His    search    Is    in    vain.     Of 
■all  the  drug  stores  viBlted,   not  one   cares   to  con- 
sider  taking   a    chance.     In   hopeless   despair.    John 
continues  bis  quest.     A  bank  messenger,    with  two 
bags   of  coin,   is    entering   a   bank.     John    smothers 
bis    pride    and    determines    to    ask    for    assistance. 
Ofllclals  connected  with  a  large  financial  Institution 
have  little   time  to  give  to   a  man   in    poverty,    so 
tbe  aristocratic  bank  president,   who  perhaps   never 
baa  known  the  sting  of  want,   orders  iohn   to  take 
his   medicine  bottle   and   go.     Humiliated  by    treat- 
ment as   s   beggar,    resigning  himself   to   the   hope- 
lessness  of   bis   condition,    John    turns    to   go,    when 
suddenly  his  eyes  fall  upon  the  bottle  in  his  hand, 
the    cost    of    which,     perhaps,    means    a    life.     He 
overpowers  the  banker  and  forces  him  to  make  the 
email    loan.     When    relating    the    Incident    to    his 
•employees,   the  banker  declines  to  pursue  the  man, 
recalling   the   fact   th.it   while   thousands  of   dollars 
lies  on  his  desk,  the  man  did  not  touch  a  penny  of 
1t     being   satisfied    with   the   small   bill    asked    for. 
John  is  about  to  enter  the  doctor's  office  when  his 
attention   is   called   to   a   little   child    In   dangc-.     At 
the  risk  of  his  life,  he  saves  the  child,  and  followed 
'by    the   frantic   mother,    takes    it    Into   the   doctors 
•office,   where,    later,    the  wealthy   parent  learns   his 
name.    A  few  daye  later  the  doctor  Is  telling  John 
that  his  own  little  girl  Is  now  out  of  dsnger,  when 
the    postman    brings    him    a    letter    from    the    Mill 
Company,    telling  him    a   mistake    was    made    in    his 
•suspension,    enclosing    a    check    for    time    lost    and 
directing  him   to   return  to  work.     John   and    Mary 
are    rejoicing    In    the    glad    tidings    when    a    knock 
comes  on   their  door.     It  is   the   wealthy   parents  of 
the   Uttle   girl  John   saved.     John   modestly   accepts 
their  kind    wishes,    and    Is   Just   about   to    take    the 
•extended  hand  of  the  father,  when  the  men  stare  in 
mutual     recognition— the    banker    and     the    hold-up 
man      John  repays  tbe  loan   by  offering   the  check 
from    his   emplovees,    and  leads   the   banker   to   the 
bedside  of  his  Uttle  girl,  where  both  children  have 
become    fast    friends    at    first    sight.     Further    ex- 
planations are  unnecessary:  the  banker  understands. 
and.  looking  at  the  children,   then  at  John,  he  hands 
him  back  his  check,  and  offering  a  hand  warm  with 
heartfelt  gratitude,    tells   him,    "Tour  hold-up   debt 
Is  paid." 

HIS  REDEMPTION  (June  20).— Ed  Cail  and  Jim 
Bold  hold  up  a  messenger  carrying  a  payroll  from 
the  bank  to  the  mine.  They  get  away  with  the 
money,  but  as  they  near  the  state  penitentiary. 
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capture  is  inevitable,  tbey  bury  the  saddle  bags 
containing  the  money.  They  are  taken  prisoners 
and  given  a  grueling  cross-examination  by  a  sbrewd 
detective  In  a  last  effort  to  make  them  reveal  tbe 
hiding  place  of  their  loot.  It  la  unsuccessful,  and 
tbey  are  sentenced  to  ten  years  each  In  the  peni- 
tentiary. During  their  confinement  the  dlfferennt 
natures  of  the  two  men  are  shown  plainly.  Cail  is 
liked  by  tbe  warden  for  his  pleasant  manner,  and 
in  a  short  time  is  made  a  "trusty"  and  allowed 
tbe  freedom  of  the  prison.  Bold  Is  sullen  and  re- 
sents Call's  promotion  to  the  warden's  confidence. 
Alice,  the  warden's  daughter,  becomes  Interested  In 
Cail  and  influences  him  for  good.  He  finally  de- 
cides to  tell  where  the  money  is  hidden,  and  gives 
her  a  diagram  of  the  spot  that  It  may  be  re- 
turned to  the  owners.  The  very  day  this  happens. 
Bold  plans  an  uprising.  In  the  excitement  he 
escapes,  after  wounding  the  warden  in  tbe  arm. 
The  warden's  daughter,  who  believes  that  Call  bas 
joined  in  the  uprising  In  order  to  Join  his  partner. 
goea  after  them,  but  when  she  arrives  at  the  spot 
where  the  two  men  are  standing  over  the  bidden 
money,  she  realties  that  Call's  Intentions  are 
honest,  and  when  Call,  after  subduing  Bold,  orders 
him  to  return  to  the  penitentiary  with  the  money, 
she  knows  that  her  confidence  in  Call  has  not  been 
betrayed.  Later,  the  warden  succeeds  In  getting 
a  parole  for  Call  from  the  governor  and  Alice  asks 
to  be  allowed  to  hand  him  the  paper.  Needless 
to  say.  her  heart  went  with  It,  and  their  ultimate 
bappiness  is  assured. 

FROM  IGNORANCE  TO  LIGHT  (June  21).— 
Mary  Menson,  a  country  girl,  is  attracted  by  Paul 
Langford,  who  is  spending  the  winter  in  the  South. 
He  devotes  much  If  his  time  in  leading  Mary  on  to 
love  him.  For  his  sake  she  learns  to  read  and 
write  and  Is  willing  to  study  hard  to  be  like  other 
girls.  The  edncational  side  Is  looked  after  by  her 
old  friend  Jack  Hardy,  the  schoolmaster,  who. 
though  college  bred,  is  rusticated,  and  who  himself 
loves  Mary.  He  thinks  that  he  Is  educating  her  to 
make  her  fit  to  marry  his  rival,  but  Mary  suddenly 
discovers  that  the  rlgbt  man  Is  Jack.  At  the  happy 
ending  Paul  Langford  and  his  real  sweetheart,  Ger- 
trude Granger,  return  north,  leaving  Mary  and  the 
school   master   to  tbe   mercy  of   wedding   bells. 

A  HERO  AMONG  MEN  (Special— 2  parts— June 
9). — Ethel,  daughter  of  Richard  Menten,  president 
of  the  Imperial  Arms  Co.,  is  secretly  engaged  to 
Martin  Bently,  the  secretary  of  the  concern.  Be- 
ing in  poor  health  she  la  sent  to  the  country,  and 
there,  with  her  mother,  lives  with  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Landers.  Harry  Landers,  the  son,  and  Ethel  en- 
joy many  outings  and  eventually  fall  madly  in 
love.  Harry  proposes,  but  Ethel  tells  him  that 
she  Is  engaged,  and,  being  unable  to  combat  her 
dally  Increasing  love,  urges  her  mother  to  take 
her  back   to  the  city. 

Sometime  later  Menton,  having  a  vacancy,  in- 
duces Harry  to  accept  a  position  in  the  company. 
He  bids  farewell  to  his  parents  and  hastens  to  the 
city.  Ethel  knows  nothing  of  Harry's  presence  In 
the  oftlce,  until  one  day  when  she  Is  leaving  with 
her  father  and  Bently,  ahe  encounters  Harry  at 
tbe  door.  Halt  dazed  he  goes  through  the  form- 
ality of  an  introduction.  He  then  realizes  thst 
Bently  is  his  rival.  Harry  holds  his  love  In  leash 
and  continues  a  friendship  with  Ethel. 

Richard  Menton  has  for  weeks  been  contending 
with  several  hundred  of  his  workmen,  who  demand 
a  10  per  cent,  raise  in  wages  and  Harry  is  taken 
into  conference.  He  has  looked  Into  the  homes 
and  condition  of  the  workmen  and  reports  that  the 
demand  Is  not  unfair.  Menton  still  opposes  the 
raise  and  refuses  the  demand.  A  mass  meeting 
of  the  men  is  called  and  they  decide  to  strike. 
Ethel  sees  the  men  marching  to  the  plant  and 
warns  the  startled  ofBcials.  The  day  watchman, 
intoxicated,  has  descended  into  tbe  basement  and 
fallen  asleep,  while  smoking  a  clagrette.  Tbe 
cigarette  falls  Into  a  heap  of  excelsior  and  sets  the 
building  on  Are.  In  the  corridors  are  stored  many 
boxes  of  ammunition  and  powder  ready  for  ship- 
ment. The  officials  of  the  plant,  on  seeing  the 
mob,  have  fortified  themselves  in  Menton's  private 
office  when  tbe  terrified  watchman  rushes  up  and 
tells  them  that  the  basement  Is  in  flames.  The 
workmen,  knowing  of  the  ammunition  in  tbe  build- 
ing, beat  a  retreat.  Menton  hearing  that  the 
building  Is  on  Are  swoons  from  heart  failure. 
Ethel,  who  Is  also  in  the  executive  offices,  Is  in 
hysterics.  Harry  drags  Menton  down  the  courtyard 
and  instructs  Bently  to  look  after  Ethel,  who  bas 
fainted;  he  however,  In  a  paroxysm  of  fear  leaves 
her  and  dsshes  Into  the  crowded  yard.  Harry 
places  Menton  in  an  ambulance  and  then  learns 
that  Ethel  is  still  in  the  building.  Tbe  explosion 
of  tbe  cases  commences,  but  Harry,  disregarding  the 
danger,  rushes  in  and  drags  her  down  the  stairs 
amid  the  cheers  of  tbe  mob  of  strikers.  The  strike 
ends  and  the  firm  gives  in  to  the  demand  of  the 
men.  Ethel  ignores  Bently  and  Harry  asks  Menton 
for  the  hand  of  bis  daughter,  which  is  cheerfully 
granted  as  the  brave  lover  is  pronounced  "A  Hero 
Among   Men." 

PATHEPLAY. 

FATHE'S  WEEKLY,  NO.  24,  1913  (June  9).— 
St.  Louis,  Mo. — The  annual  reunion  of  the  As- 
sociated Harvard  Clubs  recalls  the  brave  days  of 
long  ago  to  a  number  of  veteran  graduates  of  the 
'University. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y.— As  Is  customary  on  the  Sunday 
before  Decoration  Day,  tbe  veterans  of  tbe  G.  A.  R. 


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honor  their  dead  comrades  buried  in  the  National 
cemetery  here. 

Stoke-on-Trent,  England. — The  King  and  Queen 
visit  this  city  and  make  a  tour  of  a  large  pottery 
factory. 

Sacramento,  Cal. — Governor  Hiram  W,  Johnson 
signs  the  much  discussed  Alien  Land  Bill. 

Frankfort-on-Main,  Germany,— In  an  aerial  game 
of  hare  and  bounds,  the  hare  gets  caught  in  a  tree 
and  la  discovered  first  by  Pathe's  Weekly,  and  then 
by  a  bound  in  the  person  of  an  army  officer. 

Ithaca,  K.  Y. — The  Cornell  University  students 
parade  through  the  streets  to  the  campus,  where 
they  give  their  annual  spring-day  circus. 

Hamburg,  Germany, — The  largest  ship  afloat, 
the  "Imperator,"  of  the  Hamburg-American  line,  is 
making  her  maiden  voyage  to  America. 

New  York,  N.  Y. — The  palatial  new  steamer, 
"Berkshire,"  built  for  the  Hudson  River  service, 
makes  her  first  trip. 

Comic  Section. — Mutt,  being  a  baseball  expert. 
Illustrates  for  Jeff  the  difference  between  an  "in" 
and  an   "out  drop." 

And   Many    Others, 

A  TOUH  THHOTTGH  TOUHAINE  (June  17).— 
This  film  is  a  personally  conducted  tour  through 
beautiful  Touraine,  France,  showing  the  various 
examples  of  architectural  splendor  which  were  built 
by  the  various  kings  of  France  from  the  Fifteenth 
Century  to  the  Revolution.  It  shows  the  chateau 
of  Villesavin,  the  chateau  of  Cheverny,  the  Court 
of  Honor,  which  Is  adorned  with  a  very  pretty 
Italian  fountain,  the  chateau  of  Chaumont  (lying 
In  the  beautiful  valley  of  the  Loire  River),  and 
many  others  which  make  the  film  Interesting,  of 
great  educational   value   and   pleasing   the   eye. 

RHODES  (Asiatic  Turkey)— (June  17).— The  lit- 
tle city  of  Rhodes,  the  capital  of  the  island  of 
Rhodes,  where  the  French  inhabitants  live  among 
the  landmarks  and  now  ruined  reminders  of  former 
Turkish  magnificence. 

THE  SACRIFICE  (June  18).— Jane  Hunter,  the 
wife  of  Cleveland  Hunter,  the  noted  illustrator, 
could  not  bear  to  see  her  husband  spending  so 
much  time  with  his  art,  and,  consequently,  went 
home,  with  her  child  to  her  mother.  Hunter,  who 
was  not  in  the  best  of  health,  soon  found  that  he 
was  a  victim  of  the  white  plague  and  that  it 
would  be  necessary  for  him  to  go  to  a  sanitarium. 
There'  the  physicians  decided  that  blood  trans- 
fusion was  necessary  to  save  his  life  and  they 
sought  someone  who  could  make  the  sacrifice. 
When  Jane  learned  of  her  husband's  predicament 
she  promptly  volunteered.  The  operation  was  a 
success  and  Hunter  showed  signs  of  marked  Im- 
provement, but  the  baby  was  left  alone  with  his 
father,    because  Jane  died. 

THE  OUTLAW'S  LOVE  (June  19).— "Dare 
Devil"  Larpln,  a  notorious  outlaw,  wins  the  heart 
of  Lillian  Conklin.  Her  brother,  Joe,  objects 
strongly  to  the  alliance  and  through  his  efforts 
Larpln  is  kept  ont  of  the  vicinity.  The  outlaw 
writes  to  Lillian  suggesting  that  since  her  parents 
have  willed  her  and  Joe  an  equal  Interest  in  the 
cattle  she  could  cut  out  her  share,  sell  It  and 
start  housekeeping  with  the  money.  Lillian  is  de- 
lighted with  the  idea.  The  cowboys  discover 
someone  rustling  the  cattle  and  inform  Joe  Conk- 
lin. Joe,  not  knowing  the  rustler  is  his  sister, 
fires  on  her.  She  flees  with  Joe  and  another  cow- 
boy in  pursuit.  At  a  sharp  turn  Lillian  Is  thrown 
from  her  horse  and  mortally  injured.  Her  dying 
request  is  to  we  Larpin  and  although  he  knows 
that  the  author  ties  are  after  him  he  heeds  her 
call,  reaching  the  bedside  just  iu  time  to  bid  her 
an  affectionate  farewell  and  as  Lillian  passes  away 
the  outlaw  willingly  submits  to  arrest  at  the 
bands  of  the  waiting  sheriff. 

THE  BURIAL  OF  A  RICH  CHIHAU&N  (June 
20). — For  the  very  many  people  who  have  never 
witnessed  the  burial  of  a  Chinaman  this  film  will 
prove  a  remarkably  interesting  entertainment.  The 
deceased  In  this  case  happens  to  have  been  very 
wealthy  and  as  a  result  no  expense  is  spared  to 
make  a  stupendous  showing.  The  cortege  is  car- 
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dead  man's  many  virtues.  The  edibles  and  objects 
that  he  loved  are  buried  with  him  and  his  family 
pay    their    farewell    respects. 

ANTTBES  (FRANCE),  AND  ITS  ENVIRONS 
(June  20). — The  views  of  the  old  town  at  which 
Napoleon  disembarked  on  his  return  from  Elba 
In  1815.  It  is  from  this  city  that  one  may  secure 
an  idea  of  the  beauties  of  the  sunsets  on  the 
Mediterranean. 

MONTTMENTS  AND  CASCADES  OF  ROME  (June 
20) . — A  visit  to  the  beautiful  monuments  and 
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THE  JURY'S  VERDICT  (June  21).— Henry  Wll- 
son,  a  celebrated  lawyer,  whose  son  has  left  home 
and  secretly  married  the  girl  of  bis  choice,  is  called 
upon  to  defend  a  girl  charged  with  murdering  her 
husband.  After  he  has  undertaken  the  case  he 
learns  that  it  is  his  own  son  whom  the  girl  Is  ac- 
cused of  killing.  He  believes  ber  innocent  and 
makes  an  impassioned  speech  to  the  twelve  men 
who  are  to  decide  and  then  exhausted  from  the 
strain  awaits,  breathlessly,  the  jury's  verdict.  Sus- 
pense Is  the  keynote  of  this  film  and  to  all  ex- 
hibitors who  realize  the  popularity  of  a  really 
dramatic  production,  this  release  offers  au  oppor- 
tunity to  book  -  the  kind  of  film  that  their  patrons 
enjoy. 


EDISON. 

HER  ROYAL  HIGHNESS  (June  16). — The  Prin- 
cess Alicia  was  plainly  bored.  A  baron  stood  be- 
hind her  chair  and  two  highborn  ladies  waited  at 
either  hand  to  obey  her  slightest  summons.  Later 
when  a  favorable  opportunity  presented  itself  Prin- 
cess Alicia  ran  away.  The  heart  of  the  Princess 
Alicia  urged  her  to  stop  and  play  in  the  mud 
with  some  peasant  children.  For  you  see  the  Prin- 
cess Alicia  was  only  eleven  years  old,  her  heart 
was  very  like  the  heart  of  any  other  little  child 
and  she  had  never  played  in  the  dirt  before  in  her 
life. 

How  Alicia  brought  her  little  ragamuffin  friends 
back  to  the  palace  unobserved  while  the  royal 
guards  at  the  command  of  her  distracted  king 
were  searching  high  and  low  for  her;  how  they 
crept  up  to  the  nursery  and  made  a  magnificent  mud 
pie  with  the  earth  in  the  flower  pots  there  and 
finally  how  the  king  found  them  at  this  plebeian 
amusement  and  sternly  sentenced  the  little  peasants 
to  come  every  day  to  play  with  the  Princess  Alicia, 
can  best  be  discovered  by  seeing  this  really  charm 
ing    little    play. 

THE  TWIN  BROTHERS  (June  17).— The  two 
leading  parts  are  played  by  the  same  actor.  The 
twin  brothers,  Robert,  a  sober  Industrious  chap, 
and  William  a  drunkard,  are  both  in  love  with 
Mary  Leigh.  Mary  appreciating  the  distinction 
in  their  characters  cares  only  for  Robert.  Mis- 
construing Mary's  sisterly  affection,  William  de- 
ludes himself  with  the  notion  that  she  loves  him. 
and  boasts  to  Robert  of  his  good  luck.  Later, 
accidentally  surprising  Robert  and  Mary  together. 
William  discovers  bis  mistake.  Overcome  with  grief 
and    regret   he   leaves   immediately    for  the   West. 

Several  years  later  Robert  and  Mary  are  mar- 
ried. A  blackmailing  Jew  gets  possession  of  an 
important  letter  belonging  to  Robert  and  demands 
money  for  its  return.  Robert  calls  on  the  Jew, 
knocks  him  down  in  a  fit  of  passion  and  regains 
his  property.  Then  fearing  he  baa  killed  the 
blackmailer  he  hurries  back  to  his  office  In  a 
fever  of  uncertainty  as  to  what  he  should  do  next. 
At  his  office  he  Is  unexpectedly  confronted  by  Will- 
iam who  has  returned  from  the  West.  Robert  hur- 
riedly explains  the  situation  and  William  with 
splendid  generosity  Is  arrested  In  his  place.  Robert 
discovering  this,  follows  William  to  the  station 
house  and  confesses  his  own  part  in  it,  only  to 
find  that  the  Jew  was  merely  stunned.  The  broth- 
ers  clasp   hands. 

THE  EVIL  THEREOF  (June  20).— Mary  Ran- 
dolph has  a  hard  time  supporting  herself  and  her 
little  sister  with  the  money  she  earns  In  a  de- 
partment store.  Driven  to  desperation  on  f  rent 
day  she  summons  all  her  courage  and  goes  to 
the  proprietor  of  the  store  and  asks  for  a  sub- 
stantial wage.  Her  pleas  meet  with  a  stern  re- 
fusal. Haunted  by  the  stricken  look  in  the  girl's 
eyes,  Kathryn  Dolby,  daughter  of  the  proprietor, 
who  has  been  listening,  determines  to  investigate 
conditions  by  becoming  one  of  the  salesgirls.  Un- 
known to  her  father  she  obtains  such  a  position  In 
his  store. 

On  the  afternoon  following  the  unsuccessful  inter- 
view with  the  proprietor,  Mary,  exhausted  by  the 
grind,  faints  as  she  is  leaving  the  store.  She  is 
caught  by  a  nice  young  man  who,  after  accompany- 
ing her  home,  pays  the  Insistent  rent  collector 
what  Is  dne  him. 

Several  days  later,  owing  to  the  increasing  rush 
of  customers,  Mary  again  faints  from  exhaustion, 
and  after  a  stormy  scene  with  her  father,  Kathryn 
takes  the  weakened  woman  to  her  squalid  home, 
where  she  learns  of  the  discovery  of  a  note  from 
her  brother,  Jack,  urging  the  woman  to  accept  the 
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Edwards  of  the  street  cleaning  department  are 
given.  In  the  reviewing  stand,  Police  Commissioner 
Waldo  stands  at  the  right  of  Mayor  Gaynor.  This 
pageant   occurred   on   the    17th  of   May. 

HE  WOULD  FIX  THINGS  (June  18).— Mr.  But- 
Insky  is  a  very  benevolent  sort  of  a  chap  and  in 
trying  to  help  his  neighbors  and  friends  who  are 
In  trouble  gets  into  a  lot  of  trouble  himself.  He 
nearly  wrecks  the  automobile  of  one  of  his  friends 
by  pounding  on  a  cylinder.  Later  coming  upon  a 
young  man  talking  to  his  sweetheart  at  the  gate, 
Buttinsky  enters  into  the  conversation  and  ac- 
companies them  into  the  house.  Like  a  bugle  call 
to  his  chivalrous  soul  he  stops  the  leak  In  a  water- 
pipe  by  placing  his  band  in  the  hole  and  tells  the 
family  to  send  for  a  plumber.  The  plumber,  who 
was  born  with  humorous  tendencies,  instead  of  stop- 
ping the  flow  of  water  Immediately,  goes  into  the 
cellar  and  smokes  his  pipe.  He  at  length  turns  the 
water  off  and  returns  upstairs  to  And  Buttinsky 
about  exhausted  from  fatigue.  The  astonishment  of 
Buttinsky  is  supreme  when  he  finds  upon  removing 
his  hand  from  the  leak  that  water  no  longer  flows. 

MARY  STUART  (Special— 3  parts— June  21).— 
The  beautiful  and  much  loved  Mary  Stuart,  Queen 
of  Scotland,  Is  one  of  the  most  unfortunate  and 
sympathetic  characters  In  history.  Born  In  Scot- 
land, educated  at  the  court  of  Francis  II  of  France, 
whom  she  married  at  fifteen,  queen  of  France  at 
sixteen,  a  widow  at  seventeen,  beginning  her  reign 
as  Scotland's  Queen  at  eighteen,  married  to  Darn- 
ley  of  the  Royal  Blood  at  nineteen — her  life  began 
amid    turmoil    and    disaster. 

Her  husband,  Lord  Darnley,  who  after  their  mar- 
riage proved  himself  a  vicious  braggart  and  cox- 
comb, was  intensely  Jealous  of  Rizzio.  Mary's  fa- 
vorite singer  and  secretary.  One  night  as  Rizzio 
sang  to  the  queen,  Darnley  and  his  band  of  night 
hawks  waited  at  the  foot  of  the  narrow  staircase 
for  the  singer.  Down  the  staircase  he  comes  full 
of  youth  and  love.  Darnley's  hand  shoots  out  of 
the  shadow  and  Darnley's  dagger  finds  its  rest  in 
Rizzio's   heart. 

Such  marital  dissensions,  together  with  political 
factions  and  religious  contentions,  cause  Scotland 
to  rise  in  arms,  and  the  queen  In  jeopardy  of  life 
and  without  followers,  accepts  the  offered  hospi- 
tality of  England's  queen,  Elizabeth,  who  extends 
Mary  an  Invitation  to  sojourn  at  Eennilworth  Cas- 
tle, in  Warwickshire,  until  the  broils  of  Scottish 
clans  subside  and  Mary  can  return  to  her  throne. 
With  gratitude  and  baste,  the  Stuart  repairs  to 
Kennllworth.  only  to  find  herself  trapped,  a  pri- 
soner, by  Elizabeth  who  really  fears  not  only  the 
Scottish  queen's  beauty  and  power,  but  her  legal 
birthrights  to  the  English  crown.  Elizabeth,  not 
daring  to  openly  execute  her  royal  sister,  tries 
secretly  to  affect  her  assassination  but  in  vain, 
owing  to  the  loyalty  of  Mary's  servitors. 

A  charge  of  treason  is  then  brought  against  her 
by  the  English  crown.  She  Is  found  guilty  and 
sentenced  to  the  block.  Pending  the  signing  of 
the  death  warrant  by  Queen  Elizabeth,  attempts 
to  rescue  her  are  made,  one  by  a  gallant  and 
loving  Englishman,  Sir  Edward  Mortimer;  but 
these  only  resulted  in  failure  of  plans,  frustrated 
attempts  on  Elizabeth's  life,  and  deeper  confinement 
and  unhappiness  for  Mary.  In  a  meeting  between 
the  two  queens,  effected  after  much  planning, 
Elizabeth  taunts  Mary  whose  proud  spirit  rebels  and 
bursts  forth  in  denunciations.  After  this  disas- 
trous Interview  and  at  the  urging  of  Lord  Burleigh, 
the  Lord  Treasurer,  Elizabeth  signs  the  death  war- 
rant and  the  martyr  queen  is  led  to  public  execu- 
tion. The  Earl  of  Leicester  has  been  secretly  in 
love  with  Mary  but,  fearing  in  bis  safety,  deserts 
ber  when  the  crisis  comes. 

There  is  a  white  haired  old  man  who  follows  her, 
with  breaking  heart,  to  the  scaffold,  and  a  gray 
haired  old  woman  bowed  down  by  weeping — these, 
her  nurse  and  her  physician,  the  remnants  of  her 
faithful  followers.  She  mounts  the  scaffold,  the 
charges  of  treason  are  read  to  the  curious,  hungry 
crowd  watching.  She  forgives  the  headsman,  offers 
a  prayer  for  her  too  trusting  soul,  and  bares  her 
white  neck  to  the  axe.  The  film  fades  on  Leicester 
bowed  with  grief  and  remorse  on  the  stairs  which 
Mary  had  just  ascended  on  her  way  to  the  scaffold. 


MELIES 

THE  LURE  OF  THE  SACRED  PEARL  (June  19). 
— Produced  in  Java. — Freeman,  a  young  American 
traveler,  landing  at  Surabaja,  Java,  purchases  a 
catch  of  Thursday  Island  oysters.  Opening  them, 
he  rinds  in  one  a  black  pearl,  the  stone  that  is 
sacred  to  Buddha.  A  Buddhist  religious  fanatic, 
perceiving  the  stone,  trys  to  wrench  it  from  the 
American,    but   without   success. 

Freeman  repairs  to  a  hotel  with  his  friends 
where  the  fanatic,  disguised,  makes  au  offer  for 
the  pearl  that  he  may  present  it  to  Buddha;  but 
his  offer  is  too  low  and  Freeman  refuses.  From 
that  day  on  tbe  American  Is  shadowed  from  morn- 
ing till  night  and  at  last  is  attacked  and  seriously 
wounded.  Regaining  consciousness,  he  discovers 
that  the  pearl  has  been  stolen  and  suspicion  is  at 
once    directed    towards   the    fanatic. 

Knowing  tbe  use  the  fanatic  would  make  of  the 
jewel,  Freeman  journeys  to  the  temple  of  Boro- 
Budur.  "the  temple  of  the  thousand  Baddoas," 
where    be    disguises    himself    as    a    Buddhist    priest 


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and  makes  a  search  of  all  the  statues  for  his  miss- 
ing pearl.  Giving  up  almost  in  despair,  he  suddenly 
sees  the  fanatic  coming  to  offer  the  pearl  to  "make 
merit"  with  Buddha.  Freeman  quickly  calls  in 
the  police  and  tbe  fanatic,  caught  with  tbe  goods, 
but  fearing  that  Buddha,  deprived  of  the  pearl, 
will  have  revenge,  gives  his  whole  fortune  for  the 
gem. 

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method  employed  in  getting  these  gem-bearing  oys- 
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BIOQRAPH 

THE  SWITCH-TOWER  (June  16) . — He  was  a 
regular  boy  and  his  father  a  switchman.  The  boy 
determined  to  be  like  his  dad  and  spent  his  play 
hours  around,  the  switch-tower.  Thus  at  tbe 
crucial  moment  he  was  able  to  save  his  father's 
honor  as  a  switchman,  when  tbe  struggle  between 
love  and  duty  came  and  later  to  come  to  tbe  aid 
of  his  parents  In  the  hands  of  the  desperate  coun- 
terfeiters,   eventually   causing   their  capture. 

THE  MOTHERING  HEART  (2  parts— June  21).— 
Always  mothering  something  the  girl  came  into  her 
own.  So  through  the  mother  spirit  she  yielded 
to  her  young  admirer's  persuasions.  He  was  such 
a  sorry  young  person.  Soon  her  sacrificing  heart 
brightened  the  path  of  the  struggling  husband — 
her  own  heartaches  forgotten  for  her  loved  one. 
With  prosperity  came  the  idle  woman  and  a  young 
wife's  struggle  against  tbe  truth.  A  new  light 
broke,    then  darkened,   but   shone  again   the  clearer. 

THE  RISE  AND  FALL  OF  McDOO  (June  19).— 
He  reckoned  without  his  better  half  with  the  in- 
evitable result.  At  home  the  Prince  of  Knock-outs 
was  a  lazy  husband:  abroad,  the  ideal  of  the  fair. 
The  Misses  McNeil  quite  lost  sight  of  the  Nilly 
boyB  when  he  appeared  at  the  lawn  party.  Mrs. 
McDoo  also  appeared  as  official  dishwasher  at  the 
party.  That  was  how  the  youthful  McNeils'  ideal 
was  shattered  and  the  Nilly  boys  regained  their 
rightful  prestige. 

ALMOST  A  WILD  MAN  (June  19).— Rooly, 
Pooly  and  Dooly  were  "picture  sandwiches,"  but 
hardly  shining  lights,  even  in  that  capacity.  Con- 
sequently they  were  "canned"  by  the  management. 
A  brilliant  idea — one  would  play  the  wild  man  in 
the  village  square — a  real  live  Bbow  of  their  own. 
Rooly  and  Pooly  then  basked  in  the  society  of  fair 
country  belles,  but  Dooly  at  length  was  rescued  by 
Miss  Smart,  looking  for  excitement.  She  was  not 
disappointed. 

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THE  WHEEL  OF  DEATH  (June  16)  .—John 
Brown,  the  mate  on  a  river  steamboat,  rescues  a 
small  boy  from  the  clutches  of  a  villainous  deck- 
hand, thereby  gaining  the  roustabout's  bitter 
enmity.  Absorbed  over  the  events  of  tbe  day,  tbe 
mate  fails  to  bestow  upon  his  wife  the  usual 
home-coming  caress.  Annoyed,  she  greets  tbe 
coming  of  the  stranger  as  a  possible  foil  to  arouse 
the  husband's  Jealousy  in  punishment  for  tbe  slight. 
The  flirtation  all  but  ends  in  a  tragedy  with  dis- 
covery by  the  husband,  who  does  not  understand 
her  innocent  act.  He  spares  the  stranger's  life  and 
leaves — as  he  vows — forever.  The  stranger  promises 
to  bring  back  the  husband.  Brown  is  waylaid  by 
the  rascally  deckhand,  who,  with  a  companion,  ties 
the  mate  to  the  wheel  of  the  steamboat.  The 
stranger  boards  the  vessel  as  it  pulls  out.  He  dis- 
covers Brown's  predicament  and  after  a  savage 
battle  with  the  ruffians,  rescues  the  mate  from  the 
whirling,  churning  wheel  of  death.  Brown  is  carried 
to  his  home,  where  he  is  revived.  Matter  are  ex- 
plained and  a  happy  family  reunited.  Tbe  stranger 
goes  bis  way. 

GOVERNOR  JOHNSON  OF  CALIFORNIA  (June 
10), — California's  chief  executive  has  been  much  in 
the  public  eye  of  late  and  recently  signed  the  widely 
discussed  anti-alien  land  bill.  The  Kalem  photog- 
rapher has  secured  some  Interesting  pictures  of 
Governor  Johnson. 

THE  ATTORNEY  FOR  THE  DEFENSE  (June  18). 
—Norman  Lewis,  having  been  admitted  to  the  bar, 
prepares  to  leave  for  the  city,  where  he  has  been 
offered  a  position  with  a  large  law  firm.  He  en- 
Joya  a  farewell  dinner  with  his  sweetheart,  Ruth 
Demarest,  and  in  a  spirit  of  fun  they  break  a 
wishbone.  They  make  a  compact  whereby  each  is 
to  preserve  a  portion  of  tbe  wishbone  and  return  it, 
should  love   fail. 

Norman  meets  with  great  success  In  the  city 
and  his  stenographer,  Louise  Borden,  a  bright, 
vivacious  young  woman,  falls  deeply  in  love  with 
him.  Norman  tells  her  of  his  love  for  Ruth  and 
shows  her  the  portion  of  the  wish-bone,  which  he 
has  bad  made  into  a  watch-charm. 

Louise  determines  to  replace  Ruth  in  Norman's 
affections.  One  day  she  notices  that  the  ribbon  of 
his  watch-fob  has  become  worn  and  offers  to  re- 
place it.  This  enables  her  to  throw  away  the 
charm  and  fasten  a  piece  of  another  wishbone,  tbe 
remainder  of  which  she  mails  to  the  young  lawyer. 
When  the  morning  mail  arrives  she  secretly  oblit- 
erates the  postmark  and  proceeds  to  purloin  Ruth's 
letters   when    they   appear. 

Norman,  in  a  spirit  of  pride,  offers  no  response 
and  endeavors  to  forget  Ruth. 

In  the  little  country  town   Ruth   has  been   study- 


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lng  law,  that  she  may  be  of  assistance  to  Norman 
when  they  are  married.  Her  heart  is  broken  when 
she  is  led  to  believe  that  bis  love  has  grown  cold. 
The  next  year  she  is  admitted  to  practice  ami  by 
a  strange  turn  of  fate  she  is  called  to  the  city 
to  defend  a  ease  which  Norman  is  prosecuting.  An 
unexpected  incident  brings  the  lovers  together  and 
exposes   Louise's    treachery. 

CT/PID'8  LARIAT  (June  20).— When  Ssebblns  re- 
turns home  he  Is  iufurlated  to  find  bis  daughter, 
.lane,  in  conversation  with  Burt,  her  sweetheart, 
aa  he  has  not  looked  upon  the  match  with  favor. 
He  sends  Burt  on  his  way  and  locks  Jane  In  her 
room. 

Burt  resolves  to  resort  to  strategy  and  his  lariat 
offers  a  suggestion.  Proceeding  hack  to  the  house 
irows  pebbles  at  Jane's  window  and.  attracting 
iior  attention,  tosses  her  the  lariat.  She  fastens 
"ne  end  to  the  door  aDd  prepares  to  slide  down  to 
the  waiting  arms  of  her  sweetheart.  Stebbins  hears 
a  disturbance  and  rushes  to  Jane's  room.  He  can- 
not open  the  door  because  of  the  rope,  but  when 
Jane  alights  on  the  ground,  father  Is  precipitated 
down  the  stairs.  stebbins  gathers  himself  to- 
gether  and    follows   in   pursuit   of   the    coo 

Burt   and    Jane,    dashing    away   on    horseback,    see 
stebbins    chasing    them    and    bit    upon    a    scheme    to 
••lude    him.      They    encounter   a    cowboy    who    steps 
behind    the   brush    and    removes   his   outer   garni 
which    he  to    the   girl,    who  excb 

with  him.  Father  ultimately  makes  a  capture,  but 
of  the  wrong  couple,  and  is  obliged  to  grant  be- 
lated   congratulations. 

SMOKED  TO  A  FINISH  (June  80).—  Mrs.  Brown 
:md  her  friends  organize  the  Anti-Nicotine  League. 
The  husbands  are  the  victims.  One  day  while  his 
wife  is  away.  Brown  steals  a  smoke  and  notices 
that  a  draught  carries  the  smoke  up  the  chimnev. 
He  calls  in  his  cronies,  who  emulate  his  example. 
All  is  going  well  until  sneh  a  cloud  of  smoke  pro- 
ceeds from  the  chimney  that  a  neighbor  calls  out 
the  fire  department. 

ON  THE  BRINK  OF  RUIN  (June  21).— Fred's 
prison  sentence  expires  and  he  returns  to  his  wife 
md  child,  determined  to  lead  a  new  life.  He 
tinds  it  is  no  easy  matter  for  an  ex-convict  to  secure 
employment,  but  through  the  kind  offices  of  Mrs. 
ICdmond,  who  has  befriended  the  wife  in  her  time 
Of  need,  he  obtains  a  position  in  Mr.  Edmond's 
I'fHce. 

Fred's  employer  is  quick  to  appreciate  his  em- 
ploye's worth  and  soon  promotes  him  to  a  position 
■  •f  trust.  One  afternoon  Fred's  wife  arranges  to 
meet  him  and  he  places  his  watch  on  his  desk 
that  he  may  leave  promptly.  To  his  watch  chain 
is  attached  the  key  to  the  cash  box.  When  Fred 
is  called  from  the  office  to  secure  change  for  a 
large  bill,  Arthur,  an  unscrupulous  clerk,  takes 
the  key  and  empties  the  cash  box.  Mr.  Edmond 
passing  along  the  street,  sees  Fred  in  conversation 
with  a  desperate  character  and  does  not  understand 
that  the  yonng  man  is  endeavoring  to  reform  an 
old   companion. 

"Once  a  thief,  always  a  thief:"  declares  Arthur 
when  the  robbery  is  discovered.  The  office  bov 
haying  faith  in  Fred,  rushes  out  to  meet  htm  and 
leUs  him  of  the  incident.  Fred,  realizing  that  he 
will  have  difficulty  in  clearing  himself,  takes  to 
night.     The  old   companion    tells   him    not   to   return 

visTt*'  tbat  "S  tbe  flFSt  pUce  tbe  offlcers   "IB 

The  husband,  however,  concludes  that  he  must 
inform  his  wife  and  he  is  apprehended.  When  he 
is  conducted  to  prison  and  is  about  to  despair  his 
young  friend,  the  office  boy,  succeeds  in  clearing 
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Martinsburg,  W.  Va.— W.  E.  Crawford  is  to 
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apartment   building. 

Washington,  D.  C— Fraue  &  Marceron,  14th  street 
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apartments  and  a  theater,  with  a  seating  capacity 
for  282.  The  building  measures  83  by  97  feet  and 
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CRYSTAL. 

A  CALL  FROM  HOME  (June  17).— Robert  Leslie 
Is  engaged  to  marry  Alicia.  She  is  walking  In  the 
woods  one  day,  when  sbe  is  accosted  by  a  tramp. 
Sbe  Is  saved  from  unpleasantness  by  Dare  Hatton, 
wbo  cbases  tbe  tramp  away.  Alicia  truly  graceful, 
gives  Dan  a  flower  as  an  appreciation  for  his  kind- 
ness. "Walking  they  meet  Mr.  Leslie,  who  on  see- 
ing Dave  becomes  jealous.  Dave  leaves  and  Alicia 
and  Robert  quarrel.  She  breaks  the  engagement, 
still  later  tbe  friendship  of  Dave  and  the  girl 
ripens  into  love  and  they  are  married.  Leslie  who 
1b  a  stock  promoter  induces  Dave  to  invest  his  sav- 
ings In  some  worthless  stock.  Dave  received  a  let- 
ter from  his  father  telling  him  that  the  mortgage 
on  the  farm  at  borne  Is  due  and  requesting  Dave 
to  Bend  him  $2,000.  Dave  goes  to  see  Leslie  about 
Belling  his  stock  and  finds  out  that  Leslie  has 
decamped  and  that  the  stock  is  worthless.  Dave 
badly  In  need  of  money,  decided  to  follow  Leslie 
and  being  Informed  that  he  has  gone  to  Colorado. 
Dave  goes  there.  There  he  meets  Leslie  and  de- 
mands bis  money,  bnt  is  nearly  choked  to  death 
for  his  pains.  Desperate,  Dave  determines  to  kill 
him  and  In  the  night  steals  to  his  room,  he  Is  about 
to  perpetrate  a  foul  deed  when  the  proprietor  of 
tbe  hotel  comes  up  to  his  room  with  a  telegram 
from  his  wife,  who  has  wired  that  she  is  ill  and 
lonesome  about  the  cause  of  his  absence.  The 
thought  comes  to  him  that  he  was  about  to  make 
the  girl  he  lovee  the  wife  of  a  murderer  and  he  de- 
cides to  go  home.  Before  leaving,  gold  ore  is  found 
In  the  mine  in  which  he  owns  stock  and  Dave  sells 
at  a  big  profit.  He  returns  home  and  starts  life 
anew,  happy  in  the  thought  that  tbe  Call  from 
Home    saved    his    soul. 

THE  SMUGGLED  LACES  (June  22).—  Belmont 
returns  from  Europe,  bringing  to  his  wife  some 
smuggled  laces.  She  is  delighted  with  them  until 
she  receives  a  letter  from  a  friend  of  hers,  whose 
husband  is  employed  In  the  Custom  House,  that  tbe 
government  bad  learned  of  the  smuggled  lace  and 
advising  ber  to  get  rid  of  it.  Mrs.  Belmont  meets 
Mr.  Jolly  her  friend's  husband.  She  asks  him  to 
mind  tbe  lace  for  her.  This  he  does  and  be  takes 
some  home.  His  wife  discovers  them  and  accuses 
him  of  buying  them  for  some  woman.  He  tells  ber 
be  bought  them  for  ber  and  presents  them  to  her. 
Later  Mrs.  Jolly  wearing  the  lacee  calls  on  Mrs. 
Belmont,  wbo  Is  horrified  to  see  Mrs.  Jolly  wearing 
ber  beautiful  laces.  Later  sbe  meets  Mr.  Jolly 
and  demands  her  laces  back,  be  gives  her  a  check 
for  $650.  Mr.  Jolly  informs  his  wife  that  the  laces 
were  smuggled  and  cost  bim  $650.  Meantime  Mr. 
Belmont  hires  a  gas  man  to  pose  as  a  Custom 
House  Inspector  to  get  the  laces  back  from  Mrs. 
Jolly,  this  be  does  and  returns  with  the  laces. 
However,  Mrs.  Belmont  bad  bought  other  laces  with 
money  she  received  from  Mr.  Jolly.  She  was  proudly 
showing  them  to  Mr.  Belmont  when  a  real  Custom 
House  officer  appeared  and  took  all  of  them  away. 
Mrs.  Belmont  explains  to  her  husband  that  she 
had    bought    the  other  and    faints   dead    away. 


VICTOR. 

HIS  DAUGHTER  (June  20). — A  young  girl, 
Gertrude,  is  the  daughter  of  a  thief.  She  Induces 
her  father  to  go  to  tbe  country  to  begin  life  anew. 
They  do  this  avoiding  tbe  old  man's  accomplice 
in  crime,  wbo  is  obnoxious  to  Gertrude. 

They  find  quarters  in  a  country  boarding  bouse. 
The  minister  of  the  village  church,  Jim,  and  the 
country  storekeeper,  both  fall  in  love  with  Ger- 
trude, and  the  fact  that  her  father  was  a  criminal 
Is  unsuspected.  Gertrude  secures  a  position  as 
clerk  in  tbe  store,  and  received  tbe  storekeeper's 
attentions  unwillingly  as  she  loves  the  minister. 
The  storekeeper  discovers  that  Jim  is  his  success- 
ful rival,  and  becomes  inordinately  jealous.  But 
tbe  knowledge  of  ber  father's  past  life  keps  Ger- 
trude   from   becoming   the   wife  of  Jim. 

On  an  unlucky  day  fate  brings  the  old  man's 
accomplice  to  the  village.  He  plans  to  rob  the 
boarding  house,  and,  in  carrying  out  this  design, 
Is  detected  by  the  storekeeper,  and  by  Gertrude's 
father.  The  accomplice  at  once  recognizes  the  old 
man,  and  the  storekeeper  learning  that  tbe  father 
the  knowledge  of  her  father's  past  life  keeps  Ger- 
trude. 

But  love  and  Christian  principles  prevail  over 
the  Jealous  man's  denunciations.  The  old  thief's 
repentance  Is  regarded  as  sincere,  by  the  villagers. 
In  time  his  sins  are  not  only  forgiven,  but  for- 
gotten. And  tbe  culmination  of  the  Joy  of  their 
new  life  comes,  wben  Gertrude  becomes  tbe  wife 
of   the   minister. 


PCWERS. 

FRIENDLY  NEIGHBORS  (June  18).— Schultz, 
tbe  tailor,  and  Finnegan,  the  shoemaker,  whose 
places  of  business  adjoin,  are  about  as  amicable 
as  a  fat  fisbworm  and  a  skinny  sparrow.  Tragedy 
in  their  simple  lives  is  averted  until  a  frivolous 
fairy  Invades  their  respective  shops,  toys  with 
their  dizzy  hearts  for  the  moment,  then  flitting 
away  in  dreamland  softness,  leaving  in  her  wake 
all   the   miseries  of   romance   and   lore. 

Schultz  catches  Finnegan  spying  upon  his  love 
making — and  Finnegan  seeks  relief  by  sitting  in 
a  tub  of  water  merely  because  Schultz  placed  a 
hot  tailor's  goose  against  an  anatomical  district 
that  required  such  treatment.  Finnegan  recipro- 
cates the  kindly  feeling  by  Inserting  an  awl  into 
Schultz's  physical  being  which  made  the  faculty 
of   sitting   an   unknown   quantity. 

Their  attempts  at  love  making  with  the  frolic- 
some widow  Is  strewn  with  rock  and  thorn,  the 
tantalizing  kids  only  too  eager  to  abet  in  adding 
pangs  to  their  throbbing  hearts.  Knowing  the  fire 
and  flame  of  Jealousy  flickers  in  the  breast  of 
the  Uilor  and  the  shoemaker,  the  kids  suggest 
the  survival  of  the  fittest,  and  the  two  love- 
smitten  men   don  the  gloves. 

With  the  kids  as  an  enthusiastic  audience, 
Schultz  and  Finnegan  repair  to  an  isola  ted  field 
and  fight  a  long,  bitter,  battle.  And  when  ex- 
hausted they  He  prone,  the  fascinating  widow 
chances  to  pass  In  clinging  embrace  with  .a  '.'swell," 
and  Schultz  and  Finnegan  realize  their  dream  Is 
shattered.  Disgusted  with  the  tumultuous  pranks 
of  Cupid,  they  shake  bands  and  leave  arm  in  arm, 
satisfied  with   being  Just   friendly  neighbors. 


HX 

THE  SCAR  (June  19). — Olga  Drent  never  real- 
ized that  the  scar  on  her  cheek  was  to  mar  her 
happiness,  as  well  as  her  beauty,  until  sbe  meets 
Stanley  Sherwood  and  gives  her  love  unsought.  Tbe 
arrival  of  her  school  chum,  Marian  Ormsby.  with 
her  fresb,  clear  beauty,  causes  Olga  to  curse  the 
fatal  scar,  which  she  blames  for  Stanley's  choos- 
ing Marian  for  his  wife. 

Jealousy  of  the  most  fiendish  kind  prompts  her. 
In  tbe  dark  hours  of  night,  to  mutilate  her  rival. 
She  steals  to  her  father's  (Dr.  Drent)  laboratory, 
and  procuring  chloroform  she  goes  to  Marian's 
bedside  and  after  her  victim  la  unconscious,  cuts 
her  fair  check  with  a  nail  file. 

Her  Jealous  passion  subdued,  remorse  follows, 
and  when  morning  breaks,  the  discovery  that  she 
has  unintentlonaly  severed  an  artery  in  Marian's 
face,  drives  her  frantic.  Dr.  Drent  and  the  hur- 
riedly called  specialist  decide  transfusion  alone 
can  save  Marian's  life.  Dr.  Drent  gladly  offers  bis 
blood,  but  the  doctor  decides  his  heart  will  not 
permit  it.  Olga  sees  her  chance  for  atonement 
and  offers  herself.  Despite  her  father's  remon- 
strance, the  operation  takes  place,  and  both  girls 
slowly  return  from  the  valley  of  the  shadows.  June 
sees  the  quiet  wedding  of  Sherwood  and  Marian, 
and  tbe  forgiven  Olga  presses  their  bands  and 
buries   her   face   in   the   bride's    roses. 

THE  STOLEN  IDOL  (June  22).— Professor  Milton 
Hayes  visits  the  Interior  of  a  temple  in  Egypt, 
steals  a  sacred  Idol  and  knocks  down  a  native 
who  tries  to  prevent  the  theft,  tbe  professor  mak- 
ing bis  escape  on  the  run.  A  caliph  and  several 
girls  enter  the  temple,  discover  tbe  robbery  and 
the  caliph  denounces  tbe  native  for  bis  careless- 
ness In  allowing  the  American  to  steal  the  holy 
relic. 

The  native  trails  Hayes  to  his  hotel,  climbs  the 
fire  escape  outside  Hayes'  room  and  peers  in  through 
tbe  window,  seeing  Hayes  entertaining  several 
friends  with  the  story  of  his  trip.  Hayes  sends 
a  letter  to  a  fellow  American  in  tbe  town,  a 
Professor  Westerly,  asking  him  to  come  to  the 
hotel  and  try  to  decipher  the  hieroglyphics  on  the 
Idol. 

Having  located  Hayes*  room,  the  native  goes  to 
Sbedah,  a  beautiful  Egyptian  worshipper  of  the 
idol,  and  tells  her  of  the  theft.  They  plan  to 
recover  the  idol  and  Shedah  dresses  herself  as  an 
American  man.  They  also  put  a  secret  substance 
in  a  vase,  place  tbe  vase  in  a  satchel,  and  Shedah 
takes  the  satchel,  goes  to  Hayes*  hotel  and  rents 
a  room,  sbe  being  neatly  garbed  as  a  male  Ameri- 
can  tourist. 

Professor  Westerly  visits  Hayes  and  discovers 
that  the  figures  on  the  Idol  read:  "If  vandal  hand 
ever  removed,  Death  awaits  he  who  disturbs  my 
sacred    resting.      It    is    written.— KISMET." 

While  Hayes  is  absent  from  his  room,  tbe  Sbe- 
dah gains  an  entrance  to  the  apartment,  removes 
the  Idol  from  Its  place  In  a  box,  puts  the  vase 
In  Its  place,  and  passes  the  idol  out  through  tbe 
window  to  the  native  on  the  Are  escape,  after 
which   she  leaves  the  hotel. 

On  Professor  Hayes'  return,  be  finds  tbe  vase 
and  an  overpowering  smoke  issuing  from  it,  caus- 
ing Hayes  to  fall  dead.  Professor  Westerly  then 
engages  detectives  to  Investigate  the  tragedy  while 
he  alone  visits  Sbedah's  home  and  enters  an  of- 
fice downstairs  where  Egyptian  herbs  are  sold. 
Here  Westerly  finds  a  trap  door  which  he  opens, 
whereupon  a  native  appears  and  stoically  conducts 
Westerly  to  Sbedah's  room  beneath.  She  pretends 
sleep,  but  Westerly  covers  tbe  native  with  a  re- 
volver, handcuffs  Shedah  and  sbe  gets  bis  permis- 
sion to  get  a  shawl.  She  does  so  and  touches  a 
secret  spring,  opening  another  trap  door  and  caus- 


ing Westerly  to  fall  through  tbe  floor  into  the 
water   beneath. 

Westerly  swims  some  distance  and  Shedah  be- 
comes furious  at  the  prospect  of  Westerly  making 
bis  escape.  She  has  the  native  dive  down  Into 
the  water  and  he  and  Westerly  fight,  the  Ameri- 
can beating  tlse  native  In  tbe  natatorial  battle. 

Seeing  that  Westerly  will  escape,  Sbedah  sets  fire 
to  the  room  above  him.  Tbe  smoke  issuing  from 
the  bouse  alarms  the  detectives  waiting  across  tbe 
street  and  they  run  into  the  place.  One  of  the  of- 
ficers, despite  the  smoke  and  flames,  lowers  a  rope 
to  Westerly  and  hauls  him  up,  the  two  escaping 
from  the  building  amid  fire. 

During  tbe  excitement,  Shedah  and  the  native 
manage  to  make  good  their  escape  from  the  burn- 
ing structure.  Tbe  last  scene  shows  Sbedah  and 
the  native  on  board  a  ship,  bearing  away  with  tbem 
the  sacred  idol  to  preserve  it  from  any  possible 
theft    by    seekers    after    Egyptian    idols. 


BISON. 

IN  LOVE  AND  WAR  (2  parts— June  17).— When 
war  was  but  a  portentious  rumor,  "The  Girt"  was 
in  the  throes  of  mental  battle  involving  a  decision 
wherein  two  suitors  dared  to  hope  for  acceptance, 
one    "The   Lawyer,"   the  other   "The  Journalist." 

While  she  pondered,  Lincoln  signed  the  call  to 
arms,  and  both  responded  in  patriotic  effort  to  en- 
list. The  lawyer,  who  was  accepted  as  a  remit, 
is  granted  a  subtle  opportunity  to  belittle  the 
Journalist  in  the  girl's  eyes  by  penning  a  message 
of  his  going  to  the  front,  knowing  the  journalist 
was  rejected  because  of  a  deformity  to  his  band. 
Embittered  because  of  the  lost  opportunity,  the 
journalist  goes  to  his  room;  the  lawyer  meanwhile 
seeking  the  girl  wbo  listens  to  bis  valorous  declara- 
tion and  bids  bim  win  his  spurs   "and  hope." 

Disappointed,  without  realizing  conditions  of  the 
journalist  not  going  to  the  front,  sbe  refuses  to 
see  him,  believing  he  will  not  serve  his  country. 
The  darkey  delivers  ber  message  and  the  Journalist 
returns  In  despair  to  his  room  where  later  he  views 
from   his   window   tbe  departure   of   tbe  soldiers. 

The  lawyer  is  later  promoted  to  first  lieutenant 
and  the  girl  receives  the  word  by  letter.  Craving 
for  love,  tbe  journalist  gains  admittance  to  ber 
presence  and  again  pleads  bis  cause,  but  his  excuse 
of  the  hand's  deformity  arouses  only  pity,  tbe 
verbally  told  promotion  likewise  creating  anguish 
because  of  his  helplessnes  in  being  unable  to  strive 
for  like  honors  at  the  front. 

The  Journalist  seizes  the  opportunity  to  repre- 
sent the  press  as  a  war  correspondent  which  In- 
formation he  tells  the  girl  as  he  bids  her  farewell. 
His  going  only  elicits  pity.  Yet  she  has  confidence 
in  him  and  gives  him  a  letter  to  the  lawyer — a 
letter  which  tells  him  to  hope  for  bis  reward  on 
returning. 

The  journalist  Is  assigned  to  headquarters  at  the 
front  where  the  fighting  is  most  severe,  and  In 
which  division  tbe  lawyer  ranks  as  first  lieutenant. 
Overcoming  tbe  temptation  not  to  deliver  to  his 
rival  the  letter  Intrusted  for  delivery  by  tbe  girl, 
the  lawyer  is  located  and  made  a  happy  recipient. 

Later,  during  the  progress  of  a  long  siege  of 
desperate  fighting,  tbe  journalist  ignores  all  efforts 
of  safety  and  "covers"  the  details  of  battle  in 
masterful  style,  the  horrors  of  wartime  strife  be- 
ing read  by  the  girl  back  home.  At  the  turning- 
point  of  the  prolonged  battle,  the  lawyer  is  hur- 
ried to  protect  a  dangerous  position  where  the  true 
test  of  courage  takes  place.  The  Journalist,  knowing 
the  lawyer's  command,  is  receiving  the  brunt  of 
terrific  strife,  keeps  bis  glases  to  that  part  of  the 
battlefield.  The  desperate  Confederates,  realizing 
the  importance  of  gaining  that  particular  strategic 
position,  hurl  their  concerted  force  in  effort  to 
break  tbe  opposition,  and  tbe  journalist  is  horrified 
to  see  the  lawyer  break  from  his  command  and 
seek  safety  in  cowardly  flght. 

As  the  lawyer's  command  falls  back  in  leaderless 
confusion,  the  journalist  catches  the  lawyer's  mount, 
rallies  the  disorganized  company  Into  a  furious 
charge  and  succeeds  in  driving  back  the  Confed- 
erates and  regaining  tbe  valuable  position,  which 
valorous  work  Is  believed  to  be  engineered  by  tbe 
lawyer   and   his   heroic   command. 

The  lawyer,  who  crawled  away  In  hiding,  sees 
the  turn,  and  starts  to  rejoin  his  men,  when  the 
Journalist  and  be  meet.  The  journalist  has  re- 
ceived a  severe  wound  in  his  deformed  arm,  and 
as  he  meets  the  lawyer  he  falls  fainting.  The 
lawyer  has  him  removed  to  the  field  hospital,  then 
resumes  efforts  of  holding  the  position  as  the  heav- 
iest of  the  conflict  changes  to  another  part  of  tbe 
battlefield. 

The  Journalist,  however,  refuses  surgical  attention 
until  be  finishes  the  story  of  the  battle — a  story 
of  heroism  wherein  be  tells  of  tbe  lawyer  and  bis 
fighting  men  turning  tbe  tide  of  battle  into  a 
Federal  victory  of  magnitude.  As  tbe  last  Hue  is 
dashed  off  the  journalist  reels  and  falls.  His 
mangled  arm  Is  amputated  and  be  lies  in  stupor 
while  back  home  the  local  papers  ring  with  the 
valorous  generalship  of  tbe  lawyer  and  his  heroic 
company. 

Proudly  awaiting  at  the  close  of  war  the  return 
of  tbe  lawyer — her  Ideal — the  girl  exhibits  to  him 
tbe  local  papers  and  voices  ber  admiration,  while 
in  his  silent  room,  bowed  down  in  grief,  is  tbe 
journalist  wbo  "knows"  the  stump  of  an  arm 
*  forever  bars  bim  from  the  love  for  which  his  soul 
yearns. 

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got  all  in  order  to  save  him  from  disgrace  Id 
the  eyes  of  "the  girl"  he  loves,  the  lawyer's  con- 
science revolts.  He  confesses  all,  then  seeks  out 
the  sorrow-stricken  journalist  and  tells  him  where 
there  awaits  a  girl  who  knows  all  and  who  Is 
tearfully  watching  to  welcome  the  man  who  gave 
up  his  arm  for  another's  cause. 

WOMEN  AND  WAS  (2  parts— June  SI).— During 
the  Civil  War  there  were  two  Bisters  living  in 
Virginia,  who  had  as  a  near  neighbor  a  young, 
wealthy  and  patriotic  man,  who  visited  them  fre- 
quently. The  elder  sister  was  plain  and  attractive, 
but  possessing  a  patriotic  spirit  and  sterling  quali- 
ties. The  younger  sister  was  pretty  and  doll- 
like, superficial,  frivolous  and  fond  of  luxury.  The 
elder  sister  was  capable  of  a  deep  and  undying 
devotion,  while  the  younger  was  only  capable  of 
shallow     affection. 

Both  of  the  sisters  love  the  neighbor  In  their 
separate  ways.  He  is  sub -consciously  attracted  by 
the  inner  worth  of  the  elder  sister,  but  this  at- 
traction is  overbalanced  by  the  beauty  of  the 
yonnger.  The  one  thing  in  common  between  the 
elder  sister  and  the  neighbor 'Is  their  respect  and 
patriotic  love  for  the  stars  and  stripes,  despite 
all  Interstate  controversy.  The  younger  sister,  on 
the  other  hand,  is  too  frivolous  to  even. be  parti- 
san. Patriotism  to  her  is  nothing  but  sentimental 
twaddle. 

The  younger  sister  plainly  tells  the  elder  one 
that  she  Is  In  love  with  the  neighbor  and  is  de- 
termined to  win  him.  The  elder  sister,  smarting 
under  the  taunts  of  the  yonnger  one  about  her 
plain  looks,  assumes  an  indifferent  attitude  to- 
wards the  neighbor,  who  finds  solace  in  the  young- 
er's  smile  and  in  a  moment  of  Impulse  he  asks  her 
to  become  his  wife.  She  accepts  and  be  departs  re- 
joicing. 

The  elder  sister's  hopes  are  completely  dashed 
when  the  younger  sister  comes  to  her  and  confides 
in  her,  telling  of  the  young  man's  proposal  and  her 
acceptance.  She  congratulates  her  happy  young  sis- 
ter and  the  neighbor  and  then  goes  away  alone  to 
nurse  the  hurt  of  this  announcement.  She  realizes 
that  her  love  for  the  man  is  so  great  that  she  can- 
not bear  to  see  him  day  after  day  and  watch  her 
sister's  happiness  with  him,  and  determines  to  en- 
list In   the   regular  army   as  a  field   nurse. 

The  neighbor  misses  the  elder  sister  In  a  vague 
sort  of  way,  but  his  affections  are  still  possessed 
by  the  beauty  of  the  younger  girl.  At  this  time 
President  Lincoln  sends  out  a  call  for  volunteers, 
and  much  against  the  younger  girl's  wishes,  the 
neighbor  goes  to  the  front  as  a  captain  of  volun- 
teer   cavalry. 

The  elder  sister  Is  of  the  volunteers.  There- 
fore, they  do  not  meet  and  she,  imaging  him  still 
at  home,  dreams  of  the  two  happy  ones  at  home 
and  Is  sad. 

On  the  eve  of  a  great  battle,  the  neighbor  re- 
ceives a  letter  of  love  written  in  the  child  like 
fashion  of  the  younger  girl.  During  the  battle  the 
neighbor  is  severely  wounded  by  an  exploding  shell. 
The  first  meeting  between  him  and  the  elder 
sister  occurs  when  she  finds  him  wounded  and  un- 
conscious on  the  field.  She  has  him  brought  to  the 
hospital  where  she  nurses  him  back  to  life  in  or- 
der to  save  him  for  her  little  sister.  In  bis  delir- 
ium the  face  of  the  yonnger  sister  begins  to  fade 
and  the  face  of  the  elder  to  take  its  place,  and  as 
be  slowly  comes  back  to  health,  the  realization 
comes  to  him  that  his  real  love  is  for  the  elder 
sister.  After  the  crisis  his  illness  has  passed,  the 
doctor  discovers  that  the  young  man  will  be  totally 
blind  as  a  result  of  the  accident. 

The  elder  sister  is  detailed  to  take  him  home. 
With  the  assistance  of  an  orderly,  she  takes  him 
back  to  his  own  apartment  and  sends  for  the 
younger  sister.  When  she  discovers  that  he  is 
blind,  the  younger  sister  visualizes  what  her  future 
life  as  the  wife  of  a  blind  man  will  be  and  her 
shallow  nature  revolts  at  the  thought.  She  gives 
him  back  the  ring  and  without  any  pangs  of  regret, 
returns  to  the  frivolities  of  her  life. 

The  elder  sister  is  torn  between  hope  for  herself 
and  pity  for  the  man.  She  goes  to  him,  and  be, 
realizing  at  last  the  barrier  is  down,  tells  her 
of  his  real  feelings  and  slowly  folds  her  in  bis 
arms,  both  at  last  happy  in  each  other's  love. 


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been  in  hiding  and  is  hungry  and  thirsty.  He 
must  act  with  caution  If  he  wants  to  get  away, 
for   be    knows   he    is   wanted    badly. 

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daughter  Jess  and  her  little  sister,  Moma.  there 
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watches  her  and  soothes  her,  for  Freeman  is  bring- 
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Freeman  come  at  last.  Freeman  is  sent  to  a 
nearby  town  for  ice  to  keep  on  the  little  fevered 
bead,  and  the  doctor  leaves  a  bottle  of  medicine 
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Tbe  girl  Is  hurt  at  his  hesitancy  and  reproaches 
him.  He  smiles  and  takes  the  address,  gives  her 
a  torn  piece  of  paper  and  is  gone. 

Jess  reads  the  note  and  knows  that  the  man  Is 
Aravaipa   Steve. 

Freeman  returns  with  the  ice,  and  together  fa- 
ther and  daughter  fight  the  dread  disease.  Steve  is 
recognized  by  a  man  who  would  win  the  reward. 
He  will  not  stop,  as  commanded,  and  is  hit  in 
tbe  arm.  He  stifles  the  pain  with  a  curse  and 
speeds  ahead  to  the  doctor's  door.  He  runs  inside 
and  bis  pursuer  summons  tbe  cowboys  and  tbe 
sheriff. 

Steve  refuses  the  doctor's  assistance  for  himself 
and  hastens  the  prescriptions.  He  gets  tbe  blessed 
medicine  and  goes  to  the  door.  Too  late!  the  boys 
await  him  and  demand  admittance.  He  Is  caught 
like  a  rat  In  a  trap.  He  dashes  to  the  window 
and  beats  it  down  with  a  chair  as  tbe  door  gives 
way  and  the  cowboys  surge  in.  He  takes  a  breath, 
mounts  and  calls  upon  his  weary,  willing  horse 
for  a  final  effort.  The  pursuers  crowd  him  and 
wing   him    again. 

Within  the  small  ranch  house  the  watchers  await 
his  coming.  He  bursts  in,  bands  over  tbe  medi- 
cine and  staggers  to  the  door  to  meet  his  pur- 
suers. Jess  prevents  violence  by  telling  them  what 
he  has  done,  and  Steve,  kissing  ber  hand,  pulls 
himself  together  and  walks  crookedly  to  the  sheriff, 
who  places  his  arm  around  him  and  leads  him 
away. 

APACHE  LOVE  (June  18). — Hawkeye,  a  young 
Apache  brave,  happens  one  day  on  a  beautiful 
Hopi  maiden  busy  working  In  the  field.  He  im- 
mediately pays  court  to  the  lovely  Mona.  Mona's 
heart  is  elsewhere,  however,  and  she  scorns  his 
lore.  Ortega,  who  is  the  favored  one  of  Mona,  asks 
ber  hand  of  Kulan,  the  Hopi  chief,  and  wine  his 
consent,  but  Hawkeye  refuses  to  be  repulsed.  He 
determines  to  win  the  Hopi  maid.  He  watches, 
and  when  be  finds  her  alone  by  tbe  creek,  attempts 
to  make  violent  love  to  her. 

Mona's  scream  brings  Ortega  to  her  assistance, 
and  the  two  men  engage  in  a  hand-to-ihand  fight. 
Ortega  finally  trips  Hawkeye  into  tbe  creek,  and 
picking  up  a  stone,  threatens  Hawkeye,  who  drags 
himself  from  tbe  water,  and  mounting  his  hors.-. 
rides  away,  threatening  tbe  young  pair  with 
vengeance. 

Mona's  wedding  day  dawns  brightly  and  the 
preparations  for  the  Hopi  wedding  are  made,  but 
Hawkeye,  with  a  band  of  his  braves,  attacks  the 
wedding  procession  from  two  sides,  and  during 
the  struggle  between  the  Hopts  and  Apaches, 
Hawkeye  grabs  Mona,  and,  throwing  her  across  his 
horse,  dashes  away.  Ortega,  with  blood  streaming 
from  a  jagged  cut  in  his  face,  staggers  after  them. 
Hawkeye  takes  the  Indian  maid  to  his  wickup, 
and,  finding  her  unwilling  to  become  his  squa« , 
binds  ber  with  rawhide  thongs.  He  then  leave* 
her  and  goes  to  the  river  for  water.  Ortega,  who 
bas  followed,  quickly  frees  Mona  and  taking  Hawk- 
eye's   gun,    escapes    swiftly. 

Hawkeye  returns  and  finds  them  gone.  He  shows 
pleasure,  however,  when  he  realizes  that  Ortega 
bas  taken  the  gun,  but  bas  no  ammunition.  He 
follows  the  fugitives  and  Ortega  and  Mona,  in 
fear,  hide  In  the  foliage  of  an  overhanging  tree. 
Hawkeye  follows  and  a  battle  between  tbe  Hopi 
and  tbe  Apache  takes  place  in  the  branches  of  the 
tree.  Mona  comes  to  Ortega's  assistance,  and 
together  they  throw  Hawkeye  into  the  canyon  be- 
low. 

ALADDIN'S  AWAKENING  (June  20).— Eddie  is 
very  tired,  so  tbe  boss  gives  him  a  two-day's  va- 
cation. He  goes  to  the  beach,  lies  down  and 
sleeps.  He  sees  a  bracelet  by  tbe  water  and  tarns 
it  around  as  be  fits  it  on  his  arm.  Behold,  a 
beautiful  girl  appears,  and  telling  him  he  has 
found  the  magic  bracelet,  asks  him  bis  wants.  He 
mentions  money,  and  his  hands  are  full  of  It  and 
so  are  his  pockets.  He  desires  company,  and  five 
beautiful  girls  appear  and  he  forthwith  treats 
them  to  the  best  the  swell  restaurant  can  give 
them.  They  take  a  ride  In  a  gondola  and  have  a 
good  time  generally. 

When  they  return  to  the  beach,  Neptune  appears, 
waving  his  trident.  Tbe  girls  disappear.  Eddie 
appeals  to  Neptune  and  the  girls  reappear  as 
Nymphs.  They  lead  him  a  merry  chase,  and 
Neptune  pursues  him  and  jabs  him  with  his  trident, 
and — Eddie  wakes  up  to  find  a  guard  prodding 
him  and  telling  him  to  move  on. 

Back  in  the  office  Eddie  Is  dreamy.  He  sees 
those  girls  again.  The  boss  interferes  with  bis 
vision,  and  Eddie  has  to  compose  his  brain  and  turn 
from  girls*  figures  to  those  used  in  the  computa- 
tion of  amounts. 


IMP. 

THE  JEALOUSY  OF  JANE  (June  16). — Janes 
health  Is  run  down  and  ber  hnsband  sends  her  and 
their  baby  boy  to  Atlantic  City  to  recuperate  for 
a  few  weeks,  while  he  remains  In  town.  Tbe 
servants  are  dismissed  and  an  Inquiring  next  door 
neighbor,  Mrs.  Lane,  is  told  of  Jane's  little  trip, 
and  that  Jane's  husband  is  to  stay  behind. 

Tbe  husband  soon  finds  that  It  is  trying  to  take 
care  of  things,  and  to  get  his  own  breakfast  Is 
too  much  for  him,  so  he  sallies  forth  to  an  em- 
ployment agency  and  hires  a  cook,  a  lady  of  color 
and  weight,  who  dresses  rather  well  for  her  posi- 
tion in  life.  Mrs.  Lane,  who  sees  the  husband 
escorting  a  veiled  lady  into  the  house,   Jumps  at  a 


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2  Reels,  June  18 

A  Superbly-Acted  Drama,  Showing 
How  the  Reason  of  a  Mother,  Mourn- 
ing the  Death  of  Her  Child,  Was 
Saved  by  the  Gentle  Touch  of  Baby 
Fingers,  Itself  Brought  from  the  Val- 
ley of  the  Shadow  of  Death. 

A  great  desert  scene,  showing  a  ter- 
rible drought  which  is  killing  the  cat- 
tle and  driving  the  Indians  to  despera- 
tion through  hunger.  The  uprising  of 
the  Redskins  and  the  sensational  strug- 
gles for  life  by  the  immigrants. 
Thrilling  rescue  of  the  settlement  by 
the  troops,  who  drive  off  the  Indians 
after  a  hard-fought  battle.  Scenes  of 
melting  pathos  as  the  orphaned  baby, 
saved  from  the  maelstrom  of  death  in 
which  its  parents  perished,  is  placed 
in  the  arms  of  the  delirious  wife  of  the 
Colonel,  whose  brooding  over  her  own 
dead  child  threatens  her  reason  and 
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1  Reel,  June  16 

Another  "knock-out"  comedy,  which 
will  rank  with  "Heinze's  Resurrection" 
and  other  headliners.  The  head  waiter 
and  the  chef  are  in  love  with  Mabel.  The 
way  the  chef  runs  the  kitchen  and  han- 
dles the  food  and  dishes  will  make  peo- 
ple fall  off  their  seats  in  helpless 
paroxysms  of  laughter.  This  film  can't 
be  described.  It  must  be  seen,  and 
everybody  who  sees  it  will  talk  about  it. 
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THE  TALE  OF  A 
BLACK  EYE 

Split  Reel,  June  19 

Flirty  Jones  arouses  the  jealousy  of 
his  wife.  He  gets  a  black  eye  trying  to 
get  acquainted  with  the  pretty  models, 
and  makes  a  false  explanation  to  his 
wife.  Unluckily  for  him  a  moving  pic- 
ture man  took  the  incident,  and  when 
Jones  and  his  wife  go  to  a  picture  show 
she  learns  the  truth. 

OUT  AND  IN 

Split  Reel,  June  19 

A  convict  makes  a  thrilling  escape 
from  the  penitentiary,  and  after  suffering 
untold  hardships  hides  in  a  hay  wagon. 
The  hay  wagon  is  bound  for  the  peniten- 
tiary and  the  convict  finds  himself  safe 
within  its  gates  when  he  emerges  from 
his  hiding  place. 


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SUCCESS 

2  Reels,  June  20 

A  Great  Moral  Drama,  Teaching  That 
Wealth  Gained  at  the  Price  of  Happi- 
ness   and    the    Sacrifice    of    Honor 
Brings  No  Happiness. 

With  gold  beyond  his  wildest 
dreams,  despised  by  his  fellow-men, 
scorned  by  the  women  whose  lives  he 
had  nearly  wrecked,  and  with  his  own 
child  turning  away  from  his  proffered 
embrace  in  horror,  J'abez  Crow  looked 
back  over  the  path  he  had  trod  and 
saw  the  specters  of  his  misspent  life. 
Obsessed  with  regret  and  remorse,  he 
destroyed  himself,  leaving  a  will  in 
which  he  endeavored  to  make  repara- 
tion for  the  wrongs  he  had  committed. 

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scandalous  conclusion,  and  she  sends  an  anonymous 
telegram  to  Jane  to  the  effect  that  daring  her 
absence  her  husband  Is  entertaining  a  woman  in 
her  own  house.  Jane's  nerves  have  been  tried  by 
a  number  of  flirtatious  men  on  the  board  walk, 
and  she  Is  ready  to  think  the  worst  of  the  mascu- 
line sex  In  general.  She  takes  the  first  train 
home,  arriving  at  midnight,  and  the  complications 
that  follow  upon  her  arrival,  cause  a  near  riot  In 
the  neighborhood.  A  hurried  call  for  the  police 
reserves  is  sent  to  the  police  station,  where  mat- 
ters are  fairly  well  straightened  up.  Jane  then 
remembers  that  baby  has  been  left  all  this  time 
in  the  taxicab,  and  a  mad  rush  is  made  to  the 
rescue.  Baby,  however,  has  found  an  interesting 
thing  in  the  way  of  a  plaything  In  the  taximeter, 
and  has  been  perfectly  but  expensively  happy  all 
through  the  night.  The  husband,  however,  pays 
the  biU. 

THE  SORROWS  OF  ISRAEL  (8  parts— June  19). 
— The  story  deals  with  the  betrothal  of  a  Russian 
noblewoman  and  a  prince  of  the  blood.  The  girl's 
father  dies  and  the  prince  comes  to  claim  the  bride, 
only  to  find  that  the  young  woman,  now  her  own 
mistress,  has  a  mind  and  will  of  her  own,  also  a 
sweetheart.  The  latter  is  a  young  Jew,  a  student 
at  a  military  college. 

The  discarded  prince  vows  bitter  revenge  against 
his  rival  and  seta  about  obtaining  it  by  inciting  the 
peasants  to  an  antl-semitic  uprising.  In  the  mean- 
time the  Jew,  realizing  the  obloquy  which  his  mar- 
riage will  entail  on  his  noble  sweetheart,  determines 
to  change  the  externals  of  his  religion,  this  too 
will  enable  him  to  obtain  his  degrees  at  college 
which  otherwise  would  be  denied  under  the  be- 
neficent laws  of  Russia. 

The  FeaBt  of  the  Passover  Is  being  celebrated 
and  his  parents  are  expecting  his  presence  at  the 
feast  when  word  comes  to  them  that  their  son  has 
been  seen  in  a  Christian  procession.  The  heart- 
broken parents  hurry  to  the  church  just  as  the 
ceremony  of  baptism  has  been  completed.  They 
meet  their  boy  on  the  steps  of  the  church  and 
make  an  appeal  to  him  not  to  forsake  the  faith 
of  his  fathers,  but  the  Greek  priests  staud  there 
as  grim  sentinels  over  his  body  and  soul,  and 
knowing  what  his  recantation  will  mean  for  him 
and  his  beloved  one  he  turns  a  deaf  ear  to  the 
pleadings   of   his   aged   parents. 

In  the  meantime  the  Prince  has  aroused  the 
peasants  to  action  and  the  fury  of  religious  perse- 
cution Is  in  full  swing.  Jewish  men,  women  and 
children  are  clubbed  to  death,  and  on  all  sides  are 
to  be  seen  the  horrible  evidence  of  brutal  bigoted 
Russian   barbarity. 

The  young  man  has  by  this  time  married  the 
woman  for  whom  he  has  made  such  a  noble  sacrifice, 
and  she  appreciative  of  what  be  has  done,  pours 
out  her  treasures  to  him  that  his  people  may  find 
succor  and  safety.  But  alas!  nothing  can  stem 
that  fearful  tide  of  human  wantonness  and  slaugh- 
ter. 

The  young  (Christian)  Jew  now  decides  to  throw 
his  lot  in  with  the  Nihilists.  He  goes  through  the 
preliminaries  of  initiation  and  is  congratulating 
himself  on  his  admission  when  suddenly  be  Is 
arrested  In  a  raid  of  the  Nihilists'  den.  He  is 
tried  and  condemned  to  die,  but,  just  as  he  is  about 
to  be  executed  on  the  scaffold,  he  is  handed  a 
condition  pardon — betray  his  Nihilist  brothers  and 
he  will  go  free,  but  he  spurns  the  offer  and  flings 
the  paper  in  the  face  of  the  judge.  A  loud  laugh 
greets  his  act.     It  was  only  a  Nihilist  test. 

Later  on  these  same  Nihilists  affect  his  rescue 
from  Jail  when  the  meshes  of  the  net  thrown  by 
the  prince  has  landed  him.  The  flight  of  the  young 
Jew  and  his  bride  Is  covered  and  made  effective 
by  the  brave  Nihilist  brothers  who  check  the  pur- 
suit of  the  prince  and  his  hirelings  in  a  royal 
battle.  Finally  we  behold  the  young  couple  on 
board  ship  sailing  Into  New  York  harbor  where 
they  behold  with  joy  the  Statue  of  Liberty. 


FRONTIER. 

A  STORY  OF  THE  MEXICAN  BORDER  (June 
19). — Marguerita,  the  beautiful  daughter  of  Don 
Carlos,  is  beloved  by  Don  Guillermo  and  Don 
Pablo.  Jealousies  exist  between  the  two.  Don 
Carlos  is  expecting  Luis  Brandon,  an  American, 
to  arrive  at  the  hacienda  to  take  charge  of  bis 
cattle  interest,  and  is  telling  the  rival  suitors  of 
this  when  the  American  arrives.  Pablo  is  in  pos- 
session of  some  secret  of  Don  Carlos,  and  he  uses 
this  to  force  from  the  decrepid  old  Don  permission 
to  marry  Marguerita.  The  American  sees  Mar- 
guerita and  love  comes  to  them  unheralded.  This 
complicates  the  situation  badly,  especially  as  they 
are  observed  and  their  feelings  noted  by  Pablo. 
Pablo  feels  that  this  Is  doing  him  a  grievous  wrong, 
as  Marguerita  has  been  promised  to  him  by  her 
father,  and  he  takes  violent  exception.  Before  he 
can  strike  Luis,  however,  Don  Guillermo  inter- 
feres and  the  American  Is  forced  to  await  an  en- 
counter at  a  later  date.  Pablo  and  Guillermo 
leave. 

Don  Carlos  Is  explaining  matters  in  relation  to 
the  hacienda  when  Padre  Flores  arrives.  The  in- 
terruption gives  Luis  a  chance  to  slip  away  with 
Marguerita  and  they  plight  their  troth  in  a  pretty 
garden.  As  they  are  exchanging  lover-like  confi- 
dences, Don  Pablo  observes  them  and  his  anger 
rises  more  and  more.  He  rushes  In  upon  them  and 
he  and  Luis  rapidly  come  to  blows.  Pablo  a  t- 
tempts  to  atab  Luis,  but  Is  knocked  down,  and 
Marguerita  stops  the  American  from  pressing  his 
advantage    further. 


Luis  and  Pablo  meet  on  a  road  near  the  hacienda 
and  have  a  violent  quarrel.  As  they  are  quarrel- 
ing Don  Guillermo  comes  along  the  same  road. 
He  stops  some  distance  away  and  watches  them. 
Then  he  sees  a  chance  to  effectively  dispose  of  both 
his  rivals  at  once.  As  they  fire  he  also  fires,  kill- 
ing Don  Pablo.  Luis  thinks  that  he  has  killed 
Pablo  and  flees  the  place.  Guillermo  informs  the 
rurals  that  Brandon  has  killed  Pablo  and  a  search 
is  instituted  for  him.  Brandon  has  found  a  friend 
in  Padre  Flores  who  takes  him  in  and  bides  him 
from  possible  searchers  In  the  guise  of  a  lay- 
brother. 

Guillermo  has  Informed  Don  Carlos  that  his  fore- 
man Is  a  murderer  and  using  his  knowledge  of  Don 
Carlos*  failing  as  a  lover,  has  forced  his  constant 
to  a  marriage  with  Marguerita.  The  daughter 
spurns  Guillermo,  at  first,  but  when  she  learns  that 
Guillermo  can  send  her  father  to  prison,  she  gives 
herself    to   Guillermo    to    save    him. 

As  Luis  is  working  in  the  gardens  Padre  Flores 
the  good  father  Is  summoned  to  arrange  the  mar- 
riage articles  between  Marguerita  and  Guillermo. 
He  tells  Luis  of  this  and  the  American  Is  distraught 
with  grief.  Padre  Flores  leaves  to  arrange  the 
articles  as  he  feels  he  must  and  while  be  is  absest 
Guillermo  comes  for  a  confessional.  He  mistakes 
Luis  for  a  priest,  an  error  which  is  furthered  by 
the  lay-brother,  and  makes  his  confession  to  him. 
In  this  be  admits  the  killing  of  Pablo.  Luis  uses 
this  confession  to  secure  aid  from  the  rurals  and 
Guillermo  is  arrested  just  as  he  is  about  to  be- 
come the  husband  of  Marguerita.  Luis,  of  course, 
is  cleared  and  is  married  to  Marguerita. 


UNIVERSAL 

ANIMATED  WEEKLY,  NO.  65  (June  4).-^To 
the  Heroes  of  the  Maine.  — The  Maine  Memorial 
Monument  Dnvelled  with  Impressive  ceremonies  at 
New  York  City.  Secretary  of  the  Navy  Daniels; 
Bear  Admiral  Sigshee:  Governor  Sulzer  of  New 
York;    Ex-President  Taft. 

Harvard    vs.    Cornell The    annual    'varsity    boat 

race  on  Cayuga  Lake  won  by  tbe  Cornell  eight. 

Wheels    of   Commerce. — The  making  of  grape  juice. 

King  George  and  His  Troops. — His  majesty,  ac- 
companied by  the  queen,  reviews  the  roval  troops 
at  Woolwich,  England. 

Who's    Who    in   the   Cabinet Postmaster-General 

Burleson. 

Inauguration  of  President  Menocal. — The  new 
president  of  Cuba  inaugurated  with  much  pomp 
and  ceremony  at  Havana. 

Disaster  at  Long  Beach,  California. — Forty-seven 
killed  and  200  Injured  when  the  board  walk  col- 
lapses over  the  Auditorium. 

Floral  Parade  at  Coney  Island.— This  famous 
summer  resort  is  opened  with  a  carnival  of  floats 
and  flowers. 

Board  of  Censors. — The  National  Board  of  Censor- 
ship poses  for  the  Animated  Weekly. 

Aviation  Carnival. — Aviators  hold  a  fleld  day  at 
Hempstead  Plains.   L.  I. 

Championship  Meet. — Premier  athletes  compete  at 
Celtic  Park,    New  York  City. 

Who's  Who  in  Pictures. — Frank  Smith  (Uni- 
versal). 


ECLAIR. 

HEARTS  AND  CROSSES  (May  25).— Webb 
Yeager  was  what  the  boys  called  "some**  cow- 
puncher.  He  was  McAllister's  favorite  foreman  and 
the  boys  liked  bim  as  well  as  did  the  ranch  owner. 
McAllister  liked  the  way  Webb  gave  orders  and  he 
also  liked  the  way  the  boys  obeyed  bis  foreman. 

There  was  another  admirer  of  Webb  on  the  ranch 
and  this  McAllister  did  not  like.  When  he  learned 
that  his  daugbter,  Santa,  was  receiving  attentions 
from  "Webb,  he  promptly  told  the  foreman  that  he 
could  either  agree  to  stay  away  from  the  house,  at 
least  five  miles  out  on  the  ranch,  or  quit  the  job. 

Following  this,  Webb  and  Santa  arranged  a  code 
of  signals  by  which  the  foreman  could  come  to  the 
house  in  McAllister's  absence.  Whenever  Webb 
saw  a  heart  with  a  cross  Inside,  marked  on  anything 
from  the  ranch,  he  knew  It  to  be  a  signal  to  meet 
Santa. 

One  day  Santa's  father  died  suddenly  and  soon 
after  Webb  and  Santa  were  married.  But  the  new 
Mrs.  Yeager  had  been  in  charge  of  the  McAllister 
household  so  long  that  she  couldn't  get  over  being 
"boss."  One  day  Webb  ordered  some  cattle  sold 
and  Santa  countermanded  tbe  order.  Webb  packed 
up  and  left. 

Months  passed  by  until  one  day  Webb,  who  was 
working  as  foreman  on  a  neighboring  ranch,  sent 
to  Santa  to  buy  some  steers.  Before  sending  them, 
she  marked  a  heart  and  cross  on  several. 

When  the  aggressive  hubby  saw  that  Bign  he 
thought  It  meant  that  Santa  had  given  in  ami  had 
decided  to  let  him  he  boss.  Webb  galloped  to  the 
old  home  just  as  fast  as  his  broncho  would  carry 
him. 

Leaping  from  his  horse  he  ran  up  to  Santa,  who 
was  in  front  of  the  house  and  asked  if  she  was 
ready  to  admit  that  he  was  "boss."  He  received  a 
real  shock  when  Santa  shook   her  head,   "No." 

But  then  the  little  beauty  took  hold  of  the  mysti- 
fied   Webb's    arm    and    pulled    him    into    the    house. 


Here  he  found  the  new  "boss"  of  the  ranch.    Can 
you  guess  who  tbe  new  boss  was? 

HE  RUINS  HIS  FAMILY'S  REPUTATION  (June 
1.) — And  now  our  funny  little  friend,  Snookums,  has 
started  real  trouble  for  his  poor  Dada.  A  few  of 
the  neighbors  and  Dada  were  having  a  nice  quiet 
little  game  when  the  door-bell  rang  and  when 
Snookums'  beautiful  mother  went  to  the  door,  she 
found  the  minister. 

Well,  the  "gang"  made  a  hurried  attempt  to  bide 
things,  and  the  chips,  cards,  etc.,  were  stuffed  under 
the  couch,  before  the  Reverend  Sir  was  admitted. 
Dada  and  his  friends  then  tried  to  keep  the  min- 
ister's attention  concentrated  on  other  things,  and 
planned  to  get  rid  of  bim  before  he  suspected  any- 
thing. But  poor  little  Snookums  was  rather  In- 
quisitive about  this  hurried  hiding  of  those  nice 
little  chips  and  so  he  secured  the  minister's  bat 
and  proceeded  to  dig  out  tbe  chips  from  under  the 
couch  and  fill  the  hat  with  them. 

When  tbe  minister  finally  decided  to  go,  to  the 
great  relief  of  everyone,  the  big  scandal  came  out. 
When  he  lifted  his  high  hat  to  place  it  on  bis  head, 
there  was  a  shower  of  little  white,  blue  and  red 
"chips"  that  told  their  own  story. 

THUS  SAITH  THE  LORD  (2  parts— Hay  21).— 
The  theme  of  this  remarkable  picture  was  taken 
from  the  Sermon  on  the  Mount  as  found  in  the 
twenty-fifth  chapter  of  St.  Matthew.  The  parable 
of  the  Ten  Virgins  as  told  to  the  disciples  by  Our 
Lord  forms  the  main  story,  while  the  allegorical 
interpretation  of  The  Lord's  Prayer  forms  a  mas- 
terful  closing. 

While  Jesus  and  the  twelve  disciples  were  jour- 
neying from  Jerusalem  they  became  fatigued  and 
seated  themselves  by  the  road  side.  In  answer  to 
the  request  of  Andrew  to  tell  them  of  His  King- 
dom. The  Master  related  the  parable  of  the  Ten 
Virgins. 

These  ten  maidens  were  Invited  to  a  wedding 
feast.  Five  of  them  were  wise,  and  took  with 
them  oil  for  their  lamps  so  that  they  might 
light  the  bridegroom  on  his  way.  Five  of  them 
were  foolish  and  did  not  want  to  be  disturbed 
and  bothered  In  their  play  by  having  the  oil  for 
their  lamps,  so  therefore,  took  none  with  them. 
The  five  wise  virgins  waited  patiently  for  the 
coming  of  the  bridegroom,  but  the  foolish  ones  in- 
dulged in  childish  and  silly  pleasures.  When,  at 
midnight,  the  bridegroom  came,  the  five  wise  ones 
trimmed  their  lamps  and  went  out  to  .meet  him. 

Then  tbe  foolisb  virgins  realized  that  they  had 
no  oil  for  their  lamps  and  endeavored  to  borrow 
some  from  the  other  maidens.  These  would  not 
loan  It  to  them,  and  told  them  to  go  to  those  who 
sold  and  buy  for  themselves.  While  the  foolish 
ones  were  gone  for  their  oil  tbe  bridegroom  came 
and  the  five  wise  virgins  went  in  with  him  to  the 
wedding  feast  and  the  door  was  closed.  When  the 
others  came  out  and  asked  to  be  let  In  the  bride- 
groom  sent   back   word   that  be  .knew   them   not. 

After  this  parable  was  finished  Andrew  asked 
The  Master  what  must  be  done  to  win  The  King- 
dom of  Heaven.  The  Redeemer  answered  that  we 
must  have  faltb  and  pray.  Then  he  related  The 
Lord's  Prayer,  which  is  shown  In  the  film  by  a 
series   of   beautiful    tableaux   as   follows: 

Our  Father  Which  Art  In  Heaven. 

On  the  Highway  of  Life  the  Human  Family  Is  on 

the    march    towards    the    Goal   of   Eternal    Life    and 

The    Kingdom    of    Heaven.      When    burdens    weigh 

heavily    on    their    shoulders    and    they    are    almost 

overcome  by   their  struggles  they   clasp  their  hands 

in    prayer   and   with    eyes   raised   to   The   Almighty, 

they   gain   comfort   and    strength    from  The   Father. 

Hallowed  Be  Thy  Name, 

"Go   ye   into   all    lands    and    preach    My    Gospel,'* 

was    the    command    of    the    Saviour    to    the    Twelve 

Disciples.      No    matter    how    hard    or    difficult    was 

the  road  that  tbey   bad   to  travel,   no  matter  what 

tortures   and   martyrdom   they   endured   the  Faithful 

obeyed    the    commands   of    The    Master    and    taught 

the  teachings  of  Jesus  Christ  to  all  peoples. 

Thy    Kingdom   Come. 

The  tortures  and  the  persecutions  of  Rome  could 

not  deter   the   early  Christians   from   their  teaching 

of    The    Word.      Dying    in    the    arena,    burning    at 

the  stake  or  being  crucified   by  their  enemies,   they 

bore    their    sufferings    patiently,    and    never    for    a 

moment  forgot  the  example  of  The  Lord,   who  said 

on  The  Cross,  "Father,  forgive  them,  for  they  know 

not   what   they   do." 

Thy  Will  Be  Done  On  Earth  As  It  Is  In  Heaven. 
What  more  supreme  sorrow  could  a  mother  have 
thau  to  see  her  first  born  taken  from  her  by  tbe 
hand  of  Death?  Still,  she  murmurs,  "Thy  Will  be 
done." 

Give  Us  This  Day  Our  Daily  Bread. 
How  much  lighter  is  our  toil  and  our  labors  when 
we  know  that  Our  Father  is  watching  over  his  peo- 
ple  all    tbe   time.     The   hard   working   tiller  of   the 
fields    raises    his   hands    to   Heaven    in    thanksgiving 
at  his  great  bounties  and  whispers,  "I  thank  Thee." 
And    Forgive    Us    Our    Trespasses,    As    We   Forgive 
Those   Who  Trespass   Against   Us. 
When  the  poor  rebel  at  their  hard  lot  and  demand 
their  rights  from  tbe  rich,   the  oppressors  can  turn 
the  hatred   of  the  downtrodden  into  great  love  and 
devotion,   if  tbey   will  but  remember  "The  greatest 
grace  of  God  Is  Charity." 

Lead  Us  Not  Into  Temptation. 
The   strongest   men   are   like   unto   little   children 
wbeu   temptation   Is  placed   In  their  way.     It  is  so 
easy   to  fall  that  we  need  tbe  strong  arm  of  The 


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Father  and  The  Son  to  guide  us  over  the  rough 
places  or  else,  what  does  our  worldly  and  physical 
power  gain  us? 

And  after  Jesus  bad  finished  these  words  to  the 
disciples  he  then  added,  "This  is  the  prayer  ye 
must  teach  nnto  men — if  ye  wish  them  to  know  the 
Kingdom  of   My   Father." 

THE  FAITH  HEALER  (2  parts— May  28).— 
Robert  aDd  Louise  are  married.  On  their  honey- 
moon Louise  learns,  upon  finding  a  Bible  in  their 
room  that  Robert  "does  not  believe."  But  this 
does  not  lessen  her  love  for  him.  A  couple  of 
years  after  their  marriage,  they  are  reduced  to 
poverty,  and  Robert  is  obliged  to  go  as  a  laborer 
in  order  to  support  his  wife  and  child. 

Helmar,  a  man  who  does  not  care  and  a  friend 
of  Robert  and  Louise,  treats  bis  wife  so  meanly 
that  she  decides  to  leave  him  and  is  writing  a  let- 
ter to  a  friend  when  she  is  caught  by  her  husband 
who  has  returned  unexpectedly  when  he  reads  the 
letter  and  learns  that  his  wife  will  shoot  herself 
If  the  friend  does  not  come  to  take  her  away, 
he  offers  her  a  pistol  with  which  to  carry  out 
her  threat.  But  her  nerve  falls  her  and  the  pistol 
drops  to  the  table.  Saying  that  his  life  is  worth 
less  than  his  wife's,  Helmar  leaves  the  house  In- 
tent npon  suicide.  He  is  about  to  jump  Into  the 
river  when  he  decides  upon  a  better  way  to  drop 
out  of  life  of  his  wife.  Leaving  his  coat  and 
hat  on  the  bank,  he  enlists  in  the  army.  Believing 
that  her  husband  Is  dead,  the  wife  welcomes  the 
attentions  of  the  friend  and  one  day,  when  she  is 
riding  in  an  automobile  with  the  friend,  the  hus- 
band, who  is  walking  along  the  road  with  another 
soldier  sees  her  and  exclaims  that  he  wished  he 
were  blind  so  that  be  may  never  see  her  again. 
Several  weeks  later  in  a  battle,  his  wish  is  grati- 
fied, for  a  shell  bursts  over  bis  head  and  blinds 
him.  This  terrible  visitation  of  the  wrath  of 
God  makes  of  Helmar  a  new  man,  and  he  opens 
a  mission  for  the  curing  of  the  sick  and  the  weak. 
To  this  mission  comes  Louise,  who  was  on  her  way 
to  the  drug  store  for  a  bottle  of  medicine  for  her 
sick  daughter,  Clara.  She  stands  unobserved  for 
a  moment  until  the  gathering  begins  to  disperse. 
She  approaches  and,  when  the  faith  healer  turns 
towards  her,  she  recognizes  in  Helmar,  an  old 
friend.  She  makes  herself  known  and  leads  him 
home  to  where  her  sick  child  lies.  Helmar  prays 
fervently  and  soon  the  little  one  begins  to  regain 
her   strength. 

One  day  Robert  and  Louise  are  informed  that 
one  of  Robert's  former  business  competitors  died 
and  has  left  his  entire  fortune  to  him,  he  ad- 
mitting in  his  will  to  having  been  instrumental  in 
the  downfall  of  Robert's  business.  Helmar  goes 
to  live  with  Robert  and  Louise,  and  he  soon  re- 
gains his  sight,  whereupon  he  sets  out  to  find  his 
wife.  He  does  find  her,  repentant  and  unhappy 
and  a   reconciliation  is   soon  effected. 


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THE  SOUL  OF  A  THIEF  (2  parts^Tune  16).— 
Millionaire  Benton,  who  has  a  mania  for  rare 
jewels,  purchases  of  Abraham,  an  old  "fence  "  a 
valuable  necklace.  He  is  followed  to  his  home 
by  a  gentleman  crook  known  as  "The  Pox  "  When 
Benton  arrives  home  he  finds  his  daughter  spooning 
with  Bob  Newell,  whom  he  dismisses  from  the 
premises.  Arriving  home,  Bob  calls  up  Louise  Ben- 
ton and  plans  an  elopement  to  take  place  that 
night.  At  the  Benton  home,  Mr.  Benton  Is  show- 
ing the  precious  Jewel  to  his  daughter,  and  her 
girl  friend,  Rose  Hartley.  At  10  o'clock  that  night 
as  The  Fox"  is  stealthily  creeping  to  the  library 
windsw  of  the  Benton  home,  he  hears  footsteps 
and  stops.  It  Is  Bob.  He  calls  Louise  who  says, 
Uet  a  taxi,  dear."  Bob  goes  for  one,  and,  after  a 
few  minutes  have  passed,  "The  Fox"  whistles  soft- 
ly and  Louise,  thinking  that  it  is  her  sweetheart 
throws  her  Jewel  case,  etc.,  to  him  and  whispers 
that  she  will  soon  follow.  "The  Fox"  tucks  away 
the  jewels,  and  begins  puffing  a  cigarette  just  as 
Bob  Newel  returns.  He  picks  up  the  empty  jewel 
case.  Just  as  the  police  come  and  nab  him-  for 
prior  to  the  arrival  of  Bob,  Rose,  who  is  a  sleep- 
walker dreamed  of  the  precious  necklace  and  went 
to  the  library  where  Benton  had  placed  it  and  ex- 
tracts it  from  its  hiding  place.  The  noise  wakes 
Benton  who,  finding  the  necklace  missing,  had 
telephoned  for  the  police.  The  police  could  find 
no  one  but  Bob,  so  he  was  placed  under  arrest. 

"The  Fox,"  not  being  satisfied  with  Louise's 
Jewels,  is  intent  upon  getting  the  precious  neck- 
lace  and  goes  disguised  as  a  French  Count  with 
forged  letters  of  introduction  to  the  Benton  house- 
hold. Despite  himself  he  falls  in  love  with  Louise, 
who  repulses  him.  One  night  Rose  again  walks 
in  her  sleep,  and  taking  the  necklace  from  her 
suitcase,  places  it  in  the  secret  hiding  place  in 
the  library.  When  she  has  disappeared,  "The 
Fox,"  who  has  been  in  hiding,  extracts  the  Jewel 
and  goes  to  his  room.  Benton  goes  to  Abra- 
ham's dive  In  order  to  find  something  out  con- 
cerning   his    lost    Jewel.      He   is    followed    by    "The 


Fox,"  In  the  guise  of  a  count,  who  accused  Benton 
of  connivance  with  the  Jew.  He  compromises  with 
Benton  when  he  (Benton)  promises  to  aid  him  in 
the  suit  for  Louise's  hand.  At  home,  after  secret- 
ly listening  to  the  heated  argument  between  father 
and  daughter,  remorse  seizes  "The  Fox,"  and  he 
tells  Louise  that  he  is  going  away  on  the  morrow. 
That  night,  Rose,  in  another  sleep  walking  "stunt" 
goes  directly  to  the  room  of  "The  Fox,"  where 
she  knocks  over  a  lamp,  the  noise  of  which  wakes 
Benton  who  follows  her,  revolver  in  hand.  "The 
Fox,"  who  has  been  peacefully  strolling  up  and 
down  the  veranda,  rushes  to  his  room  on  hearing 
the  noise  only  to  confront  Benton,  Louise  and  Robc 
In  an  Instant  he  has  escaped  and  ten  minutes 
later  he  telephones  the  police  to  release  Bob.  Thus 
ends    the    Benton   Jewel    mystery. 

THE  UNWRITTEN  LAW  OF  THE  WEST  (June 
19). — Pedro  beat  his  wife,  Anita,  unmercifully  and 
swaggered  down  to  the  saloon,  leaving  her  crying 
and  her  blind  old  father  -  wringing  his  hands  In 
agony.  Pedro  played  poker  at  the  saloon  and  young 
Bob  Radcliff  joined  him  and  the  others  in  the 
game.  Bob  lost,  caught  Pedro  in  some  trickery 
and  threatened  to  shoot  him.  Meanwhile,  Anita 
slipped  down  to  the  saloon  and  hid  in  Its  shadows. 
Pedro  left  the  saloon  and  Anita  stabbed  him  and 
fled.  A  moment  later  Bob  ventured  out  the  door 
and  stumbled  across  Pedro's  body.  The  sheriff 
grabbed  htm,  he  was  brought  to  trial,  and,  despite 
the  pleadings  of  his  sweetheart,  Helen,  was  or- 
dered  banished   from   tbe   town. 

Secret  meetings  between  the  two  came  often 
after  that,  for  Bob  built  himself  a  little  shack 
on  the  edge  of  the  town.  Helen,  one  day,  de- 
cided to  call  and  console  Anita.  Anita,  suffering 
tortures  through  her  conscience,  rose  from  the 
table,  hurled  herself  on  the  floor  crying  out  her 
secret,  while  her  blind  father  stood  over  her  and 
cursed  her.  Helen  heard  through  the  open  door  and 
rushed  off  to  tell  the  happy  news  to  Bob.  To- 
gether they  came  into  town  and  arrived  at  the 
sheriff's  ofllce  just  after  Anita,  torn  by  her 
suffering,  had  confessed  her  guilt  to  the  sheriff. 
And  then  Bob  forgave  Anita  and  the  town  heaved 
a  sigh  for  relief,  for  the  judge  refused  to  prosecute 
the  hapless  woman  after  a  Jury  bad  returned  a 
verdict  of  Justifiable  homicide. 

MABINE  LAW  (June  21). — Mayor  Grigsley, 
anxious  to  go  to  Congress,  called  upon  the  political 
boss  and  solicited  his  aid.  The  boss  shook  his 
head  and  smiled.  "Nothing  doing."  Later,  pretty 
Marguerite,  daughter  of  the  mayor,  might  have 
been  seen  spooning  wjth  Jimmy  In  the  grape  arbor, 
for  she  and  Jimmy  were  sweethearts. 

The  following  day  the  mayor  and  his  daughter 
headed  down  State  street.  They  met  the  "boss" 
and  the  "boss"  fell  madly  in  love  with  Marguerite. 
Result— a  compact  was  made  in  which  the  mayor 
should  persuade  his  daughter  to  marry  the  "boss" 
and  In  return  the  "boss"  should  send  the  mayor 
to  Congress.  After  the  Interview  the  mayor  called 
his  daughter  and  told  her  his  will.  That  afternoon 
Jimmy  was  told  the  doleful  news  by  Marguerite 
and  the  pair  planned  an  elopement.  This  would 
have  gone  well  had  not  tbe  mayor  chanced  to  over- 
hear. He  informed  the  "boss"  and  together  they 
got  into  tbe  mayor's  automobile  and  called  upon 
every  garage,  livery,  motorcycle  and  bicycle  es- 
tablishment in  town,  threatening  to  revoke  their 
licenses  if   they  gave    the   couple   any   assistance. 

Jimmy  and  Marguerite  went  the  rounds  getting 
more  nettled  and  amazed  with  every  stop  and  re- 
fusal. They  grew  desperate.  They  went  to  the 
steamship  wharf,  but  the  policeman  warded  them 
off,  the  same  thing  occurred  at  the  railway  sta- 
tion, where  the  station  policeman  drove  them  off 
the  rear  end  of  a  Pullman.  In  desperation,  they 
went  to  the  marriage  license  office,  but  were  re- 
fused a  license.  Then  they  walked  to  the  beach 
where  luck  favored  them  for  once — for  Jimmy  met 
Captain  Brush,  an  old  friend.  The  captain  drew 
his  code  book  and  showed  them  a  passage  from  the 
United  States  Marine  Laws  where  a  sea  captain, 
after  the  boat  is  three  miles  from  land,  can  per- 
form the  ceremony.  So  they  hired  a  tug,  reached 
the  captain's  big  vessel  and  were  married  without 
further  ado,  while,  in  the  mayor's  library,  the 
two  men  smoked  innumerable  cigars  and  con- 
gratulated themselves  on  how  nicely  they  had  out- 
witted the  eloping  pair. 


THANHOUSER. 

MISS  MISCHIEF  (June  8).— Who  was  It  turned 
the  monse  loose  in  the  dormitory?  Who  put 
mucilage  on  Miss  Galgreen's  false  teeth?  Who 
flirted  witli  the  French  dancing  teacher?  Who 
put  snuff  In  the  school  books?  The  answer  was. 
"Miss  Mischief."  The  girl  remained  at  the  semi- 
nary exactly  one  month.  The  principal  finally  ex- 
pelled  her. 

Farm  life  is  usually  very  monotonous  and  the 
section  where  "Miss  Mischief's"  parents  lived  was 
no  exception  to  the  rule.  But  the  girl  soon  made 
the  little  rural  community  as  lively  as  Main  Street 
on  Saturday  night.  Her  father  always  had  to  hunt 
for  his  spectacles,  tacks  seemed  to  find  their  way 
into  his  cowhide  boots,  the  dog  frequently  raced 
wildly  about  the  yard  with  a  tin  can  tied  to  his 
tall,  and  the  minister  passed  the  doorway  with  a 
hostile  glare.  The  hoys  all  liked  her  and  neglected 
work   so  frequently   that   their  irate   fathers  had  to 


threaten  them  with  horsewhips  to  induce  them  to 
work.  The  girls,  robbed  of  sweethearts,  prayed  lor 
some  awful   fate   to   befall   the  siren. 

Two  young  men,  to  whom  the  girl  showed  the 
most  favor,  had  decided  to  fight  a  duel,  but  tbe 
girl  laughed  them  out  of  the  Idea,  and  persuaded 
them  to  settled  the  affair  by  a  battle  between 
their  pet  roosters.  The  affair  was  shrouded  with 
mystery  and  even  Miss  Mischief's  mother  did  not 
know  about  It.  But  when  various  masculine  and 
feminine  figures  came  hurling  down  the  grain  chute 
and  landed  on  tbe  ground  with  resounding  thumps, 
she  made  Inquiries.  They  excitedly  told  her  that 
the  constable  was  after  them  and  limped  and  hob- 
bled away  as  fast  as  they  could. 

When  it  became  known  that  the  constable  had 
been  no  where  around  and  that  it  was  another  of 
"Miss  Mischief's"  pranks,  the  rage  of  her  dupes 
was  great.  So  the  girl  was  bundled  off  to  another 
school  whose  principal  had  a  reputation  as  a  great 
disciplinarian,  and  the  little  community  once  more 
enjoyed  peace. 

WHILE  BABY  SLEPT  (June  10).— The  young 
farmer's  wife  had  one  trial,  her  husband's  father. 
He  was  old  and  peevish,  and  so  racked  and  crip- 
pled by  illness  that  he  could  not  walk  a  step. 
The  woman  declared  that  something  must  be  done 
and  on  numerous  occasions  pleaded  with  her  hus- 
band to  send  the  old  man  to  the  poor  house.  The 
farmer  long  resisted,  but  at  last  he  yielded  and 
the  woman  droveaway  triumphantly,  to  make  her 
arrangements  at  the  alms  house. 

The  old  man  knew  what  was  contemplated.  Help- 
less and  friendless  be  sat  in  bis  chair,  and  prayed 
for  death.     Who  could  blame  him? 

The  wife,  as  has  been  stated,  was  on  her  way 
to  the  aims  house.  Tbe  old  man's  son  was  at  work 
in  the  field,  and  the  invalid  was  alone  in  the  house, 
except  for  his  tiny  grandchild,  who  was  slumber- 
ing peacefully  In  the  adjoining  room.  The  outer 
door  was  open,  and  through  it  crept  a  venomous 
snake.  It  paid  no  attention  to  the  old  man,  but 
squirmed  and  wriggled  its  way  to  the  inner  room 
where  tbe  baby  was  slumbering. 

The  invalid  loved  tbe  child,  but  he  was  powerless 
to  aid  him.  He  was  a  quick  witted  man,  however, 
and  discovered  a  way  to  send  out  the  alarm.  The 
farmer's  pet  dog  came  Into  the  house,  and  the 
invalid,  writing  a  note,  attached  it  to  the  dog's 
collar,  then  sent  blm  out  to  find  his  master.  Tbe 
warning  reached  the  farmer  in  time,  and  he  saved 
his  baby  son,  Just  as  the  wife  arived  with  an  at- 
tendant from  the  alms  house  detailed  to  remove 
the  old  man  there.  When  the  woman  found  out 
what  had  happened  during  her  absence  she  was 
conscience  stricken,  and  tenderly  embracing  the 
old  man,  told  him  that  his  home  would  always  be 
with  them,  adding,  "John  and  I  can  never  forcet 
that  to  you  alone  we  owe  the  life  of  our  little 
son." 

And  the  old  man  no  longer  prayed  for  death,  be- 
cause happiness  had  entered  his  life,  which  had 
long  been  one  of  sickness   and  sorrow. 

HIS  SACRIFICE  (June  13). — The  young  physician 
ranked  high  in  the  medical  profession.  He  was 
wealthy  and  undoubtedly  would  have  been  a  very 
happy  man  If  it  had  not  been  for  his  Jealous  wife, 
who  constantly  interfered  in  his  professional  af- 
fairs. Finally  she  made  a  scene  in  the  presence  of 
a  patient,  and  the  doctor,  losing  his  temper,  an- 
grily declared  that  he  wished  he  was  rid  of  her 
forever. 

The  doctor's  cousin,  who  secretly  hated  him,  called 
soon  after  the  wife  had  again  quarreled  violently 
with  her  husband  and  was  in  the  room  when  tbe 
woman  swallowed  poison  and  died.  When  the  doc- 
tor, summoned  by  the  cousin,  hurried  into  the 
room,  he  was  told  by  his  kinsman  that  with  her 
last  breath  his  wife  had  accused  him  of  poisoning 
her.  A  patient,  who,  in  fact,  was  the  one  who 
had  heard  the  doctor  threaten  his  wife,  had  fol- 
lowed the  men  into  the  room.  Remembering  bis 
words  she  turned  on  him  and  accused  him  of  the 
crime,  then  rushed  from  the  house  to  summon  a 
policeman.  The  cousin  persuaded  the  physician 
that  it  was  hopeless  to  prove  his  Innocence,  so  the 
doctor  signed  away  his  fortune  to  his  unscrupulous 
relative  and  fled. 

The  fugitive  obtained  work  on  a  farm  and  was 
very  happy  there,  until  a  detective,  who  chanced 
to  be  in  the  neighborhood,  was  invited  to  spend  the 
night  at  the  farm  house.  The  officer  showed  the 
farmer  a  circular  offering  a  reward  for  the  capture 
of  the  doctor,  and  also  exhibited  It  to  the  farm 
hand,  not  knowing  that  he  was  tbe  man  of  whom 
he  was  In  search. 

That  evening  the  farmer's  little  daughter  was 
taken  ill,  and  the  frantic  father  drove  off  for  the 
nearest  doctor,  many  miles  away.  The  fugitive 
went  into  the  little  bed  room  and  saw  that  the 
only  thing  to  Bave  the  child's  life  was  an  imme- 
diate operation.  He  did  not  hesitate,  and  the 
child's  life  was  saved.  But  the  detective,  his 
suspicions  awakened  by  the  rare  surgical  skill  dis- 
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prisoner. 

The  doctor  was  brought  back  to  the  city  and 
there  he  was  informed  that  his  cousin  had  confessed 
and  his  innocence  was  established.  So  he  returned 
to  the  country,  and  the  clutch  of  the  little  arms 
and  a  kiss  from  the  baby  lips  were  ample  payment 
for  tbe  sacrifice  he  had  so  gladly  made. 


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MAJESTIC. 

MIMOSA'S  SWEETHEART  (June  8)'.  —  Fred 
Chase,  who  is  a  devil  among  the  ladles,  finds  that 
he  cannot  flirt  with  Mimosa,  a  pretty  little  Jap 
girl.  He  hires  some  men  to  attack  her  and  by  a 
series  of  apparently  desperate  rescues  wins  her 
regard,  to  the  great  distress  of  Uchida  and  Senlcha, 
his  Japanese  rivals,  who  forget  their  own  rivalry 
and  unite  to  do  up  one  of  the  hated  race.  They 
practice  Jlu  Jltsu  on  him  and  are  doing  him  up, 
when  Mimosa  comes  to  bis  relief  and  then,  woman- 
like, thinks  that  Fred  is  the  real  hero.  She  lets 
him  put  a  ring  on  her  linger  and  he  wins  the  long 
desired    kiss. 

THE  MESSAGE  OF  THE  FLOWERS  (June  10).— 
The  lodge  keeper's  daughter  was  romantic.  She 
liked  to  lie  in  the  hammock  tinder  the  trees,  and 
read  novels  wherein  lords  and  ladies  played  a 
prominent  part.  She  often  dreamed  of  the  time 
when  her  "Prince"  would  come  to  her.  Although 
she  knew  that  the  gardener  cared  for  her,  she 
sometimes  regarded  him  disdainfully,  for  he  was 
not  at  all  romantic,  sut  just  a  plain  everyday 
young  man,  who  worked  very  bard  for  bis  living. 
Everyday  he  brought  her  a  bouquet  of  beautiful 
roses,  wblch  she  accepted  gratefully,  for  they  were 
her   favorite   flower. 

A  young  man  came  to  the  estate  with  a  letter 
from  its  absent  owner,  directing  the  lodge  keeper 
to  show  him  around  the  grounds.  Her  father  was 
absent,  and  the  girl,  impressed  by  the  stranger's 
handsome  face  and  aristocratic  bearing,  volun- 
teered to  be  his  guide.  The  young  man  was  very 
pleasant,  and  when  he  left  thanked  her  and  said  be 
would  come  again.  He  did  so,  and  the  girl  was 
delighted.  Although  he  had  merely  been  pleasant 
to  her,  the  girl  told  herself  that  he  must  surely 
be  her  "Prince,"  and  would  soon  ask  her  to  marry 
him.  Her  romantic  fancy  caused  her  to  treat  the 
gardener  cruelly,  and  he  did  not  bring  any  more 
bouquets,   for  he  knew  that  she  did  not  want  them. 

One  day  the  awakening  came.  The  rich  man 
entered  the  garden  with  a  pretty  young  woman, 
and  told  the  lodge  keeper  that  Bhe  was  his  fiancee. 
The  lodge  keeper's  daughter,  unseen,  heard,  and 
rushed  into  her  home  sobbing.  In  a  moment  of 
remorse  she  thought  of  the  gardener,  and  realized 
how  cruelly  she  had  treated  him.  The  sudden 
shock  had  been  too  much  for  her,  and  she  became 
seriously    ill. 

She  was  hovering  between  life  and  death  when 
her  mother  bore  into  her  bed  room  an  immense 
bunch  of  magnificent  roses.  She  buried  her  face  in 
the  bouquet  and  sniffed  the  fragrant  perfume,  and 
then  she  cried,  with  gladness  rather  than  sorrow, 
for  they  were  the  flowers  of  love,  the  token  that 
the  young  gardener  still   cared   for  her. 

The  young  man  entered  the  sick  room  hesitat- 
ingly. The  girl  propped  up  in  bed,  held  out  her 
arms  pleadingly  and  he  ran  forward  with  a  glad 
cry.  The  roses,  unheeded,  lay  strewn  on  the  bed. 
The  girl  had  received  the  message  of  the  flowers. 


RELIANCE. 

HIS  UNCLE'S  HEIR  (June  9).— Old  Torrey,  mil- 
lionaire, traveling  in  the  South  for  his  health, 
meets  a  poor  girl  of  good  family.  He  is  sorry  for 
her  evident  poverty  and  the  fact  that  her  old 
home  is  about  to  be  taken  away,  causes  bim  to 
offer  her  money  which  she  refuses.  Then  he  asks 
her  to  marry  him  that  he  may  provide  for  her. 
Urged    by    her    invalid    father — she    accepts    Torrey. 

Young  Jack  Mathens,  supposed  heir,  is  notified 
of  this  marriage  and  angered  because  a  supposed 
adventuress  has  ensnared  his  uncle,  he  refuses  to 
meet  her  and  goes  away.  The  society  girl  whom 
he  has  been  engaged  to,  gives  him  up  when  she 
learns  he  is  no  longer  his  uncle's  heir  and  old 
Torrey,  angered  at  Jack's  attitude  toward  Elise— 
makes  a  new  will  leaving  all  to  his  wife  and  noth- 
ing to  the  boy.  Torrey  dies — the  new  will  cannot 
be  found  and  so  the  old  one,  making  Jack  heir  is 
legal.  The  boy  away  on  a  hunting  trip  does  not 
know  this.  Elise  leaves  her  husband's  house,  re- 
fusing even  to  accept  the  third  that  is  allowed 
her  by  law.  She  goes  back  to  her  father.  Jack 
la  hurt  while  hunting  near  her  home — and  is  car- 
ried to  her  house.  He  spends  a  few  weeks  there 
falling  in  love  with  the  girl.  Neither  knows  the 
other's  identity.  Both  get  letters  from  the  lawyer 
— saying  that  the  new  will  baa  been  found.  He 
arrives,  be  introduces  the  two  young  people  who, 
forgetting  all  about  the  money — turn  to  each 
other  with  a  Joyous  "You,"  and  pay  no  attention 
to  the  lawyer  who,  seeing  he  Is  not  needed,  slips 
away. 

ANNIE    LAURIE     (June    16) The    girl's    father 

wants  her  to  marry  her  rich  suitor,  but  she  loves 
the  poor  one.  One  evening,  both  young  men  are 
calling  on  the  girl.  Her  father  is  all  attention 
to  the  rich  fellow.  The  girl  puts  a  record  into 
the  phonograph  and  she  and  her  sweetheart  sit 
back  in  the  shadows  as  "Annie  Laurie"  is  played. 
The  father's  face  softens — he  sees  himself  a  young 
man  courting  his  sweetheart  back  in  tie  early 
sixties.  The  Civil  War  breaks:  he  goeB  off  in  a 
Union  uniform,  carrying  a  knot  of  ribbon  from  the 
girl — and  the  last  thing  he  remembers  Is  her  voice 
Binglng    the   old    familiar    "Annie   Laurie." 

He  is  wounded  and  taken  to  the  house  of  a 
Southern  girl  who  cores  for  him  and  sends  for  the 
Northern  girl  and  her  father.  When  they  arrive 
he  does  not  know  them,  until  the  girl.  Inspired 
by    a    sndden    thought,    kneels    at    bis    bedside    and 


sings  "Annie  Laurie"  to  him.  Then  he  remembers 
and  they  are  soon  In  close  embrace.  At  this  point 
in  his  dream — the  old  man  awakens.  The  phono- 
graph is  still  playing  "Annie  Laurie" — the  young 
lovers,  in  their  dim  corner,  are  oblivious  to  all 
but  themselves.  Remembering  the  days  of  his  own 
romance,  the  father  suggests  to  the  rich  suitor 
that    they   leave   the  young   pair  alone. 

HALF  A  CHANCE  (S  parts— June  14).— "Frisco 
Pet,"  an  ex-prize  fighter,  Is  accused  of  the  mur- 
der of  a  woman  of  the  underworld  because  be  is 
found  in  her  room  in  a  drunken  condition,  alone 
with  her  body.  In  reality  Lord  Ronsdale,  a  de- 
generate nobleman,  had  come  to  break  with  this 
woman,  who,  In  an  attempt  to  blackmail  him,  took 
out  a  revolver  which  accidently  went  off. 

"Frisco  Pet'  is  sent  to  the  colonies  in  a  convict 
ship  on  which  Lord  Ronsdale  also  embarks  with  Lord 
and  Lady  Wray  and  their  six  year  old  niece, 
Jocelyn.  This  child  becomes  Interested  in  the  con- 
vict and  sorry  for  his  plight  gives  him  a  gold 
locket. 

A  atorm  comes  np  and  In  the  hurry  to  the  life 
boats,  "Frisco  Pet"  and  the  child  are  forgotten. 
He  jumps  overboard  with  her  and  swims  to  one  of 
the  boats.  As  he  Is  about  to  grab  it  himself, 
Ronsdale  recognizes  him  and  pushes  bim  back  into 
the  water.  "Frisco"  gets  ashore  and  00  a  desert 
island  builds  a  hut  to  live  in.  He  later  gets  to 
find  a  box  of  law  books,  washed  ashore  from  the 
wreck  and  with  these  as  his  only  companion — the 
man   alone  in    the   wilderness — regenerates. 

Years  later  he  returns  to  London  and  becomes 
famous  as  a  criminal  lawyer.  He  again  meets 
Jocelyn  Wray  and  falls  in  love  with  her.  Lord 
Ronsdale,  who  is  also  courting  the  young  heiress, 
recognizes  In  the  man  known  as  John  Steele,  "Fris- 
co Pet"  escaped  convict.  He  arranges  for  his 
capture  and  at  a  party  at  the  Wray's  points  him 
out.  But  Steele  with  the  girl's  help  escapes.  As 
he  leaves  he  drops  the  little  gold  locket  on  the 
table  and  Jocelyn  remembers. 

In  the  slums  of  London,  John  Steele  searches  for 
two  men  who  were  in  the  Inn  on  the  night  of 
Amy  Gerard's  murder.  They  alone  can  vindicate 
him.  In  the  East  End  he  finds  them.  He  asks 
one  of  them  for  a  written  vindication  and  is  re- 
fused. Then  he  fights  a  terrific  battle  with  bis  old 
enemy,  and  coming  out  victor,  compels  the  man 
to    write    at    his   dictation. 

In  Ronsdale's  room  he  meets  the  police,  produces 
the  paper  which  Ronsdale  tries  to  destroy,  and 
clears  his  own  name  of  all  suspicion.  Ronsdale 
the  coward,  who  sent  a  man  to  prison  for  life 
rather  than  have  his  name  mixed  In  scandal  is 
cast  off  by  the  Wrays  who  give  their  consent  to 
Jocelyn's  engagement  to  John  Steele. 


KEYSTONE. 

THE  WAITERS'  PICNIC  (June  16).— Louis  tie 
chef  and  Oscar,  the  head  waiter,  are  in  love  with 
Mabel,  the  pretty  cashier.  The  Waiters'  Picnic 
is  held,  and  Mabel  Is  the  cause  of  much  trouble 
between  Louis  and  Oscar.  Mabel  accidentally  falls 
over  a  high  bank  and  Louis,  in  attempting  "to  res- 
cue her,  falls  over  too.  Oscar  and  the  other  pic- 
nickers rush  to  the  scene,  and  by  means  of  a  human 
rope  puU  Mabel  up.  Louis  Is  left  to  his  fate 
but  by  superhuman  efforts  manages  to  near  the 
top,  when  Oscar  pushes  him  back  again. 

That  night  the  headwaiter  makes  things  as  un- 
pleasant as  possible  for  the  chef,  and  the  latter 
retaliates  by  sending  ont  some  weird  concoctions 
from  his  kitchen,  causing  the  patTons  to  heap 
maledictions  upon  Oscar.  The  methods  of  the 
chef  in  handling  the  victuals  are  comically  shown, 
and  will  cause  oceans  of  laughter. 

The  chef  finally  decides  to  gain  a  terrible  re- 
venge by  killing  his  rival,  so  he  prepares  a  seem- 
ingly appetizing  dish,  which  Is  liberally  sprinkled 
with  poison.  It  looks  so  good  that  the  headwaiter 
presents  it  to  Mabel,  who  is  about  to  go  home, 
and  she  wraps  a  napkin  about  it  and  goes  out. 

Louis  waits  until  the  poison  shall  have  taken 
effect  and  then  enters  the  dining  room  to  gaze 
at  his  dead  enemy.  He  la  surprised  to  see  Oscar 
serenely  walking  about,  and  when  he  learns  what 
has  occurred  he  bolts  for  the  door  and  rashes 
madly  down  the  street.  Police  and  pedestrians  at- 
tempt to  stop  the  supposed  mad  man,  but  he  bowls 
over  every  one  in  his  path  and  continues  on  his 
flight,  pursued  by  a  howling  mob.  He  arrives  at 
Mabel's  borne  In  time  to  prevent  the  family  eating 
the  poisoned  food,  and  then  falls  Into  the  bands  of 
Oscar  who   administers   a  well  merited   beating. 

THE  TALE  OF  A  BLACK  EYE  (June  19).— 
Jones  has  a  Jealous  wife,  and  she  has  good  reason 
to  be  so,  for  Jones  Is  an  awful  flirt.  She  Anally  de- 
cides to  keep  tab  on  him  all  day  and  makes  bim 
promise  to  telephone  her  every  five  minutes.  Jones 
explains  this  situation  to  his  boss,  who  agrees  to 
telephone  Mrs.  Jones  himself,  In  order  that  his 
employe    can    get    bis    work    accomplished. 

The  boss  keeps  bia  word,  and  at  five  minute 
intervals  calls  up  Mrs.  Jones  and  advises  her  that 
her  husband  is  still  on  the  job.  In  the  afternoon 
Jones  is  sent  on  an  errand  and  passes  a  shop  in 
the  window  of  which  beautiful  models  are  demon- 
strating gowns.  Tbey  look  pretty  good  to  Jones, 
and  he  saunters  In  and  tries  to  strike  np  an  ac- 
quaintance with  them.  The  bouncer  is  called  who 
lands  a  right  swing  on  the  bapless  flirt,  who  Is 
then  kicked  out  into  the  street.  It  so  happened 
that   a    moving    picture   man    was   filming    the    front 


of    the    store,    and    the    camera    caught    the    entire 
incident. 

In  tiie  meantime  Jones's  boss  has  been  phoning, 
as  agreed,  and  is  just  telling  Mrs.  Jones  that  her 
husband  was  in  the  office  at  work  when  he  walks 
into  the  house.  She  demands  an  explanation  and 
he  tells  her  he  saved  a  child  from  being  run  over 
by  an  automobile,  but  was  himself  struck  by  the 
car.  That  evening  they  go  to  a  moving  picture 
show  and  the  fllm  in  which  Jones  played  a  star 
part  is  thrown  on  the  screen.  He  tries  to  divert 
his  wife's  attention  from  the  picture,  to  no  avail, 
and  Jones  receives  a  lesson  from   his  Irate  spouse. 

OUT  AND  IN  (June  19).— A  convict  make*  a 
thrilling  escape  from  the  penitentiary,  and  after 
overcoming  many  obstacles  and  suffering  untold 
hardships,  manages  to  elude  the  pursuing  guards. 
Nearly  dropping  with  fatigue  he  hides  In  a  hay 
wagon,  burying  himself  under  the  hay.  The  wagon 
goes  on  its  way  to  its  destination  and  Jones  cau- 
tiously crawla  out  to  discover,  to  his  amazement 
and  disgust  that  he  Is  within  the  walls  ot  ths) 
penitentiary,  tbe  hay  being  intended  for  the  horses 
of    that    institution. 


KAY-BEE. 

THE  FAILURE  OF  SUCCESS  (2  parts— June  20). 
— Tbe  Rev.  Ralph  Rivers,  a  young  country  parson, 
is  in  love  with  Mabel  Deering,  a  pretty  farmer's 
daughter.  His  rival  is  Jabez  Orow,  a  country 
dandy,  of  wealth,  who  Is  favored  by  Mrs.  Deering, 
while  her  husband  encourages  Mabel  in  her  evi- 
dent regard  for  the  poor  minister.  Mrs.  Deering 
schemes  to  get  rid  of  the  minister,  and  tells  him 
Mabel  is  engaged  to  Jabez.  Rivers  is  astounded, 
but  believes  her.  A  month  later,  he  accepts  a  call 
to  a  western  pulpit.     Mabel  marries  Jabez. 

Jabez  is  miserly  In  his  habits,  his  love  of  money 
makes  him  neglect  his  wife,  who  is  sadly  over- 
worked,  and  regrets  her  marriage. 

Rivers  has  landed  In  the  gold  country  and  writes 
a  letter  to  old  Deering  telling  him  of  the  fortunes 
being  made.  Jabez  finds  this  letter  and  leaves 
his  wife  at  home  and  goes  to  Arizona  where  he 
starts  a  general  store.  A  baby  is  born  to  Mabel, 
but  her  husband  is  so  absorbed  in  money  making 
that  he  neglects  to  write  to  her.  and  Mabel  sends 
a  letter  to  Rivers  asking  him  to  find  out  if  any- 
thing has  happened  to  Jabez. 

Rivers  calls  on  Jabez,  who  is  angered.  Ralph 
tries  to  tell  Jabez  he  owes  a  duty  to  his  wife,  but 
Jabez  orders   bim  away. 

Jabez  meets  Evelyn  Ross,  a  charming  widow, 
and  makes  love  to  her.  He  arouses  the  jealousy  of 
Lieut.  Jones,  who  learns  from  the  minister  of 
Jabez's  marriage  and  attempts  to  warn  the  widow, 
but  she  indignantly  cuts  him  off  telling  him  she  Is 
aware    of    Jabez's    former    marriage. 

Jabez  gets  a  divorce  and  marries  the  widow. 
Then  Mabel  learns  of  the  divorce  she  Is  crushed, 
and  her  father  upbraids  his  wife  for  having 
brought   about    the   marriage   of   their   daughter. 

Two  years  later,  Jabez  is  repenting  his  new  bar- 
gain, for  Mrs.  Crow  is  an  extravagant  woman  with 
the  spirit  to  enforce  her  demands.  Ralph  Rivers 
and  Mabel  have  been  corresponding,  and  Mabel 
comes  west  to  marry  him.  She  Is  met  at  the  set- 
tlement by  the  minister,  and  while  they  are  talk- 
ing the  child  wanders  into  Jabez's  store.  He  asks 
her  name  and  she  tells  him  Marion  Crow.  Mabel 
and  Ralph  come  in  looking  for  the  child,  and 
noting  the  man's  agitation  try  to  persuade  the 
child  to  go  to  her  father,  but  she  Indignantly  re- 
plies that  she  wiU  not  do  so.  Crow  Is  stricken 
with  remorse.  . 

Crow  now  more  than  a  millionaire,  has  fore- 
closed a  mortgage  on  the  church.  His  wife,  meet- 
ing Lieut.  Jones,  has  confessed  her  unhappy  life 
with  Jabez,  and  the  couple  have  sauntered  into  tbe 
church.  Unwittingly  the  minister  has  locked  them 
In  and  turned  the  key  over  to  Crow,  who  Is  furious 
when  he  opens  the  door  and  finds  his  wife  and  the 
lieutenant.  His  bitter  words  anger  the  lieutenant, 
who  leapB  upon  him  and  Is  only  prevented  from 
killing  Jabez  by   the   interference   of   bystanders. 

The  Indians,  in  a  revenge  spirit,  attack  the 
miners  who  barricade  themselves  behind  huge 
rocks  The  reksklns  hid  behind  a  stack  of  boxes 
containing  dynamite,  not  knowing  the  deadly  na- 
ture of  the  contents,  and  when  they  opened  Are  on 
the  miners  a  few  well  directed  Bbots  from  the 
whites  exploded  the  dynamite  and  hurled  the  In- 
dians to  destruction. 

Ralph  and  Mabel  are  married.  Crow  realizes 
tbe  prize  he  had  lost  and  is  obsessed  with  regrets 
and  remorse.  He  finally  decides  that  life  is  not 
worth  living,  and  one  morning  they  find  his  life- 
less body,  and  a  will  leaving  all  his  earthly  pos- 
sessions to  Mabel  and  their  child. 

BRONCHO. 

FROM  THE  SHADOWS  (2  parts — June  18).— 
The  story  opens  with  a  scene  of  the  Great  Ameri- 
can desert.  There  has  been  a  drought.  A  group 
of  Indians  are  seen  gloomily  looking  at  the  dead 
and  dying  cows. 

A  scout,  foreseeing  that  they  will  soon  be  des- 
perate warns  the  commander  of  the  fort  to  be  on 
his  guard:  bnt  he  makes  light  of  it. 

The  colonel's  wife  is  in  delicate  health  caused 
by  brooding  over  her  child's  death.  She  pleads 
with  him  to  adopt  a  baby,  and  he  gently,  but  firmly, 
refuses. 

Mrs.  Bruce  sees  the  happy  wife  of  the  sergeant, 
frollcing    with    her    small    children,    and    she   risks 


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tbe  colonel's  displeasure  by  calling  at  the  sergeant's 
bouse.  Her  reason  Is  being  threatened  and  she  be- 
comes 

Tbe  Indians  decide  to  attack  tbe  settlement  to 
obtain  food,  and  hold  a  war  dance  and  light  fires, 
with  the  smoke  of  which  they  signal  to  their 
brothers  who  arrive  in  great  numbers.  They 
swoop  down  upon  tbe  cabins  of  the  immigrants, 
killing  tbe  owners  and  sacking  the  houses.  In  one 
place  a  woman  bad  placed  ber  child  in  a  crib  on 
tbe  shady  side  of  tbe  bouse,  and  It  was  overlooked. 

Tbe  scout  again  gallops  swiftly  to  the  fort  and 
upbraids  the  colonel  for  his  failure  to  take  pre- 
cautious. Tbe  troops  hasten  to  the  scene  of  con- 
flict. A  terrible  struggle  takes  place  with  the 
maddened  redskins,  who  are  driven  off  after  heavy 
losses  in  killed  and  wounded.  Tbe  baby  is  found 
and  taken  back  to  the  fort,  when  in  a  pathetic 
scene,  is  the  means  of  helping  the  colonel's  wife 
back   to   bealth. 


MUTUAL   WEEKLY 

MUTUAL  WEEKLY,  NO.  23  (June  4).— Sacra- 
mento,  Cal. — Governor  Hiram  Johnson  in  the  act  of 
signing    the    Webb   Anti-Alien    Bill. 

Southport,  La. — Cotton  mill  and  21  cars  are  de- 
stroyed   by   huge   fixe. 

New  York  City. — Gov.  Sulzer  and  his  staff  re- 
viewing tbe  G.  A.  R.  and  Spanish  War  veterans 
on   their  Memorial  Day  parade. 

The  Fashion  in  Paris. 

Washington  Court  House,  Ohio. — Opening  day  of 
the   Annual    Horse   Show. 

Cellamare,  Italy. — Tbe  King  and  Queen  are  pres- 
ent  at   the   launching  of  the  dreadnought   "Duillo." 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. — The  48th  Memorial  Day  cele- 
bration proves  to  be  one  of  tbe  greatest  in  his- 
tory. 

Berkeley,  Cal. — Commencement  exercises  of  tbe 
University  of  California,  class  of  1913,  held  in  tbe 
Greek   Theater. 

Tulsa,  Okla. — Captain  H.  B.  Hicks,  chief  of  the 
Comanche  Indians,  returns  to  this  city  after  a 
three  years  trip  around   the  world,   on  horseback. 

Dallas,    Texas. — Tbe    Shriners    National    Conclave. 

Paris,  France. — A  four  and  eight-oared  contest 
on   tbe   Seine    through    Paris. 

Atlanta,  Ga. — Shooting  stream  of  water  110  feet 
high — 700   gallons   to   the  minute. 

Oakwood  Heights,  S.  I. — Aviator  Lapham  start- 
ing on  the  flight  In  which  he  fell  300  feet,  from 
bis  machine  and  was  dug  out  of  tbe  marsh — still 
alive. 

Lon*  Beach,  Cal. — Launching  of  tbe  "Edgar  B. 
Vance,"    largest    Pacific    coast    lumber    carrier. 

New  York  City.— Unveiling  the  Maine  Memorial 
monument. 

The  Last  Word  in  Painting  is  the  Cubist. 


PILOT. 

FOB  OLD  TIME'S  SAKE  (June  6). — In  a  little 
house  at  tbe  edge  of  tbe  village,  Mary,  the  old 
maid,  lived  her  life  alone,  looking  out  upon  the 
passing  world  with  bravely  smiling  eyes  that  gave 
no  hint  of  the  sorrow  that  might  He  within  her 
heart.  Beyond  her  house  -lay  the  rich  estate  of 
Squire  King,  the  wealthiest  man  in  tbe  community. 
It  has  long  been  tbe  desire  of  Squire  and  Mrs. 
King,  that  their  only  son,  Hal,  should  contract  a 
wealthy  marriage,  and  when  the  squire  discovered 
an  attachment  between  his  son  and  Dora,  a  poor 
girl  of  tbe  village,  he  promptly  attempted  to  stop 
it.  In  her  hour  of  sorrow  Dora  came  to  Mary,  to 
whom  she  told  her  story,  and  here,  later,  Hal  came, 
having  decided  to  assert  his  manhood  and  marry 
Dora  against  his  father's  wishes.  To  this  Mary  did 
not  agree,  but  decided  to  sacrifice  her  own  pride  to 
win  the  squire's  consent. 

Mary  set  out  to  find  tbe  squire,  and  tbeir  meet- 
ing was  fraught  with  many  memories  of  the  past, 
especially  as  Mary  recalled  to  his  mind  their  own 
love  affair  of  many  years  before,  of  their  brief 
happiness  and  their  sorrow,  as  the  squire  is  forced 
by  his  father  to  marry  a  wealthy  bride,  while 
Mary  remains  true  to  the  memory  of  the  man  she 
once  loved,  and  lives  to  be  an  old  maid.  She  plead- 
ed for  the  happiness  of  Hal  and  Dora,  but  seemed 
to  fail.  Later,  however,  the  squire,  "For  old  time's 
sake,"  gave  bis  consent  and  assisted  in  tbe  mar- 
riage of  his  son  and  Dora,  bringing  happiness  even 
to  himself  as  he  sat  alone  in  his  fine,  lovely  house, 
dreaming  of  those  be  had  made  nappy. 

WHEN  A  GIRL  LOVES  (June  12). — Louise,  tbe 
daughter  of  a  widowed  lawyer.  Is  invited  to  a  week- 
end party  given  by  her  friend  Betty.  She  arrives 
a  day  ahead  of  the  other  guests  in  order  to  be  of 
assistance  to  ber  friend,  and  at  luncheon  that  day 
Is  Introduced  to  Mr.  Wilson,  tbe  secretary  to  Betty's 
father.  After  the  repast  Betty  has  some  shopping 
to  do  and  asks  Mr.  Wilson  and  Louise  to  accom- 
pany her  to  the  store  In  her  automobile.  They 
agree  and  while  Betty  is  making  purchases,  Mr. 
Wilson  drives  I-oulse  around  the  city.  She  is 
much  Impressed  with  tbe  suave  and  reticent  manner 
of  the  young  secretary,  as  she  has  only  seen  the 
frivolous  side   of   life. 

Paul  Mason,  a  rich,  but  conceited  young  man,  is 
among  the  guests  that  arrive  the  next  day.  He 
singles  out  Louise  as  being  the  girl  of  his  choice 
and  begina  to  shower  attentions  upon  her.  Bat 
they  are  not  welcomed,  and  one  evening  she  man- 
ages to  escape  from  him  and  runs  into  tbe  library 
to  Mr.  Wilson.  Mr.  Wilson,  who  is  of  humble 
birth,  is  greatly  surprised  to  be  sought  out  by  such 


a  charming  young  lady  as  Louise  when  there  are 
so  many  rich  men  in  the  bouse.  Mason  learns  of 
Louise's  action  and  the  next  day  he  Invites  her  to 
take  an  automobile  ride  with  him.  She  reluctantly 
agrees  and  when  gone  a  short  time  he  tries  to 
embrace  ber.  She  repulses  him  and  after  an  un- 
pleasant   ride   tbey   return   home. 

Betty  notices  that  Louise  is  sad  and  upon  in- 
quiring learns  tbe  whole  story.  Even  though  Betty 
tells  her  that  she  was  very  foolish  in  rejecting 
such  a  rich  young  man,  Louise  starts  to  pack  ber 
belongings,  while  Betty  goes  to  her  father  to  ex- 
plain things.  Mr.  Wilson,  who  Is  in  the  next 
room,  bears  everything  and  is  made  very  bappy 
by  the  incident.  After  the  conference  with  ber 
father,  Betty  goes  to  Louise  and  tries  to  make  her 
see  things  as  she  does,  but  ber  expostulations  are 
of  no  avail,  Louise  being  folly  determined  to  go. 
Just  before  stepping  Into  the  carlage  she  re- 
turns to  the  house  on  the  pretext  of  having  left 
her  handkerchief  upstairs,  bat  In  reality  to  say 
good-bye  to  Mr.  Wilson.  It  Is  now  or  never  with 
Louise  and  she  hands  tbe  secretary  ber  instructions 
to  write  her. 

Louise  arrives  borne  safely  and  after  waiting  a 
week  for  a  letter  she  becomes  a  little  discouraged. 
But  her  sorrow  is  shortlived  for  one  day  Wilson 
himself  calls  upon  her.  He  shows  her  a  letter  of- 
fering him  a  position  as  secretary  to  the  Ambassa- 
dor to  England.  At  first  Louise  is  sad  when  she 
knows  that  Wilson,  if  he  accepts  the  position,  would 
pass  out  of  her  life  forever,  but  when  he  says 
that  he  would  like  her  to  accompany  him  If  be  ac- 
cepts tbe  position,  she  bows  her  head  in  acquies- 
cence and  falls  into  his  outstretched  arms. 


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GAUMONT. 

GATJMONT  WEEKLY,  NO.  65  (June  4).— The 
"Spiess"  in  Initial  Flight. — New  French  dirigible 
makes    beautiful    ascent    at    Versailles,    France. 

The  Dedication  of  the  Maine  Monument.— Splen- 
did memorial  honoring  heroes  who  lost  their  lives 
in  Cuban   harbor   Is   unveiled   in   New    York. 

England's  Monarchs  in  Wales. — King  and  Queen 
are  royally  received  by  their  subjects  in  West  of 
England. 

A  Strange  Visitor. — Big  Chinese  sailing  junk 
reaches   San  Francisco   from   Woosing,   China. 

The  Strassburg  Troops. — The  Kaiser  reviewing  his 
soldiers'  at  the  German  garrison. 

Tbe  Long  Beach  Disaster. — Great  pier  collapses 
in    California,    killing    30    persons. 

Sheep  Takes  a  Balloon  Bide. — Live  animal  used 
to  test  parachute  and  escapes  unhurt. 

Ludwig  of  Bavaria.— New  ruler  assists  In  the 
ceremonies  of  the  Order  of  St.   George  at  Munich. 

Farewell  to  Bernhardt. — Famous  French  actress 
sails  away,   but  says  she  will  return. 

Toymaker's  Convention. — French  humorists  bold 
most   amusing   exhibition   in   Paris. 

A  PASSING  CLOTJD  (June  5)  .-^Dickie  Dear  and 
his  Dackie  Darling,  newly  married,  are  in  blissful 
happiness.  It  happens  that  Dickie  is  an  Inveterate 
smoker.  This  offends  the  sensitive  nerves  of  Duckle 
Darling,  and  one  day,  when  be  happens  to  blow  a 
particularly  large  cloud  of  smoke  in  her  direction, 
she  coughs  and  wakes  cross.  This  leads  to  hard 
language.  Tbey  become  distant— distant  in  manner, 
inasmuch  as  they  forsake  tbeir  common  bedroom, 
each  going  to  separate  rooms. 

Dnckie  Darling,  in  going  to  bed,  bad  left  loose 
Bome  candies.  These  candies  attract  mice.  They 
proceed  to  nibble  Duckle  Darling's  corns.  Duckie's 
screams  arouse  Dickie  Dear,  who  chases  the  ma- 
rauders. They  have  a  fine  little  chase,  which  leads 
to  the  discovery  that  tbey  cannot  happily  be  sepa- 
rated. 


LUX. 

ENGULFED  (June  13). — Demitras  Is  a  smuggler 
whom  the  police  have  never  been  able  to  arrest. 
Although  aged,  he  still  continues  bis  dangerous 
calling.  One  day  he  seeks  refuge  with  Farmer 
Bell,  bnt  the  police  close  on  his  track,  also  take 
up  residence  in  the  farmer's  house.  Bell  plans 
to  entice  the  officers  to  a  distant  spot  and  during 
their  absence  for  Demitras  to  escape.  But  be  falls 
Into  a  quicksand  and  Is  only  rescued  by  tbe  ar- 
rival of  the  police.  Meanwhile  In  his  baste  to  es- 
cape, the  smuggler  has  fallen  and  broken  bis 
tblgh.  The  police  get  their  quarry,  bnt  be  dies 
from    the    effects    of    his    fall. 


SOLAX. 

TWO  STRANGERS  FROM  NOWHERE  (June 
20). — James  Warren,  a  poor  artist,  becomes  desper- 
ate because  bis  wife,  Editha,  Is  discontented  with 
their  poverty  stricken  existence.  During  an  ex- 
cited scene  he  vows  he  would  sell  his  soul  to  the 
devil  for  success.  A  gust  of  wind  blows  out  the 
light  and  when  he  religbts  the  lamp,  the  devil,  in 
the  guise  of  a  stranger,  immaculately  clad,  enters 
and  Inquires  for  a  rich  neighbor  with  whom  he  is  to 
visit.  Seeing  one  of  Warren's  pictures,  he  pretends 
enthusiasm  and  commissions  him  to  paint  a  pic- 
ture.    James  and   Editha  are  overjoyed. 

The  next  day,  the  devil  arranges  a  meeting  be- 
tween Editha  and  the  rich  neighbor's  son,  Law- 
rence.     Editha    and    Lawrence    become    lnfatnated 


with  each  other  at  first  sight.  Lawrence  invites 
Edltba  to  attend  a  ball  at  his  home,  and  she  is 
about  to  refuse,  not  baving  suitable  clothes  and 
knowing  her  husband  would  not  care  to  accom- 
pany her,  when  the  devil  offers  ber  money,  ad- 
vanced on  the  picture  James  Is  to  paint,  and  tells 
her  she  can  secure  a  gown.  He  also  contrives  to 
make  the  way  clear  for  Editha  to  accept  the  invita- 
tion by  telling  her  that  James  must  accompany 
him  to  tbe  city  on  that  evening  to  arrange  a 
setting,  and  consequently  would  know  nothing  of 
her  baving  gone.  Urged  on  by  the  devil,  Editha 
promises  Lawrence  to  attend. 

As  she  reaches  her  door,  a  stranger  (Conscience), 
In  the  guise  of  a  crippled  beggar,  asks  for  food. 
Tbey  enter  the  house  and  Editha  becomes  con- 
science-stricken, but  persuaded  by  the  devil  she 
does  not  tell  James  of  her  intentions.  The  evening 
of  tbe  ball,  James  and  the  devil  start  for  the  city, 
and  a  few  minutes  later  Lawrence  calls  for  Edltba 
who  Is   clad   gorgeously. 

The  devil,  wishing  to  arouse  the  husband's  jeal- 
ousy, suggests  that  he  'phone  bis  wife.  Jack 
'phones  and  finding  his  wife  does  not  answer,  be- 
lieves what  the  devil  has  told  him  of  Lawrence 
and  Edltha's  infatuation,  and  in  a  fury  starts  for 
bome.  He  arrives  at  home  to  find  bis  wife  absent. 
The  devil  insinuates  that  she  may  be  found  with 
Lawrence,  and  Jack  believing  her  faithless  goes 
with  the  devil  to  find  Editha.  They  arrive  at  Law- 
rence's residence  and  the  devil  leads  Jack  to  the 
conservatory  from  where  they  see  Lawrence  mak- 
ing violent  love  to  Editha.  Jack  denounces  Edltba 
and  returns  home.  The  devil  is  overjoyed  at  his 
success.  Conscience  enters  the  room  and  leads 
Editha  back  home.  She  changes  her  gorgeous  cos- 
tume for  clothes  In  keeping  with  her  position  and 
enters  the  room  In  time  to  see  a  struggle  between 
Conscience  and  the  Devil  in  which  tbe  Devil  is 
vanquished.  Conscience  then  affects  a  reconcilia- 
tion between  Edltba  and  James. 


MISCELLANEOUS 

KINEMACOLOR. 

HIS  WIFE'S  BIRTHDAY  PRESENT.— Suppose 
yon  had  given  your  wife  a  handsome  hat  and  opera 
cloak  for  her  birthday,  and  came  home  some  even- 
ing Just  in  time  to  see  a  woman  wearing  that  same 
hat  and  cloak  going  out  with  another  man: — 
wouldn't  you  be  suspicious? — That  is  the  situation 
which  confronts  Jack  Williams,  but  he  unwisely 
gives  free  rein  to  his  suspicions,  and  they  run  away 
with  him.  Having  followed  the  supposed  "per- 
fidious woman"  to  the  theater,  he  hires  a  couple 
of  thugs  to  "beat  up"  her  escort  when  she  returns 
home:  but  It  turns  out  that  "the  woman  in  the 
case"  is  not  his  wife,  but  her  maid,  who  has 
borrowed  the  garments  for  the  occasion.  More- 
over, she  Is  escorted  by  a  husky  cliaufTcnr.  who 
is  a  pal  of  the  "gunmen,"  so  the  Jealous  husband 
gets  the  beating  instead. 

Furthermore,  the  police,  responding  to  tbe  riot 
call,  arrest  the  victim  of  his  own  revengeful  plot, 
and  only  the  testimony  of  the  maid  saves  him 
from  a  sojourn  behind  the  bars, — so  she  Is  forgiven 
and  all  ends  happily.  But  the  Jealous  husband 
learns  that  "The  colonel's  lady  and  Judy  O'Grady" 
look  very  much  alike  in  the  same  hat  and  cloak, 
and  decides  not   to  be  so  suspicious  in  the   future. 

MAW8  BEST  FRIEND. — Here  are  some  valuable 
prize  dogs,  rightly  described  as  man's  best  friends: 
a  title,  however,  that  probably  the  horse  would  be 
inclined  to  dispute  with  him.  The  little  Yorkshire 
terrier,  whose  value  is  in  inverse  ratio  to  his 
weight.  The  large  St.  Bernard  perhaps  deserves 
our  title  of  Friend  of  Man  more  than  any  other 
dog,  since  he  has  earned  his  reputation  for :  phil- 
anthropy by  his  prowess  in  saving  human  life  in 
the  snows  of  the  Alps;  for  which  purpose  it  is 
trained  by  the  Monks  of  St.  Bernard. 

A  very  fine  specimen  of  a  prize  Collie.  This 
golden  coat  and  white  ruff  are  marks  of  great 
beauty.  The  Yiourouk  is  a  famous  sporting  dog 
bred  by  the  peasants  of  Smyrna,  and  used  in  bunt- 
ing the  wild  boar.  Here  are  five  little  toy  terriers. 
Meal  time  is  approaching,  and  they  know  that  if 
they  are  not  good  they  will  get  no  breakfast.' 

TAMIL  TYTES,  SOUTHERN  INDIA.— The  pic- 
ture opens  with  a  wonderfully  clear  and  pictures- 
que scene,  In  which  native  women  are  washing 
clothes  In  a  pool.  A  scene  in  a  village  market 
follows,  and  in  the  course  of  this  close,  views 
are  given  of  two  attractive  native  girls.  Native 
women  are  seen  carrying  water,  and  weavers  are 
■working  at  carpet  making.  A  typical  native  bul- 
lock cart  Is  photographed,  and  portrait  groups  of 
high  caste  native  children  show  the  caste  marks 
on  their  foreheads,  the  caste  mark  being  V-shaped. 
A  man  whose  face  is  nezt  photographed  is  of  an 
entirely  different  type  from  any  others  in  the  film. 

A  Tamil  lady  is  shown  wearing  a  pair  of  very 
heavy  ear-rings  of  ornate  design;  nest  is  a  picture 
of  a  row  of  native  youths,  all  with  happy  smllea 
on   their  faces. 

GAYA,  ALLAHABAD  AND  CAWNPORE,  INDIA. 
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tains many  interesting  and  famous  temples.  The 
first  ones  shown  in  the  film  were  erected  in  500 
B.  C.  Close  views  are  given  of  the  Hindu  goda, 
Ganesh  and  Hanuman,  who  are  represented  in  a 
collection  of  gods  at  the  workshop  of  a  native 
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press charges.      Order    a    set    now. 


to  the  orchestra— especially  the  moving  picture  orchestra— and  one 
which  is  growing  in  favor  every  day,  is  to  be  found  in  the  Musical 
Bells,  Chimes,  Marimbaphones  and  instruments  of  like  character," 
writes  Clarence  E.  Sinn  in  his  interesting  article  on  page  1020  of  the 
issue  of  June  7th  of  the  Moving  Picture  World.  Read  this  article, 
Mr.  Exhibitor.  It  will  tell  you  quite  a  good  deal  about  our  electrical 
musical  novelty  instruments. 

One  of  the  very  best  attractions  for  a  moving  picture  theatre  is  a  set 
of  our  well  known 

Musical  Electrical  Bells 

We  sell   these   bells  in  various  size  sets,  ranging  in  prices  from 

$42.00  PER  SET  AND  UP 


They  are  complete,  ready  to  play,  and  can  be  attached  to  the  piano 
player  or  drummer  can  play  these  beautiful  instruments 
with  little  or  no  practice. 

We  also  make  Electrical  Cathedral  Chimes,  Electrical 
Marimbaphones,    Orchestra    Chimes,    Xylophones,   etc. 

Write  for  our  catalogue  "F,"  just  out,  describing  240 
electrically  operated  musical  novelty  instruments  suit- 
able for  motion  picture  theatres. 


Any  piano 


J.  C.  DEAGAN 


1770  BERTEAU  AVENUE 


CHICAGO,  U.  S.  A. 


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Market  and  street  scenes  in  Allahabad  are  next 
given.  Tbls  city  is  situated  on  the  bank  of  tbe 
Jumma,  on  the  wedge  of  laud  between  it  and 
the.  Ganges.  The  gateway  of  the  city,  here  shown. 
Is  an  ornate  and  handsome  structure.  A  Dative 
school  in  progress  is  seen,  and  next  is  Igiven  a 
picture  of  the  Queen  Victoria  memorial,  in  the 
form    of   a    fountain. 

Klmsni  Bagh  is  a  notable  mausoleum  at  Allaha- 
bad. The  Roman  Catholic  Cathedral,  Is  a  build- 
ing somewhat  at  variance  from  Indian  styles  of 
architecture;    but  nevertheless   very   imposing. 

At  Cawnpore,  we  are  shown  an  impressive  mem- 
orial of  the  mutiny.  A  beautiful  canopy  has  been 
placed  over  the  well.  In  which  a  great  many  Euro- 
pean women  and  children  were  consigned  to  death. 
The  memorial  is  preserved  with  the  utmost  care 
and   vigilance. 

THE  CARBON  COPY.— Mr.  Strong  finds  the  fol- 
lowing letter,  in  his  wife's  handwriting  on  a  car- 
bon  pad  upon   his  desk: 

"Dear  Billy: — So  glad  to  hear  that  you  are 

back;    have    missed    you    so.      Meet    me    at 

Carlo's    at    12:30.      Am    feeling    'blue'    and 

want  you  to  cheer  me' up.     Lovingly,  FLO." 

Naturally    he    has   strong   suspicions — not   knowing 

who    "Billy"    is.      Neither    do    you,    by    the    way — 

and    the    best    method    of    satisfying    your    curiosity 

is  to  see  this  Kinemacolor  comedy  the  first  chance 

you    have. 


Picture  Theatres  Projected 

Wauaau,  Wis. — W.  H.  Hopper  and  P.  R.  Zlebell 
bongght    tbe    Bijou    theater. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — H.  L.  Brown,  J.  R.  Jackson 
and  Drosey  &  Smith  are  estimating  on  plans  for  a 
moving  picture   theater  for  W.  J.   Smith. 


Geneva,  0. — The  Casino,  Geneva's  new  picture 
house,    will    open    for   business.      Manager   Ault. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Geo.  Hogg  Is  estimating  on 
plans  for  a  moving  picture  theater  to  be  built  at 
1200   G*irard    Avenue. 

Ida  Grove,  la. — Wilson  Bender  Is  having  a  build- 
ing  remodeled   for  a  moving   picture  house. 

Carlisle,  Pa. — The  Orpheum  theater  here  Is  to  be 
enlarged. 

Davenport,  la. — The  contract  for  the  erection  of 
the  new  Lyric  theater  was  awarded  to  the  Con- 
crete Engineering  Co.,   of  Davenport. 

Tacoxna,  Wash. — John  Paddock  has  had  plans 
completed  for  the  remodeling  of  a  small  structure 
Into  a  moving  picture  theater  to  cost  $2,600.  The 
building    will   be   erected   by   days'    work. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Edward  Bieber  has  begun 
work  on  a  one-story  moving  picture  theater,  61  by 
74  feet  at  the  northwest  corner  of  Twenty-fourth 
and  Brown  Streets,  for  Joseph  F.  Werner,  to  cost 
17,500. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.— B.  Eetcbam's  Son  were  grant- 
ed a  permit  for  a  moving  picture  theater  at  2914 
Kensington  Avenue,  to  cost  $30,000.  The  lobby 
will  be  18  by  76  feet,  with  the  theater  proper 
located  on  E  Street,  south  of  Indiana  Avenue, 
94  by   106  feet. 

Philadelphia,  Pa, — Plans  have  been  filed  for  a 
moving  picture  theater,  50  by  120  feet  at  1712- 
14-16  Susquehanna  Avenue,  adjoining  the  James 
I*.    Claghorn    Public    School. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — William  R.  Dougherty  has 
been  awarded  a  contract  for  a  moving  picture  thea- 
ter with  a  seating  capacity  of  000  at  Bergwyn  for 
Richard    Zimmerman. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — The  half  interest  of  Mrs. 
Mjnnie  M.  Collins  in  the  moving  picture  theater, 
2132  and  2134  North  Sixth  Street,  40  by  142  feet, 
extending    through    to   and    Including    2137    Marshall 


Street,  has  been  sold  by  her  to  John  W.  Donnelly, 
who  has  taken  title  to  the  property.  It  was  sold 
subject  to  a  mortgage  of  $7,500.  The  purchase  of 
Mrs.  Collins'  interest  gives  Mr.  Donnelly,  who  was 
her  husband's  business  partner  at  the  time  of  his 
death,  entire  control  of  the  property,  which  la  as- 
sessed   at    $23,000. 

Joliet,  HI.— L.  M.  Rubens,  601  Cass  Street,  pro- 
prietor of  the  Princess  Theater,  has  let  the  con- 
tract to  Henry  Latz,  509  North  Hickory  Street  to 
build    a    one-story    moving    picture    theater. 

Now  York,  N.  Y. — Winnie  Company,  939  Intervale 
Avenue,  have  received  sub-bids  for  the  erection 
of  a  one-story  moving  picture  and  store  building, 
the  latter  to  be  occupied  as  a  first-class  bakery  to 
cost    $18,000. 

New  York,  N.  Y. — Aaron  Rosenstein,  4  East 
107th  Street,  Is  taking  sub-bids  for  a  two-story 
moving  picture  theater  and  roof  garden  to  cost 
$35,000. 

Pittsburgh,  Pa. — Morris  Goldstein,  Prebble  Ave- 
nue, has  awarded  the  contract  to  George  Westp-hal 
for  a  one-story  moving  picture  theater.  Work  on 
the    new    building    is    under    way. 

Lancaster,  Pa. — W.  H.  Snyder  has  awarded  the 
contract  for  the  erection  of  a  one-story  moving 
picture   theater   in    this   city    to   cost   $30,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Stuckert  and  Sloan  are  pre- 
paring plans  for  extensive  alterations  to  the  Man- 
hattan Theater,  31st  Street  and  Broadway,  New 
York  City.  The  entire  interior  of  the  theater  will 
be  taken  out,  new  concrete  floors  put  in  and  the 
building  altered  for  an  automat  restaurant  for  the 
Horn   and   Hardart  Company  of   this   city. 

Indianapolis,  Ind. — Frank  J.  Geiger,  102  South 
Pennsylvania  Avenue,  has  let  the  contract  to  B. 
Southworth,  La  Fayette,  Ind.,  for  a  one-story 
moving  picture  theater  with  a  seating  capacity  for 
400. 


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ATTENTION. 
Elmer  Stamets,   better  known   as   "Friday"   where 
are    you?       Write     immediately.       Address    J.    T. 
HOWELL.    Dover,    N.    J. 

WANTED — Geo.    W.    Hinton   with   Chinatown   fea- 
ture three  reels,  anyone  knowing  whereabouts,  wire 
F.  PARSONS,  4025  Grand  Blvd.,   Chicago,   111. 
SITUATIONS    WANTED. 

Expert  Cameraman,  many  years  experience,  also 
capable  taking  full  charge  of  laboratories  in  all  Its 
branches.  Best  of  references.  Address  L.  R., 
c/o  M.  P.   WORLD,   New  York  City. 

YOUNG  HAN,  19,  neat  appearance,  experienced, 
thorough  business  training,  bookkeeper,  desires 
position  with  manufacturer  or  exchange,  familiar 
with  film  business,  highly  recommended.  Address 
D.   F.   B.,   c/o  M.   P.   WORLD,    New  York  City. 

MANAGER — of  long  experience,  picture  and 
vaudeville  business  open  for  engagement  or  will 
buy  half  interest  and  manage.  Must  stand  in- 
vestigation. Address  W.  J.  MARTIN,  11120  Su- 
perior Ave.,-  Cleveland,   Ohio. 

FEATURE  FILM  LECTURER  and  Manager  at 
liberty,  wants  position  in  Middle  West,  best  ref- 
erences: experienced.  Address  "LECTURER,"  c/o 
M.   P.    WORLD,    N.    Y.   City. 

OPERATOR  desires  position  In  small  city  or 
road  work.  Experienced  Peerless  and  Powers  No. 
6.  Address  JAMES  HART,  1945  Minnesota,  Osh- 
kosh,    Wisconsin. 

CAPABLE  OPERATOR — desires  permanent  located 
position.  Have  own  machinery.  Or,  will  rent 
theater.  Including  contents.  Address  OPERATOR, 
74   Linden  Ave.,    Maiden,    Mass. 

MANAGER. — Of  long  experience,  picture  and 
vaudeville  business,  open  for  engagement.  Any 
New  England  city  or  town.  Address  MANAGER, 
77a    Revere   St.,    Suite  4,    Boston,    Mass. 

CAMERAMAN  desires  position  with  own  outfit 
or  otherwise.  HAL  YOUNG,  667  E.  164th  St 
New  York  City. 

HELP  WANTED. 
MEN  WANTED  for  two  year  motor  boat  trip, 
New  York  to  San  Francisco,  via  Inland  waters  and 
Panama  Canal;  under  auspices  well  known  Maga- 
zine, working  in  moving  pictures  enroute.  Pref- 
erence given  tiose  with  trades  or  professions  use- 
ful to  the  expedition.  Must  have  some  capital. 
For  full  particulars  address  WILLIAM  D.  EMER- 
SON. Canadian  Bioscope  Co.,  Ltd.,  Halifax,  N.  S. 
Canada. 

WANTED — An  all  round  man  picture  theater. 
Speller,  ad  writer,  sign  painter  and  general  utility 
man.  Long  engagement.  Address  JIM  B.  WIL- 
SON,  Jewel  Theater,    Sherman,  Texas. 

EttUIPMENT   FOR   SALE. 
CALCIUM  LAMPS,  rewinders,  film  menders  bought, 
sold     or    exchanged.       Address    GEO.     BARNARD 
Millbrook,   N.   Y. 

FOR  BALE — About  300  used  opera  chairs  now 
In  Brooklyn.  Immediate  delivery.  Great  bargain 
Addre«  ITIF,  A.  II.  ANDREWS  CO.,  1165  Broad- 
way, New  York  City. 


FOR  SALE — Powers  motion  picture  head  in  fine 
condition  including  Gundlach-Manhattan  No.  2 
lenses,  price  $85.00  cash.  ROCHESTER  SPECIALTY 
SERVICE,  9  Courtland  St.,   Rochester,  N.   Y. 

FOR  SALE — Sell  Angelus  Piano  Player  with  or- 
gan attached,  plays  any  piano  anybody  can  play. 
Saves  pianist's  salary,  better  music,  $65.  Address 
BARNELL.   3745  Main  Ave.,   Norwood,   Ohio. 

STANDARD  NO.  4  complete,  with  rheostat.  Au- 
tomatic fire  shutter  with  chain  drive.  Used  only 
nine  weeks.  Guaranteed  in  perfect  condition.  First 
check  for  $125  takes  it.  Will  ship  subject  to  in- 
spection on  deposit  of  $25.  Address  BELLS  OP- 
ERA   HOUSE,    Hillsboro,    Ohio. 

FOB  SALE — Black  top  tent  lined  and  roped. 
Twenty  by  sixty  feet,  four  eighteen  ft.  center  poles, 
ten  foot  wall.  Purpose  for  moving  pictures.  Ad- 
dress J.   PAWLEY,   304  Court  St.,    Saginaw,    Mich. 

FOR  SALF. — 110  steel  frame  theater  chairs  used 
one  season.  $100  buys  them.  Address  FRANK  E. 
RUSSELL,    Batavia,    N.    Y. 

FOR  SALE— $100  F.  0.  B.  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  $380 
Flasher  Electric  Sign  "Star"  4  ft.  by  21  ft.,  218 
lights.  If  interested  send  for  sketch.  Address  A. 
E.    JONES   CO.,    N.    S.    Pittsburg,    Pa. 

FOR  SALF. — 3  ten  hour  D.  O.  Excello  lamps, 
good  condition.  Also  Powers  No.  6,  Address  811 
MYRTLE    AVE.,    Brooklyn,    N.    Y. 

FOR  SALE— 300  folding  chairs,  upright  piano, 
2  Excello  arc  lamps.  Address  D.  C.  THEATER, 
15  East  3rd  St.,   New  York  City. 

FILMS   FOR   SALE. 
FOR    SALE — 500    reels    of    film    with    posters    to 
match,   all  in  good  condition.     Many   subjects  prac- 
tically new.     Address   McINTIRE   4   RICHTER,    28 
E.  14th  St.,  New  York  City. 

TALKING  PICTURE  FILMS  (with  records)  "Quo 
Vadis,"  "Eva  Tanguay,"  "Alice  Lloyd,"  and  many 
others.  Address  G.  E.  EMERSON,  537  Central 
Ave.,   Newark,    N.   J. 

FOR  SALE — Pathe's  wonderful  production  "The 
Passion  Play,"  three  full  reels,  hand  colored  and 
toned,  fine  condition  Including  attractive  lobby  dis- 
play, Heralds  carrying  cases,  etc.  Price  $225, 
privilege  of  examination.  Address  WYNDHAM 
ROBERTSON,   Settegast  Bldg.,   Houston,   Texas. 

FIVE  ONE-REEL  FEATURES— The  Path  Of 
G'enius,  Her  Heart's  Depth,  Wrongly  Accused, 
Mephistopheles  Returns  to  Earth,  and  The  Football 
Warrior.  The  two  latter  with  photos  and  mounted 
paper.  All  in  first  class'  condition.  The  first  fifty 
dollars  buys  them.  Address  A.  N.  WOLFF,  Mana- 
ger Colonial  Theater,   Rochester,   N.   Y. 

FOR  SALE — The  great  western  three-reel  Spe- 
cial Feature,  "Cheyenne  Coyboy  and  Indian-  Fron- 
tier Celebration"  with  Texas  State  rights,  includ- 
ing banners,  lithographs,  heralds,  photos,  trunk 
and  carrying  cases,  complete.  A  snap  at  $350. 
Will  sell  this  property  for  half  cash,  balance  easy 
terms  to  the  party  booking  with  moving  picture 
theaters  on  the  road,  meaning  business.  WYND- 
HAM ROBERTSON,   Settegast  Bldg.,  Houston,  Tex. 


FILMS    WANTED. 

WANTED — One  or  two  reel  feature  of  Panama 
Canal,  in  good  condition.  State  price.  Address 
G.  3.  SPURGEON,  Cashmere,  Washington. 

THEATERS  FOR  SALE. 

FOR  SALE — Theater  in  the  best  town  of  Maine 
with  complete  equipment,  long  lease,  low  rent. 
Apply  to  CEMENTS,  c/o  M.  P.  WORLD,  N.  Y.  City. 

M.  P.  THEATER  for  sale — new,  first  class  equip- 
ment, growing  patronage.  Would  consider  de- 
sirable stat,  right  as  part  payment.  Address*  193, 
c/o    M.    P.    WORLD,    N.    Y.    City. 

FOR  SALE — Strictly  modern  exclusive  picture 
house  seating  three  hundred.  Town  of  forty  thou- 
sand, five  year  lease.  Location  best  in  city.  Mat- 
inee daily,  making  good  money,  will  prove  it  to 
buyer  with  cash.  Price  $4,000.  Will  bear  strictest 
Investigation.  Act  quick.  Address  ROYAL  SLIDE 
CO.,    Flint,    Mich. 

COLORED  MOVING  PICTURE  THEATER  for  sale 
in  town  of  5,000,  best  location,  seats  200,  admissiou 
ten  cents.  Everything  new,  1913  model  inotiograpb. 
No.  6  Powers  machine.  Only  colored  theater  in 
city.  Am  leaving  city.  Address  LINCOLNVILLE 
THEATER,   92  Washington  St.,   St.   Augustine,   Fla. 

FOR  SALE — The  most  beautiful  and  one  of  the 
best  theaters  in  Michigan.  .Vaudeville  and  photo- 
plays. Good  reason  for  selling.  Will  sacrifice  for 
cost  of  pianos,  machines,  chattel  and  improvements 
amounting  to  $5,500  and  charge  nothing  for  lease, 
business  or  good  will.  Short  or  long  lease  as  de- 
sired. An  exceptional  opportunity.  .  Nice  clean 
business.  Money  always  in  advance  and  little 
trouble.  Full  particulars  by  addressing  THEATER, 
c/o   Detroit   Free   Press,    Detroit,    Mich. 

BUSINESS    OPPORTUNITY. 

I  WILL  BUY  anything  from  a  second-band  roll  of 
tickets  to  a  theater.  I  sell  machines,  chair*, 
pianos,  etc.,  of  long  ago,  or  up-to-date.  Have  also 
a  few  picture  theatres  for  sale.  Address  TRIGGER. 
212  Third  Ave.,  near  18th  St.,  New  York  City. 

FOR  SALE — Establish  Feature  Film  Exchange 
in  New  York  City,  including  twenty-five  first  etas 
features  and  two  Talking  picture  machines  and  250 
commercial  reels.  Will  stand  Investigation.  Ad- 
dress J.   B.,  c/o  Moving  Picture  World,   N.    Y.  City. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

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latest   list   of   supplies   for   your    theater.      Cheapest 

and   best   goods   In    the   South.     Send    for  list,    it  Is 

free.     SOUTHERN  FILM  EXCHANGE,   Norfolk,    Vn. 

EttUIPMENT  WANTED. 
CAMERAPHONE     film      records      and      machines 
wanted.      Send    list.      Address   BARTELSTONE,    212 
East    12th    St.,    New    York    CHty. 

CAMERAS  FOR  SALE. 
CAMERAS — All  standard  makes:  Urban,  Warwick, 
American,  Gaumont,  Ernemann,  etc.,  Tripods.  De- 
veloping aparatus,  Lnmlere  Film.  Address  MOR- 
TON H.  POWERS,  First  National  Bank  Bldg., 
Chicago,    111. 


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AMERICAN. 

Juae    2 — When    Luck    Change*     (Drama) 1000 

June    6 — The     Wishing    Seat     (Drama) 1000 

Jnne    7— Via   Cabaret    (Drama) •. 1000 

Jane    9— California  Poultry  (Domestic  Animals). 1000 

June  12— Hearts    and    Horses    (Drama) 1000 

June  14 — Reward    of    Courage     (Drama) 1000 

Jane  16— Soul  of  a  Thief  (2  parts— Drama). .  .2000 
June  19 — Unwritten  Law  of  the  West  (Drama)lOOO 
June  21 — Marine   Law    (Comedy) 1000 

AMBRO8I0. 

Aar.  M— Golcen  Bala   (3  mli,   Drama) 

May    8— The    Spider    (2    parts — Drama) 

May  10— Tempest  and  Sunshine  (2  parts- 
Drama)     

"ay  IT— A  Maid  of  Honor   (2  parts — Drama) ! ! 

May  24 — The  Yellow  Man   (2  parts— Drama) .. . 

May  31— An    Unruly    Father    (2   parts — Drama) 

June    7— The  Sold  Title    (2   parts— Drama) ... . 

June  14— The  Girl  of  the  Hidden  Spring  (2  parts 
— Drama)      

June  21 — Loves   Shadow    (2   parts— Drama)! .. .. 

BISON. 

May  17— In  the  Secret  Service  (2  parts— Drama) 
May  20— The    Stara     and    Stripe*     Forever     (t 

parts— Drama)     

May  24 — Under   Fire    (2   parts— Drama) 

May  27— Love,  Life  and  Liberty   (2  parts— Dr.) 
May  SI— The  Honor  of  the  Regiment  (2  parts- 
Drama)     

June    S— The  Battle  of  San  Juan  Hlli'(2'parte 

— Drama)      . 

June    7— The    Spirit    of    the    Flag    (2    parted 

Drama) »...  J. .. 

June  10— The  Grand  Old  Flag  (2  parts^-Dramaj 
June  14 — The  Capture  of  Agulnaldo    (2  parts 

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June  IT— In    Love    and    War    (2   parts — Drama) 
June  21 — Women  and  War    (2  parts — Drama) . . 

BB0NCH0. 

"ay  14 — A   Slave's   Devotion    (2   parts— Drama) 
May  21— The    Sea    Dog     (2    parts— Drama).... 

May  28 — The  Drummer  of  the  Eighth  (2  parts 

Drama)     

Jone    4 — A    Dixie    Mother    (2   parts — Drama)" 

June  11— An    Indian's    Gratitude     (Drama) 

June  IS— From  the  Shadows  (2  parts — Drama).. 

CHAMPION. 

Apt.  14— Leaa's  Flirtation   (Comedy) 

Apr.  21— Whea   Strong   Men   Moat    (Drama).... 

Apr.  28— The  Clown    Hero    (Comedy) 

Apr.  28—  Life   In   Soudan    (Sociology) 

May    IS — The   Shark   God    (Drama) 1000 

May  12— Hawaiian  Love   (Drama) 

May  19— The    Leper     (Drama) 

CBYSTAL 

June    8— The    New   Typist    (Comedy) 

June    8 — Elack  and  White  (Comedy)   

June  10— False    Love    and   True    (Drama) 

June  15 — Aa    Expensive    Drink    (Comedy) 

June  IB — Her    Joke    on    Belmont    (Comedy) .... 

June  17 — A    Call    from    Home    (Drama).. 

June  22— The    Smuggled    Laces    (Comedy) 

June  22— Will    Power    (Comedy) 

DRAGON. 

May  19— The    Sergeant's    Daughter    (2    part*— 

Drama)     2000 

May  26 — Love's  Monogram  (Drama) 1000 

June  2 — Comrades    (Drama)    1000 

June    9 — The  Ace  of  Hearts  (Drama) 1000 

June  16— The     Ghost     of     Sea      View     Manor 

(Drama)     IOOO 

ECLATS, 

Joae    1— He    Ruins    His    Family's    Reputation 

(Comedy)     

Juno    1 — AU  Oa  Account  of  An  Egg  (Comedy).. 

Jans    4 — Why?     (S    parts — Drama) 

June    8— The   Spider    (Zoology) 

June    8 — He    Could    Not   Lose   Her    (Comedy).. 


June  11— When    Light    Came    Back     (2    parts- 
Drama)     

June  15 — He   Slept   Well    (Comedy)    

June  15 — Scorpions     (Zoology)     

June  18 — Fortune's    Pet     (2    part — Drama) 

June  22— The  Boy  from    the  East    (Drama) 

June  22— The    South    of    India    (Scenic) 

FB0NTIEB. 

May  24— Where   Wits   Win    (Comedy) 

May  29 — A    Romance   of    the    Ralls    (Drama).. 
May  31— Flossie  Visits  Bar  U  Ranch   (Comedy) 

June    6 — The  Pillar  of  Peril  (Drama) ■ 

June    8 — The    Ranch    Girl    and    the    Sky    Pilot 

(Comedy)     

June  12— The    Call   of    the    Angelus    (Drama)'!! 
June  14 — The    Twins    of     "Double     X"     Ranch 

(Comedy)     

June  19 — A  Story  of  the  Mexican  Border  (Drama) 
June  21— When  Lena  Struck  New  Mexico  (Com- 
edy)     

GAUM0NT. 

May  20— The     Eyes     that     Could      Not     COoao 

(Drama)     

May  21 — Gaumont's  Weekly,   No.   68    (New*) . . . 

May  22 — For   Two   Pins    (Drama) 

May  24 — (An  Educational  and  Topical  Subject) 

May  27— The    Light    that    Kills    (Drama) 

May  28 — Gaumont's  Weekly,   No.   64   (News)... 
May  29 — A  Problem  In  Reduction   (Comedy).... 

June     3 — The     Heart    Humane     (Drama) 

June    4 — Gaumont's   Weekly,    No.    65    (News) . . 
June     5 — A    Passing   Cloud    (Drama) 

OEM, 

May  18 — Billy's    Adventure    (Comedy) 

May  20— Billy  Plays  Poker   (Comedy) 

May  27 — Billy's    Honeymoon     (Comedy) 

June    2 — Billy   In   Armor    (Comedy) 

June    9 — Hearts    and    Flowers    (Drama) 

GREAT    NOBTHEBN. 

May  10— Her     First     Love     Affair      (Comedy— 

Drama)     

May  10— Tea  Harta   (Science) 

May  17— The  Three  Comrades    (Drama) 

May  24 — The    Professor's   Traveling   Adventures 

(Comedy)    

May    81— The  Suffragettes  (Comedy) 

June    7 — Where   1b   Doggie?    (Comedy) 

June    7 — Lock    Lomond    (Scenic) 

IMF. 

June    7 — Yen  Talks  by  Hy  Mayer  (Novelty) .... 

June    7 — The    Count    Retires    (Comedy) 

June    9— The     Comedian's     Mask      (2     parts — 

Drama) 

June  12— The    Higher    Law    (Drama) , 

June  14 — The    War   of    the    Beetles 

June  14 — Hy   Mayer's  Cartoons    (Novelty) 

June  16 — The  Jealousy  of  Jane   (Comedy) 

June  19 — The     Sorrows    of     Israel     (3    parts — 

Drama)     

June  21 — Fllmographic     Cartoons,      Hy     Mayer 

(Novelty) 

BAY-BEE. 

May  30 — A  Child  of  War  (2  parts — Drama) 

June    6 — A   True   Believer    (2   parts — Drama).. 
June  13 — The    Boomerang     (3    parts — Drama) . . 
June  20 — The     Failure    of    Success     (2    parts- 
Drama)      ; 

KEYSTONE. 

May  29 — The   Gangsters    (Comedy) 

June    2 — Barney    Oldfleld'*    Baca    for    a    Ufa 

(Comedy)      . . .  .1. „  „ 

June    5 — Passions  I    He    Had    Three    (Comedy). 
June    5 — Help!    Help]    Hydrophobia    (Comedy). 

June    9 — The  Hansom  Driver   (Comedy) 

June  12 — The    Speed    Queen    (Comedy) 

June  16 — The    Walters'     Picnic     (Comedy) 

June  19 — The  Tale  of  a  Black  Eye  (Comedy).. 
June  19 — Out   and    In    (Comedy) 

LTJS. 

May  1«— A  Mighty  Hunter   (Comedy) 4M 

May  16— Pat      Move*      to      Diplomatic      Circle* 

(Comedy)     . ,....  *M 

May  23— Playing   with    the    Fire    (Drama) 98T 

May  30— The  Dog  and  the  Goat   (Drama) 641 

May  SO— Pat,     the    Electrician     (Comedy) 866 

June    6 — By   the  Aid  of  Wireless    (Drama) 1000 

June  13 — Engulfed    (Drama)    '. 

MAJESTIC. 

May  27— The  Fairy  Godfather    (Drama)    .. 

June    1 — The    Fraternity    Pin    (Drama) 

June    3— The  Queen  of  the  Sea  Nymphs    (Dr.) 

June    8 — Mimosa's  Sweetheart  (Comedy) 

June  10 — The  Message  of  the  Flowers   (Drama) 


MUTUAL   WEEKLY. 

Apr.  80—  Mutual  Weekly,  No.  18  (New*).... 
May    T— Mutual    Weekly,     No.    19     (News).... 

May  14— Mutual   Weekly,    No.   20   (New*) 

May  21 — Mutual  Weekly,   No.   21    (News) 

May  28— Mutual  Weekly,   No.   22   (Newa) 

MUTUAL  EDUOATIOBAi. 
May  22 — Petronllla     Wins    the    Great    Steeple- 
chase    (Comedy)     

May  22 — Rivers  of  Indo-China  (Geographical) . 
May  29 — Gontran,    Apostle   of    Peace    (Comedy) 

May  29 — Glimpses    of    Hawaii     (Scenic) 

June    5 — Willy  and  the  Captain's  Horse  (0*m- 

edy)     

June     5 — A    Child's    Day     (Child    Science) 

June  12 — Gontran,    a   Snake  Charmer    (Comedy) 

June  12 — Gathering     and     Preparation     of    Tea 

In     Indo-Chlna     (Agriculture) 

NESTOB. 

June  6 — Owana,  the  Devil  Woman  (Drama).. 
June  9 — The  Spring  in  the  Desert  (Drama).. 
June  11— The      Man     Who     Tried     to     Forget 

(Drama)     

'June  13— The  Knight  of  Her  Dreams   (Comedy) 

June  16 — Without     Reward     (Drama) 

June  18 — Apache     Love     (Drama) 

June  20 — Aladdin's    Awakening    (Comedy) 

June  20— Dad's  Surprise    (Comedy) 

POWERS. 

June    4 — Dolly    and    the    Burglar    (Drama) .... 
June    6 — Why  Grand-Daddy  Want  to  Sea  (Com- 
edy-Drama)      

June  11 — Mrs.  Lacey's  Legacy  (Comedy-Drama) 
June  13— The  Strength  of  the  Weak    (Drama) . 

June  18— Friendly     Neighbors     (Comedy) 

June  20 — Behind    the  Times    (Drama).... 

PILOT. 

May  16— Tany,    the    Tenor    (Drama) *■**• 

May  22— School  Daya    (Comedy)...... -»»». 

May  29 — The  Governor's  Romance   (Drama) .... 

June    5 — For    Old   Time's    Sake    (Drama) 

June  12 — When  a  Girl  Loves  (Drama) 

June  19 — A   Child   of   the   Hills    (Drama) 

RELIANCE. 

May  24— Runa  and  the  Black  Hand  (Drama).. 

May  26 — Hearth     Lights     (Drama) .. 

May  28— A    Texas    Feud     (Drama) 

May  31— The     Master    Cracksman     (2     reels— 

Drama)      ....> ) 

Jnne    2— Italian   Love   (Drama) 

June    4 — Faithful     Shep     (Drama) 

Jnne    T— The  Mad  Cap  of  the  Hllla  (Drama).. 

June    9- His    Uncle's    Heir-  (Drama) 

June  11 — No   release   this   date 

June  14 — Half   a   Chance    (8  parts-^Drama) . . . . 

BEX. 

June  1 — The    Boob    (Comedy-Drama) ■ 

June    6— The    World    at    Large    (Drama) 

June    8 — The    Shadow     (Drama) "... 

June  12— The  King  Can  Do  No  Wrong  (S  parol 

— Drama)     

June  15-rThe    Pretender     (Comedy-Drama) 

June  19 — The    Scar     (Drama) 

June  22— The    Stolen    Idol    (Drama) 

S0LAX. 

June    4 — The    Hopes   of    Belinda    (Oemeey).... 

June    6 — Gregory's     Shadow     (Drama) 

June  11 — Matrimony's    Speed    Limit    (Oamedy). 

June  IS — Her    Mother's    Picture     (Drama) 

June  18 — Romeo   In   Pajamas    (Comedy) 

June  20 — Strangers   from  Nowhere   (Drama).... 

THANH0U8ER. 

May  27 — Carmen    (S    part* — Drama) 

May  30—  (No   release    this   date.) 

June    1— A  Victim  of  Circumstance*    (Comedy) 

June    8 — The    Runaway    (Drama) 

June    6 — The   Caged  Bird    (Drama) 

June    8 — Miss  Mischief   (Comedy) 

June  10 — While  Baby  Slept  (Drama) 

Jnne  13 — His  Sacrifice   (Drama) 

VICT  0B. 

May  16— A   Fair   Bi change    (1  parts — Drama) . . 

May  23— Good    for   Bvll    (Drama).. „„ .». 

May  80— The  Plaything  (Drama) 

June    6 — The   Kidnapped    Train    (Drama) 

June  13 — Sincerity     (Drama) 

June  20 — His  Daughter   (Drama) 


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Atlanta,  Ga. 
Baltimore,  Md. 
Birmingham,  Ala. 
Boise,  Idaho. 
Boston,  Mass. 
Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Butte,  Mont. 
Charleston.  W.  Va. 
Charlotte,  N.  C. 
Chattanooga,  Tenn. 
Chicago,  IU. 


Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
Cleveland,  Ohio. 
Columbus,  Ohio. 
Davenport,  Iowa. 
Dayton,  Ohio. 
Denver,  Colo. 
Detroit,  Mich. 
(Office  of  Agent) 
Elmira,  N.  Y. 
Erie,  Pa. 
Indianapolis,  Ind. 


General  Office:      Schenectady,  N.  Y. 
ADDRESS    NEAREST  OFFICE 


Jacksonville,  Fla. 
Joplin,  Mo. 
Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Keokuk,  Iowa. 
Knoxville.  Tenn. 
Los  Angeles,  Cal. 


Louisville,  Ky. 
Mattoon,  111. 
Memphis,  Tenn. 
Milwaukee  Wis. 
Minneapolis,  Minn. 
Nashville,  Tenn. 


New  Haven,  Conn. 
New  Orleans,  La. 
New  York,  N.  Y. 
Omaha,  Neb. 
Philadelphia.  Pa. 
Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Portland,  Ore. 
Providence,  R.  I. 
Richmond,  Va. 
Rochester,  N.  Y. 
Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 


San  Francisco,  Cal. 
St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Schenectady,  N.  Y. 
Seattle,  Wash. 
Spokane,  Wash. 
Springfield,  Mass. 
Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Toledo,  Ohio. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Youngstown,  Ohio. 


For  Texas  and  Oklahoma  business  refer  to  Southwest  General  Electric  Co.,  (formerly  Hobson  Electric  Co.) — Dallas,  El  Paso,  Houston  and  Oklahoma  City. 
For  Canadian  business  refer  to  Canadian  General    Electric    Company,    Lt'd,    Toronto,    Ont.  4044 


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BIOGRAPH. 

May  26 — The  Trimmers  Trimmed   (Comedy) 

May  20 — A  Dangerous   Poe   (Drama) 

May  31— His  Mother's  Son   (Drama) 

Jnne    2 — The    Ranchero's   Revenge   (Drama) 

June    6 — Slippery   Slim   Repents    (Comedy) 

Jnne    6— ^Just    Klda    (Comedy) 

June    7 — A   Timely    Interception    (Drama) 

June    9 — Jenks    Becomes   a    Desperate   Character 

(Comedy)       

June    9 — Red  Hicks  Defies  the  World  (Comedy) 

June  12 — The  Well   (Drama)    

June  14 — Death's  Marathon    (Drama) 

June  16 — The    Switch-Toner    (  Drama) 

June  19— The  Rise  and  Fall  of  McDoo  (Comedy) 

June  18 — Almost  a   Wild   Man    (Comedy  1 

June  21 — The  Mothering  Heart    (2  parts — Drama) 


CINES. 
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alar  18— Wlllle'a    Alarm    Clock     (Comedy) 790 

May  13 — Relics    of    Ancient    Rome     (Travel) . . .  220 

May  17 — A  Woman'a  Influence   (Drama) 820 

May  17 — Gulf      of      Toguilo,      Northern      Italy 

(Scenic ) 180 

May  20— Red    Wins    (Drama)     1000 

May  24 — Exceeding  the  Time  Limit  (Comedy) .  300 
May  24 — The  Maid  and  the  Tarn  (Comedy) . .  300 
May  24 — Curing  a    Would-Be  Aviator    (Comedy)  400 

May  27 — Borrowed    Plumage    (Comedy) 

May  27 — The    Champion    Fixer    (Comedy) 

May  27— In    Somallland     (Scenic) 

May  31 — Interesting  Scenes  Abroad  (Travel) .  .1000 
June    2 — When    A    Woman    Loves     (Special — 3 

parts — Drama)     2500 

Jnne    8 — The    Irony   of  Fate    (Drama) 1000 

June  7 — Orbetelo  and  Environs  (Travel) ....  250 
June    7— The    Ring    (Drama) 750 

ECLIPSE. 

May  21— In    the    TyroleBe    Alps    (Travel) 178 

May  21 — The  Chicken   Industry    (Industrial) 400 

May  21 — Big    Game    (Zoological) 426 

May  28 — The   Indelible    Stain    (Drama) 10OO 

June    4— The    Armadillo    (Zoological) 600 

June    4 — Delivering    the    Goods    (Comedy) 500 

June  11 — Behind    a    Mask    (Drama) 1000 

EDISON. 
May  21— Glimpses      of      Colorado      In      Winter 

(Scenic)     816 

May  21— Brlgg'a    New    Salt    (Comedy) 686 

May  23 — A     Race    to     New     York     (Being    the 
Eleventh   Story   of    "What    Happened 

to    Mary"    (Drama)     1000 

May  24 — The  Translation  of  a  Savage  (Drama). 1000 

May  26 — Dances  of  the  Ages   (Novelty) 975 

May  27 — An  Unwilling  Separation    (Drama) 1000 

May  28 — Newcomb's    Necktie    (Comedy) 1000 

May  30— The  Honor  of  a   Soldier  (Drama) 1800 

May  31 — An    Almond    Eyed   Maid    (Drama) 1000 

June    2— Professor  William  Nutt   (Comedy) 1000 

June    8— Right  for  Right's  Sake  (Drama) 1000 

June    4 — Some   Spots    In    and    Around    Los    An- 
geles,   California    (Scenic)    360 

Jnne  4 — Don't     Worry     (Comedy) 640 

Jnne    6 — Mercy  Merrick   (Drama) 1000 

Jnne    7 — While    John    Bolt    Slept    (Drama) 1000 

June    9 — Othello    In   Jonesvtlle    (Comedy) 1000 

June  10— Two    Little    Kittens    (Drama) 1000 

June  11 — Bean  Crummel    and   His   Bride    (Com- 
edy)      1000 

Jnne  13 — Along    the    Nile     (Scenic) 1000 

June  14 — Apples    of    Sodom     (Drama) 1000 

June  16 — Her  Royal  Highness    (Comedy-Drama)  1000 

June  17 — The  Twin    Brothers  "(Drama) 1000 

Jnne  18— Civic    Parade,    New    York    City    (Topi- 
cal)       360 

June  18 — He    Would    Fix    Things    (Comedy) 650 

June  20— The  Evil  Thereof   (Drama) 1000 

June  21 — Mary       Stuart       (Special — 3       parts — 

Drama)     3000 

June  21 — Love's  Old  Sweet  Song    (Drama) 1000 


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ESSANAY. 
3 — Let  No   Man   Put  Asunder   (Drama).  .1000 
4 — The    Value    of    Mothers-in-Law     (Com 

edy)     Ha  a) 

5 — The    Last    Shot     (Drama) 1000 

6 — Phillip  March's  Engagement  (Comedy). lOOo 
7 — Broncho  Billy's  Capture  (Drama! ....  1000 
9 — The  Final  Judgment    (Special — 2   parts 

— Drama)        2ihki 

10— The  Shadowgraph    Message   (Drama) . .  10"0 

11— The     Star     (Comedy) 1000 

12 — Cinderella's    Gloves     (Comedy) Ham 

13—  The     Mysterious     Stranger      (Comedy- 

'Drama)     HaDO 

14 — The     Ranch    Feud     (Drama) 100" 

17 — Anonymous   Love    (Comedy) 1000 

18 — Hilda     Wakes     (Comedy) m«i 

19— The   Rustler's   Spur    (Drama) 1000 

20 — A   Brother's   Loyalty    (Special — 2   parts 

—Drama)     2000 

20 — Fear    {Drama)     1000 

21— Alkali    Ike    and    the    Hypnotist    (Com- 
edy)      1000 


KAIsEM. 
May  30 — The  Widow   from    Winnipeg    (Comedy) 
May  30 — The  Comedy  Team's  Strategy  (Cuuledj  ) 
May  31 — Jnho    Bums    of    Gettysburg    (Drama) ..  Haal 

June    2— The  Bandit's  Child   (Drama) 1000 

Jnne    4 — When    Fate    Decrees    (Drama) 1000 

June    6 — The   Terror   of    Conscience    (Drama) .  .1000 
June    7 — When    Women  are   Police    (Comedy). .     • 

June    7 — Percy's     Wooing     (Comedy) 

June    7-*-The  Tragedy  of  Big  Eagle  Mine  (Spe- 
cial— 2   parts — Drama)    20"0 

June    9 — The    Rube   and    the   Boob    (Comedy) . . 
June     9—  The    Scheme    of    Shiftless    Sam    Smith 

(Comedy)      i 

June  11 — The   Pawnbroker's  Daughter   (Drama ).1000 

June  13 — Brought    to    Bay     (Drama) IOiiO 

June  14 — The    Gypsy's    Brand     (Drama) 1000 

June  16 — The    Wheel    of    Death     (Drama).. 
June  16 — Governor  Johnson   of  California    (Topi- 

ical)     

June  18 — The  Attorney  for  the  Defense  (Drama  )1000 

June  20 — Cupid's    Lariat     I  Comedy ) 

June  20 — Smoked    to    a    Finish     (Comedy) 

June  21— On    the    Brink   of    Ruin    (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN. 

May  20— Kidnapping    Father     (Drama) 1000 

May  21 — The     District     Attorney's     Conscience 

(Special — 2    parts — Drama)     2000 

May  22— A    Perilous    Ride    (Drama) 1000 

May  23 — Detective   Dot    (Comedy ) 400 

May  23 — His    First    Experience    (Comedy) 600 

May  24 — Brightened    Sunsets     (Drama) 1000 

May  26 — The  Reward  of  Service  (Drama) 1000 

May  27 — Doing   Like    Daisy    (Comedy) 1000 

May  27 — The  Yarn  of  the  "Nancy  Belle"  (Com.) 
May  28 — Love    and    War    in    Mexico    (Special — 

2    parts — Drama) 2000 

May  29 — The  Romance  of  the  Ozarka  (Drama)..  1000 

May  30— Faith  of  a  Girl  (Drama) 1000 

May  31— Lone  Dog  the  Faithful    (Drama) 1000 

Jnne    2 — A     Woman's    Heart     (Drama) 1000 

Jnne    3 — A    Jealous    Husband    (Drama) 1000 

June    5 — Bob    Builds    a    Chicken    House    (Com- 
edy)       

June    5— Kate    the    Cop     (Comedy) 

June     6 — The   Accusing    Hand    (Special — 2    parts 

—Drama) 2ono 

Jnne    6 — The   Penalty  of  Jealousy    (Drama) 1000 

June    7 — The    Great    Pearl     (Drama) 1000 

June    9 — The  Legend  of  Lovers  Leap  (Drama).  .1000 
June     9 — A   Hero   Among  Men    (Special — 2   paHfi 

—Drama) 2000 

June  10 — Violet    Dare,     Detective     (Drama) 1000 

June  12 — Nearly    In    Mourning    (Comedy) 

June  12 — The  Professor's  Predicament  (Comedy) 

June  13 — Pajpita's     Destiny      (Drama) 1000 

June  14 — The    Wine    of    Madness     (Drama) 1000 

June  16—  Bob    Builds    a    Boat    (Comedy) 400 

June  16 — Silence    for    Silence    (Comedy) 600 

June  17 — Out    of    the    Beast    a    Man    Was    Born 

(Drama)     1000 

June  18 — The    Weaker    Mind     (Special — 2    parts 

—Drama)     2000 

June  10— A    Father's    Love     (Drama) 1000 

June  20— His    Redemption     (Drama)     1O00 

June  21 — From    Ignorance    to    Light     (Draoua) .  .1000 

MELIES. 

May  15 — The  Black  Trackers  (Drama) 

May  22 — Gold   and   the  Glided   Way    (Drama) .  .1000 

May  29 — The   Foster   Brothers    (Drama) 

May  29 — Tandjong   Prlok,    the  Harbor  of  Java's 

Cspl'al.     Batavla     (Scenic) 

June    6 — Native  Industries  of  Java   (Industrial)  1000 

June  12 — The  Stolen   Claim    (Drama) 

June  12 — Views    of    Samarang     (Scenic) 

June  19 — The  Lure  of  the  Sacred  Pearl   (Drama) 

June  19 — Diving   for   Pearl   Oysters  at   Thurs.lay 

Island    (Educational)     

PATHEPLAY. 

May  28 — The  Fugitive   (Drama) 

May  29 — White    Lies    (Drama) 

May  30 — The    Spider    which    Lives    In    a    Buhhle 

(Zoology) .' 

May  30 — Transportation       Methods       In       Java 

(Transportation) 


May  30 — The  Human   Vulture   (Special — 2  parts 

— Drama)     

May  31 — The  Squawman's  Awakening  (Dr.)... 
June  2—  Pathe's  Weekly,  No.  23  (News).... 
June    3 — Dredges  and  Farm   Implements  In  the 

West    (Industrial)     

June  3 — A  Market  In  Kaloylla,  Algeria  (Man- 
ners   and    Customs)     

June    4 — The    Saving    Lie    (Drama) 

June  5 — -What  the  Good  Book  Tanght  (Drama) 
June    6—  Birds    and    Animals    of    Bratll     (Nat. 

Hist.)    

June    6 — Tananarive.    Madagascar   (Travel) 

June    7 — Get-Ricb-Qulck    Ullllngton    (Comedy).. 

June    9 — Pathe's   Weekly,    No.   24    (News) 

June  10 — Max's    First    Job    (Comedy) 

June  10 — The    Chateau    of    Chenonceau,    France 

(Architecture)      

June  11 — "His   LordBhlp's"    Romance    (Comedy) 

June  12 — The     Artist's    Dream     (Comedy) 

June  13 — Athletics    In    France     (Sports) 

June  13 — Places  of  Interest  in  Colorado  (Travel) 
June  13 — The    Governor's    Double      (Special  —  2 

parts — Drama)       

June   14 — For     Mayor — Bess    Smith     (Comedy).. 

June  10 — Pathe's    Weekly,    No.    25    (News) 

June  17 — A    Tour   Through    Touraine    (Travel).. 

June  17 — Rhodes     (Asiatic    Turkey) 

June  18 — The     Sacrifice     (Drama) 

Jnne  19 — The    Outlaw's    Love    (Drama) 

.lime  20— The  Burial  of  a  Rich  Chinaman  (Man- 
ners    and     Customs) 

.Tune  20 — Antilles.      France      and     Its     Environs 

(Scenic)    

June  20 — Monuments     and     Cascades     of     Rome 

(Travel)      

June  21 — The    Jury's     Verdict     (Drama) 

SELIG. 
May  26 — Wa  nba.  a  Child  of  tne  Jungle  (Special 

—2    parts— Drama)     1000 

May  26— Religion   and  Gun   Practice    (Drama) .  .1000 

May  27— The   Girl   and   the  Judge    (Drama) 1000 

May  28 — The     Wordless     Message     (Drama)...  1000 
May  29 — The    Ex-Ccmvlct's    Plunge    (Drama).... 

May  29 — Sonne's  In   Manila   (Travel) 

May  30 — The    Woodflre   at    Martin's    (Drama).. 1000 
June    2 — When     the     Circus     Came     to     Town 

(Comedy-Drama)      1000 

June    3 — A   Flag   of  Two   Wars    (Drama) 1000 

June    4 — The    Law    and    the   Outlaw    (Special — 

2     reels— Drama)      2000 

Jnne    4 — Woman— Past    and    Present     (Edu.).  .1000 

June    5 — Tbe   Suwanee    River    (Drama) 1000 

June  6 — An  Embarrassed  Bridegroom  (Com- 
edy)      

•June  6 — Manila     Normal     and     Public     Schools 

(Education)      

Jnne     9 — Sweeney    and    the    Fairy     (Comedy) ..  1000 

June  10— Dad's     Little     Girl     (Drama) 1000 

June  11 — Tbe   Rose  of   May    (Drama) 1000 

June  12— The    Fate   of   Elizabeth    (Comedy) 

June  12— The  Birth  of  a  Butterfly  (Zoology). 
June  13 — The   Jealousy   of   Miguel    and    Isabella 

(Drama)      1000J 

June  14 — Alone  in  the  Jungle   (Special — 2  parts 

—Drama)     2000 

June  16 — When    Lillian    Was   Little    Red    Riding 

Hood    (Fairy    Story)     

June  16 — Shooting   the  Rapids  of   the  Pagsanjan 

River  in  Philippine  Islands   (Sports) . . 

June  17— Taming    a    Tenderfoot    (Comedy) 1000 

june  IS — Mrs.    Hilton's  Jewels    (Drama) 1000 

June  19— The    Cold    Brick    (Comedy) 1000 

June  20 — The   Fighting   Lieutenant    (Drama) 

June  20 — Fancy    Poultry    (Zoology) 

VITAGRAPH. 
May  29 — The  Only  Veteran  In  Town   (Drama). .1004 

May  30 — A    Husband's   Trick    (Comedy) 1000 

May  31— One  Can't   Always   Tell    (Comedy) 

May  31 — If  Dreams  Came  True;  or  Who'd  Have 

Thnnk    It    (Comedy) 

Mav  31 — The    White    Slave    (Special — 2    parts — 

Drama)    2000 

June    2 — What     God     Hath     Joined     Together 

(Drama)      1000 

June     3 — Bunny     as    a     Reporter     (Comedy).... 

June    3 — Three    to    One    (Comedy) 

June     4 — A    Modern    Psyche    (Drama) 1000 

June  5 — The  Heart  of  Mrs.  Robins  (Comedy- 
Drama)     1000 

June     6 — The    Butler's    Secret    (Drama)     1000 

June    7 — The    Forgotten    Latchkey    (Comedy).. 1000 
June     9 — The   Bachelor's    Baby;    or   How   It    All 

Happened     (Drama)     1000 

June  10 — Cutey    Tries    Reporting    (Comedy) 1000 

June  11 — His   House   in   Order;  or  the  Widow's 

Quest     (Drama)     1000 

June  11 — A   Regiment  of  Two   (Special— 2  parts 

— Drama)     2000 

June  12— His    Tired    Uncle    (Comedy) 

June  12— Capers    of   Cupid    (Comedy) 

June  13 — An    Infernal    Tangle    (Drama) 1000 

j„ne  14 — Does    Advertising  Pay?    (Comedy) 1000 

June  16— The    silver    Cigarette    Case    (Drama)  .1000 
June  17— The     Coming    of    Gretchen     (Comedy- 

Drama)     1°°0 

June  IS— The    Drop    of    Blood     (Drama) 1000 

June  19— Bunny's    Dilemma     (Comedy) 1000 

.Tun..  20 — Delayed    Proposals    (Comedy) 650 

June  20—  Yokomomn   Fire   Dept.    (Public   Safety)  350 
June  21 — Arrlet's  Baby   (Drama)    1000 


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THE   SIMPSON   SOLAR  SCREEN 

The  only  Metallic  Screen  without 

seams,    patented.      Buy    the    real 

thing.     Beware   of  imitations 

ALFRED  L.  SIMPSON,  Inc. 
No.  113  W.  132nd  St.,  N.  Y.  City 


Moving  Pictures 

at.  P.  Camera,  new,  $90;  120-foot  mag.  M.  P. 
Camera,  new,  punch,  direct  focusing  tube,  indicator, 
registering  150  foot,  $155.  M.  P.  Professional 
camera  300-foot  mag.,  $210.  Write  for  particulars. 
Second-hand    cameras   on  hand. 

SPECIAL     EVENT     FILM     CO.,     INC., 

Hotion     Picture     Center,     Heidelberg     Building, 

Broadway  and  42nd  Street,   N.   Y. 


Headquarters  for 

ASBESTOS 

CURTAINS  and  PICTURE  BOOTHS 

C.  W.  Trainer  Mfg.  Co. 

Boston,  Mass. 


Send 

Bookut  39  Pearl  St 


Notice — Missouri  Exhibitors 

F.  E.  Moore's  "Hiawatha,"  4,000  feet 
Wire  or  write  for  open  dates.     We 
advertise  like  a  circus.     Address, 

BELDEN  &  ENGELKE, 
107  St  John  St.,  San  Antonio,  Texas. 


Junior  Professional  Camera 

and  Film  Mating  Outfit,  simplest  method,  none 
better.  World's  greatest  productions  made  with 
this  camera.  Expert  advice  and_  guarantee. 
Tripods,  Tilts.  Printers,  Perforators,  Raw  Film, 
Lenses.  Developing  done,  whole  building  to  the 
business  Write  for  catalogue. 
Eberhard    Schneider,    219    Second    Ave.,    N.    Y. 


For  Sale— FILM— For  Rent 

THE  MAGNET  FILM   COMPANY 

Boom  702,    167   W.    Washington   St.,    Chicago 
Single  reel   features,   $1.00  per  day;   two  or  three- 
reel    features,    $2.50   per    reel,    with   lobby    display. 


GOMPENSARC 

Teat's  the  derice  that  sstcs  Mortal  Flo- 
tare  men  two-third*  on  their  electric  light 
Milt,  and  yet  fives  better  light  Did  yo« 
see  our  ad  laat  week?  Well,  don't  look  it 
up.    Just  write  for  our 

Booklet  15018 


FORT  WAYNE   ELECTRIC  WORKS 

or  cin»»AL  rucraic  couhky 

1402  Broadway 

FORT  WAYNE  INDIANA  to 


We  buy  and  sell  Second  Hand  Films 
and  Moving  Picture  Machines 

WESTERN  FILM  BROKERS 

S38  S.  Dearborn  Street  Chicago,  III. 


Wo  hsra  a  Catalogue  of 
fall  line  of  Motuu  Picture 
Machine  repair  parts  ready 
to  pat  in  your  machine  at 
reduce*  prices.  W*  maks 
them,  and  for  that  raasoa 
can  sell  them  T*ry  low.  Ws 
also  sell  Stsreoptlcons  tor 
WOO;  Oaleram  Jets.  $3.60;  100  Carbons,  COO:  Osa- 
deosers.  He,;  Are  Lamps,  $2.25;  Bteiauptleon  Lenses. 
Basj  Suae  Carriers,  23c. ;  Mortar  Picture  ObJoetlTSS, 

erf;  Jackets,  $L« ;  Ticket  Holders,   76c ;  Rheostat*. 
00;  K  dandle  Power  Stereoptlcon  Lamps,  Tie. 
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Ornamental 
Theatres 

PLASTER  RELIEF   DECORATIONS 

Theatres  Designed  Everywhere 

Write  for  Illustrated  Theatre  Catalog.     Send  us  Size*  of 
Theatre  for  Special  Design) 


THE  DECORATORS  SUPPLY  CO. 

2549  Archer  Avenue,  t:  CHICAGO,  ILL. 


DEVELOPING  and  PRINTING 

The  Gaumont  Company,  Flushing,  N.  Y.,  solicits  the  commercial  work  of 
other  film  companies,  individuals  and  amateuis.  The  Gaumont  plant  is  one 
of  the  most  complete  in  America,  and  has  every  facility  for  turning  out  the 
usual  Gaumont  perfect  work  at  the  most  reasonable  prices. 

GAUMONT  COMPANY,  20  Congress  Ave.,  Flushing,  N.  Y. 

TELEPHONE  2211   FLUSHING 


How  About  Ventilating  Your  Theatre? 

Our  system  of  single  heat  transmission,  the  most  economical  in  first  cost  and 
operation.      We    manufacture    and    install    complete    heating    and    ventilating 
equipments  in  accordance  with  the  most  rigid  ventilating  laws. 
B.  F.   REYNOLDS  &    CO.,    412-14   Dearborn   Ave.,  Chicago,  III. 


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MOVING  PICTURE  ELECTRIC  LIGHT  PLANT 


Used     and     Highly     Endorsed     by    Use     United     State*     Army. 

B10QEST    SENSATION    IN    THE    MOVING    PICTURE    WOULD 
Oaa    be    operated    by    a    bay    10    years    old.     One   coateaaeT    si  Ileal 

"Plant    runnlnr   like   a   top    and   dellTorlna;   the    Inioe'    rtaM   sJoaf 
erery  day   for  our  morlng   picture  hsnae.     Costs  oa  aeoat  soe-taota 
aa  moeh  as  public  eerrle*.     Also   pomps  water  to  al 
1,000  a-alloaa  par  day." 

Writ*  to-day  tor  Balletla  1<A.     It  la  s 
DETROIT  ENQINE  WORKS.  Dept.  IW.  DETROIT.  MICH..  U.  S.  A. 


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POWERS 


Carbons 


Tickets 


Chairs 


All  Machine  Parts 


We  Are  Authorized  Jobbers  of  These 

MACHINES 

We've  Got  What  You   Want 


We   Equip   Motion 

Picture  Theatres 

Complete 


PROMPT    SHIPMENTS 

We  Receive  Your  Order  in  the 
Morning  Mail.  Shipment 
on  its  way  to  you  by  Noon. 

Did  You  Get  Our  Catalogue? 


PICTURE  THEATRE  EQUIPMENT  CO. 


The  Biggest  Motion  Picture  Supply  House  in  America 

21  E.  14th  STREET,  NEW  YORK  CITY 


MAIL  ORDERS 
FILLED 


Condensers  :  Slides  :  Rewinds  :  Screens  :  Reels  :  Reel  Cases 


SIMPLEX 


TO  FILM  BUYERS  ALL  OVER  THS  «H.LD 

Bargain  films  for  buyers  of  best  second-hand   films: 

6,000  ft.  of  comic  and  drama,  including  one  feature. .  .$90 

12,000  ft.  of  comic  and  drama,  including  two  features,  $200 

24,000  ft.  of  comic  and  drama,  including  four  features,  $350 

50,000  ft.  of  comic  and  drama,  including  six  features,  $750 

We  also  include  free  10  posters  for  each  reel,  extra 
posters  at  10c.  per  sheet;  banners  for  features. 

Splendid  assortment  of  dramas,  comics  and  travel 
films,  guaranteed  condition,  title  and  finish,  perfect 
sprockets,  at  one  cent  per  foot. 

Send  us  your  requirements.  We  carry  everything  in 
stock  from  a  camera  to  a  bottle  of  cement. 

TERMS,  STRICTLY  CASH  WITH  ORDER 

G.  W.  BRADENBURGH 

231-233  N    <i?hth  St.,    Philadelphia  t>enna. 

Bell  'Phone,  Market  334.  Cable,  Bradfilms,  Phila. 


EXHIBITORS*   HEADQUARTERS 

CALEHUFF  SUPPLY  COMPANY 

(Incorporated) 
SO  North  Eighth  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Jobbers  in  Edison,  Powers  and 
Motiograph  Machines  and  Parts 

Machines  Repaired  bj  Expert  Mechanics.     Genuine  Parti  Only  Used 
SPECIALTIES 


Condensers 

Edison    Transformers 


Mirror  Screens 

Chairs 

Tickets 

Plsnos 

Bio  A  Blectra  Carbons  Asbestos  Wire 

Special  Gnndlach  Switches 

Lenses  Pings  Spotlights 


Gas  staking  Outfits 
Limes  Film-Cement 


Ft  Wayne  Compensarcs    Branch     General     Dlsln- 
Asbestos  State  Booths         fectant  Co. 

Scenery,   Stage  Effects 
Theaters    Bought,    Sold, 
Rented 


CHAS.  A.  OALEHUFF,  Pres.  snd  Gen.  Mgr. 


SIEMENS  &  CO.  manufacture  but 
One  Grade  of  Picture  Carbons. 

These  are  Imported  and  sold  under 
our  mark  as 

"Biograph  Brand" 

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All  12"  Carbons  are  double-pointed. 


Packed  only  in  Cartons,  as  shown. 
L.  E.  FRORUP  &  CO. 

232  GREENWICH  ST.  NEW  YORK 


KLIEGLIGHT 
ARC     LAMP 

Universally  recognized  as 
the  best  light  producing 
apparatus  for  taking  mo- 
tion pictures. 

UNIVERSAL  ELECTRIC 
STAGE  LIGHTING  CO. 

Kliegl  Bros  ,  Props. 

240  W.  50th  St.  New  York 


THE  GANGSTERS,  or  SHADOWS  OF  THE  NIGHT 

All  Territory  open  excepting  the  following  States  3400  FEET 

New  York,  New  England,  New  Jersey,  Pennsylvania,  California,  Missouri,  Kansas,  Oklahoma,  Texas,  Louisi- 
ana, Arkansas,  Illinois,  Wisconsin,  Michigan,  Maryland,  District  of  Columbia,  West  Virginia,  Nebraska, 
Colorado  and  Utah,  and  Iowa. 

KEEP  YOUR  EYE  for  our  Coming  Sensation  in  Five  Reels 


IMEIXA/      YORK 

145    WEST    FORTY-FIFTH    STREET 


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NEW    YORK    CITY 


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Ha  liber  g  Says: 

Moving  picture  men  are  placing  big  orders  for  new, 
latest  type  machines  of  all  makes  to  improve  projec- 
tion— cost  is  no  object  when  results  are  desired.  That 
is  the  talk  we  are  getting  nowadays  from  the  big  men 
in  the  business.  A  few  years  ago  I  had  to  do  a  lot  of 
advertising  and  talking  to  convince  moving  picture  men 
that  it  was  a  good  thing  to  invest  $75  to  $100  in  the 
Hallberg  A.  C.  Economizer — today  the  moving  picture 
men  who  know  the  game  pay  several  hundred  dollars 
for  Hallberg  A.  C.  to  D.  C.  Economizers  and  I  am  busy 
keeping  up  with  the  orders. 

You  know  that  your  picture  is  your  whole  show.  I 
know  how  to  make  that  picture  stand  out  on  your 
screen  clear,  bold,  brilliant  and  lifelike.  It  requires  ex- 
perience to  do  this.  I  am  at  your  service.  I  have  hun- 
dreds of  letters  like  this  proving  my  claims: 

Newburgh,  X.  V.,  May  26,   1913. 
Kinemacolor   Company  of  America, 
1600  Broadway,  New  York  City. 
Gentlemen:    Your    Kinemacolor   service    has    started,    and    judging 
from   the  many   favorable  comments  on   the  Panama  Canal   Pictures, 
they   should   make   a  big  hit.      The  "HALLBERG"   A.    C.   to   D.  C. 
Economizer   is  a   wonder.      It   worked   perfectly   from    the  start,   and 
we  do  not  have  to  use  but  one-half  of  the  current  it  produces.     The 
black-and-white  pictures  which  we  showed  for  two  days  were  the  talk 
of  the  town.     Your  operators  said  the  pictures  in   Poughkeepsie  and 
Xewhurgh    were    the    best    they    have    seen,    and    we    both    use    the 
'•HALLBERG"    machine. 

Yours    truly, 
(Signed)     Feed    M.    Taylor. 

They  Have  Confidence  in  HALLBERG 

I  want  to  help  you,  Mr.  Exhibitor,  to  improve  your  picture  or  to 
equip  your  new  theatre.  My  price  is  no  more  than  that  of  any  other 
reliable  distributor,  nnd  I  am  sure  that  my  experience  and  advice, 
which  is  free  to  my  customers,  is  worth  many  dollars  and  is  of  more 
value  than  confidential,  special,  would-be  discounts,  cut  prices,  etc., 
used  by  some  of  my  competitors  in  pulling  unwary  exhibitors  into 
their  fold. 

Everybody  Is  Putting  in  the 

"HALLBERG"  A.  C.  to 
D.  C.  ECONOMIZER 

It  gives  the  best  light  in  the  world  for  picture  projec- 
tion. Is  made  in  all  sizes  for  all  conditions — ASK 
ABOUT  IT. 

Factory  Selling  Headquarters  for 

POWERS,  SIMPLEX,  MOTIOGRAPH  and  EDISON 

MACHINES 

"HALLBERG"  STANDARD  A.  C  ECONOMIZERS 

"HALLBERG"  D.  C  ECONOMIZERS 

MERCURY  ARC  RECTIFIERS 

MOVING  PICTURE  MACHINE  and  FLAME  ARC 
CARBONS 


I   EQUIP  THEATRES 
COMPLETELY 

Free  Circulars  on  all  makes  of  M.  P. 
Machines,  but  Hallberg's  Big  Cata- 
logue, 100  Pages,  aosts  you  35c  b/ 
mail. 

J.  H.  HALLBERG 

36  E.  23rd  Street       New  York 


S.     Ci.iCVB.L.AlNt,     IN/lKr. 
FIDELITY     BOOKING    OFFICES 
KNICKERBOCKER  THEATRE  BLDG.     1402  BROADWAY,  N.  Y.  CITY 

Th»o       Best      Vaudeville       Servloe 

THEATRES,     PARKS,     FAIRS,     CLUBS,     CABARETS 

I..  B.  MACKINTOSH.  Prop. 


F-ll-IVI      RENTERS 

FIRST  CLASS  SELECTED   COMMERCIAL  SERVICE 

SHIPPED  TO  ALL  PARTS  OF  THE  COUNTRY 

POSTERS  SUPPLIED 

WE  HAVE  DANTE'S  FIVE-PART  "INFERNO."     LARGE  STOCK 
OF    FILM    FOR   SALE. 

The  Film  Exchange,  61  W.  14th  St.,  New  York 


QUICK    AND    EASY! 

A  SLIDE  COMPOUND. 
You   can   make   beautiful  colored   slides   in   one   minute. 
The  quickest,  easiest  and  best  way  to  make  announce- 
ment slides.     One  can  will  make  about  400  slides. 
Price,  $1.00  per  can. 
A.  G.  THOMAS,  1705  FAIRACRES  AVE.,   PITTSBURGH,  PA. 


THE  L.C.SMITH  REWINDING  SET     ■ 

EMBRACES  THE    FIRST  NOTEWORTHY 
IMPROVEMENTS    TO    REWINDING 

MECHANISM    SINCE    REWINDING 
BECAME    NECESSARY.    PRICE  SS.°e 

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us  ran  Larger      schenectaoy.n.y.'       ■>•.- 


MAKE:  'EM  YOUR- 
SELF SLIDES 

Make  them  yourself.  Written  with  pen  and  ink 
or  typewriter.  Three  minutes  to  make  a  slide.  Used 
for  advertising  slides,  to  announce  future  or  feature 
programmes,  for  chorus  slides  when  chorus  slide  is 
missing.  We  send  four  colors  of  gelatin.  The  slides 
look  well  and  anyone  can  make  them.  They  are 
handy  also  for  announcing  vaudeville  acts.  In  fact, 
they  may  be  readily  used  for  anything  you  may  wish 
to  say  to  your  audience. 

For  the  sum  of  $3.50  we  will  send,  by  parcel  post, 
prepaid  and  insured,  the  following: 

24  cover  glass,  1  package  binder  strips,  1  dozen 
mats,  1  instruction  sheet,  1  form  sheet  and  50  strips 
assorted  colors  gelatin— enough  for  from  300  to  400 
slides.     Order  now.     Address: 

UTILITY  TRANSPARENCY  CO. 


1733  Wear.  9th  St. 


Brooklyn.  N.  Y. 


EYE  COMFORT 

LIGHTING 

System 

So  necessary  to  the  success  of  every 
Motion     Picture     Theatre     that     we 
engineer  60  Theatres  a   month. 
This    is     a     free     service     to     Motion 
Picture  Theatre  Managers. 

Distance  Screen  to  Hear  of  Anditorium 

Celling   Height 

Width    ot   Douse 

Name  

NATIONAL  X-RAY  REFLECTOR  CO. 
Chicago  New  York 

229  W.  Jackson  Blvd.  505  Fifth  Ave. 


1200 


THE   MOVING.  PICTURE   WORLD 


CHEAP 

STEEL  FRAME 
THEATRE   CHAIRS 

AB.OLU  ELY 
NON-BREAKABLE 

Suitable  tor  small 
Tbeatera  and  Mov- 
ing Picture  Snows. 
\\  e  ca  t'l'y  these 
cbairs  In  stock  and 

can      ship      ii •- 

dialel.v. 
Second   Hand 

Chairs 
Also  ' 

for  out-of-door 
use.  Address 
Dept.    W. 

STEEL  FURNITURE  CO.,  Grand  Rapids.  Mich. 
New  York:  150  5th  Ave.  Pittsburgh:  318  Bissel 
Blk.  Philadelphia:  1943  Market  St.  Nashville. 
Term. :   315   No.    4th  Ave. 


OH!    MR.    EXHIBITOR!! 

Tlilnk  of  the  motherless,  the  fatherless,  and  the 
childless  home*  as  the  result  of  the- 
ater panics.    Protect  the  lives  of  your 
patrons     by     Installing    our     "ANTI- 
PANIC"      THEATER      CHAIR.         26 
Dead  at   Oannonsburg,   170  at   Borer- 
town,    575   at  Iroquois  Theater,   Chi- 
cago.    Make  these  horrors  Impos- 
sible.    Onr  chair  Is  a  friend  to 
the   Public. 
It     advertises     your     theater     and 
makes  your  business  grow. 

It  la  a  space-saver,  life-saver, 
money-saver.  Gives  25%  more  seat- 
ing. 

It  will  make  your  theater  all  aisles.  It  is  the 
only  ssnltary  chair.  It  la  the  world's  greatest 
theater  chair,  perfected  to  the  highest  degree. 
Write  today  for  circular  A. 
THE  HAEDE8TT  MEG.  CO.,  Canal  Dovsr,  Ohio, 
U.  8.  A. 


SHERLOCK    HOLMES   SERIES 

Eight  suhjeets  to  choose  from — two  reels  each. 
Territory  In  Indiana,  Kentucky,  Wisconsin 
(south  of  Green  Bay),  Illinois  (north  of  Spring- 
field. 

Allardt  Feature  Films,  Inc. 

D.  W.  McKinney,  Mgr. 

810  Straus  Bldg.,  Chicago 

Phone,    Franklin   1474 


ELECTRIC  EXHAUST  FANS 

Twenty-four-inch  $80.  Thirty-inch,  $110. 
Also  some  oscillating  twelve-inch  fans,  $13.75 
each.  All  General  Electric  make  and  for  alter- 
nating   current,     1    phase,     60    cycle,     110    volt. 

GEORGE  BENDER 
82  C  entre  Street  New  York  Cit 


WE  CAN   HURRY 


TOOK     ORDm    OCT 
■TAtTORD     Chain 


.Heavy  Five  Ply 
easts  u4  hacks. 

TVs  Isst-fererer  kind, 
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tea*  after  yea  kin 
tmietlea     the     tries. 

STEEL 
CHAIRS  TOO 

Weearry  several  kinds 
et  feed  chain  la  attack, 

all  ffearsateed. 

ASK     FOE     OATAL6G 


E.   H.    STAFFORD    MFG.  CO. 

CHICAGO,    ILL. 


WHEN   YOUR  PICTURE  MACHINE 
NEEDS  REPAIRING 

WHY   DON  T   YOU   SEND   IT   TO   USt 

We    bave    the    best    equipped    machine   shop    In    the 

i-uuuti'y  and  can  repair  any  make  of  machine.    Write 

us  and  get  acquainted. 

WE   BUY  SECOND-HAND   MACHINES. 

GEO.  M.  HOKE  SUPPLY  CO. 

176  N.  Statu  St.  (bet.  Lake  and  Randolph)  Chicago,  III. 


It  pays  to  discriminate  when  you  buy 

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Send  Floor  Sketch  for  Free  Beating   Plan. 

Widest  range  of  styles  and  prices.     Large  stocks. 

American   Seating   Company 

218  S.  Wabash  Ave.,  CHICAGO.      15  E.  32nd  St..  NEW  YORK 


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in  many  styles 

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Seating-  Co.,  1109  Tea 
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SINGING    AND    TALKING    PICTURES     XHE     TALKAPHONE 

Get  busy,  exhibitors,  and  be  the  first  in  your  neighborhood  to  have  singing  and  talking  pictures.  To  avoid  com- 
petitors cutting  prices  below  us,  we  have  lowered  our  price  to  $75.00  per  week,  giving  four  changes  from  seven  to 
nine  hundred  feet  of  film  on  each  reel.  We  can  still  save  you  $25.00  more,  making  our  price  $50.00  per  week  by  break- 
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This  title  is  "THE  MESSAGE  OF  THE  FLOWERS,"  released  Tuesday,  June  loth.  What  a 
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THE  SNARE  OF  FATE  (In  Two  Reels) 

Written  by  Lloyd  F.  Lonergan  especially  for  James  Cruze  and  Flo  La  Badie.  this  feature 
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"A    BROTHER'S    LOYALTY" 

(In  Two  Parts) 

Here's  a  Red  Blooded  Drama  that  Grips  the  Heart  and  Holds 

the  Interest  at  Fever  Heat  from   the    First  Flash   of   the 

Projector  to  the  Last  Stirring  Scene  of  the  Play 

"A  BROTHER'S  LOYALTY"  tells  a  story  of  fraternal  constancy,  devotion,  and  sacrifice  that  quivers 
with  human  appeal  from  start  to  finish.  Its  powerful  portrayal  of  character  and  its  masterly  presenta- 
tion of  scenes  from  the  criminal  haunts  of  a  great  city  play  upon  the  heart  strings  of  human  emotions 
with  an  eloquence  of  appeal  that  rends  the  very  soul.  "A  BROTHER'S  LOYALTY"  is  a  genuine  mo- 
tion picture  masterpiece — a  thrilling  photoplay  that  throbs  with  strong  sentiment  and  powerful  pathos 
in  every  virile  and  vivid  scene. 

Some  of  the  Thrilling  Scenes  that  Make  "A  BROTHER'S 
LOYALTY''  A  Powerful  Box  Office  Attraction 

The  fight  in  the  pool  room — the  brother's  sacrifice — the  arrest — the  discovery  of  the  counterfeiter's  den — 
the  pardon — these  are  a  few  of  the  stirring  scenes  that  unfold  an  unparalleled  story  of  crime,  affection  and 
sublime  sacrifice — a'  story  through  which  runs  a  strong  undercurrent  of  intense  mystery  that  holds  the  audi- 
ence spellbound  throughout  its  entire  depiction. 

"A  BROTHER'S  LOYALTY"  Sounds  the  Depths  of  Human  Emotions 

Intense  interest,  admiration,  anger,  hate,  agitation,  tenderness,  compassion,  excitement,  pathos,  sympathy 
—one  feeling  follows  another  in  such  rapid  panorama  that  the  audience  is  fairly  "swept  off  its  feet"  by  the 
steady  torrent  of  climacteric  events  that  crowd  every  scene  of  this  heart-gripping  play. 

In  Featuring  the  Noted  Photoplay  Star,  Mr.  Francis  X.  Bushman,  in  His  Simultaneous 
Dual  Role  of  Paul  and  Hal,  This  Film  Presents  an  Achievement  That's  Unprecedented 

in  the  History  of  Photoplay 

This  versatile  artist  has  a  vehicle  in  this  play  for  the  very  highest  expression  of  his  powers — in  his  double 
characterization  of  the  twin  brothers  Mr.  Bushman  is  actually  on  the  stage  with  himself  impersonating  two 
different  characters  at  one  and  the  same  time.  Could  any  character  portrayal  be  more  strikingly  realistic? 
This  feature  alone  insures  the  play  a  royal  road  to  public  favor — added  to  the  character  of  supporting  cast 
including  such  eminent  artists  as  Minor  S.  Watson,  Mr.  E.  H.  Calvert,  Beverly  Bayne,  Norman  Fowler  and 
Margaret  Steppling,  it  makes  a  "A  BROTHER'S  LOYALTY"  by  far  one  of  the  biggest  drawing  cards  that 
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as  "CIRCE" 

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"BEAUTY  AND  THE  BEAST" 

A  Stupendously  Spectacular  Three  Reel  Rex  Masterpiece 

Released  July  10th 

The  story  so  dear  to  the  "little  folks"  and  so  popular  with  the  "Big  uns" 
is   so   wonderfully   portrayed   that   you  will    marvel   at   its   magnificence. 


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A  Charming  Social 

A  Calamity  Anne 

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"A  .  HUSBAND'S  MISTAKE"  is  a  charming 
story,  photographed  amid  California's  greatest  beauty 
— a  society  drama  of  the  first  water. 

You  know  "CALAMITY  ANNE"  that  paragon  of  an  old 
woman  who  has  already  made  millions  laugh — that  combination  of 
rough  exterior  and  warm  interior. 

"DEAD  MAN'S  SHOES"  we  are  proud  of.     It  is  one  Western  in  a  hun- 
dred.    Plenty  of  action,  a  tremendous  explosion  scene  and  a  dainty  love  story. 

Don't  Miss  Any  of  These — Your  Loss  If  You  Do! 

"A  Husband's  Mistake" 

(Release  Monday,  June  23,  1913) 

Evelyn  gives  her  husband's  necklace  present  to  her  brother  Dick,  unbeknown  to  her  hus- 
band. He  accuses  her  of  infidelity — she  grows  angry  and  leaves.  How  the  tangled  skein  of 
their  destiny  was  unwoven  makes  a  delightful  love  story. 

"Calamity  Anne  Takes  a  Trip" 

(Release  Thursday,  June  26,  1913) 

Calamity,  now  rich,  is  discovered  as  a  long  lost  cousin  by  two  bunco  men.  She  visits  them 
at  Venice,  Cal.,  rides  the  rides,  shoots  out  the  lights  and  generally  has  a  peck  of  fun.  What 
happened  to  the  bunco  men  makes  the  "kick"  of  the  story. 

"Dead  Man's  Shoes" 

(Release  Saturday,  June  28,  1913) 

The  tramp  donned  the  clothes  of  the  would-be  murderer,  assumed  his  name  and  began 
life  afresh.  When  the  renegade's  sweetheart  came  the  jig  was  up — but  a  new  man  had  been 
made  and  a  man  who  wanted  that  sweetheart  badly. 

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Walking  the  Tightrope 


Putting  a  Chain  Round  Its  Neck 


THE  FLEA  CIRCUS 

An   extraordinary  film   showing   the   wonders   of   the   microscope 
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NATIVE  LION  HUNT  IN  THE! 


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ADOLPH  ZUKOR'S  AMAZING  ANIMAL  SERIES 

"Capt.  Cherry  Kearton's  Wild  Life  and  Big  Game 
uring  in  the  Jungles  of  Africa  and  India" 

HEART  OF  THE  AFRICAN  JUNGLE 


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transports  the 
amazed  audience 
to  a  higher  plane 
of  animal  life.  For 
the  first  time  in  the 
history  of  photog- 
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and  the  customs 
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the  greatest  scenes  ever 
brought  before  the  eyes 
of  the  civilized  world, 
the  native  lion  hunt  in  the 
heart  of  the  African  Jungle. 
Thrilling  and  chilling  at- 
tacks, retreats,  charges  and 
absorbing  manoeuvres, 
showing  how  that  noted 
warrior  race  of  Africa,  the 
Masai,  hunt  and  kill  lions  in 
the  manner  of  their  fore- 
fathers, armed  only  with 
spear  and  shield.  This  reel 
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SYNOPSIS  OF  THE  STORY 

Author's  Note:  Being  simply  a  romance  inspired  by  the 
statement  in  Genesis  that  Cain  went  out  of  the  presence  of  the 
Lord  and  dwelt  in  the  land  of  Nod,  where  he  knew  his  wife, 
this  picture  does  not  aim  to  accomplish  more  than  your  enter- 
tainment and  amusement.  It  is  neither  historical  nor  theological : 
it  is  fanciful. 

It  is  to  be  remembered  that  there  are  two  accounts  of  the 
beginning  of  man:  one,  the  Mosaic  account,  is  inspired  history; 
the  other  is  the  evolutionary  theory  based  upon  the  deductions 
of  Darwin  and  other  reasoners.  The  first  account  conveys  the 
information  that  man  was  created  fresh  and  perfect  by  God,  who 
blew  the  breath  of  life  into  his  body.  It  would  seem  absurd  to 
assume  that  such  a  being,  possessed  of  all  the  attributes  of  man 
fresh  from  the  hands  of  his  Creator,  were  so  dull  of  mind  and 
stupid  that  he  would  fail  to  take  advantage  of  the  simple  prin- 
ciples of  material  existence.  Surely,  he  must  have  been  as  wise 
as  Robinson  Crusoe.  If  an  inventor  today  can  invent  a  wonder- 
ful machine  before  he  is  thirty  years  old,  is  it  reasonable  to 
assume  that  Adam,  the  very  mighty  product  of  God,  and  his 
progeny,  continued  to  live  naked,  and  in  the  dirt,  nine  hundred 
and  twenty  years? 

It  has  been  assumed  in  this  story,  simply,  that  Adam  and  his 
wife  and  children  were  possessed  of  ordinary  common  sense, 
and  that  the  almost  obvious  necessities  and  graces  of  human  life 
were  within  their  knowledge. 


HELEN   G 

In  THE  WIF 

A  ROMANCE  OF 

Copyrighted,   1913,  by  Helen 

Written  and  Directed  by 

PRODUCED  BY  THE  HELEN  GARDNER 
STUDIO  AT  TAPPAN-ON-THE- 


Respecting  the  people  of  the  land  of  Nod,  who  are  introduced 
in  this  story,  and,  more  particularly,  their  origin,  it  is  enough  to 
say  they  are  purely  imaginative.  Nevertheless,  it  is  not  impos- 
sible to  deduce  from  the  Biblical  context  a  sufficient  premise 
upon  which  to  contend  the  existence  of  other  men  than  Adam 
and  his  descendants.  It  is  a  matter  about  which  anyone  may 
think  as  he  will,  and  as  thinking  persons  do. 

As  stated  above,  this  story  does  not  aim  to  teach  any  principle, 
nor  does  it  pretend  historical  accuracy  even  approximately.  Its 
design  is  to  interest  and  amuse  through  its  poetic  beauty  and 
dramatic  order.  It  is  merely  a  fanciful  story  of  the  regeneration 
of  the  first  crime-committer  through  the  charming  philoso- 
phy of  a  wonderful  woman. 

Part  I. 


This  section  of  the  story  deals  intimately  with  the  first 
crime — the  destruction  of  Abel  by  his  brother  Cain,  the  sor- 
row of  Adam  and  Eve,  the  cursing,  branding  and  driving 
away  of  Cain,  his  heavy  sorrow  and  terror,  his  wanderings — 
and  finally  his  meeting  with  Save,  the  daughter  of  Omar,  the 
hunter,  in  the  land  of  Nod.  He  is  about  to  destroy  himself 
when  Save  meets  him  and  says: 

"It  is  no  sacrifice  to  lose  thy  life  which  thou  lovest  not: 
but  find  that  which  thou  lovest  above  thy  life,  and  part  thy- 
self from  that  forever — that  is  expiation!" 

Cain   tells  her  that  he  loves  nothing  more  than  his  life, 

It  would  be  unfair  to  judge  of  the  picture  merits  of  a  picture  story  by  a 
picture  drama  is  within  itself — not  an  account  of  its  story.  "The  Wife  of 
poetic  nature,  but  of  high  dramatic  force.  It  is  tragic,  and,  at  moments, 
borne  in  mind  that  Miss  Helen  Gardner  plays  the  role  of  the  woman,  that  she 
play  itself  is  written  and  directed  by  the  same  man  who  wrote  and  directed 
duce  something  not  only  out  of  the  beaten  run  of  productions,  but  a  work  of 

NOT 

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film,  preceded  by  some  wonderfully  beautiful  views  of  Miss  Gardner's  studio 
scenes,  as  she  may  be  found  doing  on  any  fair  day. 

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and  that  he  hates  that.  But  the  woman's  wisdom  is  plain 
enough  to  him,  and  he  starts  out  to  find  that  which  he  will 
love  more  than  his  life,  so  that  by  parting  himself  from  it 
forever  he  may  expiate  his  terrible  crime.  Zeeban,  a  worker 
of  magic,  whom  all  people  fear  and  obey  because  of  that  fear, 
announces  that  he  will  take  Save  for  his  wife,  notwithstand- 
ing he  already  has  one  wife,  a  jealous  woman  named  Januh. 
When  Zeeban  declares  that  Save  shall  become  his  wife  Cain 
sees  as  by  a  flash  of  lightning  that  the  thing  which  he  loves 
above  his  life  is — Save  herself. 


Part  II. 

It  is  shown  clearly  that  Januh,  the  wife  of  Zeeban,  means 
to  murder  Save.  Zeeban  discovers  her  intention,  and  has  her 
put  into  the  Pit  of  Death,  a  cave  in  which  those  condemned 
to  die  are  made  to  starve  to  death.  Cain,  unacquainted  with 
the  customs  and  laws  of  Nod,  and  equally  unacquainted  with 
the  intention  of  Januh,  releases  Januh  by  a  trick.  After  the 
bridal  ceremony  in  which  according  to  the  rites  of  the  land 
Save  becomes  the  possession  of  Zeeban,  Januh  sneaks  into 
the  nuptual  chamber  and  stabs  Zeeban  to  death.  Save,  not 
knowing  how  Zeeban  came  to  his  death,  runs  out  of  the 
chamber,  her  shriek  bringing  Cain,  who  has  been  in  hiding. 


into  the  place.  He  is  seized  as  the  murderer,  and,  believing 
indeed  that  Save  herself  has  committed  the  crime,  he  suffers 
himself  to  be  led  away  and  put  into  the  Pit  of  Death.  Save 
searches  for  Cain  in  the  wilderness  where  she  first  met  him. 
She  meets  Januh,  who  tells  her  that  Cain  is  in  the  pit,  and 
hastens  there.  She  herself  is  believed  to  be  an  accomplice, 
and  is  thrown  into  the  pit.  There  she  finds  Cain  almost  dead 
of  starvation. 

Part  III. 

Loving  her  with  a  great  passion,  Cain  steadfastly  refuses 
to  take  Save  as  his  wife,  convinced  as  he  is  that  only  by 
sacrificing  some  thing  which  he  loves  more  than  his  life  can 
he  condone  his  great  crime.  Save  herself  is  satisfied  that  he 
is  right,  and  they  resign  themselves  to  death.  Januh,  unable 
to  keep  from  them,  climbs  out  upon  a  tree  branch  over  the 
mouth  of  the  pit,  so  that  she  can  taunt  them  and  watch  them 
die.  At  a  very  dramatic  moment  the  branch  breaks,  and, 
clutching  the  leaves  to  save  herself,  Januh's  hair  becomes 
entangled  so  that  she  is  caught  up,  and  her  neck  is  broken  in 
mid-air.  Over  her  body  Cain  reaches  the  limb,  and  thence 
he  reaches  the  outside.  It  is  only  a  few  moments  before  he 
has  rescued  Save.  She  discovers  that  the  brand,  put  on  his 
forehead  by  God,  has  vanished,  and,  taking  it  for  a  token  of 
Cain's  full  forgivenness,  Save  and  Cain  leave  the  land  as  man 
and  wife.  Years  after,  and  in  accordance  with  the  account 
by  Moses,  Cain  builds  a  great  city,  and  calls  it  Enoch,  after 
his  first-born  son. 


tersely  written  synopsis  of  its  main  motives  and  action.  The  merit  of  a  motion 
Cain,"  as  a  picture  story,  is  highly  unique,  possessing  values  not  only  of  a 
inblime  in  its  message  straight  to  the  human  heart  and  mind.  It  should  be 
m  splendidly  supported  by  players  who  are  to  the  man  real  artists,  that  the 
"Cleopatra,"  and  that  neither  expense,  time  nor  study  has  been  spared  to  pro- 
surpassing  interest  and  intrinsic  beauty  both  in  thought  and  action. 

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tender to  the  throne  of  England,  one  of  the  most  dramatic  chapters  of  history.  Gorgeous  costumes,  lavish 
staging  and  an  especially  strong  cast,  make  the  film  a  real  masterpiece.  It  is  historically  accurate  in  every 
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Edmund  Marbury  is  in  financial  straits.  His  beautiful  daughter,  Marion,  is  bethrothed  to  Ralph,  son  of 
Andrew  Mason,  a  financier.  The  elder  Mason  also  loves  Marion  and  plots  with  Mrs.  Marbury  to  break  off 
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Masterson  the  mill  owner;  Mooney,  his  domineering  superintendent,  Jimmie  Blake,  a  worker;  Maggie,  his 
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Eclipse-Kleine,  Two  reels 

Robert  West,  leader  of  a  band  of  counterfeiters,  woos  a  Mrs.  Foster,  a  beautiful  widow.  Gilbert  F°;=ter' 
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Fatheplay,   Two  reels. 

June  30th— "The  Penalty  of  Crime." 

Lubin,    Two   reels. 

July  2nd— "The  Tiger  Lily." 

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July  4th — "Shenandoah." 

Salem,   Three  reels. 


July  5th — "The  Miner's  Destiny." 

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July  7th— "The  Forbidden  Way." 

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July  9th — "A  Hero  Among  Men." 

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***  "Mary  Stuart" 

In   Three   Reels.      Historical    Drama 
(3,000).    Released  Saturday,  June  21st. 

A  superb  production  portraying  the  last  ten 
years  of  the  great  struggle  for  the  English  throne 
between  Mary  Queen  of  Scots  and  Queen  Eliza- 
beth. The  tragic  fate  of  the  beautiful  Mary  and 
the  plots  which  preceded  it  form  a  story  of  grip- 
ping   intensity.     It   is   beautifully   photographed. 

•     "Love's  Old  Sweet  Song" 

Drama    (1,000).      Released    Saturday, 
June  2 1  st. 

A  careless  young1  flirt  is  always  drawn  to  her 
nance's  side  by  the  fascinating  melody  of  "Love's 
Old  Sweet  Song."  Her  heartlessness  drives  him 
away,  he  is  reported  dead  and  the  shock  affects 
her  mind.  When  he  returns  she  does  not  know 
him  until  the  old  song  clears  her  brain. 


"The  Pyramids  and  the  Sphinx, 
Egypt" 

Scenic  (300).   Released  Monday, 
June  23rd. 

The  works  of  man  seem  trivial  and  short 
lived  until  we  see  these  great  piles  of  rock  which 
have  endured  over  3,000  years.  Glimpses  of  pic- 
turesque native  life  in  the  vicinity  of  the  Pyra- 
mids   add   greatly  to   the   interest  of  the   film. 

*  "A  Taste  of  His  Own  Medicine" 

Comedy  (700)    Released  Monday, 
June  23rd. 

In  order  to  prove  his  wife's  infidelity,  a  jealous 
fool  writes  a  note  asking'  her  to  meet  "an  old 
admirer."  She  turns  the  note  over  to  the  po- 
lice, hubby  is  arrested  at  the  meeting  place  and 
is  very  repentant  when  she  identifies  him  at  the 
police  court. 


*  "Where  Shore  and  Water  Meet" 

Drama  (980).     Released  Tuesday, 
June  24th. 

When  the  girl  he  loved  married  another,  Ad- 
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ance of  the  bridegroom  once  more  aroused  his 
hope.  He  was  about  to  claim  her  when  the  lost 
man,  who  had  been  shipwrecked,  returned  and 
his  last  hope  of  happiness  was  crushed. 

"How  Did  it  Finish?" 

Comedy  (980).     Released  Wednesday, 
June  25th. 

A  screamingly  fanny  story  In  which  papa 
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death  straggle  only  to  find  that  the  last  page  is 
missing.     Mama  is  using  it  as  a  curl  paper! 


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1SEE  be  the  pa-a-per-rs."  as  Mr.  Dooley,  the  sage  of 
Archie  Road,  would  say,  "that  there  do  be  great 
doin's  all  over  the  counthry  wid  thim  movin'  picters." 
If  Mr.  Dooley  would  not  have  said  it  just  that  way,  or  if 
it  might  have  been  Hinnissy  that  said  it  instead,  then  we 
owe  an  apology  to  Peter  Finley  Dunne ;  but  the  fact  re- 
mains that  the  pa-a-per-rs  all  over  the  country  are  reeking 
with  news  of  the  moving  pictures.  It  is  a  dead  town,  in- 
deed, in  which  the  picture  theater  is  not  attracting  atten- 
tion in  some  form.  There  are  new  theaters  building,  old 
ones  changing  hands  or  being  enlarged  and  improved,  and 
in  hundreds  of  communities  the  daily  and  weekly  news- 
papers publish  much  information  about  the  pictures  that 
are  appearing  upon  the  screens  of  the  local  houses.  It  is 
doubtful  if  there  is,  or  ever  has  been,  any  other  form  of 
amusement  that  has  occupied  as  much  space  in  the  daily 
press  of  the  country  as  is  being  devoted  to  moving  pic- 
tures today. 

* 

It  is  interesting  to  note  some  of  the  various  forms  of 
this  mass  of  publicity:  Down  in  Berkley,  Va.,  the  boys 
and  girls  of  George  Washington  School  debated  this 
question  the  other  day :    "Resolved,  That  Moving  Pic- 


tures Are  More  Harmful  than  Beneficial."  Miss  Ade- 
laide Moore  and  Oscar  Pritchard  advocated  the  negative 
side  of  the  question  and  won  the  debate.  Undoubtedly 
some  grown-up  proposed  that  question,  but  it  remained 
for  two  alert  members  of  the  coming  generation  of  em- 
pire builders  to  put  the  "high  kibosh"  upon  the  suggestion 
that  moving  pictures  were  harmful,  and  there  we  have 
the  indication  that  it  is  the  young  men  and  women  of  this 
day  who  are  going  to  get  out  of  motion  pictures  the  best 

there  is  in  them. 

* 

Readers  of  The  Moving  Picture  World  must  not 
understand  by  this  that  men  of  affairs  of  the  present  day 
do  not  recognize  the  good  that  is  in  the  moving  picture. 
Out  in  Bellaire,  Ohio,  the  Robinson  Brothers  publish  the 
Bellaire  Daily  Leader  to  the  credit  to  their  city  and  with 
profit,  we  hope,  to  themselves.  Speaking  about  the  mov- 
ing pictures,  The  Leader  says  in  an  editorial : 

If  there  is  anything  that  disgusts  us  through  and 
through  it  is  to  read  where  some  so-called  reformer 
blames  the  moving  pictures  for  the  ruination  of  the 
youth  of  America.     Were  it  not  for  the  fact  that  a 
few   gullible    individuals    probably   swallow    this    rot 
we  would  regard  the  subject  as  too  silly  for  serious 
mention. 
It  says  a  lot  more  that  is  to  the  point,  but  that  extract 
is  enough  to  show  the  way  the  wind  blows.     Bearing 
somewhat  upon  the  same  question,  the  Springfield,  Mis- 
souri, Republican  takes  a  hack  at  the  "censor"  whom  it 
finds  derelict  in  his  official  or  self-appointed  duty  in  that, 
while  he  is  keen  to  condemn  that  which  is  questionable, 
he  absolutely  fails  to  commend  that  which  is  commend- 
able.     Which    observation    suggests   that   the   "censor" 
might  perform  a  larger  function.    But,  anyway,  why  is  a 
censor?    This  thought  leads  us  right  up  against  the  in- 
formation printed  in  the  Detroit,  Michigan,  Journal  to 
the  effect  that  Royal  Baker,  police  censor  of  that  city, 
has  resigned  to  become  business  director  of  the  Columbia 
Educational  Motion  Picture  Company.    Readers  of  The 
Moving  Picture  World  will  recall  Mr.  Baker  as  the 
genius  who  formulated  the  rules  of  censorship  for  pic- 
tures to  govern  the  work  of  the  Detroit  police  censor- 
ship.    Now  he  is  going  into  the  business  of  making  pic- 
tures, which  would  indicate  that  he  is  not  afraid  to  take 
a  dose  of  his  own  medicine.     Mr.  Baker's  company  is 
now  taking  pictures  of  Detroit  industries  for  use  in  a 

European  educational  campaign. 
*     *     * 

EVER  heard  of  Governor  Johnson  —  Hiram  "Bull 
Moose"  Johnson  of  California? 
Of  course  you  have ;  "he  is  the  guy  who  wants  to 
keep  the  Jap  in  Japan."  But,  at  that,  he  is  a  regular  pic- 
ture fan.  They  proposed  a  bill  in  the  California  legisla- 
ture the  other  day  calculated  to  take  the  "Bronch"  out  of 
"Broncho  Billy."  and  when  the  Governor  heard  of  it  he 
announced  right  off  the  reel :  "I  don't  care  if  the  bill 
passes  both  houses,  I  will  never  let  it  become  a  law." 
Someone  who  knows  the  Governor  real  well  said  to  the 
Los  Angeles  Examiner  man:  "Why,  he  and  Mrs.  John- 
son have  been  to  see  every  moving  picture  film  that  has 
come  to  Sacramento  for  two  years.  It  is  the  only  way 
you  can  get  him  away  from  the  office  when  he  is  working 

late." 

* 

Lying  before  us  are  numerous  clippings  from  leading 
papers  in  various  parts  of  this  fair  country  concerning 
the  introduction  of  pictures  in  schools  and  churches ;  the 
making  of  special  pictures,  such  as  "A  Day  at  Tuskegee." 
showing  the  work  of  Booker  Washington  among  3,000 
negro  students ;  pictures  of  the  students  of  the  Agricul- 
tural and  Mechanical  College  down  in  Texas  and  scores 
of  similar  undertakings. 

Oh,  it's  great  for  the  moving  pictures. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 

The  Real  Thing 


By  Louis  Reeves  Harrison 


WHILE  moving  pictures  are  illustrating  vividly 
what  a  noted  critic  calls  "a  startling  disproportion 
between  the  exciting  cause  and  the  ultimate  re- 
sult," while  good  ones  are  as  rare  as  pearls  in  Fulton 
Market  oysters,  let  us  not  lose  hope  —  their  production 
may  gradually  pass  into  the  hands  of  men  of  mental 
needs.  The  Young  Art  is  just  emerging  from  its  callow- 
youth  and  yellow  shoes  and  contains  good  material  if  it  is 
■only  half-baked.  When  it  quits  pulling  up  its  cuffed 
trousers  to  show  its  peek-a-boo  silk  socks,  gives  up 
diamond-backed  terrapin  soused  in  extra  dry  and  diets 
on  whole  wheat  bread  rich  in  phosphates,  we  may  con- 
fidently look  for  a  reduction  in  the  "Startling  Dispropor- 
tion" and  something  like  "The  Real  Thing."  Meanwhile 
•the  world  remains  illimitable  and  calm. 

One  of  the  best  signs  I  have  noted  during  my  unabated 
studio  saunterings  is  a  disposition  to  assign  actors  of 
•decided  personality  to  important  roles.  The  actor  is  the 
real  thing  as  a  medium  of  interpretation  when  his  attitude 
toward  his  vocation  is  one  of  intelligence  and  enthusiasm. 
What  he  wants  principally  is  something  to  interpret.  He 
wants  a  good  part,  one  as  real  as  his  own  thoughts,  one 
whose  arteries  run  red  blood,  one  more  invigorating  than 
a  ride  in  the  subway,  with  some  purpose  to  carry  out  and 
some  strong  character  to  impersonate.  He  will  like  to  be 
exactly  what  the  audience  would  have  him  be  instead  of 
eternally  posing  as  an  Apostle  of  Nothingness.  In  pro- 
viding high-class  actors  for  important  roles  the  leading 
producers  exhibit  cheering  signs  of  getting  ready  to  pro- 
duce. Rouse  ye,  Monsieur  Scenario  Writer,  from  your 
bitterness  of  soul ! 

Actor  and  spectator  alike  are  just  now  in  a  misty  state 
■of  confusion.  Their  minds  sink  within  them  ;  they  hug 
blighted  hopes ;  sadness  enwraps  their  hearts  like  a  pall ; 
■they  are  staggered  by  the  apparitions  of  strange  things. 
phantoms  of  past  performances.  The  dust  of  ages  is  in 
their  eyes.  If  the  photodrama  is  not  engaged  in  robbing 
hallowed  tombs  of  what  has  long  been  consigned  to  classic 
obscurity,  its  characters  climb  impossible  heights  of  nobil- 
ity or  descend  to  improbable  depths  of  ignominy  in  futile 
search  of  a  faded  thrill.  The  acts  of  militant  English- 
women in  their  desperate  battle  for  the  ballot  furnish 
more  sensational  material  in  a  day  than  is  doled  out 
through  lurid  door-posters  in  a  year.  The  courage  of 
the  wretchedly  poor  in  great  cities  and  factory  towns 
supplies  thousands  of  stories  strong  enough  to  stir  and 
hold  the  interest  of  spectators  all  over  the  country.  The 
trouble  is  that  producers  do  not  seem  to  recognize,  even 
if  they  do  not  deny,  the  existence  of  a  potential  dramatic 
element  in  what  is  going  on  before  our  very  eyes.  There- 
in is  the  real  thing. 

Theatrical  men  in  moving  picture  production  have  done 
it  a  great  deal  of  good,  but  they  appear  to  be  inclosed  in 
high  walls  of  tradition  and  unable  to  break  out.  All 
around  them  are  flowering  fields  of  ideas.  People  are 
moving  away  from  old  influences,  and  they  are  getting 
out  of  reach  of  their  entertainers.  It  does  not  seem  so 
long  ago  that  a  man  was  considered  immoral  if  he  did  not 
attend  church.  No  matter  what  his  private  life,  his  in- 
dividual cleanliness,  he  was  not  a  fit  associate  for  the  just 
if  he  did  not  subscribe  to  one  or  another  faith.  His  sense 
of  freedom,  however,  grew  too  strong  for  such  ties,  and 
tie  is  now  shaking  off  other  fetters  on  his  way  to  full 
faith  in  himself.  He  is  getting  strong  enough  to  stand 
by  himself  instead  of  clinging  to  this  or  that  code,  polit- 


ical or  social,  for  support,  and  his  progress  in  self-con- 
trol not  only  furnishes  hundreds  of  live  themes  for  screen 
stories,  but  it  applies  to  the  art  itself.  It  is  time  for 
motion-picture  producers  to  shake  off  the  trammels  of 
artificiality  and  theatricalism.  This  New  Art  can  stand 
by  itself. 

No  essential  principle  has  ever  been  discovered  that 
playwright  or  producer  must  invariably  accept.  It  is  all 
well  enough  to  talk  about  the  laws  of  the  drama,  but  what 
are  they?  Eminent  critics  have  suspected  their  existence 
and  have  tried  to  formulate  a  set  of  rules  which  moving 
pictures  have  already  scattered  to  the  four  cardinal  points 
of  the  compass.  Progress  implies  discarding  precedent 
or  improving  on  antecedent  forms  of  procedure.  Picture 
anything  that  shows  the  exercise  of  the  human  will  or  its 
intellectual  control  in  an  interesting  way  and  you  have  a 
drama,  but  even  this  is  merely  something  to  be  sup- 
pressed in  time.  As  for  the  traditional  stage  drama,  espe- 
cially the  "mellow"  kind,  it  is  a  struggling  creature  half 
way  between  the  primordial  protoplasm  and  the  Real 
Thing  that  is  yet  to  come.  It  is  as  wearisome  as  Ibsen 
and  cholera  morbus. 

The  drama  of  yesterday  and  today  deals  almost  entirely 
with  desire.  In  the  five-finger-exercise  form,  Him  wishes 
to  marry  Her,  principally  because  Her  wants  to  capture 
Him,  and  their  lips  meet  by  the  light  of  a  cheesy-looking 
moon.  Many  studio  directors,  having  reached  this  stage 
of  performance,  imagine  they  have  discovered  the  real 
thing  in  the  way  of  dramatic  turkey  trot,  and  merely  van- 
it  with  a  few  old  props  or  an  incidental  crime.  Another 
form  depicts  the  rich  man  who  wants  money  most  and 
gets  the  least  out  of  it,  to  the  secret  delight  of  the  un- 
appreciated and  the  underpaid.  The  essence  of  the  drama 
at  present  seems  to  be  tjiat  somebody  wants  something 
and  has  a  hard  time  getting  it  —  the  situation  most  of  us 
are  in  as  regard  to  fine  moving  pictures.  Brunetiere  say? 
the  central  figure  in  the  play  must  be  after  something  and 
try  to  keep  others  from  beating  him  to  it,  but  Monsieur  B. 
is  only  on  his  way  to  the  truth.  Moving  pictures  have 
shown  that  the  acted  story  can  be  much  broader  and 
more  elastic  in  its  application,  richer  in  results  and  able  to 
further  enrich  itself  from  the  best  humanity  is  doing  or 
trying  to  do. 

It  has  become  quite  the  thing  to  declare  that  moving 
pictures  are  destined  to  accomplish  wonders,  but  the  plain 
truth  is  that  they  are  going  to  accomplish  nothing  if  they 
continue  on  present  lines,  for  they  are  at  best  only  an 
attractive  medium  of  communication,  and  improvement 
can  only  come  from  those  who  have  something  of  superior 
quality  to  communicate.  The  scenario  of  the  future  is  not 
going  to  be  an  attempt  on  the  part  of  some  nonenity  to 
get  a  little  reflected  glory  from  stolen  ideas.  It  will  come 
from  those  who  are  building,  founding,  establishing, 
idealizing  and  beautifying  with  lofty  skill  and  unflagging 
effort,  from  those  who  dare  release  the  finest  that  is  in 
them  for  the  sake  of  posterity,  from  men  and  women  of 
genius. 

To  the  medium  itself  there  has  been  a  vast  amount  of 
ingenuity  applied  —  its  rapid  development  is  the  marvel 
of  the  age  --  but  the  real  thing  will  come  from  those  wh  i 
have  more  than  enough  ideas  for  their  immediate  needs, 
whose  brain  power  goes  beyond  mere  service  to  the  body, 
who  can  suit  the  million  preference  by  the  way  they  frame 
thoughts  immortal. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE  WORLD 

Notes  From  Italy. 


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A  LESSON  IN  ITALIAN  KINEMATOGRAPHIC  HISTORY— ITALY    A    POOR    MARKET,    BUT    FEATURES 
BRING  HIGH  PRICES— EXHIBITORS  AND  THEIR  LEAGUES— THEATERS   AND    PROJECTION- 
VISIT   TO    THE    CINES. 

By  W.  Stephen  Bush. 


Rome,  May  29,  1013. 

IN  the  history  of  the  kinematograph  in  Italy  there  is  much 
to  cheer  and  comfort  the  friend  of  the  motion  picture. 
No  other  country  furnishes  ampler  proof  of  the  fact  that 
the  palm  of  success  and  the  crown  of  merit  go  to  the  pro- 
ducer who  is  not  afraid  to  aim  high  and  whose  appeal  ad- 
dresses itself  to  the  intelligence,  the  good  taste  and  the 
■moral  sense  of  the  public.  In  the  beginning  of  things  kine- 
matographic  in  Italy  the  producer  had  on  the  one  hand  the 
■advantage  of  extraordinary  opportunities,  while  on  the  other 
hand  he  was  beset  by  great  temptations.  His  opportunities 
lay  in  the  natural  beauty  of  his  country,  in  the  weather  and 
the  climate.  Nowhere  has  Nature  set  up  a  more  glorious 
.and  complete  studio  than  in  this  most  favored  of  lands.  He 
■had  the  precious  opportunity  of  becoming  the  interpreter  of 
a  deathless  and  most  interesting  civilization.  By  means  of 
•the  new  invention,  which  by  reproducing  motion  gives  the 
most  perfect  imitation  of  life,  he  had  it  in  his  power  to  show 
to  the  whole  modern  civilized  world  pictures  of  the  life  and 
•culture  of  ancient  Rome.  He  had  but  to  set  up  his  camera 
with  the  right  intention  and  his  very  surroundings  would 
furnish  him  with  the  inspiration  needed  to  produce  great 
■films.     His  was  and  is  the  home  of  art. 

In  Rome  and  all  through  Italy  are  the  plentiful  remains 
■of  the  arts  which  have  created  imperishable  beauty,  which 
to  the  end  of  time  will  delight  the  eye  and  stir  the  heart. 
All  that  vast  treasure  of  art  and  of  knowledge  and  of  his- 
tory and  of  literature  which  is  heaped  up  here  in  richest  pro- 
fusion was  at  the  constant  and  immediate  service  of  the 
moving  picture  camera.  Here  was  the  birthplace  of  two 
civilizations  of  the  greatest  importance — the  civilization  of 
ancient  and  of  Christian  Rome.  Here  were  born  two  of  the 
richest  and  most  expressive  of  languages;  here  these  lan- 
guages reached  their  highest  perfection,  and  here  they  served 
as  the  means  of  expression  to  some  of  the  greatest  minds 
among  mortal  men.  The  source  of  much  which  we  still 
teach  in  every  school  of  the  world  is  here.  The  priceless 
heritage  of  Greece  was  often  transmitted  to  us  through 
Rome.  It  is  hardly  necessary  to  allude  to  the  part  which 
Rome  and  Italy  played  in  the  history  of  Christian  civiliza- 
tion. If  ever  there  was  in  the  best  sense  of  the  word  a  para- 
dise for  the  ambitious  and  intelligent  producer  it  surely  was 
in  Italy.  It  was  in  the  power  of  the  Italian  producer  to 
place  before  the  world  in  clear  and  living  pictures  wha"t  all 
the  schools  and  text  books  of  the  centuries  could  do  but 
imperfectly.  If  the  producer  chose  to  strike  the  educational 
chord  and  do  some  homage  to  the  Muses  of  History  and  of 
Poetry  and  of  the  Drama,  his  success  seemed  to  be  assured. 
He  had  the  world  for  an  audience,  for  Rome  and  Italy  had 
been  the  themes  of  countless  poets  and  writers  and  teachers 
in  various  tongues  for  more  than  two  thousand  years. 

Great,  however,  as  his  opportunities  undoubtedly  were, 
his  temptations  were  no  less  great.  First,  there  was  the  cry 
•of  that  old,  owlish,  parrot-like  chorus:  "The  moving  picture 
is  not  here  to  instruct  and  educate,  but  only  to  amuse  and 
entertain."  With  all  their  fossilized  arguments  these  parrots 
can  never  succeed  in  talking  the  educational  value  out  of  the 
motion  picture.  There  was,  however,  a  greater  and  plainer 
temptation  in  the  path  of  the  Italian  producer.  This  con- 
sisted in  the  very  potent  fact  that  in  modern  Italy  the  taste 
of  the  public  is  decidedly  low.  Indeed  it  verges  on  the  morbid 
and  on  the  vulgar. 

Education  here  is  still  very  far  from  being  universal;  even 
the  most  superficial  of  observers  must  recognize  all  around 
them  the  effects  of  centuries  of  political  oppression  and  su- 
perstition. This  is  not  the  place  to  go  into  the  causes  of 
low  taste  and  vicious  instincts — I  only  state  the  fact  and 
place  it  among  the  temptations  which  confronted  the  pro- 
ducer. If  he  took  a  narrow  view  of  his  opportunities  it 
might  well  seem  to  him  that  the  road  to  fortune  must  lie  in 
playing  down  to  the  tastes  of  the  vulgar.  "To  get  the 
crowd"  in  Italy  it  was  neither  necessary  nor  advisable  to 
put  art  and  high  ideals  in  his  films. 

Now  when  they  came  to  the  parting  of  the  ways  there 
was  a  sharp  division  among  the  producers.  Three  or  four 
■chose  the  road  which  for  the  moment  seemed  harder  and 
less  profitable,  while  the  others  chose  the  path  with  a  down- 
ward trend,  but  with  seeming  assurance  of  immediate  finan- 


cial gain.  To  the  former  we  owe  many  of  the  great  master- 
pieces of  filmdom— "The  Fall  of  Troy,"  "The  Last  Days  of 
Pompeii,"  Dante's  "Inferno,"  "The  Odyssey,"  "Jerusalem 
Delivered"  and  "Quo  Vadis?".  In  publishing  such  films  the 
producers  achieved  a  reputation  the  fruits  of  which  brought 
them  not  only  honor,  but  rich  material  rewards.  They  set  a 
splendid  standard  not  only  for  others,  but  chiefly  for  them- 
selves. They  gave  assurance  to  every  exhibitor  of  a  high 
average  of  quality  in  even  their  minor  productions. 

What  of  the  other  and  far  more  numerous  producers,  who 
carefully  kept  away  from  the  educational  and  the  classic  to 
cater  to  the  lovers  of  the  cheap  melodrama?  There  are  a 
score  of  them  and  perhaps  more,  but  who  out  of  Italy  hears 
of  them  to  any  great  advantage?  They  cast  their  lot  with 
the  "crowds"  in  Italy  and  now  they  are  lucky  to  sell  on  an 
average  three  copies  in  Italy,  with  an  occasional  print  for 
the  French,  Spanish  or  South  American  market.  In  our 
country  and  in  Canada  mighty  little  of  their  stuff  is  sold,  and 
the  buyers  are  generally  sorry.  It  is  quite  true  that  the 
Italian  market  for  the  sale  of  films  is  the  poorest  in  the 
world,  and  that  even  the  best  firms  sell  at  the  most  five  or 
six  copies  of  their  regular  releases,  whatever  they  may  be 
able  to  do  with  the  big  features.  It  stands  to  reason  then 
that  the  Italian  producer  depends  very  largely  on  his  export. 
He  could  not  live  without  the  markets  of  the  English-speak- 
ing countries  and  of  Germany  and  Russia. 

Italy  is  a  poor  market  for  the  sale  of  American  films — 
with  one  notable  exception.  The  films  of  the  Vitagraph 
Company  are  very  popular  here.  The  agent  of  the  Vitagraph 
is  selling  as  many  films  as  the  best  of  the  native  producers, 
and  I  believe  at  a  little  better  prices.  Maurice  Costello  is  a 
name  to  conjure  with  in  Italy.  His  recent  tour  through 
Italy,  including  a  visit  to  the  Cines  studio  in  Rome,  has  been 
much  like  a  tour  of  triumph.  He  was  cheered  in  true  Latin 
fashion  when  he  showed  himself  to  the  people  in  the  "Lux 
Et  Umbra,"  one  of  the  principal  moving  picture  theaters  in 
Rome.  The  other  American  brands,  with  the  possible  excep- 
tion of  the  Bison,  are  sold  but  little.  Perhaps  more  might 
be  done  with  other  American  films,  but  Italy  at  its  best  does 
not  compare  with  such  markets  as  England,  Germany  and 
Russia.  Even  little  Holland  and  Belgium,  orphans  in  the 
House  of  Motion  Pictures,  lag  but  little  behind  Italy.  Of 
the  great  Selig  film,  "Christopher  Columbus,"  only  seven 
copies  were  sold  in  the  land  of  Christopher  Columbus. 
Edison  is  represented  in  Genoa  and  the  well-known  exchange 
man  Barattolo,  who  owns  theaters  in  Rome,  Naples  and 
Turin,  and  who  is  a  member  of  the  Neapolitan. City  Council, 
is  the  agent  for  Selig  and  Kalem.  Rex  and  Solax  are  in  the 
hands  of  the  Vitagraph  agent,  while  all  other  American  prod- 
ucts are  sold  via  London.  To  revert  for  a  moment  to  the 
financial  advantage  of  turning  out  high  quality,  I  might  say 
that,  according  to  statements  published  by  themselves,  both 
the  Cines  Company  and  the  Ambrosio  Company  paid  divi- 
dends of  11  per  cent,  in  the  past  year. 

The  renting  situation  is  curiously  mixed  in  Italy.  The 
supply  of  first  runs  greatly  exceeds  the  demand,  helping  to 
accentuate  competition.  Daily  changes  of  program  are  un- 
known except  in  one  or  two  theaters  in  Naples.  Pathe,  Gau- 
mont,  Eclair,  Cines,  Ambrosio  and  Vitagraph  are  trying  to 
place  their  first  runs  in  Italy  at  the  same  time  and  the  result 
may  be  imagined.  Pathe,  Eclair  and  Gaumont  refuse  to  sell 
to  middlemen  and  will  deal  only  with  the  exhibitor  directly. 
This,  of  course,  causes  quite  a  little  friction.  The  renters  are 
fighting  Pathe  and  the  end  is  not  yet. 

The  multiple  feature  film  has  added  to  the  confusion  of 
the  market.  Very  high  prices  are  paid  for  "State  rights." 
Italy  is  for  this  purpose  divided  into  fhc  parts:  Piedmont 
with  Turin  for  its  center,  Lombardy  with  Milan,  Veneto 
with  Venice,  Central  Italy  with  Rome,  and  Southern  Italy, 
including  Sicily  with  Naples  and  Palermo.  For  the  new 
Ambrosio  film,  "The  Last  Days  of  Pompeii,"  for  instance, 
the  buyer  for  Southern  Italy  and  Sicily  paid  40,000  francs. 
This  is  more  than  some  of  our  biggest  States  have  brought  for 
some  of  the  biggest  features.  As  a  natural  result  the  single 
reel  suffers,  being  relegated  almost  entirely  to  the  smaller 
towns. 

The  theaters  in  the  largest  city  of  Italy,  Naples,  are  small. 
Outside  of  Rome  there  are  few  moving  picture  theaters  with 


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a  large  seating  capacity,  and  in  Rome  there  is  but  one  with 
1.500  seats.  Licenses  are  quite  low  and  the  opening  of 
theaters  is  free  to  anyone.  The  regulations  for  the  safety 
of  patrons  are  easy  to  the  point  of  laxity.  With  the  ex- 
citable nature  of  the  Italians,  a  panic  in  one  of  even  the 
medium-sized  theaters  might  cause  a  terrible  disaster.  Prices 
of  admission  are  almost  as  low  as  with  us,  ranging  from 
six  cents  to  a  rare  maximum  of  thirty  cents.  The  average 
Italian  moving  picture  house  compares  most  unfavorably 
with  the  average  theater  in  England,  America  or  Germany. 
It  recalls  Mulberry  Bend  and  Little  Italy  in  Harlem  in  the 
days  of  the  early  Italian  immigration.  The  odor  in  these 
places  is  penetrating,  but  far  from  agreeable.  Chairs  are 
poor,  the  attendants  are  normally  sleepy  and  insistent  for 
tips  when  roused  into  a  state  of  passing  wakefulness.  The 
projection  even  in  the  very  best  theaters  is  not  much,  and 
in  the  average  theater  it  is  intolerably  wretched.  Clear, 
sharp  and  distinct  pictures,  and  an  even,  steady  supply  of 
good,  strong  light  are  positively  unknown.  An  Italian  trans- 
lation of  Richardson's  handbook  is  one  of  the  crying  needs 
of  Italian  operators,  and  I  have  taken  the  matter  up  with  an 
editor  of  prominence. 

The  personnel  of  the  average  exhibitor  is  better  than  one 
might  expect.  He  is  generally  inclined  to  be  progressive, 
but  he  seems  incapable  of  understanding  the  advantages  of 
one  great  and  strong  national  organization.  Concerted  ac- 
tion by  the  exhibitor  would  count  for  much  more  here  in 
Italy  than,  for  instance,  in  Austria  or  Germany.  Italy  is  a 
more  democratic  country  and  public  officials  are  much 
quicker  to  respond'  to  public  demands.  It  is  to  be  much  de- 
plored then  that  the  Italian  exhibitors  cannot  be  united  in 
one  organization.  There  are  at  present  two  leagues  of  ex- 
hibitors and,  what  is  worse,  they  are  fighting  each  other  in- 
stead of  turning  their  faces  against  the  common  enemy.  If 
the  one  league  commends  some  measure  to  the  government 
as  beneficial  to  the  industry,  the  other  league  comes  along 
and  adopts  resolutions  strongly  condemning  the  proposed 
measure. 

Italy  has  little  just  cause  to  complain  of  censorship.  The 
power  of  censoring  pictures  was  until  recently  exercised  by 
the  local  authorities  of  each  province,  but  now  it  is  vested 
in  a  branch  of  the  Ministry  of  Justice  at  Rome  and  its  de- 
cisions are  valid  for  the  whole  kingdom.  To  an  American 
all  censorship  is  of  course  odious,  but  the  Italian  censorship 
is  very  mild,  with  a  semi-occasional  fit  of  rigor. 

I  will  carry  away  from  Rome  one  very  pleasant  recollec- 
tion: that  of  a  long,  instructive  and  very  enjoyable  visit  to 
the  splendid  Cines  establishment  just  outside  the  Porta  San 
Giovanni.  The  grounds  of  the  Cines  studios  cover  56,000 
cubic  metres.  Of  their  six  different  studios  there  is  but  one 
for  which  artificial  light  is  used  and  this  studio  is  used  but 
rarely,  mostly  indeed  for  the  production  of  light  effects  and 
a  species  of  a  higher  sort  of  trick  photography.  Four  com- 
panies were  at  work  when  I  visited  the  studio  in  the  com- 
pany of  the  courteous  Signor  A.  Meille,  the  private-  secretary 
of  the  general  director,  Baron  A.  Fassini.  The  baron  re- 
ceived {he  visit  from  a  representative  of  the  Moving  Picture 
World  with  every  evidence  of  pleasure  and  extended  innu- 
merable courtesies.  He  and  indeed  all  of  the  staff  and  the 
artists  of  the  Cines  are  ardent  readers  of  the  paper  and  the 
supply  of  copies  is  never  large  enough  to  go  around.  This 
saying  of  the  baron  and  his  secretary  was  a  most  handsome 
tribute  to  the  international  value  and  importance  of  the 
paper,  and  on  behalf  of  the  readers  of  the  Moving  Picture 
World  I  conveyed  to  him  our  sincerest  appreciation. 

The  excellence  of  Cines  photography  is  easily  explained 
by  the  magnificent  natural  light  which  is  at  the  disposal  of 
the  Roman  producer  at  least  ten  months  out  of  twelve.  This 
light  is  dry  and  extremely  clear.  I  noticed  many  things  that 
seemed  interesting  and  useful  in  the  industry.  They  have 
most  of  their  cameras  fixed  to  a  pivot-like  arrangement  on 
the  ground.  This  makes  it  possible  to  turn  the  camera 
easily  without  disturbing  it.  I  saw  a  ball  scene  with  lots  of 
dancing  taken  in  this  way  and  it  impressed  me  as  a  new  and 
useful  innovation.  Of  course,  the  mechanical  and  shipping 
departments  were  up  to  a  high  standard,  but  the  story  of  the 
Cines  plant  would  not  be  complete  without  describing  the 
large  number  of  special  departments  which  are  to  be  found 
on  the  grounds.  The  work  of  these  departments  is  unique 
and  greatly  helps  to  explain  the  artistic  success  of  the  Cines 
films.  Outside  of  about  twenty  compartments,  each  about 
20  x  150,  where  the  movable  scenery  is  kept,  there  are  two 
large  buildings  which  are  occupied  by  special  departments, 
such  as  the  manufacture  of  hats  and  the  making  of  cos- 
tumes. There  is  a  perfect  arsenal  in  which  weapons  of 
every  age  in  all  conceivable  shapes  are  found,  there  is  a 
floor  devoted  to  woodwork  and  carving,  large  quarters  for 
the  scene  painters,  a  smithy  and  a  most  interesting  depart- 


ment of  pottery.  All  these  things  are  kept  with  the  greatest 
care  and  are  in  charge  of  capable  men  and  women. 

The  department  for  the  making  of  costumes  contains  well 
nigh  ten  thousand  suits  and  dresses.  It  covers  every  period 
in  man's  and  especially  woman's  history,  from  the  famous 
fig-leaf  to  the  hobble-skirt.  Every  period  in  history  has  its 
separate  and  carefully  marked  lockers.  I  was  struck  with 
the  fine  gowns  of  the  French  revolutionary  and  the  Napole- 
onic periods  and  was  told  that  the  Cines  have  a  great  Na- 
poleonic play  under  way.  The  same  careful  and  scientific 
division  characterizes  the  arsenal.  Everywhere  indeed  are 
evident  the  traces  of  experts,  the  hand  of  the  scholar  and 
the  historian  has  been  at  work.  The  pottery  was  a  most 
instructive  department.  The  men  employed  are  adepts  and 
as  they  have  the  best  models  of  the  world  for  almost  every 
style  of  pottery  they  turn  out  a  splendid  grade  of  work. 
Art,  system,  study,  hard  work  and  capable  direction  charac- 
terize the  conduct  of  every  one  of  the  departments. 

I  had  the  pleasure  of  meeting  the  director  of  "Quo  Vadis?" 
Signor  E.  Guazzoni,  a  very  modest  and  affable  gentleman, 
who  is  thoroughly  absorbed  in  his  work.  He  had  troubles 
of  his  own  the  morning  I  visited  the  Cines,  for  he  was  try- 
ing to  make  a  huge  python  do  the  right  thing  before  the 
camera  in  connection  with  a  version  of  "Cleopatra,"  which 
the  Cines  will  shortly  put  on  the  market.  1  also  had  pleas- 
ant chats  with  all  the  artists  in  "Quo  Vadis?"  except  Nero 
and  Petronius,  who  are  not  regularly  with  the  Cines. 

The  very  important  cities  of  Turin  and  Milano  I  expect  to 
see  to  morrow,  and  as  they  are  the  film  centers  of  Italy  and 
the  studios  of  Ambrosio  and  the  Milano. Film  Company,  will 
no  doubt  offer  much  of  interest  to  our  readers.  There  will  be 
a  second  letter  on  Italy. 


Regarding  "Wages  of  Sin" 

Chairman  Howe,  of  Board  of  Censorship,  Explains  Position 
as  to  Rose  and  Others.. 

There  is  discussion  at  present  as  to  the  film  "The  Wages 
of  Sin"  and  as  to  the  action  of  the  National  Board  of  Cen- 
sorship of  motion  pictures  in  passing  it.  Dr.  Frederic  C. 
Howe,  Chairman  of  the  National  Board,  when  interviewed 
on  the  subject,  said: 

"The  film  'The  Wages  of  Sin'  was  passed  by  our  Board  as 
being  an  ordinary,  harmless  melodrama.  There  was  nothing 
either  in  the  titles  or  scenes  to  suggest  crime  or  to  degrade 
moral  standards.  There  was  no  portrayal  of  the  details 
of  crime  in  any  way  that  could  be  either  attractive  or 
imitated. 

"All  mention  whatever  of  Messrs.  Rose,  Vallon  and  Schepps 
was  eliminated  from  the  main  title  and  sub-titles  before 
the  Board  approved  the  film.  The  Board  did  not  consider 
that  it  had  any  right  to  prohibit  these  men  from  going  on 
the  film  stage,  but  it  had  a  right  to  prevent  the  morbid  ex- 
ploitation of  these  men's  reputations.  The  Board's  control 
does  not  go  beyond  the  film.  The  way  it  is  advertised — the 
kind  of  posters  or  verbal  advertising  which  the  exhibitor 
gives  the  film — is  outside  the  Board's  jurisdiction,  and  within 
the  jurisdiction  of  the  local  police  authorities  anywhere  in 
the  country.  The  Board  has  frequently  called  attention  to 
the  need  for  local  regulation  of  posters  and  advertising,  but 
has  never  been  able  itself  to  undertake  local  regulation. 

"It  is  worth  mentioning  that  Rose,  Vallon  and  Schepps 
were  not  convicted  of  crime;  but  even  if  they  had  been 
and  had  gone  to  the  penitentiary,  this  Board  would  not  have 
felt  justified  in  forbidding  them  to  go  on  the  film  stage.  As 
stated  above,  the  Board  is  concerned  with  the  moral  effect 
of  motion  pictures,  not  with  the  moral  character  of  the  people 
who  produce  motion  pictures  or  act  in  them. 

"Some  years  ago  the  Board  condemned  a  film  in  which 
Beulah  Binford  was  featured.  This  film  exploited  the  name 
of  Beulah  Binford  in  its  titles  and  was  in  fact  a  dramatization 
of  her  own  life  history,  or  part  of  it.  In  the  present  case 
the  facts  are  reversed.  The  film  makes  no  mention  of  Rose, 
Vallon  or  Schepps  and  does  not  pretend  to  dramatize  the 
facts  of  their  life  in  any  way." 

"Before  anyone  condemns  the  Board  for  action  on  this  film 
he  ought  to  take  the  trouble  to  see  it." 


ANOTHER  NEW  PICTURE  HOUSE  DOING  GOOD 
BUSINESS. 
H.  M.  Florig  opened  the  Palace  Theater,  Homestead,  Pa., 
on  Saturday  evening,  May  24,  and  jammed  the  house  at  each 
exhibition.  The  house  is  strictly  up  to  date  and  is  thoroughly 
fireproof.  It  has  a  seating  capacity  of  516.  It  is  owned  by 
the  Homestead  Amusement  Company,  of  which  Mr.  Florig 
is  a  director.  It  is  the  intention  of  the  company  to  open  sev- 
eral other  theaters  in  the  course  of  the  next  two  years. 


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Picture  Making  in  the  Far  East 

Vitagraph  Globe  Trotters,  Home  From  World  Circling  Trip, 
Tell  Their  Experiences. 

By    Hugh    Hoffman. 

THE  steamship  New  Amsterdam,  sailing  from  Boulogne, 
France,  docked  in  New  York  on  Monday,  June  3. 
On  board  was  the  Vitagraph  company  of  photoplayers 
that  started  away  from  here  on  the  seventh  of  last  December, 
by  way  of  San  Francisco,  for  a  picture  making  trip  around 
the  world.  The  party  numbered  eleven  and  was  made  up 
of  Stephen  Smith,  business  manager;  Mr.  and  Mrse.  Wm. 
V.  Ranous;  Maurice  Costello  and  Georgia  Maurice  (Mrs. 
Costello),  and  their  small  daughters  Helen  and  Dolores; 
James  Young;  Clara  Kimball  Young;  Eugene  Mullin,  photo- 
playwright,  and  Harry  Keepers,  photographer. 

The   picture   making   began   as   soon    as    the    steamer   left 
Frisco.    It  was  a  big  Japanese  vessel  entitled  "Tenyu  Maru, 


Chrysanthemum."  The  company  paid  a  visit  to  a  large 
motion  picture  studio  which  has  been  erected  by  a  company 
of  Japanese  men  having  considerable  capital.  It  is  de- 
scribed as  an  expansive  enclosure  built  of  framework  which 
is  covered  over  with  translucent  paper  that  diffuses  the  light 
into  a  softness  of  quality  that  has  no  equal  elsewhere.  About 
the  place  are  most  picturesque,  artificial  gardens,  ponds, 
woodlands,  grottoes  and  the  like,  making  the  grounds  a 
picture  maker's  paradise.  Short  stops  were  made  also  at 
Tokio  and  Nagasaki,  for  sight  seeing  purposes,  before 
sailing  for  China. 

Shanghai  was  touched  for  a  day,  enroute  to  Hong  Kong. 
In  China  the  difference  in  sanitary  arrangements  was  notice- 
able for  the  reason  that  there  were  none.  In  most  respects 
Japan  is  centuries  ahead  of  China.  In  the  matter  of  motion 
pictures  and  their  making,  the  Japanese  are  forming  com- 
panies and  building  studios  with  much  enterprise,  while  the 
Chinese  are  yet  superstitious  and  camera  shy.  The  action 
of  almost  any  photoplay  will  infringe  upon  some  sacred 
custom  that  causes  the  celestials  to  cover  up  their  faces 
and  otherwise  evade  the  camera.  They  quickly  discovered 
that  it  is  extremely  inconvenient  to  a  director  for  one  or 
more  of  the  cast  to  withdraw  before  a  picture  is  finished. 
Hence  about  midway  through  a  picture  they  would  suspend 
operations  long  enough  to  deliver  an  ultimatum  to  the  effect 
that  the  price  of  home  talent  had  gone  up  several  points 
since  the  picture  was  started.  At  Hong  Kong,  where  a 
week's  stop  was  made,  a  comedy-drama  written  by  Eugene 
Mullin,  entitled  "Love  and  Botany"  was  taken. 

The  next  port  of  call  was  Rangoon,  Burmah,  where  the 
•company  stayed  for  two  weeks.  The  principal  picture  pro- 
duced at  this  point  was  one  entitled  "Mandalay,"  adapted 
from  Kipling  by  Mr.  Young.  The  natives  there  were  tract- 
able and  accommodating,  for  which  reason  the  results  at 
Rangoon  were  more  than  satisfactory.  Calcutta,  the  city  of 
dreadful  night,  was  the  next  stop,  which  was  of  two  weeks 


Picture  Theater  in  Port  Said,  Egypt. 

manned  and  officered  entirely  by  Japs,  which  very  vessel 
Jimmy  Young  fears  will  come  across  the  Pacific  some  day 
as  a  transport,  laden  with  yellow  warriors  to  overrun  the 
Louisiana  Purchase  and  points  East.  However,  there  was 
found  abroad  this  vessel  a  fully  equipped  motion  picture 
theater  for  the  entertainment  of  passengers,  so  they  enjoyed 
the  making  of  movies  in  the  day  time  and  the  exhibition 
of  them  at  night.  The  first  getting-off  place  was  Yokohama, 
where  the  party  tarried  about  a  month.  From  the  accounts 
of   the   various    members   of    the    party,   Japan   is    the    ideal 


Vitagraph   Globe   Trotters   in  Japan — Statue   of   Buddha   in 
Background. 

country  of  all  those  visited.  For  exquisite  scenery  and 
immaculate  cleanliness  it  is  in  a  class  by  itself,  although 
these  things  are  all  bound  up  in  red  tape  of  no  uncertain 
kind. 

Wherever  the  company  went  to  take  pictures,  they  were 
observed  by  secret  service  men  and  they  were  allowed  to 
take  pictures  only  upon  condition  that  a  copy  of  each  scene 
be  handed  over  to  the  government  for  inspection.  Two 
photoplays  were  enacted  in  the  vicinity  of  Yokohama;  one 
written  by  Eugene  Mullin  was  entitled  "Osaka's  Wrath"  and 
the    other    written    by    James    Young    was    entitled    "Jack's 


Scene  from  "Osaka's  Wrath,"  Taken  in  Japan. 


duration.  A  fine  picture  entitled  "Spirit  of  the  Orient,"  by 
Eugene  Mullin  was  produced  here,  in  addition  to  which  some 
valuable  scenic  records  were  made.  The  party  then  made 
a  railway  journey  across  the  heart  of  India  to  Bombay 
where  three  days  were  spent  in  the  making  of  scenic  pictures, 
after  which  they  embarked  for  Cario,  Egypt,  via  Port  Said, 
Three  weeks  were  spent  at  Cairo  and  one  at  Luxor  in  the 
making  of  photoplays  and  scenics. 

Taking  passage  then  for  Brendisi,  Italy,  the  party  journeyed 
by  railway  across  the  boot-leg  peninsula,  which  ride,  Mr. 
Young  says,  was  the  most  beautiful  of  the  entire  trip,  with 
Rome  as  the  destination.  In  Rome  the  Vitagraph  players 
were  the  guests  of  the  Society  Italian  Cines,  and  were 
accorded  the  use  of  the  Cines  studio  for  finishing  the  interior 
scenes  of  some  of  the  plays  already  begun,  and  for  the 
making  of  a  few  new  productions.  Venice  was  the  last 
place  at  which  pictures  were  made,  one  of  which  is  a  modern 
romance  entitled  "The  Lonely  Princesss,"  written  by  Mr. 
Mullin.  Paris  was  the  last  stop.  No  scenes  were  taker, 
there,  and  the  company  spent  their  time  in  sightseeing  and 
in  visiting  the  Paris  plant  of  the  Vitagraph  Company  before 
sailing  for  New  York.  In  all,  eighteen  photoplays  were 
done  aside  from  the  scenic  pictures  which  were  made  at 
every  port  of  call.  ...  c  1 

Maurice  Costello,  who  acted  in  the  capacity  of  general 
director  of  production,  in  speaking  of  the  trip,  said,  '  I  cannot 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


indorse  the  idea  of  a  regularly  scheduled  itinerary  for  pic- 
ture making  trips,  because  the  thought  of  having  to  catch  a 
certain  boat  at  a  certain  time  is  constantly  on  one's  mind. 
This  is  likely  to  have  its  effect  on  the  picture,  because  a 
■director  will  hurry  through  his  work  in  the  fear  that  bad 
weather  will  come  on  before  he  is  finished,  and  that  he  will 
have  to  leave  when  the  boat  leaves,  whether  the  scenes  are 
finished  or  not.  I  believe  that  when  a  company  of  players 
goes  abroad  on  a  picture  making  trip  they  should  be  free 
to  roam  at  will,  stopping  long  enough  to  do  everything 
right.  You  see  there  are  many  opportunities  that  present 
themselves  on  the  spot  that  could  never  be  anticipated  in 
laying  out  an  itinerary.  Something  will  turn  up  that  sug- 
gests a  fine  idea  for  a  photoplay;  then  the  boat  whistle 
blows  and  the  idea  must  be  abandoned  in  order  to  follow  the 
traveling  schedule.  An  itinerary  is  all  right  if  it  is  con- 
fined to  specifying  the  general  route  and  the  approximate 
length  of  time  to  be  taken,  but  considerable  latitude  for 
discretion  should  be  allowed  to  those  who  are  making  the 
trip  and  the  pictures." 

James  Young  was  delighted  with  the  trip  and  delighted 
to  be  home.  "The  first  trip  around  the  world,"  said  he,  "is 
accompanied  with  many  regrets.  That  is  to  say,  if  one 
only  had  the  same  knowledge  at  the  starting  that  he  has 
at  the  end  of  the  journey  he  would  do  things  differently 
and  do  them  much  better.  Believe  me,  my  eyes  were  open 
all  the  time  and  I  never  missed  a  thing  that  was  worth 
seeing.  I  live  in  hopes  that  some  day  I  may  have  another 
such  opportunity  to  write  and  act  photoplays  in  those  lands; 
1  know  that  I  would  be  much  better  prepared  for  the  work.'' 

Harry  Keepers,  the  photographer  of  the  party,  carried 
a  laboratory  outfit  that  required  ten  trunks.  He  tells  us 
that  he  had  good  luck  all  the  way  around.  "In  the  extremely 
hot  climates,"  said  he,  "I  found  it  necessary  to  develop  my 
films  as  soon  as  possible  after  taking,  as  the  heat  is  ruinous 
to  the  raw  stock  once  it  is  taken  out  of  the  hermetically 
sealed  cans.  In  the  glare  of  the  tropical  sun  I  could  not 
stop  out  enough  light  with  the  diaphram,  so  I  covered  my 
lens  with  a  yellow  ray  filter  and  got  along  nicely.  Of  the 
35,000  feet  exposed  not  a  scene  was  spoiled." 


NOT  SOLD  OR  RENTED. 

Mr.  George  Kleine,  proprietor  and  manager  of  the  sensa- 
tional photo-drama  success,  "Quo  Vadis?"  made  by  the  famous 
Cines  Company  of  Italy,  positively  refuses  to  sell  State 
rights  or  to  lease  his  property  to  anyone.  Mr.  Kleine  will 
have  fully  fifteen  companies  touring  the  United  States  and 
Canada  by  September  ist.  "Quo  Vadis?"  as  presented  by 
Mr.  Kleine,  is  in  eight  reels  divided  into  three  acts  and  special 
music  has  been  arranged  and  composed  for  the  performance. 
The  Cines  production  comprehends  the  entire  Sienkiewicz 
story  and  is  full  of  wonderful  features.  Imitators  have  en- 
tered the  field,  but  none  have  approached  anything  like  the 
magnitude  and  detail  of  Mr.  Kleine's  achievement.  The 
only  opportunity  to  see  the  real  "Quo  Vadis?"  will  be  in  the 
big  theaters  of  the  country  when  announced  by  George 
Kleine  himself. 


LOOKING  FOR  THE  WOODYS. 

The  Pacific  Film  Exchange  of  Vancouver,  B.  C,  is  looking 
for  Oren  F.  and  J.  S.  Woody,  who  are  booking  "Pilgrims 
Progress,"  Ambrosio,  four  reels;  "Siegfried,"  Ambrosio  three 
reels;  and  "Foe  to  Richelieu,"  two  reels.  Pathe  colored 
for.  that  concern.  The  Woodys  took  the  film  mentioned 
on  the  road  some  time  ago  and,  up  to  date,  have  failed  to 
make  any  reports  and  are  not  working  in  the  territory  sup- 
posed to  be  covered.  Any  information  as  to  their  where- 
abouts will  be  thankfully  received  by  the  Pacific  Film 
Exchange. 


UNIVERSAL  CITY  TO  HAVE  ZOO. 
A  new  series  of  jungle  pictures  is  to  be  filmed  at  Uni- 
versal City,  Cal.,  in  the  near  future,  which  will  far  eclipse  in 
artistic  excellence  and  thrilling  interest  any  which  previously 
have  been  taken  in  America.  This  is  made  possible  by  the 
recent  purchase  by  the  Universal  Film  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany of  a  train-load  of  lions,  tigers,  bears,  pumas,  leopards, 
jaguars'  and  other  wild  denizens  of  the  tropical  forests.  The 
zoo  arrived  at  the  Providencia  Ranch  on  May  23rd  and  was 
immediately  installed  in  new  quarters  that  had  been  prepared 
for  it. 


PHOTOPLAYERS'  BEEFSTEAK  DINNER  AT  THEIR  CLUB,  IN  LOS  ANGELES,  MAY  31,  1913. 


L  Fred  Mace.  President 

2  Jos.  Degrasse,  2d  Vice-President 

3  George  Melford,   Secretary 

4  Wm.   C.   Wing,  Cor.  Secretary 
6  Tom  Fortune 

6  Fop    Bassett 

7  P.   M.  Powell 

8  Henry  W.  Otto 

9  Francis  Ford 

10  Bill  Home 

11  Bob  Leonard 

12  Charlie  Avery 

13  Henry  llcBae 

14  Geo.  Hernandez 

15  Lee  Dougherty 

16  Dave   Hartford 


17  Gus  Piiley 

18  Dell  Henderson 

19  Charlie  West 

20  Maj.    Bhya  Price 

21  L.  L.  Burns 

22  Billy  Garwood 

23  Carlyle  Blackwell 

24  Douglas  Gerrard 

25  Frank  Clark 

26  Harry  Miller 

27  Jim  Crosby 

28  Edwin  August 

29  Herbert    Rawlinson 

30  E.  J.  Le  Sain: 

31  Jack  Dillon 

32  Eddie  Lyons 


33  Eddie  Dillon 

34  George  Gebhart 

35  Henry  Stanley 

36  Alberta  Garcia 

37  Jackson  Livingston 

38  Lee  Maloney 

39  Lee  Mortn 

40  Fred  Huntley 

41  Billy  Ervest 

42  George  Gaffney 

43  Zack  Leonard 

44  Jay  Morley 

45  Allen  Dwan 
4«  Mickey  Nielan 

47  Doc.  Basley 

48  Cnas.  Edler 


49  Fred  Wilson 

50  Bill  Ryno 

51  G.  F.  Burton 

52  P.  S.  Randolph 

53  Al  E.   Christy 

54  Wm.  Lloyd 

55  Baron  Winther 

56  Harry  Cooper 

67  Gordon  Sackville 

58  Jas.  McGee 

59  Wallace  Bold 

60  Bob.  Thornby 

61  David  Kir kl and 

62  Al.  Brandt 

63  A.  H.  Fralick. 


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"The  Snare  of  Fate" 

A   Fine   Two-Reel   Thanhouser. 
Reviewed  by  Louis  Reeves  Harrison. 

THIS  photodrama  marks  a  distinct  advance  in  Than- 
houser production — it  is  superior  in  motive  to  any 
release  I  have  ever  seen  from  that  company — and,  if 
carried  a  little  further,  it  might  easily  have  ranked  among 
the  masterpieces  of  the  day.  It  apparently  deals  with  a 
situation  now  engaging  the  attention  of  the  Russell  Sage 
Foundation  in  depicting  the  operations  of  a  loan  shark,  but 
the  deeper  motive  is  a  finer  one  and  so  modern,  so  advanced, 
that  I  hope  it  will  be  treated  with  tremendous  force  in  the 
near   future.     It   is   cheering   to   see   these   tendrils    reaching 


Scene  from  "The  Snare  of  Fate"  (Thanhouser). 

out  for  the  most  powerful   themes  in   stories  of  human  life 
of  today. 

Further  than  this,  the  play  is  well  acted,  is  delightfully 
artistic  in  the  selection  of  exteriors,  and  exhibits  a  bold 
spirit  of  leadership  in  this  period  of  feeble-minded  sub- 
servience to  what  may  have  served  some  past  generation 
but  which  has  no  bearing  on  this  one.  It  is  clean,  fearless 
and  very  much  to  the  point.  The  story  involves  a  sacrificial 
marriage,  but  the  latter  is  not  forced  nor  illogical.     Miss  Flo 


impossible  to  teach  little  ones  even  the  elements  of  adult 
morality — the  tiny  copy-cats  will  act  according  to  the  in- 
fluences brought  to  bear  upon  them  when  not  responding 
to  the  insistent  demands  of  their  primitive  hearts.  The 
mother  in  this  case  left  her  husband  rather  than  have  her 
child  at  the  mercy  of  hideous  surroundings.  That  was  her 
sole  motive,  and  the  idea  is  a  beautiful  one. 

She  grasped  the  fact  that  her  community  was  outreaching 
the  vile  practices  of  her  husband  and  set  about  bravely  to 
train  her  offspring  according  to  the  opinions  and  customs 
of  enlightenment.  Her  conduct  furnishes  an  excellent  ex- 
ample to  the  producers  of  moving  pictures — their  product 
needs  a  similar  schooling.  She  would  not  have  the  child's 
spiritual  virginity  tamted  by  what  the  father  was  doing, 
and  it  is  that  quality  in  creators  of  the  human  race  that  we 
dwell  most  fondly  upon  when  some  dim  and  haunting  mem- 
ory of  our  own  mothers  reaches  us  like  a  far-off  strain  of 
exquisite  music. 

We  watch  the  usurer  thrive  financially  while  sinking  into 
greater  depths  of  moral  decadence,  until  a  peculiar  accident — 
he  is  stricken  with  partial  paralysis  when  unknown  in  the 
house  of  a  tenant  about  to  be  evicted — brings  about  a  strong 
situation.  Treated  with  kindness  by  the  poor  people  he 
is  about  to  deprive  of  a  home,  he  is  mistaken  by  the  evictors 
for  an  inmate  and  dumped  into  the  street  with  the  furniture. 
He  struggles  to  speak,  but  is  unable  to  utter  a  sound.  The 
story  is  consistently  portrayed  and  brought  to  an  artistic 
conclusion. 


Scene  from  "The  Snare  of  Fate"  (Thanhouser). 

La  Badie  plays  with  delicacy  and  sympathetic  intelligence  the 
role  of  a  young  wife  and  mother  united  by  force  of  circum- 
stances to  a  morally  base  and  miserly  usurer.  The  latter 
role  is  admirably  depicted  by  James  Cruze.  When  realization 
comes  to  her  that  her  child  may  have  his  ignoble  example  to 
follow,  she  leaves  her  husband  to  his  miserable  practices 
never  to  return. 

At  this  point  was  a  magnificent  opportunity  for  double 
exposure,  showing  the  workings  of  the  young  wife's  mind, 
her  picturing  of  the  influence  of  sordid  environment  on  her 
child  as  contrasted  with  that  of  her  superior  ideals.  The 
mother  who  is  young  of  heart  and  near  her  children  in 
simplicity  of  character  knows  instinctively  that  it  is  almost 


JOHN  STEPPLING  TO  SUPPORT  MRS.  FISKE. 

John  Steppling,  the  former  Essanay  player,  is  working  at 
the  studio  of  the  Famous  Players,  where  Mrs.  Minnie  Mad- 
dern  Fiske  is  filming  "Tess  of  the  D'Urbervilles."  Mr.  Step- 
pling is  enacting  the  role  of  Sir  John  D'Urberville. 


THE  MOVIES'  VICTORY. 

By  Horace  Sevmour  Keller 
In   the   New  York   Times. 

By  heck!     Thet  movin'  pictur'  show 

Is  growin'  fierce  an'  sum  alarmin*. 
They  put  on  fresh  uns  ev'ry  week. 

An  ev'ry  new  un  is  more  charmin*. 
At  fust,  Lucindy  an'  myself 

Vowed  they  wuz  on'y  fools'  invenshuns, 
Not  wuth  our  goin'  'cross  the  road, 

Not  wuth  no  sober  folks*  attenshur.s. 

Fur  growin'  childern,  maybe  they 

Might  be  attractive-like  an'  pleasin*; 
But  as  fur  us  gray-headed  sort. 

They  looked   like  gimcracks   wuthout   reason. 
We  didn't  care  to  spend  the  time 

A-watchin*  them  old  things  unrollin'; 
They  wuz  to  us  like  novel  books, 

Wuthout  no  sense,  an'  not  consolin'. 

Si  Pivens,  dewn  in  Perkins'  store, 

Sed  he  went  ev'ry  night  to  watch  'em. 

Sez  Si:  "By  gosh,  them  things  is  great — 
Sunner  or  later  ye'll  all  catch  'em." 

I  vowed  thet  Si  wuz  off  his  nut, 
.An'  tole  him  so  right  out  an'  plainly. 

Sez  he:     "Go  see  'em  fur  yerself." 
I  did.     Say,  Si  warn't  speakin'  vainly. 

I  tuk  the  hull  kerboodle  in 

Frum  fust  to  finish  at  my  lezure. 
I  sized  'em  up  an*  sized  'em  down — 

An'  spe-it  an  evenin'  o'  plezure. 
I  tole  Lucindy  all  about 

The  show.     She  sot  up  prim  an*  proper. 
An'  sez:     "Pembrook,  I'd  better  go 

An'  see  if  you  hain't  tole  a  whopper." 

She  went!!!     Sense  then  thur  hain't  no  use 

To  spile  hur  fancy.       Woman  fashun 
She  goes  the  hull  dern  thing.      An'  I — 

Wal — I  have  got  thet  pictur'  pashun. 
It  ea^es  me,  it  eases  hur 

Arter  the  day's  work's  dun  an'  over, 
To  sit  an'  watch  the  world  go  by, 

An'  see  things  outside  pigs  an*  clover. 

Say,  now  Lucindy  sez  thet  quilts 

An*  quiltin'  bees  hain't  got  no  showin*, 
Nor  teas  an'  gossip  hain't  no  charm 

When  she  looks  on  th-»  world  a-goin'. 
It  eases  me,  it  eases  hur 

To  see  how  other  folks  are  livin'. 
An'  thet's  why  I  don't  'grudge  the  price 

To  watch  them  picturs  they  are  givin'. 


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The  Melies  Company  in  Java. 

The  Round-the-World  Picture  Makers,  Doing  a  Good  Edu- 
cational Work,  Pause  at  an  Interesting  Island. 
By   Dore  Hoffman. 

JAVA  has  frequently  been  said  to  De  the  garden  of  the 
East.  The  island,  which  lies  just  south  of  Borneo, 
and  close  to  the  equator,  is  a  tropical  paradise  and  one 
of  the  few  that  is  really  attractive  to  the  white  man  as  a 
place  of  residence.  Most  equatorial  countries,  while  prodi- 
gally abundant  with  nature's  splendor,  have  drawbacks  in 
the  way  of  unhealthy  climate,  intolerable  living  conditions 
or  intolerable  natives,  as  seen  from  the  European  or  Ameri- 
can point  of  view.  Particularly  is  this  true  of  Asiatic 
countries,  in  which  the  natives  are  as  a  rule,  sullen  or  stupid, 
if  not  actually  hostile  to  the  white  traveler.  In  the  Far 
East,  Japan  and  Java  are  the  notable  exceptions,  and  voy- 
agers returning  from  either  of  those  countries  speak  highly 
of  the  general  docility,  politeness  and  courtesy  of  the  natives. 
Java,  situated  among  a  large  group  of  semi-civilized  islands, 
has  a  much  noted  national  trait  of  gentleness  among  its  in- 
habitants, that  is  intensified  by  contrast  with  other  Asiatic 
peoples. 

It  was  toward  this  island  of  sunshine  and  smiles  that  the 
Melies  Company,  on  their  picture  making  tour  of  the  world, 


stigmatized  upon  various  occasions  by  kindred  tribes  and 
nations,  and  even  by  their  Dutch  rulers,  as  a  cowardly  people, 
otherwise  they  would  have  made  some  show  of  resistance 
against  the  invaders.  This,  however,  cannot  be  truthfully 
said  against  them  because  they  are  in  fact  a  gentle  and 
peaceful  people  with  hearts  full  of  kindness  for  their  own 
as  well  as  for  others,  and  as  this  characteristic  has  en- 
dured for  centuries  in  the  face  of  humiliation  and  oppres- 
sion, it  may  well  be  conceded  as  a  distinct  racial  trait.  The 
Javanese  welcomed  the  Dutch  in  the  hope  that  they  would 
put  an  end  to  the  Malay  invasions,  and  religious  conflicts 
that  kept  their  island  in  a  state  of  unrest.  The  Dutch  did 
end  these  things,  but  in  their  turn  they  despised  the  gentle 
Javanese  and  forced  them  to  cultivate  the  land,  giving  them 
a  mere  pittance  for  the  work  and  pocketing  the  handsome 
profits  for  themselves. 

Java  at  the  present  time,  like  its  neighboring  islands,  is 
a  ployglot  community.  Among  its  inhabitants  are  thou- 
sands of  Chinese,  Hindus,  Arabs,  Malays,  Persians  and  Euro- 
peans. The  Europeans  rule  the  country,  and  the  Chinese 
practically  monopolize  the  retail  business;  the  Malays  are 
the  sailors  and  the  Persians  and  Arabs  are  the  foreign 
buyers.  Rice,  coffee  and  spices  are  the  three  big  items  of 
commerce;  the  poor  Javanese  does  all  the  work  of  producing 
them,  and  gets  in  return  the  least  of  any.  Yet  the  talents 
of  the  Javanese  are  on  a  par  with  those  of  the  Jews,  also 


■■■■■■■■■■■■■_ 
Scene  from  "The  Poisoned  Darts"  (Melies). 

set  sail  after  their  Australian  sojourn,  stopping  en-route  at 
Thursday  Island  to  make  a  couple  of  negatives  in  the  pearl 
fishing  country.  For  the  educational  purposes  of  the  trip, 
which  are  by  no  means  secondary,  the  island  of  Java  should 
be  prolific  in  interesting  pictures  of  a  remarkable  race  of 
brown  skinned  men  and  women.  While  the  Malay  language, 
under  three  centuries  of  Dutch  rule,  has  come  to  be  the 
official  language  of  the  entire  possessions  of  the  Netherlands 
in  the  archipelago,  it  is  not  generally  known  that  the  Javanese 
are  an  entirely  different  race  of  people  from  the  Malays. 
The  Malay  is  a  warlike  fellow,  ready  to  draw  his  knife  at 
the  slightest  provocation.  He  is  also  a  pirate  when  he 
dares  to  be,  but  not  within  reach  of  the  white  man's  gun- 
boats, which  he  respects  but  does  not  admire.  The  whole 
history  of  the  Malay  is  one  of  tribal  warfare,  and  were  it 
not  the  fact  that  the  race  is  only  a  small  minority  of  the 
Polynesian  peoples,  no  white  man,  and  least  of  all  the  Dutch- 
man, would  ever  have  conquered  and  ruled  in  the  East  India 
Islands. 

It  is  due  to  the  meekness  of  the  Javanese,  who- are  more 
populous  than  any  of  the  other  peoples,  that  the  white  man, 
including  the  Englishman,  dominates  the  brown  races  of 
the  Orient.  The  Portugese  admiral,  Albuquerque,  invaded 
and  took  possession  of  all  the  East  India  Islands  he  could 
find,  in  the  year  1515.  Since  1499  the  route  to  the  Orient 
was  a  secret  known  only  to  the  Portugese,  who  guarded  it 
carefully.  This  route  was  by  way  of  Brazil  and  around  the 
Cape  of  Good  Hope,  and  by  virtue  of  its  being  secret  the 
Portugese  had  a  monopoly  of  the  East  India  trade.  It 
took  the  Dutch  a  hundred  years  to  find  it  out.  When  they 
did  discover  the  route  they  sent  a  big  fleet  around  and 
ousted  the  Portugese,  and  have  remained  in  possession 
ever  since.  They  were  fortunate  in  selecting  Java  as  their 
first  conquest  because  there  was  no  resistance;  they  simply 
came  and  took  charge,  and  from  this  base  they  later  took 
possession  of  Sumatra,  Celebes,  the  greater  part  of  Borneo, 
and  numerous  other  smaller  islands.    The  Javanese  have  been 


Scene  from  "The  Lure  of  the  Sacred  Pearl"  (Melies). 

a  persecuted  race.  In  the  making  of  dyed  fabrics  they  are 
supreme;  they  are  quicker  scholars  than  Europeans,  and 
their  music  has  the  most  exquisite  quality  imaginable.  In 
appearance  they  are  refined  and  thoughtful,  with  nothing 
about  them  to  suggest  an  underlying  strain  of  savagery. 
Their  foreheads  are  wide  and  their  large  eyes  have  a  bovine 
placidness  that  bespeaks  their  gentility.  Their  noses  are 
stubby  and  their  mouths,  while  large,  are  not  stern,  and  are 
far  from  being  ugly. 

It  is  well  that  we  should  know  more  about  these  people. 
To  us  Americans  they  are  practically  unknown,  and  the 
majority  of  us  think  only  of  savages  when  they  are  spoken 
of.  A  trip  such  as  Mr.  Melies  is  making  in  the  remote  parts 
of  the  earth  is  a  great  step  in  the  promotion  of  the  brother- 
hood of  man.  We  might  read  book  after  book  about  this  or 
that  tribe  or  nation  and  think  we  were  familiar  with  them, 
only  to  stare  in  curiosity  if  we  should  see  one  of  their  kind 
on  the  streets  of  New  York.  But  the  motion  picture  familiar- 
izes us  with  them.  We  see  them  at  their  work  and  we  learn 
to  read  their  faces.  By  witnessing  on  the  screen  their  folk 
stories  we  dan  see  the  reason  for  certain  ceremonies  and 
dances  that  we  formerly  considered  to  be  mere  savage  antics 
executed  for  no  reason  in  particular.  A  number  of  inter- 
esting pictures  of  the  Javanese  have  been  sent  back  home 
by  Mr.  Melies  which  will  serve  to  enlighten  us  concerning 
their  local  conditions.  One  of  these  stories  is  entitled 
"The  Lure  of  the  Sacred  Pearl."  Java,  among  other  things, 
is  overrun  with  priests  of  various  pagan  denominations,  such 
as  the  Islam,  Mohammedan,  Hindoo,  Brahmin,  Buddhist, 
Confucian,  etc.  The  story  is  of  a  young  Australian  who 
buys  at  auction  a  heap  of  pearl  shells  and  finds  therein  a  rare 
black  pearl.  The  news  spreads  around  the  village  and  gets 
to  the  ears  of  a  pagan  priest  who  has  gathered  in  nearly 
every  black  pearl  recently  found  or  known,  by  intimidation, 
using  them  to  decorate  the  idol  in  his  temple.  He  offers  the 
young  man  a  price  for  the  pearl  which  is  not  considered 
sufficient.     From    that   time   on   the   priest   resorts   to   every 


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mysterious  resource  in  his  power  to  obtain  the  pearl,  by 
fair  means  or  foul.  The  persistency  with  which  the  young 
man  is  hounded  until  the  priest  finally  gets  possession  of 
the  pearl,  forms  the  remainder  of  the  story,  which  is  rich  in 
local  color. 

Another  characteristic  story  is  a  picture  entitled  "The 
Poisoned  Darts."  It  tells  of  a  shipwrecked  crew  on  an  East 
Indian  island.  There  are  an  officer  and  four  men  groping 
through  the  jungle  in  search  of  forage.  They  come  upon 
a  native  girl  and  the  sailors  seize  her.  Their  officer  orders 
the  girl  released  and  commands  them  to  mafch  on.  Next 
day  the  men  become  mutinous  and  turn  upon  their  officer, 
binding  him  to  a  tree.  One  of  the  sailors  is  about  to  kill 
him  when  a  poisoned  dart  from  the  jungle  puts  an  end  to 
him.  The  men  are  scared  for  a  while,  but  after  a  few  days 
attempt  further  violence  upon  their  captain,  whereupon  an- 
other poisoned  dart  saves  him.  Each  time  he  is  in  danger  a 
dart  saves  him  until  he  is  at  last  alone.  He  awakes  from  a 
sleep  to  find  food  provided  for  him  and  finds  there  the 
native  girl  whom  he  had  befriended.  He  is  led  to  the  village 
and  the  girl  nurses  him  through  a  fever,  after  which  he  hails 
a  passing  ship  and  returns  to  his  home.  The  story  is  a 
good  illustration  of  the  gratitude  of  which  the  Javanese  are 
capable  when  a  white  man  does  them  a  good  turn. 

A  number  of  well  selected  scenic  pictures  have  also 
reached  America,  one  of  which,  "The  Rice  Industry  in 
Java,"  is  especially  interesting.  It  shows  the  Javanese  in 
the  rainy  season  planting  the  rice  in  the  mud.  Later  the 
rice  stalks  are  seen  growing  above  the  water,  and  finally 
the  harvest  is  shown,  in  which  the  natives  pick  the  ears  by 
hand,  which  they  prefer  to  labor  saving  methods. 

The  Javanese  loves  ceremonies  and  holidays.  He  cele- 
brates everything  of  a  pleasing  nature  with  a  feast  of  some 
kind;  from  a  wedding  down  to  the  visit  of  a  relative.  The 
natives  spend  so  much  of  their  time  and  savings  for  cele- 
brations that  it  leaves  them  comparatively  poor.  They 
have  the  consolation  of  knowing,  however,  that  they  can 
feast  at  another's  spread  next  time,  for  it  is  the  custom  to 
invite  everyone  in  the  village  to  the  merrymaking.  At  these 
feasts  it  is  also  customary  to  have  dancing  girls  perform 
the  native  dances,  and  Mr.  Melies  has  sent  back  some  good 
records  of  some  of  these  festal  ceremonies.  There  are  many 
curious  old  ruins  in  Java  which  have  also  been  utilized  in 
story  form,  combining  amusement  with  an  educational  ele- 
ment. The  cities  of  Java  visited  by  the  Melies  Company  were 
Garoet,  Bandoeng,  Samarang  and  Batavia,  with  trips  into 
the .  interior,  after  which  they  departed  for  the  island  of 
Sumatra. 


EDWIN  THANHOUSER  HERE. 

Edwin  Thanhouser,  founder  of  Thanhouser  Company,  is 
here  from  Europe  on  a  short  trip.  He  left  his  family  in 
Rome  and  is  stopping  in  New  York  City.  Mr.  Thanhouser 
arrived  on  the  La  Provence,  Saturday,  and  that  evening  cele- 
brated his  home-coming  with  a  dinner  at  the  Players'  Club, 
which  was  attended  by  C.  J.  Hite,  president  of  Thauhouser 
Film  Corporation,  Lloyd  F.  Lonergan,  Bert  Adler  and  Elmer 
Harris.  He  spent  Sunday  inspecting  the  new  Thanhouser 
plant  at  New  Rochelle.  His  business  here  is  in  connection 
with  his  real  estate  and  he  states  he  is  out  of  the  picture 
game  for  good.  Mr.  Thanhouser  expects  to  come  over  again 
next  spring. 


NICHOLLS  HERE  AND  GONE. 

B.  Nicholls,  of  the  Motion  Picture  Sales  Agency,  London, 
left  for  home  on  Tuesday,  after  a  brief  visit  in  New  York  of 
ten  days — which  is  a  long  visit  for  him. 

"Nothing  in  especial  brought  me  over,"  he  explained  the 
other  afternoon.  "I  had  planned  the  visit  some  time  ago  be- 
cause I  like  to  get  over  on  this  side  and  see  how  things  are 
going  about  every  so  often.  I  have  made  no  new  deals,  nor 
was  it  my  intention  to  try  and  make  them.  I  just  wanted  to 
look  around. 

"There  is  not  much  new  on  the  other  side.  The  picture 
business  in  Europe  is  constantly  improving  and  gaining  a 
more  established  position.  The  American  films  are  more  than 
holding  their  own  in  spite  of  the  growing  competition.  Much 
of  the  stuff  is  never  heard  of  on  this  side  of  the  water,  but  in 
England  you  have  to  sell  film,  not  merely  issue  it  with  the 
assurance  that  a  certain  quantity  will  be  taken. 

"  'From  the  Manger  to  the  Cross'  is  scoring  tremendously. 
We  have  a  large  number  of  copies  working  in  England  and 
they  are  working  every  day.  It  was  suggested  by  many  ex- 
hibitors that  I  release  the  subject  around  Christmas  time, 
but  I  put  it  out  in  October  precisely  because  I  did  not  want 


it  to  become  associated  with  any  particular  season.  As  a 
result  it  is  recognized  as  an  all-the-year-round  subject  and 
does  not  merely  work  at  Christmas  and  Easter.  I  have  sold 
about  half  of  Europe  thus  far,  but  France,  Germany,  Russia 
and  some  smaller  nations  are  still  open.  Italy  has  been  sold, 
but  the  subject  will  not  be  put  out  until  next  October.  I 
think  that  it  will  be  selling  almost  as  well  five  or  ten  years 
from  now.    It  will  never  grow  old. 

"I  am  very  enthusiastic  about  the  new  production  of  the 
Famous  Players'  Company  in  which  Mrs.  Langtry  appeared. 
I  had  the  pleasure  of  seeing  this  the  other  night  when  it  was 
first  run  without  titles.  It  did  not  seem  to  me  to  need  much 
captioning,  the  story  is  so  clearly  told.  I  also  saw  the  pro- 
duction of  'A  Good  Little  Devil,'  in  which  Miss  Pickford  ap- 
pears. I  anticipate  a  large  European  sale  for  both  of  these. 
In  my  opinion  the  Langtry  film  will  be  the  better  sales 
proposition,  in  spite  of  the  personal  popularity  of  Miss  Pick- 
ford  and  the  excellence  of  the  filmed  production.  'The  Pris- 
oner of  Zenda'  is  already  a  large  seller  abroad." 


LUBIN  COMEDY  COMPANY  NOTES. 

Arthur  Hotaling,  Lubin  director,  has  installed  his  big  comedy 
company  at  Atlantic  City  for  the  summer;  he  intends  to 
make  several  feature  reels,  among  them  some  of  his  famous 
"Gay  Time"  pictures.  He  will  also  put  on  some  "Coster" 
pictures  with  London  types  at  their  best.  Having  traveled 
abroad  considerably,  Mr.  Hotaling  has  secured  new  and  novel 
ideas,  as  well  as  the  correct  wardrobe  for  dressing  these  plays. 

Miss  May  Hotely  is  the  star  of  the  Lubin  comedy  players 
under  Mr.  Hotaling,  and  supporting  her  in  the  casts  will  be 
seen  such  well-known  and  popular  players  at  Robert  Burns, 
George  Reehm,  Walter  Stull,  Raymond  McKee,  Walter  Les- 
lie, Jack  Willard,  Henry  Bard,  Fred  Moore,  Rube  Bernstein, 
Pierce  Phelan,  Frances  Ne-Moyer,  Julia  Calhoun,  Marguerite 
Ne-Moyer,  Ella  Reehm,  Violet  Burns,  Florence  Leslie,  Leola 
Hotaling.  Garry  Hotaling  is  chief  operator  and  Mr.  George 
Reehm  is  assistant  director  to  Arthur  Hotaling. 


EXECUTIONS,  LYNCHINGS  AND  RIOTING  FOR- 
BIDDEN. 

State  Senator  Chamberlain  of  Illinois  introduced  a  bill  in 
the  Illinois  State  legislature  on  May  21,  providing  that  motion 
pictures  showing  legal  executions,  lynchings  or  rioting  shall 
be  prohibited  in  that  state  under  a  penalty  of  a  fine  of  from 
$25  to  $1,000,  or  confinement  in  the  county  jail  not  to  exceed 
one  year  or  both  for  each  violation.  Our  informant  does  not 
say  that  the  bill  has  been  made  a  law. 


WINNIFRED   GREENWOOD, 
Leading  Woman  of  the  Selig  Eastern  Stock  Company. 


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"A  Villain  Unmasked"  (Eclipse-Kleine) 

Reviewed  by  James  S.  McQuade. 

GEORGE  KLEINE  will  release  a  two-reel  subject  by 
Eclipse,  entitled  "A  Vilhan  Unmasked"  on  June  27. 
The  films  unfold  an  interesting  story,  not  at  all  unus- 
ual, but  well  told,  There  are  several  attractive  open-air  back 
grounds  in  the  picture  and  several  good  interiors,  all  of 
which  bear  the  stamp  of  fine  photography. 

The  pesple  in  the  cast  betray  at  times  an  over  demonstra- 
tiveness  of  gesture  that  will  appear  strange  to  American 
spectators,  but  these  peculiarities  of  the  French  actor  are 
submerged  by  the  really  good  acting  of  the  principals.  The 
villain  is  well  carried  by  M.  G.  Baud,  of  the  Vaudeville, 
Paris,  and  Mme.  Feriel,  of  the  Gymnase,  is  attractive  and 
appealing  in  the  role  of  the  love-stricken  widow  and  lady  of 
fashion.  Ralph  De  Forest,  the  widow's  son,  is  brought  out 
strongly  by  the  clever  juvenile  acting  of  M.  R.  Lyon,  of  the 
Renaissance. 

Robert  West,  the  head  and  organizer  of  a  gang  of  forgers, 
meets  Mrs.  De  Forest,  a  wealthy  woman  of  fashion.  He 
has  had  the  advantages  of  birth  and  a  liberal  education;  but, 
Jekyl-Hyde-like,  he  has  his  good  and  evil  sides.  He  has 
never  been  able  to  wear  himself  away  from  refined  associa- 
tions, although  he  is  fearful  at  any  moment  of  being  dis- 
covered in  his  felonious  pursuits. 

He  is  introduced  to  Mrs.  De  Forest,  who  impresses  him 
strangely  at  first  sight  by  her  rare  personal  charms.  When 
he  learns  that  she  is  wealthy  and  that  she  is  not  averse  to 
his  attentions,  he  pays  court  to  her  with  redoubled  zeal. 

In  the  midst  of  their  courtship,  Mrs.  De  Forest  receives  a 
letter  from  her  only  child  Ralph,  a  youth  of  about  twenty 
years,  informing  her  that  he  is  about  to  pay  a  visit  that  will 
last  several  days.  She  shows  the  letter  to  Robert  West,  who 
is  visibly  perturbed  to  learn  that  she  has  a  son,  and  still 
more  by  the  approaching  visit.    He  conceals  his  real  feelings, 


however,  and  makes  a  show  of  being  happy  at  the  prospect 
of  meeting  his  stepson  that  is  soon  to  be. 

Ralph  arrives  and  is  warmly  welcomed  by  his  mother, 
whom  he  deeply  loves.  That  discreet  woman,  knowing  how 
jealous  Ralph  is  of  her  affections,  warns  West  to  keep  out 
of  the  way  until  she  breaks  the  news  to  her  son.  The 
opportunity  arrives  one  morning,  when  a  magnificent  bouquet 
of  flowers  is  brought  into  the  breakfast  room  by  the  maid. 
The  flowers  have  been  sent  by  West,  and  Mrs.  De  Forest 
gently  tells  her  son  of  the  new  love  that  has  come  into  her 
life.  Ralph  is  furious  and  dashes  the  flowers  on  the  floor; 
but,  seeing  how  much  pained  his  mother  is  by  his  action, 
he  embraces  her  and  promises  to  meet  the  man  who  has 
broken   into   his  life   so   rudely. 

West  and  Ralph  are  introduced,  but  the  latter  is  not  favor- 
ably impressed.  He  has  a  sense  that  something  is  wrong 
with  the  man  who  would  claim  his  mother's  hand.  His  suspi- 
cions are  made  still  stronger  when  he  discovers  West  in 
close  conversation  with  a  man,  seemingly  far  beneath  him  in 
station.  Then  he  resolves  to  shadow  him.  By  skillful  craft 
and  dodging,  he  traces  West  to  his  office  and  to  the  under- 
ground headquarters  of  the  forgers.  He  next  follows  two  of 
the  men  engaged  in  making  the  spurious  notes  to  a  cafe,  and 
secures  the  note  paid  by  them  to  the  keeper  for  refreshments 
furnished.  He  compares  it  with  a  genuine  note  of  the  same 
denomination.  He  is  then  clearly  convinced  that  West  and 
his  gang  are  forgers. 

Wishing  to  spare  his  mother  needless  pain,  he  calls  on 
West  and  charges  him  with  his  crime;  but  makes  the  overture 
that  he  will  spare  him,  if  he  will  renounce  all  hope  of  wedding 
his  mother.  West  laughs  derisively  and  refuses.  Then 
Ralph  goes  direct  to  the  government  officers  and  gives  them 
the  information.  He  conducts  them  to  the  secret  retreat 
of  the  forgers,  where  all  of  their  number  are  arrested,  with 
the  exception  of  Robert  West.  That  worthy  had  so  hurried 
up    the   wedding    day    that    he    expected    to    be    the    husband 


Scene  from  "A  Villain  Unmasked,"  Two-Reel  Kleine-Eclipse  Subject. 


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of  Mrs.  De  Forest  before  the  blow  fell.  But  Ralph  was  just 
a  few  hours  before  hand.  The  officers  arrested  West  while 
participating  in  a  reception  given  by  Mrs.  De  Forest,  the 
evening   before   her   marriage. 

The  shock  completely  unnerved  that  lady,  and  at  first 
she  looked  on  her  son  with  revulsion;  but  time  soon  restored 
her  normal  mind  and  she  was  immeasurably  thankful  that 
his  filial  love  had  saved  her  from  the  false  love  of  a  villian. 


"Voodoo  Vengeance" 

Three-Part  Release  of  the  World's  Best  Film  Company. 

THOSE  who  like  sensational  pictures  which  touch  on 
the  primitive,  with  wild  animals  and  savages,  will 
like  this  picture  for  the  story  that  it  carries.  That  it 
will  go  strongly  in  a  majority  of  houses  is  probably  true. 
Those  of  quieter  tastes,  who  prefer  stories  of  today  or  yester- 
day, either,  so  long  as  they  are  of  civilized  communities,  will 
find  in  the  tropical  backgrounds  and  in  the  photography  much 
that  will  charm.  It  is  hard  for  a  Northerner  to  realize  that 
in  the  United  States,  even  in  Southern  Florida,  there  can 
be  found  so  dense  a  tropical  jungle  that  for  an  African  setting 
it  so  well  serves  as  the  ideal.  In  the  second  reel  of  this  pic- 
ture there  is  a  river  scene,  tinted,  that  is  a'work  of  art.  So, 
also,  in  the  third  reel  near  the  end,  where  the  girl  reared 
among  savages  journeys  down  stream  with  the  man  she 
has  lured  from  civilization,  there  is  a  setting  which  stands 
out. 


Scene  from  "Voodoo  Vengeance"   (World's  Best). 

The  story  is  of  a  religious  sect  of  African  fanatics  de- 
scribed as  Voodoos,  whose  practices  the  British  government 
finally  stopped.  The  opening  is  where  a  man  and  woman 
on  the  way  to  the  gold  district  are  set  upon  by  savages 
and  killed.  Their  little  girl  is  taken  captive  and  raised  by 
the  tribe,  the  priest  of  which  is  impersonated  by  Captain 
Jack  Bonavita,  the  lion  tamer.  Twenty  years  later  the 
government  determines  to  put  the  Voodoos  out  of  business 
and  notifies  the  resident  commissioner  to  carry  out  its  de- 
sires. There  is  a  conflict,  and  the  Voodoos  in  order  to 
avenge  themselves  for  their  defeat,  instruct  the  girl  to  lure 
to  the  jungle  the  son  of  the  commissioner  that  he  may  serve 
as  a  sacrifice  to  the  Moon  God.  She  succeeds  in  the  attempt 
and  hands  him  over  to  the  tribe.  Also  she  falls  in  love 
with  him.  While  his  family  is  searching  for  him  young 
Yale  escapes,  and  after  many  vicissitudes  in  the  jungle,  com- 
bating fever  and  wild  animals,  he  is  again  captured.  He 
is  found  by  his  father  just  in  time  to  prevent  his  destruction 
by  lions.  He  is  taken  home.  The  girl  again  goes  to  the 
settlement,  finds  the  young  man.  and  again  she  lures  him 
into  the  jungle;  this  time  she  holds  him. 


THE  SMALLWOODS  IN  NEW  YORK. 

Ray  C.  Smallwood,  expert  cameraman  of  the  Universal 
West  Coast  Organization,  and  his  wife,  who  in  the  world  of 
motion  pictures  is  known  as  Ethel  Grandon,  have  arrived  in 
New  York  City,  having  been  called  East  by  the  very  serious 
illness  of  Mrs.  Smallwood's  mother,  Mrs.  Edward  S.  Grandin. 
The  many  friends  of  the  Smallwoods  will  be  pleased  to  know 
that  Mrs.  Grandin  has  rallied  wonderfully  since  her  daughter's 
return,  and  is  now  on  the  road  to  complete  recovery.  Both 
Mr.  Smallwood  and  Miss  Grandon  expect  to  work  around 
New  York  this  summer,  for  one  of  the  Universal  Eastern 
companies. 


Laemmle  Controls  Universal. 

Little  Giant  of  the  Independents  Buys  Horsley's  Interests — 
Swanson  Deposed  and  Supposed  to  Have  Sold  to  Powers. 

It  would  be  a  dull  week  that  did  not  produce  some  new  sen- 
sation in  the  game  of  film  politics  that  has  been  associated  with 
the  conduct  of  the  Universal  Film  Manufacturing  Company 
since  its  inception  a  little  over  a  year  ago.  That  company  has 
been  a  storm  center  and,  when  not  putting  something  over  on  its 
competitors,  it  has  had  its  own  little  internal  squabbles.  The 
contention  has  arisen  over  the  question  of  control.  After  the 
first  break  when  Kessel  &  Baumann  separated  themselves  from 
the  company,  Pat  Powers  assumed  the  position  of  commander- 
in-chief,  but  his  direction  did  not  meet  with  favor  among  his 
associates  and,  upon  the  return  of  Carl  Laemmle  from  Europe, 
he  was  deposed  and  Mr.  Laemmle  was  put  in  control.  Matters 
went  smoothly  for  a  while,  but  it  was  only  for  a  while,  and  the 
next  stir  resulted  in  landing  Pat  Powers  on  the  outside  of  the 
breastworks  entirely,  leaving  Laemmle  and  W.  H.  Swanson  in 
control,  with  David  Horsley  barely  hanging  on. 

It  could  not  be  expected  that  Pat  Powers  would  take  defeat 
meekly.  He  did  not,  for  he  was  hardly  out  before  he  began  to 
frame  up  a  game  to  put  his  former  associates  in  the  hole.  It 
was  a  pretty  deep  hole  that  he  digged  for  them,  but  they  refused 
to  fall  into  it.  Though  Powers  had  nothing  left  but  the  hole,  he 
was  not  discouraged.  Rumors  had  it  at  one  time  that  he  had 
secured  an  option  on  the  stock  of  David  Horsley  and  that  he 
hoped  to  secure  enough  more  to  give  him  control  of  the  com- 
pany. Swanson  and  Laemmle  were  sticking  tight,  though  the 
betting  against  them  was  strong. 

For  the  past  week  the  rumors  began  to  grow  stronger  in 
Powers'  favor,  and  it  was  hourly  expected  that  an  announce- 
ment would  be  made  that  he  was  "it"  at  the  Universal.  When 
asked  by  an  acquaintance  if  he  had  secured  control  Mr.  Powers 
said,  no  later  than  Tuesday  last,  that  he  had  bought  some  Uni- 
versal stock.  This  did  not  explain  matters  at  the  time,  for  it 
was  believed  that  he  had  but  taken  advantage  of  the  option  he 
was  supposed  to  have  on  the  stock  of  David  Horsley. 

Thursday,  June  12,  the  situation  was  cleared  up  by  an  authori- 
tative announcement  from  the  Universal  offices  that  Mr.  Carl 
Laemmle  was  in  full  control  of  the  affairs  of  the  company  and 
that  the  business  would  proceed  as   usual  without  interruption. 

The  statement  issued  is  to  the  effect  that  Mr.  Laemmle  has 
purchased  the  interests  of  David  Horsley;  that  Mr.  Swanson 
has  been  deposed  from  the  position  of  vice-president  and  that 
he  is  supposed  to  have  sold  his  holdings  to  P.  A.  Powers.  It 
was  said  that  Mr.  Swanson  had  left  the  offices  of  the  company 
with  the  message  to  his  associates  that  he  was  going  to  Chicago 
on  personal  business  and  that,  since  his  departure,  all  efforts  to 
locate  him  had  been  futile.  It  was  also  stated  that  Mr.  Burton 
Garrett,  assistant  secretary  and  second  assistant  treasurer  of  the 
company,  was  also  absent  and  had  not  been  located  up  to  that 
time.  Further  statement  was  made  by  a  representative  of  the 
company  that  some  of  the  books  of  the  company  were  missing 
from  the  safe,  the  stock  book  among  them,  so  that  it  was  not 
possible  to  ascertain  what  transfers  of  stock  had  been  made, 
but  it  was  believed  that  Mr.  Swanson  had  sold  his  stock  to  Mr. 
Powers.  A  meeting  of  the  company  had  been  held,  it  was  said ; 
that  Mr.  Swanson  had  been  deposed  as  vice-president,  and  that 
Mr.  Garrett  had  been  ousted  from  the  offices  he  held.  G.  E. 
Kann  has  been  elected  assistant  secretary  and  Joe  Brandt  elected 
assistant  treasurer.  Otherwise  the  roster  of  the  company's 
officers  remains  the  same  with  the  exception  of  Swanson. 

It  is  now  believed,  with  Mr.  Laemmle  in  sole  control  of  the 
Universal,  that  the  troubles  of  that  company  are  over.  All  dis- 
turbing elements  have  been  eliminated  and  the  possibility  of  Mr. 
Powers  obtaining  the  least  measure  of  influence  in  the  manage- 
ment of  the  company  is  so  remote  that  it  need  not  be  taken  into 
consideration.  If  this  view  of  the  situation  proves  to  be  cor- 
rect the  Universal  Company  is  to  be  congratulated.  Mr. 
Laemmle  has  proved,  heretofore,  that  he  is  a  real  business 
builder  and  that  he  realizes  the  necessity  of  making  good  pic- 
tures. Undisturbed  by  contentious  associates  he  should  soon 
put  the  Universal  product  on  a  high  plane. 


KINEMACOLOR  TO   PRODUCE  HISTORICAL 
DRAMAS. 

William  H.  Hickey,  European  representative  of  the  Kine- 
macolor  companies  of  America  and  Canada,  and  general 
manager  of  the  Natural  Color  Kihematograph  Co.  Ltd.,  of 
England,  is  in  New  York  arranging  a  schedule  of  productions 
for  the  allied  corporations.  On  Mr.  Urban' s  Teddington 
estate,  near  Bushey  Park,  London,  studios  and  a  revolving- 
stage  have  been  erected,  and  it  is  proposed  to  reproduce  a 
number  of  historic  dramas  amid  characteristic  English, 
scenery. 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


Doings  at  Los  Angeles 

A  Lively  Budget  of  News  From  the  Great  Western  Motion 
Picture  Center  Submitted  by  Our  Correspondent. 

CLOUDY  weather,  which  has  prevailed  throughout 
Southern  California  for  the  last  ten  days,  has  inter- 
fered more  or  less  with  all  the  producing  companies. 
There  lias  been  no  rain,  but  blankets  of  dark  gray  clouds 
have  hung  across  the  sky,  cutting  down  the  light  to  such  an 
extent  that  most  of  the  companies  feared  to  risk  photograph- 
ing lest  they  get  flat  and  undertimed  pictures.  In  the  East 
where  weather  interruptions  are  normal  a  week  or  ten  days 
of  bad  light  would  cause  no  comment,  but  out  here  where 
there  is  perfect  light  for  nine  or  ten  months  in  the  year,  a 
week  of  bad  light  evokes  loud  cries  of  woe  from  the  pro- 
ducers. 

*  *     * 

Within  the  last  week  two  of  the  most  successful  photoplay 
writers  in  this  vicinity  have  given  up  the  independence  that 
belongs  to  a  free  lance  and  have  contracted  for  the  sale  of 
their  entire  output  for  an  indefinite  period.  William  E.  Wing, 
whose  photoplays  have  been  produced  by  the  Biograph,  the 
Western  Vitagraph,  Selig,  Kinemacolor,  Keystone  and  sev- 
eral other  companies,  signed  a  contract  with  William  Selig, 
just  before  that  individual  left  for  Chicago,  under  which  he 
agrees  to  write  for  the  Selig  Polyscope  Company  within  the 
next  year  a  number  of  scripts  just  about  equal  to  his  pro- 
ducing capacity.  William  M.  Ritchey,  another  writer  whose 
stories  have  been  produced  regularly  by  companies  working 
in  this  field,  has  taken  the  position  of  scenario  editor  for  the 
Western  branch  of  the  Lubin  Company,  under  Wilbert  Mel- 
ville. Ritchey  was  formerly  city  editor  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Express. 

*  *     * 

Not  content  with  being  an  exhibitor,  a  manufacturer  and 
a  director,  "Billy"  Home  has  now  broken  into  the  ranks  of 
the  scenario  writers.  "The  Tug  of  War,"  a  comedy  now  be- 
ing made  by  the  Biograph  Company,  is  a  product  of  his 
brain.  Home  is  proprietor  of  Home's  Popular  Picture  Pal- 
ace, principal  owner  of  the  Seltagraph  Motion  Picture  Com- 
pany, and  an  occasional  director  of  Seltagraph  releases,  none 
of  which  has  been  released  yet. 

*  *     * 

Edwin  August,  who  recently  left  the  Universal  Company  in 
order  to  join  the  Western  Vitagraph  players  under  Rollin  S. 
Sturgeon  at  Santa  Monica,  has  returned  to  the  Universal 
studio  at  Hollywood.  Now  he  is  no  longer  an  actor,  how- 
ever, but  a  director.  The  principal  condition  upon  which  he 
went  back,  aside  from  increased  salary,  was  that  he  should 
have  a  company  of  his  own.  Mary  Charleson,  one  of  the 
clever  actresses  of  the  Vitagraph  pictures,  went  with  him  to 
be  his  leading  woman. 

*  *     * 

There  have  been  more  changes  among  the  directors  at  the 
Universal  studios.  E.  H.  Grandon,  who  directed  a  traveling 
Lubin  company  at  Glendale  until  it  was  disbanded  several 
weeks  ago,  and  who  then  went  to  the  Universal,  has  dropped 
out  after  making  three  or  four  pictures  and  is  about  to  return 
East.  Francis  Ford,  who  made  his  reputation  as  a  producer 
of  big  spectacular  pictures  with  the  New  York  Motion  Pic- 
ture Company,  and  who  has  been  directing  Bison  brand  re- 
leases for  the  Universal  for  the  last  six  months,  is  now  "at 
liberty."  Frank  Montgomery  is  again  directing  Bisons  for 
the  Universal.  He  resigned  about  a  month  ago  and  or- 
ganized a  company  of  his  own  to  produce  a  series  of  West- 
ern features,  with  Mona  Darkfeather  as  the  star,  but  before 
his  first  picture  was  finished  the  Universal  tempted  him  back. 

*  *     * 

Despite  the  bad  weather  of  the  last  week,  Wilbert  Melville, 
head  of  the  Lubin  Western  branch,  has  just  finished  a  big 
Mexican  war  picture  which  called  for  600  extra  people  in  the 
battle  scenes.  It  will  be  called  "The  Amber  Cross"  and, 
notwithstanding  that  the  expense  and  the  spectacular  fea- 
tures were  sufficient  to  have  justified  a  two  or  three-reel  pro- 
duction, it  will  be  released  as  a  single  reel,  making  an  un- 
usually strong  picture.  Melville  has  disposed  of  the  property 
at  4550  Pasadena*  Avenue,  where  the  studio  is  now  located, 
and  within  a  month  will  begin  work  on  a  much  larger  and 
better  studio  in  a  new  location,  the  whereabouts  of  which 
has  not  been  announced  yet. 

*  *     * 

June  1  came  and  went  and  found  the  Biograph  company 
still  in  Los  Angeles,  although  June  1  is  the  usual  annual 
leaving  date.  Moreover,  Griffith  and  Tony  O'Sullivan  are 
both  engaged  on  big  pictures  which  will  probably  keep  them 
here  another  two  weeks,  and  there  is  every  possibility  that 


the   organization   will   not   get  away   this   year   much   before 
July  I. 

*  *     * 

Margaret  Loveridge,  formerly  of  the  Biograph  Company 
and  more  recently  with  the  Selig  organization,  is  playing 
leads  in  the  dramatic  pictures  of  the  Majestic  Company  in 
Los  Angeles. 

*  *     * 

Lem  Parker,  Selig  director,  has  been  called  to  Chicago  by 
the  death  of  his  mother. 

*  *     * 

Jack  LeSaint,  formerly  with  the  Imp  and  lately  with  the 
Kinemacolor,  went  to  Selig  as  soon  as  he  got  his  notice  from 
the  Kinemacolor  Company. 

*  *     * 

The  Kinemacolor  studio  at  Hollywood  is  still  closed,  and 
the  fact  that  most  of  the  property  is  being  packed  and  shipped 
East  indicates  that  the  closing  is  permanent,  at  least  as  far 
as  Los  Angeles  is  concerned.  David  Miles  is  preparing  to 
go  to  New  York  and  most  of  the  other  employees  are  trying 
to  find  places  with  the  other  motion  picture  companies  in 
this  field.  There  are  a  great  many  more  people  seeking  posi- 
tions in  all  the  branches  of  motion  pictures  than  there  are 
positions.  This  is  a  bad  time  for  motion  picture  people  to 
come  from  the  East  looking  for  places. 

*  *     * 

William  Paley,  former  cameraman  for  the  old  Nestor  Com- 
pany, has  just  completed  the  manufacture  of  a  hand-made 
motion  picture  camera  which  is  one  of  the  finest  machines 
ever  seen  in  this  city.  Paley,  it  will  be  remembered,  was 
injured  while  on  a  photographing  trip  for  the  Nestor  Com- 
pany, contracted  blood  poisoning  and  finally  had  to  have 
one  of  his  legs  amputated  just  below  the  knee.  He  is  now 
confined  to  an  invalid's  chair,  but  that  has  not  prevented  him 
employing  his  hands  and  making  practical  use  of  his  pro- 
found knowledge  of  motion  picture  camera  building,  or  of 
his  fine  skill  as  a  workman.  The  new  camera  is  valued  at 
$300,  which  is  ridiculously  cheap  considering  its  excellencies 
and  the  amount  of  time  and  work  he  devoted  to  the  making 
of  it.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  he  will  find  a  purchaser  for  this 
and  subsequent  machines,  for  it  is  the  only  means  he  has 
available  to  make  a  living. 

*  *    * 

The  election  of  Judge  H.  H.  Rose  as  Mayor  of  Los 
Angeles,  on  June  3,  recalls  the  fact  that  Fred  Mace,  presi- 
dent of  The  Photoplayers,  also  ran. 

*  *     * 

Director  Harry  Matthews,  of  the  "Powers  Photo  Plays. 
Inc.,"  company,  has  finished  a  three-reel  production  of 
"Sleeping  Beauty."  It  has  been  decided  that  he  shall  pro- 
duce a  series  of  fairy  tale  pictures  for  adults  as  well  as 
children.  J.  F.  Macdonald,  the  other  director  of  the 
"P.  P.  P.  I."  company,  will  stick  to  film  productions  of  well- 
known  classics  like  "Elsie  Venner,"  which  he  is  now  pro- 
ducing. 

*  *     * 

Ernest  Shipman,  late  of  the  "One  Hundred  Years  of  Mor- 
monism"  company,  has  gone  East  on  a  two  months'  business 
trip.  He  is  after  something,  but  he  is  too  sly  to  talk  about  it 
until  the  papers  have  been  signed,  sealed  and  delivered. 

P.  M.  POWELL. 


THE   RELIANCE  TO   STAR  ROSEMARY   THEBY. 

Manager  J.  V.  Ritchey  of  the  Reliance  has  selected  "The 
Tangled  Web"  as  the  drama  in  which  to  introduce  Rosemary 
Theby  as  a  new  attraction  in  Reliance  films.  "The  Tangled 
Web"  is  the  work  of  Garfield  Thompson  and  was  one  of 
several  strong  dramatic  stories  written  expressly  for  this 
talented  actress.  It  is  in  three  reels  and  will  be  staged 
by  Oscar  C.  Apfel. 

Miss  Theby  will  be  starred  in  the  production,  playing  the 
part  of  an  adventuress,  a  strong  emotional  role,  somewhat 
similar  to  several  of  the  characters  created  by  her  for  the 
Vitagraph    Company. 

After  a  much  needed  vacation,  part  of  which  was  spent  in 
St.  Louis,  Miss  Theby  started  work  under  J.  V.  Ritchey's 
management  on  June  1st,  and  will  be  seen  in  at  least  one 
release  every  two  weeks  beginning  at  an  early  date. 


ZUKOR  ON  WESTERN  TRIP. 

Adolph  Zukor  left  New  York  last  Sunday  night  on  his  way 
to  the  office  of  the  Famous  Players'  Film  Company  in  Chi- 
cago. It  is  rumored  that  Mr.  Zukor  has  some  unusual  pur- 
pose in  this  sudden  trip  West,  but  what  its  significance  is 
could  not  be  learned.  It  is  promised,  however,  that  upon 
his  return  some  interesting  news  may  be  forthcoming. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


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Steam"  (Kinemacolor). 

By  the  Rev.  E.  Boudinot  Stockton,  S.  T.  B. 

AN  old  writer  once  said,  '"Curiosity  and  laziness  are  really 
good  gifts  of  God  because  He  means  them  to  prod 
men  into  becoming  human  beings  useful  to  their  fellow 
creatures."  The  old  monk  lived  several  hundred  years  be- 
fore either  Watt  and  Stephenson  and  the  invention  of  Kine- 
macolor,  but.  he  could  not  have  fitted  the  cases  of  the  two 
great  inventors  as  told  by  Kinemacolor  better  if  he  had  seen 
the  photoplay,  in  which,  in  strict  accordance  with  tradition, 
curiosity  changes  James  Watt  from  a  country  dunce  to  the 
inventor  of  the  steam  engine,  and  laziness  starts  George 
Stephenson's  mind  working  on  the  idea  of  the  locomotive. 
According  to  history.  Watt  was  not  the  inventor  of  the 
steam  engine,  but  its  greatest  improver.     Steam  as  a  motive 


Watts  and  His  First  Steam  Engine. 

power  was  known  in  the  first  and  second  centuries  A.  D., 
and  wa>  used  as  such  in  England  as  early  as  1663.  In  1705. 
Newcomen,  Callen  and  Savery  patented  their  engine  which 
was  the  first  to  have  a  beam  and  to  employ  the  instantaneous 
condensation  ot  steam.  In  1759,  at  the  age  of  twenty-three, 
while  connected  with  the  University  of  Glasgow.  Watt  began 
experimenting  on  a  steam  carriage.  In  1769,  while  repairing 
the  university's   Newcomen  engine  he  invented  and  patented 


Stephenson  and  His  First  Locomotive. 

his  separate  condenser  and  from  then  until  1800  he  added 
improvement  to  improvement  on  the  old  Newcomen  ma- 
chine until  he  had  embodied  all  the  essential  features  of  the 
modern  steam  engine. 

Bearing  these  facts  in  mind,  Kinemacolor  has  rendered  a 
great  service  to  education  in  its  apt  and  excellent  portrayal 
of  the  romantic  folktales  that  have  sprung  up  around  Watt 
and  his  invention,  and  the  moral  value  of  the  tradition  as 
pointed  up  in  the  photoplay  is  just  what  teachers  and  educa- 
tors want.     Stupidity  is  often  only  genius  driven  the  wrong 


way  and  a  good  girl's  sympathy  will  often  accomplish  what 
all  the  rods  and  dunce  caps  in  the  world  are  ineffectual  in 
bringing  about.  Watt  gets  his  inspiration  when  he  sticks 
the  potato  on  the  spout  of  the  tea  kettle  and  sets  the  kettle 
top  to  bobbing  up  and  down,  and  he  works  it  out  to  a  prac- 
tical result  because  he  wants  to  marry  his  childhood  sweet- 
heart, the  only  one  who  sympathized  and  believed  in  him 
when  he  was  ridiculed  at  school  and  cuffed  at  home.  George 
Stephenson  gets  his  inspiration  when  he  gets  tired  of  push- 
ing an  ore  car,  and  he  preserves  until  successful  because  his 
sweetheart  and  wife  cheers  him  with  her  sympathy  and 
leaves  him  the  legacy  of  a  son  to  be  educated,  so  that  he 
might  become  one  of  the  greatest  bridge  builders  in  the 
world.  The  story  of  Watt  starts  with  the  surreptitious  but 
vain  efforts  of  his  girl  sweetheart  to  save  him  from  having 
to  wear  the  dunce  cap,  and  ends  with  his  bride  to  be  and 
himself  seeing  in  the  glowing  embers  visions  of  the  engine 
that  was  to  make  their  happiness  an  actuality.  Stephenson's 
story  begins  with  the  lazy  boy  wondering  why  he  cannot  put 
Watt's  engine  on  wheels  and  make  it  do  his  work  for  him 
and  ends  with  the  inventor  and  his  son  dreaming  of  the  mile 
a  minute  limited  speeding  across  the  plains  of  Western 
America.  The  visions  in  both  cases  are  extremely  well  done, 
the  first  is  artistic  in  the  highest  degree  and  the  second  is 
one  of  the  best  pictures  of  an  express  train  running  at  high 
speed  that  we  have  ever  seen. 

Both  stories  lend  themselves  aptly  to  the  peculiar  genius 
of  the  Kinemacolor  process,  and  the  production  of  the  pic- 
ture is  all  that  can  be  desired.  The  photography  is  excel- 
lent and  the  quaint  costumes  and  settings  make  beautiful 
pictures;  while  the  faithful  and  accurate  reproduction  of 
Watt's  and  Stephenson's  engines  both  in  model  and  work- 
ing forms  are  instructive  and  illuminative  in  the  highest  de- 
gree. As  a  contribution  to  popular  science  and  as  a  pleasing 
and  elevating  photoplay  the  release  should  take  the  first 
rank.     It  is  now  being  run  at  the  Carnegie  Lyceum. 


SOLAX  FEATURE  AT  THE  UNIQUE  TWO  DAYS. 

Fourteenth  Street,  New  York,  has  been  called  by  theater 
managers  "a  hot-bed  of  competition."  And  to  attract  busi- 
ness they  try  to  out-do  each  other  in  matters  of  display  ad- 
vertising and  feature  programs.  Fourteenth  Street  "eats" 
features  alive.  The  feature  exchangeman  cannot  serve  them 
up  fast  enough.  The  above  cut  shows  what  the  managers 
do  with  the  front  of  their  house  when  they  secure  a  big 
feature. 


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oMusic  for  the  Picture 


BY    CLARENCE    E.    SINN 


'qnHE  INTERNATIONAL  MUSICIAN"  (which  is  the 
I  official  organ  of  the  American  Federation  of  Mu- 
sicians),  on  page  9  of  its  May  issue,  has  an  article 
entitled  "Music  Machines."  In  the  course  of  this  very  in- 
teresting and  timely  article  it  says:  "Music  machines  are 
beginning  to  displace  orchestras  in  the  cheaper  theaters." 
.  .  .  and  "This  is  a  problem  that  must  be  faced  and  solved. 
Somebody  must  manipulate  these  machines.  Insist  that 
such  operators  must  be  qualified  members  of  the  A.  F.  of  M." 
I  am  moved  to  this  partial  quotation  through  having  re- 
cently witnessed  a  demonstration  of  the  Bertola  Keyboard 
Attachment  for  Pianos.  I  want  to  say  right  here  in  the 
beginning  that  this  keyboard  is  not  an  attachment  in  the 
true  sense.  It  is  entirely  separate  from  the  piano,  but  is 
merely  placed  in  a  position  convenient  for  manipulation  by 
the  pianist.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  it  could  be  played  without 
a  piano.  So  many  music  machines  are  a  combination  of 
piano,  organ,  etc.,  that  I  believe  this  point  is  worth  notice. 
A  small  keyboard  containing  thirty  notes  (two  octaves  and 
a  half)  is  mounted  on  a  standard.  This  is  not  attached  to 
the  piano  remember,  but  stands  on  the  floor  convenient  to 
the  pianist's  right  hand.  The  keyboard  can  be  swung  over 
the  piano  keys  when  wanted  and  swung  back  out  of  the  way 
when  not  in  use.  On  the  floor  in  front  of  the  pedals  is  a 
board  containing  other  keys  or  pedals  connecting  with 
drums  and  various  traps  (crash,  thunder  sheet,  auto-horn, 
tom-tom,  etc.),  which  are  manipulated  by  the  feet.  The 
organ  is  a  real  organ  consisting  of  two  sets  of  pipes  voiced 
to  "violin"  and  "flute"  stops  respectively.  1 1  These  pipes  are 
of  the  best  quality  (being  90  per  cent,  tin),  and  their  volume 
and  tonal  quality  are  exactly^  the  same  as  a  similar  section 
from  a  good  pipe  organ.  Although  the  other  attachments 
are  good,  this  organ  section  is  the  one  great  big  musical  fea- 
ture which  will  make  the  Bartola  Keyboard  unique  among 
music  machines.  Having  a  good  piano  already  in  his  theater^ 
any  manager  who  installs  the  "Bartola  Keyboard'11  only  needs 
a  good  pianist  to  insure  high-class  music.  This  attachment 
is  not  a  toy.  Its  effects  are  not  "cheap."  but  of  good,  solid 
quality.  The  drums  are  played  by  the  feet — the  bass  drum 
by  the  left  foot,  the  small  drum  by  the 'right.  They  can  be 
made  to  play  soft  or  loud  at  will.  This  applies  also  to  the 
xylophone,  orchestra,  bells,  chimes,  and  marimba,  which  are 
that  is  all  there  is  to  it.  But  the  combinations  and  effects 
likewise  attached  to  the  keyboard.  The  different  instruments 
are  in  separate  cases,  which  may  be  placed  adjacent  to  the 
piano  or  in  various  parts  of  the  theater.  They  are  run  by  a 
current  of  low  voltage  which  is  supplied  from  a  storage  bat- 
tery. This  battery  is  kept  "stored"  by  a  motor  generator 
which  is  started  and  stopped  automatically  by  the  playing  of 
the  instruments.  The  full  quota  is  given  as  follows:  "Pipe- 
organ,  xylophone,  orchestra  bells,  marimba,  chimes,  bass 
drum,  small  drum,  tom-tom,  triangle,  cymbal,  thunder  sheet, 
and  auto  horn."  These  can  be  played  all  at  the  same  time 
along  with  or  without  the  piano;  in  any  combination  with  or 
without  the  piano.  The  combinations  are  infinite  in  variety. 
The  "violin"  stop  in  the  organ  section  really  partakes  more 
of  the  character  of  the  oboe  or  high  register  of  a  cello  to  my 
way  of  thinking.  At  any  rate,  it  is  possible  to  get  a  very 
good  Oriental  musette  effect  on  the  upper  notes  of  this  stop; 
also  an  imitation  of  bagpipes. 

Combined  with  the  flute  stop  a  big  rich  tone  is  produced 
which,  when  accompanied  by  the  piano  and  drums,  gave  an 
excellent  orchestral  effect.  When  all  the  instruments  and  ' 
traps  are  played  together,  the  volume  is  sufficient  -for  any 
ordinary  theater.  Now,  Mr.  Exhibitor,  when  you  install  the 
"Bartola  Keyboard  Attachment,"  .don't  make  the  mistake ?o! 
thinking  it  will  do  all  the  work;  get  a  good  pianist  to  operate 
it,  as  it  is  a  really  good  instrument  and  deserves  a  chance. 
A  pianist  does  hot  need  to  "learn"  this  instrument;  in  a  few 
moments  he  cart-  familiarize  himself  with  the  situations'  of 
the  different  levers  which  are  all  convenient  to  his  hand,  and 
that  is  all  there  is  to  it.  But  the  combinations  and  effects 
possible   to   a   good   performer   are   worth   the   extra   money. 


■■■ 


A  Correction. 

A  slight  mix-up  happened  to  my  letter  in  the*  issue  of 
May  31st.  Under  the  title,  "An  Exciting  Honeymoon,"  the 
caption  "Part  One"  and  numbers  1  and  2  are  correct;  the 
remainder  of  this  reel  will  be  found  in  the  next  column  un-  ' 
der  Part  Two,  numbers  3,  4  and  5  respectively.  The  caption 
"Part  Two"  belongs  at  the  head  of  the  second  column,  the 
first  number  in  the  second  reel  being  "I'd  Like  to  Go  On  a 
Honeymoon,"  and  ending  with  number  9,  "On  the  Missis- 
sippi." 

"A  Splendid  Scapegrace";  first  three  numbers  correct.  The 
remainder  will  be  found  under  caption  "Part  One"  of  "An 
Exciting  Honeymoon."  Begin  with  No.  4,  "Agitato  pp.  and 
mf."  and  so  on  until  No.  12,  "Religioso  until  finish." 

"The  Courage  of  a  Soldier"  is  correct  to  and  including 
No.  7.  The  remainder  will  be  found  under  "A  Splendid 
Scapegrace"  No.  8,  "Indian  music  again,  etc.,"  and  so  on  tp 
finish.  Accidents  will  happen  in  the  best  regulated  printing 
offices  and  please  note  that  it  seldom  happens  in  this. 


Likes  the  Music  Page. 

Mr.  Roy  H.  Metcalf,  of  the  Empress  Theater,  Missoula, 
Mont.,  submits  the  following:  "One  of  the  most  interesting 
features  in  the  Moving  Picture  World  to  me,  and  no  doubt 
to  many  other  musicians,  is  the  'Music  for  the  Picture'  page. 
I  only  regret  that  it  does  not  appear  each  ,week  and  that 
more  musicians  do  not  take  advantage  of  the  opportunity  to 
help  others  by  offering  suggestions. 

"Music  for  the  picture  is  second  in  irnportance.'only  to  the 
picture  itself— ^many  of  the  patrons  of  the  photoplay  place 
the.  music  first."  [They  should  not  if  the_  pictures  are  all 
they  should  be.— Ed.] 

"Every  live  manager  is  now  demanding  that  the'  musical 
accompaniments  for  his  pictures  shall  be  of  the  best  'and 
many  houses  are  spending  more  for  the  musical  end  of 'the 
game  than  for  the  pictures." 

[That  probably  accounts  for  it;  I  am  a  strenuous  advo- 
cate of  good  music  and  good  pictures,  and  believe  that  cor- 
rect music  enhances  the  value  of  the  picture,  but  I  do  not 
protest  against  the  fine  concert  program  with  pictures  as  a 
side  issue.  Not  that  I  think  Bro.  Metcalf  is  arguing  in  favor 
of  this  proposition,  but  I  have  met  a  few  exhibitors  in  the 
past  who  did  and  still  do,  and  here  is  a  good  chance  to  get 
in  my  little  knock. — Editor.] 

"There  are  still  some  who  are  emphatic  in  their  assertions 
that  an  orchestra  cannot  properly  fit  music  to  the  picture. 
There  is  no  question  but  that  a  pianist,  either  alone  or  with 
the  assistance  of  a  good  drummer,  has  possibly  a  greater 
opportunity  to  work  out  his  pictures  in  detail  than  a  number 
of  musicians  playing  together,  but  I  believe  most  orchestra 
leaders  have  demonstrated  that  it  is  possible  to  follow  the 
picture  quite  effectively  and  at  the  same  time  give  the  public 
more  pleasing  music  than  a  pianist  can.  We  are  using  a 
string  orchestra  and  pipe  organ,  adding  drums  or  brass  ac- 
cording to  the  requirements  of  the  picture.  In  changing 
every  day  it  is  almost  impossible  to  rehearse  our  program 
with  the  pictures  as  should  be  done;  however,  we  do  so  on 
special  releases.  In  featuring  the  music  for  pictures,  the 
manager  prepares  slides  which  are  shown  before  each  reel 
announcing  the  name  of  the  next  picture  and  the  musical 
numbers  which  are  used  for  accompaniment.  The  music 
loving  patrons  are  loud  in  their  praise  of  this  arrangement. 

"We   recently  showed   the.  Reliance   feature, . 'The  Bawler- 
out,'  in  three  parts;  also  a- Keystone  comedy.- -Below  is  the 
program    used    for    that    day:      'Liebesgarten'    (Schumann), 
'HuimoreskeV  (Dvorak),  'Serenade'   (Drdfa);  'Solyejg's   Song'  ' 
(Greig),  'To.  Spring'   (Greig),. 'La   Boherne,'  Fantasia'   (Puc- 
cini),    Salut ;  D' Amour'     (Elgar).  .  'JEchQes    of    the    Operas'  • 
(Arr.  by  Reciters),  'Love  is  the  only  Thing  in  Life'  (Helf).  1 
selections  from  *A  Modern  Eve"- and  'The  Fortune  Teller.'" 

This  is  a  splendid  program  musically;  unfortunately  I  did 
not  see  the  picture  in  question,  so  cannot  pass  as  to  its  fit- 
ness in  regard  to  detail.     Many  leader?   strive  to  carry  out   . 
the   general   atmosphere   of   the   picture    rather   than    try    to 


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work  to  every  little  detail.  This  on  the  whole  is  much  the 
safer  plan;  lor  as  Mr.  Metcalf  says,  it  is  difficult  for  an  or- 
chestra to  follow  closely  to  details.  Some  leaders  "humor" 
the  scenes  without  changing  the  piece  of  music.  Unless 
done  with  skill  this  is  risky,  although  I  have  known  violinists 
who  could  so  vary  the  music  at  times  by  means  of  retard, 
accelerate,  diminish,  crescendo,  etc.,  that  their  work  was  a 
joy  to  hear.  This,  of  course,  in  certain  scenes  where  the 
contrasts  were  not  too  pronounced.  It  would  hardly  hold 
good  in  all  situations. — Editor. 


"Half  a  Chance" 

A  Vigorous  Three-Reel  Reliance. 
Reviewed  by  Louis  Reeves  Harrison. 

THERE  is  a  lot  of  warm  blood  in  this  production,  and, 
it  compaprisons  have  any  significance*  it  ranks  at  the 
top  of  Reliance  features  I  have  seen.  In  the  first 
place,  there  is  a. story  by  an. author  who  is  very  much  alive. 
It  portrays  a  clearly-defined  leading  character  to  whom  sym- 
pathetic interest  becomes  instinctively  attached;  it  sets  forth 
his  distinguishing  traits  and  preserves  them  to  the  end;  it 
utilizes  incident  to  bring  out  his  passions  and  emotions,  and 
it  hinges  on  his  fierce  struggle  upward  to  some  definite  end. 
It  contains  that  breath  of  life  which  only  the  craftsman 
knows  how  to  inject  into  a  pictured  phase  of  human  existence. 
Both  author  and  his  work  are  unknown  to  me — the  photo- 
drama  visualizes  a  Bobbs-Merrill  novel — but  the  motive  is 
sociological  in  pointing  to  the  power  of  circumstances,  the 
necessity  of  opportunity  and  to  education  as  the  principal 
form  of  opportunity  by  which  man  rises  above  mere  desire 
to  exist  to  intellectual  control  of  his  forces.  The  theme  is 
one  so  well  suited  to  dramatic  uses  and  admits  of  so  many 
thousands  of  delightful  variations  that  the  only  astonishing 
thing  about  it  is  its  rare  appearance  in  screen  presentations. 
No  scenario  editor  need  worry  about  the  fact  that  it  has  been 
done  before — it  has  as  many  diverse  forms  as  there  are  inter- 
esting human  careers. 

"Half  a  Chance"'  begins  with  an  extreme,  though  not  at  all 


improbable,  incident  which  proves  to  be  a  corrective  turning 
point  in  the  life  of  a  dissipated  pugilist,  a  powerful  man 
known  as  "Frisco  Pet."  He  becomes  obstreperous  in  a  low 
joint  and  is  thrust  into  the  room  of  a  dissolute  adventuress 
to  sleep  off  his  drunk.  That  good  old  stage  prop,  the  "de- 
generate nobleman,"  now  appears,  quarrels  with  the  adven- 
turess, and  she  is  accidentally  killed  in  the  scuffle.  "Frisco 
Pet"  is  falsely  accused,  convicted,  and  deported  on  a  convict 
ship.  The  ship  is  wrecked,  and  the  convict  saves  a  pretty 
little  girl.  He  is  cast  away  on  a  desert  isle — moss-covered — 
finds  a  case  of  books  and  studies  law. 

While  I  do  not  favor  this  entirely  new  educational  system, 
it  presents  a  unique  method  of  transforming  a  pug  into  a 
practitioner  and  it  might  not  be  a  bad  plan  to  try  on  some 
of  our  New  York  police  inspectors.  If  there  were  only 
enough  desert  isles  in  the  Pacific  Ocean,  we  could  maroon 
our  aldermen,  senators  and  other  representatives  of  the  peo- 
ple there,  each  with  a  case  of  books  to  live  on,  and  enjoy 
ourselves  in  a  period  of  relative  tranquility  while  they  were 
becoming  regenerated.  Anyway,  somehow-or-other,  "Frisco 
Pet"  equips  himself  by  self-instruction,  so  that  he  rises  above 
those  who  merely  graduate  from  institutions  of  learning  and 
successfully  fights  his  way  to  social  position — he  wins  the 
little  girl  he  pulled  out  of  the  sea,  and  liberty.  In  fact,  he 
becomes  one  of  the  greatest  criminal  lawyers  in  The  United 
Wigdom. 

Mr.  Apfel  is  to  be  congratulated  upon  overcoming  many 
difficulties  in  the  visualization  of  the  story,  upon  his  artistic 
settings  and  upon  his  admirable  selection  of  types.  The  cast 
is  excellent  straight  through,  and  the  role  of  "Frisco  Pet," 
played  by  George  Seigman,  is  a  masterly  interpretation.  The 
part  is  one  requiring  tremendous  physical  strength  in  com- 
bination with  fine  personality,  but  it  is  splendidly  performed 
from  beginning  to  end.  The  tout  ensemble  is  a  long  step 
upward. 


Frank  E.  Montgomery,  who  is  now  producing  films  fea- 
turing his  wife,  Mona  Darkfeather,  in  Indian  pictures,  has 
taken  the  name  "Mona"  for  his  brand. 


Scene  from  "Half  a  Chance"  (Reliance). 


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Foreign  Trade  Notes 


BRITISH  NOTES. 
By  Our  Own  Correspondent. 
The  King  and  Queen  saw  "Quo  Vadis?"  at  the  Albert  Hall 
in  London  last  week  and  constantly  expressed  admiration  at 
the  production.  Moving  picture  exhibitions  or,  in  fact,  any- 
thing connected  with  such,  done  on  a  large  scale,  are  tradi- 
tionally of  interest  to  Americans,  and  a  few  observations  on 
what  is  undoubtedly  the  largest  show  in  this  country  should 

be  of  outstanding  interest. 

*  *     * 

Last  Saturday's  audience  of  25,000  people,  for  instance,  is 
something  of  a  record,  but  this  crowd,  it  must  be  remem- 
bered, cannot  be  accommodated  every  afternoon  as  the  hall 
is  used  for  other  purposes  on  intermediate  occasions.  This 
means  that  in  order  to  shut  out  the  light  from  the  glass  roof 
over  four  miles  of  black  cloth,  fifty  inches  wide,  has  to  be 
continually  taken  down  and  put  back.  The  size  of  the 
screen  is  40  feet  by  35  feet  and  it  is  supported  by  steel  haw- 
sers. The  length  of  the  "throw"  is  212  feet,  which  means 
that  the  picture  on  the  film  is  magnified  much  more  than  a 
quarter  of  a  million  times  when  it  appears  on  the  screen. 

*  *     * 

The  president  of  the  American  Mutual  Film  Corporation, 
Mr.  H.  E.  Aitken,  and  his  sister,- is  at  present  in  London  on 
business.  His  visit,  however,  is  only  of  the  "flying"  order 
and  most  of  his  time  is  occupied  with  the  "Mutual's"  British 

agents. 

*  *    * 

The  Clarendon  Company  has  succumbed  to  the  prize  com- 
petition craze  and  the  noted  English  firm  are  offering  prizes 
for  criticisms  of  their  productions.  In  journalistic  circles 
there  is  a  persistent  rumor  that  a  London  daily  newspaper  of 
some  prominence  is  considering  the  advisability  of  offering 
£1,000  for  the  best  scenario. 

*  *     * 

The  Warner  Feature  Film  Company  of  New  York  appear 
to  be  enlarging  their  British  agency.  They  have  suddenly 
sprung  to  renewed  activity  here  in  the  advertising  and  rent- 
ing of  their  features. 

*  *     * 

Mr.  G.  E.  Bennett,  a  picture  theater  proprietor  of  Slough, 
is  shortly  to  be  decorated  for  bravery  at  a  recent  fire.  He 
rescued  his  operator  from  the  blazing  box. 

*  *     * 

A  deputation  of  prominent  exhibitors  interviewed  the 
Home  Secretary  the  other  day  and  pointed  out  to  him  the 
grievances  and  injustices  suffered  by  managers  and  proprie- 
tors of  theaters  through  extreme  local  legislation.  The  case 
of  Liverpool  was  cited  in  particular  where  the  restrictions 
are  particularly  drastic.  Here  the  hours  of  opening,  as  well 
as'  the  attendance  of  children,  are  limited  and  it  is  possible 
for  a  policeman  to  walk  in  out  of  the  street  and  censor  any 
film  he  may  think  unfit. 

*  *     * 

Sir  Hubert  von  Herkomer,  the  Royal  Academician,  has,  at 
last,  formed  a  film  producing  company  bearing  his  name  and 
the  first  releases  are  announced  within  a  month.  "I  shall 
arrange  every  scene  myself  and  shall  personally  select  the 
actors  and  retouch  the  films,"  he  says.  "The  pictures  will 
be  taken  in  my  own  theater  and  I  shall  try  to  get  French 
people  to  act  for  me.  No  other  can  approach  them  in  the  art 
of  expressing  emotion  without  speech."  This  seems  a  strange 
procedure  for  an  "all-British"  enterprise. 

*  *     * 

Dr.  Wm.  Martin,  a  Shakespearian  lecturer,  praises  the 
photoplay  as  a  means  of  teaching  adults  the  art  of  gesture 
and   of  children   better   manners. 

Sir  A.  Conan  Doyle  has.  I  am  told,  written  a  long  letter 
of  congratulation  to  the  Kalem  Company  on  the  pictorial 
production  of  his  detective  drama  featuring  Detective  Burns. 

*  *     * 

What  is  ultra-Kinematography?  Prof.  Wm.  Stirling,  scien- 
tist, of  Manchester  University,  defines  it  as  the  slowing  down 


of  the  machine  to  permit  of  the  study  of  the  movements  of 
the  moving  objects  on  the  screen.  This  fearsome  term  with 
so  simple  a  meaning  is  particularly  applicable  to  scientific 
and  medical  films. 

*  *     * 

I  reported  some  time  ago  that  the  London  County  Council 
had  decided  to  install  moving  pictures  in  some  of  their 
schools  for  educational  purposes.  A  grant  of  £200  was  made 
at  the  time,  but  now  the  whole  motion  has  been  rescinded. 
It  appears  that  it  was  discovered  by  the  authorities  that  the 
amount  sanctioned  would  not  properly  equip  one  school, 
much  less  several. 

A  singular  move  is  being  contemplated  by  the  Newcastle 
exhibitors.  They  are  endeavoring  to  induce  the  civic  au- 
thorities to  grant  no  further  licenses  for  moving  picture 
theaters.  It  is  thought  in  some  quarters  that  this  is  an  at- 
tempt to  make  the  kinema  business  like  the  saloon — a  kind 
of  tied  down  trade. 

Mr.  Cherry  Kearton's  American  scenic  pictures  form  part 
oi  this  week's  feature  programme  at  the  Palace  Theater, 
London.  Those  of  the  Yellowstone  Park  are  creating  a 
great  furore  and  I  should  say  that  if  this  section  could  be 
separately  released  as  a  scenic  it  would  be  sure  of  an  enor- 
mous sale. 

*  *    * 

American  moving  picture  heroines  have  all  unwittingly 
assumed  a  new  role.  They  have,  it  appears,  become  arbiters 
of  fashion  in  millinery  for  the  English  suburban  and  sea- 
side girl.  The  big  white  flip-flap  straw  hat  is  here  termed  the 
picture  hat  because  it  seems  to  be  almost  invariably  worn 
by  the  heroines  of  American-made  films.  As  a  result,  Lon- 
don millinery  establishments  are  busy  stocking  their  win- 
dows and  shops  with  this  particular  type  of  headgear. 

*  *     * 

England,  but  in  particularly  London,  is  experiencing  a 
boom  in  home  produced  pictures.  The  Clarendon  Company 
are  about  to  release  a  masterly  new  feature  written  by  the 
Marchioness  Townshend  entitled  "The  House  of  Mystery," 
and  it  was  probably  this  all-British  subject  which  evoked  a 
London  newspaper  into  a  sudden  and  voluptuous  burst  of 
enthusiasm  over  the  patriotic  producer. 

*  *     * 

Last  week-end  a  film  store  in  Leeds  was  entirely  burnt  out 
in  less  than  five  minutes.  Considerably  over  half  a  million 
feet  of  American  subjects  were  destroyed. 

The  United  States  consul  in  London  has  provided  one  or 
two  interesting  statements  respecting  the  methods  of  ship- 
ping films  from  American  makers  to  English  agencies.  At 
Lyons  in  the  south  of  France,  a  huge  new  factory  for  the 
sole  purpose  of   film   printing  is  being  established. 

J.  B.  SUTCLIFFE. 


PICTURES  IN  YUCATAN. 

According  to  the  United  States  Consul,  moving  pictures  are 
very  popular  with  the  inhabitants  of  Yucatan,  which  is  a  part 
of  Mexico.  In  Merida,  the  capital  of  Yucatan,  there  is  one 
large  theater  which  exhibits  pictures  for  about  ten  months 
of  the  year.  There  are  a  number  of  the  open  air  shows,  con- 
sisting of  a  number  of  chairs  and  an  open  courtyard.  The 
bull  ring,  or  place  where  the  bullfights  are  held,  when  not  being 
used  for  that  purpose,  is  frequently  used  for  picture  shows. 
Prices  range  from  37  cents  gold  per  person  to  $2.25  gold  for 
boxes  accommodating  six  persons.  The  open  air  theaters  get 
five  cents  for  ordinary  shows  and  ten  when  the  show  is  extra 
long.  Exhibitions  are  given  only  at  night,  commencing  at 
8:30  and  running  until  midnight,  being  composed  of  four 
parts  or  four  separate  shows.  The  films  most  in  favor  are 
French,  Danish  and  Italian,  but  the  American  Indian  and 
Wild  West  pictures  are  quite  as  popular. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


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THE  local  daily  newspapers  are  devoting  more  space 
to  matters  bearing  upon  the  motion  picture  interests 
at  the  present  time,  than  they  have  during  any  period 
since  the  censorship  question  was  under  discussion  last 
fall,  and  the  indications  are  that  equal,  if  not  more,  at- 
tention to  the  subject  will  be  given  by  them  during  the 
next  few  months.  Some  people  are  trying  to  make  them 
a  political  issue  to  a  more  or  less  extent.  For  this  there  is 
absolutely  no  reason.  The  entire  matter  hinges  upon  the 
adoption  of  regulations  for  the  motion  pictures.  It  is  a 
business  matter.  The  fact  that  the  Board  of  Aldermen 
have  not  acted,  as  many  think  they  should,  and  that  their 
actions  or  inactivity  is  responsible  for  the  rupture  between 
them  and  the  mayor,  cannot  be  construed  as  a  party  measure, 
and  it  is  earnestly  hoped  that  no  one  will  increase  the  in- 
justice that  has  been  heaped  upon  the  motion  picture  people 
by  dragging  the  pictures  into  politics. 

*  *  * 
The  situation  has  assumed  such  a  sharp  aspect  that  the 
mayor  has  expressed  the  opinion  that  some  of  the  Board 
of  Aldermen  should  be  indicted  for  their  votes  on  the  last 
motion  picture  ordinance  they  adopted,  and  which  he  vetoed; 
and  one  of  the  leading  daily  newspapers  has  declared  edi- 
torially, that  the  mayor  is  a  good  lawyer  and  if  his  belief 
is  as  stated,  he  should  have  no  trouble  in  securing  a  moving 
picture  ordinance  with  the  aid  of  the  District  Attorney  and 
Grand  Jury.  In  some  quarters  this  has  been  construed 
as  a  suggestion  for  political  purposes,  which  is  absurd.  Why 
should  political  significance  be  attached  to  this  form  of  the 
situation?  It  is  not  an  intimation  of  a  method  by  which 
certain  members  of  the  Board  of  Alderman  may  ultimately 
be  removed  from  office  to  make  room  for  others,  as  many 
are  foolishly  assuming,  but  a  very  sensible  suggestion  by 
which  certain  aldermen,  regardless  of  party  ties,  can  be 
forced  to  set  aside  self-interest,  decided  upon  something 
that  will  remove  the  uncertainty  that  warps  the  ambition  of 
the  motion  picture  exhibitors,  and  works  an  injustice  upon 
them  by  putting  on  the  shelf  measures  that  would  enable 
them  or  more  fully  comply  with  what  appears  to  be  the  desire 
of  the  people  at  large.  The  suggestion  made  is  identical  with 
that  followed  in  connection  with  the  taxicab  ordinance,  and 
no   sensible   person   will   assume   that   that   ordinance  was   a 

political  issue. 

* '  *     * 

Unfortunately  quite  a  number  of  the  motion  picture  ex- 
hibitors are  blind  to  their  own  interests,  through  party  affili- 
ations, and  fail  to  see  that  they  are  suffering  through  the 
failure  to  get  a  sensible  and  fair  adjustment  of  the  ordin- 
ance question.  It  is  frequently  stated  that  every  knock  is 
a  boost.  This  is  not  true  when  applied  to  motion  pictures. 
Every  knock  against  them  having  a  semblance  of  truth  makes 
it  so  much  more  difficult  for  the  exhibitors  rn  certain  quarters 
to  hold  their  patrons.  Take,  for  instance,  a  declaration  by 
Mayor  Gaynor  in  a  recent  interview  that  appeared  in  the 
Evening  World.  After  stating  that  certain  aldermen  sub- 
stitute private  interests  for  the  public  interests  they  are 
elected  to  protect,  the  mayor  adds  the  aldermen  have  prac- 
tically put  a  mortgage  on  the  amusements  of  the  poor.  "And 
for  this  the  people  pay  enormous  interest  in  the  form  of  foul 
air,  fire  traps  and  crowded  conditions."  It  will  be  seen  that 
the  exhibitors  are  under  indictment  through  no  fault  of 
their  own.  but  because  those  having  power  to  enable  them 
to  remedy  the  conditions  will  not  do  so.  and  while  that 
indictment  stands,  a  weapon  remains  in  the  hands  of  certain 
people  to  annoy  and  persecute  them  at  will.  It  is  also  reason- 
able to  assume  that  while  the  indictment  stands,  a  certain 
quota  of  the  people  are  more  than  likely  to  withhold  their 
patronage  from  the  places  to  which  it  may  apply. 

*  *  * 
•  Unfortunately  the  present  period  is  one  leading  up  to  a 
Mayorality  election  and  any  endorsement  of  what  the  present 
Mayor  does  or  says  in  connection  with  the  motion  picture 
situation  may  be  greedily  seized  by  some  in  support  of  their 
argument  that  the  Mayor  is  endorsed  for  political  purposes. 
It  is  hoped  there  are  people  who  can  lay  aside  party  con- 
siderations  for  a   time   and   give   disinterested   and   unpreju- 


diced thought  to  some  of*  the  statements  the  Mayor  has 
made.  If  this  can  be  done  the  Board  of  Aldermen  will  soon 
get  to  work  and  tree  the  exhibitors  from  their  embarrassing 
situation. 

*  *     * 

By  cutting  out  that  part  of  the  vetoed  ordinance  that  pro- 
vided for  galleries  in  the  houses  of  600  capacity,  the  Mayor 
claims,  the  ordinance  was  practically  killed  because  it  gave 
the  houses  a  capacity  of  450  instead  of  600  and  400  instead 
of  300,  as  one-fourth  of  the  capacity  was  allotted  to  the  gal- 
leries. Upon  this  statement  it  is  clear  that  the  aldermen 
were  not  giving  the  exhibitors  that  to  which  they  had  a  right 
to  assume  they  were  entitled  to  under  the  ordinance.  It  is 
safe  to  say  that  the  majority  of  the  houses  to  be  benefited 
by  the  proposed  ordinance  could  not  increase  their  capacity 
much     beyond    the    300    limit    without    the    installment    of 

galleries. 

*  *     * 

A  remark  to  this  effect  having  been  overheard  by  a  party 
interested  to  a  more  or  less  extent  in  the  faction  that  has 
been  fighting  the  600  capacity  proposition,  he  made  answer: 
"Well,  let  them  be  content  with  what  they  have  and  not  try 
to  jam  galleries  into  hat  boxes."  It  must  be  admitted  that 
this  argument  is  not  without  weight  in  a  general  sense. 
But  let  us  weigh  carefully  what  the  Mayor  has  said  and  we 
cannot  avoid  the  conclusion  that  if  the  proposed  ordinance 
had  not  been  vetoed  the  exhibitors  forced  to  be  content  with 
what  they  had  would  have  been  driven  out  of  business  alto- 
gether. The  commission  which  the  Mayor  appointed  to 
frame  an  ordinance  discovered  that  in  order  that  the  expense 
of  the  requirements  of  their  proposed  ordinance  with  respect 
to  ventilation  and  safeguards  against  loss  of  life  could  be 
borne,  the  places  should  be  permitted  to  accommodate  more 
than  300  persons.  See  the  complexion  the  situation  is  now 
given?  Heretofore  many  people  have  assumed  that  the  in- 
creased capacity  proposition  was  a  selfish  motive  creation 
on  the  part  of  the  exhibitors.  Their  thanks  are  due  to  the 
commission  that  was  intelligent  and  fair  enough  to  give  them 
a  chance  to  escape  annihilation  by  giving  them  an  oppor- 
tunity to  get  sufficient  revenue  to  meet  the  expense  of 
alterations  and  improvements  which  the  ordinance  would 
have  required. 

*  *     * 

Although  considerable  printer's  ink  has  been  expended  in 
getting  discussions  for  and  against  the  vetoed  ordinance  be- 
fore the  public,  one  important  point  has  escaped  attention. 
There  was  a  beautiful  chance  for  real  estate  speculation  in 
the  event  of  the  ordinance  being  signed.  It  is  said  that 
Mayor  Gaynor  touched  upon  it,  but  not  in  such  a  manner 
that  he  can  be  quoted.  In  order  to  get  increased  capacity 
and  make  provision  for  the  exit  and  other  regulations,  the 
owners  of  a  great  many  of  the  houses  would  have  been  com- 
pelled to  acquire  adjoining  property.  In  many  instances  it 
would  have  been  necessary  to  double  the  ground  floor  space. 
It  is  unofficially  stated  that  the  Mayor  contended  that  in  this 
respect  the  ordinance  would  have  been  a  discrimination 
against  the  exhibitors  by  compelling  them  to  purchase  ad- 
joining properties  at  whatever  price  the  holders  might  ask, 
or  go  out  of  business.  Several  exhibitors  have  stated  that 
such  would  have  been  their  predicament.  They  are  ready  to 
comply  with  any  reasonable  regulation  demanded  by  the 
public  and  would  have  been  able  to  comply  with  the  regula- 
tions of  the  proposed  ordinance  had  the  gallery  provision 
been  permitted  to  stand.  If,  however,  they  had  been  driven 
to  acquire  adjoining  property  the  financial  aspect  of  affairs 
would  have  given  many  of  them   no  alternative  but  to  get 

out  of  the  business. 

*  *     * 

It  may  be  true  that  many  of  the  small  places  are  distressing 
in  respect  to  ventilation  and  safety  against  fire  and  panic 
but  why  pound  the  owners  of  such  places  who  stand  ready  to 
remedy  the  evils  on  an  equitable  basis?  Why  inflame  the 
public  mind  against  them  when  their  hands  are  tied  by  mis- 
carriage of  intelligence,  honesty  of  purpose  and  justice? 
Yes.  the  evils  must  be  wiped  out — but  how?  Well,  what  is 
the  matter  with  the  taxicab  route? 


AMERICAN  USES  PACIFIC  FLEET  IN  PICTURES. 

The  North  Dakota,  one  of  the  Pacific  Fleet  now  maneuver- 
ing off  Santa  Barbara,  was  used  in  a  picture  last  week.  Some 
splendid  scenes  were  made  through  the  courtesy  of  the 
cruiser's  officers  who  loaned  themselves  to  the  task  of  show- 
ing how  a  shangshaied  man  is  taken  from  a  vessel.  The 
pet  parrot  and  pet  monkey  of  the  Dakota,  well  known  in 
naval  circles,  were  also  used  in  the  same  subject.  Some 
Memorial  Day  features  of  the  fleet's  visit  were  utilized  in  the 
same   picture. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


cAivertising  for  Exhibitors 

Conducted  by  EPES  WINTHROP  SARGENT 


Advertising  Films. 

BEFORE  the   thing   goes  much    further,    let's   have   .1   good,    square   talk 
about  the  advertising  film.     It's  creeping  up,   and  it  is  time  that  the 
situation   was  looked  over. 

There  are  two  kinds  of  advertising  films.  One  is  the  kind  the  ex- 
change charges  you  rental  on  and  the  other  is  the  kind  someone  pays 
you  to  run  for  them. 

You  do  not  like  the  first  because  you  do  not  get  the  money  for  it 
but,  on  the  contrary,  you  have  to  pay  rental  on  the  film  for  the  pleasure 
of  advertising  somebody's   bacon  or  someone  else's  soap. 

Why  do  you  do  it?  You  are  paying  the  exchange  for  pictures,  not 
for  advertising  matter.  Why  do  you  let  them  pass  it  along  to  you?  They 
had  to  pay  for  the  reel  themselves,  but  what  is  that  to  you?  If  they* 
are  fools  enough  to  pay  nine  cents  a  foot  for  stuff  that  a  manufacturer 
has  already  been  paid  for  making,  that  is  nothing  to  you.  If  they  like  to 
get  taken  in  and  swindled,  let  them,  but  refuse  to  let  them  pass  it 
along  to  you.  If  every  exhibitor  had  sense  enough  to  make  it  plain  that 
he  would  not  take  a  comedy  based  on  Teddy's  Tooth  Wash  or  Jenk's 
Soothing  Syrup,  the  makers  of  these  preparations  would  stop  writing  checks 
for  manufacturers  who  make  the  films. 

It  doesn't  interest  you  that  the  exchange  gets  stung  or  that  the  Blank 
Film  Manufacturing  Company  got  $5,000  for  advertising  dessicated  break- 
fasts. The  only  point  that  interests  you  is  that  your  audience  is  paying 
you  for  The  privilege  of  looking  at  photoplays  and  they  will  stop  when 
they  can't  tell  whether  you'll  have  plays  or  paid  advertisements  on  your 
films.  You,  en  your  part,  are  paying  for  pictures  and  getting  stuff  that 
properly  belongs  in  the  back  part  of  the  magazines. 

If  you  keep  on  showing  these  veiled  advertisements,  the  patrons  will 
feel  that  they  are  being  swindled  and  will  stay  away.  It  does  not  matter 
how  skillfully  the  advertisement  is  hidden  in  a  story.  If  Jinks  comes  home 
tired  to  find  the  baby  crying  and  must  walk  the  floor  until  his  wife 
gets  a  bottle  of  Knockout  Soothing  Syrup,  the  audience  may  laugh  at 
the  comedy,  but  afterwards  they  will  remember  that  there  was  a  bust 
picture  shown  twice  during  the  five  hundred  feet,  just  a  hand  holding 
a  bottle  of  the  well  known  baby  pacifier,  and  they  will  be  sore  at  you 
because  they  will  feel  that  you  were  a  party  to  the  plot.  They  wen: 
to  see  pictures  and  you  gave  them  soothing  syrup  that  did  not  sooth. 

Bunch  Your  Kick. 

Make  it  plain  to  your  exchange  that  you  will  not  take  these  advertising 
pictures.  Make  it  plain  to  the  manufacturer  that  you  will  not  run  them. 
Get  the  league  to  make  it  plain  to  the  National  Advertisers  that  exhibitors 
are  not  blind  fools,  and  the  practice  will  stop. 

That  it  is  a  growing  practice  is  not  to  be  denied.  Both  the  Licensed 
and  Independent  makers  have  foolishly  sought  to  deal  double  and  get 
paid  twice  for  their  film.  Something  must  be  done  to  check  the  scheme 
In  England  the  exhibitors  got  together  aft^r  a  fashion  and  stopped  the 
practice,  refusing  even  such  a  mild  advertisement  as  the  multiple  reel 
gotten  out  in  behalf  of  the  London  Daily  Mail.  In  some  ways  it  was  a 
good  subject — but  it  was  an  advertisement  and  instead  of  renting  the 
reels  the  Mail  had  to  offer  to  loan  them  free  and  had  trouble  even  then, 
while  a  three  reel  subject  prepared  by  a  beef  extract  company  fell   flat. 

It  was  not  that  these  two  subjects  were  in  themselves  poor.  They 
were  well  made,  not  without  interest,  and  widely  advertised,  but  the 
advertising  film  had  become  a  nuisance  and  the  whole  practice  was  abolished. 

We  are  arriving  at  the  point  over  here  when  the  use  of  the  adver- 
tising picture  is  getting  to  be  a  nuisance,  with  the  practice  on  the  in- 
crease.    The  time  to  stop  it  is  right  NOW. 

On  the  Other   Foot. 

Now  put  the  shoe  on  the  other  foot.  Some  advertisers  are  more 
honest.  They  offer  the  frankly  advertising  reel  and  will  give  you  from 
five  to  fifty  dollars  a  day  to  run   the  reel  in  your  house. 

That's  money  you  get,  not  the  manufacturer,  and  it  seems  to  change 
the  situation. 

Does  it? 

You  still  have  the  duty  yoi  owe  your  patrons.  You  still  owe  it  to 
them  to  give  a  good  performance  and  not  clutter  up  your  program  with 
one  or  more  reels  of  advertising  matter.  It  is  not  only  a  duty  you  owe 
tbem  but  a  duty  you  owe  yourself.  The  motion  picture  exhibitor  is  no 
longer  an  itinerant  showman  with  what  our  English  cousins  call  a 
fit-up.  The  store  show  is  going  into  the  discard.  Your  own  show  will 
follow  it  if  you  yield  to  temptation  and  make  ten  dollars  today  and  lose 
trade  worth  ten  dollars  a  week  every  week.  You  cannot  hold  your  patrons 
if  you  swindle  them,  and  you  swindle  them  if  you  coax  them  in  to  see 
plays  and  then  try  to  force  from  one  to  three  reels  of  advertising  stuff 
on  them.  The  man  who  came  in  to  see  a  certain  picture  doesn't  want  to 
sit  for  twenty  minutes  or  an  hour  watching  "Blakes  Three  Dollar  Shoes 
from  Hide  to  Heel.".  He  wants  to  see  the  pictures  he  came  to  see.  When 
be  wants  shoes  he'll  read  the  advertisements  in  the  magazines  or  look  in 
the  store  windows.  It  doesn't  matter  that  you  have  three,  reels  of  real 
pictures  and  show  them.  The  patron  is  swindled  if  he  comes  in  to  see 
pictures  and  is  given  advertising  matter  in  addition.  If  he  gets  advertising 
with  his  magazine  he  can  ignore  those  pages,  but  he  cannot  escape  the 
advertising  film.    He  can  only  sit  there  and  curse  you  for  a  thief  of  his  time 


cr  get  up  and  go  out  cursing  you  for  a  thief  of  his  admission  money.  In 
cither  case  you  have  swindled  a  man  who  put  his  trust  in  you,  but  who  is 
not  very  apt  to  do  it  again. 

You  never  looked  at  it  in  just  that  light,  did  you?  That  is  precisely 
what  it  means.  You  have  lied  to  your  patron  and  you  have  swindled 
him.  You  cannot  expect  to  hold  your  trade  with  that  sort  of  a  business 
policy,   can   you? 

The  worst  of  it  is  that  the  results  are  not  clearly  and  immediately  ap- 
parent. People  will  keep  on  coming  to  see  the  pictures.  They  will  take 
a  chance,  and  you'll  think  that  nothing  has  happened. 

You'll  know  better  when  the  sheriff  comes  around  or  you  have  to 
sell  out  to  someone  and  get  into  some  other  business,  declaring  that 
there  is  no  money  in  pictures  any  nore.  There  is  money  in  pictures  and 
there  will  continue  to  be  money  in  pictures,  but  show  pictures  and 
do  not  sell  your  audience  out  to  every  Tom,  Dick  and  Harry  that 
comes  along  with  a  reel  of  film  in  one  hand  and  a  five  dollar  bill  in 
the   oth°r. 

Respect  Your  Business. 

Have  respect  for  your  business  even  if  you  have  none  for  yourself. 
Take  a  pride  in  your  house,  in  your  attendance,  in  your  program.  Do 
your  own  small  share  toward  putting  the  pictures  where  they  belong. 
One  of  the  large  theatrical  firms  is  going  to  tour  the  country  with  the 
"Quo  Vadis"  reels  next  winter.  They  will  put  advertisements  in  the 
program,  where  they  belong,  but  they  will  not  break  into  the  story  of 
Lydia  with  a  half  reel  corset  ad  or  flash  a  slide  that  the  bull  Ursus  kills 
represents  a   well   known   brand   of  smoking   tobacco. 

Be  a  manager,  not  merely  an  exhibitor.  Run  a  theater,  not  a  store 
show.  No  matter  what  the  size  of  your  house,  run  it  like  a  theater.  Keep 
it  clean  physically  and  morally.     Sweep  the  floor  and  the  audience. 

Lots  of  people  still  think  that  a  man  who  runs  a  picture  show  must 
be  a  low  browed  scallawag  who  runs  a  recruiting  station  for  the  brothels. 
Show  them  you  are  not  that  sort  and  run  your  house  so  that  no  matter 
when  the  doubting  investigator  comes  he  will  at  once  perceive  his  mistake. 
It's  bad  enough  to  have  to  show  some  of  the  stuff  the  exchange  sends  you 
without  making  it    worse    with   advertising   stuff. 

Fight  the  advertising  reel  whether  you  or  the  manufacturer  gets  the 
money.  Run  a  theater,  not  a  bill  board,  and  you'll  be  treated  like  a  manager 
instead    of    a    bill   poster. 

Writing  Editorials. 

C.  T.  Srnitbers  is  writing  an  editorial  for  each  issue  of  his  Idle 
Hour  Educator,  published  in  conjunction  with  his  theater  in  Aberdeen, 
S.  D.  This  is  going  some,  but  Mr.  Smithers  was  a  newspaper  man  once 
and  he  can  write  readable  stuff.  Five  years  ago  the  person  who  dared 
suggest  that  in  time  photoplay  theaters  would  issue  actual  papers  with 
sound  editorial  matter  would  have  been  hooted  down,  but  there  are 
dozens  of  lively  sheets  and  now  comes  one  with  a  real  editorial  page. 
On  top  of  that  he  is  going  after  outside  advertising  and  there  seems 
to   be  no  reason   why   he   should   not   get  it. 

Pearce  Notes. 

The  Pearce  New  Orleans  program  gives  considerable  space  to  the 
opening  of  the  Tudor,  their  new  theater  there.  The  announcement  is 
singularly  free  from  loud  talk  and  sounds  convincing.  It  is  to  make  its 
appeal  to  the  higher  grade  of  patronage  and  this  announcement  is  in 
harmony  with  that  policy.  The  arrangement  of  their  house  organ  could  be 
much  improved  typographically.  It  is  a  pity  that  this  is  not  done,  since  in 
other  ways  the  result  is  so  good.  Some  of  the  suggestions  offered  have 
been  accepted  with  improvement  to  the  paper  as  a  whole.  We  think  that 
a  more  cheerful  color  for  the  cover  would  help  a  lot. 

Likes  His  Bill. 

R.  H.  Redus,  of  the  Elite,  West  Point,  Miss.,  likes  a  recent  throwaway 
his  printer  got  out  for  him.  It  advertised  "The  Power  of  the  Cross" 
as  the  star  feature  and  we  don't  blame  him  for  being  proud  of  it.  It  is 
good  work  to  come  out  of  a  small  town  job  office.  The  cross  is  formed 
of  eight  point  border  and  all  of  the  type  matter  lies  inside  the  outline  of 
the  cross.  The  advertisement  is  twice  as  effective  this  way  as  though 
the  white  spaces  were  filled  in.  Half  of  advertising  lies  in  knowing  what 
to    put  on   a   bill   and  the   other   half  lies  in  knowing   what   to   keep  out. 

Two  Whole  Pages. 

The  Arcade  theater,  Tientsin,  China,  takes  two  whole  pages  in  the 
Pekin  and  Tientsin  Times  to  advertise  the  Carnegie  Alaska-Siberia  pictures. 
Naturally  North  China  was  interested  in  these  pictures  and  considerable 
of  a  display  was  made,  four  and  eight  page  pamphlets  in  English  and 
one  in  Chinese  supplementing  the  big  display.  The  films  were  shown 
for  five  nights  and  one  matinee,  the  night  prices  being  $2  and  $1.50 
(Mexican,  probably)  and  at  the  matinee  $1  and  50c.  There  was  a  troupe 
of  girls  presenting  two  numbers  and  music  was  supplied  by  the  string 
band  of  the  Fifteenth  United  States  Infantry. 

We  have  not  heard  much  from  the  Arcade  of  late,  but  it  is  evident 
that  it  is  not  because  they  are  not  stil!  hustling. 


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How  About  It? 

We  arc  still  waiting  to  hear  someone  make  a  noise  about  that  Photoplay 
Theater  Press  Club.  Not  even  Jack  Nash  has  sat  up  and  answered  "Pres- 
ent" to  the  roll  call.  We  don't  want  to  start  it  and  we  are  not  going  to 
try,  but  it  seems  to  this  writer  that  if  the  publishers  of  the  local  house  or- 
gans would  get  together,  they  could  get  some  of  the  national  advertising. 
The  advertising  agency  that  handles  the  big  stuff  is  not  going  to  bother  with 
a  lot  of  two  and  three  thousand  circulation  sheets,  but  it  might  place  an 
advertisement  through  one  central  agency  that  could  offer  250,000  circula- 
tion weekly,  no  matter  how  it  might  be  cut  up. 

Not  a  Joke. 

The  Weekly  Bulletin  of  the  Pearce  Theater,  New  Orleans,  edited  by 
Benny  Pulitzer,  has  in  a  recent  issue  a  short  catechism  of  motion  pictures. 
It  is  intended  to  be  humorous,  but  there  are  a  couple  of  bits  of  wisdom  as 
well.     One  question  reads: 

What  can  a  manager  save  by  getting  cheaper  film  service? 
Tickets. 

There  it  is  in  a  nutshell.  Cut  down  the  cost  of  the  films  and  you  cut 
down  the  number  of  tickets  you  sell  and  a  thousand  roll  may  last  twice  as 
long  as  before.  If  you  pay  ten  dollars  less  for  service  and  your  receipts 
fall  off  fifteen  dollars,  where  is  the  saving? 

That's  food  for  thought  for  some  of  those  who  contemplate  cutting  down 
for  the  summer.  Summer  is  just  the  time  to  hustle  hardest  to  save  the 
business  you  need.    That  keeps  them  regulars  at  your  house  all  next  winter. 

Try  This,  Too. 

One  thing  we  most  decidedly  do  like  in  the  poster  is  this  line  across  the 
top: 

We  are  pleased  to  inform   the  public   we   are   members   of  the   Ex- 
hibitors' League  of  America. 
The  League's  object  is  to  give  the  best  pictures  always. 

Try  it  in  your  own  advertising  matter  and  show  that  the  League  does 
stand  for  what  is  good.  You  may  need  the  support  of  the  public  some  time 
when  some  freak  or  "hold-up"  legislation  threatens.  Begin  the  education  of 
the  voters  now;  right  this  minute. 

Claims   Copyright. 

Bertram  I,  Williams,  of  Ponca  City,  claims  copyright  on  "motonlmic," 
"Motofilm"  and  kindred  words.  It's  not  up  to  us,  but  we  are  willing. 
Here  is  the  latest: 

Motofilmic   Offering 
La  Magnifique 

It's  a  shame  to  leave  a  man  like  that  to  wilt  away  in  a  place  like  Ponca 
City,  Oklahoma.  He  explains  that  he  set  the  sheet  when  he  didn't  have 
much  to  do  and  it  looks  it.  There  is  about  a  mile  and  a  half  of  rule  and 
border  work  on  one  eight  by  ten  dodger.  It's  good  work,  too,  for  ■  Williams 
is  a  union  printer  as  well  as  a  union  electrician  and  union  operator. 

We  don't  believe. he  really  is  a  printer  for  he  sends  an  invitation  he  sent 
out  and  it  is  not  in  old  English  but  eighteen  point  type  shaded.  If  your 
printer  has  it,  try  it  some  time  when  you  want  to  suggest  engraved  play 
work  without  the  formal  lettering  of  Engravers'  Shaded.  It  doesn't  cost 
any  more  to  get  good  type  than  it  does  to  get  the  old  hackneyed  stuff. 
Spend  a  few  dollars  for  type  yourself  if  your  printer  will  not — or  change 
to-  an  enterprising  printer. 

Mrl.  Williams'  work  shows  what  a  practical  man  can  do  when  he  gets  in 
front  of  a  type  case.  He  knows  the  type  and  he  knows  what  the  photoplay 
thfeater  wants. 

Where  Credit  Is  Due. 

•We  take  pleasure  in  printing  this  letter  from  L.  W.  McChesney,  Adver- 
tising Manager  of  the  General  Film  Company: 

On  page  587  of  your  May  10th  issue  appears  an  article  entitled 
J     "Pie  and  Pictures."     In  it  special  mention  is  made  of  an  advertise- 
*     ment  used  by  Josiah   Pearce  &   Sons,   of  New  Orleans,  to  compare 
the  value  of  5  cent  and  10  cent  shows. 

While    our    relations    with    the    exhibitors    in    question    are    very 
pleasant,  I  think  it  only  fair  to  Mr.  Sargent  and  to  the  originator 
of    the    advertisement    in   question,    to    point    out    that    it   was   first 
used  in  the   Denver  Sunday  Post,   in  January.     The  enclosed  clip- 
ping will   substantiate  that  statement.      W.    W.   Hodkinson,    Special 
Representative    for   the    General    Film    Company,   is   the    originator 
of  the  idea,  and  with  the  writer,  prepared  the  copy  to  exploit  it. 
The  Pearce  Company  made  no  special  claim  as  to  the  story.     They  send 
in   their  bright,   little  sheet   each  week   and   we  comment   on   what  we   see. 
We  saw  this  and  credited  it  to  the  Pearce  Company  because  the  G.  F.  peo- 
ple were  sound  asleep.     Now  that  Mr.  McChesney  has  shown  that  he  knows 
of  this  department,  we  hope  that  he  will   send   his  good  things  in  first,  in- 
stead of  waiting  until  we  find  a  reprint  somewhere  else. 

Sometimes  He  Thinks. 

The  Majestic  Theater,  Bloomfield,  Iowa,  sends  in  some  sample  throw- 
aways  and  wants  an  opinion.  Our  opinion  is  that  sometimes  the  manager 
thinks  up  a  bill  and  at  other  times  just  writes  it.  As  an  example,  he  had 
the  Imp  "Dr.  Jekyll  and  Mr.  Hyde."  He  announced  the  reel  and  that 
King  Baggot  had  the  lead,  and  added: 

You  cannot  afford  to  miss  out  on  seeing  this  great  feature.     It 
will  interest  you  from  start  to  finish.     No  doubt  but  what  you  have 
read   the  story    of    "Dr.   Jekyll   and   Mr.    Hyde."      Now  see  it   in 
moving  pictures. 
But  when  he  had  the  same  company's  "Kathleen  Mavourneen,"  he  thought 
this  out: 

The  Imp  Company  present  a  picture  that  will  appeal  to  all  of 
Irish  blood — which  means  that  it  will  have  universal  appeal;  for 
Irish  plays,  like  Irish  songs,  reach  every  heart.  "Kathleen 
Mavourneen,"  the  authorship  cf  which  is  sometimes  attributed  to 
Dion   Boucicault,  bas  been  done  into  a  photoplay  in  three  reels  by 


Herbert  Erenon.  Mr.  Brenon  has  builded  carefully  and  well.  For 
a  foundation  he  created  atmosphere.  In  his  first  scene  it  was  notice- 
able. It  was  the  interior  of  an  Irish  cabin.  In  his  second  it  was 
marked.  A  bit  of  lane,  with  the  low-roofed  white  buildings, 
mentally  removes  you  to  a  little  Irish  village.  And  there  you  re- 
main until  the  end  of  the  play.  It  is  a  picture  that  will  hold  an 
audience: — and  send  it  home  in  a  happy  frame  of  mind. 

William  Shay  as  Terence  O'Moore,  and  Jane  Fearnly  as  Kathleen 
Mavourneen,  are  at  their  best,  supported  by  Frank  Smith,  Wm. 
Welch,  Robert  Ferguson,  Pred  Turner,  and  others. 

We  leave  it  to  himself  which  would  be  most  likely  to  get  his  own  ten 
cents  if  he  didn't  happen  to  be  running  the  house. 

That  he  is  alive  to  opportunity  is  shown  in  another  section  which  an- 
nounces that  a  complete  performance  will  be  given  after  the  school  com- 
mencement exercises. 

A  bill  is  worth  just  what  business  it  can  pull  in.  It  is  worth  nothing  if 
it  does  not  pull  business  and  the  mere  announcement  of  a  subject  is  un- 
likely to  rouse  much  interest.  Make  your  paper  talk.  The  idea  of  an 
advertisement  is  that  you  cannot  get  around  and  talk  everyone  into  coming 
to  see  your  show,  so  you  put  your  talk  on  paper  and  get  it  around  where 
you   cannot  go  yourself.     Make  your  paper  talk,  and  talk  interestingly. 

Warning. 

We  hereby  warn  Jack  Nash  that  we  will  not  read  his  blamed  old  Isis 
News  if  he  does  not  send  it  to  us.  We  have  had  one  issue  in  the  last 
three  weeks.     Will  he  please  take  notice. 

Now  Stallings  Has  One. 

A.  L.  Stallings,  of  the  Angelus  Theater,  Spanish  Forks,  Utah,  comes  out 
with  the  Angelus  News  that  is  a  twin  sister  to  the  Isis  News.  Evidently 
he  is  not  superstitious  for  he  has  thirteen  advertisements  in  the  first  issue. 
It  would  pay  to  cut  the  advertisements  on  the  back  page  from  the  film  an- 
nouncements with  the  use  of  column  rule.  Otherwise  the  sheet  is  attractive 
and  a  credit  to  the  management.  Mr.  Stallings  says  he  is  not  wholly  satis- 
fied with  the  looks  of  the  sheet,  but  that  he  has  found  out  a  lot  of  things. 
One  thing  he  has  probably  found  out  is  that  he  needs  a  blacker  impression. 
On  the  paper  he  uses  he  could  have  gotten  a  better  color.  It  will  be  issued 
every  second  weeK  for  the  present. 

Mr.  Stallings  is  getting  big  business  out  of  the  "Mary"  series.  It  would 
seem  that  this  series  has  made  more  money  for  the  managers,  as  a  whole, 
than  any  series  yet  put  out.  He  sends  some  samples  of  gelatine  slides  that 
we  are  passing  on  to  Mr.  Richardson,  who  shares  our  interest  in  such 
things.  They  are  printed  from  cuts  and  type  and  should  make  splendid 
slides. 

A  recent  accomplishment  was  an  Educational  Night  (on  a  Saturday,  at 
that),  under  the  supervision  of  the  Public  Schools.  The  program  included 
Lubin's  "The  Schoolmaster,"  Edison's  "Love  Among  the  Geysers"  and  some 
more  strictly  educational  subjects. 

Has  a  Separate  Press  Department. 

The  Turner  and  Dahnken  circuit  with  theaters  along  the  California  Coast 
and  headquarters  in  San  Francisco,  have  put  into  practice  a  scheme  we  sug- 
gested while  the  Kehrleins  were  with  them.  They  have  a  central  press 
department  with  its  own  printing  plant,  which  gets  out  all  the  printed  mat- 
ter for  the  circuit.  All  cuts,  etc.,  are  held  in  one  place,  one  composition 
covers  all  houses  and  the  house  is  entirely  independent  of  printers.  It  is 
an  excellent  scheme  and  we  a're  somewhat  surprised  that  so  few  circuits 
follow  the  idea.  We  would  like  to  hear  from  Melvin  G.  Winstock  on  this 
point. 

Convincing  Talk. 

Here  is  convincing  talk  from  'he  Casino  Theater,  Sydney,  X.  S.  You 
may  find  it  useful: 

WHILE  THE  COST  OF  LIVING  HAS  GONE  UP  THE 
PRICE  OF  GOOD  AMUSEMENT  HAS  COME  DOWN  until  to- 
day you  get  as  much  for  a  dime  as  you  would  ten  years  ago  for 
twenty  times  that  amount. 

THE  CASINO  MANAGEMENT  HAS  KEPT  TABS  on  the  cost 
of  the  program  provided  at  "Canada's  Best  Picture  Theater"  dur- 
ing the  last  two  weeks. 

IT  WILL  AMAZE  YOU  TO  LEARN  that  to  produce  the  30 
reels  of  pictures,  shown  in  this  theater  in  that  period,  required 
an  outlay  of  $45,000.  Getting  the  pictures  from  the  manufacturer 
to  the  screen,  together  with  the  cost  of  orchestra,  rent,  heat,  light, 
attendance,  advertising,  etc.,  amount  to  $800  more.  The  total 
cost   for  two  weeks  was  $45,800. 

This  makes  the  average  cost  of  each  program  (we  give  six 
changes  in  two  weeks)  amount  to  $7,633-33- 

IF  SOME  ONE  OFFERED  YOU  $7,000  WORTH  FOR  10  OR 
15  CENTS  would  you  not  embrace  the  offer? 

THE  CASINO  MAKES  YOU  THIS  OFFER  every  day  in  the 
week. 


KINEMACOLOR'S  NEW  CANADIAN  MANAGER. 
Douglas  Cooper  has  been  appointed  manager  of  the  Kine- 
macolor  Company  of  Canada,  Ltd.,  with  general  offices  at 
94  Bay  Street,  Toronto,  Ont.  Although  a  native  of  Ogdens- 
burg,  N.  Y.,  Mr.  Cooper  is  a  pioneer  picture  man  in  Canada, 
having  opened  the  first  Laemmle  film  exchange  in  Montreal, 
and  afterward  representing  George  Kleine.  He  was  man- 
ager of  the  Ontario  district  for  the  General  Film  Co.,  and 
afterwards  handled  Kinematograph  interests  in  Toronto. 
Mr.  Cooper  has  been  supplying  Canada  with  pictures  since 
1898  and  believes  that  Kinemacolor  will  be  the  cap  shear 
to  his  harvest  in  the  Dominion. 


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We  PHOTOPLAY  WRIGHT        \M 


Conducted  by  Epes  Wwthbop  Saboehst    ,-J^P 


Lubin  Still  Buying. 

IN    spite   of   a    statement  to   the  contrary,    there   seems    to   have   risen   the 
belief  that  the   additions   to  the   editorial   staff  at  the  Lubin   studio  has 
closed   that   market.      This   is   quite   the   reverse   of  true.      Lawrence    S. 
McCloskey,  the  editor,  writes: 

There  is  no  foundation  for  the  belief  that  we  are  cutting  down 
on  outside  purchases.  Any  good  story  submitted  will  be  bought, 
providing,  of  course,  that  it  is  otherwise  available  at  the  time.  Our 
aim  is  to  get  the  best  stories  possible,  and  by  best  is  meant  the 
best  idea  rather  than  perfect  technical  development.  If  the  story 
is  perfectly  stepped  out,  naturally  we  will  pay  more  for  it  than 
one  that  merely  contains  the  idea,  but  if  the  imperfectly  developed 
script  offers  one  good  idea  that  can  be  built  up,  we*ll  buy  and 
use  it  the  same  as  always.  The  idea  is  to  get  real  stories,  not  to 
use  my  stuff,  or  Hall's  or  Terwilliger's,  but  that  all  of  us  get  to- 
gether and  get  the  best  stittf  possible,  whetner  it  is  our  own  idea  or 
something  from  outside. 

To  put  it  in  other  words,  the  idea  of  employing  three  of  the  best 
writers  in  America  is  not  to  do  away  with  all  outside  purchases,  but  to 
insure  that  the  good  idea  imperfectly  developed  may  be  built  up  into  a 
really  worthy  story  by  a  man  who  can  write  a  good  story  himself  and 
so,  naturally,  knows  how  to  work  over  the  ideas  of  another.  Mr. 
McCloskey  alone  could  not  reconstruct  all  the  scripts  needed  by  the  large 
staff  of  directors,  and  it  was  found  that  turning  the  raw  script  over  to 
the  director  to  fix  up  in  the  intervals  of  production  did  not  always  work 
out  well.  By  increasing  the  staff,  the  great  idea  that  is  properly  shown  only 
in  one  or  two  scenes  can  be  fully  developed  by  a  man  who  knows  how,  an<l 
the  result  is  that  Lubin  stories  will  be  perfect  in  narrative  and  technical 
form.  They  will  all  be  as  good  as  the  original  work  of  the  man  making 
the  reconstruction  plus  a  greater  diversity  of  idea  than  is  possible  to  any 
three  men,  'no  matter  bow  clever  they  may  be. 

This  is  something  that  this  department  has  fought  for  ever  since  it  was 
started.  Lubin  and  Essanay  have  fallen  into  line.  The  others  must  join 
step  to  get  the  right  sort  of  stories.  It  will  be  some  weeks  yet  before  the 
results  of  the  new  system  will  show  on  the  screen  and  a  longer  time 
before  the  handicaps  of  a  new  system  may  be  overcome,  but  it  is  pretty 
safe  to  say  that  it  is  only  a  question  of  time  when  the  Lubin  stories  will 
take  the  lead  because  the  element  of  chance  has  been  removed  to  a  very 
large  extent. 


The  Inquest  Club. 

The  Inquest  Club  has  disbanded  for  the  summer.  The  attendance  at 
mcst  of  the  meetings  was  rather  lighter  than  was  anticipated  and  the 
meetings  will  not  be  resumed  in  the  fall  unless  a  larger  membership  comes 
forward.  The  club  was  useful  in  getting  the  script  writers  better  ac- 
quainted with  each  other,  and  we  should  like  to  see  the  meetings  resumed 
in  October,  but  this  will  not  be  done  unless  at  least  thirty  members  signify 
their    intention    of   being    present    at    most    meetings. 


Doing  Better. 

The  May  issue  of  the  Photoplay  Author  came  out  June  first,  but  the 
June  issue  will  be  along  very  shortly.  New  blood  has  very  materially 
braced  up  the  appearance  of  the  sheet  and  a  better  grade  of  paper  and  a 
cover  design  help  to  give  the  appearance  of  a  regular  paper.  The  May 
issue  is  a  "Leeds"  number  and  carries  an  article  on  the  Selig  studio 
by  that  writer  and  an  article  about  him  by  Ernest  Newton  Bagg.  The 
first  of  a  series  of  articles  on  Photoplay  by  Mr.  Leeds  and  Dr.  J.  Berg 
Esenwein,  is  given  to  a  discussion  of  "What  is  a  Photoplay?"  and  Homer 
Croy,  of  the  Judge  company,  contributes  an  article  on  "How  to  Handle 
Humor."  A  new  department  handles  the  inquiries  of  the  photoplay 
writer  and  the   market   tips  are   clean  cut  and   reliable. 


Har!  Har! 

The   Photoplay    Author    man    means    well,   but  he   gives   this   advice    to    a 
photoplay    writer: 

If  you   are  not    otherwise   employed,   why   not   try   to   pick   up   a 
few  points  of  studio  method  by   working  as  an   extra   with  one  of 
the  big  companies?     Some  things  may  be  learned  by  just  watching 
that  a  text  book  could  never  teach. 
That's    most    excellent    advice — and    true,    but    will    the    P.    A.    Answers 
Man  please  proceed  to  explain  just  how  the  person  advised  is  going  to  get 
that    job    as    extra    with   about    eleven    thousand   persons    ahead   of    him    on 
the  waiting  list?     That's  the  important  part;   getting  the  job. 


When  Uncle  John  Was  Young. 

When  Uncle  John  was  a  young  chap  he  may  have  had  a  lot  of  things 
happen  to  him  and  now  that  he  knows  you  are  writing  photoplays  he 
will  be  eager  to  tell  you  all  about  them  so  you  can  write  them  up. 

Don't  do  it. 

In  the  first  place  you  will  be  writing  to  please  Uncle  John  instead  of 
some  editor  and  in  the  second  place  it  is  not  probable  that  Uncle  John 
was  utterly  alone   in  having  such   an   experience. 

Use    your    imagination;    not    yo'.ir    L'ncle. 


Hennessy    Quits. 

George  Hennessy   has  quit. 

Hennessy  has  written  a  hundred  or  more  Biograpli  successes,  not  to 
count  contribution^  to  other  companies.  A  couple  of  months  ago  the 
school  idea  worked  inself  into  his  brain.  He  figured  that  if  some  of 
the  schools  could  make  ,  money  by  the  bushel  with  poor  lesson  papers 
and  uninformed  criticisms,  he  should  be  able  to  do  even  better  by  really 
telling. 

With  no  particular  blare  of  trumpets  he  prepared  his  lesson  papers  and 
quietly  put  in  some  test  adsV  He  got  all  sorts  of  answers.  | ! 
was  a  simple  one.  You  could  have  the  first  course  for  a  stated  sum. 
When  you  passed  the  examination  you  would  be  given  the  advanced  course 
He  didn't  intend  merely  to  hand  out  the  lessons  and  take  the  money. 
The  student  must  prove  himself. 

He  came  in  the  other  day  with  the  flat  footed  statement  that  no 
decent  man  could  make  an  honest  living  out  of  a  photoplay  school. 
"There's  a  lot  of  money  in  it,"  he  avers,  "but  ii  is  the  money  of  men 
and  women  who  could  not — in  a  thousand  lessons — learn  to  write.  The 
letters  of  most  of  them  show  on  the  face  the  absolute  incompetency 
of  the  writer.  It  is  no  more  than  theft  to  take  their  money,  for 
nothing   worth   while  can   be   given   in    return." 

And  it  is  not  just  that  Hennessy's  would-be  clients  differ  from  others. 
Read   this  from   an   interview    with    Lawrence    S.    McCloskey: 

Fifty  per  cent,  of  the  bad  scripts  are  directly  due  to  the  correspon- 
dence schools,  of  scenario  writers.  These  schools  can  readily  com- 
prehend from  the  letters  of  the  applicants  that  scenario  writing  is 
impossible  for  them.  Yet  the  schools  accept  their  money  and  con- 
sequently we  are   flooaed   with   useless  scripts. 

Arthur  Leeds  and  Dr.  J.  Berg  Esenwein  are  working  on  a  book  for  a 
course  of  lessons  by  Mr.  Leeds.  We  are  inclined  to  think  that  this  will 
be  decently  administered  because  it  will  not  be  run  as  a  graft,  but  it  is 
\ery  plain  that  most  of  the  correspondence  schools  first  He  to  their 
would-be  pupils  and  then  swindle  them. 


The  Boston  Circle. 
The  Boston   Circle.     From   Left  to   Right,  Top — Miss   Cora 
Drew,   Mrs.   Edna   Nichols   Cory;   Bottom   Row — Miss   H. 
Virginia     Gormly,     Dick     Cotton,     Miss     Bernice     Clyde 
Flanders. 

We  publish  this  week  a  picture  of  the  Boston  circle  of  photoplay  writers, 
contributary  to  the  Inquest  Club,  though  the  circle  has  been  in  existence 
longer  thin  the  supposedly  parent  organization.  The  circle  was  founded 
by  Miss  Cora  Drew  and  at  one  time  boasted  a  larger  membership,  but  these 
are  the  faithful.  Miss  Flanders  is  the  most  successful  of  the  group  and 
has  written  many  accepted  photoplays.  Mr.  Cotton  and  Miss  dormley  have 
met  with  reasonable  success.  The  other  members  have  still  their  spurs  to 
win,    but  they   are  studying  and   profiting  by   their  study. 

Practice. 

Just    because    we   advised    a    beginner   not    to    try    and    sell    scripts    for   a 
while  but  to  write  for  practice,  he  came  back  at  us  with  these  few  remarks: 
I  don't  see  why  I  can't  try  to  sell  the  scripts  I  write  and  I  don't 
see  any  use  in  writing  a   lot  of  photoplays  and  not  trying  to  sell 
them.     That  won't  help  me  any.     I  want  to  see  if  my  plays  will  sell. 
If   they    don't    sell    then    I'll    send   them    to    you    to    be    criticised. 
There   are  a  lot   of   others   who    feel   the   same  way  about  it.     They   do 
not    see    the   necessity   for   practice.      They   want   to   buy  a   school   onirse   or 
a  copy   of  some  book,   read  it  over  once  and   then   proceed   to   write   scripts 
that  will  sell. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


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The  reason  we  advise  practice  is  that  practice,  and  only  practice,  can  bring 
perfection.  If  you  start  to  cut  up  a  lot  of  soap  boxes  into  kindlings  you 
niskc  a  better  job  of  the  last  box  than  you  do  of  the  first,  for  the  practice 
you  have  had  in  knocking  the  boxes  apart  and  cutting  them  up  shows  you 
just  the  best  way  to  do  it.  After  a  time,  if  the  supply  of  boxes  last, 
you'll  be  so  expert  that  you  can't  do  much  better,  but  you  will  have 
arrived  at  that  point  of  expert  soap  box  chopper  only  through  practice. 
-Some  man  of  riper  experience  may  help  you  a  little  by  showing  you  how  it 
should  be  done,  but  you  must  chop  up  a  few  boxes  yourself  before  you 
can  ''get  the  hang  of  it."     Jn  other  words  you  must  practice. 

You  would  not  expect  to  buy  a  book  on  "How  to  Make  Shoes,"  pur- 
chase a  set  of  tools  and  a  side  of  leather  and  start  right  in  to  sell  shoes. 
Why  should  anyone  imagine  that  it  is  any  easier  to  write  a  photoplay 
than  to  make  shoes? 

Instead  of  bending  your  energies  to  selling  your  first  script,  put  the 
same  effort  into  other  stories.  Write  them  until  you  get  the  hang  of 
the  thing,  and  the  probabilities  are  that  you'll  not  try  to  market  the  first 
script  until  you  have  rewritten  it.  It  looked  all  right  when  you  wrote  it, 
but  in  the  light  of  the  newer  and  better  scripts,  that  first  script  looks  but 
a  sorry  thing,  for  you  have  gained  experience  through  practice;  you  know 
now  that  the  initial  work  was  bad  because  you  cannot  but  improve  if  you 
work  long  enough  and  hard  enough. 

Criticism  is  helpful  only  in  proportion  to  your  ability  to  assimilate  it. 
It  is  no  short  cut  to  success  that  will  permit  you  to  eliminate  the  laborious 
practice  writing. 

In  photoplay  there  are  many  things  that  no  one  can  do  for  you,  and 
thinking  and  practicing'  are  the  most  important  of  these.  You  must  learn 
to  originate  your  own  plots,  and  you  must  learn  to  develop  these  plots 
into  plays.  A  good  book  on  technique  can  give  you  the  rules  and  criticism 
can  tell  you  if  you  are  applying  those  rules  properly,  but  neither  book  nor 
course  nor  criticism  can  materially  shorten  your  actual  apprenticeship.  It 
can  help  you  to  avoid  unnecessary  work,  but  it  cannot  help  you  to  escape 
the  necessity  for  doing  the  work  you  must  do  if  you  would  win  success. 
Your  natural  adaptability  may  shorten  the  period  of  your  apprenticship,  but 
it  will  not  enable  you  to  entirely  escape  the  drudgery  that  lies  behind  ac- 
complishment. 

That's  why  we  advise  practice,  because  it's  absolutely  necessary. 


The   Literary   Loafer. 

We  have  at  last  succeeded  in  classifying  a  type  of  pseudo  photoplay 
writer  who  is  in  a  class  altogether  too  large.  We  call  him — or  her — the 
literary  loafer. 

Loafer  is  not  a  pretty  name,  but  it  fits  the  person  who  forever  wants 
some  one  else  to  do  the  work  he  should  do.  They  are  attracted  to  photo- 
play by  the  announcement  that  it  takes  no  skill  to  write  plays.  To  read 
some  of  the  correspondence  school  literature,  all  you  have  to  do  is  to  buy 
a  course  and  some  paper  and  earn  from  fifty  to  a  hundred  dollars  a  week. 
Some  do  not  even  buy  a  course.  They  sit  down  and  write  someone 
whose  name  is  mentioned  in  some  connection.  It  is  the  same  old  appeal. 
"You  have  made  such  a  splendid  success  and  I  have  enjoyed  your  "The 
Poisoned  Pup*  so  much.  Won't  you  please  let  me  have  the  carbon  of  the 
story,  as  I  am  a  mere  novice." 

It  is  seldom  that  a  script  is  forthcoming,  but  every  writer  who  has 
arrived  is  willing  to  give  a  helping  hand.  If  the  script  is  sent,  it  is 
slavishly  imitated,  but  no  sales  result.  Presently  the  loafer  emerges  from 
the  embryo .  stage  into  the  full  fledged  specimen.  It  is  too  hard  work 
to  learn  how  to  write  scripts  that  sell,  so  another  letter  is  written.  This 
time  it  runs  something  like  this: 

"Will  you  please  take  my  script  and  make  it  salable  and  sell  it.  I 
am  willing  to   give  you  half  of  all  you   make." 

That's  the  literary  loafer.  He  sits  back  on  his  limp  spine  and  wants 
someone  else  to  do  his  work  for  him.  He  is  not  willing  to  do  the  hard 
work  of  preparation  that  lies  before  the  success  that  work  will  bring. 
He  wants  to  grind  out  his  piffle  and  send  it  to  someone  else  to  whip  into 
shape  and  sell  for  him.  He  wants  the  reputation  and  half  the  profit. 
He  is  willing  to  give  the  other  half  of  the  money  to  the  man  who  does 
all   the  work. 

It  is  one  of  the  peculiarities  of  photoplay  that  it  is  the  one  branch  of 
literature  in  which  style  counts  for  nothing.  If  the  business  is  adroitly 
worked  and  the  idea  is  new,  the  style  does  not  matter,  and  therefore  the 
loafer  does  not  have  the  excuse  that  the  literary  "tipster"  possessed; 
that  he  has  ideas  but  no  style.  Any  person  really  competent  to  think  out 
really  good  plots  is  competent  to  develop  those  plots  into  plays  after 
proper  practice,  but  the  loafer  is  not  willing  to  face  the  hard  work.  He 
wants  the  glory  and  the  money,  but  he  does  not  want  the  work  and  so  he 
floats  along,  offering  his  proposition  to  anyone  likely  to  accept  it  and  wonder- 
ing why  men  like  Emmett  Campbell i  Hall,  George  Terwilliger,  Pop  Hoadley 
or  others  of  that  class  will  not  jump  at  the  proposition.  They  don't  even 
take  the  trouble  to  evolve  decent  ideas,  they  just  hash  up  a  conglomeration 
of  several  of  the  best  plays  they  have  seen  and  let  it  go  at  that. 

There  is  no  place  in  photoplay  for  the  loafer.  The  honors  go  to  the 
workers  and  they  are  too  busy  developing  their  own  ideas  to  spend  twice 
as  much  time  on  another  script  for  half  the  money. 

If  success  is  worth  having,  work  for  it.  That's  what  makes  it  worth 
while. 


Training  the  Imagination. 

When  you  have  nothing  in  particular  to  do  and  want  to  find  some 
occupation,  why  not  take  your  imagination  out  and  give  it  a  romp?  If 
you  kept  a  dog  shut  up  in  a  kennel  all  the  time  he  would  s'oon  lose 
the  full  use  of  his  legs.  Your  imagination  needs  exercise,  too.  Take  some 
film  story  you  have  seen  or  read  about.  See  how  many  different  climaxes 
you  can  fit  to  that  start  and  how  many  starts  you  can  get  to  fit  that 
climax.  After  a  time  you'll  have  your  imagination  in  trim  for  a  script 
at    almost   any   time. 


One  Did 

A  correspondent  in  Berkeley,  California,  writes  that  he  has  made  a  bet 
that  he  can  write  and  sell  a  photoplay  inside  of  seventeen  years,  and 
wants  to  know  if  we  think  he  can  win.  We  are  afraid  the  gentlemen  is 
kidding  us,  but  to  cheer  him  along  his  way  we  would  tell  of  a  man  in 
Seattle  who,  on  a  bet,  wrote  and  sold  three  plays.  He  wrote  all  three 
in  one  day  and  he  says  that  two  sold  for  $25  each  and  the  third   for  $15. 

But  the   Seattle   man  is  not   content.     He   writes: 

No    photoplay    ever    written   was    worth   just   fifteen    dollars.      If 
it  is  not  worth   ten  times  that  much   it  is  worth  nothing. 
Some  day  some  firm  is  going  to  send  out  notice  to  all  who  dabble 
at  play  writing  that  thereafter  it  will  not  pay  less  than  one  hundred 
dollars  for  a  script. 

The  writer  goes  on  to  argue  that  that  firm  will  have  the  bulk  of  film 
sales   until   others  make  a   similar   offer. 

Nine  tenths  of  the  companies  are  willing  right  now  to  pay  one  hundred 
dollars  for  a  hundred  dollar  script.  The  trouble  is  that  they  cannot  get 
them. 

The  price  offered  has  nothing  to  do  with  the  case.  If  the  man  who 
wants  a  hundred  dollars  apiece  for  the  scripts  he  writes  will  write  hundred 
dollar  scripts,  it'  will  not  be  long  before  he  can  raise  his  price  and  get 
the  hundred,  but  if  he  must  be  coaxed  with  the  hundred  dollar  bid  he 
will  keep  on  waiting.  Our  correspondent  reminds  us  of  Jimmie  Russell 
of  the  Russell  Brothers,  who  couldn't  remember  a  name,  but  thought  he 
might  for  two  dollars.  Such  talk  is  rot.  Raise  the  standard  and  the  price 
will  raise  itself. 


Inquiries 


NOTE — No  questions  can  be  replied  to  by  mail.  Look  for  your  answers 
here.  A  list  of  addresses  to  which  photoplays  may  be  sent  will  be  mailed 
on  receipt  of  a  STAMPED  AND  ADDRESSED   ENVELOPE. 

RICHARD  ROE — We  lack  that  Nestor  east.  Miss  Jessie  McAllister  wa» 
the  Village  Gossip  In  "Hulda  of  Holland."  Kalem  did  not  make  "A  Yellow- 
Streak."  The  reason  the  Edison  titles  do  not  remain  on  the  screen  long" 
enough,  Is  perhaps  because  the  reels  are  run  through  too  fast.  Try  and 
change  to  a  house  where  they  are  run  at  proper  speed,  both  for  the  sake  of 
titles  and  pictures. 

EARNEST  BEGINNER — The  best  way  t<5  study  photoplay  form  is  to  wait 
and  get  a  copy  of  the  new  "Technique  of  the  Photoplay,"  or  borrow  an  old 
copy.  The  place  to  study  photoplay  is  in  the  photoplay  theater.  See  how 
the  successful  play  is  done,  and  why  another  is  a  failure.  Then  you'll  know 
what  to  do  and  what  to  avoid.     That's  the  only  real  course. 

J.  M.  G. — "The  Dead  Man's  Child"  was  made  in  Denmark.  We  do  not  get 
the  casts  of  the  foreign  players.  The  kind  of  stories  that  are  acceptable  to 
film  makers  are  the  kind  they  buy.  To  find  the  kind  they  buy  read  the 
Stories  of  the  Films  each  week.  From  $10  to  $50  are  paid  for  plays.  In 
some  cases  more  is  given. 

A.  L.  C. — The  Los  Angeles  gossip  was  crowded  out  by  more  insistent  matter. 

B.  J.  N. — The  Information  you  ask  for  is  not  at  hand.  The  independent 
companies  do  not  print  their  casts  regularly. 

MRS.  E.   C— «We  have  no  Pilot  casts. 

W.   H. — The  Duncan  section  of  the  Selig  Company   Is  In  Los  Angeles.     We 
do  not  know  whether  or  not  Mr.  Kerrigan  owns  his  own  automobile  or  not. 
F.  B. — Miss  Lottie  Piekford  is  now  located  with  Pilot. 

C.  H.  N. — Texas  Gorman  was  the  lover  In  "The  Perfidy  of  Mary."  We 
have  not  the  cast  for  "The  Left-Hauded  Man."  Henry  Hyde  was  the  rich 
young  man  in  "The  Lady  and  the  Mouse."  Henry  Walthall  was  the  tender- 
foot in  "The  Tenderfoot's  Money."  Alfred  Paget  was  the  leader  of  the 
Indians  in  "The  Vaqui  Cur."  Frank  Opperman  was  the  thin  friend  of  the 
plump  Lionel  Barry  more.  We  have  no  information  as  to  the  order  of 
deaths  in  "Just  Gold." 

B.  L,  D. — In  "For  the  Flag,"  Richard  Stanton  was  Lieut.  Ashford,  and  Miss 
Anna  Little  was  Winnie.    Shy  the  other  cast. 

ANTHONY— Why  send  us  five  cents?  Keep  your  small  change.  And  do 
not  ask  asinine  questions.  Send  them  to  the  M.  P.  Magazine,  as  you  have 
been  doing.  "The  Sea  Maiden,"  May  10,  was  the  first  Vitagraph  release 
with  Edwin  August. 

R,   H.— We  do  not  know  Mr.   Moore's  present  connection. 

J.   M.   S. — It  is  not  forbidden  to  take  such  a  paragraph  as  you  send  and 
work   a   play   from   it,   but   there  is   the  likelihood   that  others  may  use   th«» 
same  paragraph.     It  is  safer  not  to,  but  there  is  neither  civic  nor  moral  law 
to  prevent  you  from  doing  what  you  wish  with  this  sort  of  material. 

D.  D, — See  R.  H, — It  was  not  Tom  Moore  you  saw  in  Imp.  Marriage  is  a 
thing  we  cannot  discuss.  That  also  goes  in  regard  to  relationships.  Harold 
Lockwood  played  opposite  Miss  Williams  in  "Lieut.  Jones." 

R.  A.  D. — American  did  not  cast  "Ashes  of  Three."  Note  the  rest  of 
your  letter  with  interest,  but  it  does  not  belbng  in  here. 

F,  E.  R. — Ask  Mr.  Wesley  for  the  proper  title  of  that  film. 

B.  D.  P.— -It  is  best  to  submit  Ideas  in  photoplay  form,  which  Is  with  a 
short  synopsis  and  then  the  action  scene  by  scene. 

E.  G.  M. — When  Kay-Bee  calls  it  "A  Black  Conspiracy,"  do  not  try  to 
improve  on  their  work  by  calling  it  "A  Colored  Conspiracy."  The  Answers 
Man  works  from  cards,  and  looks  in  C  instead  of  B.  Miss  Mildred  Bracken 
was  Grace  White,  and  Richard  Stanton,  John  Tivers.  In  "With  Lee  in  Vir- 
ginia," Miss  Anna  Little  was  Miss  Blair,  and  Joe  King  played  Billy  Gerard. 

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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


Projection  Department 


Edited  by  F.   H.  RICHARDSON 


British    Columbia's    Regulations    for    Operation    of    Moving 
Picture   Machines. 

THE  Province  of  British  Columbia,  Canada,  has  passed  the  following 
regulations  governing  the  operation  of  moving  picture  machines.  In 
this  connection,  while  I  shall  severely  criticise  many  of  the  provisions. 
I  want  to  compliment  the  authorities  of  British  Columbia  on  being,  so  far 
as  I  know,  the  first  to  break  away  from  the  "booth"  idea,  and  dignify  the 
operator's  domain  by  the  official  word  "room"  or  "cabinet."  And  now  for 
criticism: 

In  Section  1,  the  word  length  is  mis-applied.  The  length  of  the  operating 
room  is  always  understood  to  mean  the  way  the  machine  sets,  and  its  width 
the  other  way. 

Section  2  gives  very  minutely  detailed  instruction  for  the  construction  of 
asbestos  rooms,  and,  by  its  wording  would,  so  far  as  I  can  see,  forbid  the 
construction  of  a  brick,  cpncrete  or  hollow  tile  operating  room  in  a  new 
theater  building,  although  either  of  these  forms  of  construction  is  by  far, 
superior  to  that  given.  It  looks  very  much  as  though  the  asbestos  operating 
room  makers  had  interviewed  the  law  makers  of  British  Columbia,  even  as 
I  think  they  seem  to  have  interviewed  the  law  makers  of  many  of  our 
own  state*  and  municipalities.  Section  2  also  provides  an  eight  inch  vent 
jlue,  and  that  the  wall  shutters  be  hung  on  fusible  links,  which  provisions 
are  in  the  nature  of  a  joke,  so  far  as  real  fire  protection  be  concerned.  The 
vent  flue  should  not  be  less  than  18  inches  in  diameter  and  the  cords  sus- 
pending the  shutter  should  be  brought  doivn  over  the  aperture  of  the  ma- 
chine and  over  the  film  box  so  that  they  will  instantly  be  severed  and  thus 
automatically  close  the  shutters,  within  .two  seconds  of  the  starting  of  a 
fire  at  either  place.  Once  let  the  audience  catch  sight  of  smoke  or  blaze 
and  your  fireproof  operating  room  will  not  protect  them  from  the  resultant 
stampede.  How  often  must  we  point  out  to  officials  the  utter  asininity  of 
banging  wall  shutters  with  a  fusible  link  without  bringing  that  link  right 
•down  over  the  aperture  of  the  machines,  and  over  the  film  box,  where  any 
fire  that  starts  would  melt  it  instantly,  and  drop  the  shutters  within  two 
seconds  of  the  starting  of  a  fire,  at  the  same  time  providing  vent  flue  of 
sufficient  size  to  carry  off  all  smoke  and  blaze,  thus  turning  the  operating 
room  into  a  regular  stove,  in  which  film  can  be  burned  without  the  audience 
being  aware  that  there  is  a  fire  in  the  house.  We  also  note  that  British 
.Columbia  has  followed  in  the  footsteps  of  others  and  perpetrated  the  four- 
inch-wide,  1  ^-inch-high  observation  port  outrage,  which  not  only  makes  mat* 
tcrs  unnecessarily  uncomfortable  for  the  operator,  but  also  insures  poor 
.  results  on  the  screen.  There  is  no  common  sense  in  such  a  provision  as 
this,  and  if  the  lawmakers,  who  presume  to  set  themselves  up  as  regulators 
for  such  things,  would  take  the  pains  to  inform  themselves  before  gravely 
enacting  into  law  such  very  bad  jokes  as  this,  perhaps  the  aforesaid  poor 
jokes  would  not  be  perpetrated  at  all.  But  they  do  not  and,  as  a  conse- 
quence, British  Columbia  operators  will  have  to  look  crcss-eyed  in  order  to 
see  their  picture.  I  would  respectfully  refer  the  British  Columbia  law 
makers  who  sprung  this  ordinance,  to  page  74  of  the  Handbook.  I  would 
also  suggest  that  some  good  husky  British  Columbia  operator  hunt  up  the 
gentleman  who  drafted  the  ordinance  and  rub  his  nose  on  the  illustration 
■  on  that  page  and  the  reading  matter  that  goes  with  it. 

Section  7  says  that  the  shutter  shall  be  installed  in  front  of  the  con- 
denser lens  hood.  This  requirement  knocks  oul  the  dowser  of  all  the  ma- 
chines, except,  I  think,  the  Edison,  since  all  the  rest  of  them  have  the 
dowser  behind  the  hood  next  the  condenser.    Piffle! 

Section  8  says,  in  speaking  of  arc  lamphouses,  that  mica  must  be  used 
for  frame  insulation.  I  wonder  what  they  mean  by  that.  It  also  says  the 
self-closing  doors  shall  be  provided  on  the  side  and  rear  of  the  lamphouse. 
Huhl  Self-closing  doors  on  a  lamphouse  were  long  since  discarded,  and  I 
do  not  know  of  a  lamphouse  made  which  has  a  door  in  the  back. 

As  to  Section  17,  I  would  respectfully  suggest  the  addition  of  the  word 
"ripe,"  between  the  words  full  and  age,  with  a  comma  after  full.  Under 
Section  17,  the  operator  cpuld  not  even  have  his  book  of  instructions  in  the 
room. 

The  ordinance  reads  as  follows: 

Every  owner,  lessee,  user,  exhibitor,  and  operator  of  a  kinematograph, 
moving-picture  machine,  or  other  similar  apparatus,  including  every  ap- 
prentice or  assistant  employed  in  connection  therewith,  shall  observe  the 
following  regulations: 

1.  The  room  or  cabinet  in  which  any  kinematograph,  moving-picture  ma- 
chine, or  other  similar  apparatus  shall  be  placed  for  purposes  of  operation 
shall  be  at  least  7  feet  high,  the  floor-space  to  vary  according  to  the  num- 
ber of  machines  so  placed  therein,  as   follows: 

One  picture-machine,  not  less  than   6   feet   by  8   feet. 

Two  picture-machines,  not  less  than  0  feet  by  8  feet. 

And  for  each  additional  machine,  add. 3  feet  to  length. 

a.  The  room  or  cabinet  in  which  any  kinematograph,  moving-picture  ma- 
chine, or  other  similar  apparatus  Shall  be  placed  tor  purposes  of  operation 
shall  be  constructed  in  accordance  with,  the  following  requirements: 

Frame. — To  be  made  of  at  least  i}4-inch  by  ij^-inch  by  J4-inch  angle  or 
tee  irons,  as  follows: 

Four  outside  horizontal,  members  at  top  and  bottom.    . 

Four  corner  uprights. 

Intermediate  uprights  on  sides  and  intermediate  members  on  roofs  not 
to  be  spaced  more  than  2  feet  between  centers. 

A  tee-iron  to  be  placed  throughout  the  length  of  each  horizontal  joint  of 
asbestos  board  lining  the  room  or  cabinet. 

Main  doorway  or  entrance  to  be  at  least  2  feet  wide  by  at  least  6  feet 
high,  with  an  angle-iron  framing.     The  main  door  shall  be  hung  on  at  least 


two  heavy  hinges  and  arranged  to  open  outward  and  to  close  against  a 
substantial  metal  rabbet,  overlapping  on  sides,  top,  and  bottom  at  least  2 
inches.  The  door  shall  also  be  provided  with  a  substantial  spring  which 
will  keep  it  tightly  closed. 

All  joints  in  frame  to  be  made  with  3/16-inch  steel  plates,  to  which  each 
angle  or  tee  iron  shall  be  riveted  or  bolted  by  the  use  of  at  least  two  J4- 
inch  bolts  or  rivets;  all  bolts  or  rivets  to  ha«.re  fiat  heads,  said  heads  al- 
ways to  be  placed  on  exterior  side  of  cabinet  and  to  be  properly  countersunk. 

Covering  of  Cabinet. — Sides  and  top  of  such  room  or  cabinet  and  main 
door  shall  be  covered  on  the  outside  with  hard  asbestos  boards  of  at  least 
Yx  inch  thickness.  The  asbestos  shall  be  so  cut  and  arranged  that  all  joints 
between  boards  shall  come  over  an  angle  or  tee  iron,  to  which  the  asbestos 
shall  be  securely  fastened  by  means  of  proper  bolts  and  nuts,  said  bolts  to 
be  spaced  not  more  than  6  inches  apart. 

Flooring. — The  floor  of  such  room  or  cabinet  shall  be  made  of  two  parts, 
an  upper  and  a  lower  floor.  The  lower  floor  may  be  made  of  wood  flooring 
of  "fa  inch  minimum  thickness,  and  must  be  supported  on  the  lower  legs  of 
the  lowest  horizontal  angle-irons.  Resting  on  this  floor  shall  be  a  floor 
made  of  hard  asbestos  board  of  $i  inch  minimum  thickness  to  be  covered, 
if  advisable,  with  lock-jointed  metal  of  not  less  than  24  B.  &  S.  gauge. 

Openings. — There  shall  not  be  more  than  two  openings  in  such  room  or 
cabinet  for  each  picture-machine  installed — one  to  provide  for  observation 
of  the  screen  by  the  operator,  and  one  to  permit  of  projection  of  the  light- 
beam  of  the  machine;  no  other  openings,  with  the  exception  of  the  main 
or  entrance  door  and  one  ventilator  opening  in  roof,  will  be  permitted  in 
such  room  or  cabinet.  An  opening  for  the  projection  of  the  light-beam  of 
a  machine  shall  not  be  more  than  6  inches  high  and  12  inches  long.  An 
opening  to  permit  of  observation  of  the  screen  by  the  operator  shall  not  be 
more  than  a  inches  wide  or  more  than  12  inches  high.  All  such  openings  in 
room  or  cabinet  shall  be  provided  with  gravity  doors  constructed  of  metal 
not  less  than  3/16  inch  in  thickness.  When  closed,  said  doors  shall  overlap 
the  openings  at  least  2  inches  on  all  sides,  and  be  arranged  to  slide,  with- 
out binding,  in  properly  constructed  grooves;  said  doors  to  be  held  open 
normally  by  use  of  a  fine  combustible  cord  fastened  to  a  fusible  link  which 
will  melt  at  a  temperature  of  1600  Fahr.,  or  in  the  alternative  said  doors 
shall  be  held  open  normally  by  use  of  an  approved  mechanical  tripping  de- 
vice arranged  with  a  fusible  link  which  will  melt  at  a  temperature  of  1600' 
Fahr.  In  either  case  the  equipment  to  be  so  arranged  that  the  doors  may 
be  easily  released  and  closed  by  hand.  Operators  shall  release  and  close 
the  doors  once  every  working-day,  and  all  such  doors  and  equipment  shall 
be  continuously  maintained  in  first-class  working-order. 

Shelves. — All  shelves,  furniture,  and  fixtures  Within  such  operating  room 
or  cabinet  shall  be  constructed  of  incombustible  material,  or,  in  the  event  of 
any  wooden  fitting  being  permitted  by  any  officer  required  by  chapter  72 
of  the  Statutes  of  British  Columbia  for  the  year  1913  to  enforce  the  regu- 
lations passed  thereunder,  such  fitting  shall  be  covered  with  incombustible 
material  in  a  manner  approved  by  such  officer. 

Near  the  center  of  the  roof  of  such  operating  room  or  cabinet  shall  be  a 
circular  opening  of  not  less  than  8  inches  in  diameter;  the  upper  side  of  said 
opening  to  be  provided  with  an  iron  flange,  which  flange  is  to  be  securely 
fastened  to  the  angle  or  tee  irons  supporting  the  roof.  Securely  fastened  to 
this  flange  shall  be  a  riveted  metal  vent-pipe  of  not  less  than  8  inches  in 
diameter,  said  pipe  to  lead  to  the  outside  of  the  building  or  to  a  special  in- 
combustible vent-flue;  all  parts  of  vent-pipe  to  be  at  least  6  inches  from  any 
combustible  material. 

The  exterior  covering,  if  any,  of  every  operating  room  or  cabinet  in 
which  any  kinematograph,  moving-picture  machine,  or  other  similar  apparatus 
is  used  in  any  theater,  hall,  or  other  building  for  the  purposes  of  public  en- 
tertainment shall  be  of  expanded  metal  and  hard  plaster:  Provided  that  in 
case  any  theater,  hall,  or  other  building  shall,  at  the  date  of  the  coming  into 
force  of  said  chapter  j2,  be  providea  with  an  operating  room  or  cabinet 
differing  in  construction  from  what  is  herein  provided,  which  is  approved 
upon  inspection  by  the  Censor  appointed  under  said  chapter  72  as  being 
of  a  reasonably  safe  fireproof  construction,  the  said  operating  room  or 
cabinet  shall,  so  long  as  such  approval  of -the  Censor  be  not  cancelled  or 
withdrawn,  be  deemed  a  sufficient  compliance  with  these  regulations  so  .far 
as  the  same  relate  to  the  construction  thereof. 

3.  No  portable  operating-cabinet  shall  be  used  in  any  theater,  hall,  or 
building  in  British  Columbia  wherein  moving  pictures  are  regularly  dis- 
played to  the  public.  Portable  cabinets  conforming  to  the  standard  of  con- 
struction specified  in  these  Regulations  for  such  cabinets,  or  portable  cabinets 
of  a  type  approved  in  writing  by  any  officer  required  by  said  chapter  72  to 
enforce  the  regulations  passed  thereunder,  may  be  used  in  a  building  not 
equipped  with  permanent  operating  rooms  or  cabinets,  provided  written  per- 
mission for  such  use  is  obtained  from  such  officer;  such  permission  not  to 
cover  a  period  of  time  exceeding  six  successive  days. 

4.  Portable  Cabinets. — All  portable  cabinets  used  in  British  Columbia  in 
connection  with  the  display  of  moving  pictures  to  the  public  shall  conform 
to  the  specifications  provided  in  these  Regulations  for  the  construction  of 
a  permanent  operating  room  or  cabinet,  with  the  following  exceptions: 

Intermediate  uprights  may  be  spaced  every  4  feet  apart. 

Special  means  of  ventilation  need  not  be  provided,  except  that  in  every 
portable  cabinet  there  shall  be  an  opening  in  the  roof  of  same  for>  ventila- 
tion; this  opening  to  be  at  least  8  inches  in  diameter,  and  above  said  open- 
ing there  shall  be  a  solderless  metal  sleeve  at  least  8  inches  in  diameter 
and  at  least  18  inches  in.  height;  said  metal  sleeve  to  be  provided  at  its  top 
with  a  ventilating-cap. 

Portable  cabinets  may  be  made  in  a  folding  type  so  constructed  that  when 
assembled  they  will  be  rigid  and  all  joints  tight,  so  that  flames  may  not  pass 
through  them.  The  base  of  every  portable  cabinet  shall  have  a  flange  ex- 
tension outward  on  all  four  sides  Drovided  with  a  sufficient  number  of  holes 
through  which  lag  screws  or  bolts"  shall  extend  to  fasten  the  cabinet  firmly 
to  the  floor  of  the  building  in  which  it  is  used. 

5.  If  limelight,  acetylene  gas,  or  any  other  gaseous  illuminant  be  used  in 
the  kinematograph  lamp,  the  gas-cylinders  shall  be  tested  to  a  pressure  of 
1,800  lbs.  to  the  square  inch  before  being  used  in  any  theateT,  hall,  or  pub- 
lic place  where  moving  pictures  are  to  be  displayed  to  the  public. 


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6.  All  kinematograph  or  moving-picture  machines  shall  be  supported  on 
iron  stands,  and  shall  be  equipped  with  a  feed-reel  enclosed  in  a  metal 
magazine  constructed  of  20  B.  &  S.  gauge;  said  magazine  to  have  a  slot  at 
the  bottom  cnly  large  enough  for  film  to  pass  through,  and  with  cover  so 
arranged  that  this  slot  may  be  instantly  closed.  No  solder  to  be  used  in 
the  construction  of  this  magazine.  Door  on  side  of  said  magazine  shall  he 
of  metal  and  be  provided  with  spring  hinges  and  latch,  which  will  keep  said 
door  tightly  closed.  All  such  machines  shall  also  be  equipped  with  a  take-up 
reel  in  a  magazine  similar  in  construction  to  that  used  to  enclose  feed-reel. 

7.  All  kinematograph  or  moving-picture  machines  shall  be  equipped  with  a 
shutter  in  front  of  the  condenser-lens  hood  and  a  shutter  completely  cover- 
ing the  film-aperture  in  the  machine-head,  so  arranged  and  operated  as  to 
automatically  close  when  rate  of  travel  of  film  becomes  slower  than  ordinary 
exhibiting  speed.  No  operator  or  other  person  shall,  under  any  circum- 
stances use  any  device  to  prop  up  or  suspend  from  its  seat  any  shutter 
designed  to  operate  in  the  automatic  closing  of  the  film-aperture  in  the  ma- 
chine-head of  any  kinematograph  or  moving-picture  machine  when  such  ma- 
chine is  in  operation.  Said  shutter  must  be  permanently  attached  to  gate- 
trame  of  machine.  All  moving-picture  machines  shall  be  provided  with  metal 
guards  which  shall  adequately  enclose  the  film  in  its  passage  through  the 
machine-head  from  upper  to  lower  magazine.  No  operator  or  other  per- 
son shall,  under  any  circumstances,  remove  said  film  guard  or  guards  from 
any  moving-picture  machine  when  said  machine  is  in  operation.  All  kine- 
matograph or  moving-picture  machines  installed  in  any  theater,  hall,  or 
building  in  which  exhibitions  of  moving  pictures  are  given  to  the  public 
shall  be  operated  by  hand.  The  use  of  a  motor-drive  will  not  be  permitted 
on  any  such  machine  unless  by  special  permission  of  the  Censor  in  writing. 
The  handle  or  crank  used  in  operating  any  such  machine  must  be  secured 
to_  its  spindle  or  shaft  int  such  manner  that  it  cannot  become  detached  from 
said  spindle  or  shaft  during  the  operation  of  said  machine. 

8.  All  arc-lamp  houses  used  in  connection  with  moving-picture  machines 
shall  be  constructed  and  installed  as  follows:  Said  lamphouses  shall  be  built 
entirely  of  metal,  and  shall  be  so  designed  as  to  provide  for  proper  ventila- 
tion within  themselves  and  for  the  prevention  of  the  emission  of  snarks 
from  the  lamp  when  same  is  in  operation.  Mica  must  be  used  for  frame 
insulation.  Self-closing  doors  shall  be  provided  on  side  and  rear  of  lamp- 
house.  Observation  ports  not  larger  than  2  inches  square  may  be  provided 
when  closed  with  glass.  Lamp  shall  .be  controlled-  by  a  double-pole,  single- 
throw  switch  within  easy  reach  of  operator,  said  switch  to  be  enclosed  in 
a  metal  hood;.    .  ... 

Conductors  supplying  current  to  lamp  shall  not  be  smaller  than  No.  6  B. 
&  S.  gauge  or  its  equivalent.  Stranded  conductors  provided  with  approved 
lugs  shall  be  used  between  lamp  and  permanent  wiring.  A  fireproof  insula- 
tion shall  be  used  on  conductors  inside  lamp-house  and  on  conductors  con- 
nected to  the  arc  lamp  and  resistance.  Conductors  passing  through  lamp- 
house  shall  be  protected  with  porcelain  bushings  in  lamp-house  frame. 
Lamp-houses  shall  not  be  mounted  on  a  base  or  frame  of  wood. 

9.  Rheostats. — All  rheostats  shall  be  mounted  on  slate  bases;  said 
rheostats  to  be  properly  supported  and  placed  outside  of  cabinet,  if  pos- 
sible. The  supports  of  rheostats  shall  be  made  of  iron  and  be  securelv 
fastened  to  the  construction  on  which  the  rheostats  stand.  Rheostats  shall 
be  entirely  covered  by  approved  metal  guards;  said  guards  to  be.  pro- 
vided with  holes  for  ventilation. 

10.  All  electric  wiring  entering  any  ope.ra.ting  room  or  cabinet  in  which  a 
kinematograph  or  moving-picture  machine  is  operated  shall  be  conveyed  to 
such  room  or  cabinet  In  iron  conduits. 

11.  One  incandescent  electric  "light  will  be  allowed  in  such  operating  room 
or  cabinet  for  each  moving-picture  machine  installed  in  such  room  or  cabinet. 
and  one  such  light  for  the  rewinding-bench:  all  such  lights  shall  be  provided 
with   wire  guards,  and  reinforced  cord  shall  be  used  for  pendant  purposes. 

iz.  All  electrical  wiring  or  apparatus  used  in  connection  with  any  audi- 
torium, or  located  in  any  room,  compartment,  cabinet,  or  enclosure  con- 
taining a  motion-picture  machine,  in  any  theater,  hall,  or  building  in  British 
Columbia  in  which  moving  pictures  are  displayed  to  the  nublic  shall  be  in- 
stalled in  full  compliance  with  the  rules  of  the  National  Electrical  Code. 

13.  No.  films  shall  be  exposed  iri  the  operating  room  or  cabinet  of  any 
theater,  hall,  or  building  in  which  moving  pictures  are  displayed  to  the  pub- 
lic, other  than  those  in  process  of  transfer  to  or  from  the  moving-picture 
machines,  or  in  process  of  transfer  from  the  upper  to  the  lower  magazine  of 
such  machines,  or  in  process  of  rewinding.  A  separate  metal  case,  made 
without  solder  and  equipped  with  a  self-closing  door,  shall  be  provided,  and 
all  filnr,  except  those  in  the  machine  magazines  or  in  process  of  rewinding, 
shall   be  placed  and  kept  in  said  case. 

14.  >«"o  material  of  a  combustible  nature  shall  be  kept  or  stored  within  any 
such  operating  room  or  cabinet  in  any  theater,  hall,  or  building  except  the 
films  necessary  for  one  single  show;  and  the  number  of  films  kept  or  stored 
shall  not,, in  any  case,  exceed  six  reels. 

15.  Two  chemical  fire-extinguishers,  or  such  greater  number  as  may  be 
required  and  directed  by  any  officer  required  by  said  Chapter  72  to  enforce 
the  regulations  passed  thereunder,  as  aforesaid,  of  a  size,  nature,  type  or 
pattern  approved  by  any  such  officer,  all  to  be  continuously  maintained  in 
good  working  order,  together  with  a  large  pail  of  sand  and  a  hand  shovel, 
shall  be  kept  at  all  times  ready  for  use  and  in  such  a  positionas  to  be  im- 
mediately accessible  outside  of  and  near  every  such  operating  room  or 
cabinet. 

16.  The  entrance-door  to  the  operating  room  or  cabinet  of  any  theater, 
hall,  or  building  in  which  moving  pictures  are  shown  to  the  public  shall  be 
kept  tightly  closed,  but  not  locked,  during  all  performances  or  at  any  other 
time  when  the  moving-picture  machine  contained  in  said  room  or  cabinet 
is  being  operated. 

Every  such  operating  room  or  cabinet  shall  be  kept  in  a  position  which 
does  not  interfere  with  or  obstruct  any  aisle  or  passageway  in  the  theater, 
hall,  or  building  in  which  same  is  placed. 

17.  Every  operator  of  a  kinematograph  or  moving-picture  machine  in  any 
theater,  hall,  or  building  in  which  moving  pictures  are  displayed  to  the 
public  shail  be  of  the  full  age  of  eighteen  years.  Operators  shall  examine 
their  machines  and  lamp  connections  daily,  and  shall  devote  their  entire 
attention  to  the  machine  when  operating.  Operators  shall  not  permit  any 
person  to  enter  or  remain  in  an  operating  room  or  cabinet  while  a  machine 
is  being  operated  during  any  public  performance,  except  such  officers  as  are 
hereinbefore  mentioned.  Apprentices  shall  not  be  instructed  in  the  opera- 
tion of  moving-picture  machines  during  a  public  performance  in  any  such 
theater,  hall,  or  building. 

No  smoking  or  lighting  of  matches  shall  be  allowed  at  any  time  within 
any  such  operating  room  or  cabinet. 

No  reading-matter  and  no  bare  wooden  fixture  shall  be  used  or  allowed 
within  any  such  operating  room  or  cabinet. 

18.  No  person  shall,  while  under  the  influence  of  intoxicating  liquor, 
operate  or  attempt  to  operate,  nor  shall  any  exhibitor  permit  any  such  per- 
son to  operate,  any  kinematograph  or  moving-picture  machine. 


Projection  by  Reflection. 

Mr.  J.  J.  Lodge,  Chicago,  Illinois,  sends  the  following  very  lengthy  com- 
munication. I  am  giving  it  space,  almost  in  its  entirety,  for  two  reasons, 
viz:-  (a)  I  have  myself  expressed  a  somewhat  adverse  opinion  as  to  the 
practicability  of  the  much-talked-about  reflecting  projector;  therefore,  I 
cannot  consistently  refuse  publicity  to  a  letter  which  apparently  sets  forth 
the  honest  views  of  another,  who  seems  to  have  just  claim  to  at  least  con- 
siderable knowledge  of  the  subject  under  discussion,  (b)  In  view  of  the 
large  claims  made  by  the  Chicago  gentleman,  as  well  as  by  another  gentle- 
man in  Utah,  who  also  is  perfecting  a  reflecting  projector,  this  matter  is 
just  now  a  very  live  topic;  therefore,  I  do  not  begrudge  considerable  space 
to  its  discussion,  though  I  wish  it  to  be  distinctly  understood  that  my 
views,  as  expressed  in  the  former  article,  have  undergone  no  change.  My 
mind  is  entirely  open  on  this  proposition,  but  I  wish  to  emphasize  the  fact 
that,  making  a  reflecting  projector  which  '  will  deliver  the  goods  experi- 
mentally, or  in  a  demonstration  room,  is  one  matter,  but  to  make  a  pro- 
jector of  this  type  which  will  be  a  commercial  success  is  quite  another  mat- 
ter, and,  as  I  said  in  the  former  article,  the  latter  proposition  will  have  to  be 
thoroughly  demonstrated  to  me.  I  sincerely  hope  it  is  true,  but  I  also  have 
very  sincere  doubts.  Please  understand  this  is  not  said  to  "knock"  any- 
body's proposition.  It  is  simply  an  expression  of  my  opinion.  I  shall  be 
very  glad  indeed  to  examine  this  projector  when  it  is  ready,  and  to  reverse 
this  opinion  if  the  facts  justify  a  reversal.  I  would  particularly  call  atten- 
tion to -the  sentence  in  which  friend  Lodge  says:  "Since  then  he  has  suc- 
ceeded in  making  the  machine  absolutely  practical,'  though  not  as  yet  com- 
mercially perfect."  That  is  a  pretty  strong  endorsement  of  my  opinion, 
isn'^' it,  Neighbor  Lodge?    The  letter  reads  as  follows: 

■  I  have  read,  with  interest,  your  article  under  the  caption  "Pro- 
jection by  Reflection."  For  many  years  I  have  been  what  is  known 
as  an  amateur  photographer  and  "Kodak  fiend."  Am  somewhat 
of  an  humble  student  of  photographic  optics,  and  the  many  kindred 
subjects  associated  with  that  science.  I  have  spent  thirty  years  of 
my  life  in  the  theatrical  profession,  actor,  manager  and  stage  di- 
rector. For  the  past  five  years  I  have  been  operating,  in  a  limited 
field,  a  moving  picture  studio,  and  laboratory  in  this  city.  Am 
fairly  well  conversant  with,  and  experienced,  in  a  practical  way, 
in  ail  departments  of  that  work.  I  mention  these  details  that  you 
may  give  me  credit  for  knowing  something  of  the  subject  matter  of 
this  communication.  In  reference  to  the  article  above  named,  and 
the  particular  'projection  machine  to  which  you  refer,  you  state  that, 
not  having  had  opportunity  to  inspect  the  machine,  or  witness  a  de- 
monstration of  its  merits,  you  are  hot  in  a  position  to  either  con- 
demn or  endorse  it.  In  taking  this  attitude  you  are  to  be  com- 
mended. Necessarily  one  in  your  positipn  must  act  conservatively 
in  regard  to  all  such  matters,  if  he  has  the  true,  interest  of  his 
■journal  and  its  readers  at  heart..  Let  me  say,  before  I  go  further, 
that  I  have  no  financial  or  pecuniary  interest  in  the  machine  in 
question,  either  directly  or  indirectly.  Nor  is. any  other  than  my- 
self aware  of  my  writing  you.  Whatever  is  stated  in  this  com- 
munication is  prompted  solely  by  my  desire  to  acquaint  you,  and 
the  many  readers  of  the  Department,  with  some,  pertinent  facts, 
and  I  trust  you  will  deem  the  facts  so  stated  worthy  of  publica- 
tion. I  have  witnessed  the  demonstration  pf  this  machine  many 
times,  and  am  thoroughly  familiar  with  its  governing  principle  and 
mechanism.  From  my  conversation  with  its  inventor  and  his  asso- 
ciates I  am  assured  that  nothing  would  give  them  greater  pleas- 
fere  than  to  have  the  opportunity  to  submit  the  machine  for  your 
thorough  examination,  and  to  afford  you  every  facility  for  its 
complete  demonstration  for  the  benefit  of  yourself  and  your  read- 
ers. -  They  are  not,  as  yet,  however,  prepared  to  exhibit  the  ma- 
chine outside  of  Chicago.  When  the  time  arrives  that  these  gen- 
tlemen are  in  that  position,  not  far  off  I  believe,  I  am  safe  in  stat- 
ing that  among  the  first  who  will  have  that  opportunity  presented 
to  them  will   be  yourself. 

Now  as  to  the  machine  itself  and  its  sponsors:  It  might  be  inter- 
esting to  say  at  first  that  the  original  intention  of  the  inventor  was 
in  the  line  of  the  development  of  an  entirely  new  color  process. 
The  machine  in  question  was  only  a  necessary  adjunct  to  that  end. 
■The  inventor,  however,  was  later  induced  to  lay  aside,  for  the 
time  being,  the  color  feature  of  the  plan  and  concentrate  his  efforts 
in  the  perfection  of  the  projecting  machine  itself.  Since  then  he 
has  succeeded  in  making  the  machine  absolutely  practical,  though 
not,  as  yet,  commercially  perfect.  Many  operators,  cameramen, 
exhibitors  and  other  experienced  moving  picture  men,  have  wit- 
nessed the  machine  in  operation  and  have  unanimously  endorsed 
its  merits.  There  may  not  have  been  one  of  them  possessed  of 
the  wideexperience  and  technical  knowledge  of  the  subject  you  pos-  , 
sess,  yet  I  can  say  I  know  several  of  these  gentlemen  are  en- 
titled to  be  considered  experts  in  all  pertaining  to  the  art  of  pro- 
jection. Many  of  them,  after  witnessing  this  demonstration,  have 
declared  in  your  own  words,  that  it  would  be  a  "godsend  to  the 
•business."  The  description  of  the  machine,  as  given  by  you  in 
your  recent  article,  was  fairly  accurate,  except  that,  at  the  present 
time,  there  are  four  reflecting  mirrors  used  instead  of  but  two,  as  ■ 
formerly.  You  declare  "*  *  *  that  in  order  to  secure  sharp- 
ness of  definition,  the  movement  of  these  mirrors  must,  at  all 
times,  be  absolutely  mechanically  correct  *  *  *."  In  this  you 
are  perfectly  right.  But  is  such  mechanical  precision  impossible  of 
attainment?  You  seem  to  believe  it  is,  and  so  express  yourself. 
Yet  one  of  your  extensive  experience  in  the  line  of  mechanics 
must  admit  that  far  more  accurate  precision  has  been  accom- 
plished before  now,  than  is  demanded  in  this  particular  instance. 
The  film  is  moving  continuously,  the  mirrors  are  doing  likewise, 
and  at  the  same  time  reflecting  the  pictures  continuously  through 
the  lens  to  the  screen.  It  is  then  plain  to  be  seen  that,  in  order  to 
obtain  a.  clear-cut  or  sharp  definition  of  the  pictures,  there  must 
be  established  a  certain  well  defined  ratio  of  speed  among,  and 
controlling  the  .three  separate  and  distinct  movements,  viz:  the 
horizontal  movement  of  the  film  (pictures),  the  circular  action  of 
the  mirrors  and  the  semi-vertical  rocking  forward,  or  tilting  of  the 


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mirrors.  The  principal  movement  of  the  three,  and  that  which 
has  caused  the  most  earnest  study  and  attention,  has  been  the  tilt- 
ing or  rocking  of  the  mirrors  at  the  exact  speed  and  degree  re- 
quired. It  is  in  this  last  proposition  that,  as  you  so  tersely  put  it. 
"is  the  splinter  in  the  finger,"  or.  rather — WAS.  In  the  accom- 
plishment of  this  particular  desiteratum  the  inventor  has  been 
guided  and  governed  by  an  old  and  familiar  law  in  physical 
optics:  "In  order  to  keep  any  moving  object  stationary  on  the 
surface  of  any  reflecting  medium,  the  reflecting  medium  itself 
must  be  given  exactly  one-half  of  the  angular  velocity  of  that  of 
the  moving  object  being  reflected,  and  in  the  same  direction  as  that 
of  the  object."  In  the  case  in  question,  if  each  of  the  revolving 
mirrors,  as  it  comes  into  the  plane  of  action,  is  tilted,  or  rocked 
forward  at  one-half  of  the  angular  velocity  of  the  film  (picture), 
the  resultant  effect  will  be  a  stationary  reflection  upon  the  surface 
of  the  moving  mirror  and,  consequently  upon  the  stationary  screen, 
as  the  picture  is  reflected  from  the  mirror  through  the  objective 
lens  to  that  point.  This  feat  in  mechanics  the  inventor  has  suc- 
ceeded in  accomplishing  to  perfection,  by  a  method  both  ingenious 
and  simple.  To  attempt  to  describe  it  would,  however,  occupy  too 
much  valuable  space.  You  will,  no  doubt,  perform  this  office  for 
the  benefit  of  your  readers — later. 

I  will  not  close  this  communication  without  informing  you  of 
a  feature  connected  with  this  machine  that,  to  me,  appears  to  be 
of  equal  value  to  that  of  the  primary  claim,  viz:  that  one  can  take 
a  moving  picture,  with  the  ordinary  camera  used  for  that  pur- 
pose, at  one-half  of  the  usual  speed  (eight  pictures  to  the  second). 
and  that,  when  projected  with  this  machine,  at  the  same  rate  of# 
speed,  the  effect  will  be  as  natural  and  as  lifelike  as  though  taken 
and  projected  at  sixteen  to  the  second.  Not  being  positively  con- 
vinced of  this  claim  from  the  demonstration  given.  I  determined  to 
give  it  a  thorough  test.  Using  one  of  my  own  cameras  I  took 
two  pictures,  one  at  eight  and  the  other  at  sixteen  pictures  to  the 
second.  The  action  and  time  in  both  pictures  were  exactly  the 
same.  The  only  change  that  I  made  was  in  decreasing  the  open- 
ing of  the  shutter  when  taking  at  eight  to  a  second,  so  as  to 
secure,  as  near  as  possible,  an  equal  exposure.  I  secured  two  good 
negatives,  one  of  about  a  hundred  and  fifty  feet,  the  other  of 
about  eighty  feet,  from  which  two  "prints"  were  made.  I  took 
them  to  the  exhibition  room  of  the  machine  and,  personally,  pro- 
jected them  at  the  rate  of  eight  and  sixteen  to  the  second  re- 
spectively. Only  that  I  was  aware  of  the  facts  I  could  not  nave 
told  the  difference  between  the  two  pictures.  One  was  as  perfect 
as  the  , other.  Several  gentlemen  present  at  the  time  of  the  de- 
monstration, failed  to  distinguish  any  difference,  and  were  simply 
astounded  when  informed  as  to  the  real  facts  and  were  shown 
the  difference  in  the  lengths  of  the  two  films.  This  will  seem  in- 
credible to  any  but  those  who  have  actually  seen  the  fact  de- 
monstrated. As  to  the  accuracy  of  the  experiments  and  the  truth 
of  the  statements,  I  can  swear  to  them.  What  this  will  mean  to 
the  business,  in  economy  of  production,  transportation  and  stor- 
age, you  can  readily  estimate.  Another  interesting  feature  of  the 
pictures  as  projected  by  this  machine  and  one  that  will  especially 
appeal  to  the  exhibitor  is.  that  on  account  of  the  continuous  move- 
ment of  the  film  and  the  entire  absence  of  any  shutter,  as  well 
as  the  dissolving  effect  of  the  pictures,  one  can  view  them  from  the 
front  seats  of  an  auditorium  as- well  as  from  the  choicest  location. 
with  equal  satisfaction.  Being  no  flicker — there  is  no  eye  strain. 
All  this  matter  that  I  have  written  may  not  and  no  doubt  will  not 
convince  you  of  the  truth  of  it,  nor  is  it  intended  for  that  purpose. 
You.  as  you  state  yourself,  will  not  be  convinced  till  you  are 
shown.  I  have  simply  written  for  the  benefit  of  yourself  and 
readers,  and  in  justice  to  the  inventor  and  his  associates  whom  I 
have  found  to  be  honorable  gentlemen.  No  one  estimates  the  value  of 
the  columns  of  the  Moving  Picture  World  any  more  than  these 
gentlemen  do.  They  have  not  been  ready  nor  yet  is  the  time  op- 
portune, for  systemized  press  exploitation,  and  commercial  adver- 
tising. From  what  I  have  gleaned,  within  the  next  six  months 
the  machine  will  be  placed  on  the  market.  Before  that  time,  New 
York  will  have  the  chance  to  see  it  and — I  have  heard  these  gen- 
tlemen declare  that  none  will  see  it,  or  at  least  have  the  oppor- 
tunity for  so  doing  presented  to  them,  sooner  than  the  Moving 
Pictvre  World. 


From  Milwaukee  Local  Union  No.  164. 

Messrs.  Horace  L.  Conway.  Frank  Paradise  and  Percy  L.  Jones,  Committee 
of  Local  Union  164  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  contribute  the 
following: 

Wc  wish  to  commend  the  most  excellent  article  by  Brother 
Joseph  P.  Basson,  May  31st  issue,  and  particularly  that  part  of 
it  pertaining  to  Local  Union  35  and  37.  We  must,  however,  take 
exception  to  his  proposed  (as  amended)  Article  6,  Section  2,  of  our 
I.  A.  laws.  We  quote  his  proposed  amendment,  or  that  part  of  it 
pertaining  to  our  craft:  "or  to  fifteen  or  more  competent  moving 
picture  machine  operators  in  any  city  where  an  operator  must 
have  a  license,  etc."  Now  no  Wisconsin  city  has  a  charter  which 
will  permit  it  to  license  moving  picture  operators.  That  authority 
must  come  from  the  state  and,  up-to-date,  our  legislature  has  turned 
down  all  such  amendments  to  city  charters,  and  has  also  killed, 
in  committee,  a  bill  to  have  the  state  itself  license  picture  oper- 
ators. There  are  approximately  five  hundred  moving  picture  oper- 
ators working  in  Wisconsin  at  the  present  time,  and  only  eighty  of 
these  are  members  of  the  I.  A.,  therefore,  for  the  love  of  Mike 
don't  put  any  more  stumbling  blocks  in  our  way  which  will  pre- 
vent honest  and  competent  operators  from  becoming  union  men. 
If  this  part  of  your  suggestion  were  to  become  law,  then  no 
more    moving   picture    machine   operators*    locals    could    be    formed 


in  the  state  of  Wisconsin  until  such  time  as  our  state  legislature 
experiences  a  change  of  heart.  A  certain  city  in  a  neighboring 
state  does  grant  license  to  operators  upon  the  payment  of  one 
dollar,  and  the  correct  answering  of  the  following  qu  What 

is  your  name  and  address?  2.  What  theater  do  you  work  in? 
As  far  as  we  are  able  to  ascertain,  all  candidates  are  com- 
pelled to  pass  this  examination  with  a  marking  of  ioo^c.  before 
being  granted  license.  Your  proposed  amendment  would  admit 
these  "licensed  operators,"  but  bar  out  our  Wisconsin  men,  to 
which  we  very  seriously  and  most  strenuously  object.  Our  I  A. 
laws  are  mighty  good  as  they  stand — for  the  stage  hands.  We  need 
nc.v  laws,  however,  to  govern  moving  picture  machine  operators. 
,  We  wish  to  call  your  attention  to  the  following  facts,  and  the 
conditions  governing  our  craft  in  the  state  of  Wisconsin.  Every 
moving  picture  machine  operator  in  this  state  is  now  within  the 
jurisdiction  of  the  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.  (See  resolution  Xo.  2$.  pn«e  187, 
proceedings  of  the  20th  Annual  Convention.)  This  wise  resolution 
is  now  law,  and  it  permits  every  competent  and  trustworthy  oper- 
ator to  become  a  member  of  the  I.  A.,  providing  the  local  nearest 
iiis  voting  residence  cores  to  admit  moving  picture  operators,  this 
being  optional  with  each  individual  local  or,  in  other  words,  "left 
to  local  autonomy."  And  right  there  lies  the  reason  that,  out 
of  five  hundred  operators  in  this  state,  only  eighty  are  I.  A.  men. 
There  are  just  fourteen  locals  holding  jurisdiction  in  Wisconsin. 
and  only  one  of  this  number  is  a  moving  picture  machine  oper- 
ator's local,  viz:  Local  No.  164,  which  has  enrolled  every  com- 
petent and  reliable  operator  within  its  jurisdiction  who  can  be  per- 
suaded to  join  us.  But  we  are  surrounded  by  I.  A.  locals  on 
three  sides  and  by  Lake  Michigan,  on  the  fourth,  so  our  jurisdiction 
is  mighty  limited,  and  we  regret  to  say  that,  up-to-date,  very  little 
effort  has  been  made  by  the  stage  hand  locals  to  do  anything 
whatever  toward  organizing  the  operators  within  their  jurisdiction. 
Local  18  of  this  city  has,  of  course,  no  jurisdiction  over  operators, 
that  being  vested  with  local  No.   164. 

But  in  fairness  let  it  be  said  that  local  No.  18  has  aided  us  in 
every   possible    way,    for   which   we    are    duly    grateful.      The   other 
twelve    I.    A.    locals    having   jurisdiction   in   Wisconsin    have    some- 
thing like   thirty   members  running  picture   machines    in   this   state. 
Fondulac,   Madison  and   Racine  locals,   in   this  state,  and  the   Free- 
port,    Illinois,    local    have    given    local     No.     164    the    jurisdiction 
over    Wisconsin     operators     within    their     territory    but     we     nave 
not  been  able  to  get  the  permission  of  International  President    5 
to  organize  the  operators  in  this  territory.     Outside  of    Milwaukee 
there    is   no    one  city    in    the   state    in    which    fifteen   operators   are 
employed,    and   if  our   I.    A.    laws  are  lived   up  to   in    all    of   their 
requirements,  no  full  and  direct  chartered  locals  can  be   formed  in 
Wisconsin,  even  by  forming  combination  locals  of  both  stage  hands 
and  moving  picture  operators,  with   the   single  exception   of  Green 
Bay,   where  such   a  local   might  possibly  be  had.     Four  other  cities 
in   the   state    have   enough   operators   and   stage   hands   combined   to 
form   provisional   locals,   but   this  does   not   begin   to   cover   the   420 
unorganized  operators  of  the  state.      Every  one  of  these  o.jo.   who 
can    prove    himself    competent    and    reliable,    should    belong    to    the 
I.    A.,    and  not    be    compelled   to   be   non-unicn   merely  because   the 
nearest  stage  hand  locals  don't  want  operator  members.     Our  claim 
is  that  where  any  local  of  the  I.  A.  does  not  wish  to  enroll  honest, 
competent  and  reliable  moving  picture  operators,  jurisdiction  should 
be  given   the  nearest   M.   P.   M.   O.  local.     This  is  only  fair  to  the 
non-union    operators    and   to    the   I.    A.    T.    S.    E.    and    it    is    most 
unfair  and  dangerous  to  keep  honest  and  competent  moving  picture 
operators  out  of  our  organization.     Local  No.   164  has  a  very  simple 
yet  effective  plan  whereby  every  honest  and  competent  operator  of 
the    fourteen    thousand   now    working  at   our   craft   in   this   country 
and   Canada  can   be   enrolled   in   our   I.    A.   T.    S.    E. ,   and   no   dis- 
honest and   incompetent  operator  could  hold   membership  were  our 
plan    in    force.      We    would    be    very    glad   to    hear    from    any    and 
all   locals   of  the   I.   A.   who  have  a   desire   to   advance  the  moving 
picture   end    of    our   organization,    am!    we    would    particularly    like 
to  hear  from  you  as  to  the  number  of  I.  A.  and  non-union  opera- 
tors working   within    your   jurisdiction — meaning  all   of   your   juris- 
diction. 
The    contention    of    local    No.     164,    that    every    reliable    and    competent 
operator    in   this  country   ought   to   have   opportunity    to  join    the   organiza- 
tion is  nothing  more  or  less  than  what  I  have  repeatedly  advocated  in  this 
department.      In    so    far    as    the    granting    of    jurisdiction    over    the    three 
cities   is   concerned,   I    went   up  to   the    International    office    and    talked   the 
matter    over.      Their    views    were    that,    in    the    first    place,    such    jurisdic- 
tion   would    not   be    practical;    that    it  would   not   be   right    to    have   a   man 
situated  perhaps  two  hundred  miles  away  governed  by  a   union,   the   meet- 
ing  of    which    he  could   seldom    if    ever    attend,    and    with    the    conduct    of 
the    affairs  of   which   he   could    have   very    little   to   do.      The    International 
office    informed    me   also    that    it    was    not    within    the   power    of    President 
Shay  to  grant  such  a  thing,  that  being  something  that  could  only  be  done 
by  a  convention.     If  Milwaukee  has  a  practical  plan  for  the  organization 
of  operators  it  is   loo  bad   they   did   not   send   it  along   for  publication   in 
this    department,    so    that    it    might    be    fully    discussed,    and    delegates    be 
sent  to  the  convention   instructed  to  work  either  for  or   against   it  accord- 
ing  to  the   will  of  their  constituents.      However,   be   these   matters   as   they 
may,  there  can  be  no  question  as  to  the  value  of  the  publication  of  such 
a  letter  as  this  in  the  department.     Whether  Milwaukee  is  right  or  wrong, 
the    matter    will    be    studied    and    considered    by    thousands    of    operators, 
scattered  all  over  this  country  and  Canada,  whereas,  it  could  not  otherwise 
be  laid  before  the  membership  at  large,  except  at  heavy  expense,  and  even 
then,   not  in   the  best   possible  way.     The  address   of  the   committee  is   214 
Alhambra    Theater    Building.      I    presume    Brother    Conway    is     Chairman 
of  the  committee. 


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"LAW  AND  THE  OUTLAW"  (Selig),  June  4— This  is  very  truly  a 
feature  offering:  and  justifies  its  length  (two  reels)  very  creditably.  It  is  a 
story  of  the  cattle  country  by  Tom  Mix  and  J.  Edward  Hungerford  and  was 
produced  by  William  Duncan.  In  the  first  part,  we  find  the  outlaw  coming 
to  the  ranch  and  being  "taken  on"  by  the  foreman.  Soon,  a  love  affair  be- 
gins between  him  and  the  ranch  owner's  second  daughter,  who  has  seen  his 
dare-devil  riding;  but  this  her  people  discourage.  The  love  story  as  it  is 
carefully  developed  in  the  first  reel  is  sincere  and  strongly  convincing.  The 
best  things  in  it  are  the  simple,  natural  and  realistic  glimpses  of  ranch  life. 
including  some  big  pictures  of  the  great  herd;  but  there  are  one  or  two 
thrills  that  made  the  audience  here  gasp  and  shout  out.  One  of  these  is 
the  rescue. of  the  heroine  from  a  mad  bull  by  the  hero,  who  jumps  upon  it 
from  his  horse  and  bull-dogs  it.  Tom  Mix  plays  the  leading  role  with  skill, 
verve  and  nerve,  regardless  of  breath  or  even  of  personal  safety.  Myrtle 
Stedman  plays  opposite  to  him.  After  the  rescue  and  while  the  hero  is  ly- 
ing breathless  under  the  horns  of  the  bull  he  has  just  thrown,  the  sheriff 
appears  and  puts  the  bracelets  on  him  in  front  of  the  girl.  In  the  first  scene 
01  the  second  reel,  the  outlaw  escapes  from  the  sheriff  and  a  desperate  man- 
chase  follow?,  during  which  the  outlaw,  whom  the  sheriff  calls  "some  man," 
shoots  the  handcuffs  off  his  wrists.  At  the  end  the  girl  says  she  will  wait. 
It  is  a  desirable  offering  for  most  places. 

"WHAT  THE  GOOD  BOOK  TAUGHT"  (Patheplay),  June  5.— A  story 
of  the  lonely  plains  in  which  a  girl  has  an  adventure  with  some  bad  men. 
Seme  what  as  in  "The  Great  Divide."  one  of  them  is  not  so  bad  as  the 
others  and  1:1  his  chest  he  has  a  copy  of  the  Bible,  given  to  him  by  his 
mother.  The  girl,  who  is  taking  her  sick  mother  across  the  plains  alone, 
knocks  at  the  wrong  hut  for  assistance  and  is  captured.  In  the  inner 
room,  her  prison,  she  finds  the  Bible  and  has  it  in  her  hand  when  the  man 
ccmes  in  to  her.  This  is  a  good  situation,  but  it  is  not  well  acted  and 
doesn't  convince  as  strongly  as  it  might  have.  The  backgrounds  suggest 
the  loneliness  of  the  place  powerfully,  and  the  photography  is  clear.  It  is  a 
creditable  production. 

"THE:  SUWANEE  RIVER"  (Selig),  June  5— A  story  of  the  South  with 
some  Northern  scenes  to  give  contrast  and  suggest  the  longing  for  home 
that  the  old  song  carries.  The  cotton  planting  colonel  doesn't  like  his  new 
neighbors,  because  they  are  Northerners  and,  when  his  son  falls  in  lovs 
with  the  daughter  of  the  newcomers,  he  disowns  him.  The  lad  goes  North 
and  makes  a  fortune  on  the  market  out  of  conditions  that  ruin  the  old 
colonel,  but  comes  back  after  learning  from  a  darkie,  of  conditions  at  home, 
in  time  to  buy  the  old  homestead.  Harry  Lonsdale,  as  the  colonel,  and  the 
player  who  takes  the  role  of  his  wife  act  in  a  very  natural  and  convincing 
way  at  most  times;  but  all  the  leading  players  do  fairly  well.  Jack  Nelson 
and  Winnifred  Greenwood  have  the  romantic  roles.  The  offering  stands 
best  on  its  special  views,  darkie  cabin  scenes,  river  vistas  with  quiet  waters 
end  grey  beard  moss  hanging  over  them,  etc.  Its  author  is  Gilson  Willets 
and  it  was  produced  by  Hardee  Kirkland.  The  story  is  not  wonderful  and 
seems  insensible  of  the  finer  points,  but  the  picture  makes  a  very  likeable 
offering. 

"THE  HEART  OF  MRS.  ROBBINS"  (Vitagraph),  June  5  —A  well- 
acted  picture,  produced  by  Van  Dyke  Brooke  and  in  which  it  is  plain  that 
the  finer  things  have  been  felt  and  provided  for.  Vitagraph  seems  fond  of 
the  picture  where  a  child  is  sick  for  love  and  is  being  neglected  by  its 
parents.  In  this  case,  it's  the  mother,  Mrs.  Robbins,  a  widow,  charmingly 
played  by  Leah  Baird.  The  kiddie  makes  the  acquaintance  of  Leo  Delaney, 
a  chemist,  and  writes  a  note,  in  childish  hand  and  orthography,  telling  his 
absent  mother  that  he  has  found  a  "new  daddy,'*  to  which  Leo  adds  a  line 
of  his  own.  This  provokes  the  mother  at  first;  but.  of  course,  the  ending 
can  be  foreseen.  The  story  is  convincingly  acted  rather  than  convincingly 
written.  It  has  charming  scenes.  Marie  Jackots  is  the  writer.  The  child, 
"Bob!  flayed  by  Addison  Sargent  Lathrop,  a  five-year-old. 

"SLIPPERY  SLIM  REPENTS"  (Biograph),  June  5-— A  burlesque  with 
a  comic  temperance  lecturer  who  persuades  a  couple  of  queer  characters  to 
empty  their  whisky  into  a  spring.  Later,  he  drinks  of  it  himself,  and  others 
of  the  community  also  imbibe  with  not  unexpected  results.  There  was  a 
good  amount  of  daughter. 

"JUST  KIDS"  (Biograph),  June  5. — A  picture  of  a  co-educational  college 
and,  like  the  other  on  the  same  reel,  a  mixture  of  burlesque  and  rough 
farce.     T'lere  isn't  much  story  to  this  and  it  is  a  bit  vulgar. 

"THE  LAST  SHOT'  (Essanay),  June  5.— There  is  plenty  of  good  atmos- 
phere in  this  picture  that  in  its  story  and  in  the  way  it  was  handled  re- 
minds us  of  a  Biograph  of  some  months  back.  It  is  set  in  very  well 
chosen  mountain  scenes  and  deals  with  a  feud  with  its  climax  in  a  rough 
cabin.  The  wife  of  the  leader  of  the  attacking  party  has  gone  to  the  cabin 
to  warn  the  victim,  who  happens  to  be  her  brother,  and  through  the  window 
she  is  shot  by  her  husband's  rifle.  When  this  is  made  known,  it  brings  the 
fst-d  to  its  close.  It  is  played  by  one  of  the  Essanay's  western  companies 
with  vigor  and  has  been  fairly  photographed.     A  pretty  good  offering. 

"KATE,  THE  COP"  (Lubin),  June  5. — A  farcical  burlesque  that  made 
a  good  deal  of  laughter.  It  shows  us  a  comically,  timid  cop  (Walter  Stull) 
with  a  touch  of   Dogberry  in   his  dealings  with  a  doughty  burglar;   it   also 


shows  us  the  cop's  sweetheart  (Mae  Hotely),  a  very  fearless  cook.  The 
Missis  finds  the  burglar  (Robert  Burns)  up  stairs,  while  the  cop  is  in  the 
kitchen.  The  cook  goes  up  and  manhandles  many  funny  tumbles  out  of 
the  burglar  and  when  the  chief  of  police  finds  how  things  stand,  he  makes 
her  cop  and  makes  the  cop  a  cook — everybody  satisfied.  The  script  is  by 
Epes  Winthrop  Sargent  and  was  produced  by  Arthur  Hotaling. 

"BOB  BUILDS  A  CHICKEN  HOUSE"  (Lubin\  June  5.— On  the  same 
reel,  is  this,  which  is  really  too  slight  to  be  much  of  anything.  There  was 
just  a  little  laughter.     It  is  short. 

"NATIVE  INDUSTRIES  OF  JAVA"  (Melies),  June  5.— There  is  fresh- 
ness of  interest  as  well  as  value  in  this  offering.  It  shows  us  how  the 
queer,  elaborately  decorated  dresses  of  Java  are  designed;  how  that  strange 
flame-like  sword,  the  kriss,  is  forged  and  engraved,  and  how  Javanese  pot- 
tery and  brass  work  is  manufactured.  Most  of  this  stuff  is  new,  though 
there  is  no  difference  in  the  way  pots  are  moulded  on  the  wheel,  whether  in 
Babylon  or  Thebes  or  Bangkok.  The  photography  is  clear  enough  to  be 
acceptable. 

"THE  ARMADILLO"  (Eclipse),  June  4.— A  worthy  picture  of  one  of 
the  queer  but  well-known  little  animals  of  South  America.  We  have  good 
pictures  of  it  and  with  them  perfectly  clear  and  very  instructive  sub-titles. 
We  feel  sure  that  the  full  explanation  given  by  these  has  added  greatly  to 
the  value  of  the  offering. 

"DELIVERING  THE  GOODS"  (Eclipse),  June  4.— On  the  same  reel, 
is  this  rough  and  tumble  comic,  in  which  we  see  how  a  piano  is  delivered  to 
its  purchaser.  These  pictures  with  no  meaning,  but  taken  in  the  queer 
streets  of  Old  World  cities  and  well  photographed,  make  acceptable  offer- 
ings as  occasional  lighteners.     This  also  seemed  to  amuse. 

"THE  FLAG  OF  TWO  WARS"  (Selig),  June  3.— A  picture  that  needs 
good  music  to  make  it  go  wi  11.  It  has  several  scenes  that,  when  followed 
rightly,  are  thrilling;  they  are  battle  scenes  and  especially  a  group  of  scenes 
showing  Americans  besieged  by  Spaniards  in  a  block  house  (rather  flimsy  in 
construction)  until  they  are  r<  scued  by  the  main  force  It  happens  that  the 
hero  has  taken  the  C.  S.  A.  Stars  and  Bars  to  Cuba  with  him  and  when 
the  Stars  and  Stripes  are  shot  away,  Uncle  Sam's  boys  raise  the  other  flag 
and  fight  under  it.  It  has  not  been  strongly  acted  at  all  points.  The 
photography  is  fair. 

"BUNNY  AS  A  REPORTER"  (Vitagraph).  June  3.— A  Bunny-graph 
lhat  made  a  good  deal  of  laughter.  There  are  other  queer  characters  in  it — 
suffragettes  whose  secret  conclave  he  attends  in  disguise;  but  the  fun  comes 
from  Bunny  and  the  things  he  does.  It  is  a  good  Bunny  picture,  written  by 
Mrs.  Bre'iil  and  produced  by  Wilfred  North. 

"THREE  TO  ONE"  (Vitagraph).  June  3.— On  the  same  reel  is  this  farce, 
a  very  slight  yet  fairly  anvising  offering  played  at  Atlantic  City,  by  Lillian 
Walker,  James  Lackaye  and  Hughey  Mack,  with  the  help  of  boardwalk  at- 
tendants, etc. 

"THE  VALUE  OF  MOTHERS-IN-LAW"  (Essanay).  June  4.— A 
pleasing  little  picture  of  a  quarrel  and  its  ending.  The  two  Newly 
Hitchcds  have  each  been  flirting  an  I  have  caught  each  other  and  so  the 
spat  begins.  It  takes  two  mothers-in-law  to  patch  things  together  again 
as  good  as  new.  Billy  Mason  and  Dorothy  Phillips  play  the  young  folks 
v.  ith  Eleanor  Blanchard  and  Clara  Smith  as  the  mothers-in-law.  It  is  grace- 
fully acted,  the  scenes  are  pretty  and  well  made  and  the  photography  is 
clear.  It  is  an  offering  to  give  amused  enjoyment  rather  than  laughter. 
It  will  be  liked. 

"WlfEN  FATE  DECREES"  (Kalem),  June  4.— The  story  is  conventional, 
especially  so  is  its  having  the  hero  go  on  a  hunting  expedition  and  get 
wounded  by  an  accidental  shot.  It  is  pleasingly  played  and  Alice  Joyce 
is  very  pretty  in  the  leading  role.  When  the  heroine  has  married  the 
wounded  hero  to  console  his  dying  hours  and  the  villain,  who  has 
persuaded  her  to  take  the  step  that  he  may  marry  the  rich  widow,  calls 
too  often,  her  note  to  him  is  one  of  the  most  natural  of  its  kind  we  have 
ever  seen.  Indeed,  all  the  scenes  that  fall  around,  the  time  of  that  note 
aie  as  natural  as  can  be.  There  are  some  pretty  sets  and  some  perfect 
photography. 

"THE  SAVING  LIE"  (Patheplay).  June  s.—A  very  trashy  story  along 
entirely  conventional  lines  It  isn't  acted  with  much  vigor.  There  are 
some  fine  sets  and,  in  part,  the  photography  is  excellent. 

"A  MODERN  PSYCHE"  (Vitagraph),  June  4. — A  charming  picture 
whose  story  is  prettily  contrived  rather  than  deep  or  true.  In  such 
offerings,  fancy  takes  the  lead  and  there  is  little  or  no  imagination:  they 
entertain  surely,  but  do  not  stir  the  soul.  It  is  a  little  love  story  of  an 
author  who  has  written  a  book  called.  "The  Modern  Psyche,"  and  of  a  girl 
just  home  from  college  whom  he  chances  to  meet  in  a  Grecian  costume. 
The  producer  (Van  Dyke  Brooke)  has  been  very  careful  in  getting  his 
atmosphere.  The  rickety  house  and  musty  library  of  the  girl's  father  and 
the  quality  shown  by  the  way  her  friends  live,  make  it  a  delightful 
offering.  Its  story  would  only  be  possible  in  just  this  cultured  world, 
refined  and  scholarly.  There  are  many  lovely  scenes  and  the  photography 
ij  dear  and  in  some  scenes  perfect.  Eliza  G.  Harral  is  the  authoress 
and  the  leading  roles  are  taken  by  Dorothy  Kelly  and  Earle  Williams  with 
Van  Dyke  Brooke  as  the  old  father. 


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"SOME  SPOTS  IN  AND  AROUND  LOS  ANGELES"  (Edison),  June 
4. — It  contains  some  new  angles  in  its  views  of  what  has  been  shown 
many  times.     The  camera  work  is  not  extraordinary. 

"DON'T  WORRY"  (Edison),  June  4.— On  the  same  reel  is  this  farce 
with  a  message;  but  C.  J.  Williams  has  done  much  more  amusing  work.  In 
the  first  part  the  worry  gets  over  but  not  the  fun,  and  the  last  half 
makes  some  laughter  by   broad  humor.-    Mrs.    C.  J.   Williams  and  William  ] 


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'WOMAN— PAST  AND  PRESENT"  (Selig),  June  4.— A  series  of 
motion  picture  scenes,  designed  to  point  out  a  message.  The  first  part 
of  it  shows- a.  time  of  hurry  and  bad  , manners  with  something  a^ded^tn 
the  suffragettes  who  break  windows'.  -'/fThe*  other  half  shows  a  ^twe^/trf' 
courtesy,  seventy  years  Jlgo  on  election,  day;  .but  no  poor  voters  are- 
shown  and  the  town  meeting  can  adjourn,  after  voting,  to  dance  the  minuet. 
It  is  not  a  very  sincere  picture  in  either  half.  Written  and  produced  by 
Lem  Parker,  it  has  been- gracefully  played  with  Kathlyh  Williams,  Harold 
Lock  wood,  Eugc-rire  Besserer  and  A.  Ernest  Garcia  in  the  leading  roles. 
The  first  two  are  thd  lovers  and  Miss  Besserer's  old  grandmother  is 
astonishingly 'real:     The  :  photography  is  clear.         '   *    : 

"TH&  FORGOTTEN,  LATCH  KEY"  (Vitagraph)',.  June  7.— This  comedy 
picture  gives  us  the  adventures  of  a  married  couple  who,,  having  left  their 
latch- key' 'on  the  -bureau,  can't  get  into  their  own  hon«e.  It  is  very  late, 
Ihe  cook  is  away  .at.  a.  wedding,  add- the  second  girl  is  asleep  and  snoring 
louder  than  any  door  bell  rings.  One  will  a'sk  many  times  during  the  pic* 
ture,  "Why  doesn't  the  man  break  a  window  pane  to  get  in?"  The  expense 
would  have  been  much  less,  for  the  taxi  waiting  before  the  door  till  morn- 
ing cost  $15.50.  This  keeps  the  comedy  dull,  it  fails  to  get  over  strongly. 
The  authoress  is  Mrs.  Victor  Koch,  and  it  was  produced  by -Ralph  Ince. 
Harry  Morey  and  Anna  Stewart  play  the  leading  roles  as  husband  and  wife, 
who  are  locked  out.  Josie  Sadler  plays  the  cook;  Florence  Ashbrooke,  the 
other  girl,  and  James  Lackaye,  the  cop;  all. add  to  the  fun.  The  photog- 
raphy doesn't  do  the  faces  justice;   but  is  fair. 

"THE  BACHELOR'S  BABY"  (Vitagraph),  Jane  9:— A  very  artificial 
story  is  not  quite  put  over  by  good  acting  in  this  picture.  To  tell  the  truth, 
it  is  a  jumble  of  old  stuff  put  into  good  scenes  by  the  producer,.  Van  Dyke 
Brooke,  and  pretty  well  played  by  Rogers  Lytton,  Rosemary  Theby  and 
Kate  Price.  The  photography  is  good.  Such  a  picture  might  get  by  with 
strong  support   from  the  rest  of  the  bill. 

"A  TIMELY  INTERCEPTION"  (Biograph),  June  7.— A  conventional 
romance  with  some  comedy,  as  is  usual.  There  is  some  good  character 
drawing  in  it,  but  no  new  situations  or 'fresh  characters  or  depth  of  mean- 
ing. It  is  a  commercial  offering,  skillfully  put  together  for  the  market. 
The  setting  is  an  oil  well  country,  and  the  farm  is  going  to  be  sold  for  a 
song,  but  is  saved  by  the  "timely  interception."  The  photography  is  poor 
for  Biograph. 

"GET  RICH  QUICK  BILLINGTON"  (Patheplay),  June  7.— A  farce 
depending  on  two  freak  characters  (Paul  Panzer),  a  nifty  financier  of 
Jewish  blood  and  (Rose  Gore),  a  spinster  who  is  fabulously  rich,  but' not 
rich  enough  to  make  Paul  want  to  marry  her.  There  is  a  cleverly  con- 
structed farcical  story  which  brings  these  two  into  amusing  juxtaposition 
and  keeps  them  before  us  until  Paul,  after  being  bailed  out  of  prison, 
along  with  Islington,  Rose's  nephew,  makes  a  getaway  on  a  passing  freight 
to  escape  marrying  her.  Clearly  photographed  and  well  acted,  it  makes  a 
good  offering  and  will  be  liked. 

"JENKS  BECOMES  A  DESPERATE  CHARACTER"  (Biograph),  June 
9. — A  farce  picture  that  makes  a  great  deal  of  laughter  and  in  which  Dell 
Henderson  plays  a  sit-by-lhe-fire  husband  whom  his  wife  sends  out  with  a 
half-dollar  to  be  "a  regular  man."  A  good  deal  of  the  fun  comes  from  the 
city  police  force  of  five,  led  by  Charles  Murray,  the  man  who  makes  faces 
at  the  camera,  and  they  have  their  hands  full  when  Dell  at  length  gets  a 
heap-big-chicf-buzzer  going. 

"RED  HICKS  DEFIES  THE  WORLD"  (Biograph),  June  9.— On  the 
same  reel  is  this  lively  farce  which  seemed  to  be  even  more  enjoyed  than 
the  first.  It  is  O'Shea,  the  best  fighter  in  the  village,  come  up  against  the 
champion  middle-weight,  Hicks,  and  after  being  horribly  mauled  for  a  few 
moments  knocks  the  champion  out.  He  had  put  a  horseshoe  in  the  back 
of  his  glove  and,  during  a  back-handed  stroke,  it  brings  him  luck.  There 
was  roar  after  roar  of  laughter  from  the  audience.  Both  are  pretty  well 
photographed. 

"PATHE'S  WEEKLY,  NO.  25"  (June  9).— The  photography  of  this 
number  is  not  quite  up  to  the  standard;  some  of  the  best  items  suffer  on 
account  of  this.     There  is  not  a  great  deal  of  news  in  this  week's  topical. 

"BRONCHO  BILLY'S  CAPTURE"  (Essanay),  June  7.— Broncho  is  in 
love  with  a  woman,  sweetheart  of  a  badman  whom,  as  sheriff,  he  "wants." 
The  ruse  that  he  employs  to  make  sure  that  she  also  is  an  accomplice  was 
cleverly  thought  up  and  well  put  over.  It  gives  a  good  deal  of  interest  to 
the  picture.  The  rest  of  it  we  have  seen  before,  but  it  was  perhaps  neces- 
sary as  a  setting  for  the  fresh  part.  The  photography  is  not  artistic  and 
this  makes  several  of  the  scenes  seem  uninteresting. 

"SWEENY  AND  THE  FAIRY"  (Selig),  June  9.— Sweeny,  it  will  be  re- 
membered, lost  his  unexpected  inheritance  at  cards — it  was  shown  to  us  in 
a  former  offering.  In  this  picture,  he  gets  it  back  for  a  short  time,  while  he 
is  stealing  forty  winks  after  dinner  under  the  brick  wall  he  is  building. 
There  was  some  laughter,  not  a  great  deal,  but  it  seemed  to  be  watched 
closely.  The  script  is  by  Chris  Lane,  and  it  was  produced  by  Charles 
France.  John  Lancaster  plays  Sweeny,  and  Lyllian  Leighton  Mrs.  Sweeny. 
The  photography  is  fair. 

"THE  LEGEND  OF  LOVERS'  LEAP"  (Lubin),  June  9.— An  Indian 
legend  with  no  white  people  in  the  characters.  It  is  played  by  white  actors, 
and  rather  poorly.  It  doesn't  convince  at  all  and  is  not  very  interesting. 
The  story  is  wholly  conventional  and  seems  stale;  it  is  a  triangle,  with  a 
suicide  of  the  lovers  at  the  end. 

"THE  GREAT  PEARL"  (Lubin),  June  9. — A  melodrama  without  much 
meaning  or  logic.  The  story  is  not  romantic,  but  rather  prosaic,  even  un- 
pleasant. The  backgrounds  are  the  lumber  yards  in  Florida  that  we  have 
seen  often  and  they   are  not  well  photographed. 

"WHILE  JOHN  BOLT   SLEPT"    (Edison),    Tune   7— This  picture,  writ- 


ten by  Bannister  Merwin,  ind  produced  by  Charles  Brabin,  makes  a  good 
offering  because,  though  its  story  is  unconvincing,  it  has  been  well  handled. 
While  John  Bolt  sleeps,  his  conscience  takes  him  out  into  his  past  to  show 
him  unworthy  things  that  he  has  done.  Conscience  comes,  armed  with 
gleaming  sword  and  Roman  buckler,  lordly  and  imperious,  as  conscience 
really  is.  Most  of  the  double  exposure  scenes  in  which  he  appears  and  dis- 
appears are 'perfect  and  wonderfully  impressive,  and  this  impression  is 
steadily  .maintained   by.   the   acting  ojf  .Marc    MacDermott,    as    Bolt,    an    old 

'  paralytic;  -and  of  Charles  Ogle*,  the  Visitant.  The  author  has  made  Bolt, 
after  seeing  his  injustices,  correct  them  and,  after  correcting  them,  be  cured 
of  his  disability  which,   on  the. jshowing,  seems  apoplectic- and  incurable-   he 

J.^asn't  roade-fis  .believe  in  it. 

>'  'V6YHELLO  IN  JONESVILLE"  (Edison),  June  9.— A  burlesque  with 
'enough  freshness  to  get  by;  though  most  of  it  seems  like  old  vaudeville 
sketch  stuff.  Old  stuff  seems  to  go  with  the  audiences;  it  is  strange  how 
many  people  haven't  seen  the  old  situations  o'r  heard  the  old  jokes.  This 
picture  is  by  Herbert  Prior,  and  was  produced  by  Charles  Seay,  and  deals 
with  the  poor  actor  out  of  work  and  hoofing  it  through  the  country  (Her- 
bert Prior),  and  with  the  gawky  girl  (Mabel  Trunnelle),  who  is  stagestruck. 
He  teaches  the  farmer's  family  acting  for  his  keep  and  they  try  to  give  a 
performance  of  Othello  at  the  town  hall.  The  fact  that  it  was  burlesqued, 
rr.ther  than  played  as  a  .farce  "comedy,  tells  against  it  as  killing  its  freshness. 
"WHEN  WOMEN  ARE  POLICE"  (Kalem),  June  7.— A  slight  farce,  in 
kind  and  quality  much  like  the  usual  offering  by  this  company.  It  has 
Ruth  Roland  as  a  woman  cop,  and  other  players  are  Marshal  Neilan  and 
John  Brennan. 

"PERCY'S  WOOING"  fKalem),  June  7.— On  the  same  reel  is  this  farce 
with  much  more  substance  *han  the  former.  The  situation  is  far  from  new, 
but  it  gives  Marshal  Neilan  a  chance  to  play  "some  sissy"  (we  quote  from 
a  stranger's  comment  to'  the  man  with  him),  which  he  does  very  effectively. 
Mr.  Neilan  is  no  novice  in  acting;  his  comedy  character  work  is  fine.  As  a 
sissy,  he  disgusts  the  girl  he  is  wooing,  so  he  employs  a  wrestler  to  let 
himself  be  thrown  in  a  bout.  Marshal's  reputation  gets  so  big  on  account 
of  the  bout  that  even  the  wrestler  is  afraid  of  him,  and  everything  comes 
his  way.  (Perhaps  a  reputation  as  a  scenario  writer  would  be  just  as  ef- 
fective.) It  makes  a  very  good  offering  and  the  audience  heartily  laughed 
over  it.     Ruth  Roland,  John  Young  and  John  Brennan  also  have  roles. 

"THE  RUBE  AND  THE  BOOB"  (Kalem),  June  9.— A  very  fair  farcical 
offering  with  enough  freshness  and  enough  fun  to  go.  The  girl  (Juanita 
Sponsler)  with  the  rube  (Marshal  Neilan)  sees  the  boob  (John  Brennan)  at 
the  head  of  the  circus  and,  later  on  in  the  afternoon,  she  throws  balls  at 
him  With  his  head  through  the  canvas  curtain. 

"THE  SCHEME  OF  SHIFTLESS  SAM  SMITH"  (Kalem),  June  9.— On 
the  same  reel,  this  farce  is  original  and  very  amusing.  It  is  played  by  John 
Brennan  and  Marion  Sais  and,  at  its  best,  has  just  the  quality  to  make  a 
farce  bite.     The  two  make  .a  good  offering  to  lighten  a  program. 

"MERCY  MERRICK"  (Edison),  June  6.— This  adaptation  from  Wilkie 
Collins'  "The  New  Magdalene,"  gives  Mary  Fuller  an  opportunity  to  do 
some  effective  acting.  She  is  ably  supported  by  an  excellent  cast,  all  of 
whom  deserve  mention,  i.  e.,  Robert  B'rower,  Bigelow  Cooper,  Gertrude 
McCoy,  Mrs.  Erskine  and  Richard  Tucker.  There  are  several  fine  situa- 
tions, the  last,  where  the  nurse  turned  in  her  straight  path  and  pretended 
to  be  another,  had  been  detected,  and  confessed  to  the  minister,  being  one 
of  the  best.  Mr.  Brower,  as  the  surgeon,  was  strong.  The  interiors  are 
well  handled,  great  care  being  given  to  details.  Altogether  it  is  a  good 
picture. 

"BIRDS  AND  ANIMALS  OF  BRAZIL"  (Patheplay),  June  6.— Many 
splendidly  photographed  and  interesting  views  of  parrots,  boa  constrictors, 
crocodiles,  of  a  sloth  and  of  many  monkeys. 

"TANANARIVE"  (Patheplay),  June  6.— On  the  same  reel  as  the  fore- 
going are  many  scenes  of  this  Madagascar  city.  There  are  bird's-eye  views, 
pictures  of  the  people,  humble  and  notable,  and  of  a  horse  race  and  of  the 
people  and  stands. 

"MAX'S  FIRST  JOB"  (Patheplay),  June  10.— This  split-reel  is  the  best 
offering  released  today  by  good  odds.  In  the  first  half,  Max  Linder  comes 
back  with  one  of  his  welcome  farces,  not  quite  at  his  best,  but  very  good; 
it  markedly  pleased  the  audience  and  there  was  a  good  deal  of  laughter. 
Max  plays  an  awkward  and  inexperienced  picture  actor  who.  has  been  taken 
on  by  Mr.  Charles  Pathe.     Motion  picture  patrons  will  enjoy  this  offering. 

"THE  CHATEAU  OF  CHENONCEAU"  (Patheplay),  June  10.— On  the 
same  reel  is  this  series  of  clearly  photographed  views  of  one  of  the  beau- 
tiful castles  of  France,  which  is  built  like  a  bridge  -across  the  .River  Cher 
The  only  fault  we  have  to  find  with  such  offerings  is  that  they  fail  to  give 
us  enough  information  in  the  titles  to  enable  us  to  know  what  we  are 
seeing.  To  a  person  of  no  reading,  they  have  little  interest;  others  want  to 
know  who  built  it  and  why  it  was  built  across  the  river. 

"TWO  LITTLE  KITTENS"  (Edison),  June  10.— A  little  story  of  senti- 
ment that  is  not  without  its  charm,  though  by  no  means  a  great  picture.  A 
rich  woman's  son  has  married  a  girl  in  his  mother's  employ  and  has  been 
disowned.  He  has  died,  and  his  widow  with  two  children  has  applied  to 
her  former  mistress  (her  mother-in-law)  for  help,  and  unavailingly.  The 
story's  object  is  to  get  the  rich  woman  to  accept  the  children,  but  the 
means  it  takes  to  arrive  at  this  end  are  too  plainly  contrived  to  convince. 
In  the  first  place,  a  couple  of  kittens  are  brought  in  boldly  and  then  the 
chauffeur  is  told  to  give  them  to  the  housekeeper  to  care  for  while  the  rich 
woman  is  in  Europe.  Now  he  might  have  known  the  woman's  former 
seamstress  (it  wasn't  shown  nevertheless),  he  takes  the  kittens  to  her  and 
lets  her  substitute  her  children  for  the  kittens  so  that  the  housekeeper  will 
care  for  them  for  a  while.  The  means  by  which  the  woman  and  her  mother- 
in-law  are  brought  together  in  the  hotel  are  also  conventional.  Such  things 
cannot  deeply  interest  and  do  not.  Yet  the  offering  has  merit.  It  is 
wholesome  and  attractive  because  of  the  things  it  deals  with.  The  pro- 
ducer has  handled  his  scenes  pretty  well.  The  script,  by  A.  H.  Giebler,  has 
been  produced  by  Charles  Seay.  Mabel  Trunnelle  has  the  leading  role, 
wi(h  May  Abbey,  Elizabeth  Miller,  Cora  Williams,  Paul  McAllister  an^  , 
utlitrs  11  the  cast.  .       . 

"A  HUSBAND'S  TRICK"   (Vitagraph),  May  30.— Good  comedy;  in  fact, 


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unusually  good.  Emma  Freeman  lias  written  a  script  which  William 
Humphrey  excellently  produces.  It  is  another  use  of  the  suffragette  theme 
and  of  the  forgotten  sister  of  the  husband;  but  there  is  a  lot  of  fun,  and 
that  s  what  we  want  when  we  are  promised  a  comedy.  Lillian  Walker  por- 
trays the  wife,  converted  to  suffragism  and  later  forced  back  into  les« 
glorious  but  more  husband-pleasing  ways.  She  does  well.  Mr.  Humphrey 
has  the  role  of  the  serious  husband  and  to  the  comedy  adds  the  persona! 
note.  Florence  Ashebrookc  is  the  converter,  and  Rosemary  Theby  the 
visiting  sister.     All  are  deserving  of  praise. 

"THE  WOOD  FIRE  AT  MARTIN'S"  (Selig),  May  30.-A  pretty  story 
I  he  Bohemian  atmosphere  of  the  restaurant  is  sustained  throughout  The 
script  is  written  by  Marc  Jones  and  produced  by  E.  A.  Martin,  it  is  a 
tale  of  an  unsuccessful  composer  and  of  an  accidental  opportunity  to  get  a 
hearing.  Of  course  he  is  successful.  Everybody  again  gathers  about  the 
alluring,  great,  wood  fire  and  happiness  reigns.  Even  the  audience  is  in  a 
pleased  mood. 

"HONOR  OF  A  SOLDIER"  (Edison),  May  30.— No  attempt  is  made  in 
this  picture  to  stage  a  battle.  There  is  shown  just  a  bit  of  it.  The  story 
rests  on  an  incident  growing  out  of  the  conflict.  It  will  entertain  in  spite  of 
the  unlikelihood  of  a  sergeant  being  unable  to  identify  one  of  his  men.  Her- 
bert Prior  has  the  lead.     Harry  Eytinge  is  the  sergeant. 

"THE  FAITH  OF  A  GIRL'.'  (Lubin),  May  30.— A  picture  containing 
some  good  fire  scenes.  Ethel  Clayton,  as  the  faithful  wife  of  a  man  ar- 
rested on  his  honeymoon  for  former  crookedness,  does  fine  and  intelligent 
acting.  Harry  Meyer  has  the  part  of  the  husband.  There  are  some  well- 
staged  prison  interiors.  Why  is  it  that  even  in  a  well-to-do  audience  there 
will  be  many  who  will  laugh  at  the  lockstep?  "The  Faith  of  a  Girl"  is 
a  good  release. 

"THE  SPIDER  WHICH  LIVESIN  A  BUBBLE"  (Patheplay),  May 
3°- — An  interesting  film  showing  the  habits  of  the  water  spider. 

"TRANSPORTATION  METHODS  IN  JAVA"  (Patheplay),  May  30.— 
On  the  same  reel  is  this  short  film  showing  the  difficulties  of  getting  human 
and  other  freight  from  ship  to  shore  on  account  of  shallow  water.  The 
camera  work  was  not  always  the  best,  although  there  was  no  means  of 
knowing  the  troubles  faced  by  the  cameraman. 

"THE  BUTLER'S  SECRET"  (Vitagraph),  June  6.— Here  is  a  splendid 
picture,  and  it  may  be  remarked  in  passing  that  from  first  to  last  no 
woman  appears  in  it,  which  again  goes  to  prove  that  love  stories  are  not 
absolutely  essential  to  make  a  picture  hold.  The  story  is  of  a  son  of  a 
butler  who  attempts  to  rob  his  father's  employer;  the  son  of  the  house 
entering  just  as  the  father  is  searching  for  the  intruder  is  mistaken  for 
the  burglar  and  ordered  from  his  home.  There  are  many  thrills,  legitimate 
ones,  created  by  dramatic  situations  competently  handled.  It  is  a  fine  story 
that  Marguerite  Bertsch  has  written.  Mr.  Humphrey,  who  plays  the  house- 
holder, also  directs.  The  three  others  in  the  cast  are  James  Morrison, 
Charles  Eldridge  and  George  Cooper.  Perhaps  the  best  scene  is  where  the 
outcast  son,  down  and  out,  steals  into  his  old  home  and  is  fed  by  the  butler 
and  then  goes  to  his  father's  room  just  to  get  a  look  at  him  asleep,  the 
light  striking  in  on  his  face.     It  will  stir  every  heart. 

"MANILA  NORMAL  AND  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS"  (Selig),  June  6.— An 
interesting  educational  film,  showing  the  children  of  the  Philippines  and 
also  views  of  the  natives  at  work  basketmaking,  weaving  and  lacemaking. 

"AN  EMBARRASSED  BRIDEGROOM"  (Selig),  June  6.— On  the  same 
reel  as  the  foregoing  is  this  comedy  of  the  West,  containing  much  horser 
play.  A  prospective  bridegroom  goes  to  town  to  get  an  outfit,  celebrates  too 
much,  gets  into  trouble  and  nearly  loses  his  bride,  but  is  finally  forgiven. 

"THE  PENALTY  OF  JEALOUSY"  (Lubin),  June  6.— This  rather  un- 
pleasant story  of  the  Southwest  is  well  made — there  are  well  photographed 
views  of  an  interesting  country  and  the  acting  is  good.  Romaine  Fielding 
writes  the  script;  he  also  plays  the  lead. 

"PHILIP  MARCH'S  ENGAGEMENT"  (Essanay),  June  6.— A  comedy 
in  which  William  Mason  and  Beverly  Bayne  have  the  leads.  They  will 
make  much  fun.  While  the  story  contains  some  "convenient  coincidences," 
at  the  same  time  it  works  out  all  right.  Had  there  been  a  flash  at  the  con- 
clusion showing  the  mixed  trunks  restored  to  their  proper  owners,  and  the 
man  and  the  girl  arrayed  in  their  usual  apparel,  it  might  have  added  to  the 
amusement. 

"THE  TERROR  OF  CONSCIENCE"  (Kalem),  June  6.— There  is  in 
this  picture  a  real  dramatic  touch  when  the  Italian,  fleeing  from  what  he 
believes  to  be  murder  and  seeking  a  priest  to  confess,  comes  upon  the  actor 
standing  by  the  stage  door  in  the  robe  of  Richelieu.  That  the  man  in  the 
garb  of  a  Cardinal  should  be  the  husband  of  the  niece  the  Italian  believed 
he  had  killed  furnished  a  situation  which  presented  great  .opportunities. 
The  picture  is  well  made  and  interests  throughout.  The  principals  in  the 
cast,  James  Vincent  as  the  actor,  Alice  Hollister  as  the  street  singer,  and 
James  B.  Ross  as  the  Italian,  all  do  fine  work.  • 

"THE  ACCUSING  HAND"  (Lubin),  June  6.— Romaine  Fielding  writes 
the  script  of  this  two-reel  special,  as  he  also  produces  it  and  carries  the 
lead  in  it.  The  picture  bears  the  stamp  of  Fielding — it  has  the  impress  of 
his  personality.  The  accusing  hand  is  the  hand  of  a  detective  pointed  to  a 
man  he  believes  to  be  a  murderer.  Pointing  the  hand  may  be  a  man  garbed 
as  a  Mexican,  prosperous  or  otherwise;  a  business  man,  vagrant,  Jew,  old 
man,  Indian,  woman  or  tramp,  but  it  is  always  the  same  person.  That  the 
silent  third  degree  should  finally  break  down  the  criminal  is  only  to  be  ex- 
pected. The  picture  is  well  directed,  well  acted  and  finely  staged — further- 
more, it  is  interesting. 

"DAD'S  LITTLE  GIRL"  (Selig),  June  10. — Dad  is  out  of  work  and 
his  little  girl  is  adopted  by  his  dead  wife's  parents;  but  she  pines  in  luxury. 
This  situation  is  not  at  all  new,  but  it  is  more  convincing  than  the  de- 
velopment for  which  the  author  is  responsible.  The  picture  aims  at  pathos, 
but  fails  to  reach  it.  The  little  leading  woman  wears  her  gems  even  in 
scenes  of  poverty  and  there  is  no  sincere  acting.  It  has  been  well  photo- 
graphed and  has  several  excellent  scenes. 

"VIOLET  DARE,  DETECTIVE"  (Lubin),  June  10.— It  is  hard  to  tell, 
at  first,  whether  this  picture  is  intended  as  a  farce  or  a  drama;  It  is  not  a 
picture  to  call  strongly  to  city  audiences  who  know  much  about  criminals 
and  detectives.     In  the  East   Side  audience  there,  were  several   who  jeered 


some  of  the  things  it  showed.  Isabelle  Lamon,  as  Violet,  is  nothing  but  a 
very  pretty  society  belle  and  more  or  less  ridiculous  in  the  role  of  detective 
while  nothing  could  be  more  ridiculous  than  the  work  of  the  criminal,  as 
shown.  Such  a  picture  may  go  in  places;  it  surely  has  many  very  pretty 
scenes  and  has  been  finely  photographed. 

"CUTEY  TRIES  REPORTING"  (Vitagraph),  June  to.-Very  little  of 
the  comedy  of  this  picture  gets  over  and  it  has  been  made  solely  for  the 
soke  of  its  comedy;  the  story  is  not  such  as  one  would  depe«d  on  to  give 
entertainment.  It  is  filled  with  old  stuff.  On  the  other  hand  it  has  been 
p:etty  well  acted  and  now  and  then  one  could  hear  some  of  the  audience 
laughing.  Wallie  Van,  as  the  reporter,  who  has  had  it  put  up  to  him  to  get 
a  story,  has  an  impossible  role,  as  has  Paul  Kelly,  the  girl's  small  brother, 
who  blackmails  Van.  Zena  Keefe,  Alice  Nash  and  Tefft  Johnson  have 
minor  roles. 

"THE  SHADOWGRAPH  MESSAGE"  (Essanay),  June  10.— Very  poor 
photography  hinders  this  not  very  original  picture  in  some  of  its  scenes. 
In  part,  it  would  have  been  obscure  anyway.  The  climax,  which  is  the 
only  part  of  it  that  has  not  been  used  many  times,  is  reached  by  a  far- 
fetched  incident,  and  cannot  be  said  to  get  over. 

"THE  TRAGEDY  OF  BIG  EAGLE  MINE"  (Kalem),  June  7.— This 
special  offering  has  been  reviewed  at  length  in  a  former  issue  of  The 
Moving  Picture  World. 


Independent 

"SINCERITY"  (Victor),  June  13. — A  conventional  love  story  of  well- 
defined  type  and  old  characters.  Among  these  is  the  rich,  young  man, 
played  here  by  James  Kirkwood,  who  goes  out  on  his  adventures  in  search 
of  true  love  and  gets  a  job  as  a  farm  helper.  The  farmer  is  a  woman  of 
harsh  disposition  whose  orphan  niece  (Gertrude  Robinson)  lives  with  her 
and  is  overworked.  Some  of  the  farm  scenes  are  interesting,  such  as  the 
woman  farmer  plowing,  etc.  The  three  tramps  who  break  in  the  house  are 
not  made  at  all  convincing,  nor  is  the  rescue  either  comedy  or  drama  The 
story  is  pleasing  and  has  proved  itself  popular  in  the  past.  It  has  been 
clearly  brought  out  and  fairly  well  acted  and  photographed. 

"THE  CAPTURE  OF  AGUINALDO"  (Bison),  June  14.— A  melodra- 
matic romance  in  two  reels,  dealing  with  love  and  adventure  in  the  Philip- 
pines, and  giving  a  picture  of  the  capture  of  the  redoutable  leader  of  the 
Filipino  forces.  It  cannot  be  called  historical,  nor  does  it  contain  much 
that  is  truly  convincing  in  a  human  way.  It  depends  almost  wholly  on  its 
battle  scenes  and  these,  indeed,  are  commendable;  they  have  flash  and  vigor 
at  times.  The  offering  has  its  good  points,  such  as  a  glimpse  of  the  head- 
hunters,  and  its  melodramatic  incidents  are  not  without  their  feeling  of 
danger  and  of  rescue.     The  photography  is  fair. 

"THE  WAR  OF  THE  BEETLES"  (Imp),  June  14.— Here  is  a  true 
novelty;  we  have  never  seen  or  heard  of  anything  like  it  in  pictures  before. 
It  gives  us  a  little,  grand  romance,  played  by  black  beetles  armed  with 
swords  and  halberds  and  dressed  in  boots  and  hats.  There  are  scenes  in 
palace  and  garden,  in  an  armed  camp  and  on  the  wall  of  a  besieged  castle, 
also  there  is  one  in  the  dungeon  of  the  tower  and  one  in  a  romantic  spot 
in  the  woods.  It  is  very  laughable  and  will  afford  amusement  to  all  kinds 
of  people;  in  fact,  we  think  it  an  exceptionally  promising  offering.  It  has 
been  cleverly  made,  clearly  photographed,  and  none  of  it  is  dry. 

"CARTOONS  BY  HY  MAYER"  (Imp),  June  14.— On  the  same  reel  is  a 
short  length  of  amusing  cartoons  by  the  noted  artist.     They  are  clever,  too. 

"OUT  AND  IN"  (Keystone),  June  19.— This,  on  same  reel  with  above, 
shows  Ford  Sterling  as  an  escaped  convict.  He  eludes  the  officers  and 
enjoys  a  straw  ride,  but  is  recaptured.     Very  slight. 

"HIS  SACRIFICE"  (Thanhouser),  June  13. — The  story  of  a  doctor 
whose  wife  becomes  jealous  of  his  patients  and  kills  herself  entirely  without 
reason.  He  goes  West  and  later  reveals  his  identity  in  order  to  operate  on 
a  child  and  saves  its  life.  The  appearance  of  the  second  doctor  rather 
spoiled  the  idea  of  an  emergency  existing.  A  film  possessing  a  fair  degree 
of  interest. 

"MIMOSA'S  SWEETHEART"  (Majestic),  June  8.— This  is  the  first 
number  we  have  seen  showing  Fred  Mace  in  his  new  affiliation.  He  appears 
as  the  sweetheart  of  a  pretty  Japanese  girl,  played  by  a  real  daughter  of 
Japan.  There  are  several  villains  from  whom  he  rescues  her  and  later  she 
rescues  him  by  jiu-jitsu.     A  fairly  entertaining  half-reel. 

"GARDEN  OF  THE  GODS"  (Majestic),  June  8.-j-This,  on  same  reel 
with  above,  gives  interesting  views  of  the  famous  resort  near  Colorado 
Springs. 

"THE  WAITERS'  PICNIC"  (Keystone),  June  16.— This  full  reel  Key- 
stone offering  shows  us  a  waiters'  picnic  at  the  beginning.  Mabel  falls 
from  a  cliff  and  Ford  has  a  hard  time  rescuing  her.  The  scene  shifts  to  a 
hotel  where  she  is  cashier  and  he  is  chef.  He  "doctors"  the  food  ordered 
by  a  rival.     Some  amusement  in  this,  but  it  is  not  exceptionally  good. 

"WHILE  BABY  SLEPT"  (Thanhouser),  June  10.— A  live  snake  domi- 
nates this  picture  and  it  causes  fully  as  many  shudders  as  could  be  desired. 
There  is  a  circus  parade  from  which  the  snake  escapes.  It  crawls  into 
a  house  occupied  only  by  an  old  man,  a  baby  and  a  dog.  The  snake  crawls 
on  to  the  bed  with  the  baby  and  the  old  man,  who  is  physically  helpless, 
sends  a  note  by  the  dog  to  call  the  father  to  the  rescue.  This  is  successful 
as  a  sensation,  but  will  probably  be  repulsive  to  sensitive  observers. 

"APACHE  LOVE"  (Nestor),  June  18. — A  typical  Bison  Indian  picture, 
rather  similar  to  one  we  saw  a  week  or  so  ago  called  "Tfae  Vengeance  of 
Skystone,"  in  some  particulars.  The  struggle  in  the  branches  of  the  tree 
was  realistic. 

"SORROWS  OF  ISRAEL"  (Imp),  June  19.— This  three-reel  story  will 
appeal  principally  to  houses  with  a  strong  Jewish  clientele.  It  is  presented 
by  an  entire'  cast  of  Jewish  players  and  brings'  in  the  feast-  of-  the  Passover 
and  other  religious  rites  of  the  kind.  The  hero  goes  through  fire  and  . 
water  to  win  his  sweetheart.  He  deserts  his  people-  and  becomes  a  Chris- 
tian,: but  .later  returns  to  save  his  own  kindred  from  massacre.    The  interior 


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settings  are  not  very  attractive,  but  the  out-door  scenes  are  satisfactory. 
The  third  reel  contains  a  big  surprise  and  some  genuinely  gripping  scenes. 
A  race  story  of  good  dramatic  structure. 

"THE  CALL  OF  THE  ANGELUS"  (Frontier),  June  12.— A  picture  that 
might  have  been  made  convincing  by  strong  acting;  but  this  has  been  very 
poorly  acted.  There  are  weak  links,  unconvincing  points  in  the  chain  and 
they  keep  us  from  being  deeply  moved.  The  story  is  of  Mexico,  and  one  of 
its  two  chief  characters  thinks  he  has  killed  his  rival  in  a  duel.  The  re- 
morse he  feels,  whenever  he  hears  the  Angelus  makes  him  come  back  to  the  ■ 
village  and  confess.  He  finds  the  rival  still  alive.  The  backgrounds  are 
fairly  interesting. 

"THE  $10,000  BRIDE"  (Powers),  June  25. — Two  comedians  on  the 
Weber-Field  style  make  much  fun.    A  ripple  runs  through  the  half  reel. 

"IT  HAPPENED  AT  THE  BEACH"  (Powers),  June  25.— On  the  same 
reel  as  the  foregoing  is  a  renewal  of  the  barrel-for-clothes  stuff  that  is  not 
new  or  very  funny. 

"THE  HIGHER  LAW"  (Imp),  June  12. — Nothing  very  new  in  this 
photoplay  so  far  as  the  situations  are  concerned,  yet  it  has  the  quality  of 
suspense  in  a  marked  degree.  The  manner  in  which  the  paymasters  wife 
defends  the  cabin  against  the  murderous  intruder  until  help  is  brought 
through  the  agency  of  the  family  dog  was  well  handled.  The  death  of 
the  would-be  robber  from  a  bolt  of  lightning  was  purely  a  melodramatic 
effort  and  not  very  convincing.     A  fair  release. 

"WITHOUT  REWARD"  (Nestor),  June  16.— Another  story  of  a  bandit 
whose  heart  was  touched  by  a  sick  child's  need  of  medicine.  He  brings 
the  medicine  at  the  expense  of  his  own  safety,  but  the  mother's  entreaties 
save  him  from  violence.  This  picture  is  not  handled  to  the  best  advantage 
in  places  and  is  not  quite  up  to  the  Nestor  standard. 

"HER  JOKE  ON  BELMONT"  (Crystal),  June  15.— A  half  reel  comedy 
on  same  reel  with  "An  Expensive  Drink,"  which  has  been  previously  re- 
viewed. The  humor  of  this  is  for-jed  and  inconsequential,  though  the 
photography  is  first  rate. 

"THE  TWINS  OF  DOUBLE  X  RANCH"  (Frontier),  June  14.— The 
humor  of  this  depends  largely  upon  the  situation  where  one  of  the  girls 
pours  the  "Elixir  of  Love"  in  the  well.  Animals  and  human  beings  are 
alike  affected  by  its  rejuvenating  qualities.  There  is  a  fair  amount  of 
amusement  in  this,  but  it  is  not  up  to  former  successes  offered  by  this 
company. 

"A  CALL  FROM  HOME"  (Crystal),  June  17.— A  picture  verging  so 
■closely  upon  both  comedy  and  drama  that  it  loses  some  strength  as  a  result. 
Chester's  victory  over  a  rival  in  winning  Pearl's  love,  and  the  later  adven- 
tures in  a  mining  stock  exploit,  make  quite  an  entertaining  story,  however. 
The  waterfall  setting  in  the  fore  part  of  the  film  was  very  pretty. 

"HEARTS  AND  FLOWERS"  (Gem),  June  9.— An  obscure  plot  is  the 
chief  shortcoming  of  this  otherwise  pleasing  film  story.  There  is  a  good 
deal  of  sincere  and  well  meant  acting,  but  the  first  scenes  give  no  clue  to 
the  plot  and  the  final  ones  leave  it  still  more  or  less  of  a  mystery.  A  num- 
ber of  sub-titles  would  aid  materially  in  getting  this  story  clearly  before 
the  observer.      The   photography  is  soft  and   pleasing  to  the   eye. 

"ALADDIN'S  AWAKENING"  (Nestor),  June  20.— A  half-reel  subject 
in  which  the  hero  rinds  a  magic  bracelet  and  has  only  to  make  a  wish  and 
it  will  be  granted.  The  rugged  coast  setting  helps  out  this  fantastic  bit, 
which  is  rather  entertaining 

"DAD'S  SURPRISE"  (Nestor),  June  20.— On  same  reel  with  above. 
The  girls  give  a  surprise  party  and  Dad  is  very  much  pleased  until  he  gets 
a  bill  for  $40  next  day.  It  seemed  to  us  the  plot  did  not  work  out  as 
clearly  as  might  have  been  expected.  Why  did  Dad  agree  to  pay  for  every- 
thing that  was  ordered  in  the  first  place,  is  the  observer's  natural  query. 

"WHEN  LIGHT  CAME  BACK"  (Eclair),  June  11.— A  two-reel  sub- 
ject which  for  coherency  and  gripping  interest  surpasses  many  of  this  com- 
pany's recent  productions.  Alec  Francis  appears  to  decided  advantage  in 
the  role  of  the  father,  Barbara  Tennant  as  the  daughter,  and  Robert  W. 
Frazer  as  the  lover.  The  plot  is  very  ingenious  for  the  first  reel  and  a 
half  and  its  worst  fault  then  is  that  it  piles  on  so  many  complications  that 
it  becomes  somewhat  farcical.  The  hero's  struggles  in  the  straitjacket 
at  the  asylum  might  have  been  shortened;  his  escape  from  the  institution 
was  very  realistic.  The  suspense  is  admirable  in  this,  until  the  final  over- 
dose of  "punch"  renders  it  somewhat  laughable.  As  a  thrilling  production, 
it  succeeds  very  well. 

"THE  COMEDIAN'S  MASK"  (Imp),  June  9.—  \n  entertaining  two- 
reel  subiect,  with  King  Baggot  in  the  leading  role.  The  photography  is 
unusually  good  and  the  setting  and  costuming  attractive.  The  story  goes 
back  for  its  motive  to'the  theme  of  the  tragedy  that  lies  behind  the  mirth 
of  the  comedy  player.  The  scenes  on  the  stage,  during  the  progress  of 
the  play,  and  behind  the  scenes  with  the  stage  hands,  were  nicely  handled. 
Mr.  Baggot  gives  a  very  effective  piece  of  character  work.  We  should 
have  cut  the  part  showing  his  sufferings  under  the  influence  of  the  poison 
as  being  too  unpleasant  for  presentation.  At  the  c-Ium  .  lie  recovers,  and 
his  wife  and  child  arc  beside  him,  the  former  cured  of  her  love  for  the 
juvenile  man.     A  good  release. 

"ANNIE  LAURIE"  (Reliance),  June  10. --An  appealing  little  photoplay 
built  up  around  the  well-known  song,  by  Forest  Halsey.  The  father's 
heart  is  touched  as  his  daughter  and  the  unwelcome  suitor  play  Annie 
Laurie  on  the  gramaphone.  He  recalls  his  own  love  affair,  and  scenes 
during  his  military  career  are  flashed  upon  the  screen.  There  is  a  tender 
note  in  the  story  and  it  is  on  the  whole  very  pleasing. 

"HIS  UNCLE'S  HEIR"  (Reliance),  June  9.— A  plot  of  a  somewhat 
made-to-order  type,  in  which  the  uncle  disinherits  his  nephew  and  marries 
a  young  girl.  There  is  a  mixup  in  the  matter  of  the  two  wills  and  in  the 
end  the  nephew  falls  in  love  with  the  young  widow  and  marries  her,  thus 
straightening  out  all  difficulties.  The  opening  scenes  are  somewhat  dis 
connected,  but  the  story,  though  conventional,  is  not  without  considerable 
interest. 

"HALF  A  CHANCE"  (Reliance),  June  14. — A  three  reel  subject  from 
the  book  by  Fred  S.  Isham.  It  runs  along  like  a  Drury  Lane  melodrama. 
The  action  is  brisk  and  interesting.  George  Seigmann  appears  as  "The 
Frisco  Pet,"  an  ex-prize  fighter,  who  is  convicted  of  a  murder  accidentally 


committed  by  Lord  Ronsdale,  the  villain  of  the  piece.  Some  scenes  arc 
taken  on  board  the  prison  ship  Success,  but  the  long  sub-title  describing 
this  fact  pulls  the  observer's  mind  temporarily  away  from  the  story.  The 
story  does  not  lag  at  any  point  and  moves  along  to  a  successful  conclusion, 
wherein  the  ex-convict  gets  justice  and  marries  the  girl  whose  life  he  saved 
in  the  storm  at  sea.  The  production  is  not  without  faults,  but  has  sus- 
tained interest  throughout  and  is  very  good  of  its  kind. 

"THE  SEAL  OF  SILENCE"  (Kay-Bee),  June  27.— This  two-reel  of- 
fering contains  good  photography  and  is  well  acted,  but  the  plot  is  rather 
far-fetched.  The  story  begins  with  some  very  modern  strike  scenes  and 
works  back  through  the  course  of  years  into  typical  Western  Indian  fighting. 
The  boy,  who  was  carried  West  in  a  box  car,  grows  up  among  the  Indians, 
and  years  afterward  finds  his  mother  after  a  massacre.  It  is  hard  to 
justify  the  historical  side  of  this  production,  which  is  otherwise  handled  in 
very  good  style  and  has  various  points  of  merit. 

"THE  SOUL  OF  A  THIEF"  (American),  June  16.— This  two-reel  of- 
fering is  interesting,  but  the  interest  is  not  always  a  credit  to  the  picture, 
which  contains  some  very  odd  plot  situations.  There  is  a  pretty  girl 
sleepwalker,  whose  instincts  lead  her  always  to  a  certain  valuable  brooch, 
which  she  moves  about  in  her  sleep  apparently  to  suit  the  convenience  of 
the  complicated  plot.  The  chief  character  is  "The  Fox,"  a  notorious  gem 
thief.  It  is  a  surprise  to  learn  that  the  girl's,  father  had  a  dishonest  streak 
in  him,  and  this  was  not  led  up  to  very  well  it  seemed  to  us.  The  pho- 
tography is  good  and  the  story  must  be  given  credit  for  some  freshness 
even  though  it  is  highly  improbable  and  lacks  conviction. 

"THE  SNARE  OF  FATE"  (Thanhouser),  June  17. — A  two-reel  offering 
which  stands  out  well  in  comparison  with  many  recent  double  numbers. 
James  Cruze  gives  a  fine  characterization  of  the  unscrupulous  usurer,  who 
is  by  a  turn  of  fate  evicted  from  one  of  his  own  tenement  houses  by  his 
own  order.  Florence  LaBadie  appears  to  advantage  also  in  the  part  of  the 
ycung  wife.  The  story  covers  a  period  of  six  years  and  is  very  nicely 
worked  out.  The  scenes  are  in  harmony  with  the  spirit  of  the  story  and 
the  photography  is  good.    A  desirable  release. 

"THE  MARINE  LAW"  (American),  June  21. — This  is  a  comedy  reel 
of  fair  interest.  The  political  boss  wants  to  marry  the  mayor's  daughter, 
hut  she  is  in  love  with  a  young  fellow  and  will  not  have  him.  The  slight 
plot  consists  of  the  attempt  made  by  the  girl's  father  and  the  boss  to  pre- 
vent them  from  marrying.  No  license  will  be  issued  them  and  every  exit 
from  the  city  is  guarded.  They  finally  solve  the  difficulty,  however,  by  in- 
ducing the  captain  of  a  vessel  to  marry  them  at  sea.  Good  photography 
helps  out  the  rather  indifferent  plot. 

"THE  HEAD  OF  THE  RIBBON  COUNTER"  (Thanhouser),  June  15.— 
A  neat,  little  comedy  offering,  in  which  Harry  Benham  appea'rs  as  a  ribbon 
clerk  whose  popularity  arouses  feminine  emotion  of  various  kinds.  He  is 
discharged  three  times  when  complaints  are  made,  but  the  wily  employer 
retains  him  each  time  in  a  different  disguise.  A  pleasing  number  that 
will  help  to  diversify  a  programme  of  stronger  stories. 

"THE  MESSAGE  OF  THE  FLOWERS"  (Majestic),  June  10.— The  story 
of  a  romantic  girl  who  tires  of  the  prosaic  young  gardener  when  a  stranger 
visits  the  place.  But  the  stranger  returns  with  another  girl  with  whom  fir 
is  in  love,  and  the  first  girl  becomes  ill  and  pines  for  the  young  gardener. 
He  sends  her  flowers  and  then  comes  to  her  bedside.  A  simple  plot,  as 
will  be  seen,  but  worked  out  rather  prettily. 

"THE  UNWRITTEN  LAW  OF  THE  WEST"  (American),  June  19.— A 
story  of  considerable  strength  in  which  Pauline  Bush,  as  a  Mexican  girl, 
stabs  a  man  who  has  wronged  her.  The  hero,  Warren  Kerrigan,  is  arrested 
for  the  crime  and,  though  the  crime  cannot  be  fastened  upon  him,  is  advised 
by  the  court  to  leave  town.  His  sweetheart  clears  him.  The  photography 
is  good  and  the  plot  has  good  points. 

"THE  TALE  OF  A  BLACK  EYE"  (Keystone),  June  19.  — A  half-reel 
comedy  in  which  Fred  Mace  appears  as  a  flirtatious  married  man.  He  is 
thrown  out  of  a  department  store  and  gets  a  black  eye.  Later,  he  is 
humiliated  by  seeing  himself  in  moving  pictures  in  company  with  his  wife. 
Quite  entertaining. 

"GREGORY'S  SHADOW"  (Solax),  June  6.— A  melodramatic  story  of 
a  man  arrested  on  evidence  that  is  rather  weak.  The  guardian  of  a  girl 
kills  a  man  when  he  is  assailed.  He  contrives  to  place  the  blame  on  his 
ward's  sweetheart,  although  he  tells  the  girl  he  will  save  her  lover  from 
the  chair  if  she  will  marry  him.  The  old  guardian  walks  in  his  sleep;  also 
he' writes  an  accusatory  note,  which  falls  into  the  hands  of  his  ward.  On 
his  deathbed,  to  which  apparently  he  is  brought  by  the  shock  of  finding 
himself  uncovered,  he  confesses.  Strangely  enough,  one  of  his  auditors  is 
the  man  falsely' accused,  though  how  he  gets  out  of  jail  is  not  clear. 

"THE  FATAL  GROTTO"  (Itala).— This  multiple-reel  subject  will 
charm,  not  alone  because  of  pretty  settings,  but  also  on  account  of  the 
quality  of  its  photography  and  its  finished  appearance.  The  acting  is 
good.  There  are  several  strong  scenes  in  which  the  suspense  is  marked. 
The  spectacular  feature  is  an  explosion  in  a  grotto,  in  which  two  pillars  of 
rock  fall  on  the  smuggler  who  is  trying  to  force  a  marriage  between  him- 
self and  the  daughter  of  a  patriot  against  whom  he  possesses  incriminating 
evidence  of  a  conspiracy. 

"THE  USURER'S  SON"  (Great  Northern).— There  is  a  sawmill 
scene  in  this  three-part  picture  which  will  recall  to  older  theatergoers 
a  somewhat  similar  situation  in  "Blue  Jeans."  The  difference  lies  chiefly 
in  the  fact  that  in  the  play  the  victim  was  bound  to  the  plank  being  drawn 
to  the  great  saws,  while  in  the  picture  a  lover  jumps  from  a  window  and 
falls  across  the  trunk  of  a  tree  being  borne  to  the  saw.  It  furnishes  a 
thrill.  The  picture  might  have  been  shortened  without  sacrificing  any  es- 
sential feature  of  the  story,  the  ending  of  which  is  apparent  long  before  the 
finish.     The  film  will  carry  on  its  excellent  photography. 

"AN  ENGINE  OF  DESTRUCTION"  (Gaumont).— In  these  two  reels 
is  told  a  story  of  business  intrigue  in  order  to  force  a  young  woman 
shareholder  in  a  large  property  to  marry  a  man  who  also  is  a  big  share- 
holder. The  picture  will  interest.  There  are  good  views  of  manufacturing 
works.  The  photography  is  praiseworthy.  Suspense  is  created  in  the  second 
reel  by  the  obnoxious  shareholder  attempting  to  deprive  the  sweetheart  of 


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the  young  woman  of  his  invention — a  rapid-fire  gun.  The  weapon  is  a  very 
small  one,  by  the  way — a  six-pounder,  perhaps;  but  its  exploding  missile 
sets  fire  to  a  town.  The  conspirator  confesses  defeat,  resigns  his  director- 
ship and  the  lovers  are  happy. 

"THE  ACE  OF  HEARTS"  (Dragon),  June  9.— Several  incidents  in 
this  drama  of  barracks  life  tend  to  weaken  it.  An  officer  is  asleep;  a 
mischievous  girl  slips  in  his  unbuttoned  coat  collar  a  card.  Later,  the  of- 
ficer plays  cards  with  his  fellows.  The  card  works  out  at  his  wrist — an 
athletic  bit  of  pasteboard.  The  officer  is  court-martialed  and  dismissed  out 
of  hand.  Later,  he  appeals  to  the  major,  commanding  for  reinstatement.  A 
picture  of  military  life  should  have  some  regard  for  customs  and  regulations. 

"THE  CALL  OF  THE  ROAD"  (Ramo),  June  18.— Tramp  comedy  goes 
far  to  lighten  the  serious  side  of  this  drama.  Messrs  Logan  and  Reising  are 
among  the  knights  of  the  road  who  make  the  fun.  Pauline  Curley  is  the 
older  of  the  two  children  who  by  their  good  work  add  to  the  interest  of  the 
picture.     There  is  a  good  cast. 

"MATRIMONY'S  SPEED  LIMIT"  (Solax),  June  11.— Farce  comedy 
that  may  amuse  a  part  of  an  audience,  but  by  many  will  be  deemed  silly. 

"THE  TONGUE  MARK"  (Majestic),  June  15.— Fred  Mace  appears  In 
this  as  Suresholk  Holmes,  a  burlesque  detective.  He  discovers  the  mark  of  a 
dog's  tongue  near  the  scene  of  the  crime  and  follows  it  in  a  fairly  amus- 
ing manner,  finally  arresting  the  dog.  But  the  stolen  silverware  is  found  by 
-an  officer  and  the  real  thief  arrested.     A  burlesque  of  average  interest. 

"THE  LAUNCHING  OF  THE  EDGAR  H.  VANCE"  (Majestic),  June 
15. — This,  on  same  reel  with  above,  shows  the  launching  of  a  big  vessel  on 
the  California  Coast.  We  saw  the  same  launching  in  a  film  released  by 
another  company. 

"BEAUTIFUL  BISMARK"  (Majestic),  June  17.— William  Garwood  ap- 
pears in  this  as  a  young  real  estate  agent,  whose  father  threatens  to  dis- 
inherit him.  A  lunatic  discovers  oil  on  his  tract  of  land  and  the  young 
agent  becomes  rich  as  a  result.  The  photography  is  good  and  there  are 
some  interesting  views  of  the  Los  Angeles  oil  wells  in  this.  The  plot  is 
very  slight. 

"THE  DREAM  HOME"  (Reliance),  June  18.— Another  story  of  the 
citglected  child.  Runa  Hodges  appears  as  the  small  boy,  who  runs  away  with 
his  dog  to  find  the  home  he  has  been  longing  for.  His  mother,  after  a  long 
search,  awakens  to  her  neglect  of  the  boy,  and  -thereafter  his  home  sur- 
roundings are  more  pleasant.  A  variation  of  an  old  theme  handled  with  a 
fair  degree  of  interest. 

"PROFESSIONAL  JEALOUSY"  (Nestor),  June  2.— The  laughing  mo- 
ments in  this  overcome  its  drawbacks.  The  cigarette  smoking  by  the  act- 
resses and  certain  "rough  house"  antics  lower  the  tone  of  the  comedy  some- 
what. As  a  burlesque,  it  passes,  and  there  are  numerous  mirth-provoking 
incidents. 

"THE  SPELL"  (Powers),  June  2.— This  two-reel  film  is  just  weird 
-enough  and  different  enough  to  hold  the  attention  strongly.  It  shows  how  a 
foolish  girl  went  with  some  friends  to  visit  a  hypnotist.  She  becomes  his 
victim  and  he  commands  her  to  get  her  clothes  and  follow  him  about  the 
■country  as  a  hypnotic  subject  He  puts  her  to  sleep  in  store  windows  and 
through  familiar  stage  tricks.  The  young  doctor,  who  is  her  lover,  is 
■desperate  over  the  situation.  Mere  exposure  of  the  hypnotist  does  no  good. 
sr^  he  studies  hypnotism  himself  and  overpowers  the  faker  by  sheer  mental 
•force.     Dramatic,  well  acted  and  nicely  pictured.     A  good  offering. 


FIRST  AIRDOME  IN  UTICA. 

The  Aerdrome,  of  Utica,  N.  Y.,  is  the  newest  and  most 
novel  motion  picture  theater  in  this  city,  which  was  opened 
■early  in  May.  The  Aerdrome  is  an  open-air  playhouse. 
This  al  fresco  effect  has  never  before  been  attempted  by 
Utica  exhibitors.  Clusters  of  electric  lights  have  been  in- 
stalled in  the  front  of  the  theater,  which  are  turned  off  while 
the  films  are  being  shown.  The  house  has  a  seating  capacity 
of  over  350,  which  can  be  enlarged  should  the  patronage 
warrant  such  a  move.  The  machine  is  in  a  booth  over  the 
•entrance.  In  case  of  rain,  large  tarpaulins  can  be  easily  and 
quickly  rolled  over  the  raftered  roof.  The  proprietor  is 
W.  J.  Jacobus,  a  local  dancing  master.  The  theater  is  situ- 
ated on  John  Street,  near  Bleecker,  the  latter  one  of  the 
main  business  thoroughfares  of  the  city. 


SALES  OF  ITALA  FEATURES. 

Feature  film  purchases  during  the  week  include  that  of  C. 
Lalumiere,  of  Montreal,  who  will  rent  Itala's  "The  Shadow 
of  Evil"  in  Canada.  Arthur  Wirtenberg,  of  Schenectady, 
who  is  showing  "The  Great  Aerial  Disaster"  in  New  York 
State,  is  negotiating  for  "The  Shadow  of  Evil."  The  Attrac- 
tive Feature  Film  Exchange  of  Philadelphia  have  begun  well 
with  "The  Dread  of  Doom"  and  have  also  obtained  many 
bookings  on  "The  Fatal  Grotto."  The  Monarch  Feature 
Film  Company,  of  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  will  show  "The  Dread 
of  Doom"  in  their  territory.  E.  T.  Peter,  of  Dallas,  Texas, 
has  purchased  another  print  of  "The  Great  Aerial  Disaster." 
A.  Bradley,  of  Chicago,  has  purchased  rights  on  "The  Great 
Aerial  Disaster"  for  Wisconsin  and  nearby  States.  Sol 
Lesser,  of  the  Golden  Gate  Film  Exchange,  while  in  New 
York  renewed  his  standing  order  with  Itala  for  all  of  their 
features.  W.  B.  Schram,  of  Detroit,  Mich.,  encouraged  by 
his  success  with  "The  Palace  of  Flames,"  has  purchased 
rights  for  Michigan  on  "The  Great  Aerial  Disaster."  L.  R. 
Frank,  one  time  with  the  Gaumont  Company,  now  with  the 
Sedeg  Feature  Film  Company,  is  negotiating  for  the  pur- 
chase of  "Tigris"  rights  in  Minnesota,  North  and  South 
Dakota. 


FAMOUS    PLAYERS    ENGAGE   J.   SEARLE    DAWLEY. 

Considerable  gossip  has  followed  the  engagement  by  the 
Famous  Players  Film  Co.  of  J.  Searle  Dawley,  one  of 
the  star  directors  of  the  Edison  Company.  Congratulatory 
remarks  figure  in  these  comments,  directed  now  toward 
Mr.  Dawley  and  now  toward  the  Famous  Players,  but  we 
venture  the  belief  that  both  are  to  be  complimented  upon 
their  association.  Mr.  Dawley  has  been  engaged  to  produce 
some  of  the  big  subjects  for  which  the  Famous  Players 
are  becoming  more  famous,  and  his  past  performances  en- 
courage the  conviction  that  he  is  peculiarly  adapted  to 
this  more  important  work. 

Mr.  Dawley  grew  up  in  theatrical  circles,  and  after  a 
varied  and  extended  experience,  but  at  still  a  comparatively 
young  age,  manifested  a  keen  knowledge  and  discernment  of 
the  principles  of  dramatic  construction  and  production. 
After  an  exhaustive  study  of  the  theatrical  world  in  all 
its  phases,  equipped  with  a  comprehensive  mastery  of  stage 
technique  and  an  intuitive  sense  of  dramatic  value,  Mr. 
Dawley  employed   his   creative   and   imaginative   genius,   and 


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J.  Searle  Dawley. 

set  to  work  on  a  number  of  plays.  The  public  has  applauded 
no  less  than  fifteen  of  his  dramatic  works,  three  of  which 
have  been  on  the  road  for  four  years — a  certain  sign  of 
their  popularity  and  appeal.  Mr.  Dawley's  works  include 
such  historical  subjects  as  "Marie  Antoinette,"  his  greatest 
success,  which   made  a  decided  hit  and  is  still'  popular. 

It  was  almost  to  be  expected  that  a  man  of  such  obviously 
active  turn  of  mind  and  keen  mental  vision  should  have 
realized  the  unusual  and  increasing  possibilities  of  the  motion 
picture.  Becoming  affiliated  with  the  industry,  he  quickly 
mastered  film  technique  and  after  an  association  of  five 
years  with  the  Edison  Company  as  general  stage  director, 
he   is   today   an    authority    on    motion   picture    production. 

Under  Mr.  Dawley's  capable  direction  have  been  produced 
the  most  striking  spectacular  and  dramatic  subjects  of  the 
Edison  studios,  among  them  being  numbered  "The  Battle  of. 
Trafalgar,"  "Paul  Jones,"  "The  Doctor,"  and  "The  Man 
Without  a  Country." 

A  remarkably  developed  artistic  sense,  an.  infallible  dramatic 
perception,  an  eye  trained  in  proportion  and  perspective  and 
a  dominant  personality  combine  to  make  Mr.  Dawley  in- 
valuable in  producing  large,  spectacular  plays.  His  con- 
nection with  the  Famous  Players  Film  Company  should 
presage  big  events,  and  the  wide  scope  of  that  company 
should   enable    Mr.    Dawley   to   surpass   his   previous   efforts. 


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CHICAGO   LETTER 

By  J  AS.  S.  McQUADE 


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THE  life  of  the  moving  picture  man  in  Central  America 
is"  one  round  of  joy,  according  to  a  letter  just  re- 
ceived from  H.  H.  Buckwalter,  who  is  making  a  series 
of  negatives  for  the  Selig  Polyscope  Company  in  that  sec- 
tion of  the  world.  The  letter,  according  to  Mr.  Buckwalter's 
notation,  was  written  "Somewhere  at  Sea,"  on  the  United 
Fruit  Company's  steamer,  Santa  Marta,  and  its  racy  and 
humorous  style  will  be  enjoyed  by  readers. 

"The  prices  charged  down  here  for  moving  picture  ex- 
hibition would  make  an  American  manager  sit  up  nights 
a-countin'  of  his  money,"  the  letter  begins.  "In  Panama 
they  range  from  15  cents  to  $1  per  seat,  and  the  houses 
are  always  comfortably  filled,  the  general  rule  being  two 
shows  each  evening,  with  a  program  consisting  of  from  three 
to  five  reels.  At  The  Variedades,  at  Panama,  and  in  San 
Jose,  Costa  Rica,  one  awful  act  of  vaudeville  is  given  in 
addition,  and  this  seems  to  offer  an  opening  for  a  few  really 
good  acts  to  come  down  here  and  put  the  game  on  a  higher 
basis.  What  these  'acts'  are  paid  I  did  not  learn,  but  cer- 
tainly some  got  too  much,  if  they  were  paid  at  all. 

"The  pictures  are  generally  of  foreign  birth,  and  the  class 
usually  of  the  kind  that  would  throw  a  censorship  board 
into  fits.  Senor  J.  D.  Amador,  of  Panama,  who- is  the  real 
brains  of  the  whole  picture  situation  in  Central  America, 
told  me  some  of  the  plots  of  the  filth  he  is  getting  abroad 
and  is  compelled  to  show.  One,  by  a  French  maker,  is 
based  on  a  dog,  two  lovers  and  a  girl,  and  the  explanation 
was  enough  for  me.  I  certainly  did  not  care  to  look  at 
the  film  which,  I  was  afterward  told,  made  a  decidely  bad 
impression  even  on  the  'spiggoties,'  who  seem  hardened  to 
filth  and  smut. 

"The  sights  and  scenes  in  Central  America  certainly  would 
not  be  quite  appropriate  for  Fifth  avenue  where,  possibly, 
the  cold  weather  might  compel  at  least  'some'  clothes.  And 
this  is  remarkable,  too.  In  Panama,  where  the  American 
tourist  flourishes,  the  naked  boys  roam  the  streets  and  the 
mothers  seem  proud  to  show  them  to  the  multitudes.  The 
girls  seldom  are  naked. 

"In  Costa  Rica  the  girls  are  the  most  beautiful  found  in 
the  world,  and  here  morality  and  convention  reign  with 
perfect  control.  The  women  have  forms  and  complexions 
positively  without  equal,  and  the  way  they  use  their  eyes 
makes  a  Northerner  wonder  whether  all  the  stars  have  not 
dropped  from  heaven  to  grace  the  superb  beauties  of  this 
tropical  land.  But  it's  not  tropical,  for  the  altitude  is  over 
S.ooo  feet;  and  you  sleep  under  blankets.  That  is,  if  you  sleep. 
In  the  morning  you  figure  how  many  lottery  tickets  you 
will  buy,  and  then  you  count  the  flea  bites  on  your  body. 
If  you  have  over  20,000  you  don't  buy  a  single  ticket,  be- 
cause they  issue  only  that  many.  Just  think  of  the  enormous 
expense  of  playground  the  body  of  a  fat  man  offers,  and 
then  imagine  my  annoyance  at  being  compelled  to  buy  three 
tickets  to  approximate  the  number  of  bites  1 

"But  let's  get  back  to  the  girls.  In  Costa  Rica,  caste 
rules  the  game.  If  you  meet  a  queen  in  the  higher  circles 
and  try  to  introduce  her  to  your  very  charming  friend 
in  a  slightly  lower  circle,  you  immediately  fall  from  grace. 
Feminine  oil'  and  water  will  not  mix,  and  even  the  different 
grades  of  the  -finer  qualities  of  oil  refuse  to  mingle.  When 
a  young  fellow  goes  gunning  for  a  wife,  he  plays  a  full 
hand;  for  he  cannot  take  the  girl  out  alone.  Mother  and 
sisters  go  along,  and  seats  at  the  Teatro  Nacional  cost 
as  much  as  $5  each.  Incidentally,  the  Teatro  Nacional  is 
the  finest  amusement  house  on  the  American  continent,  and 
only  one  in  Europe  is  finer.  The  finest  in  New  York  and 
Chicago  are  commonplace  in  comparison.  Well,  the  love- 
making  game  for  the  young  Costa  Ricans  is  played  on  the 
square  and  courtships  are  brief,  because  it  would  require 
a  millionaire  to  keep  it  up  very  long.  There  are  no  locks, 
wickets  or  bars.  But  go  to  Colombia,  where  the  windows 
have  the  old  Spanish  wickets  and  grilles  and  the  love-making 
must  be  done  at  comparatively  long  distance — a  few  inches, 
possibly — and  things  are  decidely  different.  The  grilles 
may  be  intended  for  this  purpose  but  they  are  not  so  used. 
The  young  folks  don't  even  bother  about  laughing  at  lock- 
smiths,   but    they    quickly    go    the    limit    and    the    marriage 


ceremony  is  omitted,  mainly  because  the  priests  charge  such 
enormous  fees. 

"But  this  is  straying  from  moving  pictures.  The  theaters 
at  Panama  are  quite  nicely  appointed.  The  Variedades, 
of  course,  is  the  most  pretentious  house,  but  it  shows  such 
awful  'vaudeville.'  The  Teatro  Amador  is  not  so  large,  but 
it  is  decidedly  the  best  place  in  Central  America.  A  new 
house  has  just  opened  at  Avenida  Centra  and  this  will  soon 
become  very  popular;  but,  just  at  present,  the  very  best 
people  in  Panama  patronize  the  balcony  of  the  Amador  which 
is  strictly  and  closely  reserved.  President  Porros  and  his 
beautiful  wife  are  almost  nightly  visitors.  Governor  Thatcher 
and  his  charming  wife  are  almost  as  regular  in  their  at- 
tendance, and  when  they  come  it  is  certain  the  elite  of  the 
town  will  follow;,  for  Mrs.  Thatcher  is  something  of  a 
dictator  in  Panamanian  society.  She  babbles  Spanish  like 
a  native  and  is  extremely  gracious  as  well  as  diplomatic  in 
her  methods. 

"At  Colon  the  theaters  are  not  very  pretentious,  but 
they  enjoy  very  nice  patronage.  They  do  not  try  to  segre- 
gate the  classes,  simply  because  the  comolexion  of  the  place 
is  extremely  dark.  I  forgot  to  say  that  Senor  Amador  is 
being  boycotted  by  the  Chinese,  because  he  will  not  permit 
them  to  occupy  the  president's  box  and  mingle  with  the 
really  nice  people.  It  is  remarkable  that  on  the  Isthmus 
the  best  English  is  spoken  by  the  Chinese  and  the  poorest 
by  the  Jamaican  subjects  of  England.  The  American  tourist 
ranks  somewhere  in  between  these  limits;  and,  more  often, 
nearer  the  lower  scale  than  the  higher.  The  Chinese  are 
really  the  big  merchants  and  solid  citizens,  from  a  com- 
mercial standpoint,  while  the  natives  put  in  their  time  effer- 
vescing and  trying  to  start  a  revolution,  which  they  can  not 
do  under  present  conditions. 

"In  Carthagena  (pronounced  Carta-hay-nah)  the  theaters 
are  very  nicely  arranged  and  well  handled.  A  new  airdome 
is  almost  ready  to  open  and  it  is  quite  equal  to  anything 
in  the  States.  The  seating  capacity  will  be  nearly  3,000 
persons.  The  screen  is  solid  wood  and  the  orchestra  chairs, 
the  regular  theater  seats  with  five-ply  veneer  fittings,  the 
same  as  used  in  the  nice  houses  of  the  States.  Around  the 
outer  rim  of  the  place  is  the  'luneta,'  or  semicircle  of  boxes, 
and  back  of  that  the  'gallery,'  or  cheapest  seats.  French 
machines  will  be  used,  but  the  owners  are  trying  to  get 
American  films  with  Spanish  titles,  which  they  seem  unable 
to  do  at  the  present  time. 

"Carthagena  is  one  of  the  most  wonderful  towns  on  the 
American  continent.  It  is  nearly  400  years  old  and  is  sur- 
rounded by  a  very  thick  wall,  with  sentry  boxes  and  forts 
and  all  sorts  of  warlike  things,  once  used  to  repel  pirates. 
Back  of  the  town  is  a  big  convent  on  the  summit  of  a 
mountain,  and  from  this  an  underground  passage  connects 
with  the  crypt  below  the  cathedral.  Centuries  ago,  when  the 
original  Mr.  Morgan  went  a-pirating  around  and  women  were 
considered  more  precious  than  gold,  he  stormed  Carthagena 
and  took  the  town.  Two  hundred  nuns  cast  themselves 
over  the  cliff  and  were  instantly  dashed  to  death. 

The  Keys  of  Carthagena  for  a  Moving  Picture  World. 

"The  moving  picture  magnate  of  Carthagena  is  Senor  Belis- 
ario  Diaz,  and,  as  he  was  educated  in  America,  he  is  rapidly 
adopting  modern  ideas.  The  first  question  he  asked  me 
when  the  ship  touched  the  wharf  was,  'Have  you  a  late 
copy  of  the  Moving  Picture  World?'  Very  fortunately  I  had 
four  copies  that  had  accumulated  at  Colon,  during  my  ab- 
sence in  Costa  Rica,  and  when  Senor  Diaz  got  these  he 
swore  undying  friendship  and  offered  to  get  me  the_  keys 
of  the  town.  But  I  preferred  to  pay  my  way  even  if  my 
day's  expense  did  amount  to  the  mere  bagatelle  of  $1,500. 

When  I  arrived  in  port,  I  exchanged  a  $20  American  bill 
for  just  $2,000  Colombian  money,  which  is  worth  100  for  1. 
A  bottle  of  White  Rock  water  cost  me  $90,  and  the  auto- 
mobile something  like  $900  for  a  couple  of  hours.  It  cost 
$5  to  send  a  letter  back  to  the  States,  and  another  $5  to 
ride  back  to  the  dock  in  the  little  tram  car.  Gee!  What  a 
place  for  the  motion  picture  plutocrats,  who,  a  few  years 
ago,  did  not  eat  with  any  regularity,  and  now  try  to  dazzle 
the  world  with  their  extravagances  I 

"Puerto  Colombia  has  no  picture  shows  except  the  natural 
ones  posed  by  the  natives.  The  place  is  ultra-primitive,  and 
a  sign  over  the  dock  tells  that  it  costs  $10  to  walk  ashore 
and  $15  to  walk  back.  Santa  Marta  has  one  airdome,  but  it 
does  not  compare  with  the  one  at  Carthagena.  It  is  too 
far  from  the  Bowery. 

"The  town  of  Puerto  Colombia  is  made  up  entirely  of 
thatched  native  huts  and  unwashed  population.  It  is  the 
seaport  for  the  very  pretty  and  busy  town  of  Barranquilla, 
where    picture    shows    flourish    in    profitable    style.      Every 


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Sunday  the  railroad  brings  a  trainload  of  the  better  class 
to  Puerto  Colombia,  where  they  buy  luncheon  on  one  of  the 
big  United  Fruit  steamers,  take  a  dip  in  the  surf,  and  then 
go  back. 

Of  Interest  to  Show  People. 

"There  is  one  bit  of  information  that  may  be  of  use  to  show 
people.  The  V.  M.  C.  A.  organization  of  the  Isthmus  brings 
in  a  show  company  about  twice  a  month.  The  arrangements 
are  made,  primarily,  by  the  secretary  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  in 
Xew  York,  but  must  be  ratified  by  the  convention  of  house 
managers  on  the  zone.  The  acts  desired  are  mostly  musical, 
and  must  have  at  least  three  or  four  pretty  girls.  About 
eight  or  ten  people  is  the  limit.  The  commission  furnishes 
all  expenses  and  transportation  from  and  back  to  New  York, 
in  return  for  eight  shows.  After  that,  from  six  to  eight 
shows  are  paid  for  in  cash,  at  from  $75  upward,  per  night. 
If  the  company  is  strikingly  good,  an  engagement  is  se- 
cured at  the  National  Theater,  Panama,  where  the  profits 
amply  pay  for  the  trouble  of  the  trip  from  the  States.  The 
class  of  shows  wanted  can  best  be  described  as  the  kind 
that  make  big  hits  at  Chautauquas,  although  a  couple  or 
three  good,  clean  vaudeville  teams  could  work  together  and 
go  big  here,  and  not  only  fill  in  idle  time  but  make  con- 
siderable money  as  well.  The  fact  should  not  be  overlooked 
that  the  temperature  on  the  Isthmus,  in  summer,  is  much 
more  pleasant  and  cooler  than  in  New  York;  so  the  trip 
would  be  delightful  as  well  as  profitable." 

Mr.  Buckwalter  will  return  to  the  United  States  early 
in  July. 

Chicago  Brevities. 

W.  R.  Scates,  formerly  manager  of  the  G.  F.  Co.'s  branch 
in  the  City  Hall  Square  Building,  this  city,  left  for  Boston, 
Sunday.  June  8th,  to  take  up  the  duties  of  manager  of  the 
G.  F.  Co.'s  branch  there. 

*  *     * 

John  Pribyl,  personal  representative  of  Wm.  N.  Selig,  was 
due  to  arrive  in  Xew  York,  June  10th,  from  a  pleasure 
trip   to   London   and   Paris. 

*  *    * 

Thomas  J.  West,  director  general  of  Films  Ltd.,  Australia, 
passed  through  the  city  Thursday,  June  5th,  on  his  way  to 
Vancouver,   B.   C,   where  he   will    take   the   steamer   for   the 

Antipodes. 

*  *     * 

J.  D.  'Williams,  formerly  of  the  Greater  J.  D.  Williams 
Co.,  Ltd.,  Sydney,  Australia,  which  has  been  absorbed  by 
the  Films,  Ltd.,  arrived  in  the  city,  June  4th.  Hugh  Mcin- 
tosh, formerly  fight  promoter,  and  now  general  manager  of 
Harry     Ricard's    vaudeville     enterprises    in     Australia,    was 

also  in  the  city  last  week. 

*  *     * 

The  members  of  the  Chicago  Advertising  Association  left 
for  Baltimore,  Saturday,  June  7th,  to  attend  the  greatest  con- 
vention of  advertising  men  ever  held  in  America.  The 
members  of  the  committee  in  charge  of  the  delegation,  had 
a  specially  prepared  program  to  be  given  on  the  train.  One 
of  the  features  was  a  photoplay,  written  by  S.  De  Witt 
Clough,  which  was  projected  during  the  trip. 

*  *    * 

Robert  R.  Levy  was  elected  vice-president  of  Illinois  State 
Branch  No.  2,  M.  P.  E.  L.  of  America,  to  fill  the  unexpired 
term  of  C.  A.  Anderson,  at  a  meeting  held  in  this  city,  Mon- 
day, June  7th. 

*  *     * 

A.  M.  Beglinger  and  J.  Herwig,  of  Appleton,  Wis.,  were 
visitors  at  this  office  June  6th.  Mr.  Beglinger  owns  the 
Bijou  Theater  in  that  city.  He  has  been  running  vaudeville, 
but  will  discontinue  that  form  of  entertainment  on  June  15th. 
On  June  21st  the  theater  will  be  opened  as  a  moving  picture 
house,  under  the  nam,e  of  the  Majestic  Theater.  The  house 
has  a  seating  capacity  of  550.  Licensed  service  will  be  used, 
and    the    admission    will    be    5    cents.      Mr.    Herwig   will    be 

manager  of  the  Majestic. 

*  *     * 

H.  Z.  Levine,  publicity  and  sales  manager  of  Solax,  ar- 
rived in  the  city  Friday,  June  6th.  He  left  for  Milwaukee 
Sunday  night.  His  route  thereafter  takes  in  Minneapolis, 
St.  Paul,  Des  Moines,  Omaha,  Kansas  City,  St.  Louis,  Denver, 
and  thence  to  the  coast.  He  will  return  through  the  South, 
taking  in  Texas,  Louisiana  and  other  southern  states.  Mr. 
Levine  stated  that  he  has  sold  state  rights  in  all  states  so 
far  visited  for  "Kelly  from  the  Emerald  Isle."  He  stated 
also  that  he  had  made  arrangements  with  several  exchanges 
to  take  the  Solax  output.  Mr.  Levine  will  organize  a  na- 
tional publicity  system  for  his  company,  with  local  news- 
papers   in    every    city    visited,    throughout    his    present    trip. 


J.  E..  Sloan,  chief  operator  of  the  Star  Theater,  63rd  and 
Justine  Sts.,  called  at  the  World  office  last  week  and  pur- 
chased a  Handbook.  Mr.  Sloan  is  a  progressive  young  man, 
and  is  desirous  of  learning  all  that  he  can  about  projection. 
He  is  a  big  booster  for  the  new  Handbook,  which  he  con- 
siders an  invaluable  aid  to  operators.  He  reported  that  the 
Star  is  doing  very  fine  business.  Three-reel  programs, 
licensed  service,  are  offered  at  5  cents.  The  program  is 
strengthened  by  singing  numbers  and  appropriate  instru- 
mental music.  Messrs.  Blanchard  and  Hill  are  owners  and 
managers  of  the  Star. 

*  *    * 

Thomas  Furniss,  of  the  Brunswick  Company,  Duluth,  is 
building  a  new  theater  in  that  city,  which  will  cost,  when 
completed,  $115,000.  The  auditorium  will  seat  1,400  people, 
and  Mr.  Furniss  declares  that  it  will  be  a  model  in  regard 
to  its  arrangements  for  the  comfort  of  patrons.  There 
will  be  rest  rooms,  a  children's  nursery,  smoking  room,  etc. 
The  box  seats  will  be  placed  in  the  rear.  The  lobby  will 
be  very  elaborate,  Mr.  Furniss  says.  He  has  been  an  exhibitor 
for  years  in  Duluth.  The  new  houses  will  combine  the  best 
ideas  gained  by  him,  by  extensive  travel  throughout  the 
United  States  and  Canada,  and  he  is  certain  that  when  he 
throws  the  doors  of  the  new  house  open  to  the  people  of 
Duluth,  they  will  see  one  of  the  most  up-to-date  photoplay 
houses  in  the  United  States. 

*  *     * 

Gus  Johnson,  owner  of  the  Majestic  Theater,  Ashland, 
Wis.,  paid  the  city  a  visit  recently.  The  Majestic  is  the 
finest  house  in  Ashland.  It  was  built  especially  for  moving 
pictures,  and  seats  700  people.  His  regular  admission  price 
is  10  cents,  but  when  he  runs  specials,  he  charges  25  cents. 
He  stated  that  business  is  in  excellent  shape  in  his  locality. 
Mr.  Johnson  is  enthusiastic  over  the  future  of  moving  pictures 
and  prides  himself  on  the  fine  projection  of  his  pictures 
and  on  the  musical  accompaniment. 


*     *     * 


H.  Mason,  of  the  Masko  Film  Co.,  New  York,  paid  a 
pleasant  call  at  this  office,  Saturday,  June  7th.  Mr.  Mason 
has  just  returned  from  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  is  continuing 
a  flying  trip  throughout  the  country  in  the  interests  of  his 
firm.  He  expressed  himself  as  being  much  pleased  with  the 
business  outlook,  and  stated  that  there  is  a  great  demand 
for  good  feature  subjects.  He  said  that  exhibitors  are  get- 
ting away  from  the  blood  and  thunder  films  and  that  they 
demand  instead  high  class  productions.  The  Blanche  Walsh 
Resurrection  film,  by  the  Masko  Film  Co.,  has  proved  a  most 
successful  feature  everywhere,  Mr.  Mason  stated. 

*     *     * 

Art  Naylor,  a  colored  playwright,  writer  of  vaudeville 
sketches  and  contributor  to  magazines,  announces  that  S.  H. 
Dudley  the  well  known  negro  comedian,  and  especially 
known  as  the  leading  man  in  the  play,  "Dr.  Beans  from 
Boston,"  is  about  to  give  up  his  work  on  the  stage  and 
engage  in  the  production  of  films.  These  films,  which  it  is 
said  will  be  features,  will  be  acted  by  colored  people,  and 
produced  and  manufactured  by  colored  people.  Mr.  Naylor 
finds  that  there  is  a  great  demand  from  colored  people 
throughout  the  country  for  films  in  which  men  and  women 
of  their  own  race  appear  as  the  actors.  It  is  well  known 
that  there  are  quite  a  number  of  colored  theaters  in  the 
South,  but  none  in  the  North  that  I  can  call  to  mind  at  the 
present  writing.  *     *     * 

Carl  Ray  writes  me,  June  9th,  that  he  has  just  sold  the 
Amuse,  Elite  and  Majestic  Theaters  to  the  Paul  J.  Schloss- 
man  Co.,  and  his  other  two  theaters,  the  Lyric  and  Orpheum, 
to  Jos.  A.  Richter.  As  everyone  knows.  Mr.  Ray  lives  in 
Muskegon,  Mich.,  and  that  he  controlled  the  amusement  busi- 
ness there,  both  in  vaudeville  and  moving  pictures.  Mr. 
Ray  writes  that  it  is  possible  he  may  enter  into  the  manu- 
facture of  moving  picture  films  in  Los  Angeles,  in  the  near 
future. 


MILLER   BROTHERS   SUE   UNIVERSAL. 

A  suit  for  $100,000  damages  was  brought  in  the  United 
States  Court,  Saturday,  May  31,  by  the  Miller  Bros.,  owners 
of  the  "101  Ranch  Wild  West"  show,  against  the  Universal 
Film  Manufacturing  Company  and  Carl  Laemmle.  In  ad- 
dition the  plantiffs  asked  that  the  film  company  be  restrained 
from  using  the  name  "101  Ranch"  in  connection  with  the 
manufacture  or  distribution  of  wild  west  pictures. 

In  their  petition  the  Miller  Brothers  assert  that  they  have 
been  operating  a  moving  picture  plant  and  have-  established 
a  business  for  the  distribution  of  these  pictures  in  connection 
with  their  ranch  of  101,000  acres  in  Oklahoma. 

Dennis  F.  O'Brien  and  M.  L.  Malevinsky  are  attorneys  for 
the  plaintiffs. 


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THE  NEW   YORK   CONVENTION. 

PRESIDENT  M.  A.  NEFF  left  Cincinnati,  O.,  last  Friday 
for  New  York,  and  will  make  his  headquarters  at  the 
Imperial  Hotel,  32nd  St.  and  B'way,  after  that  date.  He 
will  occupy  suite  243  and  245,  and  the  latch  string  will  be 
out  for  all  exhibitors  until  after  the  convention.  The  big 
convention  and  exposition  promises  to  be  one  of  the  biggest 
events  that  has  happened  in  New  York  in  some  time. 
Thousands  of  exhibitors  from  all  parts  of  the  United  States 
and  Canada,  with  a  large  delegation  from  abroad,  are  ex- 
pected. The  first  session  of  the  convention  is  scheduled 
to  take  place  on  Monday  and  it  is  expected  that  the  address 
of  welcome  will  be  made  either  by  Governor  Sulzer  of 
New  York  State,  or  by  Mayor  Gaynor  of  New  York  City. 
Addresses  will  also  be  made  by  Gov.  James  M.  Cox  of 
Ohio,  and  by  the  Hon.  Joseph  B.  Foraker  of  Cincinnati,  who 
is  general  counsel  for  the  National  League.  John  J.  Lentz, 
counsel  for  the  Ohio  State  League  is  also  expected  to  be 
present. 

Much  Entertainment. 

Elaborate  arrangements  are  being  made  for  the  enter- 
tainment of  visiting  delegates  and  their  families  and  friends. 
Chairman  Hilkemeier  of  the  committee  of  entertainment, 
announces  that  the  Universal  Film  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany has  agreed  to  take  care  of  the  visitors  on  the  first 
day  of  the  convention.  Motor  busses  will  take  parties  to 
the  several  studios  at  Fort  Lee,  N.  J.,  from  the  Grand  Central 
Palace,  with  a  stop  at  Palisades  Park  for  supper.  At  the 
park  a  variety  of  entertainment  will  be  provided  including 
an  open  air  show  in  which  the  photoplayers  of  the  various 
producing  companies  will  take  part. 

Tuesday,  July  8,  will  be  Edison  Day.  Arrangements  have 
been  made  to  give  the  delegates  and  their  friends  a  sight- 
seeing tour  of  a  part  of  New  York  Citv,  ending  with  a 
luncheon  and  entertainment  at  the  Edison  studio  in  the 
Bronx.  Pictures  of  this  party  will  be  taken  and  displayed 
on  the  screen  at  the  Exposition  Hall  on  the  following  day. 

A  day  will  be  set  apart  for  the  General  Film  Company, 
on  which  that  company  will  take  full  charge  of  the  enter- 
tainment.    A  big  time  promised  for  all  who  participate. 

Other  features  in  the  line  of  entertainment  will  be  provided 
by  the  Kalem  Company,  Pathe  Freres,  the  New  York  Motion 
Picture  Corporation  the  Biograph  Company,  Hugo  Reisinger 
and  many  other  firms  interested  in  the  motion  picture  trade. 

On  Friday,  July  n,  the  delegates  will  be  the  guests  of  the 
Vitagraph  Company.  A  special  train  has  been  secured 
to  take  the  party  to  the  Vitagraph  plant  in  Flatbush  where 
the  big  surprise  of  the  convention  will  be  sprung. 

There  will  be  available  at  all  times  automobiles  and  sight- 
seeing cars  to  provide  amusement  for  the  wives  and  sweet- 
hearts and  other  friends  of  the  delegates  who  may  not  be 
otherwise  engaged. 

Work  for  the  Convention. 

Among  other  things  to  be  done  by  the  delegates  at  the 
New  York  convention  will  be  to  perfect  the  machinery 
of  the  big  organization  that  is  to  perform  so  important 
a  part  in  the  growth  of  the  motion  picture  business  in 
America.  It  is  expected  that  several  important  changes  in 
the  form  of  the  league  will  be  made  and  it  is  advisable  for 
all  delegates  to  be  present  to  take  part  in  the  deliberations. 

At  present  there  are  several  committees  working  hard 
to  put  the  final  touches  on  the  arrangements.  Clem  Kerr,  of 
Dayton,  Ohio,  who  has  been  so  successful  in  organizing 
conventions,  assisted  by  L.  R.  Thomas  of  Wheeling,  W.  Va., 
another  hustler  for  the  league  are  on  the  ground  helping 
the    other   committees   with    their   work. 

List   of   Exhibitors   at  the   Exposition. 

For  the  past  eight  months  the  Exposition  Committee  has 
been  hard  at  work  securing  exhibits  and  attractions  for  the 
big  show,  which  will  be  the  first  of  the  kind  ever  held  in 
America.  From  the  standpoint  of  the  trade,  the  exposition 
will  be  complete.  Every  form  of  motion  picture  device 
known  to  the  trade  will  be  shown  in  operation. 

For  the  public  there  will  be  much  to  attract  and  entertain. 
Features  of  every  discription  will  be  provided.     There  will 


be  the  several  model  theaters  with  pictures  running  from 
morning  until  night.  Hundreds  of  the  most  popular  picture 
players  will  be  present  to  meet  their  admirers. 

Up  to  the  present  writing  nearly  all  the  space  in  the  Grand 
Central  Palace  has  been  taken.  A  partial  list  of  the  exhib- 
itors follows: 

General  Film  Company,  Mutual  Film  Corporation,  Kine- 
macolor,  Famous  Players'  Company,  National  Educational 
Film  Company,  Nicholas  Power  Company,  Precision  Ma- 
chine Company,  Standard  Machine  Company,  Eberhardt 
Schneider,  Enterprise  Optical  Manufacturing  Company, 
Thomas  A.  Edison,  Inc.,  American  Seating  Co.,  H.  W.  Johns- 
Manville  Co.,  United  Electric  Light  Company,  New  York 
Edison  Company,  Novelty  Slide  Company,  Scott  &  Van 
Altena  Company,  Manhattan  Slide  Company,  J.  H.  Genter 
Company,  Day  &  Night  Screen  Company,  American  Theater 
Curtain  &  Supply  Company,  Koerting  &  Mathiesen,  Picture 
Theater  Equipment  Company,  G.  H.  Masten  Realty  Com- 
pany, Newman  Mfg.  Co.,  Menger  &  Ring,  Lang  Mfg.  Co., 
Bell  &  Howell,  Spray  Ozone  Co.,  Electrene  Co.,  Bausch  & 
Lomb  Co.,  Whyte-Whitman  Co.,  Ernest  Boecker,  Berry 
Wood  Piano  Player  Co.,  R.  Wurlitzer  Co.,  Oshkosh  Metal 
Products  Co.,  Aschenbock  &  Miller  Inc.,  United  Ticket 
and  Supply  Co.,  and  all  the  trade  publications. 

Banquet  for  the  Windup. 

As  now  planned  there  will  be  a  big  banquet  for  the  con- 
cluding feature  of  the  convention  and  exposition.  The  place 
for  this  event  has  not  been  announced,  but  it  is  expected  that 
there  will  be  accommodation  for  more  than  a  thousand 
people. 

Every  exhibitor  should  arrange  his  business  affairs  to 
enable  him  to  spend  the  convention  week  in  New  York,  for 
the  likes  of  the  big  meeting  in  July  will  not  happen  again 
in  several  years. 


MAINE  EXHIBITORS  MEET. 

Moving  picture  exhibitors  from  all  corners  of  Maine  met 
at  Waterville,  on  Wednesday,  June  4,  and  held  what  was 
known  as  the  Maine  Moving  Picture  Exhibitors'  first  annual 
convention.  The  inclement  weather  on  Tuesday  and  early 
Wednesday,  hindered  many  from  attending  who  would  other- 
wise have  been  present.  There  were  sufficient  present,  how- 
ever, to  make  the  affair  a  great  success.  The  convention 
opened  with  a  special  exhibition  of  Mutual  films  in  the 
Silver  Theater.  Shortly  after  10  o'clock,  the  exhibitors  and 
various  representatives  of  the  moving  picture  machine  manu- 
facturers, witnessed  one  of  the  best  exhibitions  of  films 
that  has  ever  been  shown  in  the  State  of  Maine.  Several 
single  reel  pictures  were  shown,  but  the  greatest  treat 
was  the  five-reel  subject  "The  Battle  of  Gettysburg."  Fol- 
lowing the  display  of  pictures,  which  was  over  shortly  be- 
fore 1  o'clock,  the  exhibitors  went  to  the  local  armory,  where 
a  delightful  buffet  lunch  was  served. 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  luncheon,  Fred  B.  Murphy  man- 
ager of  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation's  Maine  Branch,  called 
the  exhibitors  together  and  made  an  able  address  in  which 
he  earnestly  urged  the  exhibitors  to  league  together,  as  have 
their  brother  workers,  in  nearly  every  state,  to  protect  them- 
selves against  unjust  legislation  that  would  be  detrimental 
to  their  business.  The  exhibitors  were  advised  what  benefits 
the  trade  in  other  states  had  secured  for  their  business  simply 
by  being  banded  together  for  a  common  cause.  C.  B. 
Kelleher,  manager  of  the  City  Opera  House,  acted  as 
chairman  of  the  convention.  A  committee  was  then  ap- 
pointed to  take  steps  toward  making  the  temporary  organi- 
zation a  permanent  one.  F.  X.  Cote,  a  well-known  ex- 
hibitor of  Biddeford,  Me.,  was  appointed  a  member  of  the 
committee  but  withdrew  because  of  the  difficulty  of  getting 
from  Biddeford  to  the  large  cities,  where  the  exhibitors  will 
meet.  The  final  committee  appointed  consisted  of  Arthur 
Allen,  of  the  Palace  Theater,  Bangor;  J.  A.  Emery,  of  the 
Star  Theater,  Bar  Harbor;  and  Michael  St.  Ledger  of  Skow- 
hegan. 

Each  exhibitor  present  was  assessed  a  nominal  sum.  in 
order  to   defray   current  expense   of   the   committee,   and   to 


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bring  M.  A.  Neff,  president  of  the  National  League,  and  his 
organizers  to  Maine.  The  Board  appointed  will  confer  with 
the  Exhibitors'  League  of  America,  and  with  Mr.  Neff,  who 
was  unable  to  be  present  on  account  of  sudden  illness  at 
Baltimore,  and  will  report  at  a  special  meeting  of  the  ex- 
hibitors, which  will  be  held  in  Bangor,  in  about  two  weeks. 
The  exhibitors  left  Waterville  well  pleased  with  the  cordial 
reception  tendered  them,  and,  from  indications,  Maine  ex- 
hibitors will  soon  have  a  healty  baby  in  the  shape  of  the 
youngest  member  of  the  Exhibitors'  League.  Now  that  such 
an  encouraging  start  has  been  made  the  matter  should  be 
pushed  right  along,  and  nothing  left  undone  to  assure  the 
formation  of  the  Maine  league. 


MARYLAND  EXHIBITORS  ORGANIZE. 

A  large  gathering  of  Maryland  exhibitors  assembled  at  the 
Hotel  Emerson,  Baltimore,  Md.,  on  Tuesday,  June  3,  to 
assist  in  the  forming  of  the  Maryland  Exhibitors'  League. 
The  convention  lasted  two  days  and  was  composed  of 
exhibitors  from  all  over  the  state  to  the  number  of  about 
200.  President  Neff  of  the  National  League  was  present  and 
addiessed  the  assembled  exhibitors  during  the  convention 
and  at  the  banquet  which  was  held  Wednesday  evening. 
Officers  were  elected  as  follows: 

President,   Marion   S.   Pearce;   National  Vice-President,   J. 


very  enthusiastic.  A  large  amount  of  routine  business  was 
transacted   and   several   important   matters   disposed    of. 

Delegates  and  Alternates  to  the  National  Convention  were 
elected.  The  reports  of  Pres.  C.  E.  Glamann  and  Secretary 
McGrum  showed  a  healthy  increase  in  membership.  Jack 
Brainard  of  Mulberry  was  appointed  State  Organizer  and  he 
was  assured  a  hearty  co-operation  of  the  visiting  exhibi- 
tors in  assisting  him  in  increasing  the  membership. 

National  Deputy  Organizer,  G.  H.  Wiley  of  Kansas  City, 
Mo.,  was  a  guest  of  the  Kansas  State  Branch  and  made 
several  effective  addresses  during  the  convention. 

The  next  convention  of  the  State  Branch  will  be  held'  at 
Hutchinson,  Kansas,  October  21  and  22.  Hutchinson  is  the 
home  of  National  Vice-President  E.  Wayne  Martin  and  he 
assured  the  State  Branch  that  no  stone  would  be  left  un- 
turned to  make  this  convention  a  success. 


EXHIBITORS  MEET  AT  WILKESBARRE,  PA. 

A  special  meeting  of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  As- 
sociation of  Northeastern  Pennsylvania  was  held  at  Hotel. 
Hart,  Wilkesbarre,  Pa.,  recently.  Exhibitors  were  present 
from  Scranton,  Jessup,  Nanticoke,  Plymouth  and  other  near- 
by towns.  The  National  Censor  Congress  plan  advocated  by 
President  Neff  was  endorsed  and  other  important  business 
matters  were  discussed. 

President  Gilbert  C.  Miller,  of  Plymouth,  suggested  that 
the  Northeastern  Association  make  application  for  member- 
ship in  the  Pennsylvania  State  Branch.  It  is  likely  that  this 
action  will  be  taken. 


BUFFALO  THEATERS  IN  LEAGUE. 

The  following  theaters  are  represented  in  the  Motion  Pic- 
ture Exhibitors'  League  of  Buffalo;  Amuse,  1820  Genesee  St.; 
Amherst,  1848  Niagara  St.;  Ariel,  173  High  St.;  Arcadia, 
439  William  St.;  Bellview,  311  Michigan  St.;  Bijou,  Main  and 
North  Division  Sts.;  Colonial,  Genesee  and  Grey  Sts.;  Elite, 
867  Genesee  St.;  Edisonia,  516  West  Utica  St.;  Empire,  Main, 
near  Ferry;  Fillmore,  Fillmore  Ave.  and  Broadway;  Fillmore 
Palace,  1264  Fillmore  Ave.;  Gem.  128  Grant  St.;  Globe.  Main 
and  Ferry  Sts.;  Happy  Hour,  527  Main  St.;  Keith's,  213  Main 
St.;  Lyceum,  330-332  Broadway;  Majestic,  150  East  Ferry  St.; 
Mirror,  Plymouth  Ave.  and  Connecticut  St.;  New  Theater,. 
649  Main  St.;  Oakdale,  Seneca  and  Babcock  Sts.;  Orial,  1604 
Genesee  St.;  Owl,  Sycamore,  cor.  Jefferson  St.;  Premier,. 
2331  Main  St.;  Pastime,  Grant  St.  and  Forest  Ave.;  Park, 
409  South  Park  Ave.;  Plaza,  William  and  Monroe  Sts.;  Red 
Jacket,  974  Seneca  St.;  Sycamore,  1040  Sycamore  St.;  Sylvia, 
Fillmore  Ave.  near  Winslow;  Strand,  Main  St.;  Temple,  380. 
'William  St.;  Unique,  1932  Clinton  St.;  Variety,  742  Fillmore 
Ave.;  Victoria,  280  W.  Ferry  St. 


CONVENTIONS   SCHEDULED. 

Missouri  State  Convention — At  Springfield,  June  23rd  and 
24th. 

Washington  State  Convention — At  Seattle,  June   17th. 
New  York  State  Convention — Imperial,  New  York,  July  5. 

SCHULBERG— JAFFE. 

Ben.  P.  Schulberg,  publicity  man  for  the  Famous  Players, 
and  Miss  Adeline  Jaffe  were  married  on  Saturday,  June  14, 
and  gave  a  delightful  wedding  in  the  evening  at  the  Savigny. 


J.  Howard  Bennett,  Elected  National  Vice-President  for  the 
Maryland  Exhibitors'  League. 

Howard  Bennett;  1st  Vice-President,  Oliver  J.  Allenbaugh; 
2nd  Vice-President,  James  H.  Hartlove;  secretary,  Frank 
H.  Durkee;  treasurer,  Harry  Morehead,  all  of  Baltimore; 
sergeant-at-arms,  S.  I.  Rosenburg,  of  Annapolis. 

Delegates  to  the  annual  convention  of  the  National  League 
in  New  York  are:  I.  Wertheimer,  Cumberland;  George  List, 
Frederick;  Isaac  Ulman,  Salisbury;  A.-  Anderson,  M.  S. 
Pearce  and  William  Fait,  Baltimore.  Alternates:  George 
Benjamin,  T.  J.  Bohannan,  Bernard  Depkin,  Jr.,  William 
Kalb,  Joseph  Brodie  and  Harry  Lewy,  all  of  Baltimore. 

Auto  rides  about  Baltimore,  cabaret  shows  and  trolley 
trips  provides  an  abundance  of  entertainment  for  the  ex- 
hibitors and  their  wives  during  the  convention. 


KANSAS  STATE  BRANCH  CONVENTION. 

The  Kansas  State  Branch  of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibi- 
tors' League  of  America  held  their  third  convention  at  the 
National  Hotel,  Topeka,  Kansas,  on  June  2  and  3.  Al- 
though  the    attendance    was   not   large   the    meeting   was    a 


Group  of  Baltimore  Exhibitors  Constituting  the  Committee 
of  Arrangements  for  the  Recent  Maryland  Convention. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


"THE  WEAKER  MIND"  (Lubin). 
This  photo-melodrama  is  a  powerful  lesson  for  the  cause  of 
.temperance  and  the  horrors  of  life  in  the  underworld.  The 
worth  of  honest  labor  is  set  side  by  side  with  the  rum  shop 
and  the  failings  of  a  reckless  woman.  The  worthy  side  has 
the  better  of  the  fight  and  two  souls  apparently  doomed  are 
rejuvenated  and  made  supremely  happy. 

Bracey  Curtis,  a  solid  engineer  respected  by  everybody, 
took  Bob  Glore  to  the  superintendent  after  he  had  been 
discharged  for  drinking  and  promised  to  be  responsible  for 
him.  Bob  sobered  up  and  was  beginning  to  make  a  man 
of  himself  when  one  day  he  met  his  sister  Mary  and  Reina 


"AN  UNWELCOME  WEDDING  GIFT"  (Great  Northern). 

In  this  rippling  comedy,  the  proprietor  of  a  motion  picture 
theater,  his  charming  daughter  and  a  young  film  actor  as- 
sume the  principal  roles.  Mr.  Striebolt  has  accumulated  a 
fortune  in  his  business  and  he  is  desirous  of  giving  his 
daughter's  hand  in  marriage  to  someone  whom  he  considers 
entirely  worthy.  Jack  Wormold,  a  young  actor  who  has 
made  a  success  in  the  silent  drama,  is  an  admirer  of  Agathe, 
but  daddy  objects  because  the  ardent  swain  has  not  suffi- 
cient of  the  world's  goods.  There  are  many  stormy  scenes 
and  in  the  end  Jack  is  ordered  from  the  house. 

At   this  junction,    Count   von   Swindlestone   appears   upon 


Scene  from  "The  Weaker  Mind"  (Lubin). 


Loeb,  a  reckless  girl,  daughter  of  Dave  Loeb,  a  drunkard. 
Reina  enticed  Bob  into  a  resort  and  induced  him  to  drink. 
Mary,  his  sister,  went  to  Bracey,  and  the  two  assisted  the 
intoxicated  man  home.  Later  Glore  meets  Bracey's  daughter 
.  Beth.  Her  goodness  and  purity  strike  him  forcefully  and 
he  returns  to  the  path  of  rectitude.  Dave  Loeb  in  a  drunken 
ifit  falls  and  breaks  his  neck  and  Curtis  takes  the  reckless 
•daughter  into  his  home.  There  the  pure  environments  soon 
!have  an  effect  on  the  former  temptress  and  she  bows  low 
before  the  God  that  rules  the  Curtis  household.  Bob's  ref- 
ormation is  rewarded  by  Beth's  love.  Mary  gives  Bracey, 
the  widower,  her  hand  in  faith,  hope  and  love,  and  Reina's 
.heart  overflows  with  thankfulness  and  appreciation. 


"ZOE,  OR  A  WOMAN'S  LAST  CARD"  (Hecla), 
This  three  part  feature  is  a  direct  adaptation  from  the 
famotjs  novel  of  the  same  name  by  Coralie  Stanton  and 
Heath  Hosken.  Goe'ffrey  Brooke,  about  to  seek  his  fortune 
in  Africa,  leaves  under  a  sketching  pad  a  large  sum  of  money 
for  his  best  friend,  Noel  Crawley,  an  impecunious  artstudent. 
Years  later  Noel  is  commissioned  to  paint  a  "Circe"  for  an 
art  exhibition.  A  model  styling  herself  only  "Zpe"  appears 
and  is  so  beautiful  that  Noel  paints  a  wonderful  picture. 
He  finds  that  Zoe  loves  him,  but  he  repulses  her,  as  he  is 
engaged  to  marry.  He  sends  Zoe  a  note  telling  her  all  is 
over  between  them.  "The  day  you  marry  this  girl  I  will 
kill  myself,"  is  Zoe's  reply.  Goeffrey  Brooke  returns  home 
one  day,  a  rich  man.  He  has  married  in  the  meanwhile. 
Noel  finds  to  his  horror  that  his  best  friend's  wife  is  Zoe, 
who  has  given  him  all  her  love.  He  gets  into  the  art  exhi- 
bition and  changes  the  face  of  "Circe"  so  that  Brooke  may 
not  know.  Zoe  seeks  Noel  for  the  final  time,  and  on 
being  repulsed,  plays  her  last  card.  She  takes  poison.  Noel 
gets  Brooke  to  aid  him  and  extracts  his  promise  that  he  will 
not  look  at  the  face  of  the  woman  who  killed  herself  in  the 
studio.  Goeffrey,  all  unknowing,  helps  Noel  dispose  of  the 
body.  He  wonders  why  his  wife  does  not  return  from  her 
visit  to  relatives,  but  he  never  knows  that  her  love  for  his 
friend  has  cost  her  life.     He  never  knows. 


Scene  from  "An  Unwelcome  Guest"  (Great  Northern). 

the  scene.  He  is  of  the  impecunious  type  of  nobleman,  but 
Striebolt  favors  his  suit  because  he  comes  of  a  noble  family. 
Much  against  her  will  Agathe  is  induced  to  become  engaged 
to  the  count,  but  Jack  in  the  meantime  warns  her  to  delay 
the  marriage  so  that  he  may  make  good  his  suspicions  of  the 
count's  good  faith.  He  has  not  long  to  wait.  The  count 
makes  an  appointment  with  a  well  known  music  hall  actress 
and  arrangements  are  made  for  a  short  trip  into  the  country. 
Jack  disguises  himself  and  with  a  camera  follows  the  couple 
to  the  train.  He  "snaps"  many  affectionate  embraces  and 
boards  the  same  train  with  the  count  and  his  companion 
and  remains  until  they  reach  their  destination.  Several 
days  later,  Striebolt  arranges  a  theater  party  at  his  photo- 
play house  and  the  Count  and  Agathe  are  among  the  guests. 
With  the  connivance  of  the  operator  in  the  theater,  the 
pictures  of  the  count  and  his  fair  companion  are  thrown 
upon  the  screen  and  at  once  there  is  a  commotion  in  the 
Stiebolt  party.  The  count  tries  to  make  explanations,  but 
they  are  of  no  avail  and  after  he  has  been  handed  his 
"walking  papers"  by  the  irate  parent,  Jack  and  Agathe  re- 
ceive the  parental  blessing  and  all  ends  well.  The  comedy 
is  filled  with  lively  action  and  is  presented  according  to 
the  Great  Northern  standard,  which  speaks  for  itself. 


PREMIER  FILM   COMPANY  ORGANIZES. 

Announcement  is  made  of  the  organization  of  the  Premier 
Film  Company,  to  be  capitalized  at  $100,000.  The  officers 
are  as  follows:  Albert  Amato,  president;  C.  A.  Willat,  of 
the  New  York  Motion  Picture  Company,  vice-president; 
H.  J.  Streyckmans,  of  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation,  secre- 
tary, and  Oreste  Zallio,  treasurer. 

The  fact  that  such  well  known  and  able  film  men  as  Willat 
and  Streyckmans  are  associated  in  this  enterprise  would  in- 
dicate that  the  operations  of  the  company  will  not  only  be 
extensive,  but  well  handled. 


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"HER    SUPREME    SACRIFICE"    (Pyramid). 

Warner's  Feature  Film  Company  have  just  released  "Her 
Supreme  Sacrifice,"  a  dramatic  love  story  in  three  reels  made 
by  the  Pyramid  Film  Company,  of  New  York. 

Thrill  follows  thrill  with  unusual  rapidity  throughout  the 
entire  production.  The  quarry  scene,  where  a  tremendous 
blast  is  set  off,  resulting  almost  fatally  to  the  principal  in  the 
play;  the  ball-room  scenes  with  "tango"  dancing  by  profes- 
sional cabaret  dancers,  and  the  picturesque  country  scenes 
have  never  been  equaled  in  any  motion  picture.  The  photog- 
raphy is  absolutely  perfect  in  every  scene. 


Scene  from  "Her  Supreme  Sacrifice,"  a  Three-Reel  Warner's 

Feature. 

Mary  Manson.  a  beautiful  country  girl,  loves  and  is  loved 
by  John  Bennett,  the  foreman  of  Stony  Ridge  Quarry. 
Against  the  will  of  Mary's  mother  the  two  are  betrothed. 
Courtleigh,  a  millionaire's  son,  buys  the  Manson  property 
for  a  fabulous  sum.  The  remainder  of  the  story  deals  with 
the  schemings  of  Mary's  ambitious  mother  to  match  her  with 
Courtleigh  against  her  wishes.  How  John,  who  has  been  in- 
jured in  an  accident  at  the  quarry,  finally  wins  his  boyhood 
sweetheart,  provides  a  story  of  unusual  sweetness  and 
interest. 


BLINKHORN  TO   MARKET   HECLA  FILMS. 

Albert  Blinkhorn,  whose  offices  are  on  the  eighteenth 
floor  of  the  World  Tower  Building,  no  40th  Street,  New 
York  City,  ha,s  secured  the  agency  for  Hecla  Films  for  the 
American  market.  The  Hecla  Company  is  one  of  the  larg- 
est European  manufacturers  of  pictures,  with  establishments 
in  London  and  Paris.  The  product  is  most  favorably  known 
through  several  pretentious  features  such  as  "Oedipus  Rex." 
and  "Adrienne  Lecouvreur,"  in  which  Madam  Sarah  Bern- 
hardt appeared. 

Mr.  Blinkhorn's  first  offering  of  Hecla  films  will  be  "Zoe, 
or  a  Woman's  Last  Card,"  a  three  reel  adaptation  from  the 
famous  novel  of  the  same  title  by  Coralie  Stanton  and 
Heath  Hosken.  Two  famous  Parisian  artists,  Regina  Badet 
and  Paul  Guide',  will  appear  in  the  leading  parts.-  It  is  a 
distinct  novelty  and  will  be  sold  on  the  state  right  basis. 


"QUO  VADIS?"  STATE  RIGHTS  SELLING. 

The  rapidity  with  which  territory  rights  are  selling  for  the 
three  reel  production  of  "Quo  Vadis?"  fully  demonstrates  the 
demand  for  that  picture.  The  Quo  Vadis  Film  Co.,  of  145 
West  Forty-fifth  Street,  has  received  a  dozen  bids  for  every 
state,  in  fact,  state  right  operators  are  offering  fabulous 
prices  for  territory.  The  South  American  rights  have  been 
sold  to  Walter  McCallum;  Colon,  Panama,  the  European 
rights  to  H.  Winnik,  London,  England,  and  the  Australasia 
rights  are  sold  to  Geo.  R.  Harper.  Sydney,  Australia. 

This  splendid  three  reel  production  bases  its  appeal  to 
the  public  on  the  many  remarkable  scenes  laid  in  the  time 
of  the  early  Christians  in  Pagan  Rome  when  Nero  was  ex- 
tremely active  in  prosecuting  the  followers  of  Christ. 

The  Otis  Lithograph  Co.,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  has  gotten 
up  a  most  elaborate  line  of  pictorial  printing  for  "Quo 
Vadis?"  consisting  of  1  thirty-two  sheet,  2  twenty-four  sheets, 
1  sixteen  sheet,  2  three  sheets  and  2  one  sheets,  also  twenty 
different  styles  of  photos,  assorted  cuts  of  all  sizes,  an  eight 
page  illustrated  folder  and  a  complete  publicity  equipment 
is  furnished  state  right  operators. 


EARL  J.  HUDSON  GOES  TO  CENTAUR. 
Former  Head  of  Universal  Publicity  Staff  Becomes  General 
Manager  of  Educational  and  Industrial  Organization. 
Earl  J.  Hudson,  who  has  been  connected  with  the  pub- 
licity department  of  the  Universal  Film  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany for  the  past  eight  months,  and  for  the  last  five  of  which 
he  was  in  charge,   resigned   his  position   on  June  7.     He  is 

now  general  manager 
of  the  Centaur  Film 
Company,  with  offices 
on  the  ninth  floor  of 
the  Candler  Building, 
220  West  Forty-second 
Street. 

The  Centaur  Com- 
pany will  make  a  spe- 
cialty of  educational 
and  industrial  pictures. 
In  the  educational 
field  connections  al- 
ready have  been  estab- 
lished for  the  making 
and  distribution  o  f 
films  for  schools, 
churches  and  fraternal 
organizations.  In  in- 
dustrial work  the  com- 
pany will  approach  the 
making  of  motion  pic- 
tures from  a  new  angle 
— i.  e.,  paying  special 
attention  to  the  educa- 
tional side  of  commer- 
cial pictures.  The  com- 
pany has  in  Bayonne, 
N.  J.,  a  studio  and  fac- 
tory of  reinforced  ce- 
ment construction, 
which  has  a  capacity  of 
125,000  feet  a  week.  Mr. 
Hudson  will  be  assisted 
by  Roland  E.  Blaisdell, 
who  will  be  at  the  head 
of  the  accounting  de- 
Earl  J.  Hudson.  partment. 

While  with  the  Universal  Company,  Mr.  Hudson  was  espe- 
cially successful  in  securing  for  his  employers  country-wide 
publicity.  He  conceived  and  instituted  the  first  news  syndi- 
cate disseminating  matter  relating  exclusively  to  motion  pic- 
tures. Mr.  Hudson  has  a  good  grasp  of  the  film  business,  is 
ambitious,  and  readily  makes  friends.  Of  these  he  has  a 
host.     They  will  all  wish  him  success. 

Joe  Brandt,  who  since  the  first  of  the  year  has  been  in 
charge  of  the  interests  of  the  World's  Best  Film  Company, 
returns  to  his  old  desk  at  the  head  of  the  publicity  depart- 
ment of  the   Universal  Company. 


PATHE'S  WEEKLY  TWICE  A  WEEK. 

Exhibitors  throughout  the  country  will  be  interested  to 
learn  that  Pathe's  Weekly  will  be  issued  twice  every  week 
in  future,  beginning  with  the  week  of  June  23rd.  There 
will  be  a  weekly  on  Monday,  June  23rd,  and  another  on 
Thursday,  June  26th,  although  this  double  service  will  not 
be  inaugurated  west  of  the  Mississippi  until  the  week  of 
June  30th.  The  St.  Louis  exchange  is  west  of  the  Mis- 
sissippi, but  it  will  be  considered  in  the  eastern  territory 
because  of  the  fast  and  frequent  train  facilities  thereto. 
After  the  first  week,  of  course,  all  exhibitors  will  be  able 
to  get  the  two  Pathe's  Weeklies  every  week. 

Pathe  Freres  has  installed  a  printing  plant  of  their  own  and 
will  supply  the  exhibitors  direct  with  posters  for  the  Week- 
lies. These  posters  will  be  mailed  on  a  three  months  sub- 
scription basis  and  the  price  will  be  based  on  a  sliding 
scale,  graduating  from  five  cents  to  three  and  a  half  cents 
for  each  poster,  according  to  quantity.  This  new  quarterly 
service  applies  only  to  the  posters  for  the  two  Weeklies,  and 
it  will  be  necessary  to  subscribe  for  three  months. 

Besides  giving  the  exhibitor  an  opportunity  to  book  two 
weeklies  every  week,  Pathe  Freres  say,  the  new  arrange- 
ment will  make  both  the  weeklies  more  timely  as  the  news 
of  the  world  will,  of  necessity,  be  released  three  and  four 
days  earlier  than  was  previously  possible. 

The  addition  of  this  second  weekly  will  increase  the  out- 
put of  Pathe  Freres  to  seven  reels  per  week,  exclusive  of 
multiple  reel  subjects. 


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THE    MOVING   PICTURE    WORLD 


LOUISVILLE. 

AUGUST  1st  has  been  set  as  the  opening  date 
for  the  new  house  under  course  of  construc- 
tion by  the  New  Albany  Amusement  Company  on 
Main  street,  New  Albany,  Ind.  The  new  theater 
will  contain  about  1,000  seats.  A  mixed  program 
of  vaudeville  and  moving  pictures  is  to  be  presented. 
The  original  plan  was  to  admit  all  persons  for 
five  cents,  but  it  has  recently  been  decided  to 
charge  ten  cents  for  adults  and  five  for  children. 
The  name  of  the  theater  bas  not  yet  been  selected. 
O.  B.  Legg,  president  of  the  New  Albany  Amuse- 
ment Company,  will  have  the  active  management 
of  the  theater. 

H.  S.  Morris,  one  of  the  old  guard  of  amusement 
men,  bas  opened  an  airdome  in  Jeffersonville,  Ind., 
and  Is  bringing  into  play  some  unique  advertising 
plans.  Mr.  Morris  advertised  as  an  attraction 
for  his  opening  performance  the  giving  away  of 
a  live  baby.  Both  residents  of  Jeffersonville  and 
the  police  of  that  city  were  on  hand  to  witness 
the  initial  performance.  The  "baby"  tnrned  out  to 
be  a  wee  pig,  but  a  few  days  old.  Mr.  Morris' 
new  airdome  has  a  seating  capacity  of  700. 

R.  L.  Swartz  is  the  owner  of  a  new  airdome  near 
Jeffersonville,  Ind.  Straight  moving  pictures  are 
to  be  presented,  five  and  ten  cents  being  the  ad- 
mission charges.  About  500  seats  are  available  in 
the  new  open  theater. 

Col.  G.  A.  McCowan,  of  the  Precision  Machine 
Company,  manufacturers  of  the  Simplex  machine, 
recently  spent  a  week  with  the  Central  Film 
Service  Company,  of  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  giving  dally 
demonstrations  and  lectures  in  connection  with  tbe 
Simplex.  Exhibitors  of  both  Kentucky  and  Indiana 
were  invited  to  attend  the  demonstrations  and  an 
average  of  100  dally  attested  to  the  interest  felt  by 
tbe  exhibitors  in  the  machine  question. 

After  short  delays  in  construction,  the  Shelbyville, 
Ky.,  airdome  has  been  opened.  H.  S.  Gilbert  is 
manager  of  tbe  new  bouse,  which  has  a  seating  ca- 
pacity of  700. 

The  Majestic  theaters,  controlled  In  New  Albany 
and  Jeffersonville,  Ind.,  by  Simon  Shaefer,  will  raise 
the  admission  fee  from  five  to  ten  cents  in  tbe 
future,  when  Bison  feature  films  are  exhibited. 
On  ordinary  occasions  the  old  price  of  five  cents 
will  prevail.  Both  tbe  bouses  have  featured  the 
Bison  recently  with  marked  success.  Mr.  Shaefer 
directs  both  theaters. 

A  popularity  contest  has  been  Inaugurated  at  the 
Princess  Theater,  Earlington,  Ky.,  the  winner  to 
receive  a  handsome  gold  watcb.  The  second  and 
third  choices  will  be  given  sets  of  silverware.  Only 
women  are  eligible  to  enter  the  contest,  which  will 
run  until  June  20.  Every  admission  ticket  will 
count  for  100  votes.  The  standing  of  the  contest- 
ants will  be  announced  daily  on  tbe  screen,  interest 
being  kept  high  by  this  method.  A  number  of  tbe 
women  of  Earlington  have  entered  the  contest,  and 
attendance  at  the  Princess  bas  taken  a  big  change 
for  the  better,  packed  houses  greeting  every  per- 
formance.    Four  reels  dally  is  the  program. 

R.  I*.  Bansdall,  of  the  Universal  Film  Company, 
was  on  hand  at  Home  Coming  Week  in  Paducah, 
Ky.,  and  took  pictures  of  all  points  and  sights  of 
Interest.  A  monster  parade  was  the  feature  of  the 
week,  which  attracted  hundreds  of  former  Paducah 
residents  te-  tbe  city.  Tbe  fire  department  also  turn- 
ed out  for  tbe  benefit  of  the  cameraman,  who  got 
pictures  of  tbe  apparatus  in  action. 

An  airdome  1b  to  be  erected  on  property  adjoin- 
ing Lamplng's  Theater,  Hutchins  avenue  and  Read- 
ing road,  Avondale,  Cincinnati.  The  open  air  the- 
ater la  to  be  connected  with  the  other  house,  'the 
latter  being  used  in  case  of  rain. 

The  Grand  Theater,  of  New  Albany,  Ind.,  will  be 
closed  down  for  a  short  time,  pending  the  comple- 
tion of  the  annex.  Hitherto  work  on  the  addition 
to  the  bouse,  owner  by  M.  Switow,  bas  been  prose- 
cuted without  interfering  with  the  daily  program. 
The  construction  work  now  has  reached  the  stage 
where  the  theater  must  he  closed  for  a  week  or  two. 
It  will  be  reopened  shortly  with  an  extended  seat- 
ing capacity  and  with  other  modern  features  evident. 

Manager  L.  J.  Dittmar,  of  the  Majestic  Theater, 
Louisville,  has  returned  from  a  trip  to  New  York. 
Mr.  Dittmar  reported  the  business  apparently  in 
splendid  shape  In  Gotham.  John  Bunny  made  his 
reappearance  at  the  Majestic  recently,  after  a  long 
absence. 

Changes  in  tbe  plans  for  the  Crescent  Hill  house 
to  be  erected  by  the  National  Moving  Picture  Com- 
pany, of  Louisville,  have  delayed  the  beginning  of 
work  on  tbe  structure.  Joseph  &  Joseph,  Louisville 
architects,  will  complete  the  paper  work  by  June  1, 
when  active  construction  will  begin.  The  new  the- 
ater will  contain  several  stores,  as  well  as  a  big 
moving  picture  show.  Manager  Martin  ras  arrived 
In  Louisville  and  taken  hold  of  tbe  affairs  of  the 
National. 


Robert  Shrader,  formerly  with  the  Central  Film 
Service  Company,  of  Indianapolis,  has  taken  charge 
of  tbe  Louisville  brand  of  the  Mutual,  which  re- 
cently was  established  in  the  Novelty  theater 
building.  Tbe  Mutual  branch  probably  will  be  a 
permanent  arangement,  that  company  intending 
to  go  after  business  in  Kentucky  more  aggressively 
in    the   future   than   ever  before. 

Tbe  Norman  theater,  owned  by  J.  M.  Wentzel, 
bas  taken  on  the  Universal  service,  provided  by 
A.  F.  Mayer,  of  the  Louisville  branch  of  the  Cen- 
tral Film  Service  Company.  Tbe  same  is  true  of 
C.  E.  Hampson's  Victoria  theater,  in  New  Albany, 
Ind.  Mr.  Hampson  is  making  a  big  success  of 
the  amusement  business  as  owner  after  doing  the 
same  as  manager  of  several   theaters. 

That  the  educational  authorities  recognizes  tbe 
value  of  the  moving  picture  was  demonstrated 
when  the  aPrent-Teacher  Association,  of  the  George 
H.  Tlngley  school,  of  Louisville,  entertained  at 
the  Preston  theater,  at  Preston  and  Ormsby  Streets. 
The  aPrent-Teacher  Association  is  composed  of 
the  teachers  at  the  school,  parents  of  the  pupils 
and  others  Interested  in  educational  work.  The 
theater  was  Jammed  for  the  performance,  an  edu- 
cational film  being  shown  in  conjunction  with  the 
regular    program. 

Louis  J.  Dittmar,  manager  of  the  Majestic  thea- 
ter and  president  of  the  Kentucky  Motion  Picture 
Exhibitors'  League,  has  left  for  the  East  on  a 
business  trip  and  to  arrange  matters  in  connection 
with  the  State  body's  affairs.  Mr.  Dittmar  will 
spend   about   a   week    away    from    business. 

One  of  the  best  advertised  films  ever  shown  in 
Kentucky  was  that  of  the  private  one-day  race 
meeting  at  the  Hinata  Stock  Farm,  owned  by 
Clarence  LeBus,  a  Lexington,  Ky.,  capitalist.  The 
showing  of  a  dance  which  followed  the  races 
elicited  strenuous  protests  from  the  participants. 
The  newspapers,  led  on  by  a  clever  press  agent, 
took  the  story  up  and  made  much  of  It.  Then  a 
rumor  to  the  effect  that  Mr.  LeBus,  host  of  the 
society  folk,  had  sold  the  rights  to  the  moving 
pictures,  gained  ground  and  it  was  necessary  to 
officially  deny  the  report.  It  was  explained  that 
the  pictures  were  taken  by  McMahon  &  Jackson, 
photographers,  at  the  Instance  of  Louis  Ramsey, 
a  well  known  exhibitor  of  Lexington,  Ky.  Mr. 
Ramsey,  however,  secured  the  privileges  without 
payment  and  Mr.  LeBus  did  not  use  his  friends 
for  a  money -making  proposition.  The  explanation 
of  all  this,  of  course,  was  good  for  the  picture, 
which  attracted  big  crowds  when  shown  at  the 
Orpheum  theater  and  other  Louisville  and  Ken- 
tucky  houses. 

Canfield  &  Shook,  Louisville  photographers,  se- 
cured a  view  of  the  falling  of  tbe  old  bridge 
which  connected  the  Kentucky  metropolis  with 
New  Albany,  Ind.  Following  the  erection  of  a 
new  steel  and  concrete  structure,  the  old  link  was 
razed.  The  supports  were  removed  and  the  steel 
girders  were  pushed  over  into  the  river.  Thou- 
sands of  people  saw  the  drop,  and  the  photogra- 
phers captured  a  splendid  view,  which  will  be  In- 
corporated in   Pathe's   weekly. 

The  National  Moving  Picture  Company,  recently 
formed  in  Louisville,  expects  to  begin  work  on  its 
Crescent  Hill  theater  tbe  first  of  June.  The  plans 
are  In  tbe  hands  of  Joseph  &  Joseph,  leading 
architects  of  the  Kentucky  metropolis.  The  Cres- 
cent Hill  lodge  of  Masons  will  probably  have  quar- 
ters on  the  second  floor  of  the  structure,  which 
also  will  include  several  store  rooms.  Daniel  L. 
Martin,  the  new  manager  of  the  National,  has 
wired  that  be  will  reach  Louisville  about  June  1, 
now  being  engaged  in  settling  other  business  af- 
fairs. 

Louisville  probably  will  be  well  represented  at 
the  annual  convention  of  the  National  organization 
to  be  held  in  June.  Besides  tbe  officers  and  dele- 
gates to  the  national  conclave,  many  members  and 
exchange  men  have  signified  their  Intention  of  at- 
tending. It  Is  probable  that  a  special  car  will 
be  utilized  by  the  Louisville  crowd,  who  will  form 
an  enthuiastic  addition  to  delegations  from  other 
cities.  Attendance  from  Lexington  and  other  Ken- 
tucky cities  also  Is  expected  to  be  mnch  larger 
than   usual. 

E.  L.  Rakes,  proprietor  of  the  Theatorium,  of 
Sturgis,  Ky.,  has  equipped  his  house  with  a  new 
automatic  musical  instrument.  The  difficulty  of 
securing  high-class  musicians  to  play  to  the  music 
was  the  cause  of  Mr.  Rakes'  decision  to  use  tbe 
automatic.  The  new  machine  is  doing  well,  and  Is 
proving    generally    satisfactory. 

The  management  of  the  Star  theater,  of  Eliza- 
betbtown,  Ky.,  was  not  discouraged  when  the 
opera  chairs  failed  to  arrive  for  tbe  opening  per- 
formance. Folding  chairs  were  pressed  into  serv- 
ice and  filled  the  place  of  the  ornate  seats  satis- 
factorily pending  the  arrival  of  the  latter.  The 
Star    has    a   seating    capacity   of   300. 

The  Grayson  Amusement  Company,  operating  a 
moving  picture  house  at  Grayson,  Ky.,  has  filed 
amended  articles  of  Incorporation  Increasing  its 
capitalization  from  $500  to  $1,000.  The  seating 
capacity  of  the  house  is  to  be  extended  and  other 
improvements    made. 

M.  Switow,  of  the  amusement  company  of  that 
name,  expects  to  begin  work  on  new  houses  at 
Salem,  and  French  Lick,  Ind.,  early  in  June.  Each 
bouse  will  have  a  seating  capacity  of  about  750. 
S.  Switow,  a  nephew,  will  probably  manage  one  or 
both  of  the  theaters.  Mr.  Switow  has  several 
prospective  purchasers  of  the  Palace  theateni 
Louisville,  in  view  and  will  have  the  Kentucky 
metropolis  as  soon  as  the  deal  Is  completed.     The 


Palace  "nas    changed    hands    a    number    of    times 
since   its  erection. 

Plans  for  the  Issuing  of  a  program  for  moving 
picture  theaters  of  Louisville  are  under  way  and 
indications  are  that  the  venture  will  materialize, 
individual  exhibitors  have  often  discussed  the 
proposition  in  the  past,  but  none  bas  reached  tbe 
conclusion  that  it  would  be  a  success.  The  present 
plan,  however,  calls  for  the  publication  of  a  single 
program  each  week,  covering  seven  animated  pic- 
ture theaters  In  the  business  district.  J.  D.  Glbbs, 
of  the  GIbbs-Inman  Company,  a  well-known  local 
printing  house,  Is  the  promoter  of  the  plan,  which 
has  been  agreed  to  by  the  exhibitors.  Tbe  follow- 
ing houses  will  be  included  in  the  program:  Ma- 
jestic, Novelty,  Casino,  Orpheum,  Columbia,  Crystal 
and  Hippodrome.  The  exhibitors  will  pay  a  small 
sum,  while  advertising  will  help  to  make  the  pro- 
gram a  paying  proposition.  Instead  of  distributing 
the  programs  at  theaters,  the  promoters  will  scatter 
them  through  the  residential  districts.  A  synopsis 
of  each  film  will  be  given,  enabling  the  patn-ns 
of  theaters  to  select  their  amusement.  Those  who 
like  the  western  plays  will  be  enabled  to  see  at  a 
glance  Just  which  houses  are  running  them  and 
on  what  dates.  Devotees  of  moving  pictures  who 
prefer  comedy  will  also  be  enabled  to  use  dis- 
crimination in  picking  their  amusement  places,  and 
so  on  down  the  list.  According  to  tentative  plans, 
25,000  programs  will  be  issued  weekly. 

Plans  for  the  new  Jefferson  Theater,  on  that 
street,  between  Third  and  Fourth,  have  been  aban- 
doned for  the  time  being.  The  situation  at  pres- 
ent is  a  bit  difficult  to  analyze,  and  those  in  charge 
of  plans  for  the  new  vaudeville  bouse  decided  to 
rest  on  their  oars  until  further  developments  gave 
them  insight  into  the  situation.  Irvin  Simon,  of 
the  Princess  Amusement  Company,  operating  several 
moving  picture  theaters,  was  to  be  manager  of  the 
Jefferson,  and  this  appointment  will  hold  good  in 
the  event  that  the  theater  is  erected. 

Tbe  Parkland,  is  the  name  of  a  new  airdome 
which  has  begun  business  at  2815  Dumesnll  stre<  t. 
Louisville.  T.  F.  Seay  is  tbe  owner  of  tbe  air- 
dome, while  John  Riordan  will  have  the  activt 
management.  Straight  moving  pictures,  consisting 
of  four  reels  of  Universal,  constitutes  the  daily 
program. 

S.  H.  Dudley,  well  known  In  theatrical  circles  as 
leading  comedian  in  his  own  show,  the  '  'Smart 
Set,"  has  entered  the  moving  picture  business  in 
Louisville,  establishing  the  Ruby  Theater  at  Ninth 
and  Walnut  streets.  The  house  has  been  fitted  up 
in  good  style,  box  seats,  with  a  price  of  twenty 
cents  attached,  being  a  feature.  The  negro  bouse 
opened  on  June  2,  showing,  besides  three  reels  of 
Universal  pictures,  three  colored  vaudeville  acts. 
The  Ruby  contains  about  600  seats.  It  is  the 
second  colored  theater  now  operating  in  Louisville, 
the  Olio,  at  Thirteenth  and  Walnut,  being  the 
other.  Dudley  himself  will  have  no  active  con- 
nection with  the  theater.  Robert  Slater,  of  Ne^v 
York,  will  be  resident  manager  of  the  house,  while 
Joseph  Clark,  of  Louisville,  is  assistant  manager. 
The  Ruby  is  one  of  a  chain  of  vaudeville  and  mov- 
ing picture  theaters  in  which  the  colored  comedian 
is  said  to  be  interested. 

D.  F.  Cowan,  of  the  Precision  Machine  Company, 
manufacturing  the  Simplex  Machine,  will  be  a 
visitor  in  Louisville  In  the  near  future.  Mr.  Cowan 
Is  now  on  a  business  trip  and  will  spend  several 
days  in  the  Kentucky  metropolis  demonstrating  the 
Simplex.  The  machine  will  be  shown  In  the  pro- 
jection department  of  the  Central  Film  Service 
Company,  of  Louisville.  About  thirty  machines 
were  sold  to  Indiana  visitors  as  the  result  of  Mr. 
Cowan's  recent  stay  In  Indianapolis,  according  to 
advices  from  that  city. 

The  People's  Theater,  of  Owensboro,  Ky.,  has 
changed  its  policy,  Manager  A.  D.  Rogers  settling 
on  straight  moving  pictures  as  a  better  attraction 
than  mixed  pictures  and  vaudeville.  Mr.  Rogers 
is  one  of  the  best  known  members  of  the  amuse- 
ment field  in  Western  Kentucky,  having  been  man- 
ager of  the  Gr^and  Opera  House  and  others  in 
Owensboro  and  elsewhere. 

Alterations  have  been  completed  by  L.  T.  Mc- 
Oarley  in  his  house  at  Pembroke,  Ky.,  and  he  is 
now  showing  with  an  enlarged  seating  capacity  and 
better  all-round   facilities. 

W.  P.  Glover  will  shortly  open  a  new  moving 
picture  house  at  Calhoun,  Ky.  The  theater  will 
be  put  into  commission  some  time  In  June,  with 
a  Universal  program. 

George  A.  Bleich,  one  of  the  best  known  ex- 
hibitors of  Western  Kentucky,  is  adding  another 
house  to  his  string  there.  The  new  theater  is 
going  up  on  Main  street,  at  a  cost  of  $10,000.  It 
will  have  a  seating  capacity  of  700.  The  theater 
will  be  opened  about  July  1.  Mr.  Bleich  will  man- 
age that  house  as  well  as  the  Empress,  also  io 
Owensboro.  He  is  one  of  the  owners  of  the  Peo- 
ple's Theater,  of  Owensboro,  and  noted  as  an  ad- 
vertising genius. 

The  Star  Airdome  has  opened  in  Jeffersonville, 
Ind.,  B.  F.  Swartz  being  the  owner.  The  Star  hae 
a  seating  capacity  of  about  700. 

One  of  the  most  disastrous  fires  of  recent  years 
In  Hickman,  Ky.,  came  as  the  result  of  a  film  in  a 
colored  moving  picture  house  igniting.  The  the- 
ater was  a  frame  building,  with  little  or  no  pro- 
tection In  the  operating  booth,  according  to  re- 
ports from  Hickman.  The  flames  spread  so  rapidly 
that  there  was  no  chance  of  saving  the  theater. 
All  of  the  negro  patrons  escaped  without  injury. 
Other  adjoining  buildings  of  frame  were  lapped  up 
by   the   flames,    the    total    loss   being   about   $40,000. 


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Hickman  has  bad  bad  lock  as  far  as  moving  picture 
theaters  are  concerned,  one  house,  which  was  put 
ont  of  commission  by  the  April  flood  there  failing 
to  resume. 

Moving  pictures  of  the  Kentucky  Handicap,  run 
at  Douglas  Park,  Louisville,  proved  a  big  attraction 
at  B.  F.  Keith's  house,  which  la  running  vaude- 
ville and  moving  pictures  for  ten  cents  during  the 
summer.  Rudolfo,  winner  of  the  big  event,  is 
shown  taking  the  lead  in  the  stretch,  the  picture 
being  one  of  the  best  seen  In  the  Kentucky  me- 
tropolis for  some  time.  With  a  big  part  of  the 
public  interested  in  the  thoroughbreds  and  their 
performances,  the  film  will  be  a  popular  one  for 
some  time. 

The  Imp  Theater  has  been  opened  at  Pikerille, 
Ky.  Straight  moving  pictures  are  used  in  the 
theater,  which  cost  $2,500. 

G.    D.    CHAIN,    JR. 


seen  in  Illinois  some  circus  pictures  purporting  to 
be  circus  pictures,  which  obviously  were  faked 
and  also  padded,   to  make  a  feature. 

MIDWEST    SPECIAL    SERVICE. 


ILLINOIS. 

THE  moving  pictures,  which  the  Louisiana  State 
Board  of  Health  uses  to  teach  sanitation  and 
good  health,  have  been  shown  in  Illinois.  At 
Peoria,  they  were  shown  at  the  Majestic  Theater 
to  2,000  persons.  The  special  health  train  was 
brought  to  Illinois  to  be  examined  by  the  Illinois 
State  Medical  Society  at  Peoria,  and  on  its  way 
back  was  thrown  open  for  inspection  of  the  public. 
L,  A.  Bemstine,  manager  of  the  Quincy  Theater 
in  Quincy,  is  having  his  house  redecorated  and  re- 
painted. 

The  Majestic  Theater  at  Kewanee,  has  booked  a 
number  of  Warner's  features. 

The  Princess  Theater,  at  Woodstock,  recently 
gave  a  picture  show  at  1  a.  m.(  for  members  of  a 
dancing   club  following   their  dance. 

The  week  of  May  26,  was  "Evanston  Week"  at 
the  new  Star  Theater  In  that  city.  local  views  be- 
ing featured. 

Chris  Taylor,  proprietor  of  Dreamland  and  Tab- 
ard Theaters  at  Kewanee,  has  been  seriously  ill 
with  typhoid  fever. 

The  Ideal  Amusement  Company,  which  conducts 
the  Varietie  and  Princess  Theaters  at  Canton,  baa 
taken  on  first-run  licensed  service. 

John  A.  Montgomery,  ^"ho  has  bad  eight  years' 
experience  In  Chicago  photoplay  houses,  has  opened 
an  airdome  at  River  Side  Park,  at  McHenry.  A 
five-piece  orchestra  will  furnish  music. 

E.  W.  Shaw  has  leased  the  Grand  Opera  House 
at  El  Paso,  and  will  resume  its  management.  John 
Eilts,  who  has  been  conducting  a  picture  house  in 
it.  has  moved  his  picture  machine  and  equipment 
to  Minonk,  where  he  is  running  a  photoplay  house. 
Mayor  Bennett,  of  Rockford,  has  signed  the 
ordinance  which  permits  the  moving  picture  theaters 
to  open  on  Sunday.*  There  was  some  talk  of  a  veto 
over  the  mayor's  bead. 

Joseph  Quinn,  manager  of  the  Majestic  Theater 
at  Rock  Island,  has  enhanced  the  appearance  of 
his  moving  picture  show  by  a  mass  of -bright-hued 
flowers  along  the  roof  of  the  porte  cochere. 

The  Evanston  Theater,  at  Evanston.  opened  May 
26.  with  motion  pictures.  Special  subjects  will  be 
given  for  the  children  at  matinees. 

Silas  R.  Wooley,  manager  of  the  Crystal  Theater 
In  Champaign,  fell  dead  on  a  street  in  that  city 
May  22.  He  placed  a  basket  which  he  was  carrying 
on  the  sidewalk,  threw  bis  arms  above  his  head, 
cried  out,  sank  to  the  sidewalk  and  expired  in 
about  fifteen  minutes  without  regaining  conscious- 
ness. The  remains  were  taken  to  Salem,  111.,  for 
burial. 

Manager  Carl  Rademacher.  of  the  Orpheum,  at 
Freeport,  has  returned  from  Chicago,  where  he  pur- 
chased a  new  pipe  organ  to  be  Installed  the  middle 
of  June. 

The  Mollne  "Mall"  published  a  coupon,  which, 
with  ten  cents,  admitted  children  to  the  perform- 
ance of  -the  Kinemacolor  pictures  at  the  Moline 
Theater,  June  2  and  3.  The  orphans  of  Bethany 
Home  were  guests  of  the  paper  at  ita  performance. 
W.  L.  Augustine  has  purchased  a  site  in  the 
1400  block,  on  East  Williams  street,  in  Decatur, 
for  the  erection  of  a  moving  picture  theater  to 
cost  $5,000.  The  building  will  be  30  x  90.  with 
inclined  floor.  It  will  seat  about  500  persons,  and 
is  expected  to  open  for  business  in  about  a  month. 
H.  L.  Hunt,  manager  of  the  Grand  Opera  House 
at  Jacksonville,  announced  that  every  vaudeville  act 
will  be  carefully  censored  and  nothing  which  can 
be  In  any  way  termed  objectionable  or  suggestive 
will   be  permitted. 

The  Starland  Airdome  has  been  opened  at  Bryan 
and  Adams  street.   In  Peoria. 

The  lease  of  D.  C.  McClelland  npon  the  Celestial 
Theater  at  Pekin.  expired  June  1. 

L.  B.  Anderson  is  in  temporary  charge  of  the 
Majestic  Theater  at  Lincoln,  awaiting  the  confirma- 
tion by  Will  Foley,  of  Geneva,  Switzerland,  of  the 
sale  of  the  theater  to  him.  If  the  sale  is  con- 
firmed, Anderson  will  remodel  the  building. 

The  Empire  Theater,  at  Quincy.  has  forsaken  the 
dramatic  field,  it  is  reported,  and  will  reopen 
A  ngust  25.  as  the  Hippodrome,  featuring  vaude- 
ville and  moving  pictures.  All  seats  will  be  ten 
cents,  seven  days  a  week.  It  is  announced  that 
the  highest  class  attractions  have  been  booked  in 
Quincy,   but  have  not  been   profitable. 

"A  moving  picture  show  reproducing  the  Hagen- 
beck  &  Wallase  circus,  has  been  showing  in  several 
towns  about  this  section  recently,  and  from  news- 
paper notices,  we  would  say  that  the  show  Is  a 
fake,"  says  the  McHenry  "Plaindealer."  A  rep- 
resentative   of    the    "Moving    Picture    World"    has 


ST.  LOUIS. 

THE  Olive,  a  moving  picture  house  on  Olive  street, 
near  Sarab,  has  been  converted  into  tbe  "le- 
gitimate," renamed  the  Marguerite  Clark  Theater, 
and  recently  reopened  for  the  summer  with  that 
star  in  her  favorite  comedy  success,  "Baby  Mine." 
This  is  the  first  time  a  strictly  moving  picture 
house  has  been  put  to  dramatic  uses  in  St.  Louis. 

The  Pathe  Weekly,  working  in  conjunction  with 
the  St.  Louis  "Times,"  an  afternoon  newspaper, 
has  put  on  an  Innovation  in  picturing  strictly  St. 
Louis  news  and  showing  the  same  weekly  to  over 
300  picture  houses  in  Missouri  and  Illinois.  The 
"Times"  announces  each  day  in  its  columns  the 
various  moves  made  by  the  Pathe  man,  and  the 
houses  where  the  pictures  are  to  be  shown.  The 
first  set  of  reels  opened  with  views  of  the  Jefferson 
Memorial  dedication  at  Forest  Park,  followed  by 
May  Day  fete  at  Carthage,  The  Peace  Congress 
session  at  the  Odeon,  Views  of  Andrew  Carnegie, 
taken  on  a  recent  visit  of  the  Scotchman  at  St.  _ 
Louis,  Runaway  mules  at  Clarksdale,  Miss.,  when* 
the  Pathe  man  had  a  narrow  escape  for  his  life 
while  covering  the  Elks'  Convention:  G.  A.  R. 
Session  at  Alton,  111.,  Harvard  men  at  St.  Louis, 
Schwia  Memorial  views,  and  others. 

Timing  by  moving  picture  machines  was  one  of 
the  features  Introduced  at  the  International  Auto- 
mobile Races  at  the  Indianapolis  speedway,  the  in- 
vention of  George  Weidley,  designer  of  Premier 
automobiles,  and  umpire  of  the  course.  The  idea 
of  timing  auto  races  by  the  aid  of  moving  picture 
machines  was  first  suggested  in  a  recent  lecture  by 
John  Guy  Moniban,  before  the  Hoosler  Motor  Club 
anent  the  coming  Indiana  to  Pacific  tour  of  the 
Indiana  Automobile  Manufacturers'  Association, 
when  the  feasibility  of  timing  the  big  races  was 
discnssed.  The  results  of  the  Innovation  have  not 
been  made  public,  but  will  be  watched  with  in- 
terest. 

Lyman  H.  Howe  opened  an  indefinite  engagement 
at  the  American  Theater  recently,  showing  his 
animal  travel  pictures. 

The  Kinemacolor  is  at  the  Columbia,  with  actual 
scenes  of  the  Balkan  War,  and  the  Panama  Canal. 
The  Panama  Canal  pictures  are  proving  highly  in- 
structive and  interesting,  as  evidencing  the  mag- 
nitude of  the  enterprise  and  the  ingenuity  of 
American  engineering.  The  Kinemacolor  pictures 
will  run  all  summer  at  the  Columbia. 

"The  Prisoner  of  Zenda,"  by  special  arrangement 
with  Daniel  Frohman,  of  New  York,  was  the  at- 
traction of  the  New  Grand  Central,  on  Grand  and 
Lucas  avennes.  with  James  K.  Hackett,  a  St.  Louis 
favorite,  in  his  famous  role.  This  picture  played 
to  capacity  bouses  and  has  been  booked  by  Manager 
Sievers  for  a  return  engagement.  An  additional 
feature,  in  conjunction  with  "The  Prisoner  of 
Zenda"  reel,  was  the  fine  singing  of  the  Grand 
Leader  Choral  Club,  a  local  organization,  with  sixty 
trained  singing  voices,  under  the  leadership  of 
Arthur  Lieber. 

The  Columbia  Theater  was  filled  to  overflowing 
recently  with  newsboys,  guests  of  the  St.  Louis 
"Republic,"  who  watched  with  wide-open  months 
and  bristling  hair,  the  views  of  the  Turko-Bulgarian 
War,    the  subject  of  so  many  "wuxtras." 

The  Hamilton  Airdome,  at  5900  Easton  avenue, 
has  been  overhauled  and  is  considered  to  be  the 
largest  open   air  theater  in  the  United  States. 

F.  J.  FEGAN. 


PITTSBURGH. 

pAWLEY  &  BAG'AN  have  closed  a  lease  for  the 
*-'  East  End  Amusement  Company,  which  will 
conduct  a  vaudeville  and  motion  picture  show  on 
the  roof  garden  of  the  Rittenhonse  Hotel.  It  is 
the  intention  of  the  company  to  open  in  tbe  early 
part  of  June. 

Moving  picture  machine  operators  in  the  motion 
picture  theaters  of  Pittsburgh  have  made  a  demand 
for  higher  wages,  and  the  matter  was  considered 
at  a  conference  between  representatives  of  Local 
No.  171,  Moving  Picture  Machine  Operators'  Pro- 
tective Union,  and  the  Exhibitors'  League  of  this 
city.  The  union  asks  that  tbe  operators  employed 
in  theaters  in  tbe  outlying  sections  of  the  city, 
which  are  open  only  part  of  the  day,  be  paid  not 
less  than  $15  a  week,  and  those  in  the  downtown 
bouses  a  minimum  of  $1S  a  week,  for  a  working 
day  of  eight  hours. 

Appeals  from  the  decision  of  Magistrate  Christ 
Saam  in  fining  Harry  Davis  and  J.  P.  Harris,  pro- 
prietors and  managers  of  several  Pittsburgh  the- 
aters for  their  alleged  violation  of  a  city  ordinance 
for  failing  to  secure  an  amusement  license,  have 
been  filed  in  the  county  court.  On  May  6,  last,  the 
petitioners  set  forth  in  their  petitions  that  they 
were  fined  $25  and  costs  by  Magistrate  Saam,  and 
asked  that  the  fine  which  they  paid  be  refunded 
and  the  decisions  reversed.  The  Court  allowed  the 
appeals  and  set  June  14  as  the  date  for  tbe  bear- 
ing. Similar  appeals  are  also  to  be  filed  by  Barney 
Dreyfnss  and  Thomas  F.  Kirk.  The  amusement 
men  declined  to  take  out  new  licenses  because 
the  fee  was  materially  raised  by  an  act  of  councils, 
and  they  have  determined  to  fight  the  issue  In  an 
effort  to  have  the  act  repealed. 


The  McKeesport  Amusement  Company  has  been  In- 
corporated by  A.  H.  Berg,  E,  L.  Stillwagen  and 
Pier  Danals,  of  this  city,  with  a  capital  of  $15,000. 
The  company  will  operate  a  moving  picture  theater 
in  McKeesport. 

With  a  capital  of  $10,000,  the  East  End  Amuse- 
ment Company  has  been  Incorporated  to  conduct  a 
motion  picture  house  in  the  Bast  End,  Pittsburgh. 
The  incorporators  are:  David  Adler  and  Harry 
Adler,  of  Pittsburgh,  and  H.  F.  Bedenback,  of  Ross 
City. 

Because  of  the  recent  act  passed  by  the  councils  of 
Altoona,  three  moving  picture  men  of  that  city  are 
contemplating  raising  the  price  of  admission  to  10 
cents  where  the  former  price  has  been  only  five. 
The  act  to  which  the  moving  picture  men  have 
taken  exception  is  the  new  building  code,  which 
prohibits  admitting  any  spectators  who  cannot  be 
seated.  Heretofore,  the  picture  theater  managers 
have  permitted  standing  in  the  rear  of  the  house, 
and  In  this  way  a  much  greater  list  of  admissions 
could  be  secured  than  under  the  new  code.  A 
meeting  will  be  held  shortly  by  the  Altoona  man- 
agers and  plans  discussed  for  a  simultaneous  rais- 
ing of  prices,  in  order  to  overcome  the  loss  of 
revenue  that  will  be  occasioned  with  the  new  build- 
ing code  in  effect. 

P.  J.  Wall,  who  owns  considerable  property  In 
the  California  avenue  district  of  the  North  Side 
of  Pittsburgh,  has  had  planB  made  of  a  moving 
picture  theater  that  he  will  build  on  California  ave- 
nue, near  Tremont  avenue.  The  building  will  cover 
a  plot  40  x  150  feet  and  although  It  Is  to  be  but 
one  story  high  it  is  to  be  elaborately  furnished,  and 
will  cost  In  the  neighborhood  of  $10,000.  It  will 
be  the  first  building  especially  erected  for  a  moving 
picture  theater  in  this  vicinity. 

The  Garrick  Theater  Company  has  leased,  for  a 
term  of  ten  years,  the  property  at  136-38  Federal 
street,  between  Penn  avenue  and  Duquesne  Way, 
the  total  rent  for  the  term  being  $150,000.  The 
lot  is  36  x  112,  and  the  building  on  It  Is  being  dis- 
mantled, and  is  to  be  replaced  with  a  modern  high- 
class  motion  picture  house  of  very  attractive  de- 
sign. The  lessor  Is  M.  Glukofi*,  who  recently  bought 
from  the  Phillips  estate  the  property  now  leased 
at  a  cost  of  $145,000.  The  new  building  will  have 
a  white  terra  eotta  front,  with  a  lobby  and  entrance 
of  Italian  marble.  Work  on  the  structure  will  be 
pushed  night  and  day.  as  It  is  aimed  to  have  it 
finished  in  60  days.  On  the  second  floor  will  be  a 
large  billiard  room,  and  bowling  alleys  will  be 
located  on  the  third  floor.  Altogether  it  will  be 
one  of  the  handsomest  and  most  complete  theaters 
in  the  city. 

What  Is  to  be  known  as  a  cabaret  theater,  will  be 
erected  on  the  North  Side  this  summer.  This  one 
Is  to  be  the  Imperial,  owned  by  the  Imperial  Amuse- 
ment Company,  of  which  R.  T.  Elcholtz  is  man- 
ager, and  it  will  be  located  in  Beaver  avenue,  at 
Juniata  street.  Despite  the  promising  name  of  a 
cabaret  theater,  however,  the  only  beverage  to  be 
served  at  the  new  theater  will  be  soda  water  and 
other  soft  drinks.  The  structure  will  be  three 
stories  high,  the  upper  floor  being  let  out  as  offices. 
The  first  floor  will  contain  the  stage  and  the  floor  at 
which  the  audience  will  be  seated  at  tables.  The 
seating  capacity  of  the  house  will  be  1,500  and  it 
will  be  open  about  August  1st. 

John  J.  McOosker,  aged  45  years,  manager  of 
the  New  Kensington  theater,  a  moving  picture 
house,  died  at  hla  home  In  Kensington  last  week. 
He   Is   Burvived  by  two  sisters  and   a  brother. 

Miller  &  Davis,  managers  and  operators  of  the 
moving  picture  theater  at  339-41  Fifth  avenue, 
Pittsburgh,  have  renewed  their  lease  on  the 
property  for  a  term  of  years.  Tbe  present  lease 
expires  this  spring  and  the  renewal  for  a  long 
term  evidences  the  success  of  this  downtown  house. 
The  Family  Theater  in  Fifth  Avenue,  formerly 
managed  by  John  P.  Harris,  has  been  taken  over 
bv  Fred  Hilton,  who  has  changed  the  name  to  the 
Columbia.  The  interior  of  the  theater  has  been 
changed  somewhat  and  new  projection  machines 
added  to  the  equipment. 

Senator  Synder,  of  the  Pennsylvania  State  Leg- 
islature, recently  Introduced  a  bill  which  would 
empower  the  school  boards  of  each  school  district 
to  appoint  a  committee  of  censors  for  moving  pic- 
ture shows.  Mr.  Synder  says  he  Intends  to  push 
the  bill  and  believes  it  will  be  the  remedy  for 
the  pictures  which  are  believed  to  demoralize 
school  children.  However,  the  bill  did  not  get 
out  of  the  senate  committee  to  which  it  was 
referred  and  so  Mr.  Synder's  bill  will  not  become 
a  law  this  year. 

The  old  Kenyon  theater  on  the  North  Side, 
formerly  owned  by  H.  B.  Kenyon,  has  changed 
hands  and  is  now  known  as  the  American.  Mr. 
Kenyon's  other  show-house,  the  Kenyon.  in  Penn 
Avenue  is  now  a  union  theater  and  employes  none 
hut  union  men.  This  theater  Is  now  called  the 
Penn    Avenue   Theater. 

W.  A.  Thomas  has  awarded  a  contract  to  W.  B. 
Bennet  for  the  erection  of  a  $25,000  fireproof  motion 
picture  house  for  the  Lyceum  Amusement  Company. 
The  new  theater  is  to  be  erected  at  Fifth  avenue 
and  Marlon  street  and  Is  to  contain  all  the  most 
up-to-date  improvements  and  innovations  for  motion 
picture  exhibition.  Although  the  bnlldlng  of  the 
structure  has  not  yet  started  it  Is  reported  that 
offere  for  the  renting  of  It  have  aleady  been  made 
bv  several  of  tie  leading  moving  picture  Interests 
in  this  city.  D-  &■  MANLBT. 


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Calendar  of  Licensed  Releases. 


Current  Releases 

MONDAY,  JUNE  i6th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Switch  Tower  (Drama)    

EDISON — Her   Royal   Highness    (Comedy-Drama)    .  ...iooe 
ONES — The  Rival  Engineers  (Special  2-part  Drama).. 2000 

KALEM— The  Wheel  of  Death  (Drama)    

KALEM — Governor  Johnson  of  California  (Topical) .... 

LUBIN— Bob  Builds  a  Boat  (Comedy)  400 

LUBIN — Silence  for  Silence  (Comedy)    600 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's  Weekly   No.  25    (News)    

SELIC— When    Lillian    Was    Little    Red    Riding    Hood 

(Fairy  Story)    

SELIG — ^Shooting  the  Rapids  of  the  Pagsanjan  River  in 

Philippine  Islands  (Sports)    

VITAGRAPH — The  Silver  Cigarette  Case   (Drama) ....  1000 

TUESDAY,  JUNE  17th,  1913. 

EDISON— The  Twin   Brothers   (Drama)    \  iooe 

ESSANAY — Anonymous   Love   (Comedy)    1000 

LUBIN — Out  of  the  Beast  a  Man  Was  Born  (Drama) ..  1000 
PATHEPLAY— A  Tour  Through  Touraine   (Travel)... 

PATHEPLAY— Rhodes,  Asiatic  Turkey  (Scenic) 

SELIG — Taming  a  Tenderfoot  (Comedy)    1000 

VITAGRAPH — The     Coming     of     Gretchen     (Comedy- 
Drama)    1000 

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  18th,  1913.  . 

EDISON— Civic  Parade,  New  York  City  (Topical)    ....   350 

EDISON— He  Would  Fix  Things   (Comedy)    650 

ESSANAY— Hilda  Wakes  (Comedy)    1000 

KALEM — The  Attorney  for  the  Defense  (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — The  Weaker  Mind  (Special  2-part  Drama)   ..  .  .2000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Sacrifice  (Drama)    

SELIG — Mrs.   Hilton's  Jewels   (Drama)    1000 

VITAGRAPH— The  Drop  of  Blood  (Drama)   1000 

THURSDAY,  JUNE  19th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Rise  and  Fall  of  McDoo  (Comedy).. 

BIOGRAPH— Almost  a  Wild  Man  (Comedy)   

ESSANAY— The    Rustler's   Spur    (Drama)    1000 

LUBIN — A   Father's   Love    (Drama)    1000 

MELIES — The  Lure  of  the  Sacred  Pearl  (Drama) 

MELIES — Diving    for    Pearl    Oysters    at    Thursday    Is- 
land   (Edu.)     

PATHEPLAY— The  Outlaw's  Love   (Drama)    

SELIG — The  Gold  Brick  (Comedy)    1000 

VITAGRAPH— Bunny's  Dilemma   (Comedy)    1000 

FRIDAY,  JUNE  20th,  1913. 

EDISON— The  Evil  Thereof   (Drama)    1000 

ESSANAY — A  Brother's  Loyalty  (Special  2-part  Dr.).. 2000 

ESSANAY — Fear  (Drama)    1000 

KALEM — Cupid's  Lariat   (Comedy)    

KALEM — Smoked  to  a  Finish   (Comedy)    

LUBIN — His  Redemption  (Drama)   1000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Burial  of  a  Rich  Chinaman   (Man- 
ners and  Customs)    

PATHEPLAY — Antibes,  France,  and  Its  Environs  (Sc.) 
PATHEPLAY — Monuments  and  Cascades  of  Rome  (Tr.) 

SELIG — The  Fighting  Lieutenant  (Drama) 

SELIG — Fancy  Poultry   (Zoology)    

VITAGRAPH— Delayed  Proposal   (Comedy)    

VITAGRAPH— Yokohama  Fire  Dept.  (Public  Safety) . . 

SATURDAY,  JUNE  21st,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Mothering  Heart  (Drama)  

EDISON — Mary  Stuart   (Special  3-part  Drama)    .......3000 

EDISON — Love's  Old  Sweet  Song   (Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY — Alkali   Ike  and   the   Hypnotist   (Comedy) . .  1000 

KALEM — On  the  Brink  of  Ruin   (Drama)    1000 

LUBIN — From  Ignorance  to  Light  (Drama)    

PATHEPLAY— The  Jury's  Verdict  (Drama)    

VITAGRAPH— 'Arriet's  Baby   (Drama)    1000 


Advance  Releases 

MONDAY,  JUNE  23rd,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH — A  Compromising  Complication  (Comedy) 

BIOGRAPH — Mister   Jefferson   Green    (Comedy) 

EDISON — The  Pyramids  and  the  Sphinx,  Egypt  (Archi- 
tecture)       300 

EDISON — A  Taste  of  His  Own  Medicine   (Comedy)...    700 

KALEM— The   Detective's   Trap    (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — Rustic    Hearts    (Drama)    1000 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's  Weekly  No.  26  (News)    

SELIG — The     Kentucky     Derby     at     Churchill     Downs 

( Sports)     1000 

VITAGRAPH— The    Lion's    Bride    (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— The   Snare   of   Fate    (3   parts— Special- 
Drama)    3000 

TUESDAY,  JUNE  24th,  1913. 

EDISON — Where  Shore  and  Water   Meet   (Drama)....   980 

ESSANAY — Across    the    Rio   Grande    (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN — At   the   Telephone    (Comedy) 400 

LUBIN— The   Zulu  King   (Comedy) 600 

PATHEPLAY— The  Carrier  Pigeons  (Zoology) 

PATHEPLAY— How  a  Blossom  Opens   (Horticulture). 

SELIG — The   Marshal's   Capture   (Drama; 1000 

VITAGRAPH— No    Sweets    (Comedy)    1000 

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  25th,   1913. 

EDISON— How   Did   It  Finish?   (Comedy) 080 

ESSANAY — Easy  Payments   (Drama)    1000 

KALEM — The   Knight  of  Cyclone  Gulch   (Comedy) .... 
KALEM — Curing   Her    Extravagance    (Comedy)....;... 
KALEM — The   Struggle    (Special — 2  parts — Drama) ...  .2000 
PATHEPLAY— The  Hunger  of  the  Heart   (Drama).... 

SELIG- — Papa's  Dream   (Comedy)    

SELIG— The  City  of  Gold  (Travel) 

VITAGRAPH— Jack's    Chrysanthemum     (Com.-Dr.) 1000 

THURSDAY,  JUNE  26th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— In  Diplomatic  Circles   (Drama).. 

ESSANAY— The    Divided    House    (Comedv) 1000 

LUBIN— The   Other   Woman    (Drama) 1000 

MELIES — The   Sultan's   Dagger    (Drama) 1000 

PATHEPLAY— Pathe's  Weekly  No.  27   (News) 

PATHEPLAY— Clarence,  the  Cowboy  (Comedy) 

SELIG— When   Men   Forget    (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH — Her  Sweetest  Memory  (Drama) 1000 

FRIDAY,  JUNE  27th,   1913. 

ECLIPSE— A  Villain  Unmasked  (Spec— 2  parts— Dr.) .  .2000 
EDISON— Fortune  Smiles   (Being  the  Twelfth  Story  of 

What  Happened  to  Marv),  (  Drama) 1000 

ESSANAY— Witness  "A-3   Center"    (Drama) 1000 

KALEM— The   Cloak  of  Guilt   (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN— Bob    Buys   An   Auto    (Comedy) 400 

LUBIN— The  Beaut  from  Butte   (Comedv) 600 

PATHEPLAY— The     Spotted     Elephant     Hawk     Moth 

(Zoology)     

PATHEPLAY— Athens     (Scenic)     

SELIG — A  Western   Romance    (Drama) 1000 

VITAGRAPH— One      Good      Joke      Deserves      Another 

(Comedy)     1000 

SATURDAY,  JUNE  28th,  1913. 

BIOGRAPH— Her  Mother's  Oath   (Drama) 

EDISON— The    Fly    (Hygiene)    400 

EDISON — Circumstances    Make    Heroes    (Comedy)....   600 

ESSANAY— Broncho  Billy's  Strategy   (Drama) 1000 

KALEM — Out  of  the  Jaws  of  Death    (Drama) 1000 

LUBIN— The   Love  Test   (Drama). 1000 

PATHEPLAY— The  Second   Shot    (Drama) 

PATHEPLAY— The     Trapper's     Mistake     (Special  — 2 

parts — Drama)     

VITAGRAPH— One   Over   on    Cutey    (Comedy) 870 

VITAGRAPH— Cloisonne  Ware   (Educational)    130 


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Are  You  Coming  to  the  National 
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gE  sure  to  attend.    It  will  be  well 

worth  the  trip,  and  while  there,  get  acquainted 
with  the 


projector,  which  is  on  exhibition  in  spaces  319,  320, 
321  and  322  in  Grand  Central  Palace.  Our  repre- 
sentatives will  take  pleasure  in  showing  you  the 
machine  in  detail. 

"We  also  extend  a  cordial  invita- 
tion to  all  visiting  exhibitors  to  in- 
spect the  Simplex  factory  and  see 
the  wonderful  care  and  precision 
exercised  in  the  manufacture  of  the 
machine. 

Take  the  Lexington  Avenue  street 
car  which  passes  the  Grand  Central 
Palace,  get  off  at  34th  Street,  and  you 
are  within  three  minutes'  walk  of  our 
factory,  which  is  between  1st  and 
2nd  Avenues. 

Don't  miss  this  opportunity  to 
visit  the  factory  which  has  set  a 
higher  standard  for  motion  picture 
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Universal  Film  Mfg.  Co.  Releases 

SUNDAY,  JUNE  15th,  1913. 

CRYSTAL — An   Expensive   Drink   (Comedy)    

CRYSTAL— Her  Joke  On  Belmont  (Comedy)    

ECLAIR— He  Slept  Well   (Comedy)    

ECLAIR — Scorpions  (Zoology)  

REX— The    Pretender    (Comedy-Drama)     

MONDAY,  JUNE  16th,  1913. 

IMP— The  Jealousy  of  Jane  (Comedy)    

NESTOR— Without   Reward    (Drama)    

GEM— Silver   Threads    (Drama)    

TUESDAY,  JUNE  17th,  1913- 

101  BISON — In  Love  and  War  (2-part  Drama)    

CRYSTAL— A  Call  From  Home  (Drama)    

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  18th,  1913- 

NESTOR— Apache  Love   (Drama)    

POWERS — Friendly   Neighbors   (Comedy)    

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VITAGRAPH. 

THE  SNAEE  OF  FATE  (June  23).— Part  One. 
Ralph,  the  son  of  Andrew  Mason,  the  famous  cap- 
italist, falls  in  love  with  Marion  Marbury,  and  pro- 
poses to  her  when  one  day  calling  at  the  house. 
Mrs.  Marbnry  is  delighted  when  she  is  told  of  the 
engagement,  thinking  that  probably  Ralph's  father 
will  consent  to  help  ber  husband  out  of  bis  financial 
difficulties,  which  threaten  Marbury  with  bank- 
ruptcy. At  a  ball  that  evening,  Ralph  introduces 
Marion  to  his  father,  who  is  obviously  delighted 
with  her  appearance.  Mason  himself  becomes  in- 
fatuated  with  the  young  woman  and  decides  that 
lie  wants  her  himself,  and  that  he  Intends  to  have 
her.  A  day  of  two  later,  Ralph  having  been  sud- 
denly called  away  on  business,  his  place  is  taken 
by  Mason,  who  fulfills  the  engagement  he  bad  made 
with  Marion.  She  does  not  think  of  Mason's  in- 
tentions as  anything  more  than  a  friendly  interest 
in  his  son's  fiancee. 

The  fact  that  Mason  has  fallen  In  love  with  her 
daughter  is  soon  discovered  by  Mrs.  Marbury,  who 
discusses  the  matter  with  him  and  agrees  to  give 
him  her  help.  She  does  this  because  8he  knows 
that  Mason  is  the  man  with  the  money,  and  sees  In 
the  match  an  immediate  way  to  retrieve  her  hus- 
band's fallen  fortune.  She  says  nothing  to  Mar- 
bury, however,  knowing  that  he  would  bitterly  op- 
pose any  scheme  so  affecting  his  daughter's  happi- 
ness. 

Part  Two. — A  meeting  of  the  company  of  which 
he  Is  president,  gives  Mason  the  opportunity  to  get 
rid  of  bis  son.  It  is  proposed  to  build  a  new  rail- 
road in  Africa  and  Mason  has  Ralph  sent  out  there 
to  take  charge  of  the  engineering  operations.  The 
young  man's  consent  is  easily  won  by  a  little  flat- 
tery, for  such  a  Job  gives  him  a  chance  to  show 
what  is  in  him. 

As  soon  as  his  son  is  out  of  the  way,  Mason  com- 
mences to  press  his  suit  to  Marion,  who  cannot 
understand  him.  Her  mother  makes  it  clear  to  her 
that  Mason  wants  her  for  his  wife,  and  tells  her 
that  it  Is  her  chance  to  save  her  father  from  ruin. 
It  Is  for  this  reason  alone  that  Marion  consents, 
with  the  result  that  three  months  after  Ralph's  de- 
parture to  Africa,  she  is  married  to  his  father. 

In  Africa,  Ralph  has  full  scope  for  his  genius 
and  rushes  ahead  with  the  railroad  construction, 
surprising  everyone  with  his  grit  and  determination 
to  succeed.  Some  of  his  friends  suggest  one  day 
that  he  shall  take  a  day  off  and  come  with  them 
on  a  lion  hunt,  which  he  does.  During  a  hurried 
rush  through  the  bush  he  sprains  bis  ankle  and 
falls,  and  Is  pounced  on  a  moment  later  by  an  In- 
furiated Hon.  The  devotion  of  a  native  servant 
saves  his  life,  but  he  is  carried  wounded  back  to 
his  bungalow. 

At  home,  the  joyless  honeymoon  being  over,  Marion 
settles  down  in  her  new  home  with  her  husband, 
whose  money  has  by  no  means  brought  happiness  to 
her.  Edmund  Marbury  realizes  that  Marion  con- 
tracted the  marriage  for  his  sake  and  bis  heart  Is 
eaten  out  with  sorrow  that  he  had  not  seen  this  in 
time  to  prevent  her  sacrifice. 

Part  Three. — Although  Mason  has  helped  him  out 
of  his  difficulties.  Edmund  Marbury  does  not  become 
his  old  self  again.  The  strain  he  has  been  under 
has  been  too  much  for  him  and  this,  together  with 
the  added  worry  concerning  his  daughter's  ob- 
viously unhappy  marriage,  so  troubles  him  that  he 
falls  very  sick.  Mrs.  Marbury  telegraphs  to  her 
daughter  to  hasten  to  her  father's  side,  but  the 
telegram  is  handed  to  Mason,  who  places  it  in  his 
pocket.  It  Is  the  night  of  Marion's  first  reception 
since  her  wedding,  and  be  does  not  wish  to  have  the 
evening  spoiled  by  her  hurried  departure  to  her 
father's  side.  The  reception  is  a  brilliant  success, 
and  makes  certain  the  position  of  Marion  as  a  social 
leader.  It  is  an  empty  honor,  however,  for  at  the 
end  of  the  evening  a  second  telegram  arrives,  telling 
of  the  death  of  her  father. 

Ralph,  in  Africa,  becomes  convalescent  from  his 
injuries,  and,  the  work  on  the  railroad  being  well 
under  way,  he  decides  to  start  for  home  and  sur- 
prise everybody  by  his  sudden  arrival.  Reaching. 
New  York,  be  dashes  to  his  father's  house  and 
bursts  in  upon  him.     After  telling  him  hurriedly  of 


hl.s  work,  Ralph  takes  up  a  photograph  of  Marion, 
which  he  sees  on  a  bureau,  and  presses  it  to  his 
lips.  This  gives  Mason  the  opportunity  to  tell  him 
of  the  marriage.  A  violent  quarrel  follows,  the  son 
denouncing  his  father  and  angrily  leaving  the  house. 
Upstairs,  Marion  is  lying  on  a  bed  of  pain,  as  an 
heir  is  about  to  be  brought  into  the  world. 

As  Mason  sits,  glooming  over  his  son's  departure, 
the  doctor  enters  the  room  and  gently  breaks  the 
news  to  blm  that  his  hopes  are  blighted,  mother 
and  child  are  both  dead.  Mason  takes  the  news 
calmly  enough,  but,  after  the  doctor  has  left  the 
room,  he  is  obsessed  by  visions  of  what  might  have 
been.  When  the  grief -stricken  Mrs.  Marbury  de- 
scends a  while  later,  she  finds  Andrew  Mason  a 
corpse  in  his  chair.  She  alone  is  left  to  suffer  the 
consequences  of  ber  own  selfishness. 

THE  LION'S  BREDE  (June  23).— A  menagerie 
keeper's  daughter  Christine  Johnson,  makes  great 
friends  with  Nero,  one  of  ber  father's  lions.  She 
is  able  to  go  into  his  cage  with  him  and  do  as  she 
pleases,  the  lion  even  allowing  her  to  tweak  his 
ears.  With  other  people  the  lion  is  always  surly 
tempered,  but  with  his  mistress  he  is  different  and 
readily  performs  all  the  stunts  she  teaches  him. 

Among  the  visitors  to  the  menagerie  one  day,  is 
Basil  McDermott.  He  greatly  admires  the  manner 
in  which  Christine  handles  the  animals  and  obtains 
an  introduction  to  her  after  she  has  left  Nero's 
cage.  Christine  is  amused  when  be  expresses  his 
fear  that  Nero  will  some  day  hurt  her  and  tells 
him  that  they  are  the  best  friends  in  the  world. 
Basil  does  not  like  it  and  tells  Johnson  so,  when, 
later,  he  is  accepted  at  the  house  as  Christine's 
fiance. 

Nero  at  first  takes  no  notice  of  Basil,  but  when 
he  sees  that  Christine  loves  him,  the  ill-tempered 
beast  becomes  very  Jealous  and  tries  to  get  out  of 
the  cage  to  attack  him.  When  Basil  is  taken  into 
the  cage  by  Christine,  the  Hon  shows  his  evident 
hatred  of  him,  but  is  forced  to  acknowledge  him  as 
his  new  master. 

The  wedding  day  soon  arrives  and  everything  goes 
well,  until  Basil  and  his  wife  return  to  the  house 
with  the  guests  to  celebrate  the  wedding  breakfast. 
Christine  leaves  the  room  and  enters  the  menagerie 
to  say  good-bye  to  her  old  friend,  Nero,  as  her  hus- 
band Is  going  to  take  her  away.  Basil  follows  later 
and  finds  her  there.  She  sends  him  back  to  the 
guests^  telling  him  to  let  her  make  her  last  fare- 
wel  to  Nero  alone.  Nero  senses  that  she  is  to  leave 
him  and  is  obsessed  by  a  furious  fit  of  jealousy. 
When  Basil  returns  a  few  moments  later  to  fetch 
his  wife,  be  finds  her  lying  dead  beneath  Nero's 
feet.     The  Hon  has  claimed  her  for  his  bride. 

NO  SWEETS  (June  24). — On  a  street  car  one 
evening,  Tabitha  Martin,  a  somewhat  corpulent 
woman,  seats  herself  next  to  Harry  Prettyman,  a 
decidedly  fat  man,  who  is  reading  the  paper.  She 
looks  over  his  shoulder  and  notices  the  advertisement 
of  Mme.  Milo,  who  guarantees  to  reduce  your  weight 
in  a  short  time.  Henry  notices  her  copying  the 
address  and  he  does  so  also,  intending  to  make 
inquiries  about  the  matter.  Prettyman  is  a  clerk 
in  the  same  office  as  Jack  Martin,  Tabitha's  hus- 
band, but  does  not  know  who  the  lady  is.  Henry 
and  Tabitha  meet  again  that  evening  at  Mme.  Milo's 
physical-culture  school,  when  both  make  appoint- 
ments to  turn  up  for  a  cross-country  run  the  next 
afternoon. 

Next  day  Henry  gets  away  from  the  office  by 
feigning  sickness  and  makes  his  way  to  Mme.  Milo's. 
Jack  Martin  also  gets  off  and  follows  Henry  to  see 
what  the  game  is.  To  his  great  astonishment,  lie 
sees  both  Henry  and  his  wife  Tabitha  enter  what 
is  apparently  a  private  house,  and  determines  that 
he  will  set  a  watch  and  learn  more  of  the  affair. 
Henry's  arrival  at  the  house  Is  also  seen  by  his 
wife,  Mabel,  who  has  become  suspicious  on  finding 
a  strange  address  and  the  card  of  appointment  in 
her  husband's  overcoat  pocket,  and  fears  a  possible 
rival  in  his  affections. 

That  evening  Tabitha  and  Henry  both  refuse  to 
tell  their  spouses  anything  about  the  events  of  the 
day  and  the  next  night  they  slip  away  from  their 
respective  houses  to  attend  a  lecture  by  Mme.  Milo. 
Jack  and  Mabel  both  become  suspicious  and  go  along 
to  the  house.  There  they  see  Henry  and  Tabitha 
talking  together  and  they  make  trouble.  Jack 
rushes  at  Henry  while  Mabel  attempts  to  make 
mincemeat  ont  of  Tabitha.  Mme.  Milo  comes  be- 
tween them  and  explanations  are  soon  made.  Jack 
and  Mabel  are  appeased  when  they  hear  that  Mme. 
Milo's  is  only  a  flesh-reducing  establishment  and 
all  four  go  off  to  enjoy  a  little  supper  together. 
Henry  and  Tabitha  both  decide  that  they  are  satis- 
fied with  their  present  size  and  start  eating  sweets 
once  more,  a  luxury  which  had  been  strictly  tabooed 
by   the    physical    culture    expert. 

JACK'S  CHRYSANTHEMUM  (June  26).— Linger- 
ing amidst  the  beautiful  scenery  of  Southern  Japan 
in  Bearch  of  pretty  subjects  for  his  paintings.  Jack 


one  day  meets  his  heart's  desire.  In  turning  a  cor- 
ner in  his  rikisha  he  collides  with  another  and  In 
the  confusion  sees  uncovered  for  a  moment  the 
pretty  face  of  its  occupant,  Kicbimatsu,  the  daugh- 
ter of  Nakamuta.  Following  her  at  a  distance,  he 
discovers  her  residence,  the  garden  of  which  he 
visits  clandestinely  the  next  day.  Jack  experiences 
considerable  difficulty  in  speaking  to  Steal,  who 
tells  him  that  It  is  not  seemly  for  a  maiden  to 
converse  with  strangers.  His  winning  smiles  quick- 
ly win  others  in  return  and  arrangements  are  soon 
made  for  future  meetings.  They  meet  at  an  old 
temple,  where  she  poses  for  one  of  bis  pictures. 
She  tells  him  that  her  father  wishes  her  to  marry 
Wakt,  a  rich  Japanese  whom  she  detests,  and  that 
she  fears  to  go  against  bis  wishes.  Jack  breaks 
down  her  objections  and  they  elope  and  marry  after 
the   American  fashion. 

Writing  home  to  his  father,  Jack  asks  him  to 
visit  Japan  and  see  his  beautiful  Japanese  bride, 
promising  to  show  him  a  right  good  time.  The  an- 
nouncement of  the  sudden  marriage  surprises  the 
old  man  a  good  deal,  hut  be  telegraphs  his  accept- 
ance of  the  invitation  and  leaves  on  the  next 
steamer.  During  the  voyage,  be  Is  much  troubled 
by  sea-sickness  and  Is  very  much  annoyed  when 
Jack  laughs  at  his  account  of  the  trip.  As  soon 
as  he  sees  Kichimatsu,  the  old  man  is  completely 
captivated  and  forgets  all  about  Mb  previous  trou- 
bles. At  first  he  has  difficulty  in  dropping  into 
Japanese  customs  of  living  and  eventually  suggests 
that  Jack  and  his  wife  return  with  him  and  that 
they  all  live  together.  The  tables  are  turned  on 
the  voyage  home  when  Jack  is  the  sea-sick  one 
and  his  father  has  the  laugh  on  him. 

HER  SWEETEST  MEMORY  (June  26).— The  sole 
topic  of  conversation  among  the  girls  at  the  Eagle 
Lunch  Room  is  the  coming  ball  to  be  given  by 
the  "Associated  Waiters."  Most  of  the  girls  are 
anxious  to  attend  and  discuss  eagerly  the  problem 
of  what  to  wear.  Mary  Francis,  however,  tells 
the  girls  that  she  does  not  care  about  going.  One 
of  the  girls  insists  that  she  accept  a  ticket  in  spite 
of  her  protest  that  she  cannot  use  it. 

Among  the  regular  customers  that  patronize 
Mary's  tables  is  Philip  Marston,  a  wealthy  club- 
man and  stockbroker.  At  the  lunch  hour  next  day, 
Mary  absent-mindedly  places  the  ball  ticket  before 
him  Instead  of  the  lunch  check.  Marston  laugh- 
ingly calls  attention  to  her  mistage  and  she  be- 
comes covered  with  confusion.  He  asks  ber 
about  the  affair  and  whether  she  is  going.  She 
tells  bim  that  she  will  stay  away  as  she  has  no 
beau  to  take  her.  Touched  by  ber  loneliness  and 
regarding  the  affair  as  more  of  a  lark  than  any- 
thing else,  Marston  offers  to  escort  her  and  takes 
the  address  of  the  boarding  house  where  she  Is 
staying. 

The  great  problem  for  Mary  now  is  the  matter  of 
suitable  clothes.  She  has  nothing  that  is  of  any 
use  to  her  as  a  ball  dress,  but  is  kindly  helped  out 
by  the  girls  in  the  house,  one  of  whom  lends  her 
a  dress,  another  a  switch  for  her  hair,  and  so  on, 
while  the  old  lady  boarder  insists  on  her  wearing 
a  necklace  that  she  had  worn  as  a  girl.  By  the 
time  that  she  is  all  ready,  Marston  arrives  in  his 
automobile,  bringing  with  him  a  glorious  bunch  of 
roses. 

At  the  ball,  Mary  proves  to  be  an  uncommonly 
graceful  dancer  and  the  eyes  of  everyone  In  the 
room  are  turned  upon  her  and  her  partner.  To- 
wards the  close  of  the  evening  a  prize  is  offered 
for  the  handsomest  couple  and  is  won  by  Mary 
and    Marston. 

Phillip  takes  her  home  and  so  closes  what  has 
been  to  him  simply  a  passing  incident,  casting  away 
as  valueless  the  rose  that  Mary  hands  him  on  part- 
ing. Mary,  however,  fondly  treasures  the  prize 
and  the  faded  rose  leaves  and  clings  to  the  re- 
membrance of  every  event  of  the  evening  as  her 
sweetest   memory. 

ONE  GOOD  JOKE  DESERVES  ANOTHER  (June 
27),— Jim  Wilson  gets  sore  when,  on  the  first  of 
April,  John  Bunny,  the  bridge  watchman,  makes  a 
fool  of  him.  Bunny  gets  his  silk  hat  and  rubs  It 
the  wrong  way  when  Wilson  is  not  looking  and 
then  laughs  at  bim.  Wilson  makea  up  bis  mind 
to  pay  him  back. 

He  goes  borne  to  his  mother  and  makes  arrange- 
ments with  her  for  what  be  considers  will  be  a  gi- 
gantic joke.  They  get  a  pillow  and  tie  It  up  with 
twine,  so  that  it  looks  like  a  baby,  and  put  on  it  an 
automobile  coat  and  hat.  Then,  taking  the  chauf- 
feur Into  their  confidence,  they  drive  down  to  the 
bridge  and  throw  the  supposed  baby  Into  the  river 
as  they  pass  the  horrified  Bunny,  who  at  once  give? 
the  alarm  to  the  watchman  at  the  other  end  of 
the  bridge  to  stop  the  auto.  Wilson  gets  past  the 
bridge  all  right,  but  the  hue  and  cry  has  started 
and  they  are  followed  by  a  mounted  policeman  and 
an  auto-cyclist.  They  are  caught  and  taken  straight 
to  the  police  court,  which  is  in  session. 

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and  try  to  get  the  baby  ont  of  the  water,  a  difficult 
proceeding  aa  it  alnks  at  once  to  the  bottom.  After 
dragging  the  river  for  some  time  one  of  the  men 
gets  It  ont  of  the  water  and  finds  out  that  the  sup- 
posed baby  la  only  a  pillow.  He  gets  mad  and 
starts  to  fight  with  John  Bunny,  who  had  told  him 
to  fish  for  the  infant.  Both  of  the  men  are  ar- 
rested and  taken  to  court,  where  they  meet  Wil- 
son and  his  mother,  who  hare  Just  been  brought  in. 
The  four  are  taken  in  straightway  to  the  magis- 
trate and  the  case  is  tried  at  once.  Even  the 
majesty  of  the  law  has  to  laugh  at  the  episode  and 
decides  to  hare  a  hand  In  it.  His  honor  tells  them 
that  they  are  all  fined  five  hundred  dollars  and  sen- 
tenced to  six  months  in  Jail.  At  the  sight  of  their 
rueful  faces  he  laughs  and  pointing  to  the  calendar 
remarks,  "April  Fool's  Day,  the  case  is  dismissed." 

ONE  OVES  ON  CTJTEY  (June  28). — Some  people 
are  so  conceited  that  to  watch  them  Is  positiTely 
painful.  Cotey  belongs  to  this  clsss.  He  takes 
his  sweetheart,  Claire,  to  the  college  masquerade 
ball,  and  acts  so  stand-offlshly  with  the  college  boys 
and  shows  himself  so  conceited  because  of  his 
self-importance  that  even  his  sweetheart  is  annoy- 
ed; the  more  so  when,  during  the  evening,  he  does 
not  give  her  a  chance  to  dance  with  any  of  the 
other  fellows,  but  keeps  her  to  himself  all  the 
time.  When  the  time  comes  to  unmask,  she  man- 
ages to  slip  away  and,  meeting  some  of  the  boys 
In  the  corridor,  she  plans  with  them  to  take  Cutey 
down  a  peg  or  two.  Rushing  to  her  dressing  room, 
Claire  changes  to  her  ordinary  clothes  and  send  the 
pierrot  dress  she  has  been  wearing  to  her  cousin 
Tom,  who  puts  it  on.  Tom,  wearing  a  wig  and  a 
mask,  goes  into  the  ball  room  and  is  at  once  seized 
by  Cutey,  who  thinks  that  he  Is  dancing  with  Claire. 

Later  on.  Cutey  takes  his  partner  out  into  the 
corridor,  where  he  proposes  that  they  go  at  once 
to  the  parsonage  and  get  married.  They  are  over- 
heard by  Claire  and  the  boye,  who  follow  them. 
The  minister  is  ready  to  perform  the  ceremony  that 
will  tie  the  knot  when  Tom  unmasks  and  discloses 
his  identlsy,  much  to  Cutey's  discomfiture.  The 
boye  rush  in  and  much  laughter  follows  at  Cutey's 
expense.  He  cannot  stand  being  guyed  and  takes 
off  his  coat  to  fight  one  of  the  yonng  chaps,  who 
seems  to  be  the  leading  spirit  and  who  is  doubled 
up  with  uncontrollable  laughter.  Cutey's  cup  of 
misery  Is  filled  to  the  brim  when  the  "young  man" 
lifts  his  hat  and  Cutey  sees  that  "he"  is  really  his 
sweetheart,  Olalre,  who  has  donned  Tom's  dress 
suit  and  is  enjoying  Cutey's  discomfiture  as  much 
as  any  of  them. 

CLOISONNE  WAKE  (June  28).— An  Interesting 
educational  feature,  showing  how  this  beautiful 
ware  Is  bandied  by  the  clever  potters,  illustrating 
the  difficulties  of  applying  and  firing  these  won- 
derful  enamels. 

EDISON. 

LOVE'S  OLD  SWEET  SONG  (June  21).— Sue 
Joyce,  a  whimsical  young  girl,  while  attracted  to 
Jack  Temple,  still  coquettes  with  other  young  men. 
Even  after  their  engagement,  she  mildly  flirts  with 
other  men,  and  one  day  she  is  caught  by  Jack 
sitting  in  a  summer  garden  with  another  young 
man,  having  her  palm  read.  Jack  reproves  her 
bitterly,  and,  going  home,  packs  bis  trunk  and 
leavea  for  the  Sooth.  At  the  railway  station  his 
suit-case  is  stolen  by  a  sea-faring  man,  who  later 
dresses  in  his  clothes,  and,  carrying  a  picture  of 
Sue,  takes  passage  on  board  a  steamer.  The  ship 
la  burned  and  the  thief  is  identified  as  Jack.  Upon 
learning  of  the  report  of  his  death,  Jack  telegraphs 
to  his  parents  that  it  Is  all  a  mistake,  and  the 
overjoyed  parents  convey  the  news  to  the  heart- 
broken Sue,  whose  mind  is  a  little  affected  by 
grief.  Even  when  Jack  comes  home  she  flees  from 
him,  until  he  changes  her  delusive  mind  by  playing 
on  the  piano  the  sweet  love  melody,  "Love's  Old 
Sweet  Song,"   when  she  slowly  comes  to  him. 

THE  PYRAMIDS  AND  THE  SPHINX  (June  23). 
— In  this  short  subject  excellent  views  of  the  pyra- 
mids, built  some  three  thousand  years  ago.  and  of 
the  sphinx  are  given.  Interesting  scenes  of  native 
life  are  also  photographed. 

A  TASTE  OF  HIS  OWN  MEDICINE  (June  23).— 
The  seed  of  Jealousy  is  sown  in  Jones  when  two 
gentlemen,  unknown  to  him,  bow  to  his  wife.  His 
unfounded  Jealousy  is  intensified  when,  a  few  days 
later,  Mrs.  Jones'  sister  sends  her  a  present  for 
Mr.  Jones,  which  arrives  while  the  Joneses  are  at 
breakfast,  with  instructions  not  to  show  it  to  him 
until  his  birthday.  Mr.  Jones'  angry  expostulations 
to  see  the  package  avail  him  nothing,  and  he  leaves 
for  the  office  in  a  "white  heat,"  where  he  writes 
his  wife  a  letter  In  a  disguised  handwriting,  pur- 
porting to  he  from  a  former  admirer,  and  hesging 
for  a  clandestine  interview.  Mr.  Jones'  Jealousy 
Is  further  inflamed  when  the  florist  sends  a  bouquet 
of  flowers  to  his  office  instead  of  to  his  home  ad- 
dress, as  given  by  Mrs.  Jones.  When  Mrs.  Jenes 
receives  the  forged  letter,  she  takes  it  Immediately 
to  the  police  station  and  a  number  of  "coppers"  are 
sent  to  watch  for  the  admirer.  Seeing  nobody 
around  but  Mr.  Jones,  who  had  come  to  surprise 
his  wife  In  the  act  of  Infidelity,  the  policemen  ar- 
rest him  and  he  1b  brought  to  the  station  house, 
where    matters    are   Anally   straightened   ont. 

WHERE  SHORE  AND  WATER  MEET  (June  24). 
— Jolm  Strong,  an  architect,  and  Mabel  Newman, 
interior  -Wsicner.  mwt  in  the  office  of  a  contractor, 
whither  both  have  been  called  to  confer  over  certain 
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tion, and  when  Strong  proposes  marriage,  Mabel 
gladly  accepts  him. 

William  Addison,  the  contractor  in  whose  office 
the  two  were  brought  together,  has  almost  un- 
consciously fallen  deeply  In  love  with  Mabel.  The 
news  of  her  marriage  to  Strong  reveals  to  him  the 
fall  extent  of  his  love,  with  all  the  pitiless  dis- 
tinctness of  a  lightning  flash. 

After  their  marriage,  John  and  Mabel  spend  their 
honeymoon  in  a  little  bungalow  by  the  sea.  John, 
an  enthusiastic  fisherman,  goes  out  ene  day  after 
tuna,  is  overtaken  by  a  storm,  blown  far  out  to 
sea  and  finally  wrecked  on  a  small  island  many 
miles  from  shore.  His  signals  of  distress  are  eventu- 
ally seen  by  a  passing  ship  and  he  is  takes  aboard, 
but  aa  the  ship  Is  off  on  a  long  whaling  voyage  in 
Antarctic  waters,  It  is  over  a  year  before  he  is  able 
to  get  back  to  bis  home. 

Meanwhile,  Addison,  anxious  to  redeem  his  first 
great  mistake,  has  been  eagerly  wooing  the  supposed 
widow.  Mabel,  resigned  to  her  husband's  death, 
and  doubtless  Influenced  by  Bernard  Shaw's  doctrine 
that  all  widows  should  marry  again  to  show  that 
their  first  experience  was  a  happy  one,  has  begun 
to  listen  to  his  suit  with  favorable  ears. 

To  the  happy  Addison  suddenly  appears  the  sup- 
posedly drowned  husband,  John  Strong,  demanding 
news  of  bis  wife's  whereabouts.  Seeing  the  cup  of 
happiness  about  to  be  dashed  from  his  lips  for  the 
second  time,  a  dreadful  temptation  lays  hold  of 
Addison.  Shall  he  send  Strong  away  on  a  hopeless 
wild  goose  chase  and  leave  the  wife  in  ignorance 
of  her  husband's  return,  or  shall  he  act  the  man's 
part  and  transform  his  dreams  of  future  happiness 
Into  the  wormwood  and  lees  of  vain  regret? 

In  bitter  silence  be  arrives  at  bis  decision  and 
gazing  with  quiet,  hopeless  eyea  Into  the  barren 
future,  restores  the  wife  to  her  husband's  arms. 

HOW  DID  IT  FINISH!  (June  26).— Father,  find- 
ing his  daughter,  Mary  reading  a  novel,  takes  It 
away  from  her,  and,  in  order  to  ascertain  bow  low 
his  daughter's  tastes  have  fallen,  he  starts  to  read 
the  book.  He  soon  becomes  deeply  interested  in 
vicissitudes  of  the  leading  characters.  Being  inter- 
rupted frequently  by  members  of  his  family,  be 
moves  from  room  to  room,  until  he  finally  bakes 
refuge  in  the  cellar. 

The  story  is  exciting.  The  heroine  and  hero  are 
captured,  brought  to  an  old  mill,  where  the  villain 
intends  to  drop  the  hero  into  the  waterhole  unless 
the  heroine  consents  to  be  his  wife.  But  the  villain 
is  thwarted  by  the  plucky  heroine,  who  cuts  the 
ropes  around  her  lover's  bands  while  the  villain 
and  his  gang  are  talking  the  matter  over,  thereby 
effecting  their  escape.'  Later  the  heroine  Is  lured 
to  a  rendezvous  by  a  forged  note  from  the  villain. 
Learning  of  this  the  hero  rides  at  terrific  speed  on 
his  bicycle  to  the  place,  and  a  struggle  takes  place. 
Father  discovers  that  the  last  page  of  the  book  is 
missing,  while  mother  discovers  that  the  stove 
needs  more  coal.  Descending  into  the  cellar  ahe  falls 
over  father,  who,  in  the  course  of  the  resultant 
lecture  from  bia  better-half,  notes  that  the  last 
page  of  the  book  Is  among  her  curling  papers;  but 
mother  will  not  consent  to  give  it  to  him  and  so 
father  will  never  know  the  outcome  of  the  fight. 

FORTUNE  SMILES — Being  the  Twelfth  and  Last 
Story  of  "What  Happened  to  Mary"  (June  27). — 
Now  we  meet  Mary  arriving  In  New  York,  going 
back  to  her  old  lawyer  who  promises  to  help  her. 
He  takes  her  to  his  home  and  leaves  her  there  for 
the  night  in  the  care  of  his  Bister. 

In  the  back  room  of  a  little  Bridgeport  hotel, 
Richard  and  Henry  Craig  are  deciding  what  action 
they  should  take,  for  on  the  following  day,  Mary 
will  be  of  age  and  the  money  in  trust  will  be  turned 
over  to  her.  They  finally  decide  to  hire  an  auto- 
mobile and  get  to  New  York  without  attracting  at- 
tention, and  be  at  hand  at  the  Occidental  Trust  at 
noon  sharp. 

Mary,  In  the  meantime,  has  retired,  and  while 
all  of  this  action  is  taking  place,  is  sleeping  peace- 
fully. Billy  Peart,  on  the  other  hand,  receives  a 
wire  from  Lawyer  Foster  to  appear  at  his  office  and 
we  see  him  sailing  In  his  launch  to  the  New  York 
dock,  to  collect,  as  he  hopes,  the  ten  thousand 
dollars  promised  by  Craig.  So  closer  and  closer  all 
the  people  gather. 

It  is  morning  and  we  see  Mary  enter  the  law- 
yer's office.  Two  plain  clothes  men  are  on  baud 
as  Peart  comes  on  the  scene.  The  two  Oraigs  are 
biding  behind,  the  stairs  just  outside  the  private 
office  of  the  Occidental  Trust,  watching  and  wait- 
ing. If  Mary  does  not  appear  the  money  is  theirs! 
Back  in  Foster's  office  the  issue  Is  at  stake.  Peart 
in  handcuffs  has  confessed  all. 

It  is  nearly  noon.  The  two  Cralgs  enter  the  Trust 
Company's  office  Just  as  the  telephone  rings.  Law- 
yer Foster  is  on  the  wire  and  he  says  he  will  be 
right  down.  The  secretary  then  turning  to  the 
two  Craigs,  asks  If  he  can  be  of  service.  They  im- 
mediately get  down  to  business,  meanwhile  watching 
the  hands  of  the  clock  as  they  slowly  turn  around. 
They  introduce  themselves  as  being  the  rightful 
heirs.  At  the  critical  moment  Mary  enters  and 
asserts  her  rights.  She  receives  her  fortune  and  at 
the  end  of  the  picture  bids  her  friendB  a  fond  fare- 
well. 

CraOTTMSTANCES  MAKE  HEROES  (June  28).— 
Jack,  tall  and  broad  shouldered,  Thomas,  an  intel- 
lectual young  man,  and  Willie,  who  is  neither 
brawny  nor  Intellectual,  love  Mary  Wllklns.  Sheriff 
Wllklns  prefers  Jack,  Tom  is  Mrs.  Wllkins'  favorite, 
while  Mary  has  a  sneaking  preference  for  Willie. 
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mould,  and  when  Mary  goes  rowing  he  sits  on  the 
bank  and  mourns.  One  evening  as  Jack  and  Thomas 
are  sitting  beside  Mary  in  the  parlor  talking  with 
her,  while  Willie  is  lurking  in  the  darkness  out- 
Bide,  afraid  to  come  into  the  house,  the  father 
enters  and  notifies  the  hoys  that  he  will  give  his 
daughter's  hand  in  marriage  to  the  one  who  manages 
to  apprehend  the  burglar  now  terrorizing  the  neigh- 
borhood. After  the  hoys  and  the  sheriff  have 
started  on  their  man-hunting  expedition,  Willie 
enters  and  Mary  tells  him  the  offer  her  father  has 
made.  She  gives  him  a  pistol  and  orders  that  he 
also  go  in  search  of  the  burglar.  Hearing  the 
return  of  the  men,  Willie,  still  holding  the  pistol, 
hides  under  the  table.  The  sheriff  goes  upstairs, 
while  Thomas  and  Jack  resume  their  conversation 
with  Mary.  Suddenly  upon  them  springs  the  burg- 
lar, who  takes  their  revolvers  and  valuables.  Willie, 
rising  to  the  emergency,  pulls  the  rug  upon  which 
the  burglar  is  standing,  thereby  throwing  him  upon 
the  boys.  He  then  jumps  out  from  beneath  the  table 
and  covers  the  thief.  The  sheriff,  hearing  the  noise, 
descends  and  takes  charge  of  the  burglar.  Mary  re- 
minds her  father  of  his  promise,  and,  true  to  it, 
he  tells  her  that  she  may  have  Willie  as  her  future 
husband. 

THE  FLY  (June  28).— We  have  produced  in  re- 
markably clear  detail  every  stage  in  the  develop- 
ment of  a  fly,  following  which  we  have  shown  the 
terrible  unsanitary  conditions  prevailing  in  a  large 
city.  For  example,  scenes  showing  garbage  by  the 
ton  either  lying  or  being  dumped  into  the  streets; 
women  nursing  babies  practically  on  top  of  garbage 
heaps;  children  wallowing  in  prevailing  squallor,  and 
•o  forth. 

In  the  same  connection  we  have  produced  a  series 
of  interesting  scenes  showing  our  dangerous  and 
horribly  unsanitary  neighbor,  the  push  cart  peddler, 
and  with  flies  swarming  about  his  products  which 
rapidly  decompose  by  the  fierce  heat  of  the  sun. 


KALEM. 

THE  STRUGGLE  (Special— 2  parts— June  25).— 
Masterson,  having  become  a  captain  of  industry, 
leaves  the  details  of  running  the  works  to  his  em- 
ployees and  moves  to  another  city  to  take  life  easy 
and  enjoy  the  wealth  that  has  come  to  him  after 
years  of  toil.  Shortly  after  the  departure  of  Mas- 
terson the  domineering  superintendent  cuts  the 
wages  of  the  employes,  thereby  bringing  ruin  not 
only  to  the  factory,  but  to  the  homes  of  the  work- 
men. Jimmle  Blake,  a  young  boy  of  fourteen,  the 
only  support  of  bis  sister,  Maggie,  is  brutally 
struck  down  by  Mooney,  the  superintendent,  for  be- 
ing late  one  morning.  Just  then  a  huge  iron  beam 
becomes  loosened  and  crashes  down  upon  Jimmie. 
The  laborers  declare  a  strike  and  carry  the  boy 
to  his  home  where  the  doctor  announces  that  only 
an  operation  performed  by  a  skilled  specialist  wilt 
prevent  the  boy  from  being  a  cripple  for  life.  Be- 
ing without  funds  Maggie  Blake  goes  to  the  factory 
Intent  upon  robbing  the  safe.  Hearing  steps  upon 
the  stairs,  she  hides  herself  in  the  closet.  Master- 
son,  who  has  been  summoned  by  Mooney  who  has 
had  a  bad  fight  with  the  strikers,  places  the  un- 
conscious superintendent  in  a  chair,  and,  going  to 
the  closet  for  suitable  bandages,  discovers  Mag- 
gie, who  tells  him  that  she  was  hiding  from  the 
strikers. 

Bent  upon  revenge,  Maggie,  after  sending  the 
capitalist  for  water  that  she  may  bathe  Mooney' s 
head,  calls  upon  the  telephone  "Bat"  Thomas,  her 
sweetheart,  whom  she  knows  Is  addressing  a  meet- 
ing of  the  strikers  at  a  hall  and  tells  him  that 
Masterson  has  her  imprisoned  in  the  office.  After 
hearing  Maggie's  story,  Bat  leads  bis  men  to  the 
ofllce,  the  door  of  which  is  barricaded  by  Maggie 
and  Masterson,  Maggie  helping  in  the  barricade 
work  for  Masterson,  having  heard  her  pitiful  story, 
assures  reparation.  Bat  effects  an  entrance  into  the 
office  by  climbing  to  the  roof  and  going  through  a 
window.  In  bis  struggle  with  Masterson  the  stove 
Is  upset  and  soon  the  room  is  ablaze.  The  fire 
spreads  rapidly  and  soon  the  whole  factory  Is  a 
seathing  mass  of  flames.  By  a  unique  method  all 
escape  from  the  building  just  before  the  walls  fall 
in.  Later,  with  the  owner  at  the  helm,  the  Master- 
son  Iron  Works  again  becomes  a  model  factory. 
Bat.  with  Maggie  as  his  wife,  is  the  new  superin- 
tendent, and  little  Jimmie  is  restored  to  health  by 
the    specialist. 

THE  DETECTIVE'S  TRAP  (June  23).— Steele  and 
Bluat,  wanted  by  the  police  for  a  big  jewel  rob- 
bery, are  arrested  in  a  city  railroad  station.  Before 
his  apprehension.  Blunt  has  just  time  to  check  a 
small  black  grip,  containing  the  jewels,  and  hides 
the  check  under  the  moulding  of  the  counter  with 
a  piece  of  chewing  gum. 

The  grip  remains  in  the  check  room  unclaimed 
and  is  ultimately  auctioned  off  at  a  sale  of  un- 
called-for baggage.  It  Is  bought  by  Harry  Graham, 
who  opens  it  in  the  seclusion  of  his  room  ami  is 
amazed  at  the  contents. 

His   gift   of   a  necklace   to  his   sweetheart,    H«  l.-n 
Grey,  leads  to  his  arrest,  as  Helen's  mother  re 
nlses  the  jewels,   which  have  been  stolen  from  her. 

I  feling  confident  that  Harry  is  guilty,  the  au- 
thorities release  Steele  and  Blunt.  The  thieves  re- 
cover the  hidden  check  and  trace  the  grip  to  the 
auction  room,  where  the  purchaser's  name  and  ad- 
dress is  given  them. 

Helen  secures  the  aid  of  detective  Brinton  to 
prove  Harry's  innocence.  Brinton  lays  a  trap  for 
the  thieves,  Into  which  they  are  carried.  Their 
guilt  is  clearly  established  and  Harry  is  exoner- 
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timid  man  In  Cyclone  Gulch.  When  called  npon  to 
round  op  a  desperate  character,  he  always  manage* 
to  have  efficient  deputies  experience  the  hazards. 
Finally  his  girl  tells  him  that  the  county  has  made 
a  pretty  poor  choice  and  Bill  is  greatly  chagrined. 

One  day,  Bad  Pete,  a  desperado,  dashes  into  town, 
waving  bis  pistols.  Mary  demands  that  Bill  ap- 
prehend the  bad  man,  but  when  Bill  accosts  Pete 
he  is  spanked  and  sent  on  bis  way. 

Bill  hits  upon  a  scheme  and  secures  a  suit  of 
armor.  Clad  as  a  knight  of  old,  be  baffles  the  des- 
perado, whose  bullets  have  do  effect  upon  the  coat 
of  mall.  As  BUI,  with  bis  sword,  prods  the  bad 
man  to  jail,  he  is  acclaimed  the  hero  of  the  day. 

CURING  HER  EXTRAVAGANCE  (June  25).— 
After  Arthur's  marriage  to  Kate,  his  troubles  begin. 
Her  extravagances  soon  deplete  his  exchequer.  He 
calls  upon  her  father,  Mr.  Morton,  for  funds. 
The  latter  supplies  $50,000,  with  the  warning  that 
the  spendthrift  must  be  cured.  Soon  the  nifty  thou- 
sand vanishes  and  Arthur  is  desperate.  He  de- 
termines to  teach  Kate  a  lesson  and  writes  a  note, 
stating  that  he  has  gone  to  end  it  all.  While  sitting 
on  a  park  bench,  he  is  arrested  for  loitering  and 
serves  thirty  days  in  jail. 

Thinking  that  Arthur  has  kept  his  word,  Kate, 
grief -stricken,  pawns  all  his  clothes  and  the  house- 
hold valuables.  When  Arthur  returns  from  prison 
his  happy  wife  conducts  him  to  the  cemetery  and 
shows  him  a  handsome  monument  which  she  has 
had   erected   to  his   memory. 

THE  CLOAK  OF  GUILT  (June  27).-^James  Dana, 
a  supposedly  wealthy  broker,  dies  suddenly  and 
leaves  his  daughter,  Helen,  penniless.  The  girl 
secures  a  position  as  secretary  to  Mrs.  Stuyvesant, 
a  woman  of  wealth,  with  whom  she  makes  her  home. 

Mrs.  Stuyvesant  has  a  daughter.  Alma,  whom  she 
is  in  hopes  will  marry  Jack  Mason,  a  handsome 
young  millionaire  who  frequently  calls  at  the  house. 
Jack,  however,  becomes  greatly  interested  in  the 
pretty  secretary,  much  to  the  annoyance  of  Mrs. 
Stuyvesant.  Helen  observes,  with  deep  regret,  that 
strained  relations  have  developed,  but  she  cannot 
control   the  dictates  of  her  heart. 

One  evening  when  Jack  is  taking  dinner  with  the 
family,  Mrs.  Stuyvesant  insults  Helen  by  ordering 
her  to  take  ber  place  with  the  servants.  Helen, 
brokenhearted,  makes  no  reply,  but  prepares  to  leave 
and  places  a  note  on  Mrs.  Stuyvesant's  jewel  box  in 
the  boudoir. 

Anxious  to  make  an  impression  upon  the  young 
millionaire,  Mrs.  Stuyvesant  asks  Helen  to  secure 
her  necklace.  While  in  her  mother's  room  Alma 
sees  Helen  departing  and  a  cruel  revenge  occurs  to 
her.  She  hides  the  jewel  box  on  a  shelf  in  the 
closet,  but  accidentally  breaks  a  bottle  of  perfume. 

Alma  returns  to  the  dining  room  and  excitedly 
declares  that  the  necklace  is  missing  and  that  Helen 
is  leaving  the  house.  Things  look  dark  for  Helen, 
until  Jack  discovers  a  clue  through  the  perfume, 
which  enables  him  to  establish  the  girl's  innocence. 

OUT  OF  THE  JAWS  OF  DEATH  (June  28).— 
Chadwick,  the  overseer,  aspires  to  win  the  hand  of 
the  beautiful  Dorothy  Jackson,  who  owns  the  planta 
tlon.  The  rough  man  does  not  appeal  to  her  and 
she  agrees  to  become  the  wife  of  Dick  Patterson, 
a  promising  young  attorney.  Finally  the  overseer 
becomes  so  persistent  that  Dorothy  finds  It  necessary 
to  discbarge  him  and  he  swears  that  be  will  be 
revenged. 

One  afternoon  Chadwick  Intercepts  a  message 
which  Dorothy  is  sending  to  Dick,  inviting  him  to 
luncheon.  He  succeeds  In  decoying  the  young  at- 
torney to  a  deserted  steamboat,  where  he  securely 
binds  his  prisoner. 

The  overseer  then  sends  word  to  Dorothy  that  her 
lover  is  in  danger  and  will  only  be  liberated  upon 
the  condition  that  she  come  to  the  village  church 
and  be  united  in  marriage  with  Chadwick. 

Dorothy  hits  upon  a  scheme  to  outwit  the  over- 
seer and  sends  her  negro  servant-maid,  heavily 
veiled.  The  subterfuge  enables  her  to  gain  time  to 
reach  her  sweetheart. 

Meanwhile,  Dick,  struggling  at  his  bonds,  en- 
deavors to  burn  them  with  a  candle  which  has 
been  left  him.  In  his  desperation  he  upsets  the 
candle  and  the  cabin  of  the  old  boat  is  soon  ablaxe. 
Dorothy  is  just  in  time  to  extricate  the  young  law- 
yer from  his  peril  and  puts  the  authorities  on  the 
trail  of  the  overseer,  who  is  brought  to  Justice. 


MELIBS. 

THE  SULTAN'S  DAGGER  (Produced  in  Java, 
Dutch  East  Indies),  (Tune  28). — A  young  European 
doctor  has  come  to  visit  his  cousin,  an  official  of 
the  Dutch  Government  stationed  at  Djokjakarta, 
Java.  Together  they  visit  the  ruins  of  the  ancient 
summer  palace  of  a  one-time  Sultan  of  Djokja- 
karta and  on  the  trip  an  old  fakir  predicts  that  the 
young  doctor  is  destined  to  do  some  great  deed. 

Next  day,  reading  up  an  old  history  of  the  ruins, 
the  doctor  learns  that  in  olden  days  the  Sultan, 
defeated  by  the  Dutch,  surrendered  all  his  regalia 
except  a  jewelled  dagger:  This  was  hidden  away, 
and  tradition  says  that  until  It  passes  into  posses- 
sion of   the  rulers    there   can   be   no   abiding   peace. 


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Monday,  June  16th 

"ANNIE  LAURIE" 

The  Beautiful  Old  Song  introduced  into  a  Charm- 
ing Love-Drama  of  the  Civil  War 
Featuring  Fritzi  Brunette  and  Thomas  Mills 


Wednesday,  June  18th 

"The   Dream   Home" 

An  Unusual  Child  Story  Presenting  Runa  Hodges, 
the  Prettiest  Baby  in  the  World,  Assisted  by  a 
Clever  Company  of  Well  Known  Stage  Children 


Saturday,  June  21st 

"WALLINCFORD'S  WALLET" 

A  Gripping  Drama  of  New  York's  Remarkable  Lower  East  Side 
COMING  !     Rosemary  Theby  and  Irving  Cummings  in  "THE  TANGLED  WEB"  in  3  Reels 


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And  on  an  old  bit  of  paper  in  the  book,  dated 
1867,  tbe  doctor  finds  a  note  to  the  effect  tbat  the 
only  men  who  know  where  the  missing  dagger  is 
are  Bimgee  Mai,  keeper  of  the  rains,  And  bis  young 
son  Devaka,  the  secret  having  been  passed  down 
In  that  family  from  generation  to  generation. 

The  cousins  resolve  to  follow  the  clue.  They 
again  visit  the  ruins.  Blmjee  Mai  is  long  since 
dead  and  Devaka  is  now  an  old  man  with  a  son 
and  a  blind  daughter.  Devaka  is  reticent  and  will 
give  no  Information  regarding  the  dagger,  and  his 
young  son  Is  even  more  hostile  towards  the  Euro- 
peans. 

The  doctor  takes  an  Interest  in  the  blind  girl, 
and  pronounces  her  affliction  curable  by  a  slight 
operation,  but  the  father  and  especially  the  brother 
is  very  much  opposed.  Finally  the  old  man,  with- 
out the  son's  knowing  It,  consents  to  the  opera- 
tion, and  the  young  girl  Is  made  to  see.  And  as  an 
only  favor  the  doctor  asks  the  biding  place  of  the 
dagger.  In  gratitude  the  old  man  reveals  the 
secret  of  centuries,  and  the  doctor,  presenting  the 
dagger  to  the  present  rulers  establishes  everlasting 
pease,    according    to   destiny   and   tradition. 


SELIG. 

ALOKE  IN  THE  JUNGLE  (SpeoiaJ — 2  paxta — 
June  14). — The  Brown  family,  which  consists  of 
Hon.  John  Brown,  bis  wife,  two  sons,  Harold  and 
Billy,  and  a  young  sister  named  Helen,  have  set- 
tled on  an  Isolated  plantation  in  the  jungles.  Jack 
Arden,  son  of  another  English  planter,  who  comes 
over  frequently  to  hunt  with  the  boys,  has  fallen 
in.  love 'with  Helen.  But  Papa  Brown  discourages 
the  lovers,  saying  that  Helen  is  too  young  to  be 
married.     Jack  agrees  to  wait. 

Some  time  afterward  the  Browns  receive  a  letter 
from  Jack  stating  that  be  is  coming  for  another 
week-end  of  shooting  with  the  Brown  boys.  On 
bis  way  to  the  Brown's  home,  Jack  knocks  down 
Concho,  an  overseer,  for  being  cruel  to  one  of  the 
slaves.  His  action  is  approved  of  by  the  Browns. 
In  honor  of  Jack  the  family  start  on  a  lion  hunt, 
and,  after  a  long  trip,  tbey  return  by  the  river 
route.  They  espy  a  lioness  drinking  at  the  river's 
edge.  She  Is  killed  by  Jack  and  taken  aboard. 
That  night  Jack  again  asks  Mr.  Brown  for  Helen's 
band  and  is  again  told  to  wait.  The  next  day  when 
Jack  is  going  away,  Helen,  unknown  to  anyone 
else,  accompanies  him  a  little  way  into  the  Jungle. 
Concho  aees  this  and  follows,  until  he  sees  them 
part.  On  the  way  home  Helen  dismounts  and  starts 
to  pick  some  wild  flowers  until  her  attention  is  at- 
tracted by  a  Hon  cnb.  She.  ties  her  horse  to  a 
tree  and  trails  the  cub.  She  is  followed  and  ac- 
costed by  Concho.  At  tbe  moment  when  she  seems 
to  be  at  the  complete  mercy  of  this  half-breed 
brute,  a  leopard  leaps  from  the  undergrowth  and 
attacks  tbe  villainous  overseer.  While  the  half- 
breed  fights  desperately  with  the  ferocious  beast, 
Helen  makes  her  escape.  She  manages  to  make  her 
way  back  to  the  spot  where  she  left  her  horse, 
but,  discovers  a  huge  lion  devouring  the  mangled 
remains  of  her  mount.  Terror-stricken  she  runs 
aimlessly  Into  the  Jungle  where  she  Is  soon  fol- 
lowed by  tbe  lion  and  its  mate.  Concho,  In  the 
meantime,  has  managed  to  escape  from  the  leopard. 
He  crawls  back  to  the  plantation  and  accounts  for 
his  wounds  by  maliciously  declaring  that  Jack  Ar- 
den bad  abducted  Helen  and  made  off  with  her. 
Brown  and  boys  start  off  in  pursuit  of  the  al- 
leged kidnapper. 

The  posse  overtake  Jack  only  to  discover  they 
have  been  tricked  by  the  malicious  half-breed.  The 
mystery  of  Helen's  disappearance  is  still  unsolved 
and  Jack,  beside  himself  with  lover's  grief,  returns 
with  the  party  to  organise  a  searching  expedition. 
Tn  the  meantime  Helen  has  been  chased  to  the 
banks  of  a  river  by  the  frenzied  lions.  In  ber  fright 
she  falls  from  a  cliff  into  tbe  stream  below.  She 
swims  through  the  turbulant  waters  to  the  opposite 
bank  and  once  more  rushes  Into  the  dense  brush. 
The  maddened  lions  follow  ber  through  the  water 
toward  the  oposlte  shore.  The  searching  party  are 
coming  down  the  river  at  this  time  on  rafts.  Jack 
Arden's  raft  rounds  a  bend  In  the  stream  just  in 
time  for  him  to  see  the  lions  plunge  Into  a  thicket. 
Simultaneously  he  hears  a  scream  and  realizes  that 
It  emlnates  from  Helen  who  lies  at  the  mercy 
of  the  beasts.  His  rifle  springs  to  his  shoulder  and 
two  shots  ring  forth.  The  shots  are  guided  straight 
to  their  mark  by  the  unerring  aim  of  true  love 
and  Helen  is  saved  just  before  her  life  is  crushed 
out  by  one  of  the  wild  beasts.  When  Jack  reaches 
her.  side  the  huge  lion  Is  actually  found  dead  and 
is  lying  over  ber  body.  Helen  has  sustained  but 
slight  wounds,  and  the  clasp  of  Arden  brings  her 
back  to  life. 

THE  KENTUCKY  DERBY  AT  CHURCHILL 
DOWNS  (June  23). — Tbe  Kentucky  Derby,  the 
thirty-ninth  annual  event  at  historic  Churchill 
Downs,  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  attracted  over  300,000 
true  lovers  of  sport,  for  which  the  blue  grass  state 
Is  famous.  The  assembly,  numerically  and  other- 
wise, surpassed  the  recollection  of  the  faithful  old- 
timers,  who  never  can  forget  the  wonderful  Ten 
Broeck  and  Molly  McCarthy  match.  The  bay-colt, 
Donerail,  aired  by  McGee,  from  the  dam  Algie  M., 
easily  ran  away  from  the  longest  priced  horses  in 
tbe  betting,  paying  his  backers  princes*  ransoms. 
Jockey  Goose,  on  speedy  Donerail,  carried  the  vic- 
torious colors  of  T.  P.  Hages  of  Lexington,  to  the 
fore  on  one  of  the  hardest  fought  racing  fields  of 
history,  establishing  a  new  record. 

THE  MARSHAL'S  CAPTURE  (June  24).— The 
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for  accidentally  shooting  a  Mexican.  His  wife 
pleads  for  bis  release,  bnt  it  Is  ineffectual.  When 
be  is  asleep,  she  takes  tbe  calaboose  keys  from  bia 
pocket,  but  finds  that  tbe  prisoner  bas  been  helped 
out  by  a  half-breed.  Tbe  marshal  is  awakened  by 
ber  return  and  discovers  tbat  his  keys  are  gone. 
He  finds  them  in  ber  possession,  concludes  she  has 
released  her  brother  and  follows  the  trail  into  tbe 
desert.  The  half-breed  "gets  tbe  drop"  on  tbe 
marshal,  and  is  about  to  finish  bim,  when  the 
prisoner  intervenes  and  saves  him.  The  half-breed 
then  steals  all  the  horses  and  leaves  them  ma- 
rooned in  the  desert.  The  prisoner  proves  true 
blue  and  finally  gets  tbe  marshal  back  to  bis  wife 
and  friends.  As  a  game  man,  he  eventually  gets 
the  half-breed  that  perforated  him  while  in  tbe 
performance  of  bis  duty. 

PAPA'S     DKEAM     (Tune     25) Papa     Ward,     * 

portly  and  dignified  person,  sits  drowsily  smoking 
In  his  study  as  bis  adorable  daughter,  Fannie, 
comes  and  bids  bim  good-night.  Shortly  thereafter 
Toby  Bates  appears  on  the  outside  of  the  bouse 
muffled  up  In  auto  garb  and  throws  pebbles  against 
the  window  of  Fannie's  boudoir.  She  opens  the 
window  and  presently  comes  down  a  ladder  that 
the  auto-lochinvax  has  placed  against  tbe  house. 
They  have  made  a  fair  start  in  their  auto  when 
Papa  Ward  misses  her,  finds  tbe  ladder,  and  starts 
bis  own  machine  in  mad  pursuit.  Toby  finds  that 
he  is  short  of  gasoline.  He  pnrsuadea  tbe  girl 
to  hide  and  disguises  himself  wltb  goggles  and 
mustache  turning  bis  machine  about,  facing  the 
direction  from  which  it  came,  and  pretends  to  be 
mending  the  machine  when  Papa  Ward  comes  in 
pursuit.  He  does  not  recognize  his  would-be  son-in- 
law,  who  gives  tbe  old  man  the  wrong  direction 
to  follow.  The  girl  comes  from  concealment  and 
their  machine  is  turned  back  home.  When  Papa 
Ward  comes  back  utterly  wearied,  he  finds  his 
daughter  peacefully  sleeping.  She  pursuades  the 
old  gentleman  that  he  acted  under  the  impulse  of 
a  dream.  With  confidence  restored  they  elope  the 
next  night.  Then  Papa  Ward  forgives  them  and 
all   ends   happily. 

THE  CITY  OF  GOLD  (June  25). — The  most  noted 
place  in  the  Birman   Empire. 

WHEN  MEN  F0R.GET  (June  26).— Tom  Hunter, 
a  rising  and  sympathetic  young  artist,  elated  over 
his  succes  in  getting  into  the  National  Exhibition, 
spends  a  day  in  tbe  country.  In  front  of  a  poor 
farm,  be  meets  a  girl  stsggering  along  under  the 
weight  of  a  heavy  bag  of  washing.  This .  girl, 
Grace,  Is  the  drudge  of  a  harsh,  cruel  guardian. 
The  chance  acquaintance  ripens  to  love  and  Tom 
marries  ber.  For  a  time  they  live  a  simple  life 
in  the  country.  Then  Tom  learns  that  bis  paintings 
have  made  marked  success  in  the  exhibition,  be 
goes  to  the  city  and  then  into  society,  where  he  is 
the  Hon  of  the  hour.  This  adulation  turns  bis 
head,  and  he  continues  to  postpone  his  return  to 
his  now  lone  and  worrying  wife.  She  falls  sick 
suddenly  and  passes  away.  The  village  postmaster 
finds  ber  and  wires  her  husband.  Tbe  news  reaches 
him  in  the  midst  of  an  uproarons  dinner  party, 
where  be  is  making  love  to  a  butterfly  of  fashion. 
The  shock  of  the  tragic  news  is  so  severe  that  he 
Is  stricken  blind. 

A  WESTERN  ROMANCE  (June  27).— Tbe  partic- 
ular comfort  of  Col.  Jordon,  tbe  superintendent 
of  a  big  western  irrigating  project,  is  bis  lovely 
daughter  Bessie,  In  a  ratber  lonely  land.  Kellog, 
the  engineer  of  the  works,  is  in  love  with  her; 
but  as  his  habits  are  doubtful,  she  desires  the  at- 
tention of  his  assistant.  One  day  when  a  party  is 
investigating  tbe  site  of  a  dam  in  the  mountains, 
a  premature  explosion  of  dynamite  endangers  the  life 
of  the  girl.  In  this  emergency  the  engineer  proves 
himself  a  coward,  bnt  his  assistant  rescues  the  girl. 
Tbe  unscrupulous  Kellog  is  not  slow  In  observing 
the  growth  of  affection  between  the  young  people, 
and  be  manages  to  shift  suspicion  concerning  a 
Mexican  woman,  whom  be  has  treated  shamefully, 
toward  the  good  young  man.  This  leads  to  the  tem- 
porary disgrace  of  the  young  engineer;  but  he  saves 
the  works  from  distraction  at  the  revenegeful  hand 
of  Kellog.  Kellog  eventually  gets  what  ia  coming 
to  him  In  deserved  punishment,  while  his  assist- 
ant is  promoted  and  the  girl  Is  delighted. 


ESS4NAY. 

A  BROTHER'S  LOYAI/TY  (Special— 2  parta— 
June  21). — The  play  opens  with  a  happy  scene  in 
the  home  of  Hal,  the  erring  brother.  Through  the 
persuasions  of  a  friend,  Hal  begins  to  frequent  » 
questionable  pool  room.  His  brother,  Paul,  a 
cleric,  warns  him  against  his  evil  associates,  but 
Hal  disregards  Paul's  counsels.  In  a  short  time 
be  begins  to  play  for  money.  He  gets  into  a  game 
with  a  young  man,  who  unknown  to  him,  is  a 
notorious  counterfeiter,  one  of  a  gang  whose  head- 
quarters are  under  the  pool  room,  and  of  which 
the  pool  room  proprietor  is  a  member.  In  settling 
the  stakes,  Hal  Is  handed  a  couple  of  crisp  new 
bills.  One  of  these  he  unwittedly  passes  on  a 
local  merchant.  In  the  meantime,  a  detective  bas 
been  on  the  trail  of  the  counterfeiters  and  has  be- 
gun to  suspect  Hal.  When  tbe  merchant  snows 
him  the  "queer"  and  describes  the  man  who 
"shoved"  it  on  bim,  the  detective  begins  a  search 
for  Hal.  The  latter  Is  warned  by  a  pal  and  goes 
to  bis  brother  Paul  for  counsel.  Paul  persuades 
Hal  to  let  him  (Paul)  takes  Hal's  place.  Accord- 
ingly tbe  brothers  (who  are  twins),  exchange  vest- 
ures, Hal  donning  Paul's  clerical  raiment  and  Paul 
assuming  his  brother's  layman's  attire.  The  de- 
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qnently  convicted  and  committed  to  prison,  while 
Hal  attempts  to  carry  on  his  brother's  work.  In 
the  course  of  his  Itinerant  preachiBg  he  strikes 
apon  a  clue  which  leads  to  the  discovery  and  cap- 
ture of  the  counterfeiters.  In  the  gun  play  which 
takes  place  between  the  police  and  the  criminals, 
the  young  counterfeiter  ie  fatally  wounded.  Hal 
persuades  him  to  confess.  Paul  is  now  pardoned 
and  resumes  his  missionary  work.  The  closing 
scenes  show  Paul  preaching  to  a  crowd,  with  Hal 
and   his  family  in   attendance. 

ACROSS  THE  SIO  GRANDE  (June  24).— 
Brlnslev  Shaw  engaged  to  Evelyn  Selbie,  leaves  her 
to  make  his  fortune  in  the  West.  Evelyn  promises 
to  wait  until  he  returns.  Twenty  years  elapse  and 
Evelyn  sends  her  son  in  search  of  his  father.  Fa- 
ther and  son  meet  in  the  wild  of  the  West,  through 
the  father's  recognition  of  the  ring  the  boy  wore. 
Brinsley  had  given  it  to  his  sweetheart  years  ago. 
The  father  protects  his  son  from  an  outraged  posse 
who  have  gone  in  pursuit  of  the  supposed  cheating 
gambler.  Brinsley  Shaw  straightens  out  the  tangle 
and  sacrifices  his  freedom  for  the  sake  of  his  son, 
who  escapes. 

EAST  PAYMENTS  (June  25). — Julia  James 
leaves  her  country  home  for  the  city,  to  make  her 
way  in  life.  Dabney  Brlgga  from  the  same  town, 
tries  the  same  thing.  Both  stop  at  the  same  board- 
ing house.  Julia  is  refused  a  position  on  account 
of  her  country  clothes.  She  buys  some  clothes  on 
the  installment  plan  and  la  given  the  position. 
Dabney  is  given  a  position  with  Manritz  &  Rosen- 
berg, as  collector.  He  is  sent  to  collect  the  money 
for  the  clothes  that  Julia  had  bought.  Dabney  re- 
turns to  his  employers  empty  handed.  Mrs.  Brlggs 
arrives  in  the  city,  calls  on  her  son  and  offers  him 
a  flattering  proposition.  Dabney  takes  Julia  back 
to  their  home   town  to  start  life  anew. 

THE  DIVIDED  HOUSE  (June  26),— Old  Parmer 
Smith  and  his  wife  give  up  their  homestead  to  their 
married  sons  and  depart  to  make  their  future  home 
with  their  widowed  daughter.  One  week  later,  a 
present  from  the  old  folks  brings  on  a  family  feud. 
The  cow,  gets  into  a  lot  of  trouble,  by  having  so 
many  owners. 

WITNESS  "A  8-CEUTER"  (June  27).— Pete 
Kelly,  alderman,  lnsulta  John  Phillips'  sister.  Phil- 
lips orders  Kelly  off  his  premises.  Kelly  complains 
to  the  superintendent  of  the  factory  in  which  Phil- 
lips is  working.  The  interview  ends  by  Phillips 
hitting  the  superintendent.  Phillips  is  discharged. 
That  night,  Phillips  passes  the  evening  at  a  thea- 
ter, and  very  courteously  obliges  a  young  lady  who 
is  sitting  on  his  left,  by  giving  her  his  seat,  so 
she  will  be  next  to  her  girl  friend.  That  night, 
the  superintendent  of  the  factory  is  killed.  Cir- 
cumstantial evidence  places  Phillips  behind  the  bars. 
Everything  looks  pretty  bad  for  Phillips,  until  the 
girl  he  had  given  his  seat  to,  proves  an  alibi  for 
him. 

BRONCHO  BIXLY'8  STRATEGY  (June  28).— 
Juan,  a  greaser,  tries  to  influence  Tom  Morgan  to 
steal  some  money  from  his  wife.  Juan  finally  per- 
suades Morgan.  The  money  Morgan  gambles  and 
loses.  A  week  later,  Juan  discovers  the  express 
agent  placing  two  bags  of  gold  in  the  safe.  Juan 
induces  Morgan  to  help  him  rob  the  office.  Evelyn, 
Morgan's  wife,  overhearing  the  conversation,  noti- 
fies Broncho  Billy.  Broncho  Billy  gets  the  strayed 
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RUSTIC  HEARTS  (June  23). — Dan  Breen,  the 
doctor  of  the  little  Tillage  of  Oak  Town,  tiring  of 
his  humdrum  existence,  bids  farewell  to  his  cousins, 
the  Owens,  on  his  departure  for  the  city.  He 
meets  with  success,  and,  while  engaged  in  hospital 
practice,  becomes  infatuated  with  Silvia  Bates,  a 
pretty  nurse.  Influenced  by  wild  companions,  a 
mock  marriage  ceremony  Is  performed.  The  little 
nurse  believes  she  is  Breen's  wife,  until  unexpect- 
edly entering  the  room  where  Breen  is  recounting 
the  affair  to  a  party,  the  terrible  truth  Is  revealed 
to  her.  Denouncing  him,  she  spurns  the  money 
offered,  and,  frantic  in  her  grief,  decides  to  go  as 
far  away  from  the  scene  of  her  sorrow  as  possible. 
Pawning  her  rings,  she  uses  the  money  to  bay  a 
ticket  to  a  point  as  far  as  possible,  which, 
strangely  enough,  ends  her  journey  at  the  little 
village  which  was  formerly  Breen's  home.  Wander- 
ing through  the  country  side,  she  aske  for  a  drink 
of  water  at  the  home  of  the  Owens.  They  pity 
the  evident  distress  of  the  girl  and  finally  engage 
her  as  a  servant  In  their  household.  As  time  goes 
by  Ned  Owens  falls  In  love  with  Silvia  and  asks  her 
to  become  his  wife.  The  old  pain,  which  the  balm 
of  her  sweet  surroundings  has  quieted,  comes  back 
as    Silvia    tells    Ned    she    can    never    be    his    wife. 

One  day  BTeen  decides  to  take  a  vacation  and 
visit  the  home  of  his  country  cousins.  For  his 
reception  a  dance  is  given.  He  arrives  and  is 
warmly  greeted  by  his  friends.  He  then  comes 
face  to  face  with  the  woman  he  has  wronged. 
Afraid  of  exposure,  he  terrifies  Silvia  into  leaving 
her  new  home.  Mounting  his  horse,  he  goes  to 
make  sure  of  her  departure,  when  his  steed  becomes 
frightened  and  bolts.  Breen  is  fatally  hurt.  Silvia, 
who  has  witnessed  the  accident  from  a  nearby 
road,  is  with  him  In  time  to  grant  him  her  for- 
giveness. Ned*s  true  love  at  last  finds  Its  reward 
and  the  clouda  of  unbapplness  pass  out  of  Silvia's 
life  forever. 

AT  THE  TELEPHONE  (June  24)  .—Clarence 
Murray,  a  henpecked  husband,  calls  up  bis  wife  on 
the  'phone  during  lunch  hour,   and  tries  to  explain 


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to  her  that  be  will  not  be  home  tor  supper,  as  be 
has  an  important  business  matter  to  attend  to  at 
the  office.  Jane  does  not  let  him  get  In  a  word, 
her  tongue  is  a  cyclone,  and  Clarence  is  bewildered. 
Old  Bud  Fisher  wants  to  get  hold  of  the  'phone, 
but  is  told  that  it  Is  busy.  Fisher  pushes  and 
tries  to  give  Murry  the  hint  to  ring  off.  Finally 
he  grabs  the  receiver  and  tries  to  talk  to  bia  party, 
but  Jane  does  not  let  up  her  tirade,  still  believing 
that  Clarence  is  on  the  other  end  of  the  wire. 
Fisher,  who  thinks  that  he  has  his  call,  is  in  turn 
almost  driven  crazy  by  the  talk  that  comes  back 
to  him.  Presently  he  asks  Murry,  who  Is  on  the 
wire,  and  is  informed  that  it  is  his  wife.  The  old 
man  knows  he  stands  no  chance  against  the  "lingo" 
of  the  woman,  and,  throwing  the  receiver  down, 
walks  out.  Murray  again  returns  to  the  attack 
and  Anally  being  worn  out,  shouts,  "good  bye,"  and 
staggers  out. 

THE  ZULU  KING  (June  24).— John  Smith  is 
abused  and  henpecked.  He  is  left  at  home  to 
wash  the  dishes,  while  his  wife  has  a  good  time. 
Brown  and  Jones  sympathize  with  him  and  carry 
some  of  their  sympathy  In  a  bottle.  Smith  re- 
volts and  ships  as  a  cook  on  a  steamer  bound  for 
Africa.  It  Is  one  slavery  for  anotber,  and  wben 
a  party  is  landed  to  get  fresh  water,  he  beats  it 
up  the  beach  and  runs  into  a  party  of  Zulus,  who 
drive  off  the  others  and  make  him  tbeir  prisoner. 
They  take  him  before  their  king  and  when  Smith 
deceives  them  by  telling  them  he  is  bullet  proof, 
and  giving  them  a  pistol  loaded  with  blank  cart- 
ridges with  which  to  fire  at  him,  they  are  so  sur- 
prised that  the  shots  have  no  effect  upon  Smith. 
They  think  he  is  supernatural  and  proclaim  bim 
king.  The  original  king  gives  the  crown  and  scepter 
to  Smith.  Later  Mrs.  Smith  has  turned  missionary. 
She  is  shipwrecked  on  the  very  coast  where  Smith 
is  king.  Smith  is  delighted  at  the  news  of  a  new 
queen,  until  be  finds  out  who  it  is.  He  then  tries 
to  commit  suicide  by  abusing  the  sacred  idol.  But 
Mrs.  Smith  saves  him.  She  drives  off  his  numerous 
brunette  wives  and  dethrones  him.  She  becomes 
the  ruler  and  makes  Smith  take  the  place  of  the 
fan  boy  and  he  becomes  the  humblest  of  her  sub- 
jects. 

THE  OTHER  WOUAN  (June  26). — Lawrence 
Richards  Is  a  hard-working  young  business  man, 
but  his  pretty  young  wife,  Isabel,  worships  daily 
at  the  shrine  of  her  demigod — society.  This  leads 
to  extravagancies  on  her  part.  The  husband  is 
worried  to  distraction  and  incidentally  Lucy,  their 
little  daughter,  is  neglected.  The  strain  almost 
wrecks  the  husband.  His  mother,  Elizabeth,  visits 
him  at  his  home  for  the  week-end,  and  in  despair 
he  asks  her  aid.  Thoroughly  understanding  young 
people,  the  mother  promises  a  remedy.  She  studies 
Isabel  and  her  acquaintances.  Isabel,  after  a  lavish 
social  function,  becomes  prey  to  ber  usual  obsession 
for  fine  clotbeB.  She  pleads  with  Richards  for  money. 
Angered,  and  somewhat  surprised  by  his  refusal, 
she  confides  to  the  mother.  Elizabeth  apparently 
sympathizes  with  her.  She  goes  further.  She  tells 
Isabel  the  reason  she  is  being  refused  is  because 
Richards  is  spending  all  of  his  bard-earned  money 
on  a  woman.  Sparks  of  jealousy  are  kindled  and 
speedily  fanned  into  a  flame  when,  on  the  following 
day,  she  sees  from  her  bedroom  window  Richards 
bidding  good-bye  to  a  pretty  young  woman,  who  is 
carried  speedily  away  in  an  automobile.  She  does 
not  know  it  is  her  husband's  niece.  Some  days 
later  Isabel  again  receives  an  invitation  to  a  re- 
ception, and  once  more  she  asks  Lawrence  for  a 
large  amount,  to  be  spent  on  clothes.  He  refuses. 
His  action  leads  to  disagreement  between  the  two 
and  a  quarrel.  Isabel  then  hurls  into  his  face  the 
accusation  made  by  Elizabeth,  that  Richards  is 
squandering  his  money  on  a  woman.  Astounded  by 
her  charge,  Richards  returns  to  his  office,  miserable 
and  worried.  On  the  same  night,  Elizabeth  re- 
asserts her  grave  charge  against  him  to  Isabel,  and 
Is  delighted  with  the  progress  she  is  making.  She 
tells  Isabel  that  if  she  will  come  to  her  house  to- 
morrow, she  will  have  the  opportunity  of  meeting 
the  woman  face  to  face.  The  bait  is  tempting  to 
the  frenzied  wife.  Working  herself  into  a  state  of 
rage  and  indignation,  she  goes  to  Elizabeth's  home 
on  the  following  day.  Elizabeth  receives  her  in 
mysterious  silence.  Giving  whispered  instructions, 
she  tells  her  that  if  she  will  pull  aside  the  curtains 
leading  into  the  next  room,  she  will  confront  the 
woman  and  will  have  her  at  her  mercy.  Isabel 
does  as  directed  and  sees  the  Image  of  ber  own 
face  gazing  at  her  from  the  depths  of  a  large 
mirror  behind  the  curtains.  She  stares,  dumb- 
founded, at  her  reflection,  while  Elizabeth  reproves 
her  for  her  past  way  of  living.  She  cuts  Elizabeth 
short  in  her  lecture,  and  leaves  the  house  in  a  flurry 
of  anger.  She  enters  ber  bedroom  in  the  heat  of 
anger.  Gradually  this  wears  away  as  the  sound 
words  of  advice  by  the  mother  sinks  into  her  con- 
science. The  truth  of  the  admonition  and  the  dis- 
tressful mental  picture  of  Richards  slaving  at  bia 
office  for  her  sake,  causes  her  to  succumb  to  tears. 
When  Richards  arrives  home,  he  finds  Isabel, 
dressed  in  a  plain  gown,  embracing  Lucy  and  tele- 
phoning that  she  will  not  be  able  to  attend  the  re- 
ception that  night  or  any  other. 

BOB  BUYS  AN  AUTO  (June  27). — Bob  Thompson 
is  induced  by  Clarence  Dickson  to  buy  an  auto,  and, 
after  looking  at  many  different  makes  and  kinds, 
finally  gets  one  that  be  thinks  will  suit  him.  The 
family  Immediately  decide  to  take  a  trip  to  the 
seashore  and  look  forward  to  a  very  enjoyable  day. 
Bob's  daughter,  Vivian,  ber  sweetheart,  Clarence, 
Kemp  Thompson  and  bis  friend  John,  make  up  the 
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denly  the  car  stops,  something  is  wrong.  Vivian 
discovers  that  they  have  no  gasoline.  Being  far  out 
in  the  country,  where  gasoline  cannot  be  obtained, 
they  are  in  a  bad  fix.  The  men  leave  Vivian  in  the 
car,  and  tying  a  rope  to  the  machine,  proceed  to 
haul  it  until  they  can  find  a  garage.  Though  slow, 
they  are  getting  along  all  right  until  going  down  a 
hill  Vivian,  who  is  at  the  wheel,  runs  the  car  into 
a  wall  and  smashes  it.  By  this  time  all  are  pretty 
well  worn  out  and  disgusted.  Boil  gets  sore  and 
declares  he  will  pull  no  further,  and  he  walks  off, 
followed  by  the  rest.  Finally,  after  a  long  hike, 
they  reach  home  and  Bob  falls  exhausted  into  a 
chair.  Kemp,  John  and  Clarence  come  in  and  try 
to  console  him,  but  Bob  chases  them  out  and  they 
beat  It  very  lively,  swearing  "Never  again." 

THE  BEAUT  FROM  BUTTE  (June  27).— Bill 
Bragg  comes  Bast  to  visit  relatives  and  friends. 
He  is  In  full  cowboy  regalia,  and  cuts  a  wide  swath 
while  he  Is  the  guest  of  Mrs.  Bayne,  whose  pretty 
daughter,  Nell,  throws  over  Jack  Scott  for  the 
dashing  westerner,  who  is  not  afraid  to  shoot  up 
a  sheriff's  posse.  Bill  tells  all  the  girls  exciting 
stories  of  his  wonderful  adventures  and  thrilling 
rescues.  They  think  he  is  quite  a  hero  and  adore 
him.  When  Bill  goes  home,  he  leaves  his  photo- 
graph with  all  the  girls,  and  they  remain  true  to 
the  attractive  stranger.  Then  comes  a  letter  from 
one  of  the  town  boys  who  went  West.  He  has 
looked  Bill  up  and  encloses  a  snap-shot  of  Bill  In 
his  true  colors,  which  shows  him  to  be  far  from  the 
romantic  cowboy  which  he  represented  himself  to 
be.  The  boys  take  the  snap-shot  over  to  the  sewing 
circle  to  show  the  girls,  and  cupid  gets  on  the 
Job  once  more. 

THE  LOVE  TEST  (June  28).— Ralph  Holden  has 
been  working  his  mine  with  fuse  as  an  explosive. 
One  day  a  blast  fails  to  discharge  and  a  workman 
Is  badly  injured  by  the  delayed  explosion.  The 
accident  preys  on  Holden's  mind,  and  he  decides 
to  try  another  method.  Being  of  an  inventive  na- 
ture, he  begins  work  on  an  electrical  device  which 
will  automatically  discbarge  the  blasts.  He  la  so 
engrossed  in  his  work  that  he  neglects  bis  wife.  Dr. 
Harding,  a  young  physician  in  the  neighborhood, 
is  a  friend  of  the  Holdens,  and  his  social  visits  are 
welcomed.  One  night  Harding  telephones  the  Hold- 
ens,  asking  them  to  accompany  him  to  town  and 
visit  a  picture  shew.  Ralph,  who  has  almost  per- 
fected his  Invention,  refuses  to  go  and  asks  Harding 
to  take  Eatherine,  his  wife.  On  their  return  from 
the  theater,  a  slight  accident  happens  to  Harding's 
automobile,  and,  while  waiting  for  its  repair, 
Harding  preys  on  Katherine's  lonesomeness  and  begs 
her  to  elope  with  him.  She  la  foolish  enough  to 
listen,  bat  does  not  finally  consent  until  the  next 
morning,  when  Ralph  rushes  off  to  bis  work  without 
even  saying  good  bye.  Eatherine  then  decides  to 
leave  Holden  and,  packing  a  few  of  her  belongings, 
she  leaves  a  aote  for  her  husband  and  leaves.  That 
morning  ridden  is  trying  out  his  new  device;  It  falls 
to  work.  As  he  enters  to  investigate,  a  careless 
workman  stumbles  over  an  electric  coil,  causing  a 
contact,  which  explodes  the  charge.  Holden  is  badly 
Injured  and  blinded  by  the  accident.  A  miner  rides 
for  the  doctor  and  catches  up  with  him  at  the  rail- 
road depot.  He  tells  them  of  the  accident.  Mrs. 
Holden  knows  her  husband  needs  her  and  they  rush 
to  the  scene  of  the  accident.  They  assist  him  to  his 
home  and  minister  to  bis  wants.  Dr.  Harding  calls 
the  next  morning,  but  learns  that  another  physician 
will  be  engaged  in  his  stead.  The  miners  make  a 
discovery  of  an  enormous  gold  lode,  and  inform  Mrs. 
Holden.  Their  future  is  assured,  even  though 
Holden  may  be  hopelessly  blind.  The  right  road 
lies  open  to  Eatherine  now  and  she  gladly  follows  it. 

A  CORRECTION. 
On  page  1168  of  last  week's  issue  we  published 
a  synopsis  of  a  Lubin  two-part  special  subject, 
entitled  "A  Hero  Among  Men,"  giving  its  release 
date  as  being  on  June  9.  The  date  is  wrong; 
the  film  will  not  be  released  until  July  9.  Ex- 
hibitors   will    kindly    note    the    error. 


CINES. 

THE  RIVAL  ENGINEERS  (Special— 2  parts- 
June  16). — Jean  Caletti  and  Pierre  Brason  are  en- 
gineers In  the  employ  of  the  same  railway  company. 
Jean,  a  favorite  among  the  workmen,  has  incited 
the  Jealousy  of  Pierre,  who,  aided  by  his  own  surly 
disposition,  seeks  to  Injure  him. 

One  day  an  opportunity  presents  itself  to  Pierre. 
While  Jean  la  beneath  his  engine  inspecting  it. 
Pierre  purposely  bumps  his  engine  into  Jean's,  caus- 
ing serious  Injuries  to  him.  Jean  is  carried  to  a 
near-by  hospital,  where  bis  recuperation  afterwards 
takes  place.  Pierre  in  attempting  to  make  his  es- 
cape, is  arrested,  and  while  pacing  bis  cell,  swears 
that  he  will  yet  avenge  himself. 

Jean  is  back  on  bis  old  engine.  Pierre  having 
been  released  from  prison,  finds  another  opportunity 
to  satisfy  his  heinous  purpose,  and  mounting  to  the 
cab  of  Jean's  engine,  he  almost  completely  severs 
the  brakes,  so  that  they  will  give  way  to  the  least 
pressure.  When  approaching  a  gang  of  workmen, 
Jean  finds  It  necessary  to  use  the  brakes,  but  they 
do  not  respond  to  his  efforts  and  several  of  the  gang 
are  killed.  When  the  engine  is  brought  to  a  stand- 
still, Jean  is  found  in  a  state  of  collapse,  the  horror 
of  his  experience  having  driven  him  mad.  The  en- 
gine Is  examined  and  the  defective  brakes  are  dis- 
covered,  thus  betraying  the  canse  of  the  accident. 

When   Pierre  sees   what  his  nefarious  scheme  baa 


brought  about,  he  at  first  rejoices,  but  the  death  of 
the  two  workmen  comes  as  a  ahock  to  blm,  and 
conscience-stricken,  he  ends  bis  own  life  by  Jumping 
in  front  of  an  approaching  train. 

Meanwhile.  Jean  is  placed  in  an  asylum.  Medical 
aid  fails,  and  as  a  last  resort,  his  favorite  child  is 
brought  to  blm  with  a  hope  that  the  power  of  love 
will  restore  his  sanity  to  him.  The  plan  works 
splendidly,  and  his  mind  fully  comes  back  to  its 
normal  state.  Upon  Pierre's  person  is  found  a  full 
confession  of  his  guilt,  which  completely  restores 
Jean  to  his  employer's  confidence. 


PATHEPLAY. 

THE  CARRIER  PIGEON  (June  24).— Every  per- 
son has  beard  of  the  carrier  pigeon,  but  few  have 
ever  had  an  opportunity  to  study  the  nature  and 
care  of  these  Interesting  birds,  because  they  are 
far  from  common  In  the  United  States.  The  film 
treats  the  subject  thoroughly,  through  the  dif- 
ferent stages  of  growth  of  a  pair  of  squabs,  their 
early  training,  the  interesting  method  of  wedging 
a  rolled  message  to  one  of  the  pigeon's  tail  feathers, 
the  remarkable  system  employed  to  determine  the 
winner  of  a  carrier  pigeon  match  and  one  scene 
showing  the  start  of  some  ten  thousand  pigeons 
in   a   race. 

HOW  A  BLOSSOM  OPENS  (June  24).— A  timely 
film  which  shows  a  flower's  growth  which  the  naked 
eye  cannot  discern  and  which  is  released  at  a  time 
when  every  man  and  his  neighbor  is  concerned  with 
bis  garden. 

THE  HUNGER  OF  THE  HEART  (June  25 1 . — 
Morton  Gill,  who  has  no  scruples  about  the  man- 
ner In  which  he  obtains  money  for  bis  support, 
makes  the  acquaintance,  at  a  summer  colony,  of 
young  and  wealthy  Mrs.  Stoddard.  Mr.  Stoddard 
has  made  the  common  error  of  neglecting  to  ap- 
pease the  hunger  in  the  heart  of  his  wife  by  pay- 
ing her  some  of  the  little  attentions  which  won  her 
during  their  courtship.  Mrs.  Stoddard,  there- 
fore, encourages  Gill  Just  a  little.  Gill  attempts 
to  borrow  some  money  from  Mrs.  Stoddard.  She 
refuses.  He  takes  a  necklace  which  she  wears 
and  it  Is  then  that  Mrs.  Stoddard  realizes  that  she 
cannot  complain  without  causing  a  scandal.  There 
seems  no  hope  for  Mrs.  Stoddard  when  her  hus- 
band misses  the  necklace.  But  a  deputy  sheriff 
arranges  things  so  that  the  thief  is  punished  and 
Mrs.  Stoddard  learns  a   lesson. 

CLARENCE,  THE  COWBOY  (June  26)  .—Clar- 
ence, a  really  refined  young  man,  went  west  to 
grow  strong  and  sturdy  with  the  rough  life  of  the 
plains.  With  bis  hair  nicely  parted,  he  donned 
a  cowboy  outfit,  diamond  ring,  shooting  Iron  and  all 
and  set  out  to  be  one  of  the  boys.  The  real  cow- 
punchers  tricked  Clarence  into  believing  that  he 
had  killed  a  man.  In  a  panic  Clarence  flees.  The 
pursuit  Is  hot  and  to  escape  he  unlawfully  enters 
the  home  of  a  sweet  little  miss,  the  belle  of  the 
town.  When  be  discovers  that  he  has  been  hoaxed, 
Clarence  turns  the  tables  on  the  bunch  and  be  wins 
the  girl   into   the   bargain. 

THE  SPOTTED  ELEPHANT  HAWK  MOTH 
(June  27). — One  of  the  most  beautiful  and  gor- 
geous of  all  the  moths.  Is  the  perfected  Insect  trans- 
formed  from  the  familiar  red  and  yellow  striped 
caterpillar.  In  this  film  the  entire  metamorphosis 
is  shown  in  a  clear,  concise,  instructive  and  enter- 
taining   manner. 

ATHENS  (June  27). — This  film  permits  the  audi- 
ence a  personal  visit  to  the  ruins  of  the  city  which 
was  once  the  center  of  civilization  and  of  which 
millions  of  persons  have  read  and  studied,  but  have 
never  seen. 

THE  SECOND  SHOT  (June  28).— To  end  a  feud, 
Dave  Burns  and  Dr.  Lopez  agree  to  have  one  shot 
at  each  other.  In  the  duel  Burns  wounds  the  doc- 
tor slightly  before  the  latter  can  take  advantage 
of  bis  shot.  Later,  Burns  on  the  way  to  summon 
Dr.  Lopez  to  attend  his  mother,  who  is  ill,  meets 
the  physician  who  has  come  to  fire  the  shot  that 
is  due  him  by  the  agreement.  Burns  pleads  with 
him  to  attend  his  sick  mother  first.  The  doctor 
agrees  and,  after  Mrs.  Burns  shows  signs  of  im- 
provement, he  and  Burns  go  out.  Dsve  stands 
motionless  before  the  doctor  who  raises  his  gun 
to  flre  but . 

THE  TRAPPER'S  MISTAKE  (Special— 2  parts- 
June  28). — Tom  Underwood,  an  Easterner  who  has 
come  to  the  West  in  search  of  health,  is  living 
with  a  trapper  named  Bob  Turner,  whose  wife. 
Rose,  and  their  baby  daughter,  Violet,  are  the  ob- 
jects of  frequent  attacks  because  of  the  husband's 
unreasonableness  and  unfounded  jealousy.  The 
couple'B  frequent  quarrels  embarras  Underwood  so 
much  that  he  finally  decides  to  leave  the  house. 
Tom's  kindness  has  been  so  much  appreciated  that 
when  he  goes  Mrs.  Turner  Is  heartbroken.  Her 
husband's  cruelties  and  lack  of  consideration  as  she 
recalls  them  to  mind  give  birth  of  a  wild  desire 
to  be  free  of  him  and  accordingly  she  writes  a 
note  to  Turner  bidding  him  farewell.  As  she  turns 
to  go  her  glance  falls  upon  her  baby  daughter  at 
play  beside  her.  Instantly,  her  determination  col- 
lapses and  clasping  the  child  in  her  arms  she 
crumples  up  the  note  addresed  to  Bob.  She  re- 
sumes her  household  duties  and  a  short  time  later 
leaves  the  house  to  get  some  water  at  a  well  near- 
by. While  at  the  well.  Rose  is  attacked  by  two 
redskins  and  carried  away  to  their  camp  where 
she  Ib  forced  to  work  with  the  other  squaws  at 
mending    canoes,    wigwams,    blankets   and    the    like. 


Turner  returns  to  bis  home  and  finds  the  discarded 
note.  Putting  two  and  two  together  he  naturally 
suspects  that  Rose  has  eloped  with  Tom  Underwood. 
A  year  later,  Tom  is  trading  some  furs  at  an 
Indian  camp  when  he  sees  Rose  at  work.  With  the 
aid  of  bis  Indian  servant,  Tom  escapes  with  Rose. 
They  are  pursued  to  a  frontier  post  settled  by  some 
whites.  The  Indians  surround  the  camp  and  a 
stirring  battle  ensues.  The  men  from  the  neigh- 
boring plains  come  to  the  rescue  of  their  white 
brethren  and  among  these  arrivals  is  Bob  Turner. 
The  fighting  continues  fast  and  furious  until  finally 
the  redskins  are  routed.  After  this  Is  accomplished 
Turner  publicly  denounces  Underwood,  accusing 
him  of  eloping  with  his  wife.  Underwood  denies 
the  charge,  and  so  does  Rose,  but  Turner  Is  skepti- 
cal. He  Is  finally  convinced  that  he  has  made  a 
mistake  when  Underwood's  Indian  servant  sub- 
stantiates Tom's  account  of  the  rescue  of  Rose 
from  the  Indian  camp. 


BIOORAPH. 

A  COMPROMISING  COMPLICATION   (Juno  23) 

When  a  lady  bean  of  tbe  present  century  leaves 
her  defenseless  lover  piled  high  with  bundles  on 
the  park  bench  and  a  bully  boy  appears  with  a 
timorous  Lady  Rose,  complications  are  bonnd  to 
arise.  There  he  left  her  with  the  defenseless 
one  while  Bud  and  Bessie  proceeded  to  compromise 
the  honor  of  both.  Toe  sheriff  was  out  posting 
the  Mayor's  edict— "No  flirting  allowed  in  this 
town" — when  Bud  and  Bessie  appropriated  his 
shackles  and  bound  the  timid  two.  It  started 
something,    as    any    spectator    will   soon    see. 

MISTER  JEFFERSON  GREEN  (June  28).— 
Laxy  Jefferson  Green  considered  his  constitution 
purely  a  mental  machine.  His  mind  was  em- 
ployed in  getting  his  body  out  of  work.  On  this 
occasion  he  decided  his  physical  self  should  have 
appendicitis.  The  best  medical  aid  In  Dark  Town 
was  employed — very  serious  case,  immediate  op- 
eration necessary.  Jefferson's  mental  machine 
conld  not  cope  with  the  situation,  so  his  physical 
part  started  to  run.  Open  air  and  exercise  did 
the   rest. 

IN  DIPLOMATIC  CIRCLES  (June  26).— The  re- 
porter assigned  to  obtain  a  copy  of  the  message 
from  tbe  Japanese  Government  unraveled  the  mys- 
tery of  its  disappearance  In  a  clever  manner. 
Every  foreign  government  naturally  was  eager  for 
a  copy  ahead,  while  tbe  meeting  of  tbe  Japanese 
Ambassador  and  Secretary  of  State  was  surrounded 
with  greater  risk  than  they  imagined.  But  the 
well  laid  plans  of  the  diplomatic  spies  were  on- 
dermined    and    the    innocent   lover   freed. 

HER  MOTHER'S  OATH  (June  28).— The  ortho- 
dox mother's  indomitable  will  dwarfed  the  child's 
individuality,  defeating  the  very  purpose  it  would 
attain.  The  girl  ran  away  with  an  actor  and  the 
fearful  prayer,  "If  I  ever  speak  to  that  man 
again,  may  God  strike  my  mother  blind,"  was 
fulfilled,  but  In  the  end  the  woman  was  saved 
from    herself. 


Picture  Theatres  projected 

New  York,  N.  Y.— Oscar  Hammerateln,  42nd 
and  8eventh  avenue,  la  having  plans  prepared  for  a 
three-story  opera  house,  220  by  100  feet,  and  75  by 
100  feet,  and  to  cost  11,000,000. 

Eldorado,  ni.— Steve  N.  Farrar  has  Invited  esti- 
mates for  the  erection  of  a  two-story  moving  picture 
theater,  45  by  128  feet,  with  a  seating  capacity 
for  700,  and  to  cost  $25,000. 

Berwyn,  HI.— Q.  W.  Ashby,  237  South  5th  street, 
Is  preparing  plans  for  a  one-etory  theater,  60  by 
125    feet. 

Oak  Park,  HI. — E.  E.  Roberts,  105  North  Clark 
street.  Is  preparing  plans  for  a  one-story  theater, 
•0  by  88  feet 

New  York,  N.  Y — Henry  Hollerith,  1398  Bristow 
street,  baa  plans  under  way  for  a  one-story  moving 
picture  theater,  40  by  100  feet,  to  cost  810,000. 

New  York,  N.  Y.— Lewis  Lelnlng,  180  Fifth 
avenue,  has  received  estimates  for  the  erection  of 
a  two-story  moving  picture  theater,  25  by  100  feet, 
and  cost  $18,000. 

Naw  York,  N.  Y Winnie  Company,  939  Inter- 
vale avenne,  have  received  sub-bids  for  the  building 
of  a  one-story  moving  picture  theater  and  bakery, 
100  by  109  feet,  to  cost  $18,000. 

New  York,  N.  Y.— John  J.  Nllly,  1808  Boston 
road,  has  plans  under  way  for  the  erection  of  a 
•ne-story  moving  picture  theater,  100  by  100  feet, 
to  cost  $30,000. 

Southampton,  L.  I.,  N.  Y. — Col.  R.  M.  Thompson 
contemplates  building   a  theater.   108  by  60  feet 

Port  Chester,  N.  Y.— This  village  voted,  on  April 
22nd,  for  an  appropriation  of  $8,500  for  remodeling 
the  old  Municipal  Building,  on  Sonth  Main  street, 
occupied  by  Mellor  Hose  and  Putnam  Steamer  Com- 
panies. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y.— Jacob  Krowker,  55  West  114th 
street,  have  Invited  bids  for  tbe  erection  of  a  one- 
story  moving  picture  theater,  40  by  9"  feet,  and 
to  cost  $5,000. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y.— B.  T.  Keith,  1193  Broadway, 
has  plana  under  way  for  the  building  of  a  theater, 
with  a  seating  capacity  for  2,600  and  to  coat 
$200,000. 

Binghamton,  N.  Y. — Ned  Kornbllte,  of  the  Star 
Theater,  is  to  build  an  additional  story  to  hla 
theater  and  Increase  the  seating  capacity  400. 


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FRONTIER. 

THE  SQUAW  MAN'S  REWARD  (June  26).— 
Edwin  Wright,  an  artist,  falls  in  love  with  his 
ancle's  ward,  Anges  Worth.  Their  affair  progresses 
and  he  becomes  engaged  to  her.  He  is  desirous 
of  obtaining  western  atmosphere  in  his  paintings 
and  to  that  end  makes  a  trip  to  the  far  west.  He 
paints  several  pictures  at  different  spots,  most  of 
them  near  the  residence  of  a  band  of  Indians.  One 
day,  as  he  is  painting,  he  is  struck  with  the  beauty 
of  an  Indian  maiden  whom  he  sees  filling  her  olla 
at  the  water  hole.  He  gets  her  to  pose  for  him 
and  a  month  later  has  completed  a  canvas  which  he 
feels  he  will  never  equal.  The  picture  is  a  full 
length  panel  of  the  Indian  maiden.  Waneta,  holding 
ber  olla.  He  sends  this  cast  to  Agnes  deeming 
her  worthy  of  his  beat  work  as  well  as  of  every- 
thing else  he  has  that  is  beat. 

Not  long  after  he  has  sent  the  portrait  east  he 
receives  a  newspaper  clipping  telling  bim  of  Agnes' 
engagement  to  a  boyhood  rival.  He  is  heartbroken. 
The  emotional  reaction  which  follows  this  news, 
determines  him  to  take  Waneta  as  a  wife.  He 
buys  her  from  her  father  and  the  two  are  married 
after  a  quaint  Indian  ceremony.  For  a  time  they 
are  happy,'  but  Edwin  feels  the  call  of  his  own 
kind  sometimes  and  a  letter  from  bis  uncle  crystal- 
lies  this  feeling  into  a  determination  to  return  to 
his  eastern  home  and  to  Agnes.  The  "letter  gives 
him  news  which  forces  bim  to  the  conclusion  that 
the  newspaper  story  was  a  false  one  and  be  re- 
verts to  his  original  love  of  Agnes,  or  so  he 
thinks. 

He  goes  back  east,  and  there  be  is  again  much 
with  Agnes.  She  has  admired  the  painting  a  great 
deal  and  when  he  comes,  admires  it  more  in  his 
bearing.  Every  word,  of  course,  is  a  reminder  of 
the  poor  little  Indian  girl  whom  he  has  deserted. 
His  uncle  has  promised  him  $100,000  on  the  day  be 
marries  Agnes  and  is  doing  everything  possible  to 
push  the  matter  along.  Edwin  Is  torn  by  doubts, 
however,  and  feels  that  things  cannot  return  to 
their  old  basis  between  himself  and  Agnes  until  he 
has  told  her  of  his  affair  with  the  Indian  girl. 

Silas  Marler,  the  uncle,  councils  strongly  against 
this.  His  hard,  mercenary  old  soul  causes  him 
to  tell  Edwin  to  marry  Agnes  and  say  nothing  of  the 
Indian  girl.  Both  he  and  Edwin  are  sure  she  will 
never  cause  trouble,  but  Edwin  is  made  of  finer 
stuff  than  his  relative  and  finally  confesses  to 
Agnes  bis  love  and  his  sin. 

Agnes  is  horror  stricken,  but  despite  the  revela- 
tion, continues  to  love  him  as  much  as  ever.  Her 
love  is  indeed  so  great  that  she  is  unselfish  in  it, 
and  urges  Edwin  to  return  to  the  Indian  girl,  to 
whom  he  owes  a  duty.  She  tells  him  to  go.  Obed- 
ient to  her,    he   goes. 

Once  back  at  the  Indian  village  he  finds  Waneta 
and  with  ber,  bis  reward,  a  baby  son.  Thus  out 
of  his  sorrow  and  grief,  the  obedience  to  his  duty 
brings  bim  bis  reward  and  poor  Agues  is  left  to 
bear  the  sorrow  that  Is  woman's  portion  all  to  fre- 
quently. 


BISON. 

THE  GUERRILLA  MENACE  (2  parts— June  24).— 
In  the  hills  of  Dixie  live  Jed  and  Sue — a  country 
lad  and  lass— who  are  very  much  in  love  with  each 
other.  The  keeper  of  the  wayside  tavern  is  an 
unscrupulous  fellow  who  has  coveted  Sue  for  some- 
time. He  makes  advances  to  Sue,  but  Jed,  who 
suspects  the  man,  warns  him  to  keep  away  and  not 
molest  her. 

Jed  longs  to  enlist  in  the  cause  of  the  Confed- 
eracy, but  Sue  protests  at  bis  leaving  her.  Jed 
Is  torn  between  two  desires — the  one  to  become  a 
soldier,  and  the  other  to  please  his  little  sweetheart. 
But  on  the  day  when  Captain  Bruce  Douglas  and 
bis  detachment  pass  by,  on  their  way  to  join  their 
regiment,  Jed's  ambition  to  be  a  soldier  proves  tbe 
stronger  and  he  begs  tbe  captain  for  permission  to 
join  his  troop.  Tbe  captain  gives  his  consent  and 
Jed  rushes  back  to  bid  Sue  a  hasty  farewell.  Jed 
does  not  omit,  however,  to  again  warn  tbe  tavern 
keeper  to  stay  away  from  Sue  and  says:  "If  she 
ain't  smilin'  when  I  come  back  I'll  kill  you."  Jed 
leaves   with  Captain   Bruce   and   his  detachment. 

Brace's  sweetheart  lives  at  Sage  Ridge  In  the 
vicinity  of  Sue's  borne,  and  both  men  while  in 
camp,  sympathize  with  each  other  in  their  longing 
for  tbe  girls  they  left  behind.  Jed  being  unable  to 
write,  Bruce  helps  bim  to  scrawl  a  line  to  Sne, 
and  encloses  the  message  in  a  letter  to  bis  sweet- 
heart,  asking   her   to  deliver  It  to  Sue. 

While  Pauline  receives  the  letter,  she  determines 
to  deliver  the  message  personally.  A  band  of 
guerrillas  have  come  to  town,  and  the  tavern 
keeper   bids  them   welcome.     They   camp    near   tbe 


tavern,  awaiting  their  opportunity  for  a  marauding 
expedition,  while  the  leader  becomes  very  friendly 
with  the  tavern  keeper.  Pauline,  on  ber  way  to 
Sue's  borne,  stops  at  the  tavern  to  inquire  for  Sue. 
The  keeper  gives  her  directions  and  follows  stealthily 
with    evil    intentions. 

Pauline  delivers  Jed's  message  to  Sue  and  helps 
the  latter  to  pen  a  line  In  reply.  Sue  watches 
Pauline  depart — too  bewildered  to  thank  her  and 
sees  the  tavern  keeper  stop  Pauline's  horse  and 
try  to  drag  her  from  tbe  saddle.  Sue  rushes  to 
her  rescue  and  with  smiles  and  coquetry  calms 
the  keeper,  who  Is  angry  at  the  loss  of  bis  prey, 
and  coaxes  him  to  follow  her  to  the  hut,  where 
she  slams  the  door  in  his  face.  The  keeper  grins 
maliciously   and    slinks   away,    swearing  to  win. 

Bruce  receives  a  dispatch  from  Gen.  Beauregard, 
informing  bim  that  a  band  of  guerrillas  are  near 
Sage  Ridge  and  instructing  him  to  go  there  with 
a  detachment  and  take  necessary  action.  Bruce 
immediately  leaves  with  bis  men,  taking  Jed  along. 

Arriving  in  the  vicinity,  his  first  thought  is  to 
see  Pauline  and  ordering  his  men  to  prepare  camp, 
he  takes  Jed  and  sets  out  for  Pauline's  home.  Jed 
awaits  nearby  while  Bruce  goes  to  the  house,  and 
sees  the  tavern  keeper  and  the  guerrillas  sneaking 
up  to  attack.  He  rides  off  to  to  camp  to  give  the 
alarm.  In  tbe  meantime  the  guerrillas,  led  by  the 
tavern  keeper,  have  overpowered  Bruce  and  the 
keeper  drags  Pauline  away.  Jed,  returning  with 
the  troopers,  sees  the  keeper  and  while  the  troopers 
ride  on  to  Brace's  assistance,  Jed  goes  to  rescue 
Pauline.  The  troopers  quickly  scatter  the  guerrillas 
and  release  Bruce. 

Jed  discovers  the  loss  of  his  gun  and  a  band  to 
hand  struggle  ensues  between  him  and  the  tavern 
keeper.  Bruce  arrives  in  time  to  shoot  the  keeper 
In  the  arm  as  he  is  about  to  stab  Jed.  Tbe  keeper 
makes  his  escape,  and  angered  at  his  defeat,  seeks 
revenge  on  Sue.  Together  with  the  remaining 
guerrillas,  he  goes  to  Sue's  hut.  They  drag  her 
out,  but  she  breaks  away  from  him.  Jed,  on  bis 
way  to  see  if  Sue  is  smilin',  comes  upon  them. 
Sue  runs  to  bim  and  In  tbe  unequal  fight  that 
ensues,  he  is  hard  pressed.  Sue  goes  for  assistance 
— Brace's  men  drive  the  guerrillas  back  while  he 
goes  in  search  of  Jed.  He  comes  upon  Jed,  who, 
in  a  struggle  with  the  tavern  keeper,  has  gained 
a  hold  on  the  latter's  throat  and  choked  him  to 
death.  Bruce  leads  Jed  back  to  the  house,  where 
the  girls  attend  to  Jed's  wound.  That  night  the 
moon   beams  on   two  happy  couples. 


board,  and  eGrtrude  leads  the  wife  and  child  to  a 
bedroom.  *  The  robbers  break  through  the  dining- 
room,  and  pursue  the  women  through  a  hall,  and 
to  the  bedroom  door  which  is  barricaded  with  furni- 
ture. 

Meanwhile  Jack  has  notified  Jim  at  bis  office,  and 
he  Is  on  his  way  borne  with  a  rescuing  party. 
They  arrive  just  as  the  last  defense  gives  way. 
Tbe  robbers  are  overcome,  and  Gertrude's  bravery 
receives  the  recognition   that  it  deserves. 


IMP. 

THE  ANGEL  OF  DEATH  (June  26).— A  mother 
pleads  with  the  doctor  to  save  her  child's  life,  but 
the  case  is  hopeless.  The  child  dies.  Tbe  mother 
pleads  with  the  angel  for  ber  child  when  death's 
revelation  of  the  child's  future  life  appears,  first 
at  the  head  of  his  school  class,  later  showing  him 
In  love,  then  happily  married.  He  Is  a  trusted 
employee,  but  he  is  later  tempted  by  a  woman 
whom  be  meets  through  a  friend  and  he  steals  at 
the  woman's  command.  Overhearing  by  chance  that 
he  is  duped  by  the  friend  and  the  woman,  he 
strangles  tbe  woman,  and  the  vision  fades  out  and 
the  mother  hands  her  baby  to  "The  Angel  of 
Death." 

HIS  MOTHER'S  LOVE  (June  23).— The  son  of 
a  poor  inn  keeper,  decides  to  leave  his  home  to 
seek  bis  fortunes  in  a  foreign  clime.  Bidding  bis 
mother  good-bye,  she  puts  a  locket  around  his  neck 
as  a  remembrance.  Years  roll  by  and  the  folks 
have  not  heard  from  their  son.  In  the  meantime. 
the  son  has  struck  It  rich,  but  he  has  neglected  his 
parents,  and  in  a  quiet  moment,  he  remembers  the 
locket  his  mother  gave  him.  He  desires  to  return 
home,  but  to  surprise  bis  parents,  he  writes  them 
he  Is  coming  home  poor  Instead  of  rich.  Years 
have  changed  his  appearance  and  on  his  return 
his  parents  do  not  recognize  him.  He  rents  a 
room  from  them  without  telling  who  he  is.  In 
paying  for  his  room,  he  shows  a  large  sum  of  money, 
which  tempts  the  mother  to  steal,  so  she  can  have 
money  to  welcome  her  poor  son's  return.  She  en- 
ters his  room  and  kills  him.  She  then  discovers 
it  was  ber  own  son  by  the  locket  hanging  around 
bis  neck.  The  sheriff  arrives  and  takes  her  away. 
While  pleading  with  the  sheriff,  she  awakes  and 
finds  It  all  a  dream.  The  son  comes  down  and  tells 
her  who  he  Is. 


VICTOR. 

BROTHER  AND  SISTER  (June  27).— Gertrude. 
an  Italian  girl,  has  a  brother  Jack.  He  is  em- 
ployed in  a  stone  quarry,  and  she  is  a  nurse  in 
the  family  of  the  owner  of  the  quarry,  Jim.  There 
is  a  strike  agitation  among  the  workmen  at  the 
quarry.  A  leader  among  the  agitators  makes  love 
to  Gertrude  against  her  will.  Jim  sees  this,  and 
not  realizing  Gertrude's  unwillingness,  discbarges 
her.     He  also  discharges  the  threatening  workmen. 

Jim  has  a  sum  of  money  at  his  quarry  office,  and 
fearing  to  leave  it  there,  takes  it  home.  A  work- 
man sees  this  and  notifies  the  leader.  They  tele- 
phone Jim,  luring  him  from  home,  with  the  false 
report  that  trouble  is  expected  at  the  quarry.  Jim 
leaves  his  house  unprotected. 

Jack  overhears  this  plan,  and  runs  to  ber  with 
the  news.  Gertrude  sends  Jack  for  Jim  and  goes 
herself  to  his  home.  She  and  Jim's  wife  and  child 
are  beselged  by  tbe  robbers,  who  break  down  the 
doors. 

The  dining-room   door  is  barricaded  with  a   side- 


GREAT  NORTHERN. 

(Universal) 

THE  IXYING  CTRCUS  (3  parts— June  28).— The 
Flying  Circus  was  the  largest  traveling  artiBt 
band  In  the  country,  and  among  Its  favorite  artists 
were  the  rope-dancer,  Laurento  and  the  snake 
tamer,  Ula  Kiri.  The  hot  blooded  gypsy  snake 
tamer  is  passionately  in  love  with  the  attractive 
young  man,  but  he  does  not  quite  return  her  feel- 
ings. She  is  hasty  and  ill-tempered,  and  not  far 
from  being  cruel   to  those  depending  on  ber. 

For  tbe  first  time  the  Flying  Circus  pitches  Its 
tents  in  a  small  country  town.  The  daughter  of  the 
mayor  attends.  The  rope  dancer  meets  her  and 
for  him  it  is  a  case  of  love  at  first  sight,  and  be 
decides  to  do  all  in  his  power  to  win  ber.  That 
night  a  great  fire  breaks  out  in  the  town,  and  tbe 
flying  embers  ignite  tbe  borne  of  the  mayor.  Tbe 
townspeople  strive  in  vain  to  deflect  tbe  flames, 
but  all  In  vain.  The  mansion  is  doomed  to  de- 
struction and  it  seems  that  tbe  mayor's  daughter 
must  perish.  At  this  juncture  Laurento  beats  bis 
way  through  the  flames  and  scales  the  wall,  and, 
picking  up  the  frantic  maiden,  jumps  to  the  mesh 
of  telegraph  wires  outside  the  window.  Carrying 
his  burden  over  tbe  fragile  wires,  he  eaves  her 
amid  the  frantic  cheers  of  the  populace.  The  grate- 
ful mayor  makes  him  a  welcome  guest,  and  he  soon 
wins  the  heart  of  the  young  girl,  but  he  bas  yet  to 
obtain  the  father's  consent. 

He  worries  continually  about  this  problem,  and 
not  even  at  home  can  he  rest  In  peace,  for  TTla 
Kiri,  who  feels  that  her  beloved  friend  In  sliding 
away  from  her,  keeps  tormenting  bim  with  jealousy 
and  mockery. 

At  last  he  plucks  up  his  courage  and  goes  to  the 
mayor.  The  latter  is  friendly  to  the  young  man, 
but  he  compels  the  rope  dancer  to  leave  with  a 
vague  promise  for  the  future,  If  circumstances 
should  alter. 

A  capital  idea  strikes  tbe  young  man  to  obtain 
money.  He  arranges  to  do  a  rope  dance  to  tbe 
church  tower.  The  circus  director  Is  delighted 
with   the  Idea. 

The  great  day  arrives,  and  tbe  people  of  the 
town  gather  around  the  church.  The  rope  dancer 
cannot  forget  Erna's  sorrowful  eyes  and  pale  face 
as  he  walks  along  tbe  flaccid  rope  towards  the 
dizzy  height.  A  snake  bas  escaped  and  Its  body 
bars  the  way  to  the  entrance  to  the  tower.  The 
snake  tamer  has.  In  her  mad  jealousy,  forgotten 
all  about  her  duties,  and  this  negligence  now  proves 
fatal.  Erna  Implores  her  in  vain  to  call  back  the 
reptile,  as  she  Is  the  only  one  that  can  do  It,  but 
Ula  Kiri  will  not  listen  to  her  In  her  storm  of  jeal- 
ousy and  hatred.  But  Erna  overcomes  all  difficul- 
ties. Her  great  love  teaches  her  what  to  do,  and 
thus  she  saves  her  sweetheart.  The  mayor  can 
no  longer  withhold  his  consent  to  the  marriage  and 
the  same  evening  the  Flying  Circus  goes  away  to 
the  other  regions,  leaving  a  happy  couple  in  the 
country   town. 

NESTOR. 

POLEON,  THE  TRAPPER  (June  23).— Poleon  Is 
a  trapper  of  the  North  woods.  He  loves  Rosie,  but 
finds  it's  difficult  to  tell  her  of  his  love.  Pierre, 
a  good  looking,  unprincipled,  fur  buyer  and  trapper, 
arrives  at  the  post.  He  finds  Rosie  and  does  not 
hesitate  to  make  love  to  her,  while  poor  Poleon 
looks  on  from  afar.  Pierre  marries  Rosie  In  secret 
and  swears  her  to  silence,  promising  to  return  and 
to  claim  her  as  his  wife.  Rosie  trusts  him  Impli- 
citly, but  time  goes  on  and  Pierre  does  not  come, 
nor  does  she  hear  from  him. 

Poleon  returns  for  trading  purposes.  He  sees 
Rosie  and  finds  her  ill  and  wretched.  The  love 
in  him  surges  up  and  he  determines  to  find  Pierre 
and  bring  him  back  to  her.  Poleon  follows  Pierre 
with  all  the  skill  of  a  trapper.  He  comes  upon 
him  at  his  camp  fire.  There  is  a  struggle,  in  which 
Pierre  is  overpowered  and  bound.  They  start  home- 
ward and  one  nlgbt  Poleon  sleeps  from  exhaustion 
and  Pierre,  working  his  bonds  loose,  steals  to 
Poleon's  side  and  taking  bis  knife,  attacks  him. 
Poleon  grapples  with  him  and  in  the  flght  Pierre 
inflicts  a  bad  wound  upon  himself, 

Poleon  carries  him  back  to  the  store.  He  calls 
Rosie  and  sending  for  a  priest  Insists  upon  the  mar- 
riage ceremony  being  performed.  Pierre  dies  and 
again  Poleon  goes  away  to  still  his  great  grief. 
While  in  the  woods  and  pondering  beside  bis  camp 
fire,  Poleon  sees  a  vision  of  Rosie,  with  arms  out- 
stretched, beckoning  him  to  come  back.  Poleon 
immediately  breaks  up  camp  and  starts  for  the  post 
to  claim   his   happiness  and   Rosie. 

PARTNERS  (June  25). — Tom  Devery,  a  pros- 
pector, unexpectedly  meets  Jack  Carson,  whom  he 
knew  in  the  East.  Tom  Invites  Jack  to  share  his 
cabin.  A  few  weeks  later  they  strike  a  rich  vein 
of  gold  ore  and  decide  to  form  a  partnership. 
Jack  sends  for  his  wife  and  they  settle  down. 

All  goes  well  for  a  time,,  until  Devery  falls  in 
love    with    Jack's    wife    and    during    his    absence. 


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FROM  THE 
SHADOWS 

2  Reels,  June  18 

A  Superbly-Acted  Drama,  Showing 
How  the  Reason  of  a  Mother,  Mourn- 
ing the  Death  of  Her  Child,  Was 
Saved  by  the  Gentle  Touch  of  Baby 
Fingers,  Itself  Brought  from  the  Val- 
ley of  the  Shadow  of  Death. 

A  great  desert  scene,  showing  a  ter- 
rible drought  which  is  killing  the  cat- 
tle and  driving  the  Indians  to  despera- 
tion through  hunger.  The  uprising  of 
the  Redskins  and  the  sensational  strug- 
gles for  life  by  the  immigrants. 
Thrilling  rescue  of  the  settlement  by 
the  troops,  who  drive  off  the  Indians 
after  a  hard-fought  battle.  Scenes  of 
melting  pathos  as  the  orphaned  baby, 
saved  from  the  maelstrom  of  death  in 
which  its  parents  perished,  is  placed 
in  the  arms  of  the  delirious  wife  of  the 
Colonel,  whose  brooding  over  her  own 
dead  child  threatens  her  reason  and 
her  life. 


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The  Waiters'  Picnic 

1  Reel,  June  16 

Another  "knock-out"  comedy,  which 
will  rank  with  "Heinze's  Resurrection" 
and  other  headliners.  The  head  waiter 
and  the  chef  are  in  love  with  Mabel.  The 
way  the  chef  runs  the  kitchen  and  han- 
dles the  food  and  dishes  will  make  peo- 
ple fall  off  their  seats  in  helpless 
paroxysms  of  laughter.  This  film  can't 
be  described.  It  must  be  seen,  and 
everybody  who  sees  it  will  talk  about  it. 
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THE  TALE  OF  A 
BLACK  EYE 

Split  Reel,  June  19 

Flirty  Jones  arouses  the  jealousy  of 
his  wife.  He  gets  a  black  eye  trying  to 
get  acquainted  with  the  pretty  models, 
and  makes  a  false  explanation  to  his 
wife.  Unluckily  for  him  a  moving  pic- 
ture man  took  the  incident,  and  when 
Jones  and  his  wife  go  to  a  picture  show 
she  learns  the  truth. 

OUT  AND  IN 

Split  Reel,  June  19 

A  convict  makes  a  thrilling  escape 
from  the  penitentiary,  and  after  suffering 
untold  hardships  hides  in  a  hay  wagon. 
The  hay  wagon  is  bound  for  the  peniten- 
tiary and  the  convict  finds  himself  safe 
within  its  gates  when  he  emerges  from 
his  hiding  place. 


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THE 

FAILURE  OF 

SUCCESS 

2  Reels,  June  20 

A  Great  Moral  Drama,  Teaching  That 
Wealth  Gained  at  the  Price  of  Happi- 
ness   and    the    Sacrifice    of    Honor 
Brings  No  Happiness. 

With  gold  beyond  his  wildest 
dreams,  despised  by  his  fellow-men, 
scorned  by  the  women  whose  lives  he 
had  nearly  wrecked,  and  with  his  own 
child  turning  away  from  his  proffered 
embrace  in  horror,  J'abez  Crow  looked 
back  over  the  path  he  had  trod  and 
saw  the  specters  of  his  misspent  life. 
Obsessed  with  regret  and  remorse,  he 
destroyed  himself,  leaving  a  will  in 
which  he  endeavored  to  make  repara- 
tion for  the  wrongs  he  had  committed. 


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Tom  makes  advances  to  her  wbich  are  repulsed. 
This  angers  him,  and  knowing  where  Jack's  part- 
nership paper  is  secreted,  gets  and  destroys  it. 
Mary  tries  to  prevent  this,  but  is  unsuccessful. 
Jack  arrives  in  time  to  prevent  further  insult  to 
bis  wife. 

Jack  and  his  wife  are  driven  out  of  their  cabin 
and  seek  the  aid  of  the  sheriff,  who  was  a  witness 
to  the  partnership  agreement.  He  agrees  to  assist 
them,  but  on  their  arrival  at  the  cabin,  find  it 
almost  destroyed  by  an  explosion.  Devery  bad  had 
a  quarrel  with  a  newly  engaged  miner.  Shots  were 
exchanged — one  of  them  bits  a  can  of  dynamite 
which  fatally  injured  both  men  and  blew  up  the 
cabin.  Devery  lives  long  enough  to  ask  Jack's  for- 
giveness and  give  him  all  right  of  the  mine. 

PROFESSIONAL  JEALOUSY  (June  27).— Signor 
Bigcheesi,  the  impresario  of  the  Slan-bardi  Opera 
Company,  finds  the  audience  that  greets  the  open- 
ing performance  of  his  company  at  Angelton  a  very 
appreciative  one,  but  Signor  Bigcheesi  finds  cold 
consolation  in  this  fact  because  behind  the  scenes 
bedlam  reigns. 

Signor  Muchmoutho,  the  much  advertised  basso, 
baa  discovered  that  the  fickle  public  has  grown  cold 
In  their  appreciation  of  bis  art  and  has  trans- 
ferred its  favor  to  Signor  Somebumma,  the  tenor 
of  the  company.  To  add  to  his  sorrow,  Muchmoutho, 
finds  that  Madame  Higbschreechi,  the  prima  donna, 
has  likewise  transferred  her  fickle  affections  to  his 
hated  rival. 

The  basso  and  the  tenor  have  a  heated  argument 
In  the  wings  and  an  exciting  outbreak  before  the 
audience,  and  Signor  Bigcheesi  fines  all  three  a 
week's  salary  for  creating  the  disturbance.  Then 
follows    an    "artists    strike." 

Bigcheesi,  in  despair,  puts  a  musical  stagehand 
in  the  tenor's  role,  but  is  at  his  wits*  ends  to 
fill  the  place  made  vacant  by  the  prima  donna. 
He  rushes  away  to  a  lunch  counter  for  a  cup  of 
coffee  to  steady  his  nerves.  Miss  Hasher  sings  his 
order  In  such  an  artistic  manner  that  Bigcheesi 
Immediately  signs  her  up  as  a  prima   donna. 

The  "striking  artists"  are  greatly  surprised  when 
they  read  the  next  day  of  the  wonderful  success 
of  the  substitutes,  and  Miss  Highschreecbt  becomes 
"green  with  envy"  when  she  reads  farther  that 
Miss  Hasher  Is  soon  to  become  the  bride  of  Signor 
Bigcheesi. 


POWERS. 

THE  $10,000  BEIDE  (June  25).— Jack  Gayboy 
tried  hard  to  pass  his  afternoon  in  the  East  Side 
Club,  but  at  length  in  disgust  he  throws  down  his 
hand  with  the  ultimatum  of  finding  a  show  or 
something  beside  cards  for  entertainment.  His 
companions  entreaties  were  lost  and  he  sallies  forth 
to  seek   the  great  white  way. 

Mary  O'Malley  known  to  stagedom  as  "Phedra, 
the  Egyptian  dancer"  was  hurried  from  her  dress- 
ing room  by  the  Impertinent  manager  ere  she  had 
time  to  powder  her  nose  more  than  ten  times. 
Now  Phedra  had  eyes  like  the  stars  of  Arabia,  but 
her  mouth  was  awful.  A  carefully  draped  veil 
■of  Egyptian  gauze,  however,  hid  this  defect  and 
Jack  G'ayboy  fell  hard  for  the  descendant  of  Cleo- 
patra. A  carefully  worded  note  of  invitation  sent 
to  Phedra'e  dressing  room  brought  her  to  Jack  and 
"his  waiting  auto.  Her  closely  veiled  face  she  re- 
fused to  disclose  until  she  was  well  ensconsed  in 
•the  cafe,  and  to  Jack's  murmured  "will  you  marry 
me"  she  shyly  assented  and  raised  her  veil.  "Suf- 
fering Rachael,  what  a  face!"  Her  mouth  cut 
bias,  pointed  heavenward  and  her  few  remaining 
teeth  were  surely  in  morning.  Jack  made  one 
frightful  leap  and  vanished  out  the  door.  Phedra, 
not  to  be  fooled  at  this  time,   followed. 

Now,  in  the  meantime,  Solomon  Lobelsky,  of  the 
tribe  of  Israel,  and  his  stout  German  friend  Max 
Straus,  were  gunning  in  the  woods.  Max  and 
Solomon  both  fired  simultaneously  at  a  pheasant, 
and  the  bird  falls.  A  hot  argument  ensues  as  to 
the  slayer  and  Solomon  runs  away  with  the  prize. 
Max,  in  his  anger,  fires  at  Solomon  and  the  child 
'Of  Israel  falls.  At  this  critical  juncture  Jack  Gay- 
boy,  closely  followed  by  Phedra,  runs  on  the  scene. 
Hearing  Max  say  he  would  give  $10,000  if  Solomon 
were  only  alive,  Solomon  raises  up  and  demands 
the  money.  They  are  confronted  by  Gayboy,  who 
offers  them  the  $10,000  to  relieve  him  of  Phedra  by 
marrying  her.  She,  breathless,  has  caught  up  to 
Gayboy  and  he  tells  her  Max  wishes  to  marry  ber. 
He  shoves  the  check  in  Max's  hand  and  flies.  Max 
-goes  up  to  Phedra,  raises  tbe  veil  and  with  one 
frightened  look  seeks  safety  in  flight.  Meeting 
Solomon  he  gives  him  the  check  and  tells  him  he  is 
the  chosen  one.  Solomon  goes  to  Phedra,  lifts  her 
veil— "Oh,  Israel,  what  a  face!"  Still  $10,000 
Is  ten  thousand  dollars,  and  with  eyes  glued  to 
•the  check  be  consents. 

Max  shews  his  true  friendship  by  being  best 
man,  and  Gayboy  gladly  signs  the  check  for  Mr. 
and  Mrs.   Solomon  Lobelsky. 

IT    HAPPENED   AT    THE   BEACH    (June    26). 

The  weather  was  delightfully  fine  when  Max  and 
Lon,  accompanied  by  their  spouses,  started  to  the 
shining  sands.  Everything  was  lovely  until  the 
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on  lovely  days,  so  the  wives  seek  the  sands  and 
dry  clothes. 
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ilirtation  with  tbe  bathing  girls  and  forget  tbe  in- 
dignant wives  altogether.  But  they  were  not  for- 
gotten by  the  ladies,  who  Investigate  their  delay; 
and  coming  upon  the  gay  Lotharios,  give  chase  with 
parasols. 

Not  content  with  this  tbe  angry  wives  tear  tbe 
bathing  suits  from  their  trembling  forma,  and  only 
two  empty  barrels  save  them  from  arrest.  Edging 
their  way  to  the  bath  house,  they  sigh  with  relief 
and  go  inside.  Simultaneously  there  are  two  howls 
of  despair.     Their  clothes  are  gone! 

Again  parading  In  the  barrels,  they  tell  their 
wives  of  their  loss.  Sympathy  Is  not  expected,  but 
the  wives  fear  their  own  embarrassment.  At  this 
crista,  however,  a  big  policeman,  with  a  tramp  in 
tow,  passes.  Ob,  rapture  I  The  men  see  their 
clothes,  reclaim  them,  and  screened  by  their  wives, 
they  make  a  hasty  toilette. 

THE  SPELL  (2  parts— June  27).— A  young  doctor 
makes  a  superficial  study  of  hypnotic  suggestion 
and  discovers  that  he  has  powers  in  thnt  direction. 
He  practices  upon  bis  sweetheart  and  her  friends. 
One  day  a  traveling  hypnotist  comes  to  town  and 
the  girl,  Ethel,  decides  to  see  what  he  can  do. 
She  and  her  acquaintances  attend  the  seance  and 
Ethel  offers  herself  as  a  subject.  She  proves  an 
amenable  medium  and  her  beauty  appeals  to  the 
hypnotist,  who  neglects  to  release  her  from  bis  In- 
fluence and  forces  her  to  go  away  with  blm. 

On  bearing  of  the  disappearance,  tbe  distracted 
doctor  harries  to  the  girl's  home  and  gets  a  clue 
from  a  newspaper  clipping.  He  follows  several 
clues,  and  finally  traces  them  to  a  town  where  he 
sees  her  in  a  store  window  in  a  trance.  He  en- 
deavors to  get  through  the  crowd,  but  tbe  hypnotist 
influences  tbe  police  and  he  is  ordered  away. 

He  appeals  to  headquarters  and  that  night  at- 
tends tbe  performance  with  detectives.  He  cre- 
ates a  scene  when  be  Invades  tbe  platform,  bnt 
the  girl,  under  the  spell,  says  she  does  not  know 
him  and  he  is  turned  away  as  an  lmposter. 

Baffled  and  heartbroken,  but  determined  still,  the 
doctor  polls  himself  together  and  calming  down 
thinks  the  extraordinary  situation  out.  He  keeps 
in  touch  with  tbe  faker's  movements,  and  remem- 
bering bis  own  hynotic  powers,  determines  to  put 
them  to  the  test.  With  a  friend  be  studies  and 
practices  and  finds  he  has  a  wonderful  will  power. 
He  travels  to  where  the  girl  is  on  exhibition  and 
taking  a  position  in  the  audience,  concentrates  bis 
mind  upon  the  one  thing.  Gradually  he  finds  tbe 
girl  uneasy  at  some  foreign  influence,  turning  ber 
eyes  toward  him.  Their  eyes  meet  and  when  she 
withdraws  her  own  with  a  gasp,  she  knows  some- 
thing is  wrong. 

The  professor  is  nnable  to  get  her  will  bent  to 
his  own  and  gets  more  and  more  uneasy  as  she  falls 
In  simple  tests.  The  audience  commences  to  mur- 
mur and  for  once  the  man's  self-possession  fails 
him.  He  looks  around  for  opposing  influence  and 
in  time  encounters  the  penetrating  gaze  of  tbe 
doctor.  He  falters  and  is  lost,  for  there  is  a  will 
power  stronger  than  his  own  facing  him.  Hys- 
terically the  man  points  to  the  doctor,  telling  the 
audience  that  he  is  tbe  man  who  Is  ruining  the 
performance  and  the  people  hold  their  breath  as 
the  doctor  goes  slowly  to  the  platform  and  makes 
tbe  wretch  confess  upon  his  knees.  Tbe  police 
take  charge  of  affairs,  while  the  doctor  gathers 
tbe   rapidly   recovering  girl  In   his   arms. 


REX. 

THE  BURDEN  BEARER  (June  26).— Tbe  bur- 
den bearer,  Lois,  a  young  bride,  enters  Into  matri- 
mony with  a  full  realization  of  the  serious  step  she 
is  taking.  Her  husband,  a  gay  young  clubman, 
thinks  little  of  his  obligations  to  bis  wife  and  en- 
ters into  marriage  in  the  same  reckless,  care-free 
manner  in  which  he  has  formerly  lived.  Upon  the 
first  evening  of  their  honeymoon  the  young  bride 
has  ber  first  burden,  when  at  dinner  her  gay  hus- 
band insists  upon  drinking  glass  after  glass  of 
liquor  in  spite  of  her  remonstrances.  She  Is  hor- 
rified and  ashamed  when  they  rise  to  leave  the  table 
to  discover  that  be  is  intoxicated.  Bravely  she  at- 
tempts to  hide  his  condition  from  others  In  the 
room  and  In  the  hotel  and  spends  a  sleepless  night 
of  grief  while  he  slumbers  in  a  drunken  stupor 
upon  the  couch. 

The  following  morning  he  is  repentant  when  he 
sees  Lois'  suffering  and  promises  never  to  drink 
again.  His  old  companions  of  tbe  office  and  club, 
however,  soon  persuade  him  to  return  to  the  old 
habits  and  be  laughs  at  his  wife's  scruples  when 
she  attempts  to  warn  him  of  the  danger  ahead.  A 
young  neighbor,  Ramona,  receives  a  letter  of  In- 
troduction to  Lois  and  finding  that  her  husband 
Is  already  a  friend  to  the  bridegroom,  suggests  that 
the  two  couples  go  to  a  fashionable  restaurant  for 
a  good  time.  Here  all  drink  but  tbe  bride,  who 
vainly  attempts  to  induce  her  husband  to  refrain. 
Dancing  begins  and  when  the  bride  declines  to 
participate,  she  is  left  alone  at  the  table  and 
classed  by  Ramona  and  the  merry-makers  as  a  "kill- 
Joy."  A  half -drunken  man  comes  to  accept  Lois 
as  a  partner,  but  she  gazes  ahead  heartbroken  at 
her  husband's  conduct.  The  bridegroom  having  be- 
come Intoxicated  during  the  night's  revels,  the 
bride  Is  forced  the  next  morning,  in  order  to  save 
her  husband  from  disgrace,  to  tell  his  employer 
that  he  is  111.  Again  be  promises  to  reform,  bnt 
now  she  has  little  hope  that  be  will  do  so.  The 
arrival  of  unpaid  bills  makes  ber  burden  greater 
for  she  fears  not  only  for  the  present,  but  for  the 
future. 

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away  the  pleasure  of  the  gift  and  Lois'  unen- 
iastic  manner  makes  the  husband  angry. 
Kamona,  chancing  to  call  and  see  the  wife's  un- 
responsive manner  toward  her  husband,  writes 
her  friend  that  Lois  is  incomprehensible  and  most 
unappreciatlve  of  her  husband's  kindness. 

Lois  now  realizes  what  her  burden  will  he  and 
starts  a  music  class  to  help  pay  the  bills.  The 
husband  protests  and  makes  a  great  show  before 
his  friends  of  the  nselessness  of  his  wife's  work. 
Ramona.  like  others  of  her  class,  having  no  serious 
thought  in  life  and  reckoning  little  of  the  conse- 
quences of  her  gay  life,  Is  thoroughly  disgusted  at 
the  bride's  persistence  in  going  against  her  hus- 
band's wishes,  when,  as  she  thinks,  he  is  so  willing 
to  make  everything  pleasant  for  her.  Her  last  let- 
ter to  her  friend  reads:  "Such  a  woman  would 
drive  a  man   to  drink." 

DEAGA,  THE  GYPSY  (June  29).— At  the  sug- 
gestion of  a  guest,  during  a  fashionable  country 
house  party,  the  guests  visit  a  gypsy  camp  nearby 
to  have  their  fortunes  told.  Jack  Harlow  the 
hostess's  son,  there  meets  and  falls  in  love  with 
Draga,  the  gypsy  chief's  daughter.  She  is  at- 
tracted to  him,  and  he  persuades  her  to  meet  him 
eecretly.  She  meets  him  and  later  he  persuades 
her  to  run   away   with   him   and  be  married. 

It  is  the  law  of  the  gypsies  that  the  women  can- 
not mary  outside  of  the  tribe.  If  they  do,  they 
can  never  return,  so  when  Draga's  father  learns 
of  his  daughter's  loss,  he  is  heartbroken.  He  or- 
ders the  camp  broken  up  and  the  gypsies  depart. 

Jack's  mother,  upon  learning  of  her  son's  wild 
marriage,  is  horrified,  but  decides  to  make  the 
best  of  It  for  his  sake.  Draga's  education  Is  begun, 
and  she  does  her  best  to  learn,  but  her  wild  nature 
rebels  against  the  conventional  life  she  is  com- 
pelled to  lead,  and  she  often  longs  for  her  father 
and  the  old  life  of  freedom.  Jack's  affections  for 
her  cools,  and  soon  he  neglects  ber  for  the  com- 
pany of  others. 

Later,  upon  the  night  of  her  debut  into  society, 
driven  to  desperation  by  her  husband's  coolness  and 
the  scorn  of  his  friends,  she  decides  to  leave.  She 
quietly  leaves  the  reception  room  and  dons  her  old 
gypsy   costume. 

In  the  meantime,  the  gypsies  again  visit  the 
neighborhood.  Draga's  brother,  during  her  ab- 
sence from  the  gypsies,  has  fallen  Into  evil  ways. 
He  decides  to  rob  the  big  house,  not  knowing  that 
Draga  lives  there.  He  enters,  and  is  about  to 
leave  with  his  plunder,  when  Draga,  on  her  way 
out,  Intending  to  leave  her  husband's  home,  comes 
upon  him. 

While  she  is  pleading  with  him  to  leave  without 
the  stolen  silver,  she  hears  some  one  coming.  Her 
husband  has  missed  her  and  is  looking  for  her. 
Hearing  their  voices,  he  tries  to  enter  the  room, 
but  Draga  runs  quickly  and  locks  the  door.  Jack 
knocks  loudly  and  begins  to  force  the  door  open. 
The  brother  makes  his  escape  through  the  window. 
Jack  forces  the  door  open  and  enters,  followed  by 
his  mother.  Seeing  the  silverware  tied  up  and 
Draga  dressed  to  go,  Jack  accuses  her  of  being  in 
league  with  her  people  to  rob  the  place.  She  re- 
fuses to  explain,  and  during  the  excitement,  he 
orders  her  to  go.  Draga  leaves.  As  Jack  returns 
to  join  his  guests,  the  brother  Is  brought  in  by  the 
servants  who  caught  him  hiding  in  the  garden.  He 
confesses    to    the    attempted    robbery. 

Jack  Is  overcome  when  he  realises  the  terrible 
wrong  he  has  done  his  wife,  and  he  orders  a  search 
made  for  her.  His  conscience  is  awakened.  He 
knows  that  down  in  his  heart,  he  really  loves  her, 
so  he  starts  after  her. 

Draga  returns  to  her  father,  who  refuses  to  take 
her  back.  He  hands  her  a  dagger  and  tells  her 
to  obey  the  law  of  their  tribe.  After  she  has  left 
the  camp  to  carry  out  her  father's  order,  Jack 
comes  to  the  camp  seeking  her.  The  old  chief  tells 
him  the  direction  taken  by  Draga  and  her  purpose. 
Jack,  frenzied  with  fear,  comes  upon  her  as  she 
Is  about  to  plunge  the  dagger  Into  her  breast,  and 
a  reconciliation  follows. 


Railroad  Wreck — One  killed  and  many  injured  In 
the  0.  B.   &  Q.  smash-up,  near  St.   Paul,   Minn. 

Who's  Who  in  Pictures. — Irene  Wallace  (Cham- 
pion). 


UNIVERSAL. 

ANIMATED    WEEKLY,    NO.    66    (June    11) The 

Annual  Army  and  Navy  Baseball  Game. — Secretary 
of  the  Navy  Daniels  Is  an  interested  spectator  at 
West  Point,   New  York. 

Polo  Practice. — Between  the  officers  of  Fort  Ethan 
Allen  and  cadets  of  the  Vermont  Military  Academy. 

President  Woodrow  Wilson. — Attends  Memorial 
Services  to  the  heroes  of  the  Spanish  War,  at  Balti- 
more,  Maryland. 

Rewards  for  Bravery. — The  Bluecoats  are  pre- 
senter with  medals  of  honor  by  Mayor  Brand 
Whitlock,  Toledo,   Ohio. 

His  Majesty's  Trophy. — Royal  Naval  and  Mili- 
tary Volunteer  Reserves  hold  their  Annual  Field 
Gun  Display  at  Hyde  Park.   England. 

Wheels  of  Commerce. — The  making  of  hats.  (By 
courtesy  of  the  makers  of  Mallory  hats — Danbury. 
Conn.) 

Prize  Winning  Canines. — Thoroughbred  dogs  are 
exhibited    at    Mlneola,   Long   Island. 

Cross-Country    Hike. — 'Weston,     the    veteran     ped- 
estrian,  starts  on   his  journey  from   New   York 
to  Minneapolis,    Minn. 

The  Lord  Mayor  of  London. — Attends  the  aviation 
meet  at   Hendon.    Kngland. 

Gala  Commencement  Exercises. — The  graduates  of 
Columbia  University  receive  their  diplomas  and 
later  disport   themselves  on  the  campus. 

Who's  Who  in  the  Cabinet. — Hon.  William  C. 
Redfleld — Secretary  of  Commerce. 


CRYSTAL. 

OUT  OF  THE  PAST  (Juno  84).— Rose  Vale  is  a 
poor  country  girl,  she  lives  with  her  brother  Tom. 
Brown,  an  artist  from  the  city  In  moderate  cir- 
cumstances Is  visiting  the  conntry  and  meets  Rose. 
He  Induces  her  to  pose  for  him.  Later  Rose's  broth- 
er Tom  is  arrested  for  moonshlnlng  and  is  sen- 
tenced to  a  term  in  prison.  Rose,  desolate  visits 
the  city  seeking  employment,  there  she  again  meets 
Brown  and  poses  for  him  some  more.  Their  friend- 
ship ripens  into  love  and  later  they  are  married. 
Their  happiness  Is  blessed  by  the  birth  of  a  baby 
girl  and  Brown  is  immensely  happy  with  his  beau- 
tifnl  wife  and  child.  Some  time  later,  Rose  re- 
ceives a  letter  from  her  brother  whose  term  in 
prison  had  Just  ended,  asking  her  to  meet  him. 
This  she  does  and  Brown  seeing  her  follows  her. 
There  he  sees  her  embracing  Tom  and  suspecting 
other  things  he  cruelly  and  withont  giving  her  a 
chance  for  explanations,  deserts  her  and  the  baby. 
Time  passes  and  Rose  and  the  child  make  their 
home  with  Tom.  The  child  Violet  has  now  devel- 
oped into  a  beautiful  young  woman  and  seeks  em- 
ployment to  help  support  her  old  and  weak  mother. 
Rose.  Brown  meantime  has  grown  prosperous  and 
under  the  name  of  Markham  owns  one  of  the  best 
studios  in  the  city.  There  ultra-fashionable  men 
and  women  of  questionable  character  were  want 
to  congregate  and  one  of  these  women  who  knew 
Violet  Induced  her  to  agree  to  pose  for  Markham. 
This  Violet  does  and  immediately  Belmont,  a  com- 
panion of  Markham,  looks  upon  ber  as  his  prey. 
Markham  gives  a  dinner  to  his  many  friends  in 
honor  of  Violet  and  there  is  much  carousing.  Vio- 
let's friend  ashamed  for  having  brought  Violet  into 
such  company  and  seeing  that  the  men  are  bent  on 
accomplishing  her  ruin,  tells  Violet's  mother.  Rose 
rushes  to  the  place  and  there  she  recognizes  Mark- 
ham as  her  former  husband  Brown.  He  realizes 
that  it  was  his  own  daughter  whom  he  was  about 
to  inveigle  into  wrong  and  regrets  his  actions,  he 
follows  Rose  and  Violet  home  and  there  on  seeing 
their  sorrowful  plight,  he  realizes  his  sad  mistake 
and  proceeds  to  make  amends  for  the  many  wrongs 
he  had  done. 

WILL  POWER  (June  28).— Chester  is  Pearl's 
sweetheart.  Her  father  dislikes  Chester.  He  reads 
in  a  book  of  the  great  superiority  of  mind  over 
matter,  by  the  proper  exercise  of  the  will  and  de- 
termines to  try  it  on  Chester.  This  he  does  and 
wills  that  Chester  leave  bis  house.  In  the  middle 
of  a  conversation  with  Pearl,  Chester  suddenly 
rushes  from  the  room.  This  state  of  affairs  con- 
tinues on  and  off,  until  Pearl  by  accident  came 
across  the  book  and  understands  her  beau's  strange 
actions.  The  next  time  Chester  calls.  Pa  again 
wills  that  he  go,  but  Pearl  wills  that  he  remain, 
and  Chester  is  kept  running  In  and  out  of  the 
house  until  Pearl's  superior  and  stronger  will  wins 
and  he  remains.  Pa  sinks  exhausted  and  consents 
to    allowing    Chester's    attentions    to    Pearl. 


the  street  like  mad,  to  see  what  ailed  his  darling. 
On  the  way,  he  caused  a  colored  "gemmen"  to 
faint,  when  he  saw  such  a  Dig  chicken,  and  had 
an  altercation  with  a  big  bull  dog,  bnt  he  reached 
home  finally,  somewhat  the  worse  for  wear.  When 
he  rushed  in — there  was  "Snookums"  sleeping  as 
peaceful  as  could  be.  Tbe  maid  had  calmed  him, 
and  he  had  only  been  awake  for  a  very  few  minutes. 


ECLAIR. 

THE  SPIDER  (June  8).— The  plot  of  the  story 
has  to  do  with  two  rivals  for  the  hand  of  a  beau- 
tiful Japanese  girl,  who  shows  her  preference  for 
one.  There  is  a  combat  between  the  two,  and  the 
favored  lover  is  victorious.  The  happy  couple  then 
continue  on  their  little  picnic  In  the  woods,  which 
had  been  interrupted  by  the  rejected  suitor. 

Leaving  their  lunch  at  a  certain  beautiful  rock, 
where  they  had  been  resting,  the  two  happy  lovers 
climb  up  a  small  hillside  to  secure  some  partic- 
ularly beautiful  flowers,  which  caught  the  little 
lady's  fancy.  The  villain,  who  had  been  follow- 
ing, discovered  the  lunch,  and  taking  up  the  cup 
from  which  he  knew  his  rival  would  drink,  he 
killed  a  poisonous  spider  and  crushed  It  into  the 
cup,  pouring  the  poison  then  Into  the  bottle  of  wine. 

The  lovers  return,  and  the  favored  suitor  drinks 
from  the  poisoned  bottle  and  Is  overcome.  The 
villain  comes  In  'to  gloat  over  his  dying  rival, 
and  another  tight  ensues,  but  the  poisoned  man  has 
not  strength  to  withstand  his  enemy.  Seeing  the 
death  of  her  lover,  the  girl  secures  his  dagger  and 
stabs  the  murderer  In  the  back,  and  then  kills  her- 
self. 

HE    COULD    NO    LOSE    IT     (June    8) This    Is 

a  short  comedy  of  the  troubles  of  a  tramp  with  a 
wheelbarrow,  which  did  not  belong  to  him.  He 
was  compelled  to  move  it  through  a  misunderstand- 
ing with  the  village  officers,  who  thought  he  was 
the  owner.  They  refused  to  allow  him  to  leave  it 
anywhere,    mnch    to    his   disgust. 

HE  SLEPT  WELL  (June  15).— And  here  comes 
our  old  friend  "Snookums"  again  and  his  Dada  and 
his  beautiful  "muzzer."  This  time  Dada  has  made 
arrangements  to  go  to  a  fancy  dress  ball,  and  has 
secured  a  wonderful  costume.  He  is  dressed  as 
"Chanticleer."  The  "Precious  One"  thought  the 
costume  very  fine  before  they  started,  but  he  was 
left  alone  with  the  maid,  who  was  given  strict 
instructions  to  'phone  if  she  should  need  them. 

Well,  just  as  they  were  having  a  wonderful  time 
at  the  hall,  one  of  the  servants  called  Dada  to  one 
side,  and  told  him  that  the  maid  has  'phoned  that 
•Snookums"  was  crying.  Without  waiting  for  any 
further  word,   Dada  ran   out  of  the  hall  and  down 


MUTUAL  FILM  CORPORA- 
TION. 

AMERICAN. 

A  HUSBAND'S  MISTAKE  (June  83).-^T«ck 
Worhington  and  his  wife  were  happy  In  their  own 
love  and  the  love  for  their  baby  Helen.  Evelyn 
had  never  told  her  husband  of  her  brother  Dick, 
whose  besetting  sin  was  gambling. 

Going  away  on  a  business  trip,  Worthington  gave 
his  wife  a  handsome  necklace.  That  day  Evelyn's 
brother  Dick,  called,  beseeching  Evelyn's  help  to 
get  work.  Evelyn  got  him  work  with  an  uncle  on 
Dick's  promise  never  again  to  touch  a  card. 

Dick  grew  in  his  employer's  estimation  until  he 
was  entrusted  with  considerable  funds,  one  day, 
to  take  to  the  bank.  He  yielded  to  temptation  and 
lost  all.  That  night,  Worthington  returned  and  a 
great  ball  was  given.  In  desperation  Dick  wrote 
a  note  to  Evelyn  asking  help  and  she  went  to  the 
veranda.  Dick  kissed  her  just  as  Worthington 
stepped  out.  Evelyn  gave  her  necklace  to  pawn. 
After  the  ball,  Worthington  so  upbraided  bis  wife 
that  she  refused  to  explain,  and  taking  her  baby  she 
left. 

Months  passed  and  the  hnsband  grew  desperate. 
One  day  Dick  came  and  returned  the  necklace. 
Worthington,  learning  the  fact,  frantically  set  out 
and  finally  found  his  wandering  wife,  now  ekelng 
out  a  precarious  livelihood  as  a  seamstress.  The 
child  Helen,  proved  the  magnet  that  drew  the 
wife  once  more  to  ber  husband. 

CALAMITY  ANNE  TAKES  A  TRIP  (June  M).— 
"Calamity,"  having  fallen  into  money,  receives  a 
letter  purporting1  to  be  from  two  long  lost  cousins, 
who  were  really  Los  Angeles  confidence  men.  With 
her  burro  she  goes  to  Los  Angeles.  After  many 
adventures,  she  succeeds  in  getting  her  burro  into 
the  Pullman,  and  is  met  at  the  great  amusement 
park,  Venice,  by  the  confidence  men.  Wbat  fol- 
lowed is  a  scream  for  "Calamity"  who  made  all 
the  rides  on  the  chutes,  loop  the  loop,  merry-go- 
round,  etc.,  took  her  dinner  In  the  ship  cafe  and 
almost  got  drunk.  Among  other  things,  "Calam- 
ity" took  in  picture  shows  and  grew  so  enraged 
at  the  villain  that  Bhe  hauled  forth  her  gun  and 
shot  several  bullets  through  the  screen.  It  was  a 
fearful  day  for  tbe  bunco  men  and  when  they  tried 
to  escape,  Calamity  let  them  see  her  gun  and  the 
Jig  was  up.  Finally,  after  a  riotous  day,  "Cal- 
amity" boarded  the  train  for  the  return  journey, 
leaving  two  very  much  disheartened  bunco  men  be- 
hind  her. 

DEAD  MAN'S  SHOES  (June  28),— Tom  and  Mabel 
were  sweethearts,  but  Tom  did  not  seem  to  get  on 
in  a  business  way,  so  Mabel  started  him  for  the 
West.  Tom  blew  in  his  little  stake  before  leaving, 
and  arrived  out  West  broke  and  discouraged.  There 
he  fell  In  with  two  crooks  and  with  them  laid  plans 
to  hold  up  the  pay  wagon  of  the  construction  camp. 

Meanwhile,  a  hobo  got  off  a  freight  and  strolled 
to  the  camp  in  search  of  work.  He  needed  only  a 
chance  to  reform.  He  watched  the  men  place  a 
stick  of  dynamite  and  leave,  and  too  late,  saw  Tom, 
crouched  down  in  the  danger  zone,  gun  in  hand, 
waiting  for  the  pay  wagon.  There  was  a  terrific 
explosion  and  Tom  died.  Hurrying  to  the  scene, 
the  hobo  donned  Tom's  clothes  and  papers,  secured 
work,  took  Tom's  name  and  prospered. 

Worrying  over  the  absence  of  her  Intended,  Mabel 
and  her  father  visited  the  construction  camp.  They 
asked  for  Tom  and  his  namesake,  now  clean  shaven, 
handsome  and  prosperous-looking,  responded.  There 
were  explanations  and  a  visit  to  the  grave.  "With 
him  I  buried  my  failures,"  said  the  other.  In  the 
days  that  followed,  Mabel  found  she  still  wanted 
the  name  of  Tom,   and  eventually  married  him. 

MUTUAL   WEEKLY 

MUTUAL  WEEKLY,  NO.  24  (June  11).— Wash- 
ington,  D.  C. — President  Wilson  singing  hymns  at 
the  memorial  Bervlce  of  the  Spanish  War  Veterans. 

London,  England, — King  George  V  and  the  Queen 
attend  the  Spring  review. 

Zoar.  Ohio. — W.  &  L.  E.  wreck,  In  which  one  man 
was  killed  and  three  Injured. 

TJniontown,     Pa Mr.     Geo.     P.    Tltlow,     British 

Consul,  Mr.  Wilfred  Powell,  Mr.  James  Hadden  and 
Vice-Oonsul  Chllders,  meet  at  Braddock's  grave,  on 
the  old  National  Pike. 

Venice,  Cal. — 14,000  poor  children  from  Los  Ange- 
les, reach  here  for  their  annual  free  outing. 

The  Fashion  in  Paris. 

Frederick,  Md. — The  reinterment  of  Barbara 
Fritchie,  heroine  of  the  Olvll  War. 

Italy, — Distribution  of  medals  to  the  survivors  of 
the  Turkish-Italian  War. 

Long  Beach,  Cal 32  killed,  136  injured  by  col- 
lapse of  grandstand  during  empire  Fete  Day. 

New  York  City. — The  British  Government  ship 
"Success,"  on  board  of  which  more  than  150.000 
people  were  transported  from  Great  Britain  to  Aus- 
tralia  In    the   last   century.    Convicts   coming   back 


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THOUSANDS  of  exhibitors 
will   be   present   at  the 
First  International  Expo- 
sition of  the  Motion  Pic- 
ture Art.     If  you  have  anything 
to  exhibit  now  is  the  time.     This 
is  the  last  call  for  space. 

The  Third  Annual  Conven- 
tion of  the  Motion  Picture  Ex- 
hibitors League  of  America,  held 
in  conjunction  with  above,  will 
be  the  greatest  turnout  of  ex- 
hibitors ever  known.  Europe, 
Canada  and  South  America  will 
be  well  represented  at  the  New 
Grand  Central  Palace,  July  7th 
to  12th. 

New  York  State  Convention,  July  5th 
and  6th,  at  the  Hotel  Imperial. 

For  all  information  address  the  Expo- 
sition Committee,  German  Bank  Building, 
4th  Ave.  and  14th  Street,  New  York  City. 


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from  work.  Harry  Houdlni,  the  Jail-breaker,  bet- 
ting $1,000  he  can  release  himself  from  the  "Suc- 
cess" cell. 

Germany. — Funeral  of  Prince  Henri  XVI  de  Reuss. 

Lookout  Mountain. — Monument  erected  on  the 
spot  where  the  famous  "Battle  over  the  Clouds'' 
was  fought. 

Portland,  Ore. — Young  gardeners  of  Alnsworth 
School  at  work. 

New  York  City. — Laying  of  the  corner  stone  of 
the  new  Flower  Hospital.  Hon.  M.  Drummond, 
Commissioner  of  Dept.  of  Public  Charities. 

Island  of  Malta. — Eucharlstis  Congress. 

San  Francisco,  Cal. — The  annual  May  parade  of 
the  school  children. 

Paris,  France. — King  Alfonso  XIII  received  by  the 
president  of  the  French  republic,  and  reviewing  the 
garrison  at  FontainebJeau. 

MAJESTIC. 

THE  TONGUE  MARK  (June  15).— Surelock 
Homes  Is  called  to  detect  a  burglar.  He  looks  for 
finger  prints  and  discovers  a  "tongue  mark"  made 
by  a  dog,  although  he  does  not  know  this.  He 
rushes  through  the  street,  examining  tongues  with 
various  amusing  results  and  finally  arrests  the  dog. 
Proudly  he  brings  his  captive  before  the  fair  vic- 
tim of  the  burglary,  but  in  the  meantime  the  real 
culprit  has  been  arrested  by  a  policeman  and  the 
valuables  discovered. 

So  Surelock  Homes  gets  nothing  for  all  his  trouble, 
not  even  a  kind  word. 

BEAUTIFUL  BISMARK  (June  17).— The  business 
man  was  thoroughly  disgusted  with  his  son,  for 
the  boy  was  a  failure  at  college  and  did  not  show 
any  signs  of  ever  amounting  to  anything.  The  last 
straw  was  when  be  announced  his  engagement  to  a 
fair  co-ed.  The  father  was  a  kindly  man,  however, 
and  determined  to  give  the  youth  a  last  chance. 
He  presented  him  with  a  row  of  houses  in  a  sub- 
division of  a  Western  city,  telling  him  that  upon 
bis  success  In  disposing  of  the  property  would  de- 
pend whether  or  not  he  was  disinherited. 

It  must  be  admitted  that  the  father  was  hand- 
ing his  son  a  lemon,  for  "Beautiful  Bismark."  as 
the  suburb  was  named,  had  been  a  drug  on  the 
market.  For  a  while  the  son  was  in  despair,  but 
one  day  his  chance  came.  A  caller  refused  to  get 
excited  over  the  cottages,  but  gave  it  as  his  opin- 
ion that  "Beautiful  Bismark"  was  an  excellent  oil 
property. 

A  good  business  man  would  have  recognized  that 
there  was  something  wrong  with  the  enthusiast,  and 
arranged  for  bis  prompt  return  to  the  asylum  from 
which  he  had  escaped.  The  young  college  man, 
however,  took  the  ravings  of  the  other  seriously, 
and  Improved  the  property  with  the  last  of  his 
money. 

That  Is  why  in  Beautiful  Bismark  today  there  are 
rows  of  cottages  with  oil  wells  in  the  front  yards. 
The  young  man  made  good,  much  to  everyone's  sur- 
prise, was  not  disinherited,  and  married  the  woman 
he  loved.  And  the  father  never  knew  that  the 
son  was  simply  lucky  and  went  through  life  be- 
lieving  he   was   a   remarkable  business  man. 

THE  BANKER'S  SONS  (June  20).— One  of  the 
most  prominent  people  In  the  little  city  was  the 
president  of  tbe  bank.  He  was  a  man  of  high 
personal  character  and  the  prosperity  of  the  bank- 
ing institution  was  due  to  a  large  degree  to  bis 
personal   popularity. 

The  banker  was  anxious  that  his  two  sons  should 
both  develop  Into  successful  business  men,  and  In 
order  to  satisfy  himself  as  to  their  capabilities  he 
gave  each  of  them  a  large  sum  of  money.  The 
older  son  promptly  justified  his  father's  faith  by 
Investing  his  money  In  real  estate,  but  his  younger 
brother  purchased  a  high  priced  racing  automobile. 
Tbe  father  was  deeply  disappointed  at  bis  son's 
failure  to  demonstrate  his  business  capacity,  and 
the  elder  brother  became  bis  favorite. 

Bnt  tbe  time  soon  came  wben  the  younger  son's 
racing  car  proved  to  be  a  far  more  valuable  in- 
vestment than  real  estate,  for  it  was  the  means  of 
saving  the  banker's  fortune.  A  false  report  that 
the  bank  was  Insolvent  caused  the  depositors  to 
clamor  for  their  money.  There  was  not  enough 
money  in  the  bank  to  pay  them  all  off,  so  the 
yonnger  son,  getting  Into  his  automobile  with  his 
fiancee,  raced  off  to  a  nearby  city  to  secure  funds  to 
save  the  day.  His  elder  brother,  who  was  very  jeal- 
ous, telephoned  to  tbe  police  and  tried  to  have  him 
stopped  before  he  could  accomplish  his  errand.  Bnt 
the  younger  son  triumphed  over  all  obstacles  and 
returned  to  the  bank  with  the  needed  money.  Tbe 
older  son's  treachery  was  exposed,  and  his  brother 
won  the  girl  he  loved. 


RELIANCE. 

THE  DREAM  HOME  (June  18).— Mrs.  Marshall, 
a  widow  of  some  means,  has  one  child,  a  boy  about 
six  years.  Mrs.  Marshall  Is  one  of  those  women, 
who,  in  keeping  the  house  clean,  overdoes  the  thing 
to  such  an  extent  that  It  Is  a  mania  with  her. 
Little  Joe  cannot  play  with  his  toys  for  fear  he 
will  litter  up  tbe  room.  Some  one  gives  Joe  a 
dog,  bnt  there  Is  no  room  In  the  house  for  It.  Joe 
and  his  puppy  go  into  the  barn  to  comfort  each 
other.  Joe  falls  asleep  and  dreams  of  a  home 
where  little  boys  are  allowed  to  have  pets  and  play 
with  toys  to  their  hearts'  content.  All  children 
are  having  a  great  time  and  he  soon  awakens  to 
find  that  it  was  only  a  dream.  He  writes  a  note 
to   bis   mother   and   tells  her    that   he   Is   going    to 


find  his  "dream  borne."  He  finds  his  "dream  home" 
In  the  shape  of  a  little  cottage  near  bis  home.  Tbe 
children  invite  him  in  to  play  and  their  mother 
shows  great  tenderness  to  the  little  chap  who  feels 
at  home  at  once.  The  father  of  the  family  comes 
home  and  finds  Joe  having  a  good  time.  Joe  re- 
fuses to  disclose  himself,  but  tells  them  this  is 
to  be  bis  home  and  they  his  parents.  Mrs.  Mar- 
shall In  the  meantime  finds  her  son's  note  and  be- 
comes alarmed.  The  father  of  the  children  'phones 
to  the  police  station  that  a  stray  boy  is  at  his 
home.  Soon  after  the  message  is  received,  Mrs. 
Marshall  enters  and  the  police  tell  her  that  she 
may  be  able  to  find  ber  son  at  the  address  they 
have  given  her.  Mrs.  Marshall  son  arrives  at  Joe's 
home,  but  be  refuses  to  have  anything  to  do  with 
bis  mother.  Finally  after  some  persuasion  Joe 
Is  won  over  and  says  he  will  go  home,  but  only  on 
the  condition  that  he  be  allowed  to  play  as  the 
other  children.  This  is  agreed  to.  Mrs.  Marshall 
realizes  that  she  has  been  thoughtless  about  the 
pleasures  of  the  little  fellow,  but  from  now  on 
she  will  act  differently.  Joe  tells  his  mother  that 
his  home  Is  now  a  "dream  home"  and  he  will  never 
want   to   leave   it   any   more. 

WALLLNGFORD'S  "WALLET  (3  parts— June  21).— 
Mr.  Wallingford,  a  millionaire,  drops  his  wallet  in 
the  park.  It  Is  picked  up  by  Nifty,  a  crook.  Wall- 
ingford turns  In  time  to  see  tbe  crook  picking  it 
up  and  with  a  policeman,  chases  Nifty,  who,  to 
throw  off  suspicion,  casts  the  wallet  into  tbe  grass 
and  smokes  a  cigarette  as  the  policeman  comes  up. 
He  Is  searched  and  then  ordered  away.  A  little 
girl,  Rosa,  penniless  and  hungry  finds  the  wallet. 
As  she  is  looking  through  it,  Breezy,  a  crook,  who 
had  that  day  decided  to  turn  honest,  grabs  it  from 
her.  That  night,  at  their  meeting  place,  Breezy  an- 
nounces to  the  crooks  that  he  is  going  West  to  be 
an  honest  man  and  displays  the  wallet.  Nifty 
coming  in  sees  it  and  claims  it  as  his  own.  Breezy 
laughs  and  goes  out  taking  the  wallet  with  him. 
Nifty  writes  a  note  to  the  police  giving  them 
Breezy's  address.  Breezy  returns  borne,  shows  bis 
wife  tbe  wallet  and  they  start  to  pack.  Before 
long  tbe  officers  are  at  the  door.  In  desperation, 
Nell  flings  the  wallet  in  a  covered  dish  of  chicken 
that  reposes  upon  the  fire  escape.  Tbe  dish  is 
watched  by  the  little  girl  upstairs,  Rosa's  sister, 
who  has  bad  nothing  to  eat  all  day.  Seeing  the 
shutters  closed,  she  grabs  the  dish  and  climbs  up 
again  into  her  room.  The  police  search  Breezy's 
place  and  finally  open  the  shutter  to  look  on  tbe 
fire  escape.  To  Nell's  joy  tbe  dish  is  gone.  The 
police  leave  satisfied  and  the  pair  lose  no  time  in 
getting  out  of  the  town. 

Rosa  returns  disheartened  to  find  Anna  devouring 
cold  chicken  and  the  wallet  on  the  floor  beside  her. 
Rosa  asks  where  she  got  it  and  the  child  tells  her. 
Rosa,  taking  tbe  wallet,  goes  downstairs  to  return 
It  and  finds  the  apartment  empty.  Wallingford 
who  haa  received  word  from  the  police,  meets 
the  two  girls  with  his  wallet  In  the  hall.  A  few 
questions  convinces  him  of  their  poverty  and  he 
makes  arrangements  to  send  them  to  tbe  country 
where  they  have  plenty  to  eat  and  decent  clothes 
to  wear. 


THANHOUSER. 

THE  HEAD  OF  THE  RIBBON  COUNTER  (June 
15). — The  head  of  the  ribbon  counter  was  the  most 
popular  clerk  in  tbe  store.  Customers  liked  blm, 
employes  admired  him  and  even  *  'the  boss' '  re- 
garded him  highly.  Rival  merchants  vainly  tried 
to  win  him  away,  but  he  refused  all  their  offers, 
being  thoroughly  happy  where  he  was.  There  came 
a  day,  however,  when  he  found  the  need  of  friend- 
ship. Much  against  his  will  he  became  Involved  in 
an  argument  with  one  of  the  store's  best  cus- 
tomers, a  peevish,  wealthy  -woman.  She  finally  in- 
dignantly descended  upon  the  proprietor  of  the 
store,  telling  him  that  unless  the  clerk  was  dis- 
charged she  would  withdraw  ber  custom. 

What  could  the  poor  proprietor  do?  He  tried  to 
make  everybody  happy  by  publicly  discharging  the 
clerk  and  privately  re-engaging  him.  To  dodge  the 
customer's  wrath ,  however,  be  supplied  the  clerk 
with  a  disguise  enjoining  him  to  wear  it  whenever 
danger  approached. 

A  new  crisis  came  along  soon  when  tbe  disguised 
clerk  ran  afoul  of  tbe  same  disagreeable  woman. 
She  did  not  recognize  blm,  but  wanted  him  dis- 
charged just  tbe  same.  Fortunately  for  blm  an- 
other  patron  took  bis  part  and  the  helpless  pro- 
prietor had  a  worse  problem  to  tackle  than  any 
that  ever  came  before  King  Solomon.  If  he  dis- 
charged tbe  clerk,  he  would  lose  the  patronage  of 
one  of  his  best  customers.  If  he  retained  him  he 
would  lose  the  patronage  of  another  equally  good 
customer. 

He  couldn't  afford  to  do  either,  but  he  so  managed 
things  that  be  did  not  lose  any  trade.  It  took 
some  skillful  work  to  accomplish  this,  but  tbe  pro- 
prietor was  resourceful  and  his  novel  plan  was 
ably  seconded  by  the  versatile  head  of  tbe  ribbon 
counter. 

THE  SNARE  OF  FATE  (2  parts— June  17).— 
When  her  widowed  mother  became  afflicted  with 
a  severe  illness,  the  young  stenographer's  scanty 
savings  were  quickly  eaten  up  by  medicine  and 
doctor  bills.  She  then  borrowed  money  from  a 
loan  shark,  and  the  interest  on  this  loan  became 
a  heavy  drain  on  her  small  salary.  Additional 
funds  were  needed,  but  the  creditor  refused  to 
advance  any  more  except  that  she  become  his  wife. 


She  repulsed  him,  but  later,  to  save  her  mother, 
she   consented. 

Her  husband  was  a  brute;  bis  only  thought  being 
for  gold.  One  day  the  wife  met  a  poor  woman  in 
the  park  weeping  bitterly.  She  learned  that  the 
woman  was  about  to  lose  all  ber  belongings  to  pay 
the  extortionate  claims  of  a  loan  shark,  who  was 
her  husband.  Tbe  wife  took  the  woman  to  her 
husband's  office,  but  she  only  met  with  his  usual 
harshness  and  he  told  the  woman  to  either  pay  or 
take  the  consequences.  Tbe  next  day  tbe  wife 
left  her  husband,  taking  ber  little  boy  with  her. 
The  husband  was  glad  of  this  because  It  would 
save    him    money. 

The  loan  shark  owned  property,  and  when  the 
agent  came  and  told  him  that  he  could  not  collect 
a  tenant's  rent,  he  ordered  the  family  put  out. 
Later,  while  walking  near  his  tenement  houses, 
be  was  stricken  with  paralysis,  and  fell  dumb 
and  helpless  in  tbe  doorway.  The  tenant  whom 
he  had  ordered  out,  but  who  did  not  know  the 
landlord,  took  him  Into  his  squalid  home  and  min- 
istered to  him.  The  landlord,  unable  to  speak, 
could  not  make  bis  identity  known  and  the  next 
morning  as  the  tenant's  belongings  were  being 
removed,  the  landlord  was  placed  upon  a  mattress 
and  carried  into  the  street,  where  lie  lay  until  he 
was  taken  to  the  hospital.  His  destitute  benefac- 
tors soou  found  friends  in  a  seamstress  and  her 
little  boy,  who  took  them  into  their  borne,  and 
wben  told  of  the  poor  stranger,  the  seamstress 
went  to  the  hospital  to  see  If  she  could  aid  him. 
She  was  surprised  to  learn  that  the  stricken  per- 
son was  ber  heartless  husband.  After  he  died  the 
money  reverted  to  hjs  wife,  who  was  good  to 
her    tenants    as    her    husband    was    merciless. 


PILOT. 

A  CHILD  OF  THE  HILLS  (June  J9).— Barton 
Grey,  a  young  composer,  is  ill  from  overwork 
and  worry  through  the  failure  of  his  efforts  to 
meet  with  the  approval  of  the  publishers.  His 
physician  orders  him  away  for  rest  cure,  and  he 
goes  to  the  Blue  Ridge  Mountains.  There  his  re- 
cuperation Is  fast  and  he  decides  to  work  on  bis 
"Song  of  the  Soul."  Barton  takes  his  violin  and 
goes  to  tbe  mountain  top,  where  in  tbe  solitude 
he  endeavors  to  woo  the  muse.  Attracted  by  a 
voice  plaintively  singing,  be  seeks  its  source  and 
comes  npon  Pam,  a  wild  rose  of  the  hills.  Their 
friendship  ripens  into  love,  and  she  becomes  the 
Inspiration  for  his  work.  They  are  married  at  the 
little  mountain  church  and  Barton  takes  her  back 
with   him   to   the   city. 


KAY-BEE. 

THE  SEAL  OF  SILENCE  (2  parts— June  27).— 
A  railroad  plant  1b  set  afire  by  striking  workmen. 
and  the  firemen  are  prevented  from  extinguishing 
tbe  flames  by  tbe  infuriated  strikers.  Tbe  troops 
are  called  out  and  martial  law  prevails.  John 
Owens,  who  was  counseling  the  men  to  take  peace- 
ful methods,  is  charged  with  inciting  tbe  riot  and 
is  given  a  ten-year  sentence.  Mrs.  Owens  lives 
In  poverty  and  her  two  children,  Cyril  and  Mildred, 
go  into  the  railroad  yards,  where  they  gather 
coal.  Seeing  the  watchman  coming,  Cyril  jumps 
into  a  freight  car,  while  Mildred  manages  to  es- 
cape to  her  home.  The  mother  reports  the  loss 
of  her  child  to  the  police,  and  the  newspapers  give 
much  space  to  the  case  The  car  in  which  Cyril 
is  hiding  is  bound  for  the  West  and  nobody  notices 
the  little  fellow  Inside  when  the  door  is  locked 
and  sealed.  The  car,  being  laden  with  groceries, 
the  little  fellow  does  not  starve,  and  when  it 
reaches  its  destination  two  tramps  break  open  tbe 
seal  an,d  Cyril  jumps  out  and  runs  away.  He  is 
found  by  an  Indian  chief,  who  keeps  bim. 

At  the  expiration  of  Owen's  term  he  and  his 
wife  go  West.  Their  wagon  train  Is  overtaken  by  . 
Indians  and  in  the  skirmish  Cyril  recognizes  his 
mother.  He  saves  his  parents  and  Bister  from  tbe 
Indians  and  leads  them  to  a  hiding-place.  Cyril 
Is  wounded  and  is  brought  back  to  health  at  the 
post  by  his  Indian  sweetheart,  Wampa.  His  pa- 
rents plead  with  him  to  leave  the  Indians  and  his 
sweetheart  and  after  battling  with  conflicting 
emotions  his  white  nature  asserts  itself  and  he 
yields    to    his    mother's    entreaties. 


MUTUAL    EDUCATIONAL. 

WILLY  WANTS  TO  RIDE  A  HORSE  (June  19). 
— Willy  is  a  persistent  little  rascal.  While  visit- 
ing a  store  with  his  nurse,  the  youngster  saw 
a  fine  wooden  bobby  horse.  He  wanted  It  whether 
or  not  the  price  was  too  -  much  and  the  nurse 
insisted  that  be  come  along  home  and  not  think 
of  it. 

But  Willy  did  think  of  that  "hobby"  and  when 
he  found  a  fine  lot  of  clothes,  beautiful  wraps 
and  hats,  In  bis  home,  left  in  a  room  by  tbe 
guests  at  a  reception  bis  mother  was  giving,  Willy 
hurried  away  to  the  pawnbroker  with  the  entire 
lot.  He  replaced  the  fine  things  with  some  old 
ones  secured  from  the  pawnbroker  and  then  started 
to  buy  bis  "hobby"  with  the  money  he  had  se- 
cured. But  justice  was  moving  swiftly  and  be- 
fore tbe  little  mischief  maker  reached  the  store 
be  was  captured  and  his  father  administered  one 
of  those  good  old-fashioned  "spankings,"  which  are 
said    to   be   the   best   of   medicine. 

THROUGH  GREECE  (June  19). — Situated  at  tbe 
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miles.  It  has  a  population  of  2,500,000.  Greece 
la  bordered  by  the  Mediterranean  Sea  and  the 
Agean  Sea,  aud  this  far-famed  land  iucludes  tbe 
Ionian  Islands,  tbe  archipelagos  if  Cyclades  and 
Sporades  and  tbe  peninsula  of  Peloponesus. 

FTOOnCTJS  THUS  BIS  LUCK  AX  LOVE  (June 
26). — Funnieus  was  left  by  his  parvnts  with  his 
Tutor,  who  was  not  only  a  scholar,  bat  also  what 
is  generally  known  as  a  "jolly  god  fellow." 
When  the  young  man  discovered  that  his  tutor 
had  the  photograph  of  a  beautiful  youjg  woman 
and  had  just  received  a  note  from  ber,  asking  for 
an  appolntement  that  evening,  be  Insisted  that  be 
be  taken  along.  Tbe  tutor  agreed,  but  not  with 
much    enthusiasm. 

It  was  a  case  of  love  at  first  sight  when  Funni- 
eus saw  bis  tutor's  friend  and  he  could  hardly 
keep  bis  eyes  from  her,  although  he  was  quite 
busy  at  the  same  time  with  tbe  sumptuous  meal 
purchased   by  bis  host,   the  tutor. 

When  the  teacher  strolled  away  for  a  little  walk 
and  Miss  Irma  retired  to  her  room  to  prepare 
her  luggage,  our  friend  decided  to  have  a  smoke. 
Itut  the  cigar  he  chose  was  a  little  too  strong 
and  tbe  result  was  that  be  became  deathly  sick. 
Miss  Irma  discovered  this  and  dragged  the  young 
man  to  her  room  so  that  his  tutor  would  not  see 
him  in  such  a  condition.  But  the  tutor  returned 
at  just  that  moment  and  so  the  young  man  took 
refuge    In    a    trunk    which    was    being    packed. 

The  express  man  removed  the  trunks  and  Funni- 
eus bad  a  nice  little  trip  inside  one  of  them  until 
he  frightened  two  guards  half  to  death  by  raising 
the  lid  while  they  were  seated  on  it  playing  cards. 
He  then  escaped  and  continued  tbe  journey  with 
Irma. 

THROUGH  THE  LAND  OF  SUGAR  CANE  (June 
26). — In  this  subject  the  cameraman  takes  us 
through  the  awaiian  Island  sugar  plantations  and 
gives  us  many  very  Interesting  studies  of  tbe 
natives  of  that  far  away  possession  of  Uncle  Sam. 


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GAUM  O  NT. 

GATTMONT'S  WEEKLY,  NO.  65  (Jane  4).— Palm 
Day  in  the  Kremlin. — Thousands  of  Russians  cele- 
brate religious  feast  day  In   Moscow. 

World's  Largest  Fire  Boat. — Swift  craft  in  use  in 
Portland.   Oregon,   gives  stirring  exhibition. 

Grecian  Beauties. — Some  late  types  of  female 
loveliness   found   near  Athens. 

Flowers  for  the  Dead. — Sailors  strew  roses  in  tbe 
Pacific  at  Venice,  California. 

Jean  of  Arc. — The  anniversary  of  the  maid  of 
Orleans  is  celebrated  In  the  French  town  bearing 
her  name. 

Auto  Polo. — Latest  thriller  making  a  big  hit  on 
both  sides  of  the  Atlantic. 

A  Bad  Marksman, — A  motion  picture  cartoon  of  a 
>mall  boy  attempting  to  capture  a  butterfly. 

Columbia  Commencement.— Students  of  New  York 
city's  great  university  celebrate  the  closing  of  their 
school  year. 

An  Army  of  10,000  Boys. — Demonstration  of 
physical  training  and  applied  athletics  is  given  in 
Central  Park,  New  York. 

Alphonso  in  Paris. — Spanish  king  is  a  royal  guest 
of  the  French  republic. 

THE  HONOB  OF  LUCRECE  (June  10). — Colla- 
tinus,  a  Roman  nobleman,  leaves  his  wife,  Lucrece, 
to  Join  his  Emperor,  Tarquin  tbe  Superb,  at  the 
siege  of  Ardea.  During  a  lull  in  the  siege.  Septus, 
son  of  Tarquin,  suggests  to  several  companions  that 
they  should  ride  to  Rome  and  surprise  their  wives. 
They  And  their  wives  in  the  midst  of  revelry. 
wining  and  dining  and  disporting  themselves  most 
hilariously.  They  are  evidently  not  thinking  of 
the  perils  of  their  honorable  husbands  at  the 
scenes  of  war.  Lucrece  of  all  the  wives  is  absent. 
They  find  her  amongst  her  maids,  busy  at  her 
spinning-wheel.  Her  calm  and  serene  beauty  deeply 
impresses  Sextus.  Her  Image  so  preys  upon  his 
mind,  that,  after  the  men  have  returned  to  their 
camp,  Sextus  rides  back  to  the  house  of  Lucrece. 
He  pretends  to  bring  news  of  her  husband.  It  is 
necessary  that  Lncrece  show  hospitality  to  her 
royal  guest.  He  wlnea  more  than  be  dines  and  be- 
comes riotous  and  Insulting  in  his  familiarities. 
whereupon,  Lucrece  leaves  him  and  goes  to  her 
honorable   couch. 

In  the  night  Sextus  arises  from  his  bed.  His 
mind  lnfiamed  with  wine,  he  steals  to  the  door 
of  Lucrece's  room.  Before  daybreak  Sextus  flees 
from  the  house.  Later  In  the  morning,  Lucrece. 
having  sent  to  ber  father's  house  for  Brutus,  one 
of  her  husband's  kinsmen,  tells  him  of  the  vUit 
of  Sextus.  With  life  then  no  longer  holding  sweet- 
ness for  her,  her  honor  taken  from  ber,  she  takes 
her  dagger  and  plunges  it  into  her  ravished  bre 
Snatching  the  dagger  from  the  wound,  which  still 
flowed  red  from  the  cold  bosom  of  the  dead  and 
outraged  wife,  Brutus  calls  upon  the  crowd  to 
follow  him.  They  raise  a  revolt  to  restore  the 
republic    and    do    away    with    tbe    monarchy. 

MEN     WERE    DECEIVERS     EVER     (Juno    12) 

Gaydogg,  though  an  incorrigibile  flirt,  adores  his 
wife.  She,  nor  anyone  else  would  have  suspected 
it,  however.  On  an  afternoon  at  the  river  side, 
as    she    gazes    over    the    tranquil    waters,    she    sees 


in  a  rowboat  her  husband,  with  a  blossoming  blonde. 
They  are  doing  more  kissing  than  rowing.  Mad 
with  Jealousy,  the  wife  leaves  the  house.  She 
leaves  a  note  for  ber  husband,  accusing  him  of  his 
deception  and  saying  that  he  will  never  again  see 
her.  Although  she  doesn't  know  where  she  is 
going,  she  is  on  her  way. 

Her  husband  learns  that  bis  wife  has  flown. 
The  note  explains  the  reason.  He  follows.  Her 
automobile  breaks  down  on  a  road  by  tbe  seaside 
and  she  is  forced  to  take  refuge  for  the  night  In 
a  fisherman's  cottage.  Here  her  husband  comes. 
He  tries  vainly  to  conciliate  her.  A  storm  comes 
on  and  Gaydogg  and  bis  wife  are  Invited  to  spend 
the  night  there.  To  this  they  agree,  bnt  Insist 
upon  having  a  separation  between  their  sleeping 
quarters.  A  screen  is  utilized  for  this  purpose. 
Gaydogg  stretches  himself  out  in  a  Morris  chair. 
His  wife,  becoming  lonely  in  the  night,  realizes 
that  husbands  are  bandy  things  to  have  around 
the   house.     She   comes   out   and    forgives   him. 


RAMO. 

THE  CALL  OF  THE  ROAD  (June  18).— One  day 
when  Old  Bill  was  away  drinking  at  the  village 
saloon,  an  official  from  the  Children's  Aid  Society 
entered  Bill's  wretched  home  with  an  order  from 
the  Court  to  take  his  two  motherless  children  to  the 
poor-house.  The  kiddles  escaped  from  the  official 
and  wandered  away. 

Towards  night,  when  they  had  traveled  far,  they 
grew  tired  and  hungry  and  cried.  Three  knights  of 
the  road  heard  their  sobs  and  brought  tbem  back  to 
their  camp.  They  set  out  to  look  for  a  place  for 
them  to  sleep.  They  discovered  an  old  barn,  where 
they  placed  the  tired  children.  In  the  morning 
Farmer  Brown  and  his  wife  discovered  the  children 
and  adopted  them.  A  few  months  later  Farmer 
Brown  moved,  and  Old  Bill,  unable  to  find  bis  chil- 
dren, joined  the  tramps.  One  nigbt,  unknowingly, 
they  entered  Farmer  Brown's  new  home.  Pauline 
heard  tbem  and  dropped  from  the  bedroom  window 
to  the  ground  right  into  the  arms  of  one  tramp. 
She  recognized  him  and  appealed  to  him  for  help. 
He  called  the  others  oft.  Old  Bill  escaped  before 
the  children  saw  him  and  finding  them  happy, 
barkened  to  the  call  of  the  road  and  passed  out  of 
their  lives  forever. 

THE  HELPING  HAND  (June  11).— Jack  Burns, 
an  ex-convlct,  finds  it  difilcult  to  secure  work  and 
seeks  aid  from  a  wealthy  minister,  who  believes 
Jack's  story  and  engages  him  as  a  chauffeur. 
Bert,  the  minister's  son,  becomes  infatuated  with 
a  designing  woman,  who,  with  several  notorious 
gamblers,  inveigles  him  Into  gambling.  He  loses 
in  a  card  game  and  is  forced  to  give  an  "I.  O.  r," 
for  $800.  Jack  Burns  sees  his  benefactor's  son 
with  one  of  the  gamblers,  whom  he  recognizes, 
and  warns  Bert;  but  Bert  resents  his  interference. 
Not  having  money  to  pay  his  gambling  debt,  Bert  is 
cast  aside  by  the  woman  and  threatened  by  the 
gamblers. 

In  order  to  pay  tbe  $800,  Bert  attempts  to 
take  the  church  donations  left  in  his  father's  care. 
He  Is  surprised  in  his  act  by  the  ex-convlct.  who 
forces  the  money  from  him.  The  minister  dis- 
covers the  loss  of  the  money  before  Jack  is  able 
to  return  it.  Jack  is  accused  of  the  theft  and 
Is  dismissed.  The  minister  later  learns  that  his 
son  is  the  real  culprit  and  through  the  ex-convict's 
persuasion,    he   forgives   him. 

THE  WORTH  OF  MAN   (June  26) Jack  Moore, 

through  a  misunderstanding,  believes  his  rival. 
Bob  Clarke,  is  going  to  marry  Mary  Blair.  Both 
men  being  employed  In  the  same  office,  they  are 
on  friendly  terms.  Jack  discovers  a  shortage  in 
Bob's  accounts  and  he  loans  him  enough  money 
to   cover   it. 

Realizing  that  Jack  la  protecting  him  for  Mary's 
sake.  Bob  allows  him  to  believe  that  he  Is  going 
to  marry  her.  Jack  leaves  for  the  West  after 
writing  Mary  a  letter,  stating  that  he  could 
not  remain  and  see  her  marry  another.  Mary, 
who  loves  Jack,  is  heartbroken  when  she  learns 
of  his  departure.  She  waits  anxiously  for  bis  re- 
turn, but  in  vain.  She  is  easily  persuaded  by  her 
father  to  marry  Richard  Barker,  a  rich  broker, 
who  turns  out  to  be  a  reprobate  and  brutal  husband. 
In  the  meantime,  Bob  has  been  following  tbe 
wrong  road  and  becomes  associated  with  evil  com- 
panions. 

Jack  returns  east  after  be  has  struck  it  rich. 
He  meets  Mary  and  learns  of  the  fatal  mistake 
that  separated  them.  Realizing  that  ber  married 
life  has  been  unhappy,  Jack  sympathizes  with  her. 
Barker  misconstrues  Jack's  attitude  toward  his 
wife.  He  makes  a  base  insinuation,  which  Jack 
and  Mary  resent.  This  brings  on  a  heated  argu- 
ment. Mary's  husband,  being  maddened  with  rage 
and  drink,  draws  a  revolver.  Jack  defends  himself 
in  tbe  struggle,  the  revolver  is  accidentally  dis- 
charged and  Barker  is  killed. 

Bob  has  fallen  from  bad  to  worse.  Being  sur- 
prised  by  officers  while  burglarizing  a  house,  he 
is  pursued  and  is  forced  to  enter  the  Barker  home 
to  escape  the  police.  He  overhears  the  quarrel 
and  sees  the  shooting.  Coming  on  the  scene,  he 
tells  Mary  and  Jack  that  appearances  are  against 
tbem,,  and  In  order  to  protect  tbem,  be  will  throw 
suspicion  on  himself.  He  leaves  the  bouse  in 
view  of  the  officers,  who,  having  beard  the  shot, 
are  coming  toward  the  honse.  Bob  Is  captured 
and  the  officer  draws  the  conclusion  that  Barker 
was  shot  by  the  burglar,  thus  exonerating  Jack 
and    Mary    from   all    suspicion. 


SOLAX. 

THE  DYNAMITES  DOG  (June  2s).—  Mrs.  Haw- 
kln  s  husband  is  much  worried  by  their  neighbor's, 
dog.  Grip,  and  his  wife  decides  to  put  an  end 
to  bis  worry  and  at  the  same  time  an  end  to  the 
dog.  She  buys  a  stick  of  dynamite  and  ties  It 
to  the  dog's  neck,  hoping  In  this  way  to  sen* 
Grip  to  Heaven.  Grip,  however,  suddenly  be- 
comes very  much  attached  to  Mrs.  Hawkins  and 
when  she  goes  to  leave  him,  he  cannot  bear  tbe 
separation  and  Is  quite  annoying  to  Mrs.  Hawkins, 
who,  in  her  efforts  to  place  a  reasonable  amount 
of    space    between    herself    and    Grip    and    also    the 

dynamite,  goes  through  many  exciting  adventures 

she  almost  drowns  swimming  across  a  river  and 
only  arrives  safely  on  the  other  side  by  tbe  help 
of  Grip  himself,  minus  the  dynamite  which  he 
has  lost   in   the  chase. 

THE  MERRY  WIDOW  (June  25).— A  young  and 
charming  widow  is  courted  by  two  young  men, 
neither  of  whom  can  she  decide  sbe  loves  best. 
She  is,  however,  a  great  lover  of  athletlca  and 
decides  to  take  the  strongest  and  the  most  strenu- 
ous and  devises  a  test  of  their  forces.  Sbe  Invites 
tbem  both  to  accompany  her  to  a  friend's  honse 
in  the  country  and  both  accept  with  alacrity.  Be- 
fore the  journey  sbe  fills  ber  grip  with  all  the 
old  iron,  keys,  door  knobs,  hammers,  and  such  like 
tools  that  she  can  find,  and  when  ready  with  her 
two  friends  to  leave  goes  to  take  her  grip,  but 
both  young  men  Immediately  rush  forward  and 
fight  for  the  honor.  The  one  who  succeeds,  however, 
finds  that  he  has  more  honor  than  Joy  In  the  un- 
dertaking, but  they  are  compelled  both  to  take 
turns  so  that  neither  has  cause  for  jealousy.  Ar- 
rived at  the  railroad  station,  the  bottom  falls  out 
of  the  grip  and  its  contents  fall  on  the  ground 
before  two  policemen  on  tbe  lookout  for  a  gang 
of  burglars.  They  think  surely  they  have  cap- 
tured the  bunch  and  arrest  them.  The  sergeant 
takes  up  the  grip  and  placing  it  on  his  shoulders, 
lightly  carries  It  off,  showing  that  he  Is  a  "strong 
man."  The  young  widow  Immediately  feels  great 
sympathy  for  the  sergeant,  and  on  the  road  to 
the  station,  the  sergeant  and  tbe  widow  become 
great  friends.  Arrived  at  the  station,  the  cap- 
tain Is  also  found  to  be  very  athletic,  and  handles 
the  grip  even  more  lightly  than  the  sergeant,  suc- 
ceeding thereby  in  winning,  to  the  discomfiture  of 
the    three    other    admirers. 

THE    MESSAGE    TO    HEAVEN     (June    27) Mr. 

Kiug  treats  his  wife  and  baby  very  poorly,  bnt 
Mrs.  King  makes  the  best  of  things  until  the  hand- 
some Mr.  Johnson  arrives  and  falls  In  love  with 
ber.  She  then  finds  that  she  cannot  resist  the 
temptation  of  all  the  fine  things  be  offers  ber, 
and  she  goes  away  with  him.  This  act  makes  Mr. 
King  realize  what  he  has  done  and  be  reforms. 
He  cannot,  however,  overcome  his  hard  feelings 
toward   his   wife. 

As  bis  child  grows  older,  she  constantly  asks 
for  her  mother  and  the  father  always  tells  her 
that  she  is  in  Heaven.  One  day  a  neighbor  dies 
and  little  Emily  puts  a  note  in  the  dead  person's 
hand,  asking  God  to  please  send  her  mother  back. 
On  her  way  home  she  is  run  over  by  an  automobile 
and  is  taken  to  the  hospital.  It  so  happens  that 
her  mother  was  in  the  automobile  that  ran  over 
Emily  and  in  this  way  a  reconciliation  is  brought 
about  between  tbe  mother  and  father.  But  little 
Emily  insists  that  God  answered  ber  note  and 
sent   her   mother  back   borne. 


LUX. 


CAST  THY  BREAD  UPON  THE  WATERS  (June 
20).— Jean  Pierre  is  a  woodman  who  lives  witb 
his  mother  in  a  forest  far  away  from  the  beaten 
tracks  of  mankind.  He  not  unnaturally  fails  to 
see  tbe  sacrednes  of  rabbits  and  other  small  game, 
and,  in  spite  of  the  advice  of  his  mother,  occasion- 
ally poaches.  In  escaping  from  some  gamekeepers, 
he  is  severely  wounded,  and.  unable  to  follow  his 
calling,    is   threatened   with   object   penury. 

A  shert  time  before,  in  his  absence  from  borne, 
a  tramp  has  broken  in  and  threatened  his  motber. 
The  women's  pity,  however,  softened  the  tramp's 
heart,  and,  after  having  been  provided  with  a  meal 
by  the  kindly  woman,  he  left  with  a  heart  full 
of  gratitude.  Now  that  tbe  woodman  is  ill,  the 
tramp  repays  the  debt  by  carrying  out  the  Injured 
man's  task,  and  by  thus,  saving  from  destitution 
the  woman  who  had  befriended  him,  shows  he 
still  possesses  a  tender  spot  in  his  heart. 


GREAT  NORTHERN. 

THE  SUFFRAGETTES  (May  31).— Miss  Hamp- 
ton Is  the  president  and  guiding  spirit  of  a  society 
of  women,  which  has  for  Its  object,  aside  from 
the  right  to  vote,  the  dennnciatlon  of  men  and 
other  luxuries.  Miss  Hampton  is  of  the  sort  that 
affects  mannish  attire  and  carries  her  crnsade 
into  the  homes  of  many  a  timid  man.  At  a 
meeting  of  the  society  it  is  announced  unexpectedly 
that  Miss  Nancy  Lander,  one  of  tbe  prominent 
members,  has  become  engaged  to  William  Haw- 
tree,  a  prominent  young  architect.  Consternation 
prevails  for  a  time,  but  Miss  Hampton  assures 
her  fellow  members  that  she  will  cause  Nancy  to 
see  the  error  of  her  ways.  The  marriage  takes 
place  In  due  time,  however,  and  the  bride  and 
groom  are  enjoying  their  full  measure  of  hap- 
piness until  Miss  Hampton  appears  upon  the  seen* 
during  the  absence  of  the  husband. 


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She  literally  takes  possession  of  the  newly  fur- 
nished home  of  the  Hawtrees,  and  proceeds  to 
make  decided  changes  in  the  Interior.  The  fur- 
nishings are  not  to  her  liking,  and  for  the  most 
part,  they  are  classed  as  •luxuries."  Dainty 
portieres  are  pulled  from  their  fastenings,  richly 
upholstered  chairs  are  carried  Into  the  basement, 
and  Persian  rugs  are  bundled  away  in  dark  cor- 
ners. In  their  place  Miss  Hampton  causes  ordinary 
cane-bottom  chairs  to  be  placed  In  position  and 
matting  Is  placed  upon  the  Boors  Instead  of  rugs. 
The  interior  of  the  house  is  transformed  into  a 
most  cheerless  and  uninviting  place  of  abode,  but 
Mrs.  Hawtree  lacks  the  courage  to  interfere  with 
the  president  of  the  society. 

When  Hawtree  returns  from  his  office,  he  is 
dumbfounded  to  note  the  change  that  has  taken 
place  In  his  home,  and  he  is  by  no  means  pleased. 
But  Instead  of  raving  and  making  a  fuss  over  the 
•ltuation,  he  hits  upon  a  plan  to  bring  his  wife 
around  to  his  way  of  thinking.  A  few  days  Jater 
he  sends  foi  Miss  Hampton  and  in  his  office,  shows 
her  a  plan  for  a  home  to  be  built  according  to  the 
regulations  of  the  society.  She  is  delighted,  and 
while  In  this  mood  Hawtree  makes  love  to  her, 
after  smearing  one  side  of  his  face  with  drawing 
Ink.  He  embraces  her  and  gets  the  imprint  of 
the  smudge.  Mrs.  Hawtree  arrives  at  this  moment 
and  is  horrtned  at  the  sight  she  beholds.  When 
Hawtree  reaches  home  that  night,  he  divulges  the 
plot  to  bis  wife,  and  when  Miss  Hampton  calls, 
the  love-making  is  resumed,  only  to  be  interrupted 
by  the  appearance  of  the  young  wife.  The  agitator 
ta  ordered  out  and  the  original  furnishings  of  the 
home   are   restored   to    the    former   places. 

AS  UNWELCOME  WEDDING  GIFT  (June  14)  — 
Mr.  Stribolt  is  a  stout  old  party  who  has  accumu- 
lated a  fortune  in  the  motion  picture  business  and 
likewise  he  is  the  proud  father  of  a  beautiful 
daughter,  for  whom  he  baa  great  hopes  in  the 
matrimonial  market.  Again,  the  young  woman 
in  question,  Is  in  love  with  Jack  Wormold,  a 
young  actor  who  has  made  a  distinct  hit  as  a  film 
actor  and  who  returns  the  affection  of  Stribolt's 
daughter.  All  goes  well  until  Count  von  Swindle- 
atone  appears  upon  the  scene,  and,  learning  that 
8txibolt  has  accumulated  a  fortune,  decides  to  win 
the  hand  of  the  daughter.  The  Count  is  impe- 
cunious, like  many  other  of  his  fellow  noblemen, 
but  he  puts  up  a  bold  front  and  proposes  for  the 
hand  of  Agathe.  The  latter  detests  him,  but  the 
will  of  her  father  prevails  and  she  unwillingly 
consents  to  become  the  wife  of  the  adventurer. 
Jack  Is  furious,  but  that  avails  little  with  Stribolt, 
who  has  his  mind  set  upon  having  his  daughter 
shine  in  society  as  a  full-fledged  Countess.  The 
Count  Is  all  attention  and  when  he  places  an  en- 
gagement ring  upon  the  linger  of  the  bride  to  be, 
his  happiness  seems  to  be  supreme.  But  the  Count 
Is  not  all  that  he  appears  to  be  on  the  surface 
and  Jack  decides  to  play  the  part  of  an  amateur 
detective.  He  urges  Agathe  to  play  her  part 
and  In  the  course  of  time,  Jack  finds  an  opportunity 
to  catch  the  nobleman  In  a  trap.  The  latter 
boards  a  train  with  a  music  hall  actress,  and 
Jack  disguised  with  whiskers  and  carrying  a  mo- 
tion picture  camera,  is  on  hand  to  make  a  picture 
of  the  departure.  He  even  accompanies  them  on 
the  train  to  their  destination  and  makes  a  series 
of  excellent  pictures.  On  one  eventful  evening, 
some  time  later,  the  Count,  Stribolt  and  Agathe 
are  seated  in  the  old  gentleman's  picture  theater, 
when  to  the  surprise  of  the  little  group  the  screen 
is  adorned  by  the  picture  of  the  Count  and  the 
strauge  lady.     The   finale  may   easily   be   imagined. 


MISCELLANEOUS 

ECLECTIC. 

THE  MYSTERIES  OF  PARIS  (5  parts)  .— 
Prince  Otto,  heir  to  the  throne  of  Kronholm,  and 
his  wife,  Lady  Margaret,  are  leaving  on  a  visit 
to  their  child  Rose,  who  is  being  taken  care  of  by 
an  innkeeper  and  bis  wife.  Prince  Otto  and  Lady 
Margaret  were  married  against  the  wishes  of  Otto's 
father,  Prince  Rupert,  the  reigning  prince  of  Kron- 
holm. The  marriage  of  Prince  Otto  and  Lady 
Margaret  is  not  recognized  by  Prince  Rupert,  and 
he  Is  not  aware  of  the  existence  of  the  child  Rose. 
Prince  Rupert  has  taken  steps  to  anul  the  mar- 
riage and  has  received  word  from  the  Pope  that  a 
decree  to  that  effect  Is  impending.  Lady  Margaret 
becomes  aroused  and  determines  to  thwart  Prince 
Rupert.  There  seems  to  be  but  one  way  to  do  this, 
and  that  is  to  bring  about  the  death  of  the  old 
Prince.  She  accordingly  sends  a  note  by  messenger 
to  her  brother  Albert  that  he  must  find  a  way  to 
bring  about  Rupert's  death  in  order  to  secure  the 
title  of  her  child. 

The  messenger  falls  Into  the  hands  of  Prince 
Rupert's  soldiers  who  Bearch  him  and  find  the  In- 
linating  letter.  The  messenger  escapes  wounded 
and  reports  the  seizure  of  the  letter  to  Lady  Mar- 
garet. She  at  once  prepares  for  flight  to  Paris, 
.stopping  at  the  Inn  to  get  her  child  whom  she  takes 
with  her.  Meanwhile  Lady  Margaret's  note  is  de- 
livered to  Prince  Rupert  who  reads  it  and  sends 
for  his  son  at  once.  Prince  Otto  is  first  shown  the 
message  from  the  Pope  in  which  the  marriage  is 
pronounced  Illegal.  Prince  Otto  resents  his  fa- 
ther's interference  and  professes  undying  loyalty 
for  his  wife.  The  pleadings  of  the  old  man  not 
only  leave  Prince  Otto  obdurate,  but  he  becomes 
infuriated  to  the  point  of  breaking  his  sword  over 
bis  knee  as  a  token  that  friendship  Is  at  an  end  be- 


tween them.  Prince  Rupert,  horror-struck  by  his 
son's  obstinacy,  finally  decides  to  show  up  the  un- 
worthiness  of  Lady  Margaret,  and  thus  cure  his 
son  of  his  ill-placed  love.  Prince  Otto  In  be- 
holding the  incriminating  letter  of  his  wife,  begins 
to  realize  the  truth.  With  ill  forebodings,  be 
hastens  to  the  inn  and  finds  that  his  child  has  been 
taken  by  her  mother  to  Paris  accompanied  by  her 
man-servant.  A  farewell  note  is  handed  him  by 
the  inkeeper.  Arriving  in  Paris,  Lady  Margaret 
makes  arrangements  for  the  care  of  little  Rose 
with  a  poor  family  In  the  suburbs,  and  then  leaves 
the   country. 

The  scene  changes  to  the  slums  of  Paris  showing 
the  Black  Cat  Inn,  which  is  a  resort  fr  vicious 
and  lawless  characters.  The  dominating  personage 
of  the  unsavory  characters  who  loiter  here,  is  an 
old  thief  who  Is  know  as  the  "Wolf."  His  wife, 
a  repulsive  old  creature,  Is  known  as  the  "Buz- 
zard," and  his  son,  a  crafty  sneak.  Is  known  as  the 
"Hopper."  Between  them  they  have  all  the  others 
very  well  cowed.  There  comes  to  the  Black  Cat 
Inn  one  day  a  countryman  known  as  Fritz.  While 
he  is  enjoying  himself,  he  la  robbed  by  the  "Wolf," 
and  Fritz  makes  a  futile  search  for  bis  pocket- 
book.  The  money  stolen  from  him  was  not  his 
own,  and  he  writes  a  note  to  his  sister  begging 
the  loan  of  200  francs.  Fritz  keeps  on  drinking  in 
the  evil  company  of  "Wolf"  and  "Buzzard"  who 
point  out  to  him  the  foolishness  of  his  borrowing 
money  when  It  is  Just  as  easy  to  steal  it.  All  three 
proceed  to  rob  the  sister  of  Fritz. 

It  happens  that  the  sisted  of  Fritz  is  the  very 
woman  with  whom  little  Rose  has  been  placed  by 
Lady  Margaret.  The  robbers  appear  to  do  their 
dirty  work.  They  ransack  the  place  and  set  It 
on  fire.  The  old  "Wolf"  is  on  the  point  of  stran- 
gling little  Rose  when  his  wife,  the  "Buzzard,"1 
realizing  that  the  child  will  be  useful  for  begging 
purposes,  puts  a  stop  to  it.  The  boose  is  burned 
to   the   ground    and    Rose    is    carried    away. 

Meanwhile  Prince  Otto  has  been  searching  Paris 
for  his  wife  and  child.  Twelve  years  pass  away 
and  we  next  see  Rose  a  young  woman,  selling 
flowers.  She  is  clad  in  rags  and  has  become  a 
creature  of  the  slums.  She  is  known  as  "La  Belle 
Rose."  She  is  constantly  Ill-treated  by  the  "Wolf" 
and  the  "Buzzard,"  as  well  as  by  their  son,  the 
"Hopper,"  but  she  shows  no  resentment  of  their 
treatment,  except  upon  one  occasion  when  she  tries 
to  take  away  from  the  "Buzzard"  a  necklace  that 
was  dear  to  her  as  a  child.  About  this  time 
Lady  Margaret  returns  to  ask  her  husband's  for- 
giveness. Prince  Otto  reads  her  a  report  from  the 
police,  intimating  that  Rose  perished  in  the  fire 
twelve  years  ago  that  destroyed  the  Inn  in  which 
she  was  kept.  Meanwhile  Fritz,  the  countryman, 
has  gone  from  bad  to  worse;  be  is  drinking  heavily 
and  associates  with  the  characters  at  the  Black 
Cat  Inn.  He  is  there  when  Prince  Otto,  still 
searching  for  Rose,  enters  the  place  in  disguise. 
Just  as  the  Prince  enters,  Fritz  is  engaged  In 
forcing  bis  unwelcome  attentions  upon  Rose,  who 
is  trying  to  sell  flowers.  Observing  this  annoy* 
ance,  the  Prince  interferes  for  the  girl,  and  has 
a  terrific  fight  with  her  insulter.  The  Prince  gives 
Fritz  a  sound  thrashing,  and  compels  him  to  beg 
the  girl's  pardon.  To  show  then  that  he  Is  a 
good  fellow,  the  Prince  buys  Fritz  a  drink.  He 
learns  from  Fritz  that  Rose  belongs  to  the  old 
"Wolf,"  and  on  hearing  the  story  of  her  ill-treat- 
ment at  his  hands,  he  makes  a  bargain  with  the 
"Wolf"  and  buys  Rose  from  him.  In  the  good- 
ness of  his  heart,  he  tells  Frits  to  come  along 
with   them   and   he   will   give  him   work. 

With  bis  usual  cunning,  the  old  "Wolf"  sends 
his  son  to  follow  the  Prince  and  bis  companions. 
The  "Hopper' '  follows  them  and  finds  out  that 
the  stranger  is  a  man  of  wealth  and  position. 
Prince  Otto  at  once  hands  Fritz  a  letter  to 
the  police  asking  him  to  trace  the  antecedents  of 
"La  Belle  Rose."  Fritz  does  not  get  very  far  before 
the  letter  is  stolen  from  him  by  the  "Hopper." 
Lady  Margaret  and  her  brother  Albert  again  be- 
come active  in  the  case.  They  first  locate  Prince 
Otto,  and  Albert  follows  him  to  a  farm  where  he 
is  taking  Rose  to  place  her  in  good  care.  Albert 
decides  that  the  girl  is  someone  with  whom  Otto 
has  fallen  In  love,  and  he  writes  his  sister  Mar- 
garet to  that  effect.  This  has  the  effect  of  arous- 
ing an  Intense  animosity  for  the  girl  in  the  heart 
of  Lady   Margaret. 

The  old  "Wolf"  has  laid  a  trap  for  Prince  Otto. 
He  sends  the  "Hopper"  with  a  note  that  be  can 
get  information  of  the  parents  of  La  Belle  RoBe 
if  he  will  come  to  the  Sewergate  Inn,  located  in 
the  suburbs.  Otto  finds  the  place  and  is  thor- 
oughly on  his  guard  against  this  family  of  cut- 
throats. With  two  pistols  he  confines  their  atten- 
tion strictly  to  the  business  in  hand,  but  he  Is  no 
match  for  their  cunning.  Directly  behind  Prince 
Otto,  the  "Hopper"  opens  a  trap-door  in  the  floor, 
and  with  a  slight  push,  sends  Otto  tumbling  head- 
long to  the  sewer  beneath.  The  evil  three  descend 
quickly  and  rob  the  senseless  man.  This  done, 
they  throw  open  the  duct  from  the  reservoir,  and 
the  sewer  begins  to  fill  with  water.  Prince  Otto 
Is  In  immediate  danger  of  drowning.  However,  his 
faithful  servants  at  home  have  missed  him.  They 
find  the  letter  directing  him  to  the  Sewergate  Inn, 
and  Fritz,  suspecting  danger,  hastens  there  at  once. 
arriving  in  the  nick  of  time  to  save  the  life  of 
the    Prince. 

Lady  Margaret's  brother  Albert  runs  across  the 
"Hopper"  and  through  him  becomes  acquainted 
with  the  old  "Wolf"  and  the  "Buzzard."  He 
engages   them    to   get   rid   of    La   Belle   Rose,    and 


all  four  return  to  the  farm  to  carry  out  their 
design.  They  secure  first  a  boat  with  a  panel  bot- 
tom made  for  sinking  purposes  by  the  palling  of 
a  string.  They  next  send  a  decoy  note  to  Rose 
that  she  is  wanted  across  the  river  to  attend  a 
friend  In  sickness.  The  girl  innocently  goes  to 
the  shore  and  starts  across  In  the  treacherous 
boat.  When  she  is  In  mid-stream,  the  old  "Wolf* 
pulls  the  string  that  operates  the  sliding  panel, 
and  In  the  next  moment  Rose  is  struggling  for  her 
life  in  the  water.  Prince  Otto  and  Frits,  having 
called  at  the  farm  and  suspecting  foul  play,  fol- 
low the  girl,  and  arrive  at  the  river  bank  Just 
as  Rose  is  about  to  drown.  Both  plunge  into  the 
water  and  pull  her  to  safety,  while  Albert  and 
his  evil  companions  are  snarling  in  rage  at  their 
defeat.  The  rescuers  take  Alice  to  tbe  farm, 
where  all  are  happy  at  the  outcome.  Just  then  a 
State  messenger  arrives  and  informs  Prince  Otto 
of  the  death  of  his  father,  and  salutes  him  as 
the  reigning  Prince.  In  this  way,  Rose  for  tbe 
first  time  learns  the  true  rank  of  her  benefactor. 
Some  days  later,  the  "Wolf"  decides  to  rob  the 
Prince  and  sneaks  Into  the  mansion.  The  in- 
truder is  promptly  discovered  and  made  a  prisoner 
by  Prince  Otto  and  his  servants.  Brought  before 
the  Prince,  tbe  "Wolf"  is  charged  with  his  many 
crimes.  Considering  the  enormity  of  the  man's 
evil  acts,  the  Prince  decides  to  put  an  end  to  his 
malicious  activities  by  depriving  him  of  bis  eye- 
sight. This  Is  done  at  the  command  of  Prince 
Otto,  and  the  miserable  miscreant  is  then  set  out 
Into  the  world  to  get  along  as  best  he  can  with- 
out   his    sight. 

While  the  old  "Wolf"  Is  being  disposed  of  by 
the  Prince,  the  "Buzzard"  and  the  "Hopper"  have 
gone  to  Lady  Margaret  to  tell  her  that  Rose  has 
been  killed,  and  to  get  tbe  reward  for  this  mis- 
deed. Lady  Margaret,  trying  to  find  some  money, 
produces  her  bag  of  jewelry,  and  they  promptly 
assault  her,  leaving  her  lying  helpless  while  they 
make  away  with  tbe  valuables.  The  "Buzzard" 
and  the  "Hopper*  return  to  the  Sewergate  Inn. 
The  old  "Wolf,"  his  eyesight  gone  forever,  Is  led 
by  Frit*  to  his  familiar  haunt,  the  Sewergate  Inn, 
where  he  gropes  his  way  into  the  presence  of  the 
"Buzzard"  and  the  "Hopper."  When  they  dis- 
cover that  his  eyesight  is  destroyed,  they  promptly 
rob  him  of  everything  he  has  and  tumble  him 
through  the  trap-door  Into  the  sewer.  They  fol- 
low him  there  and  tie  him  like  a  dog.  In  the 
struggle,  the  old  "Wolf"  gets  a  grip  on  his  wife's 
throat  and  strangles  her.  This  pleases  the  "Hop- 
per" Immensely.  He  robs  his  mother  of  Lady 
Margaret's  valuables  and  then  turns  in  the  water 
from  tbe  reservoir  and  drowns  his  wretched  parents. 

The  "Hopper"  is  immediately  afterwards  ar- 
rested and  Lady  Margaret's  jewels  are  found  upon 
him  and  other  jewelry  possessed  by  the  "Buzzard," 
including  the  locket  that  Rose  bad  worn  when  a 
child.  Rose  Is  brought  into  the  presence  of  Prince 
Otto,  who  has  received  a  letter  from  Lady  Mar- 
garet, who  has  been  severely  wounded  and  is 
dying.  The  Prince  takes  Rose  with  him  to  tbe 
bedside  of  the  dying  woman.  While  they  are 
there  the  "Hopper"  is  brought  In  by  the  police. 
Among  the  jewels  found  on  the  "Hopper,"  Prince 
Otto  recognizes  Rose's  necklace.  Rose  also  recog- 
nizes It  at  tbe  same  moment  and  by  this  means 
her  Identity  is  established  as  tbe  daughter  of 
Prince  Otto  and  Lady  Margaret,  who  very  Boon 
expires    in    her    daughter's    arms. 


KINEMACOLOR. 

THE  ZOOLOGICAL  GARDENS  AT  ROUE.— 1. 
General  View  of  the  Gardens. — This  gives  an  Idea 
of  the  extent  and  beauty  of  the  Gardens.  The  re- 
splendent Italian  police,  who  look  more  like  soldiers, 
are  very  much  in  evidence.  2.  Grey  Seals. — Beau- 
tiful creatures  disporting  themselves  In  the  water. 
3.  A  Zebra-Ass  Hybrid. — This  queer-looking  animal 
has  the  stripes  of  the  zebra  on  its  legs  only;  its 
body  la  just  like  that  of  an  ass.  4.  Waterfowl. — 
A  serl«4  of  charming  pictures  shows  swans,  pelicans, 
flamingoes,  and  smaller  birds.  5.  A  Jaguar  at  Flay. 
6.  Tigers  and  Lions.  7.  Polar  Bears.  8.  Riding 
Camels,  Yak,  Etc. — These  animals  are  saddled  and 
ridden.  A  Llama  flock.  9.  Chimpanzee. — A  very  in- 
telligent-looking little  creature.  10.  Hippopotami. 
11.   Giraffes  In  Their  Enclosure. 

AN  AWKWARD  MIX-UP.— The  Hammonds  get  a 
letter  from  their  son  that  his  wife  will  arrive  on  the 
1:10  train.  "Meet  her,  the  blonde  lady  in  a  red 
coat."  Mrs.  Mason  gets  a  telegram  from  an  em- 
ployment agency  to  meet  their  new  cook  at  the 
1:10  train.     "A  blonde  lady  In  a  red  coat." 

Now  the  mixup  begins,  and  the  fun  follows  fast 
and  furious.  The  cook  goes  to  Hammonds'  and  !» 
treated  as  the  son's  wife,  the  wife  is  sent  Into 
Mason's  kitchen.  Complication  follows  complication 
until  the  climax  is  reached  when  the  son  returns 
and  wants  his  wife.  He  rushes  upstairs  only  to 
find  the  cook.  In  the  meantime,  matters  have  been 
cleared  up  at  the  Mason's  and  they  rush  the  wife 
over  to  Hammonds*.  Explanations  follow  fast  and 
all  the  complications  are  straightened  out. 

LOCAL  COLOR. — At  a  metropolitan  theater  there 
Is  billed,  as  the  opening  attraction,  a  new  play  en- 
titled "The  Ebb  Tide."  The  young  actress  who  Is 
engaged  for  the  leading  role,  goes  to  the  seashore 
to  live  In  a  little  fishing  village  In  order  that  she 
may  absorb  the  "local  color."  She  dwells  among 
the  fisher  folk  and  dresses  like  them,  so  as  to  "live 
the  part." 

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Massena,  N.  Y.,  June  5,   1913 
J.  H.  Hallberg^  New  York. 

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Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  Tune  12,  1913. 
J.  H.  Hallberg,  New  York. 

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ever  had       Yours  truly, 

F.   B.   Howe,  Gen.  'Mgr.,  New   Star  Theatre. 

New   London,  Conn.,  Tune  0,   1013. 
J.  H.  Hallberg,  New  York. 

Dear  Sir: — I  can  cheerfully  state  that  since  installing  your  Hall- 
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or  any  house  to  show  a  brighter  or  clearer  picture  than  I  am  pre- 
senting at  the  present  time.  With  kindest  personals  regards,  I  am, 
Yours  very    truly,    Lyceum   Theatre,    Walter   T.    Murphy,    Mgr. 

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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


recreation,  comes  the  author  of  the  play;  and  when 
one  day  he  sescnes  a  pretty  but  plainly  dressed 
girl  from  a  rock  where  she  has  been  marooned  by 
the  rising  tide,  he  mistakes  her  for  a  simple  fisher- 
maiden.  Shortly  afterward  be  himself  is  mistaken 
for  a  revenue  officer,  and  but  for  the  cleverness  of 
the  "fisbennald,"  who  helps  him  to  escape  by  a 
ruse,   be  would  have  been  mobbed. 

An  impending  romance  Is  interrupted  by  the  call 
to  rehearsals,  and  at  the  theater  the  author  is 
annoyed  by  tbe  manager's  announcement  that  the 
leading  lady  Insists  on  his  play  being  changed  In 
certain  particulars,  which,  she  insists,  are  not  true 
to  nature.  The  author  is  defiant,  until  be  meets 
and  recognises  his  "Fisher-maiden,"  when  a  truce 
is  declared,  and  the  romance  of  the  summer  is 
resumed,  with  every  prospect  of  that  "happy  end- 
ing" so  much  desired  in  plays,  footllght  and  photo. 


PICTURE  THEATERS  PROJECTED. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — E.  F.  Gorman  has  the  contract 
for  a  one-story  moving  picture  theater,  48  by  167 
feet,  to  be  built  on  the  south  side  of  Haverford 
avenue,  east  of  Sixty-third  street,  for  the  Orer- 
brook  Amusement  Company,  at  a  cost  of  $20,000. 

Norwalk,  0.— Henry  Lais,  who  was  to  build  a 
two-story  theater,  store  and  office  building,  47  by 
80  feet,  Is  holding  the  plans  and  specifications  In 
abeyance  for  the  present. 

Detroit,  Mich. — A.  J.  GUlingham,  71  Grlswold 
street,  will  remodel  a  four  story  store  building 
Into  an  assembly  hall. 

Newcastle,  Ind.— J.  S.  sfcQulnn,  manager  of  the 
Hoosier  Manufacturing  Company,  1145  South  lata 
street,  has  plans  under  way  for  a  one-story  as- 
sembly hall  and  office  building,  40  by  124  feet. 

Mt.  Clemen*,  Mich. — C.  Howard  Crane,  1920  Ford 
Building,  has  received  bids  for  the  owner  for  the 
altering  and  remodeling  of  a  one-story  building, 
18  by  200  feet,  into  a  theater. 

Kalamazoo,  Mich.— The  A.  U.  V.,  121  Portage 
street,  will  erect  a  two-story  auditorium,  74  by  100 
feet. 

Detroit,   Mich John   Shea  will  build  a  one-story 

moving  picture  theater,  80  by  103  feet,  with  ft 
■eating  capacity  for  400. 

Davenport,    la F.    J.    Walsh,    114   Third    street. 

Is  taking  estimates  for  a  four-story  theater  and 
apartment  building,  81  by  150  feet,  witft  a  seating 
capacity  for  1,500,  and  to  cost  $125,000. 

Two  Rivers,  Wis. — J.  J.  Tadlch  will  soon  take 
estimates  for  tie  erection  of  an  addition  to  his 
theater  and  store  building  to  cost  $5,000. 

Houston,  Texas. — Bids  have  been  invited  by 
Daniel  O.  Smith,  Jr.,  for  a  fireproof  arch  in  tha 
city  auditorium. 

Verdigree,  Neb.— Tbe  city  of  Verdlgree  Is  taking 
estimates  for  an  addition  to  the  opera  house,  to  cost 
110,000.  „  . 

Valentine,  Neb. — Women's  Improvement  Club 
have  plans  completed  and  will  soon  Invite  estimates 
for  the  construction  of  a  one-story  auditorium,  60 
by  100  feet,  to  cost  «10,000. 

Boston,  Mass. — Scollay  Square  Trust  Company 
has  let  the  contract  to  George  A.  Fuller  Company, 
Board  of  Trade  Building,  for  the  construction  of  a 
six-story  theater  and  office  building,  176  by  60 
by  152   feet. 

Buffalo,   N.  T L.  Michaels,  651  Wlllison  street, 

has  awarded  the  contract  to  the  Metz  Brothers' 
Compsny,  Builders'  Exchange,  for  the  building  of 
a  theater  with  a  seating  capacity  for  1,500,  4« 
feet  high;  lot  80  by  120  feet,  and  to  cost  $50,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Work  has  been  begun  by  Enos 
R,  Heddman  on  a  one-story  brick  moving  picture 
theater,  51  by  100  feet,  at  the  northeast  corner 
of  Fifth  street  and  Olney  avenue,  for  Frank  Hess, 
at  a  cost  of  $11,000. 

Los  Angeles,  Cal. — Mrs.  L.  Ducommun  Company, 
6th  and  Seaton  streets,  Is  to  build  a  three-story 
theater  and  store  building,  100  by  120  feet,  to  cost 
about  $105,000. 

Grand  Island,  Neb. — Woolsteabonne  *  Sterne 
have  awarded  tbe  contract  to  H.  H.  Falldorf  for  the 
erection  of  a  two-story  moving  picture  theater  and 
apartment  building,  44  by  182  feet  and  to  cost 
$20,000. 

Detroit,  Mich. — J.  Pasinski  has  let  the  masonry 
contracts  to  Bogowskl  Brothers  &  Weeda,  934  St. 
Aubin  avenue,  in  tbe  erection  of  tbe  theater,  store 
and  flat  building.  The  theater  will  have  a  seating 
capacity  for  400.  The  building  will  contain  two 
stores  and  one  apartment. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Margolin  &  Block  have  bought 
a  lot  on  the  east  side  of  Broad,  below  Reed  street, 
from  Simon  Weiss,  for  an  undisclosed  consideration. 
The  property  has  a  frontage  of  86  feet  on  Broad 
street,  and  a  depth  of  178  feet,  and  will  be  im- 
proved by  the  purchasers  by  the  erection  of  a  mov- 
ing picture  theater  to  seat  one  thousand  persons, 
the  cost  of  which  Is  estimated  at  $50,000. 

Chicago,  ni. — Oscar  Florin,  800  North  Clark 
street,  has  received  estimates  for  the  erection  of  a 
one-story  theater,  26  by  115  feet,  with  a  seating 
capacity  for  300.         ^___ 

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in  original.  Complete  outfit  and  directions,  $1.00. 
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FULTON'S  A-to-Z  LIST 


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Illustrates,  describes  and  prices  everything  used 
in  or  about  the  Motion  Picture  Theatre  and  in  the 
allied  industries.  Costs  you  nothing.  Worth  its 
weight  in  gold. 

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Machine  repair  parts  raa4r 
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Why  You  Should  Adopt  Our  Plan  for  Your  Theatre 

I  when  many  of  the  seats  in  your  Thea- 

Itre  are  empty  your  expense  is  no  less 

"than  when  all  of  them  are  filled, 
our   Plan   will   fill  your   Theatre,   and 
your  expense  will  be  no  more, 
you    will    sell    twice   as   many   tickets 
through  our  method  as  you  do  by  the 

i  old  way. 
OUR  SYSTEM  will  get  the  people  to 

I  come  to  YOUR  Theatre. 

I  with  most  people,  attending  a  picture 
show  is  a  habit. 

our  Plan  gets  the  people  in  a  habit  of 
coming  to  YOUR  Theatre, 
competition  is  keen,  and  the  one  that 
is  most  progressive  gets  the  money, 
you  are  in  business  for  PROFIT. 
by  the  use  of  our  Plan  you  will  in- 
crease your  profit. 

the  publicity  alone  which  you  will  de- 
rive by  the  use  of  our  Plan  will  more 
than    re-pay   you    for   the   efforts   put 

1  forth. 

you  will  gain  more  publicity  through 
our  SYSTEM  than  by  advertising  in 
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this  is  not  a  premium  selling  propo- 
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you  have  everything  to  gain  and  noth- 

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SITUATIONS  WANTED. 

MANAGER — Of  long  experience,  picture  and 
TandeTille  business,  open  for  engagement.  Any 
New  England  city  or  town.  Address  MANAGER, 
<7a  Revere  St.,   Suite  4,   Boston,   Mass. 

EXPERT  CAMERAMAN,  MANY  YEARS'  EX- 
PERIENCE,  ALSO  CAPABLE  TAKING  FULL 
CHARGE  OF  LABORATORIES  IN  ALL  ITS 
BRANCHES.  BEST  OF  REFERENCES.  ADDRESS 
L.  R.,  care  of  MOVING  PICTURE  WORLD,  NEW 
YORK  CITY. 

MANAGER — Desires  management  of  picture  bouse. 
References  as  to  character  and  ability.  Or  will 
lease  picture  bouse  In  a  good,  live  town.  State  all 
in  first  letter.  Address  T.  H.  TOMSON,  P.  O. 
Box  804,  Lewistown,  Mont. 

PICTURE  PIANIST— At  liberty.  Orchestra  ex- 
perience. Sober  and -reliable.  Best  references.  Ad- 
dress LESTER  H.  RANSBERGER,  Lock  Box  123, 
Marshall,  Mo. 

POSITION  WANTED — Experienced  moving  picture 
operator  wants  position  in  Chicago  or  vicinity.  Oan 
furnish  own  machine.  Address  JOSEPH  KAUFMAN, 
1142  Diversey  Blvd.,  Chicago,  111. 

MOVING  PICTURE  ADVERTISER— Is  open  to 
engage  as  manager  or  superintendent  of  plant,  well 
experienced,  Beveral  years.  Special  attention  to 
quality  of  Photoplay.  Address  P.  0.  BOX  22,  Sta- 
tion R,  New  York  City. 

HELP  WANTED. 

MEN  WANTED  for  two  year  motor  boat  trip, 
New  York  to  San  Francisco,  via  Inland  waters  and 
Panama  Canal;  under  auspices  well  known  Maga- 
zine, working  in  moving  pictures  enroute.  Pref- 
erence given  those  with  trades  or  professions  use- 
ful to  the  expedition.  Must  have  some  capital. 
For  full  particulars  address  WILLIAM  D.  EMER- 
SON, Canadian  Bioscope  Co.,  Ltd.,  Halifax,  N.  S., 
Canada. 

WANTED — A  young  man  capable  of  filling  the 
position  of  sales  manager  for  our  new  theater  con- 
struction and  equipment  department.  Must  have  a 
discriminating  taste  for  artistic  furnishings  and 
architectural  effects.  No  special  knowledge  neces- 
sary. Will  have  an  opportunity  to  become  inter- 
ested In  a  prosperous  and  promising  business.  Ad- 
dress HARDESTY  S1FG.  CO.,  Canal  Dover,  Ohio. 

WANTED — A-l  experienced  pianist  for  Clarendon 
Moving  Picture  Theater.  Call  1105  Flatbush  Ave., 
evenings,  after  7  p.  m. 

WANTED — A-l  male  piano  player,  pictures  only. 
Must  be  sight  reader  and  cue  pictures.  Six  hours' 
work.  Good  salary  to  right  man.  If  you  haven't 
the  goods  you  won't  last  long.  No  orchestra,  piano 
and  drums.  Address  ANSWER,  care  Moving  Picture 
World.   New  York  City. 

WANTED — Moving  picture  operator  familiar  with 
Cameraphone  talking  pictures.  Address  DOWN- 
TOWN AMUSEMENT  CO.,  15  E.  3rd  St.,  New 
York  City. 


THE  MOVING  PICTURE  WORLD 

EQUIPMENT   FOR   SALE. 

FOR  SALE— 4100  F.  o.  B.  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  *3S0 
Flasher  Electric  Sign  "Star"  4  ft.  by  21  ft,  218 
lights.  If  interested  send  for  sketch.  Address  A. 
E.    JONES   CO.,    N.    S.    Pittsburg,    Pa. 

TWO  POWER'S  SIXES— U100  each,  splendid  shape. 
1  Wurlitzer  Style  C-x  roll  cbanger,  cost  $1,650,  good 
condition.  Price,  $900  on  car  here.  Address 
EQUIPMENT,  care  Moving  Picture  World,  New 
York    City. 

A  PROFESSIONAL  Schneider  Comera,  complete 
with  tripod,  cost  $465.  and  guaranteed  to  be  in 
perfect  condition  and  never  been  used  scarcely  any. 
The  first  $150  will  take  it,  as  1  need  the  money. 
Address  E.  D.  MACFEB,  Jr.,  Petersburg,  Va. 

FOR  SALE — A  complete  electric  generating  set, 
nearly  new.  3  K.  W.,  D.  C.  generator,  6  h.p.  gaso- 
line engine,  mounted  on  skids  ready  for  business. 
Cannot  use  in  my  new  location.  Price  $300.  Ad- 
dress E.  M.  BYERS,  Monticello,  Iowa. 

FOR  SALE — S8-note  Player  Piano  and  rolls. 
Nearly  new.  Great  bargain.  Anyone  can  operate. 
Cuts  expenses.  Quick  sale.  Address  G.  KUIPEKS, 
523  Diversey  Blvd.,  Chicago,  111. 

AT  FAIRBANKS,  ALASKA— New  No.  1-A  Motlo- 
graph  Machine  with  electric  attachments  and  gas 
making  outfit,  chemicals,  etc.,  complete  ready  to 
operate.  Has  dissolving  stereopticon  attachments, 
$550  outfit.  Special  price,  F.  O.  B.  Fairbanks, 
Alaska,  $350.  Full  description  and  particulars  on 
request.  Address  AMUSEMENT  SUPPLY  CO.,  160 
No.  Fifth  Ave.,  Ohicago,   111. 

FOR  SALE — Edison  exhibition  model  moving  pic- 
ture machine,  complete,  guaranteed  absolutely  per- 
fect condition,  $65.  Also  No.  6-A  new  equipment 
complete  ready  for  mechanism,  $75.  Answer  quick. 
Address  MARTIN  L.  FREDERICKS,  201T  North 
Twelfth    St.,    Philadelphia,    Pa. 

COMPENSARCS — New  and  second-hand.  Write  for 
prices.  IRA  B.  ALDEN,  538  West  Lehigh  Ave., 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 

EQUIPMENT   WANTED. 

WANTED — At  once,  moving  picture  machine, 
lamp  house  and  110-V.  rheostat,  A.  C.,  complete. 
Must  be  in  good  condition.  Power's  <>r  Simples 
preferred.  Give  full  particulars  and  price.  Ad- 
dress A.  M.  C,  care  Moving  Picture  World,  Chicago, 
111. 

WANTED — Bell    &    Howell    Perforator,    first-class. 
Address  PERFORATOR,  care  Moving  Picture  World, 
BOX  220,  Madison  Sq.,  P.  O.,  New  York  City. 
CAMERAS    FOR    SALE. 

CAMERAS — All     standard     makes;     Urban,     War- 
wick, American,  Gaumont,   Ernemann,  etc.     Tripods. 
Developing  apparatus.    Lumlere  film.    Address  MOR- 
TON    H.     POWERS,     First    National    Bank     Bldg., 
igo,    111. 

FILMS  FOR   SALE. 

FOR  SALE — 500  reels  of  film  with  posters  to 
match,  all  in  good  condition.  Many  subjects  prac- 
tically new.  Address  McINTTRB  &  RICHTBR,  2* 
E.  14th  St..  New  York  City. 


FEATURE  FILM— East  Lynne,  2  reels;  Dncle 
Tom's  Cabin;  Ten  Nights  in  a  Barroom;  Kit  Oar- 
son;  Tempest  and  Sunshine;  20  others  cheap.  Ad- 
dress ARTHUR  CLOSE,  1223  Faraon  St.,  St. 
Joseph,   Mo. 

FEATURE    FILMS— 1,000    reels    at    $5    and    $10 
reel.      Good    condition.     Address    INTERNATIONAL 
FILM   CO.,   754  Clinton,   Cincinnati,   Ohio. 
FILMS  WANTED. 

WANTED— One  and  two-reel  features  in  A-l  con- 
dition, with  paper.  Must  be  cheap.  Address  DR. 
CHAS.    LYNDON,    Homeworth,   Ohio. 

THEATERS  FOR  SALE. 

BEST  THEATER — In  city  of  15,000,  good  location. 
Rent  $175.  Five  year  lease.  Seats  360.  Entire 
equipment  best  on  the  market,  Power's  Six  A,  two 
Wurlitzer  No.  47,  cost  $3,300.  Invoice  proce  $10,000. 
Has  cleared  $4,500  since  last  November.  Equipped 
for  vaudeville.  Three  sets  of  Bcenery.  Must  be  sold 
on  account  of  domestic  trouble.  Address  THEATER, 
care  Moving  Picture  World,   New  York  City. 

MOVING  PICTURE  THEATER — For  sale.  An 
opportunity.     Address  BOX  242,  Jackson,  Mich. 

FOR  SALE — Lyric  Theater,  Jamestown,  N.  Y. 
Seating  capacity,  with  balcony,  800.  Stage  20  by 
50.  Complete  scenery  equipment.  House  suitable 
for  mixed  vaudeville  and  pictures.  Location,  busi- 
ness district.  Population  35,000.  Favorable  terms. 
Communicate  with  J.  C.  BRAHAM,  1600  Broadway, 
New  York  City. 

THEATERS  WANTED. 

WILL  RENT  OR  BUY— Picture  house,  in  good  lo- 
cation, preferably  in  small  town,  within  500  miles 
of  New  York.  Must  be  paying,  and  bear  close  in- 
vestigation. Reply  with  full  particulars  In  detail 
In  first  letter.  Address  L.  OSWALD,  756  Trinity 
Ave.,   Bronx,   N.   Y. 

WANT — To  buy  or  rent,   with  option  to  buy,  good 
paying  moving  picture  house.     Don't  waste  time  un- 
[.roposition    is    lirst-elass.     Address   UEILIABLE, 
care  Moving  Picture  World,  New  York  City. 

WANTED — To  lease  or  buy,  motion  picture  the- 
aters doing  good  business,  in  Maryland,  Virginia, 
North  Carolina  and  South  Carolina,  in  towns  of 
6,000  population  and  upwards.  Give  all  particulars 
in  first  letter.  Address  607  WOODWARD  BLDG., 
Washington,   D.  C. 

BUSINESS     OPPORTUNITY. 

I  WILL  BUY  anything  from  a  second-hand  roll  «f 
tickets  to  a  theater.  I  sell  machines,  chain, 
pianos,  etc.,  of  long  ago,  or  up-to-date.  Have  also 
a  few  picture  theatres  tor  sale.  Address  TRIGGER, 
212  Third  Ave.,  near  18th  St.,  New  York  City. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 
OPERATORS — Try   a   bottle   of   our   Reliable  Film 
Cement.     Price   per    1-ounce   bottle,    25c.     N.    &  T. 
SUPPLY  CO.,  Norfolk,  Va. 


SINGING  AND 

TALKING  PICTURES 


THE  TALKAPHONE 


CITY  or  STATE  RIGHTS.     Over  eight  hundred  subjects  now  ready, 
such  as  no  other  talking  picture  concern  can  offer. 

QUO  VADIS  in  one  act.       MIKADO  in  two  acts.        PINAFORE  in  one  act. 
CHIMES  OF  NORMANDY  in  3  acts.       EVA  TANGUAY  Singing  Successes. 

And  Many  Other  Leading  Vaudeville  Stars. 

Apply  JOE  LEO  VAUDEVILLE  AGENCY,  °"BBr "    1547  Broadway,  N.  Y. 


ER  IMI 


WYORK  E 

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XHIBI 


-  HELEN  GARDNER  l^t^r^  CLEOPATRA 


Motion      Plotur 
Artist 

"cttuhreetfSe  REGENT  THEATRE,  116th  St.  and  7th  Ave.  E&&E  June  16 

Note     prices,     25c,    3Scs,    SOo. 

This  superb  production  will  be  accompanied  by  orchestra  of  10  pieces 
Bookings  now  open      for  terms  apply 

146     Liberty    St.,      New    York    City 

PHONE    277    RECTOR 


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TO  FILM  BUYERS  ALL  OVER  THE  WORLD 

Bargain  films  for  buyers  of  best  second-hand  films: 

6,000  ft.  of  comic  and  drama,  including  one  feature. .  .$90 

12,000  ft  of  comic  and  drama,  including  two  features,  $200 

24,000  ft.  of  comic  and  drama,  including  four  features,  $350 

50,000  ft.  of  comic  and  drama,  including  six  features,  $750 

We  also  include  free  10  posters  for  each  reel,  extra 
posters  at  10c.  per  sheet;  banners  for  features. 

Splendid  assortment  of  dramas,  comics  and  travel 
films,  guaranteed  condition,  title  and  finish,  perfect 
sprockets,  at  one  cent  per  foot. 

Send  us  your  requirements.  We  carry  everything  in 
stock  from  a  camera  to  a  bottle  of  cement. 

TERMS,  STRICTLY  CASH  WITH  ORDER 

G.  W.  BRADENBURGH 
231-233  N.  Fighth  St.,   Philadelphia,  Penna. 

Bell  'Phone,  Market  334.  Cable,  Bradfilms,  Phila. 


SIEMENS  &  CO.  manufacture  but 
One  Grade  of  Picture  Carbons. 

These  are  Imported  and  sold  under 
our  mark  as 

"Biograph  Brand" 

All  12"  Carbons  are  double-pointed. 


Packed  only  in  Cartons,  as  shown. 
L.  E.  FRORUP  &  CO. 

232  GREENWICH  ST.  NEW  YORK 


MOTION  PICTURE  FILM 

Used  by  Makers  of  Quality  Films 
WRITE  FOR  PRICES 

Sole  American  Agents 

Raw  Film  Supply  Company 

New  York,  N.  Y. 


15  East  26th  Street 


THE 


LUMIERE 

MOTION  PICTURE  FILM 


RIGHT  KIND — RIGHT  PRICE 

LUMIERE      JOUGLA      CO. 

75  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City,  N.  Y. 

Chicago  Branch,  946  First  Nat'l  Bank  Bldg.,  Chicago,  I1L 

ADDRESS  DEPT.  F,  No.  18 


J-M  Transite  Asbestos 


EHi 


Absolutely  fireproof.  Prevent  noise  of 
machine  from  disturbing  audience.  Cannot 
become    electrically    charged    or    grounded. 

Jit  Booths  conform  to  all  the  require- 
ments of  state  and  municipal  regulations, 
Insurance  authorities  and  Inspection  de- 
partments wherever  ordinances  compel  the 
use  of  a  fire-proof  booth. 

Furnished  in  portable  and  permanent 
types.  Write  our  nearest  Branch  for 
"J-lf  Theatre  Necessities"  Booklet. 


H.  W.  JOHNS-MANVILLE  CO. 


Albany 

BiJtimors 
Boston 
Buffalo 
Chicago 


Cincinnati 
Cleveland 
Dallas 
Detroit 
Indiana  polls 


Kansas  City 

Los  Angeles 
Louisville 
Milwaukee 
Minneapolis 


New  Orleans 
New  York 

Omaha 

Philadelphia 

Pittsburgh 


San  Francisco 
Seattle 
St.  Louis 
Syracuse 


GENUINE 


URBAN 

CAMERAS 

Professional  type — with  two  film  boxes,  two  leather 
carrying  cases  $325.00,  F.  O.  B.  Chicago. 

Junior  (150  ft.  capacity)   size — with  six  magazines 
$225.00  F.  O.  B.  Chicago. 

(Any  other  STANDARD  make  if  you  want  it)  Film 
3j4c  per  foot. 

Why  buy  machine  shop  made  imitations? 

MORTON  H.  POWERS 

946  First  Nat'l  Bank  Bldg.  CHICAGO,  ILL. 


Give  This  Patriotic  Souvenir 

4th   OF   JULY   MATINEE 

Made  of  pure  silk  with  gold  knob 
stick.  Ladies'  size,  334-in.  x  5-in.,  11- 
in.  stick.  PER  GROSS,  ONLY  $2.50. 
Children's  size,  lyi-in.  x2-in.,  4  54 -in. 
stick.  PER  GROSS,  ONLY  45c 
This  is  something  out  of  the  ordinary 
run  of  souvenirs,  and  should  prove  an 
excellent  trade  stimulator  for  your  4th 
'  of   July   matinee.     Be    sure   to   order 

your  supply  early,  so  as  not  to  be  disappointed. 

Catalog  of  Souvenir  and  premium  specialties  mailed 

free  upon  request. 

TAKITO,   OGAWA   ®   CO. 
156  W.  Lake  Street  Chicago,  111. 


EXHIBITORS'  HEADQUARTERS 

CALEHUFF  SUPPLY  COMPANY 

(Incorporated) 
50  North  Eighth  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Jobbers  in  Edison,  Powers  and 
Motiograph  Machines  and  Parts 

Machines  Repaired  by  Expert  Mechanics.    Genuine  Parts  Only  Used 


.SPECIALTIES. 


Mirror  Screen. 
Chain 

Tickets 

Ptaaos  Asbeato.  State  Booth. 

Bio  *  Electra  Oarbon.  A.besto.  Win 

Special  Gundlach  S-wltche. 

Len.es  Pin*.  ipotllghts 


am  leaking-  Outfit. 
Lime.  Film-Cease 


Condenser. 
Edison   Transformers 

Ft  Wayne  Oompensarcs    Branch    General    Dlain- 
fect.nt   Co. 
Scenery,  Stage  Effects 


Theaters    Bonj-ht. 
Rented 


Sola, 


CHAS.  A.   OALEHUFF,   Pre.,  and  G'en.  Ifgr. 


1298 


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ADVERTISING   FOR   EXHIBITORS 1244 

CALENDAR  OF  INDEPENDENT  RELEASES. .  .1266 

OALBNDAR    OF    LICENSED    RELEASES 1264 

CHICAGO     LETTER 1256 

COMMENTS  ON  THE  FILMS   (Licensed) 1251 

COMMENTS   ON   THE   FILMS    (Independent) ..  .1253 

CORRESPONDENCE 1262 

DOINGS  AT  LOS  ANGELES 1238 

FACTS  AND  COMMENTS 1227 

FOREIGN    TRADE    NOTES 1242 

"HALF  A  CHANCE"    (Reliance) 1241 

ILLINOIS    1263 

INDEPENDENT  FILM  STORIES 1282 

CARBON  IMPORTERS. 

FRORUP.    L.    E 1297 

KIEWERT,    CHARLES   L 1295 

REISINGER,    HUGO 1295 

ELECTRICAL  &  MECHANICAL  EOUIPMENT. 

AMUSEMENT   SUPPLY   CO 1305 

BELL   &    HOWELL 1304 

BENDER.   GEORGE 1294 

OALEHUFF    SUPPLY   CO 1297 

FORT  WAYNE  ELECTRIC  CO 1308 

GENERAL    ELECTRIC  CO 1301 

HALLBERG,   J.   H 1293 

LAVEZZI     1266 

MOORE  HUBBLE  CO 1309 

PICTURE   THEATER    EQUIPMENT  CO 1291 

SCHNEIDER,    E 1294 

SMITH,  L.    C.  &  CO 1309 

STRBLINGER,    CHARLES    A 1272 

KLEIGLB    BROS 1294 

MISCELLANEOUS   FEATURES. 

ALMO  F.  F.  CO 1274 

ARAB  AMUSEMENT  CO 1214-15 

AMBROSIO  F.   CO 1279 

AMERICA'S  F.   F.    CO 1291 

D-CKE  &  CO 1296 

ECLECTIC  FILM  CO 1277 

FEATURE  FILM  CO 1278 

FULLER'S,  OHAS.   L.,  DISTRIBUTING'  CO.  .121617 

GENERAL  FILM  CO 1218-19 

GT.   NORTH'N  SPECIAL  FEATURE  FILM  CO.. 1285 

ITALA  FILM  CO 1305 

MONOPOL    FILM    CO 1271 

MOORE,   F.    E 1306 

NEW    YORK   FILM   CO 1306 

ROYAL  F.  F.  CO 1291 

ST.   LOUIS  M.   P.  CO 1308 

STATE  RIGHTS  FILM  CO 1212-13 

VIVAPHONB   CO 1208-99 

WARNER'S    FEATURES 1268-69 

IMPORTERS  &  DEALERS. 

WESTERN    FILM    BROKERS 1294 

FIREPROOF  APPARATUS. 

H.   W.   JOHNS-MANVILLE  CO 1297 

TRAINER,   C.   W 1278 

FILM  EXCHANGES. 

BRADBNBURG,    G.     W 1297 

ECONOMY    FILM    CO 1274- 

FULTON,    E.    E 1294 

G.  &  G.  FILM  EX 1274 

GUNBY  BROS 1284 


TO  CONTENTS. 

INDEPENDENT  RELEASE  DATES 1300 

INQUIRIES  1247 

LAEMMLE  CONTROLS  UNIVERSAL   1237 

LICENSED  FILM  STORIES 1270 

LICENSED    RELEASE    DATES 1302 

MAINE    EXHIBITORS   MEET 1258 

MARYLAND    EXHIBITORS    ORGANIZE 1259 

MANUFACTURERS'   ADVANCE  NOTES 1260 

MDLIES  COMPANY  IN  JAVA 1234 

MOTION    PICTURE  EXHIBITORS'   LEAGUE.  .  .1258 

MUSIC  FOR  THE   PICTURE 1240 

NOTES  FROM   ITALY 1229 

OBSERVATIONS    BY   MAN    ABOUT  TOWN.... 1243 

TO  ADVERTISERS. 

HETZ,    L 1294 

LAEMMLE   FILM   CO 1278 

McINTIRB  &  RICHTER 1284 

M.    &  F.    FILM  SERVICE 1274 

MUTUAL   FILM  CORPORATION 1267 

NORTHERN   FEATURE  FILM   EXCHANGE 1274 

REGAL  F.   F.  CO 1294 

SOUTHERN    FILM   SERVICE 1294 

INDEPENDENT  FILM  MANUFACTURERS. 

AMERICAN     1210 

BRONCHO    FILM    CO 1283 

GAUMONT    CO 1281-94 

KAY-BEE 1283 

KEYSTONE    1283 

MAJESTIC     1310 

N.   Y.  MOTION  PICTURE  CO 1273 

PILOT    1289 

RAMO  FILM  CO 1289 

RELIANCE    1275 

SOLAX   1211 

THANHOUSER    1206 

UNIVERSAL  FILM  MANUFACTURERS 1209 

LICENSED  FILM  MANUFACTURERS. 

EDISON      1223 

ESSANAY    1207 

KALEM    1226 

LUBIN      1224 

MELIES    1291-1311 

PATHB    FRERES 1220-21 

SBLIG     1222 

VITAGRAPH   1225 

LENS  MANUFACTURERS. 

BAUSCH  &  LOMB 1293 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

A.  B.  C.  CO 1298 

AMERICAN  OINEMATOG'RAPH  CO 1294 

CHICAGO  METAL  COV.   CO 1306 

CLASSIFIED  ADVERTISEMENTS 1296 

CLEVELAND,    W.    S 1309 

COMMERCIAL    FILMERS 1274 

COMMERCIAL  M.    P.    CO 1266 

CORCORAN,    A.    J 1294 

EASTMAN   KODAK   CO 1309 

EX.    CONVENTION 1287 

GUARANTEE   SLIDE   INK   CO 1309 

HEESE   PTG.    CO 1274 

IMPERIAL  HOTEL 1270 

KRAUSB  MFG.   CO 1308 

LEO.  J.  VAUDEVILLE  AGENCY 1296 

LUMIERE  JOUGLA  CO 1297 

LYMAN,  GEORGE  W 1309 

McKENNA  BROS.   BRASS  CO 1284 

MOTION   PICTURE  CAMERA  CO 1278 


PHOTOPLAY  WRIGHT,   THE 1246 

PITTSBURGH    1263 

PICTURE   MAKING    IN    THE  FAR   EAST 1231 

PROJECTION  DEPARTMENT 1248- 

REAL  THING,  THE  by  Louis  Reeves  Harrison ..  1228 

REGARDING   "WAGES  OF  SIN" 1230- 

"SNARE   OF   FATE,    THE"    (Tbanbouser) 1233 

ST.    LOUIS 1263 

"STEAM"    (Klnemacolor) 1239 

STORIES   OF  THE  FILMS    (Licensed) 1270- 

STORIES    OF   THE  FILMS    (Independent) 1282 

"VILLAIN   UNMASKED,    A"    (Klelne-Eclipse) .  .1236 
"VOODOO  VENGEANCE"    (World's  Best) 1237 

NATIONAL   If.    P.    CO 1291 

NATIONAL    TICKET    CO 1309 

NATIONAL  X-RAY  REFLECTOR  CO 1309 

NEWMAN    CO 1272 

PARISIAN   MFG.   &  FILM  RENOVATING 1284 

PHOTO   CINES    CO 1307 

POWERS,  MORTON  H 1297 

RAW   FILM  SUPPLY   CO 1297 

REYNOLDS    &  CO 1274 

SARGENT,    E.    W 1305 

STANGE,    A.    C 1274 

TAKITO  OGAWA  CO 129T 

THEATER   BROKERAGE   CO 1291 

TICKET  PREMIUM  CO 1295 

VAN   HORNB  &  SON 1274 

VONNEGUT   HDW.    CO 1291 

WHYTE  WHITMAN  CO 1293 

ZENITH  MFG.  CO 1294 

MOVING  PICTURE  MACHINE  MANUFACTURERS. 

EDISON    " 1223 

ENTERPRISE   OPTICAL   CO 1307 

POWER'S    OAMERAGRAPH 1312 

SIMPLEX    1265 

MUSICAL  INSTRUMENTS. 

AMERICAN  PHOTOPLAYER  SALES   CO 1278 

DBAGAN,   J.    C 1304 

SINN,    C.    B 1305 

WURUTZER,  RUDOLPH 1295 

OPERA  CHAIR  MANUFACTURERS. 

AMERICAN  SEATING   CO 1308 

ANDREWS,    A.    H 1308 

BENNETT,    GEO.    W 1308 

HARDESTY     1308 

STEEL  FURNITURE  CO 1308 

POSTERS. 

AMERICAN  SLIDE  &  POSTER  CO 1302 

EXHIBITORS'  ADV.  &  SPECIALTY  CO 1264 

GENERAL   FILM  CO 1303 

PROJECTION  SCREENS. 

AMERICAN  THEATER  CURTAIN  CO 1304 

CENTER,   J.  H 1307 

MIRROR  SCREEN   CO 1309 

SIMPSON  SOLAR  SCREENS 1294 

SONG  &   ADVERTISING  SLIDES. 

ERKER  BROS 1308 

MIDLAND    TRANSPARENCY 1294 

THOMAS,  A.  G 1309 

UTILITY  TRANSPARENCY  CV) 1309 

THEATRICAL  ARCHITECTS. 

DECORATORS'   SUPPLY  CO 1305 


ONE,   THREE    and    SIX    SHEET    POSTERS 


READY  NOW  for 
KALEM'S  next  TWO  REEL  RELEASE 

44  THE     STRUGGLE  " 

Released  Wednesday,  June  25th 

■  and 

'^KALEM'S  Saturday  (June  28th)'release 

Out  of  the  Jaws  of  Death 


ALSO  ONE  and  THREE  SHEETS  for  the  follow- 
ing releases  of  the  weeh  of  June  23-28th: 


BIOGRAPH 

Mister  Jefferson  Green 
In  Diplomatic  Circles 
Her  Mother's  Oath 

KALEM 

The  Detective's  Trap 


LUBIN 

Rustic  Hearts 
The  Zulu  King 
The  Other  Woman 
The  Beaut  from  Butte 
The  Love  Test 


A.  B.  C.  COMPANY     Cleveland,  Ohio 


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THE 


mVAPHONE 

SINGING  and  TALKING  PICTURES 

Regular  Weekly  Service  of  6  Subjects 

A   SUCCESS    EVERYWHERE 


EXHIBITORS     IN 
WESTERN  PENNSYLVANIA 

AND  WEST  VIRGINIA 
APPLY 

KEYSTONE  VIVAPHONE 
COMPANY 

404  Ferry  St.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

Exhibitors  in  New  York  State, 

Greater  New  York  and  New  Jersey, 

APPLY 

VIVAPHONE  EASTERN 
EXCHANGE,  Inc. 

110  West  40tli  Street,  New  York  City 

PHONE   IOI8   BRYANT 

De  WITT  FOX,  Pres. 

(Theatre  on  Premises) 

For  State  Rights  Apply 

VIVAPHONE  &  FILM  SALES  CO.,  Inc. 

110-112  West  40th  St.,  New  York  City 

A.  BLINKHORN,  Sole  Agent  U.  S.  A.  and  Canada 


1300 


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INDEPENDENT 
RELEASE    DATES 


L 


AMERICAN. 

8— California  Poultry  (Domestic  Animals).  1000 

13— Hearts    and    Horses    (Drama) 1000 

1  M — Reward     of    Courage     (Drama) 1000 

June  16— Soul  of  a   Thief   (2  part*— Drama). .  .2000 
June  19— Unwritten  Law  of  the  West   (Drama)lOOO 

June  21— Marine   Law    (Comedy) 1000 

Jane  23 — A    Husband's    Mistake    (Drama) 1000 

Jane  28 — Calamity  Anne  Takes  a  Trip  (Com.)  .1000 
June  28— Dead   Man's  Shoes    (Drama) lOOO 

AMBRO8I0. 

As*.  »•— GoWen  Rala  (»  reel*.   Drama) 

Kay    t— The    Spider    (J    parts— Drama) 

Hay  18— Tempest     and     Sunshine      (J     parte— 

Drama)     

**V  M— A  Maid  of  Heaor   (2  parts-^bramai \". 
May  24— The  Tellew  Man   (2  parts— Drama) . . . 
May  81— An    Unruly    Father    (2   parts— Drama) 
June    T— The  Sold  Title    (2   parts— Drama). . 
June  14— The  Girl  of  the  Hidden  Spring  (2  parts 

— Drama)      

June  21— Lores  Shadow    (2  parts— Drama)! ..... 

BISON. 

May  27— Lore,  Life  and  Liberty  (2  parts— Dr.) 
May  81— The  Honor  of  the  Regiment  (2  parts—' 

Drama)     

Jane    8— The  Battle  of  San  Juan  mii'(2' parts 

— Drama)      

*•»*•    T— The    Spirit    of    the    Flag    (2    parts- 
Drama) 

June  10— The  Grand  Old  Flag  (2  parte^Dramaj 
Jane  14— The  Capture  of  Agulnaldo    (2  parts- 
Drama)     

June  17— In  Lore  and  War  (2  parts— ^Draina) 
June  21— Women  and  War  (2  parts— Drama) . . 
Jone  24 — The    Gnerllla    Menace    (2    parts Dr.) 

BBONCHO. 

*"*»    4— A    Dixie    Mother    (2    parts— Drama).. 

Jane  11 — An    Indian's    Gratitude    (Drama) 

June  18— From  the  Shadows  (2  parts — Drama! 
June  25 — The  Transgressor    (2  parts — Drama).. 

CHAMPION. 

Apr.  14— Lena's  Flirtation   (Comedy) 

Aav.  3X— Wnea  Strong   Mea   Meat    (Drama).... 

A**.  S8— The  Glows  Here    (Comedy) 

Ape.  28— Ufa    In   Soudan    (Sociology) 

May    6— The  Shark   God    (Drama) 1000 

May  13— Hawaiian  Lara  (Drama) 

May  IB— The    Leper     (Drama) 

CRYSTAL. 

June  15— Aa    Expensive    Drink    (Comedy) 

June  15 — Her    Joke    on    Belmont    (Comedy) 

June  17 — A    Call    from    Home    (Drama) 

June  22— The    Smuggled    Laces    (Comedy) 

June  22—  Will    Power     (Comedy) 

June  24 — Out    of    the    Past    (Drama) 

June  29— Who  Is  In  the  Box?  (Comedy) 

June  29 — Mrs.  Sharp  &  Miss  Flat  (Comedy) 

DRAGON. 

May  18— The    Sergeant's    Daughter    (2    parts— 

^      «.      Drama)     2000 

May  26 — Lore  a  Monogram   (Drama) 1000 

June  2 — Comrades   (Drama)    1000 

Jane    9— The  Ace  of  Hearts  (Drama) .'.'"!!lO00 

June  16— The      Ghost     of     Sea     View      Manor 

(Drama)     1000 

ECLAIR. 

June  11 — When    Light    Came    Back     (2    parts 

Drama)     

June  15— He  Slept   Well    (Comedy)    ....... *."i 

June  15 — Scorpions    (Zoology)     

June  18 — Fortune's    Pet    (2    part — Drama).!... 
June  22— The   Boy   from    the    East    (Drama).. 

June  22— The    South   of   India    (Scenic) 

June  25 — The    Badge    of    Policeman    O'Roon    (2 

parts — Drama)     

June  29—  He      Was      Not      111,      Only     Unhappy 

(Comedy) 

June  20— Torpedo    Fish     (Zoology ) 


FRONTIER. 

Kw  24— Where   Wits   WU    (Comedy) 

May  29— A    Romance    of    the    Ralls    (Drama).. 

May  81—  Flossie  Visits  Bar  U  Ranch   (Comedy) 

June    6— The  Pillar  of  Parti  (Drama) 

June  8— The  Ranch  Girl  and  the  Sky  Pilot 
(Comedy)     

June  13— The   Call   of   the    Angelas    (Drama).. 

June  14— The  Twins  of  "Double  X"  Ranch 
(Comedy)     

June  19— A  Story  of  the  Mexican  Border  (Drama) 

June  21— When  Lena  8truck  New  Mexico  (Com- 
edy)      

Jane  26— The  Sqaaw  Man's  Reword    (Drama).. 

June  28— An  Eastern  Cyclone  at  Bluff  Ranch 
(Comedy) 

GAUMONT. 

MAT  28— Gaumont's  Weekly,   No.  84  (News)... 

May  29 — A  Problem  In  Reduction   (Comedy) 

June    3 — The    Heart    Humane     (Drama) 

June    4 — Gaumont's   Weekly,    No.   65   (News).. 

June    5 — A    Passing   Clood    (Drama) 

Jane  10 — The  Honor  of  Lucrece    (Drama) 

June  11 — Gaumont's  Weekly,  No.  66   (News)... 
June  12 — Men  Were  Deceivers  Ever   (Com.).... 

GEM. 

May  20—  Billy  Plays   Peker   (Oomady ) 

May  27 — Billy's    Honeymoon     (Comedy) 

June    2 — Billy   In   Armor   (Cemedy) 

June    9 — Hearts    and    Flowers    (Drama) 

June  23 — Every  Inch  a  Hero   (Drama) 

GREAT    NORTHERN. 

May    81— The  Suffragettes  (Comedy) 

June    7 — Where   Is   Doggie  ?    (Comedy) 

Jane    7 — Lock    Lomond    (Scenic) 

Jane  14 — An    Unwelcome    Wedding    Gift    (Com- 
edy-Drama)  

GREAT    NORTHERN— Universal. 
June  28— The  Flying  Circus  (3  parts,  Drama) . . 

IMP. 

June  13— The    Higher    Law    (Drama) 

June  14— The    War   ef    the    Beetles 

June  14 — JSy   Mayer's  Cartoons    (Novelty) 

June  16— The  Jealousy  ef  Jane   (Comedy) 

June  19 — The     Sorrows    of     Israel     (8     parts — 

Drama)     

June  21— Fllmographlc     Cartoons,      Hy     Mayer 

(Novelty)      

June  23 — His    Mother's    Love    (Drama) 

June  26— The   Angel  of  Death   (Drama) 

June  28 — Fan  In  Film  By  Hy  Mayer  (Novelty) 
June  28— Leo's  Great   Cure   (Comedy) 

KAY-BEE. 

June  8 — A  True  Believer  (2  parts— Drama).. 
June  18 — The  Boomerang  (3  parts — Drama).. 
Jane  20— The    Failure    of    Success     (2    parts — 

Drama)      

June  27 — The  Seal  of  Silence    (Drama) 

KEYSTONE. 

Jane  5 — Passions!  He  Had  Three  (Comedy). 
June    5 — Help!    Help  I    Hydrophobia    (Comedy). 

June    9 — The  Hansom  Driver   (Comedy) 

June  12 — The    Speed    Queen    (Comedy) 

June  16 — The     Walters'     Picnic     (Comedy) 

June  19 — The  Tale  of  a  Black  Eye  (Comedy) . . 

June  19 — Out    and    In     (Comedy) 

June  23— A    Bandit    (Comedy) 

June  23 — Peeping    Pete     (Comedy) 

LUX. 

May  80— The  Dog  and  the  Goat   (Drama) 841 

May  80 — Pat,     the    Electrician     (Comedy) Me 

June    6— By   the  Aid  of  Wireless    (Drama) 1000 

June  13 — Engulfed    (Drama)    

June  20 — Cast    Thy    Bread    Upon     the    Waters 

(Drama) 940 

MAJESTIC. 

June    8 — Mimosa's  Sweetheart   (Comedy).*. 

June  10 — The  Message  of  the  Flowers   (Drama) 

June  15 — The    Tongue    Mark     (Drama) 

June  17— Beautiful     Bismark     (Drama) 

June  20 — The    Banker's   Sons    (Drama) , 

MOT  UAL  WXKSXT. 

May  21— Mutual   Weekly,    No.   21    (News) 

May  28—  Mutual   Weekly,    No.   22   (News) 

June    4 — Mutual    Weekly,    No.   23    (News) 

Jane  11 — Mutual    Weekly,    No.    24    (News) 

June  18— Mutual    Weekly,    No.    25    (News) 


MUTUAL  EDU«ATI0BAX» 

June    6— Willy  and  the  Captain's  Berse   (Oom- 

edy)     

June    0— A    Child's    Day     (Ohlld    Science ) 

June  13 — Gontran,  a  Snake  Charmer  (Oeaaety) 
June  13— Slathering     and     Preparetlen     at    Tea 

fn     Indo-Ohloa     (Agriculture) 

June  19— Willy  Wants  to  Ride  a  Horse   (Com.) 

June  19 — Through    Greece    (Travel) 

June  26 — Funnlcus    Tries     His     Luck     at    Love 

(Comedy) 

June  26— Through     the     Land    of    Sugar    Cane 

(Travel ) 


NESTOR. 

Jane  13 — The  Knight  of  Her  Dream*  (Comedy) 

June  16—  Without     Reward     (Drama) 

Jane  18 — Apache     Love     (Drama) 

June  20 — Aladdln'a    Awakening    (Comedy) 

June  20 — Dad'a  Surprise   (Comedy) 

June  23 — Poleon    the   Trapper    (Drama) 

June  25 — Partners     (Drama ) 

June  27 — Professional    Jealousy     (Comedy) 


POWERS. 

June  11 — Mrs.    Lacey's  Legacy   (Comedy -Drama) 
June  13— The  Strength  of  the  Weak    (Drama) . 

June  18 — Friendly     Neighbors     (Comedy) 

June  20 — Behind    the   Times    (Drama) 

June  25— The    $10,000    Bride    (Comedy) 

June  25 — It  Happened  At  the  Beach    (Comedy) 
June  27— The  Spell  (2  parts — Drama) 

FILtVT. 

May  21 — Cehool  Days   (Cemedy) .*.... 

May  29 — The   Governor's  Romance    (Drama).... 

June    5 — For   Old   Time's   Sake    (Drama) 

June  12 — When  a  Girl  Loves  (Drama) 

June  19 — A    Child    of   the   Hills    (Drama) 

June  26— An    Innocent   Conspiracy    (Com. -Dr. ).  .10*0 

RAM0. 

June  11 — The   Helping   Hand    (Drama) 

Jane  18 — The  Call  of  the   Road    (Drama) 

Jane  25 — The    Worth    of    Man    (Drama) 

July    2 — I'm    No  Counterfeiter    (Drama) 

July    9 — Dangerous  Sympathy    (Drama) 

RELIANCE. 

June     2 — Italian   Lore   (Drama) j.... 

June    4 — faithful     Shep     (Drama) 

June    7— The  Mad  Cap  of  the  Hills   (Drama).. 

June    9-  His     Uncle's    Heir     (Drama) 

Jane  11 — No  release  this   date 

June  14 — Half  a   Chance    (8   parts— Drama) .... 

June  16 — Annie    Laurie    (Drama) 

June  18 — The   Dream    Home    (Drama) 

June  21 — Wallingford's   Wallet    (3   parts — Dr.). 

REX. 

June    8 — The    Shadow     (Drama) 

June  12— The  King  Can  Do  No  Wrong  (I  fasti 
— Drama) 

June  15 — The    Pretender     (Comedy-Drama) 

June  19 — The    Scar     (Drama) 

June  22— The    Stolen    Idol     (Drama) 

June  26 — The  Burden  Bearer   (Drama) 

June  29 — Draga,    the    Gypsy    (Drama) 

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June  13 — Her    Mother's    Picture     (Drama) 

June  18 — Romeo   In   Pajamas    (Comedy) 

June  20— Strangers    from   Nowhere   (Drama).... 

June  25 — The    Merry    Widow    (Comedy) 

June  25 — The  Dynamited   Dog   (Comedy) 

June  27 — The   Message   to  Heaven    (Drama) .... 

THANHOUSER. 

June    6— The   Caged   Bird    (Drama) 

June    8 — Miss  Mischief  (Comedy) , 

June  10 — While  Baby  Slept  (Drama) 

Jnns  13 — His  Sacrifice   (Drama) 

June  15 — The     Head    of     the     Ribbon     Counter 

(Drama) 

June  17 — The  Snare  of  Fate    (2  parts — Drama) 
June  20 — No    Release   this   date 

VICTOR. 

June    8 — The    Kidnapped    Train    (Drama) 

Jane  13 — Sincerity     (Drama) 

June  20 — His    Daughter    (Drama) 

Jane  27 — Brother    and    Sister     (Drama) 


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BIOGRAPH. 

June    5 — Slippery  Slim  Repents    (Comedy) 

June    5 — Just    Kids    (Comedy) 

June    7— A  Timely   Interception    (Drama) 

June    9 — Jenks  Becomes  a   Desperate  Character 

(Comedy)       

June    9 — Red  Hicks  Defies  the  World  (Comedy) 

Jane  12 — The  Well   (Drama)    

June  14 — Death's  Marathon    (Drama) 

June  16 — The    Switch-Tower    (Drama) 

June  19 — The  Rise  and  Fall  of  McDoo  (Comedy) 

June  19 — Almost  a  Wild  Man  (Comedy) 

June  21 — The  Mothering  Heart  (2  parts — Drama) 
June  23 — A  Compromising  Complication  (Com.) 
June  23 — Mister    Jefferson     Green     (Comedy)... 

June  26 — In    Diplomatic    Circles    (Drama) 

June  28 — Her    Mother's    Oath    (Drama) 

CLNES. 
(*>    Kieiee. ) 

May  20—  Red    Wins    (Drama)     1000 

May  24— Exceeding  the  Time  Limit  (Comedy).  300 
May  24 — The  Maid  and  the  Tarn  (Comedy)..  800 
May  24 — Oaring  a   Would-Be  Aviator    (Comedy)  400 

May  27 — Borrowed    Plumage    (Comedy) 

May  27 — The    Champion    Fixer    (Comedy) 

May  27 — In    Somallland     (Scenic) 

May  31— Interesting  Scenes  Abroad  (Travel)  ..1000 
Job*    2 — When    A    Woman     Loves     (Special — 3 

parts — Drama)     2500 

June    3 — The    Irony   of  Fate    (Drama) 1000 

Jane  7 — Orbetelo  and  Environs  (Travel)....  250 
Jane    7— The    Ring    (Drama) 750 

ECLIPSE. 
(O.  Blaine. ) 

May  21— In    the    Tyrolese    Alps    (Travel) 175 

May  21— The  Chicken   Industry    (Industrial) 400 

May  21— Big    Game    (Zoological) 425 

May  28— The    Indelible    Stain    (Drama) 1000 

Job*    4 — The    Armadillo    (Zoological) 500 

June    4 — Delivering    the   Goods    (Comedy) 600 

June  11— Behind    a    Mask     (Drama) 1000 

EDISON. 

May  28 — Newcomb's    Necktie    (Comedy) 1000 

May  30— The  Honor  of  a  Soldier  (Drama) 1*00 

May  31 — An  Almond   Eyed   Maid    (Drama) 1000 

Jane    2— Professor  William  Nutt   (Comedy) 1000 

Jon*    8 — Right  for  Right's  Sake  (Drama) 1000 

Jmsa    4 — Borne   Spots    In    and    Around    Los   An- 
geles,   California    (Scenic)    350 

Jane  4 — Don't     Worry     (Comedy) 640 

Jane    « — Mercy  Merrick   (Drama) 1090 

Jane    7 — While    John    Bolt    Slept    (Drama) 1000 

June    9 — Othello    In   Jonesvllle    (Comedy) 1000 

June  10— Two    Little    Kittens    (Drama) 1000 

Jane  11 — Beau   Crummel   and   His   Bride    (Com- 
edy)      1000 

Jnne  13— Along    the    Nile    (Scenic) 1000 

June  14 — Apples    of    Sodom     (Drama) 1000 

June  18 — Her  Royal  Highness    (Comedy-Drams)  1000 

June  17 — The  Twla   Brothers    (Drama) 1000 

June  18 — Oivtc    Parade,    New   York   City    (Topi- 
cal)      850 

June  18 — He   Would    Fix   Things    (Comedy) 650 

June  20 — The  Eril  Thereof   (DTama) 1000 

Jnne  21 — Mary      Stuart       (Special — 3       parts — 

Drama)     3000 

June  21— Love's  Old  Sweet  Song  (Drama) 1000 

June  23— The   Pyramids  and   the   Sphinx,    Egypt 

(Architecture) 300 

June  23 — A  Taste  of  His  Own  Medicine  (Com.).  700 
June  24— Where    Shore   and   Water   Meet    (Dr.)  980 

June  25 — How  Did  It  Finish?   (Comedy) 980 

June  27 — Fortune    Smiles — Being     the     Twelfth 
Story  of  What  Happened   to   Mary 

(Drama) 1000 

June  28 — The    Fly    (Hygiene) 400 

June  28 — Circumstances  Make  Heroes    (Comedy)  600 


ESS  ANAY. 

June    5 — The    Last    Shot     (Drama) 1000 

June    6 — Phillip  March's  Engagement  (Comedy).  1000 

June     7 — Broncho    Billy's    Capture    (Drama) 1000 

June    9 — The  Final  Judgment   (Special — 2  parts 

— Drama)         2000 

June  10 — The  Shadowgraph   Message   (Drama).  .1000 

June  11— The    Star     (Comedy) 1000 

June  12 — Cinderella's    Gloves    (Comedy) 1000 

June  13 — The     Mysterious     Stranger     (Comedy- 

'Drama)      1000 

June  14 — The     Ranch    Feud     (Drama) 1000 

June  17 — Anonymous   Love    (Comedy) 1000 

June  IS— Hilda     Wakes     (Comedy) 1000 

June  19— The   Rustler's  Spur    (Drama) 1000 

June  20 — A  Brother's  Loyalty    (Special — 2  parts 

— Drama)     2000 

June  20 — Fear     (Drama)     1000 

June  21 — Alkali    Ike    and   the   Hypnotist    (Com- 
edy)      1000 

June  24 — Across    the    Rio    Grande     (Drama) 1000 

June  25 — Easy     Payments     (Drama) 1000 

June  26— The    Divided    House     (Comedy) 1000 

June  27 — Witness     "A-S     Center"     (Drama) ...  .10m 
June  28 — Broncho     Billy's    Strategy     (Drama) .  .1000 


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KAEEM. 

2— The  Bandit's  Child    (Drama) 1000 

4 — When    Fate    Decrees    (Drama) 1000 

6— The   Terror   of    Conscience    (Drama) .  .1000 
7 — When   Women   are   Police    (Comedy).. 

7 — Percy's     Wooing     (Comedy) 

7— The  Tragedy  of  Big  Eagle  Mine  (Spe- 
cial—2  parts — Drama)    2000 

9 — The    Rnbe    and    the    Boob    (Comedy).. 
9 — The    Scheme   of    Shiftless   Sam    Smith 

(Comedy)     

11 — The   Pawnbroker's  Daughter   (Drama). 1000 

13 — Brought    to    Bay     (Drama) 1000 

14 — The    Gypsy's    Brand     (Drama) 1000 

16 — The    Wheel    of    Death    (Drama) 

16 — Governor  Johnson   of  California    (Topi- 

ical)     

18— The  Attorney  for  the  Defense  (Drama)  1000 

20 — Cupid's   Lariat    (Comedy ) 

20 — Smoked    to    a    Finish    (Comedy) 

21— On    the   Brink  of   Ruin    (Drama) 1000 

23—  The    Detective's   Trap    (Drama) 1000 

25 — The  Knight  of  Cyclone  Gulcb  (Com).. 
25 — Curing  Her  Extravagance  (Comedy) 
25— The   Struggle    (Special— 2   parts— Dr.). 2000 

27— The   Cloak   of   Guilt    (Drama) 1000 

28 — Out  of  the  Jaws  of  Death   (Drama) .  .1000 


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LTJBEN. 

3 — A    Jealous    Husband     ( Drama ) 1000 

5 — Bob    Builds    a    Chicken    House    (Com- 
edy)       

5 — Kate    the    Cop     (Comedy) 

6 — The   Accusing    Hand    (Special — 2    parts 

—Drama)      20W 

6— The  Penalty  of  Jealousy   (Drama) 1000 

7— The    Great    Pearl     (Drama) 1000 

9 — The  Legend  of  Lovers  Leap  (Drama) .  .1000 

10 — Violet    Dare,     Detective     (Drama) 1000 

12 — Nearly    In    Mourning    (Comedy) 

12 — The  Professor's  Predicament  (Comedy) 

13 — Pajrita's     Destiny      (Drama) 1000 

14 — The    Wine    of    Madness     (Drama) 1000 

16 — Bob   Builds   a  Boat    (Comedy) 400 

16 — Silence    for    Silence    (Comedy) 600 

17 — Out   of    the    Beast    a    Man    Was   Born 

(Drama)     1000 

18— The    Weaker    Mind    (Special— 2    parts 

—Drama)     2000 

19 — A    Father's    Love    (Drama) 1000 

20 — His    Redemption     (Drama)     1000 

21— From    Ignorance    to    Light    (Drama).  .1000 

23 — Rustic    Hearts    (Drama) 1000 

24— At  the  Telephone    (Comedy) 400 

24 — The    Zulu    King     (Comedy) 600 

26 — The    Other    Woman     (Drama) 1000 

27— Bob    Buys   An   Auto    (Comedy) 400 

27 — The   Beaut    from   Butte    (Comedy ) . . . .  600 
28 — The   Love   Test    (Drama) 1000 

MELIES. 
29 — Tandjong   Prlok,    the   Harbor  of  Java's 

Oapfal.     Batavia     (Scenic) 

5 — Native  Industries  of  Java   (Industrial)  1000 

12 — The   Stolen   Claim    (Drama) 

12 — Views    of    Samarang     (Scenic) 

19 — The  Lure  of  the  Sacred  Pearl   (Drama) 
19 — Diving   for   Tearl   Oysters  at   Thursday 

Island    (Educational)     

26— The     Sultan's    Dagger     (Drama) 1000 


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West    (Industrial)     

June  3— A  Market  In  Kaloylla,  Algeria  (Man- 
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June    4 — The    Saving   Lie    (Drama) 

June    5 — What  the  Good  Book  Taught  (Drama) 

June  6 — Birds  and  Animals  of  Braill  (Nat. 
Hist.)    

June    6 — Tananarive,   Madagascar   (Travel) 


June    7 — Get-Rich-Quick    Bllllngtos    (Comedy).. 

June    9 — Pathe's   Weekly,    No.    24    (News) 

June  10— Max's    First    Job    (Comedy) 

June  10 — The    Chateau    of    Chenonceaa,    France 

(Architecture)      ■. 

June  11 — "His    Lordship's"    Romance    (Comedy) 

June  12 — The    Artist's    Dream     (Comedy) 

June  13 — Athletics    In    France    (Sports) 

June  13 — Places  of  Interest  in  Colorado  (Travel) 
June  IS — The    Governor's    Double      (Special  —  2 

parts — Drama)       

June  14 — For     Mayor — Bess    Smith     (Comedy) . . 

June  16 — Pathe's    Weekly,    No.    25    (News) 

June  17 — A   Tour  Through   Touralne    (Travel).. 

June  17 — Rhodes     (Asiatic    Turkey) 

June  IS— The     Sacrifice     (Drama) 

June  19 — The   Outlaw's   Love    (Drama) 

June  20 — The  Burial  of  a  Rich  Chinaman  (Man- 
ners    and     Customs) 

June  20 — Antibes,      France      and      Its     Environs 

(Scenic)    

June  20 — Monuments     and     Cascades    of     Rome 

(Travel)     

June  21 — The    Jury's    Verdict    (Drama) 

June  23— Pathe's    Weekly,    No.    26     (News) 

June  24 — The   Carrier   Pigeons    (Zoology) 

June  24 — How   a   Blossom   Opens    (Horticulture). 
June  2.:. — The   Hunger   of   the  Heart    (Drama)... 

June    26 — Pathe's   Weekly    No.    27    (News) 

June  28 — Clarence    the   Cowboy    (Comedy) 

June  27 — The     Spotted     Elephant    Hawk     Moth 

( Zoology  I 

June  27 — Athens      (Scenic) 

June  28 — The    Second    Shot    (Drama) 

June  2S — The     Trapper's     Mistake     (Special — 2 
parts — Drama)      

SELIG. 

June    3 — A   Flag  of  Two   Wars    (Drama) 1000 

June    4 — The    Law   and    the   Outlaw    (Special — 

2     reels — Drama)      2000 

June    4 — Woman — Past    and    Present     (Bda.).  .1000 

June    5 — The   Snwanee    River    (Drama) 1008 

June    6 — An     Embarrassed     Bridegroom     (Com- 
edy)      

June  6 — Manila     Normal     and     Public     Schools 

(Education)      »• 

June    9 — Sweeney    and    the    Fairy     (Comedy).  .1000 

June  10— Dad's     Little     Girl     (Drama) 1000 

June  11— The   Rose  of   May    (Drama) 1000 

June  12— The    Fate   of   Eliiabeth    (Comedy) 

June  12— The    Birth    of    a    Butterfly    (Zoology) . 
June  13 — The   Jealousy   of   Miguel   and   Isabella 

(Drama)      1000 

june  14 — Alone  In  the  Jungle   (Special— 2  parts 

—Drama)     2000 

June  16 — When   Lillian   Was  Little  Red  Riding 

Hood    (Fairy    Story)    

June  16 — Shooting   the  Rapids  of  the  Pagsanjan 

River  in  Philippine  Islands  (Sports).. 

June  17 — Taming    a    Tenderfoot    (Comedy) 1000 

June  IS— Mrs.    Hilton's  Jewels    (Drama) 1000 

June  19— The    Cold    Brick    (Comedy) 1000 

June  20 — The   Fighting   Lieutenant    (Drama) 

June  20— Fancy    Poultry    (Zoology) 

June  23— The     Kentucky     Derby     at     Churchill 

Downs    (Sports I 1000 

june  24 — The    Marshal's    Capture    (Drama) 1000 

June  25 — Papa's    Dream     (Comedy) 

June  25— The   City    of    Gold    (Travel) 

June  26 — When    Men    Forget    (Drama) 1000 

June  27 — A  Western   Romance   (Drama) 1000 

V1TAGRAPH. 

June     4 — A    Modern    Psyche     (Drama) 1000 

June    5 — The   Heart   of    Mrs.    Robins    (Comedy- 

Drama)     100° 

June     6 — The    Butler's    Secret    (Drama)     1000 

june    7— The    Forgotten    Latchkey    (Comedy) .  .1008 
June     9 — The   Bachelor's    Baby;    or   How    It    All 

Happened     (Drama)     1000 

June  10 — Cutey    Tries    Reporting    (Comedy) 1000 

June  11— His   House   In   Order;  or  the   Widow's 

Quest     (Drama)     1000 

June  11— A  Regiment  of  Two  (Special— 2  P«ts^ 

—Drama)     aoo° 

June  12— His    Tired    Uncle     (Comedy) 

June  12 — Capers   of    Cupid    (Comedy) 

■Tune  13— An    Infernal    Tangle    (Drama) ....... .1000 

June  14— Does    Advertising    Pay?    (Comedy). ..  .lpno 

June  16— The    Silver    Cigarette    Case    (Drama). 1000 
June  17— The     Coming     of     Gretchen     (Comedy- 
Drama)     JJJJJ 

jnne  18— The    Drop    of    Blood    (Drama) 1000 

june  19 — Bunny's     Dilemma     (Comedy) low 

June  20— Delayed    Proposals    (Comedy) •  650 

June  20— Yokomoma  Fire  Dept.   (Public  Safety)  350 

June  21—  Arriet'a  Baby   (Drama)    l°™> 

June  23— The    Lion's    Bride    (Drama) low 

June  23— The  Snare  of  Fate  (3  parts— Special—  ^ 

Drama) s?9" 

June  24— No    Sweets    (Comedy)  .........■••■•■  .1000 

June  25— Jack's    Chrysanthemum    (Com. -Dr.) ..  .1000 

June  26 — Her   Sweetest    Memory    (Drama) low 

June  27— One     Good     Joke     Deserves     Another 

nedy) 'J*!? 

June  28— One    over    on    Cutey    (Comedy) 870 

June  2S — Cloisonne     Ware     (Educational) 130 


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That  sounds  as  if  we  were  stretching  it,  doesn't  it?     But  we  are  not  and  just  to. 
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would  on  paper.  Ink  can  be  had  in  the  following  colors: 
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look  well  and  anyone  can  make  them.  They  are 
handy  also  for  announcing  vaudeville  acts.  In  fact, 
they  may  be  readily  used  for  anything  you  may  wish 
to  say  to  your  audience. 

For  the  sum  of  $3.50  we  will  send,  by  parcel  post, 
prepaid  and  insured,  the  following: 

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MAYOR  OF  CHINATOWN  (recently  deceased) 

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Already  the  crowded  houses  have  stamped  it 

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To  Open  Air  Shows: 

Yon  Should  Immediately  Sign  for  "Mutual 
Service"  if    only  to  get    New    Majesties? 

Because  yours  is  a  summer  proposition  and  ours  are  SUMMER-TIME  FILMS — 
light  comedies  and  dramas  that  do  not  require  hard  thinking  to  understand.  PLOTS. 
PLAYING,  PRODUCTION  ARE  SIMPLE,  "SUMMERY."  These  are  the  ideal 
films  for  your  show  and  if  you  only  can  secure  them  in  "Mutual  Service"  WHY, 
GET  "MUTUAL  SERVICE"  TO  GET  THEM!  Besides,  the  rest  of  the  program 
is  good.  See  a  "Mutual  Service"  exchange  right  away  quick  and  write  "THREE- 
MAJESTICS-A-WEEK"  into  the  contract. 
One  Round  O'Brien  Comes  Back  for  New  Majestic  and  "Mutual"  Exhibitors! 

Yes  it's  really  true.  One-Round  O'Brien,  whose  film  was  voted  the  best  comedy 
picture'  of  last  year  AND  FEATURED  AT  HAMMERSTEIN'S,  NEW  YORK— 
he's  come  back!  And  that's  the  very  title,  too — "One-Round  O'Brien  Comes  Back." 
FRED  MACE  ACTUALLY  SAYS  IT  HAS  THE  FIRST  MARVELOUS  "ONE- 
ROUND  O'BRIEN"  BEATEN  TO  A  FRAZZLE.  He  has  never,  never  been  so 
pleased  with  any  of  his  films!  End  of  the  month  the  film  releases,  BUT 
YOU  BETTER  BOOK  IT  NOW.    These  are  the  current  New  Majesties: 


The  /Tongue    Mark 

Released   Sunday,   June  15 

Booked  for 

Beautiful  Bismarck 

Released  Tuesday,  June  17 

Booked  for 

The  Banker's  Sons 

Released  Saturday,  June'21 
Booked  for 

••NEW    MAJESTIC" 

C.  J.  HITE,  Producing  Manager 
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Fred    Mace  Detective    Comedy 


BiUy   Garwood  "  Good  Luck  " 
Story 


Lamar 


Francelia     Billington 
Johnstone  Special 

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THE  LURE  OF 
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An   exciting  story   based   on   the  finding  of  a  black 
pearl,  which  is  sacred  to  Buddha 

Produced  on  the  Island  of  Java,  Dutch  East 
Indies,  at  the  ruined  temple  of  Boro-Budur, 
"the  temple  of  the  thousand  Buddhas" 

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IT  IS  TALKED  ABOUT 

Because  of  the  LOOP  SETTER  (AN  EXCLUSIVE  FEATURE)  which 
renders  the  machine  automatic  in  its  adjustment  and  maintenance  of  the 
lower  loop  which  is  instantly  re-formed  without  stopping  machine.  This 
costs  but  little  extra  and  prevents  dark  screens  and  interrupted  pictures. 

In  ordering,  please  state  if  LOOP  SETTER  is  desired. 

IT  CAUSES  COMMENT 

Because  it  has  maintained  its  supremacy  for  15  years  through  PERFECT 
PROJECTION. 

IT  COMMANDS  ATTENTION 

Of  the  trade  —  and  supplies  them  with  OVER  65%  OF  THE  MOVING  PICTURE 
MACHINE  OUTPUT  OF  THE  WESTERN  HEMISPHERE. 

If  motor  drive  is  desired,  we  have  IT.  No  more  trouble  with  variable  speed  motors. 
Our  motors  are  constant  speed  ;  control  is  mechanical  and  of 
wide  range  ;  operation  is  simple,  effective.  THIS  DESERVES 
SPECIAL  ATTENTION. 


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Nicholas  Power  Company 

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list  of  features  that  we  expect  to  release  within  the  year,  but  we 
do  submit  the  titles  of  the  features  we  actually  release  next  month. 
There  are   three  two  or   three-reelers   in  July  alone  1      Such  as 


KING  RENE'S  DAUGHTER 

With  MISS  MAUDE  FEALY  3  RetU 


TANNHAUSER 

From  the  Opera  3  Rwli 


LITTLE   DORRIT 

Thanhoiuer  Dickens  Classic      2  Reels 

HERE  ARE  THREE  GREAT  SINGLE-REEL  FEATURES 

Made  in. the  new,  marvelous  all-glass  studio  at  New  Rochelle  by  the  Incomparable  Than- 

houser  "Stock." 

Sunday.  June  22  "  THE   EYE  OF   KRISHLA" 

That  was  the  name  of  the  celebrated  diamond  that  disappeared,  and  a  police  captain's  bungling  of  the  mys- 
tery lost  him  his — pet  daughter.  It  looks  like  a  heavy  detective  drama,  but  proves  a  comedy  love  story. 

Tuesday,  June  24  "FORGIVE  US  OUR  TRESPASSES 

A  wonderful  story  of  the  wire  and  rail  that  will  make  you  sit  up  straight  in  your  seat.    And  you'd  rather  be 
there  than  in  that  division  superintendent's  place. 

Friday.   June  27  "THE   LOST    COMBINATION" 

A  convict,  a  "safe  expert."  is  rushed  from  a  nearby  penitentiary  to  a  home  wherein  is  a  vault  into  which  a  child 

has  strayed.  He  "cracks"  the  vault  and  finds  the  child — his  own. 

THANHOUSER  FILM  CORPORATION.  NS,J&"« 

COMING  I  Sunday,  June  29:  "A  MODERN  LOCHINVAR."  the 

last  but  not  least  Sunday  comedy  in  June. 
COMINGI  All  the  time— to  your  lobby:  THE  THANHOUSER 
PLAYERPOSTER.   It  solves  the  posterless-reel  problem. 
Ask  your  exchange  man  the  cost. 

COMING!  MAUDE  FEALY  in  "KING  RENE'S 
DAUGHTER" — her  motion  picture  debut. 
Fight  for  this  one!    Give  your  house  the 
prestige  of  a  big  "legitimate"  theatre! 
_  in  three  magnificent  reels. 

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Order   Yours  Today.  $13  50  A  Dozen. 


Released  Tuesday,  June  24th. 

"Across  the  Rio  Grande.** 

A  thrilling  Western  drama  that  will  hold   the  interest  of  your  audience  from  the  first  flash  of  the  pro- 
jector to  the  last  scene.  ' 


Released  Wednesday,  June  25th. 

"Easy  Payments." 

A   splendid   comedy-drama   that  your  audiences   crave.     Ruth   Stonehouse   featured. 

Released  Thursday,  June  26th. 

"The  Divided  House." 

An  uproariously  funny  comedy  that  will  keep  your  audiences  in  convulsions. 


Released  Friday,  June  27th. 

Witness  "A-3  Center." 

A  powerful  drama  that  quivers  with  human  appeal — its  portrayal  of  character  is  excellent. 


Released  Saturday,  June  28th. 

"Broncho  Billy's  Strategy." 

A   thrilling   and   gripping  Western   melodrama,   with  G.  M.  Anderson. 


Released  Monday,  July  7th 

"THE  FORBIDDEN  WAY." 

In 'TWO  PARTS. 

"THE  FORBIDDEN  WAY"  SOUNDS  THE  DEPTHS  OF  HUMAN  EMOTIONS.  IT'S  A  GRIPPING 
AND  THRILLING  MELODRAMA  OF  THE  UNDERWORLD.  A  SPLENDID  PHOTOPLAY  THAT 
THROBS  WITH  STRONG  SENTIMENT  AND  POWERFUL  PATHOS.  ITS  POWERFUL  POR- 
TRAYAL OF  CHARACTER  AND  ITS  MASTERLY  PRESENTATION  OF  SCENES  FROM  THE 
CRIMINAL  HAUNTS  OF  A  GREAT  CITY  PLAY  UPON  THE  HEARTSTRINGS  OF  HUMAN  EMO- 
TIONS WITH  AN  ELOQUENCE  OF  APPEAL  THAT  RENDS  THE  VERY  SOUL.  DEMAND  THIS! 
SPECIAL  HERALDS  NOW  BEING  PREPARED.  ORDER  YOUR  ONE,  THREE  AND  SIX  SHEET 
POSTERS  FROM  YOUR  EXCHANGE  OR  DIRECT  FROM  US. 

THE  PUBLIC  ARE  WISE— DEMAND  NEW,  CLEAN  POSTERS.  Three  sheet  posters  of  all  our  Satur- 
day releases  will  boom  your  business.  Posters  are  lithographed  in  full  four  colors,  35c.  each.  You  can  order 
these  from  your  exchange  or  direct  from  Essanay  Film  Mfg.  Co.,  521  First  National  Bank  Bldg.,  Chicago. 
Your  lobby  display  will  look  attractive  if  you  use  photographs  of  Essanay  players,  8  x  10,  $3.00  per  dozen. 
You  can  secure  these  from  the  Players'  Photo  Co.,  177  N.  State  St.,  Chicago,  111. 


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ALL  RIVERS 
MEET  AT  SEA 

1  Reel,  July  2 

A  moving  picture  girl  loves  and 
marries  an  actor  in  the  same  company. 
The  director,  a  rival,  manages  to  cause 
the  young  husband  to  be  knocked  out 
of  a  boat,  and  he  is  picked  up  far  away 
with  a  lost  memory.  A  long  time  after 
the  moving  picture  company  visits  a 
fishing  village  and  the  husband  has  his 
mind  restored  by  seeing  his  wife,  who 
joyfully  flies  to  his  arms. 

THE 
TRANSGRESSOR 

2  Reels,  June  25 

A  story  of  Puritan  village  life.  The 
son  of  a  minister  wins  a  girl  away  from 
her  devoted  fisherman.  Orphaned, 
she  is  adopted  by  the  minister,  and 
when  her  child  is  born  refuses  to  re- 
veal the  father's  name.  She  is  cast  out 
by  the  minister  and  scorned  by  the 
people.  When  her  child  is  dying  the 
fisherman  comes  back  to  her  with  un- 
faltering love,  and  the  minister's  son 
meets  a  tragic  death  at  the  hands  of 
the  Indians. 


Broncho  Motion  Picture  Co. 

Long  Acre  Bid*.,  42d  St.  and   Bdwy. 
NEW  YORK  CITY 

MUTUAL  PROGRAM  EXCLUSIVELY 


A  BANDIT 

On  a  Split  Reel,  June  23 

Willy  is  a  rather  effeminate  young 
man,  and  is  abused  by  the  town  bully. 
He  suspects  that  the  bully  is  a  coward 
at  heart,  so  disguises  himself  as  a  bandit 
and  shoots  up  the  town.  Everybody,  in- 
cluding the  sheriff,  flees  in  terror,  and 
their  consternation  is  ludicrous  when 
they  discover  that  the  terrible  bandit  is 
none  other  than  harmless  Willy. 

PEEPING  PETE 

On  the  Same  Reel 

Jack  and  Pete  are  the  terrors  of  the 
town.  Jack  peeps  through  a  knothole  in 
the  fence  as  Mrs.  Pete  is  combing  her 
hair,  and  Pete  resents  this.  After  many 
threats  and  much  shooting,  the  men 
finally  come  together,  and  to  the  sur- 
prise of  the  people,  sit  down  and  have  a 
drink  together. 

HIS  CROOKED  CAREER 

Split  Reel,  June  26 

Pressed  by  poverty,  Schmalz  decides 
to  adopt  a  career  of  crime.  He  gets  the 
worst  of  everything  he  tackles.  This  is 
a  laughable  burlesque. 

THE  LARGEST  BOAT 

EVER  LAUNCHED 

SIDEWAYS 

On  the  Same  Reel 

During  the  launching  of  a  large  boat 
a  dude  flirts  with  a  girl  and  makes  her 
believe  the  ship  belongs  to  him.  He  is 
proven  to  be  a  "four-flusher"  and  driven 
away  in  derision.  Splendid  scenes  of  a 
large  boat  being  launched  are  shown. 


KEYSTONE  FILM  CO. 

Long  Acre  Bldg.,  42d  St.  and  Bdwy. 
NEW  YORK  CITY 

MUTUAL  PROGRAM  EXCLUSIVELY 


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THE  SEAL  OF 
SILENCE 

2  Reels,  June  27 

A  thrilling  story  of  the  East  and 
West,  with  scores  of  sensational  inci- 
dents,— the  great  strike,  the  riot,  the 
destruction  of  the  factory,  the  unjust 
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years  later  is  reunited  with  his  family 
through  a  stirring  chain  of  circum- 
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Scene  from  "The   Titer  Lily" 


Released  on  Wednesday,  July  2 

"THE  TIGER  LILY" 

An  animal  picture  with  a  real,  gripping 
story  behind  it — the  story  of  a  woman  torn 
by  jealousy  who  sends  a  tiger  to  destroy 
the  girl  she  hates,  little  knowing  that  the 
girl  is  her  own  daughter.  A  storm,  a  flash 
of  lightning,  a  villa  set  afire  and  in  it  the 
fast-coming  events  that  bring  the  destruc- 
tion of  the  Tiger  Lily  herself. 

It's  all  that  you  hoped  they  would  do 
some  day  with  a  wild  animal  theme.  The 
Vitagraph  actors  present   it  in   three  reels. 


Scene   from 
•The   Trapper's 
Mistake" 


Four  Multiples 
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These  are  the  features  that  indicate  the 
uniform  superiority  of  our  service.  But 
their  extreme  merit  must  not  make  you 
forget  that  more  than  forty  single  reel 
films  are  released  by  us  every  week — 
made  from  stories  just  as  vivid  and  strong 
and  gripping,  but  restricted  to  a  single 
reel  because  when  a  story  can  be  quickly 
told,  we  tell  it  quickly. 

Released,  Saturday,  June  28 

"THE  TRAPPER'S  MISTAKE" 

The  trapper's  wife  forgot  to  tear  up  the  note  that 
said  she  was  going  away.  So  when  the  Redskins  caught 
her  and  carried  her  off,  the  trapper  naturally  thought 
she  had  run  away  with  his  best  friend.  How  the  three 
meet  in  the  thick  of  a  fight  with  the  Indians,  how 
the  two  men  confront  each  other  and  the  woman 
explains — that's  the  skeleton  of  this  crackerjack  fron- 
tier photoplay  by  Pathe  Freres.     It's  in  two  reels. 

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Scene  from  "Shenandoah" 


that  show  the 
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Many  a  masterpiece  is  being  compressed 
into  a  single  reel,  for  we  won't  waste 
time  and  space.  When  we  let  a  film 
run  longer  than  one  reel,  you  can  depend 
on  it  that  the  material  demanded  a  mul- 
tiple. And  every  single  reel  is  packed 
full  of  "ideas  fromjlfirst  second  to 
last. 

Released  on  Monday,  June  30 

"THE  PENALTY  OF  CRIME" 

All  the  appeal  of  the  crook  play,  now  at  the  crest  of  popularity, 
is  in  this  ingeniously  conceived  story.  The  girl  who  is  sent  to 
fascinate  the  rich  young  jeweler  is  so  successful  that  he  falls  in 
love  with  her.  She  falls  in  love  too  and  wants  to  break  off  with 
the  underworld — but  her  pals  won't  let  her.  A  baggage  car  rob- 
bery, a  motor  car  chased  and  plunged  over  an  embankment — 
these  are  some  of  the  quick  events  that  follow.  The  Lubin 
Company  players  appear  in  this  gripping  story  in  two  reels. 

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Released  on  Friday,  July  4 

"SHENANDOAH" 

Uncle  Sam's  birthday  is  a  mighty  appro- 
priate release  date  for  the  best  battle  play 
ever  written  about  the  Civil  War. 

You  can't  beat  the  patriotic  appeal  of 
those  scenes  where  the  Federals  are  wav- 
ering, where  Gen.  Phil  Sheridan  gallops  in 
from  "twenty  miles  away,"  rallies  the  scat- 
tering forces  and  snatches  a  victory  out  of 
the  fire.    It's  a  Kalem  in  three  reels. 


Scene  from 
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of  Crime" 


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All   metal   baseboards. 

Extra  heavy  mitre  gears  on  Revolving  Shut- 
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Heavier  Balance  Wheel. 

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giving  tension  equally  on  both  sides  of  the 
film. 

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wear  on  the  plate  itself. 

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of  which  are  solid  steel  rods,  giving  greater 
rigidity.     Floor  sockets  are  also  supplied. 

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COMING  EDISON  RELEASES 


**  "Fortune  Smiles" 

Last  of  the  "Mary"  series.  Drama 
(i.ooo).     Released  Friday,  June  27th. 

Mary  goes  to  a  lawyer,  an  old  acquaintance, 
who  promises  assistance.  The  Craigs  arrive  in 
New  York  and  claim  her  fortune  at  the  Trust 
Company.  Just  as  they  are  about  to  receive  it. 
Mary  bursts  into  the  office  and  receives — a 
million  dollars. 

"The  Fly" 

Educational    (400).      Released    Satur- 
day, June  28th. 

A  film  that  every  person  should  see,  for  it 
shows    in  a    striking   and   convincing   way,    the 

dangers  to  which  we  are  all  exposed  as  long  as 
the  fly  is  permitted  to  pursue  his  filthy  course 
undisturbed. 


*  Circumstances  Make  Heroes  "     * 


Comedy    (600).      Released    Saturday, 
June  afith. 

Poor  Willie  didn't  really  mean  to  be  a  hero, 
but  when  the  burglar  stood  on  the  rug  by  the 
table  under  which  he  was  hiding,  he  just  had 
to  upset  him.  How  foolish  his  two  boastful 
rivals  felt  when  Willie  clasped  the  sheriff's 
daughter  in  his  arms. 

*       " The  Story  of  the  Bell" 

Dramatic   (1,000).     Released  Monday, 
June  30th. 

Just  after  young  Fairfax  climbed  into  the 
belfry  to  unmuffle  the  bell,  the  British  ap- 
peared and  the  sexton  started  tolling  it.  He 
lay  for  hours  beneath  the  clanging  monster 
until  a  girl  found  a  white  haired,  frenzied 
man  writhing  in  agony  under  the  ceaseless  din. 


"The  Patch  Work  Quilt" 

Dramatic    (980).      Released    Tuesday, 
July  1  st. 

The  patches  on  grandma's  quilt  recall  to  her 
mind  various  incidents  in  her  youth — her  first 
meeting  with  Jim.  their  wedding  and  the  uni- 
form she  made  with  her  own  hands  when  he 
departed  for  the  Civil  War.  never  to  return. 
A  delightful  story  full  of  gentle  pathos. 

*  "  All  on  Account  of  a  Transfer  " 

Comedy    (1,000).      Released    Wednes- 
day, July  2nd. 

They  are  engaged,  but  quarrel  because  shd 
adores  the  picture  of  a  famous  pianist.  They 
vow  never  to  speak  to  each  other  again,  but 
through  a  train  of  laughable  incidents,  they 
ar»-  mistaken  for  a  bride  and  groom  and  bow 
gracefully  to  the  inevitable. 


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Two  men  try  to  work  the  phone  at  once  and  get  in  a  mix-up. 

"THE  ZULU  KING' 


Split  Reel 
600  Feet.     RELEASED  JUNE  24th 

John  Smith,  being  henpecked,  ships  as  cook  on 
board  a  steamer  for  Africa.  There  he  is  captured 
by  the  Zulus  and  condemned  to  death.  He  tells 
them  that  he  is  bullet  proof  and  hands  them  his 
revolver  which  is  loaded  with  blanks.  Finding 
that  the  shots  take  no  effect,  they  make  Smith 
King.  Mrs.  Smith  follows,  the  Zulus  make  her 
Queen  and  she  immediately  sets  to  work  to  regu- 
late things,  making  Smith  a  fan  boy. 


*$ 

|U^^^ 

"THE  OTHER  WOMAN" 


1000  feet 

A  good  lesson  to  an  extravagant  wife. 


Thursday,  June  26th 


"BOB  BUYS  AN  AUTO" 


400  feet 

Another  good  "Bob  Thompson's  jobs." 


Friday,  June  27th 


"THE  BEAUT  FROM  BUTTE"    eoofeet 

A  picturesque  cowboy  is  unmasked. 


Friday.^June  27th 


"THE  LOVE  TEST" 


1000  feet 

A  very  dramatic  Western  story. 


Saturday,  June  28th 


"HER  ATONEMENT" 


1000  feet 

A  pathetic  story  of  Squaw  love. 


Monday,  June  30th 


LUBIN  TWO-REEL  PICTURES  ARE  FEATURES 

"THE  PENALTY  OF  CRIME"      SSSSfa.    Monday,^  30* 

A  strong  melodrama  with  railroad  and  automobile  chases,  a  terrible  accident  and  happy  denouement. 


A  HERO  AMONG  MEN" 


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TWO-REEL 


Wednesday,  July  9th 


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i^^WH^^  "THE     LION'S     BRIDE"  Drama  Monday,  June  23rd 

^ n§1in$$J  Rather  than  be  separated  from  its  mistress,  the  lion  kills  her  when  she  enters  its  cage 


for  the  last  time.     Daringly  dramatic. 

"NO     SWEETS"  Comedy  Tuesday,  June  24th 

In  an  effort  to  get  thin,  two  stout  people  are  threatened  with  divorce.    They  go  to  the 
gymnasium  and  there  everything  is  explained. 

"JACK'S  CHRYSANTHEMUM"    Comedy-Drama    Wednesday,  June  25th 

Jack  meets  a  sweet  little  Japanese  lady,  marries  her.     His  father's  objections  are  all 
removed,  when  the  old  gentleman  sees  her.     Taken  in  Japan. 

"HER     SWEETEST    MEMORY"    Comedy-Drama    Thursday,  June  26th 

The  gentlemanly  and  courteous  treatment  accorded  a  young  girl  of  lowly  birth  lifts 
her  to  a  higher  plane  of  ambition. 


"ONE  GOOD  JOKE  DESERVES  ANOTHER" 
"FIELD  SPORTS,  HONG  KONG,  CHINA" 


Comedy  and  Friday, 
Topical   June  27th 


1.  Bunny  plays  a  joke  on  a  young  friend,  who  goes  him  one  better.    2.  A  close  view  of 
athletics  in  China. 


"ONE  OVER  ON  CUTEY"| 
"CLOISONNE!  WARE" 


Comedy  and 

Educational 


Saturday, 1 
June  28th 


1.  Cutey's  heart  is  susceptible,  he  tries  to  make  a  double  conquest  and  gets  left  in  both. 

2.  The  marvellous  process  of  a  peculiar  pottery. 


NEW  YORK, 
LONDON  AND  PARIS. 


SIX- A -WEEK 

'ROUGHING  THE  CUB"— News- 
paper Comedy 

Monday,  June  30th 

"BINGLES  and  the  CABARET" 
"SIGHT-SEEING  IN  JAPAN" 
— Lively  Times  Tuesday,   July  1st 

"THE  SONG  BIRD  OF  THE  NORTH"— True  Story  of  the  War 

Wednesday,  July  2nd 

"SWEET  DECEPTION"— Delightful  Drama  Thursday,  July  3rd 

"AN  UNWRITTEN  CHAPTER"— Tells  a  Dramatic  Story 

Friday,  July  4th 

"LOVE'S  QUARANTINE"— Funny  Cure  Saturday,  July  5th 

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THREE  PARTS;  RELEASED  MONDAY,  JUNE  23rd. 

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ONE,   THREE   AND    SIX    SHEET    POSTERS    OF    ALL 
VITAGRAPH  SPECIAL  FEATURE  RELEASES. 


THE  VITAGRAPH  COMPANY  OF  AMERICA,  East  15th  Street  and  Locust  Avenue,   BROOKLYN,  N.  Y. 


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A  Stolen  Identity 


A  young  clubman  hits  upon  a  subterfuge  to  adjust  a  family  difficulty  and  has  an  exciting  experience. 
Released  Monday,  July  7  th  Special  1  and  3-sheet  posters 


The  Treachery  of  a  Scar 

The  most  thrilling  fire  scene  ever  produced  is 
presented  in  this  gripping  drama  which  deals 
with  a  peculiar  Nemesis  that  follows  a  thief. 

Special  1,  3  and  6-sheet  Posters 
Released   Wednesday,  July  9th 


Entertaining  Uncle 

John  Brennan  and  Ruth  Roland  in  a  screaming 
comedy. 

(on  the  same  reel) 

Cosmopolitan   New  York 

Interesting  views  of  the  diversified  sections  of 
our  great  metropolis. 

Released  Friday.  July  11th 


Rounding  Up  the  Counterfeiters 

The  resourcefulness  of  a  Federal  detective  enables  him  to  apprehend  a  band  of  desperate  criminals 
in  a  most  unusual  manner. 

Released  Saturday,  July  1 2th 

Shenandoah 

Bronson  Howard's  Famous  Civil  War  Drama  Complete  in  3  parts 

Special  Release  Friday,  July  4th  Special  1,  3  and  6- Sheet  Potters 

SPECIAL  NEWSPAPER  AND  PROGRAM   CUTS.    Six  different  scenes, 
depicting  thrilling  incidents.    Cuts  6o  CENTS  each,  postage  prepaid. 


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Saturday,  June  28,  1913 


Facts  and  Comments 

IT  used  to  be  the  proper  thing  for  the  big  newspapers 
to  deplore  the  existence  of  the  "cheap  moving  picture 
show"  in  their  respective  cities,  as  though  their  pres- 
ence was  something  to  be  ashamed  of.  Now  we  find  those 
same  newspapers  boasting  of  the  number  of  picture 
shows  they  have  in  their  towns.  The  Rochester  Democrat 
and  Chronicle,  in  an  editorial  half  a  column  long,  tells 
those  who  contemplate  visiting  that  city  that  "we  have 
picture  shows,  too."  It  insists  that  no  matter  what  the 
people  of  Toledo  and  Syracuse  may  be  used  to  at  home 
in  that  line,  they  are  assured  that  Rochester  has  pic- 
ture shows,  and  many  of  them. 

* 

Possibly  there  is  a  reason  for  this  change  of  front  by 
the  big  newspapers.  Picture  theaters  are  not  what  they 
used  to  be.  Instead  of  the  dark  and  not  infrequently  ill- 
smelling  store  show,  there  is  to  be  found  in  every  city 
beautiful  theaters  devoted  to  the  exhibition  of  motion  pic- 
tures. Rochester  is  no  exception  in  this  respect,  in  fact, 
one  must  go  to  cities  like  Rochester  to  find  the  highest 
average  improvement  in  the  picture  theater.  There  are  a 
few  examples  of  the  best  in  picture  theater  architecture  in 


New  York,  but  the  average  is  low  and  there  are  many  so- 
called  theaters  in  the  few  largest  cities  that  might  better 
be  eliminated.  The  "store  show"  is  like  a  red  rag  to  the 
reformer,  affording  him  material  for  many  a  crusade  that 
hurts  picture  exhibition  in  general.  We  all  want  picture 
theaters  and  many  of  them,  but  they  should  be  of  the  best 
type. 

*  *     * 

DURING  the  past  week  the  staff  of  the  Moving  Pic- 
ture World  has  been  greatly  entertained  by  a  num- 
ber of  "boosters"  for  the  National  Convention  and 
Exposition  of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League, 
which  is  to  be  held  in  July.  We  have  had  this  event 
dinned  into  our  ears  from  all  sides  until  we  find  it  dif- 
ficult to  think  except  in  terms  of  "convention  and  exposi- 
tion." Of  course,  we  are  trying  to  pass  the  all  pervading 
idea  along  with  the  purpose  that  all  members  of  the  trade 
will  be  prevailed  upon  to  attend  these  important  events. 
There  is  nothing  like  getting  together  and  exchanging 
ideas,  for  out  of  trade  conferences  comes  a  better  under- 
standing of  the  relations  between  the  different  branches 
of  that  trade.  Already  the  Exhibitors'  League  has  accom- 
plished much  in  the  way  of  betterment  for  the  business 
of  exhibiting  motion  pictures,  and  there  is  good  reason  to 
believe  that  greater  benefits  will  yet  accrue  through  its  ef- 
forts. Our  advice  to  exhibitors,  manufacturers  and  ex- 
change men  is  to  attend  the  big  convention  in  New  York 
in  July  and  get  acquainted ;  it  will  oil  the  wheels  of  com- 
merce. 

*  *     * 

THERE  is  a  temporary  lull  in  the  agitation  in  New 
York  City  for  an  ordinance  that  will  provide  suit- 
able regulation  for  the  motion  picture  theater.  When 
the  matter  was  last  brought  to  the  attention  of  Mayor 
Gaynor  he  denounced  certain  members  of  the  Board  of 
Aldermen  for  attempting  to  prevent  the  adoption  of 
proper  regulations  for  picture  theaters  because  they  were 
interested  in  other  forms  of  amusement  that  might  be  af- 
fected by  the  pictures.  Some  one  has  suggested  that  the 
question  might  be  a  suitable  one  to  present  to  the  grand 
jury,  as  that  course  was  successfully  adopted  when  the 
taxicab  ordinance  was  being  urged.  Another  ordinance 
has  been  proposed  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  it  will  pass. 
Picture  theaters  in  New  York  might  become  something 
better  than  store  shows  under  proper  conditions. 

*  *     * 

WHILE  the  greater  part  of  the  visible  product  of 
the  motion  picture  manufacturer  is  included  in 
releases  of  the  various  trade  organizations  un- 
der the  general  designations  "licensed"  and  "independent," 
there  seems  to  be  a  steadily  increasing  output  of  pictures 
made  by  concerns  not  included  in  the  combinations  men- 
tioned. This  product  consists  of  pictures  of  local  events 
in  scores  of  cities;  pictures  made  at  the  instance  of 
boards  of  trade  or  chambers  of  commence  of  cities  here 
and  there  throughout  the  country.  How  great  the  volume 
of  this  business  is  cannot  be  estimated,  but  it  is  sure  to 
form  a  considerable  percentage  of  the  total  film  product 
eventually.  Just  what  use  this  product  can  be  put  to 
besides  its  immediate  purpose  of  "boosting"  the  several 
towns  thus  exploited  is  not  clear,  but  if  it  is  made  with 
careful  attention  to  the  details  of  manufacture  it  should 
be  valuable  to  teach  the  people  in  every  part  of  the 
country  what  those  in  the  parts  pictured  are  doing. 
Something  in  the  line  of  education,  you  know. 

Following  the  example  of  the  Kaiser  and  King  Alphonso, 
King  George  has  given  orders  for  a  picture  theater  to  be 
fitted  up  in  Buckingham  Palace.  It  is  not  generally  known 
that  the  King  is  particularly  fond  of  seeing  moving  pictures, 
but  the  latter  move  is  being  taken  in  the  interests  of  the 
royal  children,  who  have  not  yet  visited  a  kinema. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 

We  Are  Discovered 

By  Louis  Reeves  Harrison. 


ENTER  Tank  Drama,  the  pirate  who  organized  a 
band  of  extortionate  villains  for  the  purpose  of 
controlling  all  the  first-class  theaters  in  the 
country.  He  has  found  out  that  there  is  money  to  be 
made  in  moving  pictures,  a  highly  creditable  discovery 
on  his  part  in  view  of  previous  underestimation,  and 
one  which  was  reached  after  long  investigation  of  the 
subject.  The  marvelous  sagacity,  the  high  artistic  sen- 
sibility, the  refinement  of  taste,  the  practical  knowledge 
of  stagecraft  which  produced  all  that  was  cheap  and 
vulgar  in  theatrical  presentation  and  so  disgusted  Ameri- 
can people  that  they  flocked  by  tens  of  millions  to  the 
moving  picture  shows — note  the  beneficent  influence  of 
greed — is  to  invade  the  New  Art  as  a  good  business 
proposition. 

The  entire  enlightened  world  is  now  interested  in 
the  development  of  what  was  once  thought  to  be  a 
divine  gift  and  a  rare  one  at  that,  which  may  still  be 
a  divine  gift  though  common  to  all  classes,  this  or  that 
superior  aptitude  which  has  been  repressed  by  crushing 
forces  of  inappropriate  environment,  what  is  generally 
understood  to  be  native  genius.  The  whole  drift  of 
public  interest  is  towards  the  fascinating  idea  which 
has  replaced  that  of  animal  breeding,  the  cultivation 
of  men  and  women  for  great  fields  of  achievement,  that 
they  may  advance  the  material,  mental  and  moral  prog- 
ress of  the  world. 

Tank  Drama  could  not  see  anything  in  it  for  him. 
The  actor  of  ability  meant  merely  an  actor  of  utility  for 
pecuniary  returns ;  the  native  playwright,  no  matter 
how  competent,  was  not  to  be  encouraged  when  foreign 
works  already  tested  could  be  had  for  a  low  price;  the 
thoughts,  tastes  and  emotions  of  a  progressive  public 
at  home  were  given  consideration  secondary  to  the 
character  of  more  conservative  civilizations  abroad. 
There  was  no  question  of  what  our  people  wanted,  but 
what  Tank  Drama  would  let  them  have,  and  much  that 
was  presented  merely  reflected  his  own  limited  capacity 
or  doubtful  taste. 

Tank  Drama,  Goliath  of  theatrical  philistines,  secured 
absolute  control  of  American  theaters  and  reserved  the 
favorite  houses  and  routes  for  what  never  rose  above 
sordid  standards.  No  matter  how  capable  the  actor,  how 
competent  the  dramatist,  if  he  dared  assert  the  liberty 
of  opinion  so  highly  valued  by  our  forefathers,  his  good  . 
name  was  blackened  and  his  works  discredited  by  in- 
sidious processes  that  lowered  the  profession  and  brought 
on  a  decay  of  public  interest  in  the  noble  art  itself.  Bold 
men  of  the  press  used  slings  of  sarcasm,  irony  and 
ridicule  in  vain.  It  remained  for  little  David  Movie  to 
hit  the  voracious  giant  bang  in  the  eye.  Very  naturally 
he  would  like  to  lay  hands  on  David.  Will  he  succeed? 
and? 

Listen  to  what  was  said  of  moving  pictures  a  short 
time  ago  by  men  who  ought  to  have  known  better  but 
did  not.  "The  moving  picture,  as  an  amusement,  lacks 
the  human  element.  It  can  never  be  art.  Nickleodeon 
audiences  are  casual  groups:  they  are  not  held  together 
by  any  effective  bond  of  common  interest  or  large  idea. 
The  moving  picture  business  needs  intelligent  guiding; 
that  is  its  one  hope.  Otherwise,  it  becomes  a  menace, 
socially,  morally  and  ethically."  Morally  and  ethically!  ! 
"The  nickleodeon  without  an  idea  behind  it  is  a  menace 
to  the  neighborhood.  Should  you  visit  several  of  them 
you  would  find  a  certain  monotony,  which  is  one  of  the 
insurmountable  facts  about  moving  pictures — the  mo- 
notony of  mechanical  interpretation." 


The  man  who  wrote  that  was  no  fool — he  was  mis- 
guided. It  may  not  have  occured  to  him  that  the  char- 
acter of  entertainment  offered  by  Tank  Drama  was 
directly  responsible  for  the  worst  ever  shown  on  the 
screen.  Far  wiser  was  Jane  Addams.  She  says,  while 
speaking  of  the  moving  picture  theater:  "It  affords  thou- 
sands the  only  chance  they  have  of  entering  the  realms 
of  mystery  and  romance,  the  only  place  where  they  can 
satisfy  that  craving  for  a  conception  of  life  higher  than 
that  which  the  actual  world  offers  them.  Hundreds  of 
young  people  attend  these  five-cent  theaters  every  evening 
in  the  week,  and  what  is  seen  and  heard  there  becomes 
the  sole  topic  of  conversation,  forming  the  ground  pat- 
tern of  their  social  life.  That  mutual  understanding 
which  in  another  circle  is  provided  by  books,  travel  and 
all  the  arts,  is  here  compressed  into  topics  suggested 
by  the  play." 

Can  the  production  of  moving  pictures  be  called  an 
art?  One  definition  of  the  word  is  "a  branch  of  learning 
regarded  as  an  instrument  of  thought."  Jane  Addams 
so  acknowledges  them  to  be.  Another  definition,  ap- 
plied more  particularly  to  fine  art,  is  "the  exhibition  of 
the  power  of  perceiving  the  beautiful  and  of  expressing 
it  in  artistic  forms ;  the  actual  production  or  construc- 
tion of  objects  beautiful  in  form,  color  or  sound."  The 
making  and  showing  of  moving  pictures  seems  to  consti- 
tute what  I  have  taken  the  liberty  of  terming  the  "New 
Art."  It  provides  the  information  ordinarily  given  by 
books  and  travel,  and  the  entire  trend  of  superior  pro- 
ductions is  towards  expressing  what  is  beautiful  in 
artistic  forms. 

Has  not  this  New  Art  done  more  in  its  period  of 
early  evolution  to  satisfy  human  craving  "for  a  concep- 
tion of  life  higher  than  that  which  the  actual  world 
offers  "  than  Tank  Drama  in  all  his  years  of  theatrical 
despotism  ?  Is  he  coming  into  the  game  for  what  there 
is  in  it,  or  for  the  purpose  of  improving  on  what  has 
already  been  done  ?  I  am  not  asking  these  questions  with 
apprehension  about  the  strength  of  present  forces  at 
work.  In  spite  of  our  tremendous  growth  in  popula- 
tion and  wealth,  the  patronage  at  large  theaters  has  sunk 
to  a  discreditable  level.  Our  people  have  outgrown  the 
salacious  standards  of  imported  drama,  and  leading 
producers  of  moving  pictures  are  so  steadily  rising  to 
the  insistent  demand  for  quality  of  artistic  performance 
that  they  are  beyond  the  financial  and  mental  reach  of 
Tank  Drama. 

One  can  only  feel  a  quiet  sense  of  amusement  over  the 
recent  change  of  attitude  on  the  part  of  Philistines  who 
affected  to  treat  the  New  Art  with  contempt,  who  have 
so  long  belittled  the  best  ideals  of  the  old  art,  who  have 
made  progress  in  it  next  to  impossible,  who  have  driven 
capable  actors  and  dramatists  to  other  fields  of  activity, 
who  have  debauched  and  degraded  their  own  business, 
seeking  refuge  in  the  camps  of  their  most  active  and 
intelligent  competitors.  Such  a  confession  of  weakness, 
instead  of  indicating  that  a  blight  upon  the  New  Art 
is  to  be  expected,  suggests  dawning  opportunity  for  the 
stage. 

The  stage  must  grow  dull  without  great  actors,  and 
great  acting  can  never  exercise  any  material  influence 
upon  intelligent  people  unless  great  roles  are  created  in 
plays  by  master  minds.  We  are  simply  looking  on  at 
the  downfall  of  Tank  Drama's  methods.  Nobody  will 
care  a  rap  so  long  as  the  producers  of  moving  pictures 
continue  to  follow  the  intellectual  drift  of  the  age  with 
strong  and  truthful  dramas  of  contemporaneous  life. 


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Jottings  From  a  Motion  Picture  Notebook 


By  W.  Stephen  Bush. 


Rome,  June  1st,  1913. 

BEFORE  leaving  Rome  I  did  as  most  Americans  do 
when  in  the  Eternal  City,  whether  on  a  special 
errand  or  on  general  principles — I  visited  Mon- 
signor  Kennedy,  the  rector  of  the  American  College.  He 
is  an  easy  man  to  see  and  hedged  about  with  no  ceremony. 

"Well,"  said  he  after  the  usual  courtesies,  "you  want 
me  to  arrange  an  interview  with  the  Pope?" 

Utterly  ignoring  the  Celtic  twinkle  in  his  eye  I  told 
the  Monsignor  that  the  readers  of  the  Moving  Picture 
World  would  indeed  be  greatly  interested  to  know  what 
the  Pope  thinks  about  Kinematog.raphy. 

"Well,"  said  the  Monsignor  with  a  sudden  assumption 
of  dignity  and  seriousness,  "I  cannot  speak  for  His  Holi- 
ness in  this  matter.  I  don't  see  how  we  could  find  out 
just  at  this  moment.  You  know  at  the  present  moment 
the  Holy  Father  receives  nobody  but  Cardinals  and 
foreign  bishops.  I  will  tell  you  this,  however:  Cardinal 
Merry  del  Val  is  the  greatest  moving  picture  enthusiast 
in  Rome.  He  has  a  class  of  boys,  in  whom  he  is  very 
much  interested,  and  every  Sunday  they  are  treated  to 
moving  pictures.  Now  last  Sunday  they  saw  the  Panama 
Canal  and  the  Sunday  before  that  they  saw  some  other 
fine  pictures  in  colors.  We  were  all  perfectly  delighted. 
Yes,  I  saw  the  pictures,  too,  and  I  think  I  enjoyed  them 
as  much  as  any  of  the  boys.  Now  I  am  not  the  spokes- 
man of  the  Cardinal,  but  I  will  say  he  thinks  very  highly 
of  moving  pictures." 

The  Monsignor  paused  here  for  a  moment  and  then 
went  on  in  his  lively  way: 

"Do  you  know  I  think  the  right  sort  of  motion  pictures 
will  be  the  greatest  educational  force  of  the  future? 
Now  mind  what  I  say!  the  right  sort.  I  would  not  be 
allowed  to  see  any  of  the  moving  picture  shows  in  Rome ; 
they  say  they  are  awful.  Put  me  down  as  the  earnest 
advocate  of  the  good  picture.  Why,  the  young  men  in 
the  college  went  to  see  "Quo  Vadis?"  the  other  day 
and  they  came  back   perfectly  delighted." 

It  was  my  pleasant  duty  to  tell  the  Monsignor  that  the 
American  producers  furnished  the  greater  part  of  the 
world's  film  supply  and  that  they  aimed  to  produce 
clean  films  and  to  elevate  the  moral  standard  of  the 
Kinematograph . 

"Now,"  I  continued,  "if  we  could  only  have  some 
official  declaration  from  some  unquestioned  high  authority 
it  would  be  help  to  all  who  work  for  the  advancement 
of  the  industry." 

The  Monsignor  smiled. 

"Well,"  said  he,  "you  ought  to  know  that  we  are  too 
sophisticated  in  Rome  for  anything  like  that.  It  would 
be  like  crossing  a  bridge  before  getting  anywhere  near 
the  river.  You  may,  however,  say  for  me  in  an  informal 
way  that  the  church  surely  approves  of  good  pictures.  As 
I  said  to  you  before,  the  motion  picture,  when  rightly 
used,  is  a  new  educator  of  wonderful  force.  I  am  a 
friend  of  moving  picture  men.  When  they  come  to  me 
for  help  in  getting  pictures  of  the  Pope  or  of  the  Vatican, 
I  always  do  my  best  for  them.  There  is  a  cameraman 
here  now  who  wants  me  to  get  the  Holy  Father's  consent 
for  a  series  of  motion  pictures  but,  in  the  Pope's  present 
state  of  health,  I  can  do  nothing  for  him." 

The  good  humor  and  the  gracious  manners  of  the 
Monsignor  have  made  him  one  of  the  most  popular  men 
in  Rome.  He  is  a  "friend  at  court"  for  the  motion  pic- 
ture and  I  hope  will  be  enrolled  on  the  list  of  honor- 
ary subscribers  to  the  Moving  Picture  World. 


When  the  Monsignor  said  the  shows  in  Rome  were 
bad,  he  put  it  mildly.  I  have  shot  under  the  mark  in 
saying  that  the  Italian  taste  favored  the  cheap  melo- 
drama. Since  then  I  have  in  obedience  to  stern  duty 
visited  a  number  of  moving  picture  theaters  in  Rome 
and  in  Naples.  At  first  I  tried  to  keep  track  of  the 
men  and  women  murdered  in  the  films,  but  as  a  rule  I 
had  to  give  up  at  the  end  of  the  first  five  hundred  feet. 
Men  stabbed  each  other  and  themselves ;  women  poisoned 
men;  the  knife,  the  razor,  the  hatchet  and  the  gun  were 
never  at  rest.  In  one  melodrama  a  man  was  tied  to  a 
wheel  and  drowned,  in  another  a  man  and  a  woman  were 
thrown  over  a  precipice  by  the  villain,  who  crossed  him- 
self after  viewing  the  remains.  That  was  the  end  of  the 
story.  Nor  is  this  the  worst.  If  at  any  time  since  the 
invention  of  Kinematography  there  has  been  a  case  of  a 
happy  marriage  in  Italy  it  has  entirely  escaped  the  at- 
tention of  the  Italian  film  producers.  In  the  Italian  films 
no  man  ever  settles  down  and  marries.  On  the  contrary, 
he  is  bent  on  making  trouble  for  trusting  heroines. 
Happily  the  heroines  as  a  rule  are  strong  and  stout  ladies, 
who  indeed  "carry  on  terribly"  when  they  find  out  how 
mean  a  hero  can  be,  but  who  it  may  confidently  be  ex- 
pected feel  quite  contented  over  a  glass  of  Frascati  and 
strawberries  after  the  mimic  agony  before  the  camera 
is  over. 

This  is  indeed  a  strange  world  and  we  must  keep  on 
guessing  to  the  end  of  the  chapter.  With  the  exception 
of  the  Vatican  museum  and  library,  there  is  probably  no 
greater  and  more  magnificent  storehouse  of  ancient  and 
medieval  art  than  the  Church  of  St.  John  of  Lateran. 
Now  within  a  stone's  throw  of  this  wonderful  repository 
of  man's  best  creations  there  are  four  small  motion  picture 
theaters  in  which  the  vilest  trash  imaginable  is  offered 
to  the  patrons.  To  an  even  greater  extent  than  with  us, 
the  audiences  here  consist  of  women  and  children.  More 
than  a  hundred  seats  are  occupied  by  half  grown  boys, 
who  break  out  into  a  perfect  storm  of  yells  and  cat-calls 
whenever  the  film  breaks  or  the  picture  is  interrupted  for 
any  reason.  The  language  used  by  these  boys,  ranging  in 
ages  from  10  to  15  years,  beggars  description.  It  may 
well  be  believed  that  under  these  circumstances  there  is 
mighty  little  demand  for  educational  pictures.  In  three 
out  of  five  theaters  they  would  be  howled  and  hissed  down 
by  the  young  "roughs"  who  practically  own  the  theater 
while  the  performance  is  going  on.  A  feeble  attempt  was 
made  to  have  educational  programs  in  certain  theaters  on 
certain  days  in  Naples,  but  there  was  no  response  what- 
ever from  the  public.  This  is  all  the  more  deplorable,  be- 
cause nowhere  in  Europe  is  education  needed  more  than 
in  Italy,  especially  in  Rome  and  Naples  and  all  through 
the  south  of  the  country.  This  state  of  affairs  has  at- 
tracted the  attention  of  the  Italian  government,  and  the 
Parliament  at  Rome  will  be  asked  to  deal  with  the  matter. 
It  is  proposed  among  other  things  to  impose  a  tax  of  10 
centesimi  a  meter  on  all  films  and  to  tax  the  tickets  of  ad- 
mission. One  might  ask  how  this  is  going  to  remedy 
things.  The  tax  alone  would,  of  course,  have  no  effect 
whatever  on  the  morale  of  the  films,  but  it  is  also  proposed 
to  exempt  from  this  taxation  all  educational  films  and  all 
theaters  where  pictures  of  an  educational  character  are 
shown. 

The  many  exhibitors  on  our  side  of  the  water  who  take 
a  laudable  pride  in  their  picture  and  who  study  how  to  get 
the  best  results  by  giving  the  picture  the  proper  size 
would  surely  be  benefited  by  a  view  of  the  great  paintings 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


in  the  Vatican  Library.  I  refer  now  especially  to  the 
mural  paintings,  but  I  wish  to  include  the  more  modern 
pictures  in  frames  also.  It  is  quite  possible  to  select  a 
size  fairly  suitable  for  all  kinds  of  pictures.  Of  course, 
the  size  of  the  theater  and  its  architectural  conditions  vary 
greatly,  but  on  the  basis  of  careful  observations  made  in 
the  Vatican  library  I  should  say  that  12  by  8  is  an  effec- 
tive size.  I  think,  however,  that  the  character  of  the  sub- 
ject and  the  size  of  the  picture  are  intimately  related. 
Pictures  showing  large  groups  of  people  in  action,  scenes 
of  battle,  mobs,  processions,  etc.,  appear  to  much  better 
advantage  on  a  larger  screen.  Where  the  subject  is 
purely  dramatic  and  the  action  is  carried  on  by  but  two  or 
three  people  a  smaller  screen  would  seem  to  be  indicated, 
while  scenic  pictures  would  probably  occupy  a  middle 
ground  between  the  purely  dramatic  and  the  spectacular. 
It  is  an  interesting  subject  and  I  do  not  believe  that  the 
possibilities  of  varying  the  size  of  the  picture  with  its 
character  have  ever  been  put  into  practice. 


THE  EVILS  OF  CENSORSHIP. 

As  an  evidence  of  what  trouble  censorship  can  put  motion 
picture  men  to,  here  is  an  illustration.  A  group  of  ex- 
hibitors and  exchange  men  from  various  parts  of  British 
Columbia  standing  upon  the  steps  of  the  capital  building, 
whence  they  had  come  to  protest  against  the  present  price 
of  $1  per  1,000  feet,  charged  by  the  censor.  They  also 
wanted  the  censor  to  be  responsible  for  the  films  while  in 
his  possession;  and  they  also  took  up  the  matter  of  chil- 
dren not  being  admitted  to  theaters  after  7  p.  m.  when  the 
curfew  allows  them  on  the  streets  until  9.  The  Attorney- 
General  of  the  Province  slipped  over  a  professional  opinion 


that  "personally"  he  would  much  prefer  to  see  the  children 
on  the  streets.  The  dignified  officials  condescended  to 
"take   the   matter  under  consideration." 

The  following  members  of  the  Columbia  Exhibitors' 
Association   were    present: 

Vancouver — W.  T.  Dewees,  Chas.  Schuberg,  A.  Corri- 
veau,  W.  Hansher,  J.  R.  Muir,  M.  Mclntyre.  New  West- 
minster— F.  Kerr.  Mission  Junction — Mr.  Bannister.  Vic- 
toria-»-J.   Christie,   H.   Mclntyre. 

The  following  exchange  men  were  present  to  help  in  the 
good  work:  Mr.  Taube,  manager  Canadian  Film  Exchange; 
Mr.  Meagher,  manager  General  Film  Co.;  Mr.  Holdsworth, 
manager  Mutual  Film  Service;  W.  E.  Morphy,  manager 
Pacific  Film  Exchange.    For  harrowing  details  see  page  1365. 


FLEW  THE  COOP. 

Mr.  O.  Scheibener,  of  2573  North  Clark  Street,  Chicago, 
writes  that  H.  H.  Lenard,  a  lecturer  employed  by  him,  has 
disappeared  with  slides  and  printed  copies  of  a  lecture,  en- 
titled "The  Bombardment  in  Mexico  City,"  which  Mr. 
Scheibener  says  he  can  prove  is  his  property.  Lenard  is 
also  accused  of  misappropriating  funds  of  several  theaters 
where  he  appeared.  He  is  described  as  being  stockily  built, 
SYi  feet  tall,  iron  gray  hair  and  mustache,  heavy  eyebrows, 
squint  eyes,  persuasive  manner,  little  finger  of  left  hand 
missing,  about  45  years  old.  Mr.  Scheibener  has  reason  to 
believe  that  this  man  is  working  his  way  toward  New  York, 
lecturing  in  small  towns  on  the  way.  Exhibitors  encount- 
ering him  are  requested  to  communicate  with  Mr.  Scheibener. 


Are  You  Ready  for  the  Exposition  ? 

Every  Exhibitor  Who  Can  Beg,  Borrow  or  Steal  the  Money 

Should  be  in  New  York  on  July  7. 

By   Hugh   Hoffman. 

THE  day  is  close  at  hand  for  the  opening  of  the  greatest 
demonstration  that  the  motion  picture  industry  has 
ever  had.  By  every  token  of  popular  fancy,  the  first 
International  Exposition  of  the  Motion  Picture  Arts,  to  be 
held  at  Grand  Central  Palace,  New  York  City,  July  7  to  12, 
should  prove  to  be  the  most  popular  trade  exposition  ever 
held.  The  motion  picture  business  is  a  quasi-public  enter- 
prise by  nature.  There  is  more  about  it  to  interest  the  lay- 
man that  could  be  found  in  any  other  trade  that  could  be 
mentioned.  Its  appeal  is  universal,  and  the  most  disinter- 
ested, or  eve.i  the  most  antagonistic,  visitor  to  such  an  ex- 
position  will   find   something   there   to   interest   him. 

The  question  now,  Mr.  Motion  Picture  Man,  is:  Are  you 
ready  for  this  great  exposition?  If  you  are  a  manufacturer 
of  anything  pertaining  to  the  trade,  have  you  made  your 
arrangements  to  be  represented  at  this  comprehensive  dis- 
play? If  you  are  an  exhibitor,  have  you  made  your  plans 
to  be  there?  The  time  is  short  and  whatever  is  done  must 
be  done  without  delay.  Those  who  are  inclined  to  put 
things  off  until  the  last  moment  are  hereby  notified  that  it 
is  time  to  wake  up  and  get  a  move  on.  No  manufacturer 
can  justly  complain  of  a  poor  location  if  he  waits  until  every 
other  manufacturer  has  made  his  choice.  No  exhibitor 
should  complain  if  hotel  accommodations  are  not  reserved 
for  him,  if  he  vacillates  until  the  last  moment  before  giving 
notice.     (See  page  1373  for  Hotel  Committee.) 

A  trip  to  New  York  is  something  that  every  American 
owes  himself.  From  a  business  standpoint  it  gives  a  better 
perspective  of  our  national  importance.  In  a  social  way 
it  is  an  advantage  to  have  seen  the  most  wonderful  city  in 
the  world.  The  memories  of  such  a  visit  are  the  kind  that 
linger  for  years  and  provide  topics  of  conversational  in- 
terest, which  are  really  worth  all  they  cost.  A  trip  to  New 
York  is  an  investment,  when  one  considers  the  amount  of 
education  and  the  inexhaustible  fund  of  interesting  informa- 
tion that  the  visitor  carries  home  with  him.  It  is  more 
beneficial  than  a  year  at  school,  and  far  more  pleasant. 
Therefore,  it  behooves  every  Western  exhibitor,  especially 
at  this  time,  to  make  himself  and  his  frau  a  present  of  a 
trip  to  New  York.  For  the  motion  picture  man  this  is  the 
psychological  moment  to  buy  the  railroad  ticket  and  tell 
the  "old  girl"  that  you  are  both  going  on  your  second 
honeymoon,  so  long  postponed.  You  know,  two  weeks' 
notice  isn't  much  for  a  woman.  If  you  don't  let  her  know, 
you  are  liable  to  have  her  tell  you  at  the  last  minute,  that 
she  hasn't  a  thing  to  wear.  Then  you'll  have  to  bring  her 
in  a  barrel. 

The  moving  picture  man  from  out  of  town  will  find  that 
his  visit  to  this  convention  is  not  going  to  cost  half  as 
much  as  though  it  were  made  at  any  other  time.  A  hun- 
dred or  more  big  sight-seeing  excursions  have  been  pre- 
pared for  him  free  of  all  cost.  Theaters  will  be  open  to 
him;  hotel  rates  have  been  made  for  him;  free  lunch  and 
banquets  will  stare  him  in  the  face  every  day.  The  large 
manufacturers  are  going  to  show  the  exhibitor  that  they 
realize  he  is  the  backbone  of  the  business.  The  New  York 
exhibitors  are  going  to  show  the  visiting  exhibitors  that  they 
are  all  friends  and  brothers  in  a  great  cause.  The  visiting 
exhibitor  will  meet  old  friends  and  find  new  ones.  Moving 
pictures  will  be  in  the  air,  in  the  newspapers,  on  the  bill- 
boards, and  the  moving  picture  man  will  own   the  town. 

But  this  is  not  all.  The  exhibitor  will  have  a  chance  to 
see  at  first  hand  what  a  really  powerful  institution  the 
Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  America  is  getting 
to  be.  He  will  find  that  the  real  exhibitors  of  America  are 
a  fine  body  of  intelligent  men  who  are  determined  to  put 
their  business  on  a  sound  commercial  basis  and  ask  no 
odds  of  anyone.  Rome  wasn't  built  in  a  day,  and  in  like 
manner  the  Exhibitors'  League  has  yet  much  building  be- 
fore it,  but  great  strides  have  been  made.  So  to  you,  Mr. 
Exhibitor,  out  on  the  firing  line,  we  say:  Come  to  New 
York  and  you  will  return  home  with  a  heart  full  of  fresh 
hope  and  courage  that  will  be  worth  more  than  the  price  of 
the  journey. 


AMERICAN  FILM  MFG.  CO.  ANNOUNCEMENT. 

In  future  a  two-reel  feature  of  more  than  usual  merit  will 
be  issued  every  other  Monday.  With  these  releases  will  be 
marketed  one,  three  and  six  sheet  posters.  Also  single-page 
heralds  or  dodgers. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


1339 


"Shenandoah"   (Kaiem) 

By  George   Blaisdell. 

HERE  is  a  real  Fourth  of  July  release.  It  is  in  three 
parts,  although  it  well  might  have  been  four,  as  when 
this  fine  adaptation  from  Bronson  Howard's  famous 
war  drama  was  assembled  it  made  4,400  feet.  It  was  re- 
duced, judiciously  and  not  ruthlessly,  to  3,000.  Kenean  Buell, 
who  produced  the  picture,  went  to  the  Shenandoah  Valley 
among  other  places  for  his  settings  and  battle  locations.  The 
greatest  pains  have  been  taken  to  make  the  screen  square 
with  history— that  is,  of  course,  aside  from  the  romance,  of 
which  there  is  here  aplenty.  In  fact,  there  are  several  dis- 
tinctly defined  channels  through  which  it  runs.  For  it  we 
have  reason  to  be  thankful.  It  is  probably  saying  nothing 
new  to  suggest  that  directors  of  spectacular  battle  pictures 
are  prone  to  depend  for  putting  over  their  productions  not 
on  heart  interest,  but  on  spectacle;  and  the  latter  as  a 
spectacle  cannot  firmly  hold  an  assemblage  of  thoughtful 
persons  for  much  more  than  500  feet  unless  unusual  skill  is 
manifest  in  the  direction.  Here  we  have  both  essentials. 
For  this,  of  course,  we  are  indebted  to  the  draimatist  of 
power  and  quality  who  conceived  the  plot.  If  there  is  one 
criticism  the  writer  cared  to  offer  it  would  be  the  size  of  the 
cast,  which  will  make  difficulty  for  some  in  clearly  following 
the  story.  However,  this  is  a  point  where  the  stage  and  the 
screen  are  not  on  even  terms;  furthermore,  a  shorter  cast 
would  not  be  the  well-known  "Shenandoah." 

As  to  the  spectacular  side  of  this  picture  it  is  necessary  to 
begin  with  the  first  scene — a  great  Southern  mansion;  there 
is  in  progress  a  ball.  At  3:30  in  the  morning  begins  the 
bombardment  of  Fort  Sumter.  Through  the  great  windows 
you  see  in  the  darkness  the  distant  flashes  of  big  guns.  A 
little  later  we  see  across  the  water  a  mile  or  more  away 
historic  Fort  Sumter.  It  is  sunrise.  A  faint  puff  of  smoke 
shows.  For  the  moment  one  feels  it  is  the  morning  of  the 
battle — the  day  that  was  fired  "the  shot  that  was  heard  around 
the  world."  Later  it  occurs  to  mind  that  it  is  the  orthodox 
sunrise  gun  of  an  army  post.  The  first  part  concludes  with 
a  night  attack  and  defense  between  land  forces,  which  is  a 


marvel  of  effective  photography.  Tinted  red,  the  flashes  of 
the  guns  against  a  background  of  absolute  blackness  make  a 
scene  to  be  remembered.  There  is  a  sensational  escape  of 
prisoners  by  way  of  a  tunnel  under  the  walls,  emerging 
through  the  turf.  One  of  the  prettiest  pictures  is  of  a  Con- 
federate wigwag  station  on  a  mountain,  the  city  of  tents  being 
just  discernible  in  the  flat  mist-veiled  valley  far  below. 

The  battle  preceding  the  beginning  of  Sheridan's  ride  is 
finely  worked  out.  There  is  a  variety  to  the  scenes  that  gives 
a  freshness  to  them  and  nullifies  any  possibility  of  monotony. 
In  one  view  a  battery  of  six  Parrot  guns  is  busily  engaged. 
Hundreds  of  men  are  spread  over  the  fields.  When  the 
route  of  the  Federals  begins  we  see  them  throwing  away 
muskets  in  the  effort  to  remove  every  impediment  to  rapid 
progress.  The  historic  ride  of  Sheridan  is  shown  at  the  start, 
at  "fifteen  miles  away,"  at  ten  miles,  at  five  miles  and  then 
in  the  center  of  the  stragglers,  rallying  them  and  urging  them 
to  turn  back.  "Bob"  Vignola  is  a  splendid  Sheridan  and 
upholds  the  reputation  as  a  horseman  of  the  famous  cavalry 
commander.  The  spirited  animal  under  him  spins,  toplike, 
and  maneuvers  among  the  soldiers  with  speedy  accuracy. 
The  portrayal  of  "Little  Phil"  is  one  of  the  features  of  the 
picture. 

The  story  itself,  as  previously  intimated,  has  many  ramifi- 
cations. There  are  General  Haverhill  and  his  second  wife, 
the  latter  of  whom  through  an  unfortunate  chain  of  in- 
cidents beginning  with  an  insult  offered  her  by  Edward 
Thornton,  subsequently  in  the  Confederate  secret  service, 
and  her  fear  to  tell  her  husband  the  truth,  aroused  in  the 
breast  of  the  latter  the  fear  that  there  had  been  com- 
mitted something  more  serious  than  an  indiscretion;  the 
ostracized  son  of  the  general,  and  a  wife  and  baby;  Kerchival 
West  and  his  sister,  Madeline,  in  love  with  Gertrude  Illing- 
ha/m  and  her  brother,  Robert,  and  several  others. 

If  there  are  thrills  throughout  the  picture,  for  many  there 
will  be  a  tear  at  the  end,  when  General  Haverhill,  officer 
in  Sheridan's  cavalry,  comes  to  Washington,  and  meeting 
the  wife  of  his  outcast  son,  learns  that  the  lieutenant  he 
had  sent  on  a  fatal  mission  was  none  other  than  his  own 
boy.  The  sorrow  of  the  general  is  mitigated  by  the  knowl- 
edge   that    the    memory   of   a   youthful    peccadillo    has    been 


Battle  Scene  from  Kalem's  Three-Reel  Production  of  Bronson  Howard's  "Shenandoah." 


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blotted  out  by  blood  bravely  shed.  In  the  room  at  the  time 
stands  his  own  wife,  whom  he  had  wronged  when  he  be- 
lieved he  was  right;  on  his  knees  he  asks  forgiveness. 
Henry  Hallam  as  General  Haverhill  is  as  appealing  in  the 
last  scenes  in  the  home  as  he  was  soldierly  in  the  field. 
Alice  Hollister  is  good  as  the  wife.  Hal  Clements  in  the 
unpopular  role  of  Captain  Thornton  stands  out.  The  re- 
mainder of  the  long  and  excellent  cast  is  intrusted  to  the 
best  players  of  the  combined  Kalem  companies  playing  in 
the   South. 

Just  a  word  as  to  two  men  who  do  not  appear  on  the 
screen,  but  whose  work  shows  in  everv  scene — Mr.  Buell, 
the  director,  and  George  Hollister,  the  photographer.  Both 
are  entitled  to  praise — the  one  for  his  skill  in  arranging  and 
executing  details,  the  other  for  his  marvelous  camera  work. 

"Beauty  and  the  Beast"    (Rex) 

By  George  Blaisdell. 

WHEN  within  a  few  feet  of  where  you  are  sitting  watching 
a  screen  presentation  there  is  being  enacted  a  stern 
drama  of  life — a  battle  for  the  possession  of  control  of  a 
great  film  company,  flashes  of  which  at  times  are  visible  through 
an  open  door — it  is  hardly  fair  to  a  director  to  attempt  an  esti- 
mate of  his  production.  Such  was  the  predicament  of  this  re- 
viewer when  following  the  splwidid  adaptation  of  the  old  fairy 
story  of  "Beauty  and  the  Beast,"  which  H.  C.  Matthews  has 
made  for  the  Rex  Company.  The  three  reels  had  not  yet  been 
to  the  factory  for  the  finishing  touches — all  were  in  black  and 
white;  but  it  is  not  difficult  to  imagine  the  added  charm  of 
viewing  this  picture  when  the  titles  are  inserted  and  there  is 
given  to  many  of  the  scenes  a  judicious  tinting.  While  the  pho- 
tography of  the  interiors  is  not  at  all  times  what  it  might  be, 
this  cannot  be  said  of  the  exteriors.  In  the  latter  it  is  uni- 
formly excellent — sharp,  clear.  The  settings  are  chosen  with 
care  and  discrimination ;  the  artificial  are  noteworthy  for  atten- 


Scene  from  "Beauty  and  the  Beast"  (Rex). 

tion  to  details  so  essential  to  a  costume  or  period  picture;  the 
natural,  the  outdoor,' are  selected  with  an  eye  for  artistic  effect. 
There  are  many  fine  scenes.  One  of  the  best  is  the  opening, 
showing  a  street.  There  is  a  lively  sword  fight.  The  denuncia- 
tion later  by  the  witch  of  the  prince,  where  the  latter  is  trans- 
formed into  the  beast  and  all  the  court  followers  scatter  in 
panic  through  the  pillared  corridors,  is  strong  dramatically. 
Another  scene,  as  novel  as  it  is  interesting,  is  where  Beauty, 
gone  to  the  palace  to  take  upon  herself  the  penalty  imposed  by 
the  Beast  upon  her  father  as  a  punishment  for  taking  a  rose 
from  the  palace  gardens,  looks  in  the  placid,  dark  waters  of  the 
marble-rimmed  pool  and  sees  the  vision  of  her  father  ill  at 
home.  It  is  a  striking  conception.  The  final  picture,  the  arrival 
of  Beauty  transformed  into  a  princess  and  the  Beast  reverted  to 
the  prince,  is  full  of  charm.  The  court  is  drawn  up  in  front  of 
the  palace.  In  the  background  are  stately  rows  of  heavily 
foliaged  trees  and  behind  them  a  range  of  mountains. 

Elsie  Albert,  who  portrays  Beauty,  seems  peculiarly  adapted 
to  these  pretentious  fairy  productions.  She  does  excellent  work 
in  this  picture,  especially  in  the  scenes  immediately  following 
her  detention  by  the  Beast;  for  instance,  where  she  sits  discon- 
solate at  the  feast  prepared  by  her  captor — her  countenance  re- 
vealing as  it  tries  to  conceal  her  fear.  That  "The  Beauty  and 
the  Beast"  is  an  expensive  production  is  apparent.  Likewise  is 
it  apparent  that  the  money  has  been  expended. 


'The  Jealousy  of  Jane"    (imp) 

By  George  Blaisdell. 

IN  this  single-reel  comedy,  which  was  released  June  16, 
Jane  Gail  gives  a  delightful  portrayal  of  the  wife  away 
in  the  country,  whose  jealousy  of  her  husband  is  aroused 
by  a  note  from  her  very  kind  next-door  neighbor.  We  see 
the  circumstances  under  which  the  husband  begins  his  first 
day  of  loneliness — his  efforts  to  cook  his  breakfast.  In 
strong  contrast  to  his  harrowing  experiences  is  the  picture 
of  the  wife  and  baby  propped  up  in  bed  gayly  partaking  of 
good  things.  The  baby  literally  tries  to  stand  on  his  head; 
the  father  figuratively  is  doing  so.  The  husband  goes  in 
search  of  a  cook.  The  neighbor  sees  him  escorting  a  veiled 
woman  into  his  home.  Of  course  she  does  not  know  the 
female  is  of  color;  she  sends  word  that  "while  you  are  away 
your  husband  is  entertaining  a  woman  in  your  house."  The 
wife  is  shortly  back  in  town  with  fire  in  her  eye.  It  is  even- 
ing. She  goes  home  and  enters,  quietly,  leaving  the  baby 
in  the  machine  in  care  of  the  driver.  One  of  the  first  ob- 
jects her  eyes  light  on  is  a  veil.  She  picks  it  up;  also  she 
picks  up  a  knife.  The  husband  hears  a  strange  sound.  He 
takes  out  his  revolver.  The  cook,  preparing  to  retire,  is 
overheard  by  the  wife.  Instantly  she  goes  to  the  door  and 
demands  admittance.  No  answer  being  returned,  an  assault 
on  the  door  is  made  and  soon  the  knife  shows  through.    The 


Scene  from  "The  Jealousy  of  Jane"   (Imp). 

cook  climbs  onto  the  fire-escape  as  the  wife  opens  the  door 
and  locks  it.  The  husband  comes  to  the  door  and  through 
the  break  inserts  his  pistol.  He  begins  firing.  The  wife  is 
behind  the  dresser.  The  chauffeur,  hearing  the  firing,  hides 
in  the  icebox.  The  baby  is  amusing  himself  with  a  toy 
pistol  in  the  machine.  A  policeman  hearing  the  disturbance 
sends  in  a  call  for  the  wagon.  The  husband,  coming  down- 
stairs, sees  the  cover  of  the  icebox  move  and  reloads  and 
blazes  away  again.  The  wife  runs  to  the  window  and,  com- 
ing in  contact  with  a  frightened  black  face,  turns  only  to  be 
grabbed  by  a  determined  policeman.  Downstairs  go  the 
three,  where  the  policeman  adds  to  his  "bag"  the  husband 
and  driver.  At  the  station  house  the  man  on  the  desk 
finally  straightens  things  out,  when  the  wife  remembers 
there  is  also  a  baby.  A  wild  rush  is  started  back  home, 
where  the  little  one  is  found.  By  the  way,  Jane  Gail  has  a 
method  of  carrying  a  youngster  that  is  as  unusual  as  it  is 
convenient.  There  is  an  amusing  scene  before  explanations 
are  made  to  the  satisfaction  of  all. 


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"The  Trap" 


Two-Reel  Vitagraph. 

Reviewed  by  Louis  Reeves  Harrison. 

WILLIAM  HUMPHREY  has  put  over  another  drama 
of  contemporaneous  life  with  delightful  ensembles, 
strong  cast  and  an  effective  sense  of  beauty.  He  is 
helping  to  make  the  production  of  moving  pictures  a  verit- 
able art.  His  own  personality  as  an  actor  has  contributed 
not  a  little.  He  is  getting  rid  of  his  theatrical  artificiality 
without  losing  the  benefits  of  his  experience  on  the  stage. 
Edith  Storey  is  achieving  a  spirituality  that  was  lacking  in 
her  early  performances.  Lytton,  Lincoln  and  Northrup  pro- 
vide a  strong  background  in  roles  that  lack  individual  op- 
portunity. I  am  one  who  believes  in  the  influence  of  the 
actor  on  the  audience — he  is  the  interpreter — but  he  must 
have  something  to  interpret. 

It  may  possibly  be  seen  that  all  I  have  been  saying  these 
three  years  on  characterization  has  in  it  something  vital  to 
the  success  of  moving  pictures  in  a  very  large  way.  A  man 
who  is  a  veritable  playwright  keeps  the  actor  always  in  mind. 
What  one  conceives  the  other  must  make  known  to  the 
public,  but  there  must  be  enough  in  the  conception,  enough 
character,  to  stimulate  the  actor  and  supply  some  vent  for 
his  gifts  of  personality.  When  he  is  at  his  best  the  audience 
is  most  interested.  Lincoln's  role  in  this  screen  story  is 
inane;  that  of  Northrup  does  not  show  conscience  until 
after  intense  greed  is  put  forward  as  a  dominant  characteris- 
tic, and  absolutely  no  marked  trait  is  ascribed  to  that  of 
Lytton.  All  three  of  these  men  are  up  against  trying  to  look 
and  act  something  that  is  not  there. 

Take,  for  instance,  the  part  of  Bank  President,  or  that  of 
any  business  leader  who  is  supposed  to  have  the  power  of 
judging  what  is  best  in  commercial  ends  to  be  pursued,  or  in 
means  for  attaining  those  ends.  He  is  in  real  life  very  much 
like  those  at  the  head  of  the  Vitagraph  Company  in  knowl- 
edge of  men  and  affairs  gained  by  experience.  On  the 
screen  he  is  a  dummy.  He  does  his  most  important  business 
in  a  room  easily  accessible  to  servants  and  callers,  compro- 
mises himself  and  his  associates  on  paper  and  exhibits  one  or 
another  form  of  carelessness  in  handling  that  document  that 
is  out  of  all  accord  with  his  training  and  habits.  Then,  when 
suspicion  is  directed  to  the  butler,  it  would  be  more  like  the 
Lytton  type  of  banker  to  throttle  the  servant  and  force  him 
to  make  an  attempt  to  recover  the  stolen  papers. 

It  is  a  fine  idea  to  have  the  difficulty  solved  by  a  splendid 
young  American  girl,  but  situations  are  forced  in  order  to 
make  it  easy  for  her,  when  higher  interest  would  be  aroused 
by  a  more  difficult  course.  I  expected  one  of  her  forearm 
to  go  to  the  villain's  room  and  knock  the  stuffing  out  of  him, 
even  if  she  did  not  rip  open  his  wall  safe — she  might  have 
choked  the  combination  out  of  him.  I  am  not  asking  for 
mere  action,  but  for  action  that  indicates  strong  character. 
There  is  no  need  of  brutal  extravagance,  but  the  personality 
of  the  banker  and  his  spirited  daughter,  especially  that  of 
the  types  selected  to  portray  these  parts,  indicates  to  those 
in  front  greater  energy  of  conduct  than  that  shown  on  the 
screen. 

The    screen    is    destined    to    reproduce    in    dramatic    story 


larger  and  deeper  phases  of  human  nature  than  the  stage  has 
ever  done.  It  can  interestingly  portray  the  influences  of 
heredity  and  environment  and  those  circumstances  which 
formulate  character.  "The  Trap"  is  along  the  right  lines, 
and  there  is  a  vast  amount  of  art  shown  in  its  production, 
but  I  look  for  improvement  from  Humphrey  in  treatment 
and  choice  of  theme. 


ESSANAY'S  NEW  STUDIO. 

Charles  R.  Holmes,  writing  from  San  Francisco  under  date 
of  June  11,  says: 

On  Monday,  June  16,  the  new  $50,000  plant  of  the  Essanay 
company  at  Niles,  Cal.,  will  be  put  into  commission,  a  bail 
marking  the  completion  of  the  project. 

In  the  year  since  the  Anderson  section  moved  to  Niles 
Canon,  the  Western  home  of  Essanay  has  been  a  barn  with 
an  open  air  stage,  Mr.  Anderson's  private  office  being  a  tent 
beside  the  entrance.  Under  these  adverse  conditions 
production  has  been  speeded  up  until  the  average  produc- 
tion has  run  between  two  and  three  thousand  feet  of  nega- 
tive a  week. 

The  new  structure  is  a  steel  shell,  with  brick  facing,  and 
has  an  indoor  stage  50  x  50,  ten  dressing  rooms,  a  carpenter 
shop,  proof  room,  property  room,  paint  bridge,  and  ward- 
robe room.  There  will  also  be  a  fireproof  concrete  develop- 
ing room  and  a  film  vault.  An  outdoor  stage  60  x  75  feet  will 
enable  two  companies  to  work  at  once  on  interiors,  with 
plenty  of  room  for  other  settings. 

Close  at  hand  is  a  commodious  stable  for  the  riding  stock 
and  four  additional  bungalows  have  been  built,  bringing  the 
Essanay  village  up  to  ten  houses  in  addition  to  the  film 
buildings.  Tennis  courts  have  been  laid  out,  the  baseball 
diamond  has  been  leveled  and  improved  and  from  a  camp  the 
Niles  establishment  has  become  a  small  city. 

Niles,  as  a  town,  will  celebrate  the  Fourth  of  July  with 
broncho  busting,  bull  riding  and  similar  diversions  under 
the  management  of  Bill  Cato,  chief  of  the  Essanay  cowboy 
staff.  It  was  found  that  none  of  the  nearby  larger  towns 
had  planned  any  celebration  and  the  citizens  broached  the 
matter  to  G.  M.  Anderson,  who  threw  himself  into  the 
breach  with  characteristic  enthusiasm.  As  a  wind  up  to  the 
festivities  there  will  be  a  realistic  stage  coach  robbery  that 
will  be  participated  in  by  all  the  contestants  with  an  old- 
time  Concord  coach  as  the  object  of  attack.  This  will  be 
filmed  by  the  Essanay  cameramen  and  will  subsequently  be 
shown  in  a  release.  In  the  evening  the  studio  will  be  thrown 
open  and  two  bands  will  provide  dance  music  for  the  indoor 
and  outdoor  stages,  which  together  will  accommodate  500 
persons  without  crowding. 

A  number  of  new  people  have  been  added  to  the  Niles 
company  and  the  production  increased.  It  will  be  welcome 
news  to  his  many  admirers  that  Mr.  Anderson  will  soon 
alternate  between  Western  and  the  more  ambitious  produc- 
tions made  possible  by  the  increased  facilities. 

Miss  Bessie  Sankey  has  left  the  company  and  Miss  Evelyn 
Selbie  is  playing  the  leads  not  only  for  Mr.  Anderson,  but 
the  other  sections  of  the  company.  She  is  working  tremen- 
dously hard,  though  the  releases  show  no  abatement  in  the 
force  or  finish  of  her  work. 


Scenes  from  "The  Trap,"  by  the  Vitagraph  Company. 


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*' Quicksands"  (American) 

Reviewed  by  James  S.  McQuade. 
"/^UICKSANDS,"   a   two-reel   subject   by   the   American, 

(    1    will    be    released   June    30.     The    title    is   symbolical, 

^«T  and  is  used  to  convey  an  impression  of  the  treacher- 
ooting  of  young  men  who  have  betrayed  the  trust  re- 
posed in  them.  In  this  case,  one  of  the  young  men  at  least 
suffers  for  his  violation  of  the  law,  and  learns  to  make 
atonement  in  a  way  that  makes  a  strong  appeal  to  the  best 
that  is  in  all  of  us.  The  other  criminal,  so  far  as  the  story 
reveals,  escapes  the  outward  consequences  of  his  act;  but 
sufficient  is  shown  in  the  pictures  to  convince  one  that  pun- 
ishment will  be  meted  out  to  him  in  a  way  that  is  hard  to 
bear.  The  woman  he  loves,  and  whom  he  afterwards  mar- 
ries, is  aware  of  his  guilt.  It  requires  a  stretching  of  the 
imagination  to  conceive  how  the  woman  could  have  married 
him  under  the  circumstances.  ... 

The  American's  No.  1  company  has  been  employed  in  the 
production,  and  the  members  can  be  complimented  on  their 
skillful  impersonations  of  the  characters.  Warren  Kerrigan, 
Miss  Charlotte  Burton  and  Miss  Vivian  Rich  appear  in  the 
leading  parts,  and  Jack  Richardson  and  George  Periolat  take 
the  principal  character  roles.  There  is  quite  a  number  of 
fine  exterior  scenes,  among  them  several  marine  views  of 
striking  attractiveness. 

Frank  Wilson  (Warren  Kerrigan)  loves  Helen  Hubbard 
(Charlotte  Burton),  and  lives  beyond  his  means  to  buy  her 
costly  presents.  He  is  a  trusted  clerk  in  the  office  of  Helen's 
father  (Geo.  Periolat).  His  own  father  is  in  danger  of  dis- 
grace, owing  to  financial  troubles.  In  the  hope  of  assisting 
him,  Frank  embezzles  money  from  his  employer  and  loses  it 
on  the  stock  market. 

Unable  to  face  the  exposure  of  his  crime,  Frank  flees  the 
country.  He  secures  work  as  a  supernumerary  on  a  schooner 
bound  for  the  South  Pacific.  During  the  voyage,  the  sailors 
mutiny.  Frank  sides  with  the  captain,  and  both  men  are  cast 
adrift  in  mid-ocean,  in  a  small  boat,  with  scanty  provisions. 
After  many  perils  and  hardships,  their  small  craft  is  washed 
ashore  on  an  island,  in  the  southern  seas.  The  captain  dies 
as  they  reach  land,  but  Frank  is  succored  and  nursed  back  to 
health  by  a  good  missionary  and  his  daughter,  Ruth  (Vivian 
Rich).  Ruth  is  a  beautiful  girl  of  tender  heart  and  lofty 
ideals.  She  learns  to  love  Frank  and  he  returns  her  love 
with  affectionate  regard.  His  heart  is  still  in  the  keeping  of 
Helen  Hubbard,  away  back  home,  and  he  longs  for  a  sight 
ot  her  and  for  redemption  from  his  sin. 

In  the  meantime,  Helen,  learning  of  Frank's  disgrace,  sells 
all  the  presents  given  her  by  him  and  pays  back  to  her  father 
the  money  stolen.  A  new  clerk,  Warren  Seymour  (Jack 
Richardson),  takes  the  place  of  Frank,  and  Helen  shows  him 
marked  favor.  This  in  time  ripens  into  love,  and  they  are 
betrothed  with  the  sanction  of  her  father. 


After  a  year  on  the  island,  Frank  has  an  intense  longing  for 
home.  He  has  accumulated  a  small  fortune  in  pearls,  and 
takes  passage  in  a  steamer  that  chances  to  call  at  the  island. 
Ruth  is  distracted  at  his  departure,  but  is  resigned  that  he 
should  return  to  his  people. 

On  his  arrival  home,  Frank  learns  of  Helen's  new  attach- 
ment and,  on  confronting  her,  finds  that  he  no  longer  holds 
a  place  in  her  heart.  One  night,  while  lingering  near  the  old 
office,  the  scene  of  his  crime,  he  sees  a  man  entering  it 
stealthily.  Believing  him  to  be  a  burglar,  Frank  follows  and 
discovers  Warren  Seymour  robbing  the  safe,  in  the  hope  of 
covering  up  a  former  defalcation.  For  Helen's  sake,  he  de- 
termines to  take  the  blame  himself  and  save  his  rival.  He 
thrusts  sufficient  money  into  the  hands  of  Warren  to  cover 
the  deficit  in  the  strong  box,  and  sends  in  a  telephone  call  to 
police  headquarters  and  another  to  Helen's  father.  When 
they  arrive,  Warren  is  covering  Frank  with  a  revolver,  as  if 
he  were  the  guilty  one.  Helen  looks  at  both  men  and  imme- 
diately guesses  the  truth.  Her  father  denounces  Frank  for 
this  second  offense,  and  is  about  to  deliver  him  into  the  cus- 
tody of  the  officers  when  Helen  pleads  for  his  pardon.  This 
she  obtains,  and  bids  him  farewell. 

Frank  is  now  seized  with  a  strange  longing  for  the  island  in 
the  tropics.  The  figure  of  Ruth,  as  she  bade  him  good-bye, 
is  vividly  outlined  in  his  imagination,  and  he  obeys  the  call 
of  his  heart  and  returns  to  her. 


WHO  SAYS  THIRTEEN  IS  UNLUCKY? 
"Not  I,"  says  T.  J.  West,  the  well-known  head  of  "West|s 
Pictures,"  who  recently  passed  through  New  York  on  his 
way  from  London  to  Australia.  The  success  of  his  enter- 
prises would  justify  his  belief  to  the  contrary  if  the  follow- 
ing list  of  "13"  counts  for  anything.  Their  address  in  London 
is  58  Dean  Street,  and  5  and  8  added  give  13.  The  phone 
number  is  94  Gerrard,  and  again  the  total  of  9  and  4  is  13. 
Their  address  in  Sydney  is  337  Pitt  Street  and  the  three 
figures  here  again  give  a  total  of  13.  Mr.  West  first  sailed 
for  Australia  on  the  thirteenth  of  the  month  and  on  one  of 
his  return  trips  also  sailed  from  Australia  on  the  thirteenth. 
The  General  Film  Agency  of  London,  another  one  of  his 
enterprises,  was  registered  on  the  thirteenth.  We  forgot  to 
ask  him  if  he  was  born  on  the  13th. 


INDUSTRIAL  FILM  CO.  MOVES  TO  NEW  YORK. 

The  Chicago  offices  of  the  Industrial  Film  Co.  will  here- 
after be  a  branch  office,  it  having  been  decided  to  change  the 
headquarters,  heretofore  in  Chicago,  to  New  York  City. 
Watterson  R.  Rothacker,  general  manager  of  the  company, 
will  reside  in  New  York  and  will  continue  in  executive 
charge.  The  New  York  office  will  be  located  at  1600  Broad- 
way. It  is  understood  that  branch  offices  will  be  opened  in 
several  of  the  larger  cities. 


Scenes  from  "Quicksands"  (American). 


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1343 


Universal  Situation  Unsettled 

Meeting  of  Stockholders  on  June  16  Short  and  Troublous — 
Stock  Transfer  Books  in  Custody  of  Police. 

THE  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Universal  Film 
Manufacturing  Company  on  Monday,  June  16,  ended 
almost  as  soon  as  it  was  begun.  Robert  H.  Cochrane, 
the  secretary  elected  the  previous  week,  and  William  H. 
Swanson,  who  maintained  that  he  had  not  been  officially 
notified  of  his  successor's  election  and  that  the  proceeding 
by  which  the  succession  was  accomplished  was  irregular,  any- 
way, both  tried  to  call  the  roll.  One  version  of  what  followed 
is  that  while  President  Laemmle  was  trying  to  obtain  silence, 
Mr.  Swanson  called  the  roll  of  the  stock  favorable  to  P.  A. 
Powers'  interests  and  that  Mr.  Powers  was  elected  permanent 
chairman.  About  this  time  guards  entered  the  room  to  take 
possession  of  the  books  of  the  company.  The  action  was 
directed  by  President  Laemmle.  Trouble  started  right  here. 
The  books  and  the  company  seal  weighing  about  ten  pounds 
went  through  the  third  story  window  to  the  street  below. 
It  is  said  that  George  Magie,  of  the  Pilot  Company,  was  dan- 
gerously near  the  landing  place  of  the  seal.  Policemen  were 
called  to  the  scene  by  bystanders.  The  books  were  taken  to 
the  Universal  offices,  where  President  Laemmle  asked  for 
the  arrest  of  Mr.  Swanson,  Burton  H.  Garrett,  who  had  been 
assistant  secretary  of  the  company,  and  Howard  Thurston, 
also  a  Powers  partisan.  The  charge  was  grand  larceny  of 
books  of  the  company.  When  the  three  men  were  arraigned 
in  court  later  in  the  afternoon  the  magistrate  refused  to  en- 
tertain a  complaint,  advising  that  the  Supreme  Court  was 
the  proper  place  to  settle  the  trouble.  The  books  of  the 
company  were  given  into  the  custody  of  the  police. 

On  the  following  day  the  officers  of  the  Universal,  repre- 
sented by  Mr.  Morse,  the  company's  attorney,  associated  with 
whom  was  George  Gordon  Battle,  obtained  from  Justice 
Giegerich  of  the  Supreme  Court  a  temporary  injunction  re- 
straining Messrs.  Powers,  Swanson  and  Garrett  from  inter- 
fering in  any  way  with  the  proper  conduct  of  the  business  of 
the  company.  Before  Justice  Goff  on  Friday,  when  the  in- 
junction order  is  returnable,  the  company  will  ask  that  it 
be  made  permanent.  It  is  not  unlikely  that  the  merits  of  the 
case.  i.  e.,  as  to  who  is  in  stock  control  of  the  Universal, 
will  be  fought  out  at  this  hearing. 

The  most  recent  of  the  Universal  Company's  troubles 
arose  over  the  question  as  to  which  of  the  two  factions,  the 
Powers  or  the  Laemmle,  had  secured  control  of  the  stock 
formerly  owned  by  David  Horsley.  The  World  told  last 
week  of  the  purchase  of  this  stock  by  Carl  Laemmle,  the 
price  paid  later  appearing  to  be  $97,000  in  cash  and  five  notes 
of  $15,000  each,  a  total  of  $172,000.  It  is  difficult  to  under- 
stand how  any  man  or  men  would  turn  over  this  amount  of 
money  for  something  the  seller  could  not  deliver.  Yet,  ac- 
cording to  a  statement  of  J.  A.  McKinney,  an  associate  of 
Mr.  Powers  who  is  not  only  in  his  confidence  but  in  close 
touch  with  the  film  situation,  this  is  exactly  what  has  hap- 
pened. Mr.  McKinney  goes  further  and  says  that  the  Bank 
of  the  Metropolis,  which  held  in  escrow  subject  to  an  option 
by  Mr.  Powers  the  stock  in  dispute,  has  turned  over  to  Mr. 
Powers  the  certificates.  This  gives  Mr.  Powers,  according 
to  Mr.  McKinney,  the  control  of  approximately  two-thirds  of 
the  stock  of  the  Universal  Company.  It  is  worthy  of  note  in 
this  connection  that  the  cash  paid  by  Mr.  Laemmle  was  de- 
posited to  Mr.  Horsley's  account  in  a  Bayonne  bank  and  not 
in  the  Bank  of  the  Metropolis. 

At  the  offices  of  the  Universal  Company  on  Wednesday  a 
World  man  attempting  to  enter  as  usual  was  stopped  by  two 
men  on  guard  at  the  gate.  The  men  were  big  and  wore  a 
very  determined  expression.  Robert  Cochrane,  the  secretary 
of  the  company,  declined  to  believe  that  the  Horsley  stock 
had  been  turned  over  to  Mr.  Powers.  Mr.  Cochrane  said  that 
the  option  held  by  Mr.  Powers  on  the  stock  was  subject  to  a 
condition  that  he  should  not  exercise  it  "unless  and  until 
Carl  Laemmle  shall  refuse  to  sell  his  stock."  "You  may  be 
sure,"  added  Mr.  Cochrane,  "we  knew  that  this  was  so  before 
we  paid  over  $97,000  in  cash.  We  have  a  letter  from  the 
bank  that  it  was  holding  this  stock  subject  to  the  withdrawal 
of  Mr.  Laemmle's  claim."  Mr.  Cochrane  charged  that  on 
June  7,  when  between  the  hours  of  4.30  and  8  o'clock  p.m., 
Mr.  Swanson  removed  the  books  of  the  company  to  his 
rooms  in  the  Hotel  Rector,  both  Mr.  Laemmle  and  himself 
were  in  their  offices  at  1600  Broadway. 

An  officer  of  the  Bank  of  the  Metropolis  on  Wednesday 
last,  when  informed  that  it  was  said  at  Mr.  Powers'  offices 
that  the  Horsley  stock  had  been  turned  over  to  Mr.  Powers 
and  asked  if  he  would  confirm  this,  remarked:  "I  am  very 
sorry  I  cannot  answer  your  question,  but  I  guess  so  far  as 


the  bank  is  concerned  you  will  have  to  take  their  word  for  it. 
You  can  see  it  would  not  be  proper  for  me  to  discuss  in  any 
way  the  business  affairs  of  any  customer  of  the  bank." 

A  Statement  by  Mr.  Swanson. 

On  Monday  afternoon  when  Mr.  Swanson  returned  to  the 
Universal  offices  from  the  hearing  in  the  magistrate's  court 
he  made  the  following  statement: 

"Some  time  last  winter,  Carl  Laemmle  and  I  formed  the 
Regal  Corporation,  on  a  50-50  basis.  I  have  been  at  all  times 
the  largest  individual  stockholder  in  this  corporation.  I  sold 
my  Universal  stock  to  the  Regal  for  the  purpose  of  holding 
intact  the  Universal  Company.  Mr.  Laemmle  and  I  had  an 
agreement  in  writing  that  each  was  to  equally  divide  any 
stock  of  the  Universal  that  might  be  offered — that  we  should 
own  the  stock  equally,  so  as  to  be  in  control  at  all  times. 
Not  long  ago  the  question  came  up  of  the  possibility  of  buy- 
ing the  option  of  Mr.  Powers  on  the  Horsley  stock.  I  was 
given  twenty-five  minutes  to  raise  one-half  of  $78,500,  which 
the  first  payment  required.  This  was  all  leading  up  to  a 
plan  for  Mr.  Laemmle  to  get  all  outside  stock,  which  could 
not  be  bought  by  the  Regal,  as  it  did  not  have  any  stock  or 
cash  to  buy  it  with.  Therefore,  Mr.  Laemmle,  to  get  around 
this  situation,  was  going  to  buy  up  25  per  cent,  of  the  stock 
and  let  his  friends  buy  the  remainder.  He  proposed  to  create 
a  deadlock  in  the  Regal  and  let  the  minority  stock  buy  the 
Universal,  so  that  Mr.  Laemmle  could  himself  control  it.  I 
got  on  to  this  on  June  7.  You  see,  there  were  six  directors 
in  the  Regal,  although  two  of  us  owned  all  the  stock,  and  I 
one-half.  I  asked  for  a  delay  of  two  days  in  order  that  we 
might  take  up  a  mistake  that  had  been  made  in  the  issue  of 
stock.  Mr.  Laemmle  stayed  away  all  Friday  and  Saturday, 
June  6  and  7;  Mr.  Stern,  the  secretary  of  the  Regal  Company, 
also  remained  away  from  the  Imp  studio  and  office.  Then 
on  the  7th  I  withdrew  my  Universal  stock  from  the  Regal 
and  cancelled  all  the  Regal  stock  I  held,  taking  back  my  2,162 
shares  and  giving  Mr.  Laemmle  his. 

"I  had  to  go  to  Chicago  on  personal  business  on  Sunday, 
June  8.  When  they  learned  I  was  out  of  town  they  called  a 
snap  meeting,  to  which  I  was  not  invited.  At  midnight  on 
the  10th  they  issued  a  call  for  a  meeting  on  the  nth,  so  that 
the  notice  didn't  reach  Mrs.  Swanson  until  the  time  of  the 
meeting  next  morning.  I  had  sent  Laemmle  a  letter  telling 
why  I  was  going  to  Chicago.  At  this  snap  meeting  Laemmle 
and  his  attorney,  Morse,  and  Kann,  his  secretary,  deposed 
me  as  vice-president  because  I  had  taken  the  books,  know- 
ing they  had  intended  to  pull  this  meeting  off. 

"I  returned  from  Chicago  on  Thursday  afternoon,  June  12, 
and  immediately  notified  Mr.  Laemmle  by  letter  that  I  was 
here.  At  no  time  did  they  notify  me  officially  that  I  was 
deposed.  I  attended  the  stockholders'  meeting  on  Monday 
last  as  secretary  of  the  company.  It  was  held  in  a  room 
filled  w.ith  lawyers,  and  in  the  hall  outside  were  strong-arm 
men.  Mr.  Laemmle  presided.  The  entire  stock  was  repre- 
sented. A  roll  call  being  ordered,  I  began  it  and  Robert 
Cochrane  also  did  the  same — two  secretaries  calling  the  roll. 
A  motion  was  made  to  elect  a  permanent  chairman.  I  called 
the  roll  of  the  majority  of  the  stock.  Mr.  Powers  was  elected. 
The  company's  attorney  here  ordered  the  strong-arm  men  to 
come  in  and  take  the  books  away  from  me.  In  the  scrim- 
mage the  books  went  out  of  the  window,  and  the  company 
seal  also.  The  latter  was  smashed  in  the  fall.  Policemen  on 
the  street  took  the  books  in  charge.  When  I  attempted  to 
take  possession  of  my  office  the  strong-arm  men  threw  me 
out;  they  assaulted  me.  I  sent  out  for  a  policeman  to  have 
these  fellows  arrested  and  Mr.  Laemmle  immediately  pre- 
ferred a  charge  against  myself  and  Burton  Garrett,  the  as- 
sistant secretary  of  the  company,  and  Howard  Thurston,  a 
stockholder.  We  were  all  marched  through  the  streets  to 
the  jail  and  locked  up,  and  later  in  a  patrol  wagon  taken  to 
court. 

"The  presiding  judge  would  not  permit  a  complaint  to  be 
made.  The  judge  decided  that  as  the  by-laws  of  the  Uni- 
versal provide  that  the  secretary  shall  be  the  custodian  of 
the  books  that  I  had  a  right  to  their  possession  and  had  com- 
mitted no  larceny.  The  charge,  by  the  way,  was  grand  lar- 
ceny of  books  valued  at  a  hundred  thousand  dollars. 

"I  went  with  Mr.  Powers  and  John  Kirby,  his  lawyer,  and 
Mr.  McKinney  to  the  bank  on  the  afternoon  of  last  Friday. 
June  13,  and  saw  him  get  the  Horsley  stock.  Furthermore, 
the  holdings  of  Powers  and  myself  are  now  as  follows: 
Powers,  4,342  shares;  Swanson,  645;  Thurston,  615;  Joe 
Engel,  1;  Harry  Nolan,  1.  Count  'em  up.  It's  5,604,  isn't  it? 
There  have  been  issued  8.410  shares.  You  see  who  controls. 
Will  there  be  another  stockholders'  meeting  soon?  Yes. 
And  some  lawsuits,  also." 

It  is  likely,  in  view  of  the  conflicting  claims  of  the  two  fac- 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE  WORLD 


tions,  that  the  present  whereabouts  and  definite  ownership 
of  the  Horsley  stock  will  not  be  known  to  the  public  at  large 
until  the  whole  question  is  reviewed  in  court.  The  writer  on 
Wednesday  asked  of  two  personal  friends,  who  have  more 
or  less  close  relations  with  Mr.  Powers'  associates,  if  in  their 
opinion  the  much-discussed  stock  was  in  the  possession  of 
Mr.  Powers.  One  was  not  over  sanguine  that  it  was.  The 
second  firmly  believed  P.  A.  P.  had  it. 

News  came  to  this  writer  on  Thursday  which  leads  to  his 
belief  that,  when  the  matter  comes  into  the  courts,  it  will  be 
found  that  the  article  in  the  Moving  Picture  World  of  last 
week  concerning  the  situation  in  the  Universal  Company  was, 
so  far  as  relates  to  the  ultimate  control  of  the  company, 
absolutely  correct — that  Carl  Laemmle  will  be  the  head  of 
and  will  continue  to  dominate  the  Universal   Company. 


DID  "CALAMITY  ANNE"  GO  TO   HEAVEN? 

When  "The  Road  to  Ruin"  was  shown  recently  at  the 
Palace  Theater,  Santa  Barbara,  Cal.,  Miss  Louise  Lester  had 
but  an  ordinary  part,  but  in  some  of  the  allegorical  scenes 
she  had  a  make-up  of  the  "witchy"  sort.  She  did  not  sup- 
pose anyone  would  notice  her  from  among  all  the  others  at 
the  Old  Mission  ruins,  but  a  little  girl  in  the  audience  is 
credited  with  the  following  remark:  "There's  Calamity 
Anne,  gone  to  Heaven." 


"ELTINGE  OF  THE  FILMS." 

"The  Eltinge  of  the  Films"  is  what  they  call  Harry  Benham 
at  the  Thanhouser  plant.  Ever  since  Harry  donned  feminine 
attire  for  "Dotty  the  Dancer,"  last  summer,  the  Thanhouser  di- 
rectors have  picked  him  for  female  cut-up  parts.  Harry  makes 
a  dashing  brunette.  His  last  "Eltinge"  effort  may  be  viewed  in 
"Eye  of  Krishla,"  released  Sunday,  June  22,  which  has  a  surprise 
finish  similar  to  "Dotty  the  Dancer" — Miss  Benham  is  revealed 
as  a  he-male.  In  fact,  in  this  last  film,  a  detective  spots  him 
smoking  a  big,  black  cigar  in  a  way  no  regular  lady  could. 


W.  H.  BELL  BACK  FROM  AUSTRALIA. 

Mr.  W.  H.  Bell,  formerly  General  Manager  of  the  J.  D. 
Williams  Film  Exchanges  in  Australia,  arrived  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, May  15th,  on  the  Union  Liner  "Tahiti."  When  asked 
to  explain  his  plans  Mr.  Bell  answered  that  he  wished  to 
look  the  field  over  carefully  and  meet  all  the  big  and  little 
guns  in  the  business  before  giving  consideration  to  the 
future. 

"Making  comparisons  between  American  and  Australian 
picture  theaters  I  find  most  interesting  and  big  improve- 
ments have  been  made  in  the  States  in  the  past  two  years 
during  my  absence.  Nevertheless,  I  think  that  Australia  is 
in  the  lead  as  far  as  the  exhibition  end  of  the  game  is  con- 
cerned. The  theaters  I  speak  of  are  large,  represent  heavy 
investments,  and  comfortably  seat  from  1500  to  4000  people. 
The  regular  equipment  includes  a  motor  generation  set  as 
well  as  two  picture  machines  in  each  theater.  There  are  no 
delays  as  the  pictures  follow  closely  upon  each  other  which 
is  made  possible  by  having  two  operators,  one  for  each 
machine  and  using  same  alternately.  Musical  acts  and  vaude- 
ville in  other  forms  are  not  used  and  illustrated  songs  are 
unknown.  The  pictures  projected  present  a  perfectly  uni- 
form strong  black  and  white  field  free  from  all  discolorations, 
which  is  accomplished  by  the  general  use  of  a  powerful 
light.  The  operators  are  skilled  and  handle  from  75  to  100 
amperes,  projecting  a  thirty  foot  picture  at  a  distance  of 
100  to  200  feet  from  machine  to  screen.  Continuous  shows 
run  about  an  hour  and  a  half  with  less  than  five  minutes  inter- 
mission at  the  end  of  each  performance.  Five  thousand 
feet  of  film  twice  weekly  is  supplied  to  the  grind  houses, 
which  are  open  from  11  A.  M.  to  11  P.  M.,  while  a  full 
program  consists  of  just  double  that  amount  of  film  to  the 
one-show-a-night  class  of  theaters,  where  it  is  common  to 
see  part  of  the  audience  in  full  evening  dress. 

"The  Australian  exhibitor,  like  his  American  brother,  is 
an  independent  proposition  and  the  better  class  are  observing 
with  interest  the  developments  by  way  of  organization 
amongst  the  exhibitors  in  this  country  through  the  columns 
of  the  Moving  Picture  World,  which  publication  is  very 
much  in  demand  by  the  trade  in  Australia.  The  warm  sup- 
port accorded  our  independent  movement  was  largely  re- 
sponsible for  the  success  enjoyed  by  International  Pictures, 
which  developed  to  the  heaviest  independent  film  buying 
concern  in  the  world,  with  film  exchanges  in  a  dozen  of  the 
principal  cities.  We  met  Mr.  Melies  and  his  company  of 
photoplayers.  Exhibitors  will  make  no  mistake  in  booking 
and  presenting  the  Melies  productions  taken  in  Australia. 
The  most  successful  picture  shown  in  Australia,  I  believe, 
was  Selig's  'Christopher  Columbus,'  presented  by  our  com- 
pany in  the  Town  Hall,  Sydney.  On  the  closing  night,  the 
attendance  was  over  four  thousand  with  probably  that  many 
turned  away,  not  able  to  gain  admittance.  American  pic- 
tures are  mostly  in  demand  and  in  them  Uncle  Sam  has  a 
better  press  agent  than  could  be  otherwise  secured.  The 
picture  show  is  a  fixed  institution  in  the  scores  of  islands 
throughout  the  South  Seas  and  in  those  parts  the  American 
Western  will  always  retain  their  popularity.  'Broncho  Billy' 
would  lead  by  a  wide  margin  in  a  popularity  contest." 


AMALGAMATED    PICTURES    LIMITED. 

From  the  Melbourne  Age. 

The  directors  of  Amalgamated  Pictures  Limited,  in  an- 
nouncing the  payment  of  a  10  per  cent,  dividend  on  the 
preference  shares  for  the  period  ending  28th  February,  state 
it  is  impossible  at  present  to  issue  the  annual  balance  sheet 
and  statement  of  accounts,  owing  to  the  fact  that  the  in- 
vestigation and  valuation  of  assets  necessary  in  connection 
with  the  general  amalgamation  of  pictures  and  film  interests, 
and  the  further  extension  of  the  amalgamation  recently 
arranged,  is  not  yet  completed.  It  is  added: — "The  accumu- 
lation of  surplus  profits  has  been  necessary,  in  view  of  the 
operations  referred  to,  and  the  very  large  amount  of  ex- 
penditure required  in  connection  therewith."  The  directors 
of  Amalgamated  Pictures  emphasize  that  the  business  trans- 
acted since  the  new  arrangement  has  been  entered  into  has 
been  satisfactory,  and  substantial  profits  have  been  earned. 

In  connection  with  the  general  amalgamation  of  interests 
in  the  picture  business  in  Australia,  two  companies  have 
been  formed,  which  will  take  over  the  whole  of  the  good- 
will of  the  amalgamated  interests.  There  will  be: — (a)  an 
exhibiting  company  solely,  with  a  capital  of  £300,000, 
in  £1  shares,  of  which  the  General  Film  Company  of  Aus- 
tralasia takes  180,000  shares,  and  the  Greater  J.  D.  Williams 
Amusement  Company  120,000  shares;  (b)  a  film  hiring  com- 
pany, with  a  capital  of  £300,000,  in  shares  of  £1  each,  of 
which  the  General  Film  Company  of  Australasia  takes 
225,000;  and  the  Greater  J.  D.  Williams  Amusement  Com- 
pany 75,000  shares. 


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1345 


CHICAGO   LETTER 

By  J  AS.  S.  McQUADE 


IT_  is  a  humiliating  admission  to  make,  but,  nevertheless, 
it  is  true,  that  the  condition  of  the  exhibiting  business  in 
Chicago  shows  decided  retrogression  within  the  past 
year.  I  say  "business,"  without  reference  to  the  quality  of 
the  programs.  There  seems  to  be  a  craze  to  increase  the 
number  of  reels  on  a  program  to  the  point  of  bankruptcy 
for  the  exhibitor.  Four,  five,  and  even  six  reels  are  at  pres- 
ent being  offered  for  five  cents  admission. 

The  members  of  the  league  as  a  rule  have  done  their  ut- 
most to  establish  the  rule  that  three  reels  for  five  cents 
should  be  the  maximum,  but  they  have  been  unable  as  yet 
to  do  so.  Nor  can  it  be  hoped  that  they  will  be  able  to  do 
so,  owing  to  the  lack  of  co-operation  of  exchanges,  licensed 
and  independent  alike,  and  to  the  mal-influence  on  programs 
of  the  bookings  by  feature  film  companies,  outside  of  the 
exchanges  mentioned.  As  an  example  of  the  demoralization 
at  present  existing,  it  may  be  cited  that'C.  E.  Plough,  owner 
of  the  Anti  Trust  Film  Company,  is  offering  programs  of 
four,  five  and  six  reels  at  the  Casino,  a  theater  leased  by  him 
and  run  in  opposition  to  exhibitors. 

The  attention  of  exhibitors  has  often  been  directed  in  these 
columns  to  the  fact  that  they  are  the  losers  in  the  end,  be- 
cause of  such  extravagance.  The  exchanges  are  reaping  a 
harvest,  while  they  are  sowing  with  prodigal  hand  the  seeds 
of  their  own  downfall. 

But  the  elimination  from  the  business  of  such  exhibitors, 
while  it  might  be,  in  certain  cases,  a  good  thing  for  the  gen- 
eral good,  is  not  the  worst  feature  of  such  insane  competition. 
The  moving  picture  is  being  cheapened  to  the  point  of  com- 
mon alley  entertainment  in  the  eyes  of  the  public,  and  the 
small  picture  theater  is  being  tabooed  as  being  unfit  for 
respectable  amusement  seekers. 

And  the  evil  is  not  confined  to  Chicago  in  this  Middle  West 
of  ours.  I  have  just  learned  that  the  Dome  Theater,  Youngs- 
town,  O.,  owned  by  Messrs.  Renner  &  Dieble  and  seating 
840  people,  offers  programs  of  four  licensed  reels,  talking 
pictures  and  music  by  a  five-piece  orchestra  for  five  cents! 
In  the  same  city,  the  Park  Theater,  managed  by  Feiber  & 
Shea  and  seating  1,800  people,  offers  six  licensed  reels,  with 
a  seven-piece  orchestra,  for  five  cents  at  matinees  and  ten 
cents  evenings.  What  chance  has  the  small  house,  with  300 
seating  capacity,  against  such  odds? 

In  my  review  of  the  history  of  Illinois  State  Branch  No.  2 
for  the  past  year,  which  will  appear  in  the  convention  num- 
ber of  this  paper,  bearing  the  date  of  July  12,  I  have  gone 
into  the  evil  of  these  surplus  programs  more  minutely. 

Wm.  J.  Sweeney  Again  Aspires  to  National  Presidency. 

The  second  State  convention  of  Illinois  State  Branch  No.  2 
was  held  in  the  Royal  League  Hall,  Masonic  Temple,  this 
city,  on  June  12.  The  following  members  were  chosen  as 
delegates   and   alternates   to   the   National    Convention. 

Delegates — Wm.  J.  Sweeney,  Robert  R.  Levy,  Julius  A. 
Alcock,  C.  C.  Whelan,  A.  Balaban,  M.  A.  Choynski,  Jno. 
Miller,  H.  A.  Rubens  (Joliet),  F.  W.  Hartman,  R.  O.  Proctor, 
S.  Katz,  I.  Gelder,  Geo.  Henry,  A.  Zahler  and  I.  Natkin. 
Aaron  A.  Jones,  of  Jones,  Linick  &  Schaefer,  was  chosen  to 
represent  the  State  at  large. 

Alternates — Max  Hyman,  Sam  Levine,  Frank  Thielen 
(Aurora),  Miss  Ida  Mertsky,  A.  Powell,  Mrs.  E.  Fitch,  R. 
Navigata,  R.  C.  McMullen  (Joliet),  Louis  Frank,  Chas. 
Abrams,  F.  O.  Nielsen,  W.  Cadoret  (Kankakee),  Jas.  J.  Mc- 
Narney,  C.  H.  Foster  and  H.  A.  Hill. 

Wm.  J.  Sweeney  is  again  to  the  front  as  a  candidate  for 
the  national  presidency.  The  delegates  were  instructed  to 
give  him  their  hearty  and  unanimous  support. 

The  next  regular  meeting  of  the  league  was  in  room 
412,  Royal  League  Hall,  Masonic  Temple,  Monday,  June  16th, 
at  2  p.m. 

Exhibitors  or  their  friends  desirous  of  joining  the  delega- 
tion going  to  the  New  York  National  Convention  are  re- 
quested to  get  in  touch  with  the  secretary  as  soon  as  possi- 
ble, so  that  arrangements  can  be  completed  for  the  special 
train  that  will  carry  the  party  to  New  York. 


American   Product   Indispensable   to    Britishers. 

J.  J.  Bennell  and  wife,  of  Glasgow,  Scotland,  have  spent 
the  past  week  in  making  a  thorough  inspection  of  the  moving 
picture  industry  in  Chicago.  The  Selig,  Essanay  and  Ameri- 
can plants  were  visited  and  calls  were  made  on  exchanges 
and  several  theaters  were  visited. 

Mr.  Bennell  is  managing  director  of  the  B.  B.  Pictures 
(the  "B.  B."  standing  for  bright  and  beautiful),  Wellington 
Palace,  Glasgow.  His  company  controls  16  theaters  in  Scot- 
land and  three  large  film  exchanges — one  in  Glasgow,  one  in 
Edinburgh  and  another  in  London. 

The  theaters  are  divided  into  two  classes,  one  for  the  work- 
ing people  and  the  other  for  the  better  classes.  The  prices' 
of  admission  for  the  working  class  theater  are  4,  10  and  15 
cents;  in  the  higher  class  theater,  15  and  25  cents  is  charged. 
Five  and  six  reels  form  a  program  and  three  changes  per 
week  are  made. 

"The  American  product  is  indispensable  to  exhibitors  in 
the  United  Kingdom,"  Mr.  Bennell  said,  during  a  short  con- 
versation. "Business  among  exhibitors  is  booming  and  fu- 
ture prospects  are  bright." 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bennell  arrived  in  New  York,  May  25,  and 
went  thence  to  Montreal  and  Toronto.  They  went  to  New 
York  from  this  city,  and  will  sail  for  home  June  28.  During 
his  stay  in  Chicago  Mr.  Bennell  paid  the  World  office  a  call. 

Tom  Mix  as  a  Thriller. 

Tom  Mix,  dare  devil  cowboy,  bulldogger  of  steers  and  a 
holy  terror  on  horseback  generally,  has  been  thrilling  the 
natives  of  Prescott,  Ariz.,  by  some  extraordinary  stunts  of 
late.  Here  is  a  description  of  one  of  them,  which  was  per- 
formed for  a  Selig  Western  recently: 

The  few  who  witnessed  Tom  Mix  throw  a  blood-thirsty 
steer  yesterday  afternoon  at  Joe  Roberts'  slaughter  house 
will  not  soon  be  furnished  with  a  braver  or  more  thrilling 
exhibition  of  strength  and  nerve. 

Operator  Ostland  got  his  camera  placed  shortly  after  2.30 
and  the  bull,  a  medium-sized,  wiry  animal,  came  snorting 
into  the  focus  of  the  instrument,  frothing  and  bellowing. 
Nip  Van  neatly  lassoed  him  around  the  horns.  Tom  ran  into 
the  scene  bareheaded  and  grabbed  "el  toro"  by  the  horns  in 
an  effort  to  bulldog  him. 

After  a  lively  scrimmage,  during  which  Tom  held  on  with 
a  grip  of  iron,  the  bull  ran  him  off  his  feet  and  started  charg- 
ing for  the  camera.    Was  Mix  down-hearted?    Never! 

With  the  horns  around  Tom's  waist,  belt-fashion,  the  two 
came  straight  for  the  instrument,  Ostland  gamely  tried  to 
save  the  $1,000  camera,  but  Tom  and  the  steer  beat  him  to 
it  and  all  three  landed  in  a  grand  scramble  in  the  dust  of  the 
corral  the  camera  a  total  wreck.  Tom  wrenched  the  mad- 
dened animal  so  purposely  as  to  tear  one  of  his  horns 
out.  Then  he  threw  up  the  sponge.  Ostland  vainly  tried 
to  climb  the  fence  and  the  cause  of  all  the  trouble  charged 
madly  round  the  corral. 

Just  to  show  he  had  a  few  extra  jolts  of  "nervine"  left, 
Mix  chased  the  steer  into  a  corner,  removed  the  surcingle 
and  the  rope  from  his  neck  and  held  him  three  minutes  by 
the  remaining  horn,  while  the  hushed  onlookers  held  their 
breaths.    A  new  camera  has  been  requisitioned  by  telegraph. 

Chicago  Film  Brevities. 

Lester  L.  Busch,  manager  of  the  new  Plasir  Theater,  40th 
Avenue  and  Irving  Park  Boulevard,  this  city,  visited  the 
World  office  last  week.  The  Plasir  will  be  opened  June  21st. 
It  seats  600  people  and  has  cost  $30,000.  The  owners  are 
Bronson  and  Young.  Three  reels  of  licensed  service  will  be 
run  for  five  cents,  except  on  Saturdays  and  Sundays,  when 
four  reels  will  be  offered  at  10  cents. 

The  Lyceum  Theater,  39th  Street  and  Cottage  Grove 
Avenue,  has  been  purchased  by  Charles  Schaefer,  of  Jones, 
Linick  &  Schaefer.  The  programs  will  consist  of  four  reels 
of  pictures  and  three  vaudeville  acts.  The  capacity  is  750. 
Fred  Lines,  formerly  manager  of  the  Kleine  Optical  Com- 
pany branch   at   Indianapolis,  has   been   appointed   manager. 

F.  H.  Franke,  owner  of  the  California  Theater,  26th  Street 
and  Trumbell  Avenue,  and  of  the  Clark  Theater,  Clark 
Street  and  Wilson  Avenue,  called  at  this  office  last  week. 
The  California  seats  800  people.  Exclusive  moving  pictures 
are  shown  at  5  and  10  cents.  The  Clark  seats  1,200  people 
and  offers  moving  pictures  and  vaudeville  at  5  and  10  cents. 

David  Mundstuck,  of  the  M.  &  F.  Feature  Film  Service, 
states  that  he  is  under  contract  to  purchase  all  State  Rights 
features  from  Union  Eclair,  Itala  and  the  New  York  Film 
Company  for  Illinois  and  Wisconsin.  After  the  week  of 
June  16th,  the  M.  &  F.  Feature  Film  Company  will  be 
known  as  the  M.  &  F.  Corporation.  Mr.  Mundstuck  left  for 
New  York,  on  business,  June  15th. 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


J.  E.  Stocker,  owner  of  the  Michigan  Avenue  Theater, 
Detroit,  visited  the  city  last  week.  This  theater  seats  400 
people  and  the  admission  is  5  cents,  except  on  Fridays  and 
Sundays,  when  special  programs  are  offered  at  10  cents. 
Licensed  service  is  used. 

George  C.  Martin,  manager  of  the  United  Theater  Service, 
Moline,  111.,  has  purchased  exclusive  State  Rights  in  North 
and  South  Dakota,  Iowa  and  Nebraska,  for  the  Blanche 
Walsh  Resurrection  picture. 

George  N.  Lyman,  of  New  York  City,  who  holds  exclusive 
State  Rights  in  Michigan,  Wisconsin  and  Illinois  for  "New 
York's  Society  Life  and  Underworld"  (three  reels),  arrived 
•in  Chicago,  Friday,  June  13th,  to  arrange  for  booking  the 
pictures.  These  films  feature  "Chuck"  Connors,  who  died 
about  a  month  ago,  and  who  was  known  as  the  "White 
Mayor"  of  Chinatown,  New  York  City.  "The  films  have  been 
already  shown  in  Detroit  and  Saginaw,  Mich.,  to  big  busi- 
ness," Mr.  Lyman  says.  These  films  were  passed  by  the 
Chicago  Board  of  Censors  with  complimentary  remarks  re- 
garding the  good  moral  influence  of  the  pictures.  His  office 
is  room  410,  Dapples  Building,  167  West  Washington  Street. 

The  Vaudette,  5435  S.  Ashland  Avenue,  this  city,  owned 
by  W.  W.  Watts,  of  Springfield,  111.,  was  opened  recently 
with  "From  the  Manger  to  the  Cross"  as  the  feature  to  very 
fine  business.  The  Vaudette  seats  400  people  and  four  reels, 
licensed  service,  are  offered  for  10  cents.  The  Tiffin  Theater, 
4445  W.  North  Avenue,  showed  "From  the  Manger  to  the 
Cross"  on  Tuesday  and  Wednesday,  June  10th  and  nth,  to 
big  crowds  at  10  cents  straight.  The  throng  was  so  great 
in  the  vicinity  that  the  police  were  called  to  clear  the  side- 
walk, so  that  pedestrians  could  pass.  The  Tiffin  seats  800 
people. 

Richard  R.  Nehls,  manager  of  the  American  Film  Manu- 
facturing Company,  is  chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Pho- 
tographers and  Photographic  Supplies,  of  the  Chicago  Asso- 
ciation of  Commerce,  for  1913.  The  committee's  work  in- 
cludes the  moving  picture  industry.  John  F.  Prybil,  personal 
representative  of  Wm.  N.  Selig,  is  vice-chairman  of  the 
committee. 


CHARLES  ZIEBARTH. 

Mr.  Charles  Ziebarth,  factory  superintendent  for  the 
American  Film  Manufacturing  Company,  is  one  of  those 
hustling  younger  men  who  are  rapidly  revolutionizing  the 
important  technical  phases  of  the  business.  Mr.  Ziebarth  is 
32  years  old.     He  is  a  master  mechanic  and  prior  to  his  con- 


Charles  Ziebarth. 

nection  with  the  American,  had  charge  of  various  technical 
departments  of  various  large  manufacturing  concerns.  Mr. 
Ziebarth  has  been  with  the  American  ever  since  its  organi- 
zation in  charge  of  the  mechanical  and  electrical  departments. 
His  marked  ability  and  ingenuity  have  brosght  about  his 
prompt  promotion  to  the  position  of  superintendent. 


The  Gaumont  Chronochrome 

Leon  Gaumont  Convinces  a  Critical  Audience  of  the  Success 

and  Permanency  of  Pictures  in  Natural  Color. 

By  Hugh  Hoffman. 

THE  first  American  demonstration  of  the  Gaumont  pictures 
in  natural  color,  by  a  process  known  as  "chronochrome," 
was  given  on  June  10,  at  the  39th  Street  Theater,  New 
York  City.  The  success  of  these  pictures  was  established  un- 
questionably in  the  minds  of  the  audience,  which  was  composed 
mostly  of  motion  picture  people  who  as  a  rule  are  more  critical 
than  a  lay  audience.  The  exhibition  was  private  and  many 
persons  whose  names  are  notable  in  film  circles  were  among 
the  throng  that  responded  to  the  handsome  invitations. 

The  spectators  were  plainly  delighted  all  during  the  time  the 
chronochrome  was  in  operation.  A  program  of  pictures  of 
rare  beauty  was  indeed  a  revelation.  Most  of  the  scenes  were 
taken  in  France  and  were  exhibited  as  follows :  Flower  Studies ; 
Farmyard  Scenes;  Views  of  the  Riviera;  "Mandolinette"  (a 
drama  done  by  artificial  light);  The  Nice  Carnival  Fetes,  1913; 
Rustic  Scenes  in  France;  Funeral  of  King  George  of  Greece 
at  Athens;  Paris  Fashions;  Studies  of  Nature  (butterflies); 
Studies  of  Venetian  Glassware ;  National  Flags.  The  colors 
in  these  pictures  are  beautifully  crisp  and  refreshing;  each 
image  standing  out  upon  the  canvas  like  an  exquisite  water 
color,  fresh  from  the  hand  of  the  artist. 

Mr.  Leon  Gaumont,  the  inventor  of  the  process,  came  over 
from  Paris  to  be  present  at  the  demonstration.  He  is  a  hand- 
some, gentle-mannered  man  of  the  Latin  type,  on  the  sunny  side 
of  fifty.  Evidently  he  is  a  man  who  does  his  work  more  for 
the  enjoyment  of  it  than  for  what  money  it  will  bring.  There 
was  a  trace  of  almost  boyish  pleasure  about  him  when  he 
explained  the  workings  of  the  chronochrome,  and  other  devices, 
to  the  writer.  One's  attention  is  divided  between  the  mechanism 
and  Mr.  Gaumont,  when  this  interesting  Frenchman  explains 
things;  because  his  fine  gray  eyes  get  so  big  and  round,  and 
shine  so  brightly  with  the  light  of  non-belligerent  conviction, 
that  it  does  one  good  to  look  at  him.  He  is  a  wonderful  man, 
to  which  the  invention  of  "chronochrome"  stands  as  proof. 

The  basic  principle  of  chronochrome  differs  from  that  of  any 
natural  color  process  now  in  use.  It  follows  the  line  of  the 
three  color  half-tone  printing  process  in  the  use  of  three  separate 
lenses  and  three  separate  filters,  one  for.  each  color.  For  each 
image  on  the  screen,  three  images  are  required  in  the  film; 
one  for  the  yellow  filter,  one  for  the  red,  and  one  for  the  blue. 
This  necessitates  double  speed  in  the  projection  apparatus,  or, 
thirty-two  revolutions  instead  of  the  usual  sixteen  for  black  and 
white  projection.  The  proportions  of  the  image  are  changed 
from  the  usual  size.  The  width  of  the  film  remains  at  standard 
size  with  standard  perforations,  but  the  up  and  down  measure  is 
reduced,  giving  a  more  oblong  image.  The  reduction  is  made 
by  putting  three  images  into  the  up  and  down  measurement  of 
two  standard  size  images.  In  one  way  this  horizontal  image 
is  an  improvement,  as  it  gives  a  fine  panoramic  scope  which 
the  standard  size  image  does  not  allow. 

On  the  projection  machine  one  light  and  one  lens  are  used. 
Before  the  lens  are  three  color  glasses ;  red,  yellow  and  blue. 
All  three  images  project  simultaneously  through  their  respective 
color  filters  and  register  on  the  screen  with  great  accuracy,  thus 
producing  the  lifelike  color  effect.  There  is  but  one  shutter 
used  on  the  machine;  it  is  the  ordinary  two-wing  outside  metal 
shutter,  common  to  many  projection  machines. 

By  the  use  of  the  three  prime  colors,  the  color  range  of 
chronochrome  ie  unlimited.  By  this  process  it  is  possible  to 
record  every  color  of  the  spectrum;  the  delicate  blues,  mauves, 
purple  greens,  ochres,  orange,  etc.  This  is  admirably  demon- 
strated in  the  reproduction  of  multi-colored  sea  shells  with 
half  tints  of  every  color  changing  constantly  as  the  shell  turns. 
Another  important  advance  in  color  photography  by  this  process 
is  the  possibility  of  taking  pictures  by  artificial  light.  One 
complete  story  picture  in  costume  was  perfectly  done,  and 
another  showing  Venetian  glassware  by  lamplight  was  immense, 
the  lights  being  gradually  diminished  to  almost  total  darkness. 
This  opens  a  field  of  vast  possibilities. 

Perhaps  the  greatest  stride  by  the  chronochrome  process  is 
the  elimination  of  wands  of  color  following  any  fast  motion.  This 
effect  is  sometimes  known  as  the  barber-pole  effect  and  has 
been  a  source  of  much  annoyance  and  eye  strain.  This  bad 
feature  is  entirely  absent  in  the  Gaumont  process,  for  the  very 
good  reason  that  all  of  the  colors  are  on  the  screen  all  the 
time,  and  as  they  never  leave  the  screen  there  is  no  possibility 
of  their  getting  mixed.  The  fastest  motions  are  recorded  equally 
as  well  as  the  slower  ones. 

Taking  these  improvements,  eliminations,  and  advances  into 
consideration,  the  Gaumont  chronochrome  is  a  great  success 
and  one  that  will  no  doubt  have  a  tremendous  vogue  when 
it  is  put  before  the  public. 


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The  Talking  Picture. 

A  Review  of  Some  of  the  Synchronizing  Systems  Now  on  the 
Market.    The  Edison,  Vivaphone,  and  Gaumont  Systems. 

By  Hugh  Hoffman. 

THE  talking  picture,  meaning  particularly  the  combined 
and  simultaneous  action  of  the  phonograph  and  motion 
picture,  is  having  a  revival.  The  idea  is  not  new,  but 
new  methods  have  been  introduced  and  advertised  to  an  ex- 
tent that  warrants  some  attention  to  the  subject.  When  the 
Cameraphone  Company  failed,  some  four  years  ago,  the 
incident  was  considered  to  be  the  finish  of  the  talking  pic- 
ture as  a  practical  commercial  proposition.  There  was  no 
great  objection  to  the  synchronizing  results  of  the  Camera- 
phone;  they  were  all  that  could  be  expected,  but  the  big 
missing  link  was  the  inability  to  make  a  phonograph  keep 
time  with  a  patched  reel.  It  cannot  be  unqualifiedly  stated 
that  this  condition  has  been  eliminated  in  any  of  the  new 
devices  now  on  the  market,  but  it  has  been  provided  for  in 
ways  that  render  it  a  less  momentous  question  than  before. 
So  far  as  actual  synchronized  action  is  concerned,  satis- 
factory results  have  been  obtained  by  the  manufacturers 
mentioned  herein,  each  in  his  own  way,  which  is  radically 
different  than  that  of  the  others.  -  With  this  fact  established, 
the  exhibitor  will  no  doubt  wish  to  know  just  what  can  be 
expected  in  the  way  of  screen  results.  We  can  truthfully 
say  that  there  is  much  that  can  be  expected,  provided  cer- 
tain other  simple  faults  are  corrected.  The  first  failure  of 
the  talking  picture  was  not  due  to  any  failure  to  synchronize 
the  phonograph  and  the  motion  picture.  The  main  cause 
of  the  failure  was  the  poor  choice  of  subject.  And  that  very 
cause  will  bring  about  the  failure  of  these  new  devices  if  not 
observed  by  their  promoters.  The  remedy  lies  in  providing 
better  stuff  for  an  audience  to  look  at  and  listen  to.  The 
public  are  willing  to  admit  that  the  talking  picture  is  a  great 
invention,  but  they  refuse  to  pay  their  money  to  witness  it 
and  then  have  their  intelligence  insulted  by  the  reproduction 
of  a  lot  of  stereotyped,  small-time  vaudeville  acts,  and 
puerile  subjects  of  various  kinds. 

Mechanically  the  talking  picture  is  a  success.  Now  it  is 
up  to  the  promoters  to  make  it  an  artistic  success.  If  the 
talking  picture  fails  again  we  will  know  that  it  is  because  its 
sponsors  have  overlooked  the  ends  in  their  attention  to  the 
means.  Poor  choice  of  subject  is  the  one  big  drawback, 
and  the  remedy  is  so  simple  that  it  will  be  a  great  pity 
if  the  idea  fails  again. 

Among  the  mechanisms  treated  of  herein  there  are  prices 
to  suit  all  purses,  according  to  the  elaborateness  or  sim- 
plicity of  the  device,  and  according  to  the  results  that  can 
be  obtained  therefrom.  One  of  them  is  complicated,  another 
is  simple,  and  the  other  is  half  way  between.  Each  does 
its  work  well,  but  the  one  that  is  provided  with  the  right 
kind  of  pictures  is  the  one  that  is  going  to  win  out  in 
the   long  run. 

The  Edison  Kinetophone. 
The  Edison  people  do  not  claim  to  be  the  inventors 
of  the  talking  picture.  They  do  claim,  however,  that  Mr. 
Edison  has  taken  the  original  idea  as  a  foundation,  and, 
after  having  made  a  stud}'  of  synchronization  in  all  its 
phases,  has  produced  an  apparatus,  embodying  original 
ideas  of  his  own,  that  is  commercially  practical.  The  Edison 
outfit  consists  of  a  giant  phonograph,  an  Edison  projector, 
and  a  synchronizing  mechanism.  The  phonograph  is  oper- 
ated by  a  small  motor,  for  reasons  which  will  appear  pres- 
ently. A  large  wax  cylinder  record  is  used,  measuring  about 
four  inches  in  diameter.  Some  of  the  phonographs  are 
equipped  for  disk  records.  An  ordinary  phonograph  horn 
is  used.  The  phonograph  is  located  just  behind  the  curtain, 
and  in  vaudeville  theaters  is  set  below  the  level  of  the  stage. 
For  operation,  the  trap  door  is  opened,  the  phonograph 
operator  sets  his  horn,  starts  his  motor,  waits  for  his  cue, 
which  is  in  the  picture  itself,  and  then  throws  in  a  clutch 
or  switch  which  starts  the  phonograph.  The  trap  door 
arrangement  is  probably  used  to  save  the  time  that  would 
be  required  to  set  the  phonograph  properly,  thus  avoiding 
a  stage-wait. 

The  projector  used  is  the  regular  Edison  Kinetograph 
which  is  too  well  known  to  need  description,  except  that 
on  the  take-up  pulley  there  is  bolted  a  gear  wheel  that  is 
connected  to  the  synchronizer  by  a  chain  belt.  The  main 
trick  is  in  the  synchronizer,  one  of  the  most  beautiful  little 
pieces  of  mechanism  that  ever  was  made.  A  mere  glance 
at  it  is  sufficient  to  convince  one  that  it  is  an  example  of 
the  highest  type  of  the  machinist's  art.  It  bulks  to  about 
the  size  of  a  small  cigar  box,  and  the  mechanism  is  encased 
in  a  metal  envelope.  The  synchronizer  is  bolted  to  the  off 
side  of  the  machine  table  and  is  propelled  by  two  different 


forces;  on  one  side  by  the  moving  picture  machine,  which 
is  turned  by  hand,  and  on  the  other  by  a  belt  from  the 
phonograph  motor.  The  synchronizer  is  all  gears,  and 
if  these  gears  are  not  all  traveling  at  the  same  rate  they 
will  bind  and  stop  the  projector.  There  is  a  warning  brake 
that  tells  the  operator  to  slow  down  or  hurry  up,  as  the  case 
may  be.  It  operates  by  centrifugal  action,  like  a  governor. 
In  addition  to  this  there  is  a  traveling  bevel  gear,  or 
differential,  between  the  two  sets  of  gears,  which  is  op- 
erated by  turning  a  knob.  This  arrangement  enables  the 
operator  to  catch  up  or  drop  behind  if  there  is  the  slightest 
variation  between  the  phonograph  and  the  lips  of  the  actor. 
The  operator  must  keep  his  eyes  on  the  picture  all  the 
time.  He  also  has  a  telephone  receiver  on  his  head  which 
is  connected  by  wire  to  the  phonograph,  and  this  enables 
him   to   hear   it  at  any   distance. 

The  same  motor  that  propels  the  phonograph  also  drives 
the  phonograph  side  of  the  synchronizer.  This  is  done 
by  a  belt  that  travels  from  it  to  the  operating  room  and 
back  again.  The  belt  is  a  strong,  black,  waxed,  silk  cord 
about  the  size  of  a  heavy  fish  line.  In  theaters  it  passes 
up  through  the  ceiling,  across  the  dome  roof,  or  inner 
dome  roof,  over  to  and  through  the  proscenium  wall,  and 
by  various  angles  it  reaches  the  phonograph  from  under- 
neath the  stage.  At  every  corner,  this  belt  passes  around 
pulleys  that  are  encased  in  metal,  making  them  dust  and 
water  proof.  Two  belts  are  usually  installed,  so  that  in 
case  one  breaks  the  other  is  handy.  In  the  case  of  small 
picture  theaters,  this  belt  would  probably  be  rigged  close 
to  the  ceiling.  It  is  not  necessary,  with  the  Kinetophone, 
for  an  operator  to  be  a  mechanical  or  an  electrical  expert, 
but  he  must  not  be  a  "greenhorn"  by  any  means.  Its 
operation  requires  a  reasonable  amount  of  common  sense 
and  during  the  time  of  operation  it  requires  that  the  operator 
shall  concentrate  all  of  his  faculties  upon  the  work. 

In  case  of  a  patched  reel,  if  the  cut-out  is  not  more 
than  a  few  inches  it  is  easy  for  the  machine  operator  to 
drop  back  enough  for  the  phonograph  to  catch  up.  In 
case  of  serious  or  long  breaks,  the  Kinetophone  Com- 
pany provides  an  extra  subject  for  substitution  and  the 
broken  reel  is  taken  out  of  commission  until  the  broken 
scene  is  replaced  with  a  new  one.  One  of  the  principal 
claims  of  the  Edison  Company  is  that  their  field  of  re- 
production is  practically  unlimited,  because  their  records 
and  films  are  made  at  the  same  time  and  by  the  same  ma- 
chinery. 

The  Vivaphone. 
The  Vivaphone  is  a  device  that  has  been  in  use  for  the 
past  couple  of  years  in  Great  Britain.  Its  mechanism  is 
extremely  simple.  The  synchronizing  device  is  located  in 
the  operating  room.  It  is  a  sheet  metal  box  that  stands 
on  edge.  It  is  about  two  inches  thick,  fifteen  inches  long 
and  a  foot  high.  There  is  an  electric  light  inside  this 
box  that  shows  a  red  bulls  eye,  when  lighted,  to  the  phono- 
graph operator,  who  is  located  on  or  near  the  stage.  On 
the  machine  operator's  side  of  this  box  is  an  upright  slit 
through  which  the  light  shows  in  its  ordinary  color.  Out- 
side the  box,  on  the  machine  operator's  side,  is  an  upright 
pointer  about  the  width  and  length  of  a  lead  pencil,  which 
in  its  normal  upright  position  always  covers  the  slit  in 
the  box  and  stops  off  the  light.  Attached  to  this  pointer, 
are  two  miniature  windows  about  the  size  of  a  postage 
stamp;  one  on  each  side  of  the  pointer.  These  little  flag 
windows  or  window  flags  are  on  a  level  with  the  light 
slit  in  the  box.  One  window  is  colored  red  and  the  other 
green.  These  window  flags  indicate  whether  or  not  the 
machine  and  phonograph  are  in  time  with  each  other.  When 
machine  and  phonograph  are  in  time,  the  pointer  covers 
up  the  slit  and  there  is  no  light.  If  they  get  out  of  time 
the  pointer  moves  to  one  side  or  the  other,  according  to 
whether  the  machine  is  running  too  fast  or  too  slow.  When 
the  pointer  moves  to  the  right  it  brings  the  little  red 
window  across  the  light  slit  and  produces  a  red  light, 
which  means  that  the  machine  is  running  too  slow.  If 
the  machine  is  going  too  fast  the  pointer  goes  the  other 
way  and  brings  the  green  window  across  the  light  slit,  thus 
producing  the  green  signal,  meaning  too  fast. 

There  is  a  particular  spot  on  the  film  that  must  be  threaded 
in  the  machine  directly  over  the  aperture  for  a  starting 
point.  Likewise  there  is  a  marked  starting  point  on  the 
phonograph  disk.  The  machine  operator  signals  the  phono- 
graph man  that  he  is  ready,  by  turning  on  the  light  in 
his  synchronizing  box,  and  that  shows  the  red  bulls-eye 
to  the  stage.  The  moment  the  phonograph  starts,  the 
synchronizing  box  begins  to  tick  slowly,  like  a  clock.  At 
the  first  tick  the  machine  operator  starts  his  picture.  A 
special  handle  is  required  for  turning  the  machine.  This 
handle  is  electrically  connected,  by  wire,  to  the  synchroniz- 


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ing  box,  in  a  way  that  affects  the  pointer  and  its  little 
colored  windows.  It  is  the  operator's  business  to  see 
that  the  pointer  stays  perpendicular,  which  means  that 
he   is   in   time  with   the  phonograph. 

The  only  connection  between  the  phonograph  and  the 
synchronizer  is  an  ordinary  double  bell  wire.  This  wire  is 
attached  to  a  skeleton  casting,  bearing  a  magneto.  One 
end  of  the  casting  rests  upon  the  solid  part  of  the  phono- 
graph, and  the  other  end  fits  over  the  pin  in  the  center 
of  the  disk  record.  The  revolutions  of  the  disk  establish 
a  make-and-break  circuit  that  travels  through  the  magneto 
back  to  the  synchronizer  and  causes  it  to  tick.  The  handle 
of  the  machine  also  establishes  a  make-and-break  circuit 
with  the  synchronizer  at  the  same  time.  The  phonograph 
travels  at  the  same  speed  always.  If  the  machine  goes 
too  fast  the  extra  magnetic  force  generated  by  the  speed 
pulls  the  pointer  to  one  side.  If  the  machine  goes  too  slow 
the  phonograph  magneto,  by  its  greater  excitement,  pulls  the 
pointer  the  other  way.  On  reasonably  short  film  patches 
the  operator  can  slow  down  until  the  phonograph  catches 
up.    On  bad  breaks  a  new  subject  should  be  used. 

This  entire  device  is  very  compact.  It  can  all  be  packed 
in  half  the  space  of  a  dress  suit  case,  and  weighs  only 
eight  pounds.  It  can  be  attached  to  any  standard  pro- 
jector without  previous  preparation,  and  can  be  made  ready 
for  operation  within  twenty  minutes,  with  temporary  wiring. 
The  electrical  power  is  furnished  by  an  ordinary  bell  battery 
and  the  wire  is  common  bell  wire  or  extension  lamp  cord. 
There  are  three  pairs  of  binding  posts  on  the  synchronizer. 
One  pair  for  the  machine  handle;  one  pair  for  the  phono- 
graph and  one  pair  for  the  battery.  Any  ordinary  Vic- 
trola  talking  machine,  such  as  are  sold  for  home  use,  can 
be  used  with  this  outfit.  The  machine  operator  who  gave 
the  demonstration  learned  to  handle  the  apparatus  in  half 
a  day.  Anyone  who  can  operate  a  Victrola  at  home  can 
operate  one  with  this  device.  Mr.  Albert  Blinkhorn,  formerly 
of  London,  has  the  American  and  Canadian  rights. 

The  Gaumont  System. 

The  Gaumont  system  of  talking  pictures  has  been  in 
vogue  for  several  years.  The  present  device  is  an  ampli- 
fication of  the  Gaumont  Chronophone  which  made  a  brief 
American  appearance  in  1910.  Since  that  time  Mr.  Leon 
Gaumont  has  been  experimenting  continuously  with  syn- 
chronizing machinery.  The  recent  revival  of  talking  pictures 
prompted  him  to  bring  his  device  to  America,  principally 
as  a  matter  of  pride  and  to  remind  the  American  public 
that  for  more  than  two  years  he  has  been  giving  such 
exhibitions  in  Paris.  He  recently  leased  the  Paris  Hippo- 
drome for  that  purpose.  The  new  Gaumont  talking  pictures 
were  given  their  first  American  showing  in  New  York,  at 
the  39th  Street  Theater,  on  June  10.  Mr.  Gaumont  is  not 
certain  at  this  time  when  or  how  he  will  market  his  ap- 
paratus, or  whether  he  will  market  it  at  all. 

The  Gaumont  system  can  properly  be  called  a  scientific 
instrument.  In  its  working  it  has  been  brought  right  down 
to  the  ultimate  of  scientific  perfection.  It  has  been  before 
the  French  Academy,  and  the  learned  scientists  there  have 
marveled  at  its  infinite  precision  at  all  points.  From  this 
viewpoint  it  is  entirely  praiseworthy,  but  at  the  same  time 
it  is  complicated  and  it  is  doubtful  whether  very  many 
operators  could  be  found  who  have  the  necessary  mechani- 
cal knowledge  to  successfully  manipulate  it.  Exception  may 
be  taken  to  the  last  statement  because  the  Gaumont  mechan- 
ism is  almost  entirely  automatic.  After  the  film  and  the 
phonograph  disk  have  been  placed  in  position  there  is 
nothing  for  the  operator  to  do  except  turn  on  the  electricity, 
and  the  machine  does  all  the  work  itself.  Still  there  must 
be  some  one  around  to  keep  it  in  working  condition,  and, 
unless  the  operator  is  a  pretty  thorough  man,  there  is  likeli- 
hood that  he  would  do  more  harm  than  good. 

The  entire  apparatus  operates  and  is  controlled  by  elec- 
tricity. There  is  a  wonderful  electrical  affinity  between  the 
phonograph  and  the  projector.  With  this  system  the  phono- 
graph man  is  the  engineer,  instead  of  the  man  in  the  op- 
erating room.  He  sits  on  the  stage  behind  a  screen  directly 
under  the  projection  surface.  Before  him  is  a  low  aluminum 
machine  foundation  resembling  a  lathe.  At  each  end  of  this 
base  is  a  round  solid  metal  plate  for  the  support  of  a 
disk  record.  These  are  revolved  by  a  motor  which  keeps 
axact  time  with  the  motor  that  operates  the  projector. 
Between  the  two  disks  is  an  upright  electric  switchboard, 
with  many  contacts.  This  apparatus  controls  itself  and 
the  synchronism  automatically.  It  is  delicate  and  com- 
plicated and  contains  presumably  many  relays,  magnets,  in- 
ductors,   circuit   breakers,    etc.      Connected    to    each    one    of 


these  is  a  wire,  and  there  are  many  wires;  enough  to  make 
one   large  cable   when   all   bound   together. 

When  the  exhibition  begins  the  phonograph  operator 
switches  in  his  record.  The  instant  the  record  starts  there 
is  a  clutch  thrown  in  at  the  projection  machine  propeller 
and  the  film  starts  at  full  speed,  getting  its  momentum  from 
its  own  motor,  previously  started.  Then  the  wonderful 
switchboard  begins  to  work.  It  resembles  accordeon  keys 
playing  themselves.  There  is  no  chance  for  the  film  and  the 
record  to  get  out  of  time,  except  by  a  bare  chance  that  the 
pin  should,  jump  ahead  or  behind  on  the  record.  In  that 
case  the  mechanism  will  adjust  itself.  In  the  matter  of 
patched  film,  whatever  is  cut  out  must  be  replaced  by  an 
equivalent  length  of  film,  whether  it  be  blank  film  or  a  dupli- 
cate. The  exact  relation  of  the  picture  to  its  corresponding 
dialogue  or  music  must  be  maintained.  To  insure  absolute 
precision,  the  phonograph  operator  has  a  dial  board  beside 
him  on  which  are  two  instruments  resembling  ammeters 
or  voltmeters.  These  tell  him  to  a  hair's  breadth  how  his 
film  and  phonograph  are  traveling.  The  machine  operator 
uses  a  head  telephone  receiver  connected  to  the  phonograph. 
The  double  phonograph  idea  is  for  alternating  purposes  on 
long  pictures.  The  change  from  one  to  the  other  is  also 
made  automatically. 


In  concluding  the  subject  it  cannot  be  said  that  any  of 
these  devices  .has  succeeded  in  evading  the  hollow  sound 
of  the  phonograph.  Perhaps  it  is  asking  too  much  to  ex- 
pect absolute  perfection  in  that  direction.  If  no  improve- 
ments are  forthcoming  it  behooves  everybody  to  make  the 
best  of  what  is  available.  Phonographs  are  enjoyed  in  the 
home;  why  not  in  the  theater?  It  is  quite  probable  that 
any  audience  would  not  object  to  a  phonograph  if  the  sub- 
ject were  interesting  enough  to  hold  their  attention,  but  it 
is  asking  rather  a  good  deal  of  them  to  sit  and  look  at  a 
musical  act,  or  a  synchronized  song  and  dance,  with  the  feet 
cut  off,  when  they  may  have  seen  the  same  thing  in  real  life 
on  the  same  bill  thirty  minutes  before.  The  fault  of  the  talk- 
ing picture  lies  in  the  lack  of  variety.  To  hold  its  own  it  must 
offer  something  that  is  not  common  to  a  vaudeville  bill.  Some- 
thing worthy  of  it.  We  are  not  prepared  to  say  what  this 
should  be,  but  it  is  quite  probable  that  tabloid  grand  opera 
would  be  a  good  beginning.  The  grand  opera  records 
seem  to  be  the  most  satisfactory  of  all  so  far,  and 
the  great  majority  of  picture  or  vaudeville  devotees  have 
little  opportunity  to  attend  grand  opera.  Addresses  by 
prominent  men;  solos  or  monologues  by  famous  artists; 
scenes  from  classic  dramas;  all  would  be  well  received.  The 
people  are  willing,  even  eager,  to  admit  that  synchronism 
is  possible,  but  they  want  to  see  something  worth  looking 
at.     Why  not  give  it  to  them? 


RELIANCE    CHATTER. 

Prize  bull-dogs  captured  the  studio  by  storm  on  Friday. 
Paul  Scardon  entered  seven  of  his  best  breed  of  English 
Bulls  in  the  show  staged  for  the  coming  three  real  feature 
"The  Tangled  Web,"  in  which  Rosemary  Theby  will  make 
her  first  appearance  for  the  Reliance  and  even  Louis  the 
office  boy  has  become  a  dog  enthusiast. 

The  ball  team  is  busy  getting  ready  for  a  game  with  Lubin 
on  Saturday,  at  Philadelphia.  The  Lubin  game  which  was 
swamped  by  a  cloudburst  will  be  played  in  Philadelphia,  on 
July  5th. 

A  new  interpretation  of  "The  Rosary,"  which  has  been 
occupying  Oscar  Apfel's  attention,  promises  to  be  of  more 
than  passing  interest,  especially  as  Forrest  Halsey  is  re- 
sponsible for  the  scenario. 

Larry  McGill  has  just  returned  from  a  short  trip  to 
Mauch  Chunk,  Pennsylvania,  which  he  calls  "The  Switzer- 
land of  America."  Larry  found  some  beautiful  scenery  and 
succeeded  in  getting  a  coal-mine  explosion  that  was  realistic 
enough,  even  to  satisfy  his  leading  man  Alan  Hale.  Alan 
says  that  coal-mining  never  did  appeal  to  him  anyway,  and 
blasting  always  made  him  very  nervous. 

Edgar  Lewis  brought  his  company  home  from  their  trip 
to  Maine  all  enthusiasm  about  Rodman  Law's  plunge  over 
the  Stillwater  Falls.  Law  made  the  dash  over  the  falls  in  an 
open  boat  and  is  the  only  man  who  ever  performed  that 
feat.  The  spectacle  is  part  of  a  coming  Reliance  drama,  and 
was  caught  by  three  cameras  placed  at  entirely  different 
angles. 

Manager  J.  V.  Ritchey  succeeded  in  obtaining  the  promise 
of  Frederick  S.  Isham,  the  well-known  novelist  to  write 
a  story  especially  for  Reliance  production.  His  novel  "Half 
a   Chance,"  is   the   Reliance  release   of  June   14th. 


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A  Great  Modern  Photoplay  Theatre 

The  New  Grand  Central  Theater,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  a  Model  of 
Architectural,    Hygienic   and   Technical   Features. 

THE  New  Grand  Central  Theater,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  is  owned 
and  operated  by  the   Rex  Amusement  &  Realty  Co., 
of  which    Mr.    Edmund   Koeln   is   the   president,   and 
Mr.  William  Sievers  secretary  and  treasurer.     Mr.  Sievers  is 
also  the  manager  of  the  New  Grand  Central. 

This  is,  at  present,  with  reasonable  certainty,  the  highest 
type  and  most  elaborate  example  of  a  theater  entirely  de- 
voted to  the  "photo-play"  in  the  United  States,  and  pos- 
sibly in  the  world.  Constructed  in  accordance  with  the 
rigid  requirements  and  ordinances  governing  the  erection 
of  new  theaters  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  it  is  but  fair  to  say  that 
it  embodies  every  principle  known  to  the  expert  mind  to 
insure  the  public  against  disaster  by  fire  and  panic.  The 
management  and  the  architects,  Helfensteller,  Hirsch  & 
Watson,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  are  deserving  of  the  public's 
warmest  praise  for  the  special  consideration  given  this  phase 
of  the  problem.  The  logical  and  practical  disposition,  and 
the  number,  of  exists  impresses  every  visitor  at  once. 

The  building  is  located  at  the  northwest  corner  of  Grand 
and  Lucas  Avenues;  its  frontage  is  106  feet,  its  depth  150  feet. 
The  northern  26  feet  is  occupied  by  a  store  with  a  depth  of 
about  60  feet.  In  its  rear  is  an  open  yard,  and  under  this 
yard  (entirely  outside  and  separate  from  the  theater)  are 
the  boiler  and  fan  rooms. 

The  theater  building  proper  has  a  frontage  of  80  feet 
with  a  depth  of  150  feet.  The  entrance,  which  is  on  the  axis, 
is  emphasized  by  a  highly  ornate  canopy.  The  lobby  is 
37  feet  wide  by  21  feet  6  inches  deep,  the  walls  thereof  being 
wainscoted  with  marble  and  mirrors  to  a  height  of  8  feet. 
The  ceiling  is  groined  or  vaulted,  and  these  wall  and  ceiling 
surfaces  lend  themselves  admirably  to  embellishment  by  the 
decorator. 

The  theater  auditorium  has  a  width  of  78  feet  by  a  length 
of  100  feet.  Only  one  balcony  is  provided,  the  extreme  for- 
ward edge  of  which  extends  to  within  48  feet  of  the  curtain. 
The  auditorium  will  seat  1200,  while  the  balcony  has  a  seat- 
ing capacity  of  800.  All  seats  insure  positive  comfort.  The 
balcony  is  reached  by  two  broad,  easy  stairways,  which 
are  provided  with  two  intermediate  platforms. 
Upon    entering    the    auditorium    one    is    involuntarily    im- 


pressed with  its  delightfully  simple,  but  dignified  and  artistic, 
treatment;  then  by  the  pleasing  light  effects,  which  are 
indirect,  and  with  its  perfect  sightlines  and  unusually  good 
acoustics.  All  these  details  have  been  worked  out  with  re- 
markable   success. 

Another  pleasant  surprise  is  in  store  for  the  visitor — the 
perfect  15  by  20  feet  picture  on  the  screen.  This  perfection 
is  due  to  the  fact  that  the  rays  from  the  lens  in  the  operating 
room  are  at  right  angles  to  the  screen,  which  fact  absolutely 
eliminates  all  distortion.  Incidentally  it  should  be  noted 
that  the  screen  is  set  within  5  feet  of  the  back  wall  of  the 
stage,  or  a  total  distance  of  123  feet  from  the  lens.  This 
calls  for  a  highly  intensified  light  and  unusually  strong 
and  special  lenses;  for,  let  it  be  borne  in  mind  that,  even  dur- 
ing the  photoplay,  the  entire  auditorium  is  under  "sub- 
dued''  light. 

A  stage  complete  in  all  its  details  is  provided.  Its  depth 
is  26  feet  and  its  width  80  feet.  The  proscenium  opening 
is  40  feet  wide  by  21  feet  high.  Every  modern  and  requisite 
electric  device  enters  into  the  theater  equipment. 

Special  efforts  have  been  made  in  solving  the  question 
of  heating  and  ventilation.  Two  air  washing  fans,  each 
with  a  capacity  of  33,000  cubic  feet  per  minute,  force  the 
air  into  the  plenum  chamber,  which  extends  under  the 
entire  first  story  auditorium,  and  also  under  the  balcony. 
Fresh  "washed"  (heated  in  winter  or  cooled  in  summer)  air 
is  forced  from  this  plenum  chamber  through  mushroom 
ventilators,  placed  under  the  seats.  Furthermore,  there  is 
a  truss  loft  above  the  auditorium  which  acts  as  a  "minus 
chamber"  and  which  is  connected  with  two  exhaust  fans, 
each  with  a  capacity  of  33,000  cubic  feet.  This  means  that 
the  air  contained  in  the  entire  auditorium  can  be  renewed 
every  two  and  one-half  minutes.  This  ventilating  system 
alone  cost  $24,000. 

The  lower  story  of  the  Grand  Avenue  front  is  faced  with 
polychrome,  pure  glazed  terra  cotta,  of  charming  composi- 
tion; and  the  roof  over  the  lobby,  with  its  far  overhanging 
heavy  timbered  brackets  and  rafters,  is  covered  with  Spanish 
tile  of  a  warm,  red  color. 

All  in  all,  it  can  well  be  said  that  this  house  sets  a  new 
mark  in  the  building,  architectural  treatment,  heating,  ven- 
tilating, lighting,  sight  lines,  etc.,  of  a  truly  modern  photo- 
play theater.  The  New  Grand  Central  represents  an  invest- 
ment of  $180,000. 


A  Great  Modern  Photoplay  Theater— The  Grand  Central  at  St.  Louis,  Mo. 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


At  the  Sign   of  the  Flaming  Arcs 

By  George   Blaisdell. 

ANOTHER  good  fellow  has  sailed  across  the  ocean 
and  by  this  time  he  is  at  work  in  his  new  home.  His 
good-byes  had  a  deeper  meaning  than  have  those  of 
many  recently  departing  Americans,  because  he  set  out  on 
no  short  journey.  For  many  years  we  have  been  accus- 
tomed to  being  entertained  by  English  actors  and  have 
listened  with  respect  to  what  English  producers  had  to 
say  about  stage  matters  in  general.  The  engagement  of 
Harold  Shaw  as  producing  manager  of  the  London  Film 
Company,  the  studio  of  which  will  be  in  Margaretta,  Middle- 
sex, has  greater  significance  than  may  appear  on  the  surface. 
It  will  be  construed  by  many  of  the  wiser  heads  as  tacit 
»ecognition  by  at  least  one  British  concern  of  the  eminence 
of  American  picture  men.  Mr.  Shaw's  work  will  be  followed 
as  closely  by  his  English  brethren  as  it  will  by  his  American 
friends.  The  former  Edison  and  Imp  director  has  had  the 
benefit  of  a  good  training.  Added  to  this  and  amplifying 
it  are  the  equally  essential  factors  of  native  intelligence,  tact 
and  the  ability  to  reach  men — to  transform  acquaintances 
into  friends.  If  Mr.  Shaw  has  comparative  youth  he  has 
also  the  enthusiasm  that  is  its  counterpart.  Nor  does  this 
in  any  measure  blind  him  to  a  realization  of  the  difficulties 
that  lie  ahead  of  him.     These  he  expects. 

The  best  wishes  of  a  host  of  friends  will   follow   Harold 

Shaw. 

*     *     * 

Herbert  Brenon,  Imp  dramatic  director,  is  up  to  his  ears 
in  work  in  England.  He  has  found  time  to  send  a  card 
from  Paris  and  a  long  and  interesting  letter  from  London. 
Mr.  Brenon  has  as  fellow  passengers  on  his  trip  over  Marc 
MacDermott  and  the  Edison  contingent.  Florence  Turner 
was  one  of  the  first  Americans  he  greeted  on  his  arrival. 
King  Baggot's  first  day  in  London  was  a  busy  one,  inter- 
viewing buyers,  viewers  and  exhibitors  and  being  inter- 
viewed by  newspaper  men.  The  latter  Mr.  Brenon  has  not 
escaped.  The  Cinema  of  May  21,  has  a  page  interview  with 
the  Imp  director,  as  has  the  Kinematograph  of  May  22,  and 
the  Bioscope  of  the  same  date  contains  a  sketch  of  his  work 
in  picturedom.  Also  in  the  latter  organ  there  is  a  page 
advertisement  announcing  that  Mr.  Baggot  will  be  supported 
by  a  British  company  in  British  stories  produced  upon 
British  soil.  Mr.  Brenon  at  the  time  of  writing  was  plan- 
ning for  the  opening  of  the  new  London  offices  of  the  Imp 
at  100  Charing  Cross  Road. 

The  first  Imp  picture  will  be  connected  with  the  British 
Derby,  run  on  June  4.  The  second  will  be  a  historical 
romance,  having  for  a  setting  a  castle  and  its  surrounding 
forest.  There  will  be  in  the  production  30  principals  and 
200  supernumeraries.  The  story  is  one  of  England's  literary 
masterpieces,  known  to  every  reading  man  and  woman. 
Surely  this  should  make  a  big  picture. 

"I  was  deeply  impressed  over  here  with  the  methods  by 
which  pictures  are  sold,"  Mr.  Brenon  writes.  "They  are 
sold  actually  upon  merit,  all  the  renting  exchanges  having 
viewers  who  go  about  and  see  the  different  pictures,  making 
notes  of  those  they  like.  The  first  and  most  important 
feature  is  the  plot;  second,  the  acting,  and,  third,  the  quality 
of  photography.  After  they  have  seen  the  pictures  they  put 
in  their  orders.  Any  producer  who  can  make  a  picture  to 
sell  even  ten  copies  on  the  British  market  can  make  a  picture 
good  enough  for  anywhere  in  the  world.  Each  viewer  in 
one  week  sees  160,000  feet  of  film;  you  can  imagine  the  com- 
petition. However,  it  is  a  great  thing,  and  when  one  sees 
these  men  sitting  down  for  eight  hours  a  day,  for  four 
consecutive  days — fine  representative  gentlemen — one  realizes 
what  one  must  do  to  keep  up  the  standard  of  this  great  in- 
dustry." Mr.  Brenon  praises  the  English  theaters  and  refers 
to  the  most  courteous  uniformed  attendants,  the  magnificent 
projection  and  beautiful  music.  Paris  likewise  has  fine 
houses,  but  the  pictures  that  are  most  popular  are  of  a 
standard  that  would  be  frowned  upon  in  the  United  States. 

The  Imps  expect  to  remain  in  Great  Britain  and  Ireland 
at  least  two  months  and  then  to  visit  the  larger  continental 

cities. 

*     *     * 

Larry  Trimble,  producer  of  the  Turner  Film  Company,  of 
which  Miss  Florence  Turner  is  at  the  head,  has  had  placed 
at  his  disposal  for  the  making  of  interiors  the  studios  of 
Cecil  Hepworth.  Mr.  Trimble  will  arrange  his  outdoor 
settings  in  those  sections  of  England  best  suited  to  the 
individual  picture.  The  class  of  stories  to  be  filmed  will 
be  those  in  which  Miss  Turner  has  been  so  successful — 
clean,  healthy  dramas  and  comedies  and  occasionally  a  pic- 
ture in  which  Miss  Turner  and  one  other  will  constitute  the 
cast.  A  likeness  of  Jean,  the  canine  film  favorite,  will 
serve  as   the   trademark  of  the  Turner   Film    Company. 


It  is  to  laugh — or  shall  we  cry? — when  we  read  that  Kine- 
macolor's  "Scarlet  Letter"  was  strangled  in  Providence. 
Here  is  a  good  specimen  of  the  police  censorship  of  motion 
pictures  which  some  men  would  impose  on  the  industry. 
The  reason  ascribed  for  the  prohibition  by  the  lieutenant 
of  police  is  that  the  story  and  picture  are  "obnoxious  and 
disrespectful  to  clergymen!"  So  in  the  view  of  this  func- 
tionary it  is  not  only  a  sin  but  a  crime  to  portray  on  the 
screen  an  erring  clergyman.  He  would  bestow  on  this 
division  of  the  community  the  privilege  enjoyed  by  royalty 
in  other  days — "The  King  can  do  no  wrong."  But  every- 
body knows  that  kings  do  go  wrong  and  that  clergymen  do 
sometimes — perhaps  even  in  Providence.  If  the  citizens 
of  Providence  were  debarred  from  seeing  this  fine  portrayal 
of  Hawthorne's  great  moral  story,  the  loss  is  theirs.  Oh, 
well!  But  to  think  that  the  puritans  of  old  Boston  town 
should    find    a    worthy    successor    in    the    home    of    Roger 

Williams! 

*  *     * 

On  the  day  of  the  unveiling  of  the  Maine  monument  an 
uptown  Broadway  theater  showed  two  reels  which  told  the 
story  of  the  raising  and  the  sinking  of  the  famous  ship  which 
had  so  long  rested  in  the  mud  of  Havana  Harbor.  The  pic- 
ture, of  course,  is  not  new;  but  it  can  never  grow  old.  It 
is  all  tragedy — the  greatest  ever  thrown  on  a  screen.  No 
master  of  stage-craft  could  have  conceived  a  more  im- 
pressive sequence  of  events  than  are  contained  in  this  film — 
the  raising  of  the  Maine,  the  escort  to  the  pier  of  the  caskets 
containing  the  bones  of  the  men  who  had  gone  down  with 
the  ship,  the  setting  out  from  the  harbor  of  the  flotilla 
conveying  the  old  hulk,  with  its  great  flag  flying  at  the 
stern.  The  strains  of  a  fine  orchestra  could  hardly  add  to 
the  pathos  of  the  scenes — even  though  it  feelingly  played  ^ 
"Should  Old  Acquaintance  be  Forgot,"  as  the  marine  proces- 
sion started;  or  "My  Maryland,"  "Lead,  Kindly  Light,"  and 
"Nearer,  My  God,  to  Thee,"  at  later  stages,  the  latter  as 
the  ship  began  to  settle  by  the  head;  at  the  last  phase — the 
stern  upright,  the  national  emblem  blowing  straight  up- 
ward— one  man  said  none  too  steadily:  "I  can  feel  my  heart 
sinking  with  that  ship!" 

*  *     * 

"What  kind  of  pictures  do  my  people  like  best?"  said  an 
operator  the  other  day.  "Well,  from  what  I  hear  I  think 
the  most  popular  is  the  straight  drama,  that  with  real  heart 
interest  in  which  also  there  are  not  more  than  three  or 
four  characters  materially  figuring  in  the  story.  Short  casts 
increase  the  interest  by  reason  of  easy  identification  of  the 
players  and  determining  their  relation  to  the  story." 

*  *     * 

Word  comes  from  Los  Angeles  that  Fred  Mace  has  made 
another  "O'Brien"  picture — and  furthermore  that  he  will 
himself  remember  it  for  some  time  to  come.  In  order  to 
secure  the  proper  amount  of  realism  the  hero  of  that  hilarious 
"One-Round  O'Brien"  obtained  the  services  of  two  prize- 
fighters, one  of  them  a  coming  champion.  "Go  as  far  as 
you  like,  boys,"  Mace  told  them.  They  did.  Mace  says 
he  has  evidence  aplenty  to  prove  it  (and  thinks  they  went 
even  further) — and  that  such  of  it  as  is  not  visible  on  differ- 
ent parts  of  his  anatomy  he  can  himself  locate  interiorly. 
"But  it's  a  fine  picture,"'  says  Mace. 

*  *     * 

Talking  the  other  day  with  a  returned  traveler,  one  who 
has  been  over  the  country  quite  a  bit  the  last  few  months, 
he  told  of  a  picture  house  in  a  good-sized  city  making  what 
he  considered  good  money.  The  house  seats  260  people  and 
shows  three  reels.  Behind  the  screen  are  two  men  and  two 
women  who  in  clever  dialogue  give  their  own  interpretation 
of  the  scenes.  There  are  sixteen  or  eighteen  shows  a  day. 
The  admission  is  5  cents.  The  little  theater  is  filled  and  more 
than  filled  nearly  all  the  time.  The  profits  last  year  were 
$19,000.  When  the  proprietor  was  asked  if  he  expected  to 
make  more  money  the  present  year  he  replied  that  he  did 
not,  as  that  would  involve  a  reduction  of  expenses,  a  pro- 
position he  did  not  care  to  consider. 

*  *     * 

Met  Frank  Smith,  Imp  director,  at  the  Screen  Club,  Mon- 
day. Mr.  Smith  is  particularly  strong  on  stage  settings,  on 
costumes,  etc. — in  fact,  in  preparing  the  picture  for  the 
camera,  one  might  say.  He  said  he  believed  the  day  would 
come  when,  in  the  making  of  pictures,  there  would  be  in  the 
taking  of  every  scene  the  equivalent  of  the  dress  rehearsal 
of  the  legitimate  stage;  that  the  photographed  film  would 
be  taken  from  the  camera,  developed,  and  thrown  on  a  screen. 
The  director  would  then  have  full  opportunity  to  indicate 
changes  that  would  mean  the  betterment  of  the  picture — 
changing  about  of  properties,  substitution  of  a  costume,  or 
alteration  of  other  details. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


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cAdvertising  for  Exhibitors 

Conducted  by  EPES  WINTHROP  SARGENT 


With  the  Exchanges. 

SOME  of  the  Cameraphone  Bulletins  are  advertising  for  local  con- 
tributions. It  is  both  a  good  and  a  bad  idea;  good  in  that  it  rouses 
local  interest,  but  bad  in  that  more  is  apt  to  be  sent  in  than  can  be 
used  and  the  disappointed  ones  may  feel  that  they  are  being  slighted. 
The  bulletins  seem  to  have  turned  more  to  gossip  of  the  players  of  late 
and  run  some  paragraphs  with  "pep"  to  them.  We  can  see  them  with  a 
list  of  paid  subscribers  yet.  If  you  want  to  try  the  local  items  here  is 
the    Cameraphone    announcement: 

YOUR   ASSISTANCE  WANTED 
The    editors    invite    your   contribution    to    the    Bulletin.      Matter 
intended   for  publication   should  be  left   at  the  box   office   for  the 
attention  of  the  Bulletin  editors.     Remember  that  this  is  your  Bul- 
letin,  issued  for  your  use.     Do   not  hesitate  to  make   suggestions 
as  to  its  makeup,  or  as  to  the  matter  which  appears  in   it,  as  the 
days  roll  by. 
The   Angelus  News,    Spanish  Forks,   Utah,   following  in   the  lead  of  the 
Isis    News    (which    seems   to    have    gone   out   of    print)    runs   an   interview 
with  G.   M.  Anderson  on  the  front  and  back  page.     It  uses  a  continuation 
line  from  the  front  to  the  back,  but  there  is  nothing  on  the  back  to  show 
that   it    is    a   continuation    of   the    first   page.      "Continued    from    Page    1" 
should    have    been    used. 

Here  is  a  want  ad  the  last  issue  carries: 

WANTED— For  some  Wednesday  night— a  WEDDING,  to  take 
place  on  the  stage.    Will  give  the  couple  $5.00  in  cash,  free  clerical 
service,    and   a   dandy  brand  new   baby  cart.     Parties  desiring  to 
accept  this  offer  should  see  the  manager  at  least  five  days  before 
the  date  desired. 
Experience   will    help   them   to    get    more  local    items  in,   which    is   what 
is   most   needed   at  present.      The   advertising   is   growing,   but   to   hold  it, 
local   stuff   must   be    run    that  will    insure  every   page    being   read.     Boiler 
plate  stuff  will  not  do  in  a  house  program. 

The  Motion  Picture  Weekly  is  issued  in  Springfield,  Ohio,  apparently, 
though  the  only  thing  that  discloses  that  fact  is  the  union  label  on  the 
last  page.  William  A.  Brand  is  the  manager-editor  and  it  is  run  in  the 
interests  of  the  Dreamland  Hippodrome,  Pastime,  Fairyland  and  Princess 
theaters.  There  is  a  fine  place  for  tbe  town  and  state  on  the  first  page, 
but  this  is  not  shown.  One  house  runs  licensed  and  others  independent, 
so  that  this  program  deals  with  all  the  players.  It  is  well  put  together 
and  although  only  in  its  second  number  it  is  well  laid  out  and  carries  a 
good    percentage   of  advertising,    though   not   too    much. 


Tickets  for  Rat  Tails. 

Here  is  one  item  from  the  Weekly  that  will  make  copy  for  others: 

Press  dispatches  recently  carried  the  story  of  a  unique  stunt. 
Several  Kentucky  towns  have  official  rat-killing  days,  during  which 
time  all  citizens  get  busy  in  a  general  crusade  against  the  rodents, 
but  -the  prize  goes  to  the  mining  towns  of  Jenkins  and  Burdein, 
in  the  southeastern  Kentucky  coal  fields,  for  a  new  and  efficacious 
method  of  exterminating  the  pests.  The  Young  Men's  Christian 
Associations  of  these  two  towns  have  inaugurated  moving  picture 
shows,  and  for  a  few  days  the  price  of  admission  will  be  two  rat 
tails.  Proceeds  from  the  first  night's  entertainment  at  Jenkins 
netted  two  thousand  tails,  with  Burdein  running  a  close  second. 
At  this  rate  those  interested  in  the  destruction  of  the  rat  hope 
to  have  ratless  towns.  Miners  and  citizens  generally  are  taking  a 
keen  interest  in  the  peculiar  crusade. 
A  contest  that  differs  from  the  others  is  the  offer  of  five  tickets  to  each 
of  the  five  theaters  to  the  first  ten  persons  answering  this  list  of  questions: 

What    company    does   Alice    Joyce    play   with    and   what    theater 
shows    pictures    she    appears    in  ? 

What  theater  shows  the  Keystone  comedies? 

What   theater   runs    all   features? 

What   is   "Alkali    Ike's"    name? 

What  theater  is  running  the  "What  Happened  to  Mary"  series? 

What  company   does   Mary  Fuller  play  with? 

Who    is   the    Biograph    Girl? 
That's  the  sort  of  contest  that  really  helps  to  advertise  the  houses. 


From  New  Orleans. 

Gaston  J.  Dureau,  Jr.,  general  manager  of  the  Fichtenberg  enterprises 
program,  New  Orleans,  sends  in  half  a  dozen  issues  of  the  Spotlight,  his 
house  organ,  and  wants  comment  and  comparisons. 

The  Spotlight  is  a  sixteen-page  booklet  6x0,  printed  on  coated  paper, 
printed  in  black  or  colored  ink.  Where  a  colored  ink  is  used  the  color 
is  used  on  all  sixteen  pages.  There  is  an  attractive  design  for  the  front 
cover.  It  is  more  a  program  than  a  booklet,  though  there  is  consider- 
able reading  matter.  The  great  trouble  seems  to  be  that  the  matter  is 
not  properly  arranged,  and  while  it  uses  about  3  pages  of  gossipy  stuff, 
it  does  not  make  the  showing  that  other  booklets  gain  with  the  same  amount 
of  material  because  it  is  not  made  up  as  a  magazine,  but  as  a  program. 
One  full  half-page  is  taken  up  with  a  continued  story,  five  or  six  inches 
of  a  magazine  story  being  printed  each  week.  This  is  a  sheer  waste  of 
good  space.  It  is  not  possible  to  keep  interested  in  the  very  brief  install- 
ment given  and  the  first  time  we  saw  the  story  we  thought  it  was  a  joke. 


It  required  several  weeks  to  convince  us  that  the  thing  was  being  pub- 
lished in  all  seriousness.  A  continued  story  should  carry  at  least  one 
thousand  words  to  each  issue  and  more  would  be  better.  This  should  be 
closed  up  quickly  and  the  idea  of  running  a  continued  story  dropped  com- 
pletely. It  does  not  carry  interest  from  week  to  week  and  much  better 
use  may  be  made  of  the  space  fo*-  gossip  of  plays  and  players. 


The  Arrangement. 

Under  the  present  layout  the  second  page  carries  an  advertisement  for 
the  Picto  Theater  that  gives  no  greater  argument  than  that  they  show 
three  first  run  licensed  pictures.  A  fancy  border  and  rule  work  seems 
to  have  engaged  more  of  the  compositor's  attention  than  the  display  of  the 
advertisement.  The  fact  quoted  should  have  been  given  half  the  page  and 
the  rest  given  over  to  a  well  written  explanation  in  ten-point  of  why  a 
theater  offering  three  first  run  licensed  pictures  each  day  was  well  worth 
patronizing. 

The  second  page  is  given  to  the  heading  of  the  sheet,  to  an  announce- 
ment of  the  three  houses  and  to  a  list  of  the  staff.  Three  boxes,  con 
nected  by  ornaments,  are  used  to  make  it  look  like  three  separate  adver- 
tisements. This  matter,  with  the  exception  of  the  heading,  should  have 
been  thrown  to  the  rear  of  the  paper  as  is  done  with  the  Pearce  Weekly. 
It  is  not  of  sufficient  importance,  except,  perhaps,  to  those  whose  names 
are  mentioned,  to  warrant  the  use  of  the  second  most  important  page  in 
the  issue  to  the   facts. 

The  third  page,  the  first  inside  the  cover,  is  that  to  which  the  reader 
naturally  turns.  It  should  either  be  devoted  to  general  matter  or  to  the 
announcement,  in  reader  form,  of  the  most  important  matter  of  the  week; 
the  coming  releases  that  are  out  of  the  ordinary.  The  top  should  carry  a 
cross  page  title  and  a  one  column  bastard  head,  the  rest  being  in  not 
larger  than  eight-point  type  two  columns  to  the  page.  If  desired,  the 
announcements  of  staff  and  houses,  or  either,  may  appear  on  the  second 
cover  page,  facing  this,  but  not  on  it.  An  announcement  should  also 
be  carried  on  this  page  stating  on  what  page  the  results  of  their  misspelled 
word  contest  appeal s.  This  may  then  appear  on  an  even  numbered  page 
and  yet  bring  attention  to  the  house  or  other  advertising  matter  appearing 
on   the  same  page. 

The  house  programs  may  appear,  as  they  do  at  present,  on  page  five, 
tut  to  give  the  words  "Programs  this  week"  thirty-point  (sixty  in  all)  and 
the  names  of  the  theaters  but  eighteen  points  is  to  reverse  their  values. 
The  programs  speak  for  themselves  and  do  not  need  to  be  labeled.  Just 
in  passing,  the  man  who  is  responsible  for  all  that  fussy  rule  and  border 
work  that  makes  the  sheet  look  like  the  output  of  a  country  job  office 
with  a  drunken  compositor  should  be  killed  or  fired,  or  at  least  talked  to 
severely. 

One  good  idea  is  used  in  telling  when  a  picture  is  not  quite  up  to 
the  mark  instead  of  using  the  manufacturer's  notice.  It  inspires  confidence 
in  the  program  and  avoids  disappointment.  For  that  matter  most  of 
the  reading  matter  is  well  done,  but  the  layout  is  so  poor  that  it  does 
not  get  much  of  a  chance.  It  would  be  better  to  run  all  text  matter 
on  the  right  hand  pages  and  advertisements  on  the  left  except  certain  of 
the  house  advertisements. 

The  booklet  does  not  compare  very  well  with  most,  but  the  faults  are 
mechanical   rather   than   literary,   barring   that  absurd  continued   story. 


A   Neat   Souvenir. 

George  Kleine  sends  in  one  of  the  souvenirs  of  the  hundredth  per- 
formance of  "Quo  Vadis?"  at  the  Astor  Theater,  New  York  City,  June  9. 
It  is  marked  by  exceptionally  good  taste.  A  photo-reproduction  of  Anthony 
Novelli  as  Vinicius  is  enclosed  in  a  folder  of  white  card  with  the  front 
embossed,  no  ink  being  used  on  the  embossing.  The  result  is  something 
that  is  wholly  in  keeping  with  the  dignity  of  this  production  i»stead  of 
suggesting  a  three-sheet  lithograph.  It  sounds  the  note  of  refinement  that 
appeals  to  those  to  whom  the  subject  appeals  most  strongly.  It  would  be 
hard  to  better  the   cover  or  the  general   style. 


"Stealing  Our  Stuff." 

A  correspondent  sends  in  a  page  of  the  Vancouver  World,  which  runs 
a  frame  of  photoplay  theater  advertisements  around  an  editorial  story 
by  Louis  Reeves  Harrison.  In  view  of  the  fact  that  this  paper  pays  Mr. 
Harrison  for  these  articles,  which  the  newspaper  uses  every  week,  it  would 
be  no  more  than  decent  if  our  Canadian  cousin  gave  the  paper  credit. 
Thee  is  no  law  thst  requires  the  giving  of  credit,  bu»  it  doesn't  hurt 
to  he  courteous.  There  are  eleven  theater  advertisements  and  one  ex- 
change ad.  The  exchange  uses  its  space  to  advertise  the  route  of  Dr. 
Jekyl  and  Mr.  Hyde"  for  the  week,  which  is  something  new  in  advertising. 

The  theater  advertising  is  hardly  interesting.  The  Globe,  for  example, 
merely  announces  that  it  is  "The  Theater  Beautiful"  and  adds  the  cajch- 
line  "Sit  an-o»g  the  thousand."  It  doesn't  say  what  the  thousand  will 
see  for  their  ten-cent  pieces.  The  Fairview  merely  says  that  "Balaoo  is 
"One  of  the  most  remarkable  films  ever  produced,"  but  does  not  tell  why, 
though  explanation  would  interest.  The  Province  tells  that  Tigris  was 
at  the  Biiou  Theater,  New  York  City,  for  four  months.  It  adds  that  it 
is  in   four  reels,  but  there  is  no  arS"™"'- 

The  Princess   gives   an   argument  for   "Dr.  Jekyl,      and   the   Maple   Leaf 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE  WORLD 


plays  up  "The  Vampire  of  the  Desert,"  which  it  says  is  adapted  from 
Kipling's  poem.  The  Broadway  and  the  Cedar  Cottage  theaters  both  tell 
a  little  something  of  their  offering,  but  "Change  of  program  daily"  is  the 
best  the  Majestic  can  do  beyond  the  price  and  address  in  a  two-inch 
advertisement.  There  is  no  use  paying  for  advertising  space  unless  you 
say  something.  The  name  of  your  house  is  not  sufficient.  Tell  what  you 
have  to  offer  in  part,  if  not  in  whole,  but  make  a  noise. 


Twice  a  Thousand. 

Bertram  I.  Williams,  of  Ponca  City,  Okla.,  has  opened  an  airdome  at 
the  place  he  put  on  the  photoplay  map,  and  has  twice  played  to  a  thou- 
sand persons  one  performance.  That's  going  some,  but  he  believes  in 
advertising,   as  this  extract   from  his  letter   shows: 

We  have  booked  in  the  "Battle  of  Gettysburg'*  for  the  Fourth  of 
July.     I  already  have  600  sheets  of  paper  on  the  boards  and  will 
get  as  much   more  as  we  can  get  hold  of. 
That  sounds   as   though   there  was  going  to  be  strong  opposition  of  some 
sort  on  the  holiday,  but  even  with  that,  six  hundred  sheets  on  the  boards 
is  a  lo-t  of  paper  for  a  town. 

We    rather   like   his   description   of  his   place.      It   sounds    inviting: 
THE    SKY   ABOVE,    MOTHER    EARTH   BELOW   AND 
NATURE'S  COOLING  SYSTEM  BETWEEN. 


The  cut  shows  the  airdome  dolled  up  for  the  Decoration  Day  attractions, 
"A  Southern  Cinderella"  and  "In  the  Caws  of  a  Leopard."  Here's  a 
line    for    "The   Eleventh    Commandment:" 

ITS   JUST   FIVE   MONTHS    AFTER    CHRISTMAS 
But  it's  not  too  late  yet  for  another  gift,  so  we  are  giving  away 
two   thousand   feet  of  chuckle?   with    this  bubbling   mirth-provoker. 
It  doesn't   pay   to  write  strenuous   stuff   unless   you   can   keep   it   up,    but 
it    never   bothers    Mr.    Williams,    and    his    readers   are    used   to    taking    his 
statements   with   a  50%   discount,  so   it   is  all   right. 


Wants   Clean  Kiddies. 

We  think  that  Ben  Zerr,  of  the  Schuylkill  Avenue  Picture  House,  Read- 
ing,  Pa.,  must  have  had  his  troubles,   for  his  cut   price  tickets   now   read: 
HELLO    TICKET 
This  ticket  and  3  cents  will  admit  any  clean  child  any  Saturday 
Afternoon    up   to    August   oth. 

Schuylkill    Ave.    Picture    House 
BENN  ZERR,  Proprietor  and  Manager 
It  is  a  wise  provision,   al  that,   for  the  cut  price  ticket  will  particularly 
appeal    to   the   youngster    who    doesn't   keep    clean    and    too    many    of    that 
sort  in  the  house  are  bad  for  business. 

Mr.  Zerr  uses  a  cut  of  a  lantern  on  most  of  his  stuff,  the  rays  lighting 
the  words  "We  light  the  way."     It  is  sufficiently  unusual  to   attract  atten- 
tion.   He  also  shows  a  fondness  for  good  black  type,  but  he  does  not  overdo 
it   and  his  advertising  does  not   luok  mussy. 
One  recent  scheme  is  explained  in  this  bill: 

CHIEF  WHITE  MOON,  the  Indian  graduate  of  Carlisle  Indian 
School,  will  explain  life  and  habits  among  the  Indians,  such  as  you 
have  never  heard  or  read  of  before.  He  is  a  wonderful  entertainer 
for  both  young  and  old.  No  one  his  equal,  as  an  Indian,  has  ever 
entertained  the  Reading  public.  He  will  talk  on  different  Indian 
Pictures  every  afternoon  and  evening.  This  will  be  a  week  of 
instruction,  especially  to   the  Teachers  and   Scholars. 

DIFFERENT  PRIZES  EVERY  AFTERNOON  TO  THE 
CHILDREN. 

Two  ladies  guessing  nearest  his  weight  will  receive  prizes, 
also  two  men.  Some  prizes  can  be  seen  in  Haines'  Cigar  Store 
window.      The  Decorations   are   worth    the   price  of   admission. 

Don't  miss  one  day;  make  a  big  week  of  it.  Please  bring  the 
children  in  the  afternoon  and  see  a  bigger  show  and  avoid  the 
crowd  in  the  evening.  Extra  Prizes  to  children  in  the  afternoon 
if  they  sit  in   the   lucky  seat 

Three  different  pictures  every  day  besides  the  Indian  with  his 
lecture  on  a  picture. 


An  Appeal  to  the  Indifferent. 

Another  poster    deals  with   the   milk   and   adds  an   appeal   to   the  person 
who   does  not  usually  patronize   the   picture   theater.     Here  is  the  bill: 
FRIDAY,    MAY    16 
THE    OLD    AND    NEW   WAY  OF   HANDLING   MILK 
This   picture    was   shown    May   6th    at   Harrisburg  in   the    Senate 
Chamber  to   the   Governor  and  Senators.      It  made  a  decided  hit. 
Every  father  and  mother  i-hould  see  this  picture;   it  may  save   the 
life   of   your   child. 

For  the  Benefit  of  those  who  don't  go  to   Moving  Pictures — 
If  you  will  come  to  see  this  picture  you  will  come  again  to  see 
other  good  pictures  that  we  show  from  time  to  time  in  the  educa- 
tional  line.     It  is  my  aim  to  elevate  the  morals  and  character  of 
the    Motion    Pictures. 

Come  and  join  the  hspDv  familv  gathering  every  evening  at  the 
SCHUYLKILL    AVENUE    PICTURE    HOUSE 


Get  After  Them. 

More  than  one  exhibitor  would  do  well  to  make  a  definite  and  carefully 
planned  campaign  for  the  business  ot  those  persons  who  do  not  at  present 
patronize  the  picture  theater.  Many  of  these  do  not  even  realize  the 
great  improvement  made  in  the  past   few   years. 

Find  out  who  they  are.  Advertise  for  them.  Run  a  slide  asking  your 
patrons  to  give  you  the  names  and  addresses  of  those  who  are  not  regular 
photoplay  attendant*  and  circularize  them  when  you  have  something  par- 
ticularly good.  Don't  tell  them  that  you  want  them  to  come  regularly,  but 
ask  them  to  come  and  see,  just  once,  as  your  guest,  what  the  pictures 
really  are  and  what  they   are  missing. 

Make  special  arrangements  to  get  the  sort  of  specials  that  will  particu- 
larly appeal  to  those  hard  to  please,  who  will  be  most  apt  to  desire  to 
see;  the  visualization  of  some  book  or  the  reproduction  of  some  historical 
or  educational  subject. 

If  you  can  get  one  of  the  pure  milk  stories,  for  example,  make  the 
rounds  of  the  physicians  or  address  a  letter  to  them  suggesting  that  their 
patients  who  have  little  children  should  see  this  film  and  that  you  will 
be  glad  to  send  tickets  with  his  compliments  if  he  will  furnish  you  with 
theii  names  and  addresses  and  his  cards  to  slip  in  with,  the  passes  if  he 
wishes.  You  can  do  the  same  things  with  tuberculosis  stories  and  with  other 
films  advocating  preventive  measures. 

School  teachers,  in  the  school  season,  will  work  in  with  you  when  you 
have  something  that  will  fit  in  with  their  class  work.  Suppose,  for  ex- 
ample, that  you  got  the  "Panama  Canal"  pictures  for  some  Saturday. 
Why  not  give  a  school  children's  performance  in  the  morning,  before  the 
regular  show,  running  the  reel  say  at  half-j.ast  ten.  When  your  regular 
matinee  starts  you  will  find  many  of  the  kiddies  back  with  their  mothers 
or  big  sisters,  with  perhaps  father  and  the  boys  coming  to  the  evening 
performance,  and  all  because  a  youngster  saw  the  show  free  and  went 
home  so  full  of  the  picture  that  everyone  simply  had  to  listen  to  the 
chatter. 

Keep  in  Touch. 

And  look  here.  Did  you  ever  stop  and  study  just  what  it  is  that  gets 
people  into  your  house?  Did  you  ever  make  a  serious  study  of  it?  Did 
you  ever  get  your  wife  to  tell  you  what  she  knows  about  getting  people  in? 
Did  you  ever  talk  things  over  with  school  teachers  and  policemen  and 
letter  carriers  and  grocery  clerks  and  men  who  work  in  factories  and  girls 
who  work  in  shops? 

All  of  those  people  can  tell  you  something  you  do  not  know  about  how 
people  are  influenced  to  go  to  photoplay  theaters  and  why  they  like  some 
houses  and  do  not  like  others.  You  do  not  know  all  about  running  a 
theater  and  you  never  will,  and  the  more  firmly  convinced  you  are  that 
you   do  know,  the   less  you  are  apt  to  know  anything  at  all. 

You  may  know  that  business  has  dropped  down,  but  you  won't  know 
that  it  is  because  the  girl  who  sells  tickets  is  "snippy."  She  isn't  that 
way  when  you  are  around,  but  you  can't  stand  alongside  of  the  box 
office  all  the  afternoon  or  evening,  and  when  you  are  not  there  she  vents 
her  headache  or  her  corns  on  the  patrons  and  it  comes  out  of  your  pocket. 

You  may  not  know  that  people  stay  away  from  your  house  because  the 
usher  is  too  busy  talking  to  young  girls  ft>  show  people  to  seats.  The 
usher  is  on  the  job  when  you  are  around,  but  you  cannot  spend  your 
waking    hours    with    him. 

You  may  spend  five  dollars  on  a  circular  scheme  and  lose  every  cent 
of  the  investment  because  you  are  using  "man  talk"  on  a  bill  intended 
for  women.  Why  not  ask  some  clever  woman  (and  your  wife  may  be 
clever  and  you  not  credit  her  with  the  fact)  just  what  the  trouble  is  with 
a  bill,  or  what  she  thinks  of  it? 

We  know  one  house  that  turned  a  weekly  loss  of  about  ten  dollars  into 
ar  average  profit  of  fifteen  by  merely  changing  the  pianist.  The  old  pianist 
was  a  skillful  performer,  but  he  played  what  he  wanted  to  play  and  dis- 
played his  technique  instead  of  giving  the  popular  air  songs  the  people 
liked.  It  sounded  first  rate  to  the  man  who  ran  the  house,  but  three  blocks 
up  the  street  there  was  a  quiet  little  woman  who  read  the  Clipper  and 
Variety  each  week  and  got  hold  of  the  new  songs  as  fast  as  they  came 
out  She  didn't  always  "play  the  pictures,"  hut  she  played  to  the  people 
aud  she  had   people  to   play  to. 

Get  posted  and  keep  posted.  You  are  not  running  your  theater  to  plsase 
yourself.  You  are  running  your  theater  to  please  the  public  and  the 
larger  the  section  of  the  public  you  can  please,  the  larger  your  profit  will  be. 

Good  management  is  nothing  more  than  love  for  your  fellow  men  and 
a  knowledge  of  what  they  want. 


Keep  Your  Coat  On. 

It  seems  foolish,  but  keep  your  coat  on  these  hot  days.  Get  a  light  suit, 
but  wear  a  coat  even  if  you  do  have  a  small  house  in  a  cheap  section. 
No  matter  if  the  men  remove  their  coats  when  they  come  into  the  house. 
Keep  your's  on  and  not  only  set  a  good  example,  but  retain  the  slight 
dignity  of  the  manager.  Be  a  mixer  with  your  audience,  but  make  them 
feel  that  the  manager  is  a  bit  better  than  they  are  while  all  the  time  you 
appear  to  be  wholly  ignorant  of  the  fact.     That's  part  of  showmanship. 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


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ftfe  PHOTOPLAYWRIGHT 

ionducted  by  Epes  Wikthrop  Sabgests 


Coming  Along. 

THE  proofs  of  the  new  Technique  of  the  Photoplay  are  coming  along 
and  it  is  probable  that  the  end  of  July  will  see  the  book  through 
the  bindery.  The  rew  Technique  is  not  a  reprint  of  the  old,  but 
an  entirely  new  manuscript  in  every  line;  about  three  times  the  size  of  the 
oid.  One  new  feature  will  be  the  printing  in  imitation  typewriting  of  all 
examples  and  sample  scripts,  enabling  the  author  to  see  just  how  this 
should  be  done.  A  limited  edition  will  be  bound  in  leather,  the  regular 
edition  being  bound  in  cloth,  uniform  with  the  other  publications  of  this 
piper. 


Warning. 

It  would  seem  that  some  manufacturing  company  is  selling  addresses  to 
a  concern  in  New  York  City,  for  an  alleged  literary  bureau  is  sending 
broadcast  a  circular  telling  the  recipient  that  it  is  giving  out  assignments 
to  write  stories  with  a  skeleton  of  the  story  to  be  written.  You  send  five 
dollars  to  the  concern  and  get  two  assignments  and  a  couple  of  text  books. 
When  your  stories  are  written  and  sold  you  are  paid  their  value  less  one- 
fifth  to  the  selling  concern.  The  advertising  leads  one  to  infer  that  the 
company   guarantees  you  at   least  $40. 

This  listens  well,  but  the  magazines  quoted  by  the  company  are  not  in 
need  of  stories  from  the  untrained  and  are  not  ordering  by  skeleton  assign- 
ments. It  will  probably  be  discovered  in  the  course  of  time  that  five 
dollars  have  been  wasted  instead  of  forty  made,  so  save  your  money. 


Essanay  Wants  Them. 

H.  Tipton  Steck,  the  Essanay  manager  of  Negative  Production,  adds  his 
word  to  Mrs.  Parsons'  to  the  effect  that  Essanay  wants  first  class  scripts 
of  all  sorts,  particularly  comedies  and  strongly  dramatic  stories  in  one 
or  two  reels. 


Keystone. 

Karl  Coolidge  is  out  of  Keystone  and  Reed  Heustis  is  editor  now.  Mr. 
Heustis  writes  that  the  company  wants  ideas,  but  he  adds  that  they  want 
ideas,  not  merely  what  the  author  may  think  is  an  idea.  Keystone  seems  to 
be  paying  about  fifteen  dollars  for  the  idea  alone.  This  is  what  Mr. 
Heustis  writes: 

Am  dropping  you  these  few  lines  to  implore  you  again  to  come 
to  the  bat  for  the  "Situation"  idea.  So  many,  many  scenarios 
are  received  here  that  have  been  conceived  in  ignorance  and  strung 
together  on  the  line  of  slim  incident  that  when  a  REAL  situation 
arrives  I  feel  like  cheering. 

We  are  still  in  the  market  for  synopses  only  and  the  shorter 
they  are  the  better,  if  only  they  contain  a  Main  Spring  Situation. 
Checks,  and  lota  of  them,  are  waiting  to  be  shipped  to  the  ones 
who  devise  a  situation  and  write  around  it.  You  have  done  so 
many  good  things  for  the  scenario  writers  that  I  feel  assured 
you'll  remind  them  again  that  the — here  it  comes  again — situation  is 
the  crying  need. 


Kalem.  Too. 

Various  correspondents  have  pointed  out  that  the  Kalem  Company  is 
among  those  requiring  the  director  to  adhere  to  the  manuscript.  Vitagraph 
and  Edison  also  require  a  film  in  accordance  with  the  script  given  tie 
director.  The  point  is  that  the  McCloskey  scheme  carries  the  idea  to  the 
fullest  point  of  development. 


The  Reason  Why. 

A  man  who  has  been  getting  out  a  photoplay  journal  from  three  different 
cities  for  reasons  not  wholly  unconnected,  it  would  appear,  with  an  im- 
pertinent curiosity  on  the  part  of  certain  government  officials  connected 
with  the  Post  Office  Department,  laments  the  fact  that  we  object  to  all 
schools  teaching  photoplay.  We  object  to  the  schools  because  they  are 
universally  rotten.     There  is  no  need  to  particularize. 

He  also  laments  that  several  books  on  photoplay  writing  do  not  con- 
tain chapters  on  dramatic  construction.  That  was  his  "graft"  for  some 
time  and  so  no  book  without  a  chapter  on  dramatic  construction  seems  to 
him  to  be  good.  We  are  not  teaching  dramatic  construction.  We  are 
teaching  photoplay  construction  and  we  wrote  our  first  book  on  technique 
as  well  as  the  coming  second  for  the  photoplay  writer  and  not  to  please  a 
man  who  cannot  long  keep  the  same  address  because  of  legal  entanglements. 

That's  just  one  reason  why  we  object  to  schools;  it  is  because  these 
alleged  schoolmasters  do  not  know  what  it  is  they  teach.  Some  of  these 
days  the  government  will  round  up  some  of  these  frauds  and  put  them 
in  jail   for  getting  money  under  false  pretenses. 

We  saw  a  script  the  other  day  "personally  reconstructed  by  Mr.  Blamk, 
of  the  Dash  School."  which  he  guaranteed  to  be  technically  correct.  If 
that  is  his  idea  of  technique,   he  has  no  right  to  pretend  to  teach  it. 


With  a  Spike. 

We  must  hand  it  to  Bill  Wright  for  a  new  term.  He  speaks  of  a  punch 
with  a  spike  in  it,  meaning  that  the  punch  may  carry  with  it  a  feature 
that  will  defeat  its  own -usefulness.  Too  many  punches  have  whole  kegs 
of  spikes  in  them. 


It  Worked. 

In  this  department  for  May  24.  we  spoke  of  a  man  who  determined  to  go 
to  the  local  photoplay  school  instead  of  fooling  with  courses  and  criticisms. 
Because  of  an  unusual  memory  he  planned  to  write  the  scripts  of  all 
the  pictures  he  saw  instead  of  those  he  remembered  most  vividly.  Now 
he   writes    again : 

You  will  remember  me  as  the  man  who,  a  couple*  of  months  ago 
evolved  the  scheme  of  rewriting  the  best  of  the  stories  I  saw  on 
the  screen  for  the  purpose  of  studying  those  stories.  Well,  I  have 
about  as  interesting  a  collection  of  other  people's  scripts  as  you  will 
find  outside  of  a  studio.  But  these  are  the  least  of  the  things  I 
have  gained  from  this  study.  I  fully  understand  now  why  you  say 
that  photoplay  writing  cannot  be  taught,  for  the  best  things  I 
have   obtained   from  this  study  are  impossible   to  tell. 

I  have  only  written  two  stories  since  I  began  this  study.     One 
of   them   is  sold   and    to   a   company    which   is   not  in   the   market 
at  that.     The  other  has  not  been  written  long  enough  for  a  report 
but  I  am  confident  that  someone  will  buy  it.     In  brief,  this  scheme 
of    picture    study    has    brought    success    out    of    absolute    fai'ure. 
Now  isn't  that  a   pretty  good   argument  for  a  method  of  study? 
You  are  well  aware  that  I  had  been  writing  for  nearly  a  year  with- 
out success  but  just  as  soon   as   I   took  up  this  scheme  of  study 
I  got  the  idea  and  landed.     If  I  had  the  power  of  presenting  this 
scheme  so  that  all  beginners  would  be  impressed  with  its  value  it 
would  do  them  a  world  of  good.     Perhaps  you  can  do  it- 
There  is  a  certain  indefinable  something  about  writing  plays  that  cannot  be 
taught.      That   each   person   must   acquire   direct    and    the   place   to    find    it 
is    on    the    screen.      It    is    this    something    that    gives    you    the    instinctive 
knowledge  of  just  how  a  thing  should  be  done,  a  sort  of  sixth  sense.     Our 
correspondent   was   trying   for   more  than  a  year  to   catch   the   trick.     He 
seems  to  have  it  now.     You  can  get  it,  too,  if  you  will  watch  the  whys  on 
the  screen. 


There  Goes  the  Goat. 

"This  has  just  come  back  from  the  Biograph."  is  the  way  a  recent 
letter  starts.  Immediately  our  goat  flock  was  diminished  by  one.  The 
story  was  no  more  a  Biograph  story  than  would  be  a  section  of  the 
Congressional  Record.  No  company  has  a  style  more  strongly  marked 
than  the  Biograph,  yet  a  story  wholly  out  of  their  line  was  sent  in  there 
for  sale  by  a  person  who  should  have  known  better. 

Study  the  style  of  stories  a  company  uses  and  seek  to  offer  only  that 
style  of  script.  Don't  waste  postage  sending  comedies  to  a  company 
that  makes  three  reel  western  dramas  exclusively.  That  isn't  salesman 
ship;   it's   foolishness. 

Poor  Advice. 

We  just  saw  a  script  accompanied  by  a  letter  that  read  in  part: 


I 

I  am  a  pupil  of  the 


Schools.     This  script 


was      arranged   for   sale   by   Mr.    Blank  himself.      He  advises   me 
that   it   is   an   excellent   story   in   perfect  technical   form,   and   that 
I  should  not  take  less  than  $25  for  it. 
The  idea  is  old,  one  of  the  oldest  in  the  modern  comedy  class,  and  the 
development   is   weak   and    ineffective,   yet    the  head   of   a   so-called  school 
declares    it    to    be    in    perfect    technical    form,    and    advises    the    deluded 
pupil    to    hold    out    for    an    impossible    price.      There    ought    to    be    some 
way  of  getting   at   these  people. 

Write  Your  Name. 

We  are  in  receipt  of  a  letter  from  a  woman  residing  in  New  York 
who  wants  to  start  writing  photoplays.  She  sends  a  two  cent  stamp  for  a 
reply  instead  of  an  addressed  envelope.  She  lives  in  an  apartment  house, 
and  since  the  street  address  alone  would  not  reach  her,  we  have  had  to 
consign  her  letter  to  the  waste  basket.  If  she  will  repeat  her  request 
and  sign  her  name  so  that  at  least  two  out  of  ten  persons  will  agree  on 
what  the  letters  are,  we  will  be  glad  to  respond  to  her  question.  In  the 
meantime  we  would  point  out  that  scores  of  writers  remain  unanswered 
because  they  do  not  take  the  trouble  to  write  their  names  plainly.  If 
you  have  a  fancy  signature,  write  or  print  your  name  and  address 
plainly  in  addition.  If  you  are  a  woman  indicate  whether  you  are  Mrs. 
or  Miss  Blank,  writing  the  title  between  parentheses  thus:  (Mrs.)  Eva 
Ernestine  Smith.  And  give  your  address  with  every  letter  you  send  out; 
not  just  the  first. 

A  New  One. 

A  correspondent  asked  a  new  question  the  other  day.  He  wanted  to 
know  if  it  would  be  possible  to  attach  a  telescope  to  a  camera  and 
take   a   picture. 

It  would  be,  because  it  has  been  done,  but  it  is  not  practical  for 
most  purposes,  because  it  cuts  down  the  light  so  much.  It  stands  to 
reason  that  if  you  add  to  the  lenses  of  the  camera  the  lenses  of  the 
telescope,  it  will  not  be  as  easy  for  the  light  to  go  through  all  that 
glass  as  through  the  camera  lens  alone.  It  can  be  done,  but  most 
studios  do  not  stock  telescopes  and  so  do  not  write  the  picture  that  must 
be  taken  through  a  telescope. 

Let  the  studio  experiment  with  this  sort  of  stuff  if  it  wants  to,  but 
let  them  do  it  from  their  own  scripts.  Make  your  effort  direct  itself 
to  giving  them  the  best  possible  ideas  with  the  least  amount  of  extra  trouble. 

What  is  a  story? 

What  makes  you  think  you  have  written   a  story? 

Ask  yourself  that  question  before  you  put  your  script  in  the  mails 
and   be   certain   that  you   give  yourself  a  convincing  answer. 

Just  because  it  is  all  about  a  man  and  a  woman — the  same  man  and 
woman  all  through — does  not  make  it  a  story.  It  must  tell  what  that 
man  and  that  woman  did  to  accomplish  some  certain  purpose.  A  story 
is  not  an  incident,  but  the  proper  incidents  make  a  story.  More  than  a 
third;  probably  half  of  the  scripts  that  are  sent  to  editors  are  not 
stories   at   all   in   their  true   sense. 

What  makes  you  think  that  yours  is  really  a  story? 


1354 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


More    About    Coincidence. 

Once  upon  a  time,  a  long  time  ago,  Charles  R.  Wilhelm,  of  Chicago, 
wrote  a  story  about  a  tramp  that  broke  into  a  house  and  found  a  mother 
with  a  sick  child.  He  saved  the  child's  life.  He  sent  it  around  the 
country,  but  no  one  seemed  to  want  it,  so  he  retired  it  Then  Solax  and 
Selig  made  the  same  story  to  all  practical  purposes.  Neither  of  these 
companies  were  among  those  to  whom  the  Wilhelm  script  had  been  sent, 
and  with  an  academic  interest  not  stirred  by  suspicion,  Mr.  Wilhelm 
enlisted  the  interest  of  the  producers  in  locating  the  source  of  inspiration. 

The  Selig  release,  "The  Burglar  who  Robbed  Death,"  was  written  by 
Lannier  Bartlett,  of  the  Selig  staff,  from  a  cliping  in  the  Los  Angeles 
papers.  Solax's  "The  Man  in  the  Sick  Room,"  was  written  by  Miss 
Mildred    Smith,    who    drew    her    inspiration    from    the    Philadelphia    Press. 

If  Mr.  Wilhelm  will  turn  to  this  department  for  March  22,  of  the  cur- 
rent year  and  read  the  item  headed  "In  the  Spirit  Pioneer,"  he  will 
find  that  a  Japanese  photoplaywright  wanted  to  know  why  the  story  could 
not  be  used  and  we  told  him  because  it  had  been  done  so  often  before. 
Mr.  Wilhelm  is  a  few  years  late  with  his  inspiration. 

The  first  use  of  this  incident  that  we  recall  vividly  was  that  of  a 
burglar  who  broke  into  a  house  tenanted  only  by  babies.  It  ran  in  a 
magazine  some  seven  or  eight  years  ago.  The  burglar  found  one  baby 
ill  (the  parents  and  servants  were  all  out),  and  saved  its  life.  About 
the  same  time  there  was  another,  a  comedy  story,  in  which  the  babies  were 
not  sick  but  the  burglar  had  to  warm  their  bottles  and  soothe  them  to 
sleep  before  he  could  rob  the  house. 

Since  that  time  we  have  seen  the  theme  repeatedly  in  print  and  picture. 
It  was  new  to  Mr.  Wilhelm,  so  he  thought  it  his  own.  It  was  new  to 
the  other  writers,  apparently,  though  Mr.  Bartlett  should  have  recognized 
so    old   a    friend. 

The  point  is  that  the  apparent  plagarism  was  nothing  of  the  sort.  Another 
point  is  that  Mr.  Wilhelm,  instead  of  letting  out  an  agonized  yelp  looked 
the  matter  up  and  found  his  suspicions  unfounded. 

Just  because  you  never  saw  a  theme  it  does  not  follow  that  several 
hundred  thousand  millions  of  people  since  literature  began  have  also 
sidestepped  that  idea.     Keep  you  head  and  find  out  before  yelling  "Thief!" 


"Nothing  in  particular,"  was  the  languid  response,  "but  the  story  seemed 
to  be  running  along  too  fast  and  I  put  it  in  to  hold  the  action  down." 
The  story  was  sweeping  to  a  strong  climax  and  the  director  put  in  a 
scene  that  even  he  could  not  explain. 

When  the  great  big  scripts  are  written,  they'll  be  written  by  the  men 
who  are  writing  today — but  they  won't  be  put  on  by  the  same  producer*— 
not  if  they  look  right  on   the  screen. 


One  Viewpoint 

William  H.  Ketchell  put  into  fewer  words  than  we  have  succeeded  in 
doing  our  ideas  regarding  the  magazine  writer  who  tries  to  write  plays. 
He   says: 

Seems  to  me  that  photoplay  and  magazine  work  don't  go  together 
well   unless  you  can  switch  the  mood  to  suit  both.     My  story  in 
"Collier's"   (Bungawan)  gave  me  a  literary  perspective  that  handi- 
caps me  on  photoplays   and  I  can't  see  the  dramatic  values   as  I 
could  before;   at  least  not  from  a  picturesque  point  of  view. 
That's    just    it.    You    cannot   interchange    style   and    action    save    through 
long  practice.  If  you  would  write  a  fiction  story  use  fiction  form,  but  do  not 
get    the    idea    that    you    can    write    photoplay    to   that    form    or    reverse    the 
idea   and  write      fiction   from  a  photoplay   point  of  view.      Fiction   is  what 
you   tell.     Photoplay  is  what  you  see.     They  are  not  the   same. 


Carl  Chapin's  Conclusions, 

Carl  M.  Chapin  conducts  a  photoplay  page  in  the  Waterbury  American 
that  is  one  of  the  few  out-of-town  departments  that  is  not  wholly  clip 
stuff.  He  takes  up  the  question  of  why  the  magazine  writer  does  not 
make  good  in  photoplay — or  does  he?  and  adds  his  conclusions,  which 
are  these: 

But  what   rubs  the  photoplay  fraternity  on  the  raw  is  the  hint 
that  these  disgruntled  magazinists  consider  them  of  a  lower  order 
of   workmen    in    the    literary    mill.      As    is    usually    the    case,    the 
truth   lies    about   midway   between    the    two    extremes.      There    are 
undoubtedly  successful  magazine  writers  who  can't  write  practical 
photoplay    "scripts" — which   is   the  technical   term    for   the    scenario 
or  synopsis  of  action  which  serves  as  a  guide  for  the  production 
of  a  moving  picture.     But,   on  the  other  hand,   there  are  probably 
as  large  a  proportion  of  photoplaywrights  who  cannot  write  a  sellable 
magazine  story.     The  ones  who  can  do  both  really  belong  to  both 
sides  in   the   fight   and   the  queer  thing  is  that  they   don't   realize 
that  the  gibes  of  their  erstwhile  brethren  of  the  magazine  field  are 
not   directed   at   them    but   at   that   portion   of   the   photoplaywright 
fraternity — whatever  proportion  it   may  be — which   turns  eut  punk 
photoplays  and  couldn't  do  better  if  it  tried.     The  good  photoplay- 
wright   is    deserving  of,    and    commands,    respect    whether    he   ever 
wrote  a  magazine  story  or  not. 
Mr.   Chapin  does  not  quite  get   our  point.     The  point  we  make  is  that 
it   doesn't    matter   whether  a    man    can   write   a    decent   magazine   story   or 
not  so   long  as   he   makes   good.      We   are  tired   of   the   constant    cry  that 
the    salvation   of   the   photoplay    lies   with   the   magazine    man.      It   doesn't. 
Magazine   writers   can   and    have   made   successes  in    photoplay   but   few  of 
them  can  write  action   in  action  as  well   as  the  man  who   lacks  style  and 
therefore  welcomes  a  new  medium  in  which  he  can  work. 

The  point  we  are  trying  to  hammer  home  is  that  the  lack  of  good  stories 
on  the  screen  is  not  so  much  due  to  the  absence  from  the  work  of  the 
magazine  writers  as  it  is  to  poor  direction,  careless  cutting  and  editing. 

A  thousand  magazine  writers  coming  into  the  field  will  not  help  the 
photoplay  half  so  much  as  more  careful  editing  and  much  more  careful 
production. 

The  magazine  writer  is  not  a  cure  all  or  even  a  palliative.  There  are 
as  good  stories  being  written  now  as  there  ever  will  be,  not  many  perhaps, 
but  enough,  but  the  best  story  ever  typed  is  helpless  in  the  hands  of  an 
incompetent  director  who  thinks  he  knows  more  about  the  story  than  the 
author  does.  We  have  no  kick  coming  on  our  own  behalf.  We  are  very 
well  content  with  the  production  we  get,  but  some  of  the  things  that  are 
done  in  some  studios  are  little  better  than  murder  in  the  first  degree. 
Not  so  long  ago  we  asked  a  director,  who  has  an  interest  in  his  com* 
pany,  what  a  seemingly  meaningless  scene  was  put  in  for. 


Indeterminate   Length. 

Many  hopeful  writers  profess  to  see  in  some  of  the  late  Biograph  re- 
leases the  approach  of  a  new  order.  Biograph  has  been  releasing  subjects 
as  they  run  rather  than  in  thousand  foot  lengths,  and  it  goes  without 
saying  that  authors  would  welcome  the  change  should  it  become  universal, 
foi  today  the  arbitrary  reel  length  is  responsible  for  more  poor  pictures 
on  the  screen  than  any  other  one  cause. 

We  hate  to  wake  the  dreamers  up,  but  the  happy  day  is  yet  a  long 
way  off.  These  Biographs  of  indeterminate  length  are  really  the  Biograph 
allowance  of  two-reel  stories.  Instead  of  padding  out  three  hundred  feet 
to  make  the  full  length,  the  Biograph  prefers  to  be  artistic  rather  than 
commercial  and  lets  a  subject  run  what  it  will.  Biograph,  because  of  its 
tremendous  popularity,  can  do  that,  but  it  will  be  some  time  before  the 
other  companies  will  follow  suit,  for  the  entire  film  business  in  this  coun- 
try is  based  on  reel-length  and  not  on  footage.  The  time  will  come  when 
a  few  hundred  feet  one  way  or  the  other  will  not  matter,  but  not  even 
the   dawn  of  that  day  has   come.     The  habit  of  custom   is  too  strong. 


Inquiries 


NOTE — Replies  cannot  be  sent  by  mail.  State  name  of  character.  Do  not 
ask  for  "leads"  or  "that  man."  Addresses  cannot  be  given  here,  but  a  list 
of  studio  addresses  will  be  sent  for  a  Btamped  and  self- addressed  envelope. 
Only  questions  of  general  interest  will  be  answered.  Replies  cannot  be  repeated, 
j.  x. — It  is  possible,  but  seldom  advisable,  to  use  moonlight  scenes.  The 
speed  of  the  action  doeB  not  figure  in  the  calculation.  Most  of  the  companies 
can  make  sea  pictures  if  they  want  to  take  the  trouble.  Try  Vitagraph,  Re- 
liance, Ramo.  Selig,  or  almost  any  company  on  the  coast. 

MRS.  E.  H. — Miss  Mabel  Normand  left  the  Biograph  Company  long  before 
the  picture  yon  mention  was  made. 

E.  M. — The  reference  was  to  a  story  appearing  three  or  four  years  ago. 
The  Biograph  Girl  was  first  Miss  Lawrence,  and  later.  Miss  Plckford.  We 
did  not  give  an  account  of  Miss  Plckford's  farewell  ball,  as  our  society  editor 
has  not  yet  been  appointed. 

J.  X. — For  the  love  of  Mike  what  makes  yon  think  that  Miss  Rath  Roland 
Is  a  Bulgarian?  Miss  Roland  appears  weekly  in  the  Kalem  comedy  releases. 
RTJBEEKA — It  would  take  a  lawyer  to  explain  to  you  whether  Owen  Moore 
Is  with  Victor  or  not.  It  will  probably  wind  np  with  a  decision  by  a  Justice. 
Mr.  Moore  is  not  appearing  in  Victor  releases,  but  he  cannot,  apparently, 
work  for  another  company.  Western  Essanay  casts  are  not  given  out.  Crane 
Wilbur  has  not  left  Pathe,  and  has  not  the  slightest  intention  of  dong  so, 
though  it  was  reported  that  he  would  make  the  change.  Keep  the  script  going. 
MRS.  O'N. — The  Reliance  cast  was  not  pnblished. 

D.  F.  F. — You  have  Edwin  Carewe  correctly  placed  in  "On  the  Threshhold." 
Virginia  Clark  was  the  orphan  in  the  Edison  with  that  title.  Miss  Mae  Hotely 
was  the  psuedo  widow,  and  Robert  Burns  the  uncle,  in  "His  Widow." 

H.  C.  L. — 'No  formal  announcement  has  been  made,  but  the  Biograph  players 
were  supposed  to  leave  Los  Angeles  for  New  York  about  the  middle  of  June. 
Miss  Grace  Lewis  is  still  with  that  company,  so  far  as  we  know. 

MRS.  T. — Better  make  inquiry  for  yoor  script.  Kinemacolor  can  be  shown 
on  Mutual  programs  if  a  manager  desires  to.  We  lack  that  Thanhouser  cast. 
Miss  Grace  Lewis  was  Cinderella  in  "Cinderella  and  the  Boob."  The  M.  P. 
Album  has  gone  up  in  the  air. 

M.  J. — The  first  thing  you  need  in  order  to  become  a  picture  player,  is  a 
pull  strong  enough  to  swing  an  elephant  by  bis  tail.  It  Is  also  required  that 
you  be  able  to  act,  but  this  is  secondary  to  the  pull.  There  are  about  a 
million  stage-struck  girls  trying  to  break  into  pictures.  What  has  the  ex- 
perience of  a  player's  relatives  to  do  with  the  ability  of  the  player?  No 
editor  will  read  a  hand  written  script. 

M.  T.  and  MRS.  R. — We  do  not  know  when  the  player  will  reappear.     This 
is  a  question  box,  not  a  press  agent's  column.     Please  make  note  of  the  fact. 
J.    L.   W. — Miss   Sweet   has  not   left  the  Biograph.     Mr.   August   has  gone 
from  Vitagraph  back  to  Powers. 

R.  A.  D. — Mr.  Mace  is  not  buying  much  stuff,  but  you  might  try.  You  seem 
to  be  making  progress.  Keep  it  up.  What  is  worth  while  is  worth  working 
for.  The  other  questions  next  week,  perhaps.  Technique  should  be  ready 
along  in  July  sometime. 

P.  J.  D. — Sorry  that  we  cannot  reply  to  your  question,  but  Universal  casta 
are  apparently  not  reported  to  the  main  office. 

M.  H. — Zelma,  in  "The  River  Pirates,"  was  Miss  Irene  Boyle.  Solax  will 
not  reveal  identities.  Perhaps  the  Broncho  next  week.  Your  name  is  by 
no  means  unusual.     We  have  used  it  once  or  twice  in  fiction  stories. 

M.  0.  L. — Mr.  Oppermann  played  the  parts  mentioned.  The  company  was 
in  Los  Angeles,  but  will  soon  return  to  New  York. 

W.  M.  J.— Please  note  that  you  need  a  name  and  address,  not  merely  an 
initial. 

I.  M.  T. — We  do  not  know  the  name  of  the  editor.  Simply  address  the 
manuscript  department.  It  doesn't  help  any  to  address  scripts  to  the  editor 
by  name.     If  you  have  what  they  want  it  will  sell  Just  as  well. 

F.  M.  Y. — Lubln  has  the  only  company  working  in  Atlantic  Oity  that  we 
know  of. 


Technique  of  the  Photoplay 

First  edition  is  completely 

SOLD     OUT 

Kindly  send  no  more  orders  or  remittances  for  above. 

Second  edition   in   course  of   preparation.     For   publication 

date  and  price,  see  future  notices. 

CHALMERS  PUBLISHING  COMPANY, 
17  Madison  Avenue,  New  York  City. 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


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Projection  Department 


Edited  by  F.  H.  RICHARDSON 


Waterproofing  film. 

THE  Editor  was  recently  favored  by  a  call  from  Mr.  W.  A.  Daniels, 
President  National  Water  Proofing  Film  Company,  with  whom  he  had 
a  most  pleasant  and  enlightening  conversation  with  regard  to  the  water 
proofing  of  film.  This  process  has  now  been  available  for  more  than  three 
years,  but,  so  Mr.  Daniels  claims,  has  never  yet  had  a  fair  trial.  The 
coating  consists  of  celluloid  which  is  applied  to  the  emulsion  side  of  the 
film,  thus  covering  the  emulsion  with  a  coating  impervious  to  water.  Mr. 
Daniels  makes  no  claim  for  the  process  except  that  it  enables  the  owner  of 
the  film  to  scrub  it  with  soap  and  water,  thus  keeping  it  clean.  This,  Mr. 
Daniels  claims,  the  exchanges  will  not  do,  and  there  lies  the  chief  difficulty. 
Knowing  that  one  large  film  producer  had  used  the  process  for  a  time,  only 
t<»  discontinue  it,  I  asked  him  the  point  blank  question,  why?  He  freely 
admitted  that  the  water  proofing  done  by  this  producer  was  a  failure,  but 
said  that  the  whole  reason  lay  in  the  fact  that  not  enough  of  the  coating 
was  used;  that  instead  of  using  three  pints  for  a  certain  length  of  film,  the 
producer  only  used  one  pint,  and  that  instead  of  placing  a  really  competent 
man  in  charge  of  the  process  at  the  factory,  they  discharged  the  eighteen- 
dollar-a-week  man,  whom  the  National  Water  Proofing  people  left  in  charge 
when4they  completed  the  installation,  substituting  a  twelve-dollar-man,  who, 
no  matter  how  good  a  bnck-wheeler  and  hod-carrier  he  might  have  been,  was 
not  at  all  suited  to  be  placed  in  charge  of  so  important  a  process.  I  can* 
not,  of  course,  vouch  as  to  the  truth  of  Mr.  Daniels'  charges  in  this  respect, 
but,  if  they  are  true,  then  certainly  the  process  did  not  have  a  fair  trial  in 
that  factory.  However,  regardless  of  how  excellently  the  manufacturer 
might  waterpYoof  his  films,  it  amounts  to  practically  nothing,  unless  the 
exchange  follows  it  up  by  giving  the  film  a  periodical  washing.  As  we  all 
know,  the  rain  marks  in  film  are  caused  by  minute  scratches,  both  in  the 
celluloid  and  the  emulsion,  which  fill  up  with  dirt.  We  all  know  that  if  the 
dirt  could  be  kept  entirely  out  of  these  scratches,  they  would  not  show  on 
the  screen.  The  National  Waterproof  Company  has  devised  a  machine  by 
which  the  exchange  men  can  wash  1,000  feet  of  film  in  eight  minutes.  I 
asked  Mr.  Daniels  this  question:  "What  is  your  explanation  of  the  reason 
why  your  process  is  not  in  general  use?  Why  don't  the  manufacturers 
waterproof  the  film,  and  the  exchanges  wash  them  once  a  week  in  the  gen- 
eral interest  of  the  business?"  His  reply:  "The  only  explanation  I  can 
offer  is  that  they  are  making  so  much  money,  as  it  is,  by  careless,  slip-shod 
methods,  that  they  do  not  want  to  stop  to  bother  with  a  process  of  this  kind. 
They  will,  however,  bother  with  it  later  on.  and  be  only  too  glad  to." 

Viewing  the  matter  up  one  side  and  down  the  other,  I  am  inclined  to 
believe  that  the  waterproofing  process  would  be  a  success  if  it  were  prop- 
erly applied,  which  would,  of  course,  include  both  a  sufficiently  heavy  coat- 
ing of  the  waterproofing  and  the  washing  of  the  film  after  a  certain  number 
of  days*  use.  One  of  the  objections  has  been  that  operators  did  not  under- 
stand how  to  make  a  patch  with  this  treated  film.  They  would  wet  the  stub 
end  as  usual,  and  find  that,  of  course,  moisture  had  no  effect  in  softening 
the  emulsion  so  that  it  could  easily  be  scraped  off.  They  then  discovered 
that  a  patch  could  be  made  without  scraping  at  all,  since  the  coating  is 
itself  celluloid,  and  they  proceeded  to  do  it  thus;  but  that  made  a  very  poor 
patch,  and  was  not  at  all  satisfactory.  The  whole  secret  in  patching  water- 
proof film  lies  in  having  a  perfectly  sharp  knife,  or  tool  of  some  kind,  to 
scrape  with  and  then  scraping  the  coating  and  emulsion  off  without  wetting. 
This  takes  a  little  more  care  and  elbow  grease,  but  it  is  very  easy  to  do, 
provided  you  use  a  sharp  instrument.  You  cannot  scrape  waterproof  film 
v.ith  a  dull  knife.  Mr.  Daniels  impresses  me  as  a  man  who  thoroughly  be- 
lieves in  bis  process,  and  I  am  myself,  as  I  before  said,  pretty  thoroughly 
convinced  that  his  belief  is  well  founded.  If  exhibitors  would  demand,  and 
demand  strenuously,  that  the  rain  marks  be  eliminated  from  their  films,  ex- 
plaining to  the  exchanges  that  a  proper  waterproofing  and  weekly  scrubbing 
of  the  film  would  eliminate  the  objectionable  rain,  they  could  get  it  done; 
but  until  the  exhibitor  himself  demands  the  elimination  of  rain  marks,  you 
can  bet  your  everlasting  suspenders  we  will  have  rain  marks  with  us. 


Oriental  Film  Rental  Houses. 

Pathe  Freres  inform  us  officially  as  follows: 

In  Shanghai,  the  Compagnie  Cine-Chine,  is  the  representative  of 
Pathe  Freres  and  rents  films,  we  believe.     In  Tokio,   Pathe  Freres 
rent  films,  and  also  in  Singapore  and  Calcutta.    In  Hong  Kong,  we 
believe,  there  is  a  branch  office  of  the  Compagnie  Cine-Chine. 
For  all  of  which  information  we  respectfully  extend  our  thanks  to  Pathe 
Freres. 


Mr.  Gortz  calls 

I   note   in 

Hallberg   200 

reads:   "and 

as   it   should 

perplex  some 

ing  attention 

The  brother  is 

The  error  occurs 

book  should  make 


An  Error. 

attention  to  a  mis-print  in  the  handbook,  as  follows: 
your  very  valuable  handbook  that,  in  describing  the 
volt  economizer,  page  160,  a  misprint  appears.  It 
two  terminals  for  220  volts,"  instead  of  "200  volts," 
be.  I  have  no  doubt  this  error  would  confuse  or 
users  of  the  book,  therefore,  I  take  the  liberty  of  call- 
to  it 

correct  and  we  thank  him  for  the  trouble  he  has  taken. 
at  the  beginning  of  line  13  on  page  160.  Owners  of  the 
a  pencil  correction,  changing  the  220  to  200. 


Wrong. 

From  Colorado  comes  a  copy  of  the  Isis  News,  a  four  page,  neatly  gotten 
up  paper,  devoted  to  a  certain  theater  in  a  certain  city  in  that  state.  From, 
it  I  clipped  the  following  very  interesting  piece  of  mis-information: 

You  have  become  so  used  to  having  us  do  things  first  and 
better  than  anybody  else  that  you  will  not  be  much  surprised  to 
know  that  we  have  installed  a  motor  to  run  the  picture  machine. 
At  first  thought  you  would  think  we  did  this  to  save  the  arm  of 
the  operator,  who  ordinarily  in  most  picture  houses  has  to  stand 
and  grind  a  crank  steadily  to  throw  the  pictures  on  the  screen.  Of 
course  he  gets  tired  doing  it,  but  he  also  gets  used  to  the  crank 
motion.  But  it  was  not  any  desire  to  be  easy  on  the  operator  that 
caused  us  to  install  the  motor  to  run  our  picture  machine.  The 
only  idea  we  had  was  to  get  rid  of  the  flicker  that  is  inevitable 
when  the  operation  of  the  pictures  is  left  to  human  hands.  No  mat- 
ter how  experienced  an  operator  may  be  it  is  a  physical  impossi- 
bility to  prevent  slight  variation  in  the  pictures.  The  machine 
doesn't  get  tired  and  all  it  knows  is  to  turn  at  the  same  rate  of 
speed  all  day  long.  Consequently  the  pictures  thrown  on  the  screen 
for  you  to  see  are  steadier  and  clearer. 

Tonight  when  you  come  to  the  show  note  how  steady  and  pretty 
and  clear  the  pictures  show. 
For  the  benefit  of  the  manager  of  this  theater,  allow  me  to  say  that  run- 
ning a  film  through  at  unvarying  speed  is  one  of  the  things  which  go  to* 
make  up  poor  projection.  I  happen  to  know  that  the  operator  of  this  thea- 
ter has  a  copy  of  the  handbook.  I  would,  therefore,  advise  the  manager 
to  read  page  319;  particularly  the  first  paragraph  of  "Speed  at  Which  the 
Film  Is  Run."  I  would  also  advise  him  that,  while  under  certain  con- 
ditions the  somewhat  jerky  method  of  applying  power  by  hand  will  develop- 
travel  ghost,  still,  the  motor  drive  has  nothing  to  do  with  "flicker." 


In  Error. 

Lima,  Ohio,  writes: 

Noticed  in  May  17th  issue  that  one  of  the  Canadian  brothers  is 
in  trouble.     I  think  I  can  help  him.     He  is  using  a  compensarc  on 
no  volt,  d.c.    I  would  advise  him  to  remove  the  compensarc  and 
connect  through  a  high  amperage  rheostat,  as  he  does  not  need  a 
compensarc  on   d.c.     If  his  current  is  unsteady,  let  him  try   a  con- 
rerter  and  his  compensarc.     Answering  Mr.  Frank  Malcolm,  Pome- 
roy,  Washington,  who  is  having  trouble  with  a  ghost  in  his  titles,  I 
think  it  can  be  remedied  by  the   following:     (1)  Try  a   two-blade 
shutter,  of  Edison  make;  being  sure  to  set  same  as  aear  the  lens  as 
possible.     (2)  Look  carefully  at  title  of  film  and  see  if  it  has  darker 
spots  than  the  picture.     Some  titles  are  made  very  cloudy,  causing 
spots  very  much  like  a  ghost  to  appear  on  the  screen.      (3)   Make 
sure  that  the  spot  is  centered  on  the  aperture;  also  try  changing 
the  set  of  your  carbons. 
Plainly  Lima  is  not  familiar  with  the  fact  that  there  is  a  d.c.  compensarc, 
which  is,  in  fact,  a  motor  generator  set;  therefore  he  is  in  error.    As  to  the 
ghost,  the  instruction  Lima  set  forth  probably  is  designed  to  cover  travel 
ghost.     If  he  is  instructing  Pomeroy  how  to  remedy  a  blue  spot  on  his  cur- 
tain, then  he  is  wrong  in  this  also.    However,  we  thank  him  for  submitting 
his  solution,  even  though  it  is  not  the  right  one.     It  is  often  through  mis- 
takes that  we  learn. 


Already  Described. 

Mr.  Carol  Whittaker,  Willoughby,  Ohio,  writes,  describing  his  method  of 
arranging  his  rewinder  table,  which  is  to  cut  a  hole  about  3x3  inches 
through  the  table,  over  which  he  places  a  piece  of  plate-glass,  with  a  tin 
box  underneath,  containing  an  electric  lamp,  all  of  which  has  been  both 
described  and  illustrated  in  the  department  long  ago,  and  is  set  forth  in 
the  handbook,  page  373;  therefore,  we  could  not  consume  space  in  a  de- 
tailed description  at  this  time. 


He  Is  Correct. 

Mr.  C.  W.  Ten  Eyck,  Auburn,  New  York,  makes  the  following  remarksr 
I  am  contemplating  opening  a  picture  house   this  fall,   therefore 
am  ordering  the  Handbook.     In  my  estimation,  the  manager,  owner, 
or  whatever  he  may  term  himself,  is  not  equipped  for  the  job  un- 
less   he    thoroughly    understands    the    business,    including    the    pro- 
jection of  the  picture  which,  after  all,   is   the  principal  thing  upon 
which  the  success  or  failure  of  a  theater  depends.     Some  managers 
know  how  to  sell  tickets,  provided  some  one  lays  down  the  price, 
but  that  is  about  all  they  do  know.     I  have  no  questions  to  ask  at 
this  time,  but  you  may  depend  upon  me  to  furnish  my  share  when 
I  get  to  be  one  of  the  bunch  next  fall. 
Come  on  in,  brother  Ten  Eyck,  the  water  is  fine.     You  are  perfectly  cor- 
rect    The  manager  should  understand  the  business  from  the  front  of  the 
sidewalk  to  the  middle  of  the  alley  at  the  rear.     He  does  not  necessarily 
have  to  be  a  practical  operator,  but  he  should,  by  all  means,  have  sufficient 
knowledge  to  enable  him  to  judge  the  work  of  his  operator,  and  tell  whether 
he  is  delivering  the  goods  in  the  best  possible  way  or  not 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


Size   of   Picture. 

South   Carolina  requests  the   following  information: 

We   are    remodeling    our    theater     and     would     appreciate     your 

answer  to  the  following:     We  now  have  a  65   foot  throw,  but  will 

move   the   operating  room   three   feet   farther   back,   making  it  68. 

What,   if  any,  difference  will  there  be  in  the  sire  of  the  picture? 

Would  like  to  see  a  reply  in  following  issue. 
You  will  find  how  to  figure  all  such  matters  as  this  fully  explained  in 
the  Handbook,  a  copy  of  which  you  should  by  all  means  have;  price  $2.50 
from  The  Moving  Picture  World.  It  is  a  430-page  book.  Your  picture 
will  be  a  little  larger,  though  not  much.  I  could  not  tell  you  exactly  how 
much  without  knowing  its  present  width.  Divide  the  width  of  your  picture, 
in  inches,  by  the  throw,  in  inches,  and  the  result  will  be  the  spread 
of  the  light  in  inches,  or  fractions  of  an  inch  to  each  foot  of  throw, 
and  this,  multiplied  by  three,  the  additional  throw  you  will  have,  gives  the 
added  width  of  your  picture  in  inches.  Its  added  height  may  be  figured  in 
the  same  way,  taking  the  height  of  the  picture  instead  of  the  width.  It  is 
useless  for  correspondents  to  expect  a  reply  in  the  "following  issue."  If 
an  addressed,  stamped  envelope  is  enclosed,  I  will  mail  carbon  copy  of  the 
reply  which  will  appear,  but  publication  takes  from  one  to  three  weeks 
from  the  time  I  receive  the  letter. 


Condenser  Size. 

Mr.  Clarence  Bloomfield,  Winchester,  Kentucky,  asks  what  condenser 
lenses  he  should  use  for  an  86  foot  throw,  with  a  13  foot  picture,  using 
d.  c.  Says  he  is  coming  to  New  York  this  summer  to  see  what  kind  of 
pictures  we  have  up  here.  Waits  to  know  how  to  measure  condenser 
lenses.  Two  yyi  condensers  ought  to  meet  his  requirements.  As  to  measur- 
ing lenses,  on  pages  356  to  364  of  the  Handbook  he  will  find  rules  for 
measuring  lenses  of  all  kinds.  Also  he  will  there  be  told  something  of  the 
theoretical  action  of  lenses  and  how  to  line  the  optical  system  of  his  ma- 
chine, as  well  as  many  other  things  he  ought  to  know.  The  price  of  the 
book  is  $2.50,  from  The  Moving  Picture  World.  Better  try  and  be  in  New 
York  during  Convention  week,  July  7  to   12. 


Practical  Test. 

Miss  Zoelia  Boyle  and  her  sister.  New  York  City,  are,  by  inheritance  from 
their  father,  owners  of  a  metal  device,  designed  to  supersede  the  condensing 
lens.  This  was  mentioned  in  the  Department  something  like  a  year  ago,  at 
which  time  the  writer  was  given  a  practical  demonstration  of  the  device. 
Unquestionably,  so  far  as  that  particular  demonstration  was  concerned,  it 
•delivered  the  goods  optically.  The  light  was  as  beautiful  as  I  have  ever 
seen  thrown  on  the  screen.  The  Misses  Boyle  have  now  asked  me  to  wit- 
ness another  demonstration.  This  I  have  not  refused  to  do,  but  have  sug- 
gested that,  inasmuch  as  I  have  already  looked  at  the  operation  of  the  con- 
trivance and  have  seen  its  optical  possibilities,  a  better  plan  now  would  be 
to  place  this  device  in  several  theaters,  and  there  let  it  remain  for  a  period 
of  say  a  month,  by  which  time  it  will  be  determined  whether  or  not  (a)  the 
ordinary  operator  can  successfully  handle  it  and  secure  practical  results 
on  the  screen,  (b)  Whether  the  device  will  stand  up  to  the  work  under 
actual  working  conditions.  If  these  tests  are  favorable,  I  certainly  would 
be  inclined  to  consider  the  apparatus  as  a  great  improvement  over  con- 
denser lenses  and  would  predict  for  it  a  large  future.  But  first,  it  must  be 
tried  out  in  actual  practice,  and  that  is  the  kind  of  demonstration  that  the 
Misses  Boyle  should  provide. 


From  Vancouver. 

Mr.  L.  M.  Potter,  Vancouver,  British  Columbia,  contributes  the  following 
interesting  letter: 

Not  seeing  any  news  from  this  corner  of  the  earth,  I  have  con- 
cluded to  send  in  some.     We  have  about  twenty  picture  theaters 
here,  one  of  them  using  Kinemacolor,  and  three  or  four  vaudeville 
houses.     Projection  is,   for  the  most  part,  very  good.     Ninety-five 
per  cent,  of  the  houses  use  motor-generator  sets,  since  there  is  no 
d.   c.   service   here.     There   is   also   one   mercury  arc   rectifier   and 
one   rotary   converter   in   the  city.      Our  city   law  prohibits   motor 
drive.     I  am  using  an  Edison  Model  B  on  a  95  foot  throw.     Have 
a  Canadian  General  Electric,  5  k.  w.  motor  generator  set,  delivering 
40  amperes  at  125  volts.    The  motor  is  a  220  volt  a.  c.  induction,  of 
8  h.  p.     Have  been   running  about  two  years   without  trouble  of 
any  kind.     I  find  the  motor-generator  to  be  the  only  system.     Have 
not  broken  a  single  condenser  since  we  started  two  years  ago.     If 
the   brothers   will   pull  their   lanri   back   from    the  condensors   and 
open  their  lampbouse  door  before  striking  an  arc,  and  try  to  avoid 
any   direct  draughts,    they   will    have    less  condenser   breakage. 
Pulling  the  lamp  back  and  opening  the  lamphouse  door  before  striking  the 
arc  simply  means  that  you  heat  the  cmdenser  slowly.     This,  however,  would 
net  he  allowed  in  most  of  our  cities,  since  the  usual  requirement  is  that  the 
lamphouse  be  kept  tightly  closed  all   the  time   the   arc   is  burning.     I   am 
going  to  Seattle  to  the  convention.     I  may,  or  may  not,  find  time  to  visit 
Vancouver.     I  should  certainly  like  to  at    any    rate,    but    time    is    valuable, 
and  I  will  not  have  much  of  it  to  spare. 


Proposed  Condenser  Shield. 

Mr.   Harry  Hill,   Grand  Theater,  Lebanon,   Ohio,   encloses   $2.50   for  the 
new  Handbook,  saying: 

We  have  splendid   projection  here  in   Lebanon,  as  good  as  can 
be  found  anywhere  in  the   country,  I   think.     I  am  working  on  a 
shield   for  protecting   the  condenser   when   opening  the   lamphouse 
door.     Ai  soon  as  completed  will  send  it  to  you  for  inspection. 
A  picture  sent  by  Mr.  Hill  shows  a  very  neat  front  and  an  interior  of 
the    usual   storeroom   theater  type.      We   shall   be   pleased   to   have   the  op- 
portunity of  examining  the  device   when   completed,   friend   Hill.     Glad  to 
kave  good  report  as  to  projection. 


Announcement  Slide   Coating,  Etc. 

Oklahoma  encloses  money  for  Handbook,  and  says: 

I  also  enclose  a  sample  of  scratch  slide  made  with   plain  white 
Alabastine.     I   have  tried  several  kinds  of  slide  coating  but  have 
never    found    anything  to   compare    with    it.      Am    also    sending   a 
novel  slide  holder  for  announcement  slides.     They  can  be  fastened 
in  a  row  by  the  machine,  and  labeled  on  blank  line  so  that  an  op- 
erator  will  not  have  to  dig  through  a  whole  stack  of  slides  to  get 
the  one  he  wants.     I  have  been  trying  to  get  the  operators  in  this 
town  and  two  other  adjacent  small  cities  to  organize.     We  can  get 
seven    or  eight  operators   in    the  combined   towns   who    have   been 
working  their    present   positions   for   over  a  year.      Do   you   think 
we  could  get  a  charter? 
Neither   the   slide   nor  the   slide    holder   have    arrived,    Oklahoma.      Send 
them  along.     You  are  a  long  ways  from  getting  one  of  the  first  thousand 
Handbooks.     If  they  sold  that  slow,  1   would  not  feel   like  ever  bothering 
to  get  out  another.     I  will  request  President  Shay  to  communicate  with  you 
regarding  the   matter   of  organization.     Later:    The   slide   coating  looks   0. 
K.     The  holder  is  excellent. 


Fine  Operating  Room. 

Mr.    Sprague    Green,    Manager   the   Jefferson   Theater,    Fort  Wayne,    In- 
diana, sends  accompanying  photograph  of  their  operating  room,  and  writes: 
Our   operating  room   is   31    feet   long,    10   feet   wide   and  8    feet 
high,  with  two  ten-inch  star  ventilators  in  the  ceiling.     The  equip- 
ment consists  of  two  Power*s  Six  A  machines  and  a  Fort  Wayne 
spot  light.     Our  throw  is  127  feet  6  inches,  with  a  16  foot  picture, 


and   I  want  to  say  that  my  operators  are  putting  on  the   clearest 
and  brightest  pictures  in  the  U.  S.  A.     The  floor  of  the  operating 
room    is  concrete,    14   inches  thick,   and   the   front  wall  is   12   inch 
brick  with  an   8   inch   lerra-colta   back   wall. 
Your  operating  room  is  certainly  a  credit  to  the  house,  neighbor  Green, 
though  I  am  afraid  that  those  ventilators  will  not  prove  sufficient  to  carry 
off  all  the  smoke  and  gas  of  a  film  fire,  should  you  be  so  unfortunate  as  to 
have  one.     I  would  also  suggest  that  you  arrange  your  fire  shutter  as  per 
the  illustration  on  page   78  of  the  Handbook,  and  thus  have  a  really  fire- 
proof operating  room.     Your  claims  as  to  your  projection  are  pretty  strong. 
Hope  the   facts  bear  them  out. 


Wants  Another  One. 

Mr.  E.  G.  Henson,  who,  according  to  his  letterhead,  is  sole  owner,  man- 
ager, press  agent,  musical  director,  head  cashier,  bill  poster  and  janitor  of 
the  new  Opera  House,  Charlestown,  West  Virginia,  converses  thusly: 
Enclosed   find    check    for    another   Handbook.      My    other   one   I 
let  a   friend  have,   and   no  one   in  the  picture  business   should  be 
without   a  copy   of   that   book;    therefore    this   second  order.      My 
house    has   a    seating    capacity    of    600,    playing    to    the   very   best 
class  of  people   every   night,  except   Sundays.     I   am  using  a  real 
orchestra    of    eight    pieces,     featuring    a    musical    program    thirty 
minutes    before    my    first    show.      "Pictures    only"    is    my    motto, 
vaudeville    here    having   had   its   day.      My   operating   room    is  the 
"real  place,"  as  it  should  be  in  every  moving  picture  theater.     If 
you  are   all   O.   K.   there,   then   your   projection   is   what   it  should 
be.      Ten   years  running  a  picture  theater  in   one   town,   and  still 
going,  means  that  my  patrons  are  pleased  nightly,  and  cry  for  more. 
Time  and   again   I    noticed  that  in   the  department  you   explained 
the   different  makes  of  machines  now  used   in   theaters.      But  you 
have  never  said  a  word  about  the  machine  first  used,   though  you 
know   all    about    it.      I    mean    the    old   spool    machine    where   you 
could  run  all  day  and  never  rewind.     Tell  them  about  it  some  time. 
I   presume   you   mean   the   old   "spool-bank"   machine.      No,   I   could    not 
take   up   space   describing   that   projector,   because   it   is   no   longer   in    use, 
unless,  on  some  special  occasion,  for  some  reason  or  other,  the  description 
fitted  in  just   right.     You   are   perfectly  correct  in   saying  that   the   operat- 
ing room    is   the    main    spring    of    the    moving   picture   theater. 


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Perfectly  Right. 

c  Xp  a  Pcrsonal  Ietter  fr°m  a  man  who  was  a  delegate  to  the  last  I    A.  T. 

b.    E.   Convention,  the   following  sentence  appears: 

Regarding  your  invitation  to  unions  and  individuals  to  discuss 
proposed  convention  action  through  the  department,  I  hope  there 
will  be  some  men  broad-minded  enough  to  take  advantage  of  this 
proposition  now,  when  it  can  do  some  good,  and  not  get  into  the 
same  mess  they  did  last  year,  when  what  a  delegate  wanted  was  for 
himself  only,  and  the  others  did  not  know  enough  about  it  to  vote 
intelligently  on  his  proposition,  nor  was  there  time,  there  at  the 
convention,  to  study  the  matter.  % 

-jThe  j£0ther  has  put  the  whoIe  matt«"  in  a  nutshell.  That  is  precisely  my 
idea.  The  discussion  of  these  matters  will,  as  I  before  pointed  out,  enable 
delegates  to  go  to  the  convention  with  an  intelligent  idea  of  the  things  they 
are  going  to  be  called  upon  to  deal  with.  I  have  myself  been  delegated  to 
many  labor  conventions  and  I  can  tell  you,  positively,  that  the  best  action 
cannot  and  will  not  be  had  without  exactly  this  kind  of  pre-convention  dis- 


De  Costa  Vindicated. 

Some  time  ago  very  grave  charges  were  made  in  public  print  against  El 
De  Costa,  President  of  Branch  No.  2,  Local  Union  No.  35.  I.  A.  T.  S.  E., 
New  York  City.  In  view  of  the  seriousness  of  these  charges,  and  in  view 
of  the  fact  that  they  were  made  publicly,  and  in  view  of  the  further  fact 
that  they  were  made  by  avowed  enemies  of  No.  35,  the  Editor  of  this  De- 
partment introduced  a  resolution  requesting  the  Joint  Executive  Board  of 
Branches  1  and  2,  Local  Union  No.  35,  to  thoroughly  investigate  these 
charges  and  report  its  findings  to  the  Union.  This  has  been  done.  De 
Costa  produced  witnesses  in  the  persons  of  local  and  International  officers 
of  the  organization  whom  he  was  supposed  to  have  wronged,  and  who 
testified  that  the  charges  were  groundless,  and  that  De  Costa  was  not  in 
the  bad  graces  of  their  organization.  He  further  produced  evidence  that 
at  the  time  he  was  accused  of  acting  as  strike  breaker,  no  strike  had  been 
officially  declared,  and  that  as  soon  as  it  was  declared  he  ceased  work.  The 
finding  of  the  executive  board,  composed  of  an  equal  number  of  members  of 
Branches  No.  1  and  No.  2  of  Local  Union  No.  35,  gives  De  Costa  a  full 
exoneration. 


Officers  Elected. 

Branch  No.  2,  Local  Union  No.  35,  I.  A.  T.  S.  E.,  New  York  City,  held 
its  annual  election  recently,  with  the  following  result:  President,  Joseph 
Basson;  Vice-President,  Simon  Terr;  Recording  Secretary,  J.  R.  Gibbs; 
Financial  Secretary.  Gus  Durkin;  Business  Agent,  Tom  Costello;  Delegate 
to  the  Convention,  F.  H.  Richardson. 


For  Pre-Convention  Discussion. 
The  Motion  Picture  Operators  of  Sherman  and  Denison,  Texas,  send  in 
the  following  signed  communication: 

We,  the  moving  picture  projecting  machine  operators  of  Sherman 
and  Denison,  Texas,  holding  working  cards  in  the  I.  A.  T.  S.  E., 
Stage  Hands'  Local  280,  feel  it  our  duty  to  ask  that  one  or  two 
propositions  be  laid  before  the  operators  for  discussion,  and  that 
they  be  brought  before  the  Seattle  Convention.  In  the  first  place, 
in  the  smaller  towns  and  cities  where  there  are  eight  or  more  mov- 
ing picture  operators,  we  believe  they  should  be  granted  either  a 
provisional  or  a  full  and  direct  charter,  and  that  moving  picture 
operator  locals  ought  to  be  given  the  same  territorial  jurisdiction 
accorded  stage  hand  locals,  so  that  operators  may  have  a  chance  to 
join  a  M.  P.  O.  local.  You  will  find  that,  almost  invariably,  where 
operators  are  holding  cards  in  stage  hand  locals,  the  operators 
and  stage  hands  do  considerable  squabbling  amongst  themselves, 
and  that  the  stage  hands  attempt  to  dictate  to  the  operators  what 
they  shall  do  and  what  they  shall  not  do — a  thing  the  operators  are 
by  no  means  inclined  to  stand  for,  since,  as  a  general  proposition, 
stage  hands  know  very  little  or  nothing  at  all  about  the  needs  of 
the  moving  picture  operator.  Then,  too,  there  is  another  serious 
objection  to  allowing  stage  hand  locals  to  take  in  operators,  viz.: 
in  smaller  cities  and  towns  where  there  is  a  stage  hand  local  they, 
as  a  rule,  are  inclined  to  take  in  every  crank  turner  who  comes 
along,  with  very  little  regard  to  the  items  of  ability  and  experi- 
ence, or  much  of  anything  else  except  ability  to  pay  the  initiation 
fee.  By  this  policy,  many  incompetent  operators  get  into  the 
I.  A.  T.  S.  E.,  and  then,  in  course  of  time,  the  operators  have 
them  on  their  hands;  and  what  are  they  going  to  do  with  them? 
He  gets  his  traveling  card  in  due  course  and  goes  where  there  is 
a  M.  P.  local  expecting  to  be  put  to  work,  but  he  lacks  ability  to 
hold  a  position  and  merely  succeeds  in  bringing  discredit  on  the 
organization.  We,  the  moving  picture  operators  of  Sherman  and 
Denison,  Texas,  have  had  experience  with  this  identical  proposi- 
tion, and  lay  it  before  you  as  we  have  found  it.  We  trust  that 
every  M.  P.  local  in  the  United  States  and  Canada  will  send  their 
delegate  to  Seattle,  instructed  to  fight  for  something  that  will  be 
of  particular  benefit  to  operators.  The  stage  hands  will  look  after 
their  end — be  sure  of  that,  but  anything  we  want  we  will  have  to 
fight  for,  which  is,  of  course,  after  all,  but  natural.  If  our  In- 
ternational President  will  but  stop  and  consider  for  a  moment  the 
fact  that  there  are  between  15,000  and  20,000  operators,  and  that 
those  now  in  the  organization  pay  the  same  dues  and  the  same 
per  capita  tax  as  the  stage  hands,  he  will  see  that  the  wise  policy 
for  the  stage  hands  to  pursue  would  be  to  allow  the  operators 
everything  that  is  just  and  right.  He  will  see  that  the  operators 
have  the  right  to  demand  protection  and  support,  and  that  it  must 
be  granted  to  them",  else  the  future  holds  trouble  for  the  stage 
hands.  Just  merely  holding  cards  in  the  organization  isn't  suf- 
ficient to  satisfy  the  operators.  In  this,  we  refer  not  so  much  to 
operators  in  large  cities,  as  to  those  in  the  small  cities  and  towns. 
And  now,  another  thing.  We  believe  that  some  of  the  Interna- 
tional officers,  snch  as  vice-presidents,  ought  to  be  filled  by  opera- 


tors.    We  need  a  portion  of  operator-officers  to  look  after  the  op- 
erators' interests.     What  does  a  vice-president,  who  has  worked  on 
a  sta^e  all  his  life,  know  about  the  practical  needs  and  the  desires 
of   the   moving    picture    operator?      Some   one    may   ask    where    are 
you    going    to    find    capable    operator    candidates    for    these    offices? 
Well,  we  think  that  a  very  feeble  searchlight  would  discover  sev- 
eral of  them.     And  now,  if  some  brother  thinks  we  are  wrong,  let 
him  come  forth  with  an  axe,  not  a  hammer,  and  blaze  a  trial  leading 
to  better   conditions.      We   assure  him,   if   his   trail    is   better   than 
ours,  we  will  cheerfully  follow  it.     We  still   believe,   as  California 
does,  that  if  an  operator  emigrates  to  some  other  city  to  find  work, 
he   ought  to  and  must  serve  his   six   months'   apprenticeship.      We 
believe  this  is   the  only   thing  that  will  keep  the   journeyman    and 
crank    turner    from   constantly  chasing   around    the    country.      The 
$15   a   week   man,   to   whom  brother   Richardson  very  rightfully  ob- 
jects, will  receive  more  money  as  soon  as  he  demonstrates  superior 
ability.     The  first  signer  to  this  communication  has  been  working  at 
the  Jewel  Theater,   Sherman,  Texas,   for   three  years.      He  tries  to 
give  heed  to  all  those  points  which  go  to  make  up  good  projection 
and  that  is  what  every  operator  should  do.     In  closing,  we  repeat, 
every   small   town    where   there  are   eight   or   more   moving  picture 
operators  should  be  granted  either  a  provisional  or  a  full  and  direct 
M.  P.  M.  O.  charter  and  should  be  granted  well-defined  territorial 
jurisdiction  so   that   every   operator   in    the   country   may    have   the 
opportunity  of  joining  an   M.   P.   M.   O.  local.     We  wish  you  all  a 
most   pleasant   and   prosperous   time    at   the    Convention    and  trust 
we  shall  all  be  benefited  by  your  work.     Signed,  The  M.  P.  M.  O. 
of    Sherman   and    Denison;    J.    B.    Day,    Operator   Jewel    Theater; 
James  Shipton,  Operator  King  Theater;  Red.   E.   Ferguson,  Opera- 
tor   Grand   Theater;    Billy    H.   Russell,   Operator    Sullivan    Theater; 
W.  R.  Cook,  Operator  Majestic  Theater;  J.  L.  McHanson,  Operator 
Arcade  Theater;  John  Russell,  Operator  Idle  Hour  Theater;  Roger 
Fleming,   Operator  Brookstone  Theater. 
Every   one    of    the   letters    so    far    received    has   in    one    way   or    another, 
backed  the  editor  up  in  his  contention  that  the  present  provisions  for  taking 
in   or  organizing  the   operators   are   inadequate.      Personally,    I    don't   know 
exactly  wh3t  to  say,  or  what  to  advocate.     There  are  objections  to  extending 
the   jurisdiction    of   a   union    too   widely.      There    are   also   objections,    and 
very  valid  objections,  to  mixed  locals  of  operators  and  stage  hands.     It  is  a 
fact  that  there  is  usually  more  or  less    (emphasis  on   the  more)   squabbling 
between  the  stage  hands  and  operators  in  locals  of  this  kind;   also  there  is 
usually    more    or    less    scrapping    when    they    are    in    separate    locals.      This 
brother  says   that   the  stage    hands   want  to   dominate.     Well   now,   let's   be 
honest  in  the  matter,  brother,  and  admit  that  both  sides  want  to  dominate. 
That's  just  about  the  bald-headed  truth  of  it,  and   it  is  human   nature   that 
it   should   be   thus.     Just   exactly    what    would  constitute    the   best    possible 
action  in  this  matter  it  is,   I  think,  exceedingly  difficult  to  say.     One  thing, 
however,  I  am  quite  sure  of,  and  that  is  that  the  present  number  required 
to   hold  a  direct  charter  should  be   reduced,    though   how  much,   I  am   not 
prepared    to    say.       I    think    that    ten    or    twelve    would    certainly    be    low 
enough.      I    don't  know   of   any   large   objection    to  the   provisional   charter. 
Of  course  there  are  added  restrictions  connected  with  this  kind  of  charter, 
and  this  is  very  naturally  objected  to  by  men   who  pay  the  same  dues  as 
those   fortunate   enough   to    belong  to   a   local   having   a   direct   charter.      At 
any  rate,  however,  this  discussion  is  well  calculated  to  set  the  boys  thinking 
and  to  send  delegates  to   Seattle  better  prepared  to  deal  intelligently  with 
the  whole  matter. 


From  Australia. 

Mr.    Ray    G.    Harper,    Brisbane,    Queensland,    Australia,    contributes    the 
following: 

I    have    been    reading    The    Moving    Picture    World    for    some 
months,  off  and  on,  but.  up  to  the  present,  have  been  unable  to  get 
it   regularly.      I   have  just   arranged   10   secure   the   magazine   every 
week  from  now  on.     First  of  all,  1  wish  to  thank  you  for  publishing 
so  many  useful  bints  in  the  Projection   Department.      I   have  been 
operating  four  years.     Have  handled  t:ie  Urban  1912,  the  Pathe,  the 
English  Gaumont  and  the  Power's  Six.     Am  now  working  an  open 
.  air    show,    the    Tivoli   Picture  Theater,    Hamilton,    Brisbane,    where 
I  have  a  1913  Pathe.     I  project  a  30  foot  picture  and  use  55  am- 
peres of   no   volt,   d.    c.      We   generate   our   own   power   with   a   22 
B.    H.    P.    (break   horse    power — Ed)    Housley   Gas    Engine,   and   a 
British    General    Electric    Generator    of    S5    ampere    capacity.      We 
show  three  nights  per  week,   for  which  I  receive  one  sovereign  per 
night.     If  it  happens  to  be  wet  there  is  no  show;  also  no  pay.     We 
use    international   service,    which    includes   all    leading    makes,    both 
Association  and  Independent.     Lately  I  have  run  several  very  dark 
Essanay  pictures.      Do  not  know  what  the  cause  is,   but  the  fault 
certainly  lies  with  the   manufacturer.      I  am  working  on   a   circuit 
with  five  other  theaters,  and,  in  consequence  of  this,  Essanays  are 
very  nearly  being  tabooed.     Projection  here  is  good.     We  are  try- 
ing to  form  a  union,  but  the  boys  are  very  slow.     Will  you  kindly 
advise  me,  through  the   Department,   of  the   price  of   your   Hand- 
book,  posted  to  me  here? 
After   I    got  your   letter  all    dictated,    friend   Harper,    I   noticed   your   re- 
quest that  I  use  the  non  de  plume  "Kangaroo,  Australia."     I  see  no  earthly 
reason   tor  this.     There  is  absolutely  nothing  in  your  letter  which  can   in- 
jure you  in  any  possible  way;  therefore,  at  the  risk  of  offending  you,  I  am 
using  your  name.     The  price  of  the  Handbook  is  $2.50.     It  will  be  mailed 
to  you  on  receipt  of  that  sum.     I  suppose  you  arc  using  a  V\  upper  carbon, 
but  even  so,  I  would  *ot  imagine  you  would  get  a  very  brilliant  illumination 
on  a  30  foot  picture,  with  55  amperes,  d.  c;  in  fact,  you  could  not  possibly 
get   a   brilliant   illumination  on   a   30    foot    picture — the   thing   simply   could 
not  be   done,  though  you  may  secure  a   fairly  good  picture.      I  understand 
the  Australian  practice  is  to  use  a  very  large  picture.     Will  you  please  ex- 
plain to  me  the  why  and  wherefore  of  this?     The  magnification  of  defects 
in   the  film  is  so  enormous  that  I   would  not  consider  a  30  foot  picture  as 
being  at  all  desirable.     As  to  the  dark  films,  that  matter  is  respectfully  re- 
ferred to  the    Essanay   people   for   their  consideration.      It   has   been   men- 
tioned once  or  twice  by  American  operators. 


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"THE  GYPSY'S  BRAND"  (Kalem),  June  14.— This  none  too  logical 
story  hardly  can  be  said  to  be  interesting.  It  turns  on  the  significance  of  a 
brand  placed  on  the  forehead  of  a  gypsy  girl  by  her  band  as  a  punishment 
for  falling  in  love  with  a  man  outside  the  circle.  This  indicated  that  for 
the  rest  of  her  life  she  was  to  be  the  slave  of  her  fellow-gypsies.  She 
elopes  with  her  lover,  a  doctor,  who  removes  the  laceration.  There  are 
other  happenings,  but  there  is  not  one  real  situation  in  the  picture. 

"DEATH'S  MARATHON"  (Biograph),  June  14. — Two  men  and  a  woman 
— and  the  woman,  as  only  too  often  happens,  selects  the  wrong  man.  The 
story  will  interest  all  the  way,  and .  will  do  so  solely  on  account  of  its 
treatment.  This  is  skillful,  artistic.  Also  there  are  charming  backgrounds, 
well  photographed.  There  is  a  strong  climax — with  an  orthodox  Griffithian 
suspense.  A  husband,  tired  of  the  "monotony  of  married  life,"  has 
gambled  and  lost;  he  has  embezzled  and  again  lost.  His  old  friend  and 
office  associate  has  replaced  the  stolen  money  and  tried  to  find  him  to  tell 
him  all  is  not  lost.  The  husband,  however,  has  gone  to  the  office,  called 
his  wife  on  the  'phone  and  told  her  of  his  intention  to  kill  himself.  The 
searching  friend  tells  the  wife  to  hold  him  at  the  other  end  until  he  can 
reach  him.  The  baby  is  called  to  the  receiver  and  lends  a  touch  of  comedy 
to  a  tense  situation  when  it  examines  the  transmitter.  The  husband  kills 
himself  just  before  the  arrival  of  his  friend.  Blanche  Sweet  plays  the  wife. 
Her  work,  especially  in  the  final  scenes,  is  splendid.  In  following  her 
none  will  be  more  interested  than  those  who  have  to  do  with  the  making  of 
pictures. 

"THE  WINE  OF  MADNESS"  (Lubin),  June  14.— Another  gypsy  story, 
an  unpleasant  one,  melodramatic.  A  man  buys  ground  for  an  orange  grove, 
leaving  his  wife  in  the  North  until  he  gets  settled.  In  dynamiting  a  stump 
he  is  injured.  A  gypsy  girl  nurses  him.  The  two  fall  in  love.  When  the 
man  finally  decides  to  return  to  his  wife  he  is  given  a  drink  brewed  from 
loco  weeds.  He  is  crazed.  The  wife  looks  him  up  and  finds  him  in  this 
condition.  The  gypsy  girl  is  killed  by  her  former  lover.  This  is  not  enter- 
tainment. 

"THE  RANCH  FEUD"  (Essanay),  June  14.— A  Broncho  Billy  of  the 
usual  type,  made  interesting  by  reason  of  the  presence  of  an  old-time  member 
of  the  same  company — Arthur  Mackley. 

"FOR  MAYOR— BESS  SMITH"  (Patheplay),  June  14.— A  comedy  with 
several  good  situations.  It  is  a  suffragette  tangle;  the  son  of  the  male  in- 
cumbent falls  in  love  with  the  daughter  of  the  widow  contesting  the  mayor- 
alty. The  story  is  logically  told.  The  best  of  the  laughter  comes  at  the 
finish.  There  is  a  good  cast  and  the  picture  is  well  put  on.  The  types  of 
the  minor  politicians  are  especially  well  selected. 

"DOES  ADVERTISING  PAY?"  (Vitagraph),  June  14.— Yes,  it  does; 
and  it  makes  a  bunch  of  fun  for  everybody  as  well.  Wallie  Van  is  the 
leader  in  the  funmaking,  the  working  basis  for  which  was  provided  by 
James  Oliver  Curwood,  who  certainly  has  turned  out  a  most  amusing  script. 
Larry  Trimble  produces  the  picture. 

"APPLES  OF  SODOM"  (Edison),  June  14.— Charles  Arthur,  the  former 
Lubin  player,  does  good  work  in  this  drama,  prpduced  by  George  A.  Lessey. 
The  story  will  hold,  especially  during  the  last  half  of  the  film,  where  there 
are  dramatic  situations  competently  handled.  Robert  Brower  is  as  usual, 
excellent  in  his  characterization,  in  this  picture  that  of  a  theatrical  manager. 
Barry  O'Moore  and  Mrs.  Bechtel  also  contribute  to  the  success  of  the 
drama. 

"HER  ROYAL  HIGHNESS"  (Edison),  June  16.— Here  is  a  pretty  story. 
It  is  a  simple  tale  of  a  very  young  princess  who  tired  of  the  pomp  sur- 
rounding her  station  and  just  "ran  away"  in  search  of  companionship  more 
congenial,  even  if  less  notable.  She  finds  two  peasant  children  and  gets 
right  down  in  the  dirt  with  them  and  makes  mud  pies.  More  than  that, 
she  takes  them  to  the  palace  and  entertains  them.  Leonie  Flugrath  takes 
well  the  role  of  the  princess,  and  she  is  supported  by  a  competent  cast. 

"SILVER  CIGARETTE  CASE"  (Vitagraph),  June  16.— Van  Dyke  Brooke 
produces  a  good  picture,  one  that  will  interest  all  the  way.  Much  attention 
is  paid  to  interiors.  Leo  Delaney  and  Rosemary  Theby  have  the  leads. 
Others  in  the  cast  are  Robert  Gaillord,  Harry  Northrup,  Norma  Talmadge 
and  the  director. 

"THE  SWITCH  TOWER"  (Biograph),  June  16.— There  is  a  human 
touch  in  the  portrayal  of  this  story  of  a  switchman  and  his  family — a  wife 
and  son.  Claire  McDowell  has  the  role  of  a  mother  who  has  troubles  with  a 
young  son  as  mischievous  as  the  every-day  youngster.  Many  of  the  scenes 
are  laid  in  and  about  a  real  switch  tower;  they  are  effective.  It  will  strike 
some  as  strange  that  a  band  of  counterfeiters  would  ply  their  trade  in  a 
building  that  can  be  seen  through  a  glass  from  a  switch  tower.  Aside  from 
this,  however,  the  story  is  convincing;  certainly  it  is  interesting.  The 
youngster  deserves  a  word  of  praise;  not  only  is  his  work  good,  also  he 
furnishes  a  bit  of  comedy. 

"BOB  BUILDS  A  BOAT"  (Lubin),  June  16. — Another  story  of  the  men 
who  built  a  boat  in  a  cellar  and  who  made  the  boat  bigger  than  the  door  was 
wide.  Of  course,  it  was  necessary  to  pull  down  some  of  the  "masonry," 
which  was  done  in  this  case.  There  was  one  bit  of  comedy  in  the  picture, 
inft  that  was  in  a  title.     Three  men  who  went  to  sea  in  the  new  craft  got  a 


ducking.      They  are  shown  in   a  row  soaking  their   feet.      The  title  is   "Six 
Feet  Under  Water." 

"SILENCE  FOR  SILENCE"  (Lubin),  June  16.— On  the  same  reel  is 
this  longer  comedy.  There  are  several  good  laughs  in  it.  The  deacon  who 
is  snap-shotted  doing  innocent  things  on  a  Sunday  but  which  look  unexplain- 
able  in  a  picture,  furnishes  the  fun.     He  does  good  work. 

"WHEN  LILLIAN  WAS  LITTLE  RED  RIDING  HOOD"  (Selig),  June 
16. — Baby  Lillian  Wade  has  the  honors  in  this  picture;  she  earns  them  by 
her  most  interesting  work.  The  baby  insists  on  looking  at  the  story  of  Little 
Red  Riding  Hood  and  does  so  in  spite  of  her  parent's  prohibition.  When 
she  sleeps  she  dreams  that  she  is  the  heroine  of  the  story.  There  is  a  fine 
dissolving  picture  when  the  man  portraying  the  wolf  grabs  baby.  Lillian 
awakes  with  a  scream  and  lands  on  the  floor. 

"SHOOTING  THE  RAPIDS  OF  THE  PAGSANJAN  RIVER  IN  THE 
PHILIPPINES"  (Selig),  June  16.— On  the  same  reel  is  this  well-photo- 
graphed bit. 

"PATHE'S  WEEKLY,  NO.  25."— There  are  interesting  pictures  in  this 
number,  among  them  a  balloon  race  in  Germany,  a  bit  of  the  great  auto- 
mobile race  en  the  Indianapolis  Speedway,  the  ceremonies  attending  the 
reinterment  of  the  body  of  Barbara  Frietchie,  which  were  impressive;  view3 
of  a  baseball  game  with  the  titles  in  straight  English  and  devoid  of  the 
abominable  sporting  page  slang,  and  also  views  of  Pathe's  leading  man,  the 
Kaiser.     It  must  be  admitted  he's  a  good  actor. 

"THE  WHEEL  OF  DEATH"  (Kalem).  June  16.— A  melodrama  that  will 
hold,  especially  in  the  latter  part,  where  the  mate  of  the  vessel  is  bound  to 
the  paddle  of  the   old  stern-wheeler. 

"GOVERNOR  JOHNSON,  OF  CALIFORNIA"  (Kalem),  June  16.— On 
the  same  reel  is  this  short  picture  of  a  man  much  in  the  public  eye  recently. 
Conversing  with  the  Governor  is  Jane  Wolfe,  the  popular  Kalem  player. 

"ALONE  IN  THE  JUNGLE"  (Selig),  June  14.— A  picture  that,  in  the 
planning  of  the  story,  in  the  kind  of  action  and  also  in  the  kind  of  back- 
grounds, resembles  a  recent  Selig  offering  "The  Wamba."  It  is  a  bit  bet- 
ter in  construction;  but  far  more  sensational.  The  photography  is  of  some- 
what better  quality  in  most  of  the  scenes;  there  are  a  few  that  are  not  so 
well  taken.  Bessie  Eyton  plays  the  heroine  and  it  is  she  who  is  alone  in 
the  jungle;  the  haunt,  as  we  are  shown,  of  lions  and  a  leopard.  She  had 
been  down  the  river's  bend  saying  good-bye  to  her  lover,  played  by  Thomas 
Santschi  and,  coming  back  has  left  her  horse.  A  lioness  had  been  shot  (we 
are  shown  the  death  of  this  rather  tame  animal),  on  the  river  bank  near 
where  she  leaves  her  horse.  A  villainous  half-breed  is  also  in  the  neighbor 
hood.  He  attacks  her  while  she  is  fondling  a  lion's  cub  (fine  scenes)  and 
she  thrashes  him  well  for  it.  A  lion  now  attacks  her  horse  and  we  see 
him  mauling  its  carcass.  She  is  found  jti=t  in  time;  is  under  the  paws  of  a 
lion  which  has  been  shot  through  the  bush  before  we  see  it.  The  back- 
grounds are  interesting  and  suggest  Africa. 

"THE  GOVERNOR'S  DOUBLE"  (Patheplay),  June  13-—  A  picture  with 
a  big,  fresh  story  that  is  very  romantic.  Paul  Panzer  plays  a  double  role  in 
which  the  illusion  is  absolutely  perfect,  due  to  astonishingly  effective  camera 
work.  His  role  makes  him  appear  as  the  Governor  who,  to  investigate  prison 
conditions,  has  himself  "sent  up"  by  a  friend,  a  judge,  who  is  to  serve  a 
habeas  corpus  writ  at  the  end  of  two  weeks.  It  also  makes  him  appear  as  a 
prisoner  whom  he  has  just  pardoned.  The  Governor  is  to  be  married  in 
about  six  weeks  and  his  pretty  fiancee  goes  to  the  judge,  as  her  friend,  to 
beg  him  to  help  find  the  Governor.  While  writing  the  habeas  corpus  paper 
he  falls  dead  and,  now,  no  one  knows  where  the  Governor  is;  he's  in  jail, 
where  they  think  him  mad  and  the  pardoned  man  takes  his  place.  The 
scenes  show  care  and  have  much  realism;  the  characters,  naturally  set  forth 
by  gesture  and  facial  expression,  have  been  fortunately  chosen.  There  is 
also  a  bigness  to  many  of  the  backgrounds  (big  buildings,  finely  appointed 
*  rooms,  etc.),  that  conveys  a  sense  of  limitless  freedom  which  helps  the 
story.  The  players  do  fairly  well;  but  Paul  Panzer,  in  all  of  his  work,  but 
especially  in  his  comedy,  does  splendidly.  The  offering  contains  much  of 
beauty  as  well  as  thrilling  situations.      It  is  well  photographed. 

"A  REGIMENT  OF  TWO"  (Vitagraph),  June  11.— This  two-reel  farce 
made  the  biggest  hit  in  many  months;  it  is  the  kind  of  farce  that  fills  the 
house  with  laughter  and  its  quality  lasts  through  all  of  both  reels.  The 
fun  does  not  wholly  depend  on  the  acting;  but  the  work  of  the  players  has 
enriched  it  and  given  some  of  the  best  things  in  it.  The  regiment  of  two  is 
made  up  of  Harry  Morey  and  Sydney  Drew,  two  husbands  who  have  told 
their  wives  that  they  have  joined  the  noble  Thirteenth.  It  gives  them  one 
"drill"  night  every  week.  The  Thirteenth  is  called  to  the  front  and  they 
get  a  whole  month's  vacation;  but,  of  course,  they  have  to  start  off  in  uni- 
forms, and  such  uniforms!  The  going  out  and  the  coming  home  of  these 
two  are  screams.  The  home  folks  do  not  pass  the  time  without  adventures 
either,  including  a  burst  water  pipe  in  the  kitchen  and  its  concomitant  flood. 
There's  an  English  lord,  we  don't  know  who  plays  the  role,  but  he  is  a 
thoroughly  competent  comedian  and,  equally  with  Edith  Storey,  makes  one 
long  scene  as  funny  as  it  is  artistic.  The  picture  is  a  very  true  feature, 
there  is  no  doubt  of  that. 

"BEHIND  A  MASK"  (Eclipse),  June  11.— An  effective  offering  telling  a 
c-ear  and,  what  is  more  to  the  point,  interesting  story.  We  hardly  need  to 
add  that  it  is  fresh.     The  actors  hold  down  what  they  have  to  do  with  ease, 


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which   is   also   refreshing.      The  camera  work  is   not  of  the   best,  but   it  is 
clear  enough  to  serve  its  purpose.     A  substantial  offering. 

"ALONG  THE  NILE"  (Edison),  June  13.— This  is  easily  the  best  pic- 
ture of  Egyptian  scenes  from  the  viewpoint  of  general  interest  that  this  re- 
viewer has  seen.  It  is  better  than  most  topical  travel  pictures.  The  photog- 
raphy is  not  noteworthy,  yet  fairly  clear;  but  the  things  that  the  camera  man 
has  chosen  to  picture  show  a  sense  of  what  was  wanted  and  are  fresh  as 
well  as  full  of  instruction.  We  have  views  of  the  river's  mirror-waters  and 
of  temples;  but,  with  these,  there  are  more  that  is  usually  interesting,  agri- 
cultural scenes,  household  scenes  with  other  views  of  the  day's  work,  caught 
in  passing.     We  enjoyed  it. 

••BROUGHT  TO  BAY"  (Kalem),  June  13.— We  watched  this  picture 
closely,  but  are  unable  to  tell  the  story  clearly.  It  has  some  dandy  views  of 
out-dobrs  in  a  wide  land  and  a  glorious  picture  of  a  big  herd  of  horses  seen 
over  a  rounded  meadow  toward  hazy  mountains. 

"ATHLETICS  IN  FRANCE"  (Patheplay),  June  13.— Gymnastics  are  of 
interest  just  now  and  this  offering  should  have  a  warm  welcome.  There  are 
many  fine  things  in  it,  including  a  picture,  full  of  grace,  of  young  girls  of 
a  class  in  Grecian  calesthenics.  Besides  school  children,  we  are  shown  the 
Danish  gymnasts,  firemen  at  drill  and  marines  exercising.  The  photography 
is  very  clear. 

"PLACES  OF  INTEREST  IN  COLORADO"  (Patheplay),  June  13.— 
The  photography  of  this  film  is  only  so  so.  It  gives  views  of  statues  in 
the  State  and  some  grand  scenes  taken  in  the  Royal  Gorge. 

"AN  INFERNAL  TANGLE"  (Vitagraph),  June  13.— This  offering  has  a 
very  fair  story,  though  it  is  not  at  all  great,  and  it  has  been  well  worked  up. 
The  acting  has  its  moments  of  weakness;  but  shows  competance.  On  the 
whole,  it  is  one  of  the  two  best  dramatic  regular  releases  today.  There  is 
jealousy  between  two  Italian  families  in  the  flats.  Some  money  left  by  a 
charitable  woman,  thieving,  a  gun  man  and  a  rescue  by  the  husband  up- 
stairs, bring  this  jealousy  to  white  heat  and  two  free  fights  are  on.  It  was 
written  by  Roy  F.  Hanaford  and  produced  by  William  Humphrey,  and  the 
producer  with  Rose  Tapley,  plays  one  couple,  while  S.  Rankin  Drew  with 
Dorothy  Kelly,  the  other.     Louise  Deaudet  plays  the  charitable  woman. 

"THE  MYSTERIOUS  STRANGER"  (Essanay),  June  13.— This  picture, 
though  not  very  skillfully  planned,  seems  to  us  to  be  the  second  best  story 
of  today;  it  deals  with  hypnotism  as  means  of  bringing  love  for  his  wife 
back  into  the  heart  of  a  man  whom  too  much  business  has  worried  into 
brutality.  One  hopes  for  scientific  stories  when  hypnotism  is  used,  and 
this  is  far  from  being  such;  but  most  people  won't  know  it — perhaps.  In 
fact,  the  offering  stands  on  the  good  things  in  it;  the  acting,  especially  of 
E.  H.  Calvert,  the  business  man.  Bryant  Washburn  gives  an  interesting 
Mephistopheles-like  touch  to  the  hypnotist,  "the  mysterious  stranger.' ' 
Audiences  will  surely  feel  that  it  is  not  convincing,  or  else  that  love  is  not 
worth  while.     The  sets  and  photography  are  commendable. 

"PAPITA'S  DESTINY"  (Lubin),  June  13.— A  conventional  story  with 
enough  freshness  to  bring  it  among  the  three  best  stories  of  today.  It  was 
produced  by  F.  J.  Grandon,  in  the  West,  in  Mexican  backgrounds,  and  was 
written  by  Wallace  Clifton.  Papita  (Clara  Williams)  has  married  a  wealthy 
Mexican  (Franklyn  Hall),  who  ill  treats  her.  She  has  two  old-time  lovers 
whom  she  tells  of  this.  One  is  a  cripple  (Edgar  Jones)  and,  having  no  hope 
himself,  kills  the  husband  and  escapes  into  the  desert  to  die,  leaving  her 
for  the  other  (William  Brunton).  Emma  Bell  plays  the  girl's  mother.  The 
work  of  all  these  players  is  up  to  their  usual  mark.    The  photography  is  fair. 

"THE  JEALOUSY  OF  MIGUEL  AND  ISABELLA"  (Selig),  June  13.— 
A  very  melodramatic  story  by  Cornelius  Shea,  and  produced  by  William 
Duncan.  It  is  clear,  has  horses  galloping  and  a  burning  hut,  from  which 
the  hero  and  heroine  are  rescued.  The  photography  is  not  so  clear  as  it 
ought  to  be.  Myrtle  Stedman  plays  an  American  girl  who  unintentionally 
comes  between  two  Mexican  lovers,  Lester  Cunio  and  Florence  Dye. 
Myrtle's  lover  is  William  Duncan.  When  jealousy  has  got  things  started, 
the  senorita's  father  (Rex  de  Rosselli)  captures  both  American  lovers  and 
ties  them  up  in  the  cabin  and  "accidentally"  sets  it  on  fire.  They  are 
rescued  and  then  the  villains  are  captured. 

"BEAU  CRUMMEL  AND  HIS  BRIDE"  (Edison),  June  11.— A  little 
burlesque  comedy  that  has  merit  (plenty  of  it),  but  it  will  make  enthusiastic 
those  who  compare  it  with  what  Edison  has  often  done.  It  was  made  for 
the  people  and  the  people  will  probably  find  it  very  amusing.  Beau  Crum- 
mcl  (Arthur  Houseman)  has  eloped  with  Elsie  MacLeod,  and  they  are 
needlessly  afraid  that  papa  (William  Wadsworth)  is  going  to  make  trouble. 
It  is  set  in  a  hotel  to  which  papa  is  bringing  Elsie's  grip,  left  behind.  The 
queer  characters  are  well  acted  and  some  of  the  situations  are  distinctly 
good.  It  gives  plenty  of  broad  humor  with  only  a  touch  of  roughness;  it 
has  been  carefully  set  and  is  convincing  enough  to  make  many  a  laugh. 
The  script  by  Mark  Swan,  has  been  produced  by  C.  Jay  Williams.  The 
photography  is  clear. 

"HIS  LORDSHIP'S  ROMANCE"  (Patheplay),  June  11.— A  comedy  that 
will  be  pleasing  to  many,  though  there  are  scenes  that  are  not  very  effective. 
"His  Lordship"  is  a  glove  clerk  and  has  been  fined  for  neglecting  one  cus- 
tomer to  gaze  dreamily  at  another,  a  young  girl.  He  chances  to  encounter 
in  the  park,  an  elderly  man  who  happens  to  be  the  girl's  fiance,  and  is  em- 
ployed by  him  to  assume  a  title,  come  to  a  garden  party,  be  introduced  to 
an  unknown  girl  with  the  object  of  telling  her  how  good  and  manly  his 
patron  is.  Of  course,  it  is  the  girl  of  his  dreams.  It  has  been  very  well 
written,  and  the  sets  are  good  as  well  as  clearly  photographed.  The  acting 
is  very  good,  in  part,  though  that  scene  where  the  girl  comes  to  the  glove 
counter  to  punish  the  youth  is  spoiled  by  the  impossible  way  he  acts.  There 
is  an  advertisement  in  the  picture  of  a  well-known  make  of  gloves. 

"HIS  HOUSE  IN  ORDER"  (Vitagraph),  June  it.— One  is  not  sure,  at 
times,  whether  this  comedy  drama  by  H.  G.  Williams,  author,  and  Wilfred 
North,  director,  is  not  intended  for  a  farce,  so  closely  does  it  cut  to  the 
comically  exaggerated  in  its  endeavor  to  bring  out  the  meaning  of  its  situa- 
tions. A  widower  (Robert  Gailord)  w3nts  to  marry  again  and  goes  calling 
on  different  women  whom  he  knows.  They  are  all  too  queer  to  be  ac- 
ceptable. Meanwhile,  the  servants  at  home,  led  by  Kate  Price,  are  having 
a  jamboree,  dressed  in  the  clothes  of  the  dead  former  mistress.  The  man's 
little  girl  with  her  governess   (Julia  S.  Gordon)   is  up-stairs  and  both  come 


down  to  stop  the  disturbance.     At  this  point  the  man  walks  in.     He  soon 
marries   the  governess.     It  is   well  put   on  and  clearly  photographed. 

"THE  PAWXBROKER'S  DAUGHTER"  (Kalem),  June  11.— The  storv 
in  this  picture  is  very  slight  and,  except  at  its  end,  not  dramatic.  It  shows 
how  a  pretty  Jewess  (Alice  Joyce)  has  half  fallen  in  love  with  a  Gentile 
(Tom  Moore),  although  she  has  another  friend  (Stephen  Purdee)  of  her 
own  religion  whom  her  father  (Robert  Broderick)  is  anxious  to  have  her 
marry.  The  story  is  turned  so  that  Alice  and  her  father  are  brought  in  con- 
tact with  Tom  and  his  parents,  not  very  worthy  people  of  fashion.  Alice 
finds  that  she  has  nothing  in  common  with  Tom  after  all,  and  elopes  with 
Stephen.  Her  note  makes  her  father  think  she  has  married  Tom  and  he  has 
a  sorry  half  hour  till  they  come  home.  Robert  Broderick's  make-up  and 
demeanor  as  the  old  pawnbroker  are  commendable,  and  the  whole  cast  acts 
fairly  naturally.  It  is  a  clearly  photographed  picture  and  makes  what  seems 
to  be  a  fair  offering. 

"A  ROSE  OF  MAY"  (Selig),  June  11.— In  the  backgrounds  of  this  pic- 
ture, which  was  taken  in  Florida,  is  a  verv  romantic-looking  forest  and  the 
photographs  of  it,  with  high-lights  and  shadows,  are  most  effective  and  intei- 
estmg.  The  story,  measured  by  the  average  of  today,  makes  a  fair  offering. 
It  deals  with  a  novelist  (Jack  Nelson)  dressed  most  romantically,  who  wins  a 
girl,  called  "a  dream  maid"  (Edna  Bunyea),  by  becoming  both  rich  and 
famous  in  one  year.  His  book,  "The  Rose  of  May,"  has  been  published 
anonymously  by  the  house  of  which  her  father  (Harry  Lonsdale)  is  head, 
and  not  till  the  year  is  up  does  the  father  know  that  the  boy  has  made  good. 

"THE  STAR"  (Essanay),  June  11. — This  offering  hardly  did  itself  jus- 
tice, for  it  was  interrupted  for  a  few  feet  by  a  portion  of  an  old  picture; 
but  we  can  safely  commend  it,  from  what  we  have  seen,  as  a  good  offering. 
It  is  both  fresh  and  amusing.  It  opens  with  a  pretty  scene  in  which  we  find 
a  famous  dancer  (Ruth  Hennessy)  giving  her  farewell  performance.  We 
look  through  the  wings  to  the  stage.  Clarence  Inbad  (John  Steppling)  ap- 
pears and  tries  to  meet  the  famous  actress.  The  scene  shifts  to  a  cheap 
restaurant  where  the  actress,  in  search  of  local  color,  has  taken  a  job  and 
Clarence  comes  in  for  luncheon.  The  outcome  skillfully  shows  the  quality 
of  Clarence's  admiration  for  the  actress;  for  the  clever  woman  makes  him 
the  butt  of  a  practical  joke  that  shows  him  up. 

"THE  PROFESSOR'S  PREDICAMENT"  (Lubin),  June  .2.— A  farce 
with  broad  humor  that  made  a  great  deal  of  laughter  among  an  East  Side 
audience.  The  professor  is  a  temperance  advocate  and,  following  "the 
cause,"  he  comes  in  contact  not  only  with  drunkeness,  but  with  that  which 
makes  it.  In  a  scrimmage  with  a  barkeeper  he  loses  his  glasses  and  now 
he  can't  see  and.  smelling  of  liquor,  he  must  walk  as  though  he  were  drunk. 
The  poor  professor  has  a  hard  time. 

"NEARLY  IX  MOURNING"  (Lubin),  June  12.— On  the  same  reel,  this 
farce  also  deals  with  hard  drinking;  it  shows  how  a  wild,  married  man  is 
cured  of  wanting  to  go  out  on  sprees.  He  thinks  he  has  come  near  being 
burned  to  death.  It  is  not  so  lively  or  amusing  as  the  former.  The  author 
is  Lawrence  McCloskey,  and  the  producer,  Joseph  Smiley.  Clarence  Elmer 
plays  the  husband,  and  Frankie  Man,  the  wife.  Both  farces  are  fairly 
photographed.     They  make  a  fair  offering. 

"CINDERELLA'S  GLOVES"  (Essanay),  June  12.— The  story  won't 
impress  many  because  of  poor  construction.  It  fails  to  convince  and  the 
high  lights  and  contrasts  are  not  manipulated  to  be  effective.  Ruth  Hen- 
nessy plays  a  poor  niece  of  a  rich  dressmaker.  She  runs  away  to  a  ball 
raasqued  in  a  discarded  Cinderella  dress  and  leaves  her  gloves  with  a  young 
man  with  whom  she  dances.  Eleanor  Blanchard  plays  her  aunt  and  Dolores 
Cassinelli,  her  cousin.     The  photography  is  fair. 

"THE  FATE  OF  ELIZABETH"  (Selig),  June  12.— A  farce  with  a  book, 
called  "The  Fate  of  Elizabeth,"  as  its  center.  The  father  (Edwin  Wallock) 
and  mother  (Rose  Evans)  catch  Adrienne  Kroell  reading  the  book  and  take 
it  away  from  her.  They  try  to  snatch  a  bit  of  reading  out  of  it  them- 
selves; but  are  ashamed  to  be  caught.  The  book  is  dramatized  and  the 
show  comes  to  town.  We  are  shown  what  happens  in  the  theater.  It  is 
clearly  photographed  and  made  some  laughter;  but  the  best  laughs  don't 
come  from  this  kind  of  matter. 

"THE  ARTIST'S  DREAM"  (Patheplay),  June  12.— A  clever  cartoon- 
story,  written  by  J.  R.  Bray,  whose  work  is  well  known  and  full  of  fun. 
In  our  judgment,  it  is  the  best  offering  among  today's  releases  and  surely 
it  made  the  best  hit  with  the  audience  here.  The  artist  has  drawn  his  car- 
toon with  a  dog  (such  as  one  would  find  in  cartoons)  asleep  beside  a  cup- 
board on  which,  high  up,  is  sitting  a  dish  with  a  big  sausage.  The  artist 
sleeps  and  the  dog  comes  to  life  and  manages  to  make  away  with  the  sausage. 
The  comedy  in  the  dog's  actions  is  rich  in  laughter.  The  picture  has  the 
quality  of  the  best  series  cartoons;  but,  given  in  almost  perfect  animation, 
it  is  infinitely  better.     A  desirable  offering. 

"THE  WELL"  (Biograph),  June  12. — A  story  of  a  lonely  farm.  Lionel 
Earrymore  plays  the  farmer  who  has  had  the  team  harnessed  to  go  to  town 
with  money.  Claire  McDonald  plays  his  wife.  Harry  Carey  plays  a  schem- 
ing farm  hand  who,  with  a  helper,  is  digging  a  well  for  the  farmer.  He 
kiiuws  about  the  money,  gets  the  farmer  out,  knocks  him  on  the  head  and 
throws  him  down  the  unfinished  well.  Then  he  ties  up  the  wife  and.  with 
his  accomplice,  drives  away.  The  wife  manages  to  get  free  and  helps  her 
husband  out  and  they  follow  the  criminals  on  horseback,  coming  up  with 
them  at  a  lonely  shack  where  there  is  a  struggle  ending  in  the  safe  re- 
capture of  the  money.  All  this  is  clear,  dramatically  clean-cut  and  effective. 
It  is  a  picture  that  will  hold  strongly  and  is  a  good  offering.  The  photog- 
raphy is  not  artistic,  but  is  sufficiently  clear  to  bring  out  the  picture's  punch. 

"THE  STOLEN  CLAIM"  (Melies),  June  12.— A  story  of  mining  in 
Australia;  it  makes  an  offering  full  of  interest.  The  characters  are  new; 
this  means  a  great  deal,  though  it  seems  to  be  very  little.  One  gets  very 
tired  seeing  a  score  of  actors  play  the  same  conventional  American  pros- 
pector. The  backgrounds  are  fresh,  which  also  counts  for  a  little.  The 
story,  in  itself,  is  conventional  with  fresh  minor  incidents;  is  clearly  told 
and  acceptable.  The  photography  is  clear  enough.  The  audience  watched  it 
closely. 

"VIEWS  OF  SAMARANG"  (Melies),  June  12.— On  the  same  reel  with 
the  story,  this  clearly  photographed  scenic  will  be  very  valuable  to  merchants 
if  they  see  it.  Samarang  is  one  of  the  big  commercial  cities  of  Siam  and  is 
astonishing  in  its  extent,   in   the  kind  of  buildings  and  in  the  apparant  size 


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of  its  business.     The  picture  seems  to  give  a  good  idea  of  the  city.     An  in- 
structive offering,  one  that  is  well  worth  while. 

"HIS  TIRED  UNCLE"  (Vitagraph),  June  12.— A  picture  in  comedy  vein 
for  smiling  rather  for  laughter.  It  gets  over  as  strongly  as  its  matter  will 
aftow,  it  being  somewhat  worldly-wise  and  cold,  rather  than  sympathetic 
and  human.  The  sets  and  the  players  are  dignified.  Uncle  (John  Bunny) 
is  rich  and  has  forbidden  his  nephew  (Leo  Delaney)  to  marry  the  widow 
(Rose  Tapley),  so  Leo's  friend  (S.  Rankin  Drew)  gives  a  house-party,  in- 
viting all  concerned.  Now  uncle  is  always  sleepy  and,  during  the  evening 
party,  wants  to  find  a  place  where  he  can  drop  off,  but  they  won't  let  him. 
He  falls  into  a  doze  in  a  chair  in  the  widow's  room  and  is  found  there. 
They  make  him  think  he  has  compromised  the  widow.  Author,  Henry 
Kaige;  producer,  Wilfrid  North. 

"CAPERS  OF  CUPID"  (Vitagraph),  June  12. — On  the  same  reel  is  this, 
by  the  Western  Company  which,  being  broader,  made  more  laughter  in  spite 
of  the  heavy  photography.  It  is  set  in  a  park  and  is  played  by  two  couples 
and  a  tramp.  One  of  the  couples  is  black,  one  is  white — the  men  have  high 
hats,  both  the  women  have  the  same  kind  of  parasols.  The  white  couple 
have  had  a  spat.  The  woman  turns  her  back;  the  man  leaves  the  seat  which 
is  taken  by  the  tramp.  The  woman  tries  to  "make  up"  without  turning 
around  and  this  astonishes  the  tramp.  The  woman  runs  to  a  black  hat  she 
sees  and  throws  herself  into  its  arms — it's  the  black  man.  All  the  changes 
arc  rung  until  all  land  in  the  station  house  where  things  are  straightened 
out. 

•A  TOUR  THROUGH  TOURAINE"  (Patheplay),  June  17.— There  is  a 
quiet,  restful  effect  about  this  travel  film  which  is  pleasing  to  the  observer. 
Starting  in  an  automobile,  under  wide,  spreading  trees,  we  move  along  over 
Bcnlit  roads,  past  old  chateaux,  dating  back  as  far  as  the  Seventeenth  Cen- 
tury. Passing  along  in  our  picture  tour,  we  view  ancient  causeways  in  the 
valley  of  the  River  Loire.  In  seeing  this  film  we  get  some  of  the  choicest  emo- 
tions of  a  journey  through  France,  and  at  the  same  time  save  a  great  deal 
of  money  in  making  the  trip. 

"RHODES,  ASIATIC  TURKEY"  (Patheplay),  June  17.— A  few  pic 
turesque  glimpses  of  this  interesting  old  city  in  connection  with  the  above, 
completing  a  good  scenic  reel. 

"OUT  OF  THE  BEAST  A  MAN  WAS  BORN"  (Lubin),  June  17.— A 
film  story  more  interesting  for  its  splendid  out-door  setting  and  good  pho- 
tography than  for  the  strength  of  its  plot,  which  is  elemental  in  character. 
In  the  opening  scene  we  find  the  boy  with  a  group  of  tramps,  eating  supper 
on  the  Arizona  desert.  The  affection  which  springs  up  between  the  boy 
and  Joe  gets  hold  of  the  observer's  sympathy.  The  boy  splits  wood  and 
takes  care  of  Joe  when  he  is  sick,  and  when  the  boy  falls  ill  Joe  begs  him 
to  get  well  and  promises  to  reform.  He  keeps  this  promise  and  returns  a 
pocketbook  he  has  stolen.  LateT,  he  gets  a  railroad  job  and  goes  to  work. 
Romaine  Fielding  appears  as  Joe  and  makes  the  character  a  convincing  one. 
"THE  TWIN  BROTHERS"  (Edison),  June  17.— August  Phillips  plays 
the  double  role  of  the  twin  brothers  in  this  film  and  toward  its  close  we 
have  a  literal  example  of  a  man  shaking  hands  with  himself.  The  plot  is 
that  of  a  good  brother  and  a  bad  one  in  love  with  the  same  girl.  The 
action  is  slow  and  not  very  convincing  at  times,  particularly  where  Robert 
believes  he  has  killed  a  man  by  striking  him  with  his  fist.  We  do  not  like 
the  introduction  of  new  characters  in  the  middle  of  a  story,  by  subtitle,  as 
was  done  in  this  picture,  as  it  breaks  the  illusion.  The  double  exposure  ef- 
fects were  well  shown  and  it  is  in  the  various  novel  points  that  the  main 
interest   of  the  film  centers. 

"ANONYMOUS  LOVE"  (Essanay),  June  17.— A  pleasing  comedy,  with  a 
few  quiet  laughs  in  it,  in  which  Binks  sends  flowers  and  jewelry  to  Miss 
Lillie  Brown,  a  colored  girl,  thinking  the  name  was  that  of  her  mistress. 
The  colored  girl  thinks  the  presents  come  from  her  dusky  lover,  Sam, 
whose  stock  immediately  rises  in  her  estimation.  But  Lillie  is  not  so  pleased 
when  she  is  arrested  for  stealing  jewelry.  Binks  and  her  mistress  come  to 
the  rescue  and  it  is  here  that  Binks  learns  his  error  for  the  first  time.  Quite 
amusing. 

"TAMING  A  TENDERFOOT"  (Selig),  June  17.— A  Western  comedy 
offering  which  arouses  expectations  it  does  not  quite  fulfill.  Reckless  Willie 
is  sent  West  by  his  father  to  learn  something  of  ranch  life.  He  thinks  he 
knows  it  all,  but  the  cowboys  soon  convince  him  he  doesn't.  They  dress  up 
a  young  burro  as  a  bear  and  play  other  pranks  of  the  sort  on  Willie.  In  the 
end  Willie  gives  up  and  returns  to  the  East,  which  leaves  the  picture  with 
a  rather  weak  ending.  The  photography  is  good  and  the  ranch  scenes  at- 
tractive. 


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"COMRADES"  (Dragon),  June  2.— A  story  opening  at  West  Point,  from 
which  the  hero,  Charles  Arthur,  is  expelled  for  taking  leave  without  per- 
mission to  pay  a  visit  in  the  town.  It  continues  at  an  army  post  where  he 
has  enlisted  as  a  private  soldier.  He  meets  and  becomes  the  rival  of  one 
of  his  old  classmates  and,  on  a  showing  of  heroism,  wins  the  daughter  of 
the  colonel  in  spite  of  the  officer,  his  rival.  It  is  one  of  those  melodramatic 
pictures  made  to  appeal  to  the  general  spectator  with  whom,  when  well 
made,  as  in  this  case,  they  find  a  ready  welcome.  It  shows  the  touch  of  a 
director  who  knows  military  things. 

"LEO'S  LAST  RESORT"  (Imp),  May  17.— Broad  farce  of  the  French 
sort.     It  will  go  well  in  some  houses. 

"HY  MAYER"  (Imp),  May  17.— Very  interesting  cartoons,  the  drawing 
of  which  are  shown  in  front  of  the  camera.  The  reproduction  of  the  car- 
toon of  the  Secretary  of  State  of  the  United  States  with  a  padlock  through 
his  lips  may  please  one  element  of  picture  goers,  but  certainly  it  will  serious- 
ly offend  just  as  many  others.  Mr.  Mayer  has  been  accustomed  for  many 
years  to  drawing  pictures  for  a  newspaper  with  political  opinions.  A  news- 
paper has  a  perfect  right  to  them.  A  film  has  absolutely  no  right  to  any- 
thing that  approaches  political  opinions — entirely  apart  from  the  question  as 
to  the  ethics  of  casting  ridicule  on  the  second  highest  officer  in  the  United 
States  Government. 

"VT  SHILOH"  (Bison),  July  5. — The  first  reel  of  this  two-reel  offering 
makes  the   strongest  appeal.      It   varies  the   ordinary   war   story   with   fresh 


situations  and  clever  incidents.  We  follow  the  young  lieutenant  and  his 
escape  from  capture,  through  the  girl's  assistance,  with  much  interest.  The 
second  reel  is  devoted  largely  to  warfart  of  a  sweeping  sort.  The  plot 
becomes  lost  for  a  time  in  the  spirited  fighting.  The  photography  is  very 
good  and  the  release  is  quite  an  attractive  one  altogether. 

"ELSIE'S  AUNT"  (Powers),  July  9. — Elsie  places  a  dummy  under  her 
aunt's  bed,  much  to  the  amusement  of  herself  and  girl  schoolmates.  Later, 
her  lover  impersonates  the  maiden  lady  and  he  and  Elsie  are  married  after 
a  long  chase.  The  story  lacks  freshness  and  the  situations  are  not  very 
amusing. 

"THE  WITCH"  (Eclair),  July  2.— A  three-reel  offering,  depicting  the 
days  of  witchcraft  with  great  fidelity.  Alec  Francis  does  some  notable  char, 
acter  work  in  the  part  of  the  miserly  Marsh;  Mildred  Bright,  a  newcomer 
in  moving  pictures,  plays  the  part  of  the  heroine  with  feeling  and  intelli- 
gence; Robert  Frazer,  Julia  Stuart  and  Fred  Truesdale  also  appear  to  advan- 
tage. The  story  is  consistent  and  strongly  presented.  The  costuming  and 
settings  are  satisfactory  throughout  and  the  atmosphere  of  superstition  and 
bigotry  is  well  suggested.  The  story  could  have  been  told  in  two  reels,  but 
the  interest  is  sustained  throughout.  The  offering  as  a  whole  is  a  notable 
one  and  certain  to  please  the  average  audience. 

"THE  JEALOUSY  OF  JANE"  (Imp),  June  16.— A  comedy,  with  Jane 
Gail  and  Matt  Moore  in  the  leading  parts,  which  works  up  into  some 
genuinely  funny  situations.  The  wife,  suspecting  her  husband  of  consort- 
ing with  another  woman  while  she  is  away,  returns  home  unexpectedly  and 
enters  the  house.  The  subsequent  happenings  make  very  good  comedy,  in- 
deed, in  fact,  one  of  the  best  we  have  seen  for  some  time.  A  desirable 
release. 

"THE  HUMAN  STATUE"  (Imp),  June  21. — A  rather  interesting  half 
reel,  made  in  France,  with  Leo  posing  as  a  human  statue  after  he  has  broken 
the  original.  His  adventures  wind  up  in  the  usual  chase  and  are  moderately 
amusing. 

"FILMOGRAPHIC  CARTOONS"  (Imp),  June  21.— More  of  Hy  Mayer's 
clever  cartoon  work,  dealing  mostly  with  international  subjects.  This  deft 
pen  work  is  sure  to  prove  appealing. 

"WILL  POWER"  (Crystal),  June  22.— This  half  reel,  burlesquing 
hypnotism,  contains  a  string  of  laughs.  It  succeeds  very  well  for  a  short 
comedy  and  is  well  worth  while. 

"THE;  SMUGGLED  LACES"  (Crystal),  June  22.— This,  on  same  reel 
with  above,  concerns  some  laces  smuggled  through  the  custom  house,  the 
attending  mixup  containing  some  amusement. 

"A  STORY  OF  THE  MEXICAN  BORDER"  (Frontier),  June  19.— This 
Western  drama  contains  one  striking  and  dramatic  situation,  but  it  is  not 
successful  as  a  whole.  The  fore  part  of  the  story  is  hardly  worth  the  time 
it  takes  to  show  it,  and  other  shortcomings  appear  later.  The  den  of  the 
cattle  rustlers  was  very  picturesque. 

"HIS  MOTHER'S  LOVE"  (Imp),  June  23.— The  average  observer  of 
this  picture  will  question  the  kind  of  mother  love  which  tempts  a  woman  to 
commit  murder  in  order  to  obtain  money  for  her  poor  son.  The  story  in 
this  is  a  very  dramatic  one,  but  we  have  seen  it  pictured  in  another  form, 
much  more  effectively  than  it  is  done  here.  As  it  is  presented  here  it  holds 
the  interest,  but  as  a  conception  it  is  one  that  will  excite  criticism. 

"WHEN  LENA  STRUCK  NEW  MEXICO"  (Frontier),  June  21.— A  girl 
playing  the  part  of  a  Swedish  servant  on  a  Western  ranch  is  the  chief 
character  in  this  and  succeeds  in  creating  considerable  amusement.  Her 
misadventures,  however,  are  not  enough  by  themselves  to  make  a  very  strong 
reel,  and  her  work  should  have  been  bolstered  up  with  a  good  plot  to  make 
it  really  effective.     The  photography  is  good. 

"FORTUNE'S  PET"  (Eclair),  June  18. — A  two-reel  society  story,  which 
has  just  enough  of  the  spirit  of  adventure  about  it  to  hold  the  interest  well, 
in  spite  of  the  fact  that  some  of  the  incidents,  such  as  the  boat  race,  were 
not  well  handled.  The  young  man  leaves  his  club  determined  to  earn  the 
sum  of  $10,000  within  one  year.  He  takes  a  job  as  a  bell  boy  and  has 
many  astonishing  experiences,  which  net  him  large  sums  of  money.  He 
saves  the  girl  from  villainy  and  later  becomes  her  butler,  with  still  more 
adventures  awaiting  him.  The  water  scenes  were  pretty  and  the  photog- 
raphy good.     Not  a  top-notcher,  but  a  breezy,  entertaining  production. 

"THE  PRINCESS  OF  THE  VALLEY"  (Nestor),  August  11.— A  typical 
Western  Indian  story,  in  which  Mona  Darkfeather  has  the  lead.  She  _  is 
assisted  by  some  white  men  after  falling  from  her  horse,  falls  in  love  with 
one  of  them  and  later  marries  him.  Their  child  is  afterward  captured  by 
the  Indians,  and  she  saves  him  from  death  by  working  on  the  superstition 
of  the  red  men.  The  photography  is  good  and  the  picture  a  good  one  of 
its  type. 

"OUT  OF  THE  PAST"  (Crystal),  June  24. — Good  photography  makes  a 
strong  appeal  in  this  full  reel  drama,  but  it  lacks  a  certain  convincing 
quality  and  cannot  be  classed  as  a  complete  success.  The  scenes  are  very 
hurried  and  jump  large  periods  of  time.  The  heroine  changes  from  a  beau- 
tiful model  to  a  washerwoman  and  her  husband  is  reunited  with  her  after 
many  tribulations.  The  situations  are  too  improbable  to  strike  the  observer 
forcibly. 

"MR.  WALLINGSFORD'S  WALLET"  (Reliance),  June  21.— A  one-reel 
photoplay  in  which  the  plot  complications  are  rather  ingenious.  Mr. 
Wallingsford,  the  tramp,  the  two  orphan  children  and  Breezy  of  the  under- 
world, are  all  brought  together  very  naturally.  In  the  end.  Mr.  Wallings- 
ford gets  his  wallet  back  and  the  children  win  a  home  in  the  country. 
This  makes  very  good  entertainment  of  its  kind. 

"THE  TRANSGRESSOR"  (Broncho),  June  25.— This  is  an  effective  two- 
reel  story  of  Colonial  days  with  realistic  Indian  fighting  at  the  close.  The 
first  scenes  are  laid  along  the  seacoast.  Jim  falls  in  love  with  the  fisher- 
man's daughter.  Constance.  The  minister's  son  begins  paying  attention  to 
her  and  later  betrays  the  girl.  She  will  not  reveal  who  is  father  of  the 
child,  but  later  the  baby  dies  and  the  father  is  killed  in  warfare,  after 
which  she  and  Jim  are  married.  The  film  story  is  a  strong  one  and  the 
photography  good. 

"A  HUSBAND'S  MISTAKE"  (American),  June  23.— The  acting  in  this 
number  is  very  good,  but  the  plot  lacks  a  certain  appeal,  or  perhaps  fresh- 


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^     I    X       "^  TLhe.  y0Ung  wife  gives  her  new  necklace  to  her  scape- 
S     t    .1°         ,  br,ngs  about  a  separation   from  her  husband.     Later, 

we\klv  ref°rms  and  buys  back  the  necklace,  but  the  story  ends  rather 

"CALAMITY  ANNE  TAKES  A  TRIP"  (American),  June  26—Louise 
Lester  again  appears  in  this  number  as  the  burro  woman.  Kerrigan  and 
Richardson  invite  her  to  visit  the  popular  summer  resort  at  Venice  Cal., 
end  she  and  the  burro  go  through  some  rather  amusing  experiences  on  the 
various  attractions. 

"THE  BANKER'S  SONS"  (Majestic),  June  20—Here  is  quite  a  lively 
story  the  chief  idea  in  which  has  been  used  before  in  a  very  similar  way.  ' 
The  banker  gives  his  two  sons  $2,000  each.  One  buys  an  automobile  and 
the  other  deposits  his  funds  in  the  bank.  There  is  a  realistic  run  on  the 
bank.  The  son  with  the  auto  brings  money  from  a  distance.  A  love  story 
and  various  complications  make  the  plot  interesting  throughout. 

"DEAD  MAN'S  SHOES"  (American),  June  28.— This  story  lacks  feeling 
and  does  not  quite  catch  the  sympathy  of  the  observer.  Tom  goes  West, 
where  he  is  killed  in  a  blast.  Jim,  desiring  to  reform,  assumes  Tom's  name. 
Later,  Tom's  girl  comes  West  and  Jim  marries  her.  after  telling  her  the 
facts  about  his  regeneration.  This  seemed  to  us  a  very  old  conception  and 
not  very  strongly  worked  out. 

"PEEPING  PETE"  (Keystone),  June  23.— A  half  reel  in  which  Ford 
Sterling  and  Mack  Sennet  appear  as  "  bad  men."  One  rouses  the  ire  of 
the  other  by  peeping  through  a  knot-hole  at  a  woman  making  her  toilet 
Fairly  amusing. 

"THE  BANDIT"  (Keystone),  June  23.— This,  on  same  reel  with  above,  is 
of  about  equal  merit.  The  fat  man,  with  flirting  proclivities,  is  pursued  by 
a  rival  made  up  as  a  bandit.     The  plot  is  very  slight  indeed 

"THE  HEART  OF  HERNANDA"  (Powers),  July  4.— This  film  story  Is 
located  in  Sonora,  Mexico,  and  the  atmosphere  is  nicely  suggested.  An 
American  man  falls  in  love  with  a  Mexican  girl  and  is  about  to  marry  her 
when  his  former  sweetheart  comes  to  him.  He  casts  her  off,  but  the  Mexi- 
can girl  forces  him  to  marry  her  at  the  point  of  a  pistol.'  The  story  is 
rather  improbable,  though   not  uninteresting. 

"TO  THE  BRAVE  BELONG  THE  FAIR"  (Nestor),  Julv  4.— This  pic- 
ture is  too  vulgar  in  its  general  effect  to  be  presented  to  the  ordinary  audi- 
ence.  The  sight  of  a  fat  man  walking  about  in  tight-fitting  underwear  is 
not  edifying  and  certainly  not  amusing. 

"HE  AND  HIMSELF"  (Nestor),  July  4.— This,  on  same  reel  with  above, 
has  a  good  idea  in  it,  though  a  somewhat  impossible  one.  The  hero  dis- 
guises and  his  girl  falls  in  love  with  the  supposed  stranger.  Then  he  is 
sorry  and  tries  to  make  her  tire  of  the  stranger  by  stealing  her  pocketbook 
while  in  disguise.     But  be  is  arrested  and  of  course  trouble  ensues. 

"AN  INDIAN  NEMESIS"  (Nestor),  June  30.— The  story  of  this  picture 
is  confused  because  the  characters  cannot  always  be  distinguished,  so  dull 
is  the  photography  at  times.  It  is  melodramatic  and  not  at  all  convincing; 
but   has   some   brisk  shooting  and  some  speedy  riding. 

"SUSPENSE"  (Rex),  July  6. — A  picture  by  Lois  Webber,  suggested  by  a 
former  offering  of  the  Rex  and  not  unlike  many  other  pictures  in  which 
burglar3  or  tramps  are  breaking  into  a  house  or  lonely  station  kept  by  a 
woman  who  has  managed  to  let  her  friends  know  of  her  predicament.  The 
intruder  gets  nearer  and  nearer;  but  the  rescuer  is  hurrying,  too,  and 
reaches  the  point  of  danger  just  in  time.  It  is  pretty  well  done  and  makes 
a  fair  offering. 

"THE  EYE  OF  KRISHLA"  (Thanhouser),  June  22.— The  title  of  this 
film  prepares  the  observer  for  a  deep  mystery  of  some  Oriental  kind,  but  it 
is  only  a  polite  little  comedy,  in  which  the  hero  misleads  the  girl's  father,  a 
would-be  sleuth.  The  trail  leads  from  the  house  and  back  again,  where  the 
amateur  detective  finds  the  hero  arrayed  in  girl's  clothes.  The  photography 
was  somewhat  dim  in  places. 

"THE  HOUSE  OF  PRETENSE"  (Reliance),  June  23.— A  very  slight 
jlot  is  the  thread  on  which  this  story  hangs,  and  yet  there  is  a  delicate 
sentiment  about  it  which  brings  it  very  close  to  success.  A  young  man  and 
wife  who  have  not  been  blessed  with  children  pretend  to  dislike  them.  But 
each  secretly  longs  for  a  child  and  each  adopts  one  on  the  same  day.  A 
story  with  a  touch  of  true  pathos  in  it. 

"THE  BATTLE  OF  MANILA"  (Bison),  July  1.— A  two-part  special 
offering  of  war,  love  and  adventure;  but  mostly  of  war.  Where  a  fight 
picture  is  wanted,  this  is  the  offering  to  get  by  all  means.  It  has  pictures 
of  the  city  under  bombardment,  in  fact,  the  story  makes  climaxes  to  have 
them  properly  ended  by  the  fortunate  coming  of  a  shell,  one  of  which,  in 
one  instance,  knocks  a  hole  in  the  prison  where  the  heroine  is  incarcerated. 
It  is  of  the  stuff  that  excites  many  persons.  Here,  too,  are  fierce  battles 
with  the  Stars  and  Stripes  waving  through  the  smoke  in  the  midst  of  the 
fray.  The  picture  is  exciting,  not  historical.  The  story  is  entirely  melo- 
dramatic.    It  was  produced  by  Francis  L.  Ford. 

"THE  ANGEL  OF  DEATH"  (Imp),  June  26.— An  impressive  drama, 
well  executed  and  photographed.  It  is  one  of  the  last  pictures  made  by 
Herbert  Brenon  before  going  abroad.  William  Shay  has  the  character  of 
the  son,  grown  to  manhood,  and  Jane  Fearnley,  that  of  the  mother.  Both 
do  excellent  work,  as  in  fact  may  be  said  of  the  entire  cast.  William  Welch, 
who  portrays  the  Saviour,  is  especially  effective  in  the  final  scene.  His 
characterization  is  reverential;  the  effect  is  heightened  by  his  craftsman- 
like  makeup,  in  which,  by  the  way,  Mr.  Welch  is  unusually  efficient.  The 
whole  production  shows  teamwork. 

"THAT  BOY  FROM  THE  EAST"  (Eclair),  June  22.— A  short  comedy 
played  by  the  contingent  that  journeyed  to  Oklahoma  last  winter.  The 
photography  is  unsatisfactory  and  reflects  the  weather  conditions  under 
which  the  company  worked.  There  are  some  good  scenes  of  a  Western 
fair,  broncho  busting,  etc.     The  comedy  is  not  strong. 

"THROUGH  THE  SOUTH  OF  INDIA"  (Eclair),  June  22.— On  the 
same  reel  is  this  colored  film,  in  which  are  shown  many  views  of  the  peo- 
ple and  their  customs. 

"HIS  DAUGHTER"  (Victor),  June  20.— A  drama  that  will  hold  interest 
throughout.  One  of  the  phases  of  the  picture  that  will  be  noticed  is  the 
boarding  house  atmosphere,  which  is  well  maintained.  Gertrude  Robinson 
plays  the  daughter,  and  Charles  Graham  the  father.     James  Kirkwood,  who 


directs    the    picture,    also    plays   the   part    of    a    minister    in    love   with   the 
daughter.     There  are  good  situations  and  a  most  pleasant  ending. 

"HER  MOTHER'S  PICTURE"  (Solax),  June  13.— The  scene  titles  in 
this  picture  are  taken  from  different  poems.  The  story  will  not  serve  as 
entertainment  for  sophisticated  adults.  Very  likely  many  scenes  intended 
to  be  pathetic  will  produce  results  opposite  from  those  aimed  at 

"WHEN  A  GIRL  LOVES"  (Pilot),  June  12.— Louise  Vale  and  Lottie 
Pickford  appear  in  this  picture.  There  are  excellent  backgrounds,  and  they 
are  well  photographed,  but  the  story  is  nil. 

"MAN  AND  WOMAN"  (Ramo),  July  16.— Will  Davis  has  produced  a 
picture  of  two  reels  that  will  reflect  credit  both  on  himself  and  his  com- 
pany. His  work  is  more  than  skillful;  it  is  artistic.  There  are  cohesiveness 
and  continuity;  fine  costumes  and  settings.  Above  all,  there  is  a  story 
that  will  hold  throughout.  In  the  second  reel  there  are  many  situations 
that  will  thrill — and  they  will  do  so  by  reason  of  the  strength  of  the  story 
itself,  which  is  dramatic  and  in  no  wise  spectacular.  One  of  the  scenes 
especially  worthy  of  mention  is  of  the  courtroom.  The  trial  is  portrayed 
with  unusual  effectiveness.  There  are  flashes  to  the  judge,  to  the  prisoner, 
to  the  jury,  to  the  spectators,  to  the  lawyer  for  the  defense.  Mary  Alden 
does  splendid  work  in  her  characterization  of  the  wife  who  foolishly  believes 
herself  neglected.  Messrs.  Newton.  Holmes  and  Hopkins  also  contribute 
to  the  effectiveness  of  the  picture.     The  photography  is  good. 

"A  DOG-GONE  BARON"  (Ramo),  July  23.— Here's  a  real,  screaming 
comedy— and  the  expression  is  used  in  a  full  realization  of  the  meaning 
of  a  much-abused  term.  The  chief  agent  in  the  creation  of  this  result  is 
a  dog— our  old  friend  Rowdy.  If  he  does  not  upset  any  house  in  which  he 
appears,  then  this  reviewer  will  miss  what  he  thinks  is  a  wise  guess.  There 
are  laugh-provoking  situations  other  than  those  in  which  this  four-legged 
comedian  appears.  One  of  the  best  of  these  is  where  the  pretending  baron 
climbs  into  the  window  of  the  room  in  which  the  matron  of  the  house  has 
taken  refuge  in  the  bed  and  covered  her  head.  The  exhausted  and  scoundrel 
ly  baron  sits  on  the  bed.  Things  happen.  Stewart  Holmes  as  the  baron! 
makes  fun;  and  he  is  ably  supported  by  a  fine  cast. 

"THE  MAN  WHO  FAILED"  (Solax),  May  23.— A  fair  offering  entirely 
conventional,  but  perfectly  photographed  and  commendably  acted.  There 
are  some  scenes,  one  of  which  includes  a  picture  of  a  burning  factory  as 
seen  from  the  window  of  the  owner's  house,  that  are  astonishingly  realistic. 
That  one  scene  is  a  masterpiece.  The  chief  trouble  with  the  offering  is  that 
the  story  has  been  told  too  often.  Darwin  Karr  and  Marian  Swayne  play 
the  romantic  leads. 

"GOLD  AND  TWO  MEN"  (Nestor),  May  18.— A  Western  in  which  an 
Indian  murders  a  white  man,  who  then  turns  his  gold  over  to  two  miners. 
The  story  resembles  the  Eclair  released  several  months  ago  entitled  "The 
Poisoned  Pool."  One  of  the  miners  plans  to  kill  his  partner  by  filling  his 
canteen  with  poisoned  water.  Later,  he  repents  and  finds  his  design  has 
miscarried.     There  is  a  good  situation  at  the  close. 

"BLOOD  AND  WATER"  (Solax),  June  4— A  beautifully  photographed 
picture  of  sentiment  in  which  we  find  two  grandparents  (Mrs.  Hurley  and 
Darwin  Karr)  rather  harshly  treated  by  their  daughter-in-law  (Marian 
Swayne),  and  in  a  negative  way  by  their  son  (Fronie  Fronholtz).  The  little 
granddaughter  furnishes  the  pivotal  character  and  the  heart  interest  in  a 
very  acceptable  way.  At  several  points  the  business  showed  lack  of  care 
that  is  willing  to  accept  the  second  best  which  makes  poor  art;  but  as  a 
whole,  we  think  the  offering  will  please.  It  includes  a  very  interesting  chase 
over  old  canal  boats  moored  along  the  waterfront  and  looking  like  the  slums 
of  some  water  city. 

"THE  AMATEUR  HIGHWAYMAN"  (Solax),  May  21.— Fronie  Fron- 
holtz plays  with  a  good  deal  of  comedy  ability  a  queer  character,  a  sort  of 
jayhawk  farmer  who,  thinking  a  stranger  has  robbed  him  of  his  watch  com- 
pells  him  to  hand  over  the  watch  he  is  carrying,  his  own.  When  he  finds 
out  that  his  watch  has  been  left  at  home,  he  attempts  to  restore  it  withou* 
being  seen.  The  business  of  doing  this  makes  much  fun;  but  in  one  or  two 
places  goes  beyond  what  is  really  amusing. 

"FANTOMAS,  THE  BELTHAM  MYSTERY"  (Gaumont),  Tune  (Spl.).— 
A  multiple-reel  drama  in  which  there  are  good  situations  and  well  handled.  M. 
Navarre  plays  a  dual  role  and  does  splendid  work.  Opposite  him  is  the 
Gaumont's  famous  leading  woman,  Mme.  Rene  Carll;  she  justifies  every  ex- 
pectation. The  story  is  of  a  bold  thief,  of  the  gentleman  sort,  who  commits 
a  robbery.  He  has  also  committed  a  murder.  After  his  arrest  and  convic- 
tion, the  wife  of  the  murdered  man,  in  love  with  the  thief,  bribes  the 
keepers  of  the  latter  to  bring  him  to  her  home,  a  short  distance  from  the 
prison.  It  is  the  night  preceding  his  execution.  The  same  evening,  a  fa- 
mous actor  gives  a  representation  of  the  condemned  man  in  his  cell.  The 
impersonator  is  decoyed  to  the  house  of  the  woman  after  the  murderer  has 
arrived.  He  is  still  in  his  convincing  make-up.  After  the  woman  has 
drugged  him,  the  jailers  take  him  back  to  his  cell.  As  he  is  being  prepared 
for  the  execution,  a  detective  discovers  that  the  man  still  under  the  influence 
of  the  drug  is  not  the  murderer.  The  final  curtain  is  to  the  effect  that 
"Henceforth  it  is  Juve  (the  detective)-  versus  Fantomas."  So  we  may  ex- 
pect a  continuance  of  the  story  at  a  later  time.     The  picture  will  interest 

"THE  DEATH  KNELL"  (Itala),  June  (Spl.).— Two  reels  of  a  strongly 
dramatic  story,  very  interesting,  filled  with  good  situations,  one  of  them 
novel.  There  are  charming  backgrounds  and  excellent  photography.  The 
film  is  reviewed  at  length  elsewhere  in  this  issue. 


MISS    MAIBELLE    HEIKES    JUSTICE   WROTE    "THE 
FINAL  JUDGMENT." 

The  Essanay  Company  has  asked  us  to  correct  a  point  in 
the  recent  review  of  "The  Final  Judgment,"  in  which  it  was 
stated  that  the  story  was  written  and  produced  by  Archer 
McMackin.  The  original  story  was  entitled  "McCormack's 
Club,"  and  was  written  by  Miss  Justice.  Mr.  McMackin 
merely  changed  the  title  and  adapted  the  story  for  two  reels 
instead  of  one.  The  credit  for  the  story  belongs  to  Miss, 
Maibelle  Heikes  Justice,  of  Chicago. 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


oMusic  for  the  Picture 


BY    CLARENCE     E.    SINN 


A  CORRESPONDENT  who  does  not  wish  his  name 
given  offers  the  following: 
"So  much  has  been  printed  in  this  valuable  paper 
concerning  suitable  music  for  pictures  that  one  might  think 
all  has  been  said,  especially  as  many  writers  have  gone  into 
great  detail,  that  could  not  but  help  the  pianist,  but  I  think 
there  is  still  a  great  deal  to  be  said  that  might  be  of  interest 
to  the  manager  as  well  as  the  pianist. 

"It  is  true  that  the  public,  on  the  whole,  is  getting  used  to 
■better  things  and  good  music  is  appreciated  by  the  majority 
of  picture  patrons.  Bearing  this  in  mind,  it  is  sad  to  state 
that  very  few  managers  know  anything  about  music — many 
<annot  tell  the  difference  between  a  selection  of  grand  or 
■comic  opera — and  so  long  as  this  condition  exists  it  is  not 
strange  that  the  average  music  seldom  rises  above  a  few 
waltzes,  rags,  and  the  popular  airs  of  the  prevalent  type 
vwith  suggestive  words  and  wretched  airs. 

"And  those  managers  who  are  seeking  better  things;  what 
'can  they  expect  from  a  pianist  who  works  longer  than  a 
bricklayer  and  gets  less  remuneration?  Many  a  manager 
spends  five  dollars  a  week  advertising  a  show  with  bad  music 
who  begrudges  an  extra  dollar  or  two  to  get  good  in  its 
place.  It  would  be  well  to  remember  that  poor  music  is  not 
•  cheap  at  any  price,  and  that  good  music  is  always  worth  the 
money.  And  this  brings  me  to  another  point.  The  pianos 
supplied  in  many  of  the  best  picture  houses  are  relics  of  the 
pioneer  days,  decrepit  and  worn  out  by  years  of  toil — 
.patched  and  repatched  to  prolong  their  miserable  existence. 

No  pianist,  however  good,  can  do  himself  justice  on  such  an 
instrument  whose  retail  value  would  probably  be  between 
five  and  ten  dollars.  There  is  many  a  manager,  whose  ear 
for  music  can  scarce  distinguish  between  the  dinner  gong 
and  the  fire  alarm,  who  seeks  to  cover  up  his  deficiency  by 
an  insane  interference  with  the  pianist.  If  the  pianist  is  good 
he  or  she  will  probably  not  put  up  with  it,  but  if  circum- 
stances are  otherwise  they  may  do  so  in  order  to  hold  down 
the  job.  The  manager  should  either  decide  for  himself  or 
seek  the  advice  of  his  patrons  on  the  merits  of  the  perform- 
ance; if  unsatisfactory  a  change  should  be  made.  If  satis- 
factory the  pianist  should  be  left  to  use  his  own  judgment, 
free  from  useless  criticism  or  perpetual  harrassing.  It  should 
be  remembered  that  a  pianist  is  an  artist  with  temperament 
and  high  strung  nerves  uppermost,  whose  work  calls  for  both 
mental  and  physical  energy  all  the  time,  and  if  in  uncomfort- 
able surroundings  he  loses  that  ambition  so  essential  to  pro- 
duce good  music  or  play  pictures  correctly. 

"And  just  a  word  for  those  who  think  an  orchestra,  violin- 
ist or  drummer  an  improvement.  While  a  good  orchestra 
is  a  pleasure  to  listen  to,  as  an  accompaniment  to  pictures  it 
is  a  woeful  failure.  The  leader  can  of  course  choose  suitable 
music — that  is,  something  that  will  fit  the  subject  on  the 
whole,  but  it  ends  there;  if  the  music  does  not  blend  in  per- 
fect harmony  with  every  scene  and  action  portrayed  on  the 
screen,  the  greatest  charm  is  lost  and  the  interest  of  the 
audience  is  centered  either  upon  the  music  or  upon  the  play 
instead  of  an  undivided  attention  on  both.  In  some  places 
where  they  have  an  orchestra  or  violinist  they  make  frantic 
efforts  to  play  the  pictures  with  ludicrous  result,  for  no  mat- 
ter how  carefully  the  music  is  selected  or  how  quickly  they 
switch  from  one  piece  to  another,  the  effect  is  always  ragged, 
the  picture  is  never  properly  played  and  the  music  is  usually 
spoiled  in  the  process  of  cutting  to  fit  the  scenes.  A  lesser 
evil  is  a  drummer,  inasmuch  as  he  can  follow  the  pianist,  but 
even  he  can  be  well  dispensed  with.  A  drum  is  the  only  in- 
strument that  has  absolutely  no  music  in  it  and  whose  only 
place  is  with  a  brass  band  or  large  orchestra.  With  a  lone 
piano  it  is  nerve  racking  and  irritating  to  a  degree,  especially 
if  the  house  is  small  and  the  sound  has  no  room  to  expand. 
The  greatest  fault  of  drummers  is  that  they  play  too  loud, 
drowning  the  pianist  and  all  attempts  at  finesse  he  might 
put  into  his  playing.  It  will  be  a  great  stride  forward  when 
managers  realize  that  there  is  no  music  in  this  barbarous  in- 
strument, and  drums  are  forever  banished  from  picture 
theaters. 

"It  is  when  the  pianist  not  only  plays  appropriate  music. 


but  enters  into  the  spirit  of  the  play  shown  on  the  screen; 
accentuating  the  action  and  emotions  of  the  actors,  working 
up  the  climaxes  and  making  the  music  characteristic  of  the 
situation  at  all  times  that  the  picture  is  well  played.  And 
this  alone  is  not  sufficient,  for  the  successful  picture  pianist 
must  not  only  use  his  head  and  his  hands,  but  he  must  throw 
his  whole  heart  and  soul  into  the  subject.  When  he  does 
this,  then  he  can  make  the  picture  "talk"  to  such  an  extent 
that  scraping  feet  and  wagging  tongues  will  cease  and  the 
audience  with  bated  breath  will  watch  the  unfolding  of  the 
play.  When  the  manager  can  hear  the  proverbial  pin  drop, 
he  may  be  sure  his  picture  is  well  played." 

The  writer  of  the  foregoing  letter  has  evidently  thought 
intensely  on  all  of  his  subject  and  bitterly  upon  a  part  of  it. 
The  indications  are  that  his  experience  with  managers  has 
not  been  a  happy  one.  One  can  imagine  that  a  nagging  em- 
ployer who  did  not  know  what  he  was  talking  about  could 
make  things  very  unpleasant,  but  fortunately  they  are  rare. 
At  least,  I  never  happened  to  run  across  any.  Out  here  in 
our  neck  of  the  woods,  most  of  the  managers  are  too  busy, 
managing,  to  waste  time  trying  to  educate  piano  players.  If 
the  musician  is  satisfactory,  well  and  good;  if  not — and 
speaking  on  the  other  side  of  the  case,  some  employers  must 
be  easily  satisfied,  as  some  of  these  piano-and-drum  combi- 
nations ought  to  be  interfered  with;  if  the  manager  can't 
do  it  alone  he  should  call  in  the  police  to  help  him. 


F.  Edgar  Ray,  musical  director  of  the  Grand  Theater, 
Newark,  Ohio,  is  here  again  with  another  welcome  contri- 
bution. He  says:  "Am  sending  musical  program  of  two 
films  that  impressed  me  as  being  worthy  of  attention,  namely: 
'In  the  Days  of  Witchcraft'  (Selig);  'Longing  for  a  Mother' 
(Lubin).  I  trust  these  suggestions  may  be  of  value  to  some 
one  in  the  business." 

"In  the  Days  of  Witchcraft"  (Selig). 

1.  "Dorothy"    (Old    English    dance;    Seymour    Smith),    until 

title:   "Lady   Bersford,  An   Old   Sweetheart,   etc." 

2.  "Pull  for  the  Shore,  Boys"  (old  song)   until  title:  "Yorke 

Introduces  Anne,  etc." 

3.  "La    Danse    De    Souvenir"    (Loren    Bragden)    until    foster 

father  dies. 

4.  "On  Wings  of  Love"  (Bendix)  until  title:  "Lady  Bersford 

Accuses  Anne,  etc." 

5.  "Melody    in    F"    (Rubenstein)    agitato    until    title:    "The 

Trial." 

6.  "Sextette   from   Lucia"   until   Yorke   and   sailors   come   to 

rescue  Anne. 

7.  Mysterious   pp.   until  Yorke  attacks   guard. 

8.  Agitato  until  old  man  stands  on  beach  watching  receding 

boat. 

9.  Waltz — rather  bright,  until  end  of  reel. 


"Longing  For  a  Mother"  (Lubin). 

1.  "Bird   of  Paradise"    (J.   V.   Mathews)    until   title:   "At   the 

Reception." 

2.  "Enchanted    Nights   Waltzes"    (Moret))    until   title:    "Day 

Dreams." 

3.  "Dreams,  Just   Dreams"    (Berlin — Snyder)    segue:   "Noth- 

ing Like  a  Mother's  Love"  until  boy  awakes  by  por- 
trait. 

4.  Waltz  pp.  until  ball  room  scene,  then  f.  until  Mary  Evers 

joins  boy  at  portrait. 

5.  "In   a   Red   Rose   Garden"   (Billy   Gaston)   until  fairy   dis- 

appears. 

6.  "All  Aboard  for  Blanket  Bay"  until  dark  scene. 

7.  Waltz  f.  until  end  of  reel. 


A  correspondent  wants  the  names  of  some  pieces  similar 
to  "Tarn  O'Shanter."  Something  adapted  for  long  scenes 
of  an  agitated  nature.  I  cannot  now  recall  anything  just  like 
the  number  mentioned.  The  allegro  parts  of  some  overtures 
are  often  useful.  Eduord  Holtz's  "Dance  of  the  Demon"  is  a 
fast,  noisy  galop.  No  doubt  our  constituents  will  come  for- 
ward with  suggestions  in  plenty. 


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MINNESOTA  STATE  CONVENTION. 

THE  second  annual  convention  of  the  Minnesota  State 
Branch  of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of 
America  was  held  at  the  Radisson  Hotel,  Minneapolis, 
June  10th  and  nth.  On  Tuesday  morning  a  large  and  enthusi- 
astic number  of  ladies  and  gentlemen,  representing  the  better 
element  of  motion  picture  people,  gathered  in  the  large  assembly 
room  at  the  appointed  hour,  and  the  convention  was  called  to 
order  by  State  President  Otto  N.  Raths.  After  divine  invoca- 
tion by  the  Rev.  G.  L.  Merrill,  an  address  of  welcome  was  made 
by  Hon.  Wallace  G.  Nye,  Mayor  of  Minneapolis,  to  which  a  fit- 
ting response  was  made  by  President  Raths.  A  short  time  was 
devoted  to  routine  formalities,  such  as  roll  call,  reports  of 
officers,  committees,  etc.  Adjournment  was  taken  at  11.30 
a.m.  until  afternoon.  The  Laemmle  Film  Service  of  Minne- 
apolis exhibited  some  of  the  latest  Uunversal  releases  in  one 
of  the  parlors  between  the  morning  and  afternoon  sessions. 

At  the  afternoon  session  new  and  unfinished  business  was 
taken  up  for  a  short  period,  after  which  there  was  held  a  recep- 
tion and  entertainment  for  the  lady  guests  in  the  Empire  parlor. 
The  Laemmle  Film  Service  again  entertained  with  their  best 
releases  at  this  function.  The  evening  was  spent  by  the  out-of- 
town  delegates  in  visiting  the  local  photoplay  theaters  as  guests 
of  the  local  exhibitors. 

The  election  of  officers  took  place  at  the  Wednesday  afternoon 
session,  with  results  as  follows :  President,  Otto  N.  Raths, 
manager  of  the  Gaiety  Theater,  St.  Paul,  elected  by  acclama- 
tion; vice-president,  L.  Robbins,  Winona;  secretary,  G.  T. 
Sharp,  Minneapolis;  treasurer,  H.  A.  Sherman;  national  vice- 
president,  Thomas  Furniss,  Brunswick  Amusement  Company, 
Duluth ;  sergeant-at-arms,  F.  W.  Boll,  Northfield. 

Executive  Committee:  C.  E.  Van  Duzee,  chairman;  John 
Christopherson,  Benson;  John  Wentworth,  Spring  Valley,  and 
H.  A.  McLean,  Virginia. 

Delegates  to  National  Convention  at  New  York:  E.  A.  Nelson, 
Duluth ;  S.  L.  Rothapfel  and  D.  W.  Chamberlain,  of  Minneapolis. 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  Wednesday  session  a  banquet  took 
place  at  the  hotel  under  the  auspices  of  the  league.  Two  hun- 
dred guests  were  present  and  a  very  successful  and  enjoyable 
function  it  was. 

Prominent  among  the  speakers  of  the  evening  were  Rep. 
Nolan,  representing  Mayor  Herbert  B.  Keller,  of  St.  Paul,  who 
stated  that  as  long  as  he  was  in  the  Senate  the  exhibitors  need 
not  fear  anything  from  his  vote.  Otto  N.  Raths,  retiring  and 
also  the  new  president  of  the  league,  thanked  all  the  members 
for  their  co-operation,  as  did  Thos.  Furniss,  national  vice- 
president  of  the  league.  Mr.  Hall,  of  Minneapolis,  represented 
Mayor  Hyde  and  spoke  of  the  numerous  advantages  afforded  by 
moving  pictures,  and  told  the  exhibitors  they  were  undertaking 
a  work  of  art.    Last,  but  not  least,  was  the  Rev.  G.  L.  Morrill. 

Among  the  most  important  things  discussed  during  the  con- 
vention was  the  poster  charges,  introduced  by  Thos.  Furniss, 
of  Duluth.  urging  exhibitors  to  pay  30  cents  for  three-sheets 
and  60  cents  for  six-sheets,  and  that  it  was  optional  with  ihe 
exchange  to  give  whatever  credit  they  deemed  advisable.  It 
was  also  urged  to  do  away  with  State  Right  pictures  entirely, 
as  well  as  age  limit  of  films.  President  Raths  also  urged  uni- 
form rental  rates  on  films.  Mr.  Dempsey,  manager  of  the 
Grand  Theater,  Minneapolis,  spoke  on  house  management 
and  how  to  handle  large  audiences  which  are  waiting  in  the 
lobby. 

One  of  the  interesting  speakers  during  this  convention  was 
Mrs.  Kinney,  representing  the  Woman's  Welfare  League. 
Amongst  other  things,  Mrs.  Kinney  remarked  that  the  most 
pleasant  hours  she  ever  spent  were  in  the  motion  picture  theaters. 
She  denied  the  rumor'  that  the  Woman's  Welfare  League  were 
not  in  favor  of  moving  pictures;  on  the  contrary,  they  do  want 
them.  Mrs.  Kinney  urged  the  exhibitors  not  to  cut  prices,  but 
that  the  Woman's  Welfare  League  will  work  harmoniously  with 
the  Exhibitors'  League  at  all  times.    All  they  ask  is  co-operation. 

Amongst  those  present  were :  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  B.  Green, 
Minneapolis;  Harry  Blaising,  Minneapolis;  M.  L.  Cohen,  Min- 
neapolis; Marker  &  Banks,  Diamond  Theater.  Minneapolis; 
R.  E.  Parker,  Sunbeam  Theater,  Duluth;  A.  A.  Thomas,  Metro- 
politan, Owatonna ;  E.  A.  Nelson,  Star  Theater,  Duluth ;  C.  E. 


Van  Duzee,  T.  C.  Amusement  Co.,  Minneapolis ;  H.  A.  Sherman, 
Minneapolis ;  Tonn  &  Gates,  Minneapolis ;  H.  E.  Baumgartner, 
Osage,  la. ;  B.  F.  Judell,  Minneapolis ;  F.  W.  Boll,  Gem  Theater, 
Northfield;  K  C  Beaton,  Seattle,  Wash.;  W.  D.  Thomas,  Min- 
neapolis; Geo.  Ring,  Seattle,  Wash.;  Jake  Barnett,  Hippodrome, 
St.  Paul ;  A  L.  Webster,  Fargo,  N.  D. ;  M.  Kaufmann,  Min- 
neapolis; L.  E.  Turner,  Linton,  N.  D. ;  Mrs.  M.  E.  Brinkman, 
Bemidji,  Minn.;  John  Christopherson,  Benson,  Minn.;  Otto  N. 
Raths,  Gaiety,  St.  Paul ;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R,  A.  McLean,  Grand 
and  Royal,  Virginia;  Thos.  Furniss,  Brunswick  Amusement  Co., 
Duluth;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  A.  Copolovitch  and  daughter,  St.  Paul; 
Rev.  G.  L.  Morrill,  Minneapolis;  J.  L.  Beck,  Faribault;  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  J.  A.  Miller  and  son,  Clement,  Hibbing;  W.  A.  Glazier, 
Faribault;  Walter  Murphy,  Two  Harbors;  Hiram  Harris,  Min- 
neapolis; Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  V.  Bryson,  Minneapolis;  R.  E.  Moore, 
People's  Theater,  Duluth ;  Mrs.  C.  E.  Hawley,  Minneapolis ;  A. 
Lundy,  Grandview,  Minneapolis;  Chas.  Nicholas,  Rushford, 
Minn. ;  Julius  Bernheim,  Minneapolis ;  M.  L.  Smith,  Park  Thea- 
ter, Minneapolis;  I.  Rosenbloom,  Moon  Theater,  Minneapolis; 
R.  L.  Frank,  Minneapolis;  H.  S.  Levine,  Solax  Co.,  New  York; 
O.  C.  Stelzene,  Star  Theater,  Minneapolis;  Ed.  J.  McErlane, 
Minneapolis;  Dan  O'Brien,  Park  Theater,  St.  Paul;  Gordon 
Witty  and  fiancee,  Minneapolis;  Annie  Musing,  Minneapolis; 
Lou  Larson,  Minneapolis ;  Abe  Goldman,  Minneapolis ;  B. 
Struckman,  Jersey  City,  N.  J.;  A.  B.  Robbins,  Winona,  Minnl; 
J.  W.  Engel,  Plymouth  Theater,  Minneapolis ;  Mrs.  S.  Harris, 
Minneapolis;  J.  L.  O'Brien,  St.  Paul;  W.  A.  Scott,  Red  Wing; 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fred  S.  Meyer,  Minneapolis;  F.  E.  Noyes,  Cor- 
nell, Wis. ;  C.  T.  Smithers,  Idle  Hour  Circuit,  Aberdeen,  S.  D. ; 
Ching  We  Ling,  Peking,  China;  A.  Kimball,  Minneapolis;  E.  A. 
Westcott,  Minneapolis ;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hurbster,  Minneapolis ; 
Mr.  Gifts,  Minneapolis;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wm.  Nevecker,  Minne- 
apolis ;  Al.  Steffes  and  wife,  Minneapolis ;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  T. 
Sharp,  Minneapolis;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  A  Sherman,  Minneapolis, 
and  many  others. 

The  Universal  releases  exhibited  by  the  Laemmle  Film  Service 
of  Minneapolis  were :  "Beauty  and  the  Beast,"  "Pelleas  and 
Melisande,"  "Grand  Old  Flag,"  "When  Light  Came  Back,"  "The 
King  Can  Do  No  Wrong,"  "The  Call  of  the  Angelus,"  "Why," 
"Higher  Law,"  "Beetled,"  "Comedian's  Mask,"  and  Pictures 
Made  in  Minneapolis.  F.  S.  Meyer. 


NEW  JERSEY  STATE  CONVENTION  NOTICE. 

The  second  annual  convention  of  the  New  Jersey  State  Branch 
of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  America  will  be 
held  at  Achtelstetter's  Hall,  844  Broad  Street,  Newark,  N.  J., 
on  Monday,  June  30th,  at  10  a.m.  sharp. 

Mr.  M.  A.  Neff,  national  president ;  Mr.  S.  H.  Trigger,  presi- 
dent of  the  New  York  State  League,  and  many  prominent  officials 
and  representatives  of  the  clergy  and  press  will  be  present 
State  officers  for  the  ensuing  year  will  be  elected,  as  will  be 
delegates  and  alternates  for  the  National  Convention,  which  will 
be  held  at  the  Grand  Central  Palace,  Lexington  Avenue  and 
47th  Street,  New  York  City,  from  July  7th  to  12th  next.  Other 
very  important  business  will  be  enacted,  including  the  campaign 
of  action  for  the  next  session  of  the  legislature,  which  will  ma- 
terially benefit  your  business. 

The  league  will  provide  a  splendid  luncheon  and  even-thing  will 
be  done  for  the  comfort  and  entertainment  of  visiting  exhibitors. 
All  New  Jersey  exhibitors  are  invited  to  attend  whether  mem- 
bers of  the  league  or  not,  and  they  are  requested  to  bring  their 
neighboring  exhibitors  and  help  this  convention  to  be  a  great 
success  by  their  presence.  Address  all  communications  to  Mr. 
Paul  Kirschner,  Bijou  Theater,  Union  Hill,  N.  J. 

LOUIS  F.  BLUMENTHAL,  Nat'l  Vice-Pres., 
30  Union  Square,  New  York. 


NATIONAL  CONVENTION  DATE. 

President  Neff  desires  to  notify  all  delegates  to  the  Na- 
tional Convention  of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League 
that  the  first  meeting  of  the  convention  will  be  held  at  Grand 
Central  Palace,  New  York  City,  on  Tuesday,  July  8,  at  10 
o'clock  in  the  morning. 

This  date  and  time  should  not  be  confused  with  the  open- 
ing of  the  exposition,  which  takes  place  on  Monday,  July  7. 


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EXPOSITION   NOTES   WORTH   READING. 

There  have  been  six  large  sight-seeing  cars  engaged  for 
the  entire  week  of  the  Exposition.  These  cars  have  been 
hired  for  the  especial  benefit  of  visiting  exhibitors  and  are 
donated  for  that  purpose  by  such  enterprising  people  as  the 
Rudolph  Wurlitzer  Co.,  Universal  Film  Co.,  Itala  Film  Co., 
Warner's  Features,  Hugo  Reisinger  and  Charles  F.  Abrams. 

*  *     * 

Kinemacolor  will  be  well  to  the  front  in  the  forthcoming 
exposition  at  Grand  Central  Palace,  as  it  was  at  the  recent 
London  Exposition.  On  the  principle  that  "Seeing  is 
believing"  and  for  the  purpose  of  "showing"  the  numerous 
exhibitors  "from  Missouri"  who  will  attend  the  Convention, 
there  will  be  a  special  Kinemacolor  Theater  on  the  mezza- 
nine floor,  near  the  main  entrance,  where  all  the  latest  dra- 
matic, comic,  scenic,  fashion  and  topical  productions  in  the 
natural  color  process  will  be  exhibited  upon  the  screen.  On 
the  center  aisle  of  the  main  floor,  the  Kinemacolor  booth  will 
display  all  the  latest  mechanical  improvements,  including  the 
new  35  ampere  projector,  the  color  corrector  and  the  light 
filters.  At  the  recent  Travel  Show  the  Kinemacolor  pic- 
tures were  the  popular  feature,  so  before  an  audience  of 
experts  they  should  go  even  better. 

*  *     * 

Friday,  afternoon,  July  nth,  has  been  set  aside  by  the 
Vitagraph  Company  of  America  for  the  reception  of  guests 
of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League,  who  wish  to  visit 
the  studios  and  inspect  its  plant,  where  a  cordial  welcome 
will  be  extended.  The  banquet  and  reception  of  the  Motion 
Picture  Exhibitors'  League  will  probably  be  held  at  the 
Brighton  Beach  Hotel,  Brighton  Beach,  in  the  evening. 
After  visiting  the  Vitagraph  studios,  the  visitors  can  take 
the  Brighton  Beach  Railroad  at  the  Elm  Avenue  station,  at 
any  time,  reaching  the  Brighton  Beach  Hotel  in  ample  time 
for  the  evening's  festivities. 

*  *     * 

On  Wednesday  evening,  July  9,  the  Vitagraph  players  will 
visit  the  Exposition  Building,  Grand  Central  Palace,  where 
they  will  be  pleased  to  meet  all  their  friends  and  greet  those 
who  may  wish  to  know  them  personally.  That  evening 
has  been  appointed  for  the  Vitagraph  players,  so  that  those 
desiring  a  personal  introduction  may  be  assured  of  their 
presence,  at  the   Exposition   Building. 

*  *     * 

Mr.  S.  M.  Spedon,  Publicity  and  Advertising  Manager  of 
the  Vitagraph  Company  of  America,  for  a  long  time  one  of 
the  oldest  in  point  of  service  and  best  known  publicity  men 
in  the  moving  picture  business,  has  been  appointed  Hon- 
orary Chairman  of  the  Publicity  Committee  of  the  First 
International  Exposition  of  the  Motion  Picture  Art,  which 
will  be  held  in  Grand  Central  Palace,  New  York  City,  July  7 
to  July  13.  Mr.  Spedon's  post  is  intended  to  convey  an  ap- 
preciation of  the  work  he  has  done  for  the  moving  picture 
business  in  general. 

*  *     * 

Motion  picture  players  will  be  there  in  numbers  to  give 
the  fans,  who  so  loyally  watch  their  endeavors  on  the 
screen,  an   opportunity   of  meeting   them. 

*  *     * 

The  exhibits  on  the  main  floor  are  to  be  divided  in  six 
main   sections,  which  will   be  classified  as  follows: 

1.  Development  of  the  Cinematograph  industry  from  its 
inception  to  the  present  day. 

2.  Exhibition  of  American  and  foreign  moving  picture 
cameras   and  projection   machines. 

3-     Representation  of  latest  and  notable   film  productions. 

4.  Theater  equipment  and  electric  lighting  appliances, 
novelties,  etc. 

S-  Mechanical  orchestral  organs,  pianos,  and  other  musi- 
cal  attractions   in   vogue   for  moving  picture   theaters. 

6.     Miscellaneous  allied  industries. 

To  make  this  exposition  of  more  interest  to  the  general 
public  one  large  manufacturer  has  arranged  to  exhibit  a 
duplicate  of  everything  pertaining  to  Cinematography  from 
the  start  of  the  picture  to  its  projection  on  the  screen. 
Among  other  interesting  features  will  be  a  collection  of 
old  magic  lanterns  and  early  cinematograph  apparatuses  and 
accessories. 

*  *     * 

Associated  in  an  advisory  capacity  to  the  general  com- 
mittee of  directors  is  Mr.  R.  G.  Holloman,  president  of  the 
Eden  Musee.  Mr.  Holloman  has  had  25  years'  experience 
in  exposition  work,  and  his  personal  interest  in  this  exposi- 
tion has  peant  a  great  deal.  He  was  among  the  first  to  see 
the  remarkable  possibilities  of  the  motion  picture  both  as 
an  amusement  and  educational  feature. 


As  an  attraction  for  the  public  and  of  interest  to  directors 
there  will  be  held  what  is  to  be  termed  a  "Would-be  Actors' 
Competition,"  the  winners  of  which  will  be  awarded  a  cash 
prize  and  an  engagement  with  one  of  the  best  known  film 
companies  in  the  country.  The  idea  of  the  competition  is 
to  discover  unknown  talent.  Any  man,  woman,  girl,  or  boy 
who  wishes  to  may  compete.  Competent  judges  will  be  on 
hand  every  afternoon  and  evening.  Those  wishing  to  take 
part  may  register  their  names  with  Frank  E.  Samuels,  the 
secietary  of  the  Exposition  Committee,  whose  offices  are 
in  the  German  Bank  Building,  4th  Avenue  and  14th  Street, 
New  York  City.  The  scenario  to  be  used  is  as  follows:  A 
man  or  a  woman  enters  a  room  in  a  state  of  deep  despair, 
sits  at  a  table,  then  hearing  a  knock  at  the  door  rises  to  re- 
ceive a  letter.  The  letter  is  opened  and  is  found  to  announce 
the  fact  that  he  or  she  has  inherited  $50,000  from  an  un- 
expected source,  which  naturally  causes  the  actor  to  show 
surprise,  joy,  and  excitement.  The  envelope,  which  has 
been  lying  face  downward  on  the  table,  is  then  turned  over 
and  found  to  be  addressed  to  an  entirely  different  person. 
Then  the  funny  side  is  noted  and  the  scene  ends  with  a 
hearty  laugh. 

*     *     * 

Another  novelty  to  be  presented  for  the  first  time  in  this 
country  will  be  the  "Life  Target."  This  will  probably  prove 
to  be  the  novelty  sensation  of  the  century. 


NEW  YORK  STATE  CONVENTION  JULY  5. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  of  the  annual  convention  of  the 
New  York  Branch  of  the  M.  P.  E.  L  of  A.  at  the  Hotel 
Imperial,  New  York,  Saturday,  July  5,  at  10  a.m.  Please 
take  notice  that  this  item  refers  to  the  State  convention  and 
not  the  National,  which  opens  on  the  7th. 

New  York  State  exhibitors  who  intend  to  be  at  the  expo- 
sition and  national  convention  should  make  plans  to  be  in 
New  York  the  Saturday  before  the  opening  in  order  to  be 
present  at  their  State  convention  and  participate  in  the. 
election  of  officers,  which  will  take  place  at  that  time. 


GEORGIA  EXHIBITORS  TO  ORGANIZE. 
At  the  Kimball  Hotel  in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  June  30,  1913. 
Alex  Wall,  a  picture  theater  owner  of  Alabama  and  also 
National  Vice-President  of  the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors' 
League  of  America,  acting  under  instructions  from  President 
M.  A.  Neff,  of  the  National  body,  will  organize  the  Georgia 
exhibitors  at  the  Kimball  House  Hotel  in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  on 
June  30,  1913.  Mr.  Wall  is  an  enthusiastic  believer  in  this 
organization  and  is  leaving  his  business  to  go  into  Georgia  to 
organize  the  exhibitors  from  all  over  that  State,  in  time  for 
them  to  be  represented  at  the  big  New  York  Exposition  of 
the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of  America,  which 
takes  place  in  New  York,  July  7-12  inclusive.  Mr.  Wall  is  a 
native  Georgian  and  says  that  he  believes  in  Alabama  and 
loves  her  people,  but  he  cannot  see  Georgia  left  behind  in  the 
big  doings  in  New  York.  Recently  Mr.  Wall  persuaded  the 
Birmingham  exhibitors  to  cut  down  to  a  two-reel  basis,  which 
every  exhibitor  in  that  city  admits  has  increased  his  busi- 
ness twenty-five  per  cent.  Mr.  Wall  is  a  real  live  hustler  and 
the  Georgia  boys  should  be  glad  to  welcome  him  home  to 
get  them  together.  The  date  is  June  30th  and  at  the  Kimball 
Hotel,  Atlanta,  Ga.  Mr.  Wall's  address  until  then  is  Room 
234,  Clark  Building,  Birmingham,  Ala. 


•LORIMER  JOHNSTON  JOINS  AMERICAN. 

Lorimer  Johnston,  the  new  director  of  the  first  company, 
has  arrived  in  California  and  will  immediately  assume 
charge  of  the  department.  Mr.  Johnston  was  for  six  years 
in  the  American  diplomatic  service  at  various  foreign  ports. 
Later  he  engaged  in  regular  theatrical  work,  and  had  direc- 
tion of  some  very  big  productions.  A  year  and  a  half  ago  he 
decided  that  the  moving  picture  field  was  very  promising. 
In  order  to  acquaint  himself  with  the  best  methods  he  went 
abroad  and  studied  with  the  Pathe  Freres  in  Paris,  the  Itala 
at  Rome  and  later  with  the  Great  Northern  in  Copenhagen. 
He  returned  to  this  country  and  for  nine  months  was  with 
Selig  in  Chicago.  He  went  West  four  weeks  ago.  Mr.  John- 
ston enjoys  an  excellent  reputation  as  producer  and  with  the 
splendid  opportunities  that  Santa  Barbara  affords,  it  is  safe 
to  say  that  the  American  productions  will  be  placed  on  the 
top  notch. 


TROUBLE  IN  THE  "INFANTRY." 
Little  Helen  Armstrong  came  near  going  on  a  strike 
Saturday  when  she  figured  in  a  flood  scene.  Helen  was  pic- 
tured as  a  child  in  distress,  but  later  rescued.  When  she  got 
home  that  night  the  four-year-old  informed  Mrs.  Armstrong: 
"I  refuse  to  work  any  more  if  I've  got  to  get  wet." 


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BRITISH  COLUMBIA  CENSORSHIP. 
Rules  and  Regulations  Adopted  by  the  Provincial  Official 
Board  of  Censors. 
Exhibitors  of  the  Province  of  British  Columbia,  Canada, 
have  been  having  their  own  time  with  the  question  of  cen- 
sorship of  motion  picture  films.  A  censorship  law  was  passed 
at  a  recent  session  of  the  Provincial  Assembly  and  the  cen- 
sors are  now  on  the  job.  An  elaborate  set  of  rules  and  regu- 
lations for  the  operation  of  picture  theaters,  and  the  conduct 
of  the  censorship,  have  been  compiled  and  printed.  As  an 
example  of  the  lengths  to  which  official  censors  will  go 
when  clothed  with  a  little  temporary  authority,  the  Moving 
Picture  World  publishes  that  part  of  the  rules  and  regular 
tions  governing  the  censorship: 

24.  The  Censor,  as  defined  by  and  appointed  under  the  provisions  of 
said  chapter  72  shall  inspect  all  films  and  picture-slides  which  it  is  proposed 
to  use  and  exhibit  in  British  Columbia  in  connection  with  any  kinematograph, 
moving-picture  machine,  or  other  similar  apparatus,  and  shall  examine  and 
pass  upon  the  fitness  for  public  exhibition  of  all  such  films  and  slides.  Every 
film  exchange,  as  defined  under  these  Regulations,  shall  submit  to  the  Censor 
for  inspection  all  films  and  slides  passing  through  their  hands  in  the  ordi- 
nary prosecution  of  the  business  of  such  film  exchange. 

Every  moving-picture  film  exhibited  to  the  public  shall  bear  upon  it  a 
stamp  to  be#  affixed  by  the  Censor  signifying  that  such  film  has  been  ap- 
proved by  him,  and  every  picture-slide  so  exhibited  shall  be  accompanied  by 
a  certificate  signed  by_  the  Censor  signifying  that  the  same  has  been  approved 
by  him.  Eyery^  moving-picture  film  and  every  slide  which  is  so  exhibited 
without  having  first  received  the  approval  of  the  Censor,  signified  as  afore- 
said, shall  be  liable  to  seizure  by  any  officer  required  to  enforce  the  Regu- 
lations passed  under  said  chapter  72  as  aforesaid;  and  every  film  and  slide 
so  seized  shall  be  forfeited  to  the  Crown,  and  shall  be  disposed  of  as  di- 
rected by  the  Attorney-General. 

The  Censor  shall  not  inspect  any  film  submitted  by  any  film  exchange,  or 
hy  any  person,  until  the  fees  applying  to  such  inspection,  as  provided  by 
these  Regulations,  have  been  paid.  All  such  fees  shall  be  paid  with  currency 
or  marked  cheque. 

25.  Any  exhibitor  or  lessor  of  moving-picture  films,  or  any  person  nomi- 
nated by  such  exhibitor  or  lessor,  may  be  present  during  the  inspection  of 
films  by  the  Censor  on  payment  of  a  fee  of  50  cents  for  each  attendance  of 
such  exhibitor  or  lessor  or  person  nominated  by  either. 

26.  The  Censor  shall  have  power  tot  approve  any  moving-picture  film  from 
which  all  portions  objectionable  to  him  have  been  removed  by  the  person 
submitting  such  film  for  inspection. 

27.  All  black  and  white  moving-picture  films  and  stationary  picture-slides 
shall  be  inspected  by  the  Censor  at  the  demonstration  office  maintained  by 
the  Government  for  the  inspection  thereof;  and  all  such  films  and  slides 
shall  be  taken  to  such  office  and  removed  therefrom  by  the  person  submit- 
ting the  same  for  inspection.  While  such  films  or  slides  are  at  the  office  or 
demonstration-room  of  the  Government  they  are  at  the  risk  of  the  person 
submitting  them  for  inspection,  such  lisk  covering  damage  or  loss  by  fire  or 
any  other  cause. 

28.  All  moving-picture  films,  whether  black  and  white  or  other  variety, 
which  for  any  reason  it  is  impossible  for  the  Censor  to  inspect  at  the  Gov- 
ernment demonstration  office,  shall  be  inspected  at  the  convenience  of  the 
Censor  at  such  other  place  in  the  City  of  Vancouver  as  shall  be  provided,  at 
the  direction  of  the  Censor,  by  the  person  submitting  such  films  for  inspec- 
tion; and  all  costs  incidental  to  such  inspection  shall  be  borne  by  the  per- 
son submitting  such  films. 

29.  No  moving-picture  film  which  carries  anywhere  in  its  length  any  sec- 
tion which  is  designed  to  project  on  a  screen  a  statement  that  such  film  has 
been  inspected  or  approved  by  any  board  of  censors  outside  the  Province  of 
British  Columbia  shall  be  exhibited  to  the  public  in  said  Province.  All 
leaders  purporting  to  signify  censorship  by  authorities  outside  said  Province 
must  be  removed  from  any  film  carrying  same  before  such  film  may  be  used 
in  British  Columbia. 

30.  No  kinematograph,  moving-picture  machine,  or  other  similar  apparatus 
shall,  for  the  purpose  of  public  entertainment,  be  used  in  any  theater,  hall. 


or  other  building  concurrently  or  in  connection  with  the  use  of  phonographic 
or  talking-machine  records,  or  any  similar  contrivance  for  the  reproduction  01 
sound,  unless  with  the  approval  of  the  Censor  in  writing  first  obtained. 

31.  All  film  exchanges  shall,  on  demand  of  the  Censor,  and  for  the  pur- 
poses  of  carrying  out  the  provisions  of  said  chapter  72  and  these  Regulation's, 
furnish  the  Censor  with  the  names  and  addresses  of  all  persons  companies, 
or  association  in  British  Columbit  to  whom  they  lease  or  rent  films. 

32.  A  copy  of  all  Regulations  passed  pursuant  to  said  chapter  72  shall  be 
posted  up  in  a  conspicuous  position  in  the  operating  room  or  cabinet  of 
every  theater,  hall,  or  building  within  British  Columbia  where  kinemato- 
graph or  moving  pictures  are  displayed  to  the  public. 

33.  The  fees  to  be  paid  to  the  Censor  upon  inspection  of  moving-picture 
films  and  stationary  picture-slides  shall  be  as  follows: 

><j.)  For  each  reel  of  film  imported,  purchased,  or  leased  by  any  person, 
firm,  or  corporation,  being  the  owner  or  lessee  of  a  moving-picture 
theater  or  hall  within  the  Province,  and  having  been  continuously  en. 
gaged  in  the  business  of  exhibiting  moving  pictures  therein  for  the 
period  of  at  least  thirty  days  immediately  preceding  such  inspection, 
for  the  sole  use  of  and  submitted  for  inspection  by  such  person,  firm 
or  corporation,  the  sum  of  $1  for  the  first  1,100  feet  of  such  film,  and 
the  sum  of  10  cents  for  each  additional  100  feet  or  fraction  thereof  of 
film  contained  on  such  reel; 
(a.)  For  each  reel  of  film  imported,  purchased,  or  leased  by  any  person, 
having  within  the  Province  an  office  or  offices  at  all  times  regularly 
engaged  in  the  renting  or  leasing  of  moving-picture  films  to  ex- 
hibitors, the  sum  of  $1  for  the  first  1,100  feet  of  such  film,  and  the 
su.n  of  10  cents  for  each  additional  100  feet  or  fraction  thereof  of 
film  contained  on  such   reel: 

(c.)  For  each  reel  of  film  not  herein  otherwise  provided  for,  the  sum  of 
$2  for  the  first  1,100  feet  of  such  film,  and  the  sum  of  20  cents  for 
each  additional  100  feet  or  fraction  thereof  of  film  contained  on 
such  reel:  .  .  , 

Provided  that  in  case  any  such  reel  of  film  is  designed  to  be  used 
concurrently  or  in  connection  with  the  use  of  phonographic  or  talk- 
ing-machine records,  or  any  similar  contrivance  for  the  reproduction 
of  sound,  an  additional  fee  of  50  per  cent,  of  the  amount  of  the 
regular  fee  for  such  film  shall  be  payable: 

(d.)  For  each  set  of  slides  relating  to  one  subject  or  contained  in  one 
series  the  sum  of  $2.50  for  the  first  fifty  of  such  slides,  and  the  sum 
of  2  cents  for  each  additional  slide  contained  in  such  set: 

(e.)  For  each  rlide  not  herein  otherwise  provided  for,  the  sum  of  5  cents. 


NEW  STUDIO  FOR  AMERICAN  FILM  COMPANY. 

The  building  and  grounds  of  the  new  Mission  Street  studio 
have  now  taken  such  form  that  one  can  easily  comprehend 
what  the  completed  whole  will  be  like.  The  last  important 
piece  of  work  to  be  started  is  the  ornament  wall  on  Mission 
Street.  This  is  now  well  up  and  is  of  brick  to  be  a  height 
of  eight  feet.  It  will  later  be  given  a  coating  of  cement,  the 
same  as  the  group  of  buildings.  In  the  main  the  following 
buildings  are  completed:  administration,  development  plant, 
garage,  players  dressing  room  and  quarters,  property  build- 
ing and  carpenter  shop.  The  foundation  is  laid  for  the  glass 
studio.  The  Mission  style  has  been  carried  forward  nicely 
and  the  entire  plant  has  a  most  substantial  appearance,  to 
which  has  been  added  much  that  is  attractive. 

There  will  be  a  handsome  roadway  leading  through  a  very 
ornamental  arch  gate.  As  soon  as  possible  the  grounds  will 
be  landscaped.  There  will  be  gardens,  walks  and  arbors,  the 
scheme  being  to  use  these  bits  occasionally  in  moving  pic- 
ture stories.  From  some  points  it  will  be  possible  to  take 
unusual  close-up  stuff,  with  Mission  towers  and  similar  ef- 
fects and  real  mountains  in  the  background. 


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Birdseye   View    of  American   Film    Mfg.    Co.'s   New   Studio  and  Grounds  at  Santa  Barbara,  Cal. 


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THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


"The  Death  Knell"  (Itala) 

By  George  Blaisdell. 

THERE  are  a  couple  of  surprises  in  this  fine  two-reel 
picture.  It  is  probable  that  if  the  first  one  be  a  pleas- 
ant one  the  second  will  not  be.  Opinions  will  divide 
a  great  deal,  perhaps,  according  to  the  youth  or  the  age  of 
the  observer.  It  is  natural  for  a  youth  to  sympathize  with 
the  loves  and  aspirations  of  youth;  from  the  elder  the  sym- 
pathy is  likely  to  be  extended  to  the  more  mature  man,  even 
though  he  have  not  the  robustness  and  probable  longevity 
of  the  "sturdy  oak."  The  story  is  of  an  invalid  informed  by 
his  doctor  that  his  life  will  not  be  long.  He  has  a  nephew, 
Robert,  who  departs  on  a  trip  to  the  colonies.  Before  going 
away  the  young  man  says  good-bye  to  his  friends,  among 
them  Bice  Moreno,  whom  he  has  met  casually,  but  between 
whom  there  has  been  no  declaration  of  love,  although  the 
mutual  attraction   is  evident. 

Through  the  failure  of  a  bank  the  Moreno  Castle  is  to  be 
sold.  Mr.  Sarni,  the  invalid,  buys  it,  telling  the  Morenos 
they  may  remain  in  the  castle  as  long  as  they  like.  As  father 
and  daughter  finally  depart,  Sarni  tells  the  daughter  his  life 
is  setting  and  that  she  may  remain  in  the  house  if  she  wishes. 
Miss  Moreno  becomes  Mrs.  Sarni.     Robert  returns  from  the 


colonies.  The  meeting  between  the  nephew  and  the  wife  is  a 
painful  one.  It  is  overseen  by  Sarni,  who  is  much  affected. 
The  doctor  tells  Sarni  his  end  is  near.  The  latter  goes  to  his 
nephew  and  in  the  presence  of  his  wife  asks  him  to  go  away 
for  a  year;  that  on  his  return  Bice  will  be  free.  He  tells 
them  that  unwittingly  he  has  come  between  them.  Farewells 
are  said. 

A  year  later  Sarni  is  in  excellent  health.  He  asks  his  wife 
if  she  regrets  his  not  being  dead,  and  she  tells  him  that  she 
thanks  heaven  for  it  every  moment.  Robert  returns.  His 
uncle  tells  him  he  is  young,  offers  him  a  fortune.  "Forget," 
he  adds.  The  nephew  writes  a  note  to  Mrs.  Sarni  asking  her 
to  meet  him  that  night.  The  husband  intercepts  it  long 
enough  to  read  it  and  forwards  it.  Then  he  leaves  ostensibly 
for  an  automobile  trip,  but  goes  only  beyond  the  gates.  He 
follows  his  nephew  into  the  house.  The  wife  tells  the 
nephew:  "I  love  you  indeed,  but  I  will  never  betray  that 
man."  The  husband  bursts  into  the  room.  The  shock  has 
been  too  great.     He  dies,  blessing  them  both. 

Here  are  great  opportunities  for  acting.  One  of  the  first 
of  these  is  where  the  uncle  tells  the  young  man  to  go  away 
for  a  year.  It  is  painfully  dramatic.  Later,  when  the  hus- 
band is  restored  to  health  and  the  wife  apparently  is  now  in 
Jove  with  him,  and  him  solely,  somehow  you  feel  that  this 
is  the  right  solution  of  the  problem.  The  expected  but  yet 
.unwelcome  appearance  of  the  nephew  changes  a  situation 
that  evidently  was  satisfactory  to  two.  The  uncle  extends 
to  the  younger  man  a  hearty  greeting.  It  is  not  reciprocated. 
Robert's  feelings  are  plainly  reflected  in  his  countenance. 
As  much  as  he  loved  his  uncle,  mentally  he  had  buried  him 
and  had  come  back  to  claim  a  bride,  ndt  felicitations  which 
the  circumstances  so  plainly  made  impossible.  Sympathy 
goes  to  the  young  man,  but  it  is  overborne  by  the  gratifica- 
tion of  a  good  life  preserved.  The  wife?  That's  another 
angle.    Settle  that  for  yourself. 

A  great  castle  forms  the  background  for  many  of  the 
scenes.  The  photography  is  excellent;  so  likewise  is  the 
judgment  displayed  in  the  tinting.  "The  Death  Knell"  is  a 
picture  worth  seeing. 


O.  F.  DOUD  JOINS  GEORGE  KLEINE. 

Omar  F.  Doud,  for  the  past  two  years  connected  in  various 
capacities  with  the  American  Film  Manufacturing  Company, 
severed  connections  with  that  company  last  week  to  assume 
new  duties  as  publicity  manager  for  George  Kleine. 

Mr.  Doud  is  well  known  to  the  trade.  While  in  the  Ameri- 
can's employ  he  had  charge  of  publicity,  was  editor-in-chief 
of  the  scenario  department  and  handled  much  other  work. 
He  is  an  ex-newspaper  man   and   brings   a  splendid   reputa- 


Omar  F.  Doud. 

tion  and  experience  to  George  Kleine.  Mr.  Doud  was  a  re- 
porter on  the  Chicago  Inter-Ocean,  Kansas  City  Star  and 
St.  Louis  Republic,  and  also  edited  several  trade  papers.  In 
addition  to  representing  Eastern  papers  in  Chicago,  in  an 
advertising  way,  Mr.  Doud  opened  and  had  charge  of  the 
Sherman  &  Bryan  Advertising  Agency,  was  a  copywriter  for 
that  concern,  and  was  a  constant  and  well-known  contributor 
to  such  advertising  periodicals  as  Printer's  Ink  and  Judicious 
Advertising. 


FACTS  ABOUT  "QUO  VADIS?" 

George  Kleine,  proprietor  and  manager  of  the  sensational 
photo-drama  success,  "Quo  Vadis?",  made  by  the  famous 
Cines  Company  of  Italy,  positively  refuses  to  sell  State 
Rights  or  to  lease  his  property  to  anyone.  Mr.  Kleine  will 
have  fully  fifteen  companies  touring  the  United  States  and 
Canada  by  September  1st.  "Quo  Vadis?"  as  presented  by 
Mr.  Kleine  is  in  eight  reels,  divided  into  three  acts,  and  spe- 
cial music  has  been  arranged  and  composed  for  the  perform- 
ance. .The  Cines  production  comprehends  the  entire  Sienkie- 
wicz  story  and  is  full  of  wonderful  features.  Imitators  have 
entered  the  field,  but  none  has  approached  anything  like 
the  magnitude  and  detail  of  Mr.  Kleine's  production.  The 
only  opportunity  to  see  the  real  "Quo  Vadis?"  will  be  in  the 
big  theaters  of  the  country  when  announced  by  Mr.  Kleine 
himself. 

This  superb  photo-drama  production  still  continues  to  be 
the  vogue  in  New  York  City  and  Chicago  and  has  broken 
all  records  for  long  runs  in  Brooklyn,  Philadelphia  and  Balti- 
more. The  latter  cities  are  usually  regarded  as  one  week 
stands,  but  "Quo  Vadis?"  is  now  in  its  sixth  week  at  Phila- 
delphia, fifth  at  Baltimore  and  fourth  week  in  Brooklyn,  with 
a  prospect  of  continuing  for  several  weeks  longer  in  each 
place.  No  ordinary  attraction  could  accomplish  this  feat 
and  it  speaks  volumes  for  the  magnitude  and  quality  of  the 
entertainment.  It  is  easy  enough  to  crowd  small  picture 
houses,  but  when  it  comes  to  great  big  theaters  it  is  a  differ- 
ent matter.  No  dramatic  attraction  has  ever  been  able  to 
equal  the  record  of  "Quo  Vadis?"  thus  far  in  these  cities. 


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We  Moving  Picture  Educator 


THE  EDUCATIONAL  PICTURE. 
By  the  Rev.  E.  Boudinot  Stockton,  S.  T.  B. 


Likes  the  Catalogue. 

THE    Rev.    Edgar    Fay    Daugherty,    pastor   of    the    First 
Christian  Church,  Vincennes,  Ind.,  has  just  sent  us  a 
long    and    interesting    letter    concerning    his    winter's 
work  and  his  experiences  during  the  flood.     The  readers  of 
the    Picture    in    the    Pulpit    department    will    remember    Mr. 
Daugherty  for  the  good  work  he  did  with  religious  and  moral 
photoplays  last  summer  and  will  be  glad  to  hear  from  him 
again,  and  we  are  sorry  that  lack  of  space  compels  us  to  con- 
fine our  extracts  to  what  he  has  to  say  about  the  pictures, 
and  quote  only  the  first  and  last  paragraphs.     He  begins: 
Bless  your  old  heart,  your  cataloguing  in   The  World  has  been 
so   eminently  satisfactoryr   that   I  have    just   clipped   the   lists   and 
laid    them    aside,    neglecting    to    extend    felicitations.       Here    they 
"be."     Keep  on  with  your  system,  it  is  vitally  helpful  to  fellows 
like  me. 

He  adds  that  he  thinks  our  "synopses"  are  a  little  vague, 
but  as  we  have  explained  to  him,  the  notes  that  we  have  ap- 
pended to  some  of  the  titles  are  not  intended  to  be  synopses 
at  all,  but  merely  suggestions  as  to  certain  subjects  that  are 
illustrated  by  the  pictures  and  that  for  the  synopses  he  must 
look  at  the  volume  and  page  of  the  World  where  the  printed 
one  will  be  found. 

Wants  the  Parables. 

In  the  last  paragraph  of  his  letter  he  makes  the  same  sug- 
gestion and  request  that  is  made  by  the  Rev.  George  A. 
Miller,  pastor  of  the  First  Methodist  Church  of  San  Jose, 
Cal.,  in  a  letter  received  by  us  the  same  day  as  Mr.  Daugh- 
erty's.    Mr.  Miller  says: 

I  am  greatly  interested  in  the  New  Testament  subjects  and  I 
have  not  been  able  to  find  any  New  Testament  stuff  at  all,  though 
the  C.  G.  P.  C.  Old  Testament  stuff  has  been  excellent  The 
trouble  is  that  I  can't  pay  five  or  six  dollars  for  a  single  reel. 

Mr.  Daugherty  says: 

Dramatize  the  parables,  I  want  them.  The  picture  business  is 
too  pregnant  with  fine  possibilities  of  inspiration  and  uplift  to  be 
hopelessly  prostituted  to  the  production  of  thrills  whose  only  aim 
is  mercenary.  We  must  have  more  and  more  the  dramatization  of 
themes  with  an  ethical  punch. 

After  getting  these  letters  we  had  a  talk  with  Mr.  John 
Pelzer,  the  sales  manager  of  the  Edison  Company,  and  we 
are  very  glad  to  tell  not  only  Dr.  Miller  and  Mr.  Daugherty, 
but  also  every  other  person  interested  that  that  company  has 
already  produced  (although  not  released)  under  our  own 
supervision  two  of  the  parables,  namely,  "The  Good  Samari- 
tan" and  "The  Wise  and  Foolish  Virgins."  At  present  the 
company  does  not  deem  it  wise  to  make  these  pictures  the 
subjects  of  ordinary  release,  but  Mr.  Pelzer  says  that  if  any 
clergyman  or  educator  wishes  to  use  them  for  a  legitimate 
purpose  and  will  write  to  him  direct  at  Lakeside  Avenue, 
West  Orange,  N.  J.,  he  will  be  very  glad  to  arrange  to  sup- 
ply them  with  a  copy  through  the  educational  department 
of  the  General  Film  Company.  The  pictures  were  made 
primarily  for  projection  by  the  Edison  home  kinetoscope. 
As  to  the  price  of  rental  we  have  no  information  just  now. 

"Church  Vaudeville." 
In  another  part  of  his  letter  Dr.  Miller  says  that  our  lists 
are  "fine"  and  "all  right,"  and  that  "all  we  need  now  is  to 
get  the  exchanges  to  let  us  have  good  stuff  at  a  rate  that  we 
can  afford."    He  adds: 

I  am  not  using  pictures  much  on  Sunday,  my  church  folks  won't 
stand  for  anything  but  Bible  stuff  or  something  strictly  religious. 
I  do  run.  however,  a  good  show  every  Friday  night  of  the  year 
and  crowd  the  house  to  the  limits.  I  have  to  compete  with  the 
theaters  and  make  it  a  point  to  give  a  little  more  than  the 
theaters  do.  Admittance  is  free,  and  a  pastor's  box  in  the  vesti- 
bule receives  offerings  for  expenses.  So  far  these  contributions 
have  met  the  bills  for  three  reels  a  week.  I  also  have  current 
topic  talks,  music,  dramatic  readings  and  other  "Church  vaude- 
ville," which  is  proving  an  excellent  thing  for  the  church  and  for 
young  people,  especially. 

Dr.  Miller  is  the  only  one  we  know  of  at  present  who  runs 
a  mixed  entertainment  in  church  or  educational  work.  Won't 
some  of  the  others  who  have  tried  it  tell  us  of  their  experi- 
ence also? 


THE  STANDING  OF  THE  PICTURES  IN  AN  IMPORT- 
ANT AMERICAN  CENTER. 

ASBURY  PARK,  New  Jersey,  is  second  to  none  among 
the  places  considered  worthy  of  special  designation  as 
supplying  all  that  is  required  to  attract,  satisfy  and 
complete  the  needs  of  an  all-round  summer  resort.  If  to  a 
stranger — how  much  more  to  an  old  visitor — the  impression 
prevails  that  the  moving  picture  house  seems  to  be  the  most 
important  form  of  amusement,  the  question  naturally  arises, 
as  to  what  form  of  amusement  existed  before  the  coming  of 
the  moving  picture.  Truly,  here  in  Asbury  Park,  the  mov- 
ing picture  has  filled  an  "aching  void";  there  is  now  some- 
where to  go  and  something  to  see;  the  otherwise  monotonous 
promenading,  and  ice  cream  parlors  failed  to  satisfy  even 
those  who,  wishing  rest  and  relaxation,  tired  of  the  ennui 
and  listlessness  of  the  everlasting  donothingness  of  each  day 
and  evening. 

As  already  indicated,  the  picture  places  are  legion.  Out  of 
season  three  would  be  too  many;  during  the  season  all  may 
prove  but  few.  The  old  Essanay  contest  for  a  uniform  and1 
universal  name  has  certainly  had  no  effect  here,  for  there  is 
only  one  "Photoplay"  house,  so  called.  There  are  "Moving 
Pictures,"  "Motion  Pictures,"  "Open  Air  Theaters,"  "Bio- 
graph,"  "The  World  in  Motion,"  and  similar  names  without 
number.  Others  discarding  any  picture  designation  are 
"Criterion,"  "Orpheum"  and  "Lyric,"  using  a  second  or  sup- 
plemental notice  to  assure  people  that  "Moving  Pictures"  or 
"Photoplays"  always  of  "the  latest  and  best"  are  only  tobe 
found  therein.  May  the  time  come  when  a  designating  title 
equally  as  definite  as  Theater  will  dignify  all  moving  picture 
places,  instead  of  the  misleading  conglomeration,  never  more 
evidenced  than  in  this  beautiful  town,  where  the  only  nega- 
tive effects  of  the  moving  picture  are  found  in  this  bewilder- 
ing plethora  of  commonplace  titles,  which,  being  undignified, 
detract  from  the  exalted  stamp  which  here  especially  should 
be  upon  every  place  where  moving  pictures  are  shown. 

Of  the  picture  houses  themselves,  it  would  perhaps  be 
hard  to  find  a  single  town  or  eity  where  they  are  so  uniformly 
clean,  airy,  fresh  and  attractive;  such  a  thing  as  a  dark,  dull 
or  heavy  place  is  unknown.  The  most  particular,  fastidious 
and  even  those  professing  an  aristocratic  delicacy  cannot  find 
fault;  in  this  respect  at  least  the  owners  are  to  be  compli- 
mented, for  truly  the  houses  are  better  than  their  names. 
There  are  no  "nickelodeons"  or  cheap  sensational  places. 
The  minimum  charges  are  ten  cents,  with  higher  rates,  which 
in  the  height  of  the  season  should  secure  the  best  of  music 
and  film  service.  At  present  the  films  are  not  of  the  highest 
standard  and  the  music  is  only  of  a  medium  quality;  in  some 
places  the  old-fashioned  military  drum  is  not  beaten,  but 
pounded,  together  with  exaggerated  mechanical  effects, 
which  it  is  to  be  hoped  may  be  modified  as  the  season  de- 
velops and  the  cultured  tastes  of  such  audiences  as  may  be 
found  here  are  able  to  react  upon  those  who  are  in  charge  of 
this  part  of  the  entertainment.  The  strong  feature  films  are 
so  far  absent;  short  subjects  with  an  occasional  two-reel  ad- 
dition seem  to  be  the  rule,  with,  of  course,  as  a  reasonable 
necessity,  an  occasional  comic. 

The  moving  picture  is  the  standard  indoor,  evening  enter- 
tainment; its  advent  is  most  welcome,  filling  as  it  does  an: 
opportunity  to  pass  time  in  a  pleasurable  manner.  It  is  also- 
educating  amusement,  as,  given  proper  subjects,  people  al- 
ways appreciate  ability  on  the  screen  as  much  as  on  the 
stage.  The  pictures  have  also  prevented  the  use  of  less 
valuable  means  of  passing  the  time  at  these  great  holiday 
resorts,  and  in  Asbury  Park  the  old  visitor  notices  the  ab- 
sence of  any  Coney  Island  kind  of  clap-trap  "fill  up"  and 
Japanese  methods  of  getting  easy  money  in  so-called  boosted 
"auctions."  The  large  number  of  picture  houses,  the  large 
attendance,  the  general  popularity  of  the  cinematograph,  all 
testify  to  the  fact  that  the  standard  of  the  moving  picture,  as 
an  entertainer  in  a  place  where  nothing  but  entertainment  is 
sought,  is  very  complete.  Negatively  beyond  criticism  or 
censure,  it  is  positively  one  of  the  most  valuable  and  ac- 
ceptable additions  to  the  cultured  center  of  summer  enjoy- 
ment. W.  H.  J. 


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BRITISH  NOTES. 
By  Our  Own  Correspondent. 

THE  "American  invasion,"  as  it  is  termed  by  one  indi- 
vidual, has  commenced.  It  refers  to  the  arrival  here 
this  week  of  Miss  Florence  Turner,  Mr.  Brenon,  Larry 
Trimble,  King  Baggot  and  other  film  personalities  of  note. 
Not  the  least  amusing  feature  of  the  visit  is  the  impression 
one  trade  journal  tries  to  give  its  readers  by  framing  pre- 
tensions to  the  "discovery"  of  the  former  artiste. 

*  *     * 

Mr.  F.  J.  Brockliss  has  just  reached  London  from  New 
York  and  is  now  exhibiting  at  his  showrooms  several  of  the 
new  short  length  features  of  the  A  &  C,  Imp,  Melies,  and 
Rex  companies,  for  whom  he  is  the  British  agent. 

*  *     * 

To  the  American  mind  patriotism  may  appear  to  be  a  pecu- 
liar element  to  infuse  into  films  and  film  work,  but  some  of 
the  ultra-conservative  film  producers  in  this  country,  fired 
no  doubt  with  the  spasmodic  yell  for  "British  films!'  by  a 
London  evening  newspaper,  are  even  going  so  far  as  to  print 
their  monthly  release  calenders  in  ornamental  red,  white 
and  blue  decorations.  The  producers  referred  to  are  the 
Barker  Co.,  the  Clarendon  Co.,  Cricks  &  Martin,  and  the 
Hepworth  Co. 

■*     *     * 

The  bull-dog  has  long  been  the  recognized  trade  mark  of 
the  Barker  Co.,  and  the  animated  "barker"  at  the  end  of  their 
films  is  undoubtedly  familiar  to  American  exhibitors.  Now, 
however,  a  new  make  of  films  known  as  "John  Bull  Films," 
and  presumably  of  equal  patriotic  appeal  is  to  be  produced 
shortly  from  a  plant  in  Buckinghamshire.  The  releases  will 
be  in  the  hands  of  the  Cosmopolitan  Co.  of  London,-  who,  I 
understand,  also  have  agents  in  New  York.  But  if,  as  one 
might  reasonably  infer  from  the  name  chosen,  this  new  com- 
pany elects  to  decorate  the  products  of  its  studios  with  a 
picturesque  representation  of  John  Bull,  including,  of  course, 
his  inseparable  symbolical  bull-pup,  will  they  be  trespass- 
ing on  Messrs.  Barker's  rights?  It  seems  a  delicate  question 
and  English  producers  in  common  with  their  American 
brethren  are  particularly  protective  of  their  trade  marks. 

*  *     * 

"The  moving  picture  has  become  so  popular  an  institution 
recently  that  the  want  of  a  collective  noun  to  represent  spec- 
tators is  becoming  more  acute,"  said  a  theater  manager  to 
me  one  day.  "Audience  can  only  be  applied  to  hearers  and 
as  yet  'the  house'  is  the  term  applied  to  those  who  see  the 

silent  show." 

*  *     * 

Harry  Lauder,  the  noted  Scottish  comedian  who  returned 
from  the  States  a  fortnight  ago,  was  the  principal  character 
in  a  humorous  parody  film  taken  at  Hayes,  Middlesex,  the 
other    day.      Lauder    spent    most    of   the    day   recording   for 

gramophone  records. 

*  *     * 

A  rumor  is  prevalent  here,  though  I  give  it  for  what  it  is 
worth,  that  Miss  Constance  Crawley,  a  cousin  of  Lord 
Kitchener,    has    been    engaged    to    play    for    an    American 

company. 

*  *     * 

M.  Maurice  Maeterlinck's  "Blue  Bird"  has  been  produced 
by  a  Continental  firm,  with  Mrs.  Maeterlinck,  formerly  Mile. 
Leblanc,  in  the  leading  role.  It  is  shortly  to  be  screened  in 
London  at  one  of  the  West  End  houses. 

*  *     * 

A  film  of  the  year  promises  to  be  that  founded  on  the  fa- 
mous novel,  "Lady  Audley's  Secret,"  which  has  been  pro- 
duced on  this  side  by  Messrs.  Gaumont. 

*  *     * 

Kinema  matters  are  occasionally  used  by  writers  in  some 
of  the  weekly  journals  as  suitable  material  for  harmless 
satire.  Vivian  Carter,  this  week  conjures  up  the  vision  of 
the  arising  of  a  gigantic  Kinema  trust  cornered  by  some 
boss,  who  uses  his  power  to  rise  to  high  office.  Then  he 
elects  that  everything  that  shall  happen  in  the  State  that  he 


controls  shall  be  reproduced  on  film  or  otherwise  let  it  not 
happen.     This  boss  is  described  as  the  great  "Kinapoleon." 

*  *     * 

The  American  dances,  "The  Bumble  Bee,"  "Alexander's 
Ragtime  Band,"  and  the  "Model  and  the  Maid,"  are  shortly 
to  be  filmed  from  the  original  versions  by  Mr.  Seymour 
Hicks  and  Miss  Ellaline  Terriss. 

*  *     * 

Gaumonts  have  successfully  terminated  negotiations  with 
Mr.  Landon  Ronald,  the  famous  conductor,  to  arrange  a 
suitable  selection  of  music  to  accompany  their  film,  "The 
Life   of  Wagner."     Mr.   Ronald  will  personally   conduct   the 

first  performance  at  the  West  End  Cinema,  London. 

*  *     * 

I  have  received  intimation  this  week,  from  a  newly  formed 
British  company,  of  a  remarkable  invention  for  producing 
stereoscopic  effects  in  conjunction  with  ordinary  mono- 
chrome pictures.  The  invention,  which  only  effects  the 
screen,  is  as  feasible  and  practical  as  any  I  have  seen  and 
will  lend  itself  to  commercial  exploitation  on  an  economic 
basis.  The  mechanical  side  of  projection  is  not  affected  and 
pictures  are  projected  in  the  ordinary  way  on  a  distorting 
mirror  with  a  wonderful  lifelike  result  and  with  scarcely  any 
perceptible  distortion  of  the  image.  A  peculiar  advantage 
claimed  for  the  mirror-screen  is  that  old  films  (technically 
known  as  "rainstorm  junk")  can  be  used  without  any  flicker 
marks  showing  at  all.  New  films  give,  of  course,  the  best 
results.  *     *     * 

Provincial  Cinematograph  Theaters,  one  of  the  principal 
British  syndicates  with  several  exceptionally  high  class  pic- 
ture houses  in  provincial  cities,  are  re-issuing  shares  to  the 
value  of  nearly  a  million  dollars.  The  last  dividend  was 
twenty-five  per  cent. 

*  *     * 

Moving  pictures  of  the  notorious  Johnson-Jeffries  fight 
were   shown   in   the   Strand   last  week.     These   were   banned 

from  presentation  at  the  time,  but  are  drawing  crowds  now. 

*  *     * 

A  London  newspaper,  "The  Standard,"  of  protective  per- 
suasion, the  other  day  published  a  lengthy  letter  from  its 
Canadian  correspondent,  who  states  that,  "notwithstanding 
the  superiority  of  the  United  States  dramatic  and  outdoor  ac- 
tion films  over  English  productions,  the  Canadian  public, 
like  the  patrons  of  the  moving  picture  show  in  England  (?), 
are  wearying  of  the  frequency  with  which  the  Stars  and 
Stripes  and  the  French  domestic  scene  appear  in  picture 
palaces."  With  the  imports  of  U.  S.  A.  films  to  England 
nearly  double  what  they  were  last  year,  it  doesn't  look  much 
like  "wearying."  *     *     * 

The  premier  "all-British"  film  of  the  summer,  as  briefly 
mentioned  in  my  notes  last  week,  looks  very  much  like  being 
Barker's  "East  Lynne"— a  photoplay  adaption  of  Mrs.  Henry 
Wood's  famous  novel.  The  production  which  is  just  fresh 
from  the  studios  is  6,500  feet  in  length  and  contains  117 
scenes.  It  is  predicted  a  good  sale  in  America  as  no  expense 
seems  to  have  been  spared  to  obtain  realism.  In  order  to 
get  the  proper  effect  the  men  of  the  cast  refrained  from  hav- 
ing their  hair  cut  for  over  nine  weeks.  The  Walturdaw 
Company  has  purchased  the  British  rights  for  £4,000,  but 
up  to  the  moment  of  writing  I  do  not  think  that  the  American 
rights  have  been  disposed  of. 

*  *     * 

A  new  objection  to  film  export  from  this  country  seems  to 
have  been  discovered.  A  prominent  film  manufacturer  tells 
me  that  he  would  sooner  send  his  stock  to  any  country  be-  ' 
fore  the  United  States.  "What  with  the  heavy  import  duties 
and  the  essential  good  quality  of  the  films  to  compete  with 
those  on  the  American  market,  all  the  profit  is  knocked  out 
of  the  venture,"  is  his  complaint. 

*  *     * 

Miss  Florence  Turner  successfully  withstood  her  "first 
night"  ordeal  at  the  London  Pavilion,  where  she  is  appearing 
as  a  character  impersonator.  Both  Miss  Turner  and  Jean, 
the  famous  collie,  have  been  interviewed  repeatedly. 

J.  R.  SUTCLIFFE. 


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Manufacturers  Advance  Notes 


"EASY  PAYMENTS." 
In  this  drama,  released  by  Essanay,  Miss  Ruth  Stonehouse 
as  the  simple  country  girl  demonstrates  her  ability  beyond 
question.  Julia  James  (Miss  Stonehouse)  leaves  her  country 
home  for  the  city,  to  make  her  way  in  life.  Dabney  Briggs 
(Norman  Fowler),  from  the  same  town,  tries  the  same  thing. 
Both  arrive  in  the  large  and  strange  city,  and  as  luck  will 
have  it  stop  in  the  same  boarding  house.  Julia  tramps  the 
streets  for  days,  in  search  of  employment,  and  is  told  that 
her  poor  appearance  is  all  that  keeps  her  from  securing  a 
position.     Julia  finally  buys  some  clothes  on  easy  payments. 


Scene  from  "Easy  Payments"  (Essanay). 

Dabney  is  successful  in  landing  a  job  with  Mauritz  &  Rosen- 
berg, clothiers.  He  is  sent  to  collect  the  money  for  the 
clothes  that  Julia  had  bought.  Dabney  returns  to  his  em- 
ployers empty  handed  and  is  discharged.  Mauritz  &  Rosen- 
berg send  another  collector,  who  takes  away  the  clothes  from 
Julia,  and  also  from  Dabney,  who  had  been  given  a  suit  as 
part  salary. 

Mrs.  Briggs  arrives  in  the  city,  calls  on  her  son  and  offers 
him  a  flattering  proposition.  Dabney  consults  Julia  about  it 
and  she  concludes  that  the  country  life  is  better  for  country 
people.  So  with  Julia  as  his  promised  bride,  Dabney  returns 
to  his  home  town  with  his  mother. 

Norman  Fowler,  a  newcomer  in  the  world  of  photoplays, 
gives  a  remarkable  exhibition  of  his  talent  as  the  country  boy 
in  this  feature.     His  mother  (Clara  Smith)  pleases. 


NEW   QUARTERS  FOR  ECLECTIC  FILM   COMPANY. 

On  July  1  the  Eclectic  Film  Company,  over  which  Mr.  K.  W. 
Linn  is  the  presiding  genius,  will  celebrate  its  removal  from  the 
present  quarters  on  45th  Street,  and  will  celebrate  the  4th  of 
July  in  a  suite  of  new  and  handsomely  furnished  offices.  It  was 
decided  that,  among  other  things,  the  present  offices  are  not 
sufficiently  large  to  carry  on  the  business  of  importing  film  pro- 
ductions on  a  large  scale.  Accordingly  Mr.  Linn  went  forth  on 
a  tour  of  inspection  of  all  the  modem  office  buildings  in  the 
lobster  district.  After  looking  them  all  over  he  came  to  the 
conclusion  that  the  World's  Tower  Building,  situated  at  110-112 
West  Fortieth  Street,  is  the  finest  business  building  in  New 
York,  and  he  closed  a  deal  at  once  for  one-half  of  the  tenth 
floor. 

This  building  is  absolutely  fireproof  and  sanitary.  It  has  many 
new  conveniences  which  most  other  buildings  are  without.  One 
of  these  is  the  new  ventilation  system  that  keeps  the  building 
cool  in  summer.  This  will  be  a  big  feature  of  the  private  pro- 
jection room  during  the  hot  days  to  come.  Buyers  may  sit  in 
comfort  while  inspecting  the  Eclectic  wares.     It  is  the  firm's  in- 


tention to  have  the  most  efficiently  equipped  private  projection 
and  demonstration  room  in  New  York,  with  an  entirely  new 
outfit  of  machinery.  The  executive  offices  will  be  finished  hand- 
somely in  quartered  oak,  and  velvet  carpets.  The  rear  rooms 
of  the  floor  will  be  utilized  as  a  laboratory  department  and  for 
shipping. 

Buyers  and  exhibitors,  especially  during  the  coming  National 
Convention  and  Exposition,  are  invited  to  call  at  the  new  Eclectic 
offices,  where  they  will  meet  with  hearty  welcome  and  will  be 
given  an  opportunity  to  look  at  some  excellent  features,  including 
the  "Mysteries  of  Paris,"  and  the  great  "Les  Miserables." 


"THE  ZULU  KING"  (Lubin). 

It  is  almost  a  shame  to  take  the  terrible  theme  of  Cannibal 
Savage  history  and  reduce  it  to  comedy,  but  there  is  a  humor 
in  the  condition,  which  may  induce  a  laugh  so  long  as  the 
white  man  comes  out  on  top.  The  picture  is  not  intended 
to  horrify  the  audience,  but  more  to  induce  a  scream  of 
laughter,  at  the  beautiful  stupidity  of  the  aborigines  and  how 
easily  they  were  conquered  by  modern  tact  and  wit.  The 
picture  is  wonderfully  true  to  the  atmosphere  of  the  pictorial 
savage  and  an  excellent  example  of  the  Lubin  director's  thor- 
oughness. 


Hi 

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Scene   from   "The  Zulu   King"   (Lubin). 

John  Smith  is  henpecked  and  forced  to  wash  the  dishes, 
etc.,  while  Mrs.  Smith  has  a  good  time.  He  resolves  not  to 
stand  for  it  and  ships  as  a  cook  on  board  a  steamer  bound 
for  Africa.  It  turns  out  to  be  from  bad  to  worse.  The  Zulus 
take  him  prisoner  and  Smith  is  condemned  to  death.  He 
hands  the  king  his  revolver,  which  contains  blank  cartridges, 
and  tells  the  Zulus  that  he  is  bullet  proof.  They  fire  at  him 
and  finding  that  he  is  not  hit  resolve  that  he  is  supernatural. 
They  make  him  king.  Mrs.  Smith  follows  and  the  Zulus 
make  her  queen.  She  immediately  begins  to  regulate  things. 
She  fires  all  of  Smith's  brunette  wives  and  makes  him  the 
fan  boy. 


GEORGE  KLEINE  IN  EUROPE. 
The  American  representative  of  the  Eclipse  and  Cines  motion 
pictures,  Mr.  George  Kleine  of  Chicago,  is  at  present  on  the 
other  side  of  the  Atlantic  on  some  secret  errand.  No  doubt  he  is 
gathering  up  valuable  pictures  for  future  American  exploitation. 
He  makes  a  specialty  of  handling  scientific  subjects  that  are 
not  released  through  the  regular  channels.  Most  of  these  per- 
tain to  surgery  and  are  bought  by  colleges  for  clinical  lectures. 
They  would  hardly  do  for  general  public  use,  but  they  have 
become  a  part  of  the  business  and  Mr.  Kleine  is  making  a 
specialty  of  them.  It  is  also  expected  that  in  his  absence  Mr. 
Kleine  will  dig  up  a  worthy  successor  to  "Quo  Vadis?." 


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PHOTOPLAY  WRITER  JOINS  ESSANAY. 

Edward  T.  Lowe,  Jr.,  an  occasional  contributor  to  this 
department,  has  been  engaged  by  Essanay,  his  official  title 
being  "Reconstructor  of  Scenarios." 

Mr.  Lowe  is  at  the  head  of  a  new  department  of  the  Es- 
sanay organization,  being  engaged  to  put  purchased  dramas 
in  perfect  technical  form  for  the  director,  so  that  the  latter 
will  be  enabled  to  give  his  entire  thought  to  the  production 
without  the  revision  work  they  have  heretofore  been  required 
to  do.  Mr.  Lowe's  careful  study  and  experience  in  the  past 
seven  years  in  the  motion  picture  work  especially  fits  him 
for  this  work,  and  the  unique  compliment  has  been  paid  him, 
"That  his  scenarios  are  the  only  ones  that  can  be  put  on 
without  the  rewriting  and  revision  that  is  always  necessary." 

In  the  new  method  adopted  by  Essanay,  Mr.  Lowe  will  per- 
fect working  scripts  of  every  drama  accepted,  and  after  a 
careful  discussion  of  this  by  the  heads  of  the  different  de- 
partments concerned,  the  script  and  cast  will  be  given  to  the 
director  who  will  make  the  production  without  deviating 
from  the  construction  laid  down,  though  any  suggestions 
from  the  directors  will  be  welcomed. 

Some  of  Mr.  Lowe's  most  notable  successes  are  "Out  of 
the  Night,"  "The  Moving  Finger,"  "The  Spy's  Defeat,"  "The 
Virtue  of  Rags,"  and  "From  the  Submerged."  Others  to  be 
released  at  a  future  date  are  "Stone  the  Woman,  Let  the 
Man  Go  Free,"  "To  Be  Seen  Of  Men,"  and  many  others,  all 
of  which  are  radical  departures  from  the  ordinary  and 
mediocre  drama. 


GREAT  NORTHERN  GOES  UP. 

Written  by  Joe  McArdle. 
(All  Rights  Reserved.) 
The  Great  Northern  Film  Company,  of  which  Ingvald  C. 
Oes  is  general  manager,  has  moved  up  to  its  new  quarters  on 
the  ninth  floor  of  the  World's  Tower  Building,  110-112  West 
Fortieth  Street.  The  feat  was  accomplished  on  Saturday 
last  and  was  marked  by  no  more  serious  incident  than  the 
breaking  of  a  couple  of  ink-well  covers.  The  entire  office 
staff  preserved  its  equanimity  during  the  trying  ordeal,  and 
by  dint  of  hustling  the  offices  were  opened  for  business  on 
Monday.  Of  course,  there  remains  much  to  be  done  before 
the  new  home  of  the  Great  Northern  is  pronounced  "spick 
and  span,"  but  this  will  be  accomplished  before  the  end  of 
the  week  and  then  we  may  expect  to  have  a  flashlight  photo 
of  the  new  offices  and  a  description  of  the  interior  of  the 
new  home  of  the  "Polar  Bear"  brand  of  moving  pictures. 


DOINGS  AT  FAMOUS  PLAYERS'  STUDIO. 

A  World  man  visited  the  studio  of  the  Famous  Players 
recently,  where,  under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Porter  and  J. 
Searh;  Dawley,  Mrs.  Minnie  Maddern  Fiske  is  working  before 
the  camera  in  "Tess  of  the  D'Urbervilles."  On  Monday, 
June  16,  Miss  Mary  Pickford  began  her  nineteen  weeks' 
engagement  in  pictures.  Her  first  production  will  be 
"Caprice."  one  of  the  early  successes,  by  the  way,  of  the  then 
Minnie  Maddern.  It  is  intended  to  make  so  far  as  may  be 
possible  two-reel  subjects.  Bennie  Schulberg  laments  the 
scarcity  of  acceptable  multiple-reel  scripts.  He  says  the 
Famous  Players  want  high-class  stuff  and  will  pay  for 
it,  big  money.  The  filming  of  "The  Good  Little  Devil," 
which  has  just  been  completed,  is  said  to  have  been  re- 
markably successful.  It  will  not  be  shown  publicly,  however, 
until  September  or  October;  its  appearance  will  be  simul- 
taneous with  the  beginning  of  the  road  tour  of  the  regular 
organization.  In  those  cities  where  the  stage  presentation 
will  be  given  the  exhibition  of  the  picture  will  be  delayed 
so  that  it  may  follow  the  portrayal  by  the  company.  This 
will  be  in  one  way  a  novelty.  It  will  give  theater-goers 
and  picture-goers  an  opportunity  to  compare  the  relative 
merits  of  the  two  forms  of  production.  It  is  not  a  bold 
utterance  to  assert  that  the  advantage  will  not  by  any  means 
be  all  on  the  side  of  the  stage.  There  are  possibilities  in 
a  camera  directed  by  a  Porter  far  above  anything  attainable 
on  the  stage  even  when  it  is  directed  by  a  Belasco — and 
it  is  generally  conceded  that  in  stage-craft,  that's  about  the 
last  word. 


PICTURE  OF  A  BUILDING  GOING  UP. 

The  accompanying  illustration  is  a  fraction  of  a  film  that 
is  being  taken  of  Machinery  Hall,  one  of  the  buildings  of  the 
Panama-Pacific  Exposition,  to  be  held  in  California  this 
summer.  Exposures  have  been  made  at  intervals  of  five 
minutes  since  the  building  was  begun  and  when  finished  the 
picture  will  show  the  edifice  growing  as  if  by  magic  from 
its  beginning  to  its  completion.  The  camera  is  set  upon  the 
roof  of  the  already  completed  Service  Building.  It  is  cal- 
culated that  the  picture  when  finished  will  run  eighty  minutes. 
It  is  being  made  under  the  auspices  of  the  Exposition  Pub- 
licity Department  and  will  be  put  into  general  circulation 
as  a  means  of  advertising  the  Panama-Pacific  Exposition. 
Machinery  Hall  when  completed  will  be  the  largest  wooden 
structure  in  the  world. 


H.  C.  WALES  PROMOTED  TO  ALBANY,  N.  Y. 

H.  C.  Wales,  former  manager  of  the  General  Film  Com- 
pany's St.  John  branch,  has  been  promoted  to  the  position  as 
manager  of  the  Albany,  N.  Y.,  branch.  Mr.  Wales  handled 
the  business  in  St.  John  during  the  period  the  Kinetograph 
Company  had  an  office  there. 


BOSTON  FILM  MAN  RETURNS  FROM  EUROPE. 

Prof.  S.  Jannelli.  who,  with  Frank  Boschetti,  has  several 
New  England  moving  picture  interests,  has  just  returned 
from  an  extended  tour  abroad,  having  covered  a  great  part 
of  continental  Europe  and  spending  considerable  time  in 
Italv.  where  he  was  in  conference  with  many  of  the  leading 
foreign  film  producers.  He  contracted  for  many  new  releases 
while  abroad  and  they  will  be  shown  in  this  country  in  the 
near  future. 

During  the  absence  of  Prof.  Jannelli,  Mr.  Boschetti  has 
assumed  the  active  management  of  the  Majestic  Feature 
Film  Exchange  in  Boston,  the  Cosmopolitan  theater  in  Law- 
rence and  the  Majestic  theater  in  Haverhill,  and  has  proven 
an  astute  and  careful  business  manager.  The  Majestic  Fea- 
ture Film  Exchange  expect  to  release  in  the  near  future 
many  of  the  productions  which  Prof.  Jannelli  has  secured. 
Several  of  the  films  purchased  will  number  among  the  best 
imported  pictures  ever  shown  on  this  side  of  the  water. 


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"WHEN  MEN  HATE." 

A  story  dealing  with  feudal  conditions  in  the  South  has 
just  been  completed  for  Warner's  Features  by  Director 
Sidney  Olcott.  Miss  Gene  Gauntier  plays  the  part  of  Ruth, 
daughter  of  Jim  Morrison,  at  war  with  a  family  of  Westons. 
Jack  J.  Clark  plays  the  part  of  Donald  Weston,  a  young 
mountaineer  who  kidnaps  Ruth  and  forces  her  to  marry  him 


A  FINE  BIT  OF  DOUBLE  EXPOSURE. 

The  accompanying  illustration  is  made  direct  from  a  piece 
of  the  Edison  film,  entitled  "The  Twin  Brother."  It  shows 
Augustus  Phillips  in  a  dual  role,  shaking  hands  with  him- 
self. Good  double  exposure  work  is  not  at  all  rare  in  these 
days  of  better  films,  but,  but  in  this  case  we  have  a  remark- 
able example  of  what  can  be  done  by  clever  manipulation. 


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at  pistol  point  to  revenge  himself  for  the  murder  of  his  father 
by  her  father.  Weston  has  already  wounded  her  father  and 
he  is  helpless  to  prevent  his  daughter,  who  is  nursing  him, 
from  being  carried  off.  The  ending  of  the  feud  is  brought 
about  in  a  strange  manner  by  an  ordinary  house  cat.  The 
story  is  entitled  "When  Men  Hate."  It  is  three  reels  in 
length,  and  was  written  by  Miss  Gene  Gauntier. 


FRED  MACE  AND  THE  REAL  THING. 

The  real  thing  in  this  case  is  a  real  pugilist  who  was  wheedled 
by  Fred  Mace  into  appearing  in  a  Majestic  release  entitled  "One 
Round  O'Brien  Comes  Back."  Mace  is  a  believer  in  realism  in 
the  ultissimo.  Therefore  when  the  script  called  for  a  prize- 
fighter he  went  out  and  rounded  up  a  Los  Angeles  pugilistic 
celebrity  known  as  "Bull"  Young.  "Bull"  is  to  be  seen  in  the 
illustration  measuring  Fred  Mace  for  the  famous  Young  upper- 
cut,  which  is  the  terror  of  California  white  hopes. 


MURRAY    F.    BEIER    STARTS    FEATURE    BUSINESS. 

Murray  F.  Beier,  manager  of  the  New  York  office  of  the 
Sedeg  Feature  Film  Company,  has  resigned  to  start  the 
Emby  Feature  Film  Company,  with  offices  at  No.  145  West 
45th  Street,  New  York  City.  Mr.  Bjier  will  give  special  at- 
tention to  Itala  "Big  Films"  and  has  secured  exclusive  rights 
for  the  Itala  product  for  Greater  New  York  and  Northern 
New  Jersey.  Mr.  Beier  formerly  held  a  high  executive  posi- 
tion with  the  Pathe  Freres  Company. 


Augustus  PhilliDS  in  Dual  Role. 

The  Edison  Company  have  made  a  long,  patient  study  of 
double  exposure  with  some  surprisingly  fine  results,  but  we 
doubt  if  they  or  any  other  manufacturer  have  ever  before 
produced  such  a  wonderful  result  as  that  of  a  man  shaking 
hands  with  himself  in  a  picture.  In  another  part  of  the  film 
Mr.  Phillips  snatches  a  photograph  away  from  his  double, 
portrayed  by  himself. 


WASHINGTON   FILM   EXCHANGE  MOVES. 

A  short  move  will  be  made  by  the  Washington  Film  Exchange 
Branch  of  the  Interstate  Films  Company,  which  will  vacate  its 
present  quarters  at  426  Ninth  Street,  N.  W.,  and  occupy  larger 
and  better  quarters  across  the  street  at  numbers  419-421.  This 
change  of  address  is  due  to  increasing  business,  which  is  at- 
tributed largely  to  the  activity  of  Mr.  A.  Dresner,  the  new  man- 
ager of  this  exchange.  Mr.  Dresner  has  had  a  long  connection 
with  motion  picture  business.  He  began  with  "Pop"  Lubin  in 
Philadelphia,  twelve  years  ago,  and  was  sent  to  open  the  Lubin 
house  in  Cincinnati  in  1908.  He  afterward  opened  and  managed 
the  Lubin  Film  Service  in  Cincinnati  until  it  was  absorbed  by 
the  General  Film  Company.  During  his  stay  in  Cincinnati  Mr. 
Dresner  did  many  things  to  elevate  the  tone  of  the  business, 
and  left  a  world  of  friends  in  that  city  when  he  left  it  to  go  to 
Washington.  In  his  new  surroundings  Mr.  Dresner  is  building 
up  a  new  set  of  firm  friends  by  his  understanding  of  his 
business  and  his  sqffiuare  ways  of  dealing.  The  Universal 
service  is  handled  in  this  exchange. 


RAMO   REMARKS. 

The  Ramo  producer,  Will  S.  Davis,  has  just  completed  a 
two-reel  feature,  with  which  the  entire  Ramo  organization  is 
delighted.  The  picture  is  one  of  tense  human  interest,  en- 
titled "Man  and  Woman."  The  big  scene  is  a  court  room, 
where  "Jack  Hopkins,"  an  innocent  man,  is  on  trial  for  his 
life. 

Ramo  pictures  are  getting  to  be  very  popular,  due  in  large 
measure  to  the  activities  of  C.  Lang  Cobb,  Jr.,  who  repre- 
sents the  company  on  the  road  and  has  general  charge  of 
the  publicity  work  of  the  Ramo  films. 

Wray  Physioc,  the  artistic  mind  of  the  organization,  has 
been  quite  busy  over  at  Whitestone,  Long  Island,  photo- 
graphing the  maneuvers  of  the  American  Boy  Scouts.  Three 
thousand  boys  took  part  in  the  drills.  Mr.  Physioc  is  the 
designer  of  the  Ramo  trade  mark;  the  classiest  trade  mark 
in  the  business. 

Mary  Alden,  the  Ramo  leading  lady,  is  establishing  a 
record  as  a  quick  change  artist.  The  other  day  she  changed 
costume  fourteen  times.  This  goes  to  show  that  all  the 
work  an  actress  has  to  do  does  not  appear  in  the  picture. 
Stage  struck  maidens  seldom  think  about  that  part  of  it. 

Stuart  Holmes,  formerly  of  the  Kalem  Company,  has 
joined  the  Ramo  Stock  Company,  which  will  give  him  a 
wider  range  of  opportunity,  and  which  will  be  an  added 
strength  to  the  Ramo  artistic  department. 


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"THE  TANGLED  WEB"  (Reliance). 

The  scenario  for  this  picture  was  written  by  Garfield  Thomp- 
son as  a  vehicle  to  introduce  Rosemary  Theby  as  a  Reliance 
star.  Her  clever  work  as  "Leone  St.  Regis"  fulfills  every  ex- 
pectation. Miss  Theby  plays  a  designing  woman  who  weaves  a 
web  about  a  boy  when  he  is  still  in  college ;  causes  him  to  be 
expelled,  lures  him  away  from  his  mother's  influence  and  later, 
when  he  wants  to  cast  her  off  she  shoots  herself,  and  the  shot 
merely  grazing  her  temple,  she  accuses  him  of  attempting  her 
life,  and  he  is  sent  to  prison.  Escaping  from  jail  he  meets  and 
marries  a  good  girl  to  whom  he  never  tells  the  story  of  his  past 
life.     Leone  meets  him  again  and  recognizes  him.     She  schemes 


Scene  from  "The  Tangled  Web"  (Reliance). 

to  get  him  into  her  power  again  by  threatening  to  tell  his  wife 
what  he  has  been.  She  meets  Ruth  and  accuses  him  before  her. 
But  he  tells  the  girl  the  truth  and  she  believes  in  her  husband. 
Leone  works  herself  up  into  a  frenzy  and  notifies  the  police,  but 
before  she  can  fulfill  her  object  an  attack  of  heart  failure  seizes 
her  and,  realizing  that  she  is  very  near  death,  the  good  that  is 
in  the  worst  of  us  comes  to  the  fore  and  she  writes  her  con- 
fession vindicating  the  young  man  in  the  eyes  of  the  world. 

Directed  by  Oscar  C.  Apfel,  this  picture  is  a  notably  strong 
production,  with  an  unusually  able  cast,  including  Irving  Cum- 
mings,  Miss  Virginia  Westbrook,  Ralph  Lewis,  Sue  Balfour 
and  little  Elsie  Balfour,  sometimes  known  as  the  child  Bern- 
hardt. 


PATHE'S  WEEKLY  TWICE  A  WEEK. 

Pathe  Freres  wish  to  thank  the  exhibitors  for  their  prompt 
response  to  the  announcement  that  a  Pathe's  Weekly  would 
be  released  every  Monday  and  Thursday  hereafter.  Quick 
action  was  necessary  for  the  best  interests  of  all  concerned 
and  the  co-operation  of  the  exhibitors,  Pathe  Freres  say,  is 
very  gratifying.  The  aim  of  the  additional  weekly  seems  to 
be  to  enable  licensed  exhibitors  to  show  their  patrons  the 
news  of  the  world  four  days  earlier  than  was  possible  under 
the  old  system.  That  the  exhibitors  realized  the  advantage  of 
this  arrangement  is  proven  by  the  manner  in  which  they 
replied  to  the  request  to  book  the  new  release,  which  makes 
the  output  of  Pathe  Freres  seven  reels  a  week.  The  suc- 
cess of  the  new  Weekly  is  assured  and  the  exhibitors  are 
responsible. 

Another  innovation  is  the  scheme  for  selling  the  posters 
for  the  Weekly  by  which  they  are  being  mailed  direct  to 
exhibitors  on  the  basis  of  a  three  months'  subscription.  For 
a  new  and  untried  arrangement  this  system  has  received  en- 
couraging support,  the  vast  majority  of  the  exhibitors  realiz- 
ing that  the  object  of  Pathe  Freres  in  installing  a  complete 
printing  plant  of  their  own  was  to  get  the  posters  for  both 
Weeklies  to  the  exhibitors  in  a  jiffy,  to  have  them  well 
printed  and  to  sell  them  as  cheaply  as  possible. 


LITERARY  NOTE. 

Just  in  from  his  European  retirement  for  a  short  United 
States  visit,  Edwin  Thanhouser  spent  Saturday  evening  at  the 
Fairmount  Athletic  Club,  New  York  City.  He  is  the  man  who 
made  the  Thanhouser  Classic  famous.  Bert  Adler,  who  wrote 
about  the  Classic,  was  with  him.  William  Russell,  who  played 
classic  roles  in  these  selfsame  Classics,  was  host.  All  three  en- 
joyed the  exercises  of  the  evening,  the  main  feature  of  which 
was  the  classic  trimming  of  Johnny  Mayo  by  Young  Kirkwood. 


ITALA      COMPANY      ANNOUNCES      FIXED     TERRI- 
TORIAL APPORTIONMENT. 

Itala  Features,  or  "Big  Films"  as  they  are  perhaps  better 
known,  in  the  future  will  be  distributed  according  to  the  follow- 
ing territorial  apportionment.  This  arrangement  deviates  but 
little  from  the  former  Itala  policy  except  in  rare  instances  where 
States  are  divided  so  as  to  allow  better  and  wider  circulation  of 
the  features,  the  aim  being  to  place  the  product  with  as  many 
exhibitors  as  possible. 

Canada  will  be  sold  alone. 

Maine,  New  Hampshire,  Vermont,  Connecticut,  Rhode  Island 
and  Massachusetts  will  be  sold  together. 

New  York  State,  exclusive  of  New  York  City,  sold  alone. 

New  York  City  and  Northern  New  Jersey,  sold  together. 

Southern  New  Jersey  and  Eastern  Pennsylvania  together. 

Western  Pennsylvania  and  West  Virginia  together. 

Maryland,  Delaware,  District  of  Columbia  and  Virginia  to- 
gether. 

Tennessee,  North  and  South  Carolina,  Louisiana,  Mississippi, 
Alabama,  Georgia  and  Florida  are  sold  together,  or  separately. 

Michigan  and  Wisconsin  together. 

Ohio  alone. 

Indiana  and  Kentucky  together. 

Illinois,  north  of  Litchfield,  sold  alone. 

Illinois,  south  of  Litchfield,  and  Eastern  Missouri  together. 

Western  Missouri,  Kansas,  Arkansas  and  Northern  Oklahoma 
together. 

Southern  Oklahoma  and  Texas  together. 

Minnesota,  North  and  South  Dakota  together. 

Nebraska  and  Iowa  together. 

Montana,  Wyoming,  Utah,  Colorado  and  New  Mexico  together. 

Washington,  Oregon  and  Idaho  together. 

California,  Nevada  and  Arizona  together. 

The  foregoing  schedule  was  decided  upon  after  a  careful  esti- 
mate of  the  population  of  the  various  territories  had  been  made 
and  the  number  of  theaters  in  each.  Much  of  the  territory  has 
already  been  contracted  for,  covering  all  Itala  releases  at  the 
rate  of  two  each  month,  for  periods  ranging  from  three  months 
to  one  year.  The  contract  system  assures  the  buyer  of  exclusive 
control  of  Itala  "Big  Films"  in  his  territory,  besides  offering  the 
advantage  of  wholesale  prices  on  such  time  contracts. 


AMERICAN   FILM   AGENCY   IN   EUROPE. 

Mr.  E.  Seville  Williams,  of  the  General  Film  Agency,  Ltd., 
of  London,  has  been  one  of  our  across-the-water  film  visitors 
in  New  York  for  the  past  few  days.  The  primary  object  of 
his  visit  has  been  to  secure  the  agency  for  a  high  grade 
brand  of  American-made  film  and  he  is  very  optimistic  over 
the  market  in  Europe  for  our  productions.  His  company  has 
offices  in  London  and  Paris  and  four  sub-agencies  in  Europe 
and  are  handling  the  well-known  Milano  films  in  the  English 
market  with  considerable  success.  He  believes  in  specializing 
and  has  studied  the  projection  end  of  the  industry  for  sev- 
eral years,  consequently  our  American-made  projectors  have 
been  receiving  some  of  his  time  and  attention.  Conditions  in 
Great  Britain  and  the  Continent  in  the  film  market  are  alto- 
gether different  from  what  they  are  here  and  require  direct 
attention  and  close  application  secure  a  fair  share  of  the 
business  even  for  the  best  production.  For  this  reason,  Mr. 
Williams  believes  his  company  is  well  equipped  to  get  the 
very  best  results  possible  for  the  finest  American  films  he 
can  secure.  He  will  only  be  here  for  a  few  more  days  and 
says  he  has  enjoyed  his  visit  exceedingly  and  has  been  for- 
tunate in  meeting  many  of  our  prominent  men  in  the  trade 
who  have  shown  him  every  courtesy. 


PILOT   NOTES. 


Miss  Lillie  Barrington  of  the  Pilot  Company,  of  Yonkers, 
N.  Y.,  who  sailed  for  a  four  months'  tour  of  Europe,  is  re- 
turning to  America  on  the  17th  of  June  on  account  of  the 
sudden  death,  on  June  6th,  of  her  traveling  companion,  Mrs. 
M.  A.  Wright,  of  12  West  71st  Street,  New  York  City,  in 
Berlin,  Germany. 

J.  W.  Hartman,  who  has  been  playing  in  an  all-star  cast 
at  the  Lyric  Theater  in  "Arizona,"  is  back  again  with  the 
Pilot  Company.  Mr.  Hartman  was  with  the  Pilot  Company 
prior  to  the  time  he  played  at  the  Lyric. 

The  Pilot  Company  has  completed  its  outdoor  stage  and 
already  taken  one  picture  on  it.  The  stage  was  finished 
June  10,  and  Director  Vale  and  his  troupe  were  at  work 
turning  out  a  comedy  drama  the  next  day. 

E.  J.  Martin,  scenic  artist  of  the  Pilot  Comnany,  is  now 
prepared  for  summer  sport.  He  has  just  bought  a  22-foot, 
5-I1    r-cpower  motorboat. 


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ATTENTION  EXHIBITORS! 

Are  You  Going  to  Attend  the 

Third  Annual  National  Convention 

of  the 

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at 

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IF   SO 

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vention Hotel  Committee  at  once.  This  committee  will  take  espt  cial 
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136  Third  Ave.,  New  York  City,  N.  Y. 

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SYNOPSIS  OF  THE  STORY 

Author's  Note:  Being  simply  a  romance  inspired  by  the 
statement  in  Genesis  that  Cain  went  out  of  the  presence  of  the 
Lord  and  dwelt  in  the  land  of  Nod,  where  he  knew  his  wife, 
this  picture  does  not  aim  to  accomplish  more  than  your  enter- 
tainment and  amusement.  It  is  neither  historical  nor  theological : 
it  is  fanciful. 

It  is  to  be  remembered  that  there  are  two  accounts  of  the 
beginning  of  man:  one,  the  Mosaic  account,  is  inspired  history; 
the  other  is  the  evolutionary  theory  based  upon  the  deductions 
of  Darwin  and  other  reasoners.  The  first  account  conveys  the 
information  that  man  was  created  fresh  and  perfect  by  God,  who 
blew  the  breath  of  life  into  his  body.  It  would  seem  absurd  to 
assume  that  such  a  being,  possessed  of  all  the  attributes  of  man 
fresh  from  the  hands  of  his  Creator,  were  so  dull  of  mind  and 
stupid  that  he  would  fail  to  take  advantage  of  the  simple  prin- 
ciples of  material  existence.  Surely,  he  must  have  been  as  wise 
as  Robinson  Crusoe.  If  an  inventor  today  can  invent  a  wonder- 
ful machine  before  he  is  thirty  years  old,  is  it  reasonable  to 
assume  that  A'dam,  the  very  mighty  product  of  God,  and  his 
progeny,  continued  to  live  naked,  and  in  the  dirt,  nine  hundred 
and  twenty  years? 

It  has  been  assumed  in  this  story,  simply,  that  Adam  and  his 
wife  and  children  were  possessed  of  ordinary  common  sense, 
and  that  the  almost  obvious  necessities  and  graces  of  human  life 
were  within  their  knowledge. 


HELEN    G 

inTHE  WIF 

A  ROMANCE  OF 

Copyrighted,  1913,  by  Helen 

Written  and  Directed  by 

PRODUCED  BY  THE  HELEN  GARDNER 
STUDIO  AT  TAPPAN-ON-THE- 


Respecting  the  people  of  the  land  of  Nod,  who  are  introduced 
in  this  story,  and,  more  particularly,  their  origin,  it  is  enough  to 
say  they  are  purely  imaginative  Nevertheless,  it  is  not  impos- 
sible to  deduce  from  the  Biblical  context  a  sufficient  premise 
upon  which  to  contend  the  existence  of  other  men  than  Adam 
and  his  descendants.  It  is  a  matter  about  which  anyone  may 
think  as  he  will,  and  as  thinking  persons  do. 

As  stated  above,  this  story  does  not  aim  to  teach  any  principle, 
nor  does  it  pretend  historical  accuracy  even  approximately.  Its 
design  is  to  interest  and  amuse  through  its  poetic  beauty  and 
dramatic  order.  It  is  merely  a  fanciful  story  of  the  regeneratioa 
of  the  first  crime-committer  through  the  charming  philoso- 
phy of  a  wonderful  woman. 

Part  I. 

This  section  of  the  story  deals  intimately  with  the  first 
crime — the  destruction  of  Abel  by  his  brother  Cain,  the  sor- 
row of  Adam  and  Eve,  the  cursing,  branding  and  driving 
away  of  Cain,  his  heavy  sorrow  and  terror,  his  wanderings — 
and  finally  his  meeting  with  Save,  the  daughter  of  Omar,  the 
hunter,  in  the  land  of  Nod.  He  is  about  to  destroy  himself 
when  Save  meets  him  and  says: 

"It  is  no  sacrifice  to  lose  thy  life  which  thou  lovest  not: 
but  find  that  which  thou  lovest  above  thy  life,  and  part  thy- 
self from  that  forever — that  is  expiation!" 

Cain  tells  her  that  he  loves  nothing  more  than  his  life. 


It  would  be  unfair  to  judge  of  the  picture  merits  of  a  picture  story  by  a 
picture  drama  is  within  itself — not  an  account  of  its  story.  "The  Wife  of 
poetic  nature,  but  of  high  dramatic  force.  It  is  tragic,  and,  at  moments, 
borne  in  mind  that  Miss  Helen  Gardner  plays  the  role  of  the  woman,  that  she 
play  itself  is  written  and  directed  by  the  same  man  who  wrote  and  directed 
duce  something  not  only  out  of  the  beaten  run  of  productions,  but  a  work  of 

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film,  preceded  by  some  wonderfully  beautiful  views  of  Miss  Gardner's  studio 
scenes,  as  she  may  be  found  doing  on  any  fair  day. 

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and  that  he  hates  that  But  the  woman's  wisdom  is  plain 
enough  to  hiin,  and  he  starts  out  to  find  that  which  he  will 
love  more  than  his  life,  so  that  by  parting  himself  from  it 
forever  he  may  expiate  his  terrible  crime.  Zeeban;  a  worker 
of  magic,  whom  all  people  fear  and  obey  because  of  that  fear, 
announces  that  he  will  take  Save  for  his  wife,  notwithstand- 
ing he  already  has  one  wife,  a  jealous  woman  named  Januh. 
When  Zeeban  declares  that  Save  shall  become  his  wife  Cain 
sees  as  by  a  flash  of  lightning  that  the  thing  which  he  loves 
above  his  life  is — Save  herself. 


Part  II. 

It  is  shown  clearly  that  Januh,  the  wife  of  Zeeban,  means 
to  murder  Save.  Zeeban  discovers  her  intention,  and  has  her 
put  into  the  Pit  of  Death,  a  cave  in  which  those  condemned 
to  die  are  made  to  starve  to  death.  Cain,  unacquainted  with 
the  customs  and  laws  of  Nod,  and  equally  unacquainted  with 
the  intention  of  Januh,  releases  Januh  by  a  trick.  After  the 
bridal  ceremony  in  which  according  to  the  rites  of  the  land 
Save  becomes  the  possession  of  Zeeban,  Januh  sneaks  into 
the  nuptual  chamber  and  stabs  Zeeban  to  death.  Save,  not 
knowing  how  Zeeban  came  to  his  death,  runs  out  of  the 
chamber,  her  shriek  bringing  Cain,  who  has  been  in  hiding, 


into  the  place.  He  is  seized  as  the  murderer,  and,  believing 
indeed  that  Save  herself  has  committed  the  crime,  he  suffers 
himself  to  be  led  away  and  put  into  the  Pit  of  Death.  Save 
searches  for  Cain  in  the  wilderness  where  she  first  met  him. 
She  meets  Januh,  who  tells  her  that  Cain  is  in  the  pit,  and 
hastens  there.  She  herself  is  believed  to  be  an  accomplice, 
and  is  thrown  into  the  pit.  There  she  finds  Cain  almost  dead 
of  starvation. 


Part  III. 

Loving  her  with  a  great  passion,  Cain  steadfastly  refuses 
to  take  Save  as  his  wife,  convinced  as  he  is  that  only  by 
sacrificing  some  thing  which  he  loves  more  than  his  life  can 
he  condone  his  great  crime.  Save  herself  is  satisfied  that  he 
is  right,  and  they  resign  themselves  to  death.  Januh,  unable 
to  keep  from  them,  climbs  out  upon  a  tree  branch  over  the 
mouth  of  the  pit,  so  that  she  can  taunt  them  and  watch  them 
die.  At  a  very  dramatic  moment  the  branch  breaks,  and, 
clutching  the  leaves  to  save  herself,  Januh's  hair  becomes 
entangled  so  that  she  is  caught  up,  and  her  neck  is  broken  in 
mid-air.  Over  her  body  Cain  reaches  the  limb,  and  thence 
he  reaches  the  outside.  It  is  only  a  few  moments  before  he 
has  rescued  Save.  She  discovers  that  the  brand,  put  on  his 
forehead  by  God,  has  vanished,  and,  taking  it  for  a  token  of 
Cain's  full  forgivenness,  Save  and  Cain  leave  the  land  as  man 
and  wife.  Years  after,  and  in  accordance  with  the  account 
by  Moses,  Cain  builds  a  great  city,  and  calls  it  Enoch,  after 
his  first-born  son. 


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MONDAY,  JUNE  23rd,  1913. 

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WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  25th,  1913. 

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THURSDAY,  JUNE  26th,  1913. 

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FRIDAY,  JUNE  27th,  1913. 

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SATURDAY,  JUNE  28th,  1913. 

IMP — Fun  in  Film  by  Hy.  Mayer  (Comedy) 

IMP — Leo's    Great    Cure    (Comedy) 

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REX — Draga,   the   Gypsy   (Drama) 

MONDAY,  JUNE  30th,   1913. 

IMP— The   Old   Melody   (Two  parts— Drama) 

NESTOR— An  Indian  Nemesis   (Drama) 

GEM — Mistaken    Intentions    (Comedy) 

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TUESDAY,   JULY   1st,    1913. 
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POWER'S — British-American    Polo    Match    (Topical).. 

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UNIVERSAL— The  Animated  Weekly  No.  69   (News). 

THURSDAY,  JULY  3d,  1913. 

IMP — Jane    Marries     (Comedy) 

REX — A  Woman's   Folly   (Drama) 

FRONTIER— The  Secret  of  Padre  Antonio   (Drama).. 
FRIDAY,  JULY  4th,  1913. 

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POWER'S— The  Heart  of  Hernanda  (Drama) 

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IMP — Lighting  Sketches   by   Hy   Mayer    (Novelty) 

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THE    MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


NEW  ENGLAND. 

ON  TUESDAY,  June  3,  Governor  Eugene  N.  Foss 
of  Massachusetts,  eent  to  the  legislature  a  veto 
of  House  bill  2320  introduced  on  petition  of  the 
American  Federation  of  Labor,  entitled  "An  Act 
Relative  to  the  Use  of  the  Cinematograph  and  Sim- 
ilar Apparatus."  This  bill  which  had  been  passed 
by  the  House  contains  the  following  provisions: 
drat,  that  nobody  shall  operate  certain  moving  pic- 
ture apparatus  without  a  first-class  license  from  the 
State  police,  nor  obtain  such  a  license  without 
having  first  held  a  second-class  license;  second, 
that  nobody  shall  hold  a  second  class  license  (giving 
the  right  to  operate  such  an  apparatus  only  in  the 
presence  of  the  holder  of  a  first-class  license), 
unless  be  has  been  employed  for  six  months  as  an 
assistant,  under  the  holder  of  a  first-class  license; 
and  third,  that  nobody  can  become  an  asistant,  with- 
in the  meaning  of  this  section  of  the  act,  except 
upon  the  endorsement  of  the  holder  of  a  first-class 
license.  People  who  hare  operated  such  apparatus 
under  a  license  previously  Issued  by  the  State  police, 
may  under  certain  conditions,  obtain  a  first-class 
license,  and  this  condition  also  applies  to  persons 
who  have  operated  moving  picture  machines  outside 
of  Massachusetts  for  a  period  of  six  months,  pro- 
Tiding  they  pass  the  examinations  of  the  State 
police.  Governor  Foss  in  his  veto,  stated  that  the 
significance  of  these  provisions  is  very  notable  and 
that  the  underlying  principle  of  the  act,  If  ap- 
proved, would  be  "revolutionary  In  respect  to  the 
Industrial   future   of   Massachusetts." 

The  governor  stated  that  the  bill  is  an  infringe- 
ment of  essential  personal  liberties,  and  declared 
In  substance,  that  if  the  bill  should  become  a  law, 
"no  man  can  possess  the  right  to  the  particular 
means  of  livelihood  involved,  unless  he  first  secures 
the  permission  of  the  men  already  qualified  and 
engaged  In  such  occupation."  The  governor  feels 
that  the  bill  would  place  the  moving  picture  opera- 
tors' trade  in  the  control  of  a  few  men,  and  that 
the  legislation  would  be  dangerous  in  other  cases. 
A  part  of  the  governor's  veto  follows: 

The  bill  declares  that  the  vocation  of 
operating  moving  picture  machines  in  this 
State  shall  rest  only  in  the  hands  of  per- 
sons now  eligible  to  operate  them  under 
our  laws  or  of  other  persons  whom  they 
shall  specify  and  definitely  nominate  and 
select.  The  exception  noted  allows  persons 
from  other  States  to  come  here  and  operate 
machines  without  having  subscribed  to 
the  terms  of  this  bill ;  and  conversely  it 
will  compel  citizens  of  this  State,  desiring 
to  enter  this  line  of  work  but  unable  to 
secure  permission  from  those  now  engaged 
in  It,   to  go  to  some  other  State. 

I  trust  that  the  attention  of  the  Legis- 
lature will  be  again  given,  with  deep  and 
earnest  study,  to  the  provisions  of  this  bill. 
and  that  the  entire  public  of  the  Common- 
wealth will  also  take  immediate  cognizance 
thereof. 

The  constitution  of  Massachusetts  de- 
clares In  its  preamble  that  the  end  of 
government,  in  its  institution.  Its  mainte- 
nance and  its  administration,  is  to  furnish 
the  individuals  who  compose  it  with  the 
power  of  enjoying  it  safety  and  tranquility 
their  natural   rights. 

In  this  bill  the  policy  of  the  Common- 
wealth would  be  turned  directly  counter  to 
the  fundamental  principles  of  personal  lib- 
erty and  equality  of  opportunity  which  are 
the  safeguards  of  the  State,  and  which  it  is 
our  duty  to  maintain. 

If  this  bill  becomes  a  law,  then  no  man 
can  possess  the  right  to  the  particular 
means  of  livelihood  involved  unless  he  first 
secures  the  permission  of  the  men  already 
qualified    and    engaged    in    such    occupation. 

This  is  precisely  as  if  the  bill  should 
say  that  no  one  could  become  a  farmer  in 
Massachusetts  without  first  securing  the 
permission  of  other  farmers,  or  that  no  one 
could  operate  a  store  without  the  permis- 
sion of  other  merchants;  or  earn  his  living 
as  a  machinist  without  the  permission  of 
organized   machinists. 

Insofar  as  the  bill  provides  that  nobody 
shall  operate  a  particular  and  dangerous 
class  of  apparatus  unless  duly  certified 
thereto  by  the  State  police,  I  am  in  sym- 
pathy with  It.  In  fact,  our  existing  laws 
contain  this  requirement.  Insofar  as  the 
bill  requires  that  nobody  shall  operate  such 
a  machine  without  the  additional  sanction 
of  those  already  interested  in  this  particu- 
lar business,  I  am  unalterably  opposed  to  it. 

The  bill,  in  my  judgment.   Is  a  dangerous 


piece    of    legislation,    for    if    we    recognize 
this  principle  in  legislation  then  it  will  un- 
doubtedly form  a  basis  for  other  repressive 
measures,   vastly  greater  in  their  scope. 
(Signed)  Eugene   N.    Foss. 

On  Wednesday,  June  4,  Governor  Foss  was  sus- 
tained in  his  veto,  when  the  House  took  up  the 
measure  to  regulate  the  operation  of  moving  picture 
machines.  Mr.  Stone,  of  Everett,  urged  the  House 
to  override  the  veto,  stating  that  the  bill  was  draft- 
ed with  extreme  care,  and  was  opposed  by  nobody, 
during  the  bearings.  Mr.  Underbill,  of  Somervllle, 
opposed  the  bill,  laying  stress  on  the  governor's 
point,  that  under  its  provisions,  no  person  can  be- 
come an  operator  without  the  consent  of  those  al- 
ready Id  the.  trade.  The  bill  was  favored  by  Messrs. 
Carr,  of  Boston,  and  W.  J.  Sullivan,  of  Boston. 
By  a  vote  of  106  to  99,  a  two-thirds  vote,  being 
necessary,   the  House   "killed   the  bill." 

The  Scenic  Temple,  Boston,  is  always  on  the 
watch  to  secure  some  topical  moving  picture  for 
its  patrons.  The  "Parade  of  the  Boston  School 
Regiment,"  showing  the  school  boys  In  action 
pulled  in  good  attendance  for  this  house.  Lenna 
Howe's  Union  Orchestra  Is  still  a  feature  at  the 
Scenic    Temple. 

The  Gaiety  theater,  Boston,  Is  doing  well  with 
Its  supplementary  season  of  moving  pictures.  The 
principal  attraction  this  week  is  Nat.  C.  Goodwin 
as   Fagin   In   "Oliver  Twist." 

Lexington  Park,  the  well  known  summer  resort 
near  Boston,  is  again  open  for  the  season.  At 
the  Rustic  theater,  the  usual  vaudeville  and  photo- 
play programs  are  offered.  Indications  point  to  a 
good  season's  business  at  this  park. 

Judge  Hardy,  of  the  Superior  Court,  on  June  6, 
on  a  bill  filed  by  Harriet  O.  Cruft,  owner  of  five 
houses  on  Haviland  Street.  Boston,  restrains  the 
Mutual  Film  Corporation  of  Massachusetts,  from 
operating  Its  machines  or  burning  unshaded  lights 
in  its  offices  In  the  Walker-Gordon  Building,  1106 
Roylston  Street,  and  abutting  in  the  rear  on  the 
Haviland  Street  property,  between  9  p.m.  and 
7  a.m.  Mrs.  Cruft  alleges  that,  by  reason  of  the 
lights  and  noises  tenants  had  threatened  to  leave 
her  house  on  the  expiration  of  their  leases,  be- 
cause they  were  unable  to  sleep. 

A.  A.  Orrasbee  opened  the  Majestic  theater. 
Taunton.  Mass..  on  May  30,  and  has  found  busi- 
ness very  good,  right  from  the  start.  This  theater 
Is  offering  a  good  grade  of  moving  pictures,  and 
should  have  no  difficulty  in  getting  a  share  of  the 
trade. 

On  June  2.  T  eonard  Brothers,  reopened  tlieir  Star 
Theater.  Taunton,  Mass.,  with  a  big  bill  of  vaude- 
ville and  photoplays.  The  Star  has  been  thoroughly 
overhauler,    and    looks    very    inviting. 

The  Nickel  Theater.  Haverhill.  Mass.,  has  closed 
for  the  season,  June  1  being  the  date  of  the  last 
performance.  The  Nickel  will  reopen  early  In 
August,  with  its  regulation  programs  of  pictures. 

Manager  I.  M,  Mosher.  of  Keith's  Hippodrome 
theater.  Portland,  Me.,  closed  his  winter  season  of 
vaudeville  and  pictures  on  May  31,  and  inaugurated 
a  summer  season  of  stock  company  attractions.  Mr. 
Mosher  will  switch  back  to  the  former  policy  by 
early  Pall. 

Greeley's  theater,  Portland,  Me.,  now  boasts  of  a 
"Rfg  Musical  Comedy  Company."  as  an  added  at- 
traction. Manager  Greely  is  still  showing  feature 
pictures,    of    course. 

If  easts,  Snitz  and  Nathanson.  owners  of  a  pros- 
perous string  of  New  England  theaters,  devoted  to 
the  exploitation  of  vaudeville  and  moving  plctnre 
programs,  announce  that  they  have  decided  to  erect 
a  new  theater  in  Providence.  R.  I.  The  location 
selected  is  Olneyville  Square.  The  firm  expects 
to  spend  about  $75,000  on  their  latest  venture,  and 
the  plans  call  for  a  modern  and  fire-proof  theater. 
The  house  should  have  its  opening  by  November 
first.  The  Empire  theater,  of  Providence,  is  own- 
ed by  Spitz  and  Nathanson.  It  Is  managed  hy  Mr. 
Sol.  Rrannig.  and  does  a  canaeity  business  as  a 
general  thing.  The  Empire  offers  kinemacolor  pic- 
tures,   as   a   special   feature. 

H.  A.  Chenoweth,  manager  of  the  Shawmnt  thea- 
ter. Boston,  is  showing  what  a  real,  live  manager 
can  accomplish  with  a  vaudeville  and  photoplay 
bouse.  Mr.  Chenoweth  Is  continually  offering  new 
"stunts,"  that  never  fail  to  appeal  to  his  audiences. 
Fnr  instance,  nn  June  2,  an  open  piano  contest  was 
held,  and  on  Jnne  4,  a  baby  contest  was  an  added 
attraction,  While  such  things  are  not  desirable 
for  small  houses,  nor  perhaps,  for  theaters  in  the 
busy,  business  districts  of  large  metropolitan  cen- 
ters, yet  these  "specials"  seem  to  lilt  the  popular 
taste  in  theaters,  located  in  tlip  residential  sec- 
tions. At  all  events.  Mr.  Chenoweth  Is  putting  the 
Shawmnt  theater  on  the  map.  and.  according  to 
Indications,  the  theater  will  be  open  during  the 
entire    summer. 

James  H.  Donovan,  manager  of  the  Central  Square 
theater.  Lynn,  Mass..  has  entered  upon  his  summer 
season  policy,  which  means  the  illumination  of 
vaudeville,  and  a  straight  program  of  photoplays 
and  Illustrated  songs.  Manager  Donovan  finds 
business  to  be  fairly  good,  considering  the  season 
of  ttie  year, 

The  Lynn  theater,  Lynn.  Mass.,  closed  for  the 
summer,  after  tempting  the  public  with  a  week 
of  photoplays  and  Illustrated  songs.  Business  at 
this  house  has  npt  been  up  to  expectations  during 
the  past  season,  as  the  public  did  sot  respond  to 
the  vaudeville  and  picture  programs.  The  Lynn 
theater  is  controlled  by  the  B.  F.  Keith  interests, 
and   It    Is   not  certain    what  will   he   done   with   the 


bouse  this  Fall.  Jeff  Callan,  who  managed  the 
theater,  has  left  for  New  York,  taking  his  regu- 
lar summer  position,  with  the  United  Booking  of- 
fices. 

J.  R.  Crane  Is  now  engaged  busily  looking  after 
his  concessions  at  Riverside  Park,  near  Spring- 
field, Mass.  Mr.  Crane  bad  been  the  superintendent 
of  Poll's  theater,  Springfield,  since  its  opening  per- 
formance, but  was  forced  to  resign,  to  protect  his 
interests  at  the  park. 

Moving  picture  exhibitors  from  all  corners  of 
Maine  met  at  Waterville,  on  Wednesday,  June  4, 
and  held  what  was  known  as  the  "Maine  Moving 
Picture  Exhibitors'  first  annual  convention."  The 
Inclement  weather  on  Tuesday  and  early  Wednes- 
day, hindered  many  from  attending,  who  would 
otherwise  have  been  present.  There  were  sufficient 
present,  however,  to  make  the  affair  a  great  suc- 
cess. The  convention  opened  with  a  special  "run- 
off" of  Mutual  films  In  the  Silver  theater.  Shortly 
after  10  o'clock,  the  exhibitors  and  various  rep- 
resentatives of  the  moving  picture  machine  manu- 
facturers, witnessed  one  of  the  best  exhibitions 
of  Olma  that  has  ever  been  shown  Id  the  State  of 
Maine.  Several  single  reel  pictures  were  shown, 
but  the  greatest  treat  was  the  five  reel  Bubject, 
"The  Battle  of  Gettysburg."  Following  the  display 
of  pictures,  which  was  over  shortly  before  1 
o'clock,  the  exhibitors  went  to  the  local  armory, 
where  a  delightful  buffet  lunch  was  served.  At 
the  conclusion  of  the  luncheon,  Fred  B.  Murphy, 
manager  of  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation's  Maine 
branch,  called  the  exhibitors  together,  and  made  an 
able  address,  In  which  he  earnestly  urged  the  ex- 
hibitors to  league  together,  as  have  their  brother 
workers,  In  nearly  every  state,  to  protect  them- 
selves against  nnjust  legislation,  that  would  be 
detrimental  to  their  business.  The  exhibitors  were 
advised  what  benefits  the  trade  in  other  states  had 
secured  for  their  business,  simply  by  being  banded 
together  for  a  common  cause.  C.  B.  Kelleber, 
manager  of  the  City  Opera  House,  acted  as  chair- 
man of  the  convention.  A  committee  was  then 
appointed,  to  take  steps  toward  making  the  tem- 
porary league  a  permanent  one.  F.  X.  Cote,  a 
well  known  exhibitor  of  Biddeford,  Me.,  was  ap- 
pointed a  member  of  the  committee,  but  withdrew 
because  of  the  difficulty  of  getting  from  Biddeford 
to  the  large  cities,  where  the  exhibitors  will  meet. 
The  final  committee  appointed  consisted  of  Arthur 
Allen  of  the  Palace  theater,  Bangor,  J.  A.  Emery, 
of  the  Star  theater,  Bar  Harbor  and  Michael  St. 
Ledger  of  Skowhegan.  Each  exhibitor  present  was 
assessed  a  nominal  sum,  in  order  to  defray  cur- 
rent expenses  of  the  committee  and  to  bring  Iff, 
A.  Neff,  president  of  the  National  League,  and  his 
organizers  to  Maine.  The  board  appointed  will 
confer  with  the  Exhibitors*  League  of  America, 
and  with  Mr.  Neff,  who  was  unable  to  be  present, 
on  account  of  sudden  illness  at  Baltimore,  and  will 
report  at  a  special  meeting  of  the  exhibitors,  which 
will  be  held  in  Bangor,  in  about  two  weeks.  The 
exhibitors  left  Waterville  well  pleased  with  the 
cordial  reception  tendered  them  and,  from  indica- 
tions, Maine  exhibitors  will  soon  have  a  healthy 
baby  in  the  shape  of  the  youngest  member  of  the 
Exhibitors'  League.  Now  that  such  an  encourag- 
ing start  has  been  made  the  matter  should  be 
pushed  right  along,  and  nothing  left  undone  to 
assure  Maine  exhibitors  forming  their  local. 

The  Gordon  Brothers  Amusement  Company,  own- 
ing a  large  chain  of  theaters  devoted  to  the  ex- 
ploitation of  vaudeville  and  photoplays,  are  reported 
to  have  completed  arrangements,  whereby  they 
have  secured  ground  in  Worcester  from  the  Bige- 
low  estate,  upon  which  they  will  erect  a  large 
theater,  to  be  operated  along  the  usual  Gordon 
policy. 

Along  with  this  report.  It  Is  also  rumored  that 
this  concern  has  leased  the  Lyric  theater  of  Bridge- 
port, Conn.,  from  William  Fox.  Both  of  these 
statements  are  as  yet  unsubstantiated,  but  It  is 
thought   they   are  very   nearly  correct. 

A.  Goodside,  of  Portland,  Me.,  has  secured  prop- 
erty on  Oak  Street,  near  Congress,  of  this  city, 
upon  which  he  will  erect  a  theater  to  be  devoted 
to  vaudeville  and  moving  picture  programs.  The 
location  is  a  very  good  one,  being  near  to  the  Jef- 
ferson theater  and  there  should  be  plenty  of  busi- 
ness available  for  the  new  house.  The  theater  will 
be  modern  ond  first-class  In  every  way,  with  a  seat- 
ing capacity  of  about  1500,  and  should  be  completed 
by  the  last  of  August,   or  first  of  September. 

Mayor  Fitzgerald  of  Boston,  has  a  new  Idea  which 
is  to  give  shows  at  the  various  city  parks,  charg- 
ing five  and  ten  cents  as  admission.  Corporation 
Counsel  Corbett  has  advised  the  Mayor  that  it  will 
not  be  lawful  to  charge  admission  in  the  parks, 
and  the  Mayor  is  now  trying  to  overcome  this  dif- 
ficulty. 

"Mike"  Sheedy,  well  known  to  the  New  Eng- 
land trade,  has  opened  a  booking  agency  in  the 
Lawrence  Building.  Boston  in  charge  of  "Jack" 
Magann.  This  vaudeville  agency  Is  doing  business 
with  a  number  of  moving  picture  theaters  that  use 
acts   as  an   added   feature  of  their  programs. 

The  Empire  theater,  PIttsfield,  Mass.,  has  seen 
the  light  at  last,  and  Is  now  to  be  operated  as  a 
vaudeville  and  photoplay  theater  nnder  the  manage- 
ment of  Mr.  Strong,  from  Glens  Falls,  N.  Y.  The 
Empire  has  had  a  most  unsatisfactory  season,  hav- 
ing been  under  four  different  managements,  none 
of  which  was  able  to  do  anything  with  the  house. 
Now  that  vaudeville  and  pictures  have  been  select- 
ed as  the  policy,  there  Is  no  reason  why  the  Empire 
should  not  be  able  to  show  a  oroflt  Instead  of  the 
usual  loss.  (Continued   on  page  1382) 


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SITUATIONS   WANTED. 

MANAGER  open  for  engagement  In  any  N.  E. 
city  or  town.  Long  experience  In  all  branches  of 
amusement  business.  Address  MANAGER,  77a 
Revere  St.,  Suite  4,  Boston,  Mass. 

AT  LIBERTY— A-l  Cameraman,  formerly  with 
leading  licensed  manufacturer,  desires  position  with 
or  without  own  camera;  best  of  references.  Ad- 
dress, CAMERAMAN  E.,  c/o  Moving  Picture  World, 
New  York  City. 

AT  LIBERTY— A-l  operator,  five  years'  ex- 
perience; sober  and  reliable;  can  furnish  refer- 
ences. Address  w.  K.  RICHARDS,  SOT  Cheery 
6t.,  Findlay,   Ohio. 

HELP  WANTED. 

WANTED — A  young  man  capable  of  filling  the 
position  of  sales  manager  for  our  new  theater  con- 
struction and  equipment  department.  Must  have  a 
discriminating  taste  for  artistic  furnishings  and 
architectural  effects.  No  special  knowledge  neces- 
sary. Will  have  an  opportunity  to  become  Inter- 
ested in  a  prosperous  and  promising  business.  Ad- 
dress HARDESTY  MFG.  CO.,  Canal  Dover,  Ohio. 

BUSINESS  OPPORTUNITY. 
I  WILL  BUY  any  thing  from  a  second-hand  roll  of 
tickets  to  a  theater.  I  sell  machines,  chain, 
pianos,  etc.,  of  long  ago,  or  up-to-date.  Hays  ab>o 
•  few  picture  theatreB  for  sale.  Address  TRIGGER. 
212  Third  Ave.,  near  18th  St.,  New  York  City. 

A  NEW  FIELD — New,  Independent  occupation  for 
clever  young  business  ladies  in  every  large  city. 
Knowledge  of  photography  essential.  Small  in- 
vestment and  bond  required;  without  this,  save 
Btamps.  Kindly  give  full  particulars  and  refer- 
ences in  first  letter.  Address  "SPOTLIGHT,"  c/o 
Moving    Picture    World,    Chicago,    111. 

FOR  SALE — Established  Feature  Film  Exchange 
in  New  York  City,  including  twenty-five  first  class 
features  and  two  Talking  Picture  Machines  and  250 
commercial  reels.  Will  stand  investigation.  Ad- 
dress J.  B.,  care  of  Moving  Picture  World,  New 
York  City. 

MOVING  PICTURE  STUDIO  FOR  RENT,  day  or 
week.  Adress  CHEAP,  care  of  Moving  Picture 
World,   New  York  City. 

THEATERS  WANTED. 

WANTED — To  lease  or  buy,  motion  picture  the- 
aters doing  good  business,  in  Maryland,  Virginia, 
North  Carolina  and  South  Carolina,  in  towns  of 
6,000  population  and  upwards.  Give  all  particulars 
in  first  letter.  Address  607  WOODWARD  BLDG., 
Washington,  D.  C. 

WANT — To  buy  or  rent,  with  option  to  buy,  good 
paying  moving  picture  house.  Don't  waste  time  un- 
less proposition  is  first-class.  Address  RELIABLE, 
care  Moving  Picture  World,  New  York  City. 

THEATRES    FOR    SALE. 

THEATRE,  M.  P.,  300  seats.  An  honest  house 
In  a  growing  Chicago  neighborhood;  no  competi- 
tion. Beautiful.  Clearing  $75  week.  $4,000; 
favorable  lease.  Address  OWNER  P.  S.,  428  So. 
Harvey  Ave.,  Oak   Park,   Ills. 


FOR  SALE — Largest  Motion  Picture  House  in 
northern  Ohio  city  of  20,000.  Open  seven  days  a 
week.  Saturday  and  Sunday  admission  10  cents. 
Seats  400;  can  be  made  to  seat  500,  in  addition 
to  a  real  stage.  No  vaudeville  In  the  city.  This 
is  the  only  location.  House  is  making  money. 
Best  of  reasons  for  selling.  Long  lease,  double 
equipment.  The  first  three  thousand  dollars  cash 
takes  it.  Don't  write;  come  and  see  it.  Address 
E.  W.  RAMSAY,  The  Alvin  Theatre,  Mansfield, 
Ohio. 

FOR  SALE — New  brick  theatre  in  Pennsylvania 
town  of  2.500,  fifty  miles  from  Philadelphia. 
Capacity,  with  balcony,  650.  No  opposition;  modern 
in  every  way;  doing  profitable  business,  pictures, 
vaudeville  and  road  shows.  Stage  32x26  feet; 
two  sets  scenery.  A  valuable  property,  well  lo- 
cated on  lot  80  feet  front  by  150  feet  deep.  Can 
give  satisfactory  reasons  for  selling.  No  lease  or 
rent.  Don't  write  or  apply  unless  you  mean  busi- 
ness. Address  O.  T.,  care  of  Moving  Picture 
World,   New  York  City. 

FOR  SALE — Strictly  modern  exclusive  picture 
house  seating  three  hundred;  town  of  eighteen 
thousand;  state  of  Arkansas;  only  opposition  one 
other  house;  five  year  lease;  location  best  in  city; 
ten-cent  admission;  matinee  daily.  Making  big 
money;  will  prove  it  to  a  buyer  with  the  cash. 
Price  forty-two  hundred  dollars.  Will  bear  strictest 
investigation.  Address  THIRTY  FORTY-TWO 
West   One   Hundred  Third  St.,    Cleveland,    Ohio. 

FOR  SALE — Strictly  first  class  theatre  seating 
three  hundred.  Best  location  in  city  of  thirty- 
five  thousand  and  one  of  the  best  tourist  cities  in 
the  world,  showing  to  over  three  hundred  thousand 
people  last  year.  Reason  for  selling,  have  other 
business  out  of  town;  or  will  sell  one-half  and 
give  full  management  to  the  right  man.  Pri.e. 
three  thousand.  Address  THEATRE,  28  Falls  St., 
Niagara  Falls,  N.  Y. 


EQUIPMENT     FOR     SALE. 

FOR  SALE— A  complete  electric  generating  set, 
nearly  new.  3  K.  W.,  D.  C.  generator,  6  h.p.  gaso- 
line engine,  mounted  on  skids  ready  for  business. 
Cannot  use  in  my  new  location.  Price  $300.  Ad- 
dress E.  M.  BYERS,  Monticello,  Iowa. 

FOR  SALE — 8  H.  P.  Fairbanks-Morse  special 
electric  gasoline  engine  fitted  to  5  K.  W.  125  volt 
40  ampberes  Willey  generator.  Now  in  operation. 
Price  $150.  Address  JNO.  R.  WADE,  Trenton, 
Tenn. 

FOR  SALE — 10  H.  P.  direct  connected  Brush 
electric  light  outfit.  Cost  $800.  First  $400  gets  it. 
Address  JNO.   R.   WADE,  Trenton,  Tenn. 

FOR  SALE — Motiograpb  machine  No.  1,  with 
complete  equipment  and  in  first  class  shape,  $75. 
Powers  No.  5  machine,  new  magazines,  large  lamp 
house,  square  condenser  mountings,  $65.  Address 
STELZER  BROTHERS,  417   Broadway,   Lincoln,   III. 

WANTED — To  buy  250  second  hand  opera  chairs; 
they  must  be  cheap  and  in  good  condition.  Ad- 
dress L.   C.   MARSHALL,  Forest  City,   Ark. 


EQUIPMENT  WANTED. 

WANTED — To  buy  a  second-band  Powers  No.  6 
Head,  or  a  complete  machine,  in  A-l  condition. 
Nunc  best  price.  Address  X  Y  Z,  care  Moving 
Picture   World,    New    York  City. 


FILMS  WANTED. 

WANTED — One  and  two-reel  features  In  A-l  con- 
dition, with  paper.  Must  be  cheap.  Addreas  DR. 
CHAS.  LYNDON,   Homewortb,   Ohio. 


FILMS    FOR    SALE, 

FOR  »" — 500  reels  of  film  with  poster*  to 
match,  all  in  good  condition.  Many  subjects  prac- 
tically new.  Address  McINTIRE  *  RICHTEB,  2» 
E.  14th  St,,  New  York  City. 

FOR  SALE — The  great  3-reaI  feature.  "A  Trip 
to  the  Garden  of  Allah,"  including  advance  reel 
and  extensive  line  of  advertising.  One  of  the 
biggest  money-getters  on  the  road  today.  Too 
much  other  business  to  give  this  big  feature  th» 
proper  attention.  Lots  of  good  territory  left. 
Investigate  this  bargain.  Address  G.  O.  CUN- 
NINGHAM,   Martinsville,    111. 

FOR  SALE — "Pathe's  Passion  Play."  three  full 
reels,  hand  colored  and  toned,  fine  condition.  Big- 
gest feature.  Price  $225,  privilege  of  examination. 
Address  WYNDHAM  ROBERTSON,  Settegast 
Building,    Houston,   Texas. 

Dan,  The  Arizona  Scout,  $10;  At  Cripple  Creek, 
2  reels,  $20.  Posters  for  both.  Addresa  HOLDBN- 
RIED,    423   E.    17th    St..    New    York    City. 

CAMERAS    FOR    SALE. 

CAMERAS — All  standard  makes;  t'rban,  War- 
wick, American,  Gaumont,  Ernemann,  etc.  Tripods. 
Developing  apparatus.  I.umiere  film.  Address  MOR- 
TON H.  POWERS,  First  National  Bank  Bldg., 
Chicago.   111. 

PRESTWICH  CAMERA,  brand  new,  claw  move- 
ment; magazines  hold  350  feet  each,  with  carrying 
case.  Fine  for  professional  work  or  studio.  Price 
$375.  Address  151  West  42d  St.,  Suite  615,  New- 
York  City. 

BEFORE  BUYING  don't  fail  to  get  information  on 
our  cameras,  tripods,  tilts,  etc.  We  ship  for  in- 
spection. Address  CINEMA  CAMERA  CO.,  11  W. 
112th  St.,   New  York   City. 

OWING  TO  DEATH  of  owner  will  sell  cheap- 
one  new  Prestwich  type  camera,  complete,  witbj 
tilt  and  panorama  tripod.  Address  CAMERA,  carte 
Motion  Picture  World,   New   York  City. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

FURNISHED  ON  PERCENTAGE — Complete  pony 
or  piano  contest,  a  trade  stimulator:  investigate. 
Address  NATIONAL  CIRCULATION  SYSTEM, 
Dubuque,    Iowa. 

SCENARIOS  typewritten,  corrected  and  revised, 
$1.00.  Copy  work,  50  cents  per  1,000  words.  Ad- 
dress F.  M.  BOKER,  2950  Lake  Park  Ave.,  Ch!,- 
cago,   111. 


A  CALIFORNIA  STUDIO  FOR  SALE 

Fully  Equipped— Ready  lo  Produce 

A  rare  opportunity.  At  Santa  Paula,  Southern  California,  with  river,  moun- 
tains and  canyons  surrounding,  2j^  hours  by  Southern  Pacific  Railroad  from 
Los  Angeles.  About  I  1/3  acres;  furnished  private  house  with  9  rooms, 
bath,  gas,  electricity  and  water.  STUDIO,  24  by  42  feet,  ENTIRELY 
CLOSED  IN  (COVERED  AND  SURROUNDED)  BY  MOVABLE 
SCREENS.  Scenic  artist's  studio;  costume  rooms,  dressing-rooms;  shed 
for  twelve  horses.  Printing,  developing,  drying,  and  projecting  plant,  in- 
cluding modern  machinery.  Costumes,  settings,  props,  4  rigs,  7  horses, 
all  in  thoroughly  good  working  order.  TO  BE  DISPOSED  OF  IMMEDI- 
ATELY.     TERMS    REASONABLE.      For    further    information    inquire, 

G.    MELIES,    204     East    38th    St.,    New    York    or    Santa    Paula,    Cal. 


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Manager  0.  Williams,  of  the  Casino  theater. 
Providence,  R,  I.,  reports  excellent  business,  with 
a  straight  program  of  photoplays.  Mr.  Williams 
lluils  it  easy  to  fill  his  house,  without  nsing  any 
vaudeville. 

The  Providence,  R.  I.,  Opera  House,  Becured  the 
Ave  reel  feature  "The  Battle  of  Gettysburg,"  from 
the  Boston  office  of  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation, 
and  will  show  these  films  for  an  eleven  day  ran, 
starting  Tuesday,  June  10. 

Freeman  Bernstein,  the  well  known  New  York 
vaudeville  agent  has  opened  offices  at  2.8  Tre- 
mont  Street,  Boston,  under  the  charge  of  I.  P. 
Moore,  and  an  effort  will  be  made  to  book  acts 
in  New  England  vaudeville  and  photoplay  theaters. 

William  Gane,  who  was  managing  the  Witch 
Theater,  Salem,  Mass.,  until  Its  career  was  cut 
short  last  April,  by  fire  has  returned  to  New  York. 
Mr.  Gane  reports  that  the  Witch  theater  is  to  be 
Tebnllt. 

Five  years  ago  the  Columbia  theater,  Bath,  Me., 
was  destroyed  by  Are,  and  nobody  seemed  to  think 
the  house  worth  rebuilding,  until  Frank  W.  Burt, 
looked  over  the  proposition,  this  spring.  Mr.  Burt 
had  the  Columbia  entirely  rebuilt  and  erected  a 
flrst-class  theater,  which  he  la  operating  as  a 
straight  moving  picture  theater,  no  vaudeville  be- 
ing used.  Last  week  the  house  was  given  its  de- 
but, at  which  Mayor  Edward  W.  Larrabee  was 
present,  introducing  Manager  Burt  to  the  audience. 
Business  opened  up  In  fine  shape,  It  being  reported 
that  1500  people  attended  the  opening. 

Manager  Fred  M.  Engley  of  the  New  Empire  thea- 
ter, Rockford,  Me.,  is  certainly  giving  a  tremen- 
dous show  to  his  patrons.  Seven  reels  of  photo- 
plays, and  a  stock  company  is  what  the  Empire  is 
offering.  Good  business  Is  the  result  of  this  liberal 
policy,  according  to  Mr.  Tngley. 

A.  Paul  Keith  and  E.  F.  Albee,  were  in  St. 
John.  Canada,  last  week,  looking  over  their  new 
Keith  theater. 

Miss  Ruth  B.  Law,  sister  of  Rodman  Law,  who 
does  "stunts"  for  Reliance  films,  is  an  expert  avla- 
trlx,  as  she  proved  to  everyone's  entire  satisfac- 
tion after  giving  exhibitions  of  spiral  flyings  at 
Rocky  Point,  near  Providence,  R.  I.,  last  week. 

Manager  W.  A.  Locke,  Jr.,  of  the  Columbia  The- 
ater, Taunton,  Mass.,  now  has  a  fine,  up-to-date 
theater,  as  the  seating  capacity  of  his  theater  has 
been  increased  by  300,  due  to  the  Installing  of  a 
balcony.  Mr.  Locke  also  has  Increased  the  size  of 
his  stage,  and  finds  that  business  is  responding 
nicely  to  the  large  bills  of  vaudeville  and  photo- 
plays he  is  giving. 

The  Majestic  Theater  is  the  latest  house  at  Taun- 
ton, Mass..  to  enter  the  field  of  vaudeville  and 
moving  picture  houses.  The  Majestic  was  formerly 
known  as  Odd  Fellows  Hall.  Extensive  alterations 
and  improvements  were  made,  and  the  bouse  at 
present  has  a  seating  capacity  of  900,  Including  a 
balcony.  A  straight  program  of  photoplays  and 
songs  Is  now  being  given.  Five  reels  of  pictures, 
changed  three  times  each  week.  Is  the  present  policy 
although  vaudeville  acts  may  be  added  later  on. 
Manager  William  A.  Ormsbee  has  great  faith  in 
the  future  of  the  Majestic,  and  has  no  doubt  but 
what  the  house  will  prove  itself  a  money-maker. 
The  Majestic  is  well  located,  and  should  not  have 
any  great  difficulty  in  securing  Its  share  of  the 
Taunton  trade,  although  competition  is  keen  in 
this  city. 

A  new  theater  is  assured  for  Lowell,  Mass.,  as 
Messrs.  Harpoot  and  Topijan  have  purchased  land 
on  Merrimack  and  Tremont  streets,  upon  which  they 
will  erect  a  theater.  Plans  have  been  ordered, 
calling  for  a  first-class  house,  with  a  total  seating 
capacity  of  1,250  people.  The  new  theater  will  be 
■of  brick  and  steel  construction,  and  thoroughly 
fireproof  in  every  way.  Messrs.  Harpoot  and  Top- 
ijan state  they  will  spare  no  expense  and  expect  to 
have  the  finest  theater  in  Lowell,  to  be  devoted  to 
vaudeville  and  picture  programs.  The  location  se- 
lected is  an  unusually  good  one,  and  It  would  appear 
that  this  proposition  is  to  be  a  winner  for  its  owners. 
The  Congress  Theater,  Greenwich,  Conn.,  is  finding 
business  very  good,  and  has  installed  a  Hallberg 
Standard  A.  C.  Economizer,  which  has  proved  very 
satisfactory  to  the  management. 

The  Gordon  Photoplay  House,  at  Rochester,  N  V  . 
Is  doing  a  capacity  business,  according  to  Nathan 
H.  Cordon,  of  the  Gordon  Brothers'  Amusement 
Company,  of  Boston.  This  concern  Is  very  enter- 
prising and  active,  and  sees  no  reason  why  it  should 
limit  the  scope  of  its  operations  to  the  New  Eng- 
land territory. 

Feature  pictures  are  doing  very  well  at  the  Gaiety 
Theater.  Boston,  and  the  management  has  decided 
to  Continue  the  policy  for  a  time.  The  programs 
are  given  under  the  direct  supervision  of  Manager 
Ripley,  who  is  the  business  manager  of  the  house 
for   George  H.    Batchellor. 

On  Tuesday,  May  27.  members  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Brancli  of  the  Exhibitors'  League  held  a 
meeting  at  their  Boston  headquarters,  to  take  action 
-on  the  resignation  of  the  president,  Joseph  Mack, 
and  to  choose  delegates  to  the  New  York  Conven- 
tion. No  business  of  any  nature  was  transacted, 
owing  to  lack  of  a  quorum.  This  is  the  third  meet- 
ing that  has  been  held  in  the  last  three  weeks,  at 
which  nothing  was  accomplished,  owing  to  insuffi- 
cient representation  of  members.  The  Massachu- 
setts Branch  seems  to  hi-  suffering  a  severe  case 
■of  lack  of  interest,  following  the  defeat  of  the  "Low 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE  WORLD 


bill"  In  the  Massachusetts  Senate.  No  date  has 
been  made  at  this  writing  for  the  next  meeting. 

Anthony  Stern,  or  "Buck,"  as  be  is  usually  called, 
Is  making  loads  of  friends  these  days  at  the  Boston 
offices  of  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation,  where  he 
holds  forth  as  "booker."  "Buck"  Is  the  man  that 
dopes  out  the  programs  for  many  Mutual  exhibitors. 

A  S.  Phillips,  attorney  for  Congressman  W.  S. 
Greene,  owner  of  tlie  Bijou  Theater,  Fall  River, 
Mass.,  has  taken  poasesslon  of  this  theater,  on  ac- 
count of  the  lease,  the  B.  &  G.  Theater  Company,  of 
Providence,    R.  I.,   being  in  arrears  In  rent. 

Harry  Morrissey,  of  New  Bedford,  Mass.,  has 
been  elected  a  delegate  from  the  local  of  that  city 
to  the  convention  of  the  International  Alliance  of 
Theatrical  Employes,  to  be  held  in  Seattle,  Wash- 
ington, during  the  first  week  in  July. 

The  Star  Theater,  Dover,  N.  H.,  hit  upon  a  novel 
scheme  to  bring  in  the  dimes,  when  it  gave  a  special 
performance  to  about  300  Greeks,  showing  Balkan 
War  pictures,  at  advanced  prices.  Vaudeville  and 
picture  programs  are  doing  very  well  at  this  house. 

Manager  Streeter  has  60ld  out  his  interests  In 
the  Bijou  Theater,  Greenfield,  Mass.,  to  Mr.  William 

A.  Davenport.  The  Bijou  will  be  operated  as  a 
vaudeville  and  photoplay  theater,  as  usual. 

The  new  Victoria  Theater,  Greenfield,  Mass.,  will 
soon  be  open  to  the  public  by  Managers  McCarthy 
and  Streeter.  This  house  Is  a  flrst-class  one  In 
every  respect,   and  should  do  well. 

Waterville,  Me.,  Is  to  hold  a  real  convention,  to 
start  June  4,  with  the  Idea  of  establishing  a 
branch  of  the  Exhibitors'  League  of  America.  It 
is  believed  that  at  least  200  exhibitors  from  the 
State  of  Maine  will  be  present,  as  well  as  rep- 
resentatives of  moving  picture  machines,  etc.  Gov- 
ernor Haines  and  Mayor  Pattangall  are  to  be  among 
the  especially  invited  guests,  and  the  governor  will 
be  asked  to  address  the  exhibitors.     Manager  Fred 

B.  Murphy,  of  the  Maine  branch  of  the  Mutual  Film 
Corporation,  has  arranged  to  entertain  the  exhibitors 
at  the  Silver  Theater,  where  the  five-reel  subject. 
"The  Battle  of  Gettysburg,"  will  be  shown.  There 
is  no  reason  why  Maine  exhibitors  should  not  get 
together  and  form  a  well-knit  branch  of  the  Ex- 
hibitors' League,  and  there  is  every  good  reason 
why  they  should  do  so.  They  are  Just  In  time  to 
elect  delegates  to  the  New  York  Convention,  this 
July.  Get  together,  all  you  moving  picture  people 
of  Maine,  for  your  own  benefit! 

The  Fairyland  Theater,  Camden,  Me.,  is  to  have 
competition  before  very  long,  as  S.  Hansen  has  se- 
cured a  site,  next  to-  Fairyland,  where  he  will  build 
a  flrst-class  theater,  to  be  devoted  to  a  straight 
photoplay  program,  no  vaudeville  to  be  used.  The 
Fairyland  Theater  reports  very  good  business. 

Cornelius  Qulnlan  has  decided  to  erect  a  moving 
picture  theater  on  Main  street,  Fltchburg,  Mass.  A 
splendid  location  has  been  secured,  near  the  Fitch- 
burg  Savings  Bank.  Mr.  Quintan's  new  bouse  will 
seat  650  persons,  and  is  to  be  of  brick  construction. 
A  stage  will  probably  be  built,  so  that  vaudeville 
can  be  used,  in  connection  with  the  photoplays. 

It  looks  very  much  as  if  Springfield,  Msss.,  is  to 
have  another  theater  in  the  near  future.  The  Hamp- 
den Realty  Company  has  decided  to  erect  a  large 
theater  at  the  corner  of  Bliss  and  Main  streets, 
and  plans  are  now  being  made,  which  call  for  a 
modern  and  thoroughly  fireproof  theater,  to  seat 
1,500  persons.  The  new  house  will  be  devoted  to 
the  exploitation  of  vaudeville  and  pictures.  Al- 
though Springfield  has  a  number  of  photoplay  houses, 
yet  the  proposed  theater  has  an  unusually  good 
location,  and  should  get  Its  share  of  the  trade. 

At  Tremont  Temple,  Boston,  beginning  Monday, 
June  9.  the  Carnegie  Museum  Alaska-Siberia  motion 
pictures  are  scheduled  for  exhibition.  These  pictures 
will  he  run  at  Tremont  Temple  for  about  one  month, 
unless  business  should  fall  off  unexpectedly. 

George  W.  Allen,  the  New  Beoford  exhibitor,  who 
had  an  attack  of  appendicitis,  is  now  recovering, 
which  will  be  good  news  to  the  many  friends  of 
Mr.  Allen,  who  is  a  great  favorite  with  his  brother 
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The  office  of  the  Warner  Features,  which  is  under 
the  management  of  Ben  Abrams,  has  recently  been 
altered  and  the  office  force  Increased.  Mr.  Abrams 
now  occupies  a  private  office,  at  which  visitors 
are   always  welcome. 

George  Graff,  who  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Quaker  City  Features  and  later  with  the 
Star  Feature  Film  Company,  is  contemplating 
opening    a    feature   film    service   in    the   city. 

Louis  H.  Choan,  a  veteran  motion  picture  ex- 
hibitor of  this  city,  is  about  to  have  erected  a 
new  theater  at  Tulpehocken  street  and  German- 
town  avenue.  Plans  are  now  being  made  by  a 
local   architect. 

Adolph  Bonner  will  operate  a  new  theater  at 
Sixth  and  Pike  streets  which  is  now  in  course 
of  construction. 

Peter  Maguire  Is  having  plans  prepared  for  a 
moving  picture  theater  to  be  erected  at  Sixtieth 
street  and  Cedar  avenue,  which  is  to  cost  $12,000. 
The  building  is  to  be  one  story  brick,  75  x  110 
feet,    with  a   seating   capacity  of  975. 

The  Grand  Opera  House,  at  Broad  and  Mont- 
gomery Btreets,  is  running  a  five  cent  picture  show 
and  will  continue  for  the  summer.  Directly  after 
it  Is  closed  alterations  will  be  made  to  the  in- 
terior and  with  the  winter  season  opening,  high 
dass  vaudeville  attractions  will  be  run.  Fred 
Nixon-Nirdlinger  is  the  new  manager. 

The  Mansion  Realty  Company  has  taken  title  to 
a  plot  of  ground  at  32325-U  Ridge  avenue  as  a 
site  for  a  moving  picture  house.  The  theater  will 
be  one  of  the  finest  In  the  northwest  section  and 
will  cost  about  $20,000. 

F.  William  Kamp  was  In  charge  of  the  display 
of  the  Calehuff  Supply  Company  at  the  exhibit  of 
the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  Convention. 
Tlie  Kinemacolor  Company  of  America  was  on 
deck  at  the  showing  of  "La  Parislenne  Elegante  in 
Her  Boudoir,"  at  the  Gimble  Brothers'  Store,  this 
city,  and  photographed  demonstrations  of  how  ladies 
are  to  wear  the  latest  style  of  French  lingerie. 

The  new  Plaza  Theater,  located  at  Broad  and 
Porter  streetB,  was  opened  on  May  20,  and  the 
management  was  more  than  pleased  with  crowds 
that  patronized  the  house. 

J.  F.  McCartney,  owner  of  the  Empire  Theater, 
Frankford,  is  having  the  building  remodeled  and 
a  number  of  improvements  made,  which  will  make 
the  place  safer  and  also  increase  the  seating  ca- 
pacity. 

Councilman  Wilson,  of  Reading,  has  offered  a 
bill  to  the  City  Council,  which,  if  passed,  will  make 
it  unlawful  for  motion  picture  exhibitors  to  show 
any  picture  in  that  city  which  has  not  been  passed 
bv  the  National  Board  of  Censors. 

Frank  Bubler,  manager  of  the  Bijou  Dream  The- 
ater, recently  returned  from  Newark,  where  he 
opened  a  new  theater  for  R.  Boyd,  owner  of  a 
Philadelphia  house. 

Charles  Kaplan  will  erect  a  moving  picture  house 
at  1426  South  Fourth  street.  The  theater  will  he 
a  one-story  brick  building,  and  will  cost  about 
$14,000. 

The  Somerset  Amusement  Company  will  operate 
a  new  picture  theater,  which  is  now  in  the  course 
of  construction  at  Twenty-sixth  and  Somerset 
streets.  The  theater  will  involve  many  new  ideas, 
and  will  cost  $11,000. 

Camden,  N.  J.,  exhibitors  are  not  very  much 
pleased  with  an  ordinance  which  was  recently 
passed  by  the  Council  of  that  city.  The  new  law, 
which  went  into  effect  recently,  has  Increased  the 
license  fee  of  all  theaters. 

Excessive  rains  recently  caused  the  rear  roof  of 
the  Princess  Theater  in  Camden  to  fall,  entailing 
a  loss  of  about  $3,000.  Included  In  the  wreck  was 
an  $1,800  electric  player  piano.  Five  rows  of  seats 
were  also  demolished,  and  much  of  the  scenery 
and  screen  was  wrecked.  The  theater  is  owned  by 
Abe  Greenburg. 

Reading,  Pa.,  exhibitors  have  formed  an  asso- 
ciation, which  will  be  affiliated  with  the  Moving 
riture  Exhibitors'  League  of  America,  and  will 
hold  regular  weekly  meetings  at  the  Victor  Theater. 
It  is  the  purpose  of  those  back  of  the  association 
to  have  every  exhibitor  in  Reading  a  member. 

CONGDON. 


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PHILADELPHIA. 

ILLIAM  I.  FORRBY  and  M.  B.  Rlebsteln,  both 
of  this  city,  recently  purchased  the  Crescent 
Theater  at  Reading,  from  J.  G.  Wolf.  Mr.  Forrey 
will  manage  the  theater  and  will  reside  in  Reading. 

Frank  Bubler,  manager  of  the  Bijou  Dream  The- 
ater of  1205  Market  street,  with  Mr.  A.  L.  Boyd 
biive  opened  the  Family  Theater  at  Newark.  Mr. 
Bubler  will  manage  the  Newark  house  for  a  short 
time.  While  Mr.  Buhler  Is  in  Newark,  Mr.  Joseph 
Wallace,  assistant  manager  of  the  Bijou  Dream, 
will   have  charge  of  the  local  house. 

William  R.  Mack,  who  has  the  state-right  on 
"Cleopatra,"  is  working  up  a  great  line  of  book- 
ings in  Philadelphia.  The  William  Penn  Theater, 
which  has  the  largeat  seating  capacity  of  any 
theater  In  Philadelphia,  has  booked  the  show  for 
an  entire  week.  It  is  also  rumored  that  the  show 
will  be  placed  on  exhibition  at  the  Forest  Theater. 


PORTLAND. 

PM.    STANDISH    has    been    named    to    succeed 
•  O.   H.   Kerr,    as  manager  of  the  Circle  Theater 
of   Portland. 

Melvin  G.  Winstock,  general  manager  of  the  Peo- 
ples Amusement  Company,  has  returned  from  a 
three  weeks'  trip  from  Los  Angeles.  In  an  inter- 
view with  Mr.  Winstock,  he  said:  "Los  Angeles 
Is  the  Paradise  of  the  world  in  the  moving  picture 
profession.  Over  5,000  people  are  employed  to  pro- 
duce the  pictures  through  wonderfully  organized 
companies.  Over  $20,000,000  is  Invested  in  this 
superb  Industry  and  splendid  salaries  are  r«l<J 
their  people.  Something  of  interest  is  the  keen 
rivalry  between  the  companies  to  see  the  number 
of  pictures  that  can  be  turned  out."  While  at 
Los  Angeles,  Mr.  Winstock  was  the  guest  of  the 
Photoplayers'  Club  and  addressed  the  members  on 
several  occasions.  He  has  several  new  features 
up  his  sleeve  which  he  Intends  to  spring  on  the 
public  in  the  near  future  in  the  way  of  some  class- 
ical features  that  he  has  booked  outright  from 
the  companies  while  visiting  at  the  studios  in 
Southern  California  during  his  stay  in  Los  An- 
geles. 

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IN   THE   MIDDLE   WEST. 

Tn  HE  Lyric  theater  at  Davenport,  la.,  Is  elated 
*■  at  being  one  of  the  first  picture  bouses  to 
play     the    talking    pictures. 

The  Princess  Theater  at  Oskaloosa,  la.,  has  been 
Bold  by  W.  I.  Neagle  to  A.  A.  Stfgers  and  F.  B. 
Trelble    of   Tama. 

W.  A.  Marx  has  sold  the  Lyric  Theater  at  Sac 
City,   la.,   to  W.   H.   Hoffman. 

H.  A.  Watklns  formerly  of  the  Lyric  Theater  at 
Boone,  la.,  has  purchased  two  picture  houses  at 
Centerville,   la. 

Kirby  &  Hawkins,  proprietors  of  the  Gem  The- 
ater at  Monroe  City,  Mo.,  will  open  an  airdome 
In    that  city. 

The  Red  Men's  Band  of  Fowler,  Ind.,  will  oper- 
ate an  airdome  In  that  city  this  summer.  Pictures 
will    make   up   the   program. 

The  Orpheum  Theater  at  Lincoln,  Neb. ,  haa 
opened  its  summer  season.  Vaudeville  and  feature 
photoplays  are  given  the  first  half  of  the  week 
and  musical  comedies  the  last  half.  Manager 
Garman  has  installed  two  new  Power's  6-A  camera- 
graphs  which  were  displayed  to  the  public  before 
they  were  put  into  use. 

A  new  $40,000  amusement  hall  will  be  con- 
structed at  the  asylum  for  insane  at  Lincoln.  The 
picture  machine  will  form  a  part  of  the  equip- 
ment. 

Boyd's  Theater  at  Omaha,  Neb,,  has  been  sold 
by  his  widow  and  children  to  a  St.  Louis  syndicate. 
The  Aerdome  Amusement  Company,  which  is  to 
operate  an  alrdome  in  Elkhart,  Ind.,  has  been  in- 
corporated with  a  capital  stock  of  $3,000.  The  in- 
corporators are  F.  S.  Timmins,  M.  Timmins  and 
N.  K.  Miller.  The  opening  took  place  on  May  29. 
Despite  an  order  of  the  prosecuting  attorney  and 
sheriff,  the  moving  picture  men  at  Jefferson  City, 
Mo.,  all  gave  shows  on  Sunday,  May  26,  and  donated 
the  receipts  to  St.  Mary's  hospital.  The  managers 
issued  a  statement  declaring  the  majority  of  the 
people  favored  Sunday  pictures,  and  that  there  is 
no  state  or  city  law  to  prohibit  them.  Injunctions 
have  been  filed  against  each  of  the  managers,  and 
the  cases  will  be  tried  some  time  In  July.  The 
moving  picture  men  will  carry  the  case  to  the 
supreme  court  if  they  are  defeated  in  the  lower 
tribunals. 

The  Elkhart  Orpheum  Company,  of  Elkhart,  Ind.. 
baa  been  incorporated  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$25,000  for  amusements.  The  directors  are:  C.  J. 
Allardt,   A.   B.  Chambers  and  U.  G.  Jones. 

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IN  THE  NORTHWEST. 

AMOVING  picture  show  men  of  New  Ulm,  Minn.. 
J-va  hare  been  asked  to  not  ran  advertising 
■lldes  ot  corsets  which  the  Current  News  Club, 
composed  of  women,  believes  is  very  harmful  to 
the   morals  of  the  young-  people. 

Tranfc  Felix  has  been  made  manager  of  the 
Re*  Theater  at  Spooner,   Wis. 

The  semi-annual  Inspection  of  the  picture  shows 
In  the  state  of  Michigan  by  the  state  Ore  marshal, 
■which  Is  provided  for  In  a  law  passed  by  the  last 
legislature,    requires    a    fee   of   $10. 

Charles  Herrold  and  William  Westfall  of  North 
Platte,  Neb.,  have  purchased  the  Lyric  Theater  at 
Deadwood,    S.    D.,    from   Leo   Bertellero. 

A  number  of  licenses  for  moving  picture  the- 
aters in  Minneapolis  were  held  up  for  a  week 
because  the  approval  of  the  building  Inspector  had 
net  been  secured.  They  were  permitted  to  operate 
pending    the    inspection. 

The  city  council  of  Princeton,  Minn.,  has  ordered 
an  ordinance  drawn  providing  for  an  annual  li- 
cense fee  of  $25  for  operators  of  moving  picture 
"theaters. 

J.  A.  Jensen,  of  Turin.  la.,  has  bought  the 
Jewell  theater  at  Blunt,  S.  D.,  from  S.  F.  Mo- 
<Haln. 

The  Fuller  at  MadisM.  Wis.  has  begun  the  pic- 
ture season,  playing  fejrotea  with  four  changes 
a  week. 

W.  L.  Giersdorff,  has  sold  the  Odeon  Theater  at 
Beaver  Dam,  Wis.,  to  Glassman  &  Knoebel  of  West 
Allis. 

Manager  Archie  Miller  if  the  Granc*  Theater  at 
Mlnot,  N.  D.,  has  reduced  »he  admission  of  his 
picture  show   to  five  cents. 

Dr.  E.  M.  Vallentlne  Is  to  open  a  new  moving 
picture  show  at  Yankton,  N.  D.  He  has  leased  the 
building  in  which  he  formerly  "oniluoted  the  Lyri", 
and  after  remodeling  it  will  conduct  a  first  class 
photoplay  house. 

Arrangements  were  made  to  tak»  the  Masonic 
Homecoming  events  at  Fargo,  N.  1).,  June  1,  for 
the   Pathe  Weekly. 


The  Young  Peoples  Congregational  Club  of  Dr. 
Beard's  Church  In  Fargo,  N.  D.,  will  attempt  to 
make  moving  pictures  a  regular  feature  of  the 
Sunday  evening  services.  The  first  two  films  se- 
cured were:  "The  Prince  of  Israel,"  and  "From 
Jerusalem  to  the  Red  Sea." 

Green  &  Agnew,  of  St.  Paul,  won  their  fight 
in  the  city  council  for  a  license  for  their  ui-w 
$25,000  Lake  Street  theater  by  a  vote  ot  13  to  11. 

The  new  Majestic  theater  In  St  Paul  opened 
May  17,  under  the  same  management  as  that  of 
the  Princess.  Kinemacolor  picture*  will  he  fea- 
tured. 

The  colonial  Idea  prevails  '.n  t'.ie  construction  of 
the  Colonial  theater  which  lias  beei  opened  at  3£0 
Wabaeh  street  in  St.  Paul.  Matinee  and  evening 
programs  will  be  given. 

S.  C.  Hicks  has  sold  the  Majestic  theater  at 
Wilmar,  Minn.,  to  N.  H.  Cariv,  of  Minneapo.!, 
Minn. 

The  Kalem  feature  "From  the  Manger  to  the 
Cross,"  played  a  return  date  at  the  Lyric  In  Minne- 
apolis. 

E.  J.  Weisfelds  has  sold  tne  Crystal  thentor  in 
Plymouth,    Wis.,    to  August    It.    Scbribler. 

A.  C.  Hinkley  has  made  plans  for  a  new  com- 
mercial building  at  Bismark,  N.  D  ,  the  lowe.-  ?nnr 
of  which  will  be  used  for  a   nw;iin  picture  house. 

A.  Hemberger  has  sold  his  moving  picture  .show 
at    Foley,    Minn.,    to  J.    Novak. 

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BUFFALO. 

BERNARD  VOHWINKEL  has  filed  plans  for  the 
±J  erection  of  a  moving  picture  theater  at  1592 
Genesee  street,  Buffalo,  to  cost  $40,000.  The  build- 
ing Is  to  replace  the  present  theater  on  the  same 
site. 

A  new  one-atory  brick  moving  picture  theater  is 
to  be  erected  at  the  southeast  corner  of  Broadway 
and  Michigan  street,  Buffalo,  by  Charles  Farrell. 
It  will  cost  about  $20,000,  and  the  plans  are  now 
being  prepared  by  Mr.  Farrell,  who  has  promoted 
nine  similar  amusement  places  in  this  city.  He  will 
commence  the  erection  of  a  moving  picture  theater 
in  Williamsvllle.  It  Is  understood  that  Mr.  Farrell 
is  preparing  to  mandamus  the  Buffalo  common 
council  for  its  refusal  to  grant  a  permit  for  a  mov- 
ing picture  show  on  Kenmore  avenue,  near  Delaware 
avenne.  The  petitioner  claims  to  have  a  majority 
of  the  residence  within  the  prescribed  distance. 

An  order  has  been  granted  by  Justice  Marcns, 
Buffalo,  compelling  Edward  Sperry,  as  president 
of  the  Buffalo  aldermen,  to  show  cause  why  the 
petition  of  Max  Levlne  to  operate  a  moving  picture 
show  at  345  Elk  street,  should  not  be  favorably 
acted  upon  by  the  common  council.  The  aldermen 
denied  the  petition  about  a  week  ago  on  motion 
of  John  P.  Sullivan,  In  whose  ward  Mr.  Levlne 
wants  the  theater.  Alderman  Sperry  referred  the 
matter  to  the  corporation  council,  who  will  argue 
against  granting  the  petition. 

The  Shea  Amusement  Co.  has  been  granted  a 
permit  for  the  construction  of  the  new  Gaiety 
Theater,  at  354  Pearl  street,  Buffalo.  The  theater 
will  be  a  most  up-to-date  and  modern  fireproof  build- 
ing, and  will  cost  $130,000.  Burlesque  will  be 
featured.  Moving  pictures  will  be  occasionally  a 
part  of  the  programme. 

A  report  which  reached  Buffalo  recently  from 
Belleville,  Ont.,  says:  "The  Griffin  Amusement  Co., 
which  has  been  running  a  moving  picture  show  in 
the  opera  house  here  for  three  years,  will  build  a 
modern  theater  In  this  city,  costing  in  the  neighbor- 
hood of  $75,000.  It  Is  understood  that  the  site  is 
on  Front  street."  BILLY  BISON. 


INDIANAPOLIS. 

TN  the  case  of  Harry  Swaln,  Judge  James  A. 
-1  Collins  of  the  city  police  court  has  held  the 
ordinance  requiring  motion  picture  theater  operators 
to  be  examined  and  licensed,  invalid.  For  some 
years  the  city  has  required  operators  to  pass  an 
examination  before  the  city  building  Inspector  and 
pay  a  license  fee  of  $5  a  year.  The  court  holds 
that  the  city  charter  does  not  give  the  city  council 
the  right  legally  to  pass  the  ordinance  In  question. 

At  a  recent  Joint  session  of  the  history  section 
of  the  Indiana  Teachers  Association  and  the  In- 
diana Historical  Society  in  this  city,  Robert  lieber, 
agent  for  the  General  Film  Company,  lectured  on 
the  educational  value  of  the  motion  picture  and 
showed  a  number  of  historical  BlmB.  He  said 
motion  pictures  could  be  used  to  excellent  advan- 
tage in  teaching  history,  geography  and  other 
subjects   in   the   schools. 

Mayor  Jesse  Grice  of  Fort  Wayne  has  refused 
to  comply  with  a  request  of  the  Fort  Wayne 
Ministerial  Association  that  motion  picture  theaters 
be  closed  on  Sunday.  Mayor  Grice  says  that  public 
sentiment  favors  Sunday  performances  and  that 
the  public  needs  relaxation  and  amusement  on 
Sunday. 

The  Atlas  Amusement  Company  has  taken  a  ten 
year  lease  on  property  at  the  southeast  corner  of 
College  avenne  and  Nineteenth  street,  where  it 
will  bntld  a  motion  picture  theater.  The  building 
will  be  two  stories  high  and  of  pressed  brick  con- 
struction. It  will  have  a  seating  capacity  of  700. 
The  company  now  has  a  motion  picture  theater  at 
Columbia  avenne  and  Nineteenth  street,  which  it 
will  continue  to  operate. 


Charles  Warren  Fairbanks,  former  vice-president 
ot  the  United  States.  Is  about  to  let  contracts  for 
one  of  the  finest  motion  picture  theaters  in  the 
residence  district  of  Indianapolis.  It  will  be  at 
Illinois  and  Thirtieth  streets  and  will  be  of  pressed 
brick,  trimmed  with  stone  and  tera  cotta.  The 
building  will  be  a  one  story  structure  93  by  173 
feet  and  In  addition  to  containing  the  motion  pic- 
ture theater,  will  provide  quarters  for  a  garage 
and    five    salesrooms. 

P.  A.  Powers  was  in  the  city  during  the  week 
of  May  26,  conferring  with  James  J.  Orbett,  former 
champion  pugilist,  who  was  appearing  at  the  Lyric 
Theater,  in  regard  to  Corbett  appearing  for  a 
series   of    motion    pictures. 

A  lease  has  been  taken  on  the  Crump  Theater  at 
Columbus  by  the  Cincinnati  Amusement  Company, 
which  conducts  a  string  of  motion  picture  theaters 
through  Indiana  and  Ohio. 

W.  S.  Barrett  is  letting  contracts  for  a  new 
motion  picture  theater  to  be  built  at  Thirtieth  and 
London  streets.  It  will  be  50  by  110  feet  and 
one  story  high,  with  a  seating  capacity  for  about 
four  hundred.  Construction  will  be  of  dark,  hard 
burned  brick,  with  cement  floors  and  a  fireproof 
roof. 

An  airdome  will  be  established  at  Elkhart  by  th» 
newly  organized  Alrdome  Amusement  Company, 
which  has  been  Incorporated  with  authorised  capi- 
talization of  $3,000.  Those  interested  in  the  com- 
pany are  Ned  K.  Miller,  Metta  Timmins  and  Fred 
S.  Timmins,  all  of  Elkhart. 

Union  No.  194  of  the  Moving  Picture  Machine 
Operators'  League,  of  this  city,  has  been  circulat- 
ing cardB  nrglng  people  not  to  attend  motion  picture 
theaters  not  employing  operators  who  are  mem- 
bers of  the  union. 

C.    L.    CUMMINS. 


IOWA. 

T1  HE  church  took  hold  of  literature  and  music 
-t  and  elevated  It  to  its  own  purposes;  it  must 
now  turn  its  attention  to  the  theaters,  the  picture 
shows,  dance  halls  and  the  game  room,"  said  E.  C. 
Wolcott,  secretary  of  the  Sioux  City  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  in 
an  address  before  the  Iowa  State  Congregational 
Association  at  Tabor. 

A  thousand  feet  of  film  of  student  life  at  the 
State  University  of  Iowa  at  Iowa  City,  and  a  thou- 
sand feet  of  scenes  about  Iowa  City,  were  recently 
taken. 

Tony  Magle  has  leased  the  Boe  Theater  and  Sum- 
mer Garden  in  Clinton. 

Criticism  of  the  films  made  to  advertise  the  State 
college,  at  Ames,  haa  been  made,  on  the  ground 
that  the  pictures  gave  too  much  prominence  to 
athletics,  and  not  enough  of  the  real  work  of  the 
school.  Ex-senator  Thomas  Lambert,  of  the  finance 
committee  of  the  State  Board  of  Education,  dissents 
from  this  opinion,  and  thinks  that  the  films  will 
show  real  conditions  at  the  college.  A  committee 
was  appointed  to  censor  the  pictures. 

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SPRINGFIELD, 

HE  blue  law  cases,  including  those  against  the 
Springfield  moving  picture  men,  charged  with 
violatiDg  the  Sunday  law,  have  again  been  dismissed 
for  lack  of  prosecution. 

The  Amus-u  Theater,  which  has  been  running 
licensed  service,   has  switched  to  Mntual  films. 

The  Mid-Way  Theater,  at  Assumption,  is  conduct- 
ing a  popular  young  ladies'  contest,  with  a  divan 
as  capital  prize. 

George  Frailey,  formerly  a  member  of  the  city 
fire  department  In  G'alesburg,  has  purchased  the 
Pastime  Theater,  on  East  Main  street,  in  that  city. 
Mrs.  Frailey,  who,  for  some  years,  has  been  as- 
sociated with  the  Elite  Theater,  will  assist  him  In 
the  management. 

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months  ago.  The  picture  of  the  girl  will  be  flash- 
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F.  S.  Timmins,  who  is  building  an  airdome  at 
Elkhart,  has  decided  to  enclose  it  with  a  steel  fence 
instead  of  a  canvas  Bide  wall. 

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SHENANDOAH  (Special,  3  parts,  June  4).— Part 
One. — Constance,  the  second  wife  of  General  Haver- 
hill, befriends  the  officer's  son,  Prank,  who  has 
been  ostracized.  On  the  night  of  April  12th,  1861, 
she  gives  a  ball  at  Charleston,  S.  C.  Frank  gets 
word  to  Mrs.  Haverhill  that  he  is  hiding  in  the 
city.  The  father  will  not  be  reconciled,  but  sends 
the  boy  a  miniature  of  Constance. 

At  the  ball  are  Col.  Kerchival  West  and  his  sis- 
ter,  Madeline,  Robert  Illingham  and  his  sister,  Ger- 
trude. Fort  Sumpter  is  flred  upon  and  Illingham 
declares  his  allegiance  to  the  Confederacy.  He  is 
deeply  in  love  with  Madeline  West,  whose  brother 
fondly  admires  Gertrude. 

Capt.  Thornton  Insults  Mrs.  Haverhill  and  is 
called  upon  to  flght  a  duel  with  West.  Through  a 
peculiar  circumstance  General  Haverhill  suspects 
Colonel  West. 

Frank  enlists  In  his  father's  regiment  under  an- 
other name.  He  has  grown  a  beard  and  la  not 
recognized. 

One  year  later  the  Confederates  make  a  night 
attack  on  the  Federals  and  Frank  is  made  prisoner. 
Capt.  Thornton,  In  the  Confederate  service,  takes 
Constance's  miniature  from  the  captive  at  Rich* 
mond. 

Frank  and  several  companions  make  a  daring  es- 
cape. 

Part  Two. — In  1863  the  Federal  army  invades 
the  Shenandoah  Valley.  Col.  West  accompanies 
General  Haverhill,  who  makes  headquarters  at  the 
Illingham  home.  Madeline  West  comes  to  visit 
Gertrude.  The  sweethearts  are  brought  together 
but  Gertrude  will  not  acknowledge  her  love  for  the 
gallant  Col.  West. 

An  expedition  is  sent  to  capture  a  Confederate 
signal  tower,  with  Frank  Haverhill  in  command. 
He  loses  his  life  in  the  perilous  undertaking. 

Later  Col.  Illingham  Is  captured,  but  Is  granted 
parole  by  his  old  friend.  Col.  West. 
'  West  secures  the  miniature  from  Thornton,  when 
the  latter  is  captured,  but  later  he  is  wounded  by 
Thornton  and  General  Haverhill  Is  more  embittered 
than  ever  when  he  finds  the  picture  on  West's 
person. 

Part  Three.— The  Confederates  have  planned  an 
attack  on  the  Federals  during  the  absence  of 
General  Phil  Sheridan.  A  terrific  battle  is  waged, 
in  which  Col.  West  is  taken  prisoner.  Twenty  miles 
away,  Sheridan  bears  the  cannonading  and  makes  a 
wild  dash  toward  Winchester,  to  assume  command. 
The  Federals  are  unable  to  withstand  the  fearful 
assault  and  flee  In  panic.  Sheridan  arrives,  rallies 
his  men  and  thwarts  the  enemy. 

Gertrude  becomes  a  second  Evangeline  In  her 
search  for  Col.  West.  She  finally  locates  him  Just 
as  he  is  released  from  prison  and  they  visit  a  little 
church  near  the  battle  field. 

In  1865  General  Haverhill  visits  his  wife  in 
Washington,  still  thinking  her  unfaithful.  Gertrude 
arrives  and  delivers  to  Constance  and  Frank's  widow 
a  message  which  was  written  in  his  last  hour.  The 
general  Is  brought  to  a  realization  of  his  wife's 
nobility. 

A  FIGHT  TO  A  FINISH  (June  30).— Johnson,  the 
owner  of  fertile  Western  acres,  secures  exclusive 
control  of  the  water  supply  by  constructing  a  large 
dam  and  refuses  to  allow  his  neighbors  irrigation 
privileges.  The  owners  of  adjoining  lands  make 
vehement  protest,  but  to  no  avail,  and  Johnson  be- 
comes known  as  "the  Water  Hog." 

Grace  Lewis  purchases  the  ranch  next  to  John- 
son's land,  and  arriving  on  the  scene,  she  finds  that 
the  arid  tract  is  practically  valueless  because  of 
the  Water  Hog's  high-handed  control.  She,  too, 
makes  a  protest,  but  can  accomplish  nothing. 

The  spirited  girl  determines  to  show  Johnson 
that  he  has  gone  too  far.  Under  the  cover  of  dark- 
ness, she  directs  a  party  of  men  who  destroy  the 
dam.  They  hide  on  a  hill  nearby,  and,  heavily 
armed,  prepare  to  thwart  the  efforts  of  Johnson's 
men  to  reconstruct  the  dam,  which  has  caused  all 
of  the  trouble. 

But  Johnson  is  not  to  be  dealt  with  so  easily. 
He  declares  he  will  flght  to  a  finish,  and,  securing 
arms  for  bis  men,  he  endeavors  to  drive  Grace's 
party  from  the  hill. 


When  things  are  going  agalnt  Grace,  Ralph, 
Johnon's  son,  who  has  recently  returned  from  col- 
lege, climbs  up  the  hill  to  overpower  his  father's 
enemy.  To  his  amazement  he  finds  a  girl  with 
whom  he  has  already  fallen  In  love,  and  he  hears 
Grace's  side  of  the  story.  As  a  result,  he  prepares 
a  paper  for  bis  father  to  sign,  which  forces  Johnson 
to  discontinue  his  Interference  with  the  neighbors. 
Johnson  Is  not  inclined  to  give  up  the  flght,  but 
Ralph's  statement  that  he  will  tell  the  whole  ranch 
how  one  girl  held  off  the  Johnson  party,  enables 
the  young  man  to  carry  his  point. 

THE  RAIDERS  FROM  DOUBLE  L  RANCH  (July 
2). — Bessie  is  visiting  her  brother  Frank's  ranch 
when  he  receives  a  message  asking  him  to  co- 
operate in  driving  the  sheep-herders  from  the  coun- 
try. Frank  gathers  his  cowboys  and  falls  upon  Al 
West,  a  herder.  They  mistreat  the  unfortunate  man 
and  leave  him  with  a  warning.  Later  Bessie  dis- 
covers Al  as  she  rides  by.  Pride  prevents  him  from 
telling  her  the  truth  and  he  states  that  he  bas  been 
injured  by  a  fall.  A  few  days  later  Al  and  bis 
brother  sheepmen  manage  to  settle  their  score  with 
the  cattlemen. 

Bessie's  visit  comes  to  an  end  and  she  starts 
home,  riding  to  the  little  station  on  horseback.  She 
is  overtaken  by  a  furious  foreBt  fire  and  rescued 
by  Al.  When  Frank  learns  of  the  sheep-herder's 
bravery,  he  realizes  that  Al  Is  not  a  bad  fellow 
after  all. 

HISTORIC  NEW  YORK  (July  2).— An  Interesting 
visit  Is  paid  to  the  many  famous  landmarks  of 
American  history  In  Manhattan  and  vicinity.  We 
see  the  spot  where  Hudson  landed  In  1609;  the 
Bergen  Homestead,  built  in  1655;  St.  Paul's  Obapel, 
built  in  1664,  and  attended  by  Washington;  Bowling 
Green,  tbe  scene  of  the  stamp  riots  in  1765;  Wash- 
ington's Headquarters  at  tbe  Jumel  Mansion;  Block- 
house No.  1;  Hamilton  Grange;  Fort  Clinton  Can- 
non and  the  Mount  Morris  Fire  Tower,  together  with 
many  other  interesting   and   instructive  scenes. 

A  VICTIM  OF  DECEIT  (July  4).— Wilbur  Bm- 
mett,  a  prosperous  young  banker,  finds  that  he  bas 
made  a  mistake  In  asking  Beryl  Ross,  a  social 
butterfly,  to  become  his  wife,  and  breaks  the  en- 
gagement to  marry  Fern  Barclay.  The  hatred  which 
the  disappointed  girl  bears  Fern  prompts  her  to 
call  on  the  happy  couple  in  the  guise  of  a  friend, 
that  she  may  discover  an  opportunity  to  be  re- 
venged. 

Some  time  later  Beryl  invites  Fern  to  a  meeting 
of  the  whist  club  and  after  much  urging,  the  wife 
consents  to  go.  Fern  loses  her  money  and  starts 
home,  but  Beryl  induces  her  to  accept  a  loan  and 
gives  her  I.  O.  U. 

Soon  afterwards  Beryl  calls  and  demands  pay- 
ment of  the  money  advanced  and  Fern,  wishing 
to  keep  the  affair  a  secret  from  her  husband,  begs 
for  time.  She  attempts  to  dispose  of  her  Jewels, 
but  meets  Wilbur  as  she  is  entering  a  pawnshop  and 
pretends  to  be  admiring  some  jewels  in  the 
window. 

Beryl  becomes  so  insistent  that  Fern  takes  the 
money  from  Wilbur's  private  safe  and  endeavors 
to  create  the  impression  that  robbers  have  entered 
the  house.  When  Wilbur  summons  a  detective,  the 
latter  discovers  the  true  situation  and  is  the 
means  of  exposing  Beryl's  true  character. 

THE  HIDDEN  WITNESS  (July  5).— Gerson  Ran- 
dall, an  adventurer,  endeavors  to  win  the  hand  of 
Isabel  Sinclair,  a  wealthy  widow.  Howard  Allen, 
Mrs.  Sinclair's  brother,  tries  to  dissuade  his  sister 
from  forming  an  alliance  with  Randall,  but  the 
suave  manners  of  the  latter  have  made  a  strong 
impression  upon  the  susceptible  woman.  Mrs.  Sin- 
clair has  two  young  children,  Grace  and  Freddy, 
whom  she  loves  very  dearly,  but  she  becomes  remiss 
in  her  attentions  to  them  because  of  the  time  which 
she  spends  In  Randall's  company. 

i  One  day  tbe  little  ones  are  attracted  by  a  band  of 
gypsies,  who  being  about  to  move  on,  determine  to 
take  the  children  with  them.  Traveling  by  devious 
paths  through  the  country,  tbe  gypsies  come  upon  a 
young  artist,  Bernlce  Hamilton,  who  is  sketching. 
Bernice  becomes  suspicious  of  the  gypsies,  and 
with  the  assistance  of  a  number  of  laborers  she 
secures  the  children  and  takes  them  home.  Mrs. 
Randall  Is  so  much  Impressed  with  the  girl  that 
she  engages  her  as  governess. 

Both  children  become  very  fond  of  their  new 
governess  and  Randall,  despite  bis  suit  for  tbe 
widow's  hand,  falls  In  love  with  Bernice.  Howard 
Allen,  the  widow's  brother,  also  admires  the  girl, 
and  discovers  the  true  character  of  tbe  adventurer. 

Randall  secures  a  valuable  necklace  from  Mrs. 
Sinclair  and  makes  It  appear  that  Bernice  is  guilty, 
but  he  falls  to  reckon  with  Freddy  and  Grace,  who 
succeed  in  awakening  their  mother  to  an  apprecia- 
tion of  Randall's  worthlessness. 


VITAGRAPH. 

THE  TIGER  LILY  (Special— 3  parts—July  2).— 
Thinking  that  her  husband  Is  paying  more  attention 
to  his  work  and  to  their  little  daughter,  Nina,  than 
to  ber,  Cleo  Morin  runs  away  with  Henri  Mordan. 
On  tbe  afternoon  of  their  elopement,  Morin,  who  Is  a 
ballet  master,  is  seriously  injured  on  the  stage, 
and  the  doctor  tells  Mm  that  his  spine  is  so  affected 
that  he  will  never  be  able  to  walk  again.  As  soon 
as  he  can  be  moved  he  goes  with  his  daughter, 
Nina,  to  a  distant  country,  where  he  begins  to 
train  ber,  as  It  is  bis  Intention  to  have  her  become 
a  premiere  danseuse.  Ten  years  later  Cleo,  who 
has  obtained  a  divorce,  has  become  a  popular 
actress.  She  buys  a  country  home  and  is  attracted 
by  a  bevy  of  admirers,  one  of  whom  Is  Sidney 
Bretton,  who  in  reply  to  her  inquiry  as  to  what 
kind  of  a  costume  she  should  wear  at  a  mask  ball, 
tells  her  to  go  dressed  as  "The  Tiger  Lily/*  He 
designs  such  a  costume  for  her  and  she  goes  thus 
arrayed,  accompanied  by  a  Bengal  tiger,  which  she 
bas  purchased. 

In  the  meantime,  Morin's  health  makes  it  neces- 
sary for  him  to  go  to  the  same  town  where  his 
ex-wlfe  Is  living,  and  fate  has  ordained  that  he 
take  a  villa  next  to  that  of  hers,  each,  however, 
being  unaware  of  the  identity  of  the  other.  Be- 
coming deeply  Infatuated  with  the  artist,  Cleo 
casts  off  her  old  admirer,  Elbert  Lamoreaux,  who 
vows  vengeance  on  the  man  who  bas  supplanted 
him.  One  night  he  sees  Nina  dancing  in  the 
moonlight,  and  leaving  Cleo,  he  becomes  acquainted 
with  the  girl  by  performing  a  slight  service  for  her. 
Discovering  that  Sidney  no  longer  loves  her,  Cleo 
by  subterfuges  manages  to  get  Nina,  whom  she  does 
not  recognize  as  her  daughter,  to  her  home,  where 
she  begins  to  caress  ber  In  the  presence  of  Prince, 
the  tiger,  who  becomes  jealous  of  the  girl. 

On  an  unusually  hot  day,  Cleo  increases  the  Jeal- 
ousy of  the  tiger  by  waving  a  scarf  in  front  of  him, 
which  was  left  behind  by  Nina,  when  Sidney  comes 
to  tell  her  of  his  engagement  to  the  dancing  girl. 
As  he  Is  leaving  the  house  he  Is  shot  in  the  back 
by  Elbert  Lamoreaux,  and  falls  wounded  to  tha 
ground.  A  thunderstorm  is  approaching  and  Cleo 
lets  the  Infuriated  tiger  loose.  He  runs  to  Morln'a 
residence  and  as  he  Is  Just  about  to  enter  the  house 
it  is  struck  by  lightning  and  set  on  fire.  Regaining 
his  strength,  Sidney  goes  to  Nina,  who  takes  Mm 
to  her  father.  Meanwhile,  the  tiger  Is  rushing 
from  room  to  room  in  search  of  Nina.  Cleo  enters 
and  finds  Nina,  her  father  and  Sidney  together,  bat 
does  not  recognize  her  erstwhile  husband  or  daugh- 
ter. Speaking  to  the  girl,  she  threatens  to  have 
the  tiger,  which  Is  standing  by  her  side,  destroy 
her  if  she  does  not  relinquish  her  lover,  Sidney. 
Morin,  recognizing  her,  shouts:  "Do  you  not  know 
your  ex-husband  and  daughter?"  The  shock  is 
too  much  for  the  overwrought  Cleo  and  she  drops 
dead  to  the  floor.  The  tiger  is  shot  a  moment  later 
by  Elbert,  who  has  come  for  revenge.  It  is  with 
difficulty  that  Sidney  and  Nina  get  Morin  out  of 
tbe  burning  bouse,  the  flames  of  which  has  con- 
sumed the  bodies  of  Cleo  and  Elbert. 

ROUGHING  THE  CUB  (June  30).— Clarence 
Snuggles,  a  would-be-poet,  goes  to  the  editorial 
sanctum  of  a  dally,  where  he  begins  reading  his 
poetry  to  Gregg,  the  editor.  He  Is  thrown  out,  but  re- 
turns immediately  and  Gregg,  seeing  that  be  has  at 
least  persistence,  decidesto  give  him  a  try-out.  He  U 
assigned  to  cover  police  news.  In  the  reporters'  room 
Clarence  reads  some  of  his  poetry,  written  in  favor 
of  tbe  staff.  The  reporters  tolerate  him  for  a 
while,  but  getting  tired  of  It,  tbey  plan  to  send 
him  out  on  a  fake  assignmen  t.  They  get  the 
captain  of  a  neighboring  police  station  to  call  up 
the  office  at  a  certain  time  and  tell  him  a  fake 
story.  Clarence  answers  the  telephone  call  and  Is 
informed  that  a  kite  factory  is  on  fire.  He  goes 
out  and  rushes  up  and  down  the  street,  but  can 
find  no  Are.  As  he  is  entering  a  Jewelry  store  to 
call  up  his  office,  he  hears  news  of  a  great  diamond 
robbery.  After  getting  all  the  "dope"  he  calls  up 
Gregg,  gives  him  the  facts  and  a  special  extra  la 
soon  out.  Thus  be  puts  one  over  on  his  fellow 
dopsters. 

BINGLES  AND  THE  CABARET  (July  1).— 
BIngles  returns  home  from  the  office  after  a  very 
busy  day,  and  seeks  peace  and  quietness  In  his 
room.  He  is  soon  disturbed  by  an  organ  grinder. 
After  the  music  purveyor  has  departed,  Bingles' 
nerves  are  again  worked  up  by  the  maid  ringing 
a  cracked  dinner  bell.  He  goes  down  to  dinner, 
where  added  torture  is  inflicted  Upon  him  by  the 
diners.  Unable  to  tolerate  it  any  longer,  he  goes 
to  several  restaurants  where  he  hopes  to  find  soli- 
tude, but  as  soon  aB  he  bas  given  his  order  In 
each  cabaret,  a  dancing  girl  or  something  else 
provokes  him  and  he  is  compelled  to  leave.  In  one 
restaurant  he  is  bodily  put  out  by  the  waiters  for 
having  disturbed  the  orchestra. 


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THE  60NG  BIRD  OF  THE  NORTH  (July  2).— 
Haywood,  a  suitor  for  the  hand  of  EHda  Rumsey, 
Is  severely  reprimanded  by  her  for  not  enlisting 
when  President  Lincoln  calls  for  volunteers.  Being 
deeply  interested  in  the  cause,  Klida  goes  and  helps 
Mrs.  Pomeroy  minister  to  sick  and  wounded  soldiers. 
She  becomes  a  favorite  with  the  men,  for  she  fre- 
quently singe  to  them.  This  attracts  the  attention 
of  Lincoln,  and  he  Introduces  tier  to  M.  Fowle,  a 
mission  worker,  who  has  become  a  little  discouraged 
by  the  soldiers'  lack  of  response  to  his  efforts. 
El  Ida's  singing  awakens  the  dormant  spark  of  man- 
hood,  and  more  men  enlist. 

In  order  to  stir  patriotism.  President  Lincoln  re- 
quests Elida  to  sing  at  a  concert.  Haywood  comes 
and  is  Induced  to  enlist,  which  pleases  Elida  so 
much  that  Fowle,  who  has  grown  to  love  her,  thinks 
that  he  Is  her  lover.  He  keeps  his  love  for  her  in 
silence. 

Sometime  later  Elida  and  Fowle  are  ordered  to  the 
front,  where  there  has  been  an  enormous  carnage. 
Elida  finds  Haywood  seriously  wounded,  after  lead- 
ing a  gallant  charge  to  victory.  She  dons  all  in  her 
power  to  save  him,  but  he  passes  away.  Fowle's 
sympathy  is  so  marked  that  Hilda  is  lead  to  believe 
that  he  has  been  under  the  Impression  that 
wood  was  her  lover.  She  tells  bim  that  he  was 
nothing  more  to  her  than  a  friend.  Fowle  seizes 
the  opportunity  and  tells  her  of  his  love  for  her. 
They  are  married  in  the  presence  of  President  Lin- 
coln, the  only  marriage  solemnized  at  the  eapitol. 

SWEET  DECEPTION  (July  3). — Through  the  per- 
sistence of  Mrs.  Bradley  to  go  out  every  night 
causes  an  estrangement  with  her  husband,  who  is 
insistent  upon  her  staying  home.  They  part,  but 
neither  is  happy.  One  day  Mr.  Bradley  receives  a 
letter  from  his  mother,  which  has  been  forwarded 
from  the  old  address,  saying  that  she  will  visit 
them  on  her  way  to  Boston.  He  rushes  to  the 
apartment  of  his  wife,  who  agrees  to  reopen  the 
old  house  and  not  to  let  the  mother  know  of  their 
trouble.  Everything  is  in  good  order  when  the  elilcr 
Mrs.  Bradley  arrives.  They  are  so  busy  talking 
that  evening  that  the  time  for  the  train  has  gone 
and  Mrs.  Bradley  Is  obliged  to  stay  with  them  that 
night.  After  his  mother  has  gone  to  bed  Bradley 
takes  bis  hat  and  coat  and  tells  his  wife  that  he  is 
going  to  spend  the  night  at  a  hotel.  Just  as  he  is 
about  to  go  out,  his  wife  hears  his  mother  coming 
downstairs  and  calls  him  back.  The  old  lady  has 
come  down  for  her  spectacles.  They  tell  her  that 
he  was  just  going  to  lock  up  for  the  night,  and 
their  explanation  satisfies  her.  After  Mrs.  Bradley 
has  again  gone  upstairs,  man  and  wife  look  into 
each  other's  eyes,  and,  remembering  the  unpleasant- 
ness of  their  separation,  they  agree  to  live  together 
and  be  more  considerate  of  the  other's  likes  and 
dislikes. 

AN  UNWRITTEN  CHAPTER  (July  4).— After  a 
long  discussion  with  her  collaborator,  Philip  Mor- 
bray,  concerning  their  next  novel,  Ruth  Sterling 
offers  one  thousand  dollars  wager  that  within  a 
month  she  will  have  found  a  new  sensation.  Philip 
laughingly  agrees  and  the  bet  is  made. 

She  goes  away  to  a  small  fishing  village  In  Maine 
and  stays  at  the  home  of  one  of  the  coastguards, 
David  Skelton  and  bis  mother.  Here  she  is  treated 
as  if  she  were  one  of  the  family,  and  a  bond  of 
affection  soon  springs  up  between  Ruth  and  the  old 
lady. 

Being  thrown  constantly  into  the  society  of  Rath, 
David  falls  in  love  with  her,  a  fact  which  Is  soon 
discovered  by  the  lady.  In  order  to  hasten  his  dec- 
laration of  love,  she  one  day  pretends  to  sprain  her 
ankle  and  allows  him  to  carry  her  to  the  house. 
When  he  takes  her  up  Into  his  arms  he  telle  her  of 
his  great  love  for  her  and  she  replies  to  bim  with  a 
soft  kiss. 

The  next  day  Ruth  receives  a  telegram  from 
Philip  asking  about  the  wager  and  telling  her  that 
the  month  is  up.  She  replies  to  his  message  by  another 
telegram,  asking  him  to  meet  her  at  dinner  the 
next  day.  A  busybody  sees  her  message  at  the  tele- 
graph office  and  tells  David  what  is  in  it.  The 
result  is  that  when  Ruth  tells  him  and  his  mother 
that  she  must  go  to  New  York,  he  decides  to  follow 
her  and  find  ont  who  Philip  may  be. 

David,  watching  through  a  window  of  Ruth's 
house,  sees  her  meet  Philip  Mobray  and  hears  Ruth 
tell  him  of  how  she  fooled  the  coastguard  into  loving 
her.  He  at  once  enters  the  room  and  denounces  the 
young  lady  is  no  measured  terms  as  a  false  and 
heartless  woman.  When  Ruth  sees  David  she  real- 
izes that,  in  spite  of  the  way  in  which  she  has 
used  the  man,  she  really  loves  him.  She  holds  out 
her  arms  to  him  and  hegs  him  to  forgive  her,  but  he 
will  not  listen  to  her.  David  leaves  the  house  tell- 
ing her  that  he  hopes  never  to  see  her  again,  telling 
her  that  his  trust  in  women  is  forever  broken. 

After  he  has  gone  Ruth  tears  up  the  check  given 
her  by  Philip,  who  agrees  that  he  has  lost  his  wager, 
and  sinks  mournfully  upon  a  couch,  broken-hearted 
because  of  the  wound  she  has  Inflicted  on  the  man 
that  she  now  really  loves. 

LOVE'S  QUARANTINE  (July  5).— Cutey  is  for- 
bidden by  the  father  of  his  beloved,  Dot,  to  ever 
speak  to  her  again.  A  brilliant  Idea  comes  to 
Cutey  while  reading  in  the  paper  of  a  family 
quarantined  because  of  small  pox.  He  tells  the 
cook  that  she  Is  to  be  suddenly  afflicted  with  a 
serious  illness  while  bringing  the  dinner  that  night; 
that  Dot  is  to  run  for  him,  who  will  be  disguised 
as  a  doctor,  and  that  when  he  comes  he  will  pro- 
nounce the  case  as  small  pox,  and,  in  accordance 
with  medical  laws,  will  inform  the  authorities, 
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as  policemen,  who  will  order  the  house  quarantined. 
His  scheme  Is  carried  out  to  the  letter  and  was 
progressing  splendidly  until  Dot's  papa  and  mamma, 
sitting  by  the  drawing  room  window,  overhear  the 
two  "policemen"  talking  about  the  scheme.  Papa 
rushes  up  to  the  room  where  he  dnds  the  "sick" 
cook  drinking  and  Cutey  and  Dot  "mushing."  He 
throws  Cutey  out  of  the  window  and  he  lands  on 
the  heads  of  his  friends.  Dot  starts  In  to  cry,  for 
she  knows  it  will  be  a  long  time  before  she  can 
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SELIG. 

THE  BEADED  BUCKSKIN  BAG  (June  30).— 
Noel  Burton,  an  adventurous  American,  falls  In  love 
with  Annette,  the  daughter  of  Don  Antonio  Nevarro, 
whose  rancho  is  mortgaged  to  Don  Carlos  Morello 
for  $50,000.  This  Individual  is  also  a  suitor  for 
Annette,  and,  finding  no  favor  from  her,  he  threat- 
ens to  foreclose  the  mortgage  unless  the  girl  is 
turned  over  to  him.  The  father  informs  the  Ameri- 
can of  his  predicament  and  Noel  repairs  to  his  old 
friend,  Sotter  (the  owner  of  Sutter's  fort,  who 
"backed"  James  W.  Marshall  when  he  first  dis- 
covered gold  in  California  in  American  rivers).  Noel 
goes  on  the  saw  mill  building  expedition,  strikes 
gold,  and  sees  a  way  to  satisfy  the  creditor  and 
win  the  girl.  Morello  hires  an  assassaln  to  make 
away  with  Noel.  The  latter  makes  his  escape, 
but  in  bis  flight  drops  a  beaded  bag  with  nuggets 
and  a  curl  of  Annette's  hair  (which  she  bad  given 
him  on  parting).  Morello  takes  this  to  Don  Ne- 
varro as  a  proof  of  Noel's  death.  In  her  despair 
over  his  seeming  death  and  the  affairs  of  her 
father,  she  concludes  to  marry  Morello.  Just  as 
they  are  about  to  enter  the  church  door,  Noel  ap- 
pears, and  with  gold  pays  the  father's  debt.  He 
then  calls  for  the  arrest  of  Morello,  and  leads  the 
bride  to  the  altar. 

SONGS  OF  TRUCE  (July  D.^Joe  Elliot  and  Dun- 
can Elliott  brothers,  living  in  a  border  state,  find 
their  house  divided,  as  one  enlists  in  the  army  of  the 
North,  the  other  donning  the  uniform  of  gray.  They 
part  in  anger,  and  when,  a  year  later,  they  meet 
on  the  same  battlefield,  under  a  flag  of  truce,  the 
old  spirit  of  resentment  between  the  brothers  grows 
more  acute.  Duncan  again  inside  his  lines,  plays 
Dixie  on  his  trumpet  In  defiance,  and  Joe  retorts 
with  "Tanke  Doodle."  Softly  some  one  breaks  this 
echo  of  anger  and  in  tones  of  "Home,  Sweet  Home." 
Then  the  heart  of  each  stern  man  melts  and  they 
cry  out,  "Not  Blue  or  Gray,  but  my  brother." 
They  do  not  fight  again  until  the  conclusion  of  the 
great  conflict,  when  Joe  comes  home  with  the 
laurels  of  the  victor,  and  poor,  broken  Duncan,  ill 
in  the  bitterness  of  defeat.  In  the  home  of  his 
father,  with  the  arms  of  bis  sweetheart  about  him, 
he  finds  life  still  worth  living,  and  Joe  comes  open- 
handed  to  help  him  carve  out  a  new  fortune  for 
their   families. 

ARABIA  AND  THE  BABY  (July  2).— Miss  Fay 
and  her  Horse,  Arabia,  after  doing  an  equestrienne 
high-school  act,  she  and  the  horse  go  about  as 
comrades  on  a  shopping  expedition.  The  horse 
follows  her  mistress  down  the  street  carrying  a 
market  basket.  After  purchasing  the  goods,  Arabia 
helps  the  shopkeeper  out  by  working  the  cash 
register.  On  the  way  home,  Arabia  observes  a  poor 
woman  leave  a  basket  on  the  doorstep,  abandoning 
her  baby.  The  horse,  with  philanthropic  Intent, 
leaves  the  market  basket,  and  takes  the  one  con- 
taining the  waif  to  her  mistress.  There  the  child 
finds  a  happy  home.  When  the  house  burns,  Arabia 
rings  the  bell  alarming  the  village  fire  department, 
awakens  her  mistress  and  carries  that  blessed  baby 
to  safety. 

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educational  subject  of  an  interesting  potentate  who 
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IN  GOD  WE  TRUST  (July  8).— The  night  before 
Christmas  the  child  of  well-to-do  parents,  Harry 
Bewell,  received  from  his  rich  uncle  a  miniature 
safe  that  contained  $5,000,  which  was  to  apply 
toward  his  education.  The  cogging  butler  learns 
the  combination  of  the  safe,  and  at  once  tells  some 
of  his  "yeggmen"  friends.  They  in  turn  prevail  upon 
Bill,  out  of  work  and  the  bead  of  a  starving  family, 
to  assist  them  and  do  the  actual  robbery.  Over 
the  door  of  his  poor  home  is  tacked  a  little  sign, 
"In  God  We  Trust,"  and  as  he  goes  forth  witt 
malice  flaming  in  his  heart,  it  catches  his  attention 
and  continues  to  impress  him.  When  he  eventually 
faces  the  little  safe  as  an  expert  steel  worker,  he 
observes  the  same  inscription,  which  checks  him  in 
his  nefarious  task.  The  child  bears  the  noise,  gets 
out  of  bed  to  investigate  and  discovers  the  burglar. 
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his  sad  story,  and  remembering  the  time,  sends  him 
home  with  money  in  his  pocket,  a  load  of  toys  and 
an  X-mas  dinner. 

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ib  the  same  direction.  The  desperadoes  arrange  to 
"dynamite"  Sally,  but  she  cots  the  fuse  in  two  by 
a  well  aimed  shot  after  they  have  sought  safety 
at  a  distance.  This  saves  her  sweetheart  Fred, 
who  rushes  to  her  rescue,  and  they  both  retreat 
to  a  cabin.  The  dynamiters  are  obstinate  and  place 
another  cartridge,  so  that  the  cabin  will  be  blown 
to  pieces.  The  daring  Fred  picks  up  the  keg  of 
powder  and  rushing  out  rolls  it  down  on  "Injun" 
Jim  and  his  fellow  mischief-makers.  They  are  so 
dazed  from  the  effects  of  the  explosion  that  they 
And  themselves  in  "irons"  when  they  recover  con- 
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LUBIN. 

tte-r  ATONEMENT  (June  30).—  Oceola,  an  In- 
dian maiden,  has  been  annoyed  by  the  attentions 
of  Black  Hawk,  a  renegade,  who  makes  his  houie 
with  the  tribe.  One  day  Black  Hawk  forces  her 
to  listen  to  his  drunken  wooing,  but  is  stopped 
by  Tom  Hopkins,  a  cowboy,  who  hears  her  cry 
and  goes  to  her  assistance.  Tom  beats  the  rene- 
gade and  receives  the  Indian  girl's  heartfelt  thanks. 
Tom's  manly  bearing  and  good  looks  have  made  an 
impression  upon  the  little  Indian  maid,  and  she 
sets  to  work  upon  an  elaborate  tobacco  pouch 
which  she  intends  to  give  him  as  a  present.  One 
day,  the  bag  being  complete,  she  goes  to  present 
It;    but    Is    followed    by    Black    Hawk. 

Oceola  finds  Tom  talking  to  Rose,  his  employ- 
er's daughter,  to  whom  he  is  engaged.  The  In- 
dian girl  presents  her  offering.  Tom,  who  has  no 
idea  of  the  furore  he  baa  started  in  the  Indian 
girl's  heart,  is  rather  surprised,  but  accepts  the 
gift  carelessly,  and  when  Rose  expresses  her  ad- 
miration for  it,  does  not  hesitate  to  give  it  to  her. 
The  two  then  depart,  leaving  Oceola  speechless 
with  mortification  that  the  gift  should  have  been 
60  thanklessly  received.  As  she  returns  home  she 
meets  Black  Hawk,  who  has  witnessed  the  scene. 
He  is  eager  for  revenge  upon  Tom  for  the  beating 
he  had  given  him  and  he  plays  upon  the  Indian 
girl's  anger.  Oceola  finally  agrees  to  aid  him  in 
a  scheme  in  which  he  proposes  to  abduct  Rose. 
Rose  is  caught,  brought  to  the  Indian  village  and 
placed  in  the  Chief's  tent  in  the  care  of  Oceola. 
Rose  pleads  with  the  Indian  girl  and  finally,  re- 
pentant of  her  hasty  action  and  filled  with  pity 
for  the  white  girl,  Oceola  agrees  to  aid  her  to  es- 
cape. Taking  a  ring  from  Rose,  she  bribes  one 
of  the  tribesmen  to  take  news  of  Rose's  capture 
to  her  father.  Rose's  father  with  Tom  and  a 
bunch  of  cowboys  attack  the  village  and  rescue 
the  captured  girl.  In  the  melee  Oceola,  while  en- 
deavoring to  help  Rose  escape  to  a  place  where 
she  will  be  safe  from   the  firing,  is  shot  and  dies. 

HER  HUSBAND'S  PICTURE  (July  1) .— Bruce 
Drrinton,  an  artist,  is  ordered  south  because  of 
bis  weak  lungs.  He  finds  lodgings  with  Dave  Hal- 
sey,  a  young  southerner.  It  is  not  long  before 
Errinton  becomes  interested  in  Nell,  Dave's  pretty 
young  wife,  and  be  takes  advantage  of  her  in- 
herent artistic  talent  to  persuade  her  to  go  north 
with  him.  He  is  confident  that  when  he  gets  her 
away  from  Dave  he  can  win  her.  After  consistent 
pressing  Nell  agrees  to  go  north,  but  strictly  to 
work  at  her  art.  Visiting  Bruce's  studio  she  comes 
across  a  painting  he  has  made  from  a  sketch  of 
Dave.  It  brings  back:  her  love  in  stronger  force 
than  her  desire  to  paint.  A  friend  gives  her  the 
money  to  get  home  with,  and  prevents  Bruce  from 
following  her.  Nell  returns  home  and  Dave,  find- 
ing truth  and  honesty  In  her  eyes,  takes  her  to 
his   heart   again. 

THE  ANGEL  OF  THE  SLUMS  (July  8).— Mabel 
Harris,  a  society  girl,  is  known  as  "the  angel  of 
the  slams."  She  Is  loved  by  Charles  Brandt,  the 
doctor  of  the  poor,  but  already  engaged  to  a 
wealthy  man,  Frank  Melville,  whose  office  boy, 
Billy  Tanner,  Is  the  sole  guardian  of  his  sick 
baby  brother.  The  slum  doctor  gets  Mabel  in- 
terested in  Billy  and  the  baby,  but  she  does  not 
know  that  Billy  is  Melville's  office  boy.  She  tries 
to  get  Frank  interested  in  her  work  and  their 
quarrels  start  with  his  belittling  her  efforts.  Billy 
returns  home  from  work  one  day  to  find  Mabel  be- 
ing insulted  by  a  teugh  young  gangster.  Billy 
grabs  a  chair  and  would  have  hit  the  gangster 
with  it,  but  for  the  timely  interference  of  a 
neighbor.  The  tough  threatens  vengeance  and 
leaves  with  the  neighbors  while  Mabel  thanks 
Billy.  She  meets  the  doctor  and  tells  him  she 
thinks  Billy  will  be  Injured  by  the  man.  They 
both  return  to  find  the  door  locked.  The  gang- 
ster has  returned  and  is  in  the  house  with  Billy 
behind  a  locked  door.  Billy  evades  him  until  he 
threatens  the  baby's  life  and  then  gives  in  to  him. 
As  he  does,  the  doctor  smashes  in  the  door  and 
pounces  on  the  gangster.  A  fight  follows  in  which 
the  doctor  scores  a  couple  of  knock  downs  and 
finally  kicks  the  bully  out  of  the  room.  Mabel's 
warm  praise  starts  the  doctor  further  on  the  path 
of  love  and  bis  face  shows  so  planly  his  love  for 
Mabel  that  she.  embarrassed  and  rather  pleased, 
turns  to  Billy  with  an  admonition  to  be  careful, 
then  exits  with  the  doctor.  Frank  has  been  wait- 
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regret  and  the  quarrel  between  the  engaged  pair 
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because  of  her  slum  work.  The  next  day  Billy 
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neighbor.  Mabel  enters  and  when  the  doctor 
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has  left  for  the  office.  Mabel  finds  Frank  in  a 
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to  his  table.  The  romance  is  progressing  nicely 
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longer  than  she  had  expected.  At  last  they  en- 
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to  loosen  the  chill.  He  takes  their  order,  serves 
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exits.  Tom  follows  soon  after  and  Jerry  is  left 
broken-hearted. 

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that  caused  all  the  trouble.  The  only  table  vacant 
is  Jerry's  and  much  to  Mabel's  chagrin  the  head 
waiter  gives  them  that.  Jerry  is  mad  clean 
through,  and  does  everything  he  can  to  make  it 
uncomfortable  for  the  man.  Mabel  begins  to  be 
sorry,  and  nervously  watches  for  Tom.  Jerry 
serves  the  diiner  abominably  and  Is  censured  by 
the  man.  At  last  the  coffee  is  ordered  by  the 
man,  with  ice  cream  for  Mabel.  It  is  Jerry's 
last  chance  to  break  the  new  combination.  He 
wonders  what  he  can  do.  Realizing  that  the  man 
has  drunk  a  little  champagne  and  seeing  another 
waiter  set  down  a  cognac  bottle  with  his  empty 
dishes,  he  quickly  empties  a  quantity  of  the  cognac 
into  the  coffee  pot.  He  serves  the  coffee,  black, 
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rushes  to  Mabel's  home.  There  he  finds  her  weep- 
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THE  WRONG  HAND  BAG  (July  41.—  Mrs.  Han- 
eon  reminds  hubby  tbat  it  Is  ber  birtbday  as  be 
is  about  to  leave  for  his  office.  On  the  way,  he 
stops  in  a  jewelry  store,  and  purchases  for  her 
a  Bilver  mesh  bag,  which  he  sends  home  by  a 
messenger.  When  Mrs.  Hanson  receives  the 
she  cannot  resist  the  temptation  to  show  it  to 
her  nest-door  neighbor,  Mrs.  Jones,  who  at 
becomes  Jealous.  When  Jones  returns  borne  she 
makes  him  promise  that  he  will  buy  her  one. 
This  promise  she  persuades  Jones  into  with  the 
aid  of  a  broom.  Jones  buys  his  wife  a  bag  ex- 
actly like  the  one  which  Mrs.  Hanson  has.  Mrs. 
Hanson  mislays  her  bag,  and  seeing  Mrs.  Jones 
with  one,  she  immediately  decides  tbat  the  one 
Mrs.  Jones  has  is  hers.  She  attacks  Mrs.  Jones 
•end  quite  a  tight  ensues.  The  husbands  arriving 
•on  the  scene,  become  involved.  In  the  meaal  Lme 
the  maid  of  the  Hanson  family  discovers  the  band 
bag  in  the  exact  spot  where  Mrs.  Hanson  had  laid 
It.  Mrs.  Hanson,  anxious  to  straighten  the  matter 
•out,  rushes  to  the  Jones  home  and  arrives  Just 
as  the  husbands  are  about  to  be  arrested.  She 
(makes  explanation,  and  everything  is  satisfactorily 
■adjusted. 

,  HIS  NIECE  FROM  IRELAND  (July  6).— Patrick 
•Srady,  who  came  to  America  when  a  boy,  is  now 
about  forty  years  of  age  and  comparatively 
wealthy.  He  has  had  no  communication  with  bis 
native  place  for  many  years,  but  now  receives 
from  the  parish  priest  a  letter  which,  misdirected, 
has  been  long  delayed,  in  which  he  is  informed 
that  bis  sister's  child  has  been  left  an  orphan, 
and  is  asked  to  send  for  her.  With  kind-hearted 
impulse,  Grady  writes  to  the  girl,  enclosing  monej 
'for  her  passage  to  America.  When  Ellen  arrives. 
■she  proves  somewhat  older  than  Grady  had  expected 
— twenty  -two  or  three  and  exceedingly  beautiful. 
Despite  Grady*s  objections,  Ellen  insists  upon  ob- 
tain lug  employment,  and  upon  paying  back  the 
money  sent  for  her  passage.  A  suitor  soon  ap- 
pears, and  Grady  to  his  amazement  and  horror, 
finds  that  he  is  intensely  jealous  and  that  be  is 
desperately  in  love  with  his  niece.  Shortly  after, 
Ellen  disappears  from  the  house,  and  until 
Mitchell,  the  suitor,  comes  seeking  her,  Grady 
thinks  she  has  eloped  with  him.  Later  Grady 
•encounters  the  girl  by  chance.  She  confesses 
that  she  Is  no  relation  whatever,  though  bearing 
the  same  name  as  his  niece  and  that,  Gradyjs  let- 
ter being  delivered  to  her,  she  took  advantage 
•of  the  opportunity  to  get  to  America,  being  herself 
:an  orphan  and  miserably  poor,  and  the  niece  hav- 
ing been,  between  the  writing  of  the  priest's  let- 
'ter  and  the  receipt  of  G"rady*s,  happily  married 
and  with  no  desire,  Ellen  is  convinced,  to  leave 
Ireland.  She  had  not  realized  tbat  Grady  was 
Id  love  with  her,  but  had  run  away  because  she 
had  come  to  love  him,  and  could  no  longer  endure 
the  false  poslt'on  she  held  in  his  honse.  Ellen's 
confession  opens  for  both  Grady  and  herself  a 
path  of  happiness. 

"THE  PENALTY  OF  CRIME"  (Special — 2  parts 
— June  30). — Ed.  Watson  and  Billy,  the  rat,  crooks, 
operating  in  New  York,  are  "breaking  in"  Nell 
Forest,  who  has  had  the  misfortune  of  being 
hrought  up  in  an  evil  atmosphere.  The  crooks 
«pot  Maurice  Fielding,  son  of  a  Jeweler,  having 
stores  in  New  York  and  Chicago,  as  a  victim, 
and  Nell  makes  his  acquaintance.  Maurice  proves 
to  be  a  different  kind  of  man  than  any  she  has 
known.  He  falls  in  love  with  her  and  she  with 
him.  With  this  comes  a  hatred  for  Watson,  Billy 
and  all  that  they  stand  for.  Maurice  proposes 
marriage,  but  she  refuses  because  she  knows  she 
has  no  right  to  wed  an  honest  man — she  wants 
to  break  away  from  her  evil  companions.  Then 
perhaps  she  can  tell  Maurice  everything  and  be 
will  keep  on  loving  her. 

But  Watson  Is  not  to  be  so  easily  shaken  off. 
He  learns  that  Maurice  Is  going  to  Chicago  and 
that  his  trunk  will  contain  Jewelry.  He  and  Billy 
batch  a  plot  to  rob  the  trunk.  They  send  for  Nell, 
"who  is  forced  to  come  at  their  call.  They  tell 
her  she  is  necessary  to  the  proposed  robbery.  Nell 
'refuses  to  help  them  and  threatens  to  warn  Maurice 
■until  they  threaten  that  they  can  put  Maurice 
wise  to  Nell's  past.  She  would  do  anything  rather 
(than  have  Maurice  know  just  yet.  Watson  also 
promises  to  give  Nell  her  freedom  after  just  this 
•one  more  Job.  She  is  to  buy  a  ticket  for  Valley 
Springs,  a  summer  resort  on  the  road  to  Chicago, 
and  to  travel  on  the  same  train  with  Maurice.  A 
trunk  is  secured  and  lock  arranged  so  that  it  can 
be  opened  from  inside.  Billy  gets  into  the  trunk 
and  it  Is  checked  to  Valley  Springs,  to  which  plare 
Watson  has  gone  the  day  before.  Maurice  is 
delighted  that  Nell  will  make  part  of  the  Journey 
with  him.  The  two  trunks  are  put  into  the  same 
"baggage  car.  While  the  train  is  going  Billy  climbs 
■out  of  Nell's  trunk.  The  baggage  man  sees  him 
in  time  to  dodge.  A  fierce  battle  with  revolvers 
•ensues  until  Billy  wounds  the  baggage  man.  It 
■only  takes  a  minute  to  transfer  the  jewelry  from 
Maurice's  trunk  to  Nell's  and  when  the  train 
reaches  Valley  Springs,  Billy  stands  at  the  door 
of  the  baggage  coach  and  throws  Nell's  trunk  off. 
Nell  hands  the  baggage  master  her  check  and  re- 
quests him  to  lift  her  trunk  on  an  automobile. 
(Watson  is  In  the  auto.)  Nell  also  climbs  in  and 
is  waving  good-bye  to  Maurice  when  the  wounded 
baggage  man  recovers  and  spring  on  Billy.  Billy 
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Jumps  out  of  the  car,  catches  Watson's  auto  as 
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ensnea  between  the  crooks'  auto  and  pursuers. 
The  road  leads  to  a  river.  The  drawbridge  Is  open 
and  Watson  sees  It  too  late  to  stop,  turning  the 
machine  it  plunges  over  the  cliff  into  the  river. 
Watson  goes  to  the  bottom  with  the  car,  but  Billy 
and  Nell  are  thrown  out  into  the  river.  Maurice, 
who  is  in  the  pursuing  auto,  sees  Nell  struggling 
in  the  water.  AJ though  he  now  knows  her  for 
what  she  is,  an  impulse  which  he  cannot  resist 
compels  him  to  dive  to  her  rescue.  A  row  boat 
picks  up  Nell,  Maurice  and  Billy.  Before  he  dies, 
"the  rat"  exonerates  Nell,  tells  how  she  was  forced 
into  the  rohbery,  tolls  how  she  confessed  her  love 
for  Maurice  and  fought  against  the  scheme.  Well! 
Maurice   does  the  right   thing. 


EDISON. 

THE   STORY  OF   THE   BELL    (June   SO).— Colonel 

Fairfax,  in  answer  to  his  grandson's  question  as  to 
n  liy  he  does  not  like  to  hear  the  bell  in  the  old 
church  tower  ring,  tells  the  young  man  that  nearly 
forty  years  he  has  ascended  the  old  tower  to  re- 
move the  muffling  that  had  been  placed  on  Hie 
huge  clapper  for  a  funeral  when  the  sexton  hegnn 
to  pull  the  rope  frantically  in  order  to  warn  the 
countryside  of  the  approach  of  British  soldiers. 
Fairfax  goes  on  to  tell  his  grandson  how  he  was 
imprisoned  underneath  the  swinging  bell,  the  roar 
of  which  drove  him  almost  crazy.  His  cries  for 
help  were  drowned  by  the  clanging  of  the  clapper, 
and  he  lay  that  way  until  one  of  the  young  girls, 
who  had  seen  him  go  into  the  belfry  in  the  morning, 
ordered  the  sexton  to  stop  ringing  the  bell  while 
Rhe  ascended  the  steps  to  the  bell  tower,  where  she 
rescued  Fairfax,  whose  hair  had  turned  snow  white 
from  fright,  rage  and  exhaustion.  In  the  mean- 
time the  villagers  had  succeeded  in  routing  the 
Britishers  and  the  countryside  soon  became  as 
peaceful  as  it  ever  had  been. 

THE  PATCHWORK  QUILT  (July  1).— As  grand- 
mother fondles  the  old  patchwork  quilt  it  brings 
reminiscences  of  her  early  life.  She  met  Jim  at 
an  old-fashioned  country  dance  and  they  were  soon 
married.  When  the  Civil  War  came,  Jim  went 
to  the  front  with  a  uniform  made  by  grandmother, 
a  piece  of  which  was  saved  for  her  quilt.  She 
and  her  son  stood  by  the  window  waving  good-bye. 
Jim  never  came  back  and  that  is  the  end  of 
grandmother's  story.  The  son  grew  up  and  had 
children  of  his  own,  but  life  was  never  so  sweet 
for  grandmother  as  the  time  when  her  Jim  was 
alive. 

ALL  ON  ACCOUNT  OF  A  PORTRAIT  (July  2).— 
Because  John  isn't  soulful  and  doesn't  like  the 
superfluous  amount  of  hlrsulte  appendage  of  a 
pianist,  the  portrait  of  which  is  displayed  in  a 
window,  Jessie,  his  sweetheart,  gives  him  back 
all  his  presents.  To  show  that  he  doesn't  care, 
John  does  likewise.  They  part  but  are  very  un- 
ba-ppy,  particularly  John,  as  he  feels  that  he  is 
more  to  blame  for  his  hasty  action.  At  the  wed- 
ding of  one  of  their  friends  they  meet.  Jessie  is 
the  bridesmaid  and  John  the  best  man.  After  the 
ceremony  the  groom  invites  John  to  visit  his  coun- 
try home.  The  same  invitation  is  extended  to 
Jessie  by  the  bride.  Arriving  at  the  house  before 
the  host,  they  are  mistaken  for  the  newly  married 
couple  by  enthusiastic  neighbors  and  are  greeted 
with  a  shower  of  rice.  Jesse's  icy  attitude  is 
thus  melted  and  she  decides  that  John's  hair  and 
eyes  are  very  nice  indeed. 

A  GENTLEMAN'S  GENTLEMAN  (July  4).— 
Having  been  informed  by  bis  lawyer  that  he  is 
near  the  end  of  his  inherited  resources,  Jardine, 
a  young  society  man,  orders  Holmes,  a  servant 
who  has  been  for  many  years  in  the  Jardine  family, 
to  sell  a  part  of  the  family  plate.  Instead  of 
complying  with  his  young  master's  request,  Holmes 
hides  the  golden  plates  and  gives  Jardine  his 
own  scanty  savings.  With  this  money  Jardine 
squares  himself  with  some  of  his  more  persistent 
creditors. 

He  accepts  an  invitation  to  a  house  party  because 
of  his  fondness  for  Lady  Sarah.  His  devotion 
being  not  sufficiently  strong  to  subdue  his  gam- 
bling passion,  he  enters  a  game  of  bridge.  He 
loses  everything  and  is  compelled  to  give  an- 
I.  0.  U.  As  he  Is  leaving  the  card  room  he  finds 
a  pearl  necklace  which  he  appropriates.  In  his 
room  a  realization  of  what  he  has  done  comes 
to  him  and  he  attempts  to  force  Holmes  to  conceal 
the  necklace.  But  Holmes  refuses  indignantly. 
Having  been  informed  by  his  daughter  of  her  loss. 
the  Karl  goes  to  Jardine's  room  where  Holmes 
admits  to  having  committed  the  theft.  But  just 
as  the  police  are  leading  him  away  Jardine  tells 
the  truth,  thus  exonerating  his  servant.  After  the 
incident  Jardine  starts  to  Canada  with  his  servant, 
where  he  begins  life  anew  and  tries  to  make  him- 
self worthy  of  Lady  Sarah. 


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A  DRAMA  OF  THE  FRENCH  REVOLUTION 
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the  peasant  before  the  countess  commands  her  to 
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by  the  realization  that  she  has  lured  her  lover 
to  death,  she  refuses  the  man's  advances  furiously. 
Later,  a  dim  plan  forms  itself  in  her  mind  and 
she  treats  the  captivated  Republican  less  coldly. 
Meanwhile  St.  Pierre  has  seen  the  welceme  Bignal 
and  has  hastened  to  the  chateau.  Climbing  np 
the  ivy  he  enters  the  room  and  sternly  regards 
the  countess  in  Bompard's  embrace.  Broken- 
hearted at  her  apparent  faithlessness,  the  count 
walks  slowly  to  the  door  behind  which  the  sol- 
diers are  concealed.  At  the  moment  he  opens  the 
door,  the  countess  springs  from  Bompard's  arms. 
The  soldiers  naturally  mistaking  him  for  the  count 
shoot  and  kill  their  leader.  In  the  confusion  that 
fellows  St.  Pierre  and  the  countess  escape. 

MELIUS 

THE  RICE  INDUSTRY  IN  JAVA  (July  J).— A 
most  complete  study  of  the  greatest  crop  growing 
industry  of  the  island  of  Java.  The  Immense  rice 
fields  are  of  two  kinds;  the  "tegal,"  or  dry  field, 
and  the  'sawash,"  or  wet  field,  laid  out  in  ter- 
races of  different  levels  for  Irrigation  purposes. 
After  plowing  and  sowing  the  terraces  are  flooded 
for  a  period  of  eight  or  ten  days.  At  the  end  of 
a  month  or  six  weeks  the  rice  spikes,  having 
grown  crowded,  are  taken  from  the  limited  space 
in    which    they   are   confined    and    replanted   in    the 

JOZS"  ^tXiVheT  apart  t0  'dlow  a"",  strong 
growth.  At  the  end  of  five  or  six  months  the  ter- 
races are  in  full  growth,  and  the  whole  village 
tnrns  out  to  gather  the  harvest. 

The  rice  spikes  tied  in  bundles  are  then  packed 
and  shipped  by  wabon  to  the  mills,  where  the  primi- 
tive method  of  treading  by  huge  buffaloes  is  still 
in  vogue.  The  rice  is  busked  by  means  of  a 
mortar  and  hammer,  operated  by  boys.  Then  it 
is  winnowed— allowed  to  fall  a  distance  in  the 
sJr,  during  which  tie  husks  are  blown  from  the 
v£!  "m  pYe.r,SS.,B  obtslned.  This  rice  is  packed 
and  shipped  to  Oholon  to  be  stored,  as  very  little 
M%£  LT  «DOi'ted  «"»  *««•  The  island  yields 
w.TOO   tons  of  rice  a   year,    consumed   entirely    bv 

^.Katlre8'  M.akln*  rice  U«°°r-  an  intoxicant,  is 
another  interesting  feature  of  the  picture. 

MOOKAPH. 

A  GAMBLE  WITH  DEATH  (June  SO).— The 
stakes    were    to    go    to   the    one    who    outlived    the 

?l,l  '»  IV  qaarrel  one  ended  U>e  chance  of 
another       In    the    mountain    the    two    survivors    of 

w  ^  Cime  *°«e,ner  i*"'".  one  now  an  outlaw, 
but  through  a  woman's  subterfuge  the  money  fell 
to  the  less  likely  of  them  all,  Reed,  declared  to 
be     on  his  last  legs." 

»JA?IST^AN157?E  tJLT  (JuIy  »>— Mr.  Goethe 
and  Mr  Gounod  have  given  the  world  an  undis- 
puted classic  In  the  story  of  Faust.  That  is  not 
for  the  Blograph  comedy  players  to  deny.  Yet 
their  version  is  a  little  more  optimistic  at  least 
Faust,  as  all  good  people  should  know,  thwarts  the 
Devil  and  marries  Margherita. 

AN  OLD  MAID'S  DECEPTION  (July  8).— Sim  and 
Sam  bad  never  seen  Beauty  unadorned.  That  was 
where  she  deceived  the  public.  She  invited  them 
both  to  the  picnic.  Enough  said  where  a  fair 
lady  is  concerned.  Only  a  duel  conld  settle  It 
Beauty  absent  frills  and  molars  and  devoid  of  fine 
feathers,  rushed  to  the  rescue.  Sim  and  Sam 
sought  solace  In  each  other's  arms,  undeceived. 

THE  80RR0WTUL  SHOEE  (July  6).— There 
dwelt  the  widowed  fisherman  and  his  indulged  son. 
Then  the  girl,  the  sole  survivor  of  the  wreck,  came 
into  their  lives.  The  father  suppressed  his  own 
love,  realizing  the  son  could  offer  youth  instead  of 
age,  but  the  young  woman  decided  otherwise.  It 
was  through  the  young  wife's  attempt  to  make 
peace  without  exposing  the  son  that  the  sorrowful 
shore  revealed  another  tragedy. 

PATHEPLAY. 

THX  MIRACLE  OF  THE  HOSES  (July  l)._Forced 
.,  **F?,'?tl,on  Dy  tte  nnnser  of  his  starving  wife 
and  child  Hughes,  a  wildchopper,  steals  s  lamb 
from  a  neighboring  shepherd.  He  is  arreBted  and 
brought  before  the  Margrave  of  Thuringe.  Under 
the  ancient  Germanic  law  he  is  sentenced  to  death 


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The  Leader,  havingr  the  sat- 
urator  inside 
of  the  tank,  requires  25%  less 
oxygen  to  evaporize  the  ether 
and  owing  to  its  simplicity, 
lightness  and  corapactness.it 
is  claimed  by  all  large  travel- 
ingr  companies,  small  town 
theatres,  first-class  dealers 
and  all  other  users  as  the  onlv 
and  best  calcium  Iff  ht  for  moving 
picture  and  s-tereopt icon  work 
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7  inches  in  diameter  and 
weighs  only  15  pounds  and 
will  burn  two  and  three  hours 
on  one  chaige 

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every  battle  I  ever  fight.  And  the  peo- 
ple who  stick  to  me  win  whenever  I  win. 
Every  exhibitor  who  wants  to  be  dead 
sure  of  a  successful  future  will  do  mighty 
well  to  hook  up  with  that  Universal 
program  and  with  Laemmle  and  with 
"Laemmle  Luck."  My  offices  are  buying 
the  whole  Universal  program  and  extra 
copies  of  the  best  films  to  boot.  When 
are  YOU  going  to  WAKE  UP? 

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The   Laemmle   Film 
Service 

204  West  Lake  Street,  Chicago,  III. 

252-A  Hennepin  Ave.,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 
1312  Famum  Street,  Omaha,  Neb. 

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but  Elizabeth,  the  wife  of  the  Margrave,  pleads 
so  eloquently  with  her  husband  that  the  wood- 
chopper's  life  is  spared  and  Instead  he  Is  sentenced 
to  work  his  own  way  out  of  his  poverty  and  his 
neighbors  forbidden  to  help  him  under  penalty  of 
death.  Her  heart  touched  by  the  plight  of  Hughes, 
Elizabeth  defies  the  law  and  with  an  apron  full 
of  edibles  goes  to  the  home  of  the  woodchopper. 
She  has  Just  arrived  there  when  the  soldiers  of 
the  Margrave  enter  and  demand  to  know  what  the 
apron  contains.  Elizabeth  drops  her  apron  and  there 
falls  at  her  feet  a  shower  of  roses. 

THE    MISSIONARY'S   TRIUMPH    (July   2) Into 

the  rough  life  of  a  mining  camp  comes  Miss  Hazel 
Meredith,  gentle,  kind  and  good  and  determined 
to  Implant  religions  fervor  in  the  hearts  of  the 
miners.  Sizing  up  the  situation  Miss  Meredith 
realizes  that  to  win  she  must  help  the  men  over- 
come their  passion  for  alcoholic  liquors  supplied 
by  a  band  of  Moonshiners.  With  the  help  of  her 
beauty  and  charming  personality  and  the  assist- 
ance of  Bob  Fordham  she  accomplishes  her  pur- 
pose, but  the  Moonshiners,  blaming  Bob  for  wreck- 
ing their  nefarious  trade,  plan  vengeance.  Bob 
would  have  been  killed,  in  all  probability,  bnt  fox 
the  quick  wit  and  bravery  of  the  missionary,  who 
summoned  Bob's  fellow  workers.  Thoroughly  in- 
dignant, the  miners  rise  as  one  man  and  force  the 
Moonshiners  to  leave  hastily  for  other  parts. 

THE  JOY  RIDE    (July  S) Harry,    the  chauffeur 

for  James  Van  Cliff,  the  banker,  while  driving 
over  a  manhole,  spattered  Flossie  Footlights  with 
mud.  He  was  alone  In  the  car  and  to  make  amends 
he  took  Flossie  for  a  Joy  ride.  Flossie  found  Van 
Cliff's  card  In  the  car  and  asked  Harry  If  he 
was  Van  Cliff.  "Yes,"  said  Harry,  shyly,  and 
Flossie  fell  In  love  Immediately.  So  engrossed 
was  Harry  that  he  forgot  the  speed  law.  In  court 
the  next  morning  be  was  sentenced  to  a  month 
in  prison.  After  getting  into  prison  he  got  Into 
a  fight  and  then  got  into  the  hospital.  After 
getting  out  thirty  days  later,  Harry  met  Flossie 
and  Harry's  wife  met  them  both.  Harry  hasn't 
been  Joy  riding  since. 

CONSECRATION  OF  A  BUDDHIST  PRIEST  (July 
4). — The  strange  and  rather  weird  ceremony  Inci- 
dental to  the  consecration  of  a  Buddhist  priest. 
Preceded  by  a  corps  of  musicians  the  future  priest 
marches  with  his  family  to  the  ttemple  and  there 
the  musicians,  personifying  the  evil  spirit,  take 
turns  at  tempting  the  young  candidate,  thus  allow- 
ing him  an  opportunity  to  show  his  strength  of 
character.  Finally,  he  is  presented  with  his  sacred 
vestments  which  he  accepts  after  a  curious  cere- 
mony. 

PISA  (ITALY)  AND  ITS  CURIOUS  MONUMENTS 
(July  4). — A  tour  through  the  city  of  Pisa,  stop- 
ping before  its  landmarks,  which  are  all  very  old, 
and  culminating  with  a  view  of  the  Leaning  Tower, 
the  most  famous  structure  in  the  world. 

A  MODERN  GAR  RICK  (July  6).— Garrlck,  in 
the  heyday  of  his  popularity,  was  a  snper  com- 
pared to  Hamspiel,  the  famous  matinee  idoL  Hams- 
piel,  was  playing  Romeo  when  first  Gwendoline 
Martin  saw  him  from  a  box  seat.  That  was 
enough.  Immediately  Gwendoline  fell  In  love  and 
a  mania  for  playing  Juliet  possessed  her,  leaving 
no  room  for  affection  for  her  old  sweetheart  This 
young  fellow  enlisted  the  services  of  a  bypiotist 
and  with  the  assistance  of  the  clever  Hamspiel 
himself  Gwendoline  lost  sll  ambition  to  be  his 
leading   lady. 

THE  MINER'S  DESTINY  (Special— 2  partsWuly 
5). — John  Crane,  a  miner,  refuses  to  be  cowed  by 
Jenkins,  the  bully  of  the  mine,  but  makes  the 
mistake  of  being  seen  intoxicated.  Jenkins  tells 
the  foreman  and  Crane  Is  discharged.  Later,  there 
Is  an  explosion  in  the  mine.  Crane,  because  of 
his  discharge,  is  suspected  of  having  caused  the 
explosion  and  on  Jenkins's  perjured  testimony  Is 
convicted  and  sentenced  to  life  imprisonment. 
Jenkins  becomes  foreman  of  the  mine.  The  shock 
of  the  sudden  turn  in  fortune  is  too  much  for  Mrs. 
Crane  and  after  struggling  bravely  she  gives  up 
the  light  anod  passes  away.  Her  little  boy  is  now 
homeless,  but  Vance  Wilkins,  a  kindly  neighbor, 
adopts  him.  The  boy  soon  becomes  known  only 
by  the  name  of  his  foster  father,  who,  after  he 
has  finished  his  primary  schooling,  sends  him  to 
college  to  take  a  course  in  mine  engineering.  The 
young  man  returns  after  several  years  and  Is  ap- 
pointed chief  engineer  of  the  mine  by  Jenkins,  who 
has  secured  control  of  the  property.  Because  of 
his  good  behavior  during  the  twenty-five  years  he 
has  served  in  prison,  Crane,  now  an  old  man,  Is 
pardoned.  But  he  can  find  no  work  and  after 
repeated  attempts  to  be  committed  back  to  prison 
he  breaks  into  a  house. 

It  develops  that  Jenkins  has  given  Wilkins  the 
position  as  chief  engineer  for  a  purpose  because 
one  day  while  Mrs.  Wilkins  Is  alone  In  her  home 
Jenkins  calls.  The  woman  orders  him  out  He 
refuses  and  Mrs.  Wilkins  secures  a  revolver.  Jen- 
kins struggles  with  her  for  possession  of  the  weapon 
and  It  explodes.  Jenkins  falls,  mortally  wounded. 
This  is  the  house  into  which  Crane  has  forced  bla 
way  and  as  soon  as  he  bears  the  shot  he  hurries 
into  the  room.  Instantly  he  recognizes  the  wounded 
man.  A  physician  is  summoned  and  the  young  en- 
gineer advised  by  his  wife. 

Wilkins  and  the  doctor  arrive  together  and  as 
soon  as  Jenkins  is  able  to  speak  he  makes  haste 
to  ease  his  conscience  and  nnfolds  a  story  which 
clears  the  name  of  the  ex-convlct  and,  Incidentally, 
proves  the  relationship  between  Crane  and  Wilkins. 
Jenkins  begs  to  be  forgiven  and  after  the  trio 
have  done  so,  he  smiles  upon  the  reunited  family 
and  dies. 


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H  O  U  S 


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SELIG'S 

Summer 
Surprises 


Selig  believes  that,  (luring  the  hot  summer 
months,  exhibitors  are  entitled  to  the  best 
program  of  pictures  that  money,  brains,  tal- 
ent and  ambition  can  produce.  Other  manu- 
facturers think  that  any  old  thing  will  do. 
— Not  so  with  Selig. 

Just  glance  at  this  list. 
Each  release  is  a  good  Selig  feature  of  ex- 
ceptional   quality     and     entrancing    interest. 
Make  No  Mistake — Demand  All  of  Them. 
June  30th 
THE   BEADED   BUCKSKIN    BAG 

A  dramatic  story  of  early  California  days, 
based  upon  an  experience  of  two  historic 
characters,  John  Sutter  and  James  Marshall. 
July  1  st 

SONGS  OF  TRUCE 

An  appealing  story  of  the  Civil  War,  in  which 
"'a  house  divided  against  itself"  plays  an  im- 
portant part. 


Selig  Polyscope  Co, 

-~    STUDIOS      —  ^-^ 

CHICAGO-LOS    ANGELES-       ^^^  G* 

■PRESCOTT,    ARIZ.-  <<^:"  O 

-CANON      CITY,    COLO-  ^^SS-- 


July  2nd 

ARABIA  AND  THE 
BABY 

Another  delightful  com- 
edy in  which  "Arabia— 
The  Human  Horse"  per- 
forms remarkable  tricks.     On  split  reel  with 

THE  SULTAN  OF  SULU 

An  educational  review  of  this  potentate. 
July  3rd 

"IN  GOD  WE  TRUST" 

A  strong  drama  of  the  Yuletide  season.   Just 
the  thing  for  the  hot  weather. 

July  4th 

SALLIE'S  SURE  SHOT 

An    Independence    Day    picture    of    unusual 
merit — Western  in  locale,  exciting  in  action. 

Have  you  booked  "ALONE  IN  THE 
JUNGLE"  yet? 

IF  NOT,  WHY  NOT? 


Chicago   U.S.A. 

•^  FOREIGN    OFFICES  — 

«.      -LONDON     -     BERLIN    - 
->    ST.    PETERSBURG  -   PARIS- 
BUDAPEST  -    RIO     DE     JANERIO 


COLLEGE    STREET  just 
West  of  Spadina  Avenue 


GARDEN  THEATRE 

TORONTO,    CANADA  LEON  BRICK,  Manager 

A   Rendezvous  for  Particular  People 

MOTION    PICTURES 


Devoted  exclusively  to  a  superior 
presentation  of  personally  selected 


SYMPHONIC    ORCHESTRA    (9  Artists) 


those  who  are  fond  of  Mo- 
ight  after  night  the  spacious 

representing  the  most  re- 
ng  the  summers  of  191 1  and 
d  their  patronage  on  this  in- 

and  to  those  who  may  visit 
to  greet  old  friends — always 


MUSIC    OF    A    HIGH    ORDER 

The  Garden  Theatre  is  a  favorite  resort  for 
tion  Picture  entertainment  in  its  highest  form.  X 
auditorium  is  taxed  to  its  capacity,  the  audiences 
spectable  and  influential  element  of  Toronto.  Duri 
1912  tourists  to  the  number  of  hundreds  bestowe 
stitution.  The  travel  season  is  once  more  at  hand 
Toronto  let  it  be  known  that  we  are  always  glad 
anxious  to  make  new  ones. 

Let  us  quote  the  closing  paragraph  of  an  editorial  in  re  this  Theatre,  which 
recently  appeared  in  the  Toronto  Star. — 

"Lastly,  there  is  about  this  theater,  the  management,  the  audience,  and 
the  arrangement  alike,  an  air  of  refinement  as  unmistakable  as  it  is  rare,  and 
which  cannot  fail  to  impress  even  the  most  casual  visitor." 

During  the  summer  months  the  Theatre  will  be  found  delightfully  cool;  the  ventilating  arrangements  be- 
ing such  that  a  plentiful  supply  of  fresh  air  is  assured. 

Open  evenings,  7:15  to  10:40.     Matinee,  Saturday  only,  2  to  5. 


The  presentation  of  a  moving  pic- 
ture without  the  accompaniment  of 
appropriate  music  is  like  the  pre- 
sentation of  Grand  Opera  without 
the  accompaniment  of  an  orchestra. 
That  is  why  the  Garden  Theatre 
maintains  an  orchestra  of  soloists 
who,  with  constant  practice  and  re- 
hearsal, are  able  to  interpret  and 
convey  to  the  spectators,  the  various 
moods  and  emotions  of  the  actors  in 
the  picture  or  enliven  those  scenes 
of  nature  or  current  events  where 
men  or  women  do  not  actively  par- 
ticipate. 

The  artistic  presentation  of  a  mov- 
ing picture  is  now  conceded  to  be  in 
importance  equal  to  its  original  re- 
flection on  the  sensitive  film. 

We  have  and  are  making  this  ar- 
tistic presentation  a  constant  study 
to  the  delight  of  the  thousands  of 
our  regular  patrons. 


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INDEPENDENT 
FILM     STORIES 


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UNIVERSAL 

BISON. 

AT  8HIL0H  (2  parts,  July  5).— During  a  tem- 
porary cessation  of  hostilities  below  the  Mason- 
Dixon  line,  Col.  Carlton  is  granted  leave  of  ab- 
sence, and  accompanied  by  Lieut.  Carney,  his  daugh- 
ter's sweetheart,  visits  his  Southern  home.  There 
Lieut.  Carney  is  honored  by  Virginia  Carleton,  ac- 
cepting his  proposal  of  marriage.  At  the  expiration 
of  their  furlough,  the  lieutenant  and  the  colonel 
leave   to  rejoin   their  regiment. 

Strife  of  war  dangerously  adjacent  prevents  the 
making  of  a  trip  by  the  Carltons  to  get  a  new 
wedding  outfit,  with  the  result  that  the  mother 
unpacks  the  attic  trunk  and  her  own  wedding 
gown  undergoes  alterations  for  the  happy  occasion  of 
ber  daughter's  marriage. 

Meanwhile,  the  opposing  armies  draw  nearer  and 
Grant's  force  is  discovered  by  the  Confederates  to 
be  in  a  weak  condition.  To  enable  the  strategic 
maneuver  of  the  Confederates  taking  advantage  of 
this  position  of  the  Federals,  Lieut.  Carney  volun- 
tarily assumes  the  perilous  responsibility  of  slipping 
through  the  Federal  lines  to  warn  other  Confederates 
of  the  contemplated  attack,  likewise  securing  their 
reinforcement.  This  plan  of  Lieut.  Carney's  Is 
thwarted  at  a  crucial  period  by  the  Federals  de- 
tecting his  effort  to  get  through  their  lines.  Car- 
ney's horse  is  shot  and  he  is  compelled  to  seek 
safety  in  flight.  The  chase  ends  with  Lieut. 
Carney  fleeing  to  the  home  of  his  sweetheart,  hotly 
pursued  by  the  determined  Federals,  who  suspect 
he  bears  important  dispatches  bearing  on  the  hazard- 
ous position  of  their  division.  When  Carney  breaks 
into  the  house,  Virginia  and  her  mother  are  draping 
the  wedding  dress  on  an  Improvised  "form"  be- 
neath which  Carney  is  hidden  as  the  Federals  enter. 

Driven  to  desperation,  Virginia  is  compelled  to 
play  the  part  of  an  obliging  hostess  to  gain  time. 
The  tired  Federals  succumb  to  her  charms  and  she 
is  enabled  to  gain  time  to  assist  Carney  in  es- 
caping. The  ofiieer  of  the  squad  becomes  intoxi- 
cated, and  Virginia,  with  the  assistance  of  Carney 
and  two  family  slaves,  has  his  uniform  changed 
to  that  of  Carney's,  and  the  Federal,  in  Con- 
federate uniform,  is  put  on  a  wagon  and  sent  away 
in  apparent  flight,  which  Is  detected  by  the  Federals', 
who  give  chase.     Carney  then  escapes. 

With  the  help  of  the  passport  which  he  finds  In 
the  coat  of  the  Federal  officer,  Carney  delivers  his 
message  in  safety,  enabling  the  Confederates  to 
accomplish  their  purpose.  This  advantage'  is  later 
turned  in  the  opposing  army's  favor,  and  the  Con- 
federates are  forced  into  the  "Hornet's  Nest," 
where  lack  of  water  aids  in  weakening  their  oppo- 
sition. Virginia's  horse,  ridden  by  Carney,  is  sent 
with  a  note  asking  for  water,  and  Virginia  ac- 
complishes the  perilous  feat  of  carrying  through  the 
fighting  lines  of  the  Federals  enongh  water  to  en- 
able the  hard-pressed  Confederates  to  hold  their 
ground  until  the  Federals,  In  command  of  Gen. 
Grant,  decide  to  abandon  trying  to  gain  their  place 
of  retreat.  Virginia  Is  acclaimed  a  heroine  by  the 
cheering  army  of  Confederates,  and  she  flies,  em- 
barrassed, to  the  eagerly  waiting  arms  of  Lieut 
Carney. 


CRYSTAL. 

THE    GIHL   REPORTER    (July   6) Pearl    White 

reporter,  is  ordered  by  her  newspaper  to  get  an  in- 
terview with  the  mayor,  Frank  Brockly.  She  visits 
his  house  just  as  the  mayor  leaves  it  in  an  automo- 
bile. A  valise  belonging  to  the  mayor  drops  off  and 
Pearl  finds  It.  She  enters  the  house  believing  the 
mayor  will  return  for  It.  The  butler  admits  her 
and  bids  her  wait.  She  enters  the  parlor.  Mean- 
while, "Natty"  Nixon,  a  sneak  thief,  finds  the 
door  open  and  enters  the  house.  Pearl  mistakes  him 
for  the  mayor.  He  plays  the  part.  Later,  he  locks 
her  in  the  room  and  tries  to  escape,  taking  the 
valise  Pearl  found  with  him.  The  butler  sees  him 
and  chases  him  down  the  street,  finally  capturing 
him.  Meanwhile  the  mayor  returns  and  discovers 
Pearl.  He  thinks  she  is  a  thief  and  she  thinks 
the  same  of  him.  He  cows  her  with  a  revolver  and 
is  about  to  phone  the  police  when  by  a  trick  she 
wrests  a  revolver  from  him.  She  phones  the  police 
and  two  policemen  are  sent  to  the  mayor's  mansion 
on  the  double-quick.  They  enter  jnst  as  the  butler 
retorns  with  "Natty"  and  eventually  all  entangle- 
ments being  straightened  out,  Pearl  gets  the  Inter- 
view and  all  ends  well. 

WJCHX-x-  ENGAGED  (July  6).— Richard  Hunter 
Is  a  flighty  and  evidently  a  forgetful  young  man 
He  calls  on  Ethel,  vows  she  Is  the  only  girl  he  has 
ever  loved  and  gives  her  an  engagement  ring  to  bind 
their  faith.  He  next  calls  on  Gertrude  and  goes 
through  practically  the  eame  performance.  He  re- 
turns home  and  is  Informed  by  his  valet  that  Mar- 


guerite another  girl  friend  of  bis  called  him  up. 
He  decides  to  visit  her,  and  does.  While  there,  he 
again  falls  In  love  and  gives  her  a  ring  to  bind 
their  engagement.  Later,  he  walks  along  the  street 
and  is  hit  by  an  automobile.  A  great  crowd  gath- 
ers and  while  he  is  not  seriously  injured,  still  he 
is  hurt  enough  to  have  to  be  carried  home  and  put 
in  bed.  Newspaper  reporters  get  on  the  job  and  a 
full  account  of  the  accident  and  the  injuries  to 
Richard  appears  in  all  the  papers.  Ethel  reads  of  it 
and  getting  some  flowers  proceeds  to  pay  her  fiance 
a  visit.  The  other  girls  also  read  of  It  and  also 
come  to  nurse  him  back  to  health.  The  three  meet, 
with  the  result  that  a  free-for-all  flght  very  nearly 
ensues  when  explanations  are  in  order,  and  results 
iu  the  throwing  of  his  rings  at  Richard  by  all 
three  girls.  Later,  fulfilling  his  prediction  that  the 
girls  like  to  be  fooled,  they  return,  but  again  they 
meet  and  all  chances  of  reconciliation  are  at  an 
end. 

WHO  IS  IN  THE  BOX  (June  29).— Chester  Is 
kidnapped  by  a  jealous  rival.  Pearl  Is  engaged 
to  And  him.  A  box  is  bought  in  which  Chester 
is  to  be  put  and  shipped  back  to  his  lady  love. 
Pearl  releases  Chester  and  hides  in  the  box,  hop- 
ing to  capture  the  criminals.  The  box  is  thrown 
onto  a  wagon  and  proceeds  on  its  way.  After 
falling  off  and  badly  marring  Pearl's  neat  ap- 
pearance and  stunning  beauty,  the  box  Is  delivered 
at  its  destination,  where  Pearl  is  released.  She 
is  rewarded  with  a  ten-dollar  bill  by  Chester  for 
saving  his  life,  and  she  determines  to  give  up 
detecting  and  engage  in  sometbing  more  satisfying. 

MRS.  SHARP  AND  MISS  FLATT  (June  29).— 
Belmont  courts  the  widow  and  her  friend  at  the 
same  time.  He  makes  excuses  to  one  and  calls 
on  the  other  after  promising  to  take  the  first  to 
the  theater.  Unsuspecting,  she  calls  on  her  friend 
and  finds  Belmont  there.  She  unmasks  his  perfidy 
and  he  is  accorded  very  drastic  treatment,  eventu- 
ally getting  an  unsought  for  wetting  from  Miss 
Flatt.  She  gets  a  seltzer  bottle  and  speedily, 
though    vicbyously,    brings    him    to    his    senses. 

AN  HOUR  OF  TERROR  (July  1).— Ralph,  the 
Doctor's  half-brother,  is  caught  in  the  act  of  steal- 
ing money  from  the  Doctor's  safe,  of  which  he 
bad  full  charge.  He  gambles  it  away,  and  again 
steals  some  of  the  Doctor's  money.  This  time 
the  Doctor  loses  patience  with  him  and  orders  him 
from  the  house.  The  Doctor  and  his  wife  have 
forgotten  of  Ralph's  existence.  Meantime  he  has 
gone  from  bad  to  worse  and  being  sadly  in  need 
of  money,  again  visits  the  Doctor's  home.  Find- 
ing Pearl  alone,  he  compels  her  at  the  point  of  a 
revolver  to  promise  to  make  the  Doctor  give  him 
$500.  The  Doctor  returns  and  overpowers  Ralph. 
He  bas  bis  wife  phone  the  police.  Ralph  induces 
them  to  listen  to  his  plea  and  brings  in  their 
mother's  name.  They  are  touched  and  help  him 
escape,  and  when  the  police  arrive  they  have  no 
one  to  arrest.  Ralph  promises  to  reform  and  the 
Doctor,  for  his  mother's  sake,  resolves  to  give 
the   erring   youngster  just   one   more   chance. 


IMP. 

JANE  MARRIES  (July  3) Jack  is  a  rather  gay 

young  bachelor,  and  it  is  only  the  fact  that  he  is- 
at  the  end  of  bis  financial  rope  that  causes  him  to 
consider  seriously  a  ridiculous  will  made  by  his  de- 
parted aunt,  specifying  that  he  must  be  married  be- 
fore his  twenty-sixth  birthday  or  her  fortune  is  to 
be  used  to  establish  a  home  for  "Indigent  Plumb- 
ers." The  day  of  the  twenty-sixth  birthday  arrives, 
and  a  curt  note  from  his  aunt's  lawyer  notified  him 
that  he  must  be  a  married  man  by  4:00  p.  m.  or 
sacrifice  a  fortune  to  undeserving  piumbers. 

Jack  puts  it  up  to  the  lawyer  to  get  him  any- 
one that  will  leave  him  after  the  ceremony.  He 
goes  Into  the  park  for  a  walk,  where  he  rescues  a 
girl  from  a  pickpocket,  and  gets  a  serious  knife 
wound  in  the  arm  before  the  thug  is  overcome. 
Jack  finds  himself  In  the  hospital  and  only  two 
hours  to  find  a  bride.  The  girl  in  gratitude  hastens 
to  her  fathers  office  and  shows  him  the  card  of  her 
rescuer.  Her  father  is  the  lawyer  and  she  learns 
that  Jack  must  have  a  wife  In  a  few  hours.  Jane, 
without  telling  her  father,  promptly  decides  to 
save  the  fortune  for  the  young  man,  and  with  her 
maid  procures  a  license,  ring  and  minister  and 
veiling  herself  in  an  automobile  veil,  goes  to  the 
hospital,  where  Jack  is  married  just  In  time. 
The  lawyer  comes  to  sympathize  with  Jack  in  his 
loss,  and  learns  that  his  daughter  has  become  a 
bride. 

Expostulations  are  too  late,  and  Jane  swears 
ber  father  into  secrecy  and  returns  to  her  home, 
leaving  Jack  in  ignorance  of  his  wife's  Identity. 
However,   he  soon  learns  who  his  wife  Is. 

THE  OLD  MELODY  (2  parts— June  30).— Silas 
and  Maggie  reside  in  the  country  and  are  sweet- 
hearts. Silas  comes  courting,  bringing  his  violin. 
Silas  and  Maggie  marry  and  go  to  the  city.  The 
story  is  carried  forward  ten  years  and  they  have 
a  child  eight  years  old.  Dora.  Silas  has  become 
a  successful  business  man  and  Maggie  and  he 
have  drifted  apart.  At  a  ball  at  his  home  Silas 
shows  a  partiality  for  a  society  woman.  Maggie 
is  piqued  and  in  a  spirit  of  revenge  allows  Hamil- 
ton to  pay  her  marked  attentions.  The  next  day 
Maggie  becomes  desperate  in  her  loneliness  and 
telephones  Hamilton  to  come  and  take  her  ont 
for  an  auto  ride.  He  takes  her  to  a  roadhouse  of 
somewhat  shady  repute.  Silas  and  the  society 
woman   come    to   the  same    place   and   are   ushered 


into  an  adjoining  room.  In  the  meantime  little 
Dora  finds  her  father's  violin,  which  has  been 
stored  away  for  years.  Silas  bears  Maggie's  voice 
and  she  recognizes  bis  and  leaves  the  room,  leaving 
Hamilton  there.  Silas  creates  a  scene  by  break- 
ing in  the  door  and  attacking  Hamilton.  Maggie 
hurries  home  and  is  met  by  Dora,  who  has  her 
father's  violin:  they  pack  and  go  back  to  the 
farm.  Silas  returns  home,  sees  the  violin  which 
has  been  left  behind:  it  awakens  tender  memories 
and  he  hurries  after  his  wife  and  child.  They 
are    reunited    and    once    more    happy. 


VICTOR. 

A  SHITTING  FORTUNE  (July  4).— Mucus. 
Gertrude's  grandfather,  owns  a  farm  adjoining 
Jim's  and  the  young  people  are  attracted  to  each 
other.  This  feeling  is  not  shared  by  their  re- 
spective hired  men,  Jake  and  Dick.  Dick  clears 
Jim's  field  of  rocks  by  the  simple  process  of 
throwing  them  over  the  fence,  into  Marcus's  field. 
Jake  throws  them  back,  and  Gertrude  and  Jim  have 
difficulty  in  keeping  the  men  from  lighting,  D 
final  act  of  reprisal  is  to  unload  a  wheelbarrow 
of  rocks  on  Marcus's  land  during  the  absence  of 
Jake. 

Harry,  a  mining  engineer,  comes  to  the  country 
for  his  vacation,  and  secures  board  in  Marcus's 
house.  Gertrude  is  attracted  to  Harry,  and  this 
has    a    saddening    effect   on   Jim. 

While  strolling  through  one  of  Marcus's  fields, 
Harry  finds  the  rocks  Dick  has  brought  there  iu 
his  wheelbarrow.  Harry  discovers  traces  of  cop- 
per in  the  rocks,  and  secretly  determines  to  buy 
the  farm.  He  returns  to  the  house  in  time  to 
find  an  old  skin-flint  of  a  squire  threatening  to 
foreclose  a  mortgage  he  holds  on   Marcus's   farm. 

Harry  follows  the  squire  home,  and  buys  the 
mortgage.  He  then  proposes  to  Gertrude  that  she 
become  bis  housekeeper,  and  makes  violent  love 
to  her.  She  and  Marcus  leave,  indignantly,  not 
waiting  to  be  driven  out.  Jim  arrives  at  this 
juncture,  and  Gertrude  has  difficulty  in  keeping  him 
from  attacking  Harry.  Jim  takes  Gertrude  and 
Marcus  to  his  house.  Gertrude  Is  thoroughly  dis- 
illusioned   in    regard    to    Harry. 

Harry  writes  to  a  capitalist,  in  New  York,  ask- 
ing him  to  come  on,  investigate  the  copper  prop- 
erty, and  advance  money  to  develop  it.  The  cap- 
italist arrives,  and  Harry  takes  him  to  the  cop- 
per-bearing rocks.  Jake,  the  hired  man,  arrives. 
He  Is  very  indignant  at  finding  the  rocks,  and  in- 
forms the  horror-stricken  Harry  that  they  belong 
on  Jim's   land. 

The  capitalist  goes  to  Jim,  and  offers  to  develop 
the  copper  mining  possibilites  of  his  farm.  Jim, 
Gertrude  and  Marcus  are  happy,  and  Harry  finds 
himself    with   a    useless    farm   on   his    hands." 


UNIVERSAL. 

ANIMATED     WEEKLY     NO.     67      (Jane     18).— 

England  vs.  America. — Practice  games  previous 
to  the  great  International  polo  match — Meadow 
Brook  Hunt  Club  Grounds,   Westbury,   L.   I. 

Remarkable  Speed  Test. — Percy  Lambert  breaks 
the  world's  circular  track  record;  time,  113  miles 
an   hour. 

Million  Dollar  Fire. — A  disastrous  conflagration 
destroys  the  manufacturing  and  warehouse  dis- 
trict,  Long  Island  City,   L.    I. 

French  Aeronautics. — Inspection  by  the  King  of 
Spain  and  President  Poincaire,  at  Versailles, 
France. 

Philadelphia  vs.  Brooklyn. — The  Quakers  and 
Dodgers  play  an  exciting  game  at  Ebbets'  Field, 
Brooklyn. 

Society  Coaching  Season. — Officially  opened  by 
Mr.  Alfred  Vanderbilt,  who  starts  his  seventh  sea- 
son   on    the    Brighton    Road,    London,    England. 

Ocean  Motor  Boat  Race. — The  start  of  the  Phil- 
adelphia-Bermuda Motor  Boat  Race  for  the  Ber- 
muda Challenge  Cup.  Subtitle  Mavor  Blanden- 
burg,  of  Philadelphia. 

The  Weekly  Fashion  Hint. — I*p  tothe-Minute 
News  In  gowns  and  frocks.  Shown  by  courtesy 
of   The    Ladles'    Home   Journal. 

A  Day  at  West  Point. — Secretary  of  the  Navy 
Josepbus  Daniels  reviews  the  cadets  at  the  fa- 
mous military  academy.  Sub-title,  A  Salute  to  the 
Secretary. 

High  School  Field  Day. — Prominent  members  of 
the  Board  of  Education  assist  in  the  largest  field 
day   exercises   ever  held   in   Chicago. 

Who's  Wha  in  Pictures   (Billv  Quirk). 


REX. 

A  WOMAN'S  FOLLY  (July  3).— Having  married 
a  man  much  older  than  herself,  Mrs.  Grayson  can- 
not get  over  the  habit  of  flirting  with  young  men. 
She  is  finally  detected  allowing  a  young  man  to 
kiss  her  at  a  reception  which  the  husband  and 
wife  are  attending.  The  husband's  anger  Is  so 
great  that  he  suffers  a  ■  stroke  of  apoplexy  and 
falls  unconscious  at  her  feet.  A  doctor  is  hastily 
summoned  and  his  final  verdict  la  that  the  hus- 
band will  live,  a  voiceless,  helpless  paralytic  to 
the  end.  Brought  to  a  realization  of  what  her 
frivolous  conduct  has  resulted  In,  the  young  wife 
takes  her  husband  to  a  far  western  city,  where  sbe 
supports  herself  and  husband  by  taking  up  her 
eld   occupation  of   a   nurse. 


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After  two  years  of  this  life,  she  meets  and 
falls  Id  love  with  a  young  doctor  at  the  hos- 
pital. He  returns  her  love,  believing  her  to  be 
single  and  urges  her  to  marry  him.  Naturally  she 
refuses,  though  without  giving  any  valid  rea- 
son. Upon  reaching  home,  however,  she  realizes 
that  the  doctor  is  entitled  to  know  the  reason. 
She  writes  him  a  note,  asking  him  to  call  at  her 
home  the  next  afternoon  when  she  will  tell  him 
why    she   refused. 

The  doctor  comes  at  the  appointed  time.  Then 
comes  to  the  woman,  who  has  sacrificed  her  life 
to  duty  because  of  a  moment's  folly,  a  great 
temptation.  The  young  doctor,  seeing  a  man  of 
fifty  a  helpless  paralytic,  jumps  to  a  natural  con- 
clusion; and  as  the  words  that  will  drive  him  away 
from  her  forever,  tremble  on  her  lips,  she  hears 
the  doctor  say,  "How  long  has  your  father  been 
like  this?"  "Two  years,"  is  her  reply.  The  young 
doctor  replies:  "And  did  you  think  I  was  so  selfish 
as  not  to  be  willing  to  help  you  bear  the  burden? 
I'll  go  to  my  office  and  write  Dr.  Jackson,  the 
specialist,  who  knows.  He  may  reverse  the  ver- 
dict,   and    restore   him   to   health." 

Then  come  bitter  hours  of  struggle  for  the 
woman,  torn  between  love  and  duty.  The  doctor 
returns.  A  letter  has  been  dispatched  to  Dr.  Jack- 
son and  in  his  band  he  holds  an  emblem  of  happi- 
ness— the  engagement  ring.  As  he  places  the 
ring  on  her  finger,  the  paralytic  husband  moves  the 
arm  that  still  retains  life  and  knocks  a  glass  from 
the  table.  The  crash  calls  forth  from  her  torn  soul 
and  a  cry  of  agony.  She  realizes  what  she  was 
about    to    do. 

Honor  prevails.  The  tempted  woman  pours 
forth  her  story.  "He  is  my  husband.  The  fault 
was  mine.  I  will  bear  the  burden  of  the  end." 
The  young  doctor  loves  her,  but  he,  too,  is  an 
honorable  man,  and  he  takes  her  hand  and  hids 
her  be  brave.  He  then  goes  out  of  her  life  for- 
ever. Again  the  young  wife  takes  up  her  burden, 
to  bear  it  as  beet  she  can  without  hope  or  love. 

SUSPENSE  (July  6).— A  young  couple  live  in 
the  country  several  miles  from  town.  Their  only 
maid,  dissatisfied  with  the  lonely  life,  leaves  the 
house  without  any  other  notice  than  a  note,  tell- 
ing the  mistress  she  is  leaving  and  will  put  the 
back    door    key    under   the    back    door  mat. 

The  wife,  left  alone  with  her  baby,  receives  a 
telephone  call  from  her  husband  saying  he  will 
not  be  home  until  late  and  asking  if  she  will  be 
safe.  The  wife  answers  that  she  will  be.  and 
later,  when  she  discovers  the  maid's  note,  although 
fearful  of  heing  alone,  determines  not  to  alarm 
her  husband.  She  locks  the  house  securely,  but 
afraid  to  go  around  the  house  to  get  the  ke.v, 
leaves   it  outside. 

A  tramp  peering  through  the  window  sees  the 
wife  alone  and  when  she  takes  the  baby  upstairs 
to  bed,  attempts  to  get  into  the  house.  The  wife. 
hearing  the  noise,  is  alarmed  and,  looking  from 
the  window,  discovers  the  tramp.  She  rushes  to 
the  phone  and  calls  her  husband,  but  the  conver- 
sation is  interrupted  by  the  tramp  cutting  the 
wires. 

The  husband,  however,  has  been  informed  that 
a  tramp  is  entering  the  house,  and  rushes  out  of 
the  office.  In.  his  haste  to  get  to  his  wife,  he 
enters  another  man's  automobile  and  dashes  away. 
The  man,  seeing  his  machine  stolen  (as  he  thinks) 
gets  the  police  and  makes  chase.  The  husband  is 
caught  and  detained  by  the  pursuers,  but  makes  his 
escape  and   dashes  on.' 

In  the  meantime,  the  tramp  has  discovered  the 
back  door  key  and  entered  the  kitchen,  where  he 
helps  himself  to  food.  The  wife  has  barricaded 
the  bedroom  door  with  furniture  and  is  waiting 
in  terror.  Finishing  his  meal,  the  tramp  goes  up- 
stairs, searches  for  valuables  and  finding  none, 
breaks    down    the    door    leading    into    the    bedroom. 

Shots  are  heard  and  the  wife  faints  in  terror 
as  the  tramp  dashes  from  the  room  and  upon  the 
steps  where  he  meets  the  husband,  followed  by 
the  police.  After  a  struggle,  the  tramp  is  secured 
and  bound  by  the  police.  The  husband  finding 
his  wife  safe,  explains  his  wild  ride  to  the  police 
and    the   pursuer  and   fondly   kisses    his    wife. 


NESTOR. 

AN   INDIAN  NEMESIS    (June  301.— Billy,    a    . 
boy,     sees     in     Hope,     the     daughter     of     Ram  b 
West.      'The     only     girl."       Hope     thinks     Billy     is 
"just    right. "      Law  son,    a    cowpnncher    and    ugly 
man  at  heart,   is  wont   to  visit  the  Indian    Reserva 
tlon  and   does  not   hesitate   to   make   advances  to  a 
little    BQUaw,    who    loves    him    heart    and    soul.      One 
day    he   visits    her    and    leaves    abruptly.      She    fol- 
lows   him,    as    she    wants    to    help    him    from    his    big 

weakness— drinking,  She  catches  up  with  him  at 
with  her  instead.  Angered  at  her  persistency,  be 
strikes  her  down.  Looking  hack  he  sees  Billy 
come  along,  pick  her  up  and  carry  her  away.  The 
saloon  habitues  prevent  Law  son  from  follow  Qg 
him.  Billy  takes  the  little  squaw  back  to  the 
Indian  camp  and  is  shown  a  little  papoose — 
the  door  of  the  saloon  and  entreats  him  to  come 
Lawson'*  child.  He  talks  with  the  old  chief  and 
they    smoke    the    pipe    of    peace. 

I.awson  interests  some  of  his  cronies  in  a  rat- 
tle theft.  They  cut  out  the  cattle  on  Wests 
ram-h  and  when  they  get  to  a  hiding-place,  Lawson 
tells  his  men  to  wait.  He  goes  to  the  ranch  and 
is  In  time  to  have  West  ask  him  to  see  Hope  on 
her    way    to    the    ranch    house.      The    two    ride    off 


together,    and    Lawson    has    difficulty    In    restraining 
himself    from    showing    his    affection     for    Hope. 

Billy  detects  the  cattle  stealing  and  seeks  West 
and  informs  him  that  cattle  rustlers  are  at  work. 
He  rides  off,  and  on  the  way  meets  the  little 
squaw,  who  has  been  looking  for  Lawson  and  who 
has  seen  him  riding  with  Hope.  Billy  follows 
them  to  the  ranch  house.  He  is  in  time  to  see  the 
frightened  Hope  suddenly  clasped  in  Lawson'ta 
arms.  He  interferes  and  Lawson  is  ordered  away, 
while  Billy  remains  to  calm  the  girl.  Lawson, 
from  a  window,  sees  a  love  scene  between  Hope 
and  Billy  and  inwardly  rages.  He  sees  Billy  take 
a  handkerchief  from  Hope  and  put  It  into  his 
pocket.  Outside  the  men  come  face  to  face  and 
Lawson  openly  taunts  Billy  and  snatches  the  hand- 
kerchief. In  a  short  but  fierce  fight  Billy  forces 
Lawson  to  put  the  handkerchief  back  where  he 
found  It,  and  as  the  men  draw  their  guns  Hope 
comes  between  them,  and  Lawson  presumably  goes. 
As  the  lovers  enter  the  house,  Lawson  draws  his 
gun.  The  little  squaw  comes  up  behind  him  and 
watches  tensely.  As  Billy  and  Hope  are  seated 
at  the  table,  a  shot  rings  out  and  the  lamp  which 
stands  on  the  little  table  between  them  is  shat- 
tered. 

Billy  begs  Hope  to  go  in  the  other  room.  He 
drops-  on  bis  stomach  and  crawls  quickly  behind 
the  open  door,  gun  in  hand.  Lawson  rushes  to 
the  window,  determined  to  end  Billy's  life;  see- 
ing nobody,  he  goes  to  the  open  door  and  the 
little  squaw  creeps  up  to  the  window.  Lawson 
goes  out,  mad  with  rage,  and  goes  to  his  horse. 
Billy  springs  to  the  window  and  levels  his  gun 
at  Lawson.  Before  he  can  fire,  however,  he  iB 
shot  in  the  hand,  and  Lawson,  who  Is  mounted,  is 
commanded  to  throw  up  his  hands.  He  does  this. 
He  is  forced  to  open  the  window  and  to  open  the 
door.  Lawson  makes  a  move  toward  his  gun  and 
Billy  would  kill  him  hut  for  Hope's  intervention. 
As   lawson  leaves  he  throws  the  little  squaw  aside. 

Col.  West  rides  over  to  visit  his  neighbor, 
Carson,  who  promises  assistance  to  capture  the 
cattle  thieves.  They  arrange  their  plan  of  cam- 
paign. 

The  following  morning  Billy  visits  Hope.  Mr. 
West  comes  and  tells  Billy  what  they  Intend  to 
do.    and    Billy    joins    them. 

Lawson  and  bis  pals  get  away  with  the  cattle. 
They  are  seen  by  one  of  the  scouting  cowboys, 
he  locates  West,  who  leads  an  attack  on  the  horse 
thieves,  who  ride  away,  leaving  the  cattle.  The 
men  are  followed  and  Lawson  escapes,  with  Billy 
and    others    hard    on    his    heels. 

Lawson  reaches  the  ranch  house  and  goes  In- 
side. Hilly,  not  knowing  that  Lawson  Is  there, 
goes  in  and  is  covered  by  his  enemy,  who  takes  his 
gnu  away  from  him.  Lawson  is  about  to  kill 
Billy,  when  the  little  squaw  shoots,  In'  the  back, 
killing   him.      Mope   runs    Into   Billy's   arras. 

THE    RANGE    DEADLINE    (July    2).— Dave,    the 

sheriff,  with  his  son  looking  up  into  his  face 
drinking  in  every  -word,  and  with  his  wife,  Edna, 
sewing  and  watching  them  both,  tells  the  boy  a 
true   story.      Ths   is   the   tale: 

Johu  Mabery,  sheep  rancher,  comes  upon  big 
Pave  and  his  daughter,  Edna,  in  a  love  scene. 
He  smiles  and  approves  and  watches  them  go  with 
affection  in  his  glance.  At  the  cattle  ranch  -Tim 
Hall,  Tex  and  other  cattlemen  discuss  the  court's 
decision  and  decide  to  take  the  law  into  their  own 
hands  and  establish  a  range  deadline.  Jim  rides 
out  and  puts  op  some  notices,  which  tell  the 
sheep  rancher  that  any  sheep  found  beyond  the 
line  will  be  shot.  John  Mabery  and  Hall  meet 
as  the  latter  is  posting  the  last  sign.  Mabery 
tears  it  down  after  a  heated  argument.  He  Is  too 
late  to  reach  his  own  gun  and  Hall  shoots  him, 
hut  as  he  falls  he  clutches  the  reins  of  Hall's 
horse  and  the  latter,  to  his  horror,  is  unable  to 
unloosen  the  grip  of  the  fallen  man.  In  a  quan- 
dary, he  cuts  the  bridle  reins  upon  either  side  of 
the   hand   and   hurries  back  to  his  cabin. 

Edna,  out  riding,  sees  one  of  the  sierns  and  tears 
it  down.  She  comes  across  her  father's  body  and 
when  the  paroxysm  of  grief  has  passed  she  swears 
to  hunt  down  the  murderer.  She  seeks  out  Dave 
and  he  goes  In  quest  of  the  perpetrator  of  the 
crime.  Naturally,  he  goes  to  the  cattlemen's 
ranches  and  chance  leads  him  to  Jim  Hall's  ranch. 
.Tim  has  returned  beforehand  and  told  Tex  of  the 
i  pence  and  together  they  agreed  to  hide  the 
evidences  «>r  the  crime.  Jim  replaces  the  shell 
with  a  loaded  cartridge  in  his  gun  and  they  drop 
the  Incriminating  bridle  down  the  well. 

At  this  moment  Dave,  looking  through  his  field 
glasses,  sees  the  aetion.  He  rides  up  and  sees 
Jim  and  Tea  quietly  smoking,  Dave  asks  for 
Jim's  gun  and  It  is  handed  to  him.  He  empties  It 
and  hands  the  gun  back.  He  then  arrests  the 
surprised    Jim. 

In  court  the  evidence  is  all  in  Jim  Hall's  favor, 
as  iv\  and  others  swear  he  never  left  the  cattle 
ranch.  The  trial  appears  to  have  ended  and  the 
men  smile  when  Dave  produces  the  reins  and  the 
missing  piece  bearing  a  metal  clasp  with  Jim's 
Initials.      Hall    loses    his    nerve    and    it    la    all    over! 

The  tale  is  finished  and  the  boy  gives  a  big 
f  "I  believe  that  story  is  about  you  and 
mother,"    he    says,    and    Dave    nods    slowly. 

HE  AND  HIMSELF  (July  4). — Lee  spruces  him- 
s.it  up,  says  good-bye  to  his  friend,  the  actor, 
and  sallies  forth  to  meet  bis  girl.  On  the  way 
to  her  home  lie  meets  his  little  cousin,  Gertie, 
and   they  chat  about   family  affairs.     He  says  good- 


bye to  her  and  goes  to  the  door,  hut  alas!  Evelyn 
has  seen  him,  and  believing  be  is  flirting,  slams 
the  door  in  his  face.  Poor  Lee  wonders  what  has 
happened  and  soon  a  note  is  thrust  at  him,  telling 
him  he  Is  a  base,  deceiving  wretch  and  never  to 
speak  to  her  again.  Lee  arrives  at  his  rooms  in 
a  suicidal  condition,  but  his  friend,  the  actor, 
is  one  of  those  clever  persons  full  of  bright  orig- 
inal ideas.  "That's  easy,"  he  says,  "Go  as  a 
friend  of  your  own  and  square  yourself."  The 
idea  sounds  well  and  Lee  decides  to  try  it,  and  his 
friend    makes   him   up   with   mustache   and   beard. 

Lee  gains  admittance  and  his  nervousness  changes 
Into  cock -su  redness  when  he  finds  he  is  not  recog- 
nized. What  is  worse,  though,  Evelyn  falls  in 
love  with  him !  Lee  departs  in  a  quandary.  He 
consults  the  clever  person,  who  tells  him  "Go 
back  as  yourself  now."  He  does,  and  is  ignomini- 
ous] y  kicked  out.  Once  more  the  man  of  ideas 
tells  him  to  "return  as  the  friend,  steal  something 
and  then  take  it  back  as  yourself  and  the  girl  is 
yours." 

Lee  carries  this  advice  out  to  the  letter  and  comes 
away  with  Evelyn's  purse.  The  theft  is  discovered  too 
soon,  and  Lee  has  to  run  for  it.  He  drops  the 
purse,  but  is  caught  and  taken  to  the  police  court. 
Evelyn  is  telephoned  for  and  so  is  the  actor. 
They  arrive  and  Lee  pulls  off  the  mustache. 
Evelyn  is  unforgiving  until  the  Jndge  sentences 
Lee  to  six  months'  hard  labor.  Then  she  shrieks 
and  relents  and  intercedes  and  finally  takes  him 
away   with   her. 

TO  THE  BRAVE  BELONG  THE  FAIR  (July  4).— 
Alice's  father  tells  the  three  suitors  for  his  daugh- 
ter's band  that  the  one  who  brings  a  Mexican 
prisoner  to  him  will  be  given  the  girl  In  marriage. 
Residing  near  the  Mexican  border,  Hiram,  John  and 
Eddie,  the  suitors,  start  immediately  for  a  Mexican. 
Eddie  Is  the  first  to  come  near  one,  but  when  he 
gets  a  good  look  at  him  he  turns  and  flees  with  the 
Mexican  close  upon  him.  Finally  Eddie  is  caught 
by  the  Mexican,  who  asks  him  for  a  match.  As  he 
is  lighting  his  cigar,  Eddie  covers  the  Mexican,  who 
proves  to  be  a  general,  with  his  guns  and  makes 
the  prisoner  change  clothes  with  him.  Dressed  in 
this  fashion  Eddie  leaves  the  Mexican  behind  the 
bushes  and  proceeds,  only  to  come  upon  a  band 
of  Mexicans  dragging  a  gatling  gun,  who,  thinking 
him  a  general,  salute  him.  As  Eddie  is  examining 
the  gatling  gun  the  disrobed  Mexican  comes  upon 
the  party,  who,  seeing  the  true  state  of  affairs,  are 
about  to  turn  upon  him,  when  Eddie  orders  them  to 
march  before  the  gun. 

In  the  meantime,  John  has  arrived  at  Alice's 
home  with  a  tramp  dressed  in  a  Mexican  Uniform 
whom  he  bad  captured  going  with  the  suit  to  the 
real  Mexican  general.  He  succeeds  In  making  a 
deep  impression  upon  Alice  and  is  about  to  be 
married  when  he  discovers  Eddie  and  the  Mexicans 
coming  up  the  road.  With  a  few  leaps  he  is  out  of 
sight  and  Eddie  is  given  the  hand  of  Alice.  Much 
the  same  fate  happened  to  Hiram  before  he  dis- 
covered John  coming  up  the  road. 


ECLAIR. 

WHY?  (3  parts,  June  4).— The  story  of  the  play 
deals  with  the  vain  attempt  of  a  very  wealthy 
scientist  to  reform  his  worthless  son. 

One  day,  after  Roy's  father  had  been  particularly 
engrossed  in  his  work,  and  bad  endeavored  at  dinner 
to  interest  Roy  in  a  discussion  of  important  points, 
the  boy  excused  himself  and  made  his  way  to  his 
club,  where  he  had  the  usual  hilarious  evening. 
At  daybreak,  he  managed  to  get  as  far  as  his  car, 
which  had  been  waiting  in  front  of  the  club,  and 
when  he  reached  home,  his  chauffeur  helped  him 
up  to  the  steps  and  opened  the  door.  Roy  quietly 
crept  to  bis  room  without  disturbing  any  one,  but 
when  he  found  his  easy  chair,  the  excessive  dissipa- 
tion made  itself  felt,  and  he  dropped  off  into  a 
deep  sleep,  which  became  troubled  with  most  un- 
usual  dreams. 

In  these  dreams  Roy  saw  the  death  of  his  father, 
due  to  au  explosion  in  his  laboratory,  the  reading  of 
his  will,  which  left  his  vast  estate  to  the  various 
members  of  the  family — but  with  the  stipulation 
in  the  son's  case  that  he,  Roy,  should  travel  over 
the  country  and  investigate  conditions,  so  that  he 
might  know  a  little  more  about  true  life  and  find 
something  more  important  to  think  of  than  wasting 
his  time  in  idle  dissipation. 

In  the  travels  which  followed,  allegorical  tableaux 
are  brought  out  showing  in  a  most  forceful  manner, 
the  abuses  of  child  labor,  the  underpaid  women 
workers  on  finery  for  the  rich,  the  deadly  results 
of  the  speed  mania,  the  abuses  of  the  railroad  mo- 
nopolies, the  curse  of  drink,  the  methods  of  the  wire 
tappers,  who  prey  on  those  who  hope  to  win  for- 
tunes   through    race    track    gambling,    etc. 

Finally  Roy  comes  to  a  feeling  of  sincere  sym- 
pathy with  the  poor,  and  when  he  attends  a  great 
banquet,  of  the  magnates,  and  this  feast  Is  inter- 
rupted by  a  shower  of  missiles  through  the  windows, 
the  party  rushes  to  one  large  window,  and  there 
heboid   the  great  city  of  New  York  in  flames. 

The  mob  then  rushes  In  to  demand  a  place  at  the 
table,  and  Roy  takes  his  place  with  them — against 
the  trusts.  The  magnates  then  open  fire — and  Roy 
wakes  up.  In  the  returning  of  consciousness,  Roy 
comes  to  a  realization  of  the  sinful  wasting  of  his 
intelligence  and  energy,  and  he  goes  to  his  father's 
laboratory  to  ask  If  he  may  assist  him  in  his  re- 
searches. 


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TION. 

AMERICAN. 

QtnCKSAOTS  (2  parts — June  30). — Frank,  in 
lore  with  Helen  Hubbard,  lives  beyond  his  means 
in  order  to  buy  her  costly  presents.  He  works  for 
her  father.  His  own  father  is  in  danger  of  dis- 
grace owing  to  financial  troubles,  and  Frank  steals 
from  his  employer  to  assist  his  parents.  Then  to 
recoup,  he  plays  the  market  with  some  more  ill- 
gotten  money  and  loses.  He  thought  it  was  Hub- 
bard's tip  that  he  was  playing.  He  gets  work  on  a 
schooner  sailing  for  the  South  Pacific.  A  mutiny 
springs  up  and  he  is  marooned  with  the  captain. 
A  f ter  many  days  of  hardships  their  little  boat 
comes  to  an  island,  but  too  late  to  save  the 
tain.  Frank  meets  the  missionary  and  his  daugh- 
ter. Ruth.  A  man  plus  a  girl  plus  a  paradise  of 
an  island  equals  love.  At  home  Helen  sells  all  of 
Frank's  presents  and  pays  ber  father  back  all 
that    Frank    bad    taken.      Then    she    waits. 

A  year  passes.  The  call  of  the  white  man  is 
heavy  on  Frank;  the  new  life  is  too  exotic.  Ruth 
has  never  known  any  other  life  and  cannot  under- 
stand his  desire  to  get  "home."  The  semi-annual 
boat  comes  to  their  island  and  the  call  of  home 
becomes  a  passion.  Ruth,  seeing  this,  tells  him 
to  return — she  will  be  happy  in  his  happiness.  He 
does,  even  though  ber  heart  breaks.  At  home  he 
finds  his  debt  squared  and  Helen  engaged  to  War- 
ren. One  night  he  follows  a  strange  man  into  his 
former  office.  Thinking  it  to  be  a  burglar,  he  tele- 
phones the  police  and  to  Hubbard.  Then  the  bur- 
glar's hat  falls  off  and  Frank  recognizes  him  as 
Warren  and  decides  to  save  him  for  Helen's  sake. 
Warren  was  taking  the  money  to  cover  a  defalca- 
tion. The  police  and  Hubbard  with  Helen  are 
heard  coming,  so  there  is  no  escape.  Frank  makes 
up  the  deficit  in  the  safe  from  his  own  resources, 
and  then  pretends  that  Warren  has  captured  him. 
Frank  is  spared  by  Helen's  pleadings — she  guesses 
the  truth,  and  Warren  has  been  taught  a  severe 
lesson.  The  call  of  the  tropics  and  an  Island  Para- 
dise  are   strong   and   Frank   returns   to   Ruth. 

PRIDE  OF  LONESOME  (July  3).— The  cheery 
smile  of  big-hearted  Ed  Daton,  a  simple  Westerner, 
causes  a  little  girl  to  sense  tbe  thrill  of  happiness. 
Her  desire  for  a  greater  measure  of  this,  to  her 
unknown  Joy.  prompts  her  to  steal  away  from  her 
abusive  parents  and  wander  back  to  the  little 
station  known  as  "Lonesome."  She  is  taken  in 
by  big  Ed  and  the  other  noble  herdsman  and  de- 
velops under  the  new  environment  to  a  bright 
cheerful  maiden.  Out  of  gratitude  she  guards 
the  welfare  of  her  benefactors  and  prompts  them 
to  nobler  deeds  of  manhood.  Her  activity  in  be- 
half  of  her  friends  causes  her  to  arouse  the  ani- 
mosity of  the  keeper  of  the  one  grog  shop  "Lone- 
some" boasted  of  and  with  the  decrease  in  bu>; 
he  conspires  against  "Pride,"  as  she  be- 
known  to  the  people.  The  plots  against  her  were 
duly  foiled  and  one  would  have  been  disastrous  to 
the  perpetrators  but  for  the  timely  arrival  of 
"Pride,"  who  prevents  their  untimely  demise  on 
the  promise  never  to  attempt  further  molestations. 

A  TALE  OF  DEATH  VAXLEY  (July  B).— Lillian 
Pierce  and  Jim  Wentworth  love  each  other  and 
with  the  consent  of  Lillian's  parents  become  en- 
gaged. Jim  was  employed  on  ber  father's  ranch 
and  was  a  favorite  of  the  father's.  Will  Mason 
was  working  on  tbe  same  ranch,  but  less  favored 
and  his  proposal  was  met  with  the  announcement 
of  Lillian's  engagement  to  Jim.  Will  concocts  n 
plot  with  Julia  Rivers,  a  dance  ball  frequenter, 
who  agrees  to  pose  as  Jim's  deserted  wife.  The 
plot  works  well,  and  Jim  in  disgrace  leaves  tl  e 
scenes  of  what  had  been  his  paradise.  Will  prese 
his  suit  with  a  vengeance  and  still  meeting 
staunch  refusal,  he  seeks  aid  from  a  band  of  des 
peradoes  in  death  valley.  His  mission  Is  fruitless 
and  he  succumbs  to  exhaustion.  Later  Jim  come-; 
upon  the  bleeched  skeleton  of  Will  Mason  and  tbe 
forged  marriage  certificate.  Tbe  reunion  of  Jim 
and   Lillian  is  a   foregone  conclusion. 


RELIANCE. 

THE  HOUSE  OF  PRETENSE  (June  28).— Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Deacon  live  together  in  a  beautiful  man- 
sion. No  childish  voice  is  ever  heard  in  the  bitr 
empty  halls.  In  his  office.  Deacon  makes  a  pal  of 
his  scrubwoman's  little  boy  and  they  have  a  great 
game  together.  Beatrice,  oppressed  by  the  lone 
llness  of  her  home,  visits  an  orpban  asylum  daily 
where  she  has  fallen  In  love  with  little  Anna", 
whom  she  would  love  to  adopt,  but  dare  not  for 
fear  her  husband  would  object.  The  little  boy's 
mother  dies  and  the  child  comes  to  his  friend 
Deacon,  who  assures  tbe  little  fellow  that  "you'll 
be  my  boy  now."  The  same  day  Beatrice  brings 
borne  Anna.  Deacon  slips  in  with  Dick  and  fixes 
him  up  so  as  to  make  a  more  favorable  impression 
in  Beatrice'  eyes.  His  wife,  fussing  over  Anna, 
hears  a  knock.  As  he  enters  he  sees  the  child 
close  in  her  arms  and  slowly  they  understand 
each  other.  He  brings  forth  Dick  and  they  clasp 
hands,  and  into  their  hearts  comes  a  real  feeling 
for  each  other  for  the  first  time  in  many  days. 
Later  a  happy  wife  and  a  straight  llmhed  son 
watch  a  boyish  father  and  a  wee  daughter  play 
a  rather  uneven   game  of  ball  on  the  big  lawn. 


THE  TANGLED  WEB  (3  parts— June  28).— Hugh 
Conway,  a  young  college  student,  takes  Leone  St. 
Regis,  of  doubtful  morals,  to  a  fraternity  tea. 
He  is  requested  to  withdraw  because  of  Leone. 
An  argument  follows  and  Hugh  knocks  one  of  his 
fellow  students  down,  then  withdraws  with  Leone. 
For  bis  misdemeanor  be  is  expelled  from  college. 
He  goes  to  the  home  of  Leone  to  say  farewell. 
She  uses  every  art  at  her  command  to  persuade 
him  to  stay  with  ber,  but  he  remains  obdurate. 
A  heated  argument  follows,  during  which  Hugh 
becomes  so  furious  that  he  is  about  to  strike 
Leone  when  the  maid  enters  with  the  tea.  Hugh 
orders  her  roughly  from  the  room,  then  gives  his 
parting  words  to  Leone — that  he  is  done  with  her 
forever — and  exits.  Leone,  almost  crazed  by  his 
desertion,  goes  to  her  room  and  seriously  wounds 
herself  with  a  pistol  shot.  A  loud  report  is  heard 
and  maid  and  butler  rush  into  Leone's  room.  Le- 
one, regaining  consciousness,  charges  Hugh  with 
tbe  crime,  to  avenge  herself  for  bis  desertion. 
The  officers  arrive,  learn  the  supposed  facts  of 
the  case,  and  later  Hugh  is  arrested  for  attempted 
murder.  The  evidence  being  so  strong  against  him, 
he  is  sentenced  for  seven  years.  Leone  is  jubilant 
over    his   conviction. 

Five  years  elapse.  Hugh  escapes  from  prison. 
The  growth  of  a  Vandyke  beard  and  mustache,  to- 
gether with  the  prison  pallor,  effectually  disguise 
him  almost  beyond  recognition  and  be  seeks  soli- 
tude in  his  summer  home.  James  Stark,  a  resi- 
dent, receives  notice  that  his  note  for  $2,000  and 
bearing  interest  is  due  to  Samuel  J.  Elder.  His 
son,  Dick  Stark,  an  Inveterate  gambler,  requires 
money.  His  father,  unable  to  give  him  it  be- 
cause he  has  bnt  half  of  the  amount  required  for 
the  payment  of  the  note,  is  forced  to  refuse. 
Stark  appeals  to  Elder  for  an  extension  of  time,  > 
which  is  refused,  Elder  even  refusing  to  take  half 
the  amount.  The  evil  brain  of  Dick  concocts  a 
plan  by  which  he  may  obtain  the  note  for  a  sum 
of  $500,    to  which   his  father  reluctantly   agrees. 

Hugh  goes  out  for  a  ride,  dismounts  in  the 
roadway  near  a  mansion  to  remove  pebbles  from 
his  horse's  hoof  and  is  about  to  remount,  when 
casting  his  eyes  through  an  iron  fence,  he  meets 
those  of  Ruth,  the  daughter  of  Elder,  gazing  upon 
him.  In  a  shady  lane,  Hugh  bears  tbe  approach 
of  rapid  hoof  beats;  he  draws  In  at  the  side  and 
three  ruffians  ride  rapidly  by.  Hugh  strikes  off 
into  the  woods.  Further  on  the  ruffians  dismount. 
Elder  enters  the  scene  on  horseback  and  Is  way- 
laid by  them.  Hugh  springs  from  the  side  of  the 
road  to  the  rescue  and  engages  in  a  terrific  battle 
with  two  of  them,  the  third  going  through  Elder's 
pockets  and  taking  all  papers  therein.  Tbe  three 
men  then  escape.  Hugh  recognizes  in  Elder  the 
lawyer  who  defended  him  at  his  trial  and  as- 
sists him  to  his  horse  and  home,  where  it  is  dis- 
covered that  a  paper  incriminating  Elder  has  been 
stolen  by  the  ruffians.  Hugh  makes  known  his 
true  identity  to  Elder,  who  has  all  along  believed 
in  his  innnocence.  Elder  introduces  him  to  his 
daughter  Ruth  under  an  assumed  name.  Thus  the 
lovers   are   brought   together. 

In  the  meantime  Dick  Stark  has  received  the 
papers  taken  from  Elder  and  delivers  them  to  his 
father,  who  finds  not  only  the  note  but  the  in- 
criminating paper  which  now  gives  him  the  greater 
power  over  the  man  who  would  give  him  no  quar- 
ter. Hugh  declares  his  love  for  Ruth.  It  is  re- 
turned. Elder  discovers  them  in  embrace.  Hugh 
asks  for  his  daughter's  hand.  Elder  agrees  to  give 
it  if  Hugh  will  find  the  missing  papers.  Stark 
calls  upon  Elder  and  demands  the  hand  of  his 
daughter  for  his  son,  Dick.  The  scene  is  over- 
heard by  Hngh,  who  follows  them  to  their  home 
and  locates  the  hiding  place  of  the  missing  papers. 
The  following  day  Stark  takes  his  son  to  see  his 
fiancee.  Hugh  obtains  the  papers  during  his  ab- 
sence and  with  a  sheriff  goes  to  the  home  of 
Elder,  where  Stark  and  his  son  are  arrested. 
The  papers  are  safely  returned  to  Elder.  Hugh 
claims    bis    reward — Ruth. 

A  month  later,  Hugh  and  Ruth,  now  married, 
attend  a  dog  show,  where  he  again  meets  his 
Nemesis — Leone.  Upon  their  return  borne,  he  re- 
-  a  telegram  from  her,  demanding  his  im- 
mediate presence.  Realizing  that  it  is  in  her 
power  to  destroy  his  present  happiness,  he  goes. 
Upon  his  arrival,  she  demands  that  he  leave  his 
wife  and  come  to  her.  This  be  refuses  to  do, 
ignoring  threats  made  by  her  to  send  him  back 
to  prison  and  to  tell  his  wife.  Excusing  herself 
for  a  moment,  she  phones  his  wife  to  come  to  her 
home  immediately  if  she  would  know  the  where- 
abouts of  her  husband.  Her  jealousy  aroused,  Ruth 
starts  for  Leone's   home. 

In  the  meantime.  Elder  calls  on  his  old  friend, 
Dr.  Pierce.  Ruth  arrives  in  time  to  see  that  which 
convinces  her  of  her  husband's  seeming  unfaith- 
fulness. A  scene  takes  place,  during  which,  in 
the  presence  of  his  wife,  Hugh  confesses  all.  The 
wife's  heart  softens,  she  takes  Hugh  borne,  leav- 
ing Leone  to  do  her  worst.  Her  final  plan  having 
failed,  Leone  goes  mad,  writes  a  letter  to  the 
police  denouncing  Hugh  as  an  escaped  convict. 
The  servants  discovering  her  plight  send  for  Dr. 
Pierce,  who  responds  to  the  call,  taking  Elder 
with  him.  The  doctor,  on  his  arrival,  finds  the 
note,  calls  Elder  and  shows  him.  The  doctor  ad- 
ministers an  opiate  which  quiets  tbe  now  mad 
Leone.  Elder  persuades  ber  to  sign  a  confession 
which  will  clear  his  son-in-law.  She  does  so.  then 
dies  quietly.  Elder  and  the  doctor  go  to  the 
home   of    Hugh,    who    is    about    to    flee.      Elder    ar- 


rives In  time,  and,  producing  the  confession  which 
clears  his  name,  quiets  Ruth's  suspicions  and  re- 
moves the  tangle  from  tbe  web  of  their  lives. 

THANHOUSER. 

THE  EYE  OF  KRISHLA  (June  22).— The  police 
captain  had  solved  a  couple  of  mysteries,  and  as 
news  was  light,  the  papers  bad  given  him  much 
publicity,  many  of  tbe  writers  declaring  that  Sher- 
lock Holmes,  Vidocq  and  William  J.  Burns  were 
in  the  infant  class  compared  to  Police  Captain 
Smith.  It  tickled  his  vanity,  and  caused  him  to 
look  down  upon  the  young  man  upon  whom  bis 
daughter  had  cast  her  affections.  In  fact  he  for- 
bade them  to  marry,  announcing  that  his  son-in- 
law  must  be   "a   man  of  brains." 

The  suitor  seemingly  accepts  the  edict,  and  as 
days  passed,  the  captain  gradually  forgot  him. 
Then  another  opportunity  to  distinguish  himself 
came  along,  and  he  accepted  it  with  alacrity.  A 
Countess  was  robbed  of  a  wonderful  diamond,  "The 
Eye  of  Krishla,"  and  the  circumstances  surround- 
ing the  theft  were  most  mysterious.  It  seemed  to 
be  a  case  calling  for  personal  attention,  and  Cap- 
tain  Smith   plunged  into  it. 

From  the  Countess  he  received  all  the  details, 
which  really  did  not  explain  anything.  The  cap- 
tain, however,  picked  up  several  clues,  including 
a  glove,  which  he  failed  to  recognize  as  bis  own. 
Outside  the  window  were  plainly  marked  foot- 
prints, and  with  his  faithful  police  dog,  the  gal- 
lant officer  took  up  tbe  trail.  It  lead  to  his  own 
bouse,  and  worse  than  that,  to  bis  own  room.  The 
Countess  had  followed  him,  full  of  admiration  of 
American  detective  work.  Seemingly  by  accident, 
she  knocked  a  cake  of  soap  from  the  washstand. 
The  dog  crossed  to  it,  the  Countess  pitcked  it  up. 
Then  the  chase  ended,  for  in  the  cake  of  soap  was 
imbedded  the  diamond  which  the  Countess  called 
"the  Eye  of  Krishla." 

The  detective  could  not  explain  It,  but  sank 
helplessly  into  a  chair  as  the  Countess  left  the 
room  haughtily,  the  diamond  in  her  band.  Later 
tbe  detective  went  downstairs,  and  was  shocked 
to  find  tbe  Countess  smoking  a  cigar  and  talking 
to  his  daughter.  Then  he  found  that  the  noble- 
woman was  the  suitor  he  had  flouted.  He  was  in- 
dignant at  first,  but  when  the  young  man  softly  said 
that  "your  son-in-law  can  be  relied  upon  to  keep 
the  secret  of  'the  Eye  of  Krishla.'  "  he  realized 
that  the  time  had  come  for  him  to  surrender  grace- 
fully unless  he  wanted  the  city  to  laugh  at  "the 
famous"  detective.  So,  like  Davy  Crockett's  coon, 
he  crawled  down  gracefully,  and  gave  his  consent 
to   tbe   marriage. 

FORGIVE  TJS  OTTR  TRESPASSES  (June  24).— 
The  young  telegraph  operator  had  for  many  years 
been  a  faithful  employee  of  the  railroad,  but  one 
day  when  word  was  brought  to  him  that  bis  little 
daughter  was  dying,  he  left  his  post  and  hastened 
to  her  bedside  in  time  to  kiss  his  child  before  she 
died. 

When  the  grief-stricken  father  returned  to  the 
station,  a  stern-faced  man  sat  at  the  telegraph 
desk.  It  was  the  superintendent  of  the  road.  He 
listened  contemptuously  to  the  telegrapher's  ex- 
planation, then  told  him  curtly  that  he  was  dis- 
charged, saying  that  "family  troubles"  did  not  con- 
cern him. 

The  other  railroads  did  not  care  to  employ  tbe 
disgraced  telegrapher  and  the  positions  he  was 
able  to  secure  did  not  pay  sufficient  money  to  enable 
him  to  properly  care  for  his  wife.  Grief  for  her 
child  and  privation  did  their  work,  and  tbe  man 
found  himself  alone  in  the  world,  with  a  bitter  and 
implacable  hatred  towards  the  man  who  had  caused 
him  so  much  suffering. 

Several  years  after  the  operator  was  discharged, 
a  train  dispatcher  made  a  blunder  which  gave  the 
right  of  way  to  two  trains  going  in  opposite  direc- 
tions on  a  single-track  division.  The  dispatcher 
telegraphed  to  the  station  where  the  trains  would 
meet,  but  received  no  answer.  Finally,  after  re- 
peated calls,  he  received  a  response.  Tbe  operator 
was  tbe  discharged  telegrapher,  now  a  homeless 
wanderer,  who  had  entered  the  station  to  find  tbe 
operator  in  a  drunken  stupor.  The  superintendent, 
who  had  been  waiting  impatiently,  pushed  the  dis- 
patcher aside  and  answered  the  call  himself.  He 
instructed  tbe  man  at  the  other  end  of  the  wire  to 
switch  one  of  tbe  trains  on  to  a  sidiug  ay  i  avert  the 
collision.  To  his  horror  the  answer  came  that  his 
operator  was  drunk,  that  the  man  sending  the  mes- 
sage was  the  discharged  telegrapher  and  that  be  would 
do  nothing  to  avert  the  threatened  wreck.  Tiie  super- 
intendent terror-stricken,  doubly  so  because  bis  wife 
and  daughter  were  on  one  of  the  trains,  pleaded 
with  him,  but  the  discharged  man  would  not  listen. 
But  the  memories  of  happier  days  came  back  to  him, 
he  seemed  to  see  his  little  daughter  as  she  said  her 
prayers,  and  remembered  the  words  "Forgive  us 
our  trespasses."  His  anger  and  resentment  faded 
away.  He  ran  to  the  nearby  switch,  just  in  time. 
And  many  lives  were  saved  because  of  the  prayer 
of  a  little  child. 

THE  LOST  COMBINATION  (June  27).— The  yoong 
mechanic  was  dissipated  and  easily  influenced  by 
evil  companions.  He  frequently  came  home  In- 
toxicated and  for  months  his  wife  patiently  suffered 
ill  treatment.  Her  father  finally  convinced  her 
that  she  owed  It  to  ber  child  to  bring  her  up  under 
proper  surroundings,  so  she  left  her  husband,  leav- 
ing a  note  In  which  she  said  that  she  and  her  little 
daughter  had  left  him  forever. 


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The  husband,  wbo  was  an  expert  workman  la  the 
employ  of  a  large  safe  factory,  neglected  his  work 
and  finally  was  discharged.  His  habits  made  it 
hard  for  him  to  secure  employment.  Evil  associates 
contaminated  him  and  he  at  last  joined  a  band  of 
yeggmen,  where  his  ability  as  a  safe  expert  gained 
him   leadership. 

The  wife  obtained  a  divorce  from  her  husband  and 
married  a  wealthy  man.  They  bad  one  child,  a 
little  girl  of  three,  and  while  she  came  first  in  his 
affections,  the  husband  cared  nearly  as  much  for 
his   little  step-child. 

The  children  were  playing  "bide  and  seek'*  in 
their  home  one  afternoon  and  the  elder  child  ran 
into  a  vault,  which  was  built  in  the  library  wall, 
to  hide.  The  Bteel  door  of  the  vault  was  accident- 
ally locked  and  the  child  imprisoned.  The  step- 
father  had  changed  the  safe  combination  that  very 
morning  and  bad  mislaid  the  paper  containing  the 
numbers.  He  tried  vainly  to  open  tbe  vault,  then 
remembered  that  several  celebrated  safe  experts 
were  among  the  convicts  in  a  near-by  prison.  He 
telephoned  to  the  warden  and  a  convict  was  sent, 
tinder  guard,  to  rescue  the  child  from  her  predica- 
ment. Tbe  convict  was  the  woman's  former  hus- 
band. He  recognized  her  and  refused  to  aid  them 
until  be  learned  that  tbe  child  that  was  in  such 
dire  peril  was  his  own  little  daughter,  whom  he  bad 
not  seen  since  she  was  a  baby. 

Silently  he  bent  over  the  combination,  his  quick 
ear  on  the  alert  to  catcb  the  fall  of  tbe  tumblers 
as  tbe  combination  numbers  were  passed,  opened 
the  safe  and  drew  the  half-suffocated  child  to  safety. 

Later  be  waB  paroled  and  left  for  the  West  to 
begin  life  anew  under  another  name.  Tbe  awakened 
love  for  bis  child  had  regenerated  him. 


MAJESTIC 

BIDE  TRACKED  BY  SISTER  (June  22).— The 
fashionably  gowned  woman  brought  her  two  daugh- 
ters with  her  to  tbe  "summer  resort  hotel."  The 
family  seemed  happy  enough,  but  there  was  a 
skeleton  in  their  closet.  There  was  not  a  wide 
difference  In  years  between  the  sisters,  but  the 
determined  mother  had  decided  that  tbe  younger 
girl  should  be  kept  in  the  nursery,  so  to  speak, 
until  the  big  girl  was  safely  married. 

The  "side  tracked"  sister  mourned  in  secret,  but 
finally  determined  to  assist  fate.  The  elder  girl 
had  a  suitor,  but  he  bad  not  reached  tbe  proposal 
stage.  Little  sister  determined  to  be  a  eopid's 
assistant,  and  arrange  things  so  the  young  man 
wonld  have  a  chance  to  save  big  sister's  life  for, 
as  the  junior  reasoned,  "heroes  always  marry  the 
girls   they  save    from   watery  graves." 

She  scuttled  their  boat,  just  like  a  pretty  pig- 
tailed  pirate,  but  it  did  not  lead  to  a  proposal.  The 
young  man  couldn't  swim,  the  elder  girl  could 
swim,  but  was  a  coward,  and  saved  herself,  which 
left  it  strictly  up  to  "little  sister."  She  rescued 
the  young  man  and  he  was  grateful,  but  she  never 
forgave  him.  He  did  not  marry  "big  sister,"  he 
simply  went  away  and  It  was  lucky  for  him  that 
he  did  not  come  back,  for  the  girl  who  had  saved 
his  life  would  gladly  have  drowned  him  bad  she 
been  able  to  pnt  her  hands  on  him. 

He  didn't  really  do  anything  awful,  he  simply  was 
guilty  of  a  lack  of  tact,  and  a  weakness  of  obser- 
vation which  won  him  the  scorn  of  the  woman  wbo 
bad  plucked  him  shrieking  from  the  briny  deep. 

THE  POLITICIAN  (June  24).— The  city  had  a 
mayor  and  a  council,  but  the  one  who  decided  what 
laws  should  be  passed  and  those  that  should  be  en- 
forced, was  the  boss.  He  was  not  at  all  "refined," 
but  he  bad  one  redeeming  quality — no  person  in 
want  ever  went   to  him  in  vain. 

Tbe  boss  was  a  bachelor,  and  whenever  he  was 
asked  why  he  did  not  marry,  he  replied,  "I  haven't 
any  time  to  bother  with  women." 

One  memorable  day  the  boss,  while  In  one  of  the 
worst  parts  of  the  slums,  chanced  to  witness  an 
eviction.  With  his  characteristic  sympathy  for  "the 
under  dog,"  he  paid  the  amount  the  family  owed 
and  they  were  permitted  to  return  to  their  home. 
A  settlement  worker  witnessed  the  affair  and  she 
impulsively  thanked  the  boss  for  his  kindness.  She 
was  young  and  pretty  and  the  politician's  feelings 
toward  the  weaker  sex  underwent  a  sudden  and  de- 
cisive change. 

As  time  passed  the  girl  and  the  boss  saw  a 
good  deal  of  each  other  and  became  great  friends. 
Little  by  little,  she  told  him  of  the  misery  in  the 
slums  caused  by  corrupt  political  conditions,  and 
although  he  knew  them  far  better  than  she  did, 
for  the  first  time  he  realized  how  serious  conditions 
were,  and  how  much  he  was  to  blame.  He  was  a 
strong,  resolute  man  and  he  acted.  In  spite  of  the 
protests  of  his  political  lieutenants,  the  gamblers 
and  other  violators  of  the  law.  who  had  bought 
protection  for  years,  were  raided  and  many  of  them 
driven  from  the  city. 

Among  the  people  affected  by  the  crusade  was  the 
girl's  father.  He  was  a  wealthy  contractor  and 
had  enjoyed  many  favors  from  the  city  administra- 
tion. He  intimated  to  the  boss  that  it  would  be 
to  tbe  latter's  advantage  to  give  contracts  to  him, 
but  the  reformed  politician  firmly  told  him  that  the 
lowest  bidder  would  get  the  work.  In  revenge  the 
contractor  told  his  daughter  that  the  bosa  demanded 
a  bribe  and  the  girl  believed  her  father,  and  told 
the  political  leader  she  never  wished  to  see  him 
again. 

The  party,  displeased  at  the  boss's  actions,  de- 
posed him.  But  the  bosa  did  not  care,  for  the  girl, 
discovering  that  her  father  bad  deceived  her,  came 


to  him  and  humbly  asked  his  pardon  for  misjudg- 
ing him.  And  the  boss  learned  something  which 
atoned  for  the  loss  of  his  political  power,  for  the 
little  settlement  worker  told  him  that  she  loved  him. 

DORA  (June  28). — Dora,  the  heroine  of  Tenny- 
son's famous  poem,  lived  with  her  uncle,  Parmer 
Allan  and  his  son,  William.  Her  uncle  bad  cared 
for  the  girl  since  childhood,  and  longed  for  the  day 
when  Bhe  would  wed  his  son.  But  William  did 
not  propose  to  tbe  girl,  and  his  father,  mistaking 
his  silence  for  bash  fulness,  called  William  and 
Dora  to  him,  and  Informed  them  that  It  was  his 
wish    that   they    wed. 

William,  living  in  the  same  house  with  Dora  and 
knowing  her  since  they  were  children  together,  did 
not  regard  her  as  a  sweetheart,  and  to  his  father's 
surprise  and  indignation,  refused  to  marry  her. 
The  father  stormed  and  threatened,  but  to  no 
avail.  Dora,  who  had  always  loved  William,  was 
heartbraken  at  her  cousin's  action,  but  gener- 
ously tried  to  reconcile  the  two.  But  her  efforts 
were  useless,  for  the  farmer  ordered  his  dis- 
obedient son    from    bis    home. 

The  months  passed,  William  obtained  work  at 
a  neighboring  farm  and  married  a  farmer's  daugh- 
ter. Illness  and  misfortune  came  upon  bim,  but 
his  father,  stern  and  inflexible,  refused  to  aid  bis 
disobedient  son.  But  Dora,  the  forgiving,  secretly 
sent  money  to  William,  contriving  it  so  that  he 
did  not  know  from   whom  it  came. 

When  William's,  son  was  five  years  old,  William 
was  taken  -sick  and  died.  Dora,  determined  that 
the  child  and  its  mother  should  be  forgiven  by 
Parmer  Allan,  came  to  the  little  home  and  in- 
duced Mary,  William's  widow,  to  let  her  take  the 
boy  with  her  into  the  fields.  There  Dora  and  the 
child  met  the  stern  old  farmer,  and  Dora  told  him 
that  the  boy  was  William's  child.  Allan,  sus- 
pecting that  the  child's  presence  was  due  to  a 
trick  of  Dora  and  Mary,  upbraided  Dora  and 
ordered  her  to  leave  bis  home,  but  said  that  he 
would  take  the  child. 

Dora  sadly  returned  to  Mary's  home,,  but  the 
high  spirited  mother,  when  told  of  the  old  farmer's 
action,  refused  to  permit  Dora  to  be  sacrificed,  and 
declared  that  they  would  take  the  child  away  from 
him,  and  Bhe  and  Dora  would  work  for  the  boy  and 
care  for  him  together.  But  when  they  reached 
the  farm  house,  they  found  that  the  child  bad 
softened  the  old  man's  heart,  and  he  humbly  asked 
them  to  pardon  him  for  the  wrongs  he  had  done 
to  them  and  to  the  dead  William. 


RAMO. 

"I'M  NO  COUNTERFEITER  (July  2).—  Willie 
and  Hank  were  entered  in  the  race  for  Katy's 
affection.  Katy  was  the  sheriff's  daughter.  Wil- 
lie was  the  "pet  aversion"  of  Hank,  whom  the 
sheriff  thought  to  be  a  proper  husband  for  Katy. 
One  night,  when  the  sheriff  wasn't  looking,  Eaty 
did  elope  with   Willie — almost. 

General  excitement  prevailed  in  Jayville  Center. 
Newspaper  rumors  had  it  that  right  there  in  Jay- 
ville, counterfeiters  were  at  work  on  spurious  coin. 
Impossible !  The  only  one  in  the  town  who  be- 
lieved this  was  Hank,  and  be  kept  a  close  look- 
out for  suspicious  characters.  Hank  happened 
happened  across  Willie  and  often  made  Willie  mad. 
Willie  proved  this  more  than  once  with  his  left 
foot.  In  Hank's  mind,  suspicion  pointed  her  index 
finger  in  the  direction  of  Willie. 

When  Willie  was  eloping  with  Katy,  Hank 
hurried  to  the  sheriff  and  informed  him  of  bis 
daughter's  flight  with  a  counterfeiter.  The  sheriff 
and  a  posse  pursued.  The  elopers  seeked  refuge 
in  a  deserted  house,  which  proved  to  be  tbe  real 
counterfeiters'  den.  There  was  a  real  fight,  and 
a  tie  up  in  the  wedding  business  for  a  while,  but 
Willie  won  out.  The  sheriff  and  his  posse  arrived. 
In  the  glory  of  his  capture  of  the  counterfeiters 
the  sheriff  is  won  over  by  Willie. 


Is  Filicide  Justifiable? 

See  "The  Seed  of  the  Fathers,"  Amer- 
ica's Greatest  Feature  Production. 
A  Marion  Leonard  Special. 
Monopol    Film    Company. 


EXCLUSIVE  FILM  COR- 
PORATION 

GAUMONT. 

GAUMONT'S  WEEKLY,  NO.  67  (June  18).— 
England's  King  Reviews  Cadets. — The  British 
monarch  watches  exercises  at  Aldershot. 

These    Bears    Are    Motor    Fiends They    live    in 

California  and  are  creating  excitement  about  Pasa- 
dena and  Los  Angeles. 

Adding  to  the  New  Spanish  Navy. — Battleship 
Alphonse  XIII  is  launched  at  Le  Ferrot. 

A  Burning  Oil  Well. — Great  gusher  at  Trees, 
La.,  catches  fire  and  makes  spectacular  blaze. 

General  Montes. — Arrival  in  Buenos  Ayres  of 
man   who  will   probably   be   next   Bolivian   president. 

The     Boyal     German     Wedding. — The     Prince     of 


Cumberland  weds  tbe  Princess  Victoria  Lulse  at 
Berlin. 

Open  Air  Drill. — Grench  gymnastic  societies  give 
public  exhibition  at  Vichy. 

A  Bad  Marksman. — A  motion  picture  cartoon 
of  a  small  boy  attempting  to  capture  a  butterfly. 

Submarine  H-2  ia  Launched. — Union  Iron  Works, 
San  Francisco,  sends  new  craft  into  the  water. 

In  Luxembourg.— Old  custom  of  dancing  through 
the  streets  is  revived. 

Ducks. — The  Conner  farm  near  Buffalo  raises  vast 
flocks  of  ducks  for  New   York  markets. 

htthi  PICKLES  (June  17). — Old  Chow-chow 
writes  bis  "friend,"  telling  ber  that  his  old  aunt, 
Miss  Dill  Pickle,  is  going  to  take  charge  of  his 
nephew  for  a  few  weeks,  and  that  be  will  then  be 
at  liberty,  and  that  he  will  come  np  and  have  a 
delightful  time  with  her.  He  also  addressed  a 
letter  to  his  old  annt,  asking  her  to  take  care  of 
the  nephew.  He  puts  the  letters  in  the  wrong  en- 
velopes. Accordingly,  when  the  young  nephew,  who 
is  a  handsome  brute,  instead  of  going  to  the  aunt's, 
goes  to  the  young  lady  in  whom  his  uncle  is  so 
profoundly  interested,  he  makes  a  large  hit  with 
her.  He  thinks  that  he  has  a  kind  uncle  to  pro- 
vide him  with  such  congenial  company.  The  other 
letter,  of  course,  goes  to  the  prim  old  aunt,  who 
is  shocked  at  the  tone  of  it. 

Uncle  comes  to  town  and  immediately  goes  np 
to  the  flat  of  his  dear  one.  His  dear  one  is  having 
the  time  of  her  young  life.  There  is  much  con- 
sternation when  the  uncle  is  announced.  In  order 
to  get  the  nephew  out  of  the  way  and  avoid  sus- 
picion, they  dress  him  up  as  a  maid  and  put  a  wig 
on  him.  There  are  complications,  which  end  in 
the  sex  of  the  maid  being  discovered.  Tbe  old 
uncle  is  very  angry  at  the  nephew  for  disturbing 
his  dovecote.  He  is  about  to  disinherit  the  nephew 
and  leave  his  money  to  found  a  "Home  for  Friend- 
less Fleas,"  when  auntie  comes  on  the  scene,  pulls 
the  uncle  off  by  the  ear  and  leaves  the  nephew, 
who  is  more  suited  In  age  to  the  young  lady's  tem- 
perament, to  live  happily  ever  after. 

THE  GREAT  UNWASHED  (June  19).— Mrs. 
Harap,  a  widow,  in  addition  to  having  a  keen  eye 
for  dust  on  the  furniture,  has  a  keen  eye  for  gold 
dust.  She  seeks  a  husband  with  oodles  of  money 
and  a  tendency  toward  appoplexy.  She  notices  in 
a  newspaper,  a  story  about  Baggs,  a  millionaire, 
who  has  disguised  himself  as  a  beggar,  and  who 
will  marry  the  girl  who  is  most  kind  to  him.  The 
story  mentions  that  his  twin  brother  is  also  abroad 
and  that  there  is  possibility  of  the  two  being  con- 
fused. Baggs  is  mentioned  as  having  one  pale  face, 
thick  hair,  frank  countenance,  tranquil  gaze  and 
one  beard. 

As  Mrs.  Harrap  goes  into  the  street,  she  sees 
something,  which,  on  close  inspection,  proves  to  be 
a  man.  He  might  have  been  a  "geologist."  as  he 
had  the  soil  of  many  countries  on  his  hands  and 
also  on  his  face.  She  reads  quickly  the  description 
in  the  newspaper.  It  corresponds  with  the  ap- 
pearance of  the  "object."  She  collects  this  object 
and  bundles  it  into  a  taxi  cab  and  takes  it  home. 
It  is  as  dirty  as  any  one  man  can  be  at  one  time. 
She  doesn't  like  the  idea  of  sitting  at  the  table 
with  him  until  he  has  been  fumigated.  She  is  "Just 
out"  of  insectine.  She  asks  him  if  he  will  have 
a  bath.  He  consents  to  do  it,  although  he  says  It 
will  spoil  his  whole  evening. 

He  goes  into  the  bathroom  and  admires  the  soap. 
He  doesn't  use  it,  however,  to  take  away  the  dirt, 
but  to  take  away  his  appetite.  He  sprinkles  a 
little  talcum  powder  on  it,  to  give  it  flavor. 

His  table  manners  are  very  bad.  He  dusts  his 
shoes  with  the  celery  and  drinks  the  water  from  th« 
celery  vase.  He  almost  cuts  his  tonsils  out  eating 
with  his  knife.  Our  widow  friend,  convinced  that 
this  Is  only  a  millionaire  in  disguise,  and  disgust, 
stands  for  it,  though  she  could  hardly  resist  the 
temptation  to  turn  the  hose  on  him. 

She  decides  that  a  good  masseur  would  come  In 
pretty  handy  through  the  door-way.  The  masseur 
is  a  brunette  person,  and,  although  he  seems  colored, 
he  was  born  that  way. 

An  admirer  of  the  widow,  who,  unhappily  is  not 
embarrassed  by  millions,  calls.  He  is  Jealous  of 
His  Bagshlp,  and  inquires  if  the  widow  dragged 
him  out  of  the  asbpan.  He  advises  her  not  to  let 
the  dog  catchers  see  him.  In  disgust  he  starts  to 
go  away.  To  add  to  the  poor  widow's  trouble, 
she  then  is  banded  a  newspaper  which  contains  the 
following  sad  story:  "The  millionaire,  W.  Baggs, 
denies  the  statements  made  in  a  newspaper  this 
morning.  He  has  no  brother,  moreover,  he  Is 
already  married." 


SOLAX. 

"AN  UNEXPECTED  MEETING"  (July  2).— Bob 
and  Jim  find  the  weather  very  warm  and  decide 
the  best  means  of  refreshing  themselves  is  to 
get  away  to  the  seashore  together,  but  they  hare 
wives  and  think  that  alone  they  will  feel  the  heat 
less.  With  one  of  their  friends,  Dr.  Smith,  tney 
concoct  a  scheme.  Bob  goes  home  and  pretend* 
to  have  a  terrible  fit.  His  wife  calls  for  Dr.  Smith, 
who  comes  and  prescribes  "the  fresh-air  cure"  In 
the  mountains  with  only  a  male  companion,  Jim, 
so  our  two  friends  go  off  and  leave  their  wivea 
behind.  They  decide,  however,  that  Atlantic  City 
is  preferable  to  the  mountains  and  they  are  next 
seen  enjoying  themselves  on  the  sands.  Their 
wives,  however,  also  find  It  very  warm  and  decide 
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ing situations  from  which  they  are  finally  allowed 
to  withdraw   refreshed  but  rueful. 

"TRUE     HEARTS"      (July     4).    —    Little     Jack, 
orptianed  by  the  death  of  his  mother,  is  taken  Into 
the    humble   home   of   the   Simpsons.      Jack    and   Sue 
grow    up    together    childhood    sweethearts.       When 
Jack   has  grown   to  manhood   they   take  a  comfort. 
able    little    farm    and    it    is    taken    for    granted    by 
everyone    that     the     two    young    people     will    some 
day    marry.      Helen    Morrison,    the    beautiful    petted 
daughter    of    a    New    York    financier,    is    injured    in 
an    auto    accident    in    company    with    her    fiance    and 
father,    who    escape    practically    uninjured.      s 
brought    to    tile    Simpson    cottage    nearby    and    not 
permitted   to  be   moved.     Sue   sees  Jack    falling   in 
love  with   the  beauty  and  her  gentle  heart  mourns 
in    silence.      But    the    girl's    pretty    ways    win    her 
friendship    in   spite   of  herself.     Helen   finds   herself 
growing    to    care    for    the     handsome    youth,     hut 
when   she   learns   by    accident   the   unhappiness    her 
coming  has  brought  into  the  life  of  tenderhearted 
Sue,    she   remembers  the  duty   she   owes   ber    bene- 
factors as  well  as  her  father  and  fiance  and  crushes 
the    growing    love    in    her    heart.      She    confides    in 
Sue    her    coming    marriage    to    Dick    and    returns    to 
the  city  during   Jack's   temporary   absence,    leaving 
no   message    for   him.      Dick's    true    devotion    makes 
her   ashamed    of   cherishing   thoughts   of    another    in 
her  breast  on  the  eve  of  her  marriage  and  she  re- 
solves to  be  worthy  of  his  love  and  trust.     Lonely 
and    lovelorn,    Jack    follows    her    to    the    city    only 
to  learn  of  her  marriage  to  another.     At  home  the 
gentle-hearted   Sue  waits  and    prays    for   his   return, 
and  one  day  he  does  come  back  and  the  realization 
of    her    true-hearted    devotion    brings    back    the    old 
love  to  his  heart  and  Sue  forgives  and  forgets. 


LUX. 

"SAMMY,  THE  SCORCHER"  (June  87).— Sammy 
is  a  clerk,  and  bis  excess  of  energy  not  merely 
heats  his  blood,  but  sets  his  brain  on  fire.  His 
fellow  clerks  make  use  of  this  human  stove  to 
cook  a  substantial  meal,  which  is  partaken  of  by 
the  entire  party.  In  the  street  Sammy  attracts 
attention,  and  being  of  a  bashful  nature,  takes 
refuge  in  a  cab.  But  alas!  the  vehicle  is  soon  on 
fire,  and  it  is  only  after  a  long  application  of  the 
fire  engine  hose  that  Sammy  is  cooled  down  to 
normal  blood  heat.  Arriving  home  dripping  wet 
he  begins  to  feel  chilly,  till  remembering  that  his 
head  Is  still  warm,  he  unscrews  that  useful  mem- 
ber, and  applying  it  to  a  pole,  uses  it  as  an  up- 
to-date  bed  warmer,  after  which  be  turns  in  and 
enjoys  the  sleep  of  the  just. 

OH!  YOU  UNBREAKABLE  BOLL  (June  27),— 
Professor  Slowcoach  Invents  and  constructs  an  un- 
breakable doll.  In  order  that  the  secret  of  his 
Invention  may  not  be  betrayed,  he  does  not  allow 
his  servants  to  enter  his  workrooms.  One  afternoon 
when  he  is  out,  the  curiosity  of  the  servants  be- 
comes too  strong  for  them,  and  they  enter  the 
workroom  and  set  the  figure  in  motion.  One  of 
the  servants  is  anxious  to  know  what  his  master 
is  doing,  so  he  dresses  as  the  doll  and  takes  its 
place  in  the  workshop.  His  master  returns  home 
with  a  gentleman  who  Intends  to  buy  the  doll 
The  inventor  displays  the  wonderful  figure,  and 
to  prove  that  It  is  unbreakable,  deals  it  several 
hard  blows  with  the  hammer.  The  deal  is  closed 
and  the  doll  purchased.  It  Is  then  removed  to 
the  home  of  the  purchaser  by  two  workmen,  who 
are  particularly  Impressed  by  the  fact  that  it  Is 
unbreakable.  Altogether  the  servant  has  such 
an  uncomfortable  time  whilst  playing  the  role  of 
the  unbreakable  doll  that  be  is  not  sorrv  when  a 
loophole  for  escape  presents  itself. 

MISCELLANEOUS 

KINEMACOLOR. 

THE  GOLLIWOG'S  LAND.-Golliwog  carries  you 
through  a  land  of  revelry  and  fun.  His  pranks  and 
tricks    create    a    fnrore    of    laughter.     Golliwog    de- 

i.i  f  v."8  maslc  art  and  Regies  with  everything 
within  his  reach,  thus  producing  many  humorous 
situations, 

PENNSY'S  PAGEANT  (1st  Annual  Athletic  Pag- 
eant  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  on  Franklin 
Field  Philadelphia,  Pa,.  April  24).— The  spectacle 
or  fully  five  hundred  yoong  athletes,  going  through 
a  mass  drill  in  gymnastics  in  perfect  unison  is 
Impressive.  Opening  with  a  parade  Including  the 
Track  team.  Football  squad,  Baseball  team.  Crew 
and  gymnastic  classes,  the  film  shows  sports  and 
contests  of  all  kinds,  and  amusing  relay  races. 
In  pyramid  building  the  Pennsy  students  prove 
themselves  peers  of  the  Arabs,  and  In  one  stunt 
they  form  a  "human  fence,"  which  Is  suddenly 
flattened  to  the  ground,  as  if  struck  by  a  scholastic 
cyclone. 

COMING  CHAMPIONS  (Annual  Athletic  Games 
of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  Franklin  Field 
Philadelphia,  April  28) — This  film  opens  with  a 
one-mile  high  school  championship  relay  race,  show- 
ing the  start:  second  man  off;  third  man  off;  last 
man  off.  The  finish  shows  W.  Moore  of  De  Witt 
Clinton  High  School,  winning,  and  the  Winning 
Team  from  De  Witt  Clinton  High  School,  New 
York, — time,  3  minutes,  35  seconds. 

Second:— Erasmus    Hall    High    School,     Brooklyn 


Many  other  races  were  recorded.  Exhibitions  of 
vaulting,  high  jumping  and  pound  throwing  were 
also  photographed. 

A  NARROW  ESCAPE.— Mary  had  a  little  Sam. 
who  was  always  following  her  about,  but  was  too 
bashful  to  propose.  Accordingly,  in  order  to  en- 
■ <>"  rage  him  by  examples  of  marital  happiness, 
Mary  takes  him  calling  on  several  wedded  friends 
to  whom  she  has  previously  written  as  follows 
Sam  hasn't  proposed  yet,  and  I  want  you  to 
help   me   out.     Will    you    and    your    husband '  please 

;xtra„  affectionate  when  I  bring  Sam   to  call  this 

veiling?        .  With    love—  MARY." 

The  tour  is  at  first  successful.  Such  a  circuit  of 
it.ii  tninonial  dove-cotes,  with  couples  billing  and 
cooing  in  each,  cannot  fail  to  encourage  a  bashful 
bachelor,  even  though  he  is  a  little  embarrassed 
by  the  elaborate  displays  of  conjugal  felicity  he 
finds  in  every  home.  However,  by  the  time  he  takes 
Mary  home,  he  has  made  up  his  mind  to  "pop  the 
question,  when  she  discovers  that  she  has  left  her 
handbag  at  some  of  the  homes  they  have  visited. 
Gallant  Sam  volunteers  to  recover  it,  if  she  will 
wait  at  the  gate  for  his  return.  But  he  comes 
back    "a  sadder  if  wiser  man." 

For,  on  his  return  tour  of  the  domestic  circuit,  he 
finds  that  a  change  has  come  o'er  the  spirit  of 
their  dreams.  Instead  of  hilling  and  cooing,  as  in 
the  first  act,  every  couple  is  quarreling  and  bicker- 
ing over  some  domestic  diflaculty.  As  a  climax 
Mary  s  brother-in-law,  who  is  so  mad  that  he  must 
tight  somebody,   throws  the  handbag  at  Sam 

"There  was  Mary,  waiting  at  the  church,"  but 
all  she  gets  Is  the  hanbag,  and  "So  long,  Mary  " 
ham  beats  it  back  to  his  bachelor  den. 

A   CHARITABLE  DECEPTION Bob   Ellsworth  is 

accidentally  killed;  his  partner  conceals  the  fact 
and  continues   to  support   his  widowed  mother  and 

that  the  mother  is  going  blind,  and  wants  to  eel 
her  boy  once  more.  The  partner  decides,  after 
tearing  up  many  letters,  that  he  must  break  the 
sad  news  in  person,  but  by  the  time  he  arrives  the 
hi?,!  W  ?yesifht  is *oa*  entirely,  and  she  mistakes 
"'"  er  lon8  !•«  son.  The  sister  recognizes 
the  imposture,  of  course,  but  as  her  mother  seems 
so  happy  lathe  return  of  the  prodigal,  she  agrees 
o  hfPmUP  %e  deceP°on-  But  Bob's  partner  wanS 
to  be  more  than  a  brother  to  ber  and  she  becomes 

she"  rlT,-  Wr'UDf  to  the  mine  a^nt,  fronTwhom 
hmthl?  ?«  re*ular  remittances,  she  finds  her 
brother  left  no  estate,  but  that  his  partner  has 
set   aside   a    half   Interest   in   his  own   mine   for   thl 

r,7  ?„.'  f  -  i8  1°mnS  to  do  but  admit  the  faith- 
ful    partner"  to  the  family  as  son-in-law, 


Is  Filicide  Justifiable? 

See  "The  Seed  of  the  Fathers,"  Amer- 
ica's Greatest  Feature  Production. 
A  Marion  Leonard  Special. 

Monopol    Film    Company. 


Picture  Theatres  projected 

MiM!}*tl0'„„N'    Y'~ S'   Jac°t>son,   980  Broadway,   will 

122  feet  ?£,"?"  m0TiSg  piotare  theater,  35  by 
i—i  reet,   and  to  cost  $9,000 

^rgSfooT™   the"ter'   «»  *  is/f^t    and^o 

nntlbtSTi'  ?,'t  Y-~®!0n?,s  Lan<1>"i.  62  Hudson  ave- 
?S.  V.ter   *    "filing   Into   a   moving    picture 

a?terV?L      'i?„   '      8e^mg      CaP"Clty      '<*     300       SI 

alterations  will  cost  $2,500 

con^wPUa'  **^f-  Rlenara  Joekson  has  the 
contract  for  a  one-story  moving  picture  theater,  123 
feet   2   Inches,    by   18  feet   1   inch,    by   101    feet  » 

™.^8,  b7  71  teet  6%  incb°°-  to  be  built  at  the 
northwest  corner  of  Fifty-fourth   street   and   Baltl- 

fia'ooo™1"16'  '°r  rorte  *  emlUl•  at  a  cost  of  ab0Dt 

Philadelphia,  Pa.— A  sale  In  a  section  of  North 
Broad  street,  which  has  been  Inactive  for  many 
years,  Involves  the  transfer  of  the  lot  2204  to  2212 
North  Broad  street,  from  Peter  T.  Colgar  to  Mur- 
ray White,  who,  it  is  believed,  paid  about  $35,000 
.  .'  -T^S  lot'  whicb  has  a  frontage  on  Broad 
street  of  68  feet,  with  a  depth  to  Carlisle  street, 
on  the  north  line  of  177  feet,  and  a  depth  of  89  feet 
on  the  south  line,  was  conveyed  for  nominal  con- 
sideration, subject  to  a  mortgage  of  $26,000.  It  la 
occupied  by  three  stores.  The  lot  has  been  recently- 
considered  as  a  site  for  a  moving  picture  theater 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Samuel  Schultz  is  estlmatlng 
on  plans  for  a  moving  picture  theater  to  be  built 
at  1426  and  1428  South  Fourth  street,  building  to 
be  one  story,  35  by  135  feet. 

Paulding,  Ohio.— A.  D.  Swlnehart  has  let  the  con- 
tract to  Thomas  ft  Anderson,  Columbus  Grove,  O., 
for  the  erection  of  a  moving  picture  theater  with 
•eating  capacity  for  250,  and  to  cost  $8,000.  The 
building  will  be  two-story,  and  is  In  course  of  erec- 
tion. 

Montgomery,  Ala,— Monly  Building  ft  Realty  Com- 
pany have  awarded  the  contract  to  E.  B.  L.  Major* 
for  the  construction  of  a  three-story  theater  build- 


ing, to  contain  stores  on  ground  floor  and  office* 
above,   to  cost  $22,000. 

Orange,  N.  3 — John  E.  Baker,  Jr.,  74  North  Ful- 
lerton  avenue,  Montclair,  N.  J.,  has  completed  plans 
for  the  owner  for  the  erection  of  a  one-story  movinjr 
picture  theater,  22  by  SO  feet. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — George  Hogg  has  been  awarded 
the  contract  for  a  one-story  brick  and  stone  moving 
picture  theater,  35  by  100  feet,  to  be  built  for 
Kahn  &  Greenberg. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — F.  Roe  Searing  and  Shaughnessy 
*  Wller,  are  estimating  on  plans  for  a  moving  pic- 
ture theater  to  be  built  on  North  Broad  street  for 
Goddard  &  Weaver,  building  to  be  35  by  100  feet. 

Newark,  N.  J. — Louis  Karaslt,  207  Runyon  street, 
is  to  build  a  one-story  moving  picture  theater  24  by 
90  feet,  to  cost  $4,000. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. — Clyde  S.  Adams  la  preparing 
complete  plans  and  specifications  for  a  new  opera 
house  and  stores,  to  be  erected  at  Parkersburg.  Pa. 
The  structure  will  be  of  fireproof  construction,  brick 
and  concrete,  and  will  seat  about  480.  On  the 
ground  floor  will  be  two  large  stores.  The  owners 
are  Butler  ft  Moore,  of  Parkersburg.  Bids  will  be 
Invited  in  a  short  time. 

Newark,  N.  J.— Louis  Karaslt,  207  Runyon  street, 
is  to  build  a  one-story  moving  picture  theater,  24 
by   90   feet,    to   cost   $4,000. 


Is  Filicide  Justifiable? 

See  "The  Seed  of  the  Fathers,"  Amer- 
ica's Greatest  Feature  Production. 
A  Marion  Leonard  Special. 

Monopol    Film    Company. 


Philadelphia,  Pa. — Clyde  S.  Adams  is  preparing 
complete  plans  and  specifications  for  a  new  opera 
house  and  stores  to  be  erected  at  Parkersburg,  Pa. 
The  structure  will  be  of  fireproof  construction, 
brick  and  concrete  and  will  seat  about  400.  On 
the  ground  floor  will  be  two  large  stores.  The 
owners  are  Butler  &  Moore,  of  Parkersburg.  Bids 
will    be   invited  in    a    short   time. 

Newark,  N.  J. — Isador  Lustbader.  179  Sprue* 
street,  has  received  bids  for  the  erection  of  a  mov- 
ing picture  theater  to  cost  $3,000. 

Pottsville,  Pa. — F.  Cronlnger  will  build  a  moving 
picture  theater,  2  1-2-story,  30  by  90  feet,  to  coat 
$15,000. 

Ossining,  N.  T. — Durum  Construction  Company, 
Peekskill.  N.  T.,  will  Bhortly  Invite  bids  for 
the  erection  of  a  moving  picture  theater  In  this 
town. 

Niagara  Falls,  N.  Y. — Aluminum  Amusement 
Company,  Inc.,  have  received  bids  for  the  construc- 
tion of  a  two-story  grandstand,  30  by  202  feet,  to 
cost  $3,000. 

Binghamton,  N.  Y. — Florry  ft  Williamson  are  con- 
sidering plans  for  the  erection  of  a  moving  picture 
theater  and  piano  salesroom,  one  and  three-story, 
67  by  165  feet. 

Newark,  N.  J. — Progressive  Investment  Company, 
800  Broad  street,  have  received  bide  for  the  erec- 
tion of  a  one-story  moving  picture  theater,  with 
seating  capacity  for  600,  42  by  100  feet,  and  t* 
cost  $10,000. 

Essex  Falls,  N,  J. — Sealed  bids  have  been  received 
by  the  borough  council,  Herman  H.  Miller,  borough 
clerk,  for  the  erection  of  a  2%-story  borough  hall, 
about  40  by  32  feet. 


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145  West  45th  Street 
New  York,  N.Y. 

We    have    the    following   high-class 
Features  for  immediate  hire: 
The  Gangsters. 
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YOU  SHOULD  WORRY 

If  it  gets  hot  and  business  threatens  to  fall  off. 

Then  you  know  it's  time  to  do  something.  Liven  things  up  with  something  new.  Get  a  set  of  Deagan's  beautiful 
musical  novelty  instruments.  Played  from  keyboard  like  a  piano.  Pianoplayer  or  drummer  can  play  any  of  these 
instruments  after  a  few  minutes'1  practice.  Will  work  great  as  a  solo.  Better  than  any  vaudeville  act.  Inexpensive, 
easy  to  operate  and  easy  to  install.  No  complicated  wiring.  Your  musician  or  operator  can  install  one  of  our 
outfits  in  half  an  hour. 

Many  exhibitors  mount  our  bells  or  chimes  in  the  lobby.  It  is  a  fine  and  unique  advertisement. 

We  manufacture  several  hundred  different  electrical  musical  instruments  suitable  for  all  kinds  of  conditions — bally- 
hoo at  the  tent  show,  or  musical  novelty  solo  at  the  grand   opera. 

OUR  MUSICAL  ELECTRICAL  BELLS 

greatly  improved  in  tone  and  action  sell  from  $42.00  Per  Set  and   Up 


OUR 


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are  beautiful  instruments  for  your  orchestra  or  lobby. 

Our  Organ  Chimes,  Electrical  Marimbaphon.es,  Orchestra  Chimes,  etc.,  are  all  attractions, 
bound  to  make  a  great  hit  in  a  motion  picture  theatre. 

Write    for    our    catalogue. 

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1770  BERTEAU  AVENUE,  CHICAGO,  U.  S.  A. 


This  Trade  Marte  The  Guarantee  of  Excellence  on  Good3    Electrical 


Better   Light    for  Your   Machine 

The  first  requirement  of  good  projection  is  a  powerful 
steady  light. 

An  arc  lamp  using  direct  current  from  a  G-E  Rectifier  gives 
the  finest  light  that  can  be  obtained.  The  light  is  powerful  and 
does  not  flicker  like  the  light  of  an  alternating  current  arc. 

The  G-E  Rectifier  not  only  improves  the  quality  of  the  light, 
but  at  the  same  time  it  reduces  the  cost  for  current,  because  the 
rectifier  furnishes  current  at  the  exact  voltage  needed  by  the  lamp. 
Losses  in  rheostats  are  therefore  entirely  eliminated. 

Further  information  and  prices  on  request. 

General  Electric   Company 

Motion     Picture     Rectifier  _    _  _  — . .     . 

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ADVERTISING    FOE    EXHIBITORS 1351 

ARE   YOU    READY   FOR  THE   EXPOSITION  ?.  .1838 

AT  THE  SIGN   OF  THE   FLAMING  ARCS 1350 

"BEAUTY    AND    THE    BEAST"     (Rex) 1340 

BRITISH    COLUMBIA    CENSORSHIP    LAW 1386 

BUFFALO    1384 

CALENDAR  OF  LICENSED  RELEASES 13715 

CALENDAR    OF    INDEPENDENT    RELEASES.  .1378 

CHICAGO  LETTER    1345 

COMMENTS  ON  THE  FILMS    (Licensed) 1358 

COMMENTS    ON    THE    FILMS    (Independent) .  .1360 

CORRESPONDENCE    1380 

"DEATH    KNELL,    THE"     (Itala) 1366 

FACTS    AND    COMMENTS    1335 

FOREIGN    TRADE    NOTES 1368 

GAUMONT    CHRONOOHROME,    THE 1346 

GREAT  MODERN   PHOTOPLAY  THEATER,  A. 1349 


CARBON  IMPORTERS. 

FRORUP,   L.    B 1383 

KIEWERT,   CHARLES  L 1415 

REISINGER,   HUGO 1415 

ELECTRICAL  &  MECHANICAL  EQUIPMENT. 

AMUSEMENT  SUPPLY  CO 1392 

BELL    &   HOWELL 1401 

BENDER,   GEOROrE 1415 

OALEHUFF  SUPPLY  CO 1417 

CHICAGO  M.   P.   SUPPLY  CO 1414 

CHICAGO  METAL  COVER  CO 1385 

DETROIT   MOTOR    OARS   CO 1414 

FAIRBANKS,   MORSE  &  CO 1393 

FORT    WAYNE    ELECTRIC   CO 1414 

GENERAL   ELECT  CO 1405 

HALLBBRG,  J.   H 1393 

HOKE,    GEO.    M 13S8 

LLG   ELECTRIC  VENTILATING  CO 1403 

LAVEZZI 1417 

M.  P.  MECHANICAL  DISPLAY  CO '. .'. .  !l417 

PICTURE  THEATER  EQUIPMENT  CO 1412 

SCHNEIDER,    E .1412 

SMITH,   L.  C.   &  CO 1413 

STRELINGER,   CHARLES  A 1412 

MISCELLANEOUS  FEATURES. 

ALMO  F.  F.  CO 1390 

ARAB   AMUSEMENT  CO 1322-23 

AMBROSIO  F.    CO 1399 

BLINKHORN,    A H409 

FEATURE    FILM    CO 1388 

FULLER'S,  CHAS.   L.,   DISTRIBUTING  CO.  .1374-75 

GENERAL   FILM   CO 1328-29 

GT.     NORTHERN    SPECIAL    FEATURE    FILM 

CO 1383 

HIAWATHA   F.    F.   CO    (Buffalo) 1413 

ITALA  FILM  CO 1416 

KINEMACOLOR  CO 1397 

MONOPOL    FILM    CO 1324 

MOORE,    F.    E 1383 

NEW   JERSEY    F.    F.    CO 1414-1415 

NEW    YORK    FILM   CO 1412 

QUO  VADIS  FILM  CO 1320-21 

SHERRY,    WM.   L 1385 

ST.    LOUIS  M.    P.   CO 1387 

STATE   RIGHTS   FILM    CO 1326 

UNION  FEATURES 13911 

VIVAPHONB    CO 13S9 

WARNER'S  FEATURES    1397 

FIREPROOF  APPARATUS. 

TRAINER,   C.    W 1415 

FILM  EXCHANGES. 

ACORN    M.    P.   00 1394 

BRADENBURG,    G.    W 1383 

FULTON,    E.    E 1415 


TO  CONTENTS. 

IN    THE    MIDDLE    WEST 1384 

IN    THE    NORTHWEST 1384 

INDIANA     1384 

INDIANAPOLIS    1384 

IOWA    1384 

INDEPENDENT    FILM    STORIES 1396 

INDEPENDENT     RELEASE     DATES 1408 

INQUIRIES     1354 

JEALOUSY   OF  JANE,   THE"    (Imp)..., 1340 

JOTTINGS  FROM  A   MOTION   PICTURE   NOTE 

BOOK    1337 

LICENSED   FILM  STORIES 1386 

LICENSED    RELEASE    DATES 1410 

MANUFACTURERS'   ADVANCE   NOTES 1369 

MINNESOTA  STATE  CONVENTION 1363 

MOTION  PICTURE  EXHIBITORS'  LEAGUE 1363 

MOVING   PICTURE   EDUCATOR 1367 

TO  ADVERTISERS. — 

GUNBY     BROS 1390 

HET'Z,   L 1415 

IDEAL    FILM    SERVICE 

LAEMMLB   FILM   CO .  1394 

LYMAN,    GEO 1414 

MelNTIRE   &  RICHTBR 1113 

M.  &  F.  FILM  SERVICE 1415 

M.    P.   SALES  CO 1390 

MUTUAL    FILM    CORPORATION 1379 

NORTHERN   FEATURE   FILM    EXCHANGE 1415 

SOUTHERN   FILM  COMPANY    1392 

THE  FILM  EXCHANGE 1413 

THE  STATE  FILM  AGENCY 1415 

UNITED  THEATER  SERVICE 1415 

INDEPENDENT  FILM  MANUFACTURERS. 

AMERICAN     .' 1318 

BRONCHO   FILM   CO 1316 

KAY-BEE    1316 

KEYSTONE   1316 

MAJESTIC     1418 

N.    Y.    MOTION    PICTURE    CO 1327 

RAMO    FILM    DO 1401 

RELIANCE   1325 

SOLAX      1319 

THANHOUSER    1314 

UNIVERSAL  FILM  MANUFACTURERS 1317 

LICENSED  FILM  MANUFACTURERS. 

EDISON    1331 

ESSANAY    1315 

KALEM    1334 

LUBIN    1332 

MBLIES 1419-1381 

PATHE    FRERES     1330 

SELIG   1395 

VITAGRAPH    1333 

LENS  MANUFACTURERS. 

GUNDLACH   MANHATTAN   OPTICAL  CO 1385 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

AMERICAN  CINEMATOGRAPH  CO 1390 

AUTOMATIC  TICKET  CO 1407 

CLASSIFIED  ADVERTISEMENTS 1381 

CLEVELAND,  W.  S 1417 

COMMERCIAL    FILMERS 1415 

COMMERCIAL   M.    P.    CO 1390 

CORCORAN,  A.  J 1415 

DAWSON   &   LYON 1387 

DOUGHERTY,    1 1378 

EASTMAN  KODAK  CO 1387 

EX.   CONVENTION 1373-91 

G'ARDEN  THEATER 1395 

GENERAL   SPEC.    CO 1393 

IMPERIAL     HOTEI 13S0 

KRAUSE    MFG.    CO 1416 

LANGLEY,  K.  D 1415 


MUSIC    FOR    THE    PICTURE 1362 

NEW    ENGLAND    1380 

PHILADELPHIA   1382 

PlIciTOPLAYWRIGHT,    THE    1353 

PORTLAND,    ORE 1382 

PROJECTION  DEPARTMENT   1356 

"QUICKSANDS"   (American)   1342 

"SHENANDOAH"     (Kalem)     1339 

SPRINGFIELD     1384 

STORIES    OF    THE    FILMS     (licensed) 1388 

STORIES   OF   THE   FILMS    (Independent) 1396 

TALKING    PICTURE,    THE 1347 

"THE    TRAP"     (Vitagraph) 1341 

UNIVERSAL  SITUATION   UNSETTLED 1348 

WE    ARE    DISCOVERED 1336 

LUMIERE    JOUGLA    CO 1383 

McKENNA  BROS.   BRASS  CO 1413 

MOTION    PICTURE   CAMERA   CO 1390 

M.    P.   EXHIBITORS'    LEAGUE 1374-76 

NATIONAL  M.   P.  CO 1416 

NATIONAL  TICKET  CO 1408 

NATIONAL   X-RAY    REFLECTOR   CO 1417 

ONE  DROP   OIL  CO 1414 

OZONE  PURE  AIRIFIER 1408 

PARISIAN   MFG.   &  FILM   RENOVATING 1394 

RAW    FILM    SUPPLY    CO 1388 

REYNOLDS    &   CO 1414 

SARGENT,  E.  W 1392 

SCHWARZLER,  AUGUST  F 1415 

STAR    A.    SHOP 1414 

STBBBINS,  C.    M 1414 

STREET,    E.    R 1417 

THEATER    BROKERAGE   CO 1394 

TICKET    PREMIUM    CO 1401 

MOVING  PICTURE  MACHINE  MANUFACTURERS. 

EDISON    1331 

ENTERPRISE  OPTICAL  CO 1412 

POWER'S  CAMBRAGRAPH 1420 

SIMPLEX 1377 

MUSICAL  INSTRUMENTS. 

AMERICAN    PHOTOPLAYER    SALES    CO 1415 

DBAGAN,   J.   C 1406 

SINN,  C.   E 1392 

WURLITZER,    RUDOLPH 1417 

OPERA    CHAIR    MANUFACTURERS. 

AMERICAN    SEATING'    CO 1416 

ANDREWS,  A.  H 1416 

BENNETT,   GEO.    W 1416 

HARDESTY    1418 

STAFFORD,    E.    H 1418 

STEEL  FURNITURE  CO 1416 

POSTERS    &   FRAMES. 

A.    B.    C ..1406 

AMERICAN  SLIDE  &  POSTER  CO 1410 

EXHIBITORS'    ADV.   &   SPECIALTY   CO 1376 

GENERAL  FILM  CO 1411 

NEWMAN    1414 

THEATER    SPECIALTY    MFG.    CO 1416 

PROJECTION  SCREENS. 

AMERICAN    THEATER   CURTAIN   CO 1387 

CENTER,  J.   H 1388 

MIRROR   SCREEN    CO 1417 

SIMPSON   SOLAR   SCREENS 1412 

VTILITY  TRANSPARENCY  CO 1417 

THEATRICAL   ARCHITECTS. 

DECORATORS'  SUPPLY  CO 141S 


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FROM  Coast  to  Coast,  from  Gulf  to 
Great  Lakes,  the  demand  has  been 
constant.  A  few  of  the  Circuits  which 
have  endorsed  and  are  using  Auto- 
matic Ticket  Sellers  : 

Automatic  Vaudeville  Co.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Geo.  W.  Bennethum  Playhouses,  Reading,  Pa. 
O.  T.  Crawford  &  Co.,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Harry  Davis,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Fichtenberg  Enterprise  Co.,  New  Orleans,  La. 
General  Amusement  Co.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
John  P.  Harris,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Jones,  Linick  &  Schafer,  Chicago,  111. 
Keith's,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Mark-Brock,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Nixon-Nirdlinger,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Odeon  Theatres,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
F.  F.  Proctor,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Poli  Circuit,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Sherman  Enterprises,  Calgary,  Canada. 
Starland  Limited,  Winnipeg.  Canada. 
Treon  &  Company,  Scranton. 
Turner-Dahnken,  San  Francisco. 


"Used  Wherever 

Tickets  Are 

Sold" 

The  Automatic  Ticket 
Selling&Cash  Register 


is  indispensable  to  all  owners  of  mov- 
ing picture  houses,  theaters,  amuse- 
ment parks,  baseball  parks  and  all 
amusement  places  which  desire  protec- 
tion of  their  box  office  receipts. 

A  MARVEL  OF  SIMPLICITY, 
SPEED  AND  ACCURACY  IN. 
OPERATION  —  NO  COMPLI- 
CATED MECHANISM. 

AUTOMATIC  REGISTER  IS  UN- 
DER LOCK  AND  KEY  AND  YOU 
HOLD  THE  KEY— THUS  CASH 
DRAWER  MISTAKES  ARE  IM- 
POSSIBLE. 

ALL  TICKETS  SOLD  ARE  REG- 
ISTERED and  total  sales  are  checked 
up  in  a  moment's  time. 

The  Machine  is  operated  by  Foot  Pedal 
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Jane  21— Marine   Law    (Comedy) 1000 

Jane  23 — A    Husband's    Mistake    (Drama) 10OO 

Jane  26 — Calamity  Anne  Takes  a  Trip   (Com.). .1000 

Jane  2S — Dead    Man's    Shoes    (Drama) 1000 

Jane  30 — Quicksands    (2    parts    Drama) 2000 

Joly     3 — Pride   of   Lonesome    (Drama) 1000 

July    5 — A  Tale  of  Death  Valley   (Drama) 1000 

AMBROSTO. 

Acr.  M— GeMe*  Bala   (2  reels.  Drama) 

Hay    *— The    Spider    (3    parts— Drama) 

May  10 — Tempest      aad      Sunshine      (2     parte— 

Drama)     H 

■far  IT— A  Maid  af  Heasr  (2  parts — Drama).. 
Hay  **— Tee  T allow  Mia  (2  parts— Drama) . . . 
May  81 — An    Unruly    Father    (2    parts — Drama) 

Jane    7 — Tne  Sold  Title    (2   parts — Drama) 

Jane  14 — The  Girl  of  the  Hidden  Spring  (2  parts 

— Drama)      

Jane  21 — Lores  Shadow    (2  parts — Drama) 

BISON. 

Jeae    S — Tie  Battle  of  Sao  Joan  Hill  (2  parts 

— Drama )      

Jam     T— Tne    Spirit    of    the    Flag     (2    parts — 

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Jaae  10— The  Grand  Old  Flag  (2  parts — Drama) 
Jane  14 — The   Capture   of   Agnlnaldo    (2   parts — 

Drama)     

Jane  17 — In    Lore    and    War    (2    parts — Drama) 
Jane  21 — Women    and    War    (2   parts — Drama! . 
June  24 — The    Guerilla    Menace     (2    parts — Dr.) 
July     1 — The  Battle  of  Manila   (2  parts  Drama) 
July    5 — At   Shlloh    (2   parts   Drama) 

BRONCHO. 

Jane  11 — An    Indian's    Gratitude     (Drama) 

Jane  18 — From  the  Shadows  (2  parts — Drama).. 
June  25 — The  Transgressor  (2  parts — Drama).. 
July    2 — All  RiTers  Meet  at  Sea    (Drama 

CHAMPIOH. 

Apr.  14 — Lena's    Flirtation    (Comedy) 

Asv.  21—  Wbn    Stress   Mea    Meet    (Drama) 

Ape.  28— The  Clown  Here   (Comedy) 

Apr.  28—  I.lfe  In  Sondes    (Sociology) 

May    •— Tae  Shark   Ood    (Dranu) 1000 

May  12 — Hawaiian  Lave   (Drama) 

May  IB — The     Leper     (Dranu) 

CRYSTAL. 

Jane  22 — The    Smuggled    Laces    (Comedy) 

June  22— Will    Power    (Comedy) 

June  24 — Out    of    the    Past    (Drama) 

June  29 — Who  Is  In  the  Bo\?  (Comedy) 

June  29 — Mrs.  Sharp  &  Miss  Flat    (Comedy) 

July     1 — An  Hour  of  Terror    (Drama) 

July     6 — The   Girl    Reporter    (Comedy) 

July     6 — Muchly    Engaged    (Comedy  > 

DRAGON. 

May  19 — The     Sergeant's     Daughter     (2     parts — 

Drama)     2000 

May  24 — Lore's  Mosograai    (Drama) 1000 

June  2 — Comrades    (Drama)    H»" 

Jane    9 — The  Ace  ef  Hearts  (Drama) loon 

Jane  16 — The     Ghost     of     Sea      View     Manor 

(Drama)     1000 

ECLAIR. 

Jane  18 — Fortune's    Pet     (2    part — Drama) 

June  22 — The   Boy  from   the   East    (Drama) 

June  22 — The    South   of    India    (Scenic) 

June  25— The    Badge    of    Policeman    0'Roon    (2 

parts — Drama)     

June  20 — He     Was     Not     111,     Only     Unhappy 

(Comedy) 

Inne  29— Torpedo     Fish     (Zoology) 

July     2— The   Witch    (3  parts  Drama) 

July    6— In    the    Night    (Comedy) 

July    6 — How  Diamonds  Are  Made    (Industrial) 


FRONTIER. 

Jane  S— The  Ranch  Girl  and  the  Sky  Pilot 
(Comedy)     

Jane  12— The   Call    of    the    Angelas    (Drama).. 

June  14 — The  Twins  of  "Doable  X"  Ranch 
(Comedy)     

June  19 — A  Story  of  the  Mexican  Border  (Drama) 

June  21 — When  Lena  Struck  New  Mexico  (Com- 
edy)      

June  26 — The   Squaw   Man's   Reword    (Drama) . . 

June  28 — An  Eastern  Cyclone  at  Bluff  Ranch 
(Comedy) 

July     3 — The   Secret  of   Padre  Antonio   (Drama) 

July     .". — A    Rose    ;it    Sixteen    (Drama) 

July     5 — A  Cactus  at  Forty-flve    (Comedy) 

GAUM0NT. 

June    !i — A    Passing   Cloud    (Drama) 

June  10 — The  Honor  of  Lucrece    (Drama) 

June  11 — Gaumont'a  Weekly,  No.  66  (News)... 
.Tune  12 — Men   Were  Deceivers   Ever    (Com.).... 

June  17 — Mixed    Pickles    (Comedy) 

June  17 — By  the  Sad  Sea   Wares 

June  18 — Gaumont's    Weekly    No.    67    (News)... 
June  19 — The    Great    Unwashed     (Comedy) 

OEM. 

June    2 — Billy   In  Armor   (Comedy) 

June    9 — Hearts    and    Flowers    (Drama) 

June  23 — Every  Dach  a  Hero    (Drama) 

June  30 — Mistaken    Intentions    (Comedy) 

June  30— Teak    Wood    (Scenic) 

GREAT     NORTHERN. 

May    *1 — The  Suffragettes  (Comedy) 

June    7 — Where   Is  Doggie  t    (Comedy) 

Jane    7 — Lock    Lomond    (Scenic) 

June  14 — An  Unwelcome  Wedding  Gift  (Com- 
edy-Drama)   

GREAT    NORTHERN— Universal. 
June  28 — The  Flying  Circus  (3  parts,  Drama) . . 

IMP. 

June  19 — The  Sorrows  of  Israel  (3  parts- 
Drama)     

Jane  21— Fllmographlc  Cartoons,  Hy  Mayer 
(Novelty)      

June  23 — His    Mother's    Love    (Drama) 

June  26 — The  Angel  of  Death   (Drama) 

June  28— Fun  In  Film  By  Hy  Mayer  (Novelty) 

June  2S — Leo's  Great   Cure    (Comedy) 

Jane  30 — The  Old  Melody   (2  parts  Drama) 

July     3 — Jane    Marries     (Drama) 

July     5— Leo,    the    Indian     (Comedy) 

July  5 — Lightning  Sketches  by  Hy  Mayer 
(Novelty)     

KAY-BEE. 

Juue  13 — The    Boomerang     (3    parts — Drama).. 
June  20 — The    Failure    of    Success     (2     parts — 

Drama )      

June  27 — The   Seal  of  Silence    (Drama) 

July    4 — The  Crimson  Stain   (2  parts  Drama) . . 

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June    S — Pasaions!    He    Had    Three    (Comedy). 
Jnne    5— Help!    Help!    Hydrophobia    (Comedy). 

June    9 — The  Hansom  Driver   (Comedy) 

Jnne  12— The    Speed    Queen    (Comedy) 

June  16 — The     Walters'     Picnic     (Comedy) 

June  19— The  Tale  of  a  Black  Eye  (Comedy).. 

June  19 — Out    and    In    (Comedy) 

June  21 — A  Bandit  (Comedy) 

June  23 — Peeping  Pete  (Comedy) 

June    26 — His    Crooked    Career    (Comedy) 

June  26 — The     Largest     Boat      Ever     Launched 

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June  13 — Engulfed    (Drama)    

June  20 — Cast    Thy    Bread    Upon     the    Waters 

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June  27 — Sammy,    the    Scorcher    (Comedy) 455 

June  27— Oh!   You  Unbreakable  Doll  (Comedy)..  495 

MAJESTIC. 

June  17 — Beautiful    Bismark     (Drama) 

June  20 — The    Banker's    Sons    (Drama) 

June  22— Side  Tracked   By  Sister    (Drama) 

l— The    Politician    (Drama) 

June  28 — Dora    (Drama)     

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May  21— Mutual  Weekly,   No.   21    (News) 

May  28—  Mutual    Weekly.    No.    22    (News) 

June    4 — Mutual   Weekly,    No.   23    (News) 

June  11 — Mutual    Weekly,    No.    24    (News) 

June  18 — Mutual    Weekly,    No.    25    (News) 


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Jnne    9— A    Child's    Day     (Child    Science) 

Jane  12 — Gontran,  a  Snake  Charmer  (Ciiaaly) 
Jane  12    fathering     and     Preparation     of     Tea 

m     lndo-Chloa     (Agriculture) 

June  19 — Willy  Wants  to  Ride  a  Horse   (Com.) 

June  19 — Through    Greece    (Travel) 

June  26 — Fnnnlcus    Tries    Hla    Luck     at    Love 

(Comedy) 

June  26 — Through     the     Land     of    Sugar     Cane 

(Travel) 

NESTOR, 

June  20— Dad'a  Surprise    (Comedy) 

June  23 — Poleon    the    Trapper    (Drama) 

Jane  25 — Partners     (Drama) 

June  27 — Professional     Jealousy     (Comedy) 

June  30 — An    Indian    Nemesis    (Drama) 

July     2 — The    Range   Dead    Line    (Drama) 

July    4 — He   and   Himself    (Comedy) 

July    4 — To      the      Brave      Belong      the      Fair 
(Comedy)     

POWERS. 

Jnne  20— Behind    the  Times    (Drama) 

June  25 — The    $10,000    Bride    (Comedy) 

Jnne  25 — It   Happened   At   the   Beach    (Comedy) 

June  27 — The  Spell  (2  parts — Drama) 

July    2 — The  Quarter  Meter   (Comedy) 

July  2 — British  American  Polo  Match  (Topical) 
July    4 — The  Heart  of  Hermanda   (Drama) 


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May  2»— School  Dayi   (Oeaaedy) 

May  29 — The   Governor's  Romance    (Drams).... 

June    5— For    Old   Time's    Sake    (Drama) 

Jnne  12 — When  a  Girl  Loves  (Drama) 

June  19 — A    Child    of    the    Hills    (Drama) 

June  26 — An    Innocent   Conspiracy    (Com. -Dr.).  .10*0 
July  3 — The  Code  of  the  U.  S.  A.   (Drama) 1000 

RAMO. 

June  11 — The   Helping   Hand    (Drama) 

June  18 — The  Call  of  the  Road    (Drama) 

June  25 — The    Worth    of    Man    (Drama) 

July    2 — I'm    No   Counterfeiter    (Drama) 

July     9 — Man  and   Woman    (2  parts  Drama) 

July  k; — a    Dog-Gone    Baron    (Drama) 

July  23— The    Silent    House    (Drama) 

RELIANCE. 

Jnne  14 — Half   a   Chance    O   parts — Drama).... 

Jnne  1(5 — Annie    Laurie    (Drama) 

June  18 — The   Dream    Home    (Drama) 

June  21 — Wallingford's    Wallet    (3    parts — Dr.). 

June  23 — The  House  of  Pretense  (Drama) 

June  28 — The  Tangled  Web  (3  parts  Drama) . . . 

REX. 

June  15 — The    Pretender     (Comedy-Drama) 

June  19 — The    Scar     (Drama) 

June  22 — The    Stolen     Idol     (Drama) 

June  26— The   Burden   Bearer   (Drama) 

June  29 — Draga,    the    Gypsy    (Drama) 

July    3 — A    Woman's    Folly    (Drama) 

July     6 — Suspense     (Drama) 

80LAX. 

Jnne  20 — Strangers   from   Nowhere   (Drama).... 

June  25 — The    Merry    Widow    (Comedy) 

June  25 — The  Dynamited  Dog  (Comedy) 

June  27 — The   Message   to  Heaven    (Drama) .... 

July    2 — An   Unexpected   Meeting    (Comedy) 

July     4 — True    Hearts    (Drama) 

THANHOTJSER. 

June  1 3 — His  Sacrifice   (Drama) 

June  15 — The     Head     of     the     Ribbon     Counter 

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Jane  17 — The   Snare  of   Fate    (2   parte — Drama) 

June  20 — No    Release    this   date 

June  22 — The   Eye  of   Krishla    (Drama) 

June  24 — Forgive   Us  Our  Trespasses    (Drama).. 
June  27 — The   Lost   Combination    (Drama) 

VICTOR. 

Jnne  13 — Sincerity     (Drama) 

June  20 — His  Daughter   (Drama) 

June  27 — Brother    and     Sister     (Drama) 

July    4 — A  Shifting    Fortune    (Drama) 


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Jon*    9— Red  Hleke  Defies  the  World   (Comedj) 

June  12— The  Well   (Drama)    , . . 

June  14 — Death's  Marathon   (Drama) 

June  16 — The    Switch-Tower    (Drama) 

June  19 — The  Else  and  Fall  of  McDoo  (Comedy) 

June  18 — Almost  a  Wild  Man   (Comedy) 

Jnne  21 — The  Mothering  Heart  (2  parta — Drama) 
June  23 — A  Compromising  Complication  (Com.) 
June  23 — Mister    Jefferson    Green     (Comedy) . . . 

June  28 — In    Diplomatic    Circles    (Drama) 

June  28— Her    Mother's    Oath     (Drama) 

June  30 — A  Gamble  With   Death    (Drama) 

July    3— Faust  and  the   Lily    (Comedy) 

July    3 — An  Old   Maid's   Deception    (Comedy  i.. 
July    S — The  Sorrowful   Shore    (Drama) 

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May  20— Red    Wlna    (Drama)     ...1000 

May  24 — Exceeding  the  Time  Limit  (Comedy) .  800 
May  24— The  Maid  and  the  Yarn  (Comedy)..  800 
May  24 — Coring  a   Wenld-Be  Aviator    (Comedy)  400 

Ma)r  87 — Borrowed    Plumage    (Comedy) 

May  27— The    Champion    Fixer    (Comedy) 

May  87— la    SemalUand     (Scenic) 

May  81— Interesting  Scenes  Abroad  (TraTel)..1000 
Job*    1 — When    A    Wemaa    Loves     (Special — 3 

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Jm    8— The   Irony  »f   Fate    (Drama).. 1000 

Jon*    7 — Orbetelo    and     Environs     (Travel) 260 

laii    7— The    Ring    (Drama) 700 

ECLIPSE. 
(O.   Klein..) 

May  21— In    the    Tyraleee    Alpa    (Travel) 175 

May  »— The  Chicken   Industry   (Industrial) 400 

May  SI— Bag   Game    (Zoological) 429 

May  E8 — The  Indelible  Stain    (Drama) 1000 

Jane    4— The    Armadillo     (Zoological) COO 

June    4 — : Delivering   the   Goods    (Comedy) SO0 

Jnne  11— Behind    a    Mask    (Drama) 1000 

EDISON. 
Jan*     4    Bsani    Spots    In   and    Around    Los   An- 
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Jane  4— Don't     Worry     (Cemedy) 640 

Jane    <— Merey  Merrick   (Drama) 1000 

Jane    7— While    Jeka    Bolt    Slept    (Drama) 1000 

June    8 — Otkello    In   Joneevllle    (Comedy) 1000 

June  10— Twe    little    Kittens    (Drama) 1000 

June  11 — Beau  Crummel   and   His   Bride    (Com- 
edy)      1000 

June  18— Along    the    Nile    (Scenic) 10O0 

June  14 — Apple*    of    Sodom    (Drama) 1000 

June  10— Her  Royal   Highness    (Comedy-Drama)  1000 

Jane  17 — The  Twin   Brothers    (Drama) 1000 

June  18 — OMc    Parade,    New   York   City    (Topi- 
cal)     860 

June  IS — He   Would   Fix   Things    (Comedy) 650 

June  20— The  Evil  Thereof   (Drsms) 1000 

June  21 — Mary      Stuart       (Special — 3      parts- 
Drama)     3000 

June  21 — Love's  Old  Sweet  Song  (Drama) 1000 

June  23 — The  Pyramids  and  the  Sphinx,   Egypt 

(Architecture) 800 

June  23 — A  Taste  of  His  Own  Medicine  (Com.).  700 
June  24 — Where   Shore   and   Water   Meet    (Dr.)  980 

June  25— How  Did  It  Finish?  (Comedy) 980 

June  27 — Fortune    Smiles — Being     the    Twelfth 
Story  of  What  Happened   to   Mary 

(Drama) 1000 

June  28— The    Fly    (Hygiene) 400 

June  28 — Circumstances  Make  Heroes   (Comedy)  600 

June  30— The  Story  of  the  Bell    (Drama) 1000 

July    1— The    Patchwork    Quilt    (Drama) 980 

July    2 — All      On      Account      of      a      Portrait 

(Comedy) 1000 

July  4 — A  Gentleman's  Gentleman  (Drama).  .1000 
July    6— The    Signal    (Drama) 1000 


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5— The    Last    Shot     (Drama) 1000 

6 — Phillip  March's  Engagement  (Comedy).  1000 

7 — Broncho    Billy's   Capture    (Drama) 1000 

9 — The  Final  Judgment   (Special — 2  parts 

— Drama)         2000 

10 — The  Shadowgraph   Message   (Drama).. 1000 

11— The    Star     (Comedy) 1000 

12 — Cinderella's    Gloves    (Comedy) 1000 

13 — The     Mysterious     Stranger     (Comedy- 

iDrama)     1000 

14— The    Ranch    Feud     (Drama) 1000 

17 — Anonymous  Love    (Comedy) 1000 

18— Hilda     Wakes     (Comedy) 1000 

19— The  Bustler's   Spur    (Drama) 1000 

20 — A  Brother's  Loyalty    (Special — 2  parts 

—Drama)     2000 

20 — Fear    (Drama)     1000 

21 — Alkali    Ike   and   the   Hypnotist    (Com- 
edy)      1000 

24 — Across    the    Rio    Grande     (Drama) 1000 

25— Easy    Payments     (Drama) 1000 

26 — The    Divided    House    (Comedy) 1000 

27 — Witness     "A-3    Center"     (Drama) 1000 

28— Broncho     Billy's    Strategy     (Drama).  .1000 

KABEM. 
9 — The    Rube    and    the   Boob    (Comedy) . . 
9 — The    Scheme   of   Shiftless   Sam   Smith 

(Comedy)      ( 

11 — The   Pawnbroker's  Daughter   (Drama). 1000 

13 — Brought    to    Bay     (Drama) 1000 

14 — The    Gypsy's    Brand    (Drama) 1000 

16 — The    Wheel    of    Death    (Drama) 

16 — Governor  Johnson  of  California   (Topi- 

ical)     

18 — The  Attorney  for  the  Defense  (Drama)lOOO 

20— Cupid's   Lariat    (Comedy) 

20 — Smoked   to   a   Finish    (Comedy) 

21— On   the  Brink  of  Ruin    (Drama) 1000 

23 — The   Detective's  Trap    (Drama) 1000 

25 — The  Knight  of  Cyclone  Gulch  (Com).. 
25 — Curing  Her  Extravagance  (Comedy) 
25— The  Struggle    (Special— 2   parts — Dr.). 2000 

27— The   Cloak   of   Guilt    (Drama) 1000 

28 — Out  of  the  Jaws  of  Death   (Drama) .  .1000 

30 — A  Fight  to  a  Finish   (Drama) 1000 

1 — The     Raiders     from     Double     L     Ranch 

(Drama)     

2 — Historic  New   York    (Scenic) 

4 — A  Victim  of  Deceit    (Drama) 1000 

4 — Shenandoah    (Special,  3  parts,   Drama). 3000 
6 — The   Hidden   Witness    (Drama) 1000 

HJBIN. 
9 — The  Legend  of  Lovere  Leap  (Drama) .  .1000 

10—  Violet     Dare,     Detective     (Drama) 1000 

12 — Nearly     In     Mourning     (Comedy) 

12 — The  Professor's  Predicament  (Comedy) 

13— Pa/pita's     Destiny     (Drama) 1000 

14 — The    Wine    of    Madness    (Drama) 1000 

16 — Bob   Builds   a  Boat    (Comedy) 400 

16— Silence    for   Silence    (Comedy) 600 

17 — Out    of    the    Beast    a    Man    Was    Born 

(Drama)     1000 

18— The    Weaker    Mind    (Special— 2    parts 

—Drama)     2000 

19 — A    Father's    Love    (Drama) 1000 

20 — His    Redemption     ( Drama )     1000 

21 — From    Ignorance    to    Light    (Drama).  .1000 

23 — Rustic    Hearts    (Drama) 1000 

24 — At  the  Telephone   (Comedy) 400 

24 — The    Zulu     King     (Comedy) 600 

26— The    Other    Woman    (Drama) 1000 

27— Bob   Buys  An  Auto   (Comedy) 400 

27— The   Beaut   from   Butte    (Comedy) 600 

28— The   Love   Test    (Drama) 1000 

30 — The     Penalty    of    Crime     (Special,     2 

parts,  Drama)    2000 

30 — Her  Atonement    (Drama) 1000 

1 — Her   Husband's    Picture    (Drama) 1000 

3 — The  Angel  of  the  Slums  (Drama) 1000 

4 — The   Waiter's   Strategy    (Comedy) 400 

4 — The   Wrong   Hand   Bag    (Comedy) 600 

5— His   Niece  from   Ireland    (Drama) 1000 

MELIE8. 
6 — Native  Industries  of  Java   (Industrial)  1000 

12— The  Stolen  Claim    (Drama) 

IS! — Views    of    Samarang     (Scenic) 

19 — The  Lure  of  the  Sacred  Pearl  (Drama) 
19 — Diving   for  Pearl  Oysters  at  Thursday 

Island    (Educational)     

26— The    Sultan's    Dagger     (Drama) 1000 

3 — The     Rice     Industry     in     Japan     (In- 
dustrial)      1000 

PATHEPLAY. 
7— Get-Rleh-Qulck    BUlington    (Comedy).. 

9 — Pathe's   Weekly,    No.   24    (News) 

10 — Max's    First    Job    (Comedy) 

10 — The    Chateau    of    Chenonceau,    Franca 

(Architecture)      

11 — "His   Lordship's"    Romance    (Comedy) 

12 — The    Artist's    Dream     (Comedy) 

13 — Athletics    In    France     (Sports) 

13 — Places  of  Interest  in  Colorado  (Travel) 

IS — The    Governor's    Double      (Special  —  2 

parts — Drama)       


June  14 — For     Mayor — Bess    Smith     (Cemedy) . . 

June  16— Pathe's    Weekly,    No.    25    (News) 

June  17 — A   Tour  Through   Touralne    (Travel).. 

June  17 — Rhodes     (Asiatic    Turkey) 

June  18 — The     Sacrifice     (Drama) 

June  19 — The   Outlaw's    Love    (Drama) 

June  20 — The  Burial  of  a  Rich  Chinaman  (Man- 
ners    and     Customs) 

June  20 — Antlbes.     France     and     Its     Environs 

(Scenic)    

June  20 — Monuments     and     Cascades    of     Rome 

(Travel )     

June  21 — The    Jury's    Verdict     (Drama) 

June  23— Pathe's    Weekly,    No.    26    (News) 

June  24 — The   Carrier   PigeonB    (Zoology) 

June  24 — How  a  Blossom  Opens  (Horticulture). 
June  25 — The  Hunger  of  the  Heart   (Drama)... 

June    26— Pathe's   Weekly   No.    27    (News) 

June  26 — Clarence    the   Cowboy    (Comedy) 

June  27 — The     Spotted     Elephant     Hawk     Moth 

(Zoology) 

June  27 — Athens     (Scenic) 

June  28— The    Second    Shot    (Drama) 

June  28 — The     Trapper's     Mistake     (Special— 2 

parts — Drama)     

June  30 — Pathe's  Weekly,    No.   28   (News) 

July  1 — The  Miracle  of  the  Roses  (Drama)... 
July    2 — The    Missionary's   Triumph    (Drama) . . 

July    3— The  Joy  Ride    (Comedy) 

July    3 — Pathe's  Weekly,   No.  29   (News) 

July    4 — Consecration     of     a     Buddhist     Priest 

(Manners   and   Customs) 

July     4 — Pisa     (Italy)     and     Its    Curious    Monu- 
ments  (Travel)    

July    5 — A    Modern   Garrick    (Drama) 

July    5 — The  Miner's  Destiny  (Special,  2  parts, 
Drama)     

SELIO. 
June    9 — Sweeney    and    the    Fairy    (Comedy).  .100$* 

June  10 — Dad's     Little     Girl     (Drama) 100» 

June  11 — The   Rose  of   May    (Drama) 1000 

June  12 — The  Fate  of  Elizabeth  (Comedy) .... 
June  12 — The  Birth  of  a  Butterfly  (Zoology). 
June  l» — The   Jealousy   of   Miguel   and   Isabella 

(Drama) 1003J 

June  14 — Alone  In  the  Jungle   (Special — 2  parts 

—Drama)     2000 

June  16— When   Lillian   Was  Little  Red  Riding 

Hood    (Fairy   Story)    

June  :16 — Shooting  the  Rapids  of  the  Pagsanjan 

River  in  Philippine  Islands  (Sports).. 

June  17 — Taming   a   Tenderfoot    (Comedy) 1000 

June  18 — Mrs.   Hilton's  Jewels   (Drama) 1000 

June  19— The    Gold    Brick    (Comedy) 1008 

June  20 — The  Fighting  Lieutenant    (Drama).... 

June  20 — Fancy   Poultry    (Zoology) 

June  23 — The     Kentucky     Derby     at     Churchill 

Downs  (Sports) 1000 

June  24— The    Marshal's    Capture    (Drama) 1000 

June  25 — Papa's    Dream    (Comedy) 

June  25— The   Oity   of   G"old    (Travel) 

June  26 — When   Men   Forget    (Drama) 1000 

June  27 — A   Western    Romance    (Drama) 1000 

June  30 — The   Beaded   Buckskin   Bag    (Drama).  .1000 

July    1 — Songs   of  Truce    (Drama) 1000 

July    2 — Arabia  and  the  Baby   (Drama) 

July    2 — The  Sultan  of   Sulu    (Educational) 

July    3 — In  God  We  Trust   (Drama) 1000 

July    4— Sallie's    Sure    Shot    (Drama) 1000 

VITAORAPH. 
June  11 — His  House  In   Order;  or  the  Widow's 

Quest     (Drama)     1000 

June  11 — A  Regiment  of  Two   (Special — 2  parts 

— Drama)     2000 

June  12— His    Tired    Uncle    (Comedy) 

June  12 — Capers  of  Cupid    (Comedy) 

June  13 — An    Infernal    Tangle    (Drama) 1000 

June  14 — Does    Advertising   Pay?    (Comedy) 1000 

June  16— The    Silver   Cigarette    Case    (Drama)  .1000 
June  17 — The     Coming     of     GVetchen     (Comedy- 
Drama)     1000 

June  18 — The    Drop    of    Blood    (Drama) 1000 

June  19 — Bunny's     Dilemma     (Comedy) 1000 

June  20 — Delayed    Proposals    (Comedy) 650 

June  20 — Yokomoma  Fire  Dept.   (Public  Safety)  350 

June  21— Arrlet's  Baby   (Drama)    1000 

June  23— The   Lion's    Bride    (Drama) 1000 

June  23 — The  Snare  of  Fate  (3  parts — Special — 

Drama) 3000 

June  24 — No    Sweets    (Comedy) 1000 

June  25 — Jack's    Chrysanthemum    (Com. -Dr.) ..  .1000 

■Tune  26— Her  Sweetest   Memory    (Drama) 1000 

June  27 — One     Good     Joke     Deserves     Another 

(Comedy) 

June  27— Field     Sports,      Hong     Kong,     China, 

(Sporting) 

June  28 — One    Over    on    Cutey    (Comedy) 870 

Jnne  28 — Cloisonne    Ware     (Educational) 130 

June  SO— Roughing   the   Cub    (Comedy) 1000 

July    1 — Bingles  and  the  Cabaret  (Comedy)....  700 

Jul'v    1— Sight-Seeing   in   Japan    (Scenic) 300 

July    2— Tlie  Song  Bird  of  the  North   (Drama). 1000 
July    2— The     Tiger     Lily     (Special,     3     parts, 

Drama)     3000 

July    3— Sweet   Deception    (Drama) 1000 

July    4 — An   Unwritten   Chapter   (Drama) 1000 

July    5— Love's    Quarantine    (Comedy) 1000 


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THE 
MOVING    PICTURE 

WORLD 


VOLUME   XVI 

April  to  June,  1913 


J.  P.  CHALMERS 
Founder 


PUBLISHED    BY 


CHALMERS  PUBLISHING  CO. 

17  Madison  Avenue,  New  York 


Index  to  Vol.  XVI,  April  to  June,  1913 


A 

"Accidental  A11M,  An"   (Edison) SSI 

Activities  of  the  Kalem  Company 145 

Advertising  for  Exhibitors, 

88,  155,  271,  371,  479,  587,  685,  803,  Oil.  1022,  1127,  1244,  1351 

"Alkali   Ike's  Misfortunes,"    (Essanay) SOO 

"Alone  In  the  Jangle"   (Selig) 1006 

American  In  Berlin,  An 824 

Americans    Win   on   Quality "88 

Another  Ordinance   Proposed   for  New   York 26 

Apostles  of  Nothingness 465 

Appeal  to  Flood  Sufferers,  An 470 

Are  Yon  Ready  for  the  Exposition? 1338 

"At  the  Risk  of  Her  Life"   (Apex) 465 

B 

"Balaoo"    (Union   Features) 685 

"Battle  for  Freedom,  The"    (Kalem) 360 

"Bawlerout.    The"    (Reliance) 468 

"Beauty  and  the  Beast"   (Rex) 1340 

Birmingham  Exhibitors  Organize 52 

"Boomerang,   The"    (Broncho) 1013 

British  Censorships  683 

British  Columbia   Censorship   Law , 1365 

British   Trade   Exhibitor 259 

"Bull   Fight  in  France"    (Pathe) CSS 

"Buster  Brown   and   Tige"    (Essanay) SOO 

0 

•Calamity  Anne's  Beauty"    (American) 27 

Oalebuff  Supply  Company,  The 113ft 

On  Ufornla    Censorship    Law 383 

Call  for  Minnesota  Convention S17 

Canadian  Censorship  Bill 578 

"Carmen"    iMonopol  Film  Co.) 29 

"Carmen"  (Thanbouser)   577 

Censoring    Motion    Pictures 25 

"Change  of  Administration,  A"   (Selig) 30 

Cherry  Kearton  Animal  Pictures 1140 

"Child   of    War.    A"    (Broncho) ) 576 

Colored  Lubin  Comedies 600 

D 

Danger  Ahead 140 

Day  at  the  Door.  A 270 

"Dead  Alive.  The"   i&'anraont) 363 

"Deaii    Secret.    The"    (Monopol) 815 

"Death   Knell.    The"    (Itala) 1366 

"Deerslayer.    The"    (Vitagraph) 31 

"Dick   Wittington   and  His  Cat"    (Solax) 145 

Directorial    Censorship 141 

Drastic  Illinois  Bill 708 

E 

Economy    of    Attention 1004 

Educated*  Insects 795 

Educational    Picture,    The 365,  1019 

Educational  Temperance.    A  Critical  Review 364 

"Eye  of  a  God,  The"    (Pyramid) 54 

F 

Famous   Players  Contemplate  Educationals 55 

Fascinating    Criminal.    The 356 

"Fatal  Grotto.  The"   (Itala) 1140 

"Female  Raffles.  The"    (t'nited  States  Film  Company) S16 

"Fighting   Chaplain,   The"    (Kalem) 154 

G 

Gaumont  Chronochrome.    The 1346 

G'ene   Gauntier   Players   Retnrn 926 

"Governor's  Double,  The"   (Edison) 905 

"Gray  Sentinel.    A"    (Broncho) 264 

Great   Modern   Photoplay  Theater,   A 1349 

H 

"Half  a  Chance"    (Reliance) 1241 

"Her  Big  Srorv"    (American) 909 

Historical    Photoplays 6<" 

House  of   nallherg.   The 931 

How  Natural  History  Pictures  are  Taken 795 

How  Our  Pictures  Educate  Abroad 1005 

I 

Imagination  in  Picture  Making 260 

Importation  of  Films 05 

"In  Slavery  Days"    (Rex) 600 

"In  the  Claws  of  the  Vulture"  (Ambrosio) 924 

"In  the  Long   Ago"    (Selig) 575 

J 

"Jealousy  of  Jane.  The"   (Imp) 1340 

Jottings  from   a   Motion   Picture   Note  Book 1337 

E 

"Kelly   from   the   Emerald   Isle    (Solax) 925 

Kentucky    Convention 578 

L 

Laemmle  Controls  Universal 1237 

"Les  Miserables"   (Eclectic) 362 


Maine   Exhibitors   Meet 1258 

Making    Pictures  With    Bloodhounds 53 

"Man  in  the  White  Cloak,  The"   (Great  Northern) 807 

Maryland    Exhibitors   Organize 1259 

"Marys   Romance"    (Crystal) 793 

'  Mary    Stuart"     (Edison) 904 

Mayor  Vetoes   Picture   Bill 1142 

Melles  In   Australia 687 

Melies  Company  in  Java 1234 

"Mercy  Merrick"    (Edison) 791 

Minnesota  State  Convention 1363 

"Miser's  Millions,  The"   (Cines) 258 

Motion  Picture    Exhibitors'    League, 

52,   146,  261,   383,   578.  708,   927,   1010,   1117,    1258,    1368 

Moving  Picture  Educator,  The 85,  167,  284,  364,  691,   1018,   1123,    1367 

Music  for  the  Pictures 66,  169,  693,  808,  1020,  1240,  1362 

N 

New  York  Benedt  a  Big  Success 369 

Notes  From  Italy 1229 


Observation  by  Man  About  Town, 

51,  153,  287,  370,  476,  586,  802,  810,  1126,  1243 

Opening  of  a  Chestnut  Burr,  The 896 

Open  Letter  to  President  NefT 3S5 

P 

Peering    Into    the    Future 257 

"Pelleas  and  Mellsande"    (Universal) 477 

Pennsylvania   State   Convention 1117 

"Perils  of  the  Past"    (G'aumont) 599 

Philadelphia    Convention    Opens 1007 

Photoplaywrights'    Last  Dinner 1122 

Photoplaywright,  The. 

41,    157,    273,    373,    481,   589,    697,    805,    813,    1024,    1129.   1246,   1353 

Picture  Shows   for  Children 1114 

Picture  Making  in  the  Far  East 1231 

Pictures  in  Cincinnati  Music  Hall 24 

Pictures  in  Learned   Society 799 

Plimpton    Back    from    Europe 144 

President  Neff   Replies 1119 

Projection  Department. 

43,   159.   275.   375,   483,  591,   699,  807,  915,  1026,     1119,    1248,   1355 

a 

"Quicksands"    (American)   1342 

E 

"Rajah's  Casket.   The"    (Gaumont) 6S6 

Real  Supply    House.    A 797 

Real  Thing.   The 1228 

Regarding   "Wages  of  Sin"    1230 

"Road   to  Ruin.  The"    (American) 474 

"Robinson   Crusoe"    (Rex) 29 

S 

San   Francisco  Exhibitors'   Ball 1010 

"Scarlet  Letter,   The"    (Kinemacolor) 579 

Screen  Club  Visited  by   Flames ISO 

Screeners  Hold  Their  First  Ball 472 

"Shenandoah"    (Kalem)    1339 

"Snare  of  Fate,   The"    (Vitagraph) 1113 

"Snare  of  Fate,  The"    (Thanhonser) 1233 

"Southern  Cinderella,  A"   (Broncho) 142 

"Steam"     (Kinemacolor) 1239 

"Struggle.  The"    (Kalem) 1009 

Successful   Organizer,   A 357 

T 

That    Censorship    Controversy S97 

The  Talking   Picture 1347 

"The  Tiger   Lily"    (Vitagraph) 466 

"The    Trap"     I  Vitagraph) 1341 

"Through  the  Test  of  Fire"   (Great  Northern) 363 

"Tragedy  of  Big  Eagle  Mine,  The"  (Kalem) 707 

Triangle  of  Filmdom,    The 7S9 

V 
Universal    Situation    Unsettled    1343 

V 

■Veritas   Qno   Vadis?   The" 1012 

"Villain   Unmasked.    A"    (KlelneEcllpse) 1236 

"Voodoo  Vengeance"    (World's  Best) 12::7 

W 

Warner  Back   From  Long  Trip 359 

Wasiiington  Exhibitors  Organize 52 

We     Are    Discovered 1336 

"When  the  Cinns  Menagerie  Broke  Loose"    (Vitagraph) ions 

"When  Thieves  Fall   Out"    (Gaumont) 173 

Where  There's    Life 1112 

"While  John    Bolt   Slept"    (Edison) VS 

"Why?"     (Eclair) 923 

Why   is   a  Censor? 572 

Wisconsin     Convention 3^4 

"Wise  Old  Elephant,  A"  (Selig) 143 

"Wishing  Seat.   The"    (American) 909 

"Wizard  of  the  Jungle"   (World's  Best  Film  Co.) 35 

T 
Yankee  Films   Abroad 573 


THE    MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


in 


Index  to  Stories  of  the  Films 


Licensed  Releases 


Absent  .Minded  Mr.  Boob— May  1  (Selig) 406 

Accidental  Alibi,  An— May  10  (Edison) 620 

Accusation     of     Bronebo    Billy,     Tbe— Apr      15 

(Essanay)    jgg 

Accusing  Hand,  The  (2  partsWune'  6  (Lubin)  042 

Across  tbe  Rio  Grande — June  24   (Essanav) 1278 

Adventure  of  an  Heiress,  The — May  12  (Kalem)  613 

After  tbe  Honeymoon— Apr.   16   (Vltagraph) 192 

Ailanthus  Silkworm,  The— May  23  (Patbeplay) . .  728 

Alas!    Poor    Yorllck— Apr.    21    (Selig) 298 

Alien,  Tbe — May  7  (Kalem) 508 

Alkali    Ike    and    the    Hypnotist — June   21    (Ess- 

a  nay )     1164 

Alkali  Ike's  Homecoming— Apr.  19  (Essanav)..'  196 
Alkali  Ike's  Misfortunes — May  31  (Essanav)..  834 
Alkali  Ike's  Mother-ln-Law— May  10  (Essanay)  505 
All  on  Account  of  a  Portrait—July  2  (Edison)   .1392 

Aluiond-Eyed  Maid.  An— May  31  (Edison) S40 

Almost  a   Wild   Man — June  19  (Biograph) 1172 

Alone  in  the  Jungle  (2  parts) — June  14   (Selig)  1276 
ng   tbe    Banks    of    the   Biver   Eure — May    16 

I  I'atheplay  i     g24 

Along  tbe  Nile— June  13  (Edison) ...'.'.".'.'.'' '. '.'. '. .'l068 
Along  the  I!iver  Eure,  France — Apr.  29   (Patbe- 

'      410 

Amateur  Lion-Tamer,  The— Mar  20  (Vltagraph)  780 
Analysis  of   Motion— Apr.   11    (Patheplavf. .  BO 

Ancient  Greece— Apr.   22    (Patheplay) 304 

Auoient  Town  of  Gubblo,  The   (Umbria,  Central 

Italy)— Apr.  IS   (Cines) 196 

Angel  Cake  and  Axle  Grease— Apr.  10  (Lubin)  78 
Augel  of  tbe  Slums,  Tbe— July  3  (Lubin)...       1390 

Anita,  tbe  Orphan — Apr.  15  (Cines) 196 

Anonymous    Love — June    17    (Essanay) 1164 

Antibes    (France),    and    Its    Environs — June    20 

(Patheplay  1    U70 

Ant-Lion.  The — May  6  (Patheplav) .........  508 

Apples  of  Sodom— June  14   (Edison) 1058 

Arabia  and  the  Baby — July  2   (Selig) 13SS 

Arabia   Takes   tbe  Health-Cure — Apr.   25    (Selig)  300 

'Arriet's  Baby — June  21   (Vitagraph) 1164 

Artist's  Dream,   The — June  12   (Patbeplay) ....  !l060 

Artist's  Great  Madonna,  The  (2  parts) Apr    21 

(Vltagraph)    '        300 

Artist's  Sacrifice,   Tbe — May  19   (kalem)!!!  732 

Athens — June  27  (Patheplay) 1280 

Athletics  In  France — June  13  (Patheplay)!!!!     1060 

At  the  Te'.epbone — June  24   (Lubin) 1">7S 

Attorney  for  the  Defense.  The— Jnne  lS(Kaleni')1172 
Aunty  and  the  Girls— May  7  (Edison) 620 

B 

Baby's  New  Pin— Apr.  18  (Lnbin) 194 

Bachelor's    Baby,    Tbe;    or    How    It    All    Hap- 
pened—Tune  9    (Vitagraph) 1050 

Back  to  Primitive — Apr.  21   (Lnbin) 298 

Bandit's  Child,  The— Tune  2   (Kalem) 1054 

Battle    for    Freedom,    The    (2   parts)— May    17 

<  Kalem  1     613 

Beaded  Buckskin  Bag— June  30   (Selig) !!!!.'     1388 

Beating  Mother  to  It— Apr.  IS  (Lubin) 194 

Beau  Crnmmel  and  His  Bride — June  11  (Edison)  .1058 

Beaute  from   Bntte,   The — June  27    (Lubin) 1280 

Beautiful  Lake  Como,  Italy — May  10   (Cines)...  622 

Bebind  a  Mask-^Tune  11   (Eclipse) 1048 

Belle  Boyd— Confederate  Spy,  A— Mav  7   (Selig)  505 

Big  Game— May  21    (Eclipse) 730 

Bill's    Sweetheart— May   3    (Edison) 620 

Singles  and  the  Cabaret— July  1  (Vitagraph).  ..1386 
Bmgles  Mends  the  Clock — May  5  (Vitagraph)..  505 
Birds  and  Animals  of  Brazil — June  6  (Patheplay)  944 

Birthmark.   The — Apr.   26   (Lubin) 298 

Birth  of  a   Butterfly,  The — June  12  (Selig) 1050 

Black  Hand.   The — May  23   (Kalem) 734 

Black  Trackers,    The— May   15    (Melies) 624 

Blame  the  Wife— Apr.  28   (Biograph) 412 

Bob  Builds  a  Boat— June  21   (Lubin) 1166 

Bob  Bnilds  a  Chicken  House — June  5  (Lubin)..  942 

Bob  Buys  an  Auto — June  27  (Lubin) I2T8 

Boosting  Business — May  15   (Essanay) 620 

Borrowed  Plumage — Mav  27  (Cines) 838 

Bragg's    New    Suit— May    21    (Edison) S40 

Bravest      Girl      in      California,      The — Apr.      IS 

(Kalem )     194 

Breed  of   the   West— May  16    (Lubin)!!.!..!!..'  616 

Brightened    Sunsets — Mav    24    (Lubin) 726 

Broken  Vow.  The — (2  parts)— Mav  2  (Cines)  622 
Brother's  Loyalty,   A   (2  parts)— June  20    (Ess- 

„  «°ay )    12je 

Broncho   Billy   and  the   Express   Rider— May   24 

( Essanay  1     704 

Broncho  Billy  and  the  Bustler's  Child— Apr!  26 

I  Essanay  1     300 

Broncho   Billy's  Capture — June  7    (Essanay) 948 

Broncho    Billy's    Grit— May   17    (Essanay) 620 

Broncho    Billy's    Reason — Apr.    12    lEssanav)...     7S 

Broncho  Billys  Strategy— June  2S  (Essanav) 127s 

Brought    to    Bay— Jnne    13    (Kalem ) 1056 

Back  Howard's  Bride — May  14   (Selig) 616 

Bullfight   in   France — May   27    (Patheplay) 842 

Bunny  and  tbe  Bunny  Hug— May  17  (Vitagraph)  618 

Bonny  as  a  Reporter — June  3   (Vltagraph) 944 

Bunny's  Birthday  Surprise — May  19  (Vltagraph)  730 
Bunny's   Dilemma,    Tbe — June  19    (Vltagraph) .  .1164 

Bunny's   Honeymoon — Apr.   7    (Vitagraph) 76 

Bunny  versus  Cutey— May   1    (Vitagraph) 410 


Burglar    Who     Robbed     Death,     The— Apr      80 

(Selig)     406 

Bnrial    of    a    Rich    Chinaman,     The — June    20 

(Patheplay)     m0 

Buried  Treasure.  A— May  1   (Melies) 410 

Buster  Brown,  Tige,   and  Their  Creator,   R    F 

Outcault — May    20    (Essanay) 724 

Butler's  Secret,  The— June  6   (Vitagraph)..!!!'  946 
By   Mutual  Agreement — May  19    (Edison) 838 

O 
California   Oil  Crooks,   The— Apr.   12   (Kalem) 

Canton,    China— Apr.    21    (Selig) 298 

Capers    of   Cupid.    The-^Tune   12    (Vltagraph) !  !l052 

Captain   Mary  Brown— May  3   (Vitagraph) 410 

Captured    by    Strategy— May    28    (Kalem)....!!  S32 
Capture  of  a  Wild   Cat,   The—  Apr.  11    (Edison)     78 

Capture,    The— Apr.    16    (Essanav) 196 

Carrier  Pigeon,  The— Tune  24   (Patheplay) )1280 

Champion    Fixer.    The— Mav    27    (Cines)  838 

Change  of  Administration,  A— (2  parts)— Apr'  5 

'Selig)     jq 

Chateau  of  Blois,  The — (France)— May  6  (Pathe- 
play)      sog 

Chateau   of  Chenonceau,    France,    The — June    10 

(Patheplay)     1060 

Cheyenne     Massacre,     The — (2     parts) — May     9 

(Kalem)    ^q© 

Chicken  Industry,  France  The — Mav  21  (Eclipse)  730 
Child's   Precaution,   A— Mav  2   (Essanay)    .  408 

Chinese  Scenes; — Apr.  29  (Selig)  

Cinderella's  Gloves— Jnne  12  (Essanay)   . ! 1 

Cinders— May    2    (Vitagraph) '.  41,, 

Circle  of  Fate,  The— May  21    (Kalem) 734 

Circumstances  Make  Heroes— June  28  (Edison)  1272 
City  of  Gold,  The— June  25   (Selig)...  lo76 

City   of  Mexico— Apr.    24    (Essanav) '   ioo 

City  of  Rouen,  France.  The— May  20  (Patheplav)   72s 
Civic  Parade.  New  York  City— Tune  is   (E.llsonillTO 
Clarence  at  the  Theater— May   3    (Lubin)..., 
Clarence,  the  Cowboy — .Tune  20  (Patbeplay)  1280 
Cloak   of   Guilt.   The — June   27    (Kalem)  '  1-74 
Cloisonne  Ware — .Tune  28  (Vltagraph)  1272 
Comedy  Team's  Strategy.  The— May  30  (kalem 
Coming  of  Gretchen,   The— Tune   17    (Vitagraph)1164 
Compromising    Complication,    A— Jnne    23    (Bio- 
graph)      12gn 

Concerto  for  the  Violin.  A— Mav  17   (Edison)" 
Coveted  Prize.   The— May  8   (Biograph)    . . .  508 

Cormorant,  The — Apr.  29  (Patheplav)  412 

Consecration  of  a   Buddhist  Priest,'  The— July  '4 

(Patheplay)    '      13M 

Counsellor  Bobby— May  21    (Vitagraph)       730 

Count's    Will.    The— Apr.    26    (Patheplav)    ...'        304 

Coupon  Courtship,  A— Apr.  30  (Kalem)' 

Cousin   Bill— Apr.    30    (Essanay)    408 

Cousin    Jane— Apr.    29    (Essanav)     '4ns 

Crazy  Prospector,  The— Mav  3   (Essanay)   ..  506 

Crooked  Bankers.  The— May  7  (Patbeplay)...  508 
Crossing  Policeman.  The— Apr.  18  (Essanav)..  198 
Crowds  Attending  Gods  in  Temple,  Tokvo.  Japan 

—Apr.   23   (Vitagraph)    ' 

Cupid's  Hired  Man — May  9  (Vltagraph)       .-no 

Cupid's    Lariat— June    20    (Kalem)     1174 

Cupid  Through  the  Keyhole — Mav  24  (Vltagraph)  732 

Cured  of  Her  Love— Apr.  18  (Selig) 19s 

Cure.  The— Apr.  24  (Biograph) '   304 

Curing  a  Would-Be  Aviator— May  24  (Cines).  !  7.10 
Curing  Her  Extravagance — Jnne  25  (Kalem)  '  1274 
Cutey  and  the  Chorus  Girls— Apr.  10  (Vitagraph)     76 

Cutey  Plays  Detective— May  28  (Vitagraph) 834 

Cutey  Tries  Reporting— June  10  (Vltagraph)  105° 
Cuttlefish,  The— Apr.  18  (Patheplay) 200 

D 

Dad's  Little  Girl— Jnne  10  (Selig) 1050 

Dances  of  the  Ages — May  26  (Edison) S40 

Dangerous  Foe.  A — May  29  (Biograph) 838    ■ 

Daughter  of  the  Confederacy,  A— Mav  16  (Selig)  618 
Daylight  Burglar.  The— Apr.  28  (Biograph)   .         41" 

Deacon's  Dilemma,  The— Apr.  25  (Essanay) 300 

Death's  Marathon— June  14  (Biograph) 1060 

Deerslayer.  Tbe  (2  parts)— May  7  (Vitagraph)..  505 
Delayed  Proposals— Jnne  20  (Vitagraph).    .  1104 

Delivering   the  Goods— June  4    (Eclipse) 1048 

Detective  Dot— May  23    (Lnbin) 726 

Detective's  Trap,   Tbe — June  3   (Kalem) !!!l274 

Diamond   Cut  Diamond— Apr.   25    (Lubin)      .  298 

Diamond     Miniature,     The     (2     parts)— May     3 

(Patheplay)  

Disciplining   Daisy— May    7    (Vitagraph)!!!!!!!!  506 

District   Attorney's  Conscience,   The    (2  parts) 

May  21    (Lubin) ...726 

Divided  House,  The — June  26   (Essanay)    1278 

Dividing  Wall,  The — May  7    (Eclipse) 510 

Diving    for   Pearl-Oysters   at   Thursday    Island — 

Jnne   19    (Melies) 1170 

Dixieland— Apr.    16    (Selig) 19s 

Does  Advertising  Pay? — Jnne  14  (Vitagraph)..  1052 
Dollar   Down   Dollar  A    Week — Apr.    23    (Selig)..    298 

Don't  Worry — June  4  (Edison) 1058 

Drama    of   the    French    Revolution — July   5    (Edi- 
son'     1394 

Dredges    and    Farm    Implements   In    the   West — 

June  3   (Patheplay) 944 

Drop  of  Blood,  Tbe— June  18  (Vitagraph) 1164 


Eighth   Notch,   Tbe— Apr.    30    (Kalem) 403 

Embarrassed  Bridegroom,  An— June  6  (Selig)..  940 
End    of    the    Quest,    The    (2    parts)— Apr.    25 

(Lubin)  090 

Evil  One,  The— Apr.  7  I  Lubin )' . .' ! ! .' .' ! ! .' . .['.'.  "-« 

Evil  Thereof,  The— June  20  (Edison) 1170 

Exceeding  the  Time  Limit— May  24  (Cinea) 730 

Excess  Baggage— May  10  (Cines) 022 

Exciting    Honeymoon,    An    (2    parts) — Apr.    26 

(Patheplay)   304 

Ex-Convict's  Plnnge.  Tbe — May  29  (Selig)!!!..  838 
Exposure   of   the  Land    Swindlers,   The    (3   parts,— 

Apr.  1  (Kalem) \ 


Ne'er    Won    Fair    Lady — A«r.    5 


Faint    Heart 

(Cines)    -19$ 

Faith  of  a  G'irl— May  30   (Lubin) 

Fancy  Poultry — June  20  (Selig) 

Fate  of  Elizabeth,  The — .Tunc  12  (Selig) 1050 

Father's  Love,  A — June  19  (Lnbin) 

Fatty's  Busy  Day— May  2   (Kalem) 

Faust   and   the   Lily—July  3    (Biograpb) 

Fear — June    20    (Essanay)' 1134. 

Fighting  Chance,  A— Apr.  26  (Vitagraph) 

Fighting  Chaplain,    Tbe — Apr.    26    (Kalem) . . . 

Fighting  Lieutenant.   The — June   20    (Selig) 1166 

Fight  to  a  Finish,  A— June  30  (Kalem) 1386 

Held  Sports,  Hong  Kong,  China-June  27   (Vita 

graph)     

Final   Judgment,    The    (2    parts) — June   9 

anay)   

Fire-Fighting  Zouaves.  The— Apr.  19  (Kalem)...  196 
Fire  of  Vengeance.  The— Apr.   51    (Patheplav) 

Fixing  Auntie  Dp—May  3  (Lubin) 406 

Flag  of  Two  Wars.    A— June  3    iSelig) 940 

Florida  Romance.    I— Apr.  10   (Lnbin)  194 

Fly,    The — June    28    (Edison) 1274 

Food    Inspection — May    16    (Kalem) 613 

Forgotten — Apr.  26  (Cines) 408 

Forgotten  Latchkey.  The-— Tune  7  (Vitagraph)...  946 
For  His  Child's  Sake — Apr  19   (Cine.  106 

For  His  Child's  Sake — Apr.  8  (Lubin) 7< 

For  Mayor — Bess   Smith— June   14    (Patheplay) .  .1062 
Fortune    Smiles    (Being    the    Twelfth    and    Last 

Story    of   "What    Happened    to    Mary")— Tune 

27    (Edison) 1272 

Fortune,  The — Apr.   15  (Vitagraph) !!!!!!!   102 

Foster  Brothers,  The — May  29  (Melies) 

Found  Out — Apr.   10   (Essanay) 78 

Four-footed  Detective,  A— Apr.   23   (Eclipse) 410 

Frappe  Love— May  S  (Biograph  1 506 

Frightful   Blunder.   A— Apr.   17    (Biograph) 

From  Ignorance  to  Light — June  21  (Lubin) 116S 

Fruit  of  Suspicion.  The — Apr.   2   (Eclipse) 19S 

Fugitive  at  Bay.  A  (2  parts)— Apr.  16  (Ciues)..  408 
'  Fugitive.   The— May   28   (Patheplay) M2 


G'ala    Day    Parade,    Yokohama,    Japan— Apr.    21 

(Vitagraph)     

Gamble  With  Death,  A— June  30  (Biograph) 1394 

General   Scott's  Protege — May   3    (Patbeplay)...  412 
Gentleman's   Gentleman,    A— July   4    (Edison). 
German  Cavalry  Maneuvers — Apr.  30  (Eclipse)..  4"S 
Get-Rich-Quick    Billlngton — June  7    (Patheplay  1 .  044 

Girl  and  the  Judge,  The— May  27   (Selig) 836 

Girl   Back  East,   The — May  2    (Lubin) 406 

Girl  Spy    in     Mexico.     A     |2    parts) — May     10 

( Lubin)    504 

Glimpses  of  Colorado  in  winter — May  21    (Edi- 
son)      840 

Glimpses     of     the     National     Capital — Apr.     17 

(Patheplay)     200 

God   Is  Love — Apr.   10  (Patheplay) 

God's  Way— Apr.  15  (Selig) 198 

Going  to  Meet  Papa — May  23   (Vitagraph) 732 

G'old  and  the  Gilded  Way — May  22  (Melies) T^s 

Gold  Brick,  The — June  10  (Selig) iir.6 

Golden    Wedding.    The — May  9   (Edison) 620 

Good  in  the  Worst  of  Us,  The— May  20  (Edison) .  S40 
Good  in  the  Worst  of  Us.  The — May  30  (Essanav  1  834 
Governor  Johnson  of  California — June  16  (Kaleni(1172 
Governor's     Double,     The     (2     parts) — June     13 

(Patheplay)     1062 

Grand  Canyon.   The — May    12    (Vltagraph) (lis 

Grandpa's  Rejuvenation — Apr.  30  (Eclipse) 40S 

Granny— Apr.    29    (Lubin) 406 

Great  Pearl,  The — .Tune  7   (Lnbin) 

Groundless   Suspicion — May  2    (Edison) 620 

Gulf  of  Togullo,  Northern  Italy— May  17  (Cines  i 
Gypsy's  Brand,  The — Jnne  14  (Kalem) 1036 


Easy  Payments — June  25   (Essanay) 127S 

Egyptian  Mummy,  The— May  23  (kalem) 784 


Hankow,  China— Apr.  15  (Selig) 198 

Happy  Home,  The— Apr.  12  (Patbeplay) sj 

House  Count.  The— Mav  0  (Kalem) 510 

Hatching    Chickens— May    6    (Selig) 503 

Hattie's  New  Hat— May  S  (Lubin) 

Haunted    House.    The — Apr.   2S   (Kalem) 

Heart  of  an  Actress.  The — May  5  (Kalem) 

Heart  of  Mrs.   Robins,   The — June  5   (Vltagraph)  946 

Heart  of  Steel.  A— Apr.  22  (Cines) 408 

Heart  of   Valeska.   The — May  12    lEdlson) 62t> 

Hearts  of   the   First   Empire    (2  parts) — Apr.    2S 
(Vltagraph)    410 

He  Had   a    Guess     Coming — Apr.    14    (Biograph)..    200 

He  Would   Fix  Things — June  18   (Edison) 1172 

Her   Atonement — .Tune   30    (  Lubin) 

Her  Husband's   Picture — July   1    (Lubin) 


IV 


TtfE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


Her  Guardian— May  8  (Sellg) 60S 

Her  Masked  Beauty   (2  parts) — May  14    (Pathe- 

play)    

Her  Mother's  Ambition— May  8   (Patheplay) 508 

Her  Mother's  Oath — June  28    (Biograph) 1280 

Her  Royal  Higbness — Juae  21   (Edison) 1170 

Her    Sweetest    Memory— Jane    26 1270 

Hero  Among  Men   (2  parts) — June  9   (Lubin) ..  .1168 

Hieksvllle  Epicure,  The — May  22  (Biograph) 726 

Hidden  Life  in  Seaweed— Apr.  29  (Patheplay)..  412 

Hidden  Witness,  The— July  5  (Kalem) 13S6 

Highbrow  Love — May  26  (Biograph) 838 

High  Tide  of  Misfortune,  The  (What  Happened 

to  Mary,   No.   10)— Apr.  25  (Edison) 302 

Hilda    Wakes — June   IS    (Essanay) 1164 

Hiram  Buys  an  Auto — Apr.  29  (Selig) 406 

His  Father's  Deputy— May  19   (Selig) 724 

His  First  Experience — May  23  (Lubin) 726 

His  House  in  Order;  or.  The  Widower's  Quest — 

June  11    (Vitagraph) 1052 

His  Life  for  His  Emperor — May  16  (Vitagraph)  618 
His  Lordship's  Romance — June  11   (Patheplay) .  .1060 

His  Mother's  Son— May  31   (Biograph) 838 

His  Niece  from   Ireland — July  5    (Lubin) 1392 

His  Redemption— June   20    (Lubin) 1168 

His  Tired  Uncle — June  12   (Vitagraph) 1052 

His  Undesirable  Relatives— Apr.  23  (Edison) 300 

Historic    New    York— July   2    (Kalem) 1386 

Home   of   Terns,    The    (Australian    Sea-Birds) — 

Mav  1    (Melies) 410 

Horse  on  Bill,  A— Apr.  14  (Biograph) 200 

House  of  Darkness,  The — May  10  (Biograph)...  508 

How  Blossom   Opens — June   24    (Patheplay) 1280 

How  Chief  Te  Ponga  Won  His  Bride — Apr.   24 

(Melies)    304 

How  Did  it  Finish ?— June  25  (Edison) 1272 

Hulda  of  Holland— Apr.  21  (Edison) 300 

Human  Vulture,  The  (2  parts) — May  30  (Pathe- 
play)       842 

Hundred  Dollar  Elopement,  The — May  5  (Edison)  620 
Hunger  of  the  Heart,  The — June  25  (Patheplay). 1180 
Hustand's  Trick,  A— May  30   (Vitagraph) 834 

I 
If  Dreams  Came  True:   or,  Who'd  Have  Thnnk 

It  '—May  31   (Vitagraph) 836 

If  We  Only  Knew — May  1  (Biograph) 412 

Indelible  Stain,   The— May  28   (Eclipse) 1048 

Indestructible  Mr.  Jenks.  The — Apr.  11  (Kalem)     82 

Indian   Summer— May   22    (Selig) 724 

Infamous  Don  Miguel,  The — May  24  (Kalem) ...  734 

Infernal  Tangle,  An— June  13  (Vitagraph) 1052 

Innocent  Informer,  An — Apr.  22  (Edison) 300 

In  Diplomatic  Circles — June  26   (Biograph) 12S0 

In  God  We  Trust— July  3  (Sellg) 13SS 

In  Somaliland— May  27   (Cines) 838 

Inspection  of    the   Quebec    Police — May   7    (Vita- 
graph)        506 

In  the  Days  of  War  (2  parts)— Apr.  12   (Pathe- 

plav)    198 

In  the  Days  of  Witchcraft— May  9  (Selig) 505 

In  the  Forest  of  Cochin-China — May  27    (Pathe- 

plav)    842 

In  the   Good  Old   Summer  Time — Apr.   22    (Vita- 
graph)     

In  the  Grip  of  a  Charlatan — Apr.   7    (Kalem)..     82 

In  the  Harem  of  Haschem — Apr.  28  (Lubin) 403 

In  the  Long  Ago  Days— May  15   (Selig) 616 

In  the  Tyrolese  Alps,  Austria — May  21  (Eclipse)  730 
In  the  Valley  of  Vesubie.  France— May  9  (Pathe- 
play)      508 

Into  the  North  (2  parts) — May  19  (Essanay) ...  724 

Ironr  of  Fate,  The — June  3   (Cines) 1048 

Italian  Bride,  The— Apr.  16  (Patheplay) 200 

Interesting     Scenes     Abroad — Laradello      (Boric 

A.id  Works)— May  31    (Cines) 1048 

Itinerant  Wedding,  An — May  15  (Patheplay) 624 

J 
Jack's  Chrysanthemum — June  26  (Vitagraph) ..  .1270 
Japanese     Dagger,     The,      (2     parts) — May     12 

(Eclipse)    "SO 

Japan,    The    Industrial— Apr.    25    (Kalem) 304 

Jealous   Husband.   A — June  3    (Lubin) 940 

Jealousy — May  23    (Essanay) 724 

Jealousy    of    Miguel    and    Isabella,     The — June 

13     (Selig)      1050 

Jelly   Fish,    The — May    16    (Patheplay) 624 

Jenks    Becomes    a     Desperate     Character — June 

9      (Biograph)      1060 

Jerrv's   Rebellion— May    3    (Cines) 40S 

Jockey    for   Love,    A— May   20    (Patheplay) 728 

John  Burns  of  Gettysburg— May  31  (Kalem!..  832 
John    Mardy's    Awakening— May    16     (Edison)..  838 

Jones  Goes  Shopping— Apr.   14   (Edison) 192 

Joy  Bide,  The — July  3    (Patheplay) 1394 

Judgment  of  the  Deep,  The— May  fi  (Lubin) 504 

Jurv's    Verdict,    The — June   21    (Patheplay) 1170 

Just    Gold— May   24    (Biograph) 728 

Just  Kids— June  5  (Biograph) 944 

E 

Kate,    the    Cop — June    5    (Lubin) 942 

Keeping   Tab    on    Sammy — Apr.    12    (Cines) 196 

Kentish      Coast,       The,       (England)  —  Apr.       9 

(Eclipse)      198 

Kentuckv  Derby  at  Churchill  Downs,  The — June 

23    (Selig) 12JJ 

Kidnapping  Father— May  20   (Lubin) 726 

King  and  the  Copper,  The— May  12  (Biograph) .  624 
Knight  of  Cyclone  Gulch,  The— June  25  (Kalem). 12. 4 

L 

Ladv  and  Her  Maid.  A.   (No.  4  of  "The  Belinda 

Series")— May    22     (Vitagraph) 732 

Ladv  and  the  Mouse.  The — Apr.   26  (Biograph).  304 

Last   Shot.   The — June  5    (Essanay) 946 

Law   and   the   Outlaw,   The.    (2   parts)— June   4 

(Selig)         1166 

Laying  a  Marine  Cable— Apr.  11   (Vitagraph) ...     76 


Left-Handed  Man,  The — Apr.  21  (Biograph)...  304 
Legend  of  Lovers  Leap,  The— June  9   (Lubin).  .1048 

Leopard    Tamer,    The — May    20    (Selig) 724 

Lesson  to  Mashers,  A — Apr.  10  (Biograph)....  80 
Let  No  Man  Put  Asunder — June  3    (Essanay)..  946 

Letter's   Mission,   The — May   21    (Essanay) 724 

Lieutenant    Jones — May    13    (Selig) 616 

Lion's  Bride,   The — June  23   (Vitagraph) 1270 

Liquid   Air — May   2    (Patheplay) 412 

Little  Mother,   The — Apr.  11    (Essanay) 78 

Little   Tease,    The— Apr.    12    (Biograph) 80 

Locust,  The — Apr.  11   (Patheplay) 

Lonedog,   the  Faithful— May  31   (Lubin) 834 

Longing   for  Mother — May   15    (Lubin) 616 

Love   and    War   in    Mexico,    (2   parts)— May   28 

(Lubin)     832 

Love   in    the  Ghetto— Apr.   24    (Selig) 300 

Love  Test,  The— June  28  (Lubin) 12S0 

Love,    the    Winner— Apr.    23    (Selig) 298 

Love's  Old,  Sweet  Song— June  21   (Edison) 1272 

Love's    Quarantine — July    5     (Vitagraph) 1388 

Lucky  Cohen— May   12    (Lubin) 613 

Lure  of  the  Sacred  Pearl,  The — June  19  (Melies)1172 

M 

Magic  Shoes,  The — Apr.     10     (Lnbin) 298 

Magic  Shoes.  The— Apr.    10    (Selig) So 

Maid  and  the  Yarn,  The— May  24   (Cines) 730 

Making    Birch    Brooms — Apr.    9    (Eclipse) 198 

Man   From   the   West,    A— Apr.   18    (Edison) 300 

Man's    Greed    for   Gold— May    14    (Kalem) 613 

Man  Who  Wouldn't  Marry— Apr.  12  (Edison)..  80 
Maoris  of  New  Zealand,  The — Apr.   10   (Melies).     78 

Margaret's   Painting — May   19    (Lubin) 726 

Market  in  Kabylia,    Algeria.    A — June   3    (Pathe- 
play)         944 

Marshal's  Capture.  The — June  24   l  Selig  I 1276 

Mary    Stuart.     c3    parts) — June    21    (Edison) 1172 

Max's    First    Job — June    10    (Patheplay) l«GO 

Merer    Merrick — June    6    (Edison) 1058 

Mexican's  Defeat.  The — Apr.  30  (Patheplay)...  412 
Midget's  Revenge.  The — May  23  (Vitagraph)..  732 
Midnight  Bell.  A.  (2  parts  I— May  5  (Selig)..  616 
Millionaire's  Playground.  The — Apr.  18  (Kalem)  196 
Miner's   Destiny,   The    (Special.   2  parts) — July   5 

(Patheplay)     1394 

Minnie.    The    Widow — Apr.    14    (Lubin) 194 

Miracle  of  the  Roses.The — July  1  (Patheplay) ..  1394 
Miser's      Millions.      The.      (3      parts)— Apr.     23 

l  Cines)      510 

Mister  Jefferson  Green— June  23   (Biograph) 1280 

Misunderstood  Boy.  A — Apr.  19  (Biograph)...  200 
Missionarv's  Triumph,  The— July  2   (Patheplay). 1394 

Mixed    Affair.    A— May    6    (Cines) 622 

Mixed    Identities — Apr.    21     (Vitagraph) 302 

Mock    Marriage.    A— May    9     (Lubin) 504 

Modern   Garrick,   A — July  5    (Patheplay) 1394 

Modern    Progress    in    Somaliland,     (East    Africa) 

—Apr.    5    (Cines) 196 

Modern  Psyche,   A — June  4   (Vitagraph) 946 

Montreal,   Quebec   and   Halifax — May  9    (Pathe- 
play)       508 

Monnments     and     Cascades    of     Rome — June     20 

(Patheplay)     1170 

Mothering  Heart,  The,    (2  parts) — June  21    (Bio- 
graph)       H72 

Mrs.    Hilton's    Jewels — .Tune    10    (Selig) 1166 

Mr.     Mintern's    Misadventures — Apr.     14     (Vita- 
graph)          19(3 

Mr.  Horatio  Spakins — May  13   (Vitagraph) 618 

Mvsterious  Stranger.   The — June  13    (Essanay) ..  1056 
Mystery    of    the    Stolen    Child — Apr.    12    (Vita- 
graph)            76 

Mvsterv    of    the    Stolen    Jewels.    The — Apr.    22 
(Vitagraph)      302 

N 

Native    Industries   of   Java — June    5    (Melies)..  942 

Nearlv   in  .Mourning — June   12    (Lubin) 1050 

New    Arrival.    The—  Apr.    29    (Clues) 408 

Newcomli's     Necktie — Mav     28     (Edison) 840 

New    Pupil.    The — Apr.    15    (Edison) 192 

New    Sheriff,    The — May    27     (Essanay) 834 

Night    Birds — Mav    23     (Patheplay) 728 

Xoisv    Six.    The— May    23     (Selig) 724 

No  Sweets— June  24   (Vitagraph) 1270 

O 
O'Hara    and    the    Youthful    Prodigal— Apr.    28 

(Vitagraph)     410 

Olaf— An     Atom— May     19     (Biograph) 728 

Old    Actor.     An— May    5    (Selig) 504 

Old   Jim— Apr.    8    l  Edison) 78 

Old  Maid's  Deception,  An — July  3  (Biograph) .  .1394 
Old    Women    of    the    Streets    of    New    York — 

May    2     (Kalem) 403 

Omens    and    Oracles — May    6    (Vitagraph) 505 

One  Can't  Always  Tell— May  31   (Vitagraph)...  836 
One  Good  Joke  Deserves  Another — June  27  (Vita- 
graph)     1270 

One  on     Romance — Apr.     14     (Lnbin) 194 

One  Over    on    Cutey— June    28    (Vitagraph) 1272 

Onlv  Veteran  in  Town.  The— May  29  (Vitagraph)  S34 

On  the  Brink  of  Ruin— Jnne  21    (Kalem) 1174 

On  the  Job — May  28  (Essanay) 834 

On   the   Nebi    River    (Somaliland.    East  Africa) — 

Apr.    15    (Cines) 196 

Open    Secret,    The.     (2    parts)— May    23    (Pathe- 

plsy)       728 

Orhetello    and    Pnvirnns — June    7     (Cines) 10'S 

Orphan.     The — Apr.     29     (Edison) J"3 

Othello    in    Jonesvllle— June    9    (Edison) 1058 

Other  Woman  The — June  26   (Lubin) 1278 

Our   Feathered    Friends — Apr.    25    (Patheplay) . . 

Outlaw's    Love,    The — June    19    (Patheplay*) 1170 

Outlaw.    The — Apr.    23     (Patheplay! 304 

Out  of  the  Beast    a     Man    Was    Born — June    17 

(Lubin)     11RS 

Out  of  the  Jaws  of  Death— June  28  (Kalem) .  .1274 
Out  of  the  Storm— Apr.    9     (Vitagraph) 76 


P 

Padre's    Strategy,    The— May    13    (Lubin) 61* 

Panama  Canal  Today,  The — Apr.  30  (Patheplay)  412 

Papa's  Dream — June  26   (Selig) 1276 

Papita's   Destiny— June    13    (Lubin) 1050 

Parting  Eternal— May  1   (Patheplay; 412 

Patchwork  Quilt— July  1   (Edison) 1392 

Pathe's  Weekly,   No.  14,  1913— Mar  31    (Pathe- 
play)          80 

Pathe's  Weekly,  No.   16,  1913— Apr.     7   (Pathe- 
play)       198 

Pathe's  Weekly,   No.  16,  1913— Apr.   14   (Pathe- 
play)        302 

Pathe's  Weekly,  No.  17,  1913 — Apr.  21   (Pathe- 
play)         412 

Pathe's   Weekly,    No.    18,   1913,   Apr.   28    (Pathe- 
play)        50S 

Pathe's  Weekly,   No.  19,  1913— May     5  (Pathe- 
play)       624 

Pathe's  Weekly,  No.  20,   1913 — Mav  12   (Pathe- 
play)       72S 

Pathe's  Weekly,   No.  21,  1913 — May  19   (Pathe- 
play)          S42 

Pathe's  Weekly,   No.  22,  1913— Mav  26— (Pathe- 
play)        944 

Pathe's   Weekly,    No.   23,  1913 — June   2    (Pathe- 
play)      1060 

Pathe's  Weekly,   No.   24,    1913Wune  9   (Pathe- 
play)       1168 

Pathe's   Weekly,    No.   2S-^Iune  30    i  Patheplay  i. 
Pathe's    Weekly    No.    29-^Iuly      3    (Patheplay  i. 

Pat,    the  Cowboy — May   16    (Kalem  l 613 

Pawnbroker's  Daughter,   The — June   11    (Kalem!. 1054 

Pawned    Bracelet,    The — Apr.    15    (Lubin) 194 

Paymaster,   The — May   10   (Lubin) 613 

Pedro's    Treachery — May    5    (Lubin ) 504 

Penalty    of    Crime,     The     (2     parts)^June    30 

(Lubin)     

Penalty  of  Jealousy,   The — June  6   (Lubin) 942 

People   of   Somaliland,    East   Africa,    The — Mav 

10     (Cines)      622 

Percy's  Wooing — June  7    (Kalem) 1054 

Perilous    Ride,    A— May    22    (Lubin) 726 

Pete  Tries  the  Stage — Apr.   12   (Lubin) 78 

Philip  March's  Engagement — June  6   (Essanay).   »48 

Phoney  Singer,  The — Apr.   25   (Kalem) 304 

Picturesque    Journey    in    Western    France,    A — 

Apr.     30     (Eclipse)     408 

Piso  (Italy)  and  Its  Curious  Monuments — July  4 

(Patheplay)     1394 

Places  of  Interest  in  Colorado — June  13   (Pathe- 
play)       1062 

Playing    With    Fire — Apr.    18    (Vitagraph) 192 

Plot  for  a  Million,  A— Apr.  16  (Kalem) 194 

Poet   and  the  Soldier,  The — May  17    (Kalem)..  613 

Post-Impressionists,    The — May    12    (Selig) 616 

Power   of   the   Cross,    The,    (2    parts)— Apr.    18 

(Lubin)      194, 

Power  That   Rules,   The — Apr.    24    i  Vitagraph ).  302 

Price  of  Silence,   The — May  21    (Patheplay) 728 

Pride  of  Innocence,  The — Apr.  19  (Patheplay  p.  200 
Professor's  Predicament,  The— Jane  12  (Lnbin).  1050 

Professor   William    Nutt — Jnne   2    (Edison) 1056 

Prophecy,   The — May   13    (Edison) 622 

Prophecy,  The — May  7   (Essanay) 505 

Pursuit  of  the  Smugglers,  The — Apr.  9  (Kalem).  82 
Puttin'  It  Over  on  Papa — May  10  (Patheplay).  508 
Pyramids   and   the   Sphinx— June  23    (Edison) .  .1272 

Q 

Queen  of  Spades,  The,  (2  parts)— Apr.  7  (Cines).  196 

B 

Race   to   New    York,    A,    ("What   Happened   to 

Mary,"    No.   11)— May  23    (Edison) 840 

Rag-Time  Romance,  A — Apr.  24  (Biograph) ....  304 
Raiders    from    Double    L    Ranch,    The — July    2 

(Kalem)     1386 

Rainy    Day,    A — May    12    (Biograph) 624 

Ranchero's  Revenge,  The — Jnne  2   (Biograph) . .  944 

Ranch    Fend,    The — Jnne    14    (Essanay) 1056 

Ranch    Girl's   Partner,   The — May   13    (Essanay)  618 
Red     Hicks    Denes    the    World^une    9     (Bio- 
graph)      1060 

Redskin's    Mercy,    A — May    14    (Patheplay) 624 

Red    Wins — May   20    (Cines) 728 

Regiment  of  Two,  A,   (2  parts)— June  11  (Vita- 
graph)      10W 

Relics    of    Ancient    Rome — May    13    (Cines) 622 

Religion    and    Gun    Practice — May    26    (Sellg) . .  836 

Reluctant    Cinderella,    A — Apr.    30    (Edison) 403 

Retribution— May    17     (Lubin) 616 

Reward   of   Service,    The — May    2fi    (Lubin) 832 

Rhodes.   (Asiatic  Turkey) — June  17  (Patheplay). 1170 

Rice  Industry  in  Java,  The — July  3  (Melies) 1394 

Right   for   Right's   Sake — Jnne   3    (Edison) 1058 

Right  of  Way,   The — May   22    (Patheplay) 728 

Right    Road,    The — Apr.    17    (Lubin) 194 

Ring,    The — June    7    (Cines) 1048 

Rise    and    Fall    of    McDoo,    The — June    19    (Bio- 
graph)      1172 

Rival  Engineers,  The  (2  parts) — .Tune  16  (Clnesl.1280 

Rival  Lovers,     The — May     3     (Cines) 408 

Rival  Salesmen,    The — Apr.    23    (Essanay) 300 

River  Clyde  at  Lanark,    Scotland,    The — Apr.    8 

(Patheplay)     80 

River  Pirates,   The — May  10    (Kalem) 510 

Robert   Hale's    Ambition— Apr.    S    (Selig) 80 

Rocky  Mountains  In  Winter,  The — Apr.  14   (Edi- 
son)          102 

Romance  by   the   Sea,    A— Apr.    8    (Cines) 196 

Romance  of    the    Ozarks,    A— May    29    (Lubin)..   SS2 

Rose   of   Mav.    The— June   11    (Sellg) 10T4) 

Roses  of   Yesterday — Apr.    28    (Selig) 406 

Roughing    the   Cob — Jnne    30    (Vitagraph) I"fc6 

Rnbe  and  the  Boob,  The — Jnne  9    (Kalem) ...  .1054 

Rule   Thyself — Apr.    11    (Edison) "8 

Rustic  Hearts— June  23  (Lubin) 1278 

Rustler's   Spur,    The — June   19    (Essanay) 1164 


THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


s 

Sacrifice,    The— June    18    (Patheplay) 1170 

Sallie's  Sore  Shot — July  4    (Selig) 1390 

Same  Old  Story,  The — May  14    (Essanay) 618 

Saragossa — May    16    iPatheplay) 624 

SaTing    Lie,    The — June    4    (Patheplay) 944 

Scenes     Along     the     Pescara     River     (Central 

Italy),     Apr.     S     (Cines) 196 

Scenes  and   Rules  Near  Rome — Apr.  29   (Cines).  408 

Scenes    in    Manila — May    29    (Selig) 838 

Scheme    of    Shiftless    Sam    Smith,    The — June    9 

(Kalem)     ) 1054 

School   of    Gymnastics — Apr.    IS    (Patheplay) ...  .200 

School    Principal,    The — Apr.    24 — (Lubln) 298 

Scimitar  of  the  Prophet,  The — Apr.   11    (Kalem)     82 

Sea   Maiden,    The — May    10   (Vltagraph) 606 

Second   Shot,    The — June   2S    (Patheplay) 1280 

Secret   Marriage,  The — Apr.   23    (Kalem) 304 

Seeds  of  Silver— Apr.   22    (Selig) 298 

Seeing  Double — Apr.  19  (Vitagraph) 194 

Seven    Years    Bad    Luck — Apr.    16    (Edison) 300 

Shadowgraph  Message,  The — June  10   (Essanay). 1056 

She  Must  Be   Ugly— May   S   (Lubin) 504 

Shenandoah  (Special,  3  parts) — July  4  (Kalem) .  .1386 

Sheriffs   Wife,    The — Apr.   9    (Essanay) 78 

Shooting  the   Rapids  of  the  Pagsanjan  River  In 

Philippine    Islands — June    16    (Selig) 

Shotgun   Man   and   the  Stage-Driver,   The — Apr. 

9     (Selig)     80 

Shower   of    Slippers,    A — Apr.    7    (Edison) 78 

Signal.    The — July   5    (Edison) 

Silence   for  Silence — June   16    (Lubin) 1166 

Silver     Cigarette    Case,     The — June     16     I  Vita- 
graph)     1164 

Sleuthing — Apr.    17    (Vitagraph ) 192 

Slight   Mistake.    A— Apr.    22    (Lubin) 298 

Slippery   Slim    Repents — June   5    (Biograph) 944 

Smoked    to   a    Finish — June   20    (Kalem) 1174 

Snap-Shot,  The — Apr.    8    (Biograph! 80 

Snare  of  Fate,   The    (3  parts) — June  23    (Vita- 
graph)      1270 

Sneak,    The — Apr.    21    (Kalem) 304 

Some    Chicken — May    1     (Selig) 406 

Some  Spots  in  and  Around  Los  Angeles,  Cal. — 

June   4    (Edison) 105S 

Songs  of  Truce — July   1    (Selig) 1388 

Song  Bird  of  the  North,  The — July  2  (Vitagraph)1388 

Sorrowful  Shore,   The — July  5   (Biograph) 1394 

Soul   In  Bondage,   A— May  15    (Vitagraph) 618 

Spider    Which    Lives    In    a    Bubble,    The — May 

30    (Patheplay)    842 

Splendid  Scapegrace,   A — Apr.   26   (Edison) 302 

Split    Nugget,    The — Apr.    11    (Lubin) 78 

Sponge  Industry  in  Cuba,  The — Apr.  17  (Pathe- 
play i     200 

Spotted    Elephant    Hawk    Moth,    The — June    27 

(Patheplay)     1280 

Souawman's   Awakening,    The — May  31    (Pathe- 
play)         842 

Star.   The — June   11    (Essanay) 1056 

Still    Voice,    The,     (2    parts) — May    24     (Vita- 
graph)       732 

Stolen  Bride,    The — Apr.    7    (Biograph) 80 

Stolen  Claim,    The— June    12    (Melies) 1060 

Stolen  Loaf,    The — May    16    (Biograph) 624 

Stolen  Melody,    The— May    21    (Selig) . . .  , 724 

Story  the  Desert  Told,  The — May  1   (Essanay).  408 

Storv  of  the  Bell,  The — June  30  (Edison) 1392 

6treak    of    Yellow,    A— Apr.    14    (Kalem) 194 

Street    Scenes    of    Yokohama,    Japan — Apr.    29 

(Vitagraph)     410 

Stronger   Sex,   The— Apr.    25    (Vitagraph) 302 

Struggle,  The  (2  parts) — June  25   (Kalem) 1274 

Sultan's   Dagger.    The — June   26    (Melies) 1274 

Sultan  of  Sulu,  The — July  2   (Selig) 1388 

Sunshine    Sue — Apr.    22     (Lubin) 298 

Sowanee    River,    The — June   5    (Selig) 940 

Sweeney  and   the  Fairy — June  9   (Selig) 1050 

Sweet  Deception— July  3   (Vitagraph) 1388 

Switch-Tower,    The — June    16     (Biograph) 1172 

T 

Tahitian  Fish   Drive,    A— Apr.    17    (Melies) 200 

Taming  a   Tenderfoot — June   17    (Selig) 1166 

Tananarive,    Madagascar — June    6    (Patheplay) .  .944 
Tandjong   Priok,    The   Harbor  of  Java's  Capital, 

Batavia— May    29     (Melies) 838 

Tango  Tangle,    A — May    6    (Essanay) 505 

Tattle    Battle.    The— May    20    (Selig) 724 

Ten-Acre    Gold    Brick.    A— May    12    (Lubln) 613 

Tenderfoot's   Money,    The — May   5    (Biograph) . .  506 
Terror  of  Conscience,  The — June  6    (Kalem) ...  .1054 

That    Mail   Order   Suit— Apr.    18    (Selig) 198 

Their  Babv — Mav  29   (Essanay) 834 

Their  Stepmother— May    2    (Selig) 406 

There's     Music     In     the     Hair— Apr.     23     (Vita- 
graph)       302 

Three   to  One — June  3    (Vitagraph) 

Through      Many     Trials,      (2     parts) — Apr.      30 

i  Lubin)     406 

Thwarted    Plot.    The — Apr.    24    (Patheplay) 304 

Tie  of  the  Blood.  The— Apr.  17   (Selig) 198 

Tiger  Uly,  The  (2  partsl-^luly  2  (Vitagraph) ..  1386 

Timely   Interception,    A — June   7    (Biograph) 944 

Toll  of  Fear,  The.    (2  parts) — Apr.  9   (Lubin)..     78 
Tombs    of    the    Ming    Emperors,    The — Apr.    10 

(Selig)    „ 

Tommy's    Atonement — Apr.    10    (Selig) 80 

Too   Much    Panel   Post— Apr.    9    (Patheplay) 

Tootheache — May    9     i  Kalem ) 510 

Tour    Through    Touraine.     A — June    17     (Pathe- 

plav',      116S 

Tragedy    of    Big    Eagle    Mine.    The,     (2    parts) 

June    7     (Kalem) 940 

Transition,   The — Apr.   S    (Vitagraph) 76 

Translation  of  a  Savage,   The — May  24  (Edison!  840 
Transportation      Methods      in      Java — May      30 

(Patheplay)     842 

Trapper's     Mistake,     The     i2    parts)— June    28 

.Tatheplay)     1280 


Tricks  of   the   Trade — May    27    (Patheplay) 834 

Trimmers  Trimmed,   The — May  26    (Biograph)..   838 

Trip  on   the  Seine,   A— Apr.   25    (Patheplay) 304 

Trip   Through    the    North   Island   of    New    Zea- 
land, A  (From  Auckland  to  Wellington) — May 

8  (Melies)    506 

Trip    to   the    Waitomo   Caves   of   New   Zealand, 

A — Apr.     24     (Melies)      304, 

Twelfth  Juror,  The — Apr.  19  (Edison) 300 

Twin    Brothers,    The — June    17    (Edison) 1170 

Two   Little    Kittens — June   lu    (Edison) 1068 

Two  Merchants,  The — May  14   (Edison) 822 

Two's     Company     Three's     a     Crowd— Apr.     29 

(Vitagraph)    410 

Two  Social  Calls — May  16   (Essanay) 620 

Two  Souls    With    But    a    Single    Thought— May 

14     (Vitagraph)     730 

Two  Western   Paths — May   8    (Essanay) 505 

V 

Unburled    Past,    The — Apr.    22    (Essanay) 300 

"Uncle     Tom's     Cabin"     Troupe,     An — Apr.     10 

(Biograph)      80 

Unknown,  The — Apr.  17   (Essanay) 196 

Unwilling  Separation,  An — May  27  (Edison)..  840 
Unwritten  Chapter,  An-^Iuly  4  (Vitagraph) ..  .1388 
Up  and  Down  the  Ladder— May  26    (Vitagraph)  834 

Up-to-Date    Aviator,    An — Apr.    9    (Eclipse) 198 

Uses   of   Dynamite   by    D.    S.    Engineering    Corps 

—May    1    (Vitagraph)    410 

V 

Value    of   Mothers-in-Law,    The — June   4    (Essa- 
nay)       946 

Vampire    of    the    Desert,    The    (2    parts) — May 

16    (Vitagraph)     618 

Veil  of  Sleep,  The — May  1    (Lubin) 406 

Vengeance   is    Mine — Apr.    7    (Selig) 80 

Victim  of  Deceit,  A — July  4   (Kalem) 1386 

Victim    of   Heredity,    A — May    26    (Kalem) 832 

Views  in   Liege,    Belgium — Apr.   26    (Cines) 408 

Views   of   Samarang^Tune    12    (Meiles) 1060 

Violet   Dare,    Detective — June   10    (Lubin) 1048 

Vltagraphers    at    Kama    Kura— May    19    (Vita- 
graph)       730 

W 

Waiter's  Strategy,   The— July  4   (Lubin) 1390 

Wamba,    a    Child    of    the    Jungle,     (2    parts) — 

May     26     (Selig) 836 

Wanderer,    The — May  3    (Biograph) 4a2 

Wanted,   A  Strong  Hand— Apr.   11    (Vitagraph).     76 

Wardrobe   Lady,   The — Apr.  8    (Essanay) 78 

Wayward   Son,    The — May    3    (Kalem) 403 

Weaker      Mind,      The,       (2      parts)— June      18 

(Lubln)      1168 

Web.   The,    (2  parts)— Apr.   11    (Vitagraph) 76 

Welded    Friendship,    A — May   6    (Selig) 604 

Well  Sick    Man,    The — Apr.    9    (Edison) 78 

Well,  The — June     12     (Biograph) 1060 

What  God  Hath  Joined  Together— June  2  (Vita- 
graph)       944 

Western   Romance,    A — June   27    (Selig) 1276 

What  Happened   to    Mary    No.    10,    (High   Tide 

of   Misfortune,   The) — Apr.    26   (Edison) 302 

"What    Happened    to    Mary."    No.    12    &    Last 

(Fortune   Smiles) — June    27    (Edison) 1272 

What  Happened  to  Mary  No.  11,   (Race  to  New 

York,    AL— May    23    (Edison) 840 

What    is  Sauce  for  the  Goose — Apr.  17  (Melies).  200 
What  the   Good    Book   Taught — June   6    (Pathe- 
play)       944 

Wheel  of  Death,   The— June  16    (Kalem) 1172 

When  a     Woman     Loves,      (3     parts) — June     2 

(Cines)      1048 

When  Fate  Decrees — June  4   (Kalem)    1054 

When  Greek   Meets  Greek — May  6   (Edison) 620 

When  Lillian    Was   Little    Red    Riding    Hood — 

June    16    (Selig) 1166 

When  Men  Forget — June  26   (Selig) 1276 

When  the     Circus     Came     to     Town — June     2 

(Selig)      940 

When  the    Right    Man    Comes    Along — Apr.    28 

(Edison)      403 

When  Women    are    Police— June    7    (Kalem) ..  .1054 
Where  Shore   and    Water    Meet — June    24    (Edi- 
son)       1272 

While   John    Bolt   Slept — June   7    (Edison) 1058 

White    Lies— May    29    (Patheplay) 842 

White    Slave,    The,     (2    parts) — May    31    (Vita- 
graph)        836 

Widow  of  Nevada,  A — May  22  (Essanay) 724 

Widow   of    Winnipeg.   The — May   30    (Kalem) 832 

Willie's   Alarm   Clock— May   13    (Cines) 622 

Will  of  Fate,   The — May  14    (Eclipse) 622 

Window  on  Washington  Park,  A — Apr.  30  (Vita- 
graph )      410 

Wine  of  Madness,  The — June  14    (Lubin) 1050 

Winner     of     the     Sweepstakes,     The— Apr.     16 

(Cines)      198 

Winter    in    Upper    Engadine,    Switzerland — May 

2    (Patheplay)     412 

Winter  Snorts  at  Bodele— Apr.   22  (Patheplay).  304 
Wise    Old     Elephant,     A,     (2    parts) — Apr.     14 

(Selig)      

With  Loves    Eyes— Apr.    11     (Selig) 80 

With    the   Assistance    of    "Shep" — May    7    (Edi- 
son)         620 

With  the    Students    of    North    Dakota     Agricul- 
tural   College — May    16     (Selig) 618 

Witness    "A    3-center" — June    27    (Essanay) ...  .1278 

Woman  of  Impulse,   A — May  14    (Patheplay) 624 

Woman — Past   and    Present — June   4    (Selig) 940 

Woman  Scorned.    A — May    24    (Pathenlay) 728 

Woman's    Heart.    A — June    2    (Lubin) 940 

Woman's    Influence,    A — May    17    (Cines) 622 

Woman's    Way,  A — May  9  (Essanay) 505 

Woodflre  at  Martin's,  The — May  30   (Selig) 8S8 

Woodman's    Danghter,     The— Apr.     14     (Selig)..   198 


Wordless    Message,    The — May    28    (Selig) 838 

Wrath  of  Osaka,  The— May  8   (Vitagraph) 506 

Wrecked    Life,    A— May    17    (Patheplay) 624 

Wrong  Pair,   The — May   12   (Vitagraph) 618 

Wrong   Hand   Bag,    The — July   4    (Lubin) 1392 

Y 
.Yaqui  Cur,  The,   (2  parts)— May  17  (Biograph).  624 
Yarn  of  Nancy  Belle,   The— May  27    (Lubin)...  832 
Yokohama     Fire     Department — June     20     1  Vita- 
graph)      n64 

Z 

Zulu  King,  The— June  24  (Lubln) 1278 

Independent   Releases 

A 

Ace  of  Hearts,  The — June  9  (Dragon) 

Affray  of  Honor,   An — Apr.  16   (Nestor) 

After    the    Massacre — May    17    (Reliance) 850 

Against   the  Law — Apr.   22   (Gem) 

Aladdin's   Awakening — June   20    (Nestor) 117S 

Algie  on   the  Force — May  5    (Keystone) 518 

All  on  Account  of  an  Egg — June  1    (Eclair  1 

All  Rivers  Meet  at  Sea— July  2  (Bronchoi 

Amateur  Highwayman,  The — May  21  (Solax) 744 

Amateur  Sleuth,    The — Mar.   27    (Gaumont) 90 

American   in    the   Making,    An— Apr.   22    (Tban- 

houser)     413 

Anaradbapura — May     25     (Eclair) 

Angel  of  Death,  The — June  26   (Imp) 12S2 

Angel    of    Mercy,    The — Apr.    8    (Gaomont) 314 

Angel   of   the  Canyons— May    12    (American  1 628 

Animated  Weekly,  No.  55 — Mar.  26  (Universal)  86 
Animated  Weekly,  No.  56— Apr.  2  (Universal)  202 
Animated  Weekly,  No.  57 — Apr.  9,  (Universal)  308 
Animated  Weekly,  No.  58— Apr.  16  (Universal)  414 
Animated  Weekly,  No.  59 — Apr.  23  (Universal)  512 
Animated  Weekly,  No.  60 — Apr.  30  (Universal)  626 
Animated  Weekly,  No.  61— Mav  7  (Universal)  736 
Animated  Weekly,  No.  62 — May  14  (Universal)  846 
Animated  Weekly,  No.  63— May  21  (Dniversal)  954 
Animated  Weekly,  No.  64 — May  28  (Unlversal)1066 
Animated  Weekly,  No.  66— June  11  (Universal). 1286 
Animated  Weekly,   No.  67— June  18  (Universal), 1396 

Annie   Laurie — June   16    (Reliance) 1184 

Apache    Love — June    18     (Nestor) 1178 

As   Fate    Wills — Apr.    10    (Frontier  1 84 

Ashes    of    Three,     (2    parts)— May    26    (Ameri- 
can)       852 

At  Shiloh    (2  parts)— July  5   (Bison) 1396 

Aunt  Kate's    Mistake — Apr.    10    (Imp) 

Awakening   of   Papita,   The — May   7    (Nestor)..  514 

B 

Badge  of  Policeman  O'Roon,  The  (2  parts) — June 

25    (Eclair)     

BangriUe   Police,   The — Apr.   24    (Keystone) 310 

Banker's  Sons,   The — June  20   (Majestic) 12S8 

Barney    Oldfleld's    Race    for    a    Life — June    2 

(Keystone)      956 

Barred  from  the  Mails — May  11  (Thanhouser) .  740 
Battle  of  San  Juan  Hill,  The,    (3  parts) — June 

3     (Bison)     950 

Bawlerout,  The,    (3  parts)— Apr.  30  (Reliance).  518 

Beautiful  BIsmark— June  17  (Majestic) 12S8 

Bedford's  Hope,    (3  parts) — Apr.   8   (Bison) 

Beetles — May    17    (Imp) 

Behind    the  Times — June  20    (Imp) 

Be   It  Ever  So  Humble — May  30   (Nestor) 846 

Betty's    Bandit— May    17    (Frontier) 628 

Bewitched    Matches,    The — May    4    (Eclair) 740 

Bewitched  Rubber  Shoes,   The — Apr.   12    (Great 

Northern)     

Big  Boss,   The    (2  parts)— May   14    (Reliance).  740 

Billy  Gets  Arrested — Apr.  8   (Gem) 

Billy  in    Armor — June    2     (Gem)     952 

Billy  Plays  Poker— May  20  (Gem) 

Billy's  Adventures — May   13    (Gtem) 628 

Billy's  First    Quarrel— May   6    (Gem) 

Billy's  Honeymoon — May    27     (Gem) 844 

Billy's  New    Watch— May    11    (Majestic) 740 

Billy's   Suicide — Apr.   29    (Gem) 

Billy  the    Suffragette — Apr.    25    (Powers) 308 

Billy  Turns    Burglar — Apr.    15    (Gem) 

Black  and   White — June   8    (Crystal) 952 

Black  Chancellor,     The,      (3     parts) — Apr.      26 

( Bison)     

Black  Conspiracy,    A,    (2    parts) — Mav   2    (Kay- 
Bee)     420 

Blackjack's  Atonement — May  23  (Powers)...  738 
Black  Small   Fox   Scare,   The — May  7    (Powers). 

Blood    Will  Tell— Apr.   14    (Imp) 

Baby's    Baby— Apr.    6    (Rex) 

Boobs    and    Bricks— Apr.    21     (American) 308 

Boob,    The — June    1    (Rex) 844 

Book  of  Verses,   A — Apr.   20    (Rex) 202 

Boomerang,  The,  (3  parts) — June  13  (Kay-Bee). 1070 

Boy  from  the  East.  The — June  22  (Eclair) 

Boy     Scouts     to     the     Rescue,     The — May     21 

(Nestor)      

Bozo  Arrives — May   9    (Powers) 

Bread  Cast   Upon   the   Waters,    (2  parts) — Apr. 

39    (Broncho)     420 

Bred  in  the  Bone.    (3  parts) — Apr.   22  (Bison). 

Brother  and  Sister— June  27  (Victor) 12S2 

Brothers    All — May    5    (Excelsior) 

Brothers.    The — May    5    (Amerlcai    516 

Burglarizing    Billy— Apr.    22    (Gei      

Burning    Lariat,    The — Apr.    12    (       .ntler) 86 

Burden  Bearer,  The — June  26  ( R«      1284 

Business   Woman.    A — May  30    (r     inbouser) 848 

By  the   Aid   of   Wireless — June  f    .Lux) 1070 

By  the  Sad  Sea  Waves — June  17   (Gaumont)... 


VI 


THE   MOVING  •PICTURE  WORLD 


c 

Caged    Bird.    The — June   6    (Thanhouser) 1070 

Calamity   Arte  Takes  a  Trip — June  26   (Ameri- 
can)      1286 

Calamity  Anne  Parcel  Post — May  22  (American)  740 
Calamity   Anne's  Trust— Apr.  26   (American) . . .  308 

California    Foultry — June    9    (American) 1066 

Call    tor   Home,    A— June   17    (Crystal) 1176. 

Call   Him   Wlskers — May  6   (Gem) 

Call  of  the  Angelas,  The— June  12  (Frontier1..1066 

Call  of  the  Koad,  The — June  18  (Rime) 1290 

Capture  of  Aguinaldo,  The,    (2  parts) — June  14 

(Bison )     

Carmen,    (8  parts) — May  27   (Thanhouser) 956 

Case  of  the  Missing  Girl,  The — May  7   (Solas).  630 
Cast    Thy    Bread    Upon    the    Waters — .June    20 

(Lux)     1290 

Changeling.  The — Apr.   11    (Thanhouser) 206 

Cheating — May    28    (Powers) . . .' 

Child  of  the  Hills,  A— June  19  (Pilot) 

Child  of  War.  A,  (2  parts)— May  30  (Kay-Bee).  852 
Children   of   St.    Anne,    (2  parts)— May   6    (Ma- 
jestic)       634 

Children's     Conspiracy,     The — Apr.     20     (Than- 
houser i      416 

Child's  Day.  A— June  5   (Mutual  Educational).  .IOCS 

Child  of  the  Hills.  A^Tune  19  (Pilot) 1288 

Clancy    the    Model— June    1    (Crystal) 844 

Clean-Up.     Tie — May    14    (Nestor) 626 

Clown  Hero.  The — Apr.  28  (Champion) 

Comedian's     Mask,     The,      (2     parts) — June     9 

(Imp  i      1064 

Comrades— June    2    (Dragon) 

Count    Retire,    The — June    7    (Imp) 

Country    Consin,    The — May    5    (Nestor) 514 

Country  Man's  Romance,   A — May  4   (Majestic). 

Coward's   Charm,   The — Apr.    18    (Victor) 

Crimson  Stain,  The  (3  parts) — July  4  (Kav-Bee) 

Crucible   of    Love,    The — May   8    (Pilot) 742 

Cruel  A— May  7    (Reliance) 634 

Cub,    The— Apr.     28     (Imp) 414 

Cupid   in   Dental    Parlor — Apr.    21    (Keystone)..  310 
Cupidity  of   Cupid,  The — Apr.   10    (Ganniont). . .  314 

Cupid  Throws  a   Brick — Apr.    7    (American) 86 

Curate's  (.toting.    The — May   21    (Powers) 

Cuttlefish,    The— May    IS    (Eclair) 844 

D 

Dart's  Orders— May    14     (Solax) 630 

Dad's  Surprise — Apr.    14    (Nestor) 202 

Dad's  Surprise — June   20    (Nestor) 

Darktown  Belle,  The — May  8  (Keystone) 518 

Darling  of  the  Regiment,  The — (2  parts) — Apr. 

12    (Bison)    

Daughter   of    the    Sheep    Rancher,   The — Apr.    24 

(Frontier*      

Dead  Mans  Shoes — June  28  (American) 1286 

Dixie  Mother,   A,    (2  partsJ^June  4   (Broncho i.  968 

Dora — June   28    'Thanhouser) 1402 

Dog  and    the    Goat,    The— May    30    iLn\) 960 

Do?  in   the  Baggage  Car.  The — Apr.    13    (Than- 
houser i     310 

Dollar  Did  It.  A — Apr.  17  (Keystone) 206 

Dolly  and  the   Burglar — June  4    (Powers) 950 

Double  Sacrifice.  A— May  2S  (Nestor) 846 

Dragon's  Breath,  The.   (2  parts) — Apr.  24   (Rex).  308 

Draga.    Tie   Gypsy — June  29    (Rex) 1286 

Dream  Home.  The— June  18  (Reliance) 12S8 

Drummer   of    The    Eighth,    The    (2    parts) — May 

28    (Broncho)     852 

Dynamite;  Dog,  The — June  25  (Solax) 1290 

E 
Eastern    Cyclone   at   Bluff   Ranch,    An— June   28 

(Frontier  - 

Early     Oklahoma— May    21     (Reliance) 850 

Eastern    Cyclone    at    Bluff    Ranch,    An — May    3 

(Frontier  i      416 

Electrical   Phenomena — Apr.    24    (Mutual   Educa- 
tional i     .    312 

Elixir    of    Youth,    the — Apr.    9    (Powers) 

End    of    the    Trail,    The,     (2    parts)— May    30 

(Powers 846 

Engulfed^Tune    13     (Lux) 1186 

Eternal    Sacrifice,    The — May   12    (Reliance) 740 

Eureka.    (2    parts) — May   5    (Imp) 

Evil  Genius.  The,    (2  parts)   Apr.  16   (Eclair)..  204 

Every  Inch  a  Hero — June  23  (Gem) 

Expensive    Drink,    An — June    15    (Crystal) 1064 

Express  C.   O.   D. — May  4   (Thanhouser) 630 

Eye  for  an   Eye,   An — Way  6    (Gaumont) 744 

Eye  for  an  Eye,   An — May  16  (Nestor) 628 

Eye  of  Krishla.  The — June  22  (Thanhouser) ....  1400 
Eyes  that  Could  Not  Close,  The — May  20   (Gau- 
mont)       

P 
Failure    of    Success,    (2    parts)^Tune    20    (Kay- 
Bee)     1184 

Fair  Exchange.   A.    (2  parts) — May  16   (Victor).   282 

Fairy  Godfather.  The — Mav  27   (Majestic) 

Faithful    Shep — June  4    (Reliance) 1070 

Faith  Healer,  The  (2  parts)— May  28  (Eclair) .  .11^2 

False   Lore    and    True— June    10    (Crystal) 1064 

Father's   Choice — Apr.    10    (Keystone) 88 

Pear,   The — Apr.   11    (Powers) 84 

-•     Chaplain,     The     (2    parts)— April    19 

i  Bison  I       ^ 

Filnographic     Cartoons,     Hy     Mayer — June     21 

(Imp  i      

Tire— Apr.     20     (Eclair) .-.It 

Fishy    Affair.    A— Apr.    24    (Keystone) 310 

Fixing    the    Fakirs — Apr.    17     (Imp) 

Flossie  Visits  Bar  U  Ranch — May  31    (Frontier) 
Flying   C:ru  =  .    The    (3   parts)— June   28    (Great 

Northern     Universal) 1282 

Fortune's  Pet  >2  parts) — June  18  (Eclair) 

For    Another's    Sin — Apr.    25    (Thanhouser) 418 

Foreman  of  the  Jury,  The — May  22   (Keystone)  742 


Forgetful    Flossie — Apr.    27    (Crystal) 808 

Forgive    Us    Our    Trespasses — June    24    (Than- 
houser)      j4oo 

Forgotten    Letter,    The — Apr.    11    (Nestor) 84 

For  Her  Sake — Apr.  25   (Nestor) 

For  Love  of  Columbine — Apr.  12   (Reliance) 312 

For  Love  of  the  Flag,   (2  parts)— May  16  (Kay- 
Bee)     632 

For  Old  Time's  Sake — June  5    (Pilot) 1186 

Fortune's   Pet,    (2  parts)— June  18   (Eclair) 

For  Two  Pins— May   22    (Gaumont) 958 

Fraternity    Pin,    The — June    1    (Majestic) 1068 

Friendly  Neighbors — June  IS    (Powers) 1176 

Friend  of  the   Family,   A — Apr.    17    (Rex) 202 

From    the   Shadows,    (2   parts) — June   18    (Bron- 

„  cho)     ii84 

Fun  in   the  Film   by  Hy  Mayer^Tune  28   (Imp) 
Funnicus  is  Tired  of  Life — Apr.  24  (Mutual  Edu- 
cational)       310 

Funnicus  Tries  His  Luck  at  Love — June  26  (Mu- 
tual Educational)    1290 


G 

Game  of   Poker,    A — Apr.   10   (Keystone) 88 

Gangsters,    The — May   29    (Keystone) S52 

Gathering    and    Preparation    of    Tea    in    Iudo- 

China — June  12    (Mutual  Educational) 1068 

Gaumont  Weekly,  No.  56 — Apr.  2  (Gaumont)..  206 
Gaumont  Weekly,  No.  57 — Apr.  9  (Gaumont) . .  314 
Gaumont  Weekly,  No.  58 — Apr.  16  (Gaumont) . .  422 
Gaumont  Weekly,  No.  59 — Apr.  23  (Gaumont) . .  820 
Gaumont  Weekly,  No.  60— Apr.  30  (Gaumont)..  634 
Gaumont  Weekly,  No.  61 — Mav  7  (Gaumont) . .  744 
Gaumont  Weekly,  No.  62— May  14  (Gaumont)..  s",4 
Gaumont  Weekly,  No.  63 — May  21  (Gaumont) . .  958 
Gaumont  Weekly.  No.  64 — May  2S  (Gaumont).. 
Gaumont  Weekly.  No.  65 — June  4  (Gaumont) .  .11S6 
Gaumont's  Weekly.  No.  66 — June  11  (Gaumont). 12:111 
Gaumont's  Weekly.  No.  67— June  18  (Gaumont). 1402 
Ghost     of     Sea     View     Manor,     The — June     16 

(Dragon)    

Girl   Reporter.    The— July   6    (Crystal) 1400 

Girl    and    the    Grafter,     The — Apr.     15     (Than- 
houser)        310 

Girl     Detective's     Ruse,     The — Apr.     29     (Than- 
houser)        sis 

ses    of    Hawaii— May    29    (Mutual    Educa- 
tional)      1068 

Going   for  Father — Apr.    13   (Eclair) 84 

Gold  and  Two  Men— May  18   (Rex) 

Gulden    Horn.    Turkey,    The — Apr.     10    (Mutual 

Educational)      88 

Gontran.    Apostle    of    Pence — May    29    (Mutual 

Educational)      106S 

Gontran,    a    Snake    Charmer— June    12    (Mutual 

Educational) 1068 

Good  for    Evil — May    23    (Victor) 

Good  Within,    The — May    3    (Reliance) 634 

Governor's    Romance,    The — May    29    (Pilot)....  960 
Grand     Old    Flag,     The,     (2     parts) — June     10 

(Bison)     1064 

Greater    Love.    The — Apr.    30    (Nestor) 414 

Great  Unwashed,  The — June  19   (Gaumont) 1402 

Great    Harmony.    The — May    17    (American) 639 

Gregory's    Shadow — June    6    (Solax) 958 

Grey       Sentinel,       The,       (2       parts)— Apr.       9 

(Broncho)     88 

Guerilla  Menace,  The  (2  parts) — June  24,(Bison)12S2 

H 

Half    a  Chance,    (2  parts)— June  14   (Reliance). 11S4 

Half  Orphans.    The — Apr.    6    (Majestic) 204 

Halfwit.    The— Mar.    29    (Reliance) 88 

Hansom   Driver,    The — June  9    (Keystone) 1070 

Hawaiian    Love — May    12    (Champion) 626 

Head    of    the    Ribbon    Counter,    The — June    15 

(Thanhouser)     1288 

He  and   Himself— July  4    (Nestor) 1398 

Hearth    Lghts— May    26    (Reliance) 956 

Heart   Humane,   The — June  3    (Reliance) 

Hearts    and    Crosses — May    25    (Eclair) 1180 

Hearts    and   Flowers— June  9    (Gem) 

Hearts    and   Horses-^June   12    (American) 1068 

Heart   That   Sees.    The — May    15    (Imp) 628 

He  Could  Not  Lose  It— June  8  (Eclair) 1286 

Held     for    Ransom,     (2    parts) — Apr.    16     (Re- 
liance)       312 

He    Loves    to   Watch    the   Flight   of   Time — Mav 

18     (Eclair) 844 

Help!    Help.'    Hydrophobia! — June  5    (Keystone).  056 
Henpecked    Burglar,    The — Mav    28    (Solax)..    .  854 

Her   Big   Story— May   31    (American) 859 

Her   Fairy   Godfather— May  27    (Majestic) 958 

Her  First    love    Affair— May   10    (Great    North- 
ern)          634 

Her  Hero's    Predicament — May    19    (Nestor) 736 

Her  Innocent    Marriage — May    19    (American) . .  740 

Her  Joke  on   Belmont— June  IS    (Crystal) 1064 

Her      Lover's    Voice — May    3    (Imp) 

Her  Mother's    Picture — .Tune    13     (Solax) 1072 

Her  Sister's   Secret— May   6    (Thanhouser) 630 

He  Ruins     His     Family's     Reputation — June     1 

(Eclair)      118O 

He  Slept  Well — June  15  (Eclair) .1286 

He  Was     Not     111,     Only     Unhappy — June     29 

(Eclair)     ! 

Helping    Hand.    The — June   11    (Ramo) 1290 

Higher    Law.    The — June    12    (Imp) 1064 

His  Awful    Daughter— May  II    (Crystal) r,i2 

His  Chum,    the    r.aron — Apr.    2S    (Keystone) 420 

His  Daughter— June    20    (Vitagraph) 1176 

His  Friend    Jimmie — Apr.    21     (Nestor) 308 

Ills  Master's    Rival — May    15     (Mutual    Educa- 
tional)        632 

His    Mother's    Love — June    23    (Imp) 1282 

His   Romantic     Wife— Apr.     20     (Crystal) 202 

His  Sacrifice — June    13    (Thanhouser) 1182 


His  Son-ln-Law— Apr.    11    (Solax) 90 

His  Uncle's   Heir-June   9    (Reliance) :::!llS4 

His  Ups   and    Downs— May   5    (Keystone) 513 

His  Wife's   AfiJnity— Apr.    23    (Solax) 420 

Homestead  Race,   The— Apr.  10  (American)!!..     86 

Homlock    Shermes— May    18    (Crystal) 626 

Honor  of  Lucrece,  The — June  10  (Gaumont) 1290 

Honor  of  the  Regiment,  The,  (2  parts) — May  31 

(Bison)     gjg 

Hoodoo    Pearls,    The— Apr.    23    (Reliance)'.!!!!!  418 

Hooked — June    1     (Crystal) 344 

Hopes  of   Belinda,    The— June  4    (Solax  j!"  958 

Hour  of  Terror,   An-July  1    (Crystal) 1396 

House   Divided,    A— May   2    (Solax) 420 

House  of   Pretense,   Tbe-^Iune  23    (Reliance) !  !l400 

How  Fatty   Got  Even— Apr.   9   (Nestor) 84 

Hubby's    Job — May    19    (Keystone) 742 

Human    Kindness— May    8    (American) 516 

Husband's  Mistake,  A— June  23   (American) . . .  12S6 
Hy  Mayer— His  Magic  Hand,  May  24   (Imp).. 
Hy  Mayer— His    Magic   Hand,    Mav  31    (Imp) 
Hy  Mayer's  Cartoons — June  14   (Imp) . . . 
Hypnotic   Collector,   The — Apr.    24   (Pilot)!!.  '     520 
Hypnotizing  Hannah— Mar.  27    (Gaumont) ...!..     90 

I 
Idol  of  Bonanza  Camp,  The— June  4   (Nestor)..  950 

I    Love    \ou— Apr.    15    (Majestic) 310 

Im   No  Counterfeiter— July   2    (Ramo) 1402 

In    Another's    Nest— Apr.    17    (American) 204 

In    a    Strange   Laud— Apr.    30    (Powers) 

Indian  Nemesis,  An— June  30   (Nestor) 1398 

Indians   Gratitude,    An-June  11    ! Broncho).    ..1070 
Indians  Secret,   The,    (2  parts)— May  6   (Bison).  514 

Ingrate.    The— May    2    Nestor) iii 

n  Love  and   War.    ,2  parts,Wune  17    (Bison)  .1176 

Slavery   Days.    ,2  parts)— May  22   (Rex) 
In   the   Battle's   Smoke— Apr.    3    (Pilot)  90 

In   their   Hour  of  Need-May    23    ( Thanhouser  i .' .'   848 
In  the  Secret      Service,       (2      parts)— May      17 
(Bison)     gOS 

Wake     of     the     Brain"  Storm— May  "13 

amont)    "  Q-, 

ent   Conspiracy,  An— June  26   ( Pilot  1 

Invincible   Hands.    The— May  2   (Lux)...   5"0 

It  Happened  at  the  Beach— June  25  (Powers)   '  1284 
Italian    Love— June    2    (Reliance)....  "1070 

Its    Great    to    Be    Great— May   S    (Gaumont)'.!'.!   744 

J 
Marries— July     3     (Imp) 1396 

Jealousy   of  Jane,   Tbe^Tune   16   (Imp)....        117s 
on  the  Sheriff,  A-Apr.  27   (Crystal)...!::  308 
Judges    Vindication,     The,     (2    parts)— Apr.     2 

'  Keliance)      *  w 

Just   a    Fire-Fighter— June  '2 "(imp).'.' 0S 

Just    for    Luck—  May    24    (Imp) ............  ..'.  ! 

K 
Kidnapped   Train,   Tue-June  6    (Victor)    ..  93->' 

"2    fSx)  Wr0D8'   The'    (3  P^Wne 

K^ns'TheIeve„vsel-:'  'T,Le-5ii>r  30 '  isoiaxj: : :  :1S^ 

Kiss     ihe — May    lo    (American) aoa 

Knight  of  Her  Dreams,  The-^Iune  13  (Nestor) !  1066 

L 

Lady  Doctor,  The— Apr.  9  (Solax)..  on 

Laplanders,    The— Apr.    15    (Gem).. 

Largest    Boat   Ever    Launched   Sideways,"  The— 

June    26    (Keystone)..    .. 
Last  Roll  Call,  The,   (2  parts)— Apr. '29 "(Bison) 
Law  of  the  Wild,  The— Apr.   27    (Eclair 
Leader  of  His  Flock,    The,    (2  parts)-Apr."l7 
limp)      0_0 

Leaning  Tower  of  Pisa,  The— Apr.  15  (MajeVtic) 
Legally    Right-May   25   (Majestic)...    .. ..  958 

Lena's   Flirtation— Apr.    14    (Champion).. 

Leo   Makes   Good — Mav   10    (Imp) 
Leo's    GTeat    Cure— June    28    (Imp) 

Leopard    Avenger,    The— Apr.    IS    (Lux)'. oog 

Leo's  Waterloo— Apr.   12   (Imp) 

Leper,    The— May   19    (Champion ).'.'.' 

Lessons   for   the   Bashful— Apr.   24    (Gau'niouti"   520 
Lesson,   The— Apr.   16   (Powers)..  moml-  »■» 

Life  in   Soudan— Apr.    28    (Champion) 

Life  in    the    Balance,    A— Apr.    14    (Keystone)'.'.  206 
Lie-Savers  of  Chicamocomo,  The— Apr.  7  (Cbaui- 

I.ight  That  Kills,'  The^-May'  27  '(Gaumont) ! ! .'  .1072 

Liquid     Air— May     11     (Majestic) 

Little   Hero,    A— May   8    (Keystone) 51s 

Lobsters,    All   Styles— Apr.    15    (Gaumont) 

Lock    Lomond— June    7    (Great    Northern) 

London    Assurance,    May    19    (Reliance)....     "  850 

Loneliness  and  Love — Apr.   25   (Victor) 

Lost  Combination,   The— June  27  (Thanhouser) .' .1400 

Love,     Life    and    Liberty,     (2    parts)— Mav     27 

(Bison)     g,6 

Love's    Monogram— May    26    ( Dragon  1 

Lure  of  the  Lorelei,   The— Mar.   23   (Gaumont)..'     s< 

M 
Mabel's  Awful  Mistake— May  12  (Keystone)..  630 
Madcap  of  the  Hills.  The-June  7  (Reliance) .  .1070 
Magnetic  Maid.  The— Mav  31  (Imp) 
Maid  and  the  Milkman,  The— Apr.  7  (Nestor) ! !  84 
Man  From  the  City,  The— Apr.  21  (Excelsior. .  418 
Man  in   the  Sick   Room,   The— May  16   (Solax)       630 

Man   of    Letters,    A— May    S    (Gaumont) 744 

Manufacturer  of  Steel,   The— Mav  11    (Eclair)    '   8»4 
Man    Who   Failed.    The— Mav   23    (Solax)  '   744 

Man    Who  Tried  to  Forget.   The— June  11    (Ve's'- 

tor)      1066 

Marble   Heart.   The,    (2  parts)— May  "13'  (Than'. 

houserl      740 

Marine     Law— .Tune     21     (American) 1182 

Marriage   by   the    Wholesale— Apr.   3    (Gaumont)  208 


THE   MOVING  PICTURE   WORLD 


VII 


Mary's  Romance — Jane  3   (Crystal) BS3 

Master    Cracksman,    The,     (2    parts) — May    31 

(Reliance)     958 

Mathllde.     (2   parts)—  Apr.    23    (Eclair) 61* 

Matrimony's  Speed  Limit — June  11    iSolai) 1072 

Men  Were  Deceivers  Ever — June  12  (Gaumont). 1290 

Merry   Widow,   The — June  25    (Solax) 1290 

Message   to   Heaven,    The — Jane  27    (Solax) 1290 

Message  of   the  Flowers — June  10    (Majestic).. 1184 

Mighty     Hunter.     A— May     16     (Lux) 742 

Miller'a   Daughter,    The — May    2    (Lux) 620 

Mimosa's    Sweetheart— June    8    (Majestic) 1184 

Mine   and    a   Marathon — Mav   23    (Nestor) 736 

Miser.  The   (2  parts)— May  23   (Kay-Bee) 742 

Miss    Mischief — June   8    (Thanhouser) 1182 

Mixed  Pieties — June   17   (Gaumont) 1402 

Mixup  in   Bandits,  A — Jane  2    (Nestor) 950 

Modera   Snare.    The — May   24    (American) 740 

Mosques  and  Tombs  of  Caliphs  aod  Mamelukes 

—May     S     i  Mutual     Educational) 632 

Mote   and    the  Beam,    The — Apr.    20   (Majestic) .   41S 
Moving  Picture  Girl,  The— Apr.   14   (Excelsior).  204 

Mrs.    Lacey's    Legacy — June    11    (Powers) 

Mrs.  Sharp  ar.f.  Miss  Flat— June  29  (Crystal) .  .l.inB 

Muchly    Engaged — July    6    (Crystal) ) 1396 

Murphy's    I.    O.    U.— Apr.    17     (Kevstone) 206 

Mutual     Weekly,     No.     12— Mar.      19     (Mutual 

Weekly)     88 

Mutual      Weekly,     No.    13— Mar.      26      (Mutual 

Weekly)     206 

Mutual      Weekly,     No.      14 — Apr.        2      (Mutual 

Weekly)      

Mutual     Weekly,     No.     15 — Apr.       9     (Mutual 

Weekly)     310 

Mutual     Weekly,     No.     16 — Apr.     16     (Mutual 

Weekly  ...    418 

Mutual      Weekly.      No.      17 — Apr.      23      (Mutual 

Weekly!      630 

Mutual     Weekly,     No.     18 — Apr.     30     (Mutual 

Weekly)    632 

Blntual      Weekly.      No.      19 — Mav        7      (Mutual 

Weekly)      742 

Mutual     Week:_v,     No.     20— May     14     (Mutual 

Weekly)      95g 

Mutual      Weekly,      No.      21 — Mav     21      (Mutual 

Weekly)      106S 

Mutual      Weekly     No.      22— Mav     28      (Mutual 

Weekly)    

Mutual     Weekly,      No.     23 — June     4      (Mutual 

Weekly)     .' use 

Mntnal  Weei'y.   No.  24   (Mutual  Weekly) 

My  Lady's   Boot — May   13    (Majestic) 740 

Mysterious  Card.   The — Apr.  12    (Imp) 

Mystery  of  the  Lost  Cat,  The — Apr.  16  (Solax).  208 
N 

Neighbors — May  2  (Powers) 

New  Conductor,   Toe — Apr.   28   (Keystone) 418 

New  Typist.   Tfce^Tune  8  (Crystal) 952 

Night  of  the  Garter.   A— Apr.  14   (Nestor) 202 

Night   Riders.   The — Apr.   S   (Majestic) 204 

Nobody.    Miss — May   9    (Nestor) 

Northern  Spy.  The — (2  parts)— Mav  10  (Bison). 
Not    for   Mite — Apr.   22    (Majestic) 418 

0 

Octupus,    The — Apr.    13    (Eclair) 84 

Off  the  Mainland— Apr.  11    (Ryno) 90 

Oil    on    TrouMed    Waters     (2    parts) — Apr.    28 

(American  I     416 

O  Korna   Bui— Apr.   22   (Gaumont) 520 

Oh!    You  Unbreakable  Doll— June  27    (Lux) 1404 

Old   Clock.    The — May  S    (Mutual   Educational)..   632 

Old   Melody.    Tie    (2   parts)— June  30    (Imp) 1396 

Old  Invalid.    The — May  1    (Mutual  Educational)  418 
Old  Maid's  Last  Attempt,  Tbe — Apr.  26   (Front- 
ier)       

Old  Mammy's    Charge— Apr.    27    (Majestic) 516 

On  an   Alligator  Farm — Apr.    17    (Imp) 

On  Cupids   Highway — May  26    (Nestor) S44 

On  Fortune's   Wheel    (2   parts) — Apr.    11    (Kay- 
Bee.     88 

On  the    Border — May    29    (American) S52 

On  the  .Firing  Line — -Apr.   10   (Gaumont) 

Opening    of    the    1913    Baseball    Season — May    3 

(Imp)      

Other  Girl.   Tte — May  9   (Thanhouser) 630 

Our    Parents-in-Law— Apr.    13    (Crvsta!) 84 

Our    Willie — May   IS    (Crystal) 626 

Out  of  the  Fast— June  24    (Crystal) 1288 

Out  and   In — Jane  19   (Keystone) 1184 

Outcast.   The — May   12    (Dragon) 

Outcast.    Thi — Apr.    7    (Ryno) 90 

Owana.    the    Devil    Woman — June    6    (Nestor)...  952 

O    Whiskers: — May    4    (Crystal) 414 

Oyster  Industry,   The — May  10  (Imp) 

Oysters— May    1?    (Majestic    850 

P 

Partners — June  25   (Nestor) 1282 

Passing   Clond.    A — June   5    (Ganmoot) 1186 

Passions— H<    Had    Three — June   5    (Keystoue)..  966 

Past   Forgiven.   The — May  9    (Solax) 630 

Past    Redemption    (2    parts) — May    9    (Kay-Bee)  518 
Pat  Stoves  to  Diplomatic  Circles— May  16  (Lax)  742 

Patriot,    The— Apr.    8    (Thanhouser) 206 

Pat.    the    Electrician— May   30    (Lux) 960 

Paying  for  Silence — Apr.   18   (Nestor) 204 

Pearl    as    a    Detective — May    4    (Crystal) 414 

Pedro's   ReveLge — Apr.    13    (Majestic) 310 

Peeping  Pete — June  26  (Keystone) 

Pen  Talks  by  Hy   Mayer — June  7   (Imp) 

Petronilla    Wins    the    Great    Steeplechase — May 

22     (Mutual     Educational) 1068 

Picturesque  Bergen.   Norway — Mar.   20    (Powers) 

Pillar  of   Peril,    The — June  5    (Frontier) 954 

Pisa.    Italv— Art.    20    (Majestic) 

Flaring    With    Fire — May    23    (Lux) 854 


Plaything— May   30    (Victor) 

Poleon.  the  Trapper — June  23  (Nestor) 1282 

Poor    Little    Chap,    He    Was    Only    Dreaming — 

Apr.    20    (Eclair) 614 

Politician.  The — June  24   (Majestic) 1400 

Pottery    Industry — Apr.   26    (Imp) 

Poverty  of  Riches.  The — May  11   (Rex) 

Pretender.   The— June  15   (Rex) 1064 

Pride  of  Lonesome — July  3  (American) 1400 

Problem  In  Reduction,   A— May  29  (Gaumont).. 1072 

Professional  Jealousy — June  28  (Nestor) 1284 

Professor's     Traveling     Adveutures,     The— May 

24     (Great    Northern) 742 

Promoter,  The — Apr.  17  (Pilot) 312 

Pullman  Nightmare,  A— May  25  (Thanhouser)..  954 
Pure  Gold  and  Dross— Apr.   13    (Rex) 84 

a 

Queen   of  the  Sea   Nympbs,   The — June   3    (Ma- 
jestic)      1068 

Quicksands    (2   parts)— June  30    (American) 1400 

B 
Ranch    Girl    and    the    Sky    Pilot,    The — June    8 

1  Frontier)    

Ranch  Stenographer,   The — May  17    (Frontier)..  736 

Range   Dead   Line,   The — July   2    (Nestor) 1398 

Regeneration     of    John     Storm,     The — Apr.     21 

(Imp)    308 

Retribution — Apr.   18    (Thanhouser) 310 

Retrogression    (2  parts) — Apr.    23    (Broncho) 312 

Return     of     Crime,     The     (2     parts) — Apr.     30 

(Eclair)     416 

Reward  of  Courage,  The — June  14  (American).  .1068 

Rise  of  Officer  174   (2  parts)— May  1    (Imp) 512 

Rivals    Outwitted,    The — May    18    (Majestic) 850 

River   Rhine,    Germany — Apr.    7    (Nestor) 

River  Romantic,  The — Apr.  22  (Gaumont) 

Rivers    of     Indo-China — May     22     (Mutual     Edu- 
cational)      1068 

Road  to  Ruin,  The — May  3   (American) 416 

Romance  of  the  Rails,   A — May  29    (Frontier) . .  S44 

Romeo  in  Pajamas — June  IS  (Solax) 

Rosary,   The — May  4   (Rex) 

Rosie's   Revenge — Apr.   27    (Thanbooser) 518 

Runa  and  the  Black  Hand — May  24  (Reliance).  956 

Runaways.    The — Apr.     IS    (Kay-Bee) 

Runaway,    The — June  3    (Thanhouser) 1070 

S 

Sacrificed  to  the  Lions— Apr.  11   (Lux) 88 

Safeguard    for   Bachelors,   A — Apr.    25    (Lux)...  424   , 

Salamanders — May  4    (Eclair) 

Sammy    the    Scorcher — June    27    (Lux) 1404 

Saved  from  the  Grip  of  Alcohol — May  9  (Lux)..  742 

Scar.   The — June  19    (Rex) ...1176 

School     Days— May     22     (Pilot) 856 

Scorpions — June  15   (Eclair) 

Sea  Anemones— Mar.  25   (Gaumont) 90 

Sea  Dog,  The  (2  parts)— May  21    (Broncho) 742 

Seal   of  Silence,    The    (2   parts — June  27    (Kay- 
Bee)      12SS 

Secret  Service  Sam    (2  parts)— May  26   (Imp)..  846 

Self- Accused — June   5    (Imp) 

Sergeant's    Daughter,    The    (2    parts) — May    19 

» Dragon)    

Severe  Test,   A— Apr.   26    (Solax) 420 

Shadow.   Tbe — June  8    (Rex) 

Sham  Suffragette,   The — Apr.   25   (Powers) 

Shanghaied — Apr.    7    (Champion) 

Shark  God,  The — May  5   (Champion) 512 

She    Never   Knew— May  22    (Imp) 73S 

Shep.   the  Hero — May  20  (Majestic)    850 

Sheriffs   Rival,  The— May  8   (Frontier) 512 

Sheriff's  Warning,  The — Apr.  23  (Nestor) 

Sheriff.    The — May    10    (Reliance) 

She    Wolf.    The— Apr.    19    (Reliance) 418 

Shifting    Fortune.    A— July    4     (Victor) 1396 

Shoe  on  the  Other  Foot,  The — May  1   (Gaumont)  634 
Side    Tracked    by    Sister— June    22    (Majestic) .  .1402 

Silver  Cross.   The — Apr.  30   (Solax) 420 

Sincerity,    June    13    (Victor) 1066 

Skipper's  Story,   The — Apr.   5   (Gt.   Northern) ...     90 
Slave's  Devotion,  A  (2  parts) — May  14  (Broncho)  632 

Smuggled  Laces,  The — June  22   (Crystal) 1176 

Smuggler's    Daughter,    The    (2    parts) — May    8 

1  Rex  1     

Smuggler's   Dog,  The — Apr.    10    (Pilot) 

Snare  of  Fate,   The   (2  parts) — June  17    (Than- 
houser)    12S8 

Some     Doings     at     Lonesome     Ranch — Apr.     17 

(Frontier)     202 

Song  of  Songs.  The — May  1  (Pilot) 520 

Sons  of  a  Soldier,  The  (3  parts) — May  7  (Eclair) 
Sorrow  of  Israel,  The  (3  parts) — June  19  (Imp).llSO 
Soul  of  a  Thief,  The  (2  parts) — June  16  (Ameri- 
can)      1182 

Southern     Cinderella,     A     (3     parts) — Apr.     16 

(Broncho)     204 

South  of  India,  The— June  22   (Eclair) 

Spanish   Towns — Apr.   12    (Great   Northern) 

Speed  Queen.  The — June  12   (Keystone) 1070 

Spell.  The   (2  parts)-^fune  27    (Powers) 12S4 

Spider.   The — June  8  (Eclair) 1286 

Spirit    of    the    Flag,    The     (2    rarts) — June    7 

1  Bison  I      950 

Spoiled  Darling's  Doll,  The — Apr.  4  (Thanhouser)     S6 

Sprig    O'Shamrock.    A — Apr.    24    (Imp) 308 

Spring  in  the  Desert,  The— June  9   (Nestor) 1066 

Squaw   Man's  Reward.   The — .Tune  2fi   (Frontier)  .1282 
Squas  ville  Ladles'   Fire  Brigade.  The — May  12 

(Nestor)      626 

Stage  Driver's  Chivalry,  The — May  22  (Frontier)  738 
Stars  and  Stripes  Forever,  The   (3  parts) — May 

20     (Bisou) 736 

Strangers  In  a   Strange  Land — Apr.   30  (Powers)  414 


Stolen  Idol,  The— Jane  22  (Rex) 1176 

Story  of  the  Mexican  Border,  A— June  19  (Front- 

'«■)    1180 

Strength  of  the  Weak,  The — June  13  (Powers).. 

Stronger  Call.  The — Apr.  9   (Reliance) 204 

Study  in  Sociology,  A— Apr.  1   (Majestic) 88 

Suffragettes — May  31    (Great  Northern) 1290 

Suffragettes,  The — May  31    (Great  Northern)... 

Supper  for  Three — May  25   (Crystal 738 

Surveyors — Apr.    28    (Excelsior) 

Suspended  Sentence — Apr.  14   (American) 204 

Suspense — July     6     (Rex) 1398 

Sweets  to  the  Sweet— May  15  (Gaumont) 

T 

Tachkent,   Asiatic  Russia— May  1    (Mutual  Edu- 
cational)       418 

Tale  of  a  Black  Eye.  The — June  19  (Keystone)  .1184 
Tale  of  Death  Valley,  A — July  5  (American).  .1400 
Tangled  Web    (3  parts)— June  28   (Reliance) ..  .1400 

Tarantula,    The — May    16    (Powers) 626 

Tattooed  Arm,  The — May  1   (American) 416 

Temperamental  Alice — Apr.  7  (Excelsior) 86 

$10,000    Bride,   Tbe — June   25    (Powers) 1284 

Tenderfoot's  Ghost,  The — May  10  (Frontier) 

Texas   Feud.   A— May   28    (Reliance) 

That  Rag  Time  Band— May  1   (Keystone) 420 

Their  First  Execution— May  15  (Keystone) 630 

Those  Good   Old  Days — Apr.   7   (Keystone) 88 

Through  Greece— Jane  19  (Mutual  Educational ).12S8 
Through  Mountains  Majestic — May  13  (Gaumont) 
Through  the  Land  of  Sugar  Cane — June  26   (Mu- 
tual  Educational)    1290 

Thus  Saith  the  Lord  (2  parts)— May  21  (Bclalr)llSO 
To  the  Brave  Belong  the  Fair— July  4  (Nestor) .1398 

Toodleums — May  25   (Crystal) 73s 

Told  in  ConBdence — Apr.  26  (Gt.  Northern) 424 

Toll  of  War.   The    (3   parts)— May   13    (Bison)..   628 

Tongue    Mark.   The — June   15    (Majestic) 1288 

Tony,    the    Tenor— May    15    (Pilot) 742 

Toplitsky  &  Co.— May  26   (Keystone) 852 

Torpedo    Fish— June    29    (Eclair) 

Tourist    and    the    Flower    Girl,     The — Mav    29 

(Rex)    ". S44 

Transgressor,   The   (2  parts)— June  25   (Broncho) 

Trifler,   Tbe— May  25   (Rex) 738 

Troubadour     of     the     Rancho,     The — Apr.     IS 

(Powers)     202 

Truant  nushand.  The — Apr.  2."   (Lux) 424 

True  Believer.  A   (2  parts)— June  6   (Kay-Bee). 

True    Hearts— July    4     (Solax) I4.V4 

Turn  of  the  Tide.  The— May  1   (Rex) 414 

Twins    of    "Double    X"    Ranch,    The — June    14 

(Frontier)    

Twins,   The— May  19    (Imp) 7 38 

Twixt  Love  and  Fire — May  19   (Keystone) 742 

Two  Convicts.  The — Apr.  19  (Gt.   Northern) 312 

Two    Lives— Apr.    11    (Victor) 

Two  Lunatics — Apr.    20    (Crystal) 202 

Two  Strangers  from  Nowhere — June  20   (Solax).  11  SO 

U 

Under  Fire  (2  parts)— May  20  (Bison) 736 

Under  Southern  Skies — Apr.  5   (Gt.  Northern).. 

Unexpected    Meeting,    An — July   2    (Solax) 1402 

Unknown.    The — May   9    (Victor) 

Unseen    Influence,   The — May  2    (Victor) 

Until    Death    Do    Us    Part     (2    parts) — Apr.    10 

(Rex)    

Unwelcome   Wedding   Gift.    An — June    14    (Great 

Northern)     1292 

Unwritten     Law    of    the    West,     The — June     19 

(American)     11S2 

V 

Valley  of  Albnla,  The  (Switzerland)— Mav  15 
(Mutual    Educational) 632 

Veiled  Lady.  The — Apr.    13    (Crystal) 84 

Victim  of  Circumstances,  A — June  1  (Than- 
houser)      1068 

Views  of  Cape  Hatteras — Apr.  29  (Gem) 

Views  of  Pisa  (Leaning  Tower  of  Pisa,  The) 
Apr.    15    (Majestic) 310 

Village  Customs  in  Ceylon,  India — Apr.  17  (Mu- 
tual   Educational)     204 

Violet  Bride.  The — May  14   (Powers) 626 

Vengeance  of  tbe  Skystone  (2  parts) — May  3 
(Bison)     

Via  Cabaret — June   7    (American) 954 

W 

Waiter's   Picnic,   The — June  16   (Keystone) 11S4 

Wallingford's  Wallet  (3  parts)— lune  21  (Re- 
liance)      1288 

Wanderer,    The — Apr.    7    (Imp) 86 

War  on  the  Beetles,  The — June  14   (Imp) 

War  (3   parts) — Apr.   15    (Bison) 

Wax  Lady,  The — Mar.  30   (Thanhouser) 88 

Way  of  a  Mother.  The — May  7  (Broncho) 

Ways  of  Fate.  The — Apr.    19  (American) 20+ 

Wayward  Sister.   The — Apr.   27    (Rex) 

Well-Meant  Deception,  A — Mar.  30  (Majestic). 

When  a    Girl    Loves— June    12    (Pilot) 1186 

When  Dolly     Died— Apr.     23     (Powers) 

When  Father  Was  Kidnapped — Apr.  28   (Nestor)  414 
When  Ghost    Meets  Ghost — Apr.   6   IThanhouser)  206 
When  Jim   Returned — Apr.    24    (American) . 
When  Lena      Struck      New      Mexico — June      21 

(Frontier)      

When  Light     Came     Back     (2     parts) — June     11 

(Eclair)      1066 

When  Love  Is  Young — May  11    (Crystal) 512 

When  Luck   Changes — June   2   (American) 064 

When  Scandal  Threatened — Apr.  17  (Gaumont)..   422 
Wheu  Strong  Men  Meet — Apr.  21   (Champion)... 


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THE   MOVING   PICTURE   WORLD 


WLere  Obarity   Begins— May  27   (Crystal) 8*4 

Where  Is  Doggie  ?-June  7   (Gt.   Northern) 1072 

Where  Love  Dwells— Apr.    18    (Solax) 208 

Where  Wits  Win — May  24    (Frontier) 

While  Baby    Slept — June    10    (Thanhoaser) 1182 

While  the    Bobber   Bobbed— Apr.    28    (Gaumont)  634 

Whim   of  Destiny,  The— Apr.  29    (Majestic) 632 

Who  is  in  the  Box? — Jnne  29   (Crystal) 1396 

Who  is  the  Most  to  Blame — May  3  (Gt.  North- 
ern)       620 

Whole   Truth,   The— May   8    (Imp) 512 

Why?  (8  parts) — June  4  (Eclair) 1398 

Whv  Babe  Left  Home— May  18   (Thanhonser) . .  848 
Wbv  Granddaddy  Went  to  Sea— June  6  (Powers) 

WIjt  Men  Leave  Home — Apr.  26   (Imp) 

Whv  the   Banger   Besigned— Apr.   19    (Frontier) 
Widow's   Stratagem,    The — May  2    (Thanhouser)  518 

Will  o'  The  Wisp — Apr.  25  (Kay-Bee) 312 

Will  Power— June  22  (Crystal 1286 

Willy  and  the  Captain's  Horse — June  5  (Motual 

Educational)     1068 

Willy  and  the  Conjurer— Apr.   17    (Mutual  Edu- 
cational)       204 

Willy  and  the  Old  Suitor— Apr.  3  (Mutual  Edu- 
cational)     

Willy  Prefers  Liberty  to  Wealth— Apr.  10  (Mu- 
tual   Educational)    88 

Willy  Wants  to  Bide  a  Horse — Jone  19  (Mutual 

Educational)     128S 

Wise  Judge,   A— May   11    (Eclair) 844 

Wishing   Seat,   The-^-June   5    (American) 954 

Within  the  Limit  of  the  Law  (2  parts)— Apr.  9 

lEclairl     8* 

Without  Beward— June  16  (Nestor) 1178 

Woman     Hater's    Defeat,    The — Apr.     26     (Be- 
lla nee)    '• 

Woman  Loved,    A — May    12    (Imp) 628 

Woman's  Folly,  A— July  3  (Bex) 1396 

Woman's  Honor — Apr.   12   (American) 86 

Woman's  Honor,   A — Apr.  26   (Beliance) 

Woman  Who  Did  Not  Care,  The — Apr.  1  (Than- 
houser)           86 

Woman  Who  Knew,  The — Apr.  9   (Beliance) 204 

Word  of  Jose,  The — May  1   (Frontier) 416 

World  at  Large.  The — Jnne  5   (Bex) 

Worth  of  Man,  The — June  25  (Bamo) 1290 

T 
Touth   and  Jealousy — May  10    (American) 516 


Miscellaneous  Releases 

A 
Auto  Suggestion,  or  Crime  of  Another  (2  parts) 

—Apr.  12  (Ambrosio) 

Awkward  Mix-Dp,  An — Jnne  (Klnemacolor) 1292 

B 

Beautiful   Butterflies — Apr.    (Klnemacolor) 90 

Bernese  Oberland,  Swlzerland,  The — Apr.   (Kine- 

macolor)     420 

Better  Success,   The — May    (Kinemacolor) 854 

Beyond   Beproach — May    (Kinemacolor) 960 

C 

Carbon    Copy — June    ( Kinemacolor) 1188 

Charitable    Deception,    A — 'Kinemacolor) 1404 

Child    Labor    Traffic,    The    (2    parts) — Apr.    19 

(Ambrosio)    

Coming  Champions    (Kinemacolor) 1404 

D 

Dread  of  Dome,  The  (3  parts)  May — (Itala) 8641 

E 
Exploits  of  the  Bandin  Gang  (2  parts)— Jnne  28 
(Ambrosio)    

.  F 

Featberr»fc— Apr.     (Kinemacolor) 312 

Fisherman's-  Daughter — Apr.    (Kinemacolor) 92 

For  Bis  Sake  (2  parts) — Apr.  5  (Ambrosio) 

G 

Gaya.     Allahabad     and    Cawpore,     India — June 

iKinemacolor)    1188 

Girl  of  the  Hidden  Spring,  The   (2  parts) — June 

14    (Ambrosio) 

Golden   Bain   (2  parts) — Apr  26   (Ambrosio) 

Goliwog's   Motor   Accident — Apr.    (Kinemacolor)  200 
Golliwog's  Land,  The  (Kinemacolor) 1404 

H 

His    Brother's    Keeper — Apr.    (Kinemacolor) 200 

His  Wife's  Birthday  Present — June  (Klnema- 
color)      1186 

I 

Ice  Skating  at  Murren,  Switzerland — Jane  (Kine- 
macolor)      1072 

In  Claws  of  the  Vulture  (3  parts) — Apr.  (Am- 
brosio )    

K 
Keeplnr  np  with  Hubby — Apr.    (Klnemacolor) . .  420 

L 

Local   Color,   June — (Klnemacolor) 1292 

Love  and  Laundry — May    (Kinemacolor) 746 

Love  in  the  Dark  (2  parts) — May  (Kinemacolor)  960 
Lore's  Shadow  (2  parts) — June  21   (Ambrosio).. 

M 
Maid  of  Honor,  A  (2  parts) — May  17  (Ambrosio) 

Mans  Best  Friend — Jone  (Kinemacolor) 1186 

Merry  Monarch,  A  (2  parts) — Apr.  (Kinema- 
color)         90 

Mixed  Signals — May  (Kinemacolor) 746 

Modeling    Extraordinary — Apr.     (Kinemacolor)..  312 
Mun.|  s — May    (Kinemacolor) 746 


N 

Narrow  Escape,  A  (Klnemacolor) 1404 

Nathan    Hale — Apr.    (Kinemacolor) 420 

Native  Carnival  Procession,  Ceylon — Apr.  (Kine- 
macolor)         90 

0 

Out  of  the  Darkness— Apr.    (Kinemacolor) 312 

P 
Parson    Jim's    Baby    (2    parts) — May    (Kinema- 
color)      1072 

Paying  the  Penalty  (2  parts) — May  (Kinema- 
color)       960 

Pearls  of  the  Madonna  (2  parts) — May  (Klnema- 
color)       960 

Pennsy's  Pageant  (Kinemacolor) 1404 

Power  of  Prayer — May   (Kinemacolor) 746 

President  Wilson  Reviewing  the  Troops — Apr. 
(Kinemacolor)    90 

B 

Beedham  Drill — May    (Kinemacolor) 746 

Boyal  Visit  to  Ireland,  The — Apr.  (Kinemacolor)     90 

S 

Sand  Man,  The — May  (Kinemacolor) 746 

Scarlet   Letter,    The — May    (Kinemacolor) 746 

Shattered  Ideal,  A — Apr.    (Kinemacolor) 200 

Sold  Title,  The   (2  parts) — June  7   (Ambrosio).. 

Spider,  The  (2  parts) — May  3  (Ambrosio) 

Steam — Apr.    (Kinemacolor) 312 

Story  of  the  Orange,  The — Apr.  (Kinemacolor)..  92 

Substitute,  The — Apr.    (Kinemacolor) 92 

T 
Tamil    Types,    Southern    India — Jone    (Kinema- 
color)      1186 

Tempest  and  Sunshine  (2  parts) — May  10  (Am- 
brosio)      

Tobogganing  in  Switzerland — Apr.  (Kinemacolor)     92 

Too  Many  Maids — May   (Klnemacolor) 854 

To  Save  the  Children  (2  parts)— Apr.  19  (Am- 
brosio)      

TJ 
I'nruly  Father,  An  (2  parts) — May  31  (Ambrosio) 

W 
Water  Babies — Apr.   (Kinemacolor) 420 

T 
Yellow    Man,    The     (2    parts) — May    24     (Am- 
brosio)     

Z 
Zoological     Gardens     at     Bome,     The,     June — 
(Kinemacolor)    1292 

Feature  Releases 

A 

Accursed  Inheritance,  An — Apr.  (Union  Feat- 
ures)      314 

Airship  Fugitives,  The  (3  parts),  June — (Great 
Northern  Special  Feature  Film  Co. ) 16 

At  the  Bisk  of  Her  Life  (3  parts)— Apr.  (Apex 
Film  Co.)    

B 

Balaoo,     the    Demon    Baboon     (3    parts) — May 

(Union  Features)    744 

Bank  Run,  The  (3  parts)— May  (Great  Northern 

Special  Feature  Film  Co) 

Battle  of  Flowers,  The — May    (Advance  Motion 

Picture   Co.) 

Battle  of  Gettysburg,  The  (5  parts) — May  (New 

York  Motion  Picture  Co.) 

Bricklayer's  Joke,  The — May  (Eclectic  Film  Co.) 

0 

Capt.  Cherry  Kearton's  Wild  Life  and  Big  Game 
in  the  Jungles  of  India  and  Africa — May  (Arab 
Amusement  Co. ) 

Condemned  for  Witchcraft  (2  parts) — Apr.  (New 
York  Film  Co.) 

Crossed   Swords    (2  parts) — Apr    (GVeat  Norton. 

Special  Feature  Film  Co.) 

D 

Daughter's  Sacrifice,  A  (2  parts) — Apr.  (Great 
Northern  Special  Feature  Film  Co. ) 

Davton  Flood  Disaster — Apr.  (American  Feature 
Film   Co.)    

Dayton  Flood  Horror— Apr.  (Dayton  Flood  Film 
Co.)    

Dead  Alive.  The   (2  parts) — Apr.    (Gsumont) . . . 

Dead  Secret,  The — Apr.   (Monopol  Film  Co.) 

Death  Knell,  The  (3  parts),  June — (Itala) 

Devil's  Daughter,  The  (3  parts) — May  (Feature 
Film  Co. ) 

Dorian   Grey    (2   parts)— Apr.    (New   York  Film 

Co.)    

E 

Explosion    in    Factory — Apr.     (Great     Northern 

Special  Feature  Film  Co. ) 

F 

Female     RafBes,     The     (3     parts) — May     (State 

Rights    Film   Co.) 

eats  of  San  Jnelnto,  The — May  (Advance  Mo- 
tion Picture  Co. ) 

Folly  and  Remorse  (3  parts)  June  (Feature 
Film   Co.) 

From  the  Grave  to  the  Throne  (3  parts) — May 
(Feature  Film  Co.) 

G 

Gangsters,  The  (3  parts) — Apr.  (New  York  Film 
Co. )       

Gypsy  Blood  (3  parts) — Apr.  (World's  Moving 
PJ  -lure  Classics)    

Giving    Film    Fits— May    (Eelectlc   Film   Co.) 


H 

Heroine  of  the  Mountains,  A  (3  parts) — Apr, 
(New    York    Film    Co.) 

His  Life  for  the  Cause  (3  parts) — May  (Warner's 
Features)     854 

Human  Devil,  The  (4  parts) — June — (Feature 
Film  Co. )    

I 

In  the  Days  of  King  Solomon  (4  parts) — June 
(Feature  Film  Co.) 

In  the  Tolls  of  the  Devil  (3  parts)— May  (Mono- 
pol   Film    Co.) 

In  Touch  With  Death  (3  parts) — Jnne  (Gau- 
mont)     

K 
Kaiser    William    II    of    Germany — Apr.     (True 

Feature   Film  Co.) 

Karambo  (5  parts) — May  (Feature  Film  Co.).. 
Kelly    from    the    Emerald    Isle    (3    parts) — May 

(Solax)      

Kentucky  Feud,  The   (3  parts) — May   (Warner's 

Features) 

L 

Les  MJserables— Apr.   (Eclectic  Film  Co.) 422 

Lorna    Doone    (5    parts) — June    (Exclusive    Film 

Service    Corporation) 

Lost    Identity,    The    (2    parts)— Apr.     (Scarlett 

Motion  Picture  Studios) 

M 
Man   In   the  Cloak,   The — May    (Great    Northern 

Special   Feature  Film  Co.) 

Mexican    Conspiracy    Out-Generaled    (3    parts) — 

Apr.    (Warner's    Features) 314 

Money  Lender's  Son,  The  (3  parts)-^Iune  (Great 

Northern  Special  Feature  Film  Co. ) 

Mysterious  Doll,  The — May  (Eclectic  Film  Co.).. 
Mystery   of  Pine  Creek  Camp,   The    (3   parts)  — 

Apr.    (Warner's   Features) 

Mystery  of  the  Corner  House,  The    (3  parts) — 

May    (Great    Northern    Special    Feature    Film 

Co. )    

Mysteries     of     Paris,      The      (5     parts) — Jnne 

(Eclectic)     1291 

0 

Oedipus  Rex  (4  parts)— June  (Hecla  Film  Co.).. 
One  Hundred  Years  of  Mormonism   (6  parts) — 

June  (Golden  State  M.  P.  Co.) 

Outwitting  an  Angry  Mot) — Apr.  (Great  Northern 

Special  Feature  Film  Co.) 

P 
Pathfinder,    The     (2    parts)— Apr.     (New    York 

Film  Co.) 

Pendleton,    Oregon    Round-Up,    The    (4    parts) — 

Apr.    (Oregon  Motion  Picture  Co. ) 

Perils  of  the  Past  (3  parts) — May  (Gaumont) . . 
Private  John  Allen — Apr.   (Shakespeare  Film  Co.) 

a 

Quo  Vadis?   (8  parts)— Apr.    (G.   Klelne) 

Quo  Vadis?  (3  parts)— June  (Quo  Vadis  Film 
Co.)    

B 
Rajah's  Casket,  The  (3  parts)— May  (Gaomont)  744 
Rescued    from    the    Burning    Stake    (3    parts) — 

Apr.    (Warner's  Features) 

Rescued      from     Fire — Apr.      (Great      Northern 

Special  Feature  Film  Co.) 

Restitution — Apr.    (Union   Features) 314 

Richard  III — Apr.  (Shakespeare  Film  Co.) 

Romance    of   an    Actress,    The    (3   parts) — June 

(Hecla    Film    Co.) 

Ruined    Life,    A     (2,500    feet)— May     (Eclectic 

Film  Co.) 744 

8 

Saved    by    the   Juvenile    Court    (3    parts) — Apr. 

(Columbine    Film   Co. ) 

Seeds  of  the  Father,  The,  June — (Monopol  Film 

Co.)     

Shadows  of   Night    (3   parts)— Apr.    (New   York 

Film  Co. ) 

Stopping  the  Runaway — Apr.  (Great  Northern 
Special  Feature  Film  Co.) 

T 

Tempest,  The — Apr.   (Union  Features) 208 

Temple  of  King  Solomon,  The — Apr.  (Shakes- 
peare Film  Co.) 

Those  Who  Live  in  Glass  Houses — June  <  Monopol 
Film   Co.)    

Through  the  Test  of  Fire  (3  parts)— Apr.  (Great 
Northern  Special  Feature  Film  Co. ) 424 

Tomb  of  Flame,  The  (3  parts) — Apr.   (Gaumont) 

Traitor  to  His  Country,  A — Apr.  (Warner's 
Features)    

Trilby — Apr.    (Famous   Players   Film  Co.) 

Triumph  of  Death  (2  parts) — Apr.  (New  York 
Film  Co.)    

W 

Wanted  by  the  Police  (3  parts) — June  (Mitten- 
thal    Film   Co.) 

When  Men  Hate  (3  parts)— June  (Warner's 
Features)     

When  Thieves  Fall  Out  (3  parts)— Apr.  (Gau- 
mont)       ) 

Wife  of  Cain  (3  parts)— May  (Chas.  L.  Fuller 
Col      

Winchester— Apr.    (Shakespeare  Film  Co.) 

Z 

Zoe  (3  yarts).  June — (Hecla  Feature  Film  Co.). 
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on  our  30  day  free  trial  plan. 

Did  the  machine  "make  good?"     Well,  the  first  month  h  re. 
duced  the  bill  from  $22.70  to  $9.24  and  they  operated  more  hours  | 
and  got  better  light  than  ever  before. 

Wc  can  do  iuit  aa  well  for  you  regardler*  of  what  voltage  you  are  using  aod  I 

if  you  vail  send  (of  our  liiue  jree  booklet,  we'll  esplain  hc/w  we  do  it.  1 

Remember  you  are  paying  the  Lighting  Company  66  2-  3  per  cent  more  than  | 

you  need  to  every  day  you  wait. 

Fort  Wayne  Electric  Works 

01  <j«D»r*l  Elaatrie  Company 
I48J  Broadway 

Fort  Wayne,  Indiana 


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Get  the  Moiey  with  our  Features 

Write  for  complete  list. 

Booking  "TIGRIS"  now  and  other  big 

productions. 

M.  &  F.  FEATURE  FILM  CO. 

167  W.  Washington  St.      Chicago,  I1L 

ELECTRIC  EXHAUST  FANS 

Twenty-four-inch       $80.         Thirty-inch,       S110. 
Also    some    oscillating    twelve-inch    fans,    $13.75 
each.     All   General  Electric   make  and  for  alter- 
nating   current,    1    phase,    60    cycle,     110    volt. 

CEORCE  BENDER 
82  C  entre  Street                              New  York  Cit 

For  the  Best  Feature  Attraction 

With  the  greatest  lobby  display,  write, 

phone  or  wire 

Northern  Feature  Film  Exchange 

Suite  405  Schiller  Bldg.             Chicago 

Stop  the  Leakage 

Use  Corcoran  Tanks. 

No.  6  price  list  is  a  money  saver. 

A.  J.  CORCORAN,  INC. 

\iy%  John  Street           New  York  City 

A  LARGE  PLOT 

76  ft.  front,  229  ft.  deep  on  Soothern  Boulevard, 
facing   Bronx    Park,    between   183-184th   Streets. 

Suitable    for    Manufacturing    Films. 

Apply    1662    Boston    Bd.,    173rd    St. 
AUGUST  F.    8CHWARZLEB. 

Scenarios  Criticised 

No     one     can     teach     you     to     conceive     ideas. 
Technique  can  be  taught.    I  was  formerly  edi- 
tor   of    the    Selig    Co.    and   am    an    expert    on 
technique.    Will    give   your   scenarios    personal 
criticism  for  $i  each. 

Kenneth  D.  Langley 
4712    Racine  Avenue,  Chicago,   111. 

Headquarters  for 

ASBESTOS 

CURTAINS  and  PICTURE  BOOTHS 

%rnd    C.  W.  Trainer  Mfg.  Co. 

Booklet  39  Pearl  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

WHY    RENT    POOR    FILM? 

We  renoYate,  inspect  tout  61m  and  make  titles 
Film   Renovated   and   Inapected.  ,75c  per  reel 

DO  YOU  VVAVT  A  BRITISH  AGENT? 

We  are  open  to  undertake  sale  of  films,  or  let- 
ting or  purchase  of  exclusives.     Bank  references 
and  deposit.     Central  offices  &  Projection  room 
THE   STATE   FILM   AGENCY. 
191   W ardour  St.,    LONDON,    W.   England. 
Cables: — Kinesafs,  London.    Codes: — -Anglo- Amer- 
ican, 4th  edition;   A.   B.  C.  5th  edition. 

We  also  make  all  kinds  of  slides  at  reason- 

able  prices.     Write  for  our  list. 
COMMERCIAL  FILMERS,  173  N.  Green  It.,  Dent.  C.  Chicago 

FEATURE   FILMS   FOR  SALE 

FULTON'S  A-to-Z  LIST 

Pocket  Edition                  120  Pages 

Illustrates,  describes  and  prices  everything  used 
in  or  about  the  Motion  Picture  Theatre  and  in  the 
allied  industries.    Costs  you  nothing.     Worth  its 
weight  in  gold. 

E.  E.  FULTON   w.  uGbWt    CHICAGO 

"FOTOPLAYER" 

the  instrument  that  supplies 
MUSIC     FOR     THE     PICTURES 

Tbo  American   Photo  Player   Sales  Co. 
130   Kearny   St,   San   Francisco.   Cal. 

All  in  good,  condition  with   posters  and  photos, 

including  State  Rights. 

NEW    JERSEY    FEATURE    FILM    CO., 

800    Broad    St.,    Newark,    N.    J. 

We  have  exclusive  right  and  are  now  booking  BLANCHE  WALSH  in  Tolstoy 's  immortal  Drama 

RESURRECTION 

for  Iowa,  Nebraska,  No.  Dakota  and  So.  Dakota.     Exhibitors  wishing  early  bookings  write  or  wire 
UNITED    THEATRE    SERVICE                                                              422   I6th  Street,   Moline,   III. 

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PHOTOGRAPHS  FOR  LOBBY  DISPLAY 

•lie  8x10  of  all  2  anil  S-reel  FEATURES  of  the 
following:  KALBM.  EDISON,  TBA.NHOUSER, 
MIBIX.  BRONCHO,  KAY-BEE,  RELIANCE, 
PILOT,    UA.1EST1C,    AMERICAN. 

SET  of  12,   $2.00.     SET  of  8,   11.00. 

KRAUSMFG.GD..14E.l7thSt.,N.Y. 

DISTRIBUTORS  WANTED  IN  CANADA,  TAB 
WEST  and  SOUTH  for  oar  PHOTO  PLATERS 
POST  CARDS.  ABBOclatlon  aod  Independent. 
200  different  playera. 


STEEL  FURNITURE  CO 

New  York:   150  5th  Ave. 

Blk.     Philadelphia:    1943    Market    St.      Nashville 

Tenn. :   315  No.   4th  Ave 


CHEAP 

STEEL  FRAME 
THEATRE   CHAIRS 

ABSOLU  ELY 

NON-BREAKABLE 

Suitable  for  small 
Theaters  and  Mov- 
ing Picture  > 
We  parry  these 
chairs  in  stock  and 
cau  ship  imme- 
diately. 

Second   Hand 
Chairs 

Also  seating 
for  Out-of-door 
use.  Address 
Dept.  W. 
Grand  Rapids.  Mich. 
Pittsburgh:   318  Bissel 


•Steel  Btaccardi 
will  not  break 


Steel  or  Cast 
Iron  Standards 
in  many  styles 

Southern  California  rep- 
resentative, California 
Seating  Co.,  11M  Van 
Nuyi  Bide.,  Lo«  An- 
galea,    Cal. 

N.  W,  representative, 
H.  A.  Johnson  Seating 
Co.,  811  Western  Ave., 
Seattle.  Wssa. 

The  Wisconsin 
Seating  Company 

NEW  LONDON 
WISCONSIN,  U.    S.   A. 


OH!    MR.    EXHIBITOR!! 

Think  of  the  motherless,   the  fatherless,  and  the 
childless  homes  as  the  result  of  taa- 
ater  panics.    Protect  the  lives  of  toot 
patrons     by     Installing    oar     "ANTI- 
PANIO"      THEATER      CHAIR.         24 
Dead  at   Oanuousbnrg,   176  at   Bojer- 
town,    875    at    Iroquois   Theater.    Chi- 
cago,    afaae  these  horrors  Impos- 
sible.    Oar  chair  is  a  Mend  to 
the  Public. 
It     advertises     your     theater     and 
makes  your  business  grow. 

It  is  a  space-saver,  life-saver, 
money-saver.  Gives  257a  mors  seat- 
ing. 

It  will  make  your  theater  all  aisles.  It  Is  the 
only  eanitary  chair.  It  Is  the  world's  greatest 
theater  caalr,  perfected  to  the  highest  degree, 
Writs    todsy    for    circular    A. 

THE  HASSESTT  MTG.  00.,  Canal  Dover,  Ohio, 
U.  S.  A 


Send  for  our   prices   before    buying 


BENNETT  SEATING  CO. 


36  EAST  3rd  ST. 


CINCINNATI,  O. 


115-117  So.  Wabash  Ave.,    TL„      A        U        A_J  r* 

Chicago,  111.  I  ne  A.  Jri.  Andrews  Co. 

New  York  Office,  1165  Broadway 


San  Francisco  Office,   728  Mission   St 


Branches  in  all 
Leading  Cities  - 
Seattle  Office,  508-10-12  First  Ave.,  So. 


It  pays  to  discriminate  when  you  buy 

THEATRE  SEATING 

lA/DITsC   TAFIA  V  for  Cat-  V2  -Moving  Picture  Chairs) 

frill  Ik    I  rUfll     and    Cat.    VS    (Upholstered    Chairs) 

Send  Floor  Sketch  for  Free  Seating  Plau. 

Widest  range  of  styles  and  prices.     Large  stocks. 

American   Seating   Company 

218  S.  Wabash  Ave.,  CHICAGO.     15  E.  32nd  St.,  NEW  YORK 


For  Rent-FILM-For  Sale 

Do    you    want    good    service    ch«*np?     Write    today. 

NATIONAL    MOVING    PICTURE    CO., 

Ellsworth    Bldg..     '"hirago.     Lll. 


IT   PAYS 

to  make  an  attractive 

LOBBY    DISPLAY 

Our  Photo  and  Poster 
Frames  are  it 

Best     J  Bra" 
Quality \  ^°a'rs;',b°ard  fUsed 

$4.00 

$5.50 

Write  for  our  Prices  on 
other  styles 

Theatre  Specialty  Mfg.  Co. 

355-9  W.  42d  Street   New  York 


Hanging  Frames 
Easel  Frames    - 


WE  CAN   HURRY 


rOTJB     ORDaTB     OUT 
BTArFOBD     Ooairs 
•icel  all  others. 

Heavy  Five  Ply 

seats  isl  backs. 

Tae  last-Cerever  kind, 
that  you  axe  oalag 
ksag  after  yea  have 
forgettaa     thai     arte*. 

STEEL 
CHAIRS  TOO 

We  carry  several  kinds 
*t  good  chairs  la  stock, 
all  gaaraatead. 
ASK     FOB     OATALSG 


E.   H.    STAFFORD    MFG.  CO. 

CHICAGO,   ILL. 


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A    Wurlitzer    Piano   Orchestra    is    used   inside    this   theatre. 


Write    for    32-page     booklet,     showing 

Wurlitzer  Automatic  Musical  Instruments 

in  the  leading  picture  theatres  of  the  country. 

The  Wurlitzer  Instruments  furnish  better  music  thin  musicians  snd 
reduce  expenses.  SO  different  styles,  time  payments;  big  catalog  free 
If  you  can't  call,  write  to  our  nearest  branch 


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BUOCTS     OUBVBLAND 
Pins  St.    800  Huron  Road 


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W.  S.  CLEVELAND,  Mgr. 

Fidelity  Booking  Offices 

THEATRES,  PARKS,  FAIRS,  CLUBS,  CABARETS 

KNICKERBOCKER  THEATRE  BUILDING,  1402  BROADWAY,  N.  Y.  C. 


MAKE,  'EM  YOUR- 
SELF  SLIDES 

Make  them  yourself.  Written  with  pen  and  ink 
or  typewriter.  Three  minutes  to  make  a  slide.  Used 
for  advertising  slides,  to  announce  future  or  feature 
programmes,  for  chorus  slides  when  chorus  slide  is 
missing.  We  send  four  colors  of  gelatin.  The  slides 
look  well  and  anyone  can  make  them.  They  are 
handy  also  for  announcing  vaudeville  acts.  In  fact, 
they  may  be  readily  used  for  anything  you  may  wish 
to  say  to  your  audience. 

For  the  sum  of  $3.30  we  will  send,  by  parcel  post, 
prepaid  and  insured,  the  following: 

24  cover  glass.  1  package  binder  strips.  1  dozen 
mats.  1  instruction  sheet,  1  form  sheet  and  50  strips 
assorted  colors  gelatin — enough  for  from  300  to  400 
slides.     Order   now.     Address: 

UTILITY  TRANSPARENCY  CO. 


1733  West  9th  St. 


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Brooklyn.  N.  Y. 


A  Million  People  of  the  United  States,  Canada,  South  Africa,  Europe, 
including  the  Emperor  of  Germany,  see  pictures  on  the  "Mirror  Screen" 
every  day. 

They  see  more  by  one-half  because  the  "Mirror 
Screen"  brings  out  the  pictures  1000%  better  and  no  one 
will  ever  suffer  from  eye-strain. 

No  other  projecting  surface  will  do  that. 
Write   for  a   Glass   Curtain  TODAY. 
Quit  being  a   back   number. 
G^T  IN   ItlGHT. 
GET  IN  A      MIRROR  SCREEN." 

Write  today  for  a  catalogue  of  our  new  SNOW- 
WHITE  finish. 

MIRROR    SCREEN    CO. 

F.  J.  Rembusch  Shelbyville,  Ind. 


Mr.  Exhibitor,  get  your  film  and  let  us  match  your  front. 

Military  and  Frontier  Mechanical  Fronts 

for  hire  at  reasonable  rates.     We  build  these  fronts  to  your 

order    for   any   feature   subject.     Also   oil-painted   banners. 

MOTION  PICTURE  MECHANICAL  DISPLAY  CO. 

103  Avenue  "A"  (Unique  Theatre)  New  York  City 


MOVING   PICTURE   CAMERAS 

Geneva   or   Claw   Movement. 
With   or   Without   Daylight   Loading   Attachment. 
Intermittent  sprockets  for  all  makes  of  machines.    High- 
est grade  workmanship.     Lowest  prices. 
LAVEZZI  MACHINE  WORKS    Advertising  Building,  CHICAGO 


ELECTRIC    BELLS 

I  have  on  hand  for  quick  delivery,  two  sets  of  Electric  bells.  One 
set  of  r  Oct.  Chrom..  complete  with  piano  keyboard.  $55.00.  One  set 
2l/2    Oct.    Chrom..    complete    with    piano   keyboard,   $65.00. 

Either  set  w'11  be  sent  on  3  days'  trial  on  deposit  of  $5.00,  and  if  not 
O.    K..    I    will    return   the  deposit — less  the    Express   charges. 
Two   beautiful   sets  of  bells  that  can  be   used  in  Theatres 
Park  work. 

E.  R.  STREET,  28  Brook  St.,  Hartford,  Conn 


EXHIBITORS'   HEADQUARTERS 

CALEHUFF  SUPPLY  COMPANY 

(Incorporated) 

50  North  Eighth  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Jobbers   in   Edison,  Powers  and 
Motiograph  Machines  and  Parts 

Machines  Repaired  by  Expert  Mechanics.     Genuine  Parts  Only  Used 


.SPECIALTIES 


Mirror  Screens  Condensers 

Chairs  Edison    Transformers 

Tickets  Ft.  Wayne  Compenasrcs    Branch     General 

Pianos  Asbestos  State  Booths  fectant   Co. 

Bio  A  Electra  Carbons  Asbestos   Wire 

Special  Gnndlach  Snitches 

Lenses  Plugs  Spotlights 


Can  Usklng  Outfits 
Limes  Film-Cement 

DlslB- 


Scenery,   Stage  Effects 
Thesters    Bought,    Sold, 
Rented 


CEAS.   A.   CALEHCFF,    Pres.   snd  Gen.   Mgr. 


EYE  COMFORT 

LIGHTING 

System 

So  necessary  to  the  success  of  every 
Motion      Picture     Theatre      that      we 
engineer  60  Theatres  a  month. 
This     is     a     free     service     to     Motion 
Picture  Theatre  Managers. 

Distance  Screen  to  Rear  of  Auditorium 

Celling    neight 

Width   of   House 

Name  

NATIONAL  X-RAY  REFLECTOR  CO. 
Chicago  New  York 

229  W.  Jackson  Blvd.  505  Fifth  Ave. 


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Now, 
Do  as 
We  Say 
and  Get 
"Mutual  Ser- 


vice" 
JUST 


TO  GET 
NEW  MA- 

JESTICS ! 


Everybody's  doing  it.  And  there  must  be  a  reason.  Fred  Mace  must  be  a  reason.  Billy  Garwood  must  be 
a  reason.  Lamar  Johnstone  must  be  a  reason.  So  must  the  New  Majestic  Girls — Francelia  Billington, 
Marguerite  Loveridge  and  Ann  Drew.  "Dora,"  adapted  from  Tennyson's  classic,  must  be  a  reason.  The 
other  extreme,  a  comedy  one — "One  Round  O'Brien  Comes  Back" — must  be  a  reason.  New  Majestic 
stories  must  be  a  reason.  Also  New  Majestic  production.  And  New  Majestic  photography.  Please  swing 
service  immediately  just  to  get  those  New  Majesties! 

"One  Round  O'Brien  Comes  Back" 

POSITIVELY  June  29. 
BUT  Does  He  Come  Back  FOR   YOU  ? 

This  is  that  second  "O'Brien"  picture  of  Fred  Mace's  that  we  tipped 
you  would  be  the  genuine  comedy  hit  of 
the  year.  Fred  Mace's  comedy  prize 
fighter — by  far  Mace's  most  famous  com- 
edy character — comes  back  especially  to 
fill  the  coffers  of  "Mutual  Service"  ex- 
hibitors. Prepare  to  "play"  him  again 
and  again!  He'll  actually  improve  with 
repeating.  But  have  you  arranged  for 
your  first  crack  at  him  yet?  "One  Round" 
releases  Sunday,  June  29.  WHEN  DO 
YOU  GET  HIM? 

Tennyson's  Immortal  "DORA"   is    the   Star    New 
Majestic  of  the  CURRENT  THREE 

Side  Tracked  by  Sister  «'«>c.r«w 

_     ,  .    _  •  „„  Feature 

Released  Sun.,  June  22 

Booked  for 
The  Politician 

Released  Tues.,  June  24 
Booked  for 


With  Ann  Drew 
and  Lamar  i    a 
Johnstone 


DORA 


In  one  reel  with  Marguerite 
-  Loveridge  and  Dick 

Released  bat.,  June  28    Cummings 

Booked  for 


NEW   MAJESTIC 


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(C.  J.  HITE,  Producing  Manager) 

Business  Offices      -      -      NEW  ROCHELLE,  N.  Y. 

All-Yeu-Round  Studioi.  BrookljaJHeiiht.,  Lot   Aafelev  CsL 


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RELEASED  JUNE  26TH 


THE 


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Sultan's  Dagge 

Produced  on  the  island  of  Java 

among   the  beautiful  ruins  of 

the  palace  of  an  ancient  Sultan 

of  Djokjakarta 

A  legend  of  the  Javanese  in  which 
the  peace  of  a  nation  rests  in  the  find- 
ing and  delivering  of  a  hidden  dagger 


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An  exhaustive,  interesting  study  of  Java's 
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The  Prosperity  Producer 

POWER'S 

CAWERAGRAPH 

NO.  6  A 

The  Perfect  Moving  Picture  Machine 

The  only  way  to  success  is  by  the  satisfaction  route. 

Power's  6 A  in  the  Booth  Pleases  the  Operator 

easy  running,  noiseless,  accessible  parts;  AND  OUR  PATENTED  LOOP 
SETTER  INSTANTLY  RE-FORMS  LOWER  LOOP  WITHOUT 
STOPPING  MACHINE. 

Power's  6  A  Pleases  the  Public 

—in  its  PERFECT  PROJECTION— pictures  clear,  steady,  without  flicker. 

Power's  6A  Produces  a  Full  Cash  Drawer 

which  will  please  the  Exhibitor. 

If  Motor  drive  is  desired,  we  have  IT.  No  more  trouble  with  variable 
speed  motors.  Our  Motors  are  constant  speed;  control  is  mechanical 
and  of  wide  range;  operation  is  simple,  effective.  THIS  DESERVES 
SPECIAL  ATTENTION. 


Our  Sales  Represent  Over  65%  of 
the  Entire  Moving  Picture  Machine 
Output  of   the  Western  Hemisphere 

Catalogue  G  gives  full  details 

Nicholas  Power  Company 

88-90  Gold  Street,  New  York 

THE  LEADING  MAKERS  OF  MOTION  PICTURE  MACHINES 


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vol . 16